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02/20/12 10:30 - ID#56105

I'm crying over you Airtran

Not to knock on NYC or NYC People, but it's just not my thing or place to hang. Yes it's the center of so many things, but for my personal taste I prefer civility of the people of Mid-America and the South. I wrote this Sunday as I was flying back to Buffalo and these are my thoughts at the time as I was feeling and living it.

So in my travels To and from here I flew AirTran quite a bit. The reason why is that their schedule was great, they flew into Sarasota ( my parents are too old & they hate having to drive to Tampa), Business class was very reasonable to upgrade to and the people that you would fly with were descent folk. This is huge when compared to flying JetBlue to LGA Laguardia. That airline at its core had former Southwest employees which features the "cattle call" when announcing the boarding. So throw that in with entitled Neurotic metro NYC people with Money and you have a shitstorm as us Canadians say. Also with LGA the food options are not the most enthralling (I like southern fair that I can't get back up North.) Plus the bar prices are even more outrageous than other airports (which is scary) Also your drinking buddies while more entertaining than most are not the most friendly. I've had some of the most fun traveling bonding moments in Atlanta with strangers at $5 a draught, great seafood from Phillips and also had he opportunity to run into people that went to Niagara University my alma mater as well.

To me flying into LGA is traumatic and not part of a vacation but an aggregation. Let's face it, sometimes when you're on the plane it's like you're almost there at your destination. For example of you're flying to Vegas everyone is talking about where they're staying, what they play & what shows they plan on attending.

I don't want to be surrounded by loud self important people aggressively bumping into me. I sat next to this old Guy of Dutch descent, he looked working class with his old shoes and may have looked like he was a farmer. Well on his hip he had an iPhone 4s and in his attachÃ© an iPad. Yes he brought his own meal and drinks on he plane, but he had a business to run and money to save for one his forklifts needed repair. Did I mention he was pleasant & did not make noise or bump into me once? Those little things mean the world to me more than price. I would pay more to fly AirTran over JetBlue when laid over side to side.

AirTran took great care of me. When Business class was sold out hey got me an isle seat for $20 with said gentleman from Ohio. Plus that came with zone 1 boarding & attentive flight attendants. But this airline is slowly falling into the air cattle category as one of the first things SouthWest did was do away with XM Radio as I guess those few "extra pounds" of weight was too much for them. I guess that is why I'm blogging this now on an app for my iPhone as WiFi is n longer free as well.

I am going to miss being treated like gold as the market for someone caught in between no frills economy and affordable luxury no longer has a viable option. I don't have hundreds of thousands of miles to gain status on a legacy carrier to Sarasota as I never traveled for decades for any industry or job. The folks that were up in the air for Years working to accumulate the wealth to afford to retire to Sarasota will squeeze me out every time and there are more of them than seats available. There are folks that must have felt slighted as their life savings of miles have dwindles post retirement and they have to sit back in coach.

With fuel prices and consolidation I wonder if I will ever enjoy the level of service that I enjoyed with AirTran to the SRQ? Will someone please step up And serve my market or is that I am the abominally and am not economically viable in the current configuration of the airline industry? Just do a search for "Business Class" on Kayak and see what comes up, only AirTran and with them slowly bent phased out what will happen to the in between market segment like myself that is willing to pay extra but not 4 figures for a comfortable airline seat to great destinations?

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02/17/12 12:00 - ID#56075

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01/22/12 01:32 - ID#55967

Happy Birthday Paul

I hope your having an enjoyable day!

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09/20/11 10:53 - ID#55175

Answers to Cancer

I thought that this was interesting given the few people that work for Roswell on here.

I'm listening to the replay now on 610 cktb. It's pretty interesting...

Date:     09-19-11
Host:     George Noory
Guests:     Dr. Leonard Coldwell, Reza Kahlili

One of the leading authorities of self-help education for cancer patients and considered by many authorities to be the world's leading expert on cancer, Dr. Leonard Coldwell, discussed the nature of the disease and why he believes chemotherapy, radiation, and mammograms cause cancer. In looking at the primary driver behind the illness, Coldwell contended that 90% of all cancers, as well as other sicknesses, are caused by stress. He pointed to "constant worries, doubts, and fears" as well as lack of self love and hope for the future as key factors in reducing energy levels, weakening the immune system, and leading to diseases like cancer.

He warned that patients who undergo traditional cancer treatments, like chemotherapy, are "as good as dead." As such, Coldwell shared some natural methods for fighting the disease. One tactic, he said, involves ingesting the combination of a spoonful of pharmaceutical baking soda and five spoonfuls of organic maple syrup, heated up to form a solid mass. This concoction, he said, acts as a "Trojan horse," since cancer cells will flock to the syrup's high sugar content and then be killed by the baking soda. Coldwell also advised drinking a gallon of water which contains a teaspoon of sea salt every day and avoiding the use of plastic containers for food and water. "You can always do the medical treatment," he said to those who may be skeptics, asking rhetorically "so why don't you try the natural first?"

Coldwell was highly critical of the mainstream medical industry which, he noted, nets billions of dollars from cancer detection and treatment. He asserted that the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing cancer and ultimately wants to turn it into a "manageable disease like diabetes." He claimed that his work towards eradicating cancer is so dangerous to the pharmaceutical industry that, when his first book was about to be published, he was offered a quarter of a million dollars to suppress it. After rebuffing the offer, Coldwell said, he was shot at two days later and had his car bombed two weeks after that. Citing similar treatment for other alternative treatment advocates, he lamented that "we live with daily death threats."

tinypliny writes at 05:30:08 09/22/11 - Comment #65178: There is a lot to the evolution theory. Cancer is a form of unsuccessful reverse-evolution, in fact, its almost like a pregnancy with autonomous cells, but totally out of control.

tinypliny writes at 05:28:28 09/22/11 - Comment #65176: % a medicine that daily blocks what ever turns it on and still keeps cells that die and are replaced by new ones in check

It is otherwise called a healthful predominantly plant-based diet, avoidance of smoking and alcohol, regular exercise, maintaining a proper weight for your height and around 5% luck that you don't have any faulty gene variants.

(e:metalpeter), if you have time, do read the cancer progress report. The 100 years have not been in vain.

metalpeter writes at 05:16:01 09/22/11 - Comment #65175: My own thought is this...

They only know how to kill it and not how to turn it off or on yet... If they could find a drug that could turn the cancer off then I would buy his idea.... See this way once you have cancer you could take a medicine that daily blocks what ever turns it on and still keeps cells that die and are replaced by new ones in check....

Evolution... No one has proved it... but yet we see examples everyday... For example two people have a kid who are the same height kid is taller then both.... Now you could call that better health. But all call it evolving..... Also if you believe in the fact that all man kind was in one place and then that land mass broke apart then over time that would explain how features in hair and skin color changed.... Ireland is cloudy hence pale skin where as Africa the dark skin is needed... So it only makes sense that over time that "Humans" Changed.... Now is adaption the same thing maybe or maybe DNA changed and traits with it...

But what does that have to do with cancer.... Some cancers do run in families if you believe that... Yes it is a bit of a leap but I think Cancer is when evolution goes wrong or doesn't work. It is at least that same process.... Something that we don't understand tells those cells to grow in certain way and then doesn't tell them to turn off and it kills the host....

So everyone has what causes cancer and certain things turn it on or can cause it to start that process.....

So if someone can figure evolution or adaption what ever you want to call it then they will figure out most cancers......

Not bashing Roswell or St. Jude they do help a lot of people beat cancer but 150years and they still haven't figured out how to stop it and only know how to kill it.... You see why people think something smells Fishy......

metalpeter writes at 05:00:40 09/22/11 - Comment #65173: There are different kinds of Cancers like the one caused by the HPV virus as an example and some of the kids cancers get beaten....

Some times if they catch it early they can remove the cancer cells and it doesn't come back.... Now when it does come back.. Did that mean that what ever turns on the cells got into the blood and traveled some place else? Cause that is what happens in other cases it starts someplace and spreads somewhere else....

metalpeter writes at 04:57:51 09/22/11 - Comment #65172: So much to say on this may break it up into about 25 comments...

There are people who do believe that at one point there was a cure for cancer found and it was buried.... Now I don't know about that and I don't know enough about the science but there are a few things that this article does have right.....

Those things do cause cancer but they also kill it... What they all do kinda is they kill the Cancer sells and hopefully kill them all before they kill you... Chemo makes you sick and then you don't eat right or at all some times you get sick... Radiation Kills those cells pretty good But then you can get it someplace......

tinypliny writes at 04:49:48 09/21/11 - Comment #65145: Typo in that last comment:
"... what will all" --> what with all

Holistic cures and alternative medicine are great, but not if they are ludicrous. The benefits of a plant based diet with low energy density, plenty of exercise, proper hydration, healthful sleep habits, and generally, a simpler lifestyle is universally known.

What is worrisome is that people don't easily change to adopt these lifestyles when they are relatively healthy. People only consider changing their lifestyles seriously when they are faced with health problems. At that point, what is universally known to be healthy becomes a "holistic cure" instead of just being known as general wisdom and common sense. Throw in some commonplace mixtures such as sugar and baking soda and you have a genuine quack's guide to curing cancer.

tinypliny writes at 04:39:13 09/21/11 - Comment #65144: % cancer cells will flock to the syrup's high sugar content and then be killed by the baking soda

I can't help laughing. Think about it, how can cancer cells (that are very much part of our bodies, just like any other cells) and are enmeshed in its tissues "flock" to something that is in the stomach within the brief 2 hours or less after which it will be broken and/or degraded into elemental forms for absorption? If cancer cells were THAT autonomous in their actions, there would be no hope for cancer patients at all and all they would have would be holes in their entire body, what will all the "flocking" that cancer cells would be capable of.

Take a look at this: :::link:::

Cancer is expensive, for everyone involved. But that doesn't mean that all researchers, doctors, and even the hated pharma industry are inhuman enough to withhold some magic cure.

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09/06/11 09:24 - ID#55108

Social Friends?

I have no clue who this guy was but apparently this is a big deal now that he's dead

I guess it makes you think about the line between a social media "friend" and someone in Real Life...

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08/22/11 06:56 - ID#55000

Typical Corrupt Dirty Buffalo

I'm just spreading the word. This is just the typical way things are run around here, use your muscle and pull to drive away any competition.

Taken from the Facebook Page

Establishments that have complained about a food truck serving somewhere they had been invited to:

Fables Cafe

Waterline Cafe

Taki's

Establishments that have lobbied the Buffalo Common Council to delay implemenation of food truck regulations:

Jim's Steak Out

Elmwood Taco and Subs

Just Pizza

This may actually be a healthy thing to do anyway. F those arrogant fast food places on Elmwood.

metalpeter writes at 05:21:05 08/24/11 - Comment #64581

The Funny thing is Most of the food trucks by the time they are someplace I've missed them and I'm a fan of Llyods.... I think what we are maybe really debating is what is fair?

What is really an even playing ground is an interesting question really.... Don't get me wrong I love the truck idea but since you are outside you can walk and eat or lean on a building or find ground or someplace to sit.... So would it be fair for Bigger trucks less mobile that had a setting area? So I admit there any sit down place does have an advantage ......

Now what I would love to see but it will never happen is for all the food truck people and anyone who owns a bar or any place food is served to have a big giant round table and state what they think about food trucks and the issue then let the law makers watch and let them come up with some fair laws.... Now the reason I mention bars is a few years back at I think taste of buffalo not sure they had this big lot and Labbatt had a truck with a set up that you where buying beer right from the Semi truck and up top there was a stage.... The other reason I mention bars is that the ones who serve food and beer have two things.... Don't know NYS laws but why can't there be a Beer truck (granted drinking any thing out side would be a crime) but that is what they do at Thursday at the square set up the truck back and put up tables and there you go......

It is great that we have great food trucks.... But most good things get ruined by a small number of bad people... It would be nice to have the right laws in place so it doesn't happen... But both sides have just as much right to their ideas on the laws...

My main concern is that food truck can roam free with out hurting any one else who is selling food including not really mentioned in this the food cart people... There also needs to be some way or some system that works and is fair to deal with bad food trucks... If there is some problem it shouldn't take a month to fix... You just report the problem and the inspectors show up and see what the problem is... I hold this both ways... If a food truck is set up selling taco's Mighty Taco can't send some guy dressed in a board sign or what ever for mighty taco in front of his truck to try and steal eaters .... "hey that is a long line what you getting....OH that is called this down the street a bet your there isn't a line there never is at this time" type of thing....

Just have to ad one thing that I don't think I have heard anyone mention in this debate and I don't mean just between us I mean in the news.... This goes back to (even chain places run by local people) why I think there should be a big pow wow... Do food trucks do better near restaurants ? And this the opposite also true? Granted it has been a long time since the research was done on fast food places but Burger Kings and McDonald's that are near each other do better then opens where there isn't a competitor ****

YesThatCasey writes at 04:20:32 08/24/11 - Comment #64557: "The Point is if you are in stock trading or any other form of capitalism there will all ways be predators and people who just want to fuck or who will fuck you over and as cool of an idea as food trucks are gotta make sure that there is no way for them to do that......."

What I'm saying is....substitute "Food Truck" with "Brick and Mortar".

For the record, I don't even care for Lloyd's, though I've only once been a patron. The reality is that personal preference isn't what's important here; it's about what's fair.

Consider this: 20 years from now, most food establishments are based out of trucks. The concept of brick and mortar fast food places is antiquated, thought of as terribly inefficient. High-traffic locations are free'd up for other businesses that can make more appropriate use of them and possess a synergy with the food trucks that frequent the sites.

Either this sounds possible or laughable. If it sounds possible, then what this law does is stymie innovation. If it sounds laughable, then it weakens the argument that this will somehow destroy these businesses.

In the end, ETS has the ability to make a truck of their own. They are on equal playing ground. 500 feet seems more than reasonable to me to prevent any shock to the establishment. Trying to block them from the village does not.

metalpeter writes at 05:14:40 08/23/11 - Comment #64540: What is 500 hundred 500 both ways in a walking area never walked it out Zillycakes ? End Of Bidwell Park? Point is it doesn't matter... Everyone loves the new thing and says this is great but no one wants to worry about the dark side... Everyone loved the tech of flash Mobs and singing Christmas songs or having a pillow fight... But now they are in the news for the damage they cause and that is all many people know of them....

Many Years ago I was in Toronto and this holds true for any other Big city (not Buffalo size).... It was dark out some truck was selling food I was hungry but city that big no way I'm taking my chances from eating from that truck....

Now quality of Lloys vs ETS do I really want to pay $7 for one taco eh maybe but that isn't the point the point is with out the right regulation some thing made for summer that in theory could go any where could cause someplace else to close....

Both sides have just as many rights to try and get the laws to favor them.... But I'm not going to boycott Just Pizza.... That would be just as I don't want to say dumb to say Llyods is trying to be young and hip and skip the rules so I won't eat there.....

One other thing that the law needs to address is food trucks near food trucks..... The reason I say this is could all the food trucks say be in a certain empty lot.... What if say Jim's or ETS or Mighty Taco as examples want to start a food truck.... and that brings up my point about why ETS needs protection.... Why can't say Mighty Taco who's locations all ways seem to change why can't they go out and get 2 maybe 3 trucks make them hybrids or what ever type of fuel source they like and send them out at what ever time they want to Elmwood?

As Another Example why can't some National company set up Desert trucks on Elmwood and try and get sweetooth and Zillycakes to close......

The Point is if you are in stock trading or any other form of capitalism there will all ways be predators and people who just want to fuck or who will fuck you over and as cool of an idea as food trucks are gotta make sure that there is no way for them to do that.......

YesThatCasey writes at 03:05:30 08/23/11 - Comment #64531: Peter: These trucks cannot set up within 500 feet per the rules they have agreed to, so your scenario of trucks setting up on each side is something that would not happen. The problem is that these establishments want to push that barrier out to well over 1000 feet, which would essentially block trucks from the entirety of Elmwood and other similar areas. That's a power move that should leave a bad taste in your mouth.

In the end, if they have a good product, they shouldn't have to worry. And if they don't have a good product, maybe it's time they focused on fixing that problem. The quality of ingredients Lloyd uses are obviously well above that of ETS, and they are also pricier. They are not similar businesses, but ETS wants to muscle out any competition.

And as for the 'hard earned money' of ETS, let's remember that this was the place that avoided $400,000 in taxes just recently.

I'm not knocking ETS overall; they have done some nice things. But they don't have a leg to stand on. Being a respectable business doesn't mean you can push lynch laws into place.

vincent writes at 11:52:42 08/23/11 - Comment #64529: Another good article
:::link:::

vincent writes at 10:28:15 08/22/11 - Comment #64513: Personally I don't go to any of the three places anymore. So I'm not changing my habits at all.

Only having so much money to go around doesn't entitle anyone to it. The last time I checked it we do have an free market capitalistic system at least on paper in the USA. If one cannot make it in business on their own, it's not my problem.

As of right now there is no permit process or law other than NYS sanitary rules. There isn't any way if they even wanted to get a permit to operate on public property. The city council REFUSES to make any rules because of pressure from ETS, Jim's & Just Pizza. They now operate on PRIVATE PROPERTY by invitation only. WHAT ABOUT PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS?

It's all about pressure from people that have clout in the city to prevent anyone from competing against them. The ones with the friends in high places make the rules in this city. Forget about the free market or capitalism. That's why Buffalo fails, it's all about who you know not about the best product.

Here you have someone that moved back to Buffalo to go into business, but the dude from Jim's is afraid of competition down the street, calls a friend and shuts it down. You have someone with a new idea, but because people have pull they snuff it out.

Just watch the story :::link:::

This is why Buffalo fails and the rest of the country succeeds. We don't allow outsiders in unless they're going to school at UB. Well that's an over exaggeration but this is how the rest of the country operates. We just have the mentality to protect our turf and shy away from new ideas.

metalpeter writes at 08:13:52 08/22/11 - Comment #64512: Sorry Gotta Disagree with you With the ETS.... They Burned down... Opened up a new place then a bank wanted it moved again....

So you are telling me that if you poured your own hard earned or loaned money into a place (It takes enough money to be able to lose money for about 5 years granted that might be a fancy place with wait staff and all that) and found your spot and had a good client tell you would be ok with who knows whom from who knows where being legally allowed to set up a truck 10 feet from your place so that anyone who wants a Taco can go to the truck instead of your place..... I know I sure wouldn't want them to be able to....

The other factor with food trucks is..... There is only so much money to be spent on that kind of food.... Now if I sell tacos like the 3 places mentioned most people can't eat those every day... Now if that truck hangs out by where they work next time on elmwood no one will buy a taco they just had them yesterday....

See like Flash Mobs everyone thinks oh we have great food trucks and we do.... But like flash mobs it only takes one bad one or worse yet how about out of town people who could bring trucks in and try to put local buffalo places out of Business hey why can't (now that they are in the burbs out near the Galleria mall it would be silly) Chipotle say come in with a fleet or really all they need is two and part on either side of ETS..... Kill all there summer Buisness then vanish......

Just Pizza (yes I remember when that is all they had) not sure how the franchises are Have put a lot of money and time into being the best Specialty Pizza place .... Where this I think ties in for them and Jim's Is that I think they both are at other festivals and have there own set up and charge more..... Now Lets say someone comes up with a pizza truck they could be not even part of say The Italian Festival and Park where everyone walks to enter... Or if they are part of the festival be another pizza place oh and then when that Festival ends for the night go drive and hang out at their corner....

I love the idea of food trucks and think they are great.... I do agree in a free market.... but the problem is in this fucked up country of ours people lie, cheat and steal so they can make half a cent more and so there has to be a way to make sure that that the playing field is even I say the trucks should be like the ice cream trucks and play music and not camp out with the exception of festivals in that case just like the stands they have to stay there for entire thing and can't leave and come back the next day.... You have to bring the supplies to the truck....

On a side note how is the food inspected and how are they inspected for clean and good food?

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Category: concerts

08/04/11 12:13 - ID#54854

Free Show Crowd

Tuesday = Trash Day in Lewiston NY

'Nuff Said

This is the demographic of Western New York that goes to this things or the part that you just can't shake like a bad smell in old sneakers.

They don't want to remember the band, music or show; This is what it's all about to them!

metalpeter writes at 12:20:15 08/06/11 - Comment #64144: You Act like you have never been underage and had to many and got really fucked up (I'm kidding around sort of) .... Anyone who has ever had a drink has been that guy once... And anyone who says they haven't been is full of shit!

If I drove there are many free concerts I would go to Like The Tea Party and ZZ Top for the music.... That is why a lot of people go to them is for the music.......

Now of course there is that set of people who are there for a good time and don't care what the band is... What is wrong with that go out there look at the pretty girls and or boys get messed up and listen to music why is that any different than what so many people do in a bar go and just listen to whom ever happens to be there...

I admit I would rather people go for the specific band but some people even who do have to get high or smashed to go and then don't remember the show that isn't my thing and I think it is fucked up but that is how they enjoy the show so just don't spill beer on me or if you do buy me a drink.....

vincent writes at 04:08:36 08/04/11 - Comment #64099: (e:mrmike) The music you hear is the opening act, he HAD to be pre-gaming/tailgating it somewhere. Most people do, that's why the village residents complain about the beer cans & other stuff on their front lawns every Tuesday/Wednesday.

mrmike writes at 01:46:28 08/04/11 - Comment #64098: Must be nice to be so well-financed to purchase all those $7 beers

vincent writes at 10:54:50 08/04/11 - Comment #64097: (e:tiny) I shot it on a dark beach in FLA, I realize that it's dark & I like it that way ;-)

(e:leetee) It's totally scary to see, especially when there are hundreds of them in the same place.

tinypliny writes at 08:32:47 08/04/11 - Comment #64095: Your avatar is too dark, (e:vincent)! I have now viewed over several monitors, colour, saturation, gamma, brightness and contrast profiles and it is uniformly dark everywhere.

tinypliny writes at 08:31:08 08/04/11 - Comment #64094: Maybe he is the only one enjoying the music and doing an interpretative sufi sort of dance?

leetee writes at 07:46:25 08/04/11 - Comment #64093: it's been a good 20 years since i personally have felt the only way to have a good time is to get toasted. i do, however, know way too many people my age and older who have yet to learn that lesson....

libertad writes at 06:59:35 08/04/11 - Comment #64092: Maybe he needs a V8?

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08/02/11 04:42 - ID#54846

Social Engineered (sort of)

So I was sitting at the Orange Cat today with my Mom in Lewiston

and I overheard a couple of young women say something to the effect of:

Blah Blah Blah, Over there him, Blah Blah Blah It's like a facebook for Buffalo Blah Blah Blah...

Then I realized that I tweeted that I was there at the OC and this profile page is linked to my twitter account. It's funny because when I looked under the Orange Cat in the search box I saw the twitter account for the chick that was sitting in front of me.

I always used to get crazy about my Ex-Girlfriend talking about specific details about my life out in public. I remember down in Florida I was able to locate a ton of info on someone from 4 words from a conversation on a patio restaurant.

To be honest I really don't care too much as I'm trying to maximize my twitter account to get my Klout score up just because I'm bored with being off of work. But it is creepy sometimes when you're out and you swear you recognize someone then realize that you saw a dating profile of them somewhere on OK Cupid or Plentyoffish.

To me this experience was a bit amusing and goes to show how digitized we are as in the amount of info we can pull up on each other in public with just a tiny bit to go on. Yet going over to them and striking up a conversation in person would be ultra creepy. It's just part of the whole text but don't call type of thing that we've moved into these days.