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The Moon will turn an eerie shade of red for people in the western hemisphere late Wednesday and early Thursday as we experience the first lunar eclipse since August 28, 2007. In a lunar eclipse, the Sun, Earth and Moon are directly aligned and the Moon swings into the cone of shadow cast by the Earth. But the Moon does not become invisible, as there is still residual light that is deflected towards it by our atmosphere. Most of this refracted light is in the red part of the spectrum and as a result the Moon, seen from Earth, turns a coppery, orange or even brownish hue.

One can even use such knowledge to save their bacon. Can you say Christopher Columbus?

Lunar eclipses have long been associated with superstitions and signs of ill omen, especially in battle.

The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC was foretold by soothsayers when the Moon turned blood-red a few days earlier. And an eclipse is credited with saving the life of Christopher Columbus and his crew in 1504.

This is not just some wise tale!

Stranded on the coast of Jamaica, the explorers were running out of food and faced with increasingly hostile local inhabitants who were refusing to provide them with any more supplies. Columbus, looking at an astronomical almanac, realised that a total eclipse of the Moon would occur on February 29, 1504.

He called the native leaders and warned them if they did not cooperate, he would make the Moon disappear from the sky the following night. The warning came true, prompting the terrified people to beg Columbus to restore the Moon, which he did, in return for as much food as his men needed. He and the crew were rescued on June 29, 1504.

Some things are predictable and known. Other things like Planet X are postulates and suspected. On the known siade of things, the Moon will be in total eclipse from 0301 GMT to 0351 GMT. This will be visible east of the Rocky Mountains in North America, as well as in all of Central and South America, West Africa and Western Europe.

It will be in partial eclipse from 0143 GMT to 0301 GMT, visible west of the Rockies and from the eastern Pacific, and from 0351 GMT to 0509 GMT, visible across the rest of Africa and Europe and much of South and West Asia.

The next lunar eclipse won’t take place until December 21 2010. That’s exactly two years before God only knows what will take place on December 21, 2012. And then there’s February 14, 2013 or about 45 days after the most talked about date of the future. Planet X is projected to be 2.85AU from the sun with the earth directly between the brown dwarf and our sun. And talk about coronal mass ejections (CME) and sun spots? You’ve not seen anything like this fireworks display.

Try to make a movie out of this doomsday scenario! Art cannot imitate life to such an extent. But, while you can, and hopefully the weather will allow such a view, enjoy the quiet of mother nature.

The laundry list of strangeness surrounding the Stephenville, Texas, UFO sightings is growing. Despite efforts by a military spokesperson to attribute the sightings to F-16 training maneuvers, new video shows a strange object that doesn’t look or act anything like a conventional aircraft. On top of that, a former defense industry electronics expert now says that the F-14s may have been scrambled in response to a violation of restricted presidential airspace by the military.

A new video has surfaced and been presented by Stephenville, Texas, resident Steve Allen, the owner of a freight company and a witness to the sighting on January 8, 2008. Allen says that the video of a strange object in the sky was presented to him by an anonymous source and that it was taken on the occasion of the January 8th sighting. The video appears very similar to another UFO film taken years before which shows an object moving extremely fast and making bizarre and aerodynamically impossible moves. This new video evidence casts doubt on the current air force explanation for the event.

A new scenario that might help explain one of the Stephenville UFO sightings has entered the picture, but it’s doubtful that the Air Force or other U.S. Government Authorities will find this one helpful in their efforts to portray the affair in conventional terms. A former employee for a government contractor (now retired) told the International Paranormal UFO Society that he worked on F-16s for many years as an electronics engineer and has his own opinion of what happened on January 8, 2008.

This informant is known to IPUS and he claims that it would be very unlikely for so many F-14s to be on a evening or nighttime training mission at one time. Instead, he believes that the reason so many F-14s were involved in the incident is because the unidentified flying object they were chasing had violated restricted presidential airspace over the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas.

Our informant bases his opinion on all the information that the media, military and eyewitnesses have provided to date. He points out that a previous email from a private pilot to IPUS mentioned that he was approaching Erath County airspace (where the events of January 8, 2008 took place) from the south and saw the object and jets in front of him indicating that they were approaching the area from the same direction. President Bush’s Crawford Ranch is south and slightly east of Stephenville.

IPUS is continuing to investigate the Stephenville Sightings and related matters. We will post any new information that we have on our website at http://www.CanYouStandTheTruth.com We encourage anyone with information about the Texas UFO sightings to contact us through our website or call our UFO Sightings Hotline at 765-483-9089. IPUS Board Member and Co-Spokesperson, Dick Criswell, is available for media inquiries and guest spots about our investigation into the Texas UFO Sightings. He can be reached at our hotline phone number or by email at invader1@insightbb.com

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Celebrities are one way or another obliged to look good as generally people expect them to be always stunning, nice-looking, pleasing and well dressed. They always try to evade aging in all possible means to keep a youthful and flawless image and presence. Though there are smart celebrities who know well how to use plastic surgery to their advantage creating a perfect complement of glamour and enhance physical features. The best illustration of this is Nicole Kidman plastic surgery.

She has truly perfected the craft of blending well plastic surgeries to boost her endow natural beauty, porcelain skin and physical attributes. At the age of forty, she looks ten years younger than her actual age. During the last film festival, she emerged so stunning that the journalists started to label her as a living doll. There are no traces of a forty year old – absence of wrinkles in her forehead, crow’s feet around her eyes, sagging skin and other signs of old age. It seems she has taken a bath in the fountain of youth that she simply surfaced with a youthful presence.

Of course, the genes play a vital factor to her looks. More so the diet, exercise regimen and lifestyle. However these factors can only serve at best to certain extent but not a total deviation of the process of aging. This is why celebrities seek for the aid of plastic surgery to try preserving their youthful look.

The most noted plastic surgery product of Nicole Kidman is her reshaped nose. It resulted to a defined shape as its tip is retracted and shorten with smaller nostrils. In addition to that, Nicole also embraces the Botox injection to keep her flawless skin. The fact that she has been shunning away from the sun as early as in her teenage years, it also contributed to the quality of her skin. The Botox approach has somehow an effective process as it indeed delays her aging and keeps youthful skin. It is very evident with a winkle free face.

However it was commented that her excessive use of the Botox substance has resulted to a sinister facial expression. This is one of the known side effects of constant injection of Botox. It leaves you a sharpen eyebrow arch referred as Botox brow that leaves her an angry facial expression. Her Botox treatment has been fired with comments as experts assume that she is taking the Botox injection only two to three weeks prior to any event she will be attending. Ideally, it is recommended to have a Botox treatment at least two to three months prior to wane the apparent effect of Botox.

Another noticeable feature of Nicole Kidman is the barely discernible sagging skin around her jaw line and neck. The tautness of neck and the surrounding area is believed to be the product of non-surgical facial procedures such as laser skin resurfacing, thermage and other methods.

Nicole Kidman underwent the process of breast augmentation also. The lean and towering plastic surgery doll used to be flat chested but in the past appearances in the media, she appears to be bustier.