Hey guys I'm Alexander Jasper-Jay and today I wanted to touch on what I was talking about in my last video
in a bit more detail
I intentionally was very vague in that video
and that's because I want to approach this subject very delicately
not only because it's emotionally heavy for me
but because it might freak some of you guys out
who are on testosterone or planning to go on testosterone to hear that testosterone put me in a wheelchair
fret not testosterone is not at fault
my doctor was mishandling my testosterone
anyway she didn't know how to test my levels
by that I mean she didn't know the frequency in which she should be testing my levels
and she didn't know how to read my levels
despite the fact that I had provided all of that information to her with a representative of pflag present
what the fuck
anyway that's not the point of this video
this video I wanted to address a question I got shortly after uploading my last video
and that question was I thought when you overdosed on T it simply converted back into E
and that is true to some extent
your body has a safety mechanism in place
(so) that when you have a surplus of testosterone it will convert into estrogen
and this is to keep the testosterone from doing too much damage to your system
but when you have such a vast amount of testosterone in your system over such a long period of time
I-I was overdosing for three years okay
there's only so much your body can do to accommodate for that
and unfortunately mine couldn't really do anymore
I wound up developing something called polycythemia and something called Raynaud's
and I'll jump more into what those are in another video
I don't have much space or time with this battery on this camera
but I wanted to make this video kind of okay
Yeah I'm here I'm alive and I am slowly getting better
and I am still on testosterone for those of you who are wondering
in fact I did my shot today and I filmed it so
enjoy me freaking out
*ding*
*Shots by lmfao playing*
*ding*
so you may have noticed between this clip and the last one
my shirts changed
the lighting the camera angle its all changed and
that's because it's a few hours later and I edited a video while my camera battery was charging
because it drains kinda fast
but I ordered a new battery so that should be
a problem of the past pretty soon
anyway uh not really what I wanted to talk about
what I want to talk about goes back to the question that I recieved
and I really want to talk about the lack of information
that we have out there about testosterone overdose
people don't know how to spot red flags so
symptoms of testosterone overdose include but are not limited to
blurred vision
headache... seizures
slurred speech
sudden and sever inability to speak
temporary blindness
weakness in the arm or leg on one side of the body sudden and severe
I actually have a combination of these symptoms at one point
I wound up having to be rushed to the emergency room
with a migraine that presented as if it were a stroke
so at twenty-one years old I was rushing to the hospital thinking I was having a stroke
because I was dealing with side effects of testosterone overdose
even though at that point I had been off of testosterone for ten days
this is after I was released from the hospital
that was horrifying and I don't wish that on anybody
so in order to deter that from happening to other people I want to start a dialogue
a conversation about testosterone overdose
and just really get into it
you know it's kind of difficult to convey everything around all that mess
because
for a lot of it I was pretty fucked up
the entirety of the time I was in the hospital I was on dilaudid
and upon my release I was still being given T3s
and then there's also the fact
that
I was feeling very low energy
I was detoxing from testosterone
just was not a great time for my head
felt very spacey
really just swimming through all that it's clouded by emotions
and I would really appreciate if you guys had questions and maybe made this more of a two-way conversation
instead of just me talking at you
'cause that feels a little weird
I feel as if the fact (that) you are told when you overdose on T it converts back into E serves as a great deterrent
because you don't want something intended to alleviate dysphoria to wind up triggering it
I also feel as if that lack of information can be quite dangerous
because you don't really know what red flags to look out for
and unfortunately that was the case for me I had no idea
what red flags
I should be spotting
and honestly even looking back now it's difficult to determine
a lot of the mood stuff could have been attributed to the fact that I have BPD
and then
you know I was working a lot so that's how I wound up dismissing the pain in my feet
headaches I was stressed out like there's a number of different factors
but all of those together should have really told me something
I also just want to encourage you if you are not seeing somebody who specializes in trans care for your testosterone
that you yourself
educate yourself more about your levels
and where they should be at
so you can be more proactive with your care
you don't want to be like me
my doctor didn't know what the fuck she was doing
I trusted her
and I wound up getting really messed up over it
please... be careful
so yeah
peace out scout people I shall see you soon *clicks cheek* bye
*toot*
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What Happened to Grind King?! | Brand Breakdowns - Duration: 15:51.
This time on Rad Rat Video, we're learning
all about Grind King the brand, and Grind
King the dude. Let's get into it.
Welcome back to Rad Rat Video, the channel
where you can learn something new about
skateboarding three times a week, every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I do a video
about skateboarding history,
skateboarding culture, skateboarding
video games, answering your questions on
Ask Rad Rat, and this newer series
called "brand breakdowns." The original
idea for this series was to do Grind
King, and I ended up getting the Seek one
done first. I'll talk about why at the
end, but the Grind King system was
something really interesting that came
up in my research before. What a lot of
people probably don't know is that grind
King was originally just a kingpin. It
was not an individual truck. So the
founder of Grind King, Donald Cassel, he
took the kingpin design as it was,
inverted it, had a rounded off edge that
had an Allen wrench hole in the top, and
it was smaller. It was lower profile and
it was a lot heavier duty steel, and it
was not its own truck for a couple years.
That was kind of interesting. I've got a
quote about it, so, "since what I created
was a grinding kingpin, I shortened the
two words to name my product Grind King."
And Donald, from another article I found,
was later called the Grind King in the
industry in the 90s. So back in 1988, the
year I was born,
Donald Cassel was 26 years old, and he
was going to be a land developer, and he
never did. Although, hold on to that
little nugget for a second. And he came
up with this idea of doing that inverted
kingpin and he went to a trade show in
1988, started showing them around to some
people. Next thing he knew, he had sold a
thousand of them. And this was going to
be a little part-time thing he did out
of his garage or his basement or
whatever, but he ended up turning it into
a real business just because he couldn't
keep up with orders. The Grind King bolts
were expensive to make.
"I used the best steel alloy I could find.
Originally the washer was machined and
the bolt was partly machined and partly
cold headed. Cold heading is the process
of forming something to shape under
extreme pressure.
I sold the kits for like 12.95,
although people warned me I wouldn't be
able to do it. Regular kingpins were
selling for less than a couple of bucks."
So that is a regular skateboard branded
kingpin, but if you were to just go to a
hardware store, I found from another
source, it was more like 60 cents. So $12.95
in 1988 is 27.37 in today's money.
Imagine spending that much on an
accessory for your truck. You could
almost buy a full set of trucks for that
much, but that wasn't the problem. He did
have some other problems though. First
one was that it wasn't compatible with
every single truck. Being a third-party
accessory, you know, other truck companies
weren't designing their trucks around
his kingpin so it didn't always match
perfectly. But the other big problem was
having counterfeits. So what other brands
would do, they would make something of
cheaper steel. They would steal his
design, but not the quality of it, and
they would break really easily and it
kind of gave him a bad name in the
marketplace. So what did he do? He decided
to make his own truck. He started in 1990,
making some clay models and figuring out
exactly what it would do, and in
September 1991, he released his first
model. "I started out with a pretty different
looking truck. The kingpin, the funky
curved baseplate. it was only mildly
successful." Funky how? Well, it had a
hollowed out, curved baseplate and the
axles would slip pretty much immediately.
It didn't sell all that well, so he
rushed to get a second model out within
only a few months. "It was really a [wild]
one. I had all these innovations. I went
overboard.
I had a floating axle that would slide
back and forth, and it had the threads on
the inside instead of on the outside.
Allen screws went in the end to hold the
wheels on, and they had these funky
bushings with, like, corrugation. It was
either ahead of its time, or out in
left-field too far." The second model also
bombed pretty much immediately, but he
had another big problem around this time.
In 92, the truck companies all switched
to the new bolt pattern. Except for him.
And the problem with his curved base
plates is that he couldn't just drill
new holes into it and adapt to the
newest style. And he also had this other
insert that he made that would go -- I'm
not sure, I wasn't able to find a picture
of this, but it was able to protect the
bolts. So the reason why they switched to
the new bolt pattern, it
was the same size, but the holes were
further in, and that protected the bolts
and the nuts from hitting the ledge if
you do a nose slide. Noseslides were still
pretty new, so he was left with all these
trucks and also with his inserts that he
made that were no longer compatible with
what anybody had. So he had to rush to
make a third model. "I went back to a more
conventional design. People dug them
because they were really light. I think
as wild as skaters are portrayed, they're
really conservative in their buying
habits. They don't want to stray too far
from the norm." So the lightness was a
good thing for a lot of skaters, but for
a lot of pros, they didn't like it. So
they had gotten up to this point in
their careers with big heavy trucks, and
they didn't want to make a huge change.
There would be time that it would take
to adapt to them and everything like that,
and they weren't as popular with the
team as they were with regular skaters.
This is from an interview, "'They're too light,'
he tried to assure the skater that light
was better.
'No,' the pro had said, 'I'm used to heavy. I
want heavy.'" Although this lightness was
generally a good thing, this particular
design that he made was a little bit too
weak, and so hardcore skaters, he said,
would be able to break them. But
regardless of that, they were finally
successful and his company started to
take off. In 1992, he made $100,000 in
profit, and was starting to hire people
and get a warehouse and really get
things going. This is when he took on
the name of 'the grind King,' although that
was from a newspaper article, and not a
skate magazine. So who knows how much
that actually was used, but that's what
they call them. And around that time, he
started to diversify and start new
companies.
He started hazmat skateboards with Eric
Dressen, and I was not able to find much
about this brand.
There's another brand
that's more recent that's also called
hazmat. I don't think it's related to it.
That doesn't seem like it stayed around
for that long, but he did start hazmat
snowboards, which was relatively
successful until that also got pirated.
People would make fake copies of it, call
it 'haz-mate,' and kind of put him out of
business because they are making cheaper
snowboards with that same name. But one
of the reasons why the trucks were
getting to be more and more successful
was the style of advertising that they
would use. So for most brands, both in
trucks and in
anything else, they would always talk
about their team. You know, 'this guy uses
my truck, therefore it's the best.' They
wouldn't really advertise the truck
itself, and that's what he did. He worked
with a marketing guy, and he would talk
about the actual features of the truck
and advertised the truck itself. And Don
worked on continuing to make the product
better and better.
In 1994 the gk4 was released, which
solved a lot of these strength issues that
the gk3 had. In 1996, the GK 5 came out as
a very small change where they moved the
center nib of the base plate a little
bit in. Not a big deal, but they released
the high version of the truck, and he
said that that was a really great seller.
In 1999, the gk6 came out. This was a
complete redesign. It had a brand new king
pin and bushing setup. It had a lot beefier
axle, although it was also lighter. It was
a pretty big upgrade at that time. But
all throughout the 90s, up until this
point, he had started a lot of other
brands through the 80s and the 90s in
fact. Because he was also responsible for
bridge bolts. I've talked about them a
few times on the channel, like the weird
gimmicks video I made that's right here.
I finally figured out what the reason
for these were, and in theory, it was just
to have fewer parts. So yeah, the board's
gonna be heavier because you had this
extra bit of metal that connects the two
bolts, it's also gonna get in the way of
trying to do tricks, but it simplifies
the amount of parts that are in your
skateboard box or whatever. So that was
the point of that, but he started those
and he had a lot of other companies like
society skateboards, Grind Queen apparel,
belladonna women's clothing, underdog
shoes, Von Dutch, termite kid-sized
skateboards. These were not only smaller
in size, but they actually had fewer
plies to be lighter, so just a
scaled-down beginner kids' skateboard. You
may remember those from back in the day.
He also started Kre-per trucks. You may
remember these. These are very heavy-
looking. They were glow-in-the-dark. They
were shaped like a spiderweb, and had a
skull in them. They came out with a skate
video. Apparently they were very
heavy-duty, and really tough. I always
thought that there was some kind of
outsider joke brand, or like, maybe
something you'd put on a cruiser.
Not really a performance truck, you know,
but people who skated them at the time --
I've seen some reviews they said that
they were really good. They were really
heavy-duty and tough. So I don't know, I
had no idea that they were related to
grind King at the time, but those were
something that he did. He had so many
brands, in fact, that he had to start Dark
Horse distribution as a parent company
that went over all of these different
brands. Next in 2002, grind King released
the GK AXL, which was their high-end
premium type of truck. It solved a lot of
problems with trucks in general, like
slipping axles. So if you started skating
after this point, you've probably never even
seen this axle slip before. I never had
it personally happen. I've seen it once.
It's where the axle actually kind of
slipped, so that there's more more axle
sticking out on one side than the other.
But he finally solved it with this truck.
So what he did was take the axle, flatten
it out a little bit, and then had it bend,
and then put holes in it to save weight.
And that way, there is no way that that
thing could move at all. But there was a
major problem with the tooling. So, if you
cast a truck, and you had the axle, and
it's turned a little bit, it makes no
difference, right? If it's just a straight
line. But if it has a shape and you turn
it a little bit, then it'll stick out of
the metal. So he had to get people from
the outside to come in. Different kinds
of engineers, and work on solving this
problem. And he would never say exactly
what they did, but they were able to
finally figure out how they did that, and
that was a pretty cool advancement. On
top of that, it also had a locking bolt
under the base plate that let you swap
bushings without having to take the
truck off. Very small thing. I don't know
how many people use that, but that was
another option. Next up was the gk7,
and that came out in 2004. And it had a
redesigned hanger shape, a kingpin sleeve
nut for stability, a lower kingpin, new
bushings, and he also launched the
Thunderbird, a long board truck. And then
after that, was the AXL II, which was the
peak of innovation in skateboarding
trucks once again. It was lighter and
stronger than the original AXL. It had a
hardtop bushing that had no break-in
period. They were so good that he sold
them separately because people wanted
them so much. It had a concave bushing
seat where they meet in the middle which
made it more stable and more durable. A
smaller kingpin head,
radial shaped hanger that curved for
better grind control, stronger base plate,
which was redesigned for nose slides. Now,
I see all this stuff, and I think, 'who's
really doing that today?
what truck brand still in business is
really doing new things?' Tensor's going
really low and really light. and they had
slider plates and all that kind of stuff.
and the nibs that dig into your board/
But who else is really doing new things
like these guys were back then? I can't
really think of anyone. So it's pretty
cool, and it's weird that they're the
ones that went out of business, but they
also did some really weird stuff, such as
the velvet series. I remember seeing
these back in the day, and I did not
understand the point. So it had this
textured paint job on it, and you would
think that that would interfere with
grinds. That's not gonna make it
grind smoother, right? I was never brave
enough to try them. Where I grew up, there
were no skate shops. I couldn't go feel
what they were like or anything, but I
never got the point of those. But one
thing that I did get the point of,
stupidly, it was the grind King dubs
series. So these came with these axle
nuts that had a rim on them. The point of it
was to keep dirt out of your bearings,
and I bought these back in the day. I
think I just bought the nuts separately.
But back in the day, rims were the
coolest thing in the world.
You know, even on your cars and
everything. Every rapper was talking
about, you know, their twenty-fours and
all that kind of stuff. And looking back
on it, it's so stupid that anyone cared
about that. But that's what they had for
trucks. They're doing velvet, they were
doing dubs, neither of these things
really made a lot of sense for
skateboarding, but they still lived on
for a few more years. The last news
article I was able to find about
grind king at all was in 2008, when Joey
Brezinski and Danny Supa left the team.
So what happened after that? I don't know.
There's no press releases, there's no
news articles there's really nothing
that talks about where grind King went
and how it died out. They had an official
blog, and it stopped updating in july
2010, and there are comments on there.
People were asking about why they're not
getting answers, why they can't find them
anymore, why they aren't getting replies
to their requests for replacements or
warranties and things like that. And they
just kind of fell off the map. So I think
it's really weird that you can't find a
news article. You would think Transworld
or Thrasher, somebody would have reported
on it, but they just haven't. So to look
it up, I figured I would look up Don
Cassel today, and see where he is. Maybe
try to talk to him. And I was able to
find him. So there's a lot of people with
that name on Facebook, but one of them is
actually still using an @grindking.com
email address. So I was able to find
him, and he's actually doing land
development. So something he wanted to do
way back in the day. He was posting to a
local group in LA about finding an
architect. So I don't know exactly what
he's doing, but I think he's finally into
the field that he originally thought he
was going to be going into 30 years ago.
But since he posted his email address
publicly on Facebook, I decided to send
him an email and ask him what happened
to grind King. What about all these other
brands? Where are you today? What's going
on? And this is what he said: "..." Yep, that's
it. He never answered. Most people I reach
out to do not answer. And I gave him a
lot of time. This is why this video came
out so much later, even though this was
the original idea for the series, because
I was waiting for an answer that never
came. Ao I don't know a lot about the
exact details of how grind king closed,
but it's pretty clear that they're gone.
Interesting fact though, while I was
researching this video, the grind King
website was still up. You could go there,
you go to the team page and you can see,
you know, they post YouTube videos of the
different pros on their team, and all that
stuff. And I think I had copyright 2009
on the bottom as the last time it was
updated. But after I email him, I checked
back on the site for something and it's
down now. So it's kind of weird. I don't
think I had anything to do with it, but I
did say I'm doing a YouTube video about
grind King, and suddenly the website goes
down. Again probably nothing to do with
me. Maybe they, I don't know, didn't renew
it finally or something, but it's kind of
weird. So there's not a lot of
information left to find at this point.
But if you know anything else about
grind King and where it went and what
the problem is in the end, let me
know below.
I'd be very interested to find out more
about that. But until next time, here's
more videos I did recently. I have a lot
more different series. I do this, brand
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What I saw in Puerto Rico was heartbreaking - Duration: 1:15.
Hi, I'm Luis Mendoza, I'm a staff with the United Steelworkers. As all of you know
last week devastating hurricane hit the island of Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands in the Caribbean. We have a large amount of members out there. Thousands.
I actually lived through this hurricane with with my family and the devastation
is beyond belief. I can't even put into words how to describe what I saw.
The devastation is incredible. A lot of people have been asking me what
can I do, where can I send stuff? There's so much
devastation that there is no way that a truck or cargo can actually transport
stuff to any part of the island. So if you want to help, and I'm begging
you to please help, we need you. The Steelworker family always steps up
when when a family member is in need. Go to usw.org/relief because
your brothers and sisters and the people on the islands need you now more than ever .
Please, please make a contribution.
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What Actors Really Use When Taking Drugs In Movies - Duration: 6:10.
A lot of things are legal in Hollywood, but cocaine and heroin?
Yeah, still not so much.
And when it comes to selling onscreen substance abuse, you can only go so far with a CGI high.
Hollywood's prop masters still have to use ingenious practical effects to make fake drugs
look like the real thing — without hurting the actors who have to put the stuff in their
lungs, up their noses, or… uh, elsewhere.
Here's what was really on the set in these movies where drugs were on the menu.
Horrible Bosses
Colin Farrell is no stranger to doing fake cocaine in front of the camera, or real cocaine
in real life, for that matter, back when he was one of Hollywood's biggest party boys.
But for Horrible Bosses, prop master Mychael Bates had the actor snorting powdered lactose
— a milk product that's so harmless, actors can inhale it without hurting themselves.
That's good news for Farrell, who was reportedly so keen on staying in character that he would
snort the fake cocaine between takes.
Pineapple Express
Despite Seth Rogen's outspoken advocacy for marijuana offscreen, the cast in the stoner
flick Pineapple Express wasn't actually smoking the real thing — which just goes to show
what a talented actor Bill Hader really is.
"Is this normal?"
Prop master Jeff Butcher purchased the movie's fake weed in bulk from International Oddities,
a company that specializes in bud without any THC, the substance that gets you high
— so that actors can smoke it, a lot, without suffering any weird after-effects.
Trainspotting
You won't be surprised to learn that Ewan McGregor and his castmates weren't shooting
real heroin in Trainspotting— in fact, no human arms were punctured in the making of
this film.
Instead, the film's prop master Gordon Fitzgerald used a real syringe filled with dyed water,
which was injected into a prosthetic arm.
According to Fitzgerald, this method had a perk: "You can draw the plunger up and down
and it looks as if the blood is mixing with the liquid."
21 Jump Street
A fictional synthetic drug is central to the plot of 21 Jump Street, which stars Channing
Tatum and Jonah Hill as cops who go undercover to stop the threat.
"Goes by the street name HFS —
"Holy F------ S---."
But while HFS is a fabrication, Tatum and Hill still needed something to put in their
mouths when it came time to film this scene where they get high to avoid blowing their
cover.
The solution?
Communion-style dissolving wafers with a hint of yellow food covering, which melt on the
tongue the same way as drugs like acid.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Needless to say, cocaine was featured heavily in The Wolf of Wall Street, which is set in
the late 1980s.
So when it came time to do lines, actors were given vitamin D powder, which is harmless
to the body when ingested in small doses.
There's just one catch: these were not small doses.
"I never had more vitamin D in my entire life.
I could have lifted a car over my f------ head"
American Gangster
Powdered heroin was central to the plot of the 2007 film American Gangster, based on
the life of career criminal Frank Lucas played, who built his empire on a fortune made by
smuggling heroin into the U.S. on military planes returning from the Vietnam war.
It's also one of the most difficult drugs to fake onscreen — which is why American
Gangster's prop master used a substance called Mannitol.
Doctors use it to treat kidney conditions and reduce brain swelling — but it's also
used by real-life drug dealers to cut heroin, making it a convincing choice.
Scarface
Not all fake cocaine is created equal— especially when the fake cocaine is actually baby laxative.
That's right: in Scarface, prop masters used powdered baby laxative to stand in for the
massive amount of cocaine that's bought, sold, and ingested by drug lord Tony Montana, played
by Al Pacino.
And while the substance didn't get anyone high, it did have certain other effects on
the human body — "So much so that no one would want to put it up their nose," according
to actor Stephen Bauer, who played Manny Rivera.
What happens when you snort too much powdered baby laxative?
Nobody's saying, but it can't be good.
"What the f*** was that?"
The Breakfast Club
Before people figured out how to make THC-free weed, oregano was the preferred stand-in for
marijuana in movies like The Breakfast Club — so that's what they're smoking in this
scene from John Hughes' classic film about a crew of misfits sentenced to high school
detention on a Saturday.
There's just one problem: back in the day, people still had some pretty weird ideas about
the physical effects of smoking up.
"Marijuana!
The burning weed with its roots in HELL!"
Thanks to the movie's prop master, the joint they're passing around looks legit — but
nothing else about this scene is especially realistic.
Half Nelson
Ryan Gosling's Oscar-nominated performance as a drug-addicted teacher in New York City
would have been wasted if Half Nelson's on-screen crack looked wack.
But prop master Jeremy Balon found an ingenious solution: an off-white coffee mug that he
"broke up into about a million little pieces, then dyed in coffee."
A piece of broken, stained porcelain would be set in front of a small ball of tobacco
that smoked when lit, lending a realistic look to Gosling's fake crack pipe.
American Beauty
For all this talk of oregano and baby laxative, it's worth noting that Hollywood still does
occasionally do its drugs the old-fashioned way — like in this scene from American Beauty,
where Kevin Spacey's Lester Burnham gets stoned in a parking lot at a real estate convention.
American Beauty director Sam Mendes said, "There may or may not have been real pot available
on that particular movie, I couldn't possibly comment" — but Kevin Spacey's giggling fit
kind of says it all.
"Honey, this is…"
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What If The One World Trade Center Was Attacked? - Duration: 4:47.
The One World Trade Center, Sometimes called freedom tower, replaced the twin towers that
were destroyed during 9/11.
Its 1776 feet tall and its the most expensive office tower in the world, costing 4 billion
dollars.
But It sits only a few yards from the same site that had been hit by terrorists twice
before.
One has to wonder…would it happen again?
Life's biggest questions asks, What if the One World Trade center was attacked?
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When the plans for freedom tower were announced, the NYPD deputy commissioner for counter terrorism
objected to the buildings location.
The Port Authority never responded, saying they never received a letter from the NYPD.
They believed that another attempted attack on the world trade center within the next
10 years was inevitable, and pretty much a certainty.
But Governor Pataki went ahead with the plans, vowing to built a tower that would inspire
the nation and serve as a tribute to freedom.
The world trade center has been attacked twice before, once in 1993 by a truck bomb, and
then of course, on 9/11.
According to CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, it seems a target in perpetuity,
somebody will try something, even if it's some half-hearted attempt by somebody merely
inspired by al Qaeda.
He also said he would never work at freedom tower.
In fact, many terrorism experts agree that sooner or later, ground zero will be targeted
again.
So now that you know that another attack on ground zero is inevitable, what will happen
once it does?
Will it be a catastrophic disaster like the one on 9/11?
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told 60 minutes that if necessary, the NYPD could blow an
airplane out of the sky, adding that the new york police department has lots of capabilities
that you don't know about, and you wont know about.
The world trade center has its own precinct, staffed by 6 hundred police officers, all
experts in counterterrorism.
The Port Authority police department is in charge of security at the freedom tower.
So in short, theres a lot of people protecting the world trade center.
So if an attacker somehow makes it past the NYPD, here's the deal.
To protect it from another car bomb attack, the freedom tower is located 90 feet from
the edge of the street, instead of the previous 25.
Its also protected by a 70 ton steep beam base 200 feet by 200 feet, designed to protect
the building from vehicular bomb blasts.
Every vehicle that enters the underground parking is screened for explosives.
Visitors pass through metal detectors, all packages and bags are screened much like in
an airport.
Stair access is restricted, and visitor time is limited, monitored, and recorded.
There are cameras pretty much everywhere, and they are monitored 24 center by both real
people and software that is designed to recognize suspicious people, activity and unattended
baggage.
Freedom tower is designed to be an extremely strong structure.
It has a concrete wall, one meter thick, located within the steel frame.
The concrete core is the strongest ever mixed.
The original towers, were made entirely of steel.
When the plane crashed into the north tower, the jet fuel superheated the steel support
columns, softening it to the point that it buckled under its own weight.
Freedom tower also has multiple layers of beams and columns bolted together, which will
prevent bending.
Therefore, its likely that the one world trade center could survive an attack like the one
on 9/11 One of the major problems that occurred on
9/11 was not enough room in the stairwell for people to evacuate.
The new stairwells are 50% wider than required, allowing more people as well as wheelchairs.
If there is ever another attack that prompts an evacuation, the staircases interconnect
to allow people trying to escape to cross over should a stairwell become blocked.
They are internally pressurized, which keeps smoke out, and they also feature low level
emergency lighting, which were somehow not integrated in the original towers.
There are also stairwells dedicated to first responders, that are designed so that they
can only travel up as fast as possible and not have to maneuver around people who are
trying to rush down the stairs and escape.
If there is a fire in freedom tower, it has water tanks with double the capacity rewuired
by New york building code, and if theres a biological attack, freedom tower also has
chemical filters in the air supply system.
There is a first responder only, fireproof elevator, giving fire crews access to all
112 floors more quickly.
In conclusion, the One world trade center was designed in response to the problems that
cost 3000 people their lives on 9/11.
Of course, if there is another attack, new problems will arise.
Its imposible to completely secure a building against an attack, especially a plane.
But as it stands, freedom tower is one tough cookie to crack.
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The typically quiet Marshawn Lynch has always let his actions speak louder than his words,
and Sunday afternoon was no different.
Lynch first made headlines this season by sitting down and eating a banana during the
national anthem, then refused to talk about it.
He probably won't have to talk about this controversy.
It already says a lot.
Lynch was wearing an "Everybody Vs. Trump" T-shirt prior to the Oakland Raiders' game
with Denver Broncos.
Never mind that "everyone" can't be against President Donald Trump because he
was elected in a democratic election, but Lynch's shirt is the epitome of divisive
politics and shows how increasingly out of touch Lynch is.
The biggest sign of the ridiculous nature of his shirt is the price tag.
According to ESPN's Darren Rovell, those shirts are a hefty $45 and produced by Oakland-based
Dope Era.
A cursory glance at the Dope Era home page reveals shirts of a dubious nature, including
shirts that glorified O.J. Simpson killing women.
But more importantly, neither Dope Era nor Lynch have shown what good they plan on doing
after the transaction of a $45 T-shirt.
For all the divisiveness that Colin Kaepernick has sown, he has at least donated nearly $1
million to causes that he deems charitable.
Lynch has made no indication what he plans on contributing, and Dope Era makes no indication
if the money they make with divisive anti-Trump shirts are going to any charitable causes.
Lynch again sat for the national anthem prior to the Raiders taking on the Broncos.
In an attempt to mitigate photo opportunities showcasing Lynch disrespecting the national
anthem, Raiders staffers surrounded Lynch during the anthem.
Both the Broncos and Raiders are trying to keep pace with the Kansas City Chiefs in the
AFC West.
You'd think that neither team would want any distractions.
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