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Mashable.com, one of the largest tech and culture websites on the planet, appears to be taking a side in the ongoing war in Gaza.
The site best known for posts about things buried in software user agreements and happy photo ops with the president who claims that he isn't interested in photo ops is taking a decidedly pro-Hamas editorial point of view as it and Israel fight in Gaza.
That war started when terrorists linked to Hamas, which is itself categorized as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department and the European Union, kidnapped three Israeli teenagers and later executed them. One of those teenagers, 16-year-old Naftali Frankel, also had American citizenship.
On June 14, when Mashable reported on the boys' kidnapping, in describing Hamas it put "terrorist group" in scare quotes.
Even after the boys' bodies were discovered, Mashable made sure to distance Hamas from the murders.
Hamas soon began to launch some of its estimated 10,000 to 20,000 rockets at Israeli population centers. Israel has responded with an air, land and sea campaign to destroy Hamas' tunnels and its rocket arsenal.
Israel is going out of its way to avoid civilian casualties, while Hamas places civilian casualties at the center of its strategy. Hamas targets Israel's civilians, and it places its weapons close to Palestinian schools and hospitals to force Israel to choose between risking killing Palestinian civilians to destroy those weapons, or leave its own civilians at risk if it does not destroy those weapons. If Palestinian civilians die in Israeli attacks, they become part of the group's propaganda. If Israel decides not to strike Hamas weapons caches near civilian targets, then some Israelis will be attacked with those very weapons.
Mashable's coverage of the conflict has tilted away from Israel, the Middle East's sole democracy and one in which Arabs can become full citizens, and toward Hamas terrorists. Where Hamas rules, as in much of the Islamic world, Christians and Jews are at best second-class, are systematically persecuted and are often subjected to pogroms.
In an Associated Press story on the "disappearance" of rockets that Hamas hid in UN schools to which Mashable contributed reporting, the AP and Mashable hide the lead down in the sixth paragraph, and even then avoid calling Hamas what it is.
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. secretary-general on Wednesday said he was "alarmed" to hear that rockets were placed in a U.N.-run school in Gaza, and now "have gone missing." He also demanded a full review of such incidents.
A spokesperson for Ban Ki-moon expressed the U.N. chief's "outrage and regret" at the placement of weapons at a site run by the global organization. This has happened at least twice so far in the current conflict, according to the U.N.
"Those responsible are turning schools into potential military targets, and endangering the lives of innocent children," U.N. staff and anyone seeking shelter, the statement said.
The rockets had been placed at one of the schools run by the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza (UNRWA).
Once they were found, "in accordance with standard practice, UNRWA handed them over to the local authorities. Since then, they have gone missing," Ban's deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq, said in an email Wednesday evening.
The Islamic militant group Hamas controls Gaza. The U.S., Israel and the European Union all consider Hamas a terrorist organization, but the U.N. does not.
The entire story is written to hide what Hamas was doing — hiding its rockets in UN-run schools, rockets it uses against Israel's civilian population. Both of those acts are war crimes.
In the most biased story Mashable has run on the conflict to date, the site takes cues from Pallywood and puts a dying Palestinian child front and center. This is the kind of propaganda story Hamas hopes comes from Israel exercising its duty to defend its people.
In "'Am I Going to Die, Daddy?' The Child in Gaza Asked," reporter Jon Snow states that "If the Israelis have proved anything, it is that there is no such thing as a forensic strike." Snow never allows for the fact while Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties, while Hamas feeds on them.
After chronicling several heart-breaking cases of kids caught up in the crossfire, Snow rhetorically asks "Can they really be the acceptable collateral damage of targeting militants?"
The tone of the entire piece puts the moral responsibility for all casualties in Gaza not on Hamas, the terrorist group that is still dedicated to destroying Israel and which started the current conflict, but on Israel.
Snow ends his piece with this:
I was amazed to find a small sachet of shampoo as I went to a cold shower tonight — salty again. Obviously, you cannot make bombs out of shampoo and so there is no embargo on it. But clearly you can make bombs from paint because there isn't any. This is the most wretchedly unpainted urban place I have ever been.
And beyond it all, why won't they talk? This cannot go on. It is the children, tomorrow's Palestinians, who are paying the price.
Today's and tomorrow's Israelis are paying a price too, are they not? You wouldn't know it from reading Jon Snow, or indeed anything published at Mashable.
Snow's piece fits well within Hamas' anti-Israel propaganda. Why is a tech site like Mashable publishing it?
The closest that the site gets to fair reporting is probably this piece on Jews and Arabs who are making friends and more despite the conflict. Even this piece, though, plays up Arabs' peaceful intent and ignores the anti-Semitism that pervades Arab culture and communications around the world.
The fact is, whether Mashable is aware of it or not, Palestinian voters elected Hamas to power knowing full well that that would mean war with Israel. And polls find that Palestinians continue to want to destroy Israel.
In the current war, Hamas and the Palestinians who still support Hamas are getting what they want.
From the PJ Tatler.
Know Your Military Colonists
"Military Colonist" is a term that has gone out of fashion in this brave new world of "No Human Being is Illegal" and "Every Refugee Deserves to be Resettled."
The university history professor with an office full of fake Indian jewelery and a view of the parking lot will lecture on the military colonies of the Roman period, always careful to emphasize their eventual fate. And he may even get up to the 16th century. But he'll stay away from the present.
But if you are going to take land or seize power, you will need military colonists to hold it. The military colonist may be an ex-soldier, but he's more likely to be someone the empire, present or future, doesn't particularly need or have a use for. The Czars used serfs. The present day military colonist who shows up at JFK or LAX may also be a peasant with even less value to his culture.
Mexico's military colonists are not military. Often they aren't even Mexican. But they have managed to take back California without firing a shot. Unless you count the occasional drive by shooting.
While the United States sent tens of thousands of soldiers to try and hold Iraq and Afghanistan only to fail; Mexico took California with a small army of underpaid handymen who claim entire cities and send back some 20 billion dollars a year. As conquests go, it's not hard to see who did more with less.
In 2009, 417 Mexican migrants died trying to reach America, and 317 American soldiers died in Afghanistan. But Mexico has more to show for it than America does. Every Mexican who settles across the border is a net gain who sends back money and spreads political influence. Meanwhile America is spending trillions on a much smaller army in a country whose land no one actually wants.
In 2009, the year Obama approved a 30,000 man troop surge, 3,195 Afghans received permanent legal status in the United States.
In the decade since the US invaded Afghanistan, 24,710 Afghans successfully invaded the United States and received permanent legal status. That is an occupying force larger than US troop numbers were at any point in time in Afghanistan until the very end of the George W. Bush's second term.
During this same period there were also 19,000 Afghan non-immigrant admissions. As invasions go, the Afghan invasion of America was far more successful than the American invasion of Afghanistan.
That is even more true when you consider birth rates. Military colonists are not a mere invading army. They are generational footholds.
The American birth rate was at 13.5. The Afghan birth rate was at 37.3 at the time. American soldiers go home when their time is up. Sometimes they come home with a Muslim wife after converting to marry her. Afghan immigrants come with a birth rate that is nearly three times that of the country they are invading.
Across the ocean, the Algerian War is still going strong and France is losing badly. There are fewer bombs and bullets. Only men and women showing up and expecting to be taken care of. An army of millions could not have landed in France and begun pillaging the countryside. Not unless they came as immigrants. If you are going to invade a Socialist country, the best way to do it is as a charity case.
Unfortunately that holds true for us as well.
The military colonists flooding our shores are part of an unacknowledged partnership between their political leaders and ours. Their political leaders are fighting a war to redress the wrongs of centuries or millennia. Our political leaders are looking to shift the voting balances in a ward or a district for the next election. When they resettle the next shipment of Afghans in an otherwise conservative area with a view to tilting the electoral balance, they are using them as military colonists for the short term while their homelands use them as military colonists in the long term.
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Dickson, Tenn. -- Dickson police have their hands full investigating a recent rash of business burglaries.
Eighteen businesses have been hit in the last three weeks, with thousands of dollars and property taken.
Dickson police believe all the cases are connected. They have identified a person of interest, but believe more people could be involved. Officers said all the cases happened overnight, and the thieves are very aggressive.
"They go through walls, roofs and glass doors," said Commander Eddie Breeden with the Dickson Police Department. "They have taken cash registers, money, safes, and even liquor."
The owner of the Open Hand Café was inside when the perpetrator busted in last Monday.
"I heard two thumps on the door. When I looked up I saw a man about 6 feet tall," said Thomas Hill, the owner of Open Hand Café. "On the third pump he busted the glass door."
Hill was able to scare off the thief before he took anything, and considers himself lucky he was left with only a busted door and broken glass.
Dickson police said only one of the 18 businesses hit had a working security camera. Surveillance video taken from the Matzalan Mexican Restaurant shows a white male suspect stealing TVs and liquor and driving off.
Police said they know the unusual situation has put business owners on edge.
"Our patrol officers are on high alert," said Breeden. "Right now we are running down leads, running down everything we can."
Police encourage business owners to install security cameras and surveillance systems. If they currently have a security system, make sure it is working. Hill just installed cameras in the Open Hand Café, and is hopeful police will make an arrest soon.
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Fewer than 7,000 Mercury convertibles were built in 1951 and Ron Bowring of Wichita is fortunate to be able to claim this beautiful black version, which clearly looks even better than the day it rolled out of the showroom.
Tim Rhodes' 1957 Pontiac Chieftan Wagon also rolled in from Pittsburg, wearing who-knows-how-many coats of highly polished Viper Blue paint and a lowered suspension mounting Billet Specialties wheels.
The custom-mixed DuPont Butterscotch paint, combined with the retro wire wheels and engine treatment, caught our eye on this all-steel '32 Ford 3-window coupe. This car was also show by Phil and Deb Becker of Dwight, Ill.
Phil and Debbie Becker's stunning 1946 Ford woody featured all-original sheetmetal and bird's-eye maple paneling. The Dwight, Ill., wagon is powered by a 4.6 liter supercharged Cobra V-8 and rides on 17- and 18-inch Schott wheels. A rare and outstanding automobile.
It's doubtful you'll find a more tastefully built 1965 Buick Skylark than this beautiful version turned out by Dennis Guither of Princeton, Ill. A beautiful custom leather interior is complemented by a fully detailed engine bay, which carries the appropriate Buick `nailhead' V-8.
Jim and Judy Lippert turned their 1967 Chevy Nova over to Bright Built Hot Rods of Salina for some tender loving care. They were rewarded with this LS9 Corvette-powered pearl green beauty packing a 6-speed Tremec transmission. The Lipperts are residents of Green, Kan.
Black racing stripes highlight the gorgeous orange finish on Mike Hutchinson's immaculate 1970 Olds 442. The Magnum 500 wheels and white-letter tires add to the '70s muscle car vibe, too.
Adam Brownfield's slammed 1974 VW Bug looks ready for a road trip with its luggage rack filled with ta vintage cooler and a child's trike.
Jan Coe says that once he saw this 1932 Ford highboy roadster being built by shop students of USD 398 in Peabody, he had to have it. Coe had Rick Starbird finish it off in beautiful Porsche Green after he bought the hot rod.
Another out-of-state entrant was this jet black '68 Dodge Charger owned by Rick Ratajczak of LaSalle, Ill. It features coil-over-spring suspension, 4 wheel disc brakes and 3-inch exhaust. But the big selling point is under the hood, where a 528 cubic inch Hemi engine that pumps out 650 horsepower.
One of the first vehicles to greet show-goers inside Century II was Doug Hauge's beautiful 1950 Chevy pickup, its two-tone green paint scheme sparkling in a combination of natural and overhead light.
Ever seen a factory-built 1963 Falcon retractable hardtop? Tim Sutherland's jet black beauty didn't come from Dearborn equipped that way, so he engineered this one-of-a-kind version, which can convert from a standard-looking hardtop to a convertible in a couple of minutes by swallowing the entire roof into the extended trunk. Look for a future Wheels page feature on this remarkable car.
Rodney Dowell's vivid orange 1970 Mustang fastback, another local car, brought back a lot of good memories for pony car lovers.
Harold and Kathy Davis' 1950 Ford pickup from Mulvane sported a nifty chopped top and an outstanding multi-colored flame job spreading over the satin black paint that cloaked the sheetmetal.
Vivian Pearce's mint green '30 Ford roadster rolled in from Bentonville, Ark, to take part in the downtown Wichita show opener. Her efforts were rewarded with a Magnificent 7 Favorite award.
Troy Pate's low-slung '33 Ford roadster, the `Blue Diamond,' was a show-stopper in the central concourse of the show. Sporting a newly released full-fendered body by Rat's Glass, the car is finished in PPG Roadhouse Blue with just a touch of red pearl thrown in to enhance the glow.
Travis Scanlan's '63 Galaxie fastback custom was just out of the paint shop in time for the Starbird-Devlin festivities. The panel scallops recaptured the feel of the mid-'60s custom scene.
Looks like Rob Holzman and his '53 ProMod Corvette may be looking at a speeding fine, with Don Aaron's 1991 Kansas Highway Patrol cruiser pulled in close behind. Bet you could have outrun him, Rob.
The `Gold Digger,' a 1933 Ford owned by Tammy and Tony Ray of Dahlonega, Ga., added the first place Magnificent Seven honors to its long list of achievements, which include the prestigious 2010 Ridler Award presented at the Detroit Autorama.
Looking like a polished aluminum bullet, John Prather's 1948 midget racer from El Dorado was a bright spot on the show floor for competition-minded car lovers.
Silver flames over a red chopped, lowered '50 Mercury with a custom grille, flipper hubcaps and wide whitewalls brought Ross and Anna Rodenbeck some well-deserved attention for their Colby-based custom.
John and Christy Heaton's gorgeous black 1934 Ford Fordor would have been a standout at any show, but the Shawnee, Kan., couple gave their display some extra appeal by staging it with a gangster's Thompson submachine gun, complete with empty shell casings and an ammo box.
Denny Day of WaKeeney brought his beautiful 1948 Ford coupe from western Kansas, where he found the car rotting away in a hedge row. Beautifully finished from stem to stern, the fat-fendered coupe at first glance appears to be all of a color, but a closer look reveals the top is a metallic red pearl, while below the belt line, it is finished in a copper/orange pearl.
The old round-bodied MoPars continue to grow in popularity with customizers, as Rob and Eillen Robinson's beautifully detailed 1949 Plymouth 2-door proves. A subtle 1-12-inch top chop, immaculate white over blue paint and checkerboard wheel covers helped earn the car the Wichita On Wheels pick of the show, which means we will be featuring the nifty Plymouth on this page soon.
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By Tim Graham
When Doug Marrone became the New York Jets' offensive line coach in 2002, center Kevin Mawae had gone to three straight Pro Bowls and had been voted All-Pro twice.
What more could Marrone teach him that celebrated O-line coaches Howard Mudd and Bill Muir hadn't already?
Plenty, it would turn out.
Mawae later had Hall of Fame lineman and future head coach Mike Munchak as a position coach, but Marrone stands alongside all of them in Mawae's mind.
"Buffalo's lucky to have him," Mawae told me Monday.
Mawae finished his career as a three-time All-Pro and eight-time Pro Bowler. He played 16 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, Jets and Tennessee Titans and served as president of the NFL Players Association.
Marrone was his Jets position coach from 2002 through 2005. Their unit helped future Hall of Fame running back Curtis Martin lead the NFL in rushing with 1,697 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2004.
Mawae noted Marrone's gifts were sharpening technique and helping players understand not only what to do, but also why they were doing it.
"He did a great job of teaching concepts," Mawae said. "As a young player, a lot of times you worry just about your assignment and who's in front of you. But Doug taught us concepts of, 'We're doing this slide protection because it's going to complement the running game in this way. We're going to run this protection and show this kind of front so we can get the defensive backfield to react certain ways.'
"And he would be able to teach it to you in a way where you understood it, where it wasn't complicated physics.
"He coached tight ends and he knows the passing game. When we would talk X's and O's about pass-protection schemes, he would be able to teach you about coverages, Cover 2, rolling coverages, what to expect. He opened the game up for a lot of the guys on the offensive line beyond the [line of scrimmage]."
Mawae said Marrone made strategies easy to understand by explaining how and why they originated.
"He knew the history behind the game," Mawae said. "When he talked about running a certain blocking scheme, he would tell us, 'This started because of Coach So-and-So back in the 1970s.' He had perspective on the evolution of the game. I enjoyed that."
Mawae, the 36th overall draft choice in 1994, was entering his ninth season when Jets head coach Herm Edwards hired Marrone. Mawae claimed he got better because of Marrone's presence.
"It was a simple thing like taking one step off the ball or changing an angle to accomplish what you want to do," Mawae said. "He's a great technician and teacher of technique.
"People don't understand that about offensive linemen. It's not just about taking off and hitting somebody. It's six inches here or proper placement of your hands or your footwork. He had great ideas on how to do that."
Marrone played tackle for Syracuse. He was a captain his senior season. The Los Angeles Raiders drafted Marrone in the sixth round in 1986. He played a few games for the Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints.
"The one thing I always appreciated about Doug is he played the game," Mawae said. "He played in college at a high level, played in the NFL. That gave him a perspective that a lot of times coaches don't have. Players appreciate that."


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Leaders of the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center outlined plans Wednesday for a diminished future for the nonprofit agency, saying the loss of millions in state money will lead it to a focus on growing small businesses and helping develop leaders in rural areas.
But the Rural Center would no longer make grants under the plan that was discussed by the full center board, ending a decade of efforts to use state money in poorer areas for job creation and other infrastructure work. The center had long been a voice for rural North Carolina within state government, using hundreds of millions in state funds to make grants.
Officials stressed Wednesday that the centers best efforts and long-standing work to assist rural areas will continue in some form but will be handled by the state Department of Commerce with different oversight and accountability. About 15 current employees of the center are expected to shift to the commerce department to continue overseeing the centers grant programs.
The Rural Centers future has been in doubt after its accounts were frozen following a critical state audit and lawmakers cut off new funding. Leaders of the center said previously they would have to at least consider dissolving the center, which is housed in an office complex in Southeast Raleigh.
Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker met with Rural Center leaders and expressed optimism about continued help for local communities across the state, including one that provides grants to rehab vacant buildings for business owners.
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The board did not take action on the downsizing plan, but many board members expressed support. The plan would shift the centers main focus to overseeing several smaller loan programs focusing on small businesses. The center would survive on about $1.6 million a year in various streams of funding, officials say.
The refocused center would employ about 12 to 15 people, down from 47.
An estimated 15 employees received layoff notices and will leave the center this week. Among those leaving will be the current acting president, Elaine Matthews. Patrick Woodie, a vice president, was put in charge Wednesday.
Bill Gibson, the acting chairman of the centers board, said Wednesday there are promising potentials ahead for the downsized center and a possible partnership with the state Commerce Department that would include having the state employees move into its offices.
The administration of Gov. Pat McCrory says it is continuing to honor grants awarded by the center, releasing about $3 million in recent weeks. McCrory has said new grants for rural areas will be made after October.
A question of severance
The board also heard an update from its lawyer about $241,000 in a special severance account built up over the past decade for the centers longtime president, Billy Ray Hall. The lawyer told board members that he could not recommend making any severance payment to Hall now because his review shows that the full board had not approved spending the money.
The lawyer, Bob Saunders of the Brooks Pierce law firm, said that more information needs to be gathered about whether the payment would be acceptable for a tax-exempt agency to make. He said making the payment could lead to an IRS audit.
He said that not making the payment could spur a legal battle with Hall who, through a lawyer, has inquired about receiving the money.
The board will ultimately vote on whether to make the severance payment, Saunders said. It is not clear when.
Hall resigned last month, and the Rural Center lost state funding in fallout after a News & Observer series and a critical state audit, both questioning how well the center was overseeing millions in state money intended to help poor, rural areas.
The severance account was first disclosed in a footnote of the state audit, but it had been set up by a subset of the full Rural Center board known as the executive committee. Some Rural Center board members expressed surprise about the account. Others have defended it as a deferred compensation plan to reward Hall.
The severance account is separate from and in addition to retirement contributions and salary for Hall, which topped $221,000 and had drawn criticism from state auditors as being unreasonable for the type of private nonprofit agency he was running.
Rural Center board members had already voted to hold off on releasing the funds amid concern about the account.
Hall had led the Rural Center since its formation in 1987. The severance account was added to his compensation package in 2003, officials have said. Longtime board chairwoman Valeria Lee had expressed support for the severance account last month, but then resigned her unpaid post days later.
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Turbulent Start for Transmeta
Since emerging into the limelight with a widely covered public announcement [see "Linley on Linux" April 2000], Transmeta has had a busy year. The company began shipping its first products, gained several significant design wins and successfully executed an IPO. Although its stock price has since been cut in half, Transmeta still carries an impressive market cap of about $3 billion US. The company has seen tougher-than-expected competition from Intel in the PC market as well as slow movement in the webpad market. On the other hand, Transmeta recently opened up a third front in the server market. The startup, also famous for being Linus Torvalds' employer, produces the Crusoe chip that is compatible with Intel's processors but uses less power. This accomplishment is due to its unique code-morphing technology that emulates Intel's architecture on simpler VLIW hardware. Initially, Transmeta believed that Intel could not match Crusoe's low-power consumption without developing its own code-morphing technology, which would take years. But Intel fought back quickly.
Without access to code morphing, Intel instead took advantage of its superior manufacturing technology to reduce the power consumption of its chips. Last June, Intel rolled out new processors that operate at lower voltages than Transmeta's IBM-built chips (IBM has manufacturing technology similar to Intel's but reserves it for internal products). Although some studies show that Crusoe still has an edge in power savings, its advantage over Intel's latest chips is small.
Transmeta has also failed to produce any useful performance data for its processor. To be fair, code morphing makes benchmarking difficult; the Crusoe chip actually gets faster if you run a program more often. Testing of initial Crusoe systems found their performance to be roughly that of a mere 300MHz Pentium III, but these tests ran the benchmark program only once. How fast the chip would run with more "practice" remains unclear, as Transmeta itself still isn't talking.
With its core messages of performance and low power under attack, Transmeta made limited headway in the notebook PC market over the past year. The company placed Crusoe in new ultralight PCs from Sony, Fujitsu, Hitachi and NEC. These systems are aimed mainly at the Japanese market, where space and power savings are at a premium. The leading makers of notebook PCs for the US market—IBM, Toshiba, Compaq and Dell—have yet to roll out any Crusoe-based systems, although all have evaluated Transmeta's technology. As a result, Transmeta's share of the ultralight PC market is perhaps 10% so far. Since that market is just a small fraction of the PC market, Transmeta holds far less than 1% of the total PC processor market. Thus, the company poses little threat to Intel's revenues. Transmeta doesn't need much of Intel's market; however, about 50% of the ultralight PC market would help Transmeta break even.
Investors are hoping for more than breaking even, as Transmeta has lost more than $200 million since it was founded and will probably lose another $50 million, even if it reaches its goal of profitability by the end of this year. Investors want some payback. That's where new markets come in. Transmeta's second target market is webpads. These portable devices access web content through a wireless link, showing it on a flat-panel display. Webpads typically use PC-compatible processors, allowing them to run all the plug-ins on the Web but don't need to run Windows; many use Linux instead. The good news is that virtually every webpad announced to date uses Crusoe for its unique combination of low-power consumption, PC compatibility and low price. Companies such as Gateway, Phillips, Hitachi and Frontpath (formerly S3) have selected Crusoe for their webpads.
The bad news: webpad sales have been minimal to date, slowed by prices that are often $1,000 or more. The most expensive part of these webpads is the flat-panel display, which can cost several hundred dollars alone. However, the recent slowdown in PC sales has reduced demand for flat panels, causing prices to drop. With panel-manufacturing capacity continuing to increase, these prices should fall dramatically and help webpads become more popular in 2001. Still, Transmeta expects webpads to contribute less than 20% of its revenue this year.
Transmeta recently added web servers as a third target market. Although Crusoe is not as powerful as server processors from Intel and others, the low-power chip doesn't need a bulky heat sink or other cooling equipment. This enables vendors to pack several Crusoe chips into the space required by a single power-hungry Intel chip. Since the task of serving web pages can be easily divided among several processors, Crusoe makes up in numbers what it lacks in individual performance.
So far, only a single small company has endorsed Transmeta's server vision, and Transmeta expects little server revenue in 2001. But this rapidly growing market represents another opportunity for Crusoe, even if Intel can block Transmeta in the PC market. Transmeta hopes PC revenues can tide it over until these new markets begin to flourish. In 2002, we may finally see Transmeta's full business plan in action.
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A 23 year old man is dead after an early morning shooting in Bellevue.
He's been identified as 23 year old Michael Garcia, an airman at Offutt Air Force Base.
He was stationed there from Texas.
A 21 year old friend of the victims has been arrested. Cory D. Hernandez was taken into custody for manslaughter.
Police say Garcia was shot in the head.
Two other men at the scene are being treated as witnesses. The four men were in an apartment in Bellevue when the shooting occurred just before 1am this morning.
More details will be released as the investigation continues.


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Israel, United States near agreement in spy release deal
Netanyahu to Cameron: Abbas must condemn random rocket fire on Israel
Israeli airstrike killed 3 in Gaza
Netanyahu says Palestinian recalcitrance endangers peace talks
Israeli weapons inspectors to examine missiles on captured ship
Kerry, Jordan's king discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Palestinian officials: Agreement needs to be supported by people
White House sending national security adviser to Israel
Netanyahu to Abbas: 'Stop denying history' and recognize Israel
Obama, Netanyahu meet in Washington to discuss Palestine, Iran
U.S. moves closer to sanctions against Russia over Ukraine crisis
U.S. President Obama's schedule for Monday, March 3
Israeli mayor says end to gas mask distribution plan shortsighted
Merkel: Germany won't boycott Israeli products
Despite political rift, Germany boosts military aid to Israel
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין "בִּיבִּי" נְתַנְיָהוּ (help·info) Binyamin Netanyahu; born October 21, 1949) is the Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.
Netanyahu is the first and only Israeli prime minister born in Israel after the State of Israel's foundation. Netanyahu joined the Israeli Defense Forces in 1967 where he served as a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit, taking part in many missions including the hostage rescue mission from the hijacked Sabena Flight 571 in 1972. He fought in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and achieved the rank of captain before being discharged. Netanyahu served as the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988, member of the Likud Party, and was Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999.
Netanyahu withdrew from politics after a corruption scandal related to gifts from a government contractor. In 2002 he returned as Foreign Minister (2002–03) and Finance Minister (2003 – August 2005) in Ariel Sharon's governments, but he departed over disagreements regarding the Gaza Disengagement Plan. He retook the Likud leadership on December 20, 2005. In the 2006 election, Likud did poorly, winning 12 seats. In December 2006, Netanyahu became the official Opposition Leader in the Knesset and Chairman of the Likud Party. In August 2007, he retained the Likud leadership by beating Moshe Feiglin in party elections. Following the 10 February 2009 parliamentary election, in which Likud placed second and right-wing parties won a majority, Netanyahu formed a coalition government. He is the brother of Israeli Special Forces commander Yonatan Netanyahu, who died during a hostage rescue mission, and Iddo Netanyahu, an Israeli playwright.


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On A&E's Duck Dynasty Season 6 Episode 6, Jase and company "debugged" the family duck blinds, while CEO Willie tried to teach the kids about business.
Because it always beats working, Jase took some of the guys from Duck Commander on a search for crawfish ... inside the duck blinds on the family land.
Jase loves crawfish almost as much as he loves frogs, so he's willing to go to great lengths to acquire them, despite what you might call occupational hazards.
John Godwin went into a blind and encountered a gator - one that was "Godzilla big, like a bull," he said - but which Willie removed with his bare hands.
Godwin exaggerations aside, it was thus time to debug the blinds, or in layman's terms, clean them the heck out so there are no critters living in there.
Being a duck hunter, Jase explains is not what the public makes it out to be or what you would simply assume if you watch Duck Dynasty online.
It's serious effort, with a lot of preparation, tedious tasks and Jase's equivalent of paperwork - cleaning out the blinds. Still beats actual paperwork, Jase.


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MITSUBISHI RAYON INTRODUCES Diamana® RED BOARD
- MRC Press Release - January 09, 2006
CARLSBAD, Calif. (Jan. 09, 2006) - Building on the success of multiple US TOUR victories with the Diamana® Blue Board shafts in 2005, MRC Composite Products USA announced today the company will release another top-of-the-line product in the Diamana series in early 2006 called Diamana Red Board. With a flex profile designed to accommodate the player who wants a more active tip section and higher trajectory, Diamana Red Board will provide a slightly different feel and shot tendency that Diamana Blue Board, but will provide the same high quality performance that US TOUR players have come to know and trust in the Mitsubishi Diamana name. These two complementary flex profiles will give players two high performance options to choose from to best match their swing.
Diamana Red Board, with its red surfboard shaped logo, will hit exclusive golf retailers in February of 2006. Designed with feedback from some of the world's best players, the new Diamana Red Board delivers a powerful feeling at impact that can help maximize launch conditions for players of all abilities.
"I am very excited about this new shaft because the design gives players a feel and trajectory that is still high performance but significantly different than what the Blue Board offers" said Larry Bischmann, Director, North America for MRC Composite Products USA. "Keeping the torque value low with the right combination of a softer tip flex and a stiffer mid-section makes this a profile that will work for even the most demanding professional golfers. It is a perfect match for players who want the same materials and quality as Diamana Blue Board, but want slightly higher trajectory."
Diamana Red Board will be available in three weights: 63, 73 and 83-gram. The 63-gram is the most popular weight and is a smart choice for players with a smooth tempo who want maximum head speed off the tee. The 73 and 83-gram weights combine power, stability and also a more active tip section. Both make excellent fairway wood shafts for the player who prefers using a mid or lightweight driver shaft.
MRC manufactures all the raw materials, including the monomer, acrylic fiber, carbon fiber, resin and prepreg for Diamana Red Board, making MRC the only fully vertically integrated manufacturer in the industry. The result: a graphite shaft designed for and played by the best in the world.
For dealer qualification information, please contact Mark Gunther at 760.929.0001, x101.
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By Jeanne LeFlore
Staff Writer
McALESTER —
A weekend party turned to tragedy Sunday, ending in the death of one man and the arrest of another in Hughes County.
Michael "Eric" Morris, 21, of Hughes County was fatally shot Sunday and Joseph Henry Harden, 22, has been arrested in connection with the death. Harden had not been charged by presstime, although a probable cause affidavit has been filed in the case in Hughes County District Court.
"In a 911 call to the Hughes County sheriff, Harden said he had killed his best friend but it was an accident and he had been drinking alcohol," states the affidavit by OSBI Special Agent Adam Whitney.
The case was also investigated by the Hughes County Sheriff's Department.
According to Whitney, Morris and Harden were among guests at a Saturday night party at home near Calvin. Most had left before the incident took place at about 6:15 a.m., according to the affidavit.
Morris, Harden and another man were talking in the kitchen when Morris went outside and retrieved a .38 caliber revolver and brought it inside with a box of ammunition, the affidavit states.
As Morris sat on a kitchen counter and Harden stood nearby, holding the revolver, the gun discharged, hitting Morris in the head," court records state.
Morris slumped forward and there was "a lot of blood coming from Morris's head ... and he fell to the floor," court records state.
Harden then called 911, court records state.
"While the investigation was ongoing, Harden (told) Hughes County Sheriff Kenny Snyder that Morris held the gun (under) his chin and told Harden to pull the trigger, but did not know the gun was loaded." court records state.
Harden was arrested Sunday and remained at Hughes County Jail at presstime.
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I cover the underlying drivers of energy, technology and society.
A very big report came out last month with very little fanfare. It concluded what we in nuclear science have been saying for decades – radiation doses less than about 10 rem (0.1 Sv) are no big deal. The linear no-threshold dose hypothesis (LNT) does not apply to doses less than 10 rem (0.1 Sv), which is the region encompassing background levels around the world, and is the region of most importance to nuclear energy, most medical procedures and most areas affected by accidents like Fukushima.
The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) (UNSCEAR 2012) submitted the report that, among other things, states that uncertainties at low doses are such that UNSCEAR "does not recommend multiplying low doses by large numbers of individuals to estimate numbers of radiation-induced health effects within a population exposed to incremental doses at levels equivalent to or below natural background levels." (UNDOC/V1255385)
You know, like everyone's been doing since Chernobyl. Like everyone's still doing with Fukushima.
Finally, the world may come to its senses and not waste time on the things that aren't hurting us and spend time on the things that are. And on the people that are in real need. Like the infrastructure and economic destruction wrought by the tsunami, like cleaning up the actual hot spots around Fukushima, like caring for the tens of thousands of Japanese living in fear of radiation levels so low that the fear itself is the only thing that is hurting them, like seriously preparing to restart their nuclear fleet and listening to the IAEA and the U.S. when we suggest improvements.
The advice on radiation in this report will clarify what can, and cannot, be said about low dose radiation health effects on individuals and large populations. Background doses going from 250 mrem (2.5 mSv) to 350 mrem (3.5 mSv) will not raise cancer rates or have any discernable effects on public health. Likewise, background doses going from 250 mrem (2.5 mSv) to 100 mrem (1 mSv) will not decrease cancer rates or effect any other public health issue.
Note – although most discussions are for acute doses (all at once) the same amount as a chronic dose (metered out over a longer time period like a year) is even less effecting. So 10 rem (0.1 Sv) per year, either as acute or chronic, has no observable effect, while 10 rem per month might.
UNSCEAR also found no observable health effects from last year's nuclear accident in Fukushima. No effects.
The Japanese people can start eating their own food again, and moving back into areas only lightly contaminated with radiation levels that are similar to background in many areas of the world like Colorado and Brazil.
The huge waste of money that is passing for clean-up now by just moving around dirt and leaves (NYTimes) can be focused on clean-up of real contamination near Fukushima using modern technologies. The economic and psychological harm wrought by the wrong-headed adoption of linear no-threshold dose effects for doses less than 0.1 Sv (10 rem) has been extremely harmful to the already stressed population of Japan, and to continue it would be criminal.
To recap LNT, the Linear No-Threshold Dose hypothesis is a supposition that all radiation is deadly and there is no dose below which harmful effects will not occur. Double the dose, double the cancers. First put forward after WWII by Hermann Muller, and adopted by the world body, including UNSCEAR, its primary use was as a Cold War bargaining chip to force cessation of nuclear weapons testing. The fear of radiation that took over the worldview was a side-effect (Did Muller Lie?).
Of course, doubling the dose doesn't double the cancers below 10 rem/yr (0.1 Sv/yr). It has no effect at all. The millions of nuclear workers that have been monitored closely for 50 years have no higher cancer mortality than the general population but have had several to ten times the average dose. People living in New Mexico and Wyoming have twice the annual dose as those in Los Angeles, but have lower cancer rates. These cannot occur if LNT were true, because LNT states this could not occur.
There are no observable effects in any population group around the planet that suggest LNT is true below 10 rem/yr (0.1 Sv/yr) even in areas of the Middle East, Brazil and France where natural background doses exceed 10 rem/yr (0.1 Sv/yr).
Although rarely discussed, LNT does not take into account the organisms immune system, biological recovery time between doses or other relevant mechanisms that operate at low doses on an actual organism versus cells in a petri dish.
UNSCEAR is an independent body of international experts that has met regularly since 1955 and helped establish radiation as the best understood, though weakest, carcinogenic agent in the world through its studies of atomic bomb survivors, the effects of the Chernobyl accident, industrial radiological accidents, and medical radiation treatment.
Many of us have been at them for years to stop procrastinating and prevaricating on something so important that the inaction itself is harmful. This report is a welcome change. The report, approved by the United Nations General Assembly, will now serve to guide all countries of the world in setting their own national radiation safety policies.
This is incredibly important to Japan where national guideline changes have been horribly over-reactive in response to Fukushima, especially for food, using LNT in a way it should not be used.
Regulatory Limits On Radioactivity In Foods (in Bq/kg)*
Country Water Milk Foodstuffs Babyfoods
Japan 10 200 100 50
*Japan's new limits for radiation in food
Accepted global limits on radioactivity levels in foods is 1000 Bq/kg (1,200 Bq/kg in the U.S.). Dominated by cesium-137 and Sr-90, these levels were set by organizations like the IAEA and UNSCEAR after decades of study. Because of public radiation fears broadcast in the press after the Fukushima accident, Japan cut the limit in half hoping it would have a calming influence. But the level of fear remained high, so Tokyo lowered the limits to one-tenth of the international standards.
This was supposed to induce calm? Telling the public that radiation is even more deadly than they thought? That their food is toxic? Were they nuts?
This has had the unintended consequence of making people even more afraid of what they are eating, moving safe foods into the scary category and limiting food exports, causing even further economic and social damage.
Suddenly, all sorts of normally safe foods are now banned. Wild mushrooms from Aomori Prefecture are now banned because they have cesium levels of about 120 Bq/kg. This cesium has nothing to do with Fukushima, it's the same type as is in everyone's food around the world, and it wouldn't have rated a second look before the accident (Japan's Contamination Limits Way Too Low).
The Japanese people should not be punished for nothing. But these new results and the UNSCEAR reports demonstrate that they are being punished. There was no reason to lower the rad limits on food, especially after the short-lived nuclides have long decayed away. One of the incorrect assumptions was that people in Japan would be eating only contaminated food, which is quite wrong. The international limits were set for very good reasons, lowering them makes no sense except to further hurt farmers and consumers in Japan.
UNSCEAR's chair Wolfgang Weiss stated that no radiation health effects had been observed in Japan among the public, workers or children in the area of the damaged nuclear power plants, in keeping with studies already published by the World Health Organization and Tokyo University. Doses of radiation received by people near the damaged power plant were so low that no discernible health effect could be expected.
The Japanese government, for all its failures, did the right thing in evacuating Fukushima Prefecture quickly and by preventing contaminated food and water from being consumed. This was in stark contrast to Chernobyl where the Soviets intentionally kept the public in the dark.
Ingestion of the short-lived isotope iodine-131, with its well-known risk of thyroid cancer when absorbed in the thyroid glands of children and young people, was the only major radiation-related health effect of the Chernobyl accident on the public. And the Soviets could have prevented that by acting quickly and openly. Of course, the Soviets didn't much care about the public.
This will not happen in Japan. Iodine-131, with a half-life of only 8 days, decayed away in a few months following the accident and no one was found to have ingested any significant amount.
According to the reports, six Fukushima workers received total doses of over 0.25 Sv (25 rem) during their time fighting the emergency, while 170 workers received doses between 0.1 and 0.25 Sv (10 to 25 rem). None have shown ill effects and most likely never will. Radiation played no role in the coincidental deaths of six Fukushima workers in the time since the accident, who died from accidents, e.g., being crushed by debris or being swept out to sea.
Yes, there are health effects of radiation above 0.1 Sv (10 rem) that statistically increase up to 1 Sv (100 rem) but even in this higher range it's hard to see them without a big enough population. The only radiation events on this scale, where large populations received 0.1 Sv (10 rem) to 1 Sv (100 rem) have been the atomic bomb blasts from World War II.
The effects of radiation only start to become clear at high acute absorbed doses of over 1 Sv (100 rem), and even then it is necessary to eliminate other potential causes before radiation can be unequivocally said to be the cause, advised UNSCEAR.
What this means for nuclear waste disposal is even more dramatic, but more on that later!
In the end, if we don't reorient ourselves on what is true about radiation and not on the fear, we will fail the citizens of Japan, Belarus and the Ukraine, and we will continue to spend time and money on the wrong things. I'm sure the anti-nuke ideologues and conspiracy theorists will not accept these U.N. reports, but then…they don't like the United Nations anyway.
The USNRC staff routinely performs an ongoing evaluation and review of independent studies like the Tooth Fairy Project published by the Radiation Public Health Project. The NRC found that the Tooth Fairy Project had little or no credibility:
"There are principles of good science that are recognized by the scientific community such as whether a study can be replicated; whether it has considered all data or was it selective (e.g., in the population or in the years studied); whether a study evaluated all possible explanations for the observations; was the data used evaluated for validity and reliability; and whether the study's conclusions were subjected to independent peer review, evaluation and confirmation.
There are a number of questions about the Health Project studies with regard to methodology, assumptions, and conclusions. Generally, these studies have not followed good scientific principles. Frequently, they have
•not established control populations for study;
•not examined the impacts of other risk factors;
•used very small sample sizes to draw general conclusions;
•not performed environmental sampling and analysis;
•selectively chosen to ignore data in certain geographic locations or during certain periods of time because they did not "fit";
•not subjected their data to the independent peer review of the scientific community as a whole; and
•used an incorrect half-life for Sr-90 which gives a false impression that strontium levels in the environment are decaying more rapidly than in baby teeth.
The Radiation Public Health Project (RPHP) has conducted a number of studies claiming radioactive strontium-90 (Sr-90) in the environment is responsible for increases in cancers.
One of the RPHP's studies, sometimes referred to as the "Tooth Fairy Project," reported that Sr-90 concentrations in baby teeth are higher in areas around nuclear power plants than in other areas.
Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies do not support the RPHP's claims. NRC finds there is little or no credibility in the RHP's studies.
Approximately 99% of Sr-90 in the environment came from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. The second largest source of Sr-90 in the environment was the Chernobyl accident.
The amount of Sr-90 from all commercial nuclear power plants is a tiny fraction of the amount from Chernobyl.
The estimated radiation dose from all sources of Sr-90 in the environment is approximately 0.3% of the dose that the average person in the United States receives from natural background radiation. These dose levels are well below the levels that are known to cause any health effects."
It is funny how threatened the NRC gets by a $40,000 tooth survey by Dr. Mangano. The NRC pulls out all their contacts with universities and old research to try and slam him. His excess death statistics for Fukushima scare them also. Where are the infant mortality statistics for Japan for the past 20 months? Suppressed.
Where is the NRC tooth study? They write: "numerous peer-reviewed, scientific studies do not substantiate such claims."
Am I missing something? Did they use real baby teeth to counter the Mangano study?
Can't come up with one? Not surprising.
Let's look at each study the NRC quotes:
"Cancer in Populations Living near Nuclear Facilities" 1990
WS: The NRC admits this 1990 NCI study is old and needs updating:
"Nonetheless, some communities have expressed concern about the potential impact of these releases on the health of citizens living near nuclear facilities.
To help address these concerns, the NRC has asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to perform a state-of-the-art study on cancer risk for populations living near NRC-licensed nuclear facilities. Through this NRC-sponsored study, NAS will use its expertise to update the 1990 report.."
WS: Next one…the infamous University of Pittsburgh 2000 study.
The late Bernard Cohen (aka Mr. Hormesis) helped cobble together this mishmash of distortions. Critics of this research were not kind:
"The University of Pittsburgh's most recent "health study," released on Halloween, is essentially a recitation of discredited protocol and disputed data. Re-released on October 31, 2002, the Study actually acknowledged an increase in lymphatic and blood cancers among men. However, as in previous University of Pittsburgh Studies conducted by the same group
of researchers (Evelynn Talbott et al; 2000),1 this survey relied on government and nuclear industry sponsored "health studies" which were completed in the early 1980s. These studies were based on inaccurate dose projections, did not factor data only available in 1985 regarding the severity and conditions of the partial-core meltdown at Three Mile Island
Unit-2,2 and did not factor the prevailing weather conditions and wind patterns in March-April, 1979."
WS: Number three: Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, Spring 2001 bulletin:
WS: At first glance the statistics seem to validate low cancer rates because of the long tenure of the Connecticut Tumor Registry.
But not so fast…The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health reports on the problems of self-reporting in the Connecticut Tumor Registry: "The rate of false-negative reporting varied widely by cancer site, ranging from 0 percent for melanoma skin cancer to
83.3 percent for cancers of the central nervous system (table 5)."
Next one: American Cancer Society (ACS), 2001c.
WS: First…the NRC link to their footnote does not work. The search feature at the AVS also does not find the NRC substantiating paragraph they attribute to the ACS. But I did find this in a Google search:
"In 1998, ACS allocated $330,000, under 0.1% of its $678 million revenues, to research on Environmental Carcinogenesis, while claiming allocations of $2.6 million, 0.4% of its revenues.
WS: Doesn't seem like much money to spend on national research for cancer attributed to environmental carcinogens.
The next one: 2001 Florida Bureau of Environmental Epidemiology
WS: Unfortunately that document also is missing in action. Maybe Rick Scott knows where it is hiding.
Last NRC source: "Illinois Department of Public Health, Fall 2000 Health and Hazardous Substances Registry Newsletter"
WS: Gee…all the links in Google are dead to those terms. You wouldn't think Entergy would let that validation information go fallow now would you?
Unfortunately after more research at the Illinois Cancer Registry I see the top scientists already have their mind made up on whether nuclear emissions could cause cancers in the community:
"There is no study the Department can do that will show what caused cancer among residents in a community. No one study is likely to prove that a particular exposure definitely causes a particular disease. No single study nor even a large number of epidemiological studies will enable a person to know why he or she developed cancer."
WS: You know what? You just can't make that up. *;-)
My conclusions:
The crappy old NRC good old boys pre-2001 research hardly qualifies as a debunking for Dr. Mangano.
Additionally…if strontium-90 is so low from Fukushima why did one of the few research efforts find a lot of it in Yokohama last year?
Excerpt: "Here's the image of the test report by Isotope Research Institute in Yokohama City:
Strontium-90: 195 becquerels/kg
Cesium-134: 29,775 becquerels/kg
Cesium-137: 33,659 becquerels/kg
Total cesium: 63,434 becquerels/kg
The ratio of strontium-90 to cesium-137 in this case is about 0.58%. In comparison, the same ratio from the samples taken in Fukushima Prefecture was between slightly less than 0.1% to 8.2%"
WS: Yokohama is 157 miles from Fukushima NPP as the crow flies. Finding strontium-90 that far away indicates things are not going well in central Japan.
There are three very large radioactive coriums in the ground at Fukushima Daiichi pumping out cesium, plutonium, strontium, and a thousand other radioisotopes for the next millennia.
Try debunking that fact.
Will: The bottom line that debunks your whole argument is from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the principal agency responsible for cancer research in the US. The National Cancer Institute states that NO EXCESS MORTALITY RISK CAN BE FOUND IN COUNTIES WITH NUCLEAR FACILITIES:
"A National Cancer Institute (NCI) survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, March 20, 1991, showed no general increased risk of death from cancer for people living in 107 U.S. counties containing or closely adjacent to 62 nuclear facilities. The facilities in the survey had all begun operation before 1982. Included were 52 commercial nuclear power plants, nine Department of Energy research and weapons plants, and one commercial fuel reprocessing plant. The survey examined deaths from 16 types of cancer, including leukemia. In the counties with nuclear facilities, cancer death rates before and after the startup of the facilities were compared with cancer rates in 292 similar counties without nuclear facilities (control counties).
The NCI survey showed that, in comparison with the control counties, some of the study counties had higher rates of certain cancers and some had lower rates, either before or after the facilities came into service. None of the differences that were observed could be linked with the presence of nuclear facilities. "From the data at hand, there was no convincing evidence of any increased risk of death from any of the cancers we surveyed due to living near nuclear facilities," said John Boice, Sc.D., who was chief of NCI's Radiation Epidemiology Branch at the time of the survey."
There's an excellent 10 minute radio interview with Robert Stone, the Director of Pandora's Promise, about the film if anyone is interested in listening:
Among the topics, he discusses the funding for the film. He says that he went out of his way to make sure that none of the funding for the film came from the nuclear industry.
James Conca writes: "Suddenly, all sorts of normally safe foods are now banned. Wild mushrooms from Aomori Prefecture are now banned because they have cesium levels of about 120 Bq/kg. This cesium has nothing to do with Fukushima, it's the same type as is in everyone's food around the world."
WS: The assumption that the cesium-137 found in Aomori mushrooms (235 miles from Fukushima NPP) are from Chernobyl in 1986 is a big stretch of scientific guessing by one Japanese scientist named Yasuyuki Muramatsu.
Muramatsu writes: ""The fact that no cesium-134 has been detected proves that the contamination happened prior to the Fukushima nuclear accident,'' Muramatsu, 62, said. "It is from nuclear weapons tests conducted by the Soviet Union and China from the late 1940s to the late 1960s, and from the Chernobyl accident in 1986."
WS: BY the way James, even if Muramatsu is correct (which I seriously doubt) the mushrooms in Aomori ARE toxic with radiation and sales prohibited by the Japanese government. Certainly not "safe" food as you wrote.
But back to the claims of the Japanese government-sponsored scientist. Cesium-134 does not always have to be found with Cesium-137 in equivalent levels. Especially after nearly two years since Fukushima Daiichi blew up because the radioactive half-life of C-134 is 2 years versus 30 years for C-137.
Also the Japanese government has been caught in lie after lie with their research since April 11, 2011. They manipulated radiation monitoring posts by decontaminating the soil around the posts and failed to provide wind plume data when it was sorely needed for residents to evacuate.
The SPEEDI data the bureaucrats in Tokyo refused to reveal to Japanese citizens in the early days of the Fukushima nuclear explosions was an act of that many residents considered as criminal, akin to negligent homicide:
Excerpt: "In interviews and public statements, some current and former government officials have admitted that Japanese authorities engaged in a pattern of withholding damaging information and denying facts of the nuclear disaster — in order, some of them said, to limit the size of costly and disruptive evacuations in land-scarce Japan and to avoid public questioning of the politically powerful nuclear industry."
Some people accept the non-peer reviewed reports from a group with close ties to the nuclear industry. And some of us accept the overwhelming scientific evidence and consensus:
"Even the very lowest levels of radiation are harmful to life, scientists have concluded in the Cambridge Philosophical Society's journal Biological Reviews. Reporting the results of a wide-ranging analysis of 46 peer-reviewed studies published over the past 40 years." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121113134224.htm
(WHO / UNSCEAR is so corrupted by the nuke lobby that the lead author for their Chernobyl report actually works for the IAEA, whose purpose is to promote nukes.)


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The snappy three-star Hotel Klassik is set in a high-rise on a busy corner in Friedrichshain. There are creamy white cowhides just about everywhere, but if you're willing to overlook the hotel's slight garishness (and if you're not a card-carrying member of PETA), you'll be rewarded with tip-top service and cushy lodgings around the corner from Simon-Dach-Strasse's cafés.
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Pros: Cool location. Fun vibe. Very clean.
Cons: Only some rooms have air conditioning. Neighborhood can feel gritty.
In addition to their white leather details, the Hotel Klassik's 37 spacious guest rooms are done up in glam red and gold. We liked the plush carpeting and huge built-in closets. Each room is equipped with a safe, phone, flat-screen TV and minibar. Air conditioning (which is not a common fixture in Berlin budget hotels) is only offered in some rooms, so ask ahead if this is important to you.
Some rooms come with a (narrow) balcony with sweeping views of Friedrichshain. For a peaceful night's sleep, request a room facing Revalerstrasse or the central courtyard. Otherwise, the rowdiness that unfolds on Warschauerstrasse, especially on the weekends, may pierce your dreams.
The well-lit private bathrooms are rather a treat. They are good sized and done in brown faux-marble. All offer toiletries and a hair dryer, and bathtubs are available (ask ahead).
The Hotel Klassik is a welcoming place. Its small lobby is lit by a glam chandelier, and the flashy, booth-lined breakfast room spills out onto the small courtyard garden. You're likely to come across myriad music types at the Klassik, from fans checking out a concert at the nearby O2 Arena to musicians working with Universal or MTV, both of which have offices down the street. The Hotel Klassik is also a short stroll from the Spree River.
Wi-Fi is free throughout the property, and breakfast is sometimes included in the room rate (check when booking).
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If you have never experienced January's Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, watch the 2011 comedy "The Big Year" starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black. Just as in the film, Morro Bay's festival attracts birders from all over the world seeking to spot the bird species on their life-lists. The festival takes place on the Pacific flyway. There will be plenty of unique birds, laughs and camaraderie for the novice and avid birder, as well as take-away information packed into 113 events, which start Friday and continue through Jan. 21.
"In conjunction with the Morro Coast Audubon Society, we offer something for everyone," said fourth-year Chairwoman Marlys McPherson. "I was hooked immediately after volunteering at the registration desk in 2004 soon after my partner, Glenn Silloway, and I moved from Minnesota. We add new sessions and keep the costs affordable since our festival continues to be run mainly by volunteers. Most of our generous presenters volunteer their time and expertise."
McPherson once investigated governmental agencies for the Minnesota governor's crime commission and legislative auditor, then ran her own nonprofit research firm. Now she volunteers her management and research skills at the festival and the Morro Bay Natural History Museum.
"According to the annual Christmas bird count committee," reports McPherson, "199 species were spotted this year. In years past, one of the most unusual birds to visit was the Arctic loon. They say it must have been lost, and funny thing — it only stayed for the festival."
Chilean-born author and nature tour guide Alvaro Jaramillo will give the keynote address Saturday evening. He'll discuss "Birding Outside the Box — How Our Brain Identifies Birds." On Sunday, Dave Keeling will showcase the best bird shots taken by local photographers. Both programs are open to the public for a $10 fee. The Community Center's bazaar is open and free.
"Three years ago, the board knew we needed to attract younger audiences," McPherson said.
Family Day is for nonregistrants and mostly free. Activities range from learning about bird habitats and introductions to other critters, reptiles and a vulture hunt.
McPherson recommended registering soon: "Many of the sessions are sold out, so we developed at least three sessions for walk-up registration, but come early. Pacific Wildlife's 'Meet the Raptors' is always popular."
If you watch "The Big Year," you'll recognize a similar event in Morro Bay called "Big Day." Registrants seek the highest number of species.
McPherson advises: "This day is for the more experienced because there is little time to train novices what to look for; however, everyone is welcome to experience the competitive excitement of sighting a variety of species."
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As previously announced, the show's opulent custom venue Kazino, the supper club-style venue built especially for the production, will move to the Times Square theatre district for a 14-week limited engagement through Dec. 31.
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 featured many of the original cast members from Ars Nova, including Brittain Ashford as Sonya, Shaina Taub as Princess Mary, Blake DeLong as Bolkonsky/Andrey, Amber Gray as Helene, Nick Choksi as Dolokhov, David Abeles as Pierre, Grace McLean as Marya D, Phillipa Soo as Natasha and Lucas Steele as Anatole. Ashkon Davaran will play Balaga, and the cast also features Ken Clark, Catherine Brookman, Luke Holloway, Azudi Onyejekwe, Mariand Torres and Lauren Zakrin.
Ghostlight Records will release a two-disc cast album, preserving Malloy's original score — which merges Russian folk and classical music with indie rock, electronica and organ-influenced cadences — later this year.
Director Rachel Chavkin, who staged the ambitious work at Ars Nova, again directs with choreography by Sam Pinkleton.
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, according to producers, "invites you to join Tolstoy's brash young lovers for an evening you'll never forget, as vodka flows and passions ignite in Dave Malloy's electropop opera, ripped from a slice of 'War and Peace.'"
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 is produced by Howard and Janet Kagan and co-produced by Paula Marie Black, John Logan, Lisa Matlin, Daveed Frazier, Tom Smedes, and Vertical Entertainment/Roman Gambourg/Lev Gelfer
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Because of your nasal problems, you must use a heated humidifier that fits onto your CPAP machine. It will also reduce the pressure you need for optimal treatment over time.
Not all machines are noisey, but can it really be worse than your SNORING?
You mention that your wife can tell stories of having to continuously jab you in the ribs or shake you, to get you breathing again. For the sake of the benefits of the device, she should support you while using it (that is if she wants you to live a long and healthy life...?).
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