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Post-Fukushima, Japan's irradiated fish worry B.C. experts
Are fish from the Pacific Ocean and Japanese coastal and inland waters safe to eat 16 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster?
Governments and many scientists say they are. But the largest collection of data on radiation in Japanese fish tells a very different story.
In June, 56 percent of Japanese fish catches tested by the Japanese government were contaminated with cesium-137 and -134. (Both are human-made radioactive isotopes—produced through nuclear fission—of the element cesium.)
And 9.3 percent of the catches exceeded Japan's official ceiling for cesium, which is 100 becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg). (A becquerel is a unit of radioactivity equal to one nuclear disintegration per second.)
Radiation levels remain especially high in many species that Japan has exported to Canada in recent years, such as cod, sole, halibut, landlocked kokanee, carp, trout, and eel.
Of these species, cod, sole, and halibut, which are oceanic species, could also be fished by other nations that export their Pacific Ocean catch to Canada.
The revelations come from the Japanese Fisheries Agency's radiation tests on almost 14,000 commercial fish catches in both international Pacific and Japanese waters since March 11, 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami triggered multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
The wrecked plant spewed enormous amounts of radiation into the Pacific, where cesium levels near the Fukushima coast shot up to an astonishing 45 million times the pre-accident levels.
Japan's Fisheries Agency data is easily the most comprehensive on Fukushima's radioactive impacts on the Pacific Ocean, home to the world's biggest fishery and a major food source for more than a billion people.
The numbers show that far from dissipating with time, as government officials and scientists in Canada and elsewhere claimed they would, levels of radiation from Fukushima have stayed stubbornly high in fish. In June 2012, the average contaminated fish catch had 65 becquerels of cesium per kilo. That's much higher than the average of five Bq/kg found in the days after the accident back in March 2011, before cesium from Fukushima had spread widely through the region's food chain.
In some species, radiation levels are actually higher this year than last.
The highest cesium level in all of the catches came in March—a year after the accident—when a landlocked masu salmon caught in a Japanese river was found to have a whopping 18,700 becquerels of cesium per kilogram—or 187 times Japan's ceiling.
Burnaby MD Tim Takaro says he now avoids eating fish from the vicinity of Japan. "I would find another source for fish if I thought it was from that area," said Takaro, an associate professor in Simon Fraser University's faculty of health sciences.
"There are way too many questions and not enough answers to say everything is fine," Takaro said in a phone interview. "There is a need for monitoring. There isn't any question in my mind about that."
Takaro is a member of the Canadian antinuclear group Physicians for Global Survival, which joined five other Canadian and international medical and environmental groups last week to issue a statement calling on the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, and U.S. authorities to monitor Pacific migratory fish and seafood imports from Japan and other nations that ply the Pacific with their fishing fleets.
"Doing this kind of monitoring is a fundamental responsibility of governments," said Vancouver MD Erica Frank, who spearheaded the statement.
"People shouldn't have to worry about radiation levels in the food they eat."
Frank—a Canada Research Chair in UBC's faculty of medicine and a past president of the Nobel Prize–winning U.S. group Physicians for Social Responsibility, another signatory of the statement—said she also avoids eating fish from Japan.
"I think it's important to ask purveyors of Pacific food where it comes from," she said.
Nicholas Fisher is one of the few U.S. scientists studying Fukushima's impacts on migratory fish in the Pacific.
Fisher said he was surprised when told about the high cesium levels in the Japanese fisheries data. It makes him leery of eating fish from Japanese waters, he said.
"Those are high numbers. It would give me pause if I were eating fish in Japan.…Imported fish are also a concern," said Fisher, a marine-sciences professor at New York's Stony Brook University. Fisher added in a phone interview that the persistently high cesium numbers may be a sign that the Fukushima plant is still leaking radiation into the ocean.
Trying to limit your radiation exposure from fish? Governments haven't given much information on which species were hardest hit, but the Japanese data gives good clues.
Yet it has gotten virtually no notice from journalists or scientists in North America.
The data shows the contamination has remained high in both saltwater species and freshwater fish found in Japanese lakes and rivers. Especially high cesium levels have been found in recent months in these saltwater species: halibut (a catch in May 2012 had 570 Bq/kg), sole (a catch in January had 180 Bq/kg), and cod (a catch in February had 260 Bq/kg).
All of these catches exceed Japan's 100 Bq/kg ceiling for cesium in food, but none would have surpassed Canada's much higher ceiling, which is 1,000 Bq/kg. Freshwater species such as trout, carp, and (landlocked) masu and kokanee salmon have also recently shown very high cesium levels, as have eels, which live in both fresh and salt water. (See table for details.) Also troubling: except for sole and cod, all of these species had their highest cesium readings in 2012, not 2011.
A big question here is the fate of the salmon. Some migratory B.C. salmon stray into Japanese waters or could traverse a vast mass of radioactive water—now slowly making its way eastward across the Pacific—which is expected to reach the North American west coast by 2017, extending from Vancouver Island southward to Baja California (according to a July 9 report in Environmental Research Letters).
The Japanese data tells us a little about how some salmon species were affected.
Half of the 10 coho salmon tested since the Fukushima disaster were contaminated with cesium. One coho caught in Japanese coastal waters last October had 114 Bq/kg of cesium, surpassing Japan's ceiling. Chum salmon, on the other hand, showed much less contamination than coho, with only nine of 257 chum catches since the accident testing positive for cesium. The highest amount detected was eight Bq/kg in a catch last November.
Among the hardest-hit fish species are landlocked salmon. Every one of the 42 kokanee (a landlocked sockeye salmon) tested since March 2011 had at least some cesium contamination. Japan exported $430,000 of kokanee to Canada in the first four months of 2012, according to Statistics Canada figures.
A kokanee with 200 Bq/kg was caught in April of this year, according to the Japanese data. In both May and June, kokanee with 180 Bq/kg were caught.
But the record for most cesium in all the fish catches was handily set by the landlocked masu salmon (native to the Western Pacific) that registered 18,700 Bq/kg in March.
Statistics Canada data shows Japan exported $37,000 worth of "Pacific, Atlantic, and Danube salmon" to Canada in the first four months of 2012.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spokesperson James Watson said by phone from Ottawa that his department doesn't know if Canada has imported masu salmon from Japan.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a July 17, 2012, statement that Canada has imported one shipment of masu salmon, in October 2011, since Fukushima. The statement says the product was processed in the U.S., the shipment's country of origin was not disclosed by the importer, and the product was not tested for radiation. (Masu salmon is also found in other parts of East Asia.)
CFIA spokesperson Lisa Gauthier refused to make someone available to answer questions on fish monitoring.
Japanese finance ministry trade data, however, shows Japan exported 120 kilograms of masu salmon to Canada in April 2011, directly after the nuclear accident.
The test data does have some better news for other species. Tuna, octopus, and anchovies (as well as seaweed) have all seen declining cesium levels since last winter after much higher contamination in the six to nine months after the accident. Even so, however, 69 percent of anchovies still had some cesium contamination in June (the highest level was 5.5 Bq/kg), and so did 32 percent of tuna (the highest reading was 1.9 Bq/kg).
Cesium levels in tuna could still go up as they become more exposed to radioactive water near Japan, said Stony Brook University's Fisher.
Fisher cowrote a study in May 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reported that of 15 Pacific bluefin tuna caught off the California coast, all had radioactive cesium from Fukushima. The tuna had an average of 10.3 Bq/kg when they were caught last August.
The amounts are below government ceilings, but government regulators and scientists generally agree that no amount of radiation is safe.
For example, Canada's ceiling for radiation is set at a level that allows 5,000 to 8,000 cancers per million people over a 70-year lifetime of exposure, according to Health Canada's models and those of a landmark 2006 U.S. National Academy of Sciences report on cancer risk from radiation. (About half of the cancers would be fatal.)
Health Canada's ceilings for chemical carcinogens are generally set at levels that cause a maximum of one to 10 lifetime cancers per million people.
Authorities in Canada dismiss the calls for monitoring.
"Not involved, not involved," said Tom Kosatsky, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control's acting medical director of environmental health services, when asked about monitoring of radiation in Pacific fish.
"It's a federal responsibility," he said in a phone interview.
In the past, the CFIA has said it has no plans to monitor Pacific fish or imports from Japan and other countries whose fishing fleets plumb the Pacific.
The agency briefly monitored Japanese food imports from the vicinity of Fukushima after the accident, but ceased the tests in June 2011. It also did radiation tests on a dozen fish caught in B.C. coastal waters last August and another 20 in February 2012, finding no cesium, according to the CFIA website.
The B.C. Seafood Alliance's Christina Burridge said in a phone interview last January that she was surprised the CFIA wasn't doing more tests.
She said the agency last year promised her group, an umbrella of Pacific seafood-harvesting associations, that it would test Pacific salmon and tuna returning to B.C. waters in 2012 and 2013 because those fish may have migrated close to Japan.
Burridge couldn't be reached for comment by press time.
Meanwhile, Japan's seafood exports to Canada seem to be growing despite Fukushima and reports that the accident kneecapped the Japanese fishing industry.
Japan exported $6.9 million of fish and crustaceans to Canada in the first four months of 2012, according to Statistics Canada, which would work out to $20.7 million per year if averaged. That would be up from $16.3 million in 2011, which itself was higher than the 2010 total of $15.4 million.
Other nations are growing more leery of Japanese seafood. In June, South Korea temporarily banned the import of 35 Japanese seafood products—such as flatfish, clams, and sea urchins—due to radiation concerns, adding to a list of 29 other Japanese seafoods that the country had banned earlier.
It all leaves Vancouver doctor Frank bewildered by the government response here.
"It struck me as such a poor public-health decision not to monitor. This requires urgent action, but it just doesn't seem to register on anyone's radar," she said.
Frank is now writing a book about the struggle to get authorities to monitor fish after Fukushima. She said she thinks of it as a murder mystery. "There are no bodies, but as a specialist in preventive medicine, I worry about increased mortality from the fish," she said.
Fish species |
Cod |
Masu salmon landlocked |
Kokanee (aka sockeye) landlocked |
Trout |
Carp |
Sole |
Halibut |
Eel |
Shark |
Mackerel |
All fish catches |
Average cesium in contaminated fish in June (Bq/kg) |
36 |
59 |
61 |
40 |
58 |
24 |
39 |
80 |
13 |
16 |
65 |
% of catches with cesium in June |
80 |
44 |
86 |
38 |
78 |
21 |
93 |
89 |
86 |
47 |
56 |
% of catches over the Japanese ceiling in June |
4.3 |
6.2 |
29 |
3.4 |
8.7 |
0 |
6.7 |
29.7 |
0 |
0 |
9.3 |
Highest cesium level found in 2012, in Bq/kg (month found) |
260 (Feb) |
18,700 (Mar) |
200 (Apr) |
280 (Mar) |
400 (Mar) |
180 (Jan) |
570 (May) |
390 (Jun) |
40 (Mar) |
57 (Jan) |
18,700 (Mar) |
Source: Japan's Fisheries Agency. Data is for the period up to June 20, 2012.
i dont think i will be eating fish anymore
any cesium is too much
it stays in your body forever and builds up until its at a level that gives you cancer
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The spewing is ongoing, not a one-time event. Check these headlines for a better idea as to what's happening:
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Sure wish our government did their job and actually tested for radiation regularly (considering we pay them to make sure our food is safe).
Anyone out there have a Geiger counter? Order some sushi rolls for take out somewhere, test the radiation levels and post results online please.
The table shows the fish have less than one half the radiation present in normal safe food.
For comparison here are the numbers for natural foods we eat every day:
Carrots: 126 Bq/kg from potassium-40; half life 1.3 billion years, decay energy 1.3 MeV
Banana: 130 Bq/kg from potassium-40
Brazil nuts: 207 Bq/kg from potassium-40, plus 37-259 Bq/kg from radium-226; half-life 1,620 years, decay energy 4.9 MeV
US tobacco: 19.1 Bq/kg from polonium-210; half-life 138 days, decay energy 5.3 MeV
Dr Frank should worry more about increased mortality from carrots.
With budgets stretched thin in health care I don't want funds diverted from serious issues to be spent monitoring things that pose no risk.
Radioactive cesium and iodine are not the same as naturally occurring potassium. You can't begin to compare them.
The banana comparison is always trotted out by nuclear apologists who hope to confuse people who, naturally, express concerns about such a serious subject, one that is very confusing to those who are not scientifically or technically inclined.
You do a disservice to everyone with such facile comparisons, and without making a distinction between (relatively) short and long half-lives and natural and human-made radioactive elements.
As for your concern about health budgets: the cost is amazingly cheap for the benefit derived, even if it is only to put concerns to rest.
Could you clarify:
How is radioactive caesium not the same as naturally occurring potassium?
Why can I not begin to compare them?
According to Wikipedia "the biological behavior of caesium is similar to that of potassium"
Why are you bringing up Iodine in the context of this story? It has a half life of only 8 days so after 1 and a half years it would have all decayed away.
Why is giving people a familiar context like bananas or carrots confusing? The numbers are hard for people to put into context and are often used to scare people, so I find a comparison (even if not perfect) helps put things in perspective.
How are my comparisons facile?
The only distinction between "man-made" and "natural" radioactive elements is the "naturalistic fallacy" that nature is good and man is bad. There is no difference in the type of radiation released or the health effects if any.
I question your assertion that monitoring would put people's concerns to rest. People could also come to the conclusion that if the government is monitoring it, then maybe it is a large enough danger that I should be concerned.
I should also point out that the reason the scientists can even distinguish between the insignificant amounts of Cs in these fish is because it does not occur in nature and thus has a unique signature. This allows them to filter out the overwhelming natural background radiation present.
I look forward to your answers.
"...I look forward to your answers."
I'm afraid you already answered your own question, Dr. Faustus...
"...it does not occur in nature..."
Focusing on animals that migrate across the entire Pacific Ocean, and show up in places like Hawaii, Alaska, and the west coast of the U.S.
Also, just announced yesterday, TEPCO is boosting electricity rates in Sept to pay for the disaster. The people pay. The companies play.
I-131 does not exist in nature, and it is the only radioactive substance that accumulates in people's thyroid and causes thyroid cancer
cigarette-smoking causes cancers partly because of radioactive polonium.
the amount of beta-emitting potassium is kept in balance in our body, whereas many man-made radioactive isotopes are alpha-emitting (much more damaging when ingested or inhaled) and accumulate in our body
naturally occuring radioactive substances like radon pose risks to our health, why should we create more dangers
Your simplistic comparisons are the equivalent of lies, and the topic is too serious to allow for trivial back-and-forths with potentially life-altering consequences hanging in the balance.
I will only say this:
You make no distinction between bioaccumulative radioactive substances and those that appear to be homeostatically controlled by the human body.
You toss around phrases such as "after 1 and a half years it would have all decayed away" without making the distinction between different kinds of radioactive isotopes, the type of radiation emitted, and what parts of the body are affected.
Fat lot of good it does someone to have radioactive substances "all decayed away" from their bones and hair when they have already decayed away themselves: i.e., died.
All experts agree that there is NO safe level of radiation exposure, of any kind, be they cosmic rays during air travel, X-rays, or radioactive fish.
The "banana equivalent dose" has been thoroughly discreditied as an unrealistic and poor isotope model. Since you can only cite Wikipedia as your scientific basis, I will make the leap of logic that you can also utilize Google. I suggest you use it.
To knowingly try to lull folks into a false sense of security about radiation hazards because you know many people don't understand the ins and outs of the science is about the most contemptible thing I can think of short of actual physical violence.
It makes one wonder what your name really is and who you represent.
Although it's not too hard to guess.
Please peddle your propagandistic codswallop on a site where it is welcomed.
There is a difference between engaging in an exchange of opinions and trying to further potentially harmful, simplistic myths about scientific facts that are very well understood and NOT subject to interpretation.
Again, there is NO safe level of exposure to radiation.
And that's not comparing apples to oranges.


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What's your earliest Olympic memory?
My earliest Olympic memory is of the summer games in China—I was in New Jersey with my great aunt, and I remember watching little bits of it while eating Rocky Road ice cream.
How excited do you get about the Summer Games: Eager? Hyperventilating? Meh?
This year I was eager to see the opening ceremonies—since they're so elaborate—but I was only slightly excited to see the actual games.
Which events that you particularly enjoy watching? (Or, if you don't like the Olympics, what do you do instead in August?)
I like watching the Ping-Pong, diving, and archery. During the other events, I'm stuck reading books and looking up current events in preparation for school in the fall.
Are there any sports you watch only during the Olympics?
Unless it's in Forrest Gump, Ping-Pong isn't shown that often on TV.
If you ran the International Olympic Committee, what sport would you add/get rid of? What rule would you change?
I would get rid of skeet shooting. While I think that it's impressive that people can shoot from such long distances, I don't really classify it as a sport—it seems more like a hobby.
As for what rule I'd change … it would have to be whatever rule it is that allows professional basketball players to be on Olympic team while professional football/soccer players can't. It's incredibly biased and unfair—teams like the USA have an unfair advantage over teams like Tunisia, and they wipe the floor with them. I don't like that.
What do you think of NBC's Olympic coverage? Or do you watch the Olympics in Spanish?
I think NBC's coverage of the Olympics favors the US teams and competitors (obviously) and that irks me. Maybe I want to see the Russian divers or Bulgarian archers, but I can't because NBC is too busy talking about Cullen Jones and Michael Phelps.
I haven't watched any of the games in Spanish, but I bet the commentators are more entertaining than Matt Lauer.
What athletes will you be rooting for?
I don't have any particular athlete that I'm rooting for.
Other than the United States, which countries do you cheer for?
I don't have any particular country, although I suppose I should be rooting for the USA.
Overall, are the Olympics a good thing, or a waste of time and money? An instrument of peace or of nationalist zeal?
I tend to think of the Olympics as a good thing, but I have to say—I didn't like the Opening Ceremony. I thought that while it was well-managed and very nicely produced, it didn't make all that much sense. There were more than a few times that I was watching it and thinking, "I have no idea what's going on," or "Why did they do that?" I was kind of hoping for effects similar to the ones they had at the Winter Olympics in Canada two years ago, but I can't always get it my way.
While I might not have liked the Opening Ceremony, the Olympics as a whole is a good thing—it brings the world together in a peaceful and exciting way. A lot of good things come out of the Olympics—this is the first time Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Brunei have allowed women on their teams, making it the first Olympic games since their refounding in 1896 that women athletes have appeared on every team. Granted, women's rights in those countries aren't now magically equal to those of men, but it's saying something that women can compete in the games.
If you could have a ticket to one Olympic event in London, what would it be?
Archery. It would be great to see a country like San Marino (which only has four athletes competing) beat out a country like Australia (which has 414).


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Nazareth: Growing Up a Carpenter's Son
February 29, 2012
"He went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: 'He will be called a Nazarene'" (Matthew 2:23).
This is the second time Nazareth has been highlighted in our "Journeys with Jesus" series.
There are a handful of places repeatedly mentioned in connection with Jesus' life and ministry: Nazareth (where he grew up), Capernaum (the center of his Galilean ministry), Jericho (which he visited more than once), Bethany (where he loved to stay with his friends Mary, Martha, and Lazarus), Jerusalem (the center of Jewish life), and the temple itself (the center of Jewish worship).
In this case we're looking at Nazareth as Jesus' boyhood home. It's where he grew up as a carpenter's son. The famous reading One Solitary Life begins this way:
He was born in an obscure village
The child of a peasant woman
He grew up in another obscure village
Where he worked in a carpenter shop
Until he was thirty
Nazareth was indeed an obscure village. Recently archeologists have discovered the remains of a home in Nazareth from the time of Jesus. Nazareth itself was evidently "a small hamlet with about 50 houses populated by poor Jews."
One of those poor Jews was a carpenter named Joseph. He made his living with his hands, using tools like an ax, a chisel, and a saw. Most likely he was poor all his life. This means that Jesus grew up in a blue collar home. He wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. No doubt Joseph taught Jesus how spot a good piece of wood, how to measure it properly, how to make a good cut. I'm sure Jesus spent many hours learning at his father's side. He knew what it was like to be raised in a poor family. It prepared him for later years when his message would spread like wildfire among the common people of Israel. They loved him because he was one of them.
But his neighbors had no use for him.
They had him in the "Nazareth box," but he wouldn't stay there.
The people who said, "Is this not the carpenter's son?" (Matthew 13:55) meant it as a slur, not compliment. Many of the people who knew Jesus best took him for granted.
The final tragedy is to know Jesus so well that you don't know him at all. We must not make that mistake or we will be as guilty as the people of Nazareth who did not know that they had lived next door to the Savior of the world.
Lord Jesus, though you were rich beyond all imagination, you became poor so that you could live among us. Forgive me when I have taken you for granted. Open my eyes, Lord, to see you as you are, my Savior and my God. Amen.
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I think hollyhocks are beautiful and remind me of southern France. I want to grow some hollyhocks from seed this year and I'm thinking about where to put them in my garden. I do have full sun available for them, but was also wondering whether they'd work in containers? Does anyone have experience with that? I know they grow rather tall so I'm thinking they might look funny or have too little soil depth in a pot? Any thoughts appreciated :). ___________________________ |
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I think if the pot was big enough with good drainage they would do fine and you can always get a nice piece of bamboo to use as a stake. I grow huge canna's in pots and I've never had a problem other than they will need extra water, pots tend to dry out so much quicker than the ground. |
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Thanks guys. I think I will try to grow some in pots and some just in the ground, and see how they'll turn out. The reason I wanted to try some in pots is that our driveway is right up against the left side of our house so there's no space to grow anything on that side. It's rather stark looking. Yet it's one of the sunniest spots so hopefully hollyhocks will thrive there and add some color! (Now just have to think of a way to make the pots sit level on our sloped driveway..) |
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As students progress through their instructional program, teachers will collect a variety of diagnostic data to determine instructional choices so that all students can master the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The overarching purpose of the PARCC Diagnostic Assessments is to provide instructionally useful information about how well students have learned, or how prepared they are to learn key content and skills tied to the CCSS in ELA/Literacy and Mathematics to educators. With this information, educators can:
In addition to the diagnostic assessments at grades 2-8, PARCC envisions a set of innovative assessment tools to support teachers at kindergarten and first grade. As with the grade 2-8 diagnostic assessments, the primary purpose for these tools is to provide educators with instructionally useful information related to how students demonstrate CCSS proficiencies (including in relation to content progressions), and to provide that information at an appropriate level of detail and specificity to supplement a teacher's current understanding of student proficiency.
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It is anticipated that the diagnostic assessments will be available in Summer 2015, for use in the 2015-16 school year. More information about the timeline of the K-1 tools is forthcoming.
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I have used this product for at least five years if not longer. It has a light baby-powder scent and lasts all day. Most scented deodorants tend to cause allergic reactions for me so I've stuck with this and it has worked perfectly. It's also dirt cheap!
I first bought this deodorant (in Fresh) when I went on vacation and forgot mine. The super low price made me a little leary, but then I noticed that it had 20% of the active ingredient, which (excluding all the clinical deodorants out now) isn't all that common. It works GREAT for me. It's the only deodorant I've ever tried that makes me feel fresh and clean all day long. I'm definitely using it from now on, and I'd definitely recommend it to others!
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Recently, we met up with Corbin and chatted about all of these things and, man, this is one busy guy. Here's what he had to say...
Teenmag: OK, Corbin, so Another Side came out a little while ago. Was making it as much fun as you'd always thought it would be?
Corbin Bleu:: It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that. I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career. And actually being able to hold the piece of plastic in my hand with the book inside and the CD is really incredible.
I really wanted to make something that was exciting for everybody, that everybody could enjoy, that was upbeat and positive and that everybody can dance to. I know my style of music is very eclectic. I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz. I wanted to be sure that I wasn't sticking songs on an album. So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to make something that I felt every song on the album was fun for everybody.
Teenmag: If you ask us, that's just what you accomplished! Can you tell those of us who've never been in the studio what recording an album is like?
C.B.: It was really crazy, actually. I'd never been in the recording studio before that. I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.
I was a little nervous at first because I wasn't quite sure how I would react and I'd hit a wrong note or something and be like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" and they'd be like, "it's fine. That's why we're here, it's what we do." Everyone is so willing to work with you and wants to make just as good of an album as you do.
Teenmag: Must be nice to know that everyone's got your back! Have a favorite song on the CD?
C.B.: [Yes! I really like the song] Mixed Up. I co-wrote that one, and it is about me. It's how I'm mixed up in many different ways. I come from a lot of different worlds, and you can't really place me in a category. I'm just kind of me, and that's what you get.
That was a whole other thing [about making this record] writing. I'd never gone into that before. I'd tried and I knew there were a lot of things I wanted to express but I never quite knew how to do it with song, and now I get to work with people who know what they're doing they're able to guide me and show me how to do it, and I definitely want to venture into more writing.
Teenmag: I'll bet making the video was a new experience too, huh?
C.B.: Really crazy experience! I've been acting since I was 2 and have always been on camera but doing a video is different because when you're acting, you pretend the camera's not there and you just do the scene and with a music video you're right in the camera so it feels weird sometimes. You lip sync too [so that's weird]. You do sing too because you want to try to match [the song] as well as you can, but you're not full-out singing. It's definitely a weird experience, but I love dancing and I love being able to perform so I enjoyed it.
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Johnny recruits ex-con Frankie (Scoot McNairy), who brings in his pal Russell (Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, of 2010's chilling Animal Kingdom), a professional dog-napper with dreams of moving up to smack dealing, even though Johnny has him pegged (quite rightly) as a junkie screw-up. The heist goes surprisingly well…it's the aftermath that's a killer, and level-headed enforcer Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) is the guy stuck cleaning up the mess.
Adapted from the novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), Killing them Softly is black comedy at its most stygian, a parade of sad-sacks, no-hopers, sellouts, screw-ups and basket cases: No one with the sense God gave geese would bid a nickel on the lot at auction. And the sad thing is that most of them know it. The other sad thing is that a handful don't, and their attempts to claw their way out of the barrel by treading on anyone too weak, stupid or principled to slap them back causes a whole lot of trouble.
The film's underlying conceit—that all this bottom-feeder jockeying for position is the funhouse mirror of American politics and business—is neither as fresh nor as compelling as writer-director Andrew Dominik appears to think. But the movie is never dull: Higgins could plot like nobody's business, the dialogue crackles with crude energy and vulgar eloquence, and the cast is exemplary: In addition to those already mentioned, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins ( The Visitor), Sam Shepard and "Boardwalk Empire"'s Max Casella knock every single scene out of the park.


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How to Be Arrogant
Arrogance is said to be a virtue, especially in the context of some professions such at the senior managerial or expert level. Here's how you can learn what arrogance is and how to benefit from its use.
The purpose of arrogance is to let those whom you do not really value anyway know that you are better than them at a certain activity or in character. People tend to find out how skilled you are, no matter how you choose to act. Acting arrogant, however, is a straightforward solution that will have an almost immediate effect. This is, of course, antithetical to the point of getting along with your fellow human beings but it is a choice for you to make.
The overall benefit to using arrogance is being treated as a superior person. In order to have that red carpet treatment, you must truly accept and adhere to strict arrogance protocol. The treatment may well outweigh the lack of being liked if you need to adopt such a persona in a professional context, or because you need to keep people at a distance from you, for whatever reason. See Step 1 below to learn how to be arrogant successfully.
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2Have a silent presence and aura. Your body language needs to reflect a higher status value - stand up straight always, make confident purposeful movements, do not smile often, and walk with long strides. Remain aloof and gaze critically at people and tasks.
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4Set the highest standards of etiquette for which your vocation calls. Always use manners to your advantage. Being arrogant does not mean being rude and forgetting someone's basic etiquette around others. Manners serve as the means by which you maintain your aloofness and keep others distant - in a socially acceptable way.
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- Real arrogance, when applied properly, gives the impression of your perceived sense of superiority, wealth, and achievement without discussing it. It simply exudes.
- As you become more arrogant, you will eventually be forcing yourself to live up to your own hype. Think of it as a forced self-improvement program.
- Arrogance is best used with sarcasm or some otherwise cutting remark which does not dispute the statements of others, but uses wordplay to turn other people's words against them. This might mean you have to work hard at increasing your repertoire of come-backs, witty sayings and sarcastic quips.
- Being arrogant is different from boasting your achievements or material wealth. Arrogant people do not need to broadcast the common achievements of life.
- Being the best at everything is too much work, so boast your superiority strictly in areas where you cannot be challenged. This means being focused on what you are really good at.
- Some people may not like you and think you're a show-off.
- You are only trying to climb up on the backs of those whom you do not trust or otherwise do not like. Do not do the same around family, friends or valued work colleagues.
- Never be arrogant with those whom you truly value or respect. The purpose of being arrogant is to "tone down" or silence your critics or those who are a little bit more happy with themselves than they should be. It is also one means of keeping a workplace in thrall of you but it can backfire if the workplace is a public-spirited one or filled with dreamers, armchair socialists and die-hard cynics.
- Don't be too arrogant. There's a fine line between being arrogant and a total jerk.
- If you claim to be superior in an area in which you lack the skills or expertise, your arrogance will fall apart and lose its effect.
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I have lived in Midlothian for six years. It's not a bad place to live, but for years my family and I have heard promise upon promise about how the village is going to revitalize its "downtown" and bring more businesses to town.
I put "downtown" in quotes because I cannot fathom where downtown Midlothian is. Is it the strip along 147th Street from roughly Pulaski Road east to the Metra tracks? What is there other than some closed businesses and a few odd small ones. No one's sure where the downtown is.
Here's what I do know. We have a nice gazebo park, a new liquor store and Aura, a hotel where couples can relax in a hot tub. So Midlothian has managed to build a nice park in six years and bring one new business to town while relocating an existing one.
The village also is seriously lacking in good places to eat. We have Hog Wild at 149th and Pulaski, which I love, and some fast-food places but not really much to choose from. I read in the SouthtownStar where nearby towns are bringing in new restaurants and wonder why we cannot. Don't forget, when you're eating in other towns, their economy is boosted, not Midlothian's.
Village officials need to do more to attract restaurants such as Culver's, Steak and Shake, Buffalo Wild Wings or TGI Fridays so Midlothian diners don't have to leave town. There's a whole strip of undeveloped property, consisting mostly of vacant car dealerships, along two blocks near 147th Street and Cicero Avenue. Instead of just words, why not some action?
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Are you tired of the State of Illinois planners pushing major public works projects that nobody wants?
First it was the third airport near Peotone that even the airlines do not want and for which the state cannot find financing. Now it's the Illiana Expressway that not even the trucking companies want.
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The state's finances are a mess and for it to come up with billions of dollars to build the Illiana Expressway is not realistic. If it's a tollway, will people pay to take it over I-80? And how high will the tolls be?
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Tennessee coach Butch Jones wants to make sure the Volunteers' season doesn't end in November again anytime soon.
"It's expected we go to bowl games from here on out," Jones said. "That's our goal."
Tennessee will have a better chance of earning that first bowl bid since 2010 next year if it shows the big-play ability it displayed Saturday in a 27-14 season-ending victory at Kentucky.
After struggling to create explosive plays on both sides of the ball all season, Tennessee had three touchdowns of at least 40 yards and produced five sacks against Kentucky.
Before Saturday, Tennessee's offense hadn't produced a touchdown of at least 40 yards since Rajion Neal capped the Vols' first drive of the season with a 47-yard run in a 45-0 triumph over Austin Peay. The Vols headed to Kentucky on a four-game skid in which they'd recorded just one sack. The lack of big plays was a major reason the Vols (5-7, 2-6 SEC) had a fourth straight losing season, the first time that's happened at Tennessee since 1903-06.
"We see what happens when we create big plays," Jones said. "It creates momentum and touchdowns obviously."
The big plays came from seniors finishing their college careers as well as underclassmen making a statement for the future.
Corey Miller capped his career by delivering 4 ½ sacks to break the single-game record formerly held by Reggie White, who had four sacks against The Citadel on Oct. 1, 1983. It was a stunning accomplishment for a senior who had entered the night with five career sacks.
"I'm speechless about that," Miller said. "You never think something like that is going to happen, especially in the last game of your career."
Neal ran for 134 yards and scored on a career-long 60-yard burst to finish his senior season with 1,124 yards rushing. Freshman quarterback Joshua Dobbs scored on a 40-yard run and threw two touchdown passes, including a 43-yarder to Jason Croom, who broke his collarbone later in the game.
The Vols need more of those big plays next year.
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OMG, this site. My last journal entry was like a year and a half ago. Idek, you guys.
Uhhhh... I became the vice-president of a not-for-profit queer organization. And I almost had a girlfriend but then I didn't. :(
And I moved out of my parents' house.
And I read Judith Butler.
I have a speech to write for Queer Prom, which is tomorrow night. I have not started. I find my own confidence worrying, especially because I almost passed out when reading a poem out loud to ten people today. I can't imagine speaking my own words to over a hundred tomorrow night. fml
In completely unrelated news. I'm a little bit in love with doctor Who. Also procrastinating. Can you tell?
""A gay parent might not want their children" to attend a class about heterosexuality, he said."
...wait. What?
Another year older. Legal in BC, not that that's ever stopped me drinking there before. Still not legal in the States, which just strikes me as a little ridiculous. Whatever. I got a Rorschach action figure for my birthday, and a dress and a graphic novel. Also two boxes of Peeps, which is only funny if you know who the Vlogbrothers are. And if you don't, you should go look them up on youtube.
I just realized... that I got exactly what I wanted when I came to university. Anonymity. I used to be that highly-caffeinated Goth girl who always seemed on the verge of a hysterical break down and who could get you in contact with whoever you needed to talk to and who wrote fantastic poetry and stories and who would fix your computer. I mean, I could not tell you what the latest fashions were, or who was dating who, or what drama was going on. But I was still useful to many people. I knew what I was doing and I was trustworthy and I was going places.
Fuck junior English.
I mean, I always heard that essay writing in high school is totally different from university, but it's still haard on my self-worth to go from constant 100%s to C+s and B-s.
...I think an English degree is a bad idea. *frustrated sigh*
Dear family members:
Stop dying.
My dad's already dealing with cancer. Losing another son is not doing him any favours.
You guys, I'm learning Spanish! It's awesome! And I'm doing a class on Race and Racism. I <3 university.
Oh! And a girl walked in to a pole because she was staring at me.
.....ok, she was staring at my Riddler t-shirt. Shut up. I made a new friend through extremely strange circumstances involving Batman and fanfic writers in the states and livejournal, and the first thing she says to me when we meet in real life involves the fact that my t-shirt and I were responsible for pole-collision.
I have also given up on sleep. It is overrated and coffee is better.
1. What would you take from your house if you knew it would be flooded tomorrow?
Pretty sure a day is enough time to get everything of value.
2. If you could erase anything you ever said to anyone, what would it be?
have said that to)
Whatever the hell I said to help Hell Week along its merry way.
3. Your stuck in a room for an hour with a chalk board, what do you draw on it?
...there is a boy.
He's funny and liberal and smart and majoring/minoring in the same things I am. He's an English nerd! And a writer! And he's in two of my classes.
Harper wasn't wearing the sweater-vest.
...the world may be ending.
That's all.
Go see The Dark Knight.
Right now.
It's the best Batman movie as of yet. I've got my quibbles, but I can ignore them in the face of its epic fantasticness.
And... Harvey Dent owns my frelling soul.
Shut up, I know he's fictional.
Wow, I've not posted on here in a long time. Livejournal is your friend.
Uh. What have I done in the last two months?
Was sellected as one of eight lgbtq youth from across Canada to go to Montreal and help plan for a conference which got canceled four days before we arived.
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When Janet Lola was attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes in her Scottsdale back yard earlier this month, she thought the 30 to 40 bites that covered her body would be the worst of it.
But as those bites turned into welts and she began to develop flulike symptoms, it dawned on her that she may have West Nile virus.
Lola, 45, a nurse anesthetist, tested positive for the virus June 16 during a fiveday hospital stay, according to lab results released by the Mayo Clinic Hospital to Lola.
Public health officials could not confirm that Lola had contracted the virus, but 20 human cases have been confirmed in the county so
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Lola said the doctors at the first hospital she visited, Scottsdale Healthcare Shea, didn't take her seriously and sent her home after an overnight stay.
"I couldn't eat, drink or walk by myself. They told me I didn't fit the profile for West Nile virus, that I was too young," Lola said. "They gave me some pain pills and sent me home."
She was admitted into the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix the next day, and her blood cultures tested positive for the virus days later, she said.
The virus, which has no known treatment or vaccine, can usually be treated at home unless the patient can't eat or drink. In Lola's case, fluids needed to be administered intravenously for her to recover. She lost nine pounds in six days, she said.
Lola and her husband, Bob, said they were concerned for other infected people who might get brushed off by doctors.
"Physicians need to be more educated and openminded about looking for it," Janet Lola said. "People also have to be more proactive in their health care."
Attempts to reach Scottsdale Healthcare Shea officials for comment were unsuccessful.
Lola said it will be a while before she sits outside to play with her dogs again at their McCormick Ranch home. If she does, she vowed to wear long-sleeved clothing and insect repellent.
Doug Hauth, spokesman for the county's Department of Public Health, said the possibility of people contracting the disease is very low and most people who do contract it never see symptoms.
"Those that are more susceptible are the elderly and those with a compromised immune system," Hauth said.
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