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20 Surprises for 2008
"Never make predictions, especially about the future."
-- Casey Stengel.
In late December in each of the past five years, I have taken a page from former Morgan Stanley strategist Byron Wien -- and now the chief investment strategist at Pequot Capital Management -- and prepared a list of possible surprises for the coming year.
These are not intended to be predictions but rather events that have a reasonable chance of occurring despite the general perception that the odds are very long. I call these "possible improbable" events.
The real purpose of this endeavor is to consider positioning a portion of my portfolio in accordance with outlier events -- with the potential for large payoffs. After all, Wall Street research is still very conventional and based on "groupthink," despite the reforms over the past several years. Mainstream and consensus expectations are just that, and in most cases they are deeply embedded into today's stock prices. If I succeed in at least making you think about outlier events, then the exercise has been worthwhile. Almost half of last year's predicted surprises actually transpired, up from one-third in 2006 and from 20% in 2005. Nearly one-half of the prognostications proved prescient in 2004 and about one-third in the first year of surprises in 2003.But it wasn't the quantity of the correctly predicted surprises that made 2007's list a remarkable success, it was the quality, as I hit on nearly every major variant theme: the severity of the housing depression, the turmoil and writedowns in the credit markets, the curtailing of private-equity deals and the reawakening of equity market volatility. Consider just a couple of these quotes from our Surprise List for 2007 :
- "A fractured mortgage market leads to a standstill in deal-making as the capital markets (and underwriting activity) seize up."
- In early 2007, "evidence of cracks in subprime credits are ignored, with housing-related equities soaring to new 52-week highs by March 1. However, a dumping of homes on the market in the spring serves to result in a quantum increase in the months of unsold housing inventory and a dramatic drop in the average home price. ... Sales of existing and new homes take another sharp leg lower as we enter what I've dubbed the Great Housing Depression of 2007. Importantly, the financial intermediaries that source mortgage financing/origination begin to feel the financial brunt of the Great Mortgage Bubble of 2000-06 after years of creative but nonsensical lending behavior."
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Last year's loss to the Reds sticks in the craw of Chiefs assistant coach Wayne Smith.
While he doesn't think it is preying on the minds of his players, several of whom were not there last season, Smith still fumes at the ease with which the Reds were able to steamroll the Chiefs in a brief burst either side of halftime.
The Chiefs were unable to respond to the racheting up of the physicality and intensity of the Reds' attack.
"They read the game pretty well to be fair and in about a 12-minute period they attacked us where they felt we were weak and we were found wanting," Smith said.
"It's a game that even though it turned our season around in many respects - we improved hugely after that in some areas - it's still one I didn't like at the time and we're just hoping to put that right.
"We don't need to turn our season around again.
"We just want to keep going."
There has been a keen edge to the Chiefs in training this week by all accounts.
Things looked pretty physical and urgent during Thursday's final major training run but head coach Dave Rennie said the coaches had brought it down "a couple of pegs" from what had been a "very physical" Tuesday session, while Smith said accuracy had received the biggest emphasis this week.
"There is an edge all right.
"The intensity's good, the attitude of these boys is always good and they always front up with effort - we've got no concerns there at all," Smith said.
It was ironic the Chiefs were first in attack and third in defence overall in Super Rugby but believed themselves to be a fair way off their best, he said.
"So there's some rewards to be earned if we can take it up a notch."
Much of that surrounded better maintaining of possession at the attacking end of the field to create pressure on the opposition, rather than putting pressure on themselves by losing the ball at crucial times.
Rennie also grits his teeth and grimaces when reminded about last year's 42-27 loss in Brisbane.
"They went through the middle of us, so that hasn't been lost on us this week and certainly from a defensive point of view a lot of work has been put in around all their plays.
"It is not just their ability to go through the middle but obviously [Will] Genia's ability to challenge you and [Quade] Cooper's ability, and they've got a lot of gas out wide.
"So they're a handful and the easiest way is to deny them the pill."
There is no doubt the selection of both Tanerau Latimer and Sam Cane - two specialist openside flankers - has been done partly to combat the effectiveness of the Reds' loose trio at the breakdowns.
There must also be some thought to Latimer, Cane and Liam Messam's speed to support the ball carrier, with a big emphasis also having gone on reducing the number of turnovers from ball carriers either becoming isolated or losing the ball when taking it into contact.
The top-of-the-table Chiefs have scored 21 tries in six matches but their defensive record of conceding only 10 is exceeded by the fourth-placed Reds who have given up just nine in seven games, the Australian sides having all played an extra fixture.
The home side will thus need all that improvement in accuracy and finishing if they are to crack the outstanding Reds defence.
There is one other motivating factor for the Chiefs. They know the chance to have a game kicking off in daylight on a Saturday is a rare chance to draw a big home crowd and they don't want to blow it with a disappointing performance.
"If we get a good crowd there, we've got no option, we've got to front and show a spirit and attitude so that we get that following that we started to get last year. "So it is a big game for us," Smith said.
Chiefs: Gareth Anscombe, Tim Nanai-Williams, Richard Kahui, Bundee Aki, Asaeli Tikoirotuma, Aaron Cruden, August Pulu, Liam Messam (c), Sam Cane, Tanerau Latimer, Brodie Retallick, Michael Fitzgerald, Ben Tameifuna, Hika Elliot, Toby Smith. Reserves: Rhys Marshall, Michael Kainga, Nick Crosswell, Fritz Lee, Brendon Leonard, Andrew Horrell, Patrick Osborne.
Queensland Reds: Jono Lance, Dom Shipperley, Anthony Faingaa, Ben Tapuai, Rod Davies, Quade Cooper, Will Genia, Jake Schatz, Liam Gill, Eddie Quirk, James Horwill (c), Rob Simmons, James Slipper, James Hanson, Greg Holmes. Reserves: Albert Anae, Ben Daley, Ed O'Donoghue, Jarrad Butler, Ben Lucas, Chris Feauai-Sautia, Aidan Toua. Referee: Steve Walsh (Australia)
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Bangalore: Amid speculation of an imminent change of the state BJP President, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa on Monday left for Delhi where is slated to hold discussions with party central leadership.
Eshwarappa is expected to meet BJP National President Nitin Gadkari and other senior BJP leaders, BJP sources said.
Issues like change of state party president and plans of BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa to float a new party, which have caused discomfiture to party leaders are likely to be dicussed, they said.
Eshwarappa was accompanied by MPs Prahalad Joshi and Nalin Kumar Kateel, they said.
On Oct 10, disguntled party strongman Yedyurappa,upset at being continually neglected by the top brass after his ouster as Chief Minister, had said he would quit BJP by December.
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When I opened my Wednesday morning New York Times over breakfast (yes, I still read this in hard copy!), I saw on the front page a headline, "After shooting, hashtag fuels a campaign." The story was about a hashtag called #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, which had spread virally on Twitter (168,000 mentions when the Times article was written) after the killing of a black teenager in Missouri. The article noted that 40 percent of blacks aged 18-29 use Twitter, compared with 28 percent of whites, and that "Black Twitter" had become a powerful grassroots communication tool.
A few minutes later I turned to check headlines on the inside sections of the paper, and saw on the first page of the Arts section an article called, "On Twitter, mourning is collective." This one was about reactions to the death of Robin Williams. In the minutes after his death was announced, there were 63,000 tweets a minute about Williams. "When beloved celebrities died in an earlier era, we rushed home and gathered around our television sets," the reporter wrote. "Now we stare at our smartphones. ...In the age of social media, everyone is an obituary writer."
Actually, I had noticed about a week earlier a story distributed by the Jewish News Service called "Israeli students wage social media battle over Jewish state's image," that discussed the mobilization by the Israeli government of 400 student volunteers working from a university's computer room to give Israel's version of the Gaza war. A student-run Facebook page showed the harbor in Sydney, Australia, in flames, with the tag line: "How would they act?"
"We really believe that today the real war takes place on the Internet," an Israeli student leader stated. Warring hashtags, such as #GazaUnderAttack and #IsraelUnderFire, have lit up the Twittersphere.
Taken together, these three stories dramatically illustrate just how important social media have become in our public lives. Yet I am guessing that most government agencies have only haltingly and tentatively adapted to this new reality.
This change of course has been building for some time. The Obama campaign, young and hip, made extensive use of social media in its 2008 campaign (Twitter, founded in 2006, was just beginning to take off), but the influence of social media on that campaign was restricted mostly to younger voters. Social media played crucial roles in organizing and publicizing protests during the Arab Spring in 2012, but that was in non-democratic countries with few other forms of political protest available. What we are seeing now is how much social media are becoming central for mainstream communication about public life.
Government of course is not completely absent from this world -- the General Services Administration, for example, has been actively training and encouraging other agencies to take full advantage of social media. And of course there are also big limits to how government organizations can be engaged -- from hard rules of engagement at some agencies to a general reluctance to get involved in the kind of loud disputes that often mark social media dialogue.
But I feel certain that, in most agencies, government is profoundly underinvested in social media presence. There is a large legacy infrastructure for press releases, press conferences, press briefings and the like. In most places, social media seems more of an afterthought, not a strategic engagement.
But getting on social media is free, one reason they have been a good tool for disadvantaged groups and individuals without a lot of cash to spend. Social media also gives government a chance to communicate in an unmediated way -- clearly there is an important role for journalist-mediated communication, but also one for unmediated interactions. Government needs to think creatively about how to adapt social media presence to the constraints of its environment. And senior leadership needs to give this big change in the environment in which government operates the attention it deserves.
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Govt agencies are not allowed to advertise or lobby the public directly, especially in the Executive branch agencies. You get caught lobbying about something that goes counter to the president, you have put yourself in a position of being fired from federal service. So what are these govt agencies going to do on social media? Either waste taxpayer money trying to be "hip" or at the very least spend a lot of time within that agency deciding what can/can't be said (i.e. creating another in-house bureaucracy). There are real rules in existence now folks . Be very careful what you tweet if you're a line federal employee.
I'm amazed that even in 2014 I get hear from other public agencies that "the lawyers (or senior management) won't let us us social media." I'm tired of having that discussion. I'd rather talk about how to use social media well. My usual response is to encourage people tell their attorneys (or senior management) that the public is out there talking about them on social media so they had better participate.
Thanks for all these great comments, please keep them coming, and let's keep working -- thanks for your efforts GSA! -- to improve government's adaptation to this mega-trend in society.
The effective use of social media in government continues on an upward trend--from the CIA dropping the mic with their brilliant entry to Twitter to Pentatgon using Twitter to announce US airstrikes in Iraq to CDC using Facebook to get information out about Ebola. You can keep up with activities, toolkits and training on digitalgov.gov, a resource from GSA. See more on the #SocialGov community http://www.digitalgov.gov/2014/06/30/u-s-gov-releases-new-collaborative-social-media-services/
Take a look at the book "Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media," published last October. Profiles my work, the work of my agency and others utilizing social media to engage the public in planning transportation, keep them informed during construction, notify the riding public about service disruptions, lessons learned, and more. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466568600
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Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a computer at a specific time, but only if some conditions are met. It works well on home routers/firewalls where the machine can be switched off every night and powered back up in the morning. It can be configured to only shut down the server after any computers which depend on the server for Internet access have been shut down.
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Licenses | GPLv2 |
Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
Implementation | Python |
Release Notes: The icon has been moved from "Applications/System Tools" to "System/Administration". This release officially supports Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, and Fedora. 'arping' is now also used in addition to 'ping'. If /dev/input/by-path/* are non-existant on a system, /dev/input/* entries are used instead. This will allow Autopoweroff to detect user events on Ubuntu 06.06, for instance. The About dialog would now closes properly.
Release Notes: This release is a complete overhaul of the project. Ubuntu support has been introduced. New techniques are used to probe devices, which now includes USB devices. Subversion is now used instead of CVS for software configuration management. This is a beta version. No known bugs exists, but testing is needed.
Release Notes: Like a screensaver, this release detects idle time on the server by scanning for keyboard and mouse activity. Currently, PS/2 keyboards and PS/2 and serial mice are supported (USB devices are unfortunately not detected yet). This release has automatic configuration file upgrades, and killing of any previous running instance of autopoweroff. "reboot" and "poweroff" shell calls have been replaced with "shutdown", which might be more common.
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Release Notes: Fixes for the *.desktop files so that the icons now appear in the GNOME "system tools" menu even if no locale is set.


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MONTREAL (AP) — When Lars Eller and Rene Bourque are outscoring the team's top line, things are going well for the Montreal Canadiens.
But it took until the playoffs for the Canadiens to find the balanced attack they have sought all season.
MONTREAL (AP) — When Lars Eller and Rene Bourque are outscoring the team's top line, things are going well for the Montreal Canadiens.
But it took until the playoffs for the Canadiens to find the balanced attack they have sought all season.
Getting offensive production from all four forward lines has helped them win the opening three games of their first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
They can sweep the best-of-seven series with a win on Tuesday night at the Bell Centre.
"That's a big strength," Eller said Monday. "I can't stress how important it is to have everybody involved, everybody contributing."
Players who have struggled offensively during the regular season, notably Eller and Bourque, have found new life in the postseason.
It has helped the normally low-scoring Canadiens average four goals per game against the Lightning, who are missing top goaltender Ben Bishop to an injury.
Bourque, a two-time 27-goal scorer who had only nine goals in the regular season, has three in as many games in the playoffs while playing left wing with center Eller and right wing Brian Gionta.
Eller, who had 12 goals in 77 games including stretch of 24 games with only one assist, has two goals and shares the team scoring lead with four points with Brendan Gallagher and defenseman P.K. Subban.
The Eller line has produced five goals, one more than Gallagher's line with Tomas Plekanec and Brandon Prust.
The top line of David Desharnais, Max Pacioretty and Thomas Vanek has scored only twice, but has combined for 29 shots in three games.
The fourth line of Daniel Briere with Michael Bournival and Dale Weise has only one goal, but it was a big one as Weise scored in overtime in Game 1.
"Right now we have momentum and we're riding that wave," Eller said. "We knew depth was going to be important and I think a big part of why we're having success is we have all four lines contributing in one way or another.
"I guess the playoffs are just bringing out the best in all of us."
The Lightning are aware they have dug themselves a deep hole.
Only three teams have ever come back from a three-game deficit to win an NHL playoff series, most recently the Philadelphia Flyers against Boston in the second round in 2010. The Canadiens are 31-0 when holding a 3-0 lead.
Tampa Bay had its best outing in Game 3 on Sunday night, but dropped a 3-2 decision. The Lightning thought they had a 2-1 lead in the second period, but Ryan Callahan's goal was waived off due to Alex Killorn's incidental contact on goalie Carey Price.
"That was obviously a tough one to swallow," Lightning star Steven Stamkos said. "A couple of calls didn't go our way.
"We can't dwell on it now. We realize the situation we're in. We just have to win one game. Our backs are against the wall. I'm pretty sure you're going to see a good effort from us. That's our motto right now: Just win one, then let's go back home and see what happens."
Some wondered if Stamkos would be fit to play after taking an accidental knee to the head from Canadiens defenseman Alexei Emelin late in the second period. He returned for the third, but admitted later he took a major whack to the head.
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Bedford Avenue is a 10 minute walk from the G Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown at the Bedford - Nostrand Avs stop.
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Nearby coffee shops include Brooklynite art incubator, Brooklyn Kolache Co. and Colador Cafe. There are 131 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Central Congregation of Yetev, Chan's Garden and Ice Cream House.
Bedford Avenue is near Taaffe Playground, Pratt Playground and Pratt Institute.
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Cinemark Names Phillip R. Couch Vice President Of Food And Beverage
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), one of the world's leading motion picture exhibitors is pleased to welcome Phillip Couch as their new Vice President of Food and Beverage. Mr. Couch will officially join Cinemark's management team on January 1, 2014.
"Phillip brings an extensive and unique background of relevant industry experience to Cinemark which identifies him as the perfect executive to lead Cinemark's food and beverage team," states Tim Warner, Cinemark's Chief Executive Officer. "Phillip will be a valuable addition to an already outstanding department. He is coming aboard at a key time, as Cinemark continues to innovate and expand our concessions offerings with enhanced dining menu options, alcoholic beverages at select locations and cafeteria style concession stands."
Mr. Couch has served as a Senior National Account Executive for the Coca-Cola Company since November 2005. Working within Coca-Cola's Strategic Partnership Marketing department, his responsibilities have included managing the Coca-Cola brand portfolio for key accounts, developing and implementing joint concession-marketing promotions, as well as supporting crew incentive initiatives focused on driving revenues. From 1997 – 2005, Phillip served in various sales and account management roles for Coca-Cola Enterprises. His local and regional account management portfolio included mass merchandising, supermarket and sporting goods customers.
Mr. Couch has also served as Coca-Cola's representative with the National Association of Concessionaires (NAC) trade association from 2007 – 2013. He is currently serving a term on the NAC Executive Board.
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"My violin is called Kylie as she sounds great and is perfectly formed."
Nigel Kennedy
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Kylie Minogue
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Steve Kellar
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Dannii Minogue
"We had a lot of emotional phone calls, with me calling Paris and Kylie calling me in London, ... But we're really pleased how it turned out. It was a huge moment for our family."
"I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie."
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Airline alliances may struggle in the future as carriers choose to team up in smaller partnerships5
Ailing airlines: IAG's baggage
Ailing Iberian airlines4
Emirates' results: All smiles at Emirates
Emirates announces an impressive set of half-year results12
British Airways loses out at the court of appeal1
The strikes at British Airways: Maintaining altitude
BA's cabin staff appear to be fighting a losing battle14
The strikes at British Airways: Maintaining altitude
British Airways' cabin staff appear to be fighting a losing battle3
Last-minute talks fail to halt a strike by BA cabin crew13
Heathrow expansion gets climate okay
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A business-class-only service now joins London and New York11
Airlines pledge to cut emissions: Almost virtuous
The aviation industry is promising a greener tomorrow4
Airlines propose 50% carbon cuts
IATA outlines some aspirational green goals3
BA asks employees to work for free
An unpopular, unusual way to save money12
British Airways announces massive losses10
Profits down, share price up at BA
The market shows some faith in Willie Walsh0
Tories point to the age of the train
Britain's Conservative Party outlines its ideas for more high-speed rail2
The British carrier's quarterly profits fall 88%1
High fuel prices are hurting some airlines more than others7
The head of BA lambasts the opening of Terminal 50
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British Airways' Willie Walsh loves his new terminal at Heathrow. But it will not solve all his problems3
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The magic mirror
Columnist Joanne Wilkinson has a mirror that every woman would love to own. (February 21, 2014, Page 1B)
Here comes Sochi!
Columnist Jim McCauley tells us the time he -almost- made it onto the U.S. bobsled team. (February 14, 2014, Page 1B)
A new season
Columnist Steve Stricker looks forward to a healthier 2014 and expresses thanks to see 2013 end. (February 7, 2014, Page 1B)
Young children can make you proud, scared to death in same day
Columnist Mavis Hovious reminds us an ever-watchful eye is necessary with small children. (January 31, 2014, Page 1B)
Family memories to last a lifetime
Scout Julany's family history is peppered with memorable holiday tales: The year all the kids played an in-the-dark variation of tag in the basement and laundry room and her cousin got a hangar stuck in her nose and the Thanksgiving when her family used the ping-pong table for dinner and her uncle accidentally collapsed the corner leg, nearly landing the turkey in his lap. (January 24, 2014, Page 1B)
Another year in the books
Jim McCauley had a great idea for an invention – a way for seniors to store memories on a computer chip. (January 3, 2014, Page 1B)
The friendship that $1 bought
Local columnist Joanne Wilkinson remembers her mother's $1 donation to the Red Cross after World War II and how that donation turned into a life-long relationship with a family in Germany. (December 27, 2013, Page 1B)
Christmas can be a blessing for some, stressful for others
Columnist Steve Stricker sometimes has a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit when commercialism tries to take us away from the real meaning of the season. (December 20, 2013, Page 1B)
There can never be too many Christmas lights
Columnist Mavis Hovious and her family enjoy decorating their home with an abundance of Christmas lights each and are ready to pass along the tradition to their children. (December 13, 2013, Page 1B)
My first Thanksgiving away from home
Columnist Joanne Wilkinson writes about her first Thanksgiving away from the U.S. while she was Venezuela to teach fourth grade students. (November 28, 2013, Page 2B)


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Let's say I create and execute a System.Net.FtpWebRequest.
I can use catch (WebException ex) {} to catch any web related exception thrown by this request, but what if I have some logic that I only want to execute when the exception is thrown due to (550) file not found
What's the best way to do this?
I can copy the exception message and test for equality:
const string fileNotFoundExceptionMessage = "The remote server returned an error: (550) File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access).";
if (ex.Message == fileNotFoundExceptionMessage) {
but theoretically it seems like this message could change down the road.
I can just test to see if the exception message contains "550", which is probably more likely to work if the message is changed (it will likely still contain 550 somewhere in the text) but of course will also return true if the text for some other WebException just happens to contain 550.
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Japanese discover the whales and dolphins are too contaminated to serve as sushi.
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In a bitter twist of fate, the Japanese may indeed have been contributing to scientific research as they devoured illegal whale meat. For over 20 years, despite the International Whaling Commission, Japan has claimed to be doing scientific research as it harvested minke whales for food.
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With the ultimate aim of helping to create a sustainable society, I lecture and write in Japan, and I also translate into Japanese the latest information as well as key messages from around the world. I have been honoured to have had the opportunity to bring to Japan the words and writings of the environmental academics Lester Brown, and Dennis Meadows, for
Fukushima Update # 81: April 9, 2012
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Polar bears as well as seals and walruses in Alaska are being found with radiation- related hair loss and skin lesions. Of course the officials are not saying this. They are "investigating" the cause!
Fukushima Update #80, February 13 & 14, 2012
Xenon gas has been detected in Unit 2.TEPCO's press handout from this morning has the details.
Fukushima Update #79, February 11, 2012
This is getting serious.
RPV Temperature at 74.9 degrees C (highest since this whole tragi/comedy began) and cooling water increased to 14.5 tons/hour.
TEPCO increased the volume of water being injected into Unit 2 by 35% in the early hours of February 7. This attempt to lower the temperature has stabilized it around 70 degrees C. But it has not lowered it significantly.
Problems at Fukushima continue to mount.
Fukushima Update #76, January 23, 2012
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First I will address the CRD Housing temperature sensor which became erratic last week.
Fukushima Update #75, January 15, 2012
Two more problems (aside from the Unit #4 mystery which I update below) have surfaced in the last week at the Fukushima plant site.
Fukushima Update #74, January 10, 2012
If you have been following Fukushima news, you will be aware of a spike in radiation measured at the plant after the large earthquake on Jan 1.
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Major Stryker was one of the Apogee classics. This simple but addictive game had you flying a small but power space ship through level after level of alien worlds, blasting away bad guys and rescuing those who had fallen before you. One of the interesting twists in Major Stryker is that one bullet is all it takes to blow up your space ship - so only the skilled need apply :-)
Interestingly enough - I was only able to get this to run under Windows 98 under Virtual PC. If I try to run Major Stryker under Windows XP directly - there is a 3 to 4 second lag on key strokes (which is enough to ensure that you die within the first 10 seconds). And if I try to run it under DOS on Virtual PC the timing is messed up (with the game running fast and then slow and then fast again):


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Pirates, of course, are notoriously greedy – but they're also incredibly shrewd. And don't forget, they'll kill you, if given the chance.
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When you think of the numbers 1–10, you probably envision them running along a line, with 1 on the left and 10 on the right. Scientists have long debated whether this tendency is hardwired or culturally instilled. This week, the hardwired camp scored a major point. Young chickens, it seems, also map numbers from…
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At 9:30 pm on 14 February 2004, former Tour de France winner Marco Pantani was found dead in Rimini. It emerged that he had been addicted to cocaine since Autumn 1999, weeks after being expelled from the Tour of Italy for blood doping. Conspiracy theories abounded - that he was injected in his sleep by a business rival, that the Olympic Committee had framed him, that Italian Industrialists had engineered his downfall, etc etc. If none of these is entirely true and none of them fully explains Pantani's personal tragedy, none of them is foundationless. This book debunks the myths and makes surprising revelations. About Pantani's personal tragedy, but also about the world of cycling. Matt Rendell had access not only to court transcripts but to many of Pantani's friends and the doctors who treated him. But Pantani's life is about much more than drug addiction. Lance Armstrong described him as 'more of an artist than an athlete - an extravagant figure ...' Despite being plagued with injuries he won both the Giro and the Tour in 1998, something very few cyclists even attempt. He was an inspirational icon, and the remarkable wins against all odds make gripping reading.
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