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Thanks everyone who came to the first Loop Project Presents last Sunday evening. There was a good turnout and a thought-provoking discussion after the documentary. We're looking forward to the next one – more details coming soon.
As we mentioned, we only showed the first part of the documentary on Sunday, to watch the next 3 parts try looking on Google Video. Here is a link to part 2. It's not difficult to find the rest.
Once you've worked through that documentary, why not give another of Adam Curtis' documentaries a watch? The Power of Nightmares looks at how politicians have used our fears to increase power and control over society. It looks at the development of the American neo-Conservative movement through over the course of the last few decades. "The Trap" looks at the concept of freedom and specifically ""how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom." (Thanks wikipedia)
Both perfect for family viewing over the Christmas period!
Curtis also has a blog on the BBC website which he uses to observe and discuss footage he has found in the archives. It's a really interesting mix of stuff that he posts up so would recommend subscribing to it. I quite enjoyed this 1970s documentary about the hell's angels and their mini-break on a canal barge!
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Love the new webisodes. Especially the sharing of techniques like the mozz forming. I'd love to see more extended segments around techniques.
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Gray: Night-herons bring the wilderness home
By Lisa Gray | April 5, 2012 | Updated: April 8, 2012 11:31pm
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A yellow-crowned night-heron holds a stick in its beak in a tree near Leslie Scates' Heights-area home.
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Night-herons roost in a Heights-area tree in March.
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Scates on the lookout for night-herons
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Night-herons show up outside Leslie Scates' home every Valentine's Day and leave in June.
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Scates has noticed at least six nesting pairs of yellow-crowned night-herons in the trees by her home.
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Every year, as the babies grow up, one or two fall out of the nest.
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A black crowned night-heron flies over the Smith Oaks Sanctuary near High Island.
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A black crowned night-heron sits atop a tree at the Smith Oaks Sanctuary.
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A black crowned night-heron, top left, and a pair of white ibis fly at the Smith Oaks Sanctuary.
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A black-crowned night heron, left, and a white ibis fly at the sanctuary.
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A black-crowned night-heron sits atop a tree at the sanctuary.
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A night-heron at Smith Oaks
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A black-crowned night-heron at the sanctuary
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A black-crowned night-heron, top left, and a pair of white ibis fly at the Smith Oaks Sanctuary.
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A yellow-crowned night-heron hunts for food in south Montgomery Country.
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Every year, Scates hates to see the birds go.
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A white-crested night heron
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A yellow-crowned night-heron
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A yellow-crowned night-heron
"See that one?" asked Leslie Scates.
She pointed up in the crown of one of the giant live oaks in her front yard, and suddenly, I did see it: a yellow-crowned night-heron, a long-legged, long-necked gray bird about 2 feet tall, with a dramatic black-and-white face and a stylish swoosh of feathers arcing from the top of its head back over its neck.
I'd come specifically to see the night-herons in Leslie's front yard, but even expecting them, I felt a little thrill: Look at it! Right there! Spotting wildlife in Houston always does that to me. I get a buzz when I see an opossum lumbering down a cul-de-sac, a raccoon washing its dinner in a swimming pool, a bat diving for a mosquito. Maybe it's because I want to believe that there's room for nature in the city, room for wildness in my urban life. Or maybe it's because I want to believe that the city still works as part of nature; that even living my urban life, I'm still part of the landscape.
"And right there," said Leslie, pointing a little to the left. "That's his mate!" Over the next few minutes, the rest of the rookery popped into view: six nesting pairs, by Leslie's count.
But our attention went back to the first heron we'd spotted. "He's got a stick!" Leslie said. "He's going to do that stick thing!"
I wasn't sure what we were waiting for, but I couldn't look away.
Not everyone loves night-herons. Debra Goode, who led the restoration of the Pine Brook Wetlands in Clear Lake, gives talks around town, telling people how they can make their yards and neighborhoods friendlier to wildlife. But when she spoke to the Bay Area Garden Club, to her astonishment, she was asked how to get rid of night-herons nesting over a gardener's yard. The gardener couldn't stand the big birds' poop.
Similarly, about five years ago, residents of Nassau Bay complained of poop from a night-heron nesting site. So the Nassau Bay volunteer fire department turned its firehoses on the rookery, blasting the birds' nests right out of the trees. Leslie knows all about the poop. Her pickup truck is black, which means those white streaks stand out in high relief. But she's at peace with that. "You can't have the birds without the poop," she says. "So I have to wash the truck more often. So what? They're worth it."
"The stick thing" turned out to be a formal little dance, part of the herons' nesting ritual. Whenever the male finds an appropriate stick, he doesn't just weave it into the nest, or give it to his mate without fuss. Instead, he dramatizes each offering with a fancy show of wingtip feather-spreading: "Look what I brought you!"
As we watched, the male did his thing; then the female, with great gravity, accepted his stick.
"I love that feather flourish," Leslie said. And in imitation, she showily stretched out her fingers and arched her eyebrows: As a dancer, she knows a great move when she sees it.
She specializes in contact improvisation, a form of modern dance in which the dancers go on stage without knowing what exactly they'll do. Like jazz musicians, the improv dancers create their patterns on the fly, figuring it out as they go along, attempting to give a spontaneous dance some sort of cohesion, meaning and architecture.
She watches the herons the way she'd watch a dance. She looks for the patterns - like the stick thing - and the little ways that they differ each time. She loves the herons' predictability, the way that the birds show up around Valentine's Day every year, the way they build their nests and guard their eggs, the way the babies' grotesque little turkeylike heads pop up over the edges of the nests in late spring.
Every year, as the babies grow up, one or two fall out of the nest. Leslie tries to scoop them up in a towel before the neighborhood dogs snatch them and rushes them to the wildlife-rescue facility at the SPCA.
But most of the babies grow up with their parents. And in June, the whole colony leaves the trees outside Leslie's house at around the same time, flying to wherever it is that night-herons go for the rest of the year.
Every year, Leslie hates to see them go, but she finds their rhythm profoundly comforting. Her own son is a high school junior now, learning to drive, thinking about college, preparing to leave the nest. She likes knowing that in spring, the herons will return, and their cycle will start again.


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Update: A Special Message To Our International Audience; It Could Be As Simple As Solidarity or Death
We are aware that we have a strong International readership. For this article and cause, we are appealing specifically to you to contact your governments and bring these facts to light. The United States and Britain constantly try and set the state and subsequent argument(s) on any major issue that affects the International Security of the Global Community. On this issue, I am imploring you to make sure your own government weighs-in on this critical matter and deny the United States and Britain the ability to hide and water-down facts and data that could jeopardize your life and that of your families. This is an international issue that needs to be heard by the U.N. Security Council whereby governments throughout the world will be able to establish their concerns and work together to solve a problem that if not corrected immediately, could make future life on Earth either impossible or miserable, and neither choice is acceptable to the global community as a whole, therefore it behooves you all to get together and demonstrate solidarity with those of us that are fighting for your lives and security – even when your own government(s) refuse to release the entire truth and factual evidence that all of us should possess and understand.
We have been apprised that the United Nations and to some degree, N.A.T.O is acutely aware of the danger that the "Imminent collapse of Reactor 4 could create a mass extinction event of both humans and animals" and is "in such bad shape that even a very small earthquake could quickly level the building, sending the fuel from more than 1,500 unused fuel rods into the environment. And with Reactor 4 still filled with the highest levels of radioactive MOX and other fuels, the consequences of this potential collapse could be far worse than anything that has happened thus far as a result of the earthquake and tsunami." The United Nations, Japan, and the bulk of the industrialized world is aware of these facts which will soon be in evidence, however, in the United States, there is a Press Blackout on this issue, and even Presidential Candidates have been mum on how they expect to protect the American people and the Global Community from experiencing what could result in the extinction of humanity and the rapid destruction of civilization as we know it.
Based on the critical nature of the threat facing the entire Global Community we are requesting that this urgent matter be heard immediately by the United Nations Security Council rather than being brought-up for debate during the regular Session of the United Nations; this threat to the world at large transcends the political rhetoric and posturing normally witnessed in the United Nations regular Session(s), thus our request that it be immediately brought in front of the U.N. Security Council where it may be brought-up for debate and subsequent action rather than providing us with hollow promises that lead to nothing more than vague assurances and political chicanery as we are witnessing here in the United States.
The United States has not treated it citizens with anything that resembles the truth in this matter, and in fact, have acted as poor stewards of the public trust. When elevated radiation levels began to show-up in seafood destined for the United States, rather than protecting the public, our nation we well as Japan simply raised the "accepted" amount of radiation that can now be deemed "safe to eat." Know this; it won't be the 1% eating that seafood, and if you can read and comprehend what you're taking in, it also won't be you or your family. We believe there are two reasons we are experiencing a Press Blackout on this matter:
1. The Government may be attempting to avert a panic, which on its face is an absurd rationale for implementing a Press Blackout on a threat of this magnitude. Millions of American citizens have learned of this threat by and through the Alternative News Media; countless millions of us are far more informed than our own Congress on this issue. If a panic is caused by the majority of our citizens that still remain unaware of the danger that faces humanity as a whole, it will be caused by the subterfuge of Washington, the DHS, FDA and FBI whom believe they are governing a nation of children rather than adults and disrespect us on a daily basis by spoon-feeding us propaganda and Bull$hit rather than truth and facts. We have a right to know the danger we face as a nation, and the global community has a right to know and understand the danger emanating from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Complex.
2. We are aware that General Electric is a major financial/industrial player in nuclear reactor technology, and because of their huge holdings in News, Cable T.V., and Local Radio Stations , it is my belief that G.E. is partially responsible for this Press Blackout. When the state places a corporations financial stability and needs higher than the people it is supposed to serve, this is the essence of Fascism, a road the United States seems intent on traveling even though the entire world is witnessing this dangerous transformation. (And that includes the United Nations.) For an in-depth look into General Electrics Media holdings, go this this LINK and then you can understand why they pay no taxes and in spite of the danger to humanity, are the number one Corporation responsible for downplaying this disaster in Japan and nuclear accidents in the United States and throughout the world. (My Opinion.)
I wish it were that simple. It's not, and the impact (is) that IF bldg. # 4 DID COLLAPSE, mankind and civilization as we know it could/would disappear and billions would die throughout the entire global community. This isn't another conspiracy theory, it's facts and substantiation, and where this leads us no one apparently knows. If the nation of Japan had Nuclear Weapons aimed squarely at several of our major cities and reminded us they were live and ready to detonate, would the U. N. Security Council watch in silence while nothing was being done by Japan in an effort to close Pandora's Box? At what point does Japan's, i.e., TEPCO's criminal negligence warrant the attentions of the United Nations Security Council?
"(NaturalNews) During a recent Congressional delegation trip to Japan, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden witnessed with his own eyes the horrific aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which we have heard very little about from the media in recent months. The damage situation was apparently so severe, according to his account, that he has now written a letter to Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador of Japan, petitioning for more to be done, and offering any additional support and assistance that might help contain and resolve the situation as quickly as possible. The letter, which many experts see as the ominous writing on the wall for the grave severity of the circumstances, offers a disturbing glimpse into what is really going on across the Pacific Ocean that the mainstream media is apparently ignoring. While referencing the fact that all four of the affected reactors are still "badly damaged," Sen. Wyden seems to hint in his letter that Reactor 4, which has reportedly been on the verge of collapse for many months now, could be nearing catastrophic implosion. LINK
No matter how you attempt to spin this story the basic facts exist. Building # 4 is a disaster waiting to happen, and whereas I am not a politician and no not have to speak "diplomatically," the Japanese are not exercising "due diligence" to bring this catastrophe to a suitable conclusion, and in fact, the Japanese people are also being lied to by their respective government(s) and on both sides of the world; the people who are and will be most effected by this tragedy remain in a Press Blackout which induces a state of false security and removes the urgency of the matter. How can people respond in a logical manner when their own government refuses to tell them the truth? The soil in Tokyo is so contaminated in the cracks of the streets and in outdoor gardens that if it were to be shipped to the United States it would have to be specially handled as "Nuclear Waste" and subsequently sent to a nuclear waste disposal unit.
Nuclear expert says Fukushima radiation coming to USA, massive cover-up under way
Thursday, September 01, 2011 by: PF Louis
(Natural News) There has been a lot of disinformation regarding the Fukushima Nuclear disaster. It appears the government agencies of other nations cooperated with Japan while the international nuclear industry sided with TEPCO's (Tokyo Electric Power Company) disinformation and denial campaign.
As Mike Adams noted in his April 5th, 2011 Natural News article on Fukushima, "The government is going to turn off the radiation detectors, raise the official EPA limits of radioactive exposure, urge Americans to avoid preparing for fallout, and then pretend absolutely nothing is wrong."
Understanding the MillisievertMillisievert figures are tossed out by the media with little attention to explaining them. Millisieverts (mSv) are measurements of ionizing radiation absorbed by a human body. Geiger counters formally measured with Rems (Roentgen equivalent man) or millirems. The figures on Geiger counters now represent mSv units per hour. There is always a low level of measurable background radiation in our environment from celestial bodies and earthly elements.
Whenever Geiger counters measure more, there is concern. Putting concerns into perspective, smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes (tobacco leaves absorb radioactive isotopes) daily causes an annual exposure level of 13 mSv per year. A 5,000 mSv single dose creates 50% likelihood of death within a month. A single 10,000 mSv dose of radiation causes almost certain death within a month.
Fukushima – Chernobyl Comparisons
Chernobyl was a one reactor meltdown. Fukushima had three reactors that melted down. Chernobyl was land locked in a relatively desolate area. The heaviest radiation was in the sparsely inhabited area near the plant, although air currents contaminated Northern Europe and Western Russia as well.
Fukushima is the small densely populated island of Japan. It seems there are going to be more cancer victims and food contamination with this disaster than Chernobyl's. The Fukushima plants are on the Pacific Ocean coast.
Millions of gallons of contaminated water are being dumped into the Pacific in addition to radiation particles floating on air streams. So ocean currents are assisting air currents, exposing the world to excessive radiation.
Sea life is getting contaminated as well. The most dangerous radiation comes from radioactive particles ingested with contaminated foods. It only takes a few ingested particles to create intense health issues or death. Seems wise to avoid northern Pacific Seafood and Japanese Teas from your diet for the near future.
The easiest sign of food chain contamination comes from high radiation readings on milk. And what little data has leaked from normally scheduled testing across the United States has shown increased radioactivity in water and milk. But the USDA is not testing organic milk since that's not part or their job description. Raw milk is another issue. There should be even more concern over Japan's food exports, especially tea.
Before the actual extent of Japan's crisis became evident, Chris Busby, a professor at the University of Ulster weighed in with a realistic early warning. "Fukushima is still boiling its radionuclides all over Japan," he said. "Chernobyl went up in one go and Fukushima is worse."
Other experts noted the futility of watering down the reactors from outside and above, which was an early attempt to cool down the reactors. The cooling has to occur inside, the way radiator coolant cools auto engines. Internal reactor cooling requires pumping water generated by electric pumps. And electricity hasn't been available there. Many experts have questioned why the sarcophagus solution was not employed or even considered.
Sarcophagus means stone tomb in Russian. The Russians devised this solution almost immediately after Chernobyl's meltdown. It took several months to implement. But they got it done, thus restricting more emissions in the immediate area and throughout Western Russia and Northern Europe.
Those living nearby Chernobyl were exposed to 450 mSv over several days. This level of exposure is sufficient to cause cancer for many within their lifetimes. Nevertheless, nearby residents were evacuated as soon as possible.
It seems Fukushima evacuation planners dragged their feet with a smaller area of no return than Chernobyl's restricted area. What kind of measurements were occurring in Fukushima by the time the Japanese government and TEPCO finally admitted that their situation was worse than originally reported?
That's difficult to answer because of the denial and disinformation during the early stages of this disaster. But it's apparent that the zone of intense radiation involves more inhabitants in Japan than Chernobyl ever did. A nearby Japanese university has tested soil samples in the area and discovered the radioactive contamination is deeper and higher than originally anticipated.
Unanticipated higher readings done by third party groups imply earlier industry and government cover ups that downgraded or withheld readings.
It was months after the initial event that the Japanese government and TEPCO raised the Fukushima danger level to seven, matching Chernobyl's disaster level.
One thing is for certain. The Fukushima radioactive leaks will continue at high amounts longer than Chernobyl did. Fukushima's radioactive fallout will be affecting more people, crops, and of course sea life than Chernobyl's disaster caused. But just like the Gulf BP oil disaster, we won't be able to count on accurate mainstream media information or government intervention to minimize the damage.
Sources for this article include:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant_sarcophagu… LINK
Surviving The Fukushima Nuclear Fuel Pool Collapse
April 24, 2012, Submitted by: KenThe current TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) plan calls for the nuclear fuel rods of the severely damaged 'Daiichi' nuclear power plant fuel-pool #4 to NOT begin removal until possibly 2014. That's right, 2 more years before they might start the 10-year process of removing fuel rods there according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.Tepco says it's working to remove the fuel rods as fast as it can. If all goes according to its timetable, the utility could start taking the rods out in 2014.…the schedule allows up to ten years to get all the spent fuel in all the Fukushima reactor pools out.Fukushima Daiichi suffered meltdowns at three of its reactors last year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out power in the area. Much of the nuclear fuel in those three reactors is thought to be in a melted lump at the bottom of the vessels that surround the core.Another big earthquake or tsunami could send Fukushima Daiichi's fragile reactor buildings tumbling down, resulting in "an even greater release of radiation than the initial accident,"Source: The Wall Street Journal, http://blogs.wsj.com/
The fuel pools are 100 feet above the ground, entirely open to the atmosphere (except for the water constantly being pumped into them) because the nuclear reactor buildings were blown apart by explosions back during 2011. The fuel pool (#4) which holds more than 10,000 nuclear rods could collapse from structural damage, should another strong earthquake occur there, and scatter the rods all over the ground. Emergency worker access to these rods will be impossible (except for suicide missions) as they will be emitting lethal levels of gamma radiation. The fuel rods will quickly heat up and ignite/explode, releasing massive clouds of radiation into the atmosphere.
Quote from a story on April-2, 2012 from the Mainichi Daily News in Japan written by Takao Yamada, Expert Senior Writer, "If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the nuclear fuel inside will overheat and explode, causing a massive amount of radioactive substances to spread over a wide area. Both the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and French nuclear energy company Areva have warned about this risk."
The only thing saving the planet from exposure to 85x Chernobyl is the few feet of water covering the rods at this very moment. There is no other containment. Period. In fact, the fuel pool apparently is, and has been, leaking. A constant re-supply of water is required to avert total disaster.
Okay, should this event occur (earthquake followed by collapse of fuel-pool #4), how would it affect us here in the U.S. and other countries outside of Japan? What, if anything, can we do to be prepared for such an event?
As the radiation began to spew into the atmosphere, the surface and upper winds would carry the ongoing invisible cloud with it. If it were carried along in the jet-stream, which spins around the globe at say, 100 mph (and higher), it would take about 10 days to circle and cover the globe, predominantly in the northern hemisphere. That said, a few days or even 10 days is not enough time to make any practical preparations for this type of disaster.
In fact, one wonders if there is anything at all that we can do to make a difference such that we could protect ourselves beyond just a short period of time. Let's face it, if this were to happen, the effects would be long lasting, long term, wide reaching, and almost unimaginable.
What will happen?
In my own estimation, there would not be instant death. There would be immediate tragedy in Japan, as millions of people scramble to evacuate the regions there (imagine evacuating Tokyo?). What would happen is that we would slowly but surely become more and more contaminated with radiation as we potentially breath in particles, get doused with particles (from the rain), and most importantly… we consume them from the foods that we eat (which will have become contaminated) and the water we drink. The cancer rate will skyrocket, and the die-off will begin.
What can or could we do?
The most extreme precaution (meaning – life uprooting) would be to move to the southern hemisphere. The further south the better, as some of the radiation will eventually migrate to the equator regions and spill below.
For the U.S., the radiation 'fallout' will be the worst on the west coast, and possibly parts of Alaska, as this is the first landfall of the predominant jet-stream winds from Japan. Rains will scour out some of the radiation from the air and toxify the west and central U.S. a bit more than the East. Unfortunately this is where lots of food is grown. The top several inches of soil will become contaminated. For long term issues, the food supply will be the deadliest aspect of this disaster.
I suppose that food grown in the southern hemisphere and shipped north, will be less contaminated. Those foods would certainly demand a premium and become VERY expensive.
A limited amount of food safety may come from growing food 'inside', out of the elements, out of the contaminated air and rain, in greenhouses, in non-contaminated soil. A problem though will be feeding the plants (and yourself!) with non-contaminated water (where will it come from or how to filter it).
As far as I know, one 'partially' effective way to separate radioactive particles from water is through water distillation (However some distillers will not rid radioactive iodine). I found this apparent factoid… "One of the problems with distilling is that iodine has a low boiling point – it turns into a gas at 363-degrees F (184 C). The little home distillers use high pressure for efficiency and if they are using over ~140 psi they will be vaporizing the radioactive iodine along with the water. A low pressure distiller like the type used for distilling alcohol won't boil off the iodine."
Boiling water will NOT remove radiation (or any other chemicals), but instead will concentrate it. The evaporated steam will also contain 'some' radiation. I've also heard that a Reverse Osmosis water filter may be effective to remove 'most' of the radiation particles. Water from a natural spring, which itself draws water from deep below the ground, may be a good source of safer water than contaminated surface water.
Regarding finding non-contaminated foods, the most assured way is to have it stocked up ahead of time, before the nuclear disaster, in your long term food storage supplies. This of course will only last until you run out, and then you're in the same radiated boat as the rest of the people.
There will be new food processes popping up that will claim to produce non-contaminated foods, as many will attempt to profit from the disaster. Some may be real while I'll bet many others will be false claims. The problem is that most of these sources will likely only produce relatively small volumes of food while the majority of the population depend upon mass produced foods. Food will continue to be grown and produced as before because there will be no other choice. People who consume it will simply and horrifically become more and more contaminated themselves over time. The radiation particles accumulating in their bodies will eventually damage surrounding tissue and/or DNA, leading to cancer and premature death. It is a scary thing, for sure.
The only immediate and somewhat effective solution that I see, is to grow your own food, in a greenhouse environment with soil that has been scraped from a depth of at least 4 inches below the topsoil, and fed with water from a natural spring. Obviously, a sufficient amount of food would need to be grown, and a sufficient amount would need to be preserved for the non-growing season. It would be very difficult, at best, to successfully accomplish this unless you are a seasoned gardener with the right knowledge, tools, and resources to do it.
Surviving a Fukushima fuel pool collapse will involve arming yourself with the knowledge, skill, and resources to grow your own food as described, to procure your own water which is safe to drink, and to stay out of the elements when it is storming. The hardest part of all this is to actually have the land to accomplish this, as the majority of the population lives in suburbia or the city. If you believe strongly that the risk is of high potential, then your only course of action, is to take action now, before it is too late.
Oh, one more thing, you will probably want to invest in a Geiger counter… LINK
The evidence is here are it's indisputable. We, the majority of the people who occupy this planet are being kept in the dark as to the terrible danger than we, our children, and humanity in general now face because the Elites/Corporations in this world would rather cover-up their "indiscretions" and pay their toll on death because it is still less of a financial burden to pay for the mistakes they are caught at instead of adopting stringent new standards. Re-evaluating the old standards could save millions of lives but are too expensive for them to implement(?). Their Board of Directors instead choose to reap huge bonuses and profits rather than cleaning-up an industry that has the potential to destroy what little may be left of mankind after Japan experiences another Great Earthquake and releases the rest of their poison on the world.
As a human being, as a parent, and as a steward of Mother Earth, as of this minute their can be no more important task than demanding that the United Nations Security Council step-in immediately and begin the clean-up in Japan and work to secure the damaged reactor building(s) so that humanity has a chance to survive this disaster which is threatening everyone that lives on this planet. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is not a joke. If Japan or even the Cascadia Subduction Zone should experience a major geological event, life here on Earth could and likely would change dramatically. If you ever needed to become involved in attempting to secure your own future and that of your family, it is not time to make phone calls to your Senators, call the MSM even as worthless as they are and demand that they begin to act like Journalists and cover this story to our satisfaction, not that of the government or their corporate Masters. Printer below is the U.N. Security Council's list of the Presidency for 2012. I suggest that you email and call every member that you see on this page, and when you're through with that, call the White House, the Congress, and your Congressman's Office day and night until you start to receive answers that you believe are true.
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If you don't hear about this danger to the entire global community on CNN and every other major news outlet that is supposed to inform the public of danger and investigate why this has happened, you haven't made enough calls yet:
If you need phone numbers for the White House, Congress, The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, please follow the link below to find almost any phone number to reach the people who are responsible for refusing to address this situation that is currently threatening our way of life and humanity in general. PHONE NUMBERS TO CALL. As this threat worsens we hear less on the news and even in the Alternative News. This could be the excuse the government uses to issue a declaration of Martial Law when it is not us whom are panicking, it is the people whom are charged with protecting the public who appear unable to honestly speak to the people and assure us that everything in their power is being accomplished to stabilize this dangerous situation.
Don't forget to call CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and all of your local television stations and demand that they immediately begin reporting on this issue, otherwise we will boycott their stations and give the truth to our neighbors, one fax and one piece of information we can print from the Alternative News at a time until the entire nation is aware of and demanding just as loudly as we are that this situation be attended to NOW – not when Japan feels it has the money or develops a technology that will result in less of a loss of life in cleaning-up their negligence and blunders. We know this will be a mufti-faceted cleanup and we demand that it be undertaken immediately.Once there is a satisfactory retaining wall and adequate support for the damaged reactor buildings, removing the new and spent fuel rods should be child's play for the IAEA, and if it's not, then we need forward thinking people whom think out of the box rather than looking for the easiest or cheapest solution to a force that could kill every man, woman and child on earth. We need to do this right, not apply a cheap band-aid solution because TEPCO and Japan believe that a proper fix to this situation is far too expensive to effectuate.
Anyone with a brain can see that we need to bring-in the equipment to build at least a forty-five (45′) wall in front of the reactors with eyelets on the retraining wall that the damaged structure(s) can be hooked to and act as the stability we need until the new fuel rods, depleted fuel rods, and other fuel assemblies can safely be moved from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor facility. The wall needs to be at least thirty (30) feet thick and should be built to withstand an 8.0 or above Magnitude Earthquake and subsequent Tsunami. Elderly people who are still in the prime of their lives will volunteer to ensure the safety of their own families from this potential nuclear holocaust and it's time to begin speaking about it like adults, not in closed door sessions that only serve to accomplish the wishes of the monied and corporations. We know that people have to die to fix the folly of those who dared to challenge Mother Nature and lost, and we are well aware that it has to happen soon. The retaining wall I'm speaking of could be built in a matter of months, and even during it's earliest construction start, if built correctly, will help to strengthen the damaged reactor buildings that now threatens our way of life. As the wall grows in girth and height, so will the reactor buildings also stand with them and share the strength of new constructi0n that will serve as dual-purpose rather than tasking each and every segment of the construction to serve only one purpose. Pouring and constructing such a wall is not impossible, and building it so that it also fortifies the damaged reactors is not that hard of a feat to accomplish either.
I just checked several major news services and it appears that the United States is still under a complete Press Blackout on Japan's Nuclear issue(s), and "we the people" are only receiving information that our government believes we can handle without rioting, demanding that our government and the United Nations and other such alphabet agencies do their damn jobs, and manifesting the outrage and the general hysteria that mother's all across this nation will exhibit whenever they are exposed to the truth. Sorry folks, it's time to take action; listed below are some of the numbers for the White House and I will be posting more:
Write or Call the White House
President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history. That begins with taking comments and questions from you, the public, through our website.
Call the President
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Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Comments: 202-456-6213
Visitor's Office: 202-456-2121
Write a letter to the President
Here are a few simple things you can do to make sure your message gets to the White House as quickly as possible.
1. If possible, email us! This is the fastest way to get your message to President Obama.
2. If you write a letter, please consider typing it on an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper. If you hand-write your letter, please consider using pen and writing as neatly as possible.
3. Please include your return address on your letter as well as your envelope. If you have an email address, please consider including that as well.
4. And finally, be sure to include the full address of the White House to make sure you message gets to us as quickly and directly as possible:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Here are some other phone numbers to reach the White House and Congress at, and believe me, if you call, email, fax and talk, the White House and Congress will address this issue, sooner than most of you will ever believe. For those of you in the Global Community. This is a matter of great urgency. Please use these posted phone numbers and join in and help us to rectify this situation. Radiation will kill all of us, not just Americans, Jews, Germans, or Russians. It will kill those who believe in Allah as well as those whom believe in God and different flavors of a higher power. This is a non-partisan emergency, and we, working together in solidarity have the power and ability to turn this situation around on its head. Call the lawmakers in your country and give them hell; they aren't telling you everything either, and rather than it being a U.S./General Electric Coverup, this matter entails the foundations of finance and banking throughout the world – and if you stand together in solidarity and remember, just for this once, that it is us against them, and if they lose, we die. It's really that simple.
See The White House Phone Directory (May 18, 2007). Because I figure the regular switchboard might be busy tomorrow, but if you've got the White House phone directory, you can just work your way down until somebody picks up. (Actually, in the spirit of CD interviewing people, it might be more interesting and fun to say "Hi! I write for ______________. Do you think that Libby's commuted sentence involved obstruction of justice? Why or why not?")
Most of the numbers in the Directory match what I've been able to glean from open sources, so it looks authentic. The offices are taken from the White House site, and the numbers are formatted like so: 1-202-555-1212 / 1-202-555-1212, where the first number is via internet search, and the second, italic number is from the Directory:
The offices included in the Executive Office of the President.
- Council of Economic Advisers: (202) 456-1414 / (202) 395-5084
- Council on Environmental Quality: (202) 395-5750 / (202) 456-6224
- Office of Administration: (202)456-7921 / (202) 456-2861
- Office of Management and Budget: (202) 395-4840 / (202) 395-4840
- Office of National Drug Control Policy: (202) 395-6738
- Office of Science & Technology Policy: (202) 456-6021 / (202) 456-7116
- President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board: (202) 456-2352
- United States Trade Representative: (202) 395-7360 / (202) 395-3230
The offices included in the White House Office.
- Domestic Policy Council: (202) 456-1111 / (202) 456-5594
- Homeland Security Council: (202) 456-1700
- National Economic Council: (202) 456-1414 / (202) 456-2800
- Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: (202) 456-6708 / (202) 456-6708
- Office of the First Lady: (202) 456-7074 / (202) 456-7064
- Office of National AIDS Policy : (202) 456-7320 / (202) 456-7320
- Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board: (202) 456-1066
- USA Freedom Corps: 1-877-872-2677 / 1-877-USA-CORPS
- White House Fellows Office: (202) 395-4522 / (202) 395-4522
- White House Military Office: / (202) 757-2151
And the Vice Presidential Entity, whatever branch he ends up in:
- Shooter: (202) 456-9000 / (202) 456-1414
- Shooter's Moll, Lynne: (202) 456-7489
Naturally, if you call the White House to express your disapprobation in the matter of I. Lewis Libby, you will be courteous, and remember that our public servants have important work to do. LINK
Make the Lion Roar again and shutter the United Nations and Washington, D.C. with phone calls, emails, faxes, and any other types of communication you can send – and don't stop until the global community receives an answer that is acceptable to everyone, not just the 1%.


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Yeah...but. They all drive to work on the ROADS, man. And they send emails on THE INTERNET. Which, you know, was invented by government. So.
Doesn't this send the wrong message though? To be successful, you have to be a workaholic, not plan and delegate properly? Work harder, not smarter? Why do we never recognize those that truly get it?
I wonder what a comparable list of the public sector would look like.
Lucky. They were all just lucky. Given the public roads and bridges available and the many, many public school teachers out there, anyone could have done what they did, it was just a matter of luck.
The reality is that you cannot succeed at anything without hard work, but hard work is not sufficient. To be a really big success it requires the work plus something else. Call it Alpha. Maybe you have an unusual talent, or ability, you have superior connections and or a great mentor, or you had the right idea at the right place at the right time. Call it luck?
Either way, the word is full of people who worked very hard and only achieved modest success. You still need the hard work even to get that, but it does not mean you will be wealthy.
Of course, in most cases government only gets in the way, unless you figured out someway to make money off of government. That usually works too.
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• It's S'cool at Eastmont
Eastmont Park PK-8 School, 1480 Edendale Road, will host a S'Cool Moves for Learning Family Night at 6 p.m. on Jan. 29. S'cool Moves is a movement program that helps students improve academic performance, attention and behavior by use of balance and self-awareness skills. The evening will consist of S'Cool Moves activities, pizza and snacks, and a display of school science fair projects. Contact Ann Gottschlich at 542-4503 for more information.
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World of Wonder School, 2826 Campus Drive, will participate in the National African America Read-In, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 2. Community members will read to students as a kick off to Black History Month, with books written by African American authors or depicting African American characters. Contact Principal Cleaster Jackson at 542-3600 for more information.
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Looking for a disinfectant testing standard!
I am a Chemical Engineering student. Currently, I'm involved in a research meant to determine the potential of Eucalyptus and Rosemary essential oils to be used as disinfectants. We pretend to compare their antibacterial capacity against common quaternary ammonium based products.
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Chemical disinfectants and antiseptics . Quantitative suspension test for the evaluation of bactericidal activity of chemical disinfectants and antiseptics used in food, industrial, domestic and institutional areas. Test method and requirements (phase 2, step 1)
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Best to get a professor to provide guidance and figure it out on your own.
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At the iHeart Radio Music Festival, Green Day had their set cut in half so Usher could have more time, but Billie is pissed off, freaks out and he and Mike smashed their gear.
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The (Nick Clegg) apology song: I'm Sorry" is the autotune remix of Nick Clegg's "I'm sorry"
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Friday, 21 September 2012
The science of procrastination
The science of procrastination and how to manage it.
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LEGO great ball contraption from Japan
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It's a big day for Snooki fans. The Jersey Shore star officially introduced her son, Lorenzo LaValle, to the world via an unbearably cute photo on the cover of People. In the People article, the happy new mom also shares how many more mini-Snookis we can expect down the line.
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Charles Chaplin has been a major influence on Hong Kong comedies. His iconic appearance - bowler hat, walking stick, splayed feet and a ragtag moustache on his face - have been identically rendered by actors such as Yee Chau-shui, Fung Fung, Sun Ma Si-tsang, Cheng Kwun-min and Dean Shek. Like the original Tramp, the Hong Kong Charlies in films are kind-hearted, surviving tough times with humour and dignity. Unlike Chaplin's character in silent movies, most of the Hong Kong Tramps are good singers capable of generating laughter through music.
The Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA)'s "The Tramp in Hong Kong: Re-imaginations of Chaplin's Charlie" will screen five films featuring the bumbling character Charlie from December 25 to January 15, 2012, at the Cinema of the HKFA.
The selected films are "Flower Girl" (1952), starring comedian Yee Chau-shui; "Great Chums" (1956), with Fung Fung as the director and also playing the beloved Charlie character; "Two Fools Catch the Murderer" (1959), with Sun Ma Si-tsang providing street-side dental services; "Let's Be Happy Tonight" (1968), starring the veteran character actor Cheng Kwun-min; and director John Woo's "Laughing Time" (1980), starring Dean Shek.
To complement the screenings, a seminar entitled "The Tramp in Hong Kong" will be held at 5pm on December 27 at the Cinema of the HKFA. The speakers will be film critics Mr Ka Ming and Mr Matthew Cheng and the host will be the programmer of the HKFA, Mr Sam Ho. The seminar will be conducted in Cantonese. Admission is free.
"Flower Girl" is a remake of Chaplin's "City Lights" (1931), transposing the story from Great Depression America to post-war Hong Kong in the early 1950s. Cantonese opera singer Hung Sin Nui plays the blind flower girl while Yee Chau-shui and Leung Sing-po, two of Hong Kong's best comic personalities, are paired as co-stars. Yee's Tramp is an inspired blend of Chaplin's slapstick gags and Cantonese opera routines, exemplified by songs in which Yee improvises lyrics to generate laughter.
Unlike Yee, Fung Fung's Tramp in "Great Chums" is only marginally interested in physical comedy, delivering instead a couple of monologues, one of which is performed with rap-like delivery, Canto-op style. The film nevertheless retains the spirit of Tramp comedies, featuring a Capra-esque scenario in which a group of impoverished street vendors, including a fortune-teller, a shoe-shine boy, a martial arts actor, a dentist and a letter-writing man, manage to survive by helping each other.
"Two Fools Catch the Murderer" stars the celebrated comedy team of Sun Ma Si-tsang and Tang Kei-chen, playing the Tramp and his sidekick respectively, together with Cheng Kwun-min, who is known in Cantonese cinema as the "Elvis of the East". Exercising his Canto-op prowess, Sun Ma launches into a loosely choreographed sing-song number, peddling his street-side dental service.
"Let's Be Happy Tonight" offers several clever duplications of Chaplin's gags and Cheng Kwun-min's Charlie retains much of the Tramp's essence, in both mannerisms and the determination to remain dignified despite poor social standing.
"Laughing Time", written and directed by a young John Woo and starring Dean Shek as Charlie, is an exercise in nostalgia for suffering. The story is set in the post-war period to create a climate of hunger and depravity, allowing for humanity to shine through in difficult times. Shek, an accomplished comedian in his own right, provides a sharp rendition of the Chaplin shtick.
The films are in Cantonese without subtitles, except "Laughing Time", which has Chinese and English subtitles.
Tickets priced at $30 are available at URBTIX outlets. Half-price concessionary tickets are available for senior citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients. Credit card bookings can be made on 2111 5999 or on the Internet at www.urbtix.hk.
Detailed programme information can be found in "ProFolio 60", distributed at all performing venues of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. For enquiries, please call 2739 2139 or 2734 2900, or browse the webpage www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/filmprog/english/2011rcc/2011rcc_index.html.
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A film still from "Great Chums" (1956).
A film still from "Two Fools Catch the Murderer" (1959).
A film still from "Laughing Time" (1980).


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I came out of the hotel in Bourges this morning to find the out of the way corner I parked my bike in had become part of a sidewalk table service for the bakery next door. Oops!
People park bikes on the sidewalk in Germany all the time, but I guess that's not how it works in Bourges. I did have breakfast there, first cold chocolate croissant I've been served in France. Ugh.
Hit the road about 8:30AM and saw this just half an hour into the day.
Stuff like this all around my route. In fact all over France, one of the things I love about this place. If I'm not careful I'll never get there. But I did stop at a few places.
Including the LeClerc store. My riding pants have ben riding up on me, coming up far enough to expose the tops of my boots to cold blasts or air. I thought if I could find some elastic cord, I could make something like a stirrup to keep them down. Ended up buying a pack of girls hair bands for 2 Euros and tying them into a stretchy string, but it does seem to help.
Even better would be remembering to try the next pair on while sitting on a bike. While standing they're fine, but not the same as riding.
My first waypoint today was the battlefield of the Battle of Tours in 732.
Read all about it elsewhere, but many historians seem to think this was a real pivot point in European history, the stop of the northward attack of the Moors. The hero on the Frankish side became the grandfather of Charlemagne, who united much of western Europe in 800AD. I learned some of what I thought I knew about this battle wasn't completely true (often the way it goes) but have to say the presentation site, while out of the way, is really neat. Cartoons laid out like a chess board.
Then on around Poitiers and headed for Saint Emilion. Which is a Bordeaux wine, in fact most of the Bordeaux I've had comes from here, but it's not where the super famous Chateaus are. That was too far out of the way on the other side of the river, with no bridge and a ferry that only runs once every 90 minutes this time of year.
St. Emilion is a nice little town full of well-dressed tourists and expensive shops. Reminds me of Montalcino, Italy and Chateauneuf-du-Papes over on the Rhone.
And while I can appreciate that, I'm not really into that kind of touring, especially alone. But it was a sunny day, the wine bars were open, and I thought about staying and calling it a day. It was 5pm, so I could have 'knocked off' work by then and not feel lazy. And I could have eaten here!
Saw tulips blooming for the first time today in St. Emilion, too.
This is the lobby of the Maison du Vin. Wow.
But I didn't do it. I should have. I got on the bike and rode around the city of Bordeaux to the Dune du Pilat, the largest sand dune in Europe (I've read). 160 steps up and then climbing the rest of the way on the sand.
At least it stayed out of my boots! This was my first view of the atlantic in quite a while, and I've never been there on a bike on either shore. When I move back to Ohio in September I'll have to take a riding road trip to the East Coast and take a look at the Atlantic from the other side.
An apt description, but also my lovely wife's name. Hi babe!
After that I rode past lots of half-empty hotels and headed south on the motorway. Knowing the forecast is for rain tomorrow, I wanted to get so miles on. Along the way I searched the GPS for hotels, but came up with slim pickings. I got off the highway at a small town that looked promising anyway and found I couldn't get back on. And the two 'Auberge" places were in fact trucker restaurants. Finally found a nice little hotel with a great smelling restaurant. But they were full up. And so was the next one and the next one. I ended up riding in a big "C" shape, and after an hour and a half am now only 30 km from the dune. Some days are like that. At least I found some decent dinner, even if the house wine wasn't Grand Cru from St. Emilion.
Tomorrow to Rioja, if the weather isn't crappy.
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I got a lot out of most every aspect. My sessions with my chaplain, individual and group therapy and whole group classes. So many things about it helped me and the tools I got from rehab has helped me stay sober for about 3 years so far!
HALT: When I am feeling frustrated and feeling negative thoughts, it helps to pinpoint what's going on with me by remember to HALT, a quick check to see if I am either hungry, angry, lonely or tired.
- I would recommend rehab for anyone who is able to get there. Every aspect of a well-run facility is so helpful.
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I thought some people think of "Cleaning..." meant women have to go back to the kitchen...
Why Facebook and other apps sometimes say "Cleaning..."
With iOS 5 it's not uncommon to sometimes see the label under many apps, including Facebook, sometimes change to read "Cleaning..." This is a feature of iOS 5 that Apple hasn't really explained, so it's caused a lot of you to write in an ask about it. Here's the deal...
Basically, that's iOS 5 deleting cache and temporary files so that when iCloud or iTunes does a backup of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, that backup is smaller and faster.
Since adding iCloud and Wi-Fi sync options, it's become important to keep app data as clean as possible, so backups are as efficient as possible, so we're not left waiting around for minutes or hours getting as frustrated as possible.
And yes, this is the same reason that, under the original iOS 5.0, apps like Instapaper would sometimes lose all your locally cached articles. (Since fixed with the addition of a third storage option between documents and cache, one that's not cleaned but also not backed up.)
So, if you see "Cleaning..." pop up under Facebook or any of your other apps, don't worry. That's just iOS 5 keeping your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as lean and mean as possible.
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Why Facebook and other apps sometimes say "Cleaning..."
What triggers it? I also have not seen that yet.
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I have come across this a few time typically happens when you are out of space or running out.
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KINGSTON, R.I. -- Oct. 25, 2000 -- A team of University of Rhode Island scientists has found that the cores of Major League baseballs from 1995 and 2000 bounce higher than ones from 1960s and 1970s and that they contain materials that could make them livelier. Click on image for Quicktime movie about this research!
Six researchers from URI's Forensic Science Partnership have found that balls from 1989, 1995 and 2000 contain synthetic materials in windings that are supposed to be made of wool and a greater concentration of rubber in the core, commonly known as the pill. In addition, the researchers found that pills from the 1995 and 2000 balls bounced an average of 20 inches higher than their 1989, 1970 and 1963 counterparts.
One of their conclusions says that the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co., the maker of Major League baseballs, doesn't follow its own specifications for some of the windings used in the balls.
The findings of Linda Welters, URI professor and chair of the Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design; Margaret Ordonez, URI textiles professor; Christopher Brown, URI chemistry professor; Otto Gregory, URI chemical engineering professor; Michael Platek, electrical materials engineer, URI Department of Electrical/Computer Engineering; and Dennis Hilliard, co-director of the Forensic Science Partnership and director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at URI, concluded five months of study.
The work began in mid-May, when AM 790 (WSKO) Sportsradio the Score wanted to determine if balls from 1989, 1995 and this season were actually livelier than balls from 1963 and 1970. Hilliard, Gregory and others from URI began the tests during a live broadcast outside Quaker Lane Tool, during which the team conducted bounce tests on the balls, and then pulled them apart and did bounce tests on the core.
Even those basic tests showed the balls from 1995 and 2000 jumped significantly higher than their counterparts from 1963, 1970 and 1989. The same was true for the pill.
Listeners donated the balls. The covers of the 1989, 1995 and 2000 balls clearly identify them as Major League balls. The 1970 cover has some smudged writing that looks like a Major League mark, and it also has handwriting saying that the ball is from the Aug. 16 game between the Twins and Red Sox at Fenway Park, and that the ball was recovered from a foul hit by Rico Petrocelli. Petrocelli played for the sox from 1963 through 1976. The cover of the 1963 ball has no clear identifying mark, but some handwriting says it came from the bat of Chuck Schilling on April 16, opening day. Schilling was the second baseman for the Sox from 1961 through 1965.
Once the live demonstration in May was over, the balls' remnants were taken to URI labs for further testing. URI chemists, engineers and textile scientists closely examined critical components of each ball to assess liveliness. A Rawlings fact sheet says the company tests for liveliness by measuring the ratio of rebound velocity to impact velocity when a ball is fired from an air cannon at 85 feet per second, or 58 miles per hour, against an immobile northern white ash surface. Using that method, Rawlings comes up with a coefficient of restitution (COR), or resiliency, of a finished baseball. The COR shall be between 51.4 percent and 57.8 percent.
Hilliard said that the 1963 and 1970 balls were most likely made by Spalding, which manufactured Major League baseballs for 100 years beginning in 1876, while the three others were made by Rawlings, which became the MLB vendor in 1977.
Welters and Ordonez concentrated their efforts on the woolen windings. According to the Rawlings Major League Baseball specifications listed on its web site, all three layers of windings should be woolen. There is no mention of synthetic materials in the description of these layers.
"Since the Rawlings specifications indicate woolen yarns should be used to construct the baseballs, the amount of non-wool fibers was surprising," Welters and Ordonez said in their observations on the inner core.
"The large amount of synthetic fiber in the balls from 1989, 1995 and 2000 is bound to affect the performance of the balls," Welters and Ordonez said. "If the synthetic fiber is polyester as we suspect, then it has good elasticity, resiliency and loft. Although no tests exist to measure the performance of fibers used in baseballs, the synthetic materials could be expected to provide a liveliness to the ball that is not present in the balls of natural materials.
"Based on our tests, the manufacturer is not meeting Major League Baseball specifications for the balls. The composition of the inner core yarns includes synthetic fibers, probably polyester. Rawlings specifies woolen yarn for the first, second and third winds. The 1963 and 1970 balls fit the specifications better than the newer balls."
Hilliard said the team then focused on the pill. "In forensic science we want to compare items that are as much alike as possible, and we know that 37 years of heat, light and moisture could affect the 1963 ball. We believe that the pill was well preserved because the windings and the cover protected it. We believe the pill is what gives the ball its resiliency."
Gregory and Platek took the next step by doing compression tests using appropriate instrumentation in their engineering lab. They calculated the stiffness of each pill by squeezing each one and measuring the response. Gregory said that the stiffer the pill the less resilience it had. He said that the older pills were stiffer.
"The least stiff and most resilient by a dramatic amount were the 1995 and 2000 pills," Gregory said.
Platek and Gregory also conducted another series of bounce tests on the pills. They found that the average height of the bounces from the 1995 and 2000 pills was 83 and 82 inches respectively, when dropped from a height of 182 inches. Each of the pills from 1963, 1970 and 1989 bounced no higher than an average of 62 inches. For each of the pills, the scientists conducted about 20 drops.
Using infrared spectroscopy and digital photography, two of Brown 's students, Kara Lukasiewicz of Cumberland, R.I., and Scott Huffman of Hickory, N.C., determined that the year 2000 pill is similar in color to the 1989 and 1995 images, but "the design is unique among all years with a larger space between the two black rubber hemispheres. The cork area of the pills appears darker in the years 1989, 1995 and 2000 than that of the earlier years."
The results are in sharp contrast to a statement from Rawlings, which said in a press release earlier this year when it introduced its 2000 balls, that the official ball of Major League Baseball has undergone very little change since the early days of the game. Another statement from the Rawlings Website states that there have been no further changes in specifications for the balls since 1931, except for humidity and temperature controls, improved quality control and testing.
In fact, Huffman's and Lukasiewicz's analyses of the cork pills show a huge amount of variation between the three newer balls and the two earlier ones. Their digital photos show that even the pink outer layer of the pill is markedly different in the 2000 ball than it is in all the others. Huffman said the duo spent up to 40 hours doing the analysis of each pill.
Both students, Huffman, a doctoral student in chemistry and Lukasiewicz, an undergraduate studying microbiology, emphasize that they didn't do this to hurt the game. Both are strong fans of the Boston Red Sox.
"It's probably the most fun I have ever had doing science," Lukasiewicz said. "We're both sports fans, so we didn't want to hurt the credibility of the game."
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Shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD) surged last Friday, after the company reported first quarter earnings that topped analyst estimates and followed up with lofty guidance. For the quarter, Krispy Kreme earned $0.20 per share, a 43% year-on-year increase from the prior year and easily topping the consensus estimate of $0.17. Sales rose 11% to $120.6 million, also beating the $116.3 million that Wall Street expected. Daily Chart Looking ahead, Krispy Kreme raised its full year earnings forecast to a range between $0.59 to $0.63 per share, up from the $0.53 to $0.57 per share it had previously forecast. Krispy Kreme attributed its solid first quarter earnings and optimistic guidance to increased consumer confidence in a steadily recovering economy. CEO James Morgan was also upbeat regarding Krispy Kreme's double-digit jump in same-store sales, stating, "We delivered our 18th consecutive quarter of increased same-store sales at company stores, which rose an astounding 11.4%." However, the company stated that same-stores sales in the next three quarters were "likely to be less dramatic" than its previous performance. Investors were definitely impressed by Krispy Kreme's numbers, sending the stock to a high not achieved since mid-2004. Shares of Krispy Kreme have risen more than 50% over the past twelve months. Krispy Kreme, which nearly fell to $1 per share at the depths of the financial crisis, was once left for dead by investors after an accounting scandal in the mid-2000s derailed years of brand-building. The stock nearly traded at $50 per share ten years ago. The company's recent initiatives included an increased social media presence, adding more 24-hour locations and a wider variety of beverage offerings. Krispy Kreme is also testing a new store model, which it calls "small freestanding factory shops" which only cater to retail customers. Many Krispy Kreme stores also ship their donuts to grocery and convenience stores. Krispy Kreme also has ambitious plans for increasing its global presence to catch up to its larger rival, Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN). Krispy Kreme currently operates 770 global locations. It intends to increase its store count to 1,300 locations by 2017. Although Krispy Kreme looks like it is back on track to reclaiming some of its lost glory, there are some concerns that the stock, trading at nearly 60 times trailing earnings, is getting overheated. In addition, its overseas expansion is likely to run into some heavy competition from Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks (SBUX), which have saturated several major growth markets. Shares of Krispy Kreme currently trade at 23.7 times forward earnings with a 5-year PEG ratio of 1.1, which indicates that if analysts' growth projections are correct, then it could keep rising and eventually reconcile its high-flying price with its premium valuation. Other News About KKD KrispyKremestocksurgesto 8-yearhighonpromisingforecast Krispy Kreme's stock rushes on a sugar high. WhyKrispyKremeSharesAreRising Krispy Kreme's earnings in a nutshell. Other Stocks in the News WillFirefoxOSSettheMobileWorldonFire? Will Firefox become a mobile market leader? The Battle of the Cloud Boxes Begins! New competitors may soon face industry giants. Copyright 2013 by InvestorGuide.com, Inc. InvestorGuide has no control over the sites we link to, is not affiliated with these sites, and cannot take responsibility for their quality or suitability. The news, analysis, commentary and profile information is not meant to be comprehensive, and the data provided is not guaranteed to be accurate. WebFinance Inc., the publisher of this newsletter, is not a registered investment advisor or a broker/dealer. This is not a stock recommendation newsletter but rather a source for investment ideas, and we encourage you to fully research any company before considering investing. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of nor are they endorsed by WebFinance Inc. No employee of WebFinance has owned or currently owns any shares in the company described above. The above is neither an offer nor solicitation to buy or sell any securities. The trading of securities may not be suitable for all potential readers of this newsletter, and the purchase of stocks mentioned in this newsletter may result in the loss of some or all of any investment made. We recommend that you consult a stockbroker or financial advisor before buying or selling securities or making investment decisions. We are not responsible for claims made by advertisers and sponsors. Anyone who makes decisions based on what they read here does so at their own risk and cannot hold WebFinance Inc. (DBA InvestorGuide.com, Inc.) or its employees responsible.
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We made a overclocked PC and now would like to have multiple users connect to it. Ive found a patch that could do it (Windows 7 Professional) but it seems to have the limitation that if (domain wise) Im logged into PC one with user "Domain\Bob" and I try to login to the overclocked one called "Domain\Bob" it kicks me off.
Is there any way to bypass this? Thank you
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"Ive found a patch that could do it"
That is not a "legal" way of allowing more than 1 account into desktop OS.
There is no "legal" way of having more than 1 active session using windows desktop resources like you can with a terminal server, or windows server has 2 admin sessions that can be logged in, etc.
If you need more than 1 person to remote desktop to a machine at the same time, then you need to run server OS. If more than 2 then you need to be licensed for terminal server services. Go to the full post