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At the end of the 19th century, a crisis occurred in the Barnum & Bailey Circus. The man who was shot out of the cannon every day was asked by his wife to quit his high-risk profession, much to the distress of the great Phineas Taylor Barnum. P.T., whose wit was equal to his showmanship, summoned the fellow and said, "I beg you to reconsider. Men of your caliber are hard to find."
Barnum, of course, was perpetrating a playful pun on the word caliber, which, from its earliest beginnings, meant "the diameter of a bullet or other projectile."
Whatever you feel about gun-control laws and the Second Amendment, our high-caliber English language is going great guns.
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Bite the bullet. Visit a Revolutionary War battle site such as Fort Ticonderoga, and you may see some gruesome artifacts in its museum — bullets with teeth marks in them. Possessing no real anesthesia to ease the agony of amputation, long-ago surgeons offered wounded soldiers the only pain reducer they could — a bullet to bite hard on. Just thinking about such trauma is enough to make me sweat bullets. After anesthesia was introduced in the United States in 1844, the expression came figuratively to mean "to deal with a stressful situation resolutely," as in Rudyard Kipling's lines: Bite the bullet, old man/And don't let them think you're afraid.
A flash in the pan. This phrase sounds as if it derives from the way prospectors pan rivers for gold. In truth, though, a flash in the pan refers to the occasional misfiring of the old flintlock muskets when the flash of the primer in the pan of the rifle failed to ignite the explosion of the charge. It is estimated that such misfirings ran as high as 15 percent, leading a flash in the pan coming to mean "an intense but short-lived success or a person who fails to live up to his or her early promise."
Go off half-cocked. Muzzle loaders, then as now, had a half cock, or safety position, for the gun's hammer that back-locked the trigger mechanism so that the weapon couldn't be fired. The half-cock position doesn't generate enough power to make sparks to fire the pistol, so when a person goes off half-cocked (or at half cock), he or she is not in control of the situation.
Skinflint. In many parts of early America, necessities such as flint were scarce. When one side of a flint used in a flintlock weapon had worn away, it lost proper contact with the frizzen and caused inadequate sparking to set off the powder charge. Faced with this problem, some gun owners would skin, or sharpen, the flint with a knife, creating a bevel in the flint, which could then make full contact and generate an adequate shower of sparks. A fellow who skinned his flint was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, frugal, stingy cheapskate — a veritable skinflint.
Ramrod. A ramrod is a long piece of metal or wood that rams the ball and patch down the barrel of a muzzle-loading firearm and sets them against the main powder charge. Eventually, ramrod took on the added meaning "a person marked by rigidity, stiffness and severity."
Sure as shootin', I've just shot my bolt on the subject of guns and cannons in our everyday parlance — lock, stock and barrel. Please don't label me a trigger-happy son of a gun if I shoot you one last pistol-packing phrase. The lock, stock and barrel are the three main components of a gun that together compose essentially the entire weapon. Thus, lock, stock and barrel has come to mean the entirety of something — the whole shootin' match.
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Many teams opt to go to even further extremes, keeping a handful of cyclocross frames on hand, like this Cannondale SuperSix carbon 'cross bike in the Liquigas-Cannondale truck. The cantilever brakes and mud-clearing frame designs offer unparalleled tire clearance, while the slacker geometry—which would be a hindrance in a normal road race—actually becomes welcome on the 51 kilometers of cobblestone roads riders encounter at Roubaix.
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Essential Portrait Photography Tips: 02 Best shutter speed settings
When setting your shutter speed, remember to factor in your lens's focal length, otherwise camera-shake (and blurred results) will become an issue.
As a general rule, make sure your shutter speed is higher than your effective focal length.
For example, at 200mm use a 1/250 sec shutter speed or faster.
This also means you can get away with slower shutter speeds when using a wide-angle lens – such as 1/20 sec with an 18mm focal length.
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A quick and affordable way to brighten up your portraits and to give them a professional look is to use a reflector.
Use them indoors (near windows) or outdoors to bounce light back on to your subjects to fill in unwanted shadows.
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The white surfaces of reflectors can also double up as diffusers to soften strong direct sunshine.
If you're really strapped for cash, you can make a reflector by simply using a large sheet of white cardboard – which you can also cover with tin foil for a silver effect – and it should still work a treat!
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WASHINGTON Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals.
According to the Associated Press count, Romney surpassed the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination by winning at least 88 delegates in the Texas primary.
The former Massachusetts governor has reached the nomination milestone with a steady message of concern about the U.S. economy, a campaign organization that dwarfed those of his rivals and a fundraising operation second only to that of his Democratic opponent in the general election, President Barack Obama.
Romney would be the first Mormon nominated for president by a major party. His religion has been less of an issue than it was during his failed bid four years ago.
"We did it!" Romney proclaimed in a message to supporters, noting that "it's only the beginning."
"I am honored that Americans across the country have given their support to my candidacy and I am humbled to have won enough delegates to become the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee," he said in a statement.
Romney's big day was somewhat overshadowed by real estate mogul Donald Trump and his discredited suggestions that Obama wasn't born in the United States.
Romney spent Tuesday evening at a Las Vegas fundraiser with Trump, who had toyed with the idea of running for president. Romney says he believes Obama was born in America but has yet to condemn Trump's repeated insinuations to the contrary.
Republicans won't officially nominate Romney until the Republican National Convention in August. Romney has 1,174 delegates to the convention in Tampa, Fla.
He won at least 88 delegates in Texas with 64 left to be decided, according to early returns. The 152 delegates in Texas are awarded in proportion to the statewide vote.
Texas Republicans also voted in a Senate primary to choose a candidate to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst led state Solicitor General Ted Cruz in Tuesday's voting but fell short of the majority he needed to avoid a July runoff. The nominee will be strongly favored to win in November in heavily Republican Texas.
Romney, 65, is clinching the presidential nomination later in the calendar than any recent Republican candidate — but not quite as late as Obama in 2008. Obama clinched the Democratic nomination on June 3, 2008, at the end of an epic primary battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Four years ago, John McCain reached the threshold on March 4, after Romney had dropped out of the race about a month earlier.
This year's primary fight was extended by a backloaded primary calendar, new GOP rules that generally awarded fewer delegates for winning a state and a Republican electorate that built up several other candidates before settling on Romney.
Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Trump all took turns atop the Republican field at some point during the race. Michelle Bachmann peaked for a short time, too. But Romney outlasted them all, even as some voters and tea party backers questioned his conservative credentials.
Santorum suspended his campaign April 10, and Gingrich left the race a few weeks later.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said on May 14 he would no longer compete in primaries, though his supporters are still working to gain national delegates at state conventions.


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The 'Pearl Harbor' actress will once again wear the slinky rubber catsuit in the movie - which will leave her legions of male fans thrilled.
The movie's producer, Tom Rosenburg, says fans of the 'Underworld' will be pleased with the sequel.
He said: "Followers of the saga will really, really love the second one. It gives Selene's and Viktor's history."
Kate, 30, met director husband Len Wiseman on the set of the original 'Underworld' last year. They married in a lavish ceremony in May.
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I created the artwork on the label to further highlight our expression of Sonoma County. Hélène and I are both artists in different ways, and throughout my life, I've always been inspired by nature. The Cenyth label uses four colors that I think best represent Sonoma County—blue for the Pacific Ocean, yellow for the mustard flowers, gray for the fog and green for the vineyards.
Julia Jackson
Julia Jackson grew up in Sonoma County surrounded by the beauty of its vineyards and its awe-inspiring landscape. For the daughter of wine industry visionaries Jess Jackson and Barbara Banke, wine played an integral part in her upbringing. For Julia, it is a unique blend of artistry and business. A talented musician and artist, Julia finds inspiration in her natural surroundings, which play a large role in her propensity for creative design and brand strategy.
Julia's natural surroundings play a large role in her propensity for creative design and brand stategy. Cenyth began when Julia and her childhood friend, Hélène Seillan, came together to create a wine that would unite their artistic representations of the place they call home, Sonoma County. Julia painted the abstract artwork for the Cenyth front and back label. Her canvas combines four colors that Julia believes best symbolize Sonoma County: blue for the Pacific Ocean, yellow for the mustard flowers, gray for the fog, and green for the vineyards.
After graduating with a degree in Studio Art from Scripps College in 2010, Julia traveled to France to work at her family's estate in Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux. During her time there, she developed a deeper understanding of the industry and learned what it takes to create a successful brand and how much hard work goes into crafting a single bottle of wine. Today, Julia is involved in multiple aspects of her family business. She works primarily in marketing and communications, and travels internationally to support the company's global outreach.
Beautiful dark ruby in color, this wine showcases lovely spice notes on the nose. On the palate, this elegant, classic Bordeaux style blend demonstrates hints of spice and nutmeg that comingle with white pepper flavors in delicate harmony. The finish is long, smooth with very fine tannins, ending with a lingering freshness of fruit. This wine is to be enjoyed in the next 5-10 years.
94 points
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
December 2013
Composition 54% Merlot, 34% Cabernet Franc, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol 13.5%
Aging French oak, 14 months, 30% new
Total Acidity 0.60
pH 3.60
This 100% Cabernet Franc was picked from our estate vineyards in Chalk Hill. The fruit was picked early in harvest during August to preserve the bright acidity of an elegant rosé. Mirroring traditional rosé production in Champagne, the grapes were fermented at low temperatures in stainless steel tanks. The wine was kept fresh with no malolactic fermentation or barrel aging, showcasing the floral notes of Cabernet Franc and the beauty of Sonoma County.
Composition 100% Cabernet Franc
Alcohol 12.5%
Total Acidity 0.63
pH 3.23
If it is true that "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" then perhaps the same may be said about grapes on the vine – at least in the case of Hélène Seillan, winemaker for Cenyth and daughter of renowned winemaker Pierre Seillan.
Hélène is using her experience in the vineyards of France and her passion for Sonoma County to define her own style. Born in 1987, Hélène Seillan spent her childhood in both France and California, surrounded by family and friends for whom winemaking was as much a passion as it was a profession. Following in her father's footsteps, Hélène pursued a career in winemaking and began splitting her time between Sonoma County and Saint-Émilion. Starting in 2006, she served as assistant winemaker for her father at the family's Bordeaux estate, where she worked on all aspects of winery management showing the same talent, passion and ability as her father.
Hélène holds a degree in Viticulture and Oenology from the Institut Rural de Vayres in Bordeaux. When she is not in the vineyards, Hélène likes to indulge her second passion for food and enjoys cooking for friends and family.
Cenyth represents Hélène's mentorship with her father, world-renowned winemaker Pierre Seillan. Applying the knowledge and techniques she has observed and learned from her father over a lifetime, Hélène crafted the inaugural 2009 vintage of Cenyth, a Bordeaux- blend from mountain and hillside vineyards in Sonoma County.
As she continues on her path as winemaker, Hélène is using her experience in the vineyards of France and her passion for Sonoma County to define her own style. Through her old and new world experience, she has learned many lessons and important values, but perhaps none are as significant as the lessons she continues to learn from her father.
The name Cenyth represents Hélène Seillan beginning her journey as a winemaker. Her knowledge is young. It is powerful. And it is fueled by her inspiration and ideas waiting to reveal themselves.
The wine represents the 'second generations' of two families coming together to showcase an artistic expression of the place they call home, Sonoma County. Hélène Seillan creates the art inside the bottle while Julia Jackson created the art on the label. It is two women, working together to carry on a friendship that started almost 20 years ago.
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For some reason, I watched the last couple of innings of the Yankees game in Seattle. Mariano comes on, laast of the 9th, Yankees leading 2-1. 92 mph fastball hammered into left for a single. Seconf batter rips a 92mph fastball one hop to 1st naseman (holding the runner). Almost knocks him into RF, but is a DP, instead. 2 outs nobody on; next batter walks on 4 pitches. Next guy lines a basehit into LF. Finally, the next guy hits at a low ball, and pops out to left fielder.
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Why would Love commit to Cleveland if he wasn't assured Lebron would be there for more than one season?
With the report coming out that Lebron's contract is for 2 years at $42 million with the second year being a player option, what assurances does Love, or anyone else for that matter, have that Lebron will be in Cleveland long-term? Oh, because he said so? We've seen that story before.
With all of these young, immature guys, this could turn out to be a major disaster in Cleveland (especially if Love and/or Minny decides to wait until the trade deadline to see how things in Cleveland play out).
Although he said it yesterday, I doubt Love would now go to Cleveland and commit long-term until he knows Lebron is on board too.
Therefore, I'm not so sure Love is as much of a lock to Cleveland as I thought just yesterday.


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Today, the Oakland Raiders opened up their first Al-Davis-less training camp since 1963 — that's 49 years, according to Google. Not forsaking the foundation laid by Davis' lifetime of work, the Oakland Raiders are emerging as a new team, just not the one idealized by the now deceased Davis.
"It's different, it's definitely different," defensive lineman Tommy Kelly told Jason Jones of the Sacramento Bee. "You don't see the same faces around here no more. It's a lot more new people."
Since Jon Gruden was traded by Al Davis in 2001, the Raiders have been mired in mediocrity and scandal. Over the last decade, the team has had seven different head coaches and countless press conferences featuring Davis at a projector. Such controversy tends to lend itself to disorder, not success.
But, at the hands of new general manager Reggie McKenzie, the Raiders are changing, for the better.
"It's like there's more structure from the top to the bottom," safety Michael Huff said. "Everybody knows who's in charge, who's the coach and who's calling certain shots. There's more structure and everybody is accountable, because if you don't go out there and if you don't do your job, you're not going to be here. And that's what we needed." (my emphasis)
To say accountability is what the team needs is the understatement of the year. Aside from being the most penalized team in the football, the Raiders severely lacked discipline on and off the field — a trait new head coach Dennis Allen hopes to curb.
"They're real strict on discipline now as far as showing up to meetings, they're even making us check in for lunches and dinners now," safety Tyvon Branch told Josh Dubow. "They're trying to change the discipline factor."
And rightfully so. By Allen's logic, a team cannot win without being disciplined. "To win in the National Football League you've got to learn how to not beat yourselves," Allen said. "That's one of the things that causes you to lose football games. It's my job to get them to understand that, and then at the end of the day it's the players' jobs to make sure they get it corrected."
I suppose time will tell whether Allen is able to do what others have failed: Discipline the typically rogue Raiders.
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— Stefen Wisniewski, who did not participate in offseason workouts, has officially taken over as starting center. Wisniewski took first team reps at center today.
— Jacoby Ford went down hard in practice today, clutching his left knee. After being checked by trainers, Ford returned to practice, working with the special teams unit.
— According to Steve Corkran, Juron Criner, who just signed yesterday, was a limited participant in today's practice.
— Corkran noted that Carson Palmer looked sharp throughout practice. Backup Terrelle Pryor did not. Pryor was intercepted by rookie defensive lineman Christo Bilukidi to end practice.
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— Linebacker Aaron Curry starts training camp on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list with a knee injury.
— Cornerback Ron Bartell (hamstring) and DL Travis Ivey (conditioning) did not practice today.
— 2011 draft picks Chimdi Chekwa and Demarcus Van Dyke showed well today. Chekwa intercepted a Leinart pass, while Van Dyke broke up several of Palmer's throws.


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Superstorm Sandy had a statistically insignificant effect on on New Jersey residents' votes in the presidential and U.S. Senate election, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released Wednesday. Voters also saw the presidential election as a clear choice … Continue reading
Kyrillos dissects loss in U.S. Senate bid
After conceding to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, GOP state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos dissected his loss. "We were always the underdog," he told reporters after his concession speech in Belleville. Kyrillos said he had three weaknesses: money, the media and Hurricane … Continue reading
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In a margin even greater than U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez anticipated, the Hudson County Democrat has toppled GOP challenger Joe Kyrillos. Kyrillos, a Monmouth County state senator, refused to concede with CNN and the Associated Press were calling the race … Continue reading
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Recently I found myself perplexed over the complicated challenges of parenting a strong-willed teenager while not seeing eye-to-eye with the other half of my team on how to do so. The details are not important, but my frustration, worry, hurt and near-despair was both deep and palpable. I am very much a choose-your-battle kind of person, but this particular battle felt necessary. And I was losing on all fronts. Continue reading Paradigm shift
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I knew it was coming; I just didn't expect it would hurt.
Well, I'm understanding Sharlee's fabulous essay (the title essay in Segullah's latest, Dance With Them) a little more now. I got the first "you're standing too close" attitude from my teenager today. I had been braced for it—really, I swear!—but it still blindsided me somehow. He explained that though he enjoys my coming to his meets, I don't need to stand right by him the whole time.
Of course.
And two things smashed into me at once: first, memories of my own teenage years, the yearning to be separate from my parents and feeling so justified in that yearning—duh, it's what's supposed to be happening during these years; I'm trying to be a person here!—all mixed in with discovering my parents were sorta cool and feeling very close to them at times.
And second, the feeling, which probably peaked during my own junior high years, of being a misfit, a leper, the person people don't want to be seen with, possibly contagious in my nerdiness. The feeling that kept me from associating much with my younger sister in school hallways lest I doom her to contamination.
A feeling of shame.
When I was in high school, I was matched up for ten minutes at a seminary mixer with a guy I had a crush on. It was a great success: I was vivacious and charming, and we had a great conversation. But later the (oh so sweet) boys in my ward told me that they had heard from this boy how disgusting his time with me had been because of the food in my braces.
The horrible, sickening shame, made worse because I had so confidently thought I was succeeding when all along I had been failing miserably—that's what I felt when my son told me I had stood to close to him during that last meet. I had been so thrilled to be there with him, meeting his friends (and their parents), so happy to show him support. But . . . well, of course.
Stupid, stupid me! I had told myself I had a thick skin and sharp memory, that I wouldn't take it personally when my son went through this very healthy phase. How stupid for it to hurt!
And so I begin Sharlee's dance, the push and pull, the holding close but not too close. The showing up at the meet but cheering from a ways back. How I adore that boy—but more than that, I love his whole soul and what it can become. I will let my love and trust give me the strength to stand back a little more. I will be so mature about this.
But, darn it, while he's at school today I'm going to go have me a good cry.
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Today's guest post is from my darling eighteen year-old son, Ben. He offered to write a post last Spring, and with the craziness of girls' camp in my life this week, it seemed like the perfect time to cash in the favor. I've left it largely unedited; I love reading the fresh, raw opinions of my boy and his friends. –Michelle Lehnardt, Segullah Blog Co-Editor
My boxes aren't exactly packed, but I've been sorting through my clothes, searching for a sturdy bike lock and asking my mom a little more often than usual, "How do you cook _______?"
In two weeks I'll be at BYU, away from home for the first time in my life. As you can imagine, my mom has been pretty emotional about my departure. It probably wasn't very nice of me, but I took her to Toy Story 3 with full knowledge that she'd cry through the whole movie (I should have brought more Kleenex).
But her influence in my life isn't over. As much as my mom dislikes driving, I'm pretty sure she'll make the trek to Provo pretty often to bring me cookies, walk through the art museum with me and, hopefully, restock my fridge.
And as I prepare to go on a mission this winter I'll also be depending on my mom to navigate all that suit shopping for me (I really, really despise the mall). Continue reading Our mothers knew it
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How we come to terms with our own not-enoughness.
What it feels like to be a Republican deep in the heart of Utah County fearlessly campaigning for a Democrat in the upcoming election.
Funny things I observe or overhear while serving in my new calling in the Primary.
How I don't so much care about having it all, but I really wouldn't mind being able to get it all done.
What does it mean that all my girlfriends have huge crushes on Angelina Jolie's character in SALT? (I'm serious about this one. I almost feel compelled to write an entire essay exploring women's not-so-secret fascinations with ridiculously strong and überheroic women and why they secretly want to be those women.)
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Johnna's theory that if you live long enough, you will, in some way or another, become everything you hated when you were growing up.
How watching a bunch of neatly dressed teenagers quietly moving about in the dark at 5:40am this morning, leaving to go do baptisms for the dead, gives me hope for the future.
What I love and really don't love about cub scouts. (Do not get me started.)
How now when tears well up unbidden I can't quite tell if they are tears of sadness because I am really missing my second-born, who left just over a month ago to serve a mission in England–or tears of joy–in anticipation of a sweet reunion with my firstborn, who returns from serving in England three weeks from today! Continue reading What happens when my ADD of housecleaning spreads to writing
Turning My Kids' World Upside Down
So, we're moving. If you'd have told me a year ago I'd be saying such a thing, I would have looked at you like your head was on backwards. But a lot can happen in a year (e.g. reversals, epiphanies, startling answers to prayer, not to mention a good long stare into the eyes of middle age coupled with the realization that you're precariously perched halfway up the creaky, swaying staircase that is the national economy) . . . and before you know it, you're doing what you'd said you'd never do again. Continue reading Turning My Kids' World Upside Down


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ENTERPRISE — Two head of livestock in Northeast Oregon were confirmed wolf depredations this week.
An Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife report said pre-mortem hemorrhaging and muscle tissue damage on the posterior portion of both hind legs and in the thigh area were evident in a mature milking goat found dead last Friday. Pre-mortem hemorrhaging was also observed across the back, indicating the animal was attacked and killed by a predator. The goat was found partially consumed in the early morning hours near its owner's house.
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A livestock owner was moving cattle to a new pasture on Aug. 17 and observed an adult cow with injuries to the upper right hind leg and udder. Five days later the animal was taken to a veterinary clinic for examination. Wolf depredation was suspected and Fish and Wildlife was asked to examine the animal. The injuries on the cow appeared to be at least a week old and the animal was otherwise healthy.
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Editor's Note: As climate change pressure grows, nuclear industry heads begin to rub their hands together with glee. Some would happily switch from polluting coal to radioactive nuclear fission. Is this a good idea? Today we run a guest post from Dr. David Fleming from The Lean Economy Connection and teqs.net, where he explains his view that similar to our impending oil crunch, we're also heading for a Uranium crunch. Hidden away in a recent Reuters article, on the resurgence of interest to dot nuclear plants around the UK and the world, was the following passage: "... with just over 30 nuclear plants under construction globally, and many more planned, utilities would have to move quickly to get themselves ahead of expected bottlenecks in the supply chain." Dr. Fleming gives us some insights into these 'bottlenecks'. It begs the question - do we want to heavily invest in a technology without a future? Do we have the time to work on expensive, potentially empty, potentially dangerous, false solutions? Will future generations have the available energy to deal with the legacy of spent fuel and is it right for us to impose this burden upon them? Civilisations come and go, but nuclear waste may live on through many of them. by Dr. David Fleming, originally published on The Oil Drum, January 4, 2008
Although the United Kingdom Government has not yet announced a decision to build a new generation of nuclear reactors, this is now looking likely. On Monday 26th November, 2007, the Prime Minister seemed to be preparing the ground:
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, concerned the U.K. economy is weakening, pledged to spur an expansion of Heathrow Airport and construction of new nuclear power stations.... "New nuclear power stations potentially have a role to play in tackling climate change and improving energy security. Having concluded the full public consultation we will announce our final decision early in the New Year." - Bloomberg [Note: First paragraph of quote is editor's addition]
And he added that the planning process would be "streamlined", which means that it will not be held up by long public enquiries. This appears to be something the Government is determined will happen quickly.
There are, however, some questions to be raised about this plan. ~The first question is, where will the uranium needed to fuel the new reactors will come from? My own research, The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy, concludes that, as early as 2013, there will be substantial shortages of uranium worldwide. At present, annual demand for uranium is running at about 65,000 tonnes. Some 25,000 tonnes of this comes from sources other than mining, and it will be largely exhausted by 2013. 10,000 tonnes is derived from military uranium, the highly-enriched uranium used in Russia's stockpile of nuclear weapons left over from the Cold War. Russia's contract to supply the United States with fuel from this source ends in 2013, and it will not be renewed. Indeed, by that time, Russia's store of military uranium will itself be running low. Most of the remaining 15,000 tonnes comes from "secondary supplies" – that is, from stockpiles of uranium which were built up when supplies were abundant and comparatively cheap in the 1970s. This, source, too, is getting low, and by the middle of the next decade it will be doing little or nothing to fill the gap between demand and the annual 40,000 tonnes of mined uranium supply. The supply of mined uranium is stuck at that level, and it now looks likely to decline. Of the dozen nations which are significant sources of uranium, only Kazakhstan shows a useful rate of growth – enough for the time being to compensate for a general decline among the smaller producers. But the industry's hopes of being able to increase its uranium output depend now on two big developments: Cigar Lake in Canada and Olympic Dam in Australia. Neither of them are looking happy at the moment. Cigar Lake has flooded. The owners are working on the problem, and in principle this could involve freezing the rock around the uranium workings. But clearly this would be an extremely energy-intensive programme and there are doubts whether it will happen. Olympic Dam is at present an underground mine, and the plan is to expand it to opencast, but there is a fundamental problem: the average ore grade is 0.029 percent, on the margin of what is even theoretically capable of yielding net energy. Whether this is in fact rich enough to give a net energy return is disputable, and as a contribution to the debate, The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy suggests that the usual measure of energy return on energy invested (EREI) needs some refinement. On the one hand, there is the theoretical energy return on energy invested (TREI) – which means that you can get net energy from the process under ideal laboratory or prototype conditions, assuming there are no other problems. On the other hand, there is the practical return on energy invested (PREI), which takes the real world into account. In the case of Olympic Dam, the real world is present, big time: the process of producing uranium oxide requires water – but Olympic Dam is in an area of deep drought. It will require imports of diesel with an energy content not far short of the energy ultimately derived from the uranium. There is some 350 metres of rock overburden to be removed before the ore is reached. If the project does go ahead, this will be because the ore also contains copper, gold and silver, but even this presents problems, because the copper is contaminated with uranium which has to be removed. For a practical return on energy invested (PREI), and in a mine with no secondary products such as gold, a mining company would probably require an ore-quality of 0.1 percent uranium or better. And bear in mind that if the return on energy invested in uranium mining turns negative, the carbon emissions associated with using it are higher than the emissions that would be released if the gas and diesel employed in the process were simply used to generate electricity directly. In short, both Cigar Lake and Olympic Dam have yet to show that they have a contribution to make. Even if they did go ahead according to plan, total output by the middle of the next decade would still be some 15,000 tonnes short of demand. If it is decided not to go ahead with them, the world's uranium production will be launched on a downward trajectory in line with post-peak oil. We are already hearing the protests characteristic at this stage in the depletion process, that "rising prices will stimulate exploration and bring rich new supplies onto the market". But you can't run a nuclear reactor on rhetoric. A cautious view would say "Let's wait and see". A useful view would make an informed estimate of the most likely outcomes, and correct it in the light of events. It is a reasonable estimate that, by 2015, the worldwide availability of uranium from all sources will be lower than it is at present. Meanwhile, reactors are being built in China and Russia, both of whom have heavyweight influence in the uranium market. All this means that if the UK Government goes ahead with the construction of, say, four nuclear reactors, ready to go online after 2015, the probability is that they will remain unused. They will be mothballed "until the temporary shortage of uranium has been resolved" – and then they will be quietly left to rot. A possible variant of this is that they will indeed be started up; however, the energy pay-back time for a new nuclear reactor is around seven years (or more, depending in part on the ore grade) so – even if they actually went on line in 2015 – they would not begin to make a net energy contribution until 2022. On current evidence, there is no reasonable prospect of the sustained flow of uranium that would be needed to make this possible. Meanwhile, the construction projects will have diverted money and policy emphasis away from the fundamentals of energy conservation, structural reform and renewables, and we will be deep into the post-oil peak period without an energy strategy in place. The UK's energy policy, (in common with that of many other nations), will have been reduced to fiasco.
The energy-cost of waste-disposal Nuclear energy, as everyone knows, produces a lot of waste. Some of it is extremely radioactive and has to be stored for up to 100 years in ponds, separated by boron panels to stop it going critical, and cooled by electrically-driven water pumps to stop it catching fire. It also has to be guarded to protect it from being stolen or attacked. And it has to be kept out of the path of rising sea levels. All this is known, though it is sometimes forgotten. What is not so widely recognised is that the final disposal of waste will require a lot of energy. This begins to become clear when you think about what has to be done to keep high-level wastes safe for the thousands for years in which they must lie undisturbed. Containers have to be built from steel, lead and electrolytic copper; vast repositories have to be dug and lined with clay; much of the work needs to be done by robots; retired fuel-rods have to be kept cool and safe for a century or so before the final disposal programme begins. Then there is the energy-cost of dismantling and burying the old reactors, doing the best that can done to rehabilitate the disused uranium mines to some semblance of sustainability and safety, and dealing with the stocks of leaking depleted uranium hexafluoride gas. (It is "depleted" in the sense that it has been used as a source of the uranium-235 needed by reactors, but some uranium-235 and all the uranium-238 remains). So far, there is no sign that we have even begun to think through the implications of the legacy of nuclear waste at present being stored around the planet, and the energy-cost of dealing with it. On the contrary, the only nuclear-waste-related programme that has so far been consistently and (on some criteria) successfully implemented is the use of DU to increase the density of the new generation of armaments. For evidence of the medical consequences and mutations arising from this, and the work of Dr Siegwart-Horst Günther in investigating it, see this and the Frieder Wagner film Deadly Dust. Action to decontaminate areas where it was used in Iraq and, to a lesser extent, in Kosovo, will never amount to more than mitigation, but it is part of the nuclear clear-up programme, and it is urgent that it should be done before the radioactive dust is blown through Central Europe and beyond. An international recognition that DU qualifies as a prohibited weapon under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, would be at least a first step towards focusing on the disturbing potential of the planet's nuclear legacy. A second step would be to take action with respect to the many thousands of tonnes of depleted uranium hexafluoride gas, now in storage all over the planet in containers originally designed to be "temporary". To deal with the total legacy of waste left by a nuclear reactor through its whole life-cycle requires energy equivalent to about 25 percent of the gross energy supplied by the reactor to the grid. That is a working estimate, which will vary with time and place; the numbers depend critically on the standard of waste management that is adopted – it could of course be done to leaky cowboy standards for less. But that 25 percent – derived from Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen's work at http://www.stormsmith.nl/, gives us an outline for thinking about it. And note that it is based on like-for-like energy: the unit of account is high-quality energy, the energy that nuclear reactors generate and fed to the grid. In fact, much of the work of clearing the waste would be diesel – which, for each joule it contains, yields roughly one third of a joule of work (mechanical energy and electricity). So, at current efficiency levels, for every joule of energy needed to clean up the nuclear industry's waste, diesel containing roughly three times that amount of energy is needed. Now, the nuclear energy industry is just coming up to its sixtieth birthday (1950-2010). That means that there is about 60 years-worth of accumulated waste – the "legacy" – to get rid of. 25 percent of that equals 15 years of nuclear electricity production. And according to some estimates – very optimistic but at least convenient – there are some sixty years of uranium left (at current rates of production). That would mean another 15 years of nuclear electricity production needed just to get rid of the waste that will be produced in the future. Moreover, the nuclear industry needs a lot of front-end energy too – all the energy used to mine and mill the fuel, build the reactor, etc. That, too, comes to around 25 percent of the nuclear energy produced for the grid. So, what would this mean for a nuclear industry that really did have the prospect of another sixty years supply of uranium? Subtract (15+15+15) years from the total of 60 years, and we are left with a net flow of nuclear electricity lasting for another 15 years. By 2025, on these assumptions, the nuclear industry will have reached the point at which it must use the whole of its net electricity output (i.e. net of front-end energy costs) to deal with its wastes. If (before 2025) it has not made a substantial start on the waste-disposal programme, and if (after 2025) it does not direct the whole of its net output into the task of waste disposal, it will never be able to dispose of its own wastes using its own energy (or energy equal to its own output from another source). On the assumptions set out here, therefore, the nuclear industry will, in 2025, become energy-bankrupt. Now, what if there were substantially less – or substantially more – than 60 years supply of uranium left? Some estimates are set out in the table. Suppose, for instance, there were only 30 years supply left (i.e. 2010-2040). That gives us a turning point to energy- bankruptcy in 2010. If there were a mere 10 years supply left (2010-2020), the year of energy-bankruptcy would be 2000.
Are there other usable sources of uranium? In the light of this, it would come as a relief even to those of us who see nuclear energy as being part of the energy problem, rather than part of the solution, to think that there were some other sources of uranium to sustain supplies while the nuclear industry devotes its final years to the task of cleaning itself up. Various sources have been considered. For example, there is uranium in granite – about 4 parts per million or 0.0004 percent. The problem here is that it would require so much energy to extract it that the energy used by the nuclear cycle as a whole would amount to around 25 times the energy produced. Seawater also contains some 30 parts per billion, or 0.000003 percent. Here, the energy balance would be better, but the nuclear life-cycle would still use about twice as much energy as it was able to extract and make available to the grid. Phosphate ores are more promising, with uranium concentrations of between 0.007 and 0.23 percent, with an average of around 0.01 percent: the higher-grade ores might give a break-even energy balance in theory, but they still fall a long way short of the cut-off point for a practical return (PREI), which is around 0.1 percent. And that leaves fast-breeders, based on plutonium-239. The problem here is, first of all, that successful breeding requires three processes: the breeding itself, reprocessing and fuel fabrication. These are fiercely-difficult technologies, awash with radioactive pollutants such as plutonium-241, americium, technetium and other transuranic actinides which have to be separated out (using solvents with a high global warming potential) and then disposed of. Each of the steps has been achieved under test conditions, but sustaining them all three concurrently, safely, on a commercial scale and at a realistic cost is another matter; indeed, there are some doubts as to whether all these criteria can be met at the same time, even in theory. (See The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy, chapter 4). Secondly, we need to be aware of the limitations of scale here. In the highly-unlikely event of being able to perfect the technology and find sufficient plutonium to start, say, 80 breeders worldwide in 25 years time (2035), then, 40 years later (2075), we would have 160 fast breeders in operation. And that would be our entire fleet of nuclear reactors, for the 440 conventional reactors now in operation – and their successors – will by then be out of fuel. And thorium? It is an inelegant technology, lumbering through a decay sequence from thorium 232 to thorium-233 to protactinium-233 – and eventually to uranium 233 – along with a swarm of contaminants including the neutron-emitters uranium-232 and thorium-228. Added complications include the long half-life of the protactinium-233 (27 days), so that it lingers around, causing problems in the reactor, and the awkward fact that uranium-233 can be used in nuclear weapons. Then there is the question of what start-up fuel to use: the best one would be uranium-233, but you only get a supply of that at the end of the first cycle. If plutonium-239 is available, it would seem to be more sensible to use it for the fast-breeder programme than to start the even more uncertain thorium cycle. And the problem of scale is even more decisive in the case of the thorium cycle than in the case of fast-breeders. On the best estimate available at present, and pretending for a moment that the technical difficulties are eventually solved, we could look forward in 2075 to a global fleet of perhaps two thorium-based reactors.
How should the remaining years of nuclear energy be used? Now, that takes us back to the range of depletion forecasts in the table. Opinion will vary, without real prospect of agreement, between the three more realistic turning-points 10, 30 and 60 years hence (2030, 2050 and 2070) beyond which the production of uranium from mines can no longer be sustained at the current rate – and we should bear in mind that actual shortages of uranium will occur well before those dates as the world's inventories are used up. In my own view, it is sensible to see sustained uranium supplies at current levels lasting for another 10-30 years. This would give us a point of energy-bankruptcy at between 2000 and 2010 – which would mean that the nuclear industry has in effect already passed the point of energy-bankruptcy. On the other hand, critics could rationally argue a case for a production turning-point of 60 years from the present – and that's fine, but note that this would give us a point of energy bankruptcy in 2025. In other words, unless one is going to take a truly incoherent view and argue that production can be sustained at the current rate for 200 years, it is evident that the end of the life of the nuclear industry as a net source of energy is at hand, and may already have passed. Nuclear energy is not going to be a solution to the coming hydrocarbon-based energy famine. We have a problem. After the turning-point to energy-bankruptcy, there is a spectrum of choices. At one extreme, it will be agreed that the task of disposing of nuclear waste is so important that the other sources of energy – such as oil – must be directed into the mammoth task of dealing with the nuclear industry's waste-disposal programme. At the other extreme, the waste will be left to fend for itself for thousands of years to come. It is unlikely that the electricity supply needed to cool the high-level waste and stop it catching fire will be maintained for that time. There will be no maintenance to prevent leaks, no security to prevent theft, no action to remove high-level wastes from their temporary repositories close to sea-level, and nothing to prevent UF6 gas leaking into the atmosphere. So far, no environmental impact assessment of this situation has been made. In the light of all this, it is clear that the way forward is to discard any pretence that any of the Big Four energy options are going to be available in the future. Nor is it realistic to hope that renewables will fill the energy gap, The only available option is a systems-approach to energy:
- Step 1. Develop the conservation options and technologies as far as possible and with all speed.
- Step 2. Move ahead with root-and-branch structural change in the whole pattern of energy use, based on the "proximity principle", and following through the implications for transport, industry, food-production, leisure, land-use and settlement patterns. This has to be a bottom-up process, calling (at long last) on the intelligence and inventiveness of the people rather than relying on government regulation.
- Step 3. Develop renewables systems and technologies to match the requirements of Steps 1 and 2. These will be to a large extent localised systems under local control and designed for particular local conditions and energy sources. Local self reliance, local responsibility, local monitoring and local intelligence will need to come together in local systems.
And these three steps – the Lean Energy formula – require a framework, guiding the energy descent, providing ample notice for the dramatic structural changes that will be needed, and guaranteeing all energy users a fair entitlement to supplies of energy throughout this long, ambitious, life-changing programme. Such a framework exists in Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs), http://www.teqs.net/ (previously discussed on The Oil Drum here). Conclusion In this article, I have explained why nuclear energy will not provide solutions, or even a rational response, to the coming energy famine. The industry should now be required to use its remaining capability as a source of energy to deal with the legacy of waste which will otherwise be left to contaminate the planet in perpetuity. The implications of that legacy of waste being left untended indefinitely should as an overriding priority be scientifically assessed and published. And I leave you with the conclusion that, whatever details may still be missing from this under-researched subject, the nuclear energy is a life-cycle in trouble. The United Kingdom Government might think it is worth taking some of these remarks into account before going ahead with its planned new generation of nuclear reactors.


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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house by Baron Henri de Triqueti (1803-74). 1837. Bronze bas-relief panel on the door of the Madeleine. Place de La Madeleine, Paris. Photograph and text by Jacqueline Banerjee, 2009. You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL.
According to Jonathan Ribner, in this panel illustrating the commandment against covetousness, Triqueti has used as "a solemn exemplar of retribution" the Old Testament story of King Ahab and Jezebel fleeing "before the indignant Elijah, who predicts that dogs will lick the wicked king's blood and devour his guilty wife for coveting the vineyard of the murdered Naboth (1 Kings 21)" (87). Thus unregulated human passion is subject to divine wrath. The dogs are skinny: the ribs of the one in the middle can be clearly seen. The unpleasant suggestion is that they are ravenous, and ready to fulfil Elijah's prophecy.
Related views
- "Thou shalt not commit adultery"
- Detail of "adultery" panel
- View of whole door
- La Madeleine (front view)
- La Madeleine (from the side)
Ribner, Jonathan P. Broken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Available offsite here.
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Kirkus Reviews 1991 September
A gripping account of a mountain boy's love for a dog he's hiding from its owner. Marty, 11, tells how Shiloh, the runaway, first caught his heart; still, his bone-poor West Virginia family has a strong sense of honor, and the dog is returned to its owner. After it runs back to Marty, he hides it in the woods. As Marty's structure of lies to his parents compounds, the villainous owner circles closer. By the time Judd finds Shiloh, the whole family is compromised and the dog has been injured. Marty does get the dog, partly by another lie of omission: he blackmails Judd when he finds him poaching and makes a deal to work for Judd to pay for the dog, but tells his parents another version. Fine lines are explored here: How necessary is it to adhere to the strict truth? ``What kind of law is it...that lets a man mistreat his dog?'' Has the dog been ``saved'' if this leads to its injury? Marty concludes that ``nothing is as simple as you guess--not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog.'' Meanwhile, young readers will rejoice that Shiloh and Marty end up together. (Fiction. 8-12) Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly Reviews 1991 July #1
In the tradition of Sounder and Where the Red Fern Grows comes this boy-and-his-dog story set in rural West Virginia. When he finds a mistreated beagle pup, 11-year-old Marty knows that the animal should be returned to its rightful owner. But he also realizes that the dog will only be further abused. So he doesn't tell his parents about his discovery, sneaks food for the dog and gets himself into a moral dilemma in trying to do the right thing. Without breaking new ground, Marty's tale is well told, with a strong emphasis on family and religious values. This heartwarming novel should win new fans for the popular Naylor. Ages 8-12. (Sept.) Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information.
School Library Journal Reviews 1991 September
Gr 4-6-- Marty Preston, 11, is a country boy who learns that things are often not what they seem, and that adults are not always ``fair'' in their dealings with other people. Marty finds a stray dog that seems to be abused and is determined to keep it at all costs. Because his family is very poor, without money to feed another mouth, his parents don't want any pets. Subsequently, there is a lot of conflict over the animal within the family and between Marty and Judd Travers, the dog's owner. Honesty and personal relations are both mixed into the story. Naylor has again written a warm, appealing book. However, readers may have difficulty understanding some of the first-person narration as it is written in rural West Virginian dialect. Marty's father is a postman--usually one of the better paying positions in rural areas--yet the family is extremely poor. There seems to be an inconsistency here. This title is not up to Naylor's usual high quality. --Kenneth E. Kowen, Atascocita Middle School Library, Humble, TX Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information.