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SHENANDOAH JUNCTION - September's Mountain Heritage Arts and Crafts Festival is the perfect place to find unique Christmas gifts, said Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Heather McIntyre
McIntyre said close to 200 artisans with varying talents bring items with fall decorating and Christmas in mind.
"Nine times out of ten, you can find something that someone special would appreciate," she said. "In the fall, crafters and visitors come with decorating and the holidays in mind."
The 38th annual festival showcases some of the best artisans up and down the East Coast. They'll fill the grounds of Sam Michael's Park with their food, products and demonstrations. Entertainment includes bluegrass favorites Patent Pending, Hillbilly Gypsies and the Stevens Family from Berkeley Springs.
McIntyre said Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice are making their first appearance at the festival.
Five West Virginia wineries are coming. Two were new to the festival in June and are returning. Adults can take part in wine tastings, and kids can get involved in activities as well. Children's activities include face-painting, balloon animal-making, moon bounce and rock climbing walls, and make-and-take craft projects.
Any profits after expenses help support local community projects.
"Our main purpose is to bring tourism to the area and to demonstrate our culture," McIntyre said. "The make-and-take projects give the kids something to take home while demonstrating to them how to make a craft. Demonstrations for children and adults show people how things are made. They see things that they normally don't get to see in our modern world. The festival brings back heritage to a part of our lives."
Food is always a large part of the festival. Many West Virginia food vendors make annual or twice-yearly appearances.
McIntyre said it's amazing to her what people can make. She said one participant makes paintings with colored pencils that look like watercolors.
"They're just beautiful," she said. "She tells the story that when she was young, all she had were colored pencils and she used to draw a lot."
One pair of artisans who were new to the festival in June are returning. They make intricate sculptures from wire.
"I'm always surprised to see what crafters can make out of something," McIntyre said.
Artisans and crafters work a variety of media. Wares usually include baskets, metals, pottery, fine arts, photography, flowers, furniture, jewelry and more. Various home decor items and other food items like wine can be found.
McIntyre said the festival does add new participants to get a variety. Often artisans are West Virginians. But some come from far and wide to participate. The festival is juried. A group of judges visits each booth at the festival twice a year and scores them.
Possible new participants are asked to submit digital images and information online. In winter, applications are gone over and everyone is rated. The final participants are selected.
McIntyre said the response to this year's advance tickets sales is high. More than 300 discounted admissions have been sold. Advance tickets are $2 cheaper than the gate admission. And the festival's website has a $1-off coupon.
The festival will take place Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at Sam Michael's Park, 1330 Job Corps Road in Shenandoah Junction. Admission is $7 for adults, $4 for children under 17, and children under 6 will be admitted free.
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Researchers at Oregon State University have created the world's first completely transparent integrated circuit from inorganic compounds, another major step forward for the rapidly evolving field of transparent electronics.
Transparent electronics, scientists say, may hold the key to new industries, employment opportunities, and new, more effective or less costly consumer products. Uses could range from transparent displays in the windshield of an automobile to cell phones, televisions, copiers, "smart" glass or game and toy applications. More efficient solar cells or better liquid crystal displays are possible.
Check out the full article here. This project was created as part of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) that is temporarily housed at the Hewlett-Packard campus in Corvallis. H-P generously donated the space for the Microproducts Breakthrough Institute while OSU works towards razing Graf Hall and creating the permanent home for the MBI arm of ONAMI.


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Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua broke civil and church laws when he ordered aides in 1994 to shred a list identifying dozens of Philadelphia-area priests suspected of molesting children, an expert on canon law and clergy sex abuse testified Thursday.
"That was like obstructing justice cubed," the Rev. Thomas P. Doyle told a Common Pleas Court jury. "He's got a list of men who may have abused children - and he's going to shred it?"
The assertion thrust the late cardinal squarely into the spotlight for the first time in the landmark child-sex-abuse and endangerment trial against his former secretary for clergy, Msgr. William J. Lynn.


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No matter what the weather looks like outside, it can be winter where you are. Here are simple instructions on how to make paper snowflakes.
First, you'll need white paper cut into a square. If you are cutting standard 8 ½ x 11-inch paper to make it square, save the ends. Try making baby flakes with them or use the paper for notes. You'll also need scissors, tape, and a piece of string to hang your creation.
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I came across this, recently, which may be useful for making paper snowflakes.
do you guys make videos for this like for beginners?
Really easy to understand, clear, simple,instructional text makes great snowflakes. Good labelled images match text
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I found a great way to make snow flakes. Use white tissue paper. You can fold and fold and it won't be hard to cut as paper is when it's folded a lot. They look fancy, light weight and just perfect for that dainty snow flake.


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MYRTLE BEACH - A new law would require all businesses that are classified as a bar or night club to have a written safety plan approved by the Myrtle Beach Police Department.
Myrtle Beach City Council recently gave first reading to the ordinance that will enact suggestions that came out of last summer's meeting between the city's planning commission and Downtown Redevelopment Corp.
City attorney Tom Ellenburg said the ordinance would help bar owners and managers avoid potential problems as their establishments close at 2 a.m.
"Rather than deal with [business owners] on the back end, when it's almost impossibly to rectify because of poor management practices, this deals with it on the front end instead," he said. "This is an attempt to try to do this a little bit better."
The idea of regulating businesses stemmed from problems that occurred on Ocean Boulevard where bars close at 2 a.m. and crowds spill onto sidewalks and parking lots.
"The goal is to have managers think more about security as they go into this instead of waiting until police come," city manager Tom Leath said, adding that owners and managers say they're blindsided by the laws once it rises to the level of becoming a public nuisance. "It amazes us how many people come in and say they didn't think they needed to do certain things."
The ordinance is one of the steps the city is considering regarding the regulation of nightclubs on Ocean Boulevard in downtown Myrtle Beach. City Council put a moratorium in place more than a year ago that prohibits issuing permits to larger bars along Ocean Boulevard. This ordinance, however, would impact all bars and nightclubs in the city. It advanced on a 7-0 vote last week.
A bar, lounge, pub, tavern or similar drinking place would be defined as a "place of social gathering and entertainment primarily engaged in the preparation and service of alcoholic beverages onsite and with an open dance floor of less than 150 square feet."
A nightclub would be defined as an alcohol-free teen or adult club that is a place of "social gathering and nightclub entertainment activities or opportunities emphasizing live or recording amplified music in an [sic] largely unstructured dance club atmosphere" that allows an occupancy of more than 150 people and has a dance floor larger than 150 square feet, according to the ordinance.
Tony Carcione, manager at Moe Moon's Beach Grill and Chill on the boardwalk, said it's important to make sure bar, nightclub and restaurant employees who serve alcohol are trained to know how to deal with customers.
He said anything that is done to increase safety is a good thing.
"But Myrtle Beach has become more family oriented in the past few years," he said. "We don't have major problems anymore."
Last year, Myrtle Beach City Council asked the DRC and planning commission to review whether having large bars along Ocean Boulevard matches the family-oriented atmosphere that the city promotes. The council's recommendation was to limit oceanfront bar occupancy to 150 people.
The new ordinance will require all existing businesses that operate as a bar or nightclub to draft a written safety plan and have it approved by the police department within 60 days of the law's approval. All new bars and nightclubs would have to have a plan approved before being issued a business license.
Of the about 230 places that serve alcohol in city limits, there are about 25 businesses that received exemptions after submitting to a "higher level of scrutiny" to be allowed to serve beer and wine after 2 a.m. every day except for Sunday. The new law would extend those increased requirements to all bars and nightclubs in the city, Ellenburg said.
Additionally, the ordinance would require nightclubs that are part of a "nightclub district" and share access to a common area - such as the nightclubs at Broadway at the Beach - also would have to create a coordinated safety plan that would deal with incidents that occur in the common area.
"There are tenants that operate drinking places that share a common area where the discharge of offenders [from the nightclub] into an area that I refer to as the Colosseum - that is where the gladiators meet - cause issues," Ellenburg said.
Another ordinance that would have restricted bars and nightclubs on Ocean Boulevard to 5,000 square feet, effectively lifting last year's moratorium, was denied. However, council members expressed opposing views on lifting the moratorium.
Councilwoman Susan Grissom Means said she wanted to lift the moratorium and could not support limiting the size of any potential future businesses on Ocean Boulevard.
"I could never support this in a million years," Means said. "It goes against everything that we're trying to accomplish downtown. In the current economic climate, I just can't see us hamstringing someone from renting a [large] building they own or using a building they own."
Mayor John Rhodes said he still believes large bars shouldn't be on the boulevard.
"I just have a hard time putting nightclubs back down there on the boulevard when we had so many problems," he said.
But Means said she thought it was unfair to business owners who follow the law.
"If we have a problem with a location, let's go after the operator," she said. "Let's not hinder everybody else."


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Finn Hudson might be gone forever, but Lea Michele is making sure her on- and off-screen love is not forgotten.
Michelle, 26, Tweeted a photo of herself wearing a necklace with a "Finn" charm on Friday – the name of the late Cory Monteith's Glee character – simply captioned "Today" and followed by a little heart icon.
The Tweet comes the same day the Glee cast reportedly began shooting its tribute episode to Monteith, who died July 13 in a Vancouver hotel room after ingesting a lethal mix of heroin and alcohol.
The necklace is similar to the "Cory" necklace Michele wore earlier this month to the Teen Choice Awards – her first public appearance since Monteith's death.
"I promise that with your love, we're going to get through this together," Michele told the crowd while accepting an award for her portrayal of Rachel Berry. "He was very special to me and also to the world."
E! Online reports the tribute episode will not feature Michele until near the end of the show, when she is expected to sing an emotional tribute to her real and fictional love.
Lea Michele Tweets Photo of Herself in 'Finn' Necklace
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Labrador Retrievers
Labrador Retrievers come in three solid colors: black, yellow, and chocolate. Some people think that different color Labradors exhibit different personality traits, although this has not been proven. They are medium-sized dogs, with the ideal weight for male Labradors between 65 and 80 pounds and the ideal weight for female Labradors between 55 and 70 pounds. Their coat is short, straight, dense, and water repellant. Labradors are heavy shedders, but do not require much grooming beyond a good brushing once or twice a week.
Labradors are quick learners and therefore highly trainable. They can learn commands and all kinds of tricks. They aim to please and thrive on love and affection, so they will work hard to make you happy. Labradors will eat anything and everything, so part of their early training should focus on obedience so as to avoid too many "food-napping" incidents. Because of their high degree of trainability, these smart dogs are the breed most commonly used as guide and rescue dogs.
A Labrador Retriever can be a great choice for a first-time dog owner. They are extremely easygoing and can easily adjust to just about any circumstances. They are also great with kids, as they don't seem to mind a little screaming, crying, or tail pulling every now and then. Give a Labrador the attention and exercise that he needs and you'll have a happy, loving, loyal friend for life!
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Futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson on Artificial Intelligence…Mindblowing!Biomimicry, Interviews, Talk — By Luke Miller Callahan on 07/26/2011 21:57
Leader in Sustainable Development: Ian Pearson
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I am talking with futurologist Ian Pearson about the future of Artificial Intelligence and oh boy, is it fascinating! Ian is so advanced into this matter (relative to me) it made my head hurt after this interview, in a good way. This is a really amazing discussion that I think you all will enjoy… even if you are a practicing luddite.
Mentioned in this interview that I had no knowledge of before:
- Synthetic biology
- Organic circuitry
- Molecular transistors
- Quantum dots
I had to listen to it a couple of times just to be able to digest all of the information. Always a good sign!
Interview Notes
- AI been working on and off for 20 years
- 1981 started working in the missilie industry
- first work as mech engineer, quickly got into AI systems for missile to find their targets
- writing the software for them
- late 1980s 87 88 figured out that field programmable geta(?) rays Said they should be able to evolve on their own once given the right conditions.
- '89 -Then came up with evolutionary computing and then showed that worked
- We proved that we could evolve software
- Kurzweil was thinking the same way as Ian talking about evolving machines that can evolve themselves and become conscious, and become smarter than people
- '91 they said that and have just been waiting for the technology to catch up
- Q: How is it so obvious that computers or machines will eventually be able to replicate themselves into beings that are smarter than themselves and on and on and so forth.
- A: His analogy, we can make kids, but we have no idea how they work
- It's obvious to him that the argument, "You can't design something smarter than yourself is non sense.
- In early 1990s An example of evolutionary computing where the computer solves a problem better than a human, and the humans don't understand how the computer did it for a few weeks.
- Q: Can we tell the computer to teach us how it does things?
- A: it is easy for the computer to do but hard to explain to someone. Much like it is hard to explain how a brain works yet we can create one in 9 months
- Organic circuity
- Molecular transistors- we don't know how to make them yet.
- No use of quantam dots yet.
- May appear in some form of synthetic biology in the next few years
- The other option is to create a bacterial yogurt that can assemble this within their own cells.
- Essentially creating a form of bioilluminescence to communicate with each other
- Call it smart yogurt made out of bacteria using synthetic biology
- Once the yogurt gets going, it keeps going, and we don't really know where its going to take us.
- Lots of transhumanists want to redesign the human brain and make it better and such. The best way of doing that is by using evolutionary software, the best way of doing that is by using synthetic biology.
- We wont be able to become transhumans unless the transbacteria let us! Transbacteria are far easier to make, and are collectively far smarter than people.
- Potential for connections
- wavelengths you can get on optical interconnects 2,000,000 our brain is 5,000 or so
- our brains fire at 200hz, computers are at 20GHZ. The difference is the zeros.
- Basically , you can make a cup of smart yogurt that has the same IQ as you and I!
- Minute 15.00 is good
- Then u get into the terminator scenario, where these super intelligent computers wonder why humans are here,
- we, as humans, would be just an irrelevance. If we're lucky they just keep us as pets
- Q: What are they key ingredients to intelligence there?
- A: don't know if we can come up with a sensible response to what intelligence is… we can never agree.
- It becomes a semantic argument
- Even without an understanding of how it works you can still get them going and get them to essentially bootstrap themselves.
- We have to accept that computers may come in the form of a lump of gel, or whatever form it may be
- The debate comes in with whether or not it is conscious, but really, who cares. It if is winning Nobel Peace Prizes year after year, label it however you want.
- 15 years ago Ian was thinking 2012 is when we would have the circuit sized right, 10 – 20 nm. We're at 30-40 now
- where we are now with a bit of evolutionary software, it's possible to evolve it.
- The crazy thing, is that once you start it, it can evolve in a weekend essentially.
- Maybe 2015 is still achievable. Might be later bc most scientist and engineers are responsible people. Very ethical issues that we're dealing with.
- Q; What form will this take initially?
- A: Software, experiementing with analog synthetic biology. Making a toolkit with circuit layout. Basically a computer robot scientist to experiment much faster than any human ever could.
- Ian doesn't think we can make a digital computer that is conscious.
- In early 1990s kava mead? Worked for intel. Said that the best route to achieving consciousness- Adaptive analog neural networks
- Your brain is an adaptive neural network
- How your eyes and brain work together to create vision and sensing
- First step is to create a sensory cell.
- Start with detecting light
- Machine consciousness
- The information economy is not going to last very long.
- The end of the service industry
- The ethics of dealing with conscience robots
- It's not if, but when, we get full direct brain link. Sufficient to upload your thoughts to an android.
- Ian thinks it will be available in 2050 and cheap to all by 2075!
- He calls it Gaia 2.0
- Redesigning species' blueprints and bringing back extinct species
- We have the wrong people making decisions for us
- We don't know what we want!
- The current barriers to AI
- We're using yesterday's solutions to solve today's problems.
- We need to breed scientific rule breakers
- Craig Venter is a rule breaker.
- Patent Laws slow things down. Same with regulation
- Patent law is there to incentivize innovation, but if we are innovating anyways, then we don't need it. It has just become a race to patent office.
- How do we get rid of the patent system?
- Learn more about human genome
- We need more mavericks! Rule breakers!
- If you are breaking the rules fast enough, the regulations cant keep up.
- The components that are needed to achieve human level intelligence next year. We won't get there because the priorities aren't there.
- The need for an ethics code for innovating towards AI because there is too much potential for bad results
- We should be able to connect human brains to the machines in order to be able to keep up with them
- Transhuman is needed in order to keep up with thes super evolved humans
- The power is going to the stupid. Stupid people are breeding too much
- We need to hack the political system!
- Ian figured out how to bring a network capacity down by 2/3 with one single phone call. This basically means that with one single call Ian Pearson can bring down the internet for a short term… or more!
- The biggest frauds on the internet are …
Resources Mentioned
About Ian Pearson
As written by Ian…
I work as a Futurologist. I study the future. My day to day work with Futurizon involves tracking developments across the whole field of technology and society, figuring out where it is all going next, and how that will affect our everyday lives. I take account of as many technology and social factors as possible. My main tools are: a strong background in science and engineering, trends analysis, common sense, reasonable business acumen, knowing when to listen to other people, and a whole lot of thinking. I usually get it right, but since the future is never totally predictable, I sometimes get it wrong too, about 15% of the time. But I specialise in doing long term stuff, so I have a lot of fun. I hope to be retired before anyone can prove me wrong.
Although I use the slightly wacky sounding title of futurologist, I'm just an engineer making logical deductions for tomorrow based on things we can already see happening. For example, if someone is investing heavily in a particular development, and there aren't any obvious barriers to success, there is a good chance that they will succeed in due course. Keeping up with externals such as political, economic and social factors helps improve judgement as to whether products are likely to succeed, and how they might be used. Anyone with reasonable intelligence can do it, but it takes a lot of time to internalize the very many factors involved before you start getting it right. I learned from experience that computers are of limited use, because although there are many computer tools on the market, it usually takes longer to explain all the interconnections to a program than it does to analyse them yourself. I make no claim to be able to predict the future with absolute accuracy, but I think of it as like driving a car through fog. You can't see a very clear picture of what is ahead, and sometimes you will misinterpret an apparent shape in the distance, but few of us would drive through fog without bothering to look out the window. Blurred vision is a lot better than none at all! The same is true for business.
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Two facing misdemeanor charges in traffic cases
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LISBON — Two Rogers women accused of vehicular homicide made appearances in Columbiana County Municipal Court on Tuesday. A Feb. 19 pretrial was set for Ashley R....
Way too long of a wait for justice! It sickens me that the family is still waiting on justice! and to only be looking at 6 months when a life was taken and another life is permanently disabled! SICK!!!
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Brandi Matthews holds a photo of a group of young women who participate in Perfectly Imperfect, a mentoring program started by Ms. Matthews, while she talks about the positive changes in the girls' lives.
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Ms. Matthews celebrates the high school graduation of one of the young women she has mentored.
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UH Manoa Campus Events Calendar
John Sayles Film SeriesNovember 21, 4:00pm - 6:30pm
Manoa Campus, Art Auditorium
John Sayles, who influenced a generation of independent film as the "Godfather of Bootstrap Cinema," will be the 2014 Inouye Chair in Democratic Ideals. Preceding in residency in February, the American Studies Department is presenting a series of his films, co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Humanities and the Academy for Creative Media.
Screenings will take place in the Art Auditorium, except for Matewan (Oct. 17), which will be in the Architecture Auditorium.
Event Sponsor
American Studies Department, College of Arts & Humanities, The Academy for Creative Media, Manoa Campus
More Information
|Thursday, November 21
|Great American Smokeout
Manoa Campus, Campus Center
|Political Science Final Oral
Manoa Campus, Saunders 617
|Educational Psychology Final Oral
Manoa Campus, WIST 130
|"Combining Documentation Initiatives with Language Instruction"
Manoa Campus, Moore Hall 258
|Emily Goris, piano
Manoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium
|WRRC Seminar
Manoa Campus, POST 126
|Ocean and Resources Engineering Final Oral
Manoa Campus, POST 723
|Oceanography Seminar
Manoa Campus, MSB 100
|John Sayles Film Series
Manoa Campus, Art Auditorium
|Children of Peace
Manoa Campus, Wist Hall 133 (CCC)
|Chess Club at UH Manoa Meeting
Manoa Campus, Campus Center room 308
Manoa Campus, Hale Aloha Courtyard- 2571 Dole St
- Highlighted dates have scheduled events.
- Select the date to view all events for that day.
Ongoing Events
- EWC Arts Exhibition: Bollywood & Beyond: Costume in Indian Film
- Kalaupapa -- A Source of Light, Constant and Never-Fading
- Convergence: Glitch_Click_Thunk, Featuring Mark Amerika
- Trip Around the Island
- Trip Around the Island exhibit
- Waikiki Parc Features Ashley Huang
- Holding On, Letting Go
- "On Confucian Role Ethics: Overcoming an Asymmetry in Cultural Comparisons"


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Bud Parr on Witold Gombrowicz
By Rohan Kamicheril
Bud Parr, over at Chekhov's Mistress has a brief review of Witold Gombrowicz's short story collection Bacacay (Archipelago Books) that's a great preview of the quirky, beautiful style of this underread master of 20th-Century fiction. Parr's favorite story, Adventures, was also one that we loved. For the intrigued, here's a complete a list of other works by Gombrowicz that we've featured in the past.
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FOREST TWP., MI -- Three days after Michael Arellano was found shot to death in his home, residents in Genesee County's smallest township remain in disbelief.
"I'm saddened for our residents and residents in that area because this is not a normal occurrence in Forest Township," said township Supervisor Mary Ann Price. "It's shocking (and) upsetting for our residents."
Police on Monday, March 4, were still searching for whoever shot Arellano, 65, in the head.
Arellano's son found him dead about 8:30 p.m. Friday in his home on Kristen Drive off State Road near Dodge Road.
Michigan State Police Lt. Matt Bolger, commander of the
Flint MSP post, said police recovered what they believed to be the firearm used to kill Arellano. Bolger declined to say where it was found but said it was not at the homicide scene.
No arrests have been made, he said.
The homicide is a rarity in a community that doesn't even have its own police force for its 4,700 residents.
State police, which handles all police calls for Forest Township, typically takes reports there for larcenies, breaking and entering and drunken driving.
In 2011, just 22 crimes against persons and 85 property crimes were reported there, according to state police crime statistics.
"We're not coming out for violent crimes (that are being committed)," said Bolger.
Officials could not recall the last homicide there but MLive-Flint Journal archives show a Flint woman was found shot to death in Forest Township in 1995 after a carjacking.
In the latest homicide, a woman who worked with Arellano called him a "wonderful and dependable employee."
Marsha Barber Clark, interim president and CEO of the Flint Cultural Center Corp., said Arellano worked part-time on the grounds crew at the Flint Cultural Center, a job he held since 2007
Clark said she just saw Arellano last week while he was salting a parking lot.
"Whenever he was riding the lawn mower or if he was salting the parking lot, he took time to wave and say hello," said Clark. "I was absolutely stunned (to hear of his death). I couldn't believe it. I was certain it wasn't true."
His family declined comment on Sunday.
Neighbors also were shocked.
Resident Jennifer Samuelson recalled Arellano as a quiet man she spotted nearly every day walking his family's German Shepard down Patricia Drive near his Kristen Drive home.
"I'm kind of curious what happened," said Samuelson, who moved into the Cheryl Woods Estates neighborhood a little more than four years ago. "It's a little nerve-wracking. Stuff really doesn't happen here."
Resident Carol Merritt was coming home Friday night when she noticed a police vehicle turning towards the Arellano home, which sits off in a slightly wooded area on Kristen Drive, and then two helicopters moving low in the area.
"Normally, it's fairly quiet," said Merritt, a sentiment echoed by Samuelson.
"There's no loud parties or music or anything," said Samuelson, who hoped for more information on the incident soon. "I'm a little nervous. If we have a murderer running around, I'd like to know about it."
Anyone with information on the homicide has been asked to call Detective/Sgt. Mark Pendergraff or Detective/Sgt. Joe Jones with the Michigan State Police Flint Post at 810-732-1111.
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The Montgomery Police Department reports a man was arrested last night and charged in the death of a woman whose body was found in her Cloverdale Road home.
Police say Lori Skinner Thomas died after a verbal argument between the suspect and the victim turned physical.
Gordon B. Fowler, 52, of 3863 Pelzer Avenue, was charged with murder and taken to the Montgomery County Detention Facility. His bond was set at $75,000.
The body of Lori Skinner Thomas, 41, was discovered Sunday morning in her home after police received a phone call informing them of a death at 327 Cloverdale Road.
Further details of the case have not been released.
This is the fourth homicide in the city of Montgomery in 2012.
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A teenager was shot to death this morning in an Alief neighborhood in front of two family members, KTRK-TV (Channel 13) is reporting.
The victim's brother and uncle watched helplessly after he was shot outside a gated community on Synott near Vineyard Park around 1:15am.
Investigators said the trio had just left a party and were walking home when a car pulled out of the subdivision.
The man's family told deputies he got into an argument with someone inside the car for an unknown reason, and then the driver started shooting.
If you have information in the shooting, call the Harris County Sheriff's Office or Crime Stoppers at (713) 222-TIPS.


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Oliver Radcliffe is, as of 2012, a student in Lawrence, Kansas. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in southwestern Ohio for 19 years.
Interested in the progression of people's rights, he is constantly working as an advocate in the struggle. He is pursuing a college education in English and film studies. He hopes to bring new light to the problems of the people through the artistic mediums of film and writing.
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JOHNSTOWN - When Mount Union's Kyle Morrow looks back on his college baseball career, he will have fond memories and enough highlights to have his own show on ESPN.
Morrow has been a four-year starter for Pitt-Johnstown, an NCAA Division II school in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.
The former Mount Union catcher has been outstanding in his four years behind the plate.
"This has been a great experience," Morrow said after a doubleheader win over Indiana (Pa.) earlier this month.
"It's not too far from home and my family can come see me play," he said. "This year has been different as we joined the PSAC and it's great baseball."
For the first three years of Morrow's career, Pitt-Johnstown was a member of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
At first it was an adjustment for Morrow being away from home, but once he got into the college routine, everything fell into place.
"When I first got here, I didn't know anybody, but now that I'm a senior, it's like family," Morrow noted. "Some of the pitchers that I work with have been here since I was a freshman. Mount Union really prepared me for this. I have Mr. (Nick) Imperioli to thank (for my success)."
It hasn't always been fun. Baseball is no different than anything else in life as it takes hard work to be successful.
"In the off season here we have to work in the weight room and we also do a lot of swimming," Morrow said. "You really have to make an adjustment all year round with your school work. You have to juggle being a student and a student -athlete."
The Pitt-Johnstown catcher has had many highlights, but one of the biggest came on April 27, 2013. Morrow hit a walk-off, three-run homer to win a game against Shepard University and give his manager his 400th career win.
"That was pretty sweet," Morrow smiled, "I was 0-2 in the count and I got it back to 2-2 and then I hit (the homer). At that point in the season we needed the win to stay in contention for a playoff spot. I didn't know it was the coach's 400th win until after the game."
Morrow's manager is Todd Williams and as this season winds down, his coach is not looking forward to next year without his four-year starter.
"He's been unbelievable," Williams said. "He's been a stud for four years, a four-year starter. He is going to be hard to replace. I'm going to have break in two freshman next year. He has worked his butt off. I'm going to miss him."
In the WVIAC, Morrow was all conference three years in a row and as a sophomore he was a third team All-American in Division II.
For the past two summers, Morrow has worked in the Valley League in Virginia against Division I and II players.
The success at the college level followed a very successful high school career for the Mount Union product.
As a senior in 2010, he was a first-team Class AA all-state player and led the state in hits with 46. In his senior year he helped Mount Union to a District 6 Class AA title and in back-to-back years (as a junior and senior) Mount Union finished in the PIAA semifinals.
Once he reached the college level, his numbers kept on getting better.
In three years going into his senior year, he was hitting .340. He played in 129 games and came to bat 415 times. He had scored 93 runs and had 141 hits. Included in those hits were 28 doubles and 18 home runs. He had driven in 89 runs going into his senior year. As a freshman, he led Pitt-Johnstown in hitting with a .358 average.
So far this year, he hasn't let-up. In 44 games he had 149 at bats, scored 21 runs and had 52 hits. He has smashed 15 doubles and has hit two home runs while driving in 20 runs. He is hitting .349, second on the team.
When Morrow finally does put down his bat and glove, he will have left a pretty big mark on the Pitt-Johnstown program.


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Sibylle Freiermuth and Megan Keaveney just won $10,000 — but these seniors are not going to Disney World. Instead, they're headed to India this summer with a goal of empowering women who live in the slums of Mumbai.
The $10,000 came from the Davis Projects for Peace initiative, which funds undergraduate projects that promote and build peace across the globe.
Freiermuth and Keaveney's objective?
According to their project proposal they want to "… help women learn about and realize opportunities to improve their health and develop income-generating skills."
"When we were coming up with this project, we looked at our own skill sets, what languages we spoke, what connections we had, and how we could really make a difference," said Freiermuth.
"We also wanted it to be sustainable – to have an ongoing impact after we're gone," said Keaveney.
For their project, "Slum Women for Peace in Mumbai, India," they will travel to India to create two documentary films: one, of Indian women sharing their entrepreneurial success stories; and two, of women sharing important health information. Then they will partner with a local nonprofit clinic to have these documentaries shown in their facilities throughout India.
Freiermuth and Keaveney are graduating this spring, Freiermuth with a double major in biology and international studies (with a dance minor), and Keaveney with a major in sociology/anthropology.
As for what comes after their summer in India, Keaveney is a Fulbright finalist – she wants to do fieldwork in the Cape Flats of South Africa. And Freiermuth's goal is to work in sustainable development. She's crossing her fingers while she waits to hear about an opportunity in Costa Rica.


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I did something really scary and dangerous today. I let myself quit.
It's the second day of my Month-of-Pickup, an intensive course correction aimed towards making myself extraverted and social again.
Yesterday was the first day. My friend and I set a goal of doing eight approaches each. We did it just as the mall closed, running around frantically looking for girls to approach. I was scared going in, but left feeling good.
Today we set the goal of approaching ten girls in two hours. I knocked out the first two quickly, then shuffled around for an hour making excuses. When it became obvious that I wasn't going to do the full ten, I let myself off easily and only did one more.
Three measly approaches in three hours. I'm just reacclimatizing myself to approaching, so I leave shortly after opening. That means that in a two hour "pick up session", I was actually talking to girls for about fifteen minutes, and making excuses for an hour and forty-five.
I should have risen to the challenge and started running around racking up the tally. I didn't. I let myself quit.
I've quit relationships because it was the right thing to do. I quit school because I didn't want what it promised. I quit a job.
That's all fine, because I was living up to my own standards, but when I quit something that I deliberately design for myself, that's a problem. Usually when I say I'm going to do something, I do it. Today I weaseled out.
I'm writing about this today because it's the only thing I can think about, because it's a useful idea to chew on, but also as punishment to myself. When there's a breach of internal trust, there needs to be consequences. One of them is publicly exposing my failure.
Beyond building a negative association to prevent similar action in the future, I don't believe in dwelling on mistakes, so I'm going to let this one go. The important thing is ensuring that it won't happen again.
Tomorrow, I will hand $500 to my friend, with instructions to keep it if I don't meet my goal for the day. He's a good enough friend that he would do it, too. I'll continue to do this every single day this month that we have goals entirely under my own control.
Between pickup and working on SETT, I'm probably not going to have much time or headspace for anything else. Apologies in advance if you aren't interested in pickup, because it's probably all I'll be writing about this month.
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To be honest, after reading your blog for a long time - PUA is not worth your time and effort anymore. Sure, its fantastic at the start, building the base level confidence blocks which help in every other facet of life. But PUA also matures somewhat, cold approaches, negging etc. tends to loose out to just being a confident, approachable, friendly guy.
Life will take its course and you will be aligned with women around every turn. I just don't think PUA is necessarily for you anymore (and that is why you are getting the 'quitting' urge).
What you really should be doing with your time is carving out different paths through life, life nomadic absolutely inspired me in many ways, but this tenacity for the alternative has lapsed recently.
I would say, forget the PUA stuff - you dont need it, and start inspiring readers with new things.
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People, lay off the hate. He doesn't like the way his skills have deteriorated, and he decided this was the best way to get them back up to an acceptable level.
Furthermore, he made this decision with much more knowledge of how PU works than all of you put together, I'd wager.
It's hard enough to psych yourself up to do this without all the keyboard jockeys trying to bring you down to their level.
C'mon Tynan, you're a cool guy.
And cool guys don't go running after girls to get a number of approaches within a certain amount of time.
Others have asked the same question: what is your goal? Establishing a world record of approaches within an hour?
Maybe quitting was the right thing to do here. Randomly meeting chicks at the mall when you are there to shop is cool. Running around the mall with the express purpose of getting numbers is frankly a bit weird and creepy. You're too old for this nonsense.
Just get into the habit of being very social everywhere you go with anybody you see and then it shouldn't be as stressful.
Becoming disappointed in yourself is a unique region in the realm of disappointment, because no amount of time and understanding makes it go away. The only remedy for it is to change yourself-- in fact, this is one of the best sources of motivation for self-improvement. I've recently become disappointed in my self, illustrated by these two strikes.
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A common excuse from guys who fail to approach girls is that none of the girls are their type, or that none of them are attractive enough. Sometimes this is actually a legitimate reason for not approaching, but far more often it's an ego-preserving shield against actually facing the fear of approach.
A while back, I had the good fortune to connect with Simon Payne who is one of the oustandingly cool and interesting guy. I know a lot of people want to do meaningful thins with their lives, but are scared to take risks. Simon saved a small amount of money and just jumped off into the void... and it worked. I hope his story inspires you like it does me, here's Simon -
My story begins when I decided to quit my job, sell most of my things and move to Philippines to study original martial art called Kali (also known as Escrima or Arnis). For those who doesn't know it, it's a kind of fencing but with rattan sticks. It's an offensive, fast and extremely effective martial art. The training includes even fighting with steel blades, knives and many different weapons including bare hands. I've been studying the modern version of Escrima in Czech Republic for last 8 years and before that historical and sport fencing.
I've always had rich imagination and before arriving in the Philippines I assumed that everyone would know where to find where to find some Escrima schools. I dreamed about finding some old skilled grandmaster that would teach me.
I decided to travel to Davao City which is in the south of Philippines. I knew that my friend John will be there at the same time. I didn't know him in person but that was my only contact. He was just starting a company there. Looking back at my decisions I obviously didn't use my brain as much as other people would. If I did, I'd choose bigger city like Manila or Cebu which are well known for martial art schools.
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Four years ago, when sheriff's, city and school officials realized the extent of heroin use among Santa Clarita teens, they launched a number of far-reaching initiatives to tackle the problem.
On Wednesday, at the fourth in a series of community symposiums aimed at raising awareness about teen drug use, "Pills Kill: Prescription to Addiction," officials credited those actions with helping to bring down drug abuse overall in the community, particularly drug overdoses.
"Four years ago, when we held our first community forum, we had 16 heroin overdoses," Santa Clarita City Manager Ken Striplin told about 100 people, mostly concerned parents who attended the event at the Santa Clarita Activities Center.
"Last year, that number of 16 was down to four, and this year we've had three," Striplin said. "I really want to believe that the community coming together in addressing this issue has had an impact."
But the fight against teen drug abuse "is not something that's ever finished. It's something that we have to continue to fight," Striplin said.
To keep the battle going, Wednesday's symposium focused on the abuse of prescription drugs. A panel of experts, including Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station Capt. Roosevelt Johnson, William S. Hart Union High School District Superintendent Robert Challinor and others, discussed the facts about prescription pill abuse, the signs of abuse and what parents can do to help their children.
Before the panel discussion, 18 different nonprofit groups that specialize in counseling for teens and parents provided information and referral information.
"We heard about this and decided to come," said Jonda Brooks of Panorama City, who volunteers for Because I Love, a San Fernando Valley nonprofit family crisis support group.
Although marijuana remains the most abused drug among local high school students, overdoses involving prescription drugs remain a serious problem in the community, Johnson said. Of the three overdoses this year, one was from prescription drugs, he added.
In response to teen drug abuse in general, city and sheriff's officials created a juvenile intervention team, which visits schools to talk to teens.
That effort has paid off, Johnson said, with thousands of local students signing pledges to remain drug free. But more needs to be done, he said, including making sure pharmacies are complying with the law.
Recently, intervention team members sent letters to local pharmacists, "letting them know we're going to pay them a visit," Johnson said.
But the major source of prescription pill abuse remains the family medicine cabinet, he added.
"The prescriptions that are being abused here in Santa Clarita are being abused by people going into the medicine cabinets in your homes — and it's your own kids going into those medicine cabinets," Johnson said.
Mike Lewis of the Drug Enforcement Administration informed the audience about the National Take-Back initiative Sept. 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., when people can bring unwanted prescription drugs to the Santa Clarita Valley station for disposal.
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Trimming a 223REM
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January 19, 2010, 01:29 PM
I know the minimum length is 1.760 but what is the maximum length you can trim a 223REM case?
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January 19, 2010, 01:32 PM
SAAMI MAX case length is 1.760".
You can trim it any length you want as long as it is shorter then that.
The suggested trim-too length is 1.750".
BTW: Don't you have a reloading manual?
January 19, 2010, 01:33 PM
Yep, welcome to THR, and do ya? Need one. :)
January 19, 2010, 07:21 PM
As helpful as this forum is (and you received responses from two of the best), there is NO substitute for reading & understanding one or three loading manuals.
After doing that, those two & others will be able to help far more!
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January 19, 2010, 09:30 PM
The recomended method is to measure and find shortest case. Then trim all to that length, this standerizes the case length for the same case crimp on every case. This is usually only required once for each batch of brass for several loadings as after that the same length fired in same chamber is pretty consistant in length, not necessarially the original trim length, but easilly adjusted for with crimp die with good results.
January 27, 2010, 10:08 PM
if some of my brass is below 1.750,say1.746,can i trim it that short? 223rem
January 27, 2010, 10:14 PM
I wouldn't. If it is at 1.746, it will stretch to 1.75 within a firing and sizing or 2 if it isn't split and worn out by then.
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January 27, 2010, 10:28 PM
I bought a bunch of once fired FC cases. I have resized them and they are around 1.746 to 1.751 so i trimmed them all to 1.746. They will be fine.
January 27, 2010, 10:37 PM
thanks guys,you answerd my question i didnt want to throw it away
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The Big Ten Tournament should be spectacular this year with three of the conference's teams currently ranked in the Top 10. #1 Ohio State, #6 Purdue, and #10 Wisconsin all have legitimate Final Four aspirations this season. The top-seeded team in the Big Ten tourney has won it all the past three out of four years, but that doesn't mean we won?t see a surprise team capture the title in 2011. OSU will arrive in Indianapolis next week the favorite, but the Buckeyes will have a tough road to the final, considering Ohio State's two losses were to Purdue and Wisconsin. Many college hoop insiders are picking the Boilmakers to win the tournament, because of the strong support Purdue will likely receive at the Conseco Fieldhouse.
As Midwestern hoops fans shop for 2011 Big Ten Tournament tickets this week, the regular season will conclude with a colossal match up in Columbus. Wisconsin can pick up a huge confidence boost ahead of the tournament this Sunday, when the Badgers travel to the Schottenstein Center to face Ohio State. Badgers senior Jon Leur would love to cap his Big Ten career bringing the conference tournament title back to Madison. While the three top teams will garner most of the attention prior to the tourney, Michigan State has experience on their side. Senior Spartans Durrell Summers and Kalin Lucas have won plenty of tournament games in their careers, so I wouldn?t count MSU out. Tournament play gets underway in Indy this coming Thursday, March 13th.


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This company in my opinion is a SCAM operated by crooks. This is a fact and anyone can look at the pr history to realise that. Nonetheless, as a trader it will be always a time when FMDA will be ripe again for substantial profit potential. The time is NOT now YET imho and I will wait patiently this time for the next reverse split and the reorganisation...Sold today at a loss my 2050 shares remaining waiting for a pps at or under 0.05 (before a new probable reverse split 1:10?).Despite this tiny loss(2k~) I am still very positive for 2007 and made a very large profit in 2006, thank you.Be very careful here the company has no value.Peace
Dang you sold a few hours too early. You could've had a much smaller loss. I recommend shorting it and riding back down to .50 or less.
Read my past post and you will see that this is not a big loss and I will not play for few $100 plus or minus.Of course, I could have waited a bit more and sold at 0.90 but it makes no difference.http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_F/threadview?m=tm&bn=51294&tid=2989&mid=2992&tof=1&frt=2I am very surprised by the uptick today...If you read the financial with Cornell it is awful and it is BK in about 1 year no more. I am waiting for the right time to trade the $19k profit that I have made this year with FMDA (my loss today was not even $1K sorry for the mistake)Again it is only my opinion and I wish that I will be proven WRONG here. I do not enjoy the financial suffering that Longs have endured here.Peace
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TV Sports Junkies
January 8, 2010 - Al Stephenson
It's a down period for sports nuts who like to watch games on TV. The World Series is over and for many of us we have to wait much too long to get the bad taste of the Yankees winning again out of our mouths.
The college football season is over. A lot of great games took place in this bowl season, but the title game left us a little disappointed. When Texas quarterback Colt McCoy left the game after the Longhorns first offensive series with a shoulder injury, the matchup that all football fans wanted to see was off. Despite the Texas comeback with freshman QB Garrett Gilbert, the game still left a little to be desired.
The NFL regular season is over as is my fantasy league. We do have the playoffs to watch but other than that the pickings are slim. College basketball is an option but the real excitement comes in March. The NBA playoffs would be a possibility but that season doesn't end until summer for crying out loud.
The PGA season got underway yesterday in the Aloha State, but it is going to be Tigerless for the time being. That will take some luster off the game. Daytona is still a few weeks away and that leaves the NHL - and that is unacceptable.
Since there is not much to watch on TV, I've decided to get away from the boredom. I'm leaving in the morning for the Sunshine State and a week of golf. This will be the first of four golf trips that I will take in 2010.
The view from my seat suggests that since there is not much in the way of sports to watch on TV then participating is a much better idea. Fortunately I have a very understanding wife that lets me take these vacations.
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Oh, I agree. Just the fact that CNN is referencing Chernobyl in any context is enough to set people on the path to hyperbolic fear.
Oh, I agree. Just the fact that CNN is referencing Chernobyl in any context is enough to set people on the path to hyperbolic fear.
Thanks for clarifying. I was for a while a bit nervous that there is a development I am not aware of - or Japanese media do not want to broadcast!
American media go into hyperbolic fear-fear-fear mode every time the word "nuclear" is mentioned, and particularly the NY Times.
The best place to get truthful info on this sort of thing is here:
They update every time they get something new, and are neither industry apologists nor fearmongers. Basically, there is no release of radioactive steam, water or whatever material as yet. The fire in the plant that had a fire is out. People in a 10 km (6.21371 miles) radius from the plant should stay indoors. People within a 3km (1.8641 miles) radius have been evacuated. If this were in the US, at some point people within a 10 km radius would be advised to take their iodine pills, but the iaea isn't saying that yet, which points to the fact that there is as yet, no release of radioactive material into the air. (I live within 5 miles of 2 active, 1 inactive nuclear reactor, and a large number of nuclear subs, so we get this lecture frequently from our town's civil defense group.)
It is hard to reach the page today-I'm sure people all over the world are hitting on it. So I'll copy the current status here:
Japan earthquake update (1755 CET)
11 March 2011
Announcements, Featured
Japanese authorities have informed the IAEAs Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) that they have ordered the evacuation of residents within a three-kilometre radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and told people within a 10-kilometre radius to remain indoors.
The Japanese authorities say there has so far been no release of radiation from any of the nuclear power plants affected by todays earthquake and aftershocks.
The IAEA continues to stand ready to provide technical assistance of any kind, should Japan request this, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said.
The IAEAs IEC continues to liaise with the Japanese authorities, and is in full response mode to monitor the situation closely round the clock.
Japan Earthquake Update (1245 CET)
11 March 2011
The IAEAs Incident and Emergency Centre has received information from Japans Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) that a heightened state of alert has been declared at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. NISA says the plant has been shut down and no release of radiation has been detected.
Japanese authorities have also reported a fire at the Onagawa nuclear power plant, which has been extinguished. They say Onagawa, Fukushima-Daini and Tokai nuclear power plants were also shut down automatically, and no radiation release has been detected.
The IAEA received information from its International Seismic Safety Centre that a second earthquake of magnitude 6.5 has struck Japan near the coast of Honshu, near the Tokai plant.
The IAEA is seeking further details on the situation at Fukushima Daiichi and other nuclear power plants and research reactors, including information on off-site and on-site electrical power supplies, cooling systems and the condition of the reactor buildings. Nuclear fuel requires continued cooling even after a plant is shut down.
The IAEA is also seeking information on the status of radioactive sources in the country, such as medical and industrial equipment.
The World Meteorological Organization has informed the IAEA that prevailing winds are blowing eastwards, away from the Japanese coast.
All IAEA staff in Japan, both in the Tokyo office and in nuclear facilities, are confirmed to be safe.
Earthquake Hits Japan (0930 CET)
11 March 2011
The IAEAs Incident and Emergency Centre received information from the International Seismic Safety Centre (ISSC) at around 0815 CET this morning about the earthquake of magnitude 8.9 near the east coast of Honshu, Japan.
The Agency is liaising with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to confirm further details of the situation. Japanese authorities reported that the four nuclear power plants closest to the quake have been safely shut down.
The Agency has sent an offer of Good Offices to Japan, should the country request support.
Current media reports say a tsumani alert has been issued for 50 countries, reaching as far as Central America. The Agency is seeking further information on which countries and nuclear facilities may be affected.
Please refer to this webpage for future updates from the Incident and Emergency Centre regarding this event.
Last edited by dorispulaski; 03-11-2011 at 03:22 PM.
Another IAEA update:
IAEA Director General Expresses Condolences Following Japan Earthquake (2050 CET)
11 March 2011
Announcements, Featured
I would like to express my condolences and sympathies to the people of Japan who have suffered from this earthquake and to the Government of Japan, said IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano.
Japan earthquake update (2030 CET)
11 March 2011
Announcements, Featured
Japanese authorities have informed the IAEAs Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) that todays earthquake and tsunami have cut the supply of off-site power to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In addition, diesel generators intended to provide back-up electricity to the plants cooling system were disabled by tsunami flooding, and efforts to restore the diesel generators are continuing.
At Fukushima Daiichi, officials have declared a nuclear emergency situation, and at the nearby Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, officials have declared a heightened alert condition.
Japanese authorities say there has so far been no release of radiation from any of the nuclear power plants affected by todays earthquake and aftershocks.
The IAEAs IEC continues to liaise with the Japanese authorities, and is in full response mode to monitor the situation closely round the clock.
I was glued to BBC World late into the night and again this morning. They don't fall into the same hyperbolic mode and do provide pretty accurate info ; pretty much what doris has posted above, if the IAEA site stays swamped.
And as to energy disasters that weren't covered in US news, due to the quake & tsunami:
A dam broke, washing away homes in Fukushima prefecture and a massive fire broke out in an oil refinery at Iichihara near Tokyo
To put this disaster in the scale of things, the earthquake that devastated Haiti was only 7.3 on the Richter scale. This earthquake was 8.9. The aftershocks are worse than most earthquakes-one that just struck Nagao was 6.2 and before that there was another of 6.1 at Morioka.Hours after the quake struck with devastating force, TV images showed huge orange balls of flame rolling up into the night sky as fires raged around a petrochemical complex in Sendai.
A massive fire also engulfed an oil refinery in Iichihara near Tokyo.
Because major earthquakes have major aftershocks, continued damage may occur.
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I can't recall when there was an earthquake of 8.9 on the Richter scale which is logarithmic. Each additional point means ten times the energy or amplitude. That was why Doris called Haiti's quake as only 7.3, which unfornately was pretty much cnetred at a city of shabby dwellings. The Japan quake is off land but the major damage is actually caused by the resulting tsunamis. As well, Japan is one of the most densely populated nations on earth. The damages and losses are just tremendous and record breaking.
This morning, CP24 in Toronto reported that this was the 5th strongest earthquake ever measured.
And yes, the scale is logarithmic, but the damage sometimes is not exactly in the epicentre, because the shock wave could spread in linear direction of the centre and if it hits on his way a densely populated area, there the damage could be much larger than in the epicentre, if that place is not populated for example. As you just stated, Skatefiguring, the most casualties were caused by the tsunami wave, and not by the quake itself.
More iaea updates. I'm staying linked to the alert site and doing a refresh when I walk through the office:
Japan Earthquake Update (2210 CET)
11 March 2011
Announcements, Featured
Japanese authorities have informed the IAEAs Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) that officials are working to restore power to the cooling systems of the Unit 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Mobile electricity supplies have arrived at the site.
Japanese officials have also reported that pressure is increasing inside the Unit 1 reactors containment, and the officials have decided to vent the containment to lower the pressure. The controlled release will be filtered to retain radiation within the containment.
Three reactors at the plant were operating at the time of the earthquake, and the water level in each of the reactor vessels remains above the fuel elements, according to Japanese authorities.
The IAEAs IEC continues to liaise with the Japanese authorities, and is in full response mode to monitor the situation closely round the clock.
the whole thing is just devastating. I'm on the other side of the water from Japan in the "Ring of Fire" so I know they've had all the same precautions and preparations we have and then some, but still nothing can prepare you for "the big one". Alaska's watching this very closely. We're pretty much next in line for a big one! praying for all of those out there who are going through this scare and their families.
Ski was stationed in Kodiak just after the last big Alaska earthquake. The town was flattened, nearly everyone was living in trailers, and the phone book was 2 pages long.
I hope that any other Alaska earthquakes have their epicenters far from Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula...and Kodiak.
I posted this in the other thread about the earthquake in Japan too.
Ottavio Cinquanta held a press conference (in Inzell, Germany) and confirmed that the ISU will discuss with the JSF and make a decision next week, regarding whether to hold the WC in Tokyo or not, siting the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the explosion in Fukushima-Dai'ichi Nuclear Power Station as reasons for such consideration.
He stated that the situation had changed since yesterday as they had received the information about the possible risk related to nuclear radioactivity.
The ISU is pretty funny--the vapor in question is a long way from Tokyo.
Here's a rollup of current updates from the power companies (within the last hour). This should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt, (perhaps not alarmist enough) from the way I would take US media, but they are the ones most in touch with the situation also.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company says it has successfully vented the containment of unit 1 at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, according to several industry sources.
Japans chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano, told a news conference that there was an explosion at Fukushima-Daiichi at 15:36 local time, but he said it has not affected the reactors primary system or its containment, the news service NucNet reported this morning.
Edano said there was hydrogen explosion in the space between the concrete containment and the reactors primary system, but the explosion did not damage the containment function or the reactor system, the report said. A portion of the fuel in the reactor was uncovered and TEPCO is using borated seawater to cover the fuel. Radiation measurements at the site boundary of Fukushima Daiichi were measured at 11 millrem per hour, but were reduced to 7 millirem per hour a few hours after the explosion.
TEPCO also is preparing to vent the containment structures at Fukushima Daiichi 2 and 3, as of Saturday morning.
Edano said, "We've confirmed that the reactor container was not damaged. The explosion didn't occur inside the reactor container. As such there was no large amount of radiation leakage outside.,"
The Japanese government expanded the evacuation zone around the facility to 20 kilometers, or about 12 miles.
Backup diesel generators and backup batteries have arrived at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors.
U.S. support to Japan for the nuclear plant events and earthquake includes assistance from the industry and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
TEPCO also is working to maintain safe condition of Fukushima Daini units 1, 2 and 3, which have lost reactor pressure suppression function.
The nuclear facilities were damaged in a magnitude 8.9 earthquake on March 11, centered offshore of the Sendai region, which contains the capital Tokyo. Serious secondary effects followed including a significant tsunami, significant aftershocks and a major fire at a fossil fuel installation.
NEI is coordinating with the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) this morning and will provide a further update to the situation in Japan as soon as possible.
Pressure inside the containment of Unit 1 at Fukushima Daiichi reportedly has been increasing over the time that emergency core cooling systems have not been active. TEPCO reported at 2 a.m. local time that pressure had increased beyond plant reference levels, but was within engineered limits. The company said it will reduce the pressure within containment "for those units that cannot confirm certain level of water injection" by the safety systems. "We will endeavor to restore the units and continue monitoring the environment of the site periphery," TEPCO's press release states.
The Federation of Electric Power Companies in Japan released a statement indicating that slightly radioactive vapor will be passed through a filtering system and emitted outside via a ventilation stack. TEPCO is confident that this controlled release will help maintain the integrity of the reactor containment vessel while having no impact on health or the environment.
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Doris and the rest of you, thanks for the information. I have to hope that a country like Japan, which is so stringent about buildings being constructed to earthquake code, would be at least as demanding in the design of nuclear plants. Even if the threat is exaggerated, it's still unsettling. As several of you pointed out, in a country with that kind of population density, the danger is exponentially greater in almost every location. I've never heard of Sendai, and now I read that it has a population of a million people. Many major cities in the U.S., including San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, and Baltimore, don't have a million people. One of the saddest pieces of news I've read today is that several commuter trains are simply missing. At least maybe the nuclear outcome will be less catastrophic than we fear.


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History was made today when the privately owned Space X Dragon Capsule was successfully captured by the International Space Stations robotic armed and docked with the station. "We captured the dragon by the tail" station personnel proclaimed today marking the first of many missions by the private company to the ISS. The docking today is looked at to be a beta test with more resupplying missions ahead and eventually manned flight some years later.
Space X is one of four companies that are venturing to fill the gap left behind by the retirement of the Space Shuttle program last year and a lucrative contract with NASA on resupplying the station. Currently American Astronauts must rely on Russian rockets to travel to the ISS but with the successful proof of concept launch and docking today Space X is looking to have men and women riding the back of their Dragon as soon as possible.


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Cancers of the Oral Cavity and Pharynx
Cancers of the Oral Cavity and Pharynx
This chapter reviews the epidemiology of cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, lip, and salivary glands. In the United States (1996–2000), invasive cancers of the OCP/lip/salivary gland account for 2.7% of cancers among men and 1.5% of cancers among women. It is estimated that 27,700 cases will be diagnosed with these malignancies in the United States in 2003 and about 7,200 will die from these cancers. The lifetime risk of being diagnosed with OCP/lip/salivary gland cancers for a US male is 1.4% and 0.7% for a US female.
Keywords: oral cavity, pharynx, lip cancer, salivary gland, cancer risk, cancer epidemiology, cancer prevention
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Brighten Your Mornings: Cherry Orange OatmealElizabeth Stark
In warmer weather, I'm happy with cereal. But when the winter chill sets in, I need a big bowl of warm comfort to start my day. Plain old oatmeal is great, but with a few quick steps, you can dress it up and make it something special. Tart Montgomery dried cherries and a hint of orange zest bring tangy notes to everyday oatmeal. I also add a little milk and honey for perfect, creamy sweetness.
Oatmeal with Dried Cherries and Oranges
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons old fashioned oats
1 1/2 cups water
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup dried cherries
1 teaspoon orange zest
1/3 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
orange slices for garnish
Bring water and salt to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add the oats, boil briefly, then reduce to a simmer. Simmer for five minutes, stirring occasionally. After 2 minutes, add the dried cherries.
Once the oats are cooked through, add the orange zest, milk, and honey.
Serve with oranges slices.


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Sorensen nominated for award
Published 23/10/2012 | 15:08
FINGAL cricketer Max Sorensen is one of three international players who have been short-listed for the Aengus Fanning International Emerging Player of the Year's award.
Sorensen (26) was called into the Ireland squad for the first time in February of this year and was the leading wicket taker in the category, taking 37 wickets in his 22 appearances at an average of just 17.46.
He won the Man of the Match award in the ICC World Twenty20 play-off win against Namibia, a victory which secured Ireland's place in Sri Lanka, and for good measure he helped his club The Hills clinch the Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup title for the first time. The other nominess are James Shannon (22) who played 10 times in the voting period, scoring 356 runs at 27.38, and Stuart Thompson who played 13 times, scoring 340 at 37.78 and taking 23 wickets at an average of 19.
The Aengus Fanning award is named in honour of the former Sunday Independent editor and cricketing enthusiast Aengus Fanning, who died earlier this year following a short illness. Ireland coach Phil Simmons was fulsome in his praise for the three nominees, saying: 'The three guys have been excellent since their introduction into senior international cricket and acquitted themselves superbly. Their application and talent have seen them turn in valuable performances from the outset. 'James Shannon batted superbly against South Africa A and showed just how strong his technique is.
Stuart Thompson has graduated from the A ranks and proven himself capable of taking big wickets. And Max Sorensen has a magnificent attitude and that work ethic coupled with ability is a potent combination. I expect him to be a regular fixture in the senior ranks for many years to come.' The inaugural RSA Cricket Ireland Awards will take place in the Round Room of the Mansion House on November 16th and tickets are available now for this celebration of Irish cricket hosted by Today FM's Matt Cooper. Further details at http://www.cricketireland.ie/awards.


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So, this morning has been spent annoyed with my husband bc right now he's out fishing with his brother in law while I'm at home chained to two children and a messy house. I wanted to post on facebook that it sure would be nice if I could have a day to spend doing what I want to do and not have to worry about what my kids are getting into, how much work needs to be done on the house, etc, etc, etc... and then it dawned on me... I have no idea what I would do with that time. None. The only things I can think of involve my husband (fishing or camping) or involve my kids (scrapbooking - I would scrap pictures of them). I have zero things that I do or would do that would not involve someone else and it's depressing as hell.
I don't go partying. I don't have any friends so hanging out with the girls isn't possible (I truly don't have any friends... I have close acquaintances, but no one I would call up and say "hey, let's go hang out or do this or do that". I have two really good friends, but they live in Arkansas or Florida and I never see them).
Even before I had kids, all I did was clean the house, sit around, do homework b/c I'm always in freaking school.
I have no life. No identity. Nothing that defines me except for my kids. No hobbies. No interests. Nothing to fill my days except my kids. If I didn't spend my whole day with my kids, I have no freaking clue what I would do with my time.
So I guess for the time being, I'll fold some more laundry... *sigh*