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Infinite Rehypothecation
KMO welcomes Nicole Foss (AKA Stoneleigh of the Automatic Earth blog) to the C-Realm to discuss the need for re-localization, something which central authorities will work to quash lest it interfere with the conveyance of wealth from the periphery to the center. Nicole explains what she means when she describes cash as "a pile of unmade choices" and why she cannot offer her uncomplicated support for political movements like the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street. She does voice her strong support for permaculture and for restoring soil fertility. Music by Andrew Woods.
The Storm Surge of Decentralization
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Happy New Year from The Automatic Earth!
One of our consistent themes at TAE has been not expecting solutions to come from the top down. Existing centralized systems depend on dwindling tax revenues, which will dry up to a tremendous extent over the next few years as economic activity falls off a cliff and property prices plummet.
We have already seen cuts to services and increases in taxes and user fees, and we can expect a great deal more of that dynamic as central authorities emulate hypothermic bodies. In other words, they will cut off the circulation to the fingers and toes in order to preserve the body temperature of the core. This is, of course, a survival strategy, from the point of view of the core. But it does nothing good for the prospects of ordinary people, who represent the fingers and toes.
Centralized systems also depend on the political legitimacy that has been conferred upon them as a result of public trust in them to serve the common interest. This trust is rapidly breaking down in an ever-expanding list of places, as ordinary people realize that their interests have been betrayed in favour of the well connected.
Those who played fraudulent ponzi games with other people's money, and were in the best position to know what could result, have been bailed out time and time again, while the little guy has been told to expect more austerity measures. Protest is inevitable as political legitimacy fades. We are already seeing it spread like wildfire, which is exactly what one would expect given that human beings internalize, reflect and act on the emotions of others. Collective social mood that turns on a dime is very much part of what it means to be human.
The job of national and international politicians in contractionary times is typically to make a bad situation worse as expensively as possible, as they attempt to rescue the dying paradigm that has conveyed so much personal advantage in their direction. That paradigm is one of centralization – the accumulation of surpluses from a broad periphery at the centre of power.
However, the wealth conveyors of the past are breaking down, meaning that the periphery that can be drawn upon is shrinking. As the periphery shrinks, the remaining region within the grip of power can expect to be squeezed harder and harder. 'Twas ever thus. Rome did the same thing, squeezing the peasants for tithes until they abandoned their land and threw in their lot with the surrounding barbarians.
Even if politicians were informed of what is unfolding on their watch, understood it, and were minded to act in favour of the common man as a result (which is itself unlikely), there would be nothing they could do. They are too deeply embedded in a system which is thoroughly hostage to vested interests and characterized by an extreme inertia that would drastically limit their freedom of action.
January 3 2012: The Storm Surge of Decentralization
The Trust Horizon
Growing Mistrust for Government in the U.S.
KunstlerCast #190 – January 19, 2012
JHK discusses the concept of "The Trust Horizon," which he first came across on one of his favorite blogs, The Automatic Earth blog. As the economy contracts, Americans are gazing at the "Trust Horizon" for big government. On the other hand, more people are forging their own trust networks at a very local level. Topics include: local currencies, bartering, small transport networks, basic local healthcare and permaculture initiatives.
The Storm Surge of Decentralization
The Automatic Earth – January 3, 2012
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How Black is the Japanese Nuclear Swan?
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Ilargi: You may not be have been aware of it until now, but The Automatic Earth has an in-house full-blown nuclear safety expert.
The subject of Stoneleigh's master thesis at the law faculty of Warwick University in Coventry, England, where she studied International Law in Development, was nuclear safety research.
After graduating in 1997, she became a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where her research field was power systems, with a specific focus on nuclear safety in Eastern Europe.The monograph she wrote sets the nuclear safety debate in the political and economic context of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It looks at the technical aspects of nuclear safety, safety upgrade programs, safety culture and the human factor, regulation at all levels and bargaining over reactor closures.It was published in 1999 under the title Nuclear Safety and International Governance: Russia and Eastern Europe, and it remains available online here at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Here's her analysis of the situation in Japan:
The Japanese earthquake is a tragedy of epic proportions in so many ways. The situation continues to evolve, and the full scope of the disaster will not be understood for a long time.
One critical aspect is the effect on Japan's nuclear industry, which provides over 30% of the country's electricity from 54 reactors. Some of the largest nuclear plants in the world (Fukushima Dai-ichi and Fukushima Dai-ni, 4696 MW and 4400 MW, respectively) are located close to the epicentre, and on the coast, directly in the path of the resulting tsunami:
A state of emergency has been declared for five reactors, with the worst affected reactors being the forty year old Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) at Fukushima Dai-ichi, 240 km north of Tokyo. These reactors shut down, as the control rods were automatically inserted to dampen the nuclear reaction (SCRAM). At least two reactors experienced a station blackout, which prevented the cooling system from functioning (a loss of coolant, or LOCA accident).
Without the ability to cool the core, the risk is a meltdown, with the potential for explosions resulting from steam or hydrogen. Even after the cessation of a nuclear chain reaction, heat from radioactive decay continues to be produced, and this heat needs to be dispersed in order to avoid a meltdown of the components of the core. Workers have been desperately trying to cool the reactor cores at units 1 and 3, but there has already been an explosion at Fukushima 1. Footage of the plant shows only the skeleton of the building remains. An evacuation zone has been expanded from 10km to 20km, and close to 200.000 people have been evacuated from the area.
Reactors are equipped with multiple cooling systems as part of the defence in depth design principle. The idea is that there should be redundant systems with no components in common, and therefore (theoretically) no possibility for common mode failures. Each system should be capable of independently preventing a design-basis accident.
Japan is a sophisticated country with a long history of nuclear power, and also a long history of seismic activity. One could argue that this is Japan's Hurricane Katrina moment, in that a predictable scenario was not adequately prepared for in advance despite the potential for very severe consequences.
The design-basis accident for Fukushima did not include earthquakes of the magnitude of this event (recently upgraded to 9.0 on the Richter scale).
Company documents show that Tokyo Electric tested the Fukushima plant to withstand a maximum seismic jolt lower than Friday's 8.9 earthquake. Tepco's last safety test of nuclear power plant Number 1—one that is currently in danger of meltdown—was done at a seismic magnitude the company considered the highest possible, but in fact turned out to be lower than Friday's quake. The information comes from the company's "Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 Updated Safety Measures" documents written in Japanese in 2010 and 2009.The documents were reviewed by Dow Jones. The company said in the documents that 7.9 was the highest magnitude for which they tested the safety for their No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear power plants in Fukushima. Simultaneous seismic activity along the three tectonic plates in the sea east of the plants—the epicenter of Friday's quake—wouldn't surpass 7.9, according to the company's presentation. The company based its models partly on previous seismic activity in the area, including a 7.0 earthquake in May 1938 and two simultaneous earthquakes of 7.3 and 7.5 on November 5 of the same year.
Fukushima 1 Before The Tsunami
Fukushima 1 After The Tsunami
The Fukushima 1 plant was equipped with 13 diesel back-up generators to power the Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS), but all of these failed. Battery back-ups are available, but these function only for a few hours. Without the ability to cool the reactor, the outcome is a meltdown, which can occur rapidly after the failure of cooling:
- Core uncovery. In the event of a transient, upset, emergency, or limiting fault, LWRs are designed to automatically SCRAM (a SCRAM being the immediate and full insertion of all control rods) and spin up the ECCS. This greatly reduces reactor thermal power (but does not remove it completely); this delays core "uncovery", which is defined as the point when the fuel rods are no longer covered by coolant and can begin to heat up.
As Kuan states: "In a small-break LOCA with no emergency core coolant injection, core uncovery generally begins approximately an hour after the initiation of the break. If the reactor coolant pumps are not running, the upper part of the core will be exposed to a steam environment and heatup of the core will begin. However, if the coolant pumps are running, the core will be cooled by a two-phase mixture of steam and water, and heatup of the fuel rods will be delayed until almost all of the water in the two-phase mixture is vaporized. The TMI-2 accident showed that operation of reactor coolant pumps may be sustained for up to approximately two hours to deliver a two phase mixture that can prevent core heatup."
Other aspects of defence in depth failed as well:
1st layer of defense is the inert, ceramic quality of the uranium oxide itself. 2nd layer is the air tight zirkonium alloy of the fuel rod. 3rd layer is the reactor pressure vessel made of steel more than a dozen centimeters thick. 4th layer is the pressure resistant, air tight containment building. 5th layer is the exclusion zone around the reactor.
The incident is being described as a hydrogen explosion. The official line is that the outer containment building was destroyed, but that the reactor vessel itself remains intact:
Top government officials assured the nation that an explosion that took place Saturday at one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant merely knocked down the walls of its external concrete building, and that the reactor and the containment structure surrounding it remained intact.
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission analysts explain the hydrogen production process under accident conditions:
Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) member Peter Bradford added, "The other thing that happens is that the cladding, which is just the outside of the tube, at a high enough temperature interacts with the water. It's essentially a high-speed rusting, where the zirconium becomes zirconium oxide and the hydrogen is set free. And hydrogen at the right concentration in an atmosphere is either flammable or explosive."
"Hydrogen combustion would not occur necessarily in the containment building," Bergeron pointed out, "which is inert—it doesn't have any oxygen—but they have had to vent the containment, because this pressure is building up from all this steam. And so the hydrogen is being vented with the steam and it's entering some area, some building, where there is oxygen, and that's where the explosion took place."
A hydrogen release is very much part of a meltdown scenario, and difficult to imagine hydrogen explosion scenarios on the scale of what was seen at Fukushima 1 that would not involve compromising the reactor pressure vessel:
If hydrogen were allowed to build up within the containment, it could lead to a deflagration event. The numerous catalytic hydrogen recombiners located within the reactor core and containment will prevent this from occurring; however, prior to the installation of these recombiners in the 1980s, the Three Mile Island containment (in 1979) suffered a massive hydrogen explosion event in the accident there.
The containment withstood this event and no radioactivity was released by the hydrogen explosion, clearly demonstrating the level of punishment that containments can take, and validating the industry's approach of defence in depth against all contingencies. Some, however, do not accept the Three Mile Island incident as sufficient proof that a hydrogen deflagration event will not result in containment breach.
One speculative scenario may be alpha-mode failure. This would involve an explosion sufficient to blow the head off the reactor pressure vessel, launching it at the outer containment system, which could then be breached as a result. The odds of this are considered low, but many supposedly very low probability events have in fact occurred at nuclear installations.
Given the detection of radioactive caesium, which could only have come from inside exposed fuel rods beginning to burn, and the subsequent violent explosion, it is difficult to imagine scenarios not involving substantial destruction of the reactor. Indeed it has been admitted that a major accident has occurred in one unit and another is at risk:
Meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors: Japan government
Japan's top government spokesman Yukio Edano said Sunday that radioactive meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors of the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant. Asked in a press conference whether meltdowns had occurred, Edano said "we are acting on the assumption that there is a high possibility that one has occurred" in the plant's number-one reactor. "As for the number-three reactor, we are acting on the assumption that it is possible," he said.
There are 6 reactors at Fukushima 1 and an additional 4 at nearby Fukushima 2. Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) is now indicating that there are cooling problems and dangerous pressure increases at several of these units:
Tokyo Electric said Saturday another nuclear-power plant nearby, Fukushima Dai-ni, was experiencing rises of pressure inside its four reactors. A state of emergency was called and precautionary evacuations ordered. The government has ordered the utility to release "potentially radioactive vapor" from the reactors, but hasn't confirmed any elevated radiation around the plant.
Loss of cooling ability appears to be the common problem:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator and owner of Fukushima nuclear plants, said early on Sunday that a sixth reactor at the nuclear power plants has lost its ability to cool the reactor core since Friday's quake. The No. 3 reactor at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant lost the cooling function after No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the No. 1 plant and No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 at the No. 2 plant had suffered the same trouble.
Kodama said the cooling system had failed at three of the four such units of the Daini plant [Fukushima 2]. Temperatures of the coolant water in that plant's reactors soared to above 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit), Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported, an indication that the cooling system wasn't working.
Containment structures are being flooded with seawater and boric acid as a desperation move to lower the temperature and poison any capacity for further nuclear reactivity. The latter is important to absorb neutrons in order to avoid incidences of potential criticality during a meltdown. Such an event would have the potential to cause much more widespread releases of radiation.
There seems to be considerable evidence that we are closer to the beginning of this disaster than to the end, and already it is almost unprecedented in scope.
"If this accident stops right now it will already be one of the three worst accidents we have ever had at a nuclear power plant in the history of nuclear power," said Joseph Cirincione, an expert on nuclear materials and president of the U.S.-based Ploughshares Fund, a firm involved in security and peace funding.
Comparisons are being made with the accident at Chernobyl, but there are a number of very important differences, notably in terms of reactor design, and therefore accident implications. Nuclear safety in the former Soviet Union was once my research field (see Nuclear Safety and International Governance: Russia and Eastern Europe), and the specifics of the accident at Chernobyl could not be replicated in Japan. The risk in Japan is primarily meltdown, not a Chernobyl-style run-away nuclear reaction.
RBMK (Reaktor bolshoy moshchnosty kanalny [high-power channel reactor]), Chernobyl-type reactors have a very large positive void coefficient, meaning that reactivity increases as a positive feedback loop. The presence of steam from overheating increases reactivity, which increases steam production. The graphite moderator in an RBMK is flammable, and RBMKs also have no containment system. If two or three of the 1700 channels in an RBMK are breached, the steam pressure will lift the lid, introducing air, while shearing the remaining tubes. Essentially, the reactor will explode on a sharp spike of reactivity. The moderator will catch fire, and a nuclear volcano will be the result. At Chernobyl, some 50 million Curies of radiation was released over several days.
Like the Fukushima incident, Chernobyl began with a loss of power, undertaken in that case as a test of safety systems commissioned long after the reactor became operational (the Chernobyl reactor had been in a state of critical vulnerability to blackout for two years at the time of the accident.) It could have been worse, however. Attempts to extinguish the fire at Chernobyl 4 came very close to causing a loss of power to the other three reactors at the site, which could easily have sent four reactors into into a critical state rather than one.
Non-technical comparisons between Fukushima and Chernobyl are more apt, specifically in terms of governance in the nuclear industry and complacency as to risk. Nuclear insiders in many jurisdictions are notorious for being an unaccountable power unto themselves, and failing to release critical information publicly.
The Soviet nuclear bureaucracy ignored obvious risks and concealed accidents wherever possible. While nothing remotely like so serious has occurred previously in Japan, Fukushima 1 has been at the centre of transparency problems in the Japanese nuclear industry before. In 2002, the president and four executives of Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO) were forced to resign over the falsification of repair records.
Japan's nuclear power operator has chequered past
The company was suspected of 29 cases involving falsified repair records at nuclear reactors. It had to stop operations at five reactors, including the two damaged in the latest tremor, for safety inspections. A few years later it ran into trouble again over accusations of falsifying data.
In late 2006, the government ordered TEPCO to check past data after it reported that it had found falsification of coolant water temperatures at its Fukushima Daiichi plant in 1985 and 1988, and that the tweaked data was used in mandatory inspections at the plant, which were completed in October 2005.
In addition, the Japanese government had been repeatedly warned about seismic risks:
[..] the real embarrassment for the Japanese government is not so much the nature of the accident but the fact it was warned long ago about the risks it faced in building nuclear plants in areas of intense seismic activity. Several years ago, the seismologist Ishibashi Katsuhiko stated, specifically, that such an accident was highly likely to occur. Nuclear power plants in Japan have a "fundamental vulnerability" to major earthquakes, Katsuhiko said in 2007. The government, the power industry and the academic community had seriously underestimated the potential risks posed by major quakes.
Katsuhiko, who is professor of urban safety at Kobe University, has highlighted three incidents at reactors between 2005 and 2007. Atomic plants at Onagawa, Shika and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa were all struck by earthquakes that triggered tremors stronger than those to which the reactor had been designed to survive.
In the case of the incident at the Kushiwazaki reactor in northwestern Japan, a 6.8-scale earthquake on 16 July 2007 set off a fire that blazed for two hours and allowed radioactive water to leak from the plant. However, no action was taken in the wake of any of these incidents despite Katsuhiko's warning at the time that the nation's reactors had "fatal flaws" in their design[..] The trouble is, says Katsuhiko, that Japan began building up its atomic energy system 40 years ago, when seismic activity in the country was comparatively low. This affected the designs of plants which were not built to robust enough standards, the seismologist argues.
Many countries are currently looking to nuclear power to carry the load as energy production from conventional fossil fuels declines. Japan has previously unveiled very ambitious plans to expand nuclear capacity:
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has modelled a 54 percent reduction in CO2 emissions from 2000 levels by 2050, leading on to a 90 percent reduction by 2100. This would lead to nuclear energy contributing about 60 percent of primary energy in 2100 (compared with 10 percent now), 10 percent from renewables (now 5 percent) and 30 percent fossil fuels (now 85 percent).
Proponents argue that the energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for nuclear power is sufficient to power our societies, that nuclear power can be scaled up quickly enough as fossil fuel supplies decline, that there will be sufficient uranium reserves for a massive expansion of capacity, that nuclear is the only option for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and that nuclear power can be operated with no safety concerns through probabilistic safety assessment (PSA).
I disagree with all these assertions. Looking at the full life-cycle energy inputs for nuclear power, it seems to be barely above the minimum EROEI for maintaining society, and the costs (in both money and energy terms) are front-loaded.Scaling up nuclear capacity takes extrordinary amounts of both money and time. While construction can be speeded up, where this has been done (as it was in Russia), the deleterious effect on construction standards was significant. Uranium reserves, especially the high-grade ores, are depleting rapidly. The reduction in carbon dioxide emissions over the full life-cycle do not impress me. In addition, nuclear authorities make risk decisions without informing the public. They have consistently made risk calculations that have grossly underestimated the potential for accidents of the kind that can have generational impacts.
In my view, nuclear power represents an unjustified faith in the power of human societies to control extremely complex technologies over the very long term. Any activity requiring a great deal of complex and cooperative control will do badly in difficult economic times.Also, no human society has ever lasted for as long as nuclear waste must be looked after. It needs to be held in pools on site for perhaps a hundred years in order to cool down enough for permanent disposal, assuming a form of permanent disposal could be conceived of, approved and developed. During this period, the knowledge as to how this must be done will need to be maintained, and this may be more difficult than is currently supposed.
We need to evaluate the potential for a nuclear future in light of the disaster in Japan. This was not unpredictable, and should have been accounted for in any realistic assessment of nuclear potential. It cannot realistically be described as a black swan event.
Japan has few energy alternatives, as it lacks indigenous energy reserves and must import 80% of its energy requirements. It was therefore prepared to make Faustian bargains despite what should have been obvious risks. The impact of the loss of so much capacity, much of it probably permanently, on available electric power following the accident is very likely to impede Japan's ability to recover from this disaster, potentially strengthening the parallels with America's Hurricane Katrina.
We need to assess the risks inherent in using nuclear power in other locations, whether or not the risk they face is seismic (see Metsamor in Armenia, for instance, or Diablo Canyon in California). There are risks in many areas, most of which are grounded in human behaviour, either at the design stage or the operational phase. Human behaviour can easily turn what should be a one in one hundred thousand reactor-year event in to something all too likely within a human lifespan. Nuclear power may allow us to cushion the coming decline in fossil fuel availability, but only at a potentially very high price.
March 13 2011: How Black is the Japanese Nuclear Swan?


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Mike Schmid has told revitalised Esher to play without fear in Sunday's big clash at Championship pacesetters Bristol.
The Surrey side finished the year on a huge high by claiming their first win of the campaign in a 24-12 home victory over his old side Rotherham last weekend.
That followed the stunning 13-13 draw at high-flying local rivals London Welsh on Boxing Day that ended a run of 14 straight defeats.
Now Schmid has called for the same approach at mighty Bristol as Esher aim to pull off a shock win at one of England's most famous clubs.
Esher's director of rugby admitted: "We always said when we get most of our players back we would be strong enough to be competitive in this league and it was a huge win for us against Rotherham.
"We showed our character and the commitment was superb. It was a well-deserved win which has re-energised the guys.
"Obviously playing Bristol away is a big game for anyone but I want the boys to let it all hang out and play our own brand of rugby.
"We must just go out there and play as hard as we can and see what happens."
Esher have just six league games remaining and badly need victories with each one worth a point going into the end-of-season relegation play-offs in March.
Fellow strugglers Moseley and Plymouth have both won five games while local rivals London Scottish have four victories.
Schmid said: "Ideally we want to get two or three more wins from our remaining games to keep pace with the other teams before the play-offs."
Esher's revival has been coincided with the recent return of several players from injury with Dave Millard and Ian Kench now fully fit.
Schmid has also been boosted by the availability of several dual-registered Harlequins players with lock Charlie Matthews, full-back Ross Chisholm, prop Will Collier and wing Charlie Walker all featuring against Rotherham.
Esher have also been lifted by the loan signing of London Irish lock Tom Alexander, who can also play in the back row.
Schmid added: "Tom's a gem and has been a real find for us. He's on a week-to-week loan but we hope we can have him for the rest of the season.
"It's also been great to get players like Dave Millard and Ian Kench back from injury while the Quins boys have been fantastic."
Kench scored a try in the victory over Rotherham with Canada star Phil Mackenzie also touching down. Mark Atkinson booted two penalties with Pete Synnott also kicking two and adding a conversion.
Esher line-up: 15 Ross Chisholm, 14 Andy Wright, 13 Tom Cheeseman (Capt), 12 Arran Cruickshanks, 11 Charlie Walker,10 Mark Atkinson, 9 Jamie Mackenzie, 1 Cameron Zeiss, 2 James Campbell, 3 Will Collier, 4 Ian Kench, 5 Charlie Matthews, 6 Tom Alexander, 7 Peter Synnott, 8 Mike Macfarlane.
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TK560 (Jim) has made his suit I believe from HIPS for his fan films. It also depends on thicknesess too.
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You buying a new suit??
Hey Bro,dedending on the thickness,Poltstrene can make awesome armor. But what most people don't know or want to admit, is that Polystrene will warp when trooping in the heat.
Styrene has the ability to mold in sharper details than ABS, but the trade-off is that it is less durable. However, I believe it's the stuff that was used in the movies if you're going for accuracy.
I own styrene TE armor, and have trooped in it many time with no problems.
If the Polystrene is a good thickness?......Then you won't have any problems.
AND I do agree with hansoloway.....Styrene does have the ability to make sharper details than ABS.
considering the rough treatment "trooping" armor gets, i went with an ABS AP suit instead of the TE. details aren't as sharp, but it's rugged :)
ABS is the way to go BRO !!!!!


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Place: Grizzley Bowl Area in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park
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Fatalities: 2
Summary: 3 skiers caught and buried, 2 killed
AP: Outdoor Research Founder Killed in Avalanche
Nelson, B.C. (Ski Press)-The Associated Press reported that Ron Gregg, owner of Outdoor Research outdoor clothing apparel, was killed in an avalanche in British Columbia Monday.
Gregg, 54, of Seattle, and James Schmid, 40, an assistant attorney general, died when an avalanche hit their skiing party in the Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park near Nelson, B.C.
The avalanche was reported to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about 2 p.m. Monday.
The AP reports that a wall of snow buried three of the six people in the party when they skied ahead of their companions, according to Constable Heather Macdonald. One man, buried only to his shoulders, managed to dig free with a shovel. The four skiers then tried to rescue Gregg and Schmid, who were buried under several feet of snow, but the men were dead when their colleagues reached them. (? 2003 Ski Press Media, Inc).
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By LINDA BRILL / KING 5 News and Associated Press
NELSON, British Columbia - One of two Seattle men killed in a British Columbia avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park owned an outdoor equipment company.
Ronald Gregg, 54, died along with James Schmid, 42, after being buried in a slide Monday afternoon in the Grizzly Bowl area of the park, about 12 miles north of Nelson in southeastern British Columbia.
In 1979, Gregg founded Outdoor Research Inc., a Seattle company that makes outdoor equipment and clothing. The privately held company employs about 200 workers.
An avalanche in the Grizzly Bowl area of Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in southeast British Columbia rolled over four skiers, killing two of them Monday afternoon.
Gregg was an experienced skier who constantly tested his company's products around the world, said his brother, Bob Gregg.
"He's climbed most of the major peaks around the world, and that was what led him to critiquing other products that were available on the market. I think he finally tired of the family saying ?if you?re so smart why don?t you build it yourself,?" said Bob Gregg, Ron?s brother.
The two Americans were with another pair of skiers when they were hit by the avalanche at about 2 p.m. Monday, Bob Gregg said.
"My understanding is one of the skiers was not involved at all," he added. "The second skier was involved and was able to extricate himself from the avalanche and he was the one who found my brother, but not in time."
Royal Canadian Mounted Police and B.C. parks officials assisted in the search effort on Monday. The British Columbia's coroner's service was also investigating.
Bob Gregg was named president of Outdoor Research on Tuesday by the four-member board of directors.
Ron Gregg had a doctorate in nuclear physics from the California Institute of Technology. "He was a borderline genius," Bob Gregg said.
He leaves behind his wife, Sharon, and two sisters, Lonna and Laurie, all of Seattle.
Nineteen people have now been killed by avalanches in the B.C.
back country since October, said Evan Manners, operations manager of the Canadian Avalanche Association, which provides warning bulletins three times weekly.
Kokanee Glacier park is about 100 miles south of Glacier National Park near Revelstoke, where seven Calgary-area teenagers were killed last month in an avalanche while on a high school ski trip.
An avalanche also killed three Americans and four Canadians on Jan. 20 while they skied on provincial government land about 18 miles from the site where the Alberta teenagers were killed.
The warning bulletin for an area including the provincial park where Monday's slide occurred recently had been downgraded to high from extreme, Manners said.
The rating for most of western Canada last week was extreme because of a "significant storm that came in the previous week
Manners said. "Now we're slowly improving."
The danger rating in effect at the time of the avalanche indicates "that's a time when serious caution needs to be exercised if you are out there at all," he said.
The hazard rating was downgraded on March 14, he said.
The B.C. government recently agreed to fund extraordinary risk advisory bulletins put out by the association, meaning that if something significantly changes between the usual three weekly bulletins - such as freezing rain, severe temperature variations or increased avalanche activity - the provincial cash will fund additional bulletins.
The provincial government also launched a review of avalanche safety in the back country, bringing together scientists and ski industry groups.
?We have been waiting for this call, you might say, for 20-plus years,? said Bob Gregg. ?And as sad as it is - and it only happened yesterday - the immediate thoughts that went through our mind was thank God it wasn?t a car accident. Thank God it wasn?t a silly accident, or cancer or something like that. He did truly die as he lived ? enjoying the outdoors.?
Eighteen people have now been killed in B.C. avalanches this winter, including 14 in the Revelstoke region, about 90 miles north of Nelson.
Seven teens from Calgary were killed in Glacier Park on Feb. 1, and seven skiers and snowboarders were killed in the backcountry north of Revelstoke on Jan. 20.
The review, expected to completed by June 30, will look at avalanche forecasting and warning bulletins, public awareness and research.


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Social worlds tend to settle. And once they settle, a fine coating of inevitability forms around them.
Social worlds tend to settle. And once they settle, a fine coating of inevitability forms around them.
Who is what to whom under what circumstances as constrained by what rules, eventually this is completely "done." We're weighted down by stasis.
Case in point? A couple I saw years and years ago in a restaurant. They were in their 70s. I guessed they had been married a long time. Occasionally, he would raise his eyebrows and she would smile. They had shared this meal so many times it was terra completely cognito. Jokes didn't need telling. They just need referencing. This tiny, social world had settled. They were now riding the inevitability through to dessert, and, no, there weren't going to be any surprises there either.
What happens to couples happens to corporations, universities, cities, countries. Countries? Sure, Canada. Once dynamic, these social worlds have settled into stasis. They are now going through the motions, even when those represent a bad, lifeless idea.
What these static worlds need are provocations, events that "short out" the stasis, so to say. People are suddenly released from the confinement of their settled social world. They are not freed for long, and revolutionaries are inclined to believe that this moment of liberation will last for longer than it does. But there has been an "interrupt" as the psychologists call it. For a moment, the inevitability cracks, the rules become clear, the stasis is suspended.
There are a million possible provocations. Some years ago, Abby Hoffman showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills. [Please share other examples in Comments.] There are species of art and/or politics that live for the provocation that will accomplish through imagination what cannot be accomplishment through more structural economic, political and social change. Some of these groups believe in an "open sesame" event, the one perfect provocation that will set all the dominos tumbling till real and lasting change is accomplished. This provocation may exist, but it will take a lot of very careful thinking and experiment to discover what it is.
This is where pie comes in. A couple of years ago, a group of people stood on a street corner in Belfast, Maine, and handed hand slices of pie, pecan, pumpkin and apple, to passers-by. "The idea was to spur community and conversation, one slice at a time." (in Edge, below.)
Pie is an interrupt. It forces people out of that habitual frame of mind, the little script that reads, "Ok, that's the shopping done, now I have to get to the library and pick up Betty at 4:00." Oh, what's this? Pie? And before you know it, you are sharing pie and a joke with the guy who coaches Becky, your daughter's best friend.. You are broken out of your routines, out of stasis.
What happens next depends upon the skill of the pieman. In this case the pieman is Project M, something established as part of the "design for good" movement by John Bielenberg in 2003. Project M is works as what Edge calls an "idea incubator." Younger designers meet to "generate social problems and enhance public life." Pie provocations had taken place in Greensboro, North Carolina. Working with the design firm Winterhouse in Connecticut, Project M has also staged a Pizza Farm.
Designers are very good at thinking about provocations. After all, they are in the imagination business. They are trained to look at existing systems, spot where stasis lives, and think of ways to make things new. What designers are not so good at, in my humble opinion, is figuring out what happens next, what comes after the provocation. Handing out pie and pizza does have the potential for provocation. But something substantial happens if and only if new arrangements are made visible, thinkable and doable. Pie qua pie will not get this job done. Pie has to be the start of something more than a jolly conversation with a soccer coach. It must do something more than "spur conversation."


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We took delivery of our first BMW last Saturday. 2012 535i GT in Black Sapphire Metallic with the Black Dakota Leather.
The rest of the ticket reads:
Luxury Seating Package (the rear automatic sun shades sold my 5-year old up-down-up-down
Premium Sound Package
Sport Package
Value Package (have not sussed out the underbumperkicktoopen thing yet)
Heated Front Seats
BMW Apps
We started looking at the X3 (too small), then the X5 (didn't really feel "BMW" to us) and then the regular 535 which was still too small in the back seat. (Our other car is a 2010 Volvo S80 V8 AWD and it has as much or more back seat room.)
I decided to give the GT a shot as our last chance for a BMW and it is perfect! I probably would not order one with the BMW Apps (I can't really figgure out what they do) or the Premium Sound Package (just an upcharge for the Satellite radio??) but I got four grand off the MSRP and half-price on the extended maintenance package so it worked out.
I would like to throw out a few questions:
1. What is "Dynamic Cruse Control"? I don't have the distance buttons on the stering wheel so I'm not really sure.
2. I managed to nick the rear bumper with the trunk cover so I have a two-inch tan mark on it. Any help in how I can get ride of this? (It doesn't just wipe off.)
3. The manual talks about a safety triangle and first aid kit in the trunk. I did not get these, they were not in the car. Should they have been?
4. I passed on the tire and wheel coverage. The car has Dunlops and it reads like they are covered for road hazard anyway. I figgure I can buy two new wheels for the cost of the package anyway. Smart?
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have the green N2 valve stems. That means they are inflated with nitrogen, right? I know dumb question, the follow up is: what do I need to do to maintain these? Same deal, watch the TPMS? Anything special because it is N2?
6. Finnaly (for now) what should I do to maintain the leather? I traded in a F150 King Ranch and that leather was bullet proof saddle leather. Any recomendations for the BMW Dakota leather?
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Floor registers - how do I insulate?
Hi, new to the forum. I noticed that my floor registers seep cold air into the room when the furnace has been off for a while. Yes the actual metal of the register is cold too, but I can also feel a slight draft of cool air emanating from each register. I live in Maine, I use a wood stove to heat my home mostly, but still rely on the furnace to heat after the fire goes out, and when we're on vacation; otherwise I would just close the registers.
My questions is, can I do anything about this? The flexible tubing running to each register is obviously insulated, and I will be insulating the basement ceiling next week with batts of R19. I just didn't know if anything else can be done, like insulating the register box etc. The draft coming out of the registers is unpleasant, especially the ones near our kitchen table.
Thanks for the help ...
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Jeremy Starks is casting what looks to be a Carolina rig to a small point off the main lake.
"I have not had a bite," he says, looking bewildered .
It's very windy here. The sky is still overcast, but it is brighter than yesterday. Rain is supposed to move in this afternoon. I don't believe that will help the bite.
More boats are running about now. No doubt those who are struggling are feeling the pressure. It's do or die time to make the 50 cut.


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The Coen Brothers helm this chronicle of struggling musician Llewyn Davis, set during the height of the folk era in the early 1960s. The drama follows Davis through a week of creative highs and lows amid a bleak New York winter.
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- Sexual Content
- A heated discussion about how one man impregnated a woman who already has a boyfriend.
- Violence
- A screaming fight between two ex-lovers. A man sucker-punches another, leaving him doubled over on the ground. Talk of suicide.
- Language
- Lots of swearing in the first part of the film, and then it's periodic. Some pejorative language ("queer"), plus "s--t," "---hole," "Goddammit," "sonofabitch," "d--k," "piss" and "f--k."
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- Consumerism
- A few cases of historical name dropping, including the Gaslight and Columbia Records.
- Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol
- A man gets tipsy at a club and heckles the performer. Some social drinking. A man is shown shaking on a bathroom floor after an apparent drug overdose.
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Oh ok i didn't know that, so now i know i got the M-Sport package. Do you know if with this package if it has Electronic adjustable suspension? Idk i called the dealer and they said they would have to check for themselves...
Get to know Q-Silver as he is a virtual who's who when it comes to these cars and when you are well-enough off to afford an X-5, he will STILL be "the man". If he answers a post, you can "take it to the bank" and we all mean that. If he is typing, he is NOT lying! I guess if he doesn't know something, he will stay quiet, but I suspect he would never get anything done if he were to correct all the bunk posts he runs across! He is the forum's version of the "welcome package" like what people uased to give new neighbors... Enjoy his responses as you may not see another one again for a while.
How wide is your door Q? Just wanna make sure your head will still fit or take day off. Great guy who takes a lot of personal time to give answers as thorough as you just got. He must rival Blue Bee for organizational skills for all his BMW knowledge. Congrats on the new X5 Q-man. The Kia Sportage I bought the wife few mos ago(cause we could not swing an X-5) will need a complete detail MINIMUM to take away the tears...
OP- don't sweat calling your ride a 530/M5. No worries. Just trying to avoid any flames later. You focused on that and missed a hearty "welcome" and none of us fell from the womb knowing squat- except Q-man who was born a full-grown, role model for all adults to aspire to. Welcome again and no question is dumb, except the one not asked AND the one where no search has been attempted on youir own. We only really get tweaked when a subject has been covered as nauseum and just needs a simple search. Besides, you retain what you research yourself! Search function (top right) IS your friend. write-in often~ When you get to 25 posts, you can host pix and we all wanna see your ride!
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As Sumter County residents discovered in 2007, no community is immune to these storms. The outbreak was a trio of storms which snaked their way across Central Florida, from The Villages to New Smyrna Beach.
The outbreak, which damaged 1,145 homes and destroyed 200 others in Sumter County alone, was the second-deadliest on record for Florida, and caused a total of $218 million in damage, overall.
About Tornadoes
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground. They are considered nature's most violent storms, mostly spawned from powerful thunderstorms. An average of 1,200 tornadoes each year, in the U.S., cause an average of 60-65 fatalities and 1,500 injuries, and can devastate a neighborhood in seconds.
A tornado appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud with wind that can reach 300 miles per hour, with a damage path that may be in excess of 1 mile wide and 50 miles long. Every state is at some risk from this hazard. They can occur at any time of day, any day of the year. It is not uncommon to see clear, sunlit skies behind a tornado.
Belief: Opening a window before a tornado approaches to equalize pressure and minimize damage.
Fact: Virtually all buildings leak air. Leave windows closed. Take shelter in a windowless interior room or hallway.
Scud Clouds
Often, scud clouds, which are low, detached, irregular clouds, are mistaken for a newly formed tornado. The easiest way to differentiate is to look for a circular motion with clouds moving 1 way on 1 side and the opposite direction on the other side. It is possible for a scud cloud to form part of a tornado's rotation, however, they are generally not attached to a large-scale storm rotation and more often than not, they are harmless.
Tornado Terms You Need to Know
- Tornado Watch - A tornado watch is issued by the National Weather Service when conditions which may produce tornadoes or severe thunderstorms are developing. Continue normal activities, but have a safety plan in mind, and be ready to implement it if a warning is issued.
- Tornado Warning - A tornado warning is issued when a tornado or severe thunderstorm has been detected or sighted. The warning will tell you the location and movement of the severe weather. If you are in or near the path of the storm implement your safety plan immediately.


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I need an illustrator who is able to create a dog mascot, I have a wide range of examples for inspiration. I would like a British Bulldog and one Doberman character designed. Please let me know if this is your kind of style and if its something your are able to do.
I've got $50 for someone who can fix my twitter app on my site which currently went done due to the new twitter ruleshttp://anythineverythin.com/test_site/wordpress/
Need this done tonight if possible
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I would like to make a change to my current Mercurial portfolio to allow for full screen portfolio images
Here is my test sitehttp://anythineverythin.com/test_site/wordpress/ I would like for the portfolio page http://anythineverythin.com/test_site/wordpress/#01
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Hi I need a customisation of this themehttp://r-genesis.com/themeforest/Cupid-RGen-OpenCart-Store-Template/1531/index.php?route=common/home
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I would like a a customisation of the header and footer (similar to www.nastygal.com), the social media links moved to the top of the page.
Also I would like the #UNDERATEDCO, BLOG , INSPIRED BY links to go to external links
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Blancco, a provider of data erasure solutions that traditionally have been used for end-of-life computing applications, is addressing the growing cloud computing and storage markets with a new version of its technology platform.
The technology is aimed at both data center operators and enterprise IT professionalsŌĆöparticularly those in business sectors that have strict compliance requirements about data erasure. BlanccoŌĆÖs LUN Eraser (the LUN is an acronym for logical unit number, a computer storage term that can also refer to a storage drive itself) is a centralized tool that can be used to erase drives in live storage environments. According to the company, the LUN Eraser is capable of remotely erasing data on 200 or more LUNs simultaneously.
The business of Finland-based Blancco has changed substantially since the company was founded in 1997, said Markku Willgren, president of the companyŌĆÖs U.S. operation, which is based in Atlanta. Originally a manufacturer of cable locks for laptops and desktops, Blancco moved into computer erasures shortly after founding, Willgren said, and evolved from there into PC erasure, server erasure and ultimately large-scale storage erasure.
ŌĆ£Once we got into the data center business, new types of needs emerged and we realized thereŌĆÖs a whole other new world,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£Now we are moving into in-production systems and partial erasure. ItŌĆÖs a new marketŌĆöthe need isnŌĆÖt really understood.ŌĆØ
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University personnel are to use this procedure to request new special course fees, to request changes in existing fees, or delete existing fees.
This procedure applies to established WSU courses or new courses which have been approved by the Faculty Senate.
An approved special course fee applies to all sections of a given course for the indicated semester.
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The fee provides funds for tools, equipment or products which have continuing value to the specific student charged for the fee. In addition, the items are not normally available for purchase in the local area. Examples include:
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- Specimens for science courses.
The fee provides for the purchase of services not normally provided by WSU. Examples include:
- Specialized field trips.
- Off-campus fabrication of student designs.
- Operations expenses associated with computer laboratories. See also 30.96.
The fee provides funds for purchases of materials that would be hazardous or inappropriate for students to purchase individually.
Examples include:
- Drugs for analyses in chemistry classes.
- Chemicals for chemistry classes.
- Small quantities (per student) of required classroom materials normally purchased in large amounts.
The requester completes and initiates a Special Course Fee Request form. Complete and/or print the master on 30.95.6 to obtain supplies of the form.
The requester completes all pertinent blanks on the form down to the approval section. See the sample in the PDF version of 30.95.3. Sample sections are numerically keyed to the following explanations. Sections without an explanation are considered self-explanatory.
Fee Amount (1)
Enter the requested amount to be charged each student per semester.
Contact Name/Telephone/E-Mail (2)
Enter the name, telephone number, and e-mail address of an individual able to answer questions regarding this special course fee request.
Semester (3)
Enter the semester the course is taught, e.g., fall, spring, summer.
One Semester Only? (4)
Indicate whether or not the special fees will only be required for a single semester.
Justification (5)
Indicate why the special course fee is required. Include an explanation of exactly how the revenue from the fee will be spent. Explain how the class situation justifies a fee by applying one or more of the conditions above.
Estimated Revenue (6)
Indicate total estimated revenue. Multiply the fee amount times the projected number of students per semester.
Estimated Expenditures (7)
Estimate planned expenditures which will utilize revenue from the special course fee.
Indicate each expenditure item.
Indicate the amount to be spent for each expenditure item.
Indicate the expenditure object for each expenditure item. Refer to 70.09 for an explanation of University expenditure objects.
Total (8)
Calculate total estimated expenditures.
If estimated expenditures exceed estimated revenues, the requester indicates what funds will be used to replace the deficit.
If revenues greatly exceed expenditures at the end of the fiscal year, the continued existence of the fee at the current level may be questioned by the Controller. A ten percent surplus is considered reasonable.
Departmental Budget Number (9)
Enter the budget number for the responsible department.
Requester Name and Signature (10)
The requester indicates his or her name and title and signs and dates the request.
Chair and Dean Name and Signature (11)
Special Course Fee Requests must be approved by each indicated office before the new fee can be established.
The requester routes the form to the chair and dean for approval. The form is then sent to the Budget Office. The Budget Office submits the request to the Fee Committee.
The Fee Committee either approves or does not approve the request.
If approved, the course budget is assigned an account number.
The semester the new fee goes into effect is indicated.
After review by the Fee Committee, all special course fee requests are sent to University Receivables for retention and approved requests are established in the student information system.
The Fee Committee notifies the requester of the approval.
The Fee Committee notifies the requester of the denial. After including additional clarification and justification, the department may resubmit a denied request to the University Fee Committee.
Special Course Fee Requests can be submitted to the Budget Office between November and January 5. The Fee Committee meets in January to consider all requests.
Deficits are not allowable in the course account. Expenditures which create deficits are to be transferred to departmental budgets (see 30.25). See 30.21 for overdraft procedures.
Only expenditures that relate directly to the course are allowable.
Inappropriate charges to the account must be transferred to departmental budgets. See 30.25.
Controller's Office personnel periodically review the appropriateness of expenditures.
A revision to an approved special course fee amount or deletion of a special course fee requires resubmittal of the Special Course Fee Request form. Annual fee increases are limited by legislative action.
See the PDF form:
30.95.6: Special Course Fee Request
Complete and/or print as needed.