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California declared "everything is safe" because air samples contain no detectable radiation (click here).
Our sea food is contaminated. Not the air.
Radiation from the nuclear reactor disaster in Japan has been found in bluefin tuna in waters off San Diego by researchers from Stanford and Stony Brook University.
There have been no inspections to determine how much radioactive material has leaked into the sea.
Radiation levels in fish caught near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remain high long after the 2011 meltdowns there, suggesting contamination from the site might still be seeping into Pacific waters, a U.S. researcher reported Thursday. - CNN
There is a potential for as many as 700,000 deaths from sea food contaminated by Fukushima Daichi.
The full extent of the spread of radioactive contamination in Japan remains unclear. The discovery of radioactive Japanese fish and seawater could further damage Japan's flagging seafood industry.
How serious is the problem?
Radioactive iodine was found as far away as Wisconsin, but this last only about 6 months.
The problem is that radioactive iodine indicates a broad range of other radioactive elements were also boiled off into the environment.
The North Pacific - Kuroshio Current flows from 40 to 120 kilometer each day over a distance separating Japan from California of just under 9,000 kilometer. Radioactive sea water began to contaminate the Pacific from California to Alaska in March 2012.
This carries sea water from Japan to the west coast of the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Don't think you won't be affected if you don't live near the Pacific. 80% of seafood is imported to the US.
Plutonium dispersal estimates are 2 fatalities per pound (25 in cities). There is about 300,000 pounds of plutonium at Fukushima Daichi.
That is just one radioactive element. Fukushima Daichi also released radioactive iodine, cesium, molybdenum, europium, and samarium.
Iodine and many radioactive metals turn pink and yellow when mixed with rain water. Radioactive iodine levels have increased in Tokyo drinking water. Metal vapor and iodine vapor are black. Black vapor was observed coming from the Fukishima plant. Yellow rain was observed.
Heavy metals, like cesium and iodine, are concentrated in the food chain. That food chain begins with kelp in California.
Researchers at California State University, Long Beach found that the kelp contained radioactive iodine, cesium, xenon and other particles ...
Almost all radioactive iodine disappears within 6 months.
Nuclear power generation process converts Uranium into many different radioactive elements (Argonne National Laboratory).
The Fukushima Daiichi plant has about 1744 tons of spent nuclear fuel and under 100 tons of fuel in the reactors. The irradiated nuclear fuel contains the following approximate quantities of radioactive chemicals that represent a health risk when disbursed into the environment.
- Molybdenum 99
1 months danger (400 pounds)
yellow oxide slightly soluble in water
- Iodine 131
2 months danger (200 pounds) potential for a few thyroid cancer deaths
90% thyroid affinity - iodized salt provides some protection
yellow readily vaporized/dissolved
- Cesium 137
500 year danger (70,000 pounds) potential for a large number of deaths
liquid near room temperature; readily vaporized/dissolved
electrolyte activity - salt substitute provides some protection (potassium & sodium)
- Europium 155
40 year mild risk (300 pounds)
white/pink insoluble 99% affinity for soil
0.02% affinity for liver and bone
- Strontium 90
500 year danger (70,000 pounds)
10% affinity for bone - calcium supplements provide some protection
- Samarium 151
1000 year mild risk (5,000 pounds)
grayish yellow 99% affinity for soil
slight affinity for liver and bone - mineral supplements provide some protection
- Plutonium 239
200,000 year danger (300,000 pounds)
yellow 99.9% affinity for soil
potential for 700,000 fatalities
- Krypton 85
100 year mild risk (3,000 pounds)
colorless gas - no affinity for the body outside
Nuclear materials are incredibly hazardous. Nuclear fuel is replaced in rounds of 1/3 of the total about every 1000 days.
Radioactive chemicals produce considerable heat in spent/irradiated fuel after power production is shut down. Nuclear waste cannot be buried because of heat produced by ongoing radioactive decay.
Spent fuel rods must remain submerged in water for decades.
- Molybdenum - lasts a few months - does not vaporize or dissolve
- Iodine - lasts half a year - carried easily by water and air - vaporizes at oven temperatures
- Cesium - lasts several hundred years - dissolves in water
- Plutonium - lasts millions of years - particles carried by water


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Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations
Mercy Health System of Kansas, Inc. 18-Jul-05
Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service
Kansas City District
July 18, 2005
Ref. KAN 2005-13
Jon D. Swope
Mercy Health System of Kansas, Inc.
401 Woodland Hills Blvd .
Ft. Scott, Kansas 66701-8797
Dear Mr. Swope:
During an inspection of your unlicensed hospital blood bank, located at 401 Woodland Hills Blvd, Ft. Scott, Kansas on May 6 through 19, 2005, our investigator documented deviations from Section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. 351(a)(2)(B)] and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) Regulations for Blood and Blood Components under Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 606. The deviations found include, but are not limited to, the following:
Failure to make a thorough investigation of each reported adverse reaction. [21 CFR 606.170(a)]. For example:
An investigation of transfusion reactions, per the SOP "Blood Transfusion Reaction", used by both the Nursing Department and the Blood Bank, is not always performed. This is evidenced by a review of documented Report of Transfusion Reaction forms indicating:
Only 4 of approximately 11 qualifying transfusion reactions were investigated by the Blood Bank in 2005.
Only 8 of approximately 25 qualifying transfusion reactions were investigated by the Blood Bank in 2004.
Only 5 of approximately 32 qualifying transfusion reactions were investigated by the Blood Bank in 2003.
Failure to prepare and maintain written reports of investigations of adverse reactions, to include conclusions and follow up. [21 CFR 606.170(a)] Transfusion reaction investigation reporting does not document follow-up information to the investigation.
Failure to review all records pertinent to a lot or unit before the release or distribution of the lot or unit of final product. [21 CFR 606 .100(c)] Specifically, temperature charts for the blood bank refrigerator and plasma freezer for the week of January 31, 2005 were not reviewed until May 4, 2005, with the exception of one week.
Failure to include a written description of the blood collection procedure in the standard operating procedure (SOP), to include in-process precautions taken to accurately measure the quantity of blood removed from the donor. [21 CFR 606.100(b)(5)] Specifically, the investigator observed the SOP addresses the use of a trip scale, however, the scale actually used is a digital scale (grams) . The SOP contained no calculation for conversion from grams to milliliters, or requirement for labeling the unit with a final volume.
Written standard operating procedures including all steps to be followed in the processing of blood and blood components for homologous transfusion and autologus transfusion are not always followed . [21 CFR 606 .100(b)(10)] Specifically, the SOP's for the blood bank refrigerator and plasma freezer require a quarterly temperature alarm check . From the year 2003 to the time of this inspection, only five temperature alarm checks have been performed.
Failure to use supplies and reagents in a manner consistent with instructions provided by the manufacturer. [21 CFR 606.65(e)] Specifically, blood bags with an expiration date of August 2004 and venipuncture preparation supplies were observed available and ready for use. These supplies were last used/observed during the most recent autologus whole blood collection occurring in August 2004.
The above identified deviations are not intended to be an all inclusive list of deficiencies at your facility. It is your responsibility to assure that your establishment is in compliance with all requirements of the Act and regulations.
You should take prompt measures to correct these deviations. Failure to promptly correct these deviations may result in regulatory action without further notice. Such action includes seizure and/or injunction.
Please notify this office in writing, within 15 working days of receipt of this letter, of what actions you have taken to correct the noted violations and to prevent their recurrence. If corrective action cannot be completed within 15 working days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which the corrections will be completed.
Your reply should be addressed to Joseph G. Kramer, Compliance Officer, at the above address.
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News Clips - June 1, 2007
From May 25 to May 31, Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 338 references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Section: Digitized Books
Special Section: Digitized Books
The Wall Street Journal (AP) | May 30
Researchers at
Carnegie Mellon
University have discovered a way to enlist people to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to ensure that a Web-site visitor is a real person and not an automated program.
Web registration digitizes books
CNN (AP) | May 29
A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at
Carnegie Mellon
University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online. The word puzzles are known as CAPTCHAs, short for "completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart." Computers can't decipher the twisted letters and numbers, ensuring that real people and not automated programs are using the Web sites. ... "Humanity is wasting 150,000 hours every day on these," said
Luis von Ahn
, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. He helped develop the CAPTCHAs about seven years ago. "Is there any way in which we can use this human time for something good for humanity, do 10 seconds of useful work for humanity?"
New tool screens spam, digitizes books
USA Today (News.com) | May 28
A group of
Carnegie Mellon
University programmers has launched a new service called ReCaptcha that can help cut down on spam while letting people digitize books. The project is a variation of the widely used "Captcha" technique to weed out computer abuse such as e-mailing spam or posting spam on blog comments. Captchas require users to pass little pattern recognition tests, commonly reading distorted or obscured words. ReCaptcha turns this chore into a productive task by letting users digitize scanned images of words that computers couldn't figure out. "Not only can you solve your problems with spam, you can help preserve mankind's written history into the digital age," said Ben Maurer, the project's chief architect and a Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate, announcing the project on his blog on Wednesday.
Digitised books available online
The Sydney Morning Herald (AP) | May 28
Researchers at
Carnegie Mellon
University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at websites or buy things online. The word puzzles are known as CAPTCHAs, short for "completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart".
CAPTCHAs enlisted in book-digitizing project
CIO Today | May 27
The grid-computing model has succeeded in creating many large, useful, virtual supercomputers. Now, a
Carnegie Mellon
prof is attempting to create a "human grid" to eliminate a bottleneck in digitizing printed materials. Instead of capturing, say, video game processing cycles when the console owners are not playing games, assistant professor of computer science and MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" recipient
Luis von Ahn
wants to capture keystrokes used for CAPTCHAs.
Saving books by saving puzzles
The Chronicle of Higher Education | May 24
A security device developed to protect Web sites is now being used to help preserve the texts of thousand of important books, according to a report on ZDnet. ...
Luis von Ahn
, the computer scientist at
Carnegie Mellon
University who invented the technique along with his colleagues, now thinks that as long as people are turning garbled text into clear type, they might as well help solve a much bigger problem.
A global approach to engineering
The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 1
Before she arrived in Namibia, Tarra Epstein had her trip planned out as precisely as a line plotted on a grid. She and three other engineering students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute had come to the South African country to help set up alternative-energy programs for poor villages, and Ms. Epstein had written up a daily schedule and plan of action for herself and her colleagues. ... Within WPI's global-studies program for engineers, an experience like this is considered a grand success. The point of that program, and of many like it at colleges across the country, is to pull undergraduate engineers out of familiar campus environments and make them engage other cultures — in China, India, Thailand, Germany, Mexico, and other countries. ... Many engineering deans aspire to push their numbers up. Lester A. Gerhardt, dean of engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is setting up partnerships with universities around the world. He would like to send overseas 25 percent of the class of 2010, or almost 200 students. Eventually, he says, all engineering students at RPI will study abroad. ... Others are skeptical that engineering schools will ever send overseas a critical mass of students. "It is impossible, literally, for every engineering student to go abroad for one semester in their career," says
Pradeep Khosla
, dean of engineering at
Carnegie Mellon
Bush to nominate Zoellick to be World Bank President
Bloomberg | May 29
Robert Zoellick, the former U.S. trade representative and an executive at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will be nominated by President George W. Bush to replace Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank, a senior administration official said. Zoellick, 53, would serve a five-year term, subject to the approval of the bank's board, which represents 185 countries. Wolfowitz, the former deputy defense secretary, resigned on May 17 amid a furor over a pay raise he arranged for his companion. ... "In Sub-Saharan Africa, corruption is the root cause of poverty," said
Adam Lerrick
, an economist at
Carnegie Mellon
Why some people are walking disaster areas
MSNBC (LiveScience) | May 24
People who are walking disaster areas — the types who bounce checks monthly, miss flights and vomit on the boss at the company picnic — are the same people who have poor reasoning skills, new research shows. Reasoning abilities are influenced by intelligence and socioeconomic status, but they may also be skills that can be learned and honed with practice, says a "decision scientist" at
Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. Many people are affected by the way that information is framed, marketed or spun, as in advertisements, thereby exhibiting poor decision-making skills, says
Wändi Bruine de Bruin
. But people with strong reasoning skills make the same choices no matter how information is presented to them.
Education for Leadership
Robots to the rescue
The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 1
Robots roughly the size and shape of large turtles — if turtles were bright blue, with wheels on either side and a pen-sized hole in the center — scuttle along the floors of a women's liberal-arts college in Pennsylvania and a technology institute in Georgia. ... Enrollment in undergraduate computer-science programs has dipped all over the country, and among women it has almost vanished, dropping 70 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. "Nationally, we're in a crisis," says Tucker Balch, an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. ... Courses built solely around programming languages are often particularly intimidating to women because many have never been exposed to them before, says Merrilea J. Mayo, director of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable at the National Academies. "Boys have," she says. "They play with circuit boards in high school. So when girls start a college computer class, they sense that everyone around them knows more than they do. It's uncomfortable." ... Robots are not the only way to ease that discomfort. Earlier in this decade,
Carnegie Mellon
University increased women's enrollment in computer science from 7 percent to 40 percent in just a few years. The university did so in part by dropping the prerequisite that students already have programming experience and by starting a mentorship program for women, using upperclassmen.
Arts and Humanities
'Talk to America' focuses on brain imaging
Voice of America | May 30
Don't miss this science-technology update! We will learn from a psychologist at a leading science institution about groundbreaking work with brain imaging, which has resulted in new theories regarding autism. Our guest will be
Marcel Just
, professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania's
Carnegie Mellon
University. Call in or e-mail with your own questions or comments.
Carnegie Mellon psychologist wins for ground-breaking "dependency paradox" study
Pop City Media | May 30
Carnegie Mellon
Brooke Feeney
, an associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, captured first place at the inaugural Mind Gym Academic Awards in London for a ground-breaking study on a phenomenon she calls "the dependency paradox," cultivating a healthy recognition of the need for dependence in relationships.
Leonard lands solid punch of 40s nostalgia
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 27
Because of the forces of political correctness, we have lost an entire vocabulary once used to describe a certain kind of woman, whether tagged as dames, broads or dolls. Drinking hard and talking tough, these women made their own way, took no guff and managed to keep their hearts untarnished. As permanent residents of Noir-ville, these broads provided the raw material for a generation of actresses who flirted with the seamy side of modernity, including Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford and Lauren Bacall, the only woman who could best Bogart and make him like it. ***This article was written by
Carnegie Mellon
associate professor of English,
Sharon Dilworth
Briefs: Carnegie Mellon awards lecturer, associate professor
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 25
John Soluri
Therese Tardio
have won the Jefferson Award for Public Service from
Carnegie Mellon
University. Soluri, an associate professor of history, and Tardio, a lecturer in Spanish, received the award for their service to Building New Hope, a project that supports education and development projects in Central America.
Information Technology
Carnegie Mellon picks new computer science head
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 31
Local and global money-making partnerships will be a major focus of
Carnegie Mellon
University's new computer science department head. The university announced Wednesday that
Peter Lee
-- a professor and vice provost for research at Carnegie Mellon, who has experience turning research into private spin-offs -- will replace
on July 1. Wing is leaving to become assistant director of computer science and information science and engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Better face recognition software
Technology Review | May 30
For scientists and engineers involved with face-recognition technology,the recently released results of the Face Recognition Grand Challenge--more fully, the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006--have been a quiet triumph. Sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the match up of face-recognition algorithms showed that machine recognition of human individuals has improved tenfold since 2002 and a hundredfold since 1995. ... Among other advantages, 3-D facial recognition identifies individuals by exploiting distinctive features of a human face's surface--for instance, the curves of the eye sockets, nose, and chin, which are where tissue and bone are most apparent and which don't change over time. ... According to
Ralph Gross
, a researcher at the
Carnegie Mellon
Robotics Institute, in Pittsburgh, 3-D facial recognition can also recognize subjects at different view angles up to 90 degrees--in other words, faces in profile. "Face recognition has been getting pretty good at full frontal faces and 20 degrees off, but as soon as you go towards profile, there've been problems."
I, Robot
Dallas Morning News | May 31
Beginning May 25, 1977, movie-goers fell in love with a beeping meter-tall robot named R2-D2 when the original Star Wars film (later retitled Episode IV: The New Hope) debuted in theaters. "Artoo", as he was nicknamed, was paired with a more humanoid robot named C-3PO, or "Threepio" for short. The pair became so popular and timeless, that they went on to star in the subsequent five Star Wars episodes. ... So, 30 years after the film's release, are we any closer to this robot-reliant future? In this week's lesson, you will discover how technology is advancing in the field of robotics and get some insight into what considerations to make when designing your own robots for completing certain tasks. ... As imagination and innovation has evolved over the years, robots have become more sophisticated. To get a look at modern robotics, visit the Tech Museum of Innovation's Robotics gallery. Jump into Universal Robots: The History and Workings of Robotics, reading the introduction. Also, watch the video of Robotics researcher
Hans Moravec
Carnegie Mellon
University's Robotics Institute as he discusses the definition of what a robot is. How would you define what a robot is? In what ways do and will computer chips play a vital role in the development of functional robots?
Energy prices put squeeze on Md. households
Baltimore Sun | May 27
The economy and the consumers who fuel it have been astonishingly resilient in the face of higher energy costs. Yet, for all the increases in gasoline and oil prices, they haven't gone up 50 percent at once - as electricity rates will in the Baltimore area on Friday because of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. rate increase approved last week. ... How widespread the strain will be is difficult to say. Economists point out that a smaller portion of the nation's collective income is going toward fuel than in 1981, when gas prices set records adjusted for inflation. At that time, energy equated to 14 percent to 15 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Today, that figure is 6 percent to 7 percent, said
Lester B. Lave
, an energy expert and economist with
Carnegie Mellon
University. The proportion of household income that is spent on energy has declined as America has grown wealthier. "Our incomes are higher, and although energy prices are higher, the amount of energy we use is lower, and total expenditures on energy have gone way down," he said.
Regional Impact
Carnegie Mellon's Project Olympus aims to keep talent in Pittsburgh, increase investment here
Pop City Media | May 30
Project Olympus is at the starting gate,
Carnegie Mellon
University's new incubator lab, an initiative aimed at keeping the best and brightest young entrepreneurs in Pittsburgh by creating career opportunities and helping to pave the way for local start-ups. ... "We produce the best tech students on the planet and we are developing the best cutting-edge technology in the world that is going to drive science and technology for the next 20 years," explains an exuberant
Lenore Blum
, Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science, the driving force behind the initiative. "In order to benefit, we need to create an environment where it will be very favorable for graduates to stay."
Prize-winning piece of computer puzzle holds promise
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 30
Put on your intellectual seat belt.
Steven Rudich
will take your brain on a roller-coaster ride, then quiz you later on the details. Hey, he is a renowned mathematician. He thrives on details. Dr. Rudich, the 45-year-old professor of computer science at
Carnegie Mellon
University, will share the Association for Computing Machinery's 2007 Godel Prize for his work on what many consider the most important unresolved question in theoretical computer science.
WW II memorial now only lacking a home
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 25
With Memorial Day on the horizon, a long-planned World War II memorial for the North Shore is getting an awkward reception from city and riverfront planners. ... The proposed site is in the northeast corner of the riverfront's "Great Lawn," near existing memorials for Vietnam War veterans and police officers. A $3 million statue and parklet for television icon Fred Rogers is planned for a bridge pier at the opposite end of the lawn. ... Some on the commission also were concerned. Board chair Dina Klavon said the memorial seemed "plopped there, instead of integrated" with the lawn.
Doug Cooper
, an accomplished artist and
Carnegie Mellon
architectural drawing professor, said the spires looked "Teutonic" -- or German -- which he said would be worrisome for a World War II memorial.
Software helps search for "Red Tide"
Bioscienceworld | May 29
A group effort is being used to develop new software to detect harmful algae in North American waters.
Yang Cai
, PhD, a computer scientist at
Carnegie Mellon
University's CyLab (Pittsburgh, PA), is developing the program in collaboration with NASA's Earth-Sun System Technology Office, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (Washington, DC).
Course to train entrepreneurs
Gulf Times | May 27
QATAR Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and
Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar have unveiled a training course for budding entrepreneurs, the Executive Entrepreneurship Certificate Programme, to boost opportunities for creating technology start-ups in the country. The new course aims to transform Qatar's deep investment in research and education into business success stories. The nine-month, part-time programme will teach aspiring managers and executives how to build technology-based businesses by acting entrepreneurially, innovating within their existing companies or starting a new enterprise. ... "Our university has deep experience in the theory and practice of creating new enterprises, particularly in the technology sphere," added Carnegie Mellon in Qatar's chief operating officer
Mohamed Dobashi
. "Instructors in this new Executive Entrepreneurship Certificate Program have vast experience in creating companies and launching new areas of innovation within existing companies," said Donald H. Jones Center's director and John R. Thorne Chair of Entrepreneurship,
Arthur A. Boni.
Keeping it green
Chemistry World | May 25
Some chemistry enthusiastically labeled as green may be nothing of the kind, warn researchers who worry that mediocre - if well-meaning - science is damaging their subject. Supporting green chemistry sounds like a no-brainer. Who wouldn't want to promote sustainable, cleaner chemical processes and products, less hazardous to humans and the environment, and providing economic benefits to industry? Indeed, since growing pains in the 1990s, when the subject was sometimes dismissed as a 'soft' buzzword, green chemistry has flourished. ... Why aren't chemists already fulfilling such a simple request? ... The greatest problem, says
Terry Collins
, director of the Institute for green oxidation chemistry at
Carnegie Mellon
University, U.S., is lack of education. 'Chemists, remarkably, are not trained in toxicity and ecotoxicity,' he says, so they don't grasp the importance of these properties. A recent Berlin meeting on ionic liquids, for example, concluded that toxicity information was key to helping chemists design benign solvents; and agreed on the need for a database listing the ions contributing to toxicity.


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A Sydney schoolgirl who killed her ex-lover in a frenzied knife attack became the youngest female in NSW yesterday to be jailed for murder.
Justice James Wood said the killing of Stephen Tonkiss, 21, at Seaforth was so savage and senseless - driven purely by revenge, jealousy and sexual passion - that a maximum 15-year jail term had to be imposed. Aged 15 at the time and known only as SJB, the Dee Why girl committed the unprovoked and premeditated killing with her boyfriend, Matthew John McLean, now 19, on July 24 last year. McLean was jailed for a maximum 19 years yesterday for his role in what Justice Wood said was "gratuitous, selfish and wholly unnecessary violence".
"It's beyond comprehension how evil that girl was, her conniving manner," Stephen's father David Tonkiss said outside court. "Their parents can see them, but I can't see him anymore." Mr Tonkiss said he believed SJB incited McLean to commit the crime with her and they planned it over a period of six days. He said he hoped the Dee Why teenager would be haunted for the rest of her life by what she did.
The court was told Mr Tonkiss, who had a brief relationship with the schoolgirl when she was 15, had been driving the pair in his car when she began to stab him repeatedly in the face and body.
He managed to escape to the side of a road where both attackers continued to stab him. His body was thrown over a wall into the front yard of a house. In court, the attackers blamed each other and each tried to minimise their perceived involvement.
SJB said McLean had recruited her in his plan after she admitted cheating on him with Mr Tonkiss. "Matthew said to me, 'because you have cheated on me, you have to stab him'," she said.
She said McLean even showed her how to stab someone, using a kitchen knife and a box of biscuits.
However, McLean said SJB had told him Mr Tonkiss had raped her.
Justice Wood found McLean's version impossible to accept. He also rejected the proposition that knives were taken for potential use in self defence. He said Tonkiss died in an entirely unprovoked and senseless attack, willingly and equally planned as part of a criminal enterprise.
"I am however satisfied that having begun their frenzied stabbing they each formed an intention that Mr Tonkiss should die," he said.
Justice Wood found that while McLean was the initiator of such a plan it was one to which SJB willingly adhered.
He said the mitigating circumstances were their youth, immaturity, limited intellectual resources and impulsiveness, exacerbated by the condition of ADHD which they shared.
Mr Tonkiss described Stephen as sociable and kind, with a large group of friends.
"Stephen was the type of guy who would do a favour for a friend and that was what he was killed doing," he said.
"He has become the sacrifice for her gaining the attention she wanted."
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
February Note Card Party
My thoughts are filled with warm sunny days and enjoying the outdoors. These photos are from a visit to the Staten Island Botanical Gardens in August 2011.
Writing this post has definitely put me in a mood for another visit, definitely this spring, before it gets too warm. To see some more photos of this visit, click here.
Please stop by Vee's blog, and enjoy the fabulous photos being shared by fellow bloggers. New friendships are just waiting to be made.
Also joining Fiona at Raindrops & Daisies for Green Day.
48 comments:
These are perfect for this month! Everyone is so ready for some pretty green and lush surroundings! Enjoy your evening, my friend!ReplyDelete
Oh my you are making me crave spring! Such beautiful pictures Barbara.ReplyDelete
You make me wish I was there in that garden, so green and beautiful! Spring is coming and along with it the flowers.ReplyDelete
Sounds as if August was hot! It's hard to imagine now. How nice to have such a beautiful garden so close...beautiful statuary, architecture, and arbors.ReplyDelete
Lovely cards with a warm and toasty August garden theme.ReplyDelete
Oh these are so beautiful...and enticing! All of that lush green goodness! Yes, even this confirmed fall-and-winter girl is yearning for some of spring's green. I wish I could join you on your visit to these lovely gardens. (Be sure to take more pics when you go!)ReplyDelete
I'm sorry I'm so ignorant but I didn't realise there was a botanical garden on Staten Island. I'm hoping to return to NYC either later this year or next year and it will definitely be on my list of places to see. I love gardens!ReplyDelete
August warmth - how I dream of that just now. It rarely gets hot enough here for me. The garden looks so fresh and welcoming. Great photos for the note card party.ReplyDelete
Love looking at all that green! I'm sure it will be here soon:@)ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos --a promise of spring! It will be here eventually... right? Today was very cold and WINDY here in Ohio, and so... we'll keep on keeping on until those warmer days return. I did notice it was much lighter when my hubby left for work this morning!!! =DReplyDelete
A sight for sore eyes, or should I say cold ones! With more snow coming down, the thought of strolling through a Botanical Garden would be lovely.ReplyDelete
How lovely! I particularly love the 2nd one. I think we are all itching for some springtime weather again, LOL.ReplyDelete
Your lovely photos are making me long for warm weather and the fun and beautiful growing season! Very pretty!ReplyDelete
The Botanical Garden looks gorgeous, Barbara! You produced some beautiful notecards and I enjoyed seeing them. My favorite is the 2nd one. All are lovely!ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos, Barbara! This brings back memories of when I visited the SI Botanical Garden years ago!ReplyDelete
I had to giggle today when I got fundraising mail from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden -- it wasn't forwarded but had my new address! I wonder how they got my Colorado address?? lol!
Such beautiful photos. I would want to visit the garden all the time! As fast as this month as flown by, I know it won't be all that long before spring arrives...I can't wait!ReplyDelete
Barbara...these are gorgeous pictures! They seriously would make beautiful note cards!ReplyDelete
Boy I sure could use some green! Looks like my kind of place to visit!ReplyDelete
GORGEOUS choices this month, Barbara. I love that top one the best of all.ReplyDelete
I need to find a pair of minutes to catch up better. I have been lost in my own personal torture chamber called a kitchen makeover.
All nice cards, like the first one best!ReplyDelete
I love Botanical gardens and the Staten Island Gardens look like a real winner! Lovely!ReplyDelete
Hi Barbara,ReplyDelete
These are great photos and such pretty "note cards." One of these days, we should all print out some of our note cards from Vee's party, don't you think?
I really love public gardens, Barbara, so I think you chose a great subject this month. I'm going to check out the rest of your pictures; I'm not sure how I missed the original post. :)
Have a wonderful day, my friend.
Denise at Forest Manor
These are beautiful 'green' note cards that would be a delight to receive. It looks like a very nice garden. Have a great day! PamelaReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures. It would be wonderful to visit and see it in person. Thanks for sharing Barbara. Hopefully, spring will be here soon.ReplyDelete
Oh so wonderful, lush and green. Makes me yearn for summer.ReplyDelete
Those really could be note cards! They are beautiful. We love going to botanical gardens. It is funny how I seem to appreciate nature so much more than when my kids were around...I guess I can actually do things I like instead of malls and sporting good stores!ReplyDelete
That botanic garden is gorgeous, Barbara! You " must " come back! Your photos are so green, so beautiful...thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
I would like receiving any of these as a card. The first one is my favorite. I like this meme. I have seen some good ideas in visiting. BlessingsReplyDelete
Such beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing. I may have to make a trip up there this spring.ReplyDelete
What beautiful notecards you've shared, Barbara! What a great place to visit. Thanks for sharing the beauty.ReplyDelete
Beautiful green pictures! I am ready for spring to get here!ReplyDelete
How lovely! I especially like the bottom photo. Looks like a wonderful place for an outing~ReplyDelete
Hello Barbara,ReplyDelete
So beautiful note cards. thanks for sharing this. Oh my the botanical garden so amazing. it is near your house?
I love visiting garden.
wishing you a great week Barbara
hugs to you
I love spring.everything comes alive.green is my favorite season...beautiful gardensReplyDelete
How lovely - I would love to visit! this has put me in the mood for Spring!ReplyDelete
Mary x
That would certainly make a lovely collection of note cards! I wonder if I stared at them long enough, Winter would disappear. ;DReplyDelete
You can never go wrong making note cards from the botanical garden visit. It looks beautiful there. I hope you are able to get back again this year.ReplyDelete
Dearest Barbara,ReplyDelete
The Staten Island Botanical Gardens looks really wonderful♡♡♡ For sure, visiting in spring must be far better, my friend ♡♡♡
Note cards sounds really nice way to expand friends(*^_^*)
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Gosh Barbara I love botanical gardens. On my birthday I'm usually in England and Robert and I go to Kew. It's a tradition. Aren't we lucky that we have public gardens to visit?ReplyDelete
Those are beutiful pictures and make me long for the warm, sunny days of spring. My garden will never look as good as a botanical garden, but each time I see pictures like this, it makes me want to go play in the dirt and plant something. Considering it still feels very much like winter where I live, I don't think that's a good idea. I'll have to look at your pictures and just dream! Have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
I love your garden post, Barbara! This would make a great set of notecards.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos Barbara.ReplyDelete
Wishing you a lovely weekend.
Thanks for linking up with Raindrops and Daisies Green Day, great having you join in.
Take care
Fiona x
Que recantos maravilhosos nesta belas fotos, você nos oferta.Ficou um painel de sonhos.Parabéns!ReplyDelete
Bom fim de semana.
Maravilhosas essas fotos. Que lugar lindo!
Amo jardins e fico encantada com tanta beleza.
Um lindo final de semana. Abraços
Fabulosos esse jardim! Adoro passear por recantos em que o verde impere. Abraço. AilimeReplyDelete
What a fabulous place to visit, lovely photos. I've visited Kew Gardens a couple of times, that is a wonderful place too.ReplyDelete
Thank you for my birthday wishes. Carol xx
Your beautiful photos make me yearn for the warm days to come..... How lucky to be so close to such an fantastic garden.ReplyDelete
It looks that you had a lovely time at this wonderful garden !ReplyDelete
You saw us that the spring is near ! Thank you so much !


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Re: st: RE: Dialog Programming
Martin Weiss <email@example.com>
Re: st: RE: Dialog Programming
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:55:25 +0200
Maybe I misuderstand the notion of a "thread" but it still carried my original subject line. Indeed, when I click the http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-07/msg01070.html; via the "thread next" button, it takes me all the way through your and Nick`s and Richard`s and my replies...
smcl is indeed a useful language, though. In Chicago, M. Buis built his presentation around smcl files which I found really neat...
Quoting Phil Schumm <email@example.com>:
On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:
So, to summarize and steer this thread back to where I wanted it to
go: "StataCorp, we do not like the way we have to write help
files, LET ALONE dialog boxes." :-)
There were two threads here, one started by yourself having to do with
programming dialog boxes and another started underneath it by Rich
Williams having to do with writing help files (see
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-07/ if your mailer doesn't
thread). My response (and Nick's 2nd email) were both part of the
latter. I would summarize the latter this way:
1) writing help files can be painful, but
2) there are some simple things you can do to make it easier (e.g., use
an existing file as a template, add a few helper functions to your
text editor), and
3) although one could imagine writing help files in another format and
then translating them to SMCL, the extra work required to construct
such a utility may not be worth it
StataCorp does not dictate how we write help files -- only that we use
SMCL for formatting them. In fact, if anything, perhaps the problem is
that they give us too much freedom in how we write them (i.e., if they
forced us to use a rigid template, then this would make things easier
in one respect). Since help files are merely text files following a
well-documented format (SMCL), we are free to construct and/or edit
them however we want.
Note that this subthread had nothing to do with dialog boxes...
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In the news today is Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa, Okla. This Saturday he celebrated a traditionalist, Latin language Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
Slattery's homily focused on his understanding of suffering and obedience in the light of the current sex abuse crisis. In the past Slattery has taken courageous stands regarding the individual's obligation to be obedient.
Facing the passage by the Oklahoma legislature of strict anti-immigrant legislation in 2006, Slattery publicly announced that he could not support the legislation and would continue his ministry to undocumented immigrants.
As Catholic News Service reported at the time, Slattery said that, if a law were to be passed criminalizing the act of aiding illegal immigrants, "then I will become a criminal."
"When it becomes a crime to love the poor and serve their needs, then I will be the first to go to jail for this crime, and I pray that every priest and every deacon in this diocese will have the courage to walk with me into that prison," Slattery said in April 2006.
The bill in question, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act 2007, is now law. Among many of its provisions it makes it a felony for any person to knowingly give an undocumented immigrant a ride and forbids the state from providing such immigrants virtually any social services.
In that case it seems Slattery's understanding of obedience was fairly complex, perhaps summed up like this: Although citizens owe a certain amount of allegiance to their government and its laws, when that government goes too far, or violates human dignity, it's the responsibility of the individual to discern whether the government or its laws should be followed.
One wonders how that understanding might apply to the church.
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Stanford's recent
Are we eating organic because we think it's more nutritious or are we eating it because it is h-e-a-l-t-h-i-e-r? There is a difference.
I don't know about you but I eat organic because of what it isn't, more so than what it is. I don't prefer my nutrition with a side of pesticide, a dollop of fungicide and a sprinkle of GMO. I'll just have my nutrition plain, please.
What about the correlation between pesticide, antibiotic and genetically-modified organism consumption, including Monsanto's Roundup Ready crops, and health? That wasn't part of this study which is where Stanford researchers missed the mark.
If you've ever driven between Illinois and Missouri you know much of the drive is cornfields, cornfields and more cornfields. It seems like corn is in everything these days and they've got to grow it somewhere. As I drove through the fields on my way to Missouri a couple months ago I noticed a huge corn operation with big perfect barns, massive new tractors, huge white silos, shiny conveyor belts that went on forever and perfectly green stalks as far as the eye could see. My gawking was interrupted by small bright yellow planes overhead that were flying really low and then high, dipping down and back up again, back and forth. At first I thought it was an air show because it seemed like they were doing tricks until I saw huge clouds being released from the bottom of the planes when they would dip way down close to the corn. Six planes were methodically releasing pesticides on almost fully grown stalks and everything else below. I immediately turned off my A/C, closed the vents and pushed on the gas. I cringed thinking about the people and animals who lived in this area, worried about the air they breathe and the water they drink. Do they eat that corn or do they know better? I wondered if more people would wander to the organic section of their market if they saw this for themselves. I wondered if the pilots ate this corn or if they quietly bought organic for their families. I was already a believer in organic but witnessing this firsthand had a definite impact. Does Stanford expect us to believe that spraying our food with conventional pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers is healthy for bodies, healthy for farmers, healthy for animals, healthy for water, healthy for soil and healthy for air?
We don't need a study to dictate what is healthy in this instance, we need common sense. What I would like to see Stanford spend their time and money on is a study of people who live in agricultural areas who are consistently sprayed and the percentage of illnesses compared to those who do not live in such areas. Now that would be newsworthy.
According to Stanford News Service:
"There were no long-term studies of health outcomes of people consuming organic versus conventionally produced food; the duration of the studies involving human subjects ranged from two days to two years." [Source]
I'm also interested in the study's source of organic produce as all aren't created equal. I tend to believe we'd find some nutritional variation depending on soil and water quality, environmental and farming practices. I bet there would even be nutritional differences found between organics purchased at the grocery store, farmer's market and what is grown by our neighbor in their organic garden. I wonder when we'll see a study on that.
Via New York Times:
"The study's conclusions about pesticides did seem likely to please organic food customers. Over all, the Stanford researchers concluded that 38 percent of conventional produce tested in the studies contained detectable residues, compared with 7 percent for the organic produce. (Even produce grown organically can be tainted by pesticides wafting over from a neighboring field or during processing and transport.) They also noted a couple of studies that showed that children who ate organic produce had fewer pesticide traces in their urine." [Source]
"What I learned is there's a lot of variation between farming practices," said Smith-Spangler. "It appears there are a lot of different factors that are important in predicting nutritional quality and harms." - Crystal Smith/Spangler, one of the Stanford study authors [Source]
>Click here to read the Stanford study review<
Food for thought:
Organic Food vs. Conventional: What The Stanford Study Missed
Michael Pollan Responds To Study Finding 'No Significant Health Benefit' To Organic Food
Study: Eating Organic Produce Slashes Pesticide Concentrations In The Body
Are Organic Foods Better?
Is Organic Food Healthier? New Study Fuels Debate
Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, But That Isn't The Point
Stanford's Organic vs. Non-Organic Health Claims
Why do you eat organic?
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close to me) is a practical research into the possibility of using the
'Body as Interface'. The main point of departure was the idea to measure
human encounters, with the participants realizing that the boundaries
of the self extend beyond their skins. A core element of the work
is a sensor floor on which a performer is standing, functioning as a human
antenna; when coming close to or being touched by members of the audience,
the body movements are registered as electromagnetic activity. Surrounding
the floor are large projections showing real-time algorithmic organisms
connected to audio compositions, which change form according to fluctuations
in the electromagnetic field. The relative distance between the bodies
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Despite denials of a romance between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, new photographs show the couple on a beach in Africa, according to published reports.
The reports said the photos show Pitt, Jolie and her three-year-old son Maddox playing in the sand and strolling on the beach. Pitt and Jolie aren't shown being affectionate with each other.
Cindy Guagenti, Pitt's publicist, would not comment today on the reports.
Pitt, 41, separated from his wife, former Friends star Jennifer Aniston, in January. At the time of their breakup, there was speculation in the tabloids of a romance between Pitt and the 29-year-old Jolie, who star in the upcoming film Mr and Mrs Smith.
In its April 18 issue, Us Weekly proclaimed on its cover, "It's True!" over separate photos of Pitt and Jolie. In an article inside, Us quoted employees of a California hotel who claimed they saw the two actors being affectionate.
Guagenti has previously denied the report, saying "this particular story is completely untrue".
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Inzamam, who made 122 in the first match at Karachi last week, plundered 123 off 121 balls after he won his fourth consecutive toss and elected to bat in the day-night match at the Gaddafi stadium.
India, who trail 1-2 in the five-match series, face a stiff target of 5.9 runs an over under lights in a match the tourists must win to keep alive hopes of a push for victory in Wednesday's last game at the same venue.
Inzamam, who hit nine boundaries and four sixes in his 10th One-day hundred, put on 105 for the fourth wicket with Younis Khan and 70 off 46 balls for the fifth with Abdul Razzaq.
Razzaq pounded an aggressive 32 off 24 balls as Pakistan smashed 95 from the last 10 overs in front of a capacity crowd of 25,000 that included some 4,500 Indians fans.
India began well when left-arm seamer Irfan Pathan dismissed opener Shahid Afridi and the experienced Yousuf Youhana cheaply to reduce Pakistan to 39 for two.
Afridi slashed a short ball to point where Yuvraj Singh leapt high in the air to pluck the ball with both hands.
Youhana, who made nine, survived two confident leg-before appeals in Pathan's fifth over before being finally given out off the last ball of the same over when he shuffled across the line.
Yasir Hameed, fresh from his 98 in the previous match at Peshawar on Friday, helped Inzamam add 50 for the third wicket before a lapse in concentration caused his dismissal.
Hameed made 45 with the help of five boundaries when he charged down the wicket to left-arm spinner Murali Kartik, missed the line and was stumped by Rahul Dravid.
Inzamam, however, cruised along merrily at the other end.
He hit a six and two fours in the 33rd over bowled by Yuvraj and then welcomed Laxmipathy Balaji's second spell by lofting the first delivery over the long-on ropes.
Younis Khan made 36 in the century stand with his captain when he swept Kartik down Pathan's throat at deep square-leg to make Pakistan 194 for four in 39 overs.
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There's nothing more exciting than catching some sweet air on a trampoline. But did you know that trampolines can also bring new life into classic schoolyard games?
We put this list together to jumpstart your brain and your body!
These games are an excellent addition to keeping people motivated to exercise and keeping people healthy to boot. Try out these trampoline games next time you're bouncing your way to better health:
Challenge your friends to a trampoline trick contest and try to be number one. While this game is traditionally associated with the basketball court, the basic rules can be applied on the trampoline floor as well.
Rules: Flip a coin or play rock paper scissors to decide who flips first. The first person has to call out their move and then land it. Pending the first person lands their trick, the other players then have to copy it. Anyone who messes up the trick has a letter added to their score. The first to spell out h-o-r-s-e loses. But remember, don't try to do any tricks you're not comfortable doing. Safety first.
2. Bounce Battle:
Like horse, a bounce battle could theoretically involve tricks. But unlike horse, a true bounce battle is a game of sheer endurance. As far as trampoline games go, the bounce battle is more of a competitive exercise.
Rules: Two or more players face off by doing seat drops until they no longer have the energy to keep going. The first one to stop or lose balance gets a lonely silver medal (unless of course there are other players). You can change it up by alternating between seat drops and other kinds of trampoline exercises.
3. Simon Says
Another great classic that can be turned into a trampoline game. Simon Says is great for youngsters who want to build up their strength and hone their concentration skills.
Rules: Simon Says is best to play with at least three people. One person is designated as "Simon." Simon gives a series of commands that the other players have to follow. Each player has to repeat "Simon says to do _______" while they perform the move or trick. If a player forgets to say "simon says," they're out! Last one standing wins!
4. Dodge Ball:
Dodgeball is clearly one of the best trampoline games out there. Trampoline dodgeball is much more fun than traditional dodgeball because it requires more hand-eye coordination and spatial recognition. It's not always easy to jump around and hit your target.
Rules: Divide your players up evenly into two teams and line up on two sides of the trampoline court. Distribute the dodgeballs evenly to all players. Once the game begins, the goal is to hit the opposite team. Once someone is hit, they're out. However, you can catch an opponent's throw and get them out of the game. First team to knock out the opposition wins. Be careful! This is the most competitive you'll get while playing trampoline games.
5. Basketball Dunks
Trampoline games don't get much better than the slam dunk challenge. At Rockin' Jump, you can practice some sweet moves and play basketball at the same time.
Rules: You can use the rules for horse or you can just have fun improving your dunks. There's a reason why the NBA busts out the trampoline during halftime (psst, because it's super fun).
6. Hot Potato
For whatever reason, hot potato has always been a favorite game for children. I still can't figure out why, but perhaps it was my imagination that really made me believe the ball was hot. The added benefit of a trampoline is sure to make things interesting.
Rules: Three or more players gather around and pass a ball between each other while jumping. The first person to drop the ball or stop jumping is out. The last person standing is the winner. But you have to be quick, holding onto the ball is grounds for an out.
7. Dance Battle
Rules: Dance like nobody's watching. Or alternatively, have a dance-off with your friends.


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Girl C recently alerted me to the fact that she's looking for a chic laptop bag and because so many of us are online trolling the web all day, I figured we could probably help her out. "I guess actually more like a tote," says Girl C. "Something that can hold my laptop and wallet and phone. I would prefer a zipper on top, but won't be too fussy. Does anyone have a bag they LOVE? The prices differ so much that I want to know why I would pay more for one than the other."
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Anecdotal data are currently the best data available to describe baseline conditions of beached oil tar balls on Florida's First Coast beaches. This study combines field methods and numerical modeling to define a data-driven knowledge base of oil tar ball baseline conditions. Outcomes from the field study include an established methodology for field data collection and laboratory testing of beached oil tar balls, spatial maps of collected samples and analysis of the data as to transport/wash-up trends. Archives of the electronic data, including GPS locations and other informational tags, and collected samples are presented, as are the physical and chemical analyses of the collected samples. The thrust of the physical and chemical analyses is to differentiate the collected samples into highly suspect oil tar balls
Florida's First Coast beaches have experienced occurrences of oil tar ball wash-up as anecdotally evidenced by the local beach communities of Jacksonville. There has also been the question and concern of the local port (Mayport—St. Johns River) contributing to oil tar ball wash-up on the beaches of Florida's First Coast, and, historically, it was practice of ships to dump their bilge (containing fresh and used oil) just offshore before entering the inlet to port into Jacksonville. In addition to this local societal context, there is also a scientific purpose to generate a sample of baseline conditions of beached oil tar balls for Florida's First Coast. This scientific purpose is motivated by the speculation of Cuba drilling for oil [
Much previous work on oil tar ball transport and wash-up came about from the post-evaluation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010) in the Gulf of Mexico, as related to various aspects including tar ball characterization [
Two stretches of Florida's First Coast beaches were selected for field observation ( north of the St. Johns River inlet—Little Talbot Island—hereafter referred to as the north site; and south of the St. Johns River inlet—Atlantic Beach to Mayport—hereafter referred to as the south site.
north of the St. Johns River inlet—Little Talbot Island—hereafter referred to as the north site; and
south of the St. Johns River inlet—Atlantic Beach to Mayport—hereafter referred to as the south site.
Teams of two walked the stretches of beach, each 6 km in length (
Both sites were visited roughly once a week over two months (
All samples were handled with non-powdered gloves, individually stored in separate air-tight baggies, brought to the laboratory and collectively stored in an air-conditioned environment for subsequent physical and chemical analyses. The GPS data, including the photographs of the samples
Schedule of the beach walks.
|Visit Number (Site Location)
|Date (mm/dd/yyyy)
|Start and End Times (EST) (hh:mm:ss)
|Number of Suspected Oil Tar Balls Collected
|1 (south site)
|07:09:06 and 11:12:10
|2 (north site)
|07:54:33 and 11:14:07
|3 (south site)
|06:28:12 and 09:40:58
|4 (north site)
|06:45:41 and 08:04:59
|5 (south site)
|06:55:29 and 10:24:09
|6 (north site)
|06:59:25 and 09:11:56
|7 (north site)
|06:55:42 and 08:30:03
|8 (south site)
|06:25:38 and 09:35:37
|9 (north site)
|06:40:30 and 08:29:57
|10 (south site)
|06:12:34 and 08:42:03
|11 (north site)
|07:02:38 and 08:59:40
|12 (south site)
|08:24:00 and 10:35:05
|13 (north site)
|07:11:06 and 08:27:33
Physical analysis involved categorizing all of the samples according to their suspected composition.
Categorization of the collected samples based on physical composition.
|Sample Features
|Number of Suspected Oil Tar Balls Falling into Category
|Sooty, brittle, shiny facets
|Smooth exterior with highly porous center
|Very lightweight porous rock
|Visible wood grain
|Sturdy, variable porosity
|Tar ball
|Tar-like smell, pliable, embedded debris
|Does not fit into any of the other categories
The literature is widely varying per how to characterize oil tar balls using chemical tests [
Example samples typifying the physical character of (
The first test attempted was gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and gas chromatography/flame ionization detector (GC/FID). The GC-MS and GC/FID tests failed because, with the low-budget instrument used, temperatures were not capable of gasifying the sample compositions and producing a chemical signature. Only solvent peaks for samples obviously containing oil were obtained, which was most likely due to insufficient temperatures of the GC columns used. Columns suggested by manufacturers to characterize crude oil sludge were beyond the available budget of the study. It is hypothesized that the majority of oil obtained from tar balls are the high molecular weight portions of crude oil, commonly referred to as tar. Compounds of high molecular weight have higher melting points than lighter compounds. In order for GC techniques to be applied, the instrument must reach sufficient temperatures for the compound of interest to reach a gaseous state, pass through the column and produce a reading.
The second test attempted was solubilization of samples in DCM (dichloromethane) which is a commonly used solvent for isolating oils from particulate solid masses. A small piece from a sample in each of the categories of physical composition (
The third test attempted was evaluation of melting point. In hopes to confirm the presence or absence of crude oil in the samples, we had desired to measure a melting point of bits of "oil" from the samples in the tar ball category. For all the samples in the tar ball category, a portion of each sample was powderized and the "oil" particles were separated from the larger pieces of rock and debris via mechanical processing. Separation of the "oil" from the surrounding sand particles was impractical (although it was attempted, again via mechanical processing). It was eventually determined that the "oil" particles would melt at a much lower temperature than the sand, therefore the presence of the sand should not make a difference. The "oil"/sand mixture was heated in a test tube using a Bunsen burner which quickly revealed that the "oil" simply softened slightly and turned the sample into a gooey mess, accompanied with the smell of hot asphalt. While these results strongly suggest the sample was indeed a tar ball, the lack of quantitative evidence leaves it undetermined.
The maps shown in
GPS-based locations of (
The ADvanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) code was used for the numerical modeling in this study. The model is depth-integrated, and it is assumed that the simulated two-dimensional hydrodynamics are a major contributor to the transport of suspended materials, including oil tar balls contained within the water column. The model does not account for resuspension of settled materials or for the chemical evolution of oil tar balls. A previously developed model for the South Atlantic Bight [
Tidally driven transport is closely related to the velocity residuals at tidal and subtidal frequencies;
Tidally driven velocity residuals: (
There were 14 oil tar balls found on the north site and there was 1 oil tar ball found on the south site (
This study was spawned as a pilot project to define a methodology for establishing baseline conditions of beached oil tar balls along Florida's First Coast. As a result of the pilot project, a research team (local to Jacksonville) of mappers, modelers and field experts has been formed. In addition, the pilot project has established fieldwork protocols for collecting oil tar balls on Florida's First Coast beaches, modeling methods for simulating hydrodynamics in the St. Johns River and offshore waters and laboratory tests for confirming or negating collected samples as being oil tar balls.
The methodology presented in this paper for defining baseline conditions of beached oil tar balls along Florida's First Coast was designed with up-scaling in mind. The project could be scaled spatially by including a longer stretch of beach. In temporal scope, the project could involve more frequent site visits or the collection period could be extended. In the laboratory, there could be more extensive testing with the goal of more conclusively identifying oil tar balls.
The study concludes that a limited amount of oil tar balls wash up during normal conditions, suggesting that the port activity in the St. Johns River is not a major contributor of oil tar ball wash-up on Florida's First Coast beaches. Future work will be to conduct a temporal analysis of the data to discover any trends or causative factors (e.g., storms) to oil tar ball wash-up. Finally, the numerical modeling will be extended to incorporate transport into the hydrodynamic simulation as well as to explore the effect of waves and wave-induced current as transport mechanisms.
Student support was funded in part by a Seed Grant from the University of North Florida Environmental Center and by the School of Engineering and College of Computing, Engineering and Construction of the University of North Florida. The fieldwork on Little Talbot Island State Park was carried out under Research and Collecting Permit #02131312. The authors thank Matthew Davies of the University of North Florida—Chemistry Department for providing time and advice on the project.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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> If memory serves me right, Jim McBeath wrote:
> > 2. Has anyone used the Netgate EL-5354MP Aries card with m0n0wall?
> > http://www.netgate.com/5354AriesMP.html
> > It's an "Atheros 802.11a/g 5354 ARIES Type IIIa mini PCI card".
> > Does the m0n0wall kernel have drivers for that in it, or will I have
> > to do some hacking? The Netgate web page for this card says "BSD
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> > are in m0n0. Will it work in all the a/b/g modes, or is it a waste
> > of money to buy this card in this situation?
> It won't work at all.
> Atheros chipset support is a FreeBSD 5.X feature (specifically, FreeBSD
> 5.1 and later). m0n0wall is based on FreeBSD 4.9.
OK, that makes sense. I assume that m0n0wall won't be running on 5.X for
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CAMPAIGNERS have been hailing a victory after plans to build luxury housing on land next to the Malvern Cube community centre were abandoned.
Worcestershire County Council had until Monday this week to appeal against the refusal of planning permission for the site off Albert Road North.
But when the deadline passed without the appeal being lodged, members of the Malvern Cube Land Campaign became jubilant.
"We wish to thank everyone who supported the campaign", said campaigner Cathy Jackson-Read. "It's been a bit of a roller coaster but we got there in the end.
"It was a real community-based campaign, and we'd like to think they saw that and that influenced their decision."
"We now look forward to discussions with the county council on how the land can best be used for the benefit of Malvern Cube and the wider community."
The county council handed over the Cube, formerly the youth centre, to Malvern Youth and Community Trust, but kept control of land surrounding it, which the campaigners want to retain for community use.
The county council applied for permission to build four luxury homes on the land, but in September, Malvern Hills District Council turned down the application.
Fearing the county council would appeal, the campaign group handed over a petition with over 1,000 signatures at a council meeting in October. However, at that meeting, the council voted down a motion lodged by Lib Dem and Green councillor, calling for an appeal to be dropped.
This week, the council declined to comment on why the appeal had not been pursued. A spokesperson said: "The county council will continue to explore all options for the surplus land at Malvern to maximise its assets for the benefit of the council tax payer in the county of Worcestershire."


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The Dutch government bought 31 million doses of vaccine against the A(H1N1) virus at the height of the global swine flu outbreak last year. About 11 million were used.
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The World Health Organisation declared a swine flu pandemic on June 11, 2009, and says it has since claimed some 18,311 lives worldwide.
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Intro to Facebook and Twitter
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You are finally ready to jump in and see what everyone is talking about. In this introductory class, we'll walk you through the two leading social networks—Facebook and Twitter. In two hours, you will learn how to:
• Understand how each social network works and what distinguishes them.
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• Share links, photos and videos on each social network.
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