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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:44 am
Post subject: 2012 - The Year of Solutions
2011 was certainly a turning point in our awareness of problems.
2012 is the turning point for solutions.
Let this thread be devoted to solutions.
By way of setting a scene...
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:44 pm
Post subject: As easy as ...
1) Get out of debt and stay out of debt (as best you can, as this reduces the leverage against you).
2) Impress upon your elected officials that any preference of corporate interests over those of the general populace will be considered as an incitement to recall or at least a vote against their re-election.
3) Demonstrate and distribute as much information as you can to make people aware of how little monetary control they and their government exert compared to the banking and financial sectors.
The grand design, reflected in the face of Chaos.
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:18 pm
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High priorities
Make sure you and your family have water and food enough
Make sure you can defend your family and food against robber gangs
If your housing is unsure, make sure have outdoor equipment (does not cost much, be helps a lot)
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:28 pm
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High priorities
Make sure you and your family have water and food enough
Make sure you can defend your family and food against robber gangs
If your housing is unsure, make sure you have outdoor equipment (does not cost much, but helps a lot.
This is basically a sound strategy
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:47 am
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Thorium-based liquid salt breeder reactors and Fischer-Tropsch process solution for all our energy needs
What is Thorium? It's a fertile material. That means that when struck by a neutron in a reactor it transmutes via a nuclear process to an element that is capable of fission. Note that Thorium itself is not fissionable - that is, it will not (directly) split and release energy. Instead it captures thermal neutrons and turns into Uranium-233. U-233 is fissile.
Consider this:
There is 13 times as much energy in coal in the form of Thorium as there is available by burning the coal
, and right now we literally throw it away in the ash pile!
There is a type of nuclear reactor that utilizes this fuel cycle. Instead of the traditional nuclear reactor which uses water as a moderator and coolant (either a boiling or pressurized water reactor) these reactors use a liquid salt. In the vernacular they're called "LFTR"s, pronounced "Lifter."
You've probably never heard of them. But they're not pie in the sky dreams. US ran one for nearly four years in the 1960s at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was scrapped in favor of the traditional uranium fuel cycle we use today because the fuel it produces is very difficult to exploit for nuclear weapons, and it breeds fuel at a slow rate. The natural process of the nuclear reactions in the core of such a unit produces a byproduct that is a very strong gamma emitter that is difficult to separate from the other reaction products. For this reason - and because we wanted both nuclear power and nuclear weapons - we built the infrastructure for uranium and plutonium rather than thorium.
Thorium-based reactors have several significant advantages and a few disadvantages. We have much less experience with LFTRs than traditional nuclear power, simply because we stopped working with them for political and war-fighting reasons. They use a fluoride salt which is quite reactive when in contact with water, but the reactivity is a bonus in all other respects, because it tends to encapsulate the reaction products (the nasty fission products that you don't want in the environment) through that same chemical process. It runs at a much higher temperature (typically 650C) than a traditional reactor and unlike a traditional reactor the fuel and the working fluid is the same - there are no fuel rods that can melt and release their nasty fission product elements, as the fuel is dispersed in the coolant.
Finally, the unit is intrinsically safe.
It does not require high pressure; the working fluid and coolant is a liquid at ordinary atmospheric pressure. This gets rid of the need for high-pressure pumps, pipes and similar materials. Without the moderator the reactivity is insufficient to sustain a chain reaction, and the moderator is in the reactor vessel itself through which the fuel/coolant is pumped, so criticality is impossible outside of the reactor vessel and inside the vessel the fuel and coolant are the same, and a liquid. The working fluid is contained in the reactor loop by an actively-cooled plug. If power is lost cooling ceases and the plug melts; the working fluid then drains into tanks by gravity under the reactor and cools into a solid, as it cannot maintain criticality outside of the reactor itself (there's no moderator in the tank or the plumbing.) As the fuel is in the fluid, there is no core to melt as occurred in Japan and being dispersed over a much larger area the working fluid naturally cools from liquid to solid without forced pumping and cooling. This safety feature was regularly tested in the unit at Oak Ridge - they literally turned off the power on the weekends and simply went home!
One final piece of information: The Germans figured out how to turn coal into synfuel - gasoline and diesel - before WWII. This process, called Fischer-Tropsch, requires energy to drive it and is currently in commercial use in some places that have a lot of coal but little or no oil, such as South Africa. Malaysia also has an operating plant. Typical operating temperatures for this process are in the neighborhood of ~350C.
Let us assume we consume twice the fuel content of the coal extracting the thorium. We have 11x the original energy left (once in combustion of the coal, and 10x in thorium energy content.)
We will then use the Fischer-Tropsch process to turn the coal into synfuel - gasoline and diesel.
We will be rather piggish about efficiency (that is, presume we're not efficient at all) and assume we put in twice as much energy as the coal contains in fuel content converting it. Since the process heat from the reactor is of higher quality (higher temperature) than the Fischer-Tropsch reaction requires by a good margin, we can do so directly without first converting to electricity (which would introduce more losses.)
We now have all of our gasoline and diesel fuel, and we also have 8x the original BTU content of the coal left in thorium energy content.
All is what required is political will and some 100 years 1% Federal Bonds discounted by Federal Reserve. Will create approximately 5 million Union wages jobs in US and pay for itself by reducing Imperial Oil region policing operations by the Pentagon. Not to speak of we will finally stop killing the people in the name of controlling the world oil flow by few Multinationals. To me it sounds a hell of a lot better than saving some pitifull pennies by putting 50 million Americans on $17/week or $2.43/day grocery ration
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:48 pm
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i saw an ad today on network tv from some company that is promoting nuclear energy, with a greenpeace rep speaking for the advertiser. i'll have to find it online and post. not sure if this Thorium-based process is what they were referring to.
just cos things are fucked up doesn't mean it isn't progress...
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:38 pm
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I can't get away from the idea of debt relief is a massive part of the solution. Not running away and hiding from the banks. A chasing down and bringing to judgement of them. Will post more detailed thoughts over the weekend...
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:21 am
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Fly me to the Moon: New space plans for Russia
The Russian space agency has announced it is to boost cooperation with its partners in the US and the European Union, and has called for the creation of a permanent base on the Moon.
In an interview with Vesti FM radio station, the head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said the agency was discussing with NASA and ESA the possibility of exploring the Moon.
A joint mission would prospect for water and natural resources on the Moon, and build a base for future space explorers. Between now and the year 2020, the agency plans to send two unmanned probes to the Earths satellite and is currently working on an advanced manned transportation system capable of reaching the Moon, Popovkin said.
The Roscosmos chief added that the final goal of the proposed Lunar project would be to create either a base on the Moon or a station in proximity to the satellite.
That kind of "can do" attitude we need in the new 2012 year. Not pathetic penny-pinching from grandmas
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:33 pm
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Very good video. I'd like to emphasise, as I did in a previous thread, that we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to charging interest on loans. Not all interest is usury.
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Somehow usury and interest became synonyms at some point, and this has confused this issue (possibly on purpose to make usury socially acceptable). Interest is okay, usury is not. Making a loan is a shared risk between 2 parties, and if there is profit it's right that the profit should be shared through interest payments. But if a loan is given knowing there is never any chance of profit (ie. of something extra being produced from the loan, some real wealth), it is wrong to ask for interest payments. That's usury -- expecting interest on a non-productive loan.
The clearest thinker that I know of on this topic was poet Hilaire Belloc:
today Usury works side by side with legitimate profit, and, confused with it, has become universal throughout what used to be Christian civilization. It is taken for granted that every loan shall bear interest, without inquiring whether it be productive or unproductive. The whole financial side of our civilization is still based on that false conception.
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:56 am
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There are two issues:
Usury and Counterfeiting
. Usury could be defined as loaning money at interest not for productive purposes (e.g. creating
assets or services), but rather to bid up
existing assets
(e.g. blowing up asset bubbles like stocks, housing, commodities). That is what separates the legitimate Productive Capital from the Usurious Fondi. Productive Capital comes from legitimate savings; Usurious Fondi comes from Counterfeiting activity.
is the ability of private banks to issue checks against Public Credit, something they dont own,
using their arbitrary privileged position,
and collecting interest payments on something that never belonged to them in the first place. Governments, usually through legitimately operating Central banks are perfectly capable of monetizing the Public Credit on their own. There is a much better chance that Governments would use the Public Credit for the Common Public Welfare through a normally functioning Democratic Process (that is freed up from bankers influence) than the private banks.
Good example would be a European Central Bank that is prohibited from loaning money to the Governments, leaving that privilege to Private Banks who loan the money monetized from the European Nations Credit back to corresponding Governments biggest swindle in modern history. That is one of the reasons for the current European Debt crisis. (US Fed is in slightly better position since it could on its own finance the US Government deficit by buying US Treasuries).
So what is Credit?
Credit is not money
. Credit is an honest plan, a project, to increase certain productive capacity in the future. For example, the plan to build a technologically advanced Thorium Liquid Sault Reactor that produces electricity and gasoline converted from coal using the reactors heat.
When project is approved by rigorous scientific and technological review, it could be than
by Central Bank into Bank Deposits of Enterprise that is managing the project.
The real underlying cause of the modern Crisis is criminal misuse of the Public Credit for non-productive, speculative activity
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:02 pm
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Quoting Kent nerburn.
Stay away from debt in your personal life. Debt, not poverty, is the greatest enemy of financial well-being and peace of mind. There are massive forces arrayed in the world to tell you of the great benefits of debt. They will tell you that by borrowing you establish your legitimacy in the eyes of lenders, and that you can have tomorrow's pleasures at today's prices.
They will present arguments and inducements that are convincing and seductive. They dress debt in a suit and call it credit. But it all comes down to the same thing: You have mortgaged your future to pay for your present, and this is something you don't ever want to do. Debt can make you money because it allows you to invest. Debt can help you in the present and leave your problems for what you hope will be a better time in the future.
But debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die. You have committed your life to making money to pay for your past. Stay away from debt if you can. There is no sadder sight than the person with dreams and promise whose eyes have dulled and whose days are spent pushing the heavy wheel of debt toward an endless horizon. [Simple Truths]
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Its not news that I love the idea of consecutive stages, so I was very excited to learn from the forum's very own PWB that an Arizona swimmer, Kent Nicholas, was putting together a 4 lake multi day event just a short distance from Phoenix. Kent successfully crossed the Catalina Channel last year and will be coming east a couple of times this season to tackle MIMS and Kingdom.
The series is S.C.A.R. and the four lakes are Saguaro, Canyon, Apache, and Roosevelt.
Today we swam Saguaro dam to dam... perhaps 9 miles. Tomorrow we swim Canyon.
A small group of swimmers (8), we met up with each other, our in-water support (boats and kayakers) and ground support (vehicle jugglers) at 5:00 AM. The warm up would be a challenging hike down a rugged trail with kayaks, and our gear in flip-flops (yes, we were warned that more substantial footwear would be a good idea).
The juxtaposition of extreme desert flora surrounding abrasive rocks with the cool water (65 degrees at the start) creates a dramatic landscape, though not entirely natural. This series of lakes are actually dammed sections of the Salt River.
We had to swim east for about 500 yards to touch the buoy line to start. Once there, we formed our little tri-pods (heh heh...) of 2 swimmers and 1 kayaker.
Young Greyhound Pod
Gordon Smith
Shauna Nelson
James Sieffert
Wise Greyhound Pod
Kurt Dickson
Patrick Brundage
Wayne Rich
Skyscraper Pod
David Barra
Janet Harris
Jason Walters
Westwood Warrior Pod
Meg Rich- Z
Kent Nicholas
Candy Nicholas
Rover Kayaker:
Scott Mara
Some adjustments were made with kayaker assignments and we were off... start time about 7:30.
I liked the sound of "skyscraper pod", even though the tallest building in the nearest town to my High Falls residence is only 6 stories.
The banks of the river/lake are lined with sage and saguaro cacti that alternate between open areas and tall canyon walls rising straight out of the water. The rugged beauty of this lake is breathtaking, and I was at times distracted... wanting to focus my attention on one feature or another. Still, Janet and I podded well together, stopping briefly every 30 minutes for a feed.
The Greyhounds (both young and wise) didn't disappoint, and were out of our sight after about an hour. I don't know about the young'uns, but for the Wise Pod; this was their longest OW swim ever, by a fair amount. I feel honored to have been able to share the lake with these USMS Stars for this occasion!
.....Canyon tomorrow!


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Auditions for the BIG IN GHANA, the biggest talent hunt show in the country is all set to roll with its first audition kicking off on the 4th of August 2012 inside café De paris in the Western Region – Takoradi, 1 pm sharp.
Organizers of the event, Africa Unsigned together with Pidgen Music gave details about the upcoming auditions as: 'we are on the verge of selecting raw music talents across the country to join the FOKN BOIS, Yaa Pono and Efya on the BIG IN GHANA tour slated for this August and make them the big stars they have always dreamt off.
They mentioned the other audition dates and venue as, 5th August / T.Havana C.9 –Tema, 11th August / Rexmar Hotel – Kumasi, 12th August / Apollo Theatre – Accra FOKN BOIS, the main artistes behind this tour added their voice: "We will not encourage miming because we want real musicians that can go anywhere in the world and blow audiences away with their raw talent."
According to Organizers the winner who will be selected through SMS votes after the tour will get prize packages worth over 20,000, GHC worth of prizes, including a cash prize of 3,000, a recording deal, publishing deal, professional video, management and promotion.
The FOKN BOIS lamented that "If you have been looking for a manager or producer to help you bring your hit song out then don't miss this chance. Bring your song and come audition at the Big in Ghana Talent Hunt at any of the audition venues.
The big in Ghana talent hunt and tour is sponsored by Bavaria. Get to know the audition date as it is closer to you now, join the train and start walking your way to fame and stardom.


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Stress on special operations troops 'worse than we thought'
By GREGG ZOROYA | USA Today | Published: December 20, 2012
TAMPA — The nation's most elite fighting forces — celebrated this year in film and best-selling books — are under more emotional strain after a decade of war than commanders realized, according to the senior non-commissioned officer for special operations.
A tragic part of that is record suicides this year, says Command Sgt. Maj. Chris Faris.
According to Pentagon data, there were 17 confirmed or suspected suicides this year among commandos or support personnel through Dec. 2, compared with nine suicides each of the past two years.
That's a suicide rate among these troops of about 25 per 100,000, comparable to a record rate this year in the Army and higher than a demographically adjusted civilian suicide rate.
"What we're struggling with is, OK, what the heck is going on?" Faris says.
"These guys have been under tremendous pressure," says Kim Ruocco, who assists families of special operations troops who commit suicide. They "have given over and over again without complaining ... and then, when they do have issues, spend a lot of time hiding it."
The problems arise as popular media showers attention on these troops, particularly the famed SEAL Team 6 whose killing of Osama bin Laden led to best-selling books and the film, Zero Dark Thirty.
A report last month by U.S. Special Operations Command — which oversees 66,000 troops including the Army's secretive Delta Force, Navy SEALs with SEAL Team 6, Army Green Berets and Rangers — cites "an increase in domestic and family relational and behavioral problems, substance abuse and self-medication problems, risk-taking behavior, post-traumatic stress and suicide."
Faris says, "It's worse than we thought." But he added that despite signs of strain, this select category of troops remains capable of meeting any missions they are given.
Ruocco, a director at Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), says she has worked with the families of a Green Beret and a Navy SEAL who killed themselves this year.
"These guys have worked so hard to get to the level they are, to get to the skill level and respect level and the loyalty level, that help-seeking becomes really something that they avoid," Ruocco says.
In some cases, help isn't sought until something goes terribly wrong such as a marital separation or a drunken driving arrest, she says. "All of the sudden, the guy's so sick, it's almost too late because their world is falling apart," Ruocco says.
The pace of training and war, with "operators" deploying a dozen or more times to combat since 9/11, left troops and their families losing faith with commanders who appeared insensitive, according to an internal review of the stress issue.
Demand for special operations forces is expected to remain high even with the end of the Iraq War and the Afghan conflict winding down.
In response this year, commanders have created new programs, directives and resources aimed at easing the strain, and worked to ensure that troops know their leaders care about them.
"I hear you!" Navy Adm. William McRaven, head of Special Operations Command, wrote to troops early this year. He later issued a directive guaranteeing them, in a two-year period, at least 250 unrestricted days with their families, free of war, training or other interruptions.
A waiver to reduce the promised time off can only be approved by a general officer. The program will be fully in place by 2014, says Faris, McRaven's senior enlisted adviser.
Navy commanders held more group sessions to speak with SEALs about issues such as alcohol abuse or suicide awareness.
A centerpiece program, first reported by USA TODAY in April, were visits to commando bases across the country by Faris and his wife, Lisa. A former Delta Force operator who spent a cumulative six years at war in Iraq or Afghanistan, Faris talked openly to troops and families about his own marital crisis. His wife, Lisa, told her side of the story.
"People relate to it very well," says Steve Gilmore, family support director at Naval Special Warfare Command, of the sessions held before Navy SEALs and their spouses. "You'll see heads nodding all over the room and elbows in the ribs."
Chris and Lisa Faris have done more than six dozen events for special operations troops in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
Lisa Faris says spouses e-mail her or servicemembers walk up after a session ends and discuss their own dire marital circumstances and ask whether it is too late to fix them.
"I just tell them it's never too late," she says. "For them to share their stories and personal relationships with me is a door opened."
Chris Faris says that he believes the problem of a fraying special operations force is turning a corner.
"For the first time, I see hope," he says. "I definitely see hope for our families, and it's hope in the fact that, yes, (the problem) is recognized and two, it's going to change."


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what's going on in uganda?
Sean at Africa is a Country notes a good summary from the Committee to Protect Journalists as to why the above political cartoon is apparently illegal in Uganda. Uganda, you'll remember, is ostensibly a democracy:
"A Ugandan newspaper's critical caricature of President Yoweri Museveni led police to interrogate three journalists today on allegations of sedition, according to a defense attorney and local journalists.The Independent's blog, Uganda Talks, has an update here and I'm sure they will continue to keep us posted as events develop.
"For four hours, 10 officers of the Media Crimes Department of Uganda's Criminal Investigations Directorate questioned the editorial decisions of Managing Editor Andrew Mwenda, Editor Charles Bichachi, and Assistant News Editor Joseph Were of the bimonthly newsmagazine The Independent, according to defense lawyer Bob Kasango. Were was told to return for further questioning on Saturday, while Mwenda and Bichachi were ordered to return on Monday, according to local journalists."
Uganda's status as a "democracy" is paradoxical. On the one hand, it's a place with regular elections that are somewhat fair and free. On the other, it's a place with only limited political competition. And then there's the press freedom issue. The CPJ further notes:
"Criminal prosecutions of independent journalists--particularly those working for Uganda's largest independent newspaper, Monitor--are on the rise against the backdrop of mounting national tensions and hostile presidential rhetoric toward the press, CPJ research shows."I am eagerly awaiting the release of Aili Mari Tripp's new book, Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime. According to the summary, she points out that Uganda is really a semi-authoritarian regime, and that Museveni simultaneously pursues liberalization and centralizes his control.
We would all do well to remember that becoming a democracy is a process. Democratization doesn't happen overnight, especially when a country doesn't see regular transitions of power from one party to another. Nobody expects a country with Uganda's unique history and challenges to get there overnight.
But that doesn't give anyone license to limit the freedom of the press, or to intimidate journalists (or cartoonists). I for one, want to make sure that as many people as possible know about the challenges these journalists face. They do good work, and their voices are too important to be silenced. Uganda's government should be hearing about how unacceptable this behavior is from diplomats and aid organizations. If you have a blog or a Twitter account or whatever, please consider giving this situation a mention this week.


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The "napkin-ring problem" sometimes shows up in 2nd-year calculus courses, but it can fit quite neatly into a high-school geometry course via Cavalieri's principle.
However, the conclusion remains astonishing. Is there some advanced viewpoint from which it becomes obvious from some sort of symmetry that's not visible in the naive formulation?


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Gracie Gold wins short program at figure skating championships
BOSTON >> Gracie Gold redeemed a shaky short program with a fantastic free skate a year ago.
Now that she's mastered the first day of the U.S. Championships, the teenager likely won't need anything spectacular to make it to Sochi.
Gold set a career high with 72.12 points Thursday to stake herself to a big lead after the short program. She's more than five points ahead of 15-year-old Polina Edmunds and nearly seven points ahead of a resurgent Mirai Nagasu.
Two-time defending champion Ashley Wagner was fourth. The top three women go to the Olympics.
The 18-year-old Gold works with renowned coach Frank Carroll, who helped Evan Lysacek win at the Vancouver Games.
"It is a new short program and there were a couple of unknowns going into this event," she said. "I'm really glad I was able to trust my training, and I think I've worked really hard with Frank."
Gold was ninth after the short program in 2013, then won the free skate to surge into second place and a spot at the world championships, where she finished sixth. A year later, she combined an improved presentation with strong jumps and a rapport with the audience.
Earlier, hometown favorites Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir ran away with the pairs short program. The defending champs staked themselves to a huge lead of 6.63 points.
Gold was sharp from the start with her triple lutz-triple toe loop combination, and the program to "Piano Concerto" kept on building. She earned the highest possible level on all her other elements.
Her performance was no surprise; Gold is one of the favorites here to claim an Olympic spot. But Edmunds, the 2013 U.S. junior champion, stunned almost everyone but herself with her routine as the final skater of the night.
She matched Gold's combination jumps and made her bubbly program look almost easy - as if she knew she belonged in the top echelon.
"It couldn't have been much better," she said. "I shouldn't be surprised. I have all the elements. I just went out and did them."
Wagner didn't test herself the same way, and it cost her. Her combination jump was just a triple-double, and even then the landing was shaky.
"I decided to play it safe rather than be sorry," she said. "I could have gone for the triple after the flip, but knew it wouldn't be a good one and it was risky. I decided to just leave it at that."
And that left her out of the top three, behind Nagasu, who has struggled ever since finishing fourth in the Vancouver Olympics.
Like Gold, Castelli and Shnapir set a career high. Castelli's jaw dropped when their mark of 73.13 points was announced.
"I was in shock at first; I was not expecting that," she said. "I like to try to calculate it in my head. I would have been happy with 66 or 67, so it was just insane."
The two New Englanders were nervous when they found out the U.S. Championships in an Olympic year would be in Boston.
"We do little exhibitions at our home club, Skating Club of Boston, and those are some of the most nerve-racking performances for us," Shnapir said. "There's almost this feeling of expectation that we have to do well. It's definitely challenging. But as soon as we hit our spot, as soon as we heard our names called, we felt that energy."
The crowd was screaming for them from the moment they took the ice to warm up for their performance, the last of the afternoon.
The roars swelled as they skated to "Black Magic Woman" and "Smooth" by Carlos Santana. Their speed on the ice and the height of their jumps were on another level from the rest of the competition, and when Castelli smoothly landed a big throw triple salchow, Shnapir might have thought from the reaction that his beloved Bruins had just scored a goal at TD Garden.
"Props to the crowd - that was more than we could have asked for," Shnapir said. "The energy in the house was enormous and it really helped us. It was kind of humbling to know how many people are supporting us and were cheering us on."
The real competition Saturday could be for the United States' second Olympic spot. Felicia Zhang and Nathan Bartholomay lead third-place DeeDee Leng and Timothy LeDuc by 0.1 points.
Caydee Denney and John Coughlin, the 2012 champs, returned after missing last year's nationals as he recovered from hip surgery and were fourth.


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The next few weeks are going to be a little different.
These workouts are based on a model I often use for clients who are going on holiday.
It's simple, can be printed on one page and yet it forces them to make some decisions for themselves.
This last point is pretty important to me as a big part of my "real world" training is education. While I love all my clients, I don't want to keep training them year after year. Kind of like a mama bird, I teach them what they need to learn and when they're ready…I shove 'em outta the nest.
- These workouts will require bodyweight and resistance bands only
- They focus on muscular and anaerobic endurance
- Are great fat-burners as long as you keep the intensity level turned up to 11
- Allow you to get out of the gym and enjoy the weather before the snow starts to fly
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Warm-Up as per usual
After completing the warm-up, I want you to choose 1 exercise from 5 of the 7 groups listed below.
- Complete the required reps as quickly as possible, minimizing rest periods.
- How you organize the sets is up to you
- Move quickly but with good form
Have fun.
BW Squat – 100 reps
1 Leg Squat (standing on bench) – 60 reps total both legs
Jumping Squats – 60 reps
1 Leg Deadlift – 100 reps – 50 per leg
Hip Thrust with feet or body elevated (lying on ball OR with feet on chair) – 100 reps
Hip Thrust – floor – 150 reps
Shuffle Lunges – 200 reps
Burpees – 60 reps
Hill Sprint – 6 x 10 sec sprint
Band Bicep Curl – 100 reps
BW Skullcrusher – 60 reps
1 Arm Band Shoulder Press – 80 reps total – 40 per arm
Horizontal Band Woodchop – 80 reps
2 Arm BW Row – 120 reps
Vertical Woodchop with band or Med Ball / Big Rock Slam – 80 reps
2 Arm Band Chest Press – 100 reps
1 Arm Band Chest Press – 100 reps – 50 per arm
Push-Up – 40 reps total
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Toes to the Sky – abs/core exercise – 100 reps
Ab Wheel Roll-Out – 100 reps
Rolling Like A Ball – 200 reps
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Tips and Advice for Activating or Switching to a Tracfone SmartphoneWe get a lot of questions from our readers here at TracfoneReviewer about switching to Tracfone smartphones, and as more and more people make that transition, we wanted to share the best advice and tips we've gathered from our experiences, and those of our readers.
|How to Activate a Tracfone Smartphone
-Switching from a Non-Smartphone to a Smartphone
-Switching from one Smartphone to Another
-Activating a New Smartphone
-Switching to a Tracfone BYOP device.
What we want to share is some information on how to start the transfer or activation process, and our best advice on making the transition as smooth as possible. A number of longtime Tracfone users are making the switch to Smartphones (partially because of the closing of 2G networks) and it can be very challenging and frustrating to try and figure out how to do it.
Let's start with the activation process.
Basic Process for Activating a SmartphoneHere are the basic steps we would recommend for activating a smartphone with Tracfone. Before we start, keep in mind these points about smartphones:
Remember that...
- You cannot switch from a smartphone back to a regular phone
- Airtime on smartphones is split into three pools - Talk/Text/Data
- Not all Smartphones come with Triple Minutes for Life (Tracfone recently changed that)
- Smartphone-only airtime cards do not triple.
- Promo Codes can be used with Smartphones (in most cases)
Step 1 - Verify what coverage works best in your area
Verify and purchase a phone that will be compatible with your geographical area. Tracfone offers both GSM and CDMA coverage, but some areas only have one or the other. For their GSM coverage, they use AT&T cell towers and for their CDMA coverage they use Verizon towers. If you've already got a phone from Tracfone, check what comes at the end of the name. a 'G' at the end means GSM, a 'C' means CDMA (for example, the LG 306G uses GSM).
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If you're shopping for phones, visit our Cell Phone Reviews page or our Tracfone BYOP page.
Step 2 - Gather Necessary Items
To activate a new Tracfone smartphone, you simply need the phone you wish to activate, and the red activation card which includes the serial number.
To activate a phone on Tracfone BYOP, you will need a Tracfone SIM card kit, the phone you wish to activate, and an airtime card (or credit card to buy airtime).
You can get the BYOP SIM card kit from Tracfone, or get it from Amazon or BestBuy for $1. Also available from other sources.
If you're transferring service, you should also have your old phone with you.
Step 3 - Start the Activation Process
You can either call Tracfone or use their website to start the activation process, but we recommend using the website.
Go to Tracfone.com and look for the orange button towards the top right of the screen that says "activate/reactivate/transfer" and choose this option.
Follow the prompts, choosing whether you are using a Tracfone Smartphone, or a BYOP device. Then continue to enter the information as prompted.
We've heard from many readers who have been able to activate their device in a matter of minutes. But things don't always go so smoothly, so continue on to the next step.
Step 4 - Check that Everything Works
Once you complete the activation process (which usually takes less than an hour, but may take up to 2 days), make your test calls, test texts, and check that your data works.
If something is not working, start by turning your device off and back on (for most devices this means hold the power button for several seconds until it powers down or asks if you want to turn it off), and then wait at least 48 hours after activating to see if it will start working.
If you still don't have an active device, it is time to contact Tracfone.
There are (at least) 6 Ways to Contact Tracfone:
- Call Tracfone - 1 (800) 867-7183 (this is their customer service number, available 8AM-11:45PM EST 7 days a week)
- Text Tracfone - Text 'HELP' to 611611 (we've never actually tried this, so don't know how well it will work)
- Email Tracfone - This doesn't seem to be available at the moment
- Use the Tracfone Forum
- Use the Tracfone Facebook page
- You can also chat via Facebook
For most, calling is the best way to get help, although other methods might work better for you depending on your situation. Be prepared to be patient and clearly explain your problem. Tracfone customer service is not the best, but I've always had my problems fixed eventually.
The majority of people have no issues and smoothly activate their new phone or transfer their number and minutes. But a small percent seem to run into issues, anything from Tracfone sending the wrong SIM, to ill-informed customer service. Based on years of comments and reports from our readers, these issues just sometimes happen, and you will need some patience and determination to work through it.
Leave a comment with your preferred method of communication, and any other feedback on contacting Tracfone in the comments below!
Additional Tips and Advice for Actuating a Tracfone SmartphoneHere are some extra tips and helpful information we hope will make for an easier activation process and answer some of your questions.
- Double check your coverage area. One way to check what service you have in your area is to enter your zipcode on the Tracfone website when shopping for a phone. If only CDMA devices show up, you live in an area best suited to CDMA. But, that doesn't mean GSM won't work in that area. We've heard from several readers who reported using a different zipcode to activate their phone and the device still works in their home area.
- Buying Tracfone smartphones from other retailers like Amazon, eBay, HSN, QVC and retail stores, can often be much cheaper than buying directly from the Tracfone website.
- Most unlocked smartphones will work with Tracfone BYOP. Occasionally they don't, but with enough persistence they might.
- You can check your device's IMEI or ESN number on the Tracfone website to see if it is compatible, although they are occasionally wrong.
- Get a BYOP SIM card kit from Amazon or BestBuy for $1. This includes all the SIM cards you will need (Nano, Micro and Regular) and a network activation code.
- If you're having trouble with getting help from customer service, try escalating to Tracfone's Florida help center number: 1-800-876-5753. But if the lines are busy, you'll be directed back to regular customer service.
- Try to be clear and patient with customer service. They are not the easiest to understand, nor are they always correct, but they do try to sort things out. If you're not making progress, ask for a supervisor or hang up and call again.
- Turning your smartphone off and back on will often solve problems. Doing a full reset may also solve issues if you can't find a different solution.
- If you are transferring from one smartphone to another, you should be able to log into your Google account on the new phone and automatically load your apps, contacts, and other information.
- If your Data or MMS is not working, you can try updating your settings here.
- In some cases it is possible to take the SIM card out of an existing Tracfone device and put it into a new phone with no need to make any other changes. Some users have found that if a phone isn't being recognized by Tracfone, inserting an active SIM can help resolve the situation.
We hope these tips will help make your activation process easier, or give you the confidence to give it a try. Leave a comment with further questions, or any tips we missed! (FYI - comments are posted after they are moderated, as we get a lot of spam)
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Photographer and pin-up model Julie Watai, whom Kotaku has featured before, is releasing a magazine version of her Hardware Girls photos.
The photos feature girls with old game consoles, arcade circuit boards, PC parts, and other various electronics. You know, hardware.
Osaka-born Watai is not only a big nerd and popular pin-up model, she's a talented photographer and multimedia artist, too.
Volume 1 of this magazine is based on Watai's 2010 book by the same name, which featured her photos of 25 different models with game hardware and electronics.


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The teens were on their way back from Busch Gardens when the driver lost control of a pickup truck, which overturned near Sarasota.
A devastated Randy Davis described Monday how his son lost his life and his daughter suffered serious injuries in a tragic accident on Interstate 75 just south of Sarasota last weekend.
Mitchell Davis was celebrating his 18th birthday on a trip with friends to Busch Gardens in Tampa. On the way home on Saturday night, his sister, Azalea, who was driving, experienced a migraine headache.
Azalea pulled off on Bee Ridge Road and Sam Ball, 18, the owner of the Toyota Tundra, took over driving. Mitchell moved to the back seat and rubbed the neck of his sister in front of him in the passenger seat, Randy Davis said.
But just a few miles farther down I-75 at around 10 p.m., Ball lost control of the truck. It veered off the highway and when Ball tried to regain steering, the truck swerved and flipped.
Mitchell Davis was killed. Azalea Davis, 21, and another passenger, Venice High School student Kyle Incrocci, suffered serious injuries and remained hospitalized Monday at Blake Medical Center. They are expected to recover.
From his hospital bed, Incrocci said that Mitchell Davis saved his life by grabbing him when the truck started to flip and kept him from being ejected, Randy Davis said.
It is unclear what caused Ball, 18, a Venice High School senior, to lose control of the truck. Ball's youth minister said Ball told him that he fell asleep. The Florida Highway Patrol said alcohol and drugs were not involved.
Ball suffered minor injuries, but is feeling the enormous pain of losing his best friend, said Mike Gibson, youth counselor at Venice Bible Church.
"Sam has been breaking down about every five minutes," Gibson said. "Sam is a great kid. To see the body of his best friend like that ... you would not wish that on anybody."
Mitchell Davis was not wearing a seat belt, but that was a tragic anomaly his father said.
"Anyone who knew Mitchell knew that he always wore his seat belt," Randy Davis said. "The reason he wasn't in this case was that he had just moved to the back seat and was leaning forward to comfort his sister.
"It's so hard because these were kids who were just having a good clean time," he added. "They weren't racing or partying in the woods."
Davis said his son was a "great kid who everyone loved."
Mitchell was working for his father in a general contracting business and was doing so well that his dad changed the name of the business to Davis contracting in the hope he could pass it on to his son.
Mitchell also loved to fish.
Before working for his father, Mitchell bussed tables at the Casey Key Fish House, where he was well liked. A celebration of his life is scheduled for Saturday at the restaurant.
Youth minister Gibson said Mitchell was known for his generous spirit and will be deeply missed.
"He was described as a kid who would give you the shirt off his back," Gibson said of Davis. "They were celebrating his birthday at Busch Gardens and it was Mitchell who bought gifts there for his friends."
EARLIER: Sam Ball and Mitchell Davis were best friends who spent Saturday at Busch Gardens in celebration of Davis' 18th birthday.
But on the way home to Venice on Saturday night, Ball fell asleep on Interstate 75. The Toyota Tundra that he was driving veered off the highway about four miles south of Clark Road. As Ball jolted awake and tried to correct the truck, it flipped.
Davis, of Osprey was killed at the scene. Two other passengers, Mitchell's 21-year-old sister Azalea, and Kyle Incrocci, 17, were seriously injured. Both were in intensive care at area hospitals on Monday.
Ball suffered minor injuries, but is feeling the enormous pain of losing his best friend, said Mike Gibson, youth counselor at Venice Bible Church.
"Sam has been breaking down about every five minutes," said Gibson. "Sam is a great kid. To see the body of his best friend like that ... you would not wish that on anybody."
Gibson spent time with Ball and other young people helping them deal with the tragedy. The Florida Highway Patrol says alcohol or drugs were not present. Ball simply fell asleep, he told Gibson.
Davis, a former Venice High School student, was known for his love of fishing and his generosity.
"He was described as a kid who would give you the shirt off his back," Gibson said of Davis. "They were celebrating his birthday at Busch Gardens and it was Mitchell who bought gifts there for his friends."
Venice High School had counselors at the school Monday to help students cope with the tragedy. Ball and Incrocci are seniors at Venice.
No funeral information was available Monday.
Check back at heraldtribune.com for updates on this story.
EARLIER: The driver of a pickup that flipped over on Interstate 75 late Saturday wore a seat belt and escaped serious injury. His passengers, two of whom reportedly were not strapped in, were not so fortunate.
Mitchell Davis, 18, of Nokomis, died in the rollover accident. The former Venice High School student did not wear a seat belt and was ejected from the truck.
Kyle Incrocci, 17, a soccer player at Venice High, was in serious condition at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg. The Florida Highway Patrol reported that Incrocci did not wear a seat belt either.
Azalea Davis, 21, of Osprey, was in serious condition at Blake Medical Center in Bradenton. Troopers say she and the driver wore seat belts.
Sam Ball, 18, of Venice — a weightlifter at Venice High School — drove the southbound 2002 Toyota Tundra. Paramedics took him to Doctors Hospital in Sarasota for treatment of minor injuries.
On his Facebook page, Ball lists Incrocci as his cousin and Mitchell Davis among his friends. The group reportedly had been out for the evening celebrating Mitchell Davis' birthday.
The FHP is still investigating the accident and no charges had been filed as of Sunday. Troopers said the crash was not alcohol related.
Shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, Ball lost control of the vehicle in a southbound lane near mile marker 201 — about four miles south of the Clark Road exit.
The pickup veered off the highway and into the grass median.
Ball attempted to steer the pickup back onto the highway, where it rotated and then overturned several times, state troopers say.
Investigators do not know what caused Ball to lose control of the vehicle.
Florida law requires drivers, front-seat passengers and all passengers younger than 18 to wear a seat belt.
According to the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles, the risk of death in a traffic accident is five times greater if the person is thrown from the vehicle.
Colin Casper of Port Charlotte said that he was just behind Ball's truck when the accident occurred.
"I thought they were all dead," Casper said. "There were bodies in the middle of the highway. The truck was nothing but pieces."
Renae Mikita Hoover, a former neighbor, described Mitchell Davis as "a great kid, a smart kid, just a kid you loved to be around."
She also expressed concern for two other injured passengers. Azalea, Mitchell's sister, and Incrocci remain in serious condition at regional hospitals.


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It was shortly after 7 a.m. on June 20 when Trevor Allan finally got his first heads-up that High River was about to be overwhelmed by the worst flood in living memory.
But the deputy fire chief's warning came from the swollen river, not from the provincial government forecasters whose job it is to alert Albertans to the potential danger from rising waters.
"It came over like a tidal wave," Allan recalled.
"I saw it broke over the bank, and maybe 15 minutes later it had come across that field and it was already coming up to my knees."
Allan was part of a team that was working that morning to reinforce flood defences on the town's northwest outskirts.
An official with the river forecast section in Edmonton had woken him up just four hours earlier with an update.
The caller said that a high stream advisory issued the previous day had just been upgraded to a flood watch because significant rains had fallen in areas upstream during the night and the river might spill over its banks.
"They didn't give me any indicated flows," Allan said.
"I recall her saying it had been raining quite heavy in our basin and that's all I really recall."
By the time forecasters finally issued a flood warning that fateful morning, many parts of the town would already be under water.
But a Herald analysis shows that nearly eight hours before that public alarm was sounded at 8:45 a.m., rain and river gauge data from stations in the Highwood River's headwaters showed residents would almost certainly be hit with a disaster worse than the legendary 1995 flood that severely damaged the town.
And documents obtained through freedom of information legislation reveal those same provincial officials failed to model in advance for the intense precipitation that some had predicted; they reacted slowly when the heavy rains started to fall; and, they left local officials without timely and accurate flow estimates that might have allowed an orderly evacuation before the town was inundated.
Evan Friesenhan, the forecast section's manager, has said previously that staff members on duty that night were challenged to adjust their flood predictions promptly because the rain fell more intensely than they expected.
"It was a rapidly changing situation and we were doing our best to make sure … we were getting the information out to the areas that needed it as quickly as possible.
"There's a lot to learn. We are good at what we do, but there is always a way to improve."
Three people would perish during the flooding in and around High River.
Among those who died was Jacqui Brocklebank, a 33-year-old woman with cerebral palsy who was knocked into the fast-running waters by a floating trailer.
Brocklebank lost her life while trying to help a friend escape a basement suite overwhelmed by the flooding.
Hundreds of others in High River who began that day without warning of the impending disaster would become stranded and need to be rescued in the front-end loaders of large tractors.
Given the short notice the town received, fire chief Len Zebedee said he is surprised more people didn't perish.
"I don't know whether it was good luck, good management or what," Zebedee said.
"We were fortunate … (the flood didn't arrive) … in the wee hours of the morning."
A massive, cyclonic storm had inched ominously toward Alberta's foothills since the beginning of the week.
On the day before the flood, Environment Canada was predicting that some areas along the eastern slopes would receive up to 150 mm of precipitation over a 48-hour period.
Despite the likelihood that large amounts of warm rain would fall on above-normal snow pack, river forecasters only issued a high stream advisory indicating that low-lying areas of High River might be flooded.
Shortly after that warning was issued Wednesday afternoon, renowned hydrologist John Pomeroy questioned the forecast section's judgment in an email to a colleague.
Dr. John Pomeroy, Director of the Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan,checks the instruments on a weather station. (Gavin Young/Calgary Herald
The first in a chain of messages that was later forwarded to the province and then released in response to the Herald's FOIP request, it showed at least one expert spotted the impending disaster much sooner than the province's forecast team.
"(They) just issued a high streamflow advisory, but not a flood watch," Pomeroy wrote.
Other documents reveal the models that flood forecasters developed for the Highwood basin in advance of the rains only assumed a maximum of 110 mm over two days, enough to cause the river to spill its banks at some places in High River and produce minor flooding.
When the skies opened in the mountains west of town that evening, it quickly became clear that the rain was falling much faster than predicted.
Data flowing into the river forecast centre that night showed 50 mm hit the ground in less than three hours at various gauges in the foothills and mountains upstream, an amount that staff had predicted would take 12 hours to fall.
Soon after the rains hit ground that was still frozen in some higher altitude areas, they quickly caused creeks and rivers upstream to flash flood.
Friesenhan has said that readings from river and rain gauges that night were arriving in the forecast section's computers within an hour of when they were taken.
Staffing schedules show the centre had two forecasters and a technologist working the overnight shift.
It was more personnel than normal, but far fewer staff than would be scheduled to work after the flood hit.
In any event, there were apparently not enough forecasters to spot the worrying numbers coming in from Diebel's Ranch, a critical river gauging station about 50 km upstream from the town.
Those readings reveal that by 11:45 p.m. flow levels on the Highwood had exceeded the maximum that forecasters had modelled for a minor flood.
Levels at the station continued to spike and by 1 a.m. the river was raging faster and higher than it had during the devastating 1995 flood.
Friesenhan has said that it was during the subsequent two-hour period that staff working — including a forecaster with more than 30 years experience — began to realize what was happening.
"He was seeing the intense rainfalls and we were thinking we have serious concerns," he said.
In a recent interview, Pomeroy said he is at a loss to understand why forecasters didn't sound the alarm long and loud when readings at Diebel's Ranch began to spike.
"I understand the reluctance to issue a false warning," he said.
"But if you don't issue one when flooding starts to occur upstream, people can die, evacuations are not orderly and much more property is damaged because there is no chance to protect it or move it out of harm's way."
Documents suggest it wasn't until 2:30 a.m. that forecasters realized that record flow levels had been exceeded and disaster might be imminent.
"Highest measurement ever taken," the forecaster scrawled on a newly-printed graph that compared actual readings from Diebel's Ranch with what had been forecast. "Bad data?"
Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development would not provide anyone from the river forecast section to be interviewed for this story.
But in previous answers to Herald questions, section head Chandra Mahabir has suggested staff were distrustful of the readings from Diebel's Ranch that night.
Asked why her staff had been so slow to react, Mahabir said the spike in levels could have been an indication of a malfunctioning gauge.
However, if the staff on duty had bothered to look at the data from other monitoring stations nearby, they might have realized there was nothing wrong with the measuring equipment.
For example, the graph that night for the Cataract Creek gauge about 20 km upstream showed a similar hockey stick rise in flow levels.
"The forecasters' reaction is inexplicable," Pomeroy said.
"An individual gauge can give you a bad reading, but when all your gauges are telling you something's going on, then you've got to believe it and react accordingly."
Mahabir has said monitoring staff weren't already in the field or immediately dispatched to check the gauges and verify river readings manually, because it was "too dangerous" to send them out in the middle of the night.
In fact, many of ESRD's field technologists in southern Alberta were unavailable that night and the next day because they were attending a water rescue course in Kananaskis or were stranded en route when surging rivers washed out roads.
"Techs are the eyes on the ground when flooding happens," said one department worker the Herald agreed not to identify.
"It was a bad idea to schedule that course at the height of the flood season, and a mistake not to cancel the course when heavy rains were forecast."
If the forecasters were in disbelief at the dire data they were seeing that night, it may explain why they did not immediately issue a full flood warning when they saw the spike in levels upstream.
Instead, they upgraded the situation in High River to a flood watch at 2:45 a.m. and began trying to reach local officials by phone with the update that the river might come over its banks.
Records show that when the town's emergency management director, Ross Shapka, didn't pick up, they tried Zebedee.
When he didn't answer either, they called Allan and managed to get him on the phone at around 3 a.m.
While it took a few minutes to get someone on the line, forecasters had little to tell town officials until an hour later when they called Zebedee again.
At 4:18 a.m., they told the fire chief they had updated their model and were now predicting the river would peak late that day at 650 cubic metres per second, roughly the same level as the 2005 floods that damaged low-lying sections of the town.
Pomeroy said that prediction made little sense given the latest reading from the gauge at Diebel's Ranch.
Before it blew out sometime after 2:30 a.m., the hourly report from the station showed the river was now roaring toward town at 985 cubic metres per second, a rate more than 50 cent higher than the forecasters' new prediction.
"If it floods upstream, then it's going to flood downstream and if additional water is pouring in from other creeks along the way it's likely to get worse as it goes along," Pomeroy said
"It's simple gravity, but it seems like there was a mindset that it couldn't be that bad because that wasn't what they had modelled."
When Zebedee got the updated numbers, he immediately organized his firefighters to begin preparing large tubes that would be filled with water and placed in vulnerable areas to protect the town.
High River Fire Chief Len Zebedee and his wife Pat, on July 8, 2013 in front of their High River home.They both worked countless hours dealing with the flood.(Lorraine Hjalte/Calgary Herald
Based on when forecasters had warned of previous floods of this size, he thought the town had half a day to prepare.
As it would turn out, the massive wave of water heading downstream would start overwhelming High River in less than three hours.
Town officials declared a local state of emergency at 7:05 a.m. based on what they were already seeing on the ground.
At his inundated outpost where he was waiting for trucks of gravel that never did arrive, Allan listened as his two-way radio began to squawk.
"There were things happening in other areas of the town," he said.
"The water is coming in fairly fast at that point, but how do you notify 13,000 people in that short a time span?"
By the time the public flood warning was issued by provincial forecasters at 8:45 a.m., most residents had already gone to work.
Their children were starting the day's lessons at schools, many of which would soon be surrounded by the rising waters.
Panicked town officials called the provincial forecast section minutes after the province's warning; they reported that the peak levels that had been predicted to arrive that night had already been exceeded.
Before they got off the phone, there was more shocking news.
The team of forecasters that had come on shift about two hours before had now nearly doubled the estimate of the river's top flow to 1,270 cubic metres per second.
That translated into another 40 cm rise in the level, enough to overwhelm whatever defences local officials might mount.
"At that point, I know it's bigger than we've ever had before," said Zebedee, "and I've lived here all my life, over 50 years." As it would turn out, even that forecast was inaccurate. When the Highwood did crest hours later that evening, it reached an estimated peak of more than 1,800 cubic metres per second.
Providing advance warnings to High River was made difficult by the intensity of the rains, Pomeroy said.
The surge in river levels that hit the Diebel's Ranch gauges arrived in the town just over seven hours later, much less time than during previous events.
Still, during the last major floods in 2005 — when the area received totals of up to 240 mm that fell in less than four days — the town got much more notice.
An internal report shows that during that event, forecasters managed to use precipitation forecasts to issue a flood watch to the town before the rains even started and a full two days prior to the crest in water levels.
A full flood warning was sent out more than 29 hours before peak flows hit the town.
"Alberta had a reputation for first-class forecasting," said Pomeroy, "but we had a response this time that was reminiscent of what you would expect in a developing country."
As darkness fell on High River that first night of the flood, first responders in the inundated town were still struggling to rescue stranded residents.
Emergency responders rescue stranded High River residents as evening descends on the first day of the flood, June 20, 2013.(Lorraine Hjalte/Calgary Herald
While the reports of missing persons and deaths were still unconfirmed, provincial politicians were already facing tough questions from reporters about why warnings weren't issued sooner.
Doug Griffiths, the municipal affairs minister at the time, insisted the province was not caught "flat-footed" by the intense rains and rising waters.
"I have heard every expert I have talked to say there was no way it was going to be that fast, that much of a flood," Griffiths said.
"The fact that there was so much warning given and our emergency responders were on the ground so quickly … is just a testament to the people … that work with the best information they have."
Now, the Conservative government appears to believe there may be some room for improvement.
Officials with ESRD issued a tender earlier this month for a consultant to produce a "lessons learned" report on the river forecast section's handling of the 2013 flood.
Affected communities will be asked to provide "thoughts or concerns" regarding the "communication and information" they were provided before the disaster struck.
Craig Snodgrass, High River's recently elected mayor, said the town is doing its own forensic review of how the disaster was handled.
But Snodgrass said town officials have already learned one lesson: the next time heavy rains fall, local officials will be searching online themselves for the precipitation readings, seeing how stations on the Highwood River reacts and trusting those numbers.
"If the data looks the way that it looks, and there is this massive peak in flow, you have to pay attention to that and not just say 'Oh, (the gauge) was broken, I think we are fine,' " he said.
"That seems to be the Coles Notes of what happened."
With files from Meghan Potkins, Calgary Herald


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AMES, Iowa, July 17 (UPI) -- Knowing students' risks for aggression can help schools determine which students may be more likely to get in fights or bully others, U.S. researchers say.
The study, published in the Psychology of Popular Media Culture, identified media violence exposure as one of six risk factors for predicting later aggression in 430 children ages 7-11, grades 3-5, from five Minnesota schools.
Study leader Douglas Gentile, an Iowa State University associate professor of psychology, said in addition to media violence exposure, the other risk factors were -- bias toward hostility, low parental involvement, gender, physical victimization and prior physical fights.
"As you gain risk factors, the risk of aggression goes up disproportionally," Gentile said in a statement. "Having one or two risk factors is no big deal. You get to three and there's a big jump. When you get out past four, risk is increasing at a much higher rate than you would expect."
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