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The Braga cathedral is the most ancient of all cathedrals in Portugal.
As consequence of the importance the city of Braga had already to the Romans (known as Bracara Augusta) and all the following invading people like the Visigoths and Muslims, this cathedral was always a main worship place. Because of this it was heavily remodelled in 1093, when this region was already Christian territory again, to fit it to the pilgrimage spirit of the epoch, much by influence of the nearby Santiago de Compostela.
As usual, this place shows besides the Romanesque architecture of the Medieval Ages, many others which were added through times, namely in the 15th and 18th century.
The main façade was profoundly changed in the 15th century fitting it into the Gothic Stile, and the inside in the 18th filling it with the splendour and wealth of the Baroque. Still, the inside was much affected in the recoveries of the 1930’s and 50’s when the architects and archaeologists decided to revive the Romanic and Medieval spirit of it. Much of its wealth was taken away to bring the simplicity of the Romanesque Stile but depriving us from the wealth of the Baroque… But it still is a magnificent place to visit filled with a beautiful atmosphere.
Still, this place has much more to show than just the church. A museum with religious treasures, as well an absolutely incredible organ and the reunion place of the Bishops with complex carved wood decoration are a must. All this are inside the Church complex allowing us to visit at the same time the older parts of the Church and other side chapels.
This is a modest hommage to the courageous people of Fukushima prefecture. They survived a triple disaster in 2011 and are now, nine years later, still fighting with the consequences. I wish them well in their strugle for their beautiful province and thank them for their kindness during this trip.
Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (14,000 km²), and one of its least densely populated. The prefecture is divided into three main regions: Aizu in the west, Naka dori in the centre and Hama dori in the east. Aizu is mountainous with snowy winters, while the climate in Hama dori is moderated by the Pacific Ocean.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this soundpronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.
The accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.] On detecting the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their fission reactions. Because of the reactor trips and other grid problems, the electricity supply failed, and the reactors' emergency diesel generators automatically started. Critically, they were powering the pumps that circulated coolant through the reactors' cores to remove decay heat, which continues after fission has ceased. The earthquake generated a 14-meter-high tsunami that swept over the plant's seawall and flooded the plant's lower grounds around the Units 1–4 reactor buildings with sea water, filling the basements and knocking out the emergency generators. The resultant loss-of-coolant accidents led to three nuclear meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions, and the release of radioactive contamination in Units 1, 2 and 3 between 12 and 15 March. The spent fuel pool of previously shut-down Reactor 4 increased in temperature on 15 March due to decay heat from newly added spent fuel rods, but did not boil down sufficiently to expose the fuel.
In the days after the accident, radiation released to the atmosphere forced the government to declare an ever larger evacuation zone around the plant, culminating in an evacuation zone with a 20-kilometer radius. All told, some 154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors.
Large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster. Michio Aoyama, a professor of radioisotope geoscience at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, has estimated that 18,000 terabecquerel (TBq) of radioactive caesium 137 were released into the Pacific during the accident, and in 2013, 30 gigabecquerel (GBq) of caesium 137 were still flowing into the ocean every day. The plant's operator has since built new walls along the coast and also created a 1.5-kilometer-long "ice wall" of frozen earth to stop the flow of contaminated water.
While there has been ongoing controversy over the health effects of the disaster, a 2014 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and World Health Organization projected no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident. An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years, plant management estimate.
On 5 July 2012, the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) found that the causes of the accident had been foreseeable, and that the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had failed to meet basic safety requirements such as risk assessment, preparing for containing collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. At a meeting in Vienna three months after the disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted lax oversight by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, saying the ministry faced an inherent conflict of interest as the government agency in charge of both regulating and promoting the nuclear power industry. On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants.
Slenderwhiteman aka Prof. Hans Peter Niesward has instigated a dangerous worldwide flashmob experiment tomorrow - World Jump Day - the consequences of which will not be any change in the orbit of the Earth, but rather numerous possible seismographic horror problems as well as strained achilles heels and other such international trauma.
Here I am practising holding myself in mid-air for as long as possible, with the help of a complex pulley system (not shown) anchored to either side of the close outside my flat. I for one do not wish to be in contact with the ground at 11:39:13 GMT tomorrow. I hope to be able to dispense with the lifting aid and perform the levitation manoeuvre with the help of some trained Tibetan monks who will help to materialise a sort of "Tulpa trampoline magnet" to keep me (and them) in suspension at the critical moment of mass jumping.
Join me and take photographs of yourself tomorrow categorically not in contact with the earth at the appointed time - and make sure your EXIF data is correct so we know you haven't cheated.
Smash the evil WJD conspiracy!
A series of three multilayer plywood artworks, 120x72cm. All the details were laser cut, spray painted and assembled by hand. Available at Lollipop Gallery, London.
The most common issue expressed by the people of Holywell on Monday was the divide between north and south Wales. Most visitors on board felt that north Wales was generally forgotten by the Assembly and that Holywell in particular was suffering as a consequence. One local business owner had been in touch with his Assembly Members and proposed ideas on how best to boost the local economy. A number of people came in to discuss the result of the referendum and after talking to the staff on the bus, they walked away with a copy of the Assembly publication: ‘Further powers: the referendum result explained’. Some visitors were keen to know how Wales would be able to make laws from now on and were interested in electing the right people to do so in the Assembly election on 5 May. Pupils from Holywell High popped in during their lunch break and one visitor, aged 10, came in wanting information about the Assembly to share with his classmates.
Pryder pennaf pobl Treffynnon ddechrau’r wythnos oedd y rhaniad rhwng de a gogledd Cymru. Daeth nifer ar y bws i ddweud eu bod yn teimlo bod y Cynulliad yn tueddu i anghofio am bobl y gogledd a bod llefydd fel Treffynnon yn dioddef o ganlyniad. Soniodd un dyn busnes lleol ei fod eisoes wedi cysylltu â’i Aelodau Cynulliad gydag awgrymiadau ynglyn â sut y gellir hybu economi canol tref Treffynnon. Y refferendwm oedd un o’r prif bynciau a drafodwyd gyda sawl ymwelydd yn dymuno gwybodaeth bellach am ganlyniad ‘ie’ ac yn ddiolchgar o dderbyn taflen o’r enw ‘Pwerau pellach: egluro canlyniad y refferendwm’. Roedd llawer eisiau gwybod sut y byddai’r Cynulliad yn pasio deddfau o hyn ymlaen ac roeddent yn credu’n gryf y dylid ethol y bobl iawn i wneud y gwaith yn etholiad y Cynulliad ar 5 Mai. Daeth rhai o ddisgyblion Ysgol Uwchradd Treffynnon draw yn ystod eu hawr ginio, yn ogystal ag un bachgen, 10 mlwydd oed, oedd eisiau gwybodaeth am y Cynulliad i rannu gyda’i gyd-ddisgyblion y diwrnod canlynol.
Such experiences - and expectations of persuading the worldis billion smokers' rest to stub out toxin and their tar - loaded cigarettes, because they do, cutting a brochure of persistent illness hazards - are tantalising for health specialists.Paramose, just how long did you have nose stuff &
The Tears of Lives is a play that reflects the impact of immigration sweeps in Maricopa County, Arizona.
The play, written by James Garcia and directed by Luis Avila, was created to raise funds for the Macehualli Day Labor Center in Phoenix.
The Tears of Lives narrates the story of Regino Ortega, an undocumented immigrant who was detained and deported by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. His children are left to fend for themselves.
Read more at Feet in 2 Worlds, immigration news.
Photos by Charles Dee Rice www.cdricephotography.com
TEDxAmsterdam Connected Consequences
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Photography: Bas Uterwijk
Styling: Ellen Hoste and HEYHEYHEY
Image editing: HEYHEYHEY and Jurgen van Zachten
4th Federal Interagency Conference on TBI.
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD
Longterm neurological consequences of mild traumatic brain injury and repeated traumatic brain insults, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), pose an understandable grave public concern. However, there remains a paucity of knowledge regarding mechanisms of injury linking brain trauma with longterm neurological consequences. In addition, we do not have a way to identify individuals at risk, diagnose the process early, treat the condition, and ultimately prevent it. To fill these knowledge gaps, an integrated approach with parallel animal and human studies to test a comprehensive hypothesis about longterm consequences of traumatic brain insults is needed. I will present such a hypothesis and outline the translatable biomarkers, diagnostic and prognostic indicators of disease progression, and also potential novel therapeutic interventions that might prevent longterm neurological consequences of concussions, repeated traumatic brain insults, and CTE.
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Wind.
Wind makes waves. Waves run perpendicular on the wind's direction. Windsurfing is always done half wind. Half wind courses lay parallel with the tubes the waves make at open ocean. Perfect. Pythogaros' law is also to be used. Next to Pythagoras, also Isaac Newton laws are used in the windurfformula: action equals with reaction, because there is no arm working between the two forces, or, no capsizing couple between to two forces.
High winds, big waves, big stable sailing spailboats imply energy.
Cars, next part:
Since the arrival of the clutch pedal, we have two types of drivers. One type knows nothing about this so-called double clutching and takes turns always in the wrong gear, while the revolutions of the engine are too low for the lower gear. The difference in revolutions of the engine and the revolutions of the gear box is settled by the clutch plates. This has an evil consequence, because all these ignorant drivers together are wearing out the clutch plates unnecessarily. Frequent replacement of all those worn out clutch plates takes enormous amounts of steel. And the production of steel is bad for the environment. The other type, mostly (old) truckers, rally drivers and racing car drivers, just use only the left pedal to put the gear stick in the neutral position, while they break with their right foot at the same time.
At the moment the the stick is in neutral position, the right foot measures the exact amount of gas, to drive up the revolutions of the engine, in order to equalize it with the revolutions of the gear box in the lower gear. Once this is accomplished, in a split second!, the driver pulls the stick instantly into the lower gear, without pushing the clutch pedal (slipping the clutch). Pushing the clutch pedal is not necessary anymore, because the two coupling plates have the same revolutions. This is actually the technique of motoring.
Procedure during breaking and taking a slow curve:
The clutch plates are disconnected, and for this the driver uses the left foot. At the same time the car is slowed down by the drivers right foot. The driver can not let go of the break, so that the amount of gas in the neutral position has to be realized by also the right foot. The small amount of extra gas in the neutral position drives up the revolutions of the engine, and because there is no traction right now, this amount of gas will leave the cylinders very much unburnt, and by doing so, it lubricates the cylinders. The engine becomes faster, and more efficient and cleaner as a result. As a consequence the engine also gets more power. This is caused by the lubrication between the pistons and the cylinders.
Getting into higher gears, during acceleration, is less complicated, because the revolutions of every next gear are lower. Take for example the changing of the gears during 100 km / hr, from third gear to the fourth gear. Let us assume that at this speed the revolutions of the engine in third gear are 4000 rpm and in fourth gear 3000 rpm. During the period that the gear stick is the neutral position, the revolutions of the engine drop, so that the moment of changing gears is a matter of paying attention. Or a matter of listening, as they did in early days. As soon as the revolutions drop from 4000 rpm to 3000 rpm, the driver pulls the stick instantly to fourth gear. And, once again, without using the clutch pedal.
Operating an engine properly is like loving your engine. Once motorists know that the actual competition is based on the driving skill, especially on curvy roads, then they can more easily hold back on the freeways. Because they will found out that pushing the gas pedal on straight roads is an act of stupidness and a misplaced showing off of supremacy. Let me give an example. In sailing boat races -regattas-, in where all comparators have the same boat, it is the skill and the intelligence of the sailors that matters. And, in a regatta with different sailing boats, each boat has a s-called handicap indicator. So, even when the biggest boat with the most sails has the line honors, the calculation on the hand of the handicap indicators decides who the actual winner is.
Learning this driving skill is to be done by using pen and paper. Note at each speed, in each gear, the rpm of the engine. To be seen at rev-counter the dashboard, next to the speedometer. For example: note in second gear, at 40 km / hr, 2500 rpm. In third, at 40 km / hr, 1500 rpm, etc. One will see that during normal driving the difference in revolutions between two successive gears is approximately 1000 rpm. The amount of gas, in the neutral position of the gear stick, during slowing down is therefor in most of cases is only around the 1000 rpm. When drivers learn to do this, the consequence is that the clutch plates no longer rub unnecessarily. This is good for the environment and for our health. Changing gears with too few, or too many, revolutions of the engine, with respect to the revolutions of the specific gear is an expression of contempt towards the environment and our health, because it shortens the life of the gear box. We therefore need to replace the clutch plates more often, and therefore we need to produce more steel, and this steel production is bad for the environment and our health.
And, when drivers know how to take a turn, they successively will find out the fun of it. They find out that it is not the size of the engine that matters, but the technique that is thrilling. When I speak for myself, I always dare the fast cars at curvy roads in cities at night. Half way cornering, they look perplex to my much smaller car passing them, because where they are always in the wrong gear, I am giving them the sound of the double clutching, which is the racing sound and the sound of the after burning in the exhaust of the amount of fuel given in the neutral position of the gear stick.
In order to master this original art of motoring one must firstly practice the (double) clutching procedure at low speeds during a lot of years. In cities and villages is the average speed of making a turn approximately 30, 40 up to 50 km/hr. Let us now assume that put the environment and our health at the top of our priorities. Then we can say, that only when a driver knows how to change gears without rubbing the clutch plates over each other, he /she is allowed to approach a bend with an higher speed than 40 to 50 km / hr. This way drivers do not need to change gears. And so there is no rubbing of the clutch plates. So, if we hypothetically assume that the environment and our health comes first, then this implies that one cannot drive everywhere faster than 40 to 50 km/hr in cities and villages, because only at these speeds drivers do not need to change gears. The result is then, that all cars just drive at a even speed. In addition, in the future it is then a small and easy step to adjust the traffic lights, so that the main stream keeps on driving. Even the speeds can be coordinated by means of a series satellites, which provide the motorists with exactly the speed to use.
Driving at these regulated / imposed speeds will cause us to pollute much less, than we do now. The motorists loose, as a consequence their freedom. And that is logical, because they have proved not to be able handle that former freedom. I think, that if people know that a large part of the emissions and greenhouse gas is actually not necessary, it is a small step to adopt a law by a majority of votes, which law takes away the freedom of the motorists. This law contains: everywhere in the city a maximum speed of 40 up to 50 km/hr, and everywhere around cities a maximum of 60 a 70km/hr, with the exception of the bottlenecks and merging lanes: where motorist should drive 120 km/hr. The use of cars in this way, becomes equivalent to public transportations. In this way the common people have the same destiny as the rich, with equality as a result and at the foundation of this new traffic law.
A great deal of green house gasses are made by the rich, by the people who do not behave themselves on the roads and by not developed driving skills. We live in democracies. We can now prove that motorists cannot drive properly. Before they can, a learning process is necessary. During the learning process, in which they learn to change gears without wearing out the clutch plates unnecessarily and in which learning period they learn that it makes no sense to precede / approach a traffic-jam at 140km/hr, it is wise to conclude that the driving speed has to be brought down, by law.
It seems clear to me, that every driver in urban traffic has to let go of the gas for making turns. Motorists then can take turns without clutching. This is possible, because of the current overcapacity of the engine contents. Third gear will stand for slow acceleration after each curve. Automatically, the motorists who wants to master the double clutching, do not need to slow down, break with the right foot and are therefore able to give a bit of gas with the right foot, in the neutral position of the gear stick, in order to try to equalize the revolutions with the desired revolutions in second gear. So, with lower speeds, a lot of drivers can master the skill of driving, and those who do not want to learn, just keep on going in third gear, before, during and after the turn. Slow speeds in cities mean less breaking, and less wearing out of the clutch plates. There will be less fine particles coming from breaks.
Over approximately twenty years there will be electric cars and on hydrogen running engines, and as the road network widens, it is possible the raise speed limit again. First of all, we need to know how to drive and that is acquiring knowledge.
It is, with this knowledge in mind, very stupid to approach a curve at high speeds, without knowing what to do during the taking of the curve. Most people still break abruptly, and they forget to give a measured quantity of gas in the neutral position of the gear stick, before they shift to a lower gear. The clutch plates settle the differences between the revolutions of the engine and the revolutions of the lower gear. Not only does this show a lack of inexperience, it wears out the clutch plates. Double clutching is not easy, but doable and very desirable.
Considered scientifically, it is agonizing to observe that the major part of the motorists can not see the simple fact, that it makes no sense to overtake each other during the peak hours, and that they not even know how to make a turn. Both on the freeways as in the city, the present driving behavior show a lack of inexperience and ignorance. In the interest of the environment we must learn. Technique have to be developed, instead of bruit strength. The only solution against wasting fuel and reduction of clogging is judiciously use.
Getting into higher gears, during acceleration, is less complicated, because the revolutions of every next gear are lower. Take for example the changing of the gears during 100 km / hr, from third gear to the fourth gear. Let us assume that at this speed the revolutions of the engine in third gear are 4000 rpm and in fourth gear 3000 rpm. During the period that the gear stick is the neutral position, the revolutions of the engine drop, so that the moment of changing gears is a matter of paying attention. Or a matter of listening, as they did in early days. As soon as the revolutions drop from 4000 rpm to 3000 rpm, the driver pulls the stick instantly to fourth gear. And, once again, without using the clutch pedal.
Operating an engine properly is like loving your engine. Once motorists know that the actual competition is based on the driving skill, especially on curvy roads, then they can more easily hold back on the freeways. Because they will found out that pushing the gas pedal on straight roads is an act of stupidness and a misplaced showing off of supremacy. Let me give an example. In sailing boat races -regattas-, in where all comparators have the same boat, it is the skill and the intelligence of the sailors that matters. And, in a regatta with different sailing boats, each boat has a so-called handicap indicator. So, even when the biggest boat with the most sails has the line honors, the calculation on the hand of the handicap indicators decides who the actual winner is.
Learning this driving skill is to be done by using pen and paper. Note at each speed, in each gear, the rpm of the engine. To be seen at rev-counter the dashboard, next to the speedometer. For example: note in second gear, at 40 km / hr, 2500 rpm. In third, at 40 km / hr, 1500 rpm, etc. One will see that during normal driving the difference in revolutions between two successive gears is approximately 1000 rpm. The amount of gas, in the neutral position of the gear stick, during slowing down is therefor in most of cases is only around the 1000 rpm. When drivers learn to do this, the consequence is that the clutch plates no longer rub unnecessarily. This is well for the environment and for our health. Changing gears with too few, or too many, revolutions of the engine, with respect to the revolutions of the specific gear is an expression of contempt towards the environment and our health, because it shortens the life of the gear box. We therefore need to replace the clutch plates more often, and therefore we need to produce more steel, and this steel production is bad for the environment and our health.
And, when drivers know how to take a turn, they successively will find out the fun of it. They find out that it is not the size of the engine that matters, but the technique that is thrilling. When I speak for myself, I always dare the fast cars at curvy roads in cities at night. Half way cornering, they look perplex to my much smaller car passing them, because where they are always in the wrong gear, I am giving them the sound of the double clutching, which is the racing sound and the sound of the after burning in the exhaust of the amount of fuel given in the neutral position of the gear stick.
In order to master this original art of motoring one must firstly practice the (double) clutching procedure at low speeds during a lot of years. In cities and villages is the average speed of making a turn approximately 30, 40 up to 50 km/hr. Let us now assume that put the environment and our health at the top of our priorities. Then we can say, that only when a driver knows how to change gears without rubbing the clutch plates over each other, he /she is allowed to approach a bend with higher speeds than 40 to 50 km / hr. The drivers do not need to break at low speeds and therefore the right foot is free to give gas in the neutral position of the gear stick. And so there is no rubbing of the clutch plates while they change into a lower gear.
So, if we hypothetically assume that the environment and our health comes first, then this implies that drivers may not drive everywhere faster than 40 to 50 km/hr in cities and villages, because only at these speeds drivers do not need to change gears and can learn the art of double clutching. The result of low speeds speeds in cities is then, that all cars just drive at an even speed. In addition, in the future it is then a small and easy step to adjust the traffic lights, so that the main stream keeps on driving. Even the speeds can be coordinated by means of a series satellites, which provide the motorists with exactly the speed to use.
Measured and from above regulated / imposed speeds pollute much less, than such as we do now. The motorists loose, as a consequence their freedom. And that is logical, because they have proved not to be able handle that former freedom. I think, that if people know that a large part of the emissions and greenhouse gas is actually not necessary, it is a small step to adopt a law by a majority of votes, which law takes away the freedom of the motorists. This law contains: everywhere in the city a maximum speed of 40 up to 50 km/hr, and everywhere around cities a maximum of 60 a 70km/hr, with the exception of the bottlenecks and merging lanes: where motorist should drive 120 km/hr. The usage of cars becomes this way equivalently to public transportations. It is then this way that the common people have the same destiny as the rich, with equality as a result and at the foundation of this new traffic law.
A great deal of green house gasses is made by the rich, by the people who behave themselves a-social on the roads and by not developed driving skills. We live in democracies. We can now prove that motorists cannot drive properly and before they can, a learning process is necessary. During the learning process, in which they learn to change gears without wearing out the clutch plates unnecessarily and in which learning period they learn that it has no sense to precede / approach a traffic-jam with 140km/hr, it is wise to conclude that the driving speed has to be brought down, by law.
You see: the change of one single law / legislation, allowing the introduction of technology to allow retracting and extending, spoilers on cars, which may lead to reform of the major industries.
Read further on next slide.
Conclusion, also printed at end on next page.
I now want to take you all the way. I want (and I know how the subject of this script: turbo windmills and spailboats) to generate energy by using the high winds, both close to the arctic areas and near where we live, spailcrafts and turbo wind mills, in combination the exploitation of the low wind regime by conventional wind turbines and conventional modern sailing boats. So, by combining the use of all sorts of wind converters, the wind is for use everywhere in the world and its operational window covers from 2 bft until 12 bft.
The wind is therefore now a reliable energy source. A reliable energy source was the reason of why the industrial revolution took off. Any wind, up to 12 bft, is to be converted into spinning axles, which produce firstly electricity, and in addition hydrogen, nitrogen and / or presses the ordinary air in pressure tanks. We then bring these gasses to where we live with special tankers,while these tankers are propelled with motors running on these gasses. Back home we use for example the hydrogen to drive hydrogen engines. If we now hypothetically assume that we can work with spoilers on freeways, then we have plastic autos that run on hydrogen, while the spoilers retract and extend with pressurized nitrogen. The oil companies now provide oil as a construction material for the construction of spailboats, turbo wind mills, ordinary wind turbines, ordinary sail boats, tankers, airplanes, cars, trains, buses anything that moves et cetera. The means of transport is particularly hydrogen, which has been generated close the arctic poles and brought to where we live, in plastic tankers and special wheeled carriers.
You must be aware that the energy source is endless, so that the huge motors for the big carriers can be fed with endlessly amounts of clean hydrogen and / pressurized air.
The condition for harvesting the endless energy source is to build turbo windmills and spailboats first. Then we have hydrogen in huge quantities. With endlessly amounts of hydrogen, we do not need oil for the engines, and so we can use it for making plastic cars, with retractable and extendable spoilers.
In my picture of the future, we no longer burn the oil and coals and natural gas. Neither do we need nuclear power.
The End
Or should I say The Beginning!
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A scan of a Conservative Party (propaganda) flyer I recieved in the mail today.
Read it for yourself, share with other and let me know what you think of this in the comments?
Here is the integral of the flyer for all you bloggers and search engines out there :
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Guy Lauzon, MP
c/o CRG-Government Caucus Services
131 Queen Street, Suite 8-02
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
ABOVE THE LAW?
Canadian families work hard and play by the rules. So it's a real slap in the face when their homes and property are damaged or their personal safety is violated by destructive youth criminals who flaunt the law. Today, more and more young hoodlums are brazenly breaking the law; they know that the toothless youth justice laws will let them off with a mere slap on the wrist.
This is not acceptable. The Conservative Government is introducing changes to the ineffective, out-of-date Youth Criminal Justice Act. Police and judges will have new tools so they can send a tough message to young punks who think they can get away with criminal behavior.
AGE IS NO EXCUSE.
Young thugs are committing crimes without fear of consequences. The Conservative Government is cleaning up the youth-crime mess.
- Keeping dangerous youth criminals off the streets while awaiting trial.
-Tougher sentences that send a clear message: Crime has consequences.
NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW.
Who do you think is on the right track on crime?
Check out.
- Stéphane Dion, Liberal/Libérale
- Stephen Harper, Conservative/Conservateur
-Jack Layton, NDP/NPD
- Elizabeth May, Green/Vert
Stephen Harper
Real Action.
Real Results.
Compliments of Guy Lauzon.
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Use of the term "unintended consequences" in English-language newspapers and magazines, 1990-2010 (source: Lexis-Nexis).
This is a modest hommage to the courageous people of Fukushima prefecture. They survived a triple disaster in 2011 and are now, nine years later, still fighting with the consequences. I wish them well in their strugle for their beautiful province and thank them for their kindness during this trip.
Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (14,000 km²), and one of its least densely populated. The prefecture is divided into three main regions: Aizu in the west, Naka dori in the centre and Hama dori in the east. Aizu is mountainous with snowy winters, while the climate in Hama dori is moderated by the Pacific Ocean.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this soundpronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.
The accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.] On detecting the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their fission reactions. Because of the reactor trips and other grid problems, the electricity supply failed, and the reactors' emergency diesel generators automatically started. Critically, they were powering the pumps that circulated coolant through the reactors' cores to remove decay heat, which continues after fission has ceased. The earthquake generated a 14-meter-high tsunami that swept over the plant's seawall and flooded the plant's lower grounds around the Units 1–4 reactor buildings with sea water, filling the basements and knocking out the emergency generators. The resultant loss-of-coolant accidents led to three nuclear meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions, and the release of radioactive contamination in Units 1, 2 and 3 between 12 and 15 March. The spent fuel pool of previously shut-down Reactor 4 increased in temperature on 15 March due to decay heat from newly added spent fuel rods, but did not boil down sufficiently to expose the fuel.
In the days after the accident, radiation released to the atmosphere forced the government to declare an ever larger evacuation zone around the plant, culminating in an evacuation zone with a 20-kilometer radius. All told, some 154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors.
Large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster. Michio Aoyama, a professor of radioisotope geoscience at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, has estimated that 18,000 terabecquerel (TBq) of radioactive caesium 137 were released into the Pacific during the accident, and in 2013, 30 gigabecquerel (GBq) of caesium 137 were still flowing into the ocean every day. The plant's operator has since built new walls along the coast and also created a 1.5-kilometer-long "ice wall" of frozen earth to stop the flow of contaminated water.
While there has been ongoing controversy over the health effects of the disaster, a 2014 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and World Health Organization projected no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident. An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years, plant management estimate.
On 5 July 2012, the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) found that the causes of the accident had been foreseeable, and that the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had failed to meet basic safety requirements such as risk assessment, preparing for containing collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. At a meeting in Vienna three months after the disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted lax oversight by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, saying the ministry faced an inherent conflict of interest as the government agency in charge of both regulating and promoting the nuclear power industry. On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants.
The brick from the old farmhouse wall was first noticed by Mark Daniel in 1974. Unaware of the wall’s consequence, Swindon Borough Council pulled it down in 1988 and rebuilt it. Fortunately, Mr Daniel raised the alarm and the brick was found. It is carved with the letters “RJ” and, more faintly, “HJ”, the initials of the author’s young brother, Harry.
The clay pipes and beads date back to Jefferies’ childhood and were found in the garden. One of the pipes has been dated as 1850-1910. Jefferies mentions Alere Flamma smoking his long churchwarden pipe in the Summer house (Amaryllis at the Fair).
The toy chest-of-drawers was made by Jefferies as a boy. It was his first piece of woodwork. The words “TOY BOX” have been impressed into the front of the top drawer. It was donated by Nancie Jefferies Cator, the author’s great-niece whose father Charlie (Jefferies' brother) had owned it for many years. It was given to Nancie for her dolls’ house.
Berlin boasts two zoological gardens, a consequence of decades of political and administrative division of the city. The older one, called Zoo Berlin, founded in 1844, is situated in what is now called the "City West". It is the most species-rich zoo worldwide. The other one, called Tierpark Berlin ("Animal Park"), was established on the long abandoned premises of Friedrichsfelde Manor Park in the eastern borough of Lichtenberg, in 1954. Covering 160 ha, it is the largest landcape zoo in Europe.
Auf einer Fläche von 60.000 m² hat nun die einzigartige Tierwelt des Himalaya Einzug gehalten. Dabei begegnen den Bergsteiger*innen nicht nur bekannte Gebirgsbewohner wie Rote Pandas, Schneeleoparden und Bartgeier, sondern auch weniger bekannte Arten wie Goldtakin, Goral, Manul und Satyrtragopan. Nach einer Bauzeit von gut einem Jahr verwandelte sich der 60 Meter hohe Trümmerberg in eine asiatische Gebirgslandschaft mit zahlreichen neuen Aussichtpunkten. Rund 100 Individuen aus 22 verschiedenen – größtenteils in der Natur bedrohten - Tierarten haben in Berlins Hochgebirge ihr neues Zuhause gefunden. (Tierpark Berlin)
Auf einer Fläche von 60.000 m² hat nun die einzigartige Tierwelt des Himalaya Einzug gehalten. Dabei begegnen den Bergsteiger*innen nicht nur bekannte Gebirgsbewohner wie Rote Pandas, Schneeleoparden und Bartgeier, sondern auch weniger bekannte Arten wie Goldtakin, Goral, Manul und Satyrtragopan. Nach einer Bauzeit von gut einem Jahr verwandelte sich der 60 Meter hohe Trümmerberg in eine asiatische Gebirgslandschaft mit zahlreichen neuen Aussichtpunkten. Rund 100 Individuen aus 22 verschiedenen – größtenteils in der Natur bedrohten - Tierarten haben in Berlins Hochgebirge ihr neues Zuhause gefunden. (Quelle: Tierpark Berlin)
The unique animal world of the Himalayas has now found its way into an area of 60,000 m². Climbers will not only encounter well-known mountain dwellers such as red pandas, snow leopards and bearded vultures, but also lesser-known species such as takin, goral, Pallas'scat and satyr tragopan. After a construction period of just over a year, the 60-metre-high mountain of rubble was transformed into an Asian mountain landscape with numerous new vantage points. Around 100 individuals from 22 different animal species - most of them endangered in the wild - have found their new home in Berlin's high mountains. (Source: Tierpark Berlin)
Artistic impression of global warming and effects of climate change. Courtesy of: www.phostock.co.cc
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JOE SENT ME | BOOTLEG MIXES
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1. 60/365 Proof, 2. 61/365 The Consequence, 3. 62/365 Dancing with the lights on, 4. 63/365 Playing with light flares, 5. 64/365 On the grass after class, 6. 58/365 Where'd that photo go?!, 7. 65/365 hanging out, 8. 66/365 Shhh… ducky has a secret, 9. 67/365 Hand, 10. 68/365 A different angle, 11. 69/365 Hiding in the shadows, 12. 70/365 Random close ups, 13. 71/365 Taking back what's mine "safe", 14. 72/365 Rockpools, 15. 73/365 portrait, 16. 74/365 I'm in the garden, 17. 75/365 Looking skyward, 18. 76/365 Looking Westward, 19. 77/365 And?, 20. 78/365 My friend on the hill, 21. 79/365 Bushwalking, 22. 80/365 Darkness, 23. 81/365 Breathiong in Colour, 24. 82/365 Sulking, 25. 83/365 Catch me... if you can, 26. 84/365 Fallen, 27. 85/365 Waiting, 28. 86/365 Pearls, 29. 87/365 the model, 30. 88/365 Friday, 31. 89/365, 32. 90/365 The Easter Bunny
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