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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.
Truth or Consequences volunteer Fire dept Support-1 - 1994 International/Becker Equipment Utility Truck
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)
Dans l'agglomération d'Agen de nombreux administrés pensent manger sainement en cultivant leur potager mais à chaque fois qu'ils laissent une heure ou deux décanter l'eau de la nappe phréatique dans un arrosoir propre, un film huileux se forme à la surface.
Par leur je-m'en-foutisme et par leur inaction de nombreux entrepreneurs ainsi que les autorités locales sont indéniablement responsables de nombreux cancers.
Il faut mettre les irresponsables qui sont censés gérer l'agglomération d'Agen en prison!
Everything we do has consequences. Some things are more important, others less so. Often, the future doesn’t look too bright. Catastrophes, crises and environmental destruction appear to be looming. A force majeure seems to be in control of our destiny … But is that really the case? Get together with experts in peace, aid and the environment, and develop new images of the future! And then print out your ideas, creatively and artistically, in the THINKING PICASSO art project.
Panelists:
Agnes Aistleitner (u19 Prix-Gewinnerin 2012 / AT), Karl Kumpfmüller (Friedensforscher und Lektor an der Universität Graz / AT), Wolfgang Kromp (Leiter des Instituts für Sicherheits- und Risikowissenschaften an der BOKU Wien / AT), Sophie Schaffner (Jugendrotkreuz / AT), Günter Stummer (Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz, Internationale Katastrophenhilfe / AT), Andreas Urich (Erziehungswissenschafter, Coach / AT). Moderation: Bernhard Fellinger (ORF Ö1 / AT)
credit: Erhard Grünzweil
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host, Stephanie Piche were at the 5th Annual TorC Film Fiesta.
This year’s TorC Film Fiesta was held from October 22-24, 2021 in Truth or Consequences New Mexico and screened winning feature and short films from the Santa Fe Film Festival and some local films in addition to “Walking with Herb’ a truly New Mexican film from the author of the book to the filmmaker.
The festival also had Anthony Michael Hall, who is a star in the new “Halloween Kills” movie along with a rich history of film and TV work. Three of the films that AMH made with John Hughes, “Weird Science,” “16 Candles,” and “The Breakfast Club” were screened on the opening night of the festival with AMH available for photos, signed merch and a Q&A held after the final film was shown to a grateful audience of fans.
Screenings of films "Walking with Herb," "The Kennedy incident," "Earl biss Doc," Steven Maes "Caffeine & gasoline," Jerry Angelo "Artik," Hafid abdelmoula "Broken GAite," Ruben Pla "The Horror Crowd," Jordyn Aquino "Can't have it both ways," Jordan Livingston "DeLorean: Living the dream," Jeanette Dilone "Rizo," & Two 'Best Of' Shorts screenings
In addition to the screenings, the El Cortex Theatre, was enjoying a grand re-opening after being shuttered for years and the town was thrilled to see the progress of the updates being done for this event.
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Filmmakers were also honored with a filmmaker brunch, a panel by esteemed entertainment lawyer, Harris Tulchan, at Ingo’s Cafe, after parties at the Point Blanc Winery and Glam Camp which also had a fire dancer perform in addition to everyone letting loose and singing Karaoke songs throughout the night.
There was a filmmakers brunch at the Center Gallery and a filmmakers lounge with specialty cocktails during the festival.
In addition to honoring filmmakers, it was a joy to hear that they were excited to see their films on the big screen.
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That’s what it’s about, making stories come alive and enjoying them in the dark with strangers…
An example of a typical girl-guy relationship.
featuring Qees from:
Toxic Swamp Series - Red Bear
United States of Qee Series - Alaska Inuit Bear
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.
New Deal mural entitled "Indian Bear Dance" painted by Boris Deutsch in 1940. Truth or Consequences was known as "Hot Springs" until 1951.
Once upon a time ago I worked in one place. All territory look like this :)
This photo I made on Sony Ericsson P1i + postproduction.
Palomas Springs. Hot Springs. Truth or Consequences. Take your pick.
"T or C" -- the shorthand name usually used by New Mexicans for the town seen here -- first developed as a small community called Palomas Springs located near a natural hot springs bathhouse. The town was later renamed "Hot Springs" and became a somewhat popular spa-resort along the old Camino Real.
In 1950, the producers of a popular NBC game show called "Truth or Consequences" made a bold offer: If a town officially changed its name to that of the show, the producers would pay for an annual festival (and get some great free publicity). The good folks of Hot Springs, New Mexico took the bait and their community has been named Truth or Consequences ever since.
There have been occasional attempts to change the town's name back to Hot Springs, but the majority of voters have always sided with the status quo. I, too, hope it stays T or C forever.
Vidal by Josh Bennett, Rowan Magazine 53, with Rowan Creative Linen www.dayanaknits.com/2013/07/knit-for-your-man-without-con...
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.
Red Haven Motel
605 North Date Street
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico 87901
Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Cable T.V.;5 miles to Elephant Butte Lake, across street from Catholic Church, Reasonable Rates. BankAmericard and Mastercharge.
Offsite Consequence Analysis for worst-case alternative-release accidents/incidents thereby is enabling them to potentially assess the damage. Moreover, under the Risk Management Program of EPA, the facilities with large quantities of very hazardous chemicals are required for.
Your butcher wont open his doors - It's the end.
A big thank you to our customers ; it was a great pleasure serving you and getting to know you.
As for the others, it won't change much for you since you are the cause of our departure.
We leave without regret, happy to have tried our luck, no one could have predicted the current crisis before the Covid broke out. Nevertheless, we are not leaving without a good dose of bitterness, Nevertheless, we do not leave without a good dose of bitterness, from a district supposedly happy to welcome a traditional butcher's shop to - finally - never set foot there.
Good luck to all of you and farewell to our loyal customers who will recognize themselves.
It will no longer be a butcher's shop here, of course
Truth or Consequences, NM.
The small New Mexico town of Hot Springs renamed itself in 1950 after a popular radio show, "Truth or Consequences", declared it would broadcast from the first town to name itself after the show.
I'm using this map screengrab to illustrate a story about how towns and cities may sometimes opt to sell the rights to their name in return for sponsorship dollars. See: Town & City Name Sponsorships
This was a followup on my article, "Six Odd Tactics For Getting Ads Into Google Maps".
There is far more to workplace harassment and discrimination than just sex. To demonstrate, this program dramatizes employee behaviors that lead to formal charges and result in serious consequences for the individuals involved.
Hoe komt het dat de levensstandaard in Berlijn hoger is dan in andere steden met hogere salarissen? Is koopkracht een goede indicator van levenskwaliteit? En hoe verhoudt het zich tot ruimtelijke kwaliteit? De Amerikaanse landschapsarchitecte Jessica Bridger presenteerde in het kader van de Jaap Bakema Fellowship de resultaten van haar jaarlange onderzoeksproject Purchasing Power and Spatial Consequences: A 21st Century Mashup. ‘Je kunt veel zeggen over een stad aan de hand van het gekozen plaveisel’. Robert Kloosterman, hoogleraar economische geografie en planning, reageerde in relatie tot zijn eigen onderzoek. |
Why is the quality of life in Berlin so much higher than in other cities with higher salaries? Is purchasing power a good indicator of the quality of life? And how does it relate to spatial quality? The American landscape architect Jessica Bridger presented the results of her year-long Jaap Bakema Fellowship project: Purchasing Power and Spatial Consequences: A 21st Century Mashup. ‘You can tell a lot about a city from the pavement it chose’. Robert Kloosterman, Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, responded in relation to his own research.
Deelnemers | Featuring: Jessica Bridger, Robert Kloosterman & moderator Ole Bouman.
Foto | Photo: Ashley Govers
Terrorism - a consequence of fanatism, radicalism and intolerance
Gustavo Arístegui is Member of the Spanish Parliament and Spokesman in the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Commission for the Popular Party.
He served in the European Division, in the Africa and Middle East Division as Deputy Head of Middle East Affairs in the time of the first Gulf War (1990-91), as Deputy Chief of Mission of the Spanish Embassy to Libya (1991-1993) where he was Charge D’Affaires (Acting Ambassador) for well over a year, and as Deputy Chief of Mission of the Spanish Embassy to Jordan (1993-96).
The lecture "TERRORISM AS A SECURITY CHALLENGE FOR THE EU" was organized in cooperation with the Asociación Popular Española de Bélgica and took place in the European Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS) on March 19th 2007. It featured Mr. Gustavo Arístegui - Member of the Spanish Parliament and spokesman in the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Commission for the Partido Popular- who presented his view on the topic. Mr. Arístegui is the author of the books El islamismo contra el Islam, published in 2004, and La yihad en España (2005).
According to him, terrorism has to be compared now to a fight for imposing ideologies. In a way, the terrorist threat has to be taken more seriously than ever before. Illegal commission is a cause for the booming terrorism. The European Union has to take into account those changes and be aware that terrorism will keep on evolving. The EU has to develop a flexible policy strategy and be able to adapt quickly to the moving trends of a more and more “imaginative terrorism”. Mr. Arístegui also insisted on the fact that terrorism should not to be mixed with religion - Islam should not to be mixed with Islamism. Terrorism is a consequence of fanatism, (religious) radicalism and intolerance. Illegal commissions are the backbone of terrorists groups. This free flow of illegal commission and other funds should be stopped.
Terrorist groups are more and more refined in the way they recruit members. They spread their recruitment to schools, prisons and poor suburbs in European cities.
Gustavo de Arístegui stressed the importance of terrorist’s groups´ networks. Networks of major terrorist groups such as Al-Qaida are very complicated and well organized, and include mostly very influential people.
Gustavo de Arístegui concluded with some suggestions prevention is one of the key elements of the battle against terrorism. The European Union has to tackle the recruitment of new terrorists and be aware of the methods and trends of new forms of terrorism.
In the following debate, Mr. Arístegui added that the EU has to develop a multidimensional strategy. EU members have to combine their efforts against common enemies and have to forget former divergence of opinion. Finally, he reminded the importance of working together with non EU-countries, particularly with the United States.