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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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Early efforts at photos from iPhone 12 Pro
The original file was an Apple Pro Raw that was edited in Lightroom classic.
This is a quick drawing I put together this morning to show the layout
of our windows, door, bed, bathroom and closet for our first dome.
Würstelstand Währingerstraße / U6
Print on Canvas 50x60cm
Part of Gerstner's Würstelstand Installation Wiener Opernball 2011
Concept & Design : ConseQuences
Photography & Artwork : moxtra
TEDxAmsterdam Connected Consequences
Design and Art-direction: HEYHEYHEY
Production: PostPanic
Photography: Bas Uterwijk
Styling: Ellen Hoste and HEYHEYHEY
Image editing: HEYHEYHEY and Jurgen van Zachten
Hiding in the Farmlands of Mhirdrun.
Visit this location at Mhirdrun: Table-Top RP & Consequences! in Second Life
"CONSEQUENCES Peggy Morris, 1936
from Bandit Love & Other Romance Book Jackets from the 1920's & 30's - compiled by Steven Heller"
Staff Sgt. Nathan D. Pettway, a survey team member with the 34th Civil Support Team, Virginia National Guard monitors atmospheric conditions during a simulated nighttime hazardous materials incident July 10, 2014, in Salem, Va. The unit can identify chemical, biological, and radiological substances, assess current and projected consequences, advise an incident commander on response measures, and assist with requests for additional state support. The 34th CST is federally resources, trained and sustained and operates under the control of state leadership. The Adjutant General of Virginia may employ the 34th CST to support the state response under the direction of the governor or to support another state’s response under a supported governor. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Capt. Andrew J. Czaplicki/Released)
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Charmed narrative follows the four Halliwell sisters, Prue, Piper, Phoebe and, later, Paige, the culmination of the long Warren line of powerful, good witches. The sisters, despite being perceived as normal by the non-supernatural community, are known as The Charmed Ones, whose prophesised destiny is to battle against evil beings, such as demons and warlocks, in order to protect innocent lives from being endangered. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, whilst they also attempt to hold normal working lives in San Francisco. Keeping their paranormal identities separate and secret from their ordinary lives forms part of the series' tension and challenges, with the exposure of magic having far-reaching consequences on relationships and has resulted in a number of police and FBI investigations throughout Charmed .
The Office of Student Financial Assistance recently hosted an interactive event called “Life Happens!” During the free program, nearly 120 students completed interactive activities mirroring the ups and downs of real-life financial situations, including the selection of careers, marital status, children and lifestyle choices (whether to shop at thrift stores vs. shopping brand-names or using public transportation vs. buying a 2015 BMW 3 Series car). At the end of the series of events, students then analyzed the consequences of these life occurrences and decisions.
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…
This is the Why Group sculpture of three figures crafted Dennis Smith and placed in the Living Memorial Sculpture Garden - LMSG - along with several others of Smith's depictions of the consequences of war. Why Group is a gigantic sculpture - at least twice life size. This photo shows the two bottom figures dealing with a fallen comrade while the top figure is supposedly pleading to the heavens. This photograph of the Why Group was taken mid morning on October 15, 2011 with my Canon Powershot SX30.
Lenek's Würstelstand, Währinger/Nussdorfer
Print on Paper 75x86
Part of Gerstner's Würstelstand Installation Wiener Opernball 2011
Concept & Design : ConseQuences
Photography & Artwork : moxtra
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
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Constructed 1916
"Water from the Rio Grande Project, coupled with improved farming methods, has transformed a formerly desert-like region into a lush, productive landscape. Astronaut John Glenn - as the Mercury capsule Friendship 7 reentered the earth's atmosphere in 1962 and passed over New Mexico - described the project area as a ribbon of green extending straight north from the Mexico border."
- Bureau of Reclamation brochure, 1982
One of the first major efforts to increase farming and encourage habitation in the arid regions of the western United States, the Rio Grande Project was designed to provide reliable irrigation as well as resolve a dispute over water supply with the Republic of Mexico. The project's centerpiece is Elephant Butte Dam, a concrete gravity structure 301 feet high and 1,674 feet wide. Elephant Butte Reservoir - with a surface area of 36,600 acres and a capacity of more than 2.2 million acre-feet - was the largest reservoir in the world at the time of its completion.
Today, the Rio Grande Project provides irrigation for almost 200,000 acres in New Mexico and west Texas along with 25,000 acres in Mexico. A pioneering accomplishment, the Rio Grande Project provided significant experience for many of its engineers, two of whom - Arthur P. Davis and Louis C. Hill-later served as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Facts
- Initiated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation soon after its formation in 1902, the Rio Grande Project was the first in the world to distribute water across international boundaries. Under the terms of a 1906 treaty, the project provides water to the Juarez Valley of Mexico by means of the American Diversion Dam and Canal system, located 2 miles northwest of El Paso, Texas.
- In 1938, the Reclamation Bureau constructed a hydroelectric plant at Elephant Butte Dam and -- 25 miles downstream -- the project's second major storage facility, Caballo Dam and Reservoir. Today, water held at the Elephant Butte reservoir is used for winter power generation, then held at the Caballo reservoir for summer irrigation.
- The Rio Grande Project currently extends 100 miles north of El Paso and 40 miles to the city's southeast, comprising a total of two major dams, six diversion dams, 140 miles of canals, 460 miles of laterals, 465 miles of drains, a hydroelectric plant, 500 miles of transmission lines, and 11 substations.
- Among the crops grown in the Rio Grande Project area, "King Cotton" remains one of the most prominent, along with peppers, onions, and lettuce. Other crops include barley, alfalfa, and pecans.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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.