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Miami – Three anti-gay groups Florida cannot intervene in a Florida lawsuit fighting for marriage equality, a circuit court judge ruled June 3. Judge Sarah Zabel ruled that Florida Family Action Inc., Florida Democratic League and People United to Lead the Struggle for Equality—all who support the state's ban on marriage equality and were represented by the Liberty Counsel—cannot intervene in Pareto v. Ruvin.
That lawsuit, involving six same-sex couples, argues that Florida's laws barring same-sex couples from marriage violate the United States Constitution by denying them the legal protections and equal dignity that having the freedom to marry provides. The plaintiffs are represented by the law firm Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, Elizabeth F. Schwartz, Mary B. Meeks, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).
Judge Zabel found that the three groups hoping to intervene did not have concrete legal interest in the case because they "will not be directly and immediately affected if others enter into a same-sex marriage, or are prevented from entering into a same-sex marriage."
The court also noted that the "validity of their own marriages will not be affected," adding that if these groups could enter the case as parties simply because they have strong beliefs about the issues in the case, "so would anyone who has a strongly held belief regarding the constitutionality of the Amendment and statutes at issue in this suit."
"Today Judge Zabel reached the proper conclusion in denying extremists seeking a platform for their anti-gay rhetoric the right to intervene in this case," said Nadine Smith, CEO of Equality Florida Institute, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. "This lawsuit is about fundamental, constitutionally protected rights that are violated by a measure that does real harm to our families."
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As someone who recently stopped playing MMOs due to lack of time, I have been interested in how it would be to try to play them only one night a week. The idea isn't to limit myself to one night, but due to the rest of my life, that's about all I can expect to do. This leads to a very different approach to the games as you can imagine, but hopefully I won't be the only one who is interested.
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Tenaga may have a bullish breakout
With the FBMKLCI making new high, we should look at blue chips that may continue to rise; thus giving support to the rising FBMKLCI. We have seen TM making new high in this cycle. This morning, it is the turn for Tenaga to charge.
Tenaga broke above its horizontal line, R2-R2 at RM6.70. It may rise to test the resistance of its uptrend channel line at RM7.20-7.30. Note that there is some resistance at the horizontal line at RM7.10.
Chart 1: Tenaga's daily chart as at June 25, 2012_11.00am (Source: Tradesignum)
Tenaga is coming into a positive news cycle, which will likely to coem from two sources:
1. The renegotiation of the old Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with Independent Power Producers (IPPs) which could lead to a significant reduction in its operating costs; and
2. Increased in power consumption.
Another catalyst for a re-rating of Tenaga is the correction in the prices of its fuel. We can see from Chart 2 & 3 that the price of Natural Gas & Coal (Australia) have eased off. Cheaper prices of Natural Gasmay not benefit Tenaga signififcantly for now as its purchases from Petronas Gas is subsidized currently. In 2016 onwards, the price of Natural Gas would be at market rate & any downward pressure on Natural Gas is a positive development for Tenaga.
Chart 2: Natural Gas price chart as at May 2012 (Source: mongabay.com)
Chart 3: Coal (Australia) price chart as at May 2012 (Source: mongabay.com)
If you look at the monthly chart for Tenaga, you will see that Tenaga is once again testing the 3rd fan downtrend line (R-R3) at RM6.70. The last time, it broke above a 3rd fan downtrend line (r-r3) was in 2006 when it rose to a high of about RM10.00. If Tenaga can break above the RM6.70 resistance (preferably RM7.00 as well), it may swing up & revisit the RM10.00 mark. My most optimistic forecast is that it may hit RM12.00 within a 1-year period, based strictly on technical projection.
Chart 4: Tenaga's monthly chart as at June 22, 2012 (Source: Tradesignum)
Based on the above, Tenaga could be a trading BUY or even a medium-term trade if it can break above the RM6.70 mark convincingly.
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Matthews Wins Tour de Slovénie Points Jersey; Yates Wins Best Young RiderSun 22 Jun 2014
Michael Matthews rounded out the podium on the final stage of the Tour de Slovénie. The points jersey winner was edged out by Elia Viviani (Cannondale) and Eduard Grosu (Vini Fantini Nippo) in the field sprint in Novo Mesto. In Matthews first race back since the Giro d'Italia, he finished first in the opening stage time trial, second from the reduced bunch on stage two and third in the stage four mass finish.
Simon Yates was similarly successful. The winner of the best young rider jersey, Yates recently returned to racing following surgery on a broken collarbone sustained at the Tour of Turkey in April. Yates finished seventh on the overall classification, 55" behind overall winner Tiago Machado (NetApp-Endura).
The final stage of racing followed a predictable pattern with a five rider breakaway going clear just before the first hour of racing came to a close. NetApp –Endura and RusVelo controlled the gap, leaving ORICA-GreenEDGE to focus on the finale. It was all hands on deck for Matthews in Novo Mesto in the fast finish.
The break took quite a long time to go today. It was nearly 40 kilometres before the five guys went away. The best-placed rider on the general classification was at 1'50, so NetApp and RusVelo rode the whole stage. It was great for us. We didn't have to commit anyone to the chase. With only five guys left, that was ideal for us.
We went into the finish with a plan of how to attack the last couple kilometres. It sounds like the guys got it almost perfectly. Bling just wasn't quite quick enough in the final. The team did everything right.
When all was said and done, Simon retained the young jersey and Bling retained the points jersey. We leave with a win, a second place and one third. It would have been nice to have converted one of the lessor podium places into another win, but I can't be disappointed in the effort the team made this week. To walk away with two jerseys, a stage win and seventh overall is a job well done.


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The other cardinal sin of Scioly is probably safety hazards, which you are not DQ'ed for:Teams should be Disqualified or "DQ" only for misbehavior (to include excessive use of improper or vulgar language) or cheating. Put DQ as raw score and award N+2 points on the score sheet. Also, note on the score sheet the reason why teams were disqualified. Event Supervisors may remove from competition any student(s) whose personal or ethical behavior does not adhere to the Science Olympiad Code of Ethics. This action will disqualify the affected student(s) from participation and scoring in that event only. If any team is DQed or Ranked Below Others, inform the student (and remind the student to inform their coach) as soon as a problem occurs and notify the head coach immediately if it determined after students have left and be sure to list the detailed reason on the score sheet.
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Wow, an appeal to the judges that actually worked. That's rare. For scrambler last year my coach appealed to the judges, but it didn't work and we got second tiered.My Partners Cell phone went off in the middle of oceanography during States last year. I think we might have been DQed if the Event supervisor hadn't noticed that I would have thrown him out the window if he got us DQed.
The previous year I was almost 2nd tiered in Wheeled Vehicle in Div. B States because someone misinterpreted the rules about whether the foremost point of the vehicle had to be non moving or the foremost nonmoving point of the vehicle had to be marked. When my coach protested, my wheeled vehicle and about 12 others were un second tiered. However, during the time they gave me a chance to fix the problem, but I was so nervous that I almost destroyed the Wheeled Vehicle in the process.
The iron determination is always terrible! We had to do that at Nats last year, and they gave us these little tiny 10g containers to carry 50g of cereal from the community station to our station. Then we had to break up the cereal using a 10g mortar and pestle... and so the whole thing took a ridiculous amount of time. In the end, we didn't even get any result, so we just made up a number. When we looked in the event booklet this year, we found that the actual answer was too small have been measured using the balances they gave us... but I did manage to keep my temper, even though I felt like throwing the cereal at the head of the (very nice) event supervisor xDhehe, well, a few years ago, I did Food science as a trial event at nationals. The entire event was a disaster. First, my partner and I couldnt find the room, so we arrived a little late. Then we went to the first station, which went ok. The second station, however, didnt go as well. We were asked to use benedicts solution with a banana to determine relative sugar content. Which would have been easy except for 2 things: It's kinda hard to stuff a banana in a test tube, and nothing was given for us to heat it in, since there has to be heat for the reaction to work. We managed to get past that though.
Then came the bad part. We were asked to take crumbled up cereal, add water, and use a magnetic plate and a magnet to find iron. I asked the man who ran the event how much water to add, because it wasnt mentioned. He said it in a rude and condescending way, so I lost my temper and said "Well, it doesnt say that. This event sucks".
Well, when we got the results, we found that we had scored 61. Out of 60 teams.
I feel like we would have done well, too, since the writer was too lazy to write his own event. I found the same exact questions online a few days before, and thus knew all the answers.
Im not totally sure why we DQed, but it probably has to do with insulting the event.
Funnily enough, my partner and I got 4th the year after. Go figure.
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Targeting Murdoch. Quelle surprise!
Britain's parliament discovered what media critics and people wanting real news and information knew decades ago. Murdoch's world features demagoguery, managed news, scandal, sleaze, and warmongering. He's the prototypical presstitute famed journalist George Seldes (1890 – 1995) denounced in books like "Lords of the Press." He called them "the most powerful force against the general welfare of the majority of the people."
He exposed their tactics long before Project Censored. Major media scoundrels are villainous global pirates. Viewing, it added, is like watching "a Harlem Globetrotters game (knowing) which side is supposed to win." It's a virtual mouthpiece piece for extremist Republicans. Famed Chicago columnist Mike Royko (1932- 1997) once said "no self-respecting fish would (want to) be wrapped in a Murdoch paper…." Former Fox employees complain about management cooking the facts to make stories acceptable to right-wing audiences. At age 82, Rupert nears retirement.
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Republicans Demand Obama Suspends Refugee Program
As New York Mayor Bill De Blasio made a statement on the latest Islamic State propaganda video, state leaders speaking at the Republican Governors Association called for President Barack Obama to suspend the U.S.'s refugee program. Mark Kelly reports. Image: AP
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we have a president who thinks that ISIS's been contained ... when a president that doesn't know what's happening ... so when you say where bombing when Obama was doing very little ... Donald Trump's response on Wednesday to a report on the campaign trail in Worcester Massachusetts ... peace in the US was already forming Islamic state ... on Wednesday the militant group released propaganda which purports to show you a suicide bomb up getting ready to attack New York City's Times Square ... the city's police department released a statement on the video saying quote ... well some of the video footage is an all new the video reaffirms the message that New York City remains a top terrorist target ... the New York met Bill DeBlasio ... to the people of New York City will not be into that that ... the more you know that there is no ... all ... the right ... president Obama has committed to accepting two Filson Syrian refugees in the next year ... state leaders speaking at the Republican governors Association annual conference in Las Vegas ... pleaded with him to suspend the refugee program ... at least temporarily ... following the Paris attacks they claim that screening challenges make it all but impossible to identify the violent extremists among those seeking refuge in you ... Manila President Obama responded to critics saying he was open to suggestions to impose the screening process but said that's not what was happening ... when ... individuals say that we should have a religious ... and that ... all my questions ... probing Christians ... should be admitted ... the fund ... and contrary to American values ... president went on to say that he couldn't think of them opened its recruitment tool for Islamic State and such rhetoric ... to the militant group seeks to expand like the idea that this a war between Islam and the whites when ... you start saying ... individuals in ... positions of responsibility ... suggesting that ... Christians are more worthy of protection ... the Muslims are ... in war torn land ... that leaves the ice on earth ...


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Bold Abstraction of Cody Hudson Soon at HVW8 Gallery Berlin
The Chicago based artist, Cody Hudson, will be showcasing his new works at HVW8 Gallery in Berlin. The artist's graphic work and paintings have been exhibited throughout Europe, the US and in Japan, however this is going to be his first ever solo show in Germany. The artist has been working with the medium of sculpture for years, and he was frequently using an established set of geometric shapes in his works. This time, Hudson is translating these bold shapes into painted material, and therefore his latest artistic endeavor is manifested through a set of paintings on linen, each of which is appropriately and suggestively entitled.
Bold Shapes and Colors
Hudson's new works are described as representations of shapes that gradually start to develop an internal dialogue. The set of paintings shows simple geometric shapes, which slowly evolve into slightly more comprehensible and representational paintings. Ultimately, what we are confronted with is representation of abstracted still life, where the repetition of color and shapes points to that specific, internal correlation between these unique elements. The show also includes a series of monochrome paintings that belong to the "Shapes and Colors Dept." series. The edition focuses on simple one-color combinations of shapes, which at times constitute a repetitive pattern, and sometimes appear as floral decorations. The paintings that belong to this collection are described as shapes painted in an almost meditative state.
From Music Genres to Mental Health Conditions
The unconventional titles of paintings admittedly refer to spirituality, and (or) false spirituality. The range of very specific subjects that they tackle includes '90s rave music sub-genre called ragga jungle and occasional overwhelming feelings of anxiety. Some of the titles that are mentioned are "All One or None", I Don't Want to Die Alone" and "Post Post Still Life With Pots, Bong and Shell". And finally, even the title of the exhibition itself (When I Finally Get Myself Together) refers to a state of self-examination, desire to define inner peace and to resolve that anxiety.
Cody Hudson's Multimedia Exhibition
Besides painting, as mentioned before the artist is deeply involved with sculpture, and a series of new steel sculpture will therefore be presented as well. Hudson is also well known for his graphic design contributions, for which he uses an alias – Struggle Inc. In relation to that, four new screen prints, produced by the art publisher Draw A Line from Berlin, will also be displayed on this occasion. The opening of When I Finally Get Myself Together is scheduled for February 11th at 6PM, at HVW9 Gallery, Berlin. The show runs from February 12th through March 12th, 2016.
Featured image: Cody Hudson – When I Finally Get Myself Together – Flyer. All images courtesy of the artist and the gallery.


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How Does Speech Recognition Work? This Will Leave You Amazed
Speech recognition systems are efficient means of reducing manual work and saving time in today's fast-paced life. The software that we use today are highly developed and detect words that are spoken at a normal rate, without any pause.
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Last Updated: Jan 11, 2019
The process of converting spoken words in a form that is machine readable is termed as speech recognition. This concept has found many applications in today's tech-savvy world, and is used in various fields like health care, military, business, legal transcription, etc.
On the basis of vocabulary and the number of users, these systems are categorized into small vocabulary/many-users, and large vocabulary/limited-users, or discrete and continuous speech recognition. In discrete systems, the dictator has to pause after every word spoken. Continuous systems understand words that are spoken in a normal manner.
Working of Speech Recognition Systems
When a person speaks, vibrations are created. Technology converts these vibrations, i.e., analog signals into a digital form by means of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC).
Digitization of sound takes place by measurement at regular intervals. The sound is filtered into different frequency bands and normalized, so that it attains a constant volume level. It is also checked if the sound matches stored templates.
The next step is dividing analog signals into segments that range from a few hundredths to thousands of a second. These segments are matched with phonemes that are already stored in the system. Phonemes are specific sounds that are understood by people speaking a particular language.
Statistical modeling systems, which use mathematics and probability, play an important role in today's speech recognition systems. These systems are used to determine or predict the outcome after a particular phoneme.
It becomes easier to predict where a particular word begins and ends. The Hidden Markov Model and Neural Networks are two statistical modeling systems, out of which the former is more common.
The outcome after a particular word in a sentence depends upon the vocabulary. It is difficult even for a computer to determine the possible outcome after a particular phoneme, due to the sheer number of words in a language.
Thus, it is necessary to 'train' the system. Speaking into the system helps in the training process. Once the user gets used to the system, it becomes easy for the system to determine the possible outcome after a particular word or a phoneme.
It is important to familiarize the speech recognition system with the user's voice to get better results. However, one shouldn't expect 100% accuracy from these technologies, because the tones and the way one pronounces a particular word, changes from region to region.
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1-2, 2Nd Floor, Jalan Radin Anum, Bandar Baru Sri Petaling
57000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
KKKP No. : 4296
MATTA Member No. : MA2185
Duration: 4D 3N
Minimum Pax: 2
Package Code: CAT002VIETNAM
Destination: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tour Start: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon) is a city in southern Vietnam famous for the pivotal role it played in the Vietnam War. It's also known for its French colonial landmarks, including Notre-Dame Cathedral, made entirely of materials imported from France, and the 19th-century Central Post Office. Food stalls line the city's streets, especially around bustling Bến Thành Market.
Breakfast at the hotel . 08:00 – 08:30: Pick up and depart from Ho Chi Minh City to Cu Chi Tunnels for Half Day Tour. Arrive in Cu Chi Tunnels (Ben Dinh),we will watch a propaganda film a wartime propaganda film showing how local guerilla fighters were "American Killing Heroes" (a short introductory videos howing how the tunnels were constructed). Then, we spend the next hour exploring the maze of tunnels in Cu Chi. Also on display are various mantraps and the remains of an American tank as well as numerous bomb craters made by 500 pound bombs dropped by B52 bombers.
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Zavvi are currently selling a double pack of Mister Maker DVDs for £4.85.
I've had a quick look around and you can also buy for £5 from Zavvi, £4.99 from the BBC shop - but you'll pay £2.95 for delivery - and £4.49 from Amazon, but they have a delivery time of between one and two months, yes MONTHS!
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Mister Maker was one of my favourites kids TV characters – utterly bonkers, lots of fun and, as a family, we've made lots of the things featured on the show.
I haven't watched Mister Maker for a good couple of years now; there are lots of little kiddy programmes I don't get to see now my youngest is at school every day,
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Overnight with Night Time Music
The Juice with Jem! (Tues, Feb 7)February 7, 2012
YOU DON'T WANT THIS MAN TO BE YOUR BOSS If you ever thought it would be fun to work for rapper Flo Rida you need to know the pay is low low low low. WANTED: Assistant to rapper Flo Rida ... must be willing to work 65 hours a week, answer phones, organize mail, etc and pays $3.08 per hour.. this according to a new lawsuit. A woman named Mahogany Miller just sued the rapper -- claiming she busted her tail as his administrative assistant and in exchange he paid her less than a high school babysitter. In her suit, Miller, who claims she started the gig back in August -- alleges she eventually confronted her boss over the long hours and low wages and she was FIRED less than 24 hours after raising the issue. Miller is suing for unspecified damages. Calls to Flo have not been returned. BIRTHDAYS If today is your birthday you share it with Ashton Kutcher - 34 Steve Nash - 38 Juwan Howard - 39 Chris Rock - 47 Garth Brookes - 50 AMAR'E LOSES HIS BROTHER IN A CAR CRASH In sad news, NY Knicks star, Amar'e Stoudemire, lost his brother in a car crash recently. Hazell Stoudemire, Jr., older brother to Amar'e, died in a car accident in their home town of Lake Wales, Florida. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Stoudemire was driving at a "high rate of speed" when he collided with the rear of a tractor trailer. He died on the scene. The Florida Highway Patrol says 35-year old Stoudemire was not wearing a seat belt when he smashed into the big rig ... and they are unsure if alcohol was a factor. Amar'e has struggled with a tough family life since he was a kid, including issues with his mother Carrie. CEE LO REVEALS HIS INSPIRATION FOR THE SONG "F-YOU" Cee Lo Green has finally named the targets of his hit song "F-You ," and their identity may surprise you. The song is written like an angry note from a spurned lover, but Ceelo says it's actually a metaphorical shot fired by an overlooked artist. "I'd been recording for three years and I had over seventy songs, and I was ready to be heard," he said. "But my label was just sitting on it, and it was very disheartening, not knowing if what I was doing was good enough. It seemed like I couldn't please anybody. So of course, figuratively, I was like, 'You don't you like me? Well f you!' It was very cathartic." The track went on to become the most popular of his career, surpassing even "Crazy," the hit single he recorded with DJ Danger Mouse under the name Gnarls Barkley. "F- You" was Time Magazine's No. 1 song of 2010; won a Grammy and was nominated for two others; and has sold more than 5 million digital copies. SHOULD SHE HAVE JUST KEPT SILENT? Gisele Bundchen should have kept her mouth shut on superbowl night -- this according to multiple sources inside the Patriots organization, who claim the supermodel violated a "code of brotherhood" by bashing Tom Brady's receivers. Sources tell TMZ, the teammates are "disappointed" Gisele decided to air her grievances after the game last night -- when she said, "My husband cannot f*#%ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can't believe they dropped the ball so many times." According to sources, Tom's teammates feel betrayed by Gisele's behavior -- the Pats organization is a brotherhood and Gisele's pot shot violated the code -- which is basically win as a team, lose as a team. TAURUS RILEY TEAMS UP WITH IRIE FM FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Reggae artist Tarrus Riley has once again joined forces with radio station Irie FM to encourage young people to express themselves. The competition seeks to unearth the creativity of teenagers and their knowledge about Black History. In a release to the media, Riley said the feedback and response from the competition last year was overwhelming hence the decision to make it an annual one. "Last year we had the competition and we got a lot of entries and most were quite impressive. We want to use this competition to create awareness about Black History", Riley explained. First prize is an I Pad and second prize is a book voucher valued at $20,000. There will also be consolation prizes. That's the juice, and to all our Grenadian listeners Happy Independence Day!!!
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Adelphi Grande Sukhumvit , Bangkok
- Free WiFi and free parking
- Collect nights
- Spa
During renovations, the aparthotel will make every effort to minimize noise and disturbance.
Adelphi Grande Sukhumvit , Bangkokfrom $61
- Deluxe Studio, 1 King Bed, City View
- Deluxe Suite, 1 Bedroom, City View
- Executive Suite, 1 Bedroom, City View
- Grand Suite, 1 Bedroom, City View
- Premier Room
- Junior Suite, 1 King Bed, City View
- Grand Room, 2 Bedrooms (Family Suite)
- Premier Room (Family Suite)
- Deluxe Family Suite
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- Benchasiri Park (5-minute walk)
- Soi Cowboy (12-minute walk)
- Terminal 21 Shopping Mall (14-minute walk)
- Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (14-minute walk)
- Nana Square (23-minute walk)
- Central Embassy (30-minute walk)
- Siam Paragon Mall (41-minute walk)
Getting around
- Bangkok (BKK-Suvarnabhumi Intl.) - 37 min drive
- Bangkok (DMK-Don Mueang Intl.) - 38 min drive
- Bangkok Khlong Tan Station - 11 min drive
- Asok Railway Station - 19 min drive
- Bangkok Makkasan Station - 20 min drive
- Phrom Phong BTS Station - 4 min walk
- Thong Lo BTS Station - 13 min walk
- Asoke BTS Station - 19 min walk
- Free area shuttle
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
About Adelphi Grande Sukhumvit , Bangkok
At a glance
Key facts
- 167 apartments
- Arranged over 20 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-5:30 AM
- Check-out time is 10 AM
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 16
Travelling with others
- One child stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle *
- Free self parking (limited)
- Free area shuttle
Payment types at the property
At the aparthotel
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Poolside bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- 24-hour business center
- One meeting room
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built - 2009
- Elevator
- Designated smoking areas
- Accessible bathroom
- English
- Japanese
- Thai
In the apartment
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Soundproofed rooms
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Rainfall showerhead
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 45-inch LCD TV
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Kitchenette
- Stovetop
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Access via exterior corridors
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Special features
DiningOnsite venue - This restaurant specializes in local and international cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner.
Adelphi Grande Sukhumvit , Bangkok's small print
Also known as
- Adelphi Bangkok
- Adelphi Grande Sukhumvit Compass Hospitality
- Adelphi Grande Compass Hospitality
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- Adelphi Grande Compass Hospitality Hotel
Additional breakfast fees apply to children ages 5-11 years old who are booked in Breakfast Included rate plans. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Mandatory fees
Deposit: THB 1000.00 per day
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for THB 1300.0 per day
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of THB 300 for adults and THB 150 for children (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Recent reviews
Very Good 8.0 From 321 reviews
It was amazing! Staff was very helpful and friendly and accommodating. So clean and comfortable and the neighborhood is very safe!!!!
Friendly staff. Clean and modern lobby. Modern and stylish rooms. Great views. Refreshing pool.
The hotel itself is not bad but the location is horrible. It is not convenient at all. While there is a shuttle to take you to the main road and back, we had to wait a really long time. This is because the hotel is way understaffed as the bellhop has to do 2 jobs - driver and assist guests. There are also no stores within walking distance. We will not be staying here again.
Great hotel, location, amazing staff!!
Pretty good mattress is kind of hard overall good breakfast ok not great
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From the 1946 book, Dawn Over Zero.* * *THE story of the creation, production, and purification of plutonium must rank as one of the greatest of modern times. In the histories of the future it will mark the beginning of a new chapter in the life of man.In this achievement he has gone far beyond the dream of the alchemists. Not only has he succeeded in transmuting a base metal into one much more precious than gold; he has created an entirely new element not known to exist under the sun or anywhere else in the cosmos.Plutonium, element 94, is the child of neptunium, element 93, another man-made element. It is the grandchild of a new isotope of uranium, U.239, which is also artificially produced.Thus in creating plutonium man took three steps beyond nature.The process of this elemental creation starts in the atomic pile, in which U.238 is mated with U.235. As often happens in the act of propagation of species, the male element, U.235, is destroyed in the consummation of this marriage of the elements.By its very act of death the U.235 liberates the fertilizing agent, the neutron, which penetrates the U.238 nucleus. When this happens, the U.238 also goes out of existence, and a new isotope of uranium is born, containing 147, instead of 146, neutrons.This new isotope has a rather turbulent existence. The nucleus is top-heavy and begins making frantic efforts to restore the balance between protons and neutrons. Soon a negative electron (beta particle) comes flying out.This negative electric particle is lost by one of the 147 neutrons in the U.239 nucleus. That neutron is thus left with its positive charge deneutralized; that is, it has been converted into a proton.In other words, the U.239 again has the original quota of 146 neutrons; but instead of 92 protons, it now has 93.This means that a new element, element 93, has been created out of element 92. Since uranium was named after the planet Uranus, the element beyond uranium was named neptunium, after the planet Neptune.But the volcanic eruptions started by the neutron do not end here. Neptunium also has a turbulent life. In a short time the process repeats itself. One of its 146 neutrons radiates away a negative particle and becomes transmuted into a proton. This means that the nucleus now has 94 protons and 145 neutrons.It still has a mass of 239, but it is now an entirely new element, beyond uranium as well as beyond neptunium, a ninety-fourth building block in the cosmic edifice. Following the nomenclature of elements 92 and 93, element 94 was named after the planet Pluto.The great-grandchild of uranium, named after Uranus, god of the heavens, thus bears the name of the god of death.Strangely enough, the planets Neptune and Pluto, as well as the two elements named after them, entered the realm of being after they had existed for some time in the realm of ideas. The two planets and the two elements are both outstanding examples of the materialization of intellectual concepts.Neptune was discovered first by mathematical calculations, based on a disturbance in the motion of Uranus, which enabled the astronomers Adams and Leverrier to predict correctly not only the existence of the unknown planet but also its size and exact position.Similarly Pluto was discovered following a prediction of its existence by Percival Lowell, also made on the basis of variations in the motion of Uranus.In the same manner, neptunium and plutonium were discovered as the result of predictions, based on the nuclear reactions of uranium with neutrons.
It will be remembered that the whole story of fission came as the direct result of an attempt to create an element beyond uranium. It was another case in which the quest of a passage to the Indies led to the discovery of a new continent. What had been mistakenly believed to be elements 93 and 94, and other elements beyond them, turned out to be fission products of uranium.Yet the hope of creating a true transuranic element was never given up, and the discovery that U.238 absorbed neutrons without being split made it practically certain on theoretical grounds that, while U.235 underwent fission, U.238 was transmuted into a new element, or elements, by fission-liberated neutrons.However, in spite of many attempts to discover these hypothetical true transuranic elements, no experimental proof of their actual creation could be found during 1939 and the early months of 1940. The difficulties in the way were enormous.There was no pure U.238 or U.235. The best experimental method available was to bombard natural uranium with neutrons by means of the cyclotron.This, of course, led to the fission of the U.235 in the uranium sample and the creation of a host of highly radioactive fission fragments. If in the process some U.238 atoms were transmuted into a transuranic element, the sample was too small to be identified amid the whirlwind of the U.235 fragments.The transuranic elements were once again plaguing the nuclear chemists and physicists, this time by their absence instead of their presence. Whereas before there had been too many of them to be accounted for legitimately, they had now managed to hide themselves completely in the atomic jungle.From bewildering realities they had changed into elemental ghosts.As has often happened before in the history of scientific discovery, the first glimpse of the ghost came by chance, but it was the sort of chance that, in the words of Pasteur, "favors the prepared mind."For many months Dr. McMilIan and Dr. Abelson had been methodically investigating the fission products of U.235. By means of a technique developed by Dr. Abelson for identifying radioactive substances by their characteristic X-rays, with which he had come very close to the discovery of fission, they had set out to classify the various ingredients in the brew of the fission caldron.At the same time they were not unmindful of the possibility that the mixture might also yield at least one of the elusive transuranium elements.And sure enough, one day in the spring of 1940 they noticed a newcomer. Unlike the fission products, which recoiled with tremendous energy, this stranger kept apart from them, displaying very little kinetic energy as compared with the others.This indicated at once that it was not a product of fission of U.235, but more likely a new radioactive isotope of uranium, which, not having been split, did not possess the great energy imparted by the broken-up U.235 nucleus to its fragments.Radioactive elements can be used as tracers. Even amounts so minute that they cannot be seen can be detected through their radioactivity. By using various reagents and precipitants, it can be determined which of these carries the radioactive substance along with it, and this, in turn, provides information on the chemical properties of the unknown radioactive substance.
With such methods Drs. McMillan and Abelson were able to determine, by May 1940, that the unknown radioactive substance was element 93, born through the emission of an electron by U.239, which in turn had been produced by the capture of a neutron by U.238.In their published report, which appeared on June 1, 1940, they also described a method for separating neptunium from the other known elements, based on the chemical properties revealed through tracer quantities of the new element. The report further pointed out that, since neptunium had been observed to emit an electron, "element 94 was certainly present in the neptunium decay product."They were unable, however, to demonstrate the presence of element 94, since it was present in amounts too minute for detection even by radioactivity.Before they could proceed with this work, Dr. McMillan was called away to work on microwave radar at the newly formed radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, while Dr. Abelson, who had completed his work for his Ph.D., left to take a position with the Carnegie Institution of Washington.Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, of the University of California chemistry department, wrote to Dr. McMillan and Dr. Abelson for permission to carry on the work in search of element 94. They not only granted Dr. Seaborg's request, but also turned over to him all their unpublished data and ideas.By December 20, 1940, Dr. Seaborg, in collaboration with Dr. Joseph W. Kennedy and Arthur C. Wahl (at that time a graduate student in chemistry), and with the co-operation of Dr. McMillan through correspondence, succeeded in producing a new substance by the bombardment of uranium with the nuclei of heavy hydrogen (deuterons) fired by the cyclotron.However, at that time the new substance could only be partially identified as element 94.While this work was in progress in California, a conference of far-reaching import was held at Columbia University on December 15, 1940, between Drs. Fermi, Lawrence, and Emilio Segrè, of the University of California, a former associate of Fermi in Rome.Fermi was at that time already at work on a chain-reacting pile, and he strongly suspected even at that early date that in such a pile the U.238 would be transmuted into plutonium.The implications of this hypothesis were enormous, for it was practically certain that plutonium would have the same fissionable properties as U.235 and would have the tremendous advantage of being separable by chemical means.In a word, it would mean that fissionable material could be produced in the quantities necessary for atomic bombs.The work of McMillan and Abelson in creating neptunium, and particularly their observation that it emitted electrons and thus was most likely transmuted into element 94, furnished the first experimental proof that the hypothesis was correct.Only one more step was necessary to make the evidence conclusive—to make actual observations of the transmutation. This would require performing the McMillan-Abelson experiments on a much larger scale, so that a sufficient amount of element 94 (it had not yet been named) would be produced.This, in substance, was the subject of the conference that day at Columbia University. It led to the momentous decision to push the work on 94 as vigorously as possible. It was further realized that, in order to reproduce conditions that would prevail in the pile, it would be necessary to use neutrons, instead of deuterons, as the particles for bombarding uranium.On March 1, 1941 Drs. Seaborg, Segrè, Kennedy, and Lawrence proceeded to bombard about one kilogram of uranium with neutrons. It was the largest amount of any substance ever subjected to bombardment by the cyclotron. For six days and nights this terrific bombardment against the citadel of the uranium nucleus was carried on.On March 6 they succeeded. As in the McMillan Abelson experiments, the uranium had been transmuted into neptunium. And, beautiful to behold, they found that the neptunium had in turn, by the emission of an electron, been metamorphosed into a new element.The newcomer announced his arrival by a shower of alpha particles, telltale radiations that theory had predicted as characteristic of element 94, plutonium.
Man had produced the first made-to-order element in history, but the great test was yet to come. By March 28 about one half of a microgram of plutonium 239 had been produced. This the scientists proceeded to bombard the plutonium 239 with slow neutrons to determine whether it was subject to fission in the same degree as U.235.On that day a tense group stood around the oscilloscope. They saw the ionization pulses in the atomic thermometer rise to the same peaks produced by the fission of U.235.The news traveled quickly to the Uranium Committee in Washington. It reached the physics laboratory at Columbia University.It gave the Atomic Bomb Project, at that time still tentative, a new impetus and a new direction.* * *Work then proceeded vigorously on the production of further amounts of plutonium. To increase the yield it became highly desirable to procure some metallic uranium, practically non-existent at that time. On consult in Professor Gilbert N. Lewis, it was learned that some fourteen years before, one of his students, a native of Sweden, had prepared a fairly large sample of metallic uranium of a high degree of purity.No one knew what had become of the uranium or of the student. Through the Swedish Legation it was learned that he had returned to Sweden. An urgent cable was sent to him asking the whereabouts of the precious metal.Came back the reply: "In Professor Lewis's desk." It had been there for fourteen years.As the result of the discovery of neptunium and plutonium, Drs. Seaborg and M. L. Perlman made a search for these elements in pitchblende and found evidence of the existence of plutonium to the extent of about one part to 100,000 billion parts of pitchblende by weight. They ascribe this amount present in the ore as being due to the continuous absorption by U.238 of an appreciable fraction of the neutrons that are continually emitted during the spontaneous fission of uranium.This indicates that plutonium is also being constantly created in nature, the only known example of creation still going on.When the building of plutonium-producing piles was under consideration in 1942, some of the scientists feared that it might take too long to work out the chemical procedures for its separation. Dr. Seaborg, however, felt confident that it could be done in a reasonable time.Since no more than microgram amounts could be made by the cyclotron, Seaborg and his associates started work on the ultramicro scale.The first plutonium in the form of a compound was isolated on August 18, 1942, by Drs. B. B. Cunningham and L. B. Werner, and a number of further compounds were made a month later.On the basis of these "bits of nothing" they proceeded to design a huge chemical plant to scale, the microgram amounts serving as a pilot plant for actual operations some ten billion times greater in scope.To do so they had to use a host of other chemicals in exact proportions, in quantities of micrograms and fractions of micrograms, within a limit of accuracy of three percent. (A human breath weighs about 70,000 micrograms.)To achieve this unheard-of accuracy in weighing, an ultramicro balance of an extremely high sensitivity was designed and built by P. L. Kirk and R. D. Craig of the University of California. This balance could weigh amounts as small as a microgram with an accuracy of three per cent, and could actually weigh a mass as small as 0.03 micrograms.Work continued on approximately this scale of operation until about January 1944, at which time milligram amounts of plutonium became available. There soon followed experiments on the gram and then on the ten-gram scale. Following these the scale became substantially larger.
On the basis of these ultramicro-scale procedures a large pilot plant was built at the Clinton Engineer Works, where the chemistry for concentrating and purifying plutonium was further developed under the direction of Professor Warren Johnson, of the University of Chicago, and Major Oswald H. Greager, formerly of the du Pont Company.Before this pilot plant was completed, however, work began on three huge separation plants at the Hanford Engineer Works. These plants, rectangular structures 800 feet long, are the most remarkable chemical factories ever conceived or designed.In these plants enormous quantities of materials are made to go through complicated chemical processes with no human eye ever seeing what actually goes on except through an intricate series of dials and panels that enable the operators to maintain perfect control of every single operation at all times.Each operation is performed in a remote cell behind thick walls, and when it is completed the treated material invisibly moves on to the next cell, until at the end of a series of such passages the miracle of modern alchemy emerges, ready for the next stage on its ultimate journey.The remote-control operation was made necessary because the plutonium comes associated with the fission products of U.235, which emit an amount of radiation that would be lethal to any life in its vicinity.Hanford Engineer Works is located in Benton County, in the south-central portion of the state of Washington, between the Yakima Range and the Columbia River. It lies on the undulating tableland containing for the most part a desolate region of gray sand, gray-green sagebrush, and dried watercourses.The region is drained by the Columbia River, east of the Cascades, where the Rattlesnake Hills, Saddle Mountains, and Yakima Range form the inland extremities of that system and constitute a plant barricade to the south, north, and west. The nearest community of any size is Yakima, some forty miles westward, which has a normal population of about 30,000.The manufacturing area lies entirely on the south, or right, bank of the Columbia River, which bounds it to the north and northwest. The manufacturing reservation is nearly level, broken prominently only by Cable Mountain, an outcropping of basalt that underlies the entire site, usually at a considerable depth. The overburden consists of a poorly cemented shale and sandstone stratum known as the Ellensburg Formation, above which are deposits of sand and gravel, chiefly alluvial.The area owned or controlled through lease amounts to approximately 631 square miles. Of this total, 230 square miles are owned by the Government. The manufacturing reservation contains 195 square miles. The remaining area is accounted for by the purchase of power and irrigation properties and rights, and by the acquisition of Richland Village, to the south of the manufacturing area, as a site for the housing development and the administration center.Leased property is either on a basis of no occupancy or controlled occupancy as warranted by considerations of safety and security. For the protection of employees and the public generally, monitor stations are strategically located in the operating and service areas, and outside the limits of land owned and leased.The manufacturing area is divided into three huge sections, and each of these three is subdivided into subsections covering miles of ground.• One of the three main areas contains the three great chain-reacting piles for the production of plutonium.• The second area contains the three chemical plants where the plutonium is separated and concentrated.• The third area is where the raw material for the plutonium piles is prepared.The three piles are located on the south bank of the Columbia River at the northern extremity of the manufacturing reservation. Each of the piles is bounded by some 4.1 miles of fence, overlooked by guard towers located, at most, 2,000 feet apart. Within the fence lie some 685 acres of land, 4.25 miles of broad-gauge track, and 6.75 miles of roads.The three plants are completely self-contained. Each is about seven to eight miles distant from the next one. The nearest to Richland Village is thirty miles away.
The construction of the Hanford Engineer Works presented innumerable and unprecedented problems, which stemmed from several basic requirements established by research and development, engineering design, and policy.The principal factors that created these problems were:• the magnitude of the project;• the distances between the several manufacturing plants to be constructed;• the isolated location of the site;• the time element, which demanded that construction proceed without awaiting completion of engineering design;• the unusually high quality of construction required in many instances; and• the extreme and rigid requirements of military secrecy.The magnitude of the work of construction is indicated by the following general items selected at random:• Excavation amounted to 25,000,000 cubic yards of earth, a quantity approximately one fourth of the earth moved in the construction of the Fort Peck Dam, the largest earth dam ever constructed.• A total of 40,000 carloads of material were received on the site, equivalent to a train 333 miles long.• More than 780,000 cubic yards of concrete were placed, an amount approximately equal to 390 miles of concrete highway twenty feet wide and six inches thick.• Excluding railroad rail and special steels, about 40,000 tons of steel were used in building construction.• Approximately 160,000,000 board feet of lumber were required, equivalent to the yield from 135 acres of the best timberland.• About 1,500,000 concrete blocks and 750,000 cement bricks were used in plant construction;• More than 11,000 poles were required for the electric power and lighting systems;• More than 8,500 pieces of construction equipment were used.• Approximately 345 miles of permanent plant roads were constructed on the site.The necessity for separating the several areas from each other and from inhabited localities by relatively great distances imposed abnormal problems for the transportation of men and materials. These distances are emphasized by the fact that 340,000,000 passenger-miles of bus transportation were furnished during the construction phase of the work.The isolation of the site from any existing centers of population presented serious problems with respect to many phases of construction. These were related primarily to the procurement, transportation, housing, feeding, health, morale, and retention of a maximum total construction force of about 45,000 persons, a total reached in June 1944.The urgent need for putting the plant in operation at the earliest possible date made it necessary in a number of instances to proceed with construction before basic research had been fully developed. Steps had to be taken that, in the words of Professor Smyth, "no engineer or scientist in his right mind would consider in peacetime," and could be justified even in wartime only by the "possibility of achieving tremendously important results."There is as much difference between the first chain-reacting pile at Chicago and the giant plutonium piles at the Hanford Engineer Works as there is between a toy popgun and a battery of the most powerful modern artillery. Essentially they are both latticeworks of graphite and uranium, in which a chain reaction perpetuates itself through the liberation of neutrons by the fission of U.235 in unseparated uranium, and the slowing down of the neutrons in the graphite. But, by comparison, the first is a crude shack alongside the Empire State Building.The actual size and power of the Hanford piles cannot be given. Nevertheless, some relative data may prove illuminating.Before building the piles at Hanford a small, experimental pile was constructed at the Clinton Engineer Works to serve as a pilot plant. As it turned out, the Hanford piles were designed along different engineering lines, but for purposes of comparison the Clinton pile is much closer to the ones at Hanford than to the Chicago prototype.Originally designed to operate at a power of a 1,000 kilowatts, which corresponds to the splitting of less than one milligram of U.235 per day, the Clinton pile reached a power level of 1,800 kilowatts in May 1944. This Clinton pile was thus 9,000 times more powerful than the Chicago pile. Yet it is a mere pygmy alongside any of the Hanford giants.The construction of these mammoth atomic piles required the solution of many problems of a type and a scale never encountered before. The first problem, of course, was to design a practical plant that would produce plutonium in sufficient quantities for atomic bombs.
This end could not be achieved by merely scaling up the Chicago model, as it would have taken five million of these to produce just one kilogram a day. Hence the design had to be of a radically different nature, not merely larger in size.A pile in which large quantities of U.235 are being split generates radiations equivalent to those of tons of radium. Hence the piles had to be surrounded by concrete walls several feet thick.Since these radiations are greater by far than anything ever encountered before, they created one of the greatest health problems ever faced. To meet the challenge, a staff of several hundred of the country's leading radiologists, under the direction of Colonel Warren and Dr. R. S. Stone, was organized to carry out pioneer studies in this unknown field and to devise new methods for the effective protection of all personnel.The greater the power at which the pile is operated, the greater is the energy liberated in the form of heat. This heat is equivalent to that of burning 3,000,000 kilograms of coal per kilogram of U.235 used up in fission, and if not efficiently carried off, it might vaporize the pile and lead to the greatest of catastrophes.The cooling problem was one of the most difficult that faced the designers of the pile. It had at first been decided to use helium as the coolant. For various reasons it was finally decided to use water.This created enormous engineering problems. To carry off the amounts of heat generated in the pile would require the circulation of a quantity of water large enough to supply a fair-sized city. Furthermore, since this water would become hot, it in turn would have to be cooled before it was returned to the Columbia River, as otherwise it might raise the temperature of the river to a point incompatible with fish life.If it was decided that the water could go through the system only once, a huge retention basin would have to be designed so as to allow the radioactivity induced in the water to die down before the water could be returned to the Columbia river.The decision to use water as the coolant also opened up another serious problem. To load and unload the pile, the uranium is shaped in the form of cylinders, which are inserted in channels passing through the graphite.When enough plutonium has accumulated in the cylinders, they are pushed out by remote control into a deep water basin in the rear of the pile, whence they are transferred to the chemical separation plant.Since the heat develops in the uranium, the water would have to circulate in contact with it through the channels in the graphite. The indications were that the uranium would react chemically with the water, probably to the point of disintegrating the uranium cylinders.Hence it became necessary to seal the uranium in a protective can made of a material that had to meet a number of stringent requirements:• it must not absorb too many neutrons;• it had to transmit heat from the uranium to the water;• it had to protect uranium from water corrosion;• it had to withstand the terrific heat;• it had to have a high resistance against the radiations; and• it had to keep fission products out of the water.The failure of a single can might result in putting an entire pile out of operation.The problem of the can proved to be one of the most difficult to solve. Professor Smyth reports that on his periodic visits to Chicago, where the problem was being studied along with the other problems relating to the pile, "he could roughly estimate the state of the canning problem by the atmosphere of gloom or joy he found around the laboratory."Aluminum had been decided on as the material best suited for the purpose, but several very troublesome problems still remained. It proved very difficult to get a uniform, heat-conducting bond between the aluminum and the uranium. Nor was it found possible to effect a gas-tight closure for the can. The final solution did not come until October 1944, after the first Hanford pile had begun operations.Another problem involved the radioactive gases developed as fission products in the pile. High stacks were built to carry them off, but since the behavior of these gases is dependent on the weather, meteorological studies were made over a period of many months to determine whether the stack gases would be likely to spread radioactive fission products in dangerous concentrations.The studies, made at both Clinton and Hanford, led to the working out of specifications for the operation of the stacks.The energy from the piles is heating the Columbia River, but the actual rise in temperature is so small that no effect was to be expected on fish life. A series of elaborate experiments confirmed this expectation.
The Hanford piles are the first atomic power plants built on earth, atomic boilers generating enormous amounts of atomic energy in the form of heat.In these boilers atoms by the trillions are ripped asunder and new elements are constantly being created. Many of these, fission products distinct from plutonium, have great potential value in biology, medicine, and industry.Thus the atomic pile is actually a three-in-one plant:• It creates large quantities of plutonium.• It produces a host of valuable new radioactive elements.• It liberates a vast amount of atomic energy, which today goes to heat the Columbia, but promises more utilitarian applications for tomorrow.To behold these atomic power plants standing in their primeval majesty is one of the most terrifying and awe-inspiring spectacles on earth today.There is not a sign, not the slightest hint, that within these huge man-made blocks titanic cosmic fires are raging such as had never raged on earth in its present form. One stands before them as though beholding the realization of a vision such as Michelangelo might have had of a world yet to be, as indescribable as the Grand Canyon of Arizona, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or the presence "whose dwelling is the light of setting suns."In these Promethean structures, which may well stand as eternal monuments to the spirit of man challenging nature, mighty cosmic forces are at work such as had never been let loose on this planet in the million years of man's existence on its surface, and probably never in the two billion years of the earth's being.Here, for the first time in history, man stands in the presence of the very act of elemental creation of matter. Here in the great silences—for the plants operate in a stillness where even the beating of one's heart can be heard—new elements are being born, a phenomenon that, as far as man knows, has not happened since Genesis.This development no doubt will rank in the future story of mankind as a definite landmark, signalizing a new cultural age, the Age of Atomics, or of Nucleonics, as some scientists prefer to designate it.For this there is no parallel. All the great ages—the Iron Age, the Bronze Age, the ages of steam and electricity, each of which revolutionized conditions of living—arrived imperceptibly, and man did not become aware of them until their effects were fully felt.This marks the first time in the history of man's struggle to bend the forces of nature to his will that he is actually present at the birth of a new era on this planet, with full awareness of its titanic potentialities for good or evil.One is reassured on seeing the most remarkable system of automatic controls, and controls of controls, devised to keep this man-made Titan from breaking his bonds. Left without control for even a few seconds, the giant would run wild.Enormous as the mass is, its mechanisms and controls are adjusted with the fineness of the most delicate jeweled watch, and they respond with the sensitiveness of a fine Stradivarius. The slightest deviation from normal behavior, and the automatic controls go into operation. They can stop the Titan in his tracks almost instantly.


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