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The Latin Arabic (Arabic: العربية اللاتينية, Latin Arabic: L'Ɛarabijjatu l'Látienijjah) is an adaptation of Roman alphabet for transcribing Arabic devised by Mohammad Shakeb Baig. Its orthography preserves Arabic word boundaries.
Apart from these letters, hamza (glottal stop) is transcribed by a diereses above or below vowels as shown below:
The dieresis is omitted if a word starts with [ʔ].
A word has definite article if it is spelled in one of the following ways:
Such words are pronounced by following rules:
The letter <e> is used in native Arabic words for these purposes:
The rules of capitalization of English language are followed. Words with inherent definite article are capitalized as follows:
In this table, Latin Arabic letters and their pronunciations are given. Pronunciations in first line are that of Classical Arabic. Second line shows all the alternative pronunciations of these letters found in local dialects of Arabic.
These rules are governed by the letter which follows <n>. If it is last letter of a word then first letter of next word is used.
وَمِنْ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ خَلْقُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱخْتِلَـٰفُ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَأَلْوَٰنِكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَـٰتٍ لِّلْعَـٰلِمِينَ ﴿٢٢﴾
And among His Signs
Is the creation of the heavens
And the earth, and the variations
In your languages
And your colours: verily
In that are Signs
For those who know.
يولد جميع الناس أحراراً متساوين في الكرامة و الحقوق. و قد وهبوا عقلاً و ضميراً و عليهم ان يعامل بعضهم بعضاً بروح الإخاء.
المادة الأولانية البني أدمين كلهم مولودين حرين ومتساويين في الكرامة والحقوق. إتوهبلهم العقل والضمير، والمفروض يعاملوا بعض بروح الأخوية.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with
reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Also by Mohammad Shakeb Baig
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In an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw that will air Thursday, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo says the voice of Manti Te'o's "girlfriend," Lennay Kekua, was his and that the star Notre Dame linebacker had no role in the hoax.
The first of McGraw's two-part interview with Tuiasosopo will air Thursday on the "Dr. Phil" show. McGraw appeared Wednesday morning on NBC's "Today" show, which aired two clips of the Tuiasosopo interview.
"There were many times when Manti and Lennay have broken up," Tuiasosopo said, "but something would bring them back together, whether it was something going on in his life or Lennay's life or in this case my life."
McGraw said Tuiasosopo told him he fell deeply in love with Te'o and that for Tuiasosopo it was a romantic relationship.
"Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love," McGraw told NBC. "I asked him straight up, 'Was this a romantic relationship with you?' And he says yes. I said, 'Are you then therefore gay?' And he said, 'When you put it that way, yes.' And then he caught himself and said 'I am confused.' "
McGraw told NBC that Te'o "absolutely, unequivocally" wasn't involved in the hoax.
One theory for the hoax is that Te'o was trying to cover up a homosexual relationship. In her TV interview with Te'o last week, Katie Couric asked him if he was gay.
"No, far from it," he said. "Faaaaarrrr from it."
Tuiasosopo told McGraw that as Te'o became more famous he knew that the online hoax he started more than two years ago was going to blow up.
Tuiasosopo said: "I wanted to end it because after everything I had gone through I finally realized that I just had to move on with my life and had to get ... you know, my real me, Ronaiah ... I just had to start living and let this go."
McGraw said he spent time with Tuiasosopo and his parents.
"Ronaiah had a number of life experiences that damaged this young man in some very serious ways," he said.
Last week, relatives of Tuiasosopo's female cousin, Tino Tuiasosopo, told the New York Post that they were certain it was her voice on at least one of the taped phone conversations. And after Te'o told Couric he believed the voice of Kekua was that of a woman, ABC's "Good Morning America" sent the tapes to four audio experts, who all agreed it was a woman.
As Notre Dame rose to No. 1 in the AP Top 25, sportswriters nationwide recounted the story of the heroic, grieving athlete who persevered on the field after his "girlfriend" was diagnosed with leukemia and died. Te'o and his family provided them with plenty of stories about the relationship, and no one figured out that it was fiction until Deadspin.com broke the story earlier this month.
Te'o, in his interview with Couric, reiterated that he lied about his online girlfriend after the Dec. 6 phone call indicated that she might be alive, while maintaining that he had no part in creating the hoax.
The interview, which aired on Couric's syndicated television show, put Te'o and his parents in front of television cameras for the first time since the incident.
Te'o told a story similar to the one he told in a previous off-camera interview with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap -- namely, that he believed Kekua had died of cancer in September, but he was confused by the Dec. 6 phone call in which she claimed to be alive.
Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, Te'o said that he believed Kekua had died of cancer and that he didn't conceal the truth that she didn't exist until December.
"Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12," Te'o said. The Heisman Trophy runner-up said he only learned of the hoax when he received the phone call in December from a woman saying she was Kekua.
"Now I get a phone call on Dec. 6, saying that she's alive, and then I'm going be put on national TV two days later. And to ask me about the same question. You know, what would you do?" Te'o said.
The woman whose photo was used as the "face" of the Twitter account of Te'o's supposed girlfriend said last week that Tuiasosopo confessed and apologized to her. Diane O'Meara told the "Today" show that Tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge in creating Kekua.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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An aviation first occurs just off Laguna's coast
By Christopher J. Lynch | Special to the Independent
Photos courtesy of the Boeing Historical Society
George Franklin Smith never knew he would be flying into aviation's history book that fateful day of Feb. 26, 1955. The Manhattan Beach resident and North American Aviation test pilot wasn't even scheduled to work that Saturday. Called in to complete some overdue paperwork, he was asked before heading home for the day if he would perform the final checkout flight of a new F-100 Super Sabre jet so it could be delivered to the Air Force.
Never one to turn down an opportunity to fly, the 31-year-old Smith readily agreed and before long was barreling out of Los Angeles International Airport and into the gray winter sky.
His flight would take him along the Southern California coast to San Diego before circling back and
returning to Los Angeles. Part of the flight profile was to take the aircraft through the sound barrier.
He was at about 35,000 feet off the coast of Laguna Beach when he crossed the threshold of supersonic flight. It was at this point that things went very wrong.
The plane pitched nose down toward the Pacific Ocean at supersonic speed. Smith fought the controls relentlessly to re-level the plane, but it was a fruitless endeavor; he was heading straight down at over 777 mph!
With no options left and with only six seconds to impact, he did the unthinkable; he blew his canopy and ejected. No pilot in history had ever ejected at this speed and lived to tell about it!
The stresses effected on his body were like none any man had ever endured. He decelerated with a force that subjected his body to over 40Gs. His eyeballs nearly came out of his head, blood poured from his ears. His clothes, shoes and helmet were torn from his body. Once clear of the ejection seat, his body pin-wheeled and centrifuged so violently that his gloves, his wristwatch… even his ring were flung off!
He was rescued by a couple of men from Newport Beach who had been in the area fishing and ended up in Hoag Memorial Hospital where he lay unconscious for five days. When he finally came to, it wasn't to the sound of doctors asking him questions or nurses checking his vitals; it was to the comforting words of the children of Aliso Elementary School in South Laguna.
When his airplane hit the water, it created a sonic boom which had rattled the windows of the school. A fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Pearl Phillipson, read of the pilot's accident in the paper and assigned her class an assignment to write letters to him to be sent to the hospital. The children loved the assignment and over 30 letters found their way to Smith's bedside where they were being read to him when he came to.
"I woke up on Thursday March 3," he recalls, "to the sound of someone reading a bunch of children's letters to me. I opened my eyes but I couldn't see. I didn't know where, what, why or anything for awhile, but the sound of those letters was pretty comforting as I began to realize what they were about."
George Smith left the hospital three months later and continued to live a full life, eventually becoming a project manager for an aerospace firm. His accident resulted in the development of better ejection seats, helmets, and of the self-inflating life vest. He also contributed to the safety of future pilots in less tangible ways. He proved that a pilot could experience a supersonic bailout and live to tell about it. Because of this, pilots could now eject with more confidence and not try to pull it out and "auger in."
George Smith died of natural causes at the age of 75 on May 1, 1999, in Orange County.
Christopher J. Lynch is a writer and mountaineer living in Los Angeles. He recently led a group of blind hikers to the summit of 10,000 ft. Mt. Baldy. A documentary film is being made of the adventure. www.baldyfortheblind.com


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This product contains 4045 kilocalories/kilogram or 364 kilocalories per cup ME (metabolizable energy) on an as fed basis (calculated).
Chicken, rice, brown rice, corn gluten meal, chicken meal, oatmeal, chicken fat, natural chicken flavor, anchovy oil (source of DHA), dried beet pulp (sugar removed), dried brewers yeast, dried egg product, soya oil, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, sodium silico aluminate, sodium tripolyphosphate, salt, fructo-oligosaccharides, choline chloride, taurine*, Vitamins [DL-alpha tocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C*), biotin, D-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin A acetate, niacin, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2) supplement, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement], glucosamine hydrochloride*, L-lysine, Trace Minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], tea (green tea extract), chondroitin sulfate*, marigold extract (Calendula officinalis L.), preserved with mixed tocopherols (source of Vitamin E) and citric acid, rosemary extract.
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Crude Protein Minimum 26.0%
Crude Fat Minimum 17.0%
Crude Fiber Maximum 1.2%
Moisture Maximum 9.0%
Glucosamine Hydrochloride* Minimum 780 mg/kg
Chondroitin Sulfate* Minimum 220 mg/kg
Vitamin E Minimum 500 IU/kg
Vitamin C Minimum 200 IU/kg
Lutein Minimum 5.0 mg/kg
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profile
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Canine Health Nutrition MAXI Aging Care 26 Formula for Large Breed Mature Dogs over 5 years of age is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for maintenance
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First and fifth ingredients are named meat products
Inadequate meat content, low quality grains, controversial filler
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product but is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once that is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. Ingredients are listed in order of weight, and the dehydrated ingredient would probably be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. It is highly unlikely that this ingredient makes any significant contribution to the overall meat content of the food. The true first meat ingredient is a meat meal, 5th on the ingredient list. This is far too low to give us any confidence in the meat content of the food.
The main grains and primary ingredients in the food are rice, corn and oatmeal. Rice and oatmeal are decent quality grains, but corn is another low quality ingredient. It is a difficult to digest grain that is commonly associated with allergy problems. Corn Gluten Meal is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the corn leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed.
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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You've seen enough movies to know how it happens. In the first throes of a zombie apocalypse, you find a safe place to hole up — an abandoned farmhouse or your local pub — and wait it out as long as you can. But sooner or later you begin to run low on canned peaches and tuna, the integrity of your fortress is compromised by a persistent army of walking dead, and you discover via blotchy radio signals that there's a government safe haven 40 miles up the highway. It's time to move on.
In Hollywood, no one ever seems to be prepared for this inevitable trek, but with a little advance planning … you can be.
Zombie apocalypse survival guide
To help you prepare for a zombie apocalypse, we did a little digging and put together the following list of survival essentials.
- A zombie-proof car. Most people think big when they think of attempting to survive an attack of hungry flesh-eating undead. But based on our in-depth research, which proves that most vehicles are vulnerable once spotted, we'd suggest an electric or hybrid car.
It sounds a little crazy, but think about it. Electric cars are quieter than other cars, which could allow you to sneak out of town unnoticed. Additionally, if you have an electric or hybrid vehicle, you'll have to stop for gas less often (or never), meaning fewer potentially fatal run-ins with the brain eaters. (Just make sure your battery's fully charged before the end of the world happens.)
- Water. Enough said. Water is essential for surviving any disaster, and the zombie apocalypse is no exception. Keep a few extra gallons in the trunk.
- Car fresheners. As you well know, zombies can smell your flesh. To avoid being sniffed out and eventually eaten, you might try keeping extra car fresheners in your glove box. A scent like cinnamon apple or pine forest could help you avoid detection (and also work as deodorant for you and your smelly companions).
- A toolbox. More often than not, it seems survival hinges on something as minute as a ¾-inch crescent wrench. Even if you're not mechanically inclined, be prepared for anything by keeping a well-stocked toolbox in your car. Your tools could also make you more valuable to other survivors, thereby helping you to create the friendships you'll need to brave the post-apocalyptic world.
- Blankets. Relative safety might be 40 or 400 miles away. Winter, on the other hand, is always just around the corner. Make sure you're prepared for cold weather by stocking blankets or sleeping bags in your car. In the event that there is no government safe haven, you could always head north for cooler climes. While snow requires survival skills of its own, it also has the benefit of being able to slow the zombies down and could also make them easier to spot.
- Food. With delicious people roaming all over the place, zombies have it easy. For the rest of us, food can become scarce during an emergency. Your zombie survival kit should most certainly include nonperishable food items like trail mix and canned goods.
- A baseball bat. Our best advice for surviving a zombie apocalypse is to avoid zombies at all costs, but as you know, this isn't always possible. If you should find yourself within arm's length of your undead foe, you'll be wise to have some sort of weapon at the ready. While popular opinion varies widely regarding which weapon works best for slaying zombies, for practical purposes, we recommend simply keeping a bat in the trunk. (If you're an English guy named Shaun, a cricket bat will also do.) And remember, aim for the head.
Not surprisingly, most everything on our list would also be helpful to have in case of any major emergency. So even if (by chance) the zombie apocalypse doesn't happen, you'll still be in good shape for the run-of-the mill earthquake or boring ol' tornado. By being prepared and keeping a well-stocked vehicle, you can be ready for whatever comes your way — undead or not.
Happy Halloween, everyone, and please remember to drive safe.
Related links
The Guardian: How to survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Amazon.com: The Zombie Survival Guide


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In the great marble space pierced by sunlight, a couple was dancing arm-in-arm to their own, silent music over Memorial Day weekend.
And near them, three men quietly swayed, jiggled and jumped.
Then the cops came. Slam! Bam! Crunch! And all five dancers were in cuffs, as shocked tourists visiting the Thomas Jefferson Memorial watched the scuffle.
This sounds awful. And if you watch the YouTube video of the dancers being arrested at the Jefferson Memorial on Saturday, it looks a lot like a bad remake of "Footloose."
"Why can't I dance with my girlfriend?" one of the arrested men kept asking police officers, who tore him away from the arms of a woman in pink and slammed some of the dancers down on the marble floor, then swept all of the tourists and their many running video cameras outside.
"The memorial is closed," a U.S. Park Police officer told onlookers who were there to visit the tribute to Jefferson and perhaps read the inscription on the northeast wall: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than these people are to be free."
Except free to dance, right?
The truth is, the whole thing was a performance.
The dancers? They weren't innocent tourists moved to sway by the majesty of Jefferson. They were professional protesters — Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin and Iraq war veteran Adam Kokesh among the group — who were making a point about freedom and liberty in an event they promoted on Facebook.
They boogied with Jefferson to challenge this month's U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that dancing at memorials is forbidden "because it stands out as a type of performance, creating its own center of attention and distracting from the atmosphere of solemn commemoration," according to the panel's ruling.
This all began in 2008, when 18 flash mobbers danced quietly inside the memorial to commemorate Jefferson's 265th birthday. The police asked them to leave and when they didn't, they were cuffed.
One of the dancers, Mary Brooke Oberwetter, sued the Park Police on a First Amendment plea but lost. She appealed and lost again, thus the May 17 ruling that led to Saturday's dance party.
The five dancers were each arrested, charged with demonstrating without a permit and released, said Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser. Dancing is considered an expressive activity under the regulations that the park police follow, he said.
The Park Police are also investigating the protesters' allegations that the arrests were unnecessarily rough and improper, Schlosser said.
The police? They looked ludicrous arresting five people quietly swaying on a Saturday afternoon. And even though they were responding to the court ruling, it's easy to see that five people weren't causing any great disruption or chaos. And court records seem to show that the 18 who danced near midnight three years ago were equally harmless.
If the police always adhered to the law, my kids would've been locked up when we were there in April, because their Battle of the Bionicles reenactment contained at least seven federal violations.
This is ugly all over. It's ugly because the freedoms central to our nation's success can be so widely interpreted without any nod to reason.
I was reminded of this Monday morning, as we hauled the boys out to Arlington Cemetery to pay homage to the men and women who lost their lives defending our freedoms, only to see the hideous display by members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who were there in a small group, waving their Supreme Court-protected signs of anti-gay hatred on yet another solemn and somber day.
It's a painful and powerful reminder of how important sticking to a principle can be, no matter how distasteful the result.
Civil disobedience is a righteous tool when it comes to lunch-counter protests and bus boycotts.
The right to dance? A little goofy, I know. Somehow, I don't believe there are thousands of groovers feeling oppressed by their inability to legally dance inside a memorial.
But let's be reasonable. The only thing harmful about their dancing was that it just wasn't all that good.
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It's a sad thing.
Michelle Kaufmann, the princess of building green, über-contemporary, modular homes is in Fiji, struggling with a slow Internet connection and losing her Wi-Fi access because it's starting to rain. Then she apologies before signing off with an "xo".
Kaufmann ends every email with xo. Is it some code? Or is the girl who was born in Iowa, excelled at Princeton, was once a colleague of architect Frank Gehry and then set the architectural world buzzing in 2003 with a simple, very smart home on a narrow lot in California an old-fashioned romantic?
I am going with steely romantic for Kaufmann, who was on the island looking for sunshine and relaxation with her cabinet- and furniture-maker husband, Kevin Cullen.
It turns out Cullen grew up in Ottawa and his family also has a tradition of building their own homes.
Three years after the collapse of the U.S. housing market buried her modular home business and after she sold her iconic designs to Blu Homes in California, Kaufmann (michellekaufmann.com) is flourishing. She has become a thoughtful voice on the need for green, affordable housing, sounding a call for a massive makeover of the housing industry.
"I am focused on the future of architecture and home designs," she says in an email. "I am working on individual homes for forward-thinking clients who want to push the boundaries for what a home can be."
Kaufmann is also working with the Cradle to Cradle Institute in California to bring architect William McDonough's ideas about materials and buildings accessible to everyone.
"Although a huge task, I seriously couldn't imagine a dreamier job," she says.
Kaufmann's philosophy and journey to accessible, healthy, modern design is laid out in a personal memoir, Prefab Green, a book she wrote with Catherine Remick in 2009.
Prefab Green starts with growing up in Iowa, navigating dirty and congested streets in New York and finding it difficult to breath in smoggy Los Angeles. The young Princeton graduate and her builder husband were living in a mouldy apartment and desperately wanted to buy a house. But not any house. It had to be clean, uncluttered, with low energy bills and an affordable price tag.
When they couldn't find anything, they bought a lot and she designed the first of her famous MK homes, the Glidehouse.
"We designed the house based not just on how it would look, but also on how it would feel," Kaufmann writes in the book's introduction. "By installing photovoltaic (PV) solar panels, the home would have a zero electric bill. We carefully planned the home to use less water, energy and materials.
"We designed the home with a series of sliding glass doors, sliding wood panels and sliding wood sunshades. We not only loved our new home, but it met every single goal we started out with," Kaufmann writes.
Money was tight, so the two built their three-bedroom home on weekends, using structural insulated panels (SIPS) and a lot of sweat. Friends were impressed and asked them to build a similar home, launching Kaufmann into business.
She found a prefab factory willing to give her a chance. Instead of taking 14 months to build a Glidehouse on site, the factory turned out an identical Glidehouse in four months and for 15 per cent less. Sales boomed, the media came calling and Kaufmann turned out a series of designs that captured the imagination.
A full-sized replica of their house was built in the National Building Museum, for the Vancouver Home Show, at the Smithsonian and was featured in hundreds of articles in the New York Times, Sunset Magazine, Dwell magazine and television shows.
The Glidehouse was a star.
"It struck a chord with others who were in a similar place as Kevin and I, people who wanted a healthy, sustainable home that they could afford," she says. "It is still home. We have so much emotional connection to it. We designed it together and Kevin built it. Nope, I don`t think, we will ever leave it."
Best of all, the Kaufmann philosophy of green design easily translates to Canada.
She has designed homes in Vancouver and built in the snow belts of Aspen and Lake Tahoe.
"In those homes we used glass strategically, increased insulation, sloped roofs and used high windows for views up to the sky that sculpted in light to the centre of the room, maximizing daylight on those shorter winter days," she says. "Cosy radiant heating, icynene (spray foam) insulation and high performance glazing systems all come into play."
She is happy to see Canadian companies, including Nexterra, Karoleena and Bonneville, getting into the space of making green homes more affordable and easier for people to have.
Modular construction and other prefabrication techniques can be a great means to an end, especially given the reality of harsh winters and the Canadian construction timetable.
"If you can use technology to help build indoors all year, then you can increase quality control, improve working conditions, reduce waste, time frames and control costs."
From sunny California to colder Canada, there is a demand for more affordable green homes, she says.
"It`s no longer a question of if people want green homes — they do — they want lower energy and lower water bills. They want healthy homes for their families. But it can't cost more than a non-green home and it can't take any more time to build and it has to be easy."
Kaufmann is now mentoring young architects to focus on these challenges.


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Flesh-eating bacteria attacks Chauvin woman
9 people diagnosed with disease in 2013
A potentially fatal disease that can be found in something as simple as saltwater has been popping up in a number of parishes in Louisiana.
The disease comes from something that's been dubbed a flesh-eating bacteria.
So far in 2013, nine people have been diagnosed with the bacteria. There were 12 cases in 2012. At least two of those confirmed cases are in Terrebonne Parish.
Lois Domangue, of Chauvin, is grateful to be home and alive after spending two weeks in a hospital because she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria known as vibrio vulnificus. She said it came from cleaning crabs.
"A crab just took hold of my little finger here, and I went to bed later on that night, and it had become very infected," Domangue said.
Domangue said she went to a hospital the next morning in excruciating pain.
"The top part of my hand got so huge that it felt like it was so tight that it was going to blow up," Domangue said.
Doctors cut her arm open on both sides to relieve the pressure, and Domangue had four surgeries to remove the infected skin.
Domangue has been home for several days and has to change a bandage over the sutured wound daily.
It's a life-threatening infection from something she has done her entire life.
"I've worked in shrimp factories, crab factories. We've opened oysters shells, cleaned fish. I do everything and have never been affected by this before," Domangue said.
Dr. Mary Eschete, an infectious disease specialist at Terrebone General Medical Center, recalled seeing at least six cases in the past two months.
"It just happens to be this year. We don't know why we're just seeing more this year," Eschete said.
The bacteria is commonly found in warm, brackish or salty water in the region.
Children, the elderly and those with a weakened immune system are more likely to contract an infection.
Domangue said doctors believe she was susceptible to the infection because her immune system had been compromised from steroids she had been taking a month earlier.
"You get this minor injury, and within hours you develop this (large) red, black lesion on your arm," Eschete described.
Domangue knows the symptoms all too well and is grateful to have survived the ordeal.
"I almost did die, but the Lord has other things for me to do," Domangue said with a smile.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said as many as 25 percent of people who get the infection die from it.
Anyone who believes they've contracted it should clean the area with soap and clean water and go to a hospital as soon as possible, doctors said.


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Jesse Head
IMDb: 6.2
70 min
All Duncan wants is to be a normal kid in a normal school. Until he realizes he is something very far away from normal.
Country: USA
Actor: Tia Texada, Jesse Head, Dante Basco, Amy Davidson, Dana Delany, Grey DeLisle, Reed Diamond, Billy Evans, Josh Keaton, Jameson Moss, Kevin Michael Richardson, Nicole Sullivan, Tom Tartamella, Gary Anthony Williams
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Based on the much-anticipated EA videogame Dead Space 2, Dead Space: Aftermath is a fast-pased, horrifying thrill ride that follows the surviving ship crew members ...
Country: USA
Actor: Christopher Judge, Ricardo Chavira, Gwendoline Yeo, Curt Cornelius, Graham McTavish, Peter Woodward, Kari Wahlgren, Yorgo Constantine, Christine Lakin, Jesse Head, Sunil Malhotra, H. Richard Greene, Maggie Disa, Charlotte Cornwell, Erin Fitzgerald


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News, reviews and photographs of Modern Fashion Dolls including Kingdom Doll, Fashion Royalty, Sybarite, Tonner Doll, Gene Marshall, Barbie and my own experiences as a doll collector.
The New Veronique Dolls aka Fauxnique
What do you all think of this new sculpt?
I think it's a lovely-looking doll but it's not Veronique. The next issue of this gal will have applied eyelashes. I think they were testing the waters by not putting lashes on her. My favorite of the two is the raven-haired one. I like the color of her lips and her blue eyes.
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- Anonymous3/12/11, 9:26 PM
Remembering that Vero didn't have applied eyelashes for quite a long time.. I like the painted ones on this doll OK. There's quite a lot of shadow there. Less shadow and applied lashes might have been prettier.ReplyDelete
As for the face, I miss the almost smile.. I am glad to see slightly larger eyes than some of the more recent Veros had. I'm getting both blonde and raven dolls.. have no clue which one, if either, will be the preferred version.
All in all, I can live with New Veronique a LOT easier than FAUXNESSA!! We were prepared for a new Veronique and she was missing for an objectionable length of time.
Just. no. words. for the loss of the two original beauties though. They messed with the best of their entire foundation line.
- ayukislove3/13/11, 12:26 AM
i like themReplyDelete
she look like maybe a cousin of Vanessa and Veronique
did you see this post Terri
it a picture from Dante
of Veronique and Vanessa
they new Veronique look more like there a long lost sister of the Perrin 's
- Anonymous3/13/11, 1:27 AM
This version looks old and hard. The blonde one looks like a alcoholic and raven one looks bitter.ReplyDelete
I think they look great. I havn't bought an FR doll since the ModPomps, but the raven-haired girl is speaking to me :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/13/11, 2:11 PM
I think they are pretty, and I love the lingerie. They need lashes, however, and the really dark eyebrows might have been pained in a less heavy-handed manner.ReplyDelete
If I HAD to make a suggestion for improvement, I feel that they lack a distinctive facial expression. Aggie has the pout, Monos look haughty, etc. These dolls have a very generic look. Still not bad overall, though.
- Anonymous3/13/11, 6:31 PM
Well, I AM a bitter, old alcoholic, and I do not look nearly as good as these gals! *hehe*ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/14/11, 1:49 PM
I love her new sculpt; I even prefer this one over the original...ReplyDelete
Christie H.
I like the blond one VERY much, and I was fortunate enough to get to buy her... I don't like the noir as much, neither the 2011 Breaking the Mold one version... maybe when I start seeing actual photos of them. But for now, this Blond totally rocks!!ReplyDelete


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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
Each year, EContent magazine compiles a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Voting is now closed. We'll announce the results of the first-ever EContent 100 list chosen by the people!
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Consider for a moment how many visual cues you rely on when accessing a Web site. Without even thinking, your eyes quickly scan navigation menus, examine main headings, spy the search box, and skim over other links. Your hand automatically reaches for the mouse to move to different elements. Now consider the same site visit if you were blind. Think about how difficult it would be if you had to use your keyboard to navigate instead of your mouse, and you had to rely on a screen reader, a program designed to help the blind navigate Web sites by reading each individual link and heading to you, one step at a time, based on each keyboard command.
It would be, as one Web accessibility expert put it, like looking at a Web site through a soda straw, only able to process one small part of the site at a time without the contextual clues most of us take for granted. It would take patience and training, to be sure. Yet the most important aspect would be that the company took your needs into consideration when conceiving the site so that the software could do its job and help you find your way around.
Unfortunately, until recently, not enough companies took Web accessibility into account when designing Web sites, but that is changing, partly due to awareness and partly due to regulation. Section 508, a law requiring federal agencies in the United States to make electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities, compels organizations to comply with the standard for content accessibility outlined in the statute if they want to do business with the federal government. Other laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act and guidelines like the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative are also prompting companies to take a closer look at making Web sites accessible.
Defining AccessibilityWhen you make a Web site accessible, you are designing it so that people who use assistive technology like screen reader software or magnifiers (as a couple of examples) can access, navigate, and use the site. Jared Smith, a consultant with WebAIM, an organization based at Utah State University Center for People with Disabilities, says there are some basic tenets related to how you design the Web site and write the HTML code that underlies your design to make it accessible to assistive technology like screen reader software. Smith offers some examples (this is not a comprehensive list) of design elements you have to think about when designing an accessible Web site.
The biggest design problem, according to Smith, is related to non-text elements like graphics. In order to identify these elements to a screen reader, your site must provide ALT text, language that is associated with non-text elements that provides contextual meaning in cases in which users cannot see the graphic, in a manner similar to a tool tip in an application. "The biggest issues I see on the Web are related to individuals who are blind, whose technologies cannot understand non-text information. Screen readers can only catch text. If it's not text, you need to provide alternative text," he says.
Even when designers remember to add the ALT text, he says, they sometimes include way too much information or too little. Smith points out that validation tools check to see if the ALT text is there, but they don't evaluate the quality of the text that's written and it's not always easy to know how much is enough. "That's why it's something we struggle with. How much or how little is appropriate? It's just a judgment call and there are no standards or guidelines" for this particular aspect, Smith says.
Another big issue is what Smith calls usability. For example, he says, "A lot of Web pages seem to be usable, but to many individuals they may not be. For instance, if the page is enlarged using magnifying software, navigation may become unusable." He says that using semantically correct HTML is important, as are clearly marked headings. This helps screen readers, which follow the headings in the underlying HTML, to help the visitor understand the site's contents.
Debra Rhu, president of accessibility consulting firm TecAccess, says it's important to work with companies to help them get to a goal of total compliance with maximum accessibility without being overly critical of what they have failed to do. When Section 508 was updated, she says, "there were a lot of bad cops [criticizing Web design], and it was frustrating for companies who felt no matter what they were doing, it was never good enough. Nobody said what it meant to be right." Companies like TecAccess (and WebAIM and others) got into the business to help companies find their way through the laws and regulations.


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DHP students ok after Honduran earthquake
For updates, check: http://www.groups.drew.edu/honduras/
On May 28 at 2.25 am local time an earthquake of 7.3 magnitude occurred off the northern coast of Honduras, about 80 miles from La Ceiba, where Drew students were staying as they volunteered at Helping Honduras Kids (HHK) in nearby Agua Caliente. A second quake measuring 4.6 followed 42 minutes later (see http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009heak.php). The quakes occurred about 6 miles below the ocean floor along a faultline to the north of Honduras. A tsunami watch was announced, but it was cancelled a few hours later. There have been several aftershocks along the faultlines to the north and to the south of Honduras, and one inland near La Ceiba, all in the 4.3-4.6 range, but there has been remarkably little damage or injury and the students reported no visible damage in La Ceiba or Agua Caliente. We continue to monitor the situation, but there have been no aftershocks since shortly after midnight on Saturday, May 30th.
On Saturday morning the group moved to a second children's home an hour north of Tegucigalpa as planned. They arrived safely and will remain there until June 5th, when they will return to San Pedro Sula, departing for the US on Saturday June 6th.
Thanks to everyone who expressed concern.
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Honoring 25 Years of the Three-Point Shot in the SECPosted by EMoyer on January 26th, 2012
Over the past few days, ESPN has taken to looking back at the 25-year history of three-point shot, so it seemed only appropriate to give our own rankings of some of the best shooters from distance the SEC has seen since the introduction of the shot in 1986. So in alphabetical order, here is one man's list.
- Barry Booker, Vanderbilt, 1986-89 (246 3FG, 46.0%). Booker arrived in Nashville the same year the three-point shot arrived in college basketball. All he did was establish the conference record for three-point proficiency (minimum 300 attempts) and helped start the Commodores' streak of three-point field goals. Vandy has made a trey in all 816 games they've played since 1986-87, joining UNLV and Princeton as the only three schools to make at least one in every game the arc has existed.
- Pat Bradley, Arkansas, 1996-99 (366 3FG, 40.0%): Bradley arrived on the scene the year after Scotty Thurman departed. Bradley shattered Thurman's records for makes and attempts and set the SEC record for consecutive games with one three with 60 straight, 13 better than the previous record.
- Travis Ford, Kentucky, 1991-94 (190 3FG, 44.5%): Paired with Jamal Mashburn, the Missouri transfer helped the Wildcats return to the Final Four in 1993. He established the SEC's single-season three-point percentage mark that season shooting an incredible 52.9% from the arc (101-for-191).
- Shan Foster, Vanderbilt, 2005-08 (367 3FG, 42.1%): While Chris Lofton shined as the league's pre-eminent three-point marksman, within the same state, Foster more than held his own. Entering his senior year as a 39.7% shooter, Foster made an SEC single-season record 134 threes in 2008 en route to earning SEC Player of the Year.


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U.S. Men's Update: Winning in France
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U.S. opposite Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.), libero Alfee Reft (Oxnard, Calif.) and Montpellier defeated Beauvais, 25-20, 25-22, 19-25, 26-24 on Feb. 22. Complete statistics are not available.
Cannes, the French league team of U.S. outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) and middle blocker Matt Rawson (Los Angeles), defeated Toulouse, including U.S. opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) and middle blocker Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.), 25-22, 25-20, 29-27 on Feb. 23. Rawson scored eight points on six attacks (60.0 kill percent, .600 hitting efficiency) and two blocks. Tarr did not play in the match due to an injury. Patak scored 11 points on 10 attacks and one block. Hein added five points on four kills and one block.
U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and the French league team Tours continue to lead the league after a 25-21, 25-17, 25-22 victory over Paris on Feb. 23. Smith scored four points on two attacks and two blocks.
In France's B league, AS Orange Nassau, including U.S. libero Dustin Watten (Long Beach, Calif.) and outside hitters Damien Scott (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Eric Vance (Camarillo, Calif.) defeated Harnes, 25-23, 25-20, 25-22 on Feb. 22. Vance scored 16 points on 15 kills and one block. He was credited with eight receptions, 88 percent positive. Scott added seven points on six attacks and one ace. He was credited with 35 receptions, 83 percent positive. Watten was credited with 13 receptions, 85 percent positive.
Poland's Plus Liga is now in the playoffs and both teams with U.S. players are trying to get through the first round.
U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and Jastrzębski Węgiel are now tied 2-2 with Effector Kielce after losing two matches in Kielce. On Feb. 24, Węgiel fell to Kielce, 25-23, 13-25, 23-25, 25-21, 15-12. Holmes scored five points on three attacks, one block and one ace. On Feb. 25, Kielce beat Węgiel, 25-22, 25-21, 25-18. Holmes started the first two sets and did not score. The two teams will play the fifth and deciding match on March 2 in Węgiel.
U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and his Polish league team Asseco Resovia Rzeszów are also tied 2-2 in the first round of the playoffs after losing two straight matches to PGE Skra Bełchatów in Bełchatów. On Feb. 24, Bełchatów defeated Resovia Rzeszów, 21-25, 23-25, 25-16, 25-20, 15-13. Lotman scored six points on four kills and two blocks. He was credited with 29 receptions, 45 percent positive. To view photos from the match, click here. On Feb. 25, Bełchatów beat Resovia Rzeszów, 25-17, 25-27, 25-23, 25-21. Lotman scored three points on three attacks and was credited with 25 receptions, 36 percent positive. The two teams will play the fifth and deciding match on March 2 in Resovia Rzeszów.
U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), a 2004, '08 and '12 Olympian, and Halkbank Ankara defeated Gümüşhane Torul Gençlik, 25-16, 25-18, 25-19 on Feb. 20.
U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.), a 2004 Olympian, and Istanbul BBSK defeated Yenisehir Belediye Spor, 25-15, 22-25, 25-21, 25-14 on Feb. 23. Billings led all scorers with 17 points on 15 attacks (57.7 kill percent, .500 hitting efficiency) and two blocks.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania), a 2004 and '12 Olympian, and his Argentina league team Drean Bolívar defeated Olimpo de Bahia Blanca, 25-22, 25-17, 25-21 on Feb. 23. Suxho scored four points on four attacks. He set the team to a 60.2 kill percent and a .578 hitting efficiency.
U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), a 2012 Olympian, played for the winning team in the All-Star match on Feb. 23, which had Russian opposite Maxim Mikhaylov as its captain. Anderson scored 10 points in the match as Mikhaylov's team defeated that of Russia's Sergey Tetyukhin, 25-23, 25-21, 17-25, 25-20. To view photos from the preliminary competitions, click here. To view photos from the All-Star match, click here.
U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and his Italian league team Copra Elior Piacenza went 1-1 over the past week. On Feb. 20, Piacenza defeated U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) and Andreoli Latina, 25-19, 25-16, 25-21. Holt scored 11 points on five attacks (83.3 kill percent, .833 hitting efficiency), two blocks and four aces. Troy played as a substitute and scored six points on six attacks (75.0 kill percent, .750 hitting efficiency). On Feb. 24, Piacenza fell to Itas Diatec Trentino, 17-25, 25-18, 25-19, 19-25, 15-12. Holt scored four points on three attacks and one block.
On Feb. 23, Latina fell to BCC-NEP Castellana Grotte, 30-28, 28-26, 25-22. Troy played as a substitute and scored six points on five attacks (71.4 kill percent, .714 hitting efficiency) and one block. U.S. outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) is on the roster for Castellana Grotte but did not play in the match.
In Italy's Serie A2 league, U.S. outside hitter Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.) and Sieco Service Ortona fell to Gherardi SVI Città di Castello, 25-27, 25-14, 27-25, 25-17 on Feb. 24. Muagututia finished with 19 points on 16 kills, two blocks and one ace.
In the Champions League semifinal, Matt Anderson along with U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.), a 2008 and 2012 Olympian, will play fellow Russian Super League team Lokomotiv Novosibirsk in the semifinals, which will be played on March 16 in Omsk, Russia. Italy's Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo will play Poland's Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle in the other semifinal.
Matches can be viewed live and on demand at laola1.tv.
Reid Priddy and Halkbank Ankara will face Murphy Troy and Italy's Andreoli Latina in the final of the CEV Cup. The teams will play on Feb. 27 in Italy and on March 3 in Turkey.
Matches can be viewed live and on demand at laola1.tv.
Max Holt and Copra Elior Piacenza of Italy will play Dukla Liberec of Czech Republic in the semifinals of the CEV Challenge Cup. The first match will be in Italy on Feb. 27. The second match will be in Czech Republic on March 2. Russia's Ural Ufa will play Poland's Delecta Bydgoszcz in the other semifinal.
Relive the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team's 2012 season with the 2012 Yearbook. There are lots of full-color illustrations, results, statistics and biographies. To view the book, click here.


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Kenways necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 252 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
Kenway and Clark
Kenway and Clark is a three partner business with three branches that has been in business for over 50 years. We sell farm machinery and trucks, have a large productive workshop and sell every spare part you can think of.
We have a well established client base of farmers in the local area and surrounding. We target the farmers and their families as well as companies in our area and elsewhere.
Please be creative.
We would like the logo based around our company without limiting us to one area. We wish the logo to be simple, corporate and easy to understand.
The current colours would need to remain the same. Red, black, grey and white. We would like the 'and' to be written in full. Please also note that we are an Australian company and things like barns do not correctly reflect us.
We would prefer no cartoon images. Please note Kenway and Clark is a Case IH and Isuzu retailer and using John Deere, etc would not be appropriate.
We would like you to consider ease to embroider and use on letterheads, uniforms, etc.
Following is a link to our website. On the Home page you will find the current logo. It is now out of date.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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So everyone does this in some point of your life. You know what I'm talking about! Making New Years resolutions...lose weight, quit smoking (which I dont smoke), walk more, talk less, have more sex (prob The Fireman's favorite), be nicer, and a million more. This year, I'm not making promises that I will most likely not keep. I will get into some exercise kick as I do every year, I won't be any nicer to my family, and I probably will have just as much sex in 2010 as I did in 2009 (I know The Fireman is reading this!) But instead, I want to blog about my cooking and eating shenanigans. I love to cook and I love to eat. I want to eventually open a restaurant. It's been a dream of my husband and mine for years. So I want to catalog all the stuff I eat and remember it for later. I want to keep track of all those great places that The Fireman and I will go to and remember all the inspirations so I can put them on my own menu or at least in my own recipe box!
This blog is just the beginning...
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The Fukushima nuclear disaster that began on March 11, 2011 was a scary time for the whole world. Some early reports even warned about radiation being carried on the wind as far as the west coasts of the USA and Canada, and many international companies flew their staff out of Japan. In dramatic attempts to cool the reactors, the Japanese military dumped tonnes of seawater from helicopters.
For many of us, the urgency of these moments has long ago faded; a lot of things happened in the intervening two years. But the Fukushima nuclear disaster never really ended. Although there are many things about Fukushima that are unbelievable and unfair, here a few shocking things that you may not be aware of:
1. Former employees of both General Electric and Hitachi became 'whistleblowers' to expose design and production flaws in parts of the Fukushima reactors.
As early as the 1970s, former General Electric employee Dale Bridenbaugh went public with flaws in the GE reactor designs being used to build Fukushima. Then following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, former Hitachi nuclear engineer Mitsuhiko Tanaka exposed the illegal cover-up of a construction problem in one of the pressure vessels built by Hitachi, "When the stakes are raised to such a height, a company will not choose what is safe and legal."
That is the nature of the nuclear industry and Tanaka's story is yet another, very scary, example of how far nuclear companies will go to put their own profits before safety.
2. The Red Cross calls the Fukushima disaster an "ongoing humanitarian crisis"
Imagine being forced to leave your home so suddenly that you have to leave pets behind. Then imagine being told you may not be able to live in your home again for many decades to come. Even going back to get some belongings may be difficult because it is dangerous for you to be inside your home for long periods of time, you are exposed to too much radiation. You will wait for two years, but during this time you will never receive enough compensation to completely rebuild your life somewhere safe.
That is reality now for some 160,000 people who were forced to evacuate their homes. Two years later many of these people still live in temporary housing, have lost their jobs and are separated from their communities and families.
3. Compensation money for Fukushima evacuees may come with strings attached
Evacuees have been living in limbo for two years already, now to add to this burden their compensation money may have unwelcome conditions. Some evacuees who accepted certain compensation amounts, because they were pregnant or had small children at the time of the nuclear disaster, may have sacrificed their right to sue for further damages by taking the money. The authorities at Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) responsible for setting the terms of compensation said on one occasion that people cannot file future compensation from illnesses caused by the accident, then on another occasion the same authorities said they did not rule out future claims. (Find more details in the Fukushima Fallout report.)
The conditions that come with the compensation money are not clear to the Fukushima evacuees, causing confusion and adding to their stress. While they fill out a 60 page compensation claim form, and wait to see how much their former lives destroyed by the disaster are 'worth' – the profits of the nuclear companies involved, like General Electric, Hitachi and Toshiba, remain intact.
4. Two of the Fukushima reactor makers: Toshiba and Hitachi, are now making money from the disaster clean up process.
Toshiba and Hitachi are, in effect, being paid to clean up their own nuclear mess. That's right, these companies have now made money from Fukushima twice, first from building and maintaining reactors, and then again for cleaning up after those reactors failed. What an interesting business model.
How do these companies get away with this?
They are protected by dusty, old nuclear liability laws established in the 1950s, which place the burden of paying for nuclear disasters on the operators of nuclear power plants (in this case TEPCO), while companies that design or supply nuclear reactors are protected from paying, no matter what the circumstances of their involvement. After Fukushima TEPCO could not afford the cost of the nuclear disaster and was nationalised, shifting the majority of the costs onto the government, and therefore the Japanese public. This is the situation in Japan and nuclear liability laws are the same in almost all other countries.
When nuclear companies are not liable for the huge costs of nuclear risk, what incentive is there for them to avoid it? None.
This unjust situation can change. India created a strong nuclear liability law in 2010, which can hold nuclear supplier companies liable for the damages of a nuclear disaster. Last week the CEO of General Electric was quoted admitting that as long as this law is in place General Electric will stay out of the nuclear business in India. When they are forced to admit it, most nuclear companies will come to the same conclusion – the cost of nuclear risk is far too high.
An important step towards making nuclear companies liable for nuclear disasters, is that the public knows and understands this unjust situation – you can help.
(Unregistered) Johhny B.
Very interesting business model for those companies
"The risks are all yours dear public,
The profits are all ours to keep"
28 February, 2013 at 10:32
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does anybody know for sure whether radioactive fluids have stopped leaking from the fukushima reactor into the ocean?
28 February, 2013 at 23:51
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(Unregistered) theanswerisblowinginthewind
Maybe the worst pollution the world will ever see. Wind turbines look better and better.
1 March, 2013 at 7:53
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(Unregistered) Aslihan
Dear Archan,
Indeed contaminated water is still leaking from the plant. Experts estimate that 10,000 gallons of radioactive water leak fr...
Dear Archan,
Indeed contaminated water is still leaking from the plant. Experts estimate that 10,000 gallons of radioactive water leak from the reactors each month. TEPCO destroyed a nearby forest to make room for tanks that will eventually store 700.000 tonnes of water.
Aslihan, Greenpeace nuclear campaigner
1 March, 2013 at 8:08
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Thank you Greenpeace. The same attitudes to safety and risk are endemic in all nuclear companies. Even without a tsunami, UK nuclear site licensees ha...
Thank you Greenpeace. The same attitudes to safety and risk are endemic in all nuclear companies. Even without a tsunami, UK nuclear site licensees have just been allowed by nuclear regulators to extend the operational lifetimes of UK AGR reactors. They have no incentive to put safety before profit, they avoid paying out for injuries to the public by leaving insurance costs to the taxpayer via government subsidies. They avoid charges of corporate manslaughter by colluding in the farcical ICRP estimate of dose/risk when the ECRR dose risk correctly forecasts the ever increasing cancer and premature death rates around all the UK nuclear sites. Heritable genetic mutations now causing health problems in third generation families will continue to cost the NHS £billions for the foreseeable (and unforseeable) future.
1 March, 2013 at 12:15
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(Unregistered) chris
While this article was very informative and interesting. There is one serious mistake:
"When nuclear companies are not liable for the huge...
While this article was very informative and interesting. There is one serious mistake:
"When nuclear companies are not liable for the huge costs of nuclear risk, what incentive is there for them to avoid it? None."
There is in fact, a very large incentive for nuclear company's to avoid f*** ups like fukushima.
First, it causes support for anti nuclear movements to increase - which mean less reactors get built and less reactors are around to blow up which means less profit for all company's involved.
Second, governments and utilities are less likely to purchase nuclear components and designs from a company with a poor safety history.
4 March, 2013 at 11:30
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From my readings most of the failure was from using MOX fuel in these older reactor designs whose rod systems were made for standard uranium fuel.
From my readings most of the failure was from using MOX fuel in these older reactor designs whose rod systems were made for standard uranium fuel.
The key difference is that normal fuels have two stages during a melt-down so it takes longer, there's a slight pause in the reaction then moves on to a full melt-down while MOX fuel doesn't, it just goes and at a faster rate than standard fuel.
To run the MOX took a lot of software but when the generators went down from the tsunami, in spite of having backup power the rods could not react fast enough thus meltdowns occurred.
This was a fatal mistake to have missed, engineering-wise, this subtle but critical difference.
My opinion, that's criminal neglect, this from being too obvious and basic a physical reality to deal with to miss all the check lists, so, was cut as costing too much in triage where, "what are the odds?", ruled.
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(Unregistered) Danika
That is really awful. The only people who should get money are the people who's lives were torn apart. The companies actually profiting from it is...
That is really awful. The only people who should get money are the people who's lives were torn apart. The companies actually profiting from it is just disgusting. If I had to leave my pet behind no amount of money could make up for that. That is just awful...
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ALL nuclear companies must close!
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Fordham University also unveiled two new master's degree programs: Master of Science in Business Analytics and Master of Science in Marketing Intelligence, both pending approval by the New York State Education Department.
The symposium and center are part of the two organizations' ongoing work to help students develop the skills needed for jobs of the future. As the volume of data on the planet continues to grow, businesses that can capture this information and make sense of it are strategically positioned for success.
Students, business leaders and entrepreneurs require an understanding of how analytics will transform the way businesses work. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that there will be a 24 percent increase in demand for professionals with management analysis skills over the next eight years.
"Our goal is to promote an open dialogue and transfer of knowledge about the role of analytics in solving key business issues," said David Gautschi, Ph.D., dean of Graduate School of Business Administration at Fordham University.
"With the Center for Digital Transformation, we hope to foster innovation and provide our students with the opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge to the advancement of society," added Donna Rapaccioli, Ph.D., dean of the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham.
By organizing and managing a collaborative community of scholars, executives, society leaders and students, the new center seeks to educate, enlighten and advocate the key role of digital technologies as a driver for organizational effectiveness and the betterment of society. The goals of the Center for Digital Transformation are:
- Individual transformation to create effective human capital in a changing global environment
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- Societal transformation to build a sustainable global society.
"IBM and Fordham University have a long-standing relationship, founded on our deep commitment to preparing students with the skills needed to become successful business leaders," said Mark Hanny, vice president, IBM Academic Initiative. "There's no disputing that analytics skills are in high demand, and with this new program, we are taking the next step in ensuring students are prepared to use technology to solve complex business challenges."
Fordham is collaborating with IBM on the Business Analytics degree program. IBM will also contribute to new degree program curricula. R.P. Raghupathi, Ph.D., professor of information and communication systems, recently won a Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award from IBM for his groundbreaking work in business analytics, and these new programs and the center are a natural progression from his work.
For more information on the Fordham's Center for Digital Transformation, visit: http://www.fordham.edu/CDT.
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Israel said Wednesday it may expel Venezuela's top diplomat from the country in a tit-for-tat gesture after the South American nation ordered the Israeli ambassador to leave over the increasingly bloody ground war in Gaza.
The decision on whether to expel Venezuela's charge d'affaires will be taken later Wednesday, said Yigal Palmor, the spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry.
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We tested products that we knew contained residues of toxic substances by washing them under conditions that simulated domestic laundering. Then we measured how much of the chemicals remained in the clothing. In this way we could identify the percentage of "washed out" chemicals which end up being flushed into our rivers, lakes and seas, where they break down to form even more hazardous substances.What are these substances?These chemicals have some nasty properties. For example, NPEs breaks down into nonylphenols, chemicals which are persistent, bio-accumulative and hormone-disrupting. This means that they do not break down easily into the environment, build up in the food chain, and can seriously mess with some organisms' hormone systems.
Investigative work: Dirty Laundry part one, two and three.
Last year we published our investigation revealing how the suppliers of major clothing brands were discharging hazardous chemicals in their waste water directly into Chinese rivers.We challenged the brands found to be in business with these suppliers to take responsibility for this pollution, and to use their considerable influence to work with their suppliers to eliminate these toxic discharges throughout their supply chain and products.Some brands accepted the challenge and have begun working on a detailed plan to reach the goal by 2020. Others insisted that these chemicals were not used in their manufacturing their products.We tested the products of a number of the brands linked to these suppliers and found residues of hazardous chemicals in their clothing proving that these hazardous substances had been used in the manufacturing of their products. The results of this investigation were published in the report 'Dirty Laundry - Hung out to dry'. The residues we found might seem small in quantity if considered compared to the single piece of clothing. But there is no safe amount of toxic chemicals, and given the huge volume of garments produced by these global brands, the total quantities of these chemicals entering our water is far from insignificant.Our latest investigation tested clothing we had found containing these hazardous substances to find out what happens during normal washing conditions. The results implicate anyone who buys these brands and washes their clothes.
The textile industry is creating water pollution all around the globe, including those regions and countries where there are restrictions or bans on the use of these chemicals.Zero discharge of hazardous chemicals within a generationThe entire textile sector needs to move to toxic-free processes. To reach this goal we need more brands joining the detox challenge.For the companies which have already committed to the elimination of the use of these substances, the next step is for them to respond to the urgency of the situation by setting strict and ambitious elimination deadlines for the most hazardous chemicals used by this sector, including nonylphenol ethoxylates.We know these chemicals are dangerous, and viable alternatives exist so these big brand names need to turn their words into actions.What you can doMany of you already joined together to put pressure on these brands to "Detox", and thanks to your efforts, Puma, Nike, Adidas, H&M, Li-Ning and C&A have all committed to eliminate the use of all hazardous chemicals from their supply chain and products by 2020 .This is just the beginning.
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Oscar week is finally upon us, bringing with it a sense of drama that many feared would be totally absent from the proceedings.
Last year's awards ceremony pitted the scrappy indie war drama "The Hurt Locker" against the big-budget spectacle of "Avatar" in a battle for Best Picture. The two films were different in every way: budgets, box office, 2D vs. 3D… And in a fascinating subplot, the films' directors, Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron, were facing off for Best Director 19 years after they'd been divorced.
Yes, Oscar night could be a little spicier if Tom Hooper and David Fincher had been married ages ago, but at least there's some suspense.
As recently as December, it appeared that this year's race was over, with the "The Social Network" patiently awaiting its coronation. But in January, "The King's Speech" earned Tom Hooper the top prize from the Directors Guild, and a week later the film took Best Picture from the Producers Guild and suddenly, the frontrunner status that had been enjoyed by the "The Social Network" had suddenly evaporated, despite TSN's David Fincher taking Best Director on Hooper's home turf at the BAFTA Awards.
There still exists of course the possibility, albeit a huge long shot, that the Academy at some point since announcing the nominations realized they'd made a grave error in overlooking Christopher Nolan in the Best Director category, and names "Inception" Best Picture.
Say what you will about the year's other movies, no filmmaker put more work into creating a new world than Nolan. "Inception" was a spectacle in the very best Hollywood tradition; the kind of film that was stunning to look at, made your brain hurt and had you talking about it for days—weeks, even.
If "Inception" somehow does win Best Picture, it will be thanks, appropriately, to the 10-nominee system that was instituted in response to the outrage over Nolan's "The Dark Knight" being snubbed two years ago. What is it that the Academy hates about this man?
The real wild card awaiting us on Sunday night, however, is Banksy, the world famous street artist whose film, "Exit Through the Gift Shop," has been nominated for Best Documentary. It's an unusually strong field this year, but Banksy has a very real chance of winning. But Banksy's never shown his face in public and on the rare occasion when he does make appearances he's historically done so sporting a hooded sweatshirt and a monkey mask.
"We suggested to them that it might be a good idea that if he did win, one of them would accept in his place, said the Academy's executive director, Jaimie D'Cruz. "That it would not be dignified for the Academy to have somebody come up wearing a monkey's head."
Dignified? Maybe not. Wildly entertaining? You bet.