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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Guards, guards, everywhere guards. Frontcourt players took a back seat when the 2013 Class A boys all-state basketball team was selected.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Guards, guards, everywhere guards. Frontcourt players took a back seat when the 2013 Class A boys all-state basketball team was selected.
As chosen by the state Associated Press Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, the first team consists of three pure guards and three rovers.
A.J. Jacobson of state champion Fargo Shanley is the focal point of the team. He won a triple crown of sorts by winning a state championship, earning the Class A senior athlete award and claiming Mr. Basketball honors.
Along the way, he broke the unofficial Class A career scoring record with 2,002 points. He averaged 26.4 points, 12.8 rebounds and 5.1 assists as a senior and scored 27 points in the Deacons' 73-54 win over Bismarck in the state title game.
In addition, he grabbed 12 rebounds and assisted on six baskets against Bismarck. For the season he averaged 2.6 steals and 2.5 blocked shots. He'll attend North Dakota State next fall.
Jacobson's first-team all-state teammates are Mac Kroeplin of Grand Forks Red River, Erron Collins of Mandan, Nate Mertens of Devils Lake, Tanner Kretchman of Fargo Davies and Ben Weisbeck of St. Mary's. Jacobson returns to the first team. Weisbeck, Kroeplin and Mertens were second-team picks last season.
Kroeplin, Collins and Mertens were Mr. Basketball finalists.
Weisbeck and Kretchman, who tied for the fifth spot, are juniors. They're the only underclassmen on the first team.
Shanley coach Shane Alderman said the 6-foot-6 Jacobson blended talent, skill and leadership into a well-balanced package. So much so that he could play differing games on successive nights to fit varying opponents.
"He's just a super defender, he handles the ball well and passes the ball well. ... He's just so well-rounded he can do anything you need him to do," Alderman said.
Alderman said after finishing second last season, Jacobson made it a mission to win a state title.
"As good a player as he is, he knew he'd require his teammates to get to the level he wanted to reach team-wise," the coach said. "He was well-respected by his teammates, and in turn he respected them and knew they had an equal part in achieving the goals of this team."
Kroeplin, a 6-2 senior guard, averaged 19.8 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists for Red River, fifth in the state. He sank 52 3-pointers with 45.6 percent efficiency.
"The thing about Mac is he did a little bit of everything for us. He was a guard, a post and even a point guard at times," Red River coach Jason Gregory said. "... He's such a competitor. We always got his best effort — whatever it took for the team to be successful."
"There were games where he'd carry us on his back. He'd get double- and triple-teamed and find the open guy," Gregory added.
Collins, a 5-11 senior point guard, scored at an 18.7 pace. He averaged 6.0 rebounds, 3-0 assists and 2.6 steals while leading the team in 3-pointers. He led Mandan to the state tournament, the Braves' fifth straight trip to the final eight.
Mandan coach Jason Horner said Collins provided the lift that enabled the Braves to qualify, a final 10-14 record notwithstanding.
Collins, who has committed to South Dakota Mines, was a four-year varsity player and three-year starter.
"He gave us leadership and maturity on the floor ... and he wasn't scared to lead and challenge his teammates, which is really hard for a high school player to do," Horner said. "... That is a big reason we improved throughout the year."
Horner said Collins' intangibles are immense.
"His attitude and demeanor are very catchy. He brings an energy to practice that makes you want to be there and makes the other players work hard. He wants to be there, he's grateful to be in the gym and it's contagious," Horner said.
Mertens, a 6-2 senior guard, led all Class A shooters with a 26.9 scoring average. Plus, he averaged 7.8 rebounds, 6-1 assists and 2.5 steals for the Firebirds, who finished 8-14.
A four-year varsity player and a three-year starter, Mertens broke the school's career scoring record, previously held by his cousin, Travis Mertens. Nate upped the ante from 1,400 to 1,544.
Devils Lake coach Derek Gathman said there's a lot more to Mertens than offense.
"On both sides of the ball he was our go-to guy. ... He always guarded the best player. He was our best defensive player and best offensive player, no doubt about it," Gathman said.
Gathman said Mertens clearly had improved his game this season.
"His decision-making and crashing the boards are the two big things I saw," the coach said. "He shot 47 percent this year. Last year it was 39 percent."
Mertens nearly doubled his rebounding average from 4.2 to 7.8.
Kretchman, a 5-11 junior guard, scored at a 24.2 pace, averaged 4.5 assists and cashed in on 86 3-pointers. He shot 47.3 percent from beyond the arc.
"He's one of the better pure shooters I've seen in North Dakota for a long time," Bart Manson, the Davies coach, said. "... He shot 47.3 percent from the 3-point line and it's not as though he isn't being guarded every night. He's able to get his shot off very quickly and very accurately."
Manson, who led the Eagles to third place in the state tournament, said Kretchman benefited from other scorers in the Davies lineup. Still, Kretchman got special treatment from most teams.
"Teams tried to lock him up so once he got rid of the ball he wouldn't get it back," the coach said. "... He does other things, too. He led the team in assists."
Weisbeck, a 6-1 junior guard, displayed 51.4 percent field goal accuracy while averaging 18 points per game. He pulled down 5.3 rebounds and added 2.3 assists for the Saints, who placed sixth at state.
Although Weisbeck's scoring average was a virtual carbon copy of last year's, St. Mary's coach Joe Mueller said he was a more valuable player as a junior.
"I think he rounded out his game a little bit on both ends of the floor," Mueller said. "He was a better rebounder and defender this year. We wanted him to make his teammates better.
"Whatever it would take to win a game, he'd do it for us," Mueller added. "He had a lot of good players around him, so he didn't have to score 25 points for us."
The second team consists of 6-2 junior forward Patrick Strom of Shanley, 6-6 junior post Tyler Rudolph of Century, 6-1 junior guard Darius Sparks of St. Mary's, 6-5 senior forward Jordan Krieg of Dickinson and 6-4 senior forward Chase Carpenter of Valley City.
Strom averaged 19.7 points and connected for 90 3-pointers, displaying 40.7 percent accuracy from outside the arc. His presence gave Jacobson elbow room to work his magic.
Rudolph, Century's lone returning starter, led the team with a 13.3-point scoring average. He shot 53.4 percent from the floor, averaged 8.8 rebounds and blocked 30 shots en route to a fourth-place state tournament finish.
Sparks provided a long-range force for St. Mary's, swishing 51 3-pointers with 42.1 accuracy. He averaged 15.2 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game.
Krieg gave Dickinson a strong presence inside, scoring at a 17.5 clip and averaging 8-8 rebounds. The Midgets went 11-11 on the season.
Carpenter scored at a 22.7 pace and averaged 10.8 rebounds for Valley City, which lost an East Region play-in game and finished 5-15.


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In the championship of the Fulton tournament, Fatima, ranked fourth in the state, defeated North Callaway 12-10.
Fatima had a 9-3 lead in the fifth inning and scored 3 insurance runs in the top of the seventh. Justin Murphy nearly tied the game in the bottom of the seventh with the bases loaded and two outs. He hit a line drive to the right fielder for the final out.
Tanner Murphy was the losing pitcher. He pitched 4 innings, allowed 5 runs (unearned), 4 hits, 1 walk and 2 strikeouts.
At the plate for North Callaway Chance Kee was 2-3 with 2RBI and 1 run scored. He was also hit by a pitch. Justin Murphy was 2-5 with 1RBI and 1 run scored; pinch hitter Brandon Hagedorn was 1-1 with a 2-run double and 1 run scored.
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I have another challenge for the christians who dare to visit this site! (see my previous blog for the first challenge).
A basic Christianity 101 verse is John 14:14 - "Ask anything in My name, and I will do it." Verse 14 is actually a repeat of the previous verse...in other words, Jesus repeats himself...saying "if you ask anything I will do it."
That particular promise is repeated again in John 16:24 - "Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full."
So - here is the challenge: explain to me what you think is meant by "ask anything and I will do it." And further, explain to me why the promise stated so explicitly in those verses is so often and obviously broken?
One qualifier: you cannot use the old Whittinghill argument - "God says yes, no, or not now." There is no indication that Jesus gives himself wiggle room like that...he does not say "I might say yes, I might say no, I might say later, dude." The promise says "ask and it will be given to you."
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Rich Morrison, Risk Management Analyst for Diversified Crop Insurance Services, will be one of the expert speakers for those in attendance. He brings more than 25 years' experience working in the grain business and as a commodity broker. Morrison is a popular voice with those involved in agriculture. Helping farmers to understand their risk and giving them options are what Morrison provides to the customers of Diversified Crop Insurance Services as well as prospective customers. He grew up on a grain farm in east-central Illinois and is a graduate of the University of Illinois. He provides information for farmers and agents via the following marketing tools: daily emails, phone calls, text messages, and monthly meetings via webinar for customers all over the country. Morrison is also provides market information on WLDS radio. He travels all over the country to talk to farmers about how they can embrace risk and take advantage of opportunities presented to them.
Area farmers and those interested in agriculture are invited to attend and listen to Morrison, a representative from CGB Grain, and Regional Manager Mike Gauer as they discuss what the outlook is for area crops in 2013 and beyond. Space is limited. Please contact Diversified Crop Insurance Services at 507-290-0059 to secure your reservation.
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SHARON, Pa. — A freeway crash here killed three people, including two high school football players.
The two-vehicle crash happened Friday night in Sharon, Mercer County. Two members of the Sharon High School football team were killed.
Police did not release the names of those involved, but The Sharon Herald reports other members of the team were injured. Two children, ages 10 and 12, also were taken to hospitals.
Sharon High School had been scheduled to play in a District 10 playoff game Saturday against Girard High School.
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DENVER From a young age, no one could tame Evan Spencer Ebel.
His parents sent him to special camps in Utah, Jamaica and Samoa for children with behavioral problems. Neighbors in the middle-class suburbs west of Denver shied away from a kid they described as "a handful."
By age 20, state prison had become Ebel's home. There, he joined a white supremacist gang and ended up in solitary confinement, a place his parents believe soon began to eat away at his already troubled mind.
On Jan. 28, when his term was up, Ebel was set free.
Two months later, he is dead after a shootout with Texas authorities and is a suspect in the death of Colorado's state prisons chief, who was gunned down when he answered the front door of his house. Investigators have said the gun used to in the Texas shootout was the same weapon used to kill Colorado's prisons chief.
Now investigators are trying to piece together whether the final actions of the 28-year-old sprung from his own ideas or came at the direction of a prison gang an idea some close to him reject.
His mother, Jody Mangue, says her son was more complicated than news media stories imply.
"He was not a follower by any means," she posted in an online memorial site, suggesting that white inmates are often labeled members of such gangs even if they don't join.
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- Bomb-making materials found in Colo. murder suspect's car
- Gun evidence links suspect Evan Ebel with Texas and Colo. shootings
- Cops: Evan Spencer Ebel officially a suspect in Tom Clements killing
- White supremacist linked to Texas car chase, Colo. slaying
The Colorado Independent website quoted a former inmate and member of the prison gang who said Ebel had left the group and was having a hard time integrating back into society.
"He told me that he needed to release some anxiety," the former inmate, Ryan Pettigrew, told the website, adding the killing did not seem like a gang hit. "He needed that violence as a release so he could calm down. He didn't know any other way."
Ebel's parents haven't returned calls to The Associated Press for comment. But stories from both can be found in an online blog that those close to the family have confirmed the mother wrote, and legislative testimony from the father, who had begged the state to change its solitary confinement rules.
Mangue wrote that her son was an energetic child who accompanied his mother to hand out food and clothes to homeless people in Denver. That energy also was a problem, though. In an earlier online essay, written after visiting her son in prison, Mangue noted that she and Ebel's father began sending their son to camps for troubled youth when he was 12.
"Some people may blame us for what has happened to Evan," she wrote then. "I can only say that his dad and I had to make hard decisions when he was younger hoping to avoid where he is now."
On Jan. 31, 2004, Ebel's younger sister died in a traffic accident, devastating him.
"He was the protective big brother and in this case, was unable to protect her," Mangue wrote. "His life deteriorated after that and he just became numb and lost his direction altogether, between using drugs and committing crimes."
Court records show that Ebel pleaded guilty a few months after his sister's death in July 2004 to holding a semi-automatic pistol to an acquaintance's head and stealing his wallet while they watched a Denver Broncos game on television. He was first sent to a halfway house. But after being linked to two other armed robberies, he went to state prison.
Prison records list his aliases as "Ebel Evil" and "Dustin McKay." He was disciplined for smearing feces on his cell wall, punching a fellow inmate and punching a guard in 2006. Prison documents say Ebel also threatened to kill that guard and their family. That attack earned him another felony conviction.
Jack Ebel testified before Colorado's Legislature about how solitary confinement changed his son.
"He'll rant a little bit," the elder Ebel told legislators. "He'll stammer. He'll be frustrated that he can't find the words. And I let him get it out, and eventually, because I'm his father, he will talk to me. And I'm convinced, if any of the rest of you were to go talk to him, he wouldn't be able to talk to you."
Jack Ebel also mentioned his son's suffering to Gov. John Hickenlooper, whom he first met when both men worked at an oil and gas firm 30 years ago. They'd stayed in touch even as Hickenlooper launched a career in politics and won the governor's office in 2010.
As he assembled his cabinet, Hickenlooper wooed a deeply religious, data-driven Missouri corrections official to run Colorado's state prisons system. During Hickenlooper's interview with Tom Clements, the Missouri official mentioned his concerns about solitary confinement.
Since Clements came to Colorado in 2011, the number of inmates in solitary confinement has nearly been halved.
"The irony is incredible," Hickenlooper said. "One of the things Tom fought for, we have too many people in solitary confinement with mental disorders, like Evan Ebel."
In January, Ebel was released on mandatory parole meaning that even though he'd completed his sentence, he still had to abide by a parole agreement or be thrown back in prison. Corrections spokeswoman Alison Morgan said she couldn't discuss the terms of Ebel's release but that every parolee has to comply with certain personalized requirements, like attending anger management or substance abuse counseling. She said the state also offers parolees help with housing and job placement.
Little is known about Ebel's final two months. However investigators have offered a hint of how he might have gotten the gun used in Texas, even though he was a convicted felon who couldn't legally have one. Colorado Bureau of Investigation agents on Wednesday arrested a suburban Denver woman suspected of legally purchasing a gun and then transferring it to Ebel. Records related to the arrest of Stevie Marie Vigil, 22, were sealed.
It's unclear whether he knew of Clements' reformist goals or just viewed him like many other inmates, as "The Man," as they called whoever ran the prisons agency. It's also unclear if he remained a member of the 211s white supremacist gang that law enforcement officials say he had joined in prison.
- Colorado arrests woman who allegedly provided gun used in prisons chief's murder
- Bomb-making materials found in Colo. murder suspect's car
- Gun evidence links suspect Evan Ebel with Texas and Colo. shootings
- Cops: Evan Spencer Ebel officially a suspect in Tom Clements killing
- White supremacist linked to Texas car chase, Colo. slaying
On Sunday, March 17, police found the body of Nathan Leon, a father of three who worked as a Domino's deliveryman and had vanished after answering an order that day. Days later, Clements answered the doorbell at his house and was shot in the chest.
Authorities asked people to look out for a dark, late-model car that had been spotted idling outside Clements' house shortly before the shooting. Two days later, a sheriff's deputy in an empty stretch of North Texas pulled Ebel over. Ebel shot and wounded him, and sped off.
Authorities gave chase. Ebel peppered them with gunfire before crashing his 1991 Cadillac into an 18-wheeler hauling gravel near the town of Decatur.
Three deputies surrounded him, but he left his wrecked vehicle and opened fire. The deputies shot back. Ebel was hit in the head and died at a Fort Worth hospital. He had bomb-making equipment, instructions and other plans in his car, but it's not clear where he was going.
One thing was clear, said Decatur Police Chief Rex Hoskins: "He wasn't planning on being taken alive."


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You may learn more about politics than you'd imagine in Beau Willimon's "Farragut North," which continues this week at the Oak Ridge Playhouse.
You may learn more about politics than you'd imagine in Beau Willimon's "Farragut North," which continues this week at the Oak Ridge Playhouse. The story, set in Des Moines during the Iowa caucuses, focuses on Stephen Bellamy, a young, ambitious press secretary for a Democratic presidential candidate.
When the play begins, Stephen and his campaign manager are certain they are way ahead in the polls and will take Iowa, but then things get out of kilter and a dichotomy is exposed between what the characters believe and what they will do to get what they believe in. Secret meetings are followed by misjudgments, blunders, and deceptions, allowing us to quickly see how even the most promising careers and campaigns can collapse.
The characters in "Farragut North" are preoccupied with infinitesimal details of political strategy, and their ambition knows no limits. Tony Cedeño, who plays Stephen's aggressive campaign manager, Paul Zara says the role required him to find elements in his personality that allowed him to be devious and do things he would not normally do because his character is a master at the political game.
Cedeño explains "the show is about politics but also about people and human nature and not necessarily the best side of it. Characters have their own agenda and know what they want and what they will do to other people to get it. But everything is not black and white. Lots of gray in there."
Director Reggie Law gets high praise from Cedeño who says, "He allows the actors to find where they are going and is very respectful of the process. He is good at asking questions that make them think of the character's motivation."
Additional cast members include Drew Barksdale, Ashly Goodwin, Mark Jennings, David Zannucci, Gene Spejewski, Jackie Kallister, and Joe Jaynes.
There are performances Thursday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m., as well as Friday, Feb. 1, and Saturday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m., with a Sunday matinee on Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. Final performances are Friday, Feb. 8, and Saturday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m., and a final Sunday matinee on Feb. 10 at 2 p.m.
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Hartford - Some state legislators had their feathers ruffled last week after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed his own gun control legislation at a Danbury conference where Vice President Joe Biden spoke on Thursday.
"I am a little disappointed in Dan Malloy saying you have taken too long. Well, it's been two months and, again, we need to do it thoughtfully," said state Rep. Terrie Wood, R-Darien, who co-chairs the legislature's Mental Health Working Group.
Malloy on Thursday told reporters "it's been a long time" since the Sandy Hook massacre and that regardless of bipartisan support for gun control legislation, his job was to keep the focus on gun control.
In the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy, where 20 children and six school faculty members were murdered, the governor set up a commission and the legislature set up a separate task force to address gun violence, school safety and mental health services. Some legislators said Malloy had every right to forge his own path while others said it might have hurt the legislative process.
The legislature's School Safety Working Group and the Mental Health Working Group have basically put forth their recommendations, Senate President Pro Tempore Don Williams, D-Brooklyn, said. But the Gun Violence Prevention Working Group hasn't been as forthcoming, he said.
"I know there is a group of folks that want to keep delaying this process. We have had an incredibly robust analysis of these issues, four public hearings, and we are talking about a fifth public hearing," Williams said. "So we really need to move forward."
State Rep. Craig Minor, R-Litchfield, who is co-chairman of the Gun Violence Prevention Working Group, said he hadn't heard of any deadline for next week.
He said he and his co-chairman, Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, had a "very good conversation" recently in which they discussed each of their ideas.
"I think many people in this building would be willing to pass something very, very quickly provided we stayed within the bounds with which we had discussed on very first day," Minor said.
The plan was originally to create a robust group of ideas on school safety, mental health, guns and ammunition that legislative members from both parties could agree on, he said.
Malloy's gun control proposals included expanding the definition of a banned assault weapon to include any semiautomatic weapon that has at least one military characteristic. Military characteristics might include a pistol grip, a flash suppressor or a bayonet.
Minor said at first glance he didn't see vast differences in what the governor was proposing and what the task force was considering. He would be bringing the proposals to his caucuses' meeting on Monday or Tuesday, he said.
But there is bound to be some disagreement.
"I didn't find the first assault weapons ban that included cosmetic definitions to be the most helpful legislative initiatives," he said. Current Connecticut law bans semiautomatic weapons that accept a detachable magazine and have two military-style characteristics.
The appetite of American gun owners changes just as the appetite for car owners changes, he said.
Defining something cosmetically doesn't seem to be the best way to go about it, he said, but there is "keen interest" in determining how to deal with gun ownership. Minor said out of respect for the process, he would not go into detail on which gun violence prevention issues had consensus.
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, said he was confident there would be a comprehensive, broad legislative package in the next week or two.
"I expect a bill on the governor's desk relatively soon," McKinney said. "If there are going to be things the legislature does beyond the task force, it is too early to tell."
But McKinney said, "I don't think he (Malloy) has helped the process. I am hoping he hasn't hurt the process by injecting some partisanship into it."
Wood said Malloy's proposals "felt" like a political move.
"I do feel it would have been beneficial to respect the process with legislation," she said.
The governor has the freedom to demand legislative changes, but he can't pass laws and he doesn't have to deal with 187 legislators, McKinney said.
Although the governor has gone off on his own path instead of waiting for formal recommendations from his Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, both Republicans and Democrats seemed to understand that time is running out.
"We must vote on a strong and comprehensive bill," Williams said in a press release Friday. "While I hope we have bipartisan support for such a bill, that outcome has never been mandatory or guaranteed."
Wood agreed bipartisanship wasn't mandatory. If there isn't agreement on the "gun piece" within the legislature's task force, the Democrats, because they are the majority, will put their own legislation through, she said.
"That is the ball game," Wood said.
House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden said, "Frankly, I personally support everything in the governor's package, and there are some things I would add to it. ... My hope is that these are items that are basically consensus items that Republicans will also be on board with."
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Note: Union Carbide Nuclear Division, which started out as Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company, operated the Atomic Energy Commission/Energy Research and Development Administration/Department of Energy sites in Oak Ridge, Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio, until 1984, some 40 years.
The articles in this series are taken from a publication produced by Union Carbide Nuclear Division in the early 1960s which provides some insights into technological advances and substantial manufacturing accomplishments that were made in Oak Ridge just 20 years after the Manhattan Project came to East Tennessee. Tim Gawne of Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided the publication to me when he found a copy in the ORNL Library archives.
This section covers the milestones of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory accomplished during the first 20 years of Union Carbide's role in nuclear energy:
"Feb. 1, 1943 – Construction of a plutonium production pilot plant started near Knoxville under the code name of Clinton Laboratories, to be operated by the University of Chicago as part of the Metallurgical Project.
Nov. 4, 1943 – Graphite Reactor operated successfully. This was the world's first reactor to produce plutonium.
December 1943 – Chemical processing operations started to separate plutonium from uranium.
Dec. 30, 1943 – First milligram quantities of purified plutonium shipped from Clinton Laboratories to University of Chicago for research.
August 1944 – Pilot plant demonstration of plutonium production processes completed and final process design report for Hanford issued.
January 1945 – Emphasis of work at Clinton Laboratories shifted from pilot plant operation to research on other problems connected with development of nuclear energy.
June 1945 – All original objectives of Clinton Laboratories successfully accomplished.
July 1, 1945 – Monsanto Chemical Company became operating contractor for Clinton Laboratories.
Aug. 2, 1946 – First radioisotope shipment made (a small quantity of carbon-14 delivered to the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital in St. Louis).
Jan. 1, 1947 – Atomic Energy Commission took over operations from Manhattan District.
March 1948 – Carbide accepted operating contract, and name was changed to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
1948 – Construction started on permanent research facilities. $2 million radioisotope production facilities completed.
1949 – Homogeneous reactor development reactivated. Aircraft reactor development work initiated. A new pool-type research reactor was developed, constructed and placed in operation as the second reactor on the site. This was the first of the "swimming pool" type of research reactors now in wide use.
1950 – Research division and some physical facilities of Y-12 became part of ORNL. Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology opened. Metal Recovery Plant built for processing irradiated reactor fuel.
1951 – Full scale model of the Materials Testing Reactor (MTR) converted to a third operating reactor, the Low Intensity Testing Reactor (LITR).
1952 – MTR, largely designed by ORNL placed in operation at Arco, Idaho.
1953 – Homogeneous Reactor Experiment (HRE) became the second reactor to produce electricity. High Voltage Laboratory constructed for physics research with Van de Graaff accelerators.
1954 – Aircraft Reactor Experiment operated successfully with all components at bright red heat. HRE dismantled and construction of HRE-2 started. Tower Shielding Reactor built for aircraft shielding research.
1955 – An operating swimming pool reactor and building were designed and constructed in five months, and exhibited at the Atoms for Peace Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
1956 – Thermonuclear fusion research expanded to develop a promising new approach to achieving a controlled reaction by injection of high energy ions into plasma – the Direct Current Experiment, referred to as DCX.
1957 – From an ORNL concept, an Army Package Power Reactor was designed and constructed at Ft. Belvoir, Va.
1958 – A new 30 megawatt research reactor (ORR) was completed. The Fission Products Development Laboratory was constructed. ORNL coordinated the fusion exhibit at the Second Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, and the Laboratory exhibited a working model of the DCX.
1959 – Major construction program initiated to provide new research facilities, including the Central Research Laboratory additions, the Metals and Ceramics Laboratory, the High Radiation Level Examination Laboratory, and major renovations to the facilities used by ORNL at Y-12.
1960 – Construction began on a new cyclotron of advanced design, the Oak Ridge Relativistic Isochronous Cyclotron (ORIC), and on a 10-Mev Van de Graff charged particle accelerator for physics research.
1961 – ORNL established as AEC center for production of transuranium elements not existing in nature. Construction of a High Flux Isotope Reactor and transuranium elements processing laboratory planned. Construction also begun on a special unshielded reactor for the biophysics research on radiation effects, and on a Molten Salt Reactor Experiment to test non-aqueous fluid fuel systems for producing electricity.
1962 – Additions completed to the Central Research Laboratory, and a new Metals and Ceramics Laboratory constructed. AEC established ORNL as the Isotopes Development Center. The Bare Reactor Experiment, Nevada (BREN) was conducted by ORNL, using the unshielded health physics reactor mounted atop a 1,500-foot tower to simulate nuclear weapons explosions in the air."
The report summarized the laboratory's role as, "Emphasis on peaceful applications of nuclear energy increased under the Atomic Energy Commission, which was organized in 1946. The Clinton Laboratories, which had been a pilot plant for research and development on plutonium production, became, in 1948, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory; a vigorous program of fundamental research, radioisotopes production, and nuclear power development was undertaken at the enlarged laboratory. Union Carbide became the operating contractor in March, 1948."
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Competition from Facebook Poke may have spurred popularity of mobile app Snapchat
Snapchat lets users send images or videos that disappear after a few seconds
Popular with young users, Snapchat has a reputation as a "sexting" tool
Creators downplay its use to send nude pictures, say short-term sharing is fun
You may not have heard of Snapchat. But if there are teenagers or 20-somethings in your life, it's a safe bet that they have.
Snapchat is a mobile app which lets users share images or videos that disappear after a few seconds. That's right -- they vanish forever in the time it takes you to read a tweet.
In a little over a year since it was released by a Stanford student and his recently graduated business partner, Snapchat has has quietly amassed millions of users and now claims to process more than 30 million messages a day. Some bloggers have called it the "next Instagram."
Not bad for a mobile tool which, rightly or wrongly, is often cited for one very specific ability -- the "sexting" of naughty images to other users. In an age when young people are constantly being warned not to post inappropriate things online, Snapchat offers a degree of freedom by letting users share unfiltered thoughts or images without much fear of reprisal.
"Like most people born before the 1990s, I'm not a Snapchat user, and I've long assumed the worst about the app -- that combining cameras; young people; and secret, self-destructing messages could only mean trouble," wrote Slate's Farhad Manjoo last week.
But increasingly, he writes, it appears possible that "teenagers are more likely using the app to safely explore the sort of silly, unguarded, and sometimes unwise ideas that have always occupied the teenage brain ... in a manner that won't haunt them forever. In other words, they're chatting with Snapchat precisely because it's not like chatting with Facebook."
Not to be outdone, Facebook last month actually launched a virtually identical social app called Facebook Poke, a mobile re-imagining of one of the site's earliest, and ultimately most ridiculed, features. But instead of siphoning users from Snapchat, Facebook's move appears instead to have launched the upstart app to new heights.
Both apps let users send images or short videos and messages via their smartphones. The sender can choose how long the message will be visible -- up to 10 seconds -- before it self-destructs.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly was part of the team that coded the Poke app, currently available only on Apple's iOS system, in only a couple of weeks. A family photo posted by sister Randi Zuckerberg purportedly showed their family playing with the app over the holidays.
But if Facebook was looking to flex its billion-user muscle to take over the instant-chat market, it doesn't appear to be working.
On Thursday, Snapchat was the sixth-most popular free app for Apple's mobile devices. Facebook Poke wasn't in the top 100. As Forbes said in a recent headline, "the kids like SnapChat because it's NOT Facebook."
A newer version of Snapchat for Google's Android devices sat at a respectable No. 33 in the Google Play store, ahead of stalwarts like Draw Something, Spotify, Fandango and Amazon Mobile. Facebook Poke isn't available for Android.
A look by analytics firm Topsy showed that mentions of Snapchat on Twitter spiraled to more than 212,000 on New Year's Day, up from about 16,000 on December 20, the day before Facebook introduced Poke. Facebook Poke got 1,822 mentions on January 1, according to Topsy.
So, does that mean young, socially savvy users are sending millions of racy pictures of themselves through cyberspace every day?
It's difficult to say. Technological advances and nudie shots have shared a strong, if secretive, relationship for centuries. From the printing press to pay-per-view to VCRs, new tech (particularly the kind that creates new levels of privacy) has always been followed closely by folks figuring out how to personally or professionally use it to get dirty.
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There are clear, and sometimes ugly, signs that sexting is common on Snapchat.
"Snapchat Sluts," a Tumblr blog full of nude and semi-nude images, was started up last month by a "party photographer" who says he put out an open call for salacious shots on Twitter and was overwhelmed by the response. Another Snapchat-themed blog on Tumblr is filled with complaints about male users sharing photos of their genitalia.
Snapchat users may think their naughty images will never come back to haunt them. But people can still grab screenshots from their phones, even though both Snapchat and Facebook Poke notify the sender if the recipient of an image takes a shot of it.
And last week, Buzzfeed exposed an apparent security flaw that it says lets recipients retrieve videos sent via Snapchat.
All of which should be bad news when young people and questionable decisions collide with the dark alleys of the Internet, where even the most ill-gotten of sleaze is posted.
Snapchat did not respond to an interview request from CNN. But in one of only a handful of interviews he's given since launching, Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel told TechCrunch he thinks the sex talk about his app is overblown.
"I'm not convinced that the whole sexting thing is as big as the media makes it out to be," he told TechCrunch. "I just don't know people who do that. It doesn't seem that fun when you can have real sex."
But he also acknowledged to TechCrunch that the idea for the app, which he and Bobby Murphy hashed out after meeting at Stanford's Kappa Sigma fraternity house, was partly inspired by U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's unfortunate decision to share racy photos via Twitter.
So, if not for naughty bits, what exactly is the purpose of sending images and videos that rapidly disappear?
In a September blog post celebrating its first anniversary, Team Snapchat shared a vision that comes off as downright wholesome.
"We believe in sharing authentic moments with friends," it read. "It's not all about fancy vacations, sushi dinners, or beautiful sunsets. Sometimes it's an inside joke, a silly face, or greetings from a pet fish.
"There is value in the ephemeral," the post continues. "Great conversations are magical. That's because they are shared, enjoyed, but not saved."


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Hershel Gordon Lewis, the innovator behind the first splatter movies, was once quoted as saying: 'I've often referred to Blood Feast as a Walt Whitman poem. It's no good, but it was the first of its type.' So often this statement holds true in cases of art and entertainment. The rule is largely broken by Walt Disney's first feature length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is easily recognizable as a successful work of entertainment art. However, Snow White definitely does not have the makings of true timelessness in its technical execution. It looks like a stepping stone, and anyone that tells you otherwise is blinded by their love for the film. If I were to be humourlessly critical of the film I'd point out the film's total lack of narrative involvement, or character roundness...
You know what, this is boring. I could lavish Snow White with praise, or dissect it into oblivion in some kind of misguided attempt to garner attention as an internet critic, but we're talking about one of the most enduringly popular films of all time. There's nothing I can bring to the table in this regard. I rather briefly continue the thread I started with my Pinocchio Blu-ray review, that of the often overlooked straight horror elements of the film. After decades of service Disney's product has been distilled to relative family friendliness, but throughout the studio's history many of the best of these animated films have featured genuinely diabolical, macabre, and occasionally downright perverse elements. Starting with the first of the studio's Silly Symphony shorts, The Skeleton Dance, Disney animators took many cues from German expressionist filmmakers, and embraced the frightful delights of Universal's Monsters. Snow White is much more expressionistically frightening than Pinocchio, which embraces horrifying ideas as much as images, but features plenty of healthy nightmare fuel.
The film's second scene in which Snow White is set loose into the woods by her would be assassin is the best example of Disney's ability to encapsulate the genuine terror that devolves the best of us into sniveling babies, and is generally speaking the film's best moment from a pure artistic standpoint. The scene is a blur of obvious reality and obvious fantasy, as mundane branches become grasping fingers, and leafless trees sport gaping maws and piercing eyes. Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the scene is the total confusion of natural geography. In a matter of seconds Snow White, and in turn the audience, becomes entirely lost in the nightmarish woods. In one shot she drops through the floor of the forest, as if descending into hell itself. The backgrounds cut from warm to black as the descent continues, and only returns to light after Snow White has collapsed in utter exhaustion. Despite the stylistic flourishes, the scene largely encapsulates the actual experience of becoming lost through a child's eyes, and the scene has been indelibly burned into the minds of many a youthful, first time viewer.
Following this the film is pretty much a light hearted lark, concerning itself with Snow White's house cleaning, the dwarfs introduction, and the dwarfs dinner preparation (not exactly riveting drama), but eventually the wicked Queen is reintroduced, and quickly transforms into the evil witch. Any scene featuring the Witch begs comparison with James Whale's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein stylistically, and the Witch herself occasionally directly apes Béla Lugosi's Dracula. The commentary track that comes with this new release verifies that the artists and animators were, in fact, inspired by Whale, Tod Browning, F.W. Murnau, and Robert Wiene when creating the film's more frightening sequences. Disney had two clear advantages over horror's expressionistic and gothic forefathers, those of colour and the purity of physically drawn shadows and characters. Colour wouldn't be used regularly in straight horror filmmaking for decades (the genre was seen as unworthy by most studios), and more animation doesn't require special effects. Thus Snow White was able to show a bubbling vat of unspecified evil brew engulf an apple, then drip off in a skull shape. One assumes that if he had the ability Murnau would've preferred this kind of control over his cinematography and optical effects. The commentary also verifies that the British censors found the film too frightening. In the UK the film was cut, and apparently given a somewhat restrictive rating.
I should be more surprised by this new 1080p transfer considering Snow White's vintage. It's a really damn old movie, it should probably look like one. But this is Disney we're talking about, and Snow White is the studio's flagship title. If history has taught me anything it's that I can count on Disney to take care of their most popular films, and to continuously change copyright law. Anyway, the film, which is presented in it's original 1.33:1 framing (remember, widescreen wasn't used at the time), looks just about perfect, even more than expected. The Sleeping Beauty disc looks better overall, but the comparable shortcomings are almost all specific to that film's use of colour and straight lines. This transfer is more easily compared to the recent Pinocchio Blu-ray release. Both discs look as good as physically possible, outside of digitally repainting every frame, which would suck.
The detail levels here are so perfect we can make out the pen scratches, the brush strokes, and the dirt on the cells. We can make out the differences between cells and background. We can tell the difference between stacked cells and single cells, and even tell which cells are set atop the stack. This level of detail could be seen as a disaster for those that require perfection in their animation, but those of us that respect elbow grease should be happy. Colours are vibrant and incredibly pure. The backgrounds feature deep blacks that aren't found on the moving parts, but the straight hues of the cells are breathtaking, and the total lack of bleeding or perversion is incredible. The magic mirror effect is the only noticeable sample of possible digital noise. I thought I was catching minor compression blocking in some of the solid colours, but I quickly realized that I was seeing brush strokes and cell dirt. The occasional flutters of non-perfection appear to have everything to do with minor errors made during the original cell photography. The details aren't entirely consistent throughout the print, and the problem doesn't look like it's related to specific print damage, as the inconsistency reoccurs when specific angles are reiterated. Usually these brief shots feature slight issues with edge doubling or focus inconsistencies.
The Disney studio's audio engineers usually have an uncanny ability to mix the oldest mono-mixes into effective, modern surround mixes. This new DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track is not the studio's strongest hi-def surround remix. Unlike the impeccable Sleeping Beauty DTS-HD mix the surround and stereo elements don't blend into the otherwise centric mix as smoothly. The music is the most aggressive surround and stereo element, and when the centric dialogue and effects come back into the mix the otherwise well spaced music somewhat awkwardly smoothes back into the middle. Some of the sound effects seem to have been updated, which sounds slightly off if you're aiming to hear the difference, and the added LFE is a little silly at points. This is a case of the studio lining up impossible expectations, even with their Pinocchio mix, which was also taken from a mono original track. The original dialogue elements sound their age for the most part. There's a little bit of high end distortion, and the overall clarity is a bit muffled. Usually the vocal performances during the singing bits are noticeably clearer, likely due to better upkeep, as the film's musical soundtrack has been sold and resold for generations now. Music is the most important element, and despite some awkward cuts, the score has been perfectly preserved. The musical clarity is almost life like, as if the symphony has been shrunk and crammed into the player.
A friend suggested I watch the film in Spanish, so I took a few samples throughout the film. Besides the fact that I'm impressed with the new 5.1 Spanish mix, I'm impressed with the naturalism of the vocals, which are actually a bit clearer than the English track.
Snow White is being offered in a veritable cornucopia of styles. The copy I got was somewhat misleadingly labeled as a DVD version with a 'bonus' Blu-ray. It comes in a standard DVD box. I've seen cover art offered in a Blu-ray box that refers to the DVD as the bonus disc. The Blu-ray on this release cannot be counted as the bonus because the new extras, and original featurettes are almost all exclusively found on the set's second Blu-ray disc. The DVD features no exclusive content.
The first Blu-ray, which features an occasionally amusing, deadpan mirror host, starts with a commentary track made up of various audio interviews Walt Disney himself, with animation expert John Canemaker acting as a moderator. The audio quality of the interviews is occasionally pretty muddy, but a surprising number of Walt's stories aren't reiterated elsewhere on the jam-packed collection. From a completests' point of view the track is valuable. Canemaker's commentary is rarely even a little spontaneous, but the obviously edited information comes hard and fast between Disney's more rambling bits, and the moderator's foundation filling is equally valuable.
Under the 'Backstage Disney' tab starts with ' Snow White Returns' (8:45, HD). Apparently while culling the archives for Blu-ray extras someone happened upon a series of images and notes that seemed to reveal the intent for a Snow White sequel. This is a reconstruction of storyboards, mixed with parts of scenes deleted from the original film, which were possibly going to be used for the proposed sequel (more likely someone was trying to find a way to use the deleted footage). The two deleted scenes, 'Soup Eating' (4:00, HD) and 'Bed Building' (6:30, HD), presented as rough pencil animation follow, and close out the section. This is followed by a pop music video for 'Someday My Prince will Come' by Tiffany Thornton, and a collection of interactive games – 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall' (apparently my inner princess is Snow White), 'What Do You See?', 'Jewel Jumble' and 'Scene Stealer'.
The first disc also features a few Disney trailers, and a special sneak peek at The Princess and the Frog (all in HD). The sneak peek features the first eight minutes of the film, some of it in final colour, and some of it in unfinished black and white. I'm rooting for the film as the studio's first 2D animation in a very long time, and it appears that the writers aren't afraid to push into some socially uncomfortable areas.
Disc two features all the additional Blu-ray extras. The bulk of the disc is devoted to an interactive look at Disney's original Hyperion Studios, hosted by various modern studio personalities, and film historians. There's a whole freakin' lot of stuff here, including featurettes, sound clips and images found in various sub-menus (the story room, the music room, the art department, character design, background and layout, the animation department, live action reference, the sweatbox, ink and paint, the camera department, the sound stage, and Walt's office). Despite the pretty, hi-def menus I recommend going to the index section, which allow the viewer to cut straight to the meat without the need to hunt and peck for the clips, all of which are presented in high definition video and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. It's probably important to note that this is the first home video high definition availability of some of the Silly Symphony shorts – including Babes in the Woods, The Skeleton Dance, Music Land, Goddess of Spring, Playful Pluto, Flowers and Trees, The Old Mill, and the one that really started it all, Steamboat Willie.
There are dozens of brief featurettes (begging for a 'play all' option), and even a deleted scene presented in pencil sketch mode, but the chunkiest bits of info-meat include:
- 'How it all Began' (12:00, HD), a brief documentary look at Hyperion's history, and the studio's technological advances (sound, colour, multi-plain camera, etc).
- 'The One That Started it All' (17:00, HD), a brief look at the historical significance of Snow White as the first feature length animated film.
- A series of story meeting audio reenactments including 'In Walt's Words: The Huntsman' (3:20, HD), 'Walt's Words: Cleaning the House' (7:00, HD), 'In Walt's Words: The Dwarfs' (6:00, HD).
- 'The Music of Snow White' (6:20, HD), a look at the Silly Symphony shorts, and their lead up to Disney's first feature.
- 'Creating the World of Snow White' (7:00, HD), a look at the production and art design, and the main artistic influences.
- 'Setting the Stage' (4:00, HD), a technical look at the layout process.
- 'Bringing Snow White to Life' (11:30, HD), a look at the intricacies of the film's animation as it pertains to each lead animator.
- 'Decoding the Exposure Sheets' (6:50, HD), an exploration of the technical camera work.
The disc also features a number of the original DVD release's extras. 'Animation Voice Talents' (6:20, SD) explores the film's vocal cast, and includes a few photos and video interviews with the cast members. 'Disney Through the Decades' (SD/HD) is brief, but it traces the success of the studio throughout the ages quite efficiently, and features the various Snow White trailers. The featurette has been altered to include the latest decade. The disc is completed with 'Dopey's Wild Mine Ride Game' and a karaoke version of 'Heigh-Ho'.
To sum up my insistence on placing emphasis on the more macabre elements of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, I direct your attention to the dwarfs' reaction to Snow White's death. They don't even go home to check on the poor girl, instead they thunder off to capture the Witch at the behest of the forest animals. One can only assume what they would've done had they got their hands on her before God himself knocked her off a cliff with a well placed lightning bolt. I won't go in to the grotesque implications of the glass coffin Snow White is placed in since the original story features the same element. It's also probably interesting to note that Dario Argento has regularly cited Snow White as a major influence on Suspiria.
This new Blu-ray collection features a bevy of new and exciting behind the scenes extras, all presented in glorious high definition video, and the video quality is a definitive upgrade over the already fine looking DVD release. The audio isn't perfect, but is solid enough to not garner any real complaints. Consumers should take care to not be tricked by the various packaging. Those looking only to purchase a DVD copy should really avoid the package marked as featuring a 'bonus' Blu-ray, as almost all the new extras are devoted to the second Blu-ray disc, not the DVD.
Review by Gabriel Powers
All ages admitted
Disc Details
Release Date: 6th October 2009
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, DTS 5.1 Spanish, DTS 5.1 French, Dolby Mono English
Subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish
Extras: Walt Disney Commentary, Music Video, Games, Snow White Returns, Hyperion Studios Featurettes, Image Galleries, Disney Through the Decades, Sing-Along, Princess and the Frog Sneak Peek, Trailers, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: David Hand, Walt Disney
Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Roy Atwell, Lucille LaVerne
Length: 84 minutes
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