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Skip to comments.An Update on Samuel Armas "The Hand of Hope"
Posted on 10/31/2003 6:53:55 PM PST by cpforlife.org
"The Hand That Touched The World" Nearly Four Years Later
It was the "hand of hope," a photo of an unborn baby's hand, that made its way around the world within days of appearing in USA Today. Taken by Michael Clancy, the color photo showed Samuel's tiny hand grasping a surgeon's finger during in utero surgery. See story, page 9 about Samuel's visit to a Senate Committee hearing. Photo above by John Imbody
A Flash of Life
Special to NRL News by Jonathan Imbody
Flashing an impish grin, three-year-old Samuel Armas quickly ducked behind a chair as a photographer tried to capture his picture at a recent Senate hearing in Washington, D.C. Samuel hadn't seemed quite so shy during his first photographic session. A photo of his tiny hand, grasping a surgeon's finger during in utero surgery, traveled around the globe and stunned a world that had tried to hide its face from the reality of life in the womb. (The photo can be viewed at www.michaelclancy.com.)
Samuel's parents, Alex and Julie Armas of Villa Rica, Georgia, testified September 25 before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space about the photo and their experience with in utero surgery. They were joined at the hearing by Dr. James Thorp, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at the University of Florida Pensacola, and by Michael Clancy, the photographer who captured Samuel's awe-inspiring grasp.
Dr. Thorp testified that in utero surgery, while still in the experimental stages and posing significant risks, offers incredible promise to parents of unborn children with birth defects. Alex and Julie explained that their surgery, initiated to treat spina bifida, remarkably changed the course of Samuel's life and of their own lives.
Alex testified, "Today, Samuel is nearly four years old and has not had to endure the surgeries that are common for most children with spina bifida. He's walking with leg braces, is cognitively normal, and loves looking for bugs."
Sitting behind his father who was testifying, Samuel wore a tee shirt displaying a few of those bugs. Committee chairman Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Ks.), himself the father of five children, called Samuel up to join his parents at the witness table for a few questions. He pointed to the large-scale version of the photograph and asked if Samuel knew what it was.
"Baby Samuel."
Asked what the doctors had done that day, three-year-old Samuel succinctly summarized the sophis-ticated surgery: "They fixed my boo-boo."
Julie recalled in her testimony the moment they heard the results of the pre-natal tests that revealed Samuel's "boo-boo."
"The first words my doctor said were, 'This is really bad.'"
In his testimony, Alex noted, "We were devastated. It's every parent's worst nightmare to learn that something is very wrong with your child. The doctor painted a grim picture for us and stopped just short of suggesting an abortion."
As Alex explained to NRL News after the hearing, "Our view was that after years of trying to conceive, this was the baby God chose to give us. Julie and I are both Christians. Scripture is clear on the sanctity of life in the womb, so ending the pregnancy was never an option for us."
Spina bifida, a sometimes fatal and typically severe brain and spinal cord anomaly, results from the spine failing to close properly during the first month of pregnancy. If the baby survives, spina bifida often leaves debilitating defects including accumulation of fluid in the brain (hydrocephalus), and a host of devastating secondary conditions.
Julie, an obstetrics nurse, decided after hearing the diagnosis to research treatments and discovered a pioneering program of maternal-fetal (in utero) surgery for spina bifida at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After intensive consultations with the medical staff, Julie and Alex not only gave the go-ahead for sur-gery on 21-week-old Samuel; they also agreed to let USA Today photograph the event as a way to increase awareness of the new procedure.
USA Today assigned photojournalist Michael Clancy to capture the surgery on film. Michael had no idea that the shoot would change his life forever.
As he explained to NRL News, "Before the picture, I felt that as a man I could never be pregnant and alone, so it wasn't for me to decide whether abortion was right or wrong. I was indifferent."
Michael described for the Senate hearing the details of his experience during the surgery:
"The tension could be felt in the operating room as the surgery began. The procedure would take place within the uterus, and no part of the child was to breach the surgical opening. The entire surgical procedure on the child was completed in one hour and 13 minutes. When it was over, the surgical team breathed a sigh of relief, as did I.
"As a doctor asked me what speed film I was using, out of the corner of my eye I saw the uterus shake, but no one's hands were near it. It was shaking from within.
"Suddenly, an entire arm thrust out of the opening, then pulled back until just a little hand was showing. The doctor reached over and lifted the hand, which reacted and squeezed the doctor's finger.
"As if testing for strength, the doctor shook the tiny fist. Samuel held firm. I took the picture. Wow!"
When the USA Today photo editor later phoned Michael to confirm its publication, the editor declared, "It's the most incredible picture I've ever seen." The photo appeared in the newspaper in September 2000 and spread at warp speed across the globe - - leading USA Today to subsequently refer to it as the "hand of a fetus [that] touched the world."
Meanwhile, Samuel's surgery had delivered the results for which his parents had hoped and prayed.
"Immediately after surgery," Alex recalls, "the hydrocephalus stopped progressing and started to slowly decrease." By the time Samuel was born, 15 weeks later, his brain malformation had reversed and the hydrocephalus had mostly disappeared.
Alex and Julie shared with NRL News the impact the surgery and photo have had on their own lives.
"The combined trials of infertility followed by Samuel's spina bifida and fetal surgery made for a roller coaster ride that dramatically matured our marriage and each of us individually," Alex confided. "We've experienced God's hand at work in two ways. First, Samuel clearly benefited from the surgery, and we're thankful for his progress and the absence of many problems that typically accompany children with spina bifida.
"Second, we're humbled by God's use of the hand-photo as a ministry. The article and photo were shown all over the world and have been used extensively by pro-life and Christian organizations to illustrate life inside the womb."
Since the publishing of Samuel's "hand of hope," images recently published in Britain of the "smiling fetus" - - a remarkable image captured by a new ultrasound scanning machine - - are again challenging the world to open its eyes to the wonder and reality of nascent human life. The stunningly detailed four-dimensional images reveal developing babies smiling, blinking, sucking their fingers, scratching their noses, hiccupping, and crying.
As Sen. Brownback observed during the hearing, "There is little debate about whether the child in utero is alive; the debate is over whether or not the child is a life worthy of protection." By bearing witness to the divinely knit wonders within the womb, extraordinary scientific technology is challenging many to reconsider that question.
All I can say is "Praise the Lord God Almighty" and please, if you support infanticide, please rethink your view. God is good...
|Birth is one day in the life of a person who is already nine months old.
Story of the "Fetal Hand Grasp" Photograph
by the photographer himself. Excellent website.
Thank you for the ping. What a wonderful testimony.
Great photos and story...
The argument that fetuses have feeling for pain is unfounded, and callous statement for person that can't defend themselves. The "Right to Life" is the argument, not when or how to murder a fetus.
What a great story! God's blessings on you and your daughter.
The medical community always errs on the side of abortion for liability reasons. There is the "wrongful birth" concept in law, in which the child can sue for having been born. There is no "wrongful abortion" to counterbalance it - since once the baby is aborted she cannot sue.
Your little gymnist was, in their eyes, just a number, a potential suer. In recommending abortion they were looking out for #1: themselves.
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Hopefully all of you have seen these photos previously. In case you didn't --- here they are!!!
Outstanding thanks much.
What a great amazing success story. Look at that little baby's hand. And fetus's aren't live people, huh. If their not a person, then what are they after their born?
One more bump.
Dr. Bruner, who performed the surgery on Samuel Armas, is not a pro-life champion by any stretch of the imagination: http://www.catholic.org/prwire/headline.php?ID=69
A beautiful story of life! One that I have followed over the past few years. Thank you for posting the follow up.
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I love that photo! I'm glad to see he's doing well. What a cutie!
Wow. That's fantastic! Thanks for the ping / update.
Unfortunately it won't end so long as they're seducing our young with clever turns of phrase like "the tissue is gently removed from the uterus," "retained products of conception" and "gently removing the contents of the uterus by vacuum aspiration." And, let's not forget girls: "Avoid sexual intercourse until your body has fully recovered, usually for at least 1 week." Don't worry, You'll be ready to go for prom night!
Makes me want to vomit.
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Mozilla representatives sharply rebuked a report earlier this month which pointed to Firefox as being the "most vulnerable app" to businesses. In its rebuke, Mozilla cited its rapid rate of patching and criticized Microsoft as being too slow when it came to patches, particularly for Internet Explorer. The result is an interesting debate -- should patches be rushed to market or be given time to be fully tested.
Blog site Cheap Hack offers an insightful analysis of this issue. Observing the Mozilla/Bit9 squabble, it notes that Mozilla has had a couple major problems arising possibly from rushed patches. One patch for Firefox earlier this year introduced a stability problem. Another batch of patches in an update left off an important Firefox 2 patch, though Mozilla maintains that this was an "administrative error", not an omission due to the rushed rate of patches.
On the other hand, Mozilla's patches do indeed hit the market faster. This may lead to a lower security risk for its customers.
The real dilemma for companies like Mozilla and Microsoft when it comes to patching is the question of how much time to devote to thorough testing. Typically, a security flaw such as the recent major vulnerability found in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, can be analyzed and a patch created with only a couple of days. However, testing the patch and its implications to overall functionality is much harder.
For Mozilla, which has leaned towards leaner testing, at times falling short in this department, this is a trouble spot. For Microsoft, this issue is perhaps even tougher as it is the industry leader and has a much greater business market share, thus its moves are scrutinized to a greater extent. Microsoft must test its patches with a multitude of Windows configurations and look for compatibility issues.
Another problem arises in cases such as the WMF code in Windows GDI, where quick patching can ignore a broader architecture problem which yields more similar undiscovered flaws. A great deal of time can be wasted creating very similar patches, while missing that the patches are all caused by the same underlying issue. In the case of the WMF code multiple patches were released that were remarkably similar. And while a fix-all systematic solution might not be possible in this case, Microsoft may have failed to check into it in an effort to roll out patches faster.
When it comes to hurried patches, Mozilla may indeed be more troubled than Microsoft. However, another issue is when patches arrive far too slow. For example, an SQL bug in some version of Microsoft's SQL projects has existed known and unpatched since April. Microsoft may have wanted to include the patch in a service pack, but it should have acted far sooner, when an appropriate bundle failed to come along.
The latter extreme -- patching far too slow -- is an especially big problem for Apple. Apple systems have traditionally been rarely targeted by hackers and malware writers, however, the machines are beginning to have more problems with malicious assaults. This has led Apple to urge its users to get antivirus protection. However, Apple's leisurely pace of patching in its programs such as Safari, something it attributes to thorough testing, may place its users in danger. Apple has at times been praised for thoroughly testing its patches. However, no antivirus program can safeguard users entirely on a poorly patched system, and its slow patching may do more harm than good.
In all patching philosophies differ dramatically by company. Mozilla features an ultra-quick patching cycle, while Apple features an extremely slow one. Microsoft falls somewhere in the middle; a little more towards the slow end. In the end the debate over how much time to allow between security flaw discoveries and patch releases remains a tricky question unlikely to be solved in the near future.


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Dont get me wrong, Obito is super frikkin awesome! The only villain who could even hope to be on his level is Sasuke, next is Madara and Orochimaru(i guess).(not strength wise)
I agree that his Kamui is Uber Godly, he can pretty much do whatever he wants and go wherever he wants. Plus he has the best follower anyone could ever ask for! Zetsu! Zetsu's powers are too much for any one man to command! But I believe these things have made him over confident and careless. He talks as if he is untouchable, but he clearly isnt!
The only person Obito was truly cautious of was Itachi! I believe he handled Itachi's situation very well, escaping Itachi's attempt on his life and getting what he wanted in the end, another partial follower with deadly power, just like Nagato was(although Madara set that one up).
Obito needs to be more careful and not underestimate his enemies.


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ICTR Prosecutor recognizes INTERPOL for investigative support in apprehending Rwandan genocide fugitives
LYON, France – The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has commended INTERPOL for its ongoing and critical role in the location and apprehension of fugitives wanted in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Following the recent release of a manual on 'The Tracking and Arrest of Fugitives from International Criminal Justice: Lessons from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda', the ICTR applauded INTERPOL for the investigative support it continues to offer to the authorities who are tracking down the remaining fugitives.
ICTR Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow highlighted the important roles played by a variety of entities and member countries in helping to bring Rwandan genocide fugitives to justice.
In particular, he recognized "the achievements of the Tribunal's tracking operations, including its trackers for their dedication in difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions; INTERPOL for its investigative support," and other organizations for their valuable assistance.
Since 2001, INTERPOL has issued 23 Red Notices for internationally wanted persons at the request of the ICTR, with its Fugitive Investigative Support (FIS) unit directly supporting the arrest of nine individuals wanted by the tribunal for genocide-related crimes.
Among those arrested with INTERPOL's support were Dominique Ntawukuriryayo, a government official in the Gisagara district who organized the massacre of Tutsis from his district who was arrested in France in 2007; Callixte Nzabonimana, the Minister of Youth and a suspected mastermind of the genocide who was arrested in Tanzania in 2008; and Jean Bosco Uwinkindi, a pastor who prevented Tutsis from taking refuge in his church and took part in multiple attacks, who was arrested in Uganda in 2010.
"The dedicated efforts of INTERPOL's Fugitive Investigative Support unit in tracking down individuals wanted for genocide should indeed be applauded. Thanks to its hard work and close collaboration with the ICTR and law enforcement authorities across our 190 member countries, fugitives accused of the most appalling crimes have been taken off the streets, making the world a safer place for all its citizens," said INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble.
In further support of the ICTR, INTERPOL has developed an initiative aimed at locating and bringing to justice the fugitives wanted for participating in the Rwandan genocide. The INTERPOL Rwandan Genocide Fugitives Project was created in conjunction with the ICTR and the Rwandan National Prosecuting Authority to target the remaining fugitives wanted by those two groups.
Additionally, FIS has met multiple times with the investigators and prosecutors of the ICTR in Rwanda to develop strategies for locating and arresting the wanted fugitives. Meetings with senior Rwandan officials led to the creation of a dedicated fugitive team within the Rwanda National Prosecution Service and the establishment of a mechanism for international cooperation in targeting the most dangerous fugitives.
"INTERPOL is committed to working with the ICTR, other international criminal tribunals and national law enforcement authorities bring to justice those wanted for taking part in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The perpetrators of these heinous crimes can run, but they can't hide forever because INTERPOL brings together police from all our member countries in a united effort to locate and arrest every last fugitive," said Stefano Carvelli, Assistant Director of INTERPOL's Fugitive Investigative Support unit.
INTERPOL has held two training courses for genocide and war crimes investigators, with another course scheduled for October 2013, in collaboration with the ICTR.


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Mobility Matters: The Dark Side of Mobile Banking
Time to take off the cheerleader outfit because the reality is that, in lots of ways, mobile banking continues to disappoint many credit unions and members.
The bright potential to truly revolutionize how and where we consume financial services is there, but there also are many bits of gloomy news that suggest new, better ways of deploying mobile banking need to be found.
First a bit of good news, from Michael Poulos, CEO of Michigan First, a $681 million credit union in the Detroit suburb of Lathrup Village, Mich. "Technology is a great equalizer. We can compete with Chase because we can provide the same technology. We don't have to have 300 branches. The cellphone is moving into our sweet spot."
"Mobile provides convenience. We believe it will be very good for member retention," said Ken Senus, senior vice president of IT at $1.3 billion Navigant Credit Union in Smithfield, R.I. Navigant, Senus related, introduced its mobile apps a couple months ago and with minimal promotion already 3,500 members have downloaded them.
Senus' goal: To get every current online banking member also enrolled in mobile. He did not set a timeline for that goal but, he elaborated, Navigant is seeking to build a mobile banking app that mirrors the institution's online banking experience.
That is the dream: when the smartphone becomes a branch in every pocket, suddenly the small institutions can go toe to toe with the mega banks.
But to get there, hurdles will have to be jumped.
Case in point: buried in a new study from Javelin Research is a startling data point - banking consumers who reported troubles accessing mobile banking "tripled since 2009 from 4% to over 14% in 2012." More than one in seven of us are saying they are interested in using mobile banking but they cannot access.
In an interview, Javelin's Mary Monahan said that Javelin had not probed into the why of the access difficulties. It could be the financial institution does not support this consumer's phone, for instance. It could be that the consumer is in an area with anemic cellular data services. It could also be that the consumer simply finds his/her institution's banking app to be puzzling.
None of those possibilities is particularly compelling but the plain reality is that a sizable consumer cohort appears to feel abandoned by a mobile banking they want to embrace.
Another troubling fact: adoption of mobile banking by credit union members continues to lag. Many institutions still can claim only single digit usage by members - and that is at a time when the race into mobile is transforming just about every other sector of the economy.
A reason for this, said Robb Gaynor, a co-founder of Austin, Texas, apps developer Malauzai, is that many institutions claim to offer mobile banking but what they offer is a mobile "optimized" version of their online banking portal and "the experience is terrible," said Gaynor. "Browser based mobile banking is ruining this. It's a disappointing experience."
Gaynor's fear is that a member who tries browser-based mobile banking and who swears to never go there again may be tough to persuade to give the slicker, apps-based mobile banking experience a try.
If they do, believes Gaynor, they will become converts to a better way to bank. By Gaynor's math, a typical credit union that launches a mobile app will have around 10% of its members active in the channel 90 days after launch.
Withing a year, said Gaynor, 15% to 20% of members will be active mobile banking customers.
He added, optimistically, "We expect mobile banking to take off in half the time it took online banking to."
To Gaynor, a key to sustaining mobile banking adoption is to keep enriching the app – the better it gets, with more features, the more members will find a reason to go mobile.
Fiserv's Steve Shaw has a similarly optimistic outlook on the future of mobile banking. His view is that "we are on the cusp of substantial consumer adoption. It will come in 12 to 18 months."
His perspective is that the market is coming to maturity, as more consumers have smartphones and they know about apps and, importantly, they also begin to use phones as financial tools, buying coffee at Starbucks or lumber with PayPal at Home Depot.
Put the ingredients together and, said Shaw, it's an incendiary mix that will deliver explosive growth in mobile banking, at least at the institutions that have invested in upgrading their tools.
"Financial institutions need to keep investing in mobile, or they will lose consumers," said Shaw. "This is a unique opportunity."


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Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS): Wave 1, 2001 (ICPSR 4679)
Principal Investigator(s): Giordano, Peggy C., Bowling Green State University; Longmore, Monica A., Bowling Green State University; Manning, Wendy D., Bowling Green State University
This study explores the relationship qualities and the subjective meanings that motivate adolescent behavior. More specifically, this study seeks to examine the nature and meaning of adolescent relationship experiences (e.g., with family, peers, and dating partners) in an effort to discover how experiences associated with age, gender, race, and ethnicity influence the meaning of dating relationships. The study further investigates the relative impact of dating partners and peers on sexual behavior and contraceptive practices, as well as involvement in other problem behaviors that can contribute independently to sexual risk taking. The longitudinal design of the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) includes a schedule of follow-up interviews occurring one, three, and five years after the initial interview. Three waves of data have been collected (2001, 2002, and 2004) and a fourth wave is scheduled for collection (2006). Data were collected from adolescent respondents through structured in-home interviews utilizing laptop computers. In-depth interviews were conducted at the first wave with a subsample (n=100) of the respondents. Parent data was collected via a short, self-administered questionnaire at the first wave.
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Giordano, Peggy C., Monica A. Longmore, and Wendy D. Manning. Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS): Wave 1, 2001. ICPSR04679-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-01-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04679.v1
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It seems to me like many people have been eager for there to be another point guard controversy and have had a strong tendency to see way more in Jack than he's actually shown. Even back in preseason, when both the guards were struggling, this site would harp on Calderon's poor play while mostly ignoring how terribly Jack was running the offense. (It really was terrible -- it was scoring less than 90 points per 100 possessions). And he really was astonishingly terrible in the preseason and first 10 or so games of the season, shooting as badly as wright, turning the ball over a ton, and totally failing to run the offense.
Even when Calderon was struggling, he still facilitated the offense, which Jack didn't.
Jack has gotten a pass for all his bad play, and as soon as he has a few good games, a chorus of voices anoints him the new starter. I really don't get where this is coming from. He's a good, solid player, but he makes careless turnovers and his court vision is not on Calderon's level.
Last year, the year where Calderon was hampered by injury? He still produced at an amazingly high level. His offensive production was ridiculous! People don't seem realise the amazing contribution Calderon makes to the team's offense. Last year, his offensive rating was 123. By comparison, Kobe's was 115 and Chris Paul's was 124.
Now, his defensive rating was 112 and CP4's was 103. So yes, he gives away something on defense. But when Calderon is playing at his usual level, you gain way, way, way more on offense than you lose on defense. Like, it's not at all close. 11 points difference between offensive and defensive ratings is a big deal.
Now, Calderon has played worse this season, and he's been injured again. But if Jack gets a pass for his terrible start, then so does Calderon. Calderon at least has the excuse that he didn't play all summer due to recuperating his injury -- what was Jack's excuse? Don't get me wrong, I'm not slagging Jack, but the fact is that Calderon has still outplayed Jack this year, even though he's played well below the level he's capable of. The stats certainly back this up, and so does my impression watching the games. I'm not too impressed by the claims that people are 'more comfortable' with Jack running the offense, because it has been obvious since the beginning of the season that plenty of observers on this site have been eager to see more in Jack than is there.
Now, if Jose never regains his form of the last 3 years, whether he or Jack is better might be a debate. But Jose had already started to play back to his old level before the injury. And if both Jose and Jack play at the level they're capable of, we'll have a not-quite all-star and a borderline starter (that is, someone who can start, but will generally be worse than whoever is starting for the other team) at the point guard spot. That's great! But let's stop forgetting what Jose has consistently given us for 3 years and overrating a good but not great player in Jack.
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The nuclear crisis in Japan has had a roller
coaster of reports since the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck on March 11. For
instance, CNN and MSNBC.com were
caught embellishing their stories early on, trying to make the nuclear danger
seem worse than it was. Now, new
reports are saying that Japanese officials may be downplaying the
amount of radiation released, since the Japanese nuclear regulatory agency has
now put the Fukushima Daiichi disaster on the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl
Chernobyl disaster occurred in 1986 when an explosion led to fire that released
large amounts of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. This event was the
only nuclear disaster in history to be rated a 7 on the International Nuclear
Event Scale, but now, the Japanese nuclear regulatory agency has changed
Japan's nuclear crisis from a 5 to a 7 on the scale as well.
is an admission by the Japanese government that the amount of radiation
released into the environment has reached a new order of magnitude," said
Tetsuo Iguchi, a professor in the department of quantum engineering at Nagoya
University. "The fact that we have now confirmed the world's second-ever
Level 7 accident will have huge consequences for the global nuclear industry.
It shows that current safety
standards are woefully inadequate."
As of
now, Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director general of Japan's nuclear regulator,
says the total amount of radioactive materials released from the plant equals
10 percent of what was released in Chernobyl. Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission
noted that 370,000 to 630,000 terabecquerels of radioactive material has been
released from Nos. 1 to 3 reactors.
to the International Nuclear Event Scale, a Level 7 is described as having
"widespread health and environmental effects." The announcement that
Japan is now a Level 7 came as Japan was pushing more citizens to evacuate
areas near the Fukushima Daiichi plant because of long-term radiation exposure
fears. People living within a 12-mile radius of the plant were already ordered
to evacuate early on, but now, government officials have ordered those living
within a 19-mile radius to stay inside or evacuate the area.
addition, communities beyond the 19-mile radius have been evacuated as well due
to how the radiation is spreading. Different variables like wind can determine
where the radiation spreads. For instance, a community called Iitate, which is
"well beyond the 19-mile radius," has had high radiation readings
because of wind from the plant. The government is also looking to evacuate
Katsurao, Kawamata, Minamisoma and Namie within one month because of concerns
regarding long-term radiation exposure. If the
conditions grow worse, Naraha, Hirono, Tamura, Kawauchi and other sections of
Minamisoma will be evacuated as well.
measure is not an order for you to evacuate or take actions immediately,"
said Yukio Edano, chief cabinet secretary. "We arrived at this decision by
taking into account the risks of remaining in the area in the long term."
With both
the Chernobyl explosion and Japan's nuclear crisis on the same level on
the International Nuclear Event Scale, some are worried that Fukushima may
become worse than Chernobyl. For instance, Junichi Matsumoto, a nuclear
executive for Tokyo Electric Power Company, said his biggest concern is that
radiation levels could exceed Chernobyl at some point. But there are some
clear distinctions between the two events that make his claim extremely
unlikely. The most important difference between Chernobyl and the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear crisis is that most of the radioactive elements in Fukushima's
reactors were contained within the reactors.
everything inside the reactor came out, obviously that would surpass
Chernobyl," said Seiji Shiroya, a commissioner and the former director of
the Research Reactor Institute at Kyoto University. "There was only one
troubled reactor there, while we have three or more, so simply speaking, that's
three times as worse. But at Fukushima, most of the reactors' radioactive
elements remained within the reactor. That's a big difference."
health effects from Chernobyl are expected to remain worse than Japan's health
effects as well. Thirty-one people died in Chernobyl while 20 workers were
injured at Fukushima. In addition, Dr. Robert Peter Gale, who led the
international medical team responding to Chernobyl, said that if the nuclear
crisis in Japan did not become any worse, there would be few, if any, thyroid
cancer cases and 200 to 1,500 other cancer cases combined over the next 50
years. In Chernobyl, there were 6,000 excess cases of thyroid cancer
regards to whether the Japanese government was downplaying the
amount of radiation released, reports indicate that the Japanese government
did not have an exact idea of the amounts of radiation released in the early
weeks of the event, and "last week had the amounts down to an error margin
within several digits."
foreigners fled the country even when there appeared to be little risk,"
said Shiroya. "If we immediately decided to label the situation as Level
7, we could have triggered a panicked reaction."
Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday evening that Japan will rebuild, and that
reactors were being stabilized despite this new decision to place the nuclear
disaster at a Level 7. He also noted that radioactive material release is
declining. In addition, he ordered Tokyo Electric to present new plans for the
Fukushima Daiichi plant.
I can say for the information I obtained - of course the government is very
large, so I don't have all the information - is that no information was ever
suppressed or hidden after the accident," said Kan.
to the International
Atomic Energy Agency, it measured radiation this past Saturday of 0.4 to
3.7 microsieverts per hour in areas located 20 to 40 miles from the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear plant.


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Hi everyone,
My introduction to the Naruto world began back in 2004-2005 in Pittsburgh, PA (USA) where an openly gay, anime-loving, buddy demonstrated a sleuths his of anime cds, including Naruto, to me and a handful of my buddies. My buddies and I already liked anime, but we all specially loved Naruto show, to the point that we all made it a daily escapade to our non flamboyant buddy's place to watch, then excitedly discuss, the episodes of his limited collection (still large by any means though). Starting from the first episode to the epic Naruto and Susake fight at the Valley of Heroes(?), we all laughed, got teary eyed--maybe even cried a little, raged, and cheered, at the major plots and characters in the show. In short, we were all emotionally invested in it.
Then I joined the US Army; it took a short hiatus.
Believe it or not but there are people in the Army who really do like anime; the US Army is so big and diverse that it would be surprising that it didn't. Anyways, while reflecting on interests in our down time at the barracks, post boot camp, anime naturally came as a topic point (along with women, Army job complaints, sports, music, computers, games, xbox360/ps3 etc, etc). I shared how I was introduced to an awesome anime (Naruto) and told its main plot with swagger-like efficiency...only to be totally outdone by a soldier who claimed that my anime source is already outdated, and that something called "Naruto manga" was way ahead of its animation. Jolted by this realization I made a mental note to keep up pace with this "manga," and continued our air venting episodes for days to come. But then...
Again, another intermittent hiatus: Irag and Afghanistan happen.
After Afghanistan I decided to not reenlist, for college purposes (that epic Post 9/11 GI Bill), and return home a more patriotic, humbled, mature, civic-minded, lightly wiser, better shaped self....with a sometimes sick twisted sense of humor. But I digress, anime was back in my daily routine. So after a Googled search or two I found this website. And after a couple of months in catching up not only in Naruto but it's Shippuuden sequel, I started reading this site's forums, starting with the prediction sections.
Months later, the weekly routine is: read the manga, followed by the 'prediction' section, and see if my own theories hold water not only to the called predictions, but also to the manga itself. Needless to say, I was one of those in denial of Obito being Tobi. Prediction guru, I'm not. Yet, I've grown a fascination to some of the post and comments by some of its fans on this site. It is what eventually pushed my decision from being a passive roles (just coming to watch/read of its site), to a more participant role (becoming a member and posting comments etc).
Thus, here I am.
Thank you all for taking the time to read. Feel free to post your replies, if any.
PS--Admittedly, I've already posted some few replies. That's due to the fact that I JUST went through most of my emails on half of my mail accounts, and didn't realize about introducing myself to the forum 1st and stuff. *sighs* 216 non-spam emails more to go. Yay, -.- ...


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Onsite Coverage: NFL Icon Joe Montana Says Fundamentals, Preparation and Trust Build Strong Teams
LAS VEGAS — In front of a packed room, NFL legend Joe Montana shared with attendees at NACUSO's annual conference Wednesday morning two key components that can make credit unions and other organizations thrive: strong fundamentals and preparation.
"The way you prepare for work is asking, 'What can we do to make our organization better,'" Montana said. "When you look at organizations, the ones with the strong fundamentals are the strongest.
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Montana took the audience at the Encore Las Vegas back to his childhood recalling his love of many sports – basketball was his favorite – and practicing with his father, who didn't play any sports but had a love for them, Montana shared. One day while playing basketball with his dad, Montana discovered he would make the shot every single time from a certain spot on the court.
His confidence soaring, he continued to stay in that spot. His father, however, made him play from around the court, playing him hard on defense. The lesson?
"It's about paying attention to the little things. You never know when the little things will come back to you. When I talk about preparation, you can determine with your organization how you're going to show your team how to do it better," Montana said.
To illustrate, Montana went back to 1979 when he was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. It was then that he learned a hard lesson about how crucial the fundamentals were.
"There wasn't a whole lot of acrobatic catches back then. When I look back at who I played with, it was about the fundamentals."
Closely aligned with embracing the basics is having an environment of trust and a strong worth ethic, Montana said. He pointed to how from day one, teammate Jerry Rice practiced hard, ran fast and was consistent.
"When I think of work ethic, I thought we had a good one until Jerry Rice came along. Every time Jerry caught the pass, he would score a touchdown. Is it a coincidence? No, because that's how he came to work, that's what he did every day."
As the 49ers quarterback, Montana said building trust was a necessity with his teammates. For instance, trust begins early with the quarterback and center, he offered.
"I got five fat people in front of me that I trust," Montana said, referring to his offensive linemen. "I have to know that I can stay back and not have to worry about getting rid of the ball before getting sacked."
NACUSO conference attendees were able to participate in a question and answer period after Montana spoke. The questions were all over the gamut from "what do you want your legacy to be" – "All you can hope for is that people enjoyed the game. Not because of me but the people around me too" – to "what kinds of positive reinforcement did coaches give since they were often know to yell a lot" – Montana chuckled as he replied "One of the biggest motivators was 'OK, you just got fined.' Really, there was only a lot of yelling when someone was making the same mistake over and over."
Since Montana talked at length about trust, preparation and how the two emanate from the top, Credit Union Times asked Montana during his football career, did he ever have instances where he or his teammates felt a lack of trust from the coaching staff. Montana said while there weren't really any of those scenarios from the top (he demurred a bit – "what happens in the locker room, stays in the locker room), he did say that if there was dissension among teammates, they would go off to the so-called "gravel pit" and try to work things out.
His response piggybacked onto another attendee's question about dealing with different personalities and leadership styles "in the huddle."
"We're together so much. You know when someone is having a problem of there any changes," Montana said. "The one thing I never wanted anyone to see was me being nervous, so I was kind of a prankster. I had respect for (my teammates) and they had respect for me. My philosophy is what happens in the huddle, we have to help each other out. If something is wrong, you have to say something."


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As high-tech licenses become increasingly hard to forge, the Department of Motor Vehicles has found that one popular approach to obtaining fraudulent license is for someone to pose as a friend or colleague in an effort to get an official license. New high-tech software uses facial recognition to warn officials if the face of the person being licensed matches someone already licensed.
However, there's one problem -- the algorithms often fail if people are making different faces in the two photos. So four states -- Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia -- are telling drivers to wipe that grin off their face. No more happy days for licensing, the states have declared, drivers must adopt "neutral facial expressions".
Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor Takeo Kanade acknowledges that the move is necessary given the poor state of facial recognition technology when it comes to facial expressions. Researchers still have yet to catch up to the inherent processing capability of the human brain, which can recognize familiar faces in a broad variety of expressions.
Karen Chappell, deputy commissioner of the Virginia DMV says that the smile ban is necessary to "make the comparison process more accurate."
Some citizens who were initially offended are changing their tune, deciding that the rule is in the best interest of national security. States Elaine Mullen of Great Falls, Va., "It's probably safer from a national-security point of view."
Arkansas, Indiana and Nevada do still allow small smiles. Currently 31 states in total do computerized matching of driver's license photos, and 3 others are considering it. Of the 27 other states without anti-smiling policies, many are considering adopting similar measures. Some states though are resisting the movement. Pennsylvania Transportation Department spokesman Craig Yetter, states, "People can smile here in Pennsylvania."
Even without a smile-ban, Illinois stopped 6,000 people from getting fraudulent licenses since 1999, according to Beth Langen, the state head of Drivers Services.


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You have a unique medical history. It is important to talk with your doctor about your personal risk factors and/or experience with brain tumors. By talking openly and regularly with your doctor, you can take an active role in your care.
Here are some tips that will make it easier for you to talk to your doctor:
- Bring someone else with you. It helps to have another person hear what is said and think of questions to ask.
- Write your questions ahead of time so you don't forget them.
- Write down the answers you get and make sure you understand what you are hearing. Ask for clarification, if necessary.
- Don't be afraid to ask your questions or ask where you can find more information about what you are discussing. You have a right to know.
What are the statistics on my type of brain tumor?
- Is it known what caused my type of brain tumor?
- Will I have any disabilities?
- What are the chances I will be able to care for myself, and for how long?
What are my chances of getting a tumor?
- Given my exposure to radiation?
- Given my exposure to possibly toxic chemicals?
- Given my family medical history?
- With this type of brain tumor, what are my treatment options?
- Is one or a combination of treatments better for me than others?
- What are the side effects of the different treatments?
What medications are available to me?
- What are the benefits/side effects of these medications?
- Will these medications interact with other medications, over-the-counter products, or dietary or herbal supplements that I am already taking?
- Are there any alternative or complimentary therapies that will help me?
- How long will we plan to treat the tumor?
- Should I follow a special diet?
- Are there any dietary changes I should make? How do I go about it?
Should I begin an exercise program?
- What kind of exercise is best?
- How often should I exercise?
- How do I get started exercising?
- Should I stop drinking alcohol?
- What should I avoid doing until the treatment is over?
- Will I have to give up driving?
- What changes should I expect to make in my job?
- What should I tell my family, friends, and employer?
- Can you suggest some support organizations?
- What is my expected prognosis?
- How often will I need checkups?
- What are the chances my brain tumor will come back?
- Who can help me with finding a support group and getting legal assistance if I have trouble at my job?
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Mohei Abouzied, MD, FACP
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Social apps can make working with Office 2013 more engaging, efficient, and fun. They combine the networking and outreach capabilities of social media sites with the mobile productivity power of Office. Together, Office and social apps give you more insight into your contacts, allow you to monitor your social channels without using a browser, and can spice up your SharePoint sites in ways that you'll "like" (thumbs up).
The LinkedIn for Outlook app is one of the most popular of the social apps. It lets you see LinkedIn profile data for your contacts while you are using Outlook. Not only can this app give you greater insight into your email contacts, it can help you build your professional network quickly from one of your most valuable professional resources: your Outlook contact list. Likewise, if you're an active Tweeter, you may want to add the ExTweet app to your library. It offers a way to display real-time Tweets that match the data in your Excel workbook.
From the most popular social media website comes the Facebook Integration App. Use it to add Facebook social plug-ins to your SharePoint site so people can interact with it as they would a Facebook page. It can make your site more social by encouraging increased user engagement and eliciting immediate feedback and comments. Similarly, the ConnectWithUs app lets you connect your SharePoint site to your page on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, or any other community.
These are just a few examples of apps that work with the Office applications you use every day to make them even more dynamic and useful. Explore the Office Apps Store to find more apps for Office 2013 that can make your work easier, increase your productivity, and help you have fun.


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problem with detecting very early cancers with MRI is that the signal
is not strong enough for early cancer stages where it is most
treatable. A group of researchers has developed a new way to boost
the signal strength of MRI machines to allow the detection of cancers
at a much smaller stage.
Alexander Pines from the University
of California, Berkeley said, "By detecting the MRI signal of
dissolved hyperpolarized xenon after the xenon has been extracted
back into the gas phase, we can boost
the signal's strength up to 10,000 times. It is absolutely
amazing because we're looking at pure gas and can reconstruct the
whole image of our target. With this degree of sensitivity,
Hyper-SAGE becomes a highly promising tool for in vivo diagnostics
and molecular imaging."
Hyper-SAGE stands for
"hyperpolarized xenon signal amplification by gas extraction."
The technique takes the inert xenon gas and hyperpolarizes the gas by
hitting it with a laser light to produce a group of xenon atoms where
five out of every ten nuclei produce an MRI signal. Typically, only
about one in every 100,000 nuclei produces a MRI signal.
Xin Zhou said, "Xenon gas has an intrinsically long relaxation
time, greater than 45 minutes, which means the signal lasts long
enough for us to collect all the encoded information, which in turn
can enable us to detect specific targets, such as cancer-related
proteins, at micromolar or parts per million concentrations. Also,
Hyper-SAGE utilizes remote detection, meaning the signal encoding and
detection processes are physically separated and carried out
independently. This is a plus for imaging the lung, for example,
where the signal of interest would occupy only a small portion of the
traditional MRI signal receiver."
The new technique is
also painless and easy to administer. Zhou says, "In a clinical
setting, a patient would inhale the hyperpolarized xenon gas which
would be dissolved in the blood and allowed to flow into the body and
brain. The exhaled xenon gas would then be collected and its MRI
signal would be detected. Used in combination with a target-specific
xenon biomolecular sensor, we should be able to study the
gas-exchange in the lung and detect cancerous cells at their earliest
stage of development."


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Corporate America's Buckley Heads West for Texas Deputy CU Commissioner Job
The Texas Credit Union Department announced Wednesday in a newsletter posted on its website that Dan Buckley, former interim CEO at the $2.7 billion Corporate America Credit Union, will join the state regulator as deputy commissioner effective Feb. 25.
Buckley was hired by Corporate America in September 2010 to be the Birmingham, Ala.-based corporate's vice president of risk management after a 25-year career as an NCUA examiner.
He was named interim CEO in April 2012 after former CEO Thomas Bonds took a leave of absence. Bonds resigned in July and the board selected former First Corporate CU CEO Pete Pritts to be its permanent CEO in October.
The Texas CUD also announced former state DMV enforcement attorney Stacey McLarty joined the regulator as assistant commissioner and general counsel.
Prior to working at the DMV, McLarty was an assistant general counsel at the Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner, and before that, a prosecutor with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.


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42 games into the season you'd think Turk would have found where he fits on this team by now.
He said that he needs the ball in his hands more to be affective, but he makes more bone head plays then anyone else on the team. He takes bad shots on a consistent basis. He's the worst defender on the team and makes zero hustle plays.
What ever you can get for him at this point is better than having on the team. He just doesn't fit.
Turk single handedly lost the Cavs game. Taking stupid fouls, all And 1's. He let his guy fly by and didn't play help D at all. His fourtee is supposed to be ball handling, play making and clutch baskets. They gave him the ball late in the fourth and he forced three bad shots, turned it over, and passed it to guys in akward spots with no time on the shot clock.
Wright was playing fine all game, so was Derozan. Why weren't they in there at the end?


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Ares I-X rocket produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust, accelerating
the rocket to nearly 3 G's and a top speed of Mach 4.76. The rocket
reached a peak sub-orbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the
separation the first stage from the main stage.
The Ares I is
the first new rocket to launch from the Kennedy Space Center since
the Space
Shuttle in 1981.
"This is a huge step forward for
NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, the Associate
Administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA
Headquarters in Washington.
"Ares I-X provides NASA with
an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design
and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight vehicles --
vehicles that could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit."
The Ares I-X mission was conceived almost four years ago as
an early demonstration for the Constellation
program, which envisions a manned return to the Moon. The Ares
program includes the Ares I rocket which will carry crews into Earth
orbit, and the much larger Ares V to launch cargo.
can't say enough about this team," Cooke added. "They've
been together probably a little over three years now, and they went
from a concept to flying this vehicle in that period of time, which
is the first time this has been done by a human spaceflight team in a
long time
Today's test flight will be followed by the Ares I-Y
test flight in 2014, following years of data analysis and computer
modeling. Flight engineers were especially concerned about roll
torque, and will be carefully scrutinizing the data collected by over
700 onboard sensors.
A wide range of performance data was
relayed to the ground during the flight and also stored in the
onboard flight data recorder. This flight test engineering data will
be examined to see how well it correlates with current computer
models. The sensors gathered information during several key aspects
of the mission, including assembly and launch operations, as well as
the separation of the vehicle's first and second stages.
was some initial speculation that the new kevlar parachutes being
used for the first time did not deploy properly. They are part of the
first stage which will be recovered for inspection. The simulated
Upper Stage and boilerplate fell into the Atlantic Ocean as planned
and will not be recovered.
"The most valuable learning
is through experience and observation," said Bob Ess, the Ares
I-X's mission manager. "Tests such as this -- from paper to
flight -- are vital in gaining a deeper understanding of the vehicle,
from design to development."
NASA was promoting the
flight as an early opportunity to test and prove hardware,
facilities, and ground operations. However, there have been
calls to scrap some test missions and even a push to abandon the Ares
I rocket completely. This early test flight gives the Ares program
significant public visibility, making it harder to cancel during the
round of budget cuts.
Overhanging the mission was a
157-page report by a panel ordered by President Obama to review
the Constellation program. They found that the program was on an
"unsustainable trajectory" due to insufficient funding and
unrealistic schedules.
Instead of using the Ares I, the panel
recommended relying on commercial crew transport services from
companies like SpaceX. NASA would focus instead on developing
heavy-lift rockets like the Ares V for deep space
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