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The seemingly endless torrent of scandals rushing from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima continues with the news that a serious incident is underway at the stricken plant. Once again we see that Fukushima's owner TEPCO is utterly unfit to deal with the ongoing disaster.
And the bad news just keeps coming. We now hear that 300 tonnes of highly contaminated water has escaped from storage tanks at the site – the worst leak since the disaster began in March 2011.
Currently, the situation is being classified by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority as level 3 on the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) – a serious incident.
Chart of the IAEA's INES scale is copyright of the CLP Group.
The source of the leak is a mystery and there is no confirmation from TEPCO that it has been stopped. Right now, TEPCO has denied the possibility that the water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean but we've heard these reassurances before. TEPCO's announcements simply can't be trusted. The radioactive waste is flowing into the soil and it is just a matter of time that it will be taken towards the ocean by the groundwater.
Radiation levels found in one of the puddles are the highest found in the two and a half years since the reactors were destroyed. According to TEPCO, the leaked water contains 80 million Becquerel of beta radiation per liter. One location measured over 100 milliSievert per hour of radiation dose. The high contamination levels in the water means it will be extremely difficult for humans to clean it up - workers will easily be exposed to more than the maximum allowable limit of radiation.
Children walk along a road which a Greenpeace team found to contain high, unsafe levels of contamination.
Why wasn't TEPCO monitoring these tanks properly? That such a massive amount of dangerous radiation could escape before anything was done is another damning scandal amid an ocean of damning scandals rushing from Fukushima.
How much more incompetence from TEPCO will the Japanese government tolerate? Why isn't the company being held responsible? Nobody has been arrested or lost their jobs. Meanwhile, Japan's Prime Minister Abe tours the world acting as salesman for the nuclear industry. The situation is absurd.
The chilling question now is: what might happen next? We've been saying things have been going from bad to worse for years. Things are now going from worse to what? Worser? We're running out of ways to describe this never-ending nightmare.
It is long past time the Japanese government took over the disaster relief efforts and TEPCO's executives were held to account. An urgent appeal for international assistance must be made immediately. This is an emergency none of us can afford to ignore.
Top image: Satellite image showing damage at Japan's Fukushima 1 Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant after the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Source: DigitalGlobe
Justin McKeating has been blogging the meltdown of the nuclear industry for Greenpeace International since 2008. He is based in Brighton, UK.
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Well stated. Yes, it's horrific and the mainstream media brown-out is not helping matters. We must continue to spread the information--and the out...
Well stated. Yes, it's horrific and the mainstream media brown-out is not helping matters. We must continue to spread the information--and the outrage. Thank you for this post.
21 August, 2013 at 9:39
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Myriam Yentl
save the sea!!!
22 August, 2013 at 3:56
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(Unregistered) Jeams Dean
What kind of methods are there that normal people can attribute on this issue? not just informing other people.
22 August, 2013 at 6:59
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Jan Haverkamp - Greenpeace
@Jeams Dean - Informing other people is a good first step, though. But that needs to translate in pressure on Japan's government to fundamentally ...
@Jeams Dean - Informing other people is a good first step, though. But that needs to translate in pressure on Japan's government to fundamentally reorganise TEPCO and the whole way the crisis is dealt with: no priority for TEPCOs financial bottom line and face, but for the victims and containing the disaster. You can write the Japanese government about that, for instance. Or ask your own government to pass that message.
Next to that, we need to increase pressure that also those who constructed the reactors - Hitachi, GE and Toshiba - are held responsible and help increasing the pool of money available to deal with the catastrophe and its victims, instead of getting money out of it by profitable clean-up deals. Sign our petition to that extent: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/getinvolved/They-profit-you-pay/
And get involved in preventing that nuclear energy gets the chance to cause a next Fukushima: pressure your governments to choose for a clean energy path based on the development of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. Block attempts of the current Japanese government, Russia, the USA, France, Korea and China to export nuclear technology, plead for a phase-out of the current nuclear fleet. And show that it can be done: develop efficient use and renewable sources.
Here in Poland we support local inhabitants in their efforts to stop the construction of new nuclear power in their backyard, we bring alternatives on the table in the national debate by lobbying, media, actions. In Slovakia we are going through court with the support of "normal people" to prevent the finalisation of two 1970s design nuclear reactors and just won a groundbreaking decision from the Supreme Court.
We can make a difference!
22 August, 2013 at 14:08
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Jan Haverkamp,
On a personal level, it would not be of the public's best intrest to contact the Canadian gove...
Jan Haverkamp,
On a personal level, it would not be of the public's best intrest to contact the Canadian government regarding Fukushima via intermet. One reason being is that key words will draw attention towards others such as the CSEC. When Fukushim blew its lid in 2011, it was very appalling to discover that the media was not covering anything but the fact that a reactor blew up in japan. No mention of radiation. Articles that were written in Canadian papers were ALL mysteriously deleted and led the web browser lead you to a error 401 page. (Have copys of original papers).
After viewing the video of a Fukushima reactor explosion, it became obvious that it was not due to a buildup of hydrogen as the media claimed, as the explosion dynamics clearly suggests that the reactor itself blew its containment lid. (The initial shock wave looked as it came from a cannon and not from hydrogen buildup inside the building).
This prompted documented letters to Health Canada, Environment Canada that redirected my concerns to the Radiation Protection Bureau of Canada (RPB). Even though they replied to ten questions (months later) ignoring many or answering in some unrelated way to the original question or, just provided an international link to seek answers elsewhere. (There is much more to this unmentioned).
One question asked had to do with the integrety (honesty) of an official Japanese document, srep00304.pdf concerning plutonium (Pu) 241. The document states that Pu 241 is a beta emiter and for that reason, it is not much of a health concern to the public. If you look at a chart of nuclides it clearly shows that Pu 241 emits beta primarily and alpha as secondary particles (and gamma).
This is where my problems began. What happened next was, documents were provided to the RPB that CLEARLY show that Pu 241 is, primarily an alpha emitter and is not primarily a beta emitter as all mainstrem information provides. Now that attention has been brought to the RPB VIA email concerning facts that the RPB employees are probably unaware of, my communications have been heavily monitored and controlled!
Here are some examples as to how this occurs.
If an attempt is made to send an email containing words such as plutonium, radiation or government corruption etc, the email will not get sent. There are many emails that say they are sending and have been doing so for many months and some over a year!
If an attempt is made to send myself an email with red flag words (plutonium etc) within a email, they never arive! If the red flag words are vacant the gmail will arive.
When a website is accessed that display videoes (excluding youtube and a few others), there is no video available to see!
If an attempt is made to leave a comment on MOST websites containing red flag words, it will not be posted!
Some websites that were accessed regularly are now inaccessible! How? Simply by not allowing me to chose a language that I can read! However you could blame much of this on bad connection etc, or that the website is experiencing problems. This was proven to be not the case when the same websites were accessed simultaneously via cell phones. This proves that there are restrictions on my internet activities that the nuclear cartel controls.
The list goes on, I'm sure you get the picture. These people make me feel like a criminal and all that was done was attempt to disclose corruption to the RPB!
As one final word to highlight the power of these people, they deleted all personal emails from my gmail account that were sent to the many branches of the Canadian government. This aspect has been well documented in more then one way, all emails were documented (prior to deletion as this was anticipated) and copys were distributed to many.
The website that shows Pu 241 to be an alpha emitter is, www.isotopes.gov
as it states for Pu 241, "major radiation" alpha @ 4.9 MeV. Love providing proof along with fantastic claims, however this is not always possible.
This isotope.gov website manufacture isotopes to sell. Pu 241 is one of their products, who would know better about isotopes properties! Hmmmm, wonder why you need certification of legitimacy to request data of some elements? What do they have to hide? They show you many Pu species openly and many others, yet some are secret! Why?
25 August, 2013 at 16:20
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The agency that oversees this plant is corrupt as hell. The planet has been near code red now since July. Its so bad at this plant that any who goes i...
The agency that oversees this plant is corrupt as hell. The planet has been near code red now since July. Its so bad at this plant that any who goes into the reactor rooms for more than 7 minutes are guaranteed a death sentence . Worse yet, an American company from Seattle has been called into the plant to remove all the fuel rods otherwise there could be a disaster that would wipe out the entire Asia Pacific area. You can listen to numerous youtube reports. Its far worse than level 3, think more in terms of level 6 or 7.
22 August, 2013 at 18:45
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Dear maab30, the code red already exists since the earthquake struck the Fukushima coast on 11 March 2011. And has never really stopped - and will not...
Dear maab30, the code red already exists since the earthquake struck the Fukushima coast on 11 March 2011. And has never really stopped - and will not stop for many years to come. The entire accident is a level 7 accident. The level 3 that was mentioned now is related to the amount of radioactive material in the 300 m3 of water spilled now. But I agree with you, using the INES scale for parts of the much larger accident is only confusing. It can also be debated whether level 3 is sufficient for this also because it is unclear whether, or rather, likely that part of this material will stream in the sea and with that constitutes also a hazard outside of the plant.
Better just to call the Fukushima accidents what they really are: a level 7 catastrophe.
23 August, 2013 at 12:54
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Kiryuu Hiroto
The Japanese media which does not tell that this problem is world big subject of concern to Japanese people's is a problem.
The ship of gree...
The Japanese media which does not tell that this problem is world big subject of concern to Japanese people's is a problem.
The ship of greenpeace must hurry up the Fukushima coast.
For watching.
23 August, 2013 at 9:40
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In 2012, the Rainbow Warrior already visited the Fukushima coast and took samples of fish and sediment.
Greenpeace never announces campaigns or ...
In 2012, the Rainbow Warrior already visited the Fukushima coast and took samples of fish and sediment.
Greenpeace never announces campaigns or ship movements in advance, and also does a lot more than only our ship work. We will continue to be involved. Just watch this space.
23 August, 2013 at 12:56
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Rainbow Warrior visited the Fukushima coast and took samples of fish and sediment was 2011 april, It is a long time ago.
23 August, 2013 at 19:03
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wow......i'm from Korea.....! i can't eat tuna or other fish from japan. i think that is very danjerous
23 August, 2013 at 13:31
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I worked for Green Peace USA for 5 years knocking on people's doors on the East Coast and West Coast. I spoke to literally tens of thousands of pe...
I worked for Green Peace USA for 5 years knocking on people's doors on the East Coast and West Coast. I spoke to literally tens of thousands of people. Sadly Green Peace dismantled the "canvass" in the US which was a chief means of not only fund raising but of disseminating information to the general public. In those years I had the good fortune to speak at public schools and tell children how they could 'make a difference' in the world by being discriminate shoppers and voting with their dollars. That is how the tuna/dolphin and drift net campaigns made it possible for dolphin free tuna to become possible. Well a couple of decades later, humanity is at the brink with regards to nuclear energy and nuclear weapons proliferation. It's sad to see that humans haven't learned from their mistakes. Now a nuclear stream is flowing eastward from Japan heading towards the largest nursery for cetaceans on Earth. This may be 'The' mass extinction event as psychopaths attempt to rule the world by fear and violence, and large segments of our human population live in a state of denial and narcissism...
I'm glad to see Green Peace still working to attempt to make a better world for future generations.
23 August, 2013 at 14:28
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(Unregistered) lisaj
I agree!
24 August, 2013 at 22:36
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(Unregistered) Slackbladder
Agree, especially the last bit!
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(Unregistered) RenagadeResearchScientist
The media is only part to blame as the tip of the Fukushima iceberg is slowly but definitely exposed. Besides the obviious wilful negligence the goven...
The media is only part to blame as the tip of the Fukushima iceberg is slowly but definitely exposed. Besides the obviious wilful negligence the govenments commited towards their citizens by withholding vital information is an outright criminal act. The public physics educational system contains enormous amounts of misinformation.
One example is that older public educational textbooks teach that the CANDU reactors used here in Canada produce %54 of the energy that is created from the fissioning of Pu 239 (plutonium) and %30 from Uranium 235 (%6 modern books) and the remainder is other Pu isotopes and transuranic elements.
However according to a Canadian Nuclear Society fact sheet that states, only a fraction of energy is derived from Pu within a CANDU reactor, et al Joe blow.
And last but not least to partialy blame is the public themselfs due to nuclear physics ignorance! One reason I state this is for the fact that the EPA Radnet data shows that they detected U 234 and U 238 in similar amounts but not Pu 239 or Pu 238 across the USA in trace (downplayed) amounts. If the public only knew one simple fact that ALL reactor fuel cores consists of over %94 of U 238 and only %0.0055 of U 234!
How did the EPA data detect equal amounts of radiation when only a small fraction should exist of U 234 as compared with %94 U 238? This goes against logical reasoning and textbook physics! Also, without mentioning the exact reason why the Canadian radiation monitoring website data is highly contradicting of the EPA data and are in conflict.This is an obvious indicator that the radiation data from the USA and Canada are highly misleading and downplayed
ALL nuclear reactors produce Pu 239 in copious amounts is a textbook fact.
However if one was to visit the Ontario Pickerington NGS website to obtain a nuclear factbook, a pdf file, one would discover that the word plutonium is %100 vacant of the factbook! Instead what the reader will discover is that CANDU reactors use natural non-enriched U for fuel. Little does the public know that natural Uranium CAN NOT sustain a chain reaction for the fact that it can not librate enough neutrons. How does a CANDU reactor really work since mainstream science and government information fails to disclose truth.
How a CANDU reactor really works:
The reactors fuel core element that consists primarly of U 238 absorbs a stray nutron transmutating into U 239. The U 239 then decays into Np 239 (neptunium) that decays into Pu 239 all within a little over a few days time. Due to these textbook facts is the reason why ALL reactors produce Pu 239. THEREFORE IT IS IMPOSIBLE TO DETECT U 234 AND NOT ANY Pu 239 AT ALL! This would go against what older public educational textbooks teach.
If the public only knew these textbook facts, it would be the governments that would be sitting on the Fukushima corium and not the global population.
The public needs to be more vigilant and take action and be more aware. Prove the governments wrong and carry a Geiger counter next time you go on a flight over Canada or the USA and photograph the readings. Chances are that you will get readings into the thousands of cpm (hundreds minimum). It is unfair to the public that we are severely misinformed by our govenments regarding Fukushima fallout. This information is just the tip of a massive cover-up and downply of education and govrnment fact sheets and fact books.
23 August, 2013 at 17:30
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RenagadeResearchScientist says: "carry a Geiger counter next time you go on a flight over Canada or the USA and photograph the readings"
RenagadeResearchScientist says: "carry a Geiger counter next time you go on a flight over Canada or the USA and photograph the readings"
Do you have any photographs of this available (preferably with GPS readings) and where can they be seen? Please supply link.
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Ok Greenpeace help us to help you, and the risk this has to our world. Give us a e-petition or address of Japan's envioronmental minister. Somethi...
Ok Greenpeace help us to help you, and the risk this has to our world. Give us a e-petition or address of Japan's envioronmental minister. Something please?!
24 August, 2013 at 22:31
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Yes, I fully realize that this is not an Upper Deck Goudey card of Houston Astros catcher J.R. Towles. But after pulling a Towles in this pack of Goudey, I couldn't resist re-posting my Photoshopped masterpiece: A 2008 Topps Heritage "rookie" card of Towelie.
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Some time spent with Apple TV — an in-depth reviewApple TV offers a way for consumers to unlock the videos, music, and photos on their computer for use in the living room on TV. The new device competes against a series of other products, including the least expensive option of simply running a long video cable from the computer to the television. Whether Apple TV is worth the price will depend a lot upon on how much users like iTunes already, and how they plan to make use of the Apple TV.
There are few secrets left about Apple TV's hardware features and its simple software interface; most of those details were originally revealed by Steve Jobs at "Showtime," the Apple event which previewed the new box under the code name iTV, months ahead of its official launch at Macworld Expo in January.
Rather than demonstrate how to run through its simple menus and set it up, this review compares Apple TV against competing devices and the experience of Front Row Macs, examines the future potential of its hardware, outlines its software flaws and missing features, and highlights how well Apple TV fits the needs of its target users.
Apple TV vs Media Playing Game Consoles
Other competing devices include Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's XBox 360, both of which offer the ability to stream interactive music and video entertainment to TV from network sources, or alternatively play movies on HD disc. The Xbox 360 also serves the role of what Microsoft calls a "Media Center Extender," a TV output device for video content streamed from a Media Center Windows PC.
Using the 360 in that capacity is not nearly as effortless as the Apple TV however. The Xbox interface is designed primarily to play games, with media features tacked on as a secondary feature. The 360 is also much larger and noisier, particularly when playing DVDs. Apple TV doesn't try to compete against the next generation game consoles, but instead serves to make iTunes content easy to use on TV.
This will likely limit the appeal of Apple TV among gamers and Windows Media Center users, but broadens its potential among users who just want a simple and elegant system for watching iTunes content on TV. Compared to the 10 million Xbox 360 units Microsoft has shipped to stores, Apple has sold over 70 million iTunes-connected iPods in the same year and a half. Back in 2005, analysts estimated 100-200 million users of the free iTunes itself.
That's a significant population of users who make up the target market for Apple TV. It's no surprise why Apple's new device caters to iTunes users and works a lot like the iPod, rather than trying to mimic the struggling fortunes of Sony and Microsoft hardware in the gamer market. Apple's previous efforts with the iPod have delivered stunning growth and profits, while both Sony and Microsoft have lost billions on their next generation gaming gamble, only to be shown up by Nintendo's simpler and more popular Wii console. Part of that is no doubt related to the Wii's low price, which at $250 is close to $300 Apple TV. Both the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 are $500-600 when equipped with a hard drive and HD disc, making them significantly more expensive and effectively pricing them in a different category all together.
Apple TV vs Earlier Apple Products
This is Apple's first complete attempt to offer a set top box. Over a decade ago, the company ran limited testing of a stripped down Mac Quadra 605 customized for use as an interactive TV device, but abandoned the project before ever turning it into a commercial product. What's different this time around is that Apple isn't just providing a Mac interface for a cable set top box.
Apple TV isn't a conventional set top box at all, but rather an extension of Apple's iTunes, which serves as both the media library behind the iPod and the client to Apple's online iTunes Store. That makes Apple TV a dual purpose device: a way to play users' own content, and a way to buy and download content from Apple's online store. As with the iPod, it can be expected that a lot of the appeal of Apple TV will come from users wanting to play their existing content.
Analysts in a rush to condemn iTunes as a collapsing failure been pointing out for years that iPod users only buy a fraction of their music from the iTunes Store. However, those fractional sales are adding up rapidly, recently passing the milestone of 2.5 billion songs. That fraction has installed Apple as the only really significant merchant of online media sales. From that perspective, it appears clear that Apple is not attempting to replace cable TV and DVDs with Apple TV, but rather offering the device as a way to integrate iTunes and iPhoto with the living room, with TV and movie downloads as a convenient side dish. Apple is currently selling about a million new TV episodes and movies per month, so Apple TV isn't relying upon a fanciful, pie in the sky business plan.
Apple TV: iTunes on TV
Apple's AirPort Express already provides users with a way to play music from their iTunes library on a remote stereo system using wireless distribution. Apple TV is a natural extension of the same principle: simply plug in the box, connect it to a TV, and the music and movies of iTunes--along with pictures from iPhoto albums--are wirelessly distributed across the house.
Apple TV is designed for wireless distribution using the emerging wireless-n standard. It requires an AirPort Extreme base station or other wireless-n router to connect at top speed, but it can also be used with the earlier 802.11g generation of wireless networks. Alternatively, it can also be plugged into the network using an Ethernet cable. The AirPort Extreme was reviewed earlier in the article, "An in-depth review of Apple's 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station."
Essentially , Apple TV is a tiny Mac dedicated to running a specialized version of Front Row, the application Apple added to Mac OS X Tiger to enable the Mac to act as a simple, no fuss media player navigated by a similarly simple remote control.
Apple TV vs Front Row
TVs demand a simpler interface than a PC, in part because they commonly offer a lower resolution display compared to modern PC monitors. Further, even with the sharpest high definition screens, users are positioned much further away from the screen than they would be at a computer.
No remote control offers the accuracy of a mouse to drive the interface, so the controls need to be simple, sparse, and clear. An interface designed to be navigated on TV is commonly referred to as a "10 foot display." The Front Row Macs offer this type of display for viewing content on TV, but doing so requires a long video output cable connected to the TV.
Many users will find that their Front Row Mac is too far away from their main living room TV, probably on purpose. Watching TV and using a computer are different tasks, and many people install them in very different environments. The PC is likely to be in at an ergonomic office ready for research and work, while the TV is commonly in a more relaxing environment suited to passive entertainment. The "TV/PC convergence" analysts long promised never really happened.
On page 2: Apple TV's Open Potential, Apple TV Hardware, No Support for Composite TV, and Finding High Definition.


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Summer food events are a dime a dozen, but Angeleno Magazine manages to present a consistently solid line-up year after year at their steady Live and Dine LA event held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows. This year, there was no award presentation, leaving a core group of favorites to sample their eats in the courtyard surrounding the gorgeous, 130-some-year-old, 80-foot tall Moreton Bay Fig Tree.
Attendees sipped Brugal Summer Hounds, Pavan Sangria Cocktails, Macallan 12 Fine Oak, iced Handsome Coffee brew, Solsticio Wines, 123 Organic Tequila margaritas and more as they savored dishes from some of the most popular restaurants in the city:


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I am trying to find more pictures of this car, from various angles.
So post up what you guys have.
I know there were pics in the official widebody thread. I also know Dave (race95Mpower) has pics saved to his comp. PM him
I had a bunch that I took from one of the annual BMW CCA National Capitol Chapter tours of PTG's facilities from a while back. Lemme see if I can dig them up...
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Cool let me know, I have all of the general ones that you can find on google and stuff. Who knows though, maybe I've never seen it before, so post up what you guys have.
here are some shots from when i saw it in person....
in motion
Oooooo so hawt!!! what do you have up your sleeve Don????? lol
I wish there was a place that had universal hood louvres that looked like the PTG one.
The ones I keep finding have the vents coming out of the hood, instead of sitting inside of it.
most e36 stuff, some e46.
Is that what the MaShaw widebody looks like aswell?
I think the mashaw actually has an e46 style front bumper instead but the rest is really similar...I could be wrong but thats what impression I was under.
E36 parts for sale...cheap! Click the link below!
On several of the E36 S50B30 images, there is a small cooling air hose, probably about 2 inches in diameter, maybe 1.5 inches, that comes up from the right sided foglight blank in the bumper...and travels up behind the radiator, and goes....somewhere?
(its not the brake cooling duct for sure)
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For Sale: E36 325 MTechnic with S54 on stock DME TBA
Trying to make the world a better place with 5 or now 7 extra throttle bodies at a time.
Yeah, this is the body kit my car is getting after college.
I actually plan on buying the MaShaw PTG widebody kit. I talked to him over the phone and he said that he can and will sell the E36 front instead (I prefer the E36 style) for no extra charge or anything.
Apparently he got hold of the real PTG kit, and then made replicas around that, so my guess is that it's pretty dead-on. He sells it for $2,875.00 for the front, sideskirts, and rear. It doesn't however include that bigass wing
If you can't see the future, then you're not driving fast enough
Anyone know what size wheels and tires are needed to fill that widebody?
I'm thinking 275F 295R on 18s
If you can't see the future, then you're not driving fast enough
The E36 front bumper that he has is pictured on his website. Not like the one pictured above.
I think the bumper vents need to be bigger for an intercooler
WTB: E36 ZKW Headlights, ACS Rear Diffuser,E36 M mudflaps front + rear
I'm still trying to research what size wheels/tires to get. I'm really leaning towards getting the Michelin Pilot Sport PS2's 295/30ZR18 for the rear, but I don't know about the front. Maybe 275/30ZR18?
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Ray Trievel, associate professor of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Etter Early Career Award from the American Crystallographic Association.
Trievel will receive his award next summer when he delivers a lecture at the ACA annual meeting in Chicago. The Etter award recognizes outstanding achievement and exceptional potential in crystallographic research demonstrated by a scientist at an early stage of his or her independent career. The award was established in 2002 to honor the memory of Margaret C. Etter, who was a major contributor to the field of organic solid-state chemistry.
Trievel studies the mechanisms by which protein modifications within the nucleus affect transcription and other genomic processes. His primary research goals are to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of enzymes that catalyze chromatin modifications and the specificities of effector proteins that recognize those modifications and transduce the information encoded by those marks. He also is developing biochemical assays and other reagents to facilitate high-throughput screening of small-molecule inhibitors against chromatin modifying enzymes.
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield professor and head of the laboratory of mammalian cell biology and development at Rockefeller University, is the recipient of a 2010 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award in the Life Sciences. Fuchs is one of five scientists, representing five continents, who will be honored with the award this year.
The award, founded 12 years ago, recognizes female scientists who have made important contributions to science and who have been a source of support, motivation and inspiration for women in science. It is presented by the L'Oréal Corporate Foundation, based in France, and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which promotes cooperation, ethics and peace in science.
Fuchs, who also is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is being recognized for her contributions to our knowledge of skin biology and skin stem cells. Her research centers on how skin stem cells self-renew, develop and maintain the epidermis and hair follicles and the molecular mechanisms that enable those cells to respond to various external cues, depart from their niche and accomplish those tasks.
Robert J. Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicine and biochemistry at Duke University, is the recipient of a 2009 American Heart Association Research Achievement Award. He received the award for his research on G protein-coupled receptors, which transmit chemical signals that regulate physiological processes, such as heart rate and blood pressure.
Lefkowitz's work on G protein-coupled receptors, the largest and most pervasive family of cell receptors, began in 1982 with the identification of the gene for the β-adrenergic receptor, which helps regulate the body's fight-or-flight response by reacting to epinephrine. Shortly thereafter, he discovered seven additional adrenergic receptors. Those receptors— and all G-protein receptors— share a basic structure in which the molecule weaves its way back and forth seven times across a cell's membrane. When the portion of the molecule that lies outside the cell connects with the receptor's favored signaling molecule, the internal portions of the molecule can trigger the appropriate cellular response. Lefkowitz is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Three American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology members are among the 65 new members and five foreign associates elected to the Institute of Medicine this year. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
The ASBMB members newly elected to the IOM are:
Thomas Curran, deputy scientific director of Joseph Stokes Jr. Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and professor of pathology, University of Pennsylvania.
Alfred L. Goldberg, professor of cell biology, department of cell biology, Harvard Medical School.
Daniel K. Podolsky, Philip O'Bryan Montgomery Jr. M.D. distinguished presidential chair in academic administration and Doris and Bryan Wildenthal distinguished chair in medical science, department of internal medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
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RENO – The UC Santa Barbara baseball team bounced back in a big way in the second game of its series at Nevada on Saturday, knocking off the Wolf Pack 13-5.
Most of the Gauchos damage was done in the seventh, when they scored seven times on seven hits. Six of the hits were singles, as the only extra-base hit, a double, came from UCSB's leading hitter Brett Vertigan.
Vertigan led an 18-hit attack with three of his own while Lance Roenicke also had three hits. All but one Gaucho starter had multiple hits on the afternoon and seven had at least a run batted in.
UCSB improved to 7-7 on the season with the victory.
Freshman left-hander Andrew Vasquez (2-1) went eight superb innings, allowing just one earned run on six hits while striking out eight.
The Gauchos scored four runs in the third inning, all with two outs. Brandon Trinkwon's two-strike single scored Vertigan for the Gauchos' first run of the afternoon and then Joey Wallace doubled down the left field line to bring in two more. Wallace scored on the next pitch as Greg Mahle lined a single up the middle.
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Shares in Pacific Edge [NZX: PEB] soared to a record high after the Dunedin-based bladder cancer test inventor signed its second deal with a US healthcare network in as many weeks, opening up a sales path to the world's biggest economy.
Pacific Edge today signed an agreement with America's Choice Provider Network, which offers medical network services to more than 14 million people through its client base of insurance carriers, third party administrators, health and welfare funds, employer groups, and self-insured health plans, the company said in a statement.
That adds to the 40 million Americans who can access its CXbladder test from last week's agreement with FedMed, and is the latest step in its pursuit of $100 million annual revenue within the next five years.
The company's shares surged 47 percent to a record $1.06, valuing the company at $297 million. Since announcing the FedMed deal on Oct. 16, the shares have more than doubled.
"These provider networks provide patients access to healthcare services and technology by contracting with providers and payers on a national basis," Pacific Edge USA chief Jackie Walker said. "These two recent agreements signed with FedMed and now ACPN will give millions of Americans access to Cxbladder and its positive benefits as a quick, cost effective, non-invasive and highly accurate cancer detection test."
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NPD July – NCAA 13 top, total spend down 20% YOY
The NPD Group has released its regular monthly report on US sales figures, showing yet another month of decreased spending.
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NPD: Digital sales up 17%, not enough to reverse industry decline
Ahead of tomorrow's full July report, the NPD Group has released some interesting figures showing a significant increase in digital sales.
NPD June - Lego Batman 2 tops, hardware plummets
As predicted, the NPD is reporting US sales figures took a nosedive for the seventh consecutive month.
NPD: Non-traditional spend over half of Q1 2012 total
Of the $3.4 billion the NPD estimates was spent on gaming in the first quarter of 2012, new retail purchases accounted for just $1.5 billion.
NPD May - Diablo III beats out multi-plats, 3DS tops hardware
The NPD Group's monthly report on US retail sales shows a significant dip in overall sales, but strong performances from Blizzard's Diablo III and the 3DS.
NPD April: Prototype 2 on top, sales plummet 42%
NPD has released its report for April 2012 retail sales in the US, outlining one of the sharpest declines in industry sales in recent years.
Rayman Origins moves 50,000 units for November US debut
NPD analyst Anita Frazier has told Eurogamer that Rayman Origins sold a little over 50,000 copies during the month of November in the US. While she wouldn't reveal where it landed on the chart, she did tell the site that Sonic Generations hit 26 on the chart, and through she failed to provide uni sales […]
NPD: Total videogame spend in US hits $4.5 billion during Q2
NPD has released a report citing the amount spent by US consumers on gaming accessories, content and hardware during Q2 of the 2011 fiscal year, and the figure currently stands at $4.5 billion, which is up one percent year-over-year.
NPD: $5.9 billion spent on videogames in Q1 2011 in the US
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NPD December 2010 - Xbox 360 sees YoY increase with 1.86 million units, Black Ops is software winner
NPD figures for the month of December 2010, released last night, showed that Xbox 360 enjoyed year-on-year increase for the month – the only console to do so – with 1.9 million sales in the US. Call of Duty: Black Ops topped the December charts, and was also named the biggest-selling American game of 2010.
NPD group tiptoes towards digital sales tracking
US stat tracker NPD claims its decision to drop individual sales numbers for game software and hardware in favour of a top ten by title hasn't gone down well in some quarters; the silver lining is it's promising a new report which will, for the first time, capture digital and mobile sales.
NPD: Only 6% of US console users have downloaded DLC
NPD has issued a report stating only 6 percent of US console users downloaded extra content for their games, proving there's a "large and untapped" market for digital content along with connected devices.
PC retail and digitally distributed sales almost equal, says NPD
NPD's announced that sales of PC games last year sold at retail were only slightly higher than those achieved through digital distribution.
NPD: Extreme gamers play 48 hours a week
NPD has issued a new report called Gamer Segmentation 2010, and according to research from the firm, the most extreme gamers play for 48.5 hours a week.
NPD April 2010: Games sales down 26% for the month
The NPD Group has issued its industry results from April, and it looks like the market as a whole was down 26 percent to $766.2M, and is down year-to-date by 11 percent.
Portable gaming on the rise with US youngsters
NPD has revealed that portable gaming has risen 8 percent since 2005 among children aged 4 to 14, with 44 percent of US youngsters owning a handheld gaming device.
God of War III bests God of War II launch by 32%
NPD's Anita Frazier revealed her industry analysis for March 2010 that God of War III has bested the launch of it's predecessor, God of War II, by 32 percent.
NPD: 90% of game sales during Q3 2009 happened at retail
The NPD Group has revealed that 90 percent of all new and used console sales, add-ons, song packs and rentals were made from physical retail or rental services during the third-quarter of 2009.
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NPD reckons 2010 will "be a really exciting year" for games industry
November NPD – PC software down 6.6% yoy, $51.7M for the month
November NPD – US sales down 7.6% YoY, second best November ever
September NPD – Slight YoY increase reported, second best September since '07
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OCEAN CITY – A Columbia, Md. woman implicated in a staged armed robbery at a resort hotel last summer and found guilty earlier this year was sentenced in District Court this week to five years in jail with all but one year suspended.
Brady Ashley Greer, 21, was found guilty of theft plus $500, conspiracy to commit theft plus $500 and making a false statement to a police officer in early February after pleading not guilty to all of the charges.
Greer claimed that she had no part in the robbery that occurred at her place of employment last August. Greer burst into tears and several of her family members in the courtroom gasped and moaned when Judge Daniel Mumford announced his verdict in February, causing a brief disturbance in the courtroom.
The incident goes back to last Aug. 6 when Ocean City police detectives responded to the Stowaway Grand Hotel on 21st Street for a reported armed robbery. Upon arrival, they interviewed the night auditor, Greer, who claimed to be a victim in the robbery. At that time, Greer told police that she had been working in the area of the safe when she heard a knock at the door.
Greer claims she opened the door and was met by a masked man, who then forced Greer to open the safe and tied her to a chair with duct-tape before fleeing with what was later estimated to be $49,422.
OCPD detectives Shawn Jones and Brett Case testified in District Court in February that they immediately suspected that the robbery was an inside job.
Hotel surveillance tapes did not reveal a suspect, but did show Greer talking on her cell phone 45 minutes prior to the alleged burglary. Both Case and Jones testified that Greer claimed she was talking to her boyfriend, George M. Taylor, 23, of Stockton, who was somewhere in Virginia on his way back from Florida. Detectives were later able to determine that Taylor was in Worcester County just prior to the reported robbery.
Taylor was taken into police custody on Nov. 1, after a warrant was issued for a failure to appear for a child support hearing. OCPD detectives had attached a note to that warrant requesting they be notified in the event of Taylor's arrest.
Taylor was arrested during a wild chase and brief standoff in the south end of Worcester County during which he briefly dragged a Maryland State Police trooper with his vehicle before the officer was able to reach his gun and shoot out a tire before disengaging himself. Taylor was taken into custody a short time after a brief standoff.
OCPD detectives were notified and arrived to question Taylor about the Stowaway Grand robbery. Case and Jones both testified that Taylor admitted his involvement and told them that he and his girlfriend, Greer, had staged the robbery. Taylor reportedly told police that Greer said if he didn't help her with the robbery, she would find someone else who would.
Taylor, in a written statement, admitted to planning the fake armed robbery with Greer. Taylor also told police that he and Greer had spent part of the money and buried the rest beneath a dog kennel at the home of one of Taylor's relatives. Taylor told police he and Greer were the only two who knew where the money was stashed, claiming that Greer took the rest of the money and denied any knowledge of its current whereabouts.
Greer was found guilty on all counts and faced up to 15 years in jail for the conviction.
Following a pre-sentencing investigation, Greer appeared in District Court this week for sentencing.
A representative of Technology Insurance was present and addressed the court, reporting that the insurance carrier suffered a loss of $9,420.19 for false claims of workman's compensation from Greer. Greer filed the claim after alleging emotional and physical stress from the robbery that was later proven to be a set-up.
Greer's attorney addressed the court, pointing out that this was Greer's first conviction. Her attorney added that Greer was a full-time student with two young children, asking for a suspended sentence with a period of probation.
'This is a very, very serious matter," said Judge Daniel Mumford before sentencing.
Mumford sentenced Greer to five years in jail with all but one year suspended for the charges of theft and conspiracy to commit theft with three years of supervised probation. For the charge of making a false statement to police officer, Greer was sentenced to six months with all six months suspended, as well as another three years of supervised probation.
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Phils rally in ninth, win on walk-off double
Pinch-hitter Frandsen delivers big hit with bases loaded and two outs
PHILADELPHIA -- It is a good thing Kevin Frandsen can watch the replay, because everything that happened in those memorable moments is a blur.
He stepped into the batter's box in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday at Citizens Bank Park with the bases loaded, two outs and an opportunity to give the Phillies a desperately needed victory. He had just watched Royals closer Greg Holland walk the bases loaded only to strike out Domonic Brown and John Mayberry Jr. on seven pitches. Holland had started Brown and Mayberry with fastballs, so Frandsen figured he might get one, too.
The pitch? It is a bit fuzzy, but Frandsen smoked a 96 mph fastball over the outer half of the plate into the gap in right-center field to clear the bases and give the Phillies a 4-3 victory.
"I don't know," Frandsen said about the pitch location. "It's not being an idiot, he just threw it and I hit it. I had my head down. I feel when you're not locked in to a game, you don't want to pull off or any of that stuff."
The ball? Frandsen swore he did not know where the ball was headed until he noticed the outfielders running toward it.
The aftermath? He remembers Ryan Howard lumbering toward him after Michael Young slid home safely to score the winning run. Frandsen believes he sidestepped Howard, but everybody else eventually got him in the pile on the infield. He also recalled looking into the stands to find his parents, David and Tracie, who were in attendance to celebrate his spot on his first Opening Day roster since 2007.
He isn't sure if he found them or not. It was pretty crazy on the field.
"You know, when you see Ryan Howard running at you full speed, that's kind of weird," Frandsen said. "You kind of get scared. It's like you want to jump over the pile. It's a surreal moment, because it's never happened in the big leagues for me. It's one that you hope you can repeat over and over again, but the opportunities are few and far between for those chances right there. It's a great feeling. I was shaking for a while just because of the adrenaline rush. Mom and dad are here from California, so that was even better."
It was just the fifth game of the season, but don't let anybody fool you: The Phillies needed this victory badly. They got clobbered in their home opener Friday against the Royals and had just two hits in 14 innings before Frandsen's double. If they had lost they would have been staring a possible 1-5 start in the face.
Instead, they can pull even at 3-3 with a victory Sunday.
The Phillies were due when fortune found them in the ninth. Chase Utley worked a leadoff walk. Howard followed with a walk of his own to put runners on first and second with no outs. Holland then ran a 3-1 count to Young, who fouled back the next two pitches before also walking to load the bases.
Brown struck out on three pitches for the first out and Mayberry struck out looking on four pitches for the second out.
Would they really not take advantage here? Would it be more of the same?
Frandsen ensured it would not.
"It's huge," left-hander John Lannan said. "It's still early and wins are wins, but you can't look too much into the first five. You have to look at the big picture, and if everyone does their job it's all going to work out."
Lannan did his job. He allowed five hits, three runs and struck out five in seven innings during his Phillies debut. It was just the team's second quality start in five games.
"That's what I'm trying to do every time," Lannan said. "Sometimes I throw too many pitches, but tonight I was able to stay down in the zone and [catcher Humberto] Quintero did a good job mixing it up. My goal in every start out there is to try to keep the team in the ball game."
Mike Adams and Antonio Bastardo each threw a scoreless inning to put the Phillies within striking distance in the ninth.
It is worth noting that the Phillies had a decision to make in Spring Training. They chose both Frandsen and Freddy Galvis to be their utility infielders over Yuniesky Betancourt and either Frandsen or Galvis. Phillies manager Charlie Manuel recalled those roster meetings in Spring Training after the game, and why Frandsen ultimately earned one of the two spots.
"He showed us that he could hit," Manuel said. "There tonight, if I was thinking home run I would probably send [Erik] Kratz up there. But I thought that we needed to tie up the game and a ball in the gap might win it for us, and it did. Frandsen, he's a good hitter."


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In the video below, former New York state senator Seymour P. Lachman, founding director of Wagner College's Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform, talks with Staten Island Advance political editor Tom Wrobleski about the Carey Institute and its purpose. (Recorded March 14, 2008)
The Hugh L. Carey Institute For Government Reform at Wagner College is named for New York's 51st governor, whose two terms as its chief executive embodied the state's history as a laboratory and incubator of ideas for reform that have often been adopted by other states as well as the nation.
In the late 19th century, Theodore Roosevelt entered political life as a member of the New York State Assembly, declaring that if the people desired the best government possible, the best people must be willing to devote themselves to public service. During the course of his career in public life, T.R. championed and enacted measures that improved urban policing and civil service — reforms that had significant impacts on curtailing political corruption and improving local, state and national governments' delivery of services to their citizens.
During the first quarter of the 20th century, Alfred E. Smith became New York's governor after many years of service in its state assembly. His tenure in Albany laid foundations for social welfare initiatives that subsequently served as models for national programs enshrined in President (and former New York governor) Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
At the start of a new century, however, New York is mired in stagnation. While there are pockets of economic growth and social vibrancy, particularly in its downstate region, the state is steadily losing population. Industrial manufacturing, both large and small, continues to move out of state and overseas. Agriculture remains depressed and ever shrinking. Many of the service jobs available to replace these lost employment opportunities offer lower wages and reduced health and retirement benefits. New York's ability to address these threats to its future is stymied by what is widely regarded as the most dysfunctional state government in the nation.
Here are just a few of the dysfunctions that must be corrected:
- Legislative committees in the state assembly and senate function in name only; the real power rests solely in the hands of the assembly speaker and the senate majority leader. Only if one of those two leaders OKs a bill does it stand a chance of being enacted into law.
- Assembly and senate leaders give hundreds of millions of dollars in "member item" money each year to loyal legislators for distribution to local governments and nonprofit groups. The purpose: to secure the legislators' re-election.
- Assembly and senate leaders jimmy the legislative redistricting process to create safe seats for their supporters — and unwinnable seats for those deemed "troublemakers."
Reform, in order to be implemented, requires that those who understand the need for changes have a sustaining institutional base that serves to generate, nurture and develop analyses and proposals. This is the central lesson of reform movements throughout American social and political history, from the Age of Jackson and the Progressive Era to the New Deal.
At this particular moment in our state and nation's history, colleges and universities are the institutions best suited for conducting the studies necessary to shape and disseminate an agenda for reform:
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- The academic environment, with its ideals and traditions of rigorous and dispassionate nonpartisan analysis, is far better suited than any number of| ideological think tanks to lay the groundwork for developing a broad consensus of public support for reform proposals.
- The academic environment is oriented toward creating multigenerational interest in the need to adapt proposals as conditions change over time.
Former New York Governor Hugh L. Carey was an honored guest at Wagner College's 2007 Commencement exercise, where he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, and delivered an address to the assembled graduates, their family and friends, and other honored guests of the college. Follow the link below to hear Governor Carey's doctoral citation and watch him deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2007.
Following the Aug. 7, 2011 death of former New York Governor Hugh L. Carey, patron of Wagner College's Carey Institute for Government Reform, Carey Institute director Seymour Lachman was in high demand as a media commentator on the late governor's life, having published the definitive political biography of Hugh Carey the previous year. A memorial page for Governor Carey was created, which includes descriptions of and links to the news stories to which Professor Lachman contributed.
Former New York state Senator Seymour Lachman, director of Wagner College's Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform, is much in demand for his insights into the way government works (and, sometimes, does not work!) in Albany and around the country. Follow the link below to view two examples.


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