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One very hot day in July, 1943, Lt. (j.g.) George H. Smith of the United States Navy was sitting on a small rubber raft somewhere between Munda and Guadalcanal. He was very thirsty, and he was cursing man's inability to drink sea water. To his surprise, he saw a booby bird land on the water, put its long neck under the surface, and apparently take a drink.
In Smith's own words, "It made me mad. I couldn't understand why the bird, which was only flesh and blood like myself, could drink sea water while I couldn't."
Smith's next reaction was the crucial one. Though under all the strain of a life-and-death predicament, he set himself a plan of scientific investigation.
"I shot the bird," he relates, "cut him open, and traced the course of the water through his digestive system. Around the intestines of the bird I found a handful of fat, and I reasoned that if I greased my mouth with this fat, I might be able to swallow sea water without tasting it. For five days then I drank a pint of sea water each day."
Lt. Smith was picked up after 20 days afloat, still in fairly good physical condition.
Smith's story was widely circulated. His procedure for making sea water drinkable, and the fact that he had drunk a pint of it a day, were even incorporated into survival instructions used by some Navy and Army Air Force crews. Soon, however, less optimistic reactions began to be expressed.
Articles appeared in service publications pointing out that men are not booby birds and that drinking sea water as Smith had done could kill a man. U.S. Navy medical authorities reported that the reason Smith had suffered no ill effects from five continuous days of imbibing sea water was that he was not seriously dehydrated at the beginning of the ordeal and that on the fifth day a rain squall provided him with all the fresh water he could drink. If he had been dehydrated when he started or if the rain squall had not come when it did, he might have lost his life.
Smith himself had noted that the amount of water he lost in urine during the five days was apparently three times the quantity of sea water he drank. Obviously, excretion of the salts in the sea water was taking water from his body, and he would have been dangerously dehydrated if he had continued drinking sea water.
Unfortunately, the medical reports on the incident were not read as widely as the original report, and Smith's experience is still cited by some survival "experts" as proof that man can survive at sea without fresh water.
Recently several newspapers and magazines of large circulation have carried stories purporting to "prove" that it is safe to drink sea water. Most of these stories are based either on the account of Dr. Alain Bombard, who drifted from the Canaries to Barbados in his raft L'Hérétique in 1952, or on the experiments carried on by the French Navy, which are essentially a continuation of Bombard's work. The French experimenters now maintain that a man can survive for six days by drinking only sea water. But he must drink it in small quantities—approximately one-tenth of a pint (50 c.c.) at a time. If sea water is to be drunk beyond the sixth day, the French say that the survivor must drink 1000 c.c. (1.05 quarts) of fresh water on the sixth day to help get rid of excess salt.
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In short, it is claimed that the survivor could live for eleven days on little more than one quart of fresh water, although this claim has not been subjected to experiment. Unfortunately, many of the stories written about the French experiments omit any mention of the restrictions on the use of sea water and leave the reader with the impression that the sea will provide all the water a man needs for an indefinite period.
The U.S. Naval Aero-Medical Safety Journal stated in 1955 that "all physiological knowledge at present indicates that sea water is inimical to the human organism and that its use will shorten rather than prolong survival time." This view has been repeated in other official Navy publications. The U.S. Air Force Manual 64-5 entitled "Survival," which is carried in all Air Force survival kits and on many commercial airplanes, says: "Do not drink sea water."
Why do the services take this stand? Is it due to the natural reluctance of medical men to accept a theory that has not been thoroughly tested? Or is it because the theory has been tested and found wanting? The fact is that the problem of providing water for the survivors of shipwreck and aircraft ditchings has been thoroughly investigated, and the investigators have found that the use of sea water is not the answer.
During World War II, the armed forces and the merchant marines of all the combatants were faced with the problem of providing seamen and airmen with a supply of water in case of disaster. This problem posed many questions, the first of which was: How much water does a man need in a survival situation?
The standing rule of thumb used prior to World War II on board naval vessels and merchant ships was "a pint a day per man." However, tests on subjects placed in a simulated survival situation soon showed that this was not enough to keep a man in water balance. Different investigators came up with different answers as to the exact amount of water needed to prevent dehydration, but all agreed that the minimum amount was a great deal more than a pint a day.
The following table, compiled by Dr. E. F. Adolph and his associates, gives the values generally accepted by the end of the war.
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A team of United States scientists directed by Dr. Adolph went even further and estimated the relationship between total water supply and survival time at various temperatures. Dr. Adolph computed that at environmental temperatures under 70 degrees F., a man who starts out in water balance can survive for ten days. These values apply to an inactive man, in the shade, and with a low calorie intake.
Note that the advocates of drinking sea water claim only that a man can survive for six clays by drinking sea water alone and for eleven days if he drinks slightly over one quart of fresh water while drinking sea water. Thus it appears that by drinking no water at all a man would survive for four days longer as he would on sea water, even if the claims of the advocates of sea rater are valid.
The data for environmental ternperatures of 70 degrees F. and under are used in the example above because all the sea water experiments recorded have been cared out in temperate and cool climates. As is shown in the table below, expected survival time goes down sharply at higher temperatures, even if the subject can remain in the shade.
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The accuracy of Adolph's predictions has been borne out several times in actual survival incidents. An extensive study of shipwreck survivors during World War II showed that the maximum time without water recorded by any survivor was eleven days—just one day longer than the prediction.
Adolph also demonstrated that, as the body becomes increasingly deficient in water, certain symptoms follow in order. The degree of dehydration was rated by measuring the per cent loss of body weight. At the beginning of dehydration there is thirst and discomfort. Succeeding symptoms, in order, are lassitude, loss of appetite, sleepiness, rise in body temperature and, at about 5 per cent dehydration, nausea. At from 6 to 10 per cent dehydration, the victim will experience dizziness, headache, tingling in the limbs, dry mouth, difficulty in speaking, and inability to walk. At more than 10 per cent dehydration, delirium is common, and the senses fail. Dehydration of 25 per cent is probably fatal at any temperature. At air temperatures above 90 degrees F., 15 per cent dehydration is the theoretical fatal limit.
Yet records of shipwreck survivors show that very few die of dehydration alone. MacDonald Critchley, a British physician who made an extensive study of the factors affecting survival at sea, believes that as dehydration increases, the victim's will to resist the desire to drink sea water weakens until finally he succumbs to the temptation and death is caused by the ingestion of sea water. Critchley says, "Sea water poisoning must be accounted, after cold, the commonest cause of death in shipwrecked sailors."
Critchley tells what happens when a very dehydrated person drinks sea water. There is "immediate slaking, followed quite soon by an exacerbation of the thirst, which will require still more copious draughts. The victim then becomes silent and apathetic, with a peculiar fixed and glassy expression in the eyes. The condition of the lips, mouth, and tongue worsens, and a peculiarly offensive odour has been described in the breath. Within an hour or two, delirium sets in, quiet at first but later violent and unrestrained; consciousness is gradually lost; the color of the face changes and froth appears at the corners of the lips. Death may take place quietly: more often it is a noisy termination, and not infrequently the victim goes over the side in his delirium and is lost."
Those who advocate the drinking of sea water argue that the effects so graphically described by Critehley do not follow when sea water is drunk by a man in water balance. They point out, moreover, that anyone who goes swimming in the sea swallows some sea water and that many castaways swallow substantial amounts of sea water before reaching the safety of a lifeboat or raft. The advocates of sea water maintain that by drinking small quantities of it immediately, a man can both slake his thirst and keep his body in water balance.
The question of whether or not a man can stop or avoid the sensation of thirst by drinking sea water is difficult to prove or disprove. In several experiments on drinking small quantities of sea water, the subjects have reported that they had no feeling of thirst. All these experiments took place in cool climates, and none of them ran for more than six days. In actual survival incidents under similar environmental conditions, survivors who had no water denied any feelings of thirst, and some who drank small amounts of sea water were thirsty.
Actually thirst is only a signal of the body's need for water. Thirst is often satisfied while the body is still slightly dehydrated. This is especially true in cool climates. Tests made by the U.S. Army in cold climates show that if men drink only when they are thirsty, they stay in a continuously dehydrated state.
The sensation of thirst varies a great deal with individuals. A person's description of how he feels changes with his psychological as well as his physiological condition, so the term "thirst" can be regarded as little more than an expression of personal opinion. However, the effect of drinking sea water on the body's water balance can be computed and the computations verified by experiment. It is possible to determine by actual test how much sea water the body can tolerate, though for obvious reasons laboratory experiments cannot carry the study to a point where the subject's life is actually endangered.
A vital function of the water in our bodies is to permit the kidneys to extract waste products from the blood in the form of urine. The chemical and physical processes involved in this function would take us beyond the scope of a general article. So we are centering our attention on the effect of the ingestion of the dissolved salts in sea water, predominantly sodium chloride or common salt. And the basic point is that the body uses only a very small amount of salt. Additional salt ingested must be excreted with the urine, using water which could be utilized by the body in other functions.
With the osmotic concentration of sea water only slightly below that of urine, the daily pint of sea water that the body will tolerate will only yield about 3/10 of a pint (143 c.c.) of free water for the excretion of other urinary constituents, as Dr. Homer W. Smith points out in his book From Fish to Philosopher. The amount of water actually needed for urine formation is about a pint, not to mention upward of 1500 c.c. more (over 3 pints) for sweat, if the individual is exposed to sun and wind. Yet 500 c.c., or about 1 pint, is the greatest amount of sea water that can be swallowed each day without gastrointestinal disturbance from the unabsorbable magnesium and sulphate. Consuming larger amounts, concludes Dr. Smith, would only lead to diarrhea and further dehydration and would hasten the end.
The most favorable report on the use of sea water is that of W. S. S. Ladell, printed in The Lancet, October 9, 1943. Ladell ran a series of experiments with a group of seventeen men on a "shipwreck ration" such as was carried in lifeboats. Some of the subjects drank sea water, others fresh water or fresh water plus sea water.
Ladell summarized the effects of drinking up to 400 c.c. (a little less than a pint) of sea water daily. The subjects were either totally or partially deprived of fresh water and were on the low-calorie and low-salt diet of the "man on the raft." Thus they were getting almost all the salt their bodies used from the sea water they drank. Ladell's conclusions were as follows, both for men drinking only sea water and for those using sea water as an "extender" for an inadequate fresh-water ration:
(a) At first, the subject retains the same amount of chloride that his body had lost before he began to drink sea water. Subsequently he excretes the full amount of chloride taken in. (b) The output of urine is increased, but there is a slight gain in the amount of the water in the body, because the extra water lost in the urine is less than the extra water taken in as sea water. (c) There is a gain in the total urea clearance.
(It should be noted that this experiment was performed in a laboratory where sweating would be at a minimum.)
Ladell's experiment indicated that a slight advantage was to be gained when a man on limited fresh water or without any fresh water drank small quantities of sea water. However, the agency sponsoring the research did not recommend the drinking of sea water. Evidently it was felt that the small gain to be expected did not warrant the risk involved. Even if the survivor was able to hold his intake of sea water down to the limit recommended by Ladell (400 c.c., or less than 1 pint), the small volume of water gained in this way could not support human life indefinitely and would give little if any extension in survival time over that to be expected by a man drinking no water at all.
The sea-water enthusiasts argue that Dr. Alain Bombard drank sea water and survived; therefore, sea water must be beneficial. What was Bombard's experience and how does it compare with that of shipwreck survivors? Bombard departed from Las Palmas, Canary Islands, on October 19, 1952, and landed at St. Lucia, Barbados, on December 23, 1952—a journey of 65 days. But 52 days after setting out, he boarded the S.S. Aroka, stayed an hour and a half, and had a meal. These 52 days represent his longest period of survival without outside help.
Bombard's voyage was a truly remarkable exhibition of fortitude and an impressive demonstration of the capacity of the human body to withstand abuse. However, several shipwreck survivors, less well prepared than Dr. Bombard, have made longer drifts.
The longest drift on record is that of Poon Lim, a native of Hong Kong, who spent 133 days on a raft in the South Atlantic after his ship, the S.S. Ben Lomond, was torpedoed in 1942.
Poon Lim spent the first hour after the torpedoing floating in his life jacket. Then he had the good fortune to reach an unoccupied raft. The raft had food and water for 50 days—but the last 83 days of his drift he subsisted on rain water and fish. Brazilian fishermen picked him up, still in good physical condition after 133 days on his own.
Has the survivor no choice but to rely on rain water as Poon Lim did, or take a chance on sea-water poisoning as Bombard did? Fortunately, most survivors of ditchings or shipwreck will not be limited to these alternatives. Two devices developed during World War II give today's survivor a margin of safety—the desalting kit and the solar still.
The desalting kit provides a method of converting salt water to fresh in practically any weather, but it can be used only once. The solar still functions only when the sun is shining or under a light cloud cover, but it can be used indefinitely.
The desalting kit precipitates dissolved salts in sea water so that they can be filtered out. Each desalting kit contains a number of briquettes of silver aluminum silicate and a plastic processing bag. Each briquette will desalt about a pint of water. The kit will produce six or seven times as much water as could be carried if the same space were used to carry canned water.
In use, the processing bag is filled with sea water up to a marked line and the briquette dropped in. The bag is kneaded and agitated gently for an hour, allowing the briquette to break up and the chemical reaction to take place. Desalted water is drawn off through a filter in the bottom of the bag, from which it can be drunk directly or squeezed into a storage bag.
The solar still is a spherical plastic envelope that can be inflated either by mouth or by using the pump carried on most life rafts. Inside the sphere is stretched a black cloth, upon which sea water drips from a reservoir. The sun heats the moist black cloth, and from it the water evaporates—fresh. The evaporated fresh water condenses on the inner surface of the plastic sphere in small drops, which run down to the fresh-water trap at the bottom of the still. The salt stays in the black cloth.
Each solar still can produce about two pints of fresh water a day, and most life rafts on aircraft carry several stills. Each still takes up about the same amount of space as a pint of canned water.
The stills operate most efficiently in direct sunlight but will operate on cloudy days if the overcast is not too thick. They will not operate at night or on very dark days.
The map below shows how much help can be expected from rain in various parts of the world. Rain plus the water from the solar stills usually carried on life rafts will usually yield between 80 and 130 per cent of the requirement for survival in almost all areas commonly traversed by planes and ships.
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Desalting kits provide an additional supply to carry castaways through periods of unfavorable weather. The inherent ability of the human body to withstand abuse provides a further safety factor.
In view of the resources now available to the castaway, it seems foolish to recommend that a survivor drink sea water. In most emergencies, he will drink some accidentally, and a certain amount of dried salt is also taken in. This unintentional salt would, in most cases, nullify the meager benefit that might be gained from drinking sea water. The drinking of sea water, then, is just another of the recurrent fables that should be given a quiet burial. Man is no more able to drink sea water than Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.


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By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily
Normally each Thursday morning, I list five events that peak
my interest, including (ideally) at least one with free admission (or, at a minimum,
inexpensive tickets). However, because of the Thanksgiving holidays, I've only
found two events — admittedly important ones — for this week's listing.
However, there are also some upcoming events that are worth adding to your
Tomorrow and
Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles
Philharmonic: Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to the Phil
Whether it's a case of "absence makes the heart grow fonder"
or the fact that the L.A. Phil always seems to play with extra fervor under the
baton of its former music director, whenever Esa-Pekka Salonen (pictured right) comes "home" to conduct
the LAPO it's a special occasion. For those new in town or to classical music,
the now-53-year-old Finnish-born Salonen was the Phil's music director for 17
seasons (1992-2009), the longest tenure among the 11 people to hold the
This weekend is the first of two consecutive Salonen
programs: Beethoven's Lenore Overture, No.
2 and Piano Concerto No. 2, along with the world premiere of Sirens by Swedish composer Anders
Sirens is scored
for large orchestra, mixed chorus (the Los Angeles Master Chorale), and two
soloists: soprano Hila Plitmann and mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. The 30+
minute piece was commissioned by the late Betty Freeman and dedicated both to
her and to the conductor. Salonen has a three-minute video on his Web site
(LINK) where he discusses the work's genesis and speaks lovingly of Freeman,
who he described as "sorely missed and a great supporter of new music."
Hilborg writes of the piece: "In Greek mythology, the Sirens were murderous bird-women who used
their voices to lure sailors to their island. In Homer's The Odyssey, Ulysses orders his crew to
plug their ears and tie him to the mast so he will be able to hear, and
survive, the deadly singing.
The calm sea starts stirring, ghostlike whispers emerge
from the depths, strange fragmented voices agitate the surface. The scene
suddenly clears and the Sirens appear.
The Sirens try to lure Ulysses in numerous ways: they
flatter his ego; they appeal to his mind and soul, promising him they'll
disclose all the secrets of the world; and they sing seductively, arousing him.
Then the Sirens' true monstrous identity is revealed, as
their powerful singing transforms into horrendous screaming. The hallucination
dissolves and all reverts back to calm sea, as Ulysses' vessel sails out of danger."
Read the complete program note HERE.
Emanuel Ax, a long-time collaborator with both Salonen and
the Phil, will be the soloist in the concerto, which (despite its number) was
actually the first piano concerto that Beethoven composed. Well-known
harpsichordist and conductor Lucinda Carver will deliver a lecture an hour
before each concert.
Concert information: www.laphil.org
Friday at 9 p.m. on
PBSSoCal TV (aka KOCE)
Los Angeles Opera's
production of Daniel Catn's Il Postino
The PBS series Great
Performances taped the world premiere of Il Postino (The Postman) by Southern California composer Daniel
Catn. Plcido Domingo stars as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, Charles Castronovo
sings the title role, and Grant Gerson conducts.
The opera was based on Ardiente
Pacienca (Burning Patience), a 1985 novella by Antonio Skrmeta,
and the award-winning (and beloved by many) 1994 film, Il Postino, by Michael Radford, but
Catn turned it into his own very special and, as it turned out, final work
(the composer died unexpectedly last April). A link to the laudatory reviews,
including mine, is HERE.
Information (including
a video preview clip): www.pbsssocal.org
For the "futures" section of your calendar:
The Metropolitan Opera had originally scheduled two "Live in
HD" telecasts for December: Handel's Rodelinda,
starring Rene Fleming with Harry Bicket conducting, on Dec. 3; and
Gounod's Faust, with Jonas Kaufman in
the title role and Yannick Nzet-Sguin conducting a new production, on Dec.
The company has added two "encore" presentations (i.e.,
previously recorded telecasts), both of which are worth attending: Mozart's The Magic Flute on Wed., Dec. 21 at 6:30
p.m. and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel
the following evening. There are several things that make these productions
They're short (Magic
Flute clocks in at 110 minutes and Hansel
and Gretel runs 123 minutes) as opposed to Rodelinda and Faust, both
of which are more than four hours in length.
They're both sung in English.
They're both labeled as "family friendly." The Magic Flute was staged by Julie Taymor
with the same sort of puppet and fantasy magic that characterized her
production of The Lion King. The
fairy tale setting of Hansel and Gretel is
equally enchanting. Both are great for adults and kids alike.
A couple of added bonuses:
Hansel and Gretel
was one of the last roles (The Witch) for the great English tenor, Philip
Landridge, who died on March 5, 2010 just a few months after this production
The Magic Flute
was conducted by James Levine and it's no telling how long it will be before we
see the Met's music director back in the pit (he's recovering from back
One downside: you're going to have a hard time finding a
theater locally for Hansel and Gretel, at
least as of this writing. While The Magic
Flute will be shown at the Alhambra Renaissance 14, Covina 17 and Puente
Hills 20, the closest theater (to me) for Hansel
and Gretel is the Cinemark 14 in Long Beach, which does have the advantage
of being within walking distance of the Metro Blue Line stations at 1st
St. and the Long Beach Transit Mall.
Information: www.metoperafamily.org
(c) Copyright 2011, Robert D. Thomas. All rights reserved.
Portions may be quoted with attribution.


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Icahn vs Ackman: Waste of world's time, or greatest Friday ever? — Deal Journal
Traders tune in to billionaire smackdown between Icahn and Ackman — MarketBeat
One year later, Exxon bests Apple as world's biggest company — WSJ
On the dangers of fighting the last investment war — Abnormal Returns
Diverging data on manufacturing signal murky outlook — Real Time Economics
What happens when the Fed starts losing money — The Economist
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Abstract: This paper is based on a longitudinal case study of a Brazilian multinational company which has changed its way of organizing work processes by implementing a highperformance work system (HPWS). The article argues that, as the firm attempts to improve its internal processes, it requires access to internal and external resources, as well as the expertise that may increase and support this change. However, when these resources are not easily found locally, the firm needs to pool and recombine different sources of expertise to succeed in its efforts. At this stage, the balance of power between different organizational actors starts to shift towards greater mutual dependence, thus reducing power imbalances. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7349
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Abstract: The present article investigates changes over time in the patterns of co-decisionmaking in a Danish multinational company which has grown through cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The findings show the difficulties that trade union representatives face when firms try to introduce a governance regime based on shareholder value ideology. The article argues that hybrid forms of governance are unlikely to develop due to historically embedded governance institutions, which create distinct expectations about how a firm must be governed and who has the right to participate in this governance. The spread of the Anglo-Saxon model of governance in Europe is likely to have negative effects on co-decision-making processes and established patterns of organizational cooperation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7358
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Abstract: The analysis in this paper concerns how national institutions impact the implementation of occupational healthy and safety management systems (OHSMS) in different types of market economies. The main objective is to show how variation in national institutional frameworks influences the implementation of OHSMS, and thus, relative performance. There are two main conclusions. First, dominating organisational templates and co-operative industrial relations structures allow firms from coordinated market economies (CME) to more effectively implement OHSMS than those from liberal market economies (LME) which are embedded in adversarial industrial relations. Secondly, due to differences in the institutional framework among countries, the mechanisms of enforcement for OHSMS need to be designed in different ways. The article contributes to the literature by showing that the implementation and functioning of OHSMS are mediated by the different institutional logics in which firms are embedded. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7365
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The Monticello City Council will allow city employees to opt out of the city-provided health insurance coverage. The policy is an idea to help cut costs to the city.
The new policy pays employees 65 percent of the cost of their insurance should they choose to opt out of the program. However, employees cannot opt out of the city health insurance unless they can provide proof of medical coverage through another entity.
Councilman Tim Young felt that it would be fine to give people the option, but it should be understood that it is only an option and not a recommendation from the city.
Councilman Scott Frost said that if people are already insured through a spouse they should have the choice to opt out of the city plan. City Manager Kelly Pehrson reports that 65 percent of the annual cost is $10,360.
Frost moved to approve the opt out policy at 50 percent instead of 65 percent, but the motion died for lack of a second.
Young moved to approve a 65 percent payout of the cost, provided employees show proof of insurance. The motion passed 3-2 with Young, Frost and Shakespeare voting in favor.
The council discussed the possible wind farm proposed by Wasatch Wind that may be built northwest of Monticello. The council had concerns about the location of the windmills. Some are planned that will be seen from the city and could alter the view. The windmills in question, more than 495 feet tall from the base to the tip of the blade, are even larger than those at the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon.
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The council received a report that City Fire Chief Terrill Slade is retiring on August 1.
Slade has been the chief for 23 years. He was on the fire department several years prior to becoming chief. Slade will still be involved in the fire department. The council expressed thanks for Slade's many years of service and suggested community members thank him as well. The council will go through the process of appointing a new fire chief.
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Classified data can be used to support DR in one of two ways: passive and active. The passive method acts on the data after it has been stored; the active method applies policy rules to the data when it arrives for storage. An example of the passive approach is a virtual tape library that transparently creates a single-instance repository to compact and reduce the amount of data stored when creating a replicated copy for resiliency. An example of an active approach is when data is automatically replicated to multiple locations along with enforcing security, retention and other policy rules as the data is saved to a storage system. Data classification is also instrumental for a wide variety of storage functions, such as data archiving, data search and retrieval, migrating data to different tiers of storage and other information lifecycle management activities.
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When automating BC and DR, it's important to know what notification mechanisms exist between different hardware and software technologies that will trigger the automation. For example, in an electrical power grid, there are supervisory control and data acquisition mechanisms to detect, monitor and enable management of the grid. For a data and storage infrastructure to support BC and DR, monitoring, analysis and event-correlation tools provide similar management capabilities, such as those from Aptare Inc. (StorageConsole), CentrePath Inc. (Magellan), EMC Corp. (Smarts), Hewlett-Packard Co. (Storage Essentials), Onaro Inc. (SANscreen) and WysDM Software Inc. (WysDM), among others.
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When setting up rules and policies for business continuity and disaster recovery, consider the following:
You should consider adding fault and event-correlation analysis and monitoring tools, and change management software to your automated DR/BC arsenal. Event-correlation tools can be used to report on the general health and status of your storage and data infrastructure, as well as servers and networks in general. In addition, these tools can shed light on how automated data protection tasks such as backup and replication--and storage in general--are performing.
When setting up policies, sometimes it's helpful to construct a decision tree, flow chart or similar mechanism to guide you through the process of data classification and technology assignment. This can be an effective tool for a storage manager to decide which techniques and technologies are most appropriate to use to support the specific level of automation for BC and DR. Essentially, you will create a decision tree that becomes the rules that dictate what actions the various policy managers will take for different events.
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Automating BC and DR using policies reduces downtime and errors, but it takes time and planning to decide what to automate and to set up policies and the rules. Automated policies usually don't control only storage, but touch almost everything within the data center: servers, networks, applications, databases and lines of business. It's a complicated and difficult task to automate BC and DR procedures; once done, however, the payback is enormous.


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"We are mired in a repetitious pattern of hate, jealousy and resentment toward those who are plucked by media powers and come to stand — however inefficiently — for the rest of us in the cultural imagination, securing the top spots, the best exposure, the prime media real estate in exchange for opening veins of feminine vulnerability." That's Salon's Rebecca Traister, weighing in on the publishing world's ghettoization and fetishization of the female experience by women writers both real (Emily Gould) and imagined (Carrie Bradshaw). Traister, in a little over 1,400 words, perfectly sums up this writer's inner conflicts over Sex and the City, the nasty, knee-jerk reaction to Emily's NY Times magazine piece, and the aesthetically prejudiced, commercially-limited and critically loathed space occupied by many contemporary female writers. Here's more:
Just as Gould is infuriated by all those "Scary Sadshaws," wandering around in search of baubles and boys... [I find it] maddening to have to wonder — Carrie Bradshaw-style — if Gould's story would have run had she not been beautiful, and maddening to then hate oneself for having had to wonder that at all.
But perhaps most maddening is the way the buildup of critical attention to a piece like Gould's — or to a cultural phenomenon like "SATC" — only affirms that certain kinds of women, and only those kinds of women, are worth elevating to begin with, in part because of the delight people take in tearing them down.
And this:
No matter how angry you felt about Gould's piece, it was almost impossible to read the comments and not feel terrible: for her, about her, and about yourself for having even peeked. The process is exhausting, and not good for anyone, especially women who get stuck with some lame avatar they feel does not represent them, but whom they do not particularly feel like burning at the stake just for having been clever, lucky or talented enough to wind up drawing a spotlight.
Another Pretty Face Of A Generation [Salon]
Related: The Times Magazine Dapples Sunlight On Its Memoirist [NY Observer]
Exposed [NY Times Magazine]
Earlier: 5 Things About That Times Magazine Piece On Masturbatory Blogging
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I'm developing a 3D tower defense-like game in C++/OpenGL on Windows.
The problem I'm having isn't about the game itself (the game runs fine), but it's about using screen recording software to record gameplay.
For some reason, whenever I try to record the screen (I've tried both Camtasia Studio 8 and Fraps 3.5.9), it slows down the game (I'm not talking about just an FPS drop; the actual game timers run slower).
To show an example of what I mean, see the following screenshot: I ran two instances of my game at once (side by side), and recorded the righthand one using Fraps. As you can see in the image below, Fraps is causing the game time for the recorded instance to increase almost twice as slowly as it should.
I'm getting around 800-1000 FPS when running the game without Fraps recording, and around 300-400 FPS with Fraps recording. But playing the game with recording causes everything to happen in slow-motion, despite it running smoothly rendering-wise.
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The decision by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday to side with the Burbank Leader in its lawsuit to force Burbank officials to divulge per-employee bonus payouts should serve as notice to local governments: The public has a right to know exactly how their tax dollars are being spent.
It's not as if the decision was unexpected — at least not among people with a firm grasp of public records law. Court decisions in similar cases have repeatedly sided with the public's right to know, which is why the decision by Burbank city officials to fight the Leader's records request every step of the way begs a flurry of questions.
The most immediate question the news staff will no doubt look into after receiving the bonus information is why — why would Burbank be so keen to keep the specific amount of bonuses paid to individual city employees secret?
A city attorney for Glendale — which has made its own data public — was even cited in Burbank's court filing as deciding to fulfill a similar records request.
In responding to the Leader's lawsuit — filed by the newspaper's parent company, the Los Angeles Times — Assistant City Atty. Juli Scott contended in court filings that "the argument that the newspaper needs to see these amounts to know if employees are being subjected to favortism or nepotism is both specious and illogical."
Clearly, the judge disagreed. And after the Leader receives and processes the information, it will be up to Burbank residents to decide if they do too.


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Jayson Williams, Troubled Former Athlete, showed up in court today to plead guilty—for real this time—to aggravated assault for accidentally shooting his chauffeur. That, plus about 18 months in prison, will end his legal ordeal.
Nearly eight years after killing Costas "Gus" Christofi with a mishandled shotgun, Williams was set to be retried this month on a reckless manslaughter charge. (The original jury deadlocked back in 2004.) However, in the last year he got divorced, has been arrested at least three times, broke his neck, and has been hospitalized in a suicidal rage. Just last week he got drunk, smashed his car, and then slid into the passenger seat hoping cops would think he wasn't driving. (He was alone.) So he's got a lot on his mind.
It's not clear if the recent accident finally pushed him to accept his fate, but at least this chapter in his life will finally come to an end. He's broke, injured, and possibly alcoholic. A couple years in a cell could be just what the doctor ordered.
Ex-Nets star Jayson Williams pleads guilty to fatal shooting of limo driver; faces 18 months in jail [NY Daily News]


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When Leila Cohoon tells people she owns a hair museum, they envision old curling irons, hair dyers, and other such tools. However, this is not the case.
There are 159 wreaths and over 2,000 pieces of jewelry containing, or made of, human hair dating before 1900. For $3.00, the public in invited to look at these locks at Leila's Hair Museum. , Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
According to Cohoon, "It could possibly be the only hair museum in the United States, maybe the world."
The museum was featured in the April 23rd,1995, issue of People magazine. She received a phone call from actress/comedian Phyllis Diller, and the museum now boasts a hair wreath acquired from Ms. Diller. The Museum has also been featured in the following publications and television stations:
Cohoon began collecting the hair as a hobby when she started the Independence College of Cosmetology 37 years ago. With the completion of their new building, she finally had the space to open the museum.
The wreaths, many hanging in their original frames, were considered pieces of art. Families put their hair on the wreath in a horseshoe shape so that more could be added as the family grew. Cohoon has a couple of the hair wreaths from two sisters whose heads were shaved when they entered a convent. She has a homemade family history book dating from 1725 to 1900 that contains samples of the family member's hair, complete with calling cards.
The museum contains watch fobs, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, chains, brooches, hat pins, postcards, pictures and many other interesting items. Cohoon enjoys wearing the jewelry and says she continues to increase her collection through antique dealers, garage sales, auctions and people contacting her when they have heard of the museum through the media.
"By taking apart a wreath and putting it back together, I have been able to figure out the steps, and I am now making a wreath using my grandchildren's' hair; however, since learning how to do the craft, I find that I enjoy locating and preserving the old pieces for history much more than making new ones.
"We still have the habit today of saving hair: when Baby gets that first haircut, Mother saves the hair. We don't know why; we just put it in a book and that's the end of it...but at least we have the habit."
Leila's Hair Museum is now the national headquarters for the Victorian Hairwork Society. This location is where the committee meets, photo's and press releases are archived our members hair wreath is displayed. Information about the society and the museum is available by contacting:
Leila Cohoon
Shown on the right is Leila with a huge hair flower shadowbox. She has created a calendar which includes many photo's of the hairwork from this display. There is also a video available with many hair flower designs. So if you need hair flower images, contact Leila. firstname.lastname@example.com
Visit Leila's official website


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WELLESLEY, Mass. – MIT closed out its weekend of play at the Nor'Easter Bowl on a high note, taking its final match in the event against a squad from the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez by a final of 6-3. After taking two of the three doubles matches the Engineers won the top three flights in singles play to clinch the victory.
In the doubles portion of the match, MIT (9-6) won the top two flights to take a 2-1 lead in the match. The No. 1 doubles team of senior Anastasia Vishnevetsky (Orange, Conn.) and freshman Michelle Dutt (Gurnee, Ill.) won a close one over the pairing of Gabriela Rodriguez/Nicole Rosich, 8-6. At No. 2 it was sophomore Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) and freshman Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) finishing their tournament undefeated at 3-0 with an 8-0 decision over Marah Colon/Andrea Rivera. MIT came close to making it a clean sweep in doubles, with the No. 3 team of senior Hillary Jenny (Green Bay, Wis.) and freshman Madeline Aby (Lake Forest, Ill.) dropping a close, 8-6, decision to Christine Raymond/Joanna Ortiz.
Dutt and Hsu were impressive at the top of the singles competition. Playing at No. 1 and No. 2, each won their matches by 6-0, 6-0 scores to put the MIT within one point of taking the match. Kong provided that point at No. 3, defeating Rivera, 6-2, 6-1. Abby provided icing on the win by coming after from dropping the first set in her No. 5 match against Ortiz to take a 2-6, 7-5, 10-7 victory.
MIT will celebrate Senior Day in its next match, with the Engineers taking the court again on Saturday, April 14 against Simmons College. Play is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.


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One of the things I love about Italian food is that you can use very simple ingredients with delicious results. For this reason, Italian food can be perfect for a busy weekday night. Often we'll just throw some pasta on the stove, heat up some premade, high quality sauce, add some fresh veggies like spinach or lightly sauteed mushrooms, and have a delicious, easy dinner on the table in twenty minutes or less. I usually garnish the dish with pine nuts or add a flavorful hard grated cheese like romano or parmesan. One of my old Italian favorites is a recipe I developed ages ago with balsalmic marinated eggplant, baked with a pre made tomato sauce and topped with some lowfat mozarella cheese. However, given the surplus of adorable zucchini and squash in the market lately, I decided to try a version of my eggplant parmesan with grilled zucchini. I think grilling the zucchini added extra flavor and avoided mushiness. Actually, it was so tasty I might try to make my eggplant parmesan with grilled eggplant some time in the future. DH even enjoyed the dish, but then he likes almost anything if it has cheese in it. ;)
Later that week I decided to mix up a batch of Gluten Free Pantry's French Bread Mix. I'm generally enamored with Bette Hagman's gluten free french bread recipe, but in this case, I thought it would be nice to use a quick and easy mix. My estimation? In this case, it's definitely worth the extra effort to make french bread from scratch. But, it must be said that the bread looked absolutely lovely, and DH thought it tasted fine. I used it for garlic bread the first night, and served it with some gluten free Tinkyada pasta topped with the homemade easy pasta sauce below. The next night, we were even busier. We had some french bread and pasta sauce left over, so I cut the bread in half, broiled it briefly with margarine (or butter) and garlic, and then topped it with the thick pasta sauce and sprinkled lowfat mozarella cheese on top. I put it back in the oven and let it melt and get all brown and toasty. Mmmm, mmm, mmm. Easy and delicious!
If you're in the mood for gluten free Italian recipes, you might enjoy my
Gluten Free Eggplant Parmesan Recipe
Zucchini Crust Pizza Flatbread Recipe
All Purpose Pasta Sauce
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 onion, diced
4 garlic cloves, sliced
3 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (thyme, sage, oregano), or 1 tablespoon dried spices
1/2 medium carrot, finely grated
2 (28-ounce) cans peeled whole tomatoes or 1 can whole tomatoes and 5 or 6 home grown heirloom tomatoes, roughly chopped (reserve juice from can and any from the tomatoes) OR 1 28 oz. can peeled tomatoes and 1 14 oz. can stewed tomatoes
GF Spaghetti noodles
Grill or roast your fresh tomatoes until charred and skin comes off easily. Chop roughly and retain any juice. In a sauce pan or dutch oven, heat the oil to medium, and add your diced onion and garlic, cooking until lightly golden (about 10 minutes). Lower heat if needed. ThroIn a 3-quart saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic, and cook until soft and light golden brown, about 8 to 10 minutes. Add spices and grated carrot and cook for about five minutes. Add tomatoes and any juice or liquid from the can or fresh tomatoes and let come to boil, stirring to make sure it doesn't burn. Turn down heat and simmer on low for half an hour until thickened. Add salt to taste.
Use on pasta, and/or for vegetarian sloppy joes.
Zucchini Parmesan Recipe
Balsamic Vinegar
Olive Oil
Trader Joe's or Spice Hunter Pasta Seasonings Blend
salt and pepper, to taste
3 Large, fat zucchini, cleaned and sliced into rounds
Preheat oven to 375.
Sprinkle generous amount of Pasta seasonings blend into a pie pan. Add a drizzle of olive oil and pour balsamic vinegar into the pan, whisking the marinade together. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Dip zucchini rounds and onion rings into marinade and grill until zucchini is cooked (but not mushy) and has nice grill marks on both sides, turning as needed. Onions should be grilled until softened but not charred. Cut grilled onion rings into squares.
Prepare a baking dish (cookie sheet with rim etc.) by spraying it with non-stick cooking spray. Arrange zucchini rounds on the dish and festoon with onion squares. Pour marinara sauce on top of the zucchini and onions so they are covered in a light, even topping of sauce. Sprinkle with cheese and try to lightly add a touch of pressed garlic to the top of each zucchini round.
Place baking dish in oven and cook until cheese is melted and browned on top. If you like you can turn up the heat to 425 to hasten browning towards the end of the baking period.
Enjoy with Rice pilaf, pasta, or polenta. Yummy!


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some of the arguments of nuclear power supporters "feel"
wrong to you, even though you have trouble pinpointing
the fallacies in them?
Then you'll be glad to read . . .
ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting
in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power
plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation
per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem
in the same time period. In fact you can stand right next
to a nuclear power plant and receive no radiation at all.
GOFMAN: First let me agree
that certain building materials do give off enough
radiation doses to deserve consideration. Let me also
agree that there is a very low dose of radiation emitted
at the fenceline of a nuclear power plant that is functioning
normally If this were not the case, workers couldn't park
their cars nearby or even approach such utilities at all.
However, the "no dose at fenceline"
statement doesn't consider the radiation people can receive
from the entire nuclear power fuel cycle. We need
to take into account all of the steps that make
up the atomic energy process including the production
of mountains of uranium tailings (unshielded piles that
are continuously releasing radioactive radon) . . . the
inventory of radioactive poisons--such as cesium 137 strontium
90 and iodine 131--that "leak" or "puff" into the atmosphere
when a power plant is not functioning normally
. . . the quantities of radioactive wastes being moved
in fallible vehicles that can (and do) leak . . . and
the so-called burial sites which have also been
shown to leak and spread their material into the environment
at large.
Now let's come to the claim
that a nuclear power plant itself releases only
3/10 of a millirem per year. Were that radiation dose--coupled
of course with other fuel cycle emissions--truly
always so small I would hardly waste my time concerning
myself with the hazards of nuclear power. But the proof
that advocates of this energy source have no confidence
whatsoever in their estimate of the plants' releases
lies in their behavior with respect to the legal radiation
As late as 1979, nuclear power
plants were, legally, allowed to bombard the public with
170 millirems per year. When my colleague Arthur Tamplin
and I proposed a tenfold reduction in that standard, the
nuclear industry and pronuclear government agencies fought
us tooth and nail. Now it has to be regarded as the acme
of strange behavior for an industry to say, "Look, we're
never going to give you more than 3/10 of a millirem per
year" . . . and then demand that the permissible standard
remain more than 500 times as high as that limit! So I
would say that as long as the industry fights against
reducing legal standards to a level comparable to the
3/10 millirem per year that nuclear power advocates claim
is the maximum dose per plant, any member of the public
can dismiss such ludicrously low estimates.
(The legal standard was
changed in 1979. It now permits 25 millirems per year
of ionizing radiation to be passed on to the general public,
under normal operating conditions! The Catch-22
here is that if anything occurs to make the operating
conditions "abnormal", a nuclear facility is permitted
to release an increased--and unrestricted--quantity
of radiation.)
2: People living in high altitude cities, such as Denver,
receive twice as much natural radiation as do those living
at low altitudes . . . yet the residents of such cosmically
bombarded locales don't display double the average
incidence of cancer.
GOFMAN: The answer to this
favorite pronuclear argument is that the cosmic radiation
hitting the people in Denver probably does cause
an increase in the number of cancer cases per capita.
(One should not expect to find twice as many cases
of cancer, of course, because radiation is not the only
cause of the disease.) But to statistically demonstrate
such a reality, we would first have to know [1] that the
medical reporting of disease categories was equally
accurate in that city and the sea-level community to which
Denver was being compared, [2] that the people who are
considered "at risk" in both communities had all lived
at the same location all their lives, and [3] that any
other carcinogenic factors--aside from background
radiation--were identical in both areas. (Undoubtedly
they would not be identical.)
The fact is that no expert
in the field of vital statistics would be prepared
to contest the point that Denver residents may
be experiencing an increased cancer incidence rate as
a result of cosmic radiation . . . when compared with
otherwise equivalent people at sea level.
3: A chest X-ray exposes a person to 50 millirems of radiation,
and a coast-to-coast jet flight gives one a dose of 5
millirems. But the spokespersons of the antinuclear "movement"
don't complain about those hazards.
GOFMAN: An individual has
the right to choose to accept the radiation received
by flying coast to coast or by having a chest X-ray
. . . in exchange for a perceived benefit for him- or
herself. (The dose received from a variety of medical
X-rays is high enough, though, that I would not
recommend undergoing such examinations unless the procedures
are required in order to make an accurate diagnosis of
a potentially fatal disease.)
But nuclear power does not
offer a voluntary choice . . . the radiation released
by nuclear power is imposed upon people. Indeed,
atomic power represents the use of an entire population
as involuntary guinea pigs in a gigantic game of Russian
roulette . . . the results of which could be an epidemic
of cancer, leukemia, and genetic disease. And there
would be no justification for such an involuntary imposition
of risk even if the majority of the people in a country
voted in favor of nuclear power . . . because the majority
has no right to risk committing genocide against the minority.
4: The genetic dangers often cited by antinuclear activists
are obviously exaggerated, because not even the atomic
bombs dropped on Japan in World War II produced
any harmful genetic effects.
GOFMAN: I've often heard
the statement that the Hiroshima/Nagasaki data show
that no genetic damage results from radiation, so I
went out of my way to analyze, very carefully, those
particular scientific papers . . . and I was astounded
to discover that the findings in that study were exactly
the opposite of what is being claimed! The often
quoted Neel-Kato-Schull study examined dominant genetic
diseases that are expected to cause death in early life
among children under 17 years of age, and definitely
indicated that ionizing radiation increased the incidence
of such diseases.
The Neel-Kato-Schull findings
were significant at what is called the "5% level", which
means there's one chance in 20 that the findings were
the result of chance . . . and 19 chances out
of 20 that the findings were correct. Now the scientists
who did this work decided that--considering the delicacy
of the matter--they didn't want to trumpet their results
around . . . so they concluded in their paper that they
found "no clear effects" (my italics).
Well, they had indeed
found that radiation has an effect on the incidence
of genetic damage, at the 5% level of significance.
But--by twisting the words in their summary--they provided
pronuclear advocates with the opportunity to grab at
the statement that "no effect was clearly observed"
and then to jump to the fraudulent conclusion
that "no effect exists".
The Japanese evidence certainly
does not prove the absence of genetic effects
of radiation.
5: Antinuclear advocates exaggerate the dangers of plutonium.
After all, the substance is easily safeguarded because
it's produced in very small quantities. Furthermore,
other dangerous poisons--like lead, which has an infinite
half-life--are continually being spewed into
the environment.
Plutonium has to be one of the most dangerous carcinogens
that I know of. In fact, I believe that my own
estimates of its toxicity--figures that are thousands
of times higher than those of "official" estimating
bodies--may well be understated.
And--although nuclear advocates
claim that the carcinogen is now made in relatively
small quantities--if we develop an industry involving
reprocessing fuel rods (which must surely come to pass
if we commit ourselves to the nuclear energy route),
society will be handling millions of kilograms
of plutonium. Under such circumstances, in order to
avoid a lung cancer epidemic, the containment of this
plutonium will have to be 99.9999% perfect . . . in
other words, they'll have to safely guard all but one
part in a million!
And yes, lead does have
an infinite half-life and may be injuring the brains
of many, many children . . . particularly those in urban
environments. However, pointing to the dangers of another
damaging pollutant to justify creating plutonium is
the equivalent of arguing that if others are
committing murder, then additional homicide is
The correct assessment
involves the realization that if we're letting the lead
industry get away with dangerous pollution, we should
do something about the lead industry . . . and
not promote still another dangerous violation
of human rights and health.
8: Nuclear power supplies 13% of our country's electricity
today. If Industry is denied that energy, many
jobs will surely be lost.
GOFMAN: The relationship of
employment to energy is a very complex matter. If you
simply shut off the electricity serving a specific factory
tomorrow, then of course the people working there
will be out of work. On the other hand, the longrange
increased use of electricity in factories often
results in more mechanization and a decrease in
the number of humans required to conduct the businesses'
Furthermore, there's little
reason to believe that the method of energy production
affects employment . . . though many solar advocates
claim that "their" energy source will produce more jobs
per dollar than most other power alternatives.
And as for any possible energy--not
jobs--shortage that could occur if we were to abandon
atomic power (nuclear plants do produce 13% of
our electricity, but that amounts to only 3% of our total
annual energy consumption) . . . the American Institute
of Architects has calculated, in two carefully researched
reports, that we could work up to a 26% saving in America's
projected energy use by 1990 (which would be equivalent
to the production of about 430 giant nuclear plants)
simply by putting conventional technology to work to make
our buildings energy-efficient.
9: The question of the risks of nuclear power is a deeply
technical issue that only well-informed scientists, in
that specific field, can understand . . . and the majority
of such people support nuclear power.
GOFMAN: I have several things
to say in response to that one! First, by simply using
common sense, the layman will often behave far more intelligently
than would a Ph.D. The ordinary man-in-the-street can
look at the amount of radioactivity that would be produced
in a full-scale nuclear industry and realize that containing
such toxins to 99.9999% perfection day in, day out, year
in, and year out--when one considers all the possible
human and machine fallibilities--is impossible. But the
expert who looks at a computer printout based on the perfect
execution of a string of single operations and then concludes
that the toxins can be contained to one part in
a million is, to my way of thinking, the person who's
behaving like an idiot.
Let me now address the idea
that the majority of qualified scientists support nuclear
power. When considering this statement, you should first
realize that the U.S. government funds about half of the
research in this country. And, as I can tell you from
my own personal experience, the government doesn't like
results that disagree with its policies. Therefore, many
scientists are publicly silent on nuclear power, or declare
that the issue is too controversial to take a stance on,
when privately they will admit their reservations.
Most important, though, scientific
truth is not a popularity contest. Throughout history,
almost every step forward in science was resisted by the
majority of contemporary scientists. When most people
thought that our earth was the center of the universe,
the planet was traveling through space just as it's doing
today . . . even though the "vast preponderance" of scientific
opinion was steadfastly against such an idea. So
remember: No matter how many votes a scientific committee
may cast . . . the truth of nature remains unchanged.
ARGUMENT 10: Every activity--including driving a car--is
risky. It's impossible to have a risk-free society. Consequently
the benefits of an action must be weighed against
its hazards . . . and nuclear power's benefits outweigh
its risks.
GOFMAN: It is absolutely true
that we cannot have a risk-free society. And, since that's
the case, we should recognize that those who produce hazards
for others must be fully prepared to take the financial
consequences of the risks. This rule does hold
true among individuals, and a corporation or the government
should not be allowed to assume the right--which individuals
do not have--to aggress against others. Yet nuclear
power is currently absolved from the responsibilities
of its actions by the Price-Anderson Act.
Moreover, the entire concept
of a benefit vs. risk doctrine is immoral. There is no
benefit to society that can justify the forcible
imposition of risks or threats to life upon individuals.
Indeed, there is a straight path from accepting the benefit
vs. risk doctrine for society as a whole to the philosophy
we saw epitomized in Nazi Germany.
Lastly, let me sum up my replies
to all of the arguments presented here by reminding
people that the nuclear power question is fundamentally
a human rights issue. People have the right not
to be aggressed against and used as guinea pigs in a massive
human experiment. However a concern for human rights must
not be equated with a craven fear of progress or challenge!
Humanity has faced very difficult problems and perilous
situations in the past, and shown great ingenuity
in devising systems that can minimize dangers in a fashion
which results in only voluntary risks being taken.
But such things have to be done in a sensible way, without
coercion, and with each party or industry involved taking
the responsibility for his, her, or its actions.
Radiation and Human Health, by John W. Gofman,
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