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The Rachel Maddow Show, Transcript 04/06/12
Guests: Mariah Blake, Annise Parker
April 7, 2012, 1:00 AM UTC
RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: You know what? Any of my seconds that you want or that you want to donate to me on a Friday -- I do not care. ED SCHULTZ, "THE ED SHOW" HOST: I will tell you this -- you pick the night next week. We need have you on the "THE ED SHOW." A big segment on your book. I want to talk about it. People rave about it. Congratulations. "New York Times" best seller list. Take it away, Rachel. Have a great weekend. MADDOW: I would love to, man. Thank you so much. It`s really kind of you. Thank you, Ed. SCHULTZ: Thank you. You bet. MADDOW: All right. And thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. We got a big show this hour. All right. This is the Bernice C. She`s a Canadian fishing boat. She`s about 60 feet long. She is seen her docked in Canada. This is the ghost ship. Did you hear about this? The ghost ship. Now, it is also a fishing vessel, a much bigger one. It`s about three times the size of the Bernice C. The ghost ship is a Japanese ship. As you can see here, it`s old. It`s a little beat up. And a little bit more than a year ago, this ship was essentially heading toward the scrap heap. It was at this port in Japan that`s marked there on the map, up in northeastern Japan. It was essentially just tied up there at port, with nobody using it because it was going to be sent to scrap. It was going to be cut down and turned into scrap metal. So, it was already decommissioned as a ship. It was already kind of halfway on its way to being junk. But in March of last year, Japan had its giant earthquake which, of course, triggered a giant tsunami. And in that tidal wave disaster, the ghost ship slipped its moorings and along with 5 million other tons of debris that washed off the coast of Japan in the tsunami, the ghost ship ended up out in the Pacific Ocean on its own -- with no crew, no controls, no lights. It`s just been drifting around in the Pacific Ocean on its own for a year. Now, the problem with the ship floating around out there -- I mean, yes, the ocean is big, but there`s a chance that it could run aground somewhere. There`s a chance that as it floated through busy shipping lanes with no lights or communications equipment, that somebody might hit the ghost ship. It`s kind of like space junk, except it`s in the ocean. It`s 160-foot chunk of rusting, ghosty, steel spaced junk. And this is what it becomes really fun to be in the United States Coast Guard. I mean, think about it, right? An unmanned runaway ship just floating around in the ocean. You can see where this is going, right? Target practice time. But actually, this is where the Bernice C comes back into the story. As the Coast Guard was preparing to sink the ghost ship, this little Canadian fishing boat, the Bernice C, a asserted salvage rights to the ship. I didn`t know that was a thing, but apparently, that`s a thing. And so, this Canadian fishing boat essentially claimed first dips. They said, OK, if nobody owns that ship, nobody claims it, if nobody wants it, we`ll take it. So, the Bernice C, the 60-foot boat approaches the ghost ship which was been floating around in the Pacific on its own within no crew for a year. They look to see if they can hook up their tiny little boat, right? A boat the third the size of the ghost ship, they see if they can hook their small fishing boat to this giant dead ship so they can tow it away to do whatever it is they`ve decided they want to do with it. But it turns out the Bernice C is a little engine that can`t. The ghost ship is too big and they cannot drag it off. So, after trying for a very long time, the Bernice C eventually gives up. The Coast Guard gleefully rubs its hands together, everybody gets clear of the scene and -- boom! The Coast Guard cutter Anacapa starts hitting the ghost ship with cannon fire. They start shooting 25 millimeter rounds at the ship, which I think means it was sort of like this. (VIDEO CLIP PLAYS) MADDOW: That I think is what they were shooting at the ghost ship first to try to sink it. And according to the "Associated Press," a few hours later, when the ghost ship still had not sunk, they started using ammo twice that size. It apparently took about four hours of shooting stuff at this abandoned ship, but finally, glug, glug, glug, it sunk. A hundred and eighty miles off the Alaska coast in water more than a mile deep, the ghost ship is no more. It`s kind of amazing to think about that ship banging around the Pacific Ocean on its own for more than a year with no crew, no communication, no lights, and without having already caused some sort of problem. It is also amazing to realize it`s been more than a year since the Japanese tsunami and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. But there is recent reporting out within the past week about how the Fukushima part of that Japanese disaster actually isn`t over now. Remember what happened at Fukushima, right? These nuclear reactors were hit by both the earthquake and the tsunami and knocked their cooling systems offline. So, even though the reactors shutdown, their super hot radioactive fuel inside the reactors, it was no longer being kept cool by the massive amounts of water that usually circulates to keep the fuel both cool and safe. I mean, you need water both to keep the fuel from overheating as -- it acts as an insulator but also to act as a shield from the radiation from the fuel. In the first early days of the Fukushima meltdown, you will remember, you know, the explosions, right? The helicopter water drop, the terrifying officials about how damaged these reactors were, right? The disaster happened in March. It was not until December that Japanese officials finally said that the Fukushima reactors had essentially been brought under control. They said they were -- in December, they said they were in safe shutdown. It turns out they are still not safe. A week ago, the company that owns Fukushima sent workers in hazmat suits into this reactor, into reactor two, all four of the reactors have trouble, but they went into this one. Workers in hazmat suits, they had an endoscope, like when you get an endoscopy and they put a camera through your whatever -- same idea, they had an endoscope, and they had a thermometer, a dosimeter, which was the way they were going to measure how much radiation there was in there, and a water gauge. Now, remember, water is key. You want to fuel to be covered with water so that the fuel can be kept cool and also to shield its radiation. When these workers went into that reactor, they were expecting the level of water in there to be at about 33 feet. What they found was that it was at two feet. That`s very, very bad. And that is both a symptom that something is very wrong, but either, I guess it`s hot enough to be evaporating all that water or the water is leaking. It is a symptom of something going wrong. It is also a cause of yet more going wrong there, because of that that small amount of water there, with that little water in there, there`s nothing shielding the radiation that`s coming out of that fuel. The dosimeter that they sent into reactor number two found that the radiation in there was the level of 72 sieverts. I know that that doesn`t really sound like anything, but suffice to say, that is enough to kill a person in a matter of minutes. It`s also a high enough level of radiation that most electronic equipment cannot function in that environment. So, think about this, how do you fix this problem? How do you repair what`s wrong in reactor two? It`s not going to fix itself. Human beings cannot get near enough to this problem and live long enough to fix the problem. We can`t even send robot remote control things in there to fix the problem either because it`s too radioactive even for electronics. We humans can build a nuclear reactor, but when a nuclear reactor goes bad like this, we humans cannot fix the problem -- at least we don`t know how to yet. The current plan at Fukushima to try to stop what is still a year later an ongoing and worsening disaster, the plan is to try to invent something new that doesn`t exist yet that might be able to work in this environment? An executive at the power company told "The New York Times" this week, quote, "With levels of radiation extremely high, we would need to develop equipment that can tolerate high radiation." The thing that does not exist that can allow us to even try to fix this problem. The thing that we can imagine might be useful to fix this problem, we`re going to have to invent. We`re going to try to invent something while the problem gets worse and worse and worse. It is beyond human capability. And the really bad news is that this apparently is the good news. Reactor number two, the one they went into, that`s in the best shape. They can`t figure out how to determine what`s going on in reactors one and three because the radiation levels there are reportedly even higher. You know, thank God for problems that can be fixed with 25 millimeter cannon fire. If there`s one kind of problem that we have no problem fixing, it`s a problem whose solution is large bore ammunition. A nuclear disaster, nuclear waste, this is a problem we have figured out how to create as humans, but it`s not a problem we have figured out how to solve. Since the earthquake and the tsunami and the Fukushima disaster started in Japan, Japan has shut down its entire nuclear power industry. They have 54 reactors in Japan. Only one is operating. The Japanese government today released its plan for starting up its reactor again. In this little part of Japan here that`s marked on the map, Shiga Prefecture, the governor of that part Japan is saying, "I don`t care what the government says federally." She`s saying not in Shiga. She doesn`t want any of the cluster of nuclear power plants in her jurisdiction to be restarted there. Here reasoning is that Shiga is the home of lake that supplies the fresh drinking water for more than a tenth of the whole country of Japan. So they don`t want to risk it. Look at Fukushima, nuclear problems are problems that we do not know how to fix. In 2004, a Texas billionaire applied for a license to dump nuclear waste in west Texas. The Texas Water Development Board maps of where this guy wanted that nuclear waste dump to be showed that his proposed nuclear waste dump sat on top of the Ogallala Aquifer. The Ogallala Aquifer is really important. Look how big it is. The Ogallala Aquifer covers that whole, huge giant part of the country. It spans eight different states and it is relatively shallow. And it happens to provide roughly a third of all of that water that`s used to irrigate land in the United States of America. Want to put a nuclear waste dump on that? That Texas billionaire who wanted the nuclear waste dump had given more than a million dollars in campaign donations to Texas Governor Rick Perry. Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed five of the six people on the Texas Water Development Board. And once that billionaire`s nuclear waste dump license came up for review, the Texas Water Board took a look at the maps, decided to take another look at their maps. And wouldn`t you know it, hey, the aquifer moved. It moved away from the dump. It`s not where we thought it was at all. How convenient for the billionaire campaign donor and his for-profit nuclear waste dump. Salon.com and "Bloomberg News" both have reports out today about how that Texas billionaire, the nuclear waste dump guy, is the single largest anti-Barack Obama funder in this entire election cycle. And this is the year of zillionaire, right? I mean, Rick Santorum has his zillionaire. Newt Gingrich has his zillionaire. Mitt Romney is kind of his own zillionaire and he has all of the owner zillionaires lock up too. But the person who has given more than money than anybody else to try to end the Obama presidency is the nuclear waste dump guy from Texas. This election season alone, he`s donated more than $18 million to anti-Obama and now mostly pro-Mitt Romney efforts. If you think that he`s campaign donations in that nuclear waste dump made beautiful together in west Texas, now that he`s going national, what do you think he wants for the whole country? Joining us now Salon.com`s Mariah Blake. She`s the author of today`s Salon.com article about Harold Simmons, the Texas nuclear billionaire. Ms. Blake, thank you very much for being with us tonight. I appreciate your time. MARIAH BLAKE, SALON.COM: Thank you very much for having me. That was quite an interruption. Did I get anything wrong in terms of what you understand about Mr. Simmons and his history in Texas? BLAKE: You pretty much hit the nail on the head. MADDOW: OK. What -- can you summarize for us what you learned about the way Harold Simmons has used campaign money, has used campaign donations to influence politics in the state of Texas. What his aims have been and how he`s done it? BLAKE: Well, essentially, he`s given huge sums of money and poured more than $2 million into lobbying. And the result has been that he`s managed to push this waste dump through. He`s cleared all kinds of hurdles. And in almost every instance, the body that has been making the decision was either - has either received many of the representatives received money directly from him or they were appointed by people that received huge sums of money from him. MADDOW: Mr. Simmons has indicated -- he doesn`t go do a lot of interviews or anything. But when he has talked about his politics, he`s indicated vehement dislike of President Obama. He`s called him something like the most dangerous man in America or something. BLAKE: That is correct. MADDOW: Is it clear to you from your reporting what he would want from a Republican administration in terms of policy? Is there any way to extrapolate for what he`s expected from his campaign donations in Texas to what he wants at the federal level? BLAKE: Well, it`s very clear. His top priority up until this point has been pushing through this dump. The dump is about to open. It will be accepting its first waste in about two weeks. And now, he`s really turning his attention to expanding the quantity of waste that he can bring into this dump. So, there`s a lot of decisions that will be made on the federal level that will determine just how many billions of dollars he`s able to make by operating this dump. And, you know, they span the gamut. Some involve expanding the kinds of waste that a low level site, a low level radioactive repository like this can accept, and some involved lobbying for contracts. There`s a very large waste disposal contract on the table at the Department of Energy right now. So, essentially there are many things in the pipeline that could mean billions of dollars to this man. MADDOW: During the campaign season, I mentioned in the intro, this has been sort of the year of zillionaire. And we`ve learned a lot about Republican zillionaires like Foster Friess and Sheldon Adelson. What sort of money, what sort of level of money is Harold Simmons spending compared to those guys who are more well-known than he is? BLAKE: He is -- at this point, he has outspent everybody. So, he has sunk about $18 million into Republican super PACs or conservative super PACs. And he says he intended to sink another $18 million in before the end of this election cycle. So, this is man who has given tons of money to conservative politicians over the years. But what he`s saying he`s going to give this year will actually outstrip what he`s given in the rest of his career combined. MADDOW: And in terms of how he`s going to spend it, as we shift into the general election campaign, most of the money that he has been spent this year has been through Karl Rove`s sort of dark money super PAC. Is that how you expect, how we expect Harold Simmons to make his mark on the campaign, he`ll essentially underwrite the whole Karl Rove operation? BLAKE: You know, it`s hard to anticipate how he will function. It may be that once there`s a clear front-runner, he`ll give more money to that clear frontrunner. He has also given large sums to all of the leading Republican candidates. So, this is a man unlike the other leading super PAC donors, this is a man who spreads his money around. He`s giving to everybody. He appears to be hedging his bets somewhat. MADDOW: Hedging his bets only on Republicans, though. BLAKE: Only on Republicans, yes. MADDOW: Mariah Blake -- BLAKE: Yes, he`s given very little to Democrats over the years. MADDOW: I see -- there`s a stray donation here and there to an anti- environment Democrat when he can find one, I`ve seen noticing his record today. But in terms of the presidential race, you`re absolutely right. Mariah Blake, contributor at Salon.com -- thank you very much for your reporting. Thanks for talking to us about it. Appreciate it. BLAKE: Thank you very much for having me. MADDOW: All right. The chairman of the Republican Party has dismissed the Republican Party`s relationship with women as a war on caterpillars, which led us to great the greatest graphic we created in the history of show. Coming up -- the very, very angry caterpillars. Stick around. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MADDOW: This is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a picture of her in sunglasses that has launched a whole new thing. I know, right? Best new thing in the world coming up in just a few minutes. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REINCE PRIEBUS, RNC CHAIRMAN: The Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans had a war on caterpillars, then we have problems with caterpillars. I mean, the fact of matter is it`s a fiction. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: That was Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus, saying that the idea that the Republican Party is waging war on women is as ridiculous as the idea that they are waging war on caterpillars. See, it`s an analogy in which women are caterpillars. When the overall project is to convince women that the Republican Party has a lot of respect for women, the party chairman`s caterpillar day was not a good message day for the Republican Party. So, now, they are trying again. Instead of taking on the women part of the idea of a war on women, instead of going after word number three in war on women, now they are going after word number one. Sean Spicer, Republican National Committee spokesman, telling reporters now that the use of word "war" in the phrase war on women, that, quote, "borders on unpatriotic." Given that this is the same Republican Party that has accused President Obama of waging a war on everything, from Appalachia, to war on coal, to war on Mexico, to yes, war on women. It is a little rich that they`ve now decided anybody using the word war in a political context is a traitor. But if the Republican Party chairman is really bad at talking about this, and he is, and if the Republican Party chief paid talker, their spokesman, this guys Sean Spicer, is really bad at talking about this, and he is, I`m going to go out on a caterpillar-laden leafy limb and suggest a new Republican spokesperson on this issue, who`s actually very good at talking about it. I`m going to suggest Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. It turns out she is really good about talking about the Republican war on women. Really good, like holy mackerel, sit down, pay attention. This is good. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI (R), ALASKA: I think for women around this country, what they were sensing was that after decades of believing that the issue of contraception and women`s access to contraception, that we had resolved that decades ago. Now all of a sudden this is not only discussion in Congress but you`ve got presidential wannabes that are talking about whether contraception is good, bad, indifferent, wrong. I think what you`re sensing is a fear, a concern that women feel threatened that a long settled issue might not be so settled. When I came back home and made the comments that I made to an Anchorage reporter about how I regretted the vote on the Blunt amendment, it was indirect reflection to where we were, where we are as a nation in women feeling that the party that I`ve chosen to affiliate myself with, the Republican Party, is ignoring their concern, is causing them to feel like the rights that they believe were settled a long time ago are now being threatened, possibly eroded. AARON SELBIG: Let me ask you this from a strategic and tactical side of thinking -- aren`t the Republicans maybe stepping into a trap? I mean, do they really -- I guess the question I`m trying to ask is what are they thinking alienating so many women? MURKOWSKI: I asked the same question to my colleagues. I said, it makes no sense to go down this road. It makes no sense to attack women. And if you don`t view this as an attack on women, then you need to go home and you need to talk to your wives, you need to go talk to your daughters. Ask them if they feel this is an attack -- because this is how women are perceiving the situation. (END AUDIO CLIP) MADDOW: If you don`t view this as an attack on women then you need to go home and talk to your wives and your daughters. Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski gets what Reince Priebus and the rest of the Republican Party appears not to get, which is that Republicans are not being accused randomly and for no reason of going after women`s right, they are earning that reputation by actually going after women`s rights. And so, yes, women notice that. While Reince Priebus was telling "Bloomberg News" his caterpillar story about how it`s a fiction that Republicans are doing anything against women, the Democrats and the media are just making that up. While he was doing that, his fellow Wisconsin Republican, Governor Scott Walker was very quietly signing a bill into law blocking insurance coverage for abortion in Wisconsin. Also, he was signing a bill removing contraception from the sex ed curriculum in Wisconsin. And overruling the objections of the Wisconsin Medical Association, Governor Walker was signing another bill to interfere with how Wisconsin doctors are allowed to counsel their patients about abortion. And for good measure, at the same time he was signing a bill into law that eliminates the state`s version of the Lily Ledbetter Act, that eliminates one of the state`s key protections for women trying to get equal pay for equal work. Scott Walker did all of that last night. He signed all of those last night. How can you simultaneously have the Republican governor of Wisconsin signing all of those laws and then have the national party chairman, his buddy from back in Wisconsin, on TV saying we`re not doing anything to women. Democrats keep accusing us of that. But who me? What? Us? And here`s Mitt Romney doing exactly the same thing as Reince Priebus. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There was the perception that Republicans are opposed to contraceptives. I think it was the most unfortunate twist by our Democrat friends. I think this will pass as an issue as people understand our real position. I have made it clear, I do not oppose contraceptives. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: Yes, right. And you`re not waging war on caterpillars either. I understand. Mitt Romney`s real position is that he says he supports a constitutional amendment to define life as beginning at conception, which would not only ban all abortion and make it illegal. It would likely ban the pill, and other forms of contraception. But I want to be known as supporting contraception. Here`s the thing -- you can either be known for supporting contraception or you can want to ban contraception. Those two things cannot overlap. It`s like -- it`s like saying, stop calling me loud -- then stop being loud. You can want states to ban contraception. You can block access to contraception. You can try to make abortion illegal. You can roll back equal pay laws. You can take every legislative opportunity to roll back the rights of women whereupon people will say you`re waging war on women, or you can disprove that allegation that you`re waging a war on women by not doing all of those things. These two choices are mutually exclusive. If you are doing these things, you`re going to be known for these things, no matter how much you spin or whine about it. I know the Republican Party is not going to take advice from me on this or anything, but you guys should put Lisa Murkowski in charge of talking about this. She gets it. Seriously. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MADDOW: As we have been reporting on the show for about a year, the cities and towns and people of the great state of Michigan now live with the possibility that their democratically elected local governments will be removed, will be eliminated by Republican Governor Rick Snyder. It will be replaced by an emergency manager who`s imbued with just about absolute authority. It`s pretty radical policy -- the elimination of voting rights at the local level. The state just taking over regardless of who you voted for or what you voted for. Last night on the show, we reported on something even more radical than that going on in Michigan politics. Republicans in the state legislature there in dozens, maybe hundreds of cases, including when they passed that emergency manager law simply declaring they had the super majority to enact those new laws immediately, without the long waiting period that`s required by the state constitution. They appear to have done that without actually counting the votes that they would need and that ended up being handy because they almost certainly did not have those votes. The practice looks and sounds a little like this. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All those in favor, please rise. Immediate effect is ordered. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: That was supposedly a Michigan Republican legislature counting to 73. No way, right? No way. We realize that our story has set off a bit of a bombshell in Michigan politics. But this is a bombshell. This is a radical usurpation of power. It is radically anti-democratic, both big D Democratic in this case. But much more worryingly, small D democratic. Because this has kind of blown up and is attracting more and more attention, we have gone ahead and posted last night`s report, along with some additional material, including some court filings on our Web site today, at MaddowBlog.com, whether or not you saw last night`s segment, you may want to check that out online. And I`m happy to tell you that on Monday night, right here, we`re going to have part two of our special report on Michigan, this one on the pushback against Republicans compound radicalism in that state. Watch this base (ph). (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MADDOW: On Wednesday of this week, three Americans were killed in Afghanistan. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated explosives near park in the northern part of Afghanistan. Ten Afghans were killed in the explosion, three American soldiers were killed and the bomber was killed. The Taliban have claimed credit for the attack. All three of the Americans killed in this incident were from Ohio. They were all serving Ohio National Guardsmen. Last night, the local central Ohio news channel, WBNS had this report. Watch. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Had all three names now of the men killed by a suicide bomber. They are Sergeant First Class Shawn Hannon, Sergeant First Class Jeffrey Rick, and Captain Nick Rozanski. 10TV`s Glenn McIntyre (ph) spoke to the Rozanski family and joins us live in the newsroom tonight -- Glenn. REPORTER: Jerry, the three central Ohio soldiers died yesterday, along with 10 other people in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan. Tonight, their loved ones are still absorbing the reality of their loss. ALEX ROZANSKI, BROTHER OF CAPT. NICHOLAS ROZANSKI: We shouldn`t forget, we -- you know, we are a nation at war. And we forget that because we go on with our day-to-day lives. These just become fading, brief headlines. But, no, I mean, we are a nation at war, and men are dying on a regular basis on there. People need to remember that. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: We are a nation at war and people need to remember that. The gentleman speaking there was Alex Rozanski. His brother was Captain Nicholas Rozanski, who`s one of those three Ohio soldiers killed this week. We have been at war for almost 11 years now in Afghanistan. For eight and a half of those years, our military was simultaneously fighting another war in Iraq as well. It has been expensive. It has been deadly. And for the people fighting those wars, who have gone out on two, three, four, five, six, seven combat deployment, it has been all consuming. For the rest of us, though, for the 99 percent of Americans who have not been fighting in those wars, we are still trying to figure out as civilians how to acknowledge and appreciate and say thank you to the people who have been doing the fighting and making the sacrifice and whose lives have been so different than our civilian lives. The Iraq war ended in December. And this is what it looked like here at home, an address from the president. Ultimately also, a state dinner to recognize a symbolic portion of the troops who served in Iraq. But no national moment of recognition that regular Americans could participate in to mark the ending of that war. However, that is not the end of the story. Regular Americans in cities around the country have wanted to do something, have wanted to do something that people could participate in and regular Americans, coast to coast, have started organizing on their own in cities large and small to have parades -- parades to mark the end of the Iraq war, to say welcome home to the troops who serve there and thank you. This was the first one in St. Louis, Ohio. It was an enormous success by every measure -- 100,000 people showed up on a very cold day in January. There was also this ride to freedom in Fayetteville, North Carolina, an eight-mile procession that modeled itself on the last convoys leaving Iraq. Tucson, Arizona, was next. Tucson had their welcome home parade last weekend. It too was judged a big success in Tucson. Later this month, if you`re in Melbourne, Florida, you too can be part of welcoming home there. A parade and concert scheduled in Melbourne, Florida, next Saturday, April 14th. But tomorrow -- tomorrow is going to be the first end of the Iraq war parade in a very large American city, Houston. Houston is the fourth largest city in America. And tomorrow, Saturday at 4:00, Houston is hosting, the city is not just allowing but is actually hosting a parade honoring Iraq war veterans and their families. The parade will end at Minute Maid Stadium where the Houston Astros play. There will be a ceremony on the field before the Astros play their first game of the season that night. The welcome home events in St. Louis and Fayetteville, and Tucson were great. They were seen as very successful locally. And those were individual citizens and local unofficial groups of civilians that worked hard to organize them. Tomorrow`s parade in Houston will be the first parade organized by the city itself, which means the person in charge is an elected official and person representing every resident of Houston, that city`s mayor. Joining us now for the interview is the mayor of Houston, Texas, Annise Parker. Mayor Parker, thank you very much for being here. It`s nice to have you here. MAYOR ANNISE PARKER, HOUSTON: Glad to be on. But now, I`m a little intimidated. This is the first parade being hosted by a city. I find that hard to believe. But we`re ready for it. We`re excited about it. MADDOW: Where did the idea come from that Houston should do this and Houston should do it in the way that you have decided to do it? PARKER: It came just as it has in all the other cities, from our citizens. It bubbled up through veterans groups. I have a full time veterans affairs coordinator who works for the city of Houston. He brought the idea to me. We turned it over to our special events coordinator and it just took off. Citizens have embraced it. We didn`t originally plan to do it in conjunction with the Houston Astros. But we do our parades downtown. The Astros were going to be playing. They stepped up, wanted to treat the returning veterans to baseball game and it has grown from there. MADDOW: What kind of support are you expecting? What kind of -- I guess, what kind of collaborations have you entered into? Obviously, the Astros have become part of this. But how is this -- who`s together to make this happen in Houston? PARKER: All the local levels of government. But this is not a corporate parade. It`s nothing something that we are seeking sponsorships for anything. We`re going to have a parade and we`re just going to invite all of Houston to come downtown, line the parade route and say thank you and welcome home. These are our friends, these our neighbors, these are our brothers and our sisters who have come back from Iraq, and we want to show our support. MADDOW: One of the issues that has been sort of the only controversy surrounding this idea is that the Pentagon made an argument that there should not be a New York City parade specifically. What they sort of described as a national event that will be held in New York City while we are still waging the war in Afghanistan. Now, they have not objected to any other city doing what you`re about to do tomorrow in Houston, doing what other cities have done. But they said that there should not be a national event. Did that factor at all in your decision-making on this? PARKER: We thought about that. We do not forget that people are fighting and dying in Afghanistan. But these troops have been deployed over and over again. They are home. We hope they are home for good. And we want the opportunity to say thank you now while it`s fresh, because one of the things we all have to think about is the transition that these military personnel go through as they go back into civilian life. All too many of them get off track. We want to embrace them. We want to show our support. In addition to the rousing show of support they`ll get from Houstonians, and we know how to support our troops here. There`s an opportunity to capture them, connect them to the broader support network of social service agencies and veterans groups that we have down here. It`s a duel purpose. MADDOW: That`s been a key part of so many of these commemorative events that have happened around the country, is trying to make them substantive. So, it`s not just a thank you. It`s also a thank you and let me give you a hand. PARKER: Absolutely. MADDOW: Let me just ask you, if you have -- I mean, Houston, you are large city. You got a city that`s got a lot of resources. You just got a veteran affairs coordinator on staff for the city. Do you have any advice for other mayors, for other towns who may be considering this, maybe thinking about doing some sort of welcome home event for the Iraq vets? PARKER: I would just say that it has to be about the vets. It has to come through and with your local veterans groups. I mean, we do an annual Veterans Day parade in November. But this is especially to thank our Iraqi war vets. And we wouldn`t have done anything without the full support and cooperation of the dozens of veterans associations that are in the Houston area. We`re actually rated as a top 10 city by the Department of Defense for our veteran services. And the city of Houston was just honored as the best employer in the state of Texas for active duty military personnel. And so, we work closely with our uniform services and with our veteran groups to make sure that this is all appropriately done. MADDOW: Houston Mayor Annise Parker, good luck with the parade tomorrow. Everything that I`ve seen about the organizing and everything, it looks like it`s going to be awesome. Congratulations and thanks a lot. PARKER: Thank you. MADDOW: Now, I will say, just editorial here, the Pentagon line that it makes sense to do this in Houston and in Tucson and in St. Louis, and in Fayetteville, and all the other places that are doing it, it makes sense to do it, but it doesn`t make sense to do it in New York, I got to say it doesn`t make sense to me. The Pentagon official who we had on this show on the interview to talk about that reasons with has now announced that he`s retiring. If it was just his idea, maybe the fact that he`s going means the Pentagon could reconsider this. The head of the city council here in New York and some of the New York -- members of the New York City Council who have been pursuing this I know are still interested. And so, if the Pentagon change its mind, I think it would happen here, too. All right. It`s Friday. You know there`s prison head for you on MSNBC. But before we all have to go to prison together, we do have a best thing in the world coming up. And it`s really a good one tonight. Stay with us. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MADDOW: One of the mystery surrounding Osama bin Laden`s life and death, one of the many as-yet unanswered questions that persists about him is how was it that the United States` most wanted fugitive manage to live in a $1 million compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, 1,000 yards or so from a Pakistani military academy? Not just any old military academy, but what the "New York Times" calls Pakistan`s equivalent of West Point. The prospect that Osama bin Laden barely took the trouble of hiding in plain sight while he was living in Pakistan naturally led to speculation about what exactly Pakistan knew about him. What Pakistani officials knew about bin Laden, whether they were ever as serious as they said they were about arresting him. Did they know where Osama bin Laden was? Did they decide not to share that knowledge with the United States? Was Pakistan protecting him? The aftermath of the U.S. raid that killed bin Laden in Pakistan has led to a deep and deepening mistrust between our two countries. And into our murky frenemy relationship with Pakistan which is suffused with suspicion and competing interests, into that froth little bowl of international anxiety walks this guy. This guy is the founder of an Islamic militant group called Lashkar-e- Taiba. If that name sounds familiar to you is because Lashkar-e-Taiba is the group that`s accused of orchestrating the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008, including six Americans. On Monday, the State Department put a $10 million bounty on him. A $10 million reward for anybody who has information leading to his arrest and conviction. There it is right there on the State Department`s Web site, "rewards for justice." $10 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction. The United States wants Hafiz Saeed apprehended stat. Well, this week, Hafiz Saeed responded to the U.S. government`s bounty on his head by holding a press conference? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) HAFIZ SAEED (through translator): To be honest, I`m surprised that America doesn`t know where I am. These threats, putting money on my head to help my arrest, are for people hiding in mountains and caves and no one knows about them. But with the grace of God, I am here, in front of you. And tomorrow I will be in Lahore and will release a schedule for the day after tomorrow so America can contact me whenever it wants to. I`d like to ask the U.S. State Department why they offer this bounty to other people. Why don`t they give it to me? I can tell them my whereabouts on a daily basis and be available on my phone and addressing large public rallies daily. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: OK. It`s not just that this guy held a freaking press conference two days after the U.S. State Department put a $10 million bounty on his head. It is also the place where he held that press conference. He held that press conference in a place called Rawalpindi in Pakistan. Rawalpindi is what they call a garrison city. It`s where the Pakistani military has its headquarters. So, Osama bin Laden`s house was just outside the gates of Pakistan`s West Point. And the guy wanted for the Mumbai bombing with a new $10 million bounty on his head, he`s holding press conferences outside the rough equivalent of Pakistan`s Pentagon. The State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, was asked this week about the bounty and whether our dear friends in the Pakistani government and military really are on board with us on this one. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REPORTER: (INAUDIBLE) in Pakistan. Has there been communication with the Pakistani government, the Pakistani authorities seeking for his arrest? VICTORIA NULAND, STATE DEPARTMENT: The government of Pakistan has regularly, in our conversations with them, pledged its cooperation in the investigations. We fully expect that it will follow through on those commitments. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: They`ve pledged their cooperation in the investigations. We fully expect that they will follow through on those commitments. But in the meantime, we`re going to keep putting multimillion bounties on the people who the United States believes are the most wanted people on earth and those people will hide in plain sight right under the noses of our dear Pakistani allies. You know that concept of friends with benefits, what`s the opposite of that? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MADDOW: OK. Best new thing in the world. So, Hillary Clinton gets on a plane, right? This is not your usual bags cost extra turn off your cell phone plane, either, because Hillary Clinton is, of course, America`s secretary of state. In this case, she is riding in a C17 military plane that has been kited out just for her. It`s like, look, right? It`s like a secretary of state bat mobile. So people can stand up and walk around, they can take highly classified phone calls at cruising altitude. And seriously, I mean, the secretary of state needs the room. She`s got meetings, capital m meetings in Malta and Oman and Pakistan and Afghanistan and Libya. She`s got reporters along from "Time" and "Reuters" and "The Associated Press" who get to tell us about this later. Plus, she needs room for her giant briefing books so she can read up on what she has to read up on. So, somewhere on the flight to Tripoli, a press reporter took this rather amazing picture of Madam Secretary. And then filed with the editors back home. And although this picture is not brand-new, this picture I think was actually taken last fall, last October, this week, this picture became a brand-new idea to everybody on the Internet machine when it became a hook for the best new photographic politics mime in the long time. Now, this is no longer just a picture of Hillary Clinton on a plane. This week, it became Hillary Clinton checking her texts and saying what you think she wants to say. So, for example, "Hey girl. " Ryan Gosling. "It`s Madam Secretary. The former secretary of state say, "So then I sent her a text saying I think I left my favorite sunglasses in the debt." Sorry, Condi, haven`t seen them. This one`s really good. "Hey, Hil, what are you doing?" "Running the world." Or this one, "It`s 3:00 a.m. and I think something`s happening." Response from the secretary, "On it." This is the Facebook guy -- friend request sent. Response: rejected. It`s very entertaining. This is all from a Tumblr called "Texts from Hillary Clinton." I love this texts from Hillary Clinton thing. We have a link to it on our blog if you have not seen it. Best new thing in the world today. And provided you can still get internet access while you are there, the text from Hillary Clinton will give you something to giggle over in three, two, one -- prison. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. END


Physical activity should be promoted throughout adulthood, as appropriate to the physical capabilities of the individual. Physical activity not only improves bone health, but it also helps to optimize weight control, metabolic parameters, muscle strength, and cardiovascular fitness. Programs that have demonstrated skeletal benefits have all included impact activities or resistance-training exercises, including walking, jumping, jogging, running, soccer, racquet sports, weight lifting, dancing, hiking, and stair climbing.
To promote bone and overall health, adult patients should be encouraged to accomplish at least 30 minutes per day of moderate-intensity physical activity on most, preferably all, days of the week. Some strength or resistance training can be particularly beneficial to bone health. Engaging in longer periods of moderate activity and increasing the intensity of activity (i.e., at least 20 minutes of vigorous intensity activity) are the best ways to promote cardiovascular health.
Initiating and maintaining a program is a significant challenge for sedentary patients. Patients should be encouraged to engage in even small amounts of daily activity, since these activities may have some health benefits. Some individuals may find it easier to start with manageable goals that incorporate physical activity into their everyday activities, such as parking farther from their destination or using the stairs instead of the elevator. Long-term compliance with fitness routines may be enhanced by enlisting the support of family members or friends, advocating moderate intensity that is within the person's capabilities, devising programs that individuals can accomplish at home, offering flexibility in activity choices, and providing feedback and incentives (Weight Control and Physical Activity International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, 2002. http://www.iarc.fr/).
Participating in a physical activity that the individual enjoys, such as gardening, a walk with a friend, or a community exercise or dance class, also helps maintain compliance. People should be encouraged to find an activity they like enough to continue and to be ready to try a different program if they lose interest in the current one (Kahn, Emily B, et al. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 22: 73-107).
Patient education materials, including pamphlets and videos with specific exercises and instructions for moving safely and maintaining optimal posture, can be obtained from the National Institute on Aging at http://www.niapublications.org or from the National Osteoporosis Foundation at http://www.nof.org.
The effectiveness of interventions to increase physical activity: A systematic Review. Kahn, Emily B, et al. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 22: 73-107.


This study was jointly funded by the Department of Science and Technology- Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI), the University of the Philippines Visayas and the Western Philippines University. The support and cooperation of the Municipality of Roxas, Palawan, the management of Arrecife Island especially Ms. Glesselle T. Batin, and the sea cucumber gatherers in Green and Johnson Islands are greatly appreciated.
The Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC/AQD) started its Stock Enhancement Program more than a decade ago with the first stock enhancement initiative on the mud crab Scylla spp. funded by the European Commission. This was followed by another stock enhancement program in 2005 supported by the Government of Japan Trust Fund. In preparation for its implementation, a Regional Technical Consultation on Stock Enhancement of Species Under International Concern was convened in Iloilo City, Philippines in July 2005 to identify species for stock enhancement. During the meeting, seahorses Hippocampus spp., giant clam Tridacna gigas, abalone Haliotis asinina, and sea cucumbers Holothuria spp. were among the priority species for stock enhancement work.
Stock enhancement, restocking and ranching are management approaches involving the release of wild or hatchery-bred organisms to enhance, conserve or restore fisheries. This paper reports SEAFDEC/AQD release activities and some of the release strategies that have been established for mud crabs, giant clams and abalone.


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5 Lessons Learned from The Industrial Revolutions
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It is said that we're now in our fourth iteration of an industrial revolution.
The first industrial revolution happened in the late 1700s to the early 1800s. It brought about the transition from hand-making products to fabrication with the aid of machines. This era of modernization also made healthcare available to the masses and as a result, people lived longer than in previous centuries.
During the second industrial revolution in the mid-1800s, innovations involving electricity, plastics, oil, and steel became the noteworthy products of the century. Because of the commercial availability of electricity, mass production became the object of fascination. Ease of communication also became a highlight achievement for humanity (thanks to Alexander Graham Bell's telephone). And engines made of hard steel were invented and used in both manufacturing and transportation.
In what is now recognized as the third industrial revolution, the giant leap from machines to digitization was made. Electronics and computers became dominant during this era. The revolution, which credits its start in 1969, pierced its way to almost all aspects of life.
Through computers, we can use nuclear energy, advanced forms of communications, the early internet, and biotechnology. The entire financial industry took a boost because of the innovations during this time. It was also the time when most things became irrationally mass-produced.
We now move further to what most consider the fourth industrial revolution or known as the ethical innovations and virtual space creativity phase. What have we learned from the past eras of great innovations? What are the key takeaways we should note to move forward?
1. Innovation is Still King; Convenience is its Muse
All inventions are made for man's convenience. Innovation is the fundamental reason why people get together and create. Everything now is mostly created for mass production. However, the tools and machines used for mass production are also now mass-produced.
It is no wonder, for example, that machine cutters used for cutting up raw materials can now be accessed by small businesses. Big industries and small enterprises have equal access to the best mini backhoe trucks or the best laser cutters for their own business and use them to their own advantage.
2. Globalization is the Final Goal
Ultimately, the truest goal of industrialization is the unity and connection of everyone. Because of the industrial revolution, everyone in the world has a chance to connect with one another. Globalization is the association of every nation's economies and cultures through constant trade.
It is a by-product of the trades between states and is defined by the exchange of ideas and services. Through globalization, nations can help others achieve their goals, ideally.
3. Optimization is the Surest Path You Should Take
Optimization of processes will always yield better products and services. Because of the population boom, more and more people will need products and services in a shorter time.
Optimizing manufacturing or service processes have netted mankind to produce at an optimal pace with even fewer resources used. Even natural processes in farming methods are optimized to get the most yield possible.
Optimization goes hand in hand with profit.
4. Necessity Brings Out the Best and the Worst in Humanity
Medical innovations in the last century were offshoots of the industrial revolution. The stethoscope, one of the most revolutionizing inventions in the medical world, was invented during the industrial revolution. Its invention has changed the field of medicine forever.
X-ray machines, as another example, was an invention brought about by the war. It was mainly used as a tool to find bullets inside soldiers. All these inventions, for better or for worse, were brought about by necessity.
5. Either Be the Best, or the Most Accessible
Another key takeaway is that neither quality nor accessibility can be the main facet of entrepreneurs' final products. It is either one or the other. Quality will always be affected by the cost. The industrial revolution fueled an appetite for an abundance of produce.
However, quickly made products are cheap and almost always low in quality. People treat handmade goods as having better quality than massed produced items. Aside from a few exceptions, it's almost always true.
The industrial revolution has brought both the best and worse things to humanity. The important thing is that we learn the important takeaways from them to move forward.
New technology and innovations will always shape our future, let's hope the proponents of the new industrial revolution will bring about fairer trade, better healthcare, and a healthier environment. As opposed to the current degradation of the world's resources.

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The hardest mob in Chardok. Casts gate.
, or a standard Dispel.
However, aside from the tank, no one needs to be hit by the AoE. The AoE happens once every 12 seconds, so don't engage until you get a precise timer on it. Then, have someone in voice chat call out a countdown. At 5 seconds remaining, all melees aside from the tank should be around the corner. Then, the person calling the countdown should call the melees to re-engage and restart the timer and countdown. Using a log parsing program like GINA can help with this, but don't get too reliant in case you're out of range of the message. The AoE message is "<name> is immolated in flame."
At 40%, the Queen will start casting Complete Heal / Gate, so make sure to have push discipline. Also, at low health, the Queen will enrage, which means that even during the push, your tank needs to be opposite the rest of the raid force so that the push can continue when enrage happens.
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This started early last week. It started doing this without any handling of it on my part. The power source seems to be good, based on me using it with another Wyzecam. I've tried power cycling it. I've tried resetting it to factory. It connects for several seconds, then disconnects and calibrates. It continues to calibrate over and over, but does not reconnect.
I'mI lost at this point.
This sounds like a probable bad camera that needs to be exchanged. Go to the Account tab in the app, then Help & Feedback > Report and Issue.
It's worth trying a different power supply. The pan-cam draws more power than the non-pan variety. If the other Wyzecam that you tested it with is the V2, it's possible that the power supply is on the hairy edge: able to supply the current needed by the V2 (about 300 mA), but not enough for the pan-cam. Any standard USB power supply should suffice if it's rated for at least 1A.
It's more likely that the cam has died, as Loki suggests, but no harm in testing with a different PSU.
Sorry, this issue was resolved about 2 months ago. I had accidentally connected the power supply from a V2 rather than a pan. I have since put labels on them.


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Somewhere in the heart of England's mysterious garden (Kent!), in some sort of forest, there lived a man named Mr Perrin.
Nobody really knows where he came from, all we know is that, like many other mythical people from ancient times, he delved deeply and tinkered with stuff and could generally build anything out of anything. Many say he was once part of a high order of strange folk who today still meet in secret to share their many inventions.
A few years ago, at an unknown location, but near Lordswood; he received a visitation from a younger and even stranger character - Mr Samuell, who came from a people whose livelihood relied on them being as big and healthy and strong as they could possibly be (for they like to lift weights you see). He had heard about Mr Perrin's unrivaled ability to engineer things of great wonder.
'Too long have your powers remained hidden, they must see the light of day! I need something to help my people grow healthy and strong and it must come from under this very Earth, for it must be wholesome and natural. Join forces with me and this will be our legacy to the world'. Mr Perrin
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Disheartened, Mr Samuell turned to walk away, but as he did so he noticed a shimmering golden light coming from the ground where Mr Perrin had stood. He reached towards it, feeling something warm and cylindrical within and, in a manner not dissimilar to King Arthur, pulled it from the fiery mist and held it aloft. 'This is it!' he cried 'The answer to my people's prayers – they shall grow stronger, run faster, live longer and be happy and healthy hereafter!' And on the jar were written Mr Perrin's secret ingredients and method, conveniently.
But what became of Mr Perrin? Nobody knows. Some say he returned to his old ways of secret tinkering, others say he was indeed not human and returned to his own dimension. But those who claim to know the real truth have been said to have been driving through Lordswood, Kent and seen a cloaked and shadowy figure leaving by a back door in the quiet of the night, a golden light coming from the door as he closes it behind him.
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Bruins Game 12 Preview: Carolina Hurricanes
October 30, 2018 / Drew Johnson / 0 Comments
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The Boston Bruins will be on the road Tuesday night when they take on the Carolina Hurricanes.
Coming off a 3-0 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, the Bruins sport a 6-3-2 record as they continue their quest for playoff contention. Meanwhile, the Hurricanes have been a big surprise this year – though they were originally expected to struggle, Carolina has a record of 6-4-1 entering play on Tuesday and find themselves in 2nd place within the Metropolitan Division.
Who's Hot?
Jaroslav Halak will get the start for Boston on Tuesday. He has yet to lose in regulation early on in the 2018-19 campaign featuring a record of 3-0-2. Halak is coming off a 26-save shutout performance against the Philadelphia Flyers last week and should give the Hurricanes a tough time despite the Bruins being short a number of defensemen.
26 saves – including this post-to-post stop in the second – and an 🍎 for Jaro tonight. pic.twitter.com/TMTycyjRQt
— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) October 26, 2018
David Krejci has found his game and now has two goals and seven assists in 11 games this season. He has only failed to produce a point in four games this season and has been trusted with more ice time as the year has progressed – Krejci saw 21:32 of play in the game against Montreal which is the most he's seen thus far. The Bruins certainly hope he can help return Jake DeBrusk to his rookie-year form.
Sebastian Aho has been a force to be reckoned with this season. He has potted four goals and 12 helpers and is looking to continue an 11-game point streak dating back to Carolina's very first game this year. He will be looking to continue that streak against a slim Bruins defensive core.
Who's Not?
Yet again, it seems Boston's depth has been failing them. Outside of Krejci, DeBrusk and Danton Heinen lead the Bruins' bottom-three lines in production with three points apiece. Noel Acciari has been a disappointment early in the 2018-19 season with no points and is a minus-6. Ryan Donato has also failed to get going just yet with one goal in 10 games. The Bruins will need their bottom lines to kick in some goals here and there. Even if they can't do that, they need to win 50-50 battles and get some sustained pressure in the offensive zone to keep the momentum in their favor.
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Carolina's fourth line has struggled thus far, though not as much as Boston's. The Hurricane's fourth line of Brock McGinn, Nicolas Roy, and Valentin Zykov have only come up with three points so far this year. It should be noted, however, that Roy will only be making his third appearance of the young season on Tuesday.
Bruins vs. Hurricanes Outlook
Hurricanes goaltender Scott Darling will be making his first start of the 2018-19 season in Tuesday night's matchup. So will Bruins defenseman Torey Krug who missed the first 11 games of the campaign due to an ankle injury suffered in the preseason.
Charlie McAvoy has been placed on injured reserve which pens him as an unhealthy scratch. Meanwhile, Matt Grzelcyk was injured during the game against the Canadiens and is considered doubtful, and David Backes isn't expected to return until Saturday's date with the Nashville Predators. Kevan Miller also isn't expected to see action on Tuesday though he has been back on the ice skating.
#NHLBruins line rushes at morning skate:
Marchand – Bergeron – Pastrnak
Heinen – Krejci – Debrusk
Donato – Nordstrom – Bjork
Wagner – Kuraly – Acciari
Chara – Carlo
Krug – Moore
Lauzon – Kampfer
According to Boston's line rushes, Jeremy Lauzon and Steven Kampfer will return as the team's third defensive pair. With a weakened defensive unit, the Bruins will once again need to rely on Zdeno Chara, Brandon Carlo, and John Moore to thwart the opposition's top lines. Krug's presence will certainly help the team out who has clearly struggled on the breakout in his absence.
Carolina will need to ride their top two lines in order to get past a very hot goaltender in Halak. Their third line has also been pitching in with goals of their own and will likely see a number of matchups against Boston's Lauzon and Kampfer duo.
Both teams are coming off tough losses so you can bet it will be a grind out to determine the victor of Tuesday night's game between the Bruins and Hurricanes.
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You've Been Sexting a Lot More, Study Shows
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On Valentine's Day, say it with a sext—you probably won't be the only one.
It's been less than three years since "sexting" became a word worthy of an official dictionary definition, but since then the practice has blown up—particularly on the smartphones of young people. It turns out that though we're all sexting more than we used to, those in their late teens and early 20s and and those into online dating are the people most often using sexy picture and video texts.
In a report, released this week by the Pew Research Center, examining the impact of the internet, cell phones, and social media on American relationships, researchers found sexting is growing across the board among couples and singles alike, but is doing so rapidly amongst young people and smartphone users. For the first time, those aged 18 to 24 have become the most likely to receive, send, and forward sexts—surpassing cellphone users in their late 20s and 30s. The increase in younger users who reported receiving texts, in particular, jumped to 44 percent from 26 percent in 2012.
Pew's surveys also found 20 percent of cell phone owners reported receiving nude or nearly-nude images, compared with 15 percent in 2012. Nine percent reported sending a sext, up from 6 percent in 2012. The report called these changes "statistically significant increases."
"The rise in sexting also correlates with the growing popularity of smartphones, which make it easy to take share pictures," Pew researchers wrote. Smartphone users were nearly three times more likely to report receiving and three times more likely to send such texts compared to users of other cell phones. Users of online dating services and cell phones were the most likely of all to sext; 55 percent said they'd received a sext while 31 percent said they'd sent one.
Singles weren't the only ones sexting, however. Those in relationships reported sending sexts at nearly the same rate, but singles were significantly more likely to receive and forward sexts. People who have been in relationships for less than 10 years were also significantly more likely to send sexts—32 precent of them reported doing so compared to only 6 percent of those together 10 years or longer.
Karen McDevitt, a communications lecturer at Wayne State University who specializes in new media, says she expects the sexting phenomenon to continue growing and attributed its increased popularity to the widespread availability of devices like smartphones. "The technology is in your hand," McDevitt says, "I truly believe it's just accessibility that makes the difference."
There are reasons to be worried by the rise in sexting, especially when an untrustworthy recipient can effortlessly share explicit images with a much wider audience or post them on the internet. According to the report, 6 percent of cell phone users aged 18 to 24 have forwarded a sext message. This sharing of private images can have potentially devastating social and professional repercussions, especially for girls and women who face more societal shame for sexual behavior.
"What's distinct about new media technology is that it's permanent," says McDevitt. Rather than receding with time like many youthful indiscretions, digital images can circulate indefinitely or resurface in unwanted and unintended ways. "We haven't really seen the long-term effects of sexting, but it can affect those who are participating for their lives ahead and not just their lives now."
Other findings from the report: ——————————-
__ The Internet is having a bigger impact on our relationships—but not necessarily a better one__
A fairly surprising 27 percent of couples report that the internet had a minor or major impact on their relationship, up from 16 percent in a similar 2005 study; 74 percent characterized these effects as positive, a drop from from 84 percent in 2005; 20 percent of couples now report that the impact is negative, up from 13 percent in the earlier study.
The older couples get, the more they use the internet jointly
Twenty-seven percent of internet users in committed relationships said that they shared an e-mail account with their partner, while 67 percent shared at least one password with them. Older couples and couples who had been together longer were more likely to use accounts and passwords jointly—47 percent of couples 65 and older share an e-mail account, compared with only 12 percent of couples 18 to 29 years old.
The internet affects the relationships of younger users more, for better and worse
Younger users were more likely to report that the internet affected their relationship: 45 percent of those 18 to 29 years old, compared to 10 percent of couples 65 and older. These effects were both more negative and more positive than they were for older users. More than twice as many of these younger users said they had argued with their partner over the amount of time spent online, but they were were also more likely to report increased intimacy because of texts or online communication and using digital tools to resolve disputes they had difficulty discussing in person.
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Ahead of peak riding season when sales are on the up, MV Agusta USA had received some bad news – it is not allowed to sell new motorcycles in California.
The reason? The California Department of Motor Vehicles says the Varese-based motorcycle manufacturer is "no longer licensed to conduct business in California." In the official Occupational Licensing Industry News report, MV Agusta's license expired July 31, 2013.
Due to this, MV Agusta dealers in California can no longer "sell or register 2014 year models." MV Agusta is able to continue to selling and servicing used models. MV Agusta was one of nine companies that had expired licenses, including American Lifan, a Chinese motorcycle/scooter brand.
Although nothing is official, it appears MV Agusta USA let the license lapse. This could have been an oversight, but of course, it's a huge oversight that will likely have an affect on overall MV Agusta sales in the USA.
The sour news arrives after MV Agusta reported that Q1 sales were up 20-percent over the same period of 2013. Much attribution went to the release of new models – the Rivale 800 and the Brutale 800 Dragster.
MV Agusta USA could not be reached for comment, but work is currently underway to rectify the situation. Problem is, these things can take months due to the time needed to complete all necessary paperwork.
Stay clicked to Ultimate MotorCycling for updates.


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Why did Ellen Brody, a 49-year-old mom drive her car onto the Commerce Street railroad tracks in Mt. Pleasant, New York?
Ellen Brody got caught up in a traffic jam on the Taconic Parkway and decided to get off the Parkway to go around the jam by taking Commerce Street. According to the NTSB via lohud.com, as she approached the Commerce Street railroad crossing gates, she kept on going, and then heard the gate come down and hit the trunk of her car. She then stopped the car and got out to see what happened, got back into her Mercedes, and drove onto the tracks.
There are numerous possibilities. We examined every circumstance and there is not a definitive conclusion.
The NTSB are a bunch of people looking to protect the past. They've done nothing from the point of view of the driver! This a result of an antiquated rail crossing system.
The NTSB also mentioned in their report that Brody might have "lost situational awareness", meaning she might have been focusing strongly on something else and had forgotten where she was.
I have questions. Have you ever had a close call with a speeding train? Do you think this accident was Ellen Brody's fault or the fault of an antiquated railroad crossing?


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African Climate Research – University of Oxford
Research group of Professor Richard Washington
African Climate Atlas
BoDEx
CCAFS
DO4 Models
Rainfall variability & change
UMFULA
The Bodélé Depression
The Sahara
Present and past members of the African climate group at Oxford University.
Professor Richard Washington
Richard leads the African climate research group.
He is Professor of Climate Science at the University of Oxford and has taught previously at three African universities. He is the Principal Investigator of the Fennec and DO4Models projects and is lead of the climate science component of the UMFULA and Reach project. He leads the model evaluation workpackage of IMPALA and the ground-based instrumentation in the CLARIFY project. BoDEx is his all-time favourite project.
He teaches climate science to first year, second year and third year undergraduates at Oxford and teaches on the Water MSc and the doctoral training programme. The African climate research group typically consists of 10 researchers.
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/rwashington.html
richard.washington@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Dr Sebastian Engelstaedter
Sebastian Engelstaedter is a trained geologist with a Diplom (equivalent to Masters) degree from the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (Germany). He did a D.Phil. at the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford studying atmospheric processes that control the emission and transport of desert dust. His research combines the analysis of ground-based, airborne and remotely sensed observations and numerical model simulations on regional to global scales. Sebastian has been involved in various projects over the last decade including DIRTMAP (Dust Indicators and Records of Terrestrial and Marine Palaeoenvironments), BoDEx (Bodele Dust Experiment), AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses), Fennec – The Saharan Climate System, DO4Models (Dust Observations for Models) and CLARIFY (CLouds and Aerosol Radiative Impacts and Forcing). At the School of Geography and the Environment he teaches courses on climate computing and the analysis of large datasets.
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/sengelstaedter.html
sebastian.engelstaedter@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Dr Ian Ashpole
Ian is a postdoctoral researcher on the Fennec climate project, working with Professor Richard Washington. He completed his DPhil in summer 2013, which focussed on identifying and explaining spatial and temporal variability in the distribution of Saharan dust. He has a BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Oxford (completed in 2008), with special subjects in Climate Dynamics and Dryland Environments. Prior to starting his DPhil, he undertook a research placement at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) where he worked with Dr Simon Dadson.
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/iashpole.html
ian.ashpole@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Dr Rachel James
Rachel's research addresses change in African climate systems. She is interested in how anthropogenic forcing might be influencing precipitation in the present day, and how regional climate systems might change in future. Such information could be highly valuable for adaptation planning, however large and poorly understood uncertainties associated with climate model results make them difficult for decision makers to utilise. Rachel is interested in improving the usefulness of climate model experiments through process-based assessment to inform confidence assessments. She is currently working to develop a suite of metrics for model evaluation, targeting processes relevant to African climate, as part of the NERC/DFID funded IMPALA project.
http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/jamesrachel.php
rachel.james@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Dr Neil Hart
Neil Hart focuses on understanding weather and climate variability and predictability, with a curiosity about interactions between processes across spatio-temporal scales. He joined the School of Geography in November 2015 as a researcher in African climate science on the UMFULA project.
His PhD research, completed at the University of Cape Town in 2012, investigated the role of tropical-extratropical cloud bands in southern African summer rainfall variability. This work included contributions to the dynamical understanding of tropical-extratropical interactions over southern Africa, and mechanisms by which the frequency and intensity of these events can be modified by large-scale modes of variability.
Neil then spent three years working on the dynamics, predictability and climatology of sting jet wind storms, which form within intense extratropical cyclones. This was done in the mesoscale meteorology research group in the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. During this time he developed strong interests in mesoscale processes operating in a range of environments including extratropical cyclones and mesoscale convection.
On UMFULA Neil has thus far focused on the structure of convection over central Africa and the wave dynamics associated with tropical-temperate cloud bands over southern Africa.
Dr Ellen Dyer
Ellen is the climate scientist on the Reach programme. Her doctorate featured work on the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Earth System Model (CESM) and involved using water tracers to establish sources of water vapour to the central African convective system.
Dr Babatunde Abiodun, Dr Joseph Mutemi and Dr Wilfried Pokam
are all working on the IMPALA project through the University of Oxford. Babatunde holds a post at Univ of Cape Town, Joseph at the Univ of Nairobi and Wilfried at the Univ of Yaounde.
Dr Karsten Haustein
Karsten worked on the NERC-funded project DO4Models (Dust Observations for Models) with Prof Richard Washington. He participated in the development and validation of model mineral dust emission schemes, which was also the subject of his PhD thesis (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain). Karsten holds a MSc degree in Meteorology (University of Leipzig, Germany).
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/khaustein.html
karsten.haustein@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Boipelo Tshwene-Mauchaza
Boipelo is a doctorate candidate, researching on biodiversity and climate change. The study aims at designing intervention strategies and policy that will enhance optimal management of ecosystems within protected areas under changing climatic conditions, including increasing resilience and adaptability. The case study is of Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (Botswana). Boi holds an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Recently, she has developed academic and practitioner interests in application of Climate Change Modelling and Species Distribution Modelling for natural resources conservation & management, adaptation, persistence and resilience to changing climate, for purposes of informing policy formulation.
boipelo.tshwene-mauchaza@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Amy Creese
Amy is a second year DPhil student in the climate research lab investigating the climatology of the Congo basin using numerical model products. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in Geography (First Class) in 2014, specialising in physical geography, with a particular focus on contemporary climate change and variability. Her 12,000 word dissertation, entitled "Congo Rainfall in Coupled Climate Models: Links to water vapour transport", investigated climate model performance across a suite of CMIP5 models in central Africa. In 2014, Amy completed a summer internship as a researcher in the University of Oxford's Centre for the Environment, with funding from the Met Office Academic Partnership. She conducted a more thorough investigation of the fidelity of global climate models in central Africa, with a particular focus on the representation of moisture convergence in individual models. She has recently been awarded a Met Office CASE Studentship, and will conduct some of her research in collaboration with the Met Office. As of 2015, Amy is the Meteorological Observer at the Radcliffe Meteorological Station in Oxford, which has the longest daily temperature and rainfall records in the UK.
http://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/students/amy-creese/
amy.creese@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Callum Munday
Callum graduated with a first class degree in Geography from the University of Oxford in 2014. In the latter two years of his degree, he specialised in issues surrounding climate change. This included the understanding and modelling of the climate system as well as the impacts of and adaptation to climate change. This interest in the climate system is reflected in his final year dissertation entitled 'The external controls on southern African precipitation biases in the CMIP5 ensemble'. During the course of his degree, he also completed a module in desert landscape dynamics, and is especially interested in the interaction between desert dust and the climate system on a number of timescales.
In the summer following his graduation, Callum completed a research internship with the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) which built on the findings from his dissertation. In particular, he investigated the role of moisture transport into southern Africa and subsequent convergence in the continental interior in differentiating between model simulations of precipitation across a range of CMIP5 models.
In 2015, Callum took up a joint post as Radcliffe Meteorological Observer at the Oxford Radcliffe Meteorological Station, run by the School of Geography and Environment (SoGE). Follow twitter updates from the weather station @RMO_Oxford.
In his DPhil project, Callum will continue his research on model representation of the southern African climate system using a range of climate models and observational datasets. He hopes that his research will be of instrumental value to climate modellers and policy makers in the region.
http://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/students/callum-munday/
callum.munday@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Josie Mahoney
Josie is in the first year of her DPhil as part of the NERC funded DTP programme. She is studying climate-ecology links in East Africa.
Thomas Caton-Harrison
Thomas is a new doctoral student who is continuing the Fennec related work on mineral aerosol production in the central Sahara. He is working with SEVIRI satellite data to define dust events and mechanisms.
David Crowhurst
David has recently started his doctorate under the NERC DTP programme. He is working on land-surface fluxes as represented by coupled climate models in central Africa. The work is aligned with the NERC UMFULA project.
James is a new doctoral student on the NERC DTP. He is working on the East African climate system.
Dr Said Al Sarmi
Said did his DPhil at Oxford on the mechanisms of Oman / Arabia climate variability. He now works for the Oman Met Service.
Dr Christopher Allen
Chris's doctorate focused on understanding the wind mechanisms that cause dust storms in the Sahara. It was undertaken as part of the Fennec project and used new ground-based observations, satellite retrieval and dynamical models. Chris developed the African Climate Oxford website. He now works at Risk Management Solutions.
https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-allen/91/376/7aa
Dr Matt Hawcroft
Matt worked in Oxford on the CCAFS project before doing a PhD in the Department of Meteorology at Reading University on latent heat release in extratropical cyclones. He now works on the IMPALA project.
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~bc012279/
Dr Gillian Kay
Gillian's DPhil examined how climate models simulate variability and change in southern African rainfall. She now works at the Met Office, on regional impacts of climate and land-use changes, feedbacks between the two, and interaction with ecosystem health.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/gillian-kay
Dr James King
James is now Assistant Professor of Geomorphology at Montreal University. While at Oxford he was a researcher on the DO4 Models project, focusing on field measurements of dust emission and surface geomorphic processes.
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/jking.html
Dr Helen Pearce
Helen did her DPhil on climate change in East Africa, under the supervision of Richard Washington. She now works for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Dr Anthony Preston
Anthony pioneered work on non-ENSO controls on southern African rainfall. His work featured several intriguing idealised experiments with the Unified model.
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Spring break, sports events draw visitors to Myrtle Beach
by: Matt Fortin
Posted: Mar 11, 2022 / 05:55 PM EST
Updated: Mar 12, 2022 / 09:04 AM EST
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — As spring approaches and sports events draw students athletes to Myrtle Beach, hotels in the area are starting to get busier.
"It's a nice change of pace having time off at the beach," said Henry Bielen, who's in town for a baseball tournament with his teammates from Delaware Valley University in Pennsylvania. "Getting together with friends and taking in the atmosphere in Myrtle, it's a lot of our first time."
Crowds on Ocean Boulevard are starting to grow, between families and college students in Myrtle Beach for events or spring break.
"For us our first time here there was a lot of funky cars and a lot of street life," Bielen said. "We liked the tourist attractions."
The latest hotel occupancy data from the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce is for last week. It said almost 54% of rooms then were booked, which is a 37% increase over the same week last year.
Some hotels, though, are still unsure of how this season will pan out.
"We're seeing a lot of like walk-in traffic on the weekends," operations manager at Roxanne Towers Donald Burton said. "Little hesitant on the oncoming summer because the bookings aren't as strong as they were last season."
Burton said he thinks gas prices and the political climate could impact how much people travel this year.
"We're hoping for a great year," he said. "I don't see it in my bookings yet. But it could be some people hesitant to book yet. Like they're still planning to vacation they just haven't pulled the trigger."
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Sierra Sentinel News- Serving The Sierra Nevada Communities: Jim Behm sold his house to bad KIDS??? New owner LIES!!!
Jim Behm sold his house to bad KIDS??? New owner LIES!!!
KIDS? Is this at 243 Blue Jay Drive in Hathaway Pines? This is disgusting!!
as some type of RAMP. Damage bad!!
The new owner tried to deny causing the damage, even though I chased them off. They are responsible for the damage to our land and will be held accountable. Can't believe that man has a decent job but can't control his family, and now refuses to pay without going to court!!!
What kind of kids are they?? What do the cops say??? Do they already have a record???
You say this is on Blue Jay??. It's a wonder that whole hillside hasn't caved in. And someone is digging big holes and cutting more trees that hold in the soil. Come one, duffussss.


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Artists face themselves in new show at Bailey Contemporary Arts
From the "Swimming with Narcissus " exhibit, curated by Lisa Rockford.
by Phillip Valys (via SouthFlorida.com)
In her Polaroid self-portraits, Sarah Henderson inhabits female badasses from history and mythology: the Aztec goddess Coatlicue, a pregnant Mother Nature covered in ivy, Wild West gunslinger Calamity Jane, a crystal-toting guru named Amethyst.
The Coconut Grove artist is costumed in every portrait, created from a mosaic of smaller, square Polaroids that are reminiscent of photo pioneers Chuck Close and Mary Ellen Mark. Henderson says her "Woman Warrior" series, on display at Bailey Contemporary Arts (BaCA) in Pompano Beach, developed from her fascination with instant film and her internship with Mark, who shot celebrities with large-format Polaroid cameras.
Sarah Henderson's Polaroid collage "Amethyst," from her "Woman Warrior" series is part of the group show "Swimming With Narcissus," on view now at Bailey Contemporary Arts in Pompano Beach. (Sarah Henderson/Courtesy – via SouthFlorida.com)
"These are women that shaped my views on the mysticism of womanhood," says Henderson, 30, an artist at Miami's Bakehouse Art Complex. "They're like figments of my imagination, but they're also narratives of strength."
Artists take selfies, and lampoon the art of self-portraits, in "Swimming With Narcissus," the group-art show at BaCA. Curator Lisa Rockford, who has tackled selfie-obsessed behavior before in shows at Fort Lauderdale's FAT Village, says the 50-work showcase is drawn from the Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool. For this collection, Rockford says she handpicked artists who painted their "inner selves, their psychology, their personality and their childhood memories."
To create "Ole," Dana Donaty's surrealist automatic painting, the artist sketched stream-of-consciousness-style on a blank canvas until bulls, octopi and other images emerged. (Phillip Valys/SouthFlorida.com)
"I looked for artists that made nontypical self-portraits," Rockford says. "I think the public can identify with the artists' characters or personas. They can catch glimpses of themselves in the mirrored artworks, and maybe reflect on ideas of how they see themselves. Our views of ourselves are never concrete. They evolve over time. They're always fluid and distorted."
BaCA's gallery is filled with sculptures and installations fitted with funhouse-style mirrors. Down one narrow hallway, Katerina Friderici's "Distorted Vanity 1 +2," an installation of two magnifying lenses, is suspended from the ceiling at eye level. The installation needs two participants: one to stand behind the lens, lit with strings of lightbulbs, and the other to snap a photo of their warped face with a smartphone camera. Another visually alluring selfie: Adam Pizurny's "Memento Mori," in which the artist confronts his mortality with a looped, 15-second video of his face. Pizurny's skin appears to ripple, revealing a skull underneath, in his self-portrait, made using 70 DSLR cameras that shot different angles of his face simultaneously, Peter Symons' "Invisible Quilt," a wall-mounted sculpture the size of a blanket, is built from 325 trapezoidal mirrors connected with zip ties. In Rick Herzog's "Water Lilies," circular mirrors are built into an installation of pink acrylic water lilies on seven pedestals, a reference to the artifice of Florida nature.
John Zoller's "Reflecting" is part of the group show "Swimming With Narcissus," on view now at Bailey Contemporary Arts in Pompano Beach. (John Zoller/Courtesy via SouthFlorida.com)
Kate Helms' "Extasis" is part of the group show "Swimming With Narcissus," on view now at Bailey Contemporary Arts in Pompano Beach. (Kate Helms/Courtesy – via SouthFlorida.com)
The influence of Florida's wildlife on artists takes shape in Kate Helms and Michael Bauman's photo series, which depicts Helms dressed in pinup costumes around South Florida. In the photo "Pompano Beach," the Broward artist lounges by a swimming pool in a gold, one-piece swimsuit, dangling her orange, flower-bedecked high heels over the water. In "Exstasis," she's waist-deep in the Everglades, sporting a conquistador hat covered in pink mosquito nets. Helms straddles an inflatable alligator.
"For Kate, Florida is a myth, a kind of false Eden where paradise comes from well-manicured lawns," Rockford says. "I think she's tapping into how people's personalities are shaped by their surroundings, and how we like to sanitize our identity."
Kate Helms' "Feather Study 2" is part of the group show "Swimming With Narcissus," on view now at Bailey Contemporary Arts in Pompano Beach. (Kate Helms/Courtesy via SouthFlorida.com)
"Swimming With Narcissus" will host a reception 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 21, at Bailey Contemporary Arts, 41 NE First St., in Pompano Beach. The show will close Aug. 19. Admission is free. Call 954-284-0141 or go to BaileyArts.org.
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