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Sunday, March 20, 2011
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Age really is nothing but a number for Stephanie Seymour, whose rocking body continues to withstand the test of time.
The 42-year-old former model put her goods on display Thursday in St. Barts, where she played on the beach with her family while clad in a polka dot bikini.
With her curves still nicely in place, perhaps the only criticism to be levied at Seymour would be her uneven tan.
But noticeably absent was her second eldest son, Peter Brant Jr., who was at the center of a controversy after they vacationed in January.
Paparazzi pictures of the two caught them embracing and kissing in a way that screamed "woman and young lover" more than it did "mother and son."
Brant, 18, responded to the firestorm by releasing a statement that noted that he's "openly gay" and has a "very close" relationship with his mom.
"We have nothing to hide," he said, adding that they knew photographers were watching.
"At my age, my mother and I are almost like friends," Brant explained, "and I feel open to talk to her about anything (and yes, our relationship may be different because of my sexuality)."
For her part, Seymour addressed the issue during an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in February, where she explained that her son was comforting her because she felt self-conscious about her body.
"He was wooing me and gave me a big hug and a kiss," she told Winfrey, "and we had no idea that that one second would be turned into something that could ever be thought of as [inappropriate].
"He's my baby," she added. "He's a gorgeous young man, but he's my baby."
Age really is nothing but a number for Stephanie Seymour, whose rocking body continues to withstand the test of time.
The 42-year-old former model put her goods on display Thursday in St. Barts, where she played on the beach with her family while clad in a polka dot bikini.
With her curves still nicely in place, perhaps the only criticism to be levied at Seymour would be her uneven tan.
But noticeably absent was her second eldest son, Peter Brant Jr., who was at the center of a controversy after they vacationed in January.
Paparazzi pictures of the two caught them embracing and kissing in a way that screamed "woman and young lover" more than it did "mother and son."
Brant, 18, responded to the firestorm by releasing a statement that noted that he's "openly gay" and has a "very close" relationship with his mom.
"We have nothing to hide," he said, adding that they knew photographers were watching.
"At my age, my mother and I are almost like friends," Brant explained, "and I feel open to talk to her about anything (and yes, our relationship may be different because of my sexuality)."
For her part, Seymour addressed the issue during an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in February, where she explained that her son was comforting her because she felt self-conscious about her body.
"He was wooing me and gave me a big hug and a kiss," she told Winfrey, "and we had no idea that that one second would be turned into something that could ever be thought of as [inappropriate].
"He's my baby," she added. "He's a gorgeous young man, but he's my baby."
Tsunami alert: new quake shakes Japan as battle waged against nuclear meltdown
Sunday, March 13, 2011Kyodo News reported that some 2,000 bodies were found off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, and Japan Meteorological Agency said that another three meters wave moves toward the coast following the television reports of a tsunami is not know.
A wave of several tens of centimeters to greater than anticipated, the Japanese Meteorological Agency officials said in a live broadcast shown on public broadcaster NHK, reported that the three meters high wave from a fire department helicopter was taken care of Fukushima prefecture.
North Sea was reportedly out of Honshu Island, an event that happens before the giant waves hit, and the former residents were ordered to higher ground in Iwate Prefecture seen retreating and sirens sounding in the town of Soma are.
Tsunami alert after an earthquake comes - on a Friday, many of the nine massive earthquake shaking. This was a 5.8-magnitude, U.S. Geological Survey said, and hit at a depth of 18 km from Ibaraki, Japan, shaking tall buildings in the capital.
Meanwhile Fukushima nuclear plant operator said TEPCO reactor had survived an explosion, Jiji Press reported.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary said Yukio Edano TEPCO nuclear plant officials advised that the container vessel head was still safe.
He said he was released the data and information into the water injection plant and the pressure recorded by it within an acceptable range was still.
Operators of sea water injection was stopped in the first reactor, radiation levels and the pressure increases.
The government warned that an explosion caused by the formation of hydrogen in the building of the reactor was possible.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Japanese officials said that another nuclear plant in Onagawa "range site" level of radioactivity had returned to normal.
UN nuclear Commission said earlier that the Tohoku Electric Power Co., which Onagawa management was to determine why the radiation measurements were in Miyagi Prefecture "Plant level in the environment to be more" in the region hardest hit by natural disasters.
"The current view is that the Japanese authorities Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power levels increased due to a release of radioactive material can be" the IAEA said.
"Investigations at the site indicate that an emission of radioactivity from Onagawa one of three units."
However, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant emergency continues, about 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. 210 000 tsunami survivors sent to nearby areas.
Radioactive substances released during the explosion on Saturday and possibly with iodine and cesium 131 -137 fatal found, an indication that the uranium fuel rods in the plant's No. 1 reactor was damaged.
Other nuclear complex cooling system pumps, Tokai Daini plant failed after the earthquake. But half normal pump was operated as a reactor, said the utility, Japan Atomic Power Company.
Daiichi and Daini plant backup system Friday when the tsunami through the reactor chambers to pump water to keep cool was to destroy them, began to overheat.
In all six reactors were cool to the problems, the government said, as an emergency measure and seawater was pumped through two of them.
All of the reactors at 55 nuclear facilities in Japan, automatically shut down all of the earthquake shook the area.
Approximately 210 000 survivors of the tsunami near Fukushima nuclear power complex in the form of a mass evacuation was still last night.
1000 bodies found
Officials said the body of the soil around 1000 on Friday, the worst hit by the tsunami will move from 10,000 in Miyagi Prefecture north of Tokyo debris along the coast, but the death toll had been fired recovered, police said. Approximately 2.5 million homes were without electricity and 1.4 million without water.
A total of 380 000 people have been evacuated to shelters after more than 20,000 buildings were destroyed along the beach outside.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) 1973 102 Australians, including in the affected areas said it was 5:30 today confirmed as safe.
There are 234 earthquake and tsunami affected areas in Japan in 2948 with registered Australian registered.
Australia are the registered and unregistered safe, a DFAT spokesman confirmed.
A total of 6797 calls on Friday have been well received by the Consular Emergency Centre.
Australian Ambassador to Japan Murray McLean said it was difficult to know exactly how many Australians were affected by the earthquake.
"We really honest, do not know how many Australians were in Japan the day of the big earthquake," he told ABC.
"Numbers are unstable."
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said DFAT 25-year-old Melbourne man Jason Briffa, whose mother was afraid that since Friday afternoon before the earthquake was not exposed no information about.
But he said DFAT officers were working with Japan to Mr Briffa, who worked as an English teacher in Sendai looks.
"We base the bottom of every Australian we have not been able to identify to spare no effort to track," Mr Rudd told the Nine Network this morning.
Giant released yesterday by shaking rumble through the region and the tsunami warning was still current in different parts of the coast.
Hundreds of exposure to radiation
Approximately 160 people exposed to dangerous radiation were close to power plants, Japanese Agency for Nuclear and Industrial Safety at least three plant workers said, with symptoms of severe radiation sickness. A power plant worker operating a crane on the site, was slain and wounded eight others.
Japanese public broadcaster nuclear emergency warning broadcasts, which date from the plant to stay indoors, no drinking water, in contact with the skin around their mouths and noses covered in wet towels to ward off pollution was rather telling. Some people with iodine tablets radiation sickness response is issued.
Australian Nuclear Safety Agency, ARPANSA, said a 20-km exclusion zone around the plants outside was no immediate danger.
Australian nuclear experts told the Herald that contingency Japanese officials believe is under control if there is enough water reactors can be pumped through the next few days the uranium fuel rods used in the base to cool.
A complete meltdown - a central ability to control temperature of the collapse - and dangerous contaminants in the environment of uranium and large, comprehensive health risk can bring.
Experts say, however, that even a full recession, probably much less Chernobyl, where a reactor exploded and a cloud of radiation over much of Europe to the disaster in 1986 will be crucial. Unlike people in Fukushima, the reactor was placed in a sealed container.
Significant radiation is unlikely to build
Ziggy Switkowski, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation [ANSTO] a few months ago, the president said it was unlikely that a significant build up of radiation.
"Contribution any nuclear fleet this [disaster], I hope in the worst case there is little to do," he told this morning, Fairfax Radio Network.
"This is not to deny that people are concerned and are apparently concerned about the integrity of the nuclear network is not," Dr Switkowski said.
"Japanese reactors are probably as good as you can get around the world, but the magnitude 9 earthquake, the well may test the limits of your design."
Japan has 55 reactors spread over 17 campuses across the country.
100,000 troops involved in relief
Extensive rescue one million soldiers crescent on the northern coast of Tokyo and Chiba prefectures, including Miyagi is included in the focus.
Iwaki, the inhabitants were so because of concerns over supplies. The city had no electricity and all shops were closed. The police took about 90 people had their blankets and rice balls, but there was no sign of aid trucks.
By Japanese seismologists in earthquake was upgraded to magnitude 9 - which is the largest in the area affected.
"Our country, 65 years ago at the end of the war's worst crisis," Prime Minister Naoto Kan, said yesterday. "I am convinced that we all Japanese cooperation can overcome."
Fears about US34.5 one billion deficit
US35 devastating earthquake one billion, nearly U.S. dollar insurance risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide can cause damage, said in a history making it one of the most costly disasters - More tsunami expected losses have not been counted without.
AIR said its damage estimates range between one billion US34.6 US14.5 billion. 1200000000000 yen, which is more than a 2800000000000 yen, 81.85 yen to the U.S. dollar is based on revenge.
The company had warned that the original estimate and model the impact of the tsunami earthquake or nuclear damage in the wake of the potential loss factor is not.
The official announcement that two reactors at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant could be suffering meltdowns underscores the Japanese nuclear industry's troubled history, and years of grass-roots objections from a people uniquely sensitive to the ravages of nuclear destruction.
The unfolding crisis at the two reactors, both at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, feeds into a resurgence of doubts about nuclear energy's safety even as it has gained credence as a source of clean energy in a time of mounting concerns about the environmental and public health tolls of fossil fuels.
The crisis stems from failures of the cooling systems at the reactors at the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi plant. At a nearby nuclear plant, Daini, three more reactors lost their cooling systems, and Japanese officials were scrambling on Sunday to determine whether the systems could be revived or would also need injections of cooling seawater.
Critics of nuclear energy have long questioned the viability of nuclear power in earthquake-prone regions like Japan. Reactors have been designed with such concerns in mind, but preliminary assessments of the Fukushima Daiichi accidents suggested that too little attention was paid to the threat of tsunami. It appeared that the reactors withstood the powerful earthquake, but the ocean waves damaged generators and backup systems, harming the ability to cool the reactors.
It was not until Sunday that the increasingly dangerous nature of the problems at Daiichi became clear. But even on Saturday, with Reactor No. 1 there having suffered a radiation leak and an explosion, James M. Acton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said the nuclear industry would be shaken.
While Japan may try to point to the safety of its newer facilities, concerns may run too deep, he said. Decades ago, after the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island accidents, Mr. Acton said, the nuclear industry tried to argue that newer reactors incorporated much better safety features. “That made very little difference to the public,” he said. Japan's status as the only target of nuclear attack, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, adds to the public's sensitivity.
Benjamin Leyre, a utilities industry analyst with Exane BNP Paribas in Paris, also speaking on Saturday, said politicians in Europe and elsewhere would almost certainly come under increased pressure to revisit safety measures.
“What is likely to come will depend a lot on how transparent the regulators in Japan are,” Mr. Leyre said. “There will be a lot of focus on whether people feel confident that they know everything and that the truth is being put in front of them.”
Over the years, Japanese plant operators, along with friendly government officials, have sometimes hidden episodes at plants from a public increasingly uneasy with nuclear power.
In 2007, an earthquake in northwestern Japan caused a fire and minor radiation leaks at the world's largest nuclear plant, in Kashiwazaki City. An ensuing investigation found that the operator, Tokyo Electric, had unknowingly built the facility directly on top of an active seismic fault. A series of fires inside the plant after the earthquake deepened the public's fear. But Tokyo Electric said it upgraded the facility to withstand stronger tremors and reopened it in 2009.
Last year, another reactor with a troubled history was allowed to reopen, 14 years after a fire shut it down. The operator of that plant, the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor, located along the coast about 220 miles west of Tokyo, tried to cover up the extent of the fire by releasing altered video after an accident in 1995.
In the hours after the blast at Reactor No. 1, nuclear advocates argued that Daiichi's problems were singular in many ways and stemmed from a natural disaster on a scale never before experienced in Japan. They pointed out that the excavation of fossil fuels has its own history of catastrophic accidents, including coal mine collapses and the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Some also said there might have been missteps in handling Reactor No. 1. A quick alternative source of water for cooling the destabilising core should have been immediately available, said Nils J. Diaz, a nuclear engineer who led the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2003 to 2006 and had visited the Daiichi plant.
Mr. Diaz suggested that the Japanese might have acted too slowly to prevent overheating, including procedures that might have required the venting of small amounts of steam and radiation, rather than risk a wholesale meltdown. Fear among Japanese regulators over public reaction to such small releases may have delayed plant operators from acting as quickly as they might have, he said.
“They would rather wait and do things in a perfect manner instead of doing it as good as it needs to be now,” Mr. Diaz said. “And this search for perfection has often led to people sometimes hiding things or waiting too long to do things.”
With virtually no natural resources, Japan has considered nuclear power as an alternative to oil and other fossil fuels since the 1960s. It has regarded its expertise in nuclear power as a way to cut down on its emission of greenhouse gases and to capture energy-hungry markets in Asia.
Japan is one of the world's top consumers of nuclear energy. The country's 17 nuclear plants boasting 55 reactors have provided about 30 per cent of its electricity needs.
To make plants resistant to earthquakes, operators are required to build them on bedrock to minimise shaking and to raise anti-tsunami seawalls for plants along the coast. But the government gives power companies wide discretion in deciding whether a site is safe.
In the case of Saturday's blast, experts said that problem was avoidable. Mr. Diaz said that a comprehensive nuclear power plant safety programme developed in the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks would have prevented a similar accident at any of the nation's nuclear facilities. — New York Times
Japan's nuclear crisis: the causes and the risks
A British nuclear expert has told The First Post that the explosion at the Fukushima I nuclear plant looks likely to be a "significant nuclear event" with a bigger impact on public health than the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island.
John Large, who has been a nuclear analyst since the mid-1960s and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, says the Japanese government may be significantly downplaying the seriousness of the accident – and he believes it could have far-reaching consequences for the nuclear industry worldwide.
What damage was caused?
The blast tore the roof off the building and damaged surrounding walls. Four workers were injured. Japanese authorities told the International Atomic Energy Authority that the explosion happened outside the reactor's primary containment vessel, which appears to be intact.
What is the radiation risk?
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa) reported higher levels of radiation around the power station over the weekend and the presence of caesium-137 and iodine-131 in the air. These are radioactive isotopes produced in fission reactions. The isotopes were released when steam was vented from the reactor.
Radiation monitors around the site recorded a radiation level of 500 microSieverts per hour on Saturday afternoon, a quarter of the annual dose the general population is exposed to due to natural background radiation. The level of radiation at the power station's main gate fell on Sunday to a very low level of 3.2 microSieverts.
Fukushima I is just 40 miles from the epicentre of the closest of 248 separate seismic shocks which have taken place in the past week off the coast of Japan. A 'boiling water' plant, it has six reactors.
Dramatic footage of an explosion at the plant's No 1 reactor on Saturday has commanded global attention. Now the Japanese government says it is fighting to prevent a second meltdown at No 3 reactor.
Meanwhile, sister plant Fukushima II, which is just 11km further away from the earthquake epicentre, is also in trouble. Cooling systems have broken at three of its four reactors – and at least one reactor has failed.
Efforts are underway to evacuate 210,000 people living within 20km of Fukushima I. Earlier, on Friday, 2,800 people were taken from their homes by coach.
When will the power station be safe?
The strategy of pumping sea water into nuclear reactors is untested. It could take several days to bring the temperature and pressure of the reactor cores down to within safe limits.
If the cooling fails, the reactors could overheat and cause a total meltdown of the radioactive fuel rods in the core. This would only lead to a major release of radiation if the reactor's containment vessel was breached.
The Japanese authorities have classified the sitiuation as a level 4 "accident with local consequences" on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). The scale runs from zero for a deviation in normal operations to seven for a major accident. The Three Mile Island incident in 1979 was a five and Chernobyl in 1986 was a seven on the scale.
Tsunami Japan | tsunami video | Massive earthquake & Tsunami in Japan
Friday, March 11, 2011Any one searching for information about the earthquake or tsunami in Japan will see static links providing information about the response to the natural disasters. Google has made it easy to report a missing person or information about a missing person.
This is similar to Google's efforts after the earthquake in the Christchurch area of New Zealand, Google's Japanese Quake Person Finder allows users to share when they have received information that a missing person is alive or to create a record for a new missing person. There are currently about 6,100 records.
Statement By The President On The Earthquake In Japan And The Resulting Tsunami Warning Throughout The Pacific:
Michelle & I send our deepest condolences to the people of Japan, particularly those who have lost loved ones in the earthquake and tsunamis
Obama: The United States stands ready to help the Japanese people in this time of great trial. Obama: I have instructed FEMA to be ready to assist Hawaii and the rest of the US states and territories that could be affected. /BNO News.
This is a Tsunami Information Statement for California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. NO tsunami warning, watch or advisory is in effect for these areas.
Earthquakes of this size are known to generate tsunamis potentially dangerouse to coasts outside the source region. The West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center is investigating the event to determine the level of danger. More information will be issued as it becomes available.
For those seeking shelter, there is also a Google Map up showing all the shelter sites in Tokyo. Some of the sites have descriptions of supplies they can offer such as food or bedding. Many shelters also indicate how full they are. More news
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Courtney Fuhrmann:Courtney Fuhrmann……News…..
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Damon Evans was pulled over for not staying in his lane last night just before midnight, and in his car was Courtney Fuhrmann who he says is just a “friend.”
Evans, who is married and the athletic director at the University of Georgia, just started a new five-year contract with the university, and possibly was out celebrating.
After being pulled over, he was subsequently arrested for DUI. Fuhrmann was also arrested because she kept getting out of the car when the officer told her to stay in it.
So who is Courtney Fuhrmann? The Atlanta Journal-Courier reports that she works as an asset manager at a real estate company in Atlanta. She is 28 years old and has a degree in journalism. She has refused to talk with reporters thus far.
It’s difficult to see how she fits into Evans’ life, as he is married and also a very vocal supporter of NOT drinking and driving.
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Spies go from reel to real: Angelina Jolie's new flick 'Salt' gives Anna Chapman a run for her money
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Angelina Jolie should send Russia her love - in Morse code, of course.
Anna Chapman, the sexy 28-year-old accused with 10 others of being a Russian sleeper spy, has made Jolie's upcoming thriller "Salt" seem ripped from the headlines.
A sleeper spy is an agent who lives among us, assimilating our culture and assuming our way of life.
Forget "No Way Out" - this is a case of No Better Timing.
In the film, due July 23, Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a 20-year veteran of the CIA with a husband and a dull suburban life. When she's accused of being a Russian sleeper trained since girlhood to be a physical and mental superspy, she fights for her life while an assassination attempt is brewing against a diplomat. Salt goes from blond to brunette to escape detection, and makes a rocket launcher out of everyday office doodads.
Chapman - a divorced, Russian-born economics major who lived in a swanky Financial District apartment - was "a highly trained agent," according to prosecutors, going from brunette to redhead as she passed info to spymasters from her homeland for years. Chapman and others in the ring lived in the five boroughs, in New Jersey and Yonkers, and met at places we pass every day. Feeling the red heat, the femme fatale dot-com entrepreneur tried to warn her handlers before being nabbed by the feds Sunday night.
While Chapman's mole patrol seems like a B-grade Hollywood knockoff, the parallels with Jolie's character couldn't have been set up any better by James Bond's Q branch.
Though the Cold War's been over for some 20 years, this country is suddenly spy-obsessed again. And "Salt" is not the only sign of reignited fascination.
Just as Chapman and her comrades allegedly tried to infiltrate high-profile social circles in New York, agents were again invading American entertainment. In addition to Angelina's highly anticipated flick, this summer has already seen the secret-agent-as-everyday-folks movies "Killers" and "Knight and Day." Coming up is "Operation: Endgame," about rival spy teams; the Bruce Willis action thriller "Red," in which deadly former agents get back on duty; and the NBC series "Undercovers," co-created by J.J. Abrams, the mind behind "Alias."
"Sleeper cells tap into the paranoia we all have that we don't really know who our neighbors are - especially in New York," says Paul Levinson, chairman of media studies at Fordham University.
"The idea that anybody could be an enemy agent is frightening and appealing for this paranoid part of our brain. It's the things that are around us that we take for granted that hold the most danger.
"What happens when we see real-seeming spy stories in movies is, we think about our own situations and we realize that being able to know what's going on around us is an illusion."
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 forced Hollywood to find new villains. Yet the notion that enemy agents walk among us - or eat in the next booth at the coffee shop in Queens - has remained powerful.
The players may have changed since 9/11, but, as seen in shows like Showtime's "Sleeper Cell," the fear is still there.
"In the aftermath of 9/11, there's been focus on agents who look different from us, and the idea of profiling has been the danger on several levels," says Levinson.
"But when it's the girl next door - well, that remains a great story we just can't put down. That idea of 'the Russian superspy' will always be with us."
Even a statement about the 11 arrests by a Russian government spokesman recognized the "Spy Vs. Spy" nature of the weekend's events.
"We do not understand the reasons that have prompted the American Department of Justice to make a public statement in the style of Cold War spy tensions," the spokesman said.
Somewhere, someone is pounding a fist on a desk. Cue the music.
Hawaii gov. buys more time on civil unions bill
Monday, June 21, 2010
Associated Press Writer= HONOLULU (AP) — Gov. Linda Lingle on Monday bought herself two more weeks to make a decision on contentious legislation that would allow same-gender couples to form civil unions.
At a press conference at the state Capitol, Lingle announced the bill is one of 39 measures on a list of potential vetoes she was required to unveil by Monday.
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