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I love snow!
>>>Case of the Stolen Vial
Great work on your site!
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EXPLOSION ROCKS ISRAELI TOWN (HADERA - JUST BREAKING 20 People Wounded)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509505/posts
Good work granny - the article does look like it has good information in it. I can't verify his count of the number of devices and the total amounts of radioactive sources missing, but the rest of it all sounds about like what I'd expect given the possible situations he gives with the amount of radiation released in each case.
The article is written for the scientifically inclined layperson, which means that it's neither as technical as a true scientific journal article would be nor as non-technical as a typical newspaper article would be - perhaps at about the level of a Scientific American article. If you haven't had at least a couple of university level science courses (or at least not recently) I can see how it might be rough going.
One term that he never defines is a "curie." This is a measure of radioactivity, named after Marie Curie who was a physicist who studied radioactivity. A highly radioactive source will emit more radiation than one that's not highly radioactive. This in turn relates to how fast the radioactive source decays - if it decays quickly it emits more radiation than if it doesn't decay quickly. The scientific term for this is half-life - a longer half life means that the material will be around longer but it doesn't emit as much radioactivity.
Think of the "half-life" as being much like temperature - it measures how "hot" something is. In the case of a half-life, lower numbers are "hotter." In turn a "curie" measures how much radioactive "energy" is there, and will be the product of the "temperature" times the amount of material present - much like a "calorie" when you're talking about chemical energy. A Curie though is a LOT of radiation, it's a much "bigger" unit than a calorie, at least in terms of what you might encounter under normal conditions.
Hope that helps.
Interesting Read:
Could It Happen Again? Terrorists might not have given up on planes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509545/posts
It is a good read.
IMHO, if the terrorists are going to try to take down the planes with cookies....we're ready. :-)
DALLAS
Man Arrested For Sprinkling Fecal Matter On Pastries
A Dallas cab driver is in big trouble for getting caught on tape sprinkling dried feces on pastries.
49-year-old Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh is on trial for allegedly throwing fecal matter on pastries at a Fiesta grocery store.
Police said they found a pile of human feces by his bed.
He would dry it, either by microwave or just letting it sit out and grate it up with a cheese grater and then sprinkle it at the store, officials said.
Neither attorneys in the case is clear about a motive or why the defendant would resort to something so repulsive.
Prosecutors will show a surveillance videotape of the defendant, which shows him sprinkling a substance on the food.
The FBI arrested Nahidmobarekeh but turned the case over to local prosecutors after they determined it was not a national security issue.
http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=4029330&nav=0w0v
They should ask for the death penalty for that guy.
All the more reason to NEVER buy food from a street vendor. That is really disgusting.
I agree.
I was just reading additional news stories.
There were complaints to the store about foul smelling pastries for 7 months.
UGh.
It's quite gross.
I became nauseuous just reading it.
That's why I wash and bleach my pastries before I eat them.
Thank you for the additional info, I couldn't read the page with my eyes, some do that to me, and it would not copy, so had to kinda spot check it.
I hoped it would be of interest to the people who are learning, as I am past the learning to run from nuclear.
When I went to school, we did not have science classes, or I quit before they were part of the program.
Pastries. He said pastries, Vel.
Dyslexia sets in occasionally.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509625/posts
The Baghdad Attack: The Real Targets Not
journalists, says Zarqawi (Time supports the
Terrorists!)
Time ^ | Oct. 26, 2005 | CHRISTOPHER ALLBRITTON
Posted on 10/26/2005 10:19:58 AM PDT by jmc1969
Monday's deadly attack on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, a large,
well-coordinated assault claimed by al-Qaeda involving truck bombs
which killed at least six people, was thought to target the many
foreign journalists who stay there. But sources inside the Iraqi
insurgency tell TIME that the real target was a security firm based in
the hotel.
The raid was a joint operation between al-Qaeda in Iraq, the
organization headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Jaysh
al-Muhammad, one of the largest Ba'athist groups. Al-Qaeda claims
Iraqis from a suicide group called the Lions of Bara'a bin Malik drove
the actual vehicle bombs. In a statement, al-Qaeda claimed the attack
went after "the intelligence agencies, American, Australian and British
security companies and the thieves of the treasures of Iraq," referring
to contractors. The insurgents believe the targeted security firm is
actually a Western or Israeli government intelligence agency.
continued at link.
**All the more reason to NEVER buy food from a street vendor. That is really disgusting.**
street vender? This was in a Grocery Store! Yikes.
My autistic nephew is right. Smells EVERYTHING before it goes in his mouth!
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