Police seeking owner of penis
Police in South Africa Where else?
are trying to trace the owner of a severed penis which was found lying on the ground in a village.
"Hello? I'm calling about the severed doinker. I think it might be mine."
"Can you describe it, sir?"
The penis, which was not attached to anybody, was found on the ground outside a house in the small village of Masoyi, in the Mpumalanga region of eastern South Africa.
"Whoa! What's that?"
"I dunno, but it's not attached to anybody!"
The police were called by the man who found the penis, which was not his penis, last Friday morning.
"Hello, police? Lookee here, there's a schlong lying in my back yard... No, it's not mine... Of course I checked!"
According to local police Superintendent Benjamin Mtsholi Bhembe, the man saw an unusual object on the ground outside the house he was taking care of.
"Hmmm... That's unusual."
'On closer inspection, he realised that it was a man's private part,' said Bhembe.
"Why, it looks like a pizzle!"
Initial police investigations around the neighbourhood which we imagine involved knocking on people's doors and asking ' have you lost your penis?' proved unsuccessful. Authorities are urging the penis's owner to come forward. If you have lost you penis, you are advised to contact your nearest South African police station.
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If I were in South Africa, I think I'd avoid the milk cartons for a while.
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I'm sure Fred would never lead us astray, but from my own sad past experiences, some of the worst spyware and malware is coded in song lyric webpages. Rotten punks.
Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean's surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica's Pacific coast.
Four men traveled inside the 50-foot wood and fiberglass craft, breathing through the pipes. The craft sailed along at about 7 mph, just six feet beneath the surface, Security Minister Fernando Berrocal said Sunday.
The submarine was spotted Friday 103 miles off the coast near Cabo Blanco National Park on the Nicoya peninsula. "This is the first time in the country's history that a craft with these characteristics has been caught near the national coasts," Berrocal said in a statement.
U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, FBI and Colombian officials aided Costa Rican authorities in the operation, Berrocal said.
Two Colombians, a Guatemalan and a Sri Lankan were arrested and taken to the United States, since they were captured in international waters, Berrocal said. Officials took the submarine to a Costa Rican Coast Guard station and were trying to determine its origins, the Security Ministry said. It was found with several tanks of gas, but Costa Rican authorities said the vessel, which had a bailer to keep out water, probably did not travel far.
Just how do you bail out a submerged submarine?
So far this year, Costa Rican authorities have seized 18 tons of cocaine. Colombian authorities say smuggling cocaine by sea has become the top method of transport in recent years, as radar systems have made it difficult to smuggle drugs in small airplanes.
In March, the Colombian navy seized a 60-foot fiberglass submarine that likely was used to haul tons of cocaine out to speedboats in the Pacific Ocean for transportation to Central America and on to the United States. Three people were arrested and two speedboats seized during the operation, but no drugs were found.
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"This is the first time in the country's history that a craft with these characteristics has been caught near the national coasts," Berrocal said in a statement.
"Usually we let them go right past."
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"Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean's surface,..."
To hell with the cocaine, they deserve to go to jail for not following periscope procedures. This is what happens when you don't train your crew.
A couple days old, don't know if that disqualifies it for TIOTD.
An Auckland policeman attending a domestic dispute in Auckland accidentally blasted himself and a teenager with a Taser, before pepper-spraying an innocent woman.
The constable was attending the incident at a central Auckland home when he shocked himself, the 16-year-old and then later pepper-sprayed the 21-year-old woman, The New Zealand Herald reported today. The constable was reloading his weapon when he accidentally blasted himself with the Taser's 50,000 volts while trying to stun a man at the centre of the domestic incident on October 1. Oops. One shot accidentally struck the man's teenage son. Oops.
After five attempts to hit the man, the officer eventually used pepper spray but hit the man's 21-year-old daughter an unintended target. Oops.
The man eventually gave himself up. "My belly! It's hurting! Don't make me laugh anymore, I can't take it!"
The constable, who had had Taser training, was not injured.
The taser is being tested by frontline policemen in Auckland and Wellington. An official police update of the Taser trial, published on October 17, made no mention of the constable firing five times, or missing his target, zapping himself or hitting the boy, the newspaper reported. Nope, nothing to see here, move along.
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I'm not sure I'd trust that particular policeman with a gun.
Besides, tazers have a good side, they make for fun videos.
I've passed quite some time over at Youtube, watching men and wimmen alike squeal like wounded piglets while getting zapped by friendly cops. Hé hé hé. It's fun because it happens to people I don't know.
Even the 340 lbs tough guy gets real cooperative after a few love-jolts, there's only one perp who pulls out the barbs and isn't even phased, too drunk to care. And there's the Ucla riot-caller too.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. An off-duty U.S. Secret Service agent was shot after he intervened in a fight in a shopping mall food court, then returned fire and wounded the gunman, police said. One other person was shot during the Saturday night melee, which sent shoppers ducking under tables and running for cover. The agent and the gunman were airlifted to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. Their injuries were not life threatening, police said. The third wounded person, 16-year-old Tahzay Brown, was treated at Anne Arundel Medical Center for a gunshot wound to his leg. He was released before midnight Saturday, said Martha Harlan, a hospital spokeswoman. There had been no arrests by early Sunday morning.
The agent was at the Westfield Annapolis mall with his family when he saw a group of men attacking another man. The agent tried to break up the fight, and someone in the group drew a gun and started firing. "He ran across the food court with his gun and was shooting at people," witness Lindsay Busch said.
The agent, who was not identified, was at the Westfield Annapolis mall with his family shortly after 7 p.m. when he saw a group of men attacking another man, said Officer Sara Schriver, an Anne Arundel County police spokeswoman. The agent tried to break up the fight, and someone in the group drew a gun and started firing, she said. "He ran across the food court with his gun and was shooting at people," witness Lindsay Busch told WJZ-TV. Ray Leone, manager of the Borders Books & Music, which is located across from the food court, said he heard at least 10 gunshots, and dozens of people ran into his store in a panic. The agent was wounded. After he was shot, he drew his service handgun and returned fire, wounding the gunman. It wasn't clear who shot Brown, Schriver said.
The mall was closed shortly after the shooting, and shoppers were ordered to leave over the public address system. Police tape was strewn around the food court, where meals sat unfinished on tables and personal property was left behind. Several tables were overturned, with food and drinks spilled on the floor. Scott deGraffenreid, the mall's marketing director, said video surveillance footage of the scene was turned over to police. He said mall management would not comment on the incident, citing the ongoing investigation.
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Good job, Agent. 'Nice to know that some government servants still have the balls to stand up for just causes - even when it is risky. I'm only sorry that the thug gunman is still breathing.
I can only imagine the bureaucratic crap that the poor Agent now has to go through. It's probably worse than participating in a gunfight.
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Reminds me of time 20 yrs ago I was working in a Houston,Tx mall.Went into work one morning and there was a chalk outline on floor cordoned off by crime tape. Even then I didn't watch the news so I asked what happened. Seems a thief had tried to rob a jewelry store and had fired a shot into the ceiling and mall security responded. Unfortunatly for our thief this was about the only mall in America where Mall Security went armed.
Afterwards,rumor had it the jewelry store owners asked that the outline and tape be left as they felt it would deter shoplifters.
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I lived about a mile away from the Mall in 2003 and 2004. Pretty high-class place, being in the State Capitol of the Socialist State of Maryland.
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New Zealand has a long history of this kind of paranoid speculation.
In the 1985 Kiwi sci-fi movie, This Quiet Earth, something goes wrong at a top secret American-sponsored atmospheric research facility and causes all but three people to disappear from the face of the Earth. This sets up the usual triangular conflict over the one surviving woman. It is really a good movie in many respects, not least for a gratifying view of Alison Routledge's naked bottom.
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Drinking a lot of ordinary cranberry juice is also shown to prevent virus to cell adhesion of several unpleasant bacteria viruses that cause severe bladder infections and diarrhea.
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I got fond of them as soon as French TV taiolked of how eeeeeeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiiiil was their singeress: pro death penalty (like most French outside the MSM) and anti-abortion. Now the person who was debasing her was a guy so I would have liked to be able to tell him on what right he was telling a woman what she has to think about the theme.
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Does kidney stone blockage hurt? Triage nurses asked me to rate the level of pain out of 10, with 10 being pass out stage. I said 9 because I was about to pass out and it took a high dose of Morphine to squelch the pain.
Note: in the HBO series, "Dead Wood" the doctor is seen jarring a stone out of the patient's bladder. BS! The pain is caused when the stone gets lodged in the upper uretha, ABOVE the bladder and leads to a back up of urine to the kidney. If you drink only a small amount of fluids (1/4 cup per hour, and hard liquor is recommended) then the pain goes away. However, doctors ask you to drink lots of fluids because the buildup pressure will push the stone out within the normal 3 day period. I am not a doctor, but I say: to hell with that!
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Stats: 1 in 10 males has problems with kidney stones; for ladies, it is 1 in 20. Women who have experienced both childbirth and kidney stones, claim the latter hurt more.
A lithotriptor is a medical device used in the non-invasive treatment of kidney stones (urinary calculosis) and biliary calculi (stones in the gallbladder or in the liver). The scientific name of this procedure is Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL). Lithotripsy was developed in the early 1980s, and came into widespread use with the introduction of the HM-3 lithotriptor in 1983. Within a few short years, ESWL revolutionized treatment of calculosis. It is estimated that more than one million patients are treated annually with ESWL in the USA alone.
Lithotripsy attempts to break up the stone with minimal collateral damage by using an externally-applied, focused high-intensity acoustic pulse.
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Sneaze: Right there with you. I had a kidney stone in my early twenties. It took four days to pass. Never experienced pain like it before or since.
I had the same reaction that that Deadwood scene too. Fantastic show otherwise.
Belated response. 4 days isn't bad. I avoided fluids, contrary to doctor's orders but mine turned to powder after about 6 days. I never miss a cranberry fix.
'Happy Feet' Dances Past The Blond Bond Animated Penguins Earn $42M, 'Casino Royale' Takes Home $40M
James Bond has met his match not a fellow spy but a tap-dancing penguin. The Warner Bros. animated penguin romp "Happy Feet" debuted with $42.3 million, grabbing an edge for the weekend's No. 1 slot over Sony's Bond adventure "Casino Royale," which opened with $40.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The two films were close enough that their rankings could change when final numbers are released Monday. "'Happy Feet' is just ahead by a flipper," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. "It's unusual to have two movies this close, battling for that No. 1 position."
MUSCAT - Oman will elect a new Majlis Al Shura, or consultative council, in October 2007, the Gulf sultanates interior minister Saud bin Ibrahim Al Bussaidi, said on Sunday. The official Ona agency quoted Bussaidi as saying the election, in which men and women will be allowed to vote, would be held using a new formula, but did not elaborate.
The last election for the Majlis, in October 2003, was the first to be open to all citizens of the conservative sultanate. Fifteen women were candidates in that election, but only two won seats in the 83-member council. All Omanis aged 21 or over, or 822,000 people out of a population of 1.96 million, had the right to vote in 2003. Only 262,000 registered to do so, a third of which were women.
The Majlis Al Shura is a consultative body that advises the government on economic and social affairs but is not involved in defence, security or foreign policy.
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BRASILIA: The mayor of a Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra to dozens of elderly people. Joao de Souza Luz, the mayor of Novo Santo Antonio, said 68 men over the age of 60 had signed up for the programme, which had been dubbed Happy Penis. The programme, however, had also encouraged some extra-marital affairs, said Souza Luz. He said to discourage such illicit canoodling, Viagra pills were only being given to the wives of the men who had signed up for the programme. That way, when the women are in the mood, they can give the pills to their husbands.
Old John was sitting on the front porch of his house in the rocking chair, naked from the waist down, when his son drove up.
"Pop!" cried Junior. "What the hell are you doing?"
"I'm sittin' on the front porch naked from the waist down," the old man answered calmly.
"Why?"
"Well," he replied, filling his pipe, "I sat out here yesterday without a shirt on and got a stiff neck. This was your mother's idea."
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Nothing like being spoon fed your medicine in jello, by the 'ole ball & chain'!! And I bet she goes shopping for 3 to 4 hours while the poor sap sits there in a 'hardened determination' of intent!
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We bought a block of land in Tasmania a few years ago- very happy to find a Devil living in a hollow log up the back.
I doubt they will go extinct but you never know. The more disease-free Devils outside Tassie the better.
City boy takes on coyote bare-handed
A 10-year-old boy is being hailed for bravery after he fought bare-handed against a vicious coyote that was attacking his buddy.
I was amazed and was grateful he saved me, said David Burnett, referring to his friend Marshall Davis after the Saturday night attack.
The boys and two more friends, Pablo and Diego Chavez, were having a snowball fight in front of the Davis home at 140 Avenue and 128 Street just before 9 p.m. when Burnett and and Diego raced into the backyard.
The adult coyote, which had been wandering the subdivision for about two weeks according to neighbours, emerged from under some spruce trees and came face-to-face with the youngsters. A screaming Diego managed to escape but David, who knew he was in a stare-down with a coyote, said he was too shocked to run.
He tilted his head, he recalled. He came after me and got me down. The mangy mongrel chomped David in the left Achilles tendon and calf, and scratched him.
As David lay struggling against the wild animal, Marshall, his Grade 5 classmate, heard the commotion and sprung into action. I started yelling at the coyote and then the coyote came to me and left David alone, said Marshall, admitting he was scared. I punched and kicked it in the face.
In the meantime, Marshalls father, Gary, scooped up young David and took him inside, Marshall said. He quickly retreated into the house as well. Gary Davis grabbed a hockey stick and chased the coyote into the backyard while his wife called police.
David was taken to the Northeast Medical Clinic to treat puncture wounds.
Now just a darned minute here! He might have been rabid, but I doubt he had mange. As for the "mongrel," is there any indication this was a coy-dog? Wild canines get almost as much bad press as the joooooos.
Seriously, they need to catch and kill that coyote. I'd like to spare the brave boy rabies shots if possible.
What the heck is he doing in Canada, anyway. I don't think the establishment there supports the idea of defend yourself, let alone saving someone else. Why, that's vigilanteism. He needs to move to Texas or Georgia or someplace like that.
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Under their thick mat of fur, coyotes are quite slim. That's why they run away at first sight of humans. Unfortunately, they can breed with some types of domestic dogs, which yields a hybrid creature that can be aggressive.
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My uncle told me a story about the time they had a coyote in their subdivision near Denver years ago: he inquired with the local gendarmerie regarding regulations governing the use of firearms in the subdivision vs wildlife.
He was advised that "any bullet leaving his property must be traveling in the same speed and direction as the coyote".
(i.e., make sure you don't miss...)
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One of em dragged off a poodle in a neighborhood up the street from us, and we live in Chicago. Had the squeamish squealing. Nature can be like that.
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The threat of arrest and punishment, for decades the primary tactic against drunken drivers, is no longer working in the struggle to reduce the death toll, officials say, and they are proposing turning to technology alcohol detection devices in every vehicle to address the problem. In the first phase of the plan, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, backed by a national association of state highway officials and car manufacturers, will announce here on Monday a campaign to change drunken driving laws in 49 states to require that even first offenders install a device that tests drivers and shuts down the car if it detects alcohol.
Many states already require the devices, known as ignition interlocks, for people who have been convicted several times. Last year New Mexico became the first to make them mandatory after a first offense. With that tactic and others, the state saw an 11.3 percent drop in alcohol-related fatalities last year.
Officials say interlocks for first offenders are not a panacea but will reduce repeat offenses. They say the next step will be a program to develop devices to unobtrusively test every driver for alcohol and disable the vehicle. More at link...
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sure.. cars with alcohol locks today
next cars with gravy ignition locks tomorrow
and then cars with p0rn thought locks next year...
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While putting it in every vehicle would be ridiculous, I see no problem in mandating it to be put in every vehicle owned by the local family of a convicted drunk driver. Done at a judge's discretion, it does not impact the rest of the public.
This makes sense because the recidivism rate among drunk drivers can be great.
In addition to the hard part, having equipment installed in their vehicles, both their drivers license and their car licenses should reflect a conviction for DUI.
The drivers license so that any drinking establishment that chose to could reduce their liability by not serving convicted drunk drivers, or by refusing to serve them more.
The license plates so that police could quickly spot such a vehicle, then use an unobstrusive "one pass" key next to their anti-DUI unit that would confirm it is both working and has not been tampered with.
The whole difference is philosophy. If you haven't been convicted of a dangerous crime, you should be left alone. But if you have been convicted of a dangerous crime with a high recidivism rate, they should own your ass.
Statistically, each more people die in automobile accidents as the result of excessive speed as opposed to drunk driving.
Are you in favor of court ordered installation of "governors" on first offender speeders?
If not, why not?
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Sorry...that should be: "each year"
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"Wait for the first woman to be raped and murdered because the detector failed. Then watch the billion dollar lawsuit against MADD."
Indeed. Happened in the 70s with a car that had an interlock with the safety belt.
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Citizens should be jailed for driving drunk. Only politicians, especially Kennedys should be allowed to kill people or crash into barriers and pay no price for their drunkeness.
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"There seem to be enough of these ladies fanatics around"
There - fixed that for ya', #14 tu.
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we need to hear from DAMM.
Where's Joe Bob Briggs when we need him? (You beat me to it, nmu.)
This makes sense because the recidivism rate among drunk drivers can be great.
You aren't kidding, 'moose:
Drunk driving recidivism rates are high: approximately one-third of drivers arrested or convicted of DWI each year are repeat offenders. A 1994 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that drivers involved in alcohol-related fatal crashes were eight times more likely to have had DWI convictions in the previous 5 years than drivers randomly selected from the general population of licensed drivers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicates that in 1996, about one in six drivers with positive BAC levels who died in traffic crashes had been convicted of driving while intoxicated during the three previous years. And a 1995 California study suggests that 44 percent of drivers convicted of DUI in that State are reconvicted of DUI within 10 years.
I have also heard a statistic bandied about that nearly 50% of DUIs are apprehended for the same offense within six weeks of their initial arrest.
Wait for the first woman to be raped and murdered because the detector failed. Then watch the billion dollar lawsuit against MADD.
Not just device failure, but what about a situation where an intoxicated person's only chance of escaping a life threatening situation (i.e., car-jacking, attempted murder, forest fire) relies upon them using their car? Without 100% effective police interdiction of crime, limiting a person's ability to escape violent assault or natural disaster may not be constitutional.
I do not attempt to make light of drunk driving recidivism. It's persistence and negative consequences seem to approach that of predatory child molestation. There just appear to be some serious legal consequences to disabling a person's car.
Interesting thought problem:
What about a sober person with prior DUIs who legally starts his car and proceeds to drink to the point of intoxication while driving? Obviously, the control device cannot cripple the vehicle while it is still in operation.
This is one of many corollary issues surrounding what is admittedly a thorny topic.
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I have a good solution. DUI or refusal to blow? No drivers license for 5 years. Another one? No DL ever. There. Problem fixed!
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The ol Pan comes equiped with this device already, and it was made in 1949! It's called a kick starter. Ever try to start an old Harly when your too drunk to drive?? It'll win you a broken leg and a trip to the hospital.
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There just appear to be some serious legal consequences to disabling a person's car.
Perhaps it is the person who is disabled. The car simply won't function with a disabled by alcohol driver. One assumes the driver is aware of the consequences of attempting to start the car while intoxicated. Before getting intoxicated anyway. Fleeing harm can be done without a car. Particularly one that knowingly could not be started.
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Statistically, each more people die in automobile accidents as the result of excessive speed as opposed to drunk driving.
Do you have some evidence of that? My informed opinion is that speed is a contributing factor (after all, if the car is stopped it can't hit anything) but it's intoxication (alcohol or other drugs), inattentiveness, inexperience, and poor judgement that are the real problems.
When speed limits are lowered, the death rate doesn't drop appreciably.
On the surface, Thiago Olson is like any typical teenager.
Hes on the cross country and track teams at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills, Mich. Hes a good-looking, clean-cut 17-year-old with a 3.75 grade-point average, and he has his eyes fixed on the next big step: college.
But to his friends, Thiago is known as the mad scientist.
In the basement of his parents Oakland Township, Mich., home, tucked away in an area most arent privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build a large, intricate machine that, on a small scale, creates nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fusion when atoms are combined to create energy is kind of like the holy grail of physics, he said. On www.fusor.net, the Stoney Creek senior is ranked as the 18th amateur in the world to create nuclear fusion. How does he do it?
Pointing to the steel chamber where all the magic happens, Thiago said on Friday that this piece of the puzzle serves as a vacuum. The air is sucked out and into a filter.
Then, deuterium gas a form of hydrogen is injected into the vacuum. About 40,000 volts of electricity are charged into the chamber from a piece of equipment taken from an old mammogram machine. As the machine runs, the atoms in the chamber are attracted to the center and soon ta da nuclear fusion.
Thiago said when that happens, a small intense ball of energy forms.
He first achieved fusion in September and has been perfecting the machine he built in his parents garage ever since.
This year, Thiago was a semifinalist for the Siemens Foundations National Research Competition. He plans to enter the Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit, which is in March, in hopes of qualifying to be in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in New Mexico in May.
Thiagos mom, Natalice Olson, initially was leery of the project, even though the only real danger from the fusion machine is the high voltage and small amount of X-rays emitted through a glass window in the vacuum chamber through which Olson videotapes the fusion in action.
But, she wasnt really surprised, because he was always coming up with lofty ideas.Originally, he wanted to build a hyperbolic chamber, she said, adding that she promptly said no. But, when he came asking about the nuclear fusion machine, she relented. I think it was pretty brave that he could think that he was capable to do something so amazing, she said.
Thiagos dad, Mark Olson, helped with some of the construction and electrical work. To get all of the necessary parts, Thiago scoured the Internet, buying items on eBay and using his age to persuade manufacturers to give him discounts. The design of the model came from his own ideas and some suggestions from other science lovers he met online.
Someday, he hopes to work for the federal government just like his grandfather, Clarence Olson, who designed tanks for the Department of Defense after World War II. Thiago, who is modest and humble about his accomplishment, said he knew from an early age what he would do for a living.
I was always interested in science, he said. Its always been my best subject in school.
But, his mom had other ideas. I thought he was going to be a cook, Natalice Olson said, because he liked to mix things. Somehow, I don't think he takes after his Mom.
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Don't worry; the Bushitler/Cheney/Halliburton/Global OilOilOil Consortium will kill it off before it reaches your home and business, so that their world domination can continue.
Besides which, of course, he hasn't developed a way to get energy out of his device. Clever kid, tho.
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But why hope "to work for the federal government" ? ah, yes, expensive fusion research, ready for commercial use in 20 years, as has constantly been the case for 20+ years already.
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But, she wasnt really surprised, because he was always coming up with lofty ideas.Originally, he wanted to build a hyperbolic chamber, she said, adding that she promptly said no. But, when he came asking about the nuclear fusion machine, she relented.
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Sounds rather like he built a neutrino emitting device rather than a true fusion device. 3 things are needed to verify fusion reactions as far as I remember. 1) Emission of x-rays, 2) emission of neutrinos, 3) a positive net energy gain rather than loss in the process of fusion. You can bet he got 1 or 2 of the 3 necessary requirements
Mind you I'd do it anyways for the looks on my science teachers faces when I tell em they're standing close by to a radiation/neutrino emitting source.
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Nice project. Of course fusing deuterium isn't a breakthrough, and I don't think he's fusing enough to actually produce "a small intense ball of energy." That's probably just the plasma glowing, with maybe a tiny amount of fusion inside the ball. Still, it beats any science project I tried in high school.
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I think the worst day was the day the science project was due. Waking up that morning that was fun, huh? Your head would pop off that pillow, Oh, no! Thats due today. I had nine months to work on it; I did nothing. I have a cardboard box of boxes. And youd show up; youre scared because you dont have anything good and you find out all the other kids their parents made theirs for em. I hated that, yanno? Theyre backing them in on flatbed trucks. One kid with a volcano he didnt know how to zip up his own pants but he built a volcano. Howd you swing that?
I didnt know what to do for my project so I brought in a paper cup filled with dirt just hoping that shed know Im an idiot and just walk right on past me just as long as I was holding something.
What do you have there, Brian?
Its a cup of dirt. Just put an F on it there and let me go home.
Well, explain it.
Well, its a cup... with dirt.. in it. I call it Cup of Dirt. You should move on now. Just go ahead and move on. Head on down the line there.
So she went to this one kid; theres a kid in my class who made the same solar system like 19 years in a row. A bunch of Styrofoam balls held together with coat hangars. Hey, youre breaking some new ground there, Copernicus.
Hes going, The big yellow ones the sun. The yellow one is the sun.
OK, alright, what are these other planets?
The big yellow one is the sun.
Alright! Calm down!
Uh (shouts) ALRIGHT!
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I'm not worried about the hyperbolic chamber. I'm worried about some of that deuterium getting out and contaminating all of Oakland Township.
Natalice? Thiago? Who are these people?
"The air is sucked out and into a filter"?? We must be careful that he doesn't put up a website and leak all this to the jihadi.
An Iranian university student talking to his wife at a bus stop was murdered by another student upset over a public conversation between the sexes, the ISNA student news agency reported on Sunday. Towhid Ghafarzadeh Nadi was killed in the northeastern town of Sabzevar, where his death prompted a protest march by students, ISNA said. The murderer questioned the couple over their relationship, which led to a violent scuffle, and the murderer stabbed his victim with a knife, said the Office for the Consolidation of Unity, a reformist student group. The man later told police that he had acted because his religious sensibilities were injured by seeing a young man and a young woman talking in public, the statement added.
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THIS is the kind of society that we want to entrust with nuclear weapons?
#4
And people consider laws against "public displays of affection" to be barbaric.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
11/20/2006 7:24 Comments ||
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"injured religious sensibilities" is the exact phrase Moslems are using all over the West to demand privileged treatment at the expense of our freedom.
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It's a money making scheme. It prolly costs about 20 cents to make one dollar coin, and peeps will collect them, so the mint releases them at about 80 cents profit each. They never get into common usage, so the mint presses on.
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There's truly a persuasive case to be made that the Mint should just not bother with Pierce, Fillmore, and Buchanan (enforcers of the Fugitive Slave Act and enablers of Southern secession), Harding, Johnson, and Nixon. (And the thought of the Jimmy Peanut or Slick Willie commemoratives . . . ICK!) On the other hand, can't wait for the Reagan
Posted by: Mike ||
11/20/2006 17:22 Comments ||
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No, all the dead Presidents should be on the $1 coin. And I would buy the Carter and Clinton coins, just to piss on them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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On the surface, Thiago Olson is like any typical teenager.
