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Tasmanian Devil
Tasmanian Devil
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Tasmanian devils are a species of evil meat-eating squirrels with sharp teeth bent on mayhem and destruction.
It is a widely known fact that Tasmanian devils are the only animals on earth that were created by Satan (not counting politicians).
Satan wanted to spawn a new source of terror upon the world because his usual army of demons were becoming useless due to the invention of marijuana. So he tried to create his new source of terror by tossing some intoxicated demons into a pit of fire. During the process, a squirrel fell into the pit, looking for its nuts. Then lots of squirrels fell into the pit looking for their nuts. An hour later, Satan went to check on his creation, hoping for it to be a big monster. Instead he found several mutated demon squirrels and, for some reason, blamed Tasmania.
Tasmanian devils are known to have jaws that take up their whole head. Their huge jaws contain lots of sharp teeth, which they use to kill creatures who piss them off. Some Tasmanian devils have the strange yet deadly ability to destroy everything in sight by spinning like tornadoes. If you're being chased by a mini-tornado, it means that you're being chased by a tasmanian devil and you're most likely screwed.
Tasmanian devils are known for being stupid and having brains the size of a blueberry. However, they are very short-tempered and get angry very easily. If you see a Tasmanian devil, don't make fun of its stupidity, over-sized teeth, or mutated rat-like appearance. Otherwise it will eat you alive.
Distribution and habitat[edit]
Most Tasmanian Devils live in the wooded areas of Tasmania, with the exception of the rare Canadian Tasmanian Devil which lives in southern Venezuela. Tasmanian devils were introduced to Australia when drunk pirates crashed into Ayers Rock. The satanic marsupials, which were on the ship, escaped into the outback. Like the Drop Bear, the kangaroo, and the fire-breathing platypus, they have become a significant problem to Australians (not that they aren't a problem for other people, which they are).
Small Tasmanian devil populations were recently introduced to Chicago. It is said that they are spinning their way into New Jersey.
Tassie Devil Incident of 2004[edit]
Tasmanian devils are known for being territorial animals that will not tolerate human disturbance. The most severe case would be the Human-Tasmanian Devil Incident of 2004 (better known as the Tassie Devil incident of 2004).
Basically, a bunch of mentally-retarded construction workers built a second New York City in Tasmanian devil habitat. This resulted with the Tasmanian devils killing most of the population and burning the city to the ground. The survivors went off to kill the mentally-retarded construction workers for their mistake.
Tasmanian devils will eat anything they can find, though their main diet consists of meat, pie, forest animals, pizza, cars, dolphins, severed horse butts, garbage, and stuff.
They may even eat you if you come too close. Usually, a Tasmanian devil will come after you, but you may have a chance to get away as long as it doesn't spin like a tornado. If it does, you're screwed. The Tasmanian devil's only known predator is the Tasmanian angel, which is just as vicious but only kills and eats Tasmanaian devils and sinful people. Most Tasmanian devils die from heart attacks as a result of their hyperactiveness and over-eating.
Sometimes, Tasmanian devils will gather together to eat a carcass. Since they don't like sharing and they can't stand seeing each other in the vicinity, they will usually try to scare each other off. Have you ever seen those videos with the Tasmanian devils screeching and making those weird noises at each other? Hilarious but kinda scary and annoying at the same time. It just comes to show them as the little freaks of nature they really are.
Tasmanian devil attacks[edit]
Tasmanian devils attack more people a year than sharks, venomous snakes, drunk drivers, grues, terrorists, and penguins put together. Hardly anyone survives a Tasmanian devil attack, and those that do survive usually lose their body parts. Some guy gave a Tasmanian devil the finger, and commited suicide after his middle finger was eaten off. They would also end up seriously mutilated from the attack, like this one guy who got his right testicle in his left ear upon miraculously surviving a Tasmanian devil attack at the zoo.
Tasmanian devil exorcism[edit]
Like most devils, Tasmanian devils can possess any random person who doesn't believe the existence of Christ. There are three signs to tell whether or not a person is possessed by a Tasmanian devil. The most obvious sign is that the person makes a series of wierd growls and screams. Then the person would go hyper and start spinning around. If the person starts eating other people, your pet, or yourself, it means that you will have to call an exorcist.
However, the exorcist must be from Tasmania, as most American exorcists have no idea what a Tasmanian devil is unless they have watched the Looney Tunes. Since Tasmania is very far, you may have to wait about 2 or 3 days before you hope to be saved (if you can survive that long). Once the exorcist has arrived, expect that he bought an Aussie animal wrangler with him to help remove the animal from the body which it has eaten from the inside. The Tasmanian devil can be removed from the heart area as it the last part that it eats. Once the devil is properly removed, try reading Dr. Frankenstein's instruction manual in order to bring its deceased half-eaten victim back to life.
How to survive a Tasmanian devil attack[edit]
If you run into a Tasmanian devil, you will probably die. 92% of all people who run into Tasmanian devils usually have a 3.2% chance of survivial. Whatever you do, don't try to kill a Tasmanian devil. You will fail horribly and get yourself eaten. Only three known people have the ability to kill Tasmanian devils: Jesus Christ, Chuck Norris, and Weegee. If you read this, however, there may be just a little glimmer of hope of you surviving a Tasmanian devil attack. The best way to protect yourself from Tasmanian devils is bringing at least one if not all of these items:
- A gun: A good choice, until the Tasmanian devil starts spinning; the bullets will then be deflected back at you.
- Live pigs: To keep a hungry Tasmanian devil busy while you escape.
- A bucket of acid: Throw this in your face. It'll hurt so much, you won't even feel yourself being eaten alive.
- Crucifix and holy water: These can easily deter any Tasmanian davils. However, they have to be made in Tasmania, or they'll be useless.
- Kenny McCormick: The same reason you'd bring the live pigs.
- Tasmanian devil repellent: Spray this all over yourself, and its horrible odor will keep Tasmanian devils away. However, it will attract raptors with chainsaws.
If all else fails, just let the Tasmanian devil eat you. Your life sucked anyways.


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What do you get when you add the human propensity to screw stuff up to the building of large-scale IT systems? What the military calls the force-multiplier effect -- and the need for a cadre of top-notch QA engineers.
After all, if left unchecked, one person's slip of the mouse can quickly turn into weeks of lost work, months of missing e-mails, or, in the worst cases, whole companies going bankrupt. And with IT infused in every aspect of business, doesn't it pay to take quality assurance seriously?
[ For more IT-based idiocy, check out "Stupid user tricks 3: IT admin follies" and "Stupid hacker tricks, part two: The folly of youth" ]
Let's face it. Everybody makes mistakes. Users, managers, admins -- no one is immune to the colossally stupid IT miscue now and again. But when a fat-fingered script or a poor security practice goes unnoticed all the way through development and into production, the unsung heroes of IT, the QA engineers, take a very embarrassing center stage.
It may seem cliché, but your IT development chain is only as strong as its weakest link. You better hope that weakest link isn't your QA team, as these five colossal testing oversights attest.
Code "typo" hides high risk of credit derivative
Testing oversight: Bug in financial risk assessment code
Consequence: Institutional investors are led to believe high-risk credit derivatives are highly desirable AAA-rated investments.
Here's the kind of story we're not hearing much about these days despite our present economic turmoil.
According to a report published last May in the Financial Times, Moody's inadvertently overrated about $4 billion worth of debt instruments known as CPDOs (constant proportion debt obligations), due to a bug in its software. The company, which rates a wide variety of government bonds and obligation debts, underplayed the level of risk to investors as a result of the bug, a glitch that may have contributed to substantial investment losses among today's reeling financial institutions.
CPDOs were sold to large institutional investors beginning in 2006, during the height of the financial bubble, with promises of high returns -- nearly 10 times those of prime European mortgage-backed bonds -- at very little risk.
Internal Moody's documents reviewed by reporters from the Financial Times, however, indicated that senior staff at Moody's were aware in February 2007 that a glitch in some computer models rated CPDOs as much as 3.5 levels higher in the Moody's metric than they should have been. As a result, Moody's advertised CPDOs as significantly less risky than they actually were until the ratings were corrected in early 2008.
Institutional investors typically rely on ratings from at least two companies before they put significant money into a new financial product. Standard & Poor's had previously rated CPDOs with its highest AAA rating, and stood by its evaluation.
Moody's AAA rating provided the critical second rating that spurred investors to begin purchasing CPDOs. But other bond-ratings firms didn't rate CPDO transactions as highly; John Schiavetta, head of global structured credit at Derivative Fitch in New York, was quoted in the Financial Times in April 2007, saying, "We think the first generation of CPDO transactions are overrated."
Among the U.S.-based financial institutions that put together CPDO portfolios, trying to cash in on what, in late 2006, seemed to be a gold rush in investments, were Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and J.P. Morgan.
When first reported this past May, the Financial Times story described the bug in Moody's rating system as "nothing more than a mathematical typo -- a small glitch in a line of computer code." But this glitch may have contributed in some measure to the disastrous financial situation all around us.
It's kind of hard to come up with a snarky one-liner for a foul-up like that.
Testing tip: When testing something as critical as this, run commonsense trials: Throw variations of data at the formula, and make sure you get the expected result each time. You also have to audit your code periodically with an outside firm, to ensure that a vested insider hasn't "accidentally" inserted a mathematical error that nets the insider millions. There's no indication that such an inside job happened in this case, but such a scenario isn't so far-fetched that it's beyond the realm of possibility.
Sorry, Mr. Smith, you have cancer. Oh, you're not Mr. Smith?
Testing oversight: Mismatched contact information in insurer's customer database
Consequence: Blue Cross/Blue Shield sends 202,000 printed letters containing patient information and Social Security numbers to the wrong patients.
Of course, it sounded like a good idea at the time: Georgia's largest health insurance company, with 3.1 million members, designed a system that would send patients information about how each visit was covered by their insurance.
The EOB (explanation of benefits) letters would provide sensitive patient information, including payment and coverage details, as well as the name of the doctor or medical facility visited and the patient's insurance ID number.
Most insurance companies send out EOBs after people receive medical treatment or visit a doctor, but the Georgia Blue Cross/Blue Shield system so muddled up its medical data management functionality that its members were sent other members' sensitive patient information.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, registered nurse Rhonda Bloschock, who is covered by Blue Cross/Blue Shield, received an envelope containing EOB letters for nine different people. Georgia State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine described the gaffe to WALB news as "the worst breach of healthcare privacy I've seen in my 14 years in office."
As for the roughly 6 percent of Georgia Blue Cross/Blue Shield customers who were affected, I'm sure they will be heartened by the statement provided by spokeswoman Cindy Sanders, who described the event as an isolated incident that "will not impact future EOB mailings."
It's a mantra Georgia Blue Cross/Blue Shield customers can keep repeating to themselves for years as they constantly check their credit reports for signs of identity theft.
Testing tip: Merging databases is always tricky business, so it's important to run a number of tests using a large sample set to ensure fields don't get muddled together. The data set you use for testing should be large enough to stress the system as a normal database would, and the test data should be formatted in such a way to make it painfully obvious if anything is out of place. Never use the production database as your test set.
Where free shipping really, really isn't free
Testing oversight: Widespread glitches in Web site upgrade
Consequence: Clothier J. Crew suffers huge financial losses and widespread customer dissatisfaction in wake of "upgrade" that blocks and fouls up customer orders for a month.
On June 28, 2008, engineers took down the Web site for clothes retailer J. Crew for 24 hours to perform an upgrade. In terms of the results of this effort, one might argue that the site did not in fact come back online for several weeks, even though it was still serving pages.
The company's 10-Q filing summarized the problems: "During the second quarter of fiscal 2008 we implemented certain direct channel systems upgrades which impacted our ability to capture, process, ship and service customer orders." That's because the upgrade essentially prevented site visitors from doing anything other than look at photos of fashionable clothes.
Among the problems reported by customers was this whopper: A man who ordered some polo shirts received, instead, three child-size shirts and a bill for $44.97 for the shirts, plus $9,208.50 for shipping. And before you ask, no, they weren't hand-delivered by a princess in an enchanted coach.
As a result, the company temporarily shut down e-mail marketing campaigns designed to drive business to the Web site. It also had to offer discounts, refunds, and other concessions to customers who couldn't correct orders conducted online or who received partial or wrong orders.
But the biggest story is how the Web site upgrade affected the company's bottom line. In a conference call with investors in August, CFO James Scully said, "The direct system upgrades did impact our second-quarter results more than we had anticipated and will also impact our third-quarter and fiscal-year results," according to a transcript of the call.
Testing tip: When your company's bottom line depends on the availability of your Web site, there's no excuse for not running a thorough internal trial to probe the functionality of the entire site before you throw that update live to the world. Bring everyone on the Web team into the office, buy a bunch of pizzas, and tell them to click absolutely everything. And keep full backups of your old site's front and back end, just in case you do somehow push a broken site update live and need to revert to save your company from unmitigated disaster.
Department of Corrections database inadvertently steps into the "user-generated" generation
Testing oversight: Trusted anonymous access to government database
Consequence: Database queries in URLs permit anyone with passing knowledge of SQL to pull down full personal information of anyone affiliated with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, including prisoners, guards, and officers.
Anyone who's ever been an employee of the Oklahoma prison system or an unwilling guest of the state now has an additional issue to worry about: identity theft. Thanks to a poorly programmed Web page designed to provide access to the Sexual and Violent Offender Registry, Web visitors were able to gain complete access to the entire Department of Corrections database.
Among the data stored in the database were names, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical histories, and e-mail addresses. But the problem was far worse that that: Anyone who knew how to craft SQL queries could have actually added information to the database.
Got an annoying neighbor who mows his lawn too early on a Sunday? How about a roommate who plays his music too loud, late into the night? Annoying ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend? Why not add them to the Sexual and Violent Offender Registry and watch them get rejected from jobs and be dragged off to the pokey after a routine traffic stop?
To add insult to injury, when Alex Papadimoulis, editor of dailywtf.com, alerted Oklahoma corrections officials about the security problem, they fixed it immediately -- by making the SQL query case-sensitive.
So instead of adding "social_security_number" to the query string that retrieves that bit of information, it only worked if you used "Social_security_number." Genius, huh? Nobody would ever have thought of that.
The database-on-a-Web-site issue is only a slice of the problems Oklahoma's Department of Corrections faces when it comes to IT. An audit of the department published at the end of 2007 explains that the OMS (Offender Management System) is on the brink of collapse.
"The current software is so out of date that it cannot reside on newer computer equipment and is maintained on an antiquated hardware platform that is becoming increasingly difficult to repair. A recent malfunction of this server took OMS down for over a full day while replacement parts were located. If this hardware ultimately fails, the agency will lose its most vital technology resource in the day-to-day management of the offender population."
Testing tip: When you're building an interface to a database that contains the sensitive data of hundreds or thousands of people, there's no excuse for taking the least-expensive-coder route. Coding security into a Web application takes a programmer with practical experience. In this case, that didn't happen. The money you spend on a secure site architecture at the beginning may save you from major embarrassment later, after some kid breaks your security model in five minutes. Remember, "security through obscurity" provides no security at all.
Busted big-time -- by the bank
Testing oversight: Contact fields transposed during financial database migration
Consequence: Financial services firm sends detailed "secret" savings and charge card records made for mistresses to customers' wives.
It's hard to get away with an affair when the bank won't play along. That's what some high-roller clients of an unnamed financial services firm learned when the firm sent statements containing full details of account holders' assets to their home addresses.
Although that might not sound like a recipe for disaster, this particular firm -- which requires a $10 million minimum deposit to open an account -- is in the business of providing, shall we say, a financial masquerade for those who wish to sock away cash they don't want certain members of their marriage to know about.
Customers who desire this kind of service typically had one (somewhat abridged) statement mailed home, and another, more detailed (read: incriminating) statement mailed to another address.
When the firm instituted a major upgrade to its customer-facing portal, however, a database migration error slipped through the cracks. The customer's home address was used for the full, unabridged account statements. The nature and character of the discussions between account holder and spouse regarding charges for hotel rooms, expensive jewelry, flowers, and dinners are left as an exercise for the imagination.


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If what Ask.fm executives reportedly said about the hate messages on Hannah Smith's page is true – and it's very likely to be – those messages were even more symptomatic (and less causative) of her troubles than originally thought (see my earlier post).
The social media site is reported to have told investigators that "98%" of the hate messages she received came from her own IP address, meaning her own computer, The Times of London reported. In other words, if true, this was another example of digital self-harm.
'Digital self-harm'
Danah Boyd, a social media researcher, first wrote about digital self-harm in 2010. Her blog post on the subject highlights how crucial it is to respond calmly not reflexively, and really listen to our kids, when harassment happens in social media.
The listening is vital for two reasons: getting to the bottom of what really happened (in the offline context and social circle as well as online) and helping the targeted child heal.
More on that in a moment, but first a little background: Ask.fm isn't the first social media company to report this.
Formspring.me – now rebranded Spring.me but still an older, US-based version of Ask.fm with its anonymity and Q&A format – contacted Ms. Boyd back then because of its abuse-reporting team's discovery that kids were posting abusive messages to themselves in that site. In a 2010 post, Boyd relates her own learning process in working through the evidence of this emotional self-harm with Formspring.
Takeaways for parents
As I wrote in 2010, I was struck by how helpful Boyd's takeaways could be to parents of children who are being hurt online, whether by themselves or others, and I wish all parents of social media users worldwide could "hear" this:
"Supporting your daughter or son is not simply about finding the bully and prosecuting them or about going after their parents. Teens who are the victims of bullying – whether by a stranger, a peer, or themselves – are often in need of support, love, validation, and, most of all, healthy attention. I can't tell you how many teens I've met who've been bullied by people at school who then turn to tell me about how their parents are absent – physically, mentally, or emotionally. And how often I hear teens complain about their parents trying to 'fix' things by getting involved in all the wrong ways. Ways that make the dynamics around bullying so much worse."
Why seizing control doesn't usually help
This is a big reason researchers give for children's underreporting of online harassment (only about 25 percent do): that the reaction of the adults they report to could make the harassment or social marginalization of the target worse.
By summarily taking control of the situation without listening to and involving the targeted child, adults are doing the exact opposite of what that child needs – to regain his or her dignity or self-respect and get back some sense of the control that's been lost in a situation that may've been unfolding for some time (and we all know the danger of acting on assumptions).
"As a parent," said author, educator, and parent Rosalind Wiseman, "what I want you to say to your child is [something like], 'I'm so sorry this happened to you; thank you so much for coming and telling me' … because your kid is taking a risk to tell you about this. Most of the time they think that going to an adult will make it worse. Then you say, 'and together we're going to work on this, we are going to think through how we can do this so you can feel that you've got some control over a situation where your control has been taken away from you."
Wiseman said that in a 2010 podcast by her fellow author, educator, and parent Annie Fox (see this).
That self-harm in Web sites might be about loss of control too is borne out in an interesting comment by user "quinn" below Boyd's post, someone who sounds like he knows what he's writing about: "It might have something to do with self-criticism as defense measure: [as in] 'if I've already said everything horrible that can be said, no one can use those things to hurt me' – a teenage version of 'you can't fire me, I quit'."
Listening can lead to healing
Young people themselves say being listened to helps.
A milestone survey by the "Youth Voice Project" in 2010 found that students who've been targeted by bullying feel what helps most is to be heard and acknowledged, by peers or adults.
The three responses "likely to lead to things getting better for the [targeted] student than to things getting worse" were "listened to me," "gave me advice," and "checked in with me afterwards to see if the behavior stopped." Coming in at a notably distant 4th, interestingly, was "kept up increased adult supervision for some time."
From peers, the top three were "Spent time with me," "Talked to me," and "Helped me get away."
The study's authors, Charisse Nixon and Stan Davis, wrote that "positive peer actions were strikingly more likely to be rated more helpful than were positive self actions or positive adult actions."
When our children are suffering, we naturally want to stop the hurt as fast as possible, and so we want to reject complexity and find quick fixes or formulaic solutions. The thing is, though, there is no formula – every digital harassment case is as individual as the people involved – and to slow down and listen, rather than act reflexively, may actually be the fix, or a big part of it. If not, it's what children are asking for, and at the very least it demonstrates our respect for them and helps them process what happened, learn from it, and regain the sense of dignity they lost.
Maybe that's why they want to be heard.
The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best family and parenting bloggers out there. Our contributing and guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor, and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. Anne Collier blogs at Net Family News.


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So bedazzled by little precious bejeweled works of art fashioned to lure the hearts and minds of women everywhere. Little symbols of love throughout the ages. Coveted. Desired. Hoarded. It is funny when you realize that Ke Akua created the most spectacular jewelry box the world has ever known. More battles have been fought for it. More Kingdoms won and lost for it. More incredible acts of courage, bravery and sacrifice as well. It is the enraptured human heart. And it holds precious little jewels of love which don't just reflect sparkly light. They capture it. For an eternity. A diamond lasts forever? I don't think so...
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By Bill Webb
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One of the measures on the Aug. 3 ballot in Missouri appears to be running neck-and-neck between supporters and opponents — the proposal to bring a casino to the southeast Missouri town of Rockaway Beach.
A massive television ad blitz — funded in part by Southwest Casino and New Prime Inc., working jointly for the project — paints the plan as inspired by the hard-luck community as a way for residents to help themselves. The picture is one of the hard-working members of a hard-luck town pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps to restore their community and do their part to improve public education in Missouri.
The former thriving tourist attraction took a hit when the government built Table Rock Dam on the White River, effectively making the waters of Lake Taneycomo too cold for tourists. One of the Ozark's best tourist destinations in the 1950s and '60s pretty much dried up.
The TV ads are slick and compelling. The future of Rockaway Beach is in the hands of "our Missouri neighbors" when they enter the voting booths on Aug. 3. The implication: If Missourians care about the people in this little town who have been victimized by a government project, they have it in their power to institute a quick fix. Everyone knows that gaming attracts large crowds and big money and that casinos, in turn, generate large tax revenues for the public good. At least that's the line.
A sweet little, white-haired grandmother-type smiles into the camera and pleas for viewers to help her and the other good people of the tiny town. (Using a little imagination, it's not hard to see her sitting behind a casino window wearing a visor, dispensing gambling chips left and right.)
Supporters are mixing metaphors, painting gaming — the cleaned-up name for gambling — as being as wholesome as the folks from Rockaway Beach who appear on camera. The town claims to have done its research, and the research suggests Rockaway Beach should have its own piece of the pie, trusting outsiders to bring in gaming and other outsiders to leave money in gambling losses, meals and lodging.
But the folks of Rockaway Beach have been sold a bill of goods. What they will unleash — perhaps unwittingly — is a blight on a part of our state that has stood firm for family values and economic planning that has supported those values.
Branson, a mere 12 miles away, dealt positively with some of the same changes that decimated Rockaway Beach. The community adapted creatively and aggressively, and consistently draws tourists not swayed by the hope of winning money but willing to spend recreational funds on family-friendly fare. Rockaway Beach would do well to emulate this example in its own backyard.
Missouri needs another casino like it needs a hole in the head. The approval of a casino on election day will not only affect the little town of Rockaway Beach, it will affect the value of enterprises in the area of which Missourians can still be proud. The good people of the town would soon find that once they let the camel into the tent, they no longer would be in control of their own destiny.
The town planners of Rockaway Beach should be dealt a defeat at the polls and urged to go back to the drawing board for a better plan. They can surely find one without the downsides that are a part of gambling industry enterprises. The voters of the state will be doing them, their children and their grandchildren a great favor.


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Handwritten copy of Petrie Journals 1897-1901
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Handwritten copies, created by Kate Bradbury (m. Griffith), excerpts of Petrie's journals from November 1897 to February January 1901, notes associated with the journal and copy of the N. de Garis Davies journal for 1898 to 1899. Presumably created by Bradbury when the Petrie journals were circulated to friends and sponsors.
Pages 1-21 - 1897-8 - Excavations at Dendera of the mastaba tombs and cemetery, also a description of a trip into the desert around Dendera, Petrie assisted by A. C. Mace and N. de Garis Davies.
Pages 23-39 - 1898 to 1899 - Excavations at Hu (Diospolis Parva), Petrie assisted by A. C. Mace, and D. Randall-MacIver.
Pages 40-51 - 1899 to 1900 - Excavations at Abydos, Umm El Qa'ab.
Pages 52-58 - 1900 to 1901 - Excavations at Abydos, Umm El Qa'ab.
Pages 59-62 - 1901 to 1902 - Excavations at Abydos, temple and cemeteries.
Pages 63-73 - loose items associated with the notebook, some related to Petrie's journals.
Pages 74-76 - Excerpts from Norman de Garis Davies journal - 1898-1899 - Excavating the tomb of Ptah-hotep at Saqqara, includes a brief letter and note in Davies' hand.
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Aleppo – where media ethics curled up and croaked
AS SYRIAN loyalists danced in the streets of newly-liberated Aleppo, western propaganda unleashed a chorus of anger from every shiny weapon in its high-tech arsenal. The big guns – Al Jazeera, the BBC, CNN, Fox News, even Australia's ABC – … Continue reading
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Propaganda and the ABC of war
By road, it is 626km from Mosul, Iraq, to Aleppo in Syria – the same distance, give or take a quick detour to pick up a kebab, as Sydney to Grafton in northern New South Wales. Makes you wonder why … Continue reading
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Tesla Model S Is the Motor Trend Car of the Year
The Tesla Model S has been named Motor Trend magazine's 2013 Car of the Year, one of the most prestigious honors in the automotive industry. The Model S won by way of unanimous vote, after 11 discriminating judges test drove 25 other vehicles to compare those all-important technical aspects of four-wheeled travel like acceleration, brakes and suspension tuning.
The Tesla Model S, the first non-gasoline-powered vehicle to win the award, opened a can of whip-asphalt on both luxury and family cars, including the Ford C-Max Hybrid, Ford Fusion, Honda Accord, BMW 3 Series, Lexus GS, Porche 911, Porche Boxster and Subaru BRZ, according to Motor Trend.
Edward Loh, editor in chief of the magazine, says the Tesla Model S was "truly a game changer," and also the fastest American sedan tested this year.
Tesla Motors will reportedly manufacture 20,000 of the Model S in 2013.


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FORMULA ONE 04 continues to refine the Grand Prix experience. It's the only FORMULA ONE game and still totally exclusive to PlayStation 2. With circuits including the new Bahrain and China tracks, the latest cars, up-to-date driver rosters and a host of new gameplay modes and features, including a Career mode and historic cars.
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|Antonin Dolohov
|Biographical information
|Blood status
Pure-blood or Half-blood (possibly)
|Physical information
|Hair colour
Dark [1]
|Eye colour
|Skin colour
Pale [HP5]
Slytherin (possibly)
- "There was Antonin Dolohov. I - I saw him torture countless Muggles and - and non-supporters of the Dark Lord."
- —Council of Magical Law interrogation of Igor Karkaroff.[src]
Antonin Dolohov was a wizard and one of the original Death Eaters of Lord Voldemort. He fought in the First Wizarding War, during which he tortured many Muggles, and wizards and witches who were not supporters of Voldemort. Along with four other Death Eaters, he participated in the murders of Fabian and Gideon Prewett. Dolohov was caught and convicted of these crimes, and sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban.
He escaped after Voldemort's return and the start of the Second Wizarding War, in the mass break-out of 1996, and participated in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, where he was re-captured and incarcerated. By the summer of 1997, Dolohov was at large again. He and Thorfinn Rowle attacked Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley at Tottenham Court Road, but they were defeated and his memory was wiped. In 1998, Dolohov fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, during which he killed Remus Lupin. At the climax of the battle, he engaged Filius Flitwick in a duel, and was defeated.
- 1 Biography
- 2 Physical description
- 3 Personality and traits
- 4 Magical abilities and skills
- 5 Etymology
- 6 Behind the scenes
- 7 Appearances
- 8 Notes and references
Biography[edit | edit source]
First Wizarding War[edit | edit source]
- "Then if I were to go to the Hog's head tonight, I would not find a group of them - Nott, Rosier, Mulciber, Dolohov - awaiting your return? Devoted friends indeed, to travel this far with you on a snowy night, merely to wish you luck as you attempt to secure a teaching post."
- —Albus Dumbledore to Tom Riddle.[src]
Antonin Dolohov was one of the early followers of Tom Riddle and served him even before his master began open hostilities against the rest of the wizarding world. He was among the Death Eaters who travelled to Hogsmeade, along with Nott, Rosier, and Mulciber, when Voldemort attempted to take the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts, ostensibly to "wish him luck."
According to Igor Karkaroff, Dolohov tortured many Muggles and non-supporters of Lord Voldemort during the First Wizarding War.[3] With the help of four other Death Eaters, he murdered Fabian and Gideon Prewett, the brothers of Molly Weasley née Prewett.[4] He was not the only participant in the act, though, since Mad-Eye Moody informed Harry Potter years later that it took five Death Eaters to kill the two wizards,[5] whose murders were described as "brutal."[4]
After the fall of Voldemort in 1981, Dolohov was captured and sent to Azkaban prison for his crimes. His was the first name Death Eater Igor Karkaroff turned over to the Council of Magical Law in an attempt to get himself freed from Azkaban, only to be informed that Dolohov had been captured around the same time as him.[3]
Second Wizarding War[edit | edit source]
Early in 1996, Dolohov, along with the Lestranges and several other Death Eater convicts, escaped Azkaban and rejoined Voldemort.[4] It was speculated in the Daily Prophet that the escape was aided by Sirius Black, but that was refuted in the aftermath of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.
Battle of the Department of Mysteries[edit | edit source]
- "...the Death Eater had ripped off his mask and was pointing his wand directly at Harry, who recognised the long, pale, twisted face from the Daily Prophet: Antonin Dolohov, the wizard who had murdered the Prewetts. Dolohov grinned. With his free hand, he pointed from the prophecy still clutched in Harry's hand, to himself, then at Hermione. Though he could no longer speak, his meaning could not have been clearer. Give me the prophecy, or you get the same as her..."
- —Description of Dolohov's confrontation with Harry Potter in the Department of Mysteries.[src]
On 17 June, 1996, Lord Voldemort lured Harry Potter to the Ministry of Magic precipitating the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. During the battle, Dolohov was paired with Jugson as the Death Eaters searched for the five students who had come to the Ministry with Harry Potter. They tracked Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom to a room off the Time Chamber, hitting the three of them with Impediment Jinxes. When Dolohov began to alert the other Death Eaters as to their location, Hermione silenced him to prevent it. He retaliated with an unnamed curse which, despite being weaker than normal, because it was cast non-verbally, severely injured Hermione. With a kick, Dolohov broke Neville's wand and nose and then cornered Harry, wordlessly threatening him. However, he was momentarily distracted, giving Harry the chance to Body-Bind him.
Before several Order of the Phoenix members arrived, Dolohov recovered, and he was able to defeat Alastor Moody in a duel. He then attacked Harry with the same spell he used on Hermione, but most of the harm was blocked by Harry's Shield Charm. He tried to use it again when duelling with Sirius Black, but was incapacitated by Harry before he could follow through.[6]
Presumably, Dolohov was captured in the aftermath of the battle by Aurors and returned to Azkaban.
Death Eater plans[edit | edit source]
By the summer of 1997, Dolohov was again at large following another Azkaban break-out. He attended the Death Eater meeting at Malfoy Manor that summer and was seated by Yaxley; he was impressed when Yaxley announced that he had placed Pius Thicknesse, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, under the Imperius Curse. He, along with other Death Eaters, laughed when Voldemort insulted Bellatrix Lestrange and the Malfoy family.[7]
Luchino Caffe Duel[edit | edit source]
Shortly after the Death Eaters took over the Ministry of Magic and placed the Taboo curse on Voldemort's name, Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle tracked Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley to a café on Tottenham Court Road. During the skirmish that ensued, Dolohov bound Ron with conjured ropes and slammed an invisible Harry into a wall with Expulso, but just before Harry dropped his wand, Hermione hit Dolohov with a Full Body-Bind Curse. Dolohov and Rowle's memories were then modified by Hermione shortly after. This spell did not work very well, but seemed to, as the three friends found out later. It is implied that they were punished by Voldemort for this by being subjected to the Cruciatus Curse.[8] Dolohov may have been among the Death Eaters assigned to keep an eye out for 12 Grimmauld Place, former headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix and temporary hide-out for Harry, Ron and Hermione, as one of the Death Eaters mentioned watching the gap between houses 11 and 13 on the first of September was "the man with the twisted face".[9] The Death Eaters were able to find out Harry, Ron and Hermione's location because Lord Voldemort's name was Tabooed. This means that anyone who said his name would be traceable, the assumption being that anyone who dared to say the Dark Lord's name was part of the Order of the Phoenix.
Battle of Hogwarts[edit | edit source]
- Yaxley: "Definitely heard something. Animal, d'you reckon?"
- Dolohov: "That head case Hagrid kept a whole bunch of stuff in here… Time's nearly up. Potter's had his hour. He's not coming."
- — Dolohov and Yaxley in the Forbidden Forest[src]
During the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May, 1998, Dolohov was seen fighting against Dean Thomas and Parvati Patil; Parvati shot a Full Body-Bind Curse at him in defence of Dean.[10] Dolohov also killed Remus Lupin in a duel.[11] The nature of Remus's death was not revealed, but his body was peaceful-looking,[12] suggesting that Dolohov used the Killing Curse or his own curse, as neither leaves visible marks. After Voldemort called a retreat and gave Harry Potter one hour to turn himself over, Dolohov and Yaxley stood guard in the Forbidden Forest. Harry followed them to the Death Eater camp to confront Voldemort.[13]
When the battle later resumed, Dolohov was defeated by Filius Flitwick, a former duelling champion. His fate beyond this is unknown though judging by the fact he fell with a scream it can be presumed that he was not killed but incapacipated.
Physical description[edit | edit source]
Dolohov is described as having a "long, pale, twisted face" and as "burly," although not as large as the "huge" Thorfinn Rowle.[8] He has also dark hair.[1]
Personality and traits[edit | edit source]
Dolohov was loyal to Lord Voldemort and was a merciless Death Eater who was willing to commit murder, torture and other atrocities without hesitation or regret. He showed no remorse about wounding sixteen-year-old Hermione Granger; in fact he was grinning about it as he tried to persuade Harry Potter to hand over the prophecy they were fighting over. Dolohov was very smug and when he defeated Alastor Moody in a duel he was very pleased with himself. Dolohov also displayed a cocky and highly self-confident attitude and had developed a habit of engaging more than one opponent at a time or challenging very powerful wizards such as the Prewett brothers, Moody, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Filius Flitwick and it was not mentioned that he tried to escape when Albus Dumbledore joined the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.
Dolohov was on friendly terms with his fellow Death Eaters, as he seemed to consider Yaxley and Thorfinn Rowle as close friends. When Voldemort spoke of how Charity Burbage supports Muggle rights and would permit breeding with them, Dolohov smiled in a confused fashion as if he literally thought that the idea of doing such a thing was insane, showing that he, like other Death Eaters, hated Muggles, Muggle-borns and most likely people who were half-bloods and blood traitors.
Magical abilities and skills[edit | edit source]
Dolohov was a highly dangerous and powerful Death Eater who seems to have focused his magic largely on harming others by means of the Dark Arts.
- Duelling: Antonin Dolohov was an extremely skilled duellist and was one of the most dangerous and skilled Death Eaters. He participated in the murders of Gideon and Fabian Prewett, two powerful and skilled wizards, during the First Wizarding War.[4] During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, he duelled Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom single-handedly, despite a Silencing Charm forcing him to use all nonverbal magic to do so. He incapacitated Hermione and broke Neville's nose and Harry only managed to defeat him because another Death Eater with the head of a baby (because of the bell jar) distracted him. Shortly afterwards, he defeated and injured Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, widely considered to be one of the best Aurors in recent times (but by then retired), in a duel. When he and fellow Death Eater Thorfinn Rowle ambushed Harry, Ron and Hermione in 1997, Dolohov lasted longer than his partner, defeating Harry and Ron in the process and was only defeated by Hermione Granger due to a sneak attack.[6] In the Battle of Hogwarts, Dolohov duelled and killed Remus Lupin,[11] a powerful wizard who was an expert in Defence Against the Dark Arts and capable of wandless magic. Dolohov was eventually defeated by former duelling champion Filius Flitwick.[14]
- Unforgivable Curses: Dolohov attempted to cast the Killing Curse on Hermione before he was stopped by Harry. It is said that this curse requires lots of power to cast properly. Since he was arrested for torturing Muggles and other enemies it can be assumed that he was skilled with the Cruciatus Curse.
- Conjuration: Dolohov was able to conjure ropes from his wand.
- Nonverbal magic: Dolohov was highly skilled at nonverbal magic as shown during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries when he was hit with a Silencing Charm from Hermione Granger. Despite being unable to speak, he fought Hermione, Harry, and Neville all at once, incapacitating Hermione with his signature spell. He was also able to cast the Incarcerous spell non-verbally.
- Dark Arts: Dolohov's signature spell involved using a slashing movement with his wand which would shoot purple fire at his victim. He used this spell several times during the battle of the Department of Mysteries. Dolohov was the only known practitioner of this unidentified spell and may have even invented it himself.
Etymology[edit | edit source]
- Dolohov is a surname of Russian origin. It is the name of a minor character in War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy. This Dolohov is brave, but cruel and vindictive, though he is caring toward his mother and sisters.
- Antonin is the French or Czech version of the name "Anthony". The name is derived from the Latin Antonius and Antoninus. Antonius was the name of a prominent Roman family whose members included soldier and politician Marcus Antonius, more commonly known as Mark Antony. Antoninus was the name of another prominent Roman family whose members included Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
- In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it is mentioned that "Dolohov" was among Tom Marvolo Riddle's followers when he asked Albus Dumbledore for the Defence Against the Dark Arts position sometime between his graduation from Hogwarts in 1945 and 1970. He had to be at least done with wizarding school to join Voldemort.[15] Since this individual's given name is not stated, it is not known whether he is Antonin Dolohov or a relative.
- Arben Bajraktaraj portrayed Antonin Dolohov in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (although he is listed in the credits as "Azkaban Death Eater") and reprises the role in both instalments of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.[16]
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Ron Weasley expresses a desire to kill Dolohov, most likely due to Dolohov's hand in the deaths of his uncles. Hermione uses the memory charm on him instead, but not before showing great hesitation before doing so.
- Dolohov tends to be subject to the Full Body-Bind Curse, being hit by it twice during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, once during the Luchino Caffe Duel and once during the Battle of Hogwarts.
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Credited as "Azkaban Death Eater")
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned in flashback)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter for Kinect
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 In Chapter 9 of Deathly Hallows, Dolohov is referred to as "the darker Death Eater", in comparison to blond Death Eater Thorfinn Rowle. As his complexion is described as "pale," this must have been referring to his hair.
- ↑ Bloomsbury Webchat with J.K. Rowling, 30 July 2007; "Samantha: Was snape the only death eater who could produce a full patronus J.K. Rowling: Yes, because a Patronus is used against things that the Death Eaters generally generate, or fight alongside. They would not need Patronuses."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ch. 30
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 25
- ↑ Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 9
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 35
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ch. 1
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Deathly Hallows, Ch. 9
- ↑ Deathly Hallows, Ch. 12
- ↑ Deathly Hallows, Ch. 32
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Bloomsbury Webchat with J.K. Rowling, 30 July 2007
- ↑ Deathly Hallows, Ch. 33
- ↑ Deathly Hallows, Ch. 34
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ch. 20
- ↑ See Forum:Incorrectly identified Death Eaters
Lord Voldemort
|Death Eaters:
Alecto Carrow | Amycus Carrow | Antonin Dolohov | Augustus Rookwood | Avery (I) | Avery (II) |
Barty Crouch Jr. | Bellatrix Lestrange | Crabbe | Evan Rosier | Gibbon | Goyle |
Jugson | Lestrange | Mulciber (I) | Mulciber (II) | Nott | Rabastan Lestrange | Rodolphus Lestrange | Rosier | Selwyn | Thorfinn Rowle | Travers | Walden Macnair | Wilkes | Yaxley
|Death Eaters who Defected:
Draco Malfoy | Igor Karkaroff | Lucius Malfoy | Peter Pettigrew | Regulus Black | Severus Snape
|Category:Death Eater allies:
Vincent Crabbe | Golgomath | Gregory Goyle | Fenrir Greyback | Narcissa Malfoy (defected) |
Quirinus Quirrell | Scabior | Dolores Umbridge
|Other affiliations:
Dementors | Giants (Golgomath's control) | Muggle-Born Registration Commission | Snatchers | Werewolves


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Wireless Water Meters…..a threat? November 14, 2013Posted by healthyself in Electromagnetic pollution, Electromagnetic Radiation, EMF Exposure, EMF's.
Tags: electromagnetic frequencies, emf's, wireless, wireless meters
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Are wireless meters a threat? Stillwater resident concerns prompt Nov. 14 review of water meter options
November 13, 2013 at 3:11 pm
Staring at the yellow sheet of paper in his hand, Jim Cashman could hardly believe what he saw.
"The water service to this property will be shut off for failure to provide access to the water meter," the paper read.
The notice came after the Stillwater resident and his wife objected to the mandatory installation of a wireless water meter in their home. If they didn't comply, they had been warned, the water to their home would be turned off.
But Cashman didn't want a wireless water meter.
"That didn't sit well with us for a variety of reasons, the foremost being health and privacy issues," Jim Cashman said. "And to have these crammed down our throats is wrong."
The Cashmans aren't the only ones being required to make the switch. The Stillwater Board of Water Commissioners has mandated that all water meters in its jurisdiction be replaced with a wireless model, which crews can read simply by driving past properties. The $1.4 million project is being funded by bonds (at record-low costs) with no additional charge to customers. About 90 percent of the meters in Stillwater have already been replaced, with the remainder of installations planned to be
completed this month.
The city's water board, which consists of three commissioners appointed by the city council, says it's simply trying to be a good steward of financial resources.
"These meters we're replacing are old," Commissioner Steve Speedling said. "They're not catching some of the flow."
That means some customers pay less than they owe. By updating the system, Speedling said, the city can charge customers more fairly and receive full payment for water used. The new meters will also comply with updated federal standards for lead content, which go into effect in January 2014.
In addition, Water Department Manager of Operations Robert Benson said the department will save an estimated 72 work days per year with the wireless meters. Instead of eating up approximately 20 days (160 man-hours) per quarter reading meters, the wireless system will allow an employee to spend about two days per quarter taking readings. For a staff of six people, that's significant.
Cashman said he understands the perceived advantages, but it bothered him that he didn't have a choice in the matter. He attended two water board meetings and asked for more time to study the meters without fear of his water being shut off. Although it threatened to turn off the water, the water board has not done so, instead granting him two extensions.
When Cashman began researching, what he found appalled him.
"There are a lot of issues regarding these wireless water meters," he said. "And they are not as safe as some people portray them to be. … Dozens of cities around the country … have given their people opt-out provisions."
Health and privacy concerns
In recent years, wireless "smart" meters for water or electricity have been the subject of controversy across the country and around the world.
Concern has centered around privacy concerns over what type of information smart meters transfer, as well as worries that the meters could cause health problems because they emit low-frequency radiation. The meters work by emitting a digital pulse several times a minute that can be detected by a digital reader in a water department vehicle as it drives by.
St. Paul Regional Water Service began a replacement project similar to Stillwater's in 2010 and finished earlier this year. In response to citizen concerns, the water service approved a provision allowing residents to select an alternate meter. A $12 charge applied to customers who chose a non-radio device that requires someone to physically read the meter.
Leo Cashman, of St. Paul, (no relation to Jim Cashman) helped lead the charge against mandatory smart meters in St. Paul and is joining the debate in Stillwater. He's the founder of Safe Technology Minnesota, a nonprofit dedicated to educating the public "about the health and environmental dangers of EMF (Electromagnetic Field) pollution." He has a bachelor's degree in physics and feels passionately about the subject of excessive radiation. He even avoids cordless phones and microwaves.
But he starts explaining his concerns with a caveat:
"Nobody is against electromagnetic radiation," he said. "Your eyes are open, and you're seeing light. That's electromagnetic radiation. … It's kind of like sound. That's another form of energy that travels around. … Nobody's against that either, although you don't want to have a loud sound that blows your eardrums out."
With cell phones, microwaves, smart meters and more, Leo Cashman says people are exposed to too much radiation today. He claims there's a growing body of scientific evidence that suggests the levels of radiation to which humans are exposed have harmful effects.
Like many who share his position, one study Leo Cashman cites is a "BioInitiative 2012" report with contributions from scientists around the world, including scientists from Harvard Medical School, Columbia University, the University of Athens and Lund University Hospital in Sweden.
The BioInitiative study calls for stricter government limits and more study of potential health effects of low-frequency radiation. It concludes that "the business-as-usual deployment of new wireless technologies is likely to be risky and harder to change if society does not make some educated decisions about limits soon."
Leo Cashman said many other studies have also suggested health risks. He said the FCC's regulations are inadequate to protect against the risks.
"It's not nearly as protective as what you have in many European countries or elsewhere on earth," he said.
He says the FDA, which he believes has a responsibility to regulate radiation, has been "negligent in setting any standards."
Leo Cashman alleges that much public policy is influenced by industry-funded studies and interests, but he says it's irresponsible to ignore what he sees as strong evidence of health risks.
"When a … unit of local government carefully makes a decision, they ought to be informed by the science and make a decision that protects public health," Leo Cashman said. "What they're doing is they're putting their convenience ahead of our safety."
Jim Cashman agreed.
"I don't think there was enough time and research that went into this decision to force these upon us," Jim Cashman said.
The water board's perspective
Members of Stillwater's Board of Water Commissioners say that the decision-making process started about two years ago and that commissioners did their due-diligence.
As for privacy concerns, the board says this model of wireless meter isn't truly a "smart" meter. It only broadcasts the number of gallons of water used for billing purposes — it doesn't broadcast information about usage patterns or times. It does collect usage data, which is stored internally for 90 days and can only be retrieved with physical access to the meter. Commissioner Speedling said the department would only access that information as a diagnostic tool if a customer reported a problem.
Commissioners say they have also considered health concerns. The commission hired a consulting firm,TKDA, to research the safety of the wireless meters.
"We had heard there (were) some groups out there that had concerns about using this type of technology, but everything that was coming back to us was stating this was safe," Speedling said.
"There's confusion by people because they're confused by the information that's available on the Internet and in the newspapers," Commissioner George Vania said.
Vania — who has a master's in engineering and recently retired from a 40-year career in the water and wastewater industry — said the board took a science-based approach all along.
Before the commission made its initial decision, Vania said, it reviewed information from the FCC and FDA, as well as Health Canada. None of those organizations found evidence to support the idea that cell phone or similar low-level radiation causes harm to humans.
He also noted that the radiation emitted by one of the water meters is far below that of cell phones and other common devices. In fact, it emits radiation for a total time of less than one minute per day.
After hearing from Cashman and another resident who expressed concern at a water board meeting, Vania did more research, including looking at the BioInitiative 2012 study.
Although he found it to be one of the sources most commonly cited by opponents of smart meters, Vania called the BioInitiative study a "poorly prepared technical document." He pointed to critiques, such as an article from sciencebasedmedicine.org by Kenneth Foster, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. In his article, Foster calls the BioInitiative report "an egregiously slanted review of health and biological effects of electromagnetic fields."
Vania said many independent agencies have concluded that there isn't sufficient evidence to support the claim that wireless smart meters cause health problems.
Some local governments in California have banned wireless smart meters, but the California Council on Science and Technology concluded in 2011 that there wasn't evidence of known health impacts. In December last year the Public Utility Commission of Texas reached a similar conclusion. The World Health Organization has not been able to rule out the possibility that radiation from cell phones and other devices causes cancer, but it has not found evidence to conclude that exposure to such low frequency electromagnetic fields is harmful to human health.
Vania admitted he can't rule out the possibility that in 10 years science might demonstrate a health risk associated with wireless water meters, but he doesn't believe any studies have done so to date. He strongly believes the water board is doing its best to protect the community using a sicence-based approach.
"Look, I got the meter in my house," he said.
But Leo Cashman disagrees with Vania's conclusions.
"I think it's completely wrong to say there's no science indicating harm," he said. "Anyone who says that hasn't looked very hard or has only looked at industry science."
What's next
Regardless of what others conclude, Jim Cashman hopes he'll get to make up his mind for himself and choose whether or not to allow installation of a wireless meter.
"It is a violation of basic human rights to be forced into having a pulse digital radiation device put into the inside of our home," he said. "It is only right, at the very least, to give people a choice in the matter."
For now, Cashman isn't in danger of having his water shut off. The water board has been gathering information from other cities about options they provide customers, and the board is meeting Thursday, Nov. 14, to discuss how to proceed.
"Right now everything's on the table," Speedling said. "We have to make a decision as a board on what we're going to do to maintain what's best for the community."
That includes consideration of the cost for making exceptions to the rule.
Leo Cashman plans to testify at the Nov. 14 meeting, and both sides agree it's a good opportunity for members of the public to ask questions or make their opinions heard.
The meeting is at 8:30 a.m., Nov. 14, at the water department, 204 Third Street N., Stillwater.
The water board has more information at ci.stillwater.mn.us. Scroll down and click on "Board of Water Commission's Water Meter Replacement Project."
Leo Cashman's organization has more information at safetechmn.org.


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Could the council still stop the sale?
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Wouldn't the council be tempted to delay a challenge until next year?
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Can the Waitangi Tribunal take any comfort from the decisions?
It got the delay it wanted but for the wrong reasons. Its "share plus" concept of special rights for Maori shareholders was roundly rejected by Government. But it still has part two of its inquiry where it could use its narrow powers for binding recommendations.


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