One of the anomalies from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is that releases of radioactive isotopes throughout the Pacific Basin are far greater in quantity than what's indicated on the ground in northeast Japan. Reaching across the western region of North America, into the Rockies some 10,000 km distant from Japan, the wildlife count of aquatic species, birds and insects has been plummeting since March 2011.
The long-distance effect should be a pale reflection of a huge toll in human deaths in and around Fukushima Prefecture. Although there's been a decline in the Japanese birth rate and a spate of sudden deaths on train platforms in Tokyo, the island nation has witnessed only a gradual reduction in population rather than the precipitous drop anticipated soon after the disaster. What accounts for this disparity between the wide-spread radioactivity impact across the Americas versus the moderate toll inside Japan?
As we learned early on, much of the nuclear releases from Fukushima was being transported eastward by the North Pacific current and the northern jetstream, much of that abetted by years of official tolerance of unchecked venting and wastewater releases. The groundwater outflows were and still are being enabled by the media myth of an "ice wall", an expensive boondoggle that provided cover for the release of reactor coolant from the Fukushima storage tank farm. The so-called isotope-filtration equipment from AREVA and Kurion of Hanford were ineffective. For all the numbers games played by the "experts", tossing out round-ball estimates, there's been no containment of nuclear contamination in Japan, which soon proved itself again to be an eager exporter, this time of radioactive steel, used cars, motorbikes and bicycles.
To spare itself the burden of an effective containment program, Japan has been waging a "soft" nuclear war against its Pacific neighbors. Over the past seven years, I have suggested that boring tunnels into the hard-rock Abukuma Plateau is a proven method for water storage, as done under Kanto region rivers in lieu of new dams, but the government apparently prefers overseas dumping as a type of passive-aggressive vengeance.
Considering that the corium, or melted fuel rods, is mostly self-contained in the gravel and rock below the destroyed reactors, the math still would not account for the mega-effects of 311 on the environment of the Northern Hemisphere, which includes the sudden expansion of the Arctic ozone hole April-June 2011, fragmentation of the ice cap, annihilation of the wild salmon fisheries, the West Coast drought and lightning-triggered wildfires, poisoning of milk from dairy cows, and other bleak news that's gone unreported in the mass media or falsely attributed to global warming, al in the service of course of the utilities companies that operate nuclear power plants.
How then did Fukushima disaster manage to achieve such planetary destruction while Japan itself remained relatively unharmed? The underlying answer to this paradox is center of the most pervasive cover-up in scientific history, authorized at the highest levels of the UN nuclear-energy agency IAEA, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and uranium-producer Canada's Nuclear Safety Commission. After failing to warn, much less protect billions of their residents, the "regulators" in the US and Canada have been complicit in a cover-up of the rising radioactivity risk to population centers in the Americas due to their idolatrous worship of the nuclear bomb, the Moloch of our modern times.
The total absence of health-related data concerning radioactive ingestion, has forestalled any accurate determination of whether a global "hibakusha" (radioactivity victims) crisis is under way, but certainly the unborn have been sacrificed in their millions through miscarriages from radioactive exposure of ovaries and abortions out of unspoken fear. By the time in the future, or perhaps never, when studies are done on the spike in heart failure and cancers on top of terminated pregnancies, it will be too late for the health-care system to launch effective preventative measures to preserve the humane genome. As in the loss of insects across the Americas due to our inaction, homo sapiens will soon be extinct. And perhaps for the better, since our collective inaction proves the streak of inbred criminal denial in our less-than-masterful species.
Inexorably, as casualties mount and the economic damage spirals out of control, public anger will squarely put the blame not only on TEPCO and the deceitful Japanese political elite but also on the cowardly sold-out American and Canadian governments. Their ultimate responsibility, however, is the direct role of the US and Canada in supporting Japan's rogue nuclear-weapons program, which lies at the heart of the 311 disaster(s).
First, the meltdowns at three civilian reactors and related fires at the TEPCO Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant were not the only sources of radioactivity releases. As dangerous as it turned out to be, including the explosion of the weapons-related mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel rods inside the Toshiba-Westinghouse Reactor 3, the rate of isotope releases solely from Fukushima plant cannot account for the grandeur of scale of contaminated seawater and marine-layer moisture that's been hitting the American shores.
- a military nuclear-weapons test site in Kitakami, near its namesake mountain range, in Iwate Prefecture, north of Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures.
In addition, steady releases of heavy water have flowed out of a suspected tritium-extraction facility inside the hollow structure of the Kido Dam, in the hills west of Hirono town. According to local residents, there are several other sensitive sites in the eastern Abukuma Plateau, making the Greater Fukushima nuclear complex one of the largest and the most-advanced warhead production site in the world.
It might be noted here, though unmentioned in the video, that the military-focused nuclear program will soon be resuming at the Oma nuclear plant on the northern tip of Honshu, near the Misawa USAF base and within sight of Hakodate, Hokkaido, across the Tsugaru Strait. The remote area has no major city in the vicinity for the marketing of electricity. One of the ramifications of secret weapons development by Japan is that it compels North Korea to amass a deterrence capability, and unless the Japanese program is officially exposed and dismantled, Northeast Asia will continue to be a center of nuclear-weapons confrontation between at least five countries.
The misdirection of focusing solely on Pyongyang, of course, has not only been hypocritical, it is a massive self-deception concerning Japanese duplicity over its vaunted "Three Non-Nuclear Principles". When its warhead-production is fully functioning again it will be merely a matter of time before a revanchist faction decides to get its revenge for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, although in the meanwhile the radioactive outflows from Fukushima are doing that task quite efficiently.
Headquartered in neighboring Miyagi Prefecture the Tohoku Electric Power Company (a regional utility company unrelated to TEPCO) burns North Korean coal at its Haramachi thermal plant. Curiously, none of that enormous power supply is delivered to the nearby city of Soma or to Miyagi communities across the provincial border. All of its 20,000kW output is allocated to the TEPCO Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant or used on-site for indeterminate purposes. Why does a large-scale conventional power plant have to be dedicated to powering a nuclear plant along with its own massive energy consumption?
This question is the key to unlocking the secret vault of nuclear-weapons production. As exposed by my April 2011 interview with a parliamentarian who was trained in nuclear engineering, the earthquake-caused collapse of the power-transmission line from Haramachi resulted in the outage that knocked out the computers controlling the Fukushima No.1 facility, the first falling domino that led to the meltdowns.
Enormous amounts of continuous power are required for the new GE-Hitachi "global laser extraction" system employing gasification, electromagnetic charging and laser-separation of enriched plutonium from spent fuel rods. This novel process defies the traditional view that Pu cannot be separated from the uranium content in mixed-oxide rods, thereby enabling vast arsenals of hydrogen bombs to now be rapidly produced from nuclear waste from civilian power plants. Research and full-on production were being conducted in secret at the three secret underground labs: Haramachi, Hirono and somewhere underground at the Fukushima No.1 site.
The satellite photo of the excavated remains of the Haramachi weapons lab, which appears in the video, is on view below in the image collection, together with a slightly wider view of coal-fired plant's coal port. Photo 1: notice the ship cleansing its bilge of North Korean coal dust. The coal is transferred along a hopper to a trucking terminus, where large trucks (the tiny white dots) convey it to the coal storage area in the upper left corner. That area is now being used for radioactive waste storage, packed inside rows of 3-ton black poly-fiber bag.
Photo 2: The close-up of the rectangular pit reveals the outline of a lab, about 2-3 stories below the surface. During the post-quake excavation, a ramp for trucks was dug out, descending west-to-east, and then turning 180 degrees down to about 8 floors underground to the second deeper lab. In between the two cavernous structure areas, poly bags of low-level waste were being laid to provide a radioactive cover for the highly contaminated site, as a literal cover so that any analysts of data from ground-detection satellites would assume it's a mere nuclear waste site rather than a wasted nuclear site.
Why would a nuclear-weapons lab be positioned so close to the shoreline? Obviously for offloading US-warhead material and to transport the warheads to naval ports for loading onto submarines. In exchange for quiet cooperation in the nuclear blame game, Haramachi could also in the past have secretly supplied the DPRK with fissile materials, to create a strategic rationale for Japan's own nuclear program.
The Japanese government claimed that the Fukushima nuclear disaster took only a single life, the death of a nuclear worker. This grotesque deception was perpetrated to prevent an international investigation under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
At least 1,000 nuclear-weapons technicians and Self-Defense Force soldiers were killed inside the flooded Haramachi lab with no chance of escape or rescue due to the intense nuclear releases. Outdoors in the surrounding Minami-Soma district, high radioactivity levels forced the pullout of police rescue teams, abandoning many thousands of local villagers to die of a combination of radioactive fallout and freezing temperatures.
On the edge the 20-km earliest exclusion zone, several hotspots northwest of the plan were due to nuclear materials that had been swept inland by the tsunami from the Haramachi nuclear-weapons site. In the Japanese language "hara" means a broad plain, and the stream-laced coastal plain lays flat for some distance into the interior between low hills. Due to the powerful seawater pressure, the front wave rose up the valleys (pushed from behind by tsunami force) and deposited the nuclear materials before receding. A local resident, who worked for state-run soil decontamination project, said the inland sites were left for last, being the most dangerous to health.
About 2 months later, a leak from employees at the Fukushima University Medical School Hospital indicated more than a thousand bodies in white lab coats and military uniforms were being kept inside a walk-in freezer in the hospital morgue. The cynical claim that the Fukushima nuclear disaster claimed only one life omits the deaths from the secret nuclear lab at Haramachi.
After frustrating disappointments in trying to set up soil-decontamination projects using phyto-remediation (vegetation-based absorption) techniques that I learned in the Altai mountains from a Kazakhstan expert at Chernobyl, I switched my research activity to the Hirono town region, south of Fukushima No. 2, as the only field researcher in that area of Iwaki municipality, which is a company town controlled by nuclear contractors Hitachi-GE.
Entering the southern part of the exclusion zone by bicycle to avoid radio-frequency detection that identifies cars and motorcycles, I spent a late morning on my first incursion with an evacuee, whose house had collapsed in the 311 quake. When he rested on the stones of a low embankment, he told me: "This place is known as the 'hot corner' because the radioactivity has always been high here." Since Fukushima?, I asked. At the time, I was still naive about the scale of the hidden program.
"It's been radioactive here for many decades" was his reply. "TEPCO claims this is a conventional plant but in reality nuclear work's been going on here for decades." It took me the remainder of the day to begin to spot the signs and tracks.
On another bike journey into the surrounding farmlands, I saw daisies bigger than my two hands put together and gladiolus stems twice my height, indicating genetic mutations causing gigantism over many generations.
Indeed, behind a visual barrier of dense groves of fir trees, huge cranes were working night and day, and dump trucks roared out the gates and through the tunnels of Highway 6 to a loading dock, where waste was transferred to rail cars for outdoor storage in four inland prefectures. I could not help but feel alarmed as trucks blew off dust clouds over groups of children returning home from school. The Education Ministry had issued a nationwide order to public schools not to enroll out-of-town children so these kids were trapped on the edge of the exclusion zone. The saddest sight was to see teenage girls who had recently returned from temporary evacuation riding the local trains, with a quiet forlorn look of acceptance of their fate.
"For what?" I asked. His answer: "Nobody knows". Obviously, the payoffs were part of a sweetheart deal for the nuclear-weapons technicians on condition of their silence. Other than late-coming paltry "compensation" for evacuees from inside the exclusion zone, provincial and regional residents living in radioactive homes where the local economy has been impoverished by the nuclear crisis received not a single aluminum yen and zero tax breaks.
I then began tracing radioactivity levels along local lanes, following a path of high readings to the small fishing port of Hisanohama. When I asked unemployed fisherman about nuclear waste passing through their area, one old-timer told me that they had been told to stay at home when a huge pile of high-level waste was unloaded on the narrow road above the port. "Then one morning it was gone," he said. "Where'd it go?" I asked. He shrugged.
At the other end of the port, the roadside readings were low, meaning all that high-level waste had been put on barges and towed out to sea, probably for dumping in the Philippine Trench. A seaside neighborhood with a view of boat lanes out to the Pacific had been wiped out by the tsunami, with an estimated (by neighbors) loss of more than 2,000 lives. Yet Iwaki reported only one death in a road accident during the tsunami. How blatant does it get?
Adding a element of mystery was the lack of a single survivor from that tsunami site, meaning no witnesses were left to tell tales of past secret nuclear shipments out of the little fishing port. Some of them must have been push inshore and could grab a hold on a tree or clamber up a rock. Why was there nobody left to tell the tale of how barges have occasionally been towed toward the horizon, where a line of clouds have become a permanent fixture since 311. On another day while looking at seashells bubbled up by strontium, I noticed along a cape a rectangular band of opaque white fog, one of the unique features of tritium. Soon thereafter, a shore-dwelling couple with whom I had occasionally chatted died right after the government tripled the height of the seawall.
On these incursions, I had to camp overnight in the radioactive forest areas, due to the fact that the Economy Ministry and Hitachi-GE had rented every room in Iwaki to deny accommodations for volunteers. Other than myself, none ever showed more because of NGO collaboration with the government. Locals told me not a single bottle of drinking water had been delivered to that company town during the 311 relief effort.
One sunny morning after a chilly night in the "hot" rain, I was investigating how the government was rigging radioactivity detection equipment when a group of grass-cutters approached while clearing the roadsides of radioactive weeds. Needless to say, they were stunned that I had slept outdoors. They warned me to be extremely cautious of the secret nuclear security forces because over past decades many locals who entered the mountainous areas were detained, questioned and ordered never to come back by men in brown uniforms, who were neither with the police nor from the self-defense force.
I took their warning seriously, and on many occasions carried my bicycle and gear up forested hillsides and waited under the eaves of abandoned houses until my pursuers gave up the chase. Then, a few years on, I traveled by car with filmmaker Phillippe Carillo, to a dam suspected of serving as a tritium-production facility. It was up a steep road at the edge of the Abukuma Plateau without human habitation in sight. We were soon joined by a truck, and we were obviously under surveillance. Then cars came roaring up and men in green uniforms ran to the entry doors of two towers on the dam to check if we had broken in. While they were preoccupied doing a full security check on the mystery dam, we tiptoed to the car and drove downhill as fast as possible. This drama was happening in "the middle of nowhere". The villagers had not been jesting with me.
The video closes with my bicycle journey in southwest Fukushima Province to an abandoned uranium mine run by Bund-1, a joint atomic bomb project of the Japanese militarist government and Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. A physicist at Fukushima University was the world's first scientist to theorize the immense power of atom-splitting, and so the seed for the nuclear age was planted here, in this accursed soil.
One of the adverse aspects of the video shooting was the burn-out of so many cameras, Geiger counters and computers due to radioactivity and the consequent necessity for ever-cheaper equipment, in addition to clothing. Unfortunately many photos were blotted out by the passage of gamma rays. For example, a group portrait of mating season for golden beetles. Deep in a forest by a stream, I spotted a circle of these shiny creatures lying dead around a femme fatale.
What happened is that when the males closed in around the fertile female, the increasing radioactivity level from their bodies during the convergence killed all of them. The increase of body radioactivity levels during crowding accounts for the mystery of the sudden deaths of commuters inside the Tokyo metro system in recent years. For a survivor condemned to avoidance, and by now we're all hibakusha, it is a path of loneliness.


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How to farm mushrooms as Slow Food, medicine, bioremediation
by Kirsten Dirksen on March 19, 2012
In the past few years, mushrooms- and the vegetative part of the fungus, mycelium– have been elevated from the underworld. According to mushroom guru Paul Stamets, they're capable of saving the world, in at least 6 different ways (see his TED talk or his book Mycelium Running: Growing Mushrooms to Heal People and Planet).
He, and others, claim they're capable of "mycorestoration" (cleaning up the environment), "mycopesticides" (organic bug killers), "mycofiltration" (silting chemicals from water), breaking down nerve gases, neutralizing smallpox and replacing plastics.
One farmer takes on the American fungi diet
Ian Garrone runs 60,000 square feet of greenhouses filled with organic, sawdust-based mushrooms ("what in nature grow on trees": the sawdust allows them to harvest mushrooms on a weekly basis). He started Far West Fungi- out of his garage- 25 years ago not to save the world, but to introduce America to the wide variety of edible fungi.
Toady, the Garrone family sells over 40 different types of mushrooms (at their store in San Francisco), a relatively rare offering, given that button mushrooms (those white ones you buy in a can) account for about 87% of all domestic mushroom sales (2001, U.S. Department of Agriculture). Ian's philosophy of preserving and promoting culinary diversity falls right in line with that of the Slow Food movement so it's fairly natural that he's worked closely with the local chapter.
Garrone also believes that mushrooms can add balance to your diet, partly due to what they replace. The fleshy texture of some of the mushrooms he grows makes mushrooms an ideal meat substitute.
Mushrooms as medicine
Mushrooms that grow on trees (the type grown at the Far West Fungi farm) are also considered medicinal. "The reason is is the organism, the fungi, which breaks things down- that's what it naturally does- breaks down these hard sugars in the hardwood. In breaking them down the organism produces mushrooms that are very high in complex sugars called polysaccharides which our bodies use to fight diseases."
Garrone explains some of the claimed links: oyster mushrooms (anti-tumoral properties), shitakes (immune system boosters), reishi (improve T-cell production), bear's head mushrooms (treatment for brain cell problems and digestion problems). Though he's quick to add that he's just a mushroom farmer so he sends people to the Internet to find out for themselves.
Helping San Francisco clean up their last oil spill
Garrone didn't get into the business to help save the world, but somehow he's managed to help save his corner of the world. After San Francisco's last oil spill he helped provide an indigenous strain of oyster mushroom to a bioremediation project. That is, the mycelium from his oyster mushrooms broke down the oil so it could be composted.
"The reason we got this strain was so that we had a strain that was indigenous to San Francisco so there wasn't any possibility of the organism releasing into the Presidio… now we actually maintain it because it's a real nice mushroom, but also if we ever need that strain for a bioremediation project in San Francisco we would have that organism alive."
He continues to produce 15,000 pounds of this organism on a weekly basis, so if San Francisco asks for help again, he can also provide a lot of this mushroom very quickly.
In this video, Garrone takes us for a tour of his farm where he shows us the sawdust piles, clean room (a sterile lab), incubation rooms (mushrooms are here for 4-13 weeks) and the thousands of mature fruiting mushrooms ready to be picked.
tags: bioremediation, far west fungi, farmer, fungi, fungi farmer, healing food, ian garrone, medicinal food, moss landing, mushroom farmer, mushrooms, mycelium, mycelium running, mycoremediation, oil spill cleanup, organic farmer, organic food, organic mushrooms, paul stamets, san francisco, slow food
I get oyster mushrooms growing on my poplar trees, and very tasty they are, but they also kill the trees, which then have to be cut down, which is not so good, but it provides me with firewood, (and a lot of hard work), which is a free bonus.

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You might not expect two New Jersey farmers visiting the Midwest to get chased down by reporters for "a good story," but that's exactly what happened to George and Jacob Dvoor in early 1935.
You also might not expect the Flemington area to be confronted with a milk shortage.
But when thousands flocked to Flemington for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial, everything changed. Bruno Hauptmann had been extradited from New York to stand trial for the murder and kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, arriving in Flemington on Oct. 19, 1934. During the five months he was here, the town became the epicenter of the world.
The Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper tracked down George Dvoor in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, when he arrived in Jan. 1935 to purchase a herd of dairy cattle needed to relieve a milk shortage in the Flemington area caused by the influx of visitors attracted to the court proceedings. Dvoor noted that "the shortage of milk is particularly acute with the result that farmers in the vicinity have put in an unusual demand for more cattle."
The article states that Mr. Dvoor offered "an interesting picture of the excitement that prevails in the normally quiet New Jersey village of 3,000 persons due to the Hauptmann trial." Unfortunately, the newspaper didn't include details.
Last year, Hunterdon Land Trust Farmers' Market featured a talk one Sunday by local Lindbergh historian Jim Davidson, who did fill in some of those blanks. In a presentation, aptly titled When the Circus Came to Town, Davidson noted that "more than 50,000 people came into town the first weekend alone. When the courthouse was open to sightseers, people stole the American flag, carved initials on Judge (Thomas W.) Trenchard's bench and tried to steal the witness chair."
"People were standing in line in subzero temperatures at 2 a.m. to get tickets to the trial; prostitutes roamed the Union Hotel, mediums tried to get into Bruno Hauptman's cell to do a reading," Davidson added.
George Dvoor said he was unable to go into the courthouse to view the trial, and when speaking with the Wisconsin reporter was "careful to avoid expressing an opinion as to the sentiment of the villagers as to Hauptmann's guilt or innocence."
As an aside, Dvoor purchased a herd that consisted of 23 head of select Holsteins and Guernsey cattle, "all with fine milk and butterfat records," The Oshkosh Northwestern cheerfully reported.
The following month, George and his brother Jacob Dvoor traveled to Iowa to buy horses to sell to New Jersey farmers. Again, a reporter, this time from the Des Moines Register, sought the brothers out.
"Jacob . . . preferring to cast a critical eye in quest of the faults and qualities of a horse, left the talking to Brother George," who noted an increase in the number of trains stopping in Flemington, an influx of motor cars, and that the "town's police force of one was augmented by 25 or 30 state police," the article noted.
"It was hard for residents of that ordinarily quiet place to sleep at night until they became used to the roar of automobiles at all hours. And just try to find a parking place anytime," George exclaimed.
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House Intelligence Committee Plans To Talk To More Trump Associates
Published March 4, 2019 at 4:24 AM PST
Democrats do not seem to be holding back. They are making some explosive allegations about President Trump. Here's California Congressman Adam Schiff on CBS "Face The Nation." He chairs the House Intelligence Committee.
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ADAM SCHIFF: We are certainly looking deep into the set of issues around Moscow Trump Tower. We're also looking at persistent allegations that the Russians have been laundering money through the Trump Organization. I don't know that that's true, but if it is, again, it's a profound compromise in this president.
GREENE: Democrats look emboldened now after last week's testimony from Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. The intelligence committee is just one of the panels looking into the president, and Congressman Mike Quigley, a Democrat from Illinois, is on the Intelligence Committee.
He joins us now from Chicago. Good morning, Congressman.
MIKE QUIGLEY: Good morning. Thanks for having me on.
GREENE: Well, thanks for coming on. Do you have evidence that the Russians were laundering money through the Trump Organization?
QUIGLEY: Well, here's what we know. Deutsche Bank was probably the only - but certainly one of the few banks - willing to do business with Trump Organization in the decade prior to his becoming president of the United States.
Number two, Deutsche Bank had to pay over $600 million in fines and penalties for laundering money for the Russians that came out of New York state. And I went to Cyprus to investigate such things over a year ago. And that part of the investigation, as part of the entire House Select Committee on Intelligence investigation, was tainted and stopped by my Republican colleagues. So...
GREENE: But it sounds like you're not quite there. I mean, you're not quite at a point where you could say Russians are laundering money through - through the Trump Organization, I mean, and tying this to the president.
QUIGLEY: Oh, certainly. I mean, and, look, there are a lot of concerns that we have about financial conflicts with the Trump administration that we - simply didn't get to the final analysis of. Again...
GREENE: Well, you're about to you're about to start calling witnesses. I mean, you're going to be talking to Felix Sater. He's a former business associate of the president, has some alleged ties to organized crime, we should say. I mean, what - what specifically are you hoping to hear from him as you look into these issues?
QUIGLEY: It's an expansion of what we've learned from Mr. Cohen about Trump Tower Moscow in particular. And, look, Mr. Cohen spoke publicly, and that was valuable, as it always is. But he also spoke to the intel committee in secret for a day, and he's coming back next Wednesday.
I think the two of them were instrumental - instrumental in moving this project forward, and we're now learning that that project went forward past Election Day. So here they were talking about relief of sanctions - the president United States - for the Russians at the exact same time they were seeking to forge a financial deal with this foreign adversary.
The bigger picture in all these investigations is this. Sure, we want to know what the Russians did and whether there was a conspiracy to work with them. I think what's more important is, was our national policy and our international security policy impacted by these decisions, not just about Trump Tower Moscow, but Paul Manafort meeting with the Russians discussing a Ukraine peace plan, which would be very friendly to the Russians?
GREENE: But just to be clear, I mean, these are things that you're suggesting you want to look into. But - but so far, I mean, this is just all about timing. You have no concrete evidence at this point that - that the president's business dealings in Moscow may have somehow been tied to decisions that he made in office.
QUIGLEY: I think it's very hard to ignore the fact that he was using President Putin's talking points on the United Nations and NATO at the same time he was talking about relief from sanctions. We're very well aware of the president's Helsinki posture and how he has taken the word of President Putin over the intelligence community over what the Russians did.
So it's beyond circumstantial evidence that the president seems to have been compromised by this. We need to know the exact details. It hasn't been easy because we weren't in the majority. And this is clearly the most opaque administration in American history.
GREENE: And you are right. Your party is running the show now in the House. And I just want to ask you, I mean, are you concerned that too many investigations will crowd out any chance for your party to - to formulate an agenda to present to the American people? I mean, is there a risk in Americans thinking the Democrats are spending too much time investigating and not enough on policy-making?
QUIGLEY: I think it comes from us clearly defining what's going forward and how we are coordinating. But we can do more than one thing at a time, clearly demonstrated by the most important investigation previous to this, Watergate.
GREENE: You think this is as important as Watergate. You feel like you know enough at this point to say something like that.
QUIGLEY: This is more important than Watergate because it involves a foreign adversary and, I believe, the very, really, real likelihood that the president of the United States, to an extent, conspired with the Russians to attack our democratic process.
GREENE: All right, and you'll have much time to investigate all of that. Congressman Mike Quigley of Illinois, a Democrat, thanks so much for your time this morning. We appreciate it.
QUIGLEY: Thank you. Anytime.
GREENE: I want to turn to NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley, who's been listening in. Scott, what stood out to you there?
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Well, as you point out, David, the intelligence committee has perhaps the most overlap here with the Robert Mueller investigation. But this is just one of numerous investigations that the now Democratic-led House is going to be conducting of the president.
We've got the oversight committee that's going to be following up on a lot of tantalizing threads that were opened up by Michael Cohen's testimony last week. And this morning - earlier this morning, we heard from Congressman Nadler about investigations that the judiciary committee is undertaking.
So there are going to be a lot of probes, a lot more scrutiny from the Democratic House than the president has faced during his first two years in office when the House was in Republican hands.
GREENE: You mentioned Jerrold Nadler, the Democrat who chairs the judiciary committee. I mean, it seems like Democrats - I mean, they're saying they don't have enough yet, not even close, to explore impeachment. But they seem to be using that word much more freely than they used to.
What is that political calculation? I mean, have they decided that they want these investigations to really dominate over any sort of legislative agenda?
HORSLEY: No, I think they are kind of walking a tightrope. They understand that impeachment is a political process and that in order to go down that road, they'd have to persuade a lot of Republicans. That's a very tall order. They're not there yet.
On the other hand, they are trying to satisfy cries from those on the left who want more rigorous oversight and who don't want to take impeachment off the table.
GREENE: NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley this morning. Thanks, Scott.
HORSLEY: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


Published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 235 (1), 1-16.
[See more] Most classical scheduling research assumes that the objectives sought are common to all jobs to be scheduled. However, many real-life applications can be modeled by considering different sets of jobs, each one with its own objective(s), and an increasing number of papers addressing these problems has appeared over the last few years. Since so far the area lacks a uni ed view, the studied problems have received different names (such as interfering jobs, multi-agent scheduling, mixed-criteria, etc), some authors do not seem to be aware of important contributions in related problems, and solution procedures are often developed without taking into account existing ones. Therefore, the topic is in need of a common framework that allows for a systematic recollection of existing contributions, as well as a clear de nition of the main research avenues. In this paper we review multicriteria scheduling problems involving two or more sets of jobs and propose an uni ed framework providing a common de nition, name and notation for these problems. Moreover, we systematically review and classify the existing contributions in terms of the complexity of the problems and the proposed solution procedures, discuss the main advances, and point out future research lines in the topic.
Cite: Pérez González, P. y Framiñán Torres, J.M. (2014). A common framework and taxonomy for multicriteria scheduling problems with Interfering and competing Jobs: Multi-agent scheduling problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 235 (1), 1-16.


… that this happened today.
We had an outing to the county fair tonight, just to get out of the house and shake off the cobwebs, and it was fun. There wasn't much going on (I live in a boring county, apparently), but the place had an actual arcade in it. Haven't seen something as beautiful as that since high school. Most often nowadays, it's a mixture of arcade games, sport games, air hockey, and various other ticket games for kids. An arcade just isn't what it used to be.
And there's another rumor floating around, which is I'll be at the Dan Emmett Music & Arts Festival in Mount Vernon, Ohio selling and signing books. The dates for that are August 7th-10th, so there's plenty of time to come see me. The event is unofficially confirmed (meaning we called and they said I was good, but I haven't received any paperwork or emails) so I'm counting on it. Could be a mistake, and if so, I'll let everyone know here. Click the link, check out the website, and hope to see you there.
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That's what the missus said, hence the picture. Maybe It's my sparkling personality?


Upon selection, confirmation, further details, and all correspondence will be sent via email. We no longer send out confirmation packets via mail. All application fees are non-refundable, regardless of acceptance status.
Booth set-up times: Thursday 10am-4pm OR Fri. 9am-3pm ONLY.
You are required to be fully set up by Friday at 4pm.
Booths must stay up until 6 pm Sunday. Vehicles for load-out are not allowed until 7pm Sunday.
LOAD IN: Locations are assigned and are final. Healing arts booths are located throughout the festival and near the healing arts workshops.
ELIGIBILITY: LEAF hosts Spiritual/Healing Arts Practitioners accomplished at their trades, certified if necessary, or long experienced. Accepted practitioners must be present at LEAF during booth operation hours. No retailers, agents, or representatives allowed.
APPLYING TO BE A HEALING ARTS PRESENTER IN ADDITION TO VENDING: If you are accepted as a Healing Arts Vendor and you would also like to offer a workshop (which is wonderful & amazing to offer both) you will not receive an additional presenter pass. You are already in the festival as a vendor.
PRACTITIONER VENDOR BOOTH FEES: The booth fee is $315 for a single practitioner, per festival, or $447 for a shared booth, per festival. This includes use of a single 10×10 space, admission to the festival and camping permit for the practitioner(s) only. Within two weeks of announced acceptance, all booth fees and assistant ticket fees will be due to confirm your registration. No credits or refunds after registered acceptance. Booth sharing is based upon approval by the Healing Arts Director, with a limit of 2 practitioners per booth.
SHARED BOOTH: Up to two practitioners may share a 10X10 booth space to offer services. Both practitioners must fill out an application & submit certifications (if needed). Sharing practitioners may practice simultaneously, together, or in shifts. All practicing healers must apply and be accepted/registered as practitioners.
ASSISTANTS: Upon acceptance, booth practitioners may purchase up to two (2) discount assistant weekend tickets ($137 per assistant), which must be purchased in advance with the booth fee. Any other festival-goers accompanying you must pay full admission price. Anyone accompanying you age 10 yrs or older is considered an assistant, including your spouse. A working partner is not an assistant; in this case, you must apply for a shared booth.
DISPLAY SPACES: Display spaces are exactly 10' x 10'. All canopies and booth displays must present a professional, exhibit and fit inside this size space. Booths/Tents must be STAKED DOWN with spiral dog-ties to ensure safety through in-climate weather. BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WIND, RAIN, ETC. No refunds will be given for booths/displays that have been damaged due to bad weather.
Single practitioners may apply for a maximum of 2 spaces side by side (no extra canopies behind booth). Booth fees apply per space. Only land is provided. NO tents, tables, chairs, signage or electricity outlets are provided by LEAF.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Tent and vehicle camping is permitted in designated on-site areas. Most booths have space for a small tent behind. Free on-site parking in the Vendor Lot for 1 vehicle ONLY. All others must park in satellite lots (lot 6 – The Moon) or reserve on-site car camping for an additional fee. 3 shower-houses are located in camp. Shared cabin bunks are available for a fee and are reserved in advance only. Call 828-686-8742 to reserve a space. All spaces may be sold out before acceptance notifications.
PRODUCT SALES: Practitioners who wish to sell products in addition to services may apply to do so if products are handcrafted by the practitioner and are used in conjunction with the healing modality and if they comprise no more than 20% of the booth. There is an additional $113 fee to sell the products. Please email photos to info healingarts@theleaf.org or mail samples of your products when you submit your application.
If the healing modality is botanical health & beauty products or henna, then you will apply via the Handcrafts Application. No manufactured retail products may be sold.
CANCELLATIONS: Practitioner cancellations are taken via phone or email. Failure to register and pay by the deadline (two weeks after posted notification dates) will be construed as a cancellation. If you are accepted and registered for the festival, please inform us if your plans are changed so that you can maintain good relations with the festival and so that we can make other arrangements accordingly. NO refunds or credits on cancellations. LEAF reserves the right to deny any application without explanation.


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