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I still don't like Warner as opener, but 1st drop OK. (3, 4 or 5) Now we have a player with hands, we must try to keep him, catches win matches. Go Quiney.

If we did this deal, inc Caddy (+ Toy), could we facilitate him, ontraded to a Saints or Blues for P12 or P11?

Wow! I think I see, & I think I like what I think I see.

They're on record from what I remember that they want to get some bigger bodies onto they're list as they went too young, & got the balance wrong. As we did with too much kind skilled types. Beamer is a big body & is a handy age bracket for them as many of they're kids mature. You never know, they may be interested. Steak knives are a necessity unless you have too many sets. Time will tell if they go after some more physically mature players to supplement their list. It will be interesting to see how clubs handle the new FA Regulations & what tricks get applied.

Surely, if Beamer wants to go to the Bumbers, & IF the GCSuns were interested in Beamer, & Beamer I reckon wouldn't mind the Sun, Coast & girls, then maybe we could help it happen?

Would GCSuns be interested in Brent Moloney (RFA)? I think they said they'd like some big bodied players? Moloney + P13 for Caddy ???

OK? I'll bite, is this Luke Russell wanting to return to Melbourne then, I'm assuming you've mentioned him because he is?

Martin to the Pies for they're Pick around 18. Pick 18 + Bail to GCSuns for Caddy. Or Pick 13 + Petterd.

This is not scare mongering Ben, & I'm not a nuclear physicist. This is just a database of reported information from the newspapers. It's for people to read when they look back, & to have some references to ponder & make they're own minds up. For me my take on Nuclear power or processing is fairly clear. I've made virtually Nil personal comments re my position on these matters other than make this a storage for information I've seen. Your the one taking a stand & personal things, seeking arguments. Not me. I actually do not like arguments or Arguing, however in person, I'll happily discuss my thoughts of what I think on things life & earth. But not in a forum like this where there are no constraints of respect. So I post the things I've noticed in the press. Even the butterfly one which wasn't the Strongest of arguments but still shows results of the contamination to the Environment. I won't even bother to persuade you one way or the other, because I don't cars what one person thinks. Only what many may think after reading information thats been made public. Anyway, it's time for me to switch off for the night.

Japan nuke plant still fragile: chief AP © Japan's Fukushima power plant remains fragile nearly a year after it suffered multiple meltdowns. Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima power plant remains fragile nearly a year after it suffered multiple meltdowns, its chief says, with makeshift equipment - some mended with tape - keeping crucial systems running. An independent report, meanwhile, revealed that the government downplayed the full danger in the days after the March 11 disaster and secretly considered evacuating Tokyo. Journalists given a tour of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on Tuesday, including a reporter from The Associated Press, saw crumpled trucks and equipment still lying on the ground. A power pylon that collapsed in the tsunami, cutting electricity to the plant's vital cooling system and setting off the crisis, remained a mangled mess. Officials said the worst is over but the plant remains vulnerable. "I have to admit that it's still rather fragile," said plant chief Takeshi Takahashi, who took the job in December after his predecessor resigned due to health reasons. "Even though the plant has achieved what we call 'cold shutdown conditions,' it still causes problems that must be improved." The government announced in December that three melted reactors at the plant had basically stabilised and that radiation releases had dropped. It still will take decades to fully decommission the plant, and it must be kept stable until then. The operators have installed multiple backup power supplies, a cooling system, and equipment to process massive amounts of contaminated water that leaked from the damaged reactors. But the equipment that serves as the lifeline of the cooling system is shockingly feeble-looking. Plastic hoses cracked by freezing temperatures have been mended with tape. A set of three pumps sits on the back of a pickup truck. Along with the pumps, the plant now has 1,000 tanks to store more than 160,000 tonnes of contaminated water. http://au.news.yahoo...-fragile-chief/

Record radiation in fish off Japan nuclear plant AFP © <p>Fish on sale near Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. A pair of greenlings have shown the highest level of radioactive caesium detected in fish and shellfish caught in waters off the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, its operator said Tuesday.</p> TOKYO (AFP) - A pair of greenlings have shown the highest level of radioactive caesium detected in fish and shellfish caught in waters off Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, its operator said Tuesday. The fishes, captured 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) off the plant on August 1, registered 25,800 becquerels of caesium per kilo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said -- 258 times the level the government deems safe for consumption. The previous record in fish and shellfish off Fukushima was 18,700 becquerels per kilo detected in cherry salmons, according to the government's Fisheries Agency. TEPCO said the greenlings might have fed in radioactive hotspots and that it would sample more of the fish, their feed and the seabed soil in the area in the coming weeks to determine the cause of the high radiation. Fishermen have been allowed since June to catch -- on an experimental basis -- several kinds of fish and shellfish, but only in areas more than 50 kilometres off the plant. Those catches have shown only small amounts of radioactivity. Greenlings have not been caught by fishermen off Fukushima since the massive earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 triggered meltdowns in reactors at the plant. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/14624939/record-radiation-in-fish-off-japan-nuclear-plant/

Your still carrying on like a off pork chop. You don't know your facts either. People died inside the reactors, & others are extremely sick, the ones who entered to try to fix the water issues. Time will show just how foolish you have been.

Fukushima radiation causes insect mutations: researchers Mutations ... an adult pale grass blue butterfly found near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is shown with dented eyes and stunted wings at the university laboratory in Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan. Photo: AP/Chiyo Nohara of University of the Ryukyus Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear plant has caused mutations in some butterflies and damaged the local environment, though humans seem relatively unaffected, researchers say. The mutations - including dented eyes and stunted wings - are the first evidence the radiation following last year's tsunami has caused genetic changes in living organisms. The catastrophic meltdowns in three reactors of Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant after it was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 prompted a public backlash against nuclear power, and forced the government to reassess resource-scarce Japan's entire energy strategy. A normal adult pale grass blue butterfly suckles nectar from a flower. Photo: AP/Masaki Iwata of University of the Ryukyus But the most visible example of the radiation's effect was claimed by a group of Japanese researchers who found radical physical changes in successive generations of a type of butterfly. They said the threat to humans was unclear. "Our findings suggest that the contaminants are causing ecological damage. I do not know its implication to humans," said Joji Otaki of the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, a member of the team that conducted the research. A separate study, released this week, found very low levels of radioactivity in people who were living near the Fukushima plant when it suffered the meltdowns. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, measured caesium levels in 8066 adults and 1432 children and found average doses of less than 1 millisievert, a level considered safe. It was the first such study measuring internal exposures to caesium in a large number of people. The research shows contamination decreased over time, particularly among children, in part because more precautions were taken with their food, water and outdoor activity. "No case of acute health problems has been reported so far. However, assessments of the long-term effect of radiation requires ongoing monitoring of exposure and the health conditions of the affected communities," the report said. So far, the actual radiation doses inflicted just after the accident are not exactly known, though exposure is thought to be very small, said David Brenner, a radiation physicist at Columbia University, who was not part of the research. "We do need improved estimates of the radiation dose that people in and near Fukushima prefecture actually received," he said. "Right now our estimates are based on very, very rough calculations." The research on the butterflies was published in Scientific Reports, an open-access online journal by the Nature publication group, which provides faster publication and peer review by at least one scientist. It says pale grass blue butterflies, a common species in Japan, collected from several areas near the Fukushima plant showed signs of genetic mutations. Other experts said they viewed the research as significant. To study the genetic changes, the scientists raised the new generations of the butterflies in Okinawa, which has not been affected by the radiation releases, mating each abnormal butterfly with one unaffected by such changes. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/environment/fukushima-radiation-causes-insect-mutations-researchers-20120817-24cy2.html#ixzz23o1WhqMT

Boak off the table??? I hope we make a play for both of them! Boak, & Caddy.

Cesium from the Japan Nuclear Disaster, found in Tuna caught off the United States West Coast.

Lamb Nee'ds to search out amongst the farming community, if he's to find players who can kick like a Mule, or has bite, like a Crocodile.

I like the sound of this.

Japan warns of nuclear safety 'myth' THE Japanese Prime Minister warned a nuclear security summit yesterday that the world must not be lulled into a ''myth of safety'', following lessons learnt from the tsunami and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. Addressing more than 40 world leaders gathered in South Korea to tighten the global nuclear security regime, Yoshihiko Noda said a ''man-caused act of sabotage will test our imaginations far more than any natural disaster''. The Japanese tsunami last year killed close to 20,000 people and swamped Fukushima's nuclear power plant, causing national economic dislocation and severe nuclear contamination north-east of Tokyo. US President Barack Obama, who convened the first Nuclear Security Summit two years ago, yesterday underscored the risks of nuclear material falling into the hands of ''bad actors''. ''It would not take much - just a handful or so of these materials - to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people,'' he said. Prime Minister Julia Gillard pushed for the International Atomic Energy Agency to be given greater powers to contain the illicit trade of nuclear materials to non-state actors, following the third and probably final summit due in the Netherlands in 2014. She told leaders that Australia would open the Lucas Heights nuclear facility to inspectors from the IAEA next year. Australia would ratify the Nuclear Terrorism Convention, enabling terrorists to be brought to justice across jurisdictions, and host a regional nuclear security workshop, she said. The Seoul summit closed last night with all attending nations agreeing to a communique that outlined measures to minimise stockpiles of enriched uranium and plutonium, safeguard nuclear facilities and prevent illicit trafficking of nuclear and radioactive materials. Former Cold War adversaries have co-operated to lock down weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/japan-warns-of-nuclear-safety-myth-20120327-1vwgt.html#ixzz1rnrd3Z7x

Radioactive water from Fukushima power plant may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean ABOUT 12 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with the facility's operator saying some may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo Electric Power Company said the leak was found early today from a pipe attached to a temporary decontamination system. The water had already gone through part of the cleansing process. After the water is used to cool the reactors it contains significant amounts of radioactive substances. It is then put into the water-processing facility so it can be recycled for use as coolant. "Our officials confirmed that cooling water leaked at a joint in the pipes," a TEPCO spokesman said, adding "it is possible that part of the water may have flowed outside the facility and poured into the ocean." The leak has been plugged and the utility was investigating the cause of the accident and how much, if any, water flowed into the Pacific, the spokesman said. The accident was the latest of several leaks of radioactive water at the troubled plant, undermining the government's claim made in December that the shuttered Fukushima reactors were now under control. In one incident last month, about 120 tonnes of radioactive water leaked at the plant's water decontamination system and about 80 litres seeped into the ocean, according to TEPCO. The plant about 220km northeast of Tokyo was crippled by meltdowns and explosions caused by Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami in March last year. Radiation was scattered over a large area and made its way into the sea, air and food chain in the weeks and months after the disaster. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes around the plant and swathes of this zone remain badly polluted. The clean-up is proceeding slowly, amid warnings that some towns could be uninhabitable for three decades.

The fight of his life. He's in for one massive battle.

I don't like the modern dramas or sitcoms. I prefer Mash or Cheers & Becker. Stuff like that. Also the news & our planet type doco's.

Albert King & freind (HD) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvSSFa7ESo Or youtube.com/watch?v=VqZ3Z-ArFHE (lesser def')

Japanese government 'kept meltdown risk secret ' JUST four hours after a tsunami swept into the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan's leaders knew the damage was so severe that the reactors could melt down, but they kept their knowledge secret for months. Five days into the crisis, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan voiced his fears that it could turn worse than Chernobyl. The revelations were in documents released Friday, almost a year after the disaster. The minutes of the government's crisis management meetings from March 11 - the day the earthquake and tsunami struck - until late December were not recorded and had to be reconstructed retroactively. They illustrate the confusion, lack of information, delayed response and miscommunication among government, affected towns and plant officials, as some ministers expressed the sense that nobody was in charge when the plant conditions quickly deteriorated. The minutes quoted an unidentified official explaining that cooling functions of the reactors were kept running only by batteries that would last just eight hours. "If temperatures in the reactor cores keep rising beyond eight hours, there is a possibility of meltdown," the official said during the first meeting, which started about four hours after the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami hit the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, setting off the crisis. Apparently the government tried to play down the severity of the damage. A spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency was replaced after he slipped out a possibility of meltdown during a news conference March 12. The plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., acknowledged a partial meltdown much later, in May. Top government spokesman Yukio Edano, who is now trade minister, urged other ministers to watch what they said to the public. "We must provide information fast, but it must be accurate," Edano said on March 14. "We must be clear about all our evaluations and judgment, and announce them only after we reach a decision." While then-trade minister Banri Kaieda suggested on March 11 that residents within a 10km radius might have to be evacuated, the government ordered 1800-plus residents within a 2km zone to leave. Then that expanded to 3km, then 10km within two hours, and finally to 20km the next day. Kan said a 20km zone would suffice. After seeing a series of explosions and fires at reactor buildings, Kan on March 16 cautioned his Cabinet about the possibility that the Fukushima crisis could be worse than the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Kan was particularly concerned about a spent fuel pool inside the No. 4 reactor building, which had the largest number of fuel rods and rising water temperatures. "We should worry about the Unit 4 pool, whose temperature has been on the rise," he said, adding that other spent fuel pools at Fukushima Dai-ichi, as well as four others at the neighbouring Dai-ni plant, could also deteriorate. "The amount of radiation that could be released from those reactors could be larger than Chernobyl. We must keep cooling the reactors, whatever it takes. It's going to be a long battle," he said, according to the minutes dated March 16. It was nearly 10 days before one of his top nuclear advisers produced a worst-case scenario at his request. The March 25 paper, produced by the head of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, warned that a disaster of that scale would require evacuating 30 million people from the greater Tokyo area. Fearing panic, the government kept the report a secret, but The Associated Press obtained it in January. The failure to properly record the minutes of the government's crisis management meetings has added to sharp public criticism about how the nuclear crisis was handled, deepening distrust of politicians and bureaucrats. "Who is the leader of the actual operation? I get too many requests and appeals that are incoherent," Yoshihiro Katayama, internal affairs minister at the time, said at a March 15 meeting. "Nobody seems to be in charge." The minutes also showed top crisis managers were confused, causing miscommunication that left local officials and residents without crucial information needed for evacuation. http://www.heraldsun...f-1226295832848

Report slams Japan over nuclear disaster by: By Yuri Kageyama in Tokyo From: AP February 28, 2012 11:30PM THE Japanese government withheld information about the full danger of last year's nuclear disaster from its own people and from the US, putting US-Japan relations at risk in the first days after the accident, according to an independent report. The report, released today and compiled from interviews with more than 300 people, delivers a scathing view of how leaders played down the risks of the meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant that followed a massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The report by the private Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation also paints a picture of confusion during the days immediately after the accident. It says the US government was frustrated by the scattered information provided by Japan and was sceptical whether it was true. The US advised Americans to leave an area within 80km of the plant, far bigger than the 20km Japanese evacuation area, because of concerns that the accident was worse than Japan was reporting. The misunderstandings were gradually cleared up after a bilateral committee was set up on March 22 and began regular meetings, according to the 400-page report. The report, compiled by scholars, lawyers and other experts, credits then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan for ordering Tokyo Electric Power Co, the utility running the plant, not to withdraw its staff and to keep fighting to bring it under control. TEPCO's president at the time, Masataka Shimizu, called Kan on March 15 and said he wanted to abandon the plant and have all 600 TEPCO staff flee, the report said. That would have allowed the situation to spiral out of control, resulting in a much larger release of radiation. A group of about 50 workers was eventually able to bring the plant under control. TEPCO, which declined to take part in the investigation, has denied it planned to abandon Fukushima Dai-ichi. The report notes the denial, but says Kan and other officials had the clear understanding that TEPCO had asked to leave. But the report criticises Kan for attempting to micromanage the disaster and for not releasing critical information on radiation leaks, thereby creating widespread distrust of the authorities among Japanese. Kan's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the report. Kan acknowledged in a recent interview with The Associated Press that the release of information was sometimes slow and at times wrong. He blamed a lack of reliable data at the time and denied the government hid such information from the public. It will take decades to fully decommission Fukushima Dai-ichi. Although one of the damaged reactor buildings has been repaired, others remain in shambles. A group of journalists, including a reporter from The Associated Press, were given a tour of the plant today. Workers have used tape to mend cracks caused by freezing weather in plastic hoses on temporary equipment installed to cool the hobbled reactors. "I have to acknowledge that they are still rather fragile," plant chief Takeshi Takahashi said of the safety measures. The area is still contaminated with radiation, complicating the work. It already has involved hundreds of thousands of workers, who have to quit when they reach the maximum allowed radiation exposure of 100 millisieverts a year. The report includes a document describing a worst-case scenario that Kan and the chief of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission secretly discussed two weeks after the disaster. That scenario involved the possibility of more nuclear fuel rods burning, causing the release of more radiation and requiring the evacuation of a much wider region, including Tokyo. The report also concludes that government oversight of nuclear plant safety had been inadequate, ignoring the risk of tsunami and the need for plant design renovations, and instead clinging to a "myth of safety". "The idea of upgrading a plant was taboo," said Koichi Kitazawa, a scholar who heads the commission that prepared the report. "We were just lucky that Japan was able to avoid the worst-case scenario. But there is no guarantee this kind of luck will prevail next time." http://www.heraldsun...x-1226284522535

Bump.