and welcome to me on five a show about Maine and its people this year for Christmas I decided to go to various parts in the state take some pictures of houses that I thought had beautiful beautiful decorations and also I was able to see the greatest gingerbread house I've ever seen in my life and I've got a short video coming up about that I've also got a video about a Christmas tree that I saw and over the course of my trip around the state I was asking people various Christmas questions for prizes amazing enough a lot of people didn't want to take the chance but some of them did and I was asking them some pretty interesting questions about Christmas but now I have with me the executive director of the station that I've been on for 20 21 years now his name is Tom Handel and he's the reason I'm here we had lunch about 21 years ago Tom happy holidays thank you so much for coming on the show one of the things I want to say Tom and I know this thing is a difficult with COVID and so things around the studio have changed but surely you've got a Christmas story that is one of your favorites in your life right and I'd like to hear that story yeah sure I have Christmas stories but I also want to say that this is a great Christmas story that you're coming on doing this show and your spirit and for all these 21 years or whatever that you've been doing your show you've added a lot of energy and vitality to what we do here I have I've never known anybody to be so passionate love so much what you do when you come in here it's really a joy to have you because you're just full of positive I'm a Dracula I come into the studio and then suddenly I wake up that's what it is well you bring a lot of energy to the place and I really appreciate all that you've all that you've done here it's really great thank you that to my children sitting up actually these are decorations that were left over by a prior roommate of mine yes yeah but one of the things that I think is really you know great about Christmas and the whole thing about Santa Claus that's part of my story is that Santa Claus is real and we all embody him and we all do our best to do special things on Christmas to make Santa Claus come alive and children of course respond to that to the most so my three kids were little we lived in Pownall where the station goes to Pownall and and it was enough what used to be a new school it was a lot of different buildings it was a new school in the 60s like for high school or even grammar school and there were all these weirdly shaped buildings in the 60s that had these different like levels it was it was bought by a family and made a compound but we were one family that they rented to and there was this u-shaped building that we lived in and the long shape of the U on one end was where our children slept and they and there was a roof over the hallway and then a higher roof on top of their bedroom and we were all the way at the other end of the bedroom so I had this great idea that on Christmas morning with all the Christmas presents on the tree instead of saying I think Santa's come what I would do is put my boots on run up the ladder go on top of their roof climb on top of the roof total total snow covered like like like a foot of snow this sounds like a lawsuit but go ahead and I and I'd get I'd go stomp on their roof go ho ho ho Merry Christmas ring the jingle bells then run down take my robe off run into bed and wait wait nothing so I said Andrew I guess maybe they didn't hear it's okay I'll go I'll do it again I put my boots on right run back into the bedroom nothing so finally I was like what's going on so I went down to the hallway they were under their covers they were shivering these says tell the synagogue yet he said yeah he's gone come out and get your presents yeah in the county jail and so I know that that poem the good fellow you know that she's at the end of it says the good shelf the bad shell fail I try to bring the Christmas spirit but you know you do the best you can right the reason why I enjoy the stories because here I am I'm up in various parts of the state and I'm going up to people and said listen I'm an attorney from Portland I have a TV show I'd like to ask you a couple of Christmas questions for a prize can you do and it was amazing the number of people that said no no thanks and I want to go what is it about my face that thinks I'm about to scam you but anyway that happens all the time we go out the street people just say no they don't just on get well then I then I don't take it so personally but Tom I do have a couple trivia questions for you oh great these are questions and and and the prize is enough to buy a well not a large car but a small car oh good okay so here's the question you are you know the song we three kings of orienta okay what part of the orient where from India well first of all I asked a woman in the store that question and she goes well I have no idea well I don't know if there's anybody answer it but guess I would have said Macedonia whatever who knows where they were from but she said Bethlehem and I said close enough okay what's the answer I don't know the answer oh well there is a movie you could see it on on YouTube yeah it's called Jesus was a Buddhist monk I hope I don't get yeah but it is is a documentary saying that actually the three kings came to see him in Bethlehem because they heard a Rupeshe was born and these were three were Buddhist monks that came from India and brought him back to India and trained him in Buddhism and their theory in this documentary was that Jesus's philosophy yeah that he espouses Christianity is closer to to Buddhism than it is to Judaism right so that's just it and there is a place where they actually say that Jesus is buried in India okay so we're gonna get a bunch of calls yeah that's that's thanks a long time here but you can see it on YouTube yeah here comes question two okay in my first in the show that I just taped the very moment so we talked about my dear friend Brenda Lee and in this show I'm going to talk about my dear friend Bobby Riedel who's this would be my friend Bobby Riedel this is what he looked like about 60 years ago he doesn't look like that now but but he's still a very handsome any 79 years old and the show that I want to ask you the question I want to ask you is Bobby Riedel did a cover to song that was very popular the two songs that came out in 58 were Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee huge hit and the other one was Jingle Bell Rock and Bobby Riedel did a version of that song which I'm gonna play when I close the show but he did it with another famous singer from the 60s and I'm gonna give you the hint this singer had the only number one hit to go to number one twice the only singer in rock and roll history and they did a song Jingle Bell Rock together do you want to guess the name of that other artist and that funnecello did not not bad not bad Connie Francis it was a male oh it was a man now I'm gonna give you another hint this man did songs about dances several different songs about dances how about the Barbara Streisand maybe Leslie will give me a hint okay this guy did the twist oh choppy checkers I mean besides the twist yes choppy and Bobby were pals well from Philadelphia twist anyway so that's the that's the that's the Bobby right now story so Tom thanks for coming on board while we let you switch I'm gonna call somebody folks and the person I'm about to call is indeed the the publicist for Bobby Riedel and his gal Friday and I'm gonna be calling her hopefully she'll ends the phone and here we go this is Maria Novi down in Pennsylvania as we speak all right we were calling here yeah hello is this Maria Novi my dear friend and Bobby Riedel's publicist gal Friday and whatever else you want to call yourself how you doing Maria I'm so glad to have you with me sitting right beside me is not Bobby Riedel about his picture on a pillow that my niece gave me and Maria I just asked my station director a trivia question I'm gonna see if you can guess it Bobby Riedel did a Christmas song with called Jingle Bell Rock and he did it with another artist a very popular artist can you name the artist Mr. Chubby checker well yes that's correct Maria and you win the big prize by the way Maria I've been asking people questions I got one more for you if you can if you can try to guess this trivia question we know that the Christmas is celebrated on December 25th what year what year was Jesus born Jesus Christ born you know well I asked this question yesterday and because I don't know I don't know what the I think the right answers is between four and six BC but my answer would have been zero yeah I don't think that's the right answer but anyway so Maria what I want to ask you is is yeah what's what's what's Bobby doing for Christmas what's my pal doing for Christmas well I got a couple elves right sitting right next to me by the way yeah yeah oh I can imagine that I I have to tell you one of my favorite moments was sitting him sitting with him on the back of that cruise ship and he's telling stories and he tells this story that he always tells the time about the the two old men that are talking about the heaven dreams but that's kind of an R rated story so I'll leave it for now and Maria what are you folks doing for Christmas okay so so they do a reenactment he's standing on the the front of the boat that with a picture we've all seen they go across the river wow now you know of course we have they have Bobby Rydell Boulevard there he's an icon of Philadelphia very very highly respected he loves the Eagles has he ever sung the national anthem at the Eagles game I would guess he has right right well years ago yeah okay I'm gonna close with a connection moment with Bobby Rydell when he and I first met this is how we became friends we started talking about the military and we were both in the Army reserves and both of us were squad leaders and the thing I remember is that my as being at the fort around Christmas time there's a very depressing place to be and yet one of the greatest things that I got out of the military was my friendship with Bobby Rydell and the last text that he sent to me two days ago he signed it spec for Riddarelli which of course is his real name and Maria I want to thank you just as I did Doug Rome I was in my last show I want to thank you for keeping my friendship alive with this wonderful man by the way he's 79 he just say he had a birthday in April right he'll be 80 in April 22 and still sells out venues where several thousand people will come and and watch him sing when's the last time you saw him perform Maria was recently wasn't it in August okay my final story for you in the audience as I was out in Las Vegas with Frankie Avalon at the South Point Casino with my other friend Eden Everly son of Don Everly and I went to Frankie and said Frankie I just want to tell you Bobby Rydell says good luck he goes what do you mean you know Bobby Rydell I said yes he said you just heard from him I go yeah he just texted me goes Bobby Rydell just texted you and so all of a sudden I was friends with Frankie Avalon Maria and happy holidays to you thanks for taking my call hi to John and Carolyn and the family and when you see my pal Bobby say Derry did Jingle Bell Rock on his show but trust me you don't want to see it okay okay bye bye okay ladies and gentlemen that was a Maria Novi from Pennsylvania excuse me well I bend down and get my sheet here and what I'd like to do now before I bring on my next guest is to talk to you about some photos that I took around the state of various homes that had their lights on the quality of the photographs is not what I would want but at least the message is clear and the first one I want to show which is number one is a photo actually of one of my neighbor's house and they had the normal Christmas lights but what I noticed was a Christmas tree in in the backyard not in the front yard but in the backyard and you could not see it only just a little bit from the road but they could obviously see it from the window I suppose of their living room and so the second shot Dino was also all that Christmas tree and I'm going to make it my business every night now to go out and stand and look at that lonely it's not lonely but it's sitting by itself in their backyard we're moving now to shot number three and what I thought was beautiful about this home was just that there was all white lights all white lights and it just as you drove down the neighborhood and saw this show this this house you could not miss how wonderful it was and the next one I liked another this is slide number four this is a house where had lights in every room obviously ours are single candle light in every room and I just thought that was simple but so well stated and the next one is of a store that actually is in my neighborhood called a fiddle head gift store right near the cookie jar in in South Portland and as I drove by there the first thing I thought was that's a little much it's a little whatever but then what I began to see how well they designed the symmetry of this of this decoration I was just so very very impressed so the next shot which would be slide number six is actually this is my backyard these two giant trees it took me about seven days no actually this is the park in South Portland that is right next to Portland players and right across from Cumberland farms and I wanted to tell a joke that it was actually my backyard but the shot number seven is one of my favorites because that is the shot of my favorite theater the Portland players theater in South Portland and what looks like to have the star of Bethlehem shining on Portland players where it says on the marquee happy holidays well actually that star is a streetlight but it sure looks like the star of Bethlehem to me and do you know the last slide that we're going to see here is a picture a picture of a mailbox at the post office that it goes direct to Santa and I just thought that was so cute that kids could come in there and it makes a lot of sense because then they don't have to sort all the male that's addressed the Santa Claus at the North Pole do you know if you could send in either Warren or yourself to come in and sit down and while you're doing that I would like to chat a little bit about my friend Bobby Raidell whom I just texted I met Bobby Raidell on the malt shop memories cruise and when I was on that cruise the last night there I was introduced to him we started talking about the army and the next day he called me over and we became we became good friends over the years he is pretty much a big draw card on that on that ship the malt shop memories cruise and as Maria just said in my interview he is now 79 years old still performing with the Golden Boys of Bernstein which by the way I saw that show in 1985 here in Portland Maine at the Merrill Auditorium Frankie Avalon and Bobby Raidell and Fabian they would have been in their 40s I remember sitting in the audience this the show was just beginning having trouble hearing you well that's I guess my phone saying having trouble hearing me and in any event they they performed in this Golden Boys of Bernstein and what I noticed was that the audience was sold out and I thought to myself this is really fantastic well they were going to do that show for two or three years but ladies and gentlemen it is now 2023 and those people are still going strong the Golden Boys of Bernstein so do you know I'm going to start with you buddy thank you so much for being the director how many months you've been on and now doing this I have been here at the media center working I've been volunteering for years I was on the board of directors for a little bit but I've been working since June of this year and I didn't realize they know that you have tremendous experience where was it you you were in Boston WGBH of the WGBH I was down in Boston from 1987 yeah where I started part-time full-time in 89 until 2012 oh my goodness yeah oh wow it's quite quite quite a run-in very fortunate it was a great place to work and and just recently you had a famous person on this at this studio you had Al Franken Al Franken was in at our new podcast studio we did a couple episodes for his national show well worldwide show you get a worldwide show you know yeah well it's a podcast available everywhere around the world and why did he happen to choose to shoot it here Al's got family and his wife was born in Portland really yeah oh my goodness and they come and visit and while he was here I was thrilled that the media center was able to chip in and help him continue to do his show while he was here well I'm proud to be sitting on the same spot as Al Franken so so Dino you must have a Christmas story from the past that you're quite fond of can you tell us that story well I'll tell you you know Christmas to me has always been about being with my family right and like many families mine has gone through its own ups and downs it's its own changes and I feel so fortunate now because I've got my when my parents divorced going back almost three decades now they both remarried wonderful wonderful people and I feel so fortunate that I get to spend time during the holidays with with with even more people than I almost feel sometimes more people than anyone should could deserve but it's a wonderful wonderful gift and my family here in Portland well let me celebrate the fact that my daughter and Nicole just moved to Maine with her wife are and was shopping right now with my wife and I've got to tell you something one of the things about divorces is believe not sometimes families can grow in a positive way it doesn't have to be negative and I have to say during the Christmas season folks it's the time to let down let down those those negative negative feelings and you move forward and and moving to the new year Dino I want to thank you profusely for for what you've done for me in the studio and especially these incredible decorations at Dino I was looking for a couple ribbons a couple presents but I got that you know I got the whole thing here and my two buddies the elves that look like a couple of kids I went to high school with well that that's that's courtesy of the ever resourceful Tom Handel so Dino I'm going to send you back into the studio as I discuss the videos that I did some of which I tried to send you hopefully you got them we'll take care of it yeah okay so folks we'll say goodbye to Dino when he goes back in and tries to close this show thank you Dino thank you ladies and gentlemen one of the things that one of the videos that I did up in Rockland at the Sima set was I'm walking by I saw this fantastic fantastic gingerbread house I mean something you could actually go walk inside this thing and we're going to show that video as we close the show and then the beautiful Christmas tree in Rockland I tried to send that that didn't quite come across but another beautiful Christmas tree at the Sima set one like I'd never seen before it was all white and had these white owls all through it and that was just a fun moment for me but folks I also did these trivia questions with people and for prizes and one of the gentlemen that I did record but it didn't quite get sent to the station in time his name is Christopher I told him I watched the show he was in a store nobody else wanted to do but he did and I asked him the question what year what year was Christ born and he said zero and I said to him that that is that is what I would consider to be the right answer so Warren you can come over and sit in this chair for a second just very briefly I want to just you can just hold the mic and speak by holding it without putting them up there I know you got your headphones in there and and Warren you're you're a volunteer at the station right I am a volunteer but I also work here I'm the social media coordinator you're the social media coordinator that's right and I what's your accent what's this accent oh it's a it's part of a speech impediment I had as a kid really yes it evolved over the years I still don't fully know what it is but it sounds like you're from Belgium or something it's eyes it's very weird I like I mean my mom one of the people asking that question people ask me that question all the time what's the accent right yeah and I don't know what to tell them well my parents spoke English well I have to say you know I have an accent by the way my main accent is among the worst you could have in the state of Maine if for anybody wherever I go anybody they'll go what what the heck is that accent so so Warren the good news for you buddy is is I've got I got some some trivia questions and and a prize so I'm gonna ask you a couple of Christmas questions okay okay now in the Christmas story they they're going to Bethlehem you all right one minute left they got one minute left on the show they're saying okay so with one minute left I wanted to ask you when they were going to Bethlehem what where was the first place they went to try to find a room oh they went to was it a hotel yes and what was the name of the hotel I don't know the name of it so Warren I would ask that question Warren congratulations thanks for working at the station thank you looks like we're getting ready to wrap this thing up ladies and gentlemen happy holidays from me on five and I wanted to play a jingle bell rock by Bobby Riedel and I'm gonna do that hey Siri play jingle bell rock by Bobby Riedel I think it's coming up yeah one sec I want it now there we go that's it now I don't hear it jingle bell sign and jingle bell ring the wind and blowing a bushel of fun now the jingle hop has begun jeanie about jingle bell jingle bell twist that's chubby checker I dance you wouldn't know so this is one of the new trees I've ever seen Christmas tree these are all owls sitting in the street from these like adult owls and they look so real anyway this is one of my favorite trees on this Christmas trip we are in front of what the biggest gingerbread house I'm gonna see and at first when I saw this I couldn't believe it's real gingerbread but it is everything in this gingerbread house is real this is at the famous and hotel rock it's got 290 gingerbread tiles 90 pounds of icing 10 pounds of candy two sugar glass windows and 60 plus hours so this I say is the greatest gingerbread house I've ever seen in my 75 years on the face of this earth


Hi, and welcome back to this video course biological psychology and in this video video 3.8. We're going to take a look at the perception of balance Now, so what is balance balance is a sensation of which way is down and the movement of the body acceleration of the body and It's also called Equilibrium or vestibular sense right and by this description you can also already tell that balance is kind of a Composite sense right it's not really one sense, but it is a combination of senses that all have to do in one way or another with our sense of balance And most of balance our sense of balance happens through the vestibular organ in the air Which is actually very similar to the to the to our actual inner ear that we use for hearing But then it does something functionally does something very different, but the way that it works is very similar to our sense of hearing So here you see the inner ear right and we've taken a look if you've seen the lecture on the video on hearing You've already seen this part right here, right? So the inner ear that with the hair cells that support hearing now this other part of the inner ear That's where our sense of balance is mostly located So Helen hair cells in these vestibular organs are very similar to the ones that are involved in hearing and they sense Pressure so they can sense that which way is down and movement of the body simply by the fact that They sort of there's a certain pool downwards which allows you to tell which where where down is right? So right now I'm feeling that this way is down that weighs up And that is essentially the pool that is pool on the sensors in my in my vestibular organ That allows me to to have that sense And there are also changes in pressure right the acceleration that happens if you move and That allows you to feel the acceleration of the body Right, and you can see that there are three different kinds of there are three of these canals that are oriented in slightly different ways And these allow us to be sensitive to acceleration and movement in different directions Now balance is certainly not an isolated sense It is a sense that interacts with for example the sensation of limb positions or proprioception, right? So we we feel for example which way is down, but we also feel the position in which our limbs are right? so for example if I would Rotate my head like that of course from my vestibular organs then another direction would be down But because at the same time I know that I've I bent my head backward like that I don't really feel like the world is rotating or anything right because my on the one hand my body knows Okay, I get a different vestibular system on the other hand My body also knows that I've rotated my head and the two together tell me tell tell tell me that actually this the world has Not rotated in any meaningful way Right, so we have there's a strong interaction between our sense of limb position and and balance There's also a very strong interaction between vision and our sense of balance right so Essentially and you can if you are for example in a in an in an airplane where your sense of vision tells you that You're very stable, but your sense of balance tells you that you're actually falling or moving upwards that can be very disturbing right and Conversely for example if you're in a in a driving simulator and your Vision tells you that you're actually moving and you're accelerating and decelerating But your sense of balance is not cooperating that can also be quite nauseating can make you quite sick Right, so in general I would say in this especially in the scent in the case of balance There is a lot of interaction with other senses proprioception our sense of limb position and vision And if there is somehow a mismatch between these different senses that interact that tends to be quite disagreeable Now with that we've arrived at the end of this section on perception. Thank you very much for watching


I can tell you that when you go to Asia one of the things you find pretty quickly is British Columbia's product, Canada's food products are in high demand because they know that in Canada we produce clean, non-toxic, sustainable food. It's a tremendous opportunity for us but it's also been an opportunity that's been limited by trade barriers. Under the TPP, this seafood product will be even more affordable to consumers overseas. And I'm sure we'll even see more Canadian frags stem on products throughout Asia. Our government supports free trade and opening new doors for BC companies in international markets. It's like having a family business when everyone's working together to one end. You've got that power that you won't get with just one person struggling along or one group. When you have those different nuances of the whole aspect of industry which is not just the people working, it's not just the management but it's your country behind you creates a power that you're not going to get from anything else. We can't forget international trade is our bread and butter here in British Columbia. It's how we built our economy and it's important that we speak as one voice as British Columbians and remember that if we care about working people we have to care about making sure that there are places for them to work. And that those jobs that work comes from creating trade opportunities all around the world.


FNN, Deadline News Update. Good afternoon everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN to PM Eastern Time on Wednesday. Two hours left to go on the trading day and quite a day to the positive side we have going on right now. Folks, quite a reversal from overnight. Right now we've got the S&Ps up 21 points, trading at $32.57. Last night the S&Ps were as low as $31.81. You're talking about almost 80, 80 S&P points to the positive side from that overnight low. NASDAQ reaching an all-time high, S&Ps actually reaching an all-time high as well. NASDAQ trading up 67 points at $91.36. Dow Jones up 188 points, trading $28,772. On the reverse of that, how about crude oil? Now down $3.34 at $59.36, but crude off more than $6 from the high that it had reaching almost $66 overnight. Gold trading lower as well off $17 at $15.56. Gold had been as high as $16.13. You're talking about more than $50 to the downside from gold's overnight highs and the dollar index up 272 ticks at $97.276. Notes and bonds were getting some higher yield as well. We'll start things off. Let's jump over to the charts. We'll start it off with the Dow. So, on the charts, I have the overnight low. Pretty remarkable. We were actually under $28,100 at one point. We almost just made it to $28,800. You had President Trump coming on television and speaking at 11 a.m., and that's where you see the final thrust upward in the market as Trump seeming to calm things down. The headline coming out of that, Trump says Iran appears to be standing down, quote unquote, after missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq. Looks to be no U.S. casualties. That, of course, a good thing. Dow 30 just been hanging out at this level since President Trump finished his speech, $28,740. NASDAQ 100, pretty similar action since the end of that speech just prior to noon, hanging out at this level, $89.38. S&Ps up at $32.57 was above and reached $32.61 for the futures. Crude oil, check that out. Last night, $7.30. We were up at $65.62. We're now more than $6 below that level at $59.45. We also had inventories for Crude at 11 a.m. this morning, seeing a surprise build versus a draw, and there is gold $15.56. Stay tuned, folks. We got our man Dave White coming up live with the power trading hour from two-till-three, Tom O'Brien live from three-till-four. We'll be right back. If you're a trader in the m-


I'd like to welcome you all here for this afternoon's session, our briefing on flooding and other weather events. Over the past few years, the nuclear industry has experienced multiple flooding and extreme weather events, and not just in the U.S. – I'm talking globally, the nuclear industry – which have caused the NRC to take a harder look at our oversight of natural phenomena. For instance, on March 11th in 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan was inundated by a tsunami after a very large earthquake occurred nearby, and the height of the tsunami exceeded the seawalls by about 27 feet. It caused extensive damage to the facility, most of which was the loss – complete loss of electrical power to five of six reactors, and the subsequent meltdown of three of those reactors. In the summer – it was an eventful year. In the summer of 2011, the Missouri River reached record flood levels and flooded the site of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant for many months. And then in October 2012, Superstorm Sandy, one of the largest recorded hurricanes tracked up the eastern seaboard and created meteorological conditions that in the end were not too much of a challenge to the nuclear power plants, but in particular in New Jersey did cause some levels of flooding. So the NRC has been paying attention to this. Industry has been paying attention to this. In fact, right now, nuclear power plants throughout the country are working to reevaluate their flood hazard analyses, as mandated by us at the NRC, using the most up-to-date methodologies available. Some of those licensees have already completed those evaluations. Some are still in the process of doing those evaluations. For those that have completed their evaluations and where it was determined that the flood hazards were not bounded by their current design basis, they have instituted interim actions, and we have inspected those interim actions to make sure that they are adequate. So today, the commission is going to be briefed by two panels, an external panel and an internal panel, our own staff. Good afternoon, Chairman, commissioners. It's the tail end of a long day, and I know it's been longer for you because of the five of you have been listening intently. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss how the staff has addressed flooding and extreme weather events in its licensing and oversight programs. How nuclear power plants are protected from natural phenomena has received increased attention since the Fukushima event, as well as other major flooding events affecting nuclear power plants such as Blayet in France and Fort Calhoun in the U.S. Additionally, some national and international reports on climate change have indicated that more frequent and intense extreme weather events may challenge the operation and safety of nuclear power plants in the future. What you'll hear today is that ensuring plants are adequately protected against natural phenomenon, especially flooding and extreme weather, has been and continues to be an integral part of the staff's licensing and oversight program. You will hear that the guidance and analytical tools the staff uses to assure nuclear power plants are adequately protected continue to evolve as advances in science and technology are made. The staff is staying abreast of the latest advances in climate change, science, and assessing the need for further enhancing our rules, guidance, and analytical tools. To date, the staff believes our guidance and tools appropriately account for extreme weather events. With that said, we're working intently to further refine our ability to estimate the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Any new tools or guidance developed from our research activity will continue to account for the state of science in climate change. Let me turn it over to Eric, who will briefly describe the scope of today's presentation by the staff. All right, thank you so much, Mark. Good afternoon, Chairman and Commissioners. As Mark indicated, natural phenomena can create significant challenges that plants must be able to cope with to maintain safety. We have a well-established regulatory process that includes a licensing process that determines the appropriate design basis natural phenomena for the site and for the plant design. We have an oversight process that includes inspection activities to assess whether the plant continues to comply with its design and licensing basis. And finally, we have a research program that continues to monitor the state of the science and develop tools and guidance to support licensing and oversight. Each aspect of this process informs the other. And the process is informed by operational experience, by advancements in technology, by information that we gain from our federal partners, as well as from our international activities. Plants here in the United States have responded well to natural phenomenon events. From the seismic event that impacted North Ana that you heard about this morning, Commissioner Seviniki mentioned Hurricane Andrew hitting Turkey Point. Of course, Hurricane Katrina impacted three nuclear power plants. The general population probably isn't even aware of this. One of those nuclear power plants, Waterford, is located right on the Gulf Coast, within 20 miles of New Orleans. And finally, to the plants in the northeast, which effectively handled the storm surge from Superstorm Sandy, which you just heard about from the previous panel. While United States plants have coped well with these events, certainly Fukushima emphasizes the importance of remaining vigilant in overseeing plants and maintaining our understanding of the state of science for extreme weather and for flooding. Extreme weather creates conditions such as high winds and floods. To discuss how a regulatory program addresses all aspects of extreme weather, we take more time than we have today. So today's presentation will focus on flooding. Flooding is the one aspect of extreme weather that is included in tier one of the Fukushima activities. So we thought it was important to discuss flooding in some detail. Other elements of extreme weather will be addressed in our tier two review of the Fukushima action items. For our agenda, our first speaker will be Mr. George Wilson, and he'll describe our oversight process and some of the flooding related issues identified by our inspectors. The key lessons we have learned from those findings. Next, Dr. Chris Cook will describe the licensing process used to establish a plant's design, basis flood, and the evolution of this licensing process. And finally, we'll conclude with Dr. Bill Ott, who will discuss our research program and ongoing research activities in the area of flooding assessment and protection.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysCaseBrace.com 22-23, Bowman University Inception, just sold out. This is a four box break. Random first letter, first name, number nine. So again guys, 19 total spots. Everybody that's writing a letter from the list below. Example, if you get letter B, and we pull the price down, that'll be yours. Now this is a fresh case, so 9, 10, 11, 12 will be from the same case. Tristan, Donna, David Duffy. A, Donna, Z, and there's a couple combo spots there. So let's click dice roll into 10, five out of five. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Five out of five, 10 times, 10 times, David Duffy, Donna Kev, and 10 times here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. 10 times, 10, 10, J, Donna Z. All right, 10 times, 10 times, David Duffy, J. Victor A, Tristan VW, Simon D, Gabe H, Tristan GI, Travis M, Tristan EF, David C, Tristan B, David with T, XL for Jesse, Tristan with NO, Sean with S, Jason with K, James K, with R, Tristan with P, and then Kev with Z. All right, well, I'll give you guys a quick minute to look at your letters. I don't think there's been any trades for letters just yet, but I'll leave it up there for a quick minute. People haven't traded letters yet. I'd be so afraid to trade the letter, although we haven't seen a Victor Webonyama or Clayton Clark, but I feel like letter V can get such a haul back, but obviously you don't wanna be that guy at trade V for Victor, for Wemby, and then all of a sudden, you know, there is one. Boxes are stuck here. All right, so we're gonna do what we did now. Forgot that we can split them up into four, so these four will be a break, these four will be a break, these four will be a break, and those four will be a break. So one, two, three, four. Let's see what we can try to roll here. One. All right, we got Aiden O'Connell, Kalil Ware, Jordan Travis, Tyler Bubner, and then we have a Adam Flagger, 227 out of 299 for Baylor. So that's letter A. Aiden O'Connell, another one for letter A, Victor, on the board twice already, and then Sam Hartman to 50. Letter S, Sean Mandel. There's the elusive Caitlyn Clark. I wonder how much the base cards would sell for, honestly. Letter C is going to David Duffy. Cam Whitmore to 299. Philip Koski, 16 out of 199. Letter F, Tristan with EF, and then we have a cave club link. Letter C, David Duffy. All right, Dylan Gabriel, Max Buzelles, Nolan Smith. DJ. Yugalely to 299. We have a redemption right there. We have a Tiger Campbell for UCLA. Letter T, David Duffy. And how about a little bone X for letter B and Tristan. Letter D with Simon here. All right, here we go. Let's see if this is a victor. Little Wemby, come on, give me Wemby. Give me Wemby. Yeah, we've got like three scoots already, Sean. We're looking to get Victor, no way. We got one. Finally, after the first two cases of nothing, Victor Webinyama for letter V, going to Tristan. Nice. And I don't know if that's different, but I don't know if that's a different variation or that's just a teaming place for maybe. Metropolitan, 92. Awesome, there you go. Finally, we got one. That's the team name? Yeah. We got Sky Clark to 199. We got Jalen Hood, Sheffino, letter J, David Duffy. And then Keely Ringo, another eagle right there, out of 75. All right, guys, and there you go. Finally, we got a little Wemby. So there you go, folks. Again, still have more to go. Maybe we can get a Caitlin Clark in this case. Maybe some other big time names you never know. So appreciate it, folks. That's BeastKaceBrace.com.


The answer turns out to be that these muons are moving very quickly, more than 99% of the speed of light. So from our point of view, when we look at them, they're undergoing significant time dilation. And so the muon thinks it'll decay in some time tau, but in our frame, the decay time is gamma tau, and gamma tau is greater than lnv, which is why we can detect these particles on the surface.


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Well, we're here at the amazing J5 Rancher. We just had the first C-H-T-O Chubby Turner Clinic and we've got Terrell Houston who was one of the participants and we're just going to be speaking to Terrell today because we want to hear about your journey into cutting and what you've experienced so far. So tell us how you got introduced to cutting. Well, I my great-grandfather was into horses and you know and back then that's how they made a living and so after my dad and my uncles come about But they left Texas and moved to Oklahoma. So when I came about I missed that whole generation gap So when I came back to Texas to stay here, I got into horses. I've always had a love for horses, but one day I Was going to ride and just learned some things work on my balance work on my speed and agility things like that And a nice lady introduced me to cutting. She asked me what it was and I was like I didn't have no clue what it was But it ended up being a flag machine the inflatable cow on like a 40-foot zipline just going back and forth and I was like I want to do that. So I started doing that and let's say five maybe six weeks later I'm here talking to you. That's amazing. So what is it about? The sport that really captured you is it the feeling in the saddle? Is it having that? Control over the cow. What is it? It's the it's the adrenaline rush first and foremost. I truly enjoy that but The fact of that your horse Can bend down and work with the cow and at that same level And you just stay locked and loaded the whole time is like I love it And I love the fact that it's a challenge. It's not easy It's it's not easy not even the from the balance to the Understanding the actual game that you're playing and the reason why you're playing it. So I Love a big challenge like that. So have you competed at a cutting yet? No, never So what's the plan? The plan is? Keep working at it Work on my balance work on my speed work on the knowledge actually of the sport learn it more and start off in an amateur class and Lord willing in the creek don't rise. I'd be competing there pretty soon So once you got that first taste when when your friend introduced you to it, right? How did you? Find a way to learn more about it. Is there much cutting around where you live? And in all honesty that the internet like I when I'm at work all day or when I get off work, and I'm at home I'm googling everything it led to YouTube videos of the Futurity and Macuria and all of the world finals the super stakes. I started watching the footage and once I started Learning the footage. I dissect the footage and all of that and then I said, okay Well, I need to find somebody who actually does this like in their backyard or at their ranch and I started googling more and more and I Found J5. I found Constance via Facebook and I had no clue I was even talking to her and then from that She told me about this and I started saving my pennies and I was like, oh, I won't miss this because I've never I've never seen or been that close to live cattle outside of taking a road trip like back home No, go home city or something. Well now this weekend you really threw yourself into the deep end because The chubby turner clinic was the first time you actually cut live cattle, right? Tell us about that experience. It was it was beautiful. It was I wish they had already made a word in the dictionary for how good it felt, but it was first and foremost in calves or They're fast in the whole lot faster than that remote control thing. So everything Everything was fast at first and then once I got in the pocket. I realized I was back in my living room And I was watching footage so everything just slowed down and I'm listening to chubby in one ear And I'm slowing everything down in the other ear all while Trying to hang on so exactly it's not the easiest sport because you've got you know You the horse and the cow and somehow you were to bring it all together Exactly with with their moments where you thought this is hard or this is Absolutely not out of control. Absolutely not I When I walked into it when I walked into the situation, I said, you know what?  So the whole time I was just oh, I got this. Oh, I got this never let them see you sweat So I was on it. So what have you learned about?  You can't force the issue. You got to hurry up and wait You got to have patience, but as you're being patient and you're starting to work that cow You have to be persistent. You can't you can't kick them All the way that way and then forget about it on the next one. You have to be persistent You got to stay with it. So has it made you hungry this course. Absolutely. Absolutely. Uncle Chubby told me I needed to move in So I'm packing my bags actually right now. So I'm gonna move in so you're even keener and you've got some goals Yes, first thing Continue to come back here work more on my balance work more on my riding ability And then from there start focusing more on the cow even when I told you when I study footage I'm focused on the rider like I look at the riders feet I look at the riders hands then I focus on their eyes I never pay attention to the cow until I got here because he told me never take your eyes off the cow And I was like, oh wow now I'm gonna have to go watch some more film and look at something totally different So a little bit of that That I take from there and what I'm already doing and putting it in the pot and go make some good gumbo out of it So it's gonna be good. So I mean you're a real role model for people who've been looking at cutting from that You know from the outside and wanting to get in You don't have a horse.   Well, there's somebody who's got some horses. I Need to find them and I'm pretty sure they got a whole bunch of them and they don't mind I mean hey if one guy's got 50 horses, I'm sure he don't mind letting you use number 36 to go Work on whatever it is you're working on so I'll Just use the internet like the internet brought us all together as cliche as that might sound but that's that's what happened and what's your advice to other people who Would love to get involved in cutting but they think it's too hard or they don't have a horse So they don't have the the supporter or trainer or they think it's too expensive What's your advice to them? I would tell them to change their circle of influence Exposure and expectations Get around Change your circle of influence get around somebody who's gonna push you to be great The good can always be great the great can always be phenomenal Just get around good people and good energy your circle of influence means a whole lot and once you have that positive Spirit on you Nobody can stop you.  You don't have to keep that secret bottled in you Just like hey, I want to do this and somebody's like go do it Who do we need to talk to and I'm just like that's your circle of influence That's that's what you need never give up never give in so I just I'll go get it by any means that's awesome So, you know you've got You've got what you're gonna work on with your cutting What else did you get out of the weekend, you know in terms of the people you've met and I enjoy every everything that I got from everybody I truly enjoyed everybody's spirit. I The clinic is over with the we all had a great time and this is the end But it was the journey the journey. I enjoyed the most. I mean from small conversations out on the porch to Conversations in the arena and outside and at night during dinner during breakfast doesn't matter those conversations from everybody else Even though Uncle Joby said I'm greener than snot So I but I can I I can share Something with somebody and I told him hey, I noticed how tense you were if you just breathing you just relax Because we having fun at the end of the day We having fun no matter that the cameras are rolling and for them to accept that and I don't know nothing I'm five six weeks into this thing and Then they give me some back, too, and then we can shake hands. We can hug it out and it's just I Appreciated the journey Everybody comes from all over and I'm just like these people took 14-15 hour drives to be here and I'm like geez I was only like an hour and 10 minutes away, but I found out how big and how great and how much these people appreciated and it made me want to it made me appreciate not only The opportunity and chubby and the clinic and everything But those people those people were all a part of the journey and I really appreciated them for that Thanks for being a part of it and best of luck with your cutting journey. Thank you. Thank you


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