Waste incineration.

Three main thermal treatment techniques are also described in general, as they relate to some common waste streams. These are:

-incineration

-pyrolysis

-gasification

Then there is always plasma waste management which produces elements such as mercury, cadmium, sulphur, SO₂, HCL, dioxins, selenium, chromium, lead, barium, arsenic, radioactive elements.

It's Sunday Night

Recovering addicts of one variety or another need to have options when required to test for substance abuse while on probation. In particular, it is completely outside the woman's culture to urinate in front of anyone. That is a man's culture.

Women and men should be given the option of urine or blood tests. There are reports that probationers can occasionally find themselves unable to urinate in front of their probation officers. It is called a "Shy Kidney Syndrome" and it is an actual diagnosis. In Canada, it is actually called "Shy Bladder," which is more accurate. (click here)

A blood test would be better at that point. I think blood tests should be conducted anyway, but, I suppose they are more costly.

But, when it comes to women they should have the option that will allow them to feel comfortable while providing a sample for testing.

25 March 2016

By An Coppens

Feminine gamification viewpoint: design with women in mind (click here)

A study published this month in the American Journal of Medicine explained how health technology and apps most frequently overlooked design to include female needs and often completely ignored feminine anatomy and health. Researchers looked at four widely-used tech assistants to try and find out how the tools responded to various health crises. Apple’s Siri, Google Now, Samsung’s S Voice, and Microsoft Cortana were evaluated on how well they recognized a crisis, what kind of language they responded with, and whether or not they suggested appropriate next steps....

T.Rex - Life's a Gas

"Life's a gas" by T. Rex (click here for official website)

I could have loved you, girl, like a planet
I could have chained your heart to a star
But it really doesn't matter at all
No it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas

I could have built a house on the ocean
I could have placed our love in the sky
But it really doesn't matter at all
No it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas

I could have turned you into a priestess
I could have burned your fate in the sand
But it really doesn't matter at all
No it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas

But it really doesn't matter at all
No it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas
I hope it's going to last

But it really doesn't matter at all
No it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas

Governor Brown called it, "...the new normal."

I never liked the term 'new normal' as if something was made permanent because of an earthshaking event. It was used after 911, but, Osama bin Laden is dead and now we have a President that is a racist because of such phrases as 'new normal.'

The fact is obvious to any scientists one may speak to, this is NOT NORMAL. This is the climate crisis and while lamenting the reality opposed to occurrences of the past, there is no denying this climate is having it's way with California in general.

Southern California was never a paradise in it's past. It was honed into it's current lush and beauty by decades of settlement and irrigation. The idea Southern California would get away with harsh results from the climate crisis because it's people have fought hard against this outcome, both morally and legislatively, is not to deny this reality. Protest it and make others that have reeked havoc on climate laws realize their moral shortfalls.

This is not the time to disillusion people of these regions. When Russia lost 50,000 people to fire and France 10,000 to heat, the real tragedy besides the loss of such life is the USA never modified it's' laws in reflection of these realities because of two oceans AND SOVEREIGN BORDERS. Somehow, France and Russia and Australia's Barrier Reef are 'their problems,' rather than a global problem. That is what has devastated California. DENIAL by the USA federal government of very harsh realities of the climate crisis.

December 10, 2017

By Thomas Curwen

Southern California (click here) is the landscape of dreams, or so the mythology goes. Newcomers arrive. They raise the roof beam high over the simplest foundations and pass on to a new generation the hope that they too might believe in this sun-drenched paradise.

Time, however, has cast a shadow on this pact, and it sometimes feels like a distant romance. Yet glimpses of it can still be seen, as the fires of this last week have shown....

...“No place on earth offers greater security to life and greater freedom from natural disasters than Southern California,” wrote The Times wrote in 1934.

We’re learning otherwise....

...This story too has its heroes: the firefighters, of course, and their support crews, and a few strangers along the way.

They were five friends, high school buddies who, upon seeing a palm tree ablaze above an empty home in Ventura, grabbed garden hoses and went to work as embers rained upon them in the gusting wind. They had driven from Camarillo, drawn to the flames and to a neighborhood 15 miles away.

And they didn’t even know whose home it was.

The religious opiate of "The South" has been used and abused all too frequently in it's politics. Moore is a prime example of that.

While Richard Selby mourns the loss of expertise within Alabama politics, there is a very good lesson to be learned. If a political victory is based on one character flaw, defeat rather than victory can be the outcome.

My greater concern regarding Roy Moore is the fact he has been an abject failure when it comes to practicing his profession and he will carry that to his seat in the US Senate.

Worse than that, if elected, Roy Moore will seek to change all that defeated him over the years. He is not trustworthy for many, many reasons; not just his overt sexual desire for girls. That desire, even at advanced age, is not CHANGED, it is dormant because of aging.

Roy Moore is a failure running for office as a failure, but, attempting to hide behind the Christian Bible. He decries those that stand in opposition to his religious indulgence of the Alabama devout. He wants all that vote to believe he is the savior of the faith. NOT! He is a manipulative politician selling snake oil.

When men like Moore are able to ascend opposition to take a seat of power, they cannot be crowned with glory so much as a focus to further investigation by federal authorities to bring about a reality the public can count on. Ethics violations of the past matter in the US Senate and if enough is found to be true about his escapades he can be made to resign and/or bring about a far different outcome when seeking re-election. If that should happen, what amendment will he attach to law being passed that will then require lawsuits to end the "invasion of victimization" of the American people?

Roy Moore is more than a sleazy politician seeking a regular paycheck and expense account; he undermines the political process and it's outcomes. He should never have made it this far, but, he did. The GOP has a lot of house cleaning to do, to be the real moral authority they would like.

God did not commission the GOP. 

December 10. 2017
By Rosalind S. Helderman and David Weigel

Sen. Richard C. Shelby, (click here) who serves as Alabama's senior senator, said repeatedly Sunday that the state's fellow Republicans can “do better” than Roy Moore, the conservative judge accused of sexual misconduct who faces Democrat Doug Jones in Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate.

Shelby has previously said he was not supporting Moore, but his words on CNN's “State of the Union” on Sunday offered a fresh denunciation of his party's nominee just days before Alabamians go to the polls in an election to replace former senator Jeff Sessions, who now serves as attorney general.

“I didn't vote for Roy Moore,” Shelby said. “I wouldn't vote for Roy Moore. I think the Republican Party can do better.”

Shelby encouraged fellow Alabama voters to do as he did on his absentee ballot: to write in the name of another Republican for the office. Jones's chances of victory would be significantly boosted if large numbers of Republicans abandon Moore in favor of various write-in candidates. Shelby declined to name which Republican got his vote....

This is an article from "The New Yorker." It clearly screams out, "This is law enforcement that is destroying the American society."

"Sunday Reading: Jennifer Gonnerman"

Few who read Jennifer Gonnerman’s “Before the Law” (click here) can forget the story of Kalief Browder, a Bronx high-school sophomore who was arrested for stealing a backpack. Browder spent three years on Rikers Island, where he was beaten by guards and inmates and spent months at a time in solitary confinement. When his case was dismissed and he was finally released, in May, 2013, Browder, who was twenty and had never finished high school, suffered from flashbacks and paranoia, and he struggled to resume an ordinary life. Two years later, he committed suicide....

First, anyone investigating this needs to know the demographics of the Cuban people to such phenomena. If that is possible.

I have not read or heard any discussion of the Cuban people regarding a phenomena that can be classified as MS (Multiple Sclerosis).

December 7, 2017
By Tia Ghose

The U.S. embassy workers in Cuba (click here) who were initially thought to have been attacked by a "sonic weapon" have sustained damage to the white matter in their brains, scans reveal. And officials are increasingly skeptical that a sonic weapon was the cause, the Associated Press reported.

The first symptoms of a possible "attack" showed up in the fall of 2016. The workers heard loud, bizarre noises, such as chirps, hums and scraping sounds, or felt a ghostly movement of air near them, and then went on to have hearing loss and ringing in the ears, the Washington Post reported.

Afterwards, those affected by the bizarre phenomenon went on to have memory loss, hearing and vision problems, and troubles with balance. Brain scans now reveal alterations in white matter, which contains the neurons that communicate with one another, the AP reported...

While the embassy workers are brought home and placed on permanent disability, there also needs to be a comprehensive assessment of the embassy building itself, INCLUDING, air and water samples.

Erythroxylum havanense

With all that completed, there is a real possibility the water of the island has some "coca" drainage from a variety of coca plant that grows in Cuba. Overland flow of simple rainwater can carry such chemicals into the water supply of Cuba.

Erythroxylum is the species designation for coca plants. I am not saying the effected staff of the embassy were druggies, what I am stating is there are elements of the island that can effect the water supply. I strongly believe the staff had no direct influence on their condition. One might consider poisoning, but, the problem may be bigger than that. There is also the issue of allergies to coca. Americans not regularly exposed to such substances will show signs of MS, even as early as one or two doses of the darn stuff. 

Yes, cocaine can cause MS and sometimes even with the best MRIs the demyelinating of the central nervous system is not detected for six to nine months.

If someone has an allergy to coca it could cause anaphylactic shock at first dose. But, I tend to think there are investigations that have to occur before any real conclusion has to be made.

I find their symptoms somewhat concerning, especially, the phenomena that feels like a ghostly figure passed by them. That sounds like Russian surveillance radar. The Russians use exceptionally unusual radar surveillance wavelengths to achieve their goals. There is no regulating such radar and it's effects unless the UN takes up the issue as a global human rights violation. For someone to actually feel the radar signal is hideously strong and harmful to human health. I will go so far as to say severely strong radar can even burn a person as if MICROWAVES.

TO ADD TO THAT suspicion, what the heck goes on at Gitmo to avoid all this?

I think that sort of rounds it out. I do believe Russia covets Cuba in a way that provides a listening post for them and I would not minimize Russian involvement without the knowledge of the Cuban government. The Cuban government would not take kindly to such radar effecting it's people. However, with Gitmo at the back door of the Cuban government, Russia is after all "Mother Russia." 

I think all the fact finding outlined here is important and the fact Gitmo is not complaining of the same problems is more interesting than I can state here. So, that should being about information that will quell the suspicions and replace it with FACT!

I am sorry to our foreign service is under such attack. When one considers the aggression of Russia in Moscow against our embassy, it is getting curiously strange.

Eleanor Roosevelt (click here) of the United States holding a Declaration of Human Rights poster in English. (November 1949).

8 December 2017 (click here) – The United Nations will on Sunday kick off in Paris, France, a year-long campaign to honor the foundational human rights document, which next year marks its 70th anniversary.

Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, “human rights have been one of the three pillars of the United Nations, along with peace and development,” said Secretary-General António Guterres in his message for Human Rights Day, annually observed on 10 December.

As “one of the world's most profound and far-reaching international agreements,” the Universal Declaration proclaimed the inalienable rights of every human being regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. It is the most translated document in the world, available in more than 500 languages....

Where does any Michigan legislator get the idea they can simply do as they please without consulting authorities?

There are parts of Flint that do not have clean pipes yet. Their water tests are not normal. The entire city of Flint cannot simply be considered safe. This isn't even a matter of consulting with the professionals as Mayor Weaver is seeking. This is about SAFE PIPES that water flows through.

KNOCK IT OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leave them alone and provide the bottled water!

December 9, 2017

By Casey Mendoza

Michigan lawmakers may soon reconsider supplying bottled water to Flint. (click here)

For the past year, Flint's water has tested pretty clean. And unless new tests show lead or copper levels above the federal threshold, the city's water distribution program could end as soon as next month.

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said in a statement that she would consult with medical and public health professionals before supporting the decision. She said she hoped other state officials would do the same.

If the distribution program is cut, it likely wouldn't affect the bottled water supplied in Flint schools. That water is reportedly from private donations. A Flint schools spokeswoman told MLive the district is working on ensuring the donations last the remainder of the school year....

I take it all the American troops will be home for Christmas.

It is good to know there won't be extra-ordinary budget needs to hurt domestic programs.

December 9, 2017

Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi. Haider al-Abadi (click here) has announced the ‘end of war’ with ISIS after his troops regained full control of the Syrian border.

Baghdad — Iraq said Saturday (click here) that its war on the Islamic State group is over after more than three years of combat operations drove the extremists from all of the territory they once held.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Iraqi forces were in full control of the country’s border with Syria during remarks at a conference in Baghdad, and his spokesman said the development marked the end of the military fight against IS.

A senior military commander confirmed that combat operations had been completed.

“All Iraqi lands are liberated from terrorist Daesh gangs and our forces completely control the international Iraqi-Syrian border,” Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yar Allah said in a statement released shortly after al-Abadi’s remarks. Daesh is an Arabic acronym for IS.

Juneau has been pleasantly warm all this week with a high of 49 degrees Fahrenheit.

Juneau, AK (click here)

Rain

45 degrees Fahrenheit

Winds: 15 mph out of the east

Humidity : 98%

Juneau City and Borough Web Cam (click here)

Below is the current water vapor image from UNISYS. The reason Juneau, Alaska is warm is due to a heat transfer system off the west coast of North America. The entire area of southern Alaska is warm (click here). As a matter of fact, moving inland to Sitka Airport the tempature is 56 degrees Fahrenheit.

It is quite a mess, isn't it? That big deep Arctic Air mass dipping into North America. 

Current Temperatures (click here)

What I find interesting is all the 'white' areas on the map. That is very, very cold air. It is dangerous air, as a matter of fact.

Mexico is so lucky to be the neighbor of the most climate abusive country in the world. Now, Mexico gets to have some of our dysfunctional climate.

Be sure to keep scarves around the neck to protect the mouth and nose from icey winds. Eye protection needs either a parka or goggles. Goggles become obstructed should their be snow.

See, the way this mess takes place is to realize there are heat transfer systems off the east and west coast of North America taking hot air from the ITCZ over top of the Arctic Ocean. The colder air is displaced down, like it is now over North America and it becomes really, really cold.

Yep. This is the Climate Crisis that no self respecting right wing politico seems to recognize. But, then they aren't good at complicated ideas.

Evacuations in California. There is the ability to register phone numbers to maintain personal monitoring.

December 8, 2017

By Melissa Etehad, Louis Sahagun, Ruben Vives, Joseph Serva and Sonali Kohli

The first fire-related fatality (click here for video) from a series of wildfires that have covered Southern California in smoke and ash was confirmed Friday, authorities said.

Virginia Pesola, 70, of Santa Paula, was found dead in a car that had been involved in a crash along an evacuation route in a burn area of the Thomas fire in Ventura County on Wednesday night. According to the county medical examiner, Pesola's cause of death was blunt force trauma with terminal smoke inhalation and thermal injuries....

The FOX News women have all the luck.

Ms. Huddy can now join her sisters from FOX News in being treated as a sex object rather than journalist.

December 9, 2017
By Avery Anapol

A former syndicated Fox News host (click here) said Friday that President Trump tried to kiss her in an elevator in "2005 or 2006," which she said surprised her but did not make her feel threatened.

It's unclear whether Trump was married at the time since Juliet Huddy does not recall the exact date, Page Six reported. 

“He took me for lunch at Trump Tower, just us two,” Huddy said on Compound Media’s “Mornin’! With Bill Schulz.” “He said goodbye to me in an elevator while his security guy was there; rather than kiss me on the cheek he leaned in to kiss me on the lips. I wasn’t offended, I was kind of like, ‘Oh my god.'”

She added that she “didn’t feel threatened,” but was “surprised” that Trump tried to kiss her.

“It was a weird moment,” she said. “He never tried anything after that, and I was never alone with him.”

Huddy said that while she was not offended at the time, in hindsight she would have resisted his advances....

As an American television news reporter, (click here) Juliet Huddy was the news topic of numerous media outlets in 2016. That was after it emerged that she lodged sexual harassment allegations against two of the network’s big shots – O’Reilly and Fox News Co-President Jack Abernethy.

In September 2016, Juliet left Fox News. It was later revealed that she reached a settlement with the network over the claims of sexual harassment. Fox quietly settled her with a sum in the high six figures in exchange for her silence and not instituting legal proceedings against Fox News....

Puerto Rico is a main supply of a vital intravenous solution, normal saline, and the Baxter production plant is still on life support. Why?

The struggle to restore this production plant has been going on for some time now. This is not a good situation.

The FDA (click here) is taking steps to help with a worsening shortage of saline in the U.S., including asking that Baxter saline plants in Puerto Rico get their power restored ahead of others.

December 6, 2017

Baxter, a major manufacturer of intravenous fluids and bags, (click here) has three factories in Puerto Rico. In an email, a spokesperson at Baxter said 10 weeks after the hurricane hit the island, one of their factories in Puerto Rico is still being powered by a diesel generator. The other two factories are back on the electrical grid, but power is intermittent. Severe damage to roads and bridges is also slowing the recovery.

IV fluids like saline and dextrose are the lifeblood of hospitals. They’re needed to deliver medications and rehydrate patients. Hospital pharmacies use the smaller IV bags to mix medications. But they’ve been in short supply, especially since the hurricane, so pharmacists have relied on the larger bags. Now those larger bags are running out, too....

December 8, 2017

By Ahsley Harrell

...I spent three weeks in the country, (click here) dodging unwanted advances and hearing stories of frequent, unpunished sexual assaults. It was the most threatening environment for women that I had ever navigated. If somehow you still don’t recognize the sweeping scale of sexual assault, if you think women across the world don’t need to fight for each other with everything we have, try visiting Lesotho, where holding a man accountable for sexual violence is almost impossible.

In my work as a guidebook author, Lesotho certainly isn’t the only place I’ve dealt with sexual aggression. In Bali, men asked me to pose for photos and grabbed me close. In the Dominican Republic, I couldn’t stroll in the capital without being hissed at. In San Jose, Costa Rica, a man approached me in a residential neighborhood, smacked my butt and ran.

I shrugged it all off, preferring to think of these men as worthless outliers. In retrospect — and especially after what I discovered in Lesotho — this was wildly optimistic.

The epidemic of sexual violence against women in this nation of 2.2 million people is arguably the worst in the world, but it is rarely reported. The problem, women’s rights advocates say, begins in childhood. Girls are taught to be compliant, to quietly endure suffering and to serve men....             

This is a new angle. Women just naturally want a baby no matter the father. Zero tolerance.

Just to clarify how ludicrous this is, surrogate mother's recieve sperm in a surgeon's office under sterile conditons. 

December 8, 2017
By Leigh Ann Caldwell and Alex Moe

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., (click here) announced his resignation Thursday evening as the House Ethics Committee announced it was opening an investigation into potential sexual misconduct.

Franks said in a statement that he had discussed his interest in finding a surrogate mother with two women in his office, making them uncomfortable. His wife has struggled with infertility, he said.

The Ethics Committee said that it was convening a subcommittee to determine if Franks "engaged in conduct that constitutes sexual harassment and/or retaliation for opposing sexual harassment."...

A little too young. Singer should have looked for another at least one more year older.

December 8, 2017
By Scott Neuman

Bryan Singer, (click here) the director best known for the X-Men series of films, is being sued over an allegation that he raped 17-year-old boy during a party 14 years ago.

Singer has denied the accusation.

In a complaint filed in Superior Court of the State of Washington for King County on Thursday, Cesar Sanchez-Guzman says he met Singer in 2003 at a party aboard a yacht owned by technology investor Lester Waters, who the complaint says "frequently hosted parties for young gay males in the Seattle area."...

Sanchez-Guzman alleges that Singer, while giving him a tour of the yacht, lured him into the master stateroom, shut the door and demanded oral sex...

Body-Cam Video Of Daniel Shaver Shooting | Los Angeles Times. The cop that assassinated Daniel Shaver walked.

GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: Daniel Shaver was fatally shot by Arizona police on Jan. 18, 2016, in the hallway of the hotel where he was staying. Philip Mitchell Brailsford, the officer who killed Shaver, was acquitted of murder charges on Dec. 7, 2017.

The fact Gena Richardson scribbled in her own notebook changes nothing.

Roy Moore is a pedophile. There is no denying it. He molested young girls, including, Gena Richarson. Roy Moore wrote in Gena's yearbook and signed it, end of discussion.

She was a teenager acting like a teenager with her yearbook. She is completely innocent in her handling of the yearbook and Moore is victimizing the victim. This is typical behavior of men when they get caught victimizing young girls. They always and in every way blame the victim as if 'she wanted it.' It is outrageous.

Roy Moore was twice her age. Her emotional maturity shows through in the way she scribbled in her yearbook. SHE WAS ALLOWED TO WRITE/SCRIBBLE/DRAW IN HER OWN YEARBOOK! HER SEXUAL ABUSER HAD NO RIGHT IMPOSING HIS PRESENCE IN A YEARBOOK. 

Gena Richardson is a victim. She doesn't have to be the perfect victim, she simply needs to report her victimization. It doesn't matter if she only is reporting her victimization now. She has carried it around in her heart long enough!

She is still a pretty lady and it is obvious she was damaged emotionally and still has the scar of Roy Moore's sexual abuse. Ms. Richardson is a brave woman. She should not have to be brave, she needs to be believed. She should have been empowered a long time ago to report sexual abuse by Roy Moore. She was intimidated and scared. That is typical of the reaction by teen girls. 

November 15, 2017

By Stephanie McCrummen, Beth Reinhard and Alice Crites

Beverly Young Nelson points to her photo in her high school yearbook during a news conference in New York, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Nelson says Roy Moore assaulted her when she was 16 and he offered her a ride home from a restaurant where she worked. Moore has denied the allegations. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Gena Richardson (click here) says she was a high school senior working in the men’s department of Sears at the Gadsden Mall when a man approached her and introduced himself as Roy Moore.

“He said, ‘You can just call me Roy,’ ” says Richardson, who says this first encounter happened in the fall of 1977, just before or after her 18th birthday, as Moore, then a 30-year-old local attorney, was gaining a reputation for pursuing young women at the mall in Gadsden, Ala. His overtures caused one store manager to tell new hires to “watch out for this guy,” another young woman to complain to her supervisor and Richardson to eventually hide from him when he came in Sears, the women say.

Richardson says Moore — now a candidate for U.S. Senate — asked her where she went to school, and then for her phone number, which she says she declined to give, telling him that her father, a Southern Baptist preacher, would never approve...           

December 8, 2017
By Paul Gattis

A handwriting expert (click here) who formerly worked for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has determined that the signature (of Roy Moore) in the yearbook of one of Roy Moore's accusers is authentic, according to the accuser's lawyer.

Gloria Allred, attorney for Beverly Young Nelson, said the Georgia-based handwriting expert retained by Nelson, Arthur Anthony, studied multiple examples of original and copies of signature samples of Moore's in reaching his conclusion.

Allred made the announcement at press conference in Atlanta....

...Allred also said that she believes Nelson's life is in danger because she had alleged that Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16 in late 1977 or early 1978. Moore has repeatedly denied that allegation as well as all others made by women who have come forward in recent weeks.

Nelson has more evidence against Moore that she is withholding at this time but would be used in an ethics investigation against Moore if he wins Tuesday's election against Democrat Doug Jones.

Moore has said he would welcome an independent analysis of the yearbook signing but Allred has insisted that such an analysis would have to be part of a Senate judicial or ethics hearing, which has not taken place....

Leeann Tweeden should appear on "Morning Joe" to explain her hypocrisy.

The fact Senator Al Franken resigned does not change any facts about Ms. Tweeden. She needs to explain how she separates her political choices over and above a Pedophile President. Why should Trump get a pass and no one else does?

December 8, 2017
by Aiden McLaughlin

...“I’m concerned about women, who are legitimately sexually harassed in the workplace across America, and where this is taking us,” Brzezinski said, before reading an excerpt from a Washington Post column asking “Was Al Franken’s punishment fair?”

Brzezinski then seemed to call into question the legitimacy of Leeann Tweeden’s allegations (the radio news anchor first accused Franken of forcible kissing and groping her while she slept, which prompted the other women to come out and accuse the senator of misconduct.)

“We’ve never really talked about the woman who first came out against Al Franken,” she said, before questioning the “Playboy model who goes on Hannity, voted for Trump.”

“I see some politics there, but I haven’t brought that up every step of the way because of course, in this ‘Me Too’ environment, you must always believe the women.”...