Found Deceased Canada - Lachlan Cranswick, 41, Deep River near Ottawa ON, 18 Jan 2010 - #6

[dotr]

That old invisibility cloak, was so last year...
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2011/02/25/17406846.html
Cloak of deception better than cloak of invisibility

By QMI Agency






Cloaks of invisibility are totally last year's news. Enter the new coolest toy: cloaks of illusion.

"It's easier to falsify something than it hide it," John Pendry, one of the researchers working on the project at the Imperial College of London, told New Scientist.

The theoretical implications are more interesting than the actual research at this stage, but by manipulating the way light and electrical fields interact with an object -- rather than trying to stop them from interacting with it at all -- researchers have been able to hide that object's true nature.

The research involved a simple copper cylinder. Copper is known to be a great conductor of electricity and reflect radio waves that are thrown at it, giving it a massive radar signature.

But by slipping a sleeve of circuit boards containing metal channels that manipulate the way electricity and radio waves interacted with the copper cylinder, they were able to make it look like a porcelain cylinder.

"In principle, this technology could be used to make an illusion of an arbitrary shape and size," Tie Jun Cui, a researcher in China, said about the trick.

It might be a long way off, but some day technology like this could be used to disguise your new car as a 1980s beater while you're in the movie theatre.

 

[deputydawg2]

WOW, dotr! When I add this new-fangled deception to the already existing huge bag of 'em already foisted upon us, it staggers the mind.

 

[Mole]

Just of interest, there were two competing labs attempting to identify a new mineral to be named after Lachlan. We now know that Ron Peterson's lab was successful. I wonder what happened to the other one?

 

[Hazel]

Just of interest, there were two competing labs attempting to identify a new mineral to be named after Lachlan. We now know that Ron Peterson's lab was successful. I wonder what happened to the other one?

:seeya: Hi Mole, no time no see. I do remember reading about that, IIRC, wasn't it Pamela W?

 

[Hazel]

Is this the same you meant Mole?

Earlier this year a new mineral was approved with the name "cranswickite". Appropriately the structure was solved using powder diffraction data by Ron Peterson at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. As a measure of the regard with which he was held in Canada, at the time I was working with mineralogists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on the structure of another new mineral we intended to name cranswickite. We were scooped to the IMA submission by a few weeks, but this is one instance where it really didn't matter. It must be one of the few times in mineralogy where there was competition for a mineral name, even if we didn't know it at the time. I also had the rather sad job of filling in for Lachlan (or at least trying) at the Canadian Powder Diffraction Workshop in late June.

It goes without saying that he will be sorely missed both within Canada and elsewhere.

Pamela Whitfield, CPD Chair, Ottawa, Canada (September 2010)

RS&BBM

IUCr - Obituaries
Lachlan Cranswick (1968-2010) : http://www.iucr.org/resources/commissions/powder-diffraction/?a=41899

 

[Hazel]

DD2:
I was looking online for the Fifth Estate videos (other than their site, which we know cannot be viewed outside Canada), and found a set of videos re another subject, but thought you might be interested, so here is the link.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=6815535985718796639#

 

[deputydawg2]

DD2:
I was looking online for the Fifth Estate videos (other than their site, which we know cannot be viewed outside Canada), and found a set of videos re another subject, but thought you might be interested, so here is the link.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=6815535985718796639#

I can't thank you enough for that link, Hazel. That is one of the finest presentations I've ever seen. Canadians should be proud of the folks that produce The Fifth Estate. Very proud!! I am so glad this program is now online for all the world to see.

:ashamed:

 

[Hazel]

Is it that good DD2? Admittedly, I haven't watched those videos...except for the very last one in the Playlist...the home video.

I had a second look at that link today, and it seems to be a compilation of videos; only a few are from the Fifth Estate. My apologies, thought those were all past episodes from the FE. Next time I'll make sure I check well before posting. Was in a rush, just looking to see if there was a date for the upcoming episode regarding Owen Rooney's disappearance. It's been announced two weeks in a row now, but no definite date for when it will be aired.

Unfortunately, the FE is still not available online, only a few episodes that people have uploaded can be found online.

 

[deputydawg2]

In response to my comment re the FE, my buddy from up your way sent me this link to an article in today's HUFFPO by Robert F Kennedy, Jr. In it the word, scientists, leaped out at me. Kinda presents an interesting angle from which to consider things...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rober...be-moving-into-canada-after-all_b_829473.html

 

[dotr]

Is it that good DD2? Admittedly, I haven't watched those videos...except for the very last one in the Playlist...the home video.

I had a second look at that link today, and it seems to be a compilation of videos; only a few are from the Fifth Estate. My apologies, thought those were all past episodes from the FE. Next time I'll make sure I check well before posting. Was in a rush, just looking to see if there was a date for the upcoming episode regarding Owen Rooney's disappearance. It's been announced two weeks in a row now, but no definite date for when it will be aired.

Unfortunately, the FE is still not available online, only a few episodes that people have uploaded can be found online.

From OR's website, the indication is that the show will be on at 9 pm march 11 a friday http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/
and available online after that date.

 

[dotr]

UFO Files released in UK.
http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

 

[dotr]

http://forum.amiminerals.it/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7185
"Type material is deposited in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, accession number 55368 "
I wonder if this means one can see Cranswickite, at the museum ?

 

[dotr]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/Suzuki/2011/03/02/17466646.html

Politicians who reject science are not fit to lead
By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola

I was given funding to continue my graduate studies at the University of Chicago. On getting my PhD, I went on to work as a research associate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Although the facility was built in 1942 as part of a top secret program to purify uranium for the Manhattan Project, its focus had shifted to basic biology by the time I arrived, and it became a centre of world-class research and international cooperation.

Times have changed. I wish I could say that we’ve evolved when it comes to science. But sometimes reading the news and listening to the pronouncements of politicians, especially south of the border, I’m bewildered by the rampant ignorance about science and the antipathy toward it.

 

[Hazel]

http://forum.amiminerals.it/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7185
"Type material is deposited in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, accession number 55368 "
I wonder if this means one can see Cranswickite, at the museum ?

That's correct dotr. I had posted the link to that info some time ago, but today those links are broken not even the images are showing I don't know if that means the info has changed or not.

Here is link to that post, that I'm sure you will remember, since you answered to it:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5798533#post5798533

..............

Editing to add, that I found another link that still works, but just in case that one also disappears, will copy & paste that paragraph here. Strange though that the original document was 28 pages long, this other link is only 7 pages long. I am sure there must be a logical explanation to that, probably the document has been updated or perhaps it is no longer a holotype but the sample itself that can be seen at the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto) and Museum of Nature (Ottawa)? I don't know, perhaps Mole could clarify this for us.

TYPE OF MATERIAL
The holotype is deposited at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, accession number 55368. Part of the holotype is deposited at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, catalogue number CMNMC 86134.

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...d1FJoT&sig=AHIEtbS0l0naFJtgC45iW8dyz-sKv4lHYA

 

[deputydawg2]

This link was sent to me, with thoughts of Lachlan, from someone we all know, regard highly and and miss.

There's trash at the beginning but the show is worth putting up with that. I think Lachlan would have enjoyed this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGoNbrODq8U&feature=player_profilepage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGoNbrODq8U&feature=player_profilepage

Well, forgive my many flub-ups. It didn't take the first time and now we've got 2 !! Oh, well...

 

[dotr]

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/05/17510796.html
Cop divers: A breed apart, a breed below
By Doug Hempstead, QMI Agency

Last Updated: March 6, 2011 12:01am

Ottawa Police Const. Alana Fong gets fitted into her dive gear in a tent on the frozen Morrison's Quarry. Fong was one of about 50 police divers from across the province taking part in annual ice training Feb. 28 to March 3, 2011. She's also the only female police diver in Ontario. (DOUG HEMPSTEAD/QMI Agency) OTTAWA - It's one of the least popular types of specialized police work: dead body retrievers.

Of the 69,200 cops in Canada, only 110 are police divers.

This week more than half of them showed up at a frozen quarry near Ottawa to train in far more favourable conditions than many of them are used to.

Ottawa rookie cop Alana Fong sits on a towel-topped, waterproof kit case with her feet propped up on a small one. Wrapped in blankets she waits in a tent for colleague Walt Leshman to surface.

The burly Newfoundlander is far more experienced; he's been a police diver for four years.

Fong is about to make her second-ever ice dive.

In fact, she's the only female police diver in Ontario and one of only a handful in Canada.

 

[dotr]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/03/08/17536011.html
Different sort of chem clouds...
Newly released (on youtube) helicopter footage atop WT 911

 

[dotr]

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...tists-crack-code-for-tracing-anonymous-emails
Also,

Canadian hospitals must revisit their guidelines on a popular drug used by anesthesiologists after a German professor allegedly forged dozens of critical studies on it, one expert told the Star.

 

[Hazel]

Nuclear scare after Japan quake

A strong earthquake in central Japan has damaged a large nuclear power plant causing a leak of radioactive material, officials at the plant have said.

A small amount of water containing radioactive substances leaked into the sea, officials said.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6901213.stm

State of emergency, evacuation ordered near Japanese nuclear plant

Japan declared a state of emergency Friday at a nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed following a massive earthquake. There was no radiation leak.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/state-of-emergency-evacuation-ordered-near-japanese-nuclear-plant/article1938199/

 

[Hazel]

anic::nuclear:

Explosion at Japan nuke plant, disaster toll rises
Last modified: March 12, 2011 3:13 p.m

IWAKI, Japan - An explosion at a nuclear power station Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, but a radiation leak was decreasing despite fears of a meltdown from damage caused a powerful earthquake and tsunami, officials said.

Government spokesman Yukio Edano said the explosion destroyed the exterior walls of the building where the reactor is placed, but not the actual metal housing enveloping the reactor.
..............
Edano said the radiation around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had not risen after the blast, but had in fact decreased. He did not say why that was so. The pressure in the reactor was also decreasing after the blast, he said.

The explosion was preceded by puff of white smoke that gathered intensity until it became a huge cloud enveloping the entire facility, located in Fukushima, 20 miles (30 kilometres) from Iwaki. After the explosion, the walls of the building crumbled, leaving only a skeletal metal frame.

full article : http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/world/article/799837--explosion-at-japan-nuke-plant-disaster-toll-rises--page0

Blast at Japan nuke plant; thousands missing
Last modified: March 12, 2011 4:27 p.m.

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/world/article/800748--blast-at-japan-nuke-plant-thousands-missing--page0