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''The Site'', hosted by Soledad O'Brien debuted in July 1996 with MSNBC’s launch. The hour-long program devoted to the Internet revolution aired Monday through Saturday reaching 35 million homes and was a forerunner to an entire technology channel called ZDTV, later renamed TechTV which merged to become G4.
Dev Null, Soledad's animated barista co-host was voiced by Leo Laporte, who later became an anchor personality on TechTV hosting multiple shows.
The Site covered technology in all forms, from technical aspects, to news and culture. Musical artists Duncan Sheik and Poe were among many musicians interviewed over how technology influenced their music.
The Site was preempted for 2 weeks in favor of news programs during the untimely death of Princess Diana during 9/1997. It was never brought back and show was pulled without a send-off. Many fans of the show petitioned MSNBC to bring back the show to no avail. The Site reincarnated as the Screensavers several years later hosted by Leo Laporte on TechTV until its cancellation after the takeover by Comcast.
Author Clifford Stoll was a regular contributor.
Sometimes billed as "the Net's evening news," the show also brought Soledad O'Brien internet fame and the nickname "Goddess of the Geeks" while Lloyd Grove in ''The Washington Post'' dubbed her "television's first cyberbabe."
Shock Site
A shock site is a website intended to be offensive to most viewers, usually containing frightening and/or incredibly distasteful and crude content. In most cases, it displays a particular picture most prominently; some shock sites also show animations or galleries of images, particularly ''shock images''. Shock sites are often of varying severity; for descriptions of shock sites, see list of shock sites.
Links to shock sites are often passed around via email or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick readers into following the link to the website. Discussion site Slashdot has changed their software (Slash) to display the domain name of a linked URL in brackets following the link (example: "http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia wikipedia.org"), so that any link to goatse.cx or a similar shock site would be immediately visible as such. The change has been effective in reducing the number of links to shock sites even though people began to set up mirror sites and use public CGI redirect scripts run by sites such as Yahoo! or Slashdot itself in an attempt to circumvent the measure.
In recent times many trolls, instead of linking to shock sites (which can lead to disciplinary consequences, such as banishment from the board in which the link was posted), prefer a tradition known as the ''anti-shock'' tradition, where trolls link to traditionally non-offensive material, disguised as shocking or pornographic material. The anti-shock site http://www.oralse.cx oralse.cx (which features images of a kitten and dachshund), a parody of Goatse.cx, is among the most well-known examples of this. More recent cases of the anti-shock phenomenon involve links to images of family pets and to http://www.mary-kateandashley.com/ mary-kateandashley.com, the web site of The Olsen twins.
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Hate Sites
The term "hate site" is used by some to refer to websites that are said to promote hatred.
In many cases, hate sites contain criticism of a specific race, religion, sexual behavior, or nationality.
Issues regarding hate sites have been a major concern for people of all political points of view. Many are concerned about the effect that the content of these sites may have on society. At the center of the debate, however, is the danger to human freedom and liberty and the oppressive nature implicit in various proposals to deal with hatred. Three main approaches have been proposed for this problem: education, content filtering software, and banning hate sites.
Because the definition of what constitutes hatred varies from person to person, and claims of hate mongering are seen by some as merely being political tactics employed by activist groups to smear or attack their political opponents, there are obvious dangers involved in any attempt to reduce or eliminate hate sites through the law. The danger revolves not only around the differences of opinion over what constitutes hate, but around the supposed right of individuals to express their own thoughts or feelings, even if they are not popular, or if they include criticisms that some believe express and promote hatred.
In practice, a ban on hate sites could cause a situation in which a political entity successfully defines its opponents' point of view or accusations as hatred, and gain oppressive and undemocratic powers to suppress and even criminalize free speech and real debate over an issue. Free-speech advocates and others concerned with personal liberty and human rights are wary of attempts to ban expression of certain opinions because of the danger that it may be a roundabout attempt at suppressing legitimate concerns. If a ban were imposed, it's argued, then once any position – even if true or legitimate – is defined as hatred, oppression of those who hold and openly express it will ensue.
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The Hanford Site occupies 1,518 square kilometers (586 square miles) in Benton County, south-central Washington. It was established in 1943 during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project to provide the plutonium necessary for the development of nuclear weapons. The former towns of White Bluffs and Hanford were evacuated to make room for the site.
Plutonium manufactured at the Hanford site was used in constructing the first nuclear weapon at Trinity site, as well as ''Fat Man'', the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
Currently, the Hanford Site is engaged in the world's largest environmental cleanup, with many challenges to be resolved in the face of overlapping technical, political, regulatory, and cultural interests. The cleanup effort is focused on three outcomes: restoring the Columbia River corridor for other uses, converting the central plateau to long-term waste treatment and storage, and preparing for the future.
Although most of the original Hanford Site is in Benton County, approximately 20% is across the Columbia River in Grant and Franklin counties.
History of the Hanford Nuclear Site
The Uranium Committee of the federal Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) decided to sponsor an intensive research project on plutonium,that had been isolated in a University of California laboratory only nine months earlier. The OSRD placed the contract with the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab).
In June 1942, the Army Corps of Engineers formed the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) to construct industrial-size plants to manufacture the plutonium and uranium for the Met Lab scientists. In December the Hanford region was chosen as "ideal in virtually all respects" (Matthias 1987).
The first three, full-scale nuclear reactors were built in five months. The reactors (B-Pile, D-Pile, and F-Pile) operated at 250 megawatts (MW). The 400 MW H-Pile was added in 1949, and the 250 MW DR (D-Replacement) started up in 1950.
New Site, Alabama
New Site is a town located in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 848.
Geography
New Site is located at 33°1'49" North, 85°47'12" West (33.030281, -85.786721).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 25.3 km² (9.8 mi²). 25.3 km² (9.8 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 848 people, 339 households, and 240 families residing in the town. The population density is 33.5/km² (86.8/mi²). There are 376 housing units at an average density of 14.9/km² (38.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 89.27% White, 9.79% Black or African American, 0.59% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.24% from other races, and 0.12% from two or more races. 0.47% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 339 households out of which 30.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.8% are married couples living together, 14.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.2% are non-families. 26.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.50 and the average family size is 3.00.
In the town the population is spread out with 22.5% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 90.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.1 males.
The median income for a household in the town is $29,167, and the median income for a family is $37,396. Males have a median income of $25,977 versus $20,109 for females. The per capita income for the town is $14,113. 17.6% of the population and 13.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population,
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