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Volume 9, Issue 9, September 2002
Unique capabilities of an intense heavy ion beam as a tool for equation-of-state studies9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1498260View Description Hide Description
Intense heavy ion beams open new possibilities in high-energy-density matter research. Due to the unique feature of the energy deposition process of heavy ions in dense matter (volume character of heating) it is possible to generate high entropy states in matter without the necessity of shock compression. Previously, such high entropy states could only be achieved by using the most powerful shock wave generators, like nuclear explosions or powerful lasers. In this paper this novel technique of heavy ion heating and expansion is proposed to explore new fascinating regions of the phase diagram, including the liquid phase, the evaporation region with the critical point, and strongly coupled plasmas.
Production of ultracollimated bunches of multi-MeV electrons by 35 fs laser pulses propagating in exploding-foil plasmas9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1498116View Description Hide Description
Very collimated bunches of high energy electrons have been produced by focusing super-intense femtosecond laser pulses in submillimeter under-dense plasmas. The density of the plasma, preformed with the laser exploding-foil technique, was mapped using Nomarski interferometry. The electron beam was fully characterized: up to electrons per shot were accelerated, most of which in a beam of aperture below with energies up to 40 MeV. These measurements, which are well modeled by three-dimensional numerical simulations, validate a reliable method to generate ultrashort and ultracollimated electron bunches.
Kinetic simulation of a quasisteady state in collisionless ion temperature gradient driven turbulence9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1501823View Description Hide Description
Existence of a quasisteady state with a mean transport flux in the collisionless ion temperature gradient driven turbulence has been confirmed by means of a direct numerical simulation of a basic kinetic equation for the perturbed ion velocity distribution function The phase mixing generates fine-scale fluctuations of and leads to continuous growth of high-order moments which balances the transport flux. The phase relation between the temperature and the parallel heat flux is also examined and compared with a fluid closure model.
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Modes of convection in the magnetotail9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1499116View Description Hide Description
The flow of plasma in the Earth's magnetotail cannot reach a steady state, since adiabatic convection would lead to exceedingly high pressure of the associated magnetic flux tubes closer to the Earth, the so-called pressure catastrophe. The natural way to avoid the pressure catastrophe is to significantly reduce the flux tube volume by reconnection, and observations show a near-Earth reconnection line typically around 20–25 Earth radii down tail. Earthward flows from this reconnection line are rather bursty and typically seen outside of 10 Earth radii. At this point they are strongly braked by the here dominant dipolar magnetic field. The pressure gradients piled up by the flow lead to the substorm current wedge, and possibly other substorm phenomena observed in the Earth's ionosphere. When more and more flux tubes are piled up, the dipolarization front moves tailward and finally shuts off near-Earth reconnection.
Nonlinear dynamics of thin current sheets9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1499118View Description Hide Description
Observations indicate that the current sheet in the Earth's geomagnetic tail may compress to a thickness comparable to an ion gyro-radius prior to substorm onset. In recent years, there has been considerable controversy regarding the kinetic stability of these thin structures. In particular, the growth rate of the kink instability and its relevance to magnetotail dynamics is still being debated. In this work, a series of fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations are performed for a thin Harris sheet. The ion to electron mass ratio is varied between and careful comparisons are made with a formally exact approach to the linear Vlasov theory. At low mass ratio the simulations are in excellent agreement with the linear theory, but at high mass ratio the kink instability is observed to grow more rapidly in the kinetic simulations than predicted by theory. The resolution to this apparent discrepancy involves the lower hybrid instability which is active on the edge of the sheet and rapidly produces nonlinear modifications to the initial equilibrium. The nature of this nonlinear deformation is characterized and a simple model is proposed to explain the physics. After the growth and saturation of the lower hybrid fluctuations, the deformed current sheet is similar in structure to a Harris equilibrium with an additional background population. This may explain the large growth rate of the kink instability at later times, since this type of modification to the Harris sheet has been shown to greatly enhance the growth rate of the kink mode.
"Complexity" and anomalous transport in space plasmas9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1499115View Description Hide Description
"Complexity" has become a hot topic in nearly every field of modern physics. Space plasma is of no exception. In this paper, it is demonstrated that the sporadic and localized interactions of magnetic coherent structures are the origin of "complexity" in space plasmas. The intermittent localized interactions, which generate the anomalous diffusion,transport, and evolution of the macroscopic state variables of the overall dynamical system, may be modeled by a triggered (fast) localized chaotic growth equation of a set of relevant order parameters. Such processes would generally pave the way for the global system to evolve into a "complex" state of long-ranged interactions of fluctuations, displaying the phenomenon of forced and/or self-organized criticality. An example of such type of anomalous transport and evolution in a sheared magnetic field is provided via two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The coarse-grained dissipation due to the intermittent triggered interactions among the magnetic coherent structures induces a "fluctuation-induced nonlinear instability" that reconfigures the sheared magnetic field into an X-point magnetic geometry (in the mean field sense), leading to the anomalous acceleration of the magnetic coherent structures. A phenomenon akin to such type of anomalous transport and acceleration, the so-called bursty bulk flows, has been commonly observed in the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetotail.
Parallel electric fields in the upward current region of the aurora: Indirect and direct observations9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1499120View Description Hide Description
In this article we present electric field,magnetic field, and charged particle observations from the upward current region of the aurora focusing on the structure of electric fields at the boundary between the auroral cavity and the ionosphere. Over 100 high-resolution measurements of the auroral cavity that were taken by the Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) satellite are included in this study. The observations support earlier models of the auroral zone that held that quasi-static parallel electric fields are the primary acceleration mechanism. In addition to the statistical study, several examples of direct observations of the parallel electric fields at the low-altitude boundary of the auroral cavity are put forth. These observations suggest that the parallel electric fields at the boundary between the auroral cavity and the ionosphere are self-consistently supported as oblique double layers.
Parallel electric fields in the upward current region of the aurora: Numerical solutions9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1499121View Description Hide Description
Direct observations of the parallel electric field by the Fast Auroral Snapshot satellite and the Polar satellite suggest that the ionospheric boundary of the auroral cavity is consistent with an oblique double layer that carries a substantial fraction (roughly 5% to 50%) of the auroral potential. A numerical solution to the Vlasov–Poisson equations of a planar, oblique double layer reproduces many of the properties of the observed electric fields, electron distributions, and ion distributions. The solutions indicate that the electron and ion distributions that emerge from the ionospheric side dominate the structure of the double layer. The ionospheric electron distribution includes scattered and reflected (mirrored) primaries, auroral secondaries, photoelectrons, and a cold population. A large fraction of the ionospheric electrons is reflected by the parallel electric field whereas the ionospheric ions are strongly accelerated. The steep density gradient between the ionosphere and the auroral cavity results in a highly asymmetric double layer, with a strong, localized positive charge layer on the ionospheric side and a moderate, extended negative charge layer on the auroral cavity side. This structure results in an asymmetric electric field, a feature also seen in the observations. The electric field observations, however, do not always support a planar double layer since the parallel and perpendicular signals are not always well correlated. Fully two-dimensional solutions are needed to better reproduce the observed features.
Counterstreaming ions as evidence of magnetic reconnection in the recovery phase of substorms at the kinetic level9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1499117View Description Hide Description
Counterstreaming ions embedded in hot isotropic ions are found at the front of fast earthward plasma flows in the recovery phase of substorms in the Earth's magnetotail. The counterstreaming ions are present only when the northward component of the magnetic field increases in the equatorial plane. Hybrid simulations of magnetic reconnection have been carried out. It is found that counterstreaming ions form in the leading edge of jetting plasmas produced with magnetic reconnection, where the magnetic field lines pile up due to the pre-existing stationary plasmas. These counterstreaming ions originate from cold ions on the northern and southern tail lobe field lines, and earthward transport of the reconnected field lines makes these cold ions flow into the equatorial plane. The present observations provide strong evidence of magnetic reconnection in the recovery phase of substorms at the kinetic level.
Geomagnetic transport in the solar wind driven nightside magnetosphere–ionosphere system9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1499119View Description Hide Description
A spatially resolved nonlinear dynamical model of the solar wind driven geomagnetic tail plasma is developed for the purpose of space weather predictions. The model represents the fluctuating electromagnetic fields and high pressure central plasma sheet by a large number of semiglobal coupled current loops ranging from the near-Earth geosynchronous orbit position for substorm dynamics to deep in the geotail. There is a spectrum of dynamical frequencies ranging from 1 h periods to 1 min and shorter periods. The low-frequency modes are global and lead to the dynamics of the low-dimensional WINDMI model. The high-frequency dynamics are nonlinear compressional-rarefraction waves propagating up and down the geotail. The localized pulses start from sites of local reconnection set off either by the tearing mode unloading trigger or by localized solar wind disturbances acting on the nightside magnetopause. Larger unloading events lead to nonlinear steepening of the compressional pulsations which act to trigger secondary convection events under certain conditions.
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Acceleration and heating of charged particles by a dispersive electrostatic pulse9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1500361View Description Hide Description
Acceleration and heating mechanisms of charged particles by a generalized electrostatic pulse, i.e., a dispersive and propagating pulse of various forms, are investigated analytically and numerically. Gaussian-shaped pulses of arbitrary group- as well as phase-velocities are considered, but the results should apply qualitatively to solitons and other pulses. Actions of ordinary wave packets, as well as extremely short pulses with less than one cycle (or wavelength) among others, are investigated. For these general pulses, it is found that there may exist four types of acceleration/heating mechanisms. If a particle's initial velocity is sufficiently away from the central phase-velocity of the pulse and if the pulse is sufficiently short, there occurs a well-known but generalized transit-time acceleration. However, for relatively long pulses with more than a couple of wavelengths or cycles, the transit-time acceleration becomes rapidly ineffective in accelerating particles. In the vicinity of the central phase-velocity of the pulse, a new process called "quasi-trapping" occurs, usually giving rise to the greatest velocity shifts. It can at times also cause a novel particle reflection. Finally, in the vicinity of the group velocity of the pulse, there occurs another new reflection process driven by the ponderomotive force of the pulse. All of the analytic expressions obtained for these processes are generally in good to excellent agreement with numerical results.
Measurements of helicon wave propagation and Ar II emission9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1501475View Description Hide Description
Wavemagnetic field, optical and Langmuir probemeasurements are carried out to examine fast and thermal electron contributions to plasma ionization in a helicon plasmasource. For the optical measurements, an Ar II line (443 nm) with a particularly short lifetime (7 ns) is chosen to resolve the excitation rate within a radio frequency period (73.7 ns). Information is then obtained regarding the acceleration processes and their action on the electron distribution that caused the excitation. Spatio-temporal measurements of 443 nm peak emission show that the emission is modulated at the source frequency. The peak count phase of the modulation propagates along the plasma at a comparable speed as the local helicon wave phase velocity. Computer modeling utilizing lab data is carried out to examine wave field effects on electron acceleration and ionization contributions arising from non-Maxwellian fast electrons.
Numerical simulation of ultracold plasmas9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1497166View Description Hide Description
In recent experiments ultracold plasmas were produced by photoionizing small clouds of laser cooled atoms. This paper presents the results of molecular dynamic simulations for the early time evolution of such plasmas. Contrary to earlier speculation, no evidence of strong electron–electron correlations is observed in the simulations even if the initial value of the coupling parameter is much larger than unity. As electron–electron correlations begin to develop, the correlation energy is released to heat the electrons, raising the electron temperature to the point where and limiting further development of correlation. Further heating of the electrons occurs as a by-product of three-body recombination. When a model of laser cooling is added to the simulation, the formation of strong ion–ion correlation is observed. Contrary to earlier suggestion, the rate of three-body recombination is observed to be in reasonable agreement with the traditional formula, but care must be taken to use the correct temporally evolving temperature, The simulations are challenging because it is necessary to follow three-body recombination into weakly bound (high quasiclassical) Rydberg states, and the time scale for such states is short compared to that for the plasma dynamics. This kind of problem was faced earlier in computational astrophysics when studying binary starformation in globular clusters and the simulation method used here is adapted from such studies.
Stimulated Brillouin scattering in a magnetized dusty plasma with charge fluctuation9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1498262View Description Hide Description
Stimulated Brillouin scattering of an electromagnetic wave is investigated analytically in a magnetized dusty plasma. Variation of growth rates of the scatteredion-acoustic wave and the electromagnetic wave have been analyzed with respect to the concentration of dust particles by taking account dust charge fluctuation.
Effective screened potentials of strongly coupled semiclassical plasma9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1499497View Description Hide Description
The pseudopotentials of particle interaction, taking into account both quantum-mechanical effects of diffraction at short distances, and also screening field effects at large distances are obtained for a strongly coupled semiclassical plasma. The limiting cases of potentials are considered.
Local equilibrium of nonrotating plasmas9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1501474View Description Hide Description
What is the minimal information that must be supplied on a constant pressure surface of a toroidal plasma to completely specify a local magnetohydrodyamic equilibrium? Clearly the shape of the surface must be specified, but other information such as the separation between neighboring surfaces must also be given. This paper explores the conditions required for three-dimensional equilibria and how local equilibrium constraints are related to global constraints. The resulting conditions provide useful checks on the accuracy of equilibrium solvers, particularly for solvers for three-dimensional equilibria, and allow local refinements in the accuracy of equilibria.
Double mode condensates of a flowing plasma as possible relaxed states9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1503068View Description Hide Description
Stationary energy (SE) states are found for a flowing two-fluid plasma. These are of interest because quiescent relaxed plasma equilibria, if they exist, should be a subset of the SE states. The platform for the analysis is a two-fluid flowing plasma, which is more realistic than the single-fluid model used in most treatments of relaxed plasmas. The two-fluid model is characterized by two helicities, one for each species. Including flow allows for the possibility that flow may be an important ingredient in relaxed states. The analysis expands the flow and field vectors in a complete basis set of divergence-free vectors. This reduces the problem to algebra. It leads at once to the prediction of SE states that are a two-point spectrum of the basis set, i.e., double-mode condensates. The properties of these SE states are shown to depend on their location in helicity space, a two-dimensional parameter space of the ion and electron helicities. The migration of a SE state as a result of resistive and viscous dissipation is also shown.
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The Kelvin–Helmholtz instability, differential rotation, and three-dimensional, localized, magnetic reconnection9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1494070View Description Hide Description
Results are presented from a study of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection caused by a Kelvin–Helmholtz instability and differential rotation. Specifically, subsonic and sub-Alfvénic flow is considered, which is Kelvin–Helmholtz stable in the direction of the magnetic field, but unstable perpendicular to the magnetic field. The flow is modeled by the resistive magnetohydrodynamics equations in three dimensions with constant resistivity. As a result of differential rotation (a gradient in vorticity parallel to the initial field), localized transient reconnection is observed on the Kelvin–Helmholtz time scale. Current amplification is observed along with the generation of parallel current. Results indicate that the observed transient reconnection rate is insensitive to resistivity (even with a constant resistivity model), but is sensitive to the initial flow shear.
Sound waves in two-ion plasmas9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1494982View Description Hide Description
The dispersive and nonlinear characteristics of sound waves in plasmas that consist of warm electron and two different ion fluids are studied in detail. Analytical solutions are used to illustrate the characteristics of sound waves and to validate a numerical scheme that solves fluid and Poisson equations. This scheme can be used to model sound waves that participate in stimulated Brillouin scattering in two-ion plasmas.
Fully nonlinear dust kinetic Alfvén waves9(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1494983View Description Hide Description
Exact localized nonlinear dust kinetic Alfvén waves are investigated by retaining the complete dust nonlinearity and by invoking small but finite-β effects in a collisionless plasma, whose constituents are electrons, ions and negatively charged dust grains. Sub-Alfvénic, as well as super-Alfvénic, solitary waves consisting of smooth density humps or dips are found to exist. Further, super-Alfvénic kink type solitons are also found to occur. The soliton amplitude depends upon various plasma parameters along with the soliton propagation speed. The results of the present investigation may be useful in the diagnostics of dust in magnetized plasmas and in understanding the formation of coherent soliton structures in space and laboratory plasmas.


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India aims for 20 gigawatts solar by 2022 — but is it set to announce emissions targets?
We've seen that the "New U.S.-India Green Partnership improves prospects for global climate deal." But Treehugger has more on the world's most populous democracy (and the photo is B Balaji via flickr). First,"It's Finally Official – India's National Solar Mission Aims for 20 Gigawatts Solar Power by 2022":
Rumors and draft reports have been circulating about India's National Solar Mission plan since early summer, but the program has finally been officially announced. Approved just in time for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit with President Obama, the plan aims for 20 gigawatts on solar power capacity by 2022:
Greenpeace has already done some quick calculations (probably had them done months ago, truth be told) and estimates that the NSM, part of National Action Plan on Climate Change, could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12-18%, with annual reductions of 434 million tons of CO2 avoided annually through 2050, provided that the solar power actually displaced fossil fuel-generated electricity.
Siddharth Pathak, Climate and Energy Policy officer for Greenpeace India praised the announcement,
"With the release of the NSM, the Indian Government has categorically shown that is is acting on climate change and moving away from a carbon-intensive, business-as-usual scenario. This puts pressure on the developed countries to commit and put their GHG emission reduction targets at Copenhagen."
I'd note that the U.S. may end up doing 20 GW of solar by 2020 — but we'll need to pass the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill and probably need two terms of Obama, and it'd be mostly concentrated solar power (see World's largest solar plant with thermal storage to be built in Arizona "" total of 8500 MW of this core climate solution planned for 2014 in U.S. alone).
Treehugger's second post on India is more intriguing, albeit more speculative, "Is India Set To Announce Emissions Targets?"
Let's play a game of "Find the large economies that have put emission reductions on the table for Copenhagen." Yay! Let's see. U.S.? Check. China? Check. E.U.? Check. India? Hey India, where you at? Well, it seems India might be willing to make firm commitments after Indian Premier Manmohan Singh said for the first time today that his country of 1.2 billion people might be willing to commit carbon emission cuts if–and this is a big if– other countries share the responsibility.
Singh, who gave no hard figures, said today:
"India is willing to sign on to an ambitious global target for emissions reductions or limiting temperature increase but this must be accompanied by an equitable burden sharing paradigm."
Some Indian media is reporting that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will offer cuts of between 20 to 25 percent, but this is unconfirmed by indian officials. Plus it's not clear if that by 2020 or if it's relative to economic growth or a benchmark set in the past.
China recently announced that premier Wen Jiabao will go to Copenhagen summit and that they will reduce emissions per unit of gross domestic product in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels.
President Obama will also go to Copenhagen before he accepts his Nobel peace Prize and will offer emissions cuts of 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, which is consistent with proposed US legislation. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends that developed countries cut their emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020, compared to 1990 levels.
Stay tuned: The start of Copenhagen is only a days away.
Related Posts:
- Indonesia pledges CO2 cut of 26% to 41% by 2020, "We will change the status of our forest from that of a net emitter sector to a net sink sector by 2030."
- Brazil's President: "I foresee that by 2020 we will be able to reduce deforestation by 80 percent; in other words, we will emit some 4.8 billion fewer tons of carbon dioxide gas."
8 Responses to India aims for 20 gigawatts solar by 2022 — but is it set to announce emissions targets?
JR and CP readers: I were posting comments in the last few weeks, trying to warn CP readers about the Bush-like nature of the Indian Government .
So I will repeat someones, as this is the first comment to this post.
I hope I'm not fastidious with my insistence, but I am still waiting responses about the CURRENT CRITICAL SITUATION of INDIA.
First, the NASA IMAGES:
"Fires in Northwestern India"
What you see is the Ganges Plain burning and covered by a kilometre-thick layer of highly toxic smoke.
The cause is the WORST DROUGHT IN 30 YEARS. El Niño may have enhanced it, but even the Uber El Niño of 1997-1998 doesn't cause such a disaster.
What this suggest is that THE INDIAN MONSOON HAS BEGAN ITS DEMISE, as the Indian researcher V. Ramanathan is warning from 20 years:the smoke, that smoke you see in the link above,is killing the monsoon.
Meanwhile what is the response of the Indian government?
Here is was Jairam Ramesh, Environment minister,says about himalayan glaciers:
"Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh released a report last week that says there is no conclusive evidence that climate change has caused the melting of the Himalayan glaciers. The report says that not all of the glaciers are receding at alarming rates and that a few are even advancing.
The report, an analysis of data from the past four decades, is part of India's efforts to produce a body of indigenous research assessments on the subject"(source: Washington Post)
Meanwhile, the Government is busy fighting a war, just like Bush, but A WAR AGAINST ITS OWN PEOPLE.
The peasants, lower castes and tribals, ignored for centuries (India still has a SEMIFEUDAL SYSTEM in rural areas, yes, they ARE STILL IN THE MIDDLE AGES , in 2009!) are joining MASSIVELY the Communist Party of India(Maoist) or CPI(Maoist). Now maoist guerrillas affect 1/3 of the country.
The government is trying to crush the insurgency, has banned CPI(Maoist) as a "terrorist group" and funded brutal militias, the Salwa-Judum, that force peasants to "reubication camps" to "protect" them from Maoists. So there are forced deportations and massive killings and massacres to any village suspected of maoist support.
I have in previous post some links. You can follow them.
One thing is sure:
Some disturbing details:
"(NaturalNews,14 November 2009)
"Water Wars Erupt in India as Drought Threatens Population Survival"
The drought in India has become so severe that people have begun literally fighting over water in many regions of the country, even murdering each other over the precious substance.
Northern India is in the grips of a drought so severe that in Bhopal, the City of Lakes, the government has been forced to ration water use to half an hour once per three days. Nearly two million people live in this massive city, where the 1,000-year old artificial Upper Lake has shrunk from 38 square kilometers (15 square miles) to a mere five square kilometers (two square miles). "
India is just like china, it would increase the emissions amounts in the future, and it will cause pollutions even worse than china, i am very worried about its people
Dear From Peru: Thank you for the information. I saw the NASA Natural Hazards post a few days ago. Please keep us posted on events in India.
Of course are part of India's aggressive plan is another 20 to 60 GWs of nuclear energy, which will really cut into their coal burning. They see 400 GWs nuclear or about half their generation…a hugely ambitious target, by 2050.
It's totally silly to talk *only* about solar alone when the Indians are pursuing nuclear as their bulk non-carbon generation.
Dear Edwar:
Thank you for for the attention.
You could follow the Political/military situation(i.e. how is the Naxalite/Maoist insurgency right in the path of CIVIL WAR) in the links:
I warn you that this blogs are a bit skewed to the side of Maoist Insurgents.
I will greatly thanks someone who gives me some more neutral sites.
What I want to show is HOW BAD THE SITUATION IS.
You CANNOT have on one side cities developing like Shangai or New York and one the other a countryside with peasants starving from drought and under a semifeudal caste system (thinking about castes, landlords and servs in the XXI century is a thing really breathtaking: they are locked 300 years in the past and want to be a modern country….this is insane!)
That is a time bomb that has already exploded.
Without a radical change in politics(unlikely given the present political spectrum in parliament) that could only turn worse, and then even worse.
Here is what Maoists are declaring:
TITLE:"Govt offensive will make us stronger: Maoists
SOURCE: Gyan Varma / DNAMonday, November 30, 2009 3:19 IST
CONTENT:"New Delhi: Weeks before the government launches one of its biggest offensive against Maoists, the extremists have welcomed it saying this will strengthen their movement in tribal areas.
The Maoist thinktank believe that the government's stand is responsible for their success in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh. "The more destruction they (security forces) cause, the faster will our people's army grow and our guerrilla war spread to other parts of the country. Thanks to the Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh, our war has achieved in four years what would have taken two decades. Now, thanks to home minister P Chidambaram, our war will expand to wider areas, mobilise more people and gather momentum," said Azad, the spokesperson of the CPI (Maoist) in a document made available to DNA.
"Maoism teaches us that self-preservation is possible only through war. You cannot defend yourself against a powerful and extremely cruel enemy by submitting to him meekly. You have to choose the appropriate method to fight a relatively superior and powerful enemy and only by this can you ensure the preservation of your forces," he said.
Targeting prime minister Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram for not doing enough for the tribals of mineral-rich areas, the Maoist leadership says the government is only interested in these areas because of resources but is doing nothing to develop them. The rebels are clear there's no question of getting down to talks if laying down arms is a pre-condition.
"Never, not even in our dreams can we think of laying down arms. We have taken up arms to defend the rights of people and to liberate them exploitation and oppression. Laying down arms would be betraying the m," Azad said.
"We may lose some forces in this brutal offensive by the enemy. But you must keep in mind that when the people's war began we had only a handful of committed cadre.
Today, it has grown into a big mass movement with a people army and a countrywide presence. Even if we lose some forces, we will rebuild the movement as we are now doing in Andhra Pradesh. You will see the results of our underground work soon," said Azad.
Hinting at more attacks against policemen, Maoists said they have asked their cadre not to use brutal tacticssuch as those used on Francis Induvar, the slain policeman from Jharkhand."
A remarkable quote: "Thanks to the Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh, our war has achieved in four years what would have taken two decades."
This comment is mine:
Common people that do not believe in Maoism, that just struggle to survive, fight for water and food , all this while You, my dear Prime Minister, are counting the millions of dollars yor Big Business is winning or losing.People that cannot read none "Little Red Book" because they are ANALPHABETE. More than 60% of your population is living in this condition. Do you want to be the World Leading Nation in GDP Growth while more than 50% of your own people cannot even read?!
Now, with your actions, YOUR GOVERNMENT HAVE DECLARED WAR ON PEOPLE.
You Security Forces, NOT SUBVERSIVE INTELLECTUALS, are turning them into agry Maoist warriors. The more repression, the more killings your forces do, the more the insurgency will grow.
The equation is deadly simple:
1 000 000 STARVING PEOPLE + STATE REPRESSION = 1 000 000 MAOISTS, ready to take over the contryside, encircle your cities and then TAKE YOUR PLACE IN GOVERNMENT.
Stop this madness. Before the tipping point is reached, before that point of no return is crossed.
Stop this immediately. Maybe you are still in time, but… maybe the "tipping point" of Unstoppable Revolution has been already crossed.
If that is true, we may be signing a Climate Treaty with a Maoist-led Government in a few years …
… who knows?
Albert Einstein once said:
"There are two things that are infinite. The Universe and Human Stupidity. And I am not sure of the first thing…"
Let us Pray for the Indian People.
Pray for the peasants could survive the drought-famine.
Pray that the tragedy of 1918 does not repeat.
In that year, a study found, a Super-El-Niño induced a great drought in India. Famine followed. With their bodies weakened, the 1918-A/H1N1 virus, more known as "Spanish Flu" and made 30 MILLION DEATHS IN INDIA ALONE.
Pray for that People.
NOTE TO ALL: Worldwide, the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic,caused by the 1918-A/H1N1 Virus, killed between 50 and 100 million people, and is the GENETIC ORIGIN OF SWINE FLU and so of the current 2009-A/H1N1 Virus, so take your damn vaccine and SAVE YOUR LIFES!).
Pray for the Government of India, to stop this massacre, to make use of reason and common sense, instead of obeying the "dictat" of Big Business lobbysts, now desperately trying to escape the financial crisis and accumulate more money, more dirty money.
Pray to YAHVEH, ALLAH, JESUS CHRIST, BUDDHA, KRISHNA,…………., Pray GOD, no matter what Name you use for HIM.


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I would really appericiate if someone can help me with this. I need to create a margin on the left side of my posts and in that margin i want to add my adsense to appear....skyscrapper 300*600
I would really appericiate if someone can help me with this. I need to create a margin on the left side of my posts and in that margin i want to add my adsense to appear....skyscrapper 300*600
what theme are you using?
is that for the index (and archive) pages?
and/or for single posts and pages?
That would be for twenty twelve and for single posts and pages
Do you have a child theme set up? That's the first step if you are modifying theme files:
A link to your site would be relevant as well.
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We need to call his bluff and let the Sonics go. Otherwise we're just perpetuating the cycle of bribery that funnels billions of taxpayer dollars to these ultra-rich cheats.
The Okie Drifters (formerly Seattle Super Sonics) will move and will continue to suck as they do now. Then the NBA will start whining about "upgrading" the Ford Center. Meanwhile, in Seattle, no one notices the Sonics are gone except the 20 people who go to games now.
Don't forget that the OKC lease has an attendance-related opt out clause for the team after the second year. Hilarious.
@3: I agree with that sentiment.
I think (or at least, would like to think) that the CW is starting to catch up with reality: A world-class city isn't judged by how many professional sports teams it has. Rather, the sad, desperate willingness to throw budgets and treasure out the window to finance corporate cannibalism makes a city look decidedly small-town.
World-class cities don't prostrate themselves for anybody. We don't need you, Stern.
Nice post, Sam. I'm beginning to realize that losing the Supes won't be so bad after all.
Why spend time and effort listening to some whiny losing bball players when we can replace them with a winning NHL, MLS, or curling team that we'll all enjoy a lot more and pay a lot less for?
Besides, we already got the Storm out of them - sue their asses of if they try to skip on rent, but otherwise it's sayonara sweetheart ...
@8: If we were able to pick up an NHL franchise, that's more than worth the Sonics! In fact, I'd actually be in favor of giving them a taxpayer-financed deal on Key Arena, just out of spite.
bring the trailblazers and change their name.
Maybe some focus should be put on ending Seattle's 90 year Stanley Cup drought.
@11 * 91 year
@ 9 - what makes you think Seattle can support an NHL franchise?
...particularly given that they'd need a new facility suitable for the NHL built for them (when Key Arena was rebuilt in the 90's, the Sonics massaged the specs to ensure that NHL hockey could not be played there - can't have any competition for that finite sports dollar, after all).
Maybe we could put it at the base of one of those nonexistent 100-story residential towers Will keeps blathering about?
They're gone. This doesn't confirm anything most of us didn't already know, but it should shut up the hopeful naysayer Sonics fans that held out false hope because of nice comments here and there from NBA owners, local interests and other fluff.
Don't count on an NHL franchise. Someone would have to or want to move, Kansas City and their shiny new arena would get first dibs, and the NHL is suffering from similar market saturation and attendance problems.
But you've gotta admit that an NHL team in Seattle makes more sense than an NBA team in OK City.
@8 Did you actually say "professional curling team"? Do such things exist? People pay to watch curling?
I've got a different opinion on this. Seattle should try to keep the Sonics. It's not about the direct $$ in the economy, and it's not about keeping the highly paid players in town.
It's about community. It's the same reason we should fund the symphony hall and arts throughout the region. The city budget is a stunning 3 1/2 billion dollars or something like that. More at CultureMob.com http://blog.culturemob.com/
Moving a team from a city ranked #17 in the US in per capita income to a city ranked #103 is NOT a wise fiscal decision for the 29 other NBA owners. Seattle needs to call Stern and Bennett on their bluff.
Is no one capable of distinguishing the Sonics (the historical franchise, the city's oldest sports team) from the Sonics (the greedy OKC ownership group)?
Is no one here the least bit disappointed to see a part of the city's history disappear? Maybe you didn't grow up with them like I did, but can't you at least appreciate their historical significance and not simply sigh, "Good riddance?"
Oh, and news flash: nothing will replace the Sonics, at least nothing anytime soon. As has already been mentioned, an NHL franchise would require a large, hockey-specific arena or a massive overhaul of KeyArena. (Shit, KeyArena won't even have a minor league hockey franchise in a few more weeks.)
Whoever said curling had better be joking, because that's not even a legitimate spectator sport. Professional lacrosse? Too insignificant. Our best bet is to flood the place and stick in some hydros.
Oh, and @8: I know you probably love the new MLS team (which will be functionally much the same as the current Sounders), but guess what -- the only reason the MLS is here is because we already gave the new franchise a huge new stadium.
In short, fuck Clay Bennett, and fuck all of you bystanders who just add insult to injury.
@2 - I'll notice when they're gone. Westbound rush hour bridge traffic is WAY worse on any day there's a Sonics game. Goodbye and good riddance.
@19 - yes, it's an Olympic sport. Heck, CBC shows curling for four hours about once a week ...
But NHL is probably an easier sell.
Mind you, if we got a winning curling team, most people would get all excited, and never miss the losing bball team that is the OK Sonics.
@21, given the NBA's current "business" model -- essentially a mildly disguised form of rent-seeking -- it is a good move. Stern's using the Sonics as an example of what happens to cities that don't cave to the league's outrageous demands. It doesn't really matter if the market in OKC can support the team in the long run. The team makes a few quick bucks while it's still a new product and has a highly subsidized new arena, then pulls the same shit and moves to Lewiston or Galveston or Billings.
18 20 21. Context, guys.
18. From what standpoint? The only points of view that ultimately matter are those of the ownerships of sports teams and the governors of the leagues in question.
Also, on a basic level, no, moving an NHL team to a city with an undersized arena not suited for hockey and no plan to build a new one isn't as good an idea as an existing NBA team in an undersized but configured arena.
20. It doesn't matter what anyone here wants as long as the ownership and league are dead set on moving the team. Not at all.
21. It's not just about market size. Shit, one of the NFL's most storied franchises plays in Green Bay, WI, barely one of the top 100 markets in the country at best, probably not even that. But the 2nd biggest market in the US, Los Angeles, showed a lack of suitable support an NFL team. Market sizes don't really have much of a place in the SEA/OKC discussion. This is all about interest, available money and the resulting feasibility from that.
Also, one last note, as someone who has a passing but informed interest in watching curling: cities don't have curling teams like other sports, because there is no such thing as a curling league, not in the sense that we understand leagues. Curling is a sport with meets and events, much like golf or cycling. Curling teams are individual, privately endorsed endeavors. For example, Jennifer Jones heads a competitive 4 person Canadian team called Team Jennifer Jones, and they make so little money from prizes and sponsorships that they all have day jobs aside from curling.
So the idea of a curling team is an uninformed one... unless you plan on starting such a US Curling League, and if you have the money for that, you may as well convince Clay and friends to let you buy the Sonics.
@24, Olympic athletes are mostly amateurs, so this "professional curling" business you allude to has little to do with the Olympics.
And, seriously, on what planet do "most" Americans get excited about their city's winning curling team? Or most Canadians, for that matter? Dozens of people would be thrilled, at most, and half of them would be team members.
Sorry, I was thinking we lived in Ecotopia, @27. Just getting ready for the McCain/Bush 08 interregnum.
Isn't Katz the guy trying to move the Nets into a big-box store in Brooklyn? I think the Sonics should try that -- have Gehry whip up something blobby on the site of the downtown Bed Bath and Beyond. Gimme a hell yea!
There is a lot of hating going and a lot of "they suck anyway". I know hipsters are not supposed to like basketball, but this was a playoff team a couple of years ago until management traded away players seemingly to produce a bad record and drop in attendence as an impetus for lack of interest and then moving the team.
It was just a few years ago that the Hawks ate ass and when was the last time the Ms were formidable.
Now with the T-birds gone, Key Arena will be empty save for Dane Cook shows.
@18 - no. Oklahoma has a demonstrated interest in basketball, between the way it supported the Hornets, and the fact that there are high school and college basketball teams in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the T-Birds are moving to Kent, and there's no high school or NCAA hockey in Washington state.
Gomez @26: Market size matters much less in the NFL because teams play 8 home games a year. Each NFL game is an EVENT, capable of drawing folks from miles away for an entire day or even a weekend. Filling an NBA arena 41 times a year is a much bigger task.
OKC demonstrated the ability to fill the Ford center for 2 years. that's it. once the civic pride at their "victory" & the novelty of the NBA wears off, they're drawing from the surrounding region: Tulsa, and the bustling metropolii of Enid, Norman, Bartlesville, etc. If they weren't already.
I wish OKC luck. they whored themselves out, and in 5 years the bloom will be off the rose.
What the other owners get out of this is an utter mystery to me.
Curling teams aren't professional in the same sense that other sports are, but there is prize money. Just not a lot of it. There's a tour, too, which would be awesome to see in Seattle, though I doubt they'd fill the Key; they'd probably just play, or, uh, spiel, up at the Granite Curling Club. They've held the National Championships up there before. Won some, too. Curling is a lot of fun to watch if you know what's going on, and even more fun to do.
NHL is out, as Mr. X points out, because a legal hockey rink won't fit in the Key. The only way the Thunderbirds can play there is by extending one end of the rink under the lip of the stand, and the NHL doesn't allow such shenanigans.
What @22 and @30 said. Lots of people in this town like having a pro basketball team to watch and root for. Many of them are urban youth rather than ironic hipsters who care more about hanging out in trendy clubs (but whine when the wrong kind of people move into Georgetown). Well, vive le difference. As long as we support a ballet and an opera and a sculpture park, etc., etc., then why the hell not have a public arena suitable for pro ball? I bet a hell of a lot more people follow the Sonics (even in their present diminished state) than follow the Ring of the Nibelung.
The reason local market share matters less for the NFL is due to revenue sharing. There is no revenue sharing in the NBA.
@ 33 - possibly, but I think it's still more interest in basketball than Seattle's demonstrated in hockey.
Has Los Angeles been groveling and begging for another NFL team? No, they are confident that it doesn't have any effect on their status as a "world class" city and that it's the NFL's loss more than it is LA's. The NBA will have moved out of Vancouver and Seattle and into OKC and Nashville. It's clear to me which cities are more desirable to work or live.
In a nutshell, Seattle doesn't want the Sonics and Oklahoma does. Let them go, good riddance, and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
@39, that Seattle is unwilling to blindly throw cash at the team's ownership is hardly an indication that the franchise is unwanted.
Also, "don't let the door hit you on the way out" is something you say to someone when YOU win, not when they win. Clay Bennett, et al, wants to take the team to Oklahoma. He couldn't give two shits about whether some imaginary door hits him, because hey, he's a hometown hero who's got fresh OKC tax dollars coming his way. As far as Seattle's concerned, he's managed to leave us with one less community asset, one less link to our past, and one less form of entertainment than we had previously.
There's no way to spin this: losing the Sonics is bad for Seattle. It's no victory -- not even a moral victory -- it's a loss.
I'm with 22 and 30. Stern, Bennett, Schultz and the like are to blame surely, but...
Isnt there a lack of fairness when one sport not subsidized (I know, the Sonics will be 10 mill short on revenues) is forced to compete with other sports that recently have received hundreds of millions in subsidies for new facilities - baseball and football (and soccer). Supporters and critics of funding the Sonics all seem to agree on one thing - that these sports compete for the same dollar. So subsidizing some but not others creates an unfair playing field. So this new deal shouldn't have been viewed entirely as a shakedown.
In principle, I agree that sports shouldn't be subsidized. But legislatures and governments also shouldn't be picking and choosing our sports for us, and that is what they have done. As a basketball fan, I am disappointed that governments have chosen to fund three sports with hundreds of millions while telling a franchise that has been here the longest and actually brought the city a championship to take a hike. It also bothers me that people are so happy about the Sonics leaving and yet ready to jump on the hockey and soccer bandwagons. There must just be something about basketball that Seattle cant relate to...hmm, I wonder what it is?
@41, they can't relate to white guards from Blaine.
I see your point about the playing field relative to the three major sports. And it has some validity, in spite of the fact that it's also been used by the ownership as part of their shakedown.
I think the difference here -- as opposed to the Qwest and Safeco brouhahas -- is not only the cost ($500 million? really?), but the perceived benefit of a new facility. Qwest and Safeco are great venues that replaced a decrepit concrete bunker that, by any reasonable standard, wasn't a great place for anything other than a boat show. From a fan's perspective, though, there's nothing wrong with the Key. There aren't really any bad seats, all the amenities are fairly modern, and it's in a vibrant neighborhood with food, bars, and several bus routes. Bennett and Stern want to replace this with a self-contained, dime-a-dozen arena somewhere in the burbs that's only a great venue if you can afford a luxury box.
32. Ultimately, it still comes down to interest, the number of seats you have and so on. That OKC filled the arena for a mediocre orphaned team for nearly two full seasons PERIOD is an indicator that they can handle an NBA team. A true fringe market wouldn't have been able to do that even with strong corporate backing. The idea of market size as a prime determinant of market viability is a false one. A factor, sure, but not a prime determinant.
42, I agree that there is a big difference between the Renton proposal and Safeco/Qwest. I like Key too. But even Key Arena proposals seemed like non-starters for Seattle and the state until this last minute Hail Mary. The recent punt by the legislature on the 75 mill and Schulz-era defeats are pretty consistent. The leg doesn't want to give any money to basketball no matter the circumstances. It makes it that much easier for Bennett to make unreasonable demands and paint any rejection as part of a trend.
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Andreas Heldal-Lund has announced in his favorite hate newsgroup the latest vendetta against the Church of Scientology and its members.
Heldal-Lund claims that a Norwegian "newspaper" published a 4-page article about him and his "fight" against the Scientology religion. When the RFW correspondent looked into this Norwegian "newspaper" it is found that it is nothing less than a local joke.
Heldal-Lund claims all sort of things have been done to him, but he carefully omits how he continuously harasses members of a religion.
In essence the sole purpose of the article is revenge because members of the Church of Scientology dared to report to the Stavanger Police the outrageous death threats hosted by Heldal-Lund. It was thanks to the Stavanger Police intervention that Heldal-Lund removed those death threats which he had been proudly displaying on his website, though he still refuses to remove other threats including one that list out details on how to assassinate a member of the Church.
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Central District News says the line was out the door at TT Minor Elementary when they went to vote at 9 this morning, but that things seemed to be moving smoothly.
West Seattle Blog is updating so frequently that I'm just going to refer you to their site.
Columbia City Blog has a guide to voting.
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Senators late yesterday approved regulation that scraps fines, interest and legal costs if companies pay outstanding tax claims on foreign units in one tranche. The bill, which passed Brazil's lower house Sept. 9 and now goes to President Dilma Rousseff for her signature, also entitles companies to a 50 percent reduction on interest and other discounts if they opt to pay the debt in installments.
Brazil's biggest exporters including Vale, beermaker Cia. de Bebidas das Americas and steelmaker Gerdau SA are fighting a total of 86 billion reais ($38 billion) in tax claims on profit generated by foreign units and subsidiaries, the finance ministry said in March. The country is asking Vale, the world's third-largest mining company, to pay 30.5 billion reais of the tax for 1996 to 2008, the company said April 2 in a U.S. regulatory filing. Vale expects Brazil to file additional tax claims for the years after 2008.
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The house was designed by the young English architect William Jay (1792-1837), one of the first professionally trained architects practicing in the United States. The elegant residence was built for cotton merchant and banker Richard Richardson and his wife Francis Bolton. Overlooking Oglethorpe Square, the house was constructed on a prominent trust lot, site of the colonial residences of the surveyor generals of South Carolina and Georgia, Henry Yonge and William Gerard DeBrahm. An inscription under the front portico signed by the local builder John Retan reads: Began Nov AD 1816 / Finished Jan AD 1819. Three years after the house's completion, Richardson suffered financial losses and sold his house which later ended up with the Bank of the United States. For eight years, Mrs. Mary Maxwell ran an elegant lodging house in the structure. Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette was a guest of the city in 1825 and stayed at the home. On March 19, he is believed to have addressed a throng of enthusiastic Savannahians from the unusual cast-iron veranda (pictured, top right) on the south facade. In 1830, planter, congressman, lawyer, and mayor of Savannah, George Welshman Owens, purchased the property for $10,000. It remained in the Owens family until 1951 when Miss Margaret Thomas, George Owens's granddaughter, bequeathed it to the Telfair Museum of Art. The historic house, now called the Owens-Thomas House, is a National Historic Landmark.
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To the organizers of Seattle Pride 2007:
Pride weekend in Seattle. It's not of high importance on my list annual celebrations, though maybe it should be, and The Stranger's awards this year surely will bring to life the tattered cultural significance of years past. I am a proponent of change and welcome the celebration to the so-called "heart" of this city.
My desire for progress and a relevant Pride celebration leaves me to wonder why SOAP, who also seem to want positive change, would choose to have Mark Finley host our parade again. Mark Finley is by far an inappropriate ambassador for and of, in his own words, "the Community."
Last year I saw a rebroadcast of the parade. "Mom" Finley" could not control himself, appeared to be drunk, and to say it as clearly as possible: MADE A FUCKING FOOL OF HIMSELF AND ALL OF QUEERDOM IN A VERY PUBLIC AND HUMILIATING WAY—- declaring himself to be THE voice of gayness. Do you remember his incoherent and vulgar mumbling followed by bursts of screeching while gawking at young men on broadcast television? How he talked about his HIV medicine ("Mom's meds") and tried to dig through his bag to find it and had to be cut off? Can you recall how he told the world that all gay men call sailors "mattresses" (WTF?), and that all of the women in the parade (baring lesbians) were men? That's right Mark! Way to reinforce those stereotypes! Fuck.
And the newscasters …You could see it in their eyes, their disgust with the blabbering fool. And it pained me to watch as they nervously had to manage all Mark's inappropriate and wandering remarks and actions.
Please (SOAP)! Don't do this to us again!
Yours truly,
Concerned Faggot
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Now please to be experiencing this photographic montage of the life of Mark Finley that he, um, apparently created himself.


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Israel met the ambassadors of Britain and France, and Germany's deputy envoy over plans by the EU to ban its 28 members from having any dealings with Jewish settlements, an official said on Friday.
The Jewish state warned the envoys of a serious crisis between it and the European Union over the move, the high-ranking foreign ministry official told AFP.
Germany and France confirmed the Thursday meetings but the British embassy did not immediately comment.
Christophe Bigot, France's ambassador in Tel Aviv, said the "discussion" was called by the Israeli foreign ministry's director, Rafi Barak.
"The Israelis informed us of their concerns" over the EU plan, he said. "I reminded them that the new guidelines were a continuation of European policy on settlements."
The guidelines, published in the EU's Official Journal Friday morning, forbid EU member states from funding or dealing with entities in territories occupied by the Jewish state in 1967.
"The EU does not recognise Israel's sovereignty over... the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including east Jerusalem... and does not consider them to be part of Israel's territory, irrespective of their legal status under domestic law," the preamble to the guidelines says.
The guidelines apply to "grants, prizes and financial instruments," it adds.
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SC Norfolk Outdoor Fall Soccer Registration is now open through Monday, May 23rd
Register online by going to http://www.scnorfolk.com/ and selecting Online Registration on the left side of the page. The link takes you to a page where registration instructions are provided. At the bottom of the registration instructions, click on "Click Here to Proceed with Online Registration" to access the AdminSports site that handles registrations and payments. This is the only method for registration. The cost for Fall registration is $125.00. Online payments may be made by credit or debit card. ***Please note that we do not accept payment by cash or check***
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The following people should be notified when a game cannot be completed on the scheduled date/ time as follows:
- For Home games only:
- Referee Coordinator – needs to assign a referee for the new date/time and update the BAYS scheduling system accordingly
- Field Operations – needs to ensure a field is available. Makeup games can be scheduled for a different time on a Saturday, or scheduled on a practice day. If on a practice day, another coach may need to be asked to move their practice session. S.C. Norfolk has limited days/times when we are guaranteed exclusive use of the fields, so this needs to be coordinated.
- For either Home or Away games:
- BAYS Section Captain – a courtesy notification only if the date will alter. Otherwise they will expect a report of scores
- BAYS Division Director – a courtesy notification only if the date will alter. BAYS have timeframe requirements for makeup games (see section 9 of the Rule book on BAYS website), or they may need to make a determination if coaches cannot agree on a mutually convenient date.
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Legislation that would replace many components of 2001's controversial No Child Left Behind Act handily passed the U.S. Senate last week with both Alaska senators voting in favor of the bill.
No Child Left Behind requires public schools to meet incrementally tougher federal benchmarks based on state-developed standardized testing of students. The goal had been to make 100 percent of the nation's children "proficient" in all subjects by 2012. Federal funding to school districts is based on these test scores.
The Anchorage Federal Bureau of Investigation division is looking into a recent arrest of a New York man charged with making threatening phone calls to Arizona schools to determine if he's connected with similar calls made to Juneau and other Alaska schools this year.
Viktor Lisnyak, 29, of Staten Island, N.Y., was arrested by federal agents on July 17 for making calls to Flagstaff, Arizona, elementary schools and threatening to "kill the children" between March and May 2015, according to an FBI news release.
The Capitol couldn't have handled the most recent special session because of construction, but it will be ready to host the one expected to take place this fall, Rep. Cathy Muñoz said Thursday.
"It was very noisy, there was a lot of construction work," she said at Thursday's Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon. "But now that that's done I have confidence that the special session can be held in Juneau."
A Juneau veteran who spent the last 15 years of his life fighting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs over what he claimed was a life-altering misdiagnosis died last week in a Seattle hospital.
George Messerschmidt, 59, who served on active duty from 1981 to 1985 as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, claimed the VA had been treating him for the wrong disease for 15 years before they caught their mistake.
Juneau's city-owned hospital expects 2,400 additional locals will be eligible for Medicaid now that Gov. Bill Walker has accepted close to $150 million in federal dollars to expand the health care program, a spokesman for Bartlett Regional Hospital said.
Bartlett hopes about half of those people sign up for insurance through the program, Jim Strader said.
The wreckage of a Wings of Alaska Cessna 207 that crashed Friday, 18 miles from Juneau, was flown to Juneau International Airport by helicopter early Monday so a federal agency can investigate the flight equipment, the National Transportation Safety Board's regional office chief said.
On Sunday, a recovery crew including NTSB investigator Chris Shaver traveled to the crash site, 1,330 feet above sea level in the forested mountains near Point Howard.
There are two things helping Michelle Ramsey and her family get through losing her sister, pilot Fariah Peterson, in a Friday plane crash 18 miles from Juneau.
"Yes, our family is grieving, but it gives us great consolation that she died doing what she loved to do," Ramsey said by phone Saturday. "And she set that plane down some sort of way that it didn't kill everyone on board."
The Twin Lakes swimming area is closed until further notice due to water quality issues likely caused by runoff tainted by dog feces, the city's Parks and Recreation department director said late last week.
The department samples the swimming area water regularly during the summer, Kirk Duncan said. On Thursday, the test came back showing a high count of fecal bacteria, he said.
A Juneau man died after being thrown into Windfall Lake when his skiff hit an unknown object in the water, according to an Alaska State Troopers report.
The U.S. Coast Guard reported an overboard boater to Ketchikan Troopers dispatch at about 11:45 p.m. Friday.
Investigation revealed 28-year-old Jacob Lewis of Juneau had been thrown overboard into Windfall Lake, located north of Juneau out the road. About 7 a.m., Lewis' body was located by his friends, who had searched for him after he fell into the water.
The Alaska State Troopers released an updated list of names Saturday morning of the passengers aboard a Wings of Alaska plane that crashed on land 18 miles west of Juneau Friday afternoon.
The passengers were Humberto Hernandez-Aponte, 57, and Sandra Herrera Lopez, 60, of Juneau; Ernestine Hanlon-Abel, 64, of Hoonah; Jose Vazquez, 15, of Puerto Rico; and pilot Fariah Peterson, 45, of Birmingham, Alabama.
Peterson died in the crash. Troopers are working to recover her body.
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Another shot of the lovely little rabbit before I cut the grass. The grass has grown back with a vengance already so it will need cutting again!
We're Back! Lanzarote was amazing and I have several hundred photos and a few are probably good enough to post!
Welcome back! Looking forward to seeing some shots from your trip.
Donncha! Glad you had a good time. Have you stopped the script yet?
Why cut it? Why dont you let the bunny be happy and continue to enjoy photographing it.
Matty – script is stopped now but I will use it in the future again because it's so much easier than stressing about manually posting a new photo as early as possible each morning.
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Local man cited for drunk drivingJanuary 08,2013RUTLAND A local man was cited for driving under the influence of alcohol after a one-vehicle crash on Sunday morning, according to Senior Trooper Aron McNeil of the Vermont State Police.
Around 4 a.m., members of the West Rutland Fire Department and Vermont State Police were dispatched to Exit 6 of Route 4 in West Rutland. At the scene, police determined that a car had slid off the roadway. There were no injuries or damages to the vehicle.
Investigation found that Eric Reid, 21, of Rutland, had been driving a 2010 Mazda MZ3 west on Route 4 when he slid off the lightly-snow-covered roadway at Exit 6.
Police said Reid had been drinking alcohol before the crash.
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