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Melbourne, June 1 (IANS) Researchers in the drought-ravaged state of California have turned to Melbourne to learn more about effective strategies to combat drought, especially water-saving techniques.
California is suffering through one of its most severe dry periods on record, and researchers have found that strategies enacted in Melbourne during the Victorian drought that ended in 2010 were successful and could be used in the US.
Andrew Hamilton, from the School of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne, said California was similar to Melbourne in terms of climate, so the strategies which worked so well in Victoria could be successful utilised across the Pacific.
"California goes through periods of drought and has a similar climate overall, so when we put it and Melbourne alongside each other, we found Melbourne had adopted more strategies to combat drought," Xinhua quoted him as saying on Monday.
The paper he co-wrote, titled "Fighting drought with innovation: Melbourne's response to the Millennium Drought in South-east Australia" was published in the scientific journal, WIREs, and indicated that some Californian residents were using up to 1,313 litres of water every day, eight times more than the average Melbourne resident.
He said California's water shortage was an amalgamation of poor regulation and a vastly different cultural stance on saving water.
"The main reason it is happening is that from a regulatory perspective they just didn't enact the same controls as we have here in Melbourne," Hamilton said.
"It's also cultural. Whereas in Australia, we are very used to the concept of drought and we realise we just had to let some things go, such as gardens."
Hamilton said Melbourne's water restriction regime helped cut the average daily water use to half between 1997 and 2010, while California had no restrictions before this year: "There were no restrictions in California, particularly compulsory restrictions like in Melbourne where you had to follow them otherwise you would get in trouble."
"California has only just this year brought in mandatory restrictions, before that they had voluntary restrictions, a concept which is a bit of an oxymoron."
The Victorian government used the media to spread awareness of the dire situation during the region's last drought, and while it might not have struck fear into the hearts of the locals, it served to raise awareness.
Daily updates of the state's dwindling reservoir levels and television ads encouraging shorter showers made restrictions a daily topic of conversation, and Hamilton said it actively changed the culture around saving water in Melbourne.
The "Target 155" campaign encouraged people to use just 155 litres per day during the drought, by banning residents from watering their gardens, asking them to take two-minute showers and restricting car washes undertaken at home to just a bucket of water.
There were also government campaigns that encouraged residents to use the "half flush" function on toilets and only turn on dishwashers and washing machines when full.
Hamilton said a similar culture change in the US would not take long if properly enacted.
"It actually doesn't take as long as one might think. Droughts are quite sudden and 'Target 155' campaign was almost immediate in its effectiveness," he said.
The paper was funded by the US National Science Foundation, and was written as a collaboration between UC Irvine, the University of Melbourne, Federation University Australia and local water body Yarra Valley Water.


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Absolutely can't believe I missed this passing by. Dirty South Joe & Flufftronix have put out Luvstep 2.5 which is the set they played at this years Mad Decent Block Party. But unlike last years mix from the block party, I'm pretty sure this is a studio version of what they played this year instead of it being live (Last years live version is here). Certainly doesn't take away from the enjoyment of the mix though. If you aren't familiar with this series your life is about to be changed forever.
Dirty South Joe & Flufftronix – Luvstep 2.5 (320 kbps)
1. Baby
2. Starkey – Lost In Space [Civil Music]
3. Chase & Status feat. Delilah – Time (Nostalgia Remix) [White Label]
4. Dev – In the Dark (Proper Villains Remix) [Universal Republic]
5. SBTRKT feat. Little Dragon – Wildfire [Young Turks]
6. DWNTWN – Hungry Hearts (Skeet Skeet Remix Dub) [White Label]
7. Mr. Little Jeans – The Suburbs [White Label]
8. Gold Panda – Marriage (Star Slinger Remix) [Notown]
9. Araabmuzik – Feelin' So Hood [Duke Productions]
10. Ali Love – Diminishing Returns (Alvin Risk Remix) [Dim Mak]
11. Derek Allen – Shoulda Listened [Mad Decent]
12. Silver Medallion – All I Ask (Flufftronix Remix) [Get Right]
13. Mavado – Delilah (Diplo Remix) [Mansion]
14. Dillon Francis & Chris Brown – Beautician People (Flufftronix Mash) [White Label]
15. Calvin Harris – Feels So Close (Nero Remix) [Fly Eye]
16. Lena
17. Camo & Crooked feat. Shaz Sparks – All Fall Down [Hospital]
18. Dillon Francis & Cory Enemy – I Love You [Self Released]
19. C83 – Where Do We Go [White Label]
20. Joker feat. Jessie Ware – The Vision (Breathe In) [4AD]
21. Emalkay feat. Lena Cullen – The World [Dub Police]
22. Spor – Pacifica (Chasing Shadows Remix) [Lifted Music]
23. Sabi – Wild Heart [Warner Bros.]
24. Skrillex – All I Ask Of You (Trypt Remix) [White Label]
25. Nero – Promises [More Than Alot]
26. Peace – Sunburst [Self Released]
27. Knightfreq – Touch The Stars [Cablestone]
28. Rusko – Everyday (Netsky Remix) [Mad Decent]
29. Peace & Illest – U Y (Flufftronix Edit) [Self Released]
30. Celine
7 Comments
EdV December 5, 2011 at 8:28 am
Luvstep is always very very nice!!
Rusty December 7, 2011 at 1:24 am
Luvstep. Without having to deal with valentines day and my girlfriend.
LeFresh December 7, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Not a fan of dubstep but this ain't so bad.
ROOKA December 8, 2011 at 12:11 pm
wasn't familiar and now my life is changed forever. dubstep has always had that sensuality, it's nice that these guys are promoting it.
l'écologiste December 17, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Very Good Work.
dj khalid December 19, 2011 at 4:51 am
luvstep 3 trailer.
Iain December 25, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Proud of my boy PEACE repping Glasgow, Scotland in this twice :D X

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Blondie 4(0) Ever: Photographs by Chris Stein
Get a behind-the-scenes look at 40 years of iconic musical group Blondie from the perspective of Blondie guitarist/co-founder and photographer Chris Stein. Stein, who attended the School of Visual Arts in the city and started taking photographs in 1968, met Debbie Harry in 1973 and they started Blondie together. Throughout the '70s, Stein captured images of now legends of the then emerging punk and new wave music scene. The exhibit will be on view at the Morrison Hotel Gallery through June 24. (Opens Saturday, FREE, Morrison Hotel Gallery, Dream Downtown, 355 W. 16th St., morrisonhotelgallery.com)
BRIC's Celebrate Brooklyn! 'Global Dance Party'
Celebrate Brooklyn! is kicking off its season with dance parties on three consecutive Thursdays starting Thursday. (The festival's 36th anniversary season will hit the Prospect Park Bandshell in June.) So stop by Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1 tonight for the first in the series, a "Global Dance Party" featuring Balkan Beat Box -- a fusion of ancient music traditions with hip-hop and Jamaican dub -- and DJ Joro Boro. Arrive early to work your belly at a belly-dancing lesson from Dance of Venus. (Thursday, 7 p.m., FREE, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, Furman St. at Old Fulton St., bricartsmedia.org)


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A History of LFE
The Institute of Education, TES and Suklaa delivered the inaugural LFE in 2012 to an audience of over 1,200 people and feedback was extremely positive. Building on that success, the two organisations have partnered for the second year running to deliver the London Festival of Education.
The TES has been at the heart of education for more than 100 years, bringing news, comment, analysis, CPD and jobs to teachers in the weekly magazine and breaking news online at news.tesconnect.com.
As well as covering the primary and secondary sectors, TES has a dedicated online presence for further education at http://news.tes.co.uk/further-education/, as well as a weekly FE section in the magazine.
The TES' teaching resources website, tesconnect.com, has 3.5 million registered users from 275 countries and territories and more than 800,000 lesson plans and resources. It sees more than 4.9 million downloads a week - ten per second.
It runs two successful annual awards ceremonies celebrating teachers and educational achievement, the TES Schools Awards and the TES FE Awards.
A recent launch is TES Labs, which invites teachers to share their ideas and expertise to help entrepreneurs build relevant learning technologies for the classroom.
TES is also launching TES Courses, a new online form of teacher development featuring training created by the Institute of Education.
The TES can be found on Twitter - @tes and @tesresources - and Facebook - www.facebook.com/TESConnect
The UCL Institute of Education, London (IOE) has a reputation as the one of the world's leading centres for the education and training of teachers and for the conduct of educational and social research. This reputation has been gained and sustained for over 100 years since the IOE was founded in October 1902 as the London Day Training College (LDTC) under the joint auspices of the University College London and of the London County Council.
The Institute was ranked number one for education worldwide. It has been shortlisted in the 'University of the Year' category of the 2014 Times Higher Education (THE) awards. In January 2014, the Institute was recognised by Ofsted for its 'outstanding' initial teacher training across primary, secondary and further education. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise two-thirds of the publications that the IOE submitted were judged to be internationally significant and over a third were judged to be 'world leading'.
Our mission is to pursue excellence in education through:
- Research and scholarship of national and international significance;
- High quality, innovative postgraduate and post-experience teaching;
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So after the recent nerf of irelia I wanted to mess around and find a new build. I was playing and came up with this build sort of as a joke and discovered that it kind of made me impossible to kill. She ends up with 104% attack speed and 100% life steal while managing to build a reasonable amount of both attack and AP so all of her abilities will do a sizable amount of damage. The summoner spells are used primarily for escape in sticky situation where your opponents have too much CC at their disposal. If you play this smart you really shouldnt die and you should be a terror through the game. The biggest weakness this has however is if they get a lot of armor your gonna hav a problem a thornmail can be a large thorn in your side. The best thing you can do is stay alert to what they are building and pick on the softer opponents. remember your an assasin so get your kill and get out. If you can stay alive early game and get a few kills you should pull ahead of your opponents for some large midgame advantages. Late game pick at mages and squishies and avoid sustained combat with durable opponents.


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The Potter League is a delightful venue for your child's next birthday party. Each party is tailored to meet the individual interests of the birthday child. Activities include a craft, educational program, animal-themed game, and hands-on time with a pet or two!
Parties are available for children ages 5-10 years old. The party is designed for a maximum of 16 participants. This number includes the birthday child and any other child who wishes to join in activities. At least two adults are required to assist with supervision.
You provide the food and decorations; we provide the fun! Each 1 ½ hour birthday party is tailored to the age and interests of the birthday child. A 1 hour program is provided by the Potter League Educator, and may include a craft, picture book, interactive activities, and meeting a furry friend or two. After the program, the last half hour is for celebration with food and presents
Birthday parties are generally held on Saturdays and Sundays at 11:00 am or 2:00 pm. Party scheduling is subject to availability. Please contact Eleanor Hanson, Humane Educator at 401-846-0592 ext.120 or firstname.lastname@example.com to check available times and additional scheduling options.
Parties are 1½ hours long, which includes one hour of programming supplied by the Potter League and a ½ hour for food and gifts. Please also keep in mind that the host family may show up a ½ hour before the party to set up and decorate the room, and they should plan to stay about a ½ hour after the party to help clean up.
Birthday parties are held at the Potter League, 87 Oliphant Lane, Middletown, RI 02842 in the Morris Education Center.
To check on the availability of dates and times, contact the Humane Education Department at 401-846-0592 ext.120 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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[PC stories] I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY LIFE
Age: 21
I'm 21 yo and I don't know what to do with my life. I graduated when I was 17 with good grades, and then I decided to take a year of to work because I wasn't sure what I wanted to study. But it turned out I couldn't find any job (I'm from a small town) and the only jobs that there are in here ask specifically for men. My parents are divorced (I live with my mother) and don't get along; they're also emotionally abusive. But my father has money and he said he would pay college for me as long as it was something like engineering. Guess what? I suck at math and physics, but he doesn't care. I can't get a full scholarship because even though I'm poor, I'm not poor 'enough' to have it, but I wouldn't be able to afford only half of it.I know I've become a burden but I feel stuck, with no escape and nowhere to go. I really need to leave this place it's just sucking out any energy I still have left, but I see no options. I'm seriously considering suicide because I just want to escape all of this. I'm sorry this is so depressing, and I hope that what I wrote makes sense..I just needed some place to vent all this.
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A-Z of unusual ingredients: verjus – Telegraph
Posted in Geschiedenis van de gastronomie, Recepten on dec 20th, 2013
This week, V is for verjus: a sour medieval staple that is suddenly having a revival.
It's commonplace for recipes to come and go in the cycle of food fashions. But for a stock ingredient to disappear from recipe books, only to be resurrected centuries later, is almost unprecedented.
This is what has happened to verjus. The […]


text: Purchasing this pattern for bright autumn bracelet with maple leaves would add colors to any of your clothes. Pattern uses 14 colors, so you'd get a wide variety of combination of clothes to wear it with. It's an original pattern, my own design. Make your days brighter! Upon purchase of this item you will get the instant access to the PDF file with the patterns, palettes, amount of beads needed (full word charts). The file is tested and is compatible with Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Linux and Android. In order to open the file you will need the PDF reader on your device (doesn't apply to Mac OS X and iOS). NB! When purchasing the tutorials/patterns you don't obtain the right to share or re-sell the file or use the materials as a teaching aid. Happy beading! BASIC SKILLS NECESSARY you should know peyote stitch SIZING / FINISHED MEASUREMENTS ~2" x 6.5" (5 x 16.5 cm)


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The original Graphique Pro was designed by the famous Swiss designer Hermann Eidenbenz in 1945 and included one outline shadow style. His idea of a very narrow, very economic headline font became increasingly more popular over the last decades and since the recent trend of layered fonts his idea is more up-to-date than ever. profonts studio now took the idea of the Graphique Pro to its next level: Graphique Pro Next. This layered type family consists of 8 styles (separate offer for just 14$) which can be combined in plenty of ways to create unique designs. The fonts thereby preserve the outstanding and timeless drawings of the original Graphique Pro font and will add an aesthetic and fresh look to every project. Please have a look at the Graphique Pro Next Type Specimen for more details about the language support and font layer combinations.
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Before you begin quilting, there is a joining of fabric and wadding together which is called basting. This needle also known as a darner, is specifically designed in length to sew through the thickest fabrics. Pack contains: Quilting size 7, 8. Long darner size 7.
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Discussion in 'Ticket Exchange' started by JoshISU, Jan 23, 2010.
4 tickets. Section 237, Row 17. Paid $17.50/each. Same price to you.
Hi, I just need 4 ticktes, for I and my Family. We are from Argentina and I am doing a research scholar at ISU. We are very fanatics of cyclone and we hope can go today.
Let me know what need to do to take the ticktes.
Thank you
sent you a PM. only 2 left...


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At this time of day last year we were not the happy little family we are today. We were happy, but just not as happy as we could have been. You see we were without Newby, so we couldn't have been as happy as we could be.
Newby's official gotcha day is tomorrow, June 6th, but we've been celebrating every day this week. How could we not? Newby deserves some extra celebration.
Here are a few pictures from the last year... we are glad he is here to stay!!