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The Hopeless Muddle in Biden's Brain Comments
What Biden fails to mention is that this Catholic social doctrine has identified the human child in the mother's womb from the first moment of conception as one of those who can't take care of himself, who needs the help of the law Continue Reading
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2 years ago
Joe Biden suffers from a particular form of delusion: one that compels one to actually "believe" what he says, even when he knows it's wrong. Some might call this "lying." Joe believes he's a good Catholic, even though he advocates and supports issues that are in exact opposite of the teachings of the Church he claims to profess to belong to. Joe Biden has long forgotten what the Catholic Church and "Catholics" believe in and stand for when it comes to the issues of abortion, contraceptives, and gay marriage.
2 years ago
Thank you Andrew for another well-written article, It inspired me to write the following letter to the editor of the Newark Star Ledger about the VP debate.
Joe Biden misrepresented Catholic teaching, science and law answering the pro-life question, whereas Paul Ryan was truthful (and, coincidentally, more civil) in the debate.
That each person is an image bearer of God can only be taken on faith. However, that the child in the womb is a unique person distinct from the mother, though confirmed by faith, can be known by science and reason alone. The DNA of the child is different than that of the mother, proving we are dealing with two distinct individuals; thus, the mother's right of autonomy over her own body does not extend over the child's.
Further, the Church explicitly teaches that our faith is not to be quarantined from public discourse and action. Civil society concurs: it is right to act according to what one believes, so we should promote actions and laws that we believe are for good: how fast to drive; how large a soda to drink. If Joe Biden believes each child in the womb is a distinct person, he is hypocritical even as a citizen to say that he will not promote laws to protect them.
As a witness to truth, Mr. Biden proves unreliable. That's my gut feeling.
2 years ago
Carol Q.: I do not know that your response deserves one, but, almost everyone has a brain. It is a matter of what level it functions at. Then, if one's brain is functioning properly, it is a matter of environment, family life, religious customs and beliefs, and a matter of how one responds to the input of that information with his own Free Choice. Knowing right from wrong. Really, Carol, your Biden Catholic mentality seems to be showing. "The Truth Will Set You Free". Read True Catholic Doctrine. Sunday Blessings...
2 years ago
Hay Father Farfaglia whens the last time you saw a medical bill? does you order pay for them?When my parish priest came back to church after months of cancer treatment and knock Obama care in Mass I asked him after Mass how he paid his medical bills ,I could tell by the look on his face I had him cold,He just stood there and said nothing .I live a few miles from a wonderful retirement home for priest and nuns I go there to pray to the Blessed Mother in their chapel maybe you'll end up there one day I,am not going to say they don't deserved a decent end to life they earned it but as someone that had to go bankrupt because of medical bills my life savings gone I pray that God will grant me a decent death by dying in bed or just dropping dead in my home someday cause I sure can't afford any kind of decent long term care insurance anymore. Catholic online send this to Father you have my E-mail address. P.S.Father I spent the last two afternoons and will Sunday after Mass outside of Walmart collecting for the K of C so don't tell me I'am a mis-Catholicize Catholic like EWTN.called men like me for voting for President Obama.
2 years ago
good memory, Fr. F. Narrow-minded judges will be appointed under Obama as demonstrated when Elana Kagan was being questioned. I too was almost stopped in my tracks at her answer. (thank you Senator Coburn) These are the types that Obama and Biden would pick. They are not "open minded" about what it says in the Declaration about natural law, the Delaration Jefferson called our decaratory charter of rights. Nobody in the mainstream media seemed to care one iota aboout the basis of our law being torn from its "guilded frame" as John Q. would say. Fr. F. don't you just wish Ryan would have mentioned, hey why not revisit this case, like they did during slavery times,hundreds of years of bad precedent- why, if the Roe and the Doe in this case wish it revisited, why does Biden object? what is the fear? Will the citizens actually find out how duplicitous the case actually was? Speaking of rape and incest-how about Biden explaining that lie in that case? I see no wishy-washy in Biden. He has taken this lie to its heights with his role in the senate. He is complicit up to his eyeballs. After the debate, only the fool was left smiling. I recommend Rachel's Rosary to the veep, since he says he prays it.
2 years ago
I can't recall what year it was, but it was a long time ago. I was ordained just a few years and one of my summer assignments was to preach weekend missionary appeals for the missionary work of the Church down in Mexico. That summer and three or four other summers after that, I had to drive long distances throughout many parts of our beautiful country.
It was the summer of the Clarence Thomas hearings. Joe Biden, if I remember correctly, directed the hearings. As I drove many, many miles to go from parish to parish, I listened with great interest to the hearings on PBS radio.
One thing that I will never forget is when at one moment Senator Biden asked Clarence Thomas if he believed in natural law. A famous discussion about natural law took place between Biden and Thomas. What was evident throughout the discussion was the fact that Joseph Biden did not believe in a natural law.
I remember clearly my response while driving: "What?????" I almost drove off of the highway.
How can a country even function if our own government leaders do not believe in a natural law? If there is no reference to an objective moral order, anything is possible.
Thus, the world that we live in and the mess that we are in.
Regarding Joseph Biden, with all due respect to the office of the Vice President and to Joseph Biden, unfortunately, he is a classic example of the Catholic in the pew who really isn't a Catholic. I would love to reach out to Joe with profound compassion and try and bring him to the beauty of the fullness of the truth, but I am afraid that he is one of the foot soldiers of the dictatorship of relativism.
Better to have a good Mormon and a good Catholic in the White House, than a radical leftist and a bad Catholic.
Thanks Andrew for your excellent articles for Catholic Online. Keep writing.
2 years ago
Abortion on demand involves the death of another's,small defenseless human body,within the body of the pregnant woman. That is fundamental fact. It is not subject to opinion,political or otherwise. The current laws defy this fact. The Democratic Party platform is in direct opposition to this fact. Biden is a Party man before he is a man of faith. By this I mean,if it is his choice of party platform or his faith,he will pick party platform each and every time.
2 years ago
Wow, before criticizing someone's stands on social doctrine, why don't we start with the church itself. The church teaching about giving up someone's possession to help out the poor and the needy. I've read an article lately about a church who instead of collecting tithes from its people, they are giving out money to help them. That's the real Christian virtue, unlike the Catholic second collection rules that being impose to most churches. Almost everyone is in financial crisis, why not open up your bank and start helping out people. I thought the church is not for profit? But look on the clergies and priests, they have nice houses and great cars. To be Christ like is it live like Christ and that is to serve the needy and the poor.
I understand that church mission to spread the good news but how can we spread out the news if there is nothing good about it. How can we explain about moral crisis within the church? How can we defend the church stands on social issues wherein the church itself has its own social crisis.
2 years ago
All writing is based upon a central premise. Yours seems to be that Biden has a brain. Hence, your premise is flawed.
2 years ago
He takes one of the most precious of all natural bonds, which should be encouraged in positive law and relativises it. He de-femanises the female psysche with the effects of his impairing legions. I have heard of these legions before. They are called the catotonic legions of Chesire. They cause excessisve smiling and giggling, which can appear as the patient suffers from the effects of nitrous oxide but internally the legions spread and start to atrophy the myocardial tissue lowering the hypaxic drive, causing a false paxic drive to fool the system. Sounds like he also suffers from positional asphyxia, by his description of his faith. The patient may need a an internal defribrillation to cardiovert the inverted t waves he was throwing out there last night. Seriously, Mr Biden go to your bible, go to your Church, go to your church doctors for healing. Let Christ transform those stony calcifications of the heart.
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Updated: June 15, 1:52 PM ET
Waiting's The Worst Part
Artistic rendering of the many faces of localism...I blame the surf forecasts.
Right now it's about ankle high in San Clemente, maybe to be generous we could say it's knee-high on the biggest sets. The swell's supposed to fill in a little this afternoon, but if you'd looked at the surf forecasts at the start of the week you'd have been lead to believe that on Friday the Armageddon would be upon us, and by Saturday all hell would have broken loose.
That being said, we all know flexibility is key and that forecasts are at best just very educated guesses. I like a good forecast as much as the next surfer, but what I don't like is the hype factor. It's the rumor mill that blew this swell out of proportion; all week claiming that the Eddie was going to run, the Mav's Contest was on, and well, the Armageddon was coming.
So here we are, a beautiful Friday morning in Southern California, and not a lick of swell to speak of. Chances of the Eddie running were blown away in the Kona winds, Mav's looks like it's going to peak around 15- to 18-foot, the contest is a no-go, and the arrival date of the swell's been pushed back a few days.
I'm not here to knock the forecasters, most do a great job, and a little information's always better than no information. Today I'm taking a swing at all the knuckleheads that feed the hype. To a point I understand, it's been flat in California for weeks, and now that there's some signs of life out there people are eager to get wet. But damn it, just relax everybody.
All you donkeys who are waiting on the sidelines until the swell peaks shouldn't even be allowed in the lineup. You're the reason every spot from San Diego to the Central Coast is going to be overcrowded. And your sense of entitlement, it's just downright rude. Whatever happened to going down to the beach everyday and checking the surf with your own two eyes? Then, if there's waves you paddle out, and if there aren't at least you got a glimpse of what the ocean's doing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's the definition of a local.
There should be some kind of rule that you have to check the surf at least four days a week before you can paddle out, that'd at least help separate the riff-raff from the regulars. Anybody else got any ideas? I don't care what they are, I just want to be able to surf where I live without a pack of irregulars from Rancho Kookamonga invading my space. I'm happy to share, but only to a point.


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Inland Waters Theme Report
Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 (Theme Report)
Prepared by: Jonas Ball, Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Limited, Authors
Published by CSIRO on behalf of the Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2001
Water resources (continued)
Surface water resources (continued)
Responses — management of surface water resources
Unsustainable irrigation development is responsible for the over-allocation of water in many river systems. In other less-developed areas, water is currently allocated within sustainable limits and there is an opportunity to protect aquatic ecosystems through careful water resources planning. In response to the environmental effects of water extraction and the requirements of the National Competition Policy, a number of major reforms were initiated in the 1990s as part of the National Water Reform Framework.
State and territory governments have agreed to water reforms under the National Water Reform Framework established in 1994. These reforms set the general course for changes in the water industry and the management of water resources, many of which were already under way. The key elements of the reforms are:
- pricing based on principles of full-cost recovery and transparency (or removal) of cross-subsidies;
- future investment in new irrigation schemes, or extensions to existing schemes, to be undertaken only after appraisal indicates it is economically viable and ecologically sustainable;
- comprehensive systems of water allocations or entitlements, backed by separation of water property rights from land and clear specification of entitlements in terms of ownership, volume, reliability, transferability and, if appropriate, quality;
- formal determination of water allocations or entitlements, including allocations for the environment as a legitimate user of water;
- trading, including cross-border sales, of water allocations and entitlements, within the social, physical, and ecological constraints of catchments;
- providing an integrated catchment management approach to water resource management;
- the separation of resource management, standard setting and regulatory roles of government, from the role of providing water services;
- a greater degree of responsibility for local management of irrigation areas;
- public education about water use and consultation in implementing the water reforms; and
- appropriate water-related research and use of efficient technologies (HLSGW1999).
Assessments of the status of the major mechanisms for water reform are presented in the following sections.
Water pricing [IW Indicator 4.9]
Water pricing reforms under the National Water Reform Framework and the National Competition Policy aim for full-cost recovery (including environmental costs) from water consumers and the removal of cross-subsidies for existing and proposed developments. The environmental benefits of this reform encourage more efficient use of water and promotes increasing water use in areas with lower environmental costs.
Reform of urban water pricing is generally on target in all states and territories (HLSGW 1999). Pricing reforms in rural areas have been fully implemented in Victoria and Western Australia and the reform process is under way in other states and territories. One of the main concerns regarding the current pricing reforms is that the significant system-wide environmental costs of water extraction (such as reduced flows in waterways, waterlogging, salinisation, nutrient and pesticide pollution, and alteration of seasonal flow regimes) are still not accurately reflected in the pricing of water. These costs are still being met by the community (through government funds) rather than by the water users (HLSGW 1999). In the short term, it is unlikely that water pricing will reflect the true environmental cost of extraction because of difficulties of distinguishing the environmental costs of water extraction from other impacts such as land clearing.
Environmental flow allocations [IW Indicator 4.4]
Environmental flow allocations are progressively being developed for each river system by state and territory governments. In Australia: State of the Environment 1996 (State of the Environment Advisory Council 1996), it was noted that environmental flow allocations receive serious consideration during water resource planning but they were only developed for a few river systems. The determination of environmental flow allocations is an exhaustive process that can be an inexact science based on current knowledge. By June 2000, only 13% of river systems in Australia had formal environmental flow allocations operating (NLWRA 2001a). The approaches taken and progress made in developing environmental flow allocations by each state and territory are discussed below.
In New South Wales, environmental flow rules were defined in 1998 for six major inland regulated rivers and the Barwon-Darling system. Environmental flow objectives have been established for 31 catchments in New South Wales (NSW EPA 2001), and these objectives are implemented via water management plans. An embargo on the issuing of new licenses for water extraction from most unregulated coastal streams has been in place since 1995. The hydrologic and ecological pressures affecting 680 subcatchments in the state has been assessed. The Healthy Rivers Commission is also establishing specific criteria for water resources sustainability and environmental protection in critical catchments. The Healthy Rivers Commission has completed studies on the Williams and Hawkesbury-Nepean Rivers. They are under way for the Clarence, Bega, Woronora and Shoalhaven Rivers, and have been announced for the Georges, Tweed and Hunter Rivers.
In Victoria, environmental water allocations (or flow sharing arrangements) have been developed in consultation with water users, government agencies and the community, for 70% of regulated river systems (HLSGW 1999). Streamflow management plans, which include environmental flow allocations, are being prepared for unregulated streams.
In Queensland, water allocation and management plans (WAMPs) are being developed in major catchments, and water management plans (WMPs) are being developed in smaller catchments. WAMPs or WMPs are currently being undertaken for all Queensland sections of the Murray-Darling Basin.
In South Australia, catchment water management plans (CWMPs) and water allocation plans (WAPs) are being prepared for six Catchment Water Management Board areas. CWMPs were prepared in the early 1990s for the Patawalonga and Torrens River catchments in metropolitan Adelaide (DWR 2000). WAPs are being prepared for the Barossa Valley, Murray River and Clare Valley. Constraints on further development have been placed on the Marne River and Grenock Creek catchments, pending further scientific investigations.
In Tasmania, environmental flow assessments are being undertaken and will be incorporated into water management plans. The plans are required by legislation to be reviewed every five years. Licensed water allocations have been capped on most rivers and streams in the state over the December to April period, pending the implementation of environmental water provisions (NLWRA, unpub. a).
In the Australian Capital Territory, environmental flow allocations have been developed and aim to preserve low flows below the 80th percentile flow, high flushing flows above the 20th percentile flow and special purpose flows such as flows during fish spawning periods (NLWRA, unpub. b).
In the Northern Territory, five projects are being undertaken to establish environmental flow allocations for aquatic ecosystems (NLWRA, unpub. b). The projects are in the Daly River Basin and include modelling dry season flows and examining the water requirements for Vallisneria nana, riparian vegetation, phytoplankton and periphyton.
In the Murray-Darling Basin, water extractions have been capped at 1993/94 levels by the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council (1995). As part of the process of setting the cap, each state and territory was given the responsibility to determine the volume and rate of water that could be sustainably extracted from each river system every year based on 1993/94 levels of development. Compliance with the cap is assessed by comparing actual water use with the capped volume. Review of the states' and territories' caps and assessment of compliance with the cap is undertaken by an independent review body. Environmental water allocations are included within the cap.
After several years of annual reporting on cap compliance, the Ministerial Council produced a review of the operation of the cap (MDBMC 2000). Water extractions in Victoria and South Australia have complied with the cap, whereas New South Wales has exceeded the cap in the Barwon-Darling system in 1997/98 (MDBMC 2000). In most other New South Wales river systems, extractions were close to exceeding the cap (NSW EPA 2001). Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory are yet to determine their cap on water extraction from river systems in the Murray-Darling Basin. This is of major concern in relation to Queensland as there is evidence that irrigated agriculture is becoming more widespread in the Condamine catchment (see the Land Theme Report).
It was concluded in the review of the cap that:
While the Cap is an important first step in providing for the environmental sustainability of the basin, the Commission recognises that 'there is no certainty that the Cap on diversions at its current level represents a sustainable level of diversions'.
Without the Cap, there would have been a significantly increased risk that the environmental degradation of the river system of the Basin would have been worse.
The degradation caused by the current level of diversions (the Cap) may well become more severe than that now apparent (MDBMC 2000).
Further to these conclusions, it was recommended that:
A high priority should be given to further improving the knowledge base available to natural resource managers, especially our understanding of the ecology of the Basin.
The level at which the Cap is set should continue to be refined to reflect our increased understanding.
It is likely that the Cap will be revised downwards in some river basins as knowledge about the ecological requirements for water in particular river basins becomes known more precisely (MDBMC 2000).
The MDBC is currently developing environmental flow allocations and water quality objectives for the Murray River and it has initiated the development of a Sustainable Rivers Audit to assess the health of rivers in the Basin.
Water trading
Water trading encourages a more productive use of water, and allows water users in catchments where water extraction is constrained to import water from other catchments. All states and territories have instigated processes to separate water entitlements from land entitlements and allow permanent water trading to occur (HLSGW 1999). Most of the current water trading activity has occurred in the Murray-Darling Basin, where a transfer of 91 GL of permanent and 690 GL of temporary water supplies between different river systems occurred in 1998/99 (MDBC 2000). Also 3.6 GL was permanently transferred to South Australia from New South Wales and Victoria, while 15 GL was temporarily transferred into Victoria from New South Wales (MDBC 2000).
The High Level Steering Group on Water suggests that more could be done to support the developing market and to promote greater trade in water. An example of a successfully developed marketplace for water trading is the Northern Victorian Water Exchange, which was established in 1998. Trading volumes and prices are publicly reported each week by Goulburn-Murray Water on the Internet and by notice at regional centres, and are available by phone. The water exchange has demystified the water trading process for many farmers, made them aware of the value of their water licences, and enabled them to directly participate in water trading. The water exchange also provides a benchmark price for private water trading (HLSGW 2001).
When transferring water from one river system to another, an assessment of the impact of the transfer on water supply security and the environment should be made because:
- the security of supply generally decreases
- in the absence of environmental flow provisions, the maintenance of security of supply may be at the expense of the environment. (As noted by the HLSGW (2001) 'water trading cannot be responsibly introduced until there is certainty as to the relative allocation between the environment and other users'.)
- downstream flows are reduced, thereby reducing the volume of water available instream to dilute incoming pollutants
- not all water entitlements should be transferred from a property as some water is required to prevent land salinisation and support any remnant vegetation (HLSGW 2001).
Institutional reform
The National Water Reform Framework called for the separation of powers in the water industry to ensure the independence of water resource management, standard setting and regulatory enforcement and service provision. From an environmental viewpoint, these reforms mean that there is no conflict of interest between the agencies supplying water (which have a financial interest in selling more water) and the agencies managing the environment. Similarly, the agencies that set standards and ensure compliance are separate from the water suppliers.
All states and territories have moved or are moving to implement these new institutional arrangements (HLSGW 1999). In the Northern Territory for instance, the separation of powers in the water industry occurred in 1997 and since then the Power and Water Authority is the sole water supplier and the Department of Lands, Planning and Environment is the resource manager and regulator (HLSGW 1999). A similar arrangement now also exists in the Murray-Darling Basin with the separation of water supply from natural resource and/or policy setting through the creation of the River Murray Water business unit of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission. River Murray Water operates the major storages in the Murray-Darling Basin and delivers water to water users.
These changes to institutional arrangements are supported by legislative change, which have specified the role of government agencies and have allowed water authorities and irrigation trusts to become corporatised or privatised.
Demand management for drinking water [IW Indicator 4.1]
Reducing per capita use of potable water is the most effective management response to meet the increased urban demand for water due to population growth and avoid or delay the construction of new dams (which are environmentally unacceptable to the community). The programs are called demand management strategies.
A detailed discussion of the changes in urban and domestic water use is contained in the Human Settlements Theme Report. Their findings are summarised below.
In most urban areas there has been a downward trend in household water use. Average per capita household water use in major urban areas has decreased from 278 litres per person per day in 1993/94 to 258 litres per person per day in 1998/99. The three urban areas that showed marked decreases in water use were Brisbane, Hobart and the Central Highlands in Victoria. Decreases in water use have been achieved through pricing reforms, water conservation campaigns and strategies, the installation of water-efficient devices and greater public awareness.
Water resource planning in forest management
In Australia: State of the Environment 1996 (State of the Environment Advisory Council 1996) the absence of water resources planning in forest management was identified as an emerging issue. Water resources planning in forest management is now widespread and is undertaken in catchments where logging is a major activity. For example, as part of the development of a regional forestry agreement for the Otway Forest, it was estimated that catchment yield would change by less than 5% if logging continued but that the yield would increase by up to 28% if logging ceased (Sinclair Knight Merz 2000c). Other studies have noted that afforestation of grasslands results in reductions in catchment yield, which has implications for areas where tree planting is required for remedial activities such as the control of dryland salinity. While the area of land reafforested is small compared to the total area of land in Australia, increases in afforestation in the future may have local effects on water yield.
Regulation of off-stream farm dams
Generally instream dams require licensing under state and territory water management legislation, whereas off-stream dams are poorly regulated in most states and territories. In New South Wales, landholders are permitted to harvest 10% of run-off from their properties without a licence (Government of New South Wales 1998). Farm dams that capture more than 10% of run-off now require approval and licensing. Currently in Victoria, only farm dams located in a waterway require licensing. In recognition of the impact of off-stream dams on streamflows, Victoria is moving towards greater regulation of these storages and has undertaken a comprehensive stakeholder consultation program before implementing any changes in licensing (see http://home.vicnet.net.au/ ~farmdams/welcome.htm). In Western Australia, the regulation of off-stream dams has been rejected by the state government (see http://www.wrc.wa.gov.au/water_reform/Wr5/off.html#Off-stream farm dams).
Messages about surface water management
- National water reforms are gradually being implemented in all states and territories. This includes the separation of water regulation and water supply responsibilities.
- Current water pricing reforms may not accurately account for all the environmental costs of water extraction.
- Only 13% of river systems had operational environmental flow allocations in June 2000. Environmental flow allocations for many river systems are currently being determined by state and territory governments and it is likely that preliminary allocations will be established for most regulated rivers in the next five to ten years.
- Water extraction from the Barwon-Darling river system in 1997/98 exceeded the cap on water extractions in the Murray-Darling Basin. The Queensland government has yet to determine the cap on water extractions from its Murray-Darling Basin river systems.
- Demand management programs to reduce water use in urban areas have been successful in some states, and overall there has been an 8% reduction in average per capita water use.
Case study 2: Irrigation efficiency [IW Indicator 4.10]
Our current irrigation practices and water distributions systems are inefficient, and consequently a large proportion of the water extracted for irrigation is wasted. Some of these losses are unavoidable. Upgrading existing water distribution and irrigation infrastructure, embracing new technology and improving irrigation practices, however, can save much of this water. The water saved by these increased efficiencies can either be returned to the environment (e.g. Snowy River) or be used to irrigate new areas and increase the productivity of a basin.
Water can be lost in distribution systems before it reaches an irrigator. A study of the Goulburn-Murray Water, First Mildura Irrigation Trust and Sunraysia Rural Water Authority irrigation systems in northern Victoria found that the delivery efficiency of open channel systems ranged from 66% to 86%, while the delivery efficiency of piped systems ranged from 78% to 100% (Sinclair Knight Merz 2000a). Over 50 GL/year of potential water savings were identified, which will allow water to be transferred back to the Snowy River without reducing the existing flows at the Murray River mouth in South Australia. Water savings could also be used to increase instream flows in the Murray River.
Over-irrigation of crops also wastes substantial volumes of water in Australia. Applying up to 15% more water than the crop needs is generally considered acceptable to prevent the accumulation of salt near the crop root zone. A number of studies (KSTS 1997; LMIAG 1999; Skewes & Meissner 1997a, 1997b) along the Murray River in Victoria and South Australia have found that irrigation practices vary from farm to farm. For instance, in the Loxton Irrigation District in South Australia, over-irrigation occurs on some properties with up 59% of water applied being wasted because it exceeded the crop needs, whereas on other properties under watering was occurring (KSTS 1997).
Apart from wasting water, over-irrigation can also have adverse impacts on agriculture and the environment. The wasted irrigation water not used by the crop can 'leak' into the groundwater, causing water tables to rise, waterlogging of surface soils and land salinisation. Irrigation-induced salinity is discussed later in this report.
Improvements in irrigation practices in the Sunraysia region of Victoria have led to reductions in drain flows and salt loads discharging into the Murray River. In the Merbein, First Mildura Irrigation Trust and Red Cliffs Irrigation Districts, drain flows and salt loads have decreased significantly over recent years (Sinclair Knight Merz 2000b). While the magnitude of the reduction may have been affected by the recent dry period, there is a clear and sustained reduction in drain flow since the introduction of the salinity management plan for the area in 1990. Links have been made between these drain flow reductions and rebates for activities such as property management plans, farm budgets and water meters (Sinclair Knight Merz 1999).
New irrigation developments have the potential to introduce best practice irrigation management. Proposed developments such as Stage 2 of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme in Western Australia or the Deakin Irrigation Development in Victoria are projects which are likely to set the benchmark for irrigation practice.


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2012 Ermacora Ribolla Gialla Colli Orientali del Friuli
Review Date: 3-19-2014
Yellow Ribolla, yes Gialla in Italian means yellow, is a very acidic grape by nature but the 2012 vintage allows so much more of this wine to come out where it blossoms into quasi richness. Delicate pear aromatics, palate weight and and extraordinary persistence highlight this brilliant white wine. I'd pair it with a seafood pasta sprinkled with freshly chopped basil or parsley, NO CHEESE.....
Drink from 2014 to 2016
Price: $15.99
2012 Ermacora Friulano Colli Orientali del Friuli
Review Date: 3-19-2014
2012 is an outstanding vintage in Friuli for whites and this year Ermacora's Friulano is really great. Friulano is always a little fuller on the palate than some of the other local varieties but in this vintage that richness is superbly balanced, has great length and shows hints of tarragon. It is perfect for cock-tailing or with fuller fish or chicken dishes. No oak, only stainless steel aging leaving the wine fresh and fragrant.
Drink from 2014 to 2016
Price: $15.99
2012 Giuliano "Terre di Chieti" Pecorino
Review Date: 3-18-2014
This wine has an exotic nose that just flows out of your glass, full of wild flowers, honey, middle-eastern spice and just a tang of the sea. On the palate the wine has density and richness with deep, saturated flavors and it has an almost oily richness to it but is highlighted by a vibrant central acidity containing glints of mineral that stretch the finish on and on. I sat with a bottle of this contemplating the variety, its density, aromatics, yet striking focus and looked for some comparison to other grape varieties. Unfortunately it is something one has to explain for Italy with so many weird names and unpronounceable words people just generally want me to say its more like a Cabernet, or more like a Sauvignon Blanc it simplifies the learning curve. So with this grape it finally came to me! This is like French Viognier, it has the aromatics, body, density and they usually have an oily richness to them. Most food and wine pairings couple American Viognier with Asian dishes, while they have the aromatics and density they lack the central focus, hence the peanut sauce and curry matchings, sort of a drier less flowery version of the Gewurztraminer/Riesling category. I think the wine has more character and needs, Sea Bass, Lobster or maybe even some Tuna Sashimi.
Drink from 2014 to 2016
Price: $14.99
2008 Gusbourne Estate Brut Reserve, Kent, England
Review Date: 3-12-2014
Well, this is an unexpected idea to be reviewing an English sparkling wine, I was one of the nay-sayers before I actually tried them...Wow, very surprised by the quality, complexity and balance. So once I was surprised I did a little more investigation and found this had 4 years on the lees, and that's where the very brioche like toastiness comes from. The grapes (thank you Global Warming) are grown at almost the same latitude and soil types as in Champagne...Why wouldn't they be good! Well this actually is truly an English take on sparkling wine, the flavors just slightly different just like they are here in California, but no doubting the quality. You should give our language challenged neighbors to the East a try!
Drink from 2014 to 2018
Price: $29.99
2010 Castello di Monsanto Chianti Classico Riserva
Review Date: 3-10-2014
The fabulous 2010 vintage provides another stunning wine. Monsanto was one of my first loves in Italian wine. It is amazing how they have maintained such high quality for so long, without ever changing style. This wine has more richness, a broader fuller feel on the palate than for most of their wines and the aromatics are a lot more open and vibrant but underneath you can feel the classic Monsanto length and depth. So much fruit now but that baby fat will go away in a year or so and then it will age extraordinarily well.
Drink from 2014 to 2025
Price: $17.99
2009 Tolaini Valdisanti
Review Date: 3-6-2014
I often hear sales pitches from salesmen that pit the wine in question with some well known favorite that is very expensive. In this case they'll say this 2009 Tolaini Valdisanti is the Poor Mans Tignanello. My guess is that most "rich men" buy low and sell high rather than the converse, and are always ahead of the curve... thats how they get to be rich! However this 2009 Tolaini Valdisanti (Super Tuscan) is going to make you rich as well. I loved its complex blend of earth, wild herbs and cigar box like aromatics. Then on the palate the 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Sangiovese and 5% Cabernet Franc cuvee shows lots of power, and although there is solid structure underneath, the wine is supple, excellently balanced and has a lengthy finish. I was really surprised by the quality of this wine and how much I liked the Cabernet-based blend from southeastern Chianti Classico. After tasting, I was ready for a price point that was going to be 2-3 times what this is! This is truly an outstanding deal - drinkable now and will age very well for a decade to come.
Drink from 2014 to 2024
Price: $24.99
2011 Anima Libera Chianti
Review Date: 3-5-2014
Anima Libera - Free spirit, thats the name that Emiliano Falsini chose for his wine label. Emiliano is a consulting enologist, thats a winemaker for hire, he comes in tells you what to do and moves around a lot, kind of like doing stages in dozens of restaurants. So when he decided to produce his own wine he was looking for something that described him but also his wine, because in his wine he didnt have to please the winery owner to make a wine taste a certain way he let the wine be what it wanted to be, a Free Spirit, just like him. This Chianti DOCG is textbook perfect, the aromatics of delicate cherry, hints of leather and earth are classic but when it hits your palate it expands with a plumier center adding weight to the naturally acidic Sangiovese and producing a very pleasant mouth feel. A perfect pasta, salumi, roasted chicken or cheese plate wine youll free your spirit a bit with it!
Drink from 2014 to 2016
Price: $11.99
2008 Musella Amarone della Valpolicella
Review Date: 3-5-2014
When many of you hear the word Amarone you probably think of a MEGA wine, bursting with raisiny over the top ripe fruit, everything in excess. This wine is VERY different it is so well balanced, so easy to drink and just a delight. The nose is concentrated and full but isnt monolithic, it doesnt knock you down in fact it lifts you up. 2008 is a great vintage, a long dry summer allowed perfect ripening and then the grapes were dried until January. Crushed, fermented and then aged for 4 years in 700 to 2000 liter French Allier barrels the wine has ample time to come together and that it has. Very complex fruit in the nose, plums, and wild cherries concentrated but not thick just incredible focus. While the wine has great weight and palate presence its real highlight for me is its extraordinary length, thats what gives it such incredible lift, lightness and makes it seem so well balanced you wont even notice the alcohol. Id have it with braised meats or a big chunk of aged Parmigiano Reggiano.
Drink from 2014 to 2020
Price: $41.99
2011 Musella Valpolicella Superiore
Review Date: 3-5-2014
This wine is so inviting, it has such an exotic yet so delicate of an aromatic pulse, successive waves of candied cherry, plum thoroughly spiced with cinnamon and cardamom. In the mouth it has a delicate, balanced feel yet this is a Superiore version so it has spent one year in used barrique and tonneaux that softens the palate expression and makes it slightly more expansive as the wine finishes with a long and elegant peak.
Drink from 2014 to 2018
Price: $19.99
Wine ClubClub Price: $16.99
2008 Tenuta Friggiali Brunello di Montalcino
Review Date: 2-26-2014
Friggiali's 2008 Brunello shows lots of earth, leather and spice in the nose and on the palate it has a fair amount of tannic structure, but the flavors are balanced and the wine follows through into the finish very well. For those looking for a drinkable Brunello at a BARGAIN price, here's your chance. I'd decant this for an hour or two and then try it with richer pasta dishes or a grilled flank steak.
Drink from 2014 to 2018
Price: $24.99
2008 Sesta di Sopra Brunello di Montalcino
Review Date: 2-26-2014
Bold, smoldering aromatics of earth, sage and leather highlight the nose, while on the palate the wine has layers of complex earth, stone and plumy notes. This is a supple and richly textured wine that will do well with 2-3 hours in a decanter to open up. I'd pair it with a rosemary draped pork tenderloin or braised meats like a veal shank, or an aged piece of Pecorino Toscano; make sure it is Toscano.
Drink from 2014 to 2020
Price: $49.99
Wine ClubClub Price: $29.99
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PHYAURA EHR, a leading open-source provider of web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) software, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with ClickMedix, LLC that will enhance their innovative mobile health technology, mHealth.
"I've looked at many EHR solutions and selected PHYAURA because it was designed by experienced practicing physicians," explains Ting Shih, Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "At ClickMedix, we aim to free physicians from paper work and bureaucracy so that they can do what they do best - that is to treat patients. PHYAURA EHR is designed to effectively expedite clinical workflow, and when used in conjunction with the mobile front-end of ClickMedix, we are completing the end-to-end care for patients, from early detection to diagnosis, treatment, billing, follow-up care, and patient education for preventative care through easily accessible mobile phones or web browsers."
ClickMedix designed mobile health systems can withstand unreliable or intermittent mobile network, serves patients from rural regions to crowded urban areas, while streamlining the varied workflows of healthcare providers to lower the overall costs of healthcare. ClickMedix has created a HIPAA-compliant and user-friendly mHealth platform that can be deployed quickly to health practitioners and connect patients with medical experts worldwide. Ms. Shih leads the design, development, and deployment efforts for ClickMedix's affordable healthcare platform used for telemedicine, home-visit care, and patient self-management.
According to Jude A. Pierre, MD, co-founder of PHYAURA, "Input of patient data at point of care takes on a whole new meaning now. Our strategic partnership will allow physicians and health care professionals the ability to document care given within the office or the field."
Together, PHYAURA and ClickMedix will enter the market segment of corporations looking to provide a better way to deliver health care to their employees via secure mobile technology services. This will allow the clinicians to utilize telemedicine to consult with and treat employees. "Not only does this save on medical costs, it improves patient care and all within one platform," explains Dr. Pierre. "Employees and employers lose hours of work time traveling and waiting to receive health care. Therefore, many businesses are beginning to incorporate mobile health services, which are easy to use, and a convenience that everyone is viewing as a value-added benefit."
About PHYAURA, LLC
PHYAURA, a Tampa-Bay based company, was founded in 2004 by practicing physicians. PHYAURA is dedicated to providing physicians with the resources, services, and HIPAA-compliant communication tools that merge the best practices of modern medicine with state of the art technologies of the 21st century. PHYAURA's management team constantly invites feedback to make the practice of medicine and patient care better.
PHYAURA® is registered trademark for PHYAURA, LLC in the United States and other countries.
For additional information on PHYAURA EHR, open source software and partnering healthcare organizations please visit www.PHYAURA.com.
About ClickMedix, LLC
ClickMedix is a global mobile connected health (mHealth) social enterprise founded by faculty and students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard and Carnegie Mellon University to address healthcare challenges including lack of access, lack of funds and lack of medical resources.
World-class medical professionals, public health practitioners, technologists, development activists, entrepreneurs, and business strategists of ClickMedix, bring new dimensions to addressing healthcare challenges using mobile phones. As mobile phone coverage extends to all corners of the world, mobile-phone based health services are becoming increasingly ubiquitous for connecting different layers of the health infrastructure, enabling real-time collection of health data and remote diagnosis of patients by medical experts.
The mHealth platform connects health service providers, reduces cost of service delivery, and optimally utilizes tiers of existing health system for patient care. A community health-worker or a clinic nurse with a ClickMedix-enabled mobile phone is able to act as the primary agent for service delivery, as she is connected to the mHealth platform and the entire health system.
For more information please visit www.clickmedix.com.
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
Nov. 28, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,159
Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,303
The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,637
How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,308
The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
Nov. 27, 2014 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,473
An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
Nov. 27, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,670
The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
Nov. 27, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,284
The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
Nov. 27, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,231
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
Nov. 27, 2014 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,243
Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,525
The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
Nov. 27, 2014 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,500
Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,331
Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
Nov. 27, 2014 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,396
We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,241
"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 27, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,191
P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
Nov. 26, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,626
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,721
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,625
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
Nov. 24, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,751
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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