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Mapping and predicting benthic habitats in estuaries using towed underwater video
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With the global carbon crisis a matter of worldwide concern, efforts to preserve natural habitats that sequester carbon are of utmost importance. However, the processes which enable aquatic plants to survive and thrive are poorly known, as is the extent of their distribution and how they change over multiple scales. The aim of this research was to develop methodologies to help define the relationships between key benthic habitats and bio-physical variables and spatially predict their distribution and abundance within south-west Australian estuaries through towed underwater video. This thesis identified multiple non-destructive methods along with their strengths and limitations, to characterise benthic cover from underwater video, and highlighted optimal methods based on equipment, end goals, time and funding available. Additionally, I emphasize that no one method used in isolation was suitable for the analysis of underwater video from the shallow and turbid habitats from my study sites, but that a combination of methods was required for optimal characterisation. This research is one of the first to model and spatially predict fine-resolution (5% intervals) percent cover of benthic habitats within estuaries from post-processed underwater video using biological and physical datasets with a state-of-the art machine learning method called 'Random Forests'. This method is often used within terrestrial landscape ecology, but rarely within estuarine systems. Random Forests performed well with 79-90% variation explained by the models for each key benthic habitat and partial plots illustrated strong relationships between physical variables and biotic habitats. The most influential parameters driving biotic habitat distributions were longitude (19%), depth (13%), and latitude (11%), although this relationship varied between estuaries and on the degree of estuary connectivity to the sea (permanently-opened, artificially-opened and normally-closed). Predictive performance of key benthic habitat models was moderate to excellent and associated uncertainty maps of standard deviation of each model was highly variable in areas of habitat fragmentation. Broad-resolution distributions of biotic habitats were found to be important in understanding local-scale physical processes. Seagrasses were the most common biotic habitat in five estuaries, although higher numbers of seagrass species occurred in the permanently-opened Leschenault Estuary (e.g. Ruppia megacarpa, Halophila ovalis and Heterozostera tasmanica), while seasonally-opened (Wilson Inlet) and normally-closed (Wellstead, Stokes and Beaufort) estuaries supported monospecific meadows of R. megacarpa. Red and green macroalgae had inverse latitudinal distributions, with red alga occurring in northern estuaries with higher amounts of seawater incursion and freshwater input. Green alga, especially green film alga were more prominent in the more stagnant, and normally-closed waters of the southern estuaries. Motile commercial fishery species such as crabs (Portunus pelagicus) were common in northern estuaries where access to marine influence was essential for their survival. Encrusting benthic polychaete worms such as Ficopomatus enigmaticus and the black mussel Mytilus edulis were found shallow sections of southern estuaries, which were able to tolerate extreme changes in water quality due to estuary bar closure, and often encrusting the hard substratum of submerged trees and rocks. This study demonstrated advances in modelling techniques of species abundances and distribution from underwater video and highlighted the importance of bio-physical relationships on spatial patterns of different seagrass species and other biotic habitats such as algae beds, polychaete mounds and mussel clumps in estuaries. Estuarine habitats are at the forefront of climate change effects and experience rapid changes (within weeks to months) in their spatial distribution and abundance. I developed a real-time, rapid and accurate method to capture broad-resolution semi-quantitative (barren, low, moderate and high percent cover) changes in benthic habitats using underwater video, as traditional remote sensing methods such as aerial photography and satellite imagery can often take up to weeks and months to post-process for spatial habitat distribution. I tested the accuracy of two benthic habitat assessment protocols: the broad-resolution real-time classification protocol (called the "Rapid Benthic Assessment") against the fine-resolution post-processed habitat classification. I also tested the validation of the broad-resolution percent cover categories of seagrass from the RBA method using in situ samples of R. megacarpa and H. ovalis. The high correlation between the RBA and the fine-resolution method indicated that a high degree of detail and accuracy was retained by the RBA method. The visualisation of benthic habitats almost impossible to map through traditional remote sensing means was made possible through rapid data acquisition and visualisation from underwater video. This study demonstrated that real-time delineation of estuarine habitats allowed for rapid data analysis and representation within hours of data collection. This research will enable resource management authorities to make informed decisions on monitoring benthic habitats which have global significance within estuarine systems from baseline habitat maps, supplement existing maps and understand how bio-physical attributes shape benthic habitat distributions.
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Rollo Duke of Normandy
Rollo Duke of Normandy, also known as The Bloody Brother, is a play written in collaboration by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman. The title character is the historical Viking duke of Normandy, Rollo (lived 846-c.931). Scholars have disputed almost everything about the play; but it was probably written sometime in the 1612–24 era and later revised, perhaps in 1630 or after. In addition to the four writers cited above, the names of Nathan Field and Robert Daborne have been connected with the play by individual scholars.
Performance and publication[edit]
Details of the play's earliest productions are not preserved in the historical record. The play was seen at the Globe Theatre on 13 May 1633,[1] and was acted at Hampton Court Palace on 24 January 1637 (new style). It was entered into the Stationers' Register on 4 October 1639 by the booksellers John Crook and Richard Sergier, as the work of "J. B." It was first published later in 1639, in a quarto printed by R. Bishop for John Crook and Thomas Allot, under the title The Bloody Brother. The title page of this quarto attributes the play to "B. J. F." A second quarto appeared in 1640 under the title The Tragoedy of Rollo Duke of Normandy, published at Oxford by stationer Leonard Lichfield, "Printer to the University." Q2 assigns the play to Fletcher, and asserts that it was acted by the King's Men.[2] Q2 appears to derive from a theatre prompt-book, while Q1 shows less sign of direct contact with the stage and is a more "literary" text.[3] The play was included in the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1679.
A suppressed performance[edit]
Though the theatres were officially closed from 1642 to 1660, surreptitious performances occurred sporadically through the era. 1647 was a year of relative official lenience, when the actors were surprisingly active; but the London authorities soon cracked down. On 5 February 1648, King's Men players were arrested in the midst of a clandestine performance of Rollo at the Cockpit Theatre.[4] Joseph Taylor was acting Rollo; John Lowin played Aubrey, Charles Hart Otto; Nicholas Burt was Latorch, and Thomas Pollard the Cook. The actors were arrested, and imprisoned in Hatton House for a time; their costumes were confiscated.[5]
Scholars have been divided about the nature of the play's authorship. Some have regarded it as a play that was originally written by Jonson and Chapman and later revised by Fletcher and Massinger; while this scheme makes a good deal of sense, others have disputed it. In his sweeping study of authorship problems in the Fletcher canon, Cyrus Hoy provided this breakdown among the shares of the four dramatists —[6]
- Massinger — Act I; Act V, scene 1 (lines 1–90);
- Massinger and Fletcher —Act V, 1 (remainder) and 2 (first part);
- Fletcher — Act II; Act III, 1 (middle portion) and 2; Act V, 2 (second part);
- Chapman — Act III, 1 (excluding middle portion); Act IV, 3;
- Jonson — Act IV, 1–2.
Rollo is a Viking leader, a powerful Danish duke at loggerheads with his brother Otto the king of Denmark, urged on by the sycophantic Torchy LaTorch, who then dies and leaves his two sons, Gurim and Rollo, leaving Rollo to be expelled and Gurim killed.
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, is locked in a struggle for power with his brother Otto, whom, urged on by the sycophantic LaTorch, he eventually murders. After he commits a number of other bloodthirsty deeds, he is lured into a private meeting with the beautiful Edith, daughter of one of his victims, who plots to murder him; as she hesitates, one Hamond, Captain of the Guards and brother of another of Rollo's victims, breaks in and murders him instead; he is himself killed in the process. Aubrey, Rollo's cousin, succeeds to the Dukedom; he has Edith cloistered, LaTorch whipped and hanged.
With his followers (known as Normans or northmen), Rollo invades the area of northern France, and besieges Paris. From the moonlit terrace of the royal palace, King Charles III gazes on the Princess Gisella, who is feasting with her father Rollo and his men. The voice of his brother, count of Lorraine, echoes from a deep cistern, where he is imprisoned by the king, who fears him. Gisella demands the head of the King's brother in a silver ewer, ignoring Charles's desperate alternatives, war with the Normans or with his own feudal vassals. The terrified king finally gives in. After a tense pause, the arm of the executioner rises from the cistern, offering the head to Rollo.
After he commits a number of other bloodthirsty deeds, he is lured into a private meeting with the beautiful Edith Roister, daughter of one of his French victims, who plots to murder him; as she hesitates, one Hamond Egz, Captain of the Guards and brother of another of Rollo's English victims, breaks in and murders her instead.
Concluding the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, Rollo pledges feudal allegiance to the king and converts to Christianity. At the city gates, victory is celebrated in parade and dance, a ceremony observed by the King and Gisella. Gisella delivers a speech in praise of dancing. The Viking army plans to launch an invasion of England.
The plot is based loosely on the historical Rollo of Normandy and the foundation of the Duchy of Normandy.
- ^ G. E. Bentley, "The Diary of a Caroline Theatergoer," Modern Philology Vol. 35 No. 1 (August 1937), pp. 61–72; see p. 63.
- ^ E. H. C. Oliphant, The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt to Determine Their Respective Shares and the Shares of Others, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1927; pp. 457–9
- ^ Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds., The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978; p. 71.
- ^ Andrew Gurr, The Shakespeare Company 1594–1642, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. 203–4.
- ^ Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, "New Light on English Acting Companies in 1646, 1648, and 1660," Review of English Studies Vol. 42 No. 168 (November 1991), pp. 487–509.
- ^ Logan and Smith, pp. 70–2.


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Organization of the Chemical and Biological Defense Program
Prior to the first Gulf War (1991), chemical and biological defense science and techology (S&T) was conducted in the individual Military Services, with the Army being the primary participant (supplemented by limited interest, funding, and execution in the other Services). While the threat was generally known throughout DoD, and perhaps the general public, until the confrontation with Iraq there had never been an imminent chemical and biological (CB) threat. Fortunately, there was no documented use of either a chemical or biological agent by Iraq against US forces. Nonetheless, the perceived lack of adequate protection against chemical and biological agents rose to an unprecedented level of interest, both within DoD and Congress.
Congressional interest resulted in the enactment of PL 103-160 in 1993. This statute consolidated the CBDP into a joint program, with "oversight" at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). To address the need for Joint Service participation and execution of the program, two groups were established. First, the Joint Service Integration Group (JSIG) was directed to identify Joint requirements and to lead development of a Program Objective Memorandum (POM) that would address the needs of the Services. Second, the Joint Service Materiel Group (JSMG) was created to oversee the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) functions of the CBDP. The JSMG created the Joint Program Office (JPO) to manage the advanced development aspects of the program. The Army took the lead for creating this office and it essentially reported to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition (ASARDA), thus creating a bifurcated reporting chain. The JPO was originally headed by an Army Colonel (Chemical Corps background), with a civilian deputy. Subsequently, the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD), successor to the JPO, was recognized as an Acquisition billet and therefore filled with appropriately trained individuals, while maintaining a senior civilian as the deputy. Both the JSIG and JSMG had flag officer members, and theoretically reported to the OSD to comply with the mandate that OSD be the single focal point within DoD. This somewhat cumbersome management structure remained in place for approximately 10 years. Changes in leadership at various levels resulted in changes in program direction and varying levels of interest, oversight, and advocacy for the program from the OSD.
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(comparative more degraded, superlative most degraded)
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- (heraldry) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
- simple past tense and past participle of degrade
Variant of degrade
transitive verbdegraded, degrading
- to lower in rank or status, as in punishing; demote
- to lower or corrupt in quality, moral character, or value; debase
- to bring into dishonor or contempt
- Chem. to convert (an organic compound) into a simpler compound by removal of one or more parts of the molecule; decompose
- Geol. to lower (a land surface) by erosion
Origin of degradeMiddle English degraden ; from Old French degrader ; from Late Latin degradare, to reduce in rank ; from Classical Latin de-, down + gradus: see de- and amp; grade
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- Rare to sink to a lower grade or type
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In 2004, as Jessica Simpson was gaining street cred in the pop music scene, her father Joe, a former Baptist minister, bragged about the, ahem, assets that brought his daughter fame.
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The bad dad hasn't only wrecked havoc on Redmond's life. O'Neal hit on his own daughter, Tatum O'Neal, at Fawcett's funeral. "I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me," O'Neal told Vanity Fair in an interview featured in the magazine's August 2009 issue. "I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me -- Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick."
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Two St. Louis Cardinals, both drafted in 2006, spent their first full-seasons as regular starters in 2012, helping to power the club into the playoffs. First baseman Allen Craig (eighth round) batted cleanup and filled much of the offensive gap created by oft-injured Lance Berkman while centerfielder Jon Jay (second round) took charge in the field and filled a major need as he settled into the leadoff spot in the batting order. Rather than Berkman, it appeared early on that Craig might be the one to suffer through an injury-plagued season. Craig suffered a spring setback in his recovery from off-season knee surgery, opening the season on the disabled list. Craig was activated on May 1, but it didn't last long. By the 18th, he was back on the DL, this time with a hamstring injury. In between, Craig was amazingly productive, with an incredible 19 RBI in 13 games. Back for good on June 1, Craig anchored Mike Matheny's lineup for the rest of the season, finishing with 22 home runs an...
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Let's see new job, new girl in my life.. I'm still a gamer at heart and would love to play but lately some events has made me put these things on hold for the time.. Me and th new women need to find a new place to live and unless I live like 50 miles away from Boston its just really expensive. So I've been working on that and my Xbox & laptop are in 2 different places so my internet use comes from work or my phone..Hopefully when I get a new place I'll have internet and be able to play MCC with everyone ..But anyways I wanted to check in and give you all an update ..Hope everyone is doing well
So Ive done the gym 4 days straight and have burned all together 1,347 calories and did a total of 8 miles on the treadmill . I gotta say I'm very impressed with myself, also to boot I lost 9 lbs of water weight and discovered I was 25 lbs liter then what I was telling people so there's a huge ego boost . I went to a party this past Saturday night and saw some friends I hadn't seen in a few yrs abd said they could help with my job situation in fact they pretty much said I would have a job once they spoke with these people .. Ive been in such a good mood it's not even funny other then spilling a drink and getting slightly annoyed shits been great ..I bought a small $15.00 blender cause I'm starting to juice my foods . I'm hoping to lose the 60lbs by April 1st and if things keep going this way I just may or at least be close either way I come a winner . Oh by the way when I spilled that drink it was with the blender and hit the button with cover off so it went every where ...lol
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So let's see I've gone to the gym 2 days in a row couldnt go today had to help the fam but back in tomorrow . I decided to try to learn a song since I'm getting back into playing guitar and it's gonna be a Pink Floyd song "What shall we do now/Empty spaces" nothing crazy just the main rythm I got some friends that can handle the rest ,,but I may add some vocals , this is a long shot but something worth trying for . I also went to a birthday party for a friend I had't seen in like 2 yrs and saw some other friends which was awesome cause got to catch up ..I'm still trying to get my diet straight eating wise I know a lot of stuff get's cut out and I'm willing to do it but some of the healthy foods were always kinda gross to me . I'm willing to try protien shakes and do egg whites but I'm also concidering looking into a juicer cause I heard those are good . You guys have any advice/ info on this stuff?
I went on a job interview today, responded to add what I thought was for a customer service position and ended up being for a sales position ? Well no biggie I stayed and did the interview and knew they wouldn't call back which is fine with me cause I'm no salesman thats for sure but oh well better things will come along
So after 5 years I just broke out my music gear that means Mini Vox amp,Boss GT 5, Pro co Rat 2 and my Boss DS-1..I haven't played in so long and my ring & pinky finger on my right hand don't really straighten out from an odd injury or tendon issue. I play lefty if no one knew Anyways it took me about 10 mins to set everything up,figuring what went where and after a little while I pulled out a few riffs very roughly I might add, but I was very impressed with myself. I did manage to play "Im gonna be your god by Slayer but is really The Stooges I wanna be your dog and it didn't sound half bad I must say
I guess there's still some magic left in this old boy who turns 40 this year
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So I live South of Boston in more of wooded area and we get all type's of animals here ranging from "Deer,Fox,Rabbit,Hawks and Groundhog's" just to name a few, and the little fuckers are kind of destorying the yard and I'd love to get rid of them peacefully if possible . Does anyone know of a spray or something that would scare them off
Hours of fun right there and the only updated needed is a 9v battery
So Ive been watching the Pod casts on http://www.twitch.tv and noticed you can do so much more on the pc . Is there anyone still playing this on pc? I tried the demo out the other day and seems like it operates differently compared to the Xbox version. It looks like you can mod a lot in pc version as I'am watching guy at the moment use a portal gun that sucked everything out of the room
So I've been thinking of buying a new laptop and looking for something that can handle some of the newer games. I've been told by others I should get a gaming desktop computer but my living situation just won't allow it so it has to be a laptop. Now I heard you can't get anything decent unless you spend over $1000.00 any suggestions / ideas are welcomed
Steam got added to Ubuntu's Software Center so Valve decided to throw a sale for the next week. All Linux compatible titles are running between 50-80% off.
So after ripping my pants I got an email the next day from my friends husband . My friend passed in Feb 2012 from 4 brain tumors. She was a great person and was a warped as I am . So her husband told me she left me something in her will and was jusy getting around it due to the loss of wife he just couldnt handle it and did end up loosing the house they owned in NH. He said he's doing better and wanted to get all this legal stuff put behind him..He told me she left me a pair of socks "cause it was funny" and a crystal ball .. Then I get news that a high school friend had passed away from muscular dystrophy complications Rich was a good guy was really into watching sports and his D&D coffee he would of been 39 in May..Odd how life seems to go as you get older
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How will Ofsted evaluate the financial management of a school? We relay Ofsted guidance and point to inspection reports that discuss schools' financial management. We also relay advice on what inspectors will expect to see, and explain how a budget deficit may affect a school's Ofsted grading.
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- Prep Time : 24 miniute min
- Ready Time : 24 min
- 1 1/2 cups medium grind cornmeal
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 2 Tbsp evaporated cane juice
- 1/2 tsp. sea salt
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease a standard or mini muffin pan and set aside.
2 Mix together the cornmeal, whole wheat pastry flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Add the milk, egg and oil and blend until smooth, careful not to over mix.
3 Spoon batter into the muffin tins about 3/4 full. Bake for about 20 minutes for the standard size and 12 minutes for the mini muffins. When done, tops of the muffins should spring back when tapped.
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Bollywood singers like Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal and Mohit Chauhan are set to enthral music lovers with their performances at the third edition of Qutub Festival starting Nov 15.
Also scheduled to perform at the five-day musical extravaganza are singers Hariharan, Arif Lohar and musical band Astitva.
The Qutub Festival is being organised by the Department of Art, Culture and Languages, (Government of Delhi) and Punjabi Academy.
"Right from its inception, Qutub Festival has elucidated euphoric response from people of Delhi. Held on the backdrop of world famous Qutub Minar, the festival has a unique character and gives soul-stirring experience," Rawail Singh, secretary Punjabi Academy, said in a statement.
"We are confident and sure that the audience will appreciate and welcome this musical extravaganza with open arms. This festival will showcase a different musical marvel every day," he added.
The event is part of the ongoing "Delhi Celebrates", an initiative taken by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
"Delhi Celebrates" celebrates the rich and composite culture of India and the national capital.
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Veal Stew
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|Boneless lean veal
|3⁄4 Pound, cut into 3/4-inch cubes
|Chopped onion
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|1 Clove (5 gm), minced
|Cooking oil
|2 Tablespoon
|4 Medium, peeled, seeded, and chopped
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|1 Tablespoon
|Instant chicken bouillon granules
|1 Teaspoon
|Bottled hot pepper sauce
|1 Dash
|Green pepper
|1 Large, cut into thin strips
|Cooked quick cooking rice
|1 1⁄3 Cup (21.33 tbs) (Hot)
In Dutch oven cook veal, onion, and garlic in hot oil till meat is browned and onion is tender.
Drain off fat.
Add tomatoes, water, paprika, bouillon granules, hot pepper sauce, and 3/4 teaspoon salt.
Cover and simmer for 30 minutes or till meat is tender, stirring occasionally.
Add green pepper.
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My Mexican non-adventure.... adventure.... or something like that
With big plans of exploring Northeast Mexico, I set out on my well equipped 1997 Honda XR650L.
First off, you've got to say goodbye to the family.
Then the boring roads...
... And being bored
Welcome to Texas. Where the roads are friendly, and people drive on the shoulder of the road for you to pass them.
Good food and good people.
Problem number one.
I knew I smelt something burning...... Well... i did a bad packing job. I used my bike cover as a backrest... well, when it became uncomfortable... i flipped it up.... and onto the exhaust. I reckon it sat on the pipe for 2 hours...:doh: I'm just glad it didnt catch fire.
Thanks to Tourmeister for hosting the TWTex BBQ. I'm glad I got to meet the folks that I did.
After leaving Scott's house I continued west, aiming for Lake Corpus Christi for another TWTexan's house to spend the night. "I'll leave the bottom floor unlocked for you." :trust:
Well, soon after leaving Huntsville, its like someone told the big boss man up stairs to paint a different landscape. I went from pineywoods to scrubby, desert-ier, terrain full of cattle and my first cactuses. What I didnt notice, while enjoying the landscape was the piece of paneling in the road.... that the car in front of me kicked up.
Kicked up, meaning, I drove through a 4ft x8ft x 1/4" piece of brown wall paneling that was standing on its side.... I didnt know what the freak that was..... I thought I might need to check my shorts after that, but I just pissed myself.:-P I didnt get a picture of this event, unfortunately.... but a couple miles down the road, i tried to use my HWY pegs. turns out i picked up a hitch-hiker... a 1ft square-ish piece I kicked it off and watched it land square across the hood the the car tailgating me... they backed off.
Then, after seeing several pieces of paneling on the road, I caught up to the source.
I passed through a few little towns that seemed pretty cool. Round Top and a little town called La Grange.... did ZZ name the song after this town?
And, there must be a bunch of Checks? cheqs? chex? Czechs? In this town... I saw all sorts of Czech items for sale and vendors on the sides of the road...
Now... the funishly SUCKY part. The next 200 miles of rain.
By the way... the first rain shot where I am wearing the bandana... It works great until saturated, where then it becomes a Highspeed death trap torture device.... You cant breath through wet cloth! I almost panicked because I had the bottom going under the chin strap....
In the last shot above, I stopped at a gas station hoping the rain would slack....... nope. I musterd up, left the store clerk a $1 tip to have to mop up after me.... and hit the road again.
I was blessed with a big rays of sunshine after the rain stopped.
I grew closer to Mike's place on Lake Corpus Christi. But, because I didnt have detailed maps of the area in the GPS, I had to search for it like a geocache. After being unsucessful and the sun going down, I stopped in Sandia, Texas, to ask a sheriff where I needed to go. Him--"Down the road, the first pavement to your right, take a right at the quickstop." Me---"Thanks, take it easy, write the next guy a ticket!" Him---"You be careful on that thing" Me "Yes-sir, trying to get off the road before the road rats (deer) get out!"
So, just incase you were wondering. I was still looking for a geocache'd house. Geo-referencing and encoding has a problem with addresses. It takes a lot of math to try and get an address transferred into a nice healthy lat/long waypoint.... well, mine was off by about a mile. I had the address but no phone number. I think i find it so I go to knock on the door. Sure enough there is a dual sport bike tire on a trailer out front, and a KLR under the carport. Must be the right place. Hmmmm downstairs, lets go see if the door's unlocked. Yep. Hmmm more bikes!
The View
Host and Hostess. Thanks again guys! Mike and his wife let me borrow their bottom floor. I joined them at a friend's house for BBQ later that evening, giving my clothes time to dry out after the evening's time in the rain.
The next morning, I woke up to an ominous sky.... soon to be rain. Late start.
We ate breakfast, my first time to have breakfast tacos. Very nice. Saddled up, said my thank-yous and good-byes, headed south. The road away from my hosts' house was nice and curvey for a change.... until I got to Hwy 281 which is a whole lot of nothingness for and flatness for 150 miles or so.
But, the mesquite trees divided the hwys and cacti lined the ditches.
Sunflower fields.
My list of mistakes......
So, what not to do. Don't forget to do your paper work. Don't listen to the guys that wave you through. Don't drive into Mexico without insurance. Don't forget to go to a casa de cambio to get your pesos. Dont trust Mexicans in Reynosa. DONT get off the main streets. Dont pull over for a federale unless he's pointing a gun at you.... DONT do the speed limit if the traffic is going faster than you. Don't pull out a wad of money infront of a bunch of poor people....
So here's my story about Mexico. While I was going through Edinburg and into Pharr, I noticed the bike making the clunking noise. I pulled over to check it out... chain was loose. Ok, tighten her up. Get going again.... this time, I'm actually pulling into the border. Well.... I get to the gate that you drive through... I get a bell and there is a guy to the side that waves me through... ummmm ok.... I get to the check station and the guys are eating lunch.... they wave me through. I get to the Military check point.... they wave me through... wait, wasnt I supposed to do some sort of paperwork???? Where was I supposed do this? I had heard somewhere that there was another place to do paperwork several miles at the official checkpoint outside of the border zone... was this what I was supposed to do? NOPE! Where the first guy was waving me through, was where I was supposed to park and go do the paperwork.
So, if you cross at Pharr, when you get to the border gate, go to the nice new building to your right. Park and go in to do the paperwork.
After I was waived through the border.... I exclaimed "I'm in Mexico! Whoo hoo!" A couple miles later, while on Hwy 2 going to Hwy 40, my whoo hoo definately turned to "Oh no." The clunking became incredibly worse but I noticed it didnt clunk at speed. I continued to Hwy 40 but after several stop lights, I noticed the clunking becoming steadily worse until I stopped at a PeMex to check it out... couldnt see anything. I didnt know what to check and I didnt know what to do besides turn back.
I had 6 delimas. 1) I had not properly immigrated 2)I had not purchased Mex insurance since it was sunday and no offices that I passed were open. 3) I had no Pesos. 4) I was almost out of gas. Gas is cheaper in Mex, and I had timed it to fill up on hwy 40. 5) My bike's clunking was getting continually worse. 6) I had no cell service to try and call anyone to see what to check.
I turned back. Driving through the heart of Reynosa, following signs for el Puente Internacional. I eventually didnt make a turn... and went through a bad-ish neighbor/shanty town..... I didnt see any more signs.... So I stopped and asked a federale. He pointed me back to my missed turn and then tried to stop me... im guessing for a tip.... wanting some spare change or something. I have no idea... but I didnt stop. He followed me a few blocks, with his lights on, maybe he was making sure I got going the right way? Eventually he turned around and I'm now at the border again.
So, now my mexico pictures....
Notice that I am on the Mexican side of the line? and looking at the US side of the Rio Grande. My only proof that I was in Mexico besides my GPX tracks and SPOT tracks.
Don't Mess With Texas! :D
I'm going to hang around and see what happens next.
:lurk Rain sucks.
The "No-tell" motels.
I'm sure some of you have heard of these.... any of you who have traveled to Mexico/Latin America know of these.
But, I finally got to see one for myself. Unfortunately, I was avoiding nails in the road and keeping ahead of the dodge cars to get a picture.
Well, these hotels are setup so that you can drive into them and then drive into a carport and close the door, hiding your car. You are then able to discretely pay for, as I saw at one of these, 6 hours or less, or more at a time.
And I hear people say Mexicans aren't smart. Not the best idea, but a smart one for the use.
I wouldnt stay at one of these hotels for fear of catching something by sleeping on the bed....
I thought the ingenuity was interesting.
Since I turned back... I had to go through the border.... well, the line was long.... and after sitting there for 30 minutes or so, one of the illegal vendors selling stuffed horses told me that he rides a moto and that he cuts the line when he crosses... OK, cool... so I wait till the line clears and then start weaving in and out... then get stuck..... The guy comes back up to me and gets my attention then steps out infront of a car to make them stop and he let me go and then directed me kind of on a shoulder wide enough for me to get close to the front of the line. I went about 3 times as far in 3 minutes as it took me to go in 30 minutes!
So, I get to the guy that asks you questions. He asked me how long I had been in Mexico.... "about an hour". Him--"You're packed awefully heavy for an hour's ride in Mexico...." me-- "yeah I'm having bike trouble and I dont think I crossed correctly..." Him-- as he motioned for the drug dog to come over.... "Let me see your credentials. So what was the problem?" Me-- "well, when I crossed at Pharr they pretty muched waived me through... I knew I was supposed to do my papework, but I didnt know where to go... and I heard that there was a checkpoint later where you do your paperwork, but had a feeling that wasnt so."
He then went on to explain where I was supposed to go and basically made me feel stoooopid. I agreed with him and he said vaya con dios, hombre.
After I crossed back over, I headed towards the bike shop that the border agent gave me directions to... After forgetting the directions, I stopped and asked a McAllen cop. He gave me directions and then asked me what I was up to. I told him my story. He asked me if I was afraid to go into Mexico by myself..... well, I admitted that Hwy 2 from Pharr to Hwy 40 in Reynosa scared the mess out of me. He told me the gang signs there, which I remembered seeing a couple that he described. One of the gangs are called the "Zetas" a large, multi-colored ZZZs. He said these are the guys that stop you and take your stuff.... OK, well, I'll try to avoid them.
I found the Honda dealership... but its still Sunday. They open at 9:00 on Monday morning. Time to find a hotel room... its about to rain again. I get checked in and unload. I try to figure out whats wrong with the bike. Still didnt know.
So, there's my way of getting the rear wheel off the ground. Side stand, pull it over and lean against the pole..... it worked. I lubed my chain while I was at it.
loosening the pack and tightening things back up... oh and drying them out again.
This is why I got a hotel room....
So I beat the folks to the dealer there on Monday morning. I go inside to ask for a mechanic and they soon had me and the bike out of the rain checking things out. Of course, we couldnt get the symptoms to show up.... so they put the bike on a stand.
We'll they went through a bunch of ideas and finally figured out it was the wheel bearing.
So, this is what it looks like...
Thats what caused all the fuss.
Headed home.........
After leaving the shop... I was headed back to the hwy when I spied a Shipleys donuts. I shook off outside to get the rain off of me, then went inside. I got the cricket noise as I walked in... EVERYONE in the shop stopped and looked at me. :lol2: I dont blame them. A wet guy on a motorcycle.
After eating, a guy sitting next to me started a conversation... this is an older fella, 73, a vietnam veteran, ex policeman, 2 of his 3 wives have been murdered and he always carry's 2 guns and lots of ammo. He said he's been across the country on an _________ bike. 225cc's worth of pure American 1950's moto muscle. He shared several stories about the war, about Mexicans, about how a woman ran him over while riding his motorcycle. Very odd man.... something was wrong with him.... and he wouldnt shut up until I stood up saying the rain had slacked off a little.
Heading east out of McAllen, I got Harlingen and headed north aiming for Corpus Christi. It rained until just south of CC. A new method for keeping the rain off my nose was using a paper dust mask under the helmet. Worked wonders.
Speaking of rain, since there was plenty going around..... it was raining so hard that a lot of cars got off the hwy.... this posed a major problem for them. The frontage roads were flooded. I saw probably 50 cars that day stranded in the water. At one point the hwy was flooded, forcing cars to go into the left lane, shallower than the right, and the cars were going really slow. I took the opportunity to take the deeper side and passed another 100 cars or so.
This sucked.
As I headed north, I noticed the hwy being covered with rocks. Before too long, the rocks began jumping around. "Oh.... its frogs" I thought to myself.
My earplug came unglued from inside my ear and began making my ear hurt, so I stopped under an overpass to fix it. Here I realized the frogs were not frogs, but toads. I quickly recognized which brand they were... spade foot toads. These little guys come out during spring rains... before then, they stay buried underground.
I began dodging toads. Gave me some relief to the inches of rain that was falling.
On down the road... just shy of Corpus Christi, I kept getting something in my eye. So I had to stop. Yep. Thats an eyeball in there!
The culprit.
My wife was clever enough to see how pruney my fingers were. I had been riding half the day in the rain!
I managed to skirt the storms fo most of the rest of the day. I made it to Corpus Christi and Padre Island. I wanted to check out the coastal towns because my wife has been wanting to go to the beach for a while. Padre and Mustang Islands are nice. I'm thinking Port Aransas will be the vacation spot. (No pictures from there) I had to catch the ferry before it stormed again...
Mustang Island NP. Notice the vehicle in the distance on the right.... its stuck.
And then.... an oasis in the middle of FLATNESS....
Galveston in a bit.
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Germany has been and remains the largest Russian natural gas buyer. The total volume, including trading in this country, reached 40 billion cubic meters in 2013.
Russian natural gas is delivered to Germany under contracts signed between Gazprom Export and E.ON Global Commodities, WIEH GmbH & Co. KG, WINGAS GmbH, and Shell Energy Europe Ltd. The total volume of natural gas exported by Russia to Germany since the start of deliveries (in 1973, including the former German Democratic Republic) to date has reached more than 1 trillion cubic meters.
Joint-stock company Ruhrgas was founded in 1926. Its operations include the purchase and transmission of natural gas along main pipelines, with its subsequent sale to gas distribution companies. The company is also involved in the comprehensive design, construction and operation of gas transmission systems.
In early 2003, the major German energy company E.ON AG acquired Ruhrgas as a sole shareholder, becoming E.ON Ruhrgas AG.
E.ON Ruhrgas AG imports natural gas from Russia, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark, providing more than 50% of the total volume of gas delivered to the German market. E.ON Ruhrgas AG delivers Russian natural gas to Germany and Switzerland under several long-term contracts.
In August 2006, Gazprom Export and E.ON Ruhrgas AG extended four prime contracts from 2020 until 2035. In July 2012, contract terms with E.ON Ruhrgas AG was adapted to suit the European market regulations.
At the request of the German regulator, the company was divided into a trading and transportation company in 2010. Since October 1, 2010, a long-term agreement with transport company E.ON Gastransport GmbH on Russian natural gas transportation through Germany to the Netherlands and Belgium has been in force. A series of other short-term contracts are also in effect. In late 2010, the company was renamed to Open Grid Europe.
Since the beginning of exports, as of present, E.ON Ruhrgas AG has received a total of more than 600 billion cubic meters of gas.
In order to improve the efficiency of Russian gas sales and increase its share in the Germany market, Gazprom and Wintershall AG (100% owned by BASF AF) created two joint ventures in Germany — WIEH (1990) and WINGAS (1993).
Several long-term contracts have been concluded with WIEH and WINGAS. Gazprom Export has signed an agreement with WIEH, WINGAS and WIEE extending these contracts till 2031.
In 2013, WINGAS started receiving 680 million cubic meters of gas via the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
In cooperation with Gazprom, Gazprom Germania and GM&T, work is continuing to integrate WINGAS into Gazprom Group under the Master Agreement signed between Gazprom and Wintershall AG to swap assets.
Once Gazprom Export's subsidiary company — Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd. (GM&T) was founded in Britain, it began to develop cooperation with WINGAS concerning gas sales on the British market. The first small deliveries began in 1999. Shipments were made using the Gazprom-owned reverse flow capacities of the Interconnector gas pipeline.
By the end of 2013, Gazprom Export's total deliveries to Germany, Belgium and Britain through WINGAS and WIEH stood at 24 billion cubic meters.
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Sunday Homes 06.20.10: Parade of Homes showcase home overlooks lake
CORPUS CHRISTI - Richard Voss of Live Oak Construction has created an elegant yet rugged rock Hill Country ranch style abode as the Builders Associatiaton Corpus Christi Area 2010 Parade of Homes showcase home.
This rock and alder wood accented home sits behind a security gated entry on a half-acre lot overlooking Lago Vista's 19-acre lake in which you can water ski, kayak, boat, fish, swim or just sit back and enjoy the view from almost every room the home. This exquisite home is an entertainer's dream with three living areas, two dining areas a 914 sq. ft. lanai with an outdoor kitchen, media room, butler's pantry and wet bar. You can live a relaxed vacation lifestyle right here in Corpus Christi in this beautiful lakeside community off South Staples Street across Oso Creek, minutes from everything!
In three sentences or less, summarize why a new homeowner would love this home: This home is an entertainer's dream, with two wet bars, an outdoor kitchen and massive open living spaces with exquisite views of the lake.
What feature do you like the most about this home: We like the stained trim throughout, the rock accents.
What is the one thing you'd change about this house: We are really happy with the way this house turned out. If we could add anything it would be an exercise room.
I got ideas/inspiration for this house by: We got our ideas from the Hill Country. We wanted to bring a touch of the Hill Country feel with the rugged ranch style mixed with elegance and refined custom features.
Which is the home's best room and why: the leisure room, it's the heart of the home with beautiful knotty alder built in entertainment center with phenomenal views of the lake.
Three words that describe this home: luxury, refined rustic features, an entertainers dream!
If these kitchen walls could talk: this kitchen is a cook's dream, a gas cooktop, sub zero refrigerator, double oven and butler's pantry are just a few of the amenities in this beautiful kitchen that overlooks the family room and has great view of the lake.
What is this home's most complimented feature: the stone accented features and wood treated ceilings and fantastic views down the lake.
Three items homeowners definitely need are: wet bars for entertaining, a chef's kitchen with lots of storage
Describe the backyard in a few words: waterfront, peaceful with one of the best views of the lake in the neighborhood
What makes this home stand out: Its rustic interior rock accents which are not common to the area make this home a one of a kind.
What unique construction materials were used: knotty alder wood, exquisite granite
Describe the location/neighborhood of this home: off South Staples through King Acres. It is a one of a kind gated neighborhood built around a 19-acre water skiing lake with 1/2 acre home sites at minimum. It has a community pool and cabana and the lake is open to all homeowners for non motorized water access and swimming. 19 homes have exclusive water skiing rights that convey with their property.
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I know a better, safer, stronger, more secure world is possible. We do not have to accept this world as it is, we can create the world we want in our own image. Nothing is beyond our ability, I truly believe that. We simply need to find our resolve to do it.
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I Will If You Will – We're Supporting Earth Hour To Save Our Planet
Yammer users drive change through their use of social media. They transform their organizations from the inside out – across industries, across job functions, across the planet. It's especially heartwarming when our customers use Yammer to become better at doing good. Such is the story of EarthHour, a non-profit organization whose vision is "Uniting People To Protect The Planet. The largest environmental event in history, Earth Hour connects hundreds of millions of people, businesses and governments around the world. More than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries worldwide switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2011 alone, sending a powerful message for action on climate change. It also ushered in a new era with members going Beyond the Hour to commit to lasting action for the planet. Without a doubt, it's shown how great things can be achieved when people come together for a common cause.
The Global Challenge:
Earth Hour had a herculean challenge ahead – to galvanize the population of the world to action, and do it through coordinating activity of multiple organizations. We had to do "a champagne project on a lemonade budget" said Andy Ridley, the CEO of Earth Hour. Flawless coordination of a global activity as a unified campaign across distributed teams was necessary, and Yammer worked where other tools failed. The team was looking for a way to share experiences, challenges, opportunities and relationships with other organizations to make the campaign more efficient and to grow. Introducing and emphasizing a culture different from the parent company (WWF) was a key consideration as well (Earth Hour is a non-profit collaboration between WWF, Leo Burnett and Fairfax Media).
The Results:
"[Yammer] has revolutionized how the campaign is working," shared Andy. Here are some of the specific benefits that helped the company execute.
Adaptability and agility:
Moving quickly and on a tight budget, you don't always have the luxury of building new materials. Through collaborating on Yammer, the team has been able to cross-pollenate ideas and repurpose work. Finding information and locating expertise has gotten a lot easier for the information seeker and the finder. New members could now onboard quickly, access the right materials, and no one had to answer the same questions over and over via email.
Diversity of ideas:
By collaborating across geographies, the team has been able to access a greater variety of ideas and experiences. They've been able to come up with more and better concepts and deliverables. The ripple effect of great ideas colliding has been akin to "throwing a petal in the pond".
"We use Yammer to collect amazing stories. The thing that worked best for us was our first 24 hour Yam-Jam where we posed a single question and asked everyone around the network to chime in," – shared Sid Das from Earth Hour. You can read more about it here.
Recently, the team faced an issue when Orchard Road (a large shopping strip in Singapore) became unwilling to participate in the Earth Hour event. Teams from across the world submitted ideas as to how they could encourage Orchard Road merchants to participate. An idea came from a place that no one expected to post pictures of landmark shopping strips – such as the Champs Elysees — with their lights out. It has since become a major incentive campaign.
Cultural impact:
The impact of collaboration has been felt not on simply the jobs that had to get done, but also on how these jobs were done. Rallying people behind a cause is certainly not easy, and inspiration and motivation play a pivotal role in success. Engaging a broad mix of people from diverse backgrounds can also be challenging if you aren't playing from the same cultural playbook and respecting each other.
Beyond The Hour!
The earth needs our help, and it doesn't end with turning off the lights for an hour. Sustainability must be a lifestyle choice that drives what we do and decisions we make. To help people make these choices and be accountable for them –in a fun and easy way — Earth Hour has launched an "I Will If You Will" campaign this year. It aims to drive participation by making "doing" more rewarding and more compelling. "I Will If You Will" is the evolution of 60+ (encouraging people to turn their lights out for 60 minutes +), providing the incentive and the mechanism for everyday people to "Go Beyond The Hour".
Andy Ridley CEO will be joining us at the Sydney Yammer on Tour, speaking about the organization's experience with global cause-based collaboration.
And of course, we couldn't resist a global challenge, especially for such a great cause! The Yammer global team just pledged that we will volunteer our efforts in local cleanup if in the next 4 weeks, 1,000 people pledge to pick up 10 pieces of rubbish each. If 10,000 people pledge, we will volunteer and donate $15,000 to the cause.
So join our challenge by pledging to pick up 10 pieces of trash. If you want to have some social media fun, tweet or Instagram your photos with the #YWIYW hashtag (Yammer Will If You Will). We will display your photos in this blogpost.
Join the bigger movement, create your own pledge and don't forget to turn off your lights on Saturday Mrach 31. Follow #earthhour for all the action.
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According to an April 23 article published by U.S. News & World Report, Rockford made No. 9 on a list of "10 Cities Facing a Double Whammy of Default Risks," based on 2009's fourth-quarter mortgage delinquencies and defaults as reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association.
The article attributes the high number to a combination of decreased property values, resulting in negative equity, and high unemployment.
The report noted: "These same forces have worked to land Rockford—a city of 157,000 located in northern Illinois—in a comparable fix, [Economy.com's Celia] Chen says. Local unemployment hit 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009."
Unemployment in Rockford rose to 19.5 percent in February, but dipped to 18.8 percent in March, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
"The Midwest did go into the recession earlier than the rest of [the country], so the situation has been eroding for a longer period of time," Chen stated in the article, which indicated more than 22 percent of Rockford homeowners owed more on their mortgages than their homes were worth in the fourth quarter of 2009.
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Belgian Waffles
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|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs) (1/3 Cup Plus 2 Teaspoons)
|Double acting baking powder
|1 Teaspoon
|Granulated sugar
|1 Teaspoon
|Baking soda
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1 , separated
|Vegetable oil
|2 Teaspoon
|Vanilla extract
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|Vanilla ice cream/Strawberry ice cream
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Sliced strawberries
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
1. Onto sheet of wax paper or a paper plate sift together dry ingredients; set aside.
2. In small mixing bowl combine milk, egg yolk, oil, and vanilla; add sifted ingredients and, using electric mixer, beat until smooth.
3. Spray nonstick waffle iron with nonstick cooking spray and heat. In separate bowl, using clean beaters, beat egg white until stiff but not dry; fold into batter. Pour batter onto waffle iron and cook according to manufacturer's directions.
4. serve waffle with 1/2 cup ice cream and half of the strawberries.
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Dodge: Federal budget should fund priorities
Last week, the nation funded our priorities as taxpayers paid their annual tax bill.
Tax expenditures speak to who we are as a people. They define the sacrifices and choices we are willing to make as we look to the future for our nation and citizens, young and old alike. Each expenditure is by necessity a critical affirmation of meeting the nation's needs.
With a continued waning economy, each dollar becomes even more significant. So many issues remain underfunded and, therefore, the decisions we make are even more critical. From education to health care to infrastructure to environmental stewardship, we are forced to choose and prioritize our needs.
Yet, there remains a gorilla in the room that not only threatens our very survival, it steals from the lifeblood of every community in our nation, depriving them of precious resources and taking a toll in opportunity costs — the critical programs left wanting when funding is not available.
I am speaking of the massive dollars spent on behalf of nuclear weapons programs. Once again this number will exceed $54 billion for the current fiscal year.
The weapons that these expenditures support threaten our very existence every moment of every day. Every citizen and every community feels the burden of these costs. Here in Ventura County, taxpayers will forfeit more than $168 million to nuclear weapons programs this year alone — the costs are great and morally reprehensible.
In education alone, California ranks No. 48 in the nation in per pupil spending. The Ventura Unified School District has seen cuts of $20 million in the last three years, amounting to 20 percent of its annual general fund. I ask, is this our priority? Our children and future will suffer the consequences. When will we speak up?
We now have bipartisan elder statesmen who are working to globally eliminate all nuclear weapons stockpiles. We even have Air Force researchers and RAND Corp. nuclear planners who suggest the U.S. could address its military concerns with roughly 300 nuclear weapons.
Current global stockpiles contain 19,500 weapons with more than 94 percent in the U.S. and Russian arsenals. Nuclear weapons programs are not an entitlement program. They have outlived their Cold War purpose and it is now time to work to reduce and ultimately eliminate these dangerous weapons and wasteful expenditures.
The choice is ours. National and international surveys have confirmed that a majority of U.S. and global citizens want to see nuclear weapons eliminated. Their continued existence encourages further spread of nuclear materials and weapons. Now is the time to redefine our priorities.
We, the people, have an opportunity and responsibility to make a difference. It is time for all of us to raise our collective voice and demand that the nuclear madness stop. We can no longer gamble on our future relying on luck to protect us from accidental or intentional nuclear strike.
Nor can we afford to waste precious resources on any program that does not add value to our future, let alone that threatens our very existence. You can contact your congressional representative or senator by going to http://www.contactingthecongress.org.
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General Motors December and 2012 Sales (Data is not adjusted for the difference in selling days; December 2012 had 25 selling days and December 2011 had 27 selling days) OSHAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 01/03/13 -- Buick experienced sustained growth throughout 2012, finishing the year with a 12 per cent increase in sales, driven by strong consumer demand for the Buick Verano, a recent recipient of a Consumer Guide Automotive Best Buy Award. Overall, in 2012, Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac dealers delivered 226,825 vehicles including 14,623 in December. "The automotive market in Canada is highly competitive and the ultimate winners are Canadian customers, who continue to benefit from better value and better products," said Kevin Williams, president and managing director of GM of Canada. "Our new products, like the award-winning Cadillac ATS and Buick Verano, are hitting the mark with Canadians, which bodes well for 2013." "Our new vehicles are clearly connecting with customers," added Marc Comeau, GM of Canada's vice-president of sales, service and marketing. "In 2013, we will build on this momentum with the launches of the all-new Chevrolet Trax, Buick Encore and our all-new Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra later in the year. Starting now, customers can also benefit from our new, exclusive partnership with AIR MILES, offering customers up to 3,000 AIR MILES reward miles for a new vehicle purchase or lease during various promotional periods." December 2012 and Calendar Year Sales Highlights -- Chevrolet small, compact & mini car sales were up 6 per cent for the month and 2 per cent for the year -- Buick sales of passenger cars were up 23 per cent for 2012 -- Consumers Digest Best Buys, the GMC Terrain and GMC Acadia both had year over year increases of 9 per cent and 2 per cent respectively -- For the month of December, Cadillac had a year over year increase in sales of 16 per cent. Sales of the all-new Automotive Journalists Association of Canada's Best New Luxury Car for 2013, the Cadillac ATS, and Canadian-built XTS, drove a gain of 25 per cent in Cadillac car sales for the month Total GM sales were down 20 per cent compared to last December and down 6.6 per cent year over year. About GM Canada Headquar tered in Oshawa, Ontario, General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) employs more than 9,000 people across the country and is a recognized leader in green manufacturing. GMCL markets the full range of fuel-efficient Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles and related services through Canada's largest automotive dealer network. More information regarding GMCL models can be found at www.gm.ca, or by following @GMCanada on Twitter. Contacts: GM Canada Adria MacKenzie 905-644-6044 www.gm.ca
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The iPhone Blog Week in Review for November 17, 2008
Every week I will be bringing you what I think are the week's biggest stories and articles. Let's get started, after the break!
Announcing the Smartphone Round Robin!
Every year we switch phones with our sister sites (Treocentral, WMExperts, Crackberry and Android Central) to see what life is like on another smartphone. What phones are we swapping this year, click to find out!
iPhone is the most reliable smartphone. No, really?
It's true what they say! Looks like the iPhone is really the most reliable smartphone beating out tough competition like Windows Mobile, Palm and wait for it.... BlackBerry! I guess that really says something for using one of those, you know, "modern" operating systems...
This interview brings up some really good points about how mobile technology has really changed our landscape with location-based tools. Read on for more!
Who is number one? iPhone, that's who!
Yup, move over Motorola, your 4 year old Razr is taking a backseat to the iPhone according to NPD numbers. This continues to amaze me. The iPhone essentially comes in one model on one carrier, yet continues to out sell everyone. Awesome.
When is iPhone firmware 2.2 coming, Nov. 21?
One can dream. The Internets are reporting that this Friday we could see the fabled 2.2 release of Apple's new firmware for the iPhone. Personally, I am looking to OTA podcasts and Google Street view. What are you looking forward to?
I want to tether, I want to tether...
But not for $30 a month! That is what the rumor mill is saying. Honestly, I have spoken to some local AT&T folks and they agree with this assertion. Man, I would pay $10 more a month, but $30? To be fair this is the price for other devices, so the iPhone is not getting unfairly pegged. Are you going to pay $30 for this?
Check out our comparison of Air Mice: Air Mouse versus Snatch. We chose Snatch, but could a killer update for Air Mouse be around the corner? Read on for more!
Costco getting in on a little iPhone action?
The iPhone could be coming to Costco for the low, low price of $149! That is what an analyst is saying. Then again, I predict an Apple tablet is coming next year. Who's right? Only time will tell.
Google web search now optimized for the iPhone!
Well, not from Safari, but from the Google webpage on the iPhone. Oh well, it's progress, right? To be fair, Google says that they are working on optimized results from the Google search bar in Safari.
Gaming on the iPhone takes on the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP!
Man, I really think that Apple might succeed in this market. I mean, everyone is going to own an iPhone eventually, so why not? Steve goes on to say that a couple of reasons it will be a successful game console is because it will always be in your pocket and the amazing touch controls. I agree, I have seen some snippits of some really cool 1st person shooters and one of my favorite racing games Raging Thunder [iTunes Link] just got Internet based multiplayer! It is fun, but a little buggy, but an excellent first endeavor!
Yup, we cranked out episode #2. This time the audio and video actually worked. Take a listen [Subscribe in iTunes]!
Apple's new in-ear headphones to ship soon
Let's hope so! I owned Apple's original in ear headphones and enjoyed them a lot. I think the iPod Nano just got an update to support them, let's wait and see!
Google's advanced voice search for iPhone!
Man, this is really exciting! Speak into your iPhone and get weather, locations, movies, you name it! It is an enhancement to Google's Mobile App. Arriving in the app store soon. Hmm, where is the G1 version...
Say it ain't so: the iPhone almost ran Linux!
Whoa. Granted, OS X is Apple's own flavor of Linux for all intensive purposes, but we aren't talking OS X Linux, we are talking vanilla Linux. Yuck. I am glad this battle of the wills panned out the way it did. What am I talking about? Read the article to learn more!
I can't wait for this to become a reality! I already use VNC and Remote Access to control my Mac and PC Laptop from my iPhone, but to have direct access to Citrix would be nice!
If it does, it won't be for a while. In the meantime I am looking forward to Documents to Go for the iPhone. Although, Microsoft was rumored to be creating an Office native app for the iPhone. could they have ditched it in lieu of a web-based alternative?
Apple making their own search engine?
Eh, probably not. I mean, Apple can't do everything. However, what they are probably working on is a new interface for search. When could we see something like this? Only time will tell...
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The iPhone Blog Week in Review for November 17, 2008
Your welcome! I checked out Ziibii briefly. Looks like a Shozu or Yahoo oneConnect type of tool. I personally enjoy using specific apps for social networking; I feel they are more attuned to what that service needs. For example, Facebook; I have not seen another 3rd party app that can compare to what it offers.
Thanks for reading HJM!!!