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Shaheed Hafed — The union of Saharawi Journalists and Writers (UPES in Spanish) condemned "forcefully" the arrest on Friday of Saharawi journalist and TVRASD correspondent Mahmoud Lhaisan by the Moroccan police in the occupied city of El Aaiun, in a statement.
It described the arrest as "unfair and unacceptable" and held the Moroccan authorities responsible for the consequences that may result.
UPES added that "this act is part of a campaign by the Moroccan services intended to prevent the noble mission of journalists to inform the public of serious human rights violations committed by Morocco in the occupied Western Sahara" territories, calling for the immediate release of the Saharawi journalist.
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In-depth: Environment and Energy
Environmental Conservation: Thanks to UNDP's collaboration with the Ministry of Environment on nature and wildlife conservation activities, Egypt has seen the establishment of ten natural protectorates across the country and UNDP has succeeded in introducing income generation activities to improve livelihoods, and secure local community engagement in conservation. For example, the Medicinal Plants Conservation Project in the St. Katherine Protectorate, South Sinai, was able to protect fragile and threated resources, sustain and expand economic opportunities for the local community, and reinforce and support the role of women as active participants in this programme. Altogether more than 350 direct and indirect jobs have been created as a result of the project, generating an adequate income for over 1,200 persons. The project received the prestigious Equator Prize in 2012 for local community sustainable development solutions.
Climate Change Adaptation: In the area of adaptation, UNDP supported the assessment of Climate Change physical and socio-economic impact on the most vulnerable sectors including coastal zones, water resources, and agriculture, in addition to developing recommended adaptation measures. UNDP is currently working on piloting soft engineering solutions for coastal zone protection.
Climate change Mitigation: In the area of mitigation, UNDP has helped the Ministry of Electricity and Energy to introduce and promote energy efficiency concepts that succeeded in reducing losses in transmission cables from 7% to 3.5% and in improving networking among the electricity power stations. UNDP assistance has also resulted in preparation of a national code for energy efficient buildings and the introduction of energy efficiency standards and labels, as well as the establishment of an energy efficiency testing laboratory for home electric appliances; establishment of a loan guarantee programme with national banks to support the implementation of energy efficiency projects; increasing the market of energy efficient lamps by 20 times over five years, and the successful demonstration of energy efficiency projects in some governmental buildings that yielded 30-40% savings.
Environment and Energy: Challenges
Environmental challenges in Egypt include air pollution resulting in smog episodes; water scarcity and lack of quality sanitation systems and water pollution where only 70% of the urban population have sanitation and as low as 4 % in rural Egypt; climate change risks including water resources, coastal zones and agriculture; land and coastal zone management; solid waste management; loss of biodiversity; and depleting oil and gas resources.
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The world's largest economy was criticised by the International Monetary Fund due to its slow private sector growth and its $85 billion public spending cuts. The IMF is one of several organisations to criticise the country's approach to reducing its public sector spending, which involves uniform budget caps across several departments.
The United States plans to reduce public sector spending by almost $1 trillion over the next ten years using blanket budget cuts referred to as a 'sequester budget.' The cuts will affect a wide variety of government departments, and have been criticised by the IMF and other groups due to their lack of targeted budget reduction.
The IMF contends that the United States government should focus its budget cuts on government departments that produce little immediate job growth. Putting the cuts on hold, the IMF claims, could produce a 3 percent growth rate for the US this year – a significantly higher figure than the 1.9 percent growth the organisation predicts.
Current budget cuts planned by the United States reduce spending evenly from a wide range of government departments. The IMF claims that budget cuts should focus on reducing pension and healthcare spending, while increasing the amount spent on major infrastructure projects and education.
The organisation claims that reducing spending across the board will limit medium-term economic growth, as departments responsible for large infrastructure projects struggle to deal with reduced spending abilities. Despite its criticisms, the IFM gave the Federal Reserve a positive review for its continued quantitative easing policies.
The IMF has forecast growth of 1.9 percent for the United States during 2013, and a growth rate of 2.7 percent in 2014. The group recommends the United States slow its austerity efforts and instead focus on making slower, reasonable cuts to public services that will not contribute to short and medium-term economic recovery.Read more
Over One Million Over-65 Workers in UK
EconomyEmployment June 12, 2013
While a reasonable number of Britons are returning to work, employment figures indicate that the UK job market is still operating at pre-recession levels. Over 2.51 million Britons were still out of work, as of April, new figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal.
Over 24,000 people entered the job market in the three months to April, gaining a foothold in a growing market for workers in the UK. Despite the job growth, official unemployment figures pointed to an employment rate that hasn't changed from its 7.8 percent reading – a figure that's identical to early 2013 levels.
What's more worrying than the flat unemployment figure, however, is the growing number of people aged over 65 that continue to work. Over one million people over the age of 65 still work in the UK – a figure that's the highest on record. The Office for National Statistics began recording age-related job statistics in the early 1970s.
Other issues for the UK economy include a sluggish increase in remuneration, with the average worker's salary increasing at a rate that beat inflation. CPA data shows that prices are increasing by approximately 2.4 percent per year, while salaries are up just 1.3 percent per year, as many workers opt to defer their bonuses.
The data brings to light an issue that could continue to affect the economy: as more professionals choose to stay in their roles well into their sixties, the number of new opportunities is decreasing relative to overall job growth. Many of the people most hurt by the change in employment demographics are recent university graduates.
In the last twenty years, the number of over-65s working has more than doubled. A large number of these workers will need to continue working until they are 70 years old, according to pensions minister Steve Webb.Read more
New figures being released by mortgage lenders indicate that the number of pensioners seeking equity release is rising significantly due to the insufficiency in their pensions. According to Just Retirement, retirees seeking this type of mortgage are from a broad scope of retired Britons who are looking to subsidize their paltry incomes.Read more
Many Britons currently lack workplace pensions
Pensions April 4, 2012
Recently Prudential released figures in regards to pensioners that are quite alarming. According to their data, one out of every six people reaching retirement this year will be relying solely on Government to survive as they have no pension from their place of employment. The report further states that the average person retiring in Britain will rely on one-third of their income from Government.Read more
Elderly pensioners targeted under Osborne's Budget
Pensions March 24, 2012
This year the elderly have taken rather many setbacks in terms of services being offered. As reported earlier in the year, government is pushing elderly patients through hospitals and releasing them before they are truly ready. Now the Chancellor hinted that in his White Paper to be released, a new system will be launched to care for the disabled and elderly.Read more
Chancellor's flat-rate tax under fire
Pensions March 22, 2012
Within the last year there have been many changes to pensions, public and private, but the biggest hit to date has been the new state flat rate pension which is currently under fire. Experts are stating that the average worker who could have expected a full pension upon retirement will now get a smaller amount.Read more
Possible industrial action by doctors over proposed pension changes
Pensions February 26, 2012
In addition to all the controversy of late on the cuts in pensions within the public sector, doctors have now gotten into the foray. Leaders have voted in favour of balloting for industrial action. Changes to doctors' pensions have the medical profession up in arms and relations will between government and doctors are at an all-time low.Read more
Although government provided a framework to pensions prior to the holidays, both NASUWT and NAT have refused to sign onto those reforms. These are the two biggest teachers' unions in Britain and both are demanding that further changes be made.Read more
An employer's guide to automatic enrolment
Pensions November 7, 2011
So you're an employer operating in the United Kingdom with at least one employee. But are you aware of the coming changes to pensions, and how they'll directly impact your business? If you don't know about automatic enrolment, for example, or staging date, then you need to get to grips with the forthcoming changes, as a matter of priority. They'll affect you, so don't put things off. Start getting clued up now!
The first point to take on board is that you, the employer, will be legally responsible for enacting the new changes, which will begin to come into force for larger employers in 2012. Firms with fewer employees will have a bit more time, but not much more.
The terms 'worker' and 'eligible jobholder' are at the heart of the changes. What is a worker? A worker is someone you employ who earns the national minimum wage. This can also include contract and agency workers, and apprentices, too. You may already offer them some kind of pension arrangements. Maybe not. Under the new arrangements, you'll have to explain what pension scheme you're offering and give them all the opportunity to join it.
Eligible jobholders are employees who earn more than minimum wages and are aged between 22 and the state pension age. They must also ordinarily work in the United Kingdom. Under the changes, eligible jobholders must be automatically enrolled by you into a pension scheme which meets certain criteria. Once enrolled – and only then – can they then choose to opt out of the pension scheme. Of course, you as the employer will be legally required to make a contribution towards the scheme.
Every employer in the country will be given a date when all changes have to be in place. This is called the staging date. The bigger the company, in terms of the number of employees it has, the sooner it'll have to make the changes. October 2012 is the deadline for the largest employers. All employers, no matter their size, will have to have completed the changes by 2016. The government will contact companies anything from six to 12 months ahead of their own particular staging date.
If you've not already done so, you'll need to think about the sort of qualifying pension scheme you are going to provide. Then you'll have to know who and who are not eligible jobholders in your company. When the day arrives, all eligible jobholders will have to be automatically enrolled into the scheme. They must be told they've been enrolled into it and that they have the right to opt out of your chosen pension scheme. Companies must then tell the government about the scheme chosen and how many employees are in it.
A word of caution here because there are certain things you must not do, such as encouraging employees to opt out of the pension scheme. You must not dangle incentives or benefits in front of job seekers in return for them opting out of the scheme. And you must not disadvantage an employee in any way because of automatic enrolment.Read more
Pay rises could suffer in light of new pension laws
Pensions October 24, 2011
As of next year employers in the UK will not be allowed to give employees the option to choose between pay rises and pension plans. According to the new rules, businesses will be forced to enrol all staff in workplace pension schemes as of October 2012.Read more
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I normally ride western, but due to a shoulder injury I'm unable to lift that much weight onto my horses back and I'm at the point again where I need to determine again if its a good fit or not for him.
I considered buying an english saddle but cannot find anything that fits him properly at an affordable cost. He's a stocky built QH and I just don't think he is meant to go english. The last we tried was a wintec 500 AP with changeable gullets. We just can't get the right saddle for his shoulder angel for the budget I have to stick to.
This is where I considered a treeless saddle. We do mostly ring work and trails.
Here are some questions I have that maybe some members of the forum can help:
- I have heard a lot of recommendations of a breast plate to be used with treeless saddles, is this true?
- I have heard a lot of stories about the saddles falling apart. I don't wish to pay $800-1000 for a saddle that will fall apart easily. Are there any recommended brand names? I have been looking at the Barefoot saddles
The Barefoot-Finally a better treeless saddle!
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Slept ok but realized in the middle of the night I might need a warmer sleeping bag. My BigAgnes is rated for 15 degrees, but judging by the shrinkage in my business, I think they might be making an overly optimistic estimation. Pack up camp, blast the heated grips and hit the road. Today I'm headed to Ouray to see what all the hubbub is about.
Ouray. Pronounced Your-aye.
Love this little town. Steep mountain/cliffs on all sides, waterfall in the back ground and everybody has dirt on everybody. I stopped off and talked to the gals in the information booth about where to access the Alpine Loop. They told me the closest place was a trail called Corkscrew a couple miles up. The said she heard it was pretty rocky but should be ok on a motorcycle. ;) What's the worst that can happen?
Views from the trail
Corkscrew trail is a jeep trail that connects Hwy 550 to the Alpine Loop. Alpine Loop is a network of old mining trails, all dirt, mud, gravel and some snow. Corkscrew on the other hand was gravel, rock, switchbacks and rocky sections not necessarily cut out for big bikes. I think I dumped my bike 2 or 3 times on the way up and wound up sucking wind pretty hard with a helmet full of sweat by the time I got to the top of the trail. My knee is still bruised and swollen from one of the oopsies.
Periodically, along the trail there are old huts, antique remnants of mining equipment, marmots and the occasional bigfoot sighting. At times the drop off off the side of the trail is pretty impressive, a little spooky but gorgeous.
At the top of Corkscrew is an old abandoned house with another mining dig behind it. Ran into some people in jeeps out exploring. Had to take them up on taking picture as it's a rare opportunity for those of us who ride solo. Just wish I knew when he was taking the picture so I didn't look like a mouth-breather.
Shortly after the abandoned house, the treeline stops, the wind becomes absurd and the temperature drops like a rock. You instantly become acutely aware of every single drop of sweat in your gear as it turns to ice.
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The wind is a little brutal and I don't want my nipples to tear my Bandlands, on to Lake City..
Hit Lake city, North back to Hwy 50, West to Montrose. Met up with my bestfriend and his firefighter buddies, got drunk, fell out of the golf cart at full speed while getting a tour of the RV/camping park while being driven around by the owner who was also drunk, drank with an old wirey SR-71 pilot who I think could have kicked all our asses, stumbled back to the cabin and stuffed my face with cold stale spaghetti without a utensil... and the night fades to black. Solid day.
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Status of the Coral Reef Ecosystems of Guam Report Summary I Mamulan I Rubentasion No. 1 December 2009 This briefing highlights the main scientific findings and key recommendations presented in a report on the status of the health of Guam's coral reefs published in December 2008 by the Bureau of Statistics and Plans. The full report, available at http://www.bsp.guam.gov, was developed collaboratively by scientists and managers from numerous local and federal agencies, The Nature Conservancy, and the University of Guam Marine Laboratory. The importance of Guam's coral reefs Guam's coral reef resources are both economically and culturally important, providing numerous goods and services for the residents of Guam, including cultural/traditional use, tourism, recreation, fisheries, and shoreline/infrastructure protection. A recent study conducted by an team of renown researchers estimated that Guam's reefs contribute approximately $127 million to the local economy each year. Guam's reefs host an incredible variety of marine organisms. Did you know that Guam has of the most diverse marine ecosystems among U.S. jurisdictions? The decline in the health of Guam's reefs Despite the critical importance of Guam's coral reefs to A rich coral community off the southeast coast near Ipan Beach Park (top) so many aspects of life on the island, they remain under and a stressed reef community near Anae Island impacted by sedimenta- assault from a range of threats. Paralleling the decline in tion (bottom). Photos: D. Burdick. the health of coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific, the health of many of Guam's reefs has diminished over at least the last several decades. As a result, their ability to provide without successful coral recruitment, recovery will likely be important services to Guam's current and future residents a long process – if it happens at all. continues to be be compromised. Threats to Guam's reefs In the past, Guam's reefs have recovered after drastic The main threats to Guam's coral reefs continue to include declines, but continued degradation of water quality, sedimentation, freshwater runoff and associated pollutants, chronic crown of thorns seastar outbreaks, low numbers and heavy fishing pressure. Additional threats include crown of important herbivorous (algae-eating) fishes and other of thorns seastar outbreaks, coral diseases, dredging, boat threats make Guam's reefs less resilient – meaning they groundings, marine debris, coral bleaching, and recreational are less able to recover from disturbances such as major misuse and overuse. Guam also experiences a high storms or severe coral bleaching events. A particularly frequency of storm activity, which can cause direct physical distressing sign of declining reef resilience is the large damage to the reef and can cause significant reductions in decrease in rates of coral recruitment (i.e., the settlement of nearshore water quality resulting from stormwater runoff. young corals onto the reef) in the last few decades. In areas The direct and indirect impacts of U.S. Department of The top threats to Guam's reefs: Defense plans to expand the military presence on Guam, increasing the population by up to 60,000 people and involving numerous construction projects, also pose Sedimentation from upland soil erosion significant threats to Guam's reefs resources. Stormwater runoff and associated pollutants Coral bleaching is also an emerging threat on Guam, and Overharvesting of reef fish will likely grow more severe with increasing sea surface Crown of thorns seastar outbreaks temperatures associated with global climate change. Climate change impacts Although Guam has yet to experience widespread coral death from a severe bleaching event, recent and regularly- I Mamulan I Rubentasion No. 1 December 2009 Bureau of Statistics and Plans 2 occurring bleaching events that have resulted in minor to moderate coral mortality may portend more severe effects of future bleaching events. Findings of recent data-gathering activities A long-term coral reef monitoring program has recently been initiated with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Conservation Program, but data must be collected over the next several years to be able to detect changes in reef health at specific sites around the island. With this data not yet available, the overall health of Guam's reefs must be assessed by examining the results of individual scientific studies and assessments. The results of island-wide rapid reef assessments conducted by NOAA in 2003, 2005, and 2007 as part of the agency's Marianas Archipelago Rapid A severely degraded reef between Cetti and Fouha Bays, in southwest- Assessment and Monitoring Program (MARAMP) will also ern Guam. Little living coral, and few fish, remain on this and other reefs contribute substantially to an understanding of the status along the southwest coast. This reef has likely been impacted by sev- and trends in reef health around Guam. A detailed analysis eral stressors, but the improper construction of the nearby road about of the multiple years of NOAA MARAMP data is not yet 20 years ago is reported to have caused widespread coral death from complete, but some of the data is presented here. which this and other reefs have not recovered. Photo: D. Burdick. Benthic cover several sites around the island in 2005 ranged from about As mentioned above, little data exist to accurately describe 12% on the southwest coast to 38% on the west side of the long-term changes on the reef, including changes in coral island. Average coral cover for Guam was about 26%. The cover (i.e., the percentage of the seafloor covered by living results of towed diver surveys, which cover large distances, coral), the diversity of corals and other organisms, and other conducted during the same expedition yielded similar measures of coral reef health for specific reef sites around results, with coral cover similar in the west/northwest, east/ Guam. The data that are available, however, indicate that northeast, and east/southeast regions of the island (25%, coral cover on the forereef slope (i.e., reef areas seaward 26%, and 26%, respectively), while coral cover was lowest of where the waves break) decreased from an average of in the west/southwest region (12%). The comparatively about 50% in the 1960s to less than 25% by the 1990s. low coral cover along the southwest coast may be a result Percent coral cover, as measured during rapid ecological of extensive coral mortality caused by sedimentation assessments conducted as part of the NOAA MARAMP at associated with a poorly-planned road construction project in the early 1990s, the continued poor water quality near the many river mouths along that section of coastline, and predation of corals by the crown of thorns seastar. The results of baseline reef community surveys conducted by the UOG Marine Lab at five permanent monitoring sites indicate that live coral cover was highly variable between sites and ranged from less than 10% at the Pago Bay site, which has been heavily impacted by poor water quality and crown of thorns predation, to greater than 80% at a site within Apra Harbor mainly dominated by the coral Only rubble remains where extensive fields of staghorn coral were once A 2005 satellite image showing large areas of exposed soil and found on the reef flat in Piti Bay (pictured above) and other reef flat sites recently-burned areas in southwestern Guam (top) and a plume of around Guam. Poor water quality, a result of improper upland develop- sediment-laden water moving onto the near Anae Island (bottom). ment, wildland arson, and other sources of erosion, is likely a major Quickbird image provided by DigitalGlobe. Photo: D. Burdick. contributor to the significant decline in this coral. Photo: D. Burdick. I Mamulan I Rubentasion No. 1 December 2009 3 species, Porites rus. Continued monitoring of these sites will provide insight into long-term trends in these coral reef communities; additional sites will be established as part of a new comprehensive coral reef monitoring program. Baseline coral disease assessments conducted in 2006 by the Marine Lab at several sites around the island found that diseases affecting Guam's reefs are largely similar to those reported elsewhere in the region. Of the 10 sites surveyed around Guam, three sites exhibited disease prevalence A young humphead wrasse (tanguison) and a humphead parrotfish (atuhong). These fish species have become increasingly rare on Guam, values >10%, which can be considered high and potentially likely a result of the use of scuba spearfishing. Photos: D. Burdick. problematic. Water Quality in the 1980s. A recent re-estimation of small-scale fishery Extremely high sedimentation rates (i.e., the amount of catches for Guam suggests that catches have declined soil from the uplands entering the ocean during a certain by up to 86% since 1950. While there are other factors period of time) continue to be devastating for reefs near involved in this decline, fisheries impacts are certainly a river mouths. major contributor. A 2005 National Park Service study found that sedimentation In-water visual surveys have also indicated that large rates in Asan Bay were among the highest reported reef fish are still conspicuously absent from many of from around the world. The extremely elevated rate of Guam's reefs, including reefs with relatively healthy coral sedimentation raises serious concerns about the long term communities. The results of recent NOAA surveys indicate health and survival of some of Guam's reefs. A related that the amount of large reef fish (> 19 in) is five times greater National Park Service study that examined the relationship around neighboring islands in the southern Marianas than between sedimentation and coral recruitment in Asan Bay around Guam and Santa Rosa Bank and 25 times greater over a two-year period observed rates of coral recruitment in the more remote northern islands. that were among the lowest reported in the scientific literature; these rates were 10-100 times lower than Particular concern has been raised over the use of SCUBA recruitment rates reported for Guam in the 1980s. and flashlights for spear fishing, along with the continued use of monofilament gill nets. These methods have been A 2004 Marine Lab study found that sedimentation rates banned or heavily restricted in most of the Pacific region, were extremely high within Fouha Bay, greatly exceeding including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana any of the several published sediment-tolerance thresholds Islands and American Samoa, but remain legal on Guam. for corals. A comparison of the results of coral community Local fisheries biologists suggest that these methods may surveys conducted within the bay indicated a steep decline have led to a boom and bust harvest of large Napoleon in the number of coral species over a 25-yr period, with wrasse, the depletion of large groupers, a shift from more than 100 species reported in 1978 and fewer than 50 preferred species (large slow-growing fish) to smaller, faster found in 2003. growing species, and a decrease in the number of other large wrasse, parrotfish, snapper, and grouper caught by Reef fishes and other reef-associated marine life other methods. Guam's coral reef fisheries are both economically and culturally important and target a large number of reef The results of macroinvertebrate (e.g., sea stars, urchins, fishes and invertebrates. Despite improvements in gear Trochus, sea cucumbers, lobsters, etc.) surveys conducted and technology, however, Guam's fishery catches have in 2005 and 2007 as part of NOAA's MARAMP indicate declined significantly over at least the last few decades. that abundance of these organisms was relatively low Data from creel surveys performed by DAWR suggest that around the island, with the exception of high urchin and Guam's fisheries have not recovered from a sharp decline 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 Guam Santa Southern Middle Northern Arakane Rosa Islands Islands Islands and Pathfinder A large group of crown of thorns sea stars feeding on coral near Tan- Large fish ( >19 in) biomass (tons/hectare) measured on towed-diver guisson Pt. in 2006. The white area at the bottom of the photo is the surveys in the Mariana Islands in 2005. Source: Burdick et al., 2008. area of coral recently eaten by the sea stars. Photo: Ciemon Caballes. I Mamulan I Rubentasion No. 1 December 2009 Bureau of Statistics and Plans 4 exceptionally high crown of thorns seastar densities at some sites. Manta tow surveys conducted by the Marine Are Guam's Marine Preserves working? Lab in 2006 corroborate the results of the NOAA surveys, To help combat fishery declines, the Government of Guam created a system of five Marine Preserves. The results of initial surveys conducted with large crown of thorns seastar outbreaks and heavy by DAWR, and reported to the Guam Legislature in 2003 as required by coral mortality evident around the island. the law, show that fish stocks in the preserves increased significantly after enforcement began in 2001, What's being done to stop the reef decline? indicating that the preserves are working as designed. In fact, reef A broad network of local and federal agencies, NGOs, fish abundance increased by legislators, private enterprises, teachers, students and over 100% in both the Piti and other concerned citizens continue to partner in the Achang Marine Preserves after implementation of ambitious and creative ways to address only 3 years of protection. Two recent Marine Lab studies indicated the threats to Guam's coral reefs. Re-vegetation efforts, that the biomass of certain reef fish outreach campaigns, enforcement of the marine preserves, groups is significantly higher inside development of a comprehensive coral reef monitoring the preserves than in nearby non- Algae-eating fishes such as par- strategy, the strengthening of existing policies and the protected areas. Further studies, in rotfishes and surgeonfishes play planned implementation of new ones are all examples of conjunction with the regular creel an important role in keeping reefs survey monitoring conducted by health by eating algae that com- Guam's commitment to improving the health of its coral DAWR, will help determine if the pete with coral for space. Marine reef resources. Major public works projects, including the spillover of adult fishes and fish preserves provide an area for these fish to grow large and produce lots extension of sewage outfalls and the closing of Ordot dump, larvae are helping to restore reef stocks around the island. of eggs. Photo: D. Burdick. will also contribute to a healthier reef system. Guam's participation in the Micronesia Challenge represents a major step towards effective management of the island's Policy interventions must be prioritized in an economically natural resources, setting achievable conservation goals, sound manner in order to most efficiently allocate the identifying sustainable financing strategies, and providing limited financial and human resources available to coral an opportunity to further engage the community in natural reef managers to address pressing issues of coral reef resource management. An increasing level of community degradation. Site-based approaches, involving strong participation in cleanups and erosion control efforts, as well community participation and a coordinated network as the success of recent outreach and education activities, of multiple organizations, could focus resources on indicate that public awareness is increasing. management actions that address a range of threats within a specific area. The financial and staff capacity of Challenges remain, but there are solutions the resource management community must be significantly Although Guam has made a great deal of progress in coral increased if current coral reef threats and threats associated reef protection, monitoring, and public outreach over the with climate change and the anticipated military expansion past several years, many challenges still remain and the are to be adequately addressed. Three specific priority health of Guam's coral reefs continues to decline. Financial projects recommended for immediate implementation and human resources remain limited compared to the include the use of stop-gap measures to greatly reduce soil need, and are disproportionately low compared to the value erosion in southern Guam, the subsequent, rapid, large- of goods and services generated by coral reefs. Present scale restoration of southern watersheds, and an island- capacity will be further stretched by the planned military wide ban on the use of monofilament gillnets and SCUBA expansion. for spearfishing. Without a substantial reduction in the amount of sediment reaching the reef and the recovery Global climate change poses a particularly grave and of reef fish stocks, particularly algae-eating fishes increasingly pressing threat to the vitality of Guam's reefs. like parrotfishes and surgeonfishes, the recovery of The expected increase in incidences of coral bleaching, Guam's degraded reefs, and the survival of even the ocean acidification and the potential for stronger storms healthiest reefs in the face of climate change is in will directly affect reef health, challenging even the most serious question. resilient reefs. Recommended actions for immediate implementation: Carry out stream bank stabilization projects and other stop-gap measures to significantly reduce upland soil erosion Adopt and strictly enforce progressive land use plan and soil erosion and stormwater management regulations to minimize impact of coastal develop- ment Ban harmful, non-traditional fishing methods such as scuba spearfishing and the use of monofilament gillnets Bleached staghorn coral at Ypao Beach in August 2007. Bleaching events like this are expected to become more frequent and more se- If you have any questions about the information presented in this report or if you vere as climate change causes sea surface temperatures to increase, would like to receive an electronic version of this document, the full report, or potentially causing widespread coral death. Photo: D. Burdick. previous reports, please contact the Bureau of Statistics and Plans at 472-4201. I Mamulan I Rubentasion No. 1 December 2009
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|Boneless beef top sirloin steak
|1 Pound
|Oil free italian dressing
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (Commercial)
|Red wine vinegar
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Sweet red peppers
|4 Medium, divided
|Chopped green onions
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Chablis/Dry white wine
|2 Tablespoon
|Beef bouillon granules
|3⁄4 Teaspoon
|Vegetable cooking spray
Trim fat from steak; cut steak into 4 equal portions.
Place in a large shallow dish.
Combine dressing and vinegar; pour over steaks.
Cover and marinate in refrigerator at least 8 hours, turning occasionally.
Remove steaks from marinade; discard marinade.
Cut 1 pepper into thin strips; set aside.
Seed and chop remaining peppers.
Combine chopped pepper and next 4 ingredients in a nonstick skillet; bring to a boil.
Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes.
Cool slightly.
Place chopped pepper mixture in container of an electric blender; top with cover, and process until smooth.
Strain mixture, and set aside.
Coat a grill rack with cooking spray; place on grill over medium-hot coals.
Place steaks on rack, and cook 5 minutes on each side or to desired degree of doneness.
Set aside; keep warm.
Coat skillet with cooking spray; place over medium-high heat until hot.
Add pepper strips; saute until tender.
Remove from skillet; set aside.
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KPMG, the independent auditor contracted by the DHS inspector general, issued an "unmodified opinion" on the department's balance sheet for fiscal 2013, which ended Sept. 30.
"The department continued to improve financial management in FY 2013 and has achieved a significant milestone," wrote Charles Edwards, DHS deputy inspector general, in a Dec. 11 memo to acting DHS Secretary Rand Beers. "This is the first year the department has received an unmodified (clean) opinion on all financial statements."
Edwards noted, however, that along with the good news, KPMG had identified deficiencies in some internal controls and highlighted four -- including IT controls and financial system functionality -- as being "material weaknesses." As a result, KPMG issued an adverse opinion on DHS' internal control over financial reporting for fiscal 2013.
The unmodified opinion is important for DHS because it has been on the Government Accountability Office's high-risk list since 2003, when it began melding 22 component agencies into one department. Some of those agencies had "major management challenges," GAO said.
In March, GAO reported that DHS had made some progress in fully addressing its high-risk status but needed to further strengthen its financial, human capital, acquisition and IT management functions.
The new KPMG audit defined material weakness as a deficiency or a combination of deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting that could create the reasonable possibility of a material misstatement of the entity's financial statements that might not be prevented, detected and corrected on a timely basis.
Despite KPMG's caveat, congressional watchdogs saw the report as good news. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called it a milestone for the department and praised DHS' "past and current leadership for making financial management a priority and taking the steps necessary to realize this important goal."
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DENVER The Denver Nuggets' streak lives on thanks to some luck and pluck.
Corey Brewer sank three free throws with 2.1 seconds left and the Denver Nuggets stretched their franchise-best winning streak to 14 games with a 101-100 thriller over the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night.
Anthony Randolph blocked Damien Wilkins' desperation jumper at the buzzer to secure Denver's 16th straight win at the Pepsi Center - and its most unlikely.
The Nuggets, overlooked in the great surge by the Miami Heat, trailed by five as the clock ticked below 10 seconds.
Brewer sank a 3-pointer with 9.2 seconds left that made it 100-98. He fouled Evan Turner with 7.1 seconds left and Turner, a 75 percent free-throw shooter, missed both of his foul shots, the first one bouncing out and the second one slowly rimming out.
"It's crazy. To be honest, I didn't think we had any chance of winning," Brewer said. "Then he missed those free throws and I was like, `OK, we've got a little chance.' He gave us life."
After a timeout, Anthony Miller inbounded to Danilo Gallinari, who handed it off to Brewer, who quickly fired up a 3-pointer as Wilkins slapped him on his left arm, drawing the whistle with 2.1 seconds left.
"I saw him coming and I just tried to get it off quick. He hit my arm, luckily, so I'll take the foul," said Brewer, who finished with 29 points.
Brewer took a deep breath and sank the first shot.
"I was just trying to be calm. I knew I needed to make two out of three and once I made the first one, a little pressure's off," Brewer said.
He hit his second, then took a step back while JaVale McGee returned to the game. Once McGee was in place for a possible rebound, Brewer swished his third free throw.
After a timeout, Randolph blocked Wilkins, who finished with 24 points, and win No. 14 was theirs.
"There's no one to point the finger at," Turner said. "We played hard the whole game, whatever could go wrong did go wrong."
The Nuggets haven't lost at home since Jan. 14 against Washington and they're in the midst of their longest winning streak since joining the NBA in 1976, a streak that survived despite an uncharacteristic 20 turnovers.
Even though Miller scored a season-high 21 points, the Nuggets sorely missed Ty Lawson (right heel) and Wilson Chandler (left shoulder), both of whom were hurt in Denver's signature win at Oklahoma City Tuesday night.
They nearly lost to the NBA's lowest scoring team, one that owns just six road wins, tied for the fewest in the league this season.
Gallinari's turnover led to Wilkins' jumper that made it 98-90 with two minutes remaining, and the crowd was standing in disbelief.
Randolph's slam dunk with made it 98-95, but Jrue Holiday, who had 15 assists to go with his 18 points, sank two free throws with 14 seconds remaining to give Philadelphia a seemingly safe five-point cushion.


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Teaching Cartoon: Accountability
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Teaching Cartoon: Post-Structuralism
From The 5th Wave Rich Tennant (1992)
fracture, fragment, fractal, fragile
Oedipus presupposes a fantastic repression of desiring-machines.
It is not a question of denying the vital importance of parents or the love attachment of children to their mothers and fathers. It is a question of knowing what the place and the function of parents are within desiring-production, rather than doing the opposite and forcing the entire interplay of desiring-machines to fit within the restricted code of Oedipus.
Guattari/Deleuze – Anti-Oedipus
Footnote, page 371, A-O
*See ail of John Cage's work, and his book Silence (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961): "The word experimental is apt, providing it is understood not as descriptive of an act to be later judged in terms of success and failure, but simply as of an act the outcome of which is unknown" (p. 13). And regarding the active or practical notions of decoding, of deconstruction, and of the work as a process, the
reader is referred to the excellent commentaries of Daniel Charles on Cage, "Musique et anarchie," in Bulletin de la Societefr ancaise de philosophie, Jul)' 1971, where there is violent anger on the part of some participants in the discussion, reacting to the idea that there is no longer any code.
Be careful!
You Don't Have to Be Einstein
One of my favorite cartoons of all–a hall of famer.
Low Tech
Crown of Creation
The Upsetter from Encyclopedia Pictura on Vimeo.
Esoteric Intra-Image Dialectic
Not all of "it" is here in this trio of cross-commenting images, yet, some of "it" is here.
On the other hand. . .
The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum:
"Those who know do not say; Those who say do not know."
When the Master entered, they asked him exactly what the words meant.
Said the Master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?"
All of them knew.
Then he said, "Put it into words."
All of them were silent.
Being a Hippie Changes Something
This schema comes from a Tumblr blog. I discovered it via a Google image search.
I discovered this graphic via Google image search.
I put them together.
There is no reason to take a schema seriously if its context is a Google image search. I know because of my skillfulness in psychology that color used as a verb won't cut it as an apt description of the psychological process that underlies intentional action. But, heck, I like the way the hippie graphic can be plugged in to the schema.
So, as hippies sometimes do, I just plug it in.
Damn, I am mostly bald forty-seven years after the Summer of Love.
I sometimes answer the question, What is your background? this way:
Being a hippie, and, music.
Many times this response compels a questioner of my age cohort to lean forward and in a near whisper reply:
I used to be a hippie.
Hippies were made fun of back in their heyday, and, old hippies remain low hanging targets. In the late nineties 'hippie' became the term on the internet for lumping liberals with progressives. This eventually led to concise formulas such as: Obama becoming President is all the fault of the hippies.
Although I moved to Vermont at 19 and spent formative years as a hippie in that most hippie-flavored state, its political blueness is the exception to the longstanding geography that demonstrates clearly that contemporary hippiedom is, quantitatively speaking, almost entirely a cosmopolitan phenomena.
For me, the essential character of my core hippie lesson is: experiment and retain negative capability against the pressure supplied by opportunities for belief.
Or, as John Lilly put it:
My beliefs are unbelievable.
Why Do Fallibilists and Nominalists Have Anything to Say At All?
- The basic idea: we can know things which are not entailed or guaranteed to be true by our evidence / reasons.
- Fallibilism gives us a response to Unger-style certainty skepticism: fallibilists can say that knowledge is com- patible with some degree of uncertainty. Does fallibilism give a response to argument-from-ignorance skep- ticism? Not so clear: there the problem seems to be that you don't know that you're not a BIV (or whatever), and it's not obvious how the fallibilist can help with that.
- Cohen's definition of fallibilism: fallibilists reject the claim that S knows that P on the basis of reason R only if R entails Q.
lottery problems
- Fallibilists say you can know that P on the basis of reason R, even though R does not entail that P. Still, we want to say that you can only know P on the basis of R when R somehow supports belief in P. What's the nature of that support?
- First idea: R makes P probable. There is a problem here with lotteries. I know that the chances of winning the PowerBall are 1 in 300 million; this knowledge makes it very probable that your ticket has lost. Still, it doesn't seem that I can know that your ticket lost simply by knowing the odds.
- Interestingly, though, the problem here can't be identified just as the fact that R doesn't imply that there no chance I'm wrong about P. I read the winning number in the paper, and see that it's not yours, and now I know: you lost. But we'll all acknowledge that there's a chance that the paper has a misprint.
excerpted from: Why Skeptical Arguments Matter & How To Be A Fallibilist Philosophy 311: Problems of Knowledge, Professor Geoff Pynn, Northern Illinois University
Law And Thrones, Game of Order
Happy Birthday Gilbert Shelton
Before Garfield, Fat Freddy's cats.
From Fat Freddy's Cats, Volume 4 – Gilbert Shelton
In Conversation from The Comics Journal
Teaching Cartoons: You Have to Have Faith. . .
(After all, the underlying social motivations haven't changed at all.)
(Better safe than sorry.)
Bonus reading: Tradition in a Free Society: The Fideism of Michael Polanyi and the Rationalism of Karl Popper
by Struan Jacobs (pdf)
Teaching Cartoon: On Planning
We think in order to act, but we also act in order to think. We try things, and those experiments that work converge gradually into viable patterns that become strategies. This is the very essence of startegy making as a learning process. – Henry Mintzberg
Teaching cartoon: Preparation
purloined from the Funny Times
Smile, You're On Candid Everything
This came up on my Google+ feed. My first thought was, 'smile for the cameras.' All of 'em
My hot tip of the day is: duckduckgo, the anonymous search engine one might use if privacy is a concern.
cartoonist: Chris Slane
This is my favorite from a post on tastefullyoffensive tumblr; and by all means visit the post for a slew of other classic matches.
Internet Curios For My Peeps
Actual suggestions I encountered a few weeks ago on FB.
via Statista — great resource!
Mt. Fuji & Milky Way via Reddit
An actual book!
Treehouses; from somebody on Google+
via Funny Or Die
Cat Man Do (Kitty Curation)
Kizzy & Sonny


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