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Jessie J was clearly inspired by her pal Rita Ora's candid Instagram snaps with the Voice judge posting a series of photos of her bikini body online ahead of her performance at a festival in Malta.
The 'Wild' singer is one of many pop acts who have flown to the Mediterranean to perform at the Isle of MTV event today alongside Rita and Rudimental, who are also headlining, but it looks like Jessie made sure to make time for a chill out judging by her Instagram photos.
Jessie J gazes out at the sea on her hotel balcony in Malta (Jessie J/Instagram)
One image sees Jessie, 24, taking in the picturesque view from her hotel balcony as she shows off her enviable slim figure in a white two-piece bikini. Another photo showed the bikini-clad singer showing off a rather large tattoo spiralling from her toned stomach and her ribcage.
Jessie is certainly looking forward to the performance taking place later today, after tweeting: "Ahhhh Malta! I'm so ready to party with you and MTV tomorrow night!!"
Move over Rita! Jessie J is performing at the Isle of MTV today (Jessie J/Instagram)
The 'Price Tag' singer wasn't the only one flaunting her figure with Rita also sharing snaps of her hard core abs shortly after landing in Malta yesterday.
Jessie is no doubt looking forward to the brief break after it emerged that she will have to undergo further surgery before Christmas on her foot which she injured in 2011. The Voice coach was nearly left out of action for months after having a metal plate inserted into her foot which the singer has now revealed still plagues her today.

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Most of the Republicans named to the Super Congress committee are proud torchbearers of global warming denial.
Seattle looks at an ambitious scenario involving changes in travel modes, more energy-efficient buildings, and shifts to alternative energy sources.
By sponsoring the American Legislative Exchange Council, many corporations violate their own greenwashed official policies on climate change.
A little more than a year after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP is funding a right-wing lobbying group that opposes regulation of offshore drilling.
While Obama lifts the "cloud of uncertainty" over the economy, Dick Durbin looks like one of the only lawmakers still worried about the real weather.
The paper, full of shoddy science, got attention from a right-wing blogger on Forbes, but climatologists say it's bunk.
Rep. Rich Nugent (R-Fla.) proposes an amendment to the Interior and Environment appropriations bill that blocks the creation of a manatee refuge.
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Earlier Wednesday, the Boston Globe broke a lengthy report that painted the Red Sox organization in a pretty bad light, specifically former manager Terry Francona and the players. The part of the story that has gained the most traction is that starting pitchers Josh Beckett, John Lackey, Jon Lester and sometimes Clay Buchholz would drink beer, eat fast-food fried chicken and play video games in the clubhouse during games, instead of sitting in the dugout and supporting teammates.
It turns out, Jack McKeon had an issue with keeping Beckett in the dugout himself. McKeon managed the Florida Marlins in 2003 when they won the World Series and Beckett was his ace. McKeon told the Palm Beach Post about his issue with Beckett and fellow starter Brad Penny.
"In between innings they'd go to the clubhouse to get a drink or hang out,'' McKeon recalled this afternoon from his home in North Carolina.Even funnier, McKeon eventually made bathroom passes for the players to use during games. So he had to act like a teacher to keep his kids in the dugout to observe the game and cheer on their teammates.
"I said, 'Hey, I got no rule against going up if you have to go to the bathroom or something, but get back.' A couple of times I looked down the bench to talk to somebody and they weren't there. They were in the clubhouse. So I went up and got them out and said, 'OK, boys that's it. We'll lock the door.'"
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Originally posted by doulos33
I think Graham Hancock's theory in "Underworld" that the flood (tales of which can be found amongst numerous cultures - the Sumerian Gilgamesh epic etc.) was related to the large scale glacial melting at the end of the last age has some merit.
Originally posted by doulos33
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No, but any cities along the coast and lands below sea-level would have been submerged. This would have been massive world wide flooding.
Originally posted by MrXYZ
No geological evidence whatsoever...
Originally posted by Hanslune
Originally posted by MrXYZ
No geological evidence whatsoever...
More correctly, massive overwhelming evidence against it
Originally posted by doulos33
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Most right-minded Christians don't believe that the world was totally inundated by the flood, and view this literature as mythopoetic. It may have some kernal of truth in that it may be a recollection of events during the glacial melts of the last Ice Age, but I certainly don't think that it happened exactly as depicted in the Genesis narrative. This flooding, while on a global scale, was limited to coastal areas and lowlands, and may have given rise to the Noah/Gilgamesh material, as well as the corresponding literature of the Vedas.
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Hancock is wacko. .


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World Crisis Alert: Guantanamo Bay detainees don't want to eat. Muslim rapper Yasiin "Mos Def" Bey is so worked up about their appetite plight that he videotaped himself being force-fed to build support for closing Gitmo. Cry me a river.
This latest round of hunger strikes isn't an international human rights tragedy. It's another manipulative act of Jihad Theater.
Have you forgotten? Calculated Gitmo fabulism goes back to 2005, when Newsweek fell for false rumors that U.S. soldiers "flushed" the Koran down a toilet at the military detention facility in Cuba. Gullible media reports of "desecration" provided a handy pretext for anti-American riots across the Muslim world that resulted in nearly a dozen deaths. Detainees later confessed that the conflagration stemmed from one of their own dropping the Koran in prison and blaming a guard.
Meanwhile, it was Gitmo residents themselves who were purposefully tearing up Korans. One guard reported in May 2003: "Detainee residing in cell (redacted) block tore his Quran into small pieces." Another prisoner "did intentionally destroy his Quran and throw (it) out of his cell," according to a separate government report.
Al-Qaida explicitly instructs its operatives to lie. A central jihad tenet, taqiyya, encourages Islamists to use deceit and victim politics to wage war. And while soft-on-terror sympathizers cast our military personnel as ruthless war criminals, Gitmo detainees have violently attacked them with everything from makeshift weapons and radios to disgusting cocktails of blood, vomit, feces, urine and sperm.
To date, there are no reports of detainees attacking our guards with the dozens of Sony PlayStations, Nintendo DS consoles, art supplies and DVDs that detainees have been given over the years. The toys and crafts are off limits!
Have you forgotten? The Gitmo stuntmen coordinated suicide threats to drum up global outrage over America's decision to hold and try them in our military system, instead of in our civilian court system. These sabotage strikes were clear acts of asymmetric warfare by cold-blooded terror operatives versed in exploitation of Western sensibilities and civil liberties. Detainees considered suicides at the facility acts of martyrdom and "a continuance of their jihad against the U.S.," according to leaked documents. Military commanders discovered that detainees were abusing confidential attorney-client privileges by hiding notes and plots in special envelopes protected from the guards' reach.
Forgotten in all the knee-jerk hoopla over the Gitmo food fight: just how much American officials have bent over backward to accommodate militant detainees' demands.
The enemy combatants at Gitmo are playing bleeding-heart Westerners for fools. Their eternal goal is the destruction and subjugation of infidels. Why do we continue to enable them? Let them starve.
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ATLANTA — Well, this looks familiar. Kentucky is back in a regional final. So is Baylor.
The top-seeded Wildcats moved another step closer to the only goal that matters in the Bluegrass State, shaking off a rather quiet night from freshman star Anthony Davis to put away stubborn Indiana 102-90 at the South Regional on Friday.
Next up for Kentucky: Those neon-clad Bears, who advanced to their second regional final in three years with a 75-70 victory over Xavier.
"We're just looking forward to go a little farther and make a little history," said Baylor's Quincy Acy, pointing toward Sunday's game at the Georgia Dome.
Kentucky coach John Calipari knows a national title is expected — no, demanded — of his team. Anything less would be considered a disappointment, at least among the Wildcat faithful.
Calipari would prefer his young team simply enjoy the ride.
"I want them to have fun," he said. "I don't want them to feel all this. It seems there's only one team that's not allowed to lose in this tournament, and that's us. It's not true, and I don't want them feeling all of that."
The Wildcats (35-2) sure looked as if they were having fun against Indiana, which got into a running contest with a team that was a little faster, a little stronger and just a little too good.
Kentucky finished with its most points since a 108-58 victory over Marist in the season opener.
"I like a game like that," Calipari said. "I can't stand a game in the 50s. Can't stand coaching it, can't stand watching it."
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 24 points, Doron Lamb 21 and three of their teammates — not Davis, mind you — were in double figures. With that, the Wildcats dispatched the team that beat them back in early December.
"I feel like we did a pretty good job," said Kentucky's Darius Miller, who added 19 points. "So did Indiana. It was a very intense game. It was up and down for the most part. It was a fun game to be a part of, the way that both teams played."
Davis wasn't his usual dominating self after picking up two early fouls. He finished with nine points and 12 rebounds, so it was left to another of Kentucky's super freshmen to take the starring role.
Kidd-Gilchrist had a double-double, also snatching 10 rebounds.
"In the huddles during timeouts, Michael was the guy firing us up," teammate Twany Beckham said. "It showed with his play."
Marquis Teague chipped in with 14 points and Terrence Jones 12.
Christian Watford had 27 points to lead the Hoosiers (27-9), who beat Kentucky 73-72 before Christmas but ended a comeback season with a loss to their border rival. Still, there was nothing to ashamed of, coming up two victories shy of the Final Four after winning a total of 28 games the previous three seasons.
Clearly, Indiana has regained its usual place among the college basketball bluebloods under coach Tom Crean.
"I know when I first got here it was rough for this program," guard Victor Oladipo said. "We've been through a lot of ups and downs. Now that we've brought it all together, it's a bright future for this program."
But Big Blue is moving on this year.
"They're a really good team," Crean said. "They've got a lot of guys. They've got a guy coming off the bench (Miller) who's going to be a first-round draft pick."
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OAKLAND — The team that made a delirious campaign out of overcoming adversity finally found an obstacle it couldn't clear. His name is Justin Verlander, and he's the best pitcher in baseball.
Verlander took the air out of the resilient A's at O.co Coliseum on Thursday, painting the knees with sizzling fastballs, dropping curves and sliders onto the paint, and keeping everyone off-balance with an unfair changeup in decisive Game 5 of this American League division series. He threw a complete-game shutout, allowing just four hits and a single walk, and striking out 11 in the Detroit Tigers' 6-0 victory.
"When Verlander gets on a roll like he was today, especially when he gets into his rhythm, you get into the middle innings and he's rolling along pretty good, it's tough to stop him," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "It's like a locomotive going at a high speed."
The Athletics captivated baseball fans everywhere with their dramatic finishes this year. But down by a couple, then a bunch, their only walk-off Thursday was a slow trudge off the diamond. They re-emerged from the dugout to tip their caps to the 36,393 fans who cheered them to the final out, a grounder to second base by Seth Smith, and the boos raining down on the celebrating Tigers quickly turned to cheers and chants of "Let's go, Oakland!"
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St. Vincent High School's Mustangs play for the ultimate of their world Saturday afternoon when they face Ferndale's Wildcats in the North Coast Section Division 5 championship game. Kickoff at Humboldt State University in Arcata is set for 1 p.m.
Beginning on Oct. 20 when they faced Tomales at St. Vincent, the Mustangs have faced a succession of five straight must-win games to first tie for the North Central League II Bay Football League championship and then reach within grabbing distance of the NCS championship.
The Mustangs won all five of those crucial contests and have now won seven in a row.
In the championship game, the Mustangs will meet a Ferndale team that has won 11 of 12 games and has a nine-game winning streak since losing its only game to Argonaut of Jackson on Sept. 14.
The game will match two teams that had to battle to the last minute just to reach the championship showdown. St. Vincent scored with just 1:05 to play to defeat California School for the Deaf, 13-12, in the semifinals. Ferndale cut it even closer, scoring with just 12 seconds left to edge St. Bernard's, 13-12.
Quarterback Kyle Chambers' scored the game-winning touchdown for the Wildcats on a one-yard sneak, and he will be a player the Mustangs will have to be concerned about Saturday.
Playing on a wet and soggy turf last week, Chambers threw just eight times, completing two for 67 yards. On a dry field, he can be expected to be a much more prolific and accurate passer. He is also one of the Wildcats' top ball carriers who will run with and without provocation.
The ball carrier the Mustangs must stop is Justin Lang. He carried 17 times in the mud in Ferndale's win over St. Bernard's last week, gaining a tough 63 yards. He has the break-away speed that has given the Mustangs trouble at times during the season.
The real strength of the Wildcats is a swarming team defense that has allowed more than two touchdowns just four times and more than three just twice, and one of those games was a 69-28 blowout of South Fork.
St. Vincent's own defense has also been outstanding. While much attention has been given to the wide-open and very potent St. Vincent offense, the Mustangs have played consistently strong defense all season.


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"He told me he was pushing too much," West Branch coach B.J. Rios said. "He wanted to do well for the guys. We talked, and I told him to just play the game the way it needs to be played.
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Starbucks has come back strong from its struggles during the recession, expanding in Asia and the U.S. It has also increased U.S. sales with new baked goods and other products such as Evolution juices and Via single-serve coffee packets as well as Verismo single-serve coffee machines.
In the release announcing her hiring, Seattle-based Starbucks cited Rothstein's work on Sephora's digital content and global branding. She has been in charge of marketing for Sephora since 2009. When she joins Starbucks on April 15, she will work on the Starbucks brand as well as newer brands such as Seattle's Best Coffee, Evolution Fresh, La Boulange, Tazo and Teavana.
Annie Young-Scrivner was the company's last chief marketing officer. Young-Scrivner became head of Starbucks Canada in September as part of a series of changes intended to support the company's international growth.
Canada is Starbucks' biggest marketing region after the U.S., but sales in the China and Asia-Pacific region are expected to surpass Canada in the next two years.
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Here's a quick monitor of Washington farm and trade policy issues from DTN's well-placed observer.
Brazil's foreign trade policymaking body, Camex, has delayed action on whether to adopt trade retaliations against the United States for terminating payments to Brazil's cotton industry in October. Last week, Camex officials said they were postponing a decision from Nov. 30 to the group's next meeting on Dec. 18.
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Inventor Paul Vo, shown here in his Grove Arcade apartment, changed the sonic landscape of the acoustic guitar.
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As long as there have been musicians, there have been musical inventors.
Earl Fowler, a former Buncombe County judge, invented a fifth-string capo for banjo. Rod Johnston in Burnsville created Cymgards to mute cymbals and protect their edges.
Many years ago, Paul Vo created the technology that powers the Vo-96. Its ability to manipulate magnetic fields changes the way an acoustic guitar's strings vibrate, giving them a range of options similar to those enjoyed by players of keyboard synthesizers. ...


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A handful of corn before it is processed into ethanol.
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Aric Metevia doesn't grow corn, but he keeps as close a watch on prices and production as any farmer.
Metevia is the plant manager at Marysville Ethanol, LLC, 2510 Busha Highway. The plant produces ethanol that is blended with gasoline.
In addition to the weather and production and prices and other concerns associated with any agricultural commodity, Metevia is concerned about government plans to decrease the amount of ethanol blended into fuel. ...


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Submission from the South West Uplands Federation
South West Uplands Federation (SWUF) is a farmer led initiative representing hill farmers from Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor. Our members are passionate about the uplands and wish to see their management of these national and internationally important areas continue.
The uplands of South West England provide an impressive array of public goods and eco-system services. These assets are largely under threat from insufficient land management, especially on the open moorland where most of these public goods and services are found. The hill farming that delivers this essential land management is under threat and a fair return for that delivery is still to be arranged by government.
In the South West of England the three main upland areas provide a unique array of ecosystem services including:
- 90% of the drinking water to 1.6 million people at an average of 446.7 megalitres/day.
- 10% of England's Scheduled Monuments on 1.4% of the country's land area.
- 73,800 ha. of public access.
- Providing carbon sequestration (9.2 million tonnes carbon on Dartmoor alone).
- Internationally important wildlife including blanket bogs, upland mires and heaths.
- World famous landscapes that contribute significantly to the South West's character and associated tourism.
The proposed changes to the CAP provide an opportunity for the Government to honour its pledge to address some the problems facing hill farmers and to reward those providing and managing an impressive array of public goods and services. The iniquitous tiering of the Single Farm Payment has done much to damage the sustainability of hill farming, particularly in the South West. This could be addressed by a flat rate Basic Payment becoming available to all farmland below the Moorland Line. Additional support, from pillar 1 and from pillar 2, could provide the support essential to those farming the uplands, especially those areas rich in ecosystem services and public goods. However the proposals also have the potential adversely impact on hill farming. Of particular concern is the Less Favoured Area review; the reclassification may lead to areas currently within the LFA failing to meet the criteria for being within an Areas with/facing Natural Constraints (ANC). This is of particular concern to the South West of England where initial reviews suggest that if the current proposals were to be implemented large parts of the Dartmoor National Park, Exmoor National Park and Bodmin Moor AONB would lose this special recognition and its accompanying support mechanisms.
SWUF welcomes the opportunity to submit our views on the proposals. In our comments SWUF has focused on those proposals most relevant to hill farming and livestock farming in the south west of England.
Q1: What are your views regarding the direct payments proposals?
- Direct payment is essential to retain farming in the uplands. The proposed Basic Payment is welcomed and provides the opportunity to address the serious adverse impact on hill farmers that resulted from the three tiers of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS). Our preference is for a two tier Basic Payment; one for all land below the Moorland Line (ML) and another for land above the line. We estimate that this might cause the basic payment to fall by 1% on non SDA land but would increase payment to those in the SDA (below the ML) by 18% based on 2010 SPS payments. We would not expect land above the Moorland Line to attract a similar payment per hectare but it should increase slightly from its current value (c£46 per ha. at 2010).
- Do you support the idea of a small farmer scheme? The principle of supporting a small farmer is sound but will be very difficult to administer. Differentiating between someone who is a farmer and someone who is a hobby farmer may prove problematic. We recognise that some small farmers can provide a disproportionately high contribution to the land management so essential to maintaining the landscapes and associated benefits. However on balance we believe the funds allocated to this ambition might be better directed to young farmers and new entrants who, in turn, should be generating at least 70% of their income from farming.
- We support the principal to provide a top up for young farmers under 40 years old. However especially within the hill farming community most farmers remain in a family partnership until they are well over 40 years old. There are many farmers over this age who are still not farming in their own right. The amount of money on offer may not be enough of an incentive for people to act on, especially if it means changing the current structure of the business.
- Funding only active farmers.SWUF strongly supports the principle of agricultural payments (including pillar 2 payments) only going to active farmers. We are aware of cases where the SPS is claimed by a landowner denying essential funds to the farmer who is incurring the costs of managing the land and its related natural assets.We appreciate the difficulty of identifying active farmers and the proposals suggested in the EU's proposals appear too complicated. We had hoped to suggest that those wishing to claim direct payments must complete a simple form based on the criteria below:
- The landowner must be able to confirm that they have a holding number,
- have the means of complying with cross compliance regulations on all their land,
- are registered with the State Veterinary Service for sheep and/or cattle movements, and/or
- are registered with an approved grain assurance body.
However whilst recommending that this approach should be seriously considered and developed we recognise that in its current format it may deny payment to legitimate farmers and that some non-farming land owners may find ways of complying.
SWUF recommends that all land owners, who wish to claim the Basic Payment, must be able to demonstrate, by their tax return or accounts, that they are farmers and that farming provides a substantive proportion of their turnover.
Whatever system of identifying active farmers is selected there must be heavy penalties for non-compliance or providing incorrect information and a programme of inspections.
- What do you think a 'minimum level of agricultural activity' should look like? SWUF is unclear over the implications of this proposal and offers no comment at this time.
- SWUF supports the capping of the Basic Payment Scheme, however we are concerned that the capping should not be applied to common land where many farmers benefit. The capping should apply only to an individual or a farm business. In the South West common land covers 49,453 ha. and some commons are of a significant size, the largest being the Forest of Dartmoor covering some 11,200 ha. At today's SPS payment rates ( it is above the Moorland Line) the collective value to that common from the SPS is above 300,000 euros. However over 300 commoners will have entitlements relating to that one common and individually will receive funding of a value well below the threshold. Common land that has no active rights holders and the land owner claims the entire Basic Payment should be subject to the capping.
- What do you think about the proposal to abolish existing SPS flat rate entitlements and
establish new flat rate entitlements? SWUF is unclear over the implications of this proposal and offers no comment at this time.
- Claim at least one entitlement in 2011 to claim in 2014. We support the intention to prevent large farms being sub-divided to avoid the capping. The proposal must not disadvantage new entrants or those farming in their own right for the first time. On many family farms the parents may well have claimed in 2011 and there needs to be a simple way entitlements can pass from one generation to the next.
- Greening proposals.The greening proposals in their current form appear to be imposing excessive administrative burdens. Providing flexibility to Member States would better achieve the aims and enable those areas already delivering significant environmental benefits not to endure further administrative burdens and regulation. Most farming in the uplands is extensive and provides real benefits to the natural environment. Often these benefits are over and above those provided by organic farming. Farmers who are already in UELS and/or HLS should be considered to have met the greening requirements.We would wish to see livestock farmers exempt from the proposals relating to arable cropping. If a farm is a predominately a livestock farm (grass) but grows fodder crops to feed only stock then they should not have to meet the criteria for arable cropping. SWUF supports the principle of no deep ploughing and permitting reseeding. The ability to replenish the sward by cultivation is extremely important in maintaining grass utilisation and efficiency. However the proposals suggest that if reseeding is not undertaken within 5 years the land reverts to permanent pasture and further restrictions apply. The frequency of reseeding to avoid re-classification should not encourage more frequent reseeding than what is currently undertaken, (often a 7 year cycle in the South West).
- What land do you think should be targeted in a farm's ecological focus area. SWUF is not convinced that EFAs are necessary on moorland and livestock farms. The predominance of small field systems, extensive semi-natural vegetation and a predominance of High Nature Value Farming suggests such land is already delivering a range of ecological benefits.
- SWUF does not support the proposal for the reintroduction of coupled support.Whilst the reintroduction of headage payments initially sounds useful to livestock farmers in the SDA/LFAs we are concerned that the additional bureaucracy would out-weigh the benefits. Many farmers would be unable to benefit due to the imposition of stocking rates from agri-environment agreements. We would rather see the use of the proposed voluntary payment to farmers in Areas facing Natural Constraints (including the SW uplands LFA).However there might be compelling case for coupled support to be introduced (re-introduced) on to the highest and most inaccessible moorland. In such areas there is , currently, little incentive to provide grazing cattle. Cattle are essential to maintain or enhance the ecosystem and targeted headage payments might be used to encourage the most suitable breeds and to improve immunity to parasitic diseases.
Q2: What are your views regarding the single common market organisation proposals?
No comments.
Q3: What are your views regarding the rural development proposals?
i. Do you support the removal of axes from the new regulation and the proposal that the
measures be used together? Do you agree with the removal of minimum spends?
The removal of the axes and the merging of the Measures should provide greater flexibility and reduce confusion but much will depend on how they are delivered in the Member States. Removal of minimum spend is welcomed. Minimum spends in the most recent FFIS window were far too high for most upland livestock producers, especially those not able to claim 50% intervention because they were not farming sufficient SDA land.
ii. Do you agree with the six strategic priorities that the Commission has set? Are there
priorities or actions you consider to be missing?
The priorities are:
- fostering knowledge transfer and innovation in agriculture, forestry and rural areas;
- enhancing competitiveness of all types of agriculture and enhancing farm viability;
- promoting food chain organization and risk management in agriculture;
- restoring, preserving and enhancing ecosystems dependent on agriculture and forestry.
- promoting resource efficiency and supporting the shift towards a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy in the agriculture, food and forestry sectors;
- promoting social inclusion, poverty reduction and economic development in rural areas.
SWUF supports the priorities as set out above. In particular we welcome the acknowledgement the farming has crucial role in protecting and enhancing an array of public goods and ecosystem services. Farming in the uplands has a particularly crucial role in managing land that benefits, for example, water supply (quantity and quality), stored carbon (in peat), enabling public assess, the historic environment and the natural environment. In addition the nation's iconic landscapes can only be protected and managed by farming.
We call for clearer guidance to prevent farmers from receiving potentially conflicting advice/regulation when managing these assets.
SWUF believes it is essential for capital grants to accompany agri-environment- climate agreements. In many cases capital works are required to ensure the outcomes of such agreements are delivered.
iii. Which measures in this proposal do you think would be useful for you? SWUF is unclear over the implications of each measure and offers no comment at this time.
iv. Do you support the increased and strategic focus on innovation and technology? What
benefits do you think it will provide?
Opportunities for innovation and new technologies within the uplands are limited. In fact it in the nation's interest to retain established farming systems to maintain an impressive array of ecosystem services. Farming often created these natural assets and established farming methods are often the only means of sustaining them.
There may be room for some new technologies and in the hills it is the younger generation that is most likely to utilise them. However we must avoid a significant part of the budget becoming allocated to technology whilst the funding to reward environmentally friendly farming declines.
v. Do you support the new measure for organic farming?
SWUF supports a new measure for organic farming but the significant differential between organic and non-organic payments needs to be reviewed. Today many non-organic farmers have adopted good practise originally confined to organic farmers but fail to receive similar support. Whilst organic farming is important within the uplands so is extensive livestock farming, both can have a low carbon footprint. We would support the inclusion of organic farming within a wider ambition that includes local sourcing and local markets.
vi. Agri-environment-climate schemes. SWUF supports the move to widen the scope of pillar 2 funding to secure outcomes that mitigate against climate change and enhance a range of ecosystem services and goods. The uplands are unique in having such a crucial role in safeguarding water supplies, protecting carbon and providing extensive farming. Agri-environment-climate schemes have the potential to play an essential role in rewarding and sustaining farming that provides so many public goods, including public access to internationally recognised landscapes. Designation of open public access is worthless if the growth of vegetation prevents such access.
vii. What are your views on the new Risk Management provisions? No comments.
viii. Are there any positive measures under the current rural development programme that
you do not see continuing in these new proposals? No comments.
ix. Do you support a continued role for Leader, including a minimum spend of 5%? Do you
agree that Leader should apply across the Common Strategic Framework Funds?
The Leader approach is valuable and can provide support to rural communities and farmers. SWUF supports the principle of Leader continuing but this funding must be available to all those who qualify. In the past Leader has been unavailable to some parts of the country and encouraged in others.
x. What are your views on the proposed "Areas facing Natural Constraints" designation,
which is intended to replace the current Less Favoured Area?
SWUF supports the principle of identifying areas where physical natural disadvantages of the land impact on land management and reduce the opportunities for farmers. However we think the current LFA boundaries are adequate and any changes to the existing boundaries will lead to confusion. The existing LFAs identify areas where farming is restricted and where farmers are unable to change their farming practices to benefit from market opportunities. In the SW uplands the LFA clearly identifies those areas where farmers have little option but to remain livestock farmers.
However we are very concerned that the combination of the new criteria and the method of delivery (by LAU2 boundaries) will remove this valuable designation from land that clearly deserves to be included with the new ANCs. The adoption of electoral boundaries or parish boundaries are both unsuitable and if one of these is adopted, as the delivering mechanism, the SW uplands may lose their LFA/ANC status. This would be very damaging to those farming within the current LFA. Not only would the farming community lose the recognition that they farm in more difficult conditions but access to essential funding may be denied. As an example hill farmers in the South West moors are often unable to enjoy the financial benefits of adding value to their finished cattle and lambs. The same farmers are often unable to grow their own fodder crops and therefore incur high costs associated with their production of calves and lambs. If this system was to breakdown due to insufficient support then the only means off managing these uplands and their associated public goods would also stop with disastrous implications for the ecosystem services found in these areas.
SWUF suggests that the ANC designation is farm focused; available to all farms and common land within the areas where the criteria apply.
xi. What do you think of the proposal for two separate discretionary payments to farmers in
Areas facing Natural Constraints – an area-based direct payment top-up, and a
compensatory payment under the Rural Development Regulation
Farming in the current LFA requires financial support. Currently this is provided by the SPS, Upland Entry Level Stewardship and in some places Higher Level Stewardship. Together they are essential to those farming the hills and moors providing 40% of a farm business income. Sales of calves, lambs and wool fluctuate and are all too often achieved by incurring increased costs from feed, bedding and animal welfare. Hill farms in the SW uplands are barely profitable BUT provide essential land management.
SWUF welcomes and supports the proposal that offers an area based top-up payment from pillar 1. We also support the proposal to offer a compensatory payment from pillar 2. Both payments would make an important contribution to the survival of hill farming and to the array of public goods and ecosystem services sustained by hill farming. In the south west of England such ecosystem services include providing 90% of the region's drinking water, preventing the loss by wild-fire of c9.2 m t of carbon locked into the peat and over 10% of the nation's most important archaeological sites.
Q4: What are your views regarding the financing, management and controls proposal? No comments.
Q5: What are your views regarding the proposals fixing certain aids and refunds? No comments.
Q6: What are your views regarding the transitional arrangements for direct payments in
Direct payments and pillar 2 payments are essential to sustain hill farming providing in excess of 40% of a Farm Business Income. A gap in payments (in 2013) would bring enormous hardship to hill farmers and could lead to some farmers abandoning the land. SWUF believes transitional arrangements that ensure direct and pillar 2 payments continue are essential.
Q8: Do you have views on any further areas you think we should consider concerning this package of CAP reform proposals?
In the proposals, relating to direct payments, the current category of "permanent pastures" is renamed "permanent grasslands". This explicit move away from pastures in general and towards grass pastures is a concern to SWUF. Increasingly farmers in upland forage areas are being funded to manage the land to encourage a rich and diverse sward; heather moorland, blanket bogs and upland heath. These areas are part of extensive farming practices and continue to provide browsing and grazing for hill livestock. Whilst we recognise that the new definition for permanent grasslands includes reference to "other species suitable for grazing provided that the grasses and other herbaceous forage remain predominant" we are concerned that this approach downgrades the value of vegetation other than grass. SWUF would wish to see greater clarification and an explicit statement reassuring upland farmers that the diverse vegetation they are required, by agri-environment schemes and by local conditions, to provide will not deny those farmers access to direct payments.
Financial support from the CAP is essential to hill farmers. However the support , or reward, they receive enables them to continue to manage some of the UK's most iconic landscapes and treasured places. Also the hills provide an unparalleled suite of ecosystem goods and services. Often the only payment to the managers of these natural and national assets are the direct payment and agri-environment payments. It is likely the CAP budget will come under increasing pressure and the resulting budget may be less than is currently anticipated to be. In such circumstances Government must recognise the need to support hill farming and ensure public money is focused on those areas delivering the most public benefits; the uplands.
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It would help if you could share where those 2 variables are being used.
$update_time is the time 30 seconds ago; $clear_time is the time 600 seconds ago.
$update_time is used to tell the script how often to update the database.
$clear_time is used to tell the script how long to consider a visitor as "current."
Thinking this through... if you want to raise the apparent number of visitors, you would want to extend those times, right? So you would raise the 600 number.
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Occasionally, my stand-alone
application will just go nuts and drag down the entire server. It's just a Java app running as a Windows Service (using jsl.exe), running on Win 2000, using Sun JRE 1.5.0_17.
So I have this application that listens on a couple of ports with a
. Those listening threads, in turn, fork a thread for each socket request that comes in. There's also a couple of threads that go to sleep and wake up periodically to do logging or back-end MQ integration.
So anyway, out of 1000+ of these servers, every once in a while, this will happen (2-5 in a month). In our QA Lab, we haven't been able to reproduce this problem, but I noticed that there seem to be 'dangling threads' that never seem to away, even after a few hours. I'm trying to figure out if this is a quirk of the Sun Java JRE or if I'm doing something wrong? There's no sense to these threads. That is, the dangling threads are striped across different pieces of code, so it doesn't seem like an infinite loop in a specific place. Furthermore, memory doesn't seem to appreciate greatly either.
So I'm implementing a Windows Scheduled Task to restart the Java app every 24 hours, as a safeguard. The theory is that eventually, these dangling threads add up, and after several weeks or months, they eventually start to drag down the JVM, just in terms the bookkeeping cost of keeping them around. Not the greatest theory, but the best I've got right now.
Does anyone know of the JRE 1.5 having a known issue close to this, or have any other theories? Can I blame this on the thread-handling of the JVM, or should I keep hunting for a flaw in my code?
BTW, I don't know the thread state at this time, but I'm going the thing where I get the list of threads and print out their CPU time for each thread. I'm noticing that there are threads that are still on the list several hours after the thread should have been expired and garbage-collected, despite a fair amount of server activity.
Example log output: (Threads 2-11 are my server/JVM threads)
Thread ID=1809, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=1787, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=1758, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=1752, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=738, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=734, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=724, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=11, CPU Time=578125000
Thread ID=10, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=9, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=8, CPU Time=2109375000
Thread ID=7, CPU Time=171875000
Thread ID=4, CPU Time=0
Thread ID=3, CPU Time=156250000
Thread ID=2, CPU Time=46875000
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Oct 30, 2009 04:03:17
I am not sure about the solution to your problem but possibly you should look at these questions to better understand your problem:
1.After a period of time, do you see majority of threads around a particular code. If yes, there could possibly be a bug in that area. Maybe the threads do not end as expected.
2.Are you sure there are no deadlocks happening?
3.What is preventing you from using a publicly available server instead of forking threads yourself?
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Oct 31, 2009 09:58:21
The threads that are dangling are really just spread out seemingly randomly across different parts of code.
No deadlock possible because there are no shared resources except files and those are accessed in the same order by all threads. I'm good about not using static class variables in the code.
Project constraints prevent me from using a real server or server software. I had to do the multi-threading myself, but it's not like I did anything special. I used the sample code from the Sun Java Tutorials on how to open a socket connection. It's a very simple run() method that runs, does some stuff, and finishes, that's it! I just don't get what's wrong here, and I'm catching all exceptions and writing them to logs, but nothing there, either.
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Presumably from the stack traces you can dump you should be able to see what about the code is failing to terminate the thread eg boolean flag not being set.
ie what condition terminates your code, should a timer have been fired, IO not being interruptable on Windows.
As its so intermitant and the threads are obviously doing something as they consume CPU ? and its Windows so suprious thread wake up shouldn't be an issue (as much) ... failure of happens before ordering on a stop condition ? Does the machines it fails on have more CPUs ;-)
We'd really need some idea of the structure of the code ?
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Indianapolis-based agency Young & Laramore has launched a new social campaign for Schlage today, entitled "The Keyless Era." The campaign debuted yesterday with a teaser (video above), promoting the company's keyless electronic locks. Young & Laramore will roll out the rest of the campaign on October 1st, with a product launch video... [GalleyCat]
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So I have both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour. I know when World Tour was in the works they said that the peripherals would work with Rock Band as well. I know the guitar controller and mic works and I swear I got the drums to work once with Rock Band 2. The other day I had everything set up to play Rock Band 2 with some friends but couldnt get the drums from World Tour to work with the game. Has anyone tried this to confirm if it works or not or had a similar problem?
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Ive had this same problem intermittently and cant figure out whats causing it. Ive put posts up on Rock Bands website and on Guitar Heroes but havent gotten and concrete solutions. If I hear anything Ill put it up here. For me it seems like 9 out of 10 times itll work but that one time it desnt there isnt anything that fixes it. Its strange and frustrating because I like the GHWT drums better and sold my RB ones.
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You'd think the combo of wine and a sunset couldn't be improved upon… and you'd be wrong. We've added an extra element to the mix to make it even better: Cappadocia. On this tour you'll learn about wine-making, hike through valleys, visit vineyards, and sip some local wines as the sun slides away for another day.
* Learn about Turkey's 4,000 year old wine production industry, and taste plenty of samples!
* Visit one of Cappadocia's most famous vineyards
* Hike through the beautiful Red Valley
* Get a close-up view of some of the region's famous rock formations
* Watch the sunset over the valley while sipping local wine
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If you're after a sunset to remember, then you simply can't miss this Cappadocia tour. Combining fine Turkish wine, a walk through the stunning Red Valley, and a sunset overlooking the fairy chimneys dotting the scene, this is one Cappadocia city tour worth joining!
After being collected from your hotel, you'll drive outside the city to pay a visit to one of Cappadocia's most famous local wineries. On this Cappadocia wine tour you'll learn all about local wine production, which has been in operation for around 4,000 years, as you sample some of the wares. Taste the differences between the wines, which are stored in containers in the nearby caves, rather than wooden barrels. Pick up a bottle of your favourite wine to enjoy over the sunset, before hitting the road for the short drive to Kizilcukur.
As you continue to tour Cappadocia, you'll set off on a one-hour hike that takes in both the Rose and Red Valleys. Pass by byzantine rock tombs, cave churches, and the many unique rock formations that litter the valley's floor. Return to Kizilcukur as the sun begins to hang heavy in the sky, and pop your wine to share while watching the dramatic sunset. Enjoy a Turkish snack, snap a few photographs, and take time to just soak up the sheer beauty of one of the best sunsets in the world.
Once the sun sets over this magical scene, you'll leave the valley behind and head back to your accommodation, where you may well be dreaming of that sunset all night long.


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|Volitional pursed lips breathing in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease improves exercise capacity.
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|Pursed lips breathing (PLB) is used by a proportion of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to alleviate dyspnea. It is also commonly used in pulmonary rehabilitation. Data to support its use in patients who do not spontaneously adopt PLB are limited. We performed this study to assess the acute effects of PLB on exercise capacity in nonspontaneously PLB patients with stable COPD. We performed a randomized crossover study comparing 6-min walk test (6MWT) at baseline without PLB with 6WMT using volitional PLB. Spirometry, maximal inspiratory and expiratory mouth pressures, and diaphragmatic excursion during tidal and vital capacity breathing using B-mode ultrasonography were measured at baseline and after 10 min of PLB. A Visual Analog Scale (VAS) assessed subjective breathlessness at rest, after 6MWT and after 6MWT with PLB. p ≤ 0.01 was considered significant. Mean ± SD age of patients was 53.1 ± 7.4 years. Forced expiratory volume in 1second was 1.1 ± 0.4 L/min (38.4 ± 13.2% predicted). Compared with spontaneous breathing, all but one patient with PLB showed a significant increment in 6MW distance (+34.9 ± 26.4 m; p = 0.002). There was a significant reduction in respiratory rate post 6MWT with PLB compared with spontaneous breathing (-4.4 ± 2.8 per minute; p = 0.003). There was no difference in VAS scores. There was a significant correlation between improvement in 6MWT distance and increase in diaphragmatic excursion during forced breathing. The improvement was greater in patients who had poorer baseline exercise performance. PLB has an acute benefit on exercise capacity. Sustained PLB or short bursts of PLB may improve exercise capacity in stable COPD.
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Three Methods:Recognize Feelings of LonelinessExpress Your FeelingsReconnect with Society
Loneliness is an unpleasant feeling of isolation that stems from a lack of connection. As social beings, humans need to feel connected to find happiness. Here are some tools for overcoming loneliness.
Method 1 of 3: Recognize Feelings of Loneliness
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3Identify the type of loneliness. Uncovering the type of loneliness makes it easier to treat. Here are the three main types of loneliness.
- Individual loss isolation, which results from losing a loved one through death, break-up, or divorce
- Physical isolation as a result of a move
- Emotional isolation as a result of being unable to establish relationships with the people around you
4Take action to recognize the cause. By establishing the cause of your pain, you're better able to treat it. Here are common causes.
- Death
- Divorce or break-up
- Single parenting, which results in isolation
- Moving to a new area
- Discrimination as a result of gender, race, sexual orientation, or disability
- Sexual abuse, which causes an inability to trust others
- Lack of self confidence
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WALLA WALLA -- Weekend storms dumped nearly a month's worth of water on the city Saturday and Sunday.
A thunderstorm that blew in Saturday evening deposited 1.37 inches of rain as measured at Walla Walla Regional Airport. Showers that followed it Sunday brought another .35 inches, putting this month on track to be one of the wetter Mays on record.
Normal rainfall for May, based on a 30-year average, is 1.95 inches.
As of this morning, preliminary data shows 3.05 inches of precipitation have fallen so far this month, said Doug Weber, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Pendleton.
Saturday's precipitation tied as the third-heaviest one-day rainfall for May recorded in recent years, Weber said. An identical amount fell May 30, 2000, and only two other days in May, one in 1991 and one in 1971 had heavier downpours.
The thunderstorm also delivered wind gusts that topped out at 56 mph as measured at the airport.
If the rains continue, this month could break into the top-five wettest Mays on record, Weber said. The fifth-highest precipitation total is 3.35 inches recorded in May 1990. The wettest May in recent record was 6.63 inches in May 1991.
The weekend storms were the product of a weather system that moved through the Pacific Northwest starting Saturday. The storms broke rainfall records in the Puget Sound region, dropping 1.78 inches in less than 24 hours at Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
According to a blog written by Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, the rainfall was not the product of a "pineapple express," which is caused by moisture streaming out of the southwest from the tropics and subtropics. The weekend storms were from the southeast and associated with a deep upper trough.
The weather pattern brought clouds and precipitation to southern California as well, including snow in the Sierras and the California coastal mountains, Mass wrote.
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Saturday's rain was measured at 1.37 inches at Walla Walla Regional Airport. The total tied as the third-heaviest rainfall recorded in Walla Walla in May. Previous records are:
1.7 inches on May 26, 1971
1.49 inches on May 17, 1991
(tie) 1.37 inches on May 30, 2000
(tie) 1.37 inches on May 14, 2011
As of this morning, preliminary data shows 3.05 inches of rain have fallen this month, putting this May on track to break into the top five wettest Mays in recent times. The top five rainfall totals for May in Walla Walla are:
6.63 inches in May 1991
4.13 inches in May 1962
3.80 inches in May 2000
3.40 inches in May 1993
3.35 inches in May 1990
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Eye-Fi on Tuesday announced users of its Eye-Fi Share Video and Eye-Fi Explore Video cards can now upload photos or videos to Picasa Web Albums, Photobucket and SmugMug in addition to the previously supported YouTube and Flickr. The addition lets any appropriately enabled still or video camera publish videos to the sites over a Wi-Fi connection created directly from the memory card itself, bypassing computers entirely as with the earlier version.
As before, the Eye-Fi Explore Video card geotags photos and videos, while either is capable of connecting to over 10,000 Wayport-run and open Wi-Fi hotspots in the US. Users can also set any of the cards to sync wirelessly with a computer instead of making the Internet-only transfer.
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YONKERS, N.Y. (January 28, 2013)—A man and a woman were rescued after their single-engine plane crashed and sank in the icy Hudson River off Yonkers.
Authorities say the plane was on a sightseeing trip when it crashed at around 5:20 p.m. Sunday.
The two were wearing life vests and were able to get out of the plane before it sank.
Authorities say they were plucked from the waters within 30 minutes of the crash and taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where they were listed in stable condition.
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The Federal Aviation Administration described the plane as a Piper PA-32.
In 2009, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in New York after striking a flock of geese.
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