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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the largest intact ecosystems in the world. With its unique wildlife, unspoiled wilderness, cultural heritage that bespeaks its importance to Alaska Natives and diverse habitats for hundreds of species, it is the crown jewel of the National Wildlife Refuge System and one of the most important protected areas on Earth.
President Eisenhower set the Arctic Refuge aside in 1960 and to this day, it remains the only national wildlife refuge established "for the purpose of preserving unique wildlife, wilderness, and recreational values." Since then, Arctic Refuge has continued to be one of our nation's most pristine and appreciated natural areas. We must ensure it remains a place where wildlife populations continue to thrive.
The 19.6 million acres that comprise the Arctic Refuge are also home to Alaska Natives, including the Inupiat and Gwich'in. The resources of the refuge sustain these populations and protect their indigenous traditions and way of life.
President Eisenhower's original 1960 designation included 8.9 million acres and was called the Arctic National Wildlife Range. Congress and President Carter expanded it to its current 19.6 million acres in 1980 under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). Under ANILCA the Range was renamed the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and much of the refuge was designated as wilderness. ANILCA also prohibited oil and gas development on the coastal plain in the northeast corner of the refuge along the Beaufort Sea, but allowed the opportunity for a future act of Congress to allow it.
Wilderness is a federal designation that requires an area to be left in a natural state and has not been significantly modified by human activity.
Species in Focus
The Arctic Refuge coastal plain encompasses approximately 1.2 million acres and serves as the biological heart of the entire refuge. Polar and brown bears, caribou, Dall sheep, wolves and muskox are just a few of the more than 250 animal species that depend on the coastal plain. Millions of birds, representing some 125 species, migrate to the coastal plain to nest, rear their young and feed. The coastal plain is not only one of the most significant onshore polar bear denning habitats in the United States but also the most important habitat for the Porcupine caribou herd.
Polar bear
In 2008 USFWS listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, citing climate change as its primary threat. These powerful bears, which can weigh anywhere from 775 to 1,200 pounds, hunt for seals on drifting pack ice. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to the Southern Beaufort Sea population, which consists of 1,500 bears out of an estimated 20,000-25,000 polar bears worldwide. Read more...
The thriving caribou populations in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge consist of the 123,000-member Porcupine Caribou Herd and the 32,000-member Central Arctic Caribou Herd. Although caribou are prevalent in tundra and boreal forests worldwide, their populations have been in decline primarily due to climate change. The coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge is vital habitat for caribous and their calves.
Snowy owl
Snowy owls are well-adapted for life in the Arctic Circle. Their thick white plumage and heavily feathered talons help them blend in to an icy environment and provide enough warmth to survive the intense cold. They spend most of their time on the ground, where they build and hide their nests with tundra plants and grasses. A nomadic species, they can be found ranging far south of their Arctic tundra home during summer months as they look for prey.
Comprehensive Conservation Plan
In January 2015, President Obama officially recommend to Congress that 12.28 million acres if the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, including the coastal plain, be permanently protected as Wilderness. The announcement came as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe released a final Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) recommending wilderness protection for the Arctic Refuge's coastal plain and other areas as part of a management plan for the refuge. The Service also recommends four rivers – the Atigun, Hulahula, Kongakut and Marsh Fork Canning – for inclusion into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. The final CCP will guide actions on the refuge for the next 15 years. The Refuge Association applauds the Administration's decision, and the Service's inclusion of the wilderness recommendation to Congress.
On January 9, 2015, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) introduced the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 239) to permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by designating its coastal plain as Wilderness. Designating an area as Wilderness is something that only Congress can do. Wilderness designation is the highest level of protection to land or water in the United States – and indeed, the world. If this legislation were to pass and become law, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would be permanently protected and drilling for oil and gas – an ongoing debate for over three decades – would be off the table for good.
The Arctic Coastal Plain: Where Wildlife and Oil Do Not Mix
Though comprising only 10 percent of the Arctic Refuge, the coastal plain has been at the center of an ongoing debate over oil and natural gas drilling for more than 30 years. Many have strongly opposed oil and gas drilling because of the impacts to wildlife, land and subsistence hunters while some have pushed for expanded drilling.Read more...
Oil and gas drilling in this pristine and fragile ecosystem will have devastating impacts. Experts agree that developing an oil field in the Arctic Refuge coastal plain would inevitably involve:
- Hundreds of miles of pipelines and roads leading to oil fields, oil pumping plants, power generating stations and airstrips, which would disturb wildlife;
- Helicopters, cargo planes, dump trucks and bulldozers— the sights and sounds of heavy equipment would be almost constant for long periods.
- Living quarters, sewage treatment and other infrastructure for hundreds of workers.
- Chronic spills of oil and other toxic substances onto the fragile tundra.
- Rivers and streambeds—key habitat for wildlife—stripped of millions of cubic yards of gravel for road, airstrip and drill pad construction.
- Enormous diversions of fresh water to support drilling at the expense of pristine rivers and wetlands.
Since ANILCA, Congress has considered proposals to drill for oil in the Arctic Refuge but the Administration has threatened to veto the proposal or Congress did not have enough votes.
Disasters such as the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska and the more recent Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico have taught us that there is no safe way to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Refuge, no way to guarantee wildlife will not be harmed by resource extraction in the refuge and no way to ensure the Arctic Refuge will be protected for future generations.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is world-class ecosystem that should be protected for future generations. Our October 2015 report, issued with National Wildlife Federation, details why we must safeguard this region's wildlife, vital habitat and indigenous traditions.
Impacts of drilling in sensitive habitats
Oil drilling anywhere presents a risk of oil spills; in the Arctic the impacts of such spills could be catastrophic. Spills are more dangerous here because the combination of a colder climate, slower plant growth rates and longer animal life spans hinder recovery efforts. Additionally, no technology currently exists for cleaning oil from sea ice in the Arctic waters. Read more...
The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 gives some idea of the long-term impacts of a major spill in Alaska. From 1989 to 1997, the population of harbor seals in this area declined by 35 percent, and it continues on a downward spiral today. In 1993 the Pacific herring population crashed due to the harmful impacts of oil on fish reproduction. These are just two of the many species that are still recovering from this devastating spill.
In 1987, well before the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Department of the Interior investigated how drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic refuge would effect wildlife. This study showed that the Porcupine caribou and muskox populations would be severely impacted, and water supplies would be reduced and tainted. Other animals such as polar bears, shorebirds and walruses would suffer from displacement, increased mortality and slower reproduction rates. This and other studies teach us that oil can cause irrevocable damage to fish and wildlife.


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The story takes place somewhere in the Daybreakers universeNot the movies but the story of the original novel itself. As the original story details Robert Neville has so many Moral Event Horizon moments he has numerous mental breakdowns throughout the 1st 2/3rds of the story. So it can be assumed that by the storys pivotal end Neville doesn't know what is truly fiction in his own mind and reality. So by this it can be assumed that it could be possible that I Am Legend could be taking place in an alternate New York in the universe of the vampire film Daybreakers. Basically it goes like this, events that made Vampire!Humans in Daybreakers and Legend are fairly similar how ever the storys view splits after this. In one Vampires become like a overwhelming Zombie Apocalypse with only Neville able to save us all while the other is where while humanity becomes Vampires society has changed very little. People still go to work, raise families, drive cars, and make and watch Fox News. Basically the world and civilization in fact hasn't collapsed only "changed". However Neville (due to his mental snap(s)) doesn't see this and is now only a raving lunatic driven by his own hatred and fear of the new Human!Vampire society. Essentially Neville is a Bigot in the most fantastical sense of the word. He most likely killed his own family out of fear they would become "freaks" like the rest of society. Afterwards Neville began to suffer from severe survivors guilt and mental exhaustion in where he began to break or disassociate himself from reality. After this Neville built a delusional fantasy world in were Neville is a savior of sorts in where Vampires are zombie like monsters and he is the (seemingly) last sane and non mutated man left on a ruined Earth. However in actuality Neville is nothing more now then a serial killer and madman who has probably killed more people then anyone else in New York's history thus making him a Legend. Although this does leave some questions that the novel would leave somewhat unanswered but can be explained such as...
- The reason Neville appears completely alone most of the time is well he is outside Only during the day so most of NYC's populace (being vampires now) would be asleep in their homes. This would be no different then a actual intruder breaking into someones house and stabbing them while they slept.
- Neville has probably killed more of his fair share of Subsiders (starving Vampires turned into Bat-like hybrids) so this would further confirm Neville delusion that all vampires Are bloodthirsty (no pun intended) inhuman monsters.
- The novel takes place in Los Angeles, not New York. New York was used solely in the third adaptation of the novel in which Will Smith stars. In The Omega Man, it was set in Los Angels. In The Last Man on Earth, the city was never named nor shows noticeable landmarks to identify where it was (primarily because that film was shot in Rome, Italy).
The hero's daughter is not immune because she wasn't his.Pity his wife cheated on him. (In the Price version at least.)
The alternate ending is the real ending.The ending is really the version of the story that was passed down through the centuries after mankind completely recovers, thus the name of the movie.

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Part 1/ pg 7 ; pt. 2/ pg 13; pt 3/ pg 19 ; pt. 4/ pg 26 ; pt 5/ pg 31;
part 6/ pg 38 ; pt.7/pg 43 ; pt.8/pg 49 ; pt. 9/pg 55; pt 10/ pg 61;
part 11/pg70: pt.12/ pg 74; pt.13/pg 79; pt. 14/ pg 83; pt 15/pg 88;
pt. 16/ pg 94; pt.17/ pg 100; pt.18/ pg 107; pt.19/ pg 113;
pt. 20/ pg 118; pt. 21/ pg 123 ; pt.22/ pg 127; pt.23/ pg 134;
pt. 24/pg 139; pt. 25/ pg 145 ; pt. 26/ pg 150
Link to AJT # 2....from part 27:
Ami Je Tomar ( I am Yours)
Tumi Je Amar (You are Mine)
The eternal echo of vows made by two lovers, through all ages, transcending the barriers of time and space.
This is a story of such vows…. Of undefeated, uncompromising love that defies all odds!
Of two people who are similar, yet disparate. Of two stubborn, egoistic individuals who were destined for each other.
Ami Je Tomar (I am Yours)
Shudhu Je Tomar (Only Yours)
Jiboney Moroney (In Life and Death)
Boli Baarbaar! (I will repeat forever)
Khanna Parivaar:
Dilip Khanna (55): Wealthy Industrialist of Kolkata….owns Khanna Chemicals and Fertilizers: Manufacturer and exporter of chemical Fertilizers, bio Chemical Fertilizers, irrigation Chemical fertilzers and non toxic Fertilizers. Also supply sugar, refined sugar and consumer sugar…..with Factories in Uttarpada and Baruipur.
He also owns Sur Recording Studios in Tollygunge and is CEO of Sur Music Label.
Naina Khanna (52): Socialite, Social-worker (for publicity), President of Ladies Club and Kitty Circles. Possessive and controlling mother to her 2 children.
Angad Khanna (27): Studied Chemical Engineering (IIT Delhi) to run his father's industries, but has a secret passion for music which only his Dadi knows about. Hes driven, ambitious, workaholic, health-nut.
Anitah (24) : Angad's sister, spoiled, fashion-conscious, bird-brained, superficial. Her favorite pastime is shopping in Malls. The only saving grace is her genuine adoration of Big brother.
Dadi: Devyani Khanna (74), dignified matriarch of the family, widowed ten years ago. She lives with the family in their huge Ballygunge mansion, but departs often for Himalayan pilgrimages with her Satsang (devotional) group.
Netra Aggarwal: Naina's sister, wife of plantation-owner in North Bengal. Visits the Khannas from time to time. Interfering busybody who pokes her nose where it doesn't belong!
Aaliyah Aggarwal (23): Nethra's daughter, tomboyish, spirited, studying Journalism in Kolkata , hence lives with her aunt Naina.
Basu Parivaar
Anirban Basu (54): Chartered Accountant, works for a Multinational Firm with Offices on Chowringhee. Owns a 4 bedroom flat in Bhawanipur. Hes a man of strict principles, yet jovial and affectionate to his children.
Gayatri Basu (50): Housewife, Homemaker, devoted Mother! She still fusses and worries over her 3 grown-up "children". A mother's job is never done!
Kartik Basu (28): Basu Parivar's Kuldeepak, studied Electrical Engineering at IIT, Kharagpur, works for a top Indian company. Gayatri is looking for a bride for him but hes not ready for marriage yet. Hes an ambitious go-getter, hot-headed and loves his siblings.
Mishti Basu (25): Older daughter, Final year Medical student at R G Kar Medical College in Kolkata. Shes pretty, lively and affectionate, but conceited about her brains and looks.
Kripa Basu (22): Youngest daughter …..the Baby of the Family, but talks and behaves like their elder. Studied B.Com at City College in Gol Park. Also a trained, accomplished dancer in Indian Classical styles. Shes also a gifted singer, with diploma in adhunik (modern) sangeet from Dakshinee. Runs a dance and music school in Tollygunge called " Om Namah Dance and Music Academy"
Gargi Ghosh (43) : Gayatri's sister, unmarried, dancer extraordinaire, she owns Om Namah…and passed it on to her niece when she retired from dancing 5 years ago. Kripa's idol and Guru…she taught Kripa classical dance since she was 4 years old. Now she lives in Delhi with her ailing mother.
Damini Sen: Anirban's sister, married to Shirshendu Sen, a Professor of Kolkata University.....….she has 2 children, a married daughter in US, Shatabdi and a son…...
Prithvi Sen (26): Damini's son, a computer consultant, who is also a good singer and actor, wants to try out in Bollywood. He sings often with Kripa at their functions.
More characters will be introduced as the story progresses.
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Hoffmann targets Klitschko
Photo: Eroll Popova
Heavyweight Timo Hoffmann (39-7-1, 23 KOs) continues his comeback on October 23 against Alexander Petkovic (39-4-3, 20 KOs) at the Erdgas Arena in Riesa, Germany. The bout will be for the vacant WBO European heavyweight title, with Hoffmann's objective being to achieve a top ranking in the WBO and a shot at current WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko.
At Monday's press conference, the 6'7 'German Oak' stated, "After Riesa, I want to challenge Wladimir Klitschko. I will throw down the gauntlet in the ring. After my last fight against Henry Duiven Jr., I know that my mission isn't yet accomplished. I have a lot of plans and will now concentrate on the big fights."
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Petkovic, however, has other ideas. "Many have said I am dead, but I'll prove that I am very much alive in the boxing ring. I will use this chance to show once again what I can do."
Hoffmann stated point blank, "My goal is a fight against Klitschko, and the European championship fight against Petkovic is a decisive step in this direction."
In the co-feature, unbeaten female middleweight star Christina Hammer (7-0, 6 KOs) fights for the WBO championship Teresa Perozzi (7-3-1, 1 KO).
The card is promoted by SES Boxing.


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Keni Thomas Recounts Life Lessons in New Book, 'Get It On!'
Keni Thomas was writing a letter to his mom on October 3, 1993, when he heard the words "get it on." The Army Ranger geared up, loaded into a Blackhawk helicopter and headed for Mogadishu, Somalia, where he would become one of the lucky servicemen to return from what would become known as Blackhawk Down, a battle that lasted two days, took 19 lives and wounded an additional 78 soldiers.
Based on that experience, Keni has written his first book, 'Get It On! What It Means to Lead the Way,' published by B&H Publishing Group. While the book recounts the battle from the soldier-turned-singer's point of view, it is also meant to be a book about leadership.
"Leadership is not about rank or position, which is the hardest thing to impress on kids and educators," Keni tells The Boot. "It has never been about rank in military journals. It is the example you set. The Wizard of Oz didn't give anything to the Cowardly Lion that he didn't already have."
The singer says he decided to pen the book because he was constantly being told he needed to write down the things he was telling people in his speeches. "I'd do music and raise money for charity. At the end of the presentation, people would ask me if I had the speech on DVD and I'd say,'Well no,' and they would say 'It's an amazing story, not just Blackhawk Down, but what you say about leadership. So I put a proposal together. It took a year to get approval to write it so I figured it wasn't going to happen. It was so far out of my hands on this one, it is in God's hands."
The Gainesville, Fla. native says each of us will be called upon at some point in our lives to be a leader. "I can't tell you where. I can't tell you when. But I can tell you with absolute certainty the call will come for you to get it on! And just like that, the course of your life will change forever."
Keni has a Bronze Star of Valor but he says he doesn't talk about it much these days. He prefers to share his message of leadership and hope, and how God brought him through the firefight on those two days nearly 20 years ago. The singer has made an impression on some of the nation's highest-ranking leaders with his message. Lt Col Oliver L. North, USMC (Retired) says of 'Get It On!,' "If you are a veteran, you need to read this book. Keni shows us that the principles of leadership we learned when we wore the uniform still apply to us all out here in the real world."
"It's very exciting, and a much bigger thing that I thought it would be," Keni says of the release of the book. "Writing it was not so difficult; you just have to make time to do it. I holed myself up and went away for about a month and got it done. But once I turned it in, the creative side is done and the business side begins."
One of the things Keni addresses in the first few chapters of the book is the guilt a person feels when they make it out of a situation — such as a battle — while their friends and fellow soldiers do not. He says a World War II vet put it in perspective for him. "He said 'Keni, just so you know, He didn't bring you this far to let you go, so just keep on walking.' He told me I really have to screw up hugely to change the course of the way it's going now, to make the momentum stop."
Keni says that ultimately, the most important thing he wants people to learn from his book is "to realize by the end of the story that they as an individual are the most important piece of the puzzle; you are the one piece that makes everything around you work. There are people on the left and right and they are counting on you, and it's up to you to deliver. You are important to them. At the end of the day they may never tell you, but they count on you and it's up to you to do the right thing."
Keni continues to do military tours for Armed Forces Entertainment and the USO. "These are the best shows we get to do all year," he notes. "We go out and do a big show in the evening, but during the day we go out into small remote places with maybe 15 guys there, and they stare at you like the circus came to town. So you play your music and shake hands and they tell you no one has come to see them in eight months. It's important to get out there to those places as well as the bigger bases of operation."
Keni was a very young man when he was thrust into the middle of Blackhawk Down. Today he says he can look back and see where all those experiences have led him.
"The beautiful thing about putting mileage on your lives is you can see the impact in more clarity, and you can see all those dots that you thought were kind of random were not random at all. You realize you could not have done that on your own. The thing is, when you get off the path, you find out pretty quick you will hit bottom."
Keni is taking part in the Black Hawk Down Middle East Tour presented by Armed Forces Entertainment through Oct. 7. Also on the tour are fellow warrior rangers including Danny McKnight, Charlie Manis and Howard "Mad Max" Mullen Jr. The group will meet with men and women of the military to share their stories, and Keni will entertain the crowds with his music.
'Get It On! What It Means to Lead the Way' is available now.


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Washington, May 22: President George W Bush said he believes September will be an 'important moment' to assess the extent of progress in Iraq under his much-criticized troop buildup plan.
Bush, who has rejected timetables for a US pullout from Iraq proposed by Democrats, is under pressure by lawmakers from his Republican Party to show progress in Iraq by September or risk their desertion.
He expects to get an assessment of the impact of the troop buildup plan from the top US commander in Iraq, General. David Petraeus, at the end of the summer.
''I see it as an important moment, because David Petraeus says that's when he'll have a pretty good assessment as to what the effects of the surge has been,'' Bush told Reuters in an interview yesterday when pressed on whether he sees September as a make-or-break period.
A group of Republican lawmakers visited Bush privately at the White House earlier this month to express their concerns to him.
Bush called it a good session that included a ''very frank discussion'' of his views about Iraq and ''their hopes that we can succeed.'' ''Very few people come to the White House and say, gosh, I hope we fail. Most people are saying, well, I hope this works, and I am concerned about the situation there,'' Bush said.
Congress is trying to approve by next week about 100 billion dollar in new funds for U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan because existing funds are running out.
But lawmakers and Bush are embroiled in a fight over whether any conditions should be attached to that money, such as Democrats' desire to impose timetables for ending the 4-year-old war.
Talks last Friday that appeared to be edging toward an agreement ended in acrimony.
Bush said he had directed White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten to negotiate with lawmakers on what consequences should be imposed to pressure the Iraqi government to meet measurements of progress.
''There is a way forward, there's a compromise to be had. My hope is that the Democrat leader sees it,'' Bush said.
Lawmakers need to understand that a failed Iraq would embolden al Qaeda, Bush said, adding that he would underscore the point in a speech tomorrow that ''al Qaeda is public enemy number one in Iraq and is public enemy number one for America.'' Bush called Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki yesterday and urged him to proceed with political reconciliation among warring groups there, the White House said.
Maliki has been under fire from US lawmakers for not moving quickly enough to gain approval for an oil revenue-sharing law and other measures aimed at a political reconciliation in Iraq.
Bush gave renewed support to Maliki in the phone call marking his first anniversary as prime minister.
''The president reaffirmed his confidence in the prime minister and noted the courage he has shown during a challenging and difficult year,'' White House spokesman Tony Fratto said.
Maliki stressed his commitment to reconciliation and gave an update on reconciliation initiatives aimed at drawing Sunni Arabs away from the insurgency and into the political process alongside majority Shi'ites and Kurds.


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The various traditions of systems science were almost all founded during or soon after World War II. That social crisis led to great intellectual innovation. The world is now approaching another global systemic crisis – the year 2000 computer crisis. Perhaps this crisis will reenergize interest in systems science.
Fixing computers so they do not encounter the year 2000 computer problem is now the largest technical project in human history. Not all equipment will be fixed in time. Many corporations and government agencies will cease to operate. A report by the U.S. Senate says that basic services such as water, electricity, and petroleum distribution will be disrupted in some areas. Understanding this crisis, along with its social, economic, and political repercussions is a complicated, interdisciplinary systems problem. The crisis will affect everyone in the world who is in some way dependent on telephones, electricity, or fossil fuels.
Y2k is a challenge to universities given their roles in education, research and public service. Y2k is a particularly suitable topic for cyberneticians and systems scientists, given their interests and unique skills.
In the early days of computing one megabyte of memory cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Today it costs less than a dollar. Although shortening four digit dates to two digits, for example 1962 to 62, made sense at one time, software programs written in the 1950s and 1960s are still in use and many have not been repaired. The use of two digit dates became a convention that was widely used until only the last year or two. Consider "Windows 98." If date-sensitive computer equipment had been recognized as an important problem ten or more years ago, it would have remained a technical and management problem. Since it was not fixed in a timely fashion, it is now a social, economic, and political problem. There are several facets to the year 2000 (y2k) computer crisis.
1. Mainframes and PCs are vulnerable on several levels. Hardware, operating systems, application programs (e.g., a spreadsheet program), and specific applications (e.g., a spreadsheet containing two digit macros) all need to be checked. Those who are managing year 2000 projects are in some cases managing budgets ten times greater than they are accustomed to managing. They are also managing about ten times as many people as they usually manage. Many y2k managers are working with contractors, and some of the contractors have hired programmers in other countries, such as India and Malaysia. Hence, there are opportunities for cross-cultural miscommunication. Furthermore, the managers are in most cases not familiar with the tools being used – tools which create an inventory of the programs on a machine, tools which change dates, and tools used to test repaired code. Many of the tools being used are of recent vintage. So bugs can be expected in the tools. The psychological issues include guilt and blame as well as denial. The people one might be tempted to blame for y2k difficulties are the same people one is counting on to fix the problems. If technical people feel they are being blamed for the problems in one organization, they may leave to go to other organizations where they may very well be offered higher salaries, since salaries are rising. However, when people leave, they take knowledge of the local situation with them.
2. Embedded systems were recognized as a y2k problem only in about 1997. Originally the y2k problem was assigned to the IT (information technology) staff, which is in charge of computers but not production processes or buildings, where most embedded systems are located. Of the chips that are manufactured only 10 to 15 percent go into computers and calculators. The rest go into automatic control equipment. This equipment is used in networks that distribute water, electricity, and natural gas. Consider the case of a utility company. If an electric utility does not repair its computers and software, it will not be able to bill customers or pay employees. But if it does not fix its embedded systems, it will not be able to generate electric power. Embedded systems are also used in chemical plants, refineries, and nuclear reactors. If embedded systems are not repaired, or if the equipment is not shut down at the end of the year, there may be multiple accidents such as Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez just at a time when telephones and other services may be disrupted.
3. To understand possible economic disruptions, consider the case of a large manufacturing company, such as General Motors, which has thousands of suppliers. Each of these suppliers also has many suppliers. Suppose that GM is completely year 2000 compliant, and most of its suppliers are as well. What will happen if, for whatever reason, GM cannot obtain five percent of the parts it needs to produce an automobile. What will GM do? It will have to shut down and lay off workers. And the compliant suppliers shipping parts to GM will lose an important customer. The U.S. Department of Commerce (1999) has recently released a report describing the many interconnections and interdependencies in the global economy. I think it is reasonable to expect a high level of unemployment in the spring of 2000.
4. Government services are also threatened. In October 1997 the Canadian Auditor General issued a report saying that unless the pace of repairing code was dramatically increased, the Canadian government would not be able to collect taxes or make payments. In December 1997 the government issued a report saying that their concerns had increased. In the summer of 1998 the Canadian government told the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian military to prepare to assist the civilian population in the event of widespread disruptions of utility services. In the fall of 1998 the Canadian military replied that they were dependent on the same sources for water, electricity, gas, and petroleum as the civilian population. They added that if there were widespread civil disorders, they would not have sufficient resources to control them. In the spring of 1999 the U.S. government asked the Canadian government to stop making announcements that might fuel "public overreaction." Canada is ahead of most other countries in repairing its computer equipment. State and local governments are behind national governments.
5. There may also be cultural effects. At the present time people have faith in technology, progress, and government programs. If technical failures disrupt the current standard of living, if companies go bankrupt, and if governments are unable to respond, people will be disenchanted and frustrated. The basic beliefs of industrial civilization will be challenged.
Several types of y2k disasters are possible.
1. Nuclear weapons are a concern. A computer failure will not automatically launch a nuclear missile. However, the failure of the early warning system might lead a nation to believe that it is under attack and hence choose to launch its missiles before they are destroyed. The Pentagon and the Russian military are working together to insure that such miscommunication does not occur.
2. Nuclear reactors are dependent on the electric power grid for electricity to operate their control rooms, their security doors, and the pumps that circulate cooling water. If the grid goes down, there are back-up generators. But usually there is diesel fuel for only a few days. However, nuclear reactors require that cooling water be circulated for several years. If the water stops circulating and boils off, the reactor melts down and releases radiation into the atmosphere.
3. Chemical plants, refineries, and pipelines have many embedded systems. I believe that dangerous plants that have not been repaired, and the repairs tested by an independent party, should be shut down for the century change, and restarted very carefully thereafter. In the summer of 1999 there is not yet a consensus that this precaution is appropriate.
4. Manufacturing is vulnerable to a shortage of parts. Shipping is threatened by a late start and because many ships are based in countries that have not been working on y2k.
5. Modern cities are made possible by water treatment plants and sewage treatment plants. These plants use embedded systems and require electricity and telecommunications. If utility systems fail, high rise buildings could become uninhabitable. If heating systems fail for several days in the winter, pipes may freeze. People then lose water. When the pipes thaw, the buildings sustain water damage. If there is widespread damage, years may be required to repair the housing stock. Furthermore, if people lose water, they may drink from rivers and lakes. There might then be a health care emergency.
6. If governments are unable to function, decentralization may occur, with the possible rise of local mafias, rather like what has happened in recent years in Russia.
There are several ways whereby we may escape the dire consequences of y2k, described above.
1. There may not be as many date-sensitive embedded systems as we presently believe. However, the companies that are working on repairing embedded systems say that they have never found a company without some embedded systems problems (Heerman, 1998).
2. Date-sensitive embedded systems may not do anything critical. That is, there may be equipment failures, but the organization continues to function. However, the companies working to repair embedded systems say that there are almost always one, two, or three "show-stoppers" in every factory – systems which, if not repaired, would cause the plant to shut down (Heerman, 1998).
3. All of the essential equipment might be fixed in time. An increasing number of organizations report that they have completed their year 2000 projects. And many other organizations are nearing completion. However, about 40 percent of small businesses in the U.S. plan to "fix on failure." And about 40 percent of town and county governments, which are usually in charge of water treatment, had not yet started to work on y2k as of the spring of 1999. Furthermore, the large companies, which have been working the hardest to repair or replace their vulnerable equipment, seem to be falling behind in their repair efforts (Feder, 1999).
4. The last possibility is that our "fix on failure" efforts are highly successful. Work-arounds are performed quickly and effectively. Ripple effects are not serious; the failure of a few companies does not cause the failure of other companies. Disruptions overseas, where y2k has not been regarded as a serious concern, do not have a significant impact in the U.S. Personally, I think this outcome is unlikely, but it is a matter of judgment.
Since June 1997 when I read the article in Newsweek, "The Day the World Crashes" (Levy and Hafner, 1997), I have been working on the year 2000 computer crisis. I operate a listserv on y2k for academic colleagues in the U.S. and in other countries. I have built a website with the help of student assistants. I have published articles (Umpleby, 1998a, 1998b, 1999) and I have lectured on y2k at conferences in several countries. I have lobbied for attention to the issue within my university and my neighborhood community. With others I have organized a series of panel discussions on y2k beginning in March 1998. I have encouraged students to write papers and do group projects on y2k. I have participated in briefings for managers of government agencies, corporations, and associations. Other members of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning have published books and newsletters and lectured and consulted widely regarding y2k.
So far the y2k activities of universities have focused primarily on fixing their internal equipment. However, the education, service, and research functions of universities suggest a greater role for them. In terms of education, the general public needs to understand the problems that may arise and how to prepare. A great deal of community organizing is needed in order to be sure that all members of society will be cared for. Universities can render public service by providing occasions where local utilities and emergency planning professionals can share information with the public so that contingency plans focus on the areas of greatest need.
In terms of research, y2k can be seen as an unprecedented opportunity. For the next several months the interconnections within modern society will be revealed as never before. As systems break down, we shall learn what other systems depend on them. For social scientists interested in action research, y2k presents a unique opportunity to test theories and methods. I suggest that social scientists be asked to predict what they think will happen and why. These papers could be presented at a conference in September 1999. At a second conference in April 2000 we could compare the predictions with events. Furthermore, those engaged in efforts to increase awareness and to prepare organizations could be asked to describe what they did, why they chose the methods they chose, what they expected to happen, and how their expectations were confirmed or refuted. Papers by authors from different countries could be compared. My hypothesis is that papers by Americans will be pragmatic and action oriented whereas papers by continental Europeans will be more abstract or theoretical (Mueller, 1998). By taking an experimental approach to y2k, we could greatly increase our understanding of the ways we perceive and seek to influence social systems.
I think there are several reasons why Y2k is a particularly appropriate topic for the systems science community to become engaged in.
1. It is important. People around the world will be affected (Marcoccio, 1999; Peterson, et al., 1998; Yourdon and Yourdon, 1997).
2. It is interdisciplinary. Thoroughly understanding y2k requires knowledge of technology, management, economics, politics, psychology, anthropology, and of course systems theory and cybernetics.
3. It is the frame problem on a grand scale. The frame problem is the second order problem of choosing the most appropriate conceptualization of a problem. Here are two examples. First, a software engineer designs a payroll system and is very careful to correctly build in deductions for taxes and the pension system. But he uses a two-digit date for the year and the software malfunctions at the end of the century. This is the frame problem in that his conceptualization of the task was incomplete. Second, President Clinton in his January 1999 State of the Union address said that y2k is a big, big problem and that small businesses and state and local governments in particular need to be working on it. However, later that week he and Al Gore and others in a panel discussion on Medicare proposed using some of the budget surplus to support Medicare 15 years in the future. But the y2k literature says that Medicare will not be functioning a year from now due to software problems. This is the frame problem in the form of lack of appropriate connections being made in the mind. From now to the end of the year no decision at any level should be made without considering the context of y2k.
4. Those who have worked on the year 2000 computer crisis are intrigued by issues of learning, adaptation, and participation in families, communities, organizations, nations, and the world as a whole. Those who are interested in cognition and are concerned about other people will find it a rewarding topic to investigate. As a case study to engage students in systems thinking, y2k is unsurpassed.
Feder, Barnaby J. "Big Companies Falling Behind in Year 2000 Repairs, Survey Says," The New York Times, May 17, 1999. See www.year2000.com/releases/Nfcap5_18_1999.html
Heerman, Bill. Experiences of Tava Technologies, www.tmn.com/~frautsch/cargill.txt, 1998.
Kelly, Russ, "What the Experts Think," www.russkelly.com/experts.html, 1999.
Levy, Steven and Katie Hafner, "The Day the World Crashes," Newsweek. June 2, 1997, pp. 53-59.
Marcoccio, Lou. "Year 2000 Global State of Readiness and Risks to the General Business Community." http://gartner5.gartnerweb.com/public/static/aboutgg/pressrel/testimony1098.html, March 26, 1999.
Mueller, Karl. "The Epigenetic Research Program: A Transdisciplinary Approach for the Dynamics of Knowledge, Society and Beyond," Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, Sociological Series # 24, March 1998.
Peterson, John L., Margaret Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers. "The Y2K Problem: Social Chaos or Social Transformation?" The Futurist. October 1998, pp. 21-28.
Umpleby, Stuart A. "Will Universities Continue to Operate in January 2000?" On the Horizon. May/June 1998a, pp. 13-14.
Umpleby, Stuart A. "A National Action Plan for Y2K Recovery," in Alain Wouters, Philippe Vandenbroeck and Douglass Carmichael (eds.). The Millennium Bug, The Year 2000 Computer Crisis. Louven, Belgium: Acco, 1998.
Umpleby, Stuart A. "Y2K: An 'Autopsy' of Modern Society?" Science. Vol. 284, 21 May 1999, pp. 1273-1274.
U.S. Department of Commerce, "The Year 2000 Problem and the Global Trading System," http://y2k.ita.doc.gov/y2k/y2k.nsf, 1999.
U.S. House of Representatives, Y2k Report Card, www.house.gov/reform/gmit/y2k, 1999.
U.S. Senate, Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, Investigating the Impact of the Year 2000 Problem. www.senate.gov/~y2k. February, 1999, 164 pages.
Webster, Bruce. "The Predicted Impact of the Year 2000 Problem in the United States," www.wdcy2k.org/survey, 10 June 1999.
Yourdon, Edward and Jennifer Yourdon. Time Bomb 2000: What the Year 2000 Computer Crisis Means to You! Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1997.
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Fellow CW blogger, Harry Smeltzer has reviewed the recent documentary in which I was involved, Still Standing - The Stonewall Jackson Story, for America's Civil War May 2008 issue. First, I'd like to thank him for his effort, although based on his comments, he wasn't looking forward to the project. It certainly must have been a dreadful undertaking. That being said, I do my level best not to respond publicly to critics, other than to say "thank you" for their willingness. That practice is based on advice I've received from CW authors much older and wiser than me. Suffice it to say, Mr. Smeltzer's comments speak for themselves. It is very tempting to respond in this case because I found his comments most curious. I do, however, have a response to his comments about the numerous "paradoxes" in the film - read the book Mr. Smeltzer, just read the book.
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Now that I have read his full review I'm even more convinced that he just doesn't get it. It appears to be a perfect example of someone unable to see beyond his own presuppositions, even for the sake of debate. Truly sad.
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- Richard G. Williams, Jr. said...
No, and I really don't think he tried. He's since posted an update to his review, which adds nothing to the discussion.
This was a 45 minute film, not an all-encompassing series. You'd think someone who was reviewing a film would understand that you can only address so much in 45 minutes.
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Open Rehearsals give community members an insider's view of the collaborative process of chamber music-making. The rehearsals will be held at Darrows Barn at 10:00am on August 9, 12, & 19, and at 11:30am on August 16, and are free for students and community partners. Anyone may attend with SBC's new "Subscription Plus Pass."
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Years of planning and months of construction have ended. Classes are now in session as Metro Parks' new South Tacoma Activities and Recreation Center – STAR Center – opened May 19 with a showcase of fun.
Complete with a fun run, ceremonial flag raising, a flash mob and music, STAR Center's playground and dance rooms are now active, with children laughing and adults hovering around demonstration kitchen stovetops now that the formality of a grand opening is over.
The 32,000-square-foot center in South Tacoma offers rentable hall spaces, a new music and dance studio, a teaching kitchen, a fitness room and an indoor/outdoor children's playground that is primed for play dates and toddler parties.
The $16 million building, at the corner of South 66th and Adams streets, has activities for all ages and serves as the anchor facility of a regional recreation complex that also includes Gray Middle School and the Boys and Girls Clubs' Topping Hope Center, which will share gym and activity space to create a "recreational hub" that tops more than 100,000 square feet of space. The combined facilities span some 75 acres of sports fields and recreational offerings under the umbrella name South End Recreational Adventure Campus. More amenities are on the way as well.
The building has dedicated classroom, art, theater and activity spaces for its array of programs as well as rentable meeting and event space. It also is home to Metro Parks' roster of activity offerings for differently-abled and handicapped people. Seemingly every activity that would follow the center's mission of "keeping the community healthy and active, to give children a safe place to play, and to provide economic opportunities to the region" is on the list or in the works.
And the building is "green" as well thanks to its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver rating. Features like natural stormwater collection ponds, floors heated by ground water and skylights keep energy costs down, for example, while several of the pieces of fitness equipment actually feed into the building's power system every time a patron spins a rotation.
"You can cycle and put power back into the system," Metro Parks Communications Manager Nancy Johnson said.
Depending on funding, future activities in the works will include an outdoor adventure park, a ropes course, a climbing wall, bike trails, a zip line through a grove of trees, a rope bridge, a visitor center and a concession stand alongside baseball, softball and soccer fields with other patches of grass carved out for cricket matches and outdoor grilling. Other outdoor attractions in the works include a sprayground for children to cool themselves during the summer, an event pavilion, playground equipment and a community garden. Plans for a farmers market are also in the works. Those attractions are part of the next phase of the site's development, but the first phase – the building – is ready for action.
The activities, programs and classes will be funded through Metro Parks and individual activity fees as well as sale of monthly STAR Passes that will provide cardholders with free use of some activities and discounts on others. The passes cost $63 a month for families or $26 for adults, $5 for teens and $15 for young children. Discounts are available for military, veterans and seniors. Day passes are also available for casual users. While many of the activities are free, some programs require additional funding because of materials and expenses. This pay-to-play model has been adopted as standard practice around the country, but has been slower to come in Washington. For comparison, YMCA family memberships cost $122 a month.


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Chris Wallace Scolds 'Fox & Friends' Crew for Excessive Obama Bashing
Imagine for a moment Tim Russert, George Stephanopoulos, or Bob Schieffer being interviewed on their respective network's morning show, and scolding the co-hosts for excessive George Bush or John McCain bashing.
Wouldn't happen in a million years, right?
Well, Fox News's Chris Wallace was the guest of "Fox & Friends" Friday morning, and before allowing any of the co-hosts to ask him a question, he actually admonished them for spending too much time in the first two hours of the show on Barack Obama's "typical white person" remark (h/t Politico):
Hey listen, I love you guys but I want to take you to task if I may, respectfully, for a moment. I have been watching the show since 6:00 this morning when I got up, and it seems to me that two hours of Obama bashing on this typical white person remark is somewhat excessive and frankly I think you're somewhat distorting what Obama had to say.
When the co-hosts tried to counter Wallace's views, he replied:
Far be it for me to be a spokesman for the Obama campaign, and I will tell you that they would laugh at that characterization, but you know, the fact is that after giving a speech on race earlier this week, on Tuesday, he gave a major speech on Iraq on Wednesday and a major speech on the economy yesterday. And so, I think they would say that in terms of deflecting attention away from the issues people really want to hear about, maybe it's the media doing it, not Barack Obama.
Interestingly, a member of Obama's campaign actually thanked Wallace for doing this:
We appreciate Chris Wallace for doing his job as a tough but fair journalist on a network that has been deeply irresponsible over the last week in its unrelenting and sensationalistic coverage of Senator Obama.
Once again, can you imagine a high-ranking member of any television news outlet doing what Wallace did on camera, especially in an election year?
No, I can't either.
*****Update: Bravo, Chris. This is why you're one of the best in this industry, and why your father should be very proud!


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The good, bad and ugly of the carbon tax plan
The good news is the Government finally has a product to sell. The bad news is that it is only marginally about climate change.
The Clean Energy Future plan certainly gives Australia a long-overdue foot in the door in the campaign to control carbon emissions and there is no real reason to doubt that it will succeed in the first of its modest aims: a 5 per cent reduction by 2020. And the decision to do so by putting a price on carbon as the centrepiece shows that Julia Gillard and her team have not entirely abandoned economic reality.
But the sales pitch so far suggests that what was supposed to be the primary objective - the great moral, political and economic challenge of our times - is to be all but submerged in an indiscriminate pandering to the greed and self-interest of as many people as possible. We are destined to hear very little about the overwhelming scientific case for action and the urgency of the threat facing the planet and a great deal about how we will all (well, most of us - all but the stinking rich) end up with a bit more in the hip-pocket.
Perhaps this was inevitable; the understandable cynicism about our current crop of political leaders probably rules out any appeal to idealism or concern for the future being taken seriously. Until the electorate is convinced that the Government actually means what it says and can deliver what it promises, what used to be called the vision thing is simply irrelevant. Hence Julia Gillard's immediate task: to hold her ground against the inevitable avalanche of rent seekers demanding special treatment and of mendicants claiming to have been overlooked for the largesse they have come to believe is theirs by right.
The Treasurer Wayne Swan has given her a very good start with the restructured tax scales: the slight rise in the marginal rates to help pay for a massive increase in the tax-free threshold is not only an across-the-board benefit favouring the most needy, but a genuine social reform to encourage welfare recipients to rejoin the workforce.
And the realistic admission that not everybody will be better off, that there will be losers as well as winners, gives the package an air of credibility lacking in some of the wilder promises that have been made in the past. Importantly the Greens did not get a lot of what they wanted, but they are now locked into supporting the plan, as are the necessary three independents. For once, the unlikely coalition Labor has brought together looks both solid and pragmatic. This alone should reassure many of the doubters. And the generous hand-outs to the steel industry mean that efforts to suggest that industry is unanimously against the plan will fail; the miners and some other sectors will continue to protest, but it will now be much easier to dismiss them as a rapacious minority.
So the basics for the long campaign ahead are pretty much in place. The big question now is whether Gillard can get people to listen to her as she seeks to capitalise on them. Tony Abbott, who preposterously claims credit for saving the steel industry, proposes that the next election will be seen as a referendum on the carbon tax, and he may well be right; the polls suggest that the debate has now effectively abandoned any form of rational argument and has settled down along party lines. Gillard will now have to bring it back to the centre, and having demonstrated that her scheme is not about to destroy the national economy and bankrupt both industries and families, the next step is to take a long, hard look at the alternative.
It is all very well to portray Tony Abbott as Dr No, the snarling wrecker who is opposed to everything. But the fact is that Abbott has proposed an alternative direct action plan and unconditional tax cuts for all. Gillard and Swan now have the chance to compare and contrast the Opposition leader's fairy-godmother approach with their own carefully detailed and costed proposals, and would be wise to go on the attack immediately. By forcing Abbott to defend his position, they can gain some clear air in which to sell their own.
And in spite of the opinion polls Abbott is vulnerable. There is an increasing number of hard-heads in the Liberal Party who understand that his present policy stance is untenable; no carbon tax, no mining tax, indeed tax cuts for business overall, but at the same time implanting an open-ended bonanza of handouts and grandiose schemes of which his direct action plan is simply the most obviously extravagant and wasteful. To blandly dismiss the obvious question of where the money's coming from with an assertion that he'll tell us later, but it can be found by making savings just won't wash now that Gillard has put her own cards on the table.
At the very least we are entitled to demand a fuller explanation of his own proposals for tackling climate change and a clear statement about just where he stands on its importance. It's too much to expect that Abbott will shut up, so he can be challenged to put up. And just perhaps that would be a first step towards a genuine debate on an issue which is now back where it belongs: front and centre.
And we can't let the week go by without at least a glance at the Evil Empire. Having worked there, I can assure readers that Rupert Murdoch keeps a pretty close eye on what is going on in his newspapers and he demands that his executives and editors do the same. Not only are they expected to get the scoops and outdo the opposition, they are to do so in accordance with a strict code of ethics and propriety. Yet somehow, over a period of years, a culture of organised crime developed in the News of the World, and absolutely no-one noticed. And if you believe that you'll believe all the other stuff that appears in the Murdoch press.
Mungo MacCallum is a political journalist and commentator.
Topics: climate-change, business-economics-and-finance, environment, emissions-trading, federal-government, government-and-politics
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Req: Pics of Alpine 9815 at night
Anyone got some? I need to see just how much this HU will clash with my dash!
i am thinking about this deck too...what prices have you found for it?
i found a place in rowland heights for $380
extreme performance in canoga park asking 399
al-eds asking 500
Anyone have these pics?
Since none of the lazy f u cks here with their expensive digicams will bother to help us out, here ya go
Hate to ask you this JByron, but what does it look like with the factory "amber" illumination? I was worried that the blue might look out of place
I have no idea, that pic was taken out of a mustang I believe. i found it on caraudioforums.com. i'm willing to bet it will look very out of place, that's why I'm going with the San Francisco CD72 instead. I set up a poll here and it got deleted by some RSX hatin mod. apparently i don't get the same priviliges as everyone else
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The Swedish government is developing plans to revamp its teacher education program and have a new teaching credential. The goal is to prevent "unqualified teachers" from securing full time positions in schools. Minister for Education Jan Bjorkiund argued, "it's wrong to hire unqualified teachers full-time and I want to put a stop to it. With certain exceptions for teachers in particular occupational subjects." The new law will state who is qualified and who is not. He also announced Swedish teachers will have the opportunity to study abroad on 80% base pay.
The issue is what is meant by "qualified.." In America that most frequently is equated to taking teacher education courses on the assumption those who take such courses become better teachers. We need more creative ideas on what constitutes a qualified teacher that does not equate college courses with being a better teacher.
Sweden has a great idea to allow teachers to study abroad and be paid. Kudos for the idea!


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For the first time, the 2012 Coachella music festival will span two weekends this year.
Headliners for the six days of music (April 13-15 and April 20-22) in the California desert, an event that always draws star fans among the masses, will include Dr. Dre, the Black Keys, Radiohead and the Shins, Bon Iver, Florence & The Machine, as well hip-hop and dance acts Snoop Dogg, the Swedish House Mafia and Kaskade, among many others. Swedish punks Refused will play their first show in 14 years at the festival.
The lineup was unveiled in the form of the festival's new poster on the Coachella Facebook page Monday. Tickets go on sale Friday.
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As a result of the closure of Gunns last working woodchip mill at Triabunna, for a minimum period of two months, we see for the first time in living memory Tasmanian native forests no longer being clearfelled for wood chips.
The high Australian dollar and a lack of FSC accreditation has made the shipping of Tasmanian native forests as woodchips a non-viable proposition. In a last ditch effort to conserve cash flow Gunns has finally moved away from this Third World landscape trashing industry.
In those countries that only accept FSC accredited timber Gunns is persona no-grata, the one remaining avenue of sale is to countries with extremely low labour costs. China is still prepared to accept Gunns non FSC accredited timber but luckily for Tasmanian native forest trees they are now too expensive in Australian dollars to chip and ship.
As a manufacturer in China I can personally inform Gunns that the hourly rate for a skilled man is less than three dollars. How Gunns expect to compete with wage rates in Tasmania for a skilled man of nearly a thousand dollars a week in the making of pulp as a by-product from plantation timber is beyond comprehension.
The Chinese will take plantation timber accredited or not, but Gunns will have to virtually give it away for it will not compete on price with FSC compliant plantations sourced from South American growers. It is all well and good for the Gunns CEO to state that they will no longer clearfell and burn Tasmanian native forests, replacing this source of Tasmanian chips with FSC accredited plantation timber as feedstock for the proposed mill, but Gunns has no alternative as any unaccredited source makes their pulp unsaleable on the world market.
In a complete contradiction of natural justice Gunns are now trying to screw Tasmanians, the Tasmanian Government and the Australian Government for a cash payment of approximately $200 million for non-performance over the now unviable and uneconomic contracts previously negotiated to log Tasmanian forests, at mates' rates. These contracts were gifted by a willing GBE in collusion with the suspect management of a Public Company influenced by a sympathetic Lennon Government. Labor will be dicing with death should they throw this financial lifeline to Gunns.
With the income stream from woodchipping gone and the income stream from MIS scams gone there is no cash flow into Gunns coffers for the most expensive tax scam in Australian history has vanished. Tending to the now bankrupt Great Southern plantations is one of the few identifiable sources of income and cash flow to service Gunns debts of over six hundred million dollars which with the failure of Great Southern can now be seen as backed by vastly devalued assets. Gunns actual income producing businesses those of the wine and Mitre 10 have been sold to try and produce cash flow and service debt.
Lastly, Gunns have announced that the sawmill they bought from FEA and used to improve their half yearly profits by increasing its value by a further $19 million cannot now locate a volume of suitable timber to justify survival. The pine resource of 33,000 hectares purchased with Auspine had to be sold to pay down $175 million of their debts, hence no softwood timber resource. Gunns now has to treat the forest with some form of respect and intelligence rather than clearfelling and chipping all before them. I suggest that there is hardly anyone left in their employment who knows how to selectively log the standing timber still abundantly available from Tasmanian native forests for purposes of sawmilling.
I ask therefore how does Gunns manage to pay the bills?
With over 1,000 employees to be paid each week, at what point will the Directors throw in the towel or risk being compromised should the company be trading whilst insolvent.
The ANZ Bank has kept it afloat but with no evidence of a JVP and no finance for a pulp mill, the day of reckoning must be almost nigh. The Gunns MIS tax scam ship, now empty of chips, may well be holed below the waterline, for although the orchestra of sycophants is still playing the usual rousing tunes, the decks are clear and the crew is in the lifeboats as the ship seems about to sink.
Download the Naomi Edwards analysis:
The Pulp Mill Revisited
A January 2011 Update to Analyses by Naomi Edwards
Executive Summary
The report is a brief update on my earlier analyses on the likely financial viability of the Bell Bay Pulp Mill. Those analyses concluded that, despite a significant freight advantage, Bell Bay would struggle to compete internationally because of a higher fibre input cost and a strong Australian dollar.
I have now updated the analysis to reflect:
1. The intention to move the pulp mill to 100% plantation fibre from day one.
2. The persistently high Australian dollar against the USD.
3. The increase in expected cost to build the pulp mill to around $2.5 billion.
Download: Apr2011_Edwards_update_on_Pulp_Mill_viability.pdf
• CODE Breach UPDATE:
Tuesday, the 5th of April
Yesterday a group of protestors from Launceston based group CODE GREEN, have walked into a Forestry Tasmania logging coupe situated in High Conservation Value Forest in North-East Tasmania.
A group's spokes woman Dr Lisa Searle has spoken to the media yesterday and explained the groups position. She has joined the the rest of the protestors at the coupe after the media conference.
Today, both the police and Forestry Tasmania are present and Dr Lisa Searle, who spend the night in a suspended tree seat is waiting to be taken down by the police.
Her commited action is very likely to result in arrest.
April 5th 2011
Protestors have stopped forestry logging operations in a HCV forest 45 km from Launceston on the 4th of April 20011.
By our direct action "We are calling on our State and Federal governments to put end to all native forest logging".
Today Dr Lisa Searle, who is the spokesperson for the group has been removed by police and charged with trespass.
"What we have here in Tasmania is unique and worth protecting" Dr Lisa Searle.
"Our action will not stop till our government implements the full moratorium on logging HCV forests."


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Stretched + Tummy Tuck Q&A
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Cars > Events > Japanese Car Day
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About Japanese Car Day
Japanese Car Day is a museum sponsored event and dedicated to the enjoyment of all things Japanese. Car registration is $15 in advance and $20 day of and motorcycle is $10. Pre - register on our website. All proceeds benefit the Larz Anderson Auto Museum.
Spectator admission is Adults, $10. Military, seniors, students and children 6-12, $5 and children under 6 are free. Museum members are always free! The museum is open for your viewing pleasure until 4pm.
Lunch will be available on site for purchase from Tables of Content.
150 Cars & Bikes expected
Date and Time
Sun Sep 30, 2012 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm (CDT)
Location and MapLarz Anderson Auto Museum
15 Newton St
Brookline, Massachusetts 02445
United States