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MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Anglers have come from all over to take their best shot at Lake Norman during today's Toyota Trucks Bonus Bucks Owners Tournament. The competitors are fishing in a no-entry-fee tournament that pays down to the Top 30 team of two.
Among the pairs are father-son duos, long-time friends and club anglers — plus a father-daughter team and a husband-wife pairing. Competitors hail from as far north as New York and Pennsylvania and from as far west as Texas.
"We've never fished with each other before," said Klaus Hadschin of his partner, Steve Miller. "We've always fished against each other in tournaments. And we've always told lies on each other."
But today, the North Carolina angler is fishing in concert with Miller, of Virginia, after three to four decades of competing against each other in tournaments.
Lewis Bouhkris and his daughter, Cara, drove from nearby Hendersonville, N.C., to take on Lake Norman's largemouth and spotted bass. "He's taught me everything I know about fishing," said Cara. We'll see at today's weigh-in if their years of father-daughter time on the water will pay off here.
Bill and Darlena Jones of Ponte Vedra, Fla., made the journey north for the tournament. "We've been married for 26 years," said Darlena, "and we fish together when we can."
A couple of names on today's roster are very familiar. Hank Cherry and Carson Orellana, both of North Carolina, just won the 2012 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Southern Open on Alabama's Smith Lake (Cherry in the pro division and Orellana in the co-angler division). Paul Ham of South Carolina, who took Carhartt Big Bass honors at the same Open, is also competing today.
Early reports from the water are that the bass are biting, but many have been too short or too wily to get fully hooked. Scott Dupree and his partner, Reggie Norflett, both of North Carolina, were fishing docks and had two keepers around 10 a.m. "If we caught what we missed, we would have a limit," said Dupree.
Competitors will weigh in at 2 p.m. ET today at Queen's Landing in Mooresville. Anglers can catch a limit of five bass per team, and the minimum size is 14 inches. To qualify to fish in this tournament, one member of each team must be a registered participant in the Toyota Trucks Bonus Bucks program.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Anglers have come from all over to take their best shot at Lake Norman during today's Toyota Trucks Bonus Bucks Owners Tournament. The competitors are fishing in a no-entry-fee tournament that pays down to the Top 30 team of two.


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Sept. 23, 2009
The NCAA Division I Championship/Sports Management Cabinet has announced that starting in 2011 they will permit the Women's Rowing Committee to grant automatic qualification into the championship.
The MAAC will be eligible for an automatic bid starting in 2012.
"I was very happy to hear that the AQ was granted to the womens rowing commitee and to learn that the MAAC will be eligible for AQ in 2 short years," said rowing head coach Al Ramirez. "It is very exciting to think that Loyola Women's Rowing could be eligible for a play-in competition to the NCAA tournament."
The Loyola women's rowing team won the 2009 MAAC Championship after posting wins in the Women's Pair, Novice 4, LW4, JV4 and the Varsity 4. They finished second in the Varsity 8 and the Novice 8. Head Coach Al Ramirez was also selected as the conference's coach of the year for a third time.
Loyola opens its 2009-2010 women's rowing schedule Saturday, October 10 on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia, Pa. The Schuylkill River is very popular with watersports enthusiasts. The Dad Vail Regatta, the largest intercollegiate rowing event in the nation, is held on the river near Boathouse Row, as is the annual Bayada Regatta, featuring disabled rowers from all over the continent.


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Multnomah University prepares students for meaningful careers that serve Jesus whether they're called to traditional ministry or the marketplace.
Stay connected to our community and help the next generation of Christian leaders become agents of positive change, whether they're serving across the street or across an ocean.
The dining facility in the Joseph C. Aldrich Student Center is a versatile space that can accomodate many different events or activities: dining arrangements, banquets, chapel sessions, weddings, receptions, concerts…the possibilities are nearly endless!


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Arch Capital Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:ACGL) Set to Announce Quarterly Earnings on Wednesday
Arch Capital Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:ACGL) will be issuing its quarterly earnings data after the market closes on Wednesday, July 26th. Analysts expect the company to announce earnings of $1.26 per share for the quarter.
Arch Capital Group (NASDAQ:ACGL) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 25th. The insurance provider reported $1.42 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.33 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $1.23 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.19 billion. Arch Capital Group had a return on equity of 8.85% and a net margin of 16.92%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.20 earnings per share. On average, analysts expect Arch Capital Group to post $5.34 EPS for the current fiscal year and $6.07 EPS for the next fiscal year.
Arch Capital Group Ltd. (NASDAQ ACGL) opened at 96.79 on Wednesday. The company has a market cap of $12.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.41 and a beta of 0.66. Arch Capital Group Ltd. has a 1-year low of $68.85 and a 1-year high of $99.21. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $95.07 and a 200-day moving average price of $93.61.
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ACGL has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Deutsche Bank AG lifted their price target on Arch Capital Group from $78.00 to $87.00 and gave the company a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, March 30th. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods set a $95.00 price target on Arch Capital Group and gave the company a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, April 6th. Wells Fargo & Company reiterated a "hold" rating on shares of Arch Capital Group in a report on Wednesday, April 26th. Morgan Stanley lifted their price objective on Arch Capital Group from $90.00 to $96.00 and gave the stock an "equal weight" rating in a report on Friday, April 28th. Finally, BidaskClub cut Arch Capital Group from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Saturday, June 10th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating to the company's stock. The company presently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $92.09.
In other news, CFO Mark Donald Lyons sold 8,266 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $93.53, for a total transaction of $773,118.98. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, Director John D. Vollaro sold 2,033 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $97.32, for a total value of $197,851.56. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 166,700 shares of company stock worth $15,923,004. Insiders own 6.60% of the company's stock.
About Arch Capital Group
Arch Capital Group Ltd. provides insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance. The Company provides a range of property, casualty and mortgage insurance and reinsurance lines. The Company operates in five segments: insurance, reinsurance, mortgage, other and corporate. The insurance segment's product lines include construction and national accounts; excess and surplus casualty; lenders products; professional lines; programs; property, energy, marine and aviation; travel, accident and health, and other.
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Atomica Ruleset
Section One consists of the "laws" of blognomic, covering basic Player and proposal mechanics; Section Two contains the "rules" of the current round, and Section Three contains the glossary, which exists to clarify the remainder of the Ruleset.
Ruleset and Gamestate
if a Player wants the Ruleset to apply to em, e must obey the Ruleset.
no Player may do anything.
if two Rules contradict each other, the Rule further in the Ruleset takes precedence.
*BlogNomic is the game of nomic running at blognomic.com.
any post on the blognomic.com weblog is a *Post. to make a Post on the weblog is to *Submit a Post.
the *Ruleset for BlogNomic is this document.
*Laws are items in this section.
*Rules are items in the Ruleset. a Law is a Rule, but a Rule is not necessarily a Law.
the *Gamestate is the set of all things that are *Official.
the Ruleset is Official.
all data in the GNDT is Official.
all data in the sidebar, including names of the Players and which Players are Admins, is Official.
the Gamestate may not be altered.
any Admin may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset.
any entity capable of registering and Voting is a *Player.
all Players, at all times, are either *Registered, *Pre-Registered, or *Unregistered.
all Registered Players, at all times, are either *Active or *Idle.
any Player, if e is Unregistered, may become Pre-Registered by registering at http://blognomic.com via the register link in the sidebar and Submitting a Post announcing that e has done so.
any Admin may add any Pre-Registered Player to the roster in the sidebar, at which moment the Pre-Registered Player becomes Registered and Active.
any Player may become Unregistered by Submittng a Post announcing so.
an *Admin is a Player responsible for updating the site and the Ruleset.
an existing Admin may stop being an Admin at any time e wishes. if a Player wishes to become an Admin, e should Submit a Proposal to this effect.
if a Player has not Voted for more than a week or if e has asked to become Idle, then that Player is Idle.
any Admin may make any Idle Player Active at the Idle Player's request.
a single person may not control more than one Active Player. if anybody is suspected of controlling more than one Active Player, then a CfJ may be Submitted to make any of those Active Players Idle or un-Registered, and to bar the Player from becoming Active or Registered.
any Registered Player may Submit a Post.
a *Proposal is an Post that suggests any number of changes to the Ruleset or Gamestate.
any Active Player may Submit a Post here with a Proposal as the text and under the category of "Proposal"; to do so is to *Submit that Proposal.
a new Proposal is immediately *Pending.
all Proposals are Official.
a Proposal is either Pending, Closed, Self-Killed, or Vetoed until it is Elect, *Enacted, Pre-Failed, or *Failed, whenupon it cannot again become any of the former four.
a Player may not Submit a Proposal if e already has Submitted 2 Proposals that are Pending. a Player may not Submit a Proposal more than 3 times in one day.
all Active Players may comment on a Post.
this is the Symbol representing FOR.
this is the Symbol representing AGAINST.
this is the Symbol representng DEFERENTIAL. all of these are *Symbols.
if an Active Player comments on a Post, and the comment contains a Symbol, that comment is a *Vote on that Post.
if a Vote has only one Symbol in it, that Vote is *Valid. a Valid Vote with the Symbol representing X is called a Vote of X or an X Vote.
if there exists more than one Vote from a single Player on one Post, only the most recent of those Votes is Valid.
if a Player is Idle or Unregistered, none of eir Votes on Posts are Valid.
all DEFERENTIAL Votes on a Post are equivalent to the Vote from the Emperor on that Post.
a Vote of DEFERENTIAL from the Emperor is not Valid.
there is always a FOR Vote on a Proposal from the Player who Submitted a Proposal.
if the number of FOR Votes on the oldest Pending Proposal exceed or equal Quorum and that Proposal has been Pending for at least 12 hours, then that Proposal is *Elect.
if the oldest Pending Proposal has been Pending for over 48 hours and more than half of the Valid Votes on it are FOR Votes, then that Proposal is Elect.
an Admin may make an Elect Proposal Enacted and change the Ruleset and Gamestate as specified in that Proposal.
if there is a Vote on a Proposal from the Player who submitted it containing the Symbol for AGAINST, that Proposal is *Self-Killed.
if there are enough AGAINST Votes on the oldest Pending or Self-Killed Proposal that it could not become Elect without a Vote on it becoming non-Valid or becoming a non-AGAINST Vote, it immediately becomes *Pre-Failed.
if there exists a Valid Vote on the oldest Pending or Self-Killed Proposal from all Active Players and it still cannot become Elect, it immediately becomes Pre-Failed.
if the oldest Pending or Self-Killed Proposal has been Pending for at least 48 hours and half or fewer of the Valid Votes on it are FOR Votes, it immediately becomes Pre-Failed.
if the oldest Pending or Self-Killed Proposal is Self-Killed, it immediately becomes Pre-Failed.
an Admin may make any Pre-Failed Proposal Failed.
when an Admin marks a Proposal as Enacted or Failed e must report the following information on the Proposal:
- the final counts of FOR Votes and AGAINST Votes, whether the proposal was Self-Killed prior to becoming Pre-Failed, or whether the Proposal was Vetoed.
- the time of Enactment or Failure
- the identity of the Enacting or Failing Admin
Calls for Judgment
if two or more Active Players disagree as to the interpretation of the Ruleset, or if an Active Player feels that an aspect of the game needs urgent attention, then the game is in *Dispute.
a *Call for Judgement (or *CfJ) is a Post that describes the disagreement or aspect of the game that needs attention made.
a new CfJ is immediately *Pending.
if the game is in Dispute, an Active Player may Submit a CfJ in the "Call for Judgment" category.
a Player may Submit a CfJ anonymously. (by choosing "Call for Judgment" from the author drop-down menu on the OPTIONS tab.)
the *Timeout of a CfJ is two days after it is Submitted if the game is in Hiatus, or four days after it is Submitted if the game is not in Hiatus.
If more than half of the Valid Votes on a CfJ are FOR Votes, that CfJ is *Supported.
If the number of FOR Votes on a CfJ exceeds Quorum or the Timeout of a CfJ has been reached and the CfJ is Supported, the CfJ is *Enacted and no longer Pending.
an admin may change the Ruleset and Gamestate as specified in an Enacted CfJ.
If there is a Quorum of AGAINST Votes on a CfJ or the Timeout of a CfJ has been reached and the CfJ is not Supported, the CfJ is *Failed and no longer Pending.
Gamestate Tracking
if a Post follows the format specified by a Rule, that Post is Official.
if no Player has commented on it, an Official Post may be altered or removed.
an Admin may change the Admin field of a Post.
a non-Official Post may not become Official.
Gamestate data may be tracked by the *Generic Nomic Data Tracker (or *GNDT) (at http://blognomic.com/gndt/generic.cgi?nomic=blog). All updates to the GNDT are logged.
if a Player feels that a change to the Gamestate is not allowed by the Ruleset at the time of the change, e may undo that change.
if an undoing is disputed, the game is in Dispute.
Players shall be assigned a password for the GNDT when they become Registered.
at all times BlogNomic is in a *Dynasty.
each Dynasty may have an *Emperor.
if a Dynasty has an Emperor, it is named according to the number of times which that Emperor has been Emperor. (eg. "The First Dynasty of Myke").
the Emperor may make any Proposal Pre-Failed (or *Vetoed) by commenting on that Proposal using the VETO icon. if this is thought excessively unreasonable, the game is in Dispute.
the Emperor may change the BlogNomic header, the colour scheme, and the voting icons whenever e likes.
A page of Dynasty Records is kept on a separate weblog, recording events that took place during past Dynasties, noting eir themes, eir Emperor or equivalent, interesting rules, large arguments, the winning move, etc. A Dynasty record must accurately reflect the Dynasty it refers to. Players may submit Dynasty Records to the Emperor.
if there is no Emperor, any Proposal may suggest that BlogNomic become in a *Metadynasty. a Metadynasty is a Dynasty with no Emperor.
Metadynasties are named according to the number of Metadynasties that have occured (eg. "Third Metadynasty").
a Proposal may suggest a name change for a Metadynasty.
when BlogNomic is in a Metadynasty, a Proposal may suggest a new header, colour scheme, Metadynasty name, and/or voting icons.
when BlogNomic is in a Metadynasty, a DEFERENTIAL Vote is not Valid.
A Metadynasty ends when a Player becomes Emperor.
Victory and Ascension
if a Player has achieved *Victory, e may Submit a Post entitled "Declaration of Victory". this Post is a *Declaration of Victory (or *DoV).
Victory must be defined by Rules that are not Laws.
a new DoV is immediately *Active.
when a DoV has been Submitted, the game becomes in *Hiatus and all Pending Proposals become Closed.
if the game is in Hiatus, the game is no longer in Hiatus if there are no Pending CfJs and no Active or Passed DoVs.
no Player may do anything if the game is in Hiatus except take actions described in the sections "Players", "Calls for Judgement", and "Victory and Ascension".
if an Active DoV is 12-24 hours old, there exist a Quorum of Valid Votes on it, and there is a Valid Vote on it from the Emperor, the DoV is *Closed.
if an Active DoV is over 24 hours old, it is Closed.
if an Active, Closed DoV has a Quorum of Valid Votes on it, and more than half of the Valid Votes on it are FOR Votes, the DoV is *Passed and no longer Active; otherwise, it is *Failed and no longer Active.
when a DoV becomes Passed, the Player who Submitted that DoV is *Victorious, and all other Active DoVs become Failed and no longer Active.
if a Player is Victorious, e may *Pass the Mantle to another Player.
if the Victorious Player Passes the Mantle and the passee accepts, the passee becomes Victorious and the passer is no longer Victorious.
When a Player becomes Victorious, all Players' GNDT stats are reset to zero or blank.
an *Ascension Address is a Post that specifies a theme for a new Dynasty, identification of any number of rules to be repealed, and words to replace "Player" and "Emperor" in the Gamestate.
the Victorious Player must either Submit an Ascension Address or Pass the Mantle.
when a Victorious Player Submits eir Ascension Address, e may change the Gamestate as specified in eir Ascension Address; at this point the game is in a new Dynasty, the Victorious Player becomes Emperor, and the game is no longer in Hiatus.
an Emperor may not declare victory in eir own Dynasty.
this is always at the end of the Ruleset. its purpose is to clarify ambiguity and define conventions to be used in the ruleset.
where a Proposal would change the effects of Proposal Enactment, the changes in the Proposal do not apply to its own Enactment unless explicitly stated. (eg. a proposal proposing that enacted proposals earn their writer a banana when enacted would not earn a banana for its own writer, when enacted).
rules which trigger on Enactment or Failure of a Proposal are the responsibility of the acting Admin, who is responsible to check if Quorum is met at the moment of the Enactment.
a Keyword defined by a rule supersedes the normal english usage of the word. A Keyword defined in this glossary supersedes that defined by a rule. (eg. A rule specifying "Bananas are Blue" cannot be overruled by posting a dictionary definition or a photo of a banana, and a rule specifying "every day is Sunday" will be overruled by the glossary entry below.)
unless otherwise specified, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers, and any action that would set those values below zero instead sets them to zero.
any situation which would require a roll of DICEX when X is zero or lower always yields a value of 0 unless stated otherwise.
superficial differences between the spelling of geographic versions of english, e.g, british english, american english, australian english, etc. shall be construed as irrelevant for the purposes of play.
Typographic Conventions
italicized text is not considered part of the Ruleset and may be used to clarify rules with examples, notes and flavor text. For example, this italicized text provides an example of the use of italicized text.
a capitalized word (a Keyword) carries a definition defined by the Ruleset rather than an english definition. it is recommended that where a Keyword is defined it is used in bold and prefixed with an asterisk, but this is not necessary. asterisks are not considered to be part of the Ruleset, but they are Official.
a single capitalized letter represents a dummy variable that applies only within the text of the rule in which it is found. (e.g., X or Y)
a Day (as an entity rather than a duration, eg. "Sunday") is a day in the timezone of the BlogNomic blog, which is considered to be GMT for all purposes.
a Week is the period of time between the start of a monday and the end of the following sunday.
all references to time must be either specific or defined within the Ruleset to be considered achievable in the Gamestate. abstract concepts of time (e.g. "dinnertime", "twilight") cannot be achieved until they fulfil one of these criteria.
an action which may be taken Often may be taken once per day, but not more than once every six hours.
an action which may be taken Occasionally may be taken once per week, but not more than once per twenty-four hours.
Quorum is equal to half the number of Active Players, rounded down, plus one.
a YDICEX is the sum of the rolls of Y X-sided dice. a DICEX is the roll of an X-sided die. to roll dice, post DICEX in the comments field of a post, replacing X with the number of sides on the die you wish to roll.
- the spivak pronouns used in Blognomic are:
- subject case: "e";
- object case: "em";
- possessive adjective case: "eir";
- possessive pronoun case: "eirs";
- reflexive case: "emself".
- the iEEE auxiliary verbs used in Blognomic are:
- is required to: "shallâ€;
- is recommended that: "shouldâ€;
- is permitted to: "mayâ€;
- is able to: "canâ€.


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This pattern booklet is a collection of 35 squares, choose one or choose many, mix and match to make your afghan truly one of a kind.
Gauge and square measurements are given for dk and worsted weight yarn. If you find you are knitting a bit larger than the specified gauge, please be sure to allow extra yarn for your project.
Click here to go to our store to purchase a PDF of the Knit Michigan Afghan Pattern.
The story behind the afghan:
It took hundreds of hours and many dedicated volunteers to create this afghan.
When we started the afghan project, we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. In retrospect, we are now absolutely convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that GAUGE MATTERS!
These squares have been knit at least three times each.
Thanks to the gargantuan effort of automotive engineer by day and knitwear designer by night, Jae Koscierzynski, this project was nurtured. Jae tech edited, knit, created charts, reworked and knit some more. Elke Probst created even more charts, proofed all patterns and knitted them one more time in two weights of yarn. Finally, Dawn Snyder used her crocheting expertise to put them all together. Joan Sheridan and Peggy McGee did the layout and design and photo editing. The afghan "glamor" shots were taken by Scott Orser at Orser Studio in downtown Lake Orion. Scott also composed the cover photo for us. Chris Jeryan, provided proofreading services. A big shout out to Karin Skacel (skacelknitting.com) and Diana Harker (Skacel Rep) for their ongoing support of Knit Michigan and Skacel's generous yarn donations for knitting the two afghans that were knit. And, finally, thanks to Berroco (berroco.com) for providing yarn for the final test knitting of the squares.
All this work happened after 31 creative knitters volunteered their time to design and knit an individual square. We are totally impressed with the effort and dedication of all our volunteers and hope you will appreciate and benefit from the countless hours that went into this project.


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Yes, you are correct. The first part is a specific legacy to a specific person. The second part is the residuary estate clause - the sweeping up clause.
When a person passes away there may be an IHT burden. The Will must therefore deal with how the estate pays this burden.
The first legacy clause does not deal with the payment of IHT. The residuary estate clause does -
"to pay my debts funeral and testamentry expenses and all duty or tax payable"
This means that all IHT payable on the estate is to be paid out of the residuary estate, including the proportion attributable to the value of he gift left in the first specific legacy. The deceased's other debt shall also come out of this.
Whatever is left is to be shared between john doe and jane blogs, or which ever one of them is still alive following the death of the other.
It is important to note that the first legacy does not contain a substitution provision, which means that if the bank account is empty then john doe shall not receive anything else as substitution/replacement.
When a person's estate passes there may be an IHT burden. Each part of the
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only one thing the phraze all monies I take that to mean any bank account and isa s that my aunt may have taken out after makeing her will? so for ex ample there was 20 ,000 in her isa acount that would go to John doe and the funeral debts and all other debts would be taken from the sale of my aunts house? and whats left shared equaly between John doe and Jane bloggs, is there anyway that this could be turned about by another solicitor as my mother says the debts come from the money fost then the house also I know that my aunt had 20 , 000 in an isa acoount after her death what if it not there now?because ive not been told alot by the solicitor acting for my aunt yet and do solictitors have to have to beneficaries best intrests at all times?
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The first legacy includes:-
1. the savings in the abc bank
2. the ABC savings bond
3. any other cash (ie. in other accounts or held at home/elsewhere)
The above will pass without deduciton (ie. so they do not have to bear the burden of IHT or other debts) and it includes any monies which she acquired after she made the Will provided they are one of the three above.
The debts would come out of her other assets (eg. insruance policies, properties etc).
If this is not what she wants then she needs to see her solicitor about changing her Will.
Solicitors only act in accordance with the client's instructions and in their best interests, this is a conduct rule. They would not talk to you about the Will unless they had the person's written authority to do so.
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Mr Hockey said on Wednesday he hoped to announce the panel members of the inquiry before the end of the year, although their work would probably officially kick off next year. He predicted a "fairly lengthy" inquiry.
"We'd need at least eight to nine months and I have identified a couple of people overseas that I'd like involved in the inquiry as well," Mr Hockey said at a Canberra press conference.
One of the objectives of the Treasurer is to find ways to reduce Australia's reliance on offshore funding sources, which the country has historically relied on due to a shortage of local savings relative to investment needs.
Industry sources said London-based former Westpac chief executive David Morgan would be an ideal candidate given his finance and public policy experience, if he was interested in such a role.
A former deputy secretary at Treasury, Mr Morgan now works for private equity fund JC Flowers. He could not be reached for comment.
"When we move on the financial system inquiry, one of the main terms of reference will be to focus on how we as a nation can fund ourselves without relying on borrowing from the rest of the world," Mr Hockey said.
"It is not something that can be solved easily and quickly."
He added: "I want to reduce our exposure to the world and to global capital markets for the funding of our daily needs."
The Treasurer has spoken to people he wants involved in the inquiry, which he has dubbed the "son of Wallis", after the 1997 financial inquiry led by businessman
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Hiroshi Inoue wrote: > Hiroshi Inoue wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I posted a patch 18 days ago but have got no responce. >> Anyway I've simplified the patch by using an appropriate >> gettext module. >> >> Hiroshi Inoue wrote: >>> Bruce Momjian wrote: >>>> Tom Lane wrote: >>>>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes: >>>>>> Thomas H. wrote: >>>>>>> so at least that explains the "changed" behaviour. nevertheless, >>>>>>> LC_MESSAGES seems to be defunct - with the "locale" folder present, >>>>>>> pg always picks the os' language and ignores the lc_message value. >>>>>> This looks like I can reproduce though, at least on cvs head. Did >>>>>> this >>>>>> work for you in previous versions? >>>>> Maybe we were using a different build of gettext in the previous >>>>> releases, one that didn't look at the same info as the current code? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Where are we on this? >> >> AFAICS there are 2 causes. >> >> 1. MSVC version of postgres is using a bad gettext module. >> 2. getenv() in mingw cannot see the result of putenv() in MSVC8.0. >> >> As for 1, we have to use another gettext module. I can provide it >> if requested. Yes, I think that'll be needed. Exactly what is wrong and needs to be changed? (Copying DAve in on this since he builds the MSI) Is it possible to build this one with the same version of MSVC? If it is, then that should remove the need for #2, right? >> As for 2, pg_putenv() or pg_unsetenv() in the attachced patch calls >> corresponding putenv() whose result can be referenced by getenv() in >> mingw. Oh, yuck. This must be because msvcrt.dll (used by mingw) caches the values in the environment. That's a rather ugly solution, but I guess if we have no other choice.. Does it make a difference if you try to set the value using SetEnvironmentVariable()? It would definitely work if the gettext stuff uses GetEnvironmentVariable(). I doubt it does though, but it might work anyway... >> In addtion the patch provides a functionality to Windows locale >> name to ISO formatted locale name. >> >> Comments ? I wonder if it's cleaner to use this "load msvcrt version of setenv()" *always*. Or to cover all bases, perhaps we should always do *both* - that is, both set in current runtime and msvcrt.dll... We don't do this in a lot of places today, but we might use more in the future. And as long as it's not in a performance critical path, doing it twice is almost for free... There is already src/port/unsetenv.c, we should probably be building on top of that one. As for the code itself, there are some very non-postgresql-standard constructs in the patch, like: + if (result = IsoLocaleName(locale), NULL == result) + result = locale; And things like: + return NULL; break; is just wrong. And we don't normally write if (NULL == <something>). But these are fairly simple to fix, so I can do those at commit-time. //Magnus
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We present a new approach to the compression technique of Lyubashevsky et al for lattice-based signatures based on learning with errors (LWE).
Our ideas seem to be particularly suitable for signature schemes whose security, in the random oracle model, is based on standard worst-case computational assumptions. Our signatures are shorter than any previous proposal for provably-secure signatures based on standard lattice problems: at the 128-bit level we improve signature size from (more than) 16500 bits to around 9000 to 12000 bits.


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Colourful Kinect marionette shooter The Gunstringer arrives in UK stores on 16th September, developer Twisted Pixel has announced.
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Weekend Critic's Corner: 'Copper'
The worst shows are the ones you had every reason to think would be better.
Why wouldn't you expect the best from Copper (**½ out of four, BBC America, Sunday, 10 ET/PT)? It's produced by Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, who teamed for the cop-show classic Homicide: Life on the Streets.
It boasts one of the season's most intriguing ideas: an "Eastern" about an Irish-American homicide detective in 1864 New York. And it's the first original series from one of cable's best destinations, BBC America. And yet everything about the show feels just a bit off: underfunded, insufficiently cast and flatly written.
Even if you can tell one cop from the other in the early going, a task the show makes harder than it should, you'll have a hard time investing in either the dishwater dull performances or the shallow characters.
Still, in its favor, Copper shows us a world TV seldom visits, and takes us back to the pre-forensic days when cops relied on their wits to solve crimes — along with their guns, their fists and a considerable amount of lawless violence. That's a great premise.
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Thought these fabulous celebs rose up from rags to riches? Think again. Sure, they aren't obvious like Willow and Jaden Smith or Miley Cyrus, but they definitely had a little "money edge" in combination with famous parents. Voice and dance training, acting school, professional headshots - these are not cheap endeavours on the path to perfecting one's craft and getting noticed.
PopCrush reported on 10 pop stars who were rich when they came out of the womb - some obvious, some not. Here are our three picks from the list that seem a little more unsuspecting.
Known for his role on Glee, Darren has a pedigreed past. His father is a senior banker, acting as the Chairman and CEO of EastWest Bank when Darren was young; he was also on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Opera. If you aren't aware, it's not so easy to get on the board of an opera - you typically need to open up your wallet in a big way.
Jordin Sparks
PopCrush credits her for not using her daddy's fame to get her foot in the door and we agree! But dad's chequebook couldn't have hurt in all that voice prep. Phillippi Sparks is a former NFL cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys and N.Y. Giants - no big deal, right? Jordin, of course, became famous in her own right after winning 'American Idol' Season 6.
Robin Thicke
Robin might be the most surprising of them all. But a double take of his looks and you can see his dad's resemblance instantly. Let's throwback to the 80s and the television sitcom hit 'Growing Pains' - remember Dr. Jason Seaver? Yep, Robin is Alan Thicke's son. Robin's mother, Gloria Loring, is also famous for her role as Elizabeth Chandler on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives'. Robin, singer of the current summer hit 'Blurred Lines', most likely had no trouble networking or connecting with the right people with two TV veterans as parents.


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A. radicans is apparently a synonym for A. lobbianus, and has publication priority. The "radicans" group is quite broad -- it has a wide distribution with substantial regional variation. It's possible that a reworking of the genus will result in separation of some populations of this species into separate species. Another image may be seen here and an antique botanical print here.


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For many service members, joining the military is a choice to serve their country and better their own lives.
For one 1st Cavalry Division soldier, it's a choice that has run deep in his bloodline for more than 200 years.
Sgt. Robert George III, a signal support systems specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, is no stranger to the military. It's been a part of his family's heritage since his fifth great-grandfather fought in the Continental Army.
In fact, the Arizona-native has family members who have fought in most major armed conflicts since the 18th century, including the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I and Operation Desert Storm.
Cpl. John Albright, George's fifth great-grandfather, fought during the Revolutionary War in Valley Forge and the Siege of Yorktown.
Albright was taken prisoner twice — once by the British for 11 months after the fall of Fort Montgomery, and once by Native Americans during the fall of Fort Stanwix, where he was forced to carry heavy loads to Canada before receiving his freedom in a trade.
After Albright received his liberty, he immediately returned to service to continue fighting for the Continental Army, George said.
"There's no way for me to feel more proud," George said. "The sense of pride I have in knowing the patriotism I developed is not just based on a single act of terrorism, but it's ingrained in the fabric of my family history."
Despite growing up with military roots, George was originally unable to enlist in the armed forces due to a medical disqualification; however, at 16, he felt a calling from a higher power, which led him down a different path after high school.
"When I was 16, I became very religious and felt a desire to go into ministry," George said. "I did a year of junior college and then a year of seminary. Afterward, I became an interim youth pastor in Tucson, which was very enjoyable as it gave me the opportunity to help people."
George reached a turning point in his life shortly after, when he traveled with his ministry team to ground zero after 9/11 to provide emotional support to victims and family members affected by the tragic attacks on that fateful day.
George's sense of patriotism took over. After conflicts in multiple countries began, he decided to again try his luck with the military.
George visited his recruiter in 2004 in hopes of fulfilling his desire to serve. His mother's 20-year career in the Air Force and her participation in Operation Desert Storm that influenced him to attempt to enlist as an airman.
He qualified to join. But after all the paperwork was complete, George was informed he would not ship out to initial entry training for 12 months. The delay, coupled with a lack of funds, made him hastily decide to pursue another branch of service.
"I immediately grabbed my paperwork and went straight to the Army recruiter next door," George said. "The Army was able to offer me not only a job that I could utilize skills in after exiting the military, but also a duty station of choice while shipping out within six weeks. With all of that being said, my mom still pokes fun at me for not joining the Air Force."
George went on to be stationed in California, Korea and Washington before ending up at Fort Hood in January 2011 with the air cavalry brigade.
He was deployed to Afghanistan for a year with 3rd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, in June 2011. The deployment made him the seventh generation warfighter in his family.
"I'm extremely proud of the nine years of service I've had so far, and especially of my time in Afghanistan," he said. "It feels great to build upon my family's lineage of serving this great nation."


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Olivia stopped by the shop today at noon to sign autographs and take some pictures with fans!
Before we go any further, let's clear something up. Don't believe everything you read on the interwebs…Olivia is still with the shop.
Today fans packed into the back show room to sneak a peak at their favorite night shift pawn shop lady! Olivia was on hand signing some photos of herself that were taken here at the shop in the back courtyard with the Old Man's Oldsmobile.


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The Dream
Have you ever felt like a dream will never end? Almost like, like you have been sucked into it. Like your now living in that world of your dream. I had a dream once it was so vivid ,and so real it was almost alive like I was living in that meadow. It was so very strange at the same time. What I remember from that dream frightens me every day.
I was running. I'm not sure from what. I just remember running until I couldn't carry myself no more. My face hit the grass. I laid there for what seemed an eternity. When I rolled over to start running again, something wasn't the same. I let my eyes focus onto what I was looking at. It was my mom, and my two best friends, Meagan,and April.
"Hello." Meagan,and April called to me. Something was off about them I wasn't sure what though.
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"The so-called Banquet of Chestnuts had been arranged for the pope by his son, Cardinal Cesare Borgias, and the food and wine was just the opening act in a long and colourful evening.
The banquet was held in the pope's official residence, the Apostolic Palace
It was late by the time the last dishes had been served but no one was in any mood to go to their beds. Indeed the atmosphere was heavily charged. The servants cleared the tables and removed the candelabras, but instead of taking them away they started arranging them on the floor.
The fiveten dancing courtesans were meanwhile starting to disrobe. When they re-emerged in the banqueting hall, at an hour when the pope should have been at his prayers, they were all completely naked."
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 21, 2012
Chinese police have detained two people accused of inciting unrest in online postings, state media and a rights group said Wednesday in a sign of official concern over potential social instability.
Police in south China's Guangdong province detained a car owner for posting messages online trying to organise a bumper sticker campaign against rising vehicle licencing fees, the Global Times reported.
The owner, publicly identified only by an online name, hoped for 100 cars to parade around Yangjiang city to protest a proposed new 400 yuan ($65) annual vehicle licencing fee, the report said.
The driver printed bumper stickers depicting a clenched fist and reading: "To hell with the annual fee" and "Say no to corruption!", the state-owned paper said, and was detained by the authorities.
No protest took place and the licence fee has yet to be approved.
In the second case, police in Beijing took away Zhai Xiaobing on November 7 after he posted a joke about the collapse of the Great Hall of the People, where the Communist Party held a once-a-decade leadership transition this month, the Chinese Human Rights Defenders said.
Zhai wrote on Twitter that the collapse would happen in an upcoming film in the "Final Destination" horror franchise starting on November 8, the same day the party meeting started, the group said.
Twitter is blocked inside China and only web users who know how to circumvent the censors' "Great Firewall of China" can access it.
Zhai's disappearance has led several hundred people, including dissident artist Ai Weiwei, to sign an online petition for his release, the group said.
Both cases have raised concerns among lawyers, who say the detentions are not legal, while social media commentators have raised fears over curbs on civil liberties.
"The car owner shouldn't be detained as there was no parade or gathering," the Global Times quoted Xie Jiajun, a lawyer in Guangdong, as saying.
Police in Yangjiang refused to comment on the case when contacted by AFP. Beijing police were not immediately available for comment on Zhai's case.
The Chinese Human Rights Defenders said Zhai was being investigated for the crime of "spreading terrorist information".
The Nanfang Rural News identified the car owner as going by the name Zhu Fu 4321 and said the detention was for "inciting and planning illegal gatherings, protest marches and demonstrations and refusing to listen to warnings".
It added that Zhu Fu 4321's protest call came in late October, when police nationwide were on alert to quash all unrest ahead of the once-in-a-decade communist leadership handover.
The ruling party keeps a tight grip on dissent and China's vast security apparatus attempts to curb social unrest before it gathers momentum, while controlling reporting and online discussion of such events.
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The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer has granted the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL) project an Excellency in Technology Transfer award for technology that will lead to microprocessors that are tens of times faster than today's most powerful chips.
The technology also will create memory chips with similar increases in storage capacity. The EUVL team is made up of scientists and researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories collaborating as the Virtual National Laboratory.
The team has successfully transferred the EUVL technology under a multi-year CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) to the Extreme Ultraviolet Limited Liability Company (EUV LLC), a consortium headed by Intel Corporation that includes chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Infineon, Micron Technologies and Motorola.
Current lithography technology -- which uses light, focused by lenses, to imprint features etched on a silicon chip -- has advanced during the past 25 years to essentially double the number of features that can be packed onto each chip every two years.
However, by 2007, the steady reduction in feature sizes possible with visible and ultraviolet--light lithography are expected to reach a physical limit, halting advances in the speed and power of microprocessors.
EUVL has been targeted by industry as the next-generation lithography approach to be introduced in 2007 for high-volume manufacturing. It uses EUV light with a wavelength 10 times shorter than the current wavelengths.
Since the shorter wavelength is absorbed by lenses, the EUVL system must use a reflective optical system (coated mirrors) instead of transmitting lenses for the operating wavelength of 134 Angstroms. Industry watchers say EUV lithography could be used for the next decade, contrasting current lithographic techniques that are typically oudated within a few years.
The first full-scale prototype EUVL machine, located at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., was completed in 2001. The technology demonstrated by the prototype machine will make possible microprocessors that are 10 times faster with 10 times as many active transistors and memory chips that can store 40 times more information.
"This recognition marks another milestone in the evolution of EUVL technology," said Don Sweeney, Livermore's EUVL program manager and director of the EUV Virtual National Laboratory. "It truly is an honor to be recognized for the successful transfer of fundamental science developed at the national laboratory level to the private sector."
The FLC award is only given to organizations that have successfully transferred a technology to a commercial company. A panel of technology transfer experts from industry, state and local government, academia and the federal laboratory system evaluated the nominations.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's EUVL team is headed by Sweeney of the Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate. Current team members include Jennifer Alameda, Sasa Bajt, Anton Barty, Sherry Baker, Butch Bradsher, Henry Chapman, Carl Chung, Al Edge, Jim Folta, Layton Hale, Stefan Hau-Riege, Michael Johnson, Patrick Kearney, Cindy Larson, Rick Levesque, Paul Mirkarimi, Nhan Nguyen, Gary Otani, Don Phillion, Jeff Robinson, Mark Schmidt, Frank Snell, Gary Sommargren, Regina Soufli, Victor Sperry, Eberhard Spiller, John S. Taylor and Chris Walton.
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Dreadfully Uneditded - Poem by Hunter James
Jordan crept down the hallway, the creeks in the mahogany floorboards seemed abnormally loud and the fridge droned its superficial hum. He reached the door and slid in the small gold key silently turning as not to wake his parents who no doubt needed their rest. The door opened with hesitation and he stepped out, his toes curling in response to the cold tiles. The night was clear, birds could be heard in the distance and the stars shone through. A half moon glistened above his smile, Jordan sighed. He tip toed across the cold tiles until he felt the soft summer grass between his toes. The power switch was behind the bushes, this was Jordan's favourite and worst time of the night. He slid his tanned arm under a silver web and behind the bushes, he let his hands feel around before coming across the smooth plastic of the switch, he took a deep breath and slid it down.
The garden was now his garden, the stars now in Jordan's possession. The half moon now in his tattered pockets. The yard was illuminated, droning out life past the perimeter of the small house. The small fairy lights hidden amongst the branches of Jordan's reading tree scattered light wildly. The golden reindeers bright and wild spilt a warm glow across the white tiles. Jordan wasn't much a fan of Christmas lights, though these particular ones gave him comfort. He sighed, the reindeers brought him a summers kiss. The lights draped on the roof gave him the lingering words and hope of last summer and the giddy excitement of a million summers before. The world unravelled before him, this was Jordan's time of the night. No one else knew, no one else suspected as their cheeks dampened in the drool of their pillows. As his parents snored stupidly and his aunties stared dead at reality television that life had halted, was smiling and whispering to this hurt and curious boy.
Jordan had been in love, Jordan had been in fights, Jordan had been deep in many a forest, curious and unable to go back, Jordan had been drunk many a night though nothing mattered. Nothing mattered at this time, at this moment, this moment so flexible and unpredictable yet reliable.
Jordan had burned out, used the world to his disposal, breathed each breath in preparation of this moment. Jordan was finally home.
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This is absolutely wonderful to read, you should write books for teenagers. Nothing nicer than soft summer grass between toes too. Thank you tree (Report) Reply
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Robert De Niro isn't a huge soccer fan. He was interested enough in a recent game, however, that he crashed a random World Cup viewing in Brooklyn last week so he didn't miss watching the U.S. compete against Germany. The Meet the Fockers star was filming a new movie called The Intern in Brooklyn when it became clear he would miss the game if some sort of arrangements weren't made.
Warner Bros. set about making such arrangements for the actor. They even went so far as to email an apartment building resident near where filming was taking place to see about getting a satellite hooked up in time for the game.
"Our lead actor, Robert De Niro, would very much like to watch the World Cup game, today at 12pm. Would it be possible to place a small portable satellite on the building rooftop ASAP and run a cable to the street to help facilitate this request?" the email read.
Before such details were confirmed, however, it seems De Niro simply wandered into a home in which the production company was renting a space to use as their 'green room' and made himself cozy to watch the game.
"We got another email from a neighbor saying he talked to the crew and apparently he found a house of people watching it and joined them," the resident said.
Can you imagine how exciting it must have been for that group of U.S. soccer fans or for the home owner to not only be watching their team compete for the World Cup, but to be doing so with none other than Robert De Niro? Do you think they even realized just how huge a star he is?
"He wasn't going to miss the game!" a source said. "He's a true American. He has no problem hanging, he enjoyed it."
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The Packwood Ranch is an excellent dual-purpose property just East of Waco. It is productive, well-maintained, peaceful and quiet, and comes with a home and a foreman's house. The highlights include well-watered and cross-fenced pastures with good working pens, incredible wildlife opportunities with over 2 miles of frontage on Packwood Creek, and a mineral estate.
Water: The ranch has over two miles of Packwood Creek, over 7 small ponds, and two lakes, the largest being 1 to 2 acres in size. Average annual rainfall for this ranch is about 35". The houses and barns are serviced by community water.
Capacity: This ranch has historically been able to carry approximately 100 AU during normal conditions. The hay field will produce 65-85 bales a year with fertilizer.
Improvements: The main home was built in 2001 and has 4 bedrooms and 3 baths and 2,160 s.f. It has a brick exterior and is in great condition. The 1995 mobile home has about 1,200 s.f. Two barns are also in excellent condition and their sizes are 40' x 60', and 40' x 160'. Other features of the ranch include two sets of working pens in great condition, and a winding road with caliche gravel and entry gate.
Wildlife: This ranch has excellent wildlife habitat, especially in the lower areas along Packwood Creek. Turkeys roost in the creek bottoms and there are plenty of deer as well.
Location: The ranch is located just off of Highway 31, only 15 miles Northeast of Waco, or about 30 miles Southeast of Hillsboro. (A county road does not bisect this ranch. It has 1/2 mile of frontage on CR 3272 on the East side. CR 3273 is a misnomer on government maps, as that line is an abandoned railway and the land is deeded to the current ranch owner.)
Minerals: Minerals are available with an acceptable contract. There is not any current production.
Taxes: The ranch is assessed with an agricultural valuation, with taxes of approximately $4,850 per year.
Equipment that will convey with an acceptable contract:
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Approximately 40 cows can be bought with a separate contract.
The ranch is in Mt. Calm ISD
This is a historical area. The settlement of Mount Calm in extreme south central Hill County occurred one mile south of the town's present site in the early 1850s, when an estimated fifty families moved to the area, attracted by the rich soils of the Blackland Prairie. A general store and a post office opened in 1858, and in 1881 the Texas and St. Louis Railway Company extended its line from Athens to Waco and passed within a mile of Mount Calm. By the following year all of the businesses and most of the residents had moved north to be beside the tracks, and the rest is history.
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Severe watershed degradation continues to occur in the tropical regions of southern Africa. This has raised interest to harness and manipulate the potential of the watershed resources for human benefit as the populations grow. Songwe River is one such degrading watershed causing biennial flooding among other problems. In this study, climatic, land use, topographic and physiographic properties were assembled for this watershed and used in a process-based Geographical Information System (GIS) with the aim of determining the hydrological sediment potential of Songwe River watershed and quantifying possibilities of reservoir sedimentation. The study further aimed at determining the critical sediment generating areas for prioritized conservation management and the relationship between the increasing flood events in the floodplains and the rainfall trends. Based on hydrological runoff processes using the Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment (PESERA) model, the estimated amount of sediment transported downstream is potentially huge. Most of the sediment generation was established to be occurring in the upper sub-basin and specifically from built up village and degraded natural land. These trends have not only caused the increased flooding events in the lower sub-basin, but also pose a great sustainability risk of sedimentation to the proposed reservoir.
Many river systems in the tropical regions of Africa continue to experience severe and uncontrolled environmental degradation. This has resulted into enhanced soil erosion in the catchments, thereby causing a range of problems from considerable loss of soil fertility and eventual desertification to accelerated river, canal and reservoir sedimentation and flooding [
Being the physical boundary between Malawi to the south and Tanzania on the northern bank, these trends have forced the authorities to search for solutions. This has since seen the establishment of the Songwe River Transboundary Catchment Management Project (SRTCMP). SRTCMP, a bilateral and multi-sectoral collaborative effort within the context of resource conservation and the fight against poverty, aims to assist the local people to improve their livelihoods while securing natural resource conservation [
There are significant precision differences on regulated and natural flow between individual dams as well as their methods of operation. However, common to them all is that dam construction does affect the river's distribution of discharge and its suspended material [
Environmentally, sediment transportation reflects the distributed erosion processes acting in the basin, as well as being a measure of the slow process of degradation and sequential loss of one of agriculture's critical natural resources, top soil [
The sediment load measured is usually the rock underlying the drainage basin. Until this rock is weathered into transportable fragments the sediment yield is low, which prompted [
Disturbances in vegetative cover (land use/cover changes due to agriculture, timber and charcoal harvest, construction and others) leave soils vulnerable to erosion. However, as [
With modalities to largely engineer a non-shifting river boundary and control floods through reservoir construction by the two bordering nations in the study area, [
The study area is a 4,278 km2 watershed with the 200 km Songwe River forming the physical boundary between the United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Malawi. It is part of the semi-arid Eastern and Southern African Great Rift Valley and lies between latitudes 9°6′23″–9°56′17″ South and longitudes 32°44′34"–33°56′31" East. Slightly over half of its total area falls in the districts of Ileje, Mbozi, Mbeya and Kyela of the Mbeya Region on the Tanzanian side and the rest in Karonga and Chitipa districts on the Malawi side. Three physiographic sub-basins (
The Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment (PESERA), a simplified hydrological process-based approach [
Erosion by running water, resulting from precipitation [
The monthly rainfall was derived from averaging monthly daily rainfall data for the years 1998 through to 2006 obtained from seven gauging stations, namely: Itungi, Songwe, Kyela, Karonga, Isangati, Chitipa and Idiwili (
Infiltration excess overland flow runoff was estimated from storm rainfall and soil moisture. A Hortonian process of point hydrological balance was then used to estimate sediment transport from the excess overland flow. This was coupled to a vegetation growth and soil model to: (i) budget for the living biomass and organic matter subject to the constraints of land use and cultivation choices; and (ii) estimate the required hydrological variables from moisture, vegetation and seasonal rainfall history, respectively [
Runoff thresholds determine near-surface water store and soil properties constrain its upper limit [
Vegetation cover reduces with real time processes of fire, plant gathering and grazing [
Sediment transport was then estimated with sediment yield,
Σ taken over the frequency distribution of daily rainfall storm events in an average year, and
With the catchment experiencing seasonal rainfalls, the derived vegetation cover was pegged at 30% for all the months, except the wetter months of February (50%), March (70%) and April (90%) where the rainfall peaks [
Basin storage of sediment is an important variable in reservoir sedimentation management practices as not all the sediment eroded from uplands is immediately delivered downstream [
A multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) was then run to identify the critical areas requiring prioritized conservation management on the following factors: (i) distance to the river channel; (ii) slope; and (iii) the estimated PESERA outputs of runoff as a delivery medium [
Estimated mean annual sediment generation varied considerably in magnitude, but showed no significant spatial variability. Worrying levels are confined to the upper catchment (
It is important to verify whether the assumptions made this far are reasonable and whether they adequately reflect the essential features and behavior of the real system. In modeling, it is important that input variables can be satisfactorily measured in the field or otherwise and, as such, PESERA avoided difficult variables, such as the zone depth
However, a limited number of measured values were used. This necessitated interpolation to fill the entire study area and it is understood that this may add uncertainties to the measured values due to the interpolation scheme. Uncertainties are also introduced in the choice of derived vegetation cover for each month that was based on the author's knowledge and experience of the study area given the lack of available monthly land cover data. Again, the data requirements for PESERA are substantially large to suffice the simulation process. While maintaining to be as physically based as possible, some empirical relations were inevitable (the
Sensitivity analysis demands alteration of each individual parameter and observation of the model output. However, with coded values in the land use and soil parameters (
The monthly distribution of the sediment deliverable to the reservoir follows the rainy season (
Sustainable watershed rehabilitation and management does not only depend on quantified magnitudes of sediment generated but also on awareness of the sediment residence time in the catchment [
Furthermore, the determination of whether sediments are from human or geological origin is of particular importance to reservoir capacity and storage sustainability [
Dams are built with a provision for a portion of the reservoir to hold incoming sediment loads projected to occur during the economic life of the dam, referred to as "dead storage" [
For the study area, a large proportion of the sediment originates from built up village land (
Reported intensive cut-and-burn agriculture [
With many of catchment conservation strategies focusing on addressing agricultural induced erosion, the evaluation of the catchment land use above suggests efforts should be also concentrated otherwise for significant reduction in reservoir sedimentation. The little, though significant correlation (0.455 at the 0.01 significance level) between the increasing rainfall events and observed discharge levels causing the floods in the floodplain, shows that there is more to the increased flood occurrences in the catchment than just the increased rainfall. [
Reduction of sedimentation is limited if the control measures are implemented in non-principal origins [
Though fraught with limitations even in the best of circumstances, this identification of sources of sediment serves to avoid guesswork in planning the management programs for sedimentation control in the watershed. It also develops awareness on whether the sources are amenable and whether the sedimentation control approaches can produce verifiable results.
Songwe River is a life line to the rural populations on its banks though its catchment continues to degrade. The catchment produces large amounts of sediment. Built up village land and degraded natural land constitute the critical sediment generating areas and this poses a two-tier sustainability risk to any reservoir constructed in the catchment, in that: (i) there is a direct potential of quick fill-up of the "dead" storage from the huge amount of fine sediment generated in the case of the built up village land; and (ii) a shifting sedimentation to "live" rather than "dead" storage due to the coarser sediment generated from the degraded natural land. Either way, the life expectancy of any reservoir to be constructed is at stake.
Despite that reducing soil erosion from agricultural land is important for other purposes, focusing on this would have limited impact on reducing reservoir sedimentation in the study area. This is largely because in this case, the principal sediment sources are largely non-agricultural and sediment residence time is long. With limited financial and technical resources, this systematic development and analysis of sedimentation serves to improve both the planning of the river basin development schemes and the allocation of resources towards reducing sedimentation. This is achievable by directing the erosion control methods to the highlighted critical areas where they would be most effective. This is important especially when the study has determined little significant statistical correlation between the flood occurrences and the increasing rainfall trends, a scenario that points to catchment degradation as the main culprit in causing the floods downstream.
Though the computer-based GIS analysis sets the ball rolling in the watershed management process to reduce reservoir sedimentation, further ground truthing work of the sediment sources is necessary. This will guarantee the suitability and hence success of any conservation attempt to achieve a sustainable watershed and fruitful efforts of the engineering work.
Intensive cut-and-burn Agriculture affecting the ecosystem functions in the Songwe river basin (Data from [
Physiographic sub-basins showing elevation distribution above sea level and proposed reservoir site (Adapted from [
Summary of the methodology.
Estimated average annual sediment generation (tonnes/hectare/year).
Control and Model sediment yield estimates delivered to the proposed reservoir site and observed sediment concentration at the Mwandenga Gauging Station just below the proposed reservoir site.
Sediment generation per land use and proportion of each land use type.
Soil and water conservation requirements for the Songwe River catchment; (a) settlement and arable land; and (b) degraded natural land.
Summary of input datasets (Adapted from [
|Mean monthly rainfall
|Mean monthly rainfall per rain day
|Coefficient of variation of monthly rainfall per rain day.
|Mean monthly temperature corrected for altitude
|Monthly temperature range (max–min)
|Mean monthly Potential Evapo-Transpiration
|Land cover type/management option
|Initial ground cover (updated for agricultural land with reference to planting dates)
|0, 5, 10
|Initial surface storage
|0, 50
|Surface roughness reduction per month
|Root depth
|Crust storage
|Sensitivity to erosion
|Effective soil water storage
|5, 10, 15, 20, 30
|Scale depth
|Standard deviation of elevation within 1.5 km radius
Observed sediment concentration for Mwandenga gauging station (Data from [
|December 31, 2002
|January 21, 2003
|February 14, 2003
|March 28, 2003
|April 24, 2003
|May 24, 2003


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