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New Chair appointed to AMSA Board
Media Release
12 November 2014
Tasmanian commercial fisherman Mr Stuart John Richey AM has been appointed as Chair of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) Board and will take up the post as of 21 November 2014.
Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's mission is to ensure safe vessel operations, to combat marine pollution and to rescue people in distress.
"With his depth of knowledge in commercial vessel operations, Mr Richey is an ideal appointment to further the Australian Maritime Safety Authority mission," Mr Truss said.
"Since July 2013, Mr Richey has been serving as a Member and since April 2014 as Deputy Chair on the Australian Maritime Safety Authority Board, bringing to the table his strong leadership style and his years of experience in marine policy and planning.
"Between 1992 and 2001, Mr Richey served as foundation member and Deputy Chair on the Board of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.
"As Managing Director of Richey Fishing Company and Richey Services, Mr Richey's business includes aerial fish spotting, salmon, scallop, shark, squid and charter operations.
"He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2005, for service to the commercial fishing industry, particularly the promotion of sustainable utilisation of Australian Government managed fisheries resources and the development of new national marine polices and safety legislation."
Mr Truss thanked outgoing Chair Mr Leo Zussino for his significant contribution to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority since he was appointed in November 2008.
"Mr Zussino added a new perspective to Australian Maritime Safety Authority's regulatory role and its involvement in the development of maritime safety and environmental standards," he said.
"I wish Mr Zussino every success in his future endeavours."
Further information on the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's operations for safe shipping, clean seas and saving lives is available online at www.amsa.gov.au.


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The Turner Diaries
by Andrew Macdonald
Chapter VII
October 23, 1991. This morning is my first chance to write since Katherine and I picked up the munitions in Maryland last week. Our unit has carried out three missions in the last six days.
Altogether, the Organization is held responsible for more than 200 separate incidents in different parts of the country, according to news reports. We are really into the thick of a guerrilla war now.
Last Monday night, Henry, George, and I raided the Washington Post. It was a quick thing, requiring little preparation, although we did argue for a few minutes ahead of time about the way it should be done.
Henry was for going after personnel, but we ended up wrecking one of their presses instead. Henry's idea was that the three of us should force our way into the newsroom and editorial offices on the sixth floor of the Washington Post building and kill as many people as we could with fragmentation grenades and machine guns. If we struck just before their 7:30 PM deadline, we would catch nearly everyone in.
George overruled that maneuver as being too risky to be carried out without detailed planning. Hundreds of people work in the Washington Post building, and the sounds of grenades and shooting on the sixth floor would probably bring a lot of them swarming into the stairwells and lobby. If we tried to come down on the elevators, someone could pull the main switch on us, and we'd be trapped.
On the other hand, the Post's pressroom is visible through a big plate-glass window from the lobby. So I rigged up a makeshift bomb by taping a hand grenade to a small anti-tank mine. The whole thing weighed about six pounds and was quite awkward, but it could be thrown about 50 feet like an oversized grenade.
We parked in an alley about 100 yards from the main entrance of the Post. As soon as George had disarmed the guard, Henry blasted a huge hole in the pressroom window with his sawed-off shotgun. Then I pulled the pin on the grenade-mine contraption I had rigged and heaved it into the rollers of the nearest press, which was just being plated up for the night's run.
We ducked behind the masonry parapet while the bomb exploded, and then Henry and I hurriedly threw half-a-dozen thermite grenades into the pressroom. We were all back in the all before anyone had even come out onto the sidewalk, and so no one saw our car. Katherine, of course, had done her usual magic with our faces.
The next morning the Post appeared on the streets about an hour later than usual, and home subscribers missed their papers altogether, since the early editions had been skipped, but the Post was otherwise apparently none the worse for wear. We had substantially damaged only one press with our bomb and smoked things up a bit with our incendiary grenades, one of which set a barrel of ink afire, but the Post had lost virtually none of its capacity for spreading its lies and venom as a result of our efforts.
We were quite chagrined by this outcome. It became clear to us that we had foolishly taken a risk far out of proportion to any advantage which could have been reasonably expected.
We have resolved that, in the future, we will undertake no mission on our own initiative until we have carefully evaluated its objective and convinced ourselves that it is worth the risk. We cannot afford to strike the System simply for the sake of striking, or we will become like an army of gnats trying to bite an elephant to death. Each blow must be carefully calculated for its effect.
Henry's idea of attacking the Post's newsroom and editorial of fices seems much better in retrospect. We should have held off for a few days in order to work out a sound plan which would have really crippled the Post, instead of rushing into our halfassed raid on its presses. All we really succeeded in doing was putting the Post on guard and making any future raids much more hazardous.
We did redeem ourselves a bit the morning after the raid, however. Surmising that the editorial staff had spent most of the night in their offices writing new copy about the events of the evening and would, therefore, be at home sleeping late, we decided to pay one of them a visit.
After looking over the newspaper, we settled on the editorialpage editor, who had written a particularly vicious editorial against us. His words dripped with Talmudic hatred. Racists like us, he said, deserve no consideration from the police or any decent citizen. We should be shot down on sight like mad dogs. Quite a contrast with his usual solicitude for Black rapists and murderers and his tirades against "police brutality" and "overreaction" !
Since his editorial was an incitement to murder, it seemed to us only appropriate that he be given a taste of his own remedy.
Henry and I rode a bus downtown and then waved down a taxi with a Black driver. By the time we pulled up in the editor's driveway in Silver Spring, the Black was in the trunk-dead.
I waited in the taxi while Henry rang the bell and told the woman who answered that he was delivering a package from the Post and needed a signed receipt. When the sleepy-eyed editor appeared at the door in his bathrobe a few moments later, Henry literally blew him in half with two blasts from the sawed-off shotgun he had been carrying under his jacket.
On Wednesday all four of us (Katherine drove the car) completely destroyed the Washington area's most powerful TV transmitter. That one was hairy, and there were moments when I didn't think we were going to get away.
It is still not clear what effect all our activity is having on the general public. For the most part they are just going about their affairs as they always have.
There have been effects, though. The National Guards of a dozen states have been called up to reinforce local police forces, and there are now large, around-the-clock guard details stationed outside every government building in Washington, the major media of fices in a number of cities, and the homes of hundreds of government officials.
Within a week, I suspect, every Congressman, every Federal judge, and every Federal bureaucrat from the assistant-secretary level on up will have been assigned a permanent bodyguard detail. All the sandbags, machine guns, and khaki uniforms that one is beginning to see everywhere in Washington cannot help but raise the consciousness of the public-although I'm sure the situation is much less dramatic out in Iowa than it is here.
Our biggest difficulty is that the public sees us and everything we do only through the media. We are able to make ourselves enough of a nuisance that the media can't afford to ignore or belittle us, and so they are using the opposite tactic of deluging the public with distortions, half-truths, and lies about us. For the last two weeks they've been giving us a non-stop roasting, trying to convince everyone that we are the incarnation of evil, a threat to everything decent, noble, and worthwhile.
They have unleashed the full power of the mass media on us; not just the usual biased-news treatment, but long "background" articles in the Sunday supplements, complete with faked photographs of Organization meetings and activities, discussions by "experts" on TV panel shows-everything! Some of the stories they've invented about us are really incredible, but I'm afraid the American public is just gullible enough to believe them.
What's happening now is reminiscent of the media campaign against Hitler and the Germans back in the 1940's: stories about Hitler flying into rages and chewing carpets, phony German plans for the invasion of America, babies being skinned alive to make lampshades and then boiled down into soap, girls kidnapped and sent to Nazi "stud farms." The Jews convinced the American people that those stories were true, and the result was World War II, with millions of the best of our race butchered -by us-and all of eastern and central Europe turned into a huge, communist prison camp.
Now it looks very much like the System has again made the deliberate decision to build up a state of war hysteria in the public by representing us as an even bigger threat than we really are. We are the new Germans, and the country is being wound up psychologically to lick us.
Thus, the System is cooperating more fully than we could have imagined in arousing the public's consciousness of our struggle. What is unnerving about it is my strong suspicion that the top echelons in the System aren't really that worried about our threat to them and are cynically using us as an excuse for carrying through certain programs of their own, such as the internal-passport program.
Our unit was assigned the general task-right after the FBI bombing-of combating the media in this area by direct action, Just as other units were assigned other arms of the System as targets. But it is clear that we can't win by direct action alone; there are too many of them and too few of us. We must convince a substantial portion of the American people that what we are doing is both necessary and proper.
The latter is a propaganda task, and so far we haven't been very successful. Units 2 and 6 are primarily responsible for propaganda in the Washington area, and I understand that Unit 6's people have strewn out tons of leaflets in the streets; Henry picked up one from a sidewalk downtown yesterday. I'm afraid that leaflets alone can't make much headway against the System's mass media, though.
Our most spectacular propaganda effort here occurred last Wednesday, and it ended in a major tragedy. The same day our unit blew up the TV station, three men from Unit 6 seized a radio station and began broadcasting a call for the public to join the Organization's fight to smash the System.
They had pre-recorded their message on tape, and they booby trapped the doors to the station, after locking all the station employees in a supply closet. They intended to make their getaway while the tape was being broadcast, hoping that the police would think they were still inside and would lay siege to the place with tear gas-thus giving them half an hour or more of air time.
But the police arrived sooner than expected and stormed the station almost immediately, trapping our men inside. Two were shot to death in the ensuing fight, and the third is not expected to live. The Organization's message was on the air for less than 10 minutes.
Those were the first casualties we've suffered here, but they just about wiped out Unit 6. Their survivors, two women and a man, have moved into our place temporarily. With one of their members in the hands of the police, they had to abandon their own headquarters immediately, of course.
With it we lost one of the Organization's two printing presses in the Washington area, although we were able to clear out most of their printing supplies and lighter equipment. And we gained their pickup truck, which will really be handy if they stay here.
October 28. Last night I had to do the most unpleasant thing that I have been called to do since joining the Organization four years ago. I participated in the execution of a mutineer.
Harry Powell was Unit 5's leader. Last week, when Washington Field Command gave his unit the assignment of assassinating two of the most obnoxious and outspoken advocates of racial mixing in this area-a priest and a rabbi, coauthors of a widely publicized petition to Congress requesting special tax advantages for racially mixed married couples - Powell refused the assignment. He sent a message back to WFC saying that he was opposed to the further use of violence and that his unit would not participate in any acts of terrorism.
He was immediately placed under arrest, and yesterday one representative from each unit under WFC-including Unit S- was summoned to judge him. Unit 10 was not able to send anyone, and so 11 members-eight men and three women- met with an officer from WFC in the basement storeroom of a gift shop owned by one of our "legals." I was Unit l's representative.
The officer from WFC stated the case against Powell very briefly. The Unit 5 representative then confirmed the facts: Powell had not only refused to obey the assassination order, but he had instructed the members of his unit not to obey either. Fortunately, they had not allowed themselves to be subverted by him.
Powell was then given an opportunity to speak in his behalf. He did so for more than two hours, interrupted occasionally by a question from one of us. What he said really shook me, but it made our decision easier for all of us, I am sure.
Harry Powell was, in essence, a "responsible conservative." The fact that he was not only a member of the Organization but had become a unit leader reflects more on the Organization than it does on him. His basic complaint was that all our acts of terror against the System were only making things worse by "provoking" the System into taking more and more repressive measures.
Well, of course, we all understood that! Or, at least, I thought we all understood it. Apparently Powell didn't. That is, he didn't understand that one of the major purposes of political terror, always and everywhere, is to force the authorities to take reprisals and to become more repressive, thus alienating a portion of the population and generating sympathy for the terrorists. And the other purpose is to create unrest by destroying the population's sense of security and their belief in the invincibility of the government.
As Powell continued talking, it became clearer and clearer that he was a conservative, not a revolutionary. He talked as if the whole purpose of the Organization were to force the System to institute certain reforms, rather than to destroy the System, root and branch, and build something radically and fundamentally different in its place.
He was opposed to the System because it taxed his business too heavily. (He had owned a hardware store before we were forced underground.) He was opposed to the System's permissiveness with Blacks, because crime and rioting were bad for business. He was opposed to the System's confiscation of firearms, because he felt he needed a gun for personal security. His were the motivations of a libertarian, the sort of self-centered individual who sees the basic evil in government as a limitation on free enterprise.
Someone asked him whether he had forgotten what the Organization has repeated over and over, namely, that our struggle is to secure the future of our race, and that the issue of individual freedom is subordinate to that one, overwhelming purpose. His retort was that the Organization's violent tactics are benefiting neither our race nor individual freedom.
This answer proved again that he didn't really understand what we are trying to do. His initial approval of the use of force against the System was based on the naive assumption that, by God, we'll show those bastards! When the System, instead of backing down, began tightening the screws even faster, he decided that our policy of terrorism is counter-productive.
He simply could not accept the fact that the path to our goal cannot be a retracing of our course to some earlier stage in our history, but must instead be an overcoming of the present and a forging ahead into the future-with us choosing the direction instead of the System. Until we have torn the rudder out of its grasp and thrown the System overboard, the ship of state will go careening on its hazardous way. There will be no stopping, no going back. Since we are already among rocks and shoals, we are bound to get scraped up pretty badly before we find any clear sailing.
Maybe he was right that our tactics are wrong; the reaction of the people will eventually answer that question. But his whole attitude, his whole orientation was wrong. As I listened to Powell I was reminded of the late-19th century writer, Brooks Adams, and his division of the human race into two classes: spiritual man and economic man. Powell was the epitome of economic man.
Ideologies, ultimate purposes, the fundamental contradiction between the System's world view and ours-all these things had no meaning for him. He regarded the Organization's philosophy as just so much ideological flypaper designed to catch recruits for us. He saw our struggle against the System as a contest for power and nothing more. If we could not whip them, then we should try to force them to compromise with us.
I wondered how many others in the Organization thought the way Powell did, and I shuddered. We have been forced to grow too quickly. There has not been sufficient time to develop in all our people the essentially religious attitude toward our purpose and our doctrines which would have prevented the Powell incident by screening him out early.
As it was, we had no real choice in deciding Powell's fate. There was not only his disobedience to consider, but also the fact that he had revealed himself to be fundamentally unreliable. To have one of us-and a unit leader, at that-talking openly to other members about trying to find a way to compromise with the System, with the war just beginning .... There was only one way to deal with such a situation.
The eight male members present drew straws, and three of us, including me, ended up on the execution squad. When Powell realized that he was going to be killed, he tried to make a break. We tied his hands and feet, and then we had to gag him when he began shouting. We drove him to a wooded area off the highway about 10 miles south of Washington, shot him, and buried him.
I got back a little after midnight, but I still haven't been able to get to sleep. I am very, very depressed.
The Turner Diaries
by Andrew Macdonald

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This post comes from Logan Abbott, editor of the credit cards section of MyRatePlan.com.
Cash-back credit cards are great because money back is easy to compute and understand. Some card issuers, however, muddy the water by advertising big cash-back bonuses, but only for expense categories you don't often use, like specific online stores or movie theaters.
While bonus bucks are always nice, you want a card that offers them on common spending categories, like groceries, department stores, and gas stations.
If that sounds good, you'll like the Blue Cash Preferred Card from American Express.
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- There's an annual fee. The Blue Cash Preferred Card comes with a $75 annual fee. Remember, however, that if you spend $1,000 in the first three months, you'll earn a $150 statement credit – enough to offset two years of fees. After that, however, if you're not using the card to make enough purchases to more than offset the annual fee, you're losing ground.
- Cash earned comes in the form of a statement credit. This isn't a huge deal, but the cash back you earn comes in the form of a credit on your next statement rather than a check mailed to you.
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Florida Dept. of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias
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Issue: Whether a state may tax a court-ordered transfer of property from a chapter 11 bankruptcy estate to a third-party purchaser of the bankrupt party's assets.
Judgment: Reversed and remanded, in an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas on June 16, 2008.
SCOTUSblog Coverage
- Opinion Recap: Florida Dept. of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias (Eliza Presson)
- Court grants six new cases (Lyle Denniston)
Briefs and Documents
- Opinion below (11th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Amicus brief of Illinois, et al. (in support of the petitioner)
Merits briefs (via ABA)
- Brief for Petitioner State of Florida, Department of Revenue
- Brief for Respondent Piccadilly Cafeterias
- Reply Brief for Petitioner State of Florida, Department of Revenue
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- Brief for the International City/County Management Association, the National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, the International Municipal Lawyers Association, and the US Conference of Mayors in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for States of Illinois, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and the Cities of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, and the City and County of San Francisco in Support of Petitioner


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Using LibreOffice/OpenOffice Impress in education
Slide presentation software, such as OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress, is becoming very popular and useful in education whether in aid of traditional lecture method or as stand-alone learning module. Here, I presented tips on how your can make better presentation for your class.
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LibreOffice and OpenOffice looks and functions almost similar. They even have the same set of names for their programs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw and Math. Allow me to clarify what's the difference and what's the connection between these two free and open source office suites.
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As of last posting, the perpetrator of Patty's airport misadventure has been identified as the infamous villainess, Dr. Egret.
The cancellation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. the previous year did not just deprive many teenaged girls of their sexy, pouty Russian boy toy, but also left many T.H.R.U.S.H. villains at loose ends.
We may never know who the bomb was originally intended for (although the visiting Sultan of Fictistan may have been a target), but it appears that poor Patty earned Dr. Egret's ire by daring to fashion herself a matching hat and bag out of Straw-Tex.
Who could have suspected, in the halcyon days of 1970, the significance of this green-eyed crime? This was the first documented case of Crochet-Rage and, as recently declassified U.N.C.L.E. files reveal, it was regrettably not the last.
For the complete pattern (and more snark!):
Bucilla Straw-Tex
Hat—8 skeins, Bag—6 skeins
Bucilla Straw-Tex is "raffia satin straw" which just sounds so classy. And comfortable! However, 8 skeins isn't as much as it sounds, and as this picture proves, you'll soon be singing "I found it on E-Bay".
Plastic Rings—1-1/8th'' in Diameter
Hat—1 ring, Bag—74 rings
Just getting classier by the minute! Only the best for Dr. Egret.Felt for bag lining—19 ins. by 11 ½ ins.
Wait, not plastic? Or Naugahyde? What about zebra stripes? They go with everything!Gold chain—28 ins. long—see Finishing.
So, is it real gold, plated gold, or plastic painted gold? Three guesses and the first two don't count.Crochet Hook:
Hat—"Boye" Aluminum Hook, Size H, Size H—or size you require to obtain gauge.
Bag—"Boye" Steel Hook, Size 0
What? Now plastic just won't do? And you can forget about those hippie dippy wooden and bamboo hooks. They come from Red China, and you'll just be crocheting communism into every loop.Gauge: Hat—7 sc = 2 inches , 4 rounds = 1 inch
With loop on hook, work 18 sc in plastic ring.
Note: Do not join rounds. Mark first st for beg. of round.
Round 1—* Work 2 sc in first sc, 1 sc in each of next 2 sc; repeat from * 5 times around; 25 sts.
Round 2—* Work 1 sc in each of next 3 sc, 2 sc in next sc; repeat from * 5 times around; 30 sts.
Round 3—* Work 1 sc in each of next 2 sc, * 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 4 sc; repeat from * 5 times, 1 sc in each of last 2 sc; 6 sts increased. Repeat round 3 six times, being careful not to have inc. over inc. of previous round; 72 sts.—about 6 ins. in diameter.
This was originally written as "Repeat round 3-6 times..." which gave this transcriber a brief moment of confusion. How on earth was she to decide whether to crochet three, four, five or six more rounds? Was it dependant on the size of the hat-wearer's head? Changing the "6" to a "six" and removing the hyphen made everything much clearer.Draw up last loop leaving yarn attached and steam lightly.
One option is to buy a hat steamer. But if you can't find one at Walmart, you can always just hold your hat over a kettle or a steaming pot of water until it's damp (but not soggy!), then shape it and let it sit until it's cooled down. While you're waiting, you can crochet a poodle cosy for the teapot.Next Round—Work 1 sc in each sc around.
Repeat last round 15 times.
Round 1—Ch. 3, * 1 sc in next sc, ch. 3; repeat from * around; end ch3.
Round 2—*1 sc in next ch 3 loop, ch 3; repeat from * around; end ch 3.
Repeat Round 2 until brim measures 3 ins., join with sl st into ch 3 loop at beg. of last round. Fasten off.
Cord Trim:
With 2 strands of yarn, work a ch 28 ins. long. Sl st in 2nd ch from hook and each remaining st of ch. Fasten off. Pin and sew cord along last sc row to desired headsize. Tie as illustrated.
In other words tie it in a knot. Evil T.H.R.U.S.H. villains are masters of knot tying, especially when it comes to restraining helpless U.N.C.L.E. agents.Bag:
Row 1—Work and join 11 rings as follows: With loop on hook, work 13 sc in first ring to cover half of ring, * work 1 sc next ring to join ring, work 12 more sc in same ring; repeat from * until 11 rings are joined. Work 13 sc in remaining half of last ring, ** drop loop from hook; from right side insert hook under back loop of last sc on next ring; pick up dropped loop and draw through sc; work 13 sc in remaining half of ring; repeat from ** 9 times. Fasten off.
Note: Mark 5th ring for lower edge of front of bag and 7th ring for lower edge of back of bag, 6th ring will be bottom of bag.
Row 2—*Work 7 sc in new ring; drop loop from hook; from right side insert hook under both loops of 7th sc in last half of first ring of row 1; pick up dropped loop and draw through sc—thus joining rows 1 and 2; work 6 sc in same ring; repeat from * joining 11 new rings to corresponding rings of Row 1 and to each other. Continue around remaining half of all 11 rings as in Row 1. Fasten off.
Repeat Row 2 four times; 6 rows of rings are joined.
Note: Fold piece in half crosswise. The first 5 rings of each row form front of bag, the 6th ring forms the bottom of bag; the last 5 rings form the back of the bag.
Side Gussets:
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South Africa urgently needs to review and improve its climate monitoring abilities if it is to prepare for or head off the type of water crisis with which the Western Cape is still battling.
Unfortunately, the value of water and data is only appreciated when in a crisis. The serious water crisis in the Western Cape could therefore be a wake-up call, calling for improved monitoring for efficient water management.
The value of proactive planning measures far exceeds any emergency measures after the fact.
But, how well can we prepare, or plan, if the reliable rainfall gauges in South Africa has almost halved from the number that was available in 1920?!
South Africans are still cleaning up, and coming to terms with the recent Western Cape catastrophic drought, winds, and fires.
Unfortunately, extreme droughts and storms could only be the ears of the hippo of the impact of predicted change in climate.
The expectation is that Climate Change will greatly increase climate variability, resulting in changes in historical patterns with localised impacts varying from one catchment to the next.
Monitoring impacts and trends in historical climate data such as rainfall and temperature are essential to improve our understanding of these changes. Satellite observations, observed data and forecast models to monitor and forecast changes in the weather and climate are integral to a monitoring system of climate change.
Long observed historical observed records is created over time, to enable statistical analysis and the identification of mean values, trends and variations. Improved information increases understanding of climate and better modelling results at local, regional, national, and global level.
Importance of reliable data
The USA is pro-actively protecting themselves through increased and improved monitoring of climate variables such as rainfall, temperature, humidity, and wind to better understand the extent, and location of these impacts.
In contrast, South African water scientists and data users are increasingly warning that lack of central available reliable historical water and other relevant climate and agricultural data will seriously hamper future scientific studies, viz water security.
The degradation in water-related data networks with regards to quality and quantity in South Africa has given rise to strong pleas by scientists and data users to resolve critical data issues.
Issues raised are, amongst others: exorbitant prices for data and information, fragmentation of data, poor spatial distribution, contradictory datasets, poor data, poor data collation and a decline of observing systems.
In June 2016, a dialogue was organized between South Africa and the United States by the Water Research Commission (WRC) to explore the potential establishment of a hydrology data centre as a repository to centralise and improve water related data to improve water security in South Africa.
Invited attendees were government departments, government agencies, professional bodies, and science councils), universities, industry, etc. In his introductory address, the CEO of the WRC, Mr Dhesigen Naidoo stressed the importance of improved water data for protection against two of the greatest global risks, viz. climate change and water,
The Chief Director: Water Ecosystems of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), Ms Ndileka Mohapi raised her concerns on the deterioration of hydrological data. She ascribed the data problems largely to:
- structural problems of the government and the Department
- the loss of skills and expertise.
The most important resolution from the Dialogue was to, as a matter of priority, initiate a research project to develop an inventory of all water-related data resources to aid in the design of the envisaged data centre/water data bank.
The value of data increases with record length, showing short and long-term trends and extremes over extended periods.
Likewise, without long historical rainfall records, hydrological modelling and subsequent extension of streamflow records becomes extremely unreliable.
It is thus a great concern to all data users that more than a year has passed since the Dialogue without any concrete actions to improve the data paucity in South Africa.
Rainfall is the single most important variable that determines the amount of runoff into a catchment and is the most important input into hydrological, agricultural, and meteorological models.
Rainfall monitoring requires little equipment and only a small amount of time: the greatest need is dedication to the activity over the course of a year.
In 1920 the number of operational and reliable rainfall gauges in South Africa were approximately 1 200 and, after having reached a peak at more than 2 000 in the 1970s, this number has since decreased continuously to around just 700 today!
(Hennie Wiehahn is National Council member of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut and Chairman of the Industrial and Mining Desk. This article, supplied by the AHI, was slightly edited.)
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A traves de Facebook me encontro y me envio un mail comentandome que se hiba a trabajar a tu pais porque la situancion del pais donde vivia esta muy mal. Los mails empesaron de forma amistosa, y despues de varios mail ella escribio que le gustaria tener una relacion mas cercana a ti porque porque se encontraria sola en su supuesto nuevo pais. Si bien, sospechaba de ella todo el tiempo, deje que las cosas siguieran hasta saber a como terminaba todo esto.
Luego, despues de varios mails, nos escribiamos ya de manera como si estuvieramos de novio. Como sabia que todo esto era mentira, le segui la corriente a ver que hacia ella.
Hello dear there are any problems with Internet connection and i do hope you got my yesterday letter!and I resend my letter I have sent I sent one letters and I do hope you got both!I thought I will send you few more pics of myself...How I know you little more and I will cross my fingers I'm not wrong in doing this andI will make a show of trust and send you my naked pic to you hoping it will be for your eyesonly and you will not show it to someone.I was not comfortable to pose for such pic and I tried to smile, I think the pic is nice.I just wanted to show you how my body looks like... and that's all.Maybe I shouldn't do this but I will click "send" button and close my eyes!I hope you will be not mad on me because I sent this pic for you,I'm a good girl, really!!!!!!!!!! Please don't show my pic to anyone and please don't ask for any naked pics in different posesor something like that. I'm a good girl and I'm not info taking naked photos!I really apologizeif you think now I'm not a good girl...I hope you don't think so. Please let me know and I will write you more if I'm forgiven forsending this pic!!!And I'm sending one another pics!!!!I hope you will answer this email and we will try to get to know eachother better!!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAh!!!! I'm so ashamed to send this pic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm impatiently waiting for your answer!
Kiss Your Katya
Y enviaba fotos de ella desnuda con la inosencia que una mujer puede comentar. Yo bastante sosprendido de esto, yo continuaba con esta gran mentira....
Hello my honey!!! I'm in Moscow!I so am glad that I begin a new lifeI still cannot believe I've done it! WoW! As I wrote you I was scaredto fly on the plane but everything was OK and I'm still alive))))Moscow is a really big city! I've been told the population of Moscowis about 10 million of people! From the Airport I went by bus itwas so long WAY - about 1 hour and 30 minutes. I've seen so many nice places in Moscow while going by bus!I think that's really good I've met you!I can write you about everything.By, the way, one thing else about my trip. Agency will help me to rent a roomto stay near my future work in your area. I will share this room with a few girls yet,it is usual procedure and it helps to pay the rent (it will be cheaper).And I have a question,is it normal if we will like each other may be it is possible to live together? of course if youor somebody does not mind. Do you have a big wide bed? Because I want spends evening and nights with youI wish to have with you the most mad nights and to embody all and your sexual imaginationsI very much adore sex I without complexes so I hope you awake me to waitI will arrive by Work visa, so I won ` t haveany problems with law while I will be working.I think I will be able to improve my english and you can learn Russian and I thinkit will help us to learn each other better, who knows.Unfortunately I have no more photo and I can not send you themBut I want that you have sent me your naked photosI wish you to see and dream of you every nightPlease write me as soon as possible! See you soon! Great kiss from moscow!!
Your Katya
Cuando ella comenteba que habia vuelto con sus padre ya para empacar todo y poder venir a la Argentina, me envio un mail diciendo que tubo un importante problema con el dinero, que le prestaria el dinero su mama, pero no puedo. Entonces recurrio a pedirme dinero a mi. Ella escibia que tenia en su poder U$D 300 dolares y que le faltarian U$D900 para iniciar el viaje, y luego me comento que podia enviarlo a traves de Westerm Union ese mismo dia. Todo alegando que nos encontrariamos muy pronto y que ella estaba deseosa de poder hacerlo y que me devolveria el dinero con su primer paga de trabajo que aqui tendria.
Hey my love, I have got all the info and resend to you,you see I am after visit to consulate and agency and I am so happy to say that we will meet in a few days!!!!I am really lucky girl to meet you. Honey the thing is that I booked nearest possible flight But I had a problem that money which I took with itself does not suffice to pay the ticket To me it is very awful that at me so it has turned out with the ticketI did not think that so awakes I all would give to depart to youBut me it is simple there is nobody to ask about the helpI do not have not enough money for ticket purchase to you you could not help me???I will give all to you, I have called mum it very much was upset But unfortunately it does not have money to helpI was in the bank to try to ask them about loan but they tellI have to have something to stay them and I have nothing to stay because I have only a fewdress and things, some perfume and it is all I have, and small gift for you with love.I even think that maybe it will give you the pleasure to help me because you are my knight, rught?I have about 300$ my own money andI need about 900$, because I have to pay for ticket and afew thigs yet, and I have to pay in advance about 1200$- name of the bank wester union -AVANGARD BANKProfsoyuznaya, 56Moscow, 117335+7(495)7377373 P.S. I`m so sorry I asked you for such help, but you see you are my last hope andnow my only wish is to meet you. I want to start a new life and I`msure we can spend so many happy days and probably nights together!Please try to help me with the sum and in one month I will return youmoney back!!16.07.2010
Love and kiss Katya
Claro esta que yo no le hiba enviar semejante dinero, pero le respondi que si ella tenia problemas de dinero para sacar su pasaje de avion, le propuse que yo le compraba el ticket por internet a su nombre y que ella solo tenia que estar en el aeropuerto 2 horas antes con su pasaporte y abordaria el avion. Cuando se saca un tikect de vuelo de esa forma, ya no se puede devolver ni transferirlo ni venderlo, solo se tiene que usar. Ella comentaba que no, que tenia miedo de perder la visa por la agencia de viajes, etc.... Todo mentira y sin sentido..... por supuesto.
Como ya esto llego a su fin, yo le dije que ella era una estafadora y que solo quiere dinero. Me contesto de la siguiente forma:
Dear , I do not wish to speak you farewell a word!I cannot send you this moneyThese are last my money And if at me it to not turn out to arrive to youThis money a unique opportunity to return homeIt - very much pity to me which, thus all has appeared with money!But without your help I cannot arrive to you.Mum has given me almost all money, that I would arrange to me directly this travel.But I do not want again loneliness. I do not wish to come back home.I do not wish to remain in Moscow. I do not want anybody except for you.After explosion in Moscow the dream here to leave awful even in the streetFirst of all I wish to continue travel! Only help me with a trip! I will necessarily come back to you of money as soon as I will receive the first income!I want to you! I want, that you have surrounded me with tenderness, a heat, care. I wish to think tomorrow with confidence. I want, that you always were With me. I wish to fall asleep and wake up with idea concerning you (and it is better in your embraces). I wish to be assured, that is necessary for you everywhere and always, from time to time. I wish to look simply in your eyes. I want, that your warm breath has warmed to me hands. I want, that you loved me. I wish to sit down in the plane and to leave to you Thanks for your letters and warm words!I wait from you for good news! I on former hope of your help!
I understand your mistrust to me and as to me it is insultingI the simple girl which want that that new in a lifeTo love and have the favourite person, it so it is a lot ofCertainly I will depart to you, I do not have anybody the acquaintance there moreTo me very much to like that you open to me the soulAfter all this most important thing in relationsBut I do not know as you still to prove that I will arrive to you You have all my data, there is a passportYou my unique hope and only on you I can countHere in Moscow all is very expensive, and if you cannot help meI should come back home, I so do not wish to surrender After all I have made to be for this purpose with you so much, but it is impossible to meI miss you so much ((I want to arrive to you most of all to lifes of m to be with you always.
I heard, that there are such deceivers on the Internet. I thought you not such.What for you judge all girls from Russia as one.What for you wrote to me, have given to hope. I have believed to you.You do not know as it was difficult to persuade mum that it has released me to Moscow.It has given me all the savings. I would not go to Moscow. As I shall look it in the face. In Moscow without a registration I can earn this money if I shall work year.You have broken me. I shall not trust people.All men are identical. I have fallen in love with you as a silly woman.I shall try to forget you.The GOD to you the judge!!!!!!
Yo quisiera mostrarle al mundo la clase de persona que es Katerina, su imagen y palabras pueden llegar a convencer a algunas personas para sacarles dinero. Katerina es una estafadora y puede llegar a convencerte con sus dulces palabra.
No le envien dinero ni nada de nada a quienes encuentran por internet. Hay muchos garcas dando vuelta y no solo en Argentina.
Aqui esta las fotos de ella que me enviaban:
Dulce y tentador no??!!!!!
Pero la tentacion se puede pagar caro, como en este caso que queria yo le de U$D 900. Jaja.. yo encima!!!!!


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I moved to Paris last Monday after living in Vienna, Austria for many years. I'm originally from the UK, but lived longer in Vienna, Austria. I'd love to come to some of the events but for now I think they might be too intimidating coming on my own. So if anyone is up for a coffee during the week, maybe it would help if i started with that to get to know people slowly.
I'm a multimedia developer (graphic designer) and studied film in New York. I love anything to do with food, i cook with a passion, and enjoy most activities, except for jogging! My French is ok, intermediate i guess.
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Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau, the organisers of the upcoming mega event, said it has signed an agreement with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and global technology giant Siemens to launch a pilot project for the region's first solar-driven hydrogen electrolysis facility.
The announcement came during the sixth edition of the World Government Summit (WGS 2018) held on February 12. Dewa's outdoor testing facilities at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai have been selected for the project, reported state news agency Wam.
The facility aims at testing and showcasing an integrated MW-scale plant to produce hydrogen using renewable energy from solar photovoltaic at the Solar Park, store the gas, and then deploy for either re-electrification, transportation or other industrial uses, it stated.
Hydrogen technologies will accelerate renewable energy integration and deployment in the region and pave the way for the transition to a sustainable and green economy in the UAE, it added.
Dewa and Expo 2020 Dubai intend to use fuel-cell vehicles powered by the green hydrogen generated at the facility, stated Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashimy, Minister of State for International Co-operation and Director-General of Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau after signing the MoU with Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, the managing director and CEO of Dewa, and Joe Kaeser, the president and CEO of Siemens.
Visitors of Expo 2020 Dubai will be able to visit the key facilities at the Solar Park. Live data of the green hydrogen electrolysis will be displayed at Expo 2020 Dubai, said the Wam report.
"This project will not only result in the development of the region's first solar-driven hydrogen electrolysis facility, but is an example of what can be achieved through collaboration between Expo 2020 Dubai and our partners, truly embodying the Expo theme of 'Connecting Minds, Creating the Future'," remarked Al Hashimy.
"The exhibition will be a celebration of creativity and innovation, providing a platform for new sustainable technologies like this to be presented to a global audience of millions, and help us move towards a cleaner, greener future," she added.
Al Tayer said the MoU is in line with the vision of the Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to increase the share of Dubai's total power output from clean energy sources to 75 per cent by 2050 through the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050.
"It also supports Expo 2020 Dubai's themes to promote sustainability and innovation and Dewa's efforts to contribute to hosting the best edition of Expo in Dubai. This is part of our partnership with Expo 2020 Dubai, as the official sustainable energy partner," he added.
Kaeser dubbed it as a truly landmark project for Dubai and the world, and a great step forward in building a secure supply of sustainable energy for the region's economic development.
"Green hydrogen can be a fuel of the future. It will accelerate the adoption of renewable energy in the Middle East through sector coupling, offering new use cases, such as e-Mobility and other environment-friendly industries," he added.


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Amtrak expands rail security with increased right of way protection
Chief O'Connor said threats against rail transportation are very real and "[t]he recent events after the death of bin Laden serve as a stark reminder that these threats continue to be viable." He stressed the interest of terrorists in derailing trains is of particular concern to Amtrak which "operates high-speed rail trains where catastrophic losses could occur."
The security countermeasures will provide additional ROW protections for passenger trains, particularly those operating on the Amtrak-owned Northeast Corridor. They will join existing Amtrak security efforts focusing on threats related to the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in a station or on a train, or an active shooter scenario.
Historically, Amtrak has used a range of security strategies such as high security fencing, bollards, blast curtains, access control and technologically driven initiatives to protect stations, bridges and tunnels. Amtrak is exploring the expanded use of these strategies for ROW protection.
Since the U.S. raid on the bin Laden compound, Amtrak has bolstered current security actions, expanded ROW patrols in collaboration with other federal, state and local partners, and met with officials from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to evaluate next steps based on the intelligence gathered. Amtrak also is reinforcing employee awareness programs, particularly with personnel from its Engineering and Mechanical departments, to encourage
vigilance and the reporting of unusual occurrences on the ROW.
In addition, O'Connor noted that Amtrak is working with TSA to integrate sensor
technology with cameras to monitor for intrusions along the ROW. Other technologies being developed by Amtrak will improve upon existing security strategy and operations, enhance interagency information sharing, and local agency response to Amtrak incidents.
O'Connor said Amtrak is committed to "let our risk assessments drive security investment" and that the railroad will continue existing security strategies such as canine explosive detection teams, random passenger baggage screening, and uniformed patrols at stations and on trains.
Furthermore, Amtrak is a member of FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces and an active participant in the TSA "See Something, Say Something" public awareness campaign. The Amtrak Police Department also recently launched a new neighborhood watch style program called Partners for Amtrak Safety and Security (PASS) that seeks to utilize the knowledge of passengers and others who travel throughout the Amtrak national system in identifying and reporting behaviors or activities that are unusual or out of the ordinary.


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Tonight, an all-new episode of People Icons will investigate the men who have been featured on People's 'Sexiest Man Alive' covers.
For those of you who don't know, the new TV show reunites ABC News and People for a primetime series co-hosted by Good Morning America co-anchor Lara Spencer. The content of each episode is inspired by some of the most memorable People magazine covers in history. The first episode, "Celebrity Love Stories", recounted some of the talked about celebrity love stories of our time like the Obamas, Beyonce and Jay Z, and Prince William and Kate. Last week's episode, "Gone Too Soon", examined some of the lives that have been cut short, like John F. Kennedy Jr., Robin Williams, and Kurt Cobain.
Tonight's episode will be bright, fun, and, well, sexy. ABC has said that it will highlight stars like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. But who are the other stars who have graced the Sexiest Man Alive cover of the years? Read on to find out.
2000: Brad Pitt
2001: Pierce Brosnan
2002: Ben Affleck
2003: Johnny Depp
2004: Jude Law
2005: Matthew McConaughey
2006: George Clooney
2007: Matt Damon
2008: Hugh Jackman
2009: Johnny Depp
2010: Ryan Reynolds
2011: Bradley Cooper
2012: Channing Tatum
2013: Adam Levine
2014: Chris Hemsworth
2015: David Beckham
2016: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson


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My first operatic post here cannot be on anyone else than the person thanks to whom I listen to this beautiful genre of music. I had been acquainted to the performances of The Three Tenors, Bocelli, and others who are considered popular opera singers and who perhaps have set many people's footsteps on the path of classical music. However, it was the smashing tour de force of Lanza's voice, together with the incomparable heartfelt interpretation, what really caught my heart.
It is a twisted humour of the Fate that the one who could have become the greatest tenor in history died so prematurely, having made so few truly great recordings. His good looks turned out to be more of a curse, rather than a blessing. After a couple of years in
The studio needed him to be slim for the filming, so he would put on weight for making of the soundtrack, and then quickly put it off for the shooting. As years passed, simple dieting would not work, so Lanza had to take medicines. He started having problems with phlebitis. Heavy drinking did not help his physical state.
After his moving to
You'll find a more detailed biography in Derek McGovern's essay "Mario Lanza: A Radical Reassessment" here. A much more detailed biography is offered in the excellent book by Armando Cesari. You might also be interested in the Mario Lanza Google Group, the members of which are also Mr.McGovern and Mr.Cesari.
Lanza had no artistic guidance during his
If you'd like to know what his greatest recordings are, search here, a song-by-song review of the most popular CDs can be found here.


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The Georgian Grizzlies are pleased to host the 2017 OCAA Badminton Championships presented by belairdirect from Feb. 17-18 at the Barrie Athletic Centre.
Georgian's Badminton program has a long history of success - since the sports inception, the Grizzlies have racked up a total of 27 OCAA medals, highlighted by 16 in Men's and Women's Singles play.
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Select New Email.
In the Options tab, select Colors to change the background color.
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We can create an email that contains a bit more pizzazz that we use for special occasions by creating personal stationary.
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I'm going to remove my signature file information and I'll change the background to a color that looks nice with our logo and then I'll add our logo.
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I don't need it anymore so I'll click No on saving changes.
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The 57th Sustainability Salon will focus on Environmental Justice: from human health to economics, from the city to the countryside. Fred Brown, formerly at the Kingsley Association and now head of the Homewood Children's Village, has been one of the major forces behind the green revitalization of Larimer, and is creating ways to improve the future of urban kids in underserved communities. He was named an 21st Century Environmental Justice Leader by the Ford Foundation. Environmental and social scientist Kirk Jalbert of the FracTracker Alliance (and a member of the PA DEP's Environmental Justice Advisory Board) is studying how resources and impacts are allocated in the Marcellus shale play and similar regions across the country. And public health advocate Jill Kriesky, associate director of the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project will join us to talk about EHP's Health Registry for areas affected by unconventional oil & gas development.
Since one of the most significant impacts of environmental injustice is on the air people breathe, I wanted to mention Friday's fundraiser for our own effective local air-quality organization, the Group Against Smog & Pollution: GASP's Night At The Aviary. A fun time will be had by all! Also, just prior to this salon, we'll be a featured stop on the sixth annual Pittsburgh Solar Tour, which runs 12-4 p.m. on Saturday. The 58th salon on the Just Transition will take place on November 12th, and the 59th salon on Visualizing Air Quality will take place on December 3rd.
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Bring food and/or drink to share if you can, along with musical instruments if you play. Check back on MarensList (where you can find information on all sorts of environmental and social justice events) for updates. And if you aren't yet on my list, if you're interested in Sustainability Salons (and our occasional house concert, simply contact me and I'll put you on my email list.
As always, I'll be sending out directions and such, and any late-breaking info, to all the RSVP'd folks by the morning of the salon if not before. So if you don't have it yet, please be patient! One of these days I'll streamline this process a bit, but for now it takes a while to to dot all my i's and cross all my t's. (All the extraneous requests for the address don't help; I have lots of other stuff I send out with it, but don't like to let them go unanswered so it adds hours to my prep time. If you RSVP properly (see above), you should get the info by the morning of the salon!)
For the uninitiated, a Sustainability Salon is an educational forum; a venue for discussion and debate about important environmental issues; it's a house party with an environmental theme. We usually have featured speakers on various aspects of a topic, interspersed with stimulating conversation, lively debate, delectable potluck food and drink, and music-making through the evening.
Past topics have included the City of Pittsburgh's sustainability initiatives, fossil energy infrastructure, getting money out of politics, community solar power and the Solarize Allegheny program, the Paris climate negotiations (before, during, and after), air quality (again, with news on the autism connection), reuse (of things and substances), neighborhood-scale food systems, other forms of green community revitalization, solar power, climate change, environmental art, environmental education (Part I & Part II), community mapping projects, environmental journalism, grassroots action, Marcellus shale development and community rights, green building, air quality, health care, more solar power, trees and park stewardship, alternative energy and climate policy, regional watershed issues, fantastic film screenings and discussions (often led by filmmakers) over the winter with Rachel Carson and the Power Of One Voice, Triple Divide on fracking, You've Been Trumped and A Dangerous Game, A Fierce Green Fire, Sustainability Pioneers, films on consumption, Living Downstream, Bidder 70, YERT, Gas Rush Stories, and food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, and more food (a recurrent theme; with California running out of water, we'd better gear up to produce a lot more of our own!).
Quite a few people have asked me what sorts of food to bring -- and my answer, as always, is whatever inspires you; I believe in the "luck" part of potlucks. Tasty noshings for the afternoon, hearty main dishes or scrumptious salads and sides for dinner, baked goods from biscuits and breads to brownies or baklava -- and/or beverages of any kind: wine, beer, hard or sweet cider (the latter we can mull if you like), juice, tea, whatever. The more the merrier! Local fare is always particularly welcome, whether homegrown or boughten. Dishes containing meat or dairy are fine, though if it isn't really obvious please make a note of it.
If you haven't been here before, you may enjoy checking out our roof garden and solar installation (and now apiary!) as well as the many other green and interesting things around our place.
And if you like to make music or listen to homemade music, don't forget the evening sing -- we typically run the gamut from Irish fiddle tunes to protest songs to the Beatles, and a fun time is had by all. Bring instruments if you play, and/or pick up one of ours. Conversations will continue through the evening, as well.


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A Defense Department plan to test-fly two aerostats—huge helium-filled tethered craft—within Washington, D.C., airspace for security purposes raises flight-safety concerns in the already-congested airspace, AOPA said.
The association also questioned the cost of establishing the two aerostats, each nearly as long as a football field, in the airspace starting in September for a three-year trial period. The aerostats would be tethered to the ground from cables extending as high as 10,000 feet, possibly leading to additional airspace restrictions.
Positioned above the densely populated metropolitan area, the aerostats raise a variety of concerns, said Tom Zecha, AOPA manager of aviation security.
"They are a serious hazard to all aircraft flying in the Washington, D.C., airspace," he said. "They are a hazard to people and property on the ground. The project would cost about half a billion dollars for the hardware, and there has been no mention of the cost to continuously operate and maintain the system."
An aerostat cable striking an aircraft of any size "would be like a buzz saw going through a beer can," he said.
Aerostat manufacturer Raytheon refers to the aircraft as JLENS, for Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System. Posted on Raytheon's website was a Reuters news service report about the planned aerostat operation above Washington, D.C.
According to Raytheon, a JLENS unit or "orbit" includes "two tethered, 74-meter helium-filled aerostats connected to mobile mooring stations and a communications and processing groups."
AOPA will urge lawmakers to consider more practical and cost effective measures to get the surveillance equipment aloft, and will take up safety concerns with airspace and security agencies, Zecha said.
"The Washington, D.C., airspace is extremely congested. There is no place to tether these two aerostats where they will not be a hazard to aircraft," he said.


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The brutal war between Calimport and Memnon has caused innumerable problems for the rest of Calimshan. Smaller towns in the central desert have gone unnoticed, leaving them prey to bandit raids.
The small town of Teshyll has come under increasing pressure from marauding bandits. The raiders attack supply caravans to and from the town, wearing it down bit by bit. Lord Darion Teshyll, ruler of the town, has begun raising a militia to combat these cruel raiders. Our adventurers have signed up to defend the town in hopes of achieving glory and rewards. Will our adventurers fend off the bandits? What sinister plots will they uncover? What dangers will the desert of Calim hold for them?
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Welcome to a brand new school year at White Oak Intermediate! This past summer we have had many people working diligently to make our school look clean and bright for your children to learn in a safe, welcoming environment. I am looking forward to the day when the doors open and I can personally welcome back all students to an exciting new year.
I am pleased to announce that we have some new faces on our campus this year. They are:
Kelly Buck – 3rd grade
Shawna Casey – 3rd grade
Mylissa Clift – 4th grade
Chelsea Headley – Instructional Aide for Healthy Bodies/Ready Bodies
Tina Scalia – Instructional Aide
Marcus Camp – Assistant Principal for PK-5th grades
Mark your calendars for Thursday, August 18th for Meet the Teacher at 4:30-5:30 for the Intermediate campus. You will not want to miss the opportunity to see your new teachers and classmates.
In closing, I would like to say that I'm more excited about this year than most. I truly appreciate having such a supportive community, a passionate faculty, and last but not least, creative and energetic students. We are going to do great things together this year.
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Ever since the IFLA conference (#WLIC2016), I have been thinking more about digitization. It perhaps helped, too, that I guest lectured in a class last week talking about digitization and digital preservation, which means I've been mentally preparing for that for a few weeks. Also last week, a colleague stopped by and showed me the not-final-version of two projects, one of which includes 3D images, which can be rotated on the screen. And that got me thinking about a language that I'm trying to learn which is three-dimensional.
Many people suffer a hearing loss (statistics). It is estimated that 2% of the U.S. population is deaf. Given the number of people who could benefit from communicating in American Sign Language (ASL), I've been trying to learn some. It is not an easy language to learn because word use and sentence construction is definitely different from oral English. It is also a three-dimensional language that uses space and distance to communicate concepts as being in the past or future, or having a specific relationship. Thus learning ASL from static photographs is difficult. Imagine not understanding that a sign has movement to it or how the movement is to executed. It can also be difficult to learn ASL from videos, since videos are also flat. You cannot see a standard video from the front and then watch it again from the side!
Having now seen images (example) that can be rotated, I am imaging people "digitizing" ASL so that signs can be seen from every angle. That would be a huge undertaking, but then digitizing books was a huge undertaking and we're doing that. This would could have the ability to improve communications and that would be a good thing. Anybody interested in getting started?
If you've never considered learning ASL, listen (and watch) Amber Galloway Gallego below.


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Watershed stewardship is caring for our water, land, air and biodiversity on a watershed basis, using sustainable practices. Balancing human and economic requirements against the needs of natural environments means that we need to plan, promote and implement stewardship actions to restore and protect natural resources.
Private landowners play a key role in ensuring we have healthy watersheds now and for the future; caring for our land, air and water sustains the natural processes on which life depends. How we treat our land impacts not just ourselves, but also our neighbours and future generations.
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Wells that are no longer used or maintained can provide a direct link from land surfaces to the water bearing subsurface zones that represent the source water for other wells and local creeks in our watersheds.
The Region of Durham in partnership with Central Lake Ontario Conservation is extending our stewardship efforts toward the decommissioning of abandoned wells on private property. The program is designed to protect groundwater supplies from potential contamination by providing landowners with up to $1000 in grant assistance funds to decommission unused and abandoned domestic wells on their property.
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In our continued effort to restore trees along roadsides, the Municipality of Clarington in partnership with the Ganaraska Region Conservation, Central Lake Ontario Conservation is offering the "Trees for Rural Roads" program in 2017.
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Online Application - Application due date March 31, 2017.
Native trees are being offered free of charge to Clarington's rural residents to be planted along municipal roads on private land. Available species are: sugar, red, and silver maples; red and white oak; white pine, white spruce; and white birch.
Environmental Farm Plan
Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority is in partnership with Conservation Ontario and the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association to provide free technical assistance to farmers applying for Environmental Farm Plan Funding.
Farmers across Ontario can apply for funding in 28 project categories. Funding covers either 30 % or 50% of project costs. For more information, please visit the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association website.
Healthy Lands, Healthy Horses
Between 2001 and 2006, there was a 16.7 % increase in the number of horses in Ontario. Today there are approximately 3,272 equestrian farms in the Greater Toronto Area (Durham, Peel and York, representing about 42,241 horses (Wright 2007)). Some of the challenges facing Equine operations include nutrient management, pasturing and a horse density per acre. The Healthy Lands Healthy Horses program is design to introduce equine operators to environmental stewardship through workshops, publications, site visits and technical and financial support for project implementation. For more information and to find out about upcoming workshops, please visit the Equine Guelph website at www.equinequelph.ca. CLOCA is an active member of the Healthy Lands, Healthy Horses Steering Committee. Members of the equine community are asked to contact us if you have ideas about how to reduce your environmental hoofprint.
Stewardship of the Equine Environment, Reducing your Environmental Hoofprint
This 12 week on line course is offered as part of an Equine Studies Diploma program through Equine Guelph. For more information about costs, availability, registration and course topics, check out Equine Guelph at www.equineguelph.ca.
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|I must burn in the fires of Olympus. It is the only way. Kill me, Kratos. Kill me.
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According to Greek myth, at first, fire belonged to the Gods. Then the Titan Prometheus, a champion of human-kind, known for his wily intelligence, took the fire, and gave it to the people of Earth. The humans were very grateful for this, but Prometheus was then punished by Zeus for his betrayal. The fires are also sometimes referred to as the Primordial Fire.
In God of War IIEdit
In God of War II, the Fires of Olympus is a large pyre that sits upon the mountain outside Typhon's Lair. Prometheus, chained to a giant hand, endures the torment of his abdomen being eaten by a giant eagle every day, only to heal again by night, after having succumbed to his wounds. After cutting his chains, Kratos then burns Prometheus in the fire, releasing him of his torment. His ashes are then granted to Kratos by Gaia, giving him the Rage of the Titans.
- The Fires of Olympus should not be confused with The Flame of Olympus as they are two separate things as the Fires are red and the Flame is blue.


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All this extraordinary feat requires, says the new study, is for scientists to harness a mysterious and poorly understood cosmic antigravity force, called dark energy.
The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature.Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die.Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion."The jellyfish are originally from the Caribbean but have spread all over the world.Turritopsis Nutricula is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self.It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation.Scientists believe the cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal.While most members of the jellyfish family usually die after propagating, the Turritopsis nutricula has developed the unique ability to return to a polyp state.Having stumbled upon the font of eternal youth, this tiny creature which is just 5mm long is the focus of many intricate studies by marine biologists and geneticists to see exactly how it manages to literally reverse its aging process.
The female California two-spotted octopus swam to the top of her tank, disassembled a valve with her powerful arm, and released at least 200 gallons (757 liters) of seawater into nearby exhibits and offices.The foot-long (0.3-meter) creature remained in her tank and survived her ordeal. But the aquarium's brand-new floors weren't so lucky.Such high jinks are typical of the invertebrates' still unexplained smarts, experts say."Octopuses have a wonderful combination of intelligence, tremendous manipulative ability, curiosity, and strength," said Jennifer Mather, a psychology professor at Canada's University of Lethbridge who has studied cognition in octopuses.
Their image problem largely stems from their failure – what, with all that plundering to do – to find time to record their own history; meaning that chronicling their presence was left to those on the receiving end of their, shall we say, pragmatic approach to revenue gathering.
Even allowing for historical exaggeration, there's no doubt the Vikings could be a tough bunch. Where, though, did the ferocity come from? Some scholars have suggested that they may have been using performance-enhancing substances – notably magic mushrooms that they collected on their travels. From this arose the myth of the "berserkers", the Viking super-warriors who, when in battle, would enter a frenzy, seemingly impervious to pain.Yet, away from the obligations of pillaging and plundering, the Viking was – according to the Cambridge consensus – a very different creature. He was obsessed with good grooming, fashionable appearance and personal hygiene, and, in this sense, could be seen as the first metrosexual. One medieval chronicler, John of Wallingford, records disapprovingly that the Danes "combed their hair every day, washed every Saturday and changed their clothes regularly".
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A memorial hanging outside the Buenos Aires Naval Academy in Argentina features Hydra mariner Nikolaos G. Kolmaniatis (Nicolas Jorge Colmaniatis), who emigrated to Argentina in 1811, enlisted in the navy as a sailor, and rose through the ranks to become Rear Admiral.
He is honored as a national hero in Argentina where he fought for Argentinean War of Independence against Spain. He led and trained the newly formed fleet. Samuel Spiro, a fellow navy officer is also honored in Argentina for scuttling his ship in the Uruguay River rather than surrendering it to the Spanish Armada.
Both Kolmaniatis and Spiro were honored with their names figuring on Argentine Navy ships christened after them in 1937.
Argentinean naval tradition is accessible to Greeks these days through the visit of training vessel, the frigate Libertad (Freedom) that is docked at the port of Piraeus until Tuesday as a sign of friendship between the two maritime vessels. The vessel is in Greece as part of its 45th instruction cruise, dubbed the "Bicentennial Voyage," marking 200 years since the birth of the Republic of Argentina. Members of the public may arrange to visit the vessel between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.. Email [email protected] to arrange a visit.


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July 2, 2009
Dr. John Jasinski and family were welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of well-wishers, including a group of Horace Mann schoolchildren, after arriving at the east door of the Administration Building Thursday, July 2, for the new University president's first official day on the Northwest campus.
Applause and cheers from faculty and staff, clad largely in Bearcat green, greeted the Jasinskis as they walked from their car beneath the blue sky of a perfect July morning. Northwest mascot Bobby Bearcat worked the crowd, and the entryway leading into the Administration Building was decorated with a green carpet and a large banner reading, "Welcome Dr. Jasinski."
While First Lady Denise Jasinski, accompanied by children Matt, Joe, Leah and Lucas, mingled and shook hands, President Jasinski spoke a brief word of welcome to the crowd before taking questions from a group of reporters during an impromptu press conference in front of the Circle Drive fountain.
"It's a great day to be a Bearcat, and we are ready to get after it," Jasinski said. "There are great things here at Northwest Missouri State University, so many good things, and we are very, very excited." He added that, as president, he was eager to hear from members of the University community and listen to their ideas.
"It's important that we hear from you,' Jasinski said. "You all know that we've got a long, long tradition of greatness and of excellence at Northwest, and that will continue. Thank you for being here and have a great day."
After spending about 20 minutes outside with the crowd and the media, Jasinski got a high-five from Bobby Bearcat before entering the century-old Administration Building. Shortly after walking into his first-floor office to begin a full day of meetings and phone conversations, including interviews with radio personalities from KCMO and KMA, the president took a congratulatory call from state Sen. Brad Lager, a Maryville resident and Northwest alumnus.
It was to be, in his own words, "a busy, busy day" with a schedule that included a morning-long Leadership Team meeting with senior University administrators, lunch with Board of Regents President James W. "Bill" Loch, and an afternoon session with Interim Provost Douglas Dunham and Nodaway County Economic Development Director Lee Langerock.
Additional activities were to include a pre-Independence Day flag-raising for youngsters at Horace Mann Laboratory School, a late-afternoon faculty/staff reception in the J.W. Jones Student Union and an evening ceremony for participants in the University's Upward Bound program.
Though Thursday was Jasinski's first official workday on campus it was actually his second as president. He spent day one as Northwest's top administrator at a Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association CEO Council meeting in Kansas City. But after today's welcoming events and packed schedule, there is no question that a new era in Northwest's 104-year history has begun.
"Northwest is a great institution," said Jasinski, the University's tenth president. "It's just vibrant, and looking ahead I see nothing but greatness on the horizon."
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Working on SkateChicago.org for past couple days and I finally pushed it to live today. It's not quite ready yet but good enough to share it with friends who are working on this skating event in Chicago and improve it for the big announcement.
I did not have enough time to work this the way I usually do. Just spent 3 days to make this from scratch except for the back-end lol of course. Despite the time I spent, it came out pretty good at least in my perspective. I like the logo! I think it conveys the exciting/fun skating event and the city of Chicago.
Still gotta do lots of work to get this going but I'm very excited to work this together with my favorite people. Can't wait till June to actually see this happen!
More update about this will come here 🙂