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Arts and culture venues open doors for free for Culture Night
10th September 2019
A host of arts and cultural venues and attractions in the Fermanagh and Omagh district will open their doors for free for this year's Culture Night taking place on Friday 20 September 2019.
Coordinated locally by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Culture Night is an all island celebration of culture, heritage, creativity and the art. From late afternoon to after dark, a range of free entertainment, discovery and adventure will be on offer across the district.
Launching this year's Culture Night programme of events for the Fermanagh and Omagh district, Chair of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Councillor Siobhán Currie said:
"Culture Night is a fantastic celebration of our arts, heritage and culture providing our citizens and visitors to the district with the opportunity to sample our rich heritage and culture offering.
This year's programme has a wide range of cultural activities for all ages, right across the district, giving people a unique opportunity to try any number of creative experiences in one evening. There really is something for everyone.
The Council is pleased to support more than 20 Culture Night events through sponsorship or providing event space in Council venues and I would like to thank all those groups and organisations that have given up of their time so freely to showcase all that Fermanagh and Omagh has to offer."
Events and activities taking place in the district include those from Erne District Chinese Families and Friends;Hungarian Association of Northern Ireland; Kirlish Ulster Scots Association; and Benaughlin CCÉ.
There are opportunities to experience different world cultures, participate in local craft with Lisnaskea Knit and Natter, hop aboard the Culture Express for a tour of art exhibitions in Enniskillen, and to enjoy a music or dance event such as the Eddie Duffy & Mick Hoy Traditional Music Festival in Derrygonnelly, Scottish Country Ceilidh dance in Mountfield, traditional music and dance at Dun Uladh Cultural Centre, Omagh Protestant Boys Flute Band playing melody music in Edenderry and the Asha Choir at Strule Arts Centre.
Other events include poetry readings and prose with the Open Door Poetry Group in Omagh's Strule Arts Centre or Fermanagh Folk Tales in Enniskillen Castle.
Just Sing children's choir will perform in Omagh Library, a Kids Culture night will take place at St. Ronan's Primary School, Lisnaskea while there will also be opportunities to tour Sacred Heart Church in Omagh or stroll through the town itself with Tyrone Roots.
To find out more about events taking place as part of Culture Night in the Fermanagh and Omagh district, please visit the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council website at www.fermanaghomagh.com or telephone the Council's Arts and Heritage service on 0300 303 1777 (calls charged at local rate) or text phone 028 8225 6216.


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When I visited Brussels last year it wasn't specifically for the beery things. The main beery thing of the trip was a Gueuze brewery, namely Cantillon.
I'm writing about so many other cultures, I should write something about Dutch beer culture as well, and don't make the mistake that it doesn't exist, it does :) It's…
Burton-on-Trent is historically speaking a very important beer city and it is mainly known for this extensive brewing history, with its height around the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Kelheim, Stadt im Fluss, a gorgeous city with a very small but beautiful Altstadt. We went there for the Schneider Weisse starkbierfest, but I will happily come back again for the city itself
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HARRISBURG -- City Council voted Tuesday to allow police to purchase riot gear, but only after the elected officials consider a proposal to launch a community policing task force.
Earlier this year, the police department asked council to reallocate $65,000 from its budget in order to buy shields, riot sticks, body pads and new helmets to help officers respond to a growing number of protests in the capital city.
That request drew criticism from some residents and council members concerned that militarizing local police could lead to more bloodshed or about how the proposal was made. Police argued that their current equipment is insufficient and that officers need to be prepared for civil unrest.
Months of debate came to a head at Tuesday's nearly 4-hour-long meeting.
"Charlottesville was an atrocity," Chief Thomas Carter said, addressing residents opposed to the riot gear directly during the meeting. "It was bad because the police down there were not prepared for it."
Carter vowed that the gear would be used judiciously and noted that he turned down previous opportunities to obtain military surplus equipment, such as armored vehicles, from the federal government. He said his primary concern is the safety of Harrisburg residents and his officers.
"If I get one officer who's seriously hurt, the cost would be more than $65,000," he said, in an interview outside of the meeting. Beyond the human toll, he said the medical and staffing costs would be far greater than what his department asked for.
Councilwoman Shamaine Daniels was the only member to vote against the compromise resolution, noting that discourse around the gear conflated vigils and nonviolent protests with riots.
"I've probably been in the most actual riots of anyone [here] and it's not a fun," she said, before recounting her experiences as a college student during the 2001 Cincinnati riots, which also centered around questions of policing.
The presence of the gear, she said, seemed to escalate violence and make those officers a target: "I don't think it's actually safe for people who are wearing riot gear."
Harrisburg's riot gear question has brought near-capacity audiences to its ordinarily sleepy council meetings. On Tuesday, about two dozen people spoke publicly.
"We all know there's a deep distrust between our police and our community, and that's our reality," said resident Amanda Arbour. "What this decision hinges upon is: Are you willing to listen to the people who are telling you this is not what we want?"
Jayne Buchwach, of south Allison Hill, said she'd welcome a greater police presence in her neighborhood.
"You can get the riot gear and wear it in our neighborhood--sit on the porch with us," she said.
Another resident, Richard Soto, said he's seen racist policing in the city but he supports Carter and his department's request for riot gear.
"We don't know what's going to happen," he said. "We have a bunch of white KKK folks wanting to come in our city and stir up some junk."
Some council members also raised concerns about how the riot gear proposal, which would reallocate funds already budgeted within the department, was made.
Daniels said she would have liked to have seen more price comparison and more information about the requested equipment.
Councilman Westburn Majors said he's concerned that the request reflected larger problems with how the city has handled infrastructure issues--a reactive versus a proactive approach. The request was tied to specific events, he said, and not the result of planning.
"When it's reactionary, it feels like an assault," he said. "We want to get away from the ways of the past where we put Band Aids on things."
The department also did not follow through with the council's request that it hold public meetings on the issue during the body's summer recess.
Carter said that was due, in part, to conflicting schedules between the various parties. He said he's open, however, to meeting with any concerned citizen and to organizing public meetings.
Councilman Ben Allatt ultimately proposed--and council unanimously approved--an amendment to the riot gear resolution that requires further consideration of policing. That amendment will make any spending on the riot gear contingent on the city's legal advisors preparing a follow-on resolution creating a task force to explore police training, community policing and the possibility of launching a citizens' advisory board. That subsequent resolution will be considered by council next month. The vote on the final amended resolution was 5-1.
Daniels urged the residents who attended Tuesday to be more active in their government. In her comments, she tried to put the riot gear issue into a larger perspective.
"[This represents] $65,000 on a budget of over $80 million," she said. "I'd like to see residents more involved in how we spend the other $80 million."
Council will meet at 5:15 p.m. Thursday to consider a replacement for Jeffrey Baltimore, who resigned earlier this month. The appointee will serve four months.
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[ 2 syll. gui-da, gu-ida ] The baby girl name Guida is pronounced as GIYDAH †. Guida's origin is Italian. The name means one who acts as a guide.
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Humans contract the Guinea worm parasite by ingesting water containing fleas infected with guinea worm larvae. The devastating and nightmarish symptoms don't show up until around a year later:
a stringy worm that is 60 to 90 centimetres erupts through the skin on the leg or foot. Its excruciatingly painful journey out of the body can take weeks. To relieve the burning sensation, many people wade into the nearest body of water — often the same pond from which they drink. When an adult worm enters the water, it releases larvae, and the cycle starts anew.
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An international partnership — led by the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia — has reduced the number of new infections from 3.5 million per year in 1986 to just 28 in 2018.
Unfortunately, new cases indicate that animals might be able to transmit guinea worms after all. Cases in Chad may be related to dogs in a way scientists don't yet understand. Other pockets of contamination have also been discovered:
The discovery in 2013 of infected baboons — a first — in a small forested area in southern Ethiopia also has researchers scratching their heads. So far, scientists have found 15 baboons with Guinea-worm disease. The eradication programme has hired hunters to find and map water sources deep in the forest, which are then treated with larvicide. Individual baboons have been collared and are being tracked to find out where they eat, drink and sleep. A key question, Cleaveland says, is whether baboons, like dogs, can sustain transmission independently.
Accordingly, the WHO has move target date for eradicating the disease from 2020 to 2030. NPR notes that the target date has already been delayed several times for the original target of 1991, and that scientists remain optimistic:
Jessica Fairley, a tropical disease epidemiologist at Emory University, told NPR in an email that the date change wasn't a big surprise.
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files Red Nails, read online Red Nails, free Red Nails, free Red Nails, Red Nails bab11a304 One Of The Strangest Stories Ever Written The Tale Of A Barbarian Adventurer, A Woman Pirate, And A Weird Roofed City Inhabited By The Most Peculiar Race Of Men Ever SpawnedThat Was The Weird Tales Editor S Original Terse Blurb For This Story S Magazine Publication There Was Another, Longer Less Coherent, But It Wouldn T Fit Here On The Back Cover Death Decay Red Nails Really Is Something Special It S Classic Conan Conan Lovers Consider Red Nails To Be One Of The Best, And You Know, They Make A Point
10 thoughts on "Red Nails"
About a year ago, at a library book sale I ran across some collections of Conan stories, which were edited by Karl Edward Wagner These were labeled as Authorized I didn t pay much attention to that, because I thought I had read pretty much all of the Conan stories back in high school And I may have, but the ones I read were part of a multi volume set that was edited by Lin Carter, August Derleth, and L Sprague DeCamp The point here is that the stories I read way back when were leavened with Conan stories from other writers At the time I remember liking them for the most part, but that I noticed a definite difference when reading the real Howard efforts Reading some of these stories now, many years later, it s clear I haven t read them all On the downside, after a life time of reading under my belt, I can t help but notice the crudity with which they are written They are obviously the product of someone writing quickly, and in a white hot heat There are times when the plot moves along mechanically, and when dialogue is as wooden as a forest On top of that these stories are pretty racist in their characterizations of people from other races It isn t subtle, and from reading Wagner s Afterword, those characterizations fit into Howard s world view, such as it was at age 30 And yet, despite all of that there s this weird, powerful, purple languaged energy that holds it all together There are passages and scenes that show Howard as the possessor of a first class imagination After finishing a story, you put the book down and realize this is the real thing This is Pulp warts and all from the Golden Age If you can deal with these warts, it s pretty obvious why Howard remains so influential A few comments on the individual stories along with an occasional Howard nugget below Beyond the Black River Conan on the Pict frontier Conan, and a warrior companion, try to warn settlers that an attack from the united Picts is imminent And the Picts are led by an evil wizard who can command the beasts of the forest I couldn t help but be reminded of the Western feel of this story I got all sorts of Comanche vs Texan vibes going here Or Last of the Mohicans Black magic, a saber tooth tiger, a fortress under siege, and extreme carnage You betcha Interestingly, Wagner thinks this one of the best of the Conan stories, in part because it cuts against Sword and Sorcery expectations though it has plenty of that What does get lost in this story is the damsel in distress bit, which when you look at the bulk of Conan stories, usually make for some of Howard s most clumsy dialogue I m inclined to agree that Beyond the Black River is one of best of the Conan stories Then Conan released him and ran into the building where the skulls hung Balthus followed him He got a glimpse of the grim stone altar, faintly lighted by the glow outside five human heads grinned on that altar, and there was a grisly familiarity about the features of the freshest it was the head of the merchant Tiberias Behind the altar was an idol, dim, indistinct, bestial, yet vaguely manlike in outline Then fresh horror choked Balthus as the shape heaved up suddenly with a rattle of chains, lifting long misshapen arms in the gloom. Shadows in Zamboula The second story in this collection, Shadows in Zamboula, may be the weakest in the bunch, but it s not without some punch It also, of all these stories, is the most racist in its characterizations In this one, our mighty thug decides, against the warnings of a friend, to stay at an inn where travelers have been disappearing What makes this story memorable is that it has a thrilling duel to the death, via strangulation Probably the only one I ve run across in fiction, or the only one worth remembering Conan at his badass best Conan, you are of the West, and know not the secrets of this ancient land But, since the beginning of happenings, the demon of the desert have worshipped Yog, the Lord of the Empty Abodes, with fire fire that devours human victims. Red Nails The third and final story in the collection is actually a novella According to Wagner, this was the last Conan story that Howard would write before his suicide I m unclear as to where his one Conan novel fits in this chronology, but evidently Howard was having trouble getting paid by editors of Weird Tales it was the Depression , and he was starting to look at other markets while toying with writing different types of stories Wagner is only so so with Red Nails I like it better than that, but it does start out a bit slow as he engages in a back and forth conversation with a pirate lady named Valeria As I said above, such scenes make for some really bad dialogue Anyway, Conan and Valeria get trapped on top of a hill by a dragon They soon figure out how to deal with the Lizard King, but find themselves trapped in a nearby city called Xuchotl The city is being fought over by warring clans see Yojimbo or Last Man Standing who use both sword and sorcery against each other Once the reader is in the city, this is a really cool story with a racy subtext of lesbianism that must of been pretty daring for its day In the shadows beneath the balcony a ghostly light began to glow and grow, a light that was not part of the fire stone gleam Valeria felt her hair stir as she watched it for, dimly visible in the throbbing radiance, there floated a human skull, and it was from this skull human yet appallingly misshapen that the spectral light seemed to emanate.The book concludes with Howard s essay on the Hyborean Age most Conan fans have already read this , as well as an informative Afterword by Karl Edward Wagner.
If Howard produced a final draft, this may have become his, Stairway to Heaven Presumably created while he suffered from crippling depression caused by the declining health and eventual death of his Mother, compounded by a time of unsatisfactory relations with women generally, it s surprising that Valeria is featured.Imagine relentlessly pounding this out on a typewriter with no light at the end of the causeway besides a pulp paycheck and the modest respect of your friends The author still managed to produce a competent tale, but it s not my favorite.This inspired Dwellers of the Forbidden City I listened to the audiobook twice, but it didn t shed any light on that catbox of a module Instead, it made me think that Zeb Cook missed an opportunity to bring the slithering book atmosphere to the module I d rate it five stars, but there isn t enough clarity to distinguish the city factions, plus the story would ve been better if it had stuck to Conan s point of view view spoiler I hoped for some intrigue between factions, but there was only outright war and mild betrayal hide spoiler
I had the pleasure of first reading the Conan stories in the order Robert E Howard wrote them, which provided a peek into the mind of a profoundly troubled man Conan was the last major character he created, and towards the end of Howard s life, the world of Conan became progressively bleak and barren and grim, its people little than the remnants of a civilization that had raped, enslaved, and murdered itself into near extinction RED NAILS was the final Conan story and didn t make it to publication until after the author s suicide As such, it s likely the darkest and most gruesome and best Conan tale.And you know what It s in the public domain.
This is my 3rd Conan story to read and it is by far my favorite I d heard of Red Nails before, but didn t know anything about it What I found was an adventure that cements Howard title as a Sword Sorcery master Here we find Conan and his companion Valeria Those familiar with the 1982 movie will recognize that name as they go through a jungle They are attacked by a dragon, and once that encounter is done, find an abandoned and hidden city Hopeful for treasure, they enter the rusted doors and discover 2 things 1 The city is in fact a single enormous 4 story building with towers, crystal skylights, twisting passages, and deep crypts 2 They discover that the city is not abandoned, but inhabited by two small clans that have been at war for over fifty years.What follows is an adventure filled with magic, swordplay, sex, betrayal, and adventure In short, the very nature of sword sorcery, and it is awesome.There is a faint Yojimbo feel to the story, but only enough of one that you can say, there s a passing similarity If there is any common inspiration, it would be with the 1929 Hammett novel Red Harvest, which could arguably be the case, given the similarity of titles I recommend it to anyone that wants to enjoy the classic pulp that laid the foundation for much of today s fantasy.
This was my first foray into the world of Conan, and boy, what a trip As I finished the story, I laughed at how little there was to actually take away from it as in, nothing but that s okay Comically racist and sexist, the story is a great adventure all the way through Now, I just have to find a reason to exclaim, Sulky slut
I have to say that I very much enjoyed this story There s a lot of early east Texas cultural baggage to get past Once I did, I enjoyed the primal adventure, sensuality, and moral inhibition of of this very well put together Conan story.Robert E Howard had a complex and contradictory consciousness For example, he s a lost cause on the subject of race Like his colleague, H.P Lovecraft, he was a man whose family had fallen on hard times, and aggrandized himself at the expense of other people with pseudo science and blatant misreading of history Which makes the whole premise of this story somewhat unsettling Degenerate races feature predominantly, it s one of the main themes in fact, which is a shame.His portrayal of women, however, isn t as bad as many people claim Oh, by modern standards and even enlightened contemporaries, such as William Moulton Marston he is a chauvinist But in our age, where most people read Conan stories in collections, it s hard to remember that there were other contributors to Weird Tales, and Howard comes out looking slightly better in comparison In this story Valeria Conan s sidekick and love interest is a warrior in her own right She doesn t simper in the background as so often happens in these stories She fights and holds her own, though her femininity is often her failing It felt to me that Howard kept trying to maker her Conan s equal, and then his east Texas social learning would kick in, and she would swoon in complete contradiction to her character Howard characters do not often act in such a contradictory manner I think it s a sign of conflict with regard to his view of women, at least toward the end of his life.The setting is what redeems the story A colossal city with no windows and only two main gates The whole place, from catacombs to towers, is one huge maze A maze with factions warring within it The descriptions of the passages and the lights, rooms, stairs, and the history of the place give this story a deep, oppressive, atmosphere It s almost a relief when the fighting starts Fortunately, there s a lot of fighting.I have to say I love a character like Conan I think everyone has fantasied about being someone who has shed the constraints of civilization To be someone who lives only for food, sex, and fighting notice I cleaned that up at the expense of alliteration It was physically painful See how constraining civilization can be Getting inside the head of someone like Conan can be a fun vicarious experience Thus the evil sorcerer who rules not by right of arms but dark powers becomes bosses, or the person who cut us off in traffic, or whatever How satisfying would it be to solve our problems as easily as Conan This is the first of my appendix n books shelf This story was recommended in Appendix N of the first Dungeon Master s Guide, written by Gary Gygax This story features many elements that would become common in dungeon crawls It has a dungeon Heroes that are employed to solve a problem for non main characters common in DD, less so in epic fantasy , magical monsters, and a story that is gradually reveled to the adventurers as the accomplish tasks The influence this story had on Dungeons and Dragons is very obvious.I don t think I ve written a review this long before I could write , and I may elsewhere But I ll close here by saying that I think that this story, despite its flaws and the author s obvious hang ups is well worth the time of someone interested not only in the early history of DD, but in the general evolution of the fantasy genre.
Being a gigantic fan of all things fantasy, I am a big fan of the sword and sorcery Never having read any of the Conan novels, but being a fan of the movies, I decided to read these books.They certainly come out of a different era, but the fantasy elements of the lovable swashbuckler are still awesome and wonderful This was written when you knew straight down the line who the bad guys were and who the good guys were.What I find especially fascinating about Conan himself is that he is not a hero in the classical sense He is an anti hero and a bad ass In fact I think he might have been one of the first dark heroes in fantasy literature If Conan wasn t the protagonist of the story, he would have been the villain, no questions asked But he is the protagonist, and we root for this mans man to kill people, slay dragons, and get the scantly clad damsel.Really good stuff.
In my opinion, one of the strangest Conan stories ever written, and one of the best Sure, the character development is pathetic, but who cares A completely enclosed city, factions of the same tribe at war with one another, engaged in a violent competition, gorgeous women in loin cloths, a despot king, monsters from below, and a dinosaur They call it a dragon, but it is totally a dinosaur You won t find the furthering of gender equality, or even racial equality in the works of Howard Let us not forget that Conan is known as the barbarian, the destroyer, the conqueror, and only rarely the adventurer He is never called Conan the ticklish, Conan the nice, or Conan the fair No, he is a certified thug Sometimes it is okay for the main character to be unlikable Look at Tom Ripley.
My very first foray into the realm of Conan the Barbarian A few things stood out for me.1 The mood and the setting had a tremendous feel Howard is not just some pulp fiction author he really knew his craft.2 Conan was far literate than I ever expected Probably the result of seeing the Conan movies so many years ago This was not disappointing in the least Just took some getting used to 3 The action was beautifully written something I expected of course but it far exceeded my expectations I ll certainly be going back for .
Robert E Howard s original Conan stories are much like Ian Fleming s Bond books utterly ridiculous but also incredibly entertaining I liked them, and I shall read


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In January, Washington Mutual became the first bank to test selling
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In Washington state, Washington Mutual's website offered a 0.95% rate on 6-month
CDs. That CD featured the option of adding to it at any time during the term for
the same rate.
Apparently the test was promoted on a limited basis with banners and links on
eBay, although we never saw one. However, there is no integration with the eBay
search engine. We tested various search terms and found no mention of the WAMU
CDs. Washington Mutual issued a press release on January 14, but is not widely
promoting the service. We found no mention of it on the bank's website (Feb. 9)
nor did it appear in site search results.
Here's what you see after entering a successful bid (in
this case 10%) that's met the reserve and taken the lead, at least for the
moment. Final winning bid was approximately 2%.
At this point, CD purchasing on eBay may be too small a niche for a large
bank to profitably serve. However, it might be a good way to attract hot money,
without repricing your current deposit base, or to create some interest in your
deposit and/or online services. Long-term, we are more optimistic and expect
deposit auctions to eventually become a common practice; after all retail
investors already purchase T-bills directly from the U.S. government in a
similar fashion.
Doug Marshall is SVP Deposit Strategy and Product Management at
WAMU; Gary Dillabough is VP Strategic Partnerships at eBay.


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Project Update: Building Technical CapacityNews | Posted Feb 05,2020
Project: Building Technical Capacity for improved soil management
Project Leader: Felicity Harrop – North Central Catchment Management Authority
The Soil CRC has been funded by the Australian Government through the Building Landcare Community and Capacity component of the Smart Farms Program to deliver a project that increases soil technical capacity and capability in grower groups, Landcare groups and NRM organisations, both within and outside of the CRC.
Over two years, the project will build the technical capacity of these groups to deliver soil health information to farmers. It does this by leveraging the significant skills, expertise and collaborative partnerships within the Soil CRC.
Three communities of practice (CoPs) have been established across Australia, each one comprising 10 participants from groups in areas of common interest. The three CoPs cover the West – WA; South – SA, Vic, Tas and Southern NSW and North – Northern NSW and Qld.
Project Update
Of the 30 groups that are represented, 15 are farmer groups and 15 are NRM organisations. Nineteen of the participants are from groups outside of the Soil CRC. We have conducted a baseline analysis of the existing soil science knowledge, skills and confidence of the participants and where they currently source knowledge on soil science practice and trends.
Each of the three CoPs are in the process of developing a capacity building plan that best addresses the gaps and needs of the individuals within each CoP and the CoP as a whole. These plans will reflect the existing knowledge bases of individual participants, the needs and priorities of the groups for whom they work, the delivery needs of the projects that they are responsible for (i.e. Smart Farms projects), and the soil and farming systems issues of the region.
We held inaugural workshops for each of the CoPs in November and December 2019. This provided the opportunity for the participants to meet each other, discuss the baseline data collected and identify key learning objectives and activities for the group's future workshops and capacity building plan. Soil CRC participants Dr Richard Doyle (University of Tasmania), Melissa Cann (Agriculture Victoria), Dr Richard Bell (Murdoch University), Abigail Jenkins (NSW DPI) and Maryam Esfandbod (Griffith University) provided technical support at the workshops.
Nationally, the top five issues that need addressing were identified as:
- Low/declining soil organic carbon levels in topsoils
- Ground cover maintenance e.g., due aridity, low fertility etc
- Declining nutrient status of soils
- Low/declining biological activity in topsoils
- Soil acidity (low pH) undermining productive capacity
The top five learning needs identified were:
- The use of new technologies for soil management e.g. in soil sensing, drone or satellite-based land assessment, cheap and rapid in-field soil testing
- Soil management decision support tools e.g., for irrigation, fertilisation, drainage and other input management
- Understanding and managing herbicide use, fate and plantback periods
- The benefits of applying soil biological soil amendments
- Defining and measuring soil constraints
Next Steps
The groups will finalise their capacity building plan and attend the second Community of Practice region workshops, the national Community of Practice workshop and the Soil CRC Participants Conference in March and April.
- North West Local Land Services – NSW
- Northern Slopes Landcare Association – NSW
- North Coast Local Land Services – NSW
- Central West Local Land Services – NSW
- Northern Grower Alliance – Qld
- Burnett Catchment Care Association – Qld
- Central Highlands Regional Resources Use Planning Cooperative Limited – Qld
- Hunter Local Land Services – NSW
- Burdekin Productivity Services – Qld
- Herbert Cane Productivity Services – Qld
- Upper Hopkins Land Management Group – Vic
- Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin – SA
- Eyre Peninsula NRM – SA
- Northern and Yorke NRM region – SA
- Holbrook Landcare Network – NSW
- Riverine Plains Inc – Vic/NSW
- FarmLink Research – NSW
- Central West Farming Systems – NSW
- Southern Farming Systems – Vic
- Birchip Cropping Group – Vic
- Perth NRM – WA
- South West Catchments Council – WA
- WA Hemp Growers' Co-op (HempGro) – WA
- South Coast NRM – WA
- Northern Agricultural Catchments Council NRM – WA
- Morawa Farm Improvement Group – WA
- Southern Dirt – WA
- The Gillamii Centre – WA
- West Midlands Group Incorporated – WA
- Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management – WA


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Chief Kiely reflects on long career
In more than 40 years, a lot of things have changed in police work, according to Chief Thomas Kiely. But according to the outgoing chief, there is one thing that stays constant.
"The heart and soul of a true police officer hasn't changed," Kiely said. "They go out and try to do good."
Chief Kiely, who retires at the end of the month after almost 41 years in Trumbull, said he learned some important lessons, starting from his time as a patrolman all the way up to his role as an administrator.
"What I found interesting were the people, and there's a lot of interesting people in this town," Kiely said of his days on patrol. "Even if it's a routine call like someone's mailbox getting smashed, you see that people feel so violated, even when it's a small crime. You realize that this is the biggest thing in their life right now. I never trivialized that."
Kiely, who grew up in Bridgeport, worked briefly in Norwalk as a police officer before deciding he wanted to be back closer to his hometown. For Kiely, there was never any other goal but to be a police officer. A big part of his inspiration came from his grandfather, David Bibbins, who retired as a captain from the Bridgeport Police department after 40 years.
Looking back at his long career, things stand out, some good and some bad.
Working on patrol and later as a sergeant, giving family death notifications never got easier, he said.
"You did the best you could," he said. "I can remember just about every one of them."
There are a lot of good memories, too.
"I've had more laughs at this job than anything," he said. "Police have a humor unto themselves."
On patrol, Kiely used to cover the mall a lot, and he said you start to see the same shoplifters again and again.
"I was with my kids one day at the mall, and we saw a couple of girls who used to shoplift there a lot," Kiely said. "They said hello to us and told my kids, 'We work a lot with your dad.' My daughter asks, 'Oh, are you a policewoman?' The girl goes, 'Yeah, kind of like that.'"
Kiely said he never saw himself becoming chief of the department.
"When I made sergeant, that was a bonus," Kiely said. "I could have lived the rest of my life as a sergeant. It never, ever was I was going to be the chief someday."
Kiely said the officers behind him made him a good chief, especially Deputy Chief Glenn Byrnes and Deputy Chief Michael Harry. Harry, who has been with the department for more than 41 years, is also retiring at the end of the month.
"I was never an administrator," Kiely said. "Luckily, Glenn and Mike stepped up. I had never done a budget before. Glenn and Mike carried me, I didn't carry them."
Kiely is proud of the strides the department has made in the last 10 years. He is proud of the growth of the Emergency Response Team, the scuba team and the increase in training.
"We have the ability now to respond to incidents like a Boston [bombing] or school shooting," Kiely said. "We have the critical incident truck now. We are one of the few ERT teams to have self-contained breathing apparatus, so we could enter a fire situation."
He is very proud of the dispatch upgrade that is ongoing at the department.
"I think that will be huge, with everyone under one roof," he said of centralized dispatch. "That was a major problem in every incident we had. It works fine as long as only one call is coming in at a time. But when it's all coming in at once, it's difficult. In the past, we've sent guys to wires down, only to find out fire had already been there. This is going to be huge."
He is also proud of a low crime rate.
"I've been blessed with the people we hire," Kiely said. "They go out and do amazing things, every day."
It's not always an easy job.
"There is an old saying in police work, 'They only like us when they need us,'" Kiely said.
With criticism often aimed at police, Kiely said, his best advice for officers is to remember they are dealing with people often during the most difficult moments of their life.
"I just tell officers that the littlest thing you do, people will remember it," Kiely said. "A lot of these people, this will be the only time they have an experience with the police department, so try to make it a good one."
Kiely speaks highly of all the people he has worked with through the years, both police and civilian. One person he remembers fondly and with sadness is Brian Casey. Casey, who died in 2012, after battling cancer, ran the computer systems in the police department.
"I've made a lot of friends in Trumbull," Kiely said. "After 41 years, this is all you know."
The camaraderie among officers is also something special, according to the chief. Perhaps the best example of that bond is a story he tells about his grandfather, who, 25 years after his retirement, was lying in a hospital bed on New Year's Eve, close to death. Doctors needed to get more blood that matched his grandfather's type. Kiely's mother decided to try to the Bridgeport Police Department, who told her they would ask around and do their best.
About half an hour later, when Kiely heard someone walk into the hospital asking for Capt. Bibbins, he was shocked to see that six officers had rushed over to donate a pint of blood each, saving his grandfather's life.
"Most of these guys had never worked with him," Kiely said.
In Trumbull, Kiely is grateful for the people he says make him look good.
He believes the incoming chief, Michael Lombardo, will do a great job leading the department.
In retirement, Kiely plans on spending time with his five grandchildren, traveling and getting in a few more golf games.
He has been touched by the outpouring of messages from people around town, who heard about his upcoming retirement.
"Trumbull's strength is not in its politics, it's the people that live here," he said. "Sometimes politics clouds that. I will miss a lot of people in town, some Democrat, some Republican and all genuinely good people."


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And what a year it's been. 2015 has been one of those years I would sooner forget! One month with a flu I couldn't seem to get rid of, 2 and a bit bike failures, and a seemingly conspiritorial number of things getting in the way of cycling. But inspite of all the things that worked against the cycling this year, I still broke a few personal records and reached (and exceeded) a major goal (6000km for the year).
Here are the stats for the year, courtesy of Strava:
|6,172.2 km (5033km last year)
|306h 36m
|Elev Gain
|21,050 m (19203m last year)
|249 (149 last year)
Some interesting extra stats can be worked out from the data above.
- Average speed over the year: 20.1kph.
- Average distance per ride: 24.7km (average since joining Strava 28.42km).
- Elevation gain over the year is 9.44 times the height above sea level of Australia's highest mountain (Mt Kosciuszko, 2228m).
This year saw some very different rides to what I am used to doing. The climb from Eurobin Creek to Mount Buffalo Chalet (see blog entry for Nov 4th, 2015) would have to be the highlight of the whole year. But there were other different rides in different places which helped keep me interested.
For most of July and the first week of August I did almost no cycling at all, but tried to keep fit by running in very boring straight or almost straight lines on the roads near our home. I say 'tried to keep fit' because I'm still not overly convinced it actually kept me very fit as when I finally did get back on the bike I was really struggling to get any reasonable distance rides logged. Although that could have been something to do with the flu I had. Here are the running statistics for the whole of 2015:
|354.0 km
|48h 57m
|Elev Gain
|280 m
So what will happen next year?
There is only One who knows that.
But with the recent plague of bike failures I am seriously wondering whether cycling is worth continuing with as my major fitness maintainer. The first bike to fail was the 26″ Foldable bike in early November. While riding around Mountain Creek near Mt Bogong a big stick got jammed in the derailer and caused part of the rear cable mechanism to fail, and then a month after I got it repaired the rear derailer failed spectacularly. So I spent a fair bit of spare time over December transferring various parts from the 26″ to the $20 Mountain Bike (which I purchased in February while in Geelong). And the mountain bike seemed to be turning into a reasonable bike with the parts I transferred to it from the 26″ Foldable bike, but then tonight on my last ride for 2015 the pedal shaft developed a nasty sounding screech and I could feel some building resistance in the pedal assembly. At one point about 5km from the end of the ride the whole pedal shaft seemed to seize up, but I managed to free it up a bit and pedalled gently the rest of the way home. I am hoping it just needs some grease on the bearing. I can't afford a decent bike at this point in time, and the only bike that is currently functioning properly is the 20″ K-Rock foldable bike – a nice bike to ride to be sure (I call it the Morris Mini of the cycling world) and I have clocked up more than 600km on it since acquiring it from my father-in-law in May, but as I can't really attach a water bottle to it I can't really venture far from home on it especially during summer.
I have committed myself to maintaining fitness and being healthy in 2016. But how that is going to happen will remaing to be seen…