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I have been musing about some threads relating to data for a while and I've noticed they have been tangling people up.These threads resonated at the recent Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) Conference held in Melbourne, Sept.12th-16th.I want to unravel a few threads in light of that conference.
It has struck me for quite a while how crazy things are in our industry.Let me give an analogy that describes, until recently the bind in which we found ourselves.Your hi-fi system dies.Off to the hi-fi shop you go and, before you know it, you are walking out of the shop with a system that would take someone with a Ph.D.to use! Needless to say, your wallet is very much lighter.Your new system, you tell your friends, is the best - it has features, features and more features.Then the awful truth dawns on you: you can't afford the music CDs!
I have heard lots and lots of people tell me how they have the biggest and best GIS around.(What my previous employer's CEO called a "Rolls-Royce GIS.") But then they go on to bemoan the fact that they can neither access nor afford the data.
In the Australian environment the question of data access and pricing is a perennial one.So it was no surprise that it was talked about constantly at the recent GITA Australia (reviewed here) and SSI conferences.
Stuart Nixon: The "Where" of Data
Stuart Nixon, CEO of ERMapper (based in Perth, Western Australia,) gave a keynote presentation on the first day of the SSI conference.He provided a marketing/financial view on what, in his view, is holding back the geospatial industry.
Nixon explained how he thought we were good at capturing data; pretty good at managing it (though I beg to differ there); but pretty awful at delivery.By "delivery," he wasn't referring to its technical aspects per se, rather he meant the way in which we put our services in the hands of the masses.In his view the latter needs to change, and change quickly.To create a framework for discussing it, he characterized the spatial market as being:
- Small but expert;
- Something that, when compared to search engines, is not used by everyone;
- Restricted by business and data copyright models;
- Characterized by poorly integrated data; and
- Distinguished by having most of its data locked up.
"What" and "Where"
To illustrate, Nixon compared the value of the "What" industry (i.e. search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo!, etc.) to the "Where" industry (us).The "What" industry, in his view, generates money, whereas the "Where" industry spends it.The "What" industry does this by giving access to information about things into the hands of anyone.This is the value of "What" - accessibility.Nixon presented a diagram that he used to compare the two industries.
A Way Forward?
Nixon thinks there is a way forward but first three missing things need to be fixed.
1.We can't locate (geocode) things. Geocoding for Nixon is the equivalent of a Google "search." He thinks there is no unified approach and that it is costly (currently about one cent per transaction).Nixon stated that the industry must stop seeing geocoding as the business model but rather as the enabling technology for value-added services that anyone can use.Part of the issue, Nixon believes, is the lack of free street databases on which to base geocoding.Putting Money Where Mouth Is!
I take a somewhat different view that Nixon on this. I simply don't believe that geocoding is a geospatial process.My view is that it is a semantic matching problem in which two fuzzy sentences (addresses) are matched for the purpose of transferring two attributes: a latitude and a longitude.Yes, geocoding requires some geoprocessing to create a matchable dataset (from multiple spatial sources) but it does not need a GIS to execute a geocode operation.
2.Current data licensing models and access modes are too restrictive. Nixon highlighted the dilemma when asked the rhetorical question: Why is our satellite imagery rotting in tape libraries when it should be getting used? He also underlined his passion on this topic when he proclaimed that there is better, free, detailed coverage of Mars than of Earth! Sure, Australia has some large datasets, but current license and access agreements are killing access.
Part of the problem is that the major suppliers of data are the government agencies.Some of the data are free but some are not.The problem is compounded by the fact that much of the data (e.g. topographic data) was captured in the days before economic rationalism saw governments retreat from major infrastructure projects like mapping.
This is not an issue that is isolated to Australia. In my view some of the current owners of navigable road datasets will face this dilemma if they continue to price themselves out of Internet portal use.The restrictions on use of road data inside Google Maps are not Google's fault.It is the data licensing that is the issue: this licensing runs counter to the portal's approach of ubiquitous access.If this becomes a problem, Google and the other location enabled portals just might go elsewhere (or capture it themselves).
I think new technologies like LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging, discussed below and defined here) have the potential to change this. Much more on this in Part 2 of this article, which will appear next week.
3.Current data delivery mechanisms are poor.Those of us who thought CD and DVD technologies were a boon to data delivery can think again.Now even these are not good enough.In the Internet age, the main method of delivery should be via the Web (for those who can afford the bandwidth).
Nixon drove home his point that "usage equates to value" when he made a special announcement that ERMapper, in conjunction with the Australian Greenhouse Office and GeoScience Australia is sponsoring a new web site to enable greater access to large geospatial datasets.
Before Nixon made the announcement, he noted that BitTorrent traffic takes up to 35% of today's Internet traffic and is, therefore, the delivery mechanism of choice for Internet data delivery.The new site Nixon announced is called www.geoTorrent.org.
The technological vision and driver for the new site is one of ERMapper's staff, Richard Orchard.It uses BitTorrent technology to improve user access and delivery, thereby hoping to increase usage and value.It is not meant for online access or searching, rather simply for data delivery.The great thing about this site is that the last 30 years of Landsat imagery for Australia is now available at one access point! Perhaps not "killer data," but it is a great start that will hopefully cause others to open their data vaults to the public.
Too late?
But is this a late response from an industry caught with its pants down by Google? Is it already game set and match to Google?
Nearly.An example may help clarify why I think this might be the case. In my home state, Tasmania, there has been a ground swell of demand for high resolution imagery for use in the private and public sectors. Local government (of which there are 29 councils in Tasmania), fire, police, ambulance, parks and other state government agencies, forestry companies, agribusinesses, etc., all want this data for their many needs.None of them, as individuals, can afford to buy and process imagery from the main suppliers to create a single seamless mosaic over their operational areas and keep it up-to-date.But, as a single body, they could afford such imagery.
The problem is that the main agency for coordinating data capture and access within the state, The LIST, has not been responsive to this demand.It has not gathered the many players together to ascertain need (coverage, scale, sensors, time scales), draw up common specifications, negotiate with suppliers, and then coordinate the processing of the product to make it available to all.Something might be happening as I write, but this is a reactive response rather than proactive service provision.
At a recent local Tasmanian conference, I publicly asked the question: "Do we have to wait until Google buys all the DigitalGlobe data for Tasmania, processes it and makes it available in Google Maps/Google Earth before we can finally get the data we need?" Someone in the audience yelled out: "Too right, mate!" If my listener's response is any measure, the decision has been made: we will wait for Google to do what we seem incapable of doing ourselves!
What Google has done in this space can be likened to "killer data." In my Killer Apps article published last week, I used the term in the following sense (from Wikipedia): "The term is especially used when the technology existed before but did not take off before the introduction of the killer application." We know that large data stores existed before Google Maps and Google Earth, but these were not as accessible or useful (raw data for download is not what most people want).Thus, it seems to me that the only real data integration Web Service that has any traction in the market today is Google's KML (reviewed here). One attendee at the SSI conference informed me that Google does have a contract with DigitalGlobe for their data and is buying up an incredible amount of it.
But with Google, geospatial data's presence has become visible and so is now "taking off," as it were.Google knows data is everything in the geospatial business.One attendee at the SSI conference informed me that Google has a contract with DigitalGlobe for their data and is buying an incredible amount.This data will be made accessible via its platform interfaces (Maps API and KML).Perhaps it is these interfaces that will open up data access far more than the ones the geospatial industry has been pushing for quite a while now.
In summary, let's keep it simple.If I could provide my users a Google Maps layer within GIS application(s) in the same way we access WMS services, then it really is close to game, set and match! Tasmanian users will get what they want: seamless, statewide coverage of up-to-date high resolution imagery.And, just in case Google is listening, they would be willing to pay!
[Part 2 will appear next week.]
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Lipa Schmeltzer singing in English at some type of an event for Be'er Hagolah Institutes.Song is to the tune of Rabbi Nachman and is aimed at Mordechai Ben David who is sitting across him.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Lipa Sings at MBD
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A decent benchmark for 'incredibly fast car' is an Aston Martin Vantage. It comes with 503 hp, cracks 0-62 mph in 3.6 seconds, brushes the underside of 200 mph, is fun to drive, and tickles the senses in all the right ways.
It is also, thanks to the Rimac Nevera, a slow-moving relic. A thing that, when we look back from the future, we'll consider "hot… ish." Rimac has moved the performance game on so far and so convincingly that it renders any argument against electric cars moot.
The Rimac (and that's pronounced Rimatz; it's Croatian) Nevera, formerly known as the C_Two, is, on paper, a big deal. It comes with a 120-kWh battery and four electric motors that fire 1914 hp and 1696 lb-ft to all four wheels. The numbers translate to a 340-mile range, 0-62 mph in 1.97 seconds, 0-100 in 4.3, 0-186 in 11.6, on up to 250 mph. It'll cover the quarter-mile in under nine seconds. Thanks to Rimac's charging architecture, you can recharge it from 20% to 80% range in just 18 minutes with a 350kW fast-charger. Impressive stuff written down, but will it do it?
Rimac kindly provided a runway and a fully charged Nevera to put its money where its mouth is. To launch the car you need to have it in Drive, nail the brake, lean on the gas, wait for the instrument panel to indicate Launch Mode, and lift off the stop pedal. Then… You warp from one part of the world to another. The acceleration is savage and unrelenting. As there are no gears to shift, you're not given a break for a millisecond. The speedo adds numbers so quickly it can't keep pace with itself, but you don't look down because you're struggling to breathe. Where torquey turbo cars push you back in your seat, the Nevera forces the air from your lungs. While you try and catch your breath, your vision narrows as you aim for the distance. Your hands have pleasingly little to do thanks to the car's incredible stability; it feels solid as they come. Nine seconds after lifting off the brakes, you're back on them, stopping straight and true with nary a hint of drama, on a dry day at least. While taking a moment to reinflate your chest, involuntary and incredulous swearing happens. Everything else from that point on is slow.
When it comes to outright performance at least, the internal combustion engine's card is irrevocably marked. And then you turn around and do it again because… why not? The car can do it anyway.
An EV proving it's very quick isn't new, but the step up in performance between 'quite fast' and 'so fast it makes breathing difficult' is quite something. Much faster could well feel rather unpleasant.
As a thing to look at, the Nevera eschews big, shiny, chintzy. Company founder Mate Rimac says he wanted to build a timeless car, one that reflected where it came from. The key design point, the necktie graphic that runs along its flanks, is a nod to Croatian heritage. Three lights in the 'knot' show what mode the car is in; these can also be customized to the owner's preference.
The interior is a feat in carbon fiber and leather. Six screens handle the vast majority of the car's functions: a central touch screen does most of the heavy lifting for seat adjustment, A/C, infotainment, and car setup; others act as displays that change depending on settings. There's a pleasing tactility in the cabin as well. Flip-switches under the main screen jump the display to specific functions and work the windows, for example, and the steering wheel comes with the usual mass of buttons required for the day-to-day. Rimac wanted some proper tactility in there, and placed click-wheels around each of its small circular display screens. Shifting to drive or between drive modes (depending on switch) is a chunky, angry joy. This is a car that has given itself over to technology, and unashamedly so.
The steering is done by wire, as are the brakes, bar an emergency connection. It steers sweetly, perhaps lacking a touch of the feel you'd get in a more traditional setup, but that's not anything to complain about. It changes depending on your driving mode, making things easier or more engaging. The brakes are fascinating; the Nevera can use brake regen to recoup some power on the move or employ its 15-inch six-pot carbon-ceramic Brembos depending on the situation. Because the brakes are not connected to the pedal, feel has been programmed in by Rimac; it can be adjusted depending on your driving mode. The car we drove was 95% finished, meaning the set up was still TBD, but it provided good feedback, though it was a little soft in the middle. The brakes, as demonstrated on our jaunt down the runway, work rather well. When you're properly stepping on them, though, you feel the car's 4740-lb kerb weight come into play. On a runway that doesn't matter, but it can feel a little alarming when coming to a brisk stop in traffic.
Weight is still an EV's Achilles heel. Rimac's huge battery is a big ol' lump, although it's hidden low in the car, under the cabin and behind the driver. Every effort was made to keep weight down, and the liberal use of carbon fiber everywhere is evidence of that, but the Nevera's carbon monocoque deserves special mention. The tub, roof, battery pack, and everything else is one single piece of carbon fiber. Composed of 2200 carbon sheets and 222 aluminum inserts, it's not only incredibly stiff but weighs just 441 lbs.
In the real world, where there are bends, speed limits, other traffic, and seemingly infinite people taking pictures of the whirring car as it passes by, you might expect the Nevera to be soulless. Having nailed hypercar speed, has it managed to be an exciting car for the road? Yes, thankfully. While you don't hear the gentle thrum of liquefied pterodactyls exploding, the car's motors and inverters give off a pleasing EV hum that gets louder as you press on. In the pre-production car, there were a few noises and creaks that Rimac plans to fix, but it was largely a quiet, smooth experience.
Overtaking, once you've got over the fact you're driving a wide, €2 million hypercar representing a decent fraction of Croatia's all-time automotive production, is not as easy as you think. You see, if you pin the throttle, you'll simply vanish into the distance. You need to recalibrate how you drive. Increase the flow of electrons by ten percent and you'll whoosh by. Twenty percent and you'll pick up a decent clip. Thirty gets you full-bore supercar pace. Anything more than that and you're either talented, brave, or hugely optimistic that nothing's coming around the next bend… three miles away.
Rethinking how you use the "fast" pedal, for it is neither noisy nor gassy, means you can one-pedal drive to an extent provisioning you work with the brake regen. That kind of thing isn't out of place in a BMW i3, but here it feels a little strange.
Give it some beans on a twisty road and the Nevera is just as enjoyable as anything coming out of Germany, Italy, or France. The steering flows wonderfully from corner to corner, the power appears in a linear fashion as you go. You can hurl the car around bends with ease, as quick as you dare. On the public highway you're nowhere near reaching its limits. You'd have to work pretty hard on track as well, judging by a brief play.
Thanks to all-wheel torque vectoring, each wheel measures what's going on and adjusts torque delivery on the fly to keep you going in the right direction, physics allowing. Even at speed it feels safe, secure, and exciting. It'll corner as flat as you like, the body moving only if you accelerate or brake heavily.
Rimac's acutely aware that some customers will want to take their Neveras around a circuit, and that they may not want company coming along with them. Therefore an AI driver coach is available to pop an overlay of the track on the car's infotainment screen and talk you round. Some tracks come pre-loaded, but Rimac says that if your favorite course is not there, you need only drive a couple of laps and the car will know what to do. What a race car driver would make of all this remains to be seen.
There are a few drive modes to choose from. Comfort will keep things smooth; Sport sharpens throttle, springs, brakes, and steering; Drift sends more power to the rears to help it kick the ass out; Range isn't hard to guess; Track sets everything to angry and lets you play; and two customizable modes let you change the car to your will. Want to have a front-wheel biased heavy-steering hard-spring car? Feel free, you weirdo. Seeing as the Nevera is largely software-based, it makes sense that there's so much choice. The change between each mode is quick and noticeable; no matter where you're at, it'll shift, and just how urgently is up to you. The only thing missing is an exhaust valve opening.
The car's active aero works with the modes as well. Underfloor trickery aids airflow and downforce, while the active wing is a thing of many tricks; it can be set up to offer huge downforce, to nestle into the body of the car for high speed runs by giving it a 0.28 drag coefficient, or anything in between. It'll also do the classic hypercar trick of acting as an airbrake.
While you'd expect to see an engine in the rear mirror, you instead get a limited view of the 100-liter luggage space and a sliver of sky. For parking, Rimac isn't relying on its customers' proficiency in using The Force; there are cameras on each side of the car to help guide you, just the kind of stuff you'd hope a hypercar would have.
The Nevera can be as easy to drive as your daily beater or as hardcore as anyone would wish, though Rimac says it's more grand tourer than track monster. There aren't many track monsters that can match its pace, though.
Speed, quick recharge, and ease of use are all huge boxes ticked. And the Nevara certainly comes with drama. Not the kind that an internal combustion hypercar offers, but something different. New noises, different sensations, and greater urgency are all there for you to enjoy. Pretty much everything about this car was made in-house by Rimac, freed of stringent budgets. Seeing as Rimac's main business is developing EV solutions for OEMs all over the world, this car is a rolling demonstration of what can be done when the leash comes off.
Electric cars are coming, and the Rimac Nevera is proof that we needn't be worried about them. In fact, we should be looking forward greedily to what comes next. A lucky 150 people will get the keys to one of these starting later this year, and they'll be in something truly special: The most advanced, most powerful, quickest car out there. Speed has a new name, and it is Nevera.
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Tadusz Chabrowski hands were shaking as he rifled through a pile of photos, looking for his favorite. "Oh here!" he said, pulling out a photo of himself standing in his eyeglasses shop. "When I was young– 100 years younger!" he laughed. His shop, Family Optical, once located at 120 Norman Avenue in Greenpoint, has been closed for 16 years, and yet his memories of the place are still as vivid as ever.
Chabrowksi, 81, is participating in a community scanning event at Greenpoint Library, part of the Our Streets, Our Stories project organized by the Brooklyn Public Library, in which archivists are collecting photographs and recollections for an oral history of Brooklyn, neighborhood by neighborhood. The project is a timely one for Greenpoint– there's a sense of urgency to compiling memories of the neighborhood's past and present as the area continues to grow and change at a rapid pace. Even this library (not more than a large room, really) where photos are being selected and sorted out for scanning, will soon look and feel very different after a $5 million facelift gives it a glassy new facade and second floor extension.
The archival team for the project has been making its way through the borough for a little over a year now, inviting residents to contribute their photos and documents and record a personal interview, à la StoryCorps. Occasionally they'll hold community scanning events like this one in an effort to target particular areas. Anyone living in Brooklyn can participate– whether you and your family have lived in the borough for generations, or you've only lived here for a few months, as long as you have a Brooklyn story, the project has an ear for you. The project also encourages family members to interview one another, so bring your grandma! (This Saturday, December 19 Greenpoint Library is hosting another scanning event from 11 am to 4 pm.)
"The idea started with the fact that public libraries are a place where you have access to local communities in a way that not a lot of organizations do," said Emma Clark, the lead coordinator of Our Streets, Our Stories. "It's a public gathering place for a lot of people, it can be accessed by all types of people, and it's a place for stories– what better place to do something like this?" Besides photos, people have also contributed journals, letters, maps, paintings, and ephemera from decades past, like school pins, graduation programs, or old matchbooks from long-closed bars.
After Chabrowski passed the photos over to Sarah Quick, a mobile digitization specialist, he did his best to place the dates and the names of faces in the photographs, details that are fading from memory. Quick wrote them down and her colleague, wearing white gloves, ran the photos through a scanner to make a high quality digital file. They will join the Brooklyn Public Library's permanent digital collection and the Digital Public Library of America. At the end of the process, Quick presented Chabrowski with a USB of his photo files to take home.
"I am the 'last Mohican' of Greenpoint for Polish group!" he said, puffing out his chest. "One of the last." A standard-bearer of the dwindling community, his 45 years in the nabe coincided with the rise of Polish-Greenpoint. He was here when they started the Polish-Slavic Federal Credit Union and the Polish-Slavic Center, and was a member of the The Polish National Alliance on Noble Street and the Polish American Artist Society (he's also a poet), not to mention the organizer of numerous chess and bridge clubs. "I am part of Greenpoint," he said, proudly.
Quick said that, with Greenpoint in transition, many people are looking for a way to hold onto their memories of a neighborhood before shiny new developments and hipster shops overshadow familiar Polish diners.
"I think it's hard for people when they're in a place they've lived their whole life, and their whole life is changing so rapidly," said Quick. "So a project like this is a great way to come together and know that their memories are going to be held onto. I think especially the older generation, they want to make sure they're not forgotten."
But Chabrowski seemed to embrace the neighborhood's new vibe with gusto. "Oh heavens, it's changed completely!" he said. "But I love it, the way it is now. For me, it's just nice that I can observe and see and notice all the changes that happened recently." He said that he likes to see empty spaces transform into buildings that "go towards the clouds," and he loves the recent variety in restaurants. "You know, with age, I am always hungry," he said. And his family members have put down new business roots in and around the neighborhood– his son, Tommy Chabrowski, is something of a Greenpoint mogul, the owner of neighborhoods staples like Lobster Joint, Lunchbox, and the new restaurant, Whiskey Burger.
"This, I think, is the best time for the old people and probably for the young, you know, to enjoy," said Chabrowski.
The scanning event isn't just for old timers– Quick was loaded with iPhone cords to upload contemporary snaps too. "It's recent history now, but at some point it's going to be worthwhile for historians, for researchers, for whoever, even though it doesn't seem that exciting right now," she said. Just imagine: your shameless selfies from last weekend's bender could be preserved for your great-great grandchildren to dig up.
Angel Urrutia, a documentary filmmaker who moved to Greenpoint from Mexico last year, wandered in and contributed a photo of his family. "It was at Prospect Park and it was a very happy day," he said. "I like this project and I want to share my history also."
If digging into your neighborhood's past is your thing, there's a lot to keep you busy. Head to the project's Tumblr for a kind of collage of recently submitted photos and audio. To find out more about the deeper history behind the images and learn more about the archival process (including updates on their toolkit) skim through the blog.
If podcasts are more your style, there's the Soundcloud archive of recent conversations (it was just nominated for a 2016 Apple Award). And if you're a true nerd, start searching by neighborhood in the full catalogue (tip: choose "advanced" and select "photograph.")
Our Streets, Our Stories community scanning event is Saturday, December 19 11 am – 4 pm at Greenpoint Library. Can't make it? Email firstname.lastname@example.com to set up alternative arrangements.


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iCraft Class Day 5 - Gratitude Journals pt 3
February 05, 2009
Here are the final round of photos from our iCraft Class Gratitude Journal project. The girls did a wonderful job on their journals! I loved every page they created!
One of my gals brought in a magazine to cut up and add to her journal.. what a FAB idea!!
Here are more of their wonderful pages:
all images copyright Stampin' Up! 1990-2009
Fabulous cover done by my bow queen :)
Well gals.. it was a FABULOUS week.. you blessed my life more than you will ever know.. happy stamping and crafting!!!


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I am so far behind on so many levels! I was planning to post this card last Tuesday. My only real excuse is that I have been putting in far too many hours at work and when I get home at night, looking at the computer is the last thing I feel like doing. I have promised myself to leave work on time this week (4:30 instead of 7:00). I hope I can swing it!
This card is based on the July sketch at The Sketch File. We are using the same layout all month long and hope that you will find time to be creative and use the sketch in some way. See you at The Sketch File!


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Twice in the past month, I turned down the opportunity to make a couple of thousand dollars through oil theft.
This is a slight uptick in our more usual rate of once every 3 months.
Bunker theft has always been with us, probably since the second bunker transfer from one vessel to another. It's a modern day version of cappabar, the centuries-old practice of illegally selling off ship's spares and stores by the crew.
It's an easy thing to do, and, if done sparingly and in small volumes, quite difficult to get caught in the doing.
Bunkering is a dirty, dirty business. There's a stark dichotomy between practices in the US (And Canada &the UK, I would imagine), and practices in the rest of the world.
In the US, a bunker vessel is maneuvered and moored alongside the receiving ship, papers are passed and a pro-forma agreement signed, stipulating how the transfer will proceed. Tax documents, invoices, etc, checklists, Homeland Security paper shields, too depending on where this happens. Caeser gets his rendering, y'know? The formal, universal documentation is the Bunker Delivery Note (BDN), a chain-of-custody document that is also a contract AND invoice, attesting to the volume transferred. To document the volume of oil, we invite the receiving vessel to measure the volume and temperature of the oil in our tanks both before and after transferring the oil (Oil changes volume rapidly, as its' density changes easily with temperature. Knowing the temperature allows you to calculate the density of the oil, and account for expansion of volume, so you can figure out the actual standardized net volume). The difference between the two is the volume transferred and the billable quantity.
In the US, the numbers listed on the BDN are the numbers that will appear on the bill, which is shoreside staff business. My point, however, is that it's all very aboveboard, and there's no shoveling bullshit into the buckwheat. And it works! Maybe one time in 200, the receiving ship will bother send someone down to look for residual oil in our now-empty tanks. Regular visitors often come to trust us, and specifically mention how happy they are to bunker here, 'and not in fucking Singapore.'
Not to say that it's all smooth. Most ships are built and crewed foreign, and trade foreign, as well, so they're used to doing what they need to do to get by. There are standard practices, and almost-standard practices. Bribery being one of the former, for the most part. Many engineers (fueling being in the purview of engineers) try to apply the same practices that work elsewhere when they step foot on my deck.
Aaaaaannd, that shit don't fly here.
Every single engineer who has ever tried to bribe me was either from Russia or Ukraine. Take what you will from that. I always ask, at some point. I'm a people person, and always try to make a little conversation, mostly because I miss sailing long distances, and, just like I know from experience that an Indian assistant engineer is usually afraid to take responsibility for making any decision whatsoever, fit only to carry messages to the Chief, and Eastern European crewmen are more likely to attempt to brain you with a monkey fist if you make them do their jobs, I can generally tell when I'm about to be sounded as to whether or not I'm up for playing Disappearing Bunkers. (Google "Bunker scams" if you want to know more.)
The Disappearing Bunker Scam works simply: As it is most commonly practiced in its' most egregious form, Let's say I was to deliver 400 metric tons of heavy fuel oil to a ship. The engineer comes down with a bottle of whiskey and wink wink nudge nudge, suggests that I transfer 375 tons, which he reports as 400, and I sell off the difference to 'someone' and throw a little cash his way for looking the other way, (and pay off the surveyor, if there is one); OR I transfer the 400 tons, but mark it as 375, change the temperature a little on the paperwork, claim 'heavy bottoms" (meaning I leave extra in my tanks and fake the numbers for my next load), and he gives me a little kickback, just a couple grand, as a thank you.
So, that's what I am occasionally asked to do by these scumbags, and it pisses me off. I learned quickly that blurting out "Are you calling me a fucking thief?" gets me no end of trouble, as the now-butthurt engineer will go to great lengths to find a way to fuck me over. Instead, I have to go into Boy Scout/Astronaut mode and lecture these assbags, and hide behind a more formal, severe demeanor and a quiet,scowling moral authority.Regardless, the whisky, too, is not welcome. Shit's taboo, ever since Exxon tried to blame one of their captains when the officer of the watch on one of their ships crashed into Alaska while he was sleeping in his bed like he was supposed to be.
I happen to like good scotch, so seeing that shit while I'm working is just rubbing my face in it. For the same reason, I don't go to strip bars (anymore).
BUT, there's also the legal Disappearing Bunker Scam. I discovered this last year, while bunkering outside the US. It's apparently a standard business practice, and conspicuous by its' absence, judging by the reaction of the engineers we dealt with.
In the legal Disappearing Bunker Scam, at the completion of the transfer, you 'negotiate' the difference between what they ship says it received, and what the bunker vessel says it transferred. I always can pick out 'honest' engineers who don't regularly bunker in the US. Same thing every time: "Twinty tones shoht, my friend, twinty tones, yis yis." That's their opening position, and they expect me to make a show, like we're in a fucking Egyptian market haggling over some goddamned limes.
This must be a pervasive practice, as I occasionally deal with disgruntled engineers who get pretty bent out of shape when I shrug my shoulders and casually tell them to document any difference with a Letter of Protest if they choose to. (A LOP is a discoverable document explaining the vessel's position on an event. As it holds legal status, asking someone to document any dispute is a fine way to call their bluff. Since I'm 100% honest (not my circus, not my monkeys, why not be honest?)), I demand the same. Once an engineer realizes I won't play his reindeer games, things usually proceed in a surly but aboveboard fashion.
Only once have I been goaded into a heated response, when a ship claimed I shorted him about 20% of his oil. After he had a meltdown on my deck because I told him he got the oil, and to recheck his tanks (this is a nice way to avoid calling someone a fucking liar and let him save face), I was feeling pretty soggy and hard to light, so when I suggested that I'd be happy to sign a Letter of Protest for him, and he demurred in an energetic, angry fashion, I smelled a rat, and said "If you're 100% sure that I'm lying and cheating, give me a letter of protest for it, and you can put your mouth where my money is. This isn't Singapore. It's the US and we don't do that here."
I don't think he got my little play on words, feeble as it was, but it made me feel better. What I really wanted to do was to chase his midget ass up the ladder for lying in my face, but what can you do?
The more I deal with foreign places and foreign business, the more I appreciate things inside our own borders, where the government manages and practices 99% of the thievery and corruption, just like God intended.
For a more nuanced, professional view on bribery by an experienced mariner, check this out:
For any maritime professional who doesn't know the guy, Max Hardberger is one of those rare birds, a master mariner who sailed foreign ships, owned one or two, and is also an Admiralty lawyer. Oh, and he re-steals ships that are illegally detained in foreign ports, too. For a living. Guy's the real deal.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
"We don't do that here."
Posted by Paul, Dammit! at 1:41 AM
1 comment:
- Dave H said...
Every year I get to listen to a company lecture on "Corruption, Foreign, Laws Regarding and the Consequences of Violation Thereof." (Like you said, the company's policy is "We don't do that here.") It's not enough to just not offer bribes or reject requests for them; we have to report any requests or suspicious activity to the State Department.
- November 3, 2014 at 7:57 AM
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Community Involvement & Outreach in Houston
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Our Houston heating and air conditioning service company is proud to have been a part of our local community for more than 48 years. We are grateful not just for the continuous support of countless customers in the area but also for letting us into your home and entrusting your comfort needs to us. AirCon Service Company is committed to helping you in every way we can. Our team is ready to go above and beyond to ensure that you and your family are always comfortable, satisfied, and safe. AirCon supports our local community in many ways and we invite our customers to join us in supporting these organizations in their efforts to impact our community in positive ways.
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Bay Area Turning Point
AirCon Service Company wants every woman, every child, and every man to feel safe and loved in their own homes. That is why we have partnered with Bay Area Turning Point Inc. (BATP) in their mission of helping survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Together with the social service organization from Webster, Texas, we strive to provide recovery services and facilitate violence prevention strategies throughout the local community. In fact, several members of our Houston heating and AC service team are actively lending their time and money to support BATP, looking forward to eliminating domestic and sexual violence through education and recovery services.
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Special Trains-Kacheguda-Krishnarajapuram-Kacheguda on Oct & Nov 2017
Kacheguda-Krishnarajapuram-Kacheguda Special Trains (10 services) :
Train No. 07603 Kacheguda-Krishnarajapuram Special Train will depart Kacheguda at 18:00 hrs on 1st, 8th, 15th, 22ndand 29th October, 2017 (Sundays) and arrive Krishnarajapuram at 06:00 hrs on the next day.
In the return direction, Train No. 07604 Krishnarajapuram-Kacheguda Special Train will depart Krishnarajapuram at 15.25 hrs on 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th October, 2017 (Mondays) and arrive Kacheguda at 06.55 hrs on the next day.
Enroute, these special trains will stop at Jadcherla, Mahabubnagar, Gadwal, Kurnool Town, Dhone, Gooty, Anantapur, Dharmavaram, Satya Sai Prashanthi Nilayam, Penukonda, Hindupur and Yelahanka stations in both the directions.
These special trains will have AC II Tier, AC III Tier, Sleeper Class and General Second Class Coaches.
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"The big neighbour is actively working and achieves the most where the darkest shadows lie. Our duty is to always and everywhere bring more light," President Gitanas Nausėda said at the annual Valdas Adamkus Conference when speaking about the European Union's Eastern Partnership Programme and Russian aggression.
In the third V. Adamkus Conference, which started on Thursday, the main attention was focused on the importance of EU membership for Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, Viktorija Rimaitė lrytas.lt .
V. Adamkus – a teacher and an example
Starting his speech, President G. Nausėda celebrated the opportunity to participate in former President V. Adamkus' conference.
"I want to celebrate the opportunity to have a word in V. Adamkus' conference. I viewed him as a teacher, from whom I drew experience. V. Adamkus was always an example for me, seeking closer partnership in foreign policy," G. Nausėda started his speech.
Baltic Way and the pursuit of Euro-Atlantic partnership
On the eve of the Baltic Way, G. Nausėda recalled this event's importance for Lithuanian history. However, according to the president, even having achieved the goals of EU and NATO membership set thirty years ago, we cannot feel safe.
"Tomorrow, we will once more commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way. It is an excellent jumping-off point from the past, an opportunity to review lessons learnt. […] The essence of the Baltic Way was not abstract talks about the loss of freedom. The Sąjūdis demanded the occupying forces be withdrawn. This not only helped seek freedom but also drew a trajectory for achieving it.
The Baltic States were the first to clearly declare their Euro-Atlantic integration pursuit. Today, Lithuania is a member of both the EU and NATO, however, we cannot feel completely secure as long as a post-imperialist Russian regime operates in our neighbourhood, as long as assault weaponry continues to be assembled on our doorstep in Kaliningrad and in Eastern Ukraine, bloody military conflict is continued. We cannot feel safe as long as our neighbours feel unsafe," G. Nausėda emphasised.
More light
President G. Nausėda expressed firm support for Ukrainian, Georgian and Moldovan EU membership.
"We must nurture a culture of dialogue, employing the idea of Europe as did the Baltic States several decades ago. We know well that our partners' efforts to progress face new challenges. Up to now, nothing has been done to halt the aggression in Ukraine.
The big neighbour is actively working and achieves the most where the darkest shadows lie. Our duty is to always and everywhere bring more light," the president stated in his address.
According to President G. Nausėda, EU and NATO defensive capacities should reinforce one another and the fate and safety of Lithuania and all of the EU will greatly depend on the EU's Eastward expansion.
"We are at our strongest when without faltering we rely on our common values when we stand together and do not allow our enemies to come in between us. […] We are and will be strong only to the extent that we trust our strength and manage to unite it. […] Let us also dispel the darkness," G. Nausėda said.
Emphasised Lithuanian and Georgian similarities
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili emphasised that there are many similarities between Lithuania and Georgia, but admitted that Georgia is significantly behind Lithuania.
"We are two countries on the periphery of Europe, speaking in geographic terms. Both our countries were forcibly integrated into the Russian empire, a Russification policy followed, which ended up only reinforcing national identities in our countries. Independence was recovered, democratic constitutions were approved. At the same time, the League of Nations was formed. Unfortunately, Georgia was occupied once more, after a time you faced the same fate. Also, our paths out of the Russian regime were similar – both our countries freed themselves in 1991," the Georgian president said.
According to S. Zourabichvili, the main factors due to which her country struggles to draw nearer to Europe are linked to external threats.
"We are behind. There are a number of reasons for this, linked not only with a lack of effort on part of Georgia but also with the overall environment. Everyone understands well, what environment it is. […] We are following behind you, but we are certain that we will continue in your footsteps. We are certain that Georgia will be part of Europe, Georgian history grants us confidence," the Georgian president spoke on current prospects of EU cooperation.
According to the politician, successful Georgian integration, considering aggressive Russian policy toward the country, needs support from the EU and real financial aid.
"Europe itself is a lesson in optimism. Europe created a unique model of development, a model of voluntary unity – all the countries joined voluntarily, no country was forcibly attached to the union," S. Zourabichvili commented on the idea of the EU.
Important to do more than we can
One of the initiators and organisers of the now third-year conference, member of Seimas Žygimantas Pavilionis stated that three years ago they launched the conference in order to return ambition to Lithuanian foreign policy.
"We started changes in this region and inspired other countries to follow our example. Some say that the cause of the tragedy is contentment. We must seek to do more than we can […].
We have military and nuclear monsters, which threaten our lives. In recent years, we took up a defensive position, we lacked the unity to change the situation for the better," Ž. Pavilionis spoke about the conference's roots.
The MP celebrated that this year the conference rose to the presidential level and thanked President G. Nausėda for opening the doors of the Presidential Palace.
The first V. Adamkus Conference was held in 2017 and was aimed at discussing the transatlantic community's regional leadership in foreign policy. The main focus of the second conference, which was held in 2018, was on the future of Russia.


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Each year we send holiday cards to our troops for Christmas and Hanukah. This year's project starts October 13th and ends December 1st to ensure that all cards and letters can be shipped to meet the holiday deadlines. Mail your holiday cards for our troops to us and we'll ship them to our military in time for the holidays!
Get everyone involved! Here are some great ideas:
- Place a drop box in your office or place of business and get everyone involved in bringing in cards.
- Put a notice in your apartment's newsletter about our project or put up this flyer.
- Get your church, synagogue, or place or worship to add our project in their announcement letter this weekend.
- Visit local retirement homes, VFWs, Moose Clubs and get the folks involved. This is a project that will make them feel really special and give them the opportunity to hear back from our troops too!
- Buy holiday stationery and create your own personalized holiday letters.
- Make a banner using a vinyl tablecloth (red, white or blue) and sharpies to create a thank you or support banner. Have friends, co-workers, family, church members, etc. sign it with their message.
- Make a poster using poster board (red, white or blue) and colorful markers to create a thank you or support poster. Have friends, kids, classroom, co-workers, family, church members, etc. sign it with their message. It's easy to ship too, just stick it in a mailing tube to us!
- 3 x 5 or 4 x 6 cards (like the kind you can get at any office supply store) are great to write a short note on or for a motivational quote. Colored ones are very festive and great if you just want to say "I support you" or "I'm proud of you". Dress them up with holiday stickers. Include your contact info on the back too with an address label or stamp.
- Include phone cards for our service members to call home. The best cards to purchase are the AT&T phone cards as they can be used internationally as well as nationally.
- Introduce a friend to eMailOurMilitary.com and have weekly card writing sessions for fun! Get creative, go ahead, use the glitter and the glue just like you used to when YOU were a kid.
- We always need stamps. Ask your company to donate a roll of stamps to eMail Our Military; when they do, we'll give them some free publicity in our monthly newsletter as a thank you.
- Even more ideas...
Corporate Sponsors
You can get your company involved. Get your community relations team to schedule a day for employees to get together to sign holiday cards then ship them to us. Our troops will be proud to see the companies back home that support them.
Donate holiday cards for our volunteers to sign. When you do, we'll add your company name to our list of sponsors, blog about your participation and promote it across our social networks. Great publicity for your company!
Donate your products or services. When you do, we'll add your company name to our list of sponsors, blog about your participation and promote it across our social networks. Great publicity for your company!
Promote the Holiday Love™ troop support project throughout your company using your website, blog and intranet. Your clients will be pleased to know that you support our troops.
Finally, consider contributing funds to the project.
Kids and Teens
Kids can make their own holiday cards for our troops. Children have the most creative ideas and this is a fun, family project you can enjoy together.
- Try stamping or using scrap booking items to create fantastic unique cards home made by you.
- Let the kids create their own holiday cards adorned with holiday stickers.
- Get your children's classrooms/schools involved making drawings and cards. We have hundreds of schools participating each year and we want your school too! This is a great class project.
- Make a banner using a vinyl tablecloth (red, white or blue) and sharpies to create a thank you or support banner. Have friends, co-workers, family, church members, etc. sign it with their message.
- Make a poster (or a giant card) using poster board (red, white or blue) and colorful markers to create a thank you or support poster. Have friends, kids, classroom, co-workers, family, church members, etc. sign it with their message. It's easy to ship too, just stick it in a mailing tube to us!
What You'll Need To Know
We screen every piece of mail prior to shipping for safety and security reasons. Therefore, all cards and letters MUST BE left unsealed. Place your unsealed items into a larger shipping envelope with your return address on it. Envelopes or packages received without return addresses will be refused for safety reasons.
Please include eMailOurMilitary.com somewhere in or on your envelopes, cards, letter, notes and postcards or sign your name with "Proud eMailOurMilitary.com Member. This ensures our troops will be able to contact us should they need our support in the future.
Please DO NOT put stamps on your unsealed envelopes or postcards as we ship all correspondence to our troops in bulk. To help us with shipping costs, please include the stamps in a separate envelope aside from your letters or sponsor a shipment by becoming a Postage Patriot™.
Do not address individual cards, letters and notes to a specific branch. Address your correspondence to "Dear Hero", "Dear Service Member" or "Fellow American". Keep in mind, they aren't all soldiers and they aren't all men. Remember, we ship in bulk.
- Do include your return address on your package to us
- Do place all your unsealed correspondence in a larger envelope or package
- Do include your contact info if you wish to receive a reply
- Do address your cards generally (like Dear Hero, Dear Service Member, Dear Fellow American)
- Do try to include "eMail Our Military" on all your correspondence (it is a huge timesaver for us)
- Do tell everyone you know and spread the word! Blog it, tweet it and keep sharing the news. The more the merrier.
- Don't seal your correspondence
- Don't put postage on your correspondence
- Don't date your correspondence
- Don't specify a branch (like Army, Navy, etc.)
- Don't address your correspondence to a particular branch (like Dear soldier)
Holiday Love's Postage Patriots ™
For every $5 payment we receive, we'll ship one of our "Holiday Love™" packages stuffed with morale boosting holiday mail to our troops. Imagine the excitement our service members will feel as they receive packages of holiday mail sponsored by you. To participate, send a check, money order, use the pay pal button on the sidebar of our site or the chipin widget below and sponsor a package today!
Please send your holiday mail and or payments to:
eMail Our Military
"Holiday Love"
8004 NW 154 Street, Suite 344
Miami Lakes, FL 33016
Your packages must be received in our office by December 1st, 2008 to make it to our troops by Christmas. If you miss the deadline, ship it anyway and we'll mail it out. You may sponsor shipments as a Postage Patriot ™ year round.
More Goodies/Resources
There are many more Holiday Love™ goodies and resources on the sidebar of our blog. Plus, you can use the Holiday Love category to view all of the posts tagged with Holiday Love™.
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Momma Dee is back at it. The famous reality TV mother Lil Scrappy has never been one to hold her tongue. She went in yet again on her former husband Ernest in a new video. She accused him being addicted to crack and having an incestuous relationship with his mother.
"What I don't want is a n*gga that need me. You understand?" she began her rant that quickly descended into madness. "Ernest is f*cking his mama. They got something going on." Before being interrupted, she said, "When you think it's cool to live with your mama at 55, you got a 400 lb. brother with one eye."
When she finally got everything back on track, she revealed that Ernest tends to go hard when he does the illicit substance. "Ernest goes on four day binges on crack," she said.
The story jibes with one from earlier this year where Ernest went missing and was allegedly found in a crack house. Via the Media Takeout report:


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Hello and welcome to the February release from Our Daily Bread Designs! Before I tell you about this release, let me tell you how you can win a prize!
Prize Information: Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 Gift Code to the ODBD Website just for commenting on the Design Team cards! You have until February 2, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. EST to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win! The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on February 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!
Today I'm going to show you the Glorious Gable Box, Layering Hearts, Mini Label, and Let Love Grow.
Let's start with the Glorious Gable Box which could be used for so many occasions and decorated so many ways! You'll get to see the variety as you visit my sister sticks!!
I used the insets that come with the die but you could make it a solid box also, it's up to you!
I stamped one of the sentiments from Let Love Grow with Ranger Purple Twilight, and die cut with one of the Layering Hearts. I added a floral spray using Bitty Blossoms and Leaves and Branches, and tucked the smallest heart from Layering Hearts in too.
I made it a little more personal by adding a Mini Label and sentiment.
For my card, I made a cardstock stencil by using the insets from the Glorious Gable Box, and sponged Ranger Shaded Lilac onto my cardstock.
The verse from Let Love Grow is stamped in Purple Twilight and cut with Filigree Frames. The floral spray again uses Bitty Blossoms, Leaves and Branches, and the small hearts from Layering Hearts. I also used Rectangles and Pierced Rectangles.
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MBA in Management. Graduation Date: June 2004
California State University Northridge
Bachelor of Science in Finance. Graduation Date: December 2000
California State University Northridge
Accountant May 2005 to Present
McSweeney & Associates, APC. Grass Valley, CA.
Tax preparation and consulting for individual and business clients, auditing, reviews,
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Solomon, Winnett & Company CPA's, Inc. Los Angeles, CA.
Tax preparation and consulting for individual and business clients including business
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personnel issues.
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Prudential John Aaroe and Associates. Los Angeles, CA.
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Hodgins, Faith (2017) A mixed methods evaluation of Childsmile's targeted and tailored Dental Health Support Worker intervention. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
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This thesis contributes to a national evaluation of a Dental Health Support Worker (DHSW) intervention in Scotland. The DHSW intervention is a targeted component of Childsmile; an oral health improvement programme which aims to improve the oral health of children and reduce oral health inequalities. DHSWs facilitate families in registering with, and attending, a dental practice, support oral health behaviour change at home, and signpost families to wider community initiatives.
In programme development, elements proposed to be critical to the success of the DHSW intervention were: effective targeting of 'the right children' and ensuring the intervention is 'tailored to families' needs'. When the programme was rolled out across Scotland, there was a lack of consensus about how these elements should be implemented. Furthermore, some aspects of the programme were adapted to suit the characteristics of the local Scottish health boards.
This thesis aims to explore how 'targeting' and 'tailoring' were being implemented in the DHSW intervention, how they should be implemented in order to be optimally effective, and the effect of the DHSW intervention on dental participation at the early phase of implementation.
A systematic review and mixed methods study were conducted. The systematic review synthesised evidence on the implementation of tailoring in effective lay health worker interventions. The mixed methods study looked at how targeting and tailoring were implemented within the Childsmile DHSW intervention and its impact on child dental participation. The mixed methods study involved quantitative analysis of linked administrative health datasets and qualitative analysis of focus groups and interviews with Childsmile stakeholders, synthesising the findings from a pragmatic stance.
Findings show that 'the right children' were defined by stakeholders as any child in a family identified as vulnerable (for whatever reason) whose family must be ready to engage with the intervention. The right child is not every child or children in families facing acute health or social issues that may inhibit engagement.
In the early stage of implementation of the intervention, there was some evidence of targeting of the right children from a socio-economic and oral health risk position. Nonetheless, there were differences between health boards in the extent to which this targeted approach was adopted and the extent to which the Childsmile referral pathway was being utilised.
'Tailoring to families' needs' should involve assessing individual families' needs and then providing differential support matched to those specific needs. There was some evidence that DHSWs were tailoring the intervention in line with some of the features of tailoring found to be effective in other LHW programmes; however, there were many barriers that restricted DHSWs' freedom to tailor to families' needs. Barriers included: health visitors not providing background information with the referral; DHSWs having responsibilities outside of
Childsmile Practice; dental practices not notifying DHSWs of children who fail to attend appointments; a lack of consensus within the programme on whether DHSWs should deliver a brief intervention or whether it can be more intensive support where necessary; and, communication difficulties across language barriers.
Despite this, there was clear evidence that the DHSW intervention had been effective at this early stage of implementation. Moderate effects on dental participation were observed across Scotland in all risk groups. Across Scotland, there was a 17% difference in dental participation between groups who did and did not receive the intervention, and children were more likely to participate sooner if they had received an intervention.
Recommendations for the Childsmile programme follow three key themes: (1) reform the referral pathway; (2) develop working policies to help reduce organisational barriers to DHSWs delivering an effective intervention; and, (3) although challenging within the health service system, improve selection criteria of DHSWs and enhance subsequent training to highlight the unique benefits lay people bring to these roles.
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Troubled rocker Pete Doherty, boyfriend of
crack hoe supermodel Kate Moss, has once again proved to be a complete shambles after missing an Ibiza gig.
According to itv.com, his band, Babyshambles, had to cancel its appearance after it was discovered that Doherty, the frontman, was traveling with a passport that had expired. This meant he let down the hordes of fans who had flocked to the Ibiza concert.
Doherty and his bandmates were set to headline Manumission-owned Bar M in San Antonio, but they failed to turn up following his blunder.
According to reports, Doherty, 27, tried to get a replacement passport but authorities refused to accept the photos he provided, so he was left stranded in the UK. Apparently, he told organizers he lost his passport and was applying for a temporary one but the mugshots did not meet Government standards.
The fiasco was the second time Babyshambles have let down their fans on the holiday island. The group were meant to play the same venue a week ago but Doherty, whose substance abuse problems are well documented, told bosses he had checked into drug and alcohol rehab so they had to reschedule.
Last month, the singer told a judge he plans to have a chemical implant put into his abdomen to help wean him off of drugs. None of these troubles are apparently impacting his relationship with Moss, however. According to the Cape Times, the rock star and the 32-year-old
stick figure model are said to be engaged.
Newspapers published pictures of Moss wearing a diamond ring at a party the couple threw at a London nightclub on Saturday. The Sun also said they were rumoured to be getting married in Ibiza this week, but pals of the rail-thin
drug-addict model thought she would be making a mistake.
Is she? Getting married and/or making a mistake, that is? We suggest you stay tuned. T.H. Gossip certainly will be.


text: New Delhi-The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Memorandum of Understanding between India and Japan on Development of Advanced Model Single Window.The MoU would lead to cooperation between India and Japan on the development of Advanced Model Single Window and its operationalization in Central and State Governments in India for taking administrative procedures necessary for business operations, and to develop a structure in which those procedures are completed in an expeditious manner, so as to accelerate Indias effort to promote Ease of Doing Business in India. The Advanced Model Single Window is based on the best practices in and outside India, with measurable parameters and identify possible obstacles for establishment of the Single Window in India. It will thus, facilitate investments.


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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a major role in the day-to-day business of the Columbia River, from maintaining the navigation channel to operating most of the major hydroelectric dams and helping to protect and recover salmon and steelhead.
The Army opened its first engineering office in the West at San Francisco in 1866, and that same year began working to clear the channel of the Willamette River to Portland in response to a petition to Congress by Portland city officials and an appropriation that Congress authorized in response. Snags, which are logs and trees that fall into the river and became embedded in sand or mud, and constantly shifting sandbars, were hazards to navigation. By 1869, the Corps had cleared a 17-foot-deep channel. Keeping it open required annual dredging. This was the first river and harbor work by the Corps of Engineers in Oregon.
In 1871, the Corps created the Portland District from the San Francisco District, dividing its west coast work roughly at the California-Oregon border. The first Officer in Charge of the Portland District was Major Henry M. Robert, later and, perhaps, better known for his Robert's Rules of Order.
Through the end of the 19th century, the Corps conducted surveys of the Columbia and its tributaries, dredged and maintained the navigation channel from Astoria to Portland, then Vancouver and later Lewiston, Idaho, removed snags, rocks and other hazards to navigation, constructed jetties at the mouths of several coastal rivers including the Columbia, and constructed canals around Columbia River rapids and waterfalls at Celilo Falls and the Cascades. The Cascades Canal was completed in 1896 after 18 years of work, and the Celilo canal was completed in 1913. It took 11 years to build.
By 1918 the Corps had completed a 30-foot-deep navigation channel between the ocean and Portland. As with earlier channel improvements, this boosted commercial river traffic significantly and helped Portland grow.
Flood control and hydropower became Corps responsibilities in the 1920s and 1930s. The Flood Control Act of 1936 shifted the emphasis from building dikes and levees to contain rivers to building multiple-purpose dams to improve flood control and navigation and generate Hydropower. In 1933, the Corps began work on BONNEVILLE DAM under Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act. Congress formally authorized the project in 1935 for the primary purposes of navigation and hydropower.
Today there are 31 federal hydropower dams in the Columbia River Basin. The Corps operates 21 of them, and the other 10 are operated by the federal Bureau of Reclamation. There are now three Corps districts within the Columbia River Basin — Portland, Seattle, and Walla Walla — under the supervision of the Northwestern Division, which is based in Portland.
Operating dams brought the Corps responsibility for providing safe fish passage for salmon and steelhead. Designing Bonneville Dam, the first federal dam completed on the Columbia, required the Corps to devise means of safely passing millions of adult fish annually over a 65-foot-high obstruction. This never had been done on such a large scale. A system of three fish ladders, with backup fish traps and elevators, was devised and constructed. It went into operation in 1938 with the completion of the dam, and it worked.
The problem of safely passing juvenile fish downstream was more difficult. Juvenile fish are small, and the passage through the thrashing water and intense pressure of power turbines can be difficult at best, lethal at worst, for the tiny fish. At Bonneville, Ivan Donaldson, one of the first fish biologists employed by the Corps, began research on fish passage in 1941. In 1942 he recommended various means of protecting juvenile fish that still are being implemented to this day, including screens in front of turbine entrances to deflect fish into bypass systems and the removal of predator fish like northern pikeminnow from the area immediately downstream of the dam. His proposals met with resistance from at least some of his superiors at the Corps. In a 1942 memo and again in a 1974 interview after his retirement, Donaldson said a Corps engineer told him that the fish were "a damn nuisance" and that the attitude of the engineers could be summed up as "to Hell with the fish, I'm here to build a dam." Donaldson, despite his frustration with some of his superiors and co-workers, also recognized that fish passage was forced on the Corps and that, for the most part, the engineers embraced the responsibility and worked hard to make the passage facilities effective.
Harlan Holmes, a biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, also studied fish passage at Bonneville Dam. He had helped design the fish passage facilities there and had concluded initially that turbine passage essentially was benign for juvenile salmon and steelhead. However, in 1947 Donaldson was the first biologist to conduct research on the number of fish that are killed passing through turbines, and his research contradicted a 1938 Corps report that turbine passage presented little danger to fish. Donaldson's research showed that mortalities varied widely and that turbines could be both "literal sausage grinders" and also "a very satisfactory route for the passage of fish" (later it became clear that violent pressure changes, not the spinning blades, are the primary cause of fish kills in turbines). In 1952 he estimated juvenile fish mortality at Bonneville Dam to be about 15 percent. His report, considered controversial, initially did not appear in print, but it prompted additional research on fish mortality at Corps dams.
Research on fish passage was not a new undertaking for the Corps in the early 1950s. The Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1934, and amendments to the law in 1946 and 1958, ordered the Corps to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the state fish and wildlife agencies regarding damages to fish and wildlife from operation of the dams. The 1958 amendment required the Corps to give "equal consideration" to fish and wildlife conservation as to water developments in its planning. By that time the Corps had been operating its Fisheries Engineering Research Program for seven years; later its would be renamed the Fish Passage Development and Evaluation Program. This was an interagency effort to research and mitigate for losses that would result from the proposed construction of more dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers. Over time the program was expanded to include representatives of NOAA Fisheries and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, along with the state fish and wildlife agencies. The Bonneville Power Administration and the Northwest Power and Conservation Council participate as observers. The program also changed names again to better reflect its focus. Today it is called the Anadromous Fish Evaluation Program.
Through this program, over the years the Corps has funded evaluation and monitoring studies of fish passage and survival at the dams, particularly for juvenile fish but also for adults. Research areas include 1) juvenile fish transportation past the dams in barges and trucks, 2) evaluating the effectiveness of devices that collect or guide juvenile fish around and through the dams, 3) the effects of gas supersaturation that occurs when water — and fish — are spilled over the dams, and 4) adult fish passage.
As a result of the Corps' research, adult fishways — fish ladders — have been improved and juvenile fish bypass systems now are in place at all eight dams on the lower Snake and Columbia rivers. Juvenile fish are collected for barge transportation at Lower Granite, Little Goose and Lower Monumental dams on the lower Snake River and at McNary Dam on the Columbia.
Meanwhile, the Corps also continues to work on improvements to navigation, including deepening the channel in the Columbia and Willamette rivers from 40 feet to 43 feet to accommodate larger vessels. To mitigate impacts to salmon and steelhead from this dredging, the Corps planned to improve and restore wetland resting and feeding areas for fish in the lower river.


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LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers have won just one of their six home series so far in 2014 (1-4-1), and are just 7-12 at Dodger Stadium. They welcome the worst road team in the majors, the Marlins (3-13) to town for three games beginning Monday night. Here is a look at the starting pitching matchups for the three games.
Monday, 7:10 p.m. PT (SportsNet LA)
Dan Haren has pitched four straight quality starts, though stretching the definition in two of the games. Haren has allowed seven unearned runs on the season, one more than the rest of the Dodgers starting staff combined. Tom Koehler built on his seven scoreless innings against the Dodgers on May 2 with eight more scoreless innings against the Mets last Wednesday.
Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. PT (SportsNet LA)
Since the beginning of 2013, Josh Beckett has a 4.12 ERA in 14 starts with 75 strikeouts in 78... innings, but is 0-6 during that span. Beckett's 14-start winless streak is tied for the third-longest by a Dodger since 1914, and the most since Fernando Valenzuela went 19 starts without a win from June 1988 to June 1989. Marlins starter Jacob Turner allowed six runs in four innings to the Dodgers on May 3, and has allowed six runs in 12 innings in his other two starts combined.
Wednesday, 7:10 p.m. PT (SportsNet LA)
Paul Maholm has struck out three or fewer batters in all six of his starts, the fourth-longest streak by a Dodger to start a season since the franchise moved to Los Angeles. The only longer streaks belong to Carlos Perez (16 straight, 1999), Jerry Reuss (13, 1986) and Carlos Monasterios (eight, 2010). The Dodgers got to Jose Fernandez for three runs on May 4, but then he allowed six runs to the Padres on Friday night in San Diego. That, amazingly, was the second time Fernandez allowed six runs in a start this season. Maybe he is human after all.


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Entertainment Google Pixelbook is no more, proving the world wasn't ready for premium Chromebooks
Google Pixelbook is no more, proving the world wasn't ready for premium Chromebooks
It looks like the Google Pixelbook is no more, with reports that not only has Google cancelled its upcoming Chromebook, but it's also disbanded the team who were working on it.
This news, as reported by The Verge (opens in new tab), is a real blow. The previous model, the Pixelbook Go, wasn't just one of the best Chromebooks ever made, it was one of the best laptops as well.
It also comes as a bit of a surprise, as there were hints that Google was working on a new Pixelbook as recently as at this year's Google I/O. A Google spokesperson also hinted to us last year that a new Pixelbook was coming.
Sadly, it seems that the plans have now changed, likely in part to Google's decision to cut costs by cancelling or pausing certain projects. Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, wrote in a memo (and seen by The Verge (opens in new tab)), that these measures "means pausing development and re-deploying resources to higher priority areas." It seems like the team working on future Pixelbooks have been redeployed elsewhere in Google.
Analysis: Farewell, Pixelbook
The Pixelbook series only had two entries – the original, high-end Pixelbook, alongside the more affordable Pixelbook Go – but it certainly made a mark.
The original Pixelbook was supposed to showcase the potential of Chromebooks. Rather than just being cheap devices for browsing the web and firing off a few emails, the Pixelbook came with an impressive 2,400 x 1,600 screen, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM and an Intel Core i5 processor – the kind of specs that wouldn't have looked out of place in a high-end laptop.
Its aim was to challenge people's preconceptions of what a Chromebook is, while also acting as inspiration for other Chromebook makers (Google is, of course, also behind the Chrome OS operating system that all Chromebooks run, so has a vested interest in the success of all Chromebooks, not just its own). That was a tough – pretty much impossible – task, and so it may not be much surprise to learn that it didn't succeed.
The main problem was the high price – launching at $999/£999 (around AU$1,500) and going up to $1,649 / £1,699 (around AU$2,400), the lack of sales showed the world was just not ready for an expensive Chromebook.
The follow-up, the Pixelbook Go, was more affordable, but starting at $849 / £829 (about AU$1,250), it was still far more expensive than most Chromebooks, despite offering excellent performance and battery life, plus one of the best keyboards we've even used on a laptop.
Again, the Pixelbook Go remained a niche product, despite glowing reviews (including from us).
With Google now apparently ending Pixelbook development, it seems like there's no appetite for premium Chromebooks with price tags to match. Understandable, but we can't help feeling sad that this could mean Chromebooks are doomed to always be seen as budget devices, when they could have been so much more.
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