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(Reuters) - Three people including a retired sheriff's deputy were wounded on Saturday at a gun show in North Carolina when a 12-gauge shotgun accidentally discharged as its owner was taking it out of its case, state officials said.
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KENNETT, Mo. -- Many recent producer meetings have focused on herbicide resistance in weeds. It was no different when Andy Kendig, Missouri Extension weed control specialist, spoke at the Missouri Cotton Production and Outlook Conference.
But Kendig's comments carried a remarkably different tone than those of his Delta weed scientist counterparts.
"We're using a lot of glyphosate, and you could call that a resistance-prone use pattern," Kendig said to the large audience before digging in his heels.
"At a recent weed scientist meeting, an Arkansas farmer come in to talk about resistant horseweed. He said, 'This is a wakeup call!'
"I've been talking about resistance for a long time. I got kind of worked up and asked, 'Well, why wasn't ALS-resistant cocklebur a wakeup? Why wasn't propanil-resistant barnyardgrass a wakeup call? Why wasn't Hoelon-resistant ryegrass a wakeup call?'
"As an Extension specialist, I also asked, 'What should I have done different? What can I tell my growers back home to drive home the point of herbicide-resistant weeds?'
"He said, 'Do a slide show that reveals how bad resistant weeds look.'
At this point, Kendig flashed a picture of a major resistant cocklebur infestation onto the screen. "What gets me is this picture was taken in 1993. I've used it in meetings ever since."
The big thing coming down the pipeline is Roundup Ready Flex. With it, producers can spray glyphosate over-the-top well past the five-leaf stage.
"We're asking some questions about it. 'Will this finally be idiot-proof weed control for cotton?' 'Will we be using any other herbicides?' 'What will yields be?'
"Monsanto always says — and I have no problem repeating it for their sake — that one of their biggest fears is growers who wait for a few more weeds to come up. Timing is important whether we're talking about rice, soybeans or cotton. If you're waiting three weeks before treating for weeds, you're losing yield."
With traditional Roundup Ready cotton, producers are told to spray at the cotyledon to one-leaf stage. Flex will probably need to be treated the same: a first application sometime before cotton is at two-leaf. To some extent, that will replace old pre-emergence treatments.
Resistance prevention is a concern, said Kendig. "Obviously, Flex will allow even more glyphosate to be used."
What's scary about glyphosate-resistant horseweed — or marestail — is the pattern and rapidity of its spread, said Kendig. It was first discovered in 2000 in several Delaware fields. A couple of years later, it was widespread in that state. It was found in west Tennessee in 2001, and a year later it had also moved widely.
"I first noticed this resistant weed in southeast Missouri while driving from Portageville (Mo.) to our Lee farm. A year later, I found escapes everywhere. Last year, my phone lit up regarding this weed."
Last year, horseweed was mostly a no-till cotton problem for the Bootheel.
"I have no idea why it showed up in cotton more. There isn't any reason it shouldn't be a problem in no-till soybeans or corn. I did get a few calls from soybean farmers who had escapes."
It's "really easy" to say the cause of horseweed's resistance was the use of much glyphosate and of too little alternative chemistries.
"But the more people you talk to, the more they say they had trouble controlling horseweed even 10 years ago. Maybe this isn't so much a magical change as it is that troublesome types of this weed began spreading. The seed spread by wind. It's been very interesting to see how quickly it can spread."
The whole weed science community was "caught with its pants down with this. About three years ago, weed scientists were saying, 'You need to watch pigweed. It's going to turn resistant to glyphosate.' We were surprised that horseweed beat it."
Horseweed is a winter annual — textbooks said it comes up in the fall and dies in the summer. "The theory was that some 2,4-D or Clarity in March would taken care of it. That turned out to be wrong. This weed can come up 10 months out of the year. Killing it off in March won't solve our problem.
"We also thought some things might help at planting time — a final burndown. I've liked Gramoxone plus Cotoran. The folks in Tennessee like Ignite. But all of the sudden last year growers told us those treatments didn't work. We did some more study in our test plots, and, darn it, those treatments really didn't work as well as we thought."
An important take-home message, said Kendig, is it's very important to make an early burndown of 2,4-D or a Clarity-type herbicide. Many also recommend a residual herbicide in the tank to stop further germination.
"I think that's a really good idea even though I haven't a single shred of data to back it up."
If you can add and rotate modes of action to prevent resistance, "that's great. I still like pre-emergence herbicides. Half the weed control reports from companies over the last 15 years are about using pre-emergence herbicides. The data all say the same thing — the herbicide damage we see 95 percent of time is cosmetic. Often, such applications lead to weed control improvement but not always.
"Some are asking, 'What's worse: a little pre-emergence damage or the destruction of the best herbicide system (Roundup Ready) ever?' Now, I'm supposed to be a scientist and say what's accurate instead of what's inflammatory. Maybe destruction is too strong a word."
It's been pointed out that "99 percent of our corn and grain sorghum" is treated with atrazine. There are 40 weeds resistant to atrazine, so it's common sense, when using atrazine, "to add a Band-Aid product with it. So I want to pull back from the word destruction."
To prevent resistance, farmers are often asked to spend more on non-glyphosate products now in hopes of saving money (and glyphosate) later. That may not work, said Kendig, "and you'll end up spending more money anyway. What's better: spending more now or later? I can't stand here with any confidence and tell you it'll be cheaper to spend money now instead of later.
"(Monsanto) is trying to make money and sell Roundup Ready. They're also trying to defend against every other chemical company trying to get into the field with them."
One of Monsanto's arguments has a lot of truth to it, said Kendig: throwing many expensive herbicides at a field that doesn't contain "that one resistant weed" will cost producers money but won't necessarily prevent resistance.
"If you want an iron-clad resistance program, why not put Clarity and Valor in all your burndowns whether you need them or not. Let's also use Sequence, Staple and Cotoran. And let's put in a grass herbicide with glyphosate.
"If you have an add-on herbicide that helps your weed control and is economical, by all means use it. We've seen some good things with Sequence-type products for pigweed control. The problem with many add-ons is they tend to be expensive. I still love Cotoran as a pre-emerge, but it's one of the most expensive."
"Many of my counterparts talk about pigweed. It does have a lot of genetic diversity and high seed numbers. In fact, pigweed gets credit for a certain amount of the adoption of Roundup Ready. The system came at just the right time to help with pigweed.
"But I don't know why my counterparts don't ever talk about goosegrass. In Missouri, we now have goosegrass — another dime-a-dozen cotton weed worth watching — resistance to Prowl and Treflan. Some is also resistant to MSMA. In Malaysia, they have goosegrass that's resistant to glyphosate… So when will pigweed become resistant? I don't know."
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Winter is coming.
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Baylor prof/alum training female leaders around the world
Many women around the world are only just beginning to have their voices heard. As women ascend to leadership in nations where they were previously relegated to other roles, many of them have found a mentor in one Baylor professor.
Rachel Woods, BA '98, an adjunct professor in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business recently returned from the Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayan Mountains, where she mentored women seeking to serve as decision makers in their communities. She is also currently working with female political leaders from 13 countries via the Internet.
As the founder and CEO of LTrek, an organization that develops leadership skills in individuals across a variety of areas, Woods is no stranger to mentoring in business settings. And through her partnership with the Women's Democracy Network and the United Nations Democracy Fund, her curriculum has been utilized in 20 countries to help women develop "skills and confidence to actively participate in public life." While in Bhutan, Woods also met with the Supreme Court justice who led the drafting of Bhutan's constitution and discussed the future of women in politics there.
Baylor permeates LTrek and its work around the world. Woods was mentored in leadership by her uncle, Dr. Clifton Williams, BA '52, who served his alma mater as a professor, department chair, dean and vice president before retiring in 1995. Dr. Mitch Neubert, an associate professor of management and entrepreneurship at Baylor, serves as LTrek's chief learning officer and executive leadership consultant. Neubert co-authored curriculum that will be used to train political leaders in worldwide this year.
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There have been a good few publications that deal with different aspects of the history of Paulstown. Those listed below are the ones I am aware of. If you have another, that I have not listed, then I would be delighted to hear from you.
Barrowvale Local History Group (2000) Milling and Querne Stones. Goresbridge: Barrowvale Local History Group. [Discusses these features in Paulstown – Available at Kilkenny County Library]
Cleary, R.M. (1987) Archaeological Excavations on the Cork-Dublin Gas Pipeline (1981-1982). Cork: Department of Archaeology, University College Cork. [Some excavation were carried out in the townland of Shankill – Available at Kilkenny County Library and University College Cork Library]
Dobbs, Kildare ( 2005) Running the Rapids: A writers life. Lilliput Press. ISBN-13: 9781843510703 [Discusses childhood growing up in Viewmount house, Duninga townland, Paulstown civil parish] See blog article.
Drennan, Mrs. (1962) Paulstown Castle in Old Kilkenny Review. No. 14, pp.45-55.
Dunleavy, John, J. (2006) Paulstown and 1798 in Old Kilkenny Review. No 58, pp. 120-128.
Dunleavy, John, J. (2007) A Short History of Paulstown, Self-Publication.
Ffollitt, Rosemary (Year Unkown) Entrance Gates in Unknown Journal Title. pp.128-131. [Article about Shankill Castle entrance gates – Available at Kilkenny County Library]
Fitzgerald, Walter (Year Unkown) Gowran Church in Unknown Journal Title. pp.297-298. [Article discussed John Kelly of Kellymount – Available at Kilkenny County Library]
Kilkenny Industrial Archaeological Society (1989) Various photographs of industrial aspects of Paulstown such as coal pits, railway bridges etc.. [There are numerous photographs, this is not the title of the collection – Available at Kilkenny County Library
Mason, William Shaw (1814-1819) A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland Volumes 1-3. Dublin: Grainsbury and Campbell. [Volume two has a detailed description of social and economic conditions of the civil parish of Kilmacahill]. See blog articles: Map, Origins of townland names,
Paulstown Education and Historical Society (2007) Paulstown School Past and Present Paulstown, Kilkenny: Grange Silvia Publications. ISBN: 978-0-9534485-3-1
Prendergast, William (1943) History of the Townland of Paulstown with Map. Found in National Library of Ireland, Ms. 785
Prendergast, William (c.1929) Copybook, mainly foolscap size, containing notes by William Prendergast for a social history of the Paulstown area of Co. Kilkenny and for the history of the Prendergast family. Dublin: National Library of Ireland: William Prendergast Papers, Ms. 8825
O'Brien, Sean (1955) The Ancient Parish of Kilmacahill in Old Kilkenny Review. No 8, pp. 16-18.
O'Keeffe, Maurice and Jane (2007) Recollections of a telephonist by Teresa English (nee Walsh). Tralee: O'Keeffe Audio CD. [Available at Kilkenny County Library, Graiguenamanagh Branch]
O'Kelly, Owen (1953) Kellymount Old Abbey in Old Kilkenny Review. No 6, pp 23-25
Roache, M. (2001) The Roache Story of Paulstown: An Ancestral and Family History of the Roaches of Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny in Australia (1875-2000), Queensland: Chandler. ISBN 095795400X 9780957954007
Rothery, Sean (1997) A filed guide to the buildings of Ireland: illustrating the smaller buildings of town and countryside. Dublin: Lilliput Press. ISBN: 1874675813b9761422d11989043. [Shankill Castle is one of the buildings in this publication]
Unknown. Sketch map showing location of old mass house at Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny, 18th C. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, Ms. 785
Unknown. Six manuscript maps of lands in the vicinity of Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny, some showing names of tenants, also plan of the village of Paulstown, with names of some inhabitants. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, Ms. 785
Walton, Julia C. (Year Unknown) Shankill Castle and the Butlers in Journal of the Butler Society.Vol. 2 No. 2. pp.168-171.


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A Toronto couple are defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret in order to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity... The boys are encouraged to choose their own clothing and hairstyles - even if that means wearing girls' clothes - and to challenge gender norms.Now, the caveat - people are free to raise their rugrats as they see fit. If Mum and Dad want to encourage junior to develop his or her own gender identity, it's certainly not for me to interfere. That said, why not go the whole hog and name the poor kid Gaylord MacWoofter, then spend the next eighteen years flushing its head in the toilet themselves?
After all, as anyone who's ever been to any school, anywhere knows, kids take vicious abuse for everything and nothing - for being too fat, too thin, too tall or too short; for being too smart or too thick, and so on endlessly in a neverending chain of senseless, competitive nastiness.
Frankly, encouraging your kid to "develop its own gender identity" before sending him or her to school is like declawing a cat and hurling it to the hounds. The poor sprog would do better to stay at home giving itself dead legs and chucking its own schoolbag onto the roof.
"Mum, Dad... Do you remember how you encouraged me to find my own gender role without the intrusive intervention of society's norms?"
"Why yes, son, we do. We always felt it was important that you find your own identity".
"I'd like to thank you for that, guys. Without you, I wouldn't be barricaded into this branch of Ann Summers holding fourteen hostages at gunpoint. You're the best parents a boy could have... Now, put the police negotiator back on, I want to know where my purple helicopter is".
And yes, it'd be nice to live in a world where kids could express themselves however they like without being sadistically tormented. Let me know the very second that this fantastical reality dawns, and I'll rock up to work in a mankini myself.


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Oberto Introduces All Natural Jerky Snacks
Consumers seeking more healthful snack options have something to cheer about, thanks to Oberto Brands, Kent, Wash. With the rollout of Oh Boy! Oberto All Natural Jerky, Oberto is the first major jerky brand to shift to an all-natural focus to respond to the consumer demand for better-for-you foods, particularly among grab-and-go packaged snacks.
Oh Boy! Oberto All Natural Jerky features a new recipe, the brand's biggest product overhaul in 12 years, using only simple, all-natural ingredients, which result in a flavorful, hearty jerky that is seasoned, smoked and dried naturally. There are no preservatives, no artificial flavors, no added MSG and has 30 percent less sodium than comparable products. Ingredients are limited to beef (or pork, or turkey), sugar, water, beef stock, salt, spices and natural flavorings, natural smoke flavor and vinegar. They're also gluten-free.
Varieties include: Original Beef Jerky, Peppered Beef Jerky, Hickory Beef Jerky, and BBQ Pork Jerky. Also available are Teriyaki Turkey Jerky and Teriyaki Beef Jerky.
"Jerky has long been a popular high-protein snack, but most products on the market also contained a lot of artificial ingredients -- the big ones being hydolyzed vegetable protein and corn syrup – so it wasn't all that good for you," says Tom Ennis CEO of Oberto Brands "Oberto's new All Natural Jerky line is much better tasting, has an improved, richer texture and is a much more healthful option for snackers. It's simple – when you use more pure, wholesome ingredients, you get a better product with better taste."
Suggested retail price for a 3.25-oz. package is $5.99. Also available are 1.5-oz. and 9.0-oz. sizes.


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Teri Bonato — 90 years old, legally blind, and tough as nails — stalks the foul line cradling her 10-pound bowling ball in the crook of her right arm.
Her team is 12 points down with two frames to go and a strike here would sure help. She drops the ball from hip high, and it crashes onto the synthetic wood alley with a loud bang that sends a couple of people ducking.
Slowly — oh so slowly — the ball starts its long, meandering journey down the 60-foot lane — flirting perilously close to the right gutter before making a lazy left-hand turn toward the pocket.
It arrives at the pins maybe 20 seconds later with the force of a soft breeze. For just a moment you think the pins might send it back.
But eight pins wobble, stagger into each other like drunken sailors, and hit the floor in slow motion — leaving only two pins standing in the corner.
"What's left?" Teri asks her teammates.
"The 9-10," says 84-year-old Ernie Gluck, the kid on the team.
Teri nods, picks up her ball, and with the little peripheral vision she has left, finds the arrow on the floor that will direct her ball in the general direction of the two remaining pins. She lets it fly.
Standing at the ball return on the next lane, Sam Marion, 92, is hoping Teri's ball hits nothing but air because both their teams are in a dogfight for second place. But Teri makes the spare to the applause of her teammates. Sam looks over, shakes his head, and then proceeds to roll a strike.
No quarter is given in this senior league at Pinz Bowling Center in Studio City where every Thursday morning a cast of colorful, irascible characters grab their bowling balls and throw age to the wind.
A few lanes down from Teri and Sam, Lee Waldorf bowls another strike — his second of the game. The guy's turning 90 next month, but rolls the ball like his body stopped counting birthdays at 60.
Lee's been bowling 30 years and his high game is 290. Yeah, 290, only one strike from a perfect 300 game. He bowled it one Thursday morning during league play in 2001 when he was only 77.
"I was hot that day," the retired wallpaper contractor remembers. "Everything was falling for me. These days I'm averaging in the low 150s, not too bad for an old guy."
For his 90th birthday, Lee's taking a helicopter up to walk on a glacier in Alaska, then zip lining in Ketchikan. Like all the bowlers in this league, he believes in practicing the golden rule of aging.
Don't stop.
"You know what's amazing?" says Barbara Lee, director of the senior leagues at Pinz. "These people are more resilient than younger bowlers. Kids today get a little injury and you don't see them for a month.
"These people have been through cancer, broken bones, hip replacements, you name it, and they keep coming back.
"Sam over there bowls three times a week, and he's 92. The guy with the back brace on the next lane just had surgery. It's like they know once they stop, they're done. So they don't stop."
Joel Margolis, the baby of the group at 74, is the guy who just had spinal surgery three weeks ago.
"I told my doctor I'd be bowling today and he thought I was crazy," Joel says, after picking up a spare. "Maybe he's right, but I'm not stopping. I learned to bowl from my cousin who has Parkinson's. That hasn't stopped him."
On Lane 5, Teri adjusts her wrist brace and lines up for another shot at a spare.
"Watch," Barbara says. "If she misses she gets really mad. This league is very competitive. They're here to win, not talk about the great grandkids."
Sure enough, Teri misses the spare by a whisker. She can't see it, but she knows it was really close from her teammates' reactions. She walks slowly back to the bench shaking her head and mumbling. Everyone gives her a wide berth, except me.
Like a fool, I choose this moment to walk over to ask her a few questions. She looks up and gives me a cold "get lost" stare, so I get lost.
"The competition is really important to them," Barbara says. "The exercise and camaraderie is nice, but they all want to win. They pay $7 a week for three league games, and they get their money's worth."
An hour later, the scores are tallied. Teri's team is still in third place, right behind Sam's team in second. Lee's team continues to bring up the rear, but you couldn't tell it from the way he was smiling and laughing.
"Look at us," Lee says. "We're out here still competing and having fun. Who cares that most of us are in our 80s and 90s?
Nobody cares. That's just the way these seniors roll.
If you're interested in rolling with them, give Barbara a call at 818-769-7600 ext. 13. But you better bring your game face.
Dennis McCarthy's column runs on Friday. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
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I'm having a bit of a moment with glitter, I can't get enough of the stuff. If it sparkles – I want it. The glitter is mostly confined to my nails (and shoes actually) but for the purposes of this post it's going to be a glitter-filled nail one.
A little run down of the glitters/colours I've included here…
The first few shots are Barry M purchases I made recently – the two glitters with shiny lids on the bottles are Limited Edition shades that are free when you spend over a certain amount – I think it was £6 – the others are all the shades I chose so I could get the LE shades I liked. These are the ones from Superdrug, there are different LE shades (I think there's a pink and a gold on offer in Boots – if you like glitter though, Superdrug is where you want to go)
As I work my way through trying the shades I purchased I'll do some NOTD posts, but a couple of the Barry M ones are in the turquoise/pink NOTD above. The glitter for both colours are from the brand (I used the Turquoise one and the Magenta) – on top of a creamy turquoise from the Essie winter collection and the pink base is 'Kendall-ed Up' from the Nicole OPI trio in this post. The trio is from QVC* – which after my recent visit behind the scenes with Elemis I realised really is an absolute gold mine for beauty goodies!
The bottom nail of the day (the dark one) uses the Khloe Had a Little Lam Lam deep green as a base, with one of the LE Barry M glitters on top. A blimmin' nightmare to photograph!
From the Nicole OPI trio I absolutely can't wait to give the Rainbow in the Skylie shade a try – it's just a little glitter-bomb waiting to explode. But I cant decide what shade might look best as a base?? Suggestions please!
Anyone else having a bit of a glitter obsession?! Any glittery-nail must haves you want to suggest, just pop a comment below!
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New Caledonia, French Nouvelle-Calédonie, French unique collectivity in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 900 miles (1,500 km) east of Australia. It includes the island of New Caledonia (the Grande Terre [Mainland]), where the capital, Nouméa, is located; the Loyalty Islands; the Bélep Islands; and the Île des Pins. These islands form more than 99 percent of the total land area and lie between latitudes 18° and 23° S and longitudes 163° and 169° E. New Caledonia also includes a number of far-flung uninhabited islets: Huon and Surprise islands in the D'Entrecasteaux Reefs, the atolls of the Chesterfield Islands and the Bellona Reefs, Walpole Island, Beautemps-Beaupré Atoll, and Astrolabe Reefs. France also claims Hunter and Matthew islands, but the claim is disputed by Vanuatu.
The main island is by far the largest of the group and contains about nine-tenths of the population. It is surrounded by a coral reef that extends from Huon Island in the north to the Île des Pins in the south. Except for the central part of the west coast, which is bordered only by a fringing reef, it is a true barrier reef enclosing a large lagoon. There are numerous passages in the reef, usually at the mouths of rivers. New Caledonia's lagoons, with their diverse reefs and associated ecosystems, were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2008.
Relief and drainage
The cigar-shaped main island is some 30 miles (50 km) wide and 310 miles (500 km) long. Rugged mountain ranges, consisting principally of metamorphic rock formations, divide the island into an east coast, which in many places descends precipitously to the sea, and a west coast, which slopes more gradually and contains basically flat but undulating land. Ultrabasic serpentine rock forms a continuous plateau over most of the southern third of the island, rising to 5,308 feet (1,617 metres) at Mount Humboldt, and continues along the west coast as a series of discrete mountain masses. Outcrops from this formation form the islands of Art and Pott in the Bélep archipelago in the north and, in the south, the central part of the Île des Pins, which is bordered by an emerged coral platform. These rocks have weathered to form the striking terre rouge (i.e., red soils that overlie the island's extensive deposits of nickel, chrome, and cobalt ore). In the northeast of the main island, an outcrop of gneiss forms a mountain range 40 miles (60 km) long that includes New Caledonia's highest point, Mount Panié, elevation 5,341 feet (1,628 metres). Elsewhere the northern half of the island consists mainly of an irregular series of ranges formed from schists. Sedimentary rocks are limited to a narrow zone extending along much of the west coast inland between the serpentine ranges and the northern schist formations. They have weathered to produce broad undulating plains with some steep-sided hills.
Numerous streams descend from the central mountain chain to the lagoon; the streams often flood rapidly after rainfall and dry out in dry weather, especially on the west coast. The Diahot River, the longest river in the country, flows for about 60 miles (100 km) toward the northern tip of the island along the western escarpment of the Mount Panié range.
The Loyalty Islands consist of three main islands—Ouvéa, Lifou, and Maré—and numerous small islands, the most important being Tiga. The Loyalty Islands account for more than one-tenth of New Caledonia's total land area and about one-tenth of the population. In contrast to the island of New Caledonia, these islands are raised coral plateaus, nowhere rising much higher than 430 feet (130 metres) or so. Surface water is lacking because of the porous nature of the calcareous rock formation.
The climate is subtropical with year-round precipitation. Rainstorms are especially common on the east coast, where at higher elevations more than 120 inches (3,000 mm) of rain may fall annually. On the west coast the precipitation is regularly less than 40 inches (1,000 mm). The period from December to March is particularly rainy because of equatorial depressions, including frequent tropical cyclones (typhoons). Another period of heavy rainfall occurs in July and August; the driest months are September through November. Winds bearing northeast to southeast, including trade winds, predominate throughout the year and relieve temperatures in the hot season, which begins in November. Cyclonic winds are frequent late in the hot season.
The mean annual temperature at sea level ranges 71–75 °F (22–24 °C). In the southern part of the main island there are few days when the temperature rises above 86 °F (30 °C). The lowest temperature reached in Nouméa is about 55 °F (13 °C), but, farther north on the west coast, temperatures as low as 41 °F (5 °C) have been known to occur.
Plant and animal life
Physical isolation, contrasting soils, and a wide range in elevations have produced a rich indigenous flora. Terre rouge soils support a number of sclerophyllic (drought-resistant) shrubs with spectacularly coloured flowers. Different forms of rainforest range from those growing on coral platforms, as in the Loyalty Islands, to montane forests above 3,000 feet (900 metres) on the main island. The savanna woodlands of the west coast are characterized by stands of niaouli, or cajeput trees (Melaleuca quinquenervia), which are highly fire-resistant and tend to dominate landscapes that have been cleared by bushfires. Although the niaouli grows best in wet soils up to an elevation of 2,000 feet (610 metres), it also extends onto well-drained slopes and crests and forms the main species in the closed swamp forests of the Diahot valley. Dry sclerophyll forests, dominated by the guaiacum (Acacia spirorbis), were once widespread at low elevations on the west coast. Mangrove swamps proliferate on the highly indented west coast. One woodland species, Amborella trichopoda, has become of great scientific interest as a possible link between gymnosperms and angiosperms (coniferous and flowering plants).
Except for several types of bat, which were present before the arrival of Europeans, mammals are absent from the native fauna. There are no frogs and no venomous land reptiles, although scorpions and centipedes are present. There are no endemic malaria-carrying mosquito species. The kagu, a flightless bird, is the most unusual of some 100 endemic bird species and is now rare. A wide range of marine life is present in the lagoon.
Melanesians make up more than two-fifths of the population and Europeans about one-third. Their differing cultures have given rise to two distinct ways of life, known as kanak and caldoche; people of mixed descent tend to adhere to one or the other. The kanak identity is based on clan membership, a network of family alliances and specific land rights. The caldoche way of life is essentially integrated into a cash economy. The Polynesian minority comprises Wallis and Futuna islanders, who make up about one-tenth of the total, and smaller numbers of Tahitians. Descendants of Indonesian and Vietnamese migrant workers also form small proportions of the population and reside primarily in urban areas.
There is no official language, but French and Kanak have special legal recognition. Some 30 Melanesian languages are spoken, most Melanesians being proficient in more than one.
The Roman Catholic Church claims half of the population as adherents, including almost all of the Europeans, Uveans, and Vietnamese and half of the Melanesian and Tahitian minorities. Of the Protestant churches, the Free Evangelical Church (Église Libre) and the Evangelical Church in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Église Evangélique en Nouvelle-Calédonie et Îles Loyauté) have the largest number of adherents; their memberships are almost entirely Melanesian. There are also numerous other Christian groups and small numbers of Muslims.
For the first four decades of the 20th century, the Melanesian population was fairly stable, but by the mid-1980s it had doubled. Migration into and out of the country has been an important factor in the size of the non-Melanesian communities. The birth rate is higher among Melanesians and Uveans than among other groups, but infant mortality is also higher among Melanesians.
About three-fifths of the people live in the metropolitan area of Nouméa, which since 1965 has expanded to embrace the adjacent municipalities of Dumbéa, Mont-Dore, and Païta. Nouméa has numerous bars and restaurants, shops and supermarkets, a hospital, schools, a newspaper, and radio and television broadcasting facilities. About four-fifths of people of migrant origin, including Europeans, Polynesians, and Asians, live there as compared with one-fourth of the Melanesian population. About three-fourths of the Melanesians live outside Nouméa in small, widely dispersed villages with few modern facilities. They engage chiefly in subsistence agriculture based on the cultivation of yams, taros, sweet potatoes, and bananas. The population is almost entirely Melanesian in the Loyalty Islands, the Île des Pins, and the Bélep Islands and on the east coast and in the mountain ranges of the main island.
New Caledonia's economy depends heavily on services, the mining of nickel, and subsidies from France. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing are also important. Import-substitution industries, such as the manufacture of soft drinks and beer, soap, cement, fencing wire, and fishing and pleasure boats, have had little impact on the economy because of the small local market.
Although the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is one of the highest in the South Pacific, the distribution of wealth between ethnic groups is unequal: Melanesian households earn on average only about one-fourth the income of European households. The distribution of land resources on the main island is also uneven. Although thousands of Melanesian families depend on agriculture, two-thirds of the land is in the hands of European families, only a few of whom are engaged in agriculture or cattle raising.
Europeans also dominate trades, businesses, and professions and hold most of the high-ranking administrative posts in the government. Official unemployment tends to be significantly higher among Melanesians than it is among Europeans, even without counting the considerable number of "hidden" unemployed who have returned to their villages.
Taxes in New Caledonia consist primarily of duties on imported goods, sales taxes, and taxes on business revenues. The vast majority of total tax receipts comes from the Nouméa metropolitan area.
Agriculture, fishing, and forestry
Local agricultural products meet only part of New Caledonia's needs for meat, vegetables, and fruit. Yams are a staple crop. Commercial agriculture has not generally succeeded despite efforts to establish sugarcane, cotton, rice, coffee, and coconut-palm plantations. The production of coffee and copra (from coconuts) that began in the 19th century continued after World War II, chiefly because Melanesian subsistence farmers wished to diversify their crops and enter the cash economy; however, exports of those commodities are now negligible. A few reforestation projects, consisting mainly of plantings of Caribbean pine, have been established on Melanesian land on the Île des Pins and on mountains on the west coast of the main island. Cattle raising is important to the economy; pigs and horses are also raised but rarely for commercial purposes.
Resources and power
The weathering of serpentine rock provides New Caledonia with a large share of the world's known reserves of nickel ore, as well as large deposits of chromium, cobalt, iron, and magnesium. The export of nickel ore, which has been mined since 1875, and of partly refined nickel from a large foundry on the outskirts of Nouméa, is subject to boom-and-bust cycles determined by the needs of the world steel industry and competition from other producers. Cobalt and iron ore deposits, as well as deposits of gypsum on the west coast and of phosphates on outlying islands, are no longer worked. Noncommercial deposits of coal are found on the west coast. The search for oil has not been successful. Hydroelectric power from Yaté and Néaoua provides nearly half of New Caledonia's energy needs; the remainder is produced from thermal generators burning imported fuel oil. More than three-fourths of the energy produced is used in nickel refining.
Services and trade
Exports, which consist largely of partly refined nickel and nickel ore, vary with the world market price of nickel. However, New Caledonia has a chronic balance-of-trade deficit. The European Union (EU) is the major trading partner, and much of the EU's trading activity with New Caledonia is with France. Other important trading partners include Japan, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, the United States, New Zealand, and China. France makes large grants to the country's budget, notably for health, education, and the maintenance of military and security forces. Governmental business services, trade, and finance make up a large proportion of the GDP and provide about two-thirds of employment. Efforts to diversify the economy beyond the commercial and administrative sectors have met with little success. There is, however, considerable potential for tourism, particularly from Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
The main island of New Caledonia and the inhabited outer islands are ringed by roads. Virtually the entire coast of the island of New Caledonia may be traveled by road, and crossroads penetrate to the centre of the island. The port of Nouméa handles the majority of ship traffic. Regular service is available for cargo and passengers. The domestic airline, Air Calédonie, provides internal air service from Magenta Airport near Nouméa to the main and outer islands; Aircalin, an international partnership between Air Calédonie and several other national airlines, provides service to other countries in the South Pacific and to Japan.
Government and society
Under the Nouméa Accord of 1998, New Caledonia has limited autonomy within the French legal system. It sends three representatives to the French parliament: two to the National Assembly and one to the Senate. The French president is the head of state. The heads of government are a high commissioner appointed by France and the president of the New Caledonian government. The French government retains authority over defense, internal security, and various other matters.
Health and educational facilities are of higher quality in Nouméa than elsewhere in New Caledonia. The more-isolated islanders have access to few schools and health centres. School is free and compulsory between the ages of 6 and 16, and the school system generally follows the syllabus of schools in France. Although elementary school attendance is nearly universal and secondary enrollment is high, relatively few non-Europeans gain higher qualifications. French is the only language of instruction in state-supported schools. The University of New Caledonia, founded in 1999, is located in Nouméa.
Cultural life
European cultural influence is evident in Nouméa, with its bars, restaurants, and cinemas, the Bernheim Library (1905; a large collection endowed by an early mine owner, Lucien Bernheim), museums, and bookshops. For the Europeans, sports tend to be closely related to the sea and include boating, fishing, windsurfing, and swimming or sunbathing at the city beaches of Vata Cove and the Bay of Citrons; tennis and cycling are also popular. Although football (soccer) in France is closely followed, large numbers of Melanesian men play the sport locally. Melanesian women have widely adopted a version of cricket, which was first introduced by early British missionaries in the Loyalty Islands. Melanesian football and cricket teams compete annually in countrywide competitions.
In many areas Melanesian custom remains strong, particularly in relation to clan and family ties and obligations. Almost without exception Melanesians, regardless of their education or urbanization, return to their villages to take part in elaborate ceremonies and gift exchanges on such occasions as births, marriages, and deaths. Traditions have been modified to include Christian ceremonies. In rural areas the traditional division of labour is retained. Women tend to carry out the daily agricultural round of planting, weeding, and harvesting, as well as the domestic tasks of cooking, cleaning, and child rearing. Men perform the heavier tasks of clearing the ground for new gardens. All take part in the annual yam planting and harvesting, which is still something of a ceremonial and social occasion and also sometimes draws urban workers back to their villages for a short period.
The use of local languages remains strong, although French has become the lingua franca through its prevalence in the educational system. With an increase in nationalist sentiment beginning in the late 20th century came a revival of interest among Melanesians in the traditional arts of sculpture, mat and basket weaving, singing, dancing, and wood carving.
State-owned radio and television stations relay programs to all parts of the country. In Nouméa there are also several privately owned radio stations. Satellite antennas have become increasingly common, bringing television programs and Internet access to even the remotest regions. There is one daily newspaper, Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes.
Melanesians settled the islands about 3000 bce and, except for rare Polynesian voyagers, probably were cut off from outside contact until the late 18th century ce. In 1774 the British navigator and explorer James Cook landed at Balade, on the east coast of the mainland, and he named the island New Caledonia for his father's native Scotland. Cook was followed there by the French navigator Antoine de Bruni, chevalier d'Entrecasteaux, in 1793. Regular contact with Europeans began in 1841 when sandalwood traders from Australia introduced islanders to the use of iron. The arrival of a Protestant mission from the London Missionary Society in the Loyalty Islands in 1841 and a Marist mission, which was set up at Balade with the aid of the French navy in 1843, marked the beginning of the Protestant and Roman Catholic presence in the territory.
France took possession of most of present-day New Caledonia in 1853 in ceremonies at Balade and the Île des Pins with the aim of reserving the territory as a possible site for a penal colony. The French flag was not run up in the Loyalty Islands until 1864.
From the time of colonial settlement until as late as 1917, Melanesian uprisings were common and were constantly feared by the settlers and authorities alike. The insurrection of 1856–59 near Nouméa and the uprising of 1878–79, which extended along the west coast from Bouloupari to Poya, seriously endangered French occupation. Grievances centred around the confiscation of Melanesian lands, the foraging of settlers' cattle on the Melanesians' produce gardens, and the head tax, which in 1899 was imposed by the colonial government on male Melanesians in order to oblige them to obtain employment with settlers and the government. The French suppressed each uprising (with the help of indigenous auxiliaries) by destroying villages and crops and demanding unconditional surrender, and insurgents were punished by deportation or execution and further confiscation of their lands.
By 1860 French authority had been established over the southern third of the mainland, and in the next decade the French established policies for disposing of indigenous land, regrouping tribes, and appointing a system of tribal chiefs to represent the administration. By the end of the 19th century, large areas of Melanesian land had been alienated and the inhabitants relegated to reserves. Forced labour, limitations on travel, and curfews were imposed from the early days of colonial rule and became the basis of a system of administrative law codified in 1887 as the indigénat (native regulations). The indigénat, as well as the head tax, remained in force until 1946.
Although the prime concern of the early colonial administration was the reception and control of about 22,000 French convicts sent to New Caledonia between 1864 and 1897, the French also attempted to attract free settlers and obtain a supply of cheap labour. In addition, between 1864 and 1939 some 60,000 indentured labourers were imported to construct public works and to work on plantations, ships, wharves, and mines and in commerce and domestic service. These included ni-Vanuatu (the indigenous population of Vanuatu) and Solomon Islanders (1865–1920), Vietnamese (1891–1939), Javanese (1896–1939), and Japanese (1892–1921). Only a small percentage of the survivors of these workers remained in the colony after their contracts expired, and, although few ex-convicts left the territory, not many established families. New Caledonia was also the unlikely home of some 4,000 déportés, political exiles of the 1871 uprising of the Paris Commune, but few of the survivors stayed after being granted amnesty. Most of the free white settlers were either former members of the French administration and armed forces, settlers from Australia and New Zealand, or former sugar planters from Réunion. The government encouraged two later waves of free settlers in the 1890s and 1920s to migrate to help establish coffee and cotton industries, respectively, but Europeans remained in the minority. After World War II the European population gradually increased by migration, but the main influx of white and Polynesian settlers occurred in the years leading up to and including the nickel boom of 1969–72. For the first time, the Melanesians became a minority in their own country, although they still were the largest single ethnic group.
From the beginning of French settlement, political debate among the white settlers revolved around the rights of residents to administer their own affairs without endangering the flow of French financial aid. Between 1885 and 1956 a locally elected general council advised the governor on territorial affairs and voted a local budget. By 1953 French citizenship had been granted to all New Caledonians, regardless of ethnic origin. Melanesians then formed a coalition with Europeans to bring to power the Caledonian Union (Union Calédonienne) party on a ticket of full self-government in local affairs. Progress toward self-government was made in 1957 when a Territorial Assembly was created with powers to elect an executive under the presidency of a high commissioner. In the 1970s the Caledonian Union became an increasingly Melanesian party as Europeans deserted it, and it turned to supporting the cause of independence. In 1979 the Caledonian Union formed the Independence Front in coalition with several minority Melanesian parties. The French government granted complete self-government in territorial affairs under the Lemoine Statute of 1984, but the Independence Front rejected the statute and reconstituted itself as the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (Front de Libération Nationale Kanake et Socialiste; FLNKS). The FLNKS boycotted the elections in that year and, in an uprising, temporarily captured most of the territory outside Nouméa.
The following decades were characterized by political struggles between the FLNKS and a settler-dominated party, the Rally for Caledonia in the Republic (Rassemblement pour la Calédonie dans la République; RPCR), which favoured continued ties with France. In 1988 the French government, the RPCR, and the FLNKS negotiated the Matignon Accords, which restructured political and advisory bodies and granted wide-reaching autonomy. The Nouméa Accord was formally signed in May 1998, approved by referendum in November, and passed by both houses of the French National Assembly in March 1999. Among its provisions were a change of status from overseas territory to overseas country (later, unique collectivity) and the holding of a referendum on independence, to be deferred for 15–20 years.
The referendum, held on November 4, 2018, resulted in some 56 percent of voters rejecting independence. While this was a victory for proponents of New Caledonia remaining a part of France, it was a much narrower margin of victory than had been expected, which bolstered the hopes of pro-independence supporters. Under the Nouméa Accord, New Caledonia's government had the option to schedule additional referendums on independence in 2020 and again in 2022.D.L. Shineberg Sophie Foster The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Oceanic art and architecture: New CaledoniaThe art of New Caledonia consists almost entirely of wood sculpture; painting was used only to accentuate, in red and white, details of the carvings, which were otherwise entirely blackened. The central feature of every village was a circular ceremonial house with low…
Oceanic art and architecture: Melanesia…Lapita, after a site in New Caledonia. It is the most prominent material aspect of a culture that flourished from approximately 1900
bcto the beginning of the modern era and that achieved an astonishingly wide distribution. Lapita sites, or other evidences of Lapita influence, are found from the northern…
nickel processing: HistoryA new source, New Caledonia in the South Pacific, came into production about 1877 and dominated until the development of the copper-nickel ores of the Copper Cliff–Sudbury, Ontario, region in Canada, which after 1905 became the world's largest source of nickel. By the late 1970s, production in Soviet…
Wallis and Futuna: People…Uvean and Futunan population in New Caledonia is larger than that of the home islands. The majority of the expatriates in New Caledonia are Uveans. The exodus resulted from the pull of greater opportunities for employment abroad and the push of limited prospects and growing population pressures at home. Because…
James Cook: Voyages and discoveries… during the winters, and discovered New Caledonia in the Pacific and the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia island in the Atlantic. He showed that a real Terra Australis existed only in the landmasses of Australia, New Zealand, and whatever land might remain frozen beyond the ice rim of Antarctica.…
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text: Hello, do you know that there is an open source, entry level version of LSF available named Lava from http://www.hpccommunity.org/index.php?pageid=lava This might be helpful if you want to test without buying LSF licenses. Best regards, Heiner > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:07:48 +0800 > From: "Jin, Yao" <jinyao at ymail.com> > Subject: [Beowulf] doubt about job queuing systems > To: beowulf at beowulf.org > Message-ID: > <7036b08f0904170607r2ec69ba4t56f9347773fba6cb at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all, > > We've just bought a program named CST <http://www.cst.de> Microwave Studio > 2009(CST MWS) > Engineer from CST says their program could be scheduled by Platform LSF. Our > cluster is built with Rockscluster, only torque or SGE is avaiable. We > cannot affort LSF as it is too expensive. > > Engineer from Dell(vendor of our cluster) says torque, SGE and LSF have just > the same functionality, what makes difference is stability, schedule > algorithm and price. > > We don't have LSF in hand, and engineer from CST refuses to demostrate > running CST MWS with LSF.(They says they don't have LSF either, the test is > carried on other customer's cluster.) > > CST MWS is traditionally a program run on a single PC. Version 2009 is the > first release with MPI parallell code. It uses a modified MPI Library. > > Even console execution would start GUI interface. If no X server is found, > it would redirect graphical output to *Xvfb*(a virtual X11 server that > performs all graphical operations in memory) > > When I argue that many other computational electromagnetics programs such as > FEKO <http://www.feko.info> can run in batch mode without any X output and > can be sheduled directly by external job queueing system, engineer from CST > declares that kind of program not starting a GUI is old-fashioned... > > Are they telling the truth, or just lying? > > > Best Regards, > Jin, Yao -- Vorstand/Board of Management: Dr. Bernd Finkbeiner, Dr. Roland Niemeier, Dr. Arno Steitz, Dr. Ingrid Zech Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/ Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Michel Lepert Sitz/Registered Office: Tuebingen Registergericht/Registration Court: Stuttgart Registernummer/Commercial Register No.: HRB 382196


text: +1 for Option 1. On 22 November 2013 20:42, Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > Folks: > > We are seeing a return to the posting of multiple full articles > again. We've asked several times that this not occur. It appears to be > a strong consensus from many I spoke with at SC13 this year, that there > is little (actually no) support for the full article postings. As we > had noted in the case of HPCwire, InsideHPC, etc. posting the full > article deprives the authors and publishers of clicks, which deprives > them of potential revenue. > > Since our requests have again been ignored, we are generally faced > with a few options on what to do if anything. > > Option 1: Do nothing. Nothing will change, and we will have someone > continue to abuse the resources, the authors and the publications. > > Option 2: Personal filtering. This particular individual actually > threatened me in another group, and I generally simply ignore anything > he posts. I haven't gone as far as active filters for him, but have for > some of the more egregious tin foil hat wearers of that other group. > > Option 3: Enforce some of our basic etiquette. If you aren't willing > to abide by the house rules, you won't be allowed into the house to > violate the rules. In this case, I see more than two strikes, so I am > not all that inclined to be terribly forgiving of these breaches. > > It is obvious option 1 will do nothing. Option 2 is unsatisfactory, > as the behavior will continue, and be in the permanent list archive. > Option 3 seems to be the right approach. > > I am not a lawyer, though its not hard to note that reproduction of > work without permission could wind someone up in court ... this has been > the basis for the file sharing lawsuits when content owners get pissed > off enough. It doesn't matter if the owner of the list or the hardware > the list is on didn't put it there. What matters is that they didn't > remove it. > > Rather than have to deal with the battle above, I'd ask the powers > that be to decide whether or not they wish to continue to tolerate the > astounding breach of etiquette, and the risks that it opens up > (copyright and redistribution of copyrighted work). > > Note that we've had this conversation before, and been assured by the > poster that it wouldn't happen again. As I see it, I've got a number of > his longer posts going into my SPAM filter, which means I have to > actively clean it lest google start categorizing all mail from Beowulf > as spam. > > I am just not seeing an upside to option 1 or option 2, though option > 2 provides local filtration. > > Anyone else have an opinion? > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics, Inc. > email: landman at scalableinformatics.com > web : http://scalableinformatics.com > twtr : @scalableinfo > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Hi everyone,
You've probably noticed that things have been veeeeeery quiet around here for a few months. It's something of a life change/life crunch time for a lot of the regulars here, so it seems like a good time to bring more contributors on board!
First request for help: we'd love to have some volunteers to help out with reviving our Linkspams! It should be fairly low time commitment, and a good way to bring some juice back to the blog.
If you're interested, read on.
Lead Linkspammer (up to 2 people)
If possible, we'd like to have one or two Lead Linkspammers (that's lead as in Leader, not lead as in the element, unless you like the element, in which case, fine). Lead linkspammers may create linkspams themselves (see below) but by Lead what we mean is making sure that linkspams happen regularly.
A Lead Linkspammer would:
- with input from the linkspam team, create a schedule for Linkspammers to put up posts
- help Linkspammers out with technical difficulties if possible
- recruit replacement Linkspammers when needed
A Lead Linkspammer would need:
- the Linkspammer skills below
- familiarity with the WordPress posting interface (you don't need to have adminned a WordPress blog, we mean having posted to one and being able to explain how you did it to other people), including tagging, and willingness to help the Linkspammers out with their early spams
- willingness to create and maintain schedules, including keeping an eye out for additional Linkspammers when need be, and ability to just make a decision about who is doing what if the team gets too "no, you take Tuesdays!" "no no, I can tell you want Tuesdays, you do Tuesdays!"
- willingness to gently remind Linkspammers of their upcoming spams
We'd like it if the Lead Linkspammer(s) could commit to at least six months as a Lead, and can give at least a couple of weeks notice if they need to move on, so that their replacement can be found and work handed over.
The initial time commitment may come to a few hours a week while you get set up, but ongoing it's probably one hour or less per week on top of compiling any linkspam posts you commit to in your schedule.
Linkspammer (up to 6 people)
A Linkspammer creates linkspam! You would:
- gather together links submitted by readers (and optionally links you found yourself)
- read over them at least to the point where you can write a short summary
- post the links and short summaries
A Linkspammer would need:
- to identify as a geek feminist or a geek feminist ally, and to generally like this blog
- familiarity with simple HTML: lists, links and emphasis markup (the
- some editorial judgement: being able to decide if a link is worth sharing or not, and to select 6–10 links for the spam
- ability to at least skim through links and summarise their content in a sentence or two, and warn for common triggers
- ability to keep an eye on all the linkspams, just so that yours has new links in it
- ability to put up with occasional public criticism, and apologise if you agree you made a mistake: sometimes our readers criticise linkspams, although not very often, and unless they violate the comments policy we will generally let the criticisms remain publicly visible.
We'd like it if the Linkspammer(s) could commit to at least two months (each Spammer will produce about one spam every fortnight, we hope), and can give at least a couple of weeks notice if they need to move on. The Lead Linkspammers will schedule your linkspams in: one will be due every two or three weeks.
The time commitment is probably one to two hours every time you have a linkspam due.
How to join us
Let us know in comments if you're interested in helping out: make sure to leave an email address and state whether you could be a Lead Linkspammer, a Linkspammer, or both.
We don't need a whole resume, but a sentence about your previous involvement in geek feminism would be good, eg "I've been commenting here for months" or "I write about geek feminism stuff sometimes on my blog" or etc.
Please note: we cannot pay Linkspammers (or any other contributor), you will be working as an unpaid volunteer.


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Alert 2005-28
Subject: Suspicious Transactions
Date: December 1, 2005
Description: Wachovia Direct Lending, Toronto, Canada
Wachovia Direct Lending, 355 Wellington Street, Toronto, Ontario N6A3N7 Fax 416 848 9762 (no telephone)
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Director, Office of Thrift Supervision; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel; and All Examining Personnel
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