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Everyone by now has seen the spike in "robocalls" or fake/spam phone calls to either their home or cellular phones. From credit card consolidation and vehicle warranty companies to fake Microsoft or financial institutions, it's non-stop. For those with the ability to identify callers, my suggestion is don't answer the phone unless you know who it is. The chances of a call from an unknown number being an emergency are relatively low and the person can you leave you a voicemail message if it is. You can then call them back as you will know the purpose of the call. No one is going to call with an emergency and then not leave a message. Most "unknown" calls are from bill collectors, scammers, harassment or wrong numbers.
Many callers now are using "spoofing" techniques where they can disguise the number they are calling from. Spoofing is often used as part of an attempt to trick someone into giving away valuable personal information so it can be used in fraudulent activity or sold illegally. U.S. law and FCC rules prohibit most types of spoofing.
Many callers now are using "spoofing" techniques where they can disguise the number they are calling from. Spoofing is often used as part of an attempt to trick someone into giving away valuable personal information so it can be used in fraudulent activity or sold illegally. U.S. law and FCC rules prohibit most types of spoofing.
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Leaving Imbil we wind through the forest and cross Yabba Creek six times before we arrive at Lake Borumba camp ground. A well sheltered, treed and grassy area beside Yabba Creek and at the base of the spillway. The sites are level and power is available. The creek is a quiet fishing spot. I wonder if it would be this peaceful when trail bike riders come through but for now it is inviting.
Footnote: Managed by the local water commission the campground is reasonably priced with extra of course for power. It is currently closed but that maybe due to weather. Check with the local Information Centre first.


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The Current State of Cyber Security for Financial Services (Spoiler: It's Still Not Great)/
Do you remember the problems that plagued cyber security for financial services in 2014? The high volume of attacks on globally-recognized financial institutions led the industry to be named the world's most vulnerable to cyber attacks that year.
The industry-wide vulnerability to cyber attacks led many of the world's largest banks to make drastic cybersecurity changes. JP Morgan Chase, for example, is expected to spend $500 million on cybersecurity in 2016


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Just finished a 3d model of a fan.
I think it was a waste of time. It took too long and I didn't like the finished product.
I learned next to nothing by modelling it. Though it did show me that I need to work on my studio lighting. So maybe it wasn't a total waste of time.
Must manage time better.
Though maybe I can give myself a pass this time.
Illness and grief do not make a great muse.


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It's fair to say that the creative vibes in Camden really do rub off on neighbouring Kentish Town. London Residential was pleased to spot an exciting opportunity for local residents to get some exposure for their artwork, thanks to a competition being run by developer Uplift and local publication Camden New Journal.
Uplift - a London-based developer with a history of revamping derelict buildings - is busy transforming the old Pizza Express site on the corner of Kentish Town Road and Prince of Wales Road - a site that has laid vacant for over two years. When complete - hopefully early in 2017 - the site will deliver a cinema, performance space and bar on the ground floor, and a number of apartments above. The scheme promises to be an excellent addition to the Kentish Town cultural scene, giving residents a much longed-for film screen.
With so much artistic talent in the local community, Uplift thought it would be a brilliant idea to decorate its hoarding with originals works by local people. The developers are looking for 10 'artists, illustrators and doodlers' who can create cinema-inspired black and white pieces to adorn the hoardings for a six-month period.
To enter the competition, which is open to all ages, entries should be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or posted to Design a Poster Competition, Camden New Journal, 40, Camden Road, NW1 9RW.
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Kilkenny's Mark Power, County Louth's Thomas Mulligan and Cairndhu's Marc McKinstry qualified for the matchplay stages in the British Boys Championship at Muirfield and The Renaissance in Scotland.
As Ardglass' Matthew Fitzsimons (78 73 151) missed the cut by three shots with Greystones' Alan Fahy (74 78 152) a shot further backm Power recovered from a five over 76 at Muirfield with a two under 69 at The Renaissance to lead 76 places up the leaderboard to qualify with ease in 22nd place on three over par.
Mulligan followed his 75 at Muirfield with a 72 at The Renaissance to qualify in 43rd place on three over.
McKinstry finished in a 14 way tie for 64th which means he must face Norway's Kenneth Johansson in a first round clash.
Power faces England's Coby Blue Cartwright in the second round with Mulligan set to face India's Rayhan John Thomas for a place in the last 32.
Boys Amateur Championship, Muirfield & The Renaissance
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- 24 POWER, Mark Kilkenny 76 69 145
- 43 MULLIGAN, Thomas County Louth 75 72 147
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- Basic education in Gogrial Rural Primary School from 1968 to 1973.
- Junior education in Kuajok Junior Secondary School from 1974 to 1978.
- Senior education in Bussere Secondary School from 1979 to 1982.
- Under graduate education, Khartoum University, Faculty of Law from 1983 to 1967.
- Post Graduate education, Staffordshire University School of Law in UK from 2002 to 2003.
- I attended one-year course in Youth Social work in Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation, Zambia in 1989 where I was able to obtain Diploma in Youth Social Work.
- I attended 3 months course of report writing/project evaluation and I obtained a certificate.
- I attended 6 weeks course of international criminal law in Arusha School of law, Tanzania 1998. I obtained attendance certificate.
- I attended 6 weeks course of financial management in ICRC center, Khartoum in 1998.
- I attended 3 months advanced leadership course in Maui, USA, 1998 and I obtained advanced leadership certificate.
- I attended 3 months' management course in CORAT Africa Centre in Kenya, 1998. I obtained a management Certificate.
- I worked as advocate for 2 years.
- I worked with Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) as National Youth Progamme Coordinator from 1988 to 1999.
- I worked with Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) as relief project manager from 2000 to 2008.
- Worked as school teacher in Kuajok Secondary School in 1982.
- Worked as national expert while exercising functions of Executive Director in the office of the 1st Vice President of the Republic of Sudan from 2008 to 2011.
- Worked as Chief Administrator in the Office of President of the Republic of South Sudan from 2011 to 2018.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
THIS IS THE REMIX: 1989 Donruss
Oh, hi there. Long time no blog. Just to bring you up to speed, I'm going to make my first 2015 Spirit post some time in February. But if you don't wanna wait until then to see the 2015 design, I'm in the midst of posting a card a day on my Instagram. Once all 30 teams are up, I'll do a standard post here discussing the designs and whatnot. In the mean, I thought I'd revive the long-dormant feature known as "THIS IS THE REMIX."
1989 was right when baseball cards entered my universe. Up to that point I had acquired a few random cards from either my dad buying me packs or cousins tossing me some of their duplicates. Just stuff stacked along with my Batman trading cards. But the summer 1989 is when I started paying attention to baseball. I would look for wax at every convenient store I entered, saving up quarters and dimes to buy a pack whenever I could. There was a gas station three blocks from my house I could ride my bike to whenever I had 54 cents burning a hole in my pocket. They usually had a box of both Topps and Donruss there amongst the candy. I seemed to favor Donruss. They were more colorful than '89 Topps and they came with a freaking puzzle. How could I resist?
I'm not really sure if there's a consensus regarding the '89 Donruss design. Obviously it's not a masterpiece but I don't seem to recall it garnering hate like so many other designs of that period. My guess is the color strips are kind of endearing. That and the fact that it's not cluttered with unnecessary design elements like little baseballs, Super Mario tubes or paint splatters. All in all it's a pretty simple design, but there's still room for improvement.
The basic build is the same but with just a few minor tweaks. We still have gradient color bars sweeping horizontally from edge to edge. My first decision was obvious – change the colors to team colors. Call me crazy but if you're gonna have the colors vary from card to card, might as well make them fit the player and their uniform. As I continued to tinker, I thought about having the top and bottom bars go opposite directions, i.e. the Braves would go red to blue on top and blue to red on bottom. It wasn't horrible but it just didn't quite work. Then I had the notion to fade each bar to black instead of the opposite team color. Perfect. It put the team colors on opposite corners and kept the whole gradient motif without affecting readability.
After having the black in the corners, I played with the tiled line edges. I made sure to lighten them up so they're visible no matter the ink saturation. On a lot of '89 Donruss cards, the edges just look solid black. Making them fade from black to a light gray would help with that and it really tied into everything else at that point.
I decided to go with team cap logos instead of their primaries. The thought behind that is to try keeping the logo from getting too big. Look at that big, boxy Braves logo from 1989. That thing takes up a lot more space than the A does. And since the logos do dip down into the photo a bit, I thought it would be best to have the option to flip the design to accommodate any particular photograph. For instance, the Mariners logo would cover up the helmet bill on Kyle Seager's card if I had gone with the normal orientation.
The final change was the picking a new typeface. After going through several, I landed on Klavika. It's definitely more modern looking than the previous font but still has some of that same "square but not really" flavor to it. I made the names all caps and just added a bullet after, followed by the player position. It really bugs me how the position is a different typeface and smaller on the '89 cards. Problem solved.
Overall I think this has been one of the smoothest remixes I've done. That probably has a lot to do with the starting point. I've always chalked my '89 Donruss fondness up to nostalgia but I'm starting think it was just a secret little gem in need of a polish.
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January 24, 2013
J Law & J Chas
said Pinky at 12:10 AM // Filed under Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain
Last Saturday (1/19) Jennifer Lawrence gave an amusing monologue on SNL which included some digs towards her Oscar competition. Check it out above.
On Monday (1/21) during a press round up for Zero Dark Thirty, Jessica Chastain was asked about her reaction to Jennifer Lawrence's monologue. Watch her reaction below (around 3:30 min.)


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Software lives in a constantly changing world with different operating systems, browsers, databases, plug-ins and display resolutions for example. We will test your application against an agreed test plan covering the essential components.
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For cross-browser compatibility testing we can devise automated tests using Selenium with Firefox, then by pushing our scripts through a service called Sauce Labs we can execute the same tests against Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox, thereby reducing not only our time but also the time for everyone involved in the development cycle.
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We can also manually test a list of pages using Sauce Labs Scout which supports Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS. These pages can be scanned by testers for defects which will then be automatically uploaded to our defect list on JIRA. All you have to do is log in to the JIRA account and read about each defect before fixing it and marking it resolved.


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Publication List of Martin Brehm
35 peer-reviewed publications, sorted by publication date (see below).
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"Structure and Lifetimes in Ionic Liquids and their Mixtures"
Faraday Discuss. 2018, 206, 219–245. (11 citations, DOI 10.1039/C7FD00166E )


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At least 15 of the 36 trekkers got caught up in a forest fire at Kurangani Hills in Theni district were rescued even as a massive search and rescue operation was on to rescue the remaining ones.
Ten commandos have moved to Madurai by a helicopter from Sulur Air Force base and then trekked to the spot last night. They are carrying medicines and are to provide medical assistance to the injured, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted.
Speaking to the media, Theni District Collector Pallavi Baldev said 15 persons have been rescued and search is on for others. The rescued trekkers have been admitted to nearby hospital.
Baldev said 24 trekkers from Chennai Trekking Club and 12 from Erode and Tiruppur had gone to the Kurangani Hills.
She said the trekking group consisted of eight men, 25 women and three children.
Baldev said the trekkers had camped at a place up in the hills on Saturday night and they decided to return on Sunday.
While the trekkers were coming down, they came across forest fire and the group got divided, she said.
Speaking to the media, a trekker said: Twenty-four people were from Chennai, of which 22 were girls and two boys. Going up was not possible. I jumped into a rocky pit and escaped. Those who jumped down escaped the fire.


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Over 50 Attractions
Waldvogel's Farm is your Fall Fun destination. With more than 50 attractions, you are sure to have a full day of fun.
Bring your camera and be prepared to create memories that will last a lifetime.
No Admission charged for guests that are 2 years of age and younger.
List of Attractions at Waldvogel's Farm
If you see (included) under the activity below, that activity is included with the Activity Area Admission; (separate charge) indicates there is a separate charge. Pumpkins are not included with the Activity Area Admission.
All activities marked as (separate charge) do require an Activity Area Admission pass.
Please note that our hayrides out to the pumpkin patch are always FREE and do not require you to purchase Activity Area Admission. Once you get there, the pumpkins are not free. They are priced per pumpkin (not by weight). U-pick pumpkins from the pumpkin patch are either $2 (Pie Pumpkin) or $5 each. Pumpkins are also available pre-picked (starting at $2 each up to $10 each) and are located by the hay rides.
All of the activities listed below are available on the weekends. If you are visiting during the week, please review the differences between a weekend and weekday.


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This article was taken from my June 2016 newsletter. All material is copyright protected and may not be copied without written consent. To read the newsletter, please click here.
In addition to this article, more information on feng shui can be found in my #1 best-selling book, Feng Shui that Makes Sense.
Ten Ways to Help You Create an Optimal Environment for Your Child
While most feng shui information pertains to adult living and working environments, children can also benefit by applying feng shui principles to their sleeping, studying, and playing areas. Below you'll find great feng shui tips for making your child's room a nurturing place of happiness and comfort.
1. Wall Color
Color choices are highly subjective, but one study shows that rooms that are painted bright yellow tend to increase tension. Babies cry louder, longer, and more often in bright lemon yellow rooms and adults tend to argue more often in rooms painted that color. Soft neutral wall colors are calming. Accent with brighter colors in bedding and artwork.
2. Bed Position
I'm always surprised at the odd ways adults position children's beds in their rooms and then wonder why their child has trouble sleeping. Just as in an adult bedroom, a child's bed needs to be positioned so that they can see the door but not be in direct line with the door while lying down. Children under the age of ten often feel more comfortable when one side of the bed is pushed up against a wall rather than open on both sides.
3. Children's Beds
Adults and children alike often sleep better in a bed that has a solid headboard with no holes or slats in the headboard. A headboard creates a feeling of comfort and security does not exist when the bed is pushed up against the wall without a headboard. Avoid beds made entirely out of plastic (like a plastic bed that looks like a car for example). Plastic off-gasses toxins which can be unhealthy for children.
4. Avoid Artificial Scent in the Home
There is a growing body of evidence that artificial air fresheners (think plug-ins, sprays, candles, potpourri, and reed scented sticks) have unhealthy side effects, especially in children. They have been linked to asthma, headaches, and immune deficiencies. If you like scent in your home, opt for diffusing therapeutic-grade essential oils like the ones I suggest in my newsletters. These products are anti-microbial, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial and actually increase health and well-being when diffused in a room.
5. Provide Easy-to-Access Closed Storage Options
Very few children enjoy cleaning up after themselves. To make tidying easier for them (and you), provide plenty of storage choices. Kid's toys are brightly colored and even when placed neatly can make a room look messy. Cabinets, shelves with a solid fabric draped over them, wicker baskets with lids and ottomans are great storage ideas for toys and books. A storage area under the stairs can easily be converted into a fun, cozy play area and a place for toys and games.
6. Air Purifiers
Air purifiers can be a great asset in a child's room. Models are now made with hepa filters to remove dust and allergens from the air, and often have negative ionizer options which help with sleep and relaxation. The soft whooshing noise of the air purifier can also act as white noise to drown out other sounds that may be keeping your child awake. Keep the air purifier at least four feet away from the bed to reduce EMF exposure and do some research to find out which make and model might be best for your child's needs.
7. Give your Child a Say in the Décor of their Room
Help empower your child by allowing them to have a say in choosing the décor of their room (within reason of course). Sites like art.com have wonderful artwork to choose from that you and your child can sit down and decide on together. Always choose artwork with positive images and meanings for a child's room.
8. Don't force a Study Area
Adults will often set up a study area for a child and then become frustrated when the child doesn't want to use it. Before setting up a study area, find out from your child where they are most comfortable sitting and where they prefer to study. Study areas need to be free from distractions but also comfortable and pleasant.
9. Choose Furniture that Provides Safety
One of my friends was a pediatric emergency room nurse. She told me that the amount of children seriously injured by falling from bunk beds was astonishing. If your child uses a bunk bed, make sure it has appropriate railings on the open side of the bed and non-slip ladders to help avoid injury. Furniture with sharp edges and corners can also be hazards for children. Instead, choose furniture with soft, rounded edges. Make sure that area rugs have non-skid backing and that window blinds do not have cords that hang down and can cause choking.
10. Use Natural Materials and Images from Nature
Perhaps even more than adults, children are soothed by images and materials from nature. Make sure that your child's environment includes natural materials, non-toxic plants and artwork of nature scenes.
Children are often more sensitive to their surroundings than adults. It is up to the adults in their lives to help provide them with environments that are safe, soothing, and nurturing. Feng Shui can go a long way in helping you and your child create a space that supports young bodies, minds, and spirits.
Copyright 2016, Cathleen McCandless, All rights reserved.


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Police investigate missing funds at Philipsburg's Reliance Fire Company
A Philipsburg volunteer fire company appears to be the victim of forgery, police said.
According to state police at Philipsburg, a known male wrote 35 checks to himself between Jan. 28 and March 25. The checks were drawn on the Reliance Fire Company checking account and totaled $14,496.95.
Police said the perpetrator forged signatures on the checks.
Reliance President Dave Mollura said it is more complicated than that.
A financial officer with the company, whom he declined to name due to the ongoing nature of the case, allegedly wrote more $17,000 in checks, some to himself, some to cash. The loss wasn't noticed right away because the checks were supposed to be written. They were to be written to cover the company's bills.
"This has put us into a very serious financial situation," said Mollura, who became aware of the missing money in March, when the company received a shutoff notice for their electricity. That was when he said they realized the money wasn't the only thing missing. The mail was being taken, too, to hide the overdue notices for roughly $15,000 in unpaid bills.
Mollura said the person claims about $4,900 was repaid. Some of the money was put back in cash, but some was put back in a $600 check, which bounced. Mollura put the current figure for the loss at $11,973 in missing funds, plus costs for bank fees, late fees from creditors and other related expenses.
"I've been a member of this company since I was 16 years old," Mollura said. "I've held every office. Nothing like this has ever happened."
The company is bonded, and he says the department will get back the missing money.
The hard part will be getting by until the insurance pays out. The firetrucks roll to about 30 emergencies a month, and that takes about $1,900 in fuel. Outfitting one firefighter costs more than $12,000, Mollura said.
"We're going to hold on as long as we can," said Mollura, but the firemen are resorting to emergency fundraising in the meantime, with boot drives, car washes and pleas for help.
The case is the latest in a string of incidents where funds have been misappropriated from various Centre County agencies or businesses.
In 2013, Teresa Horton, of Bellefonte, pleaded guilty to taking $37,000 from the Philipsburg-Osceola wrestling boosters, and Doris Conner received two years probation for charging $17,000 in personal expenses to the Centre County United Way credit card.
In 2014, Dorothea Bird was charged with taking $30,000 from M&T Bank on Allen Street. Kelly Jo McMurtrie is set to enter a guilty plea on April 24 on charges she wrote $11,000 in checks to herself from November 2012 to November 2013 while the treasurer with Centre County Affordable Housing Coalition.
Former Penns Valley High School athletic director Donald Hosterman has been charged with misdemeanor counts of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property, which will go to formal arraignment Wednesday, while an investigation continues into his potential involvement in the disappearance of more than $20,000 belonging to the Mountain League.


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Why chess?
Academic Benefits
Chess in the the schools is important because we believe it directly contributes to academic performance. Chess makes kids smarter. It does so by teaching the following skills:
Focusing – Children are taught the benefits of observing carefully and concentrating. If they don't watch what is happening, they can't respond to it, no matter how smart they are.
Visualizing – Children are prompted to imagine a sequence of actions before it happens. We actually strengthen the ability to visualize by training them to shift the pieces in their mind, first one, then several moves ahead.
Thinking Ahead – Children are taught to think first, then act. We teach them to ask themselves "If I do this, what might happen then, and how can I respond?" Over time, chess helps develop patience and thoughtfulness.
Weighing Options – Children are taught that they don't have to do the first thing that pops into their mind. They learn to identify alternatives and consider the pros and cons of various actions.
Analyzing Concretely – Children learn to evaluate the results of specific actions and sequences. Does this sequence help me or hurt me? Decisions are better when guided by logic, rather than impulse.
Thinking Abstractly – Children are taught to step back periodically from details and consider the bigger picture. They also learn to take patterns used in one context and apply them to different, but related situations.
Planning – Children are taught to develop longer range goals and take steps toward bringing them about. They are also taught of the need to reevaluate their plans as new developments change the situation.
Juggling Multiple Considerations Simultaneously -Children are encouraged not to become overly absorbed in any one consideration, but to try to weigh various factors all at once.
None of these skills are specific to chess, but they are all part of the game. The beauty of chess as a teaching tool is that it stimulates children's minds and helps them to build these skills while enjoying themselves. As a result, children become more critical thinkers, better problem solvers, and more independent decision makers.
Social Benefits
In the schools, chess often serves as a bridge, bringing together children of different ages, races and genders in an activity they can all enjoy. Chess helps build individual friendships and also school spirit when children compete together as teams against other schools. Chess also teaches children about sportsmanship – how to win graciously and not give up when encountering defeat. For children with adjustment issues, there are many examples where chess has led to increased motivation, improved behavior, better self-image, and even improved attendance. Chess provides a positive social outlet, a wholesome recreational activity that can be easily learned and enjoyed at any age.
Taken from: http://www.kcfe.eu/sites/default/files/research_KCFE.pdf
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Supporting our Girls on the Run
by TruexCullins, June 1, 2012
TruexCullins is proud to be one of the many local sponsors of the Girls on the Run 5k Run/Walk event this Saturday June 9 at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction. This is a fitness celebration for the entire community and is the culmination of a 12-week program of experiential learning for pre-teen girls across the state.
Girls on the Run was founded in 1996 to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. In 1999 the program came to Vermont and now reaches more than 2,500 girls a year statewide.
The program promotes physical, emotional, social and intellectual development in 3rd through 8th grade girls. The girls complete a 12-week after-school program with a stronger sense of identity, greater self-confidence, a healthier body image and a better knowledge of what it means to be a member of a team and a community.
The season culminates with the Girls on the Run Vermont 5k Run/Walk event which is taking place this Saturday, June 9 at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction. This is a non-competitive (untimed), family-friendly event and everyone is welcome to attend, either as a runner or a spectator. Last year, more than 7,000 enthusiastic girls, families, and community members participated. You can sign up for this year's event using this link. Registration for adults is $20, children are $10, and a household of three or more may sign up for a family rate of $40.
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Church Wide Meal: Sunday, November 16 from 11 AM-1 PM in the Event Hall. Spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, corn, and dessert. Don't worry about lunch because we have the best wait staff in town! Cost is donations (all the money donated goes to help the Morocco Team).
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Earlier Event: November 16Baby Dedication Sunday
Later Event: November 22Zumbathon (Student Fundraiser)


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Boyan Slat came up with a solution to one of the world's biggest environmental challenges in his teenage bedroom. Now, The Ocean Cleanup is poised to change the world.
While most 16-year-old boys are obsessed with girls and sport, Boyan Slat was – and still is – obsessed with plastic. Specifically, the huge amount of plastic that ends up in the ocean every year.
This obsession with finding a solution to clean the ocean of plastic is what lead to Boyan setting up The Ocean Cleanup project.
"Human history is sort of a long list of things that were impossible and then were done," says Boyan in our video, in which he explains how his ground-breaking design works and reveals what drives him.
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These films explain better than I can why we need to change the way our economy works.
Green Economics is often referred to as Steady State Economics, but that phrase fails to express the essential concept of sufficiency, hence my preferred term: Neosufficiency – a deliberate antidote to Neoliberalism.
Dan O'Neill and Rob Dietz did express it very well in their book, Enough is Enough, in which they addressed resource use and waste, population, debt, wealth distribution, the money supply, the measurement of progress (what's wrong with GDP = everything), working hours, and much more, most of which concurs with my own view – which is why I made a film about it.
Tim Jackson's Prosperity without Growth is also essential reading, as is Clive Lord's Green Economics and The Citizen's Income. I was slightly less impressed by Paul Mason's Postcapitalism, because while he does a good job explaining the problem, he talks of the future in terms of existing economic theory, not climate game-changes, and doesn't seem fully to grasp the need for sufficiency.
At least, as the film shows, the Green Party do appear to get it. But sadly, before the 2015 UK election they fell into the trap of trying to hoover up disaffected socialists who'd been abandoned by New Labour, and this was a fundamental mistake.
I said on Facebook at the time: People can be forgiven for thinking that the green party are utopian socialists because they went all 'watermelon' (green on the outside, red all through) at the election. But actually green socialism is not at all utopian – that's the Marxists, and others who approach social construction from an equality perspective, (lovely though this would be if it was in our gift to deliver it – which, as we saw in Mind the Mind, it is unfortunately not)
Whatever the genetic / deliberate drivers may be in the left / right / selfish / altruistic / bonobo / chimp behaviour melange, we do know one thing: You need a BiG majority of people to sign up to any kind of rights-based utopia for it to work.
And they have to stay signed up – not undermine it with black economics, corruption or tyranny – which is what has aways eventually happened in every experiment to date – the reason being, of course, that too few humans are currently bonobo-activated.
So though I doubt there's a person on the planet who would not like to see a fully-functioning utopian socialist society in theory, there are far too many people who'd never trust their neighbours (or themselves for that matter) for it to be a bankable option – especially in the short time we have in which to manage a transition – which is why so few vote that way.
(This is all, of course, notwithstanding my support in The Urbal Fix for Victorian Utopian Socialism – during a time when utopianism really did have strong popular traction. If it was ever going to work it would have done so back then – as it almost did).
We've had lots of experiments in utopian socialism around the world, even a pretty good bash here in the UK – with the Welfare State and Keynsean economics on the back of the bonobo imperatives of WWII – but even this soft socialism could not survive the negative forces of globalisation, the resurgence of the right, and the plain shortsightedness (/selfishness?) of the left.
No, Green Socialism is not Red Socialism. It does in fact arrive at near-equality (or fairness, anyway), but not through any utopian egalitarian approach. It is not ideological, it is logical – rooted in ecological science, which tells us how animals exploit the niches they inhabit, and what happens when that niche changes, or begins to prove a limit to its inhabitants.
Fight or Flight – or Allright Mate?
Disputes between animals, and we are no exception, trigger three reactions, Fight, Flight or 'Allright Mate'. (People often forget the negotiation option).
Sadly, some Fighting in this case seems inevitable, but I would hope that all my readers would prefer one of the other two to a global conflagration. Flight is out of the question – Kepler 2.0 anyone? So that leaves 'Allright Mate'.
We will need to negotiate, first to conserve the one planet we do have, but second to accommodate a still-growing population.
Population and Global South Development
This is not as impossible as it sounds. Zero population growth is achievable, even inevitable, some say. Education, the emancipation of women and reductions in child mortality are already reducing the birth rate rapidly – in the global North, the rates are almost vertical.
Yes, I had kids – two actually.
Population is, of course, the elephant in the room. Paul Chafurka is very pessimistic in that link, and he may well be right. The UN suggests that human population (currently 6.9bn) will stabilise at 11-12 billion – but can the world support that many?
Well, modern estimates for human carrying capacity have ranged from 1 or 2 billion people living in prosperity (as targeted by Paul), to 33 billion people fed on minimum rations and using all suitable land for high-intensity food production. A recent report suggests we will be able to feed 9bn by 2050, while other scientists now believe that the carrying capacity of a world with a low-consumption, steady-state global economy may be about 12 billion. (The major challenge then will be demographic, but only while the senior generation survives).
In any event, the key is for population to stabilise – which it can only do if people stop producing large numbers of children (and living for longer too). Luckily, the evidence is that once people are confident that they'll be secure in retirement, and that their children are likely to outlive them, they settle for 2 or 3 kids – providing, that is, that they have access to birth control and the freedom to use it (this, of course, requires the emancipation of women, and an absence of controlling dogma).
So quite apart form the fact that the Global North has largely caused this problem, and has a moral responsibility to even up the score, it is essential that the Global South is allowed to continue to develop largely along conventional democratic lines for the time being (as Lord Giddens says in The Urbal Fix).
This is scary at first glance because consumption (and therefore emissions) in India, China and Brazil seem to rising exponentially, but when calculated per capita, compared with Europe and North America their footprints remain negligible, and will continue to be so until they finally approach western figures.
So what IS needed is a globally agreed contraction and convergence policy, to bring the South up (and the North down) to a permanently sustainable level – and this is what the UN and others are now working towards. There's a video clip on this topic here.
Some Pigs Are More Equal Than Others
So. We need a non-destructive global system for, eventually, a stable population, and this demands a zero or very low growth economy – which in turn calls for a much more equal society.
Wait – that was a big jump, you say – specially after you just shafted socialism.
Or was it?
Cartoon by Polyp – who did the cartoons for Enough is Enough – New "Think the book"
No, because, as Dan O'Neill quoted in Enough is Enough, "Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth, there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable" (Henry Wallach – Federal Reserve).
Ergo, if we prohibit growth, then large income levels will become intolerable. And mayhem will ensue – not just within our own borders (that would be bad enough), but on a global scale.
Like the chimpanzee – in fact all animals (the difference merely lies in how big a group we are selfish for) – we are born both ambitious and competitive. We simply can't help trying to get one over on our rivals, not least because wealth and territory in excess of sufficiency are status markers essential for successful breeding – another thing we're programmed to do.
So consumption is an evolutionary compulsion. And if we can't progress by one means or another we either get nasty, (conventional crime for the poor, corporate crime and corruption for the rich), or we just give up, and become an additional drain on the commons / resources of the community.
So we have to find ways to permit personal progress, which means that green equality cannot be flat (as Natalie Bennett accepts in the film).
But how to deliver this when there is no more new territory to colonise, and we can't let our progress be at the expense of others?
Two things: The first is to offer ways to out-perform your rival without damaging the village green, and the second is to find a way to facilitate 'planetary altruism,' (rather than traditional family or tribal altruism).
Does that demand a Marxist solution? Definitely not.
Marx did a brilliant job pointing out the flaws of Classical Capitalism in Das Kapital, but he offered very little of value as an alternative. His egalitarian, equality, rights-based utopia was instantly corrupted by the majority selfish gene gang, and always would have been.
Even the much more benign and British Welfare State was gradually eroded – so a flat, traditionally socialist society is not an option.
A triangular power structure based on fear worked for early hominids and tribes, and though we certainly don't want that, we have never lost our obsession with leaders (hence tyrants, religion and, heaven help us, their inevitable corollery; 'celebrities') as this, also, seems to be genetically programmed into us.
Actually, it would seem that a need for leadership is as ingrained as (or even buried within?) our personal / social paradigm. I'm constantly amazed by the way people will flock to anyone who shows even dim glimmer of charisma. And if you appear to be offering a vision for the future with some tasty cod philosophy, or mumbo jumbo chutney, they'll soon be carrying you aloft in shouty circles (I've even been there too, in my own humble-mumble way).
As Morris said in the Naked Ape, we do remain a tribal / social animal. Perhaps this is why so many people still seem to prefer some kind of pyramidal system (so mainly vote to the right) – they need to have leaders, who they will generally trust to make them better off. By securing new territory and resources on their behalf.
But globalisation (and more recently the internet) have put paid to the respect required for that trust.
So there needs to be a pyramid, but a low one. And people need to feel that they can move up the flanks, without that growth causing problems for the environment.
Can it be done? Yes. Because green philosophy sets social and personal development (learning, creativity, skills, cohesion, wellbeing) above economic growth (though it does allow some differential of wealth, because our animal natures demand it – but only within reasonable limits).
Achieving this 'sustainable equality' will, as we've seen, require majority agreement (as equality always did and will do) – which can only be reached through a universal understanding of a common threat (as in the UK in 1939).
It is time to stop aping the chimps, and learn to live like bonobos – which, if EO Wilson's Group Selection theory really is the dominant trait, may not be as hard as we fear.
Consumerism, Markets and Other Runaway Trains
I explored relationship between the economy, society and the environment in The Urbal Fix, and the conclusion was clear – the economy must be subservient to society, and society must be subservient to the biosphere. And that calls for neosufficient thinking.
Mickey Mouse Economics
The Three Legged Stool Economics
Target Economics
But neosufficient thinking demands the reigning-in not only of the consumer/casino capitalist model, but also of our own selfish impulses – many of which are hard wired for reasons outlined earlier.
So if we try to impose a command system which fixes the consumption problem, how to permit sufficient self-serving to prevent civil unrest, and possible resort to arms? How to remain competitive; encouraging innovation, entrepreneurialism and self-advancement – without damaging the biosphere?
This is always going to present a challenge, and no doubt there will always be territorial wars, but we can at least try to manage our commons effectively.
The term 'Tragedy of the Commons' (see Mind the Mind) was actually coined from Lloyd's work by Garrett Hardin, who later tried to adapt the term to 'Tragedy of the Unregulated Commons.'
And regulation remains the key today: Regulation to internalise the 'externalities' which are currently damaging our commons.
An externality is defined as an inevitable cost which is not reflected in a commercial transaction. It's also called a market failure.
Margaret Thatcher famously said 'you can't buck the market', and she was right. Command economics, especially the nationalisation of anything apart from a few complex systems (such as the rail network) which need to be run as a single entity, but are too important to be handed over to a single private owner, only results in stultification – as we found in the 1970s.
The market has proved itself to be the only reliable way to drive an economy – otherwise we are back to Marx and the corruption and stagnification that red socialism caused. (And we do need to drive the economy. Slowly).
But you can skew a market by failing properly to regulate, and thus externalising important the costs. And in deregulating so many markets, Thatcher and her neoliberal followers created externalities on a scale never before seen. Which are now about to cook us all.
At the moment, when we buy a product or a service we do not pay a true price for it. We pay what the producer, wholesalers and retailer feel they can persuade us to pay (including whatever margin they feel they deserve). But we almost never pay what at good is really worth – in terms of the transaction with society and the biosphere as a whole.
This is because we're not paying for many of the social and environmental costs that were involved in the creation of that product, and they're not paying for problems associated with its use or disposal either. But even more seriously, we are very seldom paying a realistic price for the raw materials we use.
The assumption has always been that the earth is huge and there's always plenty more. So the price is set by a market which effectively assumes an infinite supply. But there's not an infinite supply of anything on Earth (except sunlight). So the price should frequently be far far higher. After all, how much will the last ever bucket of coal in the world be worth? Or the last ever cup of fresh water?
A recent United Nations report found that almost no industry would be profitable today if all market failures were internalised. But as these failures must be mended if we are to survive, we need to find some way to internalise all relevant costs – a way will permit a rapid evolution from damage and waste to permanently sustainable business models.
The world at large still largely thinks that the economy is paramount, and financial growth, which is supposed to deliver some semblance of wealth to all by trickle-down effect (but which in fact only benefits a few) is the only way out of the current crisis.
But that belief must dwindle as the intractability of the situation becomes more clear, and as we saw in Enough is Enough, the negative effects of measuring progress though only GDP (which counts wars, famines and diseases as beneficial because they appear to boost the economy) is compounding the problem.
Many activists still believe that society should be considered equal to the environment, saying 'if we fix the ills of society, then the environment will be healed.' But although we are slowly making progress towards social justice, human rights, gender equality, free speech, the eradication of poverty and so on – and these things must remain a priority whatever steps we do take – we need urgently to recognise that these issues are also intractable (note how little real progress has been made around the world in the last two centuries) and are not likely to be fixed, globally, within the next thirty years – and even this may be more time than we actually have.
If we try to fix the environment by fixing society we could be in real trouble. Because the environment – (and that doesn't mean bird-watching and nice country walks – it means food, which requires healthy soil and pollinators, and water and air and many other things that nature provides for us that we take for granted, and which are seldom internalised in financial transactions) – is in trouble.
Those things we take for granted are called Ecosystem Services, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005, identified the following ones.
At the moment it is mainly only the cultural services which are partially internalised in our system, and although recognised, the others are not given economic values which protect them against detrimental exploitation or co-lateral damage.
The United Nations established the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecological Services in October 2011. The IPBES works alongside the IPCC (Climate Change), but we seldom here much from them.
I wonder why – because without the ecological services the environment provides, there will be no society and no economy to fix. As Jonathan Porrit says in the film "It doesn't mean to say there won't be lots of human beings left over after a 6 degrees centigrade rise, but I assure you they won't be having much of a time."
And we might add that the social breakdown implied in that 'not much of a time' is likely to make fixing social problems even more difficult, (specially if the men with the guns take over). So we need to fix the environment first – and quickly, and if we are smart, we may even manage to fix some of the major social problems in the process.
But how exactly do we move away from 'mickey mouse' and the faux-balanced 'stool' to hit a 'target' economic system which puts a proper value on these services?
Well, one way would be to establish a Marxist-inspired control economy (as was employed in the USSR), but this is almost certain to result, as it usually does, in a stagnent rather than a steady state economy.
The only other available method at our disposal (unless someone knows something I don't) is market force.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a free market system, as long as prices accurately reflect the real and total costs (which they currently don't – and worse; the profits always go to those at the top of the economic food chain, supermarket shareholders, for example, instead of the farmer trying to invest in greener growing).
I can think of only two ways to embrace market forces but manage to avoid the two chief areas of externality – damage to the environment, and damage to the poor and dispossessed.
Damage Taxes and the Citizens Income
I have set out some proposals on how Damage Taxes could be introduced strategically, via the introduction of Tim Lang's Omnistandards food labelling idea, in Thought for Food.
But controlling consumption is only half of the story – the poor and disenfranchised also need to be protected against damage. The current system – where some languish on benefits that the community can ill afford, some work stupid hours yet still need to be supported by the state, while others work stupid hours for good money but have no time to spend it wisely, and a final group amass ridiculous wealth and capacity to inflict damage – cannot be healthy.
In theory, this protection could be internalised into a damage tax regime, but I suspect it would not be sufficiently robust. I think a better solution would be the introduction of the Citizen's Income.


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Wed Feb 23, 2011
Perhaps I should have waited until the morning to post this especially when tonight was the first night at bootcamp. I'm not going to lie, it was hard but they say it might get easier.
Seems to me I can't remember zipping up a pair of size 16 jeans even though it wasn't that long ago. Things become difficult when you put on weight and some things that seem effortless to some become a big ordeal. Take putting on a pair of socks for instance, it is a job, I have to sit my left cheek on the bed and raise my left foot to put on my sock, then reverse and sit my right cheek on the bed and lift my right leg and repeat. I had to recently go out and purchase a pair of knee high boots so I was able to grab the tops of them to pull them on with ease. Another thing when you are 4 foot 11 inches and your height isn't from your waist to you foot, driving becomes difficult when the seat needs to be put back to accommodate a few pounds. Oh and the all embarrassing moment is when any restaurant uses captain chairs and you get up and the chair gets up with you.
Well apparently this UFIT boot camp is going to kick me back into shape, hum, I don't remember what shape I use to be either as I'm taking on this pear shape lately.
My daughter has encouraged me to join and I'm going to stick with it for us both. I have 5 weeks to fit and 5 weeks of healthy eating and making life changes is on the rise. I might of embarrassed myself tonight but I'm going back on Friday to do it again.
Go Grandma Go!
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Cindy Hughlett's debut single from her new album will be "Here To Eternity" and is shipping to radio this month and will feature guest vocalist Marty Raybon. The song was co-written by Cindy, Chad Roland and Jeff Stansberry several years ago. The trio had finished performing several shows together in Texas and sat down and penned the song prior to Chad and Jeff's return flight to Nashville, TN. The single is the first to be released from the new album, 'True North'.
The new release will be delivered to Christian Radio via Millennium Music Group and Canyon Creek targeting Christian Country and Southern Gospel formats.
Cindy has over 20 years of music ministry and her music career has been honored with accolades such Album of the Year, Female Vocalist and Song of the Year along with several 2015 Grammy Considerations.
Marty has produced a remarkable list of career accomplishments which include multiple number singles, top selling albums, CMA, ACM, IBMA, and GRAMMY Awards.
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The culture of your organization will tell your customers how important they and their concerns are within your organization. Regardless of the functional area you work in, (sales, operations, finance, administration, or product development) outstanding customer service is the responsibility of all employees. A secret to effectively resolving customer concerns is making customer loyalty everyone's responsibility.
Unfortunately too many organizations are set up such that only a select few get to talk or meet their customers. Hearing the intonation in a customer's voice over the phone helps everyone hear what the pain point is for your customer. Interpersonal, verbal, and non-verbal expressions are all picked up when in direct contact with your customers and aid an organization in creating excellent customer service.
When a customer concern arises time becomes your asset and liability. Rarely, unless an established process for resolution is agreed to, is allowing time to pass by an asset in resolving a customer concern.
When a concern is shared via email or voicemail here are 3 points to consider:
- If they emailed you, phone them back and if they phoned you, tell them you would like to meet them face to face.
- In other words, sincerely escalate the boldness quotient of communication-based on how they have decided to communicate with you.
- Call or meet before you have collected all the facts and before you have built up your hypothetical impervious defense system.
- Listening is step 1 and the sooner you listen the more a concern can be contained and resolved.
- Those that choose to arm themselves with 100% of the facts and 100% of all the solutions prior to communicating with the customer fail to realize that the time that that takes greatly enhances the concern the customer has and entrenches the customer on their position.
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Fishing is a way of life for us here at the Lobster Shack, we live, breathe and sleep it and have done so for the past 60 years.
Our seal tour will take you through the Cervantes Islands, where you will see the Australian Sea Lion.
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Cervantes is just a two hour coastal drive north of Perth on the new Indian Ocean Drive.
When it comes to experiencing a different way of life, Lobster Shack is here to show it to you in all its natural wonder. All our lives, we have been focused on providing the complete lobster and fishing experience with our tranquil fishing trips, our stunning meals and our sightseeing tours. Located on the lovely beach front of Cervantes, a mere two hours drive up the north coast from Perth and just 17km from the famous Pinnacles National Park, our family owned service will provide you with something that will stay in the memory and last a lifetime.
Such is our commitment to our fishing tours in Perth and our lobster-infused food creations, we were awarded the Bronze medal in the Tourist Attraction and Food Excellence in Food Tourism Award in 2013. Our continual passion and dedication to our services is why you can experience the complete lobster experience – from both our deep sea fishing charters and our cooking pots!
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From 11am to 3pm, every day of the week, our lobster shack is open. Right from the boat of our fishing trips, we provide you with a host of delicious and tasty lobster meals. Made on the spot, we will give your tastebuds a fresh flavour, right from the heart of the sea. It is an outwardly and wholesome encounter.
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When you hear the word holy, what do you think of? Maybe you see a picture of Jesus being lifted into the clouds? Maybe you hear a choir singing? Or perhaps you just think of white, the white that washed away our sin on the cross of Calvary?
Now, don't get me wrong, that is awesome. It's the ultimate demonstration of holiness, the reason our lives have meaning right now in Christ. But I'm going to be that guy and take a slightly different approach.
The word holy, in the Old Testament, comes from the Greek word qodesh, which means to be sacred, or set apart. When the Bible talks about God being holy, it's not only speaking about God being pure or perfect, it's talking about how God is set apart, how He's different from us and this world.
Leviticus 19:2 says, "Be Holy for I am Holy." (NIV) This means that we, too, are called to be different, to be set apart.
Imagine you walk into a small, dusty town. It's not empty, but you can see that it's in dire need of a new paint job. To be honest, it's a mess physically, too. You walk around for a bit and gather in your surroundings. A few doors hang off their hinges and you can't see through the mucky windows, but you're sure the houses are just as run down on the inside as they are out. You'll be staying here from now on; it's your new home. You've been sent to re-build the town into something new, but you're not worried. You have everything you need, you know exactly what you're doing and, besides, you have a guide with you for every situation possible. This place is going to be the talk of the country. You have big plans – the future is here! But then your enthusiasm starts to fade…you slump into your office day after day, and soon enough, ten years have passed. Nothing. 20 years, nope. 50 years, nothing at all.
Eventually, you die. The world is no better place than it was before. You made no difference. You were just a slacker.
How often do we, as Christians, fall into the trap of becoming a slacker? Of knowing someone isn't saved, but not praying for the opportunity to witness, or perhaps not even looking for the opportunity!
We are sent with our purpose. It's clear. We walk through our mission field: our friends and family. We know what to do. And I challenge you to do it: to be different, to be holy.


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Refresher on managing helicoverpa in chickpea
There is a technical brochure available at the QPIF website, which provides a comprehensive overview of sampling and the use of economic thresholds to guide decision making. The brochure can be accessed via this link: (http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/dpi/hs.xsl/26_6821_ENA_HTML.htm).
In this article, I wanted to discuss a couple of the recommendations which some growers and agronomists have found a bit challenging. The first is adjusting larval density estimates to focus on those larvae that will cause damage.
1) Excluding very small larvae from threshold calculations. Estimating the number of very small larvae (VS) is time consuming to do in the field, and the accuracy of the estimate can be affected by the age and condition of the crop (figure 1). Whilst VS larvae are indicative of the size of the potentially damaging population in 2-3 weeks time, they are not relevant to a decision about controlling the current population to prevent yield loss.
Figure 1. Comparison of visual, beat sheet and absolute sampling for helicoverpa larvae on (a) dryland chickpea at late flower - pod fill, and (b) irrigated chickpea at mid flower to early pod set. VS=very small, S=small, SM=small-medium, ML=medium-large, L=large larvae. (Source: Melina Miles, 2004)
2) Applying a 30% mortality factor to small larvae. Essentially, applying mortality is acknowledging that a proportion of the population will not cause any yield loss because they do not survive to become medium and large larvae. Natural mortality is likely a result of dislodgement from the plant, disease, cannibalism, and predation. Remember that 80-90% of crop damage is caused by medium and large larvae.
This recommendation is based on trial work, largely in CQ, in which we followed infestations of helicoverpa and determined what proportion of the starting population of small larvae survived to large. The level of survival was variable between fields, but on average we determined that 70% of small larvae died before they reached large. In making a recommendation to include natural larval mortality we have been conservative, using only 30% mortality (the highest level of survival we found at any of the sites we monitored).
In practice, in calculating how many larvae per m2 are likely to contribute to yield loss in the crop if left untreated, the following equation be used:
Where S = small, M= medium and L= large larvae
3) One well timed spray should be enough. The timing of a spray should control larvae before they cause damage, but not simply be applied if larvae in the crop exceed threshold. Infestations of helicoverpa in vegetative and flowering crops have been shown to cause no yield loss in chickpea.
A spray may need to be applied during late flowering if targeting small and medium larvae to prevent them causing damage to a podding crop when they are medium-large. However, treating a population to prevent damage to a vegetative or flowering crop offers no yield benefit.
Trial results show that, in chickpea, helicoverpa larvae cause very little damage to buds and flowers (Figure 2). This is quite different behaviour from that seen in mungbeans, for example, where larvae show a clear preference for buds and flowers. Chickpea leaves appear more palatable to helicoverpa larvae than that of mungbeans.
Figure 2. Feeding preferences of small and large helicoverpa larvae on chickpea.
These observations are supported by yield data from time of spraying trials which shows no significant benefit in yield from applying a spray at flowering. Yield loss starts to occur when larvae are present in podding and filling crops (Figure 3).
Figure 3. The impact of helicoverpa on chickpea yield when controlled at different stages of crop maturity. Bars with the same letter are not significantly different from each other.
Only one application of Steward® (indoxacarb) per crop, with a cut off for use of 15 September in CQ, and 15 October in cooler regions. Currently there is no evidence of resistance to indoxacarb in helicoverpa populations from cotton, but there has been no testing of larvae from CQ, or from chickpea. I would encourage you to make collections from chickpea to send to Dr Louise Rossiter, NSW DPI, Narrabri. Contact Louise on 02 6799 2428 or email@example.com.
Revised ready-reckoner for calculating the economic threshold
Economic Thresholds (larvae/m2) for Conventional Pesticides
Cross-reference the cost of control versus the crop value to determine the economic threshold (ET).
If the cost of control = $25/ha and the crop value =$450/t, the ET = 2.8
If the cost of control = $10/ha and the crop value =$550/t, the ET = 0.9
The lower the cost of control, and the higher the crop value, the lower the threshold.
(Table compiled by Gordon Cumming, Pulse Australia)
Your opinions and experience are important, so leave a comment on this article or helicoverpa management issues.
Maybe you would like to respond to the following questions:
- How are you calculating your economic thresholds? Are you using the equation suggested by QPIF, or is it close enough to 2 or 3 that you are just using that?
- Is the revised ready-reckoner any easier to use?
- Would a threshold calculator be a useful tool? i.e. where you put sampling and crop data in (larval number and size, grain price, cost of control) and it calculates the threshold.


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About inspire
Inspire© is a Web-based negotiation support system. It allows for the specification of preferences, assessment of offers, management of communication, graphical display of the negotiation's progress, post-agreement analysis, and other functions. The system is flexible and can be used as:
- a game,
- a demonstration decision support system (DSS),
- a negotiation simulator,
- a demonstration negotiation support system (NSS), and
- a research and training tool.
Using Inspire requires following a sound approach to negotiation that has been proposed by experts, has been used by over 8,000 users, and is the cornerstone of negotiation analysis. There are three basic phases of a negotiation:
- preparation,
- conduct of negotiation, and
- post-settlement.
Specific terms used in negotiation analysis and in Inspire are explained in our glossary. Answers to frequently asked questions are in the FAQ page.
Five ways to use Inspire
- Game
As a game, Inspire provides an opportunity to practice and sharpen your bargaining skills. For inexperienced negotiators, Inspire's clear steps provide a guide through the negotiation process. For more experienced practitioners, the system allows the player to graphically track the development of the negotiation through numerous rounds of offers and counter-offers. You can elaborate your arguments for your position through the message facility.
- DSS for the pre-negotiation phase
One of the key features of Inspire is that it can act as an individual decision support system. Before beginning the actual negotiation, players must consider the importance of each issue as well as the acceptability of each option within an issue. This forces the negotiator to define her/his preferences over issues and to consider what trade-offs may be required. The system also presents estimates of the utility of the various combinations of options and overall utility of complete packages.
- Negotiation simulator
Inspire can also act as a simulator to prepare you for a particular negotiation. The system is designed so that cases may be entered by users. When faced with an upcoming negotiation, the user can engage in mock negotiations to understand how the issues may emerge once the bargaining has begun in earnest. One could even use Inspire to parallel an ongoing negotiation. After each offer the opponent's offer could be entered to understand what progress, if any, is being made and what trade-offs are emerging.
- NSS for real-life negotiations
Inspire can also act as an NSS and support and facilitate real-life negotiations. The system is designed so that two parties who can agree on the issues and the possible options for those issues can negotiate over the Web. This is an obvious advantage when the parties are widely separated and may have difficulty arranging meetings. Using Inspire is also helpful when post-settlement improvement is likely.
- Research and training tool
Finally, Inspire has an international dimension. The current implementation of the system links players from around the world. This reflects the current reality of economic organizations. Through Inspire users can study and practice international negotiation involving people from diverse cultures to help understand how different values and expectations may influence the negotiation process.
Using Inspire
There are three basic phases that are usually followed in any negotiation:
- Preparation for the negotiation, during which you assess the situation, identify the stakeholders, and develop a very clear understanding of the issues and interests involved. To help you through this phase, Inspire provides you with a detailed description of your negotiation case, and then it guides you through a sequence of steps in which you state the importance of each issue and each alternative. This phase is also called preference elicitation. The information obtained is used by Inspire in the next phase to give you helpful feedback when constructing new offers or evaluating your counterpart's offers.
- The actual negotiation phase during which you and your counterpart exchange a series of messages and offers, creating a suitable atmosphere for the negotiation, presenting your side of the case, and bargaining until you reach an agreement. Inspire gives you menus by which you can construct offers, and boxes for messages. It further supports you by displaying a rating (score) beside each offer based on your preference information from the first phase, and by plotting a graph of the history of both sides of your negotiation (entirely from your perspective).
- The post-settlement period during which you have the option of renegotiating a settlement that you have already reached. Based on the preference information provided by both you and your counterpart, Inspire determines whether the settlement you have reached is an "optimal" one in the sense that neither of you can improve it without loss to the other side. (This is also known as a "non-dominated" or "Pareto-optimal" agreement.) If Inspire can suggest better packages than the one you have agreed upon, you are shown some of the possibilities and given the option of continuing the negotiation until you reach another settlement.


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It is with great pride and elation that we thank our community for rallying and uniting for a common purpose. Durham, Freeport and Pownal showed our only distinct separation is the boundary lines of our respective townships.
Thank you all for uniting with such passion, revitalizing the "Good Old Days" of our historic Town Hall meetings where the voice of the people requested that our elected School Board officials of RSU 5 carry out the wishes of the community they represent. It is in this tradition we have asked not to contract bus services for RSU 5, but rather vote for Option 1.
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