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Steve Haskin's Belmont Recap: Wonder Woman
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Although "Johnny V" has been Pletcher's first-call rider for years, it took a last-minute decision to run the filly and a madcap jockey scramble to bring them together for the 139th Belmont Stakes.
Because of their longtime relationship and numerous frustrations and disappointments in the classics, you had the feeling that when their moment did come it would be with great fanfare.
But how could that be achieved? Pletcher has never been known to evoke such fervor, especially from the New York fans. Because of his never-ending arsenal of stakes winners, his stoic personality in the public arena, and his unprecedented domination of New York racing, he would need a special horse to reach into people's hearts and allow them to see the soul that lies within Team Pletcher's machine-like organization.
Rags to Riches was such a horse, and when Pletcher provided the final leg of the Triple Crown with a much-needed shot in the arm by announcing his $1.9-million glamour queen would take on the mighty Curlin and other top colts in the 1 1/2-mile classic, he lit the fuse that would set off a raucous round of fireworks at Belmont Park June 9.
Four days after the decision by Pletcher and owners Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith to run Rags to Riches, there she was, charging down the stretch in the Belmont locked in furious combat with the brilliant, tough, and determined Curlin, whose meteoric rise to stardom was one victory away from taking on legendary proportions.
The crowd of 46,870, the smallest since 1996, was on its feet as the feisty filly and the brawny colt looked each other in the eye, neither budging an inch. One of the great battles in Triple Crown history was on.
There is a saying attributed to both Eleanor Roosevelt and Carl Sandburg: "A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is."
Curlin put Rags to Riches in scalding water down the Belmont stretch, but it was he who got burned.
Rags to Riches, who had stumbled badly at the start and then raced wide the entire way, took the outside route, while Curlin, who had saved ground, split horses inside her with a quick burst of speed. Now, as they honed in on each other, it was time to see which one had the strongest will. It was a classic male vs. female confrontation, something you don't see in most other sports.
Rags to Riches' powerful four-wide move had enabled her to outrun Curlin and establish a slight advantage turning for home. Curlin fought back, as both horses switched to their right lead on cue. Velazquez threw a wide cross on the reins to gather the filly, while Robby Albarado went to a right-handed whip, causing Curlin to duck in, away from the filly. When Albarado switched to a series of left-handed whips, Curlin came back out and bumped Rags to Riches. But the filly, who has been manhandling humans since she was a baby, was not about to be intimidated by the powerful chestnut. Albarado continued to hit Curlin left-handed, and again he came out and bumped Rags to Riches, who again shrugged it off.
Velazquez resorted to only a single left-handed whip, then switched and gave her one right-handed whip. Her blood was up, and Velazquez realized she needed little encouragement. Although Curlin kept digging in and battling back, Rags to Riches refused to relinquish her head advantage. As she eased in slightly and Curlin again came out into her, the two were leaning all over each other as the wire approached.
Most horses, especially fillies, would have been intimidated by the contact from a bruiser like Curlin, but Rags to Riches seemed to relish this test of superiority. Velazquez now was just waving the whip and leaving it all up to her. With sheer grit, determination, and tenacity, Rags to Riches kept her head advantage to the finish following a sizzling final quarter-mile in :23.83.
The daughter of A.P. Indy out of Better Than Honour, by Deputy Minister, had become the first filly in 102 years to win the Belmont, joining Ruthless, who won the inaugural running in 1867, and Tanya, in 1905. Rags to Riches' half-brother, Jazil, captured the Belmont last year for Pletcher's former colleague and close friend Kiaran McLaughlin. Both Pletcher and McLaughlin once worked as assistants to D. Wayne Lukas.
Throughout the grandstand, the disciplined Pletcher machine unraveled in a burst of emotion during the stretch run. Burdened with an 0-for-28 record in Triple Crown races, Pletcher unleashed a flurry of eight short jabs into an invisible opponent, while urging on his filly: "Come on, baby; come on, baby," he pleaded. As she crossed the finish line, he jumped up, flinging his fist in the air, and then kissed his wife Tracy, knocking her hat off.
Pletcher's rush of adrenaline was able to briefly overpower the body aches and fever that had knocked him out for two days. So bad was his flu, he awoke five times the night before the Belmont and had to change his T-shirt each time because he was sweating so profusely. His stable crew realized how sick he was when he didn't show up at the barn Saturday morning.
Rags to Riches' exercise rider, Lauren Robson, watched in a nearby box with Velazquez' wife, Leona, and her family and Velazquez' longtime friend and agent, Hall of Fame rider Angel Cordero Jr.
"There were drinks flying everywhere," Robson said. "Leona was in tears right away and she put me in tears. It was so great because Todd and Johnny have been together for so long."
Assistant trainer Seth Benzel, who has 90 horses at Saratoga, watched the race on TV at home. "I didn't stop shaking until 1 o'clock last night," he said the next morning. "When they came down the stretch, I was out of my seat riding her as hard as anybody. I couldn't shake it off after the race and called my mom and dad. She is just so special. I can't wait for her to get up here; we'll have a regal stall waiting for her."
Watching at Churchill Downs was assistant Mike McCarthy, who has been with Rags to Riches for most of her career, and in fact was her trainer of record for her first two starts this year while Pletcher was serving a suspension.
"I can't even put into words what it was like watching her," McCarthy said. "At the three-eighths pole I kept thinking this is really going to happen. And then at the quarter pole I thought, 'This is it. This is what we've been working for.' After it was over there was a feeling of closure. We had made history, and Todd finally had his classic. That meant a lot to us."
Later on, Robson called McCarthy and Rags to Riches' former exercise rider Justin Curran. "Oh, my God, we'll never see a horse like this again," she told Curran. "I wish you could have been here. You guys did such a good job with her; you brought her up from the start. I'll give her a pat for you."
Cordero won his share of Triple Crown races during his career, but this one was extra special. It was Cordero who discovered Velazquez from a videotape of the apprentice rider in action in Puerto Rico. Cordero brought Velazquez to America and mentored the young rider, eventually taking over Velazquez' book following his retirement as a jockey and as a trainer, and hooked him up with Pletcher as his No. 1 rider. From the time Velazquez came to this country, he has looked up to Cordero as a father figure.
Since the union of Cordero, Velazquez, and Pletcher, the three have formed a bond that goes far beyond that of agent, jockey, and trainer. It is about friendship and loyalty. Cordero, who also exercises horses for Pletcher, needed both desperately after the tragic hit-and-run death of his wife, Marjorie, in January 2001.
"Johnny and Todd came into my life at the right time and they both helped me deal with my loss," Cordero said. "I love my career, but I lost half of my heart when my wife died. Other than my kids I didn't have anything I wanted anymore. I was too old to still be a good athlete and I knew I'd never find a woman like her, so, to me, life was over. That was the end of me. Time may help the wounds feel a little better, but it never heals them. It's been almost seven years since she died, and I still miss her and I still cry for her. God gave me a great career and a great woman, but it was my kids and Johnny and Todd that kept my life together."
The Pletcher organization has been perceived by most to be fueled by nothing more than wins and dollar signs, but it took a special filly to show the world that there is a passion and a love for the horse that is first and foremost behind its success.
The story of the 2007 Belmont actually began with the pop heard round the racing world. When trainer Carl Nafzger and owner James Tafel stuck the proverbial pin in the Belmont balloon, withdrawing Street Sense from the race, it all but deflated the third leg of the Triple Crown. Without the winner of the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont looked to be a mundane affair with Preakness Stakes winner Curlin taking on a small group of challengers.
"I told Mr. Tafel that some people are going to love us and some people are going to hate us," Nafzger said. "We were going to the Triple Crown, and I didn't think they were going to beat this colt. I got cocky, but when Curlin kicked my butt, and he did kick my butt, it changed things. I was so let down after the Preakness."
Street Sense's defection left Curlin as the sole headliner in the Belmont, much to the dismay of racing fans, the New York Racing Association, and ABC, which had seen its Triple Crown storyline disappear in the closing jump of the Preakness. Then the big showdown angle evaporated as well. All that remained was Curlin, racing's budding superstar whose main competition looked to be the indefatigable Hard Spun, the only other combatant from the Derby and Preakness still looking for a fight.
When Hard Spun's trainer, Larry Jones, and owner Rick Porter agreed to replace jockey Mario Pino, it set wheels in motion in several directions. Velazquez, who had ridden Circular Quay in the Derby and Preakness, and who had never been aboard Rags to Riches, had little hope of lining up a mount from Pletcher in the Belmont, so he signed on to ride Coolmore Lexington Stakes and Lone Star Derby winner Slew's Tizzy.
When Rags to Riches' regular rider, Garrett Gomez, had a chance to replace Pino on Hard Spun, his agent, Ron Anderson, asked Pletcher about the filly's Belmont status.
"Ron came by and said, 'What are you going to do with the filly?' " Pletcher said. "I said I really don't think we're going to run if Street Sense, Curlin, and Hard Spun all run. I thought Street Sense was going to run at that stage. Ron was able to buy a couple of days, but he was getting pressure to make a commitment, so I told him, 'You've got to do what you have to do, and I can't blame you. I don't want to hold you up.' "
Anderson took the mount on Hard Spun, but when Street Sense was withdrawn and Rags to Riches eventually was declared a starter the day before entries were drawn, he went to Jones to survey the situation, and Jones said he intended for Gomez to ride Hard Spun as agreed upon. That opened the door for Cordero and Velazquez, but they too had made a commitment and needed to be released by Slew's Tizzy's trainer, Greg Fox.
"I wasn't surprised when they came to me," Fox said. "It's very much a part of racing, and I told them they could ride the filly and I would make an adjustment. John Velazquez and Todd Pletcher are part of the same family as far as I'm concerned. How can you not ride for your family?"
So, Velazquez somehow had found his way aboard Rags to Riches. Destiny seemed to be directing Pletcher and Velazquez, who was 0-for-20 in Triple Crown races, to their first classic victory.
How appropriate it would be to have Rags to Riches get the albatross off Pletcher's back. When Lukas was getting hammered by the media for being 0-for-12 in the Kentucky Derby, despite his unprecedented success in other races, it took a filly, Winning Colors, to break his losing streak. After that, the floodgates opened for Lukas.
Pletcher felt Rags to Riches, who was bred in Kentucky by Skara Glen Stables, was special the minute he laid eyes on her. "I saw her at the Keeneland September yearling sale and loved her then," he said. "She had a great head and a smart eye. She was very well balanced and athletic-looking, with a great walk. You see all that and then you look down at the pedigree page and you say, 'Wow!' We got her in at Churchill in early April last year and started breezing her Derby week. Just watching her the very first time she breezed, it was obvious she was pretty special."
Pletcher, Tabor, and Smith knew what they had right from the start from the glowing reports from David Scanlon, who broke the filly at his training center in Ocala, Fla. "We used to call her the runway model, because she was all legs and absolutely gorgeous," Scanlon said. "But she had her own attitude. She was a dominant female. When you walked in the barn, she'd have her head sticking out, and when you went to pet her she'd stomp her feet and start squealing. She had her own regimen and you did things to fit her schedule. Basically, she wanted to go to the track, eat, do her deal, and be left alone. You didn't want to get in a fight with her; you just wanted to work out an agreement. But once she got on the racetrack, she'd just float out there. She was such a beautiful moving filly."
After finishing an excellent fourth in her career debut, in which she broke slowly, dropped back to last, and had to go seven-wide, she was sent to Saratoga, but suffered a setback that required time, and was shipped to Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky.
When Rags to Riches returned late last year, she was ready to conquer the world. But she was still quite a handful, so Pletcher contacted Diane Volz, who has been doing physical therapy on Pletcher's horses for years, and asked her to order another CHI infrasound machine, which she hooked up above Rags to Riches' stall.
"The first time I worked on her she came at me with her mouth wide open," Volz recalled. "But with the CHI she's come around and mellowed. The CHI stimulates the alpha waves--or early sleep waves--and helps them settle down and relax."
Rags to Riches broke her maiden at Santa Anita in spectacular fashion by six lengths, after which she won the Las Virgenes Stakes with an amazing wide run throughout. That was followed by easy victories in the Santa Anita Oaks and Kentucky Oaks, the latter over a sealed muddy track.
Then came her unscheduled quest for greatness in the Belmont, which drew a field of seven that also included Santa Anita Derby winner Tiago; Imawildandcrazyguy, a fast-closing fourth in the Kentucky Derby; and Preakness fourth-place finisher C P West.
Pletcher's Belmont day wasn't going very well, as he suffered defeats in the Birdstone Stakes with A. P. Arrow; the True North Handicap with Keyed Entry; the Just a Game Stakes with Wait a While; and the Woody Stephens Breeders' Cup Stakes with Deadly Dealer. His fortunes changed with Cotton Blossom's victory in the Acorn Stakes, but he suffered another defeat when English Channel was beaten a head in the Manhattan Handicap.
Weak and rubber-legged, Pletcher had one more race to go. "A Belmont victory would certainly pick my head up," he said as he headed to the paddock.
Any thoughts of victory were diminished at the start when Rags to Riches stumbled coming out of the gate. "My heart stopped," Velazquez said. "The first thing I thought of was, hopefully, she doesn't pull a shoe and get hurt."
If Pletcher was sick before the race, he had to feel downright awful after watching the break. "I was absolutely devastated," he said. "I was so upset I threw my binoculars down. I thought I had blown it by running her."
Rags to Riches never missed a beat, but was in danger of going extremely wide when C P West floated Slew's Tizzy out toward the middle of the track. Velazquez was able to move in several paths, but was still some four or five wide. Down the backstretch, C P West still led through dawdling fractions of :24.74, :50.14, and 1:15.32, while racing three paths off the rail. Rags to Riches, sent off at 4-1, was seven wide, with Curlin, the even-money favorite, tucked in on the inside behind C P West and Slew's Tizzy and directly inside Hard Spun.
Hard Spun, who was under a tight hold by Gomez down the backstretch and running more than five seconds slower than he had in the Preakness, had Curlin bottled up. After a mile in a lethargic 1:40.23, Gomez made his move on Hard Spun, with Curlin still biding his time waiting for an opening. Rags to Riches made steady progress on the far outside and moved up to challenge. Just then, Albarado, with a watchful eye on the filly, shot Curlin through a gap between C P West and Hard Spun and seemed to have beaten Rags to Riches to the punch. But Rags to Riches also surged and charged past Curlin by nearly a half-length. However, the Preakness winner battled back and the race for greatness was on.
With the crowd cheering wildly, Rags to Riches, in receipt of a five-pound sex allowance, won by a head in 2:28.74, with a game Curlin finishing 5 1/2 lengths ahead of Tiago, who was compromised by a severe bumping incident with Imawildandcrazyguy at the break, the slow pace, traffic problems, and a dreadful stay in the pre-race monitoring barn, which necessitated his having to be taken outside to graze. It was another 5 1/2 lengths back to Hard Spun in fourth.
Not only did Rags to Riches come home her final quarter in :23 4/5, she closed her final half in a sensational :47 4/5 after racing 4- to 5-wide the entire way. Slow pace or not, that is motoring at the end of a mile and a half race. And hats off to Curlin, who ran yet another sensational race. It is amazing what this colt has accomplished in such a short period of time.
The ovation for Rags to Riches swelled to a glorious crescendo as Velazquez brought her up the stretch and saluted the crowd. "As a rule, we're probably the ones everybody's rooting against," Pletcher said. "But this reception was unbelievable." Velazquez said it gave him goose bumps.
"That was unreal," Tabor said. "What a filly. I have so much confidence in her. I always thought she could do it."
Trainer Steve Asmussen said he was "very proud" of Curlin, calling him a throwback. "I can't say enough about him; he's a competitor," he said. "And she's a deserving classic winner. To lose one the exact same way we won one, we better learn how to take it."
So ended one of the most memorable Triple Crowns of all time, concluding with one of the greatest Belmonts ever run. Rags to Riches had won it for the ladies, beating a rough and tough male at his own game. Following the race, a group of female photographers, who also claim to be Rags to Riches' adoring legion, bowed down to her highness.
Pletcher was back at his barn the next morning well before 5 o'clock, taking care of business in his office as a bright and alert Rags to Riches was brought out to graze by her hotwalker, Isabel Escobar.
What a difference 24 hours make. The morning before, Pletcher was saying, "I don't know how I'm going to make it through the day."
As Benzel said, "He's the ultimate warrior."
But on this day, the ultimate warrior was a courageous chestnut filly who inscribed herself, her trainer, and her jockey into the history books.
(Originally published at www.bloodhorse.com.)
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Steve Haskin is Senior Contributor to The Blood-Horse magazine, sister publication to The Horse.
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As illustrated by our motto – Developing the Science of Networks – IMDEA Networks identifies and addresses major scientific and engineering challenges in communications and computer networks, and also aims to develop these results by bringing them into practical deployments. The nature of these challenges varies with ever-greater rapidity. To ensure the relevance of our research activities, we continuously adjust our research agenda to stay at the forefront of technological innovation. We organize our scientific activities into research areas that reflect our current working priorities, ensuring sufficient flexibility to allow us to respond to emerging technological challenges. The research mission of our Institute also adapts to the strengths of our growing research team and our external collaborators. Currently, our research is focusing on the following three general areas:
Networked Systems and Algorithms
Scientific Director of "Networked Systems and Algorithms": Arturo Azcorra.
Any network has a structure and needs protocols to achieve its objectives. The researchers of IMDEA Networks Institute have an extensive expertise in architectures and protocols for communication networks, e.g., for network topology design, routing, forwarding, innetwork storage, congestion control, and media access control. Besides, we have research interests in other networking domains such as social networks, energy networks, and transportation networks.
Our research takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the design and understanding of network protocols and architectures. We go beyond technological constraints and account also for social and economic factors. For example, our research on Internet routing and forwarding accounts for the multitude of Internet service providers and their individual economic interests. In working on either centralized or decentralized solutions to problems, we assume that perfect information is never available. To deal with such uncertainty as well as selfishness of individual entities, our analysis adopts game-theoretic techniques. Our protocol design assumes that behaviour of counterparts is always unpredictable to some extent. Hence, the designed protocols rely on continuous learning and adaptation as the main modes of operation.
Practicality is another distinguishing aspect of our research. Real data serves as a departing point for our analytical efforts as well as a basis for validating our analytical conclusions. For instance, our large-scale simulation studies of Internet routing rely on real Internet topologies. Furthermore, we implement our theoretical ideas and make the prototypes available to the public, either directly or through our commercial partners.
An important focus of our work is on the systems side of networks. For example, we apply software verification techniques to develop tools that help network builders create more reliable networks. We also work on networking aspects that pertain to cloud computing.
This research area targets the following objectives:
- Novel architectures and protocols for behavioral networking
- The Internet is modeled as an association of independent entities
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- Bridging the gap between network economics and networking
- Deployment of innovative designs becomes the primary concern
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- Economic-political knowledge guides the technical design
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Scientific Director of "Wireless Networking": Joerg Widmer.
Given the scarcity of wireless spectrum resources and the rising demand for mobile applications, optimizing wireless communication is currently one of the most important and challenging research topics in networking. The proliferation of inexpensive, high-rate mobile devices and ubiquitous connectivity opens up a vast spectrum of possible new services but also poses unique challenges concerning wireless interference and the unpredictability of the wireless medium.
IMDEA Networks is involved in a number of different wireless research areas. Part of our efforts aim at improving existing wireless technologies such as WiFi (IEEE 802.11) and LTE, for example, through the design of opportunistic scheduling mechanisms and interference management schemes. We further investigate emerging wireless technologies such as extremely high frequency communication (e.g. IEEE 802.11ad) and Visible Light Communication. Our work on wireless capacity improvements focuses on topics such as intelligent interference management, cooperative coding and network coding, improved medium access control mechanisms that make use of advanced physical layer technologies such as MIMO, successive interference cancellation, etc. We have an extensive track record in the areas of ad hoc and mesh networks, in particular on routing and MAC layer design, and apply them in several contexts, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks. To improve the flexibility and programmability of future wireless technologies, we explore novel programmable interfaces that expose low-level operations to foster network evolution and enable performance optimization and service customization. One of the goals of this work is to implement application specific optimizations, for example, to provide efficient wireless video streaming. We also study novel solutions to use wireless technologies for localization.
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Okra Pilaf
|Bacon slices
|4 , chopped
|1 Medium, chopped
|Chopped green pepper
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|2 , peeled, seeded and chopped
|Sliced okra
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Hot cooked rice
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
1)In a large skillet, fry bacons until crisp.
2)Into the same skillet, add chopped green peppers and chopped onion and cook in bacon drippings ove medium heat.
3)Now add, tomatoes and sliced okra and cook until dry.
4)Take the skillet off the heat and stir in cooked rice and pepper.
5)Into the top container of the double boiler, transfer the rice mixture and place boiler over boiling water.
6)Cook for a period of 15 minutes.
7)Once done, stir in the crisp bacon.
8)A complete meal in itself, okra pilaf can be served for lunch or dinner with beer or wine of choice.
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Saturated Fat 0.37 g1.9%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1.7 mg0.6%
Sodium 42.3 mg1.8%
Total Carbohydrates 25 g8.3%
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Vitamin A 14.5% Vitamin C 56%
Calcium 5.4% Iron 7.7%
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The Great Artesian Basin, located within Australia, is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, stretching over 1,700,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi), with measured temperatures ranging from 30–100 °C (86–212 °F). The basin provides the only reliable source of fresh water through much of inland Australia.[1]
The Basin underlies 23% of the continent, including the states and territories of Queensland (most of), the Northern Territory (the south-east corner of), South Australia (the north-east part of), and New South Wales (northern part of). The basin is 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) deep in places and is estimated to contain 64,900 cubic kilometres (15,600 cu mi) of groundwater.[2] The Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee (GABCC)[3] coordinates activity between the various levels of government and community organisations.
This area is one of the distinct physiographic provinces of the larger East Australian Basins division, and includes the smaller Wilcannia Threshold physiographic section.
The water of the GAB is held in a sandstone layer laid down by continental erosion of higher ground during the Triassic, Jurassic, and early Cretaceous periods. During a time when much of what is now inland Australia was below sea level, the sandstone was then covered by a layer of marine sedimentary rock shortly afterward, which formed a confining layer, thus trapping water in the sandstone aquifer. The eastern edge of the basin was uplifted when the Great Dividing Range formed. The other side was created from the landforms of the Central Eastern Lowlands and the Great Western Plateau to the west.
Most recharge water enters the rock formations from relatively high ground near the eastern edge of the basin (in Queensland and New South Wales) and very gradually flows toward the south and west.[4] A much smaller amount enters along the western margin in arid central Australia, flowing to the south and east. Because the sandstones are permeable, water gradually makes its way through the pores between the sand grains, flowing at a rate of one to five metres per year.
Discharge water eventually exits through a number of springs and seeps, mostly in the southern part of the basin. The age of the groundwater determined by carbon-14 and chlorine-36 measurements combined with hydraulic modelling ranges from several thousand years for the recharge areas in the north to nearly 2 million years in the south-western discharge zones.[5]
Water source[edit]
Prior to European occupation, waters of the GAB discharged through mound springs, many in arid South Australia. These springs supported a variety of endemic invertebrates (molluscs, for example), and supported extensive Aboriginal communities and trade routes.[6] After the arrival of Europeans, they enabled early exploration and faster communications between southeastern Australia and Europe via the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.[6] The Great Artesian Basin became an important water supply for cattle stations, irrigation, and livestock and domestic usage, and is a vital life line for rural Australia.[7] To tap it, water wells are drilled down to a suitable rock layer, where the pressure of the water forces it up, mostly without pumping.
The discovery and use of water held underground in the Great Artesian Basin opened up thousands of square miles of country away from rivers in inland New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia, previously unavailable for pastoral activities. European discovery of the basin dates from 1878 when a shallow bore near Bourke produced flowing water. There were similar discoveries in 1886 at Back Creek east of Barcaldine, and in 1887 near Cunnamulla.[7][8]
In essence, water extraction from the GAB is a mining operation, with recharge much less than current extraction rates. In 1915, there were 1,500 bores providing 2,000 megalitres (1,600 acre·ft) of water per day, but today the total output has dropped to 1,500 megalitres (1,200 acre·ft) per day.[2] This included just under 2000 freely flowing bores and more than 9000 that required mechanical power to bring water to the surface. Many bores are unregulated or abandoned, resulting in considerable water wastage. These problems have existed for many decades, and in January 2007 the Australian Commonwealth Government announced additional funding in an attempt to bring them under control. However, many of the mound springs referred to above have dried up due to a drop in water pressure, probably resulting in extinction of several invertebrate species.[9][10]
The Olympic Dam mine in South Australia is permitted to extract up to 42 million litres of water daily from the Great Artesian Basin under the Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982. The underground copper and uranium mine commenced operations in 1988 and is expected to continue operating until approximately 2060.
In addition, the basin has provided water via a 1.2 km (0.75 mi) deep bore for a geothermal power station at Birdsville. The heated water is 98 °C (208 °F) and provides 25% of the town's needs. Ergon Energy is expanding the 80 kW plant to completely meet Birdsville's electricity requirements.[citation needed]
Whole of Basin management[edit]
As the Great Artesian Basin underlies parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, which each operate under different legislative frameworks, policies and resource management approaches, a coordinated "whole-of-Basin" approach to the management of this important natural resource is required.[according to whom?] The Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee (GABCC) provides advice from community organisations and agencies to State, Territory and Australian Government Ministers on efficient, effective and sustainable whole-of-Basin resource management and to coordinate activity between stakeholders.[3]
Membership of the Committee comprises all State, Territory, and Australian Government agencies with responsibilities for management of parts of the Great Artesian Basin, community representatives nominated by agencies; and sector representatives.[3]
Environmental concerns[edit]
In 2011, ABC TV Four Corners revealed that significant concerns were being expressed about depletion and chemical damage to the Basin as a result of coal seam gas extraction. In one incident, reported in the program, the Queensland Gas Company (QGC) fracked its Myrtle 3 well connecting the Springbok aquifer to the coal seam below (the Walloon Coal Measures) in 2009. A local farmer was concerned that the process may have released 130 litres (29 imp gal; 34 US gal) of a potentially toxic chemical into the Basin. QGC admitted the incident, but "did not alert authorities or nearby water users about the problem until thirteen months after the incident."[11] The safety data sheet QGC had submitted for the hydraulic fracturing chemical was derived from the United States, incomplete and ten years out of date.[11] Over thirty chemicals may be used in the process of hydraulic fracturing and their long-term impact on aquifers and the agriculture and people supported by them is unknown.[12]
See also[edit]
- ^ Spanevello, M. D. (November 2001). The phylogeny of prokaryotes associated with Australia's Great Artesian Basin (PDF) (Ph.D.). Griffith University. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ a b "Underground water factsheets: Great Artesian Basin" (PDF). Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ a b c GABCC website
- ^ http://www.gabcc.org.au/tools/getFile.aspx?tbl=tblContentItem&id=96 page 40 Archived 4 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Mudd, G.M. (March 2000). "Mound springs of the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia:a case study from Olympic Dam". Environmental Geology. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. 39 (5). doi:10.1007/s002540050452.
- ^ a b Harris, Colin (2002). Culture and geography: South Australia's mound springs as trade and communication routes, Historic Environment, 16 (2), 8-11. ISSN 0726-6715.
- ^ a b Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland) (2002). Heritage Trails of the Queensland Outback. State of Queensland. p. 9. ISBN 0-7345-1040-3.
- ^ Nicol, Sally (2005). "The Great Artesian Basin: past, present and future". Water management. The State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources and Water). Archived from the original on 15 March 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2007.
- ^ Ponder, Winston. Mound Springs in Arid Australia, Australian Museum.
- ^ Artesian springs ecological community - endangered ecological community listing - final determination, NSW Scientific Committee, Minister for the Climate Change and the Environment, New South Wales Government. Gazetted 15 June 2001. Page updated 12 February 2008.
- ^ a b "Farmers count cost of coal seam gas rush". ABC News. Australia. 21 February 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ^ Tozer, Joel; Cubby, Ben (19 October 2010). "List reveals toxic chemicals used in coal seam mining". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
External links[edit]
- A New Understanding of the Groundwater Resources of the Great Artesian Basin, L.A. Endersbee, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- The Great Artesian Basin, Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water
- Ancient water source vital for Australia, ScienceDaily
- Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee website - information and resources relating to the Great Artesian Basin
- Water Down Under - The Great Artesian Basin Story, Video production by Anvil Media on behalf of the Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee (GABCC), 2008, Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities


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I spent a little time browsing FBI Crime Stats for 2010(Last year that has been finalized) and made some interesting discoveries.
Did you know that 90% of blacks are murdered by blacks, and 83% of whites are murdered by whites?
Did you know that there are 14.82 murders per 100K by blacks versus 2.17 per 100K for whites?
Per capita there are 7x more murders committed by blacks than whites.
I didnt make this up. It comes directly from the FBI. I just cut the numbers in a more revealing manner.
Then why not post the link too?
Black killing a black is just statistics.
White killing a black is man bites dog story.
Here's a chart that says basically the same thing. Does not include percentages, though.
How about these stats: "In 2005, out of the 111,490 cases involving white victims, 44.5% had white offenders and 33.6% had black offenders, while the 36,620 black victims had a figure of 100% black offenders. . . ."
Rape in the United States I often wondered about this.
"The U.S. Department of Justice compiles statistics on crime by race, but only between and among people categorized as black or white. In 2005 there were 111,490 white and 36,620 black victims of rape or sexual assault. In 2005, out of the 111,490 cases involving white victims, 44.5% had white offenders and 33.6% had black offenders, while the 36,620 black victims had a figure of 100% black offenders, numbers of white offenders were estimated to be negligible (extrapolated from a sample size of fewer than 10 instances)."
Though wiki is sometimes wiki graffiti it appears that the above is documented unless I misread this DoJ document that apparently the Obama/Holder Dept. of Just Us has not yet erased See Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender.
You think this is news worthy? Are you just now becoming aware of this? I'll tell ya when it gets real interesting...is when a black thug neighborhood bumps against a latino thug neighborhood. You'd think the physically larger black thugs would come out on top. They don't.
Your thread ignores the liberal counterpoint that 30% of blacks live below the poverty line in this country versus 10% of whites. Also, it would have been helpful if you provided figures for other minority groups. As it is, it could look to the casual observer that you are singling out blacks.
The point I think you are trying to get at is that the Democrat Party has presented itself as having African America's best interests at heart ever since the Dixiecrat defection handed them an overwhelming majority of the black vote in the Sixties, and yet things never seem to get any better for that particular minority group.
Race vs Race
Offenders by Race
You might be interested in this site, which gives a better breakdown of data.
You can get tables by race, sex, age of offender and victim, state, year, number of offenders, relationship between victim and offender.
Statistically Hispanics are considered white. Like to see that breakout.
Thank you!
Interesting...Same exact data I was using. I did notice something I found in the raw data which was Hispanics must be Other or rolled into White.
Where I live that really skews the results.
Justifiable homicide is of course the controversy in the Zimmerman-Martin case, and there have certainly been cases discussed on FR where most posters felt an injustice had been done.
Blacks are only 12% of the US population, but commit 50% of the murders.
California homicide stats are broken down into black/white/hispanic:
In 2001, of 1,754 arrests for homicide:
■ 22.8 percent of arrestees (400) were white.
■ 47.4 percent (832) were Hispanic.
■ 23.1 percent (406) were black.
■ 6.6 percent (116) fell into the "other" race/ethnic group category.
Couldn't find those pesky Hispanics anywhere.
I figure 30-40 pct of whites just by watching the news. They probably get testy from being crammed in those vehicles.
Wow. Just think what the population would be like if all those people weren't murdered?!
They don't make it easy. It's like Hispanic's don't exist.
"Statistically Hispanics are considered white. Like to see that breakout."
This gives you an idea.
* Hispanics are 3.3 times more likely to be in prison than whites; they are 4.2 times more likely to be in prison for murder, and 5.8 times more likely to be in prison for felony drug crimes.
* Young Hispanics are 19 times more likely than young whites (and slightly more likely than young blacks) to be in youth gangs.
* Hispanics drop out of high school at three times the white rate and twice the black rate.
* Even third-generation Hispanics drop out of school at a higher rate than blacks and are less likely to be college graduates.
* From 1992 to 2003, Hispanic illiteracy in English rose from 35 percent to 44 percent.
* The average Hispanic 12th-grader reads and does math at the level of the average white 8th-grader.
Families and Health
* At 43 percent, the Hispanic illegitimacy rate is twice the white rate, and Hispanic women have abortions at 2.7 times the white rate.
* Hispanics are three times more likely than whites not to have medical insurance, and die from AIDS and tuberculosis at three times the white rate.
* In California, the cost of free medical care for illegal aliens forced 60 hospitals to close between 1993 and 2003.
* Only 33 percent of citizens of Hispanic origin consider themselves Americans first. The rest consider themselves either Hispanic/Latino or their former nationality first.
JUSTICE dept figures! See charts...
In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites
From 1976 to 2005
* 86% of white victims were killed by whites
* 94% of black victims were killed by blacks
You have to really see the chart,
but black on white homicide is MUCH more than white on black.
Statistically the others don't matter. If it were black/white it is 14.5 vs 85.5.
Everyone is getting on the bandwagon. Great.
I used 2010 I guess they are either dying or learning. You make the call.
Actually the truth is far far worse than your vanity
Use this link:
" Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white,43 percent are black,and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime,only three percent of their victims are black. Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit violent crimes against whites than vice versa"
And just compare lynchings from 1865 to 1965 with whites dying at their hands just past 40 years
2400 lynchings versus between 180-200,000 killings of whites by blacks
Yeah....we got a problem no one has guts to address
I'll study the issue further. I looked at murder only.
One interesting stat I uncovered, they give up crime at a younger age while whites continue into their 40's and beyond.
Could be several reasons for that. Only the undertaker knows for sure.
And even here i might add that we still have folks trying to rationalize away this violent black on white crime bigotry as either old news or someone besides blacks themselves fault....disgusting
However...on the bright side....6 years ago your thread woulda been zotted and howls of bigotry tossed at you by the naive self righteous
So give em hell
Thanks for trying to get these figures out. I've been posting them for years with no luck. The powers that be count on that.
The media makes it sound like whites are out there gunning down blacks, when it's actually just the opposite. That's should be on the news! We need to print up millions of flyers with these FACTS, that'd really tick off the race pimps.
Discrimination and racism are UGLY things, too ugly to use as an excuse for politics as usual.
Thanks for the info.
The dam broke last week. The receptor's are open.
Any conservative who does not know the "color of crime" website is comatose. This show the real interracial murder, rape and assault statistics. This Treyvon case is all about aledged interracial murder is it not? Because blacks kills blacks everyday in much larger numbers and you hear no outcry from the race hustlers like Al Sharptoon.
Treyvon is the anomaly because 95%+ of the time it is blacks raping, killing, assaulting white men and women. 5% of the time you have the reverse.
No...half white half hispanics are considered white. Half white half black are considered black...if they are the president.
Because there's no money in it.
More than likely, blacks die at a much younger age, so there are fewer older black criminals around to commit crimes.
Good post, good comments on this thread.
Actually, statistics are separated into "white/non-hispanic" and "white/hispanic". That was done because the "white/hispanic" figures were being diluted by the "white/non-hispanic". When isolated, the "white/hispanic" rates are significantly higher than the "white/non-hispanic".
You will find it easier to get black/white stats, because when Hispanics are the victims, they are counted as Hispanic, but when they are the perp, they are counted as white.
This, obviously, will skew such stats so badly as to render them almost unusable.
According to the feds, Hispanics are white when they commit crimes, but they're Hispanic when they're victims.
Read somewhere there are only 3 classifications for race: Caucasian, Asian and Black. (I think everything south of the Himalayans was considered Asian???) I was angry at the recent census trying to divide us all by racial ancestry and color...they had race broken into about ten different categories. I refused to put Caucasian,my friends and I put AMERICAN since they were trying to pigeonhole us all by ancestry in the census. Hey, if we were born here we are and should be classified as American with no further inquiries as to race. Got a nasty form letter back but no further follow up.
Seems to say there are more whites murdered by blacks than there are blacks murdered by whites - naw, that can't be.....
Insurance salesman to personel director: "Do you have a list of people in your company broken down by sex?"
Personel Director: "No, but I have a list of the ones who have a drinking problem."
From a past Pat Buchanan column about crime based upon 2005 FBI stats:
" "Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against other blacks." Forty-five percent of the victims of violent crime by blacks are white folks, 43 percent are black, 10 percent are Hispanic.
Blacks are seven times as likely as people of other races to commit murder, eight times more likely to commit robbery and three times more likely to use a gun in a crime.
"Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit violent crime against a white person than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery." (If decent black folks have trouble hailing a cab, and they do, these numbers may help explain it.)
Black-on-white rape is 115 times more common than the reverse."
The discussion that Eric we need to have a discussion about race in this country Holder does not want to have.
These statistics are easy to find online. The US Dept of Justice publishes them each year and they are correct.
You are very mistaken. Is it racist to cite crime statistics that are published by the US DOJ? Are they a racist organization. You make a huge mistake in logic with your rape statistic. Black men are slightly more than 6% of the population, where non-hispanic whites are 35%. You must calculate the per capita number in order to compare them. Also 60% of sexual assaults by black men go unreported, and less than 20% for non-hispanic whites. Why don't you do a little research before you post that junk.
Not true, the US DOJ separates hispanics from whites in their crime stastics.
Blacks men are only 6% of the population, whites are more than 30%. You must make this adjustment in order to compare these numbers.
"Not true, the US DOJ separates hispanics from whites in their crime stastics."
Not true, either. Hispanics are counted as Hispanic when they are the victims but are included in the White category when being reported as the criminal.
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