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Part of John Fredriksen's business empire, Frontline had announced on 2 July its agreement to merge with Frontline 2012 to form an
Seacurus Daily: Top Ten Maritime News Stories 26/08/2015
1. Seafarers Dreading Time in Port
Leading Seafarer Social Media Site Crewtoo has published its Second Quarterly Report Detailing Job Satisfaction at Sea – … (Read more…)
By MarEx 2015-08-25 17:40:45
The keel for the second Commitment Class LNG-powered, combination container – Roll-On/Roll-Off (ConRo) ship for Crowley Maritime Corp.'s liner services group was laid on Monday.
The ceremony was held at ship-builder VT Halter Marine, Inc.'s facility in Pascagoula, U.S. The keel laying ceremony marked the next step in the construction of Crowley's two Commitment Class ships, which will exclusively serve the U.S.-Puerto Rico trade lane.
VT Halter Marine and Crowley entered into a contract for the pair of Jones Act ships in November 2013 and construction of the second ship began with steel cutting in Pascagoula on May 27, 2015. The first ship's keel laying took place in January 2015.
The Commitment Class ships have been designed to maximize the carriage of 53-foot, 102-inch-wide containers, which offer the most cubic cargo capacity in the trade. The ships will be 219.5 meters long, 32.3 meters wide (beam), have a deep draft of 10 meters, and an approximate deadweight capacity of 26,500 metric tons. Cargo capacity will be approximately 2,400 TEU, with additional space for nearly 400 vehicles in an enclosed Roll-on/Roll-off garage.
The main propulsion and auxiliary engines will be fueled by LNG. The Commitment Class, Jones Act ships will replace Crowley's towed triple-deck barge fleet in the South Atlantic trade, which has served the trade continuously and with distinction since the early 1970s.
These new ships, which will be named El Coquí (ko-kee) andTaíno (tahy-noh), will offer customers fast ocean transit times, while accommodating the company's diverse equipment selection and cargo handling flexibility. El Coquí and Taíno are scheduled for delivery during the second and fourth quarter 2017 respectively.
The ship design is provided by Wartsila Ship Design in conjunction with Crowley subsidiary Jensen Maritime, a leading Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm.
By MarEx 2015-08-25 17:05:54
GMS, leading buyer of ships for recycling, has come out in support of statemens made by the Danish Shipowners' Association (DSA) which refuses to ban beaching outright following the recent announcement by their Norwegian counterparts. GMS supports DSA's position that ship recycling choice shouldn't be based just on geography.
A delegation from the DSA recently visited ship yards in Alang, India, to see how some had upgraded their facilities to comply with the Hong Kong Convention on ship recycling. The DSA believes it is important that the market makes a distinction between those yards which use beaching and comply with the Hong Kong convention and those that do not.
GMS agrees and also feels that owners who simply decide where to recycle ships based on secondary (mis)information and geographical location do a disservice to their stakeholders and the industry. Often these decisions are made on perceptions rather than reality; political pressures rather than economic facts; irrational exuberance rather than pragmatic evaluations, said GMS in a statement. Simply throwing money does not make ship recycling green. On the contrary, it's likely to reward inefficiencies and "fear mongering."
GMS urges the Norwegian Shipowners' Association (NSA) to see for themselves the improvements that have been made by some of the shipyards in Alang and is happy to extend an open invitation to members from the NSA to visit these yards so they can make their own minds up about beaching at specific yards just as the DSA has done.
Dr Anil Sharma founder and CEO of GMS said: "Yet again there is a lot of misinformation in the press regarding beaching and the Hong Kong Convention. It has been implied in certain trade press articles that the Hong Kong Convention on ship recycling bans beaching and this is untrue.
"Many of the ship yards in Alang have made vast improvements to comply with the Hong Kong Convention so declaring blanket bans on beaching without viewing individual upgraded sites does nothing to encourage other yards in the Asian sub-continent to improve their standards or persuade governments in the region to ratify the Hong Kong Convention. It is also interesting to note that negative stories or negative comments are generally made by people who have either never visited the yards in India or not visited them recently. On the other hand, those who have visited recently have made positive comments such as the DSA and the Japanese Shipowners Association."
By MarEx 2015-08-25 15:34:06
On August 25, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall as the largest and third most powerful hurricane to ever hit the U.S. The Category 5 storm killed more than 1,800 people and displaced another 400,000. The blame for the death and delayed response has been placed at the feet of everyone from Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and President George W. Bush. But, culpability cannot be pointed to any person for a natural disaster of this magnitude.
On August 27, as Katrina's strength increased, Nagin held a press conference announcing the voluntary evacuation of New Orleans. Katrina was just a category 3 hurricane at the time, but the city was in its path and its levees had only been built to withstand at category three storm.
Should Nagin's evacuation decree have been mandatory? National news sources speculate that his delay in issuing the mandatory evacuation was due to tourism. In fact, tourism at the time generated about $5 billion in per year for the city. It is assumed that Nagin was concerned that business owners would sue the city for its mandatory evacuation.
Thousands of New Orleans citizens were without cars and transportation. It is assumed that if the mandatory evacuation had been issued many would not have died. But, when issuing the voluntary evacuation, the mayor suggested that the citizens carpool with friends and family to get to safe locations.
Nagin didn't issue the mandatory evacuation order until the next day, August 28, after a National Weather Service advisory said Katrina's winds had strengthened to 175 miles per hour. A category 5 storm is 157 miles per hour or greater.
As the Category 5 storm barreled down on the Louisiana coast with New Orleans in its path, the citizens of the city had just hours to get to safety. Moreover, Louisiana did not have the infrastructure endure such a huge storm or even rescue survivors caught in its devastation.
And the federal government cannot provide aid or respond to any disaster unless a state governor requests it to. Kathleen Blanco was Louisiana's governor and she did encourage the state's citizens to evacuate. She also placed a request with the federal government to issue a state of emergency. But, rather than placing a phone call to President Bush, she just submitted legal documents requesting federal state of emergency. While submitting documents followed protocol, it seemed to lack a sense of urgency to many.
Around 3 PM, on August 29, two major flood-control levees were breached. About 80% of New Orleans was now submerged in waters up to 20 feet as Katrina impacted more than 90,000 square miles and destroyed $151 billion in multi-state property damage. The National Weather Service reported a total structural failure in New Orleans as people fled to safety.
With New Orleans under water, search and rescue should have been the highest priority. But, on September 2, almost four days later, Blanco complained to the White House that Louisiana still had not received aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Bush and FEMA Director Michael Brown contended they had not been explicitly informed of Louisiana's needs.
Instead of acting and responding to the obvious destruction, FEMA simply waited.
Blanco rejects the federal government's claim and said her letter to Bush requested about 40,000 troops, food and water, buses, amphibious vehicles and mobile morgues.
Meanwhile, violence and looting broke out in New Orleans by the time FEMA arrived in Louisiana. FEMA decided that it would not put its employees at risk and rejected an offer by the Department of the Interior for trucks, vans, boats, aircraft and about 400 officers.
Louisianans continued to wait as one of the largest hurricanes to hit the U.S. laid waste to the city and state.


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SEOUL -- A remark by Bank of Korea Governor Park Seung that monetary-policy tightening is being considered -- but isn't a certainty -- sent government bond yields plunging and prices rising.
Speaking Thursday at a parliamentary audit of the central bank, Mr. Park described as hypothetical his comment last month that a rate increase could come as early as October. He said he didn't mean the Bank of Korea will definitely increase the call rate this month. The call rate is the central bank's interest rate on overnight interbank...

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
They're Called Legwarmers for a Reason, Dude
Love the posing going on here. Dude on the left looks like he's about to give someone a Fistful of Metal. And cut the guy on the right's hair all tidy, take off his eye makeup and put him in some khakis and a sweater and he's ready for a J. Crew catalog.
Why he's wearing a legwarmer on his arm, however, is truly a mystery for the ages. His whole outfit seems like it was assembled by a crow that just scavenged together a bunch of shiny bits and colorful pieces of string. I'm not positive, but it looks like the tough guy on the left might have a door knocker under his chin. And I have no idea what exactly is cascading off the ear of the guy standing next to him.
Now, some of you may recognize members of this band and be a little baffled by others. I would venture to say that you may well never see this photo anywhere else again. It is a true rarity for a number of reasons that I'll reveal only when someone can correctly guess what band this is.
Update: Once again, this took no time for Nightlock to figure out. It's the Wild Dogs circa 1985, I believe. It was after Man's Best Friend and before Reign of Terror. They had kicked "Fat" Matt McCourt out because management just thought he didn't have that "commercial appeal" they needed to get a major label deal (if anyone out there ever saw them live, you'd understand...the dude had a great voice, but he was a loose cannon on stage). Anyway, they brought in this young guy with a shriek that'd peel paint named John Tejeda (far right, and below). They played a bunch of shows around the NW with him (and also apparently did a photo shoot) and just as they were about to embark on a tour opening for Yngwie and Talas, Tejeda goes AWOL and they quickly grab McCourt to cover for him on the tour. That was the end of the Tejeda era in the Wild Dogs. He later went on to front a Eugene, OR, band called Mysstress that put out an EP that's become somewhat of a collector's item. McCourt was again kicked to the curb after the Yngwie tour and Michael Furlong was brought in to sing on Reign of Terror, the final official Wild Dogs album.
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- Nightlock said...
Wild Dogs? Minus Fat Matt by the looks of it (Still a guess) so I'm guessing around the time Reign of Terror was released?
- December 10, 2008 at 3:14 AM
- Nightlock said...
Maybe from the time of their post-Reign of Terror album that was never released?
- December 10, 2008 at 3:19 AM
- AT said...
Nice job, dude. It's the Wild Dogs all right, but it was taken a good couple of years before Reign of Terror. This may be the only evidence remaining that John Tejeda actually was in Wild Dogs. I don't think they ever recorded any demos with him, though they did play some shows.
- December 10, 2008 at 7:41 AM
- Ian Christe said...
The gloves of metal say Wild Dogs all the way.
I can't believe all these bands had such slick promo photos.
- December 18, 2008 at 9:14 AM
- AT said...
I think these guys had a little bit of money behind them at this point. They were trying to get a major label deal.
- December 18, 2008 at 9:18 AM
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ISSN (Print) 0972-4923 - ISSN (Online) 0975-3133
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- Is that Gun for the Bears? The National Park Service Ranger as a
Historically Contradictory Figure
Authors: Alice B Kelly Pennaz
Pages: 243 - 254
Abstract: Alice B Kelly Pennaz
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):243-254
The "Yellowstone Model" of exclusionary, or fortress conservation, has spread widely across the globe since 1872. While in many other countries there has been a concomitant ever-increasing militarisation of park guards, the history of the United States (US) Park Ranger offers an alternative narrative. This paper traces the complex history of the US Park ranger through time to show how the Ranger as an outward embodiment of state power has been contradicted by administrative and practical logics directing rangers to educate, welcome, and guide park visitors. Rangers' work as territorial enforcers, and as strong-arms of the state has been tempered and defined by multiple disciplining forces over time. Using a political ecology approach, this paper examines how shifting political economic contexts, shifts in park use and park visitors, and a changing national law enforcement milieu influenced how and in what ways National Park Rangers have performed law enforcement in US parks over the past 100 years. The paper concludes by laying out why comparisons between US National Park Rangers and park guards in other parts of the world may be troubled by a number of socioeconomic and political factors.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):243-254
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_62
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- Towards an Indigenous Ecosystem Services Valuation Framework: A North
Australian Example
Authors: Kamaljit Kaur Sangha, Jeremy Russell-Smith
Pages: 255 - 269
Abstract: Kamaljit Kaur Sangha, Jeremy Russell-Smith
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):255-269
Despite calls by various international agencies, considerable work is still required to understand and incorporate the importance of earth's ecosystems for informing public policies. Savannas comprise nearly one third of global terrestrial ecosystems and support many local and Indigenous communities, but the value of their ecosystem services (ES) is insufficiently understood. This study proposes an integrated ES valuation framework and applies it to assess ES for an Indigenous savanna estate in northern Australia, describing how capabilities along with biophysical and socio-cultural ES benefits play a vital role for peoples' wellbeing. We estimated the monetary value of ES by applying a conventional Basic Value Transfer (BVT) method for biophysical benefits (USD 84 M y-1), and a wellbeing approach for valuing socio-cultural benefits and capabilities (USD 4 M y-1). The latter offers a relatively nominal estimate but underscores the importance of including peoples' capabilities in order to demonstrate wellbeing benefits for Indigenous people who regularly visit and utilize their lands. We explore two scenarios, Business as Usual (pastoral land use) and ES-based economies (implying customary land use, particularly through fire management) to project plausible broader benefits for the community over a longer term. This research describes how inclusion of Indigenous peoples' capabilities and socio-cultural values are critical for ES assessments, and indicates that an integrated approach is essential for appropriately informing local, regional and global development policies.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):255-269
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_156
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- Rangeland Use Rights Privatisation Based on the Tragedy of the Commons: A
Case Study from Tibet
Authors: Yonten Nyima Yundannima
Pages: 270 - 279
Abstract: Yonten Nyima Yundannima
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):270-279
Rangeland use rights privatisation based on a tragedy of the commons assumption has been the backbone of state policy on rangeland management and pastoralism in China. Through an empirical case study from Pelgon county, Tibet Autonomous Region in China, this paper provides an empirical analysis of rangeland use rights privatisation. It shows that the tragedy of the commons is not the correct model to apply to Tibetan pastoralism because pasture use in Tibet has never been an open-access institution. Thus, when the tragedy of the commons model is applied as a rationale for rangeland use rights privatisation, the result is not what is intended by the policy, but rather a misfit to features of pastoralism and thus disruption of the essence of pastoralism, i.e. mobility and flexibility. The paper further shows that a hybrid institution combining household rangeland tenure with community-based use with user fees is a restoration of the pastoralist institution. This demonstrates the capacity of pastoralists to create adaptive new institutions congruent with the interdependent and integrated nature of pastoralism consisting of three components: pastoralists, livestock, and rangeland.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):270-279
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_15_118
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- Well-Being Impacts of Human-Elephant Conflict in Khumaga, Botswana:
Exploring Visible and Hidden Dimensions
Authors: Allison L Mayberry, Alice J Hovorka, Kate E Evans
Pages: 280 - 291
Abstract: Allison L Mayberry, Alice J Hovorka, Kate E Evans
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):280-291
High densities of wild African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) combined with widespread human land-use have increased human-elephant conflict in northern Botswana. Visible impacts (e.g. crop/property damage, injury/fatality) of elephants on human well-being are well documented in scholarly literature while hidden impacts (e.g. emotional stress, restricted mobility) are less so. This research uses qualitative methods to explore human experiences with elephants and perceived impacts of elephants on human well-being. Findings reveal participants are concerned about food insecurity and associated visible impacts of elephant crop raids. Findings also reveal participants are concerned about reduced safety and restricted mobility as hidden impacts threatening livelihoods and everyday life. Both visible and hidden impacts of elephants contribute to people's negative feelings towards elephants, as does the broader political context. This research emphasises the importance of investigating both visible and hidden impacts of elephants on human well-being to foster holistic understanding of human-elephant conflict scenarios and to inform future mitigation strategies.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):280-291
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_132
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- The Politics of Conservation: Sonaha, Riverscape in the Bardia National
Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal
Authors: Sudeep Jana Thing, Roy Jones, Christina Birdsall Jones
Pages: 292 - 303
Abstract: Sudeep Jana Thing, Roy Jones, Christina Birdsall Jones
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):292-303
This paper problematises the recent participatory turn in nature conservation policy and practices through an ethnographic investigation of the experiences of the marginalised Sonaha (indigenous people of the region of Bardia where the national park is located) in relation to the conservation discourses, policies and practices of the Bardia National Park authorities in the Nepalese lowland. Since the mid-1990s, the country's conservation thinking and policy paradigms have shifted away from an earlier protectionist and fortress conservation focus towards more participatory approaches. However, for the Sonaha who are historically and culturally embedded in and derive their livelihoods from the riverscape in and around the Park, the pre-existing discourses and practices of strict nature conservation still impact adversely on their everyday lives. The paper argues that participatory reform, despite its strengths, has nevertheless reinforced the old conservation paradigm and hegemonic conservation discourses that normalised conservation violence and the marginalisation of the Sonaha. Based on critical ethnographic work with the Sonaha, we present a political ecology critique of conservation approaches. A case for rethinking contestations between indigenous peoples and national park managements is postulated.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):292-303
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_15_2
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- 'Man-eaters' in the Media: Representation of Human-leopard
Interactions in India Across Local, National, and International Media
Authors: Crystal A Crown, Kalli F Doubleday
Pages: 304 - 312
Abstract: Crystal A Crown, Kalli F Doubleday
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):304-312
Interactions between humans and wildlife are frequent in India, requiring stakeholders to devise mitigation strategies that benefit both humans and wildlife. Success of such initiatives can be impacted by stakeholders' perceptions of species and related issues, which may be unduly influenced by the media. This paper explores media representation of Human-Leopard Interactions (HLI) in India, focusing on detecting agenda-setting and framing in articles, and whether these differ with the level of association with HLI. To accomplish this, we coded articles (n=291) from three media-distribution levels with increasing detachment to HLI events: local news, Indian national news, and international news, and compared the types of agenda-setting and framing found across the three. Overall, international media had the most negative portrayal of leopards and HLI, while national had the most balanced. Local and international media included 'man-eater' framing in the majority of their stories; whereas stories of leopards as victims were most prominent in local news, and victim framing was most frequent in national. These results suggest that agenda-setting and framing may vary with association with HLI. Despite differences between sources, our findings suggest that all media distributions focused primarily on stories of leopards causing trouble (e.g., attacks and incursions), or in ways viewed as troublesome (e.g. incursions) with few stories of leopards as victims or informational pieces. The largely negative depiction, and differences in representation between geographic locations, could hinder mitigation strategies and policy through presenting stakeholders with incomplete information.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):304-312
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_15_92
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- "Charismatic Species and Beyond: How Cultural Schemas and
Organisational Routines shape Conservation"
Authors: Monika Krause, Katherine Robinson
Pages: 313 - 321
Abstract: Monika Krause, Katherine Robinson
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):313-321
It has long been suggested that charismatic species attract a disproportionate amount of attention and resources in international conservation. This paper follows up on this observation and investigates how cultural schemas and organisational routines shape resource allocation in conservation more broadly. Based on 44 in-depth interviews with programme managers in international conservation NGOs and in zoos with conservation programmes, we argue, that routines establishing units of intervention in conservation work shape the allocation of resources in ways that are not directly based on conservation science. In addition to the role of species, and charismatic species in particular, we examine the role of countries as units of interventions and of focus countries as privileged sites among them. Some countries present better opportunities than others; some are favored by institutional donors. We also discuss the role of landscapes and charismatic landscapes and of solutions and charismatic solutions.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):313-321
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_63
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- Drilling through Conservation Policy: Oil Exploration in Murchison Falls
Protected Area, Uganda
Authors: Catrina A MacKenzie, Rebecca K Fuda, Sadie Jane Ryan, Joel Hartter
Pages: 322 - 333
Abstract: Catrina A MacKenzie, Rebecca K Fuda, Sadie Jane Ryan, Joel Hartter
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):322-333
Approximately 2.5 billion barrels of commercially-viable oil, worth $2 billion in annual revenue for 20 years, were discovered under the Ugandan portion of the Albertine Rift in 2006. The region also contains seven of Uganda's protected areas and a growing ecotourism industry. We conducted interviews and focus groups in and around Murchison Falls Protected Area, Uganda's largest, oldest, and most visited protected area, to assess the interaction of oil exploration with the three primary conservation policies employed by Uganda Wildlife Authority: protectionism, neoliberal capital accumulation, and community-based conservation. We find that oil extraction is legally permitted inside protected areas in Uganda, like many other African countries, and that the wildlife authority and oil companies are adapting to co-exist inside a protected area. Our primary argument is that neoliberal capital accumulation as a conservation policy actually makes protected areas more vulnerable to industrial exploitation because nature is commodified, allowing economic value and profitability of land uses to determine how nature is exploited. Our secondary argument is that the conditional nature of protected area access inherent within the protectionist policy permits oil extraction within Murchison Falls Protected Area. Finally, we argue that community-based conservation, as operationalized in Uganda, has no role in defending protected areas against oil industrialisation.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):322-333
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_105
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- Optimal Monitoring Strategy to Detect Rule-breaking: A Power and
Simulation Approach Parameterised with Field Data from Gola Rainforest
National Park, Sierra Leone
Authors: Sorrel Jones, Malcolm D Burgess, Frazer Sinclair, Jeremy Lindsell, Juliet Vickery
Pages: 334 - 343
Abstract: Sorrel Jones, Malcolm D Burgess, Frazer Sinclair, Jeremy Lindsell, Juliet Vickery
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):334-343
Protected area designation aims to protect forests from illegal activities such as hunting. However, the effectiveness of protection and how this changes over time in response to protection measures is difficult to assess, including the design of monitoring programmes able to detect changes. We present new data on rule-breaking prevalence in Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone, and use these data in spatially explicit simulations to assess the survey effort and design required to detect change and assess the effect of rule-breaker behaviour to these designs. Despite being a protected area, rule-breaking (in the form of signs of hunting) occurred in almost 70% of 1 km survey squares but repeating this baseline survey of 53 survey squares would be insufficient to detect change. A much larger survey effort of 200-400 survey squares would be required to detect a 25% change in rule-breaking. Simulations highlight the extent to which rule-breaker behaviour, particularly hunter range size, influenced the likelihood of detecting change and importance of understanding this for survey design. A dedicated monitoring programme able to detect changes in the level of rule-breaking required an unrealistic level of resources, and we recommend combining monitoring with ranger patrol activities to reduce overall costs and employing questionnaire-based methods.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):334-343
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_51
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- Vacating the Floodplain: Urban Property, Engineering, and Floods in
Brisbane (1974-2011)
Authors: Margaret Cook
Pages: 344 - 354
Abstract: Margaret Cook
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):344-354
This article exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. By the 1970s, international hazard scholarship advocated regulating land use as an effective flood mitigation tool. In 1974, floods devastated Southeast Queensland and highlighted the hazards of building on floodplains. Drawing on scholarship that frames floods as a cultural, rather than natural event, this paper shows that the state government of Queensland prioritised property development and continued to rely on dam building as a way of controlling floods. Dams were built with the aim of providing immunity from flooding, but tensions between State and local governments allowed both to evade responsibility for the growing hazard arising from continuing development in the floodplain. When legislation and regulations were introduced to control floodplain development, they reflected popular sentiment against land use restrictions and hence were limited in scope, non-mandatory, and riddled with loopholes. The results of these inadequate land use regulations and continued residential development below the 100-year flood level were fully exposed in 2011 when a substantial increase in damages accompanied flooding of the Brisbane River. Despite evidence and predictions of increased risk of more frequent and larger floods from a warming climate, both state and local governments have continued to promote development in the Brisbane River floodplain, and appear willing to subject the city and its residents to increased hazards and vulnerability.
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):344-354
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_95
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)
- Erratum: Mapping Scenario Narratives: A Technique to Enhance
Landscape-scale Biodiversity Planning
Pages: 355 - 355
Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):355-355
Citation: Conservation and Society 2017 15(3):355-355
PubDate: Fri,29 Sep 2017
Issue No: Vol. 15, No. 3 (2017)


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The answer is clear: it depends on the problem!
Recursive algorithms are memory intensive
- Recursive implementations, where a function calls itself to solve a problem, are often elegant and concise. However, they require the computer to store the context of all recursive calls in memory. When memory is not a problem, recursion is a good choice.
Iterative approach can be overly complex
- Iterative implementations, are sometimes more complex to write, but more memory efficient. A good exercise: try to implement Dijkstra's algorithm in Python in an iterative way, based on my post describing this algorithm. You'll see that it is much more difficult than with a recursive approach (example implementation here).
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It was a bright and chilly day.... I was busily stitching away in the waiting room of the car service station when up rode a cute little gal with a white hat (well, actually that was her hair) packing her own heat (more on that later). She saw that I was fighting off the frays and arrows of an organza shape with my trusty running stitch. Without much ado, she dropped a button hole stitch into my arsenal. And, as she rode off into the sunset, I began using a loose version of that. Wow! My enemy was defeated! Thank you to that (not) masked woman whose name I never learned.
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April 8, 2014
ROBERT JOSEPH McCARTY, Plaintiff,v.JOHN V. ROOS, et al., Defendants.
JAMES C. MAHAN, District Judge.
Presently before the court is a motion to dismiss individual capacity claims filed by defendants Hillary Clinton, John Roos, Joseph Koen, Stuart Delery, Vincent Garvey and Lynn Lee ("federal defendants"). (Doc. # 193). Pro se plaintiff Robert Joseph McCarty filed a response in opposition. (Doc. # 202).
Also before the court is plaintiff's motion to strike an untimely filing by federal defendants. (Doc. # 237). However, the court need not consider federal defendants' late reply in disposing of the instant motion, so plaintiff's motion to strike will be denied as moot.
In this case, plaintiff Robert Joseph McCarty asserts numerous claims against federal defendants based on his registration as a tier-one sex offender in Nevada. Plaintiff argues that he was denied due process when he was convicted of a sex crime in Japan, and thus that it violates several of his constitutional rights to require him to register as a sex offender in the United States. Plaintiff requests relief in the form of $850, 000 as well as the expunction of all records that identify him as a convicted felon and a sex offender.
On December 7, 2012, the court issued an order dismissing all claims against federal defendants, but gave leave for plaintiff to amend his complaint. (Doc. # 112). In this order the court stated, "if the second amended complaint is similarly deficient, the court may conclude that further leave to amend would be futile." Id. Subsequently, plaintiff filed an amended complaint that raises claims that are strikingly similar to the claims in his prior complaint, but now adds that federal defendants' actions violate more constitutional provisions than he had first alleged.
On February 10, 2014, the court issued an order dismissing the second amended complaint as to federal defendants in their official capacities, as it failed to sufficiently allege that any of plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated. (Doc. # 234). Federal defendants now request that the court similarly dismiss the claims against them in their individual capacities. (Doc. # 193).
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A court may dismiss a plaintiff's complaint for "failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted." Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). A properly pled complaint must provide "[a] short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief." Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2); Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007). While Rule 8 does not require detailed factual allegations, it demands "more than labels and conclusions" or a "formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action." Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 1949 (2009) (citation omitted).
"Factual allegations must be enough to rise above the speculative level." Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555. Thus, to survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter to "state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face." Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. at 1949 (citation omitted).
In Iqbal, the Supreme Court clarified the two-step approach district courts are to apply when considering motions to dismiss. First, the court must accept as true all well-pled factual allegations in the complaint; however, legal conclusions are not entitled to the assumption of truth. Id. at 1950. Mere recitals of the elements of a cause of action, supported only by conclusory statements, do not suffice. Id. at 1949.
Second, the court must consider whether the factual allegations in the complaint allege a plausible claim for relief. Id. at 1950. A claim is facially plausible when the plaintiff's complaint alleges facts that allow the court to draw a reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the alleged misconduct. Id. at 1949.
Where the complaint does not permit the court to infer more than the mere possibility of misconduct, the complaint has "alleged-but not shown-that the pleader is entitled to relief." Id. (internal quotations omitted). When the allegations in a complaint have not crossed the line from conceivable to plausible, plaintiff's claim must be dismissed. Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570.
The Ninth Circuit addressed post- Iqbal pleading standards in Starr v. Baca, 652 F.3d 1202, 1216 (9th Cir. 2011). The Starr court stated, "First, to be entitled to the presumption of truth, allegations in a complaint or counterclaim may not simply recite the elements of a cause of action, but must contain sufficient allegations of underlying facts to give fair notice and to enable the opposing party to defend itself effectively. Second, the factual allegations that are taken as true must plausibly suggest an entitlement to ...
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ALTOONA, Iowa — Adventureland announced on Facebook in July that they will be adding a new roller coaster in 2016.
The coaster will feature a 2500 foot-long steel track, 133 foot vertical lift hill, 5 inversions, a 101 degree first drop and 10 "airtime" moments, and travel at speeds of up to 65 mils per hour. It will also cross the park's "Sky Ride" eight times and boast the first negative-G stall loop in the western hemisphere.
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Jana and I just returned from out Exponent II retreat in Connecticut. I was struck by how beautiful CT was. The leaves on the trees were just about to turn, the homes were huge and gabled and set on acres of land. Even the gas stations had steeples on top of them!
I generally am pretty happy to be living in Southern California, but I have to admit that I had big house envy - as well as beautiful trees and huge front yard envy - as we drove to and from the camp.
The retreat was fun, a weekend of bonding with other liberal LDS feminists. We met and chatted with some of the founding mothers of Exponent II, women who will go down in the history books for their involvement in the LDS women's movement.
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I love post apocalyptic fiction. I even like some lame post apocalyptic fiction. I read Cormack McCarthy's The Road at its release. I loved The Stand when it was new, and Justin Cronin's The Passage was excellent until I listened to the interview he did where he described that the book was inspired by his young daughter who said, "daddy please write a book that shows the strength of women". He proceeds to keep his promise in the sequel, part two of the trilogy, and its painful for the reader. Honorable mention, some old some new, some cheesy, some profound….Earth Abides, Swan Song, Wet Work, White Horse (this one is new with a sequel coming), so many more I cannot pull them from memory.
I digress (because as I said I love the genre).
What do we call artificially created dystopian realities with an agenda? Politicians use them as threats of whats to come when power transfers to the other guys. And now I suddenly realized that churchian feminists employ this technique in their misguided rantings against the single deepest cover covert group in existence….deeper than the most invisible Al Queda sleeper cell and the Mossad agents set against them, deeper than Gabriel Allon and his team in any of his stories…..this group is the evil Christian Patriarchy. They are so well hidden its like they are not even there.
But someone has stumbled across some old documents, maybe an email trail, or she has sensed that she is being followed and thwarted for her every ambition. Someone has to get the word out and this blogger has taken it upon herself to be the one. We must assume that this blog is routed through servers in Tallin Estonia, bounced through a small town 3 hours north of Mumbai, called Wada, where if the post is sent on Fridays the local power yields to area diesel generators, Her identity must be protected so cutting edge and scandalous is the information she has uncovered.
Wait! My mind ran away from me because of my references to contemporary fiction. This stuff is everywhere churchian women gather, from small groups to blog sites, from certain churches to secular marches filled with angry women and cuckolded men. The evil patriarchy is not in deep cover, its hidden in plain view, but only these few
millions women understand whats at stake because they hear the hidden subtext messages when they attend the Grace Community Fellowship of Anytown USA megachurch. (the author I link to is not in the US, the bulk of the readership, to be sure, is likely to be American however, simply based on the demographics of professed faith)
Read the present and coming evils here and here. (For further reading on REAL Biblical exegesis read here. You will see that intelligence is often plastered over with seething anger)
The Evil Patriarchy is represented (open sarcasm) as follows.
here are some top tips that are guaranteed to give you the perfect Christian marriage:
- Do not, under any circumstances, let yourself go. This is the ultimate disrespect to your husband. If you carry your husband's child and then get stretch marks or put on a few pounds, GET RID OF THEM IMMEDIATELY even if this means going from the maternity hospital straight to the gym. Remember ladies: no pain, no gain!
- If your husband cheats on you, blame yourself (see link above). You were probably not following rule no. 1. Maybe your stomach isn't flat enough or you nag him too much? Maybe when he just simply wants to sit down, drink beer and watch the match with his friends, the kids are all crying ffs? Repentance is probably a good start.
- Your life must now be solely about your children. Any other interests are SELFISH and DESTRUCTIVE. And if you find motherhood exhausting or nigh on impossible, you are a failure and God is disappointed in you.
- If you are married to a pig, make sure you pretend he is not a pig. Laugh at his sexist jokes, roll your eyes affectionately when he belittles you in front of his friends and always make sure to tell him that his sermon was powerful even if he came across as an angry, arrogant, proud lunatic. Wouldn't you rather be married to a pig than be entirely pigless?
- If you disagree with your husband and are thinking of challenging him, DON'T. Stop being so rebellious and disrespectful. You are being a nagging wife, and no one likes a nag. Remember, Satan is around every corner with his threats of 'feminism' and 'equality' and you must protect your marriage from these evils.
- Your husband is the head of the family. So, even though when Paul talks about submission in marriage being a mutual process and women submitting to husbands who are supposed to 'love them as Christ loved and gave himself up for the Church' what he ACTUALLY meant was that the man gets to make all the decisions and you must defer to his authority on all things, even on things you know way more about.
- If you are a hilarious genius, it is vital that you pretend you are not. A wife must never be as smart or funny as her husband; this is quite simply, sinful. A man must be feared and respected in his household and be seen as the strongest, best and most honourable person in the household so BACK OFF and know your place.
- So you know the way every man and woman are unique? Well actually that's all wrong. Men are generally the same as each other and women are the same as each other and if you are not the same as the rest of your gender, you're probably a homo or a feminazi or both and no one will ever marry you.
- Now remember: man things are important. So if your man has an interest in manly things like sport, gaming or camping or whatever, these are important and must be respected and given the time needed. When he wants to talk about these things, you must listen seriously, respectfully and earnestly. However, it is his right to call all your interests stupid and girly and to remind you if start discussing them in front of him that he is not a pansy lol. After all, girls are stupid. And you're a girl. So point proven.
- Girls, the bedroom is all about your husband. Mark Driscoll, one of the most prominent and popular Evangelical speakers these days, is a great man for sex advice so make sure to check him out.
If you fail to follow all ten rules, it goes without saying that if your man leaves, you are partly to blame.
Now if this all sounds daunting and harsh, it is. But at least you'll be married to a Godly Christian man who can tell you what to do and take away your sense of identity because to be honest, being responsible for yourself is hard and boring anyway lol!
LOL Indeed!
The first seven fall into the category I wrote about above, where an artificial reality is created and used to scare people. Outside of a couple of national ministries that are suggestive of these things, even they are not as stated, oh, and that small church in Appalachia that heats with coal, now they are really bad patriarchs.
I left a comment there following the post:
If anyone has heard these teachings then I recommend you take the words that you heard…..verbatim, write them out and take them to someone who lacks the massive feminist chip on shoulder that you all have and have them objectively explain what the words literally mean. If they were spoken by a man, they will mean exactly what they say. It is YOUR problem that you seek subtext and nuance in each utterance, and then create a reality in which you have something against which you choose to rage.
Its amazing that these things proliferate so easily, but what happens is, hundreds of blogs and comments like these are read, and readers then go off using this as the source for them to claim that this nasty patriarchy is out there, growing, spreading, corrupting. Funny though, never an original citation. This hyperbole is its own reference and it preys on the excitability of churchian women who have heard this same stuff from their mothers, and maybe even their grandmothers. This irrational bilge has flourished over the past 40 years.
its not at all difficult to prove. Imagine the society at large and imagine on a gender spectrum with some fleeting notion of equality at its center. Now, place the point on that line 40 years ago, then place it again today. If you deny it is massively shifted towards the female end then you are hopelessly deceived, but i will assume you can see that much.
Now, look at the church as an institution over that same 40 years. Anyone with a brain can see that the church, sadly, has adapted to and followed the culture in almost every way, very simple measure would be to make a similar spectrum with liberal and conservative on it and plot the church 40 years back and plot it today. Its far more towards the liberal side as an institution.
[Let me pause for a math check because this is the point where many women reading would say "oh but MY church is t like that, or my sisters or friends", or some other anecdote. So…note, Ive not written a letter about YOU ar anyone you know, Ive written a verbal mathematical expression of a measurably proven valid generality. By definition, exceptions exist …..they do not disprove the rule though]
So if the church follows culture and culture has shifted to the female side of the spectrum….it is cognitive dissonance to suggest the evil church patriarchy is a growing and dangerous force that you all must circle the estrogen wagons to defend against it.
Quite the contrary. As the spectrum has shifted culturally and in church, all manner….ALL manner of social pathology has drifted ever increasingly to the wrong side. Familial destruction, fatherless kids, no fault divorce, crime, addiction, suicide…..every single one is UP!
Yet you have to make up things like this nonsense while Rome burns around you. Its the height of solipsism and narcissism to speak of something that a church in Appalachia that heats with a coal stove may be teaching (and a very few prominent but fringe national ministries) while the entire emergent evangelical church, where I suspect the majority of you are in attendance at the local "Fellowship" mega church is coddling women and teaching men to step up
Your visceral anger and other emotions will blind you from seeing the painfully obvious.
On to number 8:
This one is standard fare for feminists in general. That sarcasm is intended does not cover for the intentional misrepresentation-at best- of what is claimed or the utter misunderstanding of it -at worst- that the writer demonstrates. No one to my knowledge has ever claimed that every ANYTHING….woman/man/white/black whatever is exactly alike. This claim is a necessary cornerstone though for the wry deconstruction that always follows. It reads well to the mildly informed person because well, Doh, of course everyone is different I mean come on! For people who, when they read a 500 word article see only 500 words, there is no problem with claims of general similarities between gender members, or members of races or classes even. But for those who find more sutext than text because the chip on the shoulder skews the page, the claims of general similarities read like descriptions of some Huxley-esque soma swallowing society where differences are codified and prohibited. It does make for a great thing against which to juxtapose reality, but its a fictitious creation. At some level, as one looks on groups, there will be similarities. Its as simple as saying that there are similarities between dogs. "Oh but a Pekenese is not like a Shepard you idiot". Medicine uses these similarities, psychology makes use of them, and imagine how marriage counseling would work if there was not a single useful generality from which to draw in the initial encounter.
"Sit down here Mr and Mrs Unique Snowflake….I have absolutely no ideas about any common marital issues, no patterns have ever existed and therefore there is not a useful corpus of accumulated knowledge that would form a rough framework from which I can even ask intelligent questions" He smiles conspiratorially, "even if there were some things, you know , (shuffles his feet) and I happened to ask you a question that didn't apply to you, well that would be offensive, and I'm here to heal, not offend, so let's get started because it will likely be months before I can drill into the perfectly unique geometry of your individual snowflakes"
Its so absurd, and the writer knows its absurd, but without the claim that the evil patriarchy wants to make all women and all men the same it eliminates a massive source of emotional momentum. Writing things that mildly informed people will read and immediately react with righteous indignation to such obvious unscientific claims (and besides, solipsism rears up as they just KNOW that they are NOT the same and ANYONE thank you very much, they have been told since they were babies how unique and special they are)
Finally,in number 10, referencing Mark Driscoll is telling. It shows how misunderstood even these fringe ministries are, that they be seen as somehow pro male. Driscoll is decidedly not pro male despite the fact that he talks about sex a lot, and it pisses many Christian women off to be told that sex is a part of a good marriage….how dare he….He violates number 8 above anyway with the gall to claim men like sex….as a gender. Ugh, have we learned nothing? I happen to know a British expat woman whose husband does not like sex. So….nuff on that.
Setting aside, now, my own irritation and in an attempt to wrap up with something other than just reacting to the manifest hate I see in these things, the Bible foretells of this. I often reference it, the running to and fro, the form of knowledge claimed, the falseness of teaching, the unchecked emotionalism, it all fits the plan. I will not offer red meat to the churchian feminists by suggesting how the lord of the air is party to all manner of lies and division because I can predict how that gets repeated. I will say again what I wrote in the comment on that site, that the macro correlation of every single social indicator correlates, both the increase in the bad and the decrease in the good, with the mega trends represented by the REALITY of whats happened to society. That given the overwhelming evidence, some will redouble efforts to do more and more of what is correlated to making things worse and worse is a trend so insidious that one must ask from where those doing so find succor.
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If you search the web for opinions on AppleCare and other extended warranty service programs, you'll find no shortage. I tend not to buy extended warranties or other types of protection plans for most products. As someone who previously worked in retail, I know sales associates are pushed to sell them because they were practically pure profit for the business. I figured if it was such a good deal for the business, how could it be that great a deal for me as a consumer? It's been a very rare occasion where I've spent money on an extended warranty that I've actually used.
AppleCare has always been the exception, something I bought on all my machines and most of my iOS devices. But the more I think about it, it's no longer an "instant buy" and now must be evaluated more carefully based on the individual's needs and lifestyle. AppleCare comes in two flavors, the standard AppleCare that can be purchased for Macs and displays and extends complementary phone support and coverage for manufacturer defects and failed components for a total of three years. (Apple's standard phone support is 90 days while the standard warranty is one year.) Apple has also introduced AppleCare+, available for iOS devices, which extends protection to also include accidental damage (drops, water damage, etc.) with a deductible that varies by device. Notably, AppleCare for iOS devices have only a two year warranty rather than the three offered for computers.
I personally have never found much value in the phone support. As a tech-savvy consumer, I've never had a technical issue that I couldn't resolve myself and had to turn to AppleCare. Typically by the time I call AppleCare, I've diagnosed the problem myself and I know I have a hardware failure. Certainly, there are people who will find the extended phone support valuable, I'm just not one of them.
Extending the manufacturer's warranty another one or two years beyond the standard warranty is where I look for value. I've mostly bought AppleCare for my Macs more as an insurance policy than anything else. When I was in college and just starting out in my career, I didn't necessarily have the expendable income in my budget to pay for a repair or replacement. AppleCare was the insurance that meant if a hardware failure occurred in year two or three, my Mac would be repaired or replaced. It's been argued in an age of fewer moving components in our computers, failures during years two and three of a product's lifespan may be less common. Most computers in Apple's product line now feature solid state hard drives, no optical drive, and embedded RAM. However, Apple's move towards thinner designs means less user-serviceable parts and limited third party repair options which makes repairing or replacing a damaged component more difficult and more expensive.
The last hardware repair of a Mac I can recall was 4–5 years ago in a 2nd generation MacBook Air. The SSD and motherboard failed and the cost to repair would have exceeded the value of the machine. However, in this case I had AppleCare and the failure occurred within the first 3 months of ownership, a period that would already be covered by the standard warranty. I never had another bit of trouble nor has the new owner reported any with the now out of warranty machine. The last two Macs I've purchased have performed flawlessly.
On the other hand, just this summer, I had an occasion to use AppleCare for a blown motherboard on my Apple Cinema Display with only 16 days left in my three years of AppleCare coverage. (Talk about great timing!) In that instance, the $99 I spent on AppleCare saved me from having to go out and unexpectedly spend spending several hundred dollars. (I likely would have bought a refurbished Cinema Display for $799.) Now, my 24" Cinema Display has been repaired and will hopefully last me another 3–4 years when I will replace the display on my terms.
AppleCare for iOS devices becomes even more of a gray area. On one had, you can argue because we take these devices with us everywhere we go they are subjected to more abuse and risk than our computers. On the other, depending on the model purchased and under what circumstances (subsidized or unsubsidized) AppleCare can make up a much larger percentage of the overall purchase. AppleCare for iOS has the benefit of covering up to two incidents of accidental damage with a deductible, which can be very important if you're accident prone or the device is used by children. But it also only extends the warranty on the device for an additional one year, rather than two years with computers.
I've been very fortunate in that I've never had an iOS device broken due to accidental damage and I don't use a case with my iPhone. Additionally, all the members of my immediate family have iPhones and only one had to replace an iPhone due to an unfortunate run-in with the washing machine. It's important to know yourself and you habits, but accidents can happen to anyone. I have used AppleCare+ on a number of occasions to replace iPhone batteries between years one and two. One of the main reasons I keep AppleCare+ on my iPhone is peace of mind. I don't have an Apple Store nearby and I've found having AppleCare+ usually means I can get a new iPhone sent to me by overnight service when something goes wrong with my phone.
However, from a pure cost/benefit analysis AppleCare+ on an iPhone make sense unless you regularly file claims due to accidental damage. According to Apple's website out of warranty service on an iPhone 5, 5s, or 5c is $269 regardless of configuration. The price drops to $199 for an iPhone 4S and $149 for older models. This means if you didn't have coverage on your phone, your worst-case is $269. If you had AppleCare+, you would have paid $99 for the service, plus a $79 service fee, so your total savings would only be $91 for a single incident. Out of warranty battery replacement for an iOS device is a flat fee of $99 while some repairs, such as cracked glass, may cost less than the full service amount. Don't forget, there are also third party repair options or you could do it yourself, just make sure you're getting quality service and parts.
Apple offers a similar out of warranty replacement service for iPads. According toApple's support site, an iPad Air, or a 3rd or 4th generation iPad will cost $299 to service, while a retina iPad mini or an iPad 2 costs $249, and the iPad mini costs $219. Again, when compared with the $99 fee for AppleCare+ and a $49 deductible, the potential savings for a single incident is $151. Battery replacement service is offered for a $99 flat fee and some repairs may be less expensive than the full rate.
After all this rethinking of my AppleCare strategy, where do I stand? Well, it depends. I decided not to buy AppleCare+ for my new iPad mini with retina display. I'm going to keep a close eye on the battery and have it evaluated near month 10 or 11 and see if a replacement is necessary when it's at the end of the warranty period. I'm pretty careful with my devices and of the two, I think the iPad is probably less likely to be the victim of an accident. But if it is, I accept that I'll have to spend $250 for an out of warranty replacement.
The iPhone is a harder call for me. Although I've never needed accidental coverage it's a possibility with the iPhone and the peace of mind AppleCare offers is reassuring. Especially since I don't use a case with my iPhone I can apply that cost towards purchase of AppleCare+. This is what MacSparky calls the $100 Invisible iPhone Case. AppleCare+ is more expensive with an accidental damage claim for the iPhone, but I'm probably 60/40 in favor of AppleCare+ on my next iPhone purchase.
As for my next Mac, I'm really up in the air. I've had very good luck with my last few Macs and if I added up the money I've spent on AppleCare that I haven't used over the years it would probably be enough to buy my next Mac. AppleCare does add to the resale value of a Mac, and I usually sell around the 24–30 month mark when my Mac still has AppleCare left, which is a big bonus for me not to have to deal with potential problems after a sale. Still, I'm probably 60/40 against AppleCare on my next Mac purchase.
Of course, to each their own. You need to evaluate your device lifestyle, ability to pay for an unexpected repair or replacement, and tolerance for risk. If I had kids who used my iPad or iPhone, AppleCare+ would be a no-brainer. You should also evaluate the availability of an out of warranty repair as the options I quoted above are only for the United States and are subject to change. The takeaway for me is that AppleCare was a decision I needed to give more thought rather than just automatically adding it on to my Mac or iOS purchase, and I think it's good for everyone to evaluate these things from time-to-time.
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My dad says this every time he encounters the newest technological miracle or techy technique. The following is a group of more reasons to love this e-age and how it can help you grow in faith. Of course, you can hit Catholic Online, Catholic Answers, and the blogosphere on your first few rounds, but what if you want to find some new sources?
I've compiled a little list of free, cheap, or unique Catholic and/or general Christian resources found online. It's a list, it's a long one, bear with me, and read the whole thing. I guarantee you'll find something you like!
If I get your suggestions and the list grows enough, I'll make a page and plug your blog as thanks for suggesting!
* A friend and TOB co-teacher works for Uppercase Living, which has some attractive Christian inspirational sticky messages in an online store. These are so neat, I'm putting one in my bathroom so I see it every morning and night.
*Many G.K. Chesterton books are a dollar each on Barnes and Noble's Nook e-store. If you don't have a Nook, you can download the software for FREE from B&N and read it on your computer. Let's say a few months down the road it hits you: I must buy a Nook. Who could blame you? All of your B&N purchases are stored on your account. No need to re-purchase. Check out these Catholic fiction writers too: Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Ron Hansen, and these. Nerd-dom rocks.
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*There are many Catholic podcasts out there including my favorite, The Catholic Guy Show. The Disciples with Microphones has compiled a list of Catholic podcasts, organized into categories. Hunky dory!
*I enjoy Patrick Madrid's apologetics Open Line show on EWTN Radio, Thursdays at 3pm EST. If you're like me and you have no idea which radio station that is in your hometown, click on one of these links and it will start streaming.
*This entire site, FreeForCatholics.com, is a Catholic coupon clipper's digital heaven. Seriously, free stuff. And of course, it's not just for Catholics. Anyone is welcome to get some free stuff!
*Do you have a spiritual director yet? I don't have one yet, but while I'm looking for one, I consult this online Catholic Spiritual Direction site.
*Of course this isn't all about getting. We're here to evangelize, are we not? How could I get away with my awesome post title if I don't mention that? You can donate to members of FOCUS who have to raise their own salaries in exchange for prayer intentions and spreading Christ's word to college students. There are MANY places to donate online to Catholic and Christian organizations, but that one will put your money in the trenches, feeding the mouths before they speak to those who will run the world in a few short years.
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*You don't have to spend money to do some good online. Facebook. No, really. Don't shy away from praising Him in a status message every once in a while. If your friends don't like it, they can ignore it. Hopefully filling the newsfeed with positive messages and gratitude towards the One who brought us here will make a few changes. It may make others more comfortable with sharing their praises in "public places." For some reason, so many of us fall for the idea that we should be embarrassed by our faith. Be one in the Fellowship of the Unashamed.
*One last Facebook tip: go on there and tell people you Love them. Not "luv" and not "love ya." Spend some time to make a connection with someone you haven't spent much time with. Grab their email or send them a message and tell them you Love them. People don't mind being told someone Loves them, in fact it will probably make their day. Cousins, old friends, moms, dads, grandparents (especially if they're cool enough to be on the Interwebs), and significant others: let them know what they mean to you (Note: I didn't condone unleashing on your crush). Believe me, when you don't have the chance to tell someone anymore, you wonder about how many opportunities you had to tell them.
*Not in a Catholic-rich area? Go to Meetup.com and look for a Catholic group. Maybe there's an age appropriate group, a mom or dad group, a book group, or a Dungeons and Dragons for Catholics group. Whatever floats your boat. If it's not on there, CREATE IT. Chances are, there are people in the area who want someone to begin something and SOMEONE should. Hint, hint. It is just as easy as arranging a dinner with your friends.
* Freeccm.com is a music hub for Christian tunes and artists. It will point you in the direction of new artists for FREE. Music can't sound better than that.
*Using the code VAL11 on CatholicMatch.com gives you 6 months of a subscription for $10/month, saving you up to 60%. You spend that much on coffee in a week. Caffeinate your Love life instead on a site dedicated to Catholic dating.
*Got Bible? Need to copy and paste Bible? USCCB has you covered. Thanks guys!
*CatholicJobs.com … an explanation would be redundant.
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*This site offers a way to track… that which you need to track when you're following NFP. I've tweeted with them before and they tell me Fertile View also offers one-on-one consultations with engaged couples.
*There are probably many Catholic dad and mom community sites out there, but here are two.
*The Rosary Army has an inspired mission: "Rosary Army freely provides online instructions on how to make, pray and give away all-twine knotted rosaries either to individuals or organizations of their choosing or for Rosary Army's worldwide distribution to those in need. Rosary Army will provide one free handmade all-twine knotted rosary to any individual of any faith around the world." Pay it forward multiplied indefinitely!
*Thinking about taking a mission trip? Want to keep it Catholic? Here you go and here you go. There are TONS of Christian mission trip resources, so here is the Google search. Be sure to go on one that fits in with your beliefs. If they're promoting contraception to "control population" or they're promoting embryonic stem cell vaccines, run!
You made it! Believe me, it's my job to research and I could go on for weeks with these links. I play hopscotch with Google all day, so if there's something for which you're searching (you know, something you can find on the Internet) email me at my jewelry store account and I'll be happy to find it.
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American Express and Russian Standard Bank (RSB) today announced an agreement for RSB to exclusively issue and market American Express Card products in Russia. These RSB-issued cards will display the classic look of traditional American Express Cards issued around the world and will be accepted on the American Express global merchant network.
RSB will issue the first Russian ruble-denominated American Express Cards and can also issue US dollar-denominated American Express Cards. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.
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