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Portfolio Management Statement for the Northern Victorian Rivers 2012-13
Commonwealth Environmental Water Office
Update prepared: 14 March 2013
Goulburn-Broken catchment
Photo by Simon Banks © CEWO
This portfolio management statement outlines the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's (CEWO) current approach to the use, carryover and trade of Commonwealth environmental water in the Northern Victorian Rivers for the remainder of the 2012-13 water year. The Northern Victorian Rivers are defined in this statement as the Goulburn, Campaspe, Loddon, Broken, Ovens and Wimmera-Mallee catchments.
This statement will continue to be updated as the approach to portfolio management is adjusted in response to actual seasonal conditions. The next routine update is anticipated around June/July 2013, however further updates may be released in response to a significant change in circumstances.
Recent Water Availability
Water availability in the Northern Victorian Rivers has been high. Allocations to High Reliability Water Shares are at 100%. No allocations have been made to Low Reliability Water Shares, except for those in the Campaspe and Broken, which are at 100%. Current capacity in key storages is approximately: Lake Eildon 77%, Waranga Basin 41%, Lake Eppalock 82% and Cairn Curran Reservoir 75%.
Entitlement type | Entitlement Held (GL) | Carryover from 2011-12 (GL) | New allocations in 2012-13 (GL) | Allocation transferred for delivery in 2012-13 (GL) | Current Commonwealth allocations (GL) | Anticipated carryover to 2013-14 (GL) |
Loddon (High Reliability) | 2.8 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Loddon (Low Reliability) | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Campaspe (High Reliability) |
6.5 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Campaspe (Low Reliability) |
0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Goulburn-Broken (High Reliability) |
203.7 | 0.1 | 191.4 | 84.7 | 106.7 | 0.0 - 20.0 |
Goulburn-Broken (Low Reliability) |
11.4 | 10.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 10.0 | |
Ovens (High Reliability) | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Wimmera-Mallee (Headworks Water Allowance) | 28.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Total – Northern Victorian Rivers | 253.4 | 10.2 | 200.6 | 94.4 | 116.8 | 0.0 - 20.0 |
Total – Southern Connected Basin2 | 1077.5 | 232.1 | 917.4 - 937.7 | 721.6 | 445.7 - 465.9 | 0.0 - 250.0 |
- Slight discrepancies may exist due to rounding.
- Southern Connected Basin includes the following hydrologically connected catchments: Goulburn, Campaspe, Loddon, Murray (Vic, SA and NSW), Lower Darling and Murrumbidgee.
Commonwealth environmental water availablity and use in 2012-13 (up to 28 February 2013)
211 GL of carryover and new allocations have been credited to CEWO accounts in the Northern Victorian Rivers in 2012-13.
Approximately 94 GL of allocation from Northern Victorian Rivers entitlements was used for environmental watering within the Northern Victorian Rivers to support the protection and restoration of water dependant ecosystems; breeding and recruitment of native fish; the maintenance of riparian vegetation communities; and to support connectivity between the Northern Victorian tributaries and the Murray River.
On 7 December 2012, the Commonwealth secured the purchase of 28 GL of Headworks Water Allowance by entering into a deed of supply by agreement with Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water Corporation. No allocations are currently available against this entitlement. CEWO is in discussions with stakeholders on the most effective use of these holdings to deliver environmental outcomes within the Wimmera catchment.
Anticipated future water availability and use in remainder of 2012-13 (post 28 February 2013)
117 GL of Commonwealth environmental water is currently held in the Northern Victorian Rivers.
The Commonwealth environmental water holdings are managed on a system-wide basis and available water may be transferred between catchments in the Southern Connected Basin to meet environmental needs. Currently the CEWO has at least 329 GL of water available in 2012-13 from entitlements held elsewhere in the Southern Connected Basin. If required, a percentage of this water may be utilised in the Northern Victorian Rivers in 2012-13 (subject to trading rules and account limits).
CEWO expects to use the majority of allocations held within the Northern Victorian Rivers, and some allocations from the Mid-Murray, to undertake environmental watering within the region over the next three months, subject to seasonal and operational considerations. This water will be used to continue to support the protection and restoration of water dependant ecosystems, breeding and recruitment of native fish; the maintenance of riparian vegetation communities; and to support connectivity between the Northern Victorian tributaries and the Murray River.
Additional information on environmental water use in the Southern Connected Basin is available at Southern catchments.
Trade in 2012-13
The Commonwealth Water Act 2007 provides for the trade of Commonwealth environmental water (allocations and entitlements) and specifies the conditions under which trade may occur. No Commonwealth environmental water has been traded this year in the Northern Victorian Rivers. Trade of allocations by other water users has been most active in the Goulburn region, with no trading activity in the Broken region. The volume and price of allocation traded by other water users throughout the Southern Connected Basin has trended up across the water year, with the total value of trade reaching a peak in January.
CEWO is not intending to trade allocations or permanent entitlement in the Northern Victorian Rivers over the remainder of 2012-13. Further, CEWO does not intend to trade anywhere until it has addressed matters arising from the making of the Basin Plan and issues that were raised in recent consultation with industry groups. These include implementing protocols to address concerns about the potential for insider trading.
All intentions are largely unchanged from those expressed in the Statement released in December 2012 and further information would be made widely available should they change.
Carryover of Commonwealth environmental water into 2013-14
Based on currently available water and anticipated use, and taking into account State rules on transferring water, CEWO estimates that it will carryover up to 250 GL in the Southern Connected Basin, of which up to 20 GL might be in Northern Victorian Rivers accounts. The quantity actually carried over will largely depend on the volume of environmental watering that occurs in the remainder of 2012-13, which is subject to seasonal and operational considerations.
Carryover can be used to implement environmental water options from early 2013-14. Further information about carryover of Commonwealth environmental water can be found here: Information on carryover.
Proportion of Northern Victorian Rivers irrigation entitlements held by Commonwealth (by total long-term average annual yield)
Regulated Commonwealth allocations in the Northern Victorian Rivers as a proportion of major storage capacity
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KARACHI - Pakistan's near-term risk of political instability has risen in recent months, but the country's sovereign rating of B- with a stable outlook remains unchanged, ratings agency Standard & Poor's said.
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"Near-term risks of major political instability have risen over the past several months as a three-way tussle between the judiciary, executive, and the military plays out," said Agost Benard, an analyst for S&P who follows Pakistan.
However S&P said it had incorporated the ongoing political and security risk in its outlook for Pakistan.
"The stable rating outlook balances adequate external liquidity against vulnerability stemming from ongoing structural fiscal weaknesses and significant political and security risk," said Benard.
Ratings for Pakistan could be lowered if there was a major slippage in policy which could result in a balance of payments crisis or increasing public debt.
The current account deficit which was recorded at a provisional deficit of $2.633 billion in the first seven months of the 2011/12 fiscal year, compared with a deficit of $96 million in the same period last year.
"Pressures on balance of payments that we foreshadowed earlier are now becoming apparent, but the reserves cushion remains adequate for the time being," said Benard.
"External liquidity thus remains adequate but could become a pressure point in the event of an exogenous shock or if donor inflows diminish."

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Favourite and longshot backers must have picked up some winnings at Kranji in the first two races on Friday night when a top fancy and an outsider landed the spoils. After the two $14 joint favourites Pasha Khan and Hearts filled the first two places in the opening event, the $35,000 Maiden race over 1000m, a huge upset was to follow in the $65,000 Restricted Maiden (2 & 3YO) race over 1200m when $200 pop Silveron Warrior came swooping down the outside to defeat another roughie, $245 shot Code Red (Subramaniam Anandan) by a length. After enjoying a soft lead, Code Red looked home and hosed when he pinched two lengths at the 200m, but he had no answer when the Leslie Khoo-trained debutant Silveron Warrior (Muhd Firdaus) came from a midfield spot with a powerful turn of foot inside the last 600m.
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American Gladiator (Ivaldo Santana, $17) ran third another head away while the other well-backed horse, $15 favourite Pioneer Seven (Joao Moreira) proved a costly failure by running last. Khoo said he had expected a forward run from Silveron Warrior, who is raced by the same connections behind handy middle-distance performer Silveron Wings (prepared by Dr Yeoh Kheng Chye), but was a little taken by surprise by the win. "He has worked okay and I thought he could run a place but not win," said Khoo. "He was not 100% fit, but I think he was able to win because he was not in a very strong field." Firdaus said the instructions to lead were quickly dismissed when he found himself in midfield as they went battle stations in front. "I was told to lead but the pace was too quick for him. I decided to take a sit instead," said Firdaus who was at his fifth win for the year. "He was travelling well and responded to my riding in the home straight. I didn't want to use the stick too much as he's at his first run, but in the end, he was giving his best when I used it on him." Silveron Warrior, who cost only NZ$21,000 as a two-year-old, is by Danehill sire Spartacus out of the Elnadim mare Miss Muga.


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18 April 2012
The Laughing Gravy
154-156 Blackfriars Road
020 7998 1707
John Prendergast
Parenthood opens up many new facets to your life and makes you obsessed with sh*t. There I have said it, maybe I shouldn't go all faecal when chatting about food but that's what I do now so chin up and bear it.
Only the guys from CSI and Tony Robinson's Time Team are more obsessed with poo than a new parent. You analyse the colour, consistency and regularity and spend hours discussing it without even realising.
Baldrick and his gang are worse however as they surmised an amphitheatre had been constructed just outside Doncaster because they had found a 1000 year old plop belonging to Augustus Aureallarse.
So it was a relief for me and the Mrs to leave the confines of our abode, leaving the 'sh*t machine' at home, and venture out for some grub to a bar that on its website promises it is 'one of London's best kept secrets.'
It is rather stuck in the hinterland between the Elephant and Blackfriars/Waterloo but this makes it more convenient to a number of crowds if you think about it.
Before entering I was rather expecting above average pub grub and a bit of spit and sawdust honesty in the venue. But this place is more restaurant/bar than the other way around and whilst there is room for boozers the emphasis is on the food.
The décor is open, well lit and welcoming as were the friendly staff who showed us to our seats next to an old piano. Thankfully the Mrs didn't indulge us with her musical gifts as her violin efforts of late would have Sherlock Holmes cringing with embarrassment.
Happily ensconced we chatted 'adult chat' (not that type, we're married now) whilst we waited for our grub to arrive. The menu itself was an impressive list catering for veggies and those intolerant to wheat with an array of dishes.
We shared our salad which was a well presented and dressed meal with nice slivers of duck spread throughout it. I did think at one stage that it could have done with more duck, but on reflection the zing of the dressing, pepper from the leaves and rich tasty morsels of duck was more than enough.
One other starter was particulary eye-catching and showed the level of skill and eye for detail the chef has at the Gravy as what appeared to be two giant cherries, a al fruit machine stylee, floated past our eyes.
They were in fact chicken liver and foie gras mousse in black cherry jelly. A feast for the eyes and the kind of presentation that brings a smile to your face.
The mains were not quite as pretty, still very well presented, but were cracking dishes packed full of vim and flavour.
The lamb was cooked to a lovely tender texture and the piccalilli and vegetable mix that accompanied it gave it layers of taste from zing to smooth and many in between.
A couple of well cooked fondant spuds rounded off a marvellous dish.The fish was also a cracker again cooked with care, with the John Dory punching out of a hefty flavour combination that came with it. Hard to fault either dish, which were a touch pricey but worth every single penny.
We settled on one dessert but it was a lovely twist of an old favourite, crumble and custard. You could really taste the white chocolate that gave the sauce an unusual but pleasing twist and soothed the sharpness of the berries in the crumble. By the way, hazelnuts in the topping is a mark of genius.
With nights out at a premium for us new parents we really felt our evening at the Gravy was one well spent, and one that should be repeated more importantly.
I did wonder on leaving how this place was one of the Capital's 'best kept secrets', that's how impressed I was by the fare on offer.
Having checked on tripadvisor.com when I got home it seems the secret is very much out as the Gravy is ranked tenth out of 9,546 eateries in the capital having been reviewed 276 times by casual punters.
A great evening was rounded off well as I was able to take my wife in The Ring on the way home. Because of course the boxing themed pub is only a stone's throw away, ahem.
The Damage
Laphroaig cured Barbary duck breast,
candied truffle chestnut and pickled salsify salad £7.50
Pan fried John Dory fillet with purple sprouting broccoli,
sugar snap peas and beans tossed in butter and wild garlic with herb crushed potatoes £18.50
West country organic cider-marinated lamb rump with herb-infused fondant potatoes,
broad bean piccalilli and crushed truffle minted pea and broad beans £18.50
Wild forest berries, hazelnut and elderberry wine crumble with white chocolate custard £7
Bottle of Ponte Pietra 2010 - White Wine £16
Total £67.50
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Realizing ESL with Scalable Transaction-Level ModelsContributor: Mentor Graphics Corp. May 3, 2010 -- The effectiveness and productivity of RTL modeling and verification techniques are sinking under the weight of growing design complexity. Traditional design and verification methodologies were not intended to address the billions of transistors, intricate hardware/ software interfaces, and complex device architectures of today's consumer, mobile, networking, and storage systems. As a result, design flows will inevitably shift toward the electronic system level (ESL). ESL refers to a set of methodologies that focus on the architecture of the design, raising the level of abstraction for design, modeling, and validation above the RTL. ESL lets designers quickly analyze various architectural tradeoffs between power, performance, and area as well as create virtual prototypes for software development and hardware/ software integration. Configuring and verifying multi-core hardware/ software architectures, and ensuring that the system can properly handle its load and data traffic capacities early on, are essential to gaining a competitive advantage. Using abstract transaction-level models, the ESL approach lets software teams begin coding much earlier in the design cycle. Transaction-level hardware descriptions provide much faster simulation times, making it a viable solution for architectural analysis, software development, and hardware/ software co-verification. Transaction-level modeling (TLM) allows more compact descriptions because hardware system block interfaces are described using function calls to communicate, versus detailed signal-level handshakes, significantly reducing simulation time. The question, however, is not whether these advantages justify moving up a level of abstraction. The question is how to overcome the barriers to widespread adoption of ESL architectural design and virtual prototyping. These barriers, as expressed by potential users, can be traced to the history of transaction models and the way they have been used:
Fortunately, these concerns have been addressed with the OSCI TLM2 standard and a unique scalable TLM methodology built around the Vista™ Model Builder technology from Mentor Graphics®. This article is divided into two main sections and a summary of benefits. The first section describes how the three obstacles to ESL adoption have been addressed by the higher abstraction of the TLM2 standard, the flexibility of scalable transaction-level models, and the facility of the automated Vista Model Builder process. Overcoming the obstacles to ESL adoptionMoving modeling, validation, and analysis above the RTL requires a mechanism that models communication and functionality at a higher level. TLM provides this by abstracting cycle-by-cycle hardware signal changes as function calls, using higher-level descriptions and more abstract data objects. However, there are different ways to build transaction-level models, but only if it is done correctly will the barriers to ESL adoption come down. First on the scene were proprietary models. The biggest problem with proprietary transaction-level models is that they are not interoperable. These custom-built models are created for very specific purposes. Because their applicability is limited, companies are reluctant to invest in them. Furthermore, because each company has its own way to design and define how the model is structured and how they communicate with each other, these models require custom wrappers to connect them into a target platform, which make them both expensive and slow. This makes it impractical if not impossible to leverage these models across the industry. Before a TLM standard existed, the most effective transaction-level model usage was confined to discrete situations that only companies with large modeling resources could afford. The lack of a standard effectively blocked deployment of ESL at that time. The raison d'ętre of standards is to make models reusable and interoperable throughout the design community. Once the TLM1 standard was established, companies felt much more comfortable investing in transaction-level modeling, knowing that the models were sustainable. However, the TLM1 standard fell short on interoperability and did not deliver the expected simulation boost, again frustrating the move to ESL. These shortcomings were recognized by the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) standards body and explained in the OSCI TLM2 User Manual (Version 2.0, Draft-2, November 2007). The TLM1 standard defined a set of core interfaces for transporting transactions by value or const reference. This set of interfaces is being used successfully in some applications, but has three shortcomings with respect to the modeling of memory-mapped busses and other on-chip communication networks:
TLM2 overcame the first obstacle for adoption of ESL by establishing the infrastructure for ESL design across the industry and by supporting reuse and interoperability among IP, semiconductor, and system companies. Yet interoperability and portability alone are not enough. There is a need to reduce the modeling effort required to create the transaction models in order to justify the level of investment and improve productivity at the electronic system level. The answer was a single scalable model that handles all ESL abstraction levels and design tasks. Mentor Graphics achieved this degree of scalability through a new modeling concept based on the clear separation between communication, functionality, and the architectural aspects of timing and power.
By keeping functionality and timing decoupled from each other, scalable transaction-level models allow timing detail to be added, changed, or subtracted as needed and maintains a single behavioral description throughout the design flow. This has an enormous impact by simplifying code complexity and the ability to make frequent changes to a design. If we take a simple direct memory access (DMA) as an example, the pure, high-level functional model of a basic DMA operation can be written with two or three lines of code. When it becomes necessary to model the timing of all the individual transactions to get an approximation of the time required for the transfers, the DMA representation can increase in detail from three to 30 lines of code, and simulation is ten times slower. When it is appropriate to apply the even more detailed cycle accurate transaction-level model, the description explodes in size to hundreds of lines of code. Simulation speed slows down by another order of magnitude, and it is much more difficult to modify the code. Now that this scalable modeling strategy was established, a tool was needed that would make these models easy to create. Built on top of the scalable transaction-level model methodology, Vista Model Builder is in essence a modeling wizard that lets users define the interfaces and the architectural attributes of the model. Model Builder's easy to understand graphical interface allows users to define the basic elements of the transaction-level model and generate a model "skeleton" very quickly. With Model Builder, users can either type a few lines of code or select a few options, and it will generate a model that has hundreds of lines of code, saving a significant amount of time even for basic creation of the model. As it can be very complex to model timing and power at the transaction level, Model Builder timing and power wizards provide policies that let users define timing and power in an intuitive way, which saves a lot of time in terms of modeling investment. The policies are captured in a very simple table. When the user hits the generate button, they get the complete model, generated for them in a consistent way. Communication is defined using ports and protocols; a loosely timed (LT) layer models pure, untimed functionality; and an approximately timed (AT) layer defines timing and power information reflecting the architectural structure. LT and AT layers are then combined into a single scalable LT+AT model. Once such a layered model structure is achieved, architectural exploration becomes much more feasible. The LT+AT layered approach also allows a single source model to be used for different design tasks. Software validation can be done by switching off the AT layers in the virtual prototype in order to run pure untimed hardware/software simulations. Conversely, users can turn on the AT layer for performance analysis, when timing and power information is needed. Model Builder provides a way to apply timing and power attributes side by side with the functional description — reflecting various implementation and architectural scenarios — without any functional change. The transaction-level model's core functionality remains separate and unaffected. Designers can actually test the impact of architectural changes without costly recoding. For example, a variety of macro-architectures can be tested by applying specific buffering and pipeline policies; various communication protocols can be applied; different input-to-output relationships can be used to model different IP algorithms; and different burst sizes can be specified to model a bus matrix, all with unique timing and power characteristics. When it's time to synthesize a scalable transaction-level model to RTL, high-level synthesis (HLS) tools let users apply different constraints to the same, unmodified functional model, resulting in different RTL implementations. Thus, designers need to model the transaction-level functionality only once during the whole lifetime of a particular block. Even when constraints change, the RTL implementation will change, but the LT functionality remains untouched. Timing and power, in the context of TLM, is the way transactions are distributed and consume power over time based on the internal implementation and system characteristics. These architectural considerations are also referred to as policies of the model, and in the transaction-level model, they may relate to specific ports and transactions. For example, an LT transaction may send a complete packet of data over the port. Such a transfer is executed using one function call in the LT model. When all models are abstracted to this level, simulation speed is dramatically increased, and much faster validation of the functionality under system-level scenarios is possible. When performance is to be explored, the knowledge about how this packet is transmitted is essential. Such packets are usually broken into smaller chunks that depend on the buffering characteristics, protocol, interconnect, and other factors. Different blocks may also process and transmit data differently based on their micro-architecture. An internal implementation may require breaking a packet into smaller groups that are processed in parallel. Model Builder allows these characteristics to be defined intuitively, and allows users to quickly explore various macro-architecture scenarios and implementation alternatives very quickly. A tool that enables models to quickly exhibit very different architectural and implementation characteristics can be used to optimize a single block and, more importantly, to optimize the entire system. Users may apply different policies to different blocks, and test them in a system context without implementing a single block in RTL. Defining characteristics at the interface level lets the designer quickly model the impact of architectural decisions in a top-down approach without the need to modify the model behavior and without the tedious design work of RTL implementation. This what-if approach allows quick experimentation with a multitude of architectural possibilities, so that architectural recommendations can be quickly provided to the RTL implementation team as timing and power constraints for each block. Summary of benefitsThe introduction of the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) TLM2 standard brought the promise of ESL within reach. Scalable transaction-level models supply the infrastructure for the entire ESL design flow. With Vista Model Builder, Mentor Graphics is the only company today to deliver a truly scalable TLM2 methodology and the tools to apply it in a structured, automated, and replicable way. It is critical to have simplified modeling practices and tools, which filter out language and complex semantics issues and allow designers to concentrate on pure functionality and architectural issues. Mentor's Vista Model Builder has been designed to meet this need, allowing fast and efficient transaction-level model creation. The scalable transaction-level model approach allows users to quickly explore various complex micro-architecture alternatives in the system context with minimal coding effort while keeping the code representing the functionality intact.
By Yossi Veller and Rami Rachamin Yossi Veller is the chief scientist in the Mentor Graphics ESL Division. During his long software career, Yossi has led ADA compiler, VHDL, and C simulation development groups. He was also the CTO of Summit Design. He holds degrees in computer science, mathematics, and electrical engineering. Rami Rachamim is a Product Marketing Manager in the Mentor Graphics ESL Division. Among his accomplishments during 20-plus years in electrical engineering, Mr. Rachamim was a founder and VP of Marketing at Summit Design. He earned a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering with honors from Tel Aviv University in 1988. | ||||
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Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch & Roger Allam star in the second series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. By John Finnemore ('The News Quiz', 'That Mitchell & Webb Sound')Run by the forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (an unfortunate marriage, namewise, but in Carolyn's opinion, marginally better than Carolyn Shappey-Knapp), her two pilots are the smooth, experienced and almost-certainly-fired-by-a-big-airline-for-all-round naughtiness Douglas, and struggling almost-competent pilot and sweaty man Martin. All-round help is provided by Carolyn's near-idiot son, Arthur...In this fifth episode - 'Kuala Lumpur' - a week on stand-by at the airfield gives Arthur an opportunity to brush up on his stewarding skills, while Douglas seems to have disappeared. And why is everyone terrified of Dirk the groundsman...?'Unexpectedly brilliant' - Time Out
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Just not ready...
I decided that I'm just not quite ready to un-decorate my house. I said this to David last night and he said, "It's our house; we can do what we want." So I decided that at least for now I'm not taking down the tree. Instead, I'm going to decorate it for Mardi Gras. I'll take the ornaments off and pack them away. And then I'll redecorate it with Mardi Gras beads and whatever else I come up with. I've got a hair appointment in just a bit so it will have to wait until tomorrow. However, I did this:
And then remembered I had some purple lights so I added them:
I figure that during the cold, dreary winter we need all the cheer we can muster. And what is cheerier than a pirate wearing a Mardi Gras mask? Besides, I am planning to host a Mardi Gras party this year so that's my excuse. As if I need one. ;)
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I think this is a great idea!! I LOVE the lights...that definitely made it. Enjoy!! Wendy B.
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Thanks! I came down with a stomach virus so I haven't done anything else since but today I plan to put away the specifically Christmas stuff and remove the ornaments from the tree. Then hopefully I can make the switch to Mardi Gras tomorrow.
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1. | Charmander | ||
Even the newborns have flaming tails. Unfamiliar with fire, babies are said to accidentally burn themselves. The flame on its tail show the strength of its life force. If it is weak, the flame also burns weakly. If it is healthy, the flame burns brightly. Obviously prefers hot places. When it rains, steam is said to spout from the tip of its tail. I love you Charmander!
2. | Charmander | ||
The entity of brick-shitting amazingness. It is an orange f*cking dinosaur with Fire on its tail. It can breathe fire, slash rocks to death with steel-claws and pretty much beat your shit. Do not mess with charmander. Do NOT mess with charmander. Guy #1 - What was that?
Guy #2 - I think it was a Charmander! Guy #1 - OH. TITS! |
3. | Charmander | ||
1. To refer to someone who is complaining/whining. 2. To complain/whine. 1.
John: I hate playing Mario Kart with you guys. I suck so bad. Brynner: Charmander? 2. John: I hate playing Mario Kart with you guys. I suck so bad. Sean: Quit charmandering. |
4. | charmander | ||
the act of lighting a woman's asshole on fire and then licking it Jerry: Got my first date with Mariah tonight
Tyrell: Oh well you know what you gotta do Jerry: Whats that? Tyrell: You gotta charmander that ass homie! Jerry: Clearly |
5. | Charmander | ||
A particularly vicious red-headed whore. There have been reports of Charmanders swallowing men whole by way of their gaping and fiery vagina's. Doug: What happened to Ted last night?
Mike: Oh he disappeared with that Charmander last night. |
6. | Charmander | ||
noun 1.)A hot ginger. 2.)An attractive redhead. Rupert Grint is a charmander.
7. | Charmander | ||
It is supposedly a red lizard with a match on its tail. This suposed match represents its life force.If it were to run out then the charmander would turn into ashs. Also, this species of pokemon seems to be very stupid as all it can say is Char and Charmander. It can only understand very simple commands- such as bite or lick. Furthermore, its red and really really whiney. My love for you is like an eternal flame on a charmanders tail.
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What Would You Like to See in the Vacant Wheeler Building?
What would you like to see in this vacant building located on Rt. 27 in Westminster?
The former Wheeler Building, located at 112 Railroad Ave. (Rt. 27) was last used as a car dealership but has been vacant for several years.
Tell us in comments, what would you like to see in the former Wheeler Building?
The previous board of Commissioners planned to give the building to the nonprofit health clinic Access Carroll for their expansion efforts but the current board of Commissioners changed those plans with hopes of selling the property.The property remains vacant. Access Carroll will be expanding into a different space on Distillery Drive where Human Service Programs (HSP) is housed.
The former Wheeler Building has a total of 23,590 square feet on three levels, with 1.51 acres of land, most of which is paved, according to a county document.
In the spring of 2011, the county put the property on the market with the note, "bids under $1,500,000 will not be accepted."
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Bob Batz
6:46 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
They had a chance to rent the building, with the option to buy, for a Pennsyvania Dutch Farmers market type business, but would not rent it to the party involved, now it still sits empty. The spaces were all rented out and ready to go, but they got cut off at the knees, thanks to the commissioners. Our government at work......
8:03 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Was just thinking that Westminster needs a place called "Date Night" putt-putt, bowling, dancing, music, cafe, for kids until say unitl 10 o'clock and adults after that. nicely done and high end if possible. Just a thought.
Kym Byrnes
9:18 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Claire, a friend of mine suggested to me some time ago that it should be a Karaoke disco bar :) Not sure that would fly in Westminster, but would certainly be a fun place for a date.
Buck Harmon
8:45 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Did the Commissioners provide a reason not to rent it to the Market business?
8:52 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
I suggest a Workforce Training Center for the Trades - Manufacturing, Welding, HVAC, OSHA Safety, etc. where Carroll Community College and partners could deliver both entry level and advanced skills training for county businesses and agencies.
Larry Robinson
10:22 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Try a Museum for Westminster or Carroll County. We have a rich history here if people would just use it.
Larry Robinson
RJ Teich
10:31 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Wegmans! Westminster is in dire need of a Wegmans (STAT!).
Isabel DeFeo
10:43 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
While they're waiting to sell it, it would nice to see it rented - maybe some short term contract? I wonder if they have been approached by anyone other than the ones mentioend above. Some income from it would be better than no income.
romeo valianti
6:31 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012
I would like to see the Commissioners move their main offices there. They would hvae more room . Also since Rob-em Faizier did not like the Governor's picture hanging in the lobby of the County office building. Plus the fact she wanted to start a bible class , I think it would be proper to turn over that building for strictly the Commissioners use. Also if the State Legislature would ever pass the non-profit casino legislation, that would be aperfect location for the county to hold casino nites there .
romeo valianti
2:24 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012
Will someone please tell me , why was this building was purchased ? I may be wrong , I understand it was to move the Sheriff's office there. If that is right, what happen to that idea?. Was it not good enough for the Sheriff's offoce? If the county cant use this building, the Commissioners ought to place this building at a public auction.
Buck Harmon
8:19 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
Did the Commissioners actually sell the Wheeler Building....?
romeo valianti
11:53 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
I think it would be a perfect location for Ms. Frazier to hold her church services there. She could also move her Commissioners office there plus be the preacher. Carroll County could get the credit for having the only church and government related building in the United States. Since Ms. Frazier hates to pay personnel for their services, she can also select volunteers for Carroll County government work. Ms Frazier knows about voluntarism, a similar job she held under the Ehrlich Administration when she worked for the State Of Maryland, after she lost her bid for re-election as Commissioner several years ago. Since she does not like to see Governor Martin O'Malley's picture hanging on the lobby of the Carroll County Office building, I suggest she find the largest picture of her self qnd hang it on this building lobby and rename the building "THE FRAZIER BUILDING."


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Archive for March 30, 2012
Chapter Two, Part 4
March 30, 2012She flew over and peeked out the peephole. She couldn't see anyone in the hallway which struck her as odd since she'd gotten to the door so quickly. She took off the chain and opened it, looking down the hall to either side. It was empty. She glanced down and saw a small, rectangular box placed perfectly in the middle of the floor as if it had been set there very carefully. She hesitated before picking it up. Her full name was written on the top in cursive, the penmanship beautiful and flowing.
It looked like some kind of jewelry box. She took it to the table and set it down in front of her, regarding it for a few minutes. As long as she didn't know what was in it there was the possibility that it could be from Wil, and despite her anger and hurt and rejection she found that she desperately, pathetically wanted it to be from Wil.
Curiosity eventually got the better of her and so she lifted off the top and peered inside.
Within lay a pendant on a black cord necklace. She lifted it out carefully. The pendant was some kind of very hard clay or ceramic, and three-cornered. It resembled a crude stylized fox head.
Everything was just getting more strange. She had no idea who would give her a fox necklace. Or how the person who'd dropped it off had managed to get out of the hall so quickly and silently. She was second from the farthest end. If anyone had ducked into the outer stairwell she would certainly have heard the door, which was large with loud hydraulics.
She tucked the necklace back in the box and took it to the kitchen. She had a small drawer she reserved for things she wanted to keep track of. She tucked the box in the front but as she was about to close the drawer again something unfamiliar caught her eye. There was a dark shape sticking out slightly from under a sheet of paper a bit further back. Since her organization system for this drawer was to shove things in haphazardly it was a mess but it didn't usually contain anything but paper. She shifted the sheet in question and jerked her hand back as what it concealed came into view.
A gun. There was a gun in her drawer.
She'd never owned a gun. She'd never held a gun. Yet there was a gun in front of her, in her home, in a drawer she reserved for things she felt were important. She stared at it in shock, wondering how, how such a thing came to be in her possession. There was no way she'd have a gun in her home voluntarily.
She grabbed a paper towel and gingerly picked up the gun by the grip, careful not to get any of her fingerprints on it. She carried it to the table. It was a handgun, she guessed, small, black and sleek. She didn't know anything about guns in general but this one seemed fairly small, the word 'STONE' spelled out along the top of the grip. She pulled her laptop over and after a quick Google search determined that it was a Stone LCP; a very small pistol designed for concealed carry and self-defense. She picked it up again, a bit surprised at how lightweight it was. The site said it was made of steel and polymer and she had to admit that it was a tiny bit thrilling to be holding a gun. Thrilling or not, though, she knew she had to turn it over to the police. Whatever invisible things were going on with her this gun was solid, real and undeniable.
She carried it over to the kitchen counter and got a freezer bag to put it in until the police took it. As she began to slide it into the baggie she noticed some writing on the other side of the barrel. She pulled it back out and looked at it more closely. There on the barrel, engraved in fancy script, was her full name.
She dropped the gun. It bounced onto the counter and into the sink. She flinched back but it didn't go off. She wiped her hands against her jeans as if to clean them of any association with the gun, mind whirling. It was one thing, inexplicable and unsettling as it was, to find a gun in her home. It was another to find a gun that was clearly meant for her in her home. That was more than unsettling. And how was she going to report a gun with her name on it to the police?
Someone else had to have been in her apartment. She leaned back against the cupboards behind her and sank down onto the floor, knees drawn up against her chest. She was so tired of this constant barrage of frightening and strange things happening to her. It seemed as if she'd been thrown into a nightmare where the world no longer made sense. Someone knows, she thought to herself. There is someone out there who knows.


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The Superleggera is a discontinued pre-facelift Gallardo that didn't get universal praise. The LP550-2 VBE is a more direct rival - and in which case I agree that it's a fabulous alternative. Of course, all 200 are sold already supposedly. The Scuderia is no doubt breathtaking too - but at what cost? Down here they're worth double that of a GT3 RS when new... If I'm not mistaken production of the Scuderia is soon to cease when the 458 Italia comes on stream. And it too, will be positioned at a slightly more exclusive level than the GT3 RS as befitting the technological masterpiece its expected to be. Very, very difficult to objectively compare the 458 Italia to this, track-oriented, 911 GT3 RS. If you've got a lot of dosh, it's kinda like you really need to have both for a rather complete performance car garage. Hmm... I still need to consider that concept further...
The VBE is just an RWD version of the standard AWD flavoured LP560 and does not have the stripped and track purpose of the GT-RS and Scuderia. Given that the car was just facelifted, the face lifted Superleggera or what ever they will call it, is likely to hit the market late next year which will be exactly 3 years after VAG introduced the Superleggera. This segment is borderline saturated and if you live in Monaco or London F430s, Gallardo's and what ever are not a rare sight by any means. Pricing of the Scuderia is outrageous but people are well willing to pay for the extra performance, but most importantly exclusivity. We're talking about VAG here and we know how they are when it comes to special editions. They enjoy milking the cow.
That's a bit of a common misconception: The VBE may not have the racing pedigree of the Scuderia (i.e. Manettino, F1-shift etc), nor its stripped out, track-orientated cabin but it very much is the essential, lightweight, driver-focused version of the Gallardo range. The Superleggera's leggera was not all that super. So VBE it is against Scuderia for now. Will they do another Superleggera? I'd think they'd give that name a miss given the mixed reaction to it. LP550-2 SuperVeloce? Why not - after all it capitalises on all the accolades earned by, surely, the most lauded V12 Lamborghini ever. With a limited run of 250 units, I quite agree with you that Lambo will be looking to get more mileage out of this 2WD set up. So, further specials are to be expected. If the 458 Italia is out in time, I suspect that this year's EVOCotY will feature a battle royale between the Ferrari, GT3 and LP550-2. Porsche will save giving them the GT3 RS for next year, when they've a better chance of winning like they've done in the past. That said, the SuperVeloce is also a sure fire bet for the title... Can't wait!
What an increadable machine No turbo shit just a pure motorsport engine in a road car. This is how a car should be. Bmw can learn something from them. Turbo route. What a laugh. 450hp from a 3.8 6cil screamer. Jesus holy mother of god i am checking bank account.
^^ Yeah, and BMW will go from 1 million + cars to 50.000 cars a year. The 'turbo route' is perfectly understandable from every point of view, but both Porsche and Ferrari show that's it's completely possible to make sick NA cars that comply with all EU emmision regulations. The GT3 RS has 118 hp per liter NA, and the 458 Italia around 127 hp per liter NA. BMW should follow, the old M3 CSL was good, but now we want cutting edge new age stuff! Prise wise, I don't think this mark II GT3 RS has any competition at the moment. Martin and Centurion described things quite accurately. If money however is not much of a problem, the 458 Italia will crush this GT3 RS in every possible way.
awesome vid. Seems Porsche has also jumped onto the LED DRL bandwagon. I feel gcf needs to add a LED smiley
My guess is that BMW car sales would not drop by 950,000 units because they decide to build a GT3 competitior.
^ I was talking about the Turbo route BMW is talking (for normal road cars). If they didn't do that, every car would become some NA monster, and nobody would buy one anymore. I didn't say they couldn't make some sort of M model with NA engine. Sales would only go north if they did so imo.
PRESS RELEASE: Delivering even more engine power, lower weight and shorter transmission ratios, as well as upgraded body and suspension components than all previous GT3s, the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS sets the foundation for homologating the race version of the 911 GT3 and will be introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show September 17-27, 2009. The heart of the new, uncompromising GT3 RS is the power unit. Like the engine featured in the 911 GT3, the naturally-aspirated RS power unit now displaces 3.8 liters and delivers even more power, while revving up even faster to its 8500 rpm redline. It now delivers 450 horsepower, 15 more horsepower than its 911 GT3 counterpart. Even with a specific output of more than 118 hp per liter from the six-cylinder boxer engine, the power unit in the new GT3 RS remains fully suitable for everyday use. The new 911 GT3 RS comes exclusively with a six-speed manual gearbox optimized for short gearshift travel, low weight and high efficiency. To enhance the level of performance throughout the entire range of engine and road speed, the transmission comes with shorter ratios than found in the 911 GT3, deliberately conceding an even higher potential top track speed. Dynamic engine mounts are standard and serve to improve the car's handling to an even higher level. Depending on driving conditions, the mounts change in their stiffness and damping effect, improving the connection between the engine and the body when driving under very lively conditions, yet allow for more comfortable conditions during everyday street use. Porsche is also introducing another new option in 2010 for the GT3 RS, a lithium-ion battery. Delivered with the car and, when replacing the conventional lead-acid battery, it reduces the weight by more than 10 kg or 22 lb and is mainly intended for the track. To further improve its sporting behavior, the new 911 GT3 RS comes with a purpose-built and specially set up PASM suspension, a wider front and rear track and corresponding bodywork. The front axle comes with nine-inch-wide wheels running on 245/35 ZR 19 sports tires while the rear axle features twelve-inch-wide wheels incorporating 325/30 ZR 19 sports tires. The new 911 GT3 RS shows its close connection to motorsport through its dynamic looks, in particular by its low ride height, the new, extra large carbon-fiber rear wing and titanium exhaust system. The 2010 911 GT3 RS goes on sale in the U.S. in early spring of 2010 and will be priced at $132,800.


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Restaurant review: Food delicious at Chop House 88
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MT's Chophouse has been resurrected as Chop House 88. Reviewer Diana Foote lets you know the best time to check out the menu.
Restaurant review: Put some French flair into your breakfast or lunch at Patisserie in Vero Beach
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Restaurant Reviewer Diana Foote tells you where to find the sophistication of France in Vero Beach.
Pizza is king at Giorgio's in Vero Beach
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Looking for great pizza in Vero Beach? Restaurant reviewer Diana Foote tells you why Giorgio's fits this bill.
Restaurant review: Mulligan's moderate in price, pleases variety of palates in Vero Beach
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Our party of eight was led through a crowded Mulligan's the other night, snaking our way to an outdoor table. This multigenerational mini reunion called for a casual restaurant, moderate in price, and one that pleased a variety of palates ...
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Koi Asian Grille: a new name but a similar menu on Miracle Mile in Vero Beach.
Restaurant critic review: Nino's Corner in Vero Beach is lip-smacking good
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Nino's Corner, on 20th Street in Vero Beach, offers pizza and pasta just as good as the dishes served at its spiffier, beachside version, Nino's Cafe.
Restaurant review: Old favorites star at the Szechuan Palace in Vero Beach
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association has cooked up some study breaks where weary scholars indulge in the most Americanized Chinese food available: the kind known as takeout.
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Enter Izziban Sushi just off U.S. 1 in Vero Beach and you'll step into Studio 54, circa 1980.
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Despite the fire engine walls, there's a hip feel to Will's 55, which took over the spot formerly occupied by MT Chophouse.
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Sandusky Gets Sentenced To 30-60 Years In Penn State Sex Scandal [VIDEO/POLL]
Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to 30-60 years in prison in the Penn State Sex Scandal.
Sandusky was convicted this summer of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, with each one carrying a possible sentence of 10 years.
FULL COVERAGE: Jerry Sandusky SentencingÂ
Judge John Cleland issued the sentence Tuesday. Sandusky will first spend the next 10 days in a local jail.
Sandusky maintains his innocence and plans to appeal, a process his lawyer has said will probably begin in the coming weeks.
Sandusky professed his innocence again in court, saying repeatedly,  "I did not do these disgusting acts." He also said,  "This is the time when you find out who youâre friends are in the fourth quarter, those who stand by you," during his 13 minute statement. "I speak today with hope in my heart for a brighter day…this is the worst loss of my life."
Four of Sandusky's victims were in court.
CNN reports 3 spoke in court. "The sentence will never erase what he did to me. It will never make me whole," said Victim #5.
âIf you seek forgiveness, Jesus will forgive you. Thereâs not any other way. Please repent, or there is a bigger judgment to come,â Victim No. 6, crying before taking the stand, Â told the court.
An angry victim #4 said, âI will not forgive you, Jerry Sandusky. I will not forgive you, but I ask that all the other victims forgive me for not coming forward sooner.â His lawyer later told CNN's Soledad O'Brien that  "Sandusky is in denial that he committed any crimes'
"a masterpiece of banal self-delusion"
Lead prosecutor Joseph McGettigan called Sandusky a coward and "delusional" for the statements he made about his innocence, describing them as "a masterpiece of banal self-delusion" adding that he "displayed deviance, narcissism, a lack of (acknowledgement) for the pain he caused others.â
"It was, in short, ridiculous," the prosecutor said of Sandusky's statement.
He said that when Sandusky didn't take witness stand during trial, âhe displayed the same cowardice that he displayed when he preyed on children."
McGettigan dismissed statements by Sandusky's legal team that they didn't have enough time to prepare a case and praised his team for their work on the case.
Outside the Centre Couunty courthouse, Sandusky attorney Karl Rominger explained why he believes his client did not get a fair trial. "I can get three continuances for a parking ticket," he said. "We couldn't get one continuance for Sandusky.â
"We had to cut off our investigation to get ready to go to trial," Amendola said. What happens to Jerry Sandusky could happen to one of us. Thatâs something that should worry all of us."
He also took Penn State to task, picking up on themes of a conspiracy that Sandusky used in his statement played on a Penn State student radio station on Monday night. "If Jerry was such a beast, such a monster, why didn't the attorney general arrest him with the first investigation?" Amendola asked, referring to when the first sexual abuse allegations were made.
Amendola also raised the issue of a pardon for Sandusky after serving the initial 30 year sentence.
"Our thoughts today, as they have been for the last year, go out to the victims of Jerry Sanduskyâs abuse. While todayâs sentence cannot erase what has happened, hopefully it will provide comfort to those affected by these horrible events and help them continue down the road to recovery."


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So Buckeye is announcing their whole house DVR dealio soon. I'm impatient and want to know more now. Anyone have the scoop on this?
I currently have two DVR boxes: One in the living room and one in a bedroom. I'm interested to know how the new systems will work, what (if anything) it will replace, and what the cost will be.
I am already paying Buckeye a medium sized fortune every month, and anticipate this will up my bill even more.
PS - They have announced a rate increase in March anyway, so...


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I bought this light for commuting. It has multiple power settings, from several steady beams to a decent strobe, all of which are great. The flashing top button lets me know when it's time to recharge.
Recharging is done via a handy USB port built into the top of the light. With the supplied cable, it can be done using either an electrical outlet or a USB connector on a computer. Unfortunately, the Achilles heel on the light is the USB cover, a flimsy rubber gasket that is not only hard to seat when not in use, but held into the light by a then rubber stem which pops out much too easily.
Great light aside from that feature.
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The Rev. Steven Olson of Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Dassel, Minn., approached the Minneapolis Institute of Arts back in 2007, looking for advice on how to preserve a painting which had been languishing in storage.
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Valuing American Put Options Using Chebyshev Polynomial Approximation
This pa per suggests a simple valuation method based on Chebyshev approximation at Chebyshev nodes to value American put options. It is similar to the approach taken in Sullivan (2000), where the option`s continuation region function is estimated by using a Chebyshev polynomial. However, in contrast to Sullivan (2000), the functional is fitted by using Chebyshev nodes. The suggested method is flexible, easy to program and efficient, and can be extended to price other types of derivative instruments. It is also applicable in other fields, providing efficient solutions to complex systems of partial differential equations. The paper also describes an alternative method based on dynamic programming and backward induction to approximate the option value in each time period.Download Info
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- Guglielmo Maria Caporale & Mario Cerrato, 2005. "Valuing American Put Options Using Chebyshev Polynomial Approximation," Public Policy Discussion Papers 05-03, Economics and Finance Section, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University.
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