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Australia says its citizen freed in Yemen with Oman's help
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Australia's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that an Australian citizen kidnapped in Yemen last year has been released following assistance by the sultanate of Oman.
Oman's Foreign Ministry said the country helped free the Australian citizen with the help of Yemeni tribal leaders. Its statement, carried by the state-run Oman News Agency, said the Australian had been "missing" in Yemen. It said the Australian government requested Oman's assistance in facilitating his safe passage.
The man was not named in either statement and it was not immediately known whether a ransom had been paid.
A Yemeni security official told The Associated Press that tribal mediation led to the release of the Australian citizen after a ransom was paid, without offering further details on the amount.
Tribal leaders close to the mediation process said a "foreign party" paid the ransom through the tribal mediators and that of two other hostages whose release had been part of the negotiations, an Indian priest and a Greek man. The official and tribal leaders spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the release and for security concerns.
Over the past months, several videos had surfaced online purporting to show an Australian kidnapped in Yemen. In footage in January, the man gives his name as Craig McAllister while a rifle is seen pointed at his head. He says his captors will kill him if their demands are not met. The man, who apparently had been working there as a football coach, does not say who his captors are or specify their demands.
At the time, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, Australia, only said it was providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian man kidnapped in Yemen.
Yemeni security officials said McAllister was taken in early October in the capital, Sanaa, but that his captors remain unknown. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to reporters. Sanaa is controlled by a Yemen's Shiite rebels known as Houthis and their allies, who overran the capital in late 2014.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Wednesday the Australian was "safe and well" following "months of patient work" by the Australian government. Bishop also expressed appreciation for the efforts of Oman's ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said, whose country located the missing Australian citizen and facilitated his passage into Oman.
Australia's government, along with many others around the world, strongly discourages its citizens from travelling to Yemen.
War-torn Yemen on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula is facing more than six years of political turmoil and a Saudi-led war against the Houthis. Militant groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have taken advantage of the chaos, seizing territory and launching attacks.
There have been multiple kidnappings of foreigners in Yemen by various factions over the past years, demanding payment in exchange for a release.
Oman has played a mediating role in the region, and is not part of the Saudi-led coalition of Arab countries bombing the Houthis. The country has helped facilitate the release of other hostages in Yemen, including two U.S. citizens who were flown to the sultanate in October following negotiations between Omani officials and Yemeni authorities in Sanaa.
Oman, a U.S. ally, maintains warm relations with its Gulf Arab neighbors and nearby Iran. The country was also credited last year with helping to secure the release of a French-Tunisian woman working for the Red Cross who had been kidnapped by armed men in Yemen and held for nearly a year.
Associated Press Writer Kristen Gelineau in Sydney and Ahmed al-Haj in Sanaa, Yemen contributed to this report.


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Do you know what CleanPCTool is?
CleanPCTool is a dirty anti-spyware program that has false claims of improving the performance of your computer. CleanPCTool is a scam designed to display false and exaggerated scan results in an attempt to scare users into purchasing the licensed version of CleanPCTool. The only thing CleanPCTool might do for you is clean out your wallet. Do not trust CleanPCTool, it is a scam.
CleanPCTool is installed from a Trojan infection that is usually downloaded through a video codec or P2P website. CleanPCTool may display popups that resembles Microsoft Windows system alerts or legitimate error messages. The messages that CleanPCTool generates cannot be trusted. CleanPCTool may be related to StorageProtector which is a previous rogue anti-spyware program.
In non-techie terms: CleanPCTool and the CleanPCTool.com website must be taken seriously as it is not a good program or website to come in contact with. CleanPCTool just like other nasty rogue anti-spyware programs uses illicit tactics such as fake popup messages to get you to waste your money on the full version of CleanPCTool which is a rogue anti-spyware program.
Aliases: CleanPCTool, Clean PC Tool, CleanPCTool.com

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The Digital Experts Academy is a platform where choices are made, by you, to enter at what ever level of belief, commitment and return you see in your future. While opening up your eyes to how vast the opportunities are, and yes the many sleepless nights where time merges with actions creating outcomes.
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Viewing your way through the videos there is an open awareness being shared of the new way of thinking. Amazingly this information can apply to you way of life whatever, wherever, however you perceive it is to be in the future.
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CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The woman who made history as Charleston County's first African-American female superintendent was remembered Friday night at Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston.
"We're celebrating her life through music, through words and through song," said close friend Garcia Williams.
It looked like Sunday service at Mt. Moriah. Pews were packed with friends, colleagues and family.
The mood wasn't somber, but instead the memorial was a celebration of the life of a woman who made a difference.
"She was just an incredible spirit," said Williams. "I consider her to be one of the smartest women I've ever met. She was gifted in so many ways."
The doctor was in charge of Charleston County schools for almost four years and was chosen in 2003 after an eight month search. She started her career in special education in Colorado, becoming the youngest African-American woman principal in that state.
Dr. Goodloe-Johnson was also the first black and first woman to fill the role of superintendent in Charleston County.
The woman to follow in her footsteps, Dr. Nancy McGinley, said "Dr. Goodloe-Johnson inspired all of us to get on the bus."
Goodloe-Johnson died Dec. 5 after being sick with cancer for about a year, family members said.
"Losing her just creates such a void in our lives," said Williams. "But, our loss is Heaven's gain."
After leaving Charleston, Dr. Goodloe-Johnson moved out west to Seattle to become the superintendent for the Seattle School District from 2007 until last year. She was fired over the misuse of more than $1 million.
One of her accomplishments in Seattle was negotiating a teachers' contract that included student performance in job evaluations.
The Seattle School District said she improved student academic achievement.
According to the Detroit Public Schools website, Dr. Goodloe-Johnson recently worked as a deputy chancellor for instructional support and educational accountability.
Dr. Goodloe-Johnson leaves behind her husband, Bruce, and a young daughter, Maya, as well as a large family and group of friends in Charleston.
Copyright 2012 WCSC. All rights reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Multiple BSOD causes, mostly ntoskrnl.exe errors.
Since I've installed my new graphics card I get allot more blue screens.
I attached the file with all my minidump files. Made with SF_Diagnostic Tool.
If someone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
If you need to know more about my system, I will try to reply to messages as soon as possible.
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Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 64-bit
Multiple errors, but none of them are pointing to GPU directly.
BugCheck A, {10, 2, 0, fffff800034ac103} Probably caused by : memory_corruption ( nt!MiReplenishPageSlist+73 ) Followup: MachineOwner ------------------------------------------------------------------------- BugCheck 3B, {c0000005, fffff80003485ebe, fffff8800b47b7f0, 0} Probably caused by : ntkrnlmp.exe ( nt!KeWaitForMultipleObjects+3e ) Followup: MachineOwner -------------------------------------------------------------------------- BugCheck 1E, {0, 0, 0, 0} Probably caused by : hardware ( USBPORT!USBPORT_Core_iIrpCsqCompleteDoneTransfer+2e8 ) Followup: MachineOwner -------------------------------------------------------------------------- BugCheck D1, {fffffa7f929efd8c, 2, 0, fffff88004355fd0} Probably caused by : USBPORT.SYS ( USBPORT!USBPORT_Core_DecIoRequestCount+14 ) Followup: MachineOwner ---------
The best to do is a clean reinstall. But before doing that, make it sure that the hardware are working properly.
Test your RAM modules for possible errors; as the BSOD points to memory corruption, too.
How to Test and Diagnose RAM Issues with Memtest86+
Run memtest for at least 8 passes, preferably overnight.
If it start showing errors/red lines, stop testing. A single error is enough to determine that something is going bad there.
Stress test the Graphics Card using Furmark; as you have doubt.
Video Card - Stress Test with Furmark
Then, go for a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7, which works equally good for retail, too.
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In connection with his bankruptcy practice, Mr. Sheehan is a member of the panel of Chapter 7 trustees for West Virginia appointed by the United States Trustee. Usually he serves as a Trustee in the Northern District of West Virginia, but he has also served in the Southern District of West Virginia. In 2015, he was appointed as a Chapter 11 Trustee in a case in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Since 1994 he has been the trustee in over 20,000 cases. He currently represents Debtors and Creditors as well as serving as a Trustee. Martin has litigated bankruptcy issues of all kinds in West Virginia and elsewhere. He routinely appears in the Bankruptcy Courts in West Virginia. Appeals from those Courts are heard in the District Courts in West Virginia, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Martin has litigated in all of those. In 2010, a brief Mr. Sheehan wrote was favorably cited by Justice Thomas of the United States Supreme Court as he wrote for the majority in the precedent setting case of Schwab v. Reilly, 130 S.Ct. 2652 (2010).
Martin is a past President of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. He has served in every office of that organization, including President-Elect, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary and Editor of the quarterly magazine, NABTalk. He has served as a member of its Amicus Committee since 2004.
Mr. Sheehan is also an Adjunct Lecturer at West Virginia University Law School. Since 2005, he has taught the Advanced Bankruptcy Court, and for one term he taught the Introductory Bankruptcy Class as well.
Martin is well known for handling unusual cases. An article he wrote for the West Virginia Lawyer, titled A Murder, Bankruptcy and Wrongful Death, details one of his more unusual cases involving both a murder and a bankruptcy.
He is a frequent author and lecturer on bankruptcy topics.
In connection with his criminal practice Martin has represented persons accused of the most serious crimes. He has tried several murder cases, including a triple murder in Ohio County. In State ex rel. Davis v. Fox, 229 W.VA. 662, 735 S.E.2d 259 (2012), the West Virginia Supreme Court adopted his position in establishing an important limitation on the Felony-Murder rule.
Martin actually began his involvement in criminal law as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia where he prosecuted federal cases in the late 1980's. He headed the first forfeiture unit in the United States Attorney's Office. He was a member of the team that successfully prosecuted Paul Hankish, then a notable organized crime figure. The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation honored Martin with a Special Achievement Award for that effort in 1990.
As a result of his significant experience, Martin has been recognized as an expert on the standard of care in habeas corpus cases involving claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in Ohio, Wetzel and Marion counties.
Mr. Sheehan is a 1974 graduate of Tufts University where he majored in Economics. He is a 1977 graduate of Duquesne University School of Law.
Ms Nugent has been designated as one of the Best Lawyers in America, an honor which she has received annually since 2007. She has also been named a West Virginia Super Lawyer by the publication Law and Politics and one of West Virginia's Top Lawyers by the State Journal. Ms Nugent has recently been recognized by the American Academy of Trial Attorneys as one of the Premier 100 trial lawyers for West Virginia. Since 2005, Ms Nugent has been a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, one of only 6 such attorneys in the State of West Virginia.
Ms Nugent has practiced law in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle since graduating from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1989, devoting her entire practice to matrimonial and family law. She started practicing in that arena just 2 years after the W.Va. family law master system and child support formula went into effect. Since that time, the child support formula has changed, family law masters were replaced by Family Court Judges, the old contested custody and visitation system was replaced with mediation and shared parenting, and the West Virginia Domestic Relations Statutes were recodified, and Ms. Nugent has been there through it all, meeting the challenges of changing her practice with the evolving family law system.
Ms Nugent is a 1975 graduate of West Liberty State College with a B.A. in Speech and Theatre. She has a 1979 M.F.A. from the University of Virginia. In 1982 she graduated from the Illinois Masonic Medical Center School of Nursing in Chicago and became a licensed RN, working in ICUs and ERs in and around the city of Chicago. In 1989 she acquired a J.D. with High Honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law. She graduated in the top 8% of her law school class and was awarded the Order of the Coif as well as the American Jurisprudence Award for Excellent Achievement in the Study of Evidence.
In 1999, Ms Nugent was invited to join the West Virginia Supreme Court's Task Force charged with assisting in the development of the Parent Education and Mediation system which was instituted in 2000 and is still currently in place. Since 1999, Ms. Nugent has been invited to speak on several occasions at the State Bar's premiere continuing legal education series on Family Law held at WVU every Fall.
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text: Mt. Baker opened yesterday and it was truly the beginning of winter for me. There was soooo much snow and so many people whooping and hollering and totally enjoying the environment. I am really sore today but it was worth every "ouch"! The second run I did was The Chute. A double black diamond and one I would NOT recommend until at least your third or fourth run of the day.


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MINNEAPOLIS — They were armed (they had microphones), they were dangerous (they had media accreditation) and they were in uniform. That's what separated them from the rest of their colleagues on Super Bowl photo day. Jim Kelly was the one in the oversized blue jersey. Downtown Julie Brown was the one in the pink Lycra cones.
Once upon a time, a Super Bowl press pass used to mean something, but no more. Kelly, quarterback for the AFC champion Buffalo Bills, has his own television show. So does Brown, video jockey for MTV. Both had their camera crews with them Tuesday morning, going mobile, interviewing everything that breathed in their own inimitable style.
Brown to Buffalo linebacker Cornelius Bennett: "So, how fast are you going to go?"
Kelly to ESPN sportscaster Andrea Kremer: "So, what did you do to deserve this game?"
They were wired for sound, and they were wired. Kelly snuck up on camera-shy teammate Carlton Bailey, grabbed him around the neck and yelled, "Told you I'd get you on my show. Just like Candid Camera." Brown snuck up on a Metrodome worker toting a pastry tray out to the media feed and told him, "Like your buns!"
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I isolated the College Football Crusher Pick of the Week for week 3 betting. Look for this dominating favorite to either double rush DOUBLE RUSH their opponent or run and pass for 200+ yards.
College Football Crusher of the Week
Each week in this space, I will isolate the College Football Crusher of the Week. It will be a blend of statistical, situational and technical analysis that will result in an outstanding opportunity for you to cash a winning ticket. Look for this dominating favorite to either double rush their opponent (a 75% chance of pointspread success) or run and pass for 200+ yards (200 CLUB, A 74% pointspread winner). Here is this week's College Football Pick that will put the odds greatly in your favor of cashing a winning ticket.
E. Carolina vs. Navy (-3-) 3:30 ET CBSC TV
Last week in this space, we used GA Tech (-30) as our crusher of the week. The Jackets crushed Tulane with a 439-71 yardage edge overland en route to a dominating 65-10 victory and 25 point cover. This week, I expect another solid overland differential, as Navy hosts E. Carolina in an AAC contest.
This is a bad scheduling spot for E. Carolina, who left it all on the field last week in their 31-24 loss to Florida. In that contest, the Pirates were looking to avenge a 28-20 Bowl loss. Their efforts fell just short, when 1st year QB Kemp passed for 333 yards and 3 TDs against the Gators. But, Kemp also had a critical fumble inside the Florida 20 with less than a minute to play as the Pirates walked the plank. Key stat from that loss was the fact that Florida outrushed E. Carolina 168 to (-13). E. Carolina figures to suffer much the same fate in this clash with Navy. And without the veteran presence of last year's starting QB Carden, look for E. Carolina to come up on the short end of the scoreboard again today. Though this is a conference game, the Pirates may treat it with less importance than their higher profile matchup at home with VA Tech next week. This creates an ideal play against sandwich spot for E. Carolina.
No such problem with excitement or motivation for this Navy team, who always comes to play under 8th year HC Niumatalolo. Excitement is in the air at Annapolis, as the Midshipmen play their first ever conference game. They do so with a week of rest following their Week 1 victory against Colgate (48-10). As always, the Middies ground game led the way, as they ran for 371 overland yards on just 47 attempts. That's traditional for this military school, whose discipline is ideal for running the triple option. Last year, Navy was among the nations' leaders once again with an average of 338/6.0 on the ground. Today, 4 year starter QB Keenan Reynolds will again lead Navy into battle. He will ably abetted by FB Swain, the first of his 3 triple options. E. Carolina rarely sees the triple option. In fact, the last time they saw it was against this Navy team in 2012, when the Middies came away from an E. Carolina home field with a 56-28 blowout victory.
This has all the elements of the crusher of the week with the Middies holding key advantages with the fundamentals of their overland game, as well as the situational edge as described above.
College Football Pick: Take Navy at Pinnacle


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Braid: Notley drops the biggest threat – choking off oil to B.C.
Premier Rachel Notley says she just wants to get B.C.'s attention. This will do it.
In fact, this will get everyone's attention.
Notley threatened Thursday to reduce the supply of oil and petroleum products to B.C.'s Lower Mainland.
That would have a powerful impact on daily life in one of Canada's most fuel-starved regions.
Notley was vague at some moments, but very specific at others, as she talked to reporters just before the throne speech came down.
First, she mentioned "restriction of supply." She said the Lower Mainland "has high sensitivity to supply changes there."
And then: "a brief interruption in the Burnaby refinery now has resulted in gas in the Lower Mainland peaking to about $1.50 a litre, and is expected to peak at about $1.60 before those slowdowns in the refiners are finished.
"That's just the way it is. So you see it is an area that is more sensitive to supply issues, and fairly small changes."
The Kinder Morgan pipeline is the main source of petroleum products refined and used on the coast. Premier John Horgan's B.C. NDP government doesn't want to expand it.
And so, Notley threatens to weaponize the very pipeline he rejects. There's a bleak irony in that.
"At the end of the day, we're just trying to get their attention," she said, after emphasizing several times that she doesn't want to do this, and hopes she isn't forced to do it by more B.C. efforts to "harass" a project approved by Ottawa.
But Alberta is modernizing legislation used by Progressive Conservative Premier Peter Lougheed 37 years ago, when he cut oil shipments to central Canada.
That happened in 1981, during the monumental fight over Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's National Energy Program.
The same day Trudeau announced the NEP, on Oct. 28, 1980, Lougheed went on TV to say he would cut oil supply to central Canada by 180,000 barrels, in stages, if Ottawa didn't retreat from the program that he saw as a virtual nationalization of Alberta's oil industry.
The feds paid little attention. Negotiations stalled.
On April 1, 1981, Alberta cut supply by 60,000 barrels a day. On June 1, it dropped by 60,000 more.
By August 1981, federal officials were begging to negotiate. And on Sept. 1, the date the third cut was to take effect, Lougheed and Trudeau signed the Oil Agreement.
It wasn't perfect for anyone, but Alberta retained ownership of its resources and got a favourable pricing schedule.
Lougheed promptly made his only mistake — he had his photo taken raising a champagne glass in a toast with Trudeau. Many Albertans never forgave him.
Notley should avoid that moment with Horgan, if they ever settle this fight.
UCP Leader Jason Kenney said, "This is exactly the strategy I've been talking about since Day 1 … Obviously, we're setting the agenda and they're responding."
But he alleged that "folding on the wine boycott" only showed Horgan that Notley isn't really serious about this. "So far this looks like a pro wrestling match between two wings of the NDP."
Notley's threat to choke off oil was the first item in the throne speech. It spectacularly overwhelmed some important measures, including a massive initiative to push diversification through government action in energy, electricity and the general economy.
The speech also didn't have anything new to say about the deficit or the long-term plan to balance spending and revenue by 2023.
It seems unlikely the NDP will embark on a crash program of deficit reduction when the budget is unveiled March 22.
The dramatic talk of cutting off oil to B.C. didn't have to be in the throne speech. Any day at all it would have made eyebrows shoot up all over Canada.
But it sure took throne speech day away from the opposition. Maybe that was the point.
Don Braid's column appears regularly in the Herald
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Retrial of fishermen in 2004 murder of three children gets underway
Barbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator
KINGSTON, Jamaica:
The retrial of the two fishermen, charged with the murder of three children in a house on September 14, 2004 began in the Home Circuit court today.
Evidence is being led at the trial that Rohan Mccarthy and Ricardo Britton, threw gasolene around Pansy Henry's three-bedroom wooden house and lit it with a bottle torch.
Three of her children, five-year-old twin boys Tyrique and Tyrone Henry and three-year-old Moesha Lee perished in the fire.
The incident took place in Portmore, St Catherine.
Senior Puisne Judge Gloria Smith is presiding at the trial.
A 12 member jury is trying the case.
The men are being represented by attorneys-at-law, Gladstone Wilson and Keith Bishop.
The men are facing a second trial based on a court of appeal ruling.
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Cookies & T in the Taj Mahal
JUST HOW MUCH AIR DID I HAVE LEFT I pondered this rather significant question in the inky blackness, as I fumbled to get a safety spool out of my pocket.
I tried to remember the topography of the area I was in before I lost my buddy, and my third and last light had failed.
I continued feeling around to find something, anything, onto which to tie off my line, so that when I started groping for the main line that would lead to the exit, I wouldnt get even more lost than I already was.
Seven years earlier, I had arrived on the Rivera Maya in Mexico via wholly different means of transport. On that occasion I was completing an eight-day charity bike ride across the peninsula.
On the final leg, we had stopped at a local snorkelling spot called Grand Cenote. I remember diving into the crystal water and watching a team of divers disappear between the bleached white columns into the darkness beyond. It was this experience, coupled with the guarantee of warm, shallow water, that had brought me back to explore this, perhaps the strangest facet of our sport - cave-diving.
So here I was, five minutes along the main coastal highway from the popular resort of Puerta Venturas, at the small but exceptionally well-equipped Zero Gravity. I was with Fred Devos, one of the three very accomplished cave explorers who own the business. For five days, he would be my instructor.
Fred, originally from Canada, I can only describe as an enigma. The initial impression is of a very friendly hippie, with a low-energy, mildly detached persona. His outward appearance, does not match up with his existence, however. He has quietly got on and treated life as one long adventure, backpacking around the world, teaching English in India and exploring thousands of feet of virgin cave.
As if to highlight this mismatch of character and deed, once, on the way to drop off our cylinders after a long days diving, he suddenly pulled off the busy coastal highway to cut some flowers he had seen - with a metre-long machete!
AS WE WORKED THROUGH the course, Fred further confirmed that a calm exterior doesnt mean a slack mind. He didnt miss the smallest detail (even, disconcertingly, when it was pitch black). Everything was fed back into the comprehensive debriefs that followed every dive.
Considered the ideal size by Global Underwater Explorers (GUE), the Cave 1 course is usually taught to teams of three, but this time there were only two of us, the course minimum. My partner for the week was Zdenek Dusek, who was already a cave guide down the coast in Tulum, but looking to expand his knowledge. Zdenek was not native to the Yucatan but from the Czech Republic, where most of his early diving had been done, British-style, in cold, low-viz lakes.
We started with a morning in the shops small classroom for a large chunk of theory - cave-diving history and hydrology. Fred checked out our equipment and introduced me to some new, cave-specific things, such as the pigs tail.
This is a short length of shock cord secured to a bolt snap on which directional markers (arrows) and non-directional markers (cookies) are stored. I would be using these navigational aids extensively later in the course.
I was also introduced to burntime. In a lightless environment, your light is a critical piece of equipment. Knowing how long it will last is essential, so all batteries had to be checked daily.
Cenote Eden, one of the thousands of sinkholes on the Yucatan peninsula, was the site for our first days diving. It was just a few minutes from Zero Gravity; in fact the shop is only minutes away from all the main sites, with a half-hour drive considered a serious outing.
As we submerged for our cave-equivalent of a check dive, I realised that I could easily spend a whole day simply moseying around this cenote, looking at the catfish, eels and other critters that lived there. In Cenote Car Wash, which Id visit later in the week, there is even a resident alligator!
Fred had taken charge of the line and navigation on this first dive, but after a quick debrief on the surface, it was our turn to take command of the reel.
We tied off the line in the open water, and headed into a different passage called River Run for what was my first real cave-dive.
IT WAS A LEARNER CAVE; bigger and less delicate than many passages, but it was still overwhelming. Its main feature was a halocline near the ceiling, looking for all the world like a huge river flowing above us - hence the name.
This barrier, where salt and fresh water meet, is caused by the disparity in temperature and density. Its an amazing phenomenon. Passing through it is like swimming into a mirror, and can be more hazardous than it looks.
At one point, the guideline we followed ran just a metre below the halocline, so our fins, slightly above us in the cave-diving trim, were mixing it up.
I was following Zdenek, and suddenly it was like swimming in a mirage, impossible to see anything but blurred shapes, and certainly not the guideline.
It was shocking how easily we had gone from a serene swim with 100m of visibility [Really Ed. Maybe more, Chris] to vague outlines and no line!
This came up in the debrief and, once understood, was fairly easily managed.
Day two saw us back at Cenote Eden, and assuming a pattern that would ensue before each dive. A new skill or emergency procedure would be demonstrated, then extensively practised on dry land before further practise in open water.
This drill would be added to Freds list, and we could expect a simulated problem to beset our team at some point during the dive (usually on the way out)!
Before the failures started to hit, we were usually allowed to enjoy the breathtaking stalagmites, stalactites and icing-like flowstone, all exaggerated further by the bleached white of the limestone walls, which reflected light incredibly.
GUE COURSES INCLUDE A MANDATORY fitness test, where participants must complete a 275m swim in less than 14 minutes and be able to travel 15m on a breath-hold. Fred did all of this with us.
The test was undertaken not in a pool but in the early morning at Cenote Eden. With only birdsong for company, it was like swimming through a video promoting Zen Buddhism.
Understandably, skills around line-laying played a significant part on the course. Im always amazed how distracting a reel can be, transporting the user to a world were only you and it exist, and making communication very difficult. Enter the lights.
Passive light communication is a cornerstone of this course, with light movement being used to track both position and state of the rest of the team.
Rather than physically watching each other, as one might in open water, the light becomes the visual link between partners.
The following diver parks his light in front of his team-mate, and so remains in constant contact. Signals, such as circles for OK or a repeated sweeping motion for attention, are used, with rapidity of movement conveying the level of urgency.
Its amazing how sensitive you can become to this. As the days wore on, it was possible to deduce not only what was wanted but even Zdeneks anxiety level, purely from seeing his light.
AMONG THE LIMITS OF CAVE 1 are navigational constraints, a whole new topic for me.
Cave 1 divers are not trained to bridge between the permanent main line and other lines (an activity known as a jump) but they can navigate a T.
As the name suggests, this is a junction where the team has a choice of direction. It is critical to find the right way back, so we learned that it is good navigation practice to place a non-directional personal marker (often referred to as a cookie) on the exit side of the junction. Then, even if visibility has been lost, its possible to identify the right route out.
Youd be amazed how taxing such a simple task can be at first while trying to monitor your buddy, keep the light still, hold your depth, not disturb the silt, monitor gas and keep sight of the line.
In fact, the whole five days was packed with new information like this, which had to be absorbed before yet another layer of critical knowledge was stacked on top.
Each simulated scenario we undertook was designed to make us apply this new learning methodically, until it became habit. And it was for this reason that I was now in a cave system known as Taj Mahal, in total darkness with no line, no buddy and feeling, if not happy, then at least OK, because I now knew what to do next.
My time with Fred had highlighted that the walls of the Incident Pit are very much steeper in a cave, and I wouldnt need to break many rules to get into such a situation.
However, he had also helped me to see that correct behaviour and strict adherence to well-practised procedures would virtually ensure safety.
Course over, I stayed on and did some guided dives with Fred, which was a mixed experience.
I got the use of his vast knowledge of the area, some added experience and saw more spectacular environments. However, its hard to be completely relaxed, when your dive partner is the same guy who has spent the last week critiquing your every move!
Cave-diving are two words that more often than not elicit a sharp intake of breath from the other party, swiftly followed by a comment along the lines of you wouldnt catch me doing that.
In our daily lives, however, we are frequently just one step away from expediting our own demise.
So comfortable are we with the dangers and the procedures that keep us safe (like not stepping off a curb without looking), we no longer worry about them.
The course definitely qualified as advanced, and was one of the most taxing I have ever undertaken, but
I always felt safe, with each training experience challenging rather than stressing me.
Post-course, I felt confident that I could safely visit some of the spectacular and unique environments offered by the Yucatan aquifers, and for that reason alone it was one of the best training investments I have ever made.
To join the five-day GUE Cave Diver Level 1 (Cave 1) course, divers must have passed the GUE Fundamentals class at a Tec level, be over 18, a non-smoker and have at least 75 dives past OWD. The course includes a minimum 40 hours of instruction and at least 12 dives (eight beyond the daylight zone) at three or more locations. The price of $2200 includes park entry fees, national tax, cylinders, weights and nitrox fills. Playa del Carmen is 10 minutes from the resort of Puerta Venturas, www.dir-mexico.com


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Barton Estate is also available for a wide range of functions from engagement parties, to special anniversaries and birthdays.
Depending on the size of your function, we can arrange intimate gatherings within the home, or use marques on the lawn or in a rustic setting to cater for between 90 and 150 guests.
Once again, you can use your own choice of providers for marques, catering and decor - or leave that up to us as well. We can advise you on an extensive range of experienced providers to complete a wonderful function experience for you.


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Nutrition Services is commited to purchasing local food items from Oregon and Washington in an effort to ensure better overall food quality with increased nutritional benefits. Last school year, we spent a good chunk of change on local purchases; $1,450,786.00 to be exact.
We believe that our local purchases have helped to stimulate the local and regional economies, and have improved our student's health and nutrition by increasing the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables purchased from area farmers. The quality has been superb!
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Our Farm to School Partnership with Eco-Trust of Portland - "Connecting small and mid-size farmers with large institutions like schools is a major thrust of Ecotrust's food and farms work. In our farm to school work, we partner with a wide range of school districts, focusing on low-income schools and preschools to ensure that all children have access to healthy, local food. And we advocate for policies that strengthen Oregon's agricultural economy and create local jobs." Follow the link below for additional information on the great work that they are doing statewide.
During the summer, local farms/farmer markets can supply us with many different varieties of fresh produce. Wondering where to go to find healthy, kid friendly recipes to incorporate these beautiful fruits and veggies into your meal plan? Check out the OSU Extension Service's FOOD HERO Website for exciting recipes that have been kid tested! Their website also has links to some great coloring sheets and monthly electronic magazines to keep your kids busy all summer!
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Do you photograph weddings? This question comes up again and again ... from others but also myself. Until recently it wasn't something I was interested in or something I thought fit my personal creative leanings towards quiet, intimate moments. But then my friend Rose McClarney, award-winning poet, asked if I would photograph her wedding, and my answer changed. I've known Rose for more than a decade, and in those years we've watched each other grow and flourish into the women we are today. Rose was not only familiar with my work but had appeared before my lens in the past for a portrait session. She wanted my eye, my perspective on her wedding day. How could I say no?
And so on a hot, sun-drenched June day, I joined Rose at her childhood home as she wed her longtime love and fellow poet Justin Gardiner. And now I understand what a privilege and honor it is to be tasked with commemorating such a significant day. There is an incredible intimacy to the role, as you must be everywhere and with everyone. You must be looking for the right light and setting but also magical, fleeting moments of the human heart ... amidst the bustling activity of a day filled with anticipation and promise, hundreds of details, and an itinerary that pauses for no one. There is magic, and it is the photographer's task to capture it like butterflies in a net.
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Took me a while to realise that change is necessary and also positive. It's made me a much better trainer.
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Took me a while to realise that change is necessary and also positive. It's made me a much better trainer.
health4ni wrote:^^ Indeed.
Flipping the coin for a minute though, and you'll realise that we are all in the same ball-park with what we do and believe in regards to physical training. I mean, we lift weights in a training facility and most of us get stronger & bigger. Some manage to achieve this safer, faster and more effectively than others (naturally speaking). I guess for me it's trying to establish the safest, fastest and most effective way to achieve the goal of my clients and indeed myself.
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~Pauline R. Kezer
Alex wrote:I'm not convinced by using the word change as it to me it depicts an involuntary or forced reaction to a set of circumstances.
If change has to be use then I would sum it up as:
Learning + Adapting = Change
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Feel at home in this lovely Parisian apartment, your Paris holiday rental is situated in one of the most famous streets in the Marais district of central Paris. While strolling through the Marais, you will discover many beautiful historic monuments. In addition, you can enjoy the many charming shops that are to be found in the area. They are open at the week-end, to the joy of tourists and to those who have a passion for the old city of Paris. Explore the wide range of museums the area has to offer, such as the Victor Hugo, National Picasso and Carnavalet Museums. Enjoy, as well, numerous squares such as the Place des Vosges or the Place de la Bastille. Just a few minutes away from your Paris holiday rental, enjoy a stroll by the river Seine, overlooking the Ile St. Louis and admire the majestic church of Notre Dame. The location is perfect for savouring all the delights that Paris has to offer.
This Paris holiday rental is beautifully decorated with finesse for your comfort and satisfaction. We would like to welcome you here in Paris in 'Chic and Bourgeois' style. It caters for your every need to spend unforgettable moments with family and friends. Relax before dinner in the living room with a glass of champagne. Then prepare tempting dishes in the fully equipped kitchen before enjoying your meal in the cosy dining area, just like at home. The stylish bathroom echoes the same classic atmosphere of chic relaxation. Unwind in the spacious Italian shower after long days of exploring Paris. Finally, retire for the night in one of the two beautifully furnished bedrooms, decorated in soft colours to further soothe your senses. Here, nothing has been forgotten to make your stay in our Paris holiday rental unique!
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What is Sombrero Galaxy? Sombrero Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the direction of Virgo constellation. It is discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1781 and due to the similarity of the appearance is also called by Mexican Hat. This Galaxy is also known by other names which are Messier 104, M104 and NGC 4594. Sombrero […]
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Timothy M. Kaine is taking his campaign into the heart of Republican strength in Northern Virginia -- the outer suburbs -- with a call for powerful new tools to curb sprawl.
Kaine spent yesterday campaigning with Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) in Prince William and Loudoun counties, two areas Warner lost in 2001. Last year, President Bush trounced Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) in both areas.
At a breakfast in Leesburg and later in Manassas and Woodbridge, Kaine told audiences that fixing the traffic problems plaguing the region will require local governments to have better control over development.
"You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions," Kaine said. "There are some who find that that is a huge and controversial concept, the notion that we shouldn't just automatically rezone and develop everything when the transportation infrastructure isn't in place to support it. I think that is such a common-sense value."
Kaine's political strategy is to break the stranglehold Republicans have had on the rapidly growing communities that ring the close-in suburbs. If it works, political observers said, the lieutenant governor could siphon enough support from these traditionally conservative areas to win what polls suggest will be a close election.
With his proposal, Kaine has cast his lot with the region's slow-growth movement and angered developers who provide much of the cash to support campaigns.
"If he cannot appeal to these voters on ideological ground, then he has to reach them on local issues," said Mark J. Rozell, a George Mason University professor who studies Virginia politics. "If he can persuade enough voters to hold down his losses in those areas, that may be enough."
Kaine proposes that local governments get powers over zoning that would allow supervisors and city councils to reject development plans if roads in the area and the region are too congested to support them.
Republican Jerry W. Kilgore opposes such measures, which are often called Adequate Public Facilities ordinances and are common among Maryland counties.
"This is an attempt by a liberal candidate to provide government with the tools to tell people where they can live," Kilgore spokesman Tim Murtaugh said. "The exurbs are important to us. We feel very good about the fact that people who live there will be on our side."
Kaine has been spreading his message about linking development and traffic issues for months. Last week, he proposed bolstering the broad vision.
"I'll give your community more power to stop out-of-control development that increases traffic," Kaine says in a 30-second television ad airing extensively in the outer suburbs.
Kaine's proposal is the ultimate goal for the region's slow-growth activists, who have been contending for years that local governments need more authority to say no to the tracts of townhouses and so-called McMansions that are replacing wooded lots at a brisk pace.
"That's the big ticket. It sounds exactly like what we've been asking for," said former Loudoun supervisor William Bogard, who was swept into office in 1999 on a slow-growth platform.
Bogard and several other slow-growth supervisors were ousted by voters four years later and got a taste of how fickle the constituency is, Bogard said.
But Andrea McGimsey, spokeswoman for the Campaign for Loudoun's Future, a coalition of civic and slow-growth groups, said finding ways to limit growth and relieve congestion is the "number one thing" in Loudoun.
"This is not a trivial issue. It's our everyday reality," McGimsey said. "I think Tim Kaine has keyed into what a huge issue it is in Loudoun."
But those votes could come at a high price. Kaine has accepted almost $2.5 million from the real estate and construction industries, far more than from any other industry. The proposal to clamp down on development took many of them by surprise.
Groups representing Realtors and homebuilders fired off angry e-mails last week to their vast membership rolls. The Virginia Association of Realtors wrote to its 30,000 members that it is "strongly opposed to giving localities such authority. In the end, proposals such as these will only make development less affordable."
The Homebuilders Association of Virginia urged the Kaine campaign to end the ads. The group said Kaine's proposal would "have a devastating impact on the economy of the Commonwealth."
John Foote, a land-use lawyer in Prince William, said the idea is "a death knell for economic development in Northern Virginia" because construction would halt until road capacity is dramatically increased -- a prospect that he said is unlikely anytime soon.
"He believes that will resonate," Foote said of Kaine. "Who among us is not frustrated with traffic?"
Mo Elleithee, Kaine's communications director, said the Democrat hopes to gain ground by addressing that frustration.
"When it comes to runaway development and its impact on their commutes, Tim Kaine has shown that he gets it," Elleithee said.
Rozell said Kaine still has an uphill fight in the outer suburbs. Those areas are among the Republican Party's most reliable. Warner came up short by about 3,500 votes in Loudoun and Prince William in 2001. Kaine, who ran for lieutenant governor that year, also lost both jurisdictions.
"I'd be hugely surprised if after Election Day we saw Tim Kaine doing very well in the exurban communities," Rozell said. "This may be more about holding down his losses in those areas."
Staff researcher Derek Willis and staff writer Timothy Dwyer contributed to this report.


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By Bishop William Nicholson
Returning to Anchorage, Alaska from Nairobi, Kenya on March 1, 2018, three Directors of United Alaska Moravian Ministry Group – The Rev. Tim Sergie, The Rev. Ferdinand Sharp and myself returned safely from an eleven-day international trip. We are literally in a spirit of thanksgiving and joy for participation and great accomplishments! The decisions made at this gathering formalizes and fulfills the UAMM vision of the sleeping giant waking up and raising an undefiled flag for the entire world to see!
The World Fellowship of Moravian Revival Churches (WFMRC), not in affiliation with the Worldwide Moravian Unity, is made up of over 70 Churches in Seven (7) countries. It was given birth on February 24, 2018 in the heart of Africa, near Kenya's largest and capital city, Nairobi. Four Moravian bishops (not recognized by the Moravian Worldwide Unity) with co-leadership by Bishop Emmaus Mwamakula of Tanzania and Bishop William Nicholson of Alaska led this global organizational effort. Functionally, it is the culmination of an "undefiled and evangelical 'win the lost' movement!"
All participants at the WFMFC felt that the Fellowship membership is to function autonomously. It was agreed that Bishop Nicholson will be the key contact in the northern hemisphere, while Bishop Mwamakula would be the contact in the southern hemisphere. The respective bishops of the World Fellowship will coordinate their work among themselves.
Starting February 26, 2018, the following partial list shows goals we are striving for until the WFMRC meets again in Uganda in February 24, 2021:
- Pray for each other's organizations
- Support one another through networking.
- Assist in projects together financially, technically.
- Work on global outreaches and invite other like-minded to join the Fellowship of the Brethren
- From time-to-time request assistance for ordination, consecration of bishops, etc.
- Support development of unorthodox training institution that has Moravian heritage, holiness emphasis, and evangelical focus.


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Food for thought
Biofuels may not be a panacea for low-carbon transport.
I walked past the Brussels Atomium, the giant atom-shaped monument that defines the city. Silver balls suspended in the sky, linked by tubes. Built at the dawn of the nuclear age, when people thought nuclear power would solve all their problems.
We all knew the story, but it was worth hearing again. Jose Maria Figueres Olsen, former President of Costa Rica and former chief executive officer of the World Economic Forum, started with an implicit reference to a depressing fact by the ex-president of Costa Rica: "We're all going to die. But that is why many, maybe, do not worry about the Greenland glaciers shedding into the Atlantic. All the self-sacrifices would be a lot of effort for no gain, since the gains benefit the next generation whereas you have to bear the cost." So he said: "You know when people built the cathedrals, they behaved as if they could see them completed in one generation, though it was the work of many generations. So is the fight against climate change."
There was mention of the hockey stick and peak oil. That this year Chinese car sales overtook Japanese ones and that by 2015 China would be buying more cars than America - and, even then, China would have to increase its car density fivefold to reach America's figure. By then, China, five times bigger, would be belching megatonnes of carbon.
Next was Marianne Fischer Boel, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, who said 20 per cent of greenhouse gases (GHG) came from transport and this was the only sector where CO2 emissions were growing. "Europe has to act together," she said, or there will just be a lot of fragmented efforts leading nowhere, she implied.
2020 plan
So the European Commission (EC) presented a legislative proposal in January that requires a 20 per cent cut in GHG, a 20 per cent cut in energy use, and 20 per cent use of renewables in Europe by 2020. The transport problem will be resolved through a greater commitment to biofuels.
Biofuels include biodiesel and bioethanol, made from rapeseed, palm oil and cooking oil; and beetroot, sugarcane and wheat respectively. The target is 10 per cent of transport fuel; rising to 35-40 per cent by 2030. China has a five-year plan. America also has an ambitious expansion plan. While Europe expects private industry to develop firms manufacturing biofuels, the US Department of Energy has given new firms big grants.
The prime advantage of biofuels is simple: they are renewable. Even global warming sceptics realise that oil is finite - global consumption is a cubic mile a year - and has so many other desirable high value uses.
Another benefit is enhanced energy security: independence from increasingly expensive oil sourced from the difficult Middle East. America is quite explicit about this, with a bill requiring a seven-fold increase in the use of biofuels by 2022 (the Energy Independence and Security Act).
Biofuels offer reductions in GHG, not in tail pipe emissions, which are the same as for petrol. When making a life cycle assessment of carbon usage if you factor in the CO2 absorption of fuels based on corn, rapeseed, sugarcane, etc, this clearly reduces their net carbon contribution. You also have to factor in the CO2 used in production (fertilisers, transport, manufacture), but even so, according to studies used by the EC, rapeseed offers GHG emission reductions of 50 per cent, halfway between Brazilian sugarcane's 90 per cent and American corn's 15 per cent. As Fischer Boel said: "Biofuels are a vital element in our tool box to combat climate change."
But it is not as simple as just telling Europe's under-employed farmers to start tilling their set asides with biofuel crops. There are problems with sequencing - getting investors, plants, transport infrastructure, fuel stations, car manufacturers, and, then, above all, customers to accept new fuels.
It is early days, but only one country in Europe has so far taken to bioethanol cars in any quantities - Sweden. But even with tax breaks, congestion charge exemptions and a cash grant, flexifuel vehicles (which can take petrol and/or ethanol) still only make up 15 per cent of new car sales. The Swedish government mandates petrol stations to have ethanol pumps; so 2,000 do. In France the figure is 180. In the UK it is about 20.
If pump unavailability, ethanol's newness, and its allegedly corrosive properties were its only problems, the EC's selling job would have been hard enough, but it is also handicapped by a seeming inability to push innovations such as GM crops through. But biofuels' problems are bigger than that.
There have been clashes between demonstrators and security officers at conferences. While demonstrators have been pinning placards to conference centres, frustrated young entrepreneurs and biotech executives have been reduced to talking querulously into their mobile phones. They have been let in eventually, but only after being handed leaflets that said that biofuels were for 'biofools'.
This is not just a view found on the ecological left. An OECD working group report from September 2007 said the anticipated twenty-fold amount of energy being extracted annually from land between now and 2050 and growing populations (nine billion in 2050) will limit the amount of new land that can be brought into production leading to a 'food-versus-fuel' debate. This would push starving people into cutting down the rainforests to grow crops, either for cash
or food. Biofuels big claim was that they were good for the environment, but such impacts as soil acidification, fertiliser use, biodiversity loss and toxicity of agricultural pesticides suggest "the overall environmental impacts can very easily exceed those of petrol and mineral diesel".
For good measure, the EC's in-house science advice unit leaked a paper that the policy will be exceedingly costly and will neither lead to substantial GHG savings nor to job creation. Science, the world's leading science journal, goes further than the OECD report, saying that analysis, which the EC based its policy suggestions on, failed to count the carbon emissions that occurred as farmers responded to higher prices and converted forest and grasslands to croplands. The study found that corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 per cent saving, nearly doubled GHG over 30 years and increased them over 167 years.
A UN report, 'Last Stand of the Orangutan', said that, combined with logging and fire pressures, palm oil production could result in the destruction of 98 per cent of Indonesia's rainforest within 12 years. Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on food, calls biofuels a "crime against humanity".
Second generation
One of the interesting things about biofuels is that the number of patents has increased by 150 per cent in each of the past two years, and now has more patents issued, over 1,000 a year, than solar and wind combined.
It seems most of these patent-holders are travelling around Europe and the world flush with the $1bn in biofuels research and development projects the US department of energy is granting to make second generation biofuels. There is a sense of ferment in the industry, as it were, for new ways to make chiefly ethanol. There is a score of experimental facilities in the US and Europe.
One of the main areas of research concerns turning cellulose from grasses, bagasse (the residue from sugarcane) sawdust, wood chip, straw, even municipal waste, into ethanol. (It is somewhat alarming to start to see every plant and tree around as just a source of energy. Whither Wordsworth?)
Their fertiliser and production carbon debts have already been paid by their primary products; so they are the greenest of all ethanols, and they do not dual role as potential food crops. But the treatment process is more complex: the lignine sheaths protecting the cellulose have to be separated out through applications of acid; then hydrolysed with the help of genetically engineered enzymes. They have then reached the state of beetroot or sugarcane sugar. These simple sugars can be fermented by yeasts to alcohols in the usual way, before being distilled into usable bioethanol.
What enzymes?
The plethora of wood-digesting proteins residing in termites' guts have been extensively studied to try and shed light on the bugs' wood-eating capacity to suggest cheaper, more effective ways of generating cellulosic ethanol. But there are many, many other routes being studied.
One recent analysis said that no single breakthrough was likely to bring us to the point of efficient biofuel production. Rather, it will probably take many advances on several scientific and technological fronts, underlining the importance of a systems approach. And economics would determine the winner, no mater what plants get built in the short-term.
Land use dilemma
What the EC and the US have done is commit themselves to a controversial course of action, and only time will tell whether second generation biofuels will make a difference.
The EC has to convince not only the public, but heads of government. At the annual European Union spring competitiveness summit in March, Angela Merkel made public her anxiety about carbon leakage, which industry would migrate to where environmental conditions are laxer.
The steel industry, which will be subject to carbon cap and trade policies that form the other centre plank of the EC's new environment policy, has complained that its cost will rise by 10 per cent under the new legislation.
It is a battle set to continue to rage versus hostile NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) and journalists and an indifferent, confused public. Perhaps it is a battle that will take in other issues; for these promises to be the question of the century. Once you start talking about crops and land-use - if land use is what NGOs worry about - why not grazing for cattle?
For instance, one delegate at a meeting I was at recently noted that most arable land is in fact not used by biocrops but livestock for grazing; in calorie terms, that land would be better used for growing crops, eaten directly by people.
Shortly after that we all drifted off into the most sumptuous of banquets, where many splendid meat dishes were served and plenty of ethanol of the superior kind served, perhaps to dull various ironies.


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PlastikFantastik is a blitzkrieg class on direct engagement, active citizenship and spontaneous creativity. Here, alien graffiti are temporarily parasitizing on an outdoor space, establishing a relationship with surrounding architecture, landscape, trees, bicycle lanes, crossings, billboards, etc. This process creates new images, new narratives, new spaces, and new connections between all these elements.
PlastikFantastik can be a mere game. Yet it can also be taken very seriously. The project simultaneously praises and laments over the fundamental trait of graffiti – ephemeralness. The brevity of graffiti as a medium is exposed by choosing the short-lived plastic surface upon which graffiti are painted and by making the project last for a rather short time.
PlastikFantastik juggles with and contemplates the outcomes of political communication. It asks about political slogans that persist and the ones that are washed away. It asks what modes of political communication and creative expression can actually make a permanent mark in the era of Brexit and Donnie Trump. The answers provided will always be site-specific and inevitably surprising.
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Baithal Ravi, Al Musalla Road, Bur Dubai, opposite Al Mansour Video (04 352 8090).
Karachi Darbar
Whether ordering in or eating out, you can't beat the service at this dependable chain. After gorging on a plate of fluffy biryani, we whetted our palettes with one of the sweetest, freshest mango lassis we've ever had. Occasionally, chunks of perfectly ripe mango travelled their way up through the straw, acting as an added, unexpected treat. While some lassis can have a somewhat anaemic texture, not so with Karachi Darbar's variety, which was ideally thick and creamy.
Karachi Darbar, Omar Bin Al Khattab Road, near Fish Roundabout, Deira (04 224 9594). Other locations: Karama, near Fish Market (04 3374 7272), Bur Dubai (04 353 3177)
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Al Ibrahimi Palace Restaurant, Bur Dubai, opposite New BurJuman Centre (04 397 7070)
Ravi's Restaurant
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Ravi's Restaurant, Between the new mosque and Satwa roundabout, Satwa (04 331 5353)


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I am sorry for the delay between posts. As i eluded to in my last post we were in for a bumper month and it is only now that i am able to come up for air and attend to things such as our blog. The month of October saw us facilitating 45 events aiming to motivate, educate and inspire over 2000 delegates across the east coast of Australia. It was a month where our team was pushed to its limits and i was left to reflect: "Are we practicing what we preach?"
I am very proud to say that our team has excelled during this pressure time. The key factors of Trust, Commitment and Accountability saw us achieving the desired goal of ensuring we delivered exceptional events for all our clients.
Trust: It is crucial to trust one another. Trust that the job colleagues are doing will be done. This allows one to focus on their own tasks with the knowledge and understanding that each party is playing their role in achieving the common goal.
Commitment: Knowing that all members are genuinely committed to achieving the best result for the client and the Pinnacle Team Events organisation. This ensures that any unexpected happenings (and in events there are lots of these) will be dealt with professionally, swiftly and with a smile.
Accountability: With all team members knowing their role and the expectations within; our team was able to navigate a hectic month. Holding team members accountable for their work ensures that any feedback positive or negative is invaluable to that team member. Everyone within an organisation should be held accountable to ensure maximum results!
Enough chat……. I'm back to work! Enquire about our Sydney group activities today.


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Compatible with All Devices
Before deciding to use an app for video streaming, make sure that it is compatible with any device that you have. In fact, the best one should be compatible with standard operating systems like Windows for PC, Windows for Phones, iOS and Android.
Good compatibility means that no feature of the app will be compromised or work poorly. When all are working well, then the app will be in a position to give you the full benefits easily.
No Buffering
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Saturday, 4 July 2015
Slight hiatus in posts coming as i'm hopefully going to be stocking up on photos and small sunny waves in California for the next three weeks!
Here's a sunny California kinda tune to get you in my mood!
happy fourth everyone.......
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