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Comment on Kids 'jumped, bashed' numerous people: reports. by David.
The situation now is completely out of control. Kids beating up people at night?
Why isn't the army being bought in and teaching these children a lesson?
All these bloody do gooders want this 'n that, now you see the consequences of society out of control.
The mayor rather get his picture taken than do anything..g
Gunner is a waste of space.
Bring in the army and maintain order! No wonder this town is dying.
Recent Comments by David
Town Council considers $50m art gallery options
As stated before we don't need another art gallery here. Even if at the civic centre or Anzac Oval … where to park?
We have too many art galleries already and they are downsizing.
When is the Alice Springs Town Council going to wake up … and the NT Government.
Elections are coming. Both of the top jobs should go. Out with GUNNER and RYAN.
Mass rally shows fury, distrust for police, government
Interesting how you only focused on the rally and not what happened Thursday night when youths damaged businesses and also bashed a man.
We concentrate too much on rallies and other things but don't work toward being united as one people in one country.
All the hatred now out there is dividing our country and I can see no peace between whites and blacks as there is too much mistrust. How sad for our nation. Divided we are now.
Big drops in grog crime, break-ins on way down: police
In response to Domenico Pecorari: Can I say figures can be manipulated very easily and I'm sure they have been.
The police do what they can when they arrest people but a slap on the wrist from the court system doesn't teach the offender anything.
We have the right to feel safe in our community.
Great that hospitals are being freed up but that's only because they go to the clinics now.
Which only allow Aboriginal persons to be treated there.
I thought we were trying to work toward a non racist society. I'm clearly wrong.
Big drops in grog crime, break-ins on way down: police
What a load of rubbish.
The police really think crime has gone down and everything is hunky dory here.
Get off your damn figures and go around the town and see what sort of nonsense is going on every day.
I thought the police do a good job but the bosses fudge the statistics.
The courts are useless and something needs to be done. A slap on the wrist is useless. If they do the crime they do the time.
Online hate speech by leading tourism figure
Seems Mr Thompson is expressing his views about what certain elements do at night by smashing windows etc.
The whole town is sick of it and businesses pay so much extra for insurance because of it.
Lock them up and throw away the key.
Nothing's changed in 50 years with these people. The NT Government has no solution. And as for Southerners who comment and try to do something they have no idea of the problems faced here.
I don't know of a real solution.
Excuses, excuses all the time from powers that be.


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Coldplay releases song lyrics in NZ paper
British band Coldplay have picked a small New Zealand newspaper to release the lyrics to their upcoming album "Everyday Life."
The lyrics were scattered over 15 cryptic advertisements in Tuesday's paper without further explanation.
British musical giants Coldplay have chosen the Otago Daily Times of all the world's media outlets to reveal lyrics to their new album. https://t.co/1g4aAvb28D pic.twitter.com/v1PGK1nIU6— ODT Online (@odtnews) November 19, 2019
"For those of you in the Dunedin area of New Zealand, you can find the lyrics to all of the songs from Everyday Life (out Friday) in Tuesday's edition of the Otago Daily Times," the band wrote on Twitter.
"There's an excellent article on Buenos Aires' nightlife next to the Eko lyrics on p17," they added.
For those of you in the Dunedin area of New Zealand, you can find the lyrics to all of the songs from Everyday Life (out Friday) in Tuesday's edition of the Otago Daily Times. There's an excellent article on Buenos Aires' nightlife next to the Èkó lyrics on p17. PH pic.twitter.com/A1oG7hrRSZ— Coldplay🌙☀ (@coldplay) November 18, 2019
The newspaper with a circulation of 43,000 based in the south of New Zealand's South Island was the only publication in the world to feature the lyrics to the songs, a Warner Music New Zealand spokeswoman told the paper.
The record label did not say why the paper was chosen.
The move comes after the band released the playlist of the band's first album in four years in the classified section of some selected international newspapers in October.


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U.S. House Democrats leading the impeachment probe on Tuesday released a report detailing their case against President Donald Trump, saying he used "the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election."
The report detailed three months of public and private testimony and more than 100 hours of deposition testimony from 17 witnesses. The document, drawn up by the House Intelligence Committee, laid out a lengthy timeline outlining a campaign orchestrated by Trump and his supporters to leverage US$400 million in needed military aid from Ukraine in exchange for information on former vice-president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
"The impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection," the report read.
"Indeed, President Trump continues to encourage Ukraine and other foreign countries to engage in the same kind of election interference today," the report read.
"The damage to our system of checks and balances, and to the balance of power within our three branches of government, will be long-lasting and potentially irrevocable if the president's ability to stonewall Congress goes unchecked."
The report also cited Trump's removal of the United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, after a "ruthless smear campaign was waged against her" by Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his associates.
Yovanovitch, who was known for aggressively advocating for anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine, was replaced by what the report calls three "political appointees" who were more willing to commit "an improper domestic political errand" than fighting corruption.
The committee's report ultimately left to another panel to decide whether to remove Trump from office.
At a news conference on Tuesday, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff said the report chronicles Trump's "scheme" to interfere in the upcoming U.S. election, and said letting these actions slide would be opening the door for more.
He noted Trump instructed multiple witnesses to not appear before Congress, and tried to intimidate members from appearing.
Schiff said the report showed damning evidence that Trump believed he needed an investigation into political rival Joe Biden, as well as an investigation into a now-debunked conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine — not Russia — who interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.
"That conspiracy is a Russian narrative, that is, a conspiracy theory put out, promulgated by Vladimir Putin to deflect attention away from Russia's interference in our own election and to try to drive a wedge between the United States and nation of Ukraine."
Schiff called Trump's elicit actions a betrayal of Americans' trust that Americans should 'care deeply about.'
"This is not about Ukraine, this is about our democracy. This is about our national security. This is about whether the American people have a right to expect that the president of the United States is going to act in their interests," said Schiff. "If we don't care about this, we can darn well be sure the president will be back at this, doing it all over again."
During the press conference, Schiff also accused the Republican Party of becoming "so wedded" to Trump that they were "unwilling to do their constitutional duty."
Recalling Mick Mulvaney's October on-camera press conference that told the world to expect corruption from the U.S. president and "get over it," Schiff said:
"I for one don't think we should get over this. I don't think we should get used to this. I don't think that's what the founders of this country had in mind."
In a tweet, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff said the inquiry uncovered "overwhelming and uncontested evidence" that Trump "abused the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference" in America's election for "his own personal, political gain."
"No one is above the law," he wrote.
Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. State Department official David Hale said he saw no evidence that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.
"I've seen nothing that's credible," he said.
The committee is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. to vote on the reports findings.
Speaking to reporters at a NATO meeting in London earlier on Tuesday, Trump once again called the hearings a "witch hunt."
He then took aim at Schiff, calling him a "liar."
"I think he's a maniac," Trump said. "Adam Schiff is a deranged human being."
The inquiry centres around whether Trump froze nearly US$400 million in military aid to pressure Ukraine to publicly announce separate investigations into interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as former vice-president and political rival Joe Biden's son Hunter and his work on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
Trump has vehemently denied the allegation, but has acknowledged that he did block the funds, which were later released.
-With files from Reuters, David Lao


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Zip your lips, Leila
"Yet to this day, they act as though they are candidates for sainthood, when they allowed the culture of impunity in the House of Aquino to continue shamelessly.
She is still at it, talking about what she calls "impunity" and its culture that has descended on the Duterte administration.
There went the detained Sen. Leila de Lima, stressing that "Impunity once unleashed has no bounds. Anything can happen," as she warned in a Sunday statement while renewing her old, tired warning.
De Lima added: "It's happening! Impunity in the killings, corruption, repression of dissent and legal or judicial harassment versus critics, and abuses in the exercise of presidential powers."
She furthered, "And we're allowing or tolerating all these. So little resistance. Many voices are muzzled."
The detained senator is really something else, believing that she has the moral ascendancy in issuing such warnings on her claimed culture of impunity, even as she conveniently omits the fact that she, as the then yellow Justice chief, closed her eyes to the gross impunity being committed by her yellow patron, then President Noynoy Aquino and his yellow aides. Yet, she now claims to be so shocked at the alleged impunity in the Duterte administration?
It was a such a yellow teamwork she enjoyed with the yellow Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, in ensuring that their yellow patron and his allies would not be touched by the law, even as Aquino and his yellow allies, such as his then Budget secretary, were already caught dipping their hands in the public coffers and bribing congressmen and senators to impeach and convict the then sitting Supreme Court Chief Justice, the late Renato Corona.
The fact that she and her teammate Carpio-Morales allowed such a blatant criminal act to go unpunished should make them ashamed of themselves. Yet to this day, they act as though they are candidates for sainthood, when they allowed the culture of impunity in the House of Aquino to continue shamelessly. They even covered up for him and his yellow allies.
Leila, as the yellow Justice chief, certainly did nothing by way of warning against the yellow administration, especially her yellow patron, of the culture of impunity going on in the yellow administration.
Still, why should she have even tried to warn Aquino and his allies, when she was hardly the model of moral ascendancy? Why should Leila and her teammate, Carpio-Morales, when they were precisely ensuring their protection from the law.
Really? Pray tell, Leila. Where was your voice when your yellow patron did nothing and even refused to order the military for air support against the Islamic rebels who were then slaughtering the 44 Special Action Force troopers in the infamous Mamasapano Massacre, and with her yellow boss witnessing the massacre in real time?
Have you again conveniently forgotten that you even defended your boss, insisting in a Senate hearing on Mamasapano, that while Aquino was the commander-in-chief of the military, he was not the CIC of the Philippine National Police?
Corruption was certainly present during the yellow reign. legal and judicial harassment were employed by the yellows, especially the yellow duo of Carpio-Morales and yourself, Leila, as the then Justice chief. They even ensured that their yellow boss and his aides would be fully protected during their reign, while ensuring too that their yellow patron's political foes would be slapped with trumped-up charges of plunder, arrested and detained.
And she has the face to complain about her detention and charges of conspiring with the criminals in the New Bilibid Prison on drug trading, calling the charges against her trumped-up when she is a master at slapping trumped up charges against her yellow patron's political foes?
Yet to this day, she dares to claim that she is being politically persecuted, when she was, as the yellow Justice chief, the political persecutor, going after the political opponents of her yellow boss and yes, allowing and tolerating Aquino and his administration's corruption, political persecution of their foes.
Today, she even files Senate resolutions, with one of them stating that "Congress, through relevant and appropriate legislation, must end the perpetration of the culture of impunity by facilitating the enforcement of the full extent of the law against persons, both state and non-state actors, responsible for summary killings," the detained senator stated.
If she is so scandalized, why then did she do nothing to end the perpetration of the culture of impunity by the enforcement of the full extent of the law during the yellow reign?
De Lima should just zip her mouth. She has no credibility when she speaks on these issues, because she never enforced the law when it came to her yellow boss and his allies.


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Essex Senior League: Redbridge 2 Hoddesdon Town 2
Redbridge were pegged back for a 2-2 draw by mid-table Hoddesdon Town after taking a two goal lead in the first-half.
The result means Redbridge remain 12th in the Essex Senior League and Hoddesdon remain ninth after both picking up a share of the spoils at The Oakside Stadium.
Manager Micky Wetherall tweeted after the match: "With seven players missing the team tonight got together and dragged a point out of the game respect to Hoddesdon who scored two in second half and played well.
"This morning I would have taken your hand off for a point."
Redbridge will welcome strugglers Tower Hamlets to The Oakside Stadium on Saturday.
They only have four matches left this campaign and Wetherall will be determined for his side to finish strongly as they look to chase down a top half finish.


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In 2018 we have identified some key areas of priority which group together many of our events and activities taking place over the next 12 months.
These are;
We identified training as a priority to continue to equip and enable both clergy and lay people, volunteers and those paid to work with children and young people for the task. Most of this is practical training in children and youth work although we are offering some training which will help with other necessary things such as safeguarding and food hygiene.
If you were to prioritise one key training event in 2018 we'd ask you to come and be part of our Prayer Spaces in Schools training day on 10th March, taking place in St Mary's Swansea. This is FREE event, more details available here. PSIS training event
This is vital for so many of us can be isolated or feel like we don't have teams around us to bounce ideas around or ask for help. Our networking events provide opportunities to share good practice, ask questions, support one another, pray together and have a good time getting to know other people who are engaged in similar ministry.
If you were to prioritise one key networking event in 2018 we'd ask you to come to our Prayer Breakfast and Networking day on Saturday 16th June in St Mary's hall, Cardigan. We've had lots of different ways of networking in the past 2 years but this event aims to bring together youth leaders, Sunday school teachers, Messy Church helpers, people who work in schools, absolutely anyone who is involved in ministry with children and young people. We will also be offering training and support on this day to run our Summer Salt programme in your LMA.
Events for children
Of course this is what it's all about, running events to bring together children from across the Diocese to share in fellowship and faith together. We have done this successfully for Sports Days, Party at the Palace and other events. It is really lovely to see the whole family of God coming together and we hope you will support our many events for children in 2018.
If you were to prioritise one key event for children in 2018 we'd ask you to bring a group along to our Pentecost Party. This will take place on Sunday 20th May….save the date!
Events for young people
Again, this is really why we do what we do. We have really built up work with young people and offered meaningful opportunities for them to get to know one another and explore faith together – as well as having lots of fun along the way.
Building on the success of the 2017 youth residential, if you were to prioritise one key event for young people in 2018 we'd ask you to promote and support our youth residential to Cardiff 6th-9th April. More details available here. Youth Res
Schools events
Schools are right at the heart of each and every community that we work on. We have worked hard at building confidence and providing resources for work in schools including assembly training and highlighting ways to bring schools into church and working with them on the curriculum.
If you were to prioritise one key event for work with schools in 2018 we'd ask you to consider using the Experience Easter or Advent Experience programme. These are available in English and in Welsh and we offer training sessions to see the Experience set up, walk through and ask questions.
Starting something new
The perfect time, right at the beginning of the year, for thinking about new beginnings. There are so many opportunities to begin new work with children and young people and we are always here to support you in whatever you want to do, help build your team, provide financial assistance, offer resources and help with leadership.
In 2018 there are two main ways to do this if you are not sure where to start. 1 – our children's work roadshow where we work with you to develop new work with children; this could be anything from a Sunday school to a choir, from a Messy Church to an after school club. 2 – our Eden Bus roadshow 20th-25th May. This amazing resource is a double decker bus which is available to book during that period. This could go with you to a local secondary school, be an exciting new base for your young people or help reach out to a new estate or area within your LMA. Book with us now.
We hope this has helped with your plans for 2018, let's place them all in God's hands.


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Zespri plans for further production in Europe to boost supply
Zespri, New Zealand's statutory kiwifruit exporter, is optimistic about the 2018 season after some growers saw weakness in 2017, with plans to continue global expansion.
In the 2017 season, the Te Puke-based company achieved distributable profit for its grower shareholders of $34.8 million in the year to March 31 on a 19% increase in turnover of $2.26 billion. Payments to New Zealand growers per tray supplied fell 1% to $9.46, although total payments were up 21% at $1.39 billion because of a steep increase in total supply.
Domestic and international production of gold kiwifruit rose 48% to 53.2 million trays, 47.9 million of which were grown in New Zealand. Returns per tray of New Zealand-grown gold fruit rose 39 percent to $98,838 per hectare, whereas the value of a hectare of the green variety fell 6 percent to $53,555. Organic green fruit returns rose 3 percent to $54,427 per hectare.
At the company's annual meeting in Mount Maunganui today, chairman Peter McBride said he recognised the 2017 season had been difficult, with some growers facing lower average yields for green and organic green varieties.
"However, market conditions are positive and our August forecast reflects a good demand position," Mr McBride said. "It is supported by strong investment to build product and brand awareness, earn shelf space and support sales through retail channels.
"The August forecast shows average OGR (orchard gate return) returns per hectare for green and green organic that reflect lower yields and higher per tray returns. Gold continues to perform strongly across all markets, reflected in good returns. Green 14 returns are off this year, impacted by a very narrow market mix for this small category. I note these are averages and recognise that the result may be difficult for orchardists with lower yields."
Mr McBride said the company was focused on improving returns on green kiwifruit crops, growth from its SunGold variety, developing its organic category and commercialising new varieties.
"I am confident that successful implementation of this strategy supported by 12-month supply will see continued growth in grower and shareholder returns," he said.
Zespri has now licensed 3720 hectares for SunGold production in Europe, which it expects to produce around 40 million trays a year once fully mature.
Outgoing chief executive Lain Jager said it was essential for Zespri to have year-round supply to compete on the global stage.
"Twelve-month supply is critical to our ability to optimise SunGold growth and Zespri's brand strength globally," Jager said. "If we do not supply, our competitors will, and our offshore production of SunGold is significantly lagging demand. The challenge should rightly be about whether we should go faster with offshore supply rather than slower."
Mr Jager announced he was leaving the company last September, having been in the role since 2008. Today, McBride said the company is near to finalising the appointment of a new CEO and an announcement will be made "in the near future."


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Washington, D.C. – NASA and NOAA scientists reported today that abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since 1982.
The annual ozone hole reached its peak extent of 6.3 million square miles (16. 4 million square kilometers) on September 8th, and then shrank to less than 3.9 million square miles (10 million square kilometers) for the remainder of September and October, according to NASA and NOAA satellite measurements. During years with normal weather conditions, the ozone hole typically grows to a maximum area of about 8 million square miles in late September or early October.
The 2019 ozone hole reached its peak extent of 6.3 million square miles (16. 4 million square kilometers) on September 8th. Abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion this year. (NASA)
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Washington, D.C. – Eight briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key to improving forecasts of a hurricane's wind speed – detecting whether it will make landfall as a Category 1 or a Category 5. NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) fleet, launched in 2016, was designed to show whether the same GPS signals your phone uses for navigation can be used to measure winds deep within a hurricane or typhoon. The answer appears to be a resounding yes.
Weather forecasting models have gotten much better at predicting the future track of a hurricane or typhoon, but they haven't improved at predicting its maximum wind speed, which scientists call intensity.
Illustration of one of the eight CYGNSS satellites in orbit above a hurricane. (NASA)
Washington, D.C. – Hot and dry. NASA says these are the watchwords for large fires. While every fire needs a spark to ignite and fuel to burn, it's the hot and dry conditions in the atmosphere that determine the likelihood of a fire starting, its intensity and the speed at which it spreads. Over the past several decades, as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn.
Since 1880, the world has warmed by 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit, with the five warmest years on record occurring in the last five years. Since the 1980s, the wildfire season has lengthened across a quarter of the world's vegetated surface, and in some places like California, fire has become nearly a year-round risk.
Fires are a natural part of the ecosystem in North American forests. However, their size and intensity is shaped by climate. (NASA)
Greenbelt, MD – Hurricane Dorian dropped excessive rainfall on the Bahamas and NASA calculated the rainfall the storm generated.
"By Wednesday morning, September 4th, 2019 the rain accumulation from Hurricane Dorian exceeded 36 inches in an area that included parts of Grand Bahama Island and Abaco Island," said Owen Kelley, researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
"By that time, the Dorian's center was north of the Bahamas and was moving further north, approximately parallel to Florida's east coast," Kelley stated.
This image shows NASA IMERG estimated rainfall accumulations for the region of the Bahamas affected by Hurricane Dorian from August 31st to September 4th. The imagery shows rainfall exceeded 36 inches in an area that included parts of Grand Bahama Island and Abaco Island. (NASA Goddard)
Greenbelt, MD – In the early hours of Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019, NASA reports Hurricane Dorian had been stationary over the island of Grand Bahama for 18 hours, most of the time as a category 5 hurricane. Storm-total rain accumulation over parts of Grand Bahama and Abaco Islands have exceeded 24 inches according to NASA satellite-based estimates.
On early Tuesday morning, Dorian's central pressure had risen and its wind intensity had dropped to category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
NASA's IMERG storm-total rain accumulation over parts of Grand Bahama and Abaco islands have exceeded 24 inches according to NASA satellite-based estimates. The graphic also shows the distance that tropical-storm force (39 mph) winds extend from Hurricane Dorian's low-pressure center, as reported by the National Hurricane Center. The symbols H and TS represent a hurricane of various Saffir-Simpson categories or a tropical storm, respectively. (NASA Goddard)
Greenbelt, MD – NASA says dangerous Hurricane Dorian has weakened slightly and is now a Category 4 storm as it continues to spin over the Bahamas. Dorian has slowed to a crawl in terms of speed of movement only moving at west-northwest at about 1 mph (2 km/h).
This means that the Bahamas will continue to get lashed by this monstrous storm and the amount of rainfall totals for the area continue to grow. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has reported that the eye of the hurricane has begun to wobble a bit over Grand Bahama Island.
Astronaut Christine Koch of the International Space Station captured this image of Hurricane Dorian outside the ISS windows the morning of September 2nd, 2019. (NASA)
Greenbelt, MD – NASA reports that the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Dorian was directly over the Abacos Islands as of the National Hurricane Center's (NHC) 3:00pm CDT advisory and is now heading towards Grand Bahama Island.
The hurricane is located about 185 miles (295 km) east of West Palm Beach, FL. Maximum sustained winds are 185 mph (295 km/h) with gusts over 200 mph.
Dorian is moving west at 7 mph. The central pressure is 911 Mb which continues to lower meaning the storm continues to intensify. This is the fifth Category 5 hurricane sustained in the last five years.
Suomi NPP image of Hurricane Dorian showing its well-defined eye as it passed over Dorian at 2:20am CDT (0720 UTC). (NASA/NOAA/UWM-SSEC-CIMSS/William Straka III)
Washington, D.C. – AAA says when filling-up at the pump this fall, the majority of U.S. motorists will find savings of potentially more than 25-cents/gallon compared to this summer.
The national gas price average, which is already 15-cents cheaper than just five weeks ago, is poised to continue pushing less expensive due to several factors, including less expensive crude oil prices, the drop-off in gasoline demand after Labor Day and the move to winter-blend gasoline.
AAA Forecasts National Gas Price Average to Land at $2.40 or Lower This Fall. (AAA)
Washington, D.C. Two Proposals have been picked by NASA for concept studies that could help us better understand the fundamental nature of space and how it changes in response to planetary atmospheres, radiation from the Sun, and interstellar particles. The proposals will advance NASA's heliophysics program and could lead to better protection for both technology and humans as we travel farther from home.
Each of these Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity proposals will receive $400,000 to conduct a nine-month mission concept study.
NASA has chosen two new science proposals for nine-month concept studies to advance our understanding of how the particles and energy in space – shown here flowing from the Sun in an illustration of the solar wind – affect the fundamental nature of space. One proposal will ultimately be chosen to launch along with NASA's upcoming Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe in October 2024. (NASA)
Pasadena, CA – NASA says last Saturday, June 22nd, 2019, a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite picked up something that wasn't lightning. A scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, started doing some detective work.
When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something that wasn't lightning last Saturday, a scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, did some detective work.
This image shows the flash of an asteroid impacting Earth's atmosphere over the Caribbean Sea on June 22nd, 2019. It was captured by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument aboard GOES-16, an Earth-monitoring satellite operated by NOAA and NASA. (CIRA/CSU, RAMMB/NOAA/NASA)


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Is Your City Prepared for the Opportunity Zone Impact?
Accelerator for America wants to help governments and municipalities prepare for increased OZ investments.
Under AoA's guidance, 30 cities to date have drafted Investment Prospectuses, clearly outlining their preparations for OZ impact. Their reasoning: "We're saying, 'If you're going to put capital into these communities, here are the communities that are ready, and these are the things the community actually wants to do.'"
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A new report ranks the country's top 306 counties for Opportunity Zone investments, and Austin's Travis County is No. 1.
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Treasury decisions could make or break OZ for operating businesses.
"Given the pent-up demand for these investment opportunities, we expect that business activity, fund formation, and fund raising will move at a rapid pace once further guidance is issued."
Opportunity Zones Expose Conflict Between Growth Advocates and Neighborhood Leaders
At a Seattle OZ event, long-simmering tensions come out.
"We want to see how this development is supposed to provide opportunity for us," said one community representative. "We want jobs for people who live there and we don't want those people who live there now or the small businesses who are there now to go away."
Opportunity Fund Management: Assembling the Right Team
A breakdown of the three service providers you'll need to launch your fund.
What does a fund administrator do? What can't a fund administrator do? Who else will you need to hire? In this blog, we explain the roles that various third parties play in setting up a new Opportunity Zone Fund.
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Back in January, it was announced that GM had invested $500 million in Lyft. The reasoning for the investment was to work on self-driving cars. GM has been wanting to have their own ride-sharing program for the self-driving age, which is also why they bought Sidecar once they went out of business. Now it looks like they could be putting out some autonomous Chevrolet Bolts as soon as next year, that will actually run as part of Lyft. Now the Chevy Bolt is GM's all-electric vehicle that is going to cost under $30,000 (it's actually closer to about $25,000) and will be available in "late 2016". So not only would it be an autonomous car, but good for the environment as well.
The two companies are still pretty quiet on the details about this upcoming test for autonomous Chevrolet Bolts, and they haven't even named a city yet. It's quite possible that it could be in Michigan, given that GM's world headquarters are in downtown Detroit. However it's also quite possible that the test city could be San Francisco, given that is where Lyft is headquartered and started out at. Lyft spoke with The Wall Street Journal, stating that they "will want to vet the autonomous tech between Cruise, GM, and ourselves and slowly introduce this into markets." For those that might be unaware of what Cruise is, they are referring to Cruise Automation. It's a three-year old autonomous car company that GM purchased back in March.
On top of testing out autonomous versions of the Chevrolet Bolt next year for Lyft service, GM is also planning to rent the Chevrolet Bolt to Lyft drivers to do their job essentially, instead of using their own personal car. GM is already renting out Chevy Equinox models to Lyft drivers. So they are looking to expand the program past the Equinox and include the Bolt, which is one of the most talked about models from GM in quite some time – largely due to it being an all-electric vehicle and being under $30,000.
The autonomous car industry is about to get pretty packed. We have Alphabet who just inked a deal with Fiat Chrysler to use some of their 2017 Pacifica minivans in their test driving fleet, we also have Uber who is working on their own self-driving vehicles. Not to mention other auto makers, like Ford who is also testing the Ford Fusion on a test track in Ann Arbor, Michigan.


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Today, powerpc has three CONFIG labels which means exactly the same: - CONFIG_6xx - CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 - CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_32 By consistency with PPC64, CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 is the preferred one. Using a label with includes _PPC_ also makes it clearer that it is linked to powerpc. In preparation of the removal of CONFIG_6xx, this patch replaces it by CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <firstname.lastname@example.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <firstname.lastname@example.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <email@example.com>f99e33f1


text: You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!


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Second biggest, actually. The first had been coming to Sierra's that morning and giving in to the temptation that had eaten away at him for weeks.
Lying beside her, Cole recognized the mistake, knowing he'd never be able to just walk away from her again. It didn't matter how he felt about Luke, there was a part of himself that was reserved solely for this woman.
Maybe he should have remained on the sidelines, played the third like he'd been doing for years. That would have been the easy way out. Unfortunately, he couldn't sit back any longer. He did what was expected of him, he walked away from Sierra although it tore him apart to do so. He sat back and waited for Luke to figure out what he wanted and where did that leave him? It left him wondering just what the fuck he was doing.
Coming to see Sierra hadn't been a calculated move. According to Sam, Sierra was leaving, and Cole couldn't bring himself to sit back and let her just walk away without showing her – no, telling her – exactly what he felt for her.
Sierra stirred in his arms and he pulled her closer. Her slim thigh slid over his while her hand drifted over his chest, and Cole wished like hell that they never had to leave the bed.
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Luke felt the tension in his shoulders the second he pulled into Sierra's driveway, taking note of the all too familiar truck parked on the street in front of the house. There was no mistaking the huge black Silverado and that could only mean one thing. Cole had found another place to go the night before.
After last night, Luke wasn't prepared to face Sierra or Cole, let alone both of them together. And he wasn't sure he could explain the emotions churning through him. His brilliant idea to show up at Sierra's house, pray that she would let him through the door, now seemed like a rash decision. What had he been thinking?
And wasn't that the fucking question of the hour. Luke had done nothing but think for the last two hours. Ever since he woke up in his bed alone, he'd contemplated the result of his actions. The way he'd purposely pushed Sierra away, the way he'd denied whatever it was he had begun to feel for Cole, although, for the life of him, he didn't understand it.
Explaining it away didn't make things any easier. The fact of it was, Luke was so totally screwed. He'd gone and fallen in love with Sierra. That wasn't all that surprising. The woman was incredible. In every single possible way. So sweet, so sensual, and so damn beautiful his eyes hurt to look at her. Those glowing blue eyes penetrated his very soul, and she saw so much more than anyone else had ever bothered to.
On top of that, he'd somehow let himself feel something for Cole. Sure, he'd been shocked by the way he had reacted to the man that night at his house so many months ago. When Cole had gone to his knees… fuck.
The top of Luke's head had damn near come right off when Cole had gone to his knees and sucked him into the deep, hot recesses of his mouth. Until that moment, Luke had never known anything like it. He had only known his own need to possess the man, to own him. He needed Cole's total surrender and he had received it. Cole's rough touch had assuaged an ache Luke had thought would never be soothed. An ache that had taken up residence inside of him and longed to be sated.
Shutting off the truck, Luke opened his door and stepped down. His heart was beating like he'd just run a mile. What was he about to walk into?
No, he wasn't naïve enough to believe Cole and Sierra hadn't found solace in one another. Hell, he'd pushed them away. Both of them. And neither of them had done anything except try to be what Luke needed.
He hadn't thought about Cole's declaration from last night until he stepped out of his front door that morning. Cole had said, or more accurately, threatened, that he was coming by. Unless Luke had been too damn drunk, which was quite possible, but highly doubtful, Cole had never made it to his house. And seeing his black Chevy in front of Sierra's house told him why.
With resigned steps, Luke managed to make it to the front door. He hesitated briefly before he pounded his fist on the wood, his heart suddenly lodged in his throat. What was he going to say to her? Would she even listen to him?
When no one answered, Luke tried the knob. Finding it unlocked, he pushed the door open and invited himself in. Gently closing the door behind him, trying to make as little noise as possible, Luke wondered what he was about to walk into. Before he could turn around, Luke found himself slammed chest first into the door, Cole's impressive size pressed up against him from behind.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?" Luke bellowed, pushing Cole off of him, making him stagger back a couple of steps before Luke turned and Cole was up in his face.


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2009 Polaris 800 RMK Shift 144 Review
Powder riding on a budget or the skeleton for a do-it-yourself upgrade
When Polaris announced its 2009 line up, one thing that stood out was the expansion of the Shift model line. From a single sport model last year, the Shift moniker has spread to include an introductory priced fan-cooled sport sled all the way up to a powder model with full-blown, top of the food chain power.
Engine Type:Horizontal In-line
Engine Stroke:2-Stroke
Valve Configuration:Reed Valve
Displacement:795 / 48.5
Turbocharged:NoView Full Spec
As the big gun in the Shift line, the 2009 Polaris 800 RMK Shift can be looked at in a couple of ways. It is either a low buck platform for new to powder snowmobilers or it's the backbone for a build-it-yourself rider. This is the fellow who wants a barebones powder machine because he fully intends to build his own powder special with aftermarket parts and accessories.
Taken Seriously
However you view the Polaris 800 RMK Shift, you recognize that it has to be taken seriously for no other reason than its 800cc powerplant, which Polaris characterizes as 'wickedly powerful'. Introduced last season, the Polaris designed and built 2-stroke is claimed to deliver 154 horsepower from a relatively compact twin cylinder package. Polaris says its Liberty 800 high output Cleanfire4 twin offers exceptional power per pound, making it a good choice for powder and sport rider.
Adding it to the Shift model line immediately adds credibility to Polaris' value line of snowmobiles. Combining the latest power master engine to an already recognized powder chassis gives the Polaris 800 RMK Shift even greater sled 'cred' among deep snow riders. This stripped down aluminum chassis stretches over a long travel RMK suspension that has evolved from years of Polaris' western powder dominance. This is, after all, the company whose RMK series earned its name — Rocky Mountain King — by winning most all major hill climb competitions over the years. Although the Shift concept may suggest low purchase pricing, don't be fooled into thinking it symbolizes cheap. The 800 RMK Shift comes with the same lightweight rail beans as the pricier Polaris powder sleds.
Where the Shift shaves a few dollars is in shocks. You won't find Walker Evans brand here, but you can buy them through the parts catalog. You will find RydeFX shocks front and rear, good but there are better options available to you. Heck, that's why the Shift may be a great value.
If you are a beginning powder pup, the RydeFX shocks will be fine. If you develop into a serious powder hound, you can easily upgrade the Shift's suspensions. The rear suspension will take premium shocks. The base IQ RMK adjustable front suspension could be retrofitted as well. It provides an ample nine-inches of travel controlled by standard RydeFX shocks. This front design controls Polaris Gripper skis just like the ones on the much pricier Dragon RMK.
Style-wise the 800 RMK Shift comes in basic black. You add your own decal package or get it spec'd out by a local paint shop. While many Polaris Shift buyers shop price and keep accessory purchases to a minimum, we have to imagine that 800 RMK Shift buyers may be the type of snowmobiler to truly want a standout sled.
This sled is ripe for customization. Walk you fingers across a keyboard, visit various aftermarket web sites and you'll discover a vast network of products readily adaptable to the Shift.
Base Pieces
As a powder player, you'll like the basic sled's pieces. There are lightweight ski spindles and a punched runningboard that grips your boots. You can add backcountry gear and packs to the open platform behind the narrow Freestyle seat. Yes, there is a standard 5.25-inch handlebar riser, but you could easily add an aftermarket piece that fits your riding style better.
Check out the 15-inch wide by 144-inch long track with its 2.0-inch lugs. Serious power hounds are never satisfied with the base track; they look at options before they load their sleds onto their trailers. There are many options here, but the base track will be more than good enough for the beginner.
Are you getting the idea behind Polaris' marketing? The Shift series of powder sleds makes sense. It is a good enough ride for beginners and a very good starting point for the rider who fully intends to build his own mountain climber. The beauty of this model is that it comes out of the box with an exceptional drive train. The fuel injected Cleanfire twin drives one of the most responsive clutch systems in the sport. The drive clutch is the famed Polaris P85, which combines with a Polaris TEAM secondary. The Phantom hydraulic disc brake is the same as you get on higher priced Polaris models, so there's no skimping on the go and whoa power.
If you look at the 800 RMK Shift's specifications, it compares well with the latest Polaris models. It weighs 10-pounds less than the new Polaris 800 Assault RMK and has a similarly sized track.
Sleeper Sled
When it comes to the 800 RMK Shift, we really think that Polaris may have created a real sleeper. It has Polaris' best power. It has a solid base of suspensions, chassis and features. If nothing else, you could use this sled as a training vehicle to learn the ins and outs of serious powder riding. Heck, that's just for mountain and powder riders. Flatlanders could look at the 800 RMK Shift as a serious boondocking machine. It has a track that measures up well with Yamaha's Nytro XTX and more power in a lighter chassis.
Yes, indeed, when you look at the 2009 800 RMK Shift it may be that Polaris underestimated just what they created. At US$9,499 this may be the steal of the year for serious off trail and deep snow riders.
|2009 Polaris 800 RMK Shift 144 Specs
|Polaris Liberty 795cc, 2-stroke, liquid-cooled, twin; Cleanfire-4 quad fuel injection
|154 (Estimated)
|Polaris P-85 with Polaris LWT/Team secondary
|Front Suspension
|IQ dual A-arm suspension; RydeFX shocks; 9.0-inches of travel
|Rear Suspension
|Polaris lightweight RMK parallel rail with RydeFX shocks; up to 14.5-inches of travel
|125.0 in
|46.5 in
|49.5 in
|Ski Stance
|39.0 to 40.05 to 41.0 (RMK adjustable)
|15 x 144 x 2.0 Series 4
|477 lbs
|Fuel Capacity
|11.5 US Gal
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The Wizard of Oz first appeared in movie theaters nearly eighty years ago, and has since become a classic.
In its climactic scene, the heroine Dorothy, along with her dog Toto and companions the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion, enter the home of the film's namesake wizard, who presents himself as a great disembodied head surrounded by flames, and tries to intimidate the visitors with his power.
However, Toto ends up pulling aside a curtain to reveal that the "great" wizard is just a conman who uses tricks—smoke and mirrors—to create a false aura of potency.
The scene gave birth to the cliché "the man behind the curtain" to describe those who use illusions of power to manipulate public opinion.
An essay by Stella Morabito, titled "10 Key Ways to Beat the Mass Delusion Machine," appeared in a 2015 edition of The Federalist. It begins
"Perception is everything. Wars are often won or lost based on how the actors perceive one another's strengths and weaknesses, not so much how strong or weak they are in reality. So it goes with any agenda item.
"When people sense a shift in public opinion on an issue, a fair number will shift right along with what they perceive. Thus, power elites can shape behaviors and attitudes by applying various techniques of crowd psychology, focused on propaganda and silencing dissent.
"The end product is thought reform, or 'collective belief formation.' It's all about molding your perception of a given issue so your perception will influence others' perceptions, creating an 'opinion cascade.' Effective propaganda also keeps you in the dark about the fact that you are being manipulated."
Which brings us, the long way around, to the Modern Fish Act, (formally titled the "Modernizing Recreational Fishery Management Act, and designated H.R. 2023 in the House, with provisions incorporated into the even-worse H.R. 200 and S. 1520 in the Senate).
At its heart, the Modern Fish Act is an effort by the recreational fishing and boatbuilding industries, abetted by some anglers' rights groups, to steal some extra fish from the commercial fishing sector, and from the future, by changing the process by which such fish are allocated between commercial and recreational fishermen, and by weakening the conservation and stock rebuilding provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens FisheryConservation and Management Act.
The Modern Fish Act made its formal appearance on April 6, 2017, when H.R. 2023 was introduced in the House of Representatives, but its proponents—the men behind the curtain who have been pulling the levers, setting up the mirrors and generating all of the smoke surrounding the legislation—began more than two years before.
Behind the curtain, drafts of a "white paper" setting out its basic principles were being circulated by the late winter/early spring of 2013; I became aware of the effort then, after being given a copy, although the ideas were already well-enough developed that it was clear that the work had begun some time before.
The folks behind the curtain were located not in the Emerald City, at the palace of Oz, but instead at a group called The Center for Sportfishing Policy (then known as the Center for Coastal Conservation), an organization formed to find political solutions to sportfishing issues, which included groups such as the Coastal Conservation Association (a Texas-based anglers' rights organization), the American Sportfishing Association (the trade association for the recreational fishing tackle industry), the International Game Fish Association and the National Marine Manufacturers Association among its founding members.
The first public display of smoke and mirrors came a year later, at the 2014 Miami Boat Show, when Mike Nussman, president of the American Sportfishing Association, compared a pitcher full of gumballs and another, almost completely empty container to demonstrate the difference between commercial and recreational harvest, and argue for a new law. Nussman failed to mention that most of thatcommercial harvest is made up of fish of no interest to anglers, or thatanglers dominate fisheries for many or the species that they actually careabout, including striped bass, bluefish, speckled trout, red drum and others—but, of course, such omissions are a big part of the smoke and mirrors trade.
Nussman's exhibition set the stage for the release of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership report, "A Vision for Managing America's Saltwater Recreational Fisheries," which was designed to enhance the illusion.
The report was created by a "Commission on Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Management," a name that conveys the perception of being an important, independent body impaneled by someone seeking to find objective answers to recreational fishing issues.
In fact, the "commission" was co-chaired by Johnny Morris, the chief executive officer of Bass Pro Shops, a "Sustaining Member" of the Center for Sportfising Policy, and Scott Deal, a current director of the Center for Sportfishing Policy and president of Maverick Boats, another of the Center's Sustaining Members.
So much for independence…
And, although though the "Vision" report talked a lot about conservation—it uses the word twenty-seven times in just a dozen pages of text pages—says that
"Recreational anglers are more focused on abundance and size, structure of the fisheries, and opportunities to get out on the water,"
than, presumably, on merely taking home fish, and shows a lot of pictures of smiling kids and families, its take-home message is that the key conservation provisions of Magnuson-Stevens, which required annual catch limits and deadlines for rebuilding depleted fish populations, had to be weakened or eliminated in order to further the "socio-economic" goal of letting recreational fishermen harvest more fish. Which isn't about conservation at all.
But as the essay quoted above points out, that reality doesn't matter; it's the perception that counts.
So press releases extolling the Modern Fish Act frequentlymention conservation, and try to conjure up all-American images of familiesfishing together, but never seriously discuss the impacts of the proposed law on overfishingand overfished stocks. Rosy images sway public perception far better than grim and gloomy data...
And the Modern Fish Act supporters also need to promote the perception that the entire recreational fishing community is behind their effort to weaken federal fisheries law. We see the Center for Sportfishing Policy announcing on its website that
"The Modern Fish Act (included in H.R. 200/S. 1520) will make critically important changes to federal fishing regulations, including several key provisions included in both bills that are supported by a broad coalition of recreational fishing and boating organizations."
But when we look at a joint press release put out by the Center, praising the Modern Fish Act, we find that of the nine organizations listed, besides the Center itself, five—the Coastal Conservation Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association, International Game Fish Association, American Sportfishing Association and The Billfish Foundation—were the Center's original "Institutional Sustaining Members." A sixth, the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation, is a current Sustaining Partner.
The seventh listed organization, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, doesn't seem to be a member of the Center, but Center president Jeff Angers, is a former director of the foundation, and Pat Murray, president of the Coastal Conservation Association, is both the Secretary of the Foundation and a member of the Center for Sportfishing Policy's Board of Directors.
We see the same sort of thing with an eighth organization, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. It does not appear to be a member of the Center, but its board includes Bob Hayes, Chairman of the Center, and Mike Nussman, president of the American Sportfishing Association. In addition, CCA, ASA, the International Game Fish Association, The Billfish Foundation, the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation and the National Marine Manufacturers Association are all listed as "Partners" of TRCP.
Only the final listed organization supporting the Modern Fish Act, the Recreational Fishing Alliance, has no connection to the Center for Sportfishing Policy, although it did appoint the legislative counsel for the National Marine Manufacturers Association to its board.
Thus, what the Center for Sportfishing Policy wants legislators to perceive as a "broad coalition" is, once you look behind the curtain, a very small and very incestuous private club.
Anglers, and angler-related businesses who don't support the Modern Fish Act need to let their legislators know that that the little private club, despite its skill at illusion, does not speak for them.
One fishing tackle trade organization, the American Fly Fishing Trade Association, has already come out with a clear policy statement, supporting an effective Magnuson-Stevens Act that conserves and rebuilds marine fish stocks, and opposing
"measures that would compromise the scientific and conservation principles currently in the law that have led to the recovery of fish populations."
Such a statement makes it abundantly clear that not all of the fishing tackle industry wants to weaken federal fisheries law.
Now it's up to the rest of us to make it clear that recreational fishermen, too, can think for themselves, and don't merely dance when the men behind the curtain choose to pull on their strings.


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