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My Analogue Bucket List: A Sum-Up of 2012 and Big Appetite for 2013written by lighthouse_keeperess on 2013-01-15
Hello dear lomographers! Happy New Year! I hope 2012 was generous and fulfilling and 2013 will be nothing less than magnificent. I want to share with you my dreams and plans for 2013. Also, I will review my analogue bucket list from 2012. I hope you will enjoy it!2 10 Share Tweet
A Trip to My Favorite Lighthouse in Icelandwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-05-23 #places
There are 104 lighthouses in Iceland. I've visited half of them. This is a little story about our trip to my favorite one.2 12 Share Tweet
Plane Wreck in Sólheimasandurwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-05-21 #places
Last March we went to the south of Iceland twice. Both times we had the same destination - the plane wreck seen in Sigur Ros' film "Heima".5 Share Tweet
Zenit ET: A Camera I Grew Up Withwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-04-16 #gear
This is a review and testimonial to my faithful Zenit ET. For many years it was and still is a great friend and companion.23 38 Share Tweet
Viðey Island: Imagine Peacewritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-03-05 #places
Viðey is a small island, just a five-minute boat ride from Reykjavik. Today it is best known for the Imagine Peace Tower - a memorial to John Lennon from Yoko Ono.3 7 Share Tweet
Winter Wonderland Memories: Reykjavikwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-02-28 #places
I've been living in Reykjavik for five years now. I've seen storms, blizzards, and all kinds of weather here. Winters usually are mild but stormy and snow isn't a frequent guest. Surprisingly, this year winter is quite different.10 15 Share Tweet
Secondhand Love Affair: My Homewritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-02-20
I love secondhand stuff. My wardrobe contains mostly of clothes bought in flea market or in charity shops. I created my home in the same way. Almost everything in my flat isn't new. I like things with history and mystery.14 58 Share Tweet
The Surreal Works of Gilbert Garcinwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-02-17
Gilbert Garcin was originally the owner of a lamp manufacturing company in Marseille, France. At the age of 65, he gave up his business and began his photographic career. His photographs have been widely exhibited and collected around the world.1 7 Share Tweet
Secondhand Love Affair: Double Love Affair with Olympuswritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-02-10
It isn't easy to find a secondhand camera for sale in Reykjavik. I got lucky twice. Both times in local flea market. I proudly present you my two lovers: experienced Olympus OM-10 and handsome Olympus LT-1.18 49 Share Tweet
Elliðaárdalur: My Favorite Patch of Greenery in Reykjavikwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-01-19 #places
It's not a big secret that there aren't many trees in Iceland. Even one of the country's oldest jokes is: "What do you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest?" - "Stand up." Luckily the situation is changing. Elliðaárdalur is a great example of reforestation.1 3 Share Tweet
Horizon Kompakt: The Camera Which Opened My Eyeswritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-01-12 #gear
When I got my Horizon Kompakt, "Lomography" was still unknown term for me. I bought him from my friend who was interested mostly in digital photography, so Horizon was lonely, "unemployed," and of unknown origin when I first saw him.16 28 Share Tweet
My Most Memorable Travel Escapades of 2011written by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-01-09 #places
I traveled quite a lot in 2011, mostly in Iceland. I want to share with you the most memorable moments. I hope you'll enjoy reading and checking out the photos as much as I enjoyed remembering my trips.4 11 Share Tweet
My Analogue Bucket List for 2012written by lighthouse_keeperess on 2012-01-09
In the beginning of each year I make a new resolution, which consists of 10-15 things I want to do, buy or achieve. This year I was inspired by Lomography and besides my New Year's resolution I made a list of things I must do, buy or achieve - (Analogue) Bucket List for 2012.11 29 Share Tweet
The Colours of Christmas by Childrenwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-12-30
Every kid is waiting for Christmas. The children in my arts and crafts club aren't any exception. This year the week before Christmas was extremely busy. My 5-6 year-old artists were super excited about making Christmas gifts and decorations. Handmade with love. It can't get more analogue than this.2 Share Tweet
A Christmas Tradition: Secret Friends of Dreamlandwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-12-19
I think I've never mentioned how much I love my job. I am working in the after-school program called Dreamland. Well I won't go into the details how rewarding is working with children and how exciting and different each day is. I want to tell you about our annual Christmas tradition between Dreamland's staff.2 Share Tweet
The Colours of Christmas: Nature's Snowy Blanketwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-12-17
My love for winter is mostly influenced by the snow and Christmas season. As a kid, my mother used to read poems to me while we enjoy the crisp air and the white snow. Here are some poems that I wish to share with you.5 Share Tweet
Christmas Traditions Around the World: The 13 Yule Lads from Icelandwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-12-15
Would you believe me if I told you that there are 13 Santa Clauses in Iceland? It sounds like every child's dream, doesn't it? But as we say, all that glitters is not gold.3 10 Share Tweet
Cosy Cabin, My Favorite Location for a Christmas Vacationwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-12-12 #places
My most favorite thing to do for a Christmas vacation is to leave Reykjavik and spend some time in a cabin. Nature, lovely company, great food, board games, and my camera...this is the best combination for a great vacation!6 Share Tweet
Olympus LT-1: Light and Stylishwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-12-06 #people #gear
Olympus LT-1 is a point-and-shoot camera with unique synthetic leather exterior. It was launched in 1994. The LT-1 features a 35mm/F3.5 AF lens and has an ISO range of 50 to 3200. This camera was available in four colours: brown, burgundy, black and green.12 13 Share Tweet
Our Little Trip: Hvaleyriwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-12-05 #places
Hvaleyri is a flat, ear-shaped peninsula at the south shore of Hvalfjörður in Iceland. It's a perfect place to take a walk by the seaside, enjoy beautiful landscape, and observe birds.3 7 Share Tweet
Lighthouses in Iceland: Reykjaneswritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-12-02 #places
In Lomography's community I am known as Lighthouse Keeperess. I suspect it's not a big secret or surprise that I like, or should I say, love lighthouses. I want to share or even, infect you with my love. I will present you 11 lighthouses, which are in the Reykjanes area.15 17 Share Tweet
To the Dearly Departed: My Grandmotherwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-11-25
Hello, my name is Kristina. I want to share some of the memories I have of my grandmother. There won't be any dates or facts. I was too little and careless to remember. Besides, she was a mysterious woman.3 10 Share Tweet
Stop-Motion Animation: Our Little Love Storywritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-11-25
Do you remember the Make Your Prophecy rumble? Here is the story of how we made a little lo-fi cartoon that I submitted for the said rumble.6 Share Tweet
Colours of Autumn in Icelandwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-10-21
Wikipedia says: Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter usually in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier. For me, autumn is a time of change. It's also a time of tea, cookies, and candles.6 18 Share Tweet
Borgarbókasafns Reykjavíkur, Reykjavik City Librarywritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-09-08 #places
The Reykjavik City Library is one of my favorite places in the town. I seek shelter there when I need some peace and quiet. It is also a great place to see the works of local artists, rent a movie or have some coffee while reading magazines from all over the world.4 Share Tweet
Olympus Écruwritten by lighthouse_keeperess on 2011-06-03 #gear
The name of this concept camera was chosen to symbolize its intended role as a tool for living an intellectually enhanced life as natural as unbleached cloth. This concept is symbolized in the white body of the camera, which was sold as a limited edition of 10,000 units in Japan and 10,000 overseas.6 23 Share Tweet


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This one year full time course will provide you with a broad educational base for a range of business careers. It will also give you the qualifications you need to progress to further education.
The BTEC Level 2 First Extended Certificate in Business is made up of 2 core units and 1 mandatory unit with 9 optional specialist units.
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In this, Chapter 29, Devlin uses advanced technology to track down and confront the Iranian terrorist who's directing the Bombay-style assault on Manhattan.
New York City
Arash Kohanloo had spent a great deal of time in New York, especially for an Iranian national. Under some circumstances, his passport might have proven a bit of a bother, but the Tyler Administration had been determined to turn its back on the old ways. The fact that he was attached, however tangentially, to his country's U.N. mission facilitated matters greatly and, even if all else failed, he had multiple passports from multiple countries, including a Swiss passport that was tantamount to an international laissez-passer. It was amazing what the combination of money and power and fear could win you.
The hotel, of course, was in lockdown. The New York authorities were smart; they had gone to school on the Bombay massacre, and knew that the fancy hotels were natural targets for gunmen with grudges. The elevators were all switched off, except for a couple of service elevators being guarded by private security. You could order room service to eat, but you had to stay in the hotel, and preferably in your room, until the "incident" was over.
All of which was fine with Kohanloo. In fact, that was just the way he wanted it. Fewer people milling about suited him just fine, and as long as the cell phone service worked he could stay in touch with everyone with whom he needed to stay in touch, and then events would unfold as they unfolded.
At the first news of the attack he had informed his people back home. He had also made certain that a specific sum of money had been wired to several bank accounts in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, and one of the Channel Islands between Britain and France. One could no longer rely on the discretion of the Swiss. In the crackdown on international money transfers that followed in the wake of September 11, including the so-called Swift program that enabled the government to trace "terrorist" financing and thus disrupt the usual remittance channels and other mechanisms of Shari'a-compliant finance, the damned Americans had disrupted everything. This had necessitated a change in the networks, which funneled money between the Muslim lands and their bankers in London and Brussels, and for a time the stream was partly damned. But money is like water and soon enough it finds its way to its inevitable destination.
He didn't have to come here, and it was not part of his arrangement with Skorzeny that he do so. But the opportunity to strike a blow at the heart of a politically correct America, and to supervise the operation right under their noses and in the heart of their greatest city as an honored guest was too good to resist. Skorzeny had warned him off taking personal charge, but Skorzeny was a bitter old man, not only weak but with too many weaknesses, and whatever game he was playing was known only to him.
Kohanloo looked at the array of cell phones on the table in front of him. They were all local, off-the-shelf, no-contract communication devices — "plain vanilla," as the Americans said. To anyone tracking cell phone use — and even the Americans were not so stupid as to not be doing that — they would appear to be completely innocuous. What a pleasure it was to use the enemy's technology against him, to take the things his infidel culture had created and to turn even the simplest things into weapons. Whether the Brothers had used box-cutters or knives on Sept. 11 was immaterial; the real weapons they wielded on that glorious day was the institutional cowardice of the Americans, especially the men, and turned that weakness into the powerful flying bombs that, Allah be praised, had taken down the Twin Towers and nearly the Pentagon itself.
For what sort of men were these, who would not fight back? Who would not defend their women and children? Who would go so willingly to their deaths, Christian lambs to the slaughter? For all its sexuality, its braggadocio, its exaggerated cartoons of men and women, it was at root exhausted, played out, expired. This was one thing that he and Skorzeny had agreed upon from the start: that what they were doing was not murder but a mercy killing, the merciful thing to do when a living organism was in its terminal stages.
The idea behind the operation was simplicity itself. Either America would fight back or she wouldn't. The Holy Martyrs who had struck the Great Satan on Sept. 11 had succeeded beyond the Sheikh's wildest dreams, but in a larger sense they had failed. They had not precipitated the final war between the dar al-Islam and the dar al-Harb, nor had they set the Americans to each other's throats in a civil war over their precious national freedoms.
But this was different. This was a direct attack, man to man, on the streets of the Great Satan's financial capital and its greatest city. This was a challenge so direct that not even The New York Times could rationalize it away. This was the event that would finally force the cowardly Americans to choose sides and then, once they had, it would be but the work of a lifetime or two to hunt the infidel dogs down — with the assistance of the collaborators, of course — and destroy them. In the end, all would be well, and all would accept the Call.
But there was another, larger, and vastly more important reason behind the martyrdom operation. The arrival of the Twelfth Imam, pbuh, could only be hastened by blood; he would not come, with Jesus at his side, until the Great Conflict was well and truly underway. All was in readiness in the Holy City of Qom, where the path had been made straight and the centuries of the false Mahdi would soon come to an end. What better way to encourage Mohammed ibn Hasan al-Mahdi al-Muntazar to finally reappear than to set the dar al-Harb aflame?
Arash Kohanloo glanced over at the television set, another typical product of western decadence. Who had need of such a monstrosity, when a simple black and white set would do? This was the problem with America: need had nothing to do with its desires, and the word "want" had transferred its meaning from the former to the latter. He was from a far older culture, an infinitely greater culture whose art and poetry before the Conquest had been unsurpassed, and while some sacrifices had had to be made in order to accommodate Revelation, the memory of the Persian Empire was imprinted on every Iranian's soul. Even the name of the country — its new name, not the old one — signified its glorious antiquity and pride of place in the human community: Aryan.
He had lost a few of the warriors yesterday, but the rest had gone to ground as per instructions, while they waited. This, too, was part of the plan. Warriors were only martyrs who had not entered heaven yet, and his job was to supply the afterlife with fresh souls.
Still, losing warriors was one thing; having one of the enemy speak to you in Farsi was another. He sounded like a Brother, from his accent, but his words had been puzzling and mysterious, beginning with his question in French about the number of the names of God and continuing on with various obscure theological questions about the suras and the life of the Prophet, concluding with a discussion of the Twelfth Imam. And then he had lost contact with Brother Alex, whom he now must assume was dead.
But why would a Brother kill Alex? It was possible that it had been a mercy killing, that Brother Alex had somehow been wounded and had been put out of his misery in order to enter paradise. It was also possible that Brother Alex's security had been compromised, and another of the Brothers had terminated him. It was even remotely possible that Brother Alex had been taken out by one of the New York City Police Department operatives, although the chances that the man would be a native Persian, or speak Farsi like one, were nil.
There was a fourth, and more worrisome possibility, however: that Skorzeny had double-crossed him.
Kohanloo thought for a moment. His eyes fell upon the mini-bar. It was so tempting… In the interests of taqiyya, it was permitted a devout Muslim to deceive the enemy A beer, or perhaps two, would aid in the deception.
That Skorzeny would attempt to euchre him would not surprise him in the least. The man's reputation preceded him and if, in fact, that turned out to be the truth, it would be the last time he ever did that. For while it was permissible for him, Arash Kohanloo, to deceived a westerner with false promises, such behavior in an infidel — worse, an atheist — would not acceptable, and would have to be punished with the utmost Koranic severity.
In fact, as he looked back on it, he realized that Skorzeny had been planning an elaborate deception all along, especially the bit about his not having to come to New York. Clearly, that had been his intention all along: to force Kohanloo to accept the challenge to his manhood and specifically ignore the advice he was being given. Skorzeny had wanted him to supervise the operation from ground zero, and not from the operational safety of, say, Canada, where the Brothers were numerous and the government almost as naive, trusting and unsuspecting as those of Scandinavia. Islam had never laid historic claim to any of the lands of the North, not to mention the new world, but now, with so many Brothers acting religiously as an army of infiltration, taking advantage of the enemy's trusting nature, his generous social-welfare programs (which were really just an inverted form of racism, since the Brothers were discouraged from gainful employment), there would soon be enough Believers to assert Islam's historically necessary pride of place and conquer all the lands of the West, once and for all time.
He looked at the cell phone that linked him directly to Brother Alex. Should he pick it up and dial again? For one of the few times in his life, Arash Kohanloo hesitated. This was a new experience for him. having survived multiple changes of regime in Iran, from Mossadegh to the Shah to the Ayatollahs to whatever undoubtedly was coming next, he was used to acting boldly and decisively. In the Middle East, nothing was ever to be gained by caution, except the perpetuation of the same way of life that had obtained for hundreds of years. For all his piety, Kohanloo was a man of the future, not of the past: he looked forward to the inevitable victory of the dar al-Islam and was doing his best to hasten it.
He picked up the phone, a basic Nokia. then another thought occurred to him:
What if it was the NCRI? The National Council of Resistance of Iran?
That put a whole different spin on things. The NCRI, up to this moment, had been a joke. But the open rebellion against the fixed Iranian elections of 2010 had only served to encourage the diaspora Iranians, at least half of whom, it seemed, lived in Beverly Hills or elsewhere in the Greater Los Angeles area. In the old days, poor countries used to export their most miserable people to the United States, so that the those left behind might have a fighting chance at survival. Iran had gone history one better: it had exported its best and its brightest and its richest, its doctors and its bankers and its lawyers. The Revolution had driven away precisely those people a functioning modern country needed, and sent them screaming into the arms of the Great Satan himself, to luxuriate in the southern California climate and plot revenge; they were like the post-Castro Cubans, but with more money.
Up to this point, truth to tell, neither he nor any of the mullahs with whom he did such a profitable, if irreligious business, had given much of a thought to the NCRI. To put the organization in historical context, it was like one of those movements of national liberations that popped up everywhere in the 19th and 20th centuries, groups of raggedy-assed anarchists who threw bombs and occasionally got lucky in their choice of targets, but aside from Princip had very little effect upon the course of human history.
Of course, Gavrilo Princip had had a very great effect upon the course of human history. Incredibly lucky — imagine the Archduke Franz Ferdinand returning by the very same route on which he had dodged Princip's first attempt on his life earlier that same day — but also incredibly determined, Princip had rearranged the map of Europe and, all unwittingly, doomed the West, although it had taken just about a century on the nose for that fact to become so abundantly clear. The cream of the crop of the infidel had died in the trenches and at the Somme and at Verdun, and those who were not killed were removed from the gene pool three decades later when the same war broke out all over again. As an example of national and cultural suicide, it was unequalled; no wonder their enfeebled descendents wanted nothing so passionately as to terminate themselves, their offspring, and their civilization.
Well, he was here to help that with that. If the west had become a giant suicide cult, Islam was just the death cult it was longing to meet. At last, a battle that had been waged since the seventh century was about to enter its final stages.
He still held the cell phone in his hand. In every operation, once the shooting started, there was something that would go wrong, and almost immediately. War plans were blueprints for buildings that would never get built; what emerged instead was some bastard combination of thought, luck and happenstance, and you lived with the result until you were strong enough to overturn it, or weak enough to be unable to defend it.
He pushed the redial button.
The phone rang. Once, twice…
The security signal was four rings. Anything after four rings mean the connection was compromised, and that the Brother was considered compromised, whether he was in fact dead or not. A wounded Brother was of no use to him. At four rings, the order would automatically go out to the others, identifying the fallen Brother's last known location, with the orders that he or she should be terminated immediately. Mercy was an unknown commodity, for only Allah could dispense mercy.
Three times…
Arash Kohanloo's finger hovered over the Stop button. As soon as the fourth ring ended, he would end the call and send the signal.
Four —
A voice, in American English. What he expected, but not at all what he expected.
"Who is this?" he found himself saying.
There was a long pause at the other end of the line — of course, there was no line, only the infidel's technology, which Kohanloo and his countrymen, although unable to duplicate, were only too happy to employ against the enemy — and what sounded like a clicking noise.
"Go ahead please," came a female voice.
Now it was a male voice that spoke: "Target located. Sherry-Netherland Hotel."
"Stand by," said the infidel woman.
Then silence.
Arash Kohanloo tried to control his breathing. His heart rate was up, that he knew. The doctors had told him to keep it down, keep it calm, keep it within the target range lest he find himself in trouble. Damn that Skorzeny and his wily ways. Here he was, in a situation he should never have been in, and his heart rate was rising along with his blood pressure. He tried to stay calm and listen for whatever came next. There was nothing to worry about.
The fools! They had no idea he was not in the Sherry-Netherland.
"Shall I send a UAV?"
A few more crackles, then —
"Put the bird in the air and stand by."
"The bird is in the air."
Kohanloo couldn't believe his ears. Surely they would not deploy a UAV — Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, more commonly known as a drone — to blast away an entire floor of an expensive hotel in midtown Manhattan. The Americans didn't do things like that. They were always more concerned about collateral damage than they were about the success of a mission; why, a single snail darter could not only bring down a dam in Alaska, it could probably stop a convoy of Abrams tanks as well.
"Stand by to fire on my orders."
It was a bluff. It had to be. His eyes stole toward the window of his luxury suite; the curtains were drawn. With the cell phone still pressed up hard against his ear, he moved slowly and quietly toward the window.
Now another voice came on the line. He couldn't swear to it — and a good Muslim never took an oath except in a religious context — but it sounded awfully like that of the man he had spoke to earlier. In fluent Farsi, he said: "Go to the window."
He hesitated a moment.
"Go to the window now."
He went to the window.
"Now, open the curtains."
How did they know he even had a window where he was? Or that there were curtains? Hotel. They must have guessed hotel.
'Open them." He didn't like the man's tone of voice, his peremptory way. An unbeliever should never talk to one of the Faithful like that. "Go ahead…"
He took a deep breath and opened the curtains, trying not to flinch —
"What do you see?"
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The panorama of New York City. No hint of the sun yet, but on this summer morning, it would be up soon. Just the gleam of the lights and, to the southwest, smoke reflected in the wasteful glare.
He slowly exhaled. "I see exactly what I expect to see, and nothing more."
"Do you see me?"
He was feeling a little braver now, more like his old self. Of course not. "Now who are you? What do you want?"
"Do you see me now?"
Was that the sun? The sky had brightened a bit, or perhaps his eyes were simply getting used to the darkness. He switched off the nearest floor lamp in order to see better.
"Do you know who I am?"
Still nothing. It was all a bluff. Somehow they had managed to trace the Brother's cell signal. A cheap trick, and one that any Palestinian kid with a Bulgarian computer could manage. Nothing to —
"Smile, asshole." That was in English.
A blinding flash. For a moment, Arash Kohanloo was sure he was dead, and that he would soon be entering paradise. He cursed himself for a fool, that he had not had time to perform his ritual ablutions in preparation for martyrdom, and then remember he was not expecting to be martyred this time out.
He was still alive. He could see.
The drone was right outside his window. It had him on video, and was transmitting his picture somewhere. Operational security was blown. It was time to regroup. He started to turn away —
"Stop. Don't move or you're a dead man."
Kohanloo froze.
"Look on the wall across from you."
Kohanloo looked.
A video image danced across the plaster and the reproduction of a Monet cathedral. It was the outline of a man, his facial features indistinct. "Look upon me," said the voice at the other end of the cell phone. Funny; he had forgotten he was still holding it.
"Do you know who I am now?"
"No. I do not."
"I am Azra'il. Malak al-Maut. He Whom God Helps."
The name sent shivers down Kohanloo's spine. Azra'il, the Arabic version of the Biblical Azrael was not to be found in the Holy Koran, but Malak al-Maut was. Another of his names. It meant the Angel of Death.
"And you," the voice in his ear said, "are a fool. You have been used, Arash Kohanloo — used by your own country and your own government, but worse — you have been used by Satan himself."
Seething and scared, he knew that what Malak al-Maut was saying was correct. He had never trusted Skorzeny, considered him little better than an infidel pig, no matter what religion he did or did not profess. He must escape, flee this place, use his safe exit out of here, get back to Iran and kill the man who had done this to him.
Or the men. He would not be surprised to learn that one of his enemies among the clerics had done this to them, suggested the operation just so that it would fail, in order to eliminate him, Arash Kohanloo, from any further position of influence within the regime.
"Perhaps you speak the truth," he said in Farsi.
"You know I do," came the voice. "And now you are mine."


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MILWAUKEE—Federal officials on Wednesday declared 23 drought-stricken counties across southern Wisconsin as natural disaster areas, making farms in those areas eligible for low-interest emergency loans.
The counties have been scorched by a recent stretch of heat waves, where temperatures sizzled in the 100-degree range and left severe drought conditions that took a toll on crop production.
The declaration came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which also applied the same designation to 53 other counties in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan and Nebraska.
Two-thirds of the continental United States is in a moderate to exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor website.
Also on Wednesday, Gov. Scott Walker said the state will begin accepting applications for its Drought Relief Guarantee Program. The program, which will be administered through the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, would provide a 90 percent guarantee on agricultural loans up to $15,000 for three years.
The program is open to farmers in all 72 Wisconsin counties who are expected to lose 40 percent or more of their crops due to drought. The loans can be used for fertilizer, seed, fuel, pesticides, tillage services, crop insurance, water delivery and animal feed, according to the governor's office.
"Agriculture is one of Wisconsin's biggest three economic engines," Walker said in a statement. "We need to ensure that we provide this vital industry with the confidence and resources to continue to produce."
Earlier this month, the Republican governor opened up more than 11,000 acres of state-owned lands for hay and grazing. The acreage includes about 160 wildlife areas, parks, recreation areas, southern forests and natural areas.
Walker also sped up the process for farmers to temporarily irrigate using stream or lake water. The last time that was done was in 2009, when five such permits were issued. In less than two weeks this year, more than two dozen have already been granted.
Walker this week also directed the state Department of Transportation to lift certain weight restrictions for large trucks transporting hay bales, an effort to help farmers scrambling to find enough feed for their livestock. The order, which will run through June 30 of next year, directed the state transportation department to issue free permits authorizing the transport of heavier hay loads under certain conditions.
The 23 counties declared natural disaster areas were Adams, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette, Marquette, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Richland, Rock, Sauk, Walworth, Washington and Waukesha.
Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde(at)ap.org.


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Indians on track to win league golf championship
Cody Stutzer heads into district as the top medalist
The Scappoose Indians head into this week's golf district tournament with a good chance of coming home with the Cowapa League championship.
'We have a pretty good shot at winning, unless we do something goofy,' Tribe Coach Steve Hagen said. 'We're looking forward to wrapping up the league title at…(the) district tournament.'
The Indians finished the league schedule undefeated.
Hagen said that the Tribe's Cody Stutzer also had a good chance to win top medalist honors at district.
Stutzer shot a 78 during Scappoose's May 2 win over Banks, 336-377. The Indians' Alex LaChance shot an 83 to finish second. Alex Lukinbeal shot an 88 and Nick Nguyen shot a 90.
'Cody played well with his lowest round of the season. Cody and Alex have continued to improve through the season and both are playing very well as the team prepares for district,' Hagen said.
The Indians started last week with a convincing win last Monday over six other teams at the Seaside Invitational played at the Astoria Country Club.
'The boys played well on a day when the wind was a constant 20 miles per hour with frequent rain showers,' Hagen said.
Stutzer led the Indians with an 82, and LaChance tied for second with an 85. Nguyen finished fifth with an 87. Ryan Karp had a 92 and Lukinbeal a 93.
On Wednesday, the Indians took on Banks at Quail Valley. Stutzer again led the pack with a 78, and LaChance was second with an 83. Lukinbeal had an 88 and Nguyen a 90.
The first day of district is at the Astoria Country Club. The second day is played at Quail Valley.
Seaside Invitational at Astoria CC:
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Scappoose Individuals: Cody Stutzer 82, Alex LaChance 85, Nick Nguyen 87, Ryan Karp 92, Alex Lukinbeal 93.
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Sensors 2010, 10(6), 5469-5502; doi:10.3390/s100605469
Metal Oxide Semi-Conductor Gas Sensors in Environmental Monitoring
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AbstractMetal oxide semiconductor gas sensors are utilised in a variety of different roles and industries. They are relatively inexpensive compared to other sensing technologies, robust, lightweight, long lasting and benefit from high material sensitivity and quick response times. They have been used extensively to measure and monitor trace amounts of environmentally important gases such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. In this review the nature of the gas response and how it is fundamentally linked to surface structure is explored. Synthetic routes to metal oxide semiconductor gas sensors are also discussed and related to their affect on surface structure. An overview of important contributions and recent advances are discussed for the use of metal oxide semiconductor sensors for the detection of a variety of gases—CO, NOx, NH3 and the particularly challenging case of CO2. Finally a description of recent advances in work completed at University College London is presented including the use of selective zeolites layers, new perovskite type materials and an innovative chemical vapour deposition approach to film deposition. View Full-Text
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"Yessss… yessss: I have foresssseen thissss plan for two thoussssand yearssss: I will rule thissss world THROUGH their RELIGION!"
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Cancellara clings on
Fabian Cancellara kept the yellow jersey by under a second ahead of Lance Armstrong after Astana won the Team Time Trial.
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Fabian Cancellara clung on to the yellow jersey by just 0.18 seconds ahead of Lance Armstrong after Astana won a thrilling Team Time Trial stage of the Tour de France.
The powerful Astana team finished the 39km time trial stage around Montpellier in a time of 46 minutes and 29 seconds, beating the Garmin-Slipstream team, containing Bradley Wiggins and David Millar, by 18 seconds.
Crucially though, race leader Cancellara and his Saxo Bank team completed the course in a time 40 seconds slower than Astana, leaving both the Swiss rider and Armstrong dead level on time in the overall classification.
After officials checked the times carefully, Cancellara clung on to the yellow jersey by the slimmest of margins, but returning seven-time Tour champion Armstrong is hot on his rear wheel and joins him on the same time on his return to the race after four years.
Starting the time trial the last of the 20 teams, Astana knew in the closing stages that they needed to better the Saxo Bank time by over 40 seconds to ensure Armstrong made a remarkable return to wearing the yellow jersey.
Dead level
However, after slowing slightly towards the finish, Astana remarkably finished exactly 40 seconds faster than Saxo Bank, and that result meant that Cancellara just about kept his yellow jersey.
With Cancellara leading and Armstrong given the same time on the overall classification, the Astana big guns are lining up behind the American, with Alberto Contador in third, while Andreas Kloden and Levi Leipheimer make up the top five.
"It makes me miss a bit the beach I was on for the last four years before all this. It's a little bit of a disappointment (to miss) but the yellow jersey is on the horizon. Astana did their maximum. That's cycling," said Armstrong, who believes Astana's powerful time trial display has ended some team's Tour hopes already.
"I think today, the Tour de France is finished for some riders," he added.
"The way the team time trial is now, you can look at the results. It's difficult, and no disrespect, but it's difficult to make up that time."
Cancellara endured a nervous wait to see if he would hold on to the lead, but it was finally confirmed that he had just held on.
"You could say it was in typical Swiss timing," he said.
"We can be proud of how we performed today. We were a little bit nervous waiting for Astana to finish - but keeping the yellow for such a small margin is just something else.
"We deserve to keep the yellow jersey and all the riders can be proud of what they achieved."
British rider Wiggins is in sixth place overall after Garmin-Slipstream's fine effort in second in the time trial, and team-mate and compatriot Millar is in tenth.
Germany's Tony Martin slipped down to eighth place from second, 52 seconds off the lead, after his Team Columbia, containing Mark Cavendish, finished in fifth place.
Stage four result:
1. Astana 46mins 29secs
2. Garmin +18"
3. Saxo Bank +40"
4. Liquigas +58"
5. Columbia +59"
6. Katusha +1:23"
7. Caisse d'Epargne +1:29"
8. Cervelo +1:37"
10. Euskaltel +2:09"
Overall standings:
1. Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland/Saxo Bank ) 10hrs 38mins 7secs
2. Lance Armstrong (U.S/Astana ) Same Time
3. Alberto Contador (Spain/Astana ) +19"
4. Andreas Kloeden (Germany/Astana ) +23"
5. Levi Leipheimer (U.S/Astana ) +31"


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Sérgio C. Azevedo, Manoel Teixeira, Andrew D. Costa, Bruno Borsato, Fábio A. Soares, Carlos J. P. Lucena.
Competitions based on Multi-Agent Systems have encouraged the academic community to conduct several contributions to the area. The Multi-Agent System for Stock Exchange Simulation (MASSES) was conceived based on real world cases The Stock Exchange Market is the application domain represented by the simulator, where agents implement investment strategy decisions on behalf of human investors. Through MASSES simulations, it is possible to perform studies between different strategies and the results can be analyzed to verify how they behave in different situations. This paper aims to explain MASSES and show some experimental results obtained from the investment strategies used in the real world.
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I notice that the Wi-Fi down at the pond has been upgraded. Used to be, you would be lucky to get a single duckling, but now we get three!
Photo: Three Ducks in a Row by Shayne Kaye (Why yes, you have seen these cuties before)
I notice that the Wi-Fi down at the pond has been upgraded. Used to be, you would be lucky to get a single duckling, but now we get three!
Photo: Three Ducks in a Row by Shayne Kaye (Why yes, you have seen these cuties before)
What lovely little fuzzy humps….. those humps, those humps, those humps, those humps……check it out!
Ah, yes, the happy-tocked ducklingks! 🙂
Duck tocks!… Docks? Wait, that's a real word… Tucks? No… Dangit!
They look like they're all looking to the side as if to say "Here comes that nerdy duck with the glasses and laptop tucked under his wing…" Or some such anyway…
Ok ok, it wasn't funny… I'll go back to what I "was" saying: DUCK TOCKS DUCK TOCKS DUCK TOCKS!!!
(children's song; how did it go???)
"One little, two little, three little ducklingks….."
Please to replace the boring reception bars on my cell phone screen to enlargening ducklings.
*closes eyes really tightly and wishes with all her might*
*opens eyes, looks at cell phone*
Nah, still the same boring bars.
Uploads bread crumbs to float close by the ducklings.
What??? We all know bread crumbs are good, and cookies are bad in the land of the intenetz…
Mie, that's what I was thinking. "More bars in more places." Also, I love their smiling tocks. How anerable!
Ducklings to the left of me, ducklings to the right, anerable ducklings everywhere! *runs into kitchen to get breadcrumbs*
Please bear with us while our servers are down. We have our web-footed IT team working on the problem. (But wait till you get a load of their bills.)
Smilingk duckeh butts! You can never see too many!
(BTW, @sharpy, there is a gigantor spam on the thread for the previous appearance of these butt quacks.)
It's good to know someone's got all of their ducks in a row!!
It's Jack, Kack, and Lack taking a break while they wait for Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack to catch up with them.
I once watched a fallen tree whizzing along the River Thames in full spate at Wallingford (it had been a'stormin' in the good old U of K – so what's new?); it was packed full of duckies hitching a ride. Sadly, this was before before the days of camera phones. Precious.
OMG, Their little 'tocks have happy faces on them! Just like the happy face I am wearing, looking at the happy faces on their 'tocks.
Three ducks in a row
Gilbert George and brother Mo
(to be sung with complete hand signals and body waggles)
Three little ducklings I once knew
Fat one, skinny one, fair one too,
but the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He led the others with a quack quack quack, quack quack quack!
He led the others with a quack quack quack!
Down to the meadow they did go,
wiggle waggle wiggle to and fro
but the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He led the others with a quack quack quack, quack quack!
He led the others with a quack quack quack!
CO is taking this corporate sponsorship one bar too far…
@SoCalSis – OMG, I literally forgot about that song! I have not had that play in my head since maybe the 1st grade, and that was far toooo long ago.
Shake those tail feathers! 🙂
After a stressful day, Cute Overload always helps me D. 'Tocks
D'tocks. Ugh.
socalsis did you watch captain kangaroo when you were a kid?
😀 Loved that song as a kid!
They're logged on to the infomation super flyway. That's ducknology!
(get it – they fly in formation …)
You have to watch out for those cyberquackers. They'll take over your web cam and before you know it you've got a Peeking Duck on your hands.
Oakley, and Pyrit… there should be a warning out when the two of you get together…. my ribs hurt… teeheee
*wheezes, holding ribs, as she hobbles to take doggie out*
ooh, smiley duck derrieres! I needed that!
260Oakley – Eider know about yolk, but I daffynitely watch out for mallardware!
I wood add to the punfest but I'm khaki-ling too hard.
I'm not gonna egg you on anymore.
Okelly-dokelly Oakley!
awwwww, cute!!
im with jane10120!!!!!!!! they are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo adorable ! i just want to hug them and take 'em home!!!!!
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Our car racing results
After all my worry about the Pinewood Derby, it turns out that my kids' cars all placed in the top 5 of their races. Crazy! Having hoped our cars would just run nicely, we were completely surprised by the winning results.
My Cub Scout son designed his unique car in the shape of a bridge or a hollowed out trapezoid. It was shorter than most cars so maybe the compact shape gave it more speed. I don't know. His car came in first in his den, and he will proceed to the next level race.
My daughter's car with a snow leopard on top won first place in the siblings group, and my little guy's painted and stickered car came in fourth place in the same group.
It was fascinating to see all the kids' and adults' creative car designs... from tanks and superheroes to ladybugs and roller skates. And it warmed the heart to see the boys cheering each other on and congratulating each other on their performances. Everyone seemed to have a great time.
My kids are already talking about plans for next year's cars. The downside to winning, of course, is that it certainly will be hard to top this year's performances. But I'm sure the Pinewood Derby will still be a lot of fun!
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From my Didjeridu to your heart I hope this letter has let you know how much we appreciate your product.
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Cabinet plans to reform the housing market, including reducing mortgage tax relief, are being overhauled by ministers in an effort to get the Christian Democrats on board, the NRC said on Thursday afternoon.
Sources told the paper housing minister Stef Blok needs to get the CDA on side in order to guarantee the changes will be passed in the upper house of parliament. The Labour-Liberal coalition does not control a majority of seats in the senate.
The CDA said earlier this week it would block all efforts to shake up the rental housing sector unless the cabinet pledged investment in kick-starting the housing market in general.
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Central to the government's plans is the decision to charge housing corporations extra taxes, which will rise to €2bn by 2017. The levy is essential to ensure the cabinet meets EU budget deficit targets.
The CDA opposes this extra charge. It also wants the government to soften plans to reduce mortgage tax relief.
MPs are debating housing market developments with Blok on Thursday afternoon. Thursday's debate centres on Blok's plans to make social housing tenants pay higher rents if they are technically earning too much to live in the property.


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Is it time for Tamas to shine?
After the fiasco of naming 3 full backs on the bench in the 'must win` clash with Coventry it will be interesting to see if Aidy Booothroyd chooses to bolster his attacking options by including recalled Tamas Priskin as a sub tomorrow night v Barnsley.
The 'New Kid on the Eastern Block` has returned from a productive 1 month loan spell at Deepdale in which the Hungarian hitman found a little bit of form and scored twice in 5 games to impress PNE gaffer Alan Irvine.
In fact the Preston boss heaped praise on the 21 year old striker stating "I`d have taken 2 goals from him [Priskin] when he first agreed to come to us on loan and they have been big goals so I`m really pleased with what he has done for us".
But even with a bagful of good reviews under belt Tamas may well be in for a tough ride to break back into Aidy Boothroyd`s starting XI and add to his 19 starts in a Hornets shirt.
With Darius Henderson back in contention for a starting berth after suspension and Nathan Ellington looking to add to his classy goal on Saturday, surely Priskin will be scrapping it out with Steve Kabba and Collins John for the chance to warm the bench as the promotion push hots up.


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