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In the wake of speculation surrounding the rumored Apple iWatch, not only is Samsung reportedly racing to get a competitor to market, but Google may be as well. According to Financial Times, their sources say it would be different than Google's officially announced Glass project:
While Glass is being created in its X Lab, home to experimental "moonshot" projects such as the self-driving car, Google's smart watch is being developed by its Android unit, according to a person briefed on the project, to act as an extension to the smartphones using that operating system. The project is separate from Samsung's efforts, the source said, although there is no indication of when it might launch.
Android Central's Andrew Martonik adds:
We have to think that Google would want to get Glass out into the market first before trying to reinvent mobile computing once again. but Google is certainly capable of running multiple projects at once.
People might be hesitant to attach a device right to their face, but a lot of people already wear watches, which might make potential users more comfortable with the idea of wearing a device in the first place. Also, Google now owns Motorola, who previously launched the last-generation iPod nano-like MOTOACTV smart watch (see image, above), so there's some in-hourse experience to draw from.
One thing's for certain, like with tablet news before the iPad launched, even the rumor of Apple's interest in a new market is enough to stir up excitement and get competitors moving. And why not, Apple's been hugely successful at identifying music players, phones, and tablets as opportunities in the past. Who'd want to get caught flat footed for a second, third, or fourth time?
Anyone here think, come 2014, we'll be seeing a smart watch battle between Apple, Samsung, and Google to match the smartphone battle today -- iWatch vs. Galaxy Watch vs. Nexus Watch? And how long before Microsoft, Nokia, HTC, and BlackBerry get in on the as yet non-existant fun?
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Tried and True... Mostly
It seems to me that many of my modifications have been the cause of some duress, if not later some humorous afterthought. Throughout the lives of many of my piercings, events occur that either put them at jeopardy, cause me some sort of harm, or result in putting me in a bad position. For the most part, I can look back on these experiences and laugh.
I have had my nostril pierced for probably a little over three years now. It was my first piercing that really went against my parents' wishes. Previously I had only had my ears and navel pierced; anything on my face was completely off limits, taboo even! I had wanted my nostril pierced for a while, and for whatever reason, I finally decided it was time to get it done. Off I went with my two best friends to directly disregard (and surely in my father's eyes, disrespect) my parents' request.
My friend, Brian, drove me and my other friend, Marcy, to Tattoo Lou's in West Babylon. Per usual, I filled out the paperwork, had my driver's license photocopied and headed back to get pierced. In the back I met Cassi who pierced my nostril. While I wanted a high nostril piercing, Cassi refused to do it any higher than just slightly above the curve of my nostril cap. A bit disappointed, though not deterred, I had my nostril pierced regardless. I was expecting it to be a quite unpleasant experience. With a slight pinch, the needle was through and quickly after the nostril screw was in my nose. I was donning a lovely tissue for probably about two minutes until I stopped bleeding (and I will not forget Cassi telling me how I was quite a "bleeder"). Swollen, but elated, I walked out to my friends, who both found my new nostril screw to look rather good on me, even cute, as Marcy had put it.
We headed out, and drove back to our hometown. Marcy had to stop at the bank, so while Brian and I stayed in the car to wait, I went to double check I had my license. Unfortunately I did not. As I began to panic and wonder where I could have left it, Brian called up Tattoo Lou's to check and see if I left it there. As it turned out, they forgot to take it out of the photocopy machine and I forgot to ask for it back. Thankfully I have some pretty awesome friends and we drove back another fifteen minutes or so to get my license.
For the most part, my nostril healed with no problem. The only dilemma I recall having would be a result of having a break out. I do not have bad acne, in fact have been quite fortunate to only have breakouts once in a while, otherwise leaving my face clear. Originally I had thought that with having a hole in my nostril, there would never be a problem with a pimple coming to that exact point ever again, lest I remove it. This was not the case. In reality, when I did get a break out, that is where the biggest pimple would form. My nostril would be engulfed by this huge, red, disgusting zit. No, it was not infected, no it was not scarring, it would only happen when I had a break out and would go away with the rest of the break out; unless I have some very, very crazy coincidences going on with my nostril and face, I would indeed say it is linked. When my nostril was completely healed, my piercing would stay zit-free; sadly I cannot say my face shared the same joyous fat e.
While that leaves healing and piercing problems aside, that does not mean that was the only type of issue I have encountered with this lovely little dot upon my nose. To start with minor problems, one of aesthetics, it must be noted that I wear a nostril screw for the most part, and it tends to turn in my nose. I can swear up and down that I will not have touched the thing, yet simply the functions and consequences of life result in its spinning in my nose, resulting in a portion of it sticking out of my nostril. While I try to comfort myself by believing that many people have nostril screws, and many must have the same problem and will surely know that there is nothing gross inside my nose, simply metal. Honestly, that rationale fades quickly as I realize that the majority of people do not have their nostrils pierced and even if they do, that is certainly not the first thing to come to mind. Multiple times a day I can be seen lifting my nostril screw up from the top, sp inning it and then tapping it back down. I will do this while I am in the middle of a conversation with someone; though I do admit it is pretty weird of me - in my defense, it is only with people I know fairly well. It is a minor problem, but one that can get a bit bothersome.
Additionally, I have my septum pierced. I currently wear a retainer, but I did wear a circular barbell quite often. For whatever reason, my nostril screw and my circular barbell, when turned up, inside of my nose, would latch together. Somehow the barbell would pull down on the nostril screw, as if trying to pull it out of my nose through my nasal cavity, and would leave me feeling a horrible pressure on my nose. Of course when I would try to fix the problem, it would only make it worse. Sometimes I would manage to untangle the two, but often I had to remove one to have a successful solution.
Now, perhaps the worst experience I have ever had with my nostril piercing occurred a little over a year ago. I suppose we all go through our amorous stages where being somewhat sexually involved with someone is just the thing to do. As it turned out for me, this involvement one night resulted in my going home missing a butterfly backing to an earring, and as I realized while I was driving, and was midway home, my nostril screw falling out/being knocked out of my nose. I imagine my nostril was jewelry-less anywhere between two hours to a half hour, and that was apparently enough time for it to start closing up. Creeping into my house at around 1:30 in the morning, I headed up to my room to find a CBR I had bought a year or so prior to put in my piercing. Expecting everything to be fine, I went to put the CBR in my nose. There was only one, slight problem - it would not go in. Being the ever-so intelligent person I am (and by intelligent I mean stubborn and stupid, as I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror and said something along the lines of "I am NOT losing this piercing...!"), I forced what must have been an eighteen gauge CBR through my nostril, fastened it as best I could and went to bed.
The next morning, I woke up with my nose feeling sore. Either later that day or the next day, I had work. Where I work, it is a rather classy, conservative place - I can get away with a nostril screw, but absolutely not a CBR clinging to my nose. Off I went to the mall, to a Piercing Pagoda stand where I got a variety of nostril screws. Intended to be a temporary fix, I ended up wearing the same, loose, nostril screw for anywhere between a year and six months until I finally invested in a decent nostril screw again. Since that point, my problems have waned with my delightful little nostril piercing.
I quite adore my nostril piercing, as it is quite versatile. With a somewhat quick jewelry change, a nostril piercing can go from a cute, facial adornment to an edgy appeal. Through negligible aesthetic problems, to an unpleasant yanking sensation, and even to a bit of an embarrassing situation, my nostril piercing holds much appeal to me, if not a slew of memories and experiences.
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Challenge, change and progress – Council agrees its budget
Protecting core services and jobs, delivering what people want, and building prosperity were the priorities driving decisions made at today's budget meeting of Argyll and Bute Council.
Council Leader, Councillor Dick Walsh explained: "The decisions we have made today mean that, despite significant financial challenges, we can continue to deliver a huge range of services. We can provide much of what our communities have told us they want. We can invest in regeneration and the prosperity Argyll and Bute deserves.
This is a time of unprecedented challenge for local government. Drastically reduced funding means we had a savings target of over £10 million in 2016/17 alone. This means change.
This budget is about making change work for Argyll and Bute.
Careful financial planning, delivering efficiencies in our work, and investing over the past two years in the core services people have told us matter– education, supporting vulnerable people, roads and infrastructure – together mean that we are in a better position than many other councils.
The extent of our challenge however is significant.
Delivering a balanced budget in these financial circumstances needs decisions we would rather not have to make. We would love to do everything our communities want us to. Since cuts to our funding rule that out, our focus is on doing as much of what our communities want from us as we can.
We have listened to what people told us matters to them.
We have maintained funding support for the youngest and vulnerable members of our communities – support for early years work, community transport and debt advice will continue wholly or in part. We have maintained funding for many services, from bridge maintenance to hanging baskets, that help keep Argyll and Bute an attractive place to be.
Where we have taken savings, we have focused on innovation and efficiency, not least by reducing the elected member budget by £150,000. We will pursue management savings as part of our transformation journey.
We are doing all possible to keep unavoidable job losses to a minimum, and will use our tried and tested methods to ensure, as much as we can, that there is a place for everyone who wants to continue working for Argyll and Bute Council."
Delivering more say for local communities was also a key feature in decisions made.
Councillor Walsh said:
"People have told us they want more say about what happens in their communities. We will focus therefore over the next twelve months on giving more power to local areas, involving them in prioritising local spending on a range of issues that matter to them. The need to make savings and to transform how we work is long term. Working in partnership will ensure we make the best use of whatever resources we have."
The Council will continue to invest in Argyll and Bute's Single Outcome Agreement aims, to build the economy through a growing population.
Councillor Walsh explained:
"Our children and grandchildren deserve the chance many of us have had, to grow up and live their lives here in Argyll and Bute. That needs a vibrant economy. We have ensured therefore that we are in a position to invest in creating economic growth. Our package of measures will see an investment, from our financial reserves and capital funding, of some £75 million designed to attract more people to live and work here, securing employment and prosperity for our area.
These are challenging times. We are determined to make change work for Argyll and Bute."
Facts and figures
• Council tax remains unchanged with Band D set at £1,178
• Total revenue budget for 2016/17 is £237,176. This funds year on year delivery of services. 80% of this funding comes from the Scottish Government. This is the funding that has been reduced.
• Capital funding supports one-off expenditure on infrastructure. This comes from capital grants from the Scottish Government, the sale of council assets and financial borrowing.
• Of the savings options consulted on, those accepted or rejected are listed below.
• Options rejected mean that the number of job losses falls from a potential 184 in 2016/17 to 82 FTE. Over 450 Council employees have expressed interest in voluntary redundancy.
• The Council delivered its £10 million+ savings target by:
o Rejecting savings options to the value of £1.402mm (68 FTE jobs secured)
o Accepting in part only (an additional 32 FTE jobs secured or in full savings options to the value of £5.186m (82 FTE in 2016/17)
o Identifying over £1 million in savings that do not impact on policy or job losses.
o Agreeing Councillor, management and other staff savings (such as travel and overtime) of £944,000
o A package of additional measures ranging including a total 6% increase to the council's income-generating fees and charges.
Options rejected
• EDUC05g Reduce subsidy payments to community swimming pools
• EDUC07a Reduce primary school classroom assistants by 20%
• EDUC07d Reduce primary school janitor costs by 20%
• EDUC07k Stop lunch payments for primary school supervision staff
• EDUC08a Reduce secondary school classroom assistants by 20%
• EDUC08c Reduce secondary school janitor costs by 20%
• EDUC08g Reduce school technician costs by 20%
• EDUC08k Stop lunch payments for secondary school supervision staff
• CC02a Reduce Adult Learning/Literacies service availability
• CSS02k End discretionary non-domestic rates relief for charities
• FS03m Remove out of hours property emergency line cover
• FS04G Remove discretionary Community Transport Grant funding
• PRS04g Reduce debt counselling service to focus on complex cases
• RAMS01c Removal of hanging baskets
• RAMS01d Close 43 public conveniences across Argyll and Bute
• RAMS01f Replace annual bedding display with grass areas
• RAMS01k Reduce Environmental Warden Team
• RAMS01o Additional Roads and Amenity Service staff reduction
• RAMS02a Reduce coastal and flooding work budgets
• RAMS02b Reduce bridge assessment budget
• RAMS03c Reduce budget for road works/bridge repairs
• RAMS05d Removal of food waste collection, Helensburgh area
• SF01F Further review of Strategic Finance team
• Value of options rejected - £1.402mm (62FTE jobs secured)
Savings options accepted in part or in full
• SF01a Review of staffing structure within Strategic Finance
• CC02b Adult Literacies and Learning – reduce spend in areas based on needs assessment
• CC03a Reduce cost of combined community development and community planning teams
• CC03b Provide reduced amount of third sector grant funding – full saving in first year, with 10% in 17/18 and 10% in 18/19
• CC03c Introduce consistent management arrangements for four community centres
• CC05/1, CC05a, CC10a, CC11a, CC11a/1 Create a charitable leisure trust to bring together council owned community halls, libraries, swimming pools and fitness facilities
• CC06a Provide reduced level of funding support for events and festivals
• CC06b Offer Campbeltown Museum for community ownership
• CC006c Provide reduced level of funding for arts development
• CC08a Provide reduced level of funding to energy and mediation advice services where other opportunities are available and where there is less demand for service
• CC08b Align funding for rent deposit scheme to current demand
• CC08c Reduce budget for housing IT, strategy development and staff training following major work done in 2014/15
• CC08d Reduce staffing costs re promotion of housing information/capacity for partnership work
• CC08e Save council funds by transferring strategic staff costs to Strategic Housing Fund
• CC10b Reduce library management costs
• CC10c Saving of £50,000 on mobile library service
• CC12A Provide reduced level of funding for domestic abuse outreach support
• CC12b Provide reduced level of funding for tenancy support contracts
• EDUC01a Align disability access budget (for adaptations in education centres) with current demand following previous underspend
• EDUC01b Review Service Level Agreement for home and hospital tuition in line with previous demand
• EDUC01c Reduce education Quality Improvement Team materials budget
• EDUC01d Align specialist equipment budget with demand following previous underspend
• EDUC01e Reprioritise repairs and maintenance budget for Education HQ
• EDUC01h Manage cover for ASN assistants from within current devolved budget at individual schools
• EDUC01i Deliver ASN efficiencies and match resources to greatest assessed need
• EDUC03a Continue to provide statutory duties only for children under 5 – part saving only
• EDUC03b Budget levels reduced for pre-5 resources – part saving only
• EDUC03d Reduction in Early Years third sector grants and services – part saving only
• EDUC03e Part saving (10%) in Early Years Change Fund
• EDUC03c Provide for a 1% inflationary uplift only on payments to Early learning and Child Care Commissioned providers (in line with current indicators)
• EDUC05a Reduce central administrative support
• EDUC05c Provide reduced level of funding for PE facilities matched to priorities
• EDUC05d Janitorial cover availability reduced
• EDUC05e Education central repairs budget reduced and prioritised
• EDUC05h Remove Attendance Officer posts and use current processes and systems in place to manage attendance
• EDUC05j Align clothing grant budget to current demand following previous underspend
• EDUC02b Provide reduced level of creative arts programmes in schools
• EDUC02c Increase fees for non statutory music tuition, reduced to 44% to accommodate inflation
• EDUC02d Instrumental instructor provision reduced by 20%
• EDUC07b Accept 5% reduction only in clerical assistants in primary schools, prioritizing support provided
• EDUC07c Pupil Support Assistants to be matched to greatest assessed need – part reduction (10%) only (equates to 111 fewer hours per year across 30 primary schools)
• EDUC07e Continue primary school supply teacher cover at reduced level
• EDUC07f Remove management development and training budget (primary schools)
• EDUC07g Prioritise primary school grounds maintenance work to manage 20% resource reduction
• EDUC07h Reduce devolved budgets for individual schools as they are supplementary to central education budget, prioritizing expenditure
• EDUC07i Provide foreign language training through Scottish Government Languages 1+2 budget
• EDUC12a Provide statutory Educational Psychology services following 7% budget reduction
• EDUC12b Align residential schools budget to current demand following reduced demand
• EDUC08b Accept 5% reduction only in secondary school clerical support
• EDUC08d Provide secondary school supply teacher cover at reduced level
• EDUC08e Remove management development and training budget in secondary schools
• EDUC08f School librarians in secondary schools no longer provided
• EDUC08h Prioritise grounds maintenance work in secondary schools to manage 20% reduced resource
• EDUC08i Reduce devolved budgets for individual secondary schools as they are supplementary to central budget with prioritised expenditure
• CSS03a/b/c Increase email and electronic transactions to save more on postage, printing and stationery
• CSS01a/b/c/d/j Change in opening hours for Customer Service Points and promote alternatives to over the counter payments
• CSS01e Tiree Service Point service provided through voluntary sector contract in line with Jura and Colonsay
• CSS01f/l Increase use of emails at Customer Service Points to save money on postage, printing and stationery
• CSS01k Remove small repairs budget at Jura and Colonsay service points where requirements have been minimal
• CSS01m Change Rothesay Service Point opening hours in line with current volume, delivering service over five half-days
• CSS04b More economical replacements for broadband circuits in offices and schools to match capacity and usage
• CSS02c/d Increase use of email to avoid use of pre-paid envelopes and reduce costs
• CSS02g Develop in-house services for council tax e-billing/landlords portals in place of external contract
• CSS02h Apply landlord penalties where applicable to help council tax collection
• CSS02i Retrieve cost of administering double charge council tax from income raised
• CSS02j Align benefit advisor posts to match reduced caseload
• FS01a-c Long term redesign of catering service
• FS01d Build up and develop catering service for events and functions
• FS02a-b Long term redesign of cleaning service
• FS03f Generate water utility savings with no significant impact on current service
• FS03g Generate energy utility savings with no significant impact on current service
• FS03h Increase heating efficiency through use of biomass boilers
• FS03i Use opportunities for external providers to reduce costs of Estates service
• FS03j Prioritise use of central repairs budget for schools, libraries and social work services to manage 14.5% reduction
• FS03k Prioritise maintenance for shared offices with 8.4% central budget reduction
• FS03l Prioritise use of shared office central repairs budget with 21.6% reduced resource
• FS04b Explore external partnership working to improve use of fleet/transport resources between council teams
• FS04f Prioritise/reduce bus shelters and stops built or replaced in 2016/17 only
• GL01a1 Reduced committee/governance/elected member support including increased self service resource for members
• IHR03a Redesign staff personal safety training including online development
• IHR03b Redesign health and safety service including increased online support and prioritizing high risk service areas
• IHR01a Combine HR and Improvement/Organisational Development teams to create a single one-stop shop service, with reduced saving in 2018/19 to retain statistician post
• ED02a Phased reduction of subsidy payments to freight operators in Campbeltown to align with standard rates by 2018/19
• ED02b Increase piers and harbours berthing charges
• PRS02b Introduce charges for pre-application advice for major and locally significant planning applications, in line with other local authorities
• PRS02c Reduce planning development management team with increase in time to register planning applications
• PRS02d Remodel planning enforcement team with increase in response time to planning breach complaints
• PRS03b Provide in-house solution for aerial photography currently sourced externally
• PRS03c Introduce charges for developers/property owners for statutory street numbering in line with other local authorities.
• PRS03d Develop in-house solutions to allow removal of software/licences used for local development plan consultation
• PRS03e Increase use of online consultation for Local Development Plan
• PRS03f Provide core duties/statutory access rights of way and up to date Core Path Plan
• PRS03g Remove footpath survey software and Local Access Forum budgetand use alternative ways of surveying and supporting the forum
• PRS03h Use in-house legal advice if required to resolve access disputes to allow removal of specialist legal expenses budget
• PRS03i Introduce charges for Phase 1 Habitat Surveys
• PRS03j Efficiency savings and business support costs reduced through staff reductions
• PRS03k Remodel Access Team to focus on statutory duties
• PRS03l Review Development Policy Team
• PRS04a Remove vacant Regulatory Services alternative enforcement post
• PRS04c Increase charges to businesses for inspection and certification of food export certificates in line with other local authorities
• PRS04e Achieve central administration cost savings through improved processes and systems
• PRS04f Review advice services across Argyll and Bute while maintaining a reduced allocation of funding to advice agencies (25% reduction only)
• PRS04h Increase income from private landlord registration scheme through targeted enforcement work on unregistered private landlords
• RAMS01a Increase burial charges by 20% while costs still remain below average in 9 comparative council areas
• RAMS01b Cremation charges increase limited to 14%
• RAMS01e Remove subsidies to Tobermory Harbour Association on phased basis
• RAMS01g Rose and shrub beds to be returned to grass
• RAMS01h Hedges maintained in winter only with one cut per year
• RAMS01i Grass cutting carried out once in October/November with other areas returned to meadow/natural growth
• RAMS01j Phased recovery of costs for services to Cowal Games including temporary toilets, event support, litter collection, staffing etc
• RAMS01l Reduce street sweeping frequency – half saving only accepted from original proposal of 50%
• RAMS01m Prioritise dangerous/urgent maintenance within Roads and Amenity property to manage 25% reduced resource
• RAMS01n Prioritise dangerous/urgent maintenance within depots to manage 25% reduced resource
• RAMS02c Achieve central administration cost savings by improving processes and systems and reducing training budgets
• RAMS02d Reduce central administrative support from 2017
• RAMS03a Increase car parking charges from 80p to £1, introduce to Mull car parks and introduce year round charging at other car parks
• RAMS03b Remove school crossing patrollers only in relation to lunchtime patrols and where there is already an electronic crossing in place
• RAMS03d Reduce roads operations costs by removing a vacant post and reducing budget for vehicles and plant
• RAMS04a Christmas lights funding – saving accepted in longer term only with funding from reserves for a period of three years
• RAMS04b Increase street lighting planned repairs on an area basis, reduce reactive repairs
• RAMS04c Use new lighting units which would reduce maintenance and energy costs
• RAMS04d Recover costs for event banners and other non-core council activities
• RAMS05a5 Rubbish collection – three-weekly collection with new shift pattern to make better use of fewer vehicles, retaining fortnightly recycling collections using double shift patterns
• RAMS05b Three-weekly general waste, bi-weekly co-mingled uplift by internal resource for Islay in line with other local areas
• RAMS05e Remove vacant post in Waste Management Service
Value of savings options accepted - £5.186m 2016/17 FTE impact 82


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Earth and Environmental Sciences
Science and Technology Government Information Sources
U.S. Government
Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment -- Links to the National Invasive Species Information Center and an extensive Plants Database.
Environmental Protection Agency
- EPA Publications -- Links to various EPA subsites with publications, plus a publications search box.
- Electronic Report on the Environment -- National trends in air, water, land, human health and ecological condition.
- Envirofacts -- One-stop source for environmental information.
- EPA Office of Research & Development -- The scientific arm of EPA.
- National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) -- Site for free EPA print and digital documents.
- Science Inventory -- The Science Inventory is a searchable database of EPA science activities and scientific and technical products conducted by EPA and through EPA-funded assistance.
National Atlas -- USGS's North American environmental atlas. Create maps using many different variables; print or purchase ready-made maps.
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Marine Fisheries Service -- Includes the Offices of Sustainable Fisheries, Protected Resources and Habitat Conservation.
- National Ocean Service -- Explore marine protected areas, coastal zone management, ocean exploration and much more.
- National Weather Service -- Forecasts and real-time weather data.
U. S. State Department, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs -- The Bureau works to promote the conservation of natural resources on an international scale.
USGS, United States Geological Survey
- National Streamflow Information Program -- Real-time and historical streamflow data from more than 7,500 streamgages.
- USGS Publications Warehouse -- Search for any of 70,000 publications from the USGS, 40,000 of which are full-text online.
- Biology Programs at USGS -- Ecosystems, status and trends, invasive species and more.
- National Geospatial Program -- Provides access toGIS data for download, maps, gazetteer.
International Organizations
European Environment Agency - Supports "sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public."
- Publications
- Data sets
- Maps and Graphs
- State of the Environment Reporting Information System (SERIS) - Inventory of national state of the environment reports.
European Commission and the Environment
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Environment - Books, statistics and more.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Activities in relation to global climate change, desertification, biological diversity, endangered species, hazardous wastes, migratory species, ozone, trade and the environment, and other information.
- GEO: Global Environment Outlook - Global overview, regional status and trends, regional policy responses, forecasts for the environmental future of the earth.
- State of the Environment Reporting
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Evaluates and highlights the many values of biodiversity and puts authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making


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Boards & Commissions
Urban Design Committee Agenda
Urban Design Committee
Notice is hereby given that the Urban Design Committee will hold a meeting on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. in the County-City Building, 555 S. 10th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska, in Room 214 on the 2nd Floor. For more information, please contact the Lincoln City/Lancaster County Planning Department at 402-441-7491.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
- Adoption of meeting records from the UDC meetings of April 10, 2013 and April 18, 2013 (latter with Historic Preservation Commission.
- Pedestrian wayfinding signs for Downtown area (The Clark Enersen Partners/West Haymarket Infrastructure design team)
- Sidewalk vending applications:
- Jason Leuck, Leucky's Dawg
- Tyler Larson, Hawaiian Ice
- Tyler Watson, Pro Dog cart
- Richard Boucher, vendor cart


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Groovy movies - New Zealand's best indie theatres
There is something really special about going to an independent cinema, something beyond the quirky films it's likely to be showing.
Auckland is speckled with quality indie cinemas, sprinkled throughout the suburbs like beacons of worldly culture and cosiness. Art house aficionados flock to the Capitol, Lido, Academy, and Bridgeway cinemas – or into the city to the Auckland Library Basement.
Unsurprisingly Wellington has a high cinema–to-civilian ratio too, with the Penthouse in Brooklyn, the Roxy in Miramar, Empire in Island Bay and the Capital's best kept secret: Time Cinema in Sutherland Road, Lyall Bay.
But like a good film that stays with you, the experience of watching a film at the Dome in Gisborne is particularly memorable. Housed in the historic Poverty Bay Club, which was a 'gentlemen's club' for 120 years, movies are screened in the former billiards room. Wood panelling and a sumptuous domed stained glass ceiling are set off by two gigantic red ribbon lanterns created by acclaimed designer Katy Wallace.
Ruby red carpet and a plush bar next door with historic trophies, crystal and feathers bestow a sense of the building's grand history. The stunning atmosphere is the brainchild of Gisborne entrepreneur Sally Shanks, whose textiles business The Formary provided wool for the huge bean bags that replace typical cinema seats.
From the east coast in the north to the west coast in the south, The Regent in Greymouth has its own dramatic history.
When it opened in 1935 the Grey Star proudly claimed that should an earthquake hit, patrons could "sit tight" with confidence in the strong and functional art deco curves. The building has been a mainstay of the local arts scene on the West Coast over decades, and back in the day was seen as 'classy' by locals, many of whom had their favourite seats on permanent reserve for Friday or Saturday nights.
In the 1950s and 1960s dances were held after the movies but in the 1970s the building was sold to owners of a metalware factory who gutted the interior, only to go out of business a few years later.
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The Export-Import Bank is a federal agency that may be unknown to many Americans. The companies it has loaned money to, however – including Enron and Solyndra – speaks volumes about this special interest subsidy organization that is akin to "venture socialism." Now, in a blatant violation of the bank's charter, the Obama administration has expanded its role into financing domestic sales in addition to exports. Not only does the Ex-Im Bank's expansion into domestic financing frustrate the process of free market capitalism, but it continues to place up to $160 billion of taxpayer money at risk through questionable investments.
For many of those unfamiliar with the Ex-Im Bank, it is the official export credit agency of the federal government and, historically, it has been marginally relevant. It was established in 1934 by Executive Order 6581 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the express purpose of financing and insuring foreign purchases of U.S. goods. Interestingly, the Ex-Im Bank's first transaction was a $3.8 million loan to Cuba in 1935 for the purchase of U.S. silver ingots.
Sallie James, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, argues the Ex-Im Bank "picks favorites among U.S. producers … acting as a sort of financier of industrial policy" that supports politically connected businesses, leaving taxpayers exposed to billions of dollars in potential losses in loan guarantees.
Should the Ex-Im Bank have the authority to wade so heavily into private markets abroad, and now domestically, doling out its largess by way of loan guarantees to politically connected enterprises? Let's examine the three primary arguments offered up by its supporters.
First, Ex-Im Bank fans claim that the loans create new jobs for Americans. This argument has been proven to be empirically false. Ultimately, subsidies like those given out by the Ex-Im Bank take away from the GDP and cost jobs rather than create them.
Second, supporters insist that the loans, and loan guarantees, level the playing field with foreign competitors that are purportedly heavily subsidized by their own governments. But as James points out, "Spending by rich-country governments on official export credit has actually fallen in recent years." The data also shows that between 2002 and 2010, just under 40 percent of the bank's transactions by value were authorized to "meet competition."
Finally, the president of the Ex-Im Bank, Fred Hochberg, claims it turns a profit, supposedly creating jobs at no cost to taxpayers. Evidence shows, however, that the agency is neither self-sustaining nor profitable for taxpayers, as it consistently provides financing to suspect companies that the private sector won't touch, calling into question the likelihood of a return on investment.
In September 2012, Congress voted to extend the Ex-Im Bank's charter for another two years. As history shows, Congress's normal reaction to wayward institutions is to extend their lives, expand their mandates and increase their money supply.
As James' compelling piece, "Time to X Out the Ex-Im Bank," illustrates, picking American winners, as the Ex-Im Bank does, also creates American losers. For example, the Obama administration is directing the Ex-Im Bank to offer United Airlines a subsidy to match any subsidy Canada offers to persuade United to choose the Montreal-made Bombardier over Boeing and Airbus. Therefore, American taxpayers will subsidize United to support Boeing, which is already being subsidized in ways injurious to Delta and others.
There is an understandable urge to counter the subsidies that foreign governments give to companies competing with U.S. businesses. However, government favors predominantly flow to the politically connected.
This can be harmful to a market-based economy, argues Sen. Jim DeMint from South Carolina, since "in free-market finance, we all benefit as businesses compete for investment that follows those with the best innovations, highest quality, at a price buyers are willing to pay. Not so with government-run finance, where funding decisions are made more often based on politics instead of economics."
Today, the administration is attempting to turn the Ex-Im Bank into a government-run venture capital firm, financing what it believes are particularly promising industries. To this end, the Ex-Im Bank has been favoring special interests over U.S. taxpayers. These heavily subsidized corporations include Enron, defense contractors such as Boeing and politically inspired causes such as green energy.
The Obama administration wants to make credit subsidies a standard in doing business domestically and abroad. This is a misguided effort. It micromanages free markets, costs taxpayers billions, and exceeds the legitimate constitutional role of the federal government.
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A lot of people think that math ended 100 years ago, and math is the way we are taught when growing up. But math still has frontiers.
Many Jurassic Park movie fans love Dr. Ian Malcolm, the character played by actor Jeff Goldblum, for his witty sarcasm and impeccable comic timing. Van Cyr loves Malcolm for those reasons, though mainly because the character is a "math guy."
The mathematics professor may not be battling dinosaurs on Bucknell's campus, but he is just as energetic when discussing his work to advance his discipline. "A lot of people think that math ended 100 years ago, and math is the way we are taught when growing up – algebraic learning means going to class where a teacher tells you how to do it. People think that's it, that there's nothing new in math," Cyr says. "But math still has frontiers."
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"Dynamic systems are really challenging. Working on them requires me to use a lot of different types of math – calculus, geometry, number theory," he says. "All techniques in math are in my tool kit for further discovery. It can be frustrating, but when you are thinking about a certain problem for a really long time, your eleventh idea can make a slight dent in the knowledge about the problem. Once you make a dent, other chips will follow."
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Here are some reasons to get people to shift from cars to transit:
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Why we need walkable, transit-oriented suburbs
There is absolutely no sense in setting up the cities as walkable fortresses surrounded by sprawl. Even if we could persuade every city-dweller to go car-free and keep everyone else's cars out, we would still sometimes want to go out and get some fresh air in the mountains or by the beach. We should be able to do that by transit, on foot or by bike. If walkable, safe streets with convenient transit are good enough for us, they should be available to everyone else too. We also need all the allies we can get when we're fighting for walkability and transit; why write off the suburbanites and people who live in the country and small cities?
I would like you to imagine taking a trip by foot, or maybe by local bus, from New York City to Albany. This trip by foot would take you several days, so let's assume that there's a hotel to stay at wherever you need one. I've chosen Albany because it's completely in the State of New York, but you would see similar (but less rural) phenomena if you went to Philadelphia or New Haven.
You would find Manhattan and the Bronx to be very walkable, with convenient transit. In Westchester County it would vary depending on where you went, but you could find a comfortable route at least as far as White Plains or Ossining. North of there you would find walkable downtowns like Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck, some of them even served by halfway decent buses, separated by increasingly long stretches of inhospitable sprawl and country, until you reached Albany.
Those walkable downtowns are where our natural allies live. Some of them don't own cars. Some keep the car in the driveway all the time. Some curse their cars every time they get behind the wheel. The people who live in between are the ones who tend to vote for sprawl boosters like Nan Hayworth.
Speaking of Westchester sprawl boosters, remember Richard Brodsky, the Assemblymember who managed to convince half the liberals in New York that congestion pricing was a tax on the poor? He was elected from Elmsford, a Westchester suburb that lost its train station in 1958. His district does include walkable villages like Dobbs Ferry and Pleasantville, but it would be significantly more transit-oriented if there were still regular train service to places like Elmsford and Ardsley.
Of course there's no guarantee that transit-riding voters will elect pro-transit representatives, as we see from people like Ruben Diaz and Hakeem Jeffries. But I think that if the Putnam Line had never been shut down - and if at least one of the Thruway, Saw Mill River or Sprain Brook highways hadn't been built - Brodsky would have been a bit less likely to oppose congestion pricing. There's no certainty there, just statistical likelihood, but that's why we have to keep working to build transit riding constituencies in the suburbs and all over the state.
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- David E. said...
Hear hear! I write about my home county of Marin, a relatively walkable suburb of San Francisco while living in DC. Why? Because nobody in the Bay Area writes about anywhere but San Francisco, Oakland, or San Jose! A voice, even one as far removed as mine, is better than no voice at all.
The challenges faced by suburbs are far more complex than those faced by cities. Sure, the city has poverty and high capital costs and all that, but in the 'burbs we don't have all the benefits high densities bring. Car sharing doesn't work; frequent rail doesn't make sense; and people are frightened to lose their cars.
If New York is like the Bay Area, we need advocates in the small towns just as much as we do in the big cities, and it's a harder slog. Thanks for the call-to-arms.
- May 1, 2012 at 12:46 AM
- Cap'n Transit said...
I'm glad you think we can write about suburbs while living in cities, David. But the "benefits high densities bring" are actually just benefits of car travel being relatively low quality. If Marin didn't have the 101, for example, I'm guessing we'd find that car sharing and frequent rail would work after all.
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Robert E. "Bobby" Muhlig Jr., 48, of Herington, died Thursday at his home. He was born Aug. 26, 1964, to Robert Sr. and Judy (Catlin) Muhlig in Manhattan.
He was a lifelong resident of Herington and graduated from Herington High School in 1982. He was a supervisor for Hamm's Quarries for more than 25 years. He loved hunting, fishing, archery, motorcycle riding, and spending time with family and friends.
He married Shelly Lynn Alewine on Aug. 12, 2004, in Sturgis, S.Dak. She survives at the home.
One son, Brett Muhlig, one stepson, Dustin Jensen, and one stepdaughter, Ashley Jensen, all of the home; one brother, Ryan Muhlig of Augusta; one sister, Jennifer Gordon of Wamego; his parents, Robert Sr. and Judy Muhlig of Council Grove; and two nephews and one niece also survive him.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre has unveiled a reincarnation of its 1931 Reverso model of watches which was at the time considered an icon in watch-making. The Reverso One High Jewelry comes studded with a bevy of baguette-cut diamonds, protecting a mother-of-pearl dial. The beauty of the watch is its Duetto concept offers a different display on the back – a deep black aventurine dial with diamonds outlining the hour and minutes indicator. This "back-to-back" dial offers the watch a mysterious appeal and a dual personality.
The Reverso was created by French designer René-Alfred Chauvot on the request on a contract with Jaeger SA, who was contacted by Jacques-David LeCoultre, the then owner of the LeCoultre manufacture to provide the "movements of a new watch". LeCoultre received this request from Swiss businessman and watch collector César de Trey who was challenged by a British army officer based in India to "create a watch model robust enough to resist to a polo match." So what eventually started as a project to prove worth ended up being a revolutionary fashion statement. At the time, in the 30s, the Reverso with its unique flip and slip movement became a raging hit.
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Making old new again is one thing, but doing it well is the part that's perhaps hardest to pull off, as luxury brands that dip into archives for the sake of offering something 'new' to customers have realised. But when it's done well, it deserves to be celebrated, which brings us to Montblanc's new 1858 Timepiece collection. Inspired by vintage lines created throughout the 157-year history of Minerva, the watch manufacturer (now owned by Montblanc, by the way), they have released four timepieces, one the 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter (shown above), the other the1858 Small Second Special Edition (shown below).
Cast in 18K red gold and made reminiscent of chronographs worn by adventurers of that time, even the winding crown is made with extended fluted facets, a vintage throwback to the time when one had to wear gloves whilst adjusting the dial. Watch hands are luminescent, even Montblanc's historic logo is used for that truly vintage feel, which also happens to be the bit I love the most.
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Paired with a black alligator strap that features contrast stitching, it's another handsome timepiece that will work well with most anything I wear, be it dressed up or dressed down.
For those without deep pockets (because anything that comes in limited numbers will naturally cost more), here are the other two from the same collection that are more entry-level. Simply known as the 1858 Small Second, they also feature stainless steel cases but comes more pared down, one with a brown calfskin leather strap that I love love love, the other a bracelet that's a tad odd, if you ask me. Both priced under the SGD5000 range, it will also make a great gift for the man who wants something ruggedly handsome and hardy.


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HONOLULU – Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HECO) will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that HECO denied an employee a meter reader position due to an eye condition. HECO, an electric distribution company, is the primary energy provider for the Hawaiian islands.
According to the EEOC, the employee, who has a congenital eye condition resulting in blindness in one eye, has worked for HECO since 2004. In April 2010, the employee applied for and was denied the position of meter reader due to HECO's unfounded presumption that he could not do the job because of his disability. However, the EEOC asserted that the employee, with perfect vision in the other eye, was fully capable of doing the primary job duties of reading and recording changes in electric meters at different customer locations.
Refusal to hire a qualified individual due to his disability violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In September 2011, the EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (EEOC v. Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Case No. CV11 00592-DAE-KSC). Besides the monetary relief, the three-year consent decree settling the suit mandates HECO to designate an ADA coordinator to appropriately handle all disability-related inquiries by employees. HECO will also hire an outside monitor to consult with the coordinator and provide extensive training to all human resources, corporate compliance, and newly hired and promoted staff on their ADA obligations and responsibilities. All other staff will also undergo training on disability discrimination, and HECO will revise and post a new company policy and complaint procedure at all facilities. The EEOC will monitor compliance with the decree, and HECO will report its handling of future complaints of disability discrimination.
"People with disabilities cannot be excluded from jobs due to ill-conceived assumptions about their abilities," said Anna Y. Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, which includes Hawaii in its jurisdiction. "Employers need to earnestly analyze the job at hand and assess whether a candidate with a disability is able to perform the essential functions of that job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Timothy Riera, local director for the EEOC's Honolulu Local Office, added, "Nationally, complaints of disability discrimination at the EEOC have been on the rise, now comprising about 26% of all charges received. Workers with disabilities are realizing more and more that they have employment rights under federal law which the EEOC will vigorously enforce."
According to the company's website, www.heco.com, the Hawaiian Electric Company and its subsidiaries provide energy to 95% of Hawaii's 1.2 million residents on the islands of O'ahu, Maui, Hawai'i Island, Lana'i and Moloka'i.
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A talented athlete and gifted student, Craig Juntunen co-captained the Vandal football team in 1977 and earned a pair of letters from 1976-77. The team's offensive MVP during the 1977 season, Juntunen completed 52.7 percent of his passes for 770 yards and three touchdowns. In 1976, Juntunen led the team to a 7-4 record and a second-place finish in the Big Sky. Juntunen's career 52.1 completion percentage ranks ninth all-time at Idaho.


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SACRAMENTO, CA — California clubs soon will be busy buying automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and training employees how to use them. Last month, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill requiring every health club in California to have an AED and for all club staff members to be properly trained in their use by July 1, 2007.
The bill provides "Good Samaritan" protection for gym employees who use an AED in an emergency situation. Staff will not be liable for civil damages except in cases of gross negligence or reckless misconduct.
Helen Durkin, director of public policy for the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), said IHRSA is generally against AED mandates but that this law is a win-win. The bill provides an adequate lead time for AED implementation and training, and Good Samaritan coverage is for both use and non-use, Durkin said.
"It meets the needs that the legislatures are trying to meet, but it provides a few areas of condition in areas that concerned us," she said.
According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, when a person suffers a sudden cardiac arrest, chances of survival decrease by about 10 percent for each minute that passes without defibrillation. A victim's best chance for survival is when there is revival within four minutes.
California Assemblywoman Fran Pavley authored the bill, and the California State Firefighters' Association sponsored the legislation.


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Loyola at a Glance
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Event showcases documentary work on Dooky Chase's Restaurant
October 18, 2013
The Loyola University New Orleans Documentary and Oral History Studio will bring to life how one of New Orleans' most celebrated eateries—Dooky Chase's Restaurant—played a pivotal role in the Crescent City's music, culture, civil rights and food scene in a free, public event Tuesday, Oct. 29. The event showcases exclusive documentary interviews conducted by Loyola students with the restaurant's former employees to illustrate life in New Orleans' fifth, sixth and seventh wards in the years before desegregation.
The interactive event features Edgar Chase III '71, J.D. '83, Loyola history professor Justin Nystrom, Ph.D., and the Loyola students who have been actively involved in the filming and editing of the interviews. "A Haven for All of Us: Stories from Dooky Chase's 1941-1970" is set for 7:30 p.m. in Miller Hall, room 114 on Loyola's main campus.
"Leah Chase is possibly one of the best-known New Orleanians that we have, but there are stories we haven't heard before about how Dooky Chase shaped the fabric of New Orleans," Nystrom, the director of Loyola's Documentary and Oral History Studio, said. "With the help of Loyola's Documentary and Oral History Studio, my students witnessed firsthand accounts of history, playing an important role in uncovering stories only New Orleans can tell."
The former employees who worked during the restaurant's beginnings in the 1940s and 1950s share stories focusing on more than just the famed food they were serving up. Through the interviews, students uncovered little known gems about the Civil Rights movement, the African-American community, the city's music scene, as well as its famous food culture. The former employees told stories of meeting celebrities at the restaurant such as professional boxer Muhammad Ali and hosting political leaders of the Civil Rights movement in secret meetings in the restaurant's upstairs. The interviewees also spoke of how important events such as desegregation and the construction of Interstate 10 through the Claiborne Avenue corridor changed life in the restaurant's sixth ward neighborhood.
"When I realized that I was going to get to help preserve … this little piece of history that came along with New Orleans, I felt really privileged," said Brittany Trosclair, a Loyola student who helped with the project.
The event is sponsored by the Loyola Department of History, the Documentary and Oral History Studio and the Center for the Study of New Orleans.
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Because Lisp Flavored Erlang is 100% compatible with Erlang Core, it has access to all the Erlang libraries, OTP, and many third-party modules, etc. Naturally, this includes the Erlang HTTP client, httpc. Today we're going to be taking a look at how to use httpc from LFE. Do note, however that this post is only going to provide a taste, just enough to give you a sense of the flavor, as it were.
If you would like more details, be sure to not only give the official docs a thorough reading, but to take a look at the HTTP Client section of the inets Reference Manual.
Note that for the returned values below, I elide large data structures. If you run them in the LFE REPL yourself, you can view them in all of the line-consuming glory.
Synchronous GET
Let's get started with a simple example. The first thing we need to do is start the inets application. With that done, we'll then be able to make client requests:
Now we can perform an HTTP GET: This just makes a straight-forward HTTP request (defaults to GET) and returns a bunch of associated data:
- HTTP version
- status code
- reason phrase
- headers
- body
For those not familiar with Erlang patterns, we've just told LFE the following:
- the return value of the function we're going to call is going to be a tuple composed of an atom ('ok) and another tuple
- the nested tuple is going to be composed of a tuple, some headers, and a body
- the next nested tuple is going to be composed of the HTTP version, status code, and status code phrase
Once the request returns, we can check out the variables we set in the pattern:
That's great if everything goes as expected and we get a response from the server. What happens if we don't?
Well, errors don't have the same nested data structure that the non-error results have, so we're going to have to make some changes to our pattern if we want to extract parts of the error reason. Pattern matching for just the 'error atom and the error reason, we can get a sense of what that data structure looks like:
Looking at just the data stored in the reason variable, we see:
If you check out the docs for httpc request and look under "Types", you will see that the error returned can be one of three things:
- a tuple of connect_failed and additional data
- a tuple of send_failed and additional data
- or just unspecified additional data
Async GET
Now that we've taken a quick look at the synchronous example, let's make a foray into async. We'll still be using httpc's request function, but we'll need to use one of the longer forms were extra options need to be passed, since that's how you tell the request function to perform the request asynchronously and not synchronously.
For clarity of introducing the additional options, we're going to define some variables first: You can read more about the options in the httpc docs.
With the variables defined, let's make our async call: The sender receives the results, and since we sent from the LFE REPL, that's the process that will receive the data. Let's keep our pattern simple at first -- just the request id and the result data:
Needless to say, parsing the returned data is a waste of Erlang's pattern matching, so let's go back and do that again, this time with a nice pattern to capture the results. We'll need to do another request, though, so that something gets sent to the shell:
Now we can set up a pattern that will allow us to extract and print just the bits that we're looking for. The thing to keep in mind here is that the scope for the variables is within the receive call, so we'll need to display the values within that scope:
This should demonstrate the slight differences in usage and result patterns between the sync and async modes.
Well, that about sums it up for an intro to the HTTP client in LFE! But one last thing, for the sake of completeness. Once we're done, we can shut down inets:


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Sexual predators from America are traveling to South East Asia to take part in a sex trade. The problem with this sex trade is that the prostitutes are young boys and girls some as young as five. I was watching as MSNBC did an undercover show on this subject. And I am going to give my take on the whole mess.
We start off seeing a dusty village in Cambodia as a teenage boy greets the hidden camera man and offers him sex with young girls. We are then introduced to a doctor named Jerry Albom from Oklahoma who says that he frequents Cambodia at least once or twice a year. He is one of the guys who go there to meet these underage girls. He actually tells the camera man that he should tell people that he is going to another part of SE Asia as the people might suspect that he is going to Cambodia for the young girls. He brags that he has had two, three, four and sometimes five girls at a time in his hotel room to pleasure him. He says that he likes them in their early teens fifteen or sixteen but sometimes girls' young as fourteen sneak in, and oh well as he put it.
Now if this were a black doctor people would undoubtedly be saying that this is indicative of the black race to have something like this going on. Just look at how dog fighting is now a black cultural thing and linked to rapping. All because one high profile black man is convicted of dog fighting. It does not matter that dog fighting originated in Europe or that they even interviewed white people who admit to dog fighting and say they will continue. Yet it in no way diminishes or tarnishes the white race.
So we know that if this doctor were a black man not only would he be arrested and held to the fullest extent of the law, the whole black race would now be subject to suspicion and scrutiny from white America. In fact they had a hidden camera in one of the clubs frequented by western patrons and the underage girls they intended to meet. They were ALL white men. Should I now think that somehow the actions of those white men are indicative of all white men? Somehow this just proves the deviant sexual behavior that white men possess and we should now profile them since it will keep our children safe. It sounds silly yet this is exactly the attitude we show with black people.
If a few black males are walking in a group, watch out it is probably a gang of thugs. A black lady is at the store with children, she is probably a single mother on welfare and looking to steal. These are some of the stereotypes that blacks have to deal with because one person fits the stereotype we all do as well. Yet whites get to forego the stereotypical bull and get judged by individual merit. Constantly I am being barraged with people saying on my Blog that people should be judged as individuals, which is all fine and dandy.
Yet these people these are the biggest perpetrators who will then turn around and say that "blacks should just get an education, and start speaking correct English." Maybe I should start stereotyping whites; it wouldn't be hard, since according to the numbers from the government they are committing the most crimes anyway. I could start grabbing my children when I see white men the way white women grab their purses in the presence of a black man. Since we now understand that they are pedophiles.
Speaking of which I could also ask the school to put a video camera in the room of my son's teacher if she is white, since she is probably going to try and rape him. Better yet, she should just be fired as I don't feel comfortable I mean with all the white female teachers raping young boys. Just like the black kids look like a gang of thugs, I should be afraid that groups of white kids are going to hang a noose in my tree. Or call my son over a prank on myspace and threaten to come lynch us. I will also beware of white teenaged boys in malls, churches and schools as they seem to have a propensity for shooting up those types of places.
I lived in a large apartment complex once and a lady in the gym was explaining that the office had been wrecked or robbed by some kids. We were all working out at the gym and were discussing the issues of the complex. She then blurted out a stupid question "do you know them?" Now why would we know them, because it was a crime committed and they must be black? How about "did she know them?" Yet, of course not as she wouldn't know any criminals, why should she.
I don't know how many times I have had a white person say something such as, "oh my dry cleaner is black, do you know him?" As we sit in a city of thousands of people. I am supposed to know every black person in town. That is when I say "oh, my mail carrier is white, do you know him?" They get such a puzzled look, as if to say why would I know them? Yet they expected me to know this one black whose name they didn't even know out of thousands. I think that we should play the tit for tat game, if you want to be racially insensitive to someone, they should be just as insensitive back. Maybe that will get people's attention.
I could surely go on and on with this whole exercise in propaganda, yet it will undoubtedly fly right over the head of those who need to understand it. As they will not see how profiling whites would be helpful but would totally see how profiling those criminal blacks IS. The hypocrisy regarding racial stereotyping runs so deep and has been so ingrained for so long that races that are constantly being stereotyped have taken to internalizing it and becoming some of the biggest perpetrators. As people start to realize that these things can both ways, maybe they will stop all together and we all can be judged by our own actions and not have to be the spokesman of our race.


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New Video – Alai – Wave of Bliss
Today we released our new video for Alai – Wave of Bliss. Watch it and share it with everyone you know!
Tamil and English captions are available on the YouTube site
Today we released our new video for Alai – Wave of Bliss. Watch it and share it with everyone you know!
Tamil and English captions are available on the YouTube site
Guru Pournami is a sacred day for us here at the Yoga Center, and this year we were fortunate to have Sadhguru with us for a sathsang. To celebrate the occasion we performed the Shivashtakam chant by Adi Shankara, put to our own music. View the full post to listen.
This piece turned out to be a kind of hybrid between garba and western blues, played to welcome the 3600 participants into the Adi Yogi Alayam for the start of the Sadhguruvudan Isha Yoga Program being conducted in the Isha Yoga Center for the very first time.
We called at "Six at Six", because it was a 6-beat rhythm, and we played it at 6pm!
Here at the Isha Yoga Center we celebrate Buddha Pournami, or the day of Gautama Buddha's enlightenment, every year. This year, we composed a song for the occasion and performed it today. The song takes us through Buddha's life – his luxurious world as a prince, his renunciation, his struggles and finally, his attainment under the Bodhi tree. See the full post for the song and the lyrics.
Chandrajeevan is a collection of Hindi devotional songs composed by Sounds of Isha for Sadhguru's sathsangs. The title alludes to a devotee's journey towards dissolution, which is mirrored in the Moon's journey from full moon to new. "The moon has no quality of its own – just reflecting the sun. If you want to know the divine, this is […]
Namaskaram, and welcome to the new official Sounds of Isha website! Here you'll be able to find all your favorite SOI content quickly and easily, including songs, videos, photos, blog posts and whatever else we can come up with. We've made all our music fully available for online streaming, (with links to download the albums from the […]
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From: Judge Robert Gage
This horse drops her head down more than most horses do, so it's a good thing this rider has such a long release. I notice he uses his arms down along the top of this horse's shoulders. Not every rider can do this. I usually recommend a crest release for most riders, (Where their hands & forearms lay atop their horse's crest) because it gives the rider another long point of support. But, when you ride with such a solid leg & good balance, you can then drop your arms down & release more directly towards the horse's mouth.
This horse might not be for just any Junior or Amateur rider. Because she uses her head & neck so extensively, I think the average rider might have difficulty keeping their balance, especially when the jumps get bigger. However, you just can't quibble about this horse's technique.
Nothing to say but FANTASTIC!!
Finally, I would like to discuss this horse's equipment. It's a little hard to see it all, but I think she is in a running martingale and a 2 or 3 ring bit. In general, I like running martingales, and they conform to the rules at all levels. However, I have never been a fan of "leverage" type bits. It's just my opinion, but I find horses don't turn very well in them. I can see the necessity sometimes for a smallish rider, on a strong horse, but this rider rides well enough that he could probably ride in a rope around the horse's neck!
From: Judge Carol Dean-Porter
What a spectacular athlete this mare is! Her knees are up by her jaw and she obviously respects the rails as she clears the wave plank by more than a foot.
I am reasonably certain the distance was good and she gives you an explosive effort. Horses who jump in this style tend to be somewhat forward and sensitive. I imagine this one is no exception.
While I am not a big fan of the 3 ring bit, you may find this bit necessary to keep her focused and contained between the jumps.
One caution: "some" horses who jump up this high in front, tend to get somewhat low behind. Also care must be taken to keep the horse coming forward: leg onto hand and not permit her to get behind the bit on the flat.
You appear to have a secure base of support with heel well down. You control your body well in the air and are positioned over her center of balance. I like the light contact in the air and can see that you are educated and experienced enough to follow the mouth successfully and give her as much freedom as she asks for. Just be very careful to stay released and hold your position on the landing side of the jump. If you open up too quickly in the air or drop back and catch her in the mouth, you risk a hind rail.
I bet she is really fast! Her recording certificate lists her as a Thoroughbred, there is nothing faster between the jumps and nothing with more heart.
You and your mare are turned out impeccably! Your boots are shined, the keepers are all neatly tucked in. You have purchased good quality tack including a nice belly guard girth and elastic breast plate.
This is the most beautiful photo with the beach chair standards, wave planks and the DOLPHINS blowing steam! What fun! I want to know how they made the steam billow out!
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Another alternative history book, this one takes place in Italy and focus on the religious, political and economic impact of Grantville's appearance in the Ring of Fire on Venice.
Some young uptimers decide to free Galileo, who I learned a lot about.
Grantville also sends a diplomatic team to Venice to facilitate trade.
I also think Andrew Dennis might be an interesting author to look into


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Why Ice and Airplanes Don't Mix
Today's jets can handle most weather, but pilots of smaller aircraft sometimes need to sidestep trouble.
Modern jets take most fog, rain and wind in stride. Even violent thunderstorms are usually easy to sidestep with today's radar and other storm-detection gear. And come winter, what used to be dangerous icy clouds are generally no match for the latest ice-protection systems.
In fact, today's jets are usually immune to icing concerns, since they have sophisticated systems that use hot air bled from their engines to keep engine inlets, wings and control surfaces warm. The exception is when the airplane has sat on the ground for an extended period, either parked or with the engines idling at low power. Then the aircraft may require a hosing down with hot deicing fluid to remove ice buildup before takeoff.
In the early days of aviation, many airplanes were lost to ice before its dangers became known. Since the ice that accumulated in flight would usually melt after a crash, investigators were baffled as to the cause of the pilot's loss of control. After a few pilots survived harrowing encounters with heavy ice, they realized the only defense against the hazard was staying out of clouds altogether or learning by experience what an icy cloud might look like.
In the film The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh (played by Jimmy Stewart, himself an experienced pilot) is horrified to see ice building up on the wings and struts of the little monoplane far out over the Atlantic. With the added weight of the ice, and the way it changes the carefully engineered shape of the wings and other control surfaces, Lindbergh knew that the airplane could not sustain flight for long under those conditions. The film does a marvelous job of depicting how he found warmer air at the last moment, narrowly avoiding the need to ditch—probably to his death. The footage of thick ice breaking off in chunks is enough to cause any pilot to breathe a sigh of relief.
It's the unpredictability of icing conditions that can cause pilots of smaller aircraft to give suspect clouds a wide berth. And that doesn't go only for cold-weather months. For example, last August, I was flying home to New Jersey from Wisconsin with my friend Patrick Bradley in his turbocharged Cirrus SR22T—the personal-airplane equivalent of a souped-up Range Rover. With the turbo, we were at 17,000 feet, hitching a boost from high-altitude tailwinds that would shorten our trip to just a little more than three hours. He was even able to text his wife via the inflight phone to let her know our estimated time of arrival.
As we droned through the air, a mountainous, foreboding cloud blocked our path. It wasn't a thunderstorm, and we were certainly equipped and trained to fly without being able to see outside the windshield. But Patrick asked the controller for a vector to go around the system, rather than right on through. "That looks icy," he said to me, never taking his eye off the cloud. It was as if he was afraid it might sneak up on him if he turned away.
Patrick flies in weather a lot more than I do, and I took his word for it. Even with his Cirrus's "flight-in-known-icing" approval, Patrick is wise to avoid testing that envelope. Ice has been known to accumulate faster than the system can handle. Even airliners can occasionally encounter conditions that call for a speedy descent to warmer air.
Such extreme conditions are hard to predict by looking at the cloud from the outside. Sometimes, it's just a feeling. But as the saying goes, "The superior pilot uses superior judgment to avoid situations requiring superior skill.
Mark Phelps, a private pilot, writes BJT's Exit column.


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They feature a different theme for every day of the week.Thursday is their Thirty for Thirty with 30 bottles of wine each selling for $30.
An annual state of the wine industry report just released by the Silicon Valley Bank forecasts that economic conditions will have a lasting impact on the fine wine business.
Is this perhaps a time where dining at home will become increasingly popular? Dine out by all means but share that expensive bottle of wine with family and friends.
When visiting friends in California last summer they did just that. Click on the pic and you will see what I mean.
You have heard this one before, but I love cooking with wine and sometimes I even put some in the food.
With the excellent help and encouragement of Katherine Andes, I have been making some changes to this blog and my email newsletter. Sign up for her very timely and topical newsletter.
As you can see I have Nat's Wine & Food Matcher. But I have just added a great source for recipes. In Recipes Looking for Wine you will find some taste tempting menus. But I always check out two of my favorite sources for recipes when I want something unique and tasty.
When you visit my British Bordeaux friend on my link list, Nick Stephens, and click on recipes you will find the Angels on Horseback recipe.
I just love that one. Nick's blog is always very informative and a pleasure to read. And I can hardly wait to try out David Crowley's latest,Tortellini with Garlic Spinach Sauce. You will find him at my link to "Cooking Chat"
So now the question remains, do you pick your recipe and then find a wine to match or do you choose your wine and and then search for that great recipe?
Have fun always and enjoy this precious gift of the fruit of the vine!