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The USDA crop condition reports this week showed once again that Wheat is getting stressed. Spring Wheat planting remains delayed, but soil moisture will be great once producers are able to work the fields. Longer range forecasts call for cool weather this week. It remains very dry in western section of the Great Plains from Kansas to the south, and these áreas comprise the bulk of the HRW crop. Most northern hemisphere Wheat crops appear to be in good condition, with the área with the most problems located in the central and southern US Great Plains.
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Wheat for Sept delivery was unchanged at $5.5125 a bushel; Sept corn was 3 cents lower at $3.8825 a bushel; Dec oats were unchanged at $3.2975 a bushel; while Nov soybeans was 2.25 cents higher at $11.06 a bushel.
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Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Kimberly Patterson says the investigation is continuing, but that there is nothing suspicious about the death.
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Dover Air Force Base Commander Col. Rick Moore let the civic leaders selected as honorary commanders for 2013 know that they were viewed by DAFB as legitimate partners during the base's induction ceremony held Saturday night at the Air Mobility Command Museum.
Dover Air Force Base Commander Col. Rick Moore let the civic leaders selected as honorary commanders for 2013 know that they were viewed by DAFB as legitimate partners during the base's induction ceremony held Saturday night at the Air Mobility Command Museum.
"It's so important to us to maintain the community relationship that we have" Moore said. "The community relationship with Dover is the best I've ever seen in my career. This is a large part of maintaining that. And it goes so far [in good times and in bad].
The U.S. Air Force developed the honorary commander program to immerse community leaders in Air Force culture – including its missions, customs and traditions, Dover Air Force Base Chief of Community Relations Jennifer Vallee said. It started in Dover in 1992.
This year, more than 20 of Delaware's distinguished civic and political leaders were partnered with base senior leadership from the 436th Airlift Wing, the 512th Airlift Wing, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System and the Joint Personal Effects Depot, Vallee said. For the next year, these honorary commanders will learn about Dover's missions and vital role in national defense.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for us to partner with the local community and also for the local community members to learn something about each other," said Moore, commander of the 436th Airlift Wing. "For us, it recognizes the contributions of community partners by bringing them in and showing them what we do and making them proud of the base because they have the knowledge to share with their friends."
City of Dover, Kent County and state officials along with business executives from locally based companies were among the honorary commanders at the Air Mobility Command Museum Saturday night in Dover – a veritable who's who list. They hobnobbed during the cocktail hour with their assigned DAFB officers as the Dover High School jazz band played in the background. Then, they sat down to break bread.
Among the honorary commanders was Citizens Bank business banking officer Dawne Nickerson, of Dover. She and fiancé Tom Banez waited in the cocktail line with DAFB Lt. Col. Heather Cook and her husband, Robert.
'It's a great opportunity," Nickerson said. "I think it's just the best blend of both communities, because we're such an integral part of each other anyway."
Nickerson said that it was also nice to be part of the honorary commanders program as a former military member who served in the U.S. Navy.
Col. Cook said the program not only allowed the community to understand what the U.S. Force airmen do but also allowed officers to learn something from community members with an ear to the ground.
"It's important to Dover that the city to have a positive understanding of what we bring to the city and what we bring to the nation," she said.
Kent County Economic Development Director Jim Waddington, serving as an honorary commander for the second year in a row, said he looked forward to participating in more activities on the base. This year, he was paired with Lt. Col. James Kodat, commander of the 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron.
"It's really been enjoyable," Waddington said. "I came in a week ago for a three-hour tour and it was very informative."
Col. D. Scott Durham, commander of the 512th Operations Group, was paired with Wesley College President Dr. William Johnston. Durham said the program did a good job of pairing U.S. Air Force officers with civilians from all facets of society.
"Bill Johnston obviously represents the academic portion," Durham said. "A lot of the kids in my unit are actually in the reserves because they're trying to earn money for an education. I think that linkage, where I have access to the president of the college, gives me a unique perspective. Those kinds of linkages probably wouldn't be made if we didn't have this."
Durham and his wife, Jennifer, sat at the same table with Johnston and his wife, Susan, at the Air Mobility Command Museum.
Dr. Johnston said, all in all, the program was "a wonderful gesture."
"We understand the Dover Air Force Base; they understand what we have to offer in the community," he said. "So, it strengthens our whole state by doing this."


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NEW YORK (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says the nose gear of a Southwest Airlines jet collapsed backward and into the body of the aircraft following a hard landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
The NTSB found the landing gear "collapsed rearward and upward into the fuselage, damaging the electronics bay that houses avionics."
The agency said on its Twitter feed the plane skidded 2,175 feet (663 meters) before stopping at the edge of the runway Monday.
It posted a photo showing the jet's electronics bay penetrated by the landing gear with only the right axle still attached.
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The Innoveer transaction gives Cloud Sherpas its first physical presence in Europe, greater geographic density in the northeast and central United States, an offshore delivery team in India, and one of the largest practices of certified consultants worldwide. Innoveer, which has more than 750 customers and 2,000 successful deployments under its belt, was founded in 1998 and provides a range of services, including discovery and planning, CRM technology selection, business process improvements, implementation, change management and support focused on enterprise businesses in the life sciences, insurance, financial services, and manufacturing sectors, among others.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Safeway Inc. is selling its supermarket operations in Canada to food retailer Sobeys for 5.8 billion Canadian dollars ($5.7 billion).
Sobeys, a unit of Empire Company Limited, is already the No. 2 grocery operator in the country. It said the deal includes 213 grocery stores under the Safeway banner in western Canada, 62 fuel stations, 10 liquor stores, 12 manufacturing facilities and four distribution centers.
That leaves Safeway with about 1,400 supermarkets in the U.S., many of which are in western states. The company, based in Pleasanton, Calif., operates stores under names including Vons in Southern California and Nevada and Randalls and Tom Thumb in Texas.
"This was an unsolicited offer," CEO Robert Edwards said in a brief call with analysts after the announcement. He noted that the company believed the offer was "extremely attractive."
Edwards, who took over as CEO last month, declined to discuss how the sale would affect the company's strategy for its U.S. business. He said he would field questions on that matter in about five weeks during its next quarterly earnings call.
The deal comes at a time when traditional supermarkets are facing rising competition from big-box retailers like Target, drug store chains and even dollar stores. Kroger Co. has adapted by tweaking store formats and product offerings. But others such as Supervalu have scrambled to keep pace; earlier this year the company sold five of its major grocery chains after struggling for years to turn around its business. Supervalu said it would focus on its Save-A-Lot discount stores, as well as smaller regional chains.
Meanwhile Safeway in the past year has been touting a new loyalty program called "Just For U" as a centerpiece of its plan to beat back competitors and gain market share. Like many other retailers, Safeway believes a sophisticated loyalty program can give it an edge in holding onto customers.
Safeway said proceeds from the deal are expected to be 4 billion Canadian dollars after taxes and expenses. It said proceeds will be used to pay down $2 billion in debt and to buy back stock. It also said some of the proceeds may be used to invest in "growth opportunities."
After the deal was announced late Wednesday, Fitch affirmed its "BBB-" investment-grade rating on Safeway. The ratings agency noted that the company's Canadian stores had higher profit margins and that the sale would therefore have a negative impact on Safeway's operating profitability. It also noted that Safeway had $6.2 billion of debt as of March 23.
Fitch said Safeway's U.S. stores had weaker profit margins because of softer sales trends at established stores open at least a year. Safeway's moves to keep prices low amid competition also impacted margins. Fitch's rating outlook is negative.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter and is subject to regulatory approvals.
Safeway shares rose $8.06, or 34.9 percent, to $31.17 in after-hours trading.


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The government expects the new law to generate savings for the statutory health insurance system of up to €2 billion annually. This objective illustrates the pricing pressures now facing research-based pharmaceutical companies. The new framework for price negotiations is widely forecast to reduce industry revenues, not just for drugs under review but across the entire therapeutic portfolio. Achieving a raise in net income for a drug by a few percentage points will require significant long-term investments in infrastructure around a new model for establishing and maintaining market access—one that depends less on marketing savvy aimed at patients and providers than on the capacity to build evidence and establish outcomes with direct appeal to a small community of payers.Progress of the law to date is not encouraging. The first assessments under the new law had hardly begun when two big multinational drugmakers announced that because of the evidence requirements their products would not be made available to the German market. Novartis withdrew its antihypertensive drug Rasilamlo (Aliskiren/Amlodipin) after only four months, while Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly acted to forgo the price negotiation for their new anti-diabetic agent Tradjenta (Linagliptin). The decisions seemed to confirm the initial apprehension of industry about how AMNOG would hinder pharmaceutical innovations, especially if a negative assessment caused other countries to adopt the same position, thus depressing global sales projections. Actions by the three companies were subsequently echoed by Pfizer and GSK, who after a negative assessment decided not to negotiate and withdraw the hand contracture drug Xiapex and the anti-epileptic Trobalt, respectively.
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The Tesla show sold out last-minute at the Hard Rock on Saturday night. I was sulking alone with my Stoli & Tonic at the smoke-filled Center Bar when a middle-aged, long-haired rocker dressed in camo and white sneakers tried to scalp me a ticket. He wanted $50 but I talked him down to $20, and I was in!
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"I Walk Through The Valley Of The Shadow of Death…"
Is the Valley of the Shadow of Death a metaphor or could it actually be a real place? Three separate paranormal incidents over the last century, in a valley near modern day Iraq, seem to give credence to these claims. When satellite photos taken over the area hint at a dangerous new energy source, the U.S. decides to send in a Spec-Ops team to locate and extract it before it can fall into enemy hands.
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MEDINAH, Ill. — Perhaps it's fitting Jose Maria Olazabal will captain the European team in the first Ryder Cup following the death of Seve Ballesteros. The pairing of the two Spaniards became a fixture at this event beginning in 1987 at Muirfield Village when Olazabal was a Ryder Cup rookie trying not to succumb to the pressure of the competition.
"He took me under his wing," Olazabal said. "He made clear to Tony Jacklin that he wanted to play with me. I will never forget that little walk from the putting green to the first tee. I was shaking like a leaf. It was huge crowds, very loud, similar to what we are going to see here this week. So I kept my head down and he approached me as we were walking on to the first tee. He looked at me, and said, 'Jose Maria, you play your game. I'll take care of the rest.' And he did."
Ballesteros, who died in May 2011 of brain cancer, played in eight Ryder Cups and was captain of the winning European team at Valderrama, Spain, in 1997. He won 22 1/2 career points in 37 matches, including 11 wins and two halves from 15 matches paired with Olazabal.
His passion for the event personifies the fiery spirit of a European team that has captured six of the last eight Ryder Cups, including 2010 at Celtic Manor, where Ballesteros, in the midst of his battle with cancer, called the team to deliver an inspirational 10-minute speech.
To ensure his presence at the 39th Ryder Cup matches set to begin Friday at Medinah, Europe's official team golf bag will feature a silhouette depicting Ballesteros' Open Championship win at St. Andrews in 1984.
"We felt this was one way that Seve could be with us every step of the way," Olazabal said. "Every time somebody gets to grab a club or something from the bag [he] can see the silhouette. I thought it was important for us to have Seve's memory and presence during the week."
If Olazabal wants to do one thing this week, it's to get his players to have the kind of passion for the Ryder Cup that Ballesteros displayed.
"You have to make your players believe that you're playing for something really special. That it's unique to the moment" said Olazabal, who played in seven Ryder Cups. "It only happens once every two years. And just let them realize that there are moments that are unique to this event that won't happen anywhere else in any other tournament. That's what I learned from Seve."
It will not be a tough sell to a European team intent on successfully defending the Cup it won in Wales when Graeme McDowell clinched the winning putt on the 17th green in the final singles match against Hunter Mahan. McDowell said he was recognized more for clinching the Cup than winning the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
"There's no doubt about that," he said yesterday. "The Ryder Cup has become such a big deal I think people love it as a spectacle. It's such an amazing golf event."
Davis Love III, the U.S. captain, has no issues with the Euros honoring Ballesteros.
"It's just a big part of Jose Maria's life in golf," he said.
But Love isn't without his own sources of motivation.
Maria Floyd, the wife of Hall of Fame golfer and Ryder Cup staple Raymond Floyd, died recently in Southampton, L.I.Tucker Anderson, the 18-year-old son of the instructor to FexEx Cup champ Brandt Snedeker, remains in a coma recovering from neck and head injuries suffered in a one-car accident.
Love also has NBA Hall-of-Famer Michael Jordan hanging around the team.
"There's a lot of emotion on both sides," Love said. "That's what the Ryder Cup is all about."


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Norman E. Lawrence Sr., 78, of Beacon Avenue, passed away Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007
He was the beloved husband of the late Lucille K. (Avery) Lawrence for 60 years.
Born in West Warwick, he was a son of the late Walter and Minnie (Rogers) Lawrence.
Mr. Lawrence served in the US Navy for 23 years before retiring. He later worked for the carpenters union local 1293.
He was an active member and served as deacon for many years at the Central Baptist Church. He was an active force in the creation of an office site named the Lawrence Building for the American Baptist Churches of RI at Camp Canonicus in Exeter. He assisted in the reconstruction of a church in Mississippi after hurricane Katrina. Mr. Lawrence loved sharing his experiences in the Navy and the various projects he worked on.
He leaves six children, Norman E. Lawrence, Jr. in Pennsylvania, George S. Lawrence of Washington, William A. Lawrence of New Bedford, Mass., Timothy S. Lawrence of Providence, Patricia S. Nascimento of Coventry and Janice C. Ryng-Dutton of Jamestown; three brothers, Francis Lawrence of Virginia, Everett Lawrence of Mississippi, and Walter Lawrence of Cranston; a sister, Nancy Briggs of Scituate; eleven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was held yesterday in the RI Veterans Memorial Cemetery. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007 at 1 p.m. at the Central Baptist Church, 99 Narragansett Ave., Jamestown. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to Camp Canonicus, PO Box 330, Exeter, RI 02822 will be appreciated.


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The strong flavor of sautéed salmon fillets readily blends with the bold spices in red Thai curry sauce. Kaffir lime leaves in the sauce are widely used in Thai cuisine.
1 garlic clove, chopped
1⁄2 tsp. Thai red curry paste
1 tbsp. peanut oil
2 cups fish stock
1⁄4 cup coconut milk
2 lemon grass stalks, bruised and chopped
1 Kaffir lime leaf, thinly sliced
1 tsp. Thai fish sauce
Salt and pepper, to taste
4 (7-oz.) Alaska salmon fillets
Chopped basil, as needed
1. In large pan, stir-fry garlic and curry paste in oil until sizzling; add fish stock, coconut milk, lemon grass, lime leaf, and fish sauce. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 3 min.
2. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Strain sauce and keep warm.
3. For each serving, heat peanut oil in sauté pan, as needed, over medium-high heat. Sauté salmon until golden on both sides. Finish cooking in 350° F oven for 3-5 min.
4. Place salmon fillet in center of warmed dinner plate; top with sauce. Garnish with chopped basil.
Note: Lime peel may be used as a substitute for Kaffir lime leaf.


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The giant new congress hall in Abu Dhabi looks like an oblong, silvery gleaming UFO. Inside women, men, and children stroll between the stands, buying Arab, English, and German books. In the spacious children's corner, painting competitions are held and stories read aloud. At the farthest end of the hall is a discussion forum. Here round table talks are held with international guests on literary topics as well as on controversial issues such as tolerance and fundamentalism.
Professionals and exhibitors can participate in discussions on distribution strategies and marketing. In past years the congress was held in a large tent in the center of the city and was organized exclusively as a trade fair. Jumaa al-Qubaisi, director of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair, is visibly proud of the change that the book exhibition has undergone within one year:
"We wanted to be completely different this year. We want to organize a professional book fair, no just a mere 'book bazaar,' but a fair that will attract publishers from around the world."
Contrite Arab publishers
These changes are the result of a close collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair. The responsible parties in Frankfurt, who have gathered many years of experience in diverse Arab book fairs, are convinced of the new location in the United Arab Emirates as the key to the Arab book market.
But many Arab publishers have not greeted the new organization with enthusiasm. Their criticism is directed primarily at the dramatic increase in the cost of stands.
The Abu Dhabi Book Fair is now the most expensive in the Arab world, although it is by far not the most lucrative in terms of sales. Since there are no functioning distribution structures in the Arab world, bookstores, public libraries, and readers rely on the book fairs held in various countries. And for most publishers the fairs are an indispensable source of income.
New cultural policy
The new concept of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair is only a part of the new cultural policy in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Since the death of the founder and regent of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed in November 2004, numerous ambitious plans have been undertaken that will permanently change the image of the richest and largest emirate in the federation of the seven emirates.
The most well-known project, which is also creating quite a stir internationally, is the development of the island of Saadiyat. By the year 2018 the island will not only house hotels, yacht ports, and residential communities, but also several museum complexes, including the "Louvre Abu Dhabi." The new cultural package also includes a translation project, which will provide Arab readers yearly with another 300-400 titles from all categories.
The "Sheikh Zayed Book's Award" with a total value of nearly two million dollars, which was awarded this year for the first time, is awarded for various cultural achievements. And Abu Dhabi with its book fair is to become the publishing center of the Arab world.
Cultural competition in the Emirates
The ambitions of Abu Dhabi in the cultural sector are new. Until now Sharjah, one of the oil-poor emirates with Sheikh Sultan al-Qasimi as its leader, was considered to be the cultural center of the country. A few museums, theater festivals, the Sharjah Biennial and a book fair are its advertising signs.
Dubai has come up with an international film festival and is trying to establish itself as a platform for the international art trade. And now Abu Dhabi is joining the competition for cultural objects of prestige.
But the cultural ambition of the rich sultanates, sheikdoms, and kingdoms on the Persian Gulf should also be seen against the backdrop of the changes these countries have undergone in recent years. They no longer see themselves as culturally developing countries compared to the classical centers in the Arab world such as Beirut, Cairo or Baghdad. Government leaders have practically inexhaustible cash resources, have discovered culture as a means of promoting their image, and have permitted a relative openness in politics.
No public debate, no cultural education
So far, however, the media in the United Arab Emirates has not benefited from this openness. What the common people, the intellectuals and artists in the Emirates think about the at times breathtaking cultural projects is not debated in public.
Mohammed Ahmad Ibrahim is one of the most renowned artists in the United Arab Emirates. At the Sharjah Biennial, which opened at the beginning of April, he is represented with an installation. Ibrahim points to the absurd situation that art is not taught in schools in the Emirates:
"As a rule, the Emiratis are very poorly educated in the area of art. Only art events such as the biennial, for instance, introduce people to art. All the big projects are introduced from the top, and we can only hope that they will force the responsible parties to do some thinking that will bring about the creation of a real infrastructure in the near future."
Approaching things from the end
Film maker Masud Amrallah finds all cultural projects good and important, but even he misses the creation of a vital infrastructure in many areas: "We approach things from the end and make giant leaps. I find this frightening."
For many years now Amrallah and other film makers from the UAE have called for the founding of a film academy, but in vain. There is no state support for domestic film production: "This generation of film makers pays for everything out of their own pocket. When they someday give up in resignation, there will be no more films from the emirates. I don't know if a single film will be made next year."
But Amrallah also wants others to understand his young country, whose relationship to culture cannot be compared to that of societies which have undergone gradual development for centuries.
Decline of Arab intellectual life
It is still too early to pass judgment on the new concept of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair and the results of the collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair. But one thing is certain: Many Arab publishers still need to be won over for the idea of creating a professional platform and for cutting back on the "book bazaar."
More persuasive work is needed. And whether Abu Dhabi will establish itself as a book and publishing center in the Arab world in the near future depends upon the development of the Arab book market and publishing industry, which not least of all are suffering from the decline of Arab intellectual life.
Mona Naggar
© Qantara.de 2007
Translated from the German by Nancy Joyce
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Trying for an International Image
The Arab world's largest book fair, which closed on 4 February, was offering books to the public at reduced prices. This year the featured country was Italy. Mona Naggar reports
Muslim Authors at the First South African Book Fair
Variety as a Community Reality
The "Celebrate Africa" book fair in Cape Town was the biggest of its kind ever to be held on African soil. Renowned Muslim writers like Imraan Coovadia und Rayda Jacobs were also invited to attend. Almuth Schellpeper reports
Seventh Sharjah Biennial
Exploratory Artistic Drilling in the Gulf
Sharjah is the third largest of the seven United Arab Emirates and is regarded as the cultural centre of the federation. The Biennial was intended to display local activity, but the seventh Biennial has shown that the show now has international status. By Samuel Herzog


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Become comfortable with daily conversational Japanese. I also offer music lesson in Japanese.
About Asuka
I enjoyed playing piano and electric piano and won the 1st prize at Kitakantou Electric Piano Competition hosted by YAMAHA institute. Because of the intensive training, I have been accompanying my students' recitals and performance exams.
As much as I enjoyed playing piano, I discovered that I also love singing, so I started to take singing lessons and majored in vocal performance during my college days.
Since I have graduated, I have been performing opera professionally. My career highlights include roles as Cio-cio san(Madame Butterfly) with Snob Opera, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Fairy(Falstaff) with Sir B
My international credits include performances under the direction of Conductor Laurent Pillot at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Liverpool, England;the Académie Internationale d'Eté de Nice, France; the Daniel Ferro Vocal Program in Chianti,Italy; the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel where I was selected to sing for the Japanese Ambassador.
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The St Croix Island group, including Brenton and Jahleel, is utilised by huge numbers of bird species. St Croix is home to the largest breeding colony of African penguins in the world. These birds, endemic to Southern Africa, are endangered and the population in our bay lost 70% within 7 years. They went from a high of 60,000 individuals down to the current number of 22,000, roughly half of the entire world's population. Bird Island also has a population of breeding African penguins but the main species found on this island is the Cape gannet. Numbering 250,000 birds, this island is known as the largest gannetry on the planet. The Bird Island group has a small islet named Black Rocks which has 6,000 Cape fur seals breeding on it. Both islands are seeped with rich cultural and natural history as they have been utilised for food and supplies since the first Portuguese explorers rounded the Cape in 1488.
Both islands were targeted for bird meat by ships passing the bay but it was soon discovered that African penguin eggs were actually a highly tasty treat and became a delicacy. Egg collecting throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was so extensive that penguin numbers dropped to a shocking one thousand individuals in 1937. Guano was also collected from both islands to be used as fertiliser and gun powder until 1955 on St Croix and until as late as 1989 on Bird Island. This was extremely disruptive to the birds but more importantly it robbed them of important nesting material.
Algoa Bay was declared by BirdLife International as an Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) in 2001, because of the globally threatened and vulnerable species, and plenty of other birdlife, that make the islands in the bay their home. Apart from African penguins and Cape gannets, we also host the African black oystercatcher, both white-breasted and Cape cormorants, kelp gulls, swift terns, Antarctic terns, and roseate terns. As well as the visiting pelagic species of albatrosses, shearwaters, skuas, petrels and terns, which make this bay truly incredible. The islands in the bay are of considerable importance as they are the only islands along a 1,777 km stretch of coastline between Cape Agulhas on the West Coast and Inhaca Island in the tropical waters of Mozambique. And several studies have pointed out the need to protect boundaries of species distribution range or ecosystems as these are the most likely to be modified by climate change.
Common dolphins can be seen in pods of up to 2,000 as they chase shoals of fish around and create bait balls (providing an easy feast for many other animal species). Humpback dolphins can also be spotted close in shore but have much smaller family groups, with the maximum number of 12 in a pod. Then there is the illustrious killer whale or orca, which usually makes an annual appearance in our bay providing spectacular entertainment, sometimes even hunting.We see humpback whales anywhere between June and early January as they make their way up (and back down) the East coast to their warm breeding grounds off Madagascar. Southern right whales are seen between July and November as they enter the safety of the bay to either give birth or mate. Our resident Bryde's and minke whales can be seen year round as they breed and feed in our waters (mainly on sardines and anchovies and highly associated with the sardine run). The sardine run is a natural phenomenon that passes our bay every year. Thousands of sardine schools can be seen from March until June being rounded up by African penguins or common dolphins in to a tight baitball. This ball of fish, which rises near the surface, is then made available to predatory seabirds such as gannets, cormorants and terns. The ball of fish is also made more easily available to other predators such as seals, sharks, and big game fish. The feeding frenzy can last for some time until it is all finished off with a Bryde's or minke whale launching from below with mouth open wide to engulf the lot!
Algoa Bay is also home to a wide variety of sharks, some residential such as ragged tooth, pyjama and leopard shark, other are frequent and regular visitors to our beautiful bay, including bronze whalers and mako sharks. The area is a nursing ground to ragged-tooth, great white and smooth hammerhead sharks (which can be seen spread out in the bay in huge numbers in the summer months). Sharks are both prey and predator and they fulfil an essential and meaningful role in the functioning or our oceans as a whole and are indicative of ocean life. The bay contains many endemic species of invertebrates, seaweeds and fish, such as santers and red romans, five out of the 7 species of turtles, most of them highly threatened. And the diversity of soft corals and nudibranchs is among the richest of the planet. All of which makes our bay an incredible spot for scuba diving and snorkelling.
Along the coast we have the Alexandria coastal dune field, which is the largest in the Southern hemisphere. Stretching 50km, this 15,800ha dune field is fed by an estimated 375,000 cubic metres of sand per year from the bay and the dunes move from West to East at a rate of up to 7 metres per year. Proposed to UNESCO as a World Heritage Site by SANParks, this unique ecosystem is fragile and threatened by the invasion of alien Acacia spp. Also among these dunes lies one of the very few South African breeding sites of the rare Damara tern.
Along the shore of the bay lie two estuaries, the Swartkops river and Sundays river mouths. Estuaries are of crucial environmental and economic importance, for their biodiversity, but also as hosts of productive fish and invertebrate fisheries. They perform important functions, such as providing nursery areas for marine fish, conduits for species which move between ocean and rivers (e.g. some eels and invertebrates) and feeding and staging sites for significant populations of migratory birds. They also support a number of endemic species, many of which depend on estuaries for their survival. However, estuaries constitute one of the most threatened habitats in the country.
Algoa Bay represents all five major South African coastal types that need protection, i.e. rocky shore, sandy shores, offshore, soft sediments and estuaries. The Bird Island group is already part of the Marine Protected Area established by SANParks as part of the Greater Addo Elephant National Park, which was declared in 2004. And SANParks is currently in the process of extending this MPA to include the St Croix Island group as they are such crucial islands to so many species.
Algoa Bay is actually in very good health regarding the presence of one the largest cities of South Africa, 2 large industrial ports, and large fishing industries. The issues that this Hope Spot currently face are (1) pollution from untreated discharge of water from rivers, both in terms of heavy metal and plastic; (2) threats from chronic oil spills due to the traffic of large industrial ships (container vessels, cargo ships, etc); (3) potential for over-fishing, but more specifically local competition over the same resources between industrial fisheries and local breeding seabirds; (4) potential underwater drilling from oil and gas; (5) potential development of an oil refinery in Coega IDZ, in close proximity to the world largest colony of African penguins; (6) potential development of aquaculture in the bay
Text supplied by Ellie Bottomley; Photographs supplied by Raggy Charters: Lloyd Edwards and Ellie Bottomley.
If you would like to be involved in the Algoa Bay Hope Spot initiative please contact Dr Lorien Pichegru.


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System administrators looking to stretch their IT budgets might be surprised to learn that all those clunky old systems every agency has piled up high in forgotten corners and exiled to remote wiring closets could be worth thousands or even millions of dollars. In fact, admins might be in charge of a literal gold mine and not even know it.
While working on reviews of green IT for the upcoming September issue of GCN, I was shocked to find a United Nations study that showed that $21 billion in gold, silver and other precious metals were dumped into new computers, iPads, smartphones and other electronics every single year. Only 15 percent of it will ever be recovered.
The problem is that exporting electronic waste is a big business, and few of us realize the value inside those old PCs. So federal agencies and state governments pay a lot of money to have electronic trash hauled off, and that sometimes means taking it to a third-world country to be processed and buried. However, because the workers in these trash destination countries are unskilled, often children, they don't recover a lot of the valuable metals. They're also exposed to toxins.
The H.R. 2284 Responsible Electronics Recycling Act would tighten up regulations and make it harder for the government and even private companies to dump old PCs and phones overseas. Initially launched with a lot of bipartisan support, it's since stalled in committee, though it could still gain steam again. I'm saying we should take it a step farther. You should all be removing the gold from your useless computers. Now that we're talking about $1,500 an ounce, it's a lot less work than you think to turn a profit.
The bill was mostly proposed to stop the poisoning of children in foreign countries, a noble goal we should all support, but I think keeping our electronic trash at home could word work even better. Consider this: the locations of the gold and silver, as well as other semi-precious metals like copper, tin, and palladium are well-known for electronic devices. If not, a database and a roadmap of valuable materials could be created for every device fairly easily.
Now, what if electronic waste could then be brought to a central facility where those metals would be easily removed, following the roadmap, by trained professionals? If the government ran a facility that only did that, it would make for a cleaner environment and a tidy bit of change added to the public purse.
With the metal wealth recovered from just a few old computers, an agency could probably buy a few thousand new iPads. There's an incredible amount of money involved, so I'm sure something could be worked out. You might even say it's a golden opportunity, waiting to happen.
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Not as much precious metals in modern electronics as you think, and a lot harder to recover SAFELY at price points that aren't more expensive than virgin metal. Not like old military electronics that had lots of silver solder and heavily gold plated leads.
I remember when an IBM 360 was worth more for the fingers on its pc boards than as a used computer, and it was easy to just lop them off the boards and toss them into a pot to recover the gold. However, the rise in the price of gold led contact manufacturers to develop ways to use thinner and thinner layers of gold to keep costs down, so I'm not sure how much gold there is in an individual piece of equipment these days. At $1,500 per troy ounce, $21 billion is 14 million troy ounces. How many billions of devices are made each year? Fourteen million ounced spread over 100 billion devices is 0.00014 ounces per device, about 21 cents per device, and even that seems too high per device when you consider all of the digital watches, FM radios, and pedometers sold for a buck at the local Dollar Store while still making a profit. I think the cost of recovering all that gold, spread so thin among all those devices, would be rather expensive in the long run.
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I've been using Juice Lubes "Super Gnarl" watered down (so effectively "Less Gnarl") in the workshop recently and I'd have to say it's a better product than the Green Fizz.
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The Pedros brand is known for its environmentally sound credentials, and this bike wash is true to the ethos. You can spray it on your bike, wash it off, and the resulting effluent running down the drain won't harm Planet Earth.
To test it, I used Green Fizz on my training bike after a couple of long rides, including an audax on some narrow Cotswold lanes, so it was spattered in a good mix of dust, mud and cow poo. For the purposes of the test, I left the bike in the garage for a few days to let these delightful ingredients set nicely.
The 475ml tube comes with its own spray head and is easy to use. According to the label safe for use on all bike parts, including carbon, so I slapped it on all over.
The label gives no indication if you're supposed to leave it for a bit to start dissolving (neither does the Pedros website), but I took a guess and waited for a minute or so before turning on the garden hose.
On the frame and wheels, as I rinsed off the Green Fizz it gripped most of the muck and took it with it. Some of the more persistent splats needed a bit of help with a brush. So far, so good.
But on the chain, chainwheel and cassette, it seemed to have little impact. I've used other bike cleaners that carry off a lot of the black grime that collects in these areas. Green Fizz found this a struggle. I'm guessing it's because there are no industrial solvents in the brew, thanks to its eco-friendly nature. However, I've used other eco-friendly cleaners - notably Muc-Off - that seem to do the job better.
A tube of green fizz costs between £5 and £10, depending on the size you buy.
Overall, I'd recommend Green Fizz for cleaning a bike that kept mainly to nice dry roads. For dirtier bikes, but you'll need to add another ingredient: a bit of elbow grease. But maybe that's the price we all have to pay for not wrecking the planet.
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Make and model: Pedros Green Fizz foaming bike wash
Size tested: Green
Did you enjoy using the product? fine on the frame and wheels, not so good on the chainset
Would you consider buying the product? no
Would you recommend the product to a friend? no
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WORCESTER, Mass. — U.S. Sen. Scott Brown's re-election run, long-expected, is official after Brown kicked off his campaign at Worcester's Mechanic's Hall on Thursday night — exactly two years to the day of his stunning upset over Democrat Martha Coakley for the seat long held by Edward Kennedy.
Standing on a podium next to his wife and daughters, the Massachusetts Republican cast himself as a bipartisan bridge builder in a divided Congress.
"I've told the voters I wouldn't just be another loud angry partisan because Washington has too many of those already. I promised to be an independent voice for you, because Washington has too few of those serving right now. I don't worry about the party line. I don't get caught up in petty fights. I always remember why I am there and who sent me," Brown said.
He took some swipes at the likely Democratic nominee, Harvard professor and consumer watchdog Elizabeth Warren, positioning her as an ideologue and a firebrand who would divide, not unite.
"She talks about how she's a 'rock thrower' and rather than compromise she prefers to leave 'blood and teeth' on the floor. That sure doesn't sound like the kind of compromise and progress this country needs right now. I'm a bridge builder, not a rock thrower," Brown said.
He also struck a populist tone, calling himself an Everyman.
"Across this state are middle-class parents with kids in college and a lot of bills to pay," Brown said. "These are the same men and women who turned a long shot regular guy into their US senator two years ago."
That populist appealed to Ashland resident Terry Hendricks, a Brown supporter who turned out for the speech.
"If you think about the way Scott talks, the way he carries himself, he's not as polished as some other senators or congressmen for example, and that's another reason to think, 'He's just like us,'" Hendricks said.
Boston University political communications professor Tobe Berkovitz says this election could be a difficult battle for the candidate. Brown's win in 2010 was the result of a perfect storm of factors. "He won the last time because all the voter planets lined up for him," Berkovitz said.
Brown tapped into the populist anger of the Tea Party movement. He was blessed with an opponent who seemed stiff and aloof. He got a lot of help from the national Republican Party and the Tea Party Express in the final weeks of the election, which enabled him to saturate the airwaves with ads.
And last time around, it was a special election. 2.2 million voters turned out for the Brown/Coakley race. But on November 6, at least 700,000 more voters are expected. Analysts say the majority of them will be Democrats or Democratic-leaning. People who will come out for a presidentioal election but aren't motivated enough to vote in special elections.
In other words, Berkovitz says Brown has his work cut out for him.
"It's going to be a lot tougher. This time, the Democrats are much more prepared," Berkovitz said.
But in his speech last night , Brown sounded hopeful.
"I wouldn't be here at all if I worried about long odds. Once again, I'm going to run hard and keep my focus," Brown said. "I'm going to campaign on the issues... not take a single vote for granted… and speak directly to the poeople of our great state."
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The last-quarter Moon cozies up to a couple of bright companions at dawn tomorrow: the star Spica and the planet Saturn. They're well up in the south, with Spica close to the upper right of the Moon, and Saturn a little farther to the upper left.
At last quarter, sunlight illuminates half of the lunar hemisphere that faces our way. But the "last-quarter" name refers not to the Moon's appearance, but to its location in its month-long cycle of phases. At last quarter, the Moon is three-quarters of the way through that cycle.
You might expect a quarter Moon to shine half as brightly as a full Moon, but it doesn't — it's only about a tenth as bright.
That's because the Moon shines by reflecting sunlight. Most of the reflected light aims back at the Sun. At full Moon, Earth is between the Sun and Moon, so we get a faceful of moonlight. But at a quarter Moon, we're off to the side of that path. Some of the sunlight reflects in our direction, but most of it is going back toward the Sun.
You can see the same effect if you aim a flashlight at a mirror in a darkened room. If you stand squarely in front of the mirror, the reflected beam hits you right in the face, so the flashlight looks bright. But if you aim the beam at a shallow angle, so that the light reflects away from you, the flashlight looks much fainter.
So it's all about geometry — the angles of the Sun, Moon, and Earth as the Moon moves through its never-ending cycle of phases.
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I have said it before that I feel Google is Social Search engine (the PageRank formula), but I was browsing through Dmoz the other day and it struck me. "Dmoz is a social search engine!" – But with a big brother twist, people submit their site and Dmoz editors review it and either give it a stamp of approval or not. What is that other than a form of social search (with a big brother twist)?
Here is a good article about Social Search writen back in august by a dear friend of mine Chris Sherman, now at Search Engine Land.


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Euro FX (December):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 12/11/12 @ 1.2975. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 12/11/12 @ 1.3004. Upside Targets = 1.3183 – 1.3245.
- The December Euro FX went along with the recent bullish momentum the market has accumulated over the past month on Tuesday as it confirmed a ST bottom and closed back above the 1.30 mark.
- With expectations that FOMC will announce additional easing measures that should suppress the dollar's value, the euro should rise to crack the highs of the last few months and challenge the 2012 highs early in the new year.
- Projected Daily Range: .0082
- Projected Weekly Range: .0219
- Projected Monthly Range: .0456
COMEX Gold (February '13):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 11/28/12 @ 1729.90. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 11/28/12 @ 1718.80. Downside Target = 1707.20 – 1694.70
- Inside VRCB generated on Tuesday.
- February Gold traded within an extremely thin range on Tuesday to pare some of Monday's gains and put a halt to the recent three-day rally due to fiscal cliff concerns and investor uncertainty.
- Look for Gold to resume its bullish momentum on Wednesday and track down last week's high of $1,724.90 before going after the weekly upside target of $1,746.40.
- Projected Daily Range: 16.10
- Projected Weekly Range: 43.10
- Projected Monthly Range: 94.70
E-Mini S&P (December):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 12/07/12 @ 1415.00. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 11/20/12 @ 1386.25. Upside Targets = 1404.00 – 1420.00.
- New highs made on current move Tuesday @ 1434.25.
- The December S&Ps logged their best one day advance in three weeks on Tuesday as they broke through the recent resistance at 1425 and the November highs at 1430.50 to close at their highest level since Oct. 18.
- This technical violation opens the door for the S&Ps to trade up to 1452 but will require some fundamental help from the piles of economic data to be released this week along with the extension of easing measures from the FOMC meeting.
- Projected Daily Range: 14.50
- Projected Weekly Range: 37.00
- Projected Monthly Range: 81.50