EU forestry explained
The European Union has close to 182 million hectares of forests covering 43% of its land area and these forest areas are one of Europe's most important renewable resources. EU forests are exceptionally diverse, with a large variety of forest types, characteristics and ownership structures. They provide multiple benefits for society and the economy whilst being a major source of biodiversity. Additionally, they are a key resource for improving quality of life and in the creation of jobs.
These societal benefits are why the EU supports forestry; in particular, it does so through the common agricultural policy (CAP). The EU also plays a role in helping EU countries to coordinate their approaches and to tackle the problems faced by forests, such as climate change. This coordination support is provided through the EU forest strategy.
Financial support for forestry in the CAP
The CAP provides financial support to rural areas and EU countries can choose to fund forestry measures through their national rural development programmes. These measures are aimed at protecting the forest, making it more resilient to climate change, safeguarding its multiple functions, including the provision of environmental services, as well as supporting investments, innovation and training to the benefit of the rural economy.
In the forestry sector, these measures can support:
- afforestation or creation of woodland;
- new agroforestry systems (where trees and agricultural crops or pastures occupy the same land);
- prevention of forest damage caused by fires, natural disasters or catastrophic events, and restoring damaged forests;
- climate resilience and environmental value of forest ecosystems;
- investments in forest technologies, mobilising, processing and marketing of forest products;
- land management contracts for forest-environment-climate services and forest conservation;
- conservation and promotion of forest genetic resources.
As part of its commitment to ensuring that public money is used effectively, the European Commission has evaluated the impact of forestry measures carried out through rural development programmes. The findings from this evaluation can be used to inform future policy.
New EU forest strategy for 2030
The new EU forest strategy for 2030 sets out how to protect and restore forests in the European Union, to ensure they continue to deliver their many services on which society depends. The Commission published a biodiversity strategy for 2030 as part of the European Green Deal, with the aim to put EU biodiversity on the path to recovery by 2030.
This new strategy sets out a policy framework to increase the quality, quantity and resilience of our forests, allowing to better plan for the forests of the future, and identifies areas for actions.
New EU forest strategy for 2030
Biodiversity strategy for 2030
EU forest MAP
The multi-annual implementation plan (Forest MAP) of the EU forest strategy provides a concrete list of measures to ensure a coherent approach to the forests and forest-based sector. It ran from 2015-20.
It specifies those involved and the required timescale for the different measures. Additionally, it sets out the expected outcomes of these measures.
It is structured according to the eight priority areas of the EU forest strategy 2014-20 and provides specific actions and target dates for each area.
Cooperation and expert advice
The standing forestry committee
The standing forestry committee (SFC) has a three-fold role:
- it acts as an advisory and management committee for specific forestry measures;
- as ad-hoc consultation forum that provides expertise in connection with the development of forest-related initiatives in the framework of various EU policies, such as those on rural development and the environment;
- it provides a space for the exchange of information amongst EU countries, and between EU countries and the Commission.
The SFC has members representing the EU countries whilst the Commission chairs the committee. Members of the committee are nominated by the governments of EU countries.
The civil dialogue group on forestry and cork
Civil dialogue groups are composed of non-governmental organisations. At a minimum, these all operate on a European wide level.
The topics for discussion by the civil dialogue group on forestry include:
- the EU forest strategy,
- rural development policy,
- the biodiversity strategy and Natura 2000,
- the challenges and opportunities for society from the bioeconomy,
- the 2030 climate and energy package,
- climate change adaptation and forest protection,
- implementation of the EU timber regulation,
- follow-up of Forest Europe and UNFF global and regional processes,
- communication on forestry issues and products.
The EU is signatory of Forest Europe, which brings together 46 European countries (not all of which are EU countries), and the EU at ministerial level, to promote cooperation on forest policies and develop common approaches on how to protect and manage them.
Research and innovation
A strategic approach to forestry research promotes a science-based contribution of multifunctional and sustainable managed forests to the achievement of the EU’s climate policies, the transition to a circular and sustainable bioeconomy as well as the preservation of biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services.
Forest related research and innovation is supported through the Horizon Europe thematic cluster on food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment. This cluster provides opportunities to enhance and balance environmental, social and economic goals and to set human economic activities on a path towards sustainability.
The Commission's approach for research and innovation in agriculture and forestry sets out to:
- increase the impact of enhanced sustainable forest management under changing climate conditions;
- enhance benefits from ecosystem services, including non-wood products;
- harness new techniques and technologies that can be used in forest management;
- diversify the income of forest owners and managers, and increase the sustainability and circularity of the forest-based economy;
- foster and share knowledge throughout the forestry sector;
- encourage social innovations that enable rural communities to contribute to the future of forestry.
Facts and figures
EUROSTAT maintains a large body of data concerning European forests and forestry.
Communication: New EU Forest Strategy for 2030


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They’re a measure of how Photoshop handles the object you’ve placed in the Photoshop file. Embedding takes the placed content and puts the entirety of it within your working file.
What the difference between linking and embedding?
The main difference between linking and embedding is where the data are stored and how they are updated after they where linked or embedded. … Your file embeds a source file: the data are now stored in your file — without a connection to the original source file.
How do I move an embedded image in Photoshop?
Select the Move tool , or hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) to activate the Move tool. Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and drag the selection you want to copy and move. When copying between images, drag the selection from the active image window into the destination image window.
Why is place embedded greyed out?
They will be grayed out if there are no open documents. And also grayed out if the open document does not support layers like a bitmap document.
How do I crop an embedded image in Photoshop?
To crop an image with the Crop command from the Photoshop menu, follow these steps:
- Choose the Rectangular marquee tool from the Tool Panel.
- Select a rectangular area on the image Selection Tools in Adobe Photoshop).
- Choose Crop from the Image menu.
What is the advantage of linking to a file instead of embedding it?
Linking places only enough information to allow Illustrator to find the original artwork for display within the image. Linking placed images rather than embedding them keeps the Illustrator document’s file size down and allows the placed artwork to be updated or changed as necessary in its own program.
What does embedding a link do?
Definition: Embedding refers to the integration of links, images, videos, gifs and other content into social media posts or other web media. Embedded content appears as part of a post and supplies a visual element that encourages increased click through and engagement.
How do you make something not a smart object in Photoshop?
Convert To Layers To Turn Off Your Smart Object
To turn off your smart object and convert it back to layers, first, right-click on your smart object. Then select ‘Convert To Layers. ‘ If you only had one layer in your smart object, it will convert itself to a single regular layer.
How do you move an object in a picture?
With the Move Me tool, you can move or copy objects in your photo or move an object to another photo. Like the Retouch tool, you can select an object with a lasso or brush tool. After you have your selected area (highlighted in red), the Move Me tool has a useful button on the right edge to optimize the selection.
How do you make an object directly editable in Photoshop?
Follow these steps to edit the contents of a Smart Object:
- In your document, select the Smart Object layer in the Layers panel.
- Choose Layer→Smart Objects→Edit Contents. …
- Click OK to close the dialog box. …
- Edit your file ad nauseam.
- Choose File→Save to incorporate the edits.
- Close your source file.
Why is warp greyed out Photoshop?
For example, if you have multiple layers selected, Warp will gray out. But if you have just one layer selected (the masked layers or the stamped layer), it will be available.
Why distort filter is disabled in Photoshop?
This is the single most common reason for the filters to be greyed out. You see, a great number of filters are from an old batch of filter effects Adobe acquired many versions back, and those filters haven’t been updated to modern standards. So, while they will work with 8-bit files, they won’t work with 16-bit files.
How do I use the graphics processor in Photoshop CC?
How do I enable Photoshop to use the graphics processor?
- Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Performance (macOS).
- In the Performance panel, make sure that Use Graphics Processor is selected in the Graphics Processor Settings section.
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How do I invert a selection in Photoshop?
Invert a selection
In a photo with an existing selection border, choose Select > Inverse. Note: You can use this command to easily select an object that appears against a solid-colored area. Select the solid color using the Magic Wand tool, and then choose Select > Inverse.
Can’t complete because of a program error?
The ‘Photoshop could not complete your request because of a program error’ error message is often caused by the generator plugin or the settings of Photoshop along with the file extension of the image files. … This could refer to the preferences of the application, or maybe even some corruption in the image file.

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THE GHOULISH URGE to pile on more content, more inanity, more everything all at once, now! came from an unusual subject recently: Maus, by Art Spiegelman. For those of you tuned out to the outrage cycle or just wisely ignoring all news until a blinding flash of light makes equals of us all, in January the McMinn County, Tennessee, Board of Education voted unanimously to remove from the eighth-grade curriculum Spiegelman’s comic book memoir of his parents’ life before, during, and after Auschwitz. The principal objections: a few damns and one naked corpse. The subtext: fear, a dash of anti-Semitism, and ignorance. The punchline: This trifecta is lately used by the righteous and the damned alike to control what can and can’t be seen. Anyhow, innumerable think pieces have been written, the cartoonist himself has spoken eloquently and movingly, and I’ve been asked to write about Maus in its cartooning context.
Not atypical for suburban Jews of my generation, I was a Holocaust-obsessed kid. Because of my father’s Polish-Jewish roots, it took up permanent residence in my mind. Having read and reread the first Maus when I was eleven or twelve, I was anxiously awaiting the sequel. In 1991, when I was fifteen, my mom took me to see Spiegelman speak about the book at the Bethesda Jewish Community Center. The room was mostly empty. As he chain-smoked all the way through his “Comix 101” slide lecture, he became a nicotine-stained Moses handing unto me the history of comics that he helped to canonize (including Milt Gross, Chester Gould, and Harvey Kurtzman) around the globe (and even in the pages of this magazine). Then, he signed my copies of Maus, Volume I and the brand new Maus, Volume II and off we went.
I’m (much) older now. When I first moved to New York, age twenty-three, I packed boxes and ran errands for Spiegelman. Later, I rejected him and his canon, then synthesized it, repaired relations, and now value his friendship and hard-earned perspective. The cartooning pantheon with which he blew my mind back in 1991 is perhaps on shakier ground than ever as new generations of cartoonists and readers have necessarily diversified its range of subjects, readers, and practitioners. Amid this welcome change, as in any canonical shift, some of the established traditions are getting lost. This is rather a shame, since (a) what now might be regarded as old hat is even richer than I thought then and (b) the ubiquity and deceptive simplicity of Maus obscures its place as a living work rooted in Spiegelman’s profound understanding of the history and practice of cartooning. There are many ways to approach Maus, but a particularly generative one is through the cartooning that informed it.
Born in 1948, Spiegelman grew up in Rego Park, Queens, in love with comics and involved in fandom, trading mimeographed fanzines with a generation or two of future cartoonists and historians. One of his great loves was EC Comics, which from 1950 to 1955 spewed publications aimed at the teenage and college market, even readers in their twenties. Harvey Kurtzman, a Jewish kid from Brooklyn, wrote and storyboarded some of the best (and the young Spiegelman’s favorite) comics about the moral hazards of war in Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, and most importantly, the anarchic, stall-kicking Mad, which Spiegelman described in a 1995 interview as “an urban junk collage that said, ‘Pay attention! The mass media are lying to you, including this comic book!’ I think [Kurtzman’s] Mad was more important than pot and LSD in shaping the generation that protested the Vietnam War.” EC’s output was both sophisticated and lurid—consciously aiming for higher ideals yet still fundamentally with a whiff of the lumpen, the ghetto, the Jew.
Spiegelman especially admired Master Race (EC, 1955), a brilliant eight-page story drawn with spiky modernist bravado by Bernard Krigstein from a script by Al Feldstein. The story is simple: A concentration camp survivor and a concentration camp guard encounter one another on the subway. But the execution remains masterful: Memory, time, terror, and finally, a confrontation and physical chase are broken down into panel units that contract and expand keyed to the time, space, and emotional tenor of the action. Spiegelman wrote a college term paper about it in 1967, then updated it with coauthors John Benson and David Kasakove and published a new version, along with responses by Krigstein, in the sixth issue of Benson’s superb fanzine Squa Tront (1975). That essay (hell, the entire issue) is a highwater mark of comics criticism. We’re all still (or should be) trying to top it—even Spiegelman, who returned to Krigstein in a 2002 essay in The New Yorker.
Like a bunch of other EC-loving kids, Spiegelman began working in underground comics in the late 1960s, publishing in the East Village Other alongside Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, and Spain Rodriguez. Underground comics facilitated and encouraged the kind of radical experimentation Krigstein and Kurtzman dreamt of, but were denied by the parameters of what was essentially an industry for children. But once the underground press placed the funnies right next to Allen Ginsberg, and Crumb proved that the lowly comic book could be a container for an expanded, fucked-up consciousness and sold to heads across the country, a world of potential opened—autobiography, confession, advocacy, psychedelia, literary fiction. Spiegelman first drew a three-page demo version of Maus for future Ghost World and Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s 1972 one-off animal rights comic book anthology Funny Aminals. Spiegelman was ambitious for the medium early on: He coedited the progressively more adventurous and influential comics anthologies Short Order, Arcade, and RAW, the latter the vehicle for Maus’s serialization from 1980 to 1991.
His initial intention for the book-length Maus was to create the first emotionally layered and carefully constructed work of literary nonfiction in comics form. And while his was not the earliest so-called graphic novel—there were other longform comics, there was even a (too) beautiful anti-Nazi comic by the French cartoonist Calvo—but Spiegelman met his own criteria and in so doing established a paradigm for the medium. It’s important to understand Maus as, yes, an anomalous work in its scope and execution, but also as a work that came out of a cartooning world that is still little understood.
Maus works so well because it communicates directly and concisely, and because it doesn’t seek to elevate the form so much as get down in the muck with it. Spiegelman learned clever, no-nonsense communication as a young commercial artist (Crumb did much the same in the greeting card industry) at Topps Bubble-Gum, where he helped birth Wacky Packages and the Garbage Pail Kids. As a cartoonist he studied the techniques from the masters themselves, most notably Kurtzman, whom he befriended. He took all this training, understood it had potential to generate more than trading cards and gags (both noble pursuits), but essentially stayed underground in spirit—he liked to fuck with his audience and the debased origins of his form while expanding both.
Most of the staging and characters in the first decade (1895–1905 or so) of newspaper comics were rooted in minstrel shows and vaudeville, and caricature as a form was built on exaggerating the features of all ethnic types. The experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs unlocked this idea for Spiegelman in the early 1970s by explaining that Mickey Mouse was basically Al Jolson. Further, some of the best comics of the 1940s and ’50s were written and drawn by a former Disney story man named Carl Barks. His comics had pathos, cynicism, visual detail, and richly delineated characters. He injected new life into such highly recognizable ciphers as Donald Duck and his nephews so that he could unspool the personal stories he needed to tell.
Spiegelman knew all of this and realized that by rendering his characters as cats, mice, and other animals, he could simultaneously explore the history of his chosen medium, tweak the visual taboos, and offer readers a path into a difficult subject. It works because his drawings are precisely composed but roughly drawn—bringing warmth to his Krigstein and Jacobs–influenced structuralist approach—and his writing wry, knowing, and self-critical. His book emerged from a horrific story and a dank, permissive place. Like Mad and many of the best comics, it bores right into its readers, and in its engagement with difficult histories and genres carries with it the pungent (read: Jewish) and rough sensibility of the best and most essential art.
Dan Nadel is a 2021–2022 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His exhibition “Hard-Ass Friday Nite: The Art of Spain Rodriguez,” is currently on view at Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York.

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Tucked away in a long list of revisions recently reviewed and passed by City Council is an item regarding required parking minimums for downtown developers, and here’s why it’s a big deal.
Parking minimums are ordinances put in place by a municipality that require buildings to provide a set number of parking spaces in order to be erected. The frowned upon side effects of parking minimums are that developments are often more expensive because they are needed to build a larger parking deck, and outside of big events most parking lots are already underutilized.
A more modern belief in urban planning circles is that parking minimums may actually undervalue our urban land by pushing away from more desirable uses like housing and retail and emphasizing the automobile over other means of transportation.
The Planning Division filed the suggestion to remove parking minimums in Orlando’s central business district in May 2022, where it was approved and then passed by City Council at the recent August 15 meeting.
“This is also an important aspect of our planning as the downtown becomes more of a multi-modal environment where walking and other modes of transportation are encouraged over automobiles. One of the potential opportunities of this change is that certain forms of housing that do not require parking (micro-units, shared housing, etc.) can potentially reduce the overall cost of housing in the central business district and allow renters to experience a car-free lifestyle. Additionally, tenants can use the City’s parking facilities if they really need to rent a space.
-ASHLEY PAPAGNI, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, CITY OF ORLANDO
The City will also modify the boundaries of the downtown parking area by dividing it into two separate areas. They will also get rid of the requirement for developers to contribute to a fund when they provide more than the maximum allowed number of spaces.
Changes to standards for driveways, dimensions of parking spaces, design and screening requirements for parking garages are also being revised.

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Previously we have seen MuscleNerd confirming the new version of Red Sn0w for untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak. The iPhone hacker has now updates regarding downgrade of 6.15.00 baseband on iPhone 3GS and 3G after the ultra snow operation. MuscleNerd said that the work on downgrade for 6.15.00 will not be considered until the release of iPhone 4 baseband 2.10.04 unlock.
The developer said this in a reply to a follower on Twitter. Check out the conversation below:
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Previously we have seen ultrasn0w 1.2 released for iOS 4.2.1 to unlock iPhone 3G and 3GS. The unlock requires you to upgrade to iPad’s baseband 6.15.00 for it to work. Unfortunately many problems were reported by the users who used this procedure. So we are expecting that the downgrade of it will solve the issue.
We have already reported that iPhone 4 baseband 2.10.04 unlock is coming before the mid of January 2011. The news has been confirmed by famous baseband hacker Shreif Hashim.
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Governor & EBR mayor-president attend infrastructure bill signing at White House
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill signing will be well represented today by Louisiana elected officials that include Governor John Bel Edwards and East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome.
Broome posted on social media Monday morning of her invite to the Washington for the final act of the bill that was of much debate between the chambers of congress.
"This is going to mean, not only will they see transformation take place with roads, bridges, broad band... They will also see jobs created," Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome.
"I'd much rather be in our position with people directly involved... It looks good that we could get even more funding coming our way," David Zoller with BRAC said. "This is going to revolutionize the way we can transport people and move around the capital area."
The state is expected to get around $7.2 billion of the trillion dollar deal.
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Usually it’s the Gold Coast that makes all V8 teams dive for spare cars. But this time it was Bathurst – so who is in what?
CARNAGE across the race weekend at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 has left a range of V8 Supercar teams hustling to have spare cars ready for next weekend’s Castrol EDGE Gold Coast 600.
It’s ironic given that normally it’s the Gold Coast and the carnage in its concrete canyon that causes teams to wheel out spare cars for the following round!
Naturally, V8 Sleuth is the best qualified source for this style of story, so there’s the breakdown of who is doing what for the next round of the championship in terms of spare and repaired cars.
* David Reynolds and Dean Canto will take over the FPR spare chassis (FPR 1215) for the Gold Coast – it’s the same car they used to win there last year and has been a spare this year, used by Chaz Mostert at Albert Park and Super Black Racing at Bathurst.
Reynolds crashed his regular chassis in qualifying at Bathurst and, while repaired for the race, needs some further love.
* The Holden Racing Team will move Garth Tander back into the original Car of the Future chassis the team built in 2012 – WR 016.
It was raced in the first half of the 2014 season by Tim Slade before being damaged at Sydney Motorsport Park and since repaired.
Slade’s damaged Supercheap Auto car (which is Tander’s car from earlier this year) will be repaired but was heavily damaged at Mount Panorama.
HRT Managing Director Adrian Burgess tells V8 Sleuth the three-round old Tander/Luff chassis crashed at Bathurst will eventually be repaired to be available for 2015.
The team have another new chassis – WR022 – in build due for November this year.
* Lee Holdsworth’s Erebus Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG went for its second wild ride in as many rounds at Bathurst and won’t be on the Gold Coast.
He will in fact debut a brand new chassis on the Gold Coast – which started life as a Falcon!
The chassis was built as Stone Brothers Racing’s last Falcon in 2012 and given a brief test two years ago before being pulled apart and retained as a spare chassis by Erebus Motorsport.
The Gold Coast will be its actual racing debut.
* Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport will move into another Commodore for the Gold Coast after its regular chassis was damaged in a crash with Tim Blanchard at the helm – a by-product of damage sustained in the crash that sent Holdsworth roiling at Griffins Bend.
The team will utilise the VF Commodore raced last season by Dean Fiore. It has been in storage in Queensland and will be prepared by LDM to return to the track for the GC600.

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American Shaman, a store that sells hemp-based oils, lotions, capsules and other hemp products is scheduled to open Friday at 1503 Galvin Road S.
Among its products is Cannabidiol oil, popularly known as CBD oil, which has been at the forefront of national efforts to legalize medicinal marijuana.
Medical authorities remain skeptical about the touted benefits of marijuana- or hemp-based medicinal products, although a growing body of anecdotal evidence from people claiming to have benefited from CBD oil has kept the issue alive.
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Within the first minutes of the operation was when Chris was fatally shot. Those two insurgents who were seen leaving the compound, I'm satisifed that one of those was responsible for Chris's death and also Franco's. Chris died from the result of a devastating gunshot wound to the head.
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Pentagon wastes $1bn worth of ammo due to outdated reporting system
Somehow the bullets and missiles that could still be used end up in a pile slated for destruction, and because a single weapons arsenal database has still not been worked out, an estimated $1.2 billion pile of ammo will go down the drain. So says a Government Accountability Office report obtained by USA Today.
The development of the database has been in the works for years, but different services have their own information systems, which to this day can’t share that information directly. The only department that has adopted a new system by the Pentagon is the Army. The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are all using outdated ones.
Democrat Senator and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Tom Carper told USA Today that “there is a huge opportunity to save millions, if not billions of dollars if the [Pentagon] can make some common-sense improvements to how it manages ammunition.”
The senator added that “despite years of effort, the Army, Navy and Air Force still don't have an efficient process for doing something as basic as sharing excess bullets. This Government Accountability Office (GAO) report clearly shows that our military's antiquated systems lead to millions of dollars in wasteful ammunition purchases.”
The Pentagon has agreed that a need to automate the inventory reporting system should take center stage in future budgets. Although the study only covers peace-time arsenal accounting, one anonymous top military officer noted in an interview with USA Today that there were frequent shortages of 9mm handgun and .50-caliber machine gun ammo in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Among other things, the GAO report has found that even after annual meetings between the various military services, which attempt to redistribute the unused stockpile by sharing surplus data, ammunition that didn’t get discussed automatically gets the axe and is added to the pile for destruction. By comparison to the $1 billion wasted, the $70 million saved appears negligible.
To put things into perspective, the Army’s missile stockpile alone comprises $14 billion of the Department of Defense’s total of $70 billion in ammo under management.
A number of other shortfalls, such as that the Army only last year began to report on its unused missiles, adds greatly to the billion-dollar waste. The Army’s choice not to report on a bulk of its surplus ammunition results in other services buying fresh. Its reporting fails to mention ammo left over and stored from previous years. As authors point out, the study was on the eve of being released when other potential sources of bad information emerged. So those losses will not have been included.
Furthermore, tedious bureaucratic measures to do with sharing procedures result in computer orders for ammo made to the Army having to be entered into the system manually, raising the risk of clerical error.
In sum, the report appears to place much of the blame on the Army brushing everyone away with claims that they don’t have enough surplus ammo left over for redistribution annually. But without the Army’s active participation in this, “other services [spend] additional funds to procure missiles that are already unused and usable in the Army’s stockpile.”
The Army, following Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s and the GAO’s recommendations, has promised to do better and has already begun increasingly to share surplus ammo information with other services starting March. Previously, the service had not been contributing to the annual report at all.


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The Eid-ul-Zuha festivities proceeded in the Kashmir valley for the second continuous day on Thursday.
A merry air won with individuals heading off to the places of their companions and relatives to expand Eid welcome.
A decent surge of local people, particularly youths, was seen at the Mughal Gardens. Individuals were additionally observed appropriating conciliatory meat as a major aspect of the Eid-ul-Zuha custom. Be that as it may, a large portion of the shops stayed close and just thin open transport utilized in the city.
Individuals in Kashmir observe Eid-ul-Zuha for three days and the celebration starts with congregational supplications early in the day of the principal day. After the Eid petitions, individuals generally forfeit dairy cattle to respect Prophet Ibrahim’s ability to forfeit his child before Allah.
As it is elusive butchers on the principal day, some offer forfeit on the second day of Eid. Afterward, conciliatory meat is dispersed among the friends and relatives alongside the poor. Eid welcome are likewise traded while ‘eidi’ (cash) is dispersed among kids. Aside from non-veggie lover sustenance, individuals relish bread shop items.
In the interim, a few private schools have reported a three-day occasion.


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Philadelphia got an unwelcome shoutout from President Trump at Tuesday night's first Presidential debate, the kind of saying that sticks around.
"Bad things happen in Philadelphia."
Actually, the whole quote is this: "As you know today there was a big problem," Trump said. "In Philadelphia, they went in to watch. They are called poll watchers. They are very safe, very nice thing. They were thrown out. They weren't allowed to watch. You know why? Because bad things happen in Philadelphia. Bad things."
Earlier in the day, the president had tweeted that poll watchers were not allowed into "voting places" in Philadelphia.
Actually, seven locations that opened in Philadelphia Tuesday were not polls or voting places. They are satellite election offices, where city residents can register to vote, pick up an application for a mail-in ballot and complete and drop off that ballot.
Those ballots are kept until they are allowed to be opened with all other mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, whether mailed in or dropped off at ballot drop boxes.
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"The Satellite Offices are not Polling Places," said Nick Custodio, deputy commissioner in the office of Philadelphia Commissioner Lisa Deeley. That office oversees elections in the city.
"Poll watcher certificates have not been issued for any individuals for anything other than poll watching activities on Election Day at Polling Places," Custodio's statement said. "Individuals who are not seeking to receive services from a Satellite Office are not permitted to be there for other purposes. This is particularly important in the current environment as City buildings and offices remain closed to the public due to COVID-19."
That said, the satellite voting locations did have problems Tuesday. At all seven, a technical issue halted operations there for several hours. The problem was a state system that was down for some time.
By 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, six of the seven locations were back online, Managing Director Tumar Alexander said.
"It's the first day, so it's not uncommon for tech to go down on day 1," Mayor Jim Kenney said.
Tuesday morning at Temple University's Liacouras Center, City Council President Darrell Clarke filled out his ballot and filed it in the drop box.
He was one of two people who filed their ballot before the system issue stopped more ballots from coming in.
The satellite locations are a new option for voters in what is already an unusual election year.
“This is all new,” said Commissioner Lisa Deeley, chair of the board of city commissioners that handle elections in the city and approved the use of the satellite sites. “Every piece of this is new so we’re asking people in Philadelphia to please be patient and recognize it’s your first time doing this - it’s our first time too.”
The sites around the city are at schools, City Hall and the Liacouras Center at Temple University, with more sites expected later.
At the City Hall site NBC10 visited for a preview on Monday, hand sanitizer is stationed at the door. Deeley said someone will be there to remind voters to wear a mask. At a nearby table, mail-in ballot applications were available, though voters can also print them out at home. To fill out the form, voters will need to know the last four numbers of their social security number or their Pennsylvania driver’s license or ID. Voters can also register to vote at the site if they have not already done so.
Deeley said Philadelphia voters who already applied for a mail-in ballot are asked not to come to the sites to get a ballot, but instead wait for their ballot to arrive at home. Once the voter fills out that ballot, they can put it in the mail or drop it off at one of the satellite sites.
Queues were set up in the hallway with social distancing reminders on the floor.
When voters reach the elections office, they will hand in their application and receive a printed ballot, which they can fill out at a small table with privacy walls. Both at home and at the sites, Deeley reminded voters they need to use both envelopes, putting their ballot first in a white privacy envelope, then putting that envelope inside an outer envelope provided, and signing and filling out the information requested on that outer envelope.
Deeley said the ballots will be held in a secure location until election officials are allowed to open and begin counting them, which under current Pennsylvania law is not until the morning of Election Day. Governor Tom Wolf and some county elections officials, including Deeley, have urged the state legislature officials to begin the process of dealing with mail-in ballots earlier to speed up the counting process, but no deal has been reached.
The satellite offices give voters another choice for how to participate in the November elections.
Brooke Stello from South Philadelphia said she plans to vote by mail this year.
“I feel safest at home so I’m going to take those precautions,” Stello said.
But other voters, including Melicia Edmunds, said they feel more comfortable voting at the polls on Election Day.
“I’m just confident - more confident - that things won’t be mixed up and lost. That they’ll be valid and secure,” Edmunds said.
Johnnie Bradley said he plans to vote in person on Election Day, but offered:
“I think whichever way you do it, as long as you vote.”
The locations will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
At these locations, voters can:
- Register to vote (if this is your first time to register, click here for information)
- Request a mail-in ballot in-person, receive it, vote, and return it
- Drop off already voted mail-in ballots
- Get a replacement ballot if they have lost their absentee or mail-in ballot (though that service will not be available until Oct. 6th, so it will not duplicating ballots already being delivered in the mail)
Here is a map of the locations:


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After students and alumni spoke out about campus radio station WERS reducing resources for news coverage, journalism professors met with station management to discuss giving undergraduates more reporting opportunities.
Professors and station managers will try this fall to reintroduce student-produced news packages to the station in the afternoon programming, according to Tim Riley, an assistant professor in the journalism department.
Paul Niwa, associate professor and interim chair of the journalism department, said he has been hearing from students at WERS this year that there has been about a lack of substantive news stories and diminishing student opportunities for student participation and leadership.
An initial meeting took place on March 26 and was attended by Niwa, Riley, WERS General Manager Jack Casey, Vice President for Information Technology William Gilligan, and three other journalism professors. The group looked at the history of the relations between the department and the station and discussed how they wanted to move forward, according to Riley.
Niwa said in an interview that, in the past decade, he remembers WERS would air morning updates, a 30-minute afternoon program, and long-form student radio work. According to Niwa, there was student leadership at every level, and they were given the opportunity to determine programming. He said the radio station today looks drastically different.
Riley said that in several journalism department meetings, professors discussed establishing a process for getting audio packages students create in classes on air at WERS.
“There has been that pipeline in the past,” Riley said. “For whatever reason, those things have slipped away. We want to figure out how to get them running again.”
Riley said he has met with Casey once since the initial meeting and will continue to be a liaison between the department and the station.
He said that he wants to make clear to students how to pitch stories and get packages on either reinstated afternoon news sessions or the Sunday morning public affairs show, You Are Here.
“We want to establish clear guidelines from here,” Riley said.
Casey said that he is looking forward to working with students over the summer to create more programs for daily news.
“I appreciate [the journalism department’s] willingness to meet, and their commitment to the ongoing education of our students,” Casey wrote in an email to the Beacon.
Riley said that he has also been discussing with Casey how to get more exposure for You Are Here by posting segments on SoundCloud, an audio sharing platform, and on a new, dedicated website for the program. He also talked about creating a podcast to be distributed on iTunes.
Riley said that he thinks he and Casey have common goals.
While Niwa said he supports WERS’ initiative to become financially self-sustaining, he said he doesn’t agree with the station eliminating paid student positions, or hiring professional employees and marketing consultants.
Niwa said that he hopes these conversations with WERS will prompt other departments and student groups to ask questions about the purposes of other campus organizations.
“Opportunities for education should be across the college,” Niwa said.
News Editor Dina Kleiner, who is also a reporter at WERS, did not contribute to this report.


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First of all.. big hugs to my friend Lucrecia who brought over this gorgeous dinner on Thursday night!! You are such a lovely dear friend, love you girl!!
I have been participating in the Forever and Always Cybercrop and I'm loving it. Lovely girls and great challenges!! The first LO I did ( on Friday night) was challenge 2. The criteria was to think of a box of chocolates.. (not that hard lol) so a white, brown or black background, clean lines with lots of squares and bling (the shiny wrappers). I don't do too many clean lines and squares so this was a nice challenge for me... This is what I did.
Then last night (Saturday) I participated in the "recipe for scrapping" challenge. Sonia gave us the ingredients and the recipe on how to do the LO, but no pictures so it was sometimes a bit of a guess what she menat.. which was good. So I ended up with this LO (I added a few personal touches like every one else did).
While I was scrapping I also had a lovely online chat to my friend Liz. Always nice to catch up!
Last night Allan's friend Darrin came over with his girls for dinner (and the footy) and I made this maroccan chicken dish from Stephanie Aleanders "the cooks companion" cookbook. It was just delicious!! I borrowed the book from the library but am very tempted to buy it somewhere. It's such a big book with loads of recipes, very good!!
I often have a look where the people come from that read my blog and am so happy to see that they come from literally all over the world!! I would love you all to say hello!! :)
Hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend.


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Most frequently googled subjects that bring people here:
~ "My sister's panties" and variations on that theme (from when I was sewing those Hello Kitty V-Strings)
~ "Bidibodi Bidubu lyrics" Let it die already!
~ various MuNKi pictures, which I find odd, because I don't hotlink them (post the pics on my site by putting their addy in the IMG SRC tag) since that is stealing bandwidth, and a big no-no. I just make a clickable link that redirects to their page, and maybe sends you down a fun bunny trail at another site. So why does Google direct them to my blog?
And now there's a new one:
"Howie Mandel and Naked Pics"


Week 8 of the 2021 FCS season is here.
All year, Senior FCS Analyst Sam Herder will give his thoughts and score predictions on the week’s biggest games. This weekend features four ranked vs. ranked games and some potential playoff elimination games.
Let’s predict some scores.
Spring 2021: 53-25
No. 20 Northern Iowa at No. 6 South Dakota State
UNI has had some big wins in Brookings in recent memory. The Panthers beat SDSU 38-18 in 2017 when the Jacks are ranked No. 7. And they beat 7-seeded SDSU in the second round of the 2019 playoffs.
The Panthers need another huge victory Saturday. At 3-3 overall and games against ranked SIU and Mo State remaining, UNI is in playoff mode after last week’s 34-21 home loss to South Dakota.
SDSU had its wake-up call two weeks ago in home loss to SIU. The Jacks are still 5-1 with an FBS win and have scored 40 or more points in every game. I think they remind the FCS they are still one of the best teams in the country.
Prediction: SDSU 38-17
No. 7 James Madison at No. 23 Delaware
The Dukes have owned a lot of the FCS online chatter this week. And it has nothing to do with the 2021 squad. JMU looks to be on its way out of the FCS with interest from the Sun Belt and C-USA. How much of a distraction has that been for the players?
There’s no way the players can ignore it and aren’t curious what the future holds for them and what league they’ll be a part of in a couple of years. So there is some level of distraction, but I don’t think enough for Delaware to pull off the upset.
Losers of two straight and without starting QB Nolan Henderson, the Blue Hens won’t be able to muster much offensively against a solid JMU defense. Delaware has some good defensive players as well but allowed 34 points last week to Stony Brook. If JMU can finish drives with touchdowns and not field goals, the Dukes should roll.
Prediction: JMU 28-10
Jacksonville State at No. 1 Sam Houston
This is a key game for both teams. SHSU needs convincing wins to show the playoff committee it is deserving of a Top 2 seed. And JSU, who is 3-3 overall with a P5 win but 2-3 against the FCS, needs to start putting together a playoff-worthy resume.
The Gamecocks and Bearkats had two weeks to prepare. I trust SHSU’s coaches to put together a better game plan, be able to adjust in-game, and the players execute at a higher level.
SHSU plays very well at home, and the last time JSU played a ranked opponent on the road resulted in a 31-6 loss at then-No. 20 Kennesaw State in early October.
Prediction: SHSU 34-21
No. 17 Missouri State at No. 3 North Dakota State
NDSU’s defense is playing at a historic rate, allowing just 7.2 points per game. The Bison haven’t played a scoring offense that is currently in the Top 48 of the FCS. A good test comes this weekend, though, with Mo State’s No. 21 scoring offense, averaging 33.5 PPG.
The Bison cornerbacks haven’t been stressed too much yet against standout wide receivers, besides UNI’s Isaiah Weston, who had five catches for 181 yards and one TD. He probably would have had more if Theo Day was a bit more accurate that day.
Mo State’s offense can get rolling once it heats up with a strong downfield passing attack. The Bears throw for 281.5 yards per game behind the strong arm of Jason Shelley and his athletic group of WRs. If the Bears can hit on some big plays early and take the crowd out of it, this could turn into an interesting game. But I’m not ready to pick against the Bison just yet. The NDSU offense will have its chances for big plays as well.
Prediction: NDSU 38-24
No. 18 Rhode Island at No. 5 Villanova
This looked like it could have been the de facto CAA championship game until Rhody suffered a bizarre 28-7 loss last week at Towson. The Rams are now 5-1 overall and 3-1 in the CAA.
A week after beating JMU, Nova had a scare against winless UAlbany last Saturday in a 17-10 win. The Wildcats remain undefeated against the FCS, including a 3-0 mark in the CAA.
Rhody’s loss has cooled expectations for the team, especially since its one quality win was against a shorthanded Delaware team. The Rams are still likely a playoff team. But to me, the CAA is a two-horse conference with Nova and JMU a tier above everyone else.
Prediction: Villanova 31-17
Weber State at No. 2 Eastern Washington
EWU’s offense is playing at about as high of a level as you can, scoring 54.0 points per game. The scoring defenses the Eagles have faced haven’t been great, though. Yes, they did take on the No. 11 scoring defense Montana, but the Griz are 104th in passing defense.
Weber State has the third-best passing defense in the FCS, allowing 151.5 yards per game. The Wildcats are also playing with their backs against the wall. At 2-4, they need to win out to make the playoffs. If EWU wins out, it’s in line for a Top 2 playoff seed.
The Eagles have three straight tough opponents, hosting Montana State and going to UC Davis after playing Weber and having a bye next week. MSU and UC Davis are ranked in the Top 10. These games are where the Eagles prove they are the best team in the FCS.
The Wildcats have the defense to not get the score run up on them. Its offense just isn’t there to keep the game within striking distance. EWU will get its points, and shouldn’t have a problem holding Weber’s offense to under 24 points.
Prediction: EWU 35-21
Colgate at Holy Cross
This is a home game for Holy Cross in Worcester, but it will be played at Polar Park, home to the local Minor League Baseball team.
Colgate is 2-5 overall and 2-0 in the Patriot League standings. Those two wins are against the bottom teams in the conference, Georgetown and Lehigh. The Raiders can show they are a threat in the league with a win at the defending champs Holy Cross, who is 4-2 overall with an FBS win and is 1-0 in the standings. If we want to do a score comparison, which can be dangerous, Colgate beat Georgetown 28-21 and Holy Cross beat Georgetown 48-14.
Holy Cross has improved offensively compared to the spring. It starts with dual-threat QB Matthew Sluka, who has thrown for six TDs and rushed for six scores. Colgate’s offense is lacking explosiveness, averaging just 14 points per game, although the Raiders scored 30 and 28 points against its two Patriot League opponents.
Prediction: Holy Cross 28-10
Duquesne at Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart is the defending NEC champ. Duquense is showing it’s looking to take that crown with a 4-1 overall start and an FBS win. The Dukes are 2-0 in the standings, and Sacred Heart is 2-1.
Sacred Heart’s All-American RB Julius Chestnut has been out with an injury, but Malik Grant has stepped up big time, rushing for 853 yards and five TDs on 155 attempts. The 853 yards on the ground lead the FCS. The Pioneers aren’t putting many points up, though, averaging 16.3 PPG.
Duquesne is on a four-game winning streak and defends the run well, allowing 110.2 rushing yards a game. After a 39-34 scare against Bryant, and then a bye, I think the Dukes come out strong and stay unbeaten in the NEC.
Prediction: Duquesne 24-10
No. 14 ETSU at Furman
ETSU suffered its first loss last week at Chattanooga, moving to 6-1 overall with an FBS win and 3-1 in the SoCon. The Buccaneers are joined by VMI and Mercer at 3-1 in the standings. Furman and Chattanooga are 2-1 in SoCon play.
Just a week ago, ETSU was being talked about as a potential seed. Now, with back-to-back road games and Furman on a two-game winning streak, the Bucs aren’t even a playoff lock. This week will be a challenging game, and they still have games coming against VMI and Mercer. The SoCon is looking like a two-bid league, possibly three if other conferences really beat up on each other.
Furman’s lone SoCon loss was an ugly 24-3 result against Mercer. Mercer just had an ugly 45-7 loss to VMI. VMI’s lone loss is to rival The Citadel, 35-24. ETSU beat The Citadel 48-21 earlier this season and Furman beat The Citadel 24-14.
See what we’re doing here in the SoCon? By the season’s end, teams will have knocked each other off so much that there will probably be two playoff-worthy resumes. With a P5 win against Vanderbilt, ETSU is still in a good spot to make the bracket, whether it be as an auto-bid or at-large bid. Getting a win against Furman is key in that. ETSU’s offense steps up after a tough showing against UTC.
Prediction: ETSU 31-27
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