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Bookings for motorbike track days are up by 49% in June compared to 12 months ago, as lockdown restrictions are slowly eased, reports TrackDays.co.uk, a leading track day provider.
The surge back to the track also shows no sign of slowing down in July, with many motorbike track day events already fully booked.
Dan Jones, operations manager at TrackDays.co.uk, said: “Each event can take between 90 and 120 bikes and we’ve got almost 40 events in July alone, so you can see just how busy it is.”
“The huge surge in bookings shows how keen our customers are to get back on the track following months of lockdown. I’ve no doubt that the summer months overall will be very busy as riders look to make up for the lost track time and get some much-needed practice, so my advice is to book early to secure a space.”
Circuits available for motorbike track days with TrackDays.co.uk include Oulton Park, Mallory Park, Snetterton, Brands Hatch, Cadwell Park and Lydden Hill, to name but a few.
Dan added: “With the possibility that road traffic levels could surpass that of pre-lockdown, then a motorbike track day at a race circuit provides a good way to escape the stresses caused by the increasing traffic congestion.”
“Longer term, we also expect motorbike track days to continue to rise significantly in popularity, as recent research shows an increase in people looking to buy motorbikes to avoid using public transport. These new owners will soon discover that a track day is one of the best ways to see what their machine is capable of.”
Head over to our dedicated Bike Track Days page now, where you can view the full list of forthcoming available dates to book using our regularly updated calendar.


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Overprotective Golden Retrievers Go Swimming After Owner – Precious! (VIDEO)
Some dogs love their owner to the point of overprotection, as a dog will not only look out for his loved one, he’ll straight-up follow him wherever he goes…even if that means diving into the water to be with him.
In this precious video, these Golden Retrievers go diving after their owner after several anxious-sounding barks fail to get their owner’s attention. Without proper context, what follows looks like a chase scene straight out of some sort of adorable horror movie, with the owner swimming like hell to get away from this pack of dogs on his heels. But instead, it’s just cute, as the dogs loyally paddle behind their owner. With animal friends like these, who needs human friends? Watch the video below via Viral Hog:
If you liked this video and want to see more adorable doggy antics, watch this video of sweet little husky pups annoying their mom!

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The San Juan Preservation Trust (SJPT) was established in 1979 to promote conservation efforts in the San Juan Islands. Throughout the late 1970s, island residents had become increasingly alarmed that the very essence of what made the islands such a special place was rapidly being destroyed by unplanned and unregulated development. Houses intruded on formerly pristine shorelines, farmlands were subdivided for residences, luxury developments were planned for mountainsides overlooking the Salish Sea. The Nature Conservancy had undertaken some conservation in the islands, but a more local, ongoing effort was needed. SJPT began by assisting landowners to preserve property through conservation easements, but as the Trust grew, so did the scale of successful conservation efforts. Cooperative undertakings and special fundraising campaigns enabled major conservation projects such as the Turtleback Mountain Preserve on Orcas Island. The Trust has offered lecture series, visits to preserves, wildflower walks, and numerous other activities to engage islanders and increase understanding of the relevance and benefits of conservation. By 2019, SJPT had permanently protected more than 300 properties, 45 miles of shoreline, 27 miles of trails, and 18,000 acres of land on 20 islands.
The Need for Conservation
Situated in the far Pacific Northwest between mainland Washington and British Columbia's Vancouver Island, the San Juan archipelago has long had a reputation for its scenic beauty, from rugged shorelines and rocky islets to wind-swept open prairies and meadows, wetlands sheltering diverse wildlife, and quiet forests. For millennia Coast Salish Native Americans visited and established villages in the islands, harvesting the abundant salmon, oysters, and clams in local waters, raising woolly dogs, and cultivating camas, onions, tiger lilies, and other crops. Non-Native settlers arrived in the mid-nineteenth century, and the small and slowly growing population fished and farmed, worked in the lime industry, and logged the islands for generations. Visitors arrived, first by steamer and later by ferry and airplane, to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere, varied and remarkable scenery, and numerous recreational opportunities. As early as 1885, just a dozen years after San Juan County was formed, Washington territorial governor Watson C. Squire (1838-1926) noted that the San Juans were establishing a reputation for their scenic appeal and fast becoming a popular summer-resort area. In 1970 the county's population was only 3,856, but a rapidly developing demand for vacation homes and expanded tourism resulted in a surge to 7,838 a decade later. The first condominium project was approved in 1972 despite local opposition, and by this time most of the larger islands had seen at least some development or incursion.
Observing the changes, many residents were concerned about the increasingly rapid loss of scenic areas and vistas. One group of islanders, assisted by The Nature Conservancy, a national conservation organization founded in 1951, created a San Juan Islands conservation committee to develop long-range plans for local conservation undertakings. When a 269-acre parcel on Waldron Island, considered "a complete world of island ecology, going from beach to marsh, to meadow to forest" (Roush and Margolis), came on the market for development in 1971, local residents sought The Nature Conservancy's help, and the Conservancy was able to act quickly, purchasing the site for $255,000. In ensuing years, the Conservancy expanded holdings in the islands and in 1975 undertook a study to identify those areas in the San Juans having the greatest ecological and environmental significance and to inform future decision-making on priority conservation efforts.
The conservation movement was gaining momentum and public recognition in the 1970s. Many states had passed legislation authorizing the formation of land trusts, both governmental and private, that could develop legal agreements, called conservation easements, with property owners to permanently limit how lands could be altered or used. Landowners retain many rights including continuing to use (farming or harvesting timber, for example) or to sell the property or gift it to heirs. However, the restrictions agreed upon by a trust and a property owner, specifically tailored for each individual transaction, continue in force permanently, through time and change of ownership. The enabling legislation in Washington state in 1971 stated that the purpose of easements was "to protect, preserve, maintain, improve, restore, limit the future use of, or conserve for open space purposes any land or improvement of the land" (Liegel), and authorized easements to protect not only natural habitat or air and water quality but also archaeological or historical resources. While land trusts were becoming more common in the eastern United States, few had been established in the West.
As the decade closed, The Nature Conservancy focused less on the San Juans, and conservation work in the islands faltered. At the same time, several property owners approached the Board of County Commissioners concerning possible protection of their lands against further development or division for sale. However, the majority of the commissioners were not, at the time, in favor of taking on such a long-term commitment. On Orcas Island Linda Henry, a former county commissioner, community activist, and conservation proponent, began to investigate the feasibility of creating a land trust in the San Juan Islands to continue the work begun by the Conservancy. Henry, together with Orcas resident Pamela Loew and San Francisco lawyer Frank S. Bayley II (who had a summer home on the island) and his sons Thomas, Frank III, and Douglas, decided to establish a private land trust to ensure islanders could "reserve the extraordinary beauty and unique way of life of the San Juans" (20th Anniversary Report ...). Frank Bayley II filed the legal documents to create the San Juan Preservation Trust, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, in April 1979. As Tim Seifert, Executive Director of the Trust from 2002 to 2018, observed, this "loose band of Orcas islanders without any conservation experience had a lot of guts to think they could make this work" (Macdonald).
The Trust Gets Underway
Not much was accomplished that first year, but by 1980 new members from several islands had joined the board of trustees and determined efforts were underway to get the Trust up and running. A Laird Norton Foundation grant of $10,000 provided seed money for operations. Board member Wendy Mickle of Lopez Island, who was researching information on land-trust operations, agreed to become the volunteer executive director, and the Trust operated out of her living room. People who contacted The Nature Conservancy about land they wanted to preserve in the San Juans were referred to the new organization.
Among the islanders most eager to have the Trust fully functioning were Ernest (1910-1991) and Dodie (1922-2012) Gann of San Juan Island. The Ganns (he an adventurer, sailor, pilot, and author of popular books; she also an adventurer and accomplished pilot, and a U.S. Ski Hall of Fame member) had, since the 1960s, owned one of the largest agricultural properties in the islands and wanted to establish protection for a bald eagle nesting site on their land. The 38-acre forested tract was a gift to the Trust in 1980, its first official transaction. Dodie Gann, who became a longtime trustee and land counselor with SJPT, was a staunch advocate for how the Trust worked with landowners, saying "You can tailor how your land will be used. No one will dictate to you what will happen to your land" (Macdonald). Following her death in 2012, the Ganns' beloved Red Mill Farm was bequeathed to the Trust, and the entire 748-acre farm was permanently protected as a working agricultural preserve.
In 1981 Linda Krieger became the Trust's first salaried executive director. In the next years SJPT focused on educating the community about the Trust and the possibilities for preservation that island landowners had available. A leaflet, the first of many publications, was prepared, declaring, "The Trust provides a legacy of natural areas at no public expense" (SJPT leaflet, ca. 1982) and informing landowners that the Trust would work with them to meet their preservation plans and preferences. Initially, however, SJPT encountered skepticism from many islanders. Some mistakenly thought that land put in a conservation easement or owned by the Trust would go off the tax rolls and become a burden for the community. Taxes on conservation easements do, in fact, continue to be paid by landowners, and the trustees early on decided not to apply to have those preserves wholly owned by the Trust removed from tax rolls. Support for what the Trust could accomplish grew as more details about conservation easements and the Trust's activities became understood.
Years of Development and Expansion
Bob Myhr became executive director in 1985 and, over the 17 years of his tenure, developed Trust operations, greatly expanded the acreage preserved, and fostered a growing membership. Initially there was much to learn about the properties SJPT was overseeing including, by the end of that first year, a 393-acre conservation easement on Lopez farmland as well as property gifts on Guemes, San Juan, and Decatur islands. Myhr found that the fledgling organization needed structure, better recordkeeping, and documentation. A mission statement was needed to guide the organization and priority projects had to be identified. He was eager to expand the board of trustees, focusing on finding recognized community leaders and residents with special interest in conservation.
Acquisition has always been just the beginning of the Trust's responsibility for a property. Stewardship of the conservation easements and wholly owned preserves absorbs extensive time and resources. As part of the acquisition process SJPT prepares a baseline study for each property, with descriptive text of the land's conservation value as well as lists of flora and fauna and other detailed information supplemented by maps and photos. Then each property is monitored annually for compliance with the contractual restrictions, and updated lists, maps, and photo records are prepared. Projects such as invasive-species removal are planned. Landowners of conservation easements are consulted and boundaries verified. In 1986 Myhr hired a land steward (initially part-time) as the Trust's second staff member. Volunteers, who had stepped up at the outset to assist with stewardship, continued to be indispensable.
The Trust began taking a more proactive approach to educating the community and instituted activities such as summer lecture series, visits to conservation easements on private properties, and the always-popular spring wildflower walks to involve residents and visitors and demonstrate some of the benefits of preservation. SJPT had its first booth at the county fair in 1985, and a slide program was created for showing to interested community groups. There was much discussion about how to expand public-relations efforts and the need to highlight accomplishments, identify communication targets, and establish more personal contacts throughout the islands. Creating a newsletter directed to key landowners, attorneys, local officials, trust officers, seasonal residents, and other interested parties was a priority, and the first issue went out in 1985. Through changes in format and title over the years the newsletter has continuously offered informative articles (often featuring islanders' art and photography) on new Trust acquisitions and activities and conservation topics of local interest.
SJPT was an early member of the Land Trust Alliance (LTA), established in 1982 to facilitate communication among the nation's land trusts, encourage sharing of concerns and knowledge, advocate for trusts with government agencies, and engage in professional development. Myhr worked closely with the LTA and served on its board for several years. Little more than a decade after the Trust's founding, members learned that "as one of the country's more experienced and innovative land trusts, [SJPT] provides advice, examples of creative projects, and model policies and procedures for LTA to share with land trusts across the nation" (Newsletter, Winter 1994).
SJPT's activities were varied. One of the first instances of a concerted neighborhood conservation effort saw several contiguous parcels of land on Orcas Island's Entrance Mountain, visible to ferry riders approaching the dock, combined beginning in the late 1980s to create 230 acres of conservation easements, assuring that they would not be clear-cut or subdivided as had other sites in the area. One of the owners noted that he would still be able to build on his property, but the residence, with a fine water view, would be at the base of the mountain while the area seen from the water would be preserved. The Trust, which had received a $21,000 grant from the Puget Sound Water Authority, declared 1988 to be "The Year of Wetland Protection" and featured a variety of special wetlands-focused programs and activities. A new booklet was published to inform landowners of tax and other issues related to conservation easements. The Trust adopted the LTA standards, now required of all LTA members, to assure compliance with the highest levels of ethical and organizational integrity. And the first steps were finally taken toward a formal San Juan County commitment to conservation in the islands.
The San Juan Preservation Trust and the San Juan County Land Bank
In 1989 San Juan County's planning department was considering including open space allocation in the county's comprehensive land-use plan, and the Trust assisted county staff with planning and budget preparation for an inventory of open-space properties. At the same time discussions began about formation of a land bank that could undertake conservation projects with financing provided by a 1 percent tax on county property sales. By 1991, the San Juan County Land Bank had been established, and the SJPT annual report for that year noted that "at the request of the Land Bank Commission, the Trust served as an unpaid consultant during the Land Bank's organizational and start-up phase" (Newsletter, Spring 1992).
There was concern among SJPT staff and trustees from the outset that the public would confuse the two organizations and not understand the fundamental differences: SJPT acquires property and its operations are financed entirely through private land and monetary donations and grants. It often operates without public note, working quietly with property owners who wish to protect land that may not have public access. The Trust considers possible properties based on a detailed set of criteria and, with private funding, can move quickly to purchase if an important piece of land comes on the market. The Land Bank, as a part of the county government, is required to hold public meetings, to air the details of all transactions, and to follow government rules for use of tax funds and the provision of public access.
Over the years, concerns about confusion have been warranted. Nonetheless, a working relationship has evolved and, as explained in a 2018 issue of the Trust newsletter, "While there are fundamental differences between San Juan Preservation Trust and Land Bank, these differences have given rise to complementary strengths. The two organizations consult each other frequently, always searching for opportunities when our combined strengths could result in a conservation victory that neither of us could pull off individually" ("Partners ..."). Through this cooperation some of the largest conservation projects in the islands have come to fruition.
Trust Collaborations and Activities
Land acquisition and stewardship for properties owned or monitored by the Trust were not SJPT's only activities. In 1991, for example, the Trust was awarded a grant for an eagle-behavior study to be undertaken primarily by volunteers. A few years later the Trust joined with The Trumpeter Swan Society as co-sponsor of an annual swan survey in the San Juans, now coordinated with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and still on the Trust calendar in 2019. And in 1999 the Trust assisted HeronLink to expand a volunteer network trained to collect data on herons in the San Juan Islands. Volunteers have, from the outset, been essential to almost every aspect of the Trust's activities, and their contributions as trustees, in stewardship, office assistance, photography, computer assistance, legal and financial advising, and so many other supportive roles have been crucial to the Trust's success.
An important publication was created with a generous grant from the Bullitt Foundation. A Place in the Islands: How Private Landowners Shape the Future of the San Juans, meticulously designed with striking photographs and practical, informative text, urged owners to consider how to best manage their properties and plan building projects so as to protect open spaces, island vistas, and environmentally sensitive areas. Helping conserve undeveloped areas on a property can, it explained, "protect the value of your investment, give you pleasure, and bring you closer to your land and community" (A Place ..., 3). Working with real-estate transaction listings, the Trust made sure that every new property owner received a copy. Bob Myhr considered this 1995 publication one of the major accomplishments of his time as executive director.
By its 20th anniversary in 1999, the Trust was a thriving organization that could assert with pride that it "is dedicated to the preservation of the islands, acts with integrity, is committed to excellence, encourages private, voluntary participation in land conservation, provides careful, on-going stewardship of protected lands, offers opportunities for community education, [and] is a non-partisan advocate for conservation" (20th Anniversary Report ...).
Into the Twenty-first Century
The beginning of the new century brought increasing Trust activity and a change of leadership. Bob Myhr retired in 2002 and was succeeded by Tim Seifert, who had spent childhood summers on Waldron Island and treasured his early experiences with the islands' natural areas. Acquisition of conservation easements continued to grow, but there was also increasing interest in undertaking preservation of larger land tracts and in cooperating with the Land Bank and other organizations in conservation planning. Increased public access to some conserved properties was facilitated and more signage added to foster visitors' understanding of the value of these lands. And convincing the public that conservation was compatible with private ownership continued to be emphasized. "We have found that we can effectively protect the future of our islands without undermining important societal values like private property rights, private land ownership, and the ability of our free market system to recognize and prioritize value," Seifert wrote ("Preservation Briefs" Winter 2003). Establishing strong relationships with landowners throughout the islands was essential, he added.
In August 2005 a 1,578-acre parcel high on Orcas Island's Turtleback Mountain was put on the market for $18.5 million, and a developer promptly offered the full asking price. The zoning allowed for 78 private homes on 20-acre sites. This was one of the "most significant and vulnerable properties in the San Juan Islands" ("The Campaign ..."), and it was urgent that the beautiful landscape, visible throughout the islands, be saved from development. The seller recognized the conservation value of the property and agreed to hold it for three months to allow the Trust to organize financing to match the developer's offer. It was an enormous gamble, as the fundraising goal far exceeded any previous Trust undertaking and time was short. Together, the San Juan Preservation Trust, the San Juan County Land Bank, and the Trust for Public Land worked to obtain the needed sum. The Trust spearheaded the campaign, and just days before the closing date secured the funding. The Land Bank now owns and manages the property while the Trust holds the conservation easement on it, assuring permanent preservation with public access. For the Trust it was a turning point. "Turtleback changed everything" (Seifert interview). It demonstrated to SJPT staff and trustees that undertaking large acquisition projects was feasible and that support for them could be obtained from throughout the county and beyond. Residents were concerned not just about what happened on their own islands, but about the future of the archipelago as a whole.
Collaboration has been effective in many Trust projects. In 2007 the Trust, working with the American Bird Conservancy, the Ecostudies Institute, and the San Juan Islands chapter of the Audubon Society, began a five-year bluebird-restoration project. Western bluebirds had been common in the islands until the 1960s, when the local habitat had become so degraded that they no longer migrated north to the islands. More than 250 residents accepted nesting boxes and monitored their use. Bluebirds were re-introduced to the islands, and nesting pairs have returned and continue to increase in numbers. In 2009 a partnership between SJPT, the Skagit Land Trust, and Guemes Island residents created the Guemes Mountain and Valley Conservation Area, leading to the protection of 206 acres connected to 500 acres of public and private land designated for conservation. And the Skagit Land Trust was supportive when, the following year, the Trust was able to purchase, at auction, almost-entirely-untouched Vendovi Island with its diverse habitats including plants long lost from other islands. Fundraising for Vendovi, located between Guemes and Lummi Islands, presented a special challenge because of its isolation and because it was not widely known, but the funding campaign successfully explained to potential donors the importance of conserving this unique island while providing access for educational programs, scientific study, and low-impact public recreation.
A milestone was reached in 2012 when the Trust received national accreditation from the Land Trust Alliance after a rigorous verification process including audits of records and a review of policies and procedures followed by all SJPT personnel (paid, consultants, volunteers). The accreditation was successfully renewed in 2017, and attests to the high standards and quality of the Trust's work.
Also in 2017, the Trust inaugurated an online e-newsletter, Postcards from the Islands, to supplement the quarterly Island Dispatch received in the mail. It offers brief news of undertakings (such as the Salish Seeds Project in partnership with the Land Bank), personnel, and topics of interest including, for example, the Trust's role in a multi-agency effort to prevent extinction of the Island Marble butterfly, a species unique to San Juan Island.
Tim Seifert retired as executive director in 2018 after 16 years of dramatic growth in SJPT membership and land conserved, and greatly increased community involvement in Trust activities. Angela Anderson, who succeeded him, had a busy first year. In an early message to newsletter readers she identified three notable changes that will affect the Trust's future work and require creative approaches to planning and problem solving: (1) changing climate with more wildfire danger, intrusion and persistence of invasive species, and degraded biodiversity and waterways; (2) changing demographics, and the need to engage the next generations in conservation efforts; and (3) changing resource demands including stewardship challenges for the increasing number of properties protected by SJPT. As the Trust approached its 40th anniversary in 2019, Anderson, the governing board, and staff focused on developing a new vision and strategic plan for SJPT, elicited community input, and formulated a new Trust mission statement. Summarized succinctly in three words -- "Conserve. Care. Connect." -- it put the emphasis moving forward on continuing conservation efforts to preserve the islands' scenic beauty and ecosystems, maintaining a strong commitment to stewardship, and connecting "people to nature, to each other, and to the Preservation Trust" ("Conserve ...").
Since its inception the San Juan Preservation Trust has made it possible for landowners to preserve environments that they treasure, protected stunning landscapes and threatened habitats, and assured that coming generations will be able to experience these special places. It is an extraordinary, permanent legacy that will continue to be cherished by future islanders and visitors.

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Shropshire Parish Registers: Clunbury 1574-1812
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Year: (1899) 2008
Published in 1899, this CD contains transcripts of the registers for the parish of Clunbury. Listing Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for the period 1574-1812, it is complete with indexes of names and places.
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PVA receives $6,300 grant
The Pawtuxet Village Association can digitize their newspaper The Bridge thanks to a grant from the Heritage Harbor Foundation.
“This is very exciting for us. I know that [Janet Hartman] has been working on this for a long time and it’s been a very important concern for us that The Bridge information not only be able to be accessed by a lot of people,” said Alice Pace, chair of the PVA Board of Directors. “These are stories that have been handed down or told around the table or in the Village and it’s a good thing to have them down on paper, especially important to have it to where people later can access it and see what happened.”
PVA Members gathered at the Pawtuxet Rangers Armory last Thursday to celebrate the $6,300 grant that will allow them to move their content online for more readers to find. The armory will also host a computer and kiosk with a database for users to access the content.
Patrick T. Conley president of the Heritage Harbor Foundation, who said the grant money came out of the Foundation’s interest revenue, presented the grant to the PVA Board of Directors. Conley also left copies of his book Rambles of Rhode Island and Beyond and copies of Hazel Kennedy’s A Historic Guide to Pawtuxet for the armory library.
PVA Members thanked Conley for the grant and discussed how the new digital bridge will be put into place for use.
“We’ve been doing The Bridge since 1986 as a tabloid size newspaper and I think that’s pretty phenomenal for a band of volunteers,” said Hartman. “That’s a lot of years of volunteering and putting stories together and research and advertising and all the rest.”
The need to digitize the paper was realized after people asked PVA members about different Rhode Island families or historical subjects that had once been documented in issues of The Bridge. Though Hartman joked that PVA members collect copies of the paper in their attic, there was no way to find the information requested without knowing the exact issue.
Currently, Hartman said, the PVA is working with a Rhode Island company that will scan every issue, index everything, and do optical character recognition on each page (pages will be scanned as photos, which OCR converts into words).
When that process is finished, the general public can search for topics or family names in a Google-style database. All the information in all these newspapers will be available. Users from anywhere on the Internet can re read stories or use them for research.
Hartman said she hopes historical groups and children’s tours will use it, and said the PVA will do workshops to acquaint people with the new system.
“We think it’s pretty exciting. It will take us a little while to get to the end, but we’re up and running,” Hartman said.
Other recipients of the grants from the Heritage Harbor Foundation included the Museum of Work and Culture, $19,000; Newport Historical Society, $20,000; Lippitt House Museum, $7,200; Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association, $6,259; Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, $20,000; Stages of Freedom, $17,500; Steamship Historical Society of America, $20,000; and Save the Bay, $21,278.


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Canada’s Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline expansion is set to reach full capacity by the end of May, according to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
During an interview at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Smith confirmed that the first waterborne exports from the expanded system will commence a month later.
Smith’s remarks echo statements made by oil producer MEG Energy on March 1, indicating that Trans Mountain has scheduled 2.1 million barrels for April and the same amount for May.
The pipeline expansion, owned by the Canadian government at C$30.9 billion ($22.8 billion), aims to significantly boost the flow of crude from Alberta to Canada’s Pacific Coast, reaching 890,000 barrels per day.
Despite its ambitious goals, the project has faced numerous setbacks including prolonged delays and budget overruns.
The completion of line fill marks the final stage before the expanded pipeline becomes operational, facilitating greater access for Canadian oil to refineries located on the U.S. West Coast and in Asia.
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The summit comes at a crucial time in the relationship between both continents, in a world that has changed with increased challenges as well as threats affecting both partners. These common problems can only be addressed through an even closer and stronger, mutually beneficial and strategic partnership. The summit aims at lifting this partnership to a higher strategic level, increase cooperation in the international arena guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the AU's Agenda 2063 and the EU's Global strategy.
Ahead of the summit EU High Representative Federica Mogherini explained: "It is not a donor-recipient Summit. It is a Summit between political partners that share the same approach to global issues and multilateralism, and that have a common agenda to develop together." She continued: "It is a Summit on the partnership between the European Union and the African Union on many different fields, from peace and security, where we need to increase even more our cooperation; on global issues like climate change and environmental issues; to economy, investments, creation of jobs, education."
In Abidjan, Africa and Europe will discuss their shared commitments to:
Together with its members states the EU is the largest donor of development aid in Africa, investing EUR 20 billion every year. Additionally through the new European External Investment Plan, the EU aims at mobilising at least EUR 44 billion in private investment by 2020 and targeting this investment to the most fragile areas in support to the SDGs.
The EU is working closely with African partners on peace and security. So far European military and civilian missions have already trained 30 000 African soldiers, policemen and judges. Currently 10 000 European women and men in uniform are serving in Africa.
"Because, we care about Africa's security, for Africa, but also for ourselves. We want it to be sustainable security. And this is why, we want this to be done by African forces in the lead." Federica Mogherini explained. For example with EUR 50 million the EU was the first to support the joint military force set up by the G5 Sahel countries.
Close cooperation between Europe and Africa in tackling the root causes of migration, saving lives and dismantling the criminal organisations of human traffickers, is more necessary than ever. Migration is a global issue and can only be properly addressed globally and in the spirit of partnership and full compliance of international laws and obligations. In the run up to the Summit the EU High Representative explained: "We tend to perceive that migration and refugee flows are a matter of concern only for Europe. The majority of these flows happen inside the African continent. And this is why in the Summit in Abidjan, we will face together the issue of mobility and migration with a positive agenda, to see how we can both benefit from the movements between our continents, across the Mediterranean sea, but especially, how the AU and the EU can together set a positive agenda for managing this global phenomenon in the global context of the UN Global Compact on Migration and Refugees."
The EU is contributing significantly to help in managing these challenges in full partnership. The EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa amounts to EUR 3.2 billion so far and runs 117 programmes with a focus on economic development, job creation, governance, food security, healthcare and migration management. Together with the UN agencies within 12 months the EU managed to help 15 000 Africans to leave detention camps in Libya and has announced 50 000 opportunities for resettlement for those in need of international protection.
In a recent speech, Federica Mogherini said: "So to conclude, we go to Abidjan with new ideas, with new initiatives- with an unprecedented investment plan, with our migration work that for the first time ever has turned into a real partnership, which is -I believe- the key to manage this phenomenon effectively, and with all our common work and support for peace and security."
The summit will bring together Heads of State or government of the EU and the AU as well as a range of high ranking international observers. The EU will be represented by the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk and President of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker. President Donald Tusk and AU Chairperson and President of Guinea Alpha Conde will co-chair the summit.
In the run-up to the Summit a series of side events has taken place: the Africa-EU civil society forum in Tunis 11-13 July; the 6th EU-Africa business forum took place in Abidjan on 27 November and saw approximately 1500 participants; the 4th Africa-EU youth summit on 9-10 October in Abidjan, which bought together 120 young leaders and presented the starting point of the Youth Plug-In Initiative. This innovative initiative saw 36 young fellows working together for a period of 5 weeks to develop a series of recommendations for the leaders at the summit.
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With the “fiscal cliff” looming, I rather like this comparison of the federal budget fiasco currently underway to a typical family budget that a friend recently showed me.
|US tax revenue||$2,170,000,000,000|
|New annual debt||$1,650,000,000,000|
|Existing National debt||$16,000,000,000,000|
|President Obama’s budget cuts||$4,000,000,000|
Remove 8 zeros and view this as if it were a regular household budget:
|Money the family spent||$38,200|
|New debt on credit card||$16,500|
|Outstanding credit card debt||$160,000|
|Total budget cuts so far||$40|
So, for all the posturing and criticisms going back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, the net affect of the proposed budget cuts (over 10 years, no less!) is negligible to the point of being meaningless.
Well, I’m feeling depressed motivated now. And depressed, too. Perhaps it’s too late to avoid the “coming economic earthquake”. Hey, someone really should write a book with that title.
4 thoughts on “A Coming Economic Earthquake?”
To be clear, Larry Burkett wrote a book entitled “The Coming Economic Earthquake” that I read years ago – long before the current situation could have even been forecast. The book paints a bleak picture of runaway inflation which happens to a nation that fails to control its spending and, in my opinion, is quite relevant to today’s feeble attempts by the President and congressional leaders to deal with the so called fiscal cliff.
Per Derek Hunter, a columnist at Townhall.com:
This “cliff” is a creation of government that came into being because those in Washington couldn’t accomplish the simple task of being remotely responsible in the past. Those same people are now desperately seeking to avoid the simple cuts they agreed to just a year ago. Only they can’t even agree with themselves.
These politicians of both parties still have no plan, and most have no desire, to deal with the real fiscal problems facing the nation – out-of-control spending and the crushing national debt. The automatic sequester cuts they desperately seek to avoid are but a drop in the bucket that collects drops to make drops in the bucket of government spending.
about other doctrinal issues that divide people and churches. Really enjoying your posts! By the way, I know how many points you are. But I won’t spill the beans. Haha!
Thanks for the comment, Orlando. Looks like a portion of your comment didn’t get pasted in. Feel free to resubmit and I’ll fix it. As to knowing the number of point Calvinist I am – really? Well, first take a look at this post I wrote some time ago and then fire away: https://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2009/10/30/two-point-calvinism-–-is-that-an-acceptable-alternative/#comments

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Hands-On Video Claims to Show the Blue iPhone 5C
We’ve heard lots of rumours of the iPhone 5C, and we’ve seen tons of images of its rear shell. And blue is the colour (among others of course). Now it is about time to see it powered on in a HD video.
CTechCN, which posted a couple of iPhone 5C image leaks earlier, has managed to obtain the handset and immediately turned it on to show us the device in action. Before jumping into rushed conclusions, we have to consider that this easily could be an iPhone 5 with a blue case running iOS 7 beta.
The leaked 15-second video shows an alleged blue iPhone 5C handset powered on running iOS 7. We’ve seen low-quality video of an alleged iPhone 5C powered on, but this video comes in HD quality.
The video shows the lock screen, the user browsing the apps, and finally launching the Safari app.
The iPhone 5C is widely expected to be unveiled tomorrow during the September 10 Apple event. The handset is said to resemble the iPhone 5 design, and feature a polycarbonate shell, targeting low- and mid-tier market.


Traveline East Midlands shows that from Monday 5th September, Stagecoach are adding one extra journey in each direction Monday to Saturday between Hull, Barton and Scunthorpe on the 350 Humber Fastcat, giving an hourly evening service. There will be a new 2010 service from Scunthorpe and a new 2025 from Hull. A very welcome, if slightly surprising enhancement, and one that may be off use to myself.
Based on the timetables it would appear that Scunthorpe depot will operate the extra journeys, and the current 1 hour layover of a Scunthorpe vehicle in Hull during the evening will cease.
If this is successful, hopefully Stagecoach and EYMS will look at the uneven Sunday timetable, designed to connect to a train service that runs 4 months of the year. Some later evening services, at least on Fridays and Saturdays would also be nice. But lets see how the new mid-evening journeys do first!
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The Earworm: Mick Lion – “Save the World (OneSaneMan Edit)”
How I Got Earwormed: The song itself, by virtue of it even existing, is an earworm. When I first heard the song two years ago, it got me. In this case, just hearing the opening (without even hearing the earworm part itself) triggered the worm. The actual worm itself is also the main (and only) hook of the track. It’s a simple synth pattern with a vocalization on top of it. It’s repetitive as hell, but catchy as hell to boot.

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Monday Mar 3
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Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. Fourth Quarter 2013 Total Revenue Up 9%
Total revenue was $138.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, an increase of $11.5 million or 9% from $126.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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Inn at Perry Cabin sells for $40M
The Inn at Perry Cabin, a historic, 78-room hotel in St. Michaels in Talbot County, has a new owner.
Fri Feb 28, 2014
Orient-Express Hotels Reports Q4 2013 Results; Same Store RevPAR up 9%
Fourth quarter same store revenue per available room up 9% in US dollars and 10% in local currency compared to prior-year quarter Agreed to sell The Inn at Perry Cabin in December 2013 for $39.7 million of gross proceeds and to enter into a ten-year management agreement for the hotel Announced "Belmond", a newly created brand name under which the ... (more)
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Edward E. Cohen, ... Research and Markets: The Market for Diesel Gen-Sets in India is Growing at a Rapid Pace Which Is Expected to Surpass USD 3.3 Billion Revenues By End of 2018 )--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "India Diesel Gensets Market Forecast & Opportun... )--Atlas Resource Partners, L.P. has reported operating and ... (more)
Iconic Orient-Express no more?
Effective March 10, Orient-Express Hotels, owners and operators of 45 luxury hotel, rail, safari and cruise experiences, will go by the name Belmond.
Tue Feb 25, 2014
Orient-Express Hotels to launch new brand
Orient-Express Hotels, owners and operators of 45 luxury hotel and travel experiences, has confirmed that it will market its collection under a new brand, Belmond, effective March 10, 2014.
Sun Feb 23, 2014
Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. to Launch Belmond Brand
New name designed to increase brand recognition in order to drive growth by attracting new guests and stimulating visits from existing customers across the breadth of iconic hotel and travel collection Company expects to invest $5.0 million in new brand during first year, with a further $10.0 million expected to be invested over the subsequent four ... (more)
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El Encanto Named Santa Barbara's Only Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Resort
The internationally-acclaimed Forbes Travel Guide announced its 2014 luxury travel ratings and named El Encanto as part of the prestigious portfolio - the only Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star resort in Santa Barbara.

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On Wednesday (07), the Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil, Daniel Balaban, participated in the webinar “Facing Hunger: Actions and Projects of the Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office”, promoted by the Public Prosecutor’s Office School in the State of Goiás (Esump), Operational Support Center (Public Policy and Human Rights area), National Human Rights Group (GNDH, in portuguese), National Council of Attorneys General (CNPG, in portuguese) and Permanent Commission for the Defense of Human Rights (COPEDH). The event was focused on members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the legal community and society in general.
Daniel opened the event with the lecture “Fighting hunger: causes, consequences and solutions”, presenting the work of the World Food Programme (WFP), which brings food to more than 140 million people every day, and the Centre of Excellence. According to the Director, about 828 million people are currently suffering from hunger in the world, the equivalent to almost four times the Brazilian population. If we consider people who do not have access to nutritionally adequate food, this number can reach half the population on planet Earth.
“Hunger is a solvable issue. The big problem is that it takes concernment and political will to solve this situation”, affirmed Daniel. The Director compared 1990s data on hunger, which reached about 36% of the world population, with today’s data, which is close to 9.8%, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report, released by the UN in July this year. He also pointed out that women and children are the ones who suffer the most from hunger and food insecurity nowadays. Despite the diminishing percentage of food insecure people, Daniel believes that this decrease is still slow and that more can be done to eradicate hunger by 2030.
The Director said that the diminishing percentage of hungry people in the world is mainly due to the implementation of concrete strategies that started to be developed in events such as COP92 and with the elaboration of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which had extensive and democratic participation of the global community in its design, with online collaboration of more than 5 million people from around the world in the construction of the Goals. “These Goals don’t belong to the UN. The UN is a body that includes and brings together all people, so these goals belong to people all over the planet”, he explained.
The debate also included experts from Brazilian public ministries (MPMT, MPES, MPSP, MPT, MPPA, MPPR, MPDFT, MPTO, MPF-PB, MPMG). Click here to watch the full webinar.


You know what I mean. You've finished that quilt top, ironed your backing and batting, now it's time to put them all together. Where do you do it? How? Size limitations?
I was just doing a baby quilt. Lap & baby quilts and wall quilts are mostly what I do as they are more manageable. I've been putting tables together and using painter's tape to tape each layer down independently, then pinning all the layers together. It seems like not matter how tight I thought I had the layers pulled, when I go to machine quilt I get at least a few 'gathers' where it was too loose. When I used to be in a quilt class in another town we had a really cool frame for large quilts that went together with 4 four ft high stanchions and we would gather around, starting at the middle and pin or baste the quilt depending on whether it was to be machine or hand quilted. My regular, computer machine is down and my 'backup' machine does not have a walking foot - that may be part of my problem today. I'm just doing straight 'in the ditch' quilting as I also don't have a darning foot for this machine.
What you might want to try is first iron yourself a 1/4" seam all around the edge of your quilt. This way you will have your edge all set. Then pin your batting just barely to the full edge of the 1/4" seam. Now stitch that first. This way you have your batting and your top all set. Now iron your 1/4" seam for your bottom fabric and then pin it to the top and batting. Then sew away. This is what I am doing now for my regular quilts. Picture below is one of my window quilts that I just recently made.
Thank you. What is a 'window quilt? Everything I've ever read or been told was to have the batting and backing 2-3 inches wider than the top, then trim it/square it up before putting the binding on.
Window quilts are almost the same thing as regular quilts only you have to put a hanging part on the top to put your rod into like a regular curtain. The window quilt is a lot thicker and makes to keep warm inside during the winter and colder during the summer. I don't bother with binding because it causes a lot of snags on me.


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This book contains all information about the Lore on the Tamrielcraft Server. It includes all the character sheets of the players.
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Mastodon and Tool. They’re the two artists that Brighton based band Shrine bare the closest resemblance to on initial listen of the first installment of their two-part EP Closer to the Sun. Yet, after repeated plays, it becomes clear that these guys are anything but copycats, as they serve up a cocktail of rock and metal genres that is partially similar to existing bands, but mostly interestingly individual.
On the first two tracks ‘Saviour’ and ‘Say You Will’, the band prove themselves to be impressively talented musicians, adept at switching tone and style with effortless expertise. However, it’s the climactic title track that strikes hardest, building on the strength of the aforementioned songs and unleashing the band’s potential, revealing it to be rather tantalising. The dynamic song is by turns, soaringly beautiful, headbangily aggressive and eargasmic intricate, with not a dull moment over its near seven minute length.
This record sees Shrine take elements of sludge metal, stoner metal, prog metal and even math rock, expertly blending them together to craft a promising, impressive and ultimately, highly recommendable EP.
The second part of Closer to the Sun will definitely be something to look out for.
Words: Matt Jones
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Ryan Tryin’ To Be The Fourth
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We’re all aware that Nolan Ryan is taking part (albeit from very good seats in the stands) in his first World Series since 1969. But were you aware that if the Rangers prevail then he’ll be in an exclusive club of 1969 Mets alumni? How exclusive? So exclusive it doesn’t include Tom Seaver. Read all about it in my latest piece for the New York Times Bats blog, here .
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Ashraf Ghani, the thoughtful new president of Afghanistan, came to Washington last week and the trip probably met his expectations. He wanted to thank the United States for “defending …
When the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has its annual howling convention in the Washington, DC area, the mainstream mass media expands its coverage like an accordion from t…
Ralph talks to Professor Allison Stanger about her book One Nation Under Contract and how private contractors have become an integral part of our foreign policy. We also talk to Bob Hu…
Ralph Nader Op-Ed in USA Today.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader and anti-tax activist Grover Norquist will speak on issues where the left and right can come together at a National Press Club luncheon on Sept. 4.
It's the new bipartisanship: icons of the fringe left and fringe right coming together in common opposition to the center.
"My party has lost its soul" is the telling title of former Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut and White House advisor Bill Curry's new opinion piece out today on Salon.
Ralph Nader talked about his book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
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The National, Thursday, April 28, 2011
By ISAAC NICHOLAS
PUBLIC servants can expect their much-anticipated pay increase of 7.5% in their pay packets next pay day with housing benefits still a contentious issue.
The pay increase will be backdated to January this year.
The K500 accommodation subsidy buy-out will be implemented by the Department of Personnel Management (DPM), but will not be included in the salary fixation agreement for this year to 2013 to be signed this morning between PEA president Michael Malabag and DPM secretary John Kali.
Malabag, in a letter dated last April 19, responding to Kali’s letter of April 15, stated that PEA had opposed the government’s “buy-out” of allowance plan which it viewed as inferior and was not in line with the union’s claim of K250 on top of the current K7 subsidy rate. Malabag said: “I will take into consideration your letters stating that the government will proceed with its intention to apply K500 across the board to all salary scales and that the general order accommodation subsidy will cease forthwith, although it will not be included in this agreement.
“PEA will pursue this matter with the public service conciliation and arbitration commission with the intention of reaching an amicable resolution,” Malabag said.
He also welcomed the consumer price index (CPI) clause in the agreement, to be added as a protection against inflation projections, which was an added bonus on the salary adjustments.
“PEA is also satisfied with your offer of ‘recreation leave fares’ to be made available in full for public servants and their dependents.”
Malabag said both DPM and PEA must reach a separate agreement on other matters such as retrenchment and retirement, reduction of 35% tax on final payment of entitlements and compulsory life and health insurance cover and risk allowance.
“We commend you for creating and improving better terms and conditions of employment in the public service.”
The official signing ceremony for the 7.5% pay rise for public servants, slated for April 14, was deferred due to differences over housing conditions.
The government had approved a 6% increase with an additional 1.5% for productive performance. On top of that, the government had decided to make a K500 one-off payment in housing allowance.
However, the PEA had demanded a K250 fortnightly payment.
In his letter on April 15, Kali stated that because housing was not a condition of employment for public servants and an allowance was, therefore, not negotiable, the government would proceed with paying K500 across all salary scales and effective from the date of implementation, it would also cease the general order accommodation subsidy.
“This decision is of significant benefit to the lowest paid employee and should not be denied to them,” Kali stated.
The K7 allowance per fortnight for public servants had been in the general orders for decades.


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Lampard praises Derby County mentality after FA Cup draw with Southampton
Frank Lampard hailed his side's mentality after they came back from 2-0 down to draw with Premier League Southampton in the FA Cup third round on Saturday.
The Rams will face a trip to the south coast to have another crack at the Premier League side after goals from Jack Marriott and Tom Lawrence earned a share of the spoils.
READ THE REPORT HEREAnd Lampard said the qualities that were lacking from his side in the first-half proved crucial in the second.
He said: "I was pleased with the mentality in the second-half because that's what was lacking in the first.
"We were off it and you can't be like that against Premier League opposition.
"In the end the reaction was brilliant to being 2-0 down and our desire and running was what was needed. We again showed that when we're at our best we are a match for anyone.
"We could have won the game - Jack Marriott missed a great chance at the end but he's done so well for us it's hard to hold it against him - and at 2-0 down I'd have taken a draw and it'll be a great chance to test ourselves again on the road at a Premier League club."
Lampard added that a performance such as that produced against Southampton can inspire his squad when they go to Leeds United for a crucial game on Friday, but is aware it can't be taken for granted.
He said: "We beat Manchester United earlier in the season and then lost at Bolton, so it doesn't always follow that we'll just go and win the next game, but we will take all the good things from this as we go into a very hard, and important, game at Leeds on Friday.
"We need to have the consistency to perform like this every week and it can be hard with the squad limitations but we need to embrace the opportunities given to us and that can bring results."


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Rhode Island is entering into a new partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. The partnership will amount to a pilot aimed at improving care coordination for Medicare and Medicaid enrollees.
Approximately 30,000 Medicare-Medicaid enrollees in Rhode Island will be eligible to participate in the pilot.
Rhode Island has an existing statewide patient care integration plan, and that plan will form the basis of the CMS partnership. Under the current state plan, Medicaid members enroll in a health plan that coordinates all of their Medicaid services including long-term care. In the pilot, some of those enrollees will be able to switch to a qualifying health plan that will serve as a Medicare-Medicaid Plan (MMP). Under the new plan, coverage will be provided for both Medicare and Medicaid.
The goal is to provide care options for each stage of patient care, and make healthcare more affordable for low-income individuals who may qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare. Improving the care experience for low-income seniors and people with disabilities who are Medicare-Medicaid enrollees – sometimes referred to as “dual eligibles” – is a priority for CMS.
Enrollment for the new plan is slated to begin at the end of this year.
As part of the pilot, CMS will fund and manage an external evaluation process, which will monitor the dual-eligible plan to see if it does improve quality of care.


This weekend at Sebring International Raceway, the Audi Sport Team Joest prototype organization prepares for the start of the 2012 sports car racing season. Since entering the sports car prototype arena in 1999, Audi’s motorsport efforts have pushed the four-ring badge to the top of track competition while their street cars captured accolades with customers.
With worldwide sales recorded at a 625,807 total in 1999, Audi AG scored 1,303,650 in vehicle unit sales across the planet in 2011 as the German luxury car brand has risen to a serious force in automotive production. While some debate the impact of motorsports on the street vehicles, Audi’s loyal attention to the high-priced sports car competition has provided a better-than-average case proving the benefits of factory support for auto racing. For 2012, the sports car racing efforts in prototype racing Audi Sport Team Joest will present several changes as they will attempt victory on the race track as well as win customers to new, production car-related technology.
As the Audi R18 TDI will take the green flag for the 2012 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, the Team Joest-fielded vehicles will be part of the newly formed FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich committed “It’ll be a grand and no doubt thrilling inaugural event of the new WEC. The entire fields of the WEC and the American Le Mans Series will be competing together. “ The 2012 WEC represents collection of great, modern sports car races assembling on the globe’s most prestigious race circuits. Included in the high profile first season for WEC will debut at Sebring International Raceway before moving onto the Spa Francorchamps road course and famous Circuit de la Sarthe for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Audi Sport is committed to run every round with their R18 TDI prototypes throughout the inaugural eight-round competition.
Much of the pre-season excitement centered on the Audi prototype sports car program has been centered on the gasoline/electric hybrid version of the R18. Scheduled to run for the first time at the Belgium event in May, the Audi R18 e-tron quattro combines the mid-engine 3.7 liter V-6 TDI engine with an electric motor that will drive the front wheels. With rear wheels still being spun conventionally through TDI powerplant, the new prototype will bring a unique take on Audi’s much-touted quattro all-wheel drive. When Audi Sport Team Joest runs the 24 hours of Le Mans in mid-June, the plan is to run two hybrid cars within a four-car effort. For the Sebring race, Audi has prepared three non-hybrid R18 TDI prototype sports cars.
For the 12-hour event at Sebring, car #1 for Audi Sport Team Joest will feature the teaming of Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the team last year. In the #2 Audi R18 TDI, the accomplished group of Dindo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish will attempt to rekindle the magic they used to collectively win the 2009 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Sharing the #3 car, Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Loïc Duval will round out the highly talented 2012 driver line-up for Audi Sport Team Joest.
Audi Sport Team Joest will be seeking their 10th victory in the 12-hour race. From 2000 to 2007, Audi had affirmative possession of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring overall honours with the Audi R8 and R10 prototype race cars. Interrupted for claiming victory by a pair of Porsche RS Spyders in 2008, Audi did succeed in maintaining its streak of LMP1 class victory at the Sebring International Raceway for a total of nine consecutive races. Stretching the automaker’s records with a ninth overall Sebring race win in 2009, the Peugeot 908 has presided as the top prototype runner for the famous sports car event. With Peugeot opting out of the 2012 edition of the Mobil1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, the Audi R18 is heavily favoured for victory late Saturday night.
With preparations for the 60th running of the Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida ongoing this week, the clock for the half-day endurance race starts March 17th at 10:15 AM Eastern time.
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Santa Barbara Island is known for its large rookery where you can spend hours diving with sea lions. Photographers get more opportunities to photograph these animals up close here than any Channel Island. The playful, curious pups will pose and frolic in front of a diver’s lens as long as one can stay in the water.
The famous “Arch” is a dive to be remembered at Santa Barbara Island. The top of the reef just breaks the surface at low tide and the bottom of the arch lies in 40 FSW. One of the more unique underwater arches in the world it makes the perfect backdrop for photographers. In addition to the Arch, there are many offshore pinnacles that host shear walls and some of the largest clusters of purple hydrocoral found anywhere.
Lush kelp beds make this island a good location for spear fisherman. Calico bass, white sea bass, yellowtail, and an occasional tuna are among the types of game fish that can be found in the waters surrounding this island. As with all Channel Islands, lobster divers make this a prime destination during season.
Santa Barbara Island can be some of the best scuba diving found offshore but if conditions are rough there are not many areas to seek shelter. Because of its small size, ocean swells can wrap around the island, so planning a trip is weather dependant.


Chennai, INDIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The arrests of several businessmen and sacking of a senior bureaucrat in southern India have highlighted the power of the so-called “sand mining mafia”, accused of damaging the coastline and destroying livelihoods of impoverished communities.
India’s main agency for investigating corruption, the Central Bureau of Investigation, this week arrested sand mining baron Shekhar Reddy and several associates after seizing large amounts of cash and gold from his home in Tamil Nadu state.
Tamil Nadu’s Chief Secretary P. Rama Mohana Rao was removed from his job a day after his home was raided.
An investigation is ongoing, a state official told reporters in Chennai, without giving more details.
The arrests highlight the large amounts of money to be made from sand mining and why the industry thrives despite laws to check illegal mining, said Debi Goenka at environmental non-profit the Conservation Action Trust.
“Sand is literally worth its weight in gold in India because of the construction boom,” he said.
“There’s no shortage of laws, but no enforcement. There’s corruption at all levels. Meanwhile, coastlines are eroding, coastal settlements are disappearing and groundwater is falling.”
As the world’s fastest growing major economy expands, demand for construction materials, including sand, is increasing to build roads, airports, malls and homes.
Despite laws regulating sand mining in most states, rivers and beaches are dredged beyond safe levels. Bribing of local officials and the police is common, campaigners say.
Officials say they are doing everything they can to check the practice.
“We have a high-level monitoring committee and we conduct periodic reviews to check illicit and illegal sand mining,” said R. Palaniswamy, the state’s mining commissioner.
“We are aware there are violations; we investigate them and take appropriate action. We are doing everything in our power,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Thousands of truckloads of sand are mined every day in Tamil Nadu, which has India’s second-longest coastline.
Sand is key to the construction industry, which provides about 35 million jobs.
Sand that is mined is worth up to 450 billion rupees ($6.6 billion) annually, according to some estimates, but much of this is illegal, and its impact is serious.
Removing large amounts of sand erodes river beds and beaches, enlarges river mouths, destroys bio-diversity, and exacerbates groundwater shortages and flooding, while leading to the loss of livelihoods of coastal communities.
Sand mining has depleted fish stocks, and made water unfit for agriculture. It has also led to landslides, which further erode coastlines and hurt communities that depend on the water for their livelihoods.
It is a similar story elsewhere in Asia. In Cambodia, illegal sand mining has led to the disappearance of beaches and the collapse of mangroves.
In Tamil Nadu, anti-sand mining activists have been attacked, and even killed, while officials who have stood up to the mafia have also been targeted.
The punishment for mining sand illegally is jail for up to two years or a fine of up to 25,000 rupees ($370), or both.
“If we were to arrest everyone that is caught and lock them up for two years, it would send out a message,” said Goenka.


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The Dolphins and Jets renew their rivalry in New York Sunday, in a game that's almost a must-win for the visitors.
Miami must run the table and hope either Baltimore or the Jets stumble if the Fins are to make the playoffs for the second time in three years.
Both teams are coming off crushing losses. The Dolphins were shocked at home by Cleveland, 13-10, while the Jets suffered their worst loss of the Rex Ryan Era, a 45-3 beatdown at the hands of the division-leading Patriots.
In the first meeting way back in Week 3, Mark Sanchez threw for 256 yards and three TDs, and tight end Dustin Keller burned the Dolphins defense for six catches, 98 yards and two scores, as the Jets won 31-23 on Sunday night.
Chad Henne passed for a season-high 363 yards and two TDs, but in what has been a recurring theme this season, he threw a game-ending interception in the end zone to end any hopes of a Dolphins comeback.
It was Henne's first loss in three starts against New York.
The last time the Dolphins played in the Meadowlands, Ted Ginn returned two kickoffs for TDs, and Jason Taylor added a fumble return for TD to give the Dolphins an improbable 30-25 win, despite the fact they gained just 104 total yards, a franchise low in a victory.
Of course, Ginn and Taylor are gone; J.T. is now on the other side of the rivalry wearing the kelly green of the Jets. But at 9-4, New York is in excellent position to make back-to-back playoff appearances.
Last week, both quarterbacks had eerily similar bad performances: Henne was 16-of-32 for 174 yards, one TD and three INTs; Sanchez was 17-of-33 for 164 yards, no TDs and three INTs.
Henne will be missing receiver Brian Hartline, who is out with a finger injury. Also out is tackle Vernone Carey, who has an injured knee. Linebackers Channing Crowder and Karlos Dansby are both questionable.
Brandon Marshall will be back though, and he torched the Jets for 10 catches for 166 yards and a TD in the first meeting. But, the Jets were without Darelle Revis, who had a bad hamstring, and is now back. Of course, New York will be missing safety Jim Leonhard, who broke his leg in practice last week and will miss the rest of the season.
Known as the quarterback of the defense, Leonhard was sorely missed against the Patriots, as Tom Brady lit up the Jets D for 326 yards passing and four TDs.
The Jets are an angry team, looking to take out their frustrations from last week on someone, and with the Dolphins unable to run the ball well all season -- and an inconsistent quarterback -- I think they get back on the winning track.
Jets 27, Dolphins 24.


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To start with, it is worth noting that this is not a book for the casual fan, nor is it the ideal format to read the Sandman stories in. However, it is vital to realise that neither of these things are the point of a work such as this. This book is a detailed, scholarly analysis of the influences behind the characters and stories contained within Neil Gaiman's now-legendary Sandman series of comics. The annotator, Leslie Klinger, has a great track record in this field, renowned for his works annotating the original Bram Stoker Dracula novel, (in The New Annotated Dracula
) and the Conan-Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories (in The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes - Vols. 1 & 2 The Short Stories
and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Novels v. 3
Here, he turns this academic attention to the Sandman series, and as someone with expertise in annotation and someone who is a friend of Neil Gaiman, he is the ideal man for the job. (Indeed the whole project apparently stems from a dinner-table conversation between the two men.)
Every frame of the original comics is intended to be reproduced in the Annotated series (in black and white - more on this in a moment) and where appropriate commented upon in a spacious margin. This second volume covers comic issues 21-39. It is a big, heavy book - 12 inches square and weighing at least a couple of kilograms. This means there is room for the annotations to sit alongside the pages. Each annotation makes it clear which frame it refers to, and then gives information about the content that covers sources, influences, ideas and themes. Where appropriate also cross-referencing other issues of The Sandman. (Helpfully also referring to future Annotated editions so when they have all been published the set will be definitive.)
It may sound odd to say that there is a "correct" way to enjoy reading a book, and I am sure everyone has different approaches, but my recommendation is that this is a book to be read as a companion volume to a set of Sandman trade paperbacks. (Each volume available separately or in a box set as Sandman Slipcase Set
.) If you have never read the stories before, this is not the book to read them in for the first time. If you just want to read the stories again - and who wouldn't - this is not the book for that either. (A key reason for this being that apart from the physical bulk of the book the stories are reproduced in black and white. This is not an issue if you're referring to the book to learn more, and means of course that the cost of the book is affordable especially compared to the lavish Absolute editions. Missing the colour would rather spoil enjoyment of the stories alone though, so when just enjoying the stories I recommend reading the trade paperbacks, or whichever colour edition you have available.)
Really, this book is about learning more about the way the Sandman stories all join up, about the myths, legends and history that they draw upon. Klinger, using resources such as Gaiman's original scripts and conversations with the man himself, pulls together and carefully cross references each reference to allow fans to gain new insights. It's very exciting finding out about all the threads that are a part of the Sandman series and discovering just how many hugely varied storytelling themes - some as old as humanity, some used in comics for the first time by Gaiman - were a part of the creative process. It gives the reader a chance to know more than anyone could possibly derive, even from multiple readings of the stories, and so allows you to truly get as close as possible to a complete Sandman experience.
This is a book to accompany a book, a book for fans who know the stories well and still want more and a book that will truly enrich and reward the dedicated reader who joins Leslie Klinger on his journey into The Dreaming.


Indian Navy’s fifth Kalvari-class Diesel Electric attack submarine INS Vagir was launched at Mazgaon Dock in Mumbai on Thursday. A look at this modern and stealthy class of submarines having been built under Project 75 and whose design is based on the Scorpene class of the submarines.
Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vagir, launched on Thursday, is the fifth among the six Kalvari-class submarines being constructed by the public sector shipbuilder Mazagon Dock Ltd (MDL) in Mumbai.
The other vessels in the class are INS Kalvari, INS Khanderi, INS Karanj, INS Vela and INS Vagsheer. Of these Kalvari and Khanderi have been commissioned in 2017 and 2019, Vela and Karanj and undergoing sea trials, Vagir has now been launched and Vagsheer is under construction.
After its launch today, Vagir will commence with the setting to work of various equipment and the Harbour Acceptance Trials. The crew will subsequently sail the submarine for the Sea Acceptance Trials after which the submarine would be delivered to the Navy.
The submarines in the current Kalvari-class take their names from erstwhile decommissioned classes of submarines named Kalvari which included Kalvari, Khanderi, Karanj and Vela class — which included Vela, Vagir, Vagshir. The now-decommissioned Kalvari and Vela classes were one of the earliest of the submarines in post independence Indian Navy, which belonged to Soviet origin Foxtrot class of vessels.
Launch of a vessel is the process of transferring the ship from dockyard to water and is different from the commissioning of the ship, when it actually enters the active service.


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On Tuesday night during the MLB Winter Meetings, the league conducted a draft lottery for the first time ever. This is their new way of preventing tanking which is nice because the teams at the bottom all now have a chance to get the number one overall pick.
In a really unlucky year, the worst team in the league could be selecting as low as seventh so don't tank on purpose. The final non-lottery spots in the first round are just the reverse order of the standings like in previous years. Rounds 2-20 are also just the standings reversed.
The Chicago White Sox were unfortunately not a playoff team in 2022 which means that they were participants in this event. They had very small odds of winning one of the top six spots but you never know with stuff like this.
It is tough to know that they did not win a top-six spot and will be making the 15th overall pick in the 2023 Major League Baseball Draft. They are literally a .500 team drafting right in the middle. As the kids would say, this team is just "mid" at everything.
The Chicago White Sox will be making the 15th overall pick in 2023.
One problem is that the Minnesota Twins also had extremely low odds of winning a spot but they are coming away with one. They jumped all the way up into the 5th spot ahead of the Oakland A's who dropped all the way to 6th after being in a three-way tie for the best odds.
Ahead of the Twins are Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Washington Nationals, and Pittsburgh Pirates who won the first overall pick. The division rival Kansas City Royals dropped a few spots which is nice but the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins have top-five picks.
Honestly, after the way that 2022 has gone for the White Sox, none of this is at all surprising. We can hope for better luck all around in 2023 but it would be nice to see them make their own luck for once.
At some point, we will start seeing and readying about players that they might take with that pick but it is so hard to project that right now. There are going to be great players available but it is up to the scouts/front office to find them.

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This is an earthy and aromatic Pressure Cooker Mutton recipe you must try. It is my version and no other Mutton dish can beat it. I cook Mutton with delicate spices which makes the dish rich and full of flavor, so you won’t stop leaking your finger. If you feel to eat full of flavor food in short time, then this is for you. Enjoy!
Cooking time take 45 minutes
Serves 8 with side dishes
1 & ½ Kg Mutton chopped into 3 inches cubes
2 big size Tomatoes blend to make Sauce
2 medium large Onion minced
4 tbsp cooking Oil
Salt to your taste
To Marinate Mutton
1 tsp Turmeric Powder
1 tsp Red Chili Powder
1 tsp Garam Masala
1 & ½ tbsp fresh Mint
4 tbsp Spring Coriander
1 tsp Salt
3 tbsp cooking Oil
For Masala paste
12 cloves Garlic
2 inches Ginger
2 tbsp Coriander seeds
1 & half tbsp Cumin Seeds
1 tsp Black Pepper
Whole Spices to infuse in Oil
2 Cinnamon leaves
7 crushed Cardamoms
2 small Cinnamon sticks
4 Red dried Chilies optional
How to make
Prepare all the ingredients above
Marinate the meat with 1 tsp Turmeric Powder, 1 tsp Red Chili Powder, 1 tsp Garam Masala, 1 & ½ tbsp fresh Mint, 4 tbsp Spring Coriander, 1 tsp Salt and 3 tbsp cooking Oil, after covering it and keep aside for at least 30 minutes.
Make the Masala paste of 12 cloves Garlic, 2 inches Ginger, 2 tbsp Coriander seeds, 1 & half tbsp Cumin Seeds and 1 tsp Black Pepper, keep aside. Blend Tomatoes and mince Onion.
Next heat a Pressure cooker in medium high heat with 4 tbsp cooking Oil. After the Oil gets slightly hot add dried red chilies, fry until the color changes and remove it from the oil and keep aside.
Into same Oil add in 8 Cloves, 2 Cinnamon leaves, 7 Cardamom Crushed and
2 small Cinnamon Sticks and let it infuse around 20 seconds or until its color change. Now add in minced Onion, mix it and cook it until it looks golden in color and soften around 5 minutes.
Next add in all the marinated meat, mix it very well and cook it until all the water dries of the meat.
Add in Masala paste and salt to your taste, combine it very well and cook it for 4 minutes or until the oil separates. After you see the Oil got separated add in 800ml hot water, combine it, bring up to boil and lid on of the pressure cooker very tide. Turn heat down to medium low and cook it 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes turn heat off, let all air out before open the lid. Lid off, turn heat up to medium high, mix it and add in Tomato Sauce, combine it very well and let it boil around 5 minutes or until the thickness of the gravy you prefer. Now you are done! Turn off the heat and serve as you wish and garnish with fresh mint or fried chilies if you like and enjoy with Rice, Roti, boiled Potatoes etc.
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It poses a headache for Toyota, which launched the bZ4X model as part of an ambitious plan to boost its electric lineup.
Toyota is recalling 2,700 newly launched, all-electric SUVs worldwide because of a risk their wheels could come off.
The world's largest automaker by sales submitted the recall of the bZ4X models to Japan's transportation ministry.
Of the vehicles concerned by the recall, about 2,200 were earmarked for Europe, 260 for the United States, 10 for Canada and 110 for Japan, the company said.
"After low-mileage use, all of the hub bolts on the wheel can loosen to the point where the wheel can detach from the vehicle. If a wheel detaches from the vehicle while driving, it could result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash," Toyota said in a statement on Thursday.
"The cause of the issue and the driving patterns under which this issue could occur are still under investigation. No one should drive these vehicles until the remedy is performed".
Japan's safety regulator said sharp turns and sudden braking could cause a hub bolt to loosen, raising the risk of a wheel coming off the vehicle.
It said it was not aware of any accidents being caused by the defect, but advised drivers to stop using the vehicle until a more "permanent" repair measure was in place.
The news is embarrassing for Toyota, which pledged to spend over $35 billion (€33 billion) to launch 30 fully-electric models by 2030.
Toyota is a relative latecomer to the EV market, which is currently dominated by Tesla, and it rolled out its electric SUV in Japan less than two months ago.
Subaru Corp also said on Thursday it was globally recalling about 2,600 units of the Solterra, its first all-electric vehicle jointly developed with Toyota, for the same reason.


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Mercy doctor disagrees with previous peanut allergy advice
Doctors pioneering peanut desensitization program
Like many parents of peanut allergy sufferers, Geena Lee said she used to be "that parent" who always checked ingredients at kids' birthday parties, restaurants and school celebrations.
Watch report: Sacramento doctors try new treatment for peanut allergies
That's because her 10-year-old son, Michael, has a life-threatening peanut allergy.
"I'd be rushed to the emergency room because I was a lot more allergic to peanuts than I am now," said Michael, as he sat in his allergist's office.
But now, Michael is eating 8-12 peanuts a day as part of a pioneering peanut desensitization program developed by Mercy Medical Group doctors Rubina Inamdar and Binita Mandal.
"Fifteen years ago we used to tell people with peanut allergies 'don't eat peanuts,'" said Dr. Inamdar. "We now think that was bad advice."
Instead, Inamdar is leading a non-research-based immunotherapy program in which peanut allergy sufferers eat increasingly larger doses of peanuts in order to build up a tolerance to eating peanuts.
Michael Lee was one of the first children to successfully reach the maintenance stage of the program.
"If we have a way to prevent the most life-threatening food allergies out there, we should jump all over it," said Inamdar.
The program is open to the public, but requires a strict adherence to medical visits and protocols and must be done under close medical supervision, said Inamdar.
But it's a sacrifice of time and effort that Michael's mother said could prove a literal life saver.
"He hasn't had a single reaction since he started this program. I don't need to worry about every little food he eats," said Geena Lee.
For more information about this program, you can visit mymercymedicalgroup.org.

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Things are underway on my latest piece and I have been putting down some background dye colours.
My wonderful brush 15cm / 6" wide - it seems to contain lots of power!
A couple of colours, fairly random at this point. The painting going over the masking tape. Colours blended with clear water after painting.
The addition of the gold looks a bit of a mess but these colours will be over-dyed eventually. Both these photos are still at an odd angle...
And a couple more photos from the Chatham Islands.
Mixed messages. Life's necessities!
The famous Chatham Islands Forget-me-not, unique to the Islands.


Spurs don’t get much national media attention these days, but they’ve started making a bit of noise early in the 3-2 season. That’s not exactly the record of a team that should be tanking, because well… they don’t.
David Thorpe brought it up on Monday 24th October episode of Bring it in Truehoop’s bi-weekly podcast. Thorpe made a career in individual player development, coaching NBA players such as Udonis Haslem and Kevin Martin. He also wrote for ESPN for several years before joining startup Truehoop.


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text: Conservative party leader Michael Howard was lobbied by a polar bear -- or a Greenpeace activist dressed as a polar bear -- after giving evidence against a proposed wind farm in his Kent constituency at a public inquiry. Npower renewables wants to build 26 turbines at Little Cheyne Court on Romney Marsh. Greenpeace gave evidence at the inquiry in support of the project, saying that renewable energy is vital to combat climate change and protect areas such as the Arctic. The huge low lying expanse of Romney Marsh will also be at risk from rising sea levels as Howard, who went straight from the inquiry to open new flood defences, should know full well. The four week inquiry should have been concluded, but an objection from Lydd Airport means it will have to reconvene to hear more evidence.

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