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Thursday, May 2, 2013
New Webcast Online -- Expanding your Genealogical Research with Online Resources
webinar I presented on Wednesday, 1 May 2013 is now online with a full schedule of other webcasts from previous presentations by the Mesa FamilySearch Library volunteers. New webinars will be presented each Wednesday evening at 7:00 Arizona Time (Pacific Time) through the month of May. Once the presentation is finished, the Library will have the webcast of the presentation up online within a day or two.


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In The Princess Bride, outcasts and loners find true friendship. Drawing on the classic film, Ethan Nichtern offers Buddhist teachings on how to make friends with yourself and others.
OBEY FEZZIK. When Andre the Giant’s stenciled face began appearing everywhere in American cities in the 1990s, immortalized against brick and concrete in artist Shepard Fairey’s series of “OBEY” stickers, posters, and graffiti, his image suddenly became Americana.
Before his death in 1993, and before the generational rise of this movie, Andre the Giant was best known as an angry, hulking, powerful professional wrestler. But I was way more interested in his character from The Princess Bride, Fezzik. I used to imagine that the face depicted on Fairey’s authoritarian stencils was not the 7-foot, 4-inch, 520-pound World Wrestling Federation icon. Instead, these drawings were asking me to “OBEY” Fezzik.
If you visualized Fezzik, then Fairey’s work was no longer a clever send-up of an Orwellian theme. “OBEY” was, instead, a gentle reminder, a soft demand from Fezzik for loyalty and friendship, a command I was happy to follow. The WWF persona was a man to fear, the kind of giant who might throw you off a cliff if you triggered his wrath. Not Fezzik. Fezzik was on my side, your side, our side. Not just some colossus, Fezzik was a tenderhearted poet (“Anybody want a peanut?”), the kind of comrade who would carry you and several friends up the sheerest of cliffs, even the Cliffs of Insanity; or who would nurse you back to health from your brandy-amplified PTSD; or who would bring you four perfect horses exactly when you needed them to make sure you got away safely, reaching a place where no bad guys could ever find you. Fezzik was the friend of all friends.
The Princess Bride is, first and foremost, a story of friendship. More specifically, it is a story of loners who finally find their real pals. It tells of an unforeseen “bromance,” one of the greatest bromances ever to inhabit the silver screen. Their friendship begins with a post-traumatic, mercenaries-turned-besties alliance between the Turkish giant Fezzik and the Spaniard Inigo Montoya. This partnership later includes Westley, the Farmboy turned Dread Pirate Roberts turned back into Westley again.
These three unlikely friends overcome their personal demons to support each other’s journeys in grief, revenge, and, of course, storming the castle to liberate the Princess. Like most friendships, theirs is a beautiful accident of circumstance, a harmonizing of shared suffering, a camaraderie that is only just beginning when the story ends.
Why do these heroes come together? What’s in it for them?
Friendship is never a guarantee. In this story, each hero begins as a loner. In the book, by William Goldman, the karmic origins of their solitude are further examined. Fezzik and Inigo have come together as mercenaries, and are already close friends when the movie begins, but their origin stories mark them both as social outcasts who each lost their parents too soon. Inigo’s mother died in childbirth, and his father was brutally murdered by the Six-Fingered Man, leaving Inigo alone at the tender age of eleven. In the book, Fezzik loses his parents inexplicably during a young wrestling career in Mongolia. Westley’s origin is never clearly established, only that he works in squalor as some kind of serf for the family of his beloved Buttercup. And as the Man in Black, it’s obvious Westley prefers to roll solo. So why do these heroes come together? What’s in it for them?
What’s in it for anyone? Why do we ever befriend each other? Is there a biological or spiritual imperative to friendship? Do comrades aid our spiritual journey, or are we better off, as many spiritual voices have modeled and taught over the ages, figuring life out in solitude? Perhaps our desire for friendship is a remnant of our tribal days, when we had to team up to defend ourselves against neighboring clans. Thus our ancestors passed along the habit of identifying with a tight band of comrades, of defining a “we,” of forming a posse, a squad to help us survive a dangerous world.
The haphazard origin of the friendships among the characters in The Princess Bride brings to mind the accidental origin of most friendships. Few friendships are ever planned. Your friends start as the kid your mother made you play with when you were little, as the girl who sat down next to you in the university cafeteria as you faced doubts about your self-worth in an unfamiliar social setting, the guy you found yourself in a heated political conversation with at a cousin’s wedding reception, the woman with whom you commiserated on the torment of having the same horrible boss, the one you kept bumping into in creative circles and with whom you eventually exchanged contact information.
Friendship has something to do with coincidence, but also with mutual benefit. Friends find each other through attraction, but the chemistry involved is much harder to name than sexual or romantic longing. We can’t be sure why Fezzik and Inigo, for example, love each other so dearly, but their Odd Couple charm reminds me of the pull of so many friendships over the course of my own life.
Inigo and Fezzik meet as mercenaries working under a man who is the definition of a bad boss, the Sicilian “genius” Vizzini. Perhaps the two create bad karma when they help Vizzini with his plot to kidnap and kill Buttercup. However, as the story makes clear, the two are good guys who’ve lost their parents and might just exhibit poor judgment when it comes to obeying their abusive employer.
Lose your parents, find an abusive new father figure. It’s a classic story. When we meet them, Inigo and Fezzik have built an amazing connection, a friendship that will eventually include a third, heartbroken warrior, the formerly innocent Farmboy Westley, now the deft Man in Black, aka the current holder of the title “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Personally, I always longed to be part of such a wacky brotherhood, or brother-and-sisterhood, and turned to this movie whenever my life felt as if it were missing the presence of that genuine quirky and supportive friend. Whenever I couldn’t find my Fezzik in real life, I found Fezzik here.
First, Make Friends with Yourself: Meditation
Participating in a great friendship is one of the wonders of life. How do you find one? Are there clear Buddhist rules for when a friendship is at its best, when it aids one’s practice of mindfulness and compassion?
From a Buddhist perspective, a good friendship is one that helps you recall your awakened qualities, qualities that, like muscles, need to be developed through training. These qualities include patience, generosity, and insight.
There are certainly some classic Buddhist guidelines for building healthy friendships. But to understand the Buddhist approach to friendship, you have to start at the beginning.
The key to friendship, to finding your Fezzik, is first to make friends with yourself. Theure is a simple word for this process of accepting your own friend request: that word is meditation. This has nothing to do with leaving the world behind or transcending anything. It has to do with getting to know yourself so that you will be poised to befriend others more fully.
Those who meditate will tell you that meditation brings you more in touch with your aloneness. Mindfulness delivers an experience of the mind that cannot be directly shared by anyone else. Meditation can provoke a lot of restlessness and, on a deeper level, unveil anxiety and fear because the practice points out the raw truth, stripped bare of distractions, that you are, in fact, always alone with your own mind.
The mind that is discovered in meditation is a personal and private space, a movie theater with a seating capacity of one. I often joke that we should serve ourselves popcorn during meditation sessions, because the mind is history’s greatest cinema. Sit up, relax, and enjoy the show.
Sometimes my personal movie is boring, like watching twenty minutes of C-SPAN. At other times, my mind is more rambunctious, like an episode of Game of Thrones. In the theater of self-awareness, you are cowriter, codirector, and audience for your own perceptions, beliefs, and opinions.
If you don’t believe me, put down this magazine, sit tall, and for a few minutes just watch your thoughts dance. Don’t worry about finding the breath (or any other meditation technique you may have encountered). Just let your awareness go wherever your thoughts lead you. Even if you’re bored, there’s actually quite a compelling movie being shown in there—or in “here,” or wherever the mental theater actually “is.”
If you’re going to learn how to befriend other humans, you have to match that effort by befriending yourself.
Something seminal happened to me during a difficult era when I discovered The Princess Bride. I took my first formal class in meditation, a class just for children. I was nine or ten, and found the practice incredibly boring—I didn’t start meditating semi-regularly until high school—but it was a productive boredom, a nonevent that carried tremendous value.
Being silent with the tools of mindfulness introduced me to a feeling of vivid ordinariness. In that space, the seeds were planted for a delayed-release curiosity about the mind. Most of the ordinary magic of meditation was lost on me at the time—I fell in love with the practice only later on—but I remember the value of realizing that I had an entire internal world to explore, my own VHS collection of thoughts and stories, perceptions and projections.
The mind was an inner space that was related to, and yet totally distinct from, the world out there. In fact, my mind was my true home, a home into which others could never be fully invited. Because of this privacy, the mind is a realm equal parts scary and fascinating: one part castle, one part haunted house. I have spent many years since then trying to get to know my mind a bit better, in order to become more genuinely available for the people I know and love.
If you’re going to learn how to befriend other humans, you have to match that effort by befriending yourself. In the course of my life, if I really wanted to “find my people,” I also had to learn how to find myself, if not as my best friend then at least as my first friend. Later on, the existential confusions of puberty and high school made me commit to regular meditation. And the first time I got dumped in college, that’s when I knew I was a Buddhist. During those years, the practice and teachings became indispensable to who I was.
When you meditate, you don’t find instantaneous peace, although practice can definitely guide you into a less tumultuous inner setting, a relative calm within body and mind, at least temporarily. The positive effects of mindfulness techniques on the parasympathetic nervous system have been well documented, both anecdotally and empirically. I trust the accumulated accounts of millions of practitioners more than I trust the objective evidence of scientific studies, but both are quite helpful.
There is, however, one big fairy tale currently being offered up about meditation: the fantasy of transcendence, the possibility of entering a permanent bliss state, an inner paradise devoid of thoughts and feelings.
Some systems of meditation promise a sudden bypassing of all the discomfort of thoughts and emotions, the ability to settle into the same induced ease every single time you sit. While these approaches may have some positive effects on stress levels, I believe they are not as reliable as promised. And even if these versions of meditation are helpful, they miss the real treasure chest of the practice.
The deepest benefit of meditation, for me, is the possibility of befriending the inherent creativity of the mind itself. When you feel at home in your awareness as it is, you have access to the power of your mind as a creative tool. The mind no longer needs to be wrestled or suppressed into peace. When your awareness is like a movie screen, and your thoughts are seen as worthy characters, the mind becomes like a theater. When you watch a movie, would you rather get to know the characters or pretend they don’t exist?
Genuine meditation includes a certain amount of discomfort. Chief among the uncomfortable experiences of meditation, you will eventually discover, are your own Rodents of Unusual Size. In this case, they are Rodents of Unusually Small Size, so small they aren’t even physical entities. These Rodents of Unusually Small Size are negative thoughts, the aggressive commentaries with endless self-critiques that gnaw at you. They’re the thoughts that tell you you aren’t good enough, not properly equipped to be human. These pests try to convince you that you’re probably going to die forgotten and unloved.
No one knows yet where negative thoughts reside physically in brain or body, or where they come from. (They aren’t single origin.) Maybe it’s our advertising culture that forces these Rodents of Unusually Small Size upon us; maybe it’s institutional racism and sexism; maybe it’s inherited trauma from our parental and genetic lineages regarding self-worth; maybe it’s an inheritance from a previous lifetime of confused circumstances. I think it might just be all of the above. Who knows?
Long before anyone knew what the brain looked like or how a nervous system functioned, the Buddha realized an important point. Moment by moment, we don’t need to know exactly where our thoughts live in the brain; we just need to know how to work with them. The set of tools for doing so could collectively be called “mindfulness.” Over time, mindfulness can help you cohabitate your nervous system safely with the Rodents of an Unusually Small Size. With greater familiarity, some of your negative thoughts might become harmless. Some rodents might dissolve into space. Some might even morph into little Mice of Compassion.
The purpose of meditation is to learn to be truly yourself. But if you want to be yourself, you have to invest considerable training in being with yourself.
As I have discovered through my own struggles, if you don’t set aside time for getting to know your mind directly, then in the presence of others your sense of self will get increasingly confused. Without mindfulness, you will always be constructing your sense of self based on others’ perceptions. Why is this externalized experience of self a problem? Because you can’t ever really know for sure what others think of you. You receive only occasional feedback: gestures, glances, comments about who people think you are. These external messages are always subjective, momentary, and indirect, received in pieces, brief exchanges, fragments of interaction.
While you worry what others think, they are caught up in the same game themselves, worrying what you think of them.
So without being able to know what others think of you, you are left to define your sense of self in terms of what you believe others might think about you, which is two degrees of separation from a verified connection with your own mind. Meanwhile, while you worry what others think, they are caught up in the same game themselves, worrying what you think of them.
On top of this indirect experience of self, we often operate from the premise that the messages we receive confirm an underlying suspicion: that there is something fundamentally wrong with us. In a society where the residual belief in original sin is deeply embedded in our secular identity, suspicion of human nature is the cultural air we all inhale.
If you assume that your humanity is somehow flawed, unwholesome, or broken, then you might fear that time spent with others will expose this underlying brokenness. If you engage in friendships from this angle, you will always be relating to friends while hoping to fix the things about yourself that you’re afraid the other person sees. Now you’re several degrees and one big Pit of Despair away from experiencing yourself directly. The solution to this mess is not to abandon other people; it’s to give befriending yourself the same urgency that you give to befriending others.
From The Dharma of the Princess Bride: What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships, published by North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. © 2017 by Ethan Nichtern. All rights reserved.

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But if we really want to improve our understanding of this phenomenon and possibly find ways for mitigation, then we must learn how the phenomenon really works. All the water looks different it's brown and all you could spell it beats this rotting fish. For more information on historical red tide events in Florida, see. Wave action near beaches can break open K. Red tides were documented in the southern Gulf of Mexico as far back as the 1700s and along Florida's Gulf coast in the 1840s. Update: Since this was originally drafted, my in-laws did decide to cancel their vacation. While that in itself is true, the issue is that we need an alternative.
What are the potential effects of hurricanes on red tides? Red tides in Florida can last as little as a few weeks or longer than a year. It can grow based on wind conditions, water temperatures, and other such variables. Some years, it never happens. Winds blowing out to sea and pea soup water. Mortalities of other species, including manatees, dolphins, sea turtles, and birds also occur.
Some swimmers experience skin irritation and rashes after swimming in waters with a severe red tide. Josh That question is impossible to answer - red tide can go quickly or hang around for several days or weeks. The red tide has persisted in Sarasota-Manatee for 16 months, since October of 2017. Nutrients from coastal runoff, chemicals that include phosphorus and nitrogen likely play a role. A sign at Siesta Key beach cautions beachgoers to avoid swimming in the waters affected by red tide. Previous regional status reports and maps can be found on our page.
What do you do if you see sick, injured, stranded, or dead wildlife? Fish kills near Tampa Bay were even mentioned in the records of Spanish explorers. Is it still safe to go to the beach? Further south, low concentrations were found 12 miles off Cayo Costa. They may even subside and then reoccur. Last wk,Coastal cell counts depleted,but reports of respiratory irritation persisted. One of the most frequent symptoms people experience during a Karenia brevis red tide is respiratory irritation. If it gets big and close to shore, it kills fish. What is the projected effect of this red tide on marine life? The duration of a bloom in nearshore Florida waters depends on physical and biological conditions that influence its growth and persistence, including sunlight, nutrients, and salinity, as well as the speed and direction of wind and water currents.
The building has a great pool and a great view. We could book two things and cancel one as it gets closer. Size: The size of the bloom changes from week to week, and it is patchy. Red tide blooms occur when a microscopic alga, Karenia brevis, proliferates in a higher than normal concentration. Since that time, different types of clays have been developed in Asia that have fewer environmental effects.
Red tide felt over the weekend was not accompanied by large fish die-offs seen last summer and fall. This broke up the algae bloom, essentially starving it. That leaves an awful smell. Red tide occurs naturally in coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico with blooms appearing seasonally. Harvesters should check or websites to determine if it safe to harvest shellfish in areas of these states. Red tides form many miles offshore, sometimes causing no impact to humans. People with serious respiratory conditions such as asthma may experience more severe symptoms.
To report an injured, hooked, entangled, or stranded sea turtle, call 1-877-942-5343. Red tides occur less frequently and are less persistent in Texas than in Florida, but have increased in recent years. Other years it happens in small doses. The first thought is many have I know I did is that we can just wait it out and see. How long will this red tide last? Please read signage when you go to area beaches. Latest Red Tide Status Report Available by Phone Call 866-300-9399 at any time from anywhere in Florida to hear a recording about red tide conditions throughout the state.
Infographic Transcript: Red Tide Red tide in Florida and Texas is caused by the rapid growth of a microscopic algae called Karenia brevis. Petersburg, Florida, in January and then spread from there to Pensacola and Naples by October, persisting for the majority of the year. But the connection isn't as clear as it is for other algal blooms, such as the blue-green algae that have recently plagued communities on Florida's east and west coasts. As long as you don't have a serious respiratory disease you should be fine; I read that the red tide bloom can cause respiratory issues in some people. Red tide in Florida and Texas produces a toxin that may have harmful effects on marine life. There is a 30 percent chance of rain on Wednesday, and unlike the previous two low-pressure systems, heavy rain is not anticipated.
When red tide nears a shore, wave action breaks up the Karenia brevis cells, releasing their toxins into the air. A bloom in 2005 and 2006 persisted for 17 months, even longer than this one. Munoz ReadCarlos January 6, 2019 Redtide update: Siesta Beach in Sarasota County has minimal red tide effects. The bulletins also contain forecasts of potential Karenia brevis bloom transport, intensification, and associated respiratory irritation based on the analysis of information from. There were also blooms in 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and smaller blooms in other years.

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Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), Water, Cream, Butternut Squash, Sugar, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Milk Protein Concentrate, Citric Acid, Tomatoes (Dried), Onions (Dried), Spices, Garlic (Dried), Natural Flavoring, Yeast Extract, Sweet Basil Oil.
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MONTGOMERY – Five of Alabama’s community colleges will pilot a private-public partnership for virtual reality education and training with JumpStartAL, a move that further projects the state toward reaching 500,000 highly skilled workers by 2025.
Coastal Alabama Community College, Enterprise State Community College, Jefferson State Community College, Lawson State Community College and Shelton State Community College will serve as the first community colleges in the state to provide virtual reality training and other technology solutions through JumpStartAL. The partnership will use TransfrVR to provide industry-specific job training simulations that use engaging, hands-on instruction to help students master job skills.
Similar to the pilot of the F.A.M.E. (Alabama Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education) apprenticeship program that launched at Alabama’s community colleges two years ago as part of the Department of Labor’s Scaling Apprenticeships grant, JumpStartAL is expected to expand to other colleges over time. Current statewide industry-credentialed partnerships within the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) include Ready to Work, MSSC (Manufacturing Skills Standards Council) and Swift App Development.
“Now, more than ever, we must be engaged in new and inventive ways to train the next generation of skilled workers,” said Alabama Community College System Chancellor Jimmy H. Baker. “Our colleges are committed to meeting students where they are and helping them achieve a better future. Hands-on virtual reality training is a means of achieving that goal.”
JumpstartAL comprehensively uses Ready to Work, along with resources from the ACCS, Alabama Industrial Development Training (AIDT), and the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development to highlight and develop skills and career paths in areas such as manufacturing, healthcare and the hospitality industry. Training delivered through VR is known to provide greater accessibility, lower risk of injury or damage to equipment, higher retention rates, lower training costs and standardized training methods.
“Alabama is focused on the future,” Governor Kay Ivey said. “JumpStartAL will help ensure that we are positioned to attract the jobs of tomorrow by educating and training Alabamians to take advantage of the opportunities those jobs will provide.”
JumpStart AL has already received massive industry input and support statewide. In addition to ACCS, AIDT, the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development, and TransfrVR, partners in the public-private endeavor include Alabama Power; the Business Education Alliance; Altec; Shelby County economic development organization 58 INC; Central Six Alabama Works; and the Alabama Department of Commerce.
“Jumpstarting Alabama’s economy is our top priority,” said Dr. Joe Morton, chairman and president of the Business Education Alliance. “This partnership signifies that key players in our state are working as one to offer innovative training and education that will help Alabama achieve its goals by giving citizens and businesses more opportunities for a prosperous future.”
For more information on JumpStartAL, visit jumpstartal.com.
With 24 community colleges in more than 130 locations, the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) is Alabama’s gateway to first-class, affordable education and technical training to compete in a constantly evolving workforce. More than 168,000 Alabamians benefit from the various certification, credential, dual enrollment and degree programs ACCS offers alongside leading industry partners. The System includes the Alabama Technology Network, which provides extensive training and service offerings directly to business and industry. ACCS is governed by the Alabama Community College System Board of Trustees.

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Procrastination is one of the biggest obstacles to achieving your goals. At the core, the majority of the people know, why they are unable to accomplish what they want. But the real challenge is they are either unable to alter the pattern of completing necessary tasks/activities. The author suggests what should be done to overcome procrastination.
Eat That Frog!
- Each chapter is about 5 to 6 pages
- Techniques to overcome procrastination are included
- A concluding chapter summarizing key points at the end of the book
Eat That Frog !- Why I liked this book?
In an era of information overload and distractions, it is difficult to focus on activities and tasks that are important to achieve goals. This book covers a method with underlying reason of procrastination and techniques to overcome it.
Book is a short read. It contains some 100 odd pages in the paperback edition. You can imagine how concisely this book is authored by Brian Tracy.

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December 21, 2008
Bill Greehey Arena
Arkansas Tech 2-0
Midwestern State 2-0
(#5) Central Oklahoma 1-1
(#24) Harding 1-1
Nebraska Omaha 1-1
Northwest Missouri State 1-1
St. Mary’s 1-1
Southeastern Oklahoma State 1-1
Eastern New Mexico 0-2
(#16) Ouachita Baptist 0-2
Day 2 Results
Game 4: Southeastern Oklahoma State 81, Nebraska-Omaha 80 – overtime
J.R. Moody’s three-pointer with 10 seconds left was the difference as Southeastern Oklahoma State rallied for an 81-80 overtime win against Nebraska-Omaha. William Slones led the way for the Savage Storm with 29 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks. Five Mavericks scored in double figures, led by Justin Peterson with 16 points. UNO led by five points with 1:20 left in regulation, but Slones’ tip-in with two seconds left sent the game into overtime.
Game 3: Midwestern State 77, (#16) Ouachita Baptist 72
Midwestern State rallied from a 12-point deficit to upset 16th-ranked Ouachita Baptist and finish the River City Classic undefeated at 2-0. Nolan Richardson IV scored 30 or more points for the third straight game, the first time that has been done at MSU in over 50 years. Richardson led all players with 32 points on 7-of-14 shooting, including 4-of-8 from three-point range. He also made 14-of-15 shots from the free throw line. Jaranimo Marks led OBU with 21 points in the loss.
Game 2: Arkansas Tech 89, (#5) Central Oklahoma 75
Arkansas Tech sprung the first big upset of the tournament, riding hot shooting from the field, three-point line and free throw line for a convincing win over UCO. With a total of 52 fouls called in the game, the teams combined to shoot 88 free throws. ATU took the majority of the free throws, making 30-of-47. Brandon Freidel scored 18 points and made -of-8 from three-point range. Chad Henderson scored 22 points – with 14 of those coming from the foul line in the win. UCO dropped just its second game of the season, falling to 10-2, while ATU improved to 9-2.
Game 1: Northwest Missouri State 71, Eastern New Mexico 49
The Bearkats shot 59.6 percent from the field, while holding the Greyhounds to just 37.3 percent and cruised to a 71-49 win. With the win NWSU evened its record at 1-1 for the tournament and at 5-5 for the season. ENMU continued it struggles, falling to 0-2 in the tournament and 2-9 for the season. For Bearkats scored in double figures, led by Elijah Allen with 18 points. No Greyhounds reached double figures in scoring, but Dannon Wafer had seven points, 12 rebounds and four steals.


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Somewhat outside that spectrum, folks often confuse temporary fitness
with long-term fitness. Many refer to any change which benefits them,
or is in line with their value system, as evolution. Their "evolution"
may be someone else's "devolution".
James Tauber wrote:
> > James, I wondered the same thing -- is this really evolution, but they
> > the word, quite breathlessly. Dave
> Evolution seems to be a *very* overloaded term.
> At one end of the spectrum (the 'micro' end) it can just mean a shift in a
> gene pool's proportions due to some genes favouring survival (ie natural
> selection / survival of the fittest)
> At the other end (the 'macro' end) it can mean the origin of all species
> from primordial soup.
> Completely different things (although the latter relies on the mechanism of
> the former)
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Let’s get ready to rumble! A trio of mayoral candidates are hours away from hitting the CTV News stage, as a pivotal hour-long debate is tonight’s main course for the supper-hour newscast. Alyson Fair of Bluesky Strategy breaks down what’s at stake for Mark Sutcliffe and Catherine McKenney. Meantime, some pundits argue that Bob Chiarelli and his supporters could be the deciding factor. We explain further in Hour 2. Plus, our Municipal Tour continues with Capital Ward candidate Dan Rogers.


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Bridget Kelly Lives by Her Own Rules in ‘My Kinda Life’ Video [EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE]
Last year, Bridget Kelly left Roc Nation to embark on her musical journey as an independent artist. So far, she's winning with projects like Summer of 17. Now she celebrates her newfound independence in the video for “My Kinda Life.”
“I live by my own rules. I love being out with my friends, laughing, being mischievous. I get a kick out of spontaneity, enjoying the moment! I don't want to have any regrets, I just want to follow my dreams and my heart,” Kelly tells The Boombox of the inspiration behind the song.
In the clip, the 29-year-old New York native does just that. She takes fans behind the scenes of her daily grind, which includes performing for a packed house, indulging in shopping sprees, meeting fans, rushing to the airport and letting loose during sound check.
“Most people think I'm crazy (I might stay out all night) / I talk loud and curse like hell (I won’t apologize) / But if you could get to know me (there's one thing on my mind) / All I wanna do is get my money right (bitch better have my money),” the Grammy Award winner sings.
Director J Williams (she's Hype Williams' niece) does an excellent job of giving an intimate look at how hard the “Special Delivery” singer works to please her dedicated fans.
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Four of Britain’s newest farmhouse and artisan cheeses. All recent creations by makers new to the artisan cheese industry, they are well-worth a try. Oozing soft goats’, supple Wensleydale-style, butter-rich ‘washed-rind’ and creamy sheep’s blue. Full details below.
This box of brand-new British cheeses includes:
Sinodun Hill. Pasteurised goats’ milk, vegetarian. 200g.
Sinodun Hill is one of Britain’s newest and most exciting goats’ cheeses. Made on the farm using their Anglo Nubian goats’ rich milk, this ‘lactic’ cheese has a mousse-like delicate texture and zippy fresh taste with herbaceous goaty finish.
Old Roan. Unpasteurised cows’ milk. 250g.
Based on a traditional old Wensledydale recipe of the north of England. Made by hand by Sam & Ben Spence on their farm in Askrigg. Old Roan is aged for three months, by which time it has the fresh lemony-lactic flavours of a good Wensleydale, with a supple, firmer texture.
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I followed the instructions and after seeing the raspberry pi 4 running after kick off it stops here:
Debian GNU/Linux 10 umbrel tty1
My keyboard and mouse are set up too but I can not type anything (not that I’d know what to type) maybe its the SSD i have not downloaded anything on it yet. Just the microsd has been flashed with the umbrel software.
I removed everything from the Pi maybe I need to restart it but again the ip address is not being recognized
i figured it out it was because I had the network cable direct to the modem and not to the router which the laptop is on wifi network…now its up and asking me for my name and password and seed phrases…think I’m doing it right finally!
There was also a problem for me that I entered from the introduced IP and it was not a problem
In the Guides section of this forum I wrote an extensive guide about how to set a static IP for your node. I strongly recommend reading it.


I posted some less-than-stellar photos from Friday’s beautiful Fantasy of Lights parade. Well, let’s be honest. My photos were pretty pitiful.
But LivingstonTalk.com is lucky enough today to have some great Fantasy of Lights photos from the very talented Susan Pominville.
On behalf of viewers everywhere, I’d like to extend sincere thanks to Susan for showing us all what the parade REALLY looked like!
Be sure to check out Susan’s website featuring beautiful photos from throughout Livingston County, including special events, at www.picturelivingston.com.


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But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
(Isaiah 6:13 KJV)
Title: Living Trees In the Death of Winter
Text: Isaiah 6:13
Subject: Believer’s Compared to Leafless Trees
Date: Sunday Evening – September 3, 1989
Have you ever noticed how frequently the Word of God refers to believers as trees?
Numbers 24:6 – We are described “As gardens by the riverside, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as the cedar trees beside the waters.”
Psalm 1:3 – The believer is compared to “a tree that is planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth fruit in his season,” whose leaf shall not wither.
Psalm 52:8 – David sings, “I am like a green olive tree in the house of God.”
Psalm 92:12 – “The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age: they shall be fat and flourishing.”
Isaiah 61:3 – Believers are “called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8 – “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”
All of these passages of scripture tell us five things about every child of God in this world. Find a believer anywhere in the world, and you will find one of whom these five things are true.
Every believer is a tree planted by God himself in the garden of grace.
Every believer is a tree planted by God himself in the garden of grace.
- Selected in Divine Election.
- Planted in Effectual Redemption.
- Raised to life in Regeneration.
- All of God’s trees are planted by the river of water.
That river of water is Christ, the water of life. Our roots run to him and draw life from him.
- All of God’s trees are fruit bearing trees – (Gal. 5:22-23).
- God’s trees are all planted in groves.
God does not plant trees in isolation. He plants his trees in his own courtyard. And there he tends them.
- And all the trees of the Lord’s planting shall live forever.
Neither heat nor drought shall consume them. The hotter the day and dryer the ground the more the trees of God’s planting spread their roots out to Christ, the water of life.
Yet, even the trees of God’s planting must endure the blasts of winter. Turn to Isaiah 6:13 – My subject tonight is Living Trees In the Death of Winter.
Isaiah was sent to preach the gospel to a people who would not hear him, to proclaim grace to a nation that would not repent. Because Israel would not harken to the voice of the Lord, their destruction was certain. When Isaiah heard of the desolations of Israel, he cried, “Lord, how long?” How long will my people refuse to hear? How long will you pour out your wrath upon the nation?
God told the prophet that he would not cease from his anger until the nation was utterly wasted, desolate, and barren. “But,” least Isaiah be overcome with despair, the Lord said, “yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten.” Though Nebuchadnezzar carried away the nation of Israel, a very small remnant of poor, feeble men and women were allowed to return to tend the land. As always, there was a remnant according to the election of grace. However, even this small elect remnant, this tenth, was nearly destroyed, eaten up and consumed, by the trials it had to endure.
It became like “a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.” The teil tree is one of those trees that holds its green foilage all year long, except in very severe winters. Then, even the teil looses its leaves. And the oak, of course, looses its leaves every fall, as winter approaches. In the death of winter, the trees stand naked and bare, even brittle. There is not a sign of life upon them. Yet, the substance of life is still in the tree. That is the picture God gives us of his people in this world.
Proposition: God’s people in this world do, in the death of their winters shed their leaves; but the substance of life remains in them.
Divisions: I want to make three applications of our text to…
- The Nation of Israel.
- The Church of God.
- Every Individual Believer.
- First, our text is to be applied to THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
When God spoke these words to Isaiah, the immediate reference was to the physical seed of Abraham, the Jewish people, the nation of Israel. When the Jews were carried away into Babylonian captivity, the Lord God reserved a remnant to himself. It was a very small remnant. But there was a remnant according to the election of grace. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego would not bow to the king’s idol, and Daniel would not cease to worship the Lord his God. These men represented God’s remnant, the holy seed. The substance of grace was in them. And they were the substance of the nation. For their sake Israel was not annihilated. From that remnant God raised up the nation again. And the Lord God still has a remnant according to the election of grace among the Jews.
The Jewish nation has been cast off. The Jewish church has been destroyed. I do not suggest for a moment that God will ever re-establish Judaism, temple worship, or a Jewish millennial kingdom. But God does have an elect remnant among the Jews whom he will save, who shall be grafted into Christ by faith – (Rom. 11:5, 23, 25, 26).
- They have been Chosen of God.
- They have been Redeemed by Christ.
- They shall be Called by the Spirit.
Though the nation as a whole is cast off and become desolate, because of their willful rejection of Christ and the gospel of his grace, the Jews have not been destroyed. Why? Because God will yet be merciful to his elect among the Jews. That is the first application of our text.
- Without question, if the text applies to the nation of Israel, it certainly applies to THE CHURCH OF GOD, of which the Jewish church was but a shadow and type.
The Church of Christ is the Israel of God, the seed of Abraham, the true circumcision, and the heirs of the covenant, promises, and blessings of God – (Phil. 3:6; Gal. 6:16; 3:7; Rom. 2:28-29).
The professed, visible church of God today is very much like the nation of Israel in Isaiah’s day. Our history is written in blood. We have had to endure the purging fires of bitter persecution. Our forefathers were beaten, banished, imprisoned, tortured, sawn asunder, and burned at the stake, not for crimes they had committed, but for the gospel we believe! The pope and the Church of Rome are as much covered with the blood of God’s saints as the Jews are with the blood of his dear Son.
Thank God, those days of cruelty and physical persecution are, for the time being, behind us. But a far more dangerous trial is now working havoc in the visible, professed church of God. Like Israel of old, the church today has almost universally accepted the gods of the world, mixing the religion of antichrist with the gospel of Christ. These are days of darkness. Apostacy abounds. You cannot drive a half mile in any city in this country without seeing a church building, erected in the name of Christ. But where can you find a place where Christ is honored and the gospel of his grace is preached? In most places, if they should happen to have any preaching at all it is all free-will, works, morality, and patriotism. The prophecy of Amos has come to pass (Amos 8:9, 11-12).
Yet, there is a remnant, perhaps no more than one in ten, but a remnant nonetheless who have not bowed to Baal. They may seem to be lost in the crowd. Their voices may not be heard. But these are the trees of the Lord’s planting. These are the church within the church. The substance of grace is in them. And they are the substance of the church.
Things are bad. But there is no cause for despair, or alarm. The kingdom of God is safe.
- Abounding heresies will not destroy God’s elect, but only prove them (I Cor. 11:19).
- God will cause the trees of his planting to flourish in the season he has appointed (Rev. 11:3, 4, 11, 12).
As the Lord God has an elect remnant among the Jews, he also has an elect remnant in the apostate church of the twentieth century. And in his time the trees of the Lord shall spread their branches.
III. In the third place, I want to show you how this text applies to EVERY INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER.
God’s people in this world do not always live on the mountain top. We spend a good bit of time in the valley, or climbing up a hill. It is not summer all the year round for us. We do have our spring times and our harvests. But we also have our summer droughts and winter freezes. And in the death of winter, it is very difficult to tell dead trees from living ones, because in the winter time even the livings trees lose their leaves.
- In the winter time, I mean the soul’s winter, spiritual winter, God’s children often lose their comforts, evidences, and assurance.
The young and weak believer often places too much emphasis upon his experiences and evidences of grace. He places too much weight upon himself. When he has good experiences of love, joy, faith, and worship, he is full of comfort. When he has great evidences of grace, he has great assurance – we must learn to trace all things regarding spiritual life to its original source, Christ. Therefore, our God wisely and graciously sends the drought of summer and the blasts of winter. These things strip away our leaves. But they cause the roots of life to stretch out to Christ, the hidden river of water, and become stronger. In such times, the Lord is teaching us to live by faith.
“If today, He deigns to bless us
With a sense of pardoned sin,
He tomorrow may distress us,
Make us feel the plague within;
All to make us sick of self and fond of him.”
- Often believers lose their leaves and go through a lone, hard, barren winter by reason of personal sin.
This is a subject that must be handled with care. But it must be faced. Some who once stood in the garden of the Lord full of beautiful foliage, abounding with fruit, have lost their foliage and become barren, by reason of personal sin, the love of the world, the neglect of Christ, or some other evil. Perhaps some of you are like that. Now hear me – I would do nothing to encourage these evils or to encourage anyone in them. But, if they are trees of the Lord’s planting, though they may appear dead and barren, if they are of the Lord’s planting, they are still trees in his garden. He will prune them with his sharp pruning knife. But he will never cut them down.
- You see, though the trees cast their leaves in the winter, the substance of life is still in them – (Read the text again).
No man can tell, by outward appearance, or by inspecting the fruit, whether a tree is dead. In the death of winter, they all look dead. The only way to tell whether it is alive or dead is to look inside. That is where the substance of life is. And no one can see the substance of life but God himself.
This is what I am saying. You and I do not have any way of knowing who is saved and who is lost. We cannot tell the difference between wheat and tares, sheep and goats, living trees and dead trees.
Illustration: A little patience – (Luke 13:6-9).
- Lot had a long and barren winter, but the Substance of life was in him.
- David had a long and barren winter, but the Substance of life was in him.
- Peter had a horrible time of barrenness, but the Substance of life was in him.
The Substance of life is Christ himself (Col. 1:27).
- Faith in Christ.
- Love for Christ.
Thomas Brooks was right when he said, “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, be his sins never so many; but he that believeth not shall be dammed, be his sins never so few.”
- The winter time is necessary for the usefulness of fruit bearing trees.
Trees in the tropics, apple trees, produce apples. But they are mushy and tasteless. To get good apples, you have to go to a climate where the seasons are distinct. I do not know the biological reasons for that. But I know that those trees of the Lord’s planting in this earth must have their winters to bear fruit – (Rom. 5:3-5).
That child of God who has come through great trial is better off for it. And that believer who has been restored from some fall grows, even by the fall.
- Salvation is entirely the work of God’s grace.
- God’s work of grace is inward, not outward.
- The grace of God is everlasting.
- Is the Substance of Life in you? Do you, or do you not trust Christ? That is the issue you must settle.


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A federal court on Monday shot down Alabama’s newly proposed Congressional district map over concerns it underrepresents minority voters, WBRC reports.
The three-judge panel sided unanimously with plaintiffs in redistricting lawsuits by ruling that they’re likely to prove “Black voters have less opportunity than other Alabamians to elect candidates of their choice to Congress.” As it currently stands, the newly-drawn map likely violates a section of the Voting Rights Act, the court stated.
Evan Milligan, a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits, argued the proposed congressional map “fails Alabama’s voters of color,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama.
Milligan added, “We deserve to be heard in our electoral process, rather than have our votes diluted using a map that purposefully cracks and packs Black communities.”
The federal judges have given the state two weeks to draw up another map that “will need to include two districts in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it.”
If the state legislature doesn’t meet the Feb. 11 deadline to provide a new map proposal, the court will provide “an eminently qualified expert” to do so.
Alabama’s Attorney General reportedly says he plans to appeal the court’s decision, notes WBRC.

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NHRC Deputes Special Human Rights Observer To West Bengal For Upcoming Panchayat Polls
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo-motu cognizance of a media report about the incidents of elections related violence in West Bengal and has decided to depute the Director General (Investigation) of the Commission, as Special Human Rights Observer.
The Observer will apprise the Commission of the recent incidents and conduct an on the spot survey of the State in consultation with the State Election Commission (SEC) to identify sensitive constituencies where such violence is likely to occur in relating to the upcoming panchayat polls.
In its press release, the NHRC cites the recent incident in Purba Medinipur district, where a 60 years old political activist was allegedly abducted and killed. It also mentions the alleged kidnapping of activist Sanjay Tanti who was reportedly forcefully taken to an undisclosed location where he was severely beaten up by rival political workers. It mentions another incident where a political leader, Rajendra Shaw from Asansol (Paschim Bardhaman) was shot dead on a National Highway.
"Reportedly, there have been many other incidents of violence occurring in the State wherein workers of the contesting parties have clashed with each other and the 2018 rural elections are considered one of the most violent and bloody elections in the State of West Bengal. ...this as a serious issue impacting human rights, the Commission has found it appropriate and necessary to take preemptive steps in time to prevent and inhibit in advance any form of human rights violation of the citizens with a view to uphold inalienable and indefeasible right to life and livelihood, so guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution to preserve larger public interest", the NHRC says.
Once the sensitive areas are identified by the Observer, he will submit a comprehensive report to the Commission for deployment of Micro Human Rights Observers in all the sensitive constituencies in the state during and after the panchayat polls either by engaging the Special Rapporteurs or Special Monitors of the Commission etc., with a solo objective to protect basic human rights of the people by ensuring no violence takes place in Panchayat Election.
The NHRC has also issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, West Bengal to provide assistance to the Director General of NHRC and also ensure that law and order is maintained within the State during the entire process of Panchayat polls starting from filing nomination papers till the time result is declared and also subsequent days. An action taken report is also to be submitted within two weeks.
The Commission has also issued notice to the Secretary, West Bengal State Election Commission "for taking effective steps so as to ensure no human rights violations pre and post panchayat polls which includes modalities to facilitate the NHRC Director General (Investigation) in identifying sensitive districts/areas of the State in West Bengal where there may the need to deploy micro human rights observers of the Commission and an action taken report to be submitted within two weeks".

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Jeanne Anais Castellan (1819-c.1858) was a French soprano. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Giulio Bordogni, Adolphe Nourrit and Laure Cinti-Damoreau. She began her stage career in Italy, appearing at Varese in 1837, and later at Turin, Bergamo, Rome, Milan and Florence, where in 1840 she married the singer Enrico Giampetro. She made her London debut at a Philharmonic concert in 1844, and appeared in her first London role of Lucia, a year later. She chose the same role for her debuts at the Theatre-Italien, Paris (1847), and Covent Garden (1848). At the Paris Opera in 1849 she sang Berthe in the premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Le Prophete', and the following year she was particularly successful at Covent Garden in 'Mose' and 'Nabucco'.
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For a group of students so focused on working to create beautiful, flawless music, the Carson City-Crystal High School Band sure has made a lot of noise this year. That noise, of course, is what has followed its majestic, grandiose performances — the cheering, hugging, crying and shear excitement of coming out on top again and again.
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This year’s class of graduates at Montcalm Community College were reminded of the importance of two things as they enter the job market: a firm handshake and a willingness to thank those who have helped get them where they are today.
The Montcalm Area Intermediate School District millage vote on Tuesday may say “special education” on the ballot, but the issue affects all children in Montcalm County. Tuesday’s proposal will ask voters whether to restore the MAISD’s special ed millage — currently 2.1878 mills — to 2.50, as well as add another mill for a total of 3.50 mills.
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In association with Arbor Day, and achieving Ellis Elementary School’s goal of achieving “Green School” status, students at the school planted trees and flowers throughout the school grounds Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday, voters within the Carson City-Crystal Area Schools district will decide whether the district will receive a major overhaul to the tune of nearly $11 million in the form of a bond proposal.
Funeral notices for Friday, May 2, 2014
It hardly seems possible that it is May already and another school year is winding down. Although parents and the community have been very understanding and supportive of the added days needed before school recesses due to the many snow days, you do hear an occasional lament about summer starting so late.
On Tuesday, voters will be asked to continue funding a service for some of our most worthy citizens. The Montcalm County Commission on Aging serves our local senior citizens, many of whom live below the poverty level.


text: Abstract: The cork oak forests of Theniet-El-Had Wilaya Tissemssilt (west of Algéria) form an integral part of the territory of the National Park. They are situated mainly in the south side of the park to a maximum altitude of 1575 m. This work consists of a study on the current state of the cork oak forests abandoned for decades. The methodology is to install during 2012 circular plots of 5 acres surface. In total 23 units are installed environmental samples exposure, altitude, topography and slope) and dendrometric (circumference, total height) are harvested. The trees have an average height rarely exceeding 8 m and an average thickness of 0.70 m. The stands have a very low regeneration and irregular structure characterized by a poor distribution of stems, the result of a long absence of appropriate silvicultural treatments. In addition almost 80% of inventoried stems are not harvested (the last operation dates back to 1994). The rehabilitation of the cork oak forests of Theniet El Had based on a thorough knowledge on tree growth factor and its variability (typology of stands and fertility index) and cork’s productivity.


Dancing with the Stars' five female twelfth-season celebrities will be actress and former Kirstie Alley's Big Life star Kirstie Alley, Disney Channel star Chelsea Kane, model and former A Model Life star Petra Nemcova, Kendra and former The Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson, and daytime talk show host Wendy Williams.
The six male celebrities will be Loveline radio show host Mike Catherwood, WWE wrestler Chris Jericho, retired boxer and former The Contender host Sugar Ray Leonard, actor and The Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio, rapper Romeo, and NFL football star Hines Ward.
"One contestant who couldn't be here tonight because truthfully, she's speaking at the U.N., supermodel survivor Petra Nemcova," Bergeron said as he announced Nemcova's participation.
Romeo -- who used to go by Lil' Romeo -- will be the first contestant in Dancing with the Starshistory to attempt one season, withdraw from the competition, and then later return to participate in another edition. Romeo withdrew from the show's second season, which aired in early 2005, due to a basketball injury and was replaced by his dad, Master P.
In addition, Kirstie Alley previously turned down numerous offers to compete on prior seasons ofDancing with the Stars, but has finally decided to accept the opportunity.
"Kirstie, we've asked you to be on before. Why now?" Bergeron asked Alley.
"Hmm, why? I don't know. Pass that to someone else," Alley joked.
"Ooh," Burke said,
"Bam!" Alley teased.
"So you're already acing the group participation part," Bergeron said.
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All 11 celebrities will perform a foxtrot or cha cha routine with their professional partner during the premiere, and the couple with the lowest combination of the judges' scores and home viewer votes will be eliminated the following week on Tuesday, March 29 at 9PM ET/PT during Dancing with the Stars' twelfth season's first one-hour live results show.


California farmers relying on State Water Project water were warned Monday to prepare for potential shortages by reducing water use and adopting practical conservation measures.
Reservoir and groundwater levels are significantly below average, and despite recent storms, snowpack is only 58% of average as of March 10.
The warning to 44,000 users with water rights from the state project came weeks after the South San Joaquin Irrigation District advised growers they could face possible restrictions if the water year that started on Oct. 1 continued on a path that would create two back-to-back dry years.
As of Monday the entire Stanislaus River basin was considered to be in moderate drought based on the United States Department of Agriculture Drought Monitor.
The SSJID and Oakdale Irrigation District rely on the Stanislaus River watershed for their water. The SSJID share of that water also helps provide drinking water to Manteca, Lathrop, and Tracy.
The two districts do not receive any State Water Project Water. Tracy does receive some of its city water from the state system. Urban users aren’t typically placed on rationing until after agricultural users.
After two years of below average precipitation, state water officials don’t expect the April 1 snow survey to reveal significant improvement in the water supply outlook this year. April 1 is typically the peak of California’s snowpack, which in an average year provides 30% of the state’s water supply.
“Planting crops and other decisions that are dictated by water supply are made early in the year, so early warnings are vital,” said Erik Ekdahl, deputy director for the Water Board’s Division of Water Rights. “These letters give water users time to prepare and help minimize the impacts of reduced supplies on businesses, farms and homes.”
Agricultural water users can implement practical actions now to improve their drought resilience, including reducing irrigated acreage, managing herd size, using innovative irrigation and diversifying water supply portfolios. Urban water users can conserve by putting in drought-resistant landscape, reducing outdoor irrigation and replacing older house fixtures and appliances with more efficient ones.