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Selected works from June 1-30, 2018
Since childhood, I’ve searched for my own language and expression. I grew up in the wilds of northern Manitoba, on a lake. I now find myself living on Lake Winnipeg and experiencing this amazing lake in all her glory and intimacy. I cannot help but try to capture her moods, because they mirror mine.
Colour, it’s fluidity and depth, are the focus of my watercolour and mixed media paintings.
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary”
I am delighted to share with you my colour journal entitled
Join us for an evening of celebration Wednesday, June 6th from 7pm-9 pm

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GIA Career Fair Returns to Carlsbad
The Gemological Institute of America also announced plans for events in New York and London in 2023.
The event is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 30. Admission is free, and the event is open to the public.
The day starts at 9 a.m. PDT with keynote speaker Mark Buntz, GIA senior vice president and chief marketing officer.
Buntz, who worked in sports before transitioning into jewelry, will share his thoughts on what makes a career in the jewelry industry so alluring.
Recruiting for jobs nationwide and career coaching will follow Buntz’s presentation.
GIA has a list on its website of the recruiters scheduled to attend the career fair as well as the openings that are available.
The day closes at 3:30 p.m. PDT with GIA Vice President of Business Development Richard Pesqueira moderating a panel of industry professionals on the state of the jewelry industry.
Panelists are: Mark Smelzer, chief content executive at Jewelers Mutual; Taylor Burgess, senior vice president of customer experience at Stuller; and Kathy Mizani, senior category manager of fine jewelry at eBay.
GIA’s career fair “creates a unique space where you can seek opportunities that match your skills and propel your career,” said GIA President and CEO Susan Jacques. “Whether you have sales, education, IT or bench jewelry skills, there is something for everyone with amazing companies looking for talent.”
GIA held its first career fair in Santa Monica, California, in 1991 and has since expanded with events in India, Las Vegas, London, and New York.
The Sept. 30 career fair will be its first in Carlsbad since the pandemic, and GIA plans to follow with fairs in New York and London next year.
For more information and to register for the Carlsbad event, visit GIA.edu/Career-Fair, and follow @GIANews on Twitter for updates.
He is remembered by loved ones for his loyalty, integrity, and kindness.
Joyce’s Jewelry sued the bank after cybercriminals drained its accounts of nearly $1.6 million through a series of wire transfers.
Hosted by Freeman’s | Hindman, the sale will take place May 7-8.
With Ho Brothers, you can unlock your brand's true potential and offer customers the personalized jewelry experiences they desire.
The auction house said all 24 timepieces offered in its underground sale of rare and avant-garde watches quickly found buyers.
For over 30 years, JA has advocated for the industry, fought against harmful legislation and backed measures that help jewelry businesses.
The charm is a modern rendition of the evil eye amulet that has been worn for thousands of years.
Ahead of its trade show next month, TJS awarded free registration and accommodations to one jewelry professional and three students.
Members can still sell lab-grown stones, it said, but only natural gems are allowed on the show floor.
He is remembered for his charisma, passion, integrity, kindness, and wit.
The bridal collection consists of 35 engagement rings and seven wedding bands.
There is a willingness to comply with new government-mandated regulations, with an insistence that they should be practical and realistic.
The program, now live in Europe, will roll out to the U.S. this summer.
The point-of-sale software can now prompt customers to round up their credit card purchases as a donation to Jewelers for Children.
The zone’s modernization will enhance and increase India’s jewelry manufacturing capabilities while aiding small and mid-sized businesses.
Select independent jewelers and retailers can now purchase moissanite through Charles & Colvard Direct.
Amber Rank of Exclusively Diamonds will receive mentorship, registration to AGS’s 2024 Conclave, and $500.
The auction will take place Thursday and is underground, literally.


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Riots I Have Known, the short, electric, uproarious, and biting debut novel by Ryan Chapman is a real-time confession, set during a prison riot, in a high-comic pitch, a voice-driven narrative in the tradition of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger.
It is present-day Dutchess County, New York, where an unnamed Sri Lankan inmate has barricaded himself inside a computer lab while a riot rages outside, incited by an article published in the prison’s literary journal, The Holding Pen. As he awaits imminent interruption by the growing crowd of guards, prisoners, and news crews on the other side of the doors, he takes us on a confessional roller-coaster of plot and language, exploring not only his life in and out of the clink but also asking himself the important questions: How did an enterprising Sinhalese end up here? Should he have remained a quiet Park Avenue doorman? Are his beloved few possessions safe in E Block? What will become of The Holding Pen, a “masterpiece of post-penal literature” favored by Brooklynites everywhere? Meanwhile he reveals how his actions have inadvertently led to the chaos around him.
Smart, wry, and laugh-out-loud funny, Ryan Chapman’s Riots I Have Known is an utter gem of contemporary social satire—an approachable and accessible send-up that packs a punch. “Hilarious, original, and cunningly wrought, Ryan Chapman has written a rocket-powered ode to literary creation and mass incarceration. Weaving satire and seriousness into a singularly rambunctious monologue, rollicking and oddly recognizable at once, Riots I Have Known is a breath of fresh air” (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Intimations).
About the Author
Ryan Chapman has written for GQ.com, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed, BOMB Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in Kingston, New York. Riots I Have Known is his first novel.
"Savage, fearless, and funny as hell, Riots I Have Known also possesses, not so strangely, a poignant core. In this mother of all editor’s notes, Ryan Chapman creates a narrative voice that is by turns tender, cruel, profane, wildly inventive and, finally, unforgettable."—Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask and Home Land
“With Riots I Have Known, Ryan Chapman has delivered a keen satire of America’s criminal justice crisis. The novel is remarKable for many things not the least of which are its wit, humor, and masterful language. I was impressed again and again, and I wager so to will readers with working hearts and brains.” —Mitchell S. Jackson, award-winning author of Survival Math
“Ryan Chapman’s Riots I Have Known joins Rachel Kushner’s Mars Room on the short list of truly remarkable American prison novels. Chapman’s debut is literally riotous: an improbably beguiling, utterly ribald provocation, something like Lenny Bruce’s “Father Flotsky’s Triumph” as retold by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man.” – Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude
"Riots I Have Known is a multivalent title: Ryan Chapman’s debut is about a prison riot, unfurls a riot of word-drunk prose, and, most of all, is itself a riot, a virtuoso vocal performance of acidic seriocomedy whose forebears are Thomas Bernhard’s discursive monologues, Frederick Exley’s deadpan wit, and Kafka’s Kafkaesqueness, but which is ultimately, as they say, all Chapman’s own. It’s hard to find a single sentence that isn’t polished to a brilliant luster in this lacerating shiv of a novel." —Teddy Wayne, author of Loner
"Hilarious, original, and cunningly wrought, Ryan Chapman has written a rocket-powered ode to literary creation and mass incarceration. Weaving satire and seriousness into a singularly rambunctious monologue, rollicking and oddly recognizable at once, Riots I Have Known is a breath of fresh air." —Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“Riots I Have Known moves at breakneck pace as a pent-up con runs free across every page. Chapman is his very own, and this is a book readers will devour.” —Amelia Gray, author of Gutshot and Isadora
“Riots I Have Known is a wild yawp from the literary frontier that brings to mind both Roberto Bolaño and Thomas Bernhard. It is relentless, hilarious, and unabashedly smart. It's my new favorite manifesto and I loved every last page.” —Scott Cheshire, author of High as the Horses’ Bridles
“Ryan Chapman is an exceptional stylist, and his range of reference runs from Fredric Jameson and Kafka to Carly Rae Jepsen and Kinfolk. Riots I Have Known is a smart, rambunctious, and (it just so happens) riotously funny debut novel. It's a book you don't so much read as ride like a roller coaster—i.e. very quickly, while hanging on for dear life and maybe screaming—and as soon as it's over you'll want to ride again.” —Justin Taylor, author of Flings
“Had Humbert Humbert started a literary journal from prison and penned a jailbreak scene with the spectacular absurdity of the one in Natural Born Killers, there would be a clear antecedent for Riots I Have Known. As it is, Ryan Chapman's book is fiercely original, darkly hilarious, and morally complex. Strong voice, both sympathetic and sharp as a shiv, calls the reader farther and farther into a prison on fire. Chapman's ability to play simultaneously in the two keys of gleeful wit and menace reminded me of Aravind Adiga's polytonality in White Tiger.” —Will Chancellor, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall

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WHEN Gold Coast knee surgeon Dr Chris Vertullo started practising 15 years ago, major knee injuries in the young were something he rarely saw. But over time, he started to notice a worrying increase in parents bringing their children in with torn anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) that needed surgery. In his practice, ACL injury presentations in children aged 15 years and younger went up from the odd case every now and then to around two per week in more recent years. And the trend is not just specific to Australia.
“When I’ve been to meetings around the world, it’s been increasingly discussed among colleagues that we were seeing an epidemic of significantly severe knee injuries in young people,” Dr Vertullo says in an exclusive podcast. “The problem is that if you get other injuries, such as a corked thigh for instance, it doesn’t have significant long-term consequences. But if you tear your ACL, and particularly if you also tear your meniscus when you’re 15 years old, you have a very high chance of needing a knee replacement in later years.”
Dr Vertullo’s observations motivated him and his colleagues to author a major new study looking at the incidence and rate of ACL reconstructions in young Australians, now published in the MJA. The study, which captured data from virtually all ACL reconstructions in Australia from 2000 to 2015, has troubling findings. The annual incidence increased by 43% over the period, but by 74% among people under the age of 25 years. In males, peak incidence was in 20–24-year-olds, while in females, it was in 15–19-year-olds. Growth in incidence was actually highest in the youngest group, the 5–14 year-olds. And not only is the rate of ACL reconstructions increasing, so is the rate of revision surgery, at an even faster pace. All in all, the study found that Australia had the highest incidence of ACL reconstructions in the world.
Professor Julian Feller, a Melbourne-based orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in ACL injuries, describes the study’s findings as “not surprising at all”.
He’s had the same experience as Dr Vertullo, finding a startling increase in the number of young people coming into his surgery with ACL injuries.
“I get parents coming in with their 14-year-old, and they say ‘but this is crazy, how do 14-year-olds tear their ligament?’ Looking back on their own childhood, they don’t remember kids with knee injuries that stopped them playing. It’s a new thing.”
So, what has changed to cause this epidemic of ACL injuries, and why is Australia the world leader?
Professor Feller says the particularly high incidence in Australia may be down to the combination of sports we play, in particular team sports like AFL, netball, touch rugby and soccer that require a lot of pivoting and which put particular pressure on knee ligaments. Additionally, in Australia, people continue to be involved in organised sports once they leave school, while in other countries there is more of a drop-off.
But as for the question of the spectacular increase in injuries in recent years, Professor Feller, who co-authored the International Olympic Committee consensus statement on prevention, diagnosis and management of paediatric ACL injuries, points the finger at our risk-averse culture of child rearing.
“Nowadays, when kids play sport, they do it as a very specific part of the day. At other times, they can be quite sedentary, with lots of screen time. They’re not mucking around kicking a football in the playground as much. We’ve discouraged them from climbing trees or jumping off the garden shed, we’ve made the playground safe so nothing can happen. We’re so worried about kids injuring themselves that we’ve stopped them learning a lot of landing and balancing skills they would have otherwise learned.”
Professor Feller says that another related issue is the increasing average weight of children, which puts added pressure on the knees. And there’s also the way children’s sports have evolved, he says.
“The intensity of sport has gone up a bit. There’s more pressure from parents and others to win, which has led to more training at a higher intensity. But we haven’t prepared our kids to play this kind of sport. Whereas before, sport was just one element of a very active day, now it’s a specific period of a much less active day.”
Professor Feller concedes that the cultural factors in the way children play today are going to be hard to change. But he says that there are preventive training programs that have been shown to lower rates of ACL injuries. He points to Football Federation Victoria’s FIFA 11+ program as one example. The program consists of a specially designed warm-up which includes specific strengthening exercises and drills designed to improve strength in the lower limbs and core, and improve neuromuscular control and awareness throughout a range of motions.
“There are other iterations for netball and other pivoting team sports that have been proven to reduce incidence of primary ACL rupture. But they’re not always being incorporated into training sessions and that’s what’s got to happen and one thing we can certainly change. They need to be part of standard warm-up, two or three times a week. It’s not a learned behaviour that carries over without practice. You need to keep doing it each session.”
Professor Feller says that another area that needs focus is the rising rates of revision surgery. He says a known risk factor is younger age, but other risk factors are unclear.
“The problem here is that we don’t know how to determine when it’s safe to go back to sport after a reconstruction. Graft ruptures tend to happen within 18 months after surgery, so one line of thinking is people should wait a couple of years before returning to sport. But that’s 2 years of not doing pivoting activities, so you wonder whether that’s counterproductive. Understanding when it’s safe is important, and if that means a longer time, then so be it. But we need a lot more research on this.”
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MP3 Cat's A Bear - Eye Of The Pyramid
Electronic Funk-Jazz with eclectic rhythms, funky bass-lines and groove-based harmonies.
8 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Fusion, URBAN/R&B: Funk
Hot guitar leads, slamming electronic drum solos, funky bass-lines and jazz sensibilities...
The opening strains of Eye of the Pyramid will bring you into the groove of the title track of this third Cat''s A Bear CD. Originally produced in 1989, the music on this disk is partly-sequenced, funk-based jazz. You begin your journey with Cat''s A Bear''s take on a conventional funk feel in Eye, followed by The Current Sea, a shuffle-like groove in 25:16 time. Bearskin Rug adds ten, and begins in 35:16 time, with solos in 9:4. All of this will leave you rhythmically ready to relax into Theme For Eric And Eric, where the melodies carry the intensity.
Showing they are not shy of conventional time, Cat''s A Bear duo Joe Dorris and Frank Singer take you through Ceiling Street, with an extended solo by Singer on keyboard synthesiser. Double Felix gives drummer Dorris a chance to show you his electronic chops in a drum feature, contrasted by the ballad section of this tune with Singer''s jazz-guitar sound.
Following this is the classic first recording of Bill''s B.S., here titled William''s Overture. This tune appears on Cat''s A Bear''s Tito: In Search of a Revolution disk, currently available on CD Baby. Closing off the set is Frank''s Lament, also titled Frank''s B.S., a partner to the previous tune. This tune moves you in an easy 7:4 funk feel, with intricate melodies and lush harmonies throughout.
Eye of the Pyramid gives you sixty minutes of classic electronic Cat''s A Bear, a duo that actually played live for many years before Dorris and Singer paired up with Tony Stefanelli and Phil Papotnik, and, of course, TITO. This CD threads conventional aspects of contemporary music with Cat''s A Bear''s distinct approach to jazz, and will find you pushing play again, or adding Eye of the Pyramid to your favorite CD carriage.
CAT''S A BEAR:
https://www.tradebit.com - TITO IN WONDERLAND
https://www.tradebit.com - TITO: IN SEARCH OF A REVOLUTION
JD AND THE SONS OF RHYTHM: (Frank, Tony)
https://www.tradebit.com - QUANTUM EVENTS
https://www.tradebit.com - MUSIC FROM ANOTHER PLANET
https://www.tradebit.com - PRIMATE GESTURES
https://www.tradebit.com - FAMILY VALUES
https://www.tradebit.com - oFF tHE tOP: standards 1
https://www.tradebit.com - GENERATIONS STRING QUARTET
https://www.tradebit.com - THE WORLD TODAY


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Make light work of packing for short trips with this Samsonite Lite-Shock Spinner Cabin Case.Ideal for business and overnight travel, this Samsonite suitcase boasts a shock-absorbing shell design and robust corners, to ensure that your belongings are well protected and taken care of.
The ultra lightweight outer shell is inspired by nature, and decorated with a ripple-effect pattern that appears when dropping a stone into water.
With a 36L capacity, it's the perfect size for short trips. Smooth rolling wheels and comfortable carry handles ensure easy manoeuvrability and hassle-free lifting too.
Complete with an innovative one-slot lock and integrated ID tag, this bag will give you the peace of mind you need while travelling. A matching medium case (KAT6M) and large case (KAT3U) are also available.


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Dr John Puppy Chicken Recipe Dog Food – 10kg
Dr. John Puppy is a complete feeding stuff specifically for puppies of sporting & working breeds.
Rich in chicken (22%).
Balanced for growth with optimum levels of protein & bone minerals.
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Economist Lanny Ebenstein. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times) (Michael Robinson Chavez,…)
Better than a bribe
Re "Patt Morrison Asks: Lanny Ebenstein," Opinion, Oct. 15
Lanny Ebenstein's attack on public pensions is penny wise and pound foolish. Some public pensions are excessive and, worse, underfunded. Those should be renegotiated. But there is a good reason to provide decent pensions for public employees.
Public pensions were created to give public servants a larger stake in their jobs than any bribe could replace. Public servants are exposed to great temptations, and there are people who would pay to have a police officer avoid a certain place at a certain time. Others are willing to buy off a building inspector.
A good pension diminishes the temptation to take dirty money. The pensions also help to attract high-quality employees.
Public pensions are an easy target when private workers have lost their pensions. Still, they are the wrong target, and over time, getting rid of them will damage the quality of our public service.
The writer is an associate professor emerita of public administration at USC.
Banning collective bargaining for public sector employees doesn't go far enough. Courts have said that taxpayers cannot get out of paying outrageous pensions already promised to government workers, even if cities, states and counties declare bankruptcy.
The only workable solution would be to heavily tax those pensions. If public employees had to subsist on the same benefits as the rest of us, there would be more people interested in improving the benefits we all receive.
Ebenstein says that public employee benefits are unsustainable. The fact is that private sector salaries and benefits have been decreasing as companies moved jobs overseas, putting pressure on governments to do the same with salaries and benefits.
The right wing has escalated these attacks as it protects the rich, whose taxes have decreased.
Public employee benefits would be sustainable if taxes were raised on those who can afford to pay more. This would in turn put upward pressure on private sector salaries.
San Luis Obispo
Putting too much weight on scores
Re "Principals to see teacher ratings," Oct. 16
The Times quotes Education Secretary Arne Duncan as saying, "I think dropout rates matter. I think graduation rates matter."
Teachers, administrators, parents and (most important) students agree. What does not matter to students, however, are their standardized test scores, which the Los Angeles Unified School District plans to report to principals as a measure of teacher effectiveness.
Students spend more than 10 hours each school year taking tests. Teachers and administrators pore over the results, compare notes and strategize to raise scores. But these scores do not affect class grades, graduation or any thing else that really matters to the students.
Until the scores matter to students, they should not be used to judge teacher effectiveness.
I teach eighth-grade math. We math teachers face a dilemma: How do we cover all 28 eighth-grade math standards in the 81/2 months before we administer the tests in May?
Our ability to accomplish this task is connected to the amount of information the students retained from the 41 math standards that they were taught in
This insistence on students and teachers being forced to cover so many standards — almost one a week — leads to frustration. When students are not given the opportunity to investigate math concepts in depth, many simply will not remember them. This system sets students up for failure.
Our costly sports addiction
Re "Boola boola vs. moola moola," Editorial, Oct. 17
NCAA reform? The true social costs of our sick addiction to violent sports haven't even been added up. How many serious injuries, permanent disabilities and even deaths are due to "sports"? Who doesn't know someone who dreamed of a professional sports career and then hit the wall because of serious injuries?
The horror and shame our society covers up for the false dreams of glamour and commercial gain is the real story that needs to be investigated.
Call it the 99% rule of the losers. For every gladiator who makes it to the big time, how many are left with broken bodies and unfulfilled dreams?
Sure, pay the college athletes. But call it out for what it is — a Band-Aid for a severed artery.
As a former college librarian, I can assure you that students working in the library are trying to offset tuition and do not have the full ride enjoyed by many athletes, not to mention the early registration and tutoring the athletes often receive.
Schools also provide athletes a TV showcase for those seeking professional contracts. And when their playing days are over, many have the degrees they earned.

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Design of Intake Manifolds for Supercharged I.C. Engines with Intercooling 870708
The paper describes the theoretical and experimental development of the intake manifold for a 12-liter, 6-cylinder supercharged Diesel engine with intercooling. The objective has been to obtain a torque diagram optimum for traction, i.e. with the maximum torque at a low engine rpm without penalizing the peak power, in addition the design has to keep a reduced fuel consumption and low smoke level. To meet these requirements, the solution adopted has been to obtain the cylinder filling by means of the combined effect of the turbocharger and the geometry of the intake manifold. The design of the manifold is based on the use of lengths and diameters for the pipes appropriate to obtain the desired volumetric efficiency diagrams, avoiding the use of intermediate reservoires. This solution has some advantages for the case of big automotive engines with intercooling, since usually long pipe lengths among turbocharger, intercooler and cylinders are needed.

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New version of the IFC Merge plugin saves model offsets and changes to their coordinates
Have you ever had several component models that, instead of being modeled with reference to their target location, were created with a common point of 0,0,0? Imagine a few objects planned on one plot. All correctly aligned with the world directions, but each designed with the corner edge vertex at 0,0,0. If you created IFC models from such files and opened them in a browser, you would quickly realize that something was wrong and the assumption was definitely not what you saw. At BIMvision, you wouldn’t have to worry about it. If only the rotation of the objects is correct (i.e. the arrangement with respect to the directions of the world), you will easily move them and set them in the correct relation to each other.
It would be no different if your model – as customers call it – “landed in space”. With BIMvision, you could “bring it to the ground” and simply bring it back to the 0,0,0 point, or to any other point you entered, defined by the x, y, z coordinates.
You don’t need to worry if one of the models was exported in geographic coordinates and the rest according to the global system relative to the 0,0,0 point. BIMvision and IFC Merge can handle large coordinate values.
You could already change the position of models with BIMvision and save that setting to . bvf format, but now with the IFC Merge plugin, by merging files you can also export them to a new common IFC file.
How does it work? With the options in the MEASUREMENT tab, you can, after starting the “Coordinates” function, set a new starting point of 0,0,0, change the coordinates of any point of the model or using the “Offset” option move the whole model by the entered value of the vector. When you export models using the IFC Merge plugin, you will create a new IFC file with the saved changes to the location of the source files.
From now you have control of the “unruly” coordinates!
Enjoy using BIMvision!
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Center of Puerto Rico Day Tour from San Juan
This guided 5-hour small group adventure will take you into the center area of Puerto Rico. Learn about the islands history, its first inhabitants, the endemic plants and animals of Puerto Rico. During your journey into the mountains your professional guide will gladly answer any questions that you may have. One of the stops on this adventure will be at a local restaurant to enjoy a typical Puerto Rican meal (at own expense, very cheap). Travel higher into the mountains to enjoy the amazing scenery before returning back to San Juan via air-conditioned transportation.
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Hotel pickup available
What's included :
- Bottled water
- Professional guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Air-conditioned transportation
What's excluded :
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Gratuities are highly welcomed
- Vegetarian and vegan option are available, please advise at time of booking if required
- This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Jerrys Adventures, San Juan Puerto Rico
1. Travel outside San Juan Metro area into the country of Puerto Rico
2. Begin in old San Juan, talking about our first travelers. El Capitolio. San Cristobal fort. Walls of San Juan. San Felipe del morro, among other things.
3. Drive to first residence of Puerto Rico, casa de Juan Ponce De Leon.
4. Casa Bacardi. History of our Rum. The difference between Bacardi rum and Don Q rum, Casa Serralles
5. Isla de cabra. Fortin San Juan de la Cruz. El cañuelo fort
6. Cataño, Guaynabo, Bayamon, Aguas Buenas
7. Zona portuaria
8. Universidad de Puerto Rico
9. Panaderia isla bella
10. Cordillera Central, el Yunque, Atlantic Ocean, the Puerto Rico Trench
11. Barrio Nuevo, Bayamon. Alcalde Ramon Luis Rivera Cruz.
12. Restaurante Los Checos. Lechon, carne frita, arroz blanco, arroz con gandules
13. Tren urbano. Estadio Juan Ramon Loubriel. Coliseo Ramon Rodriguez.
14. Monumento Estrella del Norte
15. Expreso las Americas. Plaza Las Americas
16. Peaje auto expresso
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Casa Bacardi Puerto Rico, Carretera 165 Bay View Industrial Park, Catano 00949 Puerto Rico
Pass By: La Estrella del Norte, Calle Santa Cruz, Bayamon 00959 Puerto Rico
Pass By: Castillo de San Cristobal, Calle Norzagaray Old San Juan, San Juan 00901 Puerto Rico
Pass By: San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Pass By: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Stop At: Isla de Cabras, Toa Baja Puerto Rico
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Puente Atirantado, Naranjito Puerto Rico
Departure Point :Traveler pickup is offered
NOTE: Please add your place of stay. If an air bnb, name of place (if it applies) and address of location. We pick up from either hotels or air bnb between 9:00 and 10:00 am only within the metro area. We do not have the means to travel outside of the San Juan area.
Departure Time :9:00 AM
Return Detail :-
Hotel Pickup :
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Dress code is sporty/casual
- Cruise ship travelers must call to book
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
- Face masks required for travelers in public areas
- Face masks required for guides in public areas
- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

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Lethbridge College graduates find sustainable alternative to steel re-enforcement bars
Three Lethbridge College graduates looking to make a social impact in the world of construction set their sights on an environmentally friendly project. Their primary material: bamboo. Tyson Baldrey, Randy Holmberg and Allan Johnston created a project using bamboo injected with polymer as an alternative to steel re-enforcement rods.
Global Lethbridge News at 6


More rain delays England tour match
Melbourne: Rain delayed the start of the third day`s play in England`s tour against Australia A in Hobart on Friday.
Thursday`s second day was abandoned without a ball bowled and the forecast was for further rain throughout Friday.
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Of all the border crossings in Asia, I doubt there are any more notorious and scam ridden than the one between Thailand and Cambodia. At the Thai-Cambodian border crossing between Aranyaprathet, Thailand, and Poipet, Cambodia, hundreds of tourists cross each day (mostly from Thailand into Cambodia) and scamming them is a major industry in the city.
When I crossed in April 2012, I took some time to read about the different scams that I would likely encounter. Fortunately, I was able to pretty much avoid being scammed, but I’m sure I was one of the lucky ones that day.
If you plan on crossing this border, it’s important to understand some of the ways that locals will try and get you to part with your money. However, don’t let that stop you from crossing the Thai-Cambodian border at Poipet. With a little knowledge and preparation, you can avoid many of the hassles that come from crossing here.
Here are five of the scams you are most likely to encounter when traveling from Thailand into Cambodia, and one huge tip on how to dramatically increase your odds of avoiding them.
Don’t Get Your Cambodian Visa in Thailand
Unless you are from the handful of mostly Middle Eastern countries that aren’t allowed to get a Visa on Arrival, there is no need to get your tourist visa anywhere other than in Cambodia.
If you have yet to get stamped out of Thailand, you are not at the official visa office. The Cambodian consulate in Thailand is located very close to the border, and this is the regular stopping point for anyone transporting foreigners to the border, whether you’re on a bus from Bangkok or a tuk-tuk from Aranyaprathet. The consulate charges at least 50% more to process your visa than the border officials only a few hundred yards away.
If you’re on a bus from Bangkok, there is a good chance that people will come on the bus and collect your money and passports before you get to the border, telling you that you are required to buy your visa from them, and that they won’t wait for you if you get stuck at the border.
This is, of course, not true. Getting your visa on the Cambodian side of the border is easier, cheaper, and very quick. Refuse to get your visa-on-arrival before being stamped out of Thailand.
Want to make sure that you’re in the right place? Refer to the map below to get a look at the border layout before you go. Remember: You DO NOT need to buy your Cambodian visa before you get stamped out of Thailand.Map of the Thai/Cambodian Border at Poipet/Aranyaprathet (Creative Commons: Wikitravel.org user Travelpleb)
You Don’t Need Help Filling Out the Forms
Another common scam I’ve heard reported, though I didn’t experience myself, are helpful volunteers offering to help you fill out your visa forms and then demanding money. This is completely unnecessary unless you can’t read basic English.
The form is simple and straight-forward.
Extra Fees for Your Cambodian Visa
This is a scam that you are pretty much guaranteed to run into because it’s run by the Cambodian officials processing the visas. When you fill our your visa on arrival forms, you will see very clearly written signs indicating that the visa fee is $20 + 100 Baht (about $3). The extra fee is not official and the officers simply pocket it.
Despite knowing this, I actually decided to pay it when I crossed the border. I didn’t want to be held up by slow processing, something they usually do for those that refuse the fee.
While I hated paying it, I decided arguing it wasn’t worth the hassle. That being said, you can likely save the money if you fight it.
You Don’t Have to Change Your Money in Thailand
No matter what anyone tells you, you can exchange Thai currency in Cambodia. You also don’t have to change your dollars into Riel. In fact, while the official currency of Cambodia is Riel, everyone uses American dollars. The country’s ATM machines even dispense US dollars.
It is a good idea to get some American dollars before entering into Cambodia, but do that either in Bangkok or at one of the ATMs in the border area, not from a money changer in Arayanaprathet
You Don’t Have to Take the Official Bus in Cambodia
Once you cross the border into Cambodia, you will likely be approached by a group of friendly looking Cambodians telling you that you must get on the bus for a ride to the bus station. They are full of shit (Excuse my language, but those guys still make me angry 1.5 years later).
Ignore them, lie to them, or shove them out of the way, but make sure to get around them and talk to one of the “taxi” drivers quietly sitting close by.
If you get on the “official” bus, you are taken to the tourist bus station, put on an expensive bus to Siem Reap, and then dropped off several miles from town. Conveniently, for them, you are dropped in front of a travel agency with many tuk-tuks waiting to provide you with an expensive ride to the guest house of their choice.
All that being said, if you made the mistake of buying a through ticket from a travel agent on Khaosan Road, this is the bus you need to take to get your transfer.
However, if you don’t have through transportation, the “illegal” taxis down the street are who you want to work with. A fair price for the trip is around $25-30 for the whole taxi, which can seat 3-4 comfortably. Getting your own taxi will save you time, money, and aggravation. Don’t listen to the “official” bus touts who might tell you that it’s illegal to not get on their bus, they are full of shit (Sorry again).
Top Tip to Avoid the Scams at the Thai/Cambodian border at Poipet: Don’t buy a bus ticket from any travel agent near Khaosan Road. Instead, buy a ticket at Bangkok’s train or bus station to the town of Aranyaprathet and take a tuk-tuk to the border. Then, after crossing the border into Cambodia, walk past the insistent touts just outside the border area and negotiate a private car to your final destination. Lastly, don’t pay your tuk-tuk driver or private car driver until you are 100% sure you are at your final destination.
If you follow these steps, you may be transferred from your taxi to a tuk-tuk on the outskirts of Siem Reap under the guise that the driver doesn’t know where you hotel is or that he can’t enter the city. If this happens, simply refuse to pay until you get to your hotel. When I did the trip, the tuk-tuk driver paid our taxi driver, and then we paid him when we reached our hotel.
It also helps if you keep your luggage with you in the taxi instead of putting it in the trunk. While it may be more uncomfortable, it gives you the ability to simply leave without paying in the unlikely event that they refuse to provide you service to your final destination.
If you look out for the scams I mentioned and follow my tip above, you will have a great chance of making it through the Thai-Cambodian Border at Poipet without falling for any scams.
Have you crossed the Thai-Cambodian border at Poipet? What scams did you see that you think other travelers should be aware of? Let us know in the comments section below.
Jim Cheney is the creator of Tripologist.com. Having traveled extensively in North America, Europe, and Asia, Jim enjoys sharing his love of travel and some of his favorite places to visit around the world. He lives in Pennsylvania, USA, with his wife and two kids.
26 thoughts on “The Definitive Guide to Avoiding Scams at the Thai-Cambodian Border at Poipet”
Great advice, Jim! We just did that trip this summer (just like you did, apparently! Including the bus-guy scam!), and ended up having a fun time (despite the flat tire on the van to Siem Reap). However, too bad we didn’t know before about the bus-guys first!
Good tips…very thorough and useful. We left Thailand and crossed in Laos, so we didn’t experience this border, although we’ve heard lots about it. We’d love to go back to Cambodia, so we’ll certainly keep your tips in mind when we make it back.
Cambodia is definitely worth visiting. You just have to exercise some caution when going through the border area.
Sounds like oodles of fun! We are currently in Vietnam but unfortunately we won’t have time to make it to Thailand or Cambodia this time around. We’ll have to save these tips for next time! Thanks for the heads up. 🙂
Too bad! Cambodia and Thailand are definitely worth the trip. Even better, Laos is by far my favorite country in the region. Enjoy your time in Vietnam.
We’ve used that crossing 3x since 2011 and its good to be prepared. We encountered all of those and avoided them too although our taxi driver had to pay a fine for picking us up in poipet. Also another scam to be aware of if you are traveling with children: their visas are FREE. We got scammed the first time and were charged the regular price for them but on the other visits we had to ‘remind’ the officials of this fact and they obliged.
Good tip! Haven’t heard about kids having free visas. Thanks for the comment, Jess.
I flew into to Siem Reap for my Cambodia trip, rather than braving the scam heavy border. Thanks for the info man, its good to know about land-border crossings through these countries.
Thanks for your information. We plan to take bus to SR from Bangkok in July. There are 5 people, the bus ticket from Mo Chit to SR is 750 baht x5, do you think it is better for us to take 2 taxi from the border to SR?
(It costs 200 from Bangkok to the border.)
I don’t know that it’ll be cheaper to take 2 taxis, but you are more likely to avoid any scams. If you do take the taxi, it’s best to keep your bags with you (not in the trunk) and make sure you don’t pay until you reach your final destination. Have fun!
I read some information from a website. It says they can help to arrange the taxi from poipet to SR, but need us to provide passport number and names so Cambodia customs will let taxi to come to the border. It sounds strange.
Could you please tell me how far to walk to a taxi from the Cambodia customs office where we get stamps?
How long does it take to the taxi station or we can find a taxi as soon as we get into Cambodia ?
Thanks a lot,
There is no taxi stand per say. Taxis are located just about 100 yards past where the bus touts will insist that you HAVE to get on the bus to the bus station. If you want to take a taxi, just walk past them.
Keep in mind that you will have to negotiate pretty hard with the taxi drivers, and I wouldn’t pay them until you’ve reached your final destination.
Thank you very much for your reply. I just want make sure when we walk out of Cambodia immigration office, there are guys outside to make offers to take us to the Poipet bus station, But WE JUST WALK PAST THEM, Towards the cars ( taxi) which is about 100 yards away. Am I right ??? ( It means We can see the cars – taxi after we step into Cambodia – maybe more than 100 yards away from the border? )
I also read some information about there is no private cars allowed parking at the border, are those cars ( taxis) about 100 yards away not parking at the border ???
I did read some people take a taxi at the border, or they mean at the bus station ? Which made me confused.
I am a little nervous, but looking forward to it.
Anyway, thank you again, you give me more confidence 🙂 !
Bear in mind that I was at this border about 2 years ago, so things may have changed slightly. However, when I was there, I just walked past the very insistent touts and kept going until I saw a few cars with guys standing around who asked if I needed a ride. Can’t really miss them. Of course, make sure to bargain hard, keep your bags with you (not in the trunk), and don’t pay them until you are sure you are where you want to be.
As for people taking taxis from the border to a bus station, I think they may be talking about the local bus station. That is a different station than the tourist one that the touts will take you to. Unfortunately, since I didn’t go there, I don’t know anything about it, and I would guess that the taxis at the border might just take you to the tourist station regardless.
Good luck, and let me know how everything goes when you cross, or if I need to update any info on this page.
THANK YOU AGAIN, DEAR JIM!
Hey I’ve already bought a bangkok to Siem Riep bus ticket (didn’t realise scam extended past trying to fleece more money for visa).
I still intend on getting visa on arrival and telling bus touts where to go. Though imagine that I then need to get the tourist bus (seeing as it’s paid for).
Any idea where the tourist bus stops at Siem Riep and how to then navigate to my chosen hostel. Taxi? Tuk tuk? Walking? Cheapest?
Of course walking would be the cheapest but not sure where the tourist bus stops–perhaps around the Old Market? Otherwise tuk tuk is the only other way. Enjoy SR!
Hi! I find this post very helpful. However, I am a bit bothered by the part where you suggest not to buy tickets from the agents in Khao San (though I agree buying from the bus / train company sounds safer and cheaper). I wonder, then, if you would recommend getting a package tour in Cambodia from Khao San? Thanks!
I wouldn’t, unless you have a good recommendation from someone. I’m sure there are a few good and honest tour operators there, but there are many that aren’t.
Just came through poipet today. I had a Thai bloke shouting at me for 7 hours on the train from Bangkok, which wasn’t the best start to the day (I have no idea what was upsetting him but the word falang was being used in my direction a hell of a lot).
I too decided to let the 100baht additional charge slide (slightly less than $4 NZ, probably worth it for an easy life). I also did not avoid the bus touts (although I’m travelling on my own, so the bus was more economical than taking a taxi anyway).
The main thing I wanted to make sure people were aware of is, the dodgy tourist bus is broadly ok, however it dropped off down a dirt track probably about 1.5km out of town. It stank to high heaven of scam, none of the other tourists on the bus spotted that it wasn’t the actual bus station…), so I walked back to the main road with the intention of taking a tuk tuk. In the end I decided I’d just walk instead, so a win for me. It’s absolutely vital for people to realise where they are so they can avoid the waiting tuk tuk drivers. I have a fantastic app on my phone where you can download maps and follow your location with the gps (which even works without data, if you’re on your home SIM card). An absolute lifesaver for me today, otherwise I would have been at the mercy of the scam tuk tuks like the other tourists were
(Citymaps2go if anyone’s wondering!)
There is a scam operating from capitol tours khaosan road. They drop you off 2km from the border at a cafe then lead you to an office where two official scam artists tell you you cannot get a visa at the border and charge you $54 for a visa. The visa states it is for three months yet at the bordet you are given 30 days. Get the $30 visa at the border only and AVOID Khaosan road!
Too late to read this article otherwise those scamed i can skipped at poipet ; i did some research about landcrossing from Thailand to Cambodia . The articel decribe the process step by step quiet clear , but non of thoses scramed been refering at all . It emphasised should ride :free goverment shuttle van to bus shuttle station , but it was one of the scram
I crossed yesterday and i managed to talk a fellow traveller into the taxi option and we ended up paying 12.50$ each and he dropped us off right at our place. Needles to say, the scammers are very intimidating, try to split people so they dont form groups and dont inform eachother, and as a solo female i didnt have the courage to speak to all the poor souls filling out scam forms. And there was a lot of them. But i was screamed at, and if 5 men give you dirty looks, you do shut up. Oh and the guy on cambodian side of the border was just plain nasty. People please, research before you go anywhere, thats what internet is for!! And stay in groups, talk to eachother,get e-visa(that one shuts them up for a minute- a little victory of mine, worth the money). Just please dont let them scare you into anything, they have no right to do so. Btw dont worry, once you leave the border, all will be fine, Cambodians are great
I am going from thailand to cambodia and back the same day.i only want to get in and out again.what sort of charges will l expect.
Excellent advice. I am also still annoyed that i fell for the official bus scam, as soon as I exited the visa office I was approached by friendly locals who politely guided me to the bus to Siem Reap. I wasn’t at my sharpest after a lengthy bus journey and unwittingly agreed to follow them. It was a small bus and as soon as it was moving I realised that I was either being kidnapped, or having been to Cambodia before, most likely scammed. I asked to get off but they conveniently lost the ability to comprehend English. I spent the time from the border to the bus station contemplating what my next move was going to be as I had not indication of where I was going. As soon as I got off the bus I was told that this was the bus station and there were no more buses so I would have to pay $50 for a taxi that was conveniently waiting, which I refused, then I was given the threatening treatment by a police officer who backed off after a while of me refusing. As night approached I realised that I had no choice and ended up paying $20 to travel in a car with the driver as he picked random people up along the way. Icing on the cake was the boy who guided me on to the bus as we were about to leave who asked for a tip. I’m sure he could comprehend my universal response.


Piers Akerman – Saturday, August 06, 11 (06:31 pm)
THE responses to the Norwegian terrorist massacre have more clearly delineated the fault lines in Western culture fault lines which are just as evident in our own isolated microcosm.
Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and left scores of others wounded in Oslo and on the resort island of Utoya on July 22.
Is illigal immigration the third worlds version of imperialism?
Noam Chomsky refers to a deep structure within the mind which is what is drawn upon for language acquisition. It is interesting to me as I note that Wikipedia defines Empirialism and Impirialism the same. But I take it it means empire building and is a nasty charge about whomever it is pointed at.
I have no problem with migration. I have no problem with cultural diversity. I won’t accept being beaten up by anybody, be they sole parents, unemployed or cultural imperialists. I expect the law to be followed.
I follow a higher standard than the law. I have a moral code. I still follow the law while having my code. I have no problem with gay marriage. I have no problem with multiple partners. I have no problem with Islam. I wouldn’t choose to adopt any of those practices, but I will accept from others what is legal. I will act according to my conscience.
My culture includes out and out bastards. They rape, murder and desecrate churches. I don’t accept that, and insist the law prosecutes offenders. I am unaware of any other culture that is worse. People in my culture have killed women and children because they felt like it. I take some comfort in that my religious leaders don’t claim they are also fellow worshippers in Christ. But, and I believe them when they tell me this because it is in the Bible, they can be.
The issue of Islamic extremism is serious and exposing the civilian community to it is wrong. I won’t let that impugn Islamists.
I don’t think there is a lesson to be learned from the likes of Martin Bryant or Breivik. I think they are mentally ill and it was irresponsible to condone their ravings before their crimes, just like it is wrong to condone their crimes. I despise the Trolls of the ABC, Fairfax etc who seek to score cheap political points from these complicated issues.
Multiculturalism is a failure. There isn’t any such animal as a multiculture, philosophically, it is one culture or another. But cultural diversity is the future. It isn’t the law. But it is the code I embrace.
Reply: Don’t quote Chomsky here, he is determined to destroy the West.
With all due respect, DD Ball, when you say
My culture includes out and out bastards. They rape, murder and desecrate churches.
you’re right, but the difference is that when they do, the blogs and forums and streets aren’t filled with cheers and jubilation. We are shocked and outraged and saddened.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. When you say,’ I despise the Trolls of the ABC, Fairfax etc who seek to score cheap political points from these complicated issues’, I couldn’t agree more. When sick, murdering bastards and rogue political groups become a cause celebre amongst the usual suspects, it is both frightening and dangerous for us all. I suspect some of the usual suspects have a personal agenda which is almost as pathological as the sick, murdering bastards they champion. In this regard I’m thinking of Lee Rhiannon and her desperately angry responses to Israel. Perhaps the usual suspects need sick, mudering bastards and rogue political groups the way the rest of us need oxygen.
Piers, I might quote it, but I won’t place any store on its’ veracity. We agree.
Caz, true. It is clear the leadership of Islam is captured by extremists, which is not true of conservatives of the West. So that Islamic leaders do not represent a righteous path. So that Piers is spot on to highlight the failure of multiculturalism. There is a need for educational institutions which cater for Islam to embrace the secular world, and they could do little better than to model themselves on Christian institutions which work equivalently.
Laura, we agree. Among the left are leaders who endorse terror and power by any means. They have a journalist following that agree with them and abuse basic principles of cogent argument, replacing debate with abuse.
Also Piers, I played chess against Chomsky when I was very young, about 5 years old. I can’t tell you the outcome, I don’t really recall it well. Chomsky is a self absorbed git. He may have won to reaffirm his need to appear superior. He might have lost to be gracious (unlikely, or my parents might remember). He probably never finished it, losing interest in not having some camera flash or some coat follower go ‘ah.’
By way of contrast, I played against the gentleman Bob Ludlum. We had bought his old house at Christie St Leonia, in NJ, and he showed several moves, and illustrated a fools mate in a couple of ways.
I think it funny to use a quote to poke at Islamic Imperialism. He really wouldn’t like it.
Empires are part of what it is to be human always have been
always will be.
Empires have come and gone over the millenia - as one dies
another rises from the ashes.
Sadly for the mighty West it has been brought low by its own
“elite” whose selfloathing and hate for its own people, culture,
traditions and history knows no bounds.
An unfolding tragedy with those responsible running for cover
spitting venom and in serious denial.
Political correctness - that terrible insistence that some things
must remain unsayable even if they are patently true.
Political correctness - the system of censorship which has settled over Australia like a dense cloud of phosgene gas.
DD Ball, I have some disagreement with you but agree with your tenets on the basic debate of islamic migration. We might all say we like multiculturalism, we believe in the law, and you say you accept gay marriage and polygamy.
The problem with such blanket agreeability about things is that until we allow such things in full measure we have absolutely no idea of their unacceptable outcomes and costs to society; by that stage the legitimacy becomes irrevocable in practice and law.
We can all think of where polygamy can lead in a society such as ours with its abundant social welfare apparatus. I believe increasing committment to homosexuality makes development and demands on our children, and hence society, hugely more complex in terms of establishing their own sexuality at time of life when nothing is simple.
Even with multiculturalism, we have no idea as to how successful it is until we have a stressed situation in the world of
one culture versus another. I know of plenty of third generation ‘Áustralians’ where the ethnicity hatreds of their grandparents
still run hot in their grandchildren and probably will continue to the next generation. In England we saw what hatred exists in third generation islamic offspring in blowing up the buses. In
Australia from similar groups we saw applause in the streets when the twin towers went down.
I am not very sanguine about a policy that requires specific laws to impose the ‘acceptance’ of some people upon another,
generally to the advantage of the new party and overused from inception to continue that advantage. That is not acceptance, that is forced integration with all the advantages against the group required to physically and economically integrate the other.
In Australia, a murder is illegal and prosecuted as such. Society cannot tell you to go out and murder someone or ordain the killing as justified on some odd religious concept. Here we seem to allow islamic preachers to produce tirades most foul against our own community which justify adherents committing the most heinous crimes and we appear impotent or worse, unwilling to take any action against them. The grounds appears to be ‘turn the other cheek’ and try to convince the communities
our way is better. A christian preacher would almost be burned at the stake for the same crime. Sharia law, even being allowed a foot in the door, is the beginning of the end for our current legal system. My blood ran cold when I saw polygamy was knowingly being accepted by our law makers currently. Almost like fabian ideas, this is the start of us getting taken down piece by piece.
I cannot understand why our politicians cannot see where encroaching, hate riven islamic migration is taking us when we see day after day what is going on in Europe, where areas become no go zones even for law enforcement and where cartoonists are killed for exercising their craft. We see in this country, even while numbers are small, demands to introduce sharia law. There is no acceptance by these people that they chose to migrate to ‘christian’societies’ and it is they that have to accomodate change to those values and not the other way around. There should be a law allowing, and used, to expatriate
people back to their homelands for inciting hatred in this country.
Miranda Devine – Saturday, August 06, 11 (06:29 pm)
WHAT do you do with a problem like Malcolm Turnbull? It’s a question exercising the minds of a few in the Liberal party, and exciting many in the press gallery.
The common wisdom is that, at some point, the ambitious 56-year-old former investment banker is going to blow up, and wreck the Coalition’s chances of winning the next election. That’s Labor’s fervent hope, anyway.
Adding fuel to the fire is a slimmed-down, energised Turnbull himself who periodically creates controversy with bold, but carefully worded, rebukes to his leader Tony Abbott.
I felt betrayed by Turnbull in ‘07 with those leaks that I felt were because he was ambitious and wanted the leadership. I was willing to endorse his leadership when he achieved it. I felt that he could do anything, and others would accept it, as long as he followed a coherent position. It is expected that a conservative leader would have scruples. However, AGW belief is not a scruple. It is wrong. The tax may be appealing to a leftist but to a conservative it must be regressive. I get the appeal it might have for Turnbull, who as leader might have been able to name his own tax and have support from the ALP and Greens as well as from his own party. But I could not stomach such a thing and clearly neither could the party .. and neither can the general population.
Malcolm, crush the NBN. That is your task. If you want to be remembered as a great leader of vision, then support a Bradfield scheme. Or get out.
… is from page 66 of Sir Henry Sumner Maine’s Popular Government (1885):
Yet nothing is more certain, than that the mental picture which enchains the enthusiasts for benevolent democratic government is altogether false, and that, if the mass of mankind were to make an attempt at redividing the common stock of good things, they would resemble, not a number of claimants insisting on the fair division of a fund, but a mutinous crew, feasting on a ship’s provisions, gorging themselves on the meat and intoxicating themselves with the liquors, but refusing to navigate the vessel to port.
Who can doubt that Maine would be completely unsurprised by today’s events in Washington, DC?
It’s a shame that it is necessary to point out here that oppostion to what Maine calls “benevolent democratic government” – by which Maine means largely unlimited democracy – does not imply support for dictatorship, oligarchy, or any other form of top-down, centralized command. Rather, by far the best alternative to unlimited democracy is a system based upon respect for private property rights and for the patterns of market activities that such rights give rise to.
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 07, 11 (08:23 am)
Al Gore, ranting about denier evilists and the evil they deny, completely loses it:
“They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!” Gore exclaimed.
The large angry man is also upset about the lack of a shared reality:
“When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again,” he continued. “There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. People have no idea! … It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the goddamn word climate. It is not acceptable. They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it.”
Maybe Al’s warmists might prevail if governments, the UN and the media all got behind his cause and contributed a dollar or two. Oh, wait …
(Via Climate Depot)
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 07, 11 (07:54 am)
Tim Flannery takes all precautions:
While his place was, he admitted, “very close to the water”, the issue was how far it was above the water – something Professor Flannery would not reveal because, he said, it could help identify the location and subject him to a Norway-style attack by conservatives.
This is as likely as any of Flannery’s previous predictions.
(Via Chris Poole)
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 07, 11 (07:53 am)
Happy timing for Mark Steyn:
As the author of a suitably apocalyptic book to be released on Monday, I’m grateful to Standard & Poor’s for providing the ultimate publicity tie-in.
Adds Mark: “On Thursday, in honor of Barack Obama’s 50th birthday, the Dow dropped 10 points for every year he has walked among us. It was the ninth-largest drop in history. We should be relieved he wasn’t turning 80.”
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 07, 11 (07:35 am)
Bob K. emails:
My brother-in-law sent me this photo from a barber shop in Taylor, Arizona (that’s my sister in the reflection).
He did get a hair cut.
Is America a great country or what?
Your Texas Friend,
The full text of that barber shop promo: “Every time you get your hair cut between now and December 2011 you can enter to win this 9mm Hi Point Carbine. $260 retail value! All ATF rules apply.”
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 07, 11 (07:27 am)
I was 142 days old when Collingwood defeated Melbourne at Victoria Park to establish a ten-game winning streak. It should have extended to 11 games, but the umpiring at the Lake Oval in round 18 was appalling.
No matter. Last night Collingwood finally completed an 11-game sequential victory record by destroying Port Adelaide. Next Friday: St Kilda, and further vengeance for ruining the first month of my life.
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, August 07, 11 (03:35 pm)
What to do with that government propaganda. And Professor Sinclair Davidson on the looming danger of stagflation.
Good reviews for Davidson, but his message is grim.
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, August 07, 11 (11:49 am)
Milwaukee race riot:
Witnesses tell ... of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene....
Witnesses’ accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night....
“It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people,” said Norb Roffers of Wind Lake…
“It was 100% racial,” claimed Eric, an Iraq war veteran from St. Francis who says young people beat on his car.
“I had a black couple on my right side, and these black kids were running in between all the cars, and they were pounding on my doors and trying to open up doors on my car, and they didn’t do one thing to this black couple that was in this car next to us. They just kept walking right past their car. They were looking in everybody’s windshield as they were running by, seeing who was white and who was black. Guarantee it.”
And in London:
POLICE cars were torched, shops looted and a bus burned out as a major riot erupted in North London last night.
Petrol bombs were thrown as hundreds of protesters rampaged in Tottenham, after local anger over the fatal shooting of a suspected gangster by cops.
An initially-peaceful demonstration had been held outside a police station on the area’s High Road from about 5pm, where locals called for “justice” after the 29-year-old man named as Mark Duggan (above) was killed on Thursday night.
But witnesses said as anger turned to violence, hundreds more protesters appeared on the scene - apparently alerted by people using Twitter.
Most of the reporting on the London riot is extremely coy. But when so many people consider police the enemy and a black gangster their ally, and believe they’re entitled to destroy and to loot, it’s natural to suspect that they are people who do not think they belong to the society around them:
The area is very diverse and home to one of the capital’s biggest black populations. The area also has a history of racial tension and anti-police feeling.
Is race a faultline that clever multicultural policies can heal, or is it always there, liable to yawn open at some sign of stress? This question is critical for multiethnic societies.
What’s so depressing about tonight’s outbreak of public disorder is that it indicates that little or no progress has been made when it comes to relations between the police and the local African-Caribbean population, particularly the local youths. The trigger for the original Broadwater Farm Riot was the death of Cynthia Jarrett, the 49-year-old mother of a young black man called Floyd Jarrett. She collapsed and died during an altercation when the police came to her home to arrest her son. There was a demonstration outside the police station the following day in which police officers were pelted with bricks and petrol bombs. Later that night, the disturbances spread to the Broadwater Farm estate, with a fire breaking out in one of the housing blocks. The fire brigade came under attack when they entered the estate and a police officer who was trying to protect the fire fighters was murdered by a violent mob.
Tonight’s disturbances are almost a carbon copy of the events of 26 years ago. They were triggered by the death of a 29-year-old black man who was shot and killed by Operation Trident officers on Thursday night. Protests by community leaders were followed by outbreaks of disorder, just as they were in 1985. Tottenham was a tinderbox then and, judging from the pictures on Sky News this evening, it’s a tinderbox now.
The policy most reporters seem to have adopted in reporting this riot, refusing to mention any ethnic characteristics of the perpetrators, suggest a fear of the facts and of speaking frankly that makes a solution all the harder.
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, August 07, 11 (11:30 am)
And now the Gillard Government starts to sweat ... a second boat has arrived since the Malaysian deal was signed:
HMAS Albany, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected ‘irregular entry vessel’ north east of Christmas Island this morning.
w Initial indications suggest there are 50 passengers and 2 crew on board.
Two boats since the people swap deal with Malaysia was finally signed means that already 105 of the 800 places are filled of the quota Malaysia will take in exchange for 4000 of their own refugees.
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, August 07, 11 (11:22 am)
The claim, if true, is damning:
With Lake Eildon at 91 per cent - its highest level in 15 years - and billions of litres being released from it every day to prevent flooding, Water Minister Peter Walsh refuses to switch on the pipeline or say when he will…
The State Opposition has branded the stance “pig-headed” and “ideologically stubborn”.
After pledging to use the pipe only in extreme circumstances, the Baillieu Government must now choose either to break an election promise, or continue to allow billions of litres of water to go down the drain.
Close to 10 gigalitres - or 10 billion litres - of water a day has been released from the reservoir in recent weeks. That’s enough to supply Melbourne’s water for a year…
The water at Lake Eildon, in the state’s northeast, is being released into the Goulburn River, which feeds into the Murray River near Echuca and empties into the ocean off South Australia.
But reader Peter calls foul on this story:
It suggests that somehow, by turning on the north/south pipeline Melbourne’s dams can capture water that is currently being released down the Goulburn consequent to the much improved rainfall in the river’s catchments.
Although the map on Melbourne Water’s website shows network of pipes that would seem to make that possible, in fact it is not.
The north/south pipeline can only supply water to Sugarloaf Reservoir. The outflow from Sugarloaf is treated in the Winneke Treatment plant (which I once helped design and commission) from which it is transported to the Preston Service Reservoir Complex and then directly into distribution. Melbourne Water may well have the capacity now to transfer some of that water to Greenvale, but it certainly doesn’t have the ability to move any of it across to Silvan and hence into Cardinia.
Sugarloaf is full. Silvan is never completely filled as it is simply a transit reservoir, almost a surge tank, for accepting and rerouting water from the Thomson/Upper Yarra system into Cardinia and also directly into supply to various service reservoirs east and north of the city..
What (this story) suggests simply cannot be done – a weakness of the north/south pipeline concept that I pointed out long ago. If the Government had proceeded to build the dam at Watson’s Creek, which was the next dam the former MMBW planned to build, then what is suggested would be possible. Watsons Creek, like Sugarloaf, Cardinia, Silvan and Greenvale was to be an off-stream storage filled by untreated water from Sugarloaf itself. It would have been 10 times larger than Sugarloaf itself.
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, August 07, 11 (09:50 am)
Now all we need is to get our politicians to see the economic and financial world as it is, rather than how it might be, and we might see them come out and change their thinking as well as their rhetoric… Call a national summit, not about how they can tax the butt out of Australia but maybe on how they can devise policies to encourage entrepreneurs to grow the economic cake…
Politicians and others who don’t believe me should be made to borrow $1 million, be given 20 employees, and take out a three-year lease of $100,000 a year.
They should be visited by the tax office, the occupational health and safety mob and then try to apply for a business credit card as well as a merchandise facility. Next they should be faced with a pay rise for their staff, an interest rate rise and a threat of three more.
Oh yes, then let each staff member take carer’s leave for 10 days in a row: when one comes back, let another one do their 10 days. And let’s throw in a bullying case by a staff member as well.
Then they might understand why business confidence is low and why many Aussies are dying to see supportive, positive leadership.
(Thanks to reader Andrew.)
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, August 07, 11 (06:04 am)
Yes, it’s orchestrated, but that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt the government:
THE small boy whose subdued expression captured the mood of asylum seekers destined for expulsion to Malaysia has begun starving himself on Christmas Island, according to the refugee advocate with unparalleled access to detainees, workers and compounds on the tiny Australian territory.
Asylum Seekers Christmas Island director Michelle Dimasi said the boy, whom she believes was aged seven or eight, had joined men, women and other children in refusing to eat food or take water.
They refused to go to their beds last night and instead slept on the ground outside in the rain, Ms Dimasi said.
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, August 07, 11 (06:00 am)
For most of my life it has been impossible to even imagine China being able to give the US economic advice:
CHINA has hit out at the United States after its unprecedented ratings downgrade, with state media saying that the world’s largest economy needed to cure its “addiction” to debt.
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, August 07, 11 (05:44 am)
Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Saturday. It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war against the Taliban.
None of those killed were in the squad that took out bin Laden.


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Cow manure is focus of biofuel research
The race to create a better, less controversial biofuel has spawned plenty of research into a variety of potential new sources - including switchgrass, cornstalks and algae.
One goal behind the next generation of ethanol fuel is to end the debate over whether crops that could be used for food or animal feed are being converted into fuel. It's a debate that's dogged traditional ethanol, made from corn.
A team of Wisconsin researchers say they may have found an abundant and eminently Dairyland ingredient for ethanol - cow manure from the state's dairy farms.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a coalition of state firms have been awarded $7 million for bioenergy research that would use a manure byproduct to produce ethanol at a dairy farm in Manitowoc County.
The funding was awarded by the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments through their joint biomass research-and-development initiative.
"We are going to change agriculture and the dairy industry in Wisconsin," said Aicardo Roa Espinosa, founder of Soil Net LLC, a biological systems technology firm that has earned patents for its polymer research and development.
The key is to break down manure into different fibers. One type would be used for bedding, another for fertilizer pellets, and yet another for biofuels.
"Our idea is to put a small refinery on a dairy farm," said Roa Espinosa.
"The key to all of this is the custom polymer formulas that Aicardo creates," said John Norman, professor in the UW department of soil science. "He creates these formulas that allow this manure to be separated and sorts it into these different components, and these different components have value - lots of value."
Researchers hope the technology can be used on smaller dairy farms to convert cow manure into products ranging from ethanol and mulch to fertilizer pellets, said John Markley, a UW biochemist.
"This will be a source of cash for the dairy," he said.
The team is partnering with Maple Leaf Dairy, which has about 4,000 cows at its farm in Manitowoc County.
Tom Cox, an agricultural economist at UW-Madison, says the Accelerated Renewable Energy project is rooted in novel ways of separation technologies that break down cow manure into usable ingredients for biofuels, fertilizer pellets and a peat moss replacement for cow bedding and mulch.
"It seems like the Wisconsin Idea at its finest," said Cox.
The project aims to help produce renewable energy while also helping farmers deal with the phosphorus pollution challenge created by manure management.
The funding was announced on the same day that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved Wisconsin's rules that seek to cut phosphorus levels in Wisconsin's lakes, rivers and streams. The goal of the rules is cleaner water, fewer weeds and algae blooms, as well as better habitat for fish and other aquatic life.
For dairy farms, manure has too often been a source of odor that irks neighbors and waste that pollutes and gets farmers into trouble with regulators.
"Our vision is changing the way the manure stream is managed off a dairy facility. Nobody likes what has historically been done, and that's why my company is part of this," said R.C. Ludke of Braun Electric in St. Nazianz.
"We know . . . there are concerns associated with handling manure," he said. "The way it always has been done is not going to be the way to deal with it in the future."
The four-year grant for the manure-separation and renewable-energy project will research how to improve the efficiency of the technology as well as conduct research that would allow it to be deployed at a smaller scale, on dairy farms with smaller herds, said Markley, head of the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at UW-Madison.
For Roa Espinosa, the grant represents recognition for years of work developing patented polymer technology first used in dealing with soil erosion in cotton fields, and then for firms that market lawn-repair kits.
He came to the United States from Colombia to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working his way through jobs as a dishwasher and busboy while he learned English. His UW doctorate is in biological systems engineering.
Roa Espinosa said some people "thought I was from Mars" when he told them five years ago that manure might just be a go-to source for next-generation biofuel.
The key to the technology are the polymer formulas Roa Espinosa invented to enable the separation of the leftovers from the anaerobic digestion process into a variety of other useful fibers - some for fuel and others for fertilizer.
"I call him the Steve Jobs of manure," said Cox.
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Press Release Summary:
Model CDA-22 Chlorine Dioxide Analyzer measures ClO2 in concentrations ranging from 0.05-20 ppm. System incorporates PTFE membrane amperometric ClO2 sensor with 32-212ÂºF operating temperature range, automated flow control device, and analyzer/controller mounted on PVC panel. Low-maintenance unit can run for up to 1 yr between electrolyte/membrane changes. Providing dual measurements and XY graphical plot, device has 4-20 mA output proportional to ClO2 measured.
Original Press Release:
New Plumb-and-Play Chlorine Dioxide Analyzer Simplifies Water Monitoring and Treatment
Ideal For Drinking Water, Wastewater, Rinse Water And Cooling Water
Yorba Linda, CA - The monitoring and control of Chlorine Dioxide (ClO2) has never been easier or more economical than with the new CDA-22 Chlorine Dioxide Analyzer from Electro-Chemical Devices, Inc., featuring a panel mounted plumb-and-play design and automatic flow control in a low-maintenance complete measurement system.
The CDA-22 is designed to measure Chlorine Dioxide in concentrations ranging from 0.05-20 ppm ClO2. It is ideal for application in municipal water systems, industrial cooling and rinse water, wastewater or other fresh water samples.
ClO2 exists as a gas in solution; it does not dissolve like other chlorine compounds and is therefore unaffected by the pH of the solution. ClO2 is approximately 10 times more soluble than Chlorine in water, but it is extremely volatile and can be easily removed from dilute aqueous solutions with minimal aeration.
Easy to install and maintain, the CDA-22 incorporates a ClO2 sensor, automated flow control device and analyzer/controller mounted on a PVC panel. Installation is complete after connecting the sample and drain lines, power and outputs. The low-maintenance CDA-22 can run for up to one year between electrolyte/membrane changes. Calibration of the CDA-22 is accomplished with DPD comparison.
The CDA-22 is built with a polarographic gold/silver PTFE membrane amperometric ClO2 sensor. While these types of sensors are flow sensitive, the CDA-22's output is virtually flow independent at values greater than 0.5 ft/sec. The CDA-22's "constant head" flow control device maintains the sensor's optimum flow over a wide range of incoming sample flow rates, from 10-80 gal/hr.
The CDA-22's sensor operates at a wide temperature range of 0 to 100ºC (32 to 212ºF). Because temperature affects the ClO2 permeability of the PTFE membrane, increasing the temperature increases the output of the sensor about 4% per Cº. The chlorine flow cell includes a temperature sensor that allows the C22 analyzer to perform automatic temperature compensation of the measurement.
The CDA-22 requires no expensive reagents and eliminates pressure regulators and rotometers. It features a 2.5-x1.75-inch backlit LCD display, with 4 lines for text and graphics. The CDA-22 offers dual measurements, an XY graphical plot and an optional PID Control Output. The analyzer provides a 4-20 mA output proportional to the Chlorine Dioxide measured and two alarm relays SPDT 230 VAC/5A or 30 VDC/5A resistive max. It features the options to include additional 4-20 mA outputs for pH or temperature and up to 6 additional relays.
About Electro-Chemical Devices
Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD) is a manufacturer of liquid analytical process instrumentation. Founded in 1977, ECD has been in business for over 30 years and has built its industry leading reputation by its commitment to customers through this basic approach: Provide quality products, develop technical innovations and provide responsive, knowledgeable service.


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