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Going Green: Scholarships for the Environmentally Friendly
Scholarships include Sustainable Solutions Scholarships, American Society for Enology and Viticulture Scholarship Program, Udall Environment Undergraduate Scholarship, The Blades of Green Scholarship Fund, and E-waste Scholarship.
Lauren Patten
Do you love Earth Day? Do you focus your volunteer efforts on cleaning up trash and promoting recycling? Are you a member of your school's environmental club? If so, these college scholarships are just for you. We compiled a list of opportunities specifically for students who love taking care of the planet and encouraging green living. Share your passion for the earth and get rewarded for your efforts by submitting applications for the scholarships below.
Sustainable Solutions Scholarships
How to Apply: Write an essay of 650 words or less on how engineering can help meet one of 17 sustainable development goals. Include at least one example of a solution that demonstrates how engineering design can be used to solve current problems without risking the future.
Eligibility: Open to students in grades 3 through 12.
Amount: $500
Deadline: February 1, 2022
Website: https://www.engineergirl.org/143653/2022-contest
American Society for Enology and Viticulture Scholarship Program
How to Apply: Submit the application and complete a written statement of intent as it relates to a future career in the wine or grape industry elaborating on how you became interested in and what efforts you have made to become familiar with the industry
Eligibility: Open to students pursuing a degree in enology, viticulture, or in a curriculum emphasizing a science basic to the wine and grape industry. Students must be at least a junior at an accredited four-year college with a minimum 3.6 GPA
Amount: $12,500
Deadline: March 1, 2022
Website: https://www.asev.org/scholarship-programs
Udall Environment Undergraduate Scholarship
How to Apply: Students must complete the online application and write an essay on a speech, legislative act, book, or public policy statement by either Morris K. Udall or Stewart L. Udall and its impact on your interests and goals. Students must contact their Udall faculty representative in order to submit the application. A list of representatives by school is available on the website.
Eligibility: Students must be a college sophomore or junior interested in conservation, environmental stewardship, or environmental policy and working towards a career that will enable you to address environmental issues on a local, national, or global scale
Amount: Multiple awards of up to $7,000 each
Website: https://www.udall.gov/OurPrograms/Scholarship/Apply.aspx
The Blades of Green Scholarship Fund
How to Apply: Submit the official application form as well as a letter of intent describing your passion for environmental studies (or a related field) and your plans for after graduation
Eligibility: Open to undergraduate and graduate students majoring in environmental studies or a related field
Amount: $1,000
Deadline: March 31, 2022
Website: https://www.bladesofgreen.com/culture/blades-green-scholarship-fund
E-waste Scholarship
How to Apply: Open to high school and college students who are U.S. citizens
Eligibility: Students must complete the application and write a short essay about e-waste. The top 10 applications will be selected as finalists, and finalists will be asked to write a 500- to 1,000-word essay about e-waste
Deadline: April 30, 2022
Website: http://www.digitalresponsibility.org/ewaste-scholarship
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"Another HBC™ Law Basic Guide"
An overview of the basics.
Clients considering buying a New Build property are often directed to use a lawyer chosen by the Builder/Seller. The law allows you to instruct a lawyer of your own choosing, not just one recommended to you by the builder/seller. We are sure that they will provide you with the approved legal advice required, yet seeking your own lawyer, independent from the builder/seller has its own benefits. Buying a new build property has its own set of legal rules. It can never hurt to seek a few legal opinions before you sign or bind yourself to any contract. Agreeing to buy a new build or signing up to a builders part exchange contract is no different.
In short, seek some advice, it only takes a few minutes to discuss and at the end of our chat if you decide to go with the builders chosen lawyer, we wish you all the best.
Although part exchange can be viewed as a process in its own right, it is basically a sale and purchase in the same contract. To this end many people can get confused.
The contract in a new build property are normally issued by the builders lawyers. They will detail the usual clauses covering what is being sold for how much and what is the remedy if the contract is breached. The date of entry will often be the date on which the property is passed as fit for habitation by the local authority. As the timing of construction is not perfect science (it can be delayed by weather, materials, construction workers etc.), the date of entry is not fixed and liable to fluctuation. You should factor these issues into your plans, especially if you are also selling your own home.
The search costs required, are dependent on the terms set down by the builder. In many cases the builders do not pay for any searches. (A fact detailed in our Guide to Conveyancing) If timed correctly, you can cut back on the costs by combining some of the searches to cover both, but you will still have to purchase the basic searches.
One of the issues your own lawyer must consider is to ensure that your builder is also bound into the transaction. Although this seems self evident, you must remember that the formal offer produced by your builder can in some cases highlight the best position for them – not you. So before you sign anything ensure that you have discussed it with your lawyer. Ensure that your own interests are covered.
The main issue for many clients is getting the statement of account as early as possible. Given the amount of incentives, builders costs and factor charges it takes time for the builder to issue a statement of account for the transaction. As such your own lawyer may not be in a position to advise you of the final bill until the builder issues their own statement which should include any additions to the specification of the property, that you have requested.


One statement I truly despise is one that contains the words: "kids today" and lump them all into some imaginary box where they apparently all whine, moan, act up, feel entitled, are without manners and so on...I am utterly sick to death of hearing this phrase. If you say you don't spank, then, apparently that means you do nothing in the way of discipline and allow your child carte blanche to do as he/she please with no consequences, redirection...anything. If you bring up anything about kids, there will ALWAYS be that one person, you know who I am talking about...that one that says: "Kids today are out of control and awful, they have no manners, no discipline and are so rude and wild. They all act entitled."
Well, I've got news for you person..."kids today" are no more crazy and wild than yesterday, last year, or a hundred years ago.
Um, first of all, this isn't a problem with "kids today". It is a kid behavior paired with adult perception issue. Not to mention, this has been going on since the beginning of time. Seriously.
Children began to be the tyrants, not the slaves, of their households. They no longer rose from their seats when an elder entered the room; they contradicted their parents, chattered before company, gobbled up the dainties at table, and committed various offences against Hellenic tastes, such as crossing their legs. They tyrannised over the paidagogoi and schoolmasters."
So, you see, "kids today" are exactly how they have ALWAYS been and how they will forever be. This isn't new or odd or weird or different. This is how it is. That saying isn't an excuse to be rude to kids and teens or to belittle them or to have no hope. It is a sign that YOU are the one perceiving their behavior through prejudiced eyes and closed mind. Open your heart and your eyes and realize that "kids today" may in fact be a product of "parents today" that were "kids today" at one time.


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Fountain, Widefield, Security [water] systems contain chemicals linked to health hazards — the Colorado Springs Business Journal
January 17, 2016 Coyote Gulch Arkansas Basin, Colorado Water, Fountain Creek, Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Infrastructure, Water Pollution, Water Treatment
Fountain Creek Watershed
From the Colorado Springs Business Journal (John Hazlehurst):
Known as perfluoroalkyls, or PFAs, research suggests the chemicals are potent carcinogens and endocrine disrupters at levels far below the Environmental Protection Agency's provisional exposure limits for drinking water.
And no one seems to know where the contaminants are coming from — or even that they were there in the first place. The city of Fountain's 2015 Drinking Water Quality Report doesn't mention PFAs or any other "unregulated reportable contaminant."
Ron Woolsey, who heads Fountain's Water Department, was unaware of any PFA contamination of the city's water supply or of the EPA test results. It's not clear if the EPA reported these results to the three affected systems.
"We get about 70 percent of our water from the Frying Pan/Arkansas project, via Pueblo Reservoir," he said. "The remaining 30 percent comes from wells in Fountain and wells on the Venetucci Farm that we share with Security and Widefield. When [CSU's] SDS [Southern Delivery System] comes on line, we'll get 100 percent of our water from Pueblo Reservoir."
CSBJ provided Woolsey with links to source documents uncovered for this story.
"Thanks for that information," he said. "You're sort of the canary in the coal mine for us. We're going to investigate further, talk to [Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment] and figure out what the next step will be. Those [PFA substances] sound pretty alarming."
Both Colorado Springs and Pueblo use Fry-Ark water, and no PFAs were detected in their water systems.
It could be that water from Fountain Valley wells or surface water sources are contaminated by either landfills or residue from industrial processes, but no one is really sure.
Wolford Mountain Dam: " The Consultant Review Board has emphatically emphasized that time is on our side" — John Currier
January 17, 2016 January 17, 2016 Coyote Gulch Climate Change, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Water Conservation District, Colorado Water, Infrastructure, Wolford Mountain Reservoir
From The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (Dennis Webb):
The Colorado River District has been given some breathing room for dealing with a problem dam at its Wolford Mountain Reservoir five miles from Kremmling.
A three-person outside team of dam experts has advised the district that the Ritschard Dam is safe despite the settling that has occurred there, no immediate action is required, and the district should be deliberate in determining how to address the problem.
"The Consultant Review Board has emphatically emphasized that time is on our side," the district's chief engineer, John Currier, said in a memo to the district board in advance of its meeting next week.
The recommendation comes as good news to the district, which has identified the dam as the most important issue it currently faces. It already has spent about $1.5 million to install sophisticated instruments to measure the dam's settlement. Since its completion in 1995, the rock-fill, clay-core dam has settled near its center by about two feet. While earthen dams settle, in this case the drop was a foot more than expected. The dam crest also has shifted about eight inches downstream.
The three-person team, district staff and consulting engineers are now proposing that the district hold a workshop with the Dam Safety branch of the Colorado Division of Water Resources and Denver Water, which has a leasehold interest in the reservoir, to consider next steps.
"We were thinking that some kind of work would begin in 2016 or (20)17, to begin some kind of remediation program, but now we're saying OK, let's dig deeper into the issue based on this third-party finding," district spokesman Jim Pokrandt said.
He said the finding means the district has more time to make sure it takes the right next steps regarding the dam. The most expensive repair would involve rebuilding the dam, which several years ago the taxpayer-funded district estimated could cost $30 million. Another approach could involve injecting concrete into the dam to reinforce it.
The original dam and reservoir project cost $42 million, including land acquisition, permitting, construction and other expenses…
The dam sits on Muddy Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River. The river district has consulted with the town council of Kremmling, which is downstream of the reservoir on the Colorado River, and Grand County commissioners. It also has held public meetings and kept emergency managers informed of the situation.
Bill McCormick, the state's chief of dam safety, agrees that there is no reason for immediate concern regarding the dam.
"It is displaying some unusual behavior but (the findings of) all the analysis that's been done to date is that it's not creating unsafe conditions," he said.
Still, he said he thinks everyone involved agrees there's a long-term issue pertaining to continued settling, which requires a long-term solution.
"The long-term solution isn't clear or obvious just yet but we're continuing to work on it," McCormick said.
Water district fights for relaxed quality standard — The Colorado Springs Gazette
January 17, 2016 Coyote Gulch Arkansas Basin, Cherokee Metropolitan District, Climate Change, Colorado Water, Groundwater, Wastewater, Water Pollution, Water Treatment
Upper Black Squirrell
Creek Designated Groundwater Basin
From The Colorado Springs Gazette (Ryan Maye Handy):
For years, the Cherokee Metropolitan District has failed to meet one of its water quality standards, and the eastern El Paso County water district has proposed a change in state regulations to make it easier to meet that requirement.
The proposal has started an unorthodox process with the state's Water Quality Control Commission to allow the district to have a higher level of dissolved solids – like salt – in its water. The change would only affect wells in the district, but the proposal has raised concerns from well-owners about the health of the system's aquifer and prompted three stakeholder meetings before a rulemaking hearing in August.
The Upper Black Squirrel Creek aquifer has already been degraded by the number of wells that tap into it, well owners argue. Wells in the Cherokee district pull from an aquifer that is recharged with treated wastewater – water that, under a new requirement, would have more dissolved solids. If Cherokee fails to change regulations for its so-called "total dissolved solids" levels, it will have to spend tens of millions of dollars to meet current state requirements – a cost that will be borne by the district's ratepayers.
The problems date back to 2010, when a new waste water treatment facility was completed without machines to treat water for total dissolved solids, known as TDS. At a Tuesday stakeholder meeting, the first in a series, Cherokee's General Manager Sean Chambers described the consequences of this to a group of around 30 people.
"So whatever comes in the waste water plant in terms of total dissolved solids comes out the other end," Chambers said. "Thus, we have a $30 million waste water plant that does not treat a lick of TDS."
The district's drinking water quality more than complies with state requirements for dissolved solids levels, but the levels in waste water pose problems. The water district typically measures 600 mg per liter of dissolved solids in its treated waste water, well over the state requirement of 400 mg per liter, said Chambers. Ever since the district opened its new facility in 2010, it has never been compliant with state standards for dissolved solids. By changing the level allowed in its water, the district hopes to save $10 million on costs over the next 20 years while it tries to become compliant.
On Tuesday, the district emphasized that dissolved solids in its water do not pose a public health risk, but only affect the water's taste. Most water districts around the country adhere to the federal standard of 500 mg per liter of dissolved solids, except for Texas, which has its threshold set at 1,000 mg per liter, said Andrew Ross, with the state's water control commission.
While the water district is aiming for compliance, well owners fear that more dissolved solids will continue to degrade the quality of the aquifer, said Jerod Farmer, a well owner who attended Tuesday's meeting. Officials with the water quality control commission acknowledge that a higher presence of those solids in water can impact the aquifer's quality.
Unlike surface water, which is regulated for quality at the federal level, groundwater quality is regulated on a state-by-state basis. Colorado's groundwater regulations have remained relatively unchanged since the 1980s, when two regulatory structures were set up- one for statewide regulation, and another to grant individual exceptions to the state's rules.
The Cherokee district is unique in Colorado – it has the largest facility in the state that dumps its waste water back into the groundwater. Its request to change the dissolved solids requirements in its waste water is equally unusual – the water quality commission rarely handles regulatory changes proposed by an outside agency, representatives said on Friday.
The public will get two more chances to learn about the proposed changes at stakeholder meetings on Feb. 11, time and location to be determined, and March 10 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., location to be determined. Both will help the commission gather as much public opinion and information as possible before the August hearing, said Lisa Carlson, who facilitated Tuesday's meeting.
"The hope is that, when you get to the hearing, you will all be well educated and understand what the issues are in the process," Carlson told the audience.
#AnimasRiver: New Mexico plans to sue EPA over #GoldKing mine spill — The Farmington Daily Times
January 17, 2016 Coyote Gulch Animas River Watershed, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Environmental Protection Agency, Groundwater, San Juan Basin, Water Pollution
The orange plume flows through the Animas across the Colorado/New Mexico state line the afternoon of Aug. 7, 2015. (Photo by Melissa May, San Juan Soil and Conservation District)
From the Associated Press (Russell Contreras and Susan Montoya Bryan) via The Farmington Daily Times:
New Mexico plans to sue the federal government and the owners of two Colorado mines that were the source of a massive spill last year that contaminated rivers in three Western states, officials said Thursday.
The New Mexico Environment Department said it filed a notice of its intention to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the spill, becoming the first to do so. The lawsuit also would target the state of Colorado and the owners of the Gold King and Sunnyside Mines…
The spill sent a yellow plume through the Animas Valley and into New Mexico and the San Juan River, forcing farmers and municipalities to shut off their taps. Farmers and ranchers on the Navajo Nation were left without a key water source for their crops and livestock for weeks.
The New Mexico regulators said they will sue if the EPA does not begin to take meaningful measures to clean up the affected areas and agree to a long-term plan that will research and monitor the effects of the spill.
"From the very beginning, the EPA failed to hold itself accountable in the same way that it would a private business," said Ryan Flynn, state Environment Department cabinet secretary.
The federal agency is reviewing New Mexico's plans to sue, spokeswoman Christie St. Clair said.
"EPA is working closely with the states to develop a long-term monitoring plan to evaluate potential environmental impacts from the spill and will be meeting with representatives in early February," St. Clair said. "EPA is also reimbursing state and local agencies for response-related costs associated with the spill."
Larry Perino, a reclamation manager for Sunnyside Mine, said the mine was not involved in the spill and has no responsibility.
"We will vigorously defend ourselves from any potential legal action," he said.
A representative for Gold King Mine did not immediately respond to an email requests seeking comment.
Roger Hudson, a spokesman for the Colorado attorney general, said the office has not yet seen the notice and had no comment. Hudson did not say if Colorado also planned to sue the EPA.
Flynn said Colorado balked when New Mexico asked for information about the spill's effects on the Animas River watershed that the two states share. In fact, Colorado asked New Mexico to pay about $20,000 for a public record's request, he said.
The Navajo Nation has said it may consider legal action against the EPA but nothing formal has been filed…
The owners of the two mines have been disputing the source of the wastewater buildup for years. Colorado-based San Juan Corp., which owns the Gold King Mine, claims it stems from a project in the 1990s to plug a segment of the Sunnyside Mine. They say the plug caused the wastewater to build up and get pushed into surrounding mines, including Gold King.
Canada's Kinross Corp., which owns Sunnyside, disputes those claims.
In 2011, Kinross offered $6.5 million to help clean mining waste from the upper Animas River while vowing to "vigorously contest" any effort to make Sunnyside liable for Superfund-related cleanup costs.
The mine has yet to spend the money but supports a "collaborative approach" among various parties, Sunnyside reclamation director Kevin Roach said.
#ClimateChange: Carbondale carbon tax — The Mountain Town News
January 17, 2016 Coyote Gulch Climate Change, Coal, Colorado River Basin, Energy Policy, Roaring Fork Watershed
Carbondale is a town of 6,500 people located 30 miles west of Aspen. That's Mt. Sopris, Colorado's loveliest mountain, in the background. Photo source/Wikipedia – See more at: http://mountaintownnews.net/2016/01/15/carbondale-carbon-tax/#sthash.tUbLVIZh.dpuf
From The Mountain Town News (Allen Best):
Carbondale proposes to levy tax on carbon in electric, heat bills
Although one resident has called it ridiculous, residents in Carbondale in April will decide whether to adopt a carbon tax. If approved by voters in the town of 6,500 people, it would be among just a handful of municipal carbon taxes in the United States.
Proponents estimate that the tax would add an estimated $5 to $7 per month to the utility bill of an average home and $20 to $40 for an average business. It would not apply to sale of gasoline.
Under the plan approved by town trustees on Wednesday, revenue would be used to continue and expand programs to improve energy efficiency in homes and businesses and incentivize renewable energy. Funding has ranged from $65,000 to $100,000 for such programs, but the source of that funding—the town's share of proceeds from natural gas and oil extraction in Garfield County—is expected to diminish in future years.
"It actually started with the trustees," says Erica Sparhawk, of the non-profit advocacy group Clean Energy Economy for the Region, or CLEER. "This is a very educated group of trustees, dedicated to sustainability, and they take their clean energy goals seriously. So they asked us to help them research and analyze different potential funding sources, so that these kinds of programs without the town having to tap their general funds."
With just a modest business and industrial sector, 60 percent of Carbondale's greenhouse gases come from the town's 2,400 homes. The town's climate action plan envisions upgrades to those homes so that they use less energy and, coincidentally, are more comfortable to live in. The program being envisioned would address 1,000 homes in the next five years.
Trustees, as the elected members of the town board are called, believe it's important to create n income-qualifying program, so that lower-incomer residents can benefit from the carbon tax.
Other potential use of revenues could include a large solar farm and a local micro-grid with battery storage.
Once a coal-mining town
The irony of Carbondale adopting a carbon tax is obvious. Mid-Continent Resource's coal mine was a major payroll in the town for decades. The mine closed in 1991.
"What better place than a town called Carbondale to implement a local carbon fee and put talk into action?" asks Mayor Stacey Bernot, a native, who grew up in Carbondale when it was still a mining town.
But the demographics of the town have changed dramatically in the last 25 years, and Carbondale is now home to wide variety of innovators, creators and activists but also to a large population of immigrants who work in the construction and service sector of the Aspen-area economy. Latinos, mostly immigrants, compose 30 to 40 percent of the town's population, and they tend to live in trailers and other lower-end housing.
Lately, carbon of another sort has concerned town residents, because of the potential for drilling for natural gas in nearby Thompson Creek Valley. It's part of the broad swathe of the mineral-rich Piceance Basin that arcs across west-central Colorado.
Town residents have loudly opposed drilling, as they generally see drilling incompatible with the hunting and recreational uses of the valley. by one study, the Thompson Divide provides 300 jobs in the Carbondale-area economy.
Sparhawk says trustees recognize what some—including this writer—called out as an inconsistency: How can you oppose drilling in your backyard while using natural gas to heat your homes and, increasingly, to produce your electricity?
Trustees recognize the need to walk their talk, says Sparhawk. "If we are going to oppose drilling in the Thompson Divide, then we in the community need to lessen our demand for natural gas."
Six funding mechanisms were evaluated as dedicated revenue sources for energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements in Carbondale, but after a series of work sessions with town trustees, efforts narrowed to the tax on carbon used for home heating and that proportionate of the electricity that comes from carbon sources.
Trustees are scheduled to finalize the ballot proposal at their Jan. 13 meeting.
Modeled on Boulder
Carbondale's plan is modeled on the tax adopted in 2007 by the municipality of Boulder, Colo.. It is described on the Boulder's website as the "nation's first voter-approved tax dedicated to addressing climate change."
The tax costs the average household about $1.33 a month and now generates $1.8 million a year. The tax is administered through Xcel Energy, which also provides electricity to Carbondale.
Boulder sustainability officials claim to that use of the tax money has been used to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.
"What's really interesting about Boulder's carbon tax," says Will Toor, a former mayor, "is just how popular it has been." Boulder is deeply divided about whether to get a divorce from electrical provider Xcel Energy, but the 77 percent of voters last November decided to extend the tax through March 2023.
The tax applies only to electricity, and it exempts any energy produced without burning fossil fuels.
Other jurisdictions also have carbon taxes. In Arcata, Calif., a college town two hours north of San Francisco, voters in 2012 passed, by a margin of 68 percent to 32 percent, what they call an excessive electricity use tax. According to the city's website, the 45 percent tax is assessed on residential household meters that use more than 600 percent of baseline electricity or more than an average of three residential households from one meter.
Washington D.C. also has a carbon tax levied on natural gas and electric bills. The tax in 2014 delivered $20 million to the Sustainable Energy Trust Fund, which is used to improve energy efficiency and expand renewable energy.
Just one mountain town in Colorado has flirted with a carbon tax. Joan May, an elected commissioner in San Miguel County, proposed a carbon tax on electricity and natural gas that would have generated $100,000 a year. Few towns are as liberal as Telluride, but the tax lost badly at the polls.
May says she failed to do her work in advance, leaving voters confused about the administration and use of the money. "I would solicit more support before we put it on the ballot," she says. "It was basically ready, fire, aim."
She says she wouldn't change the proposal itself, though. Similar to Boulder and other programs, the money would have gone into a fund that could be tapped for energy efficiency improvements.
Argument against
In Carbondale, CLEER avoided May's mistake in Telluride by holding community meetings. Still, there's a bit of pushback. In a letter published in the Sopris Sun, Carl Ted Stude, a retired environmental engineer and a 10-year resident of the town, dismissed the idea as impractical.
It's not the idea of a carbon tax that dismays him. He supports phasing in of a carbon tax at the national level. "I believe the preponderance of scientific evidence that emissions of carbon dioxide are contributing to global warming that will have long-term consequences that are more catastrophic than, say, a reduced ski season at Aspen."
Stude sees a national tax being phased in
while subsidies and mandates for ethanol, wind turbines and cultured algae are phased out. But a municipal carbon tax in a small town like Carbondale makes no sense, he argues.
"A carbon tax at the local level would involve substantial administrative effort (read 'economic waste') in calculating and assessing the tax."
Allyn Harvey, a trustee in Carbondale, doesn't think administration will be inefficient. CLER has met with Xcel Energy, Holy Cross Electric and Source Gas, the three energy utilities, and it's not a difficult process. A greater concern, he says, is the impact on Latino and other poor families, especially if nobody speaks English. "They may be leery of people knocking on their odors to talk about energy," he says,.
But Harvey sees this as a major opportunities, not just for poor people to ultimately benefit from more comfortable, energy efficient homes, but for Carbondale to take control of its own destiny.
"If we wait for the federal government to take action and for partisanship to end so that we can enact a carbon tax nationwide, ti will be generations form now," he sways. "I think there's an opportunity for the local community tot take actions and do something about a problem that we all recognize."
[Rio Grande] Roundtable changes water leadership — The Valley Courier
January 17, 2016 January 17, 2016 Coyote Gulch Climate Change, Colorado Water, IBCC -- Basin Roundtables, Rio Grande Basin
Pond on the Garcia Ranch via Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust
From The Valley Courier (Ruth Heide):
After a decade of service as chairman of one of the San Luis Valley's leading water groups, Mike Gibson handed the "gavel" over to Nathan Coombs on Tuesday.
Gibson, of Alamosa, has led the Rio Grande Basin Roundtable for the past 10 years while also working full-time as director of the San Luis Valley Water Conservancy District, where he has served for 14 years. He retired from the district and as chairman of the roundtable board. The board, which is comprised of representatives from throughout the basin, elected Coombs from Conejos County as the new chairman.
Vice Chairman is Heather Dutton, who followed Gibson as director of the SLV Water Conservancy District and has been active in the roundtable for some time, and board secretary is Cindy Medina of Conejos County, who has held that office in the past. The roundtable administers a pot of local funds allocated by the state from severance tax funds. State legislation set up the roundtables in each basin in the state and provided for funding on a local and statewide level for water projects ranging from feasibility studies to ditch canal repairs. The Rio Grande Basin has been highly successful in the past decade in drawing funds for local water projects.
Board members recognized Gibson for his leadership during his final meeting as chairman on Tuesday in Alamosa . U.S. Representative Scott Tipton's San Luis Valley aide Brenda Felmlee also shared the tribute Tipton had read into the congressional record in Washington D.C. honoring Gibson for his leadership with the conservancy district, roundtable , water congress and other water organizations, effective management and multiple awards. Tipton also recognized Gibson for his willingness to cooperate with others for the success of the basin.
Tipton said Gibson was "among the very best of the water managers in the 3rd Congressional District" and thanked him for his valuable work.
"I could not have done what I have done without the support especially of my board of directors," Gibson said. The board allowed him to serve in the voluntary position as chairman of the roundtable in addition to his full-time job with the conservancy district, Gibson said, because his board recognized the importance of the water issues the roundtable was handling.
"They were very kind and supportive of letting me pursue those other interests, and hopefully I have made a contribution," Gibson said.
Gibson also acknowledged his wife Gigi for her support. Gibson said he took early retirement from the mining company in Craig where he was working and when he learned there was an opening with the Nature Conservancy at their newly acquired Medano Ranch in the Valley, he applied for and obtained the job, with Gigi's support.
"She said 'it's going to be an adventure' ."
From the Nature Conservancy Gibson became involved in water projects and the conservancy district.
In addition to recognizing Gibson's efforts, the roundtable acknowledged the leadership of Vice Chairman Rio de la Vista and Secretary Cindy Medina who have volunteered countless hours on water committees in addition to the roundtable meetings themselves. For example, they were involved in developing the Rio Grande Basin water plan, which was included in the statewide water plan recently approved by Governor John Hickenlooper .
Travis Smith of Rio Grande County, a local and statewide water leader, said all of those who have been part of this water effort should be recognized for what they have been able to do by working together over the past 10 years.
Smith said these positions in leadership on the roundtable have been voluntary and not without criticism.
"It's a unique experiment," he said.
Smith also encouraged the young people who are now taking leadership roles on water issues.
"We want to raise up water leaders," he said.
Craig Godbout, staff member with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, which oversees the statewide and roundtable-level funding, gave the group an update on what it can expect for revenues in the near future. He said since oil and gas prices "have tanked," severance tax revenues for water projects will likely be reduced this year by 20-30 percent compared to last year's funding . Usually the statewide fund receives about $3 million from severance taxes in January, Godbout said, but it will probably receive $1.5-2 .5 million this year, and the basin roundtables that usually receive $120,000 infusion of funds in January will probably see $60,000-100 ,000.
Currently the Rio Grande Basin Roundtable has a balance of $318,000 in its local fund with about $110,000 in pending requests for funding , which would bring the balance down to $208,000, Godbout explained. Many of those who request locally allocated funds also request statewide funds, and the Colorado Water Conservation Board gives the final approval to both.
On Tuesday the roundtable approved, with board member Charlie Spielman dissenting, a $100,000 funding request from the Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust (RiGHT) to assist with a conservation easement on the Nash Ranch near Del Norte. Of the $100,000 request, $10,000 will come from basin allocated funds and $90,000 from the statewide pool, if approved by the state water board this spring.
Matching funds will come from the Gates Family Foundation , Great Outdoors Colorado and the landowner, RiGHT Executive Director Nancy Butler told the roundtable members.
The easement will preserve about 200 acres, which includes hay production, cattle grazing and wetlands. RiGHT Stewardship Director Allen Law said this property is especially crucial in providing habitat for the endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher . Other benefits of the conservation easement are protection for wetlands and against development encroachment. Butler said RiGHT has received letters of support from the Town of Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Rio Grande Water Users and Colorado Division of Water Resources.
Spielman said he opposed funding this request because he did not believe it was the most effective use of funds to deal with the basin's primary problem of imbalance between agricultural water use and supply.
"Implementation of this conservation easement will not have a significant positive effect dealing with the main problem," he said. He also said if one of the goals was to prevent residential development on the property, he did not see that this property would be marketable for much more than a couple of 40-acre tracts if it were developed.
Wetland biologist Cary Aloia said if the property was developed, however, the lost southwestern willow flycatcher habitat would have to be mitigated elsewhere.
Rio Grande County Commissioner Karla Shriver said another consequence of development could be artifi- cial dams caused by property being built up for roads and homes. Division of Water Resources Division 3 Engineer Craig Cotten agreed that building up roads for even small developments along the river could create dams and cause problems with flooding.
Aside from Spielman's "no" vote, the funding request was approved on Tuesday.
The roundtable board on Tuesday also heard the preliminary request, with a final request expected next month, from Judy Lopez for outreach and education. The request is for $30,000 from the basin funds for three years for a total of $90,000.
Silverton to EPA: Keep #GoldKing sludge out of #AnimasRiver — The Denver Post
January 17, 2016 Coyote Gulch Animas River Watershed, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Environmental Protection Agency, San Juan Basin, Water Pollution
A "get well soon" balloon floats in the contaminated waters of the Animas River flowing through Durango on Monday afternoon August 10, 2015 — photo The Durango Herald, Shane Benjamin
From The Denver Post (Bruce Finley):
Colorado mountain residents hardest-hit by the EPA-triggered Gold King Mine disaster say they'd like to make Silverton a research hub to find a better way — beyond building water treatment plants — to deal with thousands of mines leaking toxic acids.
Since August, the Environmental Protection Agency has relied on a temporary plant to remove millions of tons of metals sludge draining from the Gold King — muck from a 500-gallon-per-minute flow that won't reach the Animas River. Running it costs taxpayers $16,000 a week.
And permanent treatment plants here and at thousands of other draining inactive mines around the West would cost billions. Beyond construction, operating costs can top $1 million a year.
Of course, the EPA must treat Gold King discharges for now, Silverton town administrator Bill Gardner said, but perpetual water treatment "may not be the longterm solution."
Gardner advocated harnessing high science to map out underground terrain in detail, then control drainage using sophisticated plugs and sensors in tunnels.
"We can make lemonade out of lemons," potentially bringing non-tourism business Silverton needs — and a widely applicable solution.
"We're trying to be stewards of this watershed. This is the West. Water is precious out here. We get that big picture," he said. "And right now we need to deal with this huge ticking time bomb around us: these leaking mines. We need to look at a holistic approach focused on inner mountain flows of water."
The Arkansas Roundtable ponies up $194,000 for multi-use project
January 17, 2016 January 17, 2016 Coyote Gulch Arkansas Basin, Climate Change, Colorado Water, CWCB, Energy Policy, Hydroelectric/Hydropower, IBCC -- Basin Roundtables, Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, Tamarisk Control
Arkansas River Basin — Graphic via the Colorado Geological Survey
Can a water project be all things to all people?
The Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District wants to find out.
The Arkansas Basin Roundtable approved a $194,000 grant last week to determine if irrigated agriculture, environmental, recreation, municipal supply, hydropower and aquifer storage can be satisfied in one project.
The Colorado Water Conservation Board will consider final approval of the grant at its March meeting.
The project involves the 200-acre Lake Ranch near Salida, which the district owns.
Right now, the property is irrigated by a center- pivot sprinkler, but the plan is to expand the types of uses to include a hydropower system on the Cameron Ditch above the property, recharge ponds and wetlands on two corners of the field which are not being used and research on another corner. Farm structures occupy the remaining corner of the field.
In addition, a leasefallowing program would provide water to nearby cities, and results would be used in educational programs.
"This is the smaller program, to see if some of these ideas work," said Terry Scanga, general manager of the Upper Ark district.
If they do, a much larger project on Trout Creek that would cover 1,800 acres and could provide an additional 20,000 acre-feet in storage would be attempted.
That would be a boon to the Upper Ark district, which formed in 1979 to improve water use for numerous smaller entities in Chaffee, Custer and Fremont counties. Past studies have looked at improving how water supply is measured, the availability of underground storage and developing a leasefallowing tool to measure consumptive use when transfers occur.
"Multiple purpose projects are necessary for providing additional needed water supplies in the 21st century," the district noted in its grant application.
Purgatoire River
More Arkansas Roundtable coverage from Chris Woodka writing for The Pueblo Chieftain:
Several ditches along the Purgatoire River are in line to get a much-needed $271,000 makeover through a state grant approved last week by the Arkansas Basin Roundtable.
The roundtable approved a $90,000 grant request to improve structures on six ditch companies that have deteriorated through erosion. The ditches, along with the Purgatoire Conservancy District, will contribute $121,000 and apply for a $60,000 loan from the Colorado Water Conservation Board.
The CWCB still must act on the grant and loan at its March meeting.
"All of the ditches are in the Trinidad Project," said Jeris Danielson, manager of the Purgatoire district. "We estimated we could lose 10 percent of the water."
The ditch companies include Picketwire, Enlarged Southside Irrigation, Chilili, Baca, New John Flood and El Moro. All are located in the Trinidad area of Las Animas County.
The project will rebuild headgates, flumes and culverts at various locations. As part of the project, about 1,000 feet of bank along the Purgatoire River will be restored and stabilized.
The Trinidad Project is a federal project that relies on water stored in Trinidad Reservoir. Over the last 20 years, it has averaged only 40 percent of its full supply. The improvements will restore about 5,000 acre-feet (1.6 billion gallons) annually toward basin water needs, according to the application.
Finally, here's a report about efforts to mitigate flooding in La Junta from Chris Woodka writing for The Pueblo Chieftain:
An $85,000 plan to remove a "pinch point" in the Arkansas River that has caused flooding in North La Junta got the blessing of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable this week.
The roundtable approved a $25,000 grant toward the project by the North La Junta Water Conservancy District to deal with a problem that has persisted since a flood in the spring of 1999. Other funding is being provided by the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, Otero County and La Junta.
The grant will take out several islands of tamarisk, or saltcedar, using a drag line and reconfigure dikes that apparently only aggravated flooding through the area. Combined, the projects will increase the channel capacity of the Arkansas River through North La Junta.
"This is one of my favorite projects because we did it with one engineer and no lawyers in the room," quipped Jay Winner, general manager of the Lower Ark district.
The 1999 flood did serious damage to North La Junta, and the district has worked steadily since then to improve channel capacity through the area. Floods in recent years have renewed fears that past efforts were not as effective as hoped.
In another move, the roundtable approved a $48,000 grant toward a $54,800 project to replace a domestic water supply pipeline that serves about 175 families in the McClave area. The grant helps hold down water rates for customers in an area that eventually will be served by the Arkansas Valley Conduit.
The Colorado Water Conservation Board will consider final approval of the grants at its March meeting.
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Q: Move to rotated direction [2D] [Unity] I have a sheep which is rotating to random direction. Question is how to make it move all the time in the direction it was rotated (rotation changes every 5 seconds).
Here is my code:
using UnityEngine;

public class Sheep : MonoBehaviour
{
    private float SheepMovementSpeed = 30f;
    void Start()
    {
        InvokeRepeating("SheepRandomRotate", Random.Range(3f, 4.9f), 5f);
    }

    void Update()
    {

    }

    public void SheepRandomRotate ()
    {
        var dir = new Vector2(Random.Range(-10, 10), Random.Range(-10, 10));
        var angle = Mathf.Atan2(dir.y, dir.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle + 90, Vector3.forward);
    }
}

Any ideas?

A: Use the same Vector3.forward you used in your rotation
transform.position += (Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed);

A: In Update
transform.up is up relative to the rotation. So if the camera is facinf forward that should work for your sprite.
    transform.Translate(transform.up* Time.deltaTime * SheepMovementSpeed )

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Q: Sequence of differentiable Hilbert Space valued function-Reference request. I need to use the following theorem in an essay I'm writing.
Let $H$ be a real valued Hilbert space and let $(f_m)$ be a sequence of continuously differentiable functions, $f_m:[a,b]\to H$. If $(f_m)$ converges uniformly to $f$ and $(f_m')$ converges uniformly to $g$ on $[a,b]$, then $f$ is differentiable and
    $$f'=g.$$
Now my supervisor says that the proof requires tools from vector integration theory, but he has forgotten where he has seen it. I am not looking to prove it in the paper, as vector integration theory is way out of the scope of my essay, but I would like a reference to a proof if anyone knows of one.

A: If I m not mistaken you can find a proof in the book of Amann and Escher Analysis 2. There' s a whole chapter on differentiation in Banach Spaces in it.


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News, Views, and Nonsense
The news and world events through my eyes, with occasional nonsense thrown in.
What Will Trump's Legacy Be?
Posted in America, Britain, European Union, Human Rights, Immigrants, Islamic State, News, People's Rights, President, Russia with tags China, Donald Trump, Immigration, Muslims, United States on 31/01/2017 by floroy1942
President Trump has upset a lot of countries in his first two weeks in office, and we have yet to see how many more are in line. Judging by the number and size of demonstrations against him it seems he is currently the most hated president of all time in the States.
It's true that he has made some unpopular decisions, like the Muslim immigrant ban and his determination to build a wall between Mexico and the United States and make Mexico pay for it. The burning question is, what else does he have up his sleeve. He is without doubt the most radical president the U.S. has ever had.
I would not be surprised if he ends up being assassinated if he continues on his current path, for there has never been such an unpopular president in all of America's history. Despite all the millions of people around the world who are demonstrating against his decisions, he still holds fast on the presidential orders he has made.
What does this say for the future of the United States and his legacy? Well, if he carries on with these unpopular decisions he may not last four years and could end up being impeached by Congress.
In contrast, the American people are demonstrating in their millions against the decisions he has made, especially his immigration ban which has affected all Muslims living, or wanting to settle in the United States. Currently there are about 3.3 million Muslims living in the USA and many who wish to move there. Trump's plan has stopped this and the numbers of those refused entry are growing day by day.
With the number of militants increasing daily, and the rising number of attacks in European countries, it would seem like a plausible idea to stop them entering, but they are a tiny fraction of those who wish to enter. The trouble is, how do you distinguish these radicals from innocent people.
Currently, all Muslims from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen are banned from entering the USA, which is due to the number of radicals that are fighting in these countries. But Trump's new law goes further than this by banning all Muslims from entering the USA. There can be little doubt that this law cannot be sustained, for many are returning from abroad and live in America with families waiting for their return. How this turmoil will end is anyone's guess, but for now it is making Trump the most hated leader in the world.
With the tensions between China and the U.S. over the South China Sea, and with the Russians, it is clear we are living in dangerous times, with the threat of nuclear war increasing as is evidenced by the world coming half a minute closer to annihilation according to the scientists. It would seem that once again the world is entering a period of major instability and someone like Trump is not helping to ease the tension.
I sincerely hope that this time of turmoil will pass and he calms down. He needs to improve international relations with the rest of the world and make efforts to ensure the people can live in hope once again. He needs to repair relations with foreign countries he has upset and move forward to making the world a place of peace once more. Given time, he may turn out to be a good president for the USA if he curbs his radical decisions. We have no choice but to wait and see how things turn out.
Merkel Is Again Trying To Offload Immigrants
Posted in America, Benefits, Britain, Elections, European Union, Germany, Immigrants, Muslim, News, Politics with tags Angela Merkel, Germany, Immigrant Crime, Muslim immigrants, Refugees on 28/01/2017 by floroy1942
Once again Angela Merkel is trying to offload over a million 'refugees' that have flooded into Germany in the last eighteen months. The one thing you have to say about her is she never stops trying. Thankfully most countries in the Union are refusing to accept her plan for the distribution of these migrants to all European countries.
Most have followed the major increase in rapes and women molestation that have happened since these people arrived in Germany. Many have built barriers and closed their borders to these people for they do not want the same problems in their own country. The reason for this is that Muslims consider any non-Muslim woman to be 'fair game', and have no qualms about raping and molesting women who do not belong to their faith. It is also evident that the number of attacks by ISIL across Europe have increased significantly since she allowed this huge influx of Muslims. There is no doubt that several thousand terrorists have entered the continent among the refugees.
Merkel has over the past year realized the big mistake she made by opening the borders of Germany to 'refugees' from Syria, which are only about a quarter of the numbers that have entered, for most are economic refugees coming to live off the state on benefits.
It would seem that the majority of Germans still think she is the right person to lead Germany despite this huge gaff. Members of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union in Grimmen in the far northeast of Germany voted for her as party leader with a 96% majority. She said the issue would be raised at an EU summit in Malta on Friday, but downplayed hopes for a breakthrough. "We have to insist that everybody shows a bit of solidarity when it comes to the distribution of migrants." Merkel said.
In other words all the countries of Europe must come together to solve this problem that she alone has caused. I rather think that plea will fall on deaf ears with the majority of member nations. No-one wants to accept these people who live off the state and bring with them a crime wave. Not only that, but they will eventually be taking over towns and areas of cities as in Britain once they get organized.
Without a doubt Merkel has opened a major 'can of worms' here in Europe and currently there is no solution to the problem. It is said that she could once again be elected as Chancellor of Germany at the next election. It just goes to show you how dumb some people can be.
This Will Cheer You Up
Posted in America, Australia, Britain, Canada, England, European Union, Germany, News, UK, USA with tags Cartoons, Fun, Humour, Jokes, Laughter on 19/01/2017 by floroy1942
In the Pub the other day I was telling that old joke about what do you do if you see an epileptic having a fit in the bath? Answer: Throw in your washing….We were all having a good laugh about this when this big bastard tapped me on the shoulder and said. "I don't find that very funny. My brother was an epileptic and he died in the bath during one of his fits." I said, "Sorry mate. Did he drown?" "No." he said, "He choked on a sock."
A woman was at her hairdresser's getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband. She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser who responded "Rome? Why would anyone want to go there? It's crowded and dirty. You're crazy to go to Rome. So, how are you getting there?" "We're taking Continental," was the reply. "We got a great rate!" "Continental?" exclaimed the hairdresser. "That's a terrible airline. Their planes are old, their flight attendants are ugly, and they're always late. So, where are you staying in Rome?" "We'll be at this exclusive little place over on Rome's Tiber River called Teste." "Don't go any further. I know that place. Everybody thinks it's going to be something special and exclusive, but it's really a dump." "We're going to go to see the Vatican and maybe get to see the Pope." "That's rich," laughed the hairdresser. "You and a million other people trying to see him. He'll look the size of an ant. Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You're going to need it."
A month later, the woman again came in for a hairdo. The hairdresser asked her about her trip to Rome. "It was wonderful," explained the woman, "not only were we on time in one of Continental's brand new planes, but it was overbooked so they bumped us up to first class. The food and wine were wonderful and I had a handsome 28-year-old steward who waited on me hand and foot. And the hotel was great! They'd just finished a $5 million remodeling job and now it's a jewel, the finest hotel in the city. They too were overbooked so they apologized and gave us their owner's suite at no extra charge!" "Well," muttered the hairdresser, "that's all well and good, but I know you didn't get to see the Pope." "Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we toured the Vatican, a Swiss Guard tapped me on the shoulder and explained that the Pope likes to meet some of the visitors and if I'd be so kind as to step into his private room and wait the Pope would personally greet me. Sure enough, five minutes later, the Pope walked through the door and shook my hand! I knelt down and he spoke a few words to me." "Oh, really! What'd he say?" He said: "Who in hell cut your hair?"
I have the distinguished honor of being a member of the Committee to raise $50,000,000 for a monument to Hillary R. Clinton. We originally wanted to put her on Mt. Rushmore until we discovered there was not enough room for her two faces. We then decided to erect a statue of Hillary in the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame. We were in a quandary as to where the statue should be placed. It was not proper to place it beside the statue of George Washington, who never told a lie, or beside Barack Hussein Obama, who never told the truth, since Hillary could never tell the difference. We finally decided to place it beside Christopher Columbus, the greatest Democrat of them all. He left not knowing where he was going, and when he got there he did not know where he was. He returned not knowing where he had been, and did it all on someone else's money.
Hillary R. Clinton Monument Committee
P.S. The Committee has raised $2.16 so far…. ($2.00 of which was from the Clinton Foundation)
A woman went into a pet store to buy her husband a pet for his birthday. After looking around, she found that all the pets were very expensive. She told the assistant she wanted to buy a pet, but she didn't want to spend a fortune. "Well," said the clerk, "I have a very large bullfrog. They say it's been trained to give blow jobs!" "Blow jobs!" the woman exclaimed. "It hasn't been proven but we've sold 30 of them this month," he said.
The woman thought it would be a great gag gift, and what if it's true? No more blow jobs for her, so she bought the frog. When she explained froggy's ability to her husband, he was extremely skeptical and laughed it off!… The woman went to bed happy, thinking she may never need to perform this less than riveting act again.
In the middle of the night however, she was awakened by the noise of pots and pans flying everywhere, making banging and crashing sounds. She ran downstairs to the kitchen, only to find her husband and the frog reading cook books. "What are you two doing at this hour?" she asked.
Her husband replied, "If I can teach this frog to cook, you're history."
At a wedding ceremony, the pastor asked if anyone had anything to say concerning the union of the bride and groom. It was their time to stand up and talk, or forever hold their peace. The moment of utter silence was broken by a young beautiful woman carrying a child. She started walking toward the pastor slowly. Everything quickly turned to chaos. The bride slapped the groom. The groom's mother fainted. The groomsmen started giving each other looks and wondering how best to help save the situation. The pastor asked the woman, "Can you tell us why you came forward? What do you have to say?" The woman replied, "We can't hear in the back."
A Muslim couple, preparing for their wedding, meet the Mullah for counseling. He asks if they have any last questions before they leave. The man asks, "We realise it's a tradition in Islam for men to dance with men, and women to dance with women. But, at our wedding reception, we'd like your permission to dance together." "Absolutely not," says the Mullah. "It's immoral. Men and women always dance separately." "So, after the ceremony, I can't even dance with my own wife?" says the man. "No," answered the Mullah, "It's forbidden in Islam." "Well, okay," says the man, "What about sex? Can we finally have sex?" "Of course!" replies the Mullah, "Sex is OK within marriage, to have children!" "What about different positions?" asks the man. "No problem," says the Mullah. "Woman on top?" "Sure," says the Mullah. "Go for it!" "On the kitchen table?" "Yes, yes!" "Can we do it with all my four wives together on rubber sheets with a bottle of hot oil, leather harnesses, a bucket of honey and a porn video?" "You may indeed!" "Can we do it standing up?" "Absolutely not!" says the Mullah." "Why not?" asks the man. "It could lead to dancing!"
British humour as it used to be: absolutely politically incorrect.
It has been announced that the police are going to be allowed to use water cannons on rioters. They are putting some Tide washing powder in to stop the coloureds from running.
Two Muslims have crashed a speedboat into the Thames barrier in London. Police think it might be the start of Ram-a-dam.
Riots in Birmingham last month caused over £1 million worth of improvements
Muslims have gone on the rampage in Manchester, killing anyone who's English.. Police fear the death toll could be as high as 8 or 9.
Years ago it was suggested that, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." But, since all the doctors are now Muslim, I've found that a bacon sandwich works great!
Police in London have found a bomb outside a mosque…
They've told the public not to panic as they've managed to push it inside.
During last night's high winds an African family were killed by a falling tree.
A spokesman for the Birmingham City council said "We didn't even know they were living up there".
Jamaican minorities in the UK have complained that there are not enough television shows with minorities in mind, so Crimewatch is being shown 5 times a week now.
I was reading in the paper today about this dwarf that got pick pocketed.
How could anyone stoop so low.
I was walking down the road when I saw an Afghan bloke standing on a fifth floor balcony, shaking a carpet.
I shouted up to him, "What's up Abdul, won't it start?"
An Emergency Call Centre worker has been fired in Toronto much to the dismay of her colleagues, who were unhappy with her dismissal. It seems that a caller dialed 911 from a cell phone stating, "I am depressed and lying on a railway line so that when the train comes I can finally meet Allah." To which the call centre employee replied, "Remain calm and stay on the line".
I hope you enjoyed a laugh! 'Til next time.
How Barbaric Can You Get!
Posted in America, Britain, England, Equality, Islamic Revolution, Muslim, News, Pakistan, Religion, Sharia Law with tags Barbarity, Honour Killings, Islamic Law, Pakistan Government, Sharia Law on 17/01/2017 by floroy1942
I just read a news piece about an eighteen-year-old Pakistani girl who was burned to death by her mother for marrying a man she loved. Just another example of the so-called 'Honour Killings' which take place in Pakistan on a regular basis. From the report it seems that the mother strangled her and set her alight even though she was still alive. Its hard to imagine the pain this young girl must have gone through before she died.
When the case came to court the mother was sentenced to death for this outrageous crime, a decision I agree with totally. The woman confessed to killing her 18-year-old daughter, Zeenat Rafiq for "bringing shame on the family". None of her family claimed her body for burial, and it was left to the in-laws to perform the burial ceremony.
It has for a long time been the tradition in Muslim lands like Pakistan for the daughter to marry a man who is chosen by the parents. This sometimes happens with children as young a seven or eight and they have no say in it. The marriage can be for a number of reasons, like paying a debt to the man or family of the husband, or simply to cement ties with the family of the groom.
Whatever you may think of this practice, to me it is barbaric, but it is an unwritten law among some societies. The Pakistani government have tried to stop this practice but it still goes on because it is tradition among some sectors of Pakistani society. Numerous honour killings have been carried out in Pakistan, where mainly girls face the wrath of family members for marrying a man of their choice.
A Victim
In July 2016, Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was allegedly strangled to death by her brother in the province of Punjab. In the same month, British woman Samia Shahid was allegedly killed by her father and her former husband after she chose to divorce him and marry another man. In Pakistan alone there are over a thousand such honour killings a year, and nine times out of ten no-one is punished.
In accordance with tradition the killers can be 'forgiven' by the victim's family and no further action is taken by the authorities. New legislation was passed by the government in October 2016, but many ignore it for they stick with tradition. The new law provides for a mandatory prison sentence of 25 years to anyone convicted of killing for the sake of family honour, and no longer allows family members to legally pardon perpetrators. The law permits forgiveness only of an "honour" killer who is sentenced to death; if the killer is forgiven, he would still have to serve 25 years in jail.
In my view it just goes to show how backward these people are to have such a tradition. In this day and age you would think that such a practice would be a thing of the past, but it is not.
The Muslim religion is well-known throughout the world for its barbarity, like chopping off the hands of thieves, stoning to death of women and executions with a sword. There can be little doubt that Islam is the most barbaric religion on the planet. Will it ever end? I doubt it for it is so ingrained in their culture.
The National Health Service In Turmoil- Again
Posted in America, Benefits, Britain, Budget Cuts, England, Government, Health, Immigrants, News, People's Rights on 10/01/2017 by floroy1942
In Britain we have the National Health Service (NHS) that is supposed to cater for illnesses among the public. For years there have been problems and last year it got worse. The whole system is in danger of total collapse unless the government do something to save it. There is apparently talk in government circles of privatising the whole system, but that to me sounds like 'backroom chatter'. Government sources have consistently said that this option is not on the table.
But there is little doubt that once again the NHS is in crisis. Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments are practically overrun every day and although it is a general rule that patients are seen within four hours, this is seldom true. It has been reported that "throughout December, A&E departments had to shut their doors to new patients more than 140 times – a 63% rise on the 88 recorded the previous year. NHS guidance says "A&E diverts" like this should only happen as a last resort and are put in place when departments cannot cope with any more patients. Last week, it also emerged that two patients died on trolleys in Worcestershire Royal Hospital's A&E department during a period described as extremely busy by the hospital." You have to wonder why this is!
In my view the biggest mistake the country ever made, thanks to Tony Blair, was to allow in hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are now swamping the NHS. Few of them work for a living for they are mostly on benefits, but they still get free healthcare from the NHS, along with many other 'perks'. In effect, this has pushed the English population on the sidelines when it comes to help. They make no contributions whatsoever unlike the British people but still get looked after, even for minor things like colds.
Before the great influx of immigrants the NHS was able to cope satisfactorily with the aged and sick people, but since Tony Blair allowed in so many immigrants the system is on the verge of collapse yet again. The sad thing is, most politicians discredit the complaints and say there is no crisis. Mind you, they can all afford private medical care and never step foot in A&E. Perhaps they should!
Where Are We Headed?
Posted in America, Britain, Conservation, Environment, European Union, Human Rights, Islamic State, News, Politics, Terrorism with tags Air Contamination, Climate Change, Future, Hunger, World Poverty on 07/01/2017 by floroy1942
Its the beginning of a new year, and if you think about it you have to wonder where the world is headed. 2016 was not a good year for many people across the globe, although we in the West have not suffered quite so much. Other parts of the world have seen a great deal of suffering with wars, terrorism, hunger and catastrophic bad weather. So what makes you think that 2017 will be any better.
Malaga City
Already western nations have seen the worst weather in decades, with floods, heavy snowfall and drought that have taken their toll on the people. Only a couple of months ago in Spain where I live, we saw massive flooding on the Costa Del Sol that is totally unheard of. Many areas of Europe and America have seen catastrophic drought and flooding, but in other parts of the world they have suffered even more.
One of the major topics during 2016 has of course been terrorist activity in many lands, including Europe. The sad thing is, it is a long way from being over. Almost every day there is a new outbreak of violence in country after country, the latest being Ivory Coast.
Beijing Smog
Another major problem is pollution in many areas of the world. You only have to look at the news and see the pollution in cities like Beijing in China among others, and it has recently been reported that the pollution in London is already over the limit, and we are only seven days into the new year. So you must ask, where is the world headed?
Unless humanity starts taking some firm measures to stop these things from happening it will end in complete chaos for mankind. It seems that no-one is taking any firm measures to combat these problems, not the United Nations or governments across the world.
On the question of terrorism and Islamic State the whole world should unite and put these people out of business, next they should do something about combating the pollution that is choking the world. Unless the governments of the world come together and do something about these problems there is no future for mankind on the planet.
ISIS Killing Children
If the nations of the world do make a united effort to put an end to the Muslim uprising, and all the other terrorist organizations, the world could return to peace. If they would agree on laws for example limiting one car to every family we could rapidly reduce the number of vehicles on the road from the more than a billion vehicles that are causing all this pollution. They should also make a concerted effort to help the poorer nations by giving them food to save those dying of hunger and helping poorer nations to care for their people.
The world is currently divided into rich nations and poor nations, but no-one is doing anything to even out the balance. Power is the cornerstone of modern living, and many people will do whatever it takes to maintain their postion in the world. They do not spare a single thought for the poorer nations, or the poor people of even their own country. Today its all about me, me, me!
All I can say is that if things do not change rapidly, mankind will will disappear into history within a few decades.
Britain Overcrowded – Wait 'Til 2030
Posted in America, Britain, Christianity, European Union, Government, Immigrants, News, Politics, Sharia Law, Terrorism with tags Britain, Europe, Immigration, Muslims, Sharia Law on 04/01/2017 by floroy1942
The government has turned a blind eye to this massive increase of immigrants for they cannot be seen as racist, but what they do not see is that their policies will eventually give the whole country major problems at some time in the future. There can be little doubt that as the Muslims population grows they will start to take over the Parliament along with county and city councils. Once they do this there will be a steady drift to Islam across the country. It will be sad to see a once famous country, and a previous world leader, end up as a Muslim country.
But don't think that Britain is the only country under threat, for the same thing will happen in Germany, France, Holland, Denmark and Sweden among others. The governments of these countries are also letting in a steady flow of Muslim immigrants who are supposed to be fleeing the Syrian war, but most of them are not from that country. It was proven that only a third of all the 'refugees' that came to Germany last year were actually from Syria, the most came from Pakistan, Afghanistan and many African countries.
The greater majority live off huge benefits due to the number of children they have, and are sucking the economy dry. As you would expect, those British people who are employed are all paying the cost of this with increased taxes etc. While many of our people are living on the most basic of incomes, these immigrants, especially those with large families, are raking in huge amounts of money every week.
There must come a time when this farce has to stop for the sake of the country. It is time for all the countries of Europe to round up all illegal immigrants and return them to their own countries. They also need to put a stop to the inflow of migrants for the sake of the continent otherwise we will all be in grave trouble. Once the war in Syria is ended they should all be sent back to their own country and not be given permanent residence.
This is the only way to stop the rot that has set in and prevent Europe from becoming a Muslim land in the future. God help us all.
Welcome to News, Views and Nonsense.
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I can hardly believe this blog is now more than five years old, for it seems like only yesterday when I took my first hesitant steps. A lot has happened in that time, and I must say it has been a great pleasure to write about, and discuss with visitors all the momentous happenings around the world.
Whether you are a frequent visitor, or someone who just dropped by, I hope you will come back, for you are always welcome.
Now that I am a 'Gentleman of Leisure' I have time to indulge in my hobby of writing short stories. I do it for my own pleasure and not for accolades. Although I recently had offers to publish some of them, I found the cost of publication far too much and unfortunately had to decline.
PLEASE NOTE: The stories have now been removed from my blog and published on Amazon for Kindle readers.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ARE ON KINDLE ARE: No Time For Mourning - A day in the life of Battle Of Britain Squadron.
Flight of the Rusty Bucket - A bomber crew take on a dangerous raid over Germany.
The Will To Survive - The desperate struggle for survival on a contaminated Earth in 2050.
Rescue Mission. A sequel to The Will To Survive. Our hero, along with two companions, undertakes a dangerous rescue mission.
Escape from the Taliban - An SAS team are captured and must escape a vicious Taliban leader.
The Sinking of the Rodney Star - The desperate days of WW2 Atlantic convoys.
Deadly Duel - The massacre of American troops in the Ardenne
Strike By Night - Commando raid just after D-Day 1944
Code-name Falcon - A WW2 French resistance story
Hell's Valley - The continuing battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Lifeboat - The crew of a sunken WW2 convoy vessel fight to survive the merciless Atlantic ocean.
A Refugee's Story - The desperate journey of hope for a Somalian refugee.
Secret of the Golden Sphinx - Murder and intrigue in Ancient Egypt.
Alien City - Two young people stumble upon a secret alien city.
They cost only $0.99 or equivalent so feel free to browse on the Kindle Store webpage.
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News, Views and Nonsense
Is The Whole World Going Mad! 16/10/2018
We see all over the world fighting going on and it will not stop. When I was young the world was at peace, except for the Russians and they did not do anything except make threats. The world was a peace in the sixties, but today the world has moved on and war is everywhere. […]
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What To Do In This World 30/09/2018
The whole world is going crazy and it is the people that are to blame. When will we become sane in this world and look after each other. There are millions of people who are starving to death and the countries do nothing about it. In Africa there are thousands of people who are dying […]
What Is Wrong With Mankind 03/09/2018
Everywhere except Europe is in a mess! Once the world was a peaceful place, and today it is a controversy of war and demonstrations. There are battles going over the whole world and we must put a stop to it. In South America there are demonstrations in most countries and they are not giving up. […]
Killings 12/08/2018
Why are so many people bent on killing other people? In England the situation is getting worse as more murders are carried out. Why? Years ago Britain lived in peace and there were hardly any murders, and those that were caught were hanged. We have to get back to this. Most of the murderers are […]
The United Nations 11/08/2018
Wars are happening all through Africa, Syria and the Far East and it is mostly to do with terrorists. How are going to stop them? The United Nations should step in and end it all so that the world can return to peace. But they do nothing about it except discuss the terrorists. During the […]
Migrants 07/08/2018
Immigrants Who Demonstrate Europe is being flooded with migrants over the past few years, and it doesn't stop. There are many migrants that are looking for a job in Europe, but many are […]
Hot Weather 06/08/2018
All over the world the temperatures are getting hotter, and the there seems no end to it. In Europe the weather is climbing, and it will rise in August. When winter comes there will be cold and snow everywhere and the we will be up to our eyeballs in snow. The weather is changing and […]
The State Of The World 02/08/2018
This world is getting worse by the minute, and we see whole countries in turmoil. The people are protesting against the government for their rights. Such is the world today, country after country riot against the government, but they do not care about the people. They pass laws that have nothing to do with the people […]
Temperatures 31/07/2018
Its getting hotter and hotter this year and it won't end until winter comes, and who knows what the winter will bring. In the Middle East its well over forty degrees, and we can expect close to forty degrees in Europe this August. All over the world it is getting hotter and the weather is […]
Brexit 28/07/2018
What is happening with Brexit? We are groping towards a showdown with the European Union and we do not seem to be getting any closer. Theresa May should be putting a hard fist down on Brexit but she is not doing that. We have to call an E.U. Council meeting and discuss the plans for […]
Wishes For World Peace 28/07/2018
The whole world is in turmoil at the moment, and it has been that for years. When is the world going to be at peace? It does not seem likely for the future unless we go to war in which the whole world will be destroyed. When the war is over then there will be […]
Violence 26/06/2018
Why is there is there violence all over the world? In every country it's crazy, for all countries have attacks on humans and there is no stopping it. The police do their best to stop the violence but they are not having enough clout. In most countries there is attacks against the police and innocent […]


Wrapping your head around spending the rest of your life with one single person can be a difficult task, to say the least… but when you find that person, it may just be the easiest decision left to make. There's so much to appreciate when witnessing love like that between two souls, but capturing it… well that's just another reason why I love doing what I do.
Cheers to all you lovebirds out there making that difficult yet effortless decision to say "yes" to forever.


Aug 20 How To Hit 10,000 Followers On Instagram!
Over this past weekend, my little local marketing agency hit 10,000 on Instagram! I was also named one of the most followed local business' in CNY!
HOW THE HELL DID I DO IT?
I followed the 4 E's religiously!
Educational content can be helpful to your followers in the short term, and over time it can present you or your business as an industry expert. People are more likely to hire an expert. Just one piece of advice, present the material in a fun and accessible way. Educating your followers is tricky, you want to be informative, but not boring. No one goes to social media to be lectured to.
Humor is one of the simplest ways to trigger emotion. So why not have something funny to make your audience laugh? As I started to say above, when people follow a business they want to see the face of that business, no matter how big or small. No one wants to follow a lifeless, boring, never-ending lecture. People want to see content that engages them and makes them laugh. Entertainment will have your followers coming back for more every time and will allow them to see the sense of humor your company possesses. Don't forget, whatever content you generate must relate to your brand.
It is important to have engaging content on social media. Social media is successful because it is a place where people can go to engage with one another; whether that is through laughing at a shared video, or commenting on a shared post. 62 percent of shoppers will become loyal customers of brands that engage with them.
Technically, Evangelize means spreading the word of God. In this case, Evangelize means spreading the word of your company or brand. You want to turn your followers into walking/talking billboards for you. Social media can make it easier for your customers to refer you to new customers. Word of mouth influences 50% of allllll money spent in the world!
As always, I'm here for you. If you need anything or want something explained further, don't hesitate to reach out to me josh@amidonmarketing.com or (315) 427-9213 (that's my cell, so feel free to text).
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