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Pesticide Use in the Wildlands
Notes: the term "pesticide" refers to the general category of substances meant to control pests; "herbicide" refers to plants, "insecticide" to insects. Colored, underlined sections of text are links to further information.
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust's (GPMCT) mission in the Wildlands[i] is to protect and manage the property for wildlife habitat, sustainable forestry and public recreation. Sometimes, to fulfill that mandate, the considered and judicious use of pesticides is justified, and sometimes essential.
History of Wildlands Management
Although the Wildlands was initially relatively pristine forest, 20 years ago it was largely clear-cut, which dramatically altered ecosystems, encouraged many non-native species, and caused major erosion. Since then, to protect the streams, ponds and wetlands, the Trust has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild and improve the roads, bridges, culverts and trails to control erosion and re-create the natural passageways of aquatic organisms.
We have spent similar amounts, with the guidance of several highly-regarded foresters, to rebuild the forest, not only to bring back the magnificent Northern Forest that was once thriving there, but also to rebuild the habitat to encourage the return of native wildlife. So far, we have been very successful. Because of the earlier human interventions, as well as some of our early construction projects, several species of invasives (aggressive imported plants that have few natural enemies, like barberry, autumn olive, Japanese knotweed, and others, that crowd out native species) are present. However, given the size of the property and the environmental indignities visited on it, the Wildlands are remarkably free from major invasive problems. We have been working to keep it that way for 15 years.
Reasons for current pesticide use
It is in this context of rebuilding the forest and controlling invasives that we use pesticides- in this case herbicides. We have been using them since 2006 in very specific locations and situations. Although we can envision a time when we may need to use insecticides to protect trees from the emerald ash borer and wooly adelgid, invasive insects that are killing whole stands of ash and hemlock trees in other parts of New England, we do not currently. Occasionally, we apply herbicide to poison ivy when it is in an area where people are working (usually in forestry management) or where many people, especially children and dogs, congregate.
We are not advocates of pesticide use. Where there are appropriate alternatives, we use them. But in some cases, the safest, least environmentally damaging solution, is pesticides. We are not alone. Almost all large conservation landowners, including land trusts, reluctantly use pesticides. Most land trusts in Maine, at least occasionally, use pesticides. The National Audubon Society, the Trust for Public Land, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the State and National Forest Services, and the State and National Park systems all use pesticides. Most of these organizations, including GPMCT, use alternatives where they are effective and efficient. We use pesticides to manage forests and invasive species because the alternative is much worse.
This article, Recovery: How Herbicides Can Save Fish and Wildlife discusses the trade-offs land managers make and how herbicides are a small but essential part of their work battling invasives. It's not written by an industry apologist, but by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a global environmental nonprofit that employs more than 400 scientists in 72 countries across six continents.
Allowing invasives a foothold can cause major changes in the ecosystem. In the case of autumn olive, which we have in the Wildlands, it out-competes and displaces native plants by creating a dense shade that hinders the growth of plants that need lots of sun. It can produce up to 200,000 seeds each year, and spread over a variety of habitats because its nitrogen-fixing root nodules allow the plant to grow in even the most unfavorable soils. Birds scatter the seeds along roadsides and forest edges, which often completely take over log-yarding areas.
Japanese knotweed (often called bamboo), another invasive present in the Wildlands, is extremely aggressive and very difficult to eradicate. It has completely colonized the entire corridor of hundreds of streams in New England. Once in the water course, it establishes itself quickly and kills off all other stream/river bank vegetation. This eliminates the native plant species that insects feed on, which in turn reduces or eliminates fish populations. Stream and river banks colonized by knotweed are much more susceptible to erosion, compromises the water quality and ecosystem. Knotweed reproduces easily from small pieces of stems or roots, as well as from seed. In the Wildlands, the current pattern of knotweed infestation is best managed by application of herbicide on individual plants.
In managing the Wildland's forests, one of the main challenges is the invasive beech bark scale insect and its accompanying fungus that decimate the American beech. These diseased beech are significantly altering the forest by reproducing so rapidly that they crowd out other species. Without intervention, parts of the Wildlands will evolve into stands dominated by diseased beech. Pesticides are one tool among many we use and we continue to experiment with alternative management techniques.
Current specific uses of pesticides
We have generally used guidelines published by TNC. They recommend science-based practices for managing invasives, including the use of herbicides when there isn't another viable solution.
In the past we have hired a contractor to treat phragmites (a wetland invasive reed) with herbicides. It is currently under control and we are monitoring it.
Herbicides were used on Russian olive in 2012 & 13, combined with several mowings; it was successfully eradicated. We have also used herbicides on autumn olive, and while it has not been eradicated entirely, it is tentatively under control. This past summer we used mechanical methods (digging and cutting) to remove it, but because the shrub germinates easily, cutting can cause it to spreading. We are monitoring it at present, but expect some of the larger roots may require herbicide.
We have successfully eliminated several patches of knotweed in the past with herbicide. We are currently using herbicide on two single plants and one small area about twenty feet square, all of them in or next to water courses where any mechanical disturbance is likely to send plant material that can regenerate downstream. Their location is of special concern because of knotweed's predilection to take over water courses very quickly. Although the patch, which is near the bank of Hot Hole stream, was treated experimentally with salt and vinegar and covering with a tarp, the treatment was ineffective and we concluded that both salt and vinegar, so close to the stream, may be toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms.
For forestry purposes, we have treated stands of small, diseased beech with herbicide manually applied to a small section of bark. We have also treated freshly-cut stumps of beech to prevent root-sprouting and further proliferation of diseased trees. Last year we also experimented with "high-stump" cutting. We think it may be a reasonable alternative to herbicide treatment, but running chainsaws with high levels of exhaust and oil emissions for hours at a time has its own environmental impact.
The Maine Natural Areas program publishes excellent resources for managing invasives. It lists Japanese knotweed as severely invasive and recommends:
New patches (<20 stems) can be cut repeatedly throughout the growing season*, as often as once/week, for several years. Larger patches cannot be controlled manually without a persistent, reliable labor source. Smothering with heavy black landscaping cloth or erosion control fabric can be successful but requires biweekly maintenance and must be repeated for up to 10 years; see references for sources of information on this method. Herbicides† are effective. For small patches, use stem injection or cut-drip applications of glyphosate*. Be sure to dispose of cut stems carefully. For large patches, cut or mow when plants are approximately 3′ tall, then apply glyphosate as foliar spray when plants have re-grown to 3-5′ tall later in the same growing season, or apply to uncut, mature stems just before flowering. Avoid application of foliar herbicide during flowering as bees are attracted to this species. Follow-up will be needed in almost all circumstances. https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mnap/features/invasive_plants/fallopia.htm
Autumn olive is listed as very invasive and the recommendation is:
Small plants and seedlings may be pulled up by the roots when soil is moist; larger plants can be cut, but re-sprouting will occur*. Persistent cutting or burning of the root crown multiple times during the growing season over several years may kill the plant, but diligence is required. Mowing can prevent seedlings from establishing. Goats and sheep will browse it but repeated, heavy damage over multiple years is required to kill established shrubs. Herbicides† are effective as foliar applications (glyphosate or triclopyr solution), cut-stump application (glyphosate or triclopyr solution applied immediately after cutting except in early spring), or basal bark application (triclopyr ester in bark oil). https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mnap/features/invasive_plants/elaeagnus.htm
Alternatives to pesticides
As noted above, we have frequently opted for alternatives to pesticides; some of them work, some don't. An internet search will produce dozens of supposed alternatives, but many of them either don't work in our particular situation or have more environmental impact than the pesticide they replace.
Vinegar: there are commercially available herbicides that use high (20%) concentrations of vinegar. They work on some plants, but they are toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates. They are also not effective on knotweed because they do not reach the root system
Salt: has the same issues as vinegar and is toxic to many of the surrounding plants
Tarping: can be used with other methods to control knotweed and other invasives, but requires smooth ground or addition of material to ensure a close-fitting cover. Generally takes several years to be completely effective
Mowing: in some situations it can be used on its own or as part of other treatments, but takes years to be completely effective
Goats: a possible solution in some areas with large infestations; knotweed requires cutting down to the ground many times each season over a few years, so it's impractical with very small patches. Also, farm animal droppings on stream banks are more damaging to water quality than appropriate application of herbicide
Types of herbicides we currently use
Glyphosate:
The active ingredient in Roundup® and many other brands of herbicides.
Glyphosate is the most widely used post-emergence herbicide for several reasons:
It is effective. Glyphosate is a systemic herbicide that moves from the treated foliage to other plant parts, including the roots.
Glyphosate has little or no soil residual. It is rapidly bound by clay particles in the soil, rendering it inactive. Glyphosate that comes in contact with the ground will not run off into water systems and becomes inactive.
It is considered to be one of the least toxic and environmentally benign herbicides in use.
Most criticism of glyphosate comes from agricultural settings where it's broadcast sprayed over extremely large areas multiple times a year in presence of seasonal or immigrant workers. That's very much the opposite of the conservation approach. GPMCT uses glyphosate as a spot treatment on specific invasive plants. We do not "spray," but drip a solution of 2% Roundup® directly onto the leaves of each plant. We do not use Roundup® on invasives on the banks of streams, or in the water (where phragmites, an invasive wetland reed grows), because the "inert" ingredient in Roundup®, a surfactant, can be toxic to aquatic life. Other formulations of glyphosate are safer in water. We also know glyphosate may be harmful to bees. Treating invasives before or after they flower eliminates this possibility.
For more information on glyphosate, see the National Pesticide Information Center website.
Triclopyr:
The active ingredient in Garlon®, Renovate®, Pathfinder® and many other brands of herbicide. Triclopyr is often used to treat Eurasian milfoil in lakes. It is a relatively safe herbicide when used appropriately. We have spot-sprayed it on phragmites, as well as on freshly-cut stumps of diseased beech. We anticipate using it on autumn olive where mechanical removal hasn't been effective.
For more information on triclopyr, see the National Pesticide Information Center website.
The use of pesticides and management of invasives is evolving and GPMCT will likely change its practices as other treatments are developed, and as other threats emerge, such as the hemlock wooly adelgid and emerald ash borer.
We are currently developing a pesticide policy that reflects our current use and directs our future use of pesticides. It will require us to do more documentation of the specific areas, pesticides and purposes for the applications, as well as documented follow-up. We will also notify Wildlands users if pesticides are used on roads or trails or other places people are likely to be present.
It is likely we will also evolve to using State-certified pesticide applicators, instead of willing volunteers. We have never asked staff to apply pesticides against their wishes. As in the past, we will rely on the long experience of our forester for advice, and continue to research and apply best practices.
Landon Fake, ED
[i] The Wildlands is a 4,500 acre preserve encompassing several small mountain peaks, numerous streams and frontage on the Dead River and Hothole Pond, in Orland, Maine. It is owned and managed by the Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust, an accredited 501 (c) (3) nonprofit land trust.


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Ernst Höger (* 30. August 1945 in St. Veit an der Triesting, Niederösterreich; † 24. Dezember 2019 in St. Pölten) war ein österreichischer Politiker (SPÖ).

Leben
Der gelernte Werkzeugmacher kam über die Gewerkschaftsbewegung in die Politik. Er war von 1978 bis 1980 Landessekretär der Gewerkschaft Metall-Bergbau-Energie.
Er wurde am 15. Jänner 2020 in Berndorf beigesetzt.

Politik
Ernst Höger war von 1985 bis 1998 SPÖ-Landesparteiobmann von Niederösterreich, von 1979 bis 1980 Abgeordneter zum niederösterreichischen Landtag, von 1980 bis 1999 Landesrat für Gemeinde- und Wohnbauwesen und von 1986 bis 1999 Landeshauptmannstellvertreter.

Auszeichnungen
 1992 Ehrenbürger von St. Pölten
 1999 Ehrenring des Landes Niederösterreich
 2005 Straßenbenennung in seiner Heimat- und Stadtgemeinde Berndorf und in Hirtenberg
 2005 Großes Goldenes Ehrenzeichen mit dem Stern für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich überreicht von Heinz Fischer
 2008 Ernst-Höger-Hof, Wohnhausanlage in Wiener Neustadt

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Landeshauptmann-Stellvertreter (Niederösterreich)
Landtagsabgeordneter (Niederösterreich)
Landesrat (Niederösterreich)
Träger des Großen Goldenen Ehrenzeichens mit dem Stern für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich
Ehrenringträger des Landes Niederösterreich
Ehrenbürger von St. Pölten
Ehrenbürger von Gars am Kamp
Person (Berndorf, Niederösterreich)
SPÖ-Mitglied
Österreicher
Geboren 1945
Gestorben 2019
Mann

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HomeeventsfarmgardenThe Greening of Bunn
The Greening of Bunn
August 30, 2013 Kay Whatley farmgarden, local-nc
Photo Source: Town of Bunn, NC.
By Kay Whatley, Editor
Imagine driving along an NC roadway, and coming up to a small town. As you drive by the Town Limit sign, you see a large field of solar panels generating energy for the town.
Coming in to town there are signs for organic farms. Near Town Center, you pass a park-like area full of new trees. It's not just your imagination: it is the Town of Bunn NC.
Bunn is situated in Franklin County, about halfway between Raleigh and Rocky Mount. The town council and local farmers have embraced green energy and organic farming, giving Bunn a "green" image.
Starting September 27, 2013, the Town is planting Centennial trees as part of its 100-years celebration. Residents can stop by and take photos as the new trees and park benches are installed.
The Centennial Team has coordinated a face-lift to the Bunn by-pass area. A more scenic drive is coming, with help from local businesses — including Taylors Nursery, Mr. Landscape and Chris's Greenhouse — and Bunn High School students who helped to build the new park's benches The face lift to the Bunn by-pass is scheduled to be complete by October 4, 2013.
Last year, O2 Energies constructed a solar farm to provide power for part of the town. Local farmer Chad Ray provides sheep to keep the grass down around the solar panels. The sheep eat the grass, so that the solar field is low mown. The grass-fed sheep are then, well, served as a healthy and hormone-free alternative to store-bought meats.
Carvel Cheves' farm is a hop, skip, and jump from the solar field. His Clover C Farm raises hormone- and antibiotic-free lamb, which they sell alongside wool, eggs, and hay. In addition to meat, Cheves' sheep yield wool and wool products.
Just like Bunn, Cheves uses solar energy to power half of the farm's water system.
Cheves partnered with Mann Mullen, and Karl Hudson of Rare Earth Farms, which offers pasture-raised beef and free range eggs at the NC Farmer's Market in Raleigh. Rare Earth is AWA approved for their animal husbandry practices.
Mann Mullen farms in Bunn, and Karl Hudson farms in Zebulon. As Rare Earth Farms, they work to tell the story of their all-natural, grass-fed, grass-finished Angus cattle operation to local consumers. Their cows are raised in lush pastures that are continually rotated to maintain the highest levels of soil and grass. The farm management and animal husbandry standards used reduce the stress levels of the animals compared to commercial feed-lots. Hudson and Mullen use sustainable farming practices and have taken Rare Earth Farms to the highest levels of quality beef, free of steroids, antibiotics, artificial coloring or preservatives.
A little further up the road (Route 98) you'll find Vollmer Farm. At different times of the year, this family farm provide ingredients for salads, side dishes, and desserts!
Organic lettuce, sweet corn, strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries can be picked or purchased from their farm market. Vollmer Farm grows pumpkins in time for Halloween, and after you pick a pumpkin you can play on their farm-built "back forty" — lots of fun things to do. Summertime, those coming to buy watermelon and cantaloupe can stay awhile and enjoy ice cream right at the Vollmer Farm Market.
Take a turn back toward town, pass the middle school, and visit Ray Family Farms. This organic family farm on Pearces Road, while technically a Louisburg address, is close to Bunn. The Ray family produce beef, pork products, turkeys, chickens, and eggs. Their pasture-raised Belted Galloway cows are used in the farm's beef products, including filet mignon, ribeye, ground round, and special "doggie boxes" for pets. Pasture-raised hogs grow fat and live comfortably, eventually providing for farm customer in the form of bacon, sausage, ribs, ham, and more. Their chickens and turkeys are also pastureraised, and available in all the standard cuts — plus eggs.
Working with other area farms, Ray Family Farms offer honey and dairy products — including butter and cheese — at their on-the-farm Old Thyme Farmers Market.
So, the next time you are traveling the NC roadways and want to see some "greenery", come visit Bunn! Take a look at this changing small town. Check out the solar farm, visit family-run organic farms, and sit under a Centennial tree. Enjoy this old town as it moves into a greener, more sustainable next 100 years.
About Kay Whatley	2062 Articles
Kay Whatley serves as Editor and Reporter with The Grey Area News. Kay is a published author with over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry. Kay Whatley is wife to Frank Whatley, founder of The Grey Area™ newspaper and The Grey Area News online news website.
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April can be overwhelming. We get carried away by all the seed racks and bedding plants at the nursery and garden centers. Making a list before going out to shop will help you decide what you'd like to plant this year. Start small, and then you can add other plants in May and June. Why rush? Gardens are meant to be enjoyed, one plant at a time.
Think containers this spring. Just about any herb or vegetable plant can be grown in containers as long as they're deep enough. Consider this when planting a kitchen herb garden. You'll want the herbs close enough so you'll able to dash out and pick fresh herbs at the last minute for meals you're planning. Six herbs that do fantastic in containers are basil, dill, parsley, chives, thyme, and mint. One or two per container will last all season. Or you can group them together in one large dish garden. Just make sure you use high-quality potting soil. Herbs will need 4 to 6 hours of sun to produce their best. These herbs also grow very well in the garden and in beds and borders.
Observe the sun for a few hours to make sure your herb garden will not be growing in the shade once the trees leaf out. Full sun is best for herbs.
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I had this dish a few weeks ago. I never missed the noodles, as the cook used baking potatoes in place of the noodles. The dish was meatless, as I don't eat hamburger.
2 large baking potatoes, wash them, but don't peel. 1 large jar of Ragu sauce, which is gluten free, about 2 cups of Kraft, shredded Mozarella cheese. Yes, the cheese is gluten free as the company uses potato starch instead of flour to prevent the cheese from sticking together in the package. 2 fresh, green zucchini. In a 13x9x2 baking dish, add a thin layer of the sauce. Slice the zucchini and potatoes thinly, place them evenly over the sauce. Pour the rest of the sauce over the vegetables, sprinkle with cheese and bake at 375 for about 45 minutes. It was delicious. We also had a garden salad sprinkled with fresh parsley and chives. No one missed the bread or the pasta.


For today's prompt, take the phrase "Seeking (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.
Empty the mind of intruding dross.
Branch into new areas of mystification.
Concentrate on a leaf, a page, or a tree.
As you drift straight towards writer's block.
Rack your brains to release the muse.
The dammed up flow of blocked inspiration.
Then re-start it again with renewed power.


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Józef Lindemann herbu własnego (zm. przed 27 stycznia 1762 roku) – podstoli kowieński w latach 1740-1761, stolnik smoleński w latach 1739-1740.

Poseł na sejm 1758 roku z powiatu kowieńskiego.

Bibliografia

 Diarjusze sejmowe z wieku XVIII.T.III. Diarjusze sejmów z lat 1750, 1752, 1754 i 1758, Warszawa 1937, s. 284.
 Urzędnicy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego, t. 2, Województwo trockie XIV-XVIII wiek, pod redakcją Andrzeja Rachuby, Warszawa 2009, s. 612.

Członkowie stanu rycerskiego I Rzeczypospolitej
Podstolowie kowieńscy
Polska szlachta
Posłowie na sejm zwyczajny 1758
Posłowie na Sejm I Rzeczypospolitej (powiat kowieński)
Stolnicy smoleńscy
Urzędnicy ziemscy I Rzeczypospolitej


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Call it our most towering achievement: as a testament to their ingenuity and skill, our team has succeeded in constructing two of the largest PIT tag antennas in the world. Recently, members of FISHBIO had the opportunity to present this project at the 20th Symposium of the International Society on Biotelemetry in Kyoto, Japan. The symposium covered a wide range of topics, from telemetry applied to wildlife and human research, to satellite telemetry and underwater applications.
Our presentation highlighted the success of the innovative PIT tag antenna arrays that we designed, fabricated, and deployed in two hydroelectric diversion tunnels in the Yuba River watershed. The two freestanding arrays measured 12 feet and 14 feet tall, respectively, and their performance was remarkable... Read more >
CA orders thousands of water users to stop pumping from streams
California has ordered more than 2,600 water agencies and users in the Sacramento Valley to stop pumping water from streams, a drastic response to the ongoing drought that hasn't occurred since 1977. The curtailment notice was imposed by the State Water Resources Control Board late Wednesday. It affects 2,648 water agencies, farms, cities and other property owners with so-called "junior" water rights, or those issued by the state after 1914, in the Sacramento River and its tributaries... Read more >
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Salmon runs are threatened or endangered throughout much of the Pacific Northwest, and scientists have been working for decades to bring them back from the brink. That can involve removing dams or adding fish passages to them, rehabilitating streams, and reducing sedimentation. Whatever strategy they use, scientists need to keep track of salmon-where and when they're migrating, and how many survive each stage of their lifecycle... Read more >
Searching for elusive steelhead trout in the Los Angeles River
On a recent sweltering weekday morning, environmental scientist Rosi Dagit waded into the murky water at the mouth of the Los Angeles River. Leaning hard against the current and trying not to slip on the rocks, she began pulling a seine net across a chest-deep pool, hoping to catch a Southern California steelhead trout. Dagit knew it was a long shot. Southern California steelhead are endangered, with the estimated 500 left on Earth, scattered across coastal waters between San Luis Obispo and the Mexican border... Read more >
Wanapum Dam fish hauling experiment ends
Efforts to drive fish around the Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams on the Columbia River have been suspended after a study found dam modifications for migrating adult salmon were working. The Grant County Public Utility District started trapping and hauling fish in April, as the first of 20,000 spring chinook salmon arrived in the Vantage area. Officials were concerned the drawdown behind the cracked Wanapum dam would prevent adult salmon from using fish ladders to complete their upstream journey to spawn... Read more >
Legal push to outlaw fishing of endangered Pacific bluefin
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An environmental group is taking legal action in the United States to try to save the Pacific bluefin tuna from extinction. The Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity says the world's insatiable appetite for sushi, especially in Japan, has caused stocks to drop by 96 percent since large-scale fishing began. It has filed a legal petition calling on the US National Marine Fisheries Service to prohibit fishing for Pacific bluefin... Read more >


Murphy served as The Atlantic Monthly's managing editor from 1985 until 2005, when the magazine relocated to Washington. He has written frequently for the magazine on a great variety of subjects, from religion to language to social science to such out-of-the-way matters as ventriloquism and his mother's method for pre-packaging lunches for her seven school-aged children.
Murphy's book Rubbish! (1992), which he co-authored with William Rathje, grew out of an article that was written by Rathje, edited by Murphy, and published in the December, 1989, issue of The Atlantic Monthly. In a feature about the book's success The New York Times reported that the article "was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 1990 and became a runaway hit for The Atlantic Monthly, which eventually ran off 150,000 copies of it." Murphy's second book, Just Curious, a collection of his essays that first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, was published in 1995. The Word According to Eve: Women and The Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own, was published in 1998 by Houghton Mifflin. The book grew out of Murphy's August 1993 Atlantic cover story, "Women and the Bible." More recent works include Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America and Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe.
Murphy was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was educated at Catholic schools in Greenwich and in Dublin, Ireland, and at Amherst College, from which he graduated with honors in medieval history in 1974. Murphy's first magazine job was in the paste-up department of Change, a magazine devoted to higher education. He became an editor of The Wilson Quarterly in 1977. From the mid-1970s to 2004, Murphy wrote the comic strip Prince Valiant, which appeared in some 350 newspapers around the world.
A cache of letters sheds light on the final days of a Nazi holed up in Italy after World War II.
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HANOI – The Vietnamese Government on Tuesday decided to offer US$100,000 in aid relief to help the Indonesian Government and people overcome the consequences of recent earthquakes and tsunami.
Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province was ravaged by two quakes measuring 6.1 and 7.5 on the Richter scale on September 28. A six-meter tsunami hit the shores after the second quake struck the area in the afternoon of the same day.
The death toll following the disaster in Palu city and Donggala town has now climbed to 1,249 and may continue rising. As many as 48,000 people have been evacuated.
Currently, Indonesian authorized agencies are providing food and necessities to Sulawesi, while also stepping up rescue activities.
No Vietnamese has been reported dead or missing, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It also confirmed that 10 Vietnamese students studying at Tadulako University in Palu city are safe.
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In December 2004, a massive 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean countries, killing 220,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 168,000 in Indonesia.


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29/03/2017: PH INVESTMENT DELEGATION, WB GROUP EXPLORE STRATEGIES FOR ECOZONES
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The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) investment mission participated in a Roundtable Discussion on special economic zones at the International Finance Corporation on 28 March 2017 in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The visiting delegation from the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) participated in a Roundtable Discussion on special economic zones at the International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C. on 28 March 2016. The roundtable was part of an investment mission that is aimed at creating awareness among various sectors in the US capital about PEZA and the ARMM, in line with the Philippine Government's investment priorities, including in infrastructure, manufacturing resurgence and the development of Mindanao.
The Delegation was led by PEZA Director General Charito B. Plaza, and composed of ARMM-Regional Economic Zone Authority (ARMM-REZA) Executive Director Aleem Siddiqui Guiapal, ARMM Agrarian Reform Secretary Amihilda J. Sangcopan, ARMM Treasurer Kanggo Umal, PEZA Deputy Director General Tereso O. Panga, Francoise Ferdinand Plaza, and Danilo Mangaya.
In a roundtable discussion chaired by Mr. Peter Kusek, Senior Investment Policy Officer at the World Bank Group Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, the officials briefed investment specialists and experts on the various programs and policies of PEZA and ARMM-REZA in attracting and retaining investments, including targeted investment promotion strategies; approaches to investment promotion and policy; diversification of zones ownership and economic activities; fiscal and non-fiscal incentives; investor aftercare programs; business one-stop shop action centers; and investor linkages initiatives.
There was consensus among the international financial experts present that the Philippines had an impressive track record in investment promotion and the operation of special economic zones, and they encouraged the delegation to share Philippine best practices more broadly. They mentioned that the Philippine regulations on the one-stop shop is reference material for many World Bank practitioners.
During the discussion with the roundtable participants, the delegation and the technical experts exchanged views on the future opportunities and challenges for countries that have embraced the concept of special economic zones. Director General Plaza emphasized that while PEZA continues to expand existing zones and aims to build an economic zone in every province and city of the Philippines, they are also looking towards the future by going into niche areas such as eco-tourism facilities, halal hubs, logistics hubs, and defense industrial complexes.
The roundtable participants also discussed strategic issues such as how to deal with zones that are nearing full occupancy and how to ensure that they continue to have a catalytic effect on the economy. On the issue of climate change and sustainable development, the participants looked into the concept of eco-industrial parks, which has exploded in number in the last ten years; as well as Climate Innovation Centers. Other experts provided advice on best practices with respect to investment policy and regulations, as well as cutting edge investment promotion concepts.
PEZA Director General Plaza and ARMM-REZA Executive Director Guiapal expressed satisfaction with the substance and depth of the roundtable discussions.
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title: SQL Injection through HTTP Headers
date: '2015-03-31T16:30:00.000-06:00'
author: Sanjiv Kawa
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- bWAPP
- hash
- MySQL
- root
- HTTP Headers
- SQL Injection
- SQLi
- User-Agent
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A vulnerable web app that I have been enjoying recently is bWAPP. You should definitely check it out if you haven't already.

I came across bWAPP as I have been wanting to get better at testing injection flaws, specifically SQL, XML, SSI and general command injection. In the process of doing so, I learned about a pretty neat way to conduct SQLi attacks by tampering with the User-Agent HTTP Header.

bWAPP has a vulnerable application which logs the IP address and User-Agent of visitors into a MySQL database. As the User-Agent string is not sanitized by the application, we can manipulate the value of string and replace it with malicious SQL statements.

    <figurecaption>Recording the User-Agent string and IP address of the firewall.</figurecaption>

    <figurecaption>Checking out the User-Agent string in Burp.</figurecaption>

    <figurecaption>Replacing the User-Agent string with a single tick.</figurecaption>

    <figurecaption>Received a pretty verbose MySQL syntax error that we can work with.</figurecaption>

    <figurecaption>Based on the MySQL syntax error, I decided to put together a simple statement following the syntax rules. I then set some canaries to see where they were going to be presented on the front end.</figurecaption>

    <figurecaption>Looks like the MySQL query which replaced the User-Agent string worked!</figurecaption>

    <figurecaption>Lets try to grab the MySQL root users hash from the database.</figurecaption>

    <figurecaption>Time to fire up hashcat.</figurecaption>

Thanks for reading!


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So, I suspect I'm quite possibly the very last person with any substantial interest in the franchise to have finally got around to watching The Avengers (or as it's called in the UK Avengers Assemble). This is therefore not what you'd call a finger-on-the-pulse movie review type thing; more just a reflection on the fact that I kind of think this movie is something of a masterpiece, if considered strictly on its own terms.
And boy, did the film deliver on that promise. Never so much as a hint that the viewer might have to engage the thinking parts of their brain. The objective was to super-saturate the audience's senses with the tropes and visuals and bombast of pure spectacle, leavened with the precisely judged delivery of 'moments'. It's those two things – the visual spectacle and the moments – that make the film, and it's so abundantly clear that Joss Whedon knew precisely what he was aiming for, and how to hit the target, in terms of delivering them that it really is an amazing achievement on that level.
There's no shortage of holes you could pick in it if you wanted to – the hand-waving gibberish of the psuedo-science, the inexplicable transformation of the Hulk from mindless rampager to obedient, articulate soldier, the horribly Independence Day-style nonsense with the nuclear missile at the end (seriously, an alien invasion that's designed to overwhelm the whole planet is undone by a single nuke?) – but I really don't think any of that matters one little bit, because it's all like water off the duck's back of the movie's bravado and utter commitment to delivering mindless entertainment on the grand scale.
For all the triumphant spectacle of the thing, though, I really don't think it would work as it does without the aforementioned 'moments'. They're the single lines of dialogue, the gestures, the vanishingly brief scenes, that tie the whole thing up. They deliver the humour, or put the tingle in the viewer's spine, or reach back to satisfyingly close a loop with some earlier plot element or comment. They are, in many ways, the essence of this kind of movie-making, and The Avengers is utterly stuffed with them.
There's Captain America casually and silently handing Nick Fury a ten dollar bill in settlement of an earlier bet; Bruce Banner's 'I'm always angry' line as he literally turns into a smooth Hulk transformation; the Hulk's later interruption of Loki's (third? fourth?) arrogant explanation of why all of humanity is so far beneath him; Hawkeye shooting off arrows without even looking at the target. I could go on and on. It's all very simple, quite silly stuff, but it's what this film is all about, and I don't think I've ever seen it done so well and so heavily.
So: masterpiece. Just so long as your definition of masterpiece is … narrowly constructed. And for once – very sad how rare this is – the trailer was an abosultely 100% accurate depiction of what the film itself was to deliver. If for some strange reason you haven't actually seen the movie, despite finding the following visuals appealing, take it from me: you will not be disappointed.


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Sabic Raises its Stake in the World's Largest Methanol Complex
Sabic has signed an agreement with the Japan Saudi Arabia Methanol Company (JSMC), renewing the partnership in the Saudi Methanol Company (Ar-Razi) for another 20 years.
The agreement comes after a long and fruitful partnership between the two companies, marked by the successful transfer of technology. It demonstrates Sabic's strategy to strengthen relationships with its global partners and reflects its leading position in the petrochemicals industry, including methanol production.
Under the agreement, which was approved by regulatory bodies, Sabic will raise its stake in Ar-Razi to 75 per cent, reducing JSMC's shareholding in Ar-Razi to 25 per cent. JSMC will pay more than SR5 billion to Sabic for renewing the joint venture partnership, which Sabic will use, in part or whole, to finance refurbishment of Ar-Razi's existing methanol plants or set up new ones.
By concluding the agreement, Sabic will become an equal co-owner with JSMC in a new, highly efficient methanol production technology, which will be freely commercialized inside or outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
"Ar-Razi is the first joint venture in Sabic's history and one of the most successful partnerships that the company has had over 40 years," said Yousef Al-Benyan, Sabic Vice Chairman and CEO.
"Renewing the partnership for more 20 years is proof of its success and contribution to the Saudi-Japan strategic cooperation, in line with Vision 2030," he added.
Ar-Razi was established on November 24, 1979, as a 50/50 joint venture between Sabic and JSMC with the aim of developing, establishing, owning and operating a methanol complex.
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BoyForSale – Boy Marcus Chapter 2 – The Auction – With Master Savage
Marcus seemed like a dream come true when he came up for auction. A beautifully handsome, fit young man with a submissive spirit and physical durability. Watching as Felix pounded on his chest and toyed with his hole, my imagination went wild with all that I could do with such a strong and seemingly unbreakable body!
I love to push people… It's what I do. I've always gotten under people's skin, in their heads, in their hearts, and pushing them beyond what they think they're capable of. Typically when I meet someone, I have to go slow, go easy, go at their pace. That's fun and exciting, even important in a relationship. I always respect people's limits, but sometimes… I want to go further. Harder. Deeper.
Marcus seemed like a chance to push myself. To see not just what a submissive is capable of, but what I'm capable of! What would I do given no limits, no safe words? My hand went up immediately, eager to claim him for myself… And when I was the winner, my cock stood straight up as well!
When I got him alone, I studied him carefully. He took direction well. Kneeling when I said. Removing my shoes. Kissing my cock. He kept his head down, averting his eyes, and only looking at me in the eye when I told him to. In his core, he wanted to serve me… To prove his worth and value. I could easily tell just how valuable he was.
Leaning back on my bed, he took off my pants and sucked my cock dutifully and expertly. He may have been bought and paid for, but he didn't act like a whore. I liked that. He acted more like a hungry, eager boy, seeking the approval of a father figure… That definitely got me hard! I knew I wasn't his father. I wasn't even his lover. I was his owner and he had to do what I said.
He bobbed his head up and down, taking me in his mouth. He looked so handsome. I could tell he enjoyed it… But like I said, it's in my nature to push.
I ordered him to go down further. He gagged up some saliva and I could see his eyes water. Normally I would go easy, but given the well-paid opportunity, I made him go deeper. All the way… And to his credit, he never relented! He stayed down on my cock as low and long as I wanted. Even when it strained him — even pained him — he was dedicated to my cock.
The true test, however, was not his mouth or his throat, but his hole. I was plenty lubed up from the boy's persistent sucking and I wanted to give his ass a true test of its durability. I stayed on my back, cock up, and ordered Marcus to sit down on it.
Every inch of my cock slid inside him, without a pause or hesitation. The coach in me wanted to pat him on the back and say, "good job," but the master in me wanted more.
I thrust my hips up into him. Hard and deep into his anal cavity, slamming the tip of my meat against his youthful prostate. The only reprieve from my aggressive fucking was gravity pulling my muscular body down onto the mattress, only to bounce back up into him just as hard.
He stroked himself, milking his beautiful, hard cock, bringing himself closer and closer to the edge of orgasm. I wanted him to enjoy it. As much as he was mine, I wanted him crave my cock, to crave that feeling, and to give everything of himself to me… And I could tell from the sounds he made that I was giving him pleasure.
This excited me even more! This beautifully handsome young man, wrapped tightly around my bare cock, was bringing himself to cum as I pulverized his insides with my cock. I was proud of him and proud of what he was enduring. As I inched myself closer to cumming, I was thinking of all the ways I could test him and push him further — a thought that brought me to the edge of cumming myself…
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Mani Ratnam chopped Abhishek's hair for 'Raavan'
Jun 2, 2010 IANS
New Delhi, June 2(IANS) It wasn't any celebrity stylist but National award winning filmmaker Mani Ratnam himself who gave superstar Abhishek Bachchan his military-style crew-cut for the upcoming film "Raavan".
The haircut was a result of a long standing promise that Abhishek made to Ratnam a few years back while shooting for "Yuva".
"Mani Ratnam wanted Abhishek to cut his hair for 'Yuva'. But Abhishek ended up keeping his own hairstyle with a promise in store that one day he 'will allow Mani Ratnam to cut his hair'. And so on the first day of the shooting in Kerala on the sets of 'Raavan', Mani himself gave Abhishek the 'Beera' hair style," said a source.
Abhishek usually spends a lot of time detailing the look for his characters. While he had put on several kilos to look the part of Gurukant Desai in "Guru", he shed lot of weight for "Raavan".
Co-produced by Reliance BIG Pictures, "Raavan" is set for a June 18 release. It also features Aishwarya Rai, southern star Vikram, Govinda and Ravi Kishan. Click the Movie button below for more info:


PROFESSIONAL and financial services group pro-manchester is aiming to grow revenues to £1m in the next two years.
The target to grow turnover from £586,000 this year was announced by recently-elected chairman John Jones at a city centre event.
Mr Jones, a corporate partner with accountants Beever and Struthers, said this would be achieved through an extended membership policy to include corporates and an enhanced events programme.


If you visit many blogs, you eventually grow to hate the little thing known as word verification, where you have to type in a jumble of letters before leaving a comment. Blogger has a very nice spam catcher that will weed out the spam, at least, although not necessarily the crazies. So I get why some people leave it on, but it still bugs me. So I figured I might as well have fun with it, instead of being irritated. The brain always wants to put meaning to words, even if they are nonsense words. I've compiled a list of a few doozies I've encountered during word verification over the past few months, and my translation of the term.
Corgi - A SIGN I SHOULD GET A CORGI PUPPY!!! I've always wanted a corgi puppy! It's meant to be! It showed up in word verification and everything!
Torke- Okay, I take offense to this. I am NOT a torke!
Greast - a great feast - like the one I'll be eating next week.
Xapyris - the future product that will eventually replace paper and make us all more green.
Finsib - Ghetto slang for 'offensive'. Obviously. As in "I find your use of the word torke to be finsib."
Noakery - A little cupboard for hiding your candy stash from your kids. You know you have one.
Wingstr - Someone (like myself) who tends to wing it, instead of planning.
Shlort - When you're drinking a soda, and someone makes you laugh, and you end up with soda in your nose.
Illen - to make sick. Like all this word verification business is illen me. How about you?
Those are good! And yes, you need a corgi puppy!
I'm with you ALL the way! Hate those buggers.
I do love your definitions though. You are a genuis!
What great definitions! I love the one about the oven.
We'll be seeing some of these in the Webster Dictionary before long... they're great!
Er I don't like word verification. Mainly because it takes twice as long to leave a comment. OR I hit the comment to send and I'm off to the next blog before the word verification even shows up and oops - no comment! It's hard to be chatty with that on there - you know?
It drives me ER....that is my word for crazier than crazy...just ER. Really fun and clever post.
Oh yes! Those words will drive a person crazy! The worse is when you type one in wrong and have to do it again!
Corgi! Yes I sign I need one too. Our friend's Corgi's just had puppies. :) That is GREAT. Amen to this blog post!
Then up pops word verification, which you have to click again..... Makes me not want to visit those blogs.
I think I have my word verification turned off. Let me know if I don't.
If I could give out an award for the most ingenious and clever blogger, you would win hands down! I love these definitions!
It's irritating to come across those word verifications~plus the red line that goes under a word that I just misspelled.. I love the blogging world and guess I'll just have to get me a puppy..
Shlorting is no fun. At all.
Very clever and creative. The word verification does strike me as amusing at times and sometimes even appropriate to the post. I'll make mention of it at the time but never would have thought to collect them. Good on you for making a fun post out of them. TexWisGirl pointed me in your direction and I'm glad she did.
I'm not a fan of word ver either, but I do try to make light of those words too. Love your definitions! And since my tummy is rumbling, I'll head to the kitchen to find a greast of sorts.
Oh my GOSH, this is so GOOD!!!! I love them all, especially the xapyris and noakery. Sometimes I get actual words in word verification and wonder if they are running out of fake words. You always tickle me so much, you missed your calling as a stand-up comic. Hey, I have always wanted a corgi!!!! No kidding. I'm afraid of big dogs with long pointed snouts, but love ones with short legs. Did you see "The Accidental Tourist"? Or maybe you read the book? There is a real cute corgi in it.
I agree with you....word verification drives me nuts! I'll probably jinx myself now by syaing this...but Blogger catches most of my spam too.
lol foreverrrrr at "I find your use of the word torke to be finsib."
I know it irratates the heck out of me too!
Word verification drives me baddy! Why do they have it??
OMG those things are so annoying. I thought I was the only one who felt that way. Hmm, Corgis are the cutest...you should definitely get one! LOL.
Haha! I love your definitions. :) I strongly dislike the whole word verification thing. It's the one thing (that, and music) that will cause me to stop visiting a blog.
LOL! I like these definitions!
How fun!!! CONGRATS on readers choice for POWT!!
i collected these word for a week thinking about making a story with them, but hated the idea at the end of a week. Stop the nonsense I say.
Oh, I don't like those word verifications either!
That is hilarious! I've encountered some interesting ones as well!
A corgi puppy would be mighty fine . .


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The McLaren MP4-12C tears up the supercar rule book
There's no doubt, McLaren Automotive are about to turn the performance car market on its head. Ground-breaking technology and advanced design has allowed the new MP4-12C to claim the ultimate status some 18 months before it hits the streets. It represents the unprecedented transfer of F1 construction, technology and development from track to road and it's what the Woking-based operation knows best. With the economy struggling and trillions of pounds worth of debt mounting, sub-£200K road cars are nevertheless booming and MTI is at McLaren Automotive to take a closer look at its new supercar.
McLaren set its sights on becoming a solo supercar manufacturer back in 2003. Although tied-in with Mercedes Benz the two would soon part company with the latter keen to continue its front-engined strategy (now seen in the Mercedes SLS AMG) yet the partnership allowed McLaren to effectively hit the ground running thanks to manufacturing the Mercedes SLR supercar.
The MP4-12C was never a Mercedes project that morphed into what we see here today. The Woking outfit completely started from scratch, sourcing its own components with no carry-overs whatsoever. That's no surprise considering what else the McLaren Group has under its umbrella. For instance its electronics arm supplies standardised ECU's not only to the entire F1 grid but also to IndyCar and for a new generation of piston-engined aircraft. McLaren Applied Technologies sells its telemetry know-how beyond motorsport to, amongst others, the medical sector. That's not a bad portfolio all operating out of an, at first glance, impossibly futuristic headquarters.
Ron Dennis, McLaren Automotive CEO and astute businessman, is about to embark on a personal ambition and has already planned the twelve years not only with the "12C", but a three-car line-up including a new breed of hyper car to rival Pagini. To kick start production, 2011 will see the MP4-12C emerging from a brand new factory alongside the existing Woking HQ at a rate of 1,000 cars per year. With 35 dealers appointed around the world McLaren is insisting its dealer network puts a lot of investment into their plush showrooms and is keen that more money is spent on aftersales as it sees this as a better way to build brand loyalty in the long-run. For instance, dealers will be expected to have every single component in stock ensuring owners don't have to endure having their cars off the road because of parts unavailability. All appointed dealers are required to have a proven track record in selling cars in the premier division, with three in the UK, one in central London and two more to serve the rest of the country.
Yet McLarens, or Ron Dennis' obsession, only started three years ago when he was stood in the pit lane and started to think about all the teams that had been around since 1966 with Ferrari being the only one that sprang to mind. That's when he realised that to protect his workforce, protect the brand; he had to broaden the brand's horizons. With the Porsche 911, Audi R8, Lamborghini's Gallardo and Ferrari's latest 458 Italia a target to not only beat but better, the journey began.
Standing in the former SLR handover suite in McLarens hi-tech HQ with a MP4-12C just about to be pushed away from a previous VIP visit, (I hear American TV star and fanatical car-nut Jay Leno has recently been over) I'm probably the last journalist to see one before its debut in 2011.
Jay Leno behind the wheel of the McLaren MP4 12C
Starting with a clean sheet of paper, its rivals won't be able to copy its advanced carbon core overnight because it would mean decommissioning existing manufacturing technologies, although you wouldn't think so just by looking at one. Frank Stephenson, McLarens design director, was only appointed last year but it was just in time for him to make some subtle changes to the look of the '12C before the design needed to be signed off.
After his success with the 2001 BMW-Mini, Stephenson went on to Ferrari and had a hand in finishing the F430 and 599 before moving to parent company Fiat. Among the changes he managed to put through on the '12C were updated headlights and a more dramatic nose which now look completely different to when he first arrived. Finally he set about creating new panels designed to "tidy up" the engine bay.
Every hole and every vent on the car is completely functional, something Ron Dennis insisted on right from the start. The '12C is compact in its dimensions but is pure in every sense, something you only realise when you're up close. Its pure Formula 1 in the sense of its construction: a rolling chassis with non-structural bodywork draped over it. That not only makes it incredibly light and strong but something every rival in this sector would have if they could afford to. The carbon monocoque chassis moves the game on in the 'junior supercar' sector like nothing else, too. The whole construction of the '12C is completely different to that of any other car that's ever been built. Although it may have a similar layout to its closest rivals, the MP4-12C will be the most technologically advanced supercar on sale under £200k.
With an unlocked prototype and nobody around, it's too tempting not to get inside. The gull wing door opens easily and feels remarkably similar to its predecessor, the McLaren F1 road car. Slide inside and the supportive driver's seat is positioned very upright, as is the steering wheel. There's certainly nothing bland about the cabin design which looks ultra-modern – not unlike Ferrari's all-in-one 458 Italia. The dashboard divides the passenger compartment like a late 60s Corvette and the centre console is dominated by a 7-inch touch-screen information centre / sat-nav, whilst lower down five other dials enable the driver to adjust stability control, gearshift speeds, suspension settings and down force. Even on this prototype the high quality is evident, helping justify its estimated £170,000 price tag. McLarens quality control will only allow five minor faults per car along the production line whilst Mercedes allowed 150 per 100 SLR's, things like specs on the alloy wheels, something you need a microscope to see.
McLaren MP4-12C dashboard
Dick Glover, McLaren Automotive's head of mechanical research, has driven thousands of miles in the MP4-12C. The set-up is a mix of comfort levels, body control, precision and agility both on road and on track. The use of active systems on the car will enable the driver to select a track or road biased set-up and the passive systems are optimised to give excellent grip and bump absorption. In testing, McLaren have even gone as far as saying that they now need new benchmarks to compare the car with. The 'MP4 sticks with the traditional wishbones and coil springs but the dampers are hydraulically interconnected and allow the car to do away with anti-roll bars altogether by providing three levels of roll control. One McLaren technician told MTI "It's what's been known as proactive suspension. This is the first road car it's been fitted to and gives complete control over the level of body roll. The ride comfort and grip levels are fantastic and the suspension was developed and tested using the same simulation programme that we use for our F1 cars".
McLaren's MP4-12C is powered by an all new, purpose-built 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 which unlike a traditional eight-cylinder layout that sounds like an American Nascar, this compact unit has a flat-plane crank and will sound very similar to its rival, the Ferrari. Designed and developed with an as yet unnamed partner, it produces 600bhp, whilst 80 per cent of its power is available from just 1900rpm. The breadth of its power band promises to be outstanding, even more so when you think that it only has to haul 1300kg's around. It's even more remarkable as it produces more horsepower for every gram of CO2 emitted per kilometre than any other car with an internal combustion engine on the market including all hybrids. There is no confirmation as yet on performance figures but we're told 'nothing in this segment gets close', so it's probably safe to say that it should crack 200mph flat out and around a 3sec to 60mph margin.
To deal with this sort of performance McLaren have fitted a dual-clutch seven-speed transmission. Rather than have two separate paddles behind the steering wheel the 'MP4 has just one rocker that's mounted on a central pivot. When you pull one you can feel the other move in the opposite direction, just as in a McLaren F1 car. The system also has a function called 'pre-cog' which can be felt as a detent on the rocker-shift. The first level of travel pre-sets the hydraulic functions so that the transmission knows you're about to shift into the next gear. The second level activates an immediate shift. The claim is it understands the driver's intensions and feels more fluent than conventional double-clutch systems.
The McLaren MP4-12C is going to re-write the supercar rule book and having seen how committed everyone assigned to this project is, there's only one rival that they seem to want to beat, and that's Ferrari. The new 458 Italia is Ferrari's most advanced road car of all time and whilst Audi and Lamborghini might focus on raw driver talent, McLaren and its Italian rival have both extensively used their F1 know-how to produce two very exciting road cars. In less than eighteen months time a new page will be turned on the book of automotive supercar supremacy and every other rival will have upped their game, but with Ferrari and
McLaren so far ahead with technology it will be another five years or so before everyone else catches up.
For the last fifty years it's always been Ferrari vs. Lamborghini but in 2011 it will be McLaren vs. Ferrari and I, for one, can't wait.
Oct 13, 2009 Steve Bell
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Water Warriors is a new program recently launched by the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District to help educate and inform young residents of the Monterey Peninsula about the importance of conserving water and protecting our region's water supply. Our staff work collaboratively with local schools and environmental organizations to bring these messages to as many children as possible, hoping that education will help them to educate the adults in their lives.
Zun Zun, a school program created and run by California American Water, educates children about water conservation through music and dance. The school assemblies feature Brazilian musical instruments which are used to teach children how to save water in their community.


Look, I don't like taxes. Nobody does. And I know that we live in the high rent district here, and that you might very well fall to the north of the $250.000 income line above which Obama's tax plan will indeed raise taxes. Even those raises, however, will only take your taxes as high as they were in the Reagan administration, but again, I understand that for you and lot of people, any tax is vexatious.
The thing of it is, though, that under Bush, your taxes have already gone up considerably. Oh, I know you think Bush gave you a tax cut, but think of all the things you pay more for after eight years of Republican misrule than you did in the Clinton administration. We may not call those increases "taxes" in the usual sense of the word, but in a way they are.
Gasoline cost $1.46 a gallon when Bush took office, and it's about $2.00 a gallon more than that now. That's a tax on the Bush administration's failure to have an intelligent energy policy designed to move the country away from its over-reliance on oil.
Your stock portfolio has probably taken a big hit in the last couple of months, due in part to the near-collapse of the investment finance sector. Your market losses are a tax on lax regulation of the securities and banking industries and on the Republican practice of putting people who are firmly philosophically opposed to the whole notion of market regulation. And so is the $700 billion bailout: a $3,000 tax on look-the-other-way regulation to be paid by every man, woman and child in the country.
Food costs more now, sometimes significantly. That's a tax on the administration's push for biofuels, which are consuming a significant portion of our feedstocks now, thereby increasing demand and price.
Every time you fly somewhere now, you pay a homeland security tax that's added to your ticket. More significantly, though, your travel time has been increased as you are forced to move slowly through security queues--and time is money. This is a tax on the Bush administration's failure to prevent 9/11 (despite explicit warnings from the outgoing Clinton administration) and on their cumbersome and questionably effective administration of airport security.
When you go to sell your house, chances are that you won't get what you paid for it a few years ago, and that it will remain on the market for a long time before it sells. This is a tax on government policies that encouraged Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to underwrite riskier and riskier mortgages, which fueled a building boom, resulting in a glut of unsold homes.
Health care costs have increased for most people over the last eight years. Deductables and co-pays are higher, and restrictions on what doctors you can see and what medications your insurer will pay for are more onerous. This is a tax on the failure of the Bush administration to enact a comprehensive national health care plan. Maybe you fear having your "official" taxes raised if such a plan were to become law--but the fact is that your "unofficial" health care taxes are increasing anyway.
If you travel abroad or if, like most Americans, you buy a lot of imported goods, you have been affected by the decline of the value of the American dollar. Imports are more expensive now, and unfortunately in many product categories imports are the only good available. This is a tax on the record budget deficit policies of the Bush administration. Of course, a more substantial tax on the deficit will be born by all taxpayers in the coming years as the interest on the national debt eats up a larger and larger portion of the budget.
There are a lot of things that happen in the economy that are beyond the government's control. No President can fairly take all of the credit or the blame for the economy's performance. But policy does have consequences. Personnel has consequences. Philosophy has consequences. Right now, we have a governmental philosophy that holds that regulation of financial institutions is somehow illegitimate. We've seen the appointment of financial foxes to administer the regulatory chicken coop. We've been subjected to a policy of forwarding the bills for our current public expenditures on to the taxpayers of the future. The consequences of those choices have been taxing indeed.
The selection of Sarah "Mooseburgers" Palin as the vice-presidential candidate on a ticket headed by a 72 year old man who's had cancer four times absolutely boggles the mind. It's not without its amusing aspects, but ultimately its cynicism and dangerousness contribute more to my summer-long disgust with American politics.
This is America, where any boy or girl can grow up to be President, right? Well, yes--but I don't think that our celebration of that fact contemplates any old boy or girl becoming Presdent without having had some sort of relevant experience. I'm hard pressed to think of any major party Presidential or vice-presidential candidate having a thinner resume than Mooseburgers Palin.
But while she is barely qualified for the vice-presidency, she is by virtue of her gender and her ideology definitely qualified leadership in the Republican Party. If you liked Michael "Heckuva job!" Brown, the hapless Republican hack who was in charge of FEMA when Katrina hit, you'll love a woman who was elected as the part-time mayor of a city of 5,000 by virtue of her opposition to abortion.
Though unprecedented, Palin's selection is actually well within the American tradition of anti-intellectualism. This hardy strain of populism was on full display last night as Rudy Giuliani and Mooseburgers made the argument that being a non-pol from a tiny town in the third least-populous state was actually a qualification, not a disqualification, for the highest office in the land. Obama is just too smart; time we had some people just like you and me in Washington.
In any normal country, a candidate like Sarah Palin would not be taken seriously by most people. That's why she is so dangerous to Obama and the Democrats; ours is not a normal country. "Ignorant and Proud" is our real motto. The realization of this truth is killing my lifelong passion for politics.
The lawsuit filed by 9/11 conspiracy nutcase "Philip J. Berg, Esquire" against Barack Obama seeking to disqualify Obama from seeking the Presidency by challenging his citizenship is an hilarious example of how not to write a legal pleading. It appears to be little more than a compendium of rumors and unsubstantiated gossip floating around the internet, lashed together with eccentric Capitalization And haphazard spacing, written by a high school sophomore, and put into service of a ludicrous legal theory.
--do not contain bizarre sentences like "The Democratic National Committee and 'We the People' who believe in the Democratic Vision."
--do not present allegations derived from "further references circulating on the internet."
--do not cite news accounts of the findings of a GOP "research team."
--do not take the findings of "Inside Edition" seriously.
--do not cite allegations "posted all over the internet."
--do not contain horribly written sentences like "All the efforts of supporters of legitimate citizens were for nothing because the Obama cheated his way into a fraudulent candidacy and cheated legitimately eligible natural born citizens from competing in a fair process and the supporters of their citizen choice for the nomination."
--contain requests for relief directed to the court, rather than the defendant.
Of course, this lawsuit is not intended for hearing by the court system, but by the media. When it is laughed out of court, the right wing will claim that it's all a conspiracy to cover up the truth, and thereby keep the smears alive.
Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy — support their ability to hire and fire based on faith.
This practice is nothing more than an unconstitutional boondoggle, a way to buy the support of evangelical voters by channeling tax money to churches for the operation of questionably effective social programs. If all that was involved was patronage, well, that's just politics. But this combines the stale odor of patronage with the acrid smoke from the torching of our civil liberties. As he demonstated with his sell-out on warrantless wiretapping and telecomm immunity, Obama seems to have no problem inhaling those fumes.
I got a call late this afternoon from a young, enthusiastic Obama volunteer who had just arrived here in Northwest Ohio by way of her home in Pennsylvania and her college in New Hampshire. She was looking for people to go do voter registration canvassing.
I told her I would--I still support Obama--but I told her that I was doing it despite being pretty disappointed with his stand on the FISA legislation. The volunteer was perplexed, and asked what that was. I explained. She had heard something about telecomm immunity, but not recently, and didn't really know what it was all about. She knew nothing about the warrantless wiretap provisions of the bill Obama says he supports.
It struck me as amazing--and a little disturbing--that a campaign volunteer, someone who presumably is more attuned to politics and government than the average Joe, was unaware that her candidate had just announced that he supported the suspension of the Fourth Amendment and the abrogation of the rule of law.
Could it be, I wondered, that the person on the other end of the phone with me was just as uncritically in love with Barack Obama as so many Republicanoid zombies were in love with George W. Bush just four years ago?
The excuse that Obama's support for this bill is politically shrewd is -- even if accurate -- neither a defense of what he did nor a reason to refrain from loudly criticizing him for it. Actually, it's the opposite. It's precisely because Obama is calculating that he can -- without real consequence -- trample upon the political values of those who believe in the Constitution and the rule of law that it's necessary to do what one can to change that calculus. Telling Obama that you'll cheer for him no matter what he does, that you'll vest in him Blind Faith that anything he does is done with the purest of motives, ensures that he will continue to ignore you and your political interests.
Beyond that, this attitude that we should uncritically support Obama in everything he does and refrain from criticizing him is unhealthy in the extreme. No political leader merits uncritical devotion -- neither when they are running for office nor when they occupy it -- and there are few things more dangerous than announcing that you so deeply believe in the Core Goodness of a political leader, or that we face such extreme political crises that you trust and support whatever your Leader does, even when you don't understand it or think that it's wrong. That's precisely the warped authoritarian mindset that defined the Bush Movement and led to the insanity of the post-9/11 Era, and that uncritical reverence is no more attractive or healthy when it's shifted to a new Leader.
What Barack Obama did here was wrong and destructive. He's supporting a bill that is a full-scale assault on our Constitution and an endorsement of the premise that our laws can be broken by the political and corporate elite whenever the scary specter of The Terrorists can be invoked to justify it. What's more, as a Constitutional Law Professor, he knows full well what a radical perversion of our Constitution this bill is, and yet he's supporting it anyway. Anyone who sugarcoats or justifies that is doing a real disservice to their claimed political values and to the truth.
Obama himself frequently refers to himself as "imperfect," and I for one don't expect anything else from our human leaders. Still, for his imperfections to be made manifest on a question of fundamental American civil liberties is disheartening in the extreme.


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Home > News > Cushman & Wakefield advises the Bunsen hamburger chain in its first establishment outside of Ireland
Cushman & Wakefield advises the Bunsen hamburger chain in its first establishment outside of Ireland
The Irish hamburger joint Bunsen chooses Barcelona for its international expansion. The chain will open its first store outside of Ireland.
The hamburger chain Bunsen has chosen the city of Barcelona to start its expansion outside the Irish territory. To date, Bunsen is only present in the cities of Dublin, Cork and Belfast. Bunsen will arrive from the next month of December to Barcelona
The first establishment of the brand outside of Ireland will be in a 200 sqm on Ferran 44 street a space that previously occupied the Trobador restaurant of the Cacheiro restaurant group . The company has chosen the city for its "cosmopolitan character" and the enclave, right next to the iconic Plaza Sant Jaume, because it is one of the busiest areas of citizens of the city and the most demanded by the groups of restoration.
The arrival of Bunsen in Barcelona has been advised exclusively by the real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield, which in the coming months will look for more locations for the chain in the city. After its consolidation in Barcelona, Bunsen will expand its presence in other cities.


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Sony Xperia X, Xperia XA, Xperia X Performance Launched at MWC 2016
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Sony on Monday announced an aesthetic re-branding of its Xperia brand at MWC in Barcelona, and revealed an all-new X series of smartphones. Under the new X-series, Sony launched Xperia X (seen above), Xperia X Performance and Xperia XA smartphones. The company says that the brand new Xperia X series will personify Sony Mobile's brand vision for the "future of communications, with ambient connected devices capable of changing the way you interact with the world."
"Sony Mobile will continue to create increasingly personalised and intelligent products and services that empower you to do more, and live more creatively than ever. Our products and services will connect you to each other and become essential and beloved parts of your lives," said Hiroki Totoki, President and CEO at Sony Mobile Communications.
The Sony Xperia X, Sony Xperia X Performance (seen above), and Sony Xperia XA smartphones will be available in White, Graphite Black, Lime Gold and Rose Gold colours. They will go on sale from summer 2016 and the company is expected to reveal prices at the time of local launch. The phones will come with a range of matching style covers.
All three new Xperia X smartphones run Android 6.0 Marshmallow with company's UI on top and come in single and dual-SIM models. The Sony Xperia X and Xperia X Performance share some similar innards such as a 5-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) Triluminos display for mobile powered X-Reality for mobile engine; a 23-megapixel rear camera with f1/2.3 Exmor RS for mobile sensor, predictive hybrid autofocus, and pulse LED flash; 13-megapixel front camera; 3GB of RAM; 32GB inbuilt storage, expandable storage support up to 200GB via microSD card, and 4G LTE support.
The Sony Xperia X Performace is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor while the Xperia X packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 processor. Sony says that the predictive hybrid autofocus feature in the Xperia X and Xperia X Performance smartphones has been developed in close collaboration with the company's Alpha camera engineers. The feature lets users choose subject and then predict its motion, so one can capture the action in perfect focus, free from blur.
The Sony Xperia X measures 142.7×69.4×7.9mm and weighs 153 grams. It is backed by a 2620mAh battery. The handset's dual-SIM version packs 64GB inbuilt storage. The Xperia X Performance, on the other hand, measures 143.7×70.4×8.7mm and weighs 164 grams. It packs a 2700mAh battery.
The Sony Xperia XA (seen above) features a 5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) display powered by Mobile Bravia engine 2. It is powered by a MediaTek MT6755 coupled with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage. Much like Xperia X and Xperia X Performance, the Xperia XA also supports expandable storage via microSD card (up to 200GB). The Android 6.0 Marshmallow smartphone sports a 13-megapixel camera with Exmor RS for mobile sensor, hybrid autofocus, and LED flash. It also houses an 8-megapixel front camera. It is backed by a 2300mAh battery, measures 143.6×66.8×7.9mm, and weighs 138 grams.
As mentioned earlier, all three models will be available in dual-SIM variants – the Xperia X Dual, Xperia XA Dual, and Xperia X Performance Dual.
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