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Saudi Arabia's Natural Gas: A Glimpse at Complex Issues
Natural gas is a very significant energy source. In 2001, world production reached 2,218 million tonnes of oil equivalent, slightly less than coal (2,248 mtoe) and about 62 per cent of the amount of oil production (3,585 mt). The share of gas in the primary energy balance stood at just below 25 per cent in 2001. In the past 10 years (1991-2001) natural gas production grew at an average compound annual rate of about 2 per cent, compared with oil at 1.3 per cent and coal at a negligible 0.15 per cent.
The main qualities of gas are well known. It is considered to be environmentally friendly but only relatively to coal and oil. It is a favoured fuel for power generation in combined cycle plants because of their greater thermal efficiency. At a price, gas can be transformed into sulphur free (or low sulphur) liquids. Non associated gas once discovered is often cheaper to extract than oil but its transport, be it by pipeline or in LNG form is much more expensive. The world holds more natural gas than oil reserves, but this feature is of greater relevance to the long- than the short-run.
In the final analysis, the significance of gas relates to the merits of diversification. A world where a commodity has substitutes that serve essentially the same purpose while displaying diverse properties is better than one where a commodity reigns unchallenged in its important uses.
Saudi Arabia cannot afford to ignore this significant energy source given the size of its proven gas reserves estimated at 219 Tcf at end of 2001. Although small compared to the Russian 1,680 Tcf and the Iranian 812 Tcf the fact remains that Saudi Arabia's reserves rank fourth in size among gas countries (after Russia, Iran and Qatar).
Resources involve potential opportunities for exploitation. (If they did not, we should not refer to them as 'resource'). There is no doubt in my mind that gas in Saudi Arabia has economic uses that need to be identified, and appraised with rigorous economic criteria. Gas resources should be developed where and when the economic calculus, qualified where necessary by some strategic considerations, reveals that expected benefits are greater than those that would accrue from alternative uses of investment funds. In other words, one always needs to take into consideration competing opportunities.
Three essential points must be kept in mind when analysing the role of gas or assessing the merits of its development.
First, gas is not oil. This means that it would be wrong to assume in any analysis that the economic characteristics of these two fuels are identical.
Second, although gas is not oil, these two fuels are related to one another by a number of significant links. Any analysis of gas issues that fail to take these links into account could turn out to be seriously misleading. The main relationships are as follows. (a) Gas and oil are substitutes in a range of energy uses. There is an asymmetry however. Oil can easily replace gas in virtually all the sectors where gas has an established market – power generation, space heating, raising heat under boilers. The main exception lies in the production of certain petrochemicals. But gas has greater difficulties in replacing oil in the transport sector where gasoline, automotive diesel and jet kerosine have their stronghold. (b) Gas is found in nature in two forms, associated with oil or non-associated. In Saudi Arabia, a very large amount of gas reserves are of the associated type. When studying upstream issues associated gas cannot be considered separately from oil. (c) Natural gas plays a major role through re-injection in the extraction of oil. This specific use distinguishes gas from oil while constituting an important relationship between the two fuels. (d) Natural gas may be either wet or dry. Wet gas is of great interest to foreign investors because the liquid element, which is essentially an extremely light oil, can be exported much more cheaply and easily than the gas itself. But the gas liquids represent in effect additional oil supplies. An eminent gas consultant once said, only half in jest, that gas is an input, that is a cost incurred, in the production of liquids.
In short, any thinking about gas development should not exclude the many relationships that gas has with oil. It is fundamentally wrong to think about gas in isolation from or as a separate issue from oil.
Third, despite all the accepted views about globalisation and the universality of sound economic principles, the fact remains that real conditions differ from country to country. There is no 'fit all sizes' policy formula or model of development. The development of natural gas in Saudi Arabia is bound to display a different pattern from, say, Qatar where gas dominates the country's resource endowment; or from the USA where the multiplicity of production sources and an extensive pipeline network creates a competitive market, or from Europe where European supply sources (Netherlands, Norway etc.) have to compete with imports (Russia, Algeria etc.).
Saudi Arabia is a major oil producing and exporting country. It has large gas reserves most of which is of the associated type. Its national oil corporation is a very large and competent entity which is producing some 8 mb/d of oil, natural gas and refined products. It maintains some 3 mb/d of surplus capacity, and has undertaken significant investment projects of which the Shaybah oilfield is an impressive recent example. At the same time, the demand for the main utilities – water and power – is growing at a high rate, and the need to create jobs for large numbers of new entrants to the labour force every year has a particular urgency.
The purpose of the Gas Initiative is to induce a development of gas resources to fuel new power stations, water de-salination plants, petrochemical and other industries such as metal smelting, and the like. The developmental objectives are to meet growing requirements for utilities and to create employment. The recourse to foreign investors is meant to free some scarce capital in government hands for alternative uses. The essence of the scheme is in its integrated aspect. To develop natural gas in the absence of outlets (domestic or export markets) is meaningless, as would be investment in utilities and industries in a situation of gas shortages. Recourse to foreign investors is necessary in situations where the cost of capital to the host country is very high, its managerial resources are affected by paucity of skills or are otherwise over-stretched, when technology can only be acquired from direct investors, not through service companies or on-the-shelf purchases, or when access to markets is required.
As the Gas Initiative was launched at a time when oil revenues had been badly hit by the oil price collapse of 1998/early 1999, it is fair to say that the need for capital from outside was, at that time at least, a significant consideration. However, the financial situation has dramatically improved thanks to the higher oil prices that obtained since the second half of 1999 to date. The argument that foreign investment is a cheaper option because foreign firms can obtain capital on much more favourable terms than a developing country is not always true. All depends on two sets of factors. First, the size of the differentials between the rates and terms at which the country can borrow in the international capital market and the cost of capital to the foreign firm. For Saudi Arabia this differential is much smaller than for many developing countries. Secondly, the lower capital costs of the foreign investor are not passed through to the country. On the contrary, the foreign company will ask for a return on its investment that includes compensation for a wide range of risks. This compensation is likely to be greater than the above-mentioned differential in the Saudi case. The point that deserves stressing is that the risks faced by the investors for which they legitimately ask for a return, are not risks which the national oil corporation or any other national entity face.
The technology argument is unconvincing. There is no technology for upstream developments that Saudi Aramco either does not possess or is unable to acquire from sources other than the international oil companies. As regards downstream gas nobody would argue that the oil companies are specialists in power generation or water plants. Different foreign investors possess the appropriate technology for these projects.
The market argument is irrelevant at this stage in the case of Saudi gas because the development is sought for domestic uses.
The managerial argument, however, is the most compelling. To manage a huge integrated project that involves upstream development, a transmission infrastructure and plants of different types and industries as final user of the gas is probably not within the resources of Saudi Aramco or any other Saudi organization.
This begs a question however. Why conceive of the project as a vast fully integrated operation? The reason, probably, is that the alternative which was to break the scheme into constituent elements and go to different firms each specializing in power, water, petrochemicals, metals and transmission would still require both coordination and the management, one by one, of a large number of projects.
The decision to go for an integrated scheme and to invite major oil companies to implement it may be explained first, by the managerial argument, and secondly, by the view that major oil companies are big, reliable and experienced entities endowed with the skills and resources needed to manage mega-projects. There is a problem, however. The two parties of the relationship — Saudi Arabia and the foreign oil companies — have asymmetrical positions as regards their objectives and their desiderata. To put it simply, the major oil companies seek an involvement in the upstream of Saudi Arabia's hydrocarbon sector. They are not really in the business of running utilities, building a gas pipeline network downstream desalination plants or power stations. On the other side of the relationship Saudi Arabia has no interest, really nothing much to gain, in opening up the upstream sector. It already holds a significant volume of surplus productive capacity in oil. And Saudi Aramco which has been managing and developing the country's oil resources without much ado is perfectly capable of finding and developing new gas resources. Given the appropriate financial incentives they will do the job. As Winston Churchill once said: 'give us the tools (in our case we should say the money) and we shall do the job'. What Saudi Arabia wants, and this was made perfectly clear by Crown Prince Abdullah when he met the heads of oil companies in Washington, is the downstream infrastructure and the plants in diverse utilities and industries that use gas and that will generate output and employment growth.
In short the oil companies want an involvement in a sector that Saudi Arabia does not really want to grant even if it agreed in the end to some concessions. And Saudi Arabia wants investments in sectors which are not of real interest to the oil companies even when they express a conditional willingness to do the job.
To be sure, in most relationships the parties involved have different objectives and views, but for the relationship to be fruitful there must be a fundamental commonality of interest. In our case, the discovery of a common ground on which to build a solid and sustainable long-term agreement is made very difficult by the very pronounced (and indeed very unusual) asymmetry of the respective positions.
The companies are prepared to surmount their reluctance to invest in the utility plants if they can obtain a risk free return on their capital equivalent to the expected returns from their projects elsewhere. This stance has the merit of being perfectly rational from the companies' standpoint (given that their resources have profitable alternative uses), and the drawback of making the scheme far too expensive for Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia surmounted its reluctance to opening the upstream sector by limiting the concession to natural gas. But gas for domestic use is not terribly attractive to the companies. Their interest in gas lies in exports (which are not part of the scheme) and in the liquid contents which can be indeed sold in international markets. In other words the interest in gas lies in oil.
This last point leads us to the heart of the matter. As stated earlier on, although gas is different from, and should not be confused with, oil these two fuels are related to each other in a variety of important ways. In countries endowed with both oil and gas resources, oil and gas policies and oil and gas development should be designed in the same framework because of the impacts that the gas policy may have on oil and vice versa.
Within a unified framework where all the links, reciprocal impacts and trade-offs can be taken into consideration the main hydrocarbon developmental issues can be raised and assessed. Looking at oil and gas separately as if oil or gas, each in turn, did not exist is bound to lead to inefficient outcomes.
Some of the important issues that can be raised in this context are as follows:
(1) Should gas be developed for export or for domestic use? At the moment domestic demand for gas is the priority. Once this demand becomes satisfied thanks to new gas investments, the export issue should be seriously considered. Arguments sometime put forward against developing gas for export are that unit revenues for the government are much greater for oil than gas and that increasing gas supplies in the international market is at the detriment to the share of oil. It would be worth examining the merits of a counter argument which states that gas exports from Saudi Arabia would compete with other gas supplies and not with Saudi oil. Another counter-argument is that Saudi Arabia should diversify its hydrocarbon portfolio and establish a position for the long run in the ever expanding international gas market. The answer to these questions requires research.
(2) Given that Saudi Arabia's oil resources are immense should crude oil that is available at very low cost be used wherever possible to fuel utilities instead of investing expensively in gas? Again this question can only be answered with an assessment of (a) the benefits of diversification relative to the cost differentials between crude oil and gas use and (b) the opportunity costs of increased domestic oil consumption of oil that will reduce the oil export potential given that OPEC policy is in terms of production not export quotas.
(3) In export markets the closer competitor to oil is not dry gas but the liquids derived from a gas development. Although gas liquids are not included in OPEC quotas increased supplies have an impact on the market and therefore on prices. The question is at which point does this impact become significant?
Having argued that oil and gas developments, as well as all other oil and gas policies, should be designed and assessed within a single framework, I would like to go further and suggest that they should also be studied within the broader framework of Saudi Arabia's economic development strategies.
Hydrocarbons are Saudi Arabia's most important resource. Much depends for the economic well-being of the country in both the present and the future not only on the revenues derived from exporting oil, also on the judicious use of hydrocarbons within the domestic economy. Priority for the domestic use of gas should be given to sectors where gas has no good substitutes (certain petrochemicals) and only when this demand is satisfied should it be supplied to power and water plants where crude or fuel oil can be used. Gas and oil are no doubt important for a range of industries but Saudi Arabia's comparative advantage is in supplying these abundant resources at favourable prices to the country's infant industries. The key question, here, is whether foreign investors can supply these fuels at a lower cost to the country than its national corporations. Only rigorous calculus can shed light on this question.
But the most critical issue relates to Saudi Arabia's leading role in the world petroleum market. Much depends for both Saudi Arabia and the world on the ability to perform this role efficiently. The oil companies benefit themselves from the role played by Saudi Arabia in defending the oil price. This is why all oil and gas policies, all strategies involving national corporations or foreign investors, must be rigorously tested against this fundamental criterion – their possible impact on Saudi Arabia's role in the world petroleum market.


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Brad Lomenick - Author, Speaker, & Leadership Consultant On H3 Leadership, Identity, Calling, & Assignment
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Bonjour Scott and listeners !!
it's like that in philly scott...please joe strummer!!!
personally I have no idea whatsoever of what's going on musically in the rest of the world!
That was me, greeting you all with open arms!
Great start. How did I miss this record?
hey jdelz! ah, it's horrible though. If I don't see you have a nice Christmas!
you getting some snow down there CP?
Not yet, really...icey streets with just the thinnest layer of powder. a real tease.
Pi! Chris! Scott! DCE! Carrot cake!
morning, BSI. Carrot cake is always a treat. Scott's right on the nose with this one.
Hey Scott - can you play some birdfeeder?
Whew...this is soothing sounds. I just got done with swearing at NPR on my way to work because of a drippy, whimsical, cute story about not knowing how to make a pie crust. I'm mellowing out now. Nice.
We're nothing if not cutesy.
Roughly 6 hours to freedom.
Hey Ruaraidh! hope all is well with you. Happy holidays.
yay the stones! just listened to this on the way home!
What a great comp that is.
This Love Is Not For Cowards is a GREAT book!!!
Awesome! I want to read it. I just read the excerpt in Howler. Loved it.
Maybe I can convince Bryce to do it.
One of the best sports books I've read in years and I read my share!
where did you pick up Howler, Scott?
Did i miss the end of the world ?
It looked apocalyptic when I woke up. Dark skies, crazy winds, heavy rain. But then it stopped and the sun came out briefly, so I guess the New Age began!
You know, this was a pretty good year.


This popped up a few times in my social media newsfeed this week. And yes, it made me smile. And yes, I shared it with our Facebook page.
I think a lot these days about the ways our bodies betray us. I've lost friends and family members in the past two years to brain cancer, esophageal cancer, ALS, and to stroke. I wouldn't say that these peoples' bodies loved them so very much. In my post What does 74 look like? And how much choice do we have really I express my concern that contemporary fitness culture acts as if health and healthy aging were all in our control when it's not.
Can't say I felt much love for my gall bladder through all that pain.
YES. Agree with you. Thanks for making me feel not as alone about this. Said goodbye to my thyroid 10 yrs ago (cancer, autoimmune), many current body parts and systems being royal pains, causing difficulty and challenge and fear (more tests, etc. to come, and some things may not be fixable or fixable any time soon – don't get me started). But I'm still here, still fighting, and know it could be worse. (And I occasionally think how amazing it is I can do anything some days, and give myself credit for continuing to keep trying.) I try to acknowledge that it's tough (my subjective reality and my situation) but stay positive and choose to be happy and practice gratitude as much as I can. Simple not easy.
Yes! I would also say that after multiple pregnancy losses, your relationship with your body is very complicated. It's been 7years since my last loss, and also in that time I was diagnosed with a chronic pain condition. I try not to hate on my body, but it's hard some days not to to feel utterly betrayed by it, even so many years later.


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Close your eyes, for a moment, and try to remember some place, some time, some moment when you felt that you were in the presence of something sacred. How long ago was that moment? How long did it last?
I remember this one particular afternoon, a sunny spring afternoon at the home of some family friends, a farm in Columbia County, New York, where we often spent school vacations. On this particular day, I was maybe ten years old, and I had wandered by myself out to a hillside above the pond. I was lying on my back in the long grass, eyes closed, feeling the breeze above me and the sun on my face. It was a Sunday afternoon, which meant that any minute my parents would call to tell me it was time to go home. But for that moment, everything was perfect. I was completely at peace. I was basking in the glow of God.
And then my parents did call me, and the moment ended. You can only bask in the glow of God for so long, before someone calls you, and you have to move on.
One day, Jesus takes three of his disciples on a hike up a mountain. They leave the others far below, and climb up to a high place, a place apart from the crowds and the conflict that seemed to be following Jesus everywhere lately. And in that place apart, he is transfigured in his disciples' eyes. His clothes become dazzling white, whiter than bleach could bleach them, whiter than humanly possible.
Transfiguration isn't a word you hear every day. Really most of us hear it only once a year, if we happen to be in church on the Sunday before Lent. Its meaning is similar to transformation, or metamorphosis. A transfiguration is a complete change in form or appearance, into something more exalted, more beautiful. Think of caterpillars, turning into butterflies. The only reason that doesn't totally freak us out, is that we have come to expect it. But just imagine, if it caught you by surprise.
Now mind you, the disciples have seen a lot of wondrous things since they have been travelling in Jesus' company. Healings, exorcisms, crowds of hungry people miraculously fed, storm waves miraculously stilled, a child miraculously restored to life. Signs of the kingdom, everywhere they looked. But now it is as if a veil has been torn open, as if the scales have fallen from their eyes, because now they can actually see the light of God streaming from him. It catches them by surprise, and it takes their breath away.
Moreover, he is no longer alone with them, but appears to be in the company of the great leaders of Israel's past, Moses and Elijah, the law-giver and the prophet. Not knowing what else to say, Peter offers to build them houses, tabernacles on the mountaintop. Because that is what humans do, in places where we have encountered the Holy: we build shrines. Jesus is transfigured, and now the only thing Peter can think of to do, is to stay there on the mountaintop, basking forever in the glow of God.
But Jesus declines Peter's offer of a mountain-view home. Instead, they head back down the mountain together, and Jesus asks them to keep their peak experience to themselves. For ahead of them still lies the cross, and the empty tomb, and their vision of who Jesus is will be even more radically transfigured in the days ahead.
Moses and Elijah have this is in common: they, too, had profoundly vivid experiences of God on a mountaintop. Moses was on Mount Horeb, when he saw the burning bush, and heard the voice of God in the fire, telling him to return to his people in Egypt. Later, Moses again climbs Mount Horeb – it's also called Mount Sinai, those are two names for the same place – and once again amid fire and smoke, God speaks to him giving him the Law to govern Israel.
But while Moses is up there on the mountain, the Israelites begin to get into trouble in the camps below, so God tells Moses he better get back down there to his people.
Generations later, Elijah, fleeing persecution, climbs the same mountain, and he too hears the voice of God there, not in the fire, but in silence. And that voice says, Elijah, What are you doing here? Elijah comes to seek refuge in God; but like Moses before him, God sends Elijah back down the mountain, to serve the people of Israel.
You can only bask in the glow of God for so long, before somebody calls you, and you have to move on.
When I was in high school, we received word that our family friends would soon be selling the farm of my childhood. It was, after all, not really mine, not even my family's property, but it was holy to me, and it was hard to imagine losing it. I was a budding photographer at the time, and I spent hours wandering the fields and barns, trying to freeze the farm in time, to capture it with the camera's shutter. But looking through the lens was not like lying in the grass. Life is like that. Try to pin it down, and it turns into something different. The butterfly's wings are never more beautiful than at the moment when they emerge fresh from the cocoon. But if we try to preserve it, to pin it down, we end up with something lifeless.
Butterflies exist in motion, just like moments exist in time. Pin them down, and they become something different.
Many of us have had mountaintop experiences, moments when the veil is torn open and we suddenly see things, not just by the light of day, but by the light of God. And it is tempting, in those moments of clarity, to think that perhaps we are done; that we have glimpsed not just the truth, but the whole truth. And so we want to linger on the mountain, to hold on to that particular moment in time. We want to pin it down, put it in a cabinet, and protect it from damage.
Jesus does not linger on the mountaintop; like Moses and Elijah before him, he returns to his people. We see Jesus, transfigured, in garments of dazzling white; but Jesus is ready to get his hands dirty. We try to pin him down, but he is on the move. We look for God on the mountaintop: but God, it turns out, is already down in the valley.
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According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that , the COAS and Turkish foreign minister discussed relations between the two countries, regional security including the situation in the Middle East.
Discussions were also held on the management of defence and security cooperation between Pakistan and Turkey during the meeting, added ISPR.


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Australian Autism Research Council (AARC)
The Australian Autism Research Council (AARC) was established to review and define national priorities for autism research and identify areas of research needed for the autistic and autism communities. The AARC operates under the auspices of Autism CRC.
AARC includes representatives of the autistic and broader autism communities, as well as service providers, health and education professionals, government program managers and policy makers, and researchers.
The current AARC has considered domestic and international commitments, and existing global and Australian surveys on autism research priorities. AARC identified seven broad research priority areas through this work, which was presented to the broader community in a draft report. We asked the community what was important to them through an online survey and submission process which received more than 1,000 responses. AARC considered the consultation outcomes, taking into account the mix of stakeholder views and has formed a list of 10 priority areas which will guide autism research into the future. We thank the community for your generous contribution to this process.
The Australian Autism Research Council has published a Report of the Australian Autism Research Priorities 2019
Read Report Read Appendices Read Snapshot
AARC Membership
In 2020, the AARC will be comprised of the following members:
Katharine Annear
Charlotte Brownlow
Shelly Dival
Claire Harris
Melanie Heyworth
Katie Koullas
Wenn Lawson
Pam Macrossan
Malcolm Mayfield
Liz Pellicano
Rebecca Poulsen
Geraldine Roberston
Travis Saunders
Samarra Toby
The objective of the AARC is to provide a regular and organised mechanism to:
consult on the state of autism research in Australia (community-led)
identify priorities for autism research in an Australian context
report on priorities for autism research in Australia
inform funding strategies for autism research in Australia
As the core principle for operation of the AARC, the delivery of these objectives will be community-led – by autistic individuals, their families and allies who provide services and support – for the benefit of those communities and the Australian community as a whole.
The AARC will be composed of no less than 8 and no more than 14 members.
Council membership is intended to be representative of the key stakeholder communities and will comprise:
At least 3 members on the autism spectrum
At least 1 parent or carer of a person on the autism spectrum (autism community)
At least 1 representative of an autistic or autism community advocacy organisation
At least 1 representative of a service organisation to the autistic community
At least 1 representative of the Australian autism research community
At least 1 representative of a Commonwealth Government department or agency delivering services to members of the autistic community, preferably with a broad portfolio view, e.g. disability, education and health
The membership term will be 2 years. Subject to the membership terms below, a member may be re-appointed to the Council for a further term.
Auspicing and Administration
The AARC will operate under the auspices of Autism CRC.
Management and operational support will be provided by Autism CRC, including the provision of the services of a Secretary to the Council.
Two members of the Council shall be appointed as Co-Chairs of the Council by the Council, that appointment subject to the ratification of the Board of Autism CRC.
At least one of the Co-Chairs is to be a member of the autistic community.
At least one of the Co-Chair positions is to be filled by an existing Member who has served at least 12 months on the Council.
Member guidelines
Initially, four members were invited by the Board of Autism CRC to form an AARC Executive Committee. The Executive Committee then invited all other positions on the AARC and all positions will be for an initial term to January 2020.
Members of subsequent Councils, the first of these from January 2020, will be appointed following an open nominations process. The nomination guidelines will be formulated by the outgoing Council and ratified by the Board of Autism CRC. Nominations shall be called for by no later than 15 October of the year prior to the January from which the new Council is to be appointed.
At least half of the membership positions on the AARC are to be called for nomination each year. Members from those positions can renominate, however at least half of the positions called for nomination should be filled by new candidates.
A person may be nominated or invited to be a member of the Council as an individual or as a representative of an organisation – in either case primarily being invited to represent at least one of the stakeholder communities identified above.
A member may resign by notifying the Co-Chairs of the AARC in writing.
A member may be removed from the AARC by a unanimous decision by the other AARC members, or by a resolution of the Board of Autism CRC, if that member is deemed to be impeding the achievement of any of the AARC objectives.
The Board of Autism CRC has the right of refusal over the proposed appointment of a member of the AARC.
Subject to Autism CRC being notified and not having refused a proposed appointment, the Council may invite someone to fill a vacancy according to these Terms of Reference.
Quorum for a Council meeting is half the number of members to the nearest whole number, plus 1.
The Council's major output, a report on current priorities for autism research in Australia, requires written approval of at least 75% of the full membership of the AARC before submission to Autism CRC for publishing.
The Council shall implement a meeting protocol that maximises the opportunity for members to participate, accounting for scheduling difficulties, and social and communication preferences. This protocol shall provide for:
a detailed meeting agenda available via an online forum for access and contributions to be made by Council members, such as a message board
the online meeting forum should be open for sufficient time to allow member contributions on agenda items, for example one week
during the period that the online meeting is open, a real-time virtual meeting (e.g. videoconference or teleconference) should be held for those members wishing to contribute to the meeting considerations by that means, the proceedings of such being recorded and subsequently made available to all members through the online meeting forum
At the completion of the meeting period, contributions to and outcomes on agenda items by Council members, received by any of the means provided, shall be collated as a record of the meeting and posted via a web link accessible by Council members
Council discussions are deemed confidential in nature.
Any formal external communications of AARC outputs will be agreed by the Council in accordance with the Terms of Reference.
The Council shall publish a report or update in November each year on autism research priorities relevant to the Australian context. This report shall build on the foundation of the Council's previous report and will use a consultative process with the community to review and revise the outputs of the Council. That process should include:
Seeking public feedback on the previous year's report and autism research priorities;
Canvassing international trends in autism research priorities
Summarising advances in autism research
Updating and reporting on autism research priorities in Australia, including gap analysis
Reports generated by the AARC shall be published by Autism CRC and be subject to the guideline principles applying to Autism CRC publications.
Autism CRC Board may refuse publication if the output is deemed to be inconsistent with the AARC objectives or the vision and mission of the Autism CRC. In such circumstances, Autism CRC will return the proposed publication to the AARC for further consideration and revision.
These Terms of Reference will be reviewed annually by the Council and any revisions submitted for approval to the Board of Autism CRC.
The draft priorities for consultation were formulated under the following guiding principles:
Autistic people at the centre
The priorities should be focused on assisting autistic people to discover what they want for their own lives and supporting them to achieve their goals.
Inclusive of all autistic people
The priorities should reflect the full diversity of the autism spectrum, including autistic people living without formal diagnosis. Priorities should focus on challenges and issues and positive models of care being inclusive of: age, gender, LGBTIQA+, geography, ethnicity, co-occurring disability, socio-economic disadvantage, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and families.
The research priorities should target areas that will create the most meaningful impact for autistic individuals and their families.
2019 Community Consultation
In 2019 the AARC released a draft set of autism research priorities. An online survey and submissions community consultation process took place in June 2019. The outcomes of the consultation process will help guide the future focus of autism research activities and research funding in Australia.
We thank the community for their generous contribution to this process.
You can now view the final Report of the Australian Autism Research Priorities 2019
If you would like to view a copy of the original draft priorities which were the subject of the community consultation:
Download the Australian Autism Research Council: Draft Research Priorities for Consultation 2019
Download the Easy Read version - includes pictures and larger text
If you have any questions, or would like to be kept informed about future opportunities to be involved in the work of the AARC you can email us:
AARC Secretariat
aarc@autismcrc.com.au
Report of the Australian Autism Research Priorities 2019


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Lake Louise Pitches New Long Range Plan
April 25, 2019 April 25, 2019 Peter Landsman
Under a new plan, the long abandoned Eagle chair would finally be replaced along with many other proposed upgrades.
The only regular venue for World Cup alpine racing in Canada is Lake Louise, which also happens to be among the most naturally scenic places one can ski anywhere. Louise is one of three ski resorts located in Banff National Park along with Sunshine Village and Norquay, which are also considering making major lift investments in the coming years. Lake Louise hopes a proposed reduction in overall acreage will allow it to add up to nine new chairlifts along with other improved amenities over the next 15 years. Even though the resort's permitted boundary would decrease from 5,400 acres to approximately 4,100, comfortable carrying capacity would increase from 6,000 to 9,000 skiers per day. "The new plan focuses on enhancing terrain, facilities and services for all visitors, during all seasons, and will lead to a better visitor experience," the project website notes. "It will allow us to continue to protect local sensitive areas and species, while advancing environmental awareness and conservation goals for future generations."
Like at other large mountains with only one portal, out-of-base capacity is a problem. At Lake Louise, it was compounded by the retirement of Olympic without a direct replacement in 2004. The four person, Leitner-built Glacier Express would be rebuilt as a six place lift. A new Juniper high speed quad is proposed load near Olympic and service three new beginner trails. Another new lift called Meadowlark would board near the Grizzly Express Gondola with detachable quad chairs. These improvements would bring out-of-base capacity to 9,000 skiers per hour, almost double the current level.
The standing but not operating Olympic chair was built by Murray-Latta in 1966.
Another high speed quad called Upper Juniper would relieve pressure from the Top of the World Express. Summit Platter would be removed and replaced with a fixed grip chairlift in completely a new alignment with wind exposure in mind. The new lift would load at the Top of the World and unload higher near the true top of Whitehorn Mountain. Also on the upper mountain, a new Eagle chairlift would replace the retired Mueller double with a detachable quad and ease pressure on the gondola. Sometimes ski resorts go in circles!
The Sunny Side beginner zone would be expanded uphill. The T-Bar that operated for decades here was removed in 2012, owing to not serving today's beginners very well. Up to nine conveyors could eventually inhabit the Whiskey Jack base area, which might be a record!
The long proposed Richardson's Ridge detachable quad would service five new beginner and intermediate trails plus new glades on the back side of the mountain. A short surface or chair lift called Prunepicker would connect guests from Temple Lodge to the Richarson's lift. The once proposed Wolverine Ridge Express is now eliminated from consideration but new terrain is envisioned in West and Hidden Bowls. Neither of these above treeline areas would include new lifts.
A 60 day public comment period is now open with a deadline of June 15th. Parks Canada and Lake Louise Ski Area Ltd. held three open houses this week and you can also submit comments about the plan online.
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7 thoughts on "Lake Louise Pitches New Long Range Plan"
Steve Threndyle April 25, 2019 / 5:56 pm
Or Parks Canada might nix all of it, because they can…
Milan S April 25, 2019 / 7:46 pm
Sad to see another Murray-Latta Lift be replaced. Even if its abandoned.
Max April 28, 2019 / 4:22 pm
I was at Lake Louise this season and it appeared that the Olympic chair has already been fully removed.
Nathan May 8, 2019 / 11:00 am
At first glance I hated the idea of less acres and more lifts. But when you get into the details, you see that they are removing acres that are unused and adding quite a bit of new terrain. They are also planning on adding a lot of lifts out of the base which seems to be a bit of overkill but if they expand, they likely will need more capcaity out of the base. Overall, this looks like a good plan.
CDM May 20, 2019 / 11:22 pm
I think Lake Louise's LRP is good considering the constraints the resort faces from being in a National Park. My beef is with the constraints. Lake Louise does not exist in isolation. It must compete with neighbouring resorts in BC that can offer ski in/ski out accommodations, cat skiing, heli-skiing, or all of the above. The ski industry in Alberta is losing a ton of money because of this.
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Boasting a park with a wide, open view and a zoo to top it off, Nogeyama is very popular with families. On the other hand, the Noge restaurant district has all kinds of bars, making it a popular destination with foreign tourists as well.
The Nippon-Maru Yokohama Port Museum is located in the Nippon-Maru Memorial Park in the Minato Mirai 21 area. In 1985 (Showa 60), the former dockyard was converted into a green area with many water spots. The stone-built dock, where the vessel Nippon-Maru is conserved at, is the first dock of Yokohama to be certified as an Important Cultural Property of Japan.
This park is made up of 3 areas, an observation area, a strolling area, and a zoo. You can enjoy seasonal plants such as sakura, roses, and maple leaves.
This observatory was renovated in 2011. Here, you can enjoy a panoramic view of Yokohama's scenery, including Bay Bridge and Landmark Tower.
Opened in 1951 as the first zoo in Yokohama. Approximately 100 species of animals including giraffes, red pandas, and reptiles are raised on a vast ground of 33,000 square meters. The Nakayoshi Hiroba where peacocks run loose and visitors can touch guinea pigs and baby chicks is one of the popular areas.
The town had a black market during the postwar period and was crowded with people since it was said they had everything. Now, various bars and restaurants are increasing, like Spanish bars and bistros.
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Shane Vander Hart: The Secretary of State serves at the pleasure of the President. Any employee who acted the way Rex Tillerson did on the job would have been fired long ago.
I was never a fan of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. Out of all of President Trump's picks for his cabinet, he was my least favorite. I did not believe being the CEO of an oil company made him qualified to be our country's lead diplomat. I also questioned whether he would be friendly to conservative concerns as they relate to foreign diplomacy (religious liberty, etc.). Then the fact he pushed for Common Core as CEO of Exxon Mobil did not endear me to him though that is not a relevant issue for the Secretary of State.
In short, President Trump said he was going to drain the swamp and Rex Tillerson looked, to me, to be of the swamp.
I was not surprised by the news this morning that he was out as Secretary of State. I am surprised he lasted as long as he did.
It's no secret that Tillerson and Trump had a combative relationship.
They were at odds over Russia. He said he believed that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election. He went further than the White House in condemning Russia for a nerve agent attack in the United Kingdom last week. He agreed with the UK's assessment that Russia was behind the attack against a former Russian spy in Salisbury, but the White House was unwilling to call out Russia.
With Iran, Trump wanted out of the Iran deal, but Tillerson wanted the United States to stay the course. The State Department's attempt to undermine the White House on Iran appears to be the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back.
North Korea has been a major point of contention between the two with President Trump goading North Korea's leader Kim Jung Un and with Tillerson favoring negotiations.
Also, Tillerson wanted to stay in the Paris Climate Accord and was public with his disagreement about President Trump pulling the United States out of the accord.
Then, Tillerson called Trump an (expletive) moron over the summer and almost resigned.
I don't agree 100 percent with President Trump's approach to foreign policy, and I was concerned about his baiting North Korea. I think he needs to take a stronger position on Russia and back the United Kingdom up. I think Trump is right about the Iran nuke deal and Paris Climate Accord.
That is all beside the point. President Donald Trump is the President of the United States, and he sets the foreign policy of the United States as the head of state. Tillerson was appointed to represent the United States and carry out President Trump's agenda. It is one thing to provide some push-back during private meetings, but the public back and forth is not in the country's best interest.
The Secretary of State serves at the pleasure of the President. Any employee who acted the way Tillerson did on the job would have been fired long ago.
Inside British politics – What makes the UK Independence Party more attractive than the Tories for a newcomer to the United Kingdom?
Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, Rod Blum, Steve King, David Young were all named Heroes of Main Street by the National Retail Federation this week.


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While attending Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, I was spellbound by a video installation piece called, "STREET" by New York artist James Nares. It depicts people walking on the streets of New York as if they're these picture board cut outs moving in slow motion. It's really cool. Anyway, as I was watching, a Paul Kasmin Gallery dealer came up to me and introduced me to Nares www.jamesnares.com himself. I was so stunned that I asked James to do an interview with me. What you see below is our great chat. Enjoy!
MICHAEL: Hello James, Great meeting you at Art Basel Miami Beach. First of all, why did you decide to attend? You could've just let your gallery do all of the representation. Isn't that what most artists do?
JAMES: I attended the fair because I felt good about this film and I wanted to take the temperature of the response to it. I had to attend because I was the only one with a copy of it. I managed to complete it about two hours before I caught my flight and hadn't seen the finished film myself until it was installed in Miami. It was my first time coming to Miami Basel. I'm not a regular at art fairs, not by a long stretch, but I enjoyed seeing lots of friends and acquaintances gathered under the sun. It was easy to spot the New Yorkers. They were the ones wearing their shoes on the beach.
MICHAEL: Funny. I find that there are three basic crowds at Art Basel: the business crowd, the general public and the true art crowd. Of course, these groups can overlap. Many artists hate art fairs and consider them too retail. What do you think?
JAMES: Well, of course they're too retail, but that's no reason to hate them. They would hate it more if there were no market. I think it's great to see the dealers removed from the comfort of their galleries and getting down to (relatively) open business, in the bizarre bazaar that we call an art fair. Where else can you see Larry Gagosian or Paul Kasmin sitting in their little booths, hawking their wares like so many pots and pans. They work hard and it's pretty grueling for them. There are few more exhausted that an dealer returning from an art fair.
MICHAEL: Wow, that's a refreshing response. I think a lot of art people think it's hip and edgy to say they "hate" things. Whatever. I figured you would have a fresh take on things given your work. I'll get to your film, which I love, in a moment, but first, I must say, your brushstroke paintings are so cool. I saw them long before I met you. What's the inspiration behind them?
JAMES: The paintings are not unlike my film, "STREET," in that I am stretching time in order to reveal the many shades of nuance within any given moment. The film is one long, continuous tracking shot. The paintings are made in one movement of the brush. They reference photography, in that they are made (at least the brush stroke itself is made) in a very short time frame. A matter of seconds. A similar time frame as that in which a photograph is taken - shooting - capturing something. They are instantaneous. "Photographs of the mind" as Malevich wrote. The paintings also reference film in that I go through many "takes" before getting the one I keep. What you see is a single movement of the brush. What you don't see is the number of "takes" that are rejected in the process. I have a system in the studio that enables me to lay down a stroke and erase it, with equal speed, over and over again, as many times as I want, without discoloring the ground or leaving any trace of its existence. I might do this hundreds of times before I get a "keeper". Then again, I might hit it on the first attempt. I love it (although it has taken me years to fully trust it) when this happens. There is almost no cleaning up to do.
MICHAEL: The paintings actually look very elegant and poetic.
JAMES: The paintings are a dance. They reveal themselves through movement. The paintings are musical. They reveal themselves through rhythm, touch, timing and timbre. They are written paintings too. Each one is a haiku of sorts. It reveals itself through the simplicity of its elements. I never erase any part of a painting unless I erase the whole thing. And then I start over again. My method is both circular and repetitive.
MICHAEL: How do you get inspired to create?
JAMES: There's a common misunderstanding that inspiration is a sudden, intense, quickening of the blood kind of thing. That it is demonstrative, even violent and rare; that it is something artists sit around waiting for, tearing their hair out and drinking too much when they don't get it. I've found that inspiration has more to do with the root of its meaning as being "in the spirit of something." It's more a meditation than something that strikes one out of the blue. It's related more closely to taking an action than waiting to be taken by one.
MICHAEL: Absolutely. As a writer, I'm often inspired to write, but I don't wait for inspiration. You mentioned music. Your work appears very symphonic and orchestral to me. There may be some jazz there, but when I see the flourishes, it makes me think ... Vivaldi. You know, his whole "mix and stir" thing with musical notes.
JAMES: Well, I once joked that I'm always "Going for Baroque" so Vivaldi would certainly fit the bill on that one. Actually there's an old relation of mine, also called James Nares, who was the organist and composer to "Mad" King George III. He was also a friend of Handel's and all those guys. There's a wonderful new recording of his harpsichord works by Julian Perkins. But yes, there is a strong "musical" element in my work. The paintings are all about touch and timing and rhythm and timbre. I've also played with a couple of bands in my time ... guitar in THE CONTORTIONS (which was the hottest band in NYC during the summer of 1977, if I say so myself) and in DEL BYZANTEENS with Jim Jarmusch, Phil Kline and Phillipe Van Hagen, in the early 80s. I still play guitar and I'll do my best to get something out of anything that makes a sound. My pleasure in improvisation would be the connection to Jazz. My favorite music is the old time blues from the Mississippi Delta and other places, of which I have a large collection. My #1, desert-island-must-have, all time favorite, can't live without it, would be the music of Jimi Hendrix. Nobody else comes close.
MICHAEL: Wow. You do come from a strong musical tradition. New York obviously plays a crucial role in your photography, but what about your paintings? Does the city inspire your canvas works?
JAMES: New York forms the predominant backdrop to my life and is present in the paintings as a kind of undercurrent or parallel narrative. I would never be making the paintings I make if I hadn't lived here - indeed the City, in many ways, has made me who I am.
MICHAEL: What was your life like growing up in London? I guess London wasn't really the big art city that it is today.
JAMES: I was born in London, but moved to the country in Sussex when I was two. My father died when I was three and I was sent to boarding school when I was 7. That pretty much sums up my early life. I came of age in institutions of the British boarding school variety which, looking back, seem very Dickensian - full of cold, damp dormitories and lousy food and hundreds-of-years-old buildings, with Latin, cricket and the inevitable canings. Oh how we laughed! The good thing was that in a couple of these schools, I had really good art teachers who were great supporters of mine. I remain indebted to them. When I was 15, I was unceremoniously removed from the last of these bastions of an antediluvian lifestyle and deposited by my step father in Florence, with a fistful of lire (but without a word of Italian, or any agenda) and told to "get on with it". It was the teach-them-to-swim-by-throwing-them-in-the-deep-end theory of preparation for life. I of course, immediately fell in with the doubtful crowd and hung out on the Ponte Vecchio, getting high and sleeping on the street. Quite the fall from grace but oh how we laughed! Upon returning (several pounds thinner) to the UK, I was sent to a wonderful "free school" where you could pretty much do anything you wanted, which I did. Another great art department though. They gave me my own studio and told me to "get on with it". Next, I moved to London where I attended Chelsea School of Art for about five minutes. It seemed like no one in London was interested in, or had even heard of the artists whose work excited me so (I was devouring American art magazines like Avalanche and ArtRite and anything else I could get my hands on) so I packed my bag and headed for New York where I mostly remain.
MICHAEL: Dude, I feel like crying right now. It sounds like you were basically an orphan running wild. It sounds like you had the freedom that artists crave yet not the structure needed to truly build a successful life which you clearly have at this point. Has New York lived up to your childhood expectations?
JAMES: Please don't shed too many tears on my behalf, Michael. I painted my picture on the dark side to add a little dramatic spice. But you are right.
MICHAEL: I figured as much. I'm talking with a guy who does paintings of flourishes.
JAMES: It took me many years to learn that "freedom" and "structure" were mutually inclusive. I don't think I had many expectations when I arrived in New York. I do remember looking out of the window of the plane when we had landed at JFK, seeing one of the baggage handlers doing Kung Fu moves on the tarmac and thinking "Wow! That is so cool!" It was the summer of "Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting."
MICHAEL: You're definitely showing your age now.
JAMES: I also remember everything seeming so familiar. It was like walking into a movie. I think millions of people have had that same experience. I felt at home in New York immediately. I don't think it's quite the same now, but at that time it seemed like the city of the dispossessed. If you didn't fit in where you came from, you came here. I also remember once feeling like I had stepped into a Robert Rauschenberg painting and suddenly understanding where much of the art I loved came from. The one thing I didn't expect when I arrived was that I wouldn't be going back.
MICHAEL: I understand completely. Over the years, how would you say your art has changed? What has experience done to your process and your work?
JAMES: My work has changed in the way a river's course changes over time. I've meandered this way and that, but I'm still the same. In fact I'm astonished when looking back at my really old work, as I have been lately, at how strong is the thread that runs through it. Any artist's work begins with imitation really, attached to one's unique self. As you get older, the imitation keeps falling away and you move closer and closer to your unique self. Experience has taught me everything I know. It has been the key to refining of both the making and the message (not to be confused with "agenda"). You make something, you learn something. Next time you make it a little differently or not.
MICHAEL: You know, a lot of younger artists stress over finding their own style, but it sounds like you're saying this comes inevitably through simply living one's life and working.
JAMES: Yes. Even the most calculated "style" arrives, to some degree, in the same way. I think if an artist is stressing about how to carve out a piece of territory for themselves, it may just be impatience. Or fear of looking inward. There's a simple formula for "inventing" your own style. Be true to thyself (which can comfortably accommodate re-inventing thyself too). If the search for a style is simply undertaken in order to differentiate yourself from the pack, you risk making really crappy art. Take your time, I say. Every artist inevitably realizes that they are already different, and that if they celebrate their uniqueness, they'll be doing their own thing. You can't make good art out of something you really don't care about.
MICHAEL: Where are you headed with your film work? Are you going to do more work like I saw at Art Basel Miami?
JAMES: You know, I think I've done that movie. A number of people were suggesting I film other cities in the same way, but I don't have any desire to do so. "STREET" is my film for New York. That said, Calcutta might be interesting. Hmm ... or Rio de Janeiro ... or Timbuktu. Oh, I don't know. I don't always trust myself when I say I'm not going to do something. Nor when I say I am, come to think of it.
MICHAEL: Thanks James. This has been great. I love your work and rock on!


Talking, singing, gathering folk - and the popular, the recent practice of Sonia Boyce has involved the participation of others in what she likes to call 'improvised' collaborations. Improvisation automatically means to be unsure what will come next. Boyce will discuss recent works that foreground this sense of uncertainty whilst looking at the past.
Sonia Boyce came into prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning black British art scene of that time, with works that spoke about racial identity and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s her practice has shifted to encompass cultural differences and how these differences might be articulated, mediated and enjoyed.
Sonia Boyce has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Exhibitions and monographs include: Sonia Boyce: Speaking in Tongues, (Kala Press 1997), Annotations 2/Sonia Boyce: Performance, (Iniva,1998), Century City: art and culture in the modern metropolis, Tate Modern, London (2001), Sharjah International Bienal 7, Sharjah (2005), Devotional, National Portrait Gallery, London (2007), Crop Over, Harewood House, Leeds and Barbados National Museum (2007/2008), For you, only you (2007/2008), Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki Biennal 2 (2009), Like Love, Spike Island, Bluecoat & the Potteries Museum Art Gallery (Green Box Press 2010), Afro Modern, Tate Liverpool and tour (2010), and Griot Girlz: Feminist Art and the Black Atlantic, Kunstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck (2010).
In 2007 Boyce was joint recipient of the History of British Art Book Prize (USA) for the edited volume Shades of Black: Black Art in 1980s Britain (Duke University Press, Iniva and AAVA). She is currently an AHRC Research Fellow at Wimbledon College of Art and Design: Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London, researching the dynamics and ethics of collaboration.


Discussion in 'Member Casual Chat' started by Ritter, Aug 30, 2018.
I do not know how Sweden is perceived from the outside since I live on the inside. I suppose there is some sort of stereotype of Sweden being "loose" as far as sexual morals go, but that hasn't really got anything to do with what I said in the quoted post.
I have no idea what you are talking about here and am not sure how it even relates to anything that I have said. What I mentioned in the post you have quoted is the use of anglicisms, i.e. they will speak Swedish and from nowhere throw in an English word because they cannot find the Swedish equivalence, probably as a result of a too high consumption of American pop culture. It is extremely annoying to the ear and since you are an American, you - I will assume - speak only one language, you will have a hard time conceiving what I mean and why it is irritating.
and the Italians as to mispronouncing their native tongue.
Not too much out of those from South Norway,from what I hear.
the amount of their actual messages by a factor of 2 with Likes.
at the race track.And competing.
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What on Earth are you talking about? This is not about mispronouncing words, but rather is it about mixing languages for no real reason whatsoever.
I don't know of any language on the planet that pronounces the J with a K sound, but I look forward to knowing which language does.
Spanish. Phonetically, K is the nearest sound in which 'gutteral' can be described. This in turn begs the question of how someone who is born in the middle eastern region of the world can have an Iberian name?
** I now confidently predict that some anorak from Science forum will explain the difference to me.
Nah - that guttural sound isn't made by making the K sound, at least, that's not how I was taught. It's more like saying an H while gargling.
There's more than one way to skin a cat? Describing isn't easy though, other than by a vocalised example.
Got it. I was asking where the K sound was used for J. This doesn't qualify, IMO.
People that drive at 30mph in a 60mph zone, this is something that annoys me almost every day!
People that don't leave enough space when passing cyclists.
We have problems with truckers speeding who ride in the right lane. But we do try to help truckers when traveling and get over so they don't have to lose speed, but some are rude.
In Jacksonville Fl. a biker is killed almost every week according to news. Another one today.
A gutteral-sounding word is difficult to describe to an English speaker because we have no words which call for it. I speak Spanish and there are quite a few words which have unusual pronunciation because of the phonetic differences in our alphabets.
I choose "not leaving enough space" vs having a head on collision with oncoming traffic.
Heavy traffic and bikes just dont mix.
Over-explaining....People who take too long or can't get to the point annoy me... and makes me annoying because I'll interrupt before I can help myself .... I try very hard not to.
There are lots of things that I find annoying and I do lots of annoying things but I don't feel like sharing.... I'm annoying that way.
Fat people blaming genetics whilst eating that 3rd cake of the morning.
People who say 'people' all the time.
People who blow their nose in a restaurant while I am trying to eat.
People who sniff instead of blowing their noses.
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People who stand just inches from you while talking... well, other dudes anyway.
People(!) who say 'both' when there's no need to. Or worse, when they say it now and again instead of all the time. I mean, it's either necessary or it's not?
Q: "Would you like cheese or bacon on your burger?"


Cancer cells are everything we would like healthy cells to be. They quickly adapt to toxic environments, they readily alter themselves to assure their continued survival, and they are immortal. All of these factors make cancer an extremely difficult disease to treat.
Chemotherapy drugs have a high rate of failure. That's because these drugs usually kill only specific types of cancer cells within a tumor, or the cancer cells mutate and become resistant to the chemotherapy.
Reference: Khafif A, Schantz SP, Chou TC, et al. Quantitation of chemopreventive synergism between (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate and curcumin in normal, premalignant and malignant human oral epithelial cells. Carcinogenesis 1998; 19:419-24.
Reports that macrophages (immune system cells) from rodents fed a cod liver oil diet secreted lower levels of lysosomal enzymes collagenase, elastase, and hyalurondinase.


3. Universal Design for Learning ● Universal design is "the design of . . . environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design." Educators must understand how to use appropriate technological supports to make conversations accessible to not only people with disabilities, but people who may have difficulty with communication for other reasons. ● UDL advocates "providing multiple and flexible methods of presentation, means of expression, and means of engagement for diverse learners." Other studies have shown web-based learning and learning in virtual worlds allow for constructivist learning and diverse ways to express learning; close attention to accessibility and universal design is an alternative approach to online learning that allows it to include a range of learners.


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Since I can remember, I've always had a love for old photos.
I would comb through album after album , asking a lot of questions along the way. I wish I would have kept a journal way back then of everything my Dad told me. He shared so many great stories with me. I remember a lot of things, but I hope I'm not forgetting something really great. You know?
I didn't know my grandmothers, they were gone before I was born. I'll always, always wonder what that's like---to have a grandmother. Thank God I had Aunt Ruth. I'm pretty sure I got the best of both worlds-----an amazing aunt and definitely a grandmother to me.
I've been gathering old family photos and scanning them to use in my scrapbooks. I made the photo collages with the Project Life App. So easy! I used the Cinnamon Edition in the photos above.
I slipped them into a Simple Stories binder, using a variety of different pocket pages. I'm really excited to use the Simple Stories line, Legacy. I love hybrid scrapbooking, so this will give me some digital and physical elements to work with. This photo album is 6x8, which I think is the perfect size for these types of projects. Some pages will be the full 6x8 photo spread, and others I'll make the collages.
Sometimes, I wish I could just have one day to walk through the city where I grew up, back in the day. When it was still farm land, my grandparents cafe and people walking to catch the train to town.


From 8th September 2018 to 24th February 2019, the Loggia degli Abati of Palazzo Ducale hosts the exhibition "Fulvio Roiter. Pictures 1948-2007".
150 photographs, mostly vintage, tell the story of the Venetian photographer Fulvio Roiter, who passed away on April 18th 2016.
The exhibition, curated by Denis Curti with the precious contribution of the wife of the artist Lou Embo, will show all the internationality of the work of Fulvio Roiter, placing him among the most significant photographers of our days.
Starting from Roiter's first approaches to photography, during the neorealist season - of which the Venetian photographer inherited the compositional finesse - the path describes Venice and the lagoon, but also trips to New Orleans, Belgium, Portugal, Andalusia and Brazil.
The exhibition consists of 9 sections, each one is expression of a specific period of Roiter's life and style: The harmony of the story; Between amazement and wonder: Italy in color; Venice in black and white: a self-portrait; The other Venice; Infinite beauty; Beyond reality; Beyond the boundaries; Homage to nature; Man without desires.
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 7 pm. Monday closed.
Promoted by Regione Liguria, Comune di Genova and Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, the exhibition is organized by Civita Mostre in collaboration with Tre Oci, and it is accompanied by a Marsilio publication.


Comedian Tracy Morgan on how his new baby daughter has finally tamed his wild behavior. Then, the five-time Emmy winning meddling mother from "Everybody Loves Raymond" – Doris Roberts! Plus, a debut performance from 17-year-old YouTube sensation Anthony Lewis. And, Broadway's Guinness World Record holding bubble artist.


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RACER BUILDS NOT ONLY BOATS BUT A WINNING REPUTATION
STEVE WATERSSUN-SENTINEL
Dan Weinstein figured the best way to promote the powerboats he builds was to race one on the offshore circuit. With one title under his belt and two within his grasp at Saturday's Islamorada-Budweiser 100 Championship, Weinstein might be too busy filling orders to race next year.
Weinstein owns Powerplay Marine, a Fort Lauderdale-based company that builds custom boats for racing, fishing and family type cruising.
Two weeks ago in Galveston, Texas, Weinstein's Powerplay Racing won the American Power Boat Association national championship in Offshore B Class.
With a good finish Saturday, Weinstein can add the Offshore Power Boat Racing Association Gold Cup Offshore Series title and the APBA Southeast Region crown.
"It's very rewarding racing with your own boat and winning with your own boat," Weinstein said. "We decided if we were going to do it, we had to be successful. We worked really hard for this."
"We" are Weinstein, the throt-tleman for Powerplay Racing, and co-drivers and sponsors Gary Coberly and Richard Pingree. Coberly, of Fort Worth, Texas, is an engine-builder.
He and Weinstein started Powerplay Racing Engines, which provides the twin inboards for Powerplay Racing.
Pingree, of Beaufort, S.C., provides financial backing. Pingree and Coberly take turns driving; Pingree will drive in Saturday's race, six laps over a 15-mile course in the Atlantic off Holiday Isle Resort and Marina.
Weinstein, 37, started racing powerboats in the late 1970s and won an APBA national championship in 1982. He also won Southeast Region titles in 1982 and '84. Then he started a boatbuilding company and stopped racing to concentrate on his new business.
Since then, Powerplay Marine has grown from a one-bay warehouse to a facility of more than 20,000 square feet.
It wasn't until last year, though, that Weinstein had the money, thanks to Pingree and Coberly, to race one of his boats, and race it right.
Getting back into racing wasn't a problem for Weinstein.
"I'm the one that tests every boat that goes out the door here," Weinstein said. "As far as my [racing) ability, that kept it crisp."
In last year's Islamorada-Budweiser 100, Weinstein finished fourth in his second race in his new boat.
"I was still testing the systems," he said. "I was feeling out gear ratios and different things."
This year, Powerplay Racing is a consistent competitor. Weinstein and the drivers have not had an engine or boat failure in 10 races, which is why they won the APBA national title in one of the organization's most competitive classes.
Weinstein's strategy is a key to his boat's success.
"It's not how many races you win, it's how many points you have," said Weinstein, who had one first and four seconds.
"Other boats won more races, but they had more breakdowns. A lot of these races we ran very conservatively, and certain races we purposely didn't go out to win. We only needed a first, second or a third to win the national championship [they finished second). "There was no point in running wide open, so we ran very conservatively and made sure we took care of business."
Whitbread update
Most of the Whitbread Round the World Race fleet has sailed through the doldrums and is speeding toward Recife, Brazil, in winds of 20 to 25 knots. Maxi New Zealand Endeavour led the way Tuesday afternoon, followed by Whitbread 60 Tokio, maxi Merit Cup and W60s Galicia '93 Pescanova and Winston.
The first seven boats are expected to arrive in Punta del Este, Uruguay, within 24 hours of each other late next week.
U.S. Women's Challenge, which had been 13th in the 14-boat fleet, improved to 10th, thanks to a short stay in the doldrums.
POWERBOAT RACE
-- WHAT: Islamorada-Budweiser 100 Championship, the third and final race in the OPBRA Gold Cup Offshore Series.
-- WHEN: Race starts at noon Saturday. Awards ceremony is 6 p.m. Inspections will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday at Harbour Lights Motel.
-- WHERE: A 15-mile ocean course off Holiday Isle Resort and Marina in Islamorada.
-- CLASSES: Modified, Pro-Outboard, Offshore C and B will race 90 miles (six laps); Stock Outboard and Offshore A will race 75 miles; Local Class I and II will race 30 miles.
-- PRIZE MONEY: $12,000.
-- INFORMATION: Call Holiday Isle at 1-305-664-2321.


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We have for sale a Vintage Figural Wood Carved Riding Boot Corkscrew.
This is a wonderful hand carved wooden boot with a steel spur shaped corkscrew. Carved of teak wood it is in very nice condition most likely never used.


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