Raj Kanwar's film Deewana, starring Rishi Kapoor, Divya Bharathi and newbie shah rukh khan released on June 25, 1992 and turned out to be a huge hit at the box office.
SRK won hearts as a crazy lover in his debut film and audiences loved his chemistry with late Divya Bharti. The song Aisi deewangi dekhi nahin kabhi… picturised on them became a chartbuster and SRK won a Filmfare best male debut award. There was no looking back thereafter, only more films, more hits, and more awards for him. He has so far won 12 Filmfare Awards and numerous other awards.
SRK redefined the romantic hero in Hindi cinema with films like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Kal Ho Na Ho and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. His next romantic film is being made by the renowned veteran Yash Chopra.
SRK's work profile is eclectic: he has played an obsessive lover in films like Darr and Anjaam, a villain in Baazigar, a warrior in Asoka, a modern day patriot in Swades, a coach in Chak De India, a superstar in Om Shanti Om, a don in Don: The Chase Continues and Don 2: The King Is Back, and a superhero in his mega-production RA.One.
SRK started his acting career in 1988 with TV series Fauji, after being trained at The Barry John's Acting Studio. Next year he featured in another successful show Circus and Doosra Keval.
SRK went back to TV in 2007 to host the third season of game show Kaun Banega Crorepati. He also hosted Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain (2008). He was last seen on small screen as the host of Zor Ka Jhatka in 2011.
After making it big in showbiz, SRK turned businessman by launching his production house Red Chillies Entertainment and later by investing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), whose victory at the fifth IPL season was a silver lining for the star this year.
SRK married Gauri Chibber, a Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991. They have two children, son Aryan and daughter Suhana. According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Allah, he also values his wife's religion. At home, his children follow both religions, with the Qur'an being situated next to the Hindu deities.


Discussion in 'Desktop Operation' started by Wraithfire, Apr 18, 2006.
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
any idea what's going here?
Extension System Warning: Failed to set up default extensions files probably because you do not have write privileges to this location. While you can run Firefox like this, it is recommended that you run it at least once with privileges that allow it to generate these initial files to improve start performance. Running from a disk image on MacOS X is not recommended.
Which distribution do you use? What exactly did you do to install Firefox and then remove it?
which was not working at first, but now gives the extension system warning i posted last time and is EXTREMELY slow.
so it's there, do i need to make a link to this or something like that, and if i do, how do i do that?
[email protected]:/usr/lib/firefox$ ln -s ./firefox-bin .
Maybe you should try to compile Firefox from the sources. I think it's easier than fiddling around with the broken package.


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3 Recession-Proof Stocks to Buy Now
Lawrence Rothman The Motley Fool
No one knows how long the economic pain will last in our current recession. This is particularly true because the COVID-19 pandemic puts us in uncharted waters. So this is a good time to evaluate your holdings and see which stocks should do well in a downturn.
These three companies are offering everyday necessities that people will continue buying, regardless of the state of the economy. Let's dig in.
Kroger (NYSE: KR), a nearly-140-year-old supermarket operator, has survived world wars, the Great Depression, and numerous recessions. It's no wonder Kroger does well in these conditions. Demand for groceries (as well as pharmacies and gas stations, which many locations also offer) does not dip when people lose their jobs. In fact, consumers are more apt to eat at home rather than dine out. You can see this by the company's strong results for its fiscal first quarter (ended May 23). Its same-store sales (comps), excluding fuel, rose 19%. Kroger's operating profit under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) increased by 47% to $1.3 billion from last year's $901 million.
Looking further back to the previous recession, Kroger's comps rose 5% and 2.1% in 2008 and 2009, respectively.
Showing confidence in its future and reflecting its consistent results, Kroger's board of directors recently raised the quarterly dividend from $0.16 to $0.18, starting with September's payment, which is a 2% dividend yield at Friday's closing price. With a payout ratio of 24%, meaning less than one-quarter of the company's earnings go toward the dividend, Kroger has ample room to pay higher dividends. This also marked 14 consecutive years the company has increased its payout.
2. General Mills
General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is a consumer staples company that sells cereals, snacks, and yogurts under well-known brands like Cheerios, Fiber One, and Yoplait. This is another company that will likely benefit from fewer people eating out -- it's not surprising that its sales surged in the fiscal fourth quarter (ended May 31) as COVID-19 forced governments to issue stay-at-home orders and close restaurants. Revenue rose 16% after removing the effects from an extra week this year and foreign currency translations.
This is not merely a one-quarter phenomenon. On General Mills' fourth-quarter earnings call, CFO Kofi Bruce said: "We expect consumer concerns about COVID-19 virus transmission and the potential for a protracted recession will drive some level of elevated food demand at-home this year, relative to pre-pandemic levels."
Turning to the last recession as a guide, General Mills' sales went from 2007's $12.3 billion to $14.6 billion in 2009.
3. Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL) is another venerable company (over 200 years old) that sells goods whose demand does not depend on the economic cycle. These include toothpaste and toothbrushes, soap and deodorant, dishwashing liquids and detergents, and household cleaners. It sells these under popular brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, Irish Spring, and Speed Stick. These products account for more than 80% of the company's sales. The remaining sales come from its pet nutrition business, which sells dog and cat food. With people's strong feelings about their pets, this also does well in hard economic times.
Colgate's second-quarter adjusted sales increased by 5.5%. Some of this was from higher demand for certain products during the pandemic. But, looking at the first quarter when COVID-19 had less of an effect, its sales grew 7.5% compared to the same period the year before.
With 70% of the company's sales coming from outside the U.S., Colgate offers investors good geographic diversity, which should also help as countries' economies recover at different rates.
You can also enjoy your dividends coming in. Colgate has paid one since 1895, raising it for 57 consecutive years, putting it in the elite Dividend King status (an S&P 500 company that has increased dividends for at least 50 straight years). This includes when it hiked May's payment by a penny to $0.44, offering a 2.2% yield based on Friday's closing price.
Colgate's free cash flow easily supports its dividends. In the first half of the year, its free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditures) was $1.6 billion, while it paid $784 million in dividends.
10 stocks we like better than General Mills
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How do you influence other people – positively or negatively?
We'd all love to be a positive influence all of the time.
However, sometimes it's easier to protect the status quo by offering anyone of a number of reasons not to act: "it's too hard/easy…", "it's too soon/late…", "it's too much/little…". Do you hear yourself around others? If so, what do you hear? For many of us we are not always fully aware of the impact we're having on others and that could be a big problem.
Because we all know what it's like to be around the naysayers. And to be clear, we don't have a problem with an objective, reasonably argued and considered 'No!'. But we do have a problem with the knee-jerk "I couldn't be bothered" or "get someone else to do it" – 'No!'.
Go-getters like you and me don't have time for naysayers, so nor should we be one. But no doubt there will be particular situations when we may not be as positive and objective as we could be.
So what are the situations when you are prone to be a naysayer?
In Article #17, "5 Phrases You Should Influence Out", of my book Learning Dangerously, I identify 5 naysayer responses that you really should drop from your vernacular.
But it's hard to drop anything when you don't even notice you are holding it in the first place. In fact, sometimes you can grip onto something so tight you can lose your sense of feeling. So before you make the effort to drop those negative phrases, you need to be aware of the situations when you may be putting them to use.
For me, I'm particularly vulnerable when I'm in a position of self-perceived authority. Some may say this is all of the time! When we feel we are right it can be difficult to positively accept being challenged.
But this is the most important moment when we could have the most positive influence on others – when we are prepared to accept the possibility of an alternate view.
So the challenge for you is twofold.
Firstly, increase your awareness about your natural moments of positivity and negativity. Secondly, to choose objective alternate responses to your negative naysayer influences.
The choice is yours and your potential influence makes it an important one.
Choose wisely for the consequences for those around will last longer than your response itself.
Craig Stephens is the author of Learning Dangerously. Craig mentors and coaches people to realise greater success. If you want to improve your influence, then contact Craig and realise the benefits of Learning Dangerously.


The future belongs to she who creates it.
A new project designed with girls of color at the center, SheLectricity is a girls' empowerment ecosystem that brings together technology, culture, and community to create safe and nurturing online and in-person environments for girls to learn, grow, innovate, and lead. Through interactive online tools and in-person experiences, SheLectricity girls engage in Creativity, Personal Development, STEAM-based learning, Entrepreneurship, and Network Building.
In September 2018, the NoVo Foundation awarded SheLectricity a 3-year grant for $450,000 to "SEED FUND" the design, build, and launch in our first 3 hub cities - Oakland, Los Angeles, and Memphis - in Fall 2019. SheLectricity is intended to scale over time to reach all girls in this country who need safe and nurturing online and in-person experiences, relationships, and support in order to learn, grow, innovate, and lead.
SheLectricity is the brainchild of Anasa Troutman.
Best known for her work as the long time manager, producer and thought partner to Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, India.Arie, Anasa is a cultural strategist, producer, and entrepreneur focused on the importance of culture and the power of love. As CEO of her company, Culture Shift Creative, Anasa works to build and execute culture based social impact strategies for artists, brands and causes. Named one of the 50 Black Women Founders To Watch by Essence Magazine, Anasa was invited twice to the White House by the Obama administration to advise on cultural policy.
Lynn is a visionary entrepreneur, speaker, youth development expert and Co-Founder/CEO of Spotlight: Girls.
Lora is an experienced Chief Strategy Officer and film producer working in the civic & social organization fields.


The successful initiative – now in its fifth year – has supported 39 university graduates with degrees in agricultural-related, environmental and related disciplines into fulltime careers in the sector.
"What is especially interesting is the variety of backgrounds those who have completed the programme come from," says Ravensdown Training Manager and Mentor Gordon McCormick.
This year the programme is supporting seven graduates into work. One is Timaru's Laura Cockroft.
"I'm not from a farming background but from a young age I had an interest in agriculture and spent my holidays working on farms in South Canterbury," Laura says.
"Now that I've finished my Bachelor of Agriculture from Lincoln University, I'm super-excited to join the programme and hopefully secure an agri manager position with Ravensdown.
Claire Verhaegh, who began her agricultural career journey on her parents' dairy farm in Riverton, is also excited to be in this year's intake.
I applied for the programme because I truly believe that every person at Ravensdown had a similar belief towards agriculture as me. If New Zealand is to continue farming successfully, we have to embrace smarter farming – something that's more important now than ever.
At the start of each year Ravensdown takes on a group of graduates and provides them with a wide range of opportunities to gain experience in different fields of the co-operative before heading into fulltime positions.
Having grown up on a well-known dairy farm in Taranaki, Taylor Bailey completed the development programme in 2015 and is now a Ravensdown agri manager in the Waikato.
The development programme is offered to those who have recently graduated university or have been working for a few years after studying. All graduates must be involved with the programme for a minimum of six months before heading into fulltime positions with Ravensdown.


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Q: Importing points from a DXF file into ArcMap 10.2 I can import LineStrings, polygons, annotations from a DXF file into ArcMap (and arcpy) but I can't import Points from the same DXF file (neither with arcpy).
No error is reported, simply no features are loaded.
I am simply using the 'Add data' button in the GUI, then I select the layer in the DXF file. When I do it this way, I can 'Zoom to layer' to the correct extent of the layer, but nothing is displayed.
The DXF file version seems to be R12
And with arcpy:
arcpy.FeatureClassToShapefile_conversion(file + os.sep + "Point", self.temp_folder)

Everything works fine in QGIS 2.16.
Any idea how to make this possible?

A: I found out what was wrong... Turns out that the layer I really wanted to load was the Annotation.
When loading the DXF file in QGIS, there is a choice of two layer: Point and linestring. In ArcMap there are: Point, Annotation, Linestring, Polygon. The points in QGIS is the layer I want. In ArcMap, the same layer is named Annotation and is displayed differently (annotations instead of points). Each annotation has a shape associated (point).
So I just had to change Point with Annotation in the python code:
arcpy.FeatureClassToShapefile_conversion(file + os.sep + "Point", self.temp_folder)

Should be:
    arcpy.FeatureClassToShapefile_conversion(file + os.sep + "Annotation", self.temp_folder)

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...Hope Street in Prescot. AFC Liverpool won 3-1 in the Vodkat League Division One.
The AFC Liverpool goals were scored by Dean Thurston (twice) and Dave Eaton.
AFC Liverpool v Rochdale Town FC - 28th February 2009 page one.
AFC Liverpool v Rochdale Town FC - 28th February 2009 page two.
AFC Liverpool v Rochdale Town FC - 28th February 2009 page three.


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The RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC) is a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation located in South Australia, approximately  north-west of Adelaide. The WRC is operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), a division of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The complex has a land area of  or roughly the size of North Korea or Pennsylvania. The airspace above the area is restricted and controlled by the RAAF for safety and security. The WRC is a highly specialised ADF test and evaluation capability operated by the RAAF for the purposes of testing defence materiel.

The complex has been variously known as the Anglo-Australian Long Range Weapons Establishment and then the Woomera Rocket Range; the RAAF Woomera Test Range and in 2013, the facility was reorganised and renamed to the RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC). The ground area of the WRC is defined by the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) and includes the Nurrungar Test Area (NTA); with a land area of , the WPA is described by the RAAF as the largest land-based test range in the western world.  The Woomera Prohibited Area Coordination Office (WPACO) coordinates daily operation of the complex which comprises a mix of South Australian crown land and is covered by pastoral leases and mining tenements granted by the Government of South Australia. The Woomera Prohibited Area Advisory Board monitors the operations of the WPA and the WPACO. The airspace above the WPA is called the Woomera Restricted Airspace (WRX) and is controlled by the RAAF for safety and security reasons during the conduct of some activities on the complex together with the support of Airservices Australia.

The complex also contains the RAAF Base Woomera, or the RAAF Woomera Airfield, the dual-runway military airfield located  north of the settlement of the Woomera Village. The airfield has been in military operation since a RAF Dakota landed at Woomera on 19 June 1947.

Etymology and broad definitions
The word woomera is an Australian Aboriginal word of the Dharug language of the Eora people of the Sydney basin; a woomera is a wooden spear-throwing device. Woomera was adopted initially as an appropriate name for the settlement of , that is also called Woomera Village, based on a recommendation from Group Captain Alfred George Pither.

Since its establishment in 1947 and its renaming in 2016 as the RAAF Woomera Range Complex, the defence facilities have been variously known as the Anglo-Australian Long Range Weapons Establishment and then the Woomera Rocket Range between 1947 and 1980 when it was operated by the  Australian Government as a Defence research and long range weapons testing range. Since 1980 the complex has had various other titles and in more recent years, the RAAF facility has mainly been known as the RAAF Woomera Test Range. In 2013, and as part of the ongoing redevelopment and remediation of Woomera into its 'next-generation' configuration in readiness to support the ADF's 'Force2030' plan, the range facility was reorganised and renamed to the RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC).

The ground area of the WRC is defined by the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) and includes the Nurrungar Test Area (NTA). The WPA covers an area of  and is described by the RAAF as the largest land-based test range in the western world. The WPA is highly prospective and the  Government of South Australia and Geoscience Australia have assessed that by 2025 about 35 billion worth of  iron ore, gold and other mineral resources are potentially exploitable from within the WPA. Access to the WPA for non-Defence use requires Commonwealth approval and is on the proviso that Defence activities will not be unduly compromised. The ground area of the WPA is bound generally by Woomera in the south-east, Roxby Downs and the village associated with the Olympic Dam mine in the east,  in the north-east,  and further north to the 28th parallel, Maralinga in the south-west, and the Trans-Australian Railway and Tarcoola in the south. The WPA is divided into green, amber and red zones; representing infrequent, periodic, and frequent Defence use, respectively. Easements through the WPA allows public transit on the Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway, Stuart Highway, Lake Cadibarrawirracanna Road, Olympic Dam Highway (B97), William Creek Road, as well as the Woomera Village. Permits are required to use the Anne Beadell Highway. From time to time, and for safety reasons, Defence is able to close access for short periods along these easements during the conduct of tests carried out on the complex. The Woomera Prohibited Area Coordination Office (WPACO) coordinates daily operation of the complex which comprises a mix of South Australian crown land and is covered by pastoral leases and mining tenements granted by the Government of South Australia. The Woomera Prohibited Area Advisory Board monitors the operations of the WPA and the WPACO and recommends amendments to co-existence policies and procedures; develop high-level relationships between Defence and the resources sector; resolve disputes between Defence and non-Defence users; report annually on the balance of interests in the WPA; and conduct a review every seven years of the balance of interests in the WPA. Its members comprise appointments from the Australian and South Australian governments.

The airspace above the WPA is an integral part of the WRC. Entry into Woomera Restricted Airspace (WRX) is controlled by the RAAF for safety and security reasons during the conduct of some activities on the complex. Airservices Australia defines the exact limits of restricted airspace in their annual handbook. When required, the RAAF issues a 'Notice to Airmen' (NOTAM) which effectively 'closes' access to any part of the WRX when safety or security needs require such action during the conduct of Defence activities at the complex.

History
The groundspace of the complex is known as the Woomera Prohibited Area and measures . It was first declared a prohibited area in 1947.

Military use

Anglo-Australian
Germany's use of V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets during World War II prompted the British to establish their own rocket testing programme. However, the density of population in the United Kingdom made testing risky, so the British turned to Australia, asking for a site with a long testing corridor containing minimal population. The two nations joined in the Anglo-Australian Joint Project, a Commonwealth weapons design and test program established in 1946. In April 1946 a mission from the United Kingdom led by Lieutenant-General JF Evetts CB CBE MC flew to Mt Eba homestead to carry out the first investigation for the suitability of the area for a guided missile range. His survey and mapping advisor was Colonel Lawrence Fitzgerald OBE Director of Military Survey Army Headquarters. There was little in the way of adequate surveys and maps of the area and in September 1946, soon after the project was approved by the Government, a survey and mapping reconnaissance of the area from Pimba north to the Musgrave Ranges was conducted by Major Lindsay Lockwood, Officer Commanding the Army's Australian Survey Corps Detachment 5th Field Survey Company based in Adelaide . In December 1946 the Secretary of the Department of the Army directed the Survey Corps' participation in the project. A Survey Corps detachment of ten personnel from the Adelaide unit set up a survey base camp at 'The Pines' near Pimba in March 1947, to commence a topographical mapping program which continued to 1953 when responsibility for surveys were transferred to the Department of the Interior.  One member of the Survey Corps detachment which commenced work there in March 1947 was Sergeant Len Beadell. Australia was responsible for providing the testing facilities, personnel, and most of the funding, while the United Kingdom supplied most of the scientific equipment and personnel, and in addition to its financial contribution, paid for the weapons being used. At its peak, the complex had an area of , most of which was in South Australia, but included a satellite range in north-west Western Australia. This was later scaled back to a total area of ; still the largest land-based weapons test complex in the western world.

Facilities at Salisbury supported the design and testing of many weapons and Upper Atmospheric Experiments trialled at Woomera. Weapons designed by the Joint Project and tested at Woomera include the Sea Wolf, Sea Slug, Rapier, Sea Dart, and Bloodhound surface-to-air missiles, the Black Knight research rocket, the Blue Steel nuclear stand-off missile, the Malkara anti-tank missile, the Ikara anti-submarine missile, and the GAF Jindivik target aircraft. Missile testing commenced in 1949. The Joint Project ran until 1980.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the complex was the second busiest rocket range in the world next to Cape Canaveral.

When the Anglo-Australian Joint Project began to wind down in the early 1970s, the village population began to rapidly drop from its peak of about 7000 residents in the mid-1960s. However, with the establishment of the USAF/ADF Joint Defence Communications Facility at the nearby Nurrungar site in 1969, approximately  south of Woomera, along with its 1100 permanent staff, the village population stabilised at around 4,500 people (including around 800 children). In the late 1990s, as the Nurrungar program was winding down, the ADF reassessed the role of Woomera in its future force structure. What became apparent to the ADF at that time was that the Woomera Test Range was the only land-based test range left in the Western world capable of testing the next (or what is now termed '5th') generation of weapons systems within a fully instrumented, land-based, specialised test and evaluation range. This assessment was to redefine the future role and strategic importance of the Woomera Range Complex within Australia's long-term Defence requirements.

United States
Deep Space Station 41

During the early 1960s, the Woomera Range participated in the Mercury and Gemini space programs. Specialised tracking and communications stations were established at Red Lake approximately  north of Woomera and at Mirikata about  west of Woomera. These stations were important during the first Moon landing mission. One significant facility installed by the US was the highly specialised "Deep Space Station 41" (DSS-41). This facility was constructed at the edge of Island Lagoon about  south of Woomera and was directly supported from the Woomera Defence Village. DSS-41 played a role in the 'race for space' from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, when the main tracking systems were dismantled and returned to the US. While none of the DSS-41 facility exists, the roadworks and building sites for this facility are still visible. In June 2022 Google Earth shows that a new facility has been constructed on the old DSS-41 site.

After the cancellation of the Joint Project, the complex was operated by Defence Research Centre Salisbury (former Weapons Research establishment, now Defence Science and Technology Organisation) in support of Australian Defence projects as they arose and also in support of German and NASA Sounding Rocket launches to observe the Supernova 1987A and other astronomical experiments. Woomera then focused on supporting the nearby joint Australia-United States Joint Defence Space Communications Station, Nurrungar. The surveillance facility closed in 1999.

Australian
During the 1990s it became apparent to the RAAF that Woomera was the only land-based test range left in the western world that was large enough for the testing of the generation of weapons systems which Australia was soon to acquire. Beginning with the instrumented range (Range E) in 1991, the RAAF has gradually taken over responsibility for the operation of the whole complex on behalf of the Department of Defence. In 2009, Joint Project 3024 was established to upgrade the range's instrumentation systems, and Project R7034 established to upgrade and modernise the required infrastructure. These projects have a 2020 ready point to coincide with the introduction of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).

Historically, for both Woomera and Australia, following the end of the Anglo-Australian Joint Project no further development occurred to make use of the technologies, skills and knowledge gained while the Project was operating. Australia became the fourth nation in the world to build and place in orbit a satellite from its own territory (WRESAT), that was the height, and end, of Australia's foray into space activities using its own purpose-built facility at Lake Hart (the ELDO site at Launch Area 6 of the Range). These launchers (there were two, and a third never completed) are now a relic of the Range's significant history of space-based activities. These two old launchers still tower over ten stories high over the inland Lake Hart dry salt lake, but are also a mute testament to Australia's once renowned position in space research and development. That former position, however, was recognised in 2007 with the unveiling of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) plaque commemorating Woomera's induction into the AIAA hall of fame, a distinction that placed Woomera's contribution to aerospace history and development on a par with Kitty Hawk (site of the first heavier than air controlled flight), and the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon (site of the first inter-planetary landing by humans). By 1999 the Defence Science and Technology Organisation and the RAAF's Aircraft Research and Development Unit identified the future potential for the complex, particularly as it was one of the few sites in the world where over-the-horizon weapons testing was feasible.

Prior to this review, the RAAF's Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU), and in conjunction with the DSTO, had been continuing to utilise the former 'Range E' (instrumented) facility since 1991. In the mid-1990s, ARDU took over total management of the Range from the then DSTO but with the creation of Defence Estate, the administration of the Woomera Prohibited Area itself was handed back to Estate to manage, with RAAF only maintaining control over the defined Woomera Instrumented Test and Evaluation Range (formerly Range E and as the instrumented portion of the WPA was then known). Over the following ten years (1997–2007), the RAAF re-defined the purpose and operation of the range and, by 2007, Chief of Air Force had again assumed full command of the entire Woomera Test Range Complex (i.e. both the Range and the Base).

The RAAF Woomera Test Range (WTR) is the principal formation of the WRC and the primary operational reason for the existence of the Range Complex. Access to and use of the WRC is managed through Headquarters, Air Warfare Centre RAAF, with the AWC's Air Force Ranges Directorate (AFRD) responsible for assuring the overall capabilities of the Range. The day-to-day operation of the WTR element of the WRC is the responsibility of the Woomera Test Range Squadron (WTR SQN). In this role, the WTR SQN is also directly supported by Headquarters AWC; No. 20 Squadron RAAF; and Defence contractors permanently based at RAAF Base Woomera. In 2007, the Woomera Test Range was acknowledged by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as a site of world aerospace historical significance.

In 2016 the Australian Government announced plans for an 297-million remediation of the range and the upgrade of the measuring and monitoring and sensor systems at Woomera. Raytheon Australia was awarded the contract. The works are intended to accommodate performance tests of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and provide access for the United States military. Raytheon announced that the range would be challenged by the testing of "new remotely piloted air systems, evolved network centric warfare capabilities, and weapons fitted to the EA-18G Growlers and Joint Strike Fighters" after the upgrade.

The base was also used for testing of the Blue Streak missile system.

Other military uses
In 2013 testing began on Taranis, a drone aircraft which is the result of a joint project between UK defence and BAE Systems. In December 2009 there were up to ten different tests that  occurred on the complex daily, and bookings for access had been made as far in advance as 2023. The increase in interest from other parties prompted the Australian government to mark $500 million in funding for Woomera in May 2009, to update tracking systems and other infrastructure. The complex is currently used for Australian Defence Force trials, and access is leased to foreign militaries and private companies for their own testing of weapons systems, rockets, and drone aircraft.

Civil aerospace use
The complex has also been used for rocketry. During the 1950s, the Black Knight rocket (as a component of Blue Streak) was tested at the range. The first rocket launch occurred in 1957, and continued until the last satellite launch, Prospero X-3 in 1971. Australia's first satellite, WRESAT, was launched from Woomera in 1967. The complex was awarded a National Engineering Landmark in 1999. Although initially allowed to lapse after the cancellation of the Joint Project, the use of the range for rocket research later increased. In 2002, the University of Queensland launched a rocket carrying the HyShot engine: the first successful flight of a hypersonic scramjet engine.

During the Cold War, Woomera had the second highest quantity and rate of rocket launches in the world after NASA's facilities at Cape Canaveral.

Between 1957 and 2007, over 518 launches from Woomera were recorded.

Other launches included:
 1957 to 1987, 258 Skylark rockets were launched with various agencies including the UK, the European Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center
 In the 1970s, NASA launched 20 Aerobee series 150, 170, 200 and 200A rockets for experimental purposes.
 In 1995, NASA launched its last rocket from the range.
 On 9 July 2017 a Sonda rocket was launched on an Australian hypersonic mission, which impacted on the range.

Asteroid sampling spacecraft retrieval:
 In June 2010 and December 2020, the Japanese space probes Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 returned samples from asteroids 25143 Itokawa and 162173 Ryugu respectively by landing within the Woomera Prohibited Area.

Current uses

Baker Observatory
The Woomera Baker Observatory lies within the WPA. There is a public telescope which belongs to the Defence Department. Local volunteers assist RAAF Woomera in hosting stargazing observatory nights for the public and visiting military units. In March 2020, a new telescope was installed to replace the old one, which had been damaged five years earlier when its corrector plate had been accidentally cracked.

Other uses
In 2004, V8 Supercars team Team Dynamik were discovered to be conducting illegal vehicle testing at the Woomera site. The team claimed they were testing an aerodynamic enhancement device but were later fined AU$132,000 for breaching series' testing regulations.

In 2011 Federal Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, together with South Australian Premier Mike Rann, announced that large areas of the Woomera Protected Area would be opened up for mining.  This followed years of negotiations for the "mixed use" of the area, which contains many billions of dollars of mineral resources.

Non-defence users of the area include pastoralists, Aboriginal people and traditional owners, mining and exploration companies with leases in the WPA (including Arrium and OZ Minerals), opal miners, tourists, research organisations and rail operator, One Rail Australia. Modern mines within the area include the Challenger gold mine, Peculiar Knob iron ore mine, Prominent Hill copper mine and the Cairn Hill iron ore mine. As of 2017, only Prominent Hill is operational. Peculiar Knob is in care and maintenance owing to a weak iron ore price, while ore bodies at Cairn Hill and Challenger have been exhausted.

Management

Land area management and administration

Effective from 1 January 2015, the management of the Woomera Range Complex was reorganised under the new RAAF Air Warfare Centre (AWC). Operations management of the complex are managed through Headquarters Air Warfare Centre, while day-to-day operation of the range is the responsibility of the Woomera Test Range Squadron, which was expected to be renamed to a 'numbered' squadron during 2016. The Woomera Test Range Squadron is a sub-element of the Air Force Ranges Directorate (AFRD), which is also part of the Air Warfare Centre. Headquarters AWC, Air Force Ranges Directorate and the Test Range Squadron are all currently based at RAAF Base Edinburgh, in Adelaide, located approximately  south-west of the complex. RAAF Base Woomera was formed in January 2015 by amalgamation of RAAF Woomera Airfield and the Woomera Village. No.20 (Woomera) Squadron was formed on 1 April 2015 to manage the operation of the aerodrome, while the Woomera 'village' element of RAAF Base Woomera essentially continues to operate as it has done since 1982. The Defence Estate & Infrastructure Group manage the operations of the village within the new RAAF Base Woomera structure, but the village remains open to the public as it has been since 1982. The Village remains totally owned and operated by Defence and exclusively supports the needs of Defence activities at the WRC.

Access is managed by the Department of Defence Woomera Prohibited Area Coordination Office using a permit system.

Security

There are a considerable number of warning signs across the range and on public access roads throughout the WPA warning travellers not to leave those routes without the permission of the Department of Defence. Since the beginning of 2012, the RAAF has also established, in conjunction with the South Australian Police, regular patrols of all roads and sites across the WPA to ensure public safety, particularly during periods when Range activities necessitate the closure of public access roadways and other easements (such at the main trunk railway line to ).

RAAF Base Woomera

RAAF Base Woomera is co-managed, but as part of the wider WRC facility, by RAAF Combat Support Group (CSG) and the Defence Estate & Infrastructure Group (DEIG). CSG's role, delivered through No.20 (Woomera) Squadron, is to essentially operate the aerodrome precinct ('Base Sector North') element of the base in direct support of Defence activities at the WRC. DEIG's role with the WRC is two-fold; firstly DEIG is responsible for the operation of the 'village' support elements of the base (i.e. 'Base Sector South') such as messing, accommodation, security and other normal RAAF Base services and, secondly, DEIG are responsible for managing the wider Defence estate and infrastructure needs of the entire Range and Base complex. Consistent with the operation of all other RAAF Bases, DEIG manages a range of contractors to Defence to deliver the required services at Woomera.

Woomera Prohibited Area Advisory Board
The Woomera Prohibited Area Advisory Board monitors the operations of the Woomera Prohibited Area Coordination Office and meets semi-annually to recommend amendments to co-existence policies and procedures; develop high-level relationships between Defence and the resources sector; resolve disputes between Defence and non-Defence users; report annually on the balance of interests in the WPA; and conduct a review every seven years of the balance of interests in the WPA. , the WPA Advisory Board membership included:

Minutes of the Board from 2012 to 2016 were partially released following a Freedom of Information request in 2016.

Aboriginal sites
Large areas within the Woomera Prohibited Area overlap with the native title determination of the Kokatha people, an Aboriginal Australian people of South Australia. The dunes and trees are considered sacred to the Kokatha people, being linked to their Tjukurpa (Dreaming) stories, in particular that of the Seven Sisters creation story. In particular, the black oak trees are relate to male Kokatha connections to this storyline.

In 2021, an anti-aircraft missile was found at Lake Hart West, a registered Aboriginal heritage site, about  southeast of the trees, and this was not removed for around a year.
Within the prohibited area, there is also a "red zone" which is used for the most intensive weapons testing and for which access permits are not generally issued, and this area is supposed to be cleaned by the Department of Defence and the trees protected when testing is under way. However, a 2022 inspection by SBS News reporters and Kokatha representatives found that there were shell fragments of carbon fibre on the dunes around the site.

There are also a number of significant and rare archaeological sites which are remnants of previous Kokatha habitation within the weapons testing range, which are described in a 2020 heritage management plan prepared for the Department of Defence by GML Heritage Consultants.There are at least 14 separate stone foundations at Lake Hart North (which is not used by the department), which the archaeologists surmised were either "habitation structures" or "low-walled hunting hides".

At another location, Wild Dog Creek, there are a number of rock engravings in the Panaramitee Style (generally dated to the Pleistocene, 10,000 years ago), created by chipping away the rock with sharp tools. Other Aboriginal Australian rock art exists throughout the area, including at Lake Hart, portraying, among other things, footprints which match the Genyornis, a giant bird that went extinct thousands of years ago.

The report states that the location was likely "inhabited and used for many thousands of years", informally dated to up to 50,000 years ago (similar to human habitation in the nearby Flinders Ranges), and the sites could provide hitherto unknown cultural information about the Australian desert area.

See also

British nuclear tests at Maralinga
Island Lagoon Tracking Station
Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar
Koonibba Test Range
List of airports in South Australia
List of Royal Australian Air Force installations
Tallaringa Conservation Park
Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre
Woomera Launch Area 5

References

Further reading

External links

Royal Australian Air Force bases
1947 establishments in Australia
Military installations established in 1947
Military installations in South Australia
Rocket launch sites
Space programme of Australia
Far North (South Australia)
Weapons test sites
Proving grounds
Recipients of Engineers Australia engineering heritage markers
Space programme of the United Kingdom
History of science and technology in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in South Australia

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Using SPWebConfigModification to modify a SharePoint web application's web.config for all servers in the farm !
At some point in your career as a SharePoint developer you may find it necessary to push out a change to a SharePoint web application's web.config file for all servers in the farm. In the simplest of scenarios, it may be realistic to make the change to web.config manually, but if you are creating a packaged application for redistribution or there are many servers in the SharePoint farm, a better approach might be to make the web.config modifications programmatically. The WSS v3 API contains the SPWebConfigModification object which allows you to do just that.
12/28/2006 - MODIFICATION: Updated code listing with bug fix and added logic to remove the web.config modifcation.
Real world use cases where this functionality may prove useful include calling SPWebConfigModification from a Window's Installer package Custom Action or perhaps extending stsadm with a custom operation.


Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, National Institutes of Health.
Senators from both sides of the aisle expressed concerns about the pace of the federal response, pressing Ross for more details on the timing and specifics of the PFAS Action Plan released in February. Several senators also noted they are working on legislation to address various aspects of the crisis.
The National Ground Water Association worked with the committee in advance of the hearing, providing background information on PFAS, as well as posing important questions the hearing could aim to address. NGWA also submitted a letter for the congressional record, outlining its priorities for addressing PFAS contamination. A webcast of the hearing is available on the committee's website.


Alfa Romeo, Corvette, Opel, Jaguar and Spyker all unveiled sports cars or convertibles at the Geneva Motor Show. Rolls Royce, meanwhile, showed a racy Wraith. WSJ's Jeff Bennett reports on the new-model parade.


Boy CoLoR and I'm off!
Added Controls, Gameplay Basics & Dealing with the Fuzz!
Started Walkthrough only first 2 phones of "Gangsta Bang" Finished.
"Gangsta Bang" Main Missions Finished.
Changed formatting to 79 characters a line.
Finished the walkthrough for "Liberty City".
Walkthrough for "San Andreas" is unplanned.
Fixed error in walkthrough thanks to Boff.
Changed e-mail address and removed all trailing spaces.
*While holding A Button Enters a Vehicle.
have a shootout with them.
Take Note- * All left & right directions are taken as a 1st person perspective.
* A Main Road has four lanes.
* A Freeway has six lanes.
* Main Missions are accessed by a group of phones in that City.
before the cops do - or die.
then Right four times then jump in the Pink Mundano parked there.
Go Right, Left, Left, Right, Left, Right then straight ahead into the Garage.
Get a Car and go south until you see a ringing (flashing) phone.
going in that direction over the pavement until you see Jimmy.
by turning Left then Right then drive a little bit down Bubby's is on you left.
goods. Bubby wants it back.
and a bike run over them and collect the bike.
Mission 3- This gear's bent Tony Dio's.
phone in North Fort Law.
the flashing phone in a park.
he makes the pick up.
Just drive out of the way and don't run over Tony.
roughly north and park the tanker inside the L.C.P.D.
Get out and run for your life!
walk in the green front entrance.
with his men kill em' all.
Just follow him till he gets to his men!
sometimes you see two thugs heading north as the lawyer walks there, kill them!
follow the Freeway east then navigate your way there.
Mission 2- I gotta keep movin', man.
Get a car and head north to the flashing phone.
accessed by going through the factory just before the 2nd left turnoff.
Do not run off if you've gotten in these vehicles.
The Taxi is parked in North Park.
should be waiting a little bit down the road.
sides of the road then turn right into the hotel.
Go south and follow your compass and drive into the alleyway.
The Bus is parked in North East Fort Law.
Speed ripoff! Just go north till you get to a Main Road and follow it west.
Just steal two Pink Mundano's and park them in Ardler Docks.
House in South Island City.
Mission 2- Some mutha's called the cops.
follow this street to Reamer's.
The White Cossie is parked in Northeast Island City.
Mission 1- Pablo needs picking up. Fast.
West Park. Go get it.
after the bridge keep going till you see Pablo.
east till you get his place.
The Pink Bulldog is parked in Southwest Tellburg.
Just roughly go east and get into the car.
Just go east and take your third right.
Go up and take a right and follow the Main Road till you get to Dalgetti's.
He won't like the car so drive around a bit till you get your next orders.
go west till you get to the phone.
Mission 5- I need to talk to this guy.
Go east till you can't any more, then go south till you get to the phone.
Go north till the compass changes. Then go west to get to Dalgetti's.
Mission 1- My Sasha's been kidnapped!
phone in North West Ardler!
park your car so that you can get out quickly.
don't tell you, the girl dies.
the phone in Central Estoria.
phone should be up ahead.
and don't mess me about.
left. Then follow the arrow to the exact collection point.
Go east and take the 2nd right now go roughly north till you can't any more.
go R, R, L, R, L & R. Now hop in the white car.
right then turn into the hotel.
The phones are located in Northwest Fort Law.
till you get to the Patrol Car. Then get in it.
ooh-la-la than a Brocklyn Lady.
Get out of the Patrol Car and get a fair distance away.
& 5- Damn, these cops are loser's.
Go get m'man from the bank.
outside & wait for Tommy to get in!
Break his face. Now move!
2nd right, then go right, then right and park.
second left follow this street to the Van.
any more and now go east to the Beast GTS now press the B button.
any more and now go south to the van.
Mission 2- It's a fix! The van's rigged.
Go north till you can't any more, then go east and take the 2nd right.
and follow this street to Crazy Bob's.
& 6- Don't let him get away!
down in South East Estoria.
see Sonetti's men. There are four to run over.
4th right and go left then right. Then park it.
Island City you can use.
before he loses his rag.
left and follow this street to the mayoress.
you can't any more then turn left and park.
This Pink Mundano is parked in North West Hackenslash.
stuff alone - it's cut.
any more. Now go north to Coffey's and park.
the car out of the way.
This Pink Mundano is parked in North No Law.
Mission 1- The cops are on ya tail.
a left then a right. Now follow this street to the car.
Follow these directions: L, L, R, R, L, Last R, R, L, 2nd R.
Now follow this street to the warehouse.
follow it north to the Patrol Car.
guards and pick him up.
Mission 6- I got the files. Damn! Aliens.
park were the arrow points.
car with the videos. Kill the two bikers then hop in.
to navigate through the boxes and trees to the back of the Hotel.
Now you have to kill Cabot he's in a Bug like the one your probably in now.
Most of the time he starts in Estoria on the EW Freeway and slowly goes west.
bit then get out and open fire on his car till it explodes.
2· Follow him and let him rob the bank so you can do the next missions.
with punch. Go pick it up.
Note: These directions are taken from Cabot's parked Bug.
Go east to the parked car.
Mission 5- Head back to Sonetti's place.
Now head back west stop in front of the bank and run away fast.
The Pink Stallion is parked in North Hackenslash.
to him. Go get an ambulance.
street to the Pink 4×4.
roughly south crossing the pavement once to get to the office.
The Porka Turbo is parked in Southwest Kings.
Mission 1- Jimmy needs a good driver.
go roughly west till you get to the car.
Mission 2- I want Jimmy picked up NOW!
it where the arrow tells you.
him with a rigged car.
should be there so run him over.
The Pink Bulldog is parked in East Guernsey City.
take left to the phone.
Mission 3- OK, North East Brix. Quick!
go left, right, left then take the 2nd right.
the money to the boat.
The Pink 4×4 is parked in West New Guernsey.
Pickups at Island View docks.
Boff for fixing a error in the walkthrough.
Tarantula Studios for making this game.
my FAQs up on GameFAQs.
Grand Theft Auto is a trademark of it's respective owner(s).


How Does HOCl Kill Microorganisms?
It is believed that, after diffusing the cell wall, it destroys the proteins and enzyme systems essential to life, by an oxidation process.
How do you determine the % of undissociated COCl in a chlorine solution?
How do NaDCC and NaOCl compare in ability to kill Organic Contamination?
What are the unique properties of NaDCC?
What is the 'Equilibrium Effect' of NaDCC?
What is the effect of milk on the bactericidal capacity of NaDCC and NaOCl solutions?
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US asks Pakistan if they misused F-16s against India; purchase agreement may have banned use of jets outside borders
World Press Trust of India Mar 02, 2019 15:33:15 IST
Washington: The US is seeking more information from Pakistan on the potential misuse of American-made F-16 fighter jets by it against India in violation of the end-user agreement, the State Department has said.
The Indian Air Force on Thursday displayed parts of an AMRAAM beyond visual range air-to-air missile as evidence to "conclusively" prove that Pakistan deployed US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets during an aerial raid targeting Indian military installations in Kashmir after India's anti-terror operation in Balakot.
Pakistan on Wednesday categorically said that no F-16 fighter jets were used and denied that one of its planes had been downed by the Indian Air Force.
"We are aware of these reports and are seeking more information," a State Department spokesperson told PTI when asked about report that Pakistan has violated end-user agreement with the United States in this week's border clash with India.
Remains of the Pakistan jet which crashed on 28 February. ANI
"Due to non-disclosure agreements in Foreign Military Sales contracts, we cannot discuss the specifics of end user-agreements contained within," Lieutenant Colonel Kone Faulkner, a Defense Department spokesperson told PTI.
The United States, which is the largest seller of high-tech defence equipment globally, and has a strong end-user monitoring agreement, as a matter of practice takes all allegations of misuse of defense articles very seriously.
But before making any judgement or arriving at any conclusion, it needs to establish some facts on the ground, if there has been any violation by Pakistan to the F-16 end-user agreement it signed by the United States.
According to Pentagon's Defense Security and Cooperation Agency (DSCA) F-16 jets were meant to be used to "enhance Pakistan's ability to conduct counter-insurgency and counterterrorism operations".
Publicly available documents reveal that US has imposed nearly a dozen restriction on Pakistan related to its use of F-16.
During a Congressional hearing on 20 July, 2006, John Miller the then Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs, had told lawmakers that the United States has "very carefully considered" the potential risks of the diversion of US technology and equipment."
While the exact details of the restrictions were discussed in a closed-door session, and thus remains classified, Miller then broadly outlined some of the restrictions, which he said were over a "dozen new and unprecedented elements" of the security plan for Pakistan.
Miller then told lawmakers that the security provisions also include semi-annual inventories of all F-16 aircraft equipment and munitions, including related technical data, and more frequent inventories for other systems.
"There is a two-man rule, so to speak, for access to this equipment and restricted areas, and F-16 flights outside of Pakistan or participation in exercises and operations with third nations must be approved in advance by the United States government," the then top State Department official said, according to the transcripts of the hearing.
Updated Date: Mar 02, 2019 15:33:15 IST
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I received degrees in physics and mathematics from Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Cambridge, and Duke University, and did postdoctoral research at Max Planck Institutes in Heidelberg and Dresden, at the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas, as well as at Technical University of Darmstadt.
I left academia to pursue a career in industry, and subsequently returned, enriched with real-life experiences, about a decade later.
I am now a professor of mathematics at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. In addition, I have taught theoretical physics at Goethe University Frankfurt and at Ulm University.
Jochen Rau
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Max-von-Laue-Str. 1
60438 Frankfurt, Germany
RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
65428 Rüsselsheim, Germany


Plants → Magnoliophyta → Magnoliopsida → Euasterids I → Boraginaceae Juss. → Heliotropium L.	→ Heliotropium curassavicum L.
Prostrate or ascending annual or perennial (short-lived), herb, 0.1-0.2(-0.6) m high. Fl. white/blue, May to Dec or Jan. Saline & sandy soils, clay. Near salt swamps, samphire flats, along drainage lines, winter-wet depressions.
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US teacher and carpenter, David Schweidenback was last night named as one of five Laureates in the 2000 Rolex Awards for Enterprise at a ceremony in New York. He received the Award in recognition of his work to recover used bicycles in the United States which are later shipped out to developing countries, providing affordable transportation and stimulating sustainable economic growth.
His organisation Pedals for Progress has so far shipped out 34 000 bicycles to 21 countries.
Merlin Matthews of Essex-based charity Re-Cycle has so far shipped out 3500 and is seeking to emulate the success of Schweidenback.
He does some amazing work, Matthews told BikeBiz this morning. He has excellent relationships with US bike companies, which is something were seeking to achieve in the UK.
Like Re-Cycle, Pedals for Progress accepts returns, end-of-lines and cost price bikes from suppliers, and then sends them overseas where they can have an immense impact on the local economies of the countries where they end up.
Bicycles stimulate job opportunities, allow quicker access to market for entrepreneurs, provide income parity for women who can now cycle to work, have a positive impact on the environment and allow access to greater earnings potential. Estimates suggest that the income of each person receiving one of the bicycles has risen by 14 percent.
In addition to these immediate improvements, the proceeds from bicycle sales are also funding community projects such as improving water supplies, building health centres, and renovating schools.
Schweidenback was one of five candidates selected from 2005 applicants from 124 countries. Laureates-to-be have to demonstrate their determination to implement ground-breaking initiatives in the areas of science and medicine; technology and innovation; exploration and discovery; the environment; or cultural heritage.
Rolex initiated the Awards programme in 1976 to provide ethical entrepreneurs worldwide with the financial support and recognition they need to carry out innovative projects. This year, the company awarded a total of a half million dollars to 10 such individuals.
Re-cycle would like to hear from any bike trade companies with bikes they would like to either donate or sell at cost. The charity would also be pleased to receive cash donations, which would go towards shipping costs. Spare office equipment always comes in handy (a new Liverpool office is opening soon) and Merlin Matthews says anybody who can donate their promotional or strategic planning skills would also be welcome.