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Singapore Budget 2018: Innovate to differentiate
SINGAPORE once again finds itself at the nexus of profound global change. World events first shaped modern Singapore into a global trading hub, following the arrival of the British in 1819.
Now almost 200 years later, Singapore is once again at a crossroads between its future and its past, at a time which could shape the future of the Singapore story.
Three major global shifts underscore the circumstances that surround decisions that we, as a nation state, need to make if we are to thrive in this sea of rapid change.
First is the shift of global economic might to Asia. Combined with the relative youth of its region's population demographics, this represents near-shore markets of opportunity for Singapore's companies.
The second is the emergence of new technologies at an ever-quickening pace. While these have the potential to disrupt, they also offer opportunities for Singapore's companies to compete globally.
The third is the plight of many mature economies – an ageing society and its rising social cost in terms of health care and a shrinking workforce.
Underlying this year's Budget theme of a better future together is the theme of innovation which covered the entire spectrum of innovation-related activity, with the acknowledgment that innovation can mean different things to different companies.
While some deem innovation to be adopting new technologies, others wish to create or co-create their own innovation.
For instance, to encourage the adoption of new technologies, a 200 per cent deduction for the licensing of intellectual property (IP) was proposed along with a Productivity Solutions Grant.
It was also heartening to hear that the changes that we called for to the research and development (R&D) incentives was heard.
To those who may focus on creating innovation, a 250 per cent deduction was proposed for R&D activity and a 200 per cent deduction for IP registration to protect any IP created.
Other announcements were made around greater National Research Foundation (NRF) funding and the establishment of an Open Innovation Platform for co-creating solutions.
That national research capabilities very much remains a bedrock of economic competitiveness for Singapore, was reiterated as well.
A NRF-Temasek Commercialisation vehicle was announced, which will see a S$100 million venture co-funded between the government and Temasek to grow more companies drawing IP developed from publicly-funded research.
At the same time, R&D resources will be harnessed to drive greater adoption of digital technologies, automation and robots. To improve labour productivity, the National Robotics Programme will be expanded.
As Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat pointed out, new technologies will bring new opportunities but also greater competition.
Singapore's companies have to change quickly, and its workers have to be adapt at changing skillsets that will offer them good jobs in the digital economy.
Since the Tech Skills Accelerator (TeSA) was launched in 2016, over 27,000 training places have been taken up or committed to. It is therefore being expanded into new sectors such as manufacturing and professional services, where digital technologies have become indispensable.
At the same time, Mr Heng acknowledged that even as we develop our people's capabilities, certain skillsets – likely in cyber security and data analytics – could not be trained fast enough.
As such, we heard the announcement of a Capability Transfer Programme which would seek to plug missing skillsets quickly, and support the transfer of such skills from foreign specialists to Singaporean workers.
However, what was also needed was a flexible manpower framework to bring such foreign specialists into Singapore to address the immediate shortages, but this was not addressed in the Budget.
As Asean chair this year – and with innovation also on the agenda – Singapore seeks to strengthen the links among the innovation ecosystems in the region by developing an Asean Innovation Network.
Whether implicit or explicit, innovation also plays a role in how Singapore plans to tackle climate change and in our vision of a Smart Nation.
Mr Heng articulated how our aim of being a Smart Nation seeks to use new technologies to uplift the quality of life in Singapore, enhance economic competitiveness and promote social inclusion.
Laying the foundation for a Smart Nation would be strategic projects such as a Smart Nation Sensor platform to enhance municipal service delivery and the opening of digital platforms for the private sector to build innovative services.
Another example is the role of research and innovation in taking Singapore's sustainable development story to the next level.
A total of S$250 million will be set aside for programmes promoting innovation in urban development, minimising the environmental impact of waste and developing next-generation energy grid infrastructure.
However, what is clear to me is that Singapore's journey has moved from productivity – mentioned approximately 12 times in this year's speech – to innovation, mentioned a total of 31 times.
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Upset over clinic meeting postponement
JOHN HARVEY
MEC for Health Dr Nomafrench Mbombo.
A highly anticipated meeting between the Hangberg community and Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo was postponed this week.
During her visit to the Hangberg clinic last month, Dr Mbombo had pledged to return to the area ("Health MEC addresses fears of clinic staff," Sentinel, September 21).
The health department had drawn flak from the community for closing the clinic in response to rioting in the area in late August. The clinic was then reopened, and during her visit on Monday September 17, Dr Mbombo had agreed that community engagement was "crucial", and she had pledged to return to Hout Bay for a public open day, where everyone's views could be heard.
However, her return visit was put on hold on Tuesday October 2, due to "unforeseen circumstances", according to the MEC's spokeswoman Colleen Smart. She said the meeting – due to have been held at the Hangberg civic centre – had been the City of Cape Towns' idea and referred the Sentinel to ward councillor Roberto Quintas. But Mr Quintas denied that.
He said Dr Mbombo had simply asked him to arrange an after-hours public meeting where she could speak to residents when they were not at work, as per the community's request.
"I proposed the date and time and venue, and her office confirmed. I then booked (the venue), and her office provided me with a flier (advertising the meeting) which I then shared with community organisations," Mr Quintas said.
There is another reason cited for the postponement, with Roscoe Jacobs, of the Hout Bay Civic Association, saying there had been dissatisfaction over the meeting being announced without proper consultation with community leaders.
Mr Jacobs said his organisation was mandated to liaise with the health department.
"When we left the oversight meeting, our understanding was that the department would engage with us.
"The MEC told us that her office would liaise with us to tell us when she was available, and then we would work from there," Mr Jacobs said.
"Up until today, we haven't received any engagement from her office. Then on Thursday or Friday last week, the ward councillor (Roberto Quintas) shared a poster advertising the meeting. When I queried this, I was told I should speak to the health department."
Mr Jacobs said he had then emailed the head of department in Dr Mbombo's office.
"In that email, I welcomed that the MEC was coming, but I also registered my dissatisfaction because there was no consultation with the people who had asked her to come here. Then today (Tuesday), we were told that the meeting had been postponed.
"All they had to do was say, 'I'm wrong, I apologise', and we could move forward. But with this postponement, the department is delaying the actual concerns of residents and the things we want to have addressed as a matter of urgency."
Mr Jacobs said the community had wanted to learn more about the clinic planned for the Hout Bay Common, but they would now not have that opportunity.
"One would have thought that department would have learnt from the mistake of closing the clinic without consultation, but now, again, a meeting has been postponed without consultation just because someone didn't take responsibility for something they promised to do. We want to engage government, but the government doesn't want to engage us."
Liz Huckle, of the Hout Bay Health Forum, said she had only learnt about the postponement at 5pm on Tuesday.
She had been informed by staff at the Hangberg clinic who, in turn, had been contacted by Dr Mbombo's office.
"The health forum didn't receive any official notification of the meeting or the postponement from the health department," she said.
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Can you trust Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OPTT)?
Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OPTT) announced today that a PB3 PowerBuoy was deployed off the coast of Kozu-shima Island in Japan as part of its first lease agreement with Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding ("MES").
We are going to take a close look at Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OPTT) today to get a better sense of the company and its current status, as well as the opportunity it may offer for prospective investors. Today's focus will be a fundamental evaluation of the stock from top to bottom.
As such, let's start with the top line: Revenue trends.
Last quarter, the company saw its overall sales move to 221,000 in total revenues. That represents an overall change in revenues, on a quarterly year/year basis, of 0.98%. If we translate that into sequential terms, the company saw sales grow by 0.24% from quarter to quarter.
It's important to closely track the top line data. There's no better way to measure the end market's reception of a company's products. But no one truly wins without bottom line success, which is what we need to look at next.
Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: OPTT) is intriguing when broken down to its core data. The cost of selling goods last quarter was 363,000, yielding a gross basic income of (142,000). For shareholders, given the total diluted outstanding shares of 5.78M, this means an overall earnings per share of (0.37). Note, this compares with a consensus analyst forecast of in earnings per share for its next fiscal quarterly report.
Given that data, we now turn to a more thorough glance across analyst expectations for the company going forward.
While we don't suggest taking analyst recommendations as face value plans for action in a portfolio, we do think it is important to note where consensus is on a stock to understand what basic assumptions are perhaps already discounted into market pricing of shares of the stock.
In addition, if we turn to next year, we see estimates of a fiscal year forecast to bring about in total earnings per share. On a median price to earnings ratio basis, that outlook adds up to a valuation of times earnings.
At this point, we've taken a thorough look at this company from top to bottom, and gotten a sense of what analysts are expecting. But underneath it all, when push comes to shove, companies make it through tough times on balance sheet strength. With that in mind, we should take a look under the hood here.
As the reader is no doubt aware, for any company, balance sheet health sits at the heart of the company's capacity to stand up to the demands and obligations incurred by normal and contingent operations, which in turn lies at the core of a company's ability to retain the faith of investors in the marketplace. For NASDAQ:OPTT, the company presently holds about 11.41M in cash in the coffers. That cash is balanced against about 34,000 in total current liabilities.
It's important to consider both a static and dynamic picture, particularly where debt levels are concerned. This means, we need to take into account any trends. In this case, the company?s debt has been falling. The company also has 12.42M in total assets, balanced by 4.63M in total liabilities, which suggests where this story might go under adverse economic or financial conditions.
As far as cash flows, the company saw a free cash flow last quarter of (1.28M), representing a quarterly net change in cash of (1.41M). On a net operating level, the company saw about (1.27M) in cash flow.
We will update the interesting story of Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OPTT) as new events transpire.
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Queensland Heavy Vehicle Class 1 Agricultural Vehicle (Zone 1) Dimension Exemption Notice 2015 (No. 1)
Published Date 31 Aug 2015
(1) The purpose of this notice is to exempt the stated categories of class 1 heavy vehicles from the prescribed dimension requirements specified in the notice subject to the conditions specified in the notice.
(2) This Notice replaces and revokes the Queensland Class 1 Agricultural Vehicle (Zone 1) Dimension Exemption (Notice) 2014 (No. 1).
2. Authorising Provision(s)
(1) This notice is made under section 117 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law as in force in each participating jurisdiction (HVNL).
(1) This notice may be cited as the Queensland Heavy Vehicle Class 1 Agricultural Vehicle (Zone 1) Dimension Exemption Notice 2015 (No.1).
4. Commencement
(1) This notice commences on 31 August 2015.
5. Expiry
(1) This notice expires on 31 January 2016.
(1) Unless otherwise stated, words and expressions used in this notice have the same meanings as those defined in the HVNL.
(2) In this Notice—
agricultural combination means a combination consisting of at least 1 agricultural vehicle.
agricultural pilot, means a person—
(a) directly associated with primary production who has held an open or provisional driver's license for at least 12 months; or
(b) who is an accredited pilot vehicle driver or accredited escort vehicle driver appointed by the Chief Executive of Department of Transport and Main Roads, to carry out pilot duties under the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld), Section 21.
agricultural vehicle, means an agricultural implement or agricultural machine
built-up area, in relation to a length of road, means an area in which either of the following is present for a distance of at least 500m or, if the length of road is shorter than 500m, for the whole road—
(a) buildings, not over 100m apart, on land next to the road; or
(b) street lights not over 100m apart.
Christmas and New Year period means the period from 24 December 2015 to 3 January 2016 inclusive.
convoy means the movement of more than one eligible vehicle travelling together on a road. An eligible vehicle is deemed to be travelling together with another eligible vehicle if it is travelling within 60 metres of that other vehicle or combination in a 60 km/hr speed zone or less or otherwise within 200 metres in any other speed zone.
critical area means the shaded areas indicated on the "Critical Areas and Roads in Queensland Map". It also includes any place which is a built up area within the city limits of the following – Ayr, Bowen, Bundaberg, Cairns, Gladstone, Gordonvale, Gympie, Ingham, Innisfail, Mackay, Maryborough, Proserpine, Sarina, Townsville, Rockhampton.
Critical Areas and Roads in Queensland Map means the maps of that name published by QTMR and available on its website.
critical road means a road marked in red on the Critical Areas and Roads in Queensland Map published by QTMR.
Easter period means the period from Thursday before Easter to the Tuesday after Easter inclusive.
eligible vehicle means an agricultural machine or an agricultural combination.
major road is a road marked in blue on the Critical Area and Roads in Queensland map.
minor road is a road other than a major road or a critical road.
Portable road side warning sign means a sign approved for the purposes of this trial by Queensland Transport and Main roads.
QTMR means Queensland Transport and Main Roads.
Regulation means the Heavy Vehicle (Mass, Dimension and Loading) National Regulation.
Zone 1 means the area of that name indicated in the heavy vehicle zone maps located in 'Maps— Multi-combination routes and zones in Queensland' name published by QTMR and available on its website.
(1) This notice applies to an eligible vehicle operating in Zone 1 in Queensland.
8. Exemption from prescribed dimension requirements
(1) An eligible vehicle is exempt from the following dimension requirements of Schedule 6 of the Regulation—
(a) Section 3(1)(a) and (g) – Length – general; and
(b) Section 5 – Length - rear overhang; and
(c) Section 7(1) – Width; and
(d) Section 8(d) – Height. Participating Local Government Areas
9. Prescribed conditions
(1) An eligible vehicle must comply with the conditions in Schedule 8 of the Regulation
mentioned in Schedule 2 to this notice, and need not comply with another condition in Schedule 8.
10. Conditions - General
(1) An eligible vehicle must not exceed the following dimension limits—
(a) a maximum length of—
(i) 12.5 metres, for an agricultural machine other than a harvester; and
(ii) 14.5 metres, for a harvester; and
(iii) 19.0 metres for an articulated agricultural machine; and
(iv) 25.0 metres, for an agricultural combination; and
(b) a maximum rear overhang of—
(i) 4.5 metres, for an agricultural machine or implement, other than an auger, conveyor, cotton module builder or harvester; and
(ii) 5.5 metres, for an auger, conveyor or cotton module builder; and
(iii) 7.8 metres, for a harvester; and
(c) a maximum width of 4.0 metres; and
(d) a maximum height of 5.0 metres.
(2) An eligible vehicle may not travel at night
(3) Pilot operations must be conducted by an agricultural pilot.
(4) The driver of an eligible vehicle must immediately advise the driver of the agricultural pilot vehicle of any damage caused during the movement of the oversize vehicle or combination.
(5) The driver of the lead agricultural pilot vehicle accompanying an eligible vehicle who is aware of any damage to property owned by a road manager incurred during the movement of the eligible vehicle, must report the damage to the nearest Department of Transport and Main Roads office.
(6) The driver of the lead agricultural pilot vehicle accompanying an eligible vehicle who is aware of any damage to property owned by any other entity must report the damage to the relevant authority as soon as possible. If the damage could cause a dangerous situation, it must be reported immediately.
(7) An eligible vehicle must not travel in convoy.
(8) At all times an elevator of a harvester must be moved in the same direction the vehicle is turning to minimise the distance the overhang projects into the adjacent lane. The elevator must not project out beyond the side of the vehicle in an unsafe manner while performing this procedure.
(9) If an eligible vehicle must be conditionally registered—
(a) it must comply with all requirements of the Guideline for Conditionally Registered Vehicles in Queensland - Form 17 including any more restrictive conditions applying to travel distances in that guideline; and
(b) the appropriate registration category for the level of access obtained must be held.
The Form 17 Guideline contains maximum travel distances and in the case of any inconsistency with this notice, the lesser of the distances in this notice and Form 17 must be adhered to. It is published by QTMR and available on its website.
(10) An eligible vehicle must comply with the road category conditions in Table 1 for each road category on which it travels.
Table 1 - Conditions applying when travelling along a road
Road category
Critical road
1. An eligible vehicle must—
a. have a minimum buffer zone of 0.5m from the centre line at all times (unless turning across a roadway); and
b. travel no more than 5km travel for a single journey; and
c. be accompanied by 1 pilot vehicle operated by an agricultural pilot; and
2. Portable road side warning signs must be placed—
a. at least 350m in advance of the travel zone in both/all directions; and
b. at any critical or major road intersecting with the road along which the eligible vehicle is travelling
Major or minor road
1. An eligible vehicle must be accompanied by 2 pilot vehicles operated by agricultural pilots; or
2. An eligible vehicle must be accompanied by 1 pilot vehicle operated by an agricultural pilot, and portable road side warning signs must be placed—
b. at any road intersecting with the road along which the eligible vehicle is travelling;
Prior assessment of the safety of any route is a requirement of Section 11 of Schedule 8 of the Regulation, included in Schedule 2 of this Notice.
(11) Pilot positioning and use must be in accordance with Tables 2, 2A and 3, and subsection (13).
Table 2 - Positioning of pilot where one agricultural pilot used for travel along a road
Built-up area
300m in front of the eligible vehicle
Built-up area (dual carriageway)
300m behind the eligible vehicle
Outside built-up area (max. speed ≤ 80 km/h)
Between 300m and 1000m in front of the eligible vehicle
Outside built-up area (max. speed > 80 km/h)
Between 1000m and 1500m in front of the eligible vehicle
Table 2A – Positioning of pilots where two agricultural pilots used for travel along a road
Built‐up area
(single and dual carriageway)
one pilot vehicle
Outside built‐up area
(max. speed limit ≤ 80 km/h)
(max. speed limit > 80 km/h)
Table 3 – Conditions for crossing any critical road, or any road in a critical area
Pilot requirements
If the driver has clear vision of at least 350m along the road from the normal driver's position in both directions
If the driver has clear vision of at least 350m along the road from the normal driving position in one direction only but there is at least 100m clear vision along the road in the other direction
At least one agricultural pilot while crossing the road.
The agricultural pilot must be positioned on the side with the least vision and in a manner prescribed in Section 13.
If the driver does not have clear vision of at least 350m along the road in both directions but there is at least 100m clear vision along the road in both directions
At least two agricultural pilots while crossing the road.
One agricultural pilot must be positioned on each side of the eligible vehicle crossing the road in a manner prescribed in Section 13.
(12) If the driver does not have clear vision of at least 100 metres along the road in both directions an alternative route to cross the road with the required sight distances must be used.
(13) An agricultural pilot vehicle assisting with the movement of an eligible vehicle crossing a critical road or a road into a critical area must be—
(a) stationary in a safe position on the side of the formed part of the road; and
(b) located at least 350 metres from the crossing eligible vehicle but no further than 500 metres; and
(c) clearly visible to oncoming traffic at a distance of at least 100 metres.
(14) A harvester —
(a) with a rear overhang exceeding 5.5m travelling on a critical road, or a major road must be accompanied by an additional agricultural pilot travelling no more than 300 metres behind, unless a rear pilot is already required under Table 2 or 2A; or
(b) that is a sugar cane harvester, may operate on a designated road listed in Table 4, without being accompanied by an agricultural pilot, except within 100 metres of the Bruce Highway (an 'excluded area').
When travelling in an excluded area, an eligible vehicle must comply with the pilot requirements ordinarily applicable to that category of road.
Table 4 - Designated roads
Designated road
(536) Mirani - Mt Ossa Rd
(5302) Maraju - Yakapari Rd
(5332) North Eton Rd
(516) Homebush Rd
(518) Eton - Homebush Rd
Whitsunday
(5382) Crystal Brook Rd
(8501) Gregory - Cannon Valley Rd
(15) This notice does not authorise the movement of an eligible vehicle within an unsafe distance of an overhead or underground electric line or otherwise contrary to Part 5 (Overhead and underground electric lines) of the Electrical Safety Regulation 2013 (Qld), or contrary to Part 5 (Vehicles) of the Transport Infrastructure (Rail) Regulation 2006 (Qld).
11. Areas or Routes to which this Exemption applies
(1) A person may drive an eligible vehicle on a road in a Zone 1 participating local government area set out in Schedule 1 to this notice.
12. General route restriction conditions
(1) An eligible vehicle is only authorised to travel on a minor road mentioned in Schedule 1 if it complies with any conditions associated with the road in Schedule 1.
(2) A person must not drive an eligible vehicle on a road to which this Notice applies—
(a) at any time—
(i) from 7.00am to sunset on a Saturday or Sunday, except on a minor road outside a critical area; or
(ii) on a single day, state wide, public holiday; or
(iii) from midday the day prior to a state wide long weekend, until sunset on that day, and from 7.00am to sunset on each day of the long weekend; or
(b) in a Central Business District of any City on a business day between 7.00am and 9.00am, or between 4.00pm and 6.00pm; or
(c) in the following areas during restricted times—
(i) on a School Bus Route during times when a school bus is scheduled to use the route; or
(ii) on roads which have been designated as school zones during the times speed restrictions for the zone are in place; or
(d) during the Christmas and New Year period, or the Easter period, other than a period mentioned in (a)(ii), except—
(i) on a minor road; and
(ii) provided the vehicle is accompanied by pilot vehicles travelling behind and in front of the eligible vehicle.
The public holiday restriction in Section 11(a)(ii) remains in force notwithstanding the travel otherwise allowed under Section 11(d)
13. Conditions applying to particular routes
(1) An eligible vehicle is only authorised to travel on a restricted road mentioned in Table 5 if it complies with the conditions in the table.
Table 5 – Specific Restrictions
Restricted Roads
The Gillies Highway (Gordonvale - Atherton Road)
Between the hours of 9.00am and 4.00pm.
The Kuranda Range (Kennedy Highway: Cairns - Mareeba)
On any part of the following roads/bridges
· The Old Marlborough Sarina Road on the Sarina Range (Sarina Police)
· The Peak Downs Highway on the Eton Range (Mackay Superintendent of Traffic)
· The Burdekin River Bridge (Home Hill Police) and
· Any road on the Kuranda Range (Cairns Police)
Where confirmation has been obtained from the Queensland Police Service as to the necessary escort requirements.
This notice does not authorise any increase in the applicable prescribed mass limits, however eligible vehicles will be entitled to continue to have access to any concession provided under, for example, Class Permit No 102-TH-12 (Eligible vehicles and cane bin trailers) or a notice that replaces it.
Dated: 27 August 2015
Schedule 1 Participating Local Government Areas and Additional Conditions for Minor Roads
Additional conditions for minor roads
Major and critical roads except to the extent excluded in this notice
Access to minor roads by oversized agricultural vehicles in the Bundaberg Region is governed by the Bundaberg Region Class 1 Agricultural Vehicle (5.0m wide) Dimension Exemption Notice 2015 (No. 1)
(a) There is no other requirement or condition from the Bundaberg Council or any other Authority or Entity which stipulates that the route or portions of the route may not be used by an eligible vehicle.
(b) An operator operating an eligible vehicle under this notice must indemnify the Bundaberg Regional Council and its employees against any claim, action or process for damage or injury that may be sustained against them due to the use of vehicles specified.
Burdekin
Major, minor and critical roads except to the extent excluded in this notice
(a) An operator operating an eligible vehicle under this notice must indemnify the Cairns Regional Council and its employees against any claim, action or process for damage or injury that may be sustained against them due to the use of vehicles specified.
(b) A copy of the trial proposal and this acknowledgement should be kept in the vehicle as evidence of Councils acknowledgement.
Cassowary Coast
(a) Major and critical roads except to the extent excluded in this notice; and
(b) Minor roads other than a road incorporating a bridge, or culvert, that is less than 4.5 metres wide.
(b) Minor roads constructed to a minimum of 6 metres wide
The conditions contained in the document titled 'Standard Conditions Applying to Permits (Grant of Authority) for Movement(s) of Excess Mass & Dimension Load(s) on the Gladstone Regional Council Road Network', published at
http://www.gladstone.qld.gov.au/forms/R/"Roads - Standard Conditions applying to Permits (Grant of Authority)"
except to the extent such conditions are inconsistent with this notice.
The following minor roads:
Ageston Road, Alberton; Zipfs Road, Alberton; Loves Road, Alberton; Rotary Park Road, Alberton; Alberton Road, Alberton; Quinns Hill Road West, Alberton; Quinns Hill Road East, Alberton; Burnside Road, Gilberton; Rossmann Road, Gilberton; Jacosa Road, Gilberton; Holmstead Road, Steiglitz; Rocky Point Road, Steiglitz; Cabbage Tree Point Road, Steiglitz; Gross Road, Steiglitz; Steiglitz Road, Steiglitz; New Norwell road, Norwell; Skopp's Road, Norwell; Fischer's Road, Norwell; Norwell Road, Norwell; Kerkin Road North, Norwell*; Kerkin Road South, Norwell; Behms Road, Norwell; Swamp Road, Woongoolba; Gibson Road, Woongoolba; Cooks Road, Woongoolba; School Road, Woongoolba; Finglas Road, Woongoolba; Mill Road, Woongoolba; Shortcut Road, Woongoolba; Helmore Road, Jacobs Well; Huth Road, Jacobs Well; Beattie Road, Coomera; Waterway Drive, Coomera; Shipper Drive, Coomera; Foxwell Road, Coomera; Finnegan Way, Coomera; Stewarts Road, Ormeau; Eggersdorf Road, Ormeau; Goldmine Road, Ormeau;
*This Notice does not permit a vehicle travelling on Kerkin Road North to drive onto the bridge on that road where it crosses the Pimpama River.
Hinchinbrook
(a) Major, and critical roads except to the extent excluded in this notice; and
(b) Minor roads outside a built-up area; and
(c) The following minor roads within the city limits of Ingham—
· McIllwraith St,
· Tully St,
· Davidson St, and
· Skinner St
Schedule 2 – Applicable Conditions of Schedule 8 of the Heavy Vehicle (Mass, Dimension and Loading) National Regulation
General conditions - Part 1 Division 1
- Section 1 - Smallest practicable size
- Section 2 - Warning signs and flags
- Section 4 - Warning lights for daytime use
- Section 6 – Headlights
- Section 8 - No travelling if low visibility
- Section 10 - Allow overtaking
- Section 11 - Assessing routes
Agricultural vehicle requirements - Part 1 Division 4
- Section 19 - Application
- Section 20(3) and (4) - Warning devices
- Section 22 - Not to be used on Freeways
- Section 23 - Implements not to carry goods or passengers
- Section 24 - Speed limits without brakes
Pilot and escort vehicles - Part 1 Division 5
- Section 25 - Application, modified so that 25(1)(a) also applies where an eligible vehicle must be accompanied by a pilot vehicle under a condition of this notice
- Section 26 - Requirements for pilot vehicles
- Section 28 - Headlights on pilot vehicles
- Section 29 - Restriction of what may be carried
- Section 31(1) and (2)(b) - Communication between drivers
All dimension exemptions - Part 3 Division 1
- Section 35 - Characteristics of warning lights
- Section 36 - Visibility of warning lights
- Section 37 - Switch for warning lights
- Section 38 - Warning lights to be on if required, and off if not
Warning signs - Part 3 Division 2 Sub-division 1
Warning signs (Agricultural & Pilot vehicles) - Part 3 Division 2 Sub-division 2
- Section 40 - Application of Sub-division
- Section 41 - Warning signs
- Section 42 - Material of warning signs
- Section 43 - Keeping signs clean
Warning signs (Agricultural vehicles) - Part 3 Division 2 Sub-division 3
- Section 45 - Size of warning signs
- Section 46 - Size of warning sign
- Section 47 - Fitting warning signs
Warning signs (Pilot vehicles) - Part 3 Division 2 Sub-division 4
- Section 49 - Size and shape of sign
- Section 50 - Faces of warning sign


How do YOU want to age? Do you want to steadily decline with aches and pains, chronic illness, taking a dozen or more pills a day? Or do you want to live a vital, healthy, active life for years to come? The choice really can be yours – I'm Wendy Corr, and in today's Wellness Tip, I'll help guide you towards aging well.
There's a picture I found on the internet that really stood out to me – one side of the picture was a woman with a pleasant smile on her face sitting in a wheelchair; the other side showed a body builder in the prime of her life. The common thread between the two women? They were both seventy four years old.
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Metro Rail ridership surges in June
by Steve Hymon , July 18, 2012
The ridership numbers for Metro buses and trains for June 2012 have been released. The gist of it: bus ridership is flat (but with increases on the Silver Line and Orange Line), rail ridership is way up and overall the system didn't reach the number of boardings in June 2010 or June 2011.
On the rail side, the new Expo Line helps explain some of the increases with weekday boardings increasing to an average of 16,569 in June even though the Farmdale and Culver City stations did not open until June 20. There was about an average of 11,000 weekday boardings in May.
There were also significant gains on Metro's other four rail lines. Here are the charts and here is the web page with all the stats.
Rail Systemwide Ridership Estimates
Average Weekday Boardings 362,904 321,626 326,663
Average Saturday Boardings 209,858 196,284 197,972
Average Sunday and Holiday Boardings 163,934 155,082 169,990
Total Calendar Month Boardings 9,326,015 8,481,237 8,658,429
Bus – Systemwide
Average Weekday Boardings 1,123,977 1,156,643 1,156,866
Total Calendar Month Boardings 29,748,939 30,733,462 30,926,539
Systemwide Ridership Estimates
Categories: Inside Metro
Tagged as: Expo Line, ridership, ridership statistics, ridership trends
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Robb says:
Just wondering if there is any known reason for the drop in bus ridership… any ideas? I have heard the idea floated around about unemployment and people don't have jobs to go to, but things were bad (possibly worse) two years ago too, and it seems to me that jobs alone shouldn't account for the drop.
Frank M says:
And is Metro seeing any big change to their farebox recovery ratio due to this? Is it making more money to lean towards self-sustainancy without jeopardizing the potential of fare hikes and tax increases or service cuts?
I think one of the biggest factors in bus ridership going down is the opening of the new rail lines and elimination of bus service that duplicated the lines. June saw several lines consolidated and eliminated and also the opening of the Expo line, so riders who may previously have taken the bus in that area are now using light rail instead. Doesn't explain *all* of the ridership drops, but that's my guess as to what a contributing factor was.
LA Bike Rider says:
"Just wondering if there is any known reason for the drop in bus ridership… any ideas?"
More people riding motorcycles and scooters. 🙂
Mospeada says:
Someone from Curbed LA made this astute observation
"Using the provided link to Metro data, if you adjust for the fact that June 2010 had 22 weekdays, versus 21 in 2012, the decrease is only 4,164 boardings for the month. Weekday boardings are actually up by 3,354 per day compared to 2 years ago."
Transit Rider says:
Interesting. Personally, I have been using the bus more frequently (757 and 117).
Erik G. says:
All gonna drop once the turnstiles are locked…
Popularity of LA Metro Rail gaining on SF BART | The Subway Joyride says:
[…] and what culture tells us is a transit-friendly environment. Average daily trips for June 2012: LACMTA Metro Rail: 362,904 Bay Area Rapid Transit: […]
Al B says:
Let them drop; less crowded trains for honest payers. 10,000 freeloaders is zero revenue to the system. Lose 10,000 freeloaders, still zero. Gain 5,000 of former freeloaders to start paying, that's a plus. No negative effect in revenue either way.
Revenue is way more important than ridership numbers. I'm not paying taxes to subsidize cheaters.
@Al B: New Starts grants from the Federal Government are based on projected ridership. LA Metro's ridership forecasts are checked against actual ridership after opening. Ridership drops (versus predicted), for whatever reason, will result in those models having to be re-examined, thus resulting in delayed applications and/or missed deadlines and possible denial of federal funds.
And the ridership drops may not come from "cheaters" (because there may actualy not be as many as you, Zev, et al fear) but from persons who decide the system is too complicated to figure out, given the lack of TAP card availability, TAP card inter-acceptability, the varying designs of the stations and the opportunity to be locked out/double charged at un-staffed stations. There are certainly a number of monthly Metrolink riders who will bail out of public transportation altogether if they have to start buying daypasses to complete their journey to work. We saw evidence of this during the last LA Metro strike.
Yes, there may not be any loss in revenue, but the now, what, $150 million(?) question is going to be "Will there be any increase in revenue?" and that is the big gamble, because it has/is-going-to cost $150 million plus $20 million per year to find out. And much, much more, if the stations have to be staffed and retrofitted to meet CalOSHA standards for those staff.
Erik G.
Locking gates is not going to have such a tremendous downfall effect that you imagine. If that were the case, every other sane city in the world like San Francisco, New York or Washington DC which has a locked gate system would not be in operation.


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APOD Retrospective: May 4
Post by bystander » Fri May 04, 2012 3:42 am
An Unexpected Aurora over Norway
Image Credit & Copyright: Tommy Richardsen
Sometimes the sky lights up unexpectedly. A trip to northern Norway to photograph auroras was not going as well as hoped. It was now past midnight in Steinsvik, Troms, in northern Norway, and the date was 2014 February 8. Despite recent activity on the Sun, the skies were disappointing. Therefore, the astrophotographer began packing up to go. His brother began searching for a missing lens cap. When the sky suddenly exploded with spectacular aurora. Reacting quickly, a sequence detailing dramatic green curtains was captured, with the bright Moon near the image center, and the lens-cap seeking brother on the far right. The auroral flare lasted only a few minutes, but the memory of this event, the photographer speculates, will last much longer.
A Scorpius Sky Spectacular
[imghover6=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1405/sc ... rd_960.jpg]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1405/sc ... on_960.jpg[/imghover6]Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard, TWAN
If Scorpius looked this good to the unaided eye, humans might remember it better. Scorpius more typically appears as a few bright stars in a well-known but rarely pointed out zodiacal constellation. To get a spectacular image like this, though, one needs a good camera, color filters, and a digital image processor. To bring out detail, the above image not only involved long duration exposures taken in several colors, but one exposure in a very specific red color emitted by hydrogen. The resulting image shows many breathtaking features. Vertically across the image left is part of the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Visible there are vast clouds of bright stars and long filaments of dark dust. Jutting out diagonally from the Milky Way in the image center are dark dust bands known as the Dark River. This river connects to several bright stars on the right that are part of Scorpius' head and claws, and include the bright star Antares. Above and right of Antares is an even brighter planet Jupiter. Numerous red emission nebulas and blue reflection nebulas are visible throughout the image. Scorpius appears prominently in southern skies after sunset during the middle of the year.
Hungarian Spring Eclipse
Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
Last week, as the Sun set a Full Moon rose over the springtime landscape of Tihany, Hungary on the northern shores of Lake Balaton. As it climbed into the clear sky, the Moon just grazed the dark, umbral shadow of planet Earth in the year's first partial lunar eclipse. The partial phase, seen near the top of this frame where the lunar disk is darkened along the upper limb, lasted for less than 27 minutes. Composited from consecutive exposures, the picture presents the scene's range of natural colors and subtle shading apparent to the eye. At next week's New Moon, the season's celestial shadow play will continue with an annular solar eclipse, the path of annularity tracking through northern Australia and the central Pacific.
Fermi Epicycles: The Vela Pulsar's Path
Credit: NASA, DOE, International Fermi LAT Collaboration
Exploring the cosmos at extreme energies, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits planet Earth every 95 minutes. By design, it rocks to the north and then to the south on alternate orbits in order to survey the sky with its Large Area Telescope (LAT). The spacecraft also rolls so that solar panels are kept pointed at the Sun for power, and the axis of its orbit precesses like a top, making a complete rotation once every 54 days. As a result of these multiple cycles the paths of gamma-ray sources trace out complex patterns from the spacecraft's perspective, like this mesmerising plot of the path of the Vela Pulsar. Centered on the LAT instrument's field of view, the plot spans 180 degrees and follows Vela's position from August 2008 through August 2010. The concentration near the center shows that Vela was in the sensitive region of the LAT field during much of that period. Born in the death explosion of a massive star within our Milky Way galaxy, the Vela Pulsar is a neutron star spinning 11 times a second, seen as the brightest persistent source in the gamma-ray sky.
Celestial Trails over Greece
Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos (GreekSky); Music: Undisclosed Desires (Muse), WMG
If you watch the horizon at just the right place and at just the right time, you can witness some spectacular juxtapositions between Earth and sky. In the above video, stars, the Moon, and even a partially eclipsed Sun were recorded rising and setting over photogenic landmarks in Greece. The inspiring video features effects on star trails that are pretty but somewhat deceiving, as stars will typically remain at nearly the same brightness as the Earth turns beneath them. Also, the time lapse nature of part of the video causes clouds to appear to jump about and fade in an unfamiliar fashion. Several stills of these scenes have appeared on APOD previously, including the partial solar eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon, cloud and star trails over a deserted church, and star trails over an old ship. Other foreground venues include an old church in Peloponnese, a stone bridge in Ioannina, a Frankish Castle in Euboea, and a picturesque sunset above Lycabettus Hill, Athens.
A Hall of Mountain Fogbows
Credit & Copyright: A. Tudorica (ISS Romania)
If you tried to enter this hall of fog, you would find it dissipates around you. The hall is actually an optical illusion created by sunlight backscattering off of a cloud passing below the peak of the mountain from which this picture was taken. Known as a fogbow and similar in some ways to "the glory", the phenomenon is sometimes seen from airplanes. The ring's center appears near the image bottom where the shadow of the photographer is visible. This shadow would likely change as clouds passed, creating a faux moving giant known as the Brocken Spectre. In the picture, several concentric rings of the fogbow appear to create a hall for this mountain king. The cause of fogbow supernumeraries arcs and glories have only been understood recently and are relatively complex. Briefly, small droplets of water reflect, refract, and diffract sunlight backwards towards the Sun. Atmospheric backscattering phenomena have a counterpart in astronomy, where looking out from planet Earth in the direction opposite the Sun yields a bright spot called the gegenschein.
Rembrandt Impact Basin on Mercury
Credit & Copyright: NASA/JHU APS/ASU/CIW; Courtesy Science/AAAS
Why do portions of this huge crater on Mercury have so much iron? The unusual Rembrandt impact basin was discovered recently in images taken during the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft's 2008 October flyby of the Solar System's innermost planet. The unusual Rembrandt spans over 700 kilometers and at 4 billion years old is possibly the youngest large impact basin on the planet. Multicolored images of the crater floor, however, indicate reflections from areas containing unusually high amounts of iron and titanium. These elements indicate that some exposed materials have not been covered by more recent lava floes, and so might originate from an epoch of Mercury's formation. Data from Rembrandt and across Mercury are now being interpreted as indicating a relatively active and volcanic past for Mercury that includes surface tectonics. Close inspection of the above image will reveal rings of Mercury's Rembrandt impact basin circling around the image center. Mercury's limb is visible on the upper left, high cliffs and small craters are visible inside Rembrandt, and the terminator between night and day runs diagonally through the image. MESSENGER is on track to fly past Mercury again this September and enter orbit around Mercury in 2011.
An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
Credit and Copyright: Fred Bruenjes (moonglow.net)
The Sun, the Moon, Antarctica, and two photographers all lined up in 2003 Antarctica during an unusual total eclipse of the Sun. Even given the extreme location, a group of enthusiastic eclipse chasers ventured near the bottom of the world to experience the surreal momentary disappearance of the Sun behind the Moon. One of the treasures collected was the above picture -- a composite of four separate images digitally combined to realistically simulate how the adaptive human eye saw the eclipse. As the image was taken, both the Moon and the Sun peaked together over an Antarctic ridge. In the sudden darkness, the magnificent corona of the Sun became visible around the Moon. Quite by accident, another photographer was caught in one of the images checking his video camera. Visible to his left are an equipment bag and a collapsible chair.
The Iron Tail of Comet McNaught
Credit: M. Fulle, F. Leblanc (INAF) et al., SECCHI / STEREO, NASA
Outstanding in planet Earth's sky early this year, Comet McNaught is captured in this view from the STEREO A spacecraft. McNaught's coma is so bright, it blooms into the long horizontal stripe at the bottom of the field. Brilliant Venus, near the top left corner, also produces a severe horizontal blemish in the digital image. But the sensitive camera does accurately record the striations in McNaught's famous dust tail along a region stretching over 30 million kilometers toward the top right of the field of view. A separate, fainter, arching tail just to the left of the dust tail was initially thought to be an example of a common ion tail, formed by electrically charged atoms carried away from the comet by the solar wind. However, detailed modeling indicates that tail is actually due to neutral iron atoms pushed out by the pressure of sunlight -- the first ever detected neutral iron tail from a comet. The iron atoms are thought to originate in dust grains from the comet nucleus that contain the iron-sulfur mineral troilite (FeS).
Schwassmann-Wachmann 3: Fragment B
Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU / APL), M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI)
Periodic comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has fallen apart before. A cosmic souffle of ice and dust left over from the early solar system, this comet was seen to split into several large pieces during the close-in part of its orbit in 1995. However, this time the comet seems to be rapidly disintegrating with over three dozen fragments, named alphabetically, now stretching several degrees across the sky. Since comets are relatively fragile, stresses from heat and gravity and outgassing, for example, could be responsible for their tendency to breakup in such a spectacular fashion. On April 18th, the Hubble Space Telescope recorded this sharp view of prolific Fragment B, itself trailing dozens of smaller pieces, each with its own cometary coma and tail. The picture spans over 3,000 kilometers at the comet's April 18 distance of 32 million kilometers from planet Earth. With its brightest fragment presently too faint to be seen with the naked eye, comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 will pass closest to Earth on May 13 at a distance of about 11 million kilometers.
Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear. This is because Saturn's rings are confined to a plane many times thinner, in proportion, than a razor blade. In modern times, the robot Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn now also crosses Saturn's ring plane. A series of plane crossing images from late February was dug out of the vast online Cassini raw image archive by interested Spanish amateur Fernando Garcia Navarro. Pictured above, digitally cropped and set in representative colors, is the striking result. Saturn's thin ring plane appears in blue, bands and clouds in Saturn's upper atmosphere appear in gold, and dark shadows of the rings curve across the top of the gas giant planet. Moons appear as bumps in the rings.
Missoula Crater on Mars
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA
Scroll right to see the rocks, craters, and hills that were in view for the Spirit rover last week as it continued its trek across Mars. Missoula crater, taking up much of the above frame, appeared from orbit to have ejecta from Bonneville crater inside it. Upon closer inspection, however, Spirit finds only evidence for wind-blown drifts. The rocks show numerous blisters and small cavities that may have occurred as ancient water vapor evaporated from hot cooling lava. Columbia Hills in the distance is now planned as the ultimate destination for the Spirit rover. Both of the Mars rovers have now successfully completed their original mission and are now exploring topical opportunities.
A Sonic Boom
Credit: Ensign John Gay, USS Constellation, US Navy
Many people have heard a sonic boom, but few have seen one. When an airplane travels at a speed faster than sound, density waves of sound emitted by the plane cannot precede the plane, and so accumulate in a cone behind the plane. When this shock wave passes, a listener hears all at once the sound emitted over a longer period: a sonic boom. As a plane accelerates to just break the sound barrier, however, an unusual cloud might form. The origin of this cloud is still debated. A leading theory is that a drop in air pressure at the plane described by the Prandtl-Glauert Singularity occurs so that moist air condenses there to form water droplets. Above, an F/A-18 Hornet was photographed just as it broke the sound barrier. Large meteors and the space shuttle frequently produce audible sonic booms before they are slowed below sound speed by the Earth's atmosphere.
The Moons of Earth
Credit: STS-91 Crew, NASA
While orbiting the planet during their June 1998 mission, the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery photographed this view of two moons of Earth. Thick storm clouds are visible in the lovely blue planet's nurturing atmosphere and, what was then Earth's largest artificial moon, the spindly Russian Mir Space Station can be seen above the planet's limb. The bright spot to the right of Mir is Earth's very large natural satellite, The Moon. The Mir orbited planet Earth once every 90 minutes about 200 miles above the planet's surface or about 4,000 miles from Earth's center. The Moon orbits once every 28 days at a distance of about 250,000 miles from the center of the Earth.
Protoplanetary Survivors in Orion
Credit: J. Bally (U. Colorado), H. Throop (SwRI), C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt U.), NASA
The Orion Nebula is a nuturing stellar nursery filled with hot young stars and their natal clouds of gas and dust. But for planetary systems, the active star-forming region can present a hazardous and inhospitable birthplace. While the formation of dusty protoplanetary disks seems common in Orion, these Hubble Space Telescope close-up images dramatically reveal the torturous conditions they must face while trying to grow into full-fledged planetary systems. In each case, a central young star is surrounded by a disk substantially wider than our solar system. The disks likely contain material in the process of planet formation. However, withering ultraviolet radiation from one of Orion's nearby hot stars is rapidly destroying the disks -- ultimately creating the comet-shaped clouds of glowing gas seen engulfing the protoplanetary systems. Planet formation must occur quickly here, if at all. Researchers estimate that about 90 percent of Orion's youngest protoplanetary disks will not survive the next 100,000 years.
Planets Above The Clouds
Credit & Copyright: B. Magrath
Clouds scatter the faint orange rays of the setting sun in the foreground of this breathtaking photograph from the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Taken on April 7th, this skyscape features a dramatic lunar and planetary alignment. An overexposed crescent moon dominates the celestial scene, but the bright "star" just below and to its right is Saturn while further below Saturn is a close pairing of brilliant Jupiter and a fainter, yellowish Mars. Red giant star Aldebaran is almost directly above the moon near the top of the image and the bright blue stars of the Pleiades cluster are visible about midway up and to the right of the moon-Aldebaran line. The good news is that planetary alignments like this one do not portend disasters, are relatively common, and can clearly make inspirational viewing for casual stargazers and astronomers alike. The bad news is that the world is not going to end because of the highly publicized planetary alignment occurring tomorrow, May 5th -- so you probably will have to go to work!
Magnetic Mars
Credit: Jack Connerney, Mario Acuna, Carol Ladd, MGS, NASA
Mapping Mars from orbit, instruments on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft have recently revealed banded magnetic field patterns - a startling and unanticipated suggestion that the Red Planet was more Earth-like in its distant past. The red and blue regions within the MGS orbital tracks across this portion of southern Mars indicate adjacent areas of crust where magnetic fields point in opposite directions. The bands seem to run east-west and are about 100 miles wide and 600 miles long. Such patterns are known to be produced on Earth by plate tectonics. As the crustal plates spread apart along the mid-ocean ridges, they carry a progressive banded record of Earth's changing magnetic field. The similar patterns on Mars are seen as evidence that it too once had moving crustal plates and a changing magnetic field, although both processes - still active on the larger planet Earth - are thought to have long since died away. These high resolution measurements of martian magnetism were made possible by the revised, close aerobraking orbits of the MGS spacecraft and not originally planned.
It looked like a ring on the sky. Hundreds of years ago astronomers noticed a nebula with a most unusual shape. Now known as M57 or NGC 6720, the gas cloud became popularly known as the Ring Nebula. It is now know to be a planetary nebula, a gas cloud emitted at the end of a Sun-like star's existence. As one of the brightest planetary nebula on the sky, the Ring Nebula can be seen with a small telescope in the constellation of Lyra. The Ring Nebula lies about 4000 light years away, and is roughly 500 times the diameter of our Solar System. In this recent picture by the Hubble Space Telescope, dust filaments and globules are visible far from the central star. This helps indicate that the Ring Nebula is not spherical, but cylindrical. Perhaps the Ring Nebula would appear differently if viewed sideways.
The Last Moon Shot
Credit: The Apollo Program NASA
In 1865 Jules Verne predicted the invention of a space capsule that could carry people. In his science fiction story "From the Earth to the Moon", he outlined his vision of a cannon in Florida so powerful that it could shoot a "Projectile-Vehicle" carrying three adventurers to the Moon. Over 100 years later, NASA, guided by Wernher Von Braun's vision, produced the Saturn V rocket. From a spaceport in Florida, this rocket turned Verne's fiction into fact, launching 9 Apollo Lunar missions and allowing 12 astronauts to walk on the Moon. Pictured is the last moon shot, Apollo 17, awaiting a night launch in December of 1972. Spotlights play on the rocket and launch pad while the full Moon looms in the background. Humans have not walked on the lunar surface since. Should we return to the Moon?
Astro 1 In Orbit
In December of 1990, the Space Shuttle Columbia carried an array of astronomical telescopes high above the Earth's obscuring atmosphere to observe the Universe at ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths. The telescopes, known by the acronyms UIT, HUT, WUPPE, and BBXRT, are seen here in Columbia's payload bay against a spectacular view of the constellation Orion. The ultraviolet telescopes were mounted on a common structure - HUT is visible in this view along with a star tracker (the silver cone at the left). The mission studied solar system, galactic, and extra-galactic sources.


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Earthman a serial celebrant at 102
Thu., Nov. 11, 2010
Willie Earthman, 102, gets a kiss from Malcolm, a springer spaniel, on Oct. 26 at the East Central Senior Center. (Christopher Anderson)
By Cindy Hval dchval@juno.com
Willie Earthman arrives each day at the East Central Senior Center, dressed for a party. And why not? When you are 102, each new day is a celebration.
On a recent morning, she sat at a table at the senior center, wearing a red dress she'd made herself, topped with a glittering gold-sequined jacket. "My grandmother taught me how to sew," she said. A half-dozen necklaces dangled from her neck and rings sparkled from every finger.
Born on July 13, 1908, in Pascagoula, Miss., Earthman and her four older brothers and two younger sisters worked with their parents on a 40-acre farm owned by the Parker family. "There wasn't no discrimination," she asserted. "Mrs. Parker and us all worked together."
Her grandparents had arrived in America on a ship from India and settled in the area along the Gulf of Mexico.
Earthman said, "There ain't nothing wrong with my remembrances!" and proceeded to share one of her earliest memories involving the first time she heard a curse word. Taking a sip of ice water from a red plastic cup, she relished the tale.
"These boys were playing stick ball and a boy got hit with the ball," she recalled. "He said, 'Son of a bitch!' I didn't know what that was and my friends told me it was a curse word. I can just see that boy's face, and I still pray for him."
Her parents impressed on her the importance of treating others with consideration. "They told me every child has the same feelings as you have, so you treat 'em right."
When Earthman's father started a lumber mill, she worked alongside him, and at age 18 she took over the business. She can describe every piece of machinery in the mill because she learned to operate all of them.
"My daddy called me darling," she said with a smile. "A lady friend told me, 'Ain't nobody gonna baby you your whole life!' But I didn't care because I was my daddy's darling."
The family eventually moved to New Orleans, where Earthman cooked in a boarding house. "I knew how to cook polecat – they call 'em skunks," she said. "You couldn't tell that meat from any other."
In the 1930s she and her family moved to Spokane when her father took a job in the area. Earthman found work cleaning houses and cooking, and bought a home. At age 27, she married James Earthman. "He told me he'd been watching me for two years and that he'd never been around a woman like me," she recalled. "I told him up front, 'I don't need you. I own my own home.' " She laughed. "But he wanted to marry me, anyway."
The couple had a daughter who died in infancy and a second daughter, Arnethia. At age 47, Earthman gave birth to their son, Ace. "Didn't neither of my kids come up ignorant," she asserted. "I taught my children their times tables and how to read and write before they started school."
Her marriage proved solid and enduring. "James was an honest and upright man. There was never a cross word between us." She paused to take another sip of water, and when asked if James had treated her well her brown eyes flashed. "Well, he had to, didn't he?"
Her husband died in her arms in 1985. "When he took that last breath, I said, 'Oh, God, baby, you done left me.' "
She found solace in her faith. A longtime member of Bethel AME, Earthman said, "I love to go to church. I know the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you know what? You won't find God discriminating in the Bible!"
At Bethel AME, she is known as Mother Earthman. "She is the mother of our church," said Una McDowell, another longtime church member and close friend of Earthman. "Until recently, she was still setting up communion the first Sunday of every month."
She uses her considerable culinary skills at Bethel as well. McDowell said, "Whenever something is happening at the church, she brings her pound cake."
According to McDowell, there's much to learn from spending time with Earthman. "She knows what she wants and she speaks her mind. I've learned to be true to yourself and others from her." McDowell chuckled. "She's known to say her only regret is that she never owned a machine gun!"
How important is Earthman to Bethel AME? Pastor Lonnie Mitchell said they named the church recreation center after her. "Mother Earthman's slogan is 'I love everybody,' " said Mitchell. "She's been a delight in my life – a blessing!"
After taking a fall in her home last year, Earthman had to move in with her son and his family. But she insists she's in good health. "I exercise every day. I've never had a headache in my life!" she said.
In addition to exercise, she attributes her longevity to eating well and not smoking cigarettes or drinking coffee. "You don't have to get old – stay busy," Earthman said. "If something happens and you can mend it, mend it."
She has no patience for those who fret about the future. "What the devil is there to worry about?" she said. "I've seen a lot, and I never worry about nothing."
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This Day In History › Jamestown Burns During Bacon's Rebellion
Topic(s): American History, Government, Military, Native Americans
Jamestown Burns During Bacon's Rebellion
U.S. #329 – Jamestown was founded 69 years before the rebellion.
On September 19, 1676, Nathaniel Bacon led an irate group of followers into Jamestown and burned nearly all the buildings to the ground.
In the mid-1670s, some Virginia colonists grew concerned over the government's lack of action in the wake of increasing Native American attacks on their settlements. Among them was Nathaniel Bacon, who also took issue with Virginia's governor William Berkeley. Bacon felt snubbed after not receiving a political appointment or being allow to trade with the Native Americans. When word spread about a new Indian raiding party, several hundred settlers met and elected Bacon as their leader, essentially beginning the rebellion.
U.S. #4136 – Bacon's rebellion and the burning of Jamestown are considered precursors to the American Revolution.
Though governor Berkeley warned against it, the rebels set out on a mission and destroyed much of the Susquehannock tribe. After returning to Jamestown, Bacon demanded a commission to lead a militia against the Native Americans. Berkeley initially refused, but after Bacon and his followers threatened the burgesses (elected representatives), they granted his commission.
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Bacon and his army then drafted and issued the Declaration of the People of Virginia, criticizing Berkeley for unfair taxes, appointing friends to prominent positions, and failing to protect citizens from attacks. After attacking the friendly Pamunkey tribe, Bacon and his men moved toward Jamestown. Berkeley abandoned the town and avoided being captured. Bacon knew he couldn't hold the capital city or let Berkeley take it back, so he decided to burn it to the ground. Bacon's men ran between buildings with burning brands and torched homes, the statehouse, warehouses, taverns, and even the church. Berkeley and his loyalists who'd escaped watched the glow of their home burning from downstream.
Item #M10058 – Isle of Man stamps honoring 400th anniversary of Jamestown.
With Jamestown destroyed, Bacon went back to attacking Native American tribes. However, about a month after the burning, he died suddenly from typhus and dysentery. Though a new leader rose to take Bacon's place, the rebels slowly disbanded. Berkeley launched successful attacks to quiet any further uprising from Bacon's followers. But he was later removed from his role as governor by King Charles II to consolidate power and prevent another rebellion.
2 responses to "Jamestown Burns During Bacon's Rebellion"
2 thoughts on "Jamestown Burns During Bacon's Rebellion"
Bond, James Bond
Well, this is all new to me. I had never heard of any of this or the individuals involved. Thank you for the history lesson.
Another case of Both Sides being WRONG and overreacting!


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news, local-news, SELX, Sheep and lamb sale, Market, MLA, Saleyards
VENDORS sold 38,915 sheep and lambs at the South Eastern Livestock Exchange market on Wednesday. According to Meat and Livestock Australia's National Livestock Reporting Service livestock agents penned record numbers with an extra 1500 sheep and lambs penned. The quality was noticeably plainer than last week with a large portion lacking finish and showing dry skins across the lamb pens. There was, however, a good number of heavy sheep on offer suiting the export processors. The restocker and feedlot buyers were again very active today stepping into the large offering of store condition lambs. All the regular field of buyers were present operating in a slightly softer market across all weights and grades. Trade weight new season lambs are starting to reduce in numbers showing in this week's yarding. Light and medium trade, 18-22kg were $6 to $8 easier selling from $130 to $165 with the heavy trade making from $162 to $168, averaging 691c/kg cwt, easing $8/head. Heavy lambs to the domestic and export buyers also eased $8, selling from $171 to $185/head. The few pens offered weighing over 26kg suiting the export processors sold from $184 and $189/head to average 680c/kg cwt. Light weight lambs to the processors eased $3 to $5 with the 12-18kg lambs selling from $80 to $136/head. Store lambs were very well supplied and sold in a softer market, up to $6 easier in places with the lighter weights returning to the paddock making from $95 to $157/head. Feedlot buyers paid from $98 to $120/head for 14-18kg lambs and the better lambs weighing between 18-24kg were made $130 and $163 easing up to $10/head. Heavy shorn lambs sold from $175 to $186/head. Overall it was a mixed quality yarding of mutton selling in a softer market easing $2/head for heavy mutton. Heavy cross bred ewes made from $148 to $192, averaging 571c/kg cwt and 4 score merino ewes reached $170/head. Heavy wethers sold to $220, easing $8/head to average 581c/kg cwt. Trade and light sheep sold from $90 to $153, easing up to $3/head.
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SELX prime sheep and lamb sale November 20 2019
UNDER THE HAMMER: Ian Culley sold 157 Merino Wethers with Elders to a sale top of $220 a head. Picture: Supplied
VENDORS sold 38,915 sheep and lambs at the South Eastern Livestock Exchange market on Wednesday.
According to Meat and Livestock Australia's National Livestock Reporting Service livestock agents penned record numbers with an extra 1500 sheep and lambs penned.
The quality was noticeably plainer than last week with a large portion lacking finish and showing dry skins across the lamb pens. There was, however, a good number of heavy sheep on offer suiting the export processors.
The restocker and feedlot buyers were again very active today stepping into the large offering of store condition lambs. All the regular field of buyers were present operating in a slightly softer market across all weights and grades.
Trade weight new season lambs are starting to reduce in numbers showing in this week's yarding. Light and medium trade, 18-22kg were $6 to $8 easier selling from $130 to $165 with the heavy trade making from $162 to $168, averaging 691c/kg cwt, easing $8/head.
Heavy lambs to the domestic and export buyers also eased $8, selling from $171 to $185/head. The few pens offered weighing over 26kg suiting the export processors sold from $184 and $189/head to average 680c/kg cwt.
Light weight lambs to the processors eased $3 to $5 with the 12-18kg lambs selling from $80 to $136/head. Store lambs were very well supplied and sold in a softer market, up to $6 easier in places with the lighter weights returning to the paddock making from $95 to $157/head. Feedlot buyers paid from $98 to $120/head for 14-18kg lambs and the better lambs weighing between 18-24kg were made $130 and $163 easing up to $10/head.
Heavy shorn lambs sold from $175 to $186/head.
Overall it was a mixed quality yarding of mutton selling in a softer market easing $2/head for heavy mutton. Heavy cross bred ewes made from $148 to $192, averaging 571c/kg cwt and 4 score merino ewes reached $170/head. Heavy wethers sold to $220, easing $8/head to average 581c/kg cwt. Trade and light sheep sold from $90 to $153, easing up to $3/head.
Calls for a fodder database


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Q: enable NSButton if NSTextfield is not empty I am creating a OSX app and would like to enable a button when all textfield are filled. But do not have  much experience with osx app as there seem to be some difference from ios.
This is what I have tried.
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    btnCalculate.enabled = false

}

override func controlTextDidChange(obj: NSNotification) {

    if panelsWideTextField.stringValue.isEmpty {
        btnCalculate.enabled = false
    } else {
        btnCalculate.enabled = true
    }
}

Hope someone has a good tip for me :-)
EDIT:
Complete code.
import Cocoa
//import AppKit

class ViewController: NSViewController, NSTextFieldDelegate {

@IBOutlet weak var panelHightTextField: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var panelWidthTextField: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var panelPitchTextField: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var panelsHighTextField: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var panelsWideTextField: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var resWidthLabel: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var resHightLabel: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var lblScreenWidth: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var lblScreenHight: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var lblScreenArea: NSTextField!
@IBOutlet weak var btnCalculate: NSButton!
@IBOutlet weak var lblAmountPanels: NSTextField!

var panelHight = ""
var panelWidth = ""
var panelPitch = ""
var panelsHigh = ""
var panelsWidth = ""

var resWidth : Float = 0
var resHigh : Float = 0
var screenHight : Float = 0
var screenWidth : Float = 0
var screenArea : Float = 0
var ammountPanels : Float = 0

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    btnCalculate.enabled = false

}

override func controlTextDidChange(obj: NSNotification) {
    if panelsWideTextField.stringValue.isEmpty {
        btnCalculate.enabled = true
    } else {
        btnCalculate.enabled = false
    }
}

override var representedObject: AnyObject? {
    didSet {
        // Update the view, if already loaded.
    }
}

@IBAction func calculateResButton(sender: AnyObject) {
    takeUserData()
    calculatehight()
    calculatewidth()
    calculateArea()
    calculateAmountPanels()
}

func takeUserData(){
    panelHight = panelHightTextField.stringValue
    panelWidth = panelWidthTextField.stringValue
    panelPitch = panelPitchTextField.stringValue
    panelsHigh = panelsHighTextField.stringValue
    panelsWidth = panelsWideTextField.stringValue
}

// Calculating resolution and physical hight
func calculatehight(){
    let fpanelHight = Float(panelHight)
    let fpanelPitch = Float(panelPitch)
    let fpanelsHigh = Float(panelsHigh)

    resHigh = fpanelHight! * fpanelsHigh! / fpanelPitch!
    screenHight = fpanelHight! * fpanelsHigh! / 1_000

    printText()

}

// Calculating resolution and physical width
func calculatewidth(){
    let fpanelWidth = Float(panelWidth)
    let fpanelPitch = Float(panelPitch)
    let fpanelsWidth = Float(panelsWidth)

    resWidth = fpanelWidth!*fpanelsWidth!/fpanelPitch!
    screenWidth = fpanelWidth!*fpanelsWidth! / 1_000

    printText()

}

// Calculating sqm of LED screen
func calculateArea(){

    let fpanelHight = Float(panelHight)
    let fpanelsHigh = Float(panelsHigh)
    let fpanelWidth = Float(panelWidth)
    let fpanelsWidth = Float(panelsWidth)

    screenArea = (fpanelHight! * fpanelsHigh!) * (fpanelWidth! * fpanelsWidth!) / 1_000_000

    printText()

}

// Calculating the amount of panels used.
func calculateAmountPanels(){

    let fpanelsHigh = Float(panelsHigh)
    let fpanelsWidth = Float(panelsWidth)

    ammountPanels = (fpanelsWidth! * fpanelsHigh!)

    printText()

}

// Outputting text to labels with correct format.
func printText(){

    let formatResHigh = String(format: "%0.0f", resHigh)
    let formatResWidth = String(format: "%0.0f", resWidth)
    let formatScreenHight = String(format: "%0.2f", screenHight)
    let formatScreenWidth = String(format: "%0.2f", screenWidth)
    let formatScreenArea = String(format: "%0.0f", screenArea)
    let formatAmmountPanels = String(format: "%0.0f", ammountPanels)

    resHightLabel.stringValue = "\(formatResHigh)px"
    resWidthLabel.stringValue = "\(formatResWidth)px"
    lblScreenHight.stringValue = "\(formatScreenHight)m"
    lblScreenWidth.stringValue = "\(formatScreenWidth)m"
    lblScreenArea.stringValue = "\(formatScreenArea) sqm"
    lblAmountPanels.stringValue = "\(formatAmmountPanels)"
}
}

A: I had the same problem but I found simple solution: checkbox can enable and disable NSButton.
import Cocoa

class ViewController: NSViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var btnCalculate: NSButton!
    @IBOutlet weak var checkBox: NSButton!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        btnCalculate.enabled = false
        checkBox.state = 0
    }

    @IBAction func checkAgree(sender: NSButton) {
        if btnCalculate.stringValue.characters.count > 0 && checkBox.state == 1 {
            btnCalculate.enabled = true
        } else {
            btnCalculate.enabled = false
        }
    }
}

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Q: In a django app, how do I prevent users from deleting content not created by them? I have created a simple question apps, when clicked on questions it shows its options or choices.I made login and signup forms to make user-login.
I want to know how can I limit the user to delete the questions created only by them.Every question has a delete key infront of it.
I read most stuff about permissions but didnt got it how to do it.
I may apply permission not to delete any question but how to restrict a user not to delete only some specific questions or questions that weren't created by them.
below is views.py
def addquestion(request):
    item_to_add = request.POST['content']
    item = Question.objects.create(question_text=item_to_add,pub_date=timezone.now())
    user_now = Question(user = request.user)
    item.save()

    return HttpResponseRedirect('/home/questions')

def deletequestion(request,question_id):

    item_to_delete = Question.objects.get(id=question_id)
    if item_to_delete.user == request.user:
        item_to_delete.delete()
    else:
    return HttpResponse('You are not authorised to delete this question')

Here is models .py
from django.db import models
from vote.models import VoteModel
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

# Create your models here.
class Question(VoteModel,models.Model):

    question_text = models.TextField(max_length=300)
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')
    user = models.OneToOneField(User,on_delete = models.CASCADE,null=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.question_text

class Choice(models.Model):
    choice_text = models.CharField(max_length=300)
    votes = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    question = models.ForeignKey(Question,on_delete = models.CASCADE)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.choice_text

A: You should filter your questions queryset:
from django.db.models import Q
...
try:
    Question.objects.get(Q(id=question_id)&Q(user=request.user)).delete()
except Question.DoesNotExist:
    raise PermissionDenied("User can't delete this question.")
...

The Q object allows you to logically operate with filters.
Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/es/2.1/topics/db/queries/#complex-lookups-with-q-objects
Update:
As pointed out in comments, in this particular case you can achieve this by doing the following:
try:
    Question.objects.get(id=question_id, user=request.user).delete()
except Question.DoesNotExist:
    raise PermissionDenied("User can't delete this question.")

A: Maybe request.user is a string that contains the id of the user so you will have to get the user object of that id before comparing it with  item_to_dele.user.
logged_user = User.objects.get(id=request.user)
if logged_user == item_to_delete.user:
    # delete
    item_to_delete.delete()
else:
    return HttpResponse('You are not authorised to delete this question')


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I have used this before, however, there is always an error when I try to un install and go back to normal Garmin 235 Face. How can I get rid of the install or change face without have to do a hard reset every time?
You cannot unsee nstall an actively displaying watch face. This applies to any downloaded watch face, not just this one. This is a Garmin issue and not something we as third party developers can change / fix.
I love this watch face. The customisation of the whole screen is just delightful. I love the countdown at the bottom too. A quick glance and I know when an important event is coming up. No other watch face will do!!!
Manca la possibilità di avere i dati HR su schermo. Per il resto va benissimo.
Please do a full uninstall, restart your device and then try to reinstall it.
Very nice watch face. The countdown is great for race events. Just needs HR field (to replace alarms or Bluetooth and it will be perfect!


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Q: How do I match an entire day to a datetime field? I have a table for matches. The table has a column named matchdate, which is a datetime field.
If I have 3 matches on 2011-12-01:

*

*2011-12-01 12:00:00

*2011-12-01 13:25:00

*2011-12-01 16:00:00

How do I query that? How do I query all matches on 1 single date?
I have looked at date_trunc(), to_char(), etc.
Isn't there some "select * where datetime in date" function?

A: Cast your timestamp value to date if you want simple syntax. Like this:
SELECT *
FROM   tbl
WHERE  timestamp_col::date = '2011-12-01';  -- date literal

However, with big tables this will be faster:
SELECT *
FROM   tbl
WHERE  timestamp_col >= '2011-12-01 0:0'    -- timestamp literal
AND    timestamp_col <  '2011-12-02 0:0';

Reason: the second query does not have to transform every single value in the table and can utilize a simple index on the timestamp column. The expression is sargable.
Note excluded the upper bound (< instead of <=) for a correct selection.
You can make up for that by creating an index on an expression like this:
CREATE INDEX tbl_ts_date_idx ON tbl (cast(timestamp_col AS date));

Then the first version of the query will be as fast as it gets.

A: not sure if i am missing something obvious here, but i think you can just
select * from table where date_trunc('day', ts) = '2011-12-01';

A: Just use the SQL BETWEEN function like so:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE date BETWEEN '2011-12-01' AND '2011-12-02'

You may need to include times in the date literals, but this should include the lover limit and exclude the upper.
From rails I believe you can do:
.where(:between => '2011-12-01'..'2011-12-02')