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IT Acceptable Use Policy
The aim of this policy is to ensure that Loughborough University's IT facilities are used: safely, lawfully and equitably.
The University seeks to promote and facilitate the proper and extensive use of Information Technology in the interests of learning, teaching and research, including business and community engagement partnerships. Whilst the tradition of academic freedom will be fully respected, this also requires responsible and legal use of the technologies and facilities made available to students, staff and partners of the University.
This Acceptable Use Policy is intended to provide a framework for such use of Loughborough University's I.T. resources. It applies to all computing, telecommunication, and networking facilities provided at the University. It should be interpreted such that it has the widest application, in particular references to I.T. Services should, where appropriate, be taken to include departmental or other system managers responsible for the provision of an I.T. Service. This policy should be interpreted so as to encompass new and developing technologies and uses, which may not be explicitly referred to.
This Acceptable Use Policy is taken to include the JANET Acceptable Use Policy and the JANET Security Policy published by JANET (UK), the Combined Higher Education Software Team (CHEST) User Obligations, together with its associated Copyright Acknowledgement, and the Eduserv General Terms of Service1. Users of commercial broadband services provided, or facilitated by, the University must abide by any specific policies associated with those services. Members of the University and all other users of the University's facilities are bound by the provisions of these policies in addition to this Acceptable Use Policy. They are also bound by such other policies as are published via the University on the IT Services policies website. It is the responsibility of all users of Loughborough University's I.T. services to read and understand this policy.
1.	Scope
This policy applies to anyone using University IT facilities (hardware, software, data, network access, telephony, services provided by licensed third parties, online cloud services or using University IT credentials) including students, staff, tenants and third-party individuals who have been given access for specific purposes. The term University IT facilities refer to all IT facilities; whether they are provided, or arranged, by IT Services, or by Schools, or by other Professional Services. It is the responsibility of all users of the University's IT facilities to read, understand and comply with this policy and any additional policies related to their activities, including other relevant information security policies.
This policy is issued under the authority of the Information Technology and Governance Committee. Responsibility for their interpretation and enforcement is delegated to IT Services and University IT Professionals.
You must comply with any reasonable written or verbal instructions issued by people with delegated authority in support of this policy. If you feel that any such instructions are unreasonable or are not in support of this policy, you may appeal to the Director of IT Services.
University IT resources are provided primarily for academic and operational purposes to support learning and teaching, research, enterprise and the other work of the University. Facilities are also provided to students to enhance their wider experience at Loughborough University.
Whilst the principles of academic freedom will be fully respected, facilities must only be used responsibly, in accordance with the law and not to bring the University into disrepute.
University IT facilities may be accessed via University owned devices or via personally owned devices but this policy is applicable, regardless of the ownership of the device used. Personally owned devices whether owned by students or staff must be maintained with up to date anti-virus software (where appropriate), system patches and kept secure in accordance with the Mobile Working Policy (link). Devices provided to staff by the University for their personal use must also be kept secure in a similar manner.
Use of the facilities for personal activities is permitted, provided that it does not infringe the law or University policies, does not interfere with others' valid use and, for staff, is not done inappropriately during their working hours. However, this is a privilege that may be withdrawn by the Director of IT Services, at any point, if such use is not in accordance with this policy.
Using University owned or managed services for commercial work for outside bodies, that is being undertaken on a personal basis, solely for personal gain and not through University channels, requires explicit permission from the Director of IT Services.
University e-mail addresses and associated systems, must be used for all official University business, in order to facilitate auditability and institutional record keeping. All staff and students of the University must regularly read their University e-mail.
You are bound by Loughborough University's Charter, Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations when using the IT facilities and in particular Regulation XV: Use of University IT Facilities - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/governance/
When using the University's IT facilities, you remain subject to all relevant laws and policies, and, when accessing services from another legal jurisdiction, you must abide by all relevant local laws, as well as those applicable to the location of the service. Following the requirements of this policy, and other University policies and procedures applicable to your activities, should normally ensure that you comply with the law. However, if you have any concerns about whether planned actions might be regarded as unlawful please contact the abuse@lboro.ac.uk email alias for further advice.
You must abide by the policies and terms & conditions applicable to any other organisation whose services you access. When using Loughborough University IT services from another institution via eduroam (i.e. whilst in attendance at a conference at another university), you are subject to both Loughborough University's requirements and those of the institution where you are accessing services.
Users must adhere to any licence conditions when using software procured by the University. If you use any software or resources covered by a Chest agreement, you are deemed to have accepted the Eduserv User Acknowledgement of Third Party Rights.
Further details of what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable use is provided in the subsequent sections of this policy.
3.	Keeping Your IT Credentials Secure
You must take all reasonable precautions to safeguard your username, password and any other IT credentials issued to you. Advice is available on the choice of passwords . You must not allow anyone else to use your IT credentials. No-one has the authority to ask you for your password, and you must not disclose it to anyone, including the IT Service Desk.
You must not attempt to obtain or use anyone else's credentials, and you will be held responsible for all activities undertaken using your IT credentials including access through the Hallnet Service. You should only use the access to University systems provided to you under the Management of User Access Policy for the purpose which that access was granted.
You must not impersonate someone else or otherwise disguise your identity when using the IT facilities.
4.	Safeguarding of Information
You must make yourself aware of the University's Information Categories and Controls Policy and take all reasonable steps to safeguard any information you have access to in accordance with the law (Data Protection Act) and the University's information security policies for staff and students.
You must not infringe copyright, or break the terms of licences for software or other material.
You should ensure you are aware of the appropriate procedures for handling any Confidential or Highly Confidential University information to which you have access. Sharing of this information should only be undertaken in accordance with the University's Information Sharing policy. You must not attempt to access, delete, modify or disclose information belonging to other people without their permission, or explicit approval from the Director of IT (or nominee) or Director of HR (or nominee).
You must not create, download, store or transmit unlawful material, or material that is indecent, offensive, threatening or discriminatory. In the event that there is a genuine academic need to carry out an activity which might be interpreted as being in breach of the law (e.g. the deliberate viewing or accessing of sites or media which are specifically designed to promote terrorism or which are directly linked to a proscribed terrorist organisation;), the University must be made aware of your plans in advance and prior permission to access must be obtained from the Chief Operating Officer.
5.	Behaviour
The conduct of staff and students when using the University's IT facilities should always be in line with the institution's values, including the use of online and social networking platforms. When using University IT facilities you must not:
cause needless offence, concern or annoyance to others including posting of inappropriate comments about students or members of staff (genuine scholarly criticism and debate is acceptable);
use the IT facilities in a way that interferes with others' valid use of them;
undertake any illegal activity including the downloading and storing of: copyright information, except under a relevant licence, or with permission from the copyright owner;
view, store or print pornographic images or video;
the retention or propagation of sites or media which are specifically designed to promote terrorism or which are directly linked to a proscribed terrorist organisation, except in the course of recognised research or teaching that is permitted under UK and international law;
send spam (unsolicited bulk email), forge addresses, or use University mailing lists other than for legitimate purposes related to University activities;
deliberately or recklessly consume excessive IT resources such as processing power, bandwidth, storage or consumables;
undertake any activity which jeopardises the security, integrity, performance or reliability of electronic devices, computer equipment, software, data and other stored information. This includes undertaking any unauthorised penetration testing or vulnerability scanning or the monitoring or interception of network traffic, without permission;
deliberately or recklessly introduce malware or viruses;
attempt to disrupt or circumvent IT security measures.
6.	Monitoring
Loughborough University records and monitors the use of its IT facilities, under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) for the purposes of:
The effective and efficient planning and operation of the IT facilities;
Investigation, detection and prevention of infringement of the law, this policy or other University policies;
Investigation of alleged misconduct by staff or students;
Loughborough University will comply with lawful requests for information from government and law enforcement agencies.
You must not attempt to monitor the use of the IT facilities without explicit authority to do so.
Access to workspaces, email, and/or individual IT usage information will not normally be given to another member of staff unless authorised by the Director of IT, or nominee, who will use their discretion, normally in consultation with the Director of Human Resources or other senior officer of the University. Where possible and appropriate, the Dean, Head of Professional Service, OPS Manager, or more senior line manager, will be informed, and consulted, prior to action being taken.
Where there is a requirement to access the account of another member of staff, the Dean, Head of Professional Service or OPS Manager should contact the IT Service desk with the circumstances.
If the request for access is related to a HR investigation, this should be managed wholly through the HR advisor who will work with IT if approved by the Director of Human Resources or their nominee.
7.	Implementation and Enforcement of this Policy
This policy is issued under the authority of the Information Technology and Governance Committee. Responsibility for its interpretation and enforcement is delegated to IT Services, IT Professionals and the Academic Registry by the Chief Operating Officer.
You must comply with any reasonable written or verbal instructions issued by people with delegated authority in support of the implementation of this policy. If you feel that any such instructions are unreasonable or are not in support of this policy, you may make a complaint under the relevant staff or student procedures.
If you believe this policy has been infringed, you should report the matter to abuse@lboro.ac.uk, overseen by IT Services, at the earliest opportunity. Follow up action will be considered carefully. Genuinely accidental infringement will be treated with understanding but any deliberate or wilfully negligent infringement of this policy is likely to result in disciplinary action being taken under the relevant University Ordinance http://www.lboro.ac.uk/governance/ordinances. Penalties may include withdrawal of services and/or fines. Offending material will be taken down.
Information about deliberate infringement or illegal activities may be passed to appropriate law enforcement agencies, and any other organisations whose requirements you may have breached.
Loughborough University reserves the right to recover from you any costs incurred as a result of your infringement.
8.	Further Information
This IT Acceptable Use Policy is underpinned by the University's Information Governance policy and Information Security Sub-Policies which are available at
Details of relevant third party agreements and obligations can be found below:
Jisc and Janet Acceptable Use Policy - https://community.jisc.ac.uk/library/acceptable-use-policy
Eduserv User Acknowledgement of Third Party Rights - http://www.eduserv.org.uk/services/Chest-Agreements/about-our-licences/user-obligations
The user must comply with all relevant legislation and legal precedent, including the provisions of the following specifically related Acts of Parliament, or any re-enactment thereof:
Malicious Communications Act 1988
Computer Misuse Act 1990
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
Investigatory Powers Act 2016
Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000
Communications Act 2003
Counter-Terrorism and Security Act (2015)
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ICS Pleased with IMO Progress on Environmental Issues
Commenting on the outcome of last week's meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) – which represents the world's national shipowners' associations – says it is pleased with the progress made by IMO Member States on a number of critical environmental regulatory issues that will have a profound impact on the future structure of the global shipping industry.
Elements for inclusion in the IMO strategy
Green House Gas Reduction Strategy
ICS says that IMO has made a good start on the development of a CO2 reduction strategy which it is confident will match the ambition of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and that significant progress was made on the general outline of an initial strategy for adoption in 2018.
ICS Director of Policy, Simon Bennett, said "Though no detailed decisions have yet been taken by IMO, the industry's specific proposals have been well received by a number of governments among both developed and developing nations, and there is generally willingness on all sides to give these further consideration at the next IMO working group on the strategy in October."
In a submission to last week's MEPC meeting made by ICS and other shipping associations, the industry proposed that IMO should adopt a number of CO2 reduction objectives on behalf of the international shipping sector, while emphasising that that delivery of truly ambitious CO2 reductions will be dependent on the development of alternative fossil-free fuels. Specifically, the industry proposed that the sector's total CO2 emissions should not increase above 2008 levels, thus establishing 2008 as the year of peak emissions from shipping, and that IMO should agree upon a percentage by which the total emissions from the sector might reduce by 2050.
"Encouragingly, there seems to be a general understanding among nearly all IMO Member States that IMO needs to adopt a truly ambitious strategy if it is to remain in control of regulating CO2 from ships, so that the application of unilateral measures such as the proposed incorporation of international shipping into the EU Emissions Trading System and the resultant market distortion will be unnecessary" said Mr Bennett.
Ballast Water Management
ICS has welcomed the IMO decision to adjust the implementation dates of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention so that existing ships, delivered before the entry into force of the Convention on 8 September this year, will not be required to install treatment systems until after their first International Oil Pollution Prevention (IOPP) survey after 8 September 2019.
Simon Bennett commented "This is a victory for common sense that will allow shipping companies to identify and invest in far more robust technology to the benefit of the environment."
ICS says that existing ships will now be able to install equipment typed–approved in accordance with the more stringent standards that IMO adopted in 2016. The industry should therefore have greater confidence that the systems ships are required to install will indeed be fit for purpose in all operating conditions worldwide, which was not the case with several of the systems approved using the old IMO guidelines.
"The process leading up to the entry into the force of the Ballast Convention has been difficult and fraught" said Mr Bennett. "But as a result of last week's decision by IMO the industry now has the clarity it needs to get on with the job and make the global implementation of this important piece of legislation a success."
The joint shipping industry submission to the IMO MEPC on CO2 emission reduction can be seen here.
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Mediterranean Diet Spurs Menu, Flavor Trends
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The Mediterranean Rim diet is influencing menu and flavor trends across the United States, not only due to its commonsense approach to eating and cooking, but also for its approved health benefits from the scientific community, according to new market research jointly published by Packaged Facts and CCD Innovation.

ROCKVILLE, Md.The Mediterranean Rim diet is influencing menu and flavor trends across the United States, not only due to its commonsense approach to eating and cooking, but also for its approved health benefits from the scientific community, according to new market research jointly published by Packaged Facts and CCD Innovation.
The Mediterranean Rim diet typically features a small but potent group of ingredients prepared in a simple, yet satisfying, mannerthus leaving ample space for creativity in the kitchen.
According to the report, "Mediterranean Rim: Culinary Trend Mapping Report," restaurant chefs, food producers and foodservice providers are serving up familiar foods from the region but elevating them in ways that continue to excite the palate. In addition, food professionals are looking beyond comfort cuisines from this area and exploring less-charted culinary landscapes.
The continuation of this trend from fine dining to fast casual still has plenty of room for product development and growth. This trend has evolved over the past 20 years, but the current drivers that continue to sustain excitement, adoption and interest in Mediterranean Rim food occur across the various stages:
Italian Sformata: The sformato is a unique culinary entity, with the sophistication of a soufflé but employing more simple technique.
Octopus: As U.S. demographics continue to diversify, interest in this type of sea creature will only grow. Its anticipated that octopus will appear in specialty food seafood salads with a Mediterranean feel that includes olives, roasted peppers and tomatoes.
Egyptian Dukkah: Dukkah has many attributes of a snack foodcrunch, a little bit of salt and a spice kick. It also works well as a low-sodium savory seasoning in various applications, including in hummus or dip, whole grains or pasta dishes, salad dressing or a roasted root soup, such as carrot, for extra strong flavor.
Dips Beyond Hummus: The demand for Mediterranean Rim dips taps into Americans interest in finding healthful snack foods that taste great. Besides being wheat-, gluten- and (often) dairy-free, Mediterranean spreads can be low-fat, low-cholesterol, high-fiber, protein-rich options for vegetarians, vegans and other health-conscious consumers. These kinds of refrigerated dips come in convenient packaging, making healthful, grab-and-go snacking a possibility for everyone from toddlers to teens and busy Millennials to baby boomers.
Moroccan Preserved Lemons: While these condiments are easily made at home, preserved lemons require sufficient time to mature, which makes them a tough sell to many home cooks; consequently, the opportunity is ripe to supply these preserved beauties to consumers at non-specialty prices.
Spanish Paella: Theres been renewed enthusiasm for this classic dish, as evidenced by its presence on many independent restaurant menus. The trend is part of chefs personal exploration of traditional Spanish cuisine as well as a way to offer a unique, sharable dish that can also be made in many different ways.
The Mediterranean Diet: The Mediterranean way of eatinga diet rich in olive oil, nuts, seafood and producehas long been touted as good for ones health. Of course, health benefits are not the only reason this cuisine has become increasingly popular in the United States: a winning flavor profile, readily available fresh fruits, vegetables and seafood, and a growing interest in global regional cuisines has helped Mediterranean food become popular, not only in its more mainstream forms, like pita bread and chips, hummus and Greek yogurt, but also in newly emerging Mediterranean-inspired fast-casual restaurants that offer diners healthful meal options.


There are so many things wrong with our country right now but there is one thing that is undeniably, wonderful and perfect about it: grass. Yes, grass. We should be thankful every single day for the wonder that is our grass.
While some other countries treasure their grass and think of it as something special or something to guard from the joyful romps of small kids, here, in the UK, we have so much of it that no one even really cares when kids sit and absent-mindedly pull it up. Aren't we lucky? Every single day I think about grass, truly I do. I walk through a beautiful park to drop my daughter at her pre-school that is situated wonderfully and perfectly, inside said beautiful park. So, seriously, every day I think about how lucky we Brits are to have such an abundance of these little green stems sticking out of our mud.
Even in countries nearby they just don't have grass like we do. I am always sad when I walk through European city parks on gravel paths wile the grass just sits there quietly behind small barriers porting tiny signs reminding us to KEEP OFF THE GRASS. And often when you can play on the grass it's that weird spiky stuff that isn't really grass as we know it. It isn't fun for running barefoot or for having a lazy picnic on a perfect balmy summer's day.
I know we're super lucky that our damp climate is right for something (ahem), we may spend winters chilled to the very bones and we may sigh at one more wet summer's day but think of the grass we get in return. And when it is a dry summer, so many of us lovingly water our lawns to ensure they survive the sun. I have been disappointed by grass all around the world: from Rwanda to Israel, from Mexico to China. I'm sure I have enjoyed good grass around the world and not really noticed it, from now on I'll try to, I promise!
When Col and I visited the Shanghai Expo in 2010 we discovered that the United Kingdom's entry pavilion was called the 'Seed Cathedral' and they stated there that one of the most loved smells in the UK is that of freshly cut grass. I'd agree wholeheartedly with that.
(also, this really is not a blog about drugs. I am genuinely so middle aged and middle class that I am talking about the green stuff that lives in the park not the smoking stuff).


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August 9th In Album History – John Sebastian "The Four Of Us" / 1971
August 8th In Album History – The Beatles "Revolver" / 1966
August 7th In Album History – Extreme "Extreme II: Pornograffitti" / 1990
August 7th In Album History – Jon Bon Jovi "Blaze of Glory" / 1990
August 6th In Album History – Barry White "Can't Get Enough" / 1974
August 5th In Album History – Pat Benatar "Crimes of Passion" / 1980
August 4th In Album History – Michael Jackson "Ben" / 1972
August 4th In Album History – Gin Blossoms "New Miserable Experience" / 1992
August 3rd In Album History – Def Leppard "Hysteria" / 1987
August 3rd In Album History – Creedence Clearwater Revival "Green River" / 1969
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Posted: August 10, 2015 in Album Covers, Albums, Music History, This Day In Album History
Tags: 1974, Album, babe, barry, can't, Date, day, enough, Get, History, love, of, R&B, release, rnb, soul, white, your
Can't Get Enough is the self-produced third album by American R&B singer Barry White, released in 1974 on the 20th Century label. In 2003, the album was ranked number 281 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album topped the R&B albums chart, his third to do so. It also topped the Billboard 200 and peaked at #4 on the UK Albums Chart. The album included two Billboard R&B number-one singles, "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything". Both were also successful on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #1 and #2 respectively. Both singles were also hits on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #8 and #1 respectively. The album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD on March 19, 1996 by Island/Mercury Records. (from Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_Enough_%28Barry_White_album%29
July 22nd In Album History – Commodores "Machine Gun" / 1974
Posted: July 22, 2015 in Album Covers, Albums, Music History, This Day In Album History
Tags: 1974, Album, classic, Commodores, Date, day, debut, funk, gun, History, lionel, Machine, motown, Music, records, release, Ritchie, soul
Machine Gun is the debut studio album by The Commodores, released on July 22, 1974, on Motown Records. Unlike subsequent Commodores albums, Machine Gun has only funk music and is devoid of slow-paced ballads. (from Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Gun_%28Commodores_album%29
June 26th In Album History – Bad Company (self-titled) / 1974
Posted: June 26, 2015 in Album Covers, Albums, Music History, This Day In Album History
Tags: 1974, Album, Bad, classic, Company, Date, day, debut, hard, History, Music, release, rock, self, titled
Bad Company is the debut studio album by British hard rock supergroup Bad Company. The album was recorded at Headley Grange with Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio in November 1973, and the first release of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song Records.
The album reached the top of the US Billboard 200. Since then, the album has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA, and became the 46th best selling album of the 1970s. The album spent 25 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, entering at No. 10 and reaching its highest position of No. 3 in the second week. [Kerrang!] magazine listed the album at No. 40 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time".
The singles "Can't Get Enough" and "Movin' On" peaked at No. 5 and No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. "Rock Steady", "Bad Company" and "Ready for Love" (the last originally recorded by guitarist Mick Ralphs during his tenure with Mott the Hoople on All the Young Dudes) are also "classic rock" radio staples. In 2006 a limited edition CD of 24K gold was released. A previous remaster was released in 1994. (from Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Company_%28album%29
This Day In Album History 06/15/1974 – John Denver "Back Home Again"
Tags: 1974, again, Album, back, Country, Date, denver, folk, History, home, john, Music, release
Back Home Again is the eighth album by singer-songwriter John Denver released in June 1974. The multi-platinum album contained the hit singles "Annie's Song" (#1 pop, #1 adult contemporary), and "Back Home Again" (#5 pop, #1 AC, #1 country). In addition, the studio versions of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and "Sweet Surrender" appear on this album. On the cover, John is shown with his then-wife Ann Martell. Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Home_Again_%28John_Denver_album%29


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2019 Top 50 RV Dealer in North America
Local RV Dealer United RV Named Among Top 50 in North America
Fort Worth, TX – RVBusiness magazine recently released the list of its 2019 Top 50 RV Dealers in North America Awards recipients, which included local RV dealer United RV Center located at 5100 Airport Freeway in Fort Worth, Texas. "It was quite an honor to be recognized by RV Business Magazine as a Top 50 RV Business for the fourth straight year," said Bill White, President of United RV. "Here at United RV, we are a family owned recreational vehicle dealership that strives to put the needs of our customers and employees first. We require honesty and integrity in everything we do."
RVBusiness and marketing communications agency BJ Thompson Associates asked RV manufacturers to nominate dealers across the United States and Canada who exemplify best practices and excellence in their field. Nominees were then invited to fill out comprehensive applications covering a wide array of subjects, including practices pertaining to consumers, staff, marketing, charitable endeavors and overall business procedures. An independent panel of industry experts then pored through scores of applications during an intensive two-day, closed-door session at the RV/MH Hall of Fame & Museum in Elkhart, Ind., known as the "RV capital of the world."
RVB Top 50 Administrator BJ Thompson said the selection process was exceptionally intense this year. "Our panel of judges was about as intently engaged as we've ever seen in completing their evaluations and final selections. There were some dynamic debates among the judges regarding the dealer finalists," Thompson reported. "We saw evidence of dealers not resting on their laurels of past performance but placing additional emphasis on service technician training and pressing for even higher levels of customer satisfaction."
United RV is family owned and operated and has been serving the RV industry in Dallas/Fort Worth for over 40 years. United RVs 12+ acre facility includes a large air-conditioned showroom, a 12,000 square foot parts and accessory department, and a 20-bay service facility. From fifth wheels, travel trailers, and toy haulers; United RV has a wide variety of high quality new and pre-owned RVs. Furthermore, United RV offers RV storage, LP gas, and an RV dump station.
Since opening in 1965, United RV has built a reputation of unparallel customer service combined with knowledgeable and friendly staff in all departments with years of RV experience. United RV's commitment to their customers, employees, and the RV industry is what makes them "the ultimate one stop shopping experience."
The RVB Top 50 Awards honorees will be publicly recognized on stage Nov. 13 at an all-industry reception held during the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association International Convention/Expo at Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, thanks to support from program sponsors Airxcel, Brown & Brown, Cummins Power Generation, Dometic Corp., Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp., Lippert Components Inc., Northpoint Commercial Finance, NTP-STAG, Protective Asset Protection and Wells Fargo CDF.
"We are looking forward to accepting the award for Top 50 dealers at the RVBusiness awards reception in November as it is such and honor and privilege," Bill White expressed. "Accompanying us to accept the award will be our top managers. It is because of their hard work and our amazing staff that United RV has now won the RVBusiness Top 50 Award for four years straight. The opportunity to network and share ideas on what makes an outstanding RV dealership with other award winners at the reception is another huge benefit in receiving this honor. United RV appreciates RVDA, RVBusiness Magazine and all of the sponsors for their support."
"Just when you thought you'd seen it all, that the dealer applicants had pretty much played out their hands with regard to innovative, thought-provoking approaches to RV retailing, this year's applicants took things to a new level in terms of creative business practices, new-age marketing, charitable outreach, tech training and bar-raising approaches to consumer care," said RVBusiness Publisher Sherman Goldenberg. "We have an outstanding group for 2019."
For more information about United RV Center follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Call or text 817-834-7141.
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This maquette is made as a sample for a meeting point nearby a large public building. The globe represents the various parts of the world from where the visitors come; the blue semi circle near the ground is a bench to sit and wait. In the side panels is place reserved for screens. The visitor can there locate his own position and the place where he wants to go, or contact the person he wants to meet. The globe as well as the panels are equipped with leds.


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Why Greenland's ice loss matters
Posted on 27 May 2010 by John Cook
There are various stages of denial along the skeptic spectrum. The first stage is "It's not happening". In the case of the Greenland ice sheet, an early argument was that "Greenland can't be losing ice because it's gaining ice in the interior". However, a number of independent lines of evidence have all shown that overall, the Greenland ice sheet is losing ice. In fact, the rate of ice loss is accelerating. In light of this unequivocal evidence, many have moved onto the second stage, "okay, it's happening but it's not so bad. Greenland is losing 286 gigatonnes of ice per year? Big deal! There's around 3 million gigatonnes still remaining in the huge ice sheet. Take a chill pill, alarmist!"
This view is articulated by Willis Eschenbach in On Being the Wrong Size (well, he didn't say to take a 'chill pill', that was creative licence on my part). Eschenbach argues that Greenland is losing about 0.007% of its total mass every year. At that rate, it will take 15,000 years to dissipate. Personally, I love a good visual so kudos must go to one of our regulars, Berényi Péter, who posted this picture in an earlier Skeptical Science comment, comparing 2009 ice loss to the total ice sheet:
The important point to remember here is that ice loss is accelerating. In 2002, the ice loss was 137 gigatonnes per year (Velicogna 2009). At that rate, the ice sheet would take nearly 22,000 years to dissipate. By 2009, this rate had more than doubled to 286 gigatonnes per year, reducing the ice sheet "lifetime" to 10,500 years. As the rate of ice loss increases, the ice sheet's lifetime is also diminishing.
So the crucial question is how will the Greenland ice sheet behave in the future? Extrapolating an accelerating curve into the future is always problematic. However, there are several different ways to approach the problem.
One method is to study the physics of glacier movements. One paper calculates glacier dynamics factoring Greenland's topography, the cross-sectional area of its glaciers and whether the bedrock is based below sea level (Pfeffer 2008). Including contributions from Greenland and Antarctica, the study estimates global sea level rise between 80 cm to 2 metres by 2100.
A semi-empirical technique looks at how sea level and global temperature have changed in the past (Vermeer 2009). Sea level change can then be expressed as a function of temperature change and future projections of global temperature can be used to simulate future sea levels. This method predicts global sea level rise of 75cm to 180cm by 2100.
Climate modelling of the Greenland ice sheet predicts eventual collapse of the Greenland ice sheet if CO2 levels go over 400 parts per million (ppm). We're currently at 392 ppm. At 400 ppm, they predict that over the next 400 years, the ice sheet will lose between 20 to 41% of its volume (Stone 2010). This is equivalent to roughly 1.4 to 2.8 metres of sea level rise just from Greenland.
Lastly, we learn much about how the Greenland ice sheet behaves by looking at sea level change in the past. The more optimistic IPCC emission scenarios predict warming of 1 to 2°C. The last time temperatures were this warm was 125,000 years ago. At this time, sea levels were over 6 metres higher than current levels (Kopp 2009). This tells us the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly sensitive to sustained, warmer temperatures and are likely to contribute sea level rise measured in metres in future centuries.
So Willis Eschenbach and Berényi Péter do us a service in illustrating how much ice is still left in the Greenland ice sheet. This is a vivid reminder of Greenland's potential to contribute significantly to sea level rise in the future. And multiple lines of peer-reviewed evidence, both modelled and empirical, all paint a similar picture. The Greenland ice sheet is highly sensitive to warmer temperatures and is likely to contribute sea level rise in the order of metres over the next few centuries.
Chris G at 01:27 AM on 29 May, 2010
I wouldn't think too much on temperature records over Greenland in determining melt rate. There is an awful lot of energy difference between water at 0C and ice at 0C; there's no difference in temperature.
Ned at 02:51 AM on 29 May, 2010
Chris G writes: Thinking more about the rate of loss, it comes to mind that loss takes place through two mechanisms, flow of ice into the sea, and melting of ice and water flow into the sea. [...] The ice mass loss of Greenland is a total of these (and I suppose some evaporation/sublimation), and I don't think there are measurements that help attribute how the mass is being lost. Actually, people are starting to work on partitioning these. There's a 2009 Science paper by van den Broeke et al. that gets into this in some detail. The bottom line is, as they say "The total 2000–2008 mass loss of ~1500 gigatons, equivalent to 0.46 millimeters per year of global sea level rise, is equally split between surface processes (runoff and precipitation) and ice dynamics. " More detail can be seen in some of the figures. The first figure shows a comparison of actual mass balance measurements from GRACE with their modeled ice budget (SMB - D, where SMB is modeled surface mass balance from a regional climate model, and D is measured discharge from marine-terminating outlet glaciers): The next figure from the paper breaks down the budget into surface mass balance and discharge: Clearly, discharge is increasing, and surface mass balance (precip minus runoff) is also increasingly negative, so both contribute to the overall negative mass balance. When this was all discussed a while ago, someone (Geo Guy?) was suggesting that sublimation could account for the loss of ice mass measured by GRACE. Here's a breakdown of the components of surface mass balance, including sublimation: Check out the paper if you're interested.
Response: While you're at it, check out my blog post on this paper :-)
Thanks Ned, that's interesting stuff. I'm suffering from not wanting to buy a subscription to every worthy source, Science, Nature, AGU, etc., and determining which ones are most useful to me as a non-researcher. But, I'll see if I can't find an adequate way around that problem. I figured sublimation had to be small potatoes. If you are loosing a Lake Erie annually, well, that is a pretty high rate for sublimation to account for above and beyond whatever the historical baseline rate was. Besides, even if it were the primary mechanism for the loss, what would cause it to change that wasn't an effect of climate change?
FerdiEgb at 06:10 AM on 29 May, 2010
[That was an interesting post, had some intriguing parts. Why not try it again, without the insinuations such as Rahmstorf being "economical with the truth?"]
Peter Hogarth at 08:09 AM on 28 May, 2010 Thanks for the graphs! I used the raw (GISS) data, not corrected for anything, but as Greenland is only rural and had very few shifts in position of the thermometers, I didn't expect much difference. See the detailed trends here. The yearly average trends indeed are substantially increasing in the pre-1940 period, but I looked at the summer temperatures, as these are more important for the ice melt and these show hardly any trend. Thus it seems that mainly winters over Greenland (and the rest of the NH?) were colder some 100 years ago. About aerosols, see my previous comment...
Chris G at 01:27 AM on 29 May, 2010 About temperature: Besides simple pressure from the huge ice mass (over 3,000 m), air temperature and direct insolation are important, as whithout elevated temperature above freezing point (and summer melt at the ice surface), there wouldn't be any accelerating extra melt and/or smearing by water reaching the glacier bottom via moulins. There is a substantial difference in speed of the largest Greenland glacier between summer and winter (about 20%), but once the meltwater reaches the bottom, it stays there for longer periods, giving a sustained all-year acceleration of the glacier. See RealClimate on that topic.
Ned at 12:03 PM on 29 May, 2010
Our esteemed host, John Cook, writes: Response: While you're at it, check out my blog post on this paper :-) Ooh, now I'm covered in embarrassment. I should have known John would have done a post about that paper (and I should have used the Search box to find it!) By all means, do check out John's blog post about the components of the mass balance budget for Greenland. He shows the exact same figures I put in the comment above, but he explains them better!
Jeff Freymueller at 13:11 PM on 29 May, 2010
#49 Chris G, the coast is uplifting quite rapidly today, although that is also very close to where the ice is being lost right now. If/when the main area of ice loss shifts to the interior, the uplift will be highest there but still probably faster than sea level rise at the coast.
#57, that's OK, Ned. You reminded me that I need to look up that paper, and your explanation was fine!
michael sweet at 01:06 AM on 31 May, 2010
FerdiEgb, The surface summer temperatures in Greenland are limited in their rise by the phase change of ice to water. The massive ice sheet creates it's own temperature. That does not mean that melt is less, only that there is not a large temperature response. Other measures are required to obtain an accurate picture of the situation. The rising melt line shows the situation more clearly.
Peter Hogarth at 06:15 AM on 31 May, 2010
FerdiEgb at 06:30 AM on 29 May, 2010 michael sweet at 01:06 AM on 31 May, 2010 easily beat me to a response on similar lines. We see the same Winter variance/Summer "clipping" to just above melt point over the Arctic sea ice.
Vinny Burgoo at 00:27 AM on 1 June, 2010
JC: At 400 ppm, they predict that over the next 400 years, the ice sheet will lose between 20 to 41% of its volume (Stone 2010). Stone 2010 doesn't predict anything. It is an investigation of current deficiencies in ice-mass modelling, not a crystal ball. Referee Comment C194 puts this better than I could: You don't draw any direct conclusions about the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet from your modelling, and I think this is important not to do that. The conclusion of your work should relate to the model and not to the Greenland Ice Sheet. You have shown that the model is very sensitive to parameters, and hence any conclusions drawn from it about the future of the ice sheet itself should be seen in the light of this sensitivity and the model deficiencies. Otherwise it would be easy for someone to take Fig. 12f, in particular, out of context, to show that Greenland may not exist in a 400ppmv world. You weren't quite that bad. You took Fig. 12e out of context (41% versus 81% loss). Bad enough, though - and, in my experience, entirely typical of how research papers are treated around here. I think this is the fifth misrepresented paper I've found at Skeptical Science. I don't visit very often and I click on very few of your linked references, so five is a worryingly high number, especially as Skeptical Science is widely promoted as a source of balanced and authoritative information. In my experience, it isn't.
Response: Vinny, I try to be balanced and accurate in how I represent papers but I've never said I'm infallible. But if I do make errors, I always correct them, I publicly admit my errors as I have done in the past with you and endeavour to not repeat the error. My primary goal is to further an understanding of climate by communicating the full body of evidence - misrepresenting the science is the last thing I want to do.
In this case, I think it's a reach to say Stone 2010 is just about modelling therefore its inappropriate to talk about the model results. While there is still much work to be done on modelling the Greenland ice sheet, does that mean we're not allowed to talk about the model results until they're perfect? In any case, I'm attempting to represent the paper as written, not the comments of that referree's comment. I will point out also that I chose to describe their best case scenario, not the worst case - a bit of IPCC-like conservatism on my part.
But the broader point here is that the Stone 2010 paper is just one result among many. There is also an empirical result (the paleoclimate study on over 6 metres sea level rise in the last interglacial), a semi-empirical result (mapping sea level rise to temperature to predict 75cm to 180cm by 2100. There's an alternative method of modelling glacier dynamics that finds sea level rise of 80 cm to 2 metres by 2100. These papers all use independent methods to arrive at the same conclusion - that Greenland is highly sensitive to sustained warmer temperatures and we can expect it to contribute significant sea level rise over this century and beyond.
So while I appreciate your feedback about Stone 2010 - especially the fact that it has yet to be approved of which I wasn't aware of - can I suggest you don't lose sight of the bigger picture and that you survey the full body of evidence before coming to any conclusions of where Greenland is headed.
Riccardo at 02:38 AM on 1 June, 2010
"Although not completely collapsed, the 400p pmv ice-sheets for Figure 12b-e are somewhat reduced in the north of the island, with a reduction in ice volume compared with the modern day ice-sheet volume ranging between 20 to 41%. However, the scenario in Fig. 12f shows almost complete collapse at 400 ppmv with a reduction in ice volume of 81%." this is what the paper says. It's self evident that there's no misinterpretation whatsoever. I find only one (irrelevant) inaccuracy in what John wrote, it's not in 400 hundred years. The paper says that the results shown are after 400 hundred years of model integration, which is not the same thing as 400 years from now. As for the referee's comment, you're largely off target. Stones as well as John here did not make any projection of our future, as the referee advised. Both described what happens in a 400 ppmv world and none of them "predicted" a real world with a constant CO2 concentration at 400 ppmv for centuries. You may not like John's wording but the meaning is straightforward. Although not relevant in this particular case, i agree that research papers are often treated very badly around in the blogsphere.
Peter Hogarth at 03:10 AM on 1 June, 2010
Vinny Burgoo at 00:27 AM on 1 June, 2010 Stone 2010 updates the boundary conditions for modeling changes in Greenlands ice sheet with more realistic input data. Specifically bedrock and ice thickness, temperature and precipitation. They use as many recent real observations as possible. In doing so they discover that the modeling run steady state with the new boundary conditions overestimates the current amount of ice by 25% compared with actual observations. Re-tuning the model to obtain more realistic current ice levels and then projecting forwards in time under the 400ppm CO2 scenario, the revised model suggests greatly increased ice loss under all 5 parameter sets compared with the previous unadjusted model, which had "predicted" similar future ice volumes to today at 400ppm. In other words our previous best predictions (or model outputs if you wish to be pedantic) underestimated future ice loss under given conditions, and we now probably have a more realistic model. I'm not sure John has really used this paper out of context, but I'm guessing he'll comment. If you have other specific cases of misrepresentation, it would be useful to point these out so that amendments can be made if needed. I certainly don't mind being corrected if it is shown I've misunderstood something, and this is probable if I stray from my areas of expertise. I would also hope you adhere to the same critical standards when visiting other sites!
Riccardo, an accurate paraphrase can be misrepresentation if essential context is left out. Is this what our host did? Here's his paragraph in full: Climate modelling of the Greenland ice sheet predicts eventual collapse of the Greenland ice sheet if CO2 levels go over 400 parts per million (ppm). We're currently at 392 ppm. At 400 ppm, they predict that over the next 400 years, the ice sheet will lose between 20 to 41% of its volume (Stone 2010). This is equivalent to roughly 1.4 to 2.8 metres of sea level rise just from Greenland. Three things. (1) JC used Stone 2010 to collapse 'eventual' to '400 years'.(Does anyone know who 'they' are?) Why? (2) Stone 2010 is still in the middle of the peer-review process, so what's it doing on a website that makes such a big deal out of peer-review? (3) The Stone 2010 findings about volume-loss weren't predictions. They came from low-resolution tests of the performance of models that had been re-tuned to make them work with more up-to-date data.
Peter Hogarth, the Stone 2010 study doesn't show that 'we now probably have a more realistic model' It comes close to implying that but let's wait until it's finished passing through the peer-review process. I mentioned the other issues here on SS. (JC, to his credit, swiftly removed the links.)
Vinny Burgoo at 04:23 AM on 1 June, 2010 1) "They" are Stone, Lunt, Rutt, and Hanna and to quote from their paper "These simulations were run for time integration of 400 model years" 2) Yes, it's "in" peer review, reasonably common to cite papers in review, as long as you track any corrections or retractions. Your comments are rather unwarranted therefore. 3) I don't see the big deal in updating science/models with better data (some of the original bedrock and ice thickness data was more than thirty years old), and models (I would hope) get more accurate as we build up data to feed them. I cannot see how any rational person can imagine a model being less realistic with real observations and more recent data put into it. Some of the justification for Stone 2010 was that the reality of recent observed mass loss was more than the models were estimating, so the emphasis is warranted and "appropriate". I sense you should be backpedalling?
James Wight at 23:10 PM on 11 June, 2010
John, should this post be a response to "Greenland has only lost a tiny fraction of its ice mass"?
Response: Yes, it should. Why hasn't it? Because I forgot to add it! Thanks for the reminder, have now added the 115th skeptic argument, "Greenland has only lost a tiny fraction of its ice mass".


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UAE: Etihad Rail completes excavation works of 9 tunnels| MENAFN.COM
UAE: Etihad Rail completes excavation works of 9 tunnels
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Sun 21 Nov 2021, 7:41 PM
Etihad Rail, the UAE's national rail network, on Sunday said it had completed excavation work on all nine tunnels of the Package D of Stage Two ahead of its schedule and the work on the project is proceeding according to schedule.
His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Fujairah, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, visited the Sakamkam area in Fujairah, in the presence of Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of Etihad Rail, to announce the completion of excavation works of all the nine tunnels extending over 6.9 kilometres.
The tunnels are being constructed across Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah as part of Package D of Stage Two, two months ahead of schedule.
The completion of the excavation of the nine tunnels recorded one million working hours. The project was supervised and carried out by more than 600 experts, specialists, and workers using the latest tunnelling machinery and modern technologies.
Etihad Rail signs JV to run UAE's first freight service
Etihad Rail achieves milestone
Sheikh Hamad lauded the efforts of Etihad Rail to carry out the tunnelling without impacting nearby communities while upholding the highest measures of safety, security, sustainability, and environmental protection.
Officials drive through a new tunnel completed as part of the Etihad Rail project in Fujairah. — Wam
Sheikh Theyab expressed his appreciation for the efforts of the governments of Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah for one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the UAE.
Etihad Rail teams overcame major topographical challenges while excavating the tunnels and achieved this milestone without any accidents.
Etihad Rail took a series of precautionary measures to limit the noise and vibrations caused by excavation using the explosive blasting methods and their impact on nearby communities, using innovative machinery and equipment that helped overcome these challenges effectively.
Etihad Rail recently announced the completion of the construction works for Package A of Stage Two of the UAE National Rail Network, which extends over 139km and connects Ghuwaifat with Stage One of the project, which extends over 264km from Habshan to Ruwais.


Half the fun of writing a book set in this world and not one populated by dragons and White Walkers is that it grants you the power to weave truth into your fantasy.
While The Smoke Hunter is a work of fiction, elements of the story that might seem downright far-fetched are based on real pieces of history, mythology and science. For the curious, here's a breakdown of some of the real-life awesomeness I drew on to craft the story.
The City of Seven Caves really turns up in both Mayan and Aztec myth.
Though its location and its nature in The Smoke hunter are my own invention, both Aztec and Mayan myths do speak of a city or place of "seven caves" that served as the point of origin for their people.
The Mayan epic of the Popol Vuh—the same document Adam mentions in the book—talks about a mountain where the leaders of the Maya went to acquire the wisdom of the gods where "Tulan Zuyua, Seven Caves, Seven Canyons is the name of the Citadel".
In Aztec folklore, legend speaks of a place called Chicomoztoc—roughly translated as "the place of the seven caves"—where the original seven Aztec tribes originally lived. The city was a sort of paradise from which the Aztecs eventually fled when the rulers of the place turned to tyranny.
The notion that the creation myths of those societies refer to a real place was one that I couldn't entirely resist, and The Smoke Hunter shamelessly plays with the idea that certain elements of Mesoamerican culture—the significance of caves and mirrors, the association between blood and divination—might have been derived from the people who populated this legendary place.
As far as I'm aware, there's no giant supernaturally powerful mirror hiding under some yet-to-be-discovered ancient city, but my Smoking Mirror was inspired by the real significance mirrors held in Mesoamerican culture. As Adam describes in the book, the name of the Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca does mean "Smoking Mirror", and as a god he was associated with war, violence, and divination (among other things).
Mirrors have been found at Mayan, Aztec, and Olmec sites throughout the region, made of a variety of materials including iron ore and obsidian. Queen Elizabeth I's court astronomer, John Dee, possessed a lovely specimen that is now among the collections at the British Museum.
Female civil servants in 19th century lost their jobs if they got married.
However, it was believed that "the responsibilities of married life are normally in-compatible with the devotion of a woman's whole-time and unimpaired energy to the Public Services." Therefore women were asked to leave their positions once they got married, unless they were granted a special waiver. That ban wasn't abolished until 1946.
The fate of San Pedro Siris was truly tragic.
Amilcar Kuyoc is a fictional character, but his history is based on real events.
In the mid 19th century, there was a great deal of tension between the indigenous Maya and British loggers. The Maya believed the loggers owed them rents for the lands they were exploiting. The loggers either disagreed outright or simply avoided paying up. The British army took the side you might expect.
At San Pedro Siris, tensions over the course of months gradually rose into an outright skirmish. When another local village suffered an attack to its church, it was blamed on the residents of San Pedro Siris and the Brits retaliated by burning the entire town. The incident was one of several sparks that eventually flared into an outright rebellion lead by Marcus Canul.
The Maya did worship in caves.
Caves have long been sacred sites for the Maya. Archaeological evidence throughout British Honduras, Guatemala and the Yucatan show how settings like those described in THE SMOKE HUNTER were used for ritual purposes by the Mayans, places where they offered sacrifices, including human adults and children.
The skeleton I describe in Chapter 8 is based on the Crystal Maiden of Actun Tunichil Muknal cave. The body of a young girl apparently ritually sacrificed over a thousand years ago, the bones have completely calcified, giving them a furred, sparkling look.
Adam's claim that the cave is still being used by contemporary Maya is also not entirely far-fetched. Anthropologists have noted that the Maya continue to use caves as ritual sites, though the form of that worship has largely shifted to involve Christian symbolism.
You couldn't major in archaeology at Cambridge in the 19th century.
Adam complains of having to take odd courses and engage in outside study in order to pursue his interest in archaeology, even though he was attending one of the most reputable universities in the world. In 1898, archaeology was still a very new science, and the stodgier elements of academia weren't quite sure what to make of it.
Cambridge University didn't add a tripos – an undergraduate course of study – in archaeology and anthropology until the early 1920s, three decades after Adam had (not quite) graduated.
There are giant carnivorous bats in Central America.
The Camazotz – the Mayan bat-god of death – might have been inspired by a real-life scary wonder of the natural world: Vapryum spectrum, the false vampire bat of Central and South America. These freaky critters can grow to a wingspan of over three feet and feed off the blood of large animals while they're sleeping.
They haven't been known to go after humans. But who's to say what a little selective breeding on the part of some ingenious pre-Colombian people might have accomplished?
There's a model of Xibalba built under an ancient Mayan city.
The replica of Xibalba under Tulan Zuyua in The Smoke Hunter is my own invention, but after final copy of the book was set, I came across the story of a real-life complex of underground temples in the Yucatan researchers suspect might have been an attempt to recreate the Mayan underworld.


Lawmakers: Is Permanent Fund part of LNG plan?
Alaska lawmakers this week have been getting detailed updates on Gov. Bill Walker's plans to ship North Slope gas to Asia.
Thursday was the Senate's turn to get a briefing on the proposed $43 billion project designed to export gas to Asian countries.
Understanding the project requires navigating a complicated series of charts, spreadsheets and graphs.
But Sen. Natasha von Imhof (R-Anchorage) took the discussion to something close to Alaskans hearts and bank accounts: the Permanent Fund.
Von Imhof, who serves on both the Senate Resources and Finance Committees, asked Alaska Gasline Development Corp. President Keith Meyer if there are plans to tap the Permanent Fund to finance the project. The fund is currently valued at $66 billion.
After the hearing, von Imhof remained concerned about the Permanent Fund's role. She cites a possible change to the fund's Board of Trustees could be imminent with Board Chair William G. Moran's term expiring this year. Additionally, Walker recently appointed his former business partner, Attorney General Craig Richards, to the board.
"When you're stacking the board sympathetic to your cause, what's stopping the Permanent Fund from being a significant investor in this project?" she asked. "Alaskans need to pay attention to Permanent Fund appointments. They matter."
It's left some lawmakers questioning whether China is a serious partner.
Meyer said after the hearing that the agreement reflects a staged approached -- or a "development path" – toward construction that he hopes can begin the second half of 2019.
"Last year we spent time engaging with customers," he said. "We had to build awareness that Alaska, in fact, has an LNG project. This year we are focused on paperwork with specific customers and that will take the better part of the year.


In the September 2018 newsletter, it was mentioned the loan bikes which the Club makes available so that every athlete has the opportunity to try cycling which can be done on its own or as part of duathlons or triathlons. The club has a number of bikes which athletes can loan on a 6 week trial basis with a charge of £20 to see if they want to take it further.
The bikes have all been serviced and we are hoping to start issuing them for loan from 1.3.19. There is an agreement form to sign which is downloadable from the web site together with the conditions of the loan. Please email Daryl.peter@btinternet.com if you are interested with a completed CAAT Bike Request Form.


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Would-be jihadist arrested at Heathrow sentenced to three and a half years at Old Bailey
A former University of London student who wanted the black flag of Islamic State flown over Downing Street was jailed for three and a half years at the Old Bailey today.
David Souaan, 20, was originally found guilty of preparing to carry out terrorist attacks at the same court last December after a two and a half week trial in which it took the jury just nine hours to reach their verdict.
After reportedly visiting Syria in December 2013, he was arrested at Heathrow Airport on May 31 2014 on his way to Serbia where it was ruled he was planning to travel on to Syria to fight the jihadist cause.
In passing his sentence, Judge Peter Rook QC noted that the prosecution in the case were unable to determine which terrorist group Souaan intended to join or indeed if he would have managed to travel to Syria.
He also highlighted the lack of an 'aggravating factor' that Souaan was planning to fight against British troops.
"There is a wide range of sentences for terrorism offences," said Judge Rook.
"Everyone must accept that all terrorism offences are grave.
"This case falls towards the bottom of the range for this type of offence."
Souaan's laptop and phone were seized upon his arrest and the pictures, videos and documents they contained appear to have shown his 'extremist sympathies' and evidence of his intention to go to Syria.
In his defence, Souaan claimed that pictures of him posing with guns were only trophies which were to make him 'look cool'.
Souaan also claimed that the December 2013 visit was to accompany his father to his hometown of Deir ez-Zor to collect his grandfather's belongings.
However it was his fellow Birkbeck College students' concern about his radical Islamist views which led to his arrest, and he was also allegedly filmed attending a demonstration by radical preacher Anjem Choudary in the UK.
In the video Souaan could allegedly be heard saying: "The flag of Tawheed in London, all praise be to Allah the lord of the universe."
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Dan Haar: Gun culture, if not guns, fueled U.S. Capitol siege
Dan Haar Jan. 12, 2021 Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 8:07 a.m.
A pro-Trump mob gathers in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C.
Photo: Jon Cherry /Getty Images / TNS
Comb through the photos and videos of the protest in Washington D.C. and the siege of the U.S. Capitol last week, listen to the voices on the scene, read the signs and the messages on social media sites. You'll find a lot of gun culture.
You'll find people angry at the thought, let along actual efforts, of gun-control laws such as bans of semi-automatic, military-style "black" rifles and universal background checks. You'll hear people lining up behind soon-to-be-ex-President Donald Trump in part over his support for gun rights.
You'll see calls for armed protest and in extreme cases, armed rebellion.
Dan Haar: Gun culture, if not guns, fueled U.S. Capitol...
1of3Adam Johnson, 36, of Parrish, Fla., faces felony charges after he was seen carrying House Speaker House Nancy Pelosi's lectern through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.Photo: Win McNamee /Getty Images / TNS
2of3Supporters of President Donald Trump use bats, batons, and other items during a riot as they fight police defending an entrance to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6.Photo: JESSICA GRIFFIN / TNS
3of3Insurgents enter the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Congress held a joint session Wednesday to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/TNS)Photo: Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images / Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images
What you didn't see much of on Jan. 6 were actual firearms. There were only a tiny handful of arrests for illegal possession of guns as investigations continue. The mob raid on the Capitol complex, which led to both chambers of Congress locking down for hours, was a siege by bully clubs, not, thankfully, firearms — or more than five people would have died.
And yet, guns and the pro-Trump protest live in the same place in our minds, not incorrectly, for several reasons. Gun rights stand as one of the central issues of the right-wing "freedom" movement that led to the siege. Guns are part of the imagery of the movement, part of the language.
"Come armed at your own discretion," said one online poster for a series of rallies this weekend, which the FBI flagged on Sunday in a warning to police in all 50 state capitals. Culturally, it's like the message at a baseball game: Have a beer.
And guns, along with explosive devices, form the reason for the fear that we're seeing the coming of a terror uprising, sparked by one man who falsely claims election fraud caused his loss.
Unpacking the link between firearms, especially black guns, and this far-right movement now takes on new urgency. In some states, including Michigan, the siege ignited debates over firearms in Capitols and other public buildings. In Congress, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and others intend to move quickly on measures to quell gun violence, perhaps fueled by the uprising.
On Wednesday, we are witnessing a weirder-than-fiction impeachment debate in the U.S. House of Representatives as we prepare for the transition of power in one week. With guns as part of the backdrop, it's a difficult moment in a long, difficult reckoning with the national love of firearms that's growing stronger — after a year of record-breaking sales.
The link between last week's siege and that gun culture is not direct. It was not a pro-gun rally, rather an anti-democracy mob for a dangerous mass-cult leader lying to his flock.
"I don't think it's, 'Hey, we're pro-gun, this is why we're in D.C.,'" said Jonathan Hardy, a Hartford resident who heads training for the Connecticut Citizens Defense League. "It's a shared interest more than anything."
Hardy, who also sells guns at a Waterbury retailer, was not at the Washington D.C. protest and Capitol siege but said he had friends there from the gun-rights movement. He's been a gun rights leader and expert trainer in Connecticut for many years.
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"I don't think it was the threat to Second Amendment rights as why they were there," Hardy said. But he drew connections: "For example, a lot of people that tend to be pro-gun, tend to be pro-liberty. ... Seeing a threat to that liberty may tend to get them more engaged."
We celebrate engagement, of course. We don't celebrate takeovers of the national seat of democracy.
"It's domestic terrorism," Blumenthal said when I asked him about the connection between guns and the siege, where he, along with all the other U.S. senators, had moments of fear and hiding.
It is not a link that's given to sound bites or slogans. Blumenthal, Hardy and a spokesman for the gun industry all agreed on that point.
"There's no question that guns can be illegally or wrongly used by domestic terrorists and these fringe extremist groups are made more dangerous by the prevalence of illegal firearms," Blumenthal said. "But the armed insurrection and assault on the Capitol to stop counting votes didn't depend on guns. It was a violent attack on our democracy by a mob of rioters who were incited by the president and part of the investigation needs to focus on whether and how widely firearms were used."
Blumental added that even though pipes, bats and "other instruments of blunt force" were most visible, "There were firearms....it could have been instrumental in forcing the Capitol police to allow people to enter."
The gun industry strongly supports law enforcement, said Mark Oliva, public affairs director for the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation, which represents manufacturers and sellers.
"What you saw happening on Capitol Hill was not representative of who we are as an industry and not representative of the beliefs that we hold as an industry," Oliva said. "It was abhorrent and was in defiance of everything that we hold to be valuable in our nation to vigorously debate our strong beliefs. That does not include violence."
Hardy and others in the gun-rights movement object to calling what happened last week terrorism. "Where is all the domestic terrorism? We've had more people die from leftist protests over the summer," he said, repeating a popular meme from conservatives including state Rep. Vin Candelora, R-North Branford, the House GOP leader, hours after the insurgency last week.
Hardy has long been a very thoughtful advocate, arguing, for example, that we're seeing a political culture more like the 1930s classic novel "Brave New World" than George Orwell's "1984." He did have a boneheaded move in September, reposting an image of state Rep. Jillian Gilchrest below four Black men labeled "government policies," "media bias," "ANTIFA BLM" and "COVID-19."
Hardy took down the post afer complants and uses the incident as an example to prove a point about the gun rights movement: The posting was associated with gun advocacy even though it had nothing to do with the movement, he told me.
In that way, he said, gun control advocates tend to over-generalize about the alleged danger of firearms.
"What they're trying to do is historically what regimes have done in the past, is shut down communication and ways for people to share thoughts," Hardy said."Gun owners are the most law-abiding group of people there is."
He added, "I guarantee this has nothing to do with home-based terrorism, it's purely about ideology."
What happened on Jan. 6 might or might not fit the defintion of terrorism. For my money, the true attack on democracy that day was by the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject certified state Electoral College results.
And one key question is what effect the siege will have on the gun debate. Despite the paucity of actual firearms, the events might help advance gun control legislation. Sen. Chris Murphy said banning military-style rifles is not the highest priority right now, "but for those of us who have been concerned about the proliferation of AR-15s, one of our fears is that law enforcement will get outgunned."
Against this backdrop, as a gun-rights president exits office one way or another, the number of federal background checks for gun purchases rose by 59 percent last year, to 21 million, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports.
"Business Saturday and Sunday was like Black Friday," Hardy said.
Blumenthal, the main Senate sponsor of the so-called Red Flag bill, allowing law enforcement to confiscate weapons from people showing signs of aggression, takes a broad view. "Put aside the gun issue, our nation needs to wake up to the threat of domestic terrorism and effectively act against it. My hope is that this incident will galvanize that effort."
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By Amee Moir and Olsen Ebright	• Published May 1, 2009 • Updated on May 2, 2009 at 4:43 am
The White House is joining the popular social network sites of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
On Friday, the White House added the features to its main webpage whitehouse.gov.
The sites contain information about combatting swine flu and will be updated with information on other topics. White House new media director Macon Phillips said the administration will not be able to reply individually to people who send messages via Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.
But, he said, "people who join these groups can speak to one another, and we can see what they're saying."
The 2.0-push is part of President Barack Obama's call to "reach beyond the halls of government" to engage the public:
"Technology has profoundly impacted how -- and where -- we all consume information and communicate with one another. WhiteHouse.gov is an important part of the Administration's effort to use the Internet to reach the public quickly and effectively -- but it isn't the only place."
Phillips said Obama has a separate Facebook profile that will continue to be maintained by the Democratic National Committee.
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David Snyder, 54, who designed Marshall Field & Co.`s Trend House for more than a decade and whose sense of style influenced home products sold across the nation, died of cancer Sunday in St. Joseph Hospital.
As vice-president home fashions director of Field`s from 1979 until 1990, Mr. Snyder was responsible for the over-all style direction of the department store`s home goods including furniture, home textiles and accessories.
He was best known to Chicagoans for the bold and dramatic interiors he created each spring and fall in the Trend House, the 3,000-square-foot home model in the State Street store. The Trend House alternately delighted and bemused visitors with Mr. Snyder`s signature extravagant, often over-sized, furniture and accessories.
''David Snyder was a creative genius and he combined that with a very sure sense of merchandising and I think he produced for Marshall Field`s some of the greatest successes both in model rooms and merchandise stories,'' said Philip Miller, vice-chairman of Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City, and former chairman of Field`s.
It was within those sometimes larger-than-life interiors, however, that Mr. Snyder oversaw the creation of entire collections of products with a far- reaching impact. Under his direction, Field`s staff sought new ideas and themes for products which could be made exclusively for the chain.
''He had a wonderful talent for understanding a concept and then bringing it into products for everyday living,'' said Tina Johnson, general manager of Saks Fifth Avenue Old Orchard, who had been Mr. Snyder`s boss as Field`s senior vice-president of the home store.
Mr. Snyder frequently traveled to Europe, developing close contacts with craftsmen and companies abroad. He worked with Marella Agnelli, wife of Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli, in launching her first home textile collection in the United States. Among the many products which he helped developed was a pastel water lily pattern inspired by Giverny, the home of artist Claude Monet.
controversial style, his works appeared in House and Garden and other magazines.
He had collaborated with some of the most highly respected talent in the home field including John Mascheroni and Andree Putman as well as with American manufacturer Thayer Coggin. He designed furniture for Boffi Furniture of Italy and fabrics for P. Kaufmann Inc., New York.
Mr. Snyder had been president of Epoustouflant, a consulting design firm based in Beverly Shores, Ind., which he formed with Robert Estum in late 1990. The name of the company was also the name of a 1990 book showcasing 30 of Mr. Snyder`s designs.
Survivors include his mother, Mae; a sister; and a brother.
Services will be held Thursday in Middletown, Ohio. Plans for a memorial service in Chicago are pending.


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Cook County's Secret Primary Election
The Unannounced Election
Cook County voters in the March 20th primary election are going to see something unusual on their ballots: an election with no candidates, just a blank ballot line and the option to cast a write-in vote.
It will likely take most people by surprise, since the Cook County Clerk's office, the election authority for county-wide races in Cook County, has issued no public statements, voter notices, press releases, or other information regarding the ballot line.
Established political parties received notification of a special write-in-only primary via their central committees, less than a week before the filing deadline for write-in candidates and less than a month before the start of early voting. Other than that legally-mandated notification, the Clerk's office has been silent on the subject.
So, What's the Secret Election For?
The write-in-only ballot line is for a seat on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) Board of Commissioners, the nine-member elected body that oversees Cook County's billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded wastewater treatment and flood abatement agency.
For more than twenty years, the MWRD Board of Commissioners has been an all-Democrat body, and a functional rubber-stamp on all private contracts put before the Board for approval.
Termed the "Unexpired 2-Year Term (Vacancy of Bradford)" on March 20th primary ballots, the write-in-only primary will determine which candidates are listed on the general election ballots in November for an open seat on the MWRD Board of Commissioners, left vacant by the December 2017 death of sitting Commissioner Timothy Bradford.
Nazis on the Ballot?! Blame Partisan Ballot-Rigging in Illinois
When news broke this week that Arthur Jones, a 70-year-old self-avowed Nazi and Holocaust denier, would be the unopposed Republican candidate in Illinois' 3rd Congressional district, the reaction in most quarters was to blame the Republican Party—either for allowing an environment in which Nazis can flourish, or just for being asleep at the wheel on the 3rd Congressional primary, depending on the editorial slant.
What's missing from most coverage is the thoroughly rigged ballot access system that allowed Jones to sneak onto the ballot.
Jones, pictured above, is unopposed in the Republican Primary for Illinois' 3rd Congressional District.
Out-of-state commentators (and even some from in-state) may not realize it, but Illinois election law is designed to encourage and enforce a two-party system. Candidates in Illinois must submit petitions signed by residents of their district to be listed on the ballot, gathered within a 90-day window, and the number of signatures required is based on partisan affiliation.
In simple terms: getting your name on the ballot as a candidate in Illinois gets easier or harder depending on your political party.
In Congressional races, like Jones's, candidates of "established parties"—Democrats and Republicans, with a few hard-won exceptions—only need to submit signatures equal to one-half of one percent of their party's total votes from that district in the previous election.
Independent candidates or candidates of "new parties"—which means any party that did not earn at least 5% of the vote in that district in the previous election, regardless of how long it's been around or how many candidates it has in office statewide—must submit signatures equal to five percent of the total vote from the previous election.
The discrepancies border on the absurd. In the case of the 3rd Congressional race, Arthur Jones needed 603 signatures to become a ballot-listed Republican candidate. Despite his odious politics, he was clearly able to do so (demonstrating along the way either that there are over 600 Nazis in the 3rd Congressional, or that petition signatures are a largely meaningless demonstration of "support" within the district). A member in good standing of the Green Party, Libertarian Party, or any other non-Democrat/Republican party, on the other hand, would need to gather 14,559 signatures to represent their party on the ballot in that same race.
Posted by Geoffrey Cubbage November 20, 2017 9:34 AM
Help Us Fight the Chicago Machine!
The Illinois Green Party is proud to support its candidates for local office -- and right now, the Cook County Green Party is running a hard-hitting, issues-focused campaign against Chicago's famously corrupt sanitary district Board of Commissioners.
Chicago is famous for its "machine" system: elected or appointed officials control massive, taxpayer-funded administrations full of jobs and contracts, which are handed out to keep supporters loyal come election time. Whether those jobs and contracts actually benefit the taxpayers, or address critical civic issues...that's not really the machine's concern.
Strong, activist, community-centered candidates like ours are a genuine threat to "business as usual" in Chicago. We know the political machine is going to throw everything it's got at our Greens for MWRD campaign.
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Funds will pay for the critical ballot access process, which is a set of strict legal and petitioning requirements that establishment parties use to keep independents and outsider challengers off the ballot.
It's a lot of work on a tight deadline -- and your support will help ensure that voters in Cook County have an option on their ballot that isn't the long-standing Democratic Party establishment.
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Previewing WNDR Museum which is set to open in San Diego on January 11
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Previewing WNDR Museum which is set to open in San Diego on January 11 | cbs8.com
WNDR San Diego will feature more than 20 exhibits created to "ignite guests senses through breathtaking experiences."
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SAN DIEGO — A new museum in San Diego that invites guests to fully engage with artworks and multi-sensory installations opens on January 11. The new San Diego location will be WNDR's second-ever location, part of a nationwide expansion from its flagship Chicago location.
According to a press release, WNDR San Diego will feature more than 20 exhibits created to "ignite guests senses through breathtaking experiences." WNDR San Diego will be home to localized versions of popular exhibits found at WNDR's flagship Chicago location alongside pieces by internationally acclaimed artists such as Keith Haring.
"San Diego is home to a dynamic, inclusive art scene and we're thrilled to provide a new unique environment to showcase both internationally-acclaimed artists and incredible local talent," said Ryan Kunkel, President of WNDR Global. "We're honored to join the ranks of San Diego's world-class cultural institutions and we look forward to becoming a lasting contributor to the community."
According to the museum, guests will be taken on a multi-dimensional journey where they will serve as an extension of each creator by interacting with various installations.
The museum will also feature a VR installation created by digital artist OseanWorld (Osean) and inspired by the WNDR collection of Yayoi Kusama. Each door is a portal to a virtual interpretation of these Kusama works as translated by Osean. Coding and mechanics built by 3D artist Iron Biscuit.
No two visits to WNDR Museum are the same. WNDR San Diego will consistently curate its experience by leaning in to cutting edge technologies to enhance existing installations as well as add new immersive experiences year-round.
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The Academy celebrates Michael Mann's 1995 classic, "Heat," on the big screen on Wednesday, September 7, at 7:00 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills with a new 4K DCP restoration. Following the screening, Oscar® winners Pacino and De Niro, four-time Oscar nominee Mann and other cast and crew will reunite in a conversation moderated by Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan.
The crew of a fierce, professional thief (De Niro) and an obsessively driven LAPD detective (Pacino) are locked in deadly opposition as they vector towards each other.
Taking inspiration from his friend, Chicago Detective Charlie Adamson – who killed Neil McCauley in a shoot-out in 1963 – Mann built a twilight vision of Los Angeles. With its range of complex characters, epic scale action and dazzling use of the city, "Heat" is as incendiary as it was 20 years ago.
Written and Directed by Michael Mann
Produced by Michael Mann and Art Linson
Executive Producers Arnon Milchan and Pieter Jan Brugge
Director of Photography Dante Spinotti
Production Designer Neil Spisak
Film Editors Dov Hoenig, Pasquale Buba, William Goldenberg and Tom Rolf
Costume Designer Deborah L. Scott
Sound by Lee Orloff, Andy Nelson, Chris Jenkins and Doug Hemphill
Casting by Bonnie Timmermann
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, William Fichtner, Natalie Portman, Tom Noonan, Kevin Gage, Hank Azaria, Susan Traylor, Kim Staunton and Jon Voight
Format: "Heat" will be presented in a new 4K DCP, restored by Stefan Sonnenfeld (Company 3) and Michael Mann.
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Cameron Bancroft Comes Back To Australian Test Squad
Cameron Bancroft and Joe Burns finally get back to Australia's Test squad to face Pakistan, with Usman Khawaja and Marcus Harris being dropped for their flop show during the Ashes series against England. Bowling allrounder Michael Neser has joined the formidable pace attack of Josh Hazelwood, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson. Bancroft is […]
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The veteran Australian cricketers, Peter Siddle, Nathan Lyon, and Usman Khawaja have been recalled to the One-Day International (ODI) squad for the three-match series against India as the selection committee announced a 14-member side on Friday (January 4). As compared to the squad which was selected during the South Africa series in October last year, Chris […]
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