I'm so excited to show off the cover for "From Tears to Triumph, My Journey to The House of Hope." The cover was designed by illustrator, Yoko Matsu, and the typography was created by Sam Duncan. I highly recommend both of these young ladies.
During the summer of 1970, nineteen-year-old Linda stops on the way home from work to talk to a tall, handsome stranger on a San Francisco street corner. That chance meeting changes the course of her life. Linda's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of her remarkable journey from crushed dreams to the creation of a house of Hope.
Her desperate cry for help brings a spiritual awakening, a two-year life-molding adventure with the controversial Children of God commune, and her decision to escape.
By the age of twenty-two, disillusioned but not defeated, Linda follows a tug on her heart and a voice in her head and moves to Costa Rica, where with faith, defiance, and courage she advocates for runaways, street girls and underage prostitutes. Read her story of tears turned to triumph.
From Tears to Triumph will be published (Lord willing and the creeks don't rise) this summer, by Mariah Publishing.
I will let you know when it's ready . . . so excited!
What do you think? Do you like it? Do you have questions? Those of you who have been following my writing journey know that it's been THREE YEARS since I set out to put my story on paper. I'm so glad to see the finish line straight ahead!
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David McNew/Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the South Los Angeles Get Out The Vote Rally at Leimert Park Village Plaza on June 6, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen made her final speech before the Fed's June 15 policy announcement. In her speech, titled "Current Conditions and the Outlook for the US Economy," Yellen says that right now the positives in the economy outweigh the negatives.
Asian shares hit a five-week high overnight after Yellen's comments, which were taken as a sign that interest rate rises are likely on the way. The Nikkei is up 0.62% at the time of writing (6.25 a.m. BST/1.25 a.m. ET), while China's Shanghai Composite is up 0.02%, and the Hong Kong Hang Seng is up 0.86%.
The "Remain" campaign has a slim lead in the latest poll ahead of the EU referendum later this month. British support for remaining in the European Union stands at 48% compared to 47% of voters who back leaving the 28-member bloc, a poll for the Daily Telegraph newspaper showed late on Monday. Sterling spiked in early morning trade on Tuesday and is up 0.48% against the dollar to 1.4513 at the time of writing (6.25 a.m. BST/1.25 a.m. ET).
Sports Direct billionaire Mike Ashley will be grilled by MPs this morning about working conditions at his warehouses. The Sports Direct chairman will appear before the House of Commons Business, Innovations, and Skills Select Committee at 10.00 a.m. BST (5.00 a.m. ET), after reversing an earlier decision not to come. The Financial Times reports that Sports Direct's CEO has also announced he will forgo his multimillion-pound share award bonus this year. You can watch the full Sports Direct hearing here.
European GDP numbers are coming. Updated figures for first quarter GDP growth across the eurozone are expected at 10.00 a.m. BST (5.00 a.m. ET). Economists are forecasting quarterly growth of 0.5% and an annual growth figure of 1.5%.
Morgan Stanley has asked securities regulators for the right to launch its first US-listed exchange-traded funds, marking the latest example of a massive Wall Street investment manager courting investors' growing use of those funds. The company's asset management unit asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to launch "passive" ETFs that would mimic market indexes as well as "actively managed" ETFs, which allow portfolio managers to pick a set of stocks and bonds they expect to beat the market.
Goldman Sachs netted a big profit in one of its most promising businesses. The investment bank took minority stakes in prominent hedge funds, including Winton Capital and Capula Investment Management, through its Petershill I fund in 2007. Goldman said Monday in a letter to investors in Petershill that it is selling the minority stakes to Affiliated Managers Group, and expects a two-and-a-half gross return on its investment.
Verizon plans to submit a second-round bid of around $3 billion (£2 billion) for Yahoo's core internet business, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Private-equity firm TPG was also expected to submit a second round bid for the assets before Monday's deadline, the newspaper reported.
Saudi Arabia plans to cut public-sector wages as well as subsidies by 2020, scaling back the state largess that helped ensure political loyalty in the largest Arab economy. Bloomberg reports that the Saudi cabinet approved the National Transformation Program, part of the Vision 2030 plan unveiled by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in April. Its targets include reducing public-sector wages to 40% of spending by 2020, from 45% today. Public debt is seen climbing to 30% of economic output from 7.7% currently.
US law enforcement officials are attempting to identify whether Goldman Sachs violated federal law, after failing to flag a transaction in Malaysia, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people it said were familiar with the investigation.The probe concerns $3 billion (£2 billion) raised by Goldman Sachs through a bond issue for Malaysian state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). The focal point is whether the bank complied with the Bank Secrecy Act, the main US anti-money laundering law.


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December 30, 2017 / Jean Bedford	/ Leave a comment
As I was one of the judges for the Ned Kelly Awards this year, I read a lot of wonderful Australian crime fiction and some of this has made it onto the list below.
Oliver Sacks The River of Consciousness
I reviewed this last week so it's very fresh in my memory. This posthumous collection of Sacks's essays, some previously published in the New York Review of Books, displays the amazing breadth of his knowledge and interests, as well as his charming, lucid and poetic writing. From the mental life of earthworms to Freud as a neurologist and Darwin as a botanist, with many fascinating diversions along the way, all of these essays completely captivated my attention and, as always with Sacks, enriched my perceptions of the world and other people.
Adrian McKinty Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
This is the sixth book in the Sean Duffy series, and possibly the best of them, though they are all terrific. It won the Ned Kelly Award for Fiction this year – the second time in a row for McKinty – and sees Duffy in all sorts of his usual trouble, but this time with a partner and a baby to worry about as well. The set-up behind this series provides lots of texture: Duffy is a Catholic in the Protestant police force of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, with both sides of the law often gunning for him. He's also a maverick with a chip on his shoulder, not surprisingly, who checks his car automatically for bombs every morning.
The historical setting is fascinating; the writing is a dream, with great characterisation and plenty of dour humour; the plot, as always, is convoluted and convincing. (You can read Karen Chisholm's excellent round-up of the series and full review of Police at the Station here.)
Emily Maguire An Isolated Incident
A devastating book about the repercussions of the murder of a young woman, aged-care worker Bella Michaels, in a country town, the loss and grief of those left behind, and the appropriation of that loss and grief by others. Maguire tells the story largely from the point of view of the victim's sister, Chris, whose voice is completely distinctive and convincing, and the setting vividly lifts off the page.
It's a terrific crime novel, beautifully written, but it is also an examination of the devastation of people affected by a brutal murder, and of the way women can be subjugated and abused. (Read Linda's full review here.)
Wendy James The Golden Child
This is a fascinating novel with an absolutely original take on the online world of blogs and cyber-bullying (as well as bullying face-to-face). It is beautifully written and cleverly constructed, with smooth segues among several voices, both adult and adolescent, social media outlets and points of view. The characters are extremely well-drawn (and it takes a lot to win me over with adolescent characters), the use of social media as a plot device is very sophisticated, and the subtle setting up of the plot through the various points of view, mostly of mothers and daughters, leads to a genuinely surprising resolution. '… domestic noir at its most intelligent and sharp.' – Sue Turnbull, Sydney Morning Herald
Emma Ångström The Man in the Wall
Only one Nordic Noir made it onto the list, though I've read what seems like dozens this year. A lot of not-so-good stuff is being translated and published, unfortunately, trying to cash in on the recent popularity of the genre and some usually fabulous series writers have produced disappointing books – I suspect being urged into publishing the magical 'book a year'.
Anyway, the discovery of a terrific new Nordic writer is a wonderful thing. The Man in the Wallis a Swedish psychological thriller with a difference. It has a genuinely original plot and characters and is not so much a whodunit as a creepy exploration of isolation and its consequences. One of the two main characters is an unhappy child, Alva, whose father is in prison, and who has moved with her mother and her two older (actively hostile) sisters to a new apartment building, where a bizarre murder occurs. Other disturbing things start to happen and we get both Alva's point of view and that of the killer, who can come and go throughout the building unseen. She gets drawn into the killer's games and we know it can't end well. Just how badly it does end is an unexpected shock.
This list originally appeared in the Newtown Review of Books on 19 December 2017 in the article 'NRB Editors on their favourite books of 2017'.
Jean on the 2017 Ned Kelly Award shortlist for Best Fiction
October 8, 2017 / Linda Funnell	/ Leave a comment
The Ned Kelly Awards are run by the Australian Crime Writers Association and have been going since 1995.
I was lucky enough to be one of three judges of the Best Fiction category of the Ned Kelly Awards for this year. As it's been impossible to keep up with everything that has been published in the past 12 months, I was amazed at the quality and variety of the 63 books submitted – a couple by established writers I'd never read before, but who will now be on my must-read list, and a few by first-time authors.
The difficulty we had in finally whittling down the submissions to the required shortlist of six books shows the depth and strength of the Australian crime-writing scene. There were at least another six in contention that certainly would have made an Oscars-style expanded shortlist.
In alphabetical order by author, and including excerpts from judges' comments, the 2017 shortlist is:
Candice Fox Crimson Lake
How do you defend yourself against the unproven charge of child-abduction? Especially if you're police. Perhaps you try to hide yourself away in a remote, crocodile-infested Queensland town and adopt a goose with goslings – but word always gets out. Ted Conkaffey, the very damaged main narrator of Crimson Lake, is a truly different take on the disgraced cop – and his equally damaged offsider Amanda Pharell, an ex-con (imprisoned for murder) turned private investigator, is also an original. There's plenty of action and some nice twists. The crisp writing, the lovely description and the ambiguous friendship of the protagonists make this an outstanding crime novel.
This is a fascinating novel with an absolutely original take on the online world of blogs and cyber-bullying (as well as bullying face-to-face). It is beautifully written and cleverly constructed, with smooth segues among several voices, social media outlets and points of view. The characters are extremely well-drawn, the use of social media as a plot device is very sophisticated, and the resolution is a genuine surprise.
A devastating book about the consequences of the murder of a young woman in a country town, the loss and grief of those left behind, and the appropriation of that loss and grief by others. Maguire tells the story largely from the point of view of the victim's sister, Chris, whose voice is of a type too rarely heard, and the setting is so real you can smell the air. There is profound humanity in this story and a perspective and emotional depth that is unusual and challenging, casting new light on old shadows. You can read Linda Funnell's review here.
McKinty (last year's winner) once again delivers an erudite and perfectly paced crime novel full of fascinating characters, by turns lyrical and tender, laugh-out-loud funny, and heart-stoppingly suspenseful, but always wholly engaging. Sean Duffy has to manage his own domestic turmoil and find his feet as a father while solving a crime that is much more than it seems, all within the charged environment of internecine strife in the RUC and the escalating war between the IRA and the Loyalists in 1980s Northern Ireland. You can read Karen Chisholm's review and overview of the Sean Duffy series here.
Jock Serong The Rules of Backyard Cricket
This is a personal, Australian tale of two brothers who grew up playing back-yard cricket, often violently, against one another. Darren, the younger brother and the narrator, is incredibly gifted, but goes off the rails, while Wally achieves success. This is a very timely tale given the real world of match fixing, and criminal interest in sport. Serong keeps the real bad guy ambiguous until an ending that will leave readers speechless.
Ann Turner Out of the Ice
The Antarctic setting, remote and cold, makes this a beautiful and atmospheric story. Laura is an Australian scientist tasked with documenting an abandoned whaling station, but a sighting of a young boy in an ice cave sets off a dangerous train of events. The freezing beauty of Antarctica contrasts with the bleak, cruel nature of the people Laura encounters as she uncovers the mystery. You can read Karen Chisholm's review here.
Other outstanding books included Zane Lovitt's Black Teeth, L A Larkin's Devour, Garry Disher's Signal Loss, our own Godfather's Win, Lose or Draw, Christopher Donald Blake's Macleay's Swallowtail and Amanda Ortlepp's Running Against the Tide.
As well as Best Fiction, there are awards for Best True Crime and Best First Fiction – you can find their 2017 shortlists here. The awards will be presented on September 1st at a free event as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival.
This article was first published in the Newtown Review of Books on 15 August 2017.
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Guterres stressed that the solution to protecting Palestinian civilians is a political settlement to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
United Nations: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a new report that options to protect Palestinian civilians under Israeli occupation range from establishing an armed military or police force to deploying civilian observers or beefing up the UN presence on the ground.
But the prospect of getting Israel's consent, especially for a UN or non-UN armed force, remains highly unlikely.
* A MORE ROBUST UN PRESENCE ON THE GROUND: He said additional UN human rights, political and coordination experts could strengthen UN prevention capabilities, increase the organization's visibility and "demonstrate the international community's attention and commitment" to protecting Palestinian civilians.
* ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND BETTER ACCESS TO ENSURE THE WELL BEING OF CIVILIANS: He said expanding current UN programs and humanitarian and development assistance could more effectively address Palestinian needs. But he said the UN appeal for about $540 million for basic services and support to 1.9 million vulnerable Palestinians is currently only 24.5 percent funded. And he said major cuts in funding to the Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, "have created an increasingly complicated and desperate socio-economic environment." This was a reference to the U.S. cut of around $300 million in funding for UNRWA earlier this year which has resulted in a $217 million budget shortfall.
* DEDICATED CIVILIAN OBSERVERS: He said establishing a UN or non-UN civilian observer mission with a mandate to report on the protection of Palestinian civilians and their well-being "would particularly be relevant in sensitive areas such as checkpoints, the Gaza fence, and areas near settlements." He said the observers could provide local mediation.
* PHYSICAL PROTECTION: He said the UN could provide armed military or police forces, if given a mandate by the Security Council, "to deter and, if necessary, ensure the safety of the civilian population." As an alternative, he said a group of "like-minded" countries operating under a UN mandate to provide physical protection rather than a UN mission.
Guterres stressed that a UN civilian observer mission or a new military or police mission established by the UN, or operating under a UN mandate, would require Security Council approval. He also noted that UN missions currently operating in the region don't provide for the protection of civilians and it would be up to council members to expand mandates to include protection.
The Palestinian Authority "incites its people to demonize and attack Jews, and Hamas, a terrorist organization, exploits those under its control by intentionally putting them in harms way," Danon said.
The Trump administration has been a strong defender of its close ally Israel in the council, and vehemently opposed the resolution approved by the General Assembly in June that called for Guterres' proposals. So the chances of a U.S. veto in the council on any armed force to protect Palestinian civilians or a civilian observer mission are high.
Guterres also criticized "the indiscriminate launching of rockets, mortars and incendiary devices from Gaza by Hamas and other Palestinian militants towards Israel" and the building of tunnels into Israel, saying these acts threaten the lives of Israelis and Palestinians alike.


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"You think when you reach a certain age, things will start making sense. Then you find out you're just as lost as you were before."
That was the key. That was the passage that unlocked Knight of Cups for me. We hear the words midway through Terrence Malick's latest visual poem, by the actor Brian Dennehy, who occasionally appears in Knight of Cups as Christian Bale's father. This being a Malick film, Dennehy gently eases the words out in a melancholic voiceover. Malick's voiceovers are obscure, lyrical passages. They blend together, subtly evoking emotion. It could be easy to miss the Dennehy passage quoted above, but when I heard it, Knight of Cups suddenly made sense. Everything clicked. I understood the world. I understood the tone, the feeling. I understood the plight of the main character, Rick (Bale). I understood what Malick was trying to say, even if my interpretation wasn't what Malick was exactly trying to say.
There's a key problem with the way films are received. Film, more than any artistic medium, needs to be understood by the masses. People need to agree on what it's about, who the characters were, how strong the ending was – with film, people seek validation that their interpretation of the movie is correct. I've never understood that. Perhaps it's because, with movies, the visual world is created for us. When we read a book, we create our own visual interpretation of the world the book establishes. No matter how detailed the text is, we fill in the gaps. In film, the gaps are often filled in for us. Maybe that's why people seek a collective opinion on the movies they see.
There is no blanket interpretation of Knight of Cups. This film is not meant to be understood the same by everyone. If I look at an abstract painting for three minutes, then you look at the same abstract painting for three minutes, we're likely to walk away with completely different understandings of what that painting means. Music works similarly. You can play the same song for nine people, and they're all going to have a different emotional connection to it. Art speaks to all of us differently, because art is a reflection of who we are and what we've been through.
But with film, this idea of subjective experience is often overlooked. In the month since Knight of Cups' domestic release, I've silently observed social media feuds, and read dozens of think pieces, in which combatants proclaim what Knight of Cups is, and if it is any good. Everyone seems to think they are right, but what I'm positing is that no one is right. Not with a film like Knight of Cups. With a movie as obscure and fluid as this, no one is right and no one is wrong. There's no right way to interpret a painting, just like there's no wrong way to connect with a piece of music.
Knight of Cups is a film I admired a great deal. I had a profound emotional experience watching it. The film is one of the most thematically confident meditations on depression, emotional apathy, and fear of worthlessness that I have ever seen. This being a Terrance Malick film, none of these ideas are explicitly mentioned. Instead of long monologues about depression, Malick chooses to follow Rick, an aimless Hollywood screenwriter, around for an uncertain amount of time. We interpret Rick's despair through his rigid body language; we see hints of his anguish through the many women he lets in, and quickly forces out, of his life.
Rick is a man surrounded by privilege who doesn't care about privilege. His agents beg him to take high-paying jobs, offering him literal bundles of cash to commit. His hip yet cold apartment is robbed. His former lover cries in his arms. Nothing registers.
He runs on a beach with a beautiful woman, walks the streets of Skid Row, drifts through an A-list party in the Hollywood Hills, stares off at a strip club in Vegas. It's all the same to him. It doesn't matter where he is, who he's with, or what he's doing, Rick can't escape the emotional hell of his trapped mind. Why is he like this? Brief glimpses of his family are the most prudent evidence. His brother (Wes Bentley) is a recovering junkie who carries himself with an air of unpredictability, his father (Dennehy) seems an angry, somewhat regrettable old man who is resented by his sons. Does that explain Rick's plight? Can depression be explained that easily? Can genuine apathy be understood in mere glimpses?
That's Knight of Cups. A film that follows a man as he tries to find purpose. We follow him through the pockets of Los Angeles (beautifully captured by maestro cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki) navigating its crowded but lonely streets. We follow him as he begins a relationship (with Imogen Poots or Freida Pinto, Cate Blanchett or Natalie Portman, this model or that one) and ends it the moment any semblance of connection is felt. We follow him through an empty apartment and an open road, where the possibilities are far from over over. In fact, perhaps, the possibilities for Rick have only just begun. A
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thevoid99 April 27, 2016 at 12:46 AM
I think you and I are definitely on the same page as it relates to this film. In fact, I was only one of 2 people that saw the film in the theaters but the person that was some seats behind me I think left 10 minutes into the film. I stayed on and wow... it's really unlike anything. You're right, there are no correct interpretations.
Plus, I'm convinced, like some, that this film is part of a trilogy of films Malick is making as it relates to stories that are semi-biographical or just very personal. This film is based on his time in Hollywood during the 70s while To the Wonder was based on his second marriage and how it fell apart, and The Tree of Life was based on his childhood.
Now I await for what he does next and.... get that box set of The New World from Criterion this year.
Awesome man, so glad you liked this one as much as I did. I will seek out your review shortly.
You know (and I can't believe I feel this way), but the extended cut of The New World feels like a regression. Perhaps it's because I saw (and fell in love with) the theatrical version 10 years ago, but the extended cut feels a little too detached to me. Although I will give Malick credit, it is a radically different cut than the original.
Brittani Burnham April 27, 2016 at 8:05 AM
I tried to like Malick's films and I just can't do it. They sound so good on paper, then I never seem to see them they way everyone else does. I suppose that's in line with what you talked about, how we all see different things. I like to speculate on films after I've seen them, which is why I don't mind ambiguous endings. I'm glad this film worked for you. Great write up!
Thanks Brittani! And of course I respect your opinion on Malick's films - personal taste is personal taste! What I don't get are the people who feel the way that you do, yet they watch each one of his films expecting to finally get them. And when they don't "get" it, they bash it. THAT is what never made sense to me. If something isn't for you, hey, fair enough, but why continually bash something that you knew wasn't for you in the first place?
Jeff Stewart April 27, 2016 at 11:53 PM
So glad this one worked for you as much as it did for myself. I didn't know how to write about how this one did it for me, it's near impossible to express in words. I did my best because this is my favorite of his since Thin Red Line. Unmistakably a Malick film, but at the same time a very different approach, never straying from a first-person, or even conscience, P.O.V instead of the thoughts and feelings of a group of people. My screening had the most walk-outs I've ever seen, but I was entranced by the spell of the filmmaker and Bale's performance.
So good man. Really pleased we liked this one so much. Did you post your review? If so, I will seek it out shortly. I loved everything about this movie!
Yes it's posted on my site right here: http://cityuponahillmedia.com/blog/film-review-knight-of-cups/
Again I did my best to explain my admiration for the visionary that is Malick. Please leave a comment!
Will do buddy!
Matt St.Clair April 28, 2016 at 8:41 PM
I'm split down the middle on Terrence Malick. I saw the Tree of Life which had terrific performances by Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain. But the sequences that consist of nature shots became a bit too repetitive.
So I'm unsure on this one.
thevoid99 April 29, 2016 at 9:55 PM
Well, as someone who is a Malick fan. You'll definitely not like this and his previous film To the Wonder. They're sort of avant-garde in a way because they don't play by traditional narrative ideas or rules. It's really very loose and it's more about the experience of what one would go through in a situation in a man's life as these two films as well as The Tree of Life are semi-biographical.
Yeah, I agree with thevoid here. If you're more into Badlands/The Thin Red Line Malick, then To the Wonder and Knight of Cups probably won't be your thing. That said, Knight of Cups doesn't contain extended passages of the creation of Earth or anything. But, like thevoid said, it certainly does not follow the conventions of narrative storytelling. But hell, I'd still urge you to give it a go, you know?
Katy Rochelle May 1, 2016 at 12:12 AM
Nice review! Somehow I feel like this is right up my alley since The Tree of Life was. Your notes about there being no right way to interpret art is spot-on.
Alex Withrow May 2, 2016 at 1:37 AM
Thanks Katy! I'd love to hear your thoughts on this one if you get around to seeing it!
Chris May 3, 2016 at 2:56 PM
Yeah, the cinematography is worth the ticket price alone! The critics were quite harsh on Knight of Cups, I agree it's beautiful, and as a Malick fan I enjoyed it.
For me, his latest is better than To The Wonder, but not as great as Tree of Life and his 70s stuff.
Alex Withrow May 8, 2016 at 9:45 PM
So glad you liked it! I agree that To the Wonder is his weakest effort (yet I still adore it). And I completely agree that the critics gave Knight of Cups such an unfair beating.
Henrik J. May 6, 2016 at 1:43 PM
I'm a pretty big Terrence Malick fan, but this movie hasn't really interested me until now. I wasn't a big fan of The Tree of Life and never even watched To the Wonder, but i think i'll give this a shot after reading this review. It's really strange to see him release this many movies so close to each other with two more coming out this year according to Imdb.
Oh man, I hope you like it! In my opinion, it's best to just let these later Malick films wash over you. There is very little conventional narrative drive in Knight of Cups, but that's why I absolutely adore it. Let me know what you think!
Mark Woollon June 10, 2016 at 2:54 PM
Saw a couple of clips and was far from impressed- but its Malick so I'll get to it eventually. On the topic of this years reviews: Are you going to do 'Embrace of the Serpent'?
I really adored Knight of Cups, but it certainly isn't for everyone. I'll be curious to hear your thoughts. I have yet to see Embrace of the Serpent, but I'm very interested in it.
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1. Laguna Bacalar Sublacustrine Ecology and Biogeochemistry: the influence of cenote coupling.
Laguna Bacalar is an important site for gaining a better understanding of how humans interact with fragile environmental systems. This relationship remains one of the great scientific challenges of our time. Worldwide, freshwater demand exceeds supply; however, the Yucatan Peninsula, and specifically the Laguna Bacalar area has a luxury freshwater supply, however the manner in which human development interacts with the water resources of the area has severely reduced usability and created a highly fragile co-existence between the two.
Laguna Bacalar is one of the most visibly beautiful lakes on the planet. In fact, put on the table photos of all world class lakes and choose one that is visibly unique-- virtually everyone will pick Laguna Bacalar. This exercise directly translates the visible uniqueness of Laguna Bacalar into a unique ecology and biogeochemistry. Water clarity of this oligotrophic, nitrogen limited system is superb, however, the eutrophication potential as a result of increasing seepage, point and non-point discharges looms large. If the lake reaches its nutrient load thresholds a series of ensuing ecological/biogeochemical changes will likely occur.
Laguna Bacalar has many characteristics of the Caribbean including sharing its beautiful hues of turquoise and blue, prompting the ancient Maya to name it "Laguna de Siete Colores" (Lake of Seven Colors). Several marine species have adapted to the Laguna's freshwaters and also freshwater stromatolites, mangroves, some saltwater fishes (e.g., tarpon, bone fish and skate), and resident cichlids and crocodilians. Sublacustrine cenotes (karst sink holes) are located both within the lake itself and on its adjacent shores. The most notable of the land cenotes is believed to be 200 meters deep (some suspect much less) and has a rich cultural history--the Maya believed they were spiritual places.
The Yucatan Peninsula is composed mainly of limestone which is highly permeable and soluble. Dissolution of the rock has created a karst topography with sinkholes (cenotes). High precipitation in the rainy season directly infiltrates to the underground through fractures and sinkholes, then flows through the porous and fractured media and finally discharged to the sea or surface waters such as Laguna Bacalar. The peninsula is perhaps the largest freshwater lens system in the world. A fresh water lens, resulting from the infiltration of rainwater, overlies seawater and in the peninsula is thin due to intrusion of the sea water. In areas close to the marine coastline, groundwater becomes saline below 5 or 10 m from the surface. Most extraction wells for water supply are located in the interior about 20 or 30 km from the coastline where the fresh water lens is developed to the depth of around 50 m. However, over exploitation via over pumping the aquifer and contamination by sewage may cause local salinization of the freshwater lens by salt water intrusion and by the breakdown of the halocline density barrier between the two. These processes along with rapidly increasing commercial development directly threaten the pristine waters of Laguna Bacalar. The lake today is on the cusp of becoming one of the most threatened lakes in the world. Recently discovered by the tourism industry, construction of new accommodations is accelerating rapidly, yet there is no concomitant effort for environmental protection, e.g. there is no infrastructure for sewage treatment and little ecological scientific data are available. The area is rated at the highest conservation priority of the entire Caribbean ring (Marxan output, Modeled Conservation Priority, Caribbean).
Sublacustrine Cenotes
Cenotes are of two types, those on land and those that are sublacustrine (submarine). The cenotes on land have been studied by the archeological community and others. Our work centers on the sublacustrine cenotes, specifically those of Laguna Bacalar that have never been studied. While the land cenotes are more abundant than the sublacustrine cenotes, the latter are of particular interest because they are the direct conduits of freshwater exchange between land and Laguna Bacalar. It is well documented that Maya used the land cenotes as ceremonials sites, however their use of the sublacustrine cenotes is not documented (unstudied). Our work focuses on the freshwater exchange and cenote ecology (rather than their archeology). The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) is advised of our work.
Cenotes found in the Yucatan Peninsula are either land based or underwater (sublacustrine or submarine). The sublacustrine cenotes in Laguna Bacalar are karst formed extensions from the underground freshwater lens network of aquifers that exit in the Laguna to the extent that Laguna Bacalar can be viewed as an extension of the underground freshwater aquifer. Thus, the sublacustrine cenotes provide an important window for measuring the interface of water exchange between the Laguna and the City of Bacalar, population 10,000 and the largest community on the lake, and the most ecologically threatening to Laguna Bacalar. It is believed that the sublacustrine cenotes have never before been studied for their ecological or archeological contribution (we are communicating with Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán Archeology to participate in the videography and other studies of the cenotes). While the Maya used the land cenotes extensively for ceremonies, it is not known if the sublacustrine cenotes were used similarly. Several of the sublucustrine cenotes lie near the shore allowing access, but would seem more problematic for hosting ceremonies than land cenotes.
Specific Exploration and Research Objectives:
The research objectives will provide information related to exchanges via the underground conduit from the City of Bacalar, the paleolimnological history, and ecological changes in the Laguna.
1) Initial visual exploration of submerged cenotes. A small Video Ray ROV capable of diving to depths up to 500 feet will be deployed in the sublacustrine cenotes to acquire video and still photography of cenote structure. This will document substrate characteristics that may provide valuable data on groundwater seeps into the cenote. It will also document the debris field status of the cenote and presence of possible archeological finds. The ROV observations also will determine the sampling locations to facilitate the safe sampling of the substrate for the paleolimnology core retrieval using the benthos corer.
2) Collection of in situ, real time data on temperature, conductivity, oxygen, and pH as a function of depth via a sensor package outfitted on the ROV. These measurements will assist in determining the existence of fresh groundwater inflows or marine saltwater intrusions nearer the bottom of the cenotes. Laguna Bacalar rests in the Bacalar fault that may be impervious to saline intrusion; however the subterranean saltwater under the freshwater lens could seep to the cenotes. If this is the case the density and salinity structure within the cenotes may be harbingers of salt water intrusions and useful in monitoring the degree of sea water intrusion into the freshwater lens. This would have a direct impact on the resource management of freshwater supplies and their utilization. Additionally, nitrogen and phosphorous nutrient data, chloride, total alkalinity, CaCO3 hardness, will be analyzed from waters of the cenotes.
3) Examine the utility of geochemical tracers as tools for estimating ground water inputs to the cenotes and to the lake. Profiles (surface to bottom) of radon-222 will be measured in lake and cenote waters collected by pumping from the ROV or via Niskin bottles. Radon-222 is a short lived (half life = 3.8 days) naturally occurring radioactive noble gas produced in the U-238 decay series from radium-226 (half life = 1600 years). Ra-226 present in the carbonate rock can support high activities of radon-222 dissolved in ground water. Radon has frequently been used as a tracer for submarine ground water discharge and for estimating ground water inflow into nearshore areas (e.g. southeast Atlantic shelf, off the Everglades in Florida Bay, deep groundwater inflow into the Gulf of Mexico, etc., see e.g. Cable et al 1996). The high void karstification of the Yucatan should accentuate radon levels and the relatively rapid movement of groundwater over relatively long distances. The sublacustrine cenotes may serve as a focal point for groundwater inflow, much like sink holes observed in carbonate formations in the Great Lakes (Biddanda et al. 2006). The observation of excess radon-222 in the bottom waters of the cenotes may serve both to identify the existence of groundwater inflow and to estimate inflow rates.
4) Determine the recent 150 year paleolimnology and ecology of the cenotes and Lake Bacalar using the sub-fossil profile history recorded in the sediments of the lake and cenotes. Profiles of fauna and flora fossil remains may yield valuable information on ecological trends, hurricane perturbations, and also cultural changes along the lake's shore over the last 150 years. Gravity cores will be collected, sectioned, and dated using Pb-210 and Cs-137 (if applicable) geochronologies (Robbins and Edgington 1975). Subsamples will be examined for geochemical (organic C, nitrogen, phosphorus, C and N stable isotopes) and biological indicators of the ecological history (e.g. storm events, terrestrial inputs, eutrophication, species changes, etc.) of the system.
5) Quantitatively establish the population structure of the dreissenid blacked striped mussel (Mytilopsis sallei) to develop background level data. Sublacustrine cenotes are the 'point source' conduits of land generated activity potentially leading to nutrient enrichment and enhanced growth of black striped mussel populations. This work will establish reference data by which long term comparisons can be made. The black striped mussel, a cousin of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha), is as ecologically lethal as the zebra mussel in upper North America. At the moment, the black striped mussel in Laguna Bacalar is likely the only worldwide example of an invasive dreissenid appearing to be in ecological balance. However, this mussel will be one of the first responders to nutrient enrichment, reaching unprecedented population numbers similar to the zebra mussel in North America. If enrichment of the Laguna advances, food web and nutrient cycling perturbations, the severe over-colonization by dreissenids as seen elsewhere, and probably the destruction of the Laguna Bacalar unique freshwater stromatolites may ensue. Sala et al. (2000) noted that among other systems, lakes and cenotes are especially vulnerable to ecological disruption from invasive species
This study will involve counts of blacked striped mussels that currently live on natural hard substrates in the Laguna, and also from artificial substrates placed in the Laguna. The methodology will follow accepted practice and scientific rigor (replicated samples and statistical inference) used for zebra mussel monitoring in North America that have been studied extensively by Dr. Kaster for monitoring the colonization of zebra mussels in the Great Lakes since their arrival (20 years), and supported by funding from NOAA Sea Grant, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and major industries.
3. Comparative Biogeochemistry and Ecology of Submarine Cenotes in Laguna Bacalar, Mexico and Lake Huron, USA
Sublacustrine Cenotes:
These geographically distant systems represent two unique coupling ecosystems on earth. Understanding interface coupling of pristine systems remains one of the great scientific challenges of our time. Laguna Bacalar is a sentinel observatory for understanding of how humans interact with pristine land-freshwater-seawater coupled systems and the Lake Huron cenotes are novel within the Great Lakes. The sublacustrine cenote sinkholes of Laguna Bacalar are exchange conduits of the land-freshwater-seawater triad that have never been explored. Whereas Laguna Bacalar cenotes are characterized by a seawater lens the Lake Huron sinkholes have a groundwater lens. Thus the two systems present an intriguing opportunity for comparative biogeochemistry and ecology.
Few know of this 35 mile long freshwater lake, but Laguna Bacalar is Mexico's 2nd largest natural lake and one of the world's truly unique lakes, hidden by the dense Yucatan jungle. Laguna Bacalar is one of the most visibly beautiful, undeveloped lakes on the planet. This visual uniqueness directly translates into a unique biogeochemistry and ecology. Laguna Bacalar has many characteristics of the Caribbean including sharing its beautiful hues of turquoise and blue, prompting the ancient Maya to name it "Laguna de Siete Colores" (Lake of Seven Colors). Several marine species have adapted to the Laguna's freshwaters as have freshwater stromatolites, mangroves, some saltwater fishes (e.g., tarpon, bone fish and skate), and resident cichlids and crocodilians. The Yucatan Peninsula is composed mainly of limestone which is highly permeable and soluble (it has been described as Swiss cheese limestone; and numerous underground rivers flow to the Caribbean). This freshwater/saltwater lens is the largest known continuous lens system in the world.
The sublacustrine cenotes in Laguna Bacalar are karst formed extensions from the underground freshwater lens network of aquifers that exit to the Laguna, and that lie above and are density supported by sea water from the Caribbean. Thus, the sublacustrine cenotes provide an important window for measuring the interface flux of water exchange. Communities inhabiting these extreme environments support unique food webs and biogeochemical pathways. The Lake Huron cenotes are known to have groundwater influx and there is evidence of a community continuum from shallow water photosynthesis to deep chemosynthesis in the same lake. Preliminary research on Lake Huron is documented by Biddanda, et al. 2007: Exploration of a submerged sinkhole ecosystem in Lake Huron, have shown that photosynthesis-dominated shallow sinkholes give way to chemosysnthesis-dominated deep-water sinkholes in Lake Huron. It is not known if this relationship applies to Laguna Bacalar cenotes.
The cenotes on land have been studied by the archeological community and others. Our work centers on the sublacustrine cenotes, specifically those of Laguna Bacalar that have never been explored and which will allow a direct function comparison with the Lake Huron cenotes. It is well documented that Maya used the land cenotes as ceremonials sites; however their use of the sublacustrine cenotes has also not been explored. While our work will focus on the freshwater exchange and cenote ecology, vigilance for archeological evidence will be high. The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) will be advised of our work with the opportunity to participate in the first ever ROV explorations.
Exploration and Research Objectives: The research objectives for the two sites will provide a comparative biogeochemistry related to exchanges via the underground conduits and ascertain ecological relations of the Laguna Bacalar cenotes and Lake Huron sinkholes.
1) Initial visual exploration of submerged cenotes. A small ROV capable of diving to depths up to 400 feet will be deployed in the sublacustrine cenotes to acquire video and still photography of cenote structure. This will document cenote structure and substrate characteristics that may provide valuable data on groundwater seeps into the cenote. The ROV will also reconnaissance the debris field status of the cenotes for benefiting the deployment of the underwater mass spectrometry instrumentation.
2) Collection of in situ, real time data on temperature, conductivity, oxygen, and pH as a function of depth via a sensor package outfitted on the ROV. Additionally, a portable underwater Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry-MIMS system, capable of high throughput simultaneous detection of multiple analytes: methane, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, argon, carbon dioxide, will be used to observe important phenomena in the deep-cenote (e.g., hydrothermal venting, sea water intrusion, and benthic fluxes, including those emanating from methane hydrates). These measurements will assist in determining the existence of fresh groundwater inflows or marine saltwater intrusions nearer the bottom of the cenotes.
3) Naturally enriched radionuclides of radium (Ra) and their daughters (eg., Radon, Rn), will be used to quantify both the vertical and horizontal mixing rates of groundwater plumes entering the cenotes as well as quantify the amount of water discharged from these sinkhole vents. Because these radiochemical tracers decay with known and differing half-lives (100's of years to days), they can be used to estimate the relative ages of various processes, like mixing, simply by measuring the inherent properties found within the waters naturally. Among the tracers high in these groundwaters is Rn-222, a noble gas with a 3.8 day half life. Ra-226 present in the carbonate rock can support high activities of Rn-222 dissolved in ground water, which has frequently been used as a tracer for submarine ground water discharge and for estimating ground water inflow into nearshore areas (e.g. southeast Atlantic shelf, off the Everglades in Florida Bay, deep groundwater inflow into the Gulf of Mexico, etc.). The high void karstification of the Yucatan should accentuate radon levels and the relatively rapid movement of groundwater over relatively long distances. The sublacustrine cenotes may serve as a focal point for groundwater inflow, much like sinkholes observed in carbonate formations in Lake Huron. These radiochemical clocks may also be useful in estimating the age of groundwater in the sinkhole and relate that to the time scale of production or loss of other biogeochemically interesting constituents, like methane, oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, etc.
4) Comparative microbial communities of the two systems will determine dominance patterns of photosynthetic and chemosynthetic autotrophs along the vertical axis of the cenote habitats. The continuity (ecocline) of photosynthetic and chemosynthetic (Beggiatoa:proteobacteria) communities was discovered in fumaroles in Yellowstone Lake, USA, in the 1980s, but little is known of the dynamic interaction. In situ-MIMS will provide critical insights into such unique autotrophic relationships in the sublacustrine cenotes in Lakes Bacalar and Huron and allow comparison to other similar ecosystems.
4. Interfacing Laguna Bacalar Science and Community Stewardship
The Institute's mission is to draw attention to Laguna Bacalar's world class ranking from scientific based organizations, conservation minded groups, and world governmental bodies especially those that also have lakes of this stature. It is believed that by drawing attention to this unique Mexican natural treasure, those bodies capable of stewardship will be linked together to build the political, economic, business, and scientific consortium necessary to effectively preserve Laguna Bacalar. To do nothing will accelerate the gradual degradation of Laguna Bacalar and loss of this world treasure. As part of this stewardship effort it is critical in the Laguna Bacalar cultural setting to bridge science with community participation. Mexican and some international scientists are well aware of the groundwater and sanitation problems of the Yucatan Peninsula and numerous groups are working to bring this to the attention of both world and local communities.
There is a rich and complicated cultural history blended with contemporary economic issues that sets the backdrop in this region. The reality is that underlying issues still exist from the indigenous Caste War of Yucatan, ending in 1902. There are growth 'sensitivities' in this region not only among the Maya but also some villagers and rural folk. It has been expressed that these groups seem 'disconnected' from the rapid expansion of events that is occurring at Laguna Bacalar. This effort is intended to help bridge that gap.
This is a grass root effort to directly involve local participation in this international effort. The participatory outreach activities will first, thread communication paths into the community through a series of family theme events centered on Laguna Bacalar, and through the local schools. Second, a 'minds-on and hands-on' involvement for adults. Third, an investigative program for young people. Fourth, the formation of a community liaison group active in disseminating Laguna Bacalar science information to the community.
2. Impact of Archeology Tourism/Ecotourism on Laguna Bacalar
Few know of this 35 mile long freshwater lake, but Laguna Bacalar is Mexico's 2nd largest natural lake and one of the world's most unique lakes. The dense Yucatan jungle and tourist distractions such as Cancun and the Caribbean Riviera Maya coast have helped keep this secluded lake obscured, however commercial development is beginning to spill southward into the Costa Maya and Laguna Bacalar. The Bacalar area is growing rapidly and exceeds the infrastructure capacity to support tourism without seriously impacting the lake.
The new Ichcabal archeology site only a few kilometers from Bacalar. The ruins are as magnificent as others contemporary Mexico and Central America, such as the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan and Cholula, both in Mexico and the archaeological site of El Mirador-Nakba, in the Laguna del Tigre National Park, in the jungle Peten, Guatemala.* The largest building in the complex is 45 meters tall.* The ruin were discovered in ca. 1995 and have been excavated since that time. It is said, but not confirmed that it will open in about 5 years, or 2014. Adriana Velazquez, director of the National Institute of Archeology and History, has indicated that this find will be a 'turn around' event for the region.
This archeological find has made it imperative that research linkages be formed between professionals in archeology, ecotourism, and aquatic science that focus on potential impacts to Laguna Bacalar, Mexico's emerging world class lake.
*Alberto Cabezas/El Universal, 2005


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Visit of Yanukovych to China to bring relations between countries to new high level - Chinese President
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Chinese President Hu Jintao is sure that the state visit of President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych to his country will bring the relations between two countries to a new high level.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, Hu Jintao said this starting the negotiations between Chinese and Ukrainian official delegations that take place in Beijing now.
Chinese President on behalf of the Chinese government and Chinese people congratulated the President of Ukraine on his state visit to this country.
"You pay much attention to development of relations with China and apply efforts for development of friendship between Ukraine and China", underlined Hu Jintao addressing to V. Yanukovych.
He highly estimated foreign policy of the President of Ukraine, in which much attention is paid to China and development of the Ukrainian – Chinese relations is a priority of the Ukrainian state.
Chinese President expressed confidence that "this visit will give impetus to the further development of mutual understanding, friendship and cooperation between China and Ukraine".


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Guan Ong reaches out to Lindsay Mann for directorship
The chief executive at the young Asia credit shop Blue Rice seeks to strengthen the fund's governance.
Guan Ong, CEO and CIO at Blue Rice Investment Management (Brim), is in the process of registering Lindsay Mann as a director of the Brim Asian Credit Fund.
Mann recently retired from First State Investments, where he had run its Southeast Asian business from Singapore before transferring with the firm to his native Australia.
The Brim fund, which has been named best start-up hedge fund by AsianInvestor this year, currently has two directors: Ong and a representative from DMS, a service provider in the Cayman Islands, where the fund is domiciled.
This is enough to meet Singaporean law, but Ong wants to add a third director to the fund, to bolster transparency and governance. "He's the tie-breaker," Ong says and, referring to the recent British election, "he's like the Liberal Democrats".
Although Ong has known Mann for many years, the relationship has been professional, but not especially close. Ong was looking for someone known as a stickler for the rules. As a regional director at First State, Mann is obviously familiar with how regulation works in Singapore and in other jurisdictions. He helped First State become a prominent provider to Asian retail investors, a role that involved plenty of interaction with counterparties, investors and the government.
"I don't want investors or counterparties questioning me about how the fund is governed," Ong says. "The governance side is very important, but I need to focus most of my attention on the investment side."
The Brim Asian Credit Fund launched in December. The management company's COO is Vincent Ng. His previous role was head of operations at ARA Strategic Capital, an equity fund management arm of ARA Asset Management, which is an affiliate of Hong Kong conglomerate Cheung Kong Group.
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The Singapore-based credit hedge fund manager is closing its two strategies and will return money to investors at the year-end, says founder Guan Ong.
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Get inside the world of Minecraft with virtual reality. Build, explore and battle mobs - do all the things you know and love - but from a fresh perspective. Build, explore and battle mobs - do all the things you know and love - but from a fresh perspective.... The Walking House Addon is likely the weirdest addon you will find. One of the mobs in-game has been replaced by a four-legged house which has the ability to walk.
The Minecraft map of Cloud Walk is actually an innovative survival map in which, players, instead of being placed in a generic place such as an isolated island or an abandoned building, are taken to the skies fully filled with clouds that you will be navigating over.
Get inside the world of Minecraft with virtual reality. Build, explore and battle mobs - do all the things you know and love - but from a fresh perspective. Build, explore and battle mobs - do all the things you know and love - but from a fresh perspective.
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Pictureka EA Bright Light, Electronic Arts (U.S.A.), 2010
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Board game - Licensed - Puzzle-solving - Strategy
Besides play, this title features the following intents:
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Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
The gameplay of this title is Game-based
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The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
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Pictureka is a game for the downloadable XBLA version of Hasbro Family Game Night. It can only be played through Hasbro Family Game Night, which is offered as a free application. It is not included in the retail Xbox 360 version of the game, but it is featured in the Wii-exclusive retail title Family Game Night 2. Hosted by Hasbro's Mr. Potato Head, the game can be selected from a game room. The room can be browsed and holds trophies collected while playing. Each game comes with included hints. There are also different background themes to choose from.
Pictureka is a conversion of the board game and it is based around hidden objects. Players roll a dice with different colours to select a theme and then have to discover objects in a crowded environment with a strict time limit. For each successfully completed round a card is awarded with the colour of the theme. Possible questions are finding objects that make a sound, finding letters that make up a word, discovering an object based on an outline, etc. Some rounds are played on a single screen, while others take up multiple ones. Next to the classic mode there is also remixed mode with new types of questions, and a custom mode to choose specific features. Players controls a cursor to hover over the objects, which are then highlighted. Selecting them is done with a single button. [source:mobygames]
Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Xbox 360 (X360)
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filed: September 29, 2016 • Vermont
Municipal group says energy planning rules demand too much
Credit: By Mike Polhamus | Sep. 28, 2016 | vtdigger.org ~~
Legislators this year promised towns and regions more say in where renewable energy projects are built if the communities write energy plans that pass muster.
Now state regulators are deciding where to set that bar, and critics that include opponents of current Vermont energy policy say it's too high. However, some officials who have written energy plans in preparation for the new standards say the process wasn't terribly demanding.
The Public Service Department is seeking feedback on a draft set of standards laying out what a local energy plan must contain in order for the Public Service Board to accord the deference that Act 174 grants to communities.
In short, municipal and regional energy plans must conform to the state's energy goals and policies if they are to earn DPS certification.
According to Act 174, which was known as S.230 for much of its journey through the Legislature, the certification earns municipal and regional energy plans "substantial deference" before the PSB, allowing localities to specify where renewable energy projects should and should not go.
The Department of Public Service has until Nov. 1 to finalize the standards and will take public comments until Oct. 20. The department released a draft of standards Monday by which to determine whether energy plans are in line with state goals, policies and statutes.
Opponents of the state's energy policies panned Act 174 when legislators approved it earlier this year, and they received the department's draft standards with disapproval.
Although department officials said they're still revising the standards, those revisions aren't likely to satisfy the most vocal critics, who say that without veto power, towns lack meaningful participation in proceedings for renewable energy proposals.
The group Energize Vermont, a frequent critic of wind power generation in Vermont, said the draft standards will require too much work.
The standards call for "sophisticated analyses that require data that is not available," Energize Vermont Executive Director Mark Whitworth said in an email. Whitworth did not explain which analyses he was referring to and did not respond to requests for an interview.
Whitworth accused various state entities of colluding with Gov. Peter Shumlin to advance a political agenda. Neither existing law nor localities' new energy plans will prevent the Public Service Board from manufacturing decisions that further this agenda, he wrote.
Furthermore, he wrote, the Department of Public Service does not understand what's involved in writing energy plans that would meet the standards it's drafted.
Although the Vermont League of Cities and Towns welcomed the nascent Act 174 as legislators debated it this year, the organization's public policy and advocacy director, Karen Horn, echoed Whitworth's critique, saying the draft standards appear onerous for small towns in particular.
"Our real concern has been that the department seems not to have a particularly good understanding of the capacity of small towns, in particular, to do the kind of research and analysis involved here," Horn said. "We're concerned that it's requiring a heavy lift from small towns."
Horn said as well that Vermont cities and towns remain uncertain how the Public Service Board will treat the term "substantial deference."
"We're concerned that the Public Service Board, the way they're going to apply 'substantial deference,' is not going to be quite as significant as towns expect once they've gone through this really complicated planning process," she said.
Department of Public Service officials did carry out a pilot project last year with three regional planning commissions before legislators adopted Act 174, to test whether the concept of regional energy plans worked in practice.
All 11 regional planning commissions are currently drafting regional energy plans with assistance from the Department of Public Service, said Deputy Commissioner Jon Copans.
These regional plans should provide municipalities with most of the tools they need to write their own energy plans, said Jim Sullivan, executive director of the Bennington County Regional Commission.
The commission was one of the three in the pilot project, and all three are in the final stages of writing their energy plans, having begun the process in conjunction with the Department of Public Service before Act 174 was written.
Sullivan said the process should be relatively straightforward for towns, since much of the heavy lifting will have been done by regional planning commissions. The remaining eight regional planning commissions are expected to have completed their own energy plans by May, he said.
Sullivan said there's no reason to believe the Public Service Board won't afford regions and towns the substantial deference Act 174 describes.
The plans require towns and regions to comprehensively evaluate and map out future energy needs and development, Sullivan said, and it's logical that the Public Service Board would give the resulting documents the weight required by law.
Regional energy plans, and the overarching regional plans of which they're a part, demand comprehensive planning that considers energy efficiency, transportation, energy sources and other factors, Sullivan said. Of all that goes into a regional plan, he said, the question of where to site renewable projects – and where not to – is a fairly small part.
"The issue of renewable energy is extremely important and quite challenging, but it may be the easiest part of the energy puzzle to put together," Sullivan said. "That's why it's good (the planning) is so comprehensive, because it gets towns to consider all these issues, and not just the siting."
Department officials said they're seeking participation from Vermonters to refine the standards and will take public comments by email, at a meeting and by whatever other means they arrive.
The department is holding the meeting in Randolph on Oct. 11 at the Chandler Music Hall upper gallery space, at 71-73 Main St., between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
The draft standards and related documents can be found here.
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Source: By Mike Polhamus | Sep. 28, 2016 | vtdigger.org


Would love to get this photo shoot.
Amanda Coe and Sammy Bohy!
i vote for Amanda Coe and Sammie Bohy as your valentines day couple. they are adorable together and you could do wonders capturing their love.
I would like to see Kristinna Bennett get this.


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Poundland and Mondelēz go to war over Toblerone lookalike
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Poundland to redesign Toblerone lookalike after Mondelēz settlement
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UK retailer Poundland has gone to war against Mondelēz International over the sale of a Toblerone chocolate bar lookalike.
Last month, Poundland reportedly delayed the launch of its lookalike, called Twin Peaks, after a dispute with Mondelēz.
Poundland had revealed plans to launch Twin Peaks in June. The chocolate is inspired by the double hill on top of Wrekin Hill in Shropshire, UK, and was created in partnership with a Birmingham-based chocolatier.
Toblerone, on the other hand, contains milk chocolate with honey and almond nougat, and the triangular shape of the bar depicts the Matterhorn, a mountain in The Alps.
In November last year, Toblerone announced it had changed the weight of its products in the UK.
The new shape features wider gaps between the triangles, the 400g bar is reduced to 360g, while the 170g bar, which is sold only in the UK, is reduced to 150g.
"We carry these costs for as long as possible, but to ensure Toblerone remains on-shelf, is affordable and retains the triangular shape, we have had to reduce the weight of just two of our bars in the UK, from the wider range of available Toblerone products," said Mondelēz at the time.
According to The Guardian, the parties have filed a claim and counterclaim at the English High Court.
"Poundland says the triangular prism shape of the Toblerone bar, which was registered under an EU trademark in 1997, is no longer distinctive partly because of the existence of the new version," said The Guardian.
Mondelēz's 3D mark protecting Toblerone registered at the UK Intellectual Property Office covers white, yellow, red, blue and black colours on the branding.
Mondelēz filed a trademark suit, accusing Poundland of infringing its marks on the overall shape of the bar, the chocolate peaks, the gold packaging and the Matterhorn logo.
A spokesperson for Poundland said: "As we've consistently said, Twin Peaks is still in development. We'll share a launch date when we're able."
Jason Rawkins, IP partner at Taylor Wessing, explained that product shapes are "notoriously difficult" to protect by trademarks as Nestlé recently found with its KitKat bar.
"Here, Mondelēz does have the benefit of a trademark registration for the traditional Toblerone shape, but the issue will be whether the double peaks of the Poundland product are similar enough," he said.
Rawkins added that Poundland's position in the case will not be helped by its packaging having some definite similarities to Toblerone's, with the "same type of red lettering on a gold background and a similar style of mountain image".
Karen Lee, senior associate at Edwin Coe, agreed that shape marks are difficult to protect, but that unlike in the KitKat case, Mondelēz has already obtained a trademark for the triangular prism shape of the Toblerone bar.
"The question may come down to whether Mondelēz, by shifting to a slightly different shape of the bar, is rendering itself vulnerable to a cancellation action for non-use by failing to use the trademark as registered," she said.
Lee added that even if Mondelēz loses its trademark and is unable to stop Poundland from using its Twin Peaks, "it may be able to stop Poundland from using its packaging which bears some similarities with the Toblerone packaging on the grounds of passing off".
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Secret Quonsar is MetaFilter's annual Secret Santa gift exchange, first suggested in 2007 by parmanparman here. Public suggested we rename it "secret quonsar", after quonsar, whose account had been disabled shortly beforehand. In 2010, a vote was held to determine the official name (name candidates included Secret Santa, Secret Schmoopy, and Secret quonsar), and Secret quonsar won the vote.
Since it began in 2007, the exchange has grown rapidly. Argyle set up the first exchange at Elfster, which hosted it for the first few years. In 2011, a combination of google services was pressed into play to handle the complexity of multiple swap groups and organizers. Over its history, the sign-up and shipping deadlines have moved earlier to provide more buffer space for shipping, and particularly, shipping internationally (the combination of travel times, increased cargo traffic, and 2 sets of customs, tend to slow the process considerably). Over the history of the swap, the spending guidelines (currently $10 to $20 USD) have also been refined.
Argyle was the first organizer, followed by IndigoRain, and julen. As the swap grew in size, teams of quonsar elves managed the swap, including various combinations of: julen, phunniemee, crunchland, arcticseal, and megami.
Each year approximately 12-20 people volunteer to be second chance giftors, also known as the second chancers. These folks will step in to send a gift to a member of the swap who - for whatever reasons - did not get a gift. This is often in addition to the gifts they sent out as part of the swap.
You must have an account to participate, either as a primary participant OR second chancer.
There is also an occasional phenomenon where one user will be inspired by something another user posts to MetaTalk or MetaFilter and will want to send that person a gift independent of the swap. The sq organizers are usually happy to facilitate this.
It is up to each individual participant to determine how anonymous he or she wishes to be in the contest of the swap. When signing up, users can provide just a first initial instead of a first name. Last names - particularly if you are shipping internationally - should be provided. If you feel uncomfortable providing a name, you can provide a business name. By having a recipient that a post office or shipping service or Customs will not question, you improve your chances of a gift actually arriving.
The organizers are happy to anonymize any communication between giftor and giftee at any point in the process. In sending the gift to the person they drew they can provide as much or as little information about themselves to their drawn giftee. After the gift arrives, a giftor can choose to reveal if themselves (if not already revealed) if they wish. There are some folks who choose to retain as much anonymity as possible. Others are much more obvious.
The organizers are privy to all knowledge that the participant provides when signing up. Email addresses are not shared with anyone, including the people whose name the participant drew, and those who drew the participant's name. They are purely for the organizers to use to communicate with users.
The organizers will delete all information provided by participants, including emails, when the secret quonsar swap is over. Information will not be retained from year to year.
The only information preserved year-to-year are the email addresses provided specifically for the purposes of being notified when secret quonsar swap signups open each year.
The first Secret Quonsar, in 2007, had 73 participants.
The second Secret Quonsar, in 2008, more than doubled participation with 164 Mefites joining in.
2009 saw 252 participants joining in the fun.
In 2011, 315 people signed up, in 6 swap groups: International, USA only, UK only, Canada only, Europe, Asia & Australia. 54% of people who signed up went for International (send anywhere, receive from anywhere).
In 2014, 399 people signed up in 6 swap groups (International, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, US Only, UK Only, Europe). Participants hailed from 42 US States, 6 Canadian provinces, 2 Australian states, and two national capital districts. 1 person specified that he or she lived on Earth.
In 2015, 439 people signed up, representing 19 countries, 6 Canadian provinces, 42 US States (and the District of Columbia), and 4 Australian States (and the ACT!).
We did the swap in 2016, too, but julen forgot to save the statistics for the year.
Sign-ups generally open in November, although the opening date has moved earlier and earlier in the month over the history of secret quonsar. Although it will also be posted in Metatalk, many users choose to sign up for a once-yearly email notifying them that that signups are open. This secret quonsar sign-up notification form will never be used for any other purpose. Previous participation in secret quonsar does not automatically add your email to the list; each year, all secret quonsar information gathered as part of the swap is flushed from the system. Only this list of folks who signed up for the notification is retained from year-to-year.
Participants may only sign up once per swap/year regardless of the number of sockpuppets involved.
The exchange is managed out of a gmail account, secretquonsarswap. There are documents associated with the account for managing the notification list of folks who want to know when signups are live, as well as a form that can be opened to the public to gather those signups. There are scripts available to mail out swap notifications and to mail out sign-up is live notifications.
When signups are open, the organizer should trigger the sign-up is live notifications to be sent out, and should post a new post in Metatalk (if a secret quonsar thread is not already open) announcing it. Signups should be open for at least a week. In the middle of the open period, the organizer should send a message to the moderators asking for the signups to be put on the sidebar.
During this period, requests may be made for additional swap groups in the Metatalk thread. In addition, if the organizer(s) recognize that some groups do not have enough participants to make up a swap group, they should either recruit new ones, or contact those folks who have signed up for underpopulated groups to make sure their needs will be met.
Signups close 1-2 days before the randomization/swap date to ensure all data is in order.
The organizers will send out automated signup confirmation messages within 12 hours of a signup. If no confirmation message has been received in 24 hours, that recipient should contact the organizers so that they can work out a reliable solution.
It is strongly recommended that organizers both share the documents with their personal google accounts and back up the spreadsheets that contain signups, swap information, second-chancer information, and other administrative tools. This will help insure uninterrupted troubleshooting and communication.
There are documents in Google Drive that provide an overview of how to run the swap. The previous year's organizers hold the passwords to the account until shortly before the prepwork for the next year's secret quonsar swap is done. This is done to give us the best change of transition if some subset of the organizers go missing.
Users click the signup hyperlink provided by the exchange organizer (in MetaTalk, or via the opt-in signups are open email they recieve) to get to the signup page. This page will ask for MeFi handle, real name, address, swap region desired, and that the user provide some guidance to the person who draws their name. This guidance area is critical - it allows the individual to link to wishlists, provide hints, and note any special considerations. Are you diabetic? You don't want to get an assortment of candy from your Quonsar. Allergic to peanuts? No peanut butter fudge for you! Certain scents give you a migraine? Let your Secret Quonsar know!
Make sure you use an email address you check regularly and that you have added the gmail address to your whitelist. In 2013, gmail (among others) decided to mark many email messages sent from secretquonsarswap as SPAM.
After signing up, users will receive a confirmation of their signup information within 24 hours. Users should review the information to make sure names, addresses, and guidance is correct. Any corrections should be sent to the gmail account; the organizers will update the spreadsheets to make sure the proper information is sent to that person's secret quonsar.
Users will receive their swap email on American Thanksgiving, and have roughly 2 weeks to find and send a gift. If they need to ask further questions of their quonsee or update him or her about the gift status, the organizers are happy to anonymize that and be a conduit between the two parties.
Senders who know their gift will be arriving late should work with the organizers to ensure that the quonsee knows it will be arriving late and can act accordingly.
Recipients who haven't gotten a gift by Christmas (and have not heard from their quonsars arranging a different delivery timeframe) should contact the organizers who will try to figure out why the gift has not arrived.
For many people, finding the gift is suddenly intimidating. We recommend reading your quonsee's mefi contributions, seeing what other social networks and websites they post on, and taking account of any gifting guidance they may have provided. If you are still intimidated, it's OK. There have only been 4 known Terrible Gifts in the exchange, and they demonstrated a complete lack of reading comprehension, a complete lack of consideration and effort and thought, and massive quantities of unrestrained jerkitude. In other words, you have to work at getting and sending a terrible gift.
Stay within the cost guidelines ($10-20).
Pay attention to the guidance given, particularly information about allergies and dislikes (in addition to the things they like).
Don't send anything illegal. No one likes it when a marmoset escapes from the Priority Mail box and wreaks havoc on your local post office. Also, having your Customs Service show up at your door because someone sent you something illegal to import into your country is a terrible quonsar gift.
Getting something from a wishlist is not taking the easy way out - it's a good way to get your quonsee something they want. It makes them happy.
Home-made is awesome. People have sent their art, their baked goods, their jams and jellies, their homemade banjos, their music, their knitted and crocheted goods, and more to happy quonsees (if it's going to take a while to finish, the organizers will help you keep the quonsee informed).
If you are given no guidance (i.e. it just says "go nuts") in your swap notification, than that means they are open to any gift, and if they are not appropriately thankful (which is the vast majority of folks), they should have given you better guidance.
You don't have to reveal your identity. It's awesome when people do and form new friendships/respect/lessening of frequent tangling on MeFi, but it is not required. We will keep your identity a secret unless you tell us to do otherwise. So you can send as good a gift as you can think of, and choose to not reveal your mefi handle unless they are over the moon about the gift (or not reveal it even then).
Hooray! Your present has arrived. It would be awesome if you thanked - or at least acknowledged - your sender. If you know who the sender is, an email or a MeMail is an excellent way to do this. If you don't know who your sender is, the organizers would be happy to pass on a message your quonsar. We also recommend posting in (one of) the MetaTalk Secret quonsar Thank You threads. If you do thank your quonsee privately, feel free to also let the organizers that your gift has arrived. It helps them keep track of the overall swap.
The secret quonsar swap is managed out of the gmail account, secretquonsarswap. Any questions or concerns should be directed to that address. The organizer(s) will anonymize your questions during the gift-finding part of the process, check to see if a gift has arrived, check to see if a gift has been sent, and step in if a gift has not been sent or has been lost.
Yearly Traditions — MetaFilter has a number of other annual traditions.
This page was last modified on 11 October 2017, at 15:50.


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Read inspirational auto-biographies of great people like APJ Abdul kalam.
Tell your friends about your goals and ask for suggestions.
Do some researches on it like who has done it already and how should you plan to do it.
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Maintain a dairy and note down how far have you reached.
Breakdown your work into smaller sub-parts so it would not look like a burden to you.
Do some regular walking and exercise which keeps your mind fresh and you get new ideas to reach your goal.
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