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Gohring of the Water Forum said the proposal is being fashioned with all those priorities in mind. A formal proposal likely will be ready for publication by early summer.
It will call for dam operators to maintain between 285,000 and 365,000 acre-feet of water behind the dam every year in December. Holding more water in the dam in winter also would mean that releases throughout the year draw on colder water, which is beneficial to fish.
The proposal sets a new minimum standard for flows on the American River: 500 cubic feet per second. Currently, flows rarely drop below 800 cfs, but the bureau has the authority to release less than 500 cfs in extremely dry conditions, according to Gohring.
In many years, maintaining those storage levels would be easy. Despite the ongoing drought, the lake held 574,800 acre-feet last week. The reservoir’s maximum storage is 977,000 acre-feet. Last year, however, the dam held only 150,000 acre-feet in February. Dead-pool level is just under 100,000 acre-feet.
Bureau of Reclamation officials were guarded in their response to the proposal, but said they are open to discussing changes.
The concept has broad local support among water agencies that would benefit. Officials in Roseville and Folsom, communities heavily reliant on Folsom reservoir, are assisting, as is the Regional Water Authority, an association of 23 local agencies.
Ron Stork, of the environmental group Friends of the River, also is involved. He said the proposal would help American River fish, because it assures minimal flows and releases of cooler water.
“It’s a long time in coming and needs to happen,” Stork said.
Lester Snow, director of the California Water Foundation, a Sacramento-based nonprofit that advocates for sustainable water management, cautioned that the proposal goes only so far. He said, in the long-term, the region needs robust water-conservation efforts and judicious management of its groundwater, an assessment that many regional water officials say they agree with.
“There is not a single silver bullet,” Snow said.
The Libyan leader further said he believed that piracy was a way of counter defence against the greedy Western nations.
Col Gaddafi expressed the sentiments Thursday morning when he paid his first day official visit to African Union head quarter in Addis Ababa. He addressed AU officials and staff.
Col Gaddafi wore a colourful shirt decorated with Africa Union founding fathers portraits including Tanzanian Julius Nyerere, Ethiopian Haile Selassie, Kenyan Jomo Kenyatta, and Ghanaian Kwame Nkrumah.
During the inaugural tour, Col Gaddafi revealed his plan for the next seasons, saying he doesn’t believe that Somalia piracy was a crime.
“It is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia’s water resources illegally,’’ he said.
“It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children’s food,” Col Gaddafi argued.
He pointed out that some countries, particularly Western nations, were penetrating into a Somalia’s sovereign water territory, against the international law .
European, the US and China fleets are entering in the sovereign Somalia territory, because Africa doesn’t have strong and modern defence to push them back, Col Gaddafi said.
Nowadays, Somalis are reacting for justice and trying to defend their country against the unfair exploitation of resources, but Western countries have labelled it as piracy, Gaddafi explained.
The long-serving Libyan leader said he planned to convince other African leaders to claim compensation from colonial masters for their crimes and exploitation during the colonial era.
He disclosed that Libya will this week be claiming quarter billion dollars per year for the next 20 years compensation from Italy.
He said it was a time to ask Western world to pay for Africa’s past suffering and exploitation.
Col Gaddafi has refused any invitation from Italy for official visit for the past 40 years as part of his protest and claim.
During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council.
“If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet,” Gaddafi added.
Earlier Col Gaddafi asked for the support and ‘wisdom’ of Tanzanian president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, his predecessor, on how to handle the 53-member group’s day-to- day affairs.
President Kikwete, who retired from the chairmanship of the AU on Monday, headed the group at one of the most turbulent times during which he played a key role in mediating an end to the post-election violence in Kenya and the election dispute in Zimbabwe.
At the same time, Colonel Gaddafi said he would also seek the advice of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on how to deal with the continent’s matters. Col Gaddafi said that Obasanjo was in Addis to meet him.
Earlier, AU chairman Jean Ping said former South African president Thabo Mbeki had been picked by the AU to coordinate its legal matters like the threatened ICC indictment against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
At the press conference, Mr Ping was asked by journalists about his impression about the capability of Col Gaddafi, who took power through a coup close to 40 years ago, to lead a continent where coups are rampant.
Mr Ping said Col Gaddafi was “Elected democratically representing North Africa and it’s a decision of the assembly” .
Twenty US-allied states are considering imposing their own sanctions on N. Korea. The group also places “special responsibility” on China and Russia – whom they ‘forgot’ to invite to the summit – to find a way out of the crisis.
After a long day of discussions, the ‘Vancouver Foreign Ministers Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula,’ represented by 20 foreign affairs ministers, agreed to consider “unilateral sanctions” to curb North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
Participants “agree to consider and take steps to impose unilateral sanctions and further diplomatic actions that go beyond those required by UN Security Council resolutions,” a joint statement issued at the end of the summit reads.
The delegations specifically agreed to tackle North Korean financing that fuels nuclear research, revenue which they claim comes from the country’s criminal activities and cyber operations. While the foreign ministers agreed to support the recent intra-Korean dialogue that could potentially lead to an “easing of tensions” on the peninsula, the meeting in Vancouver recognized the importance of China and Russia in contributing to a long-term solution to the crisis.
The only problem is that neither Beijing nor Moscow – both neighboring North Korea and considered key players in the region – were invited to the talks. Instead, the conference was co-hosted by officials from the other side of the globe: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland.
“Some parties dusted off the Cold War term of ‘UN Command’ and convened a meeting where major parties to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue are not represented. One has to question what they are going after,” Kang noted.
For over half a year, the excluded Sino-Russian alliance has been urging the US and North Korea to implement a ‘double freeze’ initiative, which envisages Pyongyang suspending its nuclear and missile programs in exchange for the US and its allies halting military exercises in the region. Tillerson on Tuesday once again brushed aside the double freeze proposal, arguing instead that Pyongyang must be choked with sanctions until it agrees to sit down for talks… And not just any talks, but those that satisfy Washington’s definition of “credible” talks.
“We must increase the costs of the regime’s behavior to the point that North Korea must come to the table for credible negotiations,” Tillerson said.
Later, the US secretary of state declined to comment on whether Washington is considering military strikes against North Korea. “I think we all need to be very sober and clear-eyed about the current situation, as North Korea has continued to make significant advances in both its nuclear weapons, the lethality of those weapons, as demonstrated by their last thermonuclear test, as well as the continued progress they’ve made in their intercontinental ballistic missile systems,” Tillerson said. “We have to recognize that that threat is growing. And if Pyongyang does not choose the path of engagement, discussion, negotiation, then they themselves will trigger an option” of possibly going to war.
The Intra-Korean talks, which have resumed in the run-up to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, have so far shown promise in achieving some sort of peace on the peninsula. The dialogue between the two Koreas initiated in the wake of Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s speech has produced positive outcomes, despite Trump’s skepticism and his threatening tweet about his big nuclear button.
On Wednesday, the neighbors began the second round of vice-ministerial talks relating to Pyongyang’s possible participation in the Winter Olympics. Last Tuesday, the North agreed to send athletes and art performers to PyeongChang. Following talks on January 9, it was also agreed that military officials from the North and South will hold discussions in a bid to defuse tensions on the border, as well as to intensify exchanges in other areas.
Prior to that, Pyongyang and Seoul agreed to reopen their military hotline, as South Korea maintains that future dialogue with its neighbor can lead to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Belkin International brands – Belkin, Linksys, Wemo and Phyn – for the first time since merging with Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT), today announces its 2019 portfolio of connected things (Belkin) and connected home (Linksys, Wemo and Phyn) products at CES 2019. New connected things products include audio, USB-C, mobile power, and new cables and new connected home products include enhanced WiFi security features, HomeKit compatibility and Alexa integration across connected home products.
In 2018, FIT merged with Belkin International (Belkin®, Linksys®, Wemo®, Phyn®) to create a global consumer electronics leader. Today, this group leads in connecting people with technologies at home, at work and on the go within the accessories ("Connected Things" – Belkin brand) and the smart home ("Connected Home" – Linksys, Wemo and Phyn brands) markets.
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A startling jump in the number of people dying of liver disease has been triggered by an increase in alcohol consumption, Public Health England (PHE) has warned.
The first regional study into the preventable disease revealed a 40% rise in deaths over the past 12 years, with men twice as likely to be diagnosed as women.
The changes in pub opening hours and higher levels of alcohol consumption are directly linked to the “rapid and shocking” increase in death rates, according to Prof Julia Verne, who led the research for PHE.
The study uncovered a stark north-south divide, with more than four times as many male adults dying from the disease in Blackpool (58.4 per 100,000) than central Bedfordshire (13 per 100,000).
The results reveal significant variations in mortality across the country from liver disease – the only major cause of death and sickness which is on the rise in England while falling in the rest of Europe. As well as the variation in mortality rate, there are large variations in hospital admissions from liver disease.
Health experts have described death from liver diseases in the UK as a growing epidemic. It is the fifth “big killer” in England and Wales, after heart disease, cancer, strokes and respiratory disease. Between 2001 and 2012, the number of people who died with an underlying cause of liver disease in England rose from 7,841 to 10,948 – a 40% increase.
While about 5% of liver disease is attributable to autoimmune disorders (diseases characterised by abnormal functioning of the immune system), most liver disease is due to three main risk factors: alcohol, obesity and viral hepatitis.
Between 2001-03 and 2010-12, the average number of people per year who died with an underlying cause of liver disease in Blackpool increased from 58 to 64. The rate of alcohol specific hospital admissions in 2012-13 in Blackpool is significantly higher than the average in England for both males and females.
Andrew Langford, the chief executive of the British Liver Trust, welcomed the level of detail provided by the profiles in the PHE report. “They provide invaluable evidence as to how local authorities, clinical commissioning groups, public health professionals and the NHS can improve upon and increase prevention, early diagnosis and more timely care and treatment,” he said.
In March, MPs urged the government to address the “catastrophic consequences” of ignoring the burden of liver disease. The all-party parliamentary hepatology group said the government, the NHS and PHE must take action to curb the increase. Recommendations included a minimum 50p unit price for alcohol and the coordination of a national approach to preventing disease as well as ensuring better care and early diagnosis.
Over the past two decades, biologists have been busy studying one of our native mythological birds. At once the most widely distributed member of the crow family, and a figure revered across the globe by civilizations both ancient and modern, the common raven (Corvus corax) is anything but ordinary.
In Norse mythology, the god Odin had two ravens who flew around the world gathering information for him, and the Irish giant and culture-hero Cú Chulainn was honored by a visit from the goddess Morrígan who appeared as a raven. To the modern Haida and Tlingit peoples out West, the raven is a bird of surpassing intelligence, as well as a culture-hero who is responsible for creating humans, and causing much mischief as an inveterate trickster.
In the Tower of London, a flock of at least six ravens have been kept at great taxpayer cost since the late 1600s (just to mention, today’s ravens are not the original ones—they live about 40 years in captivity). A Ravenmaster is the guy whose life is dedicated to the care of this flock, for the simple reason that according to legend, ravens keep both the tower and the British monarchy from falling. Given the impending “Brexit,” though, maybe someone should check on those birds.
In North America, ravens can be distinguished from crows by their size. On average, ravens are 63 centimeters or 25 inches long, and weigh about 1.2 kilograms or 2.6 pounds. Wingspans are about 150 cm or 51 inches. In contrast, American crows average 45 centimeters or 18 inches long, and weigh only 0.45 kilograms or about one pound. Their average wingspan is 93 centimeters or 36 inches. Ravens also have rough feathers on their throats, and on the upper surface of the base of their bills.
Ravens do not migrate, unlike crows, and they prefer more elbow room than crows, favoring rural, often remote, environments. Known for their aerial acrobatics, ravens are one of the few bird species known to play games with mammalian species, and the only bird known to choose and fashion objects whose sole purpose is for use as toys.
There are at present six recognized subspecies of Corvus corax, all the more cause for not referring to them as common. These birds have been under the figurative microscope of late for reasons other than to find if they really do keep the Tower of London standing vertically. Biologists set about to quantify how smart ravens really are—which is VERY.
The same research team also tested ravens’ ability to barter, and found they were very disciplined at trading tokens for a high-value treat at a later time rather than for a common treat in the moment (yet another reason to drop the moniker “common” raven, I say). They were considerably better at delaying gratification than any great-ape hominid previously tested.
An international study conducted in 2016 and published in Nature Communications proved that ravens could think in the abstract. Ravens inside a closed room would hide food if a small peephole was open, but not when it was shut, indicating they could imagine being spied upon. It could be evidence they are somewhat paranoid, though, but I don’t think that was the point.
Perhaps the most significant finding is that ravens show evidence of displacement, the ability to relate information on events removed in space and time. While young ravens roost communally but disperse each morning to forage, a lone juvenile will apparently report the presence of a large food cache guarded by a few adults which it saw that day. The following day, a large number of young ravens will organize to drive off the few adults from the food source. I suppose this could be evidence of juvenile delinquency as well as the ability to plan for future, distant events. Ravens are now the only vertebrate known to share this trait with humans.
“Also, a little-known fact: most corvids will collect coins because they are gold-standard holdouts who don’t believe in fiat currency. These birds historically opposed the printing of so-called greenbacks (dollars not backed by gold reserves) during various wars, and today refuse to use paper money on ideological grounds. They prefer precious metals, but have a very difficult time distinguishing between precious and common metals—hence why they will generally take any shiny coins they can get.
The great exception is rooks, who are all chartalists—they believe the value of money is derived from the government’s willingness to accept it in payment for tax debts—that this is in fact the defining characteristic that makes something money. These birds have thus adopted paper money, and will always take a bill with higher face-value if given a choice. Rooks care about chartalismbecause they are naturally very law-abiding and are in fact one of the few bird species that regularly pay their taxes every year.
I’d say that’s a very uncommon Raven.
Paul Hetzler is a horticulture and natural resources educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County. And check out paulhetzlernature.org where humor and science collide–amicably for the most part.
I have always loved Ravens. They can be taught to talk and can do some counting as well.
Four years ago, on March 21, 2015, Jason Aldean and Brittany Kerr got married in Mexico. While their relationship began on rocky ground, the two have built a loving family that includes Aldean's two daughters from his previous marriage; a son, Memphis, born in late 2017; and a daughter, Navy, born in early 2019.
Aldean and Kerr first confirmed that they were dating in March 2014; Aldean’s reps said that the pair began their relationship after Aldean's split from his first wife, Jessica Ussery. The couple was married for 12 years, but separated and divorced in 2013, following a huge scandal, when TMZ published photos of the the singer kissing Kerr at an LA nightclub in September of 2012. Both Aldean and Kerr apologized for that incident, with Aldean attributing it to alcohol.
Aldean proposed to Kerr in September of 2014, at the San Diego Zoo. Present at their wedding were Aldean's two daughters with Ussery, Keeley and Kendyl.
Throughout their relationship, Aldean and Kerr have been spotted together in plenty of sweet pictures, both at awards shows and other public appearances and on social media. Fans have been able to see shots from red carpets and travels to far-off places, and even a sweet holiday picture; flip through the photo gallery below to see some of them.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has rescheduled a hearing on the federal shield law for next Thursday (Sept. 24), according to a committee source.
The source, speaking on background, said the reason a vote was not held Thursday (Sept. 17) was that once it was clear there were going to be no amendments offered, and after over an hour and a half of statements and discussions, several members had to leave to deal with health care and appropriations bills on the floor, leaving the committee without enough members for an official vote.
Committee Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) had another term for it: Stonewalling.
According to a statement from his office, the chairman was disappointed and said that, "despite weeks of debate and months of negotiations, Committee Republicans stonewalled consideration of amendments."
"Today is Constitution Day," said Leahy in a statement, "and as we mark the 222nd anniversary of the adoption of our nation's charter...I had hoped the Committee could proceed with this open government legislation. I am committed to reporting a reporters' shield bill from the Judiciary Committee this year, and I hope all Senators will work with us to reach that goal."
The bill passed in the House by a voice vote last March.
• Clarifies that the public interest balancing test that the court will apply in media shield cases should weigh and consider the public interest in the particular news story at issue.
• Clarifies that an individual who is engaging in activity that is not protected by the First Amendment cannot claim the privilege.
• Expands the national security exception to the privilege.
• Clarifies that, in a leak investigation, the government need not prove that a person with authorized access to classified information leaked that information before seeking confidential source information.
• Clarifies that the bill does not preempt state laws governing defamation, slander and libel, explicitly does not modify grand jury secrecy laws, and explicitly does not modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
During a research fellowship in Japan, British designer Hugh Miller observed various displays of the culture’s coffee-making rituals, which he then took home to channel into his own collection titled The Coffee Ceremony comprising a coffee cart, table, communal bench, stool and a chair. He explains that each item represents a different stage of the ritual, and that the set as a whole explores the duality of Eastern and Western influences. The contrasting themes of texture and smoothness, hidden and visible mechanisms, and lightness and durability are all at play, and present an intriguing history surrounding a beverage that means so little yet so much simultaneously for the North American and European mindset.
The coffee set itself contains a curved-spouted pot elevated by a collection of brass pegs emerging from the tabletop, alongside a wooden scoop and square container. Cups and utensils get stored in the shelves hanging beneath the table, while interwoven loops suspend mugs in the air. Made from English elm and brass, The Coffee Ceremony just concluded a showcase in London’s Saatchi Gallery—and while the elegant design certainly captivated coffee lovers from around the world, perhaps some downtime may encourage Miller to commercialize the furniture for those looking to add a touch of Japanese Java to their interior decorations.
We’ve rubbed along, but the riots are straining tensions within the community.
'Everything all right?” Under the circumstances – the day after the lootings around the corner on Mare Street, a petrol station burned, a bus besieged, mass muggings in London Fields – asking the Turkish barber if things are all right seems a little insensitive.
But he assures me that everything is fine; he has a full metal shutter to protect his shop window. Mr Husein, who shuts his shop only for one week a year, when he visits his family in Cyprus, will close early today. You might know his barber shop: it was used by David Cronenberg in the opening scene of his film Eastern Promises. You might not know Mr Husein, but you’ll probably know someone like him: quiet, dignified, industrious to the point of mania. Closing early, for the first time ever.
Well, what would you do? This isn’t a theoretical “who governs?” question. This is a “who will protect my livelihood, a livelihood I’ve built with my bare hands and my own hard labour, a livelihood at risk from an uncivilised enemy?” question. The Government desperately needs to find and deliver an answer, and quickly. Because I don’t think the Turkish men will wait much longer.
I hear anger with the Government and the police everywhere. The butcher is patiently wiping down his counters – everyone’s closing early – while listening to an old man list the previous day’s destructions. “They went for Clarence Road…” It can’t be easy, closing up your shop, and driving home, wondering what you will return to the next morning.
Broadway Market, hitherto London’s flagship street for urban regeneration, looks normal. There are the usual clusters of tight-jeaned hipsters outside every bar and coffee shop. But the atmosphere is tense. The “edginess” of Hackney, which, combined with its relatively cheap rents, is what drew these folk here in the first place, leaves their smiles today a little forced, a little frozen.
I’ve grown to love this borough, and this street represents everything good and bad about it. Good: because it shows that hard work and good people can transform a dead street into a thriving, desirable destination. Bad: because we’ve turned a blind eye for too long to the problems that remain. It’s not hyperbole to think of temporal apartheid when you discuss Hackney: in the daytime, young mothers congregate in coffee shops, and art students make pop-up galleries to display their talents. At weekends the farmers’ market brings thousands into the borough. But then the night falls, and the streets are taken over by the malign force of the gangs of fatherless boys.
What does it take to make a community? Our heritage here is roughly one third each Turkish, Anglo-Saxon and African. I used to believe it was enough that the different races rubbed along together, without needing to be one another’s special friends. Something not unlike a truce was observed: we were polite, without ever really mixing. It would not take much – it may already have happened – for these three cohabiting groups to decide they want nothing more to do with one another. What then? More riots?
I walk the length of the street, and end up in my local, where the regulars are cutting up planks of wood with which to board up the windows. A man comes in: “It’s kicking off again, up the town hall.” We listen to the police helicopter overhead. The name of this pub is The Perseverance. It’s apt, I hope.
The streets are deserted as I make my way home. On Monday night, my partner came to meet me at the station, and we walked home together. The buses weren’t running and Hackney Road was eerily silent. There were a few folk like us about – from the world of work – walking home as fast as dignity would allow. Squads of boys-on-bikes passed intermittently. I learnt later that they targeted anyone normal-looking and mugged them.
So we have come to this: I’m frightened to be on the street outside my home. I’m frightened to leave my home, lest it become a target for looters. I wonder if I lack the courage of the Turks.
I have my views about how we got in this state: these riots aren’t spontaneous, but the result of years of incubation. We have de-civilised boroughs like Hackney. This is dis-civilisation. This is what happens when middle-class liberals suspend judgment, for fear of causing offence. But what we need now, immediately, is control of our streets. Because while I’m fearful, I’ll probably be all right. It’s the thought of that Turkish shopkeeper, worried and despairing, with his talk of knives, that really frightens me.
Data management tools, provide a systematic means for organizing, storing, retrieving, manipulating, and sorting data for simulation and plan evaluation models. The HEC data storage systems allow for a convenient, orderly exchange of data among many application and analysis programs. This course focuses on the Data Storage System and the DSSVue graphical user interface. Applications with HEC programs to create data files, to manage and manipulate those data, to provide statistical analysis, and to develop graphical and tabular displays are included. Applications will be demonstrated with workshops and case studies. Major topics covered are (a) use of the HEC Data Storage System; (b) HEC-DSSVue graphical displays; (c) presenting data in a report form; (d) data entry; (e) statistical analysis and mathematical operations of data; (f) hydrologic applications; and g) user-developed scripts for data presentation.