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I, For One, Welcome Our New Tardigrade Overlords

“One small step for (a) water bear, one giant leap for water-dwelling eight-legged segmented micro-animals.” —Teddy Tardigrade

Tardigrades are everywhere. And now they’re on the Moon [Public Domain]

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Because if you are, you’re thinking that exposing tardigrades to high-energy cosmic rays can only mean one thing: super-tardigrades. From Live Science:

The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed into the moon during a failed landing attempt on April 11. In doing so, it may have strewn the lunar surface with thousands of dehydrated tardigrades, Wired reported yesterday (Aug. 5). Beresheet was a robotic lander. Though it didn’t transport astronauts, it carried human DNA samples, along with the aforementioned tardigrades and 30 million very small digitized pages of information about human society and culture. However, it’s unknown if the archive — and the water bears — survived the explosive impact when Beresheet crashed, according to Wired.

Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer

Well, OK, as tough as they are, it’s probably unlikely that those microscopic explorers will re-hydrate any time soon before being hit by high-energy particles that will then endow the tiny guys with Marvel-like superpowers, but it’s nice to dream.

But what are tardigrades? Let’s go back to Mindy’s Live Science article, because her explanation is simply too adorable not to reprint:

Tardigrades, also known as moss piglets, are microscopic creatures measuring between 0.002 and 0.05 inches (0.05 to 1.2 millimeters) long. They have endearingly tubby bodies and eight legs tipped with tiny “hands”; but tardigrades are just as well-known for their near-indestructibility as they are for their unbearable cuteness.

Moss piglets! Or should we now say moon piglets?

Light-hearted tardigiggles aside, it’s hard not to feel sorry for the tiny sleeping creatures. In a dehydrated state, they can remain hibernating (I’m not sure if that’s the correct term for being freeze-dried, but let’s go with hibernating) for a decade (!) while they wait for water to appear so they can go about their tardigradey business. They’ve been discovered in just about every environment on Earth, are extremely resilient and can even survive in space without a tiny spacesuit to keep them warm. In short, they’re pretty amazing. And now they’re on the Moon, which may or may not be a good thing (there’s a lot of cosmic rays up there).

Bonus: I’ll close with a short story:

R2-D2 On The Moon? Why Not!

"R2, where are you?" On the moon... Credit: NASA/Corbis/Ian O'Neill/Discovery News
“R2, where are you?” On the moon… Credit: NASA/Corbis/Ian O’Neill/Discovery News

Sometimes, all it takes is the slightest of hints before I start Photoshopping stuff on the Moon that shouldn’t be there.

We’ve seen the Banff crasher squirrel steal Buzz Aldrin’s thunder.

We’ve seen the Sarlacc monster gobble up the LCROSS booster.

(Meanwhile, on Mars, something odd happened to rover Spirit.)

And now! We have R2-D2 trundling across the lunar surface as the perfect Moon rover design for dodging levitating Moon dust. Don’t ask me, it’s SCIENCE!

(Note: The inspiration for R2-D2 was not my idea, blame Astronomy Now’s Keith Cooper for that stroke of genius. But the ‘shopping is totally my doing. I have a lot of time on my hands, apparently.)

Read more: Why R2-D2 Would be the PERFECT Moon Rover

The White House Approves NASA’s ‘James Bond’ Asteroid Bagging Mission

Screengrab from the NASA "Asteroid Retrieval and Utilization Mission" animation (NASA LaRC/JSC)
Screengrab from the NASA “Asteroid Retrieval and Utilization Mission” animation (NASA LaRC/JSC)

It’s been a looooong time since I last updated Astroengine.com, so first off, apologies for that. But today seems as good a time as any to crank up the ‘engine’s servers as the White House has rubber-stamped a manned NASA mission to an asteroid! However, this isn’t what the President originally had in mind in 2009 when he mandated the US space agency with the task of getting astronauts to an asteroid by the mid-2020’s.

In a twist, it turns out that NASA will be basing their manned asteroid jaunt on a 2011 Keck Institute study. To cut a long story short (you can read the long story in my Discovery News article on the topic: “NASA to Hunt Down and Capture an Asteroid“), NASA will launch an unmanned spacecraft to hunt down a small space rock specimen, “lasso” it (although “bagging” it would be more accurate) and drag the wild asteroid to park it at the Earth-moon Lagrangian point, L2. Then we can treat it like a fast food store; we can fly to and from, chipping off pieces of space rock, return samples to Earth and do, well, SCIENCE!

Great? Great.

Overall, this robotic capture/manned exoplration of an asteroid saves cash and “optimizes” the science that can be done. It also lowers the risk associated with a long-duration mission into deep space. By snaring an asteroid in its natural habitat and dragging it back to the Earth-moon system, we avoid astronauts having to spend months in deep space. The EML2 point is only days away.

But when watching the exciting NASA video after the news broke today, I kept thinking…

But that wasn’t the only thing I was thinking. I was also thinking: what’s the point? It’s flashy and patriotic, but where’s the meat?

The human component of this asteroid mission has now been demoted to second fiddle. Sure, it will utilize NASA’s brand new Orion spacecraft and be one of the first launches of the Space Launch System (SLS), but what will it achieve? Astronauts will fly beyond Moon orbit, dock with the stationary space rock and retrieve samples as they please, but why bother with astronauts at all?

It is hoped that the robotic asteroid bagging spacecraft could launch by 2017 and, assuming a few years to steer the asteroid to EML2, a human mission would almost certainly be ready by the mid-2020s. But by that time, sufficiently advanced robotics would be available for unmanned sample retrieval. Heck, as telepresence technology matures, the EML2 point will be well within the scope for a live feed — light-time between Earth and the EML2 point will only be a few seconds, perhaps a little more if communications need to be relayed around the Moon. Robotics could be controlled live by a “virtual astronaut” on Earth — we probably have this capability right now.

The most exciting thing for me is the robotic component of asteroid capture. The advances in asteroid rendezvous and trajectory modification techniques will be cool, although scaling the asteroid bagging technique up (for large asteroids that could actually cause damage should they hit Earth) would be a challenge (to put it mildly). At a push, it may even be of use to a theoretical future asteroid mining industry. The rationale is that if we can understand the composition of a small asteroid, we can hope to learn more about its larger cousins.

The human element seems to be an afterthought and purely a political objective. There will undoubtedly be advancements in life support and docking technologies, but it will only be a mild taster for the far grander (original) NASA plan to send a team of astronauts into deep space to study an asteroid far away from the Earth-Moon system. The argument will be “an asteroid is a stepping stone to Mars” — sadly, by watering down the human element in an already questionable asteroid mission, it’s hard to see the next step for a long-duration spaceflight to Mars.

From this logic, we may as well just keep sending robots. But that wasn’t the point, was it?

Take a look at the video and decide for yourself:

Shhhhh… Do You Hear That? That’s The Sound Of The World Not Ending

Perfect solstice sunrise by @STONEHENGE (Stonehenge UK)
‘Perfect solstice sunrise’ by @STONEHENGE (Stonehenge UK on Twitter)

Now, call your friends, grab a beer and celebrate the end of the Maya Long Count calendar’s 13th b’ak’tun and the winter solstice. (Sorry doomsayers, I will not be giving you a reference for your post-doomsday interview, you did a crappy job of the Apocalypse.)

Also, send your congratulations to my sister, Colette! IT’S HER 30TH BIRTHDAY! Congrats Sis!!

On a side note, a few of us appeared on the #TWISmageddon 21 hour marathon to talk about the end of the world (or lack thereof), science and the human propensity for believing the Mayan doomsday bunkum. Thanks to Kiki Sanford, Justin Jackson, Scott Lewis, Blair Bazdarich, Nicole Gugliucci and Andy Ihnatko for a terrific Google+ Hangout. Who knew doomsday would be so much fun! (We start at about 1hr 45mins into the Hangout.)

EDIT: Is John Cusack skiing? He’d better be — that’s what he told me during the premier of “2012” in 2009! More: “What Will John Cusack be Doing on Dec. 21, 2012? Skiing.

“Skiing” he told me. Skiing.

Read more: No Doomsday! The Quick Reference Guide (Discovery News)

Put the Weather Balloon Back In The Box

Really? Sushi and beer "in space"? What's next?
Really? Sushi and beer "in space"? What's next?

What the hell is going on with this weather balloon craze? It seems that everything from beer to sushi is being sent “into space” these days. There’s only one problem… weather balloons don’t go into space!

Launching random crap into the stratosphere may be fun and give some companies a fleeting marketing opportunity, but please, quit it. Weather balloons should be used for… um, I dunno… high altitude research. And for high school/university students’ learning opportunities/science outreach. Oh, and Roswell conspiracy theories. But that’s it.

Just because you have a small camera with a gazillion megapixels, a credit card and a GPS tracker, the logic of buying a huge balloon and filling it with helium, strapping your camera to it and then running across the countryside to retrieve the wreckage seems silly. Sure, you get some nice video of cloud tops from an altitude of 20 miles, but you’re not the first to do this!

Having said all that, if you do feel compelled to create yet another YouTube video of a weather balloon launch, knock yourself out. But please, please, please don’t include the word “space” in the title, even the BBC gets confused (apparently, that weather balloon-launched Lego man went “into orbit”!). Space starts above 62 miles (known as the Kármán line). Weather balloons can make it to around 25 miles before popping. By no stretch of the imagination can balloons make it into “space.”

Also, weather balloons don’t take stuff on a “suborbital flight.” That’s about as “suborbital” as me taking a flight to Vegas.

Gripe over.

Could Kepler Detect Borg Cubes? Why Not.

That's no sunspot.
"That's no sunspot."

Assuming Star Trek‘s Borg Collective went into overdrive and decided to build a huge cube a few thousand miles wide, then yes, the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope should be able to spot it. But how could Kepler distinguish a cube from a nice spherical exoplanet?

With the help of Ray Villard over at Discovery News, he did some digging and found a paper dating back to 2005 — long before Kepler was launched. However, researcher Luc Arnold, of the Observatoire de Haute-Provence in Paris, did have the space telescope in mind when he studied what it would take to distinguish different hypothetical shapes as they passed in front of his theoretical stars.

The big assumption when looking for exoplanets that drift between distant stars and the Earth — events known as “transits” — is that the only shape these detectable exoplanets come in are spheres. Obvious really.

As a world passes in front of its parent star, a circular shadow will form. However, from Earth, we’d detect a slight dimming of the star’s “light curve” during the transit, allowing astronomers to deduce the exoplanet’s orbital period and size.

The transit method has been used to confirm the presence of hundreds of exoplanets so far, and Kepler has found over 1,200 additional exoplanet candidates. But say if astronomers paid closer attention to the shape of the received light curve; spherical objects have a distinct signature, but say if something looked different in the transiting “planet’s” light curve? Well, it could mean that something non-spherical has passed in front of a star. And what does that mean? Well, that would be a pretty convincing argument for the presence of a huge planet-sized artificial structure orbiting another star. Artifical structure = super-advanced alien civilization.

Arnold tested his theory that all manner of shapes could be detected by Kepler, assuming the transiting structure was on the scale of a few thousand miles wide. In this case, Arnold was testing his hypothesis to see whether we could detect an advanced civilization’s “shadow play.” Perhaps, rather than beaming messages by radio waves, an advanced civilization might want to signal their presence — SETI style — by blocking their sun’s light with vast sheets of lightweight material. As the shape passes in front of the star, the slight dimming of starlight would reveal an artificial presence in orbit.

By putting a series of these shapes into orbit, the aliens could create a kind of interstellar Morse code.

Of course, this is a rather “out there” idea, but I find it fascinating that Kepler could detect an alien artifact orbiting a star tens or hundreds of light-years away. Although this research is only considering orbital “billboards,” I quite like the idea that Kepler might also be able to detect a large structure like… I don’t know… a big Borg mothership. Having advanced warning of the presence of an aggressive alien race sitting on our cosmic doorstep — especially ones of the variety that like to assimilate — would be pretty handy.

Publication: Transit Lightcurve Signatures of Artificial Objects, L. Arnold, 2005. arXiv:astro-ph/0503580v1

What Happened to Mars Rover Spirit?

“A big rusty transporter came over the hill and the Jawas sold it for scrap metal…” — Paul Quinn

NASA is giving Mars rover Spirit one more month to signal that she’s still alive before search operations are scaled back and attention shifted to her sister rover Opportunity. Unfortunately, the prognosis isn’t good. It’s been a little over a year since Spirit last communicated and it’s looking increasingly likely she’s succumbed to a lack of energy and freezing conditions on the Martian surface.

But… something else might have happened.

“A big rusty transporter came over the hill and the Jawas sold it for scrap metal…” — Paul Quinn (via Facebook)

It’s not as if it hasn’t happened before, in a galaxy far, far away…

Credits: Main Mars vista with Spirit superimposed: NASA. Jawa sandcrawler and Jawa figures: LucasArts. Edit: Ian O’Neill/Astroengine.com. Inspiration: My mate Paul Quinn!

It’s Official: “2012” Sucked

Just in case you didn’t know, Roland Emmerich’s 2012 wasn’t the best of movies.

Actually, from a science perspective, it sucked.

It sucked in so many ways that I can’t be bothered to list why it sucked (so have a read of my Discovery News review instead).

Now, I’m happy to announce that NASA agrees with me. They think 2012 sucked so much, they’ve branded it the most “scientifically flawed of its genre.”

Donald Yeomans, head of NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, agrees with what I’ve been saying all along (especially since all that “Institute for Human Continuity” bullshit hit the internet). He said at the Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory meeting:

“The film makers took advantage of public worries about the so-called end of the world as apparently predicted by the Mayans of Central America, whose calendar ends on December 21, 2012. [NASA] is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end in 2012 that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths. We have never had to do this before.”

Even though NASA agreed that Bruce Willis’ Armageddon was bad, it couldn’t compete with the scientific atrocities 2012 inflicted on its audience. The killer neutrinos, planetary alignment, crustal shift, geomagnetic reversal and super-duper-massive tsunamis proved too much. 2012 has even toppled The Core as worst sci-fi science movie. Now that is impressive.

But what does it all mean? Apart from us science snobs having a chuckle on our blogs, I doubt it will make the blind bit of difference. Why? This is why:

“On the opening weekend of 2012, the movie pulled in 65 million in U.S. ticket sales and an additional $160 million internationally, easily covering the $200+ million budget.

Movies aren’t about scientific accuracy, and it would seem that the hype behind 2012 can stand alone as the biggest moneymaker of all.

Fear sells, science doesn’t. The subject of doomsday will always be a blockbuster. Unfortunately, through the miscommunication of science, fear is usually the end-product.”

— “2012” Sells Tickets, Sells-Out Science

Oh well, you can’t win ’em all. Now, have a laugh:

Thanks to @mars_stu and @RogerHighfield for the inspiration.

EDIT: An earlier version of this blog post stated that the Science and Entertainment Exchange was involved with NASA’s decision to make 2012 “most scientifically flawed” movie in its list. I have received an email from the Exchange’s director that this is not the case. I have therefore edited any mention of the Exchange from the blog (even though my source, the Adelaide Now, still references the Exchange).

Who Cares if Ashton Kutcher is Preparing for Armageddon?

So, it’s 2011. A brand new year. Who knows what it holds? Actually, I know what it holds. Trolls. In fact, 2011 will henceforth be the Year of the Troll. (Not the Year of the Rabbit, sorry Bun-bun.)

I’ve noticed a rather crazy uptick in the number of anti-science diatribes and wet doomsday theories in recent months. Most are due to questionable reports written on quasi-news websites (as debunked in “2012 Alien Invasion? Um, No.”), and others are down to the trolls who surf the web dropping comments under otherwise benign science articles. Could it be that Fakemageddon is a year away? Or has the use of computers been granted in kindergarten? Could be both.

Although I joke about the misguided individuals inventing tales of doom to sell books, there is a rather serious undercurrent to my 2012 ramblings. People genuinely worry about this stuff. Sure, I’m totally numb to all this 2012 tomfoolery — it’s all crap, honest — but I’m still receiving messages from readers who are convinced something bad is going to happen on Dec. 21, 2012.

(The only person I know who’ll have a bad time is my little sister, who’ll be turning 30 on that day — don’t worry sis, I’ll be there administering the vodka, it numbs the chronological pain, trust me.)

So where does that leave us? What can we do to divert the nonsense and bring some real science to the table?

For one thing, I’m going to keep writing about the crackpots perpetrating these silly myths through 2011 and beyond. Although fellow debunkers and myself have been under attack recently for even mentioning the 2012 thing — something about a dead horse and a good beating — it’s important to inject common sense into the Internet whenever nonsense appears. If these doomsday theories go unchecked, for some, science and pseudoscience may become confused.

This is where the “Truth Squad” (as MSNBC science editor and Cosmic Log space maestro Alan Boyle has dubbed us) comes in, and I’m pretty sure all space science bloggers will be on the lookout for the doomsayers’ tall stories.

So, in conclusion, if you read something with an eerie 2012 flavor on the internet, be sure to check out my handy dandy “How Do You Spot Science Abuse in the Social Media Soup?” cheat sheet.

Also, don’t pay attention to celebrities who are obviously getting a little hyped up on the doomsday juice. No, I don’t think Ashton Kutcher really has anything to worry about in the near future, but if Armageddon works as a workout motivator… well, good for him (besides, I think he might have been taken out of context, so also look out for Huffington Post articles that try to make mountains out of molehills).

That is all.

Happy New Year!

PS. I hope to make Astroengine.com a little more productive through 2011. But in case you’re wondering what I’m up to, be sure to pop over to Discovery News, I’m always there.

Military “Black Ops” on Mars. Really?

The Aram Chaos region of Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA)

There’s a military operation on Mars!

How do we know this? Psychics — or “military grade remote viewers” as they like to be called — “saw” it, and their vision corroborated a Mars satellite photo that shows “man-made domes,” “pipelines” and a “huge nozzle shooting liquid spray.”

That’s according to the guy that runs the Farsight Institute anyway.

Before we get bogged down with the details, let’s get one thing straight: remote viewing is not a scientific tool and has never been proven to work. It is pseudoscience. Sure, the U.S. military became interested in investigating remote viewing as a spying weapon (unsurprisingly, the superpowers were pretty keen on investigating every avenue to spy on the enemy during the Cold War), but funding was withdrawn in the 90’s as it was proven remote sensing was ineffective and any positive results could not be replicated.

Most recently, the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence carried out a suite of experiments on a group of remote viewers to see how their brains reacted during the viewing phase. There appeared to be no measurable change in brain activity, and besides, none of the psychics tested could access the desired targets anyway, rendering the whole thing pointless.

But these facts don’t seem to dissuade Dr. Courtney Brown from trying to justify a scientific basis for his “Evidence for Artificiality on Mars” presentation. Not surprisingly, one of the Examiner’s “Exopolitics” writers is very exited about this non-research, saying, “An apparent active industrial site on the surface of Mars with a “large nozzle shooting a liquid spray” onto an apparent industrial waste area has been successfully located and explored in a remote viewing study conducted by the Farsight Institute in March 2010 using nine highly trained remote viewers and methodologies developed by the U.S. military.”

Here’s the region of Mars we’re talking about, helpfully labeled to show the targets for the remote viewers. These targets are obviously highly suspicious, they look nothing like the rest of the Aram Chaos region of Mars (*squints*):

Take a look at the original Mars Global Surveyor images of the site. It might take a couple of minutes to find the area of interest, which isn’t surprising as it looks like the rest of Mars.

But no, there is something of vast interest in this particular photo. It’s an industrial complex! On Mars! Not inhabited by those pesky aliens we’ve seen hanging out on the Martian surface, but by humans!

Now the remote viewers have their targets, the Farsight Institute carried out some kind of experiment and Dr. Brown — a guy with a book to sell (where have we seen that before?) — discusses the astonishing results. In case you think I’ve eaten a funny-looking mushroom or been lobotomized by a trained hamster, this “evidence” for remote viewing is listed on the Farsight Institute’s webpages. I’m not making this up.

In the Mars orbiter photo (above), a spraying fountain of some “liquid” (target 1a) can be seen. In fact, this is the whole reason why Brown has taken an interest in this region. “We wouldn’t be interested in these domes if it wasn’t for the spray,” he said, “but the spray really caught our attention.” This spray is being ejected by a mountain-shaped dome (target 1b) via a horizontal “pipe.” There is a shadow under the spray indicating it is being ejected at some height. There is also another “highly reflective” dome below the other dome (target 1c). “It looks like it’s made out of some kind of resin material,” Brown remarks.

So, using their psychic powers, the military-grade remote viewers managed to access some fascinating details about the site — they even drew some vague scribbles of their visions.

These are my favorite conclusions from this fascinating experiment:

The artificial structures on Mars were originally built by ancient builders and the current occupants do not understand its technology. They need spare parts, but don’t have any. The mystery technology in operation generates power and there are intense flashing lights at the site. The occupants on site — of which there are more men than women — are despondent (because there are more men than women? Because no one knows they’re there? There’s no good coffee in the canteen? Just guessing). The occupants, assumed to be human, are in a lot of hardship and they aren’t allowed to return home.

Apart from sounding like a sweat house scene ripped straight from an 18th Century Jane Austin novel, the very idea the U.S. military has some kind of black operation on the Red Planet is hilarious. But to single out one tiny region of the planet by pure chance (because Brown thinks he sees a pipe gushing water over the landscape) and creating a fantasy world using zero logical thought is amazing to me.

The “gushing fluid” feature could be any one of a huge number of geological features. To me, it looks like a landslide; lighter material that has been dislodged, causing rubble to tumble down the slope. It could even be ice mixed in with regolith after an avalanche, ice crystals falling from the top of the mesa (a hill; not what Brown describes as anything man-made) scattering over the darker colored material further down the slope.

The shadow Brown points to is not caused by this “spraying liquid” feature, it’s simply darker-colored material in the Martian soil. There goes that theory. As for the other suggestions of man-made structures… well, that’s just Brown’s vivid imagination. I’m finding it hard to see any man-made domes. They’re just hills.

This crazy theory could be picked at for hours, but I’m still in amazement that people like Brown can discuss a subject like this with such conviction. There is overwhelming evidence that easily debunks the idea that there is an industrial complex on Aram Chaos. Unfortunately, for people peddling their pseudo-scientific ideas, common sense and logical thought seem to be concepts they have trouble grasping.

via Universe Today and SciGuy


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Big 12 Unveils New Logo at Media Days

For the first time in a couple of years, Big 12 Media Days didn’t have to deal much with realignment questions. With the immediate future secure, the conference is working on its branding, which includes a new logo.

This logo was released by the conference today and is expected to take over as the official mark of the Big 12 by next July.

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News reports from Washington Adventist University, Mozambique, Loma Linda University Health, Adventist Community Services and the Center For Youth Evangelism:

Victory Sports Network reported that the Takoma Park, Maryland-based Washington Adventist University Athletics Department, has decided that it will not have intercollegiate athletics competitions in spring sports during the 2021 season. The university cited health and safety concerns related to COVID-19 and a steady increase in cases in Montgomery County as reasons for the decision. Sports impacted will be Acro-Airs, Men’s and Women’s Soccer, Softball, and Volleyball.

From ADRA (edited for length) – On January 23, tropical cyclone Eloise made landfall in Beira, Mozambique’s fourth largest city by population.

Eloise made landfall as a category one storm, followed by heavy rainfall of 200 mm (7 inches) within a 24-hour span. Local weather reports forecast that the rains will continue for a week, affecting Manica and parts of Inhambane and Zambezia.

“Nine injuries have been reported with one in critical condition in the Sofala province. No fatalities have been reported,” says Rumbidzai Musengi, emergency response coordinator in Mozambique for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). “Property has been destroyed, including over 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) of agricultural produce and thousands of homes by the heavy rains and floods. Those affected have been evacuated by authorities to temporary accommodation centers.”

ADRA deployed relief aid teams in the Chibuto, Guija and Massangena districts of Gaza. Two districts in Inhambane, including Panda and Funhalouro, are already receiving help from ADRA through a Lean Season Assistance Project in partnership with the World Food Programme. In Mozambique, the project provides critical food assistance to farmers who experience low food supplies before the next planting and harvesting seasons.

“ADRA is also coordinating with the Seventh-day Adventist church in Vilanculos and other partners to participate in a rapid needs assessment that would be carried out as soon as the cyclone and the rains have subsided,” says David Masinde, ADRA’s country director in Mozambique. “ADRA in Mozambique is also looking to a bigger response as we put resources together with the support of the global ADRA network.”

From ADRA (edited for length): The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has donated 1.6 million medical-grade masks to Loma Linda University Health (LLUH) in California, to support the hospital’s continued battle against COVID-19. LLUH plans to use ADRA’s donation to protect frontline workers during COVID-19 vaccine operations.

California state officials report the state remains among the highest U.S. regions for coronavirus with more than 3 million confirmed positive cases and 21,400 hospitalizations since the beginning of the year. (These numbers are likely to change as more cases are reported.)

The 3-ply-mask stockpile will be used at the COVID-19 vaccine clinic soon to open on the campus of Loma Linda University. LLUH also intends to utilize the protective supplies at international mission hospital sites around the world.

From the Loma Linda University Health Facebook page: For the first time, ever, we’re offering our annual Open House event virtually. Join us next week, Sunday, Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. PST. Anyone, from anywhere is welcome to attend—no traveling required. Find your purpose, here.

Register now

From NAD Newspoints: Adventist Community Services presents a FREE Zoom webinar discussing principles of financial empowerment and practical tools for your ministry. ACS volunteers and anyone interested in community outreach ministry are invited to tune in Feb. 4 at 2 p.m. EST to hear presenter Colette Newer, ACS Director of Washington Conference, address why many of those who access ACS services are struggling in a cycle of poverty. LEARN MORE

The Andrews University-based Center For Youth Evangelism (CYE) has announced dates for the upcoming Cruise With A Mission 2021. The Christian young adult cruise will take place on the Mexican Riviera from December 12-19, 2021. It will be sailing out of San Diego, California. Ports include: Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta.

CYE Notice: If the 2021 Cruise With A Mission is canceled, your registration fee will either be refunded, or you may choose to apply it towards the next year’s Cruise.

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By Susan Onuma, posted Sept. 22, 2016 by D Kovacs     This story struck me immediately. It has kids! It has kids who are sick and a kid who wants to help! What’s not to like? However, it’s not what it first appears. You might assume that April Wall, who is hoping to raise $5,000 for research into children’s cancer, is a cancer patient herself. You would be wrong.

This feature is different from what is generally published here, so I want to make sure there are no misunderstandings. This story, which I have posted verbatim with permission, was written as a fund-raising request from Loma Linda Children’s Health. I believe we can all agree that it is a good cause, and if you wish to contribute, that’s wonderful, but Adventist Today is not here to raise funds, and that is not why I chose to feature it. I wanted to showcase a humanitarian who is only nine years old (and those haven’t been particularly easy years) who has something she could teach us all about being a light to the world around us.

Read and learn!

Susan Onuma, Media Relations Specialist

9-year old April Wall wants you to shave your head
at the St. Baldrick’s annual ‘Brave the Shave’
event at Loma Linda University Health

Proceeds of the event go to children’s cancer research

Loma Linda, CA, September 22, 2016 – After reading a book about children fighting cancer, April—a 9-year-old fourth-grader from Ridgeview Elementary in Yucaipa who is fighting her own battle with cerebral palsy—decided she wanted to make a difference. Since her father had shaved his head during the annual St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s “Brave the Shave” event last year, she thought that sounded like a good way to go.

april-wall-tallAt a recent school assembly, April announced to her classmates and teachers that she intended to shave her own blond locks during a September 29 St. Baldrick’s ‘Brave the Shave’ event, which will be held from4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the north lawn of the Centennial Complex at Loma Linda University Health.

According to April’s dad, Nathan Wall, PhD, April was born prematurely at only 27 weeks of life. “Each day forward,” he notes, “she has walked the earth with cerebral palsy. She has wished her whole life to be like everyone else and not look different with her leg braces or how she walks.

“However,” he continues, “she is willing to brave being bald and really standing out to support so many children she doesn’t even know.”

April has already raised more than $3,000 from a total of 23 of her friends and relatives, but she can’t do it all alone. She would like you to commit to shaving your own head at the September 29 event, and solicit money from friends, family members, and colleagues in honor of your beshorning.

April hopes to raise a grand total of $5,000 herself. She has a few thoughts on why people should get involved.

“They should give money to St. Baldrick’s because they are helping us raise awareness and find a cure for cancer,” April exclaims. “I told all the kids in my class about this, and two kids from my class want to do it and one of their grandparents is going to do it, too. I gave the class bracelets that said, ‘Conquer Childhood Cancer.’”

Jacqueline Coats, senior research assistant at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, reports that St. Baldrick’s is the second-biggest funder of childhood cancer research in the world after the National Institutes of Health.

“Being a researcher,” Coats observes, “that really impresses me. They’ve only been around since 1999 when founder Tim Kenny challenged colleagues John Bender and Enda McDonnell to shave their heads and get their friends to contribute to childhood cancer research. Since then, St. Baldrick’s has raised more than $200 million for pediatric cancer research. Of that amount, over 70 percent goes into actual cancer research. That’s really phenomenal!”

Coats adds that Loma Linda University Health, which has already raised $7,777.00 for the event, currently stands in first place among American colleges and universities hosting a Brave the Shave event during the 2016 academic year.

Individuals interested in shaving their heads or contributing money to help members of the “April Makes a Difference Team” take aim at cancer are invited to call Coats at (413) 24-SHAVE. They can also go online at and type Loma Linda into the search bar.


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Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Feminism: The Goddess That Fails

By Becky Kevorkian

Despite what they would like you to believe, feminists are not for “equality”, they are for the special interests of women specifically, while ignoring very real instances of inequalities against men. If feminists were truly a group oriented toward supporting equality for all, they would focus their message on the empowerment of personal accomplishment rather than trying to convince the world of the demonic, oppressive nature of men while engaging in selective brainwashing propaganda targeting not only men to degrade their accomplishments, but towards the women who are not feeling the imaginary sting of male dominance. Theirs is not a message of empowerment and equality, but rather of guilt, shame, and demands of respect without merit.

The argument addressing the statistics of lower pay for women is a beloved argument of feminists to illustrate the ongoing oppressions of first world women. There are so many reasons why that statistic may be correct, but if you go deeper and more detailed into fields of study, gender specific interests, etc, it really depends on the occupation.

…there is some evidence that men are discriminated against in female-dominated jobs. A 2010 study found that men were less likely to be called for an interview in fields with 65% or more female workers, an attitude which may be reflected in wages. Employment researcher Laurence Shatkin, author of 2011 Career Plan, says that discrimination or feelings of not fitting in could cause higher turnover rates among men in these jobs, which wouldn’t allow them to gain seniority and would negatively affect wages.

No doubt, this is not a quote many will see in feminist articles. In any case, what is the ultimate end result of demanding salary “equality”? That hopefully one day a salary will no longer be a private contract between employer and employee, but public knowledge so each employee can see what the other makes, and everyone will make the same regardless of effort brought to the table?

In the instance of “millennial” women, who don’t feel oppressed to start with, feminists make the concentrated effort to tell women what they should be feeling, or that they’re too blind to see that they should be feeling oppressed.

But progress has given some young women grounds to dismiss feminism’s necessity, Bacchetta said: “We have a long way to go, and the idea that things are OK, that people aren’t thinking about it because they feel like their lives are OK, is also a part of the problem.” –

Millennial women just can’t see the injustices, right? The major milestones of equality have been achieved and now that we’re on a level playing field in a world that is actually quite dog-eat-dog and competitive, we have to bitch about how competitive it is (because of men) and band together for support because we’re too weak to compete alone? Feeling “OK” with one’s place in their occupation, feeling satisfied with one’s accomplishments, and that one is being justly rewarded for those accomplishments is “part of the problem”. Essentially women who feel the need to not declare the “masculine dominated society” in which they are able to excel as the obstacle causing their shortcomings are too stupid to contribute to the successes of other women who do blame men for their shortcomings. This is an assertion that is nothing more than a guilt tripping tactic used to shame well adjusted women into participating in the feminist charade against men.

Feeling accomplished and reasonably competitive on our own merit isn’t enough, we have to feel oppressed, or look into every nook and cranny for some gender norm accusation for whatever scratches we’ve suffered on the way to our successes. Our failures are because of men. Our struggles are because of men. We’re women because of our fathers, too, studies show. We were inadvertently doomed to a life of servitude and the lesser of the sexes at our conception – because of men. IF WE ARE successful, it is not because of our own hard work, but because of feminism.

What I wish more of the so-called “equality” minded feminists preached, is the truth about what is actually liberating: Taking responsibility for your own freedom and equality, as an individual. When you stop trying to blame someone else for any shortcomings- be it salary, economic position, family dynamic, etc – and take hold of your own direction, that is when you will feel free and accomplished.

This assertion is NOT acceptance of the status quo, nor acceptance of real instances of oppression. It’s taking personal responsibility. Yipping at someone’s heels demanding respect is not accomplished any better if you get more people to help you yip. Respect is not genuine if it’s done UNDER DURESS. That is what the majority of feminists do: they demand “equality” under threat of duress- legal complications, protesting, inducing guilt, etc. The resulting “respect” is not because of any actual accomplishment of productivity, by outshining a competitor as an individual, but rather one of reluctance and guilt. It’s not real.

– Becky Kervokian

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  1. We live in the shadow of a power which relentlessly pushes an illusion that anything is possible for any individual at any time. That we live on a ‘level playing field’ but that some people are just too incompetent, too stupid to take advantage of it. Its propaganda machine is so powerful that despite all of the evidence around us to the contrary, we swallow its lies hook line and sinker. So we turn our frustrations and our anger onto the majority of other ordinary people who aren’t able to live up to ridiculous expectations of ‘accomplishment’, instead of at our real enemies – the minority of people that own and control our planet for their own profit and greed. These are the people whose corporations, institutions and governments construct and disseminate the illusions in the first place.

    The only concessions working class people have gained from this scum have been brought about through solidarity and through collective action. They want us to fight amongst ourselves, to be competiive individuals, to follow our leaders and to stay divided by things like race, gender, sexuality or whatever.

    It’s time to focus on our commonality, not our differences. Individually we are just little fish, but together we might just win.

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Guidebook Released on Starting a Meat Plant

In collaboration with USDA Agriculture Marketing Service, Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network (NMPAN) just completed So You Want To Start A Meat Plant?, a short guidebook that offers a primer on starting a new meat plant. It includes sections on regulations, economics, assessing feasibility, business planning, labor, and a case study of a new plant just built in Marfa, Texas. The six-page guide is available free online.


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HP reveals security initiatives
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
October 5, 1998, 3:05 p.m. PT

Hewlett-Packard rolled out a new initiative to make it easier for
corporate customers to adopt security technology today and enhanced the
performance of its Vectra VL desktops.

The HP ProtectTools program is the company's initiative to popularize the
use of smart cards and other security/management technology with corporate
customers, according to Achim Kuttler, product marketing manager for
commercial desktops at HP.

These technologies already exist in the marketplace, but customers have
yet to adopt them in large numbers, he said. Only around 10 percent of HP
customers, for example, have adopted HP's TopTools desktop management
system, which allows IT managers to shut down, update, or monitor PC use
from a central location.

ProtectTools essentially exists to take the pain out of the adoption
process. "We need to provide the resources and means to create a managed
environment," he said. "ProtectTools is not a product. It is more of an

Under a new smart card program, HP is working with Gemplus and
Schlumberger to create sites that will explain the benefits and procedures
for incorporating smart card readers into a PC network.

With a smart card, a PC becomes virtually impenetrable to outside attack.

A smart card does NOT make a PC "virtually impenetrable". Smart cards
are not 100% secure to begin with, and further, implementation is the key.
If it is used for remote identification, a new range of attacks are possible.

While more secure than standard password-based access systems, smart card
security systems have not sold in huge numbers. HP itself used to offer a
Brio system with a smart card reader built in, but discontinued it, said

HP is also in the process of ramping up a consulting offering that will
ease the process of adopting its TopTools system, said sources. Kuttler
said that HP has been working with a limited number of partners to expand
the use of TopTools in the U.S.  and that it's likely the program will

Compaq is said to be working on a similar consulting program for its own
manageability software, said sources.


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Fewer Companies Suffer Security Breaches, But They're Much More Severe

September 21, 2007 04:51 PM

Sharon Gaudin

A CompTIA study also showed that one in four companies surveyed indicated that they have had an insider security breach or threat in the last year.

The number of companies suffering security breaches has dropped over the last two years, but the severity of the breaches has doubled, according to a new study.

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) released a study showing that 66% of the 1,070 organizations surveyed said they did not have a security breach in the previous 12 months. That's a slight improvement from the 61.8% who said the same thing last year and the 42% who said it two years ago.

Jericho says, "...that they know of"

However, while the number of incidents has dropped, the severity of those attacks has gone in the opposite direction.

CompTIA reported that respondents rated the severity level of their security breaches at a 4.8 on a 0 to 10 scale, where 0 is not at all severe and 10 is very severe. Last year the severity rating stood at 2.3 and the year before that it was 2.6.

Jericho says, "By whose estimation? There is a clear history of companies downplaying breaches to save face and customer confidence."

"People have learned that any type of breach is a catastrophe in the making," said Steven Ostrowski, a spokesman for CompTIA, in an interview. "What we've seen is more attention being paid to securing information and networks and intellectual property."

The study comes out about a week after TD Ameritrade Holding disclosed that a hacker broke into one of its databases and stole personally identifying information for some of its 6.3 million customers. And just two days ago, the State of Connecticut announced it is suing its own computer consultant, Accenture, for losing personally identifying information on 58 residents and hundreds of state bank accounts and purchasing cards.

Ostrowski acknowledged that it certainly doesn't appear that companies and government agencies are having fewer security breaches. The issue, he added, is that before laws compelled companies to come clean about break-ins, the public simply wasn't always told that it happened.

"That's why you're seeing all these situations getting more publicity," he noted. "Maybe IT also is getting better at catching these things."

The survey also showed that nearly one in four companies indicated that they have had an insider security breach or threat in the last year. Ostrowski contends that insider risk is growing because more and more employees are working from home or on the road.

"The concern about internal breaches is growing greater, especially with the number of remote workers growing," he said. "Every time you have someone connecting from outside the organization's four walls, it's another risk."

As for the financial damage caused by all kinds of breaches, the average cost across all companies surveyed is $369,388, reported CompTIA. That cost, however, is driven upwards by a handful of companies that estimated security breach costs to be in excess of $10 million. This, noted the report, reflects the higher risk that larger companies face.

About half of respondents estimated the cost of their security breaches in the last 12 months to be $10,000 or less.

Here's how the companies broke down the costs of a security breach:

-- Employee productivity impact, 35%;

-- Server or network downtime, 35%;

-- Impact on revenue-generating activities, 20%;

-- Impact on physical assets, 17%, and

-- Legal fees and fines, 8%.

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Article From Searching Together Magazine, Spring 1996

Many today are enamored with a phenomenon called “slain in the spirit,” which is sweeping through many denominations. What does the phrase “slain in the spirit” mean? Do we find evidence of such activity in the Scriptures? Do historical and modern “slain in the spirit” services produce manifestations that could be considered occultic in origin? Who is the power behind “slain in the spirit” activity? Do we have a responsibility to ascertain whether such activity is godly or ungodly?

I John 4:1 provides this command: “Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” Most Christians are aware that cults or New Age sects are backed by false prophets and evil spirits. However, too many Christians are unwilling to honestly assess the spirit behind their own assembly or favorite televangelist.

Australian author, Nader Mikhaiel, in his book entitled, Toronto Blessing: “Slaying in the Spirit, the Telling Wonder,” starts his evaluation by asking, “What would your response be to the account of the following New York missionary?”

During the 1800’s, cripples, paralytics and the blind were healed “as in the days of old, by laying on of hands in the name of Jesus,” under a New York missionaries ministry. Healing recipients, praising God, rushed to gather ill friends and neighbors who were also healed. Seeing the miracles, converts clamored to receive baptism and join the church…of a Mormon missionary. Read More


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"With deep reporting and graceful storytelling, Sarah Kessler reveals the ground truth of a key part of the American workforce. Her analysis is both astute and nuanced, making GIGGED essential reading for anyone interested in the future of work." —Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN and DRIVE

The full-time job is disappearing—is landing the right gig the new American Dream?

One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This “gig economy”—one that provides neither the guarantee of steady hours nor benefits—emerged out of the digital era and has revolutionized the way we do business. High-profile tech start-ups such as Uber and Airbnb are constantly making headlines for the disruption they cause to the industries they overturn. But what are the effects of this disruption, from Wall Street down to Main Street? What challenges do employees and job-seekers face at every level of professional experience?

In the tradition of the great business narratives of our time, Gigged offers deeply-sourced, up-close-and-personal accounts of our new economy. From the computer programmer who chooses exactly which hours he works each week, to the Uber driver who starts a union, to the charity worker who believes freelance gigs might just transform a declining rural town, journalist Sarah Kessler follows a wide range of individuals from across the country to provide a nuanced look at how the gig economy is playing out in real-time.

Kessler wades through the hype and hyperbole to tackle the big questions: What does the future of work look like? Will the millennial generation do as well as their parents? How can we all find meaningful, well-paid work?

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From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The Ashford Affair, a page-turning novel about two women in different eras, and on different continents, who are connected by one deeply buried secret.

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As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything she's been working towards—but now she's not sure it's enough. Her long hours have led to a broken engagement and, suddenly single at thirty-four, she feels her messy life crumbling around her. But when the family gathers for her grandmother Addie's ninety-ninth birthday, a relative lets slip hints about a long-buried family secret, leading Clemmie on a journey into the past that could change everything. . . .

Growing up at Ashford Park in the early twentieth century, Addie has never quite belonged. When her parents passed away, she was taken into the grand English house by her aristocratic aunt and uncle, and raised side-by-side with her beautiful and outgoing cousin, Bea. Though they are as different as night and day, Addie and Bea are closer than sisters, through relationships and challenges, and a war that changes the face of Europe irrevocably. But what happens when something finally comes along that can't be shared? When the love of sisterhood is tested by a bond that's even stronger?

From the inner circles of British society to the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the red-dirt hills of Kenya, the never-told secrets of a woman and a family unfurl.

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  • “The Ashford Affair is a reader's treat, an artfully-woven saga that sweeps us into the lives of three generations of a family entangled in life-changing secrets. Lauren Willig spins a web of lust, power and loss, taking us from England to Kenya to New York, from World War I to today's modern world, posing a timeless question: what in our own family stories might surprise or shock – or change our lives – if we had access to the whispers from the past?

    - Kate Alcott, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker
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  • Rich with detail and historical imagination, The Ashford Affair evokes the lives and passions of the interwar era with harrowing precision. The enthralling mystery kept me up late into the night, and the characters will remain with me forever. Lauren Willig has delivered a stunning masterpiece.

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Nicola Barber, is an Audie Award and Earphones Award-winning narrator whose voice can be heard in television and radio commercials and popular video games such as World of Warcraft. She is also an Audie finalist in the prestigious category of solo female narrationfor her work on Murphy’s Law by Rhys Bowen and Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth. She has performed on the stage in New York City and at a number of top regional theaters in the United States. Her film and television roles include The Nanny Diaries with Scarlett Johansson, and Law & Order’s 2009 season premiere. Originally from England, she currently resides in New York, a multicultural background that enables her to bring a broad range of accents and characterizations to her role as a full-time voice-over actor.


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Posted by Audit Monkey in The Joy & Pain of Internal Audit.
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This will be a brief quote of the week as you know I can’t be bothered to blog anymore but this is a gem.  I had an interview last week; in with the Hiring Manager from Internal Audit and the chap from HR who was doing the HR recruiting.  Got to say, very pleasant people.  The Hiring Manager was reasonable, explained the role and team set up, expectations, etc. He posed the odd silly question but nothing insurmountable.  The HR chap nodded away as we talked about risk management, audit methodology, difficult situations, audits gone wrong, etc.

Eventually the interview wrapped up and I was escorted from the premises by the HR chap. Seeing all the staff sitting in rows under fluorescent light floor after floor didn’t inspire me but still. Anyway, as the HR chap and I walked to the exit, can you guess what he said? (*And no, it wasn’t “here’s my phone number Big Boy”.)

“Most of that went over my head”.

So there you have it, cast iron proof that HR haven’t got a clue about professional* people and their skill-sets in an interview situation and how to evaluate them. Of course, this begs the question, why involve them in the interview process when they can’t (forgive the use of the phrase) ‘add-value’? I will leave it there.

* I use the term loosely where auditors are concerned.


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written by Hannah Dowling | September 9, 2021
International carriers at Sydney Airport. (Rob Finlayson)

Australia’s ban on international travel could now lift as soon as November, pending vaccination rates, just days after the ban was extended to 17 December.

Since March 2020, the federal government has imposed a ban on Australian citizens and residents leaving the country, unless they receive a valid exemption.

Now, just days after it announced the ban would be extended to mid-December, the government has revealed a new plan to drop the ban as early as November, following the introduction of a fit-for-purpose vaccine passport, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has long suggested that Australia’s international borders will re-open once the country achieves an 80 per cent vaccination rate in its adult population, and that travel overseas will be exclusive to vaccinated travellers.

Currently, just under 40 per cent of Australia’s adult population is fully vaccinated.

Trade Minister Dan Tehan said on Wednesday that restrictions for outbound international travel would be eased once vaccination targets are met, and specifically mentioned New Zealand, the Pacific, and Singapore as among the first destinations to be approved for travellers.

“The national plan makes very clear that once we hit that 80 per cent mark then outbound travel – travel by Australians overseas – will take place and also that we can put in place arrangements for inbound travel as well,” Tehan said.

The Prime Minister has also suggested on numerous occasions that international travel may re-open to certain Australian states that hit vaccine targets ahead of others. Details of how such a policy would work are yet to be revealed.

At the current rate of vaccination, this could see NSW, Victoria and the ACT re-open to the world in November, while slower states such as Queensland and Western Australia will remain restricted until December.

The news comes just days after it was revealed that Australians could be issued with a vaccine passport for the purposes of international travel as soon as October, ahead of the re-opening of borders.

According to reports, Australia’s vaccine passports for international travel will be available in digital form via travellers’ phones, or in printed form.

Further, the government is reportedly working to enable a person’s vaccination status to be linked to their passport chips, while a plan to introduce a vaccine certificate for travel via QR code is also underway.

The federal government is also currently in discussions with various nations around the globe in order to facilitate travel bubble arrangements for vaccinated travellers.

A spokesman for cabinet minister Stuart Robert said more details about Australia’s plan for re-opening international travel would be released shortly.

“The Morrison government continues to work towards vaccine assurance standards that will be one element of enabling vaccinated Australians to move and travel more freely,” he said.

It comes after Qantas revealed it was gearing up to reintroduce part of its international network by December 2021, off the back of Australia’s current fast-paced vaccine rollout.

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Following complaints lodged to Greyhound Racing SA (), are opening an into Mr. ’s alleged behaviour towards Kennel attendants at meetings. It is alleged that he used improper, insulting or offensive language towards these officials.

Therefore as a registered person he is required to be present at this inquiry which will take place at the offices of Greyhound Racing South , 55 Cardigan Street, Angle Park on Monday 3rd June 2013 at 6.00pm along with any witnesses that he believes may assist this inquiry.

As a result of this inquiry charges may be laid pursuant to GRSA of Greyhound Racing.

He was further advised that if he does not attend this inquiry it may be held in his absence and charges may be laid pursuant to GRSA Rules of Greyhound Racing.

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Ranger 4×4 to Model 44 Front Suspension

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Covert your 1983-97 Ranger 4×4 to the F150/Bronco model 44 front end. Increases track width 8 inches to match with an F150 rear end. More stability, bigger brakes, hubs, and axles. A bigger 1/2 ton wheel bolt circle allows you to basically create an F150 with your Ranger. Must use fiberglass fenders and bedsides, we recommend Autofab fiberglass for long life and head-turning looks. The basic suspension foundation kit consists of a Modified TTB beams exchange. TTB beams are reinforced in the weak area and outfitted with chrome-moly cups and mono ball ends. Race quality radius arms, complete with Rod Ends, spacers, bolts, and specially designed radius arm brackets. Custom hand-made TTB pivot brackets bolt in place of the stock Ranger brackets. This kit is designed to work with our equal length tie rod steering system (not included) to eliminate typical Ford toe change on the left wheel. Perfect for coil-over or coil bucket systems. Keep in mind to avoid a $500 core charge, send us your model 44 housings in advance.

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