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Near Lone Pine, CA
When the water from Owens Lake was diverted to bring water to Southern California, the loss of water created huge dust storms in the Owens Valley area. As a result, the Dept of Water & Power agreed to help with dust mitigation by "watering the lake" as well as other measures. This is a scene of that process. The DWP has spent over a billion dollars to manage the dust so far. They recently filed suit to limit their spending even though dust storms still plague the Owens Valley. The lake became dry in 1926. When winds blow, very fine particles of dust fill the air and create breathing problems for those in the area.
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The 700 metre long TREASURES of the Tweed Mural was painted betweed 2010 and 2016 on the Commercial Road side of the Tweed River flood mitigation wall in Murwillumbah in far northern NSW.
Despite fears that vandals would graffiti those murals there has in fact been almost no vandalism.
The river side of the wall had been given over to local artists to paint to their hearts content and its believed that this has been a big reason for the respect for the Treasures of the Tweed Commercial Road side artworks.
In 2016 an organisation called Earth Learning, which operates in the Northern Rivers to promote environmental education, decided that funding for another mural would be sought with the artwork to be carried out during 2017-18. The new mural was to be known as the -
Artist Turiya Bruce was commissioned to work with the local environment group, community artists and volunteers in early 2017 to complete the new 150 metre long Ages of the Tweed Mural which was to focus on the Jurassic Period (250 million years ago) of geological history in the Tweed Valley.
In an interview in January 2017 with The Tweed Valley Weekly Earth Learning coordinator Adrienne Weber said
both the 'Treasures of the Tweed' and the 'Ages of the Tweed' murals show our unique lowland rainforests and Antarctic Beech mountain forests that long ago, covered most of Australia and can still be seen here today.
The murals takes us back in time to past eras when cassowaries, megafauna and giant birds roamed this land.
Back to 20-million years ago, when the Wollumbin / Mt Warning volcano was erupting with molten lava, to times past when Australian dinosaurs, horned turtles and platypus with pointed beaks and teeth lived nearby."
In an interview with the Echo Daily in November 2017 Adrienne Weber said -
"The mural was inspired by the words of William Guilfoyle, botanist and explorer who In 1869 travelled up the Tweed River and described it as:
“A deep rich valley clothed with magnificent trees . . . The background was Mount Warning. The view was altogether beautiful beyond description. The scenery here exceeded anything I have previously seen in Australia.”
‘Guilfoyle said “In all my travels I have never seen anything to equal the beauty of the vegetation. The banks of the river are clothed to the waters edge with an endless variety of the richest of evergreens, and the gay blossoms of climbing plants, entwining themselves around the larger trees, or hanging from the branches in gorgeous festoons alone would be the subject for the painter.'”
The Ages of the Tweed mural has been in progress for the last few years with the final vision being to create the Tweed River – Murwillumbah Riverbank Restoration Walk and Open-air Gallery. The idea is to represent all the plants and animals that existed in the original Wollumbin, (Mount Warning) area from Lismore to Mount Tamborine. Reference Echo Daily Nov 2017
In response to unprecedented dry season rainfall, the L-29 Canal along the Tamiami Trail in Miami-Dade County has been maintained at a higher level to move water from Everglades Water Conservation Area 3 to Everglades National Park. This action has led to seepage and standing water in the 8.5 Square Mile Area east of the park.
To mitigate high water, the District is taking several steps, including removing a plug that separates the S-358 seepage canal from the S-357 pump station. This work will lower the water level in the seepage canal, lowering the water table and providing direct relief to properties that are experiencing standing water.
Crews work to stabilize coastal bluff slopes below a home and above rail tracks below near Mukilteo. Soil nails are used to help hold the slope in place and shotcrete, sprayed on concrete, is then applied on top. Drainage also is often improved before the shotcrete is added. The work helps reduce the risk of landslides, which can block rail rails and disrupt train traffic. Visit the project page for more information: www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Rail/slidemanagement/
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IMO continues to support international efforts to respond to the oil spill in Mauritius, following the break up of the MV Wakashio. IMO and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) have jointly deployed an expert, who is advising the Government of Mauritius on the mitigation of the impacts on the environment and coastal communities. Read more at imo.org
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The 700 metre long TREASURES of the Tweed Mural was painted betweed 2010 and 2016 on the Commercial Road side of the Tweed River flood mitigation wall in Murwillumbah in far northern NSW.
Despite fears that vandals would graffiti those murals there has in fact been almost no vandalism.
The river side of the wall had been given over to local artists to paint to their hearts content and its believed that this has been a big reason for the respect for the Treasures of the Tweed Commercial Road side artworks.
In 2016 an organisation called Earth Learning, which operates in the Northern Rivers to promote environmental education, decided that funding for another mural would be sought with the artwork to be carried out during 2017-18. The new mural was to be known as the -
Artist Turiya Bruce was commissioned to work with the local environment group, community artists and volunteers in early 2017 to complete the new 150 metre long Ages of the Tweed Mural which was to focus on the Jurassic Period (250 million years ago) of geological history in the Tweed Valley.
In an interview in January 2017 with The Tweed Valley Weekly Earth Learning coordinator Adrienne Weber said
both the 'Treasures of the Tweed' and the 'Ages of the Tweed' murals show our unique lowland rainforests and Antarctic Beech mountain forests that long ago, covered most of Australia and can still be seen here today.
The murals takes us back in time to past eras when cassowaries, megafauna and giant birds roamed this land.
Back to 20-million years ago, when the Wollumbin / Mt Warning volcano was erupting with molten lava, to times past when Australian dinosaurs, horned turtles and platypus with pointed beaks and teeth lived nearby."
In an interview with the Echo Daily in November 2017 Adrienne Weber said -
"The mural was inspired by the words of William Guilfoyle, botanist and explorer who In 1869 travelled up the Tweed River and described it as:
“A deep rich valley clothed with magnificent trees . . . The background was Mount Warning. The view was altogether beautiful beyond description. The scenery here exceeded anything I have previously seen in Australia.”
‘Guilfoyle said “In all my travels I have never seen anything to equal the beauty of the vegetation. The banks of the river are clothed to the waters edge with an endless variety of the richest of evergreens, and the gay blossoms of climbing plants, entwining themselves around the larger trees, or hanging from the branches in gorgeous festoons alone would be the subject for the painter.'”
The Ages of the Tweed mural has been in progress for the last few years with the final vision being to create the Tweed River – Murwillumbah Riverbank Restoration Walk and Open-air Gallery. The idea is to represent all the plants and animals that existed in the original Wollumbin, (Mount Warning) area from Lismore to Mount Tamborine. Reference Echo Daily Nov 2017
Ayu Dwi Rahayu, Environmental Engineer, directing workers at Supreme Energy, Muara Laboh geothermal project site. The Muara Laboh Geothermal Power Project will help advance towards Indonesia's renewable energy and climate change mitigation goals.
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Steam evaporates from drilled holes at the Supreme Energy, Muara Laboh project site. Drilling to 2 kilometers depths to get geothermal energy. The Muara Laboh Geothermal Power Project will help advance towards Indonesia's renewable energy and climate change mitigation goals.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD, "Reich Labour Service") was a major organisation established by Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women.
From June 1935 onwards, men aged between 18 and 25 had to serve six months before their military service. During World War II compulsory service also included young women and the RAD developed to an auxiliary formation which provided support for the Wehrmacht armed forces.
Foundation
In the course of the Great Depression, the German government of the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Heinrich Brüning by emergency decree had established the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst ('Voluntary Labour Service', FAD) on 5 June 1931, two years before the Nazi Party (NSDAP) ascended to power. The state sponsored employment organisation provided services to civic and land improvement projects, from 16 July 1932 it was headed by Friedrich Syrup in the official rank of a Reichskommissar. The idea of a national compulsory service was quite popular, especially in right-wing circles, but it had little effect on the economic situation.
The concept was adopted by Adolf Hitler, who upon the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 appointed Konstantin Hierl state secretary in the Reich Ministry of Labour, responsible for FAD matters. Hierl was already a high-ranking member of the NSDAP and head of the party's labour organization, the Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst or NSAD. Hierl developed the concept of a state labour service organisation similar to the Reichswehr army, with a view to implementing a compulsory service. Meant as an evasion of the regulations set by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, voluntariness initially was maintained after protests by the Geneva World Disarmament Conference.
Hierl's rivalry with Labour Minister Franz Seldte led to the affiliation of his office as a FAD Reichskommissar with the Interior Ministry under his party fellow Wilhelm Frick. On 11 July 1934, the NSAD was renamed Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD with Hierl as its director until the end of World War II. By law issued on 26 June 1935, the RAD was re-established as an amalgamation of the many prior labour organisations formed in Germany during the times of the Weimar Republic,[2] with Hierl as appointed Reichsarbeitsführer (Reich Labour Leader) according to the Führerprinzip. With massive financial support by the German government, RAD members were to provide service for mainly military and to a lesser extent civic and agricultural construction projects.
Organization
RAD (House flag, Female Sections)
The RAD was divided into two major sections, the Reichsarbeitsdienst Männer (RAD/M) for men and the voluntary, from 1939 compulsory, Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend (RAD/wJ) for women.
The RAD was composed of 33 districts each called an Arbeitsgau (lit. Work District) similar to the Gaue subdivisions of the Nazi Party. Each of these districts was headed by an Arbeitsgauführer officer with headquarters staff and a Wachkompanie (Guard Company). Under each district were between six and eight Arbeitsgruppen (Work Groups), battalion-sized formations of 1200–1800 men. These groups were divided into six company-sized RAD-Abteilung units.
Conscripted personnel had to move into labour barracks. Each rank and file RAD man was supplied with a spade and a bicycle. A paramilitary uniform was implemented in 1934; beside the swastika brassard, the RAD symbol, an arm badge in the shape of an upward pointing shovel blade, was displayed on the upper left shoulder of all uniforms and great-coats worn by all personnel. Men and women had to work up to 76 hours a week.
War
The RAD was classed as Wehrmachtgefolge (lit. Defence Force Following). Auxiliary forces with this status, while not a part of the Armed Forces themselves, provided such vital support that they were given protection by the Geneva Convention. Some, including the RAD, were militarised.
During the early war Norwegian and Western campaigns, hundreds of RAD units were engaged in supplying frontline troops with food and ammunition, repairing damaged roads and constructing and repairing airstrips. Throughout the course of the war, the RAD were involved in many projects.[3] The RAD units constructed coastal fortifications (many RAD men worked on the Atlantic Wall), laid minefields, manned fortifications, and even helped guard vital locations and prisoners.
The role of the RAD was not limited to combat support functions. Hundreds of RAD units received training as anti-aircraft units and were deployed as RAD Flak Batteries.[3] Several RAD units also performed combat on the eastern front as infantry. As the German defences were devastated, more and more RAD men were committed to combat. During the final months of the war RAD men formed 6 major frontline units, which were involved with serious fighting. On the western front RAD troops were used as reinforcements to the 9th SS Engineer Abt (SS-Captain Moeller) in the fighting to retake the northern end of the Arnhem bridge from British Paratroopers under Col. Frost. This action was during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. It was noted that the RAD troops had no combat experience. SS-Captain Moeller's report concluded: "These men were rather sceptical and reluctant at the beginning, which was hardly surprising. But when they were put in the right place they helped us a lot; and in time they integrated completely, becoming good and reliable comrades." Losses for these troops were in the hundreds.[4]
Changing of the shift at the Drilling Station at Supreme Energy, Muara Laboh project site. Drilling to 2 kilometers depths to get geothermal energy. The Muara Laboh Geothermal Power Project will help advance towards Indonesia's renewable energy and climate change mitigation goals.
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Workers using pressurized scalding hot water to melt the ice under the east dam of the Rideau River at the Rideau Falls in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
They perform this work yearly before spring comes so as to prevent the damming of the Rideau River at its falls flowing into the Ottawa River, and is a vital component of the Rideau River's spring flood mitigation program in Ottawa.
The Winthrop National Fish Hatchery is located near the Methow River in North Central Washington State. Returning adults must pass nine dams to reach Winthrop NFH. The spring Chinook salmon program at Winthrop NFH is operated as mitigation for Grand Coulee Dam. The current focus is to recover dwindling populations of spring Chinook salmon in the upper Columbia Basin. Spring Chinook salmon in the upper Columbia Basin were listed by the National Marine Fisheries Service as "endangered" in 1999. The Winthrop NFH is one of three hatcheries in the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery Complex. The Complex was authorized by the Grand Coulee Fish Maintenance Project, April 3, 1937, and reauthorized by the Mitchell Act, May 11, 1938. Currently, the Complex is funded through a reimbursable agreement (sub activity 1932) with the Bureau of Reclamation as mitigation for Grand Coulee Dam, and is authorized by the US v. Oregon decision, and the US Canada Treaty. www.fws.gov/winthropnfh/
Photo by Chris Pasley/USFWS. Verified RHP.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue and U.S. Senator Cory Gardner visit Food Bank of the Rockies' USDA commodities warehouse, in Denver, Co., on June 19, 2020. The Food Bank of the Rockies further distributes to about 640 food pantries in Northern Colorado and Wyoming. This warehouse receives and distributes USDA foods for several USDA (FNS) Food and Nutrition Service programs: The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) a program for low-income seniors over 60, and the Food Purchase & Distribution Program (FPDP), part of trade mitigation. Additionally, the Food Bank of the Rockies works with three Farmers to Families Food Box distributors. This is one of two large Food Banks that receives USDA foods in Colorado. For more information, please see fns.usda.gov and foodbankrockies.org.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Workers using pressurized scalding hot water to melt the ice under the east dam of the Rideau River at the Rideau Falls in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
They perform this work yearly before spring comes so as to prevent the damming of the Rideau River at its falls flowing into the Ottawa River, and is a vital component of the Rideau River's spring flood mitigation program in Ottawa.
Pakapakanthi wetlands within the Adelaide South Park Lands.
Officially opened 2022.
This wetland is a key part of South Australia’s flood mitigation system, providing greater protection for properties and infrastructure in the event of a major flood.
Mitigation area, near 83rd Avenue overpass, Peoria Arizona. This rabbit or its offspring died in the Monsoon floods of 2014. This section of Skunk Creek, deepened, narrowed and weired by the AC of ED, had at least four feet of rushing water flowing through it for several days. No small ground dwelling mammalian or reptilian life survived (the coyotes would have been okay); the skeletons of a couple of rabbits, stretched in flight, lay on the mitigation area after the waters had receded and the ground dried. Why the weirs? Who knows - but they (four of them) push the water along at speed, causing greater turbulence than otherwise would have been the case, scouring the ground and washing away some of the foundations of the weirs themselves. Idiotic. And all to prevent an inch or so of rain water flooding the great god: property.
At the Fourmile Creek mitigation site, newly established plants are being cared for to promote a more natural environment in these wetlands.
Hazmat Mitigation Vehicle 231's new rig.
One of only 2 HMVs in service with SCDF. This truck features seating for a full Hazmat crew of 14 and includes a moveable High Performance Suit (HPS) storage cabinet inside the main crew compartment. This allows fire fighters to suit-up onboard before emerging from the vehicle.
Devil’s Slide is a treacherous section of Highway 1 notorious for landslides and long closures. They closed the road and built a tunnel, a safer route through the mountains. The former highway is now a multi-use trail. It is quiet and gorgeous and you no longer have to fear driving over the cliffs because you can't take your eyes off the view.
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The 700 metre long TREASURES of the Tweed Mural was painted betweed 2010 and 2016 on the Commercial Road side of the Tweed River flood mitigation wall in Murwillumbah in far northern NSW.
Despite fears that vandals would graffiti those murals there has in fact been almost no vandalism.
The river side of the wall had been given over to local artists to paint to their hearts content and its believed that this has been a big reason for the respect for the Treasures of the Tweed Commercial Road side artworks.
In 2016 an organisation called Earth Learning, which operates in the Northern Rivers to promote environmental education, decided that funding for another mural would be sought with the artwork to be carried out during 2017-18. The new mural was to be known as the -
Artist Turiya Bruce was commissioned to work with the local environment group, community artists and volunteers in early 2017 to complete the new 150 metre long Ages of the Tweed Mural which was to focus on the Jurassic Period (250 million years ago) of geological history in the Tweed Valley.
In an interview in January 2017 with The Tweed Valley Weekly Earth Learning coordinator Adrienne Weber said
both the 'Treasures of the Tweed' and the 'Ages of the Tweed' murals show our unique lowland rainforests and Antarctic Beech mountain forests that long ago, covered most of Australia and can still be seen here today.
The murals takes us back in time to past eras when cassowaries, megafauna and giant birds roamed this land.
Back to 20-million years ago, when the Wollumbin / Mt Warning volcano was erupting with molten lava, to times past when Australian dinosaurs, horned turtles and platypus with pointed beaks and teeth lived nearby."
In an interview with the Echo Daily in November 2017 Adrienne Weber said -
"The mural was inspired by the words of William Guilfoyle, botanist and explorer who In 1869 travelled up the Tweed River and described it as:
“A deep rich valley clothed with magnificent trees . . . The background was Mount Warning. The view was altogether beautiful beyond description. The scenery here exceeded anything I have previously seen in Australia.”
‘Guilfoyle said “In all my travels I have never seen anything to equal the beauty of the vegetation. The banks of the river are clothed to the waters edge with an endless variety of the richest of evergreens, and the gay blossoms of climbing plants, entwining themselves around the larger trees, or hanging from the branches in gorgeous festoons alone would be the subject for the painter.'”
The Ages of the Tweed mural has been in progress for the last few years with the final vision being to create the Tweed River – Murwillumbah Riverbank Restoration Walk and Open-air Gallery. The idea is to represent all the plants and animals that existed in the original Wollumbin, (Mount Warning) area from Lismore to Mount Tamborine. Reference Echo Daily Nov 2017
The aerial application of yellow straw continues to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colo. Red areas are burnt trees with pine needles that will fall tho the ground and form a mulch. Green areas are the remaining healthy trees that provide shade and protection to promote the growth of ground cover plants and shrub. Because of steep terrain, helicopters must be used to quickly deliver 1,800 tons of straw to Forest Service lands, and private and other lands that receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak, more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A ton of straw slowly falls during an aerial disbursement over a burned out area of the Poudre Canyon mountainside, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. This is an aerial application of straw that will mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. Forest Service lands receive straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. Their efforts have successfully kept water in the reservoir clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A modular catchment wall was added along this rail line and bluff near Mukilteo at milepost 25.9. The wall keeps landslide debris from reaching the tracks and be cleaned out by a machine that runs along the rail lines.
Wyman's Marina Anacortes Museum
Robinson’s Cove, Guemes Channel.
"Wyman’s Aquatic Habitat at Robinson’s Cove occurred at the former Wyman’s Marina property, located at the northern terminus of U Avenue along the Guemes Channel. Prior to the late 1940s, the property was used for lumber milling and ship building operations. In the 1950s, the property was known as Robinson’s Marina and provided moorage space for up to 160 boats. After a storm event in 1964, Robinson’s Marina discontinued marina operations at the property and continued with boat maintenance and engine repair services until 1965 when the property was sold to the Port. The Port leased the property as Wyman’s Marina to continue boat repair and fueling services which operated until 1998.
Wyman’s Aquatic Habitat was designed to fulfill mitigation requirements for the Port’s Project Pier I Redevelopment. Sources of contamination were from boat maintenance, engine repair activities and underground fuel storage tanks. Cleanup and construction of this compensatory mitigation site was completed in January 2014.
The construction of this mitigation site involved excavation and disposal of approximately 13,550 cubic yards of upland and intertidal material along the southern shoreline of Guemes Channel to provide high quality intertidal habitat for juvenile salmonids. This activity included excavation and disposal of upland contaminated soil as part of Ecology’s Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP)."
The plants are being established in the Fourmile Creek mitigation wetland site off of State Route 539 near Lynden. This will help bring this area back to it's more natural state.
Crews drive a post for a landslide retention wall near Mukilteo. The walls, when completed, help to catch debris before it strikes or blocks tracks.
After working for 24 years as a mitigation specialist, www.fema.gov/what-mitigation#1, Sandra became depressed from all the horrors she had witnessed and found herself one morning unable to rise up to a new day. She stayed in bed and told her husband that she couldn't face, not even one more day, her duty as a legal investigator.
"God", she implored the Lord, " I am giving my life to you. I can't take it any longer. Do what you wish with my life!"
Sandra told me, with a deep sense of gratefulness in her voice, that God had given her the hat store--a gift from heaven.
She started her business in July 2011 with only eight new hats. The other hats she had purchased in vintage stores, online, thrift stores, etc...
She has done very well business-like, but most of all she is so happy with all the nice people she is constantly meeting in her "You can leave your hat on" store on 212 7th Street in Oregon City.
"How would I otherwise have me three nice ladies like you?!" she smiled big.
Sandra was extremely kind and very friendly and offered us, my two Flickr friends and I, sweet gourmet chocolates. She also let us move freely in her amazing shop and make as many photos as we wanted.
We had fun trying all sorts of hats, fancy and practical, and making silly pictures of each other. (Don't expect to see any though.)
After we were done inside the store, I asked Sandra to step outside and let me take more pictures of her in front of her display window. She was such a sport and agreed instantly.
Do I need to say that the three of us left the store each with a new hat on the head :-))
This is my friend yucatan's photo of sandra www.flickr.com/photos/good-news/8382175417/in/photostream
Press conference to present the Summary for Policymakers of the report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. 4 April 2022. Surrey, UK. Copyright IPCC | Photo by Mark Speight
Wildland fire investigators examine the scene to determine the cause of the wildfire. A down power line lays on the ground near a broken wooden power pole structure. Colored pin flags are placed on burn/fire indicators to show the direction of the fire spread. Photo courtesy of NIFC.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD, "Reich Labour Service") was a major organisation established by Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women.
From June 1935 onwards, men aged between 18 and 25 had to serve six months before their military service. During World War II compulsory service also included young women and the RAD developed to an auxiliary formation which provided support for the Wehrmacht armed forces.
Foundation
In the course of the Great Depression, the German government of the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Heinrich Brüning by emergency decree had established the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst ('Voluntary Labour Service', FAD) on 5 June 1931, two years before the Nazi Party (NSDAP) ascended to power. The state sponsored employment organisation provided services to civic and land improvement projects, from 16 July 1932 it was headed by Friedrich Syrup in the official rank of a Reichskommissar. The idea of a national compulsory service was quite popular, especially in right-wing circles, but it had little effect on the economic situation.
The concept was adopted by Adolf Hitler, who upon the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 appointed Konstantin Hierl state secretary in the Reich Ministry of Labour, responsible for FAD matters. Hierl was already a high-ranking member of the NSDAP and head of the party's labour organization, the Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst or NSAD. Hierl developed the concept of a state labour service organisation similar to the Reichswehr army, with a view to implementing a compulsory service. Meant as an evasion of the regulations set by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, voluntariness initially was maintained after protests by the Geneva World Disarmament Conference.
Hierl's rivalry with Labour Minister Franz Seldte led to the affiliation of his office as a FAD Reichskommissar with the Interior Ministry under his party fellow Wilhelm Frick. On 11 July 1934, the NSAD was renamed Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD with Hierl as its director until the end of World War II. By law issued on 26 June 1935, the RAD was re-established as an amalgamation of the many prior labour organisations formed in Germany during the times of the Weimar Republic,[2] with Hierl as appointed Reichsarbeitsführer (Reich Labour Leader) according to the Führerprinzip. With massive financial support by the German government, RAD members were to provide service for mainly military and to a lesser extent civic and agricultural construction projects.
Organization
RAD (House flag, Female Sections)
The RAD was divided into two major sections, the Reichsarbeitsdienst Männer (RAD/M) for men and the voluntary, from 1939 compulsory, Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend (RAD/wJ) for women.
The RAD was composed of 33 districts each called an Arbeitsgau (lit. Work District) similar to the Gaue subdivisions of the Nazi Party. Each of these districts was headed by an Arbeitsgauführer officer with headquarters staff and a Wachkompanie (Guard Company). Under each district were between six and eight Arbeitsgruppen (Work Groups), battalion-sized formations of 1200–1800 men. These groups were divided into six company-sized RAD-Abteilung units.
Conscripted personnel had to move into labour barracks. Each rank and file RAD man was supplied with a spade and a bicycle. A paramilitary uniform was implemented in 1934; beside the swastika brassard, the RAD symbol, an arm badge in the shape of an upward pointing shovel blade, was displayed on the upper left shoulder of all uniforms and great-coats worn by all personnel. Men and women had to work up to 76 hours a week.
War
The RAD was classed as Wehrmachtgefolge (lit. Defence Force Following). Auxiliary forces with this status, while not a part of the Armed Forces themselves, provided such vital support that they were given protection by the Geneva Convention. Some, including the RAD, were militarised.
During the early war Norwegian and Western campaigns, hundreds of RAD units were engaged in supplying frontline troops with food and ammunition, repairing damaged roads and constructing and repairing airstrips. Throughout the course of the war, the RAD were involved in many projects.[3] The RAD units constructed coastal fortifications (many RAD men worked on the Atlantic Wall), laid minefields, manned fortifications, and even helped guard vital locations and prisoners.
The role of the RAD was not limited to combat support functions. Hundreds of RAD units received training as anti-aircraft units and were deployed as RAD Flak Batteries.[3] Several RAD units also performed combat on the eastern front as infantry. As the German defences were devastated, more and more RAD men were committed to combat. During the final months of the war RAD men formed 6 major frontline units, which were involved with serious fighting. On the western front RAD troops were used as reinforcements to the 9th SS Engineer Abt (SS-Captain Moeller) in the fighting to retake the northern end of the Arnhem bridge from British Paratroopers under Col. Frost. This action was during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. It was noted that the RAD troops had no combat experience. SS-Captain Moeller's report concluded: "These men were rather sceptical and reluctant at the beginning, which was hardly surprising. But when they were put in the right place they helped us a lot; and in time they integrated completely, becoming good and reliable comrades." Losses for these troops were in the hundreds.[4]
Ayu Dwi Rahayu, Environmental Engineer, with her boss, Wahyu S. Amin, Open Yard Site Supervisor, at Supreme Energy, Muara Laboh geothermal project site. The Muara Laboh Geothermal Power Project will help advance towards Indonesia's renewable energy and climate change mitigation goals.
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Restoring Fourmile Creek to its natural floodplain along State Route 539. This mitigation plan addresses potential environmental impacts expected from upcoming construction projects. These improvements and reconnections of waterways will help with flood control and expand habitat for native species such as salmon.
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The 700 metre long TREASURES of the Tweed Mural was painted betweed 2010 and 2016 on the Commercial Road side of the Tweed River flood mitigation wall in Murwillumbah in far northern NSW.
Despite fears that vandals would graffiti those murals there has in fact been almost no vandalism.
The river side of the wall had been given over to local artists to paint to their hearts content and its believed that this has been a big reason for the respect for the Treasures of the Tweed Commercial Road side artworks.
In 2016 an organisation called Earth Learning, which operates in the Northern Rivers to promote environmental education, decided that funding for another mural would be sought with the artwork to be carried out during 2017-18. The new mural was to be known as the -
Artist Turiya Bruce was commissioned to work with the local environment group, community artists and volunteers in early 2017 to complete the new 150 metre long Ages of the Tweed Mural which was to focus on the Jurassic Period (250 million years ago) of geological history in the Tweed Valley.
In an interview in January 2017 with The Tweed Valley Weekly Earth Learning coordinator Adrienne Weber said
both the 'Treasures of the Tweed' and the 'Ages of the Tweed' murals show our unique lowland rainforests and Antarctic Beech mountain forests that long ago, covered most of Australia and can still be seen here today.
The murals takes us back in time to past eras when cassowaries, megafauna and giant birds roamed this land.
Back to 20-million years ago, when the Wollumbin / Mt Warning volcano was erupting with molten lava, to times past when Australian dinosaurs, horned turtles and platypus with pointed beaks and teeth lived nearby."
In an interview with the Echo Daily in November 2017 Adrienne Weber said -
"The mural was inspired by the words of William Guilfoyle, botanist and explorer who In 1869 travelled up the Tweed River and described it as:
“A deep rich valley clothed with magnificent trees . . . The background was Mount Warning. The view was altogether beautiful beyond description. The scenery here exceeded anything I have previously seen in Australia.”
‘Guilfoyle said “In all my travels I have never seen anything to equal the beauty of the vegetation. The banks of the river are clothed to the waters edge with an endless variety of the richest of evergreens, and the gay blossoms of climbing plants, entwining themselves around the larger trees, or hanging from the branches in gorgeous festoons alone would be the subject for the painter.'”
The Ages of the Tweed mural has been in progress for the last few years with the final vision being to create the Tweed River – Murwillumbah Riverbank Restoration Walk and Open-air Gallery. The idea is to represent all the plants and animals that existed in the original Wollumbin, (Mount Warning) area from Lismore to Mount Tamborine. Reference Echo Daily Nov 2017
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The Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD, "Reich Labour Service") was a major organisation established by Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women.
From June 1935 onwards, men aged between 18 and 25 had to serve six months before their military service. During World War II compulsory service also included young women and the RAD developed to an auxiliary formation which provided support for the Wehrmacht armed forces.
Foundation
In the course of the Great Depression, the German government of the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Heinrich Brüning by emergency decree had established the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst ('Voluntary Labour Service', FAD) on 5 June 1931, two years before the Nazi Party (NSDAP) ascended to power. The state sponsored employment organisation provided services to civic and land improvement projects, from 16 July 1932 it was headed by Friedrich Syrup in the official rank of a Reichskommissar. The idea of a national compulsory service was quite popular, especially in right-wing circles, but it had little effect on the economic situation.
The concept was adopted by Adolf Hitler, who upon the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 appointed Konstantin Hierl state secretary in the Reich Ministry of Labour, responsible for FAD matters. Hierl was already a high-ranking member of the NSDAP and head of the party's labour organization, the Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst or NSAD. Hierl developed the concept of a state labour service organisation similar to the Reichswehr army, with a view to implementing a compulsory service. Meant as an evasion of the regulations set by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, voluntariness initially was maintained after protests by the Geneva World Disarmament Conference.
Hierl's rivalry with Labour Minister Franz Seldte led to the affiliation of his office as a FAD Reichskommissar with the Interior Ministry under his party fellow Wilhelm Frick. On 11 July 1934, the NSAD was renamed Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD with Hierl as its director until the end of World War II. By law issued on 26 June 1935, the RAD was re-established as an amalgamation of the many prior labour organisations formed in Germany during the times of the Weimar Republic,[2] with Hierl as appointed Reichsarbeitsführer (Reich Labour Leader) according to the Führerprinzip. With massive financial support by the German government, RAD members were to provide service for mainly military and to a lesser extent civic and agricultural construction projects.
Organization
RAD (House flag, Female Sections)
The RAD was divided into two major sections, the Reichsarbeitsdienst Männer (RAD/M) for men and the voluntary, from 1939 compulsory, Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend (RAD/wJ) for women.
The RAD was composed of 33 districts each called an Arbeitsgau (lit. Work District) similar to the Gaue subdivisions of the Nazi Party. Each of these districts was headed by an Arbeitsgauführer officer with headquarters staff and a Wachkompanie (Guard Company). Under each district were between six and eight Arbeitsgruppen (Work Groups), battalion-sized formations of 1200–1800 men. These groups were divided into six company-sized RAD-Abteilung units.
Conscripted personnel had to move into labour barracks. Each rank and file RAD man was supplied with a spade and a bicycle. A paramilitary uniform was implemented in 1934; beside the swastika brassard, the RAD symbol, an arm badge in the shape of an upward pointing shovel blade, was displayed on the upper left shoulder of all uniforms and great-coats worn by all personnel. Men and women had to work up to 76 hours a week.
War
The RAD was classed as Wehrmachtgefolge (lit. Defence Force Following). Auxiliary forces with this status, while not a part of the Armed Forces themselves, provided such vital support that they were given protection by the Geneva Convention. Some, including the RAD, were militarised.
During the early war Norwegian and Western campaigns, hundreds of RAD units were engaged in supplying frontline troops with food and ammunition, repairing damaged roads and constructing and repairing airstrips. Throughout the course of the war, the RAD were involved in many projects.[3] The RAD units constructed coastal fortifications (many RAD men worked on the Atlantic Wall), laid minefields, manned fortifications, and even helped guard vital locations and prisoners.
The role of the RAD was not limited to combat support functions. Hundreds of RAD units received training as anti-aircraft units and were deployed as RAD Flak Batteries.[3] Several RAD units also performed combat on the eastern front as infantry. As the German defences were devastated, more and more RAD men were committed to combat. During the final months of the war RAD men formed 6 major frontline units, which were involved with serious fighting. On the western front RAD troops were used as reinforcements to the 9th SS Engineer Abt (SS-Captain Moeller) in the fighting to retake the northern end of the Arnhem bridge from British Paratroopers under Col. Frost. This action was during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. It was noted that the RAD troops had no combat experience. SS-Captain Moeller's report concluded: "These men were rather sceptical and reluctant at the beginning, which was hardly surprising. But when they were put in the right place they helped us a lot; and in time they integrated completely, becoming good and reliable comrades." Losses for these troops were in the hundreds.[4]
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The aerial application of yellow straw continues to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colo. Red areas are burnt trees with pine needles that will fall tho the ground and form a mulch. Green areas are the remaining healthy trees that provide shade and protection to promote the growth of ground cover plants and shrub. An elk can be seen foraging on a remote patch of unburnt ground cover. Because of steep terrain, helicopters must be used to quickly deliver 1,800 tons of straw to Forest Service lands, and private and other lands that receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak, more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Mountain West Helicopter pilot Randy Mason takes off in a Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) after being refueled at the Seaman Reservoir spillway, near Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, July 20, 2012. In the foreground is an aerial seed spreader, used in the continuing aerial application of straw and seed mix to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. The 100-150-foot cable below it holds and releases loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. Their efforts have successfully kept water in the reservoir clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.