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Effect of boron, soil acidity and aluminium toxicity on barley
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Barley is very susceptible to the high levels of boron that are often found in duplex soils with an alkaline and sodic subsoil.
Boron toxicity symptoms tend to develop during the latter stages of plant growth. This 'spring flush' of boron may be due to roots coming into contact with higher concentrations of boron in the subsoil, and absorbing relatively higher levels of moisture from this depth (passively absorbing more of boron) during spring.
However, other environmental conditions may influence the pattern of development of boron toxicity in barley crops. Under controlled conditions, moisture stress has been shown to increase the level of boron in the tops of Stirling barley.
Boron toxicity appears as small dark spots, often located more towards the tip and along the margins of the leaf. In some cases these spots have a yellow margin similar to spot-type net blotch but they can be differentiated by their size and location on the leaf. Boron toxicity symptoms should not be confused with physiological leaf spotting or disease symptoms from the net blotch diseases. Table 1 outlines the likely differences in symptoms caused by physiological leaf spotting, boron toxicity and net blotch (net and spot type). It may be difficult to distinguish between the symptoms on varieties such as Hamelin which is prone to physiological leaf spotting, intolerant to high levels boron and susceptible to both net and spot type net blotch.
Table 1. Guide to differentiating between brown spotting on barley leaves.
Physiological leaf spotting | Boron toxicity | Net blotch | |
Location on leaf | over entire leaf | leaf margins and tips | irregular |
Legion size | small | small | medium |
Yellow margins around leaf | no | sometimes | yes |
Photographs of physiological leaf spotting and the net blotch symptoms can be found in these two Farmnotes:
- Farmnote 62/2005: Hamelin: a new barley variety with superior malting quality for medium to low rainfall zones [PDF 213KB]
- Farmnote 65/2001: Leaf diseases of barley [PDF 201KB]
The occurrence of boron toxicity symptoms vary from year to year, largely depending on seasonal conditions. Boron toxicity occurs mainly in the dryer years in medium to low rainfall zones. In Western Australia, barley crops with boron toxicity symptoms grow almost exclusively on the duplex soils with alkaline and fine-textured subsoils, which were generally non saline but probably sodic.
It is likely that the only available solution to the problem will be to avoid growing the more susceptible varieties where boron toxicity symptoms have been observed.
The degree of leaf damage of varieties in response to high levels of boron in the soil is shown in the following table:
Tolerance of Barley Varieties to Boron
Table 2 lists the likely expression of boron toxic symptoms on barley leaves during spring. It should be noted that the presence of leaf symptoms does not necessarily mean that the variety will not perform on soils with high levels of boron. For example, trials on alkaline soils (31 observations, 2001 - 2004) with high sub-soil pH show that Vlamingh (which is rated as intolerant to born toxicity) out yielded Schooner (which is rated as moderately tolerant to high levels of boron) by 9% or 0.23 t/ha.
Table 2. Likely expression of boron toxicity symptoms on leaves of a range of barley varieties during spring.
Moderately Tolerant | Moderately Intolerant | Intolerant |
Displays low levels of leaf damage | Moderate levels of leaf damage | High levels of leaf damage |
Buloke | Barque | Doolup |
Keel | Baudin | Flagship |
Maritime | Capstan | Gairdner |
Mundah | Cowabbie | Hamelin |
Schooner | Dash | Stirling |
Skiff | Milby | Vlamingh |
Sloop | Vic | Molloy |
Yagan | O'Connor | |
Maritime | Onslow | |
Sloop | ||
Sloop SA | ||
Windich | ||
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A boron level of 50 ppm in whole shoot tissue, sampled immediately before awn emergence, can indicate an expected loss in yield of up to 10 per cent.
Boron levels in the grain can be a useful indicator of toxicity. Levels of 3 ppm or more indicate that the crop was grown on a soil with the potential to develop boron toxicity problems.
Soil acidity and aluminium toxicity
| Causes | Effects | Management |
Soils with low pH often have high levels of aluminium in the soil solution. This aluminium is toxic to barley, even at low levels, as barley is more sensitive than other cereals. In general, barley should not be grown on soils with a pH in calcium chloride of less than 4.5 (sampled at 0 to 10 cm depth). Yield losses of up to 30 per cent have been associated with a soil pH in calcium chloride of 4.3 or less.
Causes of soil acidity
Many light textured soils in Western Australia's cropping areas were slightly acid before they were cleared. The Wodjil soils of the eastern wheatbelt and peaty sands in the southwest are naturally highly acid. However, with the introduction of agriculture, all soils are becoming more acidic due to:
- Leaching of nitrogen from the root zone
- Removal of produce (grain pasture, meat and wool)
- Use of legumes in rotations
Agricultural production increases the concentration of hydrogen ions in soil. The increasing concentration of hydrogen ions in the soil increases dissolution of aluminium from soil constituents (clays, oxides, organic matter) increasing the concentration of aluminium ions in soil solution. Eventually the aluminium in soil solution becomes toxic to plant roots, reducing root growth and the ability of the roots to explore soil to take up water and nutrient elements from soil reducing grain yields. The acidity problem is greatest in the 10 - 40 cm zone of the soil and is called subsurface acidity.
Removing produce from the paddock can be thought of as being equivalent to removing lime, leaving the soil more acid. Grains such as barley, wheat and canola contain approximately 2.5 kg of lime per tonne of grain.
Effects of soil acidity
Soil acidity affects the availability of soil nutrients, producing toxicities and deficiencies. In Western Australia, aluminium toxicity is the main cause of yield loss from soil acidity. Plant roots will not grow into a soil layer that is high in aluminium which limits the ability of the plant to scavenge for nutrients and restricts the rooting depth. Restricted root systems can lead to nutrient deficiencies or drought symptoms of the crop even if moisture is available further down the soil profile. Roots affected by soil acidity often look short and stubby.
At low pH, nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus are less available to the plant and may even become deficient at normal rates of fertiliser. While fertiliser rates can be increased to overcome this, the loss of efficiency can be costly.
Applications of lime to the soil can ameliorate surface pH problems. Soil samples need to be collected from the top 10 cm of soil, and also from the 10 - 20 cm depth. If the pH in the 10 - 20 cm sample is less than 5.0, subsurface acidity is a problem. Sufficient lime needs to be applied to the topsoil to raise the pH of the top 10 cm of soil to 5.5 or greater. Only then will alkali produced by the lime in the topsoil start to move down into the subsoil to ameliorate subsurface acidity. If pH values in the topsoil are below 4.0 then about 4 t/ha lime needs to be applied which can be achieved by several applications in successive years.
Applications of lime can induce zinc and manganese deficiency, so applications of fertiliser zinc and manganese are often required when applying lime to ensure deficiency does not reduce grain yields. Before liming, collect tissue samples from crops to test for zinc and manganese. If the tests indicate these elements are marginal or deficient then apply fertiliser zinc and manganese to the next crop.
To reduce yield losses of barley due to soil acidity:
- Measure the pH in CaCl2 of the topsoil (0 to 10 cm), before growing barley
- If the pH is below 4.5 and previous barley crops have performed below expectation, apply lime before growing barley or grow a more tolerant species and sow barley on paddocks with a higher pH
- If the pH is above 4.5, soil acidity will not affect production of barley. If the pH is 4.5 to 4.7, remeasure in two to three years time
- Choose a more tolerant variety of barley.
Of the barley varieties tested for their tolerance to soil acidity, Schooner is rated as highly sensitive and Stirling, Hamelin, Baudin, Skiff and Doolup are rated as sensitive. New South Wales Agriculture have released the feed varieties, Brindabella with moderate tolerance and Yamba with high tolerance to acidity. While these varieties perform well on acidic soils in Western Australia, they are lower yielding than WA varieties on other soil types.
A number of barley crossbreads are being evaluated for their tolerance to low soil pH and/or aluminium toxicity in Western Australia. Research trials from the last three seasons suggest that a number of crossbreads from the NSW Department of Agriculture show improved tolerance relative to Stirling and are better adapted than Yambla and Tulla to Western Australia. The Western Australian barley breeding program has made crosses to these lines to develop Hamelin and Baudin back cross barley lines with improved tolerance. It is hoped that these lines will be available for commercial production by 2010, subject to commercial malting and brewing trials being completed. The potential for the release of lines with improved tolerance however does not decrease the necessity to use lime to increase the productivity of these soils.
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A highly corrosive substance In video games, acid is usually green and extremely lethal.
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Methyl Methacrylate - Global Strategic Business Report
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- Published: October 2012
- Region: Global
ProductTrends is a unique tool for analyzing various products. It contains a brief description of the macroeconomic environment, the rating of the attractiveness of production sold, exports and imports. Assessments of attractiveness have been made on the basis of a detailed analysis of the value components, such as the volume and average price for each of above categories. Forecasts of volumes and values are taken from regression models with a sufficiently close fit.
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Report illustrates the behavior of exports, imports and production sold of Acrylic polymers; in primary forms (excluding polymethyl methacrylate) for The Netherlands. It shows fluctuations of value, volume and average prices for these categories during the last five years 2003 - 2007 together with the forecasts of them for the next two consecutive years 2008 - 2009. The material contains in-depth analysis of exports and imports across top ten trading partner countries and top seven sub products as well as a ranking of current and future attractiveness of production, exports and imports.
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Where Is All the Linux Going?
When "Linux company" was still a category, there was no shortage of news. Nothing posed a bigger threat to Microsoft, and all the companies in Tier 1 on the stock page at LWN did their best to generate publicity.
Today Microsoft still considers Linux its number one threat, but without a suitably huge proponent, no news ensues.
Yet Linux adoption continues to grow. John Gantz, chief research officer for International Data Corp. , says IDC expects 2002 to be a "breakout year" for Linux--against projected modest growth in IT spending.
So the question becomes, where is all the Linux going?
Gantz points to embedded and high performance applications, along with space-saving "blade" server designs. But is that all? I didn't think so, but I didn't run across the evidence to back up my hunches until I got on the phone a couple days ago with Mary Anne De Young of 1mage ("One Image"), a document management and retrieval company. 1mage makes software that sells to, and resells through, large industrial companies. One of their largest, for example, is Reynolds & Reynolds, a 135-year company that supplies technology to car dealerships. If you're a car dealer who needs to manage a lot of paper files in a paperless way (and do lots of other stuff you need software for), your supplier is Reynolds & Reynolds. They're the big boys in that business.
After 1mage began shipping its software on Linux, De Young told me, sales went through the roof. Why? Because 1mage's customers are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, remove hassles and improve reliability. Linux filled the bill all three ways, and Reynolds & Reynolds is just one of those companies. Right now they're shipping thousands of new systems out to car dealers, all running on Linux.
De Young says, "We announced that we were running on Linux in 1999. I would say that ninety percent of all our installations since that date have been Linux. Everybody wants Linux." Why? Here are some of the virtues mentioned in my notes from our conversation: "flexibility", "lower cost of entry into markets", "tinkerers--technically smart people who love to get in and tinker with the technology--love Linux".
Linux-based "solutions", she says, sell increasingly well against systems that run on "sealed box" OSes from Microsoft. This also ties to another big issue with customers: "viruses". These are a huge and growing problem on Microsoft-based systems, and no problem at all on Linux.
One customer at the University of Georgia told De Young "your product has 95% of the features" he wanted, "at only 20% of the cost." And the difference was Linux. In fact, he said the University had saved enough on the sale that he was able to buy everyone in the department a flat screen monitor, plus other goodies.
The bottom line: Linux is going into a lot of vertical applications, and it's being adopted by a lot of big, old companies with customers who are not sexy enough to show up on the what's-hip radar but who move a huge part of the economy.
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Everythink seems to be right except the statement that linux is absolutly not harmed by viruses. It's just wrong! There are quite a few viruses, although the responsible security holes are mostly fixed very fast compared with m$ products
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The Solution Center based at Bull's Advanced Competency and Services Center in the technopole of Grenoble, France, showcases information infrastructure solutions to address the major data management issues faced by organizations today including the unprecedented growth of enterprise data, optimizing energy efficiency, assuring the operational business continuity of IT systems, and responding to governance, risk and compliance requirements for archiving and retrieving data.
In a recent European Study commissioned by Bull "Optimizing Storage: Issues, difficulties and winning strategies of European companies", IDC surveyed 100 major European companies with more than 500 employees and highlighted these issues with 64% of responders replying that dealing with data growth was a major issue, and a huge 89% stating that guaranteeing continuous activity in the event of failure or incident was their top storage priority over the next two years.
Benoit Hallez, Director of Bull's StoreWay Division stated: "The StoreWay Solution Center developed in partnership with EMC is a valuable resource allowing our customers to understand and evaluate the very best storage solutions available on the market today, in order to accelerate their deployment within their own organizations to maximize efficiency of the data management infrastructure in line with their new business challenges."
The center provides a live and interactive environment for IT professionals to exchange with Bull's consultants who have in-depth expertise in all aspects of storage technologies, and who maintain a close relationship with EMC engineering in their Hopkinton headquarters in the US.
Bull and EMC: a 15-year partnership The StoreWay Solution Center is the most recent phase in a long relationship between Bull and the US storage giant that dates back over 15 years, during which time Bull has widely deployed solutions based on EMC technology throughout the world.
In November 2007, Bull joined EMC's Velocity Partner Program as a Signature Solution Center Partner and has built on its existing EMC support network, which counts more than 400 support staff located throughout Europe, with the development of a professional services capability through the EMC Authorized Service Network (ASN) program. Starting from November 2008, the StoreWay Solution Center will run a program of themed storage seminars and workshops, and will host customer benchmarking and proof of concept activities.
Christian Hiller, General Manager of EMC France noted: "We are extremely pleased to further enrich our collaboration with a historic partner. EMC partner Solution Centers are based on the successful model of EMC's own Solution Centers in Ireland and in the US. Working with Bull extends the reach of our solutions while benefiting from their market knowledge, expertise and integration capacity".
Bull's Grenoble Center Michel Bracquemond, Director of the Bull Advanced Competency and Services Center in Grenoble reflects: "Our customers are facing real skills shortages in their own organizations which are inhibiting the implementation of their IT strategies. The StoreWay Solution Center is another asset to provide a complete offering of upstream consultancy, implementation and development services".
The StoreWay Solution Center is a part of major investment by Bull in the Grenoble region. Bull is currently running a campaign with the ambition of recruiting around 100 service consultants by the end of 2008 and as many again in 2009 to work for international as well as local customers.
The Advanced Competency and Services Center today accounts for more than 450 technical experts and service consultants. The site houses a network of competence centers dedicated to areas including Storage, UNIX, Windows, Linux, database, ERP and High Performance Simulation. It also gives access to innovative support services including Bull's HA 999 center that provides tele-surveillance of IT systems in France and beyond."
The StoreWay Solution Center gives access to experts in architecture, in development and integration. It also draws on Bull Grenoble's areas of expertise such as High Performance simulation and in infrastructure virtualization.
Companies to align enterprise applications with Datacenter energy-efficiency policies to help customers better manage their businesses, reduce energy consumption and lower energy expenditures
Initiative goals:
Bull and SAP Research, the global technology research unit of SAP AG, have launched a joint R&D initiative that will put application software at the center of tomorrow's Green IT landscape, bringing energy efficiencies to customers and data centers. Through this initiative, the companies will leverage their respective skills and aim to align the SAP® business software portfolio with new datacenter energy-efficiency policies. The development of best practices and operations guidance is based on a breakthrough, comprehensive approach to Green IT, covering hardware infrastructure, middleware and application software.
New server technologies currently being developed by Bull are adding energy management intelligence into the new generation of Datacenters. The mission of this initiative between Bull and SAP Research is to develop an overall strategy for Datacenter energy management intelligence combined with server management services, integrating business applications and end-user services to enable sustainable Datacenter technologies.
"This R&D project embodies our vision of the Bio Data Center™, a new-generation data center that brings critical advances in quality of service, energy consumption, and flexibility to customers," said Michel Guillemet, Group R&D Director at Bull. "This initiative, launched between two European-based global IT companies, demonstrates that Europe can act as a leading force for concrete innovation, addressing raising environmental concerns, while delivering to enterprises more efficient IT solutions."
Bull's R&D team and SAP Research will proactively engage in this initiative to tackle every aspect of the IT life cycle: design, deployment, operation and disposal. Through the initiative, the companies aim to meet the following objectives:
"We remain committed to developing solutions that help our customers better manage their businesses," explained Lutz Heuser, vice president of SAP Research and chief development architect at SAP. "Our cooperation with Bull in e-energy research will help both companies make further progress in the area of Green IT. It will help us to extend our capabilities in providing business software that helps our customers reduce their energy consumption, while looking at significantly lowering our energy expenditure at the same time."
Bull and SAP Research have already begun working together on their joint R&D initiative, which they expect to last for an initial term of three years. Through this initiative, the companies plan to provide various deliverables ranging from MIPS/watt benchmarks, optimized virtualized architectures, and energy management-enabled SAP software. Bull NovaScale and Escala servers will be used as the foundation for reference platforms and best practices guidance. These servers already include strong features that make them ideally suited for minimizing the carbon footprint of the IT infrastructures in which they are deployed.
The project will involve resources and competences from Bull and SAP competence centers (Paris and Grenoble for Bull; Sophia Antipolis, Belfast, Karlsruhe, and Palo Alto for SAP).


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Celebration day for families
by Foundation of Light
Graduation Day for Family Learners.
The Foundation of Light honoured hundreds of its family learners at a special graduation ceremony recently to celebrate their achievements.
More than 500 children and adults from across the North East attended the Stadium of Light to be presented with their certificates after completing the charity's national award winning Family Learning through Football programme.
The guests then took part in games and activities organised by Foundation of Light staff before enjoying a tour of Sunderland AFC's 49,000 capacity home.
The Foundation of Light's Assistant Head of Lifelong Learning, Michael Colclough, said: "Each and every person here today deserves the utmost respect because they have achieved so much during their time on the Family Learning programme.
"It's fantastic seeing families grow closer and develop common interests by just being given the opportunity to learn and have fun together.
"For a number of reasons some families find it difficult to find the time to spend with each other but Family Learning offers them that chance, as well building and improving the relationship between them.
"Attending the Sir Bob Murray graduations at the end of the course gives our learners a tremendous sense of pride that they have accomplished something together and to witness that is so rewarding."
Run by the Foundation of Light, the 10-week Family Learning through Football course uses the power of football to engage adults and young people in activities that inspire learning and achievement, develop and build new skills, and improve relationships within the family.
Specialist 'Family Learning' courses can also improve numeracy and literacy for both adults and children, develop financial awareness and improve awareness of healthy choices which benefit the whole family.
Earlier this year the programme received the national 'Learning Where You Are' award as part of Adult Learners' Week after working with more than 1,500 families across the region in 2011.
Jason Brown, Chairman of the Parent and Teacher Association at Peases West Primary School in Billy Row, County Durham, said:
"Family Learning through Football not only allows parents to enjoy more time with their kids, learning about issues such as fitness, it also provides a stepping stone to skills such as literacy and numeracy that participants may not have been aware of or thought existed.
"The programme allows those who would normally sit back to increase their confidence and develop leadership skills under different circumstances. There is also the social aspect because it also helps grow friendships with those that were in the past just acquaintances."
Laura Holliday, who attended the course with seven-year-old daughter Kaitlyn, added: "We've thoroughly enjoyed the Family Learning through Football programme, especially the fun and games and coaching side of things.
"The attendance from those associated with the school was brilliant; everyone has been so engrossed in the programme because you get so involved in the sessions. There was a lot of enthusiasm and the kids have been talking about coming to the Stadium of Light for days.
"Attending Family Learning has brought us closer together and we learned a lot from the programme that we didn't know and now apply at home."
Family Learning is funded by Caterpillar, Cestria Community Housing, Derwentside Homes, Durham County Council, livin, South Tyneside Council and Sunderland City Council.


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UW Today | 5/8/12
University of Washington undergraduates will showcase their civic engagement projects at the annual Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership, from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 11 on the second floor of Kane Hall.
School of Art e-news | Winter-Summer 2012
Levi Higgs is an honors student and a student leader in the School of Art. How did a young man who grew up in Wyoming come to the University of Washington to study art history and discover his true passion while in Rome?
The Daily | 5/10/11
Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed visited the university to speak at the UW Center of Experiential Learning's (EXP) Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership, as part of his annual spring tour of college campuses statewide to promote civil engagement in young adults. The event honored more than 100 UW students for their participation in community service.
King 5 News | 4/27/11
It's never too late to turn your life around. One Tacoma native learned that through hard times. Brandon Stogsdill shares how he turned from a teen criminal to now a teen counselor with Sound Mental Health. Stogsdill is a Mary Gates Leadership Scholar alum.
Tacoma News Tribune | 3/28/11
Profile on UW alumnus Brandon Stogsdill, who earned a Mary Gates Leadership scholarship among other awards when he was a student.
Columns Magazine | June 2010
Interview with 2002 grad and Mary Gates Scholar Max Hunter. Pursuing a career in academia—first at Harvard and now as a UW Ph.D. student and teaching fellow at Seattle Pacific University—Hunter has, of late, begun sharing his story. He recently gave a talk in the Veterans of Intercommunal Violence series at UW's Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue, and is working on a pair of books.
U Week | 4/22/10
Senior Angelica-Mae Corral is one of more than 120 UW undergraduates who will be presenting at this year's Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership on April 28. The annual event showcases student work that enriches and benefits local non-profit organizations, schools and campus programs.
Seattle Times | 4/9/10
William Johnson will be known forever and all time as a Putnam Fellow. Johnson is an Honors student, Mary Gates Scholar, and presenter in the 2010 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
The Daily | 4/9/10
Senior William Johnson didn't expect to beat his sixth-place score from last year in a national math competition, but he recently became the first UW student to win the competition since it began 72 years ago. Johnson is an Honors student, Mary Gates Scholar and presenter in the 2010 Research Symposium.
U Week | 4/1/10
William Johnson, who is majoring in mathematics and computer science, was named a Putnam Fellow, placing among the top five out of more than 4,000 students who competed this year. Johnson is an Honors student, Mary Gates Scholar, and will present at the 2010 Research Symposium.
Bellingham Herald | 3/12/10
Three Whatcom County students at the University of Washington received scholarships for research and leadership projects from the Mary Gates Endowment for Students.
U Week | 3/4/10
Jesse Burk-Rafel, a senior honors student in bioengineering, was recently selected as a 2010 11 Luce Scholar. A native of Bainbridge Island and graduate of Bainbridge High School, Burk-Rafel is one of only 18 students nationwide to receive this scholarship.
U Week | 2/11/10
The fourth and final article in U Week's series on UAA's Center for Experiential Learning covers the Mary Gates Endowment for Students, the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards, and the Global Opportunities Advisers.
U Week | 1/21/10
The University offers students many learning experiences, not all of them in the classroom. Internships, service learning and research with a faculty mentor are just some of the things students can do to add to the traditional "book learning." And to make all those things more accessible, Undergraduate Academic Affairs has gathered them into the Center for Experiential Learning. Part 1 of 4.
The Daily | 1/14/10
Mary Gates Scholar and UW alumna Rose Thornton has a goal. She wants "to communicate the ideals and practices of urban sustainability." All she had to figure out was how to do it. The answer seemed obvious: reality TV.
KOMO News | 11/3/09
As a child in Kenya, UW alumnus Peter Kithene saw what happens when there is no health care or medicine for miles. It appears the tragedy left a heavy impression on Kithene. The orphaned boy is now a man on a mission, opening medical clinics in remote villages. Kithene is a Mary Gates Leadership Scholar, Munro Public Service Award recipient, and Edward E. Carlson Student Leadership Awardee.
University Week | 8.20.09
When doors of collaboration and mutual understanding are opened, good things happen — connections are made and lessons learned that can last a career and improve the work of students and faculty alike. Such is happily the case with the UW's Summer Institute for the Arts & Humanities, now in its eighth year.
NBC Nightly News | 7/14/09
NBC Nightly News interviews the UW's Dr. Roger Rosenblatt and medical students Brian Rezvani and Meghan O'Connell about the current shortage of primary care doctors. Rezvani is a Mary Gates Scholar.
The Daily | 7/7/09
Story about Seattle's all-ages music scene highlights the Vera Project, started by Mary Gates Scholars James Keblas and Shannon Stewart. Honors student and musician April Nishimura quoted.
University Week | 2.12.09
Undergraduate Honors student Sam Sudar is the most recent UW student selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
The Daily News Online | 2.26.09
Gates Cambridge Scholar Sam Sudar is featured in his hometown paper.
University Week | 04/03/08
Alice Gosti loves airports. So it makes a certain sense, perhaps, that as a dancer she would she would want to perform in them.
UW News| 12/07/07
University of Washington graduate student Peter Kithene has won $25,000 as a CNN Heroes Honoree. Kithene, 25, was chosen as one of six honorees out of 7,000 nominations sent in by CNN viewers in 93 countries.
University Week | 11/29/0
University of Washington graduate student Peter Kithene has won $25,000 as a CNN Heroes honoree. Kithene, 25, was chosen one of six honorees out of 7,000 nominations sent in by CNN viewers in 93 countries.
King 5 News | 06/18/07
Parkour is taking Seattle and the country by storm. The sport is part running, part jumping, and part climbing; and it's definately turning heads. KING 5's Lori Matsukawa reports
King 5 News | 05/13/07
He was orphaned as a child in his native Kenya. Now, a University of Washington senior is honoring mothers in his village by building and running a medical clinic. Lori Matsukawa talks with Peter Kithene.
University Week | 05/10/07
For the people in a new performance at the UW, disrobing is more than taking off clothes. And though there won't be any actual nudity in the show, there will be an exploration of the fears and blurred boundaries of young adulthood.
"Three seniors with unusual ambitions and talents who together have landed their school a rare honor…"
Suzanne Jeneby went to Kenya on a whim as an undergraduate and never left emotionally …
Mary Gates Endowment Research Scholar Monty Read featured for his lifesuit. He started with scrap metal, but his goal is to computerize and refine the device, and, ultimately, to change paralyzed people's expectations of their own mobility. His project has been his passion during a remarkable shift in his own fortunes …
Eliana Hechter never attended her senior prom. She never went to her high school's homecoming game, and never sat through a high school English exam. Instead, she opted to go to the UW at the age of 14 — but her accomplishments don't stop there …


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Mr. President,
At the outset my delegation wishes to align itself with the statement made by the State Minister for Economic Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on behalf of the Group of G77 and
China and underscores the importance of the Monterrey Consensus as a comprehensive agreement outlining national and international policies required to achieve the internationally agreed development goals.
We strongly believe that the United Nations is the principal forum to discuss this important matter and to find ways to resolve global economic development issues and improving the standard of living for millions of the world poorest people.
Although the Secretary-General's Report on Follow-Up of the International Conference on Financing for Development mentions some improvements, it also calls our attention to unresolved issues such as:
- Unequal distribution of wealth, nationally as internationally, evidenced by the fact that 70% of the flow of private resources to developing countries is being absorbed by a dozen countries.
- Increasing poverty worldwide.
- Emerging new forms of protectionism and lack of decisive progress in the Doha trade negotiations.
- Declining current and projected levels of Official Development Assistance (ODA), which fall far short of targets to achieve the MDGs worldwide.
- Increasing total debt of developing countries at a significant pace. While debt relief can influence the development process positively at the same time the vulnerability middle –income countries is increasing due to a major shift from official to private debt.
- Incomplete efforts to restructure the international financial architecture in response to profound changes in the global economy.
Mr. President,
The Government of Suriname remains committed to realizing by 2015 the targets set forth in the Millennium Declaration, which form the guiding principles for our development policies and programs.
Suriname has achieved an economic growth of approximately 5% per year during the past 5 years as a result of new investments in the mining sector, implementation of stringent macro-economic policies and increased cooperation with bilateral and multilateral donors.
The economic growth of our country as of many other developing countries is extremely vulnerable because of the dependency on a limited number of sectors. The vulnerability is compounded by the fact that
Suriname is a low lying coastal country, and the majority of the population is concentrated in the coastal zone, where most economic activities including fisheries, agriculture and industries are located. It is indisputable that sea level rise would therefore be catastrophic for our country and others alike.
It is therefore important to include this issue within the agenda of Doha 2008 and to find innovative ways to finance adaptation and mitigation of climate change as well as transfer of technology.
Mr. President,
Suriname acknowledges the contribution of the private sector and civil society to development and development financing. We are therefore proud to inform that Suriname organized the first worldwide Civil Society Forum on the MDGs in our capital city of Paramaribo from 2 – 4 May this year. This was a successful partnership effort of the Government of Suriname, MDG Global Watch and the United Nations Association-Suriname, civil society, international organizations such as the UN-bodies, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union (EU), and also a number of countries with whom Suriname maintains close bilateral relations.
Mr. President,
As we look forward to next year's Follow-up International Conference on Financing for development in
Doha , we are reminded that the development promise of the Doha round of trade negotiations is yet to be fulfilled. This new road to Doha offers us all a welcome opportunity to ensure that mechanisms are put in place to deliver on the pledge to place development at the centre of the international trade agenda. The exceptional challenges of small states must therefore be fully addressed in this framework and more specifically, by putting emphasis on the special and differential treatment of the most vulnerable economies among us.
In closing Mr. President, allow me to summarize a view essential points in bringing about speedy development for all:
- First, it is time to introduce a monitoring mechanism to assess the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and to keep it on track.
- Second, we should continue our efforts to increase aid effectiveness and explore inventive ways for development finances.
- Third, we should strengthen international financial institutions as a crucial step by reforming their governance and giving developing countries adequate voice and representation;
- Fourth, we need to actively support the poorest countries with their integration into the world trade and economic system, by allowing them to protect their markets during a transitional period and against unfair competition that affects their development and food security.
- Fifth, in Doha next year, we are obliged to deliver substantial change in the current development process by supporting innovative finance initiatives.
- Finally, South-south cooperation, including through triangular cooperation should be supported under the condition that it should not be a substitute but rather complimentary to north-south cooperation.
Thank You.


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quote:They say Julius was a spy and how inconsequential his information was.
quote:Are the Rosenberg executions the biggest miscarriage of justice in post WW2 US
quote:guilty by association
quote:The biggest lie is that Julius gave them the a-bomb and it is patently false.
quote:Believe me, his failure at helping them get it wasn't for lack of trying.
quote:You do realize the case was rank with prosecutorial misconduct
quote:Ain't nobody got time for that.
quote:even if she was a committed Fellow Traveler
quote:I remember reading the Venona Papers back in the day,and as I recall, Ethel's role was a bit ambiguous, even if she was a committed Fellow Traveler. Julius was guilty as hell, even if he was not as successful as he had hoped.
quote:They were traitors to their country. Those were sketchy times, Communism was in the process of exterminating 100,000,000 people in 70 years. Forgive me if I don't tear up for those that aided and abetted in this greatest of human tragedies. Ain't nobody got time for that.
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By TED SILLANPAA
It turns out that the Falcons not only have a chance of defeating the 49ers in the NFC Championship game Sunday, but that it's a certainty.
And, you can take the Falcons … and the points! Bovada.com, the online wagering website, has the 49ers as 5-point favorites on Saturday night. So, bet Atlanta and you're getting nearly a touchdown.
How can I be so sure that the Falcons will win? Well ….
Mark Bradley's written sports for 25 years for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He writes "Here's Why the Falcons will win" and finishes by saying it'll be an "easy" win by a score of 31-21. An "easy" win and an even easier cover for those of us who rely on guys like Bradley to tell us what's going to happen well before the game kicks off? That's outstanding!
Oh, what? Wait.
Bay Area media types all insist that the 49ers are going to win? That's odd.
Both teams can't be dead, solid cinches to win easily. But, now I'm remembering reading things like that the Falcons might have a chance if they can stop Colin Kaepernick from running wild, followed by an explanation of how it'll simply be impossible for the Falcons to stop Kaepernick.
The Falcons went 14-2 in the regular season and they need to stop the 49ers' offense cold to have even a chance of winning Sunday? Really? I'm not sure I remember a team getting lucky 14 weeks of the year. Typically, 14-win teams are just really, really good.
Members of the media just lean to telling or writing for their customers exactly what their customers already believe.
In Atlanta, Bradley and his peers are explaining how the 5-point favorite 49ers will fall on Sunday. That's what people who read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution believe. Give them what they want and you get page views and, heck, somebody might even buy a copy of the newspaper. Advertisers are happy and everybody tells the media guy that he's thoughtful and intelligent.
The same holds in Northern California. You read anywhere that the Falcons are going to win Sunday? Hear it on talk radio or TV? There's not a single Nor Cal media member who thinks a team that went 14-2 in the regular season can beat the 49ers (11-4-1 in the regular year)?
The media in Atlanta insists the Falcons will win big. The media out here insists the 49ers really can't lose.
That can't be a coincidence.
Get it? You do whatever gets page views, sells papers, attracts listeners and to keep fans from rushing to your website to call you names for daring to mention that their team can lose. It's not exactly journalism as I learned it, but I get the idea behind trying to please your customers.
It turns out that either team can win on Sunday.
Every important matchup (and at this point, the media has made it clear that they're all important) can't fall in favor of one team. Kaepernick could have a big game, but Atlanta's Matt Ryan could also pass for 350 yards and 4 touchdowns. The impenetrable 49ers' defense could bat down a key third-down pass late in the game, up by 5 points, and see a yellow flag flutter to the ground signaling pass interference … even though TV replays will show that it was a terrible call.
We don't know what's going to happen.
I'm not foolish enough to believe that screwy officiating or a jittery O-lineman who can't keep from jumping offside can't have a huge impact on the game. I'm betting, literally, that one team will win (by more than 5 points). However, my bet isn't based on all the hooey in the Journal-Constitution column linked above. And, I'm not going to make a list of unpredictable occurrences that can change the outcome.
I'm happy to list a few, though …
A DB has a receiver covered, but just loses his footing. No reason. Maybe a stadium light briefly blinds him and he stumbles. The receiver catches a pass and waltzes in for a score.
The officiating crew is one of those that calls offensive holding … while you swear at your TV that you can't see the holds. So, if we see Ryan throw a TD pass then Kaepernick rush for a score, one play will be called back because the crew needs to hit their quota for holding calls.
A place-kicker could shank a chip shot field goal and … whoops! That strikes too close to home for 49ers' fans. Sorry. Don't hate me.
And, yeah, I know that many are muttering, "Way to come strong with an opinion, Sillanpaa! Knothead!"
We've become a society of sports fan that seems most interested in looking forward to anticipating the game and then looking forward to the post-game celebration. Spend days convincing yourself that your team's a lock. Then use Sunday as a reason to party. The media is playing its part, assuring you that you will have reason to party into the night.
Just keep in mind, the people in and around Atlanta are just as convinced as folks out here that their team's going to win.
And, really, we have no idea what'll happen.
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Watch out Ted, you are about to be kicked out of the sports writers secret club!
It really comes down to which 49er team shows up. The one that can dominate even the best teams or the one that is flat and can't tie their shoelaces. If there ever was a game that has the built in incentive to be up for this is it. So, my pick is for the niners to win (and cover the spread). I have an idea… let's just add up the points when the game ends…….
Kind of like the weather forecasters. They do a lot of guessing about the upcoming big storm, and then spend days talking about what happened. I enjoy the highlights of what already happened – sometimes.
KB…I'm a fan of more TV channels…more music outlets. But, I was just fine as a kid when we'd watch NFL games on Sunday … see the highlights on Monday Night Football … and wait for the next week's game. I don't need to think about the game 24/7 to enjoy it. And, really, if I want to figure out what might happen … I'm going to follow ESPN's Trent Dilfer or somebody else who explains the game well on Twitter over reading what some sports reporter thinks. Unless, of course, the reporter or columnist talks to people who explain WHY they think the game will go a certain way. My theory is sort of … tell me something I don't know…inform me…entertain me. TED
Paul…Thank you for reading. I appreciate it. I've been told that both teams WILL show up. And, it's my hunch after being around big games for a long time, that both teams have all the incentive in the world to be 'up' for the game. These guys live and put their lives on the line, literally, to get to the Super Bowl. So, don't you think they'll be emotionally ready? I think that the media and some fans mistake a team that gets out-coached or outplayed looking confused is that team being emotionally down. They'll ALL be 'up' when the game starts. How they react as the game unfolds is the key. I like your last idea. TED
David…To be in the club, you need to write what you think…go on TV and explain more about what you think…then go on the radio and explain it again. And, you do it all for 3 media platforms that cater to the same group of fans in Northern California. (Do people actually read those guys…then listen to them on the radio…then watch them on TV? Really?) … And, you have to sell folks on the idea that being at the games somehow gives you unique insight. I know from following him that CSN Bay Area's Matt Maiocco has relationships and pursues 49ers stories, so he benefits being at workouts and games. Most of those guys know no more from being around the team or at games than we do from watching at home. Ted
You'd better stop now. You're giving away why Lowsy Cohn is still in the business.
Jagular…Thanks for reading. I appreciate it. I'm more focused this second on those 5 points the gambling site has the 49ers winning by … enjoy the game. TED