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BANC PIC 19xx.039:1--ALB
Indian hovels at the palm group of Lower San Diego Valley. (The old Mission just visible in the distance.) Canoes return from
fishing. Excursion of 1874.
Date: May 8, 1874
Size: 14.6 x 21.9 cm
BANC PIC 19xx.039:2--ALB
Point Cypress. The promontory S.W. of Monterey, and N.W. of Carmelo Bay with the old mission ruins. These straggling cypresses,
weird and lonesome, may fitly be called the weeping-willows of California's departed Patriarchal Era!!! (cf. Vischer Pictorial
Date: Oct. 1867
Size: 17.6 x 25.7 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:3--ALB
S.E. view of the church-ruin, walls and orchard grounds of San Diego. The first-founded Franciscan mission in Upper California.
(1769)(cf. Vischer Missions no. 15).
Date: April 20, 1874
Size: 16 x 23 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:4--ALB
Ruins of the old Mission of San Carlos, at the mouth of the River Carmelo. (Founded Ao. 1770.)(cf. Vischer Pictorial p. 1,
Vischer Missions, no. 1).
Date: 1861
Size: 14.6 x 22.5 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:5--ALB
Ruins of the church and buildings of San Carlos Rey. (Mision del Carmelo near Monterey.) Founded 1769.
Date: 1861
Size: 17.9 x 26.3 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:6--ALB
Rear-view of the ruins of the Mission of San Carlos, from the sea-side.
Date: October 1867
Size: 12.8 x 19.1 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:7--ALB
Church, buildings and ruins of the Mission of San Antonio de Padua, in Monterey County. Franciscan Father Doroteo Ambriz,
an Acolite [sic] of the order, born in Mexico, ordained in California. (cf.Vischer Missions no. 6).
Date: June 26, 1873
Size: 11.2 x 18.7 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:8--ALB
West view of the old orchards, and the church of the ex-mission of San Gabriel. (No traces left of the mission buildings.)
Reminiscenses [sic] of our first visit at San Gabriel, 1842. 1771 founded. (cf. Vischer Missions no. 13).
Date: 1865
Size: 12.1 x 19.2 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:9--ALB
Ex-Mission (now Parish-Church) of San Gabriel, after Hahn's celebrated picture in the possession of M. Sherwood. Original
by C. Hahn. In appreciation of the merits of the original, and in friendly remembrance of its genial author, with his permission
reproduced by E. Vischer, 1878. Sunday-gatherings after Mass.
Date: 1878
Size: 15.3 x 21.8 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:10--ALB
San Luis Obispo, the lower (older) portion of the town and the old mission buildings, as seen from the mission orchard. (cf.
Vischer Pictorial p. 108, Vischer Missions no. 8).
Date: 1864
Size: 16 x 24.9 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:11--ALB
The western part of the town, and the Mission of San Luis Obispo; 1864, approach from the landing. Supplementary drawings
of 1873.
Date: 1864 (1873)
Size: 11.8 x 18.3 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:12--ALB
Outskirts of the town San Luis Obispo. Barrio del Tigre (Tiger-town). (Haunts of the native and Indian population in the old
mission outbuildings.)
Date: 1865
Size: 17.5 x 23.5 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:13--ALB
A reminiscense [sic] of 1842: Bullfight, (after high mass) at the Mission Dolores. In celebration of the Patron Saint San
Francisco de Asis. (cf. Vischer Missions no. 2).
Date: 1876
Size: 14.2 x 20.9 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:14--ALB
View of the ruins of the church, and buildings of the Ex-Mission of San Juan Capistrano. The church destroyed by the earthquake
of 1812. (cf. Vischer Pictorial no. 37, Vischer Missions no. 14).
Date: May 9, 1865
Size: 16.3 x 25.3 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:15--ALB
Rear view of the earthquake-ruins of San Juan Capistrano, With secion of aqueduct. Additional drawings of 1876. In memory
of R. Fray Jose Maria de Zaldivea; our leave-taking in Nov. 1842. (Founded Ao. 1776.) (Church destroyed 1812.)
Date: 1876
Size: 14.3 x 20.9 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:16--ALB
Ex-Mission and church of Santa Clara, the site of the present Jesuit College. From an old photograph aided by personal recollection
1842. "After-Mass" Holiday-gathering of rancheros, and the family-oxcart (cf. Vischer Missions no. 3).
Date: n.d.
Size: 16 x 23.1 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:17--ALB
The Franciscan old mission church at San Buena Ventura, now the parish-church of the Catholics.
Date: n.d.
Size: 16.1 x 22.2 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:18--ALB
South view of the town, with the church and mission-buildings of San Buena Ventura. A cavalcade of the Good Olden Times. F.G.
Becher and Alfred Robinson, on a trip northward, with vaqueros and remonta from the Missn. of San Gabriel. Mission San Buenaventura
founded in 1782. (cf. Vischer Pictorial no. 110; Vischer Missions no. 11)
Date: May 1865
Size: 17.2 x 24.9 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:19--ALB
Church and contiguous buildings of the Ex-Mission of Santa Barbara. Now a college of the Order of San Francisco. Autograph
Fr. Jose Ma. de Jesus Gonzalez Rubio [rubric]. Santa Barbara (1842 & 1865). While engaged in tracing the first outlines of
this interesting structure, Sunday, May 7th, 1865, Mass just over, we obtained, through favor, the autograph of Father Gonzalez,
the worthy President of the College, sollicited [sic] and kindly granted, as a memento of this, our second visit, after an
interval of twinty-three years! To preserve in the proper place so welcome a present, we committed the pardonable indescretion
of finishing up our drawing on the very paper containing the autograph, as a means to gratify those of our friends who like
ourselves, from personal acquaintance with Father Gonzalez, the last survivor of the missionaries, appreciate his excellent
qualities. Thus we secured what will become a relic of one whose name, blessed during lifetime by the many hearts he comforted,
will after his death stand as the last pillar of the missionary work in California so honorably preceded by Fathers Junipero
Serra, Geronimo Boscana, Sanchez, Peiri, Salvidea, Duran, and other distinguished ornaments of the order of San Frnacisco.
(Reference to text of the California Collection. E.V.) (cf. Vischer Pictorial p. 106, Vischer Missions no. 20)
Date: 1842/1865
Size: 16.8 x 25.3 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:20--ALB
South-east view of Santa Barbara convent. (cf. Vischer Pictorial p. 25, Vischer Missions no. 10).
Date: May 6, 1865
Size: 12.2 x 19.5 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:21--ALB
Cattle-drove (northward-bound for a market) passing the valley of Santa Barbara. (cf. Vischer Pictorial p. 115) NOTE: three
ruled lines on verso.
Date: May 6, 1865
Size: 12.5 x 18.8 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:22--ALB
Mission-ruins: The dilapidated guardhouse at the Sta. Barbara Mission. View towards the bay. Supplementary drawings of 1873.
Date: 1865 (1873)
Size: 12 x 18.9 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:23--ALB
Ruins of the Ex-Mission of La Purisima Concepcion. Drawn between 1 & 6 of April '78. The last stone to the temple. After a
photograph, the valuable contribution of Mrs. Josephine Bishop completing the mission collection on Author's 70th birthday.
Photograph of 1876. Date of foundation Dec. 8, 1787.
Date: April 1-6, 1878
Size: 16.4 x 24.6 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:24--ALB
La Purissima [i.e. La Purisima]: Groundplan of mission and outbuildings [with sketch of mission in 1824]. Kindly given by
Genl. M.G. Vallejo, Oct. 15, 1878. Thankfully acknowledged by E.V.
Date: 1878?
Size: 12.3 x 16.2 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:25--ALB
Ruins of the Mission "Nuestra Senora de la Soledad," in the Salinas Plains. Property of the Soberanis [!].
Date: 1873
Size: 11.2 x 17.9 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:26--ALB
Santa Cruz [ground plan; sketch of mission in 1825]. Ground plan of the mission & surroundings kindly supplied by Genl. Vallejo.
Date: 1878?
Size: 12.2 x 16.4 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:27--ALB
Ruins of the old Mission Church of Santa Cruz, in 1859. A friendly contribution by Mrs. Josephine Bishop. [Photographic reproduction
of painting.]
Date: 1878?
Size: 13.4 x 18.2 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:28--ALB
Sketch of the church and buildings of the Mission of San Jose, Upper California. F. [i.e. Founded] Ao. 1797. (cf. Vischer
Pictorial p. 107, Vischer Missions no. 4).
Date: August 16, 1866
Size: 16.7 x 24.7 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:29--ALB
Mission of San Juan Bautista, Monterey County. (cf. Vischer Pictorial p. 13, Vischer Missions, no. 5) NOTE: on verso, marginal
rulings and numbers.
Date: 1862
Size: 14.7 x 23 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:30--ALB
Church (the interior yet kept in good condition) of the Mission of San Miguel, and ruins of the 'Casa Principal' and outbuildings.
Sheriff and posse conducting a band of criminals towards San Luis Obispo. (The northrooms in 1852 the scene of the murder
of the Reed family by outlaws.) A scene of the starvation of cattle in the summer of 1864, during the great drought. Founded
1797. (cf. Vischer Pictorial p.111, Vischer Missions no. 7)
Date: 1864
Size: 18.1 x 26.4 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:31--ALB
Casa del Paso de Robles, the old farm building of the Mission of San Miguel. Now the sheepfarm of James Blackburn. Meeting
of neighbouring stock-owners at a general rodeo for the separation of herds. (cf. Vischer Pictorial p.116).
Date: May 1864
Size: 15.9 x 24.7 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:32--ALB
Chapel and principal buildings of the Ex-Mission San Fernando. [Founded] 1798. Instances of extreme old age. Genl. D. Andres
Pico, with his adoptive daughter, visiting the quarters of the aged Sn. Fernando Indians. The oldest surviving mission-Indians
of California. Alifonso' 130 (by computation) Agapito' 115, the first adult gentil [sic] baptized [sic] here, (then a grandfather).
Their wives also abt. 100 years old. (cf. Vischer Missions no. 12)
Date: 1865
Size: 16.8 x 25.5 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:33--ALB
A Californian magnate in his home. General Don Andres Pico of Los Angeles. Southern mission orchard; vaqueros lassoing cattle;
corridor of the farm-building. Ex-Mission of San Fernando.
Date: 1865
Size: 14.8 x 20.8 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:34--ALB
Indian rancheria of Jose Antonio Venado, at San Luis Rey Mission, near the Zanja. Caicha-tribe, Quechumas. April 1865. Supplementary
drawings of Spanish and Indian life, 1873 (Sketched 1868). Ambrosia, Vaquero; Temecola & Eusebio.
Date: 1868 (1873)
Size: 15.1 x 23.5 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:35--ALB
Ruins of the church and buildings of the Mission of San Luis Rey. Founded 1798. (cf. Vischer Pictorial p. 49, Vischer Missions
no. 15).
Date: May 1, 1865
Size: 16.1 x 25.2 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:36--ALB
Ruins of the church and buildings of the Ex-Mission of San Luis Rey. [From rear.]
Date: May 1, 1865
Size: 16.3 x 24.7 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:37--ALB
West-view of the ruins of the mission of San Luis Rey (in 1865) and distant view toward Temecola.
Date: May 6, 1865
Size: 12.2 x 19.3 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:38--ALB
Scene at the abandoned mission-orchard at San Luis Rey, in the bottom,' south of the mission buildings. Supplementary drawings
Date: June 1865 (1873)
Size: 15.5 x 22.2 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:39--ALB
North view of the church and Ex-Mission of Santa Ines, (with groupings of the olden times). 'Alistando la remonta.' Father
Blas Ordaz ordering relais, the mayordomo reporting; departure of honored guests, 1833/6, Fernando Deppe, A. Robinson and
J. Thompson. (cf. Vischer Pictorial p.109, Vischer Missions no. 9)
Date: 1865
Size: 17.2 x 24.9 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:40--ALB
Ruins of the south-end and inner corridors of Sta. Ines Mission buildings; our night quarters with the mail agent. April 22,
1865. Supplementary drawings of Mission-Ruins, 1873. Donkeys by W.H.H. [i.e. William H. Hilton].
Date: April 22, 1865 (1873)
Size: 14.8 x 22.8 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:41--ALB
San Rafael. Ground plan of mission and surroundings. Kindly furnished by General M.G. Vallejo Oct. 15, 1878. [Sketch of Mission
in upper right, titled San Rafael, 1831.]
Date: 1878?
Size: 12.1x16.5 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:42--ALB
Catholic chapel at San Rafael. Site of old mission church and buildings, entirely gone. [At top is small photo of pencil sketch
of mission, titled: Bosquejo de la Mision de San Rafael, en 1831, por favor del Sr. General M.G. Vallejo, en 1878.] Photo
has label with legend in ms., Para Dn. Eduardo Vicher [sic]. (5.5 x 15.2 cm.) Verso has larger uncropped photo of same pencil
sketch including small portrait Vallejo and notation: Mision de San Rafael en 1831. M.G.V. (10.4 x 16.1 cm.)].
Date: May 3, 1868 (1873)
Size: 11 x 17.5 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:43--ALB
San Francisco Solano. Groundplan of mission and surroundings. Kindly supplied by General M.G. Vallejo Oct. 15, 1878. Sketch
of mission in upper left corner titled: San Francisco Solano, 1832.
Date: 1878?
Size: 12.2 x 16.4 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:44a--ALB
Recto: Renovated chapel, and ruins of the buildings of the Ex-Mission San Francisco Solano. Sonoma.
Date: June 1874
Size: 9.5 x 15.1 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:44b--ALB
Verso: Presumable appearance of the Mission of San Francisco Solano (Sonoma) about the year 1832, in its primitive state,
or rather with Pater Quijas' contemplated renovations. The above elevation is drawn from a ground plan kindly furnished by
Genl. M.G. Vallejo at Lachryma Montis, October 1878.
Date: 1878?
Size: 14 x 19.8 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:45--ALB
Under Dona Marcelina's celebrated grape-vine, at the Montecito, Santa Barbara. Carefully sketched in Santa Barbara, May 1,
1865. But 1871 drawn from recollection, the original having been lost (cf. Vischer Pictorial p. 169).
Date: 1871
Size: 15.7 x 22.8 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:46--ALB
A Mormon relic. Ruins of Elders Lyman and Richie's residence at San Bernardino. Mormon colony at San Bernardino from 1848
to 1857. (1857 Exodus on account of the war.) Destroyed by fire. Supplementary drawings of 1873.
Date: April 1865 (1873)
Size: 12.8 x 19.9 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:47--ALB
(1841/2.) Cliff-passage south of San Juan Capistrano. A cavalcade in the times of Duflot de Mofras and Ferndo. Deppe. Reminiscenses
[sic] of 1842; addenda of 1876. (cf. Vischer Pictorial p. 95).
Date: 1876
Size: 13.7 x 20.4 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:48--ALB
North-east view of Temecola Valley, 10 miles west of San Luis Rey. South-Cala. scenery. Excursion of 1871. Group remodelled
with the aid of W.H. Hilton. Temecola Valley lands. The refuge and abode of San Diego and San Luis Rey Indians, after many
years occupancy threatened with expropriation.
Date: 1871
Size: 14.6 x 21 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:49--ALB
California Southern Overland Stage Line. California life and traffic; relais stables in San Luis Obispo (cf. Vischer Pictorial
p. 146).
Date: n.d.
Size: 14.5 x 22.6 cm.
BANC PIC 19xx.039:50--ALB
Groundplans of the destroyed missions of Santa Cruz, La Purisima, San Rafael and San Francisco Solano. A valuable acquisition
due to the early records, retentive memory and untiring obligingness of Genl. M.G. Vallejo. [Individual plates in this photoprint
are filed with respective mission groups above.] [Portrait of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, center.] [Photographic reproduction.]
Date: n.d.
Size: 16.1 x 11.6 cm.


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DESTIN — The land has been purchased. Demolition work has started. But details on what a firm affiliated The Dollywood Co. has planned for the more than 14-acre site remain scarce.
World Choice Investments purchased four parcels on U.S. Highway 98 near Wal-Mart last December.
Rumors have swirled for months that the site would be used for a new Dollywood-themed dinner theater. However, no development order for the project has been filed with Destin or Okaloosa County.
"Since (the demolition permits were filed earlier this year), absolutely nothing has been submitted for us to look at," said Ken Gallander, Destin's community development director. "We're waiting. I know they're interested because we get inquiries about it, but I don't know if they're still thinking about someplace else in the area.
"They're very interested in making it right, which is good," Gallander added.
Three of the parcels are within Destin's city limits and the fourth is in unincorporated Okaloosa County.
Elliot Kampert, the county's director of growth management, said the project will require an agreement between the city and county to determine which government will be responsible for what facets of the project. However, that work cannot start until World Choice Investments submits more information.
"Unfortunately, it's not like Destin and the county can craft the interlocal agreement on their own and say, 'OK, this is how it's going to be,' because what they propose could affect what that interlocal agreement says," Kampert said.
"They're going back and looking at options for designs and traffic engineering, of course," he added. "We're sort of in hurry-up-and-wait mode on our end because we're waiting for them to finish up their thinking and present us with something."
Pete Owens, director of public relations for The Dollywood Co., did not return phone calls and emails seeking comment. Last month, he emailed The Destin Log that "we are currently evaluating the Destin market … as well as other family destination markets. No specific timeline has been set."
County commissioners in February approved a 10-year exemption from tangible personal property taxes and real property taxes for an unnamed company looking to locate in Destin. The exemption will not take effect until the project is built and minimum hiring requirements are met.
The deal simply was referred to as "Project UpUnder." There was no mention of the site or World Choice Investments or any other potential developer.
"Our policy is to not comment of active projects that may or may not be in the pipeline at this point," said Nathan Sparks, director of the Okaloosa County Economic Development Council. "But certainly when and if we get to a point where there are announcements that can be made, we'll make those announcements.
"With any project, regardless of whether it's a Dollywood project or a project in the manufacturing industry, there's sensitivity about the release of information," Sparks added.
Contact Daily News Business Editor Dusty Ricketts at 850-315-4448 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @DustyRnwfdn.

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Sister Jennifer wrote:I was educated in the catholic system. I stopped believing in God the day a priest rubbed his hand on my upper thigh during 'confession'. When I told my teacher, a nun, she caned the bejesus out of me.
It's all bollocks. Every word of it.
Jan Van Quirm wrote:Alanz wrote:Who said Religeon doen't start Conflicts well it's having a dam good go on here at the moment
No it's not!
You should hear us row about velociraptors in the Garden of Eden kicking the ribs out of Adam for arguing about Free Will ...
raisindot wrote:Funny, but I don't think my relatives who died in the Holocaust would have forgive the millions of Nazis who might not have killed anyone themselves but had no problem letting other Nazis (perhaps even the current pope, who was a member of Hitler Youth and fought against the Allies in WWII) ship them off to Auschwitz. Christian repentance is all well and good, but I think my dead relatives (and the 12 million others killed by the Nazis) would have much preferred that these Christians not committed the acts in the first place. Considering that the Catholic Church didn't raise a finger to condemn these atrocities, it's kind of hard to forgive and forget, y'know?
Religion itself might not cause war, but certainly all of the Judeo-Christianic-Islamic faiths endorse war. The God of the Old Testament has no problem with this Israelites massacring other tribes. Jesus himself said, "I come with the sword." And the Koran is full of references to jihad and battles as a means of advancing Allah's will. The Crusades were NOT a quest for more land; would use would England have had for owning Palestine, a land over 2,000 miles away? They were religiously based, designed by Christian kings to win back Christian holy sites and to massacre thousands of Jews and Muslims who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Del wrote:Lets leave the Germans alone
Del wrote:I guess in part what I am saying is that you cant blame all the Germans for what happened "You didnt stop it!"
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The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy - Have All Failed. Why Nokia Must Fire CEO Elop Now
If you have three of your pillars in your strategy failing. All three failing, you must IMMEDIATELY STOP pursuing that strategy, as every day in it, brings you closer to death, to yes, bankruptcy, to oblivion, to complete failure, to junk status as a company, to being a takeover target. If your three pillars in your strategy are failing, you must fire immediately the strategy guy and replace not just the strategy head, but your whole strategy. If every leg of your strategy fails, then yes, ANY new strategy is better. Whatever you did before is better, whatever your competitors are doing is better, anything is better than pursuing a strategy that is 100% failing.
The CEO who executed a strategy where all three legs fail, is clearly incompetent, and must be fired immediately. If the Board waits, then the Board is either asleep at the wheel, or incompetent, or in collusion with the incompetent CEO. If the Board waits in firing the CEO of a company where the whole strategy is failing - that Board must be fired instantly as well. This is elementary stuff. A company that finds its three pillars of its strategy all failing, is shrinking in size, is losing customers, is losing market share, is losing consumer and investor confidence, finds its share price rated junk, and is obviously generating increasing losses. This company is at least on the brink of bankruptcy and depending on how much cash it has on hand, it may prolong its life a little, but as long as the company pursues a 100% failing strategy - the company will kill itself.
Very good article on why Nokia is failing, and how the board is allowing CEO Stephen Elop to do it.


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I think the media is trying to hide the fact that more than a thunder storm ruined Obama's Memorial Day. Click on "Before" and you be the judge...
I'm impressed at how the camera captured the word bubble ;-)
If you don't know what the heck that guy, 'Lil TeaBagger, is then check him out here and here.....and here.Add a comment
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What is it with Obama and guys named Joe causing him trouble?
Between the BP well and Joe "loose lips" Sestak its just a matter of time before the word "leak" joins "radical Islam" on the elite Forbidden Obama Words List, or FOWL. (Look for the full list of what is considered FOWL language in a future post)
So let me see if I have this straight...
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This action, it turns out, is a crime.
After ignoring it didn't work, Obama has lunch with Bill Clinton, and shortly after that Clinton reveals he is the Pennsylvania Deepthroat who offered Sestak the job.
But wait, it wasn't a jobby-job, it was just an unpaid adivsory position. Now, Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor Ed Rendell is telling the country to chill out because basically all of this is politics as usual and everyone does it.
I left my dictionary in my other dunce cap so forgive me if I get this wrong, but how does one spell "politics as usual?"
To recap:
The White House asked Pennsylvania Democrats to vote for Arlen Specter, a man whom they had previously spent half a lifetime voting against. To make this half-baked plan work they offered a job in Obama's administration to a man who is leading in the polls for a Senate primary in a state where he is the odds on favorite to be the next senator (if Obama wasn't such a crappy president the election in Pennsylvania would be a mere formality) for God knows how long while Obama and anyone in his administration will be tossed on his ass in two years....tops.....barring any delay of the country exiting the Twilight Zone.
To cover it up and divorce himself from all of this, Obama asks Bill Clinton to throw himself under the bus. Bill freakin' Clinton! He's NOT part of the Obama Administration, a fact that would be unmistakable to anyone with a pulse. So why would Sestak name-drop Obama? Billy has absolutely no authority whatsoever to speak for the administration..........unless they asked him to.
And they expect us to believe that all of this is being done so Sestak could become some kind of UNPAID Czar!
All of this is just too nuts for me. This is like that scene in the movie "Idiocracy" where Luke Wilson's character breaks out of prison by simply telling the prison guard he's not supposed to be there. These people think we are as dumb as they are!
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Common Criticisms(Esta página no se ha traducido al Español)
- Ecological Footprint: Popular and Policy Relevant — a Response to van den Bergh and Grazi (2014)
- The Opportunity of Scientific Debate
- Misconceptions in the PLOS Biology paper
- France: Futuribles paper on the Footprint research question
Ecological Footprint: Popular and Policy Relevant — a Response to van den Bergh and Grazi (2014)
In the February 2014 issue of Journal of Industrial Ecology, Jeroen van den Bergh and Fabio Grazi published "Ecological Footprint Policy? Land Use as an Environmental Indicator," an evaluation of the Ecological Footprint as an accounting method and aggregate indicator. After discussing eight criticisms of the Footprint methodology, interpretations and applications, the authors conclude that the Ecological Footprint, despite its increasing use by scientists, environmental organizations and the popular media, "does not offer any meaningful information for public policy."
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, published a response to van den Bergh and Grazi in the same issue of the journal (a draft of the paper is available here). Wackernagel pointed out that the Footprint answers a different research question than that which van den Bergh and Grazi imply it addresses, thus making most of their criticisms irrelevant. More specifically, van den Bergh and Grazi seem to assume that the Footprint is intended to be "an overall indicator for environmental pressure or impact." Instead, as is made clear in numerous publications, the Ecological Footprint is not an impact indicator, nor it is meant to be a complete measure of environmental pressure. It simply measures one key dimension that contributes to the sustainability or unsustainability of human activities: the extent to which the Earth's productive ecosystems have sufficient regenerative capacity to keep up with society's metabolic demands. It measures people's competing demands for biologically productive surfaces, including the demands for renewable resources and the capacity to assimilate carbon dioxide waste from fossil fuel use.
In their response to Wackernagel, van den Bergh and Grazi again did not clearly delineate between their version of the research question and that which actually underlies Ecological Footprint accounting. They also complained that the eight main points in their original article were not individually addressed by Wackernagel, who adopted a broader logical framework in assessing the validity of these points. To further understanding of the Ecological Footprint methodology and its policy relevance, a brief summary of each of van den Bergh and Grazi's eight points are provided here, along with Global Footprint Network's response.
1. The Ecological Footprint method represents "false concreteness"
Van den Bergh and Grazi claim that Footprint accounting compares "real" land area with "hypothetical" land area, and this represents a "false concreteness" of the method. The core of their claim is based on a common misconception about the Footprint methodology, in their words "that the [Ecological Footprint] method calculates the land area used by a human activity or economy as if they were sustainable, meaning that certain types of environmental, negative externality (e.g., pollution) have to be neutralized. This neutralization then translates into land area (used). Shifting from an unsustainable situation to a sustainable one requires a set of assumptions, which render the result, in terms of land use, hypothetical in nature."
In fact, Footprint methodology makes no assumptions about the sustainability of human demands on a land area, nor does it "neutralize" negative externalities in the calculations. If it did, it would indeed be a hypothetical, predictive measure. Instead, it is simply descriptive, with both Footprint and biocapacity results based on actual measured values of current ecosystem productivity, including both resource production and carbon sequestration, without assessing whether other factors may make this level of productivity unsustainable in the future.
In addition, they argue that because "Obviously, real land use could never exceed available land area," the fact that the Footprint can overshoot biocapacity reveals the "unrealness" of this measurement. This is a perplexing comment. Ranchers, for example, who must ensure that there is sufficient feed for their herds, calculate the ability of available land to support cattle in "cow-calf acres" or "animal units," taking into account both the number of hectares on their ranch and the average productivity per hectare. This rangeland management methodology parallels that of the Ecological Footprint, with the latter taking into account human demand on cropland, forest and fishing grounds in addition to that on grazing land, and expressing this in a measure reflecting the average productivity per hectare of all these areas combined. Just as a ranch may not produce a sufficient flow of grass to keep up with the demands of a herd, so too a biologically productive area (a nation or the whole planet, for example), may not produce a sufficient flow of resources to keep up with human demand. This does not make overshoot hypothetical, however, it just means that demand will be met by dipping into prior years' accumulated flows (stocks of timber or fish, for example), or by allowing carbon emissions to go unsequestered and thus accumulate in the atmosphere.
There is nothing hypothetical about these stocks or carbon accumulation, even if expressed in global hectares, a proxy representing the area of land required to produce these stocks or sequester the accumulated carbon. One would hardly make the argument that because distance is converted into abstract units called "meters" that this measurement is hypothetical rather than real. For any measurement, "the map is not the territory;" if van den Bergh and Grazi feel the Footprint accounting has an issue with false concreteness simply because it attributes a biocapacity value to surface areas, then they must have a gripe with any metric.
2. The use of global hectares contributes to the hypothetical character of the Ecological Footprint
In addition to their qualms discussed above, van den Bergh and Grazi argue that the fact that a global hectare may represent a varying amount of productivity each year contributes to its hypothetical nature. This is a bit like saying that because a dollar may vary in purchasing power each year, it is a hypothetical rather than a real measure of financial wealth.
A global hectare is a hectare of productive land with the average resource flow of all productive area on the planet. Because this average flow varies somewhat from year to year, so too does the value of a global hectare in terms of the actual resource productivity it represents. But because both demand (Ecological Footprint) and the capacity to meet this demand (biocapacity) are measured in this same unit, when calculating the degree of overshoot the effects of any annual variation will cancel. To allow direct comparison of actual productivity or demand across years, more recent Footprint accounts have been expressed in "constant global hectares" based on a given reference year, much in the same way that "constant US dollars" are used to hold purchasing power constant in comparisons across years.
3. Footprint accounting implies that land use is the all-important sustainability variable
Any indicator in widespread popular use is invariably subject to distortion or misinterpretation— this is hardly unique to the Footprint. While it is not clear (since they provide no references) where van den Bergh and Grazi are seeing an "[Ecological Footprint] assumption that all (important) environmental impacts of humans can be captured or approximated by land use" it is surely possible that this erroneous claim exists somewhere in the universe of print and online media. This does not mean, however, that it represents the position of Global Footprint Network, which has repeatedly emphasized that Footprint accounting measures only a single dimension of human pressure on the biosphere— human demand on the regenerative capacity of the Earth's productive areas— while stressing the importance of including other variables, such as those impacting the fragility of biocapacity and those such as the HDI that track important human development variables, in an attempt to provide a more complete and nuanced assessment of the sustainability of human activities.
4. The Footprint does not capture all relevant environmental pressures
Aside from the question of how completely Footprint accounting captures demand on biocapacity, van den Bergh and Grazi complain that "the common interpretation of the [Ecological Footprint], in most of the broader academic and popular literature (and media), is as an aggregate environmental indicator." Without citing any references to support the validity of this claim, they go on to offer an incomplete but accurate list of environmental pressures and impacts not included in Footprint accounting: water pollution, toxic emissions, noise pollution, depletion of the ozone layer, acid rain, ecosystem fragmentation and biodiversity loss. From all this they somehow conclude that the Footprint is problematic.
Their logic seems to be as follows: That regardless of what an indicator is designed to measure, if its purpose is misinterpreted by some hypothetical public, and the indicator then does not effectively support this misinterpreted purpose, it is a bad indicator. We suggest instead that this is bad logic, and that a far more useful way of evaluating an indicator would be to assess how well it measures what it is intended to measure—which for Footprint accounting is not a somewhat random litany of environmental ills, but instead, competing demands on biocapacity, and the availability of biocapacity.
5. The Footprint aggregates distinct environmental problems using arbitrary weights
Van den Bergh and Grazi conflate two different issues in this criticism. The first is the question of whether Footprint accounting is aggregating fundamentally different types of environmental problems, and the second is whether the weightings used in this aggregation are arbitrary and unfounded.
The answer to the first question is simple: Footprint accounting focuses solely on one environmental problem, competition for available biocapacity. Aggregation of these demands on biocapacity is based on the percentage of global biocapacity each type of demand— for food, fiber, timber or carbon sequestration—occupies. At its most basic, each of these demands requires surface area on the planet where plants can grow to provide resources that are useful to society; these resources can then either be harvested, or left standing in order to absorb carbon emissions. Since there is limited area available on the planet to grow these resources, Footprint accounting simply asks if this area is sufficient to keep up with all the competition on it, and if not, how much additional area of the same kind is needed to provide for this excess demand. Only by aggregating all of the demands on biocapacity can Footprint accounting effectively shed light on the status of this critical environmental problem.
The second question is more complex, in that it is asking just how the productivity of different types of ecosystems, and of the demands on them, is aggregated. While this is explained in detail in publications made freely available by Global Footprint Network, the short answer is that the aggregation is based on clearly defined principles and on measurements of actual productivity, and not on arbitrary weights. In particular, all Footprint and biocapacity components are expressed in a common unit, the global hectare. In current National Footprint Accounts, global hectares are calculated using yield factors that adjust for the differences between local and global average productivity of each type of ecosystem, and using equivalence factors that adjust for inherent differences among forest, cropland, grazing land and fishing ground ecosystems in their capacities to generate resources.
6. Calculation of the carbon Footprint component is based on an arbitrary "sustainable energy scenario"
Using a logic similar to that adopted by the UN Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) Programme, calculation the carbon component of the Ecological Footprint is based on the average rate per hectare at which global forests can sequester carbon. But contrary to claims by van den Bergh and Grazi, the choice of this approach is not arbitrary, and the calculation of the carbon Footprint is based on empirical measurements of average forest productivities, not on hypothetical values.
At the risk of sounding repetitive, Ecological Footprint accounting tracks competing demands on biocapacity, and compares that with available biocapacity. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions not captured by the oceans and that are not otherwise sequestered (for example, through carbon capture and storage) compete for available biocapacity in that if they are not absorbed into terrestrial ecosystems, they will accumulate in the atmosphere. While the biocapacity demanded could be calculated in a number of ways, the Ecological Footprint methodology adopts the strategy commonly used in carbon trading and similar protocols of basing this calculation on forest sequestration capacity. The latter is a directly measured property of forests, and global average values can be obtained from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Thus neither the overall approach nor the specific sequestration values used in calculating the carbon Footprint component are arbitrary, but are instead based on what is currently established best practice.
7. Footprint applications focus on countries rather than on "bioregions"
Global Footprint Network's National Footprint Accounts measure the Ecological Footprint at the scale of nations, but the metric can be applied at any scale desired— to a single activity, an individual's lifestyle, a city, a bioregion, a nation, or humanity as a whole.
The Accounts focus on the national level because the best quality and most complete data on production, consumption and emissions exist at this level, plus many other complementary indicators that one might want to look at in conjunction with the Footprint track aspects of national performance (e.g., human development, economic, population). In addition, many of the key policy decisions are set and enforced at the national level, because typically countries enter into international agreements on environmental concerns (e.g., ozone depletion, biodiversity, carbon emissions). It hardly seems a weakness of an indicator that it can provide results for the same geographic areas that are of primary concern to policymakers.
Nothing, in principle, limits researchers who prefer to analyze Footprint or biocapacity for bioregions. The challenge, however, may be in finding sufficient data to carry out the analysis.
8. Measurement of national ecological deficits supports antitrade sentiments
If a country's total Ecological Footprint exceeds its total biocapacity, it is described as running an ecological deficit. This means it is harvesting resources from its domestic ecosystems faster than these resources are being regenerated, and/or emitting more carbon dioxide than its ecosystems are sequestering, and/or that the embedded biocapacity in its imports is higher than in its exports.
Van den Bergh and Grazi seem to assume that an ecological deficit only reflects the latter factor of trade balances in embedded biocapacity, which is incorrect. Based on this assumption, they argue that in calculating ecological deficits, "the [Ecological Footprint] approach suggests that trade should be restricted to remain within the national ecological capacity. That is, trade is limited by the [sic] own land area, not by the population size." Continuing this line of reasoning, they then go further afield, even to the point of suggesting that the Footprint makes "a strong plea against cities."
But there are no "shoulds" in Ecological Footprint accounting; it is simply a descriptive measure, and does not offer any policy prescriptions. In short, the Footprint documents, but it does not judge. Blaming Footprint accounting for the fact that the results are sometimes misinterpreted and used to promote policies that one finds undesirable is a bit like blaming your bank statement for the fact that your expenses exceed your income. In both cases, the accounts provide information that you may want to consider in planning future strategy, but on their own do not tell you the best way to proceed.
Regarding trade specifically, it would seem helpful to know how much biocapacity is embodied in international trade flows, and how much of a country's consumption can be met by local production capacity as opposed to having to rely on imported goods. For example, if imported goods were to become unavailable, and a country that needed these goods was forced to rely on its own ecosystem productivity to replace them, how much biocapacity would be required?
Footprint accounting on its own does not tell what to do, but it can help drive policies designed to build resilience in a world that will have to adapt to the consequences of climate change and other ecological disturbances. This is true whether these policies are designed to address trade, investment in societal infrastructure, or many of the other factors that contribute to the development of a sustainable society.
Misconceptions in the PLOS Biology paper
Mathis Wackernagel and Bill Rees' response to
Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints
by Linus Blomqvist, Barry W. Brook, Erle C. Ellis, Peter M. Kareiva,
Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger
in PLOS Biology, November 2013
Linus Blomqvist et al.'s criticism of the Ecological Footprint method, Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints, appeared in the November 2013 issue of PLOS Biology. Three of the authors are from the Breakthrough Institute. William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel, co-creators of the Ecological Footprint, published a response in the same issue, which Blomqvist et al. rebutted (also below). Because PLOS Biology limits such exchanges, Rees and Wackernagel offer their final response here after the Blomqvist et al. rebuttal.
Blomqvist et al. rebutted:
"Having read Rees and Wackernagel's response, we worry this exchange will only confuse readers. For that reason it is worth emphasizing a few key points that we do not think Rees and Wackernagel could dispute. First, the entire global ecological overshoot (footprint of consumption in excess of biocapacity) results from carbon dioxide emissions reframed as the hypothetical forest area needed to offset these emissions. Plantations of fast-growing trees would, by-the-numbers, eliminate the global overshoot. Second, the [Footprint or] EF's assessments for cropland, grazing land, and built-up land are unable to capture degradation or unsustainable use of any kind. We conclude from the above and other arguments in our original paper that we would be better off discussing greenhouse gas emissions directly in terms of tons of CO2-equivalent (and thus focus on solutions to emissions), and developing a more ecological and ecosystem process framework to capture the impacts humans currently have on the planet's natural systems. The appropriate scale for these indicators will in many cases be local and regional. At this level, the EF is a measure of net exports or imports of biomass and carbon-absorptive capacity [1]. Any city, for example, would show a deficit, as it relies on food and materials from outside. That in itself, as Robert Costanza has noted, 'tells us little if anything about the sustainability of this input [from outside the region] over time' [2].
[1] van den Bergh J.C.J.M., Verbruggen H (1999) Spatial sustainability, trade and indicators: an evaluation of the 'ecological footprint'. Ecol Econ 29: 61-72.
[2] Costanza R (2000) The dynamics of the ecological footprint concept. Ecol Econ 32: 341-345."
Rees and Wackernagel point out six misconceptions in the above argument:
1) Blomqvist et al.: "...First, the entire global ecological overshoot (footprint of consumption in excess of biocapacity) results from carbon dioxide emissions..."
Rees and Wackernagel: This statement is incorrect. The total Footprint is made up of the sum of all demands. If humanity demanded less food and timber, more land can be dedicated to carbon sequestration. Current carbon emissions alone would not lead to global overshoot.
2) Blomqvist et al.: "...Plantations of fast-growing trees would, by-the-numbers, eliminate the global overshoot."
Rees and Wackernagel: This argument does not apply, since Footprint accounts document what is. They are not a speculation about what could be.
3) Blomqvist et al.: "...We conclude from the above and other arguments in our original paper that we would be better off discussing greenhouse gas emissions directly in terms of tons of CO2-equivalent (and thus focus on solutions to emissions)..."
Rees and Wackernagel: Footprint research does not preclude the use of tons of carbon as a measurement unit. However, Blomqvist et al. themselves use the land-based argument that plantations could combat CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, thereby admitting that CO2 sequestration is one of several competing demand on biocapacity. Hence they contradict their own argument.
4) Blomqvist et al.: "....and developing a more ecological and ecosystem process framework to capture the impacts humans currently have on the planet's natural systems..."
Rees and Wackernagel: Better frameworks may indeed be possible. But they do not currently exist.
5) Blomqvist et al.: "The appropriate scale for these indicators will in many cases be local and regional."
Rees and Wackernagel: Precisely. We agree, which is why we point out that many of the most policy-relevant Footprint applications are at the local or national scale.
6) Blomqvist et al.: "Any city, for example, would show a deficit, as it relies on food and materials from outside. That in itself, as Robert Costanza has noted, 'tells us little if anything about the sustainability of this input [from outside the region] over time."
Rees and Wackernagel: Obviously, large cities cannot sustain themselves from their own biocapacity. But our argument is a different one: it is that cities are running out of hinterland. We point out that not all countries can run biocapacity deficits if the world as a whole should not be in overshoot. Current economic strategies of the vast majority of countries ignore this simple fact.
Additional Information:
For more information about the Footprint accounting method, click here.
Frequently asked questions are answered here.
For Blomqvist et al.'s original article in PLOS Biology, click here.
For Rees and Wackernagel's response to Blomqvist et al. in PLOS Biology, click here.
Is the Ecological Footprint misleading?
Global Footprint Network response to
"L'empreinte écologique: un indicateur ambigu"
by Frédéric Paul Piguet, Isabelle Blanc, Tourane Corbière-Nicollier, and Suren Erkman from the University of Lausanne and École des Mines
in Futuribles, October 2007
None should be asked to "believe in the Ecological Footprint" as an article of faith. Rather, as a scientific tool, Ecological Footprint accounts address, through empirical analysis and with ever increasing accuracy, one particular research question: how much of the planet's productive capacity is demanded to support human activities? We believe that this is perhaps the single most important research question for the twenty-first century, one that humanity cannot afford to ignore. Failing to live within the budget of nature will eventually lead to ecological bankruptcy and collapse. There may thus be no single research endeavor more important than improving our knowledge of humanity's demand on the biosphere through an open, transparent, scientific process.
Frédéric Paul Piguet and his colleagues claim in their Futuribles article that the Ecological Footprint provides a poor and even misleading answer to this research question of how much of the planet we are using. This is a serious charge, and one that should not be taken lightly.
Criticism is welcome
As stewards of the most widely used Ecological Footprints accounts and methodology in use today, we are the first to acknowledge that Footprint accounts can be improved. This is not unique to the Ecological Footprint, but a fundamental characteristic of all true scientific endeavors. As scientists, we are always eager to hear suggestions from others about how our methods can improve and what is not working.
Many of Piguet et al.'s critiques, however, are based on misunderstandings of Ecological Footprint accounting methodology. Several also reconsider issues that have already been discussed at length by the Footprint community, though perhaps not as thoroughly in the French language. We regret that Piguet et al. chose to release their article without peer-review from other academics in the Footprint community. As a result, their article contains many misconceptions that we hope to clarify.
Our response is divided into two parts. The first part explains what the Ecological Footprint actually attempts to measure and provides general background on our research process at Global Footprint Network. The second part responds to some of the main criticisms and misconceptions in Piguet et al.'s piece. A detailed, point-by-point response is downloadable here. Our first response was published in La Revue Durable (http://www.larevuedurable.com/).
What is the Ecological Footprint, and how is it being improved?
Sustainable development implies a commitment giving all people the opportunity to lead fulfilling lives within the means of our one planet Earth. This concept continues to receive a great deal of attention in the public and political arenas. Yet when it comes to actual environmental strategies and policies, are our policy makers asking the right questions to lead us towards this goal?
We know that when we catch more fish than can regenerate, fisheries eventually collapse; when we harvest more timber than forests can regrow, we advance deforestation; when we pump more water out of the ground than gets recharged, water tables drop; when we emit more CO2 than the biosphere can absorb, CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere and contributes to global warming. This overuse of resources is called ecological overshoot. Global ecological overshoot can be thought of as humanity withdrawing more from Earth's biological bank account than is being deposited, which, as in the financial analogy, eventually leads to bankruptcy. To achieve sustainable development, it is critical to have information about both humanity's demand on our planet and what our planet is actually able to provide.
This is the research question answered by Ecological Footprint accounting. Footprint accounts measure the actual amount of biological resources produced and wastes absorbed by the planet in a given year, and compares this with how many resources humans extract and how much waste we generate. Our most recent accounts – the 2006 edition - show that, as of 2003, humanity was in overshoot, demanding more than 25% more than what the planet provided in that year.
This graph and its supporting accounts provide a clear answer to the question of whether we are currently achieving sustainable development. The answer is a clear no – currently, global society is not living within the means of our planet, putting our society and economy at ever increasing risk.
We encourage interested readers to learn more about our Ecological Footprint data and results by reading WWF's Living Planet Report 2006, available for download – in 11 languages - at WWF or directly from us. Our calculation methodology is described in several academic papers, including Kitzes et al. (2007) or Kitzes et al. (2004). Also our data and methods page.
As with all rigorous scientific processes, our process of calculating Ecological Footprint accounts does not apply a single, fixed methodology, but rather continuously changes in response to new scientific information. We have several processes underway at Global Footprint Network to ensure that our calculations remain up to date and transparent for users.
First, we engage in ongoing internal and community reviews of our methodology through the activities of our National Accounts Committee. This committee, composed of representatives from Global Footprint Network partner organizations, is responsible for suggesting methodological changes to our core National Footprint Accounts and considering any changes suggested from external academics and reviewers. All changes to our calculation methodology are open for public comment before implementation, in accordance with the Committee's charter, and external parties are encouraged to submit recommended changes to the accounts directly to Global Footprint Network for consideration by the Committee.
Second, we also engage in collaborative research projects with national governments and external consultancies to review our accounting methodology for specific nations. The governments of Switzerland (http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/21/03/blank/blank/01.html), Japan, and the United Arab Emirates have all engaged with us to review the methodology and data for their nations, and we expect soon to begin similar reviews with Belgium, France, Ecuador, and other nations. The results of these reviews are published publicly and have been used in the past to improve the quality of our Ecological Footprint accounts for all nations.
With this background in our Footprint accounts and our methodological review process, let us now turn to a selection of the criticisms presented by Piguet et al.
Are Ecological Footprint results insufficiently accurate for tracking overshoot?
As described above, current Ecological Footprint accounts show the existence of global overshoot, a fact also recognized by Piguet et al. Piguet et al.'s main criticism in fact is that global overshoot is significantly larger than what we calculate, concluding that our results lack sufficient accuracy for policy recommendations.
We agree with Piguet et al. in recognizing that the current calculations can and are being improved, and that our results today represent only the best available data today. We strongly disagree, however, that our current state of knowledge is insufficient for taking policy action. Whether global overshoot is 25% or perhaps larger, the fact remains that global overshoot exists, that it continues to increase, and that globally the majority of consumption is taking place in North America, Western Europe, and eastern Asia. We believe that this recognition alone provides sufficient direction for a great deal of policy action.
We also disagree with the Piguet et al.'s fundamental argument that the accounts' carbon sequestration factor has very high uncertainty. Piguet et al. recalculates the National Footprint Accounts' carbon Footprint using different sequestration rates, including cultivated forest sequestration rates (higher than ours) as well as a rate based on the global forests' surface area and the effective carbon sequestered by terrestrial land area (lower than ours). They claim that the wide variation that these re-estimates produce in global overshoot means that current Footprint accounts are insufficiently precise for decision making.
While at first glance, this exercise appears to be a valid form of sensitivity analysis, we believe that the high and low values chosen by Piguet et al. reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the accounting framework, and are not valid for criticizing the precision of the existing carbon sequestration factor. To begin, the high sequestration rate based on cultivated forest is inconsistent with the underlying research question, which calculates Ecological Footprint and biocapacity in any given year based on the planet's actual resource production and waste absorption in that year. Using a cultivated forest rate, and applying it to all forest area as potential sequestration, would be equivalent to saying that because aquaculture ponds placed in deserts could potentially provide more edible fish than we are currently catching, there is no overshoot in fisheries today. This is clearly a fallacious argument that confuses what is actually occurring today, which is what Ecological Footprint accounts measure, with what may or may not be true at some point in the future.
On the other hand, the low sequestration value, based on the actual effective carbon sequestered by terrestrial land area, is similarly misguided. The current understanding is that the actual capacity or utility of each land type should be calculated based on its current use. For example, although many areas of the world could potentially grow potatoes, at varying yields (tonnes per hectare), we calculate the Footprint of a potato using the yield values for only that land which currently grows potatoes.
Let us take an example of a 10 hectare potato field, producing 150 tonnes of potatoes, adjacent to a 10 hectare tract of forest that produces a single wild potato but could potentially be planted fully with potatoes if cleared. In calculating the Footprint of a potato eaten by a consumer, we use a yield of 15 tonnes per hectare, based on the amount of potato produced per hectare of cropland. Even though there is a single wild potato produced in the forest area, we do not calculate the yield of potatoes as 7.5 tonne per hectare (150 tonnes divided by 10 hectares of potato field plus 10 hectares of forest), as the forest is not managed for producing potatoes. Even making allowances for multiple use, in which the 10 hectares of forest would be divided conceptually into two portions, perhaps 9.9 hectares devoted to timber and 0.1 hectare devoted to potatoes, the yield for potatoes in our example will still predominantly reflect the yield of the area devoted to potato production. Dividing total actual potato production by the sum of the areas of actual and potential potato field gives a nonsensical value for yield that is strongly biased downward.
This is analogous to the error made by Piguet et al. in choosing to divide total carbon sequestration by all forest area, even that forest which is not devoted to or managed for carbon sequestration. Taking this approach gives a meaningless value for carbon sequestration. The most accurate method for approaching a carbon sequestration factor would be to calculate the actual carbon sequestration rate in a given year (not the potential, as suggested by Piguet et al.'s high estimate) on land that is actually devoted to carbon sequestration (not all land potentially available, as suggested by Piguet et al.'s low estimate). Thus we would ideally like to estimate the actual carbon sequestered by all land which is currently actively managed for carbon sequestration. As currently no global sequestration estimate exists just for the land set aside for carbon sequestration, the accounts use the actual average of all forest sequestration, managed and unmanaged, as a proxy for this, recognizing that the areas actually set aside for the purpose of carbon sequestration today are likely to be forests and that current data sets do not divulge whether these areas would be growing at natural rates or managed in some way.
This calculation of the actual carbon sequestration rate on land set aside currently for the purposes of carbon sequestration would be an excellent research question, as suggested by Piguet et al. The current answers they provide, however, do not address this specific question and hence are clearly not applicable in a Footprint accounting framework as currently practiced.
In addition to this point, we have noted several other common misunderstandings through the Piguet et al. paper. A short table provides a selection of the most important, several of which are also related to the carbon Footprint calculation methodology. A full list of 53 comments is available here.
We welcome Piguet et al.'s contribution to the debate surrounding national Ecological Footprint accounting. In spite of the misunderstandings that we have clarified here, the article raises many important issues, and we look forward to continued dialogue with the authors and others in the community about how to continue strengthening and improving our ecological accounting systems to support a sustainable future.


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Market appealing decision to bar beer, wine sales
Chairman says Menifee Planning Commission may have made a mistake
Eyad Shalabi isn't specifically interested in selling beer and wine in the market he's planning to open on state Route 74 in Romoland.
The 26-year-old businessman does, however, want to provide one-stop shopping for would-be customers.
"Say you want carne asadas this weekend," said Shalabi, who plans to open California Ranch Grocery Market in three months in the space previously occupied by Bargain Basket Food & Drug Outlet. "You want to come to my store and I don't have beer. You know, it's carne asadas and you want a 12-pack of Bud Light. You want to buy the meat and the produce, but I don't have the beer?
"So let's skip this place and go to Winco. I'll lose that sale because I don't have that $10 worth of beer."
Determined to keep that business, Shalabi is appealing a a Planning Commission decision last month to deny his request for a conditional use permit to sell beer and wine at his store. As is the case with his family's other stores in San Diego County, alcohol would be a minor component in a store geared toward meats and produce, Shalabi said.
The City Council will hear his appeal Tuesday, two weeks after Menifee's planners decided -- with a 4-1 vote -- that there were sufficient options to purchase alcohol in the community near state Route 74 and Sherman Road.
However, Shalabi and building owner Brenda Van Dyke said they were concerned that commissioners' discussion appeared to be based on personal beliefs. They said the permit denial placed unfair restrictions on would-be tenants trying to make a living in that location.
Van Dyke specifically directed her displeasure toward Commissioner Lesa Sobek, who said "let's keep Menifee a safe place to live" in making a motion to deny the permit.
"One lady believes in prohibition and a business owner suffers," Van Dyke said after the meeting.
That wasn't the case, Sobek said via phone Friday, reiterating that public testimony at the commission meeting -- not her personal beliefs -- informed her motion to deny the permit.
"Just because I don't drink or smoke doesn't mean I would ever tell anyone what they can do," Sobek said via phone Friday. "I went to that meeting with my mind not being made up. I went there to hear and that's why we have a public hearing -- to gather information. That's an important part of the process. I'm not sitting on that dais making decisions on my own."
Two weeks later, Shalabi's appeal comes with newfound support.
Although Commissioner Mark Matelko cast the lone dissenting vote, Chairmain Matt Liesemeyer said he regretted the tone of a discussion that ultimately may have required further information before a vote.
On top of Romoland Liquor Market owner Amer Agugherir proclaiming that Shalabi selling beer and wine "would adversely affect my business," another resident said other locales sold alcohol in the vicinity, including the nearby Big League Dreams Sports Parks in the city of Perris, another nearby gas mart and an upcoming gas station at Trumble Road.


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People living with cancer may experience sleeping problems related to the cancer, cancer treatment, emotional factors, or other unrelated medical conditions. Sleeping problems may include hypersomnia, somnolence syndrome, or nightmares. Learn more about insomnia [3]–another sleeping disorder.
Hypersomnia (also called somnolence, excessive daytime sleepiness, or prolonged drowsiness) is a condition with which you may feel very sleepy during the day or want to sleep for longer than normal at night. It can include long periods of sleep (10 or more hours at a time), excessive amounts of deep sleep, and difficulty staying awake during the day. In addition, daytime napping typically does not relieve the excessive sleepiness.
Hypersomnia may interfere with your relationships, prevent you from enjoying activities, and make it difficult to handle daily activities, such as attending doctors' appointments, completing household chores, and managing family or work responsibilities.
Although similar, hypersomnia and fatigue [4] are not the same. Fatigue involves feelings of exhaustion and lack of energy that are not relieved by sleep. However, unlike hypersomnia, fatigue is not associated with excessive daytime sleeping and the inability to stay awake.
The following types of cancer, cancer treatment, and other medical conditions can cause hypersomnia:
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- A secondary brain tumor (cancer that has spread to the brain from somewhere else in the body)
- Chemotherapy, such as teniposide (Vumon), pegaspargase (Oncaspar), and thalidomide (Thalomid)
- Other prescription and over-the-counter medications, including some antidepressants, antinausea medications, opioid pain killers (pain medications), sedatives (medications that calm or cause sleep), antihistamines (medications used to treat allergy or cold symptoms), and sleeping pills
- Anemia [5] (low red blood cell count)
- Changes in hormone levels in the body
- Other symptoms of cancer or side effects of cancer treatments, including hypercalcemia [6] (high levels of calcium), hypokalemia (low levels of potassium), hypothyroidism (a condition in which the thyroid gland is underactive and doesn't make enough thyroid hormones), and depression [7]
Relieving side effects–also called symptom management, palliative care [8], or supportive careâis an important part of cancer care and treatment. Talk with your health care team about any symptoms you experience, including any new symptoms or a change in symptoms.
If possible, hypersomnia is first treated by diagnosing and treating the underlying cause. Often, hypersomnia related to chemotherapy improves after treatment ends. If other medications are causing it, your doctor may be able to substitute a different medication or adjust the dosage. Your doctor may also prescribe stimulant medications to help you stay awake during the day.
The following behavioral strategies may help you manage hypersomnia:
- Sleep a few hours longer at night to avoid excessive sleepiness during the day.
- Exercise daily in the morning or early afternoon, if possible.
- Engage in enjoyable activities that require your full attention, such as spending time with friends, writing letters, or playing with a pet.
- Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day.
- Get out of bed and stay out of bed until bedtime.
- Avoid foods that make you sleepy and heavy meals during the day.
- Avoid alcohol and caffeine.
Somnolence syndrome
Somnolence syndrome is a type of hypersomnia associated with cranial radiation (radiation therapy [9] to the head) in children. Symptoms of somnolence syndrome include excessive drowsiness, prolonged periods of sleep (up to 20 hours a day), headaches, low-grade fever, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and irritability. Symptoms usually occur three to 12 weeks after the end of radiation treatment and can last a few days or several weeks.
Nightmares are vivid, frightening dreams that usually cause the person to wake up able to remember part or most of the dream. Most people have nightmares from time to time, but the frequency or vividness of nightmares can increase after a cancer diagnosis and during cancer treatment. Frequent nightmares can lead to a fear of going to sleep, restless sleep, and daytime sleepiness.
Nightmares are often associated with an increase in emotional stress, and they are thought to be a way in which the mind works through unresolved feelings and fears. Sometimes, nightmares are caused by certain medications (such as some antibiotics, iron supplements, opioid pain medications and heart medications), withdrawal from CNS depressants (substances that can slow brain function, such as alcohol, opioids, and some anti-anxiety medications), and uncontrolled pain [10].
Because having cancer is frightening and stressful, it is normal to experience some nightmares during treatment and recovery. The following tips may help you cope with nightmares:
- Be honest about your fears and feelings, discussing them with a family member or friend early in the day, rather than at night.
- Talk about the nightmares with a family member or friend.
- Find creative ways to express the content or themes of the nightmares, such as writing in a journal or drawing a picture.
- Make up alternative endings or storylines to the nightmares, and visualize them.
Remember that nightmares are not real, and they do not predict the future or cause bad things to happen. If the nightmares become frequent or continue for a prolonged time, cause excessive anxiety, or prevent you from sleeping well, talk with your doctor or seek help from a counselor [11].
More Information
Fatigue [4]
Strategies for a Better Night's Sleep [13]
Additional Resources
Oncology Nursing Society: The Cancer Journey: Sleep Disturbances [14]
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Hypersomnia [15]


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BONIFAY — It was 120 years ago the Holmes County Times-Advertiser went to print for the first time.
"I remember the caption that was across every edition of the paper," said local resident and President of the Kiwanis Club of Bonifay Carlton Treadwell. "It read 'Labor is Honest and Pluck Wins,' and we use to send a copy to a relative in the southern pacific and his buddies would ask what it meant, if anything. Pluck means persistence, durability and a drive to finish what you've started."
Treadwell said that the paper was important to the Holmes County community.
"It was very important," said Treadwell. "It was the main source of news for the county. You had the paper and then you had gossip, but that was it."
The lifeline during those days was the carriers, said Treadwell.
"Most of the people lived in rural areas and the newspapers were delivered by rural carriers," he said. "Most of the time those in the rural areas would get their Wednesday paper by Friday and was served through Black, Ala. Route 1. Carriers were very nice and used to buy things from the store if you needed them, so they we're just the means of getting the paper."
The biggest population at that time was in Bethlehem, said Treadwell.
"Bethlehem had the biggest school at the time," he said. "That was back when farming wasn't all that expensive and was profitable."
He said in those days the residents of Holmes County were self-sufficient.
"They survived on cane syrup, eggs, pork, corn, ground their own meal, grew their own food, got milk from cows, made their own butter," said Treadwell. "People lived on ham, eggs and bacon, but that was it. There were no televisions and hardly any radios and that's why the newspaper was so important for getting the news."
He said he remembered the paper had their own printing press, complete with having to melt their own lead to reform the letters for printing and that he also remembered the old editor, Ed Williams.
"He was a long, tall and thin man who smoked cigars and always had an awful lot of work to be done," said Treadwell. "He was always in a running fit to get it in the mail and out on time, but he had help from his boys."
As far back as he could remember, Ed Williams was the editor.
"Ed Williams was an old man in 1940 and being the editor of the paper was all he'd ever done," Treadwell said, trying to contemplate if Williams was the first editor of the Holmes County Times-Advertiser.
He said his sons were DeVane and Edward Williams II.
"Edward Williams II became post master, but by then the paper was owned by someone else and DeVane Williams was editor until the day he died."
After DeVane Williams passed away Orren Smith, who married Williams' daughter Dianne, became the publisher, said Treadwell.
"He was publisher of the paper for the longest time," he said.
Dianne, great-granddaughter of the original owner W.D. Williams, said that four generations of her family owned and edited the paper for almost a century, from the time it was established in 1892 till the paper was sold to the Woodhams in 1981.
"When I was in my pre-teens and early teens I would come in on Saturday mornings and afternoons and fold the Baptist Church's announcements for $1," she said. "Back then that was enough to go to the movies and pay for candy and popcorn."
She remembered when things broke on the press that her grandfather and father could fix it, but it would be stressed to get the papers out.
"They would take all of the sheets and go down to the house, which was where the A-Plus Pharmacy is now, and they would lay it out on a big table," said Dianne. "Then the women of the family would fold all the papers to get them ready to go out. The whole family would pitch in those days."
She said she and her husband had left, but would find themselves back home and back in the newspaper business.
"I never knew my great-grandfather, W.D. Williams, who was actually editor and publisher longer then any one," said Dianne. Her grandfather, E.A. Williams, was editor and publisher of the Advertiser for 40 years. "When he retired my father (DeVane Williams) became publisher and editor and when he became ill my husband and I bought the paper from him."
"My husband was the one really in charge," she said. "I helped with writing weddings. I wrote about the wedding dress, the reception and was usually a nice write-up about their wedding in general."
Her mother, Dianne said, wrote about the local weddings, and then she followed suite.
"Weddings and Obituaries were always very important to the community," she said. "Obituaries were always important and if the person was known by the editor or well known in the community the editor would say a few words about them. Obituaries were always flowery; praising the person's life, but eventually that changed to be more matter-of-fact and strait-to-the-point."
These events fell under the category of "Social News."
"There was a woman by the name of Lilie Harrell and she was one of the Social Editors, writing columns about visitors and weddings," said Dianne. "That's something the papers don't do any more. We'd have people call in and say 'I had company over last week you know,' and we'd write it up and have it in the paper that week."
Another woman she said she remembered covering Social News was Ann Brown.
"This was something she wanted to do after her husband, Clyde Brown, died," said Dianne. "She was really good at getting the Social News. She knew a lot of people."
She said that this trend of putting in the Social News continued until the Woodhams took over the paper.
She said she also remembered a man and his son that worked there.
"Mr. Savage and his son, Jimmy, used to work there for a long time," she said. "Both very good at working with the press and setting type."
Another set of people she said she remembered was Wayne Marsh and his wife Nancy.
She said Edward Williams II and Tom Douglass both worked at the paper until they were old enough to leave home. Both Williams II and Douglass joined the military, one to the Navy and one to the Army.
"Williams II went on become Post Master in Bonifay after graduating from the University of Florida and Douglass attended Florida State University and then went on to work with various newspapers," said Dianne. "Edward started printing and publishing The Gator Post, a paper for the Post Masters Association. All of the printing was done here."
"We were living in South Carolina and my husband, Orren Smith, was working for IBM when my father got sick," she said. "We bought the paper from my father and Orren began working with no newspaper experience. He thought he could learn it, so my daddy taught him what he needed to know and Orren ended up doing a wonderful job."
Orren did a column called "Now Hear This," which was the personal opinions of the editor and what Dianne said was an answer to her father's own column.
"They would sometimes write about things that were controversial," she said. "My husband would do that more often then my father had. My dad didn't say much that was controversial, but my husband did and would always get a big response."
Dianne and her husband would go on to run the paper for 17 years.
"All of our generations that ran the paper were concerned with covering the whole county as much as possible," she said. "We had correspondents all over the county."
The correspondents would have their own section for county updates along with a picture of them to go with it.
"This is something that was important to my grandfather," she said. "He loved Holmes County. He wouldn't call it Holmes County, he'd call it Good Ol' Holmes."
In 1981 Dianne and her husband decided to sell the paper to a family of newspaper owners, the Woodhams.
"It was so stressful to get the paper out and Orren got to wondering if anything should happen to him who would take care of the paper?" said Dianne. "The Woodhams seemed like a good family of newspaper owners and we wouldn't have sold it to just any body."
"Orren got a private practice then went one to work with the State's Attorney Jim Appleman as a prosecutor and then decided he wanted to go to the opposite spectrum and become a public defender," said Dianne. "He did that until we both retired in 2000. We then enjoyed traveling until his health declined and now he's in the Bonifay Nursing Home."
She said her memories keep going back to the time of the paper.
"The whole family, including the extended family, we all felt a sense of pride in the Holmes County Times for those years," she said. "I remember when it was $1 for a subscription to the paper and if someone couldn't pay but really wanted it we'd then accept payments of things like a mess of turnips, cane syrup, eggs and the like. There were shelves of stuff like that just waiting for granddaddy to pick up and take home."
Then she said the newspaper was very important to the community.
"This was back before there were radios and television so there was no other way to for the community to get their news," she said. "We had some national news but it mostly stayed local. We still have parents dying and when the children go to clean out their belongings they'd find stacks of old Holmes County Times piled up and saved in a trunk somewhere."
Dianne said her great-grandfather was known as a "Yellow Dog Democrat."
"He used the paper as the voice of the Democratic Party and he was very vocal," she said. "Grandfather wasn't as vocal but then just about everyone was a Democrat."
She said her father was involved with the Democratic Party.
"There were very few registered Republicans; you could probably count them all on two hands," she said. "It changed from being a Democratic paper shortly before my father sold it."
Dianne and her husband never used it as the Democratic Party, she said.
"Virtually it was something that everyone looked forward to," she said. "It was a important part of their lives. We felt a real kinship and love for the people of Holmes County."
She said they wanted a paper people could be proud of.
"I can still get very nostalgic and a little emotional when thinking of the paper," she said. "It was a very difficult decision to sell something with that much history. He had made it financially stable and it was the best decision for his family and his newspaper."
Stephanie Smith, daughter of Dianne Smith said she had many fond memories of the Holmes County Times-Advertiser growing up.
"From ages about 11 to 14, I worked at the paper on Wednesday afternoons," said Stephine. "This was the day when the paper was ready to be mailed to out of town subscribers."
She said some of her duties including folding each newspaper in half and stuff into brown paper bags which were sorted by zip codes.
"Needless to say this job got fairly boring to a young kid after about 100 had been stuffed," she said. "I would then entertain myself by looking at the subscriber labels to see if I knew anyone. I distinctly remember one effort to relieve my boredom by drawing a big smiley face on the bag going to my aunt in Atlanta along with a 'Hello from Florida' note."
She said her father, however, didn't find this as amusing.
"My father, who was a big stickler for rules, was not pleased at my freelance greeting and gave me a long, stern lecture on how I was breaking federal law by writing on U.S. mail," she said. "The $3.25 I received for my child labor efforts were not enough to keep me interested in being a full-time bag stuffer so employer and employee (father and daughter) decided to part work ways for the sake of peace at home."
Other strong memories she said of coming from a newspaper family included:
1. The smell of newspaper ink at the Advertiser office and on her father when he came home from work
2. Always feeling that she knew what was going on in our town due to reading the paper front to back every week
3. Developing an early interest in local politics due to the paper and her parents' involvement
4. Only being able to take family vacations from Thursday to Saturday because of paper schedule and having to be back in town in time for church on Sunday
5. Classmates always worried about telling her any news or gossip for fear that it might end up in the paper
6. Her Dad being at most every sporting event in town
"Holmes County town's sporting events got coverage in the hometown paper as well," she said. "I also remember my father taking quite a hit on the sidelines from an errant HCHS football player who ran out of bounds (took that hit like a champ and popped back up ready to take more photos)!"
Stephanie said her family is proud to have owned and run this hometown business for over 90 years.
"I feel my father always did his best to report the news in a fair manner with no personal bias," she said. "His editorial column, 'Now Hear This,' on the other hand could be full of personal bias and I read those weekly columns nervously hoping it would be on something non-family related — i.e. not embarrassing for a young, easily embarrassed daughter. I didn't always get my wish but any embarrassment suffered then has now been forgotten and replaced by pride in knowing that my family kept Holmes County informed for many years."


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