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June 2013 Issue
Welcome to the sixth edition of Landcare International e-news—news from Landcare International (LI) June 2013.
This newsletter is designed to share short articles, events, new book releases and other information on landcare developments around the world.
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Orchards of Hope brings fruit trees into public spaces, school grounds, county parks and wellness centers in Alleghany County, NC. This project enables residents of the community to pick and consume fresh fruit. In honor of National Food Day, the Appalachian Agriculture Coalition led high school students in planting fruit trees at the Moxley Road Community Garden site.
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By: Tom Peterson,
This year, nearly 8,000 farmers markets have connected farmers to consumers across the United States. That's double the number from a decade ago, and it's a number that depends on an increasing nationwide preference for fresh food. In fact, 68 per cent of Americans say they eat more fresh food than they did five years ago, according to a study from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. For many, the source of much of that food—and perhaps the source of that shift in habits—is a local farmers market.
Yet despite this broad movement toward a different kind of eating, ...
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The question "what shall we do about it?"
is only asked by those who do not
the problem.
If a problem can be solved at all,
to understand it and to know what to do about it
are the same thing.
(Watts, 75)
In the face of unprecedented environmental, economic, and social changes, too frequently our understandings and responses fail to achieve desired and necessary results. A lack of clarity about how to keep up with the dynamic of the present, much less step confidently into the future, has left communities, commercial enterprises, states, and nations confused. Often they are badly divided as to the nature of the forces contributing to their distresses and about potential remedies that might offer relief.
Discovering what must be done in each locale to achieve sustainable, resilient landscapes, watersheds, communities, businesses, and governments is only half the challenge. Finding ways to implement necessary and beneficial change at sufficient scale and to sustain it through time is work that must engage all present and future generations. Virginia Tech has an important and exciting opportunity/responsibility for leadership in exploration of existing and emergent needs and the means to meet them.
For a major land grant university like Virginia Tech, the challenge is complicated. Institutions of higher learning have specific momentum as a result of having succeeded in devising improved understandings, technologies, and management systems with tight focus on a limited number of interests. Investment in research and development by discipline has been rewarded as a result of success in expanding our understandings of new worlds unanticipated and unimagined just a few short years ago. Genetic engineering, nanotechnology, information technology, sub-atomic physics, and marketing have increased human capacity to manipulate the physical world, living biomass, and behavior. Recognition and financial rewards have followed. More of the same is anticipated.
Yet out beyond these successes remains a larger world where other pressing problems are not being resolved or even addressed. Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource. Soil losses in some places have dramatically reduced the potential for food, fiber, fuel, and forage production. Where people and opportunities don't meet in the same time and place, standards of living have fallen or remained stagnant. Financial returns to agriculture and forestry minimally support a majority of those living on the land, if at all. The growth of human populations and the restless migrations away from scarcity mean that the global community is becoming "unsettled" on a scale unimaginable fifty years ago.
In order to study a phenomenon, there must be some degree of control over the subject of inquiry or else cause and effect will not be understood and findings will be open to question. In the physical sciences, control within laboratories and in the world of sticks and stones is relatively easy to achieve. On the other hand, when the inquiry concerns complex and dynamic living systems responding to a wide range of stimuli, control is progressively difficult for practical and often ethical reasons. While the cell on a glass slide under the microscope can do little other than be observed, understanding the impact of climate change on different tropic levels in a temperate forest is quite a different matter. Do we investigate soil microorganisms exchanging minerals for sugars with trees, precipitation in relation to changes in temperatures, biodiversity in response to changes in vegetation cover, the management practices of landowners, changes in the availability of forest products, melting ice in the Arctic, or all of the above? Even if we study all of the above, how is the information to be packaged into some comprehensible whole?
In science, we often read that some finding is true, ceteris paribus, or said another way, all other things being equal or held constant. As complexity increases, as questions are asked about cause and effect beyond the laboratory, the physical world, and simple life forms, all other things are less likely to be equal or even to be known.
When there is less control, the ability to predict or anticipate consequence is reduced because there are unaccounted variables that influence outcomes. For the economist, these are the externalities that exist beyond the focus of classical theories and methods of inquiry. For the ecologist, such variables are beyond the systems of interest that have been carefully delineated. As consideration is further expanded to include the fields and forests, the streams and rivers, and the human beings that manage the land and influence what is grown, harvested, processed, and delivered, each discipline has a stake in any proposed action with only a partial view of the whole. The various disciplinary practitioners may speak different technical languages, and use different information collection techniques, and their focuses often don't overlap or correlate even though they may investigate phenomena that are interrelated and mutually influential if not mutually dependent.
The British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1920) commented that nature is infinitely divisible, i.e., there are an infinite number of ways of seeing nature. Any "complete" description is beyond our capacities, as the ecologist Frank Egler noted: "Ecosystems not only are more complex than we think, but more complex than we can think" (Noss, O'Connell, and Murphy: 1997:76). As a consequence, while many discipline-oriented researchers are raising questions concerning the long-term viability of existing biodiversity, water quality, and supplies of food, fuel, fiber, and forage, too frequently their conclusions are difficult to apply to the findings produced by other disciplinarians or to new technologies and management techniques. If problems are identified and solutions offered separately -- one at a time -- to improve water quality, increase forage yields, improve timber management, increase income to landowners...
Inspired by and building upon Heifer International's 65 years of community development experience, the Seeds of Change Initiative is a campaign to grow jobs, improve health, and end American poverty through the extraordinary potential of locally grown food.
This is possible thanks to the potential of capable people who want to work--to start or rejuvenate small farms, create innovative food-based businesses, and connect to existing viable markets while also developing new ones.
Capitalizing on the current local food movement, Seeds of Change will help low-income Americans become fully engaged participants in the momentum of these increasingly popular initiatives -- both as qualified providers of high quality food and knowledgeable consumers of it.
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At our January 2014 meeting, Katie Trozzo, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, gave a fascinating presentation on Non-Timber Forest Products.
Download the power point presentation (download here) that accompanied her lecture. If you are interested in finding out more about what she is doing or finding out if your property has the potential to grow or harvest non-timber forest products, please fill out and e-mail back her survey (download here).
On Saturday, December 7th, Geoff Rollinson came to Independence for the Winter Market and the Christmas Parade.
He later had dinner with the Grayson LandCare Board of Directors at the home of Scott & Loren Webster in Mouth of Wilson.
Geoff is the Coordinator for the Heytesbury District Landcare Network in Timboon, Victoria. He came to the US for a workshop at the Smithsonian Biodiversity Research Center and scheduled a visit to the first US LandCare organization, Grayson LandCare. We learned about the Australian model of Landcare, which is partially supported by the government and managed in a hierarchical structure, although the decisions about what will be done are made by landowners and, for the most part, carried out by landowners and volunteers. He was very complimentary of our efforts and enjoyed the warm welcome and hospitality he received here.
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Overthe past five years 400 members
and groups associated with EGLN have
planted 300,000 indigenous seedlings,
creating more than 330 hectares of
revegetation. It's not hard to understand
why revegetation is such a focus for the
network – an estimated 70 per cent of
private land has been cleared of indigenous
vegetation within the region, with the red
gum plains particularly affected.
(Read the entire issue...)
Issue 57 is now available, along with past issues on the Victorian Landcare and Catchment Management Magazine.
The USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program awards $26,488 to Grayson LandCare, Inc., Independence, VA, to professionalize
the Independence Farmers Market with a permanent market
manager and Board of Directors and to promote it as a viable,
self‐sustaining retail outlet for local growers and a venue for
consumers to buy
local fresh produce, meats, and eggs.
We were one of only five markets in Virginia to receive an award.
Thank-you Grayson LandCare for all you did to make this possible!
Rick Cavey
Independence Farmers' Market Manager
"Every time you sit down to a meal, you're voting on what kind of agriculture you want."
Watch this 5-minute film on Nebraska meat producers who put the needs of the soil and the animals first--and are finding that consumers respond, making their techniques MORE profitable while they feel good about what they are doing.
The American food system doesn't make it easy for small farmers to get their healthy food to your home, but meet two farmers in Scott County, VA who are trying: Ricky Horton and Sherilyn Shepard. They're siblings who grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and other vegetables in southwestern Virginia. Their livelihood is filled with uncertainties ranging from unpredictable weather to changing immigration laws. This is their story.
"With appreciation of our past and awareness of our present, we can create a safe, sane future."
© Grayson LandCare - PO Box 373 - Independence, VA 24348 - (276) 238-7073


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Gwyneth is in heaven as the road trip heads to Valencia, a paella lovers paradise. She regales Mario with the story of her first trip to Spain as the two share a beachside walk and talk. Meanwhile, Mark and Claudia tour Santiago Calatravas futuristic City of Arts and Sciences. Gwyneth and Mario cook paella with a Zen Master in the Albufera, the epicenter of rice in Spain. The foursome is reunited over a dinner of unforgettable tapas at local favorite, Casa Montaña. Then, the final leg of the road trip heads to Madrid for a whirlwind tour of the city.Tags:
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
BREAKING - Hank Pym No Wife Beater, Says Shooter
Posted by Ryan K Lindsay at 4:23 PM
Thought Bubbles: Hank Pym, Jim Shooter
19 comments:
- Peter F DiSilvio said...
I think it's a case of too little, too late. Hank Pym, like it or not, had been defined by this moment. The story of how he has dealt with it has become just as much a part of the character as Tony Stark being an alcoholic or Roy Harper having been on heroin (technically back on but you see where I'm going with this).
Characters aren't defined by how they wave at the crowd when teh fights over, its how they deal with the fight. The stress, the anxiety, the responsibility. Its all part of it.
Hank may have one through hell because of it but it added to the character.
On a purely political note I think its a great story. This guy who seems so great to the outside world and, in reality abuses his wife. It shows you that anyone can be an abuser and no one is above being abused. Its important lesson and I think its overlooked for how much of an impact it has had on readers.
Then again Batman slapped a woman and delivered the infamous "Papa spank" and he gets like 9 books. Go figure...
- March 29, 2011 at 4:41 PM
- TheGaf said...
- March 29, 2011 at 4:49 PM
- Ivan said...
Peter Parker did almost the same thing to MJ but few people remember. Poor unlucky Hank Pym.
- March 29, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- Matt Duarte said...
Yeah, if this had been a one time thing, it could have easily been rectified, BUT every writer since then has picked up on this and expanded it.
- March 29, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Is Pym still a wife beater? I say yes. Even if Shooter's story is true (and I don't doubt him), it doesn't change how Pym has been defined or treated in the last 30 years.
I gotta say, the idea of Pym accidentally hitting Wasp when throwing his arms up is much less compelling. As it was drawn by Bob Hall, there is so much more emotional impact: "Look at what Pym has been driven to!!"
Of course, I abhor spousal abuse. But from a story-telling standpoint, a character with serious problems is much more interesting than one who is simply misunderstood.
- March 29, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- Phillyradiogeek said...
Have other writers expanded the story to make Pym a habitual abuser, or was this the only time he hit her?
- March 29, 2011 at 10:32 PM
@Phillyradiogeek: As far as I can recall, that's the only time.
- March 30, 2011 at 12:45 AM
- Space Jawa said...
@ Kelp: If that's the case, it's pretty sad that villains are allowed to get away with far worse and get multiple second chances, yet Hank isn't allowed to get past this single incident.
- March 30, 2011 at 1:27 AM
- Maith said...
I think there should be a way to redeem Hank.
I don't like the wife beating aspect of the character, because I like the character very much, but it did create a lot of potential story telling.
- March 30, 2011 at 4:36 AM
- Matt Duarte said...
Yeah, I should have added: I think the "wife beater" label for him IS harsh, because it was a one time thing, not a perpetual abuse of Wasp. Is it still a heinous thing to hit your spouse? Of course.
However, what I meant to say is that all the writers after it interpreted it as a him really losing control that one time. Even if Shooter intended it to be something far less dramatic, no one else interpreted it as such.
Of course, this is without getting into all the mind games that Janet was playing with poor Hank, which is a whole post in of itself...
- March 30, 2011 at 5:17 AM
Spidey backhanded is very pregnanrt wife across a room with superhumand strngt and in the middle of a fight with his clone...because he was in extreme emotional turmoil....yet not a single writer ever referenced this again...pym is not a wifebeater,or an physically abusive husband
- March 30, 2011 at 6:29 AM
- Peter F DiSilvio said...
I think the fact that Parker did it too doesn't absolve Hank but damns Parker. You hit your wife or husband or w/e, you have committed spousal abuse. Domestic violence has occurred. Someone might as well have run into the room and yelled "No take backs" because its over.
It doesn't make Hank less compelling or take away from him being a hero. He just did something really bad.
One of the above posters said that it's not fair to Hank because villains get second chances all the time. To that I say Hank has gotten multiple chances, no one pressed charges against him and banned him from the hero community forever.
I can't help but think of Chris Brown as we discuss this. It doesn't matter all the great things he did before he beat Rhianna or all the great things he did after. He still beat a woman. He will always have to bear that mark and I think that is the least he, or anyone, could do for committing such an act.
- March 30, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- Matt Duarte said...
@Anon #11: To be fair, that happened during the Clone Saga, and most people would rather forget all about it or just ignore it. Hank Pym's breakdown came at one of the highest and most popular eras of the Avengers.
- March 30, 2011 at 3:13 PM
- twobitspecialist said...
@Maith - There was an opportunity, but Bendis or anyone else for that matter didn't take it.
When they revealed that Hank Pym was a Skrull, they should've made it so that he had taken his place BEFORE he beat Janet.
Alas, that probably would've brought a whole new world of problems.
- March 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Matt Duarte said...
Apparently they discussed the whole skrull thing, but they weren't comfortable retconing away so much stuff all at once.
- March 30, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- Space Jawa said...
@ Peter F DiSilvio: So even though it happened once, it's been made clear that he regrets it, he's been shown to make efforts to atone for it, and it was something didn't do in the most sensible state of mind, it's still impossible for him to ever be forgiven for it?
I'm not saying what he did was right, I'm just questioning the mindset of "one strike and you're out, no exceptions ever"
- March 30, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- Peter F DiSilvio said...
Maybe I sounded a little harsh. I'm not saying he's out in anyway or that he's not a hero. If Janet forgave him in story that's touching and if the readers forgive him that's great.
It doesn't change the fact that he is a wife beater. If you do something once you can be forgiven, found innocent, and it can even be forgotten, but it doesn't matter. You still did it.
Again, he can be forgive and it can be forgotten but, short of a recon, he is still and will always be a wife beater.
- March 30, 2011 at 9:46 PM
- Space Jawa said...
I still think even that sounds harsh. He hit her once, correct? Not even multiple times the one time he did it? "Wife Beater" seems to imply he made a regular thing of it or he beat her up aggressively rather than allowing himself to be beat up (metaphorically) over this one mistake.
- March 30, 2011 at 10:40 PM
- Jake said...
Yeah, I know fiction is partly about happy accidents along the way and this is definently one of them. Hank Pym is now a a wife hitting guy. Even if it were just that moment, that's what he is.
As for Spider-man. that part was messed up. The whole point was to make Ben Reilly more like the real Spider-man for the switch. I'm shocked people still read Spider-man these days. I'd love to see Ben Reilly come back and take over because he was a great character and he was a Spider 'MAN'. Peter Parker in the books is nothing but a boy who would do anything to not face up to the consequences of his actions.
- March 31, 2011 at 7:25 PM
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Nestl? Crunch is the name of a chocolate bar made of milk chocolate with crisped rice mixed in, produced by Nestl?. Its current slogan is, "For the Kid in You." It was first introduced in 1937.
"When I found the old popcorn maker stashed away in a back closet of our FOB (Forward Operating Base), I couldn't imagine it would ever work. After some parts and TLC, I got it running again. The next step was figuring out how to get the troops working for me some popcorn to eat! I called several companies, tried Amazon, etc. Nobody was able to ship a large bag of popcorn, salt, and oil to an APO address. Then I tried Nationwide Candy, and Jason was immediately able to put together my order and get it shipped out to me. Nationwide Candy and Jason have no idea how happy they have made my 200 troops to have a little taste of home out here in Afghanistan. It's the little things from back home that keep us going, and Nationwide Candy had a big part in that. THANK YOU!"by Mitchell H. on 10/16/2014
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I listened to the awake sounds her breathing made until she fell asleep. It was late when I snuck out to the porch, and I could see the stars as they never show at home. I walked right past Great-grandpa without looking at him and sat on the second porch step. Settled on the stair, I heard his voice, slow utterances to soothe a spooked animal or child.
"Grass under my head, the hoof of the white horse beside me. When I was a boy, dry grass at my feet. A cool creek hidden. Grass in my hands at the horse's muzzle, water on my lips. At home the brown smell of baking, and prairie wind in through the window. In the evenings, grass under my head."
His voice opened mine. With my back to him I told him something secret. And I knew by the way his breathing quieted while I spoke that he was listening, and had heard.
"You never knew that, did you," I said and stood up, slipped back in through the screen door quieter than hair slips from a head.
I followed Grandma out to the barn in the morning. We fed Old Bruce, the only horse she still kept. Old Bruce was an Appaloosa with long lashes. There were hollows above his eyes and he liked to lean his forehead against ours. I stood there, in the dusty air, my forehead against the wide bone of his face, and we breathed into each other's noses. Great-grandpa had taught me to do that when I was small. "Let him learn your smell," he'd said, and I'd stepped up onto the first rung of the fence to reach him. Old Bruce had smelled of chewed grass. I smelled of apples and bread. "He knows you now," he'd said. After that I began to crawl onto Great-grandpa's lap in the evenings to learn his smell, my white, freckled forehead against his dark one. Soon I grew too old for this. I became aware of what this sort of intimacy means between others. I stopped, though I didn't want to, and settled for breathing into Old Bruce.
"Great-grandpa's not sleeping," I told Grandma. "I looked in on him last night."
Old Bruce let out a deep huff, and Grandma thumped a Bible against her thigh. She'd taken to carrying it since Great-grandpa moved out to the porch. We let Old Bruce into the corral to stretch his legs, and headed back to the house. We didn't know what to do. Great-grandpa was taking up all the space with his stillness. His resolution was inescapable; it spread into the house and yard as completely as grass spread over the prairie.


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Student Essay Contest
Deadline 04 May 2015
All entrants receive a complimentary 1-year membership in the Progressive Economics Forum.
➢ Open to all Canadian students, studying in Canada and abroad, as well as international students presently studying in Canada.
➢ The definition of "student" encompasses full time as well as part time students
➢ Students eligible for the 2015 competition must have been/be enrolled in a post-secondary educational institution at some point during the period of May 2014 – May 2015
There are two levels of competition
➢ One for undergraduates
➢ One for graduates*
*Note: Those who have previously completed an undergraduate degree or graduate degree, and are returning to do a second undergraduate degree will only be considered for the graduate student competition. The same holds for student who spend part of the academic in a graduate program.
➢ Entries may be on any subject related to political economy, economic theory or an economic policy issue, which best reflects a critical approach to the functioning, efficiency, social and environmental consequences of unconstrained markets.
Eligible entries will be…
➢ …sent by email at the latest on May 04, 2015, to:
➢ …the only submission by the author(s) (i.e., one submission per person)
➢ …between 20-40 pages in length, and typed in 12-point font, double spaced
➢ …referenced to academic standards (including any data)
➢ …written in either English or French
➢ …original, single-authored essays that do not infringe upon the rights of any third parties
➢ …accepted on re-submission once
➢ …accompanied by a signed scanned file of the completed PEF Essay Contest Submission Form.
Entrants consent to having the Progressive Economic Forum publish essays from winners and those receiving honourable mention. Each applicant will submit a valid email and postal address for correspondence.
➢ A panel of judges selected and approved by the Progressive Economic Forum will judge entries.
➢ Entries will be judged according to the following criteria: substance and originality, writing style, composition, and organization.
➢ The Progressive Economic Forum reserves the right not to award a prize or any prizes where submissions do not meet contest standards or criteria.
➢ The winning essays will be announced at the Annual General Meeting of the PEF.
➢ A cash prize of $1,000 will be awarded the winner of the graduate competition; and $500 will be awarded to the winner of the undergraduate competition.
➢ The winning essays will be published on the PEF website.
➢ Judges' decisions are final.
Please help us get the word out! Download a poster here. Contest submission form here.
2014 Essay Contest Results
The undergraduate prize goes to Alex Wind (UBC). "The National Child Benefit: An Examination of the First Fifteen Years of Canada's Refundable Tax Credit for Low-Income Families with Children" evaluates the National Child Benefit, identifies some of its recent failings, and suggests a specific policy augmentation to remedy these, on the basis of a analysis of statistical data.
The Panel decided to award an 'Honorable Mention' to Andrew Lovsin (Laurentian U). His essay, "Was the Keynesian Revolution Truly Keynesian?" evaluates that very question in light of the historical record of how Keynesian ideas were synthesized, and concludes that, despite a significant impact on the profession and the world, Keynes and his closest followers failed to establish a revolution.
The graduate prize goes to Matt Wilder (University of Toronto), for his essay "Internationalization and Variable Confluence in State-Assisted Economic Sectors: Lessons from Canada's Experience Under Free Trade". This paper examines the disjointed patterns of government retrenchment from different sectors of the Canadian economy as a result of international free trade agreements. The essay covers a wide range of literature and debates, and uses a mix of qualitative and some very sophisticated quantitative evidence to make the inferences about government involvement in the economy in light of various globalization pressures. Wilder finds that while governments abandoned many industrial policy practices following the implementation of free trade agreements, they gradually came to re-engage and navigate an interventionist policy stance in other ways.
The panel decided to give Duncan Farthing-Nichol's (Harvard Law School) essay an Honorable Mention. "Measure Twice, Cut Once: Assessing Labour Availability in Post-Recession Alberta" is an analysis of labour shortages in Alberta which critiques the reliability of business-owner (e.g. CFIB) derived data and makes use of CANSIM data to identify real labour shortages and the prescribes policy remedies.
The 2014 essay contest was coordinated by Mathieu Dufour, and judges included Scott Aquanno, Jordan Brennan, and Kevin Young.
Graduate Winner of $1,000: Jamie Moeller, Carleton University, "Alternative Options for a Broken Dental Care System in Canada"
Graduate Honourable Mentions:
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, Carleton University, "Theorizing the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement"
John Vogan, York University, "Cold Rush: Arctic Offshore Oil Development in Canada"
Undergraduate Winner of $500: Collyn Lovelace, Yukon College (University of Regina distance education), "Obstacle to a Safe Exit: Domestic Violence & The Whitehorse Housing Crisis"
Undergraduate Honourable Mention: Tim Yu, University of Alberta, "The Significance of the U.S.-Mexican Remittance Corridor: Bilateral Challenges and Opportunities in Mexico and the United States"
Winners were chosen by the following panel:
- Mike Bradfield, Economics Professor, Dalhousie University
- Mathieu Dufour, Economics Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
- Christine Saulnier, Executive Director, Nova Scotia Office, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Graduate Winner of $1,000: Jordan Brennan, York University, "Differential Accumulation, Redistribution, and the Rebounding Fortunes of the Canadian Establishment"
Graduate Honourable Mentions:
Matt Pelling, Simon Fraser University, "Failures in Forecasting: An Analysis of Assessment and Expectations 27 Years After the MacDonald Commission Report"
Geoff Schneider, University of Manitoba, "Sustainable Policy Options for a Canadian Universal Pharmacare Program"
Undergraduate Winner of $500: Vanessa Knight, York University, "A Fair Return on Non-Renewable Resources: Mandating Reforms for Equitable Distribution"
Undergraduate Honourable Mention: Teresa Looy, The King's University College (Edmonton), "Economic solutions to urban sprawl through internalizing externalities"
Winners were chosen by the following panel:
- Dr. Brian MacLean, Acting Chair and Full Professor, Department of Economics, Laurentian University
– Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star columnist
– Dr. Kevin Young, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
Graduate Winner of $1,000: Jordan Brennan, York University, "Has Free Trade Fulfilled its Promise in Canada? Contesting a "Sacred Tenet" of Globalization Theory"
Graduate Honourable Mention: Rosita Yi Ki Kwan, Dalhousie University, "Alberta Welfare Reform and Employment Outcomes of Welfare Recipients"
Undergraduate Winner of $500: Yilang (Kent) Feng, University of Manitoba, "The Subtle Transformation of Contemporary China – A Study of Chinese Political Economy in the Post-Crisis World"
Undergraduate Honourable Mentions:
Gregory W. Johnsen, Carleton University, "Balancing act: Negotiating global needs and national sovereignty under the Bretton Woods regime"
Laura Husak, University of Manitoba, "The Food Crisis in Context: More than a Problem of Speculation"
Winners were chosen by a panel from the University of Manitoba: Ian Hudson, Fletcher Barager and Robert Chernomas.
Graduate Winner of $1,000: Richard Pereira, Athabasca University, "Economic security in the twenty-first century – Guaranteed Annual Income: An ecological, democratic, justice and food security imperative" (French version here)
Graduate Honourable Mentions:
Richard Togman, Carleton University, "The Russian financial crisis of 1998: How uncontrolled markets and a weak government led to the collapse of a nation"
Thomas Mastoras, Osgoode Hall Law School, "Comity in international political economy: The benefits of trade legalization"
Undergraduate Winner of $500: Rob Konkel, University of Saskatchewan, "Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Alternative formulations and integrated intervention strategies"
Undergraduate Honourable Mentions:
Jan Sporina, University of Calgary. "Economic prosperity in developing countries: A necessary or a sufficient condition for democratization"
Benjamin Sawatzky, University of Manitoba, "Stable growth: An examination of the oft-overlooked link between political stability and growth, with special attention to the Kenyan experience"
Winners were chosen by Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia from the University of Ottawa.
Graduate Winner of $1,000: Ryan Katz-Rosene, Carleton University, "Tar Sands or Tarred Sense: The Political Economy of Environmentalist Thought"
Graduate Honourable Mention: Salimah Valiani, Carleton University, "Temporary Migration and the Global Integration of Nursing Labour Markets–the US American Instance"
Undergraduate Winner of $500: Derek Carnegie, University of Toronto, "SARB Monetary Policy and South African Financialization"
Undergraduate Honourable Mention: Kellina Higgins, Quest University, "An Economic Proposal to Decrease Agriculture's Impact on the Environment"
Graduate Winner of $1,000: "Healing a Crisis of Overaccumulation: How Canada's Public Health Care System is Being Undermined through Accumulation by Disposession" by Heather Whiteside (Simon Fraser University)
Graduate Honourable Mention: "Swedish Child Care and Parental Support Programs – A Defense" by Adrian Scotchmer (written while at Queen's in the MPA program; now at Osgoode Hall, York University in the LLB)
Undergraduate Winners of $250 each:
"In Pursuit of Sustenance: The Search for Food Security in the 21st Century" by James Barclay Frey (University of Manitoba)
"Ensuring Equality: Guaranteed Annual Income and Democratic Legitimacy" by Evan Rosevear (York University)
Graduate Winner of $1,000: XinYing Hu, Simon Fraser University, "The Rise of Precarious Work for Women in Countries as Different as China and Canada"
Undergraduate Winner of $500: Nick Falvo, York University, "Alternative Approaches to Addressing the Lack of Affordable Housing in Canada"
Undergraduate Honourable Mention: Peter Steele-Mosey, University of Guelph, "Arresting the downward trend in the earnings of new immigrants to Canada. An analysis of the problem, and a prescription for policy"
Undergraduate Winner of $500:
"Should the Central Bank be Independent?" by Zacharie Liman-Tinguiri, University of Ottawa
Graduate Winner of $1000:
"Globalization, Corporatization and the Organic Philosophy: Social Sustainability in Question" by Lisa F. Clark, Simon Fraser University
Graduate Honourable Mentions:
"Getting to the Source of Water Scarcity in Alberta" by Jeremy Schmidt, McGill University
"The General Agreement on Trade in Services and Canadian Federalism: A Threat to Public Education?" by Jennifer Keefe, Simon Fraser University
Winners were chosen by a three-person panel: Marc Lee (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-BC); Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers Union); and Fletcher Baragar (University of Manitoba)
Undergraduate Winners of $250 each:
"A Case for Government Owned and Operated Film Theatres in Canada" by Amy Graham, Brock University
"Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of War" by Bruce Guenther, University of Winnipeg
Graduate Winners of $500 each:
"The New Consensus in Monetary Policy: What Role for Post-Keynesian Theory?" by Marcel Turcot, Carleton University
"Lies, Damned Lies, and Trade Statistics: The Import Content of Canadian Exports" by Erin Weir, Queen's University
Winners were chosen by a three-person panel: Rhonda Kimberley-Young (President of the Ontario Secondary Teachers' Federation); Arthur Donner (President of Arthur Donner Consultants); and Hugh Mackenzie
Undergraduate Winner of $500: "The deregulation of the telecommunications industry" by Erin Wilson, Concordia University
Graduate Winner of $1000: "Pressure from without, subversion from within: the two-pronged German offensive" by Daniel Kinderman, Cornell University
Winners were chosen by a three-person panel: Ronald J. Bodkin (distinguished retired Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa); Bruce Campbell (Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives); Morris Miller (Adjunct Professor, School of Management, University of Ottawa; and former Executive Director, World Bank)
Undergraduate Winner of $500: "An Economic Story: Analysis of Howard J. Sherman's Nutcracker Theory of Profit Squeeze and Its Ties to Post- Keynesian Economics" by Brandon Schaufele, University of Ottawa
Graduate Winner of $1000: "What Happened to Home Economics?: An Essay on Households, the Economy and the Environment" by Catherine Leviten-Reid, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Winners were chosen by a three-person panel: Cy Gonick, (Editor, Canadian Dimension); Anna Rothney (Economist, Community Economic Development, Manitoba); Todd Scarth (Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba)
Undergraduate Winner of $500: "Economics, Ideology, and Elections: The Political Economy of Saskatchewan Oil Royalties in the 1980s and 1990s" by Erin Weir, University of Regina [Diagrams that accompany the paper are available as a separate PDF file here]
Winner was chosen by a three-person panel: Marjorie Cohen (Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University); Michael Liebowitz (Economics Professor, Simon Fraser University); Gideon Rosenbluth (Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia, and past president of the Canadian Economics Association).
Undergraduate Winner of $500:
"The Free Market Fails Children: A Discussion of Market Failure and Possible Correctives for the Canadian Child Care System" by Daniel Rosen, McGill University
Undergraduate Honorable Mention:
"NEP to FTA: The Political Economy of Canadian Petroleum Policy in the 1980s" by Erin Weir, University of Regina
Graduate Winners of $500 each:
"The Janus-faced Nature of Working-time Reduction: Between Rationalization Whip and Instrument for Social Justice" by Daniel Kinderman, York University
"Living in the Age of Exclusion: The Impact of Corporate Globalization on Rural Communities" by Jennifer Sumner, University of Guelph
Winners were chosen by a three-person panel: David Foot (author of the best-selling Boom, Bust and Echo and Professor of Economics, University of Toronto); Thomas Walkom (economist and columnist with the Toronto Star); Barbara Cameron (professor of women's studies at York University).
"It Happened but not Again: A Minskian Analysis of Japan's Lost Decade" by Marc-Andre Pigeon, New School University
Honourable mentions:
"Building a New Strategy for the Left Around Capital Controls" by Richard Lennon, York University
"Driving International Environmental Co-operation: The Role of Incentives in the Creation of the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols" by Michael Lisowski, University of Toronto
"Challenging the Corporate Law Tradition: A Socialist Feminist Critique" by Veronica Wylie, Osgoode Hall Law School
Winners were chosen by Mel Watkins (Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Toronto); Linda McQuaig (author and columnist); Sam Gindin (former Research Director of the Canadian Auto Workers)


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Igor The Game
PlatformsNintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Windows
StylesCartoon, Fantasy
PlayersInternet, Local Wi-Fi
Developer(s)Legacy Interactive
Publisher(s)Legacy Interactive, SouthPeak Interactive
Web Sitehttp://www.IgorGame.com
Estimated Release DateSeptember 2008
DescriptionIgor The Game is based on the highly anticipated animated movie created by Exodus Film Group in cooperation with The Weinstein Company. Igor lures players through Malaria, a world where mad scientists create dubious inventions to compete in the annual Evil Science Fair.
Igor, the movie, follows a hunchbacked lab assistant named Igor (voiced by John Cusack) forced to serve a mad scientist while dreaming of one day becoming a notorious mad scientist himself and winning the Evil Science Fair. Other stars contributing their voice talents to the film are Molly Shannon (as Eva), Steve Buscemi (as Scamper), Sean Hayes (as Brain) and Eddie Izzard (as the maniacal Dr. Schadenfreude).
In the Wii and PC versions of the game, players have the ability to choose one of the main characters (Igor, Eva, Scamper or Brain) and play either simultaneously or cooperatively with up to four people. Theyll be challenged to play within locales from the film, fight enemies and achieve goals that advance them through the storyline.
The Nintendo DS version utilizes the stylus to perform movement combinations, combat enemies and solve puzzles. Players can custom build their own monsters to take on puzzle challenges and battle against other mad scientists.
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The 1099-K form was introduced in 2011. The IRS will be strict about accurate reporting on 2012 forms. Outright.com
If you're a small business that makes much of your revenue through online payments, then you should have all of your 1099-K tax forms by the end of today.
This little tax gem was introduced in 2011 and is issued by third-party payment processors like Amazon, PayPal and Square to businesses that have made more than $20,000 from 200 or more online transactions.
When Uncle Sam started seeing a huge rise in electronic payments, third-party payment companies were required to inform the government: "This is how much revenue we generated," said Steven Aldrich, chief executive officer of Outright, which is owned by Go Daddy.
"It is meant to close the perceived revenue gap for businesses," he said.
So why is it so important for small businesses to report accurate numbers?
"Last year the IRS said they would not use the 1099-K forms in reviewing small businesses' tax returns. But this year, they have said they will," Aldrich said.
The form can be deceptively simple: All you have to state your gross sales number. But Aldrich said that's where it can get complicated. Many business owners think they can refer to the total amount of money deposited into their bank accounts for each transaction, but that number is inaccurate, Aldrich said. There are fees, sales taxes and other adjustments that are made before the total amount from a transaction is deposited into an account.
This is where Aldrich pitches his company Outright as the answer. If you do decide to do your 1099 by hand though, Aldrich has offered some free tips on Outright's blog here.
Anika Anand is a freelance business journalist who recently graduated from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Follow her on Twitter at @anikaanand00.
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Mobile recycling could get you the iPad
28 May 2010 — 8:16 PM
Mobile recycling may be an option that consumers wish to consider to get the hands on the Apple iPad.
The new device has been launched in the UK today (May 28th) and might tempt people looking for a way to access the internet on a portable device.
Very high demand caused a postponement of the iPad's original end of April launch date.
Recent findings from TNS Research suggested 27 per cent of Londoners surveyed stated they intend to buy one.
John Tearle, a research consultant in the technology division at the company, said: "I think primarily it could be used for internet. A lot of interest is for that. While things like smartphones and iPhones have internet with touchable screens, it's not quite the same experience."
He added the internet capability and large screen of the iPad seem to be the features that are attracting the most interest from consumers.
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David's Cookies Mango Cheesecake 2-pack
Item #689951
Due to the perishable nature of this item, orders will only ship Monday - Wednesday for Wednesday - Friday delivery.
We've taken our creamy New York Cheesecake and infused it with mango puree. This tantalizing cheesecake with the taste of cool, smooth mango will have your taste buds quivering. If you close your eyes you will feel like you are on a tropical vacation.
It is the perfect mix of mango and cheesecake flavor. Each 10" Cheesecake will serve 14 people.
- Mango Cheesecake 2- pack
- Can be refrigerated for up to five days or kept frozen for up to 6 months
- Each cheesecake serves approximately 14 people
- 28 slices total
- Diameter: 10" each
- Weight: Approximately 3 lbs. each
- Kosher OU-D certified
- Made in the USA
If not being consumed immediately upon arrival, cakes should be placed in freezer. Allow two hours for cakes to thaw prior to serving. The dessert will arrive at least partially frozen and can be refrozen in its original packaging for up to 6 months or stored in a refrigerator for at least 2 to 3 days.
Brand: David's Cookies
Case Count: 28
Standard shipping via UPS 2nd Day Air is included in the quoted price. The estimated delivery time will be approximately 3 - 5 business days from the time of order.
Delivery is not available on National Holidays.
Delivery is not available to Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii.
Costco.com products can be returned to any of our more than 600 Costco warehouses worldwide.
How to Return: For an immediate refund (including shipping and handling), simply return your purchase at any one of our Costco warehouses worldwide. If you are unable to return your order at one of our warehouses, please email customer service or call our customer service center at 1-800-955-2292 for assistance. To expedite the processing of your return, please reference your order number.
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The Resort at Fisher Island Club Rating: 5.0 Pearls
Built in 1925 as William Vanderbilt II's winter estate, Fisher Island feels like it's from another era: Peacocks roam the property and tuxedo-clad waiters know residents by name. In hip, glitzy Miami, Fisher Island is a welcome taste of old-world romance, and its location on the private 216-acre Fisher Island is as secluded as it gets. It doesn't have the high-design rooms or gourmet restaurants that you'll find in Miami's other luxury hotels, but it compensates with its history and charm. Honeymooners should opt for the 675-square-foot courtyard gardenview villas, which are located in the beautiful garden at the resort's entrance and have private terraces with their own Jacuzzis.
The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami Rating: 4.5 Pearls
The Regent Bal Harbour has Miami's sexiest bathrooms, with freestanding tubs next to floor-to-ceiling windows and walk-in showers that fit two. Body polishes in couples treatment rooms at the world-class Guerlain Spa will leave skin silky smooth for cuddling, and the large terraces off of the ultraluxe suites (many with stunning ocean views) are the perfect place for honeymooners to enjoy their morning coffee. If you can manage to leave the lavish rooms, you can buy what you didn't get off of the wedding registry right across the street at one of the country's best malls.
The Setai Miami Beach Rating: 5.0 Pearls
The Setai's dark, mood-lit design, black granite soaking tubs in the bedroom, and phenomenal, discreet service make it one of the sexiest hotels in Miami -- and a great honeymoon splurge. Plus, the hotel's astonishingly quiet shore is better suited for a romantic rendezvous in the waves than anywhere else in South Beach.
W South Beach Rating: 5.0 Pearls
The W South Beach's style and luxury compares to that of the Setai, but the price is (slightly) less painful. The terraces off of every room (Miami's best) all have stunning views of the ocean; at the pool, and mellow music and lush, Mediterranean-inspired landscaping create an atmosphere of serenity.
Biltmore Coral Gables - Miami Rating: 4.0 Pearls
A national landmark that dates to 1926, the Biltmore offers grand, old-fashioned romance -- from the painted, veil-draped headboards in the rooms to the fancy, candle-lit dinners under the stars to the dramatic, white-pillared lobby. The famous afternoon tea transports guests to a time when lace gloves and finger sandwiches were the norm. Before you know it, you'll feel like the leading couple in a black-and-white film, and the staff will help the fantasy along by treating you like movie stars.
Mayfair Hotel & Spa Rating: 4.0 Pearls
Even if the exotic honeymoon to South America wasn't in the budget, you can still get a steamy tropical experience at the affordable Mayfair Hotel and Spa: Bamboo, waterfalls and embedded ivy make it feel like an ancient jungle civilization. The outdoor spa tubs in every room are spectacular, and a latticed garden area creates shade and privacy. If you decide to venture out of the erotically dark rooms, couples treatments area available at the peaceful Jurlique Spa, and the cute shops of the charming, historical Coconut Grove are within walking distance.
Hotel Victor Rating: 4.0 Pearls
Everything about the Hotel Victor is sexy, from its famous coed clothing-optional hammam to sultry rooms that feel like a sultan's tents to the deep soaking tubs in marbled bathrooms. Your honeymoon is guaranteed to be, well, steamy.
The Standard Miami Rating: 4.0 Pearls
The Standard is like a sexed-up yoga retreat: It's blisfully remote, relaxing, and has a focus on wellness with its daily yoga and meditation programs -- but it also has body painting by the pool and a coed sauna. Honeymooners can swim in the ectoplasm glow of the saltwater pool or get up close and personal in the waterfall hot tub at any hour of the night, and then head back to suggestively named rooms (the Missionary or the Full Spread). Guests staying in the "wet" rooms get their own private soaking tub on an outdoor terrace.
The Tides South Beach Rating: 4.5 Pearls
The Tides' bright, opulent, oceanfront suites are very popular with honeymooners, and specacular service -- complete with private designated assistants -- means that newlyweds never have to lift a finger. Party noise in the rooms from the thumping Ocean Drive isn't very restful, but you probably won't be sleeping much anyway, right?
Carillon Hotel & Spa Rating: 4.5 Pearls
The first-rate Wellness Spa (with complimentary thermal baths) and gorgeous gym (with dozens of free classes daily) make this a solid honeymoon options for fitness-minded newlyweds. The beachfront location and large, exquisitely decorated rooms with Jacuzzi tubs and decadent, pillow-topped mattresses will appeal to all honeymooners, though -- fitness-minded or not.


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The IJssel was the lower part of the small river Oude IJssel (lit. "Old IJssel", German Issel), that rises in Germany and is now a 70 km long tributary of the IJssel. The connection between Rhine and IJssel was probably artificial, allegedly dug by men under the Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus as a defence against Germanic tribes and to let Roman ships carry troops along it. The current Oude IJssel is the second-largest contributor to the flow of the river until today, after river Rhine.
The source of the Oude IJssel is near Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. First it flows south-west until it nearly reaches the Rhine near Wesel; then it turns north-west. After passing through Isselburg it crosses the border with the Netherlands. The river, called Oude IJssel from here, then flows through Doetinchem and joins the IJssel at Doesburg.
As a lowlands river, the IJssel has a lot of bends and naturally occurring dead branches (locally called "hank"); some bends have been cut off by man (most notably near Rheden and Doesburg), reducing the river's length from 146 km to 125 km, but not nearly as radically as with river Meuse. The naturally occurring phenomenon of sedimental island-forming in the outside of bends has been regulated to the point of non-occurrence since the late nineteenth century.
Only in the last few miles of the river's run, near the city of Kampen, distributaries form, resulting in the relatively minor IJssel delta. Some of the branches have been dammed up to lower the risk of flooding; others have silted up. Several of the delta branches are, however, still connected without interruption. Most of the damming-up was done prior to 1932, when the Zuiderzee was turned into the freshwater IJsselmeer lake. The area had been prone to flooding in times of northwestern gales, pushing back the saline Zuiderzee water into the IJssel delta and preventing the water flowing from the mouths of the IJssel branches from discharging into the Zuiderzee.
The modern-day names of the delta branches are, west to east, Keteldiep, Kattendiep, Noorddiep, Ganzendiep and Goot. Of these, the Keteldiep and Kattendiep channels are the main navigational arteries; the Noorddiep has been closed off at both sides. Another branch, De Garste, had already completely silted up by the middle of the nineteenth century. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Ganzendiep branch up to the Goot fork was known as IJssel proper due to it being the historical main channel, with the present-day main channel being called Regtediep or Rechterdiep until well into the twentieth century.
The IJssel, although now technically "merely" a Rhine branch, has retained most of the character of a distinct river in its own right, in no small part due to the fact that it has its own tributaries and, in river Oude IJssel, even a former headstream.


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The 50 greatest cars of the past 20 years
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10. 2010 Lexus LFA
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"Expensive, over-specified and looks like an evil transformer. The greatest Japanese car? Maybe."
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A possible Microsoft Employee says that Kinect might be buggy when several people are near the device sensor and also said that it is not a Wii killer at all.Read More
Counter Strike: Source has received a facelift from Valve. With 144 new Steam achievements, Steam Play and an upgrade to the Source 2009 engine, Counter Strike: Source will be competing with CoD: Modern Warfare 2 and BFBC2 and other similar action FPS games.Read More
Users can download the Medal of Honor Beta Client for PC at Filefront. Medal of Honor Beta kicks off on June 21st, but PC users can download the game and start playing today.Read More
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Watch Sony E3 2010 Press Conference online live. Sony will be holding a press conference at 12PM PT / 3PM ET on June 15 at E3 2010. You can watch the Sony Press Conference at E3 2010 Live.Read More
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Microsoft Kinect price has been leaked. GameStop has Microsoft Kinect for pre-orders and Kinect will cost $149. Kinect Elite Bundle is priced at $399 with Kinect Arcade Bundle priced at $299.Read More
A 30 minute hands-on video and an early look at is PlayStation Move.Read More
New trailers and videos for Microsoft Kinect and Kinect enabled games like Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports and Dance Central.Read More
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Microsoft's Project Natal will officially be known as Microsoft Kinect. The add-on for Xbox 360 will be called Microsoft Kinect and will be revealed later today.Read More
Polish developer CD Projekt RED have never been on the side of DRM. With a new statement on how customer-bonding and service, and not DRM is what will attract people to non-pirated gaming is doing the rounds from the email cells of CD Projekt. And this, is a very good thing.Read More
Impulse has put up a great spring-ish sale on till Sunday. Buy some great games such as Galactic Civilizations II Ultimate and Sins of a Solar Empire for $9.99 only!Read More


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'Heavenly book' ponders mysteries of afterlife
Is there life after death? Who gets past the pearly gates? These are questions that many ponder, whether they are affiliated with a particular religion or not. Dr. Leslie Baynes, associate professor of religious studies at Missouri State University, recently published a book entitled "The Heavenly Book Motif in Judeo-Christian Apocalypses 200 BCE-200 CE." In it, she explores the idea of the "heavenly book," particularly in apocalyptic writings.
"The heavenly book is an ancient literary motif that could be compared to Santa Claus' list of who is naughty and who is nice," explained Baynes. "It is kept as a record in heaven for God and the angels to access when it comes time for judgment."
Apocalypse, noted Baynes, is synonymous with a revelation or a lifting of the veil. In religious texts, apocalypses often entail visions of God's plans or the end of days.
Approximately 92 percent of Americans believe in God, according to a 2011 Gallup poll, and 74 percent of Americans believe in heaven, according to a 2007 Pew Research study.
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We project South Korean consumer electronics spending will grow by about 4.7% in US dollar terms, from US$13.3bn in 2012, to US$14.0bn in 2013, with a moderation in consumer demand expected.
The Korean consumer electronics market is forecast to grow in 2013, despite the mixed trading environment due to high household debt levels. In future, the maturity of many market segments means growth will be driven to a large extent by product innovation, such as new models of smartphones, touchscreen handsets, as well as emerging technologies such as OLED and ultra-HD TV sets. The roll-out of digital TV broadcasting ahead of analogue switch-off in 2013 will help support sales of premium TV sets.
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The Global Partnership for Oceans was launched in 2012 as a new approach to restoring ocean health. It sought to mobilize finance and knowledge to activate proven solutions for the benefit of communities, countries and global well-being.
The GPO had over 150 partners representing governments, international organizations, civil society groups, and private sector interests committed to addressing the threats to the health, productivity and resilience of the ocean.
The Partnership aimed to tackle documented problems of overfishing, pollution, and habitat loss. Together these problems are contributing to the depletion of a natural resource bank that provides nutrition, livelihoods and vital ecosystem services.
The Partnership worked toward meeting the following interrelated objectives by 2022 as stated in the Declaration for Healthy Productive Oceans to Help Reduce Poverty.
Sustainable seafood and livelihoods from capture fisheries and aquaculture
In line with previous internationally agreed commitments* and taking into consideration growing impacts of climate change:
- Significantly increase global food fish production from both sustainable aquaculture and sustainable fisheries by adopting best practices and reducing environmental and disease risk to stimulate investment;
- Reduce the open access nature of fisheries by creating responsible tenure arrangements, including secure access rights for fishers and incentives for them to hold a stake in the health of the fisheries; and
- Enable the world's overfished stocks to be rebuilt and increase the annual net benefits of capture fisheries by at least $20 billion, including through reducing subsidies that promote overfishing.
Critical coastal and ocean habitats and biodiversity
In line with previous internationally agreed targets and to address the growing impacts of climate change:
- Halve the current rate of natural habitat loss and reduce habitat degradation and fragmentation, by applying ecosystem-based approaches to management;
- Increase marine managed and protected areas, and other effective area-based conservation measures, to include at least 10% of coastal and marine areas; and
- Conserve and restore natural coastal habitats to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change impacts.
Pollution reduction
In line with previous internationally agreed commitments and taking into consideration the growing impacts of climate change:
- Reduce pollution to levels not detrimental to ecosystem function and biodiversity; and
- Support implementation of the Global Program of Action to reduce pollution, particularly from marine litter, waste water and excess nutrients, and further develop consensus for achievable goals to reduce these pollutants.
*Note: The previously agreed international commitments and targets referenced in this Declaration include those made in Rio in 1992 in Agenda 21, and subsequently at Johannesburg in 2002 and in the Aichi Biodiversity Targets in Nagoya in 2010.
Partners of the Global Partnership for Oceans represented a diversity of stakeholders committed to addressing the threats to the ocean that hinder growth, poverty reduction and food security. All partners formally agreed to the Declaration for Healthy Productive Oceans to Help Reduce Poverty. Please refer here for a full list of GPO partners.
Key Documents
- A Declaration for Healthy, Productive Oceans to Help Reduce Poverty - English, French (pdfs)
- Framework Document (text only pdf)
- Synthesis of the Framework Document (pdf)
- Indispensable Ocean, a report of the Blue Ribbon Panel (full report pdf)
- Oceans: Our Living Resource (Infographic)
- Logo Use Guidelines (pdf)
- Postcard (pdf)
GPO Interim Working Group
The GPO Interim Working Group (IWG) was an advisory group made up of 30 participants drawn from a representative group of GPO partner organizations. The working group guided the design phase of the GPO and lent expertise to the framework document that dictates how and where the GPO will work. For biographies of the members and minutes from meetings, please click here.
Blue Ribbon Panel
The Blue Ribbon Panel was comprised of leaders from 16 countries, representing government, the private sector, non-profit organizations, academia, and multi-lateral institutions. The Panel provided recommendations to the Global Partnership for Oceans on the principles and practices for prioritizing and implementing sustainable ocean investment. For biographies of the Panelists please click here. To see the complete findings and recommendations from the panel, please see their report: Indispensable Ocean: Aligning Ocean Health with Human Well-Being.
Habitat Community of Practice
The Habitat Community of Practice worked to further define actions and investment opportunities to achieve specific targets related to critical coastal and ocean habitats and biodiversity components described in the GPO draft framework. Follow updates here. Please direct any questions to Pawan Patil and Lynne Hale.