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Coming off its most lopsided victory in more than six years, the Princeton football team (1-2) will look to keep moving forward Saturday when it heads to Easton, Pa., to take on the Lafayette Leopards (3-1).
This is the final non-league game of the season for Princeton, which has won five straight over Lafayette, including a dramatic 36-33 double-overtime victory in 2010. The Tigers are looking to string together back-to-back wins for the first time since the final two games of the 2009 season.
Lafayette averaged only three wins per season over the prior two years, but the 2012 Leopards have already matched that total. Lafayette won its first three games this season, including a 28-21 home win over Penn, but it lost a last-second 31-28 road game at Robert Morris last weekend.
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All-Time Series: Princeton 38-4-3
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Last At Site: Princeton 20, LAFAYETTE 14 (2007)
Last Five Years: Princeton 2-0
Last Princeton Win: PRINCETON 33, Lafayette 30 (2010)
Current Streak: Princeton 5
Princeton goes into Saturday's game coming off its first win of the season, a 33-6 road win at Columbia in the 2012 Ivy League opener. The victory ended a nine-game losing streak overall and an 11-game losing streak on the road.
Five Alive
Princeton has won five straight games in this series, including two at Fisher Stadium. Over that span of games, the Tigers have averaged 28 points per game. Princeton's last win at Fisher Stadium was a 20-14 win in Week 2 of the 2007 season; that game was the last time Princeton defeated a nationally ranked program.
The last meeting between these two teams was a memorable 36-33 overtime win for the Tigers at Princeton Stadium during Week 2 of the 2010 season. The win, the first for current head coach Bob Surace, was clinched by an overtime touchdown run by Jordan Culbreath; the senior back, who rushed more than 1,200 yards as a junior (2008), had missed the 2009 season after being diagnosed with aplastic anemia.
Patriot Games
Princeton has lost five straight games to Patriot League opponents, as well as seven of its last eight games. This season, Princeton has lost close games to both Lehigh (17-14) and Georgetown (21-20).
We're Honored
A pair of Princeton freshmen were honored at the league level this week, and one shared a national honor. Both Anthony Gaffney and Nolan Bieck earned individual Ivy League honors after Saturday's 33-6 victory over Columbia; Gaffney also shared the National Co-Freshman of the Week award.
Gaffney was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week after a dominant two-way effort on Kraft Field. He returned the opening kickoff for a 94-yard touchdown, and he followed up with the first two interceptions of his collegiate career.
Bieck was named the Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week after making four field goals and three extra points in the win over Columbia.
Fresh(man) Faces
The last two Princeton recruiting classes have dominated the Ivy League Rookie of the Week award. Dating back to last season, Tiger players have won eight of the last 13 Rookie weekly honors. Six of those went to 2010 Ivy League Rookie of the Year Chuck Dibilio, who had to miss this season after suffering a stroke during January.
Twenty spots on the Princeton two-deep are held by underclassmen, including leading rusher Di Andre Atwater (freshman) and QBs Connor Michelsen and Quinn Epperly (sophomores).
Getting Defensive
The Princeton defense kept Columbia out of the end zone last weekend; that was the first time Princeton had achieved that feat in the span of 59 games, dating back to a 17-3 home win over Brown during the 2006 Ivy League championship season.
The combination of strong defensive play and scoring helped
Princeton to a 27-point win; that was the Tigers' largest margin of victory since a 30-0 win at Dartmouth in the 2005 season finale.
Secondary To None
After allowing 2.4 touchdown passes per game last season, the Tigers have yet to allow a single touchdown completion this season. According to the NCAA, Princeton is the only Division I program (FBS or FCS) that has not allowed a touchdown pass this season.
Princeton has rotated three cornerbacks mostly, and each is an underclassman. Sophomore Khamal Brown has started 12 straight games at cornerback, while freshman Anthony Gaffney has started all three games this season and recorded two interceptions last weekend. Fellow freshman Matt Arends has rotated in at the cornerback position each game, while sophomore Mike Zeuli has seen significant time at the nickel back position.
Quarterly Report
Last season, Princeton was outscored 83-37 during the fourth quarter of its 10 games. This season, Princeton has outscored its opponents 33-3, including 13-0 last weekend.
In No Rush
Princeton held Columbia to -28 rushing yards in the second half last weekend.
Conversion Chart
Princeton limited Columbia to three conversions on 17 third-down attempts last weekend. For the season, Princeton opponents are converting third downs 33% of the time; last season, opponents converted on 41% of their opportunities.
Three's Company
Princeton is +23 in point differential over the first three weeks of the season. The last time Princeton has had a three-game stretch with a higher point differential was during Weeks 2-4 of the 2006 season, when Princeton was +26 against Lafayette, Columbia and Colgate.
Sack Exchange
Princeton has both the highest-ranked total defense and scoring defense in the Ivy League, and a key aspect of that has been the play up front. The Tigers are averaging three sacks per game, and have gotten two straight multiple-sack games from senior co-captain Mike Catapano. Both Catapano and fellow defensive lineman Caraun Reid, both of whom have received considerable interest from NFL scouts this season, were All-Ivy honorees last season; Reid led Princeton with eight sacks last season, while Catapano was second with five.
Tackling The Issue
Senior linebacker Andrew Starks led Princeton in tackles during both the 2010 and 2011 seasons, and he is well on his way to a third straight year as the top Tiger tackler. He currently leads the team and ranks second in the Ivy League with 31 tackles; he had a career-best 16 two weeks ago against Georgetown.
When In Roman
Junior wideout Roman Wilson has spent the majority of his first two seasons dealing with injuries, but he is showing his abilities early this season. Wilson leads Princeton with nine catches for 175 yards, more than twice as many receiving yards as any of his teammates, and he caught his first career touchdown pass for 44 yards last weekend at Columbia.
A Perfect Ten
Princeton had 10 players catch passes against Columbia last weekend, and none caught more than three. Six were wide receivers, two were running backs and two were tight ends.
Di Andre The Giant
Freshman running back Di Andre Atwater leads Princeton in rushing yardage per carry (5.1) and per game (71.5). After not getting a carry in the season opener at Lehigh, he rushed for 92 yards in the home opener against Georgetown, including a 53-yard touchdown run.
Double Trouble
Princeton threw for 224 passing yards last weekend, and it got more than 100 from each of its sophomore quarterbacks.
Connor Michelsen, who has started each game this season, completed 11 of 19 passes for 109 yards, while Quinn Epperly completed seven of 10 passes for 101 yards and a touchdown. Epperly is the only quarterback on the roster with a touchdown pass this season, though he only ranks second on the team in that category this season.
Up In SMoak
Princeton field goal holder Tom Moak was a two-year starting quarterback at The Westminster School in Atlanta, where he threw for more than 2500 yards and 29 touchdowns. Over the last two weeks, he has put that arm to good use.
Against both Georgetown and Columbia, Moak has turned wide field goal snaps into touchdown passes, including a 14-yard pass to Des Smith in the second quarter of the 33-6 victory over Columbia.
Moak, who has one touchdown catch in his career, currently has a quarterback efficiency rating of 530.80; for comparison's sake, West Virginia's Geno Smith (he of the eight touchdown passes last weekend) has a rating of 208.40.
Truly Special
Princeton has had a bevy of special teams highlights over the last two weeks. Included are:
• Nolan Bieck was successful on all seven kicks last weekend, including four field goals (34, 30, 29, 24). He is the first Princeton kicker to make that many field goals since the 2010 season opener.
• Senior Joe Cloud, a two-time All-Ivy League punter, ranks 12th nationally with a 43-yard punting average. He leads the Ivy League this season in 50+ punts (five) and punts inside the 20 (six), and he set a career long last weekend with a 68-yard punt.
• Anthony Gaffney leads the Ivy League in kickoff returns with a 29.4-yard average. He recorded a 94-yard kick return last weekend, Princeton's first since the 2010 season opener and only its third over the last 20 years.
• Princeton has turned wide field goal snaps over the last two games into touchdown passes from Tom Moak to Mark Hayes (Georgetown) and Des Smith (Columbia).
Head Of The Class
Senior Joe Cloud, a two-time All-Ivy League punter, has been named one of 147 national semifinalists for the 2012 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards. The 147 nominees also comprise the list of semifinalists for the 2012 William V. Campbell Trophy, endowed by HealthSouth, which recognizes an individual as the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation.
Cloud is one of only three Ivy League players who were named among the semifinalists. He joins Ross Walthall of Brown and Patrick Lahey of Dartmouth.
The Crystal Ball
Princeton returns to Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Sat., Oct. 13, for a noon showdown with Brown. That game will be televised live on the NBC Sports Network.
The Bears have won five straight in the series, including a 34-0 victory in Providence last year.
Lights, Camera, Action
Starting with the Brown game, Princeton will play four of five games that will be available to a national audience. After the Brown game on the NBC Sports Network, ESPN3 will carry both the Harvard and Penn games. The Yale game will be televised live on The YES Network.
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Rye Bread-Topped Reuben Casserole RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1 can (14 ounces) sauerkraut, rinsed and well drained
- 1 cup Thousand Island salad dressing
- 1 pound thinly sliced deli corned beef, cut into strips
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded Swiss cheese
- 4 to 6 slices rye bread, buttered
- In a large bowl, combine sauerkraut and salad dressing; spread into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Top with corned beef and cheese.
- Place bread, buttered side up, over top. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until heated through and bubbly. Yield: 4 servings.
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"I make a very similar casserole but I roast my corned beef and not use deli meat. Because of a family divide, half of the casserole is with 1,000 Island and half with Russian dressing, the REAL dressing for Reubens!"
"Please do not review a recipe you have not made! Even more importantly, please do not try to dictate to the rest of us what we should/should not eat!! "
"I think I would cube the buttered rye bread and put it on the top. One reviewer said she puts the bread on the bottom. Maybe on both top and bottom which will make it more like a sandwich. Thanks for the idea.I agree with the others who say don't review the recipe for health reasons. If it is not something you can eat, delete it!"
"This was so simple and Delicious! "
"I agree with Rufus55. Some of us have no health issues, exercise regularly and are in great shape. If you live by the 80/20 rule this dish is not unhealthy. You can use light rye bread, refuced fat cheese. I don't give a fig about sodium. I say go for it!!! I love Reubens and will try the recipe."


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Dill pickles add pizzazz to this old-fashioned chilled salad. The creamy, well-dressed side dish makes a flavorful and attractive addition to a Fourth of July picnic or church supper.—Nancy Holland, Morgan Hill, California
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- 3 pounds potatoes (about 8 medium)
- 6 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
- 3 celery ribs, chopped
- 6 green onions, chopped
- 2 medium dill pickles, finely chopped
- 1-1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup dill pickle juice
- 4-1/2 teaspoons prepared mustard
- 1 teaspoon celery seed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- Leaf lettuce, optional
- Place potatoes in a Dutch oven or large kettle and cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20-30 minutes or until tender. Drain and cool.
- Peel and cube potatoes; place in a large bowl. Add the eggs, celery, onions and pickles.
- In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, pickle juice, mustard, celery seed, salt and pepper. Pour over potato mixture; mix well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours. Serve in a lettuce-lined bowl if desired. Yield: 8-10 servings.
Originally published as Dill Pickle Potato Salad in Taste of Home June/July 2003, p35
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"The potato salad tasted ok but I think it was more work than what it was worth. I think store boughten potato salad has better flavor. I will probably check out another recipe in the future."
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"This is the best potato salad I ever made, and it is easy to prepare. We all love dill pickles, so this will be my go to recipe when I make potato salad ."
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A Hot Springs senator has proposed an increase in the tax that private timberland owners pay to help the financially troubled Arkansas Forestry Commission.
Republican Sen. Bill Sample filed legislation Monday that would increase the fire protection tax from 15 cents an acre to 20 cents an acre. The tax increase would be effective for assessment years beginning on and after 2013.
The proposal comes nearly a year after the commission's director resigned over questions about the commission's finances. The commission laid off 34 employees, although the state later announced plans to reinstate 15 firefighter positions it had cut.
Commission officials last year said raising the tax by a nickel could bring nearly $700,000 a year in additional money.
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Over the summer M&Ms came out with yet another limited edition flavor: Coconut. I was very excited by this news when it was announced during the All Candy Expo last May. It took some waiting, as they were expected to hit shelves in August. I waited to see when my local Wawa would carry them, but no such luck. I finally found them in a clearance pile in Target. There were only two medium-sized bags left, so I grabbed them both since I didn't know if and when I'd ever see them again.
The package is very cute. Showing Green looking crafty as she lounges on the beach. Yellow watches on as he falls out of a palm tree. I love how whimsical the M&M characters are on some of these packages.
The M&Ms come in three colors: white, brown, and green. Some have tropical icons on them of flowers, sunshine, palm trees.
I find odd is that they don't smell of coconut to me. Just sweet.
The center is all chocolate, like a plain M&M. I was sad as I would have loved a coconut center, or at least some flakes in there. The flavor is very coconutty, you recognize immediately when you eat one that it isn't plain chocolate. It's a nice coconut flavor that appears once you've crunched down on the shell and you get that initial wave of chocolate taste. It's an authentic coconut flavor, which I'm very happy with. I was skeptical since "flavored" coconut candies tend to taste of suntan oil. This doesn't, and it's really nice.
This is a fun limited edition, and I liked it. I still feel there's room for improvement though. Still, I'd eat these over the regular peanut variety any day.
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CAVTAT, Little Gem of the Adriatic - An Artist's Guide, is a guide to the sights in the beautiful town of Cavtat, Croatia.
Cavtat is a delightful tourist village 9 nautical miles south of the Old World city of Dubrovnik.
It provides a wealth of visuals which would inspire any artist, painter or photographer. This book is meant as a guide to the artist, not a how-to instruction book.
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pick a topic to debate or something
the american constitution seeing as I have a massive exam on it in January and if you yell evidence at me and I refute it angrily it might encourage me to recall said evidence
no one cares about the constitution
Flame,Troll and Spoil
barack obama, his potential to win 2012, whether or not his presidency has been a success
By the end of my useful life I want to kick a soldier's ass and be acquitted in court based on arguing the 3rd amendment.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Time Enough For Love, by Robert Heinlein
Debate whether Pathfinder or 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons is superior.
Whether or not the academy awards/golden globes look for actual quality or pander to audiences.
They look for quality in movies which pander to audiences.
Socialistic policies and practices in America as a more economically stabilizing factor than Capitalistic pursuits or methods.
barack obama is impossible to defend.
no matter how bad barack obama is, he is so obviously superior to mitt romney/rick santorum that he'll get the vote easily. Less of two evils.
A president almost always gets their second term.
Unless they do something incredibly unforgiving, but Obama hasn't done anything that bad.
i need to get around to making a post on the mises.org forums.
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
its THE libertarian site. to be fair people there are serious with beliefs consistent with libertarianism across the board, and generally not stupid.
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I was looking through a list of daycare providers in my area. I need to switch my 3 yr old's daycare pretty soon. My teenage DD pointed out to me that I was skipping past the providers that had names like
I had to think about it for a second but she was correct! I wasn't even looking to see how much experience they had or their credentials. After some thinking I realized that the names sounded childish, immature and inexperienced to me. I need to hire someone that I can trust so I gravitated towards names that sounded "grown up" and established. I was discriminating. I went back and looked at their credentials and unfortunately this time the providers had less than 3 yrs experience and not great credentials. But the point is....
I think these are pretty names but they don't age well. We should be careful what we name our children. Cute baby names may not be the best. It taught me a lesson.


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"I have been in almost constant communication with the architects and just this afternoon he sent me this drawing," Lucas told the justices as he presented the latest proposal. "This has some changes from the drawing I showed you a couple of months ago that we presented to them," he explained. "However, I've looked at it and my staff has looked at it and I think it will work better." Lucas advised the court that the architect did present one concern over a set-back on the Second Street side of the proposed facility, which has been eased following a meeting with Mayor David Stewart. "I met with the Mayor and I just want to thank him and the city council. They have bent over backwards to accommodate us," Lucas explained. "The Mayor assured me that we could get the setbacks here (on Second Street)." The floor plan penned by the architect and the Sheriff is for approximately 100 beds and will last the county "probably 40 years and is designed for expansion," Lucas said. The architect will now begin the elevations for the proposed facility and which will soon lead to cost projections. "We still don't have any idea on the cost of this facility," Lucas noted, "they haven't gotten that far yet."
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DNREC's National Hunting and Fishing Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Aquatic Resource Education Center, 4876 Hay Point Landing Road, Smyrna.
Attendees will be able to sample a wide range of outdoor activities from paddling a canoe to taking aim in archery, and from casting a line to taking a marsh walk. Some other activities include deer aging and measuring, retriever demonstrations, a saltwater touch tank, hayrides, duck decoy carving demonstrations and more.
A brief ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. featuring a reading of a proclamation from Governor Jack Markell, declaring Delaware's observance of National Hunting and Fishing Day, and the signing of an agreement between the National Council to advance hunting and shooting sports.
Admission is free and open to the public. Visitors are encouraged to pack picnic lunches.
For more information: (302) 735-8689.
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Butterscotch Apple Crisp RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 6 cups sliced peeled tart apples (about 5 large)
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1 package (3-1/2 ounces) cook-and-serve butterscotch pudding mix
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
- Vanilla ice cream, optional
- Place apples in a 3-qt. slow cooker. In a large bowl, combine the brown sugar, flour, oats, pudding mix and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over apples.
- Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours or until apples are tender. Serve with ice cream if desired. Yield: 6 servings.
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"Very easy and very good! Love having the ease of a crockpot dessert and the house smelled yummy! Served with ice cream but I am sure it would be good plain or with whipped topping :-)"
"We love this recipe! I work afternoons so I usually make dinner before I leave, this is a great way for my family to have dessert too. I doubled the topping and served with ice cream. Everyone loved it."
"Aside from peeling all the apples, this recipe is quick and easy! I love the crock pot aspect. It filled my home with wonderful smells, too! It got rave reviews at our church dinner. I'll devinitely be making this again. I doubled it very easily for my large crock."
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (April 21, 2008) - The ETSU softball team kicks off its final week of regular season play with a meeting against 19th-ranked Virginia Tech Tuesday evening in the State Line Classic. First pitch of the single game is set for 6:30 p.m. from
Tuesday night marks ETSU's fifth nationally-ranked opponent of the season. The Lady Bucs are winless in their previous four games; however, they played the 9th-ranked Lady Vols tough earlier this month, and ETSU also swept a Longwood team which split with the Hokies a few weeks ago.
ETSU (24-28) has won eight of its last 12 and have been fueled by the strong arm of Marissa Hardy (
Virginia Tech (38-12) had its nine-game winning streak snapped Saturday afternoon by
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The Judicial Family Institute (JFI) is a national organization dedicated to providing information and education on topics of concern and importance to judicial households and their extended family members. We set aside personal differences in politics, geography, and positions on controversial issues to attend to JFI matters.
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1. What is the "bigger picture" from your point of view? For instance, why are you pleased the judge in your family is willing to serve? What does judicial service mean to the rule of law in a free society, to your community, and to you?
2. In what specific areas do you see families being supportive of and benefiting from judicial service?
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Galatians 5:25 (NASB) says:
"If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."
What is the difference between living by the Spirit and walking by the Spirit?
Galatians 5:25 (NASB) says:
What is the difference between living by the Spirit and walking by the Spirit?
In Galatians 5:25, "live" is "live" as in "live or die" rather than "live" as in "the way I live my life". In other words, "If the Spirit is what saves us from death, let us allow that same Spirit to direct our steps"
This is reinforced in chapter 6 with a different metaphor:
To be very succinct:
Living in the Spirit
Fortunately, Paul did us a great service of defining the terms!
Early in the letter to the Galatians, we see this passage:
What Paul is saying here that life in God (or, as he later refers to it, living in the spirit) is still living in the flesh (meaning living in our current bodies), but living by faith in the Son of God.
Walking in the Spirit
The idea in this passage is that if we are walking in the flesh, then we practice desires of the flesh. When we walk in the flesh, we will practice immorality, practice jealousy, we will have outbursts of anger, we will practice drunkenness, etc.
Essentially, "living in the spirit" comes down to having faith in God (that is, having an active belief and trust in God). "Walking in the spirit" comes down to what we focus on and what we practice (ie, the acts that we continually think about and commit).
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Knowing when to stop your daily run might help to reduce the risk of getting overuse injuries, reports a new Indiana University study. When researchers analyzed the biomechanics of 20 healthy runners, they found that their form started to deteriorate when the runners reached either 85 percent of their maximum heart rate or a rating of perceived exertion of 17 (out of 20), both of which are markers of exertion at the end of a typical run. According to the study, ankle eversion increased, as did internal rotation of the lower leg, knee and hip to a lesser extent. "If you continue to run beyond normal exertion, it becomes more difficult to control motion at these joints," says study author Tracy Dierks, PhD, assistant professor of physical therapy at Indiana University. The muscles that control these movements are all relatively smaller and the increased motion makes it harder for them, as well as the tendons and ligaments, to handle the stresses and strains related to running." To stay pain free, talk to your doctor about ways to strengthen the muscles that support your hips, knees and ankles and consider ending your run when you hit 85 percent of your heart rate or you feel like you're at level 17 in terms of exertion.
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The New Age of Aquarius
Now more than ever, savvy managers must work with colleagues at the local and state levels to demonstrate how their proposed project provides an environmentally sustainable infrastructure solution.
The next federal surface-transportation bill should include a weight-distance component that better reflects the impact of commercial vehicles, says U.S. Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Loan programs have decreased 66% since 1991. In 2006, the federal government provided just $1.9 billion, leaving local governments to come up with $85 billion — or 98% — of the total investment in wastewater treatment and 95% of the investment in water infrastructure.
Since the 1 the 1980s, federal appropriations for infrastructure have declined dramatically — by 70% in the case of water and wastewater. Although President Barack Obama has promised to reverse that trend, his focus on the environment will profoundly influence federal funding philosophies: He's said he would require elected officials in urban areas to make energy conservation part of their planning if they are to receive federal transportation funding, and he's proposed a grant program for cities and states that are early adopters of green-building and energy-efficiency programs.
Such initiatives reflect his goal of building "a new partnership with state and local civic, political, and business leaders to enact a truly national infrastructure policy that recognizes that we must upgrade our infrastructure to meet the demands of a growing population, a changing economy, and our short- and long-term energy challenges."
Only time will tell how far his ad ministration gets in mobilizing such an effort, but one thing is certain: Obama understands the value of investing in public works. During one campaign speech, he pledged that his administration would use infrastructure — including roads, bridges, and water facilities — to create 2 million jobs.
As a candidate, Obama proposed creating a "national infrastructure reinvestment bank," an independent entity charged with investing $60 billion over the next 10 years in transportation projects. But because he has opposed increasing the federal gas tax, it's not clear where the money would come from.
The tax isn't indexed to the inflation rate and hasn't been raised in 15 years. The nonpartisan National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission recommends gradually increasing it to 40 cents/gallon.
To prevent immediate cutbacks in road and bridge maintenance, Obama proposed a one-time $25 billion emergency "jobs and growth fund" that would be distributed to the states via the Highway Trust Fund. While he's hinted at seeking private-sector funds, the main source of long-term transportation funding remains nebulous.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that the government needs to invest $1.6 trillion in infrastructure improvements — including $300 billion on roads and bridges — over the next five years. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials says 3,000 projects worth $17.9 billion could be put out to bid within three months — as soon as federal funds are made available.
Although $60 billion's not nearly enough, any funding would greatly help, says U.S. Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
At the 2008 national convention of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) in October, Oberstar cited Texas Transportation Institute research indicating that congestion costs Americans $78 billion annually, and that the only way to reduce the cost of products is to reduce the cost of delivering those products.
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International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: Major Group
- Name: International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
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Full SubmissionINTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE SUBMISSION BY ICID To The Preparatory Committee of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 2012 (RIO+20) ------------------- Background This submission is a contribution to the preparatory process of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, scheduled to be held in Rio de Janiero, Brazil from 4-6 June 2012 (Rio+20) . The contribution is submitted to the Preparatory Committee established by the UN General Assembly, through its Secretariat, in response to an open invitation by the Committee to all relevant stakeholders to submit their inputs by 1st November 2011 for preparing the draft outcome document for the UNCSD. The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) is the leading scientific, technical, professional and not-for-profit Non-Governmental International Organisation (NGO) in the fields of irrigation, drainage and flood management. It draws together the diverse disciplines and professions involved in the planning, design, operation, management and development of irrigation, drainage and flood management works throughout the world. The Commission, with active support from a network of nearly 110 member countries, provides an international forum and network in which the technical, agronomic, socio-economic, environmental and managerial complexities involved in the development, management and operation of irrigation, drainage and flood control works are discussed. Improved practices are identified and promoted through the National Committees in the member countries. The ICID?s vision is for a world that is food secure by ensuring adequate water for food following best agricultural water management practices. While the main focus on best irrigation and drainage practices remains in the fore, risk management by addressing concerned issues like drought and floods in a climate change scenario is also on the top of agenda. Given the new situation wherein some external drivers impact some of the above actions, ICID had started addressing these issues also. These inter-alia include Poverty elimination, rural livelihood, Bio Energy, Enhancing Storage under the changing Climate scenario, MDG, waster water reuses etc., to quote a few. 1. Sustainable Development and Poverty reduction Multiple global crises have undermined the progress towards sustainable development and poverty alleviation efforts in the last 20 years. Implementation of Agenda 21 has been slack and has failed to avert the food crisis and thousands of deaths due to famine. The global population is expected to be over 9 billion by 2050 and they have to be provided for food and means of livelihood. There is increasing need to innovate in agriculture and food production in order to respond to this and other challenges posed by, inter alia, climate change, urbanization and globalization. Directly or indirectly, agriculture provides the livelihood for 70 percent of the world's poor. Dependent on rainfed production in an increasingly variable and unreliable natural environment communities are faced with regular drought and yield losses. Locked into a scenario where spatial expansion of a household?s agricultural production area, due to dense population patterns, is not possible any more, a more intensive use of their assets i.e. land and labor might therefore be a way forward. Lack of access by the poor to adequate, safe and reliable supplies of water limits their options to improve their livelihoods. Water availability being variable in space and time; the rural well being is intimately dependent on its supply, use, disposal and reuse. Impact of climate change, on the agricultural production on one hand, and the hydrological regimes that directly impacts the production methods due to reduced water availability and precipitation variability, on the other, will undermine the rural income base. This loss of income will be further exacerbated by the need for increased spending as a result of damage caused by extreme weather events. Broad-based water resources interventions such as major infrastructure provide national, regional, and local benefits from which all people, including the poor; can gain (Camdessus, 2003). Effective water resources development and management, therefore, are basic to sustainable growth and poverty reduction, in several ways. Poverty alleviation is therefore closely linked to agriculture and water security and how climate change impacts on the two are dealt with by the international community, particularly in addressing the needs of the most vulnerable. 2. Agriculture and Food Security Food security is a complex issue that requires complex solutions. The food security concept has evolved over the years and is presently focused on ensuring food access, its utilization, stability of the access and food availability through domestic production and import (FAO 2002). In the recent times it has been proven time and again that production both at international level as well as at domestic level needs to be assured, one cannot be sacrificed at the cost of the other. Countries that import large amounts of food will be very vulnerable to increased food prices. Therefore increased food production has to be supported more equitably, particularly in large parts of Africa. Globally, 70% more food will need to be produced to satisfy the growing demand. Malthusian specter of a world running out of food, originally premised on satiating the demon of an exploding population now includes the livestock revolution, and most recently bio-fuels. Yet since the 1960s, the global application of science to food production has maintained a strong track record of staying ahead of these demands. Looking to 2050,, demons such as water and land scarcity and climate change raises the specter once again. Considering what is in the technology pipeline, the new funding mechanism to support the small farm financing one can be cautiously optimistic about the ability of world to feed itself to 2050. But cautiously indeed! Starting in the1960s, the Green Revolution increased the global food production dramatically based on the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, and distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers. Some of these tools may no longer be acceptable, while the success of others such as hybridized seed varieties depend on assured water supply through irrigation. Despite impressive gains in yields over the past 50 years in most of the world, large and economically exploitable yield gaps remain in many places, especially in the developing world and nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa where food supply is the most precarious. Producing more food will largely depend on increasing crop yields, not farming more land. Further, most of the food production in the Asian region comes from smallholders, part of the poorest segment of the population and most vulnerable to climate risks. The challenge is particularly daunting in Africa, where prospects are good, resources abundant but there is need for a paradigm policy shift, particularly in terms of financing infrastructure related to irrigation. Africa has yet to experience a green revolution in a sustained manner. The New Partnership for Africa?s Development (NEPAD, 2001) sees support focusing on sustainable land management and water utilization through small-scale irrigation (SSI) as an important element of a broader development strategy for Africa. The gravity of the current food crisis is the result of 20 years of under-investment in agriculture and neglect of the sector even though agriculture accounts for a third of GDP and two thirds of employment in many developing countries. Investment in agriculture must be increased because for the majority of poor countries a healthy agricultural sector is essential to overcome hunger and poverty and is a pre-requisite for overall economic growth. Net investments of US$83 billion a year must be made in agriculture in developing countries if there is to be enough food for 9.1 billion people in 2050. 3. Water Security Water is crucial for food security and human well-being. Enhancing the food productivity targets have to go hand in hand with increased land and water productivity. Scarcity of and competition over freshwater is a growing concern for many regions in the world. Climate change will exacerbate water stress and other problems. It simply offsets the climatic risk that rainfed production would otherwise be exposed to but also makes possible the cultivation of a range of exotic crops that would not otherwise survive under rainfed conditions ? notably horticultural products. Water security is, therefore, a pre-condition for increasing agricultural productivity and should form intrinsic part of an effective poverty reduction strategy. A water-secure world means a better quality of life. Fresh-water is finite and is significantly unevenly distributed in time and space determined by the hydro-climatological conditions of a region. Although the global average annual water availability per capita in 2025 will be 4800 m3, due to the uneven distribution of water resources, some 3 billion people will live in countries - wholly or partly arid or semi-arid having less than 1700 m3 per capita water availability. In 1990, eighteen countries in the world were ?severely water scarce? , a number that could swell to 30 by the year 2025. Most of these are located in Asia and Africa that are also facing food shortages. Further, there are 12 countries with availability less than 500 m3. This number too is likely to increase to 19 by 2025. More than 1 billion people including one third of the population of China and India live in arid regions facing water scarcity. Similarly, 350 million people mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa face severe scarcity, and can't do without embarking upon massive water development projects to meet with their water needs. The essence of water security combines the concern for the resource base coupled with concern for their quality. Services which exploit the resource base for agriculture and other economic enterprise should be developed and managed in an equitable, efficient and integrated manner. Achieving water security thus requires cooperation between different kinds of water users, and between those sharing river basins and aquifers, within a framework that allows for the protection of vital eco-systems from pollution and sustainability of the environmental services that are so crucial for rural livelihood and health. Climate change is expected to alter hydrological regimes and the patterns of freshwater resources availability (IPCC 2008). Reduced rainfall and higher evapotranspiration are projected over the next three decades for many semi-arid areas, and drought-affected areas are likely to increase in extent with climate change. Changes in temperature, rainfall and evaporation determine the basic agro-ecological zoning which set the spatial limits to plant growth. Worldwide, this is expected to result in a decline in food production unless suitable technologies and management are developed and provided to the agricultural sector. Water security requires tackling the extremes: too little water and too much of water. Climate variability is likely to increase with climate change. The combined effect of a change in climate and an increase in variability will result in more frequent and larger flood and drought impacts. More often these extremes produce destructive effects in terms of floods and droughts. Combination of long-term changes and the greater frequency of extreme weather events is likely to have adverse impacts on the agricultural sector. Drought and water scarcity affect the availability of food to some 600 million people of the arid and semi arid tropics of Africa and Asia and parts of Latin America. Floods can pose taxing hazards to human lives and property, but in many parts of the world societies are increasingly taking advantage of river basins and other flooding-prone areas as vehicles for development. Accordingly, societies are more and more willing to assume the risk of coexisting with flooding, an approach which also lends itself readily to the participative themes of risk management, vulnerability and capacity building as an integrated approach to flood management (WMO 2009). 4. Sustainable food production and rural development: role of irrigation Agriculture is by far the largest user of water. Irrigated agriculture provides 40% of world?s food production from 17% of cultivated land. In regions of water shortage, yield of irrigated land often is more than 2 to 3 times that of rainfed agriculture. Even in temperate and humid zones, with the timely irrigation during critical periods of growth, yield of crops may double or even treble. In case of rainfed cropped areas, if assured or even supplemental irrigation is provided, it can make significant contribution to food production. Irrigation increases productivity and value of land, which brings prosperity. Water is used in agriculture in a great variety of situations, drawn from variety of sources and applied through various means. The spectrum covers individual efforts spanning from the small scale irrigation through groundwater abstraction, on-farm rainwater harvesting to community based tank irrigation and covers more extensive large public irrigation command areas. Aside from large public funded irrigation schemes, a major part of the sector consists of privately-financed tube wells using groundwater. Small scale irrigation is of increasing importance for smallholder farming systems in developing countries particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and contributes to the increase of agricultural incomes, employment and reduction of poverty and malnutrition. Irrigation serves as an important preventive tool in climate risk management that mitigates the impacts of droughts, increasing resilience of the framers to extreme weather thereby reducing the risks in agricultural production through: (i) intensification and diversification of the farming system (ii) improving significantly agricultural productivity by reducing the effects of seasonality; and (iii) enabling farmers to cultivate crops with diverse vegetation periods. Lack of assured irrigation results in unsatisfactory agriculture returns, breeding the tendency to switch over to non-agricultural occupations resulting in migration to urban areas in search of better employment. Irrigation while reversing this trend, plays a major role in poverty alleviation and builds resilience of rural people against natural disasters like droughts and famines. The poor landless segments of the communities served with irrigation have better employment opportunities in construction and maintenance works of irrigation schemes. Irrigation and drainage schemes not only play a critical role in increasing crop yield and improving rural household income, but also help in accelerating the pace of development of rural infrastructure through improved communications and road systems, better healthcare, education facilities for rural communities. Irrigation canals often serve as the only source of potable drinking water for the rural areas of the developing world. The increased agricultural production and overall infrastructural improvements act as powerful magnets to attract investments in rural agro-based industries. Historically, irrigation project plans have not given sufficient consideration to their environmental impacts. Additionally, the potential gains from irrigation are far from being realized optimally due to a variety of interconnected reasons such as: sub-standard design and construction; under-investment in infrastructure; poor canal management; inadequate investment in running and maintenance; poor crop production techniques and agricultural services; poor land and water management at farm level; poor coordination between agriculture scientists and water managers. Due to these and the sub optimal participation of farmers in the management of irrigation there are some adverse environmental impacts of irrigation. One of the most evident adverse impacts of irrigation development is the creation of water logged and salinated land. Subsurface drainage, an effective tool to combat this twin problem and increase the sustainability of irrigated agriculture, has attracted inadequate attention. Despite these shortcomings irrigation is likely to remain a keystone of food security policies and therefore all efforts should be made to overcome these shortcomings. More resilient farming practices, irrigation services and adapted infrastructure are needed to cope with increasing climate variability and water scarcity situation. Investments in water storage, water harvesting and introduction of water saving technologies are required to improve food production in water scarce regions. 5. Irrigation as a tool to support Green Economy Green economy is defined (UNEP, 2011, (1)) as the one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities (Ref UNEP). It is low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive which lays the path to sustainable development and poverty alleviation by way of pursuing opportunities to invest in sectors that rely on use of natural resources. The move towards a green economy aims to increase access to basic services and infrastructure as a means of alleviating poverty and improving overall quality of life. However, the present literature has failed to fully appreciate the role of irrigation in Green Economy (UNEP, 2011 (2)). Presently, irrigation covers more than 260 million hectares i.e. about 17% of world?s arable land, but is responsible for around 40% of crop output and employs nearly 30% of population spread over rural areas. It uses about 70% of waters withdrawn from global river systems, 60% of which gets used consumptively, the rest predominantly returning to the river systems enabling its reuse downstream. Irrigation is a time tested and effective tool for creating rural livelihood, uses natural renewable resources, is a proactive means for reducing vulnerability against droughts and thus forms a crucial area for investment within green economies. Further, the role of irrigation both in ensuring water supplies, maintaining and restoring, wherever possible, biodiversity and ecosystem services, needs to be recognized. In the coming decades feeding the growing world population and meeting the increasing demand for bio-fuel will call for increased output from both irrigated and rainfed agriculture. Some of this will come from an increase in the irrigated acreage, though the scope for this will be much more limited than in the past. The larger part of extra output will have to come from the more efficient use of water resources already being exploited, epitomised in the slogan more crop per drop, while restricting use of fossil fuel based energy. Good infrastructure helps improve the land productivity. Like any socio-economic activity utilising finite natural resources, growth and sustained yield from agriculture per unit of water and land, calls for adequate financial and human investments. Water service interventions (such as water and sanitation and irrigation services for the unserved poor) play a major role in reaching some of the MDGs (Camdessus, 2003). In certain cases, past success in irrigation has in a sense been achieved by Mining of non-renewable resources underground water using fossil energy. Where groundwater is used for irrigation, the fossil energy costs of supply may be high. Energy consumption for groundwater irrigation is a regionally important and significant quantum in India and China. Better environmental management in catchments, rivers and irrigation areas with minimal use of fossil fuels is necessary for water security and sustainable food production and achieving the objectives of Green Economy. Irrigation policies that are broad based and follow the principles of equity, economic efficiency and environmental sustainability as envisaged in the Dublin principles (ICWE, 1992) of Integrated Water Resources Management and support both the adaptation as well as mitigation efforts need to be developed. An integrated approach through a mix of irrigation sources, scales of interventions, means of applications based on the local hydro-climatic situation would serve the objectives of Green Economy. Adaptation strategies targeted at food security may actually include i) the re-allocation of water away from the agricultural sector in order to maintain or supplement environmental stream flows thereby supporting other forms of water dependent livelihood or economic activities; or ii) the capping of spatial expansion of irrigated areas where water savings are achieved to reduce overall demand. 6. Resurrecting irrigation to support Green Economies The International Commission on Irrigation and drainage has deliberated on these issues (ICID, 2008; ICID, 2009; ICID, 2010; ICID, 2011) at length and urges the international community to resurrect irrigation and drainage to ensure water security, achieve food security and facilitate climate change adaptation and mitigation and pave the way for green economy as a pathway to sustainable development and poverty eradication. ICID has been urging the governments and the international community that: ? There is an urgent need for implementing various strategies and measures to boost agricultural production utilizing the available water and land resources with the highest efficiency possible with due consideration to the social, economic and ecological factors. ? Rainfed agriculture, which continues to perform below its potential needs to be supported to enhance food security and ecosystems sustainability. Impacts of climate change and droughts on rainfed agriculture requires greater support to research and capacity building in rainfed agriculture, especially for understanding the impacts and developing adaptation options, in addition to optimizing water management. ? Recognizing the enormous challenges and complex issues facing the irrigation sector, increased investment both from public and private sources both for expansion of irrigation area as well as for modernizing existing infrastructure are needed. ? Storage, both natural and in reservoirs, supported by improvement in management of stored water is key to reducing uncertainty and risks associated with rain fed agriculture to address the challenges at the interface of water, land, livelihoods, and the environment. ? The potential of micro-irrigation technology for saving water through precise delivery of water and fertilizer to crops and to raise farm incomes needs to be further exploited. Inexpensive small-scale versions of this technology can be used on the smallest of land holdings, making the benefits available to the poorest smallholders. ? Rehabilitation and modernization of irrigation system using an integrated and participatory approach can raise agricultural productivity significantly, often without increasing the total use of water, and is addressing that need. ? Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) with well introduced reforms can enhance irrigation performance. National and regional governments and donor agencies are urged to support PIM, and encourage reforms by mobilizing financial and technical sources. There is a need to make Water User Associations (WUAs) economically sound and legally empowered. ? Enhanced support is needed for applied research and development, capacity building at the farm level, improved extension services in the dissemination of technology/information/ knowledge among all stakeholders, especially farmers to promote best agricultural technologies and their dissemination. ? An integrated approach of agricultural drainage by developing and adopting modern technologies and tools suited to local conditions for the reclamation of waterlogged and saline areas is required right from planning / implementation stage. ? The public private partnership in development and management of water resources for irrigation with the involvement of local stakeholders to ensure efficient management of the scarce water resources is to be given immediate attention. Investment in improved technologies in agriculture and irrigation Productivity improvement in agriculture rests on the removal of a number of structural constraints affecting the sector. A key constraint is climatic variability, which raises the risk factor facing intensive agriculture based on the significant inflow of private investment. Policies for rapid productivity growth, with a range of innovations in risk management, market development, rural finance, organizing and training farmers, and provision of technical advisory services, need to be strengthened to make markets work better and provide a conducive environment for technology adoption. Large scale funding is required to provide for projected additional withdrawals of water as well as for the requirements regarding drainage and flood protection. One estimate calls for enhancement of present level of funding for irrigation by at least 40%, not only for new infrastructure but also for replacement, modernisation of ageing systems and imparting sustainability to them. Governments have to support the provision of irrigation when private agents are unwilling to do so. For modernisation, replacements and new construction, a significant part of funding will still have to come from governments. The reengagement of MFIs and donors with dams and other major hydraulic works would improve water and food security for many farmers, especially in Africa. Global financial flows into water, after a slight increase in the 1990s, have recently fallen to a very low point. ODA for the water sector has been declining in recent years, partly because of the general decline of aid in agriculture sector, partly because of the sharp drop in aid for large dams and water storage schemes. Despite its spread into other sectors, microfinance has made limited penetration into agriculture and needs to be expanded. Public irrigation agencies need to be granted more financial autonomy, though major reforms are going to be needed to improve their creditworthiness. Small scale farmer-financed schemes would benefit from the proposals to develop local capital markets, micro-credit and development finance institutions (Camdessus, 2003). Affordable credit facilities to finance their investments continues to be cumbersome as a result they continue to need additional off-farm income to improve their livelihoods thereby limiting the possibilities for sustainable increase in productivity in the smallest of smallholdings to ensure their families basic needs. Water productivity efficiency in agriculture The larger part of extra agricultural output will have to come from the more efficient use of water resources already being exploited, epitomized in the slogan more crop per drop. More crop per drop implies the reduction of losses from the transport and distribution of irrigation water, and its more efficient application to crops. Lack of regular annual maintenance results in many irrigation systems falling into disrepair. There is urgent need for modernisation of several large irrigation schemes in Asia besides replacement of old schemes. Low water use efficiency can also be attributed to low level of on-farm irrigation technology, land management as well as deficiency of operation and maintenance. The more efficient use of water in rainfed systems will have a major part to play, in some cases supplemented by irrigation water. Communities and households will need to capture more water through catchments for local productive purposes. Lining of canals and distribution system or use of low pressure pipes for distribution wherever feasible as well as introduction of efficient on-farm facilities and practices can help achieve better efficiency. It is also necessary to set up a water accounting system based on real time monitoring of flows and water demand. Adoption of water saving sprinkler and drip irrigation systems may help to achieve not only better utilisation of scarce water resources, but also better output of crops due to application of the correct quantum of water at the critical stages of growth. It also would mean enhancement of standards for new areas of irrigation and drainage, including guarding against the risk of salinisation, and sustainable development of the rural area, for which financial resources ought to be earmarked. Agricultural services and irrigation and drainage management agencies as service providers need to effectively engage the smallholders? WUA / WUAFs as partners in all aspects of development and management. Working towards irrigation targets Although water is the subject of only one of the goals contained in the Millennium Declaration, it is vital to achieving the others, such as poverty, education and gender equality. To take just three examples: providing segregated toilet facilities in schools is in many societies a pre-condition for the further education of girls; the availability of private toilets and water in-house or close by would make a big difference to the lives of millions of women; and irrigation is and will increasingly be a prerequisite to increasing food production to feed the growing world population and address malnutrition thereby improving health and well being. During the last 15 years the investment in water infrastructure, particularly the irrigation sector has declined. While the Agenda 21 had identified water use efficiency, introduction of drainage, development of irrigation programs including small scale irrigation the progress has been slow and tardy, at the best, and is incommensurate with the enormity of the problem. There is lack of political support due to the complexities of the issues: financing of large infrastructure, participation of users in infrastructure management, over-exploitation of groundwater, environmental impact of irrigation etc., some of which are mired in controversies. It is not that there are no problems in the implementation of ?Water Management System Projects?. There is a wide knowledge on these issues in ICID circles. And even willingness to tackle them. Striving to build a stronger evidence base of the contribution of improved water management which encompasses more efficient and effective use of all the ?Environmental Resources? and its contribution to ?Poverty Reduction? will be brought out effectively in the days to come. Efforts will also be made to identify the means to enhance the sustainability and effectiveness of water management systems with pro-poor objectives and moving towards achieving the goals set in MDGs. The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage urges the global community to commit itself to fulfilling the following targets in Irrigation sector with a view to support the sustainable development and poverty alleviation, submits that following targets need to be achieved: 1. Develop clear Irrigation Policies within next 15 years, relevant to the country, as an integral part of the National Water Policy following IWRM principles. 2. The irrigated area at the global level should be increased by 15 percent in the next 15 years with differentiated increments 3. The water productivity efficiency should be improved by 15 percent with due consideration of basin irrigation system efficiency. 4. Investment in irrigation sector should be increased by 30 percent in next 15 years The achievement of the aforementioned targets and outcomes would help the global leaders assembled at the Rio+20 Summit to deliver a new model of human and economic development and ensure a real impact on human well-being across the world.


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The Janet Turner Print Museum at California State University, Chico represents the foresight of one of its faculty members, Dr. Janet E. Turner (1914—1988). As an art educator, painter, and printmaker she felt students and the community should have access to original works of art. She used her personal collection, now housed at CSU, Chico, as part of her instruction to printmaking students. Part of this collection contains the best of her students' prints. In part, she realized the expense of producing prints, and she felt students should also see the best work of their peers. For those reasons she purchased their work. This mentoring of her students is a hallmark of the several generations of students she taught. Many of her students went on to professional careers as artists and educators.
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Nelson Mandela lead his country out of apartheid and is an international symbol of human rights.
To honor his memory, Westminster College is holding a candle light vigil for the South African freedom fighter who died on Thursday at age 95.
Guests will celebrate Mandela's life and battle against racial oppression through song, speech and video. The event is open to the public, and all who attend are invited to bring a candle to light in Mandela's memory.
The vigil will be held Dec. 9, from 6–7 p.m., in the Dolores Dore Eccles Health, Wellness, and Athletic Center Special Events Room.
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All branches of Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day.
New eBooks are available through the Marin County Free Library. They can be used on any devices or computers that are compatible with eBooks. These new eBooks include The Dog Stars by Peter Heller, House of Stone by Anthony Shadid, A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois, The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. by Carole DeSanti, Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra, A Gift of Wings by Richard Bach, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Elizabeth Speller, The Caller: An Inspector Sejer Mystery by Karin Fossum, and Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted by Eric Nuzum.
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Massachusetts has a rich heritage of making and collecting art; this heritage is on display across the state in museums of all kinds.
The world-renowned Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has an encyclopedic collection that ranges from French Impressionists to ancient Egyptian art. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) showcases contemporary art in its striking new building overlooking Boston Harbor. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, the Harvard Art Museums are home to works by Matisse, Picasso and Italian Renaissance masters in intimate galleries. And travelling north of metro Boston, Salem's Peabody Essex Museum exhibits connections between art, architecture and culture.
Large-scale American sculpture is sited throughout the 35 acres of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln. Worcester's Art Museum, acknowledged as one of America's leading small art museums, includes works by Cassatt, Gauguin, Goya, Monet, Sargent and Whistler. In Western Massachusetts, the Norman Rockwell Museum houses the largest collection of the illustrator's original art, many from the Saturday Evening Post. Fuller Craft Museum is one of eight museums in the country specializing in contemporary craft.
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This event with UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres features findings from UNHCR's report, Children on the Run, which examines the increasing numbers of children from Central America and Mexico who head off alone to find refuge in the United States, fleeing violence, insecurity, and abuse. The discussion provides analysis on the reasons behind the growing migration of this vulnerable population and offers recommendations. Read the report here.
During this public briefing in Guatemala City (conducted in both English and Spanish), the Co-Directors of the Migration Policy Institute-convened Regional Migration Study Group, MPI President Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Senior Fellow Doris Meissner, presented the Study Group's final report, Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: Leveraging Migration and Human Capital in the U.S., Mexico, and Central America.


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The six technical architects at the Microsoft Technology Center in Irving are like rock stars to the Fortune 100 companies located in their backyard. They can't read minds, or turn water into wine. But given the right circumstances, they just might transform a $1 million technology investment into $10 million.
Most people outside the tech community have likely never heard of the MTC. It's one of 12 enterprise innovation centers across the country run by Microsoft Corp., the computer software giant co-founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The MTC takes up just 19,000 square feet of space at Microsoft's 32-acre, 436,000-square-foot campus in Las Colinas.
Inside the MTC's sleek interior sits about $12 million worth of gear and hardware, donated by partners such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Here architects, partners, and Microsoft customers come together to explore new ways to grow a business, improve a process, or optimize the technology they already own.
"My guys love to roll up their sleeves and solve problems. The more creative we can be, the better," says Paul Kimbel, the MTC's director. "These are the top-gun, best-of-the-best architects. I'm blessed in this MTC. Four of the six are developers, on top of that. Not only do they know specific areas and products, they also can develop the customer experience."
Consider, for example, what they've done for the Dallas Regional Chamber and JCPenney.
Prior to moving in November to its new location on Akard Street, the chamber was researching ways to create an interactive environment for visitors. The nonprofit's Duane Dankesreiter reached out to Lane Sorgen, Microsoft's general manager for the South Central U.S and a chamber board member, for advice.
After some brainstorming, the MTC created an app that showcases the chamber's members on a giant touch screen. Visitors can touch photos of board members or member companies to learn about each one.
"Because of our relationship with the MTC [as a partner and customer], we can showcase their technology and expertise to other people," says Dankesreiter, vice president of research and information services at the chamber. "For us, it's a great asset to have to call on."
Major companies like BNSF Railway Co., PepsiCo, Neiman Marcus, FedEx Kinko's, and ExxonMobil have all passed through MTC's doors in the last four years since it relocated to North Texas from Austin.
"We [classify] customers based on seat count of PCs," says Sorgen, a Microsoft veteran who joined the company in 1996. "Anyone with 2,000 PCs or greater has been here."Among them: Plano-based JCPenney. In early 2013, the retailer plans to begin using radio-frequency identification, or RFID, tags on all of its merchandise. It's a move made possible by Oracle and the MTC, which wrote the base application and solution for the RFID.
The technology, first deployed rather unsuccessfully by Wal-Mart in 2003, will allow JCPenney to introduce self-checkouts, accurately monitor inventory, and "transform the customer experience," JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson explained in a second-quarter 2012 earnings call.
It could be just what the doctor ordered for the struggling retailer, which is undergoing a marketing and technology overhaul.
"We've turned businesses around entirely," Kimbel says. "It's very energetic to see the stuff go into market that you've created. We're working on changing how even gasoline pumps are being done. It's cool to walk up and know your team had a finger in making that change occur."
Kimbel is a Microsoft company man with 14 years under his belt, working his way up from consultant to regional director in Atlanta. He moved to Dallas-Fort Worth five years ago to lead Microsoft's core infrastructure sales team in Irving. In July 2011 he took over as director of the MTC, which he says got off to a slow start here.
Since his arrival, he's redesigned the MTC space to radiate a digital lifestyle vibe. The main areas are equipped with two Microsoft Xbox 360s, which come with popular games like Halo, but can also stream TV shows and movies. There's an area for visitors to print their boarding passes or check their email, and table-sized touch screens. It's hard to ignore the fresh chocolate-chip cookie smell wafting through the halls. That's dessert for the daily flow of visiting customers who meet in one of the 11 conference rooms named after Texas sports teams.
With only eight MTC staff members—and no plans to hire any more—the rooms slightly outnumber the employees. The partners share the space, so they're rarely vacant for long. The technology centers aren't meant for consulting, but rather are designed to help customers envision what could be possible. For that reason, the MTC says, it's choosy about who uses its services.
Here's how it works:
Customers are handpicked by the MTC account executives to discuss their business problems and technology issues. These companies want to grow, increase productivity, improve safety, or use their enterprise technology agreements to the fullest. They're just not sure how to get started. The MTC's top request, however, is managing big data. Companies are inundated with so much data that they can't figure out what to do with it.
Most sessions begin with a strategy briefing that resembles psychological therapy.
"It's about trying to understand what the key business challenges are," Kimbel says. "We don't even talk about Microsoft technology. We may have business [people] come in and sit down with IT and they've actually never sat at same table before. It's fun to see that ice melt."
Next comes what the MTC calls the envisioning stage. Sorgen says it's the "twinkle in the eye" for many customers who have an idea and want to see if it's possible to execute.
Many executives are seeking quick answers—say, before the corporate board meeting next month. The MTC architects spend time understanding the problem and, typically within a week's time, put together a solution.
Customers "bring in an application or database that's not Microsoft and ask us how to wrap a whole new world around this older technology," Sorgen says. "There are big parts of their business that they need to keep in place, but they want to engage with that information in new ways."
The final stage is proof of concept, which shows customers their solution in action. Using the $12 million partner gear and Microsoft tools, the MTC creates a setting to replicate a customer's environment.
If a customer wants more computer power or space, for example, the MTC taps into its private, on-premise cloud to add more. Two years ago the same request would have taken days or weeks to physically move cables and boxes, Kimbel says.
Like the MTC's other demonstrated innovations, the cloud solution is offered up gratis. It's a tradeoff the MTC is willing to accept—especially if the interaction results in a sale. Kimbel says the MTC's "rate of closure" with customers through October of 2012 was 90 percent to 95 percent, a 132 percent increase over 2011. Simply put, the MTC sessions help seal the deal for a Microsoft product sale.
The sessions are also good for MTC's partners, who are notified if any of their gear is used in a customer "experience." Says Kimbel: "I don't know if they chose to buy Dell hardware, but Dell will know that X customer was here and used their stuff."
The MTC is a small piece of Microsoft's operation in North Texas, the company's third largest in the country behind the headquarters in Redmond, Wash., and another location in Silicon Valley.
Microsoft first came to Dallas in 1991, eventually moving into the first building of two on its Irving campus in 1999. Those two buildings are among the few pieces of real estate that Microsoft owns besides its headquarters, Sorgen says.With nearly 1,650 employees, Microsoft is invested in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It was first attracted to the area's rich talent pool, low cost of living, and easy accessibility, not to mention a strong customer base, Sorgen says. Irving has more than 8,500 companies, including the global headquarters of five Fortune 500 companies.
Dankesreiter of the Dallas chamber says most people don't realize how large the Microsoft operation is here, or what it means for the local economy.
"There are so many things tied to having them here in the D-FW region," he says. "From a talent perspective and pool of people they are attracting, to the connections of their partners, I think that's a huge asset for our region."
Bill Sproull, president and chief executive of the Metroplex Technology Business Council in Richardson, agrees. Microsoft is actively supporting innovation here through its involvement on various tech councils and in the business community, he says. "They've been a great corporate citizen and contributor and embraced our ecosystems here," Sproull adds. "We're all better for it."


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Chocolate-Cherry Banana Bread RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2/3 cup dried cherries
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 egg whites
- 1 egg
- 1 large ripe banana, mashed
- 1/2 cup fat-free sour cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup baking cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- In a small bowl, pour water over cherries; let stand for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg whites and egg until smooth.
- In a small bowl, combine the banana, sour cream and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with banana mixture. Drain cherries and coarsely chop; fold into batter with pecans.
- Pour into a 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Yield: 1 loaf (16 slices).
Reviews for Chocolate-Cherry Banana Bread
"We love this bread. I've made it many times, but since I never have dried cherries I just leave those out and do everything else according to instructions. It always turns out moist with great chocolate flavor."
"Fantastic! Lovin every bite of it. I'm going to try it as muffins next. You can taste the chocolate, cherries and the bananas in every bite. Soooo moist! It will also be incredible with chocolate chips."
"I made this recipe into 12 muffins and I loved them! Us ed Fage 0% greek yogurt in place of sour cream and walnuts instead of pecans just because that's what I had on hand. Also added a bit of ground flaxseed for extra fiber and Omega 3. Perfect with morning coffee on the weekends."
"Awesome!!!!! So moist!!! I used maraschino cherries. This recipe is a keeper! !!!!"
"Oh so yummy! I doubled the recipe since I had more than one banana ready to go out, and used three eggs versus the egg white combo. Came out beautifully and was gone within 24 hours! This is like chocolate cake in disquise!!"


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