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The use of ceptometers and digital hemispherical photographs to estimate Plant Area Index (PAI) often include biases and errors from instrument positioning, orientation and data analysis. As an alternative to these methods, we used an
The need for standardized and improved
LAI is a dynamic parameter and is driven by natural and anthropogenic processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Knowledge about the seasonal dynamics of foliage density through LAI measurements is important for modeling biosphere processes (e.g., water and carbon cycles) and understanding biological and physical processes in forests [
LAI measured through indirect methods (e.g., remote sensed vegetation indices, ceptometers, digital hemispherical photography) where leaf area is estimated from proximal measures, are usually faster to sample in the field and easier to process than direct methods (e.g., litterfall collection and processing). Such methods are practical for larger spatial scale assessments [
Current air- and space-borne methods are based on algorithms applied to spectral information collected in the visible and infrared portions of the spectrum at moderate to high spatial resolutions. Ground measurements through direct methods and indirect optical methods (e.g., ceptometers and digital hemispherical photography) are common for LAI estimation in the field. However, they are still considered labor intensive and highly subject to biases and errors for long term monitoring programs. LAI estimation based on traditional indirect methods also relies on assumptions regarding canopy heterogeneity (vertically and horizontally), clumping, canopy closure or gaps [
Over the past decade there has been a rapid development in portable Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS). The technology has proven highly useful for estimating total aboveground biomass and providing detailed vertical profiles of forest environments [
In recent years, research on LAI estimation has largely focused on the improvement of algorithms for its retrieval based on indirect methods and the addition of correction factors for the proper validation and derivation of global LAI models based on satellite imagery. However, one of the main challenges in LAI estimation is the identification of the causes of its variation, as well as the structural and physiological processes that influence its dynamics in different ecosystems. The need for hypertemporal information on indirect ground LAI estimates is especially important for understanding the physiological basis of LAI dynamics and improving validation techniques for remote sensing products.
As part of its program on vegetation monitoring, Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has developed a new experimental TLS named VEGNET. The VEGNET system is a solar-powered device for semi-permanent installation in the field and automated operation. The VEGNET system provides indirect measures of LAI at a fixed angle based on optimized principles and algorithms for LAI retrieval. This new type of TLS was designed as an alternative to the use of 3-D TLS devices which can be costly and require complex post-processing for LAI retrieval. The VEGNET instrument automatically scans the forest on a daily basis, producing a vertical foliage density profile at a temporal frequency compatible with earth observation satellites. Given its automated mode of operation and semi-permanent installation, the VEGNET instrument is described hereafter as an
We installed the IML system within the forested lands of the Ministik Bird Sanctuary located 48 km south-east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Minsitik Bird Sanctuary, a large area (~7000 ha) of public land area, consists mainly of forest patches greater than 1-ha within a matrix of grasslands and wetlands [
The VEGNET IML instrument uses a phase-based laser rangefinder with a wavelength of 635 nm. The laser beam is directed at a rotating prism that reflects the laser at a fixed angle of 57.5° zenith or the "hinge angle" [
The prism is designed to perform full rotations of 360° azimuth at this fixed zenith angle (no vertical scanning motion). Both canopy "hits" and "gaps" are recorded to enable calculation of angular gap fraction or gap probability (
It is important to note that the IML method of LAI retrieval, just like all other indirect methods, does not estimate leaf area index, as the laser does not differentiate between forest structural elements. Therefore, the term Plant Area Index (PAI) is preferred if no correction to remove branches and stems is made. Hereafter, we will refer to LAI estimated by indirect methods, including IML, as PAI values.
The height at which the IML laser intercepts scattering elements within the canopy is calculated from the distance measured to the scattering object and the laser inclination angle (57.5° zenith). The rangefinder within the instrument has a maximum range of 60 m from green foliage during night-time operation. At a scan zenith angle of 57.5° this equates to a maximum effective monitoring height of 30 m. While azimuth angle is recorded for each measurement, all laser measurements are treated aspatially for the purpose of estimating PAI.
The IML uses two microcontrollers to control the lidar, scan motion, data storage and wireless connectivity. The system acquires approximately 900 samples during a full scan. All scan data are acquired at night to improve the laser signal relative to background noise, thereby increasing the effective range of the lidar. The IML instrument is shown in
The IML was deployed in the field on September 25, 2013. We installed an 80-watt solar panel facing south to allow maximum sun exposure and battery recharge during the day. We ran the instrument during 22 nights continuously from September 26 to October 17, 2013 during leaf-fall. We expected that PAI values estimated during this time could reflect the process of leaf shedding by canopy and understory vegetation. The IML was programmed to acquire four complete scans between 10 pm and 5 am daily in order to maximize the laser signal-to-noise ratio and increase the likelihood of acquiring data under ideal weather conditions.
The VEGNET
Raw data are collected and stored on an internal memory card. These data are subsequently downloaded and processed to produce an estimate of Plant Area Index following methods by [
We report and analyze trends in terms of the instrument performance and the PAI and PAVD values collected during the leaf-fall period, both for canopy and understory vegetation.
We also compared values obtained with LAI indirect measurements based on satellite imagery collected during the same time period. For this, we acquired data available during September 26 to October 17 from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Leaf Area Index composite product. MODIS LAI Values were obtained through the MODIS Land subsets online service (daac.ornl.gov). The MOD15A2 (Terra) LAI/fPAR (fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation) product is recorded at a nominal 1 km resolution and composited over 8 day temporal intervals. According to DeKauwe
The IML system executed a total of 85 scans of the forest from September 26 to October 17, 2013. It ran an average of four scans per night, with the exception of three scans that were performed during two nights and five scans on one night. During the time of data collection, the IML provided an average of 753 ± 160 records (successful pulses emitted) per scan for a total of 64,020 records, and an average of 438 ± 128 hits per scan for a total of 37,303 hits.
Battery recharge through the use of a solar panel was successful during all the data collection period. Battery voltage remained stable with a registered average of 6.40 ± 0.06 volts per night and never dropping below 6.15 volts, which would cause the system to enter a hibernation mode until the batteries regained charge.
Time-series of the number of records and hits registered by the VEGNET IML during September 26 and October 17, 2013.
The PAVD profiles show three height zones with higher density plant material. The three strata with high values of PAVD are located between 4–5 m, 6–7 m and 14–18 m respectively. The first stratum (4–5 m) corresponds to an understory vegetation layer that combines juvenile trees, shrubs and the trunks of canopy trees. The second stratum (6–7 m) corresponds to a layer composed by the branches and leaves of subcanopy trees along with the trunks of the canopy trees in the understory, while the third stratum (14–18 m) corresponds to leaves and branches of the overstorey canopy. The height values corresponding to the peaks of these strata occur at 4.8 ± 0.18 m, 6.6 ± 0.068 m and 16.3 ± 0.86. Average maximum height of a plant element registered by the instrument was 19.1 ± 0.2, which represents leaves and/or branches at the top of the canopy.
Time-series of the maximum cumulative Plant Area Index (PAI) values calculated by the VEGNET IML during September 26 and October 17, 2013; boxplots show the variation of maximum cumulative PAI values from all scans performed in the same night.
Time-series of Plant Area Volume Density (PAVD) values calculated by the VEGNET IML during September 26 and October 17, 2013; the volume density distribution is plotted against height in order to show the vertical distribution of biomass in the forest; values have been averaged by week for visualization purposes; three height strata with high PAVD values represent biomass concentration on the understory (trunks, shrubs, and juvenile trees), subcanopy (branches and leaves of subcanopy trees and trunks of the canopy trees in the understory) and canopy trees (canopy branches and leaves).
Based on these three height strata with high PAVD values, we plotted time-series of PAI values obtained according to three height ranges: 0–5.5 m, 5.5–10 m and 10 m to 20 m.
Time-series of maximum cumulative Plant Area Index (PAI) values calculated by the VEGNET IML during September 26 and October 17, 2013 for the understory, subcanopy (understory layer 2), and Canopy.
Time-series of Total Plant Area Index (PAI) values calculated by the VEGNET IML during September 26 and October 17, 2013 for the understory, subcanopy (understory layer 2), and Canopy strata.
The percentage distribution by different forest strata is shown in
Time-series of the percentage contribution of Canopy, Subcanopy (understory layer 2) and understory (understory layer 1) to the maximum cumulative Plant Area Index (PAI) calculated by the VEGNET IML during September 26 and October 17, 2013 for the understory, subcanopy (understory layer 2), and Canopy.
Comparisons of Leaf Area Index values estimated by the MODIS 8-day LAI product
During the implementation of this study, the VEGNET instrument proved to be an autonomous IML system that was easy to set up in the field, physically stable and adapted to endure field conditions. The programming of the device through the microcontroller was simple and straightforward, and its performance during 22 consecutive nights showed satisfactory results. A total of 85 scans were performed, and less than 8% of the data were excluded because of poor number of records and hits registered as a result of precipitation events that caused condensation on exposed optical surfaces. Based on this, we would expect that the number of discarded scans will increase during seasons with frequent rain and frost in temperate climates. However, the ability to run the instrument during unlimited consecutive nights allows the user to exclude weather-affected scans and still retain sufficient data for detection of forest structural change.
Unfortunately, there are no previous studies on LAI or PAI for the Aspen Parkland forests located at our study site that could be directly compared with the results of this work. However, for Aspen forests in the middle of summer, studies have shown that Plant Area Index values, derived from indirect optical measurements, range from 1.5 to 3 with an average of 2.5 [
The decrease in PAI values registered by the IML instrument during the time of the study was related to the process of leaf-fall in Aspen canopy, understory trees and shrubs during the fall season, as expected. As seen in
Studies on the structure and composition of the Aspen Parkland forests in western Canada have described average canopy tree heights of 15–16.4 m [
The IML recorded an average peak in overstorey canopy density at 16.3 m, which fitted within the range of the average tree height reported in previous studies of Aspen parkland forests and our estimates by visual inspection in the field. Average maximum height of a plant element registered by the instrument was 19.1 ± 0.2, which represents leaves and/or branches at the top of the canopy. PAVD also peaks at heights of 4 and 6 m, corresponding to Low shrubs (understory layer I) and Tall shrubs (understory layer II), respectively. We estimate that hits were registered from understory vegetation concentrated about 2–6 m around the instrument's position. Understory vegetation at these heights corresponded to the sum of low and tall shrub biomass (leaves and branches) and trunks of canopy trees. PAVD values registered around heights of 8–12 m corresponded mostly to trunk biomass of canopy trees, and less to photosynthetic biomass. This is particularly evidenced by low and stable PAVD values through the time-series at these heights.
Phenological changes during the time of data collection were captured in four ways: number of hits, maximum cumulative and absolute PAI values, time series of PAVD profiles and PAI values per forest strata. The ability to extract PAI values per height or height range using the IML data allows for a better understanding of the contribution of each forest stratum to the maximum cumulative PAI. Differences in trends in PAI and PAVD values observed for the canopy, understory layer I and understory layer II were registered by the instrument. While both canopy and understory layer II show a continuous decrease of PAI and PAVD values, the understory layer I does not show strong changes with time. This is expected since there is a higher component of woody biomass from understory vegetation and trunks of canopy trees in the lower forest stratum.
The comparison to MODIS 8-day LAI at 1 km spatial resolution showed interesting results. In order to subtract the effect of adding understory and subcanopy non-photosynthetic biomass, we compared MODIS LAI values (single pixel and 3 × 3 window mean) to the IML PAI values only for the Canopy height zone (14–18 m). In this case, both values not only show a similar decreasing trend but only differed by 2%–15%, in contrast to the 48% difference to IML maximum cumulative values.
We can infer that patchy distribution of understory biomass in the area, as well as the presence of linear openings and small ponds at the landscape level yielded lower LAI values at 1-km resolution, however, MODIS LAI retrieval algorithms have included corrections to subtract woody area index from total LAI estimation for each forest type, including broadleaf deciduous forests. The exclusion of understory vegetation from ground PAI estimation might have leveled out the comparison, therefore, allowing IML Canopy PAI to resemble expected LAI values for this forest type. Given the potential of using an IML system to validate spaceborne LAI products, future research should be made to investigate how IML PAI values compare to indirect optical and satellite-based measurements during a longer period of time, and whether the calculation of IML Canopy PAI resembles actual LAI estimates for Aspen Parkland forests or other vegetation types.
The use of ceptometers and digital hemispherical photographs to estimate Plant Area Index often include biases and errors from instrument positioning and orientation in the field or from differences in thresholding to the optimal brightness level during the generation of the binary image (1). However, LAI retrieval from these techniques remain a common practice in forestry and ecology; especially, since recent research has attempted to improve its PAI estimates through a better description and sampling of canopy heterogeneity (vertical and horizontal heterogeneity, clumping, canopy closure or gaps) [
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More studies are needed in order to validate the IML maximum cumulative PAI, and total PAI values at different heights. This must be done by comparing its measurements to actual values of LAI (direct methods) and indirect estimates (digital hemispherical photographs, ceptometers and TLS systems). Studies should include tests of its performance in different forest types, successional stages and disturbance scenarios.
This work was supported in part by a TecTerra grant 1209-UNI-013. Access to the study site was provided by the Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD). We would like to thank the logistic support from Dr. Shane Patterson from ESRD, and the help from Cassidy Rankine and Cao Sen (University of Alberta) during fieldwork. We acknowledge the University of Alberta for logistical support.
Carlos Portillo-Quintero and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa conceived the work, designed the instrument's deployment in the field and performed the data analysis. Carlos Portillo-Quintero carried out the fieldwork and data analysis. Darius Culvenor developed and designed the instrument and supervised the instrument's performance. All three authors contributed to the written content of the manuscript.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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|21st May 2010, 03:34 PM
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VIX, you are welcome, just PM me before your visit!
Now guys, don't laugh much at what is following!
1. Today I found out that both my woofers were connected with opposite polarity
2. One of the filters for the woofers was connected with the inductance's upper layer as "IN" and the inside as "OUT" and the other was the opposite - I must mention that both were on the + wire
3. I connected both inductances in a way that the outer layer is now "IN" and the inner is "OUT"
4. I connected both woofers from opposite polarity to normal, now + comes from the amp, gets in the inductance from the outside wire, gets out of the inductance from the inner wire and goes to the + terminal of the woofer=
5. Capacitors are intact and are in parallel after the inductance - just to mention...
6. I removed one of the 22mf capacitors and now I have 132mf in parallel instead of 154 before - I doubt that this is the cause thou...
7. And now I have no bass it's weak resemblance of what it was
I assume something might be magnetized in the opposite way due to the long listening with opposite polarity. Is possible the core of the reversed inductance to be magnetized in the wrong direction and now to need some time?
What do you think?
In the before condition I had noticed that the bass is stronger from the back of the H-frames, but thought that it should be that way... Now it's weaker from both sides
I'm desperate!
p.s. now the sound is clearer and the sound stage improved dramaticly - positioning is far-far better... but the bass...
|21st May 2010, 07:18 PM
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Phase wise, the LF precedes the mids, etc., so if all drivers were wired phase correct, the tweeter would be furthest away from the listening position (LP) and the (sub) woofer closest, or even behind it depending on the system's band-width (BW) and how close the LP is to the tweeter, etc..
From a simplistic POV then, if the (sub)woofer is ~on the same plane referenced to the LP it needs to be wired in opposite polarity referenced to the 'HF' driver it's XO'd to and why the rule-of-thumb (ROT) to swap a driver's leads and leave it the way it sounds loudest came about.
If multi-amping and the sub's amp has an adjustable phase pot it can be dialed in a bit more accurately, i.e. louder. Note that with 4th order XOs there's a 1 Hz phase shift, so normally there's no audible increase in loudness, though depending on your phase hearing acuity you may find one polarity or setting sounds subjectively a bit more 'right'.
WRT inductor wiring, sound is AC, so it shouldn't matter which way they are connected. Indeed, I can't recall ever seeing any markings on one that implied a polarity.
Bottom line, it 'sounds' like you had it right the first time.
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|21st May 2010, 07:26 PM
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Hi T101,
Ivan Vulchev, did he work at Vissokogovoriteli PLC? If so, are your tweeters something like VLD40?
|22nd May 2010, 09:27 AM
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Thank you GM! Now I'l try to reverse the polarity of the midrange and see what happens.
Peterborsson, Ivan Vulchev has been the leading professor and scientist in our country. There is probability that VLD-40 is his invention - I'l ask him, he lives nearby... My tweeters are something like far relatives of VLD, like EVO-5.
There are two or even three problems with them:
1. Hard to crossover, they need steep curves
2. Capricious on crossover components - one crappy capacitor and you'l hear it!
3. Capricious on recording... If there is noise you hear it, due to the high bandwidth if there is something outside the recording, but within your hrearing range you hear it, if the cymbals are too loud, they will be too loud, if you are unfortunate to buy some records mastered for tube amps, you are lost!
|22nd May 2010, 05:33 PM
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Thanks T101,
I had some friends that used VLD40 with a horn, I'm not sure as they were sold under Gamma brand. They were called VLD12 and VLD13.
Edit: They were VLD13, not VLD40!
In my friends speakers, x-over was at 3.5 kHz with 2nd order filter and replacements of foil were often needed , minimum 3rd order would maybe be sufficient. Quite good tweeters for the prize, especially if bought in Bulgaria.
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|23rd May 2010, 03:05 PM
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I have another question. What are the minimal distances from the H-frame? Back, sides and front respectively.
Because now I have two sofas in front of them at about 3 feet, the wall on the rear is at 1.5 feet and on the sides they are on one foot from the walls.
|24th May 2010, 04:29 PM
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Hi to all! I found the bass!
It occurs that when the OB part is smaller, the bass is weaker... at leat it is weaker when there is a wall behind the H-frame...
I made another OB with Fane Sovereign 6-100 and again with NDRL ribbon tweeters. The clarity and positioning with the new smaller OB's are great! The details are much more and the scene is very accurate.
I apply the the schematics of the crossover of the new OB.
I must point that all my problems with the bass were with the new smaller OB!
Additionally I found out that the Goldwood must be connected IN PHASE and with the signal entering the inner layer of the inductance and exiting the inductance through the outer layer!
I returned the 7-th 22 mf capacitor and now again the capacitance in the low pass is 154mf.
Now with the inductances connected right and with the Goldwoods in phase and the big OB on top the bass is TREMENDOUS! Low as it could be and loud as it could be! FINALLY!
There is only one catch in my particular listening room - the listener must be at least 12 feet away in order to hear all the depth of the bass...
If someobe is interested I can upload the drawing with the dimensions of the small OB... sadly it does not work for me as it permits cancellation of the reflected wave in front of the H-frame... But for someone with more space behind the H-frame it would be GREAT! I have put allot effort to make it sing right and I will be glad to know that someone obliged from my work!
Best regards!
|24th May 2010, 09:59 PM
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Good that you sorted it out! OB's have really only this drawback-they need a big room (and I don't), and if I ever give up on them, it will be for this reason (small room).
|24th May 2010, 10:34 PM
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Do what ?! Small room = small width OB with appropriately lower Qts drivers and let the room boost them.
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|25th May 2010, 04:44 AM
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do you have some examples/links to smaller room open baffles using lower qts drivers and narrower baffles?
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Here is my latest painting! A commission for my buddy Graham, doing a swing-dance with his lovely wife.
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Another actual painting on actual paper! What's going on around here. I did this one of Thessaly (from Sandman and her own series) for Neil Gaiman. He's a nice man. I always liked Thessaly, she had her shit together.
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Carries an empty cloth bag. A printed panel on it shows a hand draped in the American flag holding a bouquet of Planet Earths. The Ninth International Conference of ... it says July 1995 . The main word is an unintelligible hippy logo.
And alone. Her English, which everyone told her was excellent, is fine on theoretical matters, but she doesn't know words like 'bicarbonate of soda' or 'mushrooms'. The embassy has no work for her. Her father has gone underground, and the Muslim men she meets are all Arabs. The bag is empty so that it can be filled with shopping, which she will eat alone. The conference it refers to is for Peace. It has not happened yet.
What she really wants to do is pick up a gun.
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I woke; watched the Inaugural. Being 62, watched a few; I was still thrilled and excited. We are still a Nation Under God. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sir I don't know if your dream means the same to everyone. Because crime seems to be the profiteer here; as on other nazis holidays; or bedouin. And that is only after WW2, and 9/11/2001; Isn't It?!!? So what have you done besides about nothing to be more of withit with the dream? You seem to be; you with that stupid fake idea of a cruicifix; and that you call a political beliefe and you hate yourself as well. Or you would not have boys; shooting children and adults. That never ought to have has an atitude about him because you killed yourselves that way. No I don't mean we ought to be at war we never stopped the other one did we? When adolf burnt himself and frau. They of course are in hell together; where you all go. So how is your future 4 years look? Full of the same old same old isn't it? God Bless You Always.
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You spend a lot of time in Hawaii. What drew you to the islands? Its like Ireland with the heat on. I love the culture, the landscape, the blue, blue water. You wake up in the morning and go fishing or sailingor have a coffee on the beach. I paint and my wife gardens. Its a beautiful place to watch our boys grow up.
Do you paint a lot on the road? My first career was as a commercial artist, and Ive started plein-air paintingI travel with a little oil set. While filming The Matador in Mexico City, I set up a small studio at the hotel and did a self-portrait of my character Julian, a mustachioed vulgarian with a wonderful sense of humanity.
This was your first trip to Mexico City. Did you enjoy it? Quite frankly, the city has gotten a very bad rap. Even though we traveled with bodyguardswhich was a giant pain in my neckI still had chances to get out with the people, and thought they were absolutely magnificent. Yes, theres pollution. Yes, you should be careful when going into certain neighborhoodsjust as in any large city. But connecting with the passion of Mexico in the Catholic churches, eating at local restaurants, and seeing firsthand the works of Rivera, Kahlo, and Siqueiros made it a rich experience.
Much of the movie is spent in the bar at the Camino Real. What makes a great bar? It has to have that sense of camaraderie. I grew up stealing sips of Guinness from my uncles pints at pubs in Ireland. You can have a little bar on the beach with just a wooden plank and beaten up old logs and it can be the most amazing bar in the world, and then you can have an overly dressed stuffy bar that just doesnt work. The people are what make it special.
Whats always in your carry-on? I bring my laptop, and Ive recently taken up the ukulele. Its the most humorous, charming instrument. Its completely portable, and you can learn to play it in about 20 minutes. I also carry my family photos, which I keep in silver frames. As soon as I get into my hotel, I unwrap them and set them up on the desk.
Do you have any favorite hotels? The Hassler in Rome and the Ritz in Paris. I just love the romance, grandeur, and place in history of those hotels. They are the epicenters of the cities they inhabit. Its as if theyre filled with the dreams of everyone who has walked through them.
What was the most memorable meal youve had while traveling? I had one of the best lunches on the back of a boat in Panama with a group of friends while filming the Tailor of Panama. The boat wasnt fancy, but it was big and very handsome and it had an old frying kettle at the back. We opened several bottles of wine and cooked up a feast of calamari and shrimp and fishall straight from the seafor a wonderful meal. But I still love the down-home, wholesome food of my native Ireland: Irish salmon, vegetables, and lots of mashed potatoes. I love my spuds.
Bond is known for his gadgets; would you call yourself a technophile? I abhor gadgets. I had a BlackBerry, or a blueberry, or whatever you call the darn thing for half a day and then I gave it to my secretary. I do send e-mail, but I prefer to write in longhand. And Im a sucker for beautiful fountain pens.
Are you ever able to go local and remain incognito? In Hawaii, people recognize me and I greet them as they greet me. I enjoy my life and the bit of fame that I have. It has enabled me to travel far and wide, and to enjoy every level of society. Whether youre going to Panama City or Rajasthan or Nairobi or Rome, its about packing the suitcase and going off and sharing experiences with a bunch of great new people.
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Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie flew out of Malawi earlier today, without their adopted son David Banda.
Just after gaining preliminary custody of a 1-year-old Malawian boy, Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie flew out of the southern African country Friday Oct 13th at 2 a.m. without their adopted son David Banda. The child reportedly has been left in the care of Madonna's entourage.
Meanwhile, Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg confirmed the adoption plans, released a statement confirming, "Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have been granted custody of their son David. Final legal arrangements are being made to bring him home to his new family".
However, David has to remain in Malawi because, according to a senior immigration official, "immigration is still trying to process his passport". Malawian officials, moreover, also said that the child's departure had been delayed because final legal arrangements were still being made and for procedural reasons.
David would later on join Madonna, who left addresses in London and Los Angeles, where government officials can reach her and monitor the boy's progress in foster care for 18 months in line with the conditions in the order.


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A new report claims a gold iPhone 5S is in the works. Japanese Apple blog Macotakara, which has a mixed track record when reporting details about unannounced Apple products, claimed on Thursday that Apple's iPhone 5S will come in a new gold color. The report states that this new color will be offered in addition to the white and black iPhones, however, rather than in place of the black model.
In the same report, the blog also noted that Apple's upcoming new cheaper iPhone model will ship with several new color options pulled from Apple's bumper cases.
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One year later, no rumbling under the Hilltowns ground
Published 7:12 pm, Saturday, August 25, 2012
KNOX — A spate of small earthquakes last summer centered in the Albany County Hilltowns petered out and the activity is again dormant, leaving scientists still questioning what caused it.
There have been no earthquakes in the area — centered around Thacher Park and the village of Altamont — during the last six months, said Won-Young Kim, a research professor at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Last summer, Kim placed a solar-powered seismic sensor in an open field at the Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center next to Thompson's Lake State Park, after more than more than two dozen tiny tremors that had started Aug. 22, 2011, the day before a massive earthquake in Virginia rattled the eastern seaboard and even damaged the Washington Monument.
The sensor near Thacher Park recorded no useful events since then and the small quakes have ceased, Kim said.
"We are still not quite sure about those shocks. They are deep events, occurring more than 10 miles underground."
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The return of the quakes last year marked the end of a nearly two-year quiet period. There have been periodic clusters of little earthquakes in Knox and nearby Berne — with the total number of quakes now at more than 90 — dating back to the 1980s.
The previous outbreak occurred between February 2009 and March 2010, when 37 quakes were recorded. In 1982, a dozen quakes were reported in Berne in a single three-hour period.
Underground rock layers where the quakes appear to be centered are likely a billion years old, or older, and could be linked to faults that run through the equally ancient bedrock of the Adirondacks south into the Helderbergs.
Two geologic fault lines, known as the McGregor-Saratoga and Hoffmans faults, run like underground scars northeast from the Albany County Hilltowns and Schoharie County, then up through Saratoga County before snaking into the Adirondacks.


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|Lady Panthers run away with team track title
|Bobby "Butch" Burney | News-Telegram Sports Editor
April 7, 2004 -- FARMERSVILLE -- The North Hopkins girls already had the team championship in hand when it came down to the final event Monday at the District 18-1A track and field meet, but that didn't stop them from putting it further out of reach.
The 4x400-meter relay team members all won multiple gold medals Monday, including in the final event, as North Hopkins ran away with the team title with 189 points.
As a result, the Lady Panthers will send 10 girls to the area meet in 13 different events. Cumby and Yantis will also send one of their relays and one individual to area, which will be contested April 14 at Rice.
North Hopkins freshman Ebbonye Johnson and senior Mary Casey each won three gold medals, senior Hope Harber and Kate Hollenshead won a pair of golds, and Sara Weir and Katy Williams each took first in an event as the Lady Panthers outscored second-place Boles by 69 points.
"The mile relay is what we really want to do well in," said Harber, who also won the discus. "That's our favorite event. It's mainly the thing we can make to state and win if we do our best. It's our best event out of everything."
The Lady Panthers finished in a season-best 4:20.2 without being challenged the on the final two legs, which were ran by Casey and Hollenshead. Casey had just finished winning the 1,600-meter run in a time of 5:28.5, then turned around and ran a solid split in the relay, which is the next event. Hollenshead ran the final leg with a 150-meter spread between her and second-place Boles.
Hollenshead, who qualified for state in two events last year, won the 800-meter run in 2:34.6, followed by teammate Rosa Fuentes in 2:42.5, Yantis' Esther Fernandez in fourth at 2:50.5, and NH's Kara Mannis in sixth.
That was one of three distance events which the Lady Panthers dominated. Casey, Hollenshead and Sabra Thomas finished 1-2-3 in the 3,200, with Casey running a 12:11.1, Hollenshead a 12:25.5 and Thomas a 12:39.3.
Casey then came back to take the 1,600 in 5:28.5, followed by Thomas in second at 5:46.9, and Rosa Fuentes in fourth at 6:03.0. Cumby's Karen Lacy placed sixth.
Johnson, meanwhile, won both the 200 (26.96), with teammate Chancey Harber in fifth at 29.78, and the 400 in a season-best 60.67, with teammate Hope Harber in fourth at 69.43. Johnson will also be going to area in the long jump after placing second with a 15-6 effort and the high jump (third at 4-8). Hope Harber was fourth in the high jump at 4-4, while her younger sister, Chancey, was fifth in the long jump and Yantis' Jamie Snider was sixth.
Weir will also be competing at area in multiple events after she won the 300 hurdles in a time of 52.11, followed in second by Chancey Harber at 53.74. Yantis' Esther Fernandez was fifth in 54.6, and NH's Rosa Fuentes was sixth in 57.91.
Weir also took third in the 100 hurdles in a time of 19.31, and placed fifth in the triple jump (28-3), while Chancey Harber was sixth (27-6). Weir, Hope Harber, Nancy Castro and Thomas finished fourth in the 800 relay in a time of 2:01.5.
NH's Katy Williams won the shot put with a throw of 39-0 and ran a leg on the 4x100 relay which finished sixth.
Cumby's Megan Strickland will be going to regional after finishing second in the high jump with a leap of 4-8. She also ran on the 4x100 relay team which placed second in 55.85 seconds, and finished fifth in the 100 in 13.78 seconds.
Cumby's Katy Huddleston finished fifth in the 400 in 75.13.
Yantis' Jennifer McCreight took fifth in the discus with a throw of 74-7, and the Lady Owls' 1,600 relay team finished fourth in 4:51.7
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Policies that strengthen data tracking and improve pre-kindergarten programs are needed now to ensure the state's children are successful in the 21st century, according to a study released last week by the Public Policy Institute of California.
The report, "California 2025: Preparing for a Better Future," examined a range of problems facing the state in education and six other areas, including population growth, climate change and the economy.
Jill Cannon, a fellow at PPIC who specializes in educational matters, said the report's findings were designed to offer less costly suggestions to decision-makers and community leaders grappling with the current budget crisis.
Overall, Cannon and a team of analysts found encouraging improvements in education. But they worry that the state budget problems threaten that progress.
Since 2003, students have made gains on the California Standards Test, with over 50 percent passing the mathematics and English language arts sections of the exam.
Yet, more than 40 percent don't pass, suggesting "we still have a long way to go," according to the report.
Cannon says improving the state's pre-kindergarden outreach will be vital to improving graduation rates by equipping children with the skills needed to succeed in elementary, middle and high schools. An earlier PPIC study found students likely to fail the California High School Exit Exam can be identified as early as fourth grade.
"Learning is cumulative," Cannon said. "If the foundation isn't right, you're going to struggle."
The lack of a single database to track years of student data makes it difficult to hold school districts accountable or assess whether reforms are working, Cannon said.
Cannon said she is hopeful that Gov. Jerry Brown's recent announcement of a task force to examine the development of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System will kick-start an effort that lagged under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"You know we tend to put things off in California. But these are things we can focus on now to better position California for the long term," Cannon said.


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"The difference is that Obama also represents a possible change in the political climate of Washington, and that's what people want. McCain and Clinton represent neither of these things." --Alix
Again, bullsh1t. If there is a pol out there who is more inclined than McCain-- based on actual projects and legislation, not just rhetoric, mind you --to work with the party across the aisle, I'd like to hear his or her name. Bipartisanship is what people want, Alix, not talk or gridlock. McCain has demonstrated this very quality. That is something Obama has not yet done, either because he hasn't been on the political stage long enough or he is not inclined to do so.


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After leaving the royal marines I went on to open my own martial arts gym which is currently open six days a week and operates from a full-time location, we run an extensive variety of classes from Little Ninjas/ Soldiers classes through to adult kickboxing we also run bootcamps and circuit training classes and are looking into doing women's only boxercise classes in the new year.
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Bank nationalisation: My 2 borrowed cents
The big economic debate at the moment concerns bank nationalisation. Near as I can tell, the intense pressure to consider this is the dramatic fall in share valuations of some of the titans of the banking industry. Here is the recent Bloomberg picture:
Not a pretty picture. But does it tell us: private investors do not think banks are a good investment.
The question is: does this mean they are a good or better investment for the government? One thing against is that they are still in operation (maybe only barely) and that means that they can still perform some economic function. So we need to frame the nationalisation question the way we would do it if their values were blue rather than green: what would government ownership be able to do that private ownership could not?
It turns out that there is economic research on this issue. Interestingly, the main contributions have come from Australian economists who did this research a decade ago only to be told by international journals that as privatisation had occurred everywhere by then, no one was interested in the conditions under which government ownership would be preferable. Well, I guess that view is wrong.
So what are the contributions? Well, the first stream comes from Simon Grant and John Quiggin. Their argument was simple. The equity premium in financial markets (that is, that stock owners seem to require a higher rate of return than debt holders) comes from an inability to insure against systematic risk. Governments, through their power to tax, can, in fact, provide that insurance and so face a lower cost of capital. End conclusion: so long as there aren't too many other inefficiencies from pubic ownership, it is preferable to private ownership.
Grant and Quiggin had to dress this up as a paper on social security privatisation to get it in as a shorter paper in the American Economic Review. But this Economica paper deals with the main idea. And it is this line of argument that has driven John Quiggin's contributions to the recent debate.
But there is a sense that this falls short as a rationale for nationalisation. To be sure, the issue of systematic risk lies at the heart of all this (see Ricardo Cabellero) but there is a difference between the ability to raise capital at a lower cost and ownership per se. After all, if the government can get capital from foreign or domestic borrowers more cheaply than the companies themselves, they should just get that capital and provide cheaper finance. No need to manage assets on a day-to-day or strategic basis if that is the problem you are trying to solve. Indeed, this is arguably precisely what the Australian government is doing with its property fund.
We need to go to the other stream of research to understand why government's should actually own some assets. Core Economics' own Stephen King and Rohan Pitchford, in a series of papers, analysed that issue (here and here; the last one isn't publicly available — apparently these two authors aren't into open dissemination!). The research is grounded in the property rights theory of the firm. That theory says that it is optimal to grant ownership to agents who are either essential or who undertake important, and not easily contracted on, actions. So, for instance, if you believe that government managers do not have enough incentives to contain costs, you want privatisation. On the other hand, if you believe that there are some big externalities associated with some investments, you might want government ownership. And as examples of the latter consider the disposal of toxic waste and the ownership of the last mile copper Telstra network. In each case, private owners will undertake actions on those assets missing some big externalities (negative and positive) whereas a government might more easily internalise them.
What does this mean for the banks? It means we need to start thinking about externalities. And it is not hard to find some candidates. The first, is the perennial problem that one bank failure can cause a run on others — that is, a given bank may have too little incentive to keep itself operating. At the time, this is a rationale for a bailout but in the long-run, there is a worry that if banks expect bailouts they might take excessive lending risks. Instead, the insurance solution that hits contagion on the head by assuring those who might spread it, depositors, looks like the better bet. Bank owners still face the pain of bankrupcy but with some insurance that that bankrupcy won't arise because of contagion.
Another externality comes from whether banks are doing the right thing in their lending. This comes from taking bets on poor risk assessments (e.g., subprime loans) or from not thinking enough about what sort of things they finance and their social benefits. The latter is exemplified by the It's a Wonderful Life image of the benevolent banker (lending for the good of the community) that most banks are not likely to be. The question is whether the government could play that role? It certainly has a broader interest but let's not pretend that that necessarily translates into a net benefit. In any case, this is a rationale for having a government bank and not necessarily a rationale for making a given bank a government bank.
I want to return to that idea in a second but first let me deal with this apparent objection to private banks that comes from John Quiggin:
Financial restructuring is going to be a huge challenge, involving both a radical redesign of national regulations and the construction of an almost completely new global financial architecture. To attempt this task while leaving the banks under the control of discredited managers nominally responsible to shareholders whose equity has, in the absence of massive transfers from taxpayers, been wiped out by bad debts, seems like doing live electrical work while wearing a blindfold and standing in a pool of water.
But who does he expect to run the government banks? I know there is an excess supply of financial services employers and managers at the moment, but does he really mean to suggest we will find others to do the job. The basic function of banks: as information intermediaries — gathering information on risks and pricing it — will have to be done by those employees of failed banks. Who else will do it? And they will do that job in the face of less powered incentives, which may or may not be a good thing.
Bank to externalities. What about toxic assets? These are loans that look like they will never be repaid. How you work out what these are is anyone's guess but let's say you can? The externality rationale for doing something about these is that it would be better if the debt was restructured so it could be paid rather than accept the loss and dispose of the asset. After all, the best customer for a home may be its current occupant especially when house prices are tanking.
Again, is this a rationale for nationalisation? What that would achieve would be some sort of, either burying those assets in a web of cross subsidies within a large government-owned operation or hiving them off into a separate entity. William Buiter seems to think we should nationalise all banks, sort this out, and make a new government 'bad bank,' eventually putting the UK on the path to a better outcome. This strikes me as insane as a first thought though I wish I had the confidence to say it would remain insane as time goes on.
The problem is that this is a misconception as to how we think about loans as assets. How to make bad loans into on-going concerns appears to relate to dealing with the customer and so simply having a new government-owner of those does not seem to do anything. At some point, someone is going to have to pay. From an economic point of view, if restructuring is needed maybe that should be done as a matter of policy rather than a case-by-case guess work.
And there is another reason for this. In the ordinary course of events, their 'home' banks were solvent they would have ample incentive to restructure loans and keep them going. The externality here is that they might have insufficient incentive because they neglect some broader role the activities funded by those loans are meeting. But it seems to me that 'toxicity' is not the dimension upon which we would want to structure a new government bank. Instead, we might want to identify the activities in need of socially desirable restructure and specialise the bank around lending for those purposes. Here is where Australia's property fund may make some sense.
And it is important to emphasise that this 'bad' bank has not real future. Are we really thinking that the role of a government 'bad bank' would be to say to prospective borrowers: come to us, we have a great deal because if things tank we will restructure stuff so that you can do what you wanted to do. Now that is moral hazard!
As I write this, I realise I am well beyond the limits of reasonable blogging and am also running out of steam. And I am well aware I haven't answered the question on bank nationalisation at all save for suggesting that perhaps we should apply the previous literature more systematically.
So let me end with a speculation. The power of the King-Pitchford framework is that it tells us that mixed private-public systems can often be optimal. We need to think of the financial sector in this light. What assets and activities need a public hand? I suspect that a government-owned bank may have its own competitive appeal. First, because it could not fail (or would be last against the wall when the revolution came), depositors may actually find it attractive. They might accept poorer customer service (although it is not a given that that will occur) in order to have security. Moreover, small businesses might prefer to deal with that bank even if it might take longer to get a loan, at least flights and panics in the market wont leave them out in the cold. It would be a rock in the bad times. For that reason, I think we will see a government bank as a key backstop public service and, let's face it, it will likely arise out of the ashes of one of the failed larger banks.
Some might think that this is related to the idea that we might want Apple to run a bank or two. While I would love a bank that somehow had the same customer orientation and innovation as Apple, I wouldn't expect that to come from government, nor would I expect that good firms in other sectors should be taking over financial institutions. The core functions remain different and let's face it, this isn't an area where we are looking for more product innovation per se. We just want banks to do what they were supposed to do and keep doing it in the good times and the bad.
[PS: My remarks on whether bank mergers are a good idea are here. And they are not. They solve nothing. I'll take temporary nationalisation over that any day.]
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Good article. The obvious reason to nationalise banks is as quasi-receivership. Blowing away the shareholders and failed top management sends the clearest possible message of failure, and enables protection of depositors and creditors during restructuring.
The real question is: what next? Should the fixed up bank be offered back to new private owners to defray taxpayer cost, or should we regard a fully privatised banking system as another failed experiment?
I'm inclined to favour an ongoing role for publicly owned banks (as we had until quite recently) and I look forward to further debate on the topic.
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If your price is too low, you're "dumping."
If your price is the same, it's "collusion."
It just goes to show you, no matter what business does, it's evil.
Therefore, government must own everything.
I thought better of you but I see you were busy on the weekend digging up this old coffin that seemed well and buried. You're now scaring the kids by opening up the lid.
1. market equity is not tangible equity. If profitability returns this quarter US banks will see a spectacular rise.
2. We could very well be seeing the market simply being too bearish of bank stocks.
3. If Quiggin's idea that the government is able to borrow cheaply and run profitable businesses were true the Berlin wall wouldn't have fallen 18 years ago as socialism would have proved to be the workers paradise on earth that it was supposed to be.
4. You really don't seem to understand what externalities are.


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It's a show within a show, a musical within a musical. And it's as exciting and as unpredictable as an opening night on Broadway. That's the series Smash, which starts its second season on Tuesday, Feb. 5, on NBC.
After viewing the first couple of episodes of its return engagement, it's great to see that Smash has made some changes to heighten the backstage drama that is at the heart of the storytelling. The show is about dreamers and schemers of all ages and backgrounds, who experience the joys and heartbreaks that are part of the Broadway theater world.
At the recent TV critics press tour, the cast and producers gathered to talk about the tweaks and everyone was excited. It is a passion project for all of them, most of which can boast of impressive theatrical credits. Megan Hilty, who lit up the musical stage in Wicked and 9 to 5: the Musical, reported she has to remind her Broadway friends "we're not doing a reality show. We're doing a fantastic drama."
Season one ended with Bombshell, a musical about Marilyn Monroe, having successful out-of-town previews. Newcomer Karen (Katharine McPhee) won the coveted title role over veteran chorus girl Ivy (Hilty). But producer Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston) and director Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) are destined to pay for their past sins as they start to mount their production on Broadway.
Although their rivalry seems to have softened, the Hilty and McPhee characters are still competitors. Hilty explained, "Our relationship is on a constant rollercoaster ride. You never know if they're going to actually be friends. We have these really beautiful moments, and then someone goes and ruins it, by sleeping with her fiancé or something like that. It will always be that way, and you'll never know what will happen."
In the stellar ensemble, one of the most fascinating characters is played by Anjelica Huston. I see her producer role as the force that sets all the dramatic wheels in motion. So I had to ask about her character. Huston positively glowed with enthusiasm when she told me, "I'm having a great time with an opportunity to play a strong woman who has, if you'll forgive the word, balls. She's a go-getter in a male oriented society."
A dramatic twist will have her forced to deal with her unpleasant ex-husband to help facilitate getting Bombshell to Broadway this season. "For me it's a lot of fun because I'm playing Eileen Rand on quite a few levels. Her personal life is in shambles since she fell in love with the nefarious bartender. The beauty of series television is that you find out different things every week. It's like life and gives you the opportunity to explore a character in a way that you don't on film," explained the Academy Award-winning actress.
Is her strong character anything like Huston herself? "Well, bits and pieces," she admitted. "I think she's probably braver than I am, and she certainly puts her money where her mouth is, when she's got money. I think maybe she's a bit more honest than I am but, yes, quite a lot like me. There's a certain amount of poetic license that I draw on, and I use certain template combinations of Sue Mengers, Sherry Lansing, Paula Weinstein, and all of the great female producers that I've known from film."
Huston herself has produced and revealed that playing a producer is more fun "and easier than actually being in charge, as I'm sure the gentlemen behind me will testify," she said referring to Oscar-winning producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (Chicago), along with writer-exec-producer Joshua Safran (Gossip Girl), who were there for the interview panel.
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Now vying for space among review copies of recent spirituality releases (mine) and doorstop-sized tomes about dead presidents (my husband's) are The Cat in the Hat, Blueberries for Sal and assorted children's literature. Our preschoolers, however, seem less interested in reading now that summer's here and they can swim, ride bikes and dig in the garden.
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Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church by Jason Berry (Crown): Long before the explosion of media about clerical sex abuse in Boston, Berry was reporting about the issue for NCR and in his book Lead Us Not Into Temptation (1992). Now Berry turns his investigative attention to the issue of how money is handled in the church -- and once again he finds scandal, secrecy and cover-up. I know this will be a painful book to read, but it should be required reading for any Catholic who puts money in the collection basket.
Why Stay Catholic?: Unexpected Answers to a Life-Changing Question by Michael Leach (Loyola Press): If Berry's book has me wondering why I don't give up on this flawed institution, I can always turn to the optimistic-yet-realistic reflections from Leach, editor emeritus at Orbis Books. Actually, this one is already checked off my list, as I reviewed the book for another publication in late spring, so I can highly recommend it for those needing a reminder about what's good about the church.
The Emerging Church: A Community's Search for Itself by Tom Roberts (Orbis): I also expect to be cheered up by NCR editor at large Roberts' new book (due out in September). After spending 18 months on the road visiting Catholics all over the country (which he documented in a series of NCR articles), Roberts remains hopeful about the future of the church in America. I look forward to his reflections and predictions.
Prayers and Lies by Sherri Wood Emmons (Kensington): I don't often get to read novels, but this one by a Protestant friend is getting rave reviews. A coming-of-age story set in the South, its main character is a young girl who starts out with a naive faith that grows into a more "shades of grey" kind of faith by the end. Emmons has already finished her second novel, which will be published next year.
Great American Catholic Eulogies, compiled and introduced by Carol DeChant (ACTA): It may sound macabre to want to read a collection of eulogies, but when you hear the list of those being eulogized, you'll understand the attraction: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Andre Dubus, Tim Russert, Mother Katharine Drexel, Flannery O'Connor and Chaplain Fr. Mychal Judge are among the 50 Catholics who are remembered in this hardcover volume. An introduction by poet Thomas Lynch seals the deal that this is worth reading.
You Complete Me and Other Myths That Destroy Happily Ever After by Victoria Fleming (CreateSpace): While the institutional church rallies against gay marriage, plenty of heterosexual marriages are falling apart. Psychologist Fleming provides insight into some of the faulty thinking encouraged by our hyper-romantic culture, including, "I married the perfect person," "Children will bring us closer together," and "We can go back to the way we were." This is a self-published book by my sister's sister-in-law, who is a Catholic and a therapist who believes in trying to save marriages.
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor by Jana Riess (Paraclete): Author and blogger Riess, who is in the middle of a project to Tweet the entire Bible, undertook an earlier project to tackle 12 different spiritual practices, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, gratitude and generosity. "Really, how hard could that be?" she asks in this humorous memoir of how she fails at every single one. Luckily, it turns out that spiritual failure is a valuable practice in and of itself. (This book will be released Nov. 1.)
Nearly all of these books are available in Kindle editions. As for me, it's time to buy more bookshelves.
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The bill creating a coastal commission — an idea first proposed in the 1980s by then Gov. Thomas Kean — cleared the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee in a 4-2 vote, after more than an hour of discussion between environmental advocates, committee members and other advocacy groups. The bill has no Senate counterpart.
As proposed, the bill creates a commission made up of 19 people, appointed by the governor, who would be charged with planning and zoning decisions similar to those of the Pinelands and Highlands commissions, along with creating a new construction code, for all areas that currently are delineated in the Coastal Area Facilities Review Act.
"Nature does not stop at municipal boundaries," said Assemblyman Peter Barnes, D-Middlesex, a co-sponsor of the bill. "Unfortunately the way New Jersey has traditionally dealt with development, we stop at municipal boundaries. Municipalities can only look at their own four corners."
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