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Economic and environmental impacts of U.S. corn ethanol production and use
For many years, U.S. policy initiatives and incentives have favored the production of ethanol from corn. The goals have been to increase corn prices and farmer income, enhance rural employment through encouragement of value-added businesses, increase energy security, and produce additives and/or fuels capable of reducing tailpipe pollutants and greenhouse gases. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 established annual goals via a renewable fuels standard that would have increased production of ethanol and biodiesel to 7.5 billion gallons by 2012. That bill was superseded by the Energy Independence and Security of Act of 2007, which increased usage targets and specified performance standards for ethanol and other biofuels. The 2008 Farm Bill identified incentive payments for ethanol produced in various ways. The effects of these three laws have been magnified by rising crude oil prices, which helped maintain profits for corn dry-grind ethanol plants. This paper discusses environmental effects of corn ethanol production and use, energy balances of corn ethanol versus gasoline, subsidies for corn ethanol and gasoline, impacts of ethanol production on farmer decisionmaking, and effects of corn ethanol on food prices.
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Sweet Potato Bites with Avocado and Bacon
We've entered that time of year when I communicate with my husband via the Notre Dame football schedule. Sweet Potato Bites with Avocado and Bacon happened on "USC weekend."
In the fall, Ben does not talk calendar dates. He talks opponents.
- Me: "Jacky's wedding is on the second."
- Ben: "What?"
- Me: "The Navy game."
- Ben: "Ah, OK. It's not during the game is it?"
I love football, especially the Irish. (High five fellow Notre Dame fans! If that statement alienated 80% of you, please come over and I'll bake you Triple Threat Brownie Cookies to convince you that we should stay friends.) I'm still mastering the art of developing a rudimentary understanding of football strategy, but thanks to Sweet Potato Bites with Avocado and Bacon, I have unquestionably dominated one game-day essential: The food!
Sweet Potato Bites with Avocado and Bacon are the popular kid at the game-day party. We're taking the best parts of a loaded baked potato—ahem, the fixin's—and combining them with the best part of any self-respecting game-day spread: the guacamole.
Let's mix up chunks of green goodness avocado with creamy Greek yogurt (my stand-in for sour cream), sassy smoked paprika, and zesty lime juice. We take this heavenly mix, then settle it atop a baked sweet potato chip. Smother the whole shebang with crispy bacon and cilantro, and we've built ourselves the perfect game-day bite.
I'm an avocado fiend, and I use this luscious super food in dishes ranging from my Avocado Dip with Feta (another game-day winner) to Avocado Ice Cream (heavennnnnnn.) I also devour avocados straight out of the peel with excess amounts of lime juice. I call this "quality testing." Ben calls it "Quit eating all of the avocados!"
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No matter the team's record (or our level of strategy comprehension), we can totally score in the appetizer department. Sweet Potato Bites with Avocado and Bacon for the win!
Sweet Potato Bites with Avocado and Bacon
Baked sweet potato chips topped with chunky avocado, crispy bacon, and fresh cilantro. This easy appetizer is sure to be the winner at any party!
Yield: about 40 bites
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 sweet potatoes, scrubbed clean, peels on
- 1 and 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt, divided
- 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/3 cup granted 2% sharp cheddar cheese
- 2 medium avocados, peeled, pitted, and diced
- 2 tablespoons nonfat or 2% plain Greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 3 ounces bacon, cooked (about 4 slices)
- 3 tablespoons freshly chopped cilantro
- Place rack in upper and lower thirds of your oven and preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line two rimmed baking sheets with foil, then brush with 1/2 tablespoon olive oil each. Slice potatoes into 1/2- to 1/4-inch slices (use a mandolin if you have one.) Arrange slices in a single layer on the oiled baking sheets, then brush tops with remaining olive oil. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt and black pepper. Roast for 20 to 25 minutes, until golden brown underneath, rotating the pans 180 degrees and changing their positions on the upper/lower racks halfway through. Flip, then roast for an additional 8 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with cheddar, then return to oven and bake for an additional 3 minutes, until the cheese is melted and bubbly.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the avocado, Greek yogurt, lime juice, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, and smoked paprika. Mash lightly with a fork, but leave the mixture slightly chunky. Set aside.
- If necessary, cook the bacon according to these easy steps. When cool enough to handle, chop into small pieces.
- Once the crisps have baked, top each with a dollop of the avocado mixture, chopped bacon, and cilantro. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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I fail horribly in football language – we are into Alabama here though. Since you mentioned brownies, avocados and sweet potato bites I am sure we will bond over that :P
Football is totally lost me on….the food, however, is an entirely different story! Loving these tasty bites!
Gameday is the day for stuffed jalapenos.
1 roll of medium spiced breakfast sausage cooked and drained.
2 8oz blocks of cream cheese at room temperature
15 jalapeno peppers, washed, seeded and halfed lengthwise
After cooking your sausage, add in your cream cheese, mix well and then stuff your jalapeno halfs.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes!
My requisite ND tailgate food is a little atypical- I love to bring a mega trail mix of toasted almonds, cranberries, and dark chocolate M&Ms. Provides some energy to master the 8 hour long tailgate before night games like USC!
YUM!!!! Wow I would love these. I mean what's not to love I guess but…YUM!!
Football Sundays always end up being my day experimenting in the kitchen, love this idea!
Well being a Syracuse University fan means we don't cheer much in football season (but watch out when its time for basketball!). So mostly I cheer for Penn State to keep the peace with my mom in law :). We do a lot of tailgating dips because they are easy to transport, buffalo chicken dip, ruben dip, 7 layer dip. easy to make a few different ones and bring a bag of tortilla chips along.
Hot wings!!
My fellow ND fan Erin: Just as in my house, football Saturdays are an institution and food is the BIG TOPIC of the week proceeding each game. Do we slow cook something? Grill? Make soup? Clearly the answer this week is – make these potato bites!
My favorite game day food is a nacho bar. Everyone can build to their own taste
I confess that there's not a lot of football watching around here, but I love the food possibilities. Chicken wings are probably the favorite, followed by nachos, chips and salsa, and anything else you can dip!!
Booo Notre Dame (Sorry…Michigan fan here!). In my house we schedule around which fantasy player is playing ("I have to be home for the noon game because 2/3 of my team is playing). I'll never understand football but I definitely understand these sweet potato bites! They look so delicious!
My favorite game day food is Popchips! I like 'em because they're healthier….meaning I can eat more =P
Erin, these sweet potato bites look insane! I don't think they'd make it to whatever party I was hoping to bring them to, lol! Thanks for sharing.
I love soft pretzels!
Favorite game day food is chili and/or pepperoni rolls!
Chips and salsa…
i love chips & dip! or chips and guac. these bites sound amazing!
Yes, I think the food is often just as important as the game (although I would never admit that to my Mother-In-Law!) These look so good. Bring on the bites!
We usually have chips and salsa on game days
Who doesn't love avocado!!! These sweet potato bites are terrific, Eric.
not really one to sit and watch a game so no favorite snack – though in general I do like to munch on just plain old popcorn
We tend to be pizza people on game day around here. BUT. If we had friends who watched football (since Alex just moved here, he hasn't made game day buddies yet), I would TOTALLY be making these bad boys because OMGDELICIOUSIWANTTHEMALL
Hi, these are very nice appetizers!
I wish we had game days here, because I'd love to stuff my mouth with appetizers like these. They look amazing, and if it's got avocado, I'm in!
Not going to lie, I'm all about the food and only the food when it comes to football season, whereas my husband is all about the game (well, and the eating). :) These sweet potato bites would totally be a hit in our house!
That conversation made my day … we girls probably know dates based on sales at stores though, so we can't blame them too much! I'm all about football though:) And these bites – oh my goodness wow! Avocado, sweet potato, like, healthy comfort food right here!
I really like nachos for game day!
I don't really watch sports… I mostly come around for cheese dips :)
Pretty sure you can't go wrong with combining sweet potato, avocado, and bacon!
We always have a tray of veggies with an assortment of dips to change it up on game day. Our "go to" favorite is chili our way. Go team!
Absolutely need NACHOS!
I would not be down with any football lingo – but food lingo I understand so well!
And girrrl – these look just PERFECT!
I'm sort of lazy, I make a great big vat of chili and I leave the guys to their own devices.
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These look incredible! AND they actually fit in with my diet if I eliminate the cheese. Well done, I want to make these now :D
Chorizo stuffed, bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers! Guacamole!
I have been pinning all you girls recipes like crazy tonight from the Lemon Shower…All the recipes are so wonderful sounding. Thanks.
My/our fave game day food is not always so healthy…hahaha. Gauc with cheese straws. Turkey chili and wings are always a hit. Dessert is some kind of cupcake or brownies. Simple things so I can enjoy the game too.
I love pretzels and hummus for game day!
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love your football schedule talk…with my hubby it focuses around the Bears…my favorite game day food is refried bean dip ugh it is ridiculous how much I can eat. Also love your photos Erin!!
Sounds delish. My favorite game day food is Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip.
My favorite game day food is bacon cheeseburger soup!
Guacamole loaded nachos
Buffalo Wings!!
It looks yummy, I would bake the bacon rather than fry it.
(From Rachael Ray Show)
Preheat oven to 375F.
Arrange bacon on a slotted baking sheet and bake to crisp, 15-18 minutes.
I love nachos with lots of fresh salsa and avacado. Then soup. Any kind of soup keeps me smiling.
My favorite game day food is Captain Rodney's Cheese bake! Combining Cream cheese, Bacon, Sharp Cheddar and the best glaze can NEVER go wrong! Very time I bring it, I get asked for the recipe! Good thing I know it by heart!
Beer dip and pretzels
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These are AMAZING! I'm having a party next month and these are the first thing I've found for the menu! Thanks!! (also have been a Law Student's wife….great idea to fill the time he's in the library for hours and hours!)
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Just made these! They are amazing!
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If I make these before a party, will the avocado mixture turn a funny color before people arrive — or does the lime juice take care of that?
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My favorite game day food is Popchips! I like 'em because they're healthier….meaning I can eat more :)
thank you.
thank you very much Erin.
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Guacamole loaded nachos. thanks.
thank you very much.
thank you vry much :)
omg very nice post, thanks admin
These look delicious and am planning to try them. they look more orange like yams, does it matter whether sweet potato or yam?
Wow I have to try these ….I'm not a big football fan but I do live "as the crow flys" 1 mile from the notre dame stadium I can hear the band, announcers and roars from my patio Erin Clarke
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Especially on mobile, I am so sick of every recipe blog post being roughly half a Harry Potter book worth of personal reflections before I can even tell if I have the right ingredients on hand!
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Hello, this recipe looks soo delicious! Ive been obsessed with sweet potatoes lately so I can't wait to try it out!! Thank you for sharing this. I actually included this recipe here http://www.meshkomoments.com/healthy-football-game-food/ in my list of Healthy Football Game Food Ideas!! :)
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So, I always hate it when people do this, but do you think this would still be good minus the cheese? 3 people in my family can't eat dairy. Thanks!
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Is kosher salt just an expression for thick ground salt, or what is the significance of the salt being kosher in a recipe?
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This paper reflects on the qualitative risk analysis framework developed for a Foresight study on the Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases, which was coordinated in 2005 by the United Kingdom (UK) under what is now the Government Office for Science, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. The risk assessment covered human, plant and animal diseases in the UK and Africa in the years 2015 and 2030. Through engaging a diverse pool of experts, we developed a model conceptualising disease spread as the outcome of interactions among sources, pathways and drivers. We then used this model to conduct a Delphi survey of experts. The factors perceived most likely to contribute to infectious disease spread in 2015 and 2030 included geographic extension of existing pathogens (partially due to climate change), over-use of antibiotics/antivirals/pesticides leading to drug resistance, and zoonoses. Our methodology provides a framework for those who need to integrate a wide range of perspectives and factors into their planning and analyses.
IntroductionIt is by now well documented that a wide range of factors, including changes in land use and agricultural practices, changes in human demography, pathogen evolution, international travel and trade, climate change, and poor public health infrastructures can all trigger or exacerbate the spread of infectious diseases, determining how and where they will emerge in the future and the circumstances under which they could progress to epidemic or even pandemic proportions (Table 1) [1-5].
Table 1. Main categories of drivers associated with emergence and reemergence of human pathogens (reproduced from Woolhouse et al. (2005) [5])
Less widely documented are methods for analysing these factors in ways that enable a better understanding of how they are interlinked and how to prioritise their importance. One of the key challenges is that relevant information, when available, is not consolidated in a few hands but spread across numerous institutions and disciplines. Anticipating the emergence or altered transmission of any disease is likely to require expertise in biology, epidemiology, animal and human medicine, demographics, economics, and even sociology and anthropology. Although the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration in disease control is increasingly recognised [6-8], there remains the need to develop new ways of ensuring that diverse and sometimes divergent perspectives are accounted for. Doing so is essential for developing multi-sectoral understanding and commitment – increasingly required for the pursuit of pubic health action in a rapidly changing world.With a long-term vision in mind, the United Kingdom (UK), under what is now the Government Office for Science, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, conducted a Foresight project on Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases (DIID) with the objective of supporting strategic investment in disease detection, identification and monitoring technologies and systems [9-12]. This paper reflects on the risk analysis component of the DIID project, describing a methodology that could be adapted to subsequent analyses.
MethodologyWe analysed expert opinion on infectious disease risks in plants, animals and humans, in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK in 2015 and 2030 (comprehensive details on the methodology, workshop and survey results are available at the Foresight website [12]). Potential changes in sources, pathways and drivers of disease risks were identified and assessed according to how the magnitude and nature of risks are evolving, as well as the range of plausible future risk patterns. Research questions focused on:
To answer these questions a preliminary scoping phase, which included an expert workshop, developed an understanding of important issues and their interactions and formulated the overall approach to the research. A Delphi survey was then carried out in order to assess a broad range of expert opinions on future risks in the UK and Africa.
Scoping phaseThe scoping workshop brought together 22 UK infectious disease experts (recommended by the UK Foresight Scientific Advisory Group) to advise on the challenges presented by new and emerging infectious diseases. A disease systems model was developed (Figure 1), as well as an initial list of key factors ("drivers") likely to give rise to changes in disease patterns and emergence of new diseases, such as biological changes and socio-economic factors acting on disease sources and pathways of disease spread. The initial long list of drivers derived at the workshop was refined and clustered under the six main headings listed in Table 2.
Figure. The disease systems model as a tool for assessing future infectious disease risks
Table 2. Classification of factors influencing the spread of infectious disease, Foresight questionnaire, 2005
Identification and selection of participants for the surveyThe experts who took part in the Delphi survey were scientists selected to cover a broad range of expertise in plant, animal and human diseases, from epidemiological modelling, disease identification and disease pathology to disease control, regulation and policy making. They were selected upon the advice of approximately 30 senior advisers who took part in the DIID Foresight project, including members of the UK Foresight Scientific Advisory Group, the UK Foresight High Level Stakeholder Group and UK Health Protection Agency staff, to represent the best available informed judgement across our six areas of interest – the future development of plant, animal and human diseases in the UK and in sub-Saharan Africa. African respondents from 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa were invited on the basis of the best available expertise, rather than ensuring geographical equity. Francophone countries were under-represented as we did not have sufficient time within the project to translate questionnaires. This omission may have influenced the findings. There was, however, no evidence of any specific bias among the 55% respondents who completed the questionnaires, with relatively equal representation across the six survey areas (Table 3), and also across relevant areas of expertise (20 areas of expertise were mentioned in the questionnaire responses).
Table 3. Sample size, UK Foresight questionnaire, 2005
Questionnaire developmentA two-stage questionnaire-based survey was sent to 145 experts in infectious diseases from the UK and sub-Saharan Africa. In the second stage of this Delphi-type process [13], respondents were given the results from the first phase and asked to re-assess their own responses. Where their opinions diverged from those of others they were asked to explain their reasons rather than being encouraged to reach a consensus. The questionnaire was based on the disease systems model (Figure 1, Table 2), but slightly different versions were sent out depending on whether the participants were being asked about human, plant, or animal diseases. Nonetheless, the questionnaires were designed so as to be as comparable as possible. For example, question 3.2.4 in Table 2 was worded as "lack of availability of new vaccines or engineered resistance", broadening the scope of the question from vaccines (mainly relevant for humans and animals) to also include engineered resistance (mainly relevant for plants and animals). As another example, question 2.9 in Table 2 shows a question that was worded differentially depending on whether it was considering animal or human diseases; however, this question was not included in the plant diseases survey.
Each questionnaire asked about future changes in disease sources, pathways and drivers, leading to future disease outcomes. These terms were defined as follows:
'Drivers' operate in the infectious disease system through 'sources' of disease emergence and/or 'pathways' of disease transmission to determine the 'outcome' in terms of the emergence of future diseases and the levels of infection. 'Risk' was defined as the product of 'the future extent of a hazard' and 'the probability of occurrence of that hazard'. For each factor listed in Table 2, the respondents were asked to rate the extent and probability of different outcomes in the years 2015 and 2030, on a three-point scale. The survey thus provided a systematic method for gathering informed opinions on rankings of the impact of drivers on sources and pathways, as well as on the importance of changes in sources and pathways themselves. The questionnaires also asked respondents for additional observations, including the phenomena or processes they thought were likely to decrease risk and what they expected to be future risks (for example, which classes of diseases or organisms were likely to represent the greatest risk).
Data analysisQuestionnaires generated qualitative scores for both the perceived extent of the hazard and the perceived probability of its occurrence (1, 2 or 3; low, medium or high). The risk associated with a particular factor for each source, pathway and driver was then calculated as the product of these two scores, giving a range of potential values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 9. , Thus we compared the perceived importance of sources, pathways and drivers in contributing to future disease outcomes for the six risk questionnaire categories (permutations of host and location: Africa-human (AH), UK-human (UKH), Africa-animal (AA), UK-animal (UKA), Africa-plant (AP), UK-plant (UKP)). We focused on factors that were consistently predicted to be of higher risk through a data filtering process - risk assessments were categorised as low, moderate or high as follows:
The first filter selected the cases for which more than 50% of the responses were in the moderate or high category (scores 4, 6 or 9). The second filter selected cases for which more than 50% of responses were in the high category (scores 6 or 9).
Survey resultsParticipantsThe response rate in the first round of the survey was 55%, and 53% of the first round respondents contributed to the second round (Table 3). The respondents' self-reported areas of expertise were primarily: epidemiology (12%), virology (9%), pest and disease management (8%) and animal health and veterinary science (7%). This participation rate was more than sufficient to conduct the analysis, as breadth of expertise was deemed to have priority over absolute number of respondents. The declining number of respondents from the first and second round partially reflects those participants that did not feel that they needed to alter their responses.
Risk assessmentsThe complete survey results are available on the UK Foresight website [10]. Table 4 compares the factors which, for 2015 and 2030, passed the first and second filters of 50% or more of respondents.
Table 4. Responses for the years 2015 and 2030 that passed the first filter (moderate and high > 50%) and the second filter (high >50%), Foresight questionnaire 2005
The highest perceived risks (for 2030) related to:
In five of the six categories there was a perceived high risk of:
Changes in sources were seen as important in all six categories (plants, animals and humans; UK and Africa), and there was little difference between UK and Africa in perceived overall risks generated by changes in sources. Changes in pathways were seen as less important generators of disease risks across all categories than were changes in sources, although there were marked differences between UK and Africa. Increased host-to-host transmission due to increased density of host populations was seen as important for animals, plants and humans in Africa, but not at all in the UK. Increased disease vector populations were seen as important for plants and animals in the UK and for plants in Africa.Many more disease drivers were considered important in Africa than in UK. For Africa, intriguingly, many respondents predicted lower risks arising from 'Legislation and Systems of Government' and 'Conflict and War' in 2030 compared to 2015, which reflects optimism about the future. Finally, the three elements of climate change that were examined (increased temperature, rainfall and drought) were all seen as important drivers for human disease risks in Africa; yet only drought was highlighted for animals, and only temperature and rainfall was highlighted for plants.In the UK, drivers seen as generating high levels of risk for human diseases were: drug use leading to the emergence of drug-resistant disease organisms and climate change, specifically rising temperatures. For UK plant diseases, the emergence of pesticide-resistant disease strains and the lack of new pesticides, increased trade and transport of crops and higher ambient temperatures, were seen as important risk drivers. For UK animal diseases, lack of adequate systems for disease control, poor implementation of international systems of disease surveillance and control, increased ability to engineer new diseases or to exploit existing diseases for bio-terrorism, emergence of drug resistance and the lack of new drugs, increased trade in animals, increase in illegal practices leading to the spread of diseases and climate change, specifically increased temperatures, were highlighted as important.
High hazard, low probability responsesWe also examined high hazard, low probability risks, which would be scored as a 3 (1 for probability multiplied by 3 for hazard) and therefore would not have passed through the data-filtering analysis. However, only 17 out of the total 636 possible responses were of this nature, and in each case only between two and four respondents had categorised the risk in this way.
Discussion: Employing Foresight to understand future disease outcomesIf it is clear that a wide range of factors influence the spread of infectious disease [1-3,14], then there is a need to better understand and prioritise them:"The rate and scale of global change in agriculture, trade, demographics, species translocations and invasions, microbial adaptation, and other complex factors, have evidently outstripped our ability to understand and respond to EIDs [emerging infectious diseases], and exposed serious limitations of approaches that fail to engage with the wider contexts from which infectious diseases emerge." [15]
For each factor, it is important to: identify and quantify the relevant sources, pathways and drivers, model their relationships and interactions, and identify potential intervention points where synergistic interactions promoting disease emergence can be arrested. Quantitative analyses are ideally suited for this, yet in many instances crucial knowledge gaps exist, creating the need for complementary analyses to help guide decision-making and priority-setting until more hard evidence becomes available. Although some analysts have called for interaction across a very broad range of expertise [15-17], there has been little discussion about how this could be practically done.Foresight projects, such as the UK DIID project, aim to develop scientific and technological priorities, integrate multi-disciplinary perspectives, co-ordinate research opportunities with economic and social needs, and stimulate communication and partnerships between researchers, research users and research funders [18,19]. Meanwhile, survey methodologies such as Delphi enable a systematic approach to eliciting, aggregating and synthesising expert opinions [20-22]. The approach we describe here begins to develop a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritising infectious disease spread by incorporating a wide range of perspectives and insights into the analysis. Through engaging a wide range of expertise, we identified and developed a preliminary prioritisation of the myriad factors relevant to plant, animal and human disease.There are, of course, limitations to this approach. One is that in order to cover the broad geographic and disease range mandated by this project, it was inevitable that the disease systems model on which the research was based would be rather general; the predictions should be interpreted with this in mind. One other limitation of our study, and perhaps of Foresight in general, is that the answers are not 'evidence-based' in the scientific sense of the word. In our study, the respondents' predictions are based on their experience and knowledge, and represent the respondents' expectations of future courses of events. Where little data exist (necessarily the case when mapping the future), or where these data are not easily comparable, we would suggest that demonstrating general agreement – or the lack thereof – on common themes across a broad range of disciplines and institutions can be an important starting point for framing and pursuing multi-agency action. Finally, we are also aware that our disease systems approach has been unrealistically linear. For any specific disease, dynamic interactions and feedback loops among drivers, sources and pathways will amplify or diminish overall disease risks. However, it was not possible to include this level of sophistication in a general, meta-level model applicable to all the disease categories in this study. Future studies would be well advised to focus on specific classes of disease, or even on specific drivers, pathways or sources of disease.Ultimately, the challenge is to identify the processes that influence the spread of new and emerging diseases before they become significant problems for national public health systems or public health emergencies of international concern. The approach described here, appropriately applied, could help facilitate this.
AcknowledgementsWe are grateful for the input provided by expert contributors who are acknowledged in Foresight (2006) [9-11]. We would also like to extend our thanks to Dr Laura Meagher, Technology Development Group, for her contribution to the Innogen risk analysis team; and the UK Office of Science and Innovation Foresight Team for the DIID project for funding the project and for their support and guidance during its execution.
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The chief executive of Leighton Holdings, David Stewart, says he would ''not have a problem'' if his long-serving predecessor Wal King returned to the board.
Speculation has been relentlessly building that a sensational return to the board of Australia's largest contractor could be imminent for Mr King, just months after his official departure at the start of the year.
Spanish construction giant Grupo ACS, which last week won control of Leighton's German majority shareholder Hochtief, is said to be supportive of Mr King's return.
"If the board wants to put Wal back on the board, then we will get on with life," Mr Stewart told reporters after a business lunch in Melbourne. ''At the end of the day there is all this speculation – I can't confirm or otherwise what's going to happen.''
Mr Stewart said he had no knowledge of if or when the enigmatic Mr King would actually return, saying that as chief executive, he had no involvement in the decision-making process.
''I'm not hearing anything I can assure you; absolutely not hearing anything,'' he said.
Addressing a 500-strong crowd at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch, Mr Stewart was keen to quash constant speculation that Mr King had preferred other candidates to have been his replacement.
Some observers believe Mr King's return would deem Leighton chairman David Mortimer's, and even Mr Stewart's, position untenable.
''Despite the press noise, I wouldn't have been standing up here today if Wal hadn't supported me in this role,'' Mr Stewart said.
Leighton slashed its profit forecast by $1 billion last month and raised $757 million in an equity raising, which sent Leighton and Hochtief's shares down sharply.
The company's shares fell 18 cents, or 0.8 per cent, to close at $23.58 today, while the broader market slipped 0.3 per cent.


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One of the enduring conflicts in Japanese TV dramas is the one that exists between a bride and her mother-in-law. This theme hit its peak 13 years ago in the series "Double Kitchen," which followed the daily boxing match between Kiriko and her husband's mother, who, as played by Yoko Nogiwa, was the epitome of domestic imperiousness.
On Tuesday at 9 p.m., TBS rejoins this fighting family with the drama special "Triple Kitchen." Kiriko (Makiko Esumi), her ineffectual banker husband and their two kids return to Japan after having spent 13 years in London, where her husband had been posted.
Kiriko has enjoyed the expatriate life and is not keen on returning home, especially since home is the Shinto shrine compound that her in-laws supervise. Mother-in-law Yoshiko is determined that her son take over the shrine when they retire, and she's disgusted with the Western ways that the family has picked up abroad. Added to this volatile situation is Kiriko's sister-in-law, who now also lives in the compound with her husband.
Kiyoshi Atsumi, who died 10 years ago, was one of Japan's most beloved actors.
His popularity was based on one role — Tora-san, the bumbling, lovelorn traveling salesman who was the protagonist of the "Otoko wa Tsurai yo (It's Tough Being a Man)" movie series. Begun in 1969, the series numbered 48 episodes by the time it came to an end with Atsumi's death.
Aside from Tora-san, most people didn't know much about Atsumi, including the fact that before he started the series he had been a professional actor for 25 years. The documentary special "A Portrait of Kiyoshi Atsumi" (NHK BS-2, Friday, 8 p.m.) takes an in-depth look at his life.
Atsumi started in vaudeville, and was a successful comedian who was used often on stage and television, as well as in the movies.
The documentary shows how he grew as an actor and developed one of the most distinctive comic styles of his generation. Even while working on Tora-san for three decades, he managed to do other roles that challenged him as an artist.
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FORWARD Blair Macaulay of the University of Manitoba has been named the 2012-13 Canada West men's hockey most valuable player for the second straight year.
Macaulay, 24, is just the second player to repeat as conference MVP since the award's inception in the 1978-79 season and is the just the second Bisons player to earn the honour. Paul Deniset won it in 2004-05.
He is Canada West's Sullivan Trophy nominee for the CIS player of the year.
In addition, Bisons forward James Henry, 21, was chosen as 2012-13 Canada West most outstanding freshman.
Both Macaulay and Bisons defenceman Dane Crowley were named to the Canada West first all-star team while defenceman Jeremy Schappert and forward Tyler Dittmer were selected second team all-stars.
Macaulay, a Winnipeg native, finished the regular season tied for second in Canada West scoring with 35 points (12 goals and 23 assists) in 28 games. Macaulay has been a first-team all-star for three straight seasons.
"Blair is a quality person and student who is an excellent representative of the University of Manitoba and the CIS," said Bisons men's hockey head coach Mike Sirant in a media release.
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IN men's basketball, Winnipeg's Jarred Ogungbemi-Jackson of the Calgary Dinos was named a first-team Canada West all-star.
Ogungbemi-Jackson, a graduate of Garden City Collegiate, was third in Canada West scoring with an average of 20.7 points per game.
Named second-team all-stars were Winnipeg Wesmen guard Andrew Cunningham and Bisons guard Stephan Walton. Cunningham led the CIS and Canada West in assists with 163, which was a Canada West single-season record. Walton led the Bisons in scoring with 17.3 points per game in 22 regular-season games.


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Johannesburg - A South African Airways crew member was arrested at the OR Tambo International airport on Friday for allegedly trafficking drugs from Sao Paulo, Brazil into the country, the Hawks said on Friday.
Captain Paul Ramaloko said the 34-year-old flight attendant was found with nearly two kilograms of cocaine, estimated to have a street value of R300,000.
"She had wrapped the drugs on the upper part of her body, under her clothes," said Ramaloko.
He said she was under surveillance for some time and was arrested shortly after landing at the OR Tambo International airport.
She was apparently part of a drug syndicate trafficking between the two countries.
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The calls purchased yesterday, which lock in the price where traders can buy stock, are looking for the EWW to gain roughly 3 percent or more by mid-April. The options could be sold earlier at a profit if their value rises with any rally before then, but they will expire worthless if the shares remain below the $72 strike price. (See our Education section)
This call buying made up 94 percent of yesterday's total option volume in the fund. Overall calls at all strikes outnumbered puts by 15 to 1, a reflection of the session's bullish sentiment.
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French multimedia artist Xavier Veilhan's work often focuses on transportation and movement, like in his recent RAL 5015 sculpture. He created the fully functional blue motorboat in collaboration with Frauscher shipyard.
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A "visual conversation between two iPhones and two lovers," the Tumblr Xyxx anonymously documents the relationship between a female (xx) and male (xy) couple through beautiful images which are, surprisingly (though probably not without an app or two), all taken on iPhones.
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The new mRelease application from Being MEdia, LLc helps filmmakers and photographers sign and send releases straight from their phone. Available for $3 on iTunes, the app includes essentials like an Appearance Release (aka Model Release or Talent Release), Property Release, Location Release, and Crew Release.
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Now available in paperback form, photographer EStelle Hanania's series "Parking Lot Hydra" celebrates the quirkier side of Bulgaria's winter masquerade, documenting performers clad in feathers, horns, and paint in the festival's nearby parking lot.
5. The Making of a T-Shirt
A new video from Createmake shows how t-shirts are screen printed at Howies, the U.K.-based label with a global cult following. Using organic cotton, the Howies team silk screens the t-shirts by hand, a labor of love nicely captured in this short documentary.
6. Polaroid Rainbow SX-70 OneStep Land Camera
The Impossible Project and Photojojo teamed up to refurbish 50 Polaroid Rainbow SX-70 OneStep Land Cameras. Selling for $210 a pop, the good-as-new cameras come complete with shoulder strap and two packs of film—unsurprisingly, the limited edition retro cameras already sold out.
7. Hu2 Laptop Stickers
Fubiz introduces us to the 2010 laptop sticker collection from Hu2 Design. Designed and crafted in the heart of London, these elegant and cleverly illustrated PVC-free adhesives make a tasteful way to personalize any MacBook. The riff on Magritte's famous "Son of Man" painting is a particularly witty why-didn't-I-think-of-that-first idea.
8. The Periodic Table of Swearing
Replacing scientific elements with curse words, The Periodic Table of Swearing invents abbreviations for both familiar and not-so-known foul language in a nicely-done graphic.
9. Picture This Magazine
South African pop culture community One Small Seed recently launched their tenth issue of "Picture This," showcasing the best in recent photography submitted by its online creative community.
10. "End Love" by OK Go
Motiongrapher highlights "End Love"—the latest music video from stunt-rockers OK Go. An accompanying interview with directors and choreographers breaks down the hours that went into creating the four minutes of stop-motion wizardry.
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Recording a "Balloon Boy" view of the earth, Say Mayday featured video footage from a GoPro HD camera that a group of San Francisco engineers launched into the stratosphere.
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Citizen DUI task force goes after New Year's drunk drivers.
ANCHORAGE- Nine people in Anchorage were arrested for drunk driving Tuesday night.
One of the arrests came from an initial report by the citizen DUI task force, said Jennifer Castro of the Anchorage Police Department.
This is the first time the DUI task force has patrolled on a weeknight. Four teams in their own cars looked for erratic driving and then called 911 if they suspected a driver is drunk.
The citizen DUI task force was set up this summer after a wave of suspected DUI deaths, including two 15-year-old girls who were hit at 88th Avenue and Abbott Street while walking home.
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The majority of car chase movies tend to feature some serious A-list talent, but we'd like to focus more on the real stars of those scenes, the car. From McQueen's super-tight Ford Mustang in "Bullitt" to the stripped-down Dodge Charger in Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof", these vehicles undoubtedly made the scenes what they were.
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If you can say anything about a team and a season with 15 games remaining, it is the East Division is a wild-turkey shoot and this defence of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is far too good to be wasted.
While there is more than ample time for a team to get streaky and separate itself from the pack, the talent in the East, or lack thereof, appears to be uniform. Anthony Calvillo has found his kryptonite, and its name is Alouettes head coach Dan Hawkins. The Argonauts may be the defending champions, but they are still the .500 regular-season team they were in 2012. The Tiger-Cats have figured out it doesn't matter who your defensive co-ordinator is if your players aren't very good, and the Bombers are back in the offensive doldrums they started the 2012 campaign with.
So while it may be a stretch for Bomber fans to be enthralled with their squad's latest performance against a defence with more holes in it than the Zimmerman case, the fact remains the team is tied with everybody else for first place, and all of their divisional rivals have just as many blemishes as they do. So hooray for mediocrity.
The silver lining of this playbook, though, is if the Bomber offence can even start pulling some of their own weight, this team has the most potential for success out of all their rivals, because of how good their defence appears to be. If there is one thing in the East Division that jumps off the page at you, and has been consistent over three games, it is this Bomber defence. I challenge you to find another phase, on any football team east of Saskatchewan, that is playing at the level this group is right now.
While it is unrealistic to expect them to stay at this pace -- the Blue defenders are still on the highway to a hundred sacks -- if they hit 75 they will be the stuff of legends. The back end of this group is only vulnerable when they make mental mistakes, and the number of players they get to the football makes them a punishing and effective squad of tacklers. While mere mortals as individuals, when united, defensive co-ordinator Casey Creehan and head coach Tim Burke have wonder-twin powers working under the same roof. Frankly, defences of this calibre don't come around all that often in Winnipeg and to not capitalize on their excellence this season would be a crime.
While I'm not the sort who applauds knee-jerking through decision-making time, something needs to be done, and sooner rather than later, to elevate this offence to the approximate levels of their counterparts.
Which brings us to the great chicken and egg deliberation: What came first? A bad player, or a bad scheme? In 2012, the offence started slowly and picked up speed. With the rate of progression they displayed, the optimists among us reasoned if only they had had more games, they would have achieved full-throttle. Though the offence wasn't broken, they chose to fix it in the off-season. It was changed to maximize the effectiveness and safeguard the play of their starting pivot.
So is it the play of Buck Pierce that has now regressed, or is it that the reworking of the offence hasn't worked? It is possible the new system is taking as long as the first one to synchronize? If it is, by the time they fire on all cylinders, will it be too late all again?
It is one thing to underachieve and have all phases of your football team fail to live up to expectations. Yet when one phase appears to be well positioned for prime time and is of the calibre to redirect the fortunes of your team, they need to be complemented in short order or their efforts will be in vain.
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The Egyptian police arrested author Salahadinne Mohsen at Cairo Airport on December 23rd while he was trying to leave for Turkey, The Middle East reported Saturday.
The 43-year-old, self-published writer was given a six-month suspended sentence in July for publishing anti-Islamic novels, the paper said.
Mohsen who has already completed his sentence, is still barred from leaving the country.
According to the paper, he was first arrested in March of last year for his writing, which described the Koran as the "holy book emanating from the ignorance of the Bedouins" -- Albawaba.com
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Unity, diversity and democratic institutions. What can we learn from the European Union as a large-scale experiment in political organization and governing?
How to reconcile political unity and diversity is a key issue in both democratic practice and theory. Coping with this dilemma activates some basic questions about how we understand political actors, institutions and change. This paper suggests that the evolving European polity is an exciting site for exploring this issue. In particular, can the European experiment give a better general understanding of what factors influence the rise and decline of voluntary cooperative efforts across established entities and boundaries? Can it shed light upon what are the consequences for the component units when they become part of a larger entity? Can we learn something about the changing conditions of democratic institutions and actors and their significance for the dynamics of change in political orders?
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Been living in El Salvador since 1993. Have been involved in tourism here in colonial Suchitoto where I live for the last 5 years and more recently at the national level. I curently work as the field director for the Palo Alto Friends Meeting "El Salvador Projects" most of our work is in education working in some of the poorest parts of rural El Salvador. For more information about our work see http://www.pafmelsalvadorprojects.org
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>Technical Support>Automatic distance entry when selecting a saved course
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I used to have the following "workflow":
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5. Distance from the MAP would be automatically filled in.
The last step no longer seems to work for me. Am I doing something wrong? I used this feature for every run. Any help is appreciated!
Not sure if this is a new bug or was it introduced back in June. Anyway, I made the fix in the code and it will be available in the next upload.


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"Social Media" – I was going to write a blog post about a similar subject, but then discovered this funny infographic. So, I stole it. Just kidding, I borrowed it. Anyway, I think it's useful for freelance copywriters to see if they find themselves, in their business capacity, among the social sickos. Sadly, I found my own conduct on one of the panels here. But, I'm glad I did. Now that I know there is awareness about such behavior and folks are cognizant of it and not necessarily in a good way, I'll modify my business tactic.
Initially, I was not a fan of the infographic. However, recently, as I've come to appreciate the time-saving benefit of a visual shorthand of unwieldy and often complicated text, I've become a huge fan. They're so simple, yet so enlightening, and many are just freakin' funny!