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The Map Is Not the Territory
I do remember some things about my birth father.
I do remember his impossibly long stride as he came down the airplane's gangway. I remember his brown guitar case in one hand, his duffel in the other. I remember the worn leather patches on the elbows of his corduroy jacket. I remember the way his sly smile swelled into a boyish grin as he walked toward me.
I was nine years old when this happened, but I do know that this memory is almost certainly correct.
It's almost certainly correct because I rarely visualize that moment at all, and also because I've never, ever written about it, or even discussed it.
So I'm sure the memory is "real," see, because I haven't screwed the memory up yet.
Tomodachi Life is a video game about avatars.
At the game's outset you are invited either to import Miis—these are avatars usually created each by its own maker—or to recreate your family and friends entirely from memory.
You may also specify, for each of these avatars, whether that character is "related" to you and, if yes, how: You can assign relationships like "father," "mother," or "sibling." (Presumably this is all to safeguard your avatar from an ugly romantic pairing.)
You can also tell the game whether an avatar is your "spouse," but Tomodachi Life doesn't seem to take that particular type of relationship into account—the game apparently match-makes couples at its own whim, whether or not you're IRL-married.
Once a Mii is either imported or designed fresh, you may assign any number of characteristics to it. Perhaps she walks quickly, or talks quickly. Perhaps his gestures are broad and ebullient. Maybe she is extremely self-serious; perhaps she is "relaxed." You can also tweak settings until an avatar's vocal tone, timbre, and cadence are exactly correct. The avatar goes on to read game text aloud in its bizarre digitized voice.
Once you've assigned X-many values, Tomodachi Life evaluates the avatar's "personality" using a rubric resembling the Myers-Briggs. In this way, one friend—a slow-moving, serious woman—is a "confident brainiac." Another—a quick-moving fellow with a flair for the dramatic—is an "outgoing" showboat.
"But Ted," I teased my fiance, "this is the old you."
"Don't delete me!" Ted cried. "Didn't you fall in love with the 'old me' when we first met?"
At the beginning of my Tomodachi Life, there were only two Mii avatars in my "MiiMaker," one of whom was a thinner, clean-shaven Ted.
I initially hadn't realized I could import more Mii avatars through the 3DS's Streetpass Plaza; now I had two Teds to contend with. There was the out-of-date Ted I'd downloaded from our WiiU a year earlier, and then there was the new, up-to-date Ted I'd streetpassed just this week.
And since Old Ted's avatar and mine were the only two avatars on the island at first, my Tomodachi Life "lookalike"—the game explicitly refers to your doppelgaenger as a "lookalike"—had already begun to fall in love with the Ted of Last Year.
"Fuck it," I told real-life living-with-me Ted. "I'm just gonna delete Old Ted. While I still have a chance, you know?"
"Don't do that!" Ted insisted, suddenly and weirdly attached to the Old Ted Avatar.
"Look," I replied lightly, "I'm sure she'll eventually fall in love with New Ted." Here I meant, once I'd deleted the old WiiU avatar, my "lookalike" would fall in love with the next-newest cast member, Ted From a Week Ago. After all, I'd marked this character as a "spouse," too.
She didn't.
Instead, my doppelgaenger wanted to romance two of her male colleagues. "No, no, no!" I shouted at the tiny screen. "This is all wrong! This is so wrong!"
The dissonance didn't end there. One avatar, one of my best guy friends in real life, insisted on having a haircut. "I'm tired of my hair," his avatar harrumphed.
NO, I told the game.
No! Because my friend doesn't need a haircut, or if I do give him one, how is he supposed to resemble himself?
I dressed another avatar in clothes she would approximately wear. "She doesn't like it," the game grumbled at me. I shopped for clothes until I found an ensemble she'd hate.
"She loves it!" the game told me giddily.
In-game I can set another avatar as my "father," "mother," or "sibling." But in life, I can't. Oh, I could fudge the facts a little, sure. I could invent a little avatar of my best friend and call her my sibling for the hell of it. I could make avatars of Ted's parents and recast them as mine.
Sometimes, in-game, I wonder how—if I were made to try it—how I might design an avatar of my birth father.
I don't remember his face very well. I do remember his ash-brown hair, his green eyes, and his eyelashes, which were long and black and curled like a cartoon's. I remember that he was grand and lanky, at least to a nine-year-old girl. I do remember his twice-broken nose.
But, trickily, I don't actually remember what any of these details look like. Rather, they're ideas of memories. They're things I remember remembering.
Now, when I try to remember the details of his face, there is no memory. Instead, I find my head filled with simple mental sentences—"He has green eyes." "He has ash-brown hair"—and the still-frame images I ought to have of him are instead replaced with entire spoken paragraphs.
There is a picturebook on my shelf, 'Stories Every Child Should Know', copyrighted 1936. It is bound in fine blue fabric; its title is printed in barely-faded gilt. My adoptive mother used to read to me from it because her mother used to read aloud from it, too.
Ted never had a chance to know my adoptive parents. He's never met any of my family. I sometimes joke that, as far as he knows, I made them all up. It's a sick joke: He moved into my childhood home with me, so that we're surrounded by photographs of them, and books.
I opened the picturebook to its first page and, automatically, Ted began to read aloud.
"Stop it!" I screamed. "Please, stop!"
Ted looked at me, confused and hurt. I caught my breath.
"Please," I said, quieter now, "please, please don't do that. You'll overwrite the… I still have a distinct memory of my mother reading, and you'll overwrite it."
Ted nodded grimly.
"You can overwrite it someday," I conceded, "if we ever have children. I mean, we'll have to. We'll have to read out loud. But I'm not ready for that.
"But also," and I started to laugh, "also, you're reading it wrong."
As I've uploaded my friends' avatars to Tomodachi Life, I keep guessing at the characteristics I think they might give themselves. "How would this person describe herself?" I am always wondering.
Still, I am acutely aware that I am the one who is, in fact, authoring their personalities.
To my credit, they seem enough like themselves. My close friend Daphny, according to the game software, is a "trendsetter," which she really is. A friendly colleague was designated as an "outgoing" "leader," which I liked for him. Ted was given the "showboat" personality, which I guess is sort of true. ("I love being the center of attention!" my fiance's avatar shouted at me. It rang tinny: Maybe Ted does love being the center of attention, but he would never say so.)
As I imported a friendly acquaintance's avatar, though—and this avatar belonged to a someone I haven't seen in at least a year—I began to wonder if I had his "personality" wrong. And if I did have his personality wrong, wasn't that… unfair? Sinister, almost?
Because, if I do have him all wrong, I'm memorizing this backward version of him, cementing that version of him in my head, instead of knowing him for the way he really is.
I began to overthink it. I began to worry.
In a sense, aren't I doing that to every friend in Tomodachi Life? I am secretly writing my own mental sentences about people I've met, and I am making those sentences permanent.
It's almost like when someone appears to you in a dream, and he says something wrong, and you're angry at him the next morning even though he never really said that thing.
My adoptive mother appears in every single dream I have. Whenever I wake up, if I can remember the dream, I make sure to remind myself that I was the one who wrote both halves of our conversation.
I do remember the way, as he disembarked the plane, my birth father's stride lengthened. His little smirk broadened into a grin.
I remember his smile because one of his front teeth was missing.
That one excrutiating detail changed his appearance so much, somehow. He looked so different to me. I think I must have taken a step back.
My birth father stopped several feet away from me. He stood there motionless. His smile faltered.
I remember this, not because I can picture him without his teeth, but because I remember my sudden, deep embarrassment.
I remember my birth-father pausing in his walk toward me. He stood there, silent. Finally he said, "Daddy got some teeth knocked out." I nodded, and we left the airport that way.
In one particular memory, I can see a gold cross earring dangling from my birth father's ear. It is a half-inch long, gold-plated, jittering from his earlobe and catching the light.
I probably remember his earring because I asked him why he was wearing it. He told me it was because we were going to church. It was his church earring.
Tomodachi Life is a game about avatars.
More important, it's about the avatars you create. It's entirely about how you choose to remember others.
The problem with nonfiction writing—the problem with remembering anything, ever—is that, with each act of remembering, the photograph might fade. With enough remembering, the mental image dissolves completely.
With enough remembering, I am left with an oversimplification, an abstract map of a memory. I am left with a mess of so many sentences about a person, with just a cartoon of a face.
I cannot remember my birth father's face.
I can remember specific details, but none of these is a salient fact about his appearance. Every feature is a mistake. I'm left with elbow-patches on his sports jacket, his boyish, toothless grin, and that's it. That's all.
"The map of places passes. The reality of paper tears."
This review of Tomodachi Life is based on an earlier piece of writing, "Lapse," from 2004.


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Kitchen gadgets, gear, and appliances to help you get things done.
The more kitchen gadgets you amass, the more organizational support you need to keep them all in order. I've seen tons of spice racks, but this fancy carousel by KitchenArt ($32 at Amazon.com) seems to do it all. Not only is it designed to save space and keep your spices in uniform containers like most other models, but this one has a quirky little dial that lets you automatically dispense by the quarter teaspoon. Brilliant? I think so.
I like that KitchenArt makes their spice carousel in two colors (black and white) to match your appliances, but what's better is that you can screw in an extra piece (included in the box) to hang the whole thing upside down under a cabinet. Talk about efficiency. A provided set of sticker labels is pretty inclusive, but it would be fairly easy to make your own should they not cover the more eclectic elements of your collection (ras el hanout, anyone?).
Overall, there aren't many problems to be had, given its straightforward functionality. Automatically measuring spices is a great little trick and controls a heavy hand: just slide open the little trap door on the bottom side of each container and turn the dial. Simple, and certainly no more hassle than flipping open a pour top.
The only thing I noticed was that over time, little bits can accumulate in the crevices around the trap door, requiring gentle cleaning. It's my only complaint and a minor one at that. But if you're starting to give up on a resolution to get more organized this year, this definitely isn't a bad place to start.
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This is gameplay footage of Barbie's Dreamhouse Party, recorded by Rock, Paper, Shotgun. It terrified me. I showed it to my three year-old daughter. She stared blankly at it for a minute before softly walking away.
By all accounts the game is equal parts condescending and horrific, and yet...so much so that I kinda want to play it.
Barbie Dreamhouse Party Creeps The Crap Out Of Me [Rock Paper Shotgun]


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We use funds to purchase supplemental equipment for the library (Large Screen TV, Digital Projector, Color laser printer, shelving for the new Young Adult section, etc.). We also buy additional library materials for the collections (including manga and other young adult materials, DVDs, books, reference items, magazine subscriptions, etc.).
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Shoot us an email and we will happy to put you on our email list (email@example.com), or you can browse a print copy in library lobby during your next visit.
The Friends of the Library are now acting as an umbrella group to support the Color My Library Committee, which working on an ambitious project to brighten up the Children's area in the library.
We have fun, volunteering, dreaming up new programs and projects, we get the satisfaction of making a great library even better for everyone in our community. New faces and new ideas are always welcome!
Check the library web page calendar, the library Facebook page, or the library bulletin board for our next meeting date and time.
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I managed to slice off the tip of my left index finger an hour or so before beginning this column. To make matters worse it was while I was chopping fresh chillies. Ouch. The double ouch is when one tries to type effectively with a left index finger trussed in cheap sticking plasters that (a) can't stem the claret and (b) make it near impossible to type my 't's, 'g's, 'f's, 'v's, 'b's and 'r's properly and without eyewatering pain. So it's slow going, especially when a festering feeling of jealousy also distracts me.
It started back in July when "out of office" replies began bouncing in from winemakers I'd be trying to get hold of for whatever reason. "I'm on annual leave," they said, "I'm away from my desk for two weeks" or "I'm overseas until the first week of September and my access to phone and emails will be limited". Why don't you just come out and say it, you're in Samoa or Vanuatu, Fiji or the south of France you lucky sods! Yes, you've been working like the clappers since Christmas and deserve a break, but so do I!
Okay, Yvonne, calm down and try to think happy thoughts. I do not have the funds or spare time required for holidaying right now,but I do have a bunch of bottles of sparkling wine that I've been meaning to review. Hooray! Happy thought achieved! In addition to sparkling wine made from organic feijoas, sauvignon blanc and 100 per cent chardonnay, I also have two classic "methode traditionelle" blends of chardonnay and pinot noir to taste, one from Martinborough and one from fruit grown in the King Valley in Victoria, Australia.
Methode traditionnelle is where the delicate bubbles are produced when the base wine goes through its secondary fermentation inside the same bottle from which it will eventually be served, just like they've been doing for centuries in Champagne. But how do you make a pale, golden coloured wine out of dark-skinned pinot noir grapes? It's easy if you're careful.
All grapes actually have white juice - the colour comes from the skins. So if you want your wine to stay white, you simply press the pinot noir grapes very gently to extract the juice and then you get rid of the skins asap. If you want colour, you let the juice soak with the skins and the colour will seep through - the longer the soak, the darker the resulting wine will be.
So to the tasting. I'm a feijoa fan, I love them any which way, whether it's on their own, in icecream, sorbets, salsas or in crumbles. I love them in pies, flans, jams and daiquiris. I love them in smoothies and I have for many years enjoyed them in sparkling wine.
The team at Lothlorien have been producing premium, organic fruit wines in the Ahuroa Valley near Warkworth since 1971.
Lothlorien Organic Medium Sparkling Feijoa Wine $17
The pure sweet feijoa aromas make me nostalgic for autumn and the flavours are clean, crisp and ever-so-slightly sweet and best of all they're super long-lasting on the finish. The best example on the market today in my opinion. www.lothlorienwinery.co.nz
Mount Riley Savee Sparkling Sauvignon Blanc NV $18
I remember being quite shocked when this wine first appeared on the shelves of the wine shop I was working in back in 2000. Thirteen years on, sparkling sauvignon blancs are everywhere and it's a really popular style. But it all started with this wine, New Zealand's very first sparkling sauvignon blanc. I like it because it's not sweet like many of the commercial examples out there, instead it carries intense, crushed basil, dill and passionfruit flavours which merge with pepper and punchy, sweaty, grassy notes - just gorgeous. www.mountriley.co.nz
Daniel Le Brun Blanc de Blancs 2009 $39
2009 was, according to the notes that accompanied the bottle, "an exceptional year for producing sparkling wine grapes of truly great intensity and roundness". And after tasting this wine I'd definitely agree.
The brand has been in the Lion stable for a few years now and sparkling wine specialist Andrew Petrie makes these wines at Wither Hills. Blanc de blanc means it has been made only with white grapes, ie, chardonnay.
Sourced from fruit grown in their Selmes Rd, Francis and St Leonard's vineyard, this wine is bright, fresh and toasty, with juicy, crisp acidity and mouthfilling, leesy richness on the finish.
Sensational stuff indeed. www.daniellebrun.co.nz
Palliser Estate Martinborough Methode Traditionnelle 2008 $37
Sometimes you taste a wine that is darn lovely, but you wish that maybe you could taste it again in another year or two. This wine has very pretty white gold colour in the glass and showing delicate clouds of fig, breakfast-bun, shortbread and hazelnut on the nose. It is elegant and nicely balanced in the mouth and has a full, nutty, biscuity finish. But this wine is now considered a kiwi sparkler and stock doesn't hang around for long because it's so popular.
So if I'm going to have any chance of tasting it again in a few years I'd best nab an extra couple now. www.palliser.co.nz
Brown Brothers Patricia Pinot Noir and Chardonnay Brut 2006 $40
But the highlight of my sparkling wine showdown really showed what superb fruit combined with care, attention and seven years in the bottle can achieve. Named after the much loved matriarch of Milawa's Brown family, the late Patricia Brown, this wine is a girl ageing gracefully indeed.
With delicate bead, persistent mousse and beautiful aromas of strawberry shortcake and stonefruit, it has lovely balanced acidity, an incredibly fresh and vibrant mouthfeel with stunning, biscuity length of flavour. www.brownbrothers.com.au


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I have two blog sites. One hosted with Wordpress.com, one self-hosted with Wordpress.org
We are a technical company, and a number of our blog posts will be about HTML, Javascript, .NET, etc. and we would like to embed code snippets within our posts.
We have about 20 authors on each blog, and from experience, I need to make inserting code snippets as easy and user friendly as possible.
I saw, for Wordpress.org, this article.
From what I understand, when writing with the HTML editor, if you apply the tags
<code> some code</code> then this preserves the formatting.
- Its ok. But the major downfall, is ease of use. For example, compare it to stack exchange text editor - there is no need to switch to HTML view and write tags, you use the 'Code Sample' button.
I know there are a heap of plugins out there.
Is there a general consensus on the best way to embed code in wordpress.org posts?
My requirements are for it to be as easy as it is with Stack Exchange.
It appears I can also use the code tags with wp.com.
I guess the advanatage of telling my users to use this approach, would mean there would not be any confusion with authors who contribute to both blogs.
I was currently using the 'preformatted' text format from the extended toolbar (kitchen sink).
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I have a Silverlight 4 web application that needs to be added to an already-existing SharePoint application. SharePoint and the silverlight web app could be on the same server or different servers. Right, now the web app works fine by adding a Page Viewer web part to SharePoint and putting in the appropriate URL.
I would like to also get the theme color that is currently set in SharePoint and also its locale. The web app URL can take parameters for theme and locale, but this would require a user to manually change the URL in the Page Viewer web part. What is the best way to grab this information dynamically for my web app?


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Artillery Takes Out Landed UFO At Da Nang, RVN - Happy Valley In 1966
Date: Between February and July of 1966
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Da Nang, RVN - Happy Valley.
Number of witnesses: Unknown.
Number of Objects: Believed to be 1
Shape of Objects: Unknown.
Full Description of Event/Sighting: Radar track from Danang, and Aerial observer. Taken out by Artillery fire. More info if you are interested. Did not get any TDA following the counter fire.
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Hi Brian,
I am guessing you are in British Columbia, or the Pacific Northwest. Quite a bit out of my normal travel area. Anyway, it is still good to hear from you and to learn of your organization.
I was in the US Marine Corps, and served in the SE Asia area during 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, and 1969. It was during my 1965-66 tour that we were located to the northeast of Da Nang, and I was in an Artillery Fire Direction Center (FDC). We controlled close to 100 Field Artillery pieces in the Da Nang area, and could bring about 500 rounds onto one football field sized spot in about 3 minutes.
I have had some injuries from auto crashes since then and do not remember just when the incident occurred, but it was between February and July of 1966. I was on the late night shift and we got a call from the air base that a UFO had come in and landed at a set of coordinates generated by the GCA Radar. These plotted out in an area that we referred to as "Happy Valley." The IFF response had been un heeded and the radar and visual tracking from an airborne craft in the area did not match any known aircraft. Since we were close to the DMZ, no one wanted to take any chances and we were given clearance to fire all available artillery on it. We had about 70+ pieces that could range the target so we plotted a time on target mission and fired 6 rounds per piece on the target.
The GCA radar kept watch on the area and the observer stayed a safe distance out of the lines of fire. We got the usual artillery bursts and at the end of the barrage there was a huge flash that registered on the GCA radar. The air observer reported that nothing had left the area, and it was too dark to look for damage until sunup. We filed the fire mission request and record of fire with the other log sheets and had been advised that a ground crew was going in for TDA at first light. When we came on shift 2 days later we looked for the record of fire sheet to see what the ground crew had found.
We were amazed to find that the entire set of records for that mission had vanished. No one would admit to being told to pull it and we never did find out what we had hit other than the initial comments that had come back to us while we were firing on the target. I still have no clue what we shot. It was big and got a lot of people excited. No other sightings were reported in our area that I heard about before I left in August of 1966. This has always been a puzzling experience, wandering around in the back of my mind. I have often wondered if we had in deed taken out an extraterrestrial space craft, and how badly we had irritated whom ever it belonged to.
Sorry I don't have more or better descriptive information on the craft or the post attack findings.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell this story. I would be interested in hearing about any thing that may have been found out about this incident as it has been bothering me for over 40 years now.
Thanks, and best wishes to you.
My many thanks to this gentleman for sending in this amazing report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report UFO Eyewitness radio show.
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The European Investment Bank loaned $2.16 billion for the industry in 2012 with 18 deals including funds for a wind farm in the Baltic Sea owned by EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG (EBK), according to an annual ranking by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Brazil's state-lender was second, and the U.S. Federal Financing Bank, which led a year ago, dropped out of the top 20.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (8306) ranked third after banking crises in the U.S. and Europe dried up funds from commercial lenders worldwide. The biggest and third biggest financing deals of the year were for offshore wind farms.
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The rankings by the London-based research group detail the companies most active in financing the renewable energy industry last year. Total investment dropped 11 percent to $268.7 billion for industry segments including wind, solar, biofuels and biomass power generation. Asset finance for utility-scale projects fell 17 percent to $148.6 billion.
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You're listening to a podcast by the U.S. Agency for International Development. I'm Kelly Ramundo.
Part 1: Grabbing for Land
Narrator: Imagine you're a farmer in Ethiopia or in Mozambique. You've been living and working on a small plot of land your entire life, but you don't really own it. At least not in the eyes of your government. So if it's not really your land, you may fear it being taken away from you. And it's happened, a lot, over the past few years as governments sold off millions of hectares to the highest bidders.
Theres a group of people, nestled in basement offices of the United States Agency for International Development, trying to change this. These experts say the seemingly simple act of helping landowners establish clear rights to their property – called Land Tenure – can have profound consequences.
And not just for smallholder farmers. But on the entire economies of developing countries. And for the international companies looking to invest in agriculture, a booming business these days, and a necessary one.
Gregory Myers is USAID's division chief for land tenure and property rights, and he recently helped broker the international adoption of a document called the Voluntary Guidelines for Land Tenure, a kind of best practices for resource governance. Meyers says guidelines aim to ensure that local people with customary rights to the land are less likely to be displaced and more likely to work with investors. To understand why the guidelines were the needed, Meyers says we've got to go back to the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.
Myers: In those years, when the market – the equity markets were bottoming and people were essentially looking for new investment opportunities, a lot of businesses around the world – private companies, sovereign wealth funds, et cetera – started to look for investments in hard assets, which would be land or agriculture and began to speculate, in 2007 and 2008, by trying to acquire, either through leases or by purchasing large tracts of land around the world, which has now become known as a land grab.
Narrator: So, in 2007, 2008, companies start to move around the world looking to acquire land. most of it in Africa . But that's not all that was happening.
Myers: Parallel to this, there is the global crunch around the food crisis and price speculation for food commodities. So it becomes almost a vicious circle with some countries looking for access to land and trying to acquire access to that land to meet their own food security needs. And that starts to drive up the price of land, which means that more speculators want to come in and try to acquire access to land And this is not a new phenomenon; it's a phenomenon that's been going on since time immemorial. But the size, the scale and the quickness with which all this took place was extraordinary.
Narrator: In 2010, the World Bank released its own study of the land-grab issue. That study estimated that countries, sovereign wealth funds, or companies had gobbled up 50 million hectares of land. Many NGOs say that the World Bank estimate is low, and that five times as much land may have been bought or leased – 250 million hectares. Myers says is impossible to know much land was taken. What we do know is that many people were displaced in the process. But how could this happen?
Myers: Because in most of these countries where these transactions have taken place, there are very weak or what we would even call dysfunctional property rights systems and, unfortunately in many of these countries, the state has articulated control or ownership over the land when in fact the state really doesn't own the land; actually the people who are on the land own the land. But the state doesn't – in many of these countries, doesn't recognize that ownership.
Narrator: Myers says that some were looking to make a profit with no regard for who owned the land. But other investors came to deals with good intentions. And then found themselves in a bind.
Myers: Because they go to a country like Ethiopia or Tanzania or Madagascar or Mozambique or Ghana, and they say, we would like to invest in agriculture and we would like to lease land, et cetera. And the government of that country says, yes, we own the land, and here's free land that you can invest in. They may not realize that they in fact are actually in a – in a – in a process of dispossessing people from their land rights.
Narrator: But that's not the only issue at play. We live on a hungry planet. Between 800 million and a billion people go to bed hungry every night. Clearly, he says we have to do something to promote agriculture. But that means there has to be investment in agriculture. So, while these investments in farmland – whether they're speculative or good investments or not, those investments are, to a certain extent, still very important, because the public sector doesn't have the money that it's going to require to be able to improve agricultural productivity to meet the needs of – the food security needs of the future.
Narrator: So, if you need the private sector to tackle the growing food needs of a growing population, the question becomes: do you bring responsible private sector investment into this equation?
Myers: The only way that's going to happen sustainably and in a way that's not going to lead to a lot of violence or conflict is that we're going to have to address the issue of property rights. So what we would do is, we would first try to find a way to secure the rights of the resources that people in these countries have, and then to find a way to link them to these private sector investors in ways that would be very profitable for those small holders.
Narrator: That strategy is at the heart of the U.S. Government's flagship food security program, called Feed the Future:
Myers: On one hand encouraging private sector and on the other hand supporting small-holder farmers. So while this issue around land-grabbing is highly controversial, it could also potentially be highly transformative, depending on the way in which it happens.
Part 2. The Guidelines
So the world needs agricultural investment to feed itself. And people have a right to their land. This, says Meyers, is where the voluntary guidelines come in to play. The guidelines were created by the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization after two years of negotiations that started in 2008. They were written with input from civil society, farmers groups, the private sector and world governments. They were adopted in May by the U.N. Committee on World Food Security and the final product was hailed as a major milestone because land rights can be a highly charged and sensitive issue. So with the new guidelines in place, what comes next?
Myers: That's really the – that's really the most important question. The new frontier for us is really finding ways to implement the guidelines.
Narrator: As one example, the G-8, the group of 8 major industrialized nations, just launched something called the New Alliance For Food Security and Nutrition -- an effort to mobilize billions of dollars in private-sector investment in African agriculture. Land Tenure will a part of that.
Myers: There are six countries that we will focus on. And very quickly those countries could start the process of adopting. And the entry point for those countries would be to look at their policies and laws for land tenure and property rights; to look at modifying those laws to, one, recognize the rights that exist on the ground; and two, to look at their investment laws so that they can encourage private-sector investment in agriculture, but in a – in ways in which are most beneficial for small-holder producers, but at the same time which don't undermine the private-sector investment.
Narrator: Myers thinks the voluntary guidelines will have clear benefits for three parties: land owners, companies, and countries. A win-win-win, he says. Small farmers could benefit from the huge influxes of private sector investment in agriculture. They could organize, become shareholders, reap the benefits of the economic growth taking place in Africa for the first time. Companies would get to be good corporate citizens, and earn profits in way that respects human dignity. And countries, well, that's really two different entities, says Myers. The United States would benefit because if farmers starting growing enough feed their countries, we could reduce our food aid to these places, like the Horn of Africa. And the host countries would benefit because local populations would begin to contribute to their country's economic growth, by paying taxes, but not needing social safety nets.
In the end, everybody wins.
Part 3: The Human Face of Land Tenure
Let's go back to the smallholder farmers. The most vulnerable parties in this equation, and perhaps, the greatest beneficiaries. Meyers recently travelled to Ethiopia, where USAID has been implementing a land tenure program with the government for the last few years. He remembers one woman's story specifically. USAID, as part of the land tenure process, had recently helped mark the boundaries of her land. Unable to farm herself, she was leasing it out to a man, who told her the property measured just quarter of a hectare.
Myers: So after we did the certification, she realized that she actually had a hectare of land. And so afterwards she went back to the same man and she said, well, now you have to pay me four times the rent –– which he's now doing. So her household income went up by four times. And she said, as a result of that, she was able to buy more food for her children and – including sending kids to school that she hadn't been able to send to school before, including a daughter. So we thought, well, that's a remarkable story. And when we talked to other people who had received certificates, we started to hear similar stories about how now they had really much greater economic empowerment as a result of just having information about what they had rights to.
Narrator: Women are empowered in other ways as well:
Myers: And in Ethiopia, in one case in our early interviews, a woman came to us and said, I know my husband is having sex in town when he goes to the cities. And I am very worried that he's being exposed to AIDS. And I'm afraid that he'll bring it back to me and to our village. And so now that I have a land certificate, I can literally kick him out of the house and tell him, you know, I have my land, and I can feed myself and my children, and we're not dependent on you. And so if you choose to make those kinds of risky decisions, you know, you're on your own.
Narrator: While Africa is the epicenter of land tenure issues, USAID's work to ensure that people in developing countries acquire rights to their own property spans the globe. In East Timor. In the Philippines. And in African countries like Kenya, Liberia and South Sudan. Women and men are realizing the personal pride and the economic benefit that holding a land deed with their names on it can bring. Meyers sums it up well:
Myers: We have a motto down here in the land tenure division that says, "Changing the world one property right at a time." And I think we all firmly believe that this is a fundamental building block of any democracy or market-based economy, if you don't have the right to property, you cannot be a member of the economy and you don't have a say in the political process. And I believe that as countries move forward toward recognizing or toward addressing this issue, which we call an enabling environment, eventually I think that this will reduce the kinds and the types of investments which we need to make in development, because people will have a greater political standing and greater economic opportunities to be able to do the kinds of things that you and I do here in the United States: to make our own individual decisions about how we best deem to manage our lives, how we want to engage in political decisions or political discourse, and how we want to engage in economic opportunities that will benefit ourselves and our families.
Narrator: So Myers and his team battle on in the basement of USAID, fighting land grab with guidelines, protecting rights and promoting investment. Changing the world one property right at a time.
For more on USAID's work in land tenure, check out the Agency's website under its environment and global climate change page.
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To illustrate this point, consider a personal anecdote from my days as a collegiate runner.
Training Weight Versus Racing Weight
I was fortunate to run at the University of Colorado, where I was part of a fantastic running culture. My common training regimen would put me at roughly 85 miles a week in single runs: 20 miles on Sunday, 12 or so on Tuesday and Friday, a medium-distance run of 13, 14 or 15 on Wednesday and easy days of roughly 10 miles (many teammates ran twice a day, which took their weekly totals to well over 100 miles a week). I had several teammates who trained at the same volume I did. What baffles me to this day is that while a teammate and I watched our diets and struggled to be as lean as possible, there were others who were extremely lean even though they always had seconds and would often have several bowls of ice cream at night.
I bring this up to highlight the individuality of metabolic rate. We all have a different basal metabolic rate. While that rate does increase when you're training seriously, your rate may differ from a fellow runner who is training at the same level. For serious runners, there is often a difference between your training and racing weights.
Your training weight is the weight you want to maintain roughly 90 percent of the year. Why? Because if you try to weigh less, you'll often find that you'll get sick more often and fail to have as much consistency in your hard workouts.
A couple times a year, it's realistic to focus on your weight and trim down so you're lighter when you toe the starting line. But, finding a safe race weight is a challenge for most runners, and my suggestion is simple: Don't be greedy. A pound or two for a marathoner is important, and this goal is realistic for most if they watch their diets in the last four weeks of training.
More: 4 Weight-Loss Barriers Holding You Back
If you weigh yourself daily when whittling down to your race weight, remember:
- If you've had a salty meal, you could weigh a pound or two more than normal due to water retention. As a runner, you should hydrate throughout the day, but your retention of that water will vary based on salt intake.
- A great time to weigh yourself is first thing in the morning when you get out of bed. That way you don't have as many variables such as food and water altering the number upwards or, conversely, seeing a lower number on the scale that you could easily get by weighing yourself after a run (especially a run in heat and/or humidity).
Please, please be honest with yourself about where training weight, and potentially, race weight fit into your love of running. Most runners have enough to worry about between their jobs, families, getting in long runs and all of the ancillary work that goes into intelligent training. For most runners, it's difficult to add another element to the mix such as a focused, clean diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables, has smart fats and quality protein (as well as good recovery food and drink after long runs and workouts).
More: Your Guide to Dieting and Weight Loss
Here's another way to look at this issue of weight loss: If you stay injury-free, then you'll likely be leaner come race day for the simple fact that you didn't have to miss calorie burning training days.
When it comes to weight loss for runners, there are no clear-cut answers. Be kind to yourself if you attempt to trim down to a safe, reasonable race weight that you'll use a couple of times a year.
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Open, must be suitable for B2B
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Six undergraduate students from the College of Communications will present their findings about media coverage and portrayals of women and under-represented communities on national network news at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference Aug. 8 to 11 in Washington, D.C.
This is the first time in the history of the conference that a group as large as six undergraduates from the same institution has been selected to share its research, according to Jennifer McGill, AEJMC's executive director. John Sanchez, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, served as a mentor for the group and he's pleased with the opportunity the students have earned.
"I don't give a pat on the back to people much. I expect students in my class to reach their highest potential," Sanchez said. "However, these students are different. I am very proud of them, and I do believe they do deserve a pat on the back."
Students presenting at the conference are:
-- Nicole Colon-Quintana, a senior majoring in broadcast journalism and psychology from Aibonito, Puerto Rico;
-- Cynthia Hill, a senior majoring in broadcast journalism from Pittsburgh;
-- Shantelle Johnson, a junior majoring in broadcast journalism from Effort, Pa.;
-- Jenny Kim, a junior majoring in broadcast journalism from Atlanta;
-- Donghee Lee, a junior majoring in public relations from Seoul, South Korea; and
-- Cheyenne Sexton, a junior majoring in public relations from Elizabethtown, Pa.
The research, conducted in January, examined coverage of women and under-represented and underserved communities on nightly newscasts produced by ABC, CBS and NBC. Each student focused on the portrayal of a different group of people, and they examined similarities and provided conclusions for their work.
Colon-Quintana, who focused on Latinos in the news media, is grateful for the opportunity to present her findings. "I am very appreciative of the opportunities I have been given by both professor Sanchez and the College of Communications," she said. "Presenting at this conference gives a closure to my time as an undergraduate by encompassing everything I have learned and everything I am passionate about. At the same time, it opens the door for new, exciting opportunities."
Hill evaluated the portrayal of African-American males. She's excited about the work, and the opportunity to meet other communications researchers at the conference. "I think presenting at the conference will at least give me some contacts with those working and teaching in the communications industry," she said.
Johnson focused her research on women in the media. She anticipates sharing the findings as a way to bring attention to what she found. "I am most excited about getting people to think about the inequality women face in today's society," Johnson said. "Many people ignore it, or push it under the rug, however I hope that my research will get people to be more conscious, and in turn perhaps find a way to stop the inequality."
Kim, who focused on portrayals of Asians, is hoping for opportunities to come from the AEJMC presentation. "I think AEJMC will open up more doors for me. I already know I'll grow so much both academically and personally just from participating in the conference," she said. "However, I also hope it will open up possible opportunities for grad school."
Lee focused on the elderly for the research and she's excited to be presenting at the conference."I also feel some pressure to do well because I don't want to let anyone else down," she said.
Sexton will be presenting on the portrayal of children in the media. Like the others, she anticipates the opportunities that might arise from presenting at the conference. "Showing that I have conducted in-depth research and then presented professionally is such a big accomplishment," she said. "It's something not many undergraduates can say they have done. I also hope that some possible education and career opportunities present themselves to me at the conference."
The AEJMC is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the highest possible standards for journalism and mass communication education, to cultivate the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multicultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of communication in an effort to achieve better professional practice and a better informed public.