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Caltrans warns of traffic delays this weekend due to Amgen bike tour
Caltrans advises residents to expect traffic delays from 8 to 10 a.m., Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday in Ramona due to the Amgen Tour of California professional bike race.
Cyclists and race officials may come through on Saturday in preparation for the race on Sunday, which will begin in Escondido around 11:15 a.m. Because cyclists will ride through San Pasqual Valley, up State Route 78, through downtown Ramona, and out to Santa Ysabel, Caltrans said drivers should be prepared for rolling road closures between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Sunday.
The cyclists are expected to ride through Ramona's Old Town around noon. From there they will will turn on Third Street and take Old Julian Highway back out to Route 78 to Santa Ysabel.
Crowds are expected to come through to follow the race, as well as ground and aerial media coverage. Many Ramona businesses are planning special sales on Sunday.
The stage 1 route of the Amgen Tour also includes Palomar Mountain and Valley Center. It will finish at Grand Avenue and Broadway in Escondido.
For a map of the route, see www.escondido.org/Data/Sites/1/media/PDFs/AMGEN2013RaceRoute.pdf.
For more about the race, see amgentourofcalifornia.com or www.escondido.org/amgen-tour.aspx.
Related posts:
- Amgen Bike Tour comes through Ramona Sunday; expect traffic delays this weekend
- Chamber plans to promote town during Amgen bike race
- Professional cycling race puts Ramona in its route
- Caltrans shifts to one-way traffic control for SR-78 work
- Caltrans changes SR-78 closure schedule; road open Thursday through Sunday
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A new $570,000 CFA station will increase the capacity of firefighters to protect lives and save property in Lancefield and surrounding areas.
Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Bushfire Response Kim Wells, was joined by local Member for Northern Victoria Region Amanda Millar and Liberal candidate for Macedon Donna Petrovich to officially open the new CFA station.
"This is a significant upgrade for the brigade that has been using a 27 year old building as a base, and ensures the Lancefield brigade is well equipped to perform critical work now and into the future," Mr Wells said.
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Climate-change policy ought to be privatized. All government policy instruments — including taxes, subsidies, regulation, and emissions trading — to mitigate climate change ought to be abolished. FULL ARTICLE by Graham Dawson
Privatizing Climate Policy
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- December 24, 2009 at 9:00 am
That's the daft article to read – privatise the 'commons' so they can be protected yet the atmosphere is part of the 'unhomesteadable commons'. Is this article no more than TokyoTom appeasement or smugness that no one can sue another person for 'acts of God'? On the other hand, if the author claims people might be able to sue other people for carbon emissions then this will have the anti-progress, anti-technology initiative as a Global Climate Treaty. Suppose petrol cars were scrapped in the late 1800s because private pollution torts? Would this have meant those who did have cars would be steam-power cars? Would the Industrial Revolution not have happened because the factories would have been shut down by private courts? What of coal-fired power stations? Would everyone have to be like the Amish where it is better to be safe than to be sorry to a private court?
- December 24, 2009 at 9:09 am
Hmmm. Suppose it is demonstrated that CO2-induced global warming is a real phenomenon.
Individual A wants to sue the coal-fired electricity plant for the harm it will cause. Due to the expected time lag, this means A thinks, not that she will not be directly harmed, but that individuals B, C, and D will be harmed maybe 70-120 years in the future from the relatively small contribution from the coal plant. So she has to try and sue on behalf of unidentifiable individuals across the globe who will exist 70-120 years in the future.
I'm not a lawyer, but to sue someone for harm don't you have to show that you will be harmed. Maybe others know the answer to this.
- December 24, 2009 at 9:17 am
By the way, earlier at this website, I was alerted to an article by Gerlich and Tscheuschner in the March 2009 International Journal of Modern Physics that argues that the CO2 greenhouse effect violates basic laws of thermodynamics. I read what I could of that article and a couple of others supporting that contention. Does anyone know of any physics articles that challenge this contention? Clearly if there is no such thing as a greenhouse effect, then end of story.
- December 24, 2009 at 10:00 am
Capitalist industry is man's only method for surviving climate change, as shown by a rational view of history. Non-industrial cultures were/are devastated by droughts, floods, and shifts to a cold climate. Environmentalism is a nihilist demand for the destruction of the allegedly evil human race.
As for for private climate change, there are often good and bad effects. Shall private individuals who change climate sue free-riders who benefit from more wood and food and longer life? If you dont like your local climate, move, as people do now.
As a New Englander suffering from the current freeze and unusually big snow, I welcome the alleged global warming. In the meantime, I can only wish to turn Al Gore upside down and use his hot air as a snow blower.
- December 24, 2009 at 10:14 am
Regarding the Industrial Revolution: factories in the middle of nowhere might homestead the neighbouring atmosphere as a receptacle of smoke. But if a factory were built nearby a human settlement, a tort would occur. The settlers there could either seek an injunction or make a deal with the factory, granting them the right to pollute to a set degree in exchange for money.
The automobile in a city presents a trickier problem, since there are so many polluters. The first enthusiasts would be exempt because their pollution would be too trivial to matter.
That same line of reasoning might apply to global warming. The first emitters are exempt, but at some tipping point any new emitters are liable.
Fascinating subject. Definitely worthy of subsequent articles that go into more detail.
- December 24, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I deny each and every one of the 4 major planks of Global Warming:
1. There is no proof that there exists appreciable warming, compared say to the Medieval Warming period.
2. There is no evidence that the little warming that has occurred is attributable to CO2, let alone to man's small contribution to it.
3. There is little reason to believe that the amount of warming that might occur is harmful, and more to conclude that colder weather is harmful.
4. The proposed methods for reducing CO2 would have little effect on the developed countries, and even if they did, would not impact the far greater development of the developing countries.
There are many refutations of the Global Warming hypotheses, aside from their fabrications within Climategate. So I am surely not in favor of any action to prevent Global Warming. Nonetheless, suppose there were an emergency whereupon America would be destroyed, and the government had the ability to prevent it. I aver that *this would fall within the proper role of government*, such as for example containing a plague or a forest fire.
- December 24, 2009 at 12:20 pm
With (1) the temperature of the surface of the sun estimated to be 5,510,000 Celsius and its core more than twice that at 13.6 million K; and, (2) with the earth's core temp estimated to be c. 5,400 C — the question becomes why are we evenly remotely concerned about the impact of man on this planet?
Our impact will be lost in a matter of years once we no longer exist (apparently a goal of many on the left).
What we do can impact local environmental conditions, but these are only supperficial scars to the overall environment.
- December 24, 2009 at 1:09 pm
According to a recent study by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine — http://www.oism.org/pproject/GWReview_OISM150.pdf
There are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other green house gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather, or landscape. There is no reason to limit human production of CO2, CH4, and other minor green house gases as has been proposed.
We also need not worry about environmental calamities even if the current natural warming trend continues. The Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without catastrophic effects. Warmer weather extends growing seasons and generally improves the habitability of colder regions. As coal, oil, and natural gas are used to feed and lift from poverty vast numbers of people across the globe, more CO2 will be released into the atmosphere. This will help to maintain and improve the health, longevity, prosperity, and productivity of all people…
Human activities are producing part of the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. Mankind is moving the carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas from below ground to the atmosphere, where it is available for conversion into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of this CO2 increase. Our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life than that with which we now are blessed.
- December 24, 2009 at 2:39 pm
David White:
If you haven't seen the Gerlich article I referred to above, check it out. You might also wish to Google "American Thinker, CO2 greenhouse" on this issue.
- December 24, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Alex said:
"Clearly if there is no such thing as a greenhouse effect, then end of story."
No such thing as a greenhouse effect, no Santa Claus? No Easter bunny? No tooth fairy? Please don't tell my grandchildren.
- December 24, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Judging from the chaos that had been caused in Europe and the Eastern US, the AGW movement is probably ruing the day when the changed over to a warming as opposed to a cooling hypothesis. This change over was undoubtedly due to the biblical influences such as the great flood and Noah's Ark, and the fire and brimstone depiction of hell. The truth of the matter is that it is much easier living in Phoenix Arizona, where summer temperatures are 115 F, that living in the winter in Fort McMurray, Canada, where temperatures go below 0 F. Had they been a little better read, they would have been aware that Dante's 9th circle of hell had people frozen in ice. It is a lot easier to get people upset about something that is actually happening , colder weather.
- December 24, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I don't think the specifics of global warming science are very relevant to the issues brought up by the article. In theory, the role it plays could be played by any harmful externality, so long as its effect is global.
I disagree with the article's contention that tort litigation is the way to go on the issue, on the grounds that the burden of proof denies the compensation of those who lack the scientific acumen or the funding to pay for the scientific work. On top of that, the reward for harms is often not commensurate with the harms. This sort of thing is akin to allowing tort litigation to be the solution to food safety issues–in theory it works, but in practice there is a far more efficient and workable mechanism. Tort litigation is a last resort.
In the case of a global externality, there's a gigantic barrier in the way of a private solution, and it's a practical one. Simply put, all of the people who are affected can't negotiate a deal with all of the people who create the externality, even if there were only one such person. A conventional approach–those affected pay the polluters to be clean–can only be undertaken locally and as a result, the costs are high because the cost can't be spread between everyone who has a stake in preventing the harm caused by the pollution. The problem is even further complicated by the fact that the harm may not be uniform and direct. It's difficult or impossible for an individual to assess the cost of the harm to himself, and those who have the opportunity to negotiate a contract may not be the same people who are harmed.
We need a solution to the many-party problem. My rough idea is that an entity could service those who are affected by the externality. They would pay that entity to negotiate a contract with the polluters. When the contract is finalized, they would pay the fees demanded by the contract through that entity. The difficult bits are in damage estimates and payment collection. I guess only the most obvious damage would be usable to negotiate an acceptable price.
That looks more like a free market, libertarian approach. I haven't yet heard or seen any such business, and those most affected by such externalities would very likely refuse to pay those fees on the grounds that it isn't fair (ethically speaking, that's probably true) or because they're too poor to afford the costs.
We should keep looking for a business model that can actually do the work of fixing these issues.
- December 24, 2009 at 4:21 pm
So pathetic that you have human rights so quickly reduced to "property rights" + especially at Christmas, uhh (ref. Amnesty International's 2009 campaign "Demand Dignity" launched by Irene Khan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roMSUYgctng ).
Governments are not only "failing to protect property rights…" but human rights as well. But LEGALISM is no kind of answer whatsoever, in fact it is the very reason why the Copenhagen climate change conference was such an abysmal failure.
It is necessary to get rid of the legalists from the equation to find a solution through genuine co-operation….. That is, relying on actual moral values, the desire to do the best for ones' country's citizens/peoples + to positively contribute to the global community going forward into a sustainable future.
Legal 'mechanisms' + compulsively forcing compliance to other peoples' ideas + imagined imperatives is NOT a way to ensure co-operation in the longer term. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnFfOXEAfJM
Merry Christmas!
- December 24, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Ingenious though Graham Dawson's suggested approach is, I much prefer simple solutions.
I'm surprised that the acute observers on this site have not observed (perhaps they did, and I missed it) the striking parallels between the deficit basis of CO2 and emissions trading, and the deficit basis of our banking system. What I mean by deficit basis is that both systems attempt by political and administrative fiat to attribute value to something intrinsically worthless.
I have been advocating for some five years now – based upon 25 years in market regulation and development, for six of them a director of a global energy exchange – a simple but radical complementary approach to energy markets generally and carbon markets in particular.
This is simply for energy producers to create Units redemable in payment for energy supplied, and to issue these to investors in return for value received. This concept of 'unitisation' should be comprehensible to anyone familar with (say frequent flyer miles or store loyalty points.
The outcome is potentially to monetise the energy value of carbon, which has intrinsic worth, and it opens up some interesting policy options.
For instance, a carbon levy could be applied to carbon fuel use, gradually increasing the gasoline price to (say) $5.00 /gallon or more. The population is then compensated with an 'energy dividend' of Units, which they may exchange in payment for gasoline, and continue profligate use, or alternatively they may conserve gasoline use,and exchange Units for accommodation, goods or something else of value to them.
Unitisation of energy is, I submit, a simple but radical market-based solution that would actually work in practice. This recent presentation in Scotland focused on the unitisation of electricity, but the principle is the same.
- December 24, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Even Libertarians believe that legislation should be used to protect the environment.
A legislation type model would however would not work for a number of reasons, and the Authors limited reflection on global legal procedures is the undoing of his argument.
1 As stated by the Author the climate effects everyone on the planet. For a legal system to be effective every one who was effected would need some type of equal representation in the legal field. Clearly those effected in certain countries do not have any access to legal process and definitely not to systems that would be able to sue companies in China or the US. We do not have a legal system that effectively deals with international legislation.
2 The climate is changing even without the help of man, and it is impossible to quantify the exact effects of putting a tonne of CO2 or other greenhouse gas into the Atmosphere, as there is a so many factors effecting the climate from year to year and decade to decade. It would therefore be impossible to estimate the effect that a certain amount of CO2 has contributed to the warming.
3) Much of what is dished out in payments in legal cases is emmotive and can vary significantly from case to case depending on the whim of the judge. In fact the judge becomes a legislator.
4) The first thing we need to do is kill all the lawyers. The system would be such a money making enterprise for the legal profession that there were be serious bias in the legal profession to make desputes continue.
On another point which is mentioned here. Yes it is proven that CO2 has a different conductivity of infra red radiation from the earths surface, and therefore it is perfectly reasonable from an engineering point of view say that CO2 in the atmosphere has an effect on the cooling rate of the earth. The problem in saying how much effect as the earths Climate is effect by a number of other factors as well.
- December 25, 2009 at 10:14 am
An objection that comes to mind apropos of this article's suggestion is that proceedings at equity have a tendency to fall victim to "junk science."
At this point (post-ClimateGate), however, we can take comfort in the demonstrated fact that academic (government-funded) science produces results fully as "junky" as anything produced in a courtroom.
- December 25, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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- December 25, 2009 at 12:35 pm
@ Alex
Thanks for supplying yet another nail in the coffin of AGW:
How fun it is to be a knowing "driver" of new life on the planet.
(Oops, forgot about Peak Oil. Dang.)
- December 25, 2009 at 9:14 pm
While I share some points of view expressed, I am reminded of another "theory", and that is Chaos theory. Climate on very shortened "time leash" is weather. Science prediction of simple weather in one small geographic location for an extended forecast of 5 days out is less of a 5% chance of accuracy. When we see a hurricane in the Atlantic and say it will come ashore somewhere between Miami and New England I chuckle at this whole dialogue of man-made CO2 planet wrecking emissions storyline.
Chaos theory, I guess no longer in vogue, would argue that both sides of the Climate argument/CO2 issue don't have a clue, just a point of view and are both incorrect about a planetary event that will need some attention.
They'll all be proven wrong, but none of you reading this post or me writing it will be around to know the outcome.
It has been from the start, a financial scheme, creating a new commodity (carbon credits) and an ability to make a few bucks. It has also been a statist/socialist way to move wealth from one part of the globe to another. Very common human behaviors throughout history.
That any sovereign state would allow the "clown car" of the UN to support a "law" put into place that supersedes any sovereign nation's rights, has lost their perspective that "Serenity" , Star Wars", and "BattleStar Galactica" were just entertainment.
We're all going to buried on this planet while chaos theory is at work, and the living will have to deal something unforeseen that may actually give us "planetary citizens" something to worry about, but it certainly isn't going to be the current view of CO2 emissions.
Enjoy the Holidays!
- December 26, 2009 at 1:22 am
Marc Salvatini, chaos theory can't trump thermodynamics. If for example you have a fire in a closed box, the box will get hotter over time. If it's a huge box with lots of obstructions, you might not be able to exactly predict the heat flows, but you can predict the overall temperature. The issue of global warming simply has to do with the heat-producing energy into and out of Earth and its overall effect, not the locations of particular clouds or storms in the short-term. Perhaps you could claim that there might be odd patterns of weather which affect the overall energy input/output, which other weather patterns wouldn't do.
- December 27, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Not a bad article.
I have a problem with the statement:
"If carbon emissions are indeed causing dangerous climate change, it does not matter where they are reduced; wherever the reductions occur, the global atmospheric carbon concentration will eventually be reduced."
The author seems to forget to look at the 'unseen' effects. Reducing carbon emissions in one part of the world could simply end up increasing carbon emissions in another. The overall effect will depend on the efficiency of the local industries.
For example, in general Australia has 'cleaner' factories than China. If Australian factories reduce their emissions, and this reduction increases their costs, then Chinese products will be relatively cheaper. The result: Chinese factories will produce more and Australian factories will produce less. Since the Australian factories are 'cleaner', the increased production in 'dirtier' Chinese factories will result in a net increase in global emissions.
Apart from that, I do agree with the general arguments made in this article.
- December 27, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Or should it be said that 'polluting' industries are making pro-active use of the atmosphere and if anyone has a claim to 'own' the atmosphere it's 'polluters' as they are 'homesteading' it with their 'waste'? People whining about the 'unclean' air are more-than-not second-comers who are breathing in air that has already in use. If anything industries should be charging everyone else to pay for using their air.
- July 16, 2011 at 2:01 am
Hey. Can I copy this article onto my site? If, so please respond with the backlink you prefer.
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Miniature Monster Abecedarian Workshop with Bexx Caswell
Fee: $90 (Midwest GBW Members) $115 (Nonmembers)
Materials Fee: $20
The abecedarian is a poetic form whose lines or stanzas are dictated by the letters of the alphabet. Abecedarians are commonly used as a mnemonic device for teaching children the alphabet, (i.e. A is for apple, B is for book…), but other examples can be found in religious texts and poetry dating from ancient times to the present. Illustrated abecedarians have become a popular form for artists' books because they provide a playful yet contained structure for content that has endless possibilities.
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Instructor Bio: Bexx Caswell is a bookbinder and book conservator specializing in custom binding, miniature books, fine binding, and book conservation. She holds a Certificate in Bookbinding from the North Bennet Street School and a Master's of Library Science from Simmons College. Before moving to Iowa City this past December, Bexx spent nearly a decade living in the Boston area, where she worked in a variety of libraries and conservation labs, including Harvard and MIT. She has a passion for miniature books, typography, and vegan baking.
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This expandable leather book structure lies flat when opened. The seven inch square book is sewn on straps woven through a double cover. You will construct this book as an album, including pages with envelopes, enclosures, and encapsulations. You will also incorporate map folds to accommodate oversize additions to the album. Peggy will provide 30 examples of album pages, from very basic to complex, for participants to look at. Bring along any small flat objects and one or two oversized foldable items that you would like to include in your album. Students should bring a basic binding kit and ephemera to go into the book.
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"...surgeon and medical historian Rutkow argues that it is impossible to grasp the realities of the Civil War without an awareness of the state of medicine at the time. The use of ether and chloroform remained crude, and they were often unavailable--so many surgical procedures were performed without anesthesia, on the battleground or in a field hospital. This meant that "clinical concerns were often of less consequence than the swiftness of the surgeon's knife." Also, the existence of pathogenic microorganisms was still unknown, as was disinfection. From the soldiers who endured the ravages of combat to the government officials who directed the war machine, from the good Samaritans who organized aid commissions to the nurses who cared for the wounded, this book presents a story of suffering, politics, character, and, ultimately, healing."
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A good choice for getting a grounding in the subject or school reports. Many illustrations.
First-hand accounts from letters, journals, reports, and diaries from both sides of the conflict tell the story of the struggle to treat the wounded in the Civil War. Items are arranged chronologically from January 1862 to October 1865. Includes black and white photos.
Bollet compares Civil War medicine to that used during the Crimean War (shortly before) and during the Franco-German War (immediately after) and comes to the somewhat surprising conclusion that the Americans were doing extremely well compared to their European counterparts. Lengthy and with many statistics.
Considered a classic work on the medical history of the Union Army, Adams account has many fascinating statistics and tells the story behind them. For example, only 1/3 of the 300,000 Union soldiers who died during the Civil War were killed by the Confederate Army. Disease took the rest. Also available: Doctors in Gray.
A very readable work that looks at both sides of the conflict and particular areas of interest: Medicine at Sea, Stonewall Jackson Struck by Friendly Fire, The Introduction of Women Nurses, and more. Many photos.
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Hiroyuki Konuma
FAO Regional Representative for Asia-Pacific
Hiroyuki KonumaAssistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific
Delivered at the
Royal Irrigation DepartmentNonthaburi, Thailand27 November 2012
Chairperson, Distinguished participants, Ladies and gentlemen,
Good morning.
First of all, I wish to thank the International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering (PAWEES), the Faculties of Engineering at Chulalongkorn University and Kasertsart University, and the Royal Irrigation Department for inviting me as a Keynote Speaker at the PAWEES 2012 International Conference on "Challenges of Water & Environmental Management in Monsoon Asia." FAO is an United Nations specialized technical agency responsible for agriculture, food security and rural development. It aims to attain a world free from hunger and malnutrition, where food and agriculture contribute to improving the living standards of all, especially the poor, in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. FAO is one of the largest UN Agencies with its HQs in Rome, Italy and 5 regional offices. In Asia and the Pacific region, the regional office is located in Bangkok, Thailand which covers 44 countries in the region. I am the head of the regional office, and the Regional Representative of the Organization.
Today my presentation will focus on the global and regional food security situation and outlook, with a focus on rice, water and environment.
At present, the world produces more or less sufficient food and maintains adequate stocks to feed the world. However, FAO estimates that a total of 870 million people, out of 7 billion world population, were undernourished in 2010-12, with 852 million of those to be found in developing countries. This is a decline from 980 million undernourished in developing countries in 1990-92, and we are only slightly behind the pace needed to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal. Nevertheless, that progress should not obscure the fact that having so many undernourished people in the world is not acceptable. Furthermore, the negative health consequences of micronutrient deficiencies continue to affect around 2 billion people, and childhood malnutrition is a cause of death for more than 2.5 million children every year.
Progress has also been good in the Asia and Pacific region, with the percentage of undernourished declining from 24.7 percent in 1990/92 to 14 percent in 2010/12.
While the proportion of chronic hunger is highest in Sub-Sahara Africa where more than one out of four people suffer from chronic hunger, our home, the Asia and the Pacific Region, recorded the highest number of undernourished at 537 million people - 62 percent of the world's chronically hungry population.
It is also important to know that eighty-eight (88) percent of the chronically hungry people in this region live in just 6 countries (India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Philippines).
The Asia and the Pacific region recorded the highest economic growth among all regions as shown in per capita GDP growth in the past two decades, which helped lead to the sharp decline in the proportion of poor (those living on less than US$ 1.25/day) in total population from 50% to 22% between 1990 and 2009 in the region.
However, rapid economic growth has resulted in less progress against hunger. There has also been widening income disparity and inequality in both least developed and middle income countries.
In addition to nearly nine hundred million people who are chronically hungry, micro-nutrient malnutrition is affecting two billion people. These deficiencies affect physical growth and brain development of infants, especially during the initial 1000 days of growth before and after their birth.
On the other hand, we should not forget that, at the same time, more than one billion people are overweight as a result of over intake of foods, and are suffering from diabetes and non-communicable diseases. We live on a planet of social injustice where a fundamental human right, the right to food for all, is practically ignored or disregarded, and rich people continue enjoying an abundance of food while poor people suffer from hunger.
On top of existing food insecurity problems, we now have a new factor influencing hunger. That is "food price hike and volatility," affecting especially poor consumers who spend a large portion of income on food. According to the Asian Development Bank's recent report, the food price crisis in 2007-08 pushed back over 100,000 people in this region each year who were expected to get out of poverty.
I now wish to talk about the world food production situation.
At present, the world is producing about 2.3 billion tons of cereals annually, which is more or less sufficient to meet the needs of every one. In addition, the world keeps a total food stock of about 500 million tons which covers over 20 percent of annual global requirement.
The most recent food production estimates issued by FAO indicate, however, a decline of wheat and maize production that will result in a slight supply shortfall of cereals, with the result that cereal consumption will exceed production and cereal stocks will need to be drawn down by 5 percent from the previous year's level.
Among cereals, wheat production would be most affected with an estimated decline of 5.2 percent mainly due to drought in the Russian Federation. The production of coarse grain is projected to decline by 2.3%, primarily due to severe drought in the USA affecting maize production. However, the decline in stocks will be mitigated by reduced use of maize for bio-ethanol production in USA.
In contrast to wheat and maize, world rice production in 2012/13 is expected to reach a new historical high, with a marginal increase by 0.2 percent, despite some countries such as India being affected by drought. Thailand, Indonesia and China are all expected to harvest larger crops this year. Consumption is expected to remain about constant in per capita terms, but population growth means an increase in total utilization. Nevertheless, production increases are projected to exceed the increase in utilization, resulting in the increase of global rice stocks by 6 percent. This would be the eighth consecutive year of stock accumulation at the global level, with the stock to use ratio reaching 34 percent.
One year ago, FAO's food price index rose to 238 points, its highest level ever – even beyond the food crisis level in 2008. It has come down slightly in the recent past, but it still remains over 200 points and is two times higher than 10 years ago. It remained at 213 points in July and August 2012, but increased by 1.4 percent (3 points) in September 2012.
The main drivers for the increase in the FAO Food price Index in September 2012 were the price increases for cereals, meat and dairy products, as the cost of animal feeds such as maize and wheat increased.
International rice prices have been more stable than world wheat and maize prices this year. FAO's export rice price index, which combines price quotations for different types of rice from different locations, increased very slightly by less than 1 percent in September. For the year 2012 to date (through September), the FAO rice price index is 5.8 percent below the level during the same period in 2011.
In summary, the world produces more or less sufficient food to meet the demand of every one at present. However, recent droughts affecting several major food exporting countries have tightened the supply-demand situation and will force a drawdown in global cereal stocks, although rice stocks continue to increase. As crude oil prices are still much lower than the level in 2007/08, rice production is expected to reach another record high with a bumper harvest globally, and winter wheat production is progressing very favourably at present. Thus, it is premature to expect another food price crisis as happened in 2027/08. However, over the longer term, it is anticipated that the food prices will remain high. We need to monitor the situation very closely and take the necessary preventive measures.
I wish to move to the future outlook of food production, demand and overall food security. The question before us in this challenging time is what is the food requirement to meet the needs of growing population and what is the future prospect of production and challenges in food production to ensure food security for our children and future generations. FAO has been looking at this question analytically for many years and produced a series of perspective studies projecting the state of world food and agriculture in the future. I will discuss the most recent projections for the year 2050.
In summary, FAO's baseline projections indicate that it should be possible to meet the food ( including feed) demand of the projected world population of year 2050, making reasonable assumptions about growth in yields and in land and water use. Achieving the projected increase in production, however, will require several significant challenges to be met, and may have side-effects that need to be addressed. Water and the environment present two of the most important challenges that will be faced.
The world population is projected to reach 9.2 billion by 2050. The annual population growth rate is projected to slow down from present level of 1.2 percent to less than 0.5 percent in 2050.
At present, half the world population lives in cities. It is estimated that sixty (60) percent of the world population will live in urban cities in 2030 and nearly 70 percent by 2050. For Southeast Asia, nearly 63 percent of total population is expected to live in urban areas in 2050. This trend implies a rapid decline of the agricultural labour force, changes in dietary habits, and an increased importance of urban and peri-urban agriculture.
Per capita food consumption per day has reached 2770 kcal/person/day in 2005/07, while it was only 2370 kcal/person/day at the beginning of the 1970s. There are similar trends among the regions. In our most recent (provisional) projections, the world average consumption is expected to be just over 3000 kcal/person/day in 2050. Per capita consumption in East (including Southeast) Asia is expected to approach saturation levels, reaching 3225 kcal/person/day in 2050.
On the other hand, there will be changes in the food composition of the diet. As a group, developing countries may pass from the 2619 kcal of 2005-07 to almost 3000 kcal in 2050. These changes will imply a switch towards energy-dense diets, high in saturated fat, sugar and salt, and low in unrefined carbohydrates. Combined with lifestyle changes driven by urbanization, such transitions are likely to be accompanied by an increase in diet-related chronic non-communicable diseases. A relevant policy challenge in this area is orienting consumers toward healthy diets and lifestyles, in order to reduce the social and economic burden of food-related diseases. In East and South Asia, diets will continue to be dominated by cereals, although cereals will become less important than at present. Within the group of cereals, the importance of rice will decline in most of Asia, as people diversify their diets to include more wheat products. On the other hand, the role of meats, vegetable oils and sugar is expected to increase considerably.
Let us now turn to the supply side. Given the expected evolution of consumption, how much more should be produced in 2050? A lot, in absolute terms; and this is another significant challenge. According to our most recent projections, in 2050, compared to 2005/07, the world would produce every year one more billion tons of cereals; 196 more million tons of meats; 660 more million tons of roots and tubers; 172 more million tons of soybeans; 429 more million tons of fruits; 365 more million tons of vegetables. Overall, world agricultural production would need to increase by about 60 percent (77 percent for developing countries alone) between 2005/07 and 2050. However, if we compare these expected developments with the past, we realize that this is a slowdown in terms of growth rates, as world agricultural production has recorded an increase of about 170 percent between 1961-63 and 2005-07, largely due to new technologies such as the high-yielding cereal varieties of the Green Revolution. For Asia alone, the Green Revolution facilitated a cereal production increase of 300 percent during the same period, which pushed world cereal prices down by 40 percent in real terms and helped to reduce global hunger.
However, we have to attain the target under many constraints such as stagnation of expansion of arable land, increasing scarcity of water resources, decline of productivity growth affected by lack of investment in agriculture in recent decades, and various uncertainties surrounding future crude oil prices, food price volatility, the negative impact of climate change and natural disasters, and bio-fuel developments.
According to FAO data, in 2005/07 about 12 percent of the globe's land surface was used for crop production, corresponding to a little more than 1.5 billion hectares. By 2050, arable land is expected to expand by some 70 million hectares, or less than 5 percent. Such expansion would happen mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia. Most of the projected increase in arable land use is concentrated in a small number of developing countries, including Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria and Ethiopia. The size of arable land in some Asian counties such as China and Vietnam is projected to decline.
Can we increase food production with a very limited increase of arable land (and scarcity of water)? FAO projections indicate that the most likely – not necessarily desirable! – outcome will be an intensification of production. At world level, about 91 percent of the growth in production is expected to derive from increases in yields, while 4.3 percent would originate from area expansion and another 4.5 percent from an increase in cropping intensity. In developing countries, 12 percent of the projected growth in crop production would come from an increase in arable land, while higher cropping intensities would account for 3 percent and about 85 percent would originate from increased yields. The projected intensification will carry increased environmental pressure that needs to be addressed through improved, more eco-friendly, climate-smart cultivation techniques.
At the global level, the projected yield growth to 2050 is half of the rate of growth observed over the past few decades. Only 0.8 percent per year of cereal yield growth is expected between 2005/07 and 2050, against a 1.7 percent increase per year between 1961 and 2007. This slowdown is a gradual process which has been under way for some decades, and is expected to continue in the future. In absolute terms, however, yields will still need to increase to meet demand.
Now I turn to a subject that you have tremendous expertise in, expertise that will be needed to help meet the challenge of feeding the world in 2050. Do we have enough water to support the projected increase in production? Water has a key role to play in all of the paths to higher production: increases in arable land, increases in cropping intensity and higher yields. When new land is brought under cultivation, it is often important to provide that land with modern irrigation systems. Irrigation also helps to increase cropping intensity, by allowing farmers to grow multiple crops in the same year. And irrigation alleviates water stress on plants, leading to higher and more stable yields.
But agriculture already uses about 70 percent of the water resources of the planet, and there are increasing demands for that water from households, for environmental purposes, and from the industrial sector. If we aim to increase agricultural production by 60 percent by 2050, the pressure on water resources will be increased considerably. Therefore, it will be crucial to increase the productivity and efficiency of water use, while at the same time reducing the environmental impact.
The demands for water to produce food are tremendous. One person requires 2-5 litres of drinking water per day, while the production of one kilogram of wheat requires 1,500 litres of water and one kilogram of meat requires 15,000 litres of water. Altogether, one person requires 3,000 litres of water daily to meet food needs.
Competition of water use between food crops and non-food crops such as bio-energy crops, and also between agricultural use and non-agricultural uses of water also needs to be addressed.
So what are the solutions to water scarcity? It is important to stress that we needs solutions in practice, not on paper. Many of the solutions widely promoted or implemented have not been adapted to local conditions, effective or politically feasible. Instead of merely lamenting the lack of political will when what we recommend is not politically or socially acceptable, we must consider effective and feasible plan-B or second-best options.
To achieve a coherent, effective and feasible set of policies, strategies and interventions, the following are needed:
In order to come up with solutions, we also need to explicitly consider the following dilemmas and tradeoffs:
Based on its vast experience, FAO can propose some solutions:
So far, we looked at the long term food and agricultural outlook through the analysis of projected demand and supply. I also highlighted a number of major challenges that world agriculture has to face in increasing food supplies, especially stagnation in arable land expansion and increasing scarcity of water resources. We can easily identify more of them. Four factors are particularly important: crude oil prices, food price volatility, the impact of climate change, and bio-fuel development.
We often forget that the crude oil price was less than US$ 15 per barrel in 1998. But for 2011-12, West Texas Intermediate has averaged more than US$95 per barrel. This has increased the production cost of foods due to cost increases of chemical fertilizers, transportation cost of farm produce, cost of diesel for irrigation, etc. Higher oil prices have also resulted in a high price for bio-ethanol, which in turn led to higher prices for maize, which is one of the key staple foods for humans and is also used as animal feed, which in turn leads to price increases for meat, milk and associated products.
It is still very uncertain what the future trend of crude oil prices will be, as they are often influenced by the political and social stability of oil-producing countries.
According to most scientists, key climate variables are likely to change over the coming decades. Global mean surface temperatures are projected to increase between 1.8°C and 4.0°C by 2100. This entails higher carbon dioxide concentrations, changes in the pattern of precipitation, increased weeds, pests and diseases. Impacts on agricultural production are likely to be unevenly distributed. Broadly speaking, the Southern Hemisphere may suffer damages in terms of declining yields and greater frequency of extreme droughts and floods. The estimated aggregated negative impact on African agricultural output ranges from 15 percent to 30 percent. And developing countries are expected to increase their food imports under climate change scenarios. In the Northern Hemisphere, instead, higher temperatures may benefit agriculture, expanding potentially suitable crop areas and yields.
In the Asia and the Pacific region, the negative consequences of climate change are seen as a more frequent occurrence of natural disasters such as floods and droughts, which have doubled in the past 10 years. These have affected food production and price stability. There is a need to promote technologies to adapt to climate change and formulate disaster risk deduction strategies.
In addition, bio-energy crops compete with food crops for the use of land and water which are already scarce, and hence threat food security. It is projected that bio-ethanol and bio-diesel production will nearly double in from 2009 to 2018, which would influence food security if choices are left entirely to farmers. A comprehensive food security and bio-energy policy is needed to promote appropriate land use planning and to ensure that food security would not be compromised by the excess expansion of bio-fuel production.
Moreover, we should not forget that a lot of foods are wasted after harvest – as much as 45 percent for fresh fruits and vegetables, and 20-30 percent for cereals.
These figures include wastage of foods after they reach our table in the dining room. Indeed, according to FAO data, such losses are high, with 15-20 percent food waste after cooking in Europe, North America and industrial Asian countries.
To conclude, what is the policy perspective that we can draw from the long term picture of world food and agriculture? FAO projections indicate that resources may be sufficient for 9.2 billion people, provided that considerable investment is devoted to increase productivity and to improve the management of natural resources.
Crude oil prices, food price volatility, bio-fuel development and climate change are major sources of uncertainty.
Finally, I wish to stress that overall resource management needs to improve substantially, especially for land and water. This is an even more pressing demand, if we consider the perspective and the uncertainty surrounding climate change that may place additional burden on the poorest and most vulnerable population groups.
Needless to say, wide and strengthened international policy co-ordination , as well as investments in agriculture and natural resource management are prerequisites for these challenges to be met.
Everyone has a right to access food. Food is essential for our survival, stability, peace and world security. We should not forget the importance of sustainable consumption, and reducing post harvest loss and waste.
Let's promote awareness of the importance of food and agriculture, a sense of strong solidarity, and help each other.
Moreover, I wish to express the importance of joint efforts and working together as partners, especially a stronger public and private sector partnership. I wish to assure you of FAO's commitment, partnership and continued cooperation to attain food security and ensure food for all for our future generations. Thank you.
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With YouTube Play, the Guggenheim is celebrating online video in an unprecedented global biennial. So far we have received more than 4000 videos from participants in Norway to Vietnam, but that's not enough—we're still waiting for your video. Submit your work from now until July 31 for a chance for it to be one of up to 20 videos selected to be shown at the Guggenheim museums in New York, Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice for three days in October. This is your chance to have your video exhibited simultaneously in not one but four major art museums worldwide.
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There has not been much official buzz since BlackBerry CEO John Chen quickly showed off the BlackBerry Passport along with the BlackBerry Classic during the last earnings report. Today on the official BlackBerry Blog, the large screen on the Passport (1440×1440 resolution) is explained further as to why it's so important to have it that size, and the productivity that comes along with it. In the picture you'll see the device in between both the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S5 just to exemplify how the Passport can show more at a time. Use cases highlighted include:
While most of the press releases lately have been around enterprise, mainly big brand clients which have signed up on the latest and greatest BES. However, today's release appeals to everyone, mainly the consumer over business user. BlackBerry has announced its partnership with Amazon to bring the Amazon Appstore officially on OS 10.3. What does this mean? Of course access to a lot of Android applications you want on your BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Many of us have already been getting in on these apps through sideloading great applications such as Snap or even sideloading Amazon Appstore as well as other third party Android application stores – a big thanks to OS 10.2′s ability to load APK's directly on the device. Read more on BlackBerry's partnership with Amazon after the jump.
Downloading as we speak – 538MB in size!
It's been a while since I have been on the blog but I am slowly coming back to try to post when I can and become more involved with that. I figured I would kick things off with some apps I like on my Z30, specifically from Android. Ever since the early leaks of BlackBerry OS 10.2.1, many of us have been enjoying the improved Android application capability. This goes well beyond the ability to sideload through a PC, but directly on the device instead. Downloading applications became much easier through third party mobile application stores such as Amazon and 1Mobile Store or even Aptoid. How about Snap which offered a full third party solution for Google Play? That's probably my most frequently used marketplace when it comes to downloading Android apps. So now that we have Jellybean runtime, and awesome ease of access of applications, here's a quick roundup of my favorite Android applications on my BlackBerry Z30.
So we finally got around to uploading the hands-on video from last night at the Porsche Event held in New York City. Initial impressions were quite nice in my opinion, and it feels somewhat like the former P'9981, from a material perspective. Of course, a whole different device, and operating system with BlackBerry 10. Under the hood it's a Z10, but cosmetically nice and definitely stands out next to any other smartphone. Some things I was really fond of was how specific the branding goes here. The ID card enclosed as soon as you open the box, the Porsche style clock (digital and analog) and even the battery itself branded with Porsche. In the video, we take a quick dive at the device prior to attending the Porsche event. You'll see a quick comparison with my Z10 so you can get a good idea of what to expect from aspect ratios and all that good stuff. Enjoy the video. Also be sure to check out the images below showing the device in all angles.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO and TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Nov. 4, 2013) – BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today announced that it has entered into an agreement pursuant to which Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited ("Fairfax") and other institutional investors (collectively, the "Purchasers") will invest in BlackBerry through a U.S. $1 billion private placement of convertible debentures. Fairfax has agreed to acquire U.S. $250 million principal amount of the Debentures. The transaction is expected to be completed within the next two weeks.
BlackBerry Messenger, or as it is officially known as BBM has been building quite a buzz in popularity for both iOS and Android since launching only 24 hours ago. We were waiting to see a press release on the stats, and it looks like the official announcement has been made. BBM has topped off to over 10 million downloads for both Android and iPhone in just the first opening day. Hit the jump below for the full press release and statistics:
The time has finally come after the one month postponed launch. We got the official word from BlackBerry that Android and iOS will be getting BBM officially today. To do so, BlackBerry provides the following steps to take:
So there's the small catch – yet a solution to control the large amount of users who will be signing up at a time. BlackBerry will email you directly once you can start using BBM. Hopefully the queue will not be long, and users can get up and running quickly. In the meantime, keep checking BBM.com once BBM has been made available to download, the register your email right away to get in line. Good luck to all! Read more on the launch at the BlackBerry Blog
The day is here at last. We've been counting down to this day to see what the BlackBerry stats have been through the rough several months, and with the buyout right around the corner. Check out below for the full press release and highlights from the Fiscal 2014 Results:
WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired - Sept. 27, 2013) – BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported second quarter results for the three months ended August 31, 2013 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where otherwise indicated).
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November 25, 2014
It was an odd start for a man who radiates calm — a hazy, crazy, Bizarro World beginning to an NFL coaching career.
It was as if the offense Marc Trestman had brought from Canada had run into exchange-rate issues and was worth next to nothing by the time it got here. Not only that, he was relying on defensive turnovers, the currency that was used so often under his predecessor.
Lovie Trestman? Say it ain't so, I know. But for the first half Sunday, it certainly was so.
There was a Bears timeout after the second offensive play of the day, just like the old days. There were two save-the-day interceptions by cornerback Charles Tillman, whose turnover jar is overflowing. There was an anemic pass rush that allowed Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton to torch Tillman when Tillman wasn't intercepting him. And there was a Bears offense that only managed 97 yards in the first half.
Weird. We had been under the impression that this show had been canceled along with Lovie Smith.
And then something nice happened for the Bears. If it didn't come from nowhere, it certainly came from next to nowhere. It arrived via the confident decision-making of Trestman and the feet of Jay Cutler. By the time it was over, the Bears had won 24-21 and Trestman had his first NFL victory.
The signature moment was the coach's decision to go for it on fourth-and-inches at the Bengals' 27 with 8:32 left in the game and the Bengals leading 21-17. Going for it wasn't the risky part. Smith had gone for it lots of times on fourth down. But Trestman sent Matt Forte behind two sides of rookie beef — right guard Kyle Long and right tackle Jordan Mills. Forget about the wisdom of starting two rookies. How about having that much confidence in them after exactly one training camp? Against one of the best defensive lines in the league?
Answer: an eight-yard run and a first down.
''Ballsy play-calling,'' Cutler said. ''That's what Trestman's about.''
What, you wanted me to write ''[gutsy] play-calling,'' in the name of delicacy? Sorry. Cutler had it exactly right. Trestman referred to it as ''a game-defining moment.'' I think we can all agree on that.
The Bears took the lead for good a play later when Cutler hit Brandon Marshall for a 19-yard touchdown.
Two Cutler plays in the second half — a 30-yard completion off the run to tight end Martellus Bennett and an 18-yard scramble — softened up the Bengals' defense. After their tepid first half, the Bears roared back with 226 yards of total offense in the third and fourth quarters.
I'm not sure we have any idea yet what Trestman is all about. It's too early. But there was consensus in the giddiness of the post-victory locker room.
''He's pretty laid-back,'' said cornerback Tim Jennings, who forced two fumbles and recovered one of them. ''We're still trying to figure out his demeanor, but he's a great coach. He tries to protect his guys, put the guys in the right position — especially the offense — and I think he's the guy that we need to just kind of get things going.''
Bears players gave the former coach of the Montreal Alouettes a game ball for his efforts Sunday. Even though Trestman accepted it, he was having none of it.
''Sundays are for players,'' he said. ''Sunday is the players' day to celebrate the privilege of playing in the National Football League.''
Au contraire, Monsieur Trestman.
''He's part of this team,'' Bennett said. ''A lot of time the coaches aren't part of the team — they're just coaches. We have a great staff, and they are really, really a part of what we're doing.''
The sweet nothings could go back and forth forever, so I'm going to cut them off. Suffice it to say, everybody's happy now.
It certainly wasn't that way early in Sunday's game. The Bengals put together scoring drives of 97, 91 and 80 yards at Soldier Field and seemed to find special joy on third downs. The Bears finally got their act together in the second half.
It's hard to say anything definitive after one game. For all the brave training camp talk, Cutler admitted he had questions as he sat in the locker room before the game, the biggest being, gulp, whether the plays would work.
He did not get sacked and threw just one interception.
Pretty good answer, for openers.


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In this video Hendrik Vanden Abeele talks about folio 10 verso of the 1481 Ghent antiphonary. This folio occupies the Lauds service at the Third Sunday of Advent, with several instructions for performance, with indications for the antiphons and hymns to be sung.
At the end of the folio starts the days of the week after the Third Sunday of Advent. In the margin of the folio there are 16-century additions in order to adapt the manuscrip to secular rite.


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The Four Cornerstones of a Happy and Long Life
Following my post on The Meaning of Life, I've finally been able structured my research and experience on how to really enjoy a long life and healthy life. Simply, balance is one of the keywords here. You can not only get too little of something you love, you can actually get too much of it as well. Just take a look at nature and how it works, it all about long term balance from a big picture perspective. A a few years ago a wise man, my father, told me that "too much sun makes a desert" – not immediately grasping how right he was. He was really pinpointing the importance of having balance in life. The opposite would be that too much rain causes a flood. But together they create the most beautiful nature there is. Life is complex and does not consist of single opposites alone. On the other hand, it does not have to be that complicated either.
This made me passionate about researching this area more in-depth, i.e. how to best follow nature's most central law. I've spent hundreds of hours of reading, thinking, discussing and actually practicing the areas below and now feel confident in bucketing the ingredients to a long, healthy and balanced life into four simple sections:


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A badly wounded Rottweiler was found wandering in an apartment complex in north Fort Worth after being shot in the face with a shotgun."The barrel was against her cheek when they pulled the trigger," said Dr. Tim Morton, a veterinarian who is treating the dog.The animal was shot with a .410-gauge shotgun behind the right eye and has a much larger exit wound below the left bottom jaw, said Morton of Family PetCare on North Handley Drive."We actually recovered a plug from the shotgun shell," he said."It was still in the entrance wound."Because of the dog's docile nature, Morton doubted that it had been shot in self-defense."This girl is so submissive, you just touch her and she just lays down," he told the Star-Telegram."When you first hear about a gunshot wound to the head, your mind thinks of all kinds of horror," Morton said. "She lived up to our worst nightmares; her head was twice the size that it should be because of swelling."Morton said Sandy is 2 or 3 years old, and the condition of the wounds indicates she was likely shot early last week. He began treating the Rottweiler on Thursday."Infection is high on our concern list," the veterinarian said. "We are doing a lot to try and prevent that, both in her soft tissue and all of the exposed bone."Luckily, her tongue and teeth remain intact, and everything vital appears to be in good shape, Morton said.On Saturday, Sandy was recovering, and still wanting to be petted."She is doing wonderful. It's amazing the change that we've seen in the last 24 hours. ... She's even eating," Morton said."But she has a long road ahead of her and will need multiple additional surgeries."Fort Worth police confirmed that the dog was picked up Wednesday at a Montecito Way complex near Interstate 820 and Marine Creek Parkway but gave no additional details. Animal control handed the dog over to Kapi Neely, a Fort Worth-based Rottweiler rescue volunteer, who named her Sandy in honor of the 26 shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn.The motive behind the shooting is unknown."When I picked up Sandy from the shelter, I looked at her and thought, 'Who would do this to her?' The emotions went from being appalled to being sick to my stomach to being so sad," said Neely, who had been brought into the case by an Austin group, Katy's Promise Rottweiler Rescue of Austin.Its founder, Toni Liguori, said that Sandy was in good physical shape other than her head wounds with a good weight and glossy coat."This is someone's dog, someone took good care of her," Liguori said. "I'm praying somebody is looking for her. She was so sweet and so trusting, she [must have] just stood there while someone put a gun to her head."Liguori has set up an account for the dog. The group expects it will need to raise about $6,000 to cover last week's care and future surgical costs. For more information, go to www.kprr.rescuegroups.org.Susan McFarland, 817-390-7547Twitter: @susanmcfarland1
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Grants for 2014-2015
Grants are a form of gift aid, meaning you don't need to repay them. Scan through the list of grants available to Bethel Seminary students (excludes Doctor of Ministry students). Bethel institutional gift aid applies to fall and spring semesters only.
Bethel Grant
Amount: Up to $600 per semester, $1,200 per year
Eligibility: Students must be enrolled full time (6 credits per semester) in a master's level program. Need-based.
Renewal: Based on demonstrated need
How to apply: Complete FAFSA and Bethel Financial Aid Application.
Campus Crusade Grant
Amount: 15% of tuition
Eligibility: Current full-time employees of Campus Crusade who enroll in a master's level program. Recipients are not eligible for additional institutional aid. Full-time enrollment is not required to receive this grant.
Renewal: Must reapply annually and maintain employment with Campus Crusade
How to apply: Must identify yourself as a Campus Crusade employee on your Bethel Financial Aid Application
InMinistry Travel Grant
Amount: Varies. Up to $500 per semester, $1000 per year.
Renewal: Must apply and demonstrate need annually
Eligibility: Full-time InMinistry students from the U.S. living 75 miles or more from campus. Students must be enrolled full time (6.0 credits per semester). Need-based.
How to apply: Automatically considered with your FAFSA and Bethel Financial Aid Application.
International Student Grant
Amount: Varies
Eligibility: Students selected by the Office of Admissions and Recruitment who enroll in residential programs in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Renewal: Renewable up to two years
How to apply: Please contact the Office of Admissions and Recruitment for appropriate applications.
Multicultural Grant
Amount: $500 per semester, $1,000 per year
Eligibility: Students of color enrolled full time (6 .0 credits per semester) in a master's level program at the St. Paul campus. Need-based.
Renewal: Must apply and demonstrate need annually
How to apply: Automatically considered with your FAFSA and Bethel Financial Aid Application.
Minnesota GI Bill Program
Amount: Up to $1,000 per term for full-time students. Up to $500 per term for part-time students.
Renewal: Student must apply every year. Lifetime maximum of $10,000.
Eligibility: You must be a Minnesota resident who is a:
- Veteran who is serving or has served honorably in any branch of the United States armed forces at any time; or
- Non-veteran who has served honorably for a total of five years or more cumulatively as a member of the Minnesota National Guard or any other active or reserve component of the United States armed forces, and any part of that service occurred on or after September 11, 2001; or
- Spouse of a person who has served in the military at any time who has died or has a total and permanent disability as a direct result of that military service. (Student must also be eligible to receive federal veterans education benefits as a spouse or dependent.)
Academic requirements: Must be a student in good standing
How to apply:
- Apply for financial aid at Bethel and complete the FAFSA.
- Learn more about the Minnesota GI Bill and complete the online Minnesota GI Bill Application.
- Notify us when you've completed the application and submit a copy of your DD-214 to our office.


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Through 2022, employment for cartographers and other mapping scientists is expected to grow 20 percent, or faster than the average for all occupations. There is a growing need for maps for national security and local government planning. The growing number of mobile and Web-based map products also should result in new jobs for cartographers.


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Neil Best leaves no stone unturned in the world of sports media.
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Jets will be on TV in 2010
It appears my offer to resign has not been accepted, so we move on . . .
Here is the newspaper version of my Jets PSL story, in which I explain why there will be no television blackouts of Jets game in 2010.