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Design (just about) Digested
I began my year out away from my graphic design degree at LCC way back in June last year and it has been one of hell year in all honestly. I've learnt so much not only about what I want to do, but also about myself as a designer, met some amazing people along the way and been involved in some fantastic internships, freelance work, exhibitions, projects and everything else in-between. The highlights have included:
BRAG/Firehouse weekend in Brighton, YCN/Becks Fusion Live Studio, Print Club, ongoing involvement with UK Street Art, YCN Live: 250 Shoeboxes, 1 Superstar, Blyk/YCN Workshop, NOISE Festival 2008 short-listing, Not Actual Size, the BBC 'Big Mic' in Berlin, eBoy, A Delivery of Typography, Deutsche Kinemathek Alfred Hitchcock exhibition, Pentagram Berlin, ContainerPLUS, Cunning, THIS IS Studio, D&AD Student Awards, G20 music video, Type Tarts, Tunnel 228, the Ghibli Museum, breakfast with John Maeda, Trashed, Pecha Kucha Tokyo, Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo, Banksy vs. Bristol Museum exhibition, Don't Panic, Little Music Break to Paris, Wieden+Kennedy London, London Design Festival, Adobe Creative Bursary nomination and ideAporting.
A massive thanks goes out to all the people this year who have helped me, discussed projects, taught me and lots more. Ron and Chuck from Firehouse along with Jamie, Rhys and everyone else at BRAG. Nick, Sarah and the rest of the YCN team. Fred from Print Club. The UK Street Art team, Mark and Tom. Dan, Simon and Stephen from Not Actual Size. Svend of eBoy. Anja and Barbara from the Buchstaben Museum. Justus, Uta, Josephine, Christiane and Nikola from Pentagram Berlin. Luise of ContainerPLUS. Aidan, Becca, Spencer, Olly and everyone else from Cunning. Barney, Dougal and Richard from THIS IS Studio. Vicky, Danielle, Richard and the rest of the KK Outlet team. John Maeda. Alan, Simone and Mark from Trashed. Mark and Tomoko from KleinDytham. Eric and the rest of the W+K Tokyo team. Joe from Don't Panic. Sarah, Sandrine and Camille from We Are Social, Guy from W+K London and everyone else who I have met along the way.
I came into this year thinking I wanted to be an ideas person in either an agency or studio and I've come away knowing that I want to be and ideas based designer. My typography skills have improved greatly as well my computer software skills. I've developed a much greater appreciation for the finer details of design and I know that I will always work on projects that excite me. I'm now collaborating more and more with interesting people and believe it's the only way to produce the best work. People know something you don't and you know something they don't. I've learnt and developed greatly this year and have had so much fun doing it. I start back at LCC today and I will take what I have learnt this year and use it to get the most out of my final year, as a graduate and beyond.
For the immediate and long term future, I am currently working on ideAporting, which you can sign up for here, working on my dissertation which is based on the theme of Digital vs. Print and carrying on with my final year self-initiated project (watch this space). During my final year, I am hoping to continue the experiences I have had whilst interning, by working at a studio for 1 day a week, so I'm currently designing some self promotion and sourcing studios for that. I am also involved with a newspaper publication about student and graduate experiences with written and visual contributions that is soon to be produced. The project is being run by fellow designers Alex and Charlie. I am continuing to work with Pecha Kucha here in London, Trashed, UK Street Art, Don't Panic and finishing up projects with Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo. I've also recently completed the identity for web based activists Turnfront which can be seen here and then finally, I have more self-initiated projects in the pipeline, both online and offline.
I now have a Twitter account so you can follow me at http://twitter.com/pauljenk and www.theshavedhead.com is soon to re-launch with a new design and new projects so watch this space. You can also continue to follow me on Flickr as well here. It's been a pleasure to keep everyone updated about the last 16 months or so and thanks to everyone who has commented and emailed me. I've had 125 posts on the blog, documenting every creative thing I have done and over 20,000+ blog hits. I'm currently designing an outcome to summarise this year out so check my website for that soon. If you want to get in touch, drop me a line at email@example.com or on +44(0)792 166 7913. Finally, I will starting up a new personal blog soon so keep your eyes peeled for that.
That's all, cheers.
Shelter House of Cards Exhibition
I haven't been able to go to all of the London Design Festival events that I wanted to this week, there was just too many and not enough time, but the Shelter House of Cards exhibition launch is one non-London Design Festival event I have had on the 'cards' for a while now, so I was really looking forward to checking it out at the Haunch of Venison Gallery. In short, Shelter asked 53 designers and creatives (including a 'joker') to create a deck of cards inspired by Shelter's recent House of Cards campaign and to be silently auctioned off to raise money for the work Shelter does. Participating artists included: Nick Park, Sir Terence Conran, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Damien Hirst, Amelia's Magazine, NB Studio, Neville Brody, Jon Burgerman, D*Face, Henry Holland, Experimental Jetset and Mauricio Ortiz, who was the winner of a public competition that Shelter also ran as part of the campaign and exhibition.
My favourites were Ortiz's 8 of clubs, Burgerman's 9 of clubs, D*Face's Queen of clubs, Ella Doran's three of diamonds 'cushion', Experimental Jetset's 9 of diamonds, Park's 6 of spades, McQueen's King of spades 'sculpture', Amelia's Magazine's 2 of hearts, Amanda Levete Architects 3 of hearts, M/M Pari's 4 of hearts, Polly Morgan's 10 of hearts, Gerald Scarfe's Jack of hearts, Antoni and Alison's ace of clubs, NB Studio's 2 of clubs and Lacey's 5 of clubs. Check out a full set of exhibition photos on my Flickr page here.
London Design Festival : London Posters Exhibition
Yesterday I made the journey down to the V&A to go have a look at the London Posters exhibition. The exhibition was located in one of the corridors of the museum, which really didn't benefit the designs, being shoved away near a cloakroom. The posters were created by 20 leading graphic designers and typographers celebrating London as the creative capital of the world. The exhibition draws on the idea that the poster is one of the oldest and still one of the most powerful communication mediums and challenged each designer to produce an effective poster celebrating design and the city, in only two colours, black and red.
Domenic Lippa of Pentagram along with Sir John Sorrell curated the exhibition and designers included; Angus Hyland, Jonathan Ellery, Henrik Kubel, Derek Birdsall, Tony Brook, Tom Hingston, Andy Altmann, Fernando Gutteriez, Morag Myerscough, Mike Dempsey, Alan Kitching, Frith Kerr, Alan Aboud, Damon Murray, Mason Wells, Michael Wolff, Quentin Newark and Jeremy Leslie.
Some of the posters were fantastic such as Jeremy Leslie's with the shortened URL on where to find the best magazine shops in London, see here for the 'proper' version of the poster. The de-constructed tube map concept posters were also amongst my favourites along with Andy Altmann's 'Cor-Blimey Trousers' for the Evening Standard. Even though the posters are tucked away in the V&A, they are up until the 27th of September so go check them out. The London Design Festival event page can be found here.
London Design Festival : emerge Exhibition
Next up from the London Design Festival was the emerge exhibition held at the Rich Mix gallery space near Brick Lane. emerge is the new graduate showcase event run by the Design Festival and works were guest selected by Fraser Muggeridge. Alongside the exhibition, events including one run by Wieden+Kennedy are happening throughout next week as well the very first emerge design award, with the winner being revealed next friday. The exhibition itself had a nice layout displaying the graduate's projects but I'm not too sure on the quality and production of some of the pieces. My favourite works were the emoticons canvas bags, the sculpture of 'SHIT!' and some of the typographic posters which were part of a poster competition brief set by Pentagram for any graduate to participate in.
emerge is worth a look if your a student or graduate and the exhibition runs until the 27th of September. The event page can be found here.
London Design Festival : Typographica Exhibition
The annual London Design Festival officially opens today, but a few of the events have already opened up for visitors including the Typographica exhibition held at the Kemistry Gallery. If you don't know already, Typographica was an eponymous groundbreaking and now legendary graphic design journal, which ran from 1949 to 1967. The exhibition is curated by Rick Poynor and by Mafalda Spencer, the daughter of Typographica's founder, Herbert Spencer.
On display at the exhibition were large scale spreads detailing the journal's content as well a series of full magazines on display. Some great vintage typographical design featured throughout the exhibition and even though the Kemistry Gallery is a small one, Typographica is definitely worth a visit in my opinion. It runs until the 31st of October so go check it out. The exhibition can be found online here. I have lots more London Design Festival events, exhibitions and a workshop scheduled in for the next week, so make sure to check back here for updates and check out the Design Festival's website below for some really exciting events happening all around London.

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Ethics in photojournalism ...
"You can't have a conversation about photojournalism without discussing ethics, so to get the conversation started, we wanted to hear from you. Last month, we asked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter followers to submit questions about ethics in photojournalism for inclusion in our new series 7 with VII. Read on for the 7 answers from VII's Ron Haviv, Maciek Nabrdalik, Stefano De Luigi, Davide Monteleone, Ashley Gilbertson, Ed Kashi and Arthur Bondar."
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the film
Avoiding Salmon Jeopardy and Recovery
by Rocky Barker
For nearly 20 years salmon management in the Columbia and Snake river basins has been driven by court cases filed under the auspices of the federal Endangered Species Act.
This has forced the federal dam, power and fisheries officials to make their goal avoiding jeopardizing the extinction of salmon. They have been guided by the Endangered Species Act's Section 7, which says the federal government SHALL take no action that jeopardizes the existence of an endangered species.
This is the law's strongest hook -- indeed the most powerful hammer in the United States' environmental law toolbox. Federal managers have the choice of writing a plan that ensures salmon are not jeopardized; or are jeopardized, which can be avoided with reasonable or prudent alternatives; or they can ask the Endangered Species Committee, a little used panel called the God Squad, to determine that a species can go extinct, or that a plan doesn't have to meet the jeopardy standard.
Since 1993, federal officials have written plan after plan after plan to meet the jeopardy standard with little success. But in their efforts, they have put together one of the largest endangered species recovery programs in history in the Columbia and Snake river basins.
It critics can say the so-called four H plan -- covering hydropower, hatcheries, harvest and habitat issues through a region a large as France -- has not met the Endangered Species Act's Section 7. But due in part to fish groups' advocacy, the two rivers are far less lethal to salmon today than they were 20 years ago.
And mostly due to the millions of hatchery salmon stuffed into the system artificially, anglers, commercial fishermen and tribal fishermen are catching fish like they haven't since the early 1970s. Like a network of federal, state and tribal fish farms, the hatcheries have masked the slow pace of returning wild salmon to sustainability.
If the vision of the policymakers who passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973 were to win out, the region would move on to writing a recovery plan for salmon, not just plans to avoid jeopardy. But since the recovery portion of the law has more flexibility for economic interests, there has been little incentive for the sporting groups, commercial fishermen, environmentalists and Nez Perce tribe to leave Section 7 behind.
Since federal officials, the states of Washington, Montana, Idaho and most of the Indian tribes in the region who backed the federal plan can't convince a federal judge they have met the jeopardy standard, they remain stuck working on jeopardy, not recovery.
Trout Unlimited, a national anglers group that had been among the groups suing, pulled out in 2011. It decided to seek another path.
It is focusing its attention on the Snake River. In our watershed, these issues are simpler.
The salmon's spawning habitat is largely protected, and in nearly pristine condition in the nearly 20 million acres of central Idaho wilderness and roadless national forests. Though regional interests and the federal government is spending millions to improve habitat in Salmon river tributaries like the Lemhi and Pahsimeroi, which is benefiting salmon, the future is clearly tied to improving the hydrosystem.
That's why removing the four dams on he Lower Snake River in Washington has been on the table since at least 1997.
Rob Masonis, Trout Unlimited's western conservation vice president in Seattle, said his group is no longer interested in preventing jeopardy. They want to bring together all of the interests involved in the Snake River watershed to write a recovery plan.
"Let's focus on a suite of actions that gets us to recovery, mindful of the community needs and interests," Masonis said.
He says he wants to set a table with the people who have to ship their goods and crops to markets across the Pacific. He wants ranchers and farmers who get water from the Snake to speak for their interests. He wants the power interests.
He wants Lewiston's leaders to offer their vision of the future and to see what place salmon and the river play. And he wants the Nez Perce and other tribes to speak up for the connection they have with the fish since time immemorial.
Oregon and Washington will be there, as well as Montana, because they all have a say in what happens to the Snake's salmon, its dams and its water.
The Nez Perce and Save our Wild Salmon also have sought a new table. The tribe went directly to Republican Sen. Mike Crapo, who has carried the banner for collaboration across Idaho. He has said the fruits of collaboration have not yet ripened for salmon.
But as long as the issue is jeopardy, it appears that it will remain at stalemate and in the hands of a federal judge. That alone should be an incentive for recovery talks.
Hi Rocky,
Steve Hawley here,
Seems like you're committing to an industry-generated interpretation of section 7 of the ESA. That portion of the law requires consultation between federal agencies and the Fish and Wildlife Service or NOAA, to determine whether any federal action will jeopardize the odds for survival and recovery of a species in the wild. The ESA also directs all federal agencies to work to conserve threatened and endangered species, and to use their authority to further the purposes of the act. One of those purposes is clearly defined: the ESA clearly states that the rationale of this law is not to conserve single species like museum pieces, but to restore whole, functioning ecosystems.
The false dichotomy between survival and recovery is one that the BPA and other federal agencies have so far very successfully exploited, to the detriment of the stated purpose of the ESA. The federal agencies are only "stuck" arguing about survival because that's how they've managed to very badly bend the law.
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After Max Biaggi announced his retirement last year, people wondered what would happen to Aprilia and its championship hopes. Well, the soothsayers, their predictions and assumptions took a backseat this weekend. Our favourite warriors gathered around Phillip Island at the first race of the 2013 season and spent their time playing catch-up. The Aprilias were fast, too fast, too powerful. They grabbed 5 of the 6 positions. Aprilia had laid claim to the championship. But that's not to say that the season will continue this way. The RSV4 riders were fast, but the race results were a culmination of events.
Tom Sykes, a favourite, was recovering from a cracked bone in the wrist. He was going to race, but it would be a tough feat. Ayrton Badovini had a broken foot courtesy a crash during the first Qualifying and was missing from the grid. It wasn't an auspicious beginning.
During the first race, Carlos Checa and Marco Melandri battled for position, but the Spaniard made a mistake and crashed, taking out Melandri in the process. Checa ended up in hospital with a major concussion and missed the second race. Melandri though bounced back. It was apparent that the BMW Motorrad GoldBet rider was hell bent on podium finishes as he held off Michel Fabrizio during the second race to take the 3rd spot.
Chaz Davies had a good first race, moving past a struggling but determined Sykes to take 4th. But the second race turned out to be disastrous. An opening-lap tangle with Loris Baz and a subsequent ride-through penalty left him with a 17th position. "…I lost the rear as I turned in. I'm not exactly sure why," Davies later said. "The only reason I can give is either that somebody tapped me, or that the extreme right hand side of the tyre wasn't quite scrubbed in and that made the rear spin around. Unfortunately, Loris was on the outside of me and he had nowhere to go."
There were two riders though who truly shone through. One of them was Loris Baz (and I am not saying this because I believe in Team Green). This will be his first complete 2013 season for the Kawasaki Racing Team, and this was his first Phillip Island experience. But he was true to his bike. He pushed the ZX10R, swooping past the others, and battling for position. He went from 11th position to the 6th in the first race, battling with Leon Haslam on the way. He later said, "On a track like this when you are with other people with more experience, it helps because they are pulling you along. I was really surprised, because I was not checking my lap times, that on lap 11 I looked and saw a 1'31.8!" The second race however, became a no-show after Davies hit Baz. It is obvious though that Baz is a man to watch this season.
The second rider who stunned was the new Roman on the circuit. Fabrizio, riding the Red Devils Roma Aprilia was phenomenal the whole weekend. He didn't disappoint on race day either. He caught up to the front-runners Sylvain Guintoli and Eugene Laverty during the first race and played footsie with the Irishman who was trying to catch up to his teammate. But Laverty dominated leaving Fabrizio to take the 3rd podium spot. The second race was equally thrilling, as Fabrizio took the 4th spot.
It was a thrilling ride for Aprilia – the team leads the manufacturer championship with 50 points. Eugene Laverty and Sylvain Guintoli are tied at the first spot with 45 points. There are now 43 days to go till the second race of the season at Aragon, Spain. And if 2012 was anything to go by, one thing is for sure. Every point counts. Even a measly .5 can help you win the championship.
…In WSS news, Kawasaki Mahi Racing Team got its first win of the season after Kenan Sofuoglu stole a win from right under Yamaha rider Sam Lowes' nose. The two swapped leads throughout the race with the Turkish rider beating Lowes by 1.899 seconds. Teammate Fabien Foret took 4th place. Sofuoglu later said, "It all worked out very well in the end. Sam Lowes did a good job all weekend and it was not easy to catch him, but we kept working to find the way to save the tyre for 15 laps and in the morning warm-up, I did not give up."


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The Importance of Things Not Easily Measured
Our schools don't teach us about some of the most important government actions, ones that built the foundations of our prosperity. The reason is that most important trend are slow growing, their results evident only with the passages of time, sometimes generations. They also are cooperative enterprises. The very best that any individual can hope to achieve is to be necessary but not sufficient. Politicians have a lot of trouble taking credit for these things and historians have trouble fitting narratives to them. These are not stories without heroes, but rather that there are too many heroes to count, each playing a role, often unaware of the role they are playing. How do you explain it a few words, in one lecture?
So, we neglect the important stories and tell instead exciting tales of great political and military struggles won and lost. Everybody likes them better. They are easier to understand, and we can take sides, imagining we would have made the right choices. But we really should spend time understanding the ground our heroes are standing on, sometimes literally the ground they stand on.
"Natural" Abundance the Result of Human Innovation, Imagination and Intelligence
I thought these things as I heard Philip Pardey & Vincent H. Smith talk about the importance of agricultural R&D at AEI. My comments are based on their comments and riffs on their themes, but I suggest you read for yourselves their paper.There is original research and lots of interesting and disturbing graphs and information. Follow this link.
Few of us appreciate how much our prosperity and our very physical survival depend on agricultural research and development. We sort of assume that things just grow, more of less a gift from nature, and that farming techniques are inheritances of the past, in fact, it might be better for us and the environment if we just "went back" to simpler techniques of our grandparents.
Well, that is not how it goes. Most of America's "natural" abundance is the creation of human innovation, imagination and intelligence. When we do our best, we work with natural processes, but he results are not natural. Natural forces are often out to frustrate our efforts. Bugs are programmed to eat our crops; diseases develop to decimate them; soils quickly lose their fertility and when not appreciated properly run downhill to clog streams and estuaries. This was the history of agriculture. People moved, and civilizations collapsed when they ran out of soil. How did we get around this ancient problem? We did it with that innovation, imagination and intelligence mentioned above and we did it by channeling these things through strong programs & institutions.
1862: A Year of Horror & Hope
1862 was a horrible year in America. Americans were killing each other and destroying property as never before in the second year of a great civil war. President Abraham Lincoln and his government could have been excused if all their attention was occupied with this. But they were looking forward to better times. Beyond the carnage at place like Fredericksburg or Shiloh, in 1862 the United States Congress passed, and President Lincoln signed legislation that helped create American prosperity for the next century. The Homestead Act ensured that the plains would be occupied mainly by the many yeoman farmers rather than large estates owned by the few. The Morrill Act created land grant colleges to support research and dissemination of useful arts of mechanics and agriculture. And Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA and the land grant universities created in the same year by the Morrill Act were and are more intimately connected than we generally appreciate. The land grant colleges produced and still produce most of the research and development that makes our agricultural abundance possible and when the USDA was founded, its main reason for being, specifically spelled out in its charter, was to "... established at the seat of government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." Research and the diffusion of innovation remained the main purpose of USDA for the next century.
Agricultural R&D Pays Off Big
Few investments are consistently as profitable as agricultural R&D. Phillip Pardey pointed to research that shows it pays back a minimum of around 30% a year. And this is no temporary phenomenon. His data go back more than a century. A dollar invested in public research at a land grant university can be expected to pay back $30-32 worth of benefits to society. He addressed the concern that maybe we have already done the easy parts and that gains would drop off in future. After all, the law of diminishing returns is a key - and depressing - factor of economic thought. There is no evidence that this is happening with agricultural R&D.
For the century after the founding of the USDA and the land grant colleges, America dominated agricultural research and the application of it to farms and fields. We were so successful that we were able to forget the basis of our prosperity that filled our stomachs, take it for granted. We started to see the Department of Agriculture as more a way to divide the pie, distribute the affluence, than to enhance and grow it.
Other countries have stepped up. American agricultural R&D has declined in relative AND even in absolute terms. In the last few years, China has invested more than the U.S. and others like India and Brazil have stepped up their investments. This is not a bad thing. We can all benefit when science advances and we certainly can take advantage of partnerships with others. I have long believed in the utility of sharing and worked toward that goal when I served in Brazil and elsewhere. But we do need to be concerned with our agricultural exports. We should not sacrifice our leadership in agriculture and the science of agriculture for lack of attention or neglecting the need to renew ourselves.
And all of us are interested in improvement in agriculture. As Phillip Pardey commented, some of us farm and all of us eat.
Not to Move Forward is to Go Backward, and Not Only Relatively
It is an illusion when we feel ourselves going backwards as bus or a train passes us, but it is not illusion that we lose our place when others move faster than we do. We might be willing to accept this, as long as we keep what we have, but that is not the reality.
Nature is constantly conspiring against us. We are in a perpetual arms race with bugs, weeds and pathogens of all description. We adapt to them with new crop varieties, innovative management techniques or chemicals. They adapt to us by evolving ways to get around our best efforts. It is depressing to realize that we sometimes have to run as fast as we can just to stay in place, but that is the sort of world we have.
This means that we need to do research and development not only to move ahead but also not to lose ground. Smith & Pardey estimate that at least 50% & maybe as much as 70% of agricultural R&D is just enough for us to keep what we have.
Private Public Partnerships
We did better in the past, but nobody advocates going back or assumes that we can recreate a golden age. As will most golden ages, it reads and is remembered better than it was lived, but beyond that conditions have changed. What worked then may not be appropriate now. We have more and a greater variety of resources and challenges. A generation ago, we needed to concentrate brains, facilities and money, and we could divide tasks into discrete units. Today, knowledge, experts and resources are more distributed, and tasks are multi-disciplinary in new ways. Instead of concentrating the brains and scientific brawn, we may have to lend and borrow. Some people call this a "churn;" others "brain sharing." No matter what you call it, it requires a more open and collaborative system.
Government can and must play a big role in this intellectual ecosystem. Private firms and organizations may borrow and lend brains and resources, but many of the best development are difficult to monetize or may take too many years to pay off. Many agricultural innovations may take a quarter century or more to show results. No private firm can wait that out. And the benefits will likely be dispersed, a product or development freely open to many in general tends to be profitable to nobody in particular.
And we should not overlook government's role as a convenor and connector, a catalyst that can make it possible for other to create. No private firm can consistently play this role and getting potential competitors together to collaborate may even violate anti-trust laws. In other words, government often needs a seat at this table and sometimes needs to provide the table.
Figuring out how and where to divide intellectual property is something beyond my pay grade. And I -again - recommend the research done by Smith & Pardey and maybe stop over at AEI next time they have a program like this.Posted by Christine & John at December 12, 2017 8:26 PM
So C&J, the thrust of the message from AEI seems to be China is spending more than us on agricultural research so we need to cut other programs from the agricultural dept. so we can spend more… Is that what they are saying?Posted by: j2t2 at December 13, 2017 12:00 AM
That is just one part of a complex interrelationships.
I would advocate cutting subsidies for crop insurance, which is mostly a giveaway to rich farmers, since there is not cap, and encourages risky behaviors. It also encourages expansion of cropping on marginal lands, so the insurance actually subsidizes ecological destruction. I would advocate cutting those subsidies even if the money was not redirected.
I am not so concerned that China is spending more. I have long advocated increased cross fertilization, as I allude above. It is about time other countries stepped up and pulled their own weight. But I think it important for our own country to remain a leader.Posted by: Christine & John at December 13, 2017 9:12 AM
Crop insurance seems to only pay for some of the costs to plant a field after the crop is destroyed by hail or so such. Not sure how it has anything to do with risky behaviors unless you consider farming a risky business. Which of course it is a risky venture with small profit margins for most farmers in this country. Hail can hit any field and if it does the farmer is stuck with a failed crop in the ground, the costs to get the failed crop out of the field and the loss of profit from the crop. IMHO the crop insurance should be expanded and help the smaller farmer whose livelihood is dependent on the money from the crop to be able to plant the next season.
Are you sure this isn't some veiled attempt to get rid of food stamp programs at the dept. of agriculture?Posted by: j2t2 at December 13, 2017 10:45 AM
There are risks in any business. If you want to hedge or insure, you can do that. Absent subsidies, the rates you pay will reflect the risk you take. With subsidies, your risk is … subsidized.
Think of it in the gambling paradigm because that is what it resembles. If you flip a fair coin, you have a 50-50 chance. You are unlikely to bet on these odds, since the expected value of the payoff is zero. You expect to only get your money back and so there is no value in the work.
If you wanted to get "insurance" against a bad outcome, it would cost you more than you could expect to gain. BUT if someone would subsidize your premiums, making the otherwise bad bet becomes a good one.
Example, you subsidize my insurance against flipping a tails. Maybe you pay 70% of the premium. So I bet. If heads comes up, I double my money. If tails comes up, my insurance pays up. In a public policy context, we have privatized gains and socialized losses. My bet becomes a sure thing. Essentially, it costs me 30% to win 100% all the time.
Farming is a risky business. We can, should and do many things to help. But we should not encourage excess risk taking by subsidizing it.
I would have thought a leftist like you would be against these subsidies too, since the vast bulk of them go to rich farmers or corporations, probably mostly Republicans.
Re Food Stamps - I think that system is easily abused, but I am not considering that as part of this equation. It is politically too hot to touch. I am interested in improving R&D and devoting more to conservation. I don't need to fight the Food Stamp battle too, so I decline the engagement. There is sufficient waste, fraud and abuse in other places.Posted by: Christine & John at December 13, 2017 12:42 PM
I thought food stamps are a part of the dept. of Agriculture C&J. How can we discuss eliminating programs in the dept. of agriculture without acknowledging the food stamp program. Especially with conservatives in charge of the government?
I know AEI says the crop insurance subsidies are responsible for the farmers "gambling" on risky crops and less productive lands but they don't seem to prove this in the study. One could just as easily point the finger at the low prices for crops and the need to maximize yields to make end meet as the culprit behind using less productive lands.
Increasing the R&D budget to help the giant corporations like Monsanto monopolize the market will take money. Do you propose the research be done by these corporations at their own expense because if they do it they would get the patent…right? We can't expect the middle class to pay for it in taxes can we?
Or are you suggesting the land grant colleges do the R&D supported by grants from the DoA? I would support this effort more than the corporate grants as it would keep the new technologies heading in a "best for all" direction not into the "how can we maximize profit" direction corporations.
The question is why can't we simply allocate more funds to R&D without dropping funding on other DoA programs? Under Trumps "America first" ideology we should be able to reduce the military budget as we bring the troops back to defend the homeland..right?
Posted by: j2t2 at December 14, 2017 3:14 PM
Food stamps are indeed part of USDA and the biggest part.
The money spent on conservation and research is a very small part. We can set aside food stamps as politically untouchable. There is sufficient money that can be saved by moving money from crop insurance, which is mostly a subsidy for rich investors and has the added disadvantage of encouraging environmentally risky practices.
Re Monsanto - this is unaffected. Large firms like Monsanto already do their own R&D and they own the results. More public R&D would allow a greater access to new techniques and developments.
Land Grant colleges already do most of the USDA funded research. I advocate that they do more.
Re giving more money to USDA in general, I would be fine with that. Politically it is unlikely. Just as I have kept away from food stamps for political reasons, I understand that the politics of getting more money is something I could not count on and so do not venture an opinion.Posted by: Christine & John at December 15, 2017 9:07 AM
In an age when American institutions are under attack from many sides, it is refreshing to read such a full-throated defense of traditional agricultural R&D practices. People often get upset by the size of the Federal Government's bureaucracy. While some highly visible pieces might be due for reform, it is easy to forget the many benefits emanating from the more hidden parts. Rightly so, these hidden successes are often the result of hard work from civil servants who know their place and don't attempt to accomplish things better done in the private sector.
Thank you for sharing your summary of AEI's work.Posted by: Warren Porter at December 15, 2017 9:55 AM
Most of the good stuff is behind the scenes and not well known. It is the politics that pollutes government.
Back in my old job, I had the chance to go to Geneva to work with some of the UN operations there. I am not a UN fan generally, but most of that impression comes from the New York branch, where tin pot dictators attack the USA and make up silly resolutions against Israel, while they oppress their people with their greed and incompetence (end of editorial comment).
BUT in Geneva there are all kinds of under-the-radar operations making the world work better. They are the unsexy oil that makes the machine go.Posted by: Christine & John at December 15, 2017 10:04 AM
People often get upset by the size of the Federal Government's bureaucracy. Posted by: Warren Porter at December 15, 2017 9:55 AM
It's been exactly the same size for decades. Private contractors are providing a much more expensive method of getting the same things done, like USIS, which vetted Snowden to work for Booz Allen Hamilton, a good example of the kind of job they do.
I'm completely in favor of the UN moving from NYC to Geneva. They're only in NY because the Rockefellers wanted them there. It's appropriate as our position in world leadership has ended at least until 2021.Posted by: ohrealy at December 15, 2017 12:44 PM
I do not advocate moving the NY operation to Geneva. That is likely to pollute the Geneva operation. I was just observing that UN offices located in Geneva are those that we do not see as often but do most of the useful work done by the UN. These are the "back office" programs.
Re Rockefeller - John D jr donated the land, for which the world was grateful. The UN was a good idea and worked well for a while. It still does some useful things. The fact that the New York branch is more bombastic and less useful has to do with UN politics, not location.Posted by: Christine & John at December 15, 2017 1:09 PM
Rockefeller was trying to make sure that site wasn't built up by a competitor, so he considered the donation worthwhile. The UN would be better off someplace other than NY since our participation in it is now problematic, while other nations participate willingly. I couldn't care less about the speeches, which most Americans would never hear about if they were happening elsewhere.Posted by: ohrealy at December 15, 2017 4:01 PM
Maybe East Asia would be a better place to situate the HQ? It'd be closer to the center of global human population and closer to the rising global powers.Posted by: Warren Porter at December 15, 2017 5:54 PM
WP, it always bugged me that India wasn't a permanent member of the security council. The Potala Palace in Lhasa could be the perfect location for UN headquarters, on top of the world. Shanghai, the Mekong Delta, and many other Asian locations are being affected by rising seas, while we think about the value of real estate in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Every time they show someone in Miami on tv, they show the same backdrop. I keep thinking about someone who lives in that center tall building, the last of his name. He can live on his big yacht, or the smaller one.
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Logan, R, Mulheron, MJ, Jesson, DA, Smith, PA, Evans, TS, Clay-Michael, N and Whiter, JT (2014) Graphitic corrosion of cast iron trunk main: implications for asset management In: Urban Water II - Second International Conference on The Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems, 2014-05-27 - 2014-05-29, Portugal.
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Failures of (large diameter) cast iron trunk water mains can be catastrophic in the damage they can cause and it is therefore imperative to understand how cast iron deteriorates in order to help predict those areas of a water supply network which are at greatest risk of failure. Cast irons undergo a localized form of corrosion known as graphitic corrosion. Although a well reported phenomena, the mechanisms of graphitic corrosion are not fully understood. Scanning electron microscopy, in conjunction with energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, was used to characterise the microstructure and chemistry of the graphitic corrosion that occurs on the external surface of the pipe during time in service. It was found that that the graphite flakes within the cast iron are deteriorating during the corrosion process. High levels of chlorides are often found at the corrosion interface, within graphitic pits in the pipe wall. The implications of these observations on the development of models used to predict the remaining service life of buried trunk main are discussed.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) challenged yesterday the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to dissociate itself from the Abu Sayyaf and other terrorist groups suspected of being behind the recent bombing and attacks on the military.
The military warned it will launch a full-scale operation against those who continue to violate the truce and those allied with the Abu Sayyaf terrorists.
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A Sermon preached at Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, VA on October 18, 2015.
21st Sunday after Pentecost: Job 38:1-7, (34-41); Psalm 104:1-9, 25, 37b; Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45
May the words of my mouth, and the meditations of all our hearts,
be always acceptable, O Lord, our Strength and our Redeemer. Amen.
Before seminary and ordination, I spent well over twenty-five years as a happy layperson in the church, trying on different roles and ministries as my parish had available. I served on vestry or as a warden, worked on the Altar Guild or served as Christmas and Easter president, sang in the choir or served at the Altar, made pastoral calls or Eucharistic visits. There was great learning all along the way. I now realize that that laboratory of ministry helped prepared me for different roles of service, where I could try things on and work stuff out. Sometimes it was good; at other times, it could have gone better.
One particularly challenging role was being a mentor to younger members of the parish. Whether it was Sunday School, youth group, or special events like church lock-ins, weekend retreats, or pilgrimages, the expectation of what we were trying to accomplish frequently challenged what the 'yutes' wanted to do. "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." It was Service Project night, but they really wanted to play Lazar Tag. We expected them to plan a mission trip, but they wanted to organize a ski trip. We wanted them in bed by 11:30 p.m. while on pilgrimage, but they were curious about the party down the hall at the hostel. (Even those of us who are not parents get refined in the fire) This crucible is where I truly learned what it means to be a servant and a slave to many.
Today, Mark's Gospel opens on the way to Jerusalem, with disciples obsessing over who's Number One, asking Jesus to grant them seats of honor in heaven. This prompts our Lord to say something about God's take on matters of importance and power. Here Jesus makes it plain that the reversal of values in God's community is a direct challenge to the values of the dominant culture, where wielding power over others is what makes you great. Yet Jesus responds by announcing that he and his followers will "rule" through self-giving service.
Repeatedly in Mark, and especially in The Fourth Gospel according to John on the day of his death, Jesus is described as a servant who wills that all his followers will join him in a life of service. Perhaps not always, but certainly in our culture, being a servant is not always seen as an attractive role. We really don't like that term servant, and we are repelled by the word slave,but we use it instead of terms like "the help."
Those sons of Zebedee, James and John, look for places of honor while Jesus is calling them into servanthood. They do not understand what he is asking. In the 1970s, Robert K. Greenleaf, founder of the modern Servant leadership movement and the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, introduced this concept to the business world. Much of what he said was surprisingly similar to what Jesus says about Christian leadership. "The servant-leader is servant first … It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions ..." (Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness [Paulist Press, 1977], p. 27). Starbucks is an example of a business that, at least on paper, puts this concept into practice as explained in It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks [by Howard Behar and Janet Goldstein (Penguin, 2007)]. These examples show that Jesus' teachings can have real-life applications and are not just ideals.
Servant leaders are also depicted in popular culture, including ... and you may have think about some of these ... Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games, Batman, and Supergirl. Each exemplifies leadership for the sake of others. Think about some contemporary examples of real life servant leaders in the world; certainly include Pope Francis in that. We have plenty of servant leaders in this parish, too many to innumerate (for fear I'll miss someone).
As commendable as business or secular servant leadership models are, there's something different at stake when we consider Christian servant leadership. This type of leaderships earns no success or profit, but rather, leads us to the foot of the cross at Calvary. Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, discussing servant leadership said, "Always the great leader will show how he is or she is a leader for the sake of those led by suffering." The shining example of the Episcopal Church's servant leader model is the Young Adult Service Corps (YASC), which reveals a yearning for meaning and purpose beyond the ambitions of power expressed to our Lord by James and John. (Kate Snow of our congregation works for YASC in Costa Rica, and is my newest friend on Facebook)
Moving now to today's epistle from Hebrews, Jesus is presented through imagery from scripture and from Jewish worship practices as the great high priest who was obedient to God's saving plan. Through his suffering and death he has become the source of eternal salvation.
This reading is one ordinarily selected for The Ordination of a Bishop [BCP 515] in our Church. In it, we hear, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek." So I wonder how many of you are familiar with that name. If you're not, don't fret. But if you are, good on you! Because Melchizedek is mentioned only three times in the Old Testament: first as "priest of God Most High" (Gen 14:17,18) and in Psalm 110:4 "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."
Melchizedek first appears bringing bread and wine to welcome then-Abram (not yet Abraham) back from his victory over the four kings who had captured his nephew, Lot. Abram, in return, gives Melchizedek (this dignitary of pre-Israelite Canaan) a tenth of the bounty he has won in battle. In the Book of Psalms, Melchizedek is named as the representative priest in whose succession the Davidic king is ordained.
As a side note, we have started our Stewardship campaign for annual giving to the mission and ministry of Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill. So I must point that the tenth of the bounty given back by Abram is not a tithe. Rather, it is a free will offering. Abram was never taught or instructed by God to give a tenth of his harvest; the law of tithing came later. But as we observe this law now, I encourage each of us to prayerfully consider our giving to the church as thanks for God's many blessings.
Now in the New Testament, Melchizedek is mentioned multiple times, all in this same Letter to the Hebrews; he represents the "sacral" (relating to sacred rites or symbols) King whose royal holiness transcends all human orders, which is a foreshadowing the divinity of Jesus Christ. Melchizedek was not only King of the city of Salem, but he was also priest to the Most High God.
In Hebrew, Melek means "king," zedek is "righteousness," and Salem means "peace." So we might project forward that the "Righteous King of Peace" as an allusion to Jesus Christ; an intermediary between a holy God and a sinful people – the 'go-between' who represented each to the other.
The Books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers maintain that Aaron, the older brother of Moses, received from God a monopoly over the priesthood for himself and his male descendants. The family of Aaron had the exclusive right and responsibility to make offerings on the Altar to the God of Israel. Effectively with Aaron, king and priest were separated.
But now in Jesus Christ, the two entities, both King and Priest, are again united in the one Person of the Son who is Prophet, Priest and King. The advent of the Messiah is God's initiative, not man's.
In Jesus Christ, we have a great high priest who fulfills all the statutory requirements, and far more, because he has no need to atone for his own sins. Jesus is the perfect high priest appointed by God as mediator for all time. And Jesus is ALSO the original servant leader - talk about wearing a lot of hats!
So for twenty-five plus years, I was being molded and formed as a layperson to become a new and different servant leader in the world and for the Church. And now as a priest, as one of your priests, ordained forever according to the order of Melchizedek, I have been called to new work as a servant leader, focusing on the mission, and ministry of this parish and the wider Church.
I still serve with a vestry and the wardens of this parish. I work with the Altar Guild and our Vestry Worship Steward. I sing praises to God along with our choirs and I now preside and celebrate at God's Altar here at Immanuel. I still make pastoral calls and Eucharistic visits, being able to fully minister the pastoral offices in our Book of Common Prayer. And Yes, I still hang out with kids, whenever I can. There is great learning in all of this all along the Way. This new laboratory of ministry, preaching, teaching, and caring is still preparing me for different roles of service, for God is not anymore done with me than God is finished with you. I continue to try things on and work stuff out. Sometimes it is good; at other times, it could always be better.
Meister Eckhart said, "No one ever gave so much of himself away that he did not have more to give."
Jesus Christ, our great high priest and Lord and Savior of us all said, "Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."
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