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Helio Castroneves Proves Not Only Do Old Guys Rule, They Drive Fast Too
By Jerry Wilson | May 31, 2021 6:30 AM ET
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Hélio Castroneves won the Indianapolis 500 yesterday, his fourth win at the Brickyard and quite possibly his most surprising win since Dancing With The Stars. Castroneves, at 46 considered well past his prime, won the only INDYCAR race in which he has participated all year. With a part-time deal. For a team (Meyer Shank Racing) that had never won an INDYCAR race. Translation: the impossible just drank the victory milk at Indy.
Castroneves' picture is in the dictionary next to the word ebullient, his overflowing personality having long made him a fan favorite. However, he has been away from driving in INDYCAR full-time since 2017, instead focusing on the IMSA series that is loved by hardcore auto racing fans and and greeted with wild indifference by everyone else. Out of sight, and mostly out of mind, Castroneves seem destined for the "oh, they're still driving?" file.
Then something funny happened on the way to wondering what ol' Hélio was up to these days. Castroneves and teammate Ricky Taylor won the 2020 IMSA championship, and were rewarded for their efforts by seeing their team owners Team Penske shut their IMSA operation down. Castroneves moved to Meyer Shank Racing's IMSA effort, which given how it had won the IMSA owners championship the past two years was anything but a bad idea. Somewhere along the line, someone said something to someone resembling "I've got an idea — let's boost our one-car INDYCAR presence by having Hélio run in the Indy 500!" So, phone calls were made, a one-and-done sponsorship agreement with SiriusXM was reached, and everyone involved figured if nothing else the crowd at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will get a kick out of seeing Castroneves out there even though there's no way he'll be competitive with such an arrangement for this team against all the young guns with their megateams and megabucks backing, right? Er … right?
Things started getting interesting when Castroneves rolled in and started rolling out some impressive practice laps. Then he qualified eighth. Then the race started, and Castroneves made good things happen, keeping up with the leaders and eventually becoming one himself. This being INDYCAR, passes for the lead between assorted drivers came so fast and furious about the only driver who didn't lead a lap was Vin Diesel. The pace was rapid; only two caution flags waved the entire race, and there was only one accident on the track (the other occurred on pit lane). In short, this was auto racing at its most exciting for all the right reasons.
The laps wore down. Castroneves was still in the hunt. The young and talented Alex Palou was up front. Castroneves, never one to let a chance for extreme drama to go unexploited, waited until lap 199 of 200 to overtake Palou with an are-you-kidding-me brass ones pass in the first turn, this move more commonly referred to as the Checkers or Wreckers Special. He then hung on for the victory, the 135,000 in attendance roaring their approval so loudly the Indianapolis International Airport thirteen miles away called to complain they couldn't hear the planes taking off and landing.
Castroneves has long celebrated victories by climbing the catchfence and saluting the fans at the start/finish line. He did so again yesterday, with nary a soul leaving the grandstands until after he finished his salute and took a victory lap. It was a rare moment in sports: a popular win in front of a crowd ready to cut loose after a year away from the most cherished venue in the sport. The race was everything that could be hoped for. Whether it will be enough to push INDYCAR back into the forefront of the sports world mindset remains to be seen, but one thing is clear. For the faithful, this year's Indianapolis 500 was the sweetest manna from heaven imaginable.
And oh yes — old guys rule. Again.
Jerry Wilson was one of the first sports bloggers, starting in 2003 independently covering NASCAR under the Diecast Dude moniker and later branching out to the NFL for AOL and NHL for SB Nation. He may be the only sports blogger to not use profanity and girlie pics with the same success rate as, given he's a San Jose Sharks fan, never having to write about what it's like watching his team win the Stanley Cup.
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Prompted by proponents of sustainable forest management (SFM), governments in the developing world and countries involved in the timber products trade, as producers and consumers, have subscribed to SFM to provide the greatest good for the greatest number of people in the long run. In order to implement SFM, the Forestry Department Peninsular Malaysia has produced the Malaysian Criteria and Indicators (MC&I) system that clarifies major activities that require compliance. The National Committee on Sustainable Forest Management has formulated 88 activities to operationalize the criteria and indicators. The MC&I complement ITTO criteria for achieving SFM.
Skepticism surrounds the capability of tropical countries in meeting the criteria and indicators. Perhaps the most critical question is whether the additional cost of compliance can be met. However, reliable information on costs is not available. Such information is necessary to guide long-term planning and to provide motivation to implement SFM. In addition, this information will assist various parties in identifying financial mechanisms and appropriate technologies for bilateral or multilateral cooperation and assistance.
The Malaysian Government is committed to attaining ITTO's Target 2000 Objective, which aims to ensure that all timber produced comes from sustainably managed forest. Hence, knowledge of incremental costs of compliance provides important indicators of the magnitude of financial resources required.
The idea of complying with criteria and indicators for achieving SFM is very broad. At the ground level, compliance is often translated into harvesting systems such as improved logging (IL) and reduced impact logging (RIL). The inherent principle is to adopt selective timber harvesting with minimal damage to residual stands and reduced environmental impacts. This can raise timber yields for subsequent harvesting cycles. In terms of biophysical impacts this is sensible. Whether it is financially viable remains unclear. Experiences in various parts of the world seem to provide conflicting evidence in support of RIL in comparison with the "cut and get out" conventional logging (CL) practices.
Two studies appear to favour RIL on both environmental and financial grounds. A study in Indonesia showed that following clear guidelines provided by the FAO Model Code of Forest Harvesting Practice could translate into substantially lower environmental impacts for forest harvesting (Elias, 1998). In comparison with CL, forest stand damage was reduced by about 50 percent. Heavy damage to the residual stand was reduced from 29 to 12 percent. The area opened up by felling and skidding decreased from 11.1 to 7.7 percent and 8.7 to 5.2 percent, respectively. Average skidding distance declined from 350.6 to 335.2 m/ha. The net results in system productivity were affected only slightly. The productivity of felling trees with buttresses even increased from 17.6 m3/h to 18.3 m3/h. Skidding roundtrips declined by about five minutes from 38 to 33 minutes. Based on time studies, a comparison of production costs for felling, skidding, bucking, loading and unloading by CL and RIL showed that the total costs of RIL increased by only 1.3 percent compared with conventional methods (Rp 28 573/m3 or 4.0 percent to Rp 522 884/ha). However, these costs excluded expenses for preparing topographic maps and timber harvesting planning costs, not to mention the opportunity costs of reduced timber production from protected buffer zones.
A study in Brazil's eastern Amazon provides further insights into the ecological and economic effects of RIL (Holmes et al., 1999). The ground area disturbed by heavy machinery during RIL was nearly 40 percent less compared to CL. Favourable comparisons also emerged with regard to soil disturbance on skid trails and tree damage. In terms of costs, RIL planning costs nearly doubled CL 'up-front' costs, but the efficiency gains were considerable. Skidding and log deck productivity increased dramatically and led to reduced costs of nearly 40 percent. Better recovery of the merchantable timber volume at the typical RIL site reduced the average variable costs associated with wood waste by almost 80 percent and stumpage costs by 16 percent. Overall, the average total cost of a typical RIL system was 12 percent less than the average cost of a typical CL system, and net revenue was 19 percent higher. This indicates that from a financial perspective RIL in the eastern Amazon is superior to CL, primarily due to higher skidding productivity and lower timber waste.
Both studies indicated that the cost of RIL is either lower or, at most, slightly higher than CL. With such favourable experimental results, one would expect to see greater implementation of RIL in new concession areas. However, several constraints decrease the likelihood of widespread adoption. Many of the financial benefits of RIL are due to reduced waste. Unfortunately, these costs are often not recognized, as many CL operators do not apply rigorous cost accounting. Wood waste simply does not appear in the books. Up-front costs on the other hand do, which explains why the perception of higher costs associated with RIL persists. Other constraints to adoption include the lack of trained staff, the lack of enforcement of environmental legislation and financial disincentives to change behaviour. In the short run, CL continues to provide greater financial returns because forestry codes and regulations designed to assure forest sustainability are circumvented.
The results of the above studies favouring RIL over the status quo, in terms of costs, may be misleading in that they were experimental. Under the watchful eye of researchers, contractors comply, especially in small-scale experiments. This problem is particularly apparent in time studies. Therefore, costing ought to be done at the compartment level. Furthermore, to determine the full cost of RIL requires that all relevant costs from planning to staff training be considered. Costing should not be restricted to direct costs only, which are known to comprise only a small proportion of the total cost of harvesting and forest management.
The proponents of RIL have been challenged on profitability and environmental grounds (Pearce et al., 1999). The "sustainable forest management effect" will inevitably increase the cost of timber harvesting and management (Leslie, 1999). While sustainable systems appear capable of earning reasonable returns, they do not compete financially with unsustainable systems. The evidence on discount rates reinforces the critics' arguments. Discount rates in poor countries are very high, indeed, so high that few investments in forestry would seem to be justified financially. High discount rates simply reinforce the preference for CL based on rapid liquidation of the timber and other resources without regard for future harvests or other impacts. Factors that might mitigate this inequality include improving concessionaires' property rights, better enforcement of regulations, higher timber prices, and valuing of non-commercial species. None appears to give sustainable timber management any edge over conventional systems. All have some role to play, but none is in itself sufficient.
Frequently, non-market values have been used to defend SFM, particularly when these values are higher under RIL than CL. Earlier studies emphasized the importance of holistic forest management for both timber and non-timber products and services (Panayotou and Aston, 1992; Roslan et al., 1994). Research on "biodiversity impact profiles" is not sophisticated enough to reach firm conclusions. For carbon storage, the picture seems to favour SFM fairly clearly. But SFM also loses some environmental benefits relative to the pre-intervention period. For the argument to have any substance, these non-timber values have to be sufficiently important to make up for reduced profits. While there is only a limited number of studies in Malaysia to guide in this respect, those that exist seem fairly uniform in finding that the non-market benefits of sustainable systems are significant. All tend to acknowledge that non-timber values more than offset lower timber volumes. The role of carbon is highlighted because a survey of non-market values suggests that carbon values dominate the non-market values overall (Kumari, 1995; Woon and Mohd Parid, 1999).
Pearce et al. (1999) concur that the prospects for SFM are low in the early stages of development, and increase over time as societies attach higher values to the forest and its services. Extended to include carbon and biodiversity values, it can be argued that the potential for SFM is far greater, even in the early stages of development, than might otherwise be thought.
One major stumbling block for introducing environmentally sound land management practices is the widespread perception that they are more expensive when compared with conventional methods. This explains why, in many locations, forestry sector stakeholders remain cautious about complying with criteria and indicators and adopting RIL. The search for relevant economic data has started and efforts have intensified to satisfy the growing demand for better information.
The need for this study on the costs of complying with the MC&I is evident given the substantial discrepancies in the available information. For example, ITTO (1995) suggested that SFM would cost producer members annually between US$ 3 500 and US$ 4 100 million while producer countries' cost estimates exceeded US$ 7 000 million. This discrepancy is possibly due to the highly aggregated average figures used, which do not reflect the inherent variations in the various producer countries.
The analysis is based on cost comparisons with and without compliance to MC&I activities. The cost incurred when not complying with these activities comes basically from using the conventional practice (CP). The list of pre-felling and felling activities conducted with and without compliance with MC&I activities is provided in Table 1. The conceptual framework for obtaining the incremental or additional cost of conducting each pre-felling and felling activity when implementing the SFM is given in Figure 1. Each harvesting activity occurs at different time periods. The costs of the pre-felling activities were compounded to the year harvesting was conducted (1999) as the reference base period to obtain the present value cost.
In Malaysia, crawler tractors are used normally for extracting logs in the hill forest. Excavators have been introduced recently not only to extract timber but also for road construction. Excavators reduce the damage to the residual stand and minimize road width. Chainsaw operators cut trees standing along the road, and lop off the crown ahead of the excavator, which is then used to arrange the cut trees along the road. This operation reduces the usual damages caused by the crawler tractor that indiscriminately pushes over trees causing excessive soil exposure. The crawler tractor levels and shapes the road, digs ditches beside the road and skids the cut trees to the log landing. However, introducing the excavator and tree felling along the road before the crawler tractor does its job, requires additional machinery rental, compensation for fellers and extra time in comparison with the conventional road construction system by crawler tractor only.
In this study, both CP and MC&I compliant (MC) options practised selective felling of trees tagged according to the prescribed cutting limits. Hence, they should have produced approximately similar harvested volumes. Felling involves the use of chainsaws to cut trees in the predetermined direction and cross-cutting. Later the trunk is bucked into appropriate lengths at the log yard. Felling and bucking involves several teams per compartment. A team may consist of two chainsaw operators; each one taking turns at operating the chainsaw and the other clearing and guiding felling directions.
Directional felling is standard but enforcement tends to be difficult. Theoretically, felling should be directed towards the skid trail with the tree crown ending up on the opposite side of the skid trail and the upper part ready to be hooked on to the crawler tractor. Borhan and Guglhor (1998) reported that 30 percent of the trees were felled completely away from the intended directions within a range of 25 to 90°, sometimes 180°. The reasons included feller's deliberate disregard for the proper direction, preference to fell according to the natural lean, lack of skill and concern for safety. Instruction was given for adherence to directional felling in the MC option but to no avail.
Skidding involves the moving of logs from the stump along skid trails to the feeder roads and log landing normally by crawler tractors fitted with a winch. The tractor operator is assisted by a helper who wraps and hooks the cable around the end of the log. The crawler tractor, which is equipped with steel tracks and a bulldozer blade, can be used on very steep slopes. A problem is that operators tend to scrape the soil and to push down trees with the blade. This leads to severe soil disturbance and excessive damage to residual trees and regeneration.
Using front-end loaders or grapplers, logs from the log landing are loaded onto the deck of a modified 10-wheeled truck or san tai wong for hauling to the main log landing. The san tai wong is agile and strong with a total weight capacity, at full load, of up to 40 tonnes. The cost of short hauling depends on the weight of logs and distance.
Timber harvesting was conducted using two systems; the MC&I compliance (MC) practice in a 43-ha research plot, while CP was conducted in the rest of the compartment (364 ha). Table 2 summarizes the characteristics of the study sites. Total timber production from the MC and CP plots was 991 m3 and 12 086 m3 respectively. Theoretically both plots are bounded by the Selective Management System (SMS). Hence, buffer areas around rivers and steep slopes were marked and protected from harvesting. The timber volumes not harvested in both plots were 203 m3 and 393 m3 respectively.
Table 3 provides the present value per hectare of harvesting costs for the MC and CP options. The overall present value per hectare costs for harvesting were RM 6 426/ha under MC and RM 3 949/ha under CP. Information of interest in this table is the distribution of the costs among the pre-felling, felling, additional training activities and foregone timber revenues.
Additional training was required to comply with the MC&I activities. This took up a small proportion of the total cost. The pre-felling activities comprised an environmental impact assessment (EIA), pre-felling inventory of commercial timber trees, compartment boundary demarcation, proposed road alignment and tree marking and mapping. The cost of pre-felling activities was higher under the MC option. With the exception of the EIA and tree marking and mapping, the differences between the two options were minor. EIA and tree mapping are new requirements in the MC&I. There is a recommendation now that the EIA be conducted for the entire annual coupe rather than for each compartment, which would reduce costs. Tree mapping is necessary to facilitate felling and prescribing skid trail alignment on the map to prevent excessive and unplanned skid trail construction.
A team of contract workers supervised by Forestry Department field staff usually conducts tree tagging. The contractor normally charges a rate of RM 1.80/tree tagged. Under the MC&I, tree mapping is required.
Harvesting activities include road construction, felling and bucking, skidding, log loading, short distance haulage, supervision and monitoring, administration and taxation. On aggregate, these activities dominated the total harvesting cost under both options taking up 90.51 percent under MC and 95.81 percent under CP. Payments for premiums and royalty charges, skidding and administration that included profits for the contractor were the major cost elements. The cost of road construction was low under CP (3.30 percent) but high under MC (16.91 percent). This requires additional costs for renting hydraulic excavators and longer work time to abide with the more rigid road specification according to the MC&I. The use of excavators rather than bulldozers in the road formation cut is to reduce unnecessary road corridors and to prevent excessive blading. In the MC plot, the lengths of the feeder road and skid trails were within the 40m/ha and 300m/ha limits set by the MC&I.
The above components are direct financial costs. The licensee, contractors and harvesting crews incurred opportunity costs due to higher timber volumes not harvested in buffer areas. The average production cost rose by 32.1 percent to RM 8 491/ha when the foregone timber revenues from buffer areas were included in the MC option. The mean production costs only increased by 5.47 percent to RM 4 168/ha with the inclusion of these foregone revenues in the CP option. The opportunity cost is computed as potential gross revenue net of the direct cost of extraction. Fixed indirect costs such as forest premium for the logging rights and road construction cost, were not included as they are considered sunk costs. These foregone revenues consist of foregone timber revenue incurred by the concessionaire and loss of royalty charges not collected by the Government. The protected buffers took up about 28 percent of the licensed area. Ironically, payments of forest premium for the logging rights cover the whole licensed area including the buffers. Hence, the concessionaire has an interest to recover a portion of the sunk cost incurred, by extracting timber from the buffer areas. Each harvesting crew will be paid on a piecemeal basis by the contractor depending on the quantity and quality of timber extracted. Likewise, the contractor will also be paid on a piecemeal basis by the concessionaire.
Table 4 shows the harvesting cost on a per cubic meter basis. Observed trends were similar to those on a per hectare basis. This information is useful as the timber harvesting industry is more familiar with measuring financial viability in volume units. The costs of harvesting were RM 199/m3 and RM 117/m3 under MC and CP options, respectively.
Note: Average production rose by 32.1 percent to RM 262/m3 when the foregone revenue from buffer areas was included in the MC option. While the average production cost only increased by 5.5 percent to RM 123/m3 when the foregone revenue from buffer areas was included in the CP option.
The costs per hectare of harvesting were consistently higher under MC than under the CP option mainly due to higher labour inputs and expenditures on improved activities. However, for activities such as pre-felling inventory, the differences in the average costs were due mainly to the effect of averaging by a smaller net production area. The incremental proportions of the cost among the various activities were more variable. In aggregate, compliance with the MC&I led to an overall increase of RM 2 477/ha or 62.7 percent and RM 81/m3 or 69.1 percent (Table 5). The higher percentage increase in cubic meters is due to the lower timber yield under MC that raised the average cost relative to the CP.
Among the various activities, the increase was 263 percent or RM 414.31/ha in pre-felling activities; 734 percent or RM 956/ha in road construction; 37 percent or RM 688/ha in felling activities; RM 9.5/ha in additional training; and 855 percent or RM 1 849/ha in the opportunity cost of foregone timber revenue. The activities with the most significant incremental costs were road construction, tree marking and mapping, skidding, and the opportunity cost of buffer areas.
Note: The incremental average total cost rose by 74.76 percent to RM 4 323.15/ha when the incremental foregone revenue from buffer areas of RM 1 849.34/ha was taken into account. While the incremental average per m3 total cost increased by 70.46 percent to RM 138.91/m3 when the incremental foregone revenue of RM 57.42/m3 from buffer areas was included.
In some activities, the incremental cost is only due to a greater need for supervision and monitoring under the MC&I. This occurred particularly in proposed road alignment and road construction.
Table 6 shows the incidence of the cost borne by the concessionaire, the contractors appointed by the concessionaire and the Forestry Department. The incidence of incremental costs is related to the logging business practice (many activities have been contracted out to the Forestry Department and licensee conducting supervising and monitoring activities).
For some activities, only the concessionaire was incurring the incremental cost. This occurred in management plan preparation and in taxation. In others, only the concessionaire and the Forestry Department were incurring extra costs such as in additional training. In pre-felling and felling activities, all three stakeholders had to incur an incremental cost.
Overall under both options, the Forestry Department was not burdened with a substantial share of the total incremental harvesting costs (11.87 percent). As expected the concessionaire and the contractors were affected by higher costs (23.46 percent and 64.67 percent). With the exception of tree mapping, the operational costs of the pre-felling activities were borne by the contractors for salaries and wages, and material inputs. The Forestry Department's supervisory and monitoring costs seemed to be higher for tree marking and mapping operations and road design. The concessionaire's cost was mainly for salary and wages for supervision and monitoring. The contractors and concessionaire incurred substantial expenditures for felling activities. The concessionaire's contributions were mainly payments of premium and royalty charges.
The results indicate that complying with the MC&I for SFM implies additional costs for licensees, harvesting contractors and the Government. This paper has computed the incidence of this burden among these stakeholders. Consideration of compensation may have to be addressed explicitly to encourage compliance if SFM is to be achieved. Instruments for financing compensations have to be determined.
In Malaysia, harvesting compartments are allocated to a licensee who then appoints contractors to extract the timber. MC&I compliance requires the contractors to undertake additional activities, which if not compensated, reduce revenues and thus the incentive to comply. It is in the interest of the licensee to compensate the contractors, otherwise no timber will be extracted. The licensee has little choice but to absorb the additional cost, as compliance is a prerequisite for renewal of annual harvesting rights. The Forestry Department too has to conduct additional activities and reinforce its monitoring capabilities. Hence, the burden of the incremental cost is mainly borne by the licensee and the Forestry Department.
An incentive package is required to encourage implementation of the MC&I. A transfer of funds to cover the incremental cost could fully compensate for lost benefits. In forestry, a user fee is an instrument used to correct resource underpricing that has in the past led to excessive exploitation and loss of government revenue. In the case of capturing a higher economic rent from timber extraction, setting stumpage fees by auction has been popular in many countries including Honduras and Malaysia.
Domestically, funding could be worked out through an adjustment of the Government revenue system from forestry. Government revenue comes in the form of lump sum premium payments, part of which are determined through auctioning stumpage fees, for timber extraction rights and volume-based royalty charges as tax revenues. Now that extraction costs have risen, a reduction in this stumpage fee could address the burden faced by the licensee. This can release some funds from the licensee for transfer to the contractors.
Another source is through a reallocation of state government's annual budgets among agencies. The Forestry Department would require a larger budget to implement and enforce the MC&I. The country would stand to benefit from the reduction of off-site environmental impacts. This could relieve certain agencies of damage relief activities. A reduction of sedimentation and improvement of the water quality of rivers could alleviate the need for flood control activities such as dredging. An investigation of the off-site costs of clearing forested watersheds in the highlands indicated a substantial annual budget allocated for dredging to avoid a decline in hydroelectric power generation. Furthermore, a shift in timber harvesting from CL to RIL is expected to lead to a reduction in water treatment costs.
At the international level, markets have to be created for timber produced from sustainably managed forests. Unless there is a green price premium, compliance would reduce the profit margin of licensees and government revenues. Premium prices can only be obtained when there is good demand for this timber. To this end, ITTO has a role to play to promote such markets among its member nations.
The Global Environmental Facility could also provide funds for securing global environmental benefits such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. For example, implementing a set of RIL guidelines to reduce damage to soil and vegetation in Sabah, Malaysia has led to potential carbon savings of 90-94 tonnes/ha or 328-343 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hectare over 40 years (Pinard et al., 1995). Global benefits are shared by all nations, both developed and developing. Embedded is the perception that developing nations would be willing to intervene or take different actions such as complying with the MC&I if the international community would be willing to bear the incremental cost. In the context of SFM, the global benefits would be maintaining or enhancing capabilities to sequester carbon and to conserve biodiversity.
The above analysis is one step in evaluating compliance with the MC&I. The next step is to assess the benefits of compliance. Although results suggest additional expenditures being incurred by the stakeholders, there are cost savings to society due to a reduction in off-site environmental impacts. There are expected to be on-site productivity gains as well as from both timber and non-timber forests products that can be reaped during subsequent cutting cycles. Global society too is expected to gain from the higher potential for carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation.
Methodical post-harvest assessment and feedback to the planning and harvesting team.
Development of a competent and motivated workforce.
If these factors are not incorporated, full compliance with the MC&I will be suspect.
Incentives would have to be provided to encourage compliance by the affected parties. The full payment of premiums over the whole compartment may act as a disincentive to compliance. Nevertheless, there is an interesting twist to this circumstance. There is already an in-built mechanism to implement an economic instrument to encourage compliance with the MC&I. The premium being paid over areas not loggable in the compartment, can be treated as a form of performance bond that is returnable upon full compliance with the harvesting specifications. The closing report, together with an additional checklist of prescribed activities following the MC&I, could play an important role in deciding whether the bond is refundable.
We are grateful to the many organizations and personnel involved who made the field experiment and data collection possible. They include the Terengganu State and Dungun District Forestry Department, KPKKT, support from Forest Research Institute Malaysia's staff and last but not least, funding from ITTO.
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How to set a beautiful Thanksgiving table!? I got you! I love it when my Thanksgiving table setting has a classic, timeless look laced with a few modern touches. Basically if Joanna Gaines and Martha Stewart were to decorate a table together. This post shows you how to set the table, easy DIY place setting and napkin treatments and much more! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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My favorite part about Thanksgiving?! Well… it's actually the night before! Yes, that might sound a little weird but let me explain why! I usually spend the evening before with family, cooking our little hearts away and prepping for the big feast. For as long as I can remember, my mom always gave me the task of setting the table. When I was a little one, this usually meant digging into the linen closet and whipping up whatever I wanted. Today, that looks a little different but still one of my favorite parts of the holiday!
The night before is so fun because everyone is relaxed and ready for a fun day of family time and eating. We usually get to taste test a few of my mom's recipes and my Dad is running around picking up last minute groceries. One of my favorite things to do on Thanksgiving Eve is to pour myself a hearty glass of wine (let's be real probably the bottle) and chat away with family while dressing up my table for the big event. Setting a table is quite calming for me. I love mixing old decor with new, playing around with a color palette and giving everyone a little something personalized on his or her place setting. Having a well-dressed table makes anyone coming over feel incredibly special. It's a show-stopping centerpiece to any party.
When it comes to my Thanksgiving tablescape I tend to keep things traditional. Any other holiday I usually try to jazz things up with a new look but Thanksgiving is a classic for me. If you thought for a minute that traditional means 'boring' think again sister! I took a traditional foundation with elegant gold and white place settings and vintage looking gold flatware and added in some more modern farmhouse touches. Having staple pieces like a hostess table set, gold and white dishes and gold flatware can act as an anchor to ANY holiday table, not just for Thanksgiving.
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I love to play around with easier things like flowers, greenery, and candles for a contemporary twist. These things are great to experiment with because they aren't permanent! I wanted my traditional table to feel elegant but with a few fun modern twists. I was channeling Joanna Gaines traditional farmhouse look, laced with Emily Henderson funky! The Waterford red wine glasses we used are wonderful on their own but the detailing gave the look an elevated, modern feel.
For Thanksgiving, I think you can totally get a little cheesy with the name card/personalized place setting. We put out little cards to say what we are Thankful for. After each person reads off what they are thankful for we will all take a celebratory sip! Not only are we relishing in the holiday moment but we found away to sneak in a fun dinner party game! I would love to hear about your favorite Thanksgiving moments and traditions in the comments below!


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This news release from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople) announces a recent agreement between the Jerusalem and Constantinople Patriarchates ceding the JP's claims of jurisdiction in the United States to the latter. Its parishes here will form a vicariate directly under the jurisdiction of the Greek Archbishop of America, seemingly similar in many ways to Constantinople's other non-Greek groups here, but without the status of a diocese or full "jurisdiction" of its own like them. As they highlight that this will have the effect of bringing the JP's Church here under the SCOBA umbrella (but without distinct representation on SCOBA), that will leave only the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) apart from it, among "canonical" Orthodox jurisdictions based here in the States.
Orthodoxwiki discusses the JP here, on this page, and links to a new page of theirs about the new Vicariate.* A couple years ago I thought I read that, objecting to talk of the GOA absorbing breakaway Antiochian parishes (as discussed on Orthodoxwiki), the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America temporarily put the breaks on SCOBA Primates' meetings. But I lack complete information on this point. SCOBA meetings have resumed since that time.
I have also read that the GOA does include a handful of parishes defined by Orthodox ethnicity other than Greek, including Romanian. I don't know the history there either.
I'm going to see if this blog can be a little more interactive, allowing for reader initiative instead of just mine. I also discuss how to find other Orthodox people to ask questions of. Read all about it!


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George Frederik I van Brandenburg-Ansbach bijgenaamd de Oudere (Ansbach, 5 april 1539 – aldaar, 25 april 1603) was van 1543 tot aan zijn dood markgraaf van Brandenburg-Ansbach, hertog van Jägerndorf en Hertog van Opole-Ratibor, van 1557 tot aan zijn dood markgraaf van Brandenburg-Kulmbach en van 1577 tot aan zijn dood regent van het hertogdom Pruisen. Hij behoorde tot het huis Hohenzollern.

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George Frederik werd geboren als de enige zoon van markgraaf George van Brandenburg-Ansbach en diens derde echtgenote Emilie van Saksen, dochter van hertog Hendrik van Saksen. Zijn vader overleed in 1543, toen hij amper vier jaar oud was. Zijn moeder bekommerde zich om de opvoeding van George Frederik, terwijl keurvorst Joachim II Hector van Brandenburg, keurvorst Johan Frederik van Saksen en landgraaf Filips I van Hessen zijn voogden werden. Zijn vader had in zijn testament bepaald dat het vorstendom Brandenburg-Ansbach en de Silezische bezittingen als stadhouder en regent moesten bestuurd worden door de keizerlijke landrechter van Neurenberg en landvoogd Friedrich von Knobelsdorff van Ansbach, wat echter betwist werd door markgraaf Albrecht Alcibiades van Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Op 13 mei 1544 bevestigde keizer Karel V tijdens de Rijksdag in Spiers het testament van George.

In 1558 huwde hij met zijn eerste echtgenote Elisabeth (1540-1578), dochter van markgraaf Johan van Brandenburg-Küstrin. Het huwelijk bleef kinderloos en Elisabeth stierf in 1578 tijdens een reis naar Oost-Pruisen. In 1579 hertrouwde hij met Sophia (1563-1639), dochter van hertog Willem de Jongere van Brunswijk-Lüneburg, maar ook dit huwelijk bleef kinderloos.

Als gevolg van de Tweede Markgravenoorlog werden in 1553 de bezittingen van markgraaf Albrecht Alcibiades van Brandenburg-Kulmbach door keizer Karel V afgenomen, waarna ze aan George Frederik werden gegeven. Bij het aantreden van keizer Ferdinand I in 1556 werd hij officieel markgraaf van Brandenburg-Ansbach en hertog van de Silezische districten Jägerndorf, Beuthen en Oderberg. Door de interventie van Ferdinand verloor het huis Hohenzollern echter de hertogdommen Opole en Ratibor om zo een groot aaneengesloten Hohenzollern-rijk te vermijden.

Toen hertog Albrecht Frederik van Pruisen steeds meer geestelijk verward werd, werd George Frederik in 1577 tot regent van het hertogdom Pruisen benoemd, hoewel de Pruisische Staten zich hier hard tegen verzetten. In 1578 werd hij door koning Stefanus Báthory van Polen, de Pruisische landheer, officieel beleend met het hertogdom Pruisen. George Frederik ondertekende het Concordaat van de Lutheraanse Kerk van 1577 en het Concordiënboek van 1580.

Omdat hij geen mannelijke nakomelingen had, sloot hij in 1598 het Geraer Huisverdrag met de linie Ansbach-Jägerndorf van het huis Hohenzollern. Dit speelde een bestemmende en richtinggevende rol voor de familiepolitiek van het huis Hohenzollern. Het conflict met het huis Habsburg over het bezit van Jägersdorf zou later een van de oorzaken zijn van de Eerste Silezische Oorlog.

George Frederik bezat een buitengewoon talent voor administratiebeheer en voor financiële orde. In zijn Brandenburgse gebieden voerde hij een grondige hervorming in van de administratie. Op die manier kon hij het na de Tweede Markgravenoorlog verwoestte markgraafschap Brandenburg-Kulmbach naar een nieuwe economische bloei voeren en kon hij het militaire apparaat en de financiën grondig verbeteren. Via herstelbetalingen kon hij het kasteel Plassenburg en het markgraafschap Brandenburg-Kulmbach heropbouwen en ook liet hij ridders straffen die tijdens de Tweede Markgravenoorlog de kant van de vijand hadden gekozen. De Protestantse Kerk in zijn gebieden gaf hij een consistorie, in de stad Kulmbach stichtte hij een gymnasium en in de stad Heilsbronn opende hij een middelbare staatsschool.

Door zijn goede verhouding met de Poolse koning Stefanus Báthory kon hij de heerschappij over Pruisen weer herstellen en de recht en orde verbeteren. Talrijke ambtenaren uit zijn Brandenburgse gebieden werden naar Pruisen gestuurd om de administratie, het financieel wezen en de belastingen om te vormen naar het Brandenburgse voorbeeld.

George Frederik regeerde voornamelijk in Brandenburg-Ansbach en liet de regering van zijn Silezische gebieden over aan een door hem aangeduide regeringsraad. Een onderwerp dat conflicten veroorzaakte was de rechtspraak, wat tientallen jaren zou duren. De ene zijde van de Staten, vooral de landadel, de boeren en de burgerij, waren voor het Moravische Landrecht in de Boheemse taal, terwijl de andere zijde voorstander was van het Romeins recht in de Duitse adel. George Frederik kon de discussie hierover 15 jaar verhinderen door landrechters die handelden volgens het Moravische landrecht niet te benoemen, maar in 1561 vaardigde hij drie oordelen uit over het Moravische landrecht, wat zijn positie ondermijnde. Hierdoor moest hij uiteindelijk hertog George II van Brieg met dit onderwerp belasten en op 5 oktober 1566 werd de rechtspraak volgens de Moravische traditie ingevoerd. Later verbeterde George Frederik deze rechtspraak door sociale misstanden te bestrijden, wat de rechten van de landadel beknotte.

Als hertog van zijn Silezische bezittingen kon George Frederik zijn gebieden vrijwaren van financiële problemen, de vrede bewaren en zijn gebieden voor grote religieuze onrust behoeden. In april 1603 stierf hij op 63-jarige leeftijd en werd hij begraven in de Abdij van Heilsbronn.

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The politics of Utopia have already produced a rich and varied literature – St. Simon, Buber, Bloch, and many others. Utopian Pulse explores this tradition from the perspective of art practice and asks how we can engage with and contribute to it. This book will be published alongside an exhibition of the same name and will include artwork from the exhibition itself.
The work's contributors invoke Utopia as an always incomplete alternative and a recognition of something missing, which opens up the possibility of asserting something which is not yet but will be. International artistic researchers, artists and artist-curators contribute different modes of engagement which they are already constituting through their own practice. More than just a theoretical treatise, this book is an overveiw of a series of works and projects that are brought to life and which the book seeks to document. This book will serve not only as a contribution to the existing literature on Utopia and Utopian politics, but also as an inspiration to artists seeking to realise these ideas through their work.
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Hicks is optimistic and masters the resilience to overcome many setbacks. Thanks to her gift for self expression, she can be the life of the party, and the center of attention. When used constructively, Hope's talent for self expression can be a great inspiration force in the world, uplifting others, and bringing much success and happiness to her. However, Hope Hicks could easily squander her talent by becoming a social butterfly.
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Riot police on the campus at Tolbiac on March 17
A revitalised resistance against the capitalist system is hitting the streets of France, with a new generation of young people leading the way.
The spark for the revolt is the planned El Khomri law – "reforms" like those being wheeled out by capitalist politicians everywhere, which aim to reduce workers' rights and deliver corporations a more "flexible" and low-cost workforce from which to profit.
When gutless trade unions failed to react strongly to the proposals, people power took over and quickly organised an autonomous wave of struggle which the unions have now been forced to join.
Behind the protests and strikes, which have particularly featured sixth-formers and students facing a lifetime of slavery to industrial capitalism, lies a deeper anger with the system.
The fascistic "state of emergency" brought in by the "Socialist" government on the back of November's terror attacks in Paris is one of the elements that has been cited.
And the use of these sweeping police powers to try and crush resistance to the new labour laws has only fuelled the outrage and the determination not to give in.
For instance, when students tried to attend a series of campaign meetings at university buildings in Tolbiac, Paris, on Thursday March 17, they found the site had been closed down by the authorities.
When some of them managed to get in and occupy a lecture hall, riot police turned up in force and violently evicted them, kettling people outside and generally acting like the thugs they are.
A first-hand account on the Paris Luttes website says: "In the struggle against this law, and more generally, our efforts to organise and fight are being met with immediate repression and censorship. The closing of premises, riot police on the campus and in workplaces – the state of emergency is dead handy for smashing social movements.
"None of will give in and we will win. There were a lot of us there this evening and there will be even more of us in future. Because in striking hard, both by way of prevention (closing down campuses) and by injuring a number of people during the demo and occupation, this repression will only bring closer together the countless people who are gradually taking to the streets, testing their determination, sharing their activist skills and flexing their muscles as a collective force.
"The El Khomri law is the straw that will break the camel's back, already overstrained by the state of emergency and the anti-terrorist terrorisation, the Macron law, surveillance laws, the threats of eviction against the ZAD at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, the persecution and racist violence against refugees at Calais and elsewhere and the general manner of the concerted and systematic offensive that capitalism has been waging on our lives for decades. Closed buildings or not, we are going to hold our general assemblies, organise and, we promise, they will get what's coming to them. All or nothing! This is just the beginning!"
The radicalism of the new youthful protest movement also shines through in another piece, this time on the lundi matin website: "Who could be so stupid as to still want to vote for the left, for the left of the left, or for the left of the left of the left, when we have seen what this led to in Greece last year? A government of the radical left imposing austerity.
"What is being born here has little to do with the labour law. This law is just the tipping point. The one attack too many. Too arrogant, too blatant, too humiliating. The surveillance laws, the Macron law, the state of emergency, the stripping of nationality measures, the anti-terrorist laws, the penal reform project and the labour law all add up to a system. It's one big project to bring the population to heel. The El Khomri law is just the cherry on the cake.
"Everyone knows that what makes a government retreat is not the number of people on the streets, but their determination. The only thing that will make a government retreat is the spectre of an uprising, the possibility of the loss of total control".
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I know the question seems odd. Of course, indie authors are writing the best books they can. This seems an obvious answer, so why ask the question? Perhaps because the answer defines the problem: writing the best book they can is not enough in this age of self-publishing.
In the 1990s, I ran a small publishing company. I had to find the authors to publish, arrange for editing, hire the designer, and take care of all the production details — including arranging for a print run and warehousing of the printed books. This was before the age of ebooks. My biggest challenge was distribution: If the book didn't appear on bookstore bookshelves, it was more than a guaranteed money loser — it was a sure disaster.
In the days before ebooks, it was a delicate balancing act to determine the correct print run and the retail price of a book. Too small of a print run and too low of a price guaranteed a loss even if every book was sold at 100% retail. Too large of a print run and/or too high a retail price also was problematic.
The age of ebooks has changed the dynamics. I wish I were running that small publishing company today because ebooks and the Internet have solved or reduced many of the problems of print publishing, especially those of finding books worthy of being published and distribution. But the eBook Age has changed an even more important dynamic because it has made self-publishing by indie authors viable.
Yet I wonder if these indie authors are really doing the best that they can.
All of the jobs that the traditional publisher performed in the 1970s and 1980s now need to be done by the indie author. Some do the jobs very well; others seem to miss the boat.
One of the first lessons that every indie author needs to learn is that they must always be selling their writing. You can't just write and hope someone else will pick up the sales ball. I know that seems obvious, but it is the scope of what constitutes selling that I think gets missed. Even such simple things as how the ebook is designed is selling. Choosing the right typeface and font size is selling. Providing metadata for running heads for those devices that will display a running head is selling. Participation in forums of readers and constantly mentioning your writing is selling. A well-done cover design is selling.
For many people, selling themselves is the hardest thing to do in the world. It is why in law firms the "rainmakers" are considered more valuable than any other attorney in the firm; it is the rainmakers who bring in the business by selling themselves and the firm. The indie author has to be his or her own rainmaker.
The point I am trying to make, and probably not well, is that it is not enough to write a fabulous story; the indie author must constantly sell it to get people to read it and talk about it, and the selling can't be just at their own website. In addition, indie authors need to learn the lesson that everything they do should be geared toward selling their writing.
The other day I complained about authors who write series but provide no synopsis of what happened in previous books in the series. This is a failure of not thinking through who one's beta readers are. If you use as beta readers only people already familiar with your work, you lose the perspective of new readers who stumble on your books and choose the newest release rather than the oldest release to read. Authors should not assume that even devoted fans will remember plot details that are essential to understanding the current book in a series but which occurred in prior books. A good publisher (even a good editor) would/should identify this weakness; consequently, the indie author needs to be able to step back and identify it as well.
Here's something else: I am a fan of several indie authors and I look forward to reading the next book they write. But my failing is that I do not keep a list of these authors and do a search at B&N or Smashwords to see if they have released a new book. Their failing as an indie author is not finding a way to get my e-mail address and not only telling me that they have released a new ebook and here are the B&N/Smashwords link(s), but not sending me an e-mail every three to four months to tell me that they are still working on their next book and hope to have it available by x date.
If I had to recommend one particularly good source that every indie author should emulate, it is Baen Publishing. Not its website, but its monthly mailing. Every month I receive an e-mail telling me the progress its authors are making on forthcoming books. I am told when a book is quarter done, half done, in review copy, and published, among other steps. By the time a book is published, I have received at least a half-dozen e-mails that mention the book, thus keeping the author and the book in front of me — that is, selling the author and the book to me.


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Santiago (Done Jakue en euskera) es un barrio de Vitoria y que limita con el ensanche y con el parque de los Herran. Es un barrio muy pequeño y con un reducido censo de habitantes.

Está situado en la misma calle, Av. de Santiago, llegando así hasta el propio ensanche, pasando al lado del hospital de Santiago.

El barrio data de finales de los 80, construcción posterior de la eliminación del edificio militar

Por otro lado, cuenta con un mercadillo los jueves y sábados a la mañana en la plaza de Simón Bolívar.
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Barrios de Vitoria


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Prime Minister and Centre Party chairman Jüri Ratas. Source: Siim Lõvi/ERR
Prime Minister and Centre Party chairman Jüri Ratas has condemned statements by members of the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) regarding abortion and has demanded that they stop blaming gynaecologists and women regarding the matter.
Late Thursday night, Mr Ratas wrote on social media that the role and duty of all state leaders is to move life in Estonia forward as well as build up a cohesive, strong and united society.
"A society where there is more understanding and listening to one another, and less hatred," he wrote. "A state where nobody feels as though they are treated unfairly for no reason. Our society is always significantly easier to break up than it is to patch up again later." Which is why, he added, every politician has to understand the weight their words and actions hold.
"Unfortunately, the debate over such a personal and sensitive topic as abortion has groundlessly hurt a great many people," the prime minister continued. "I apologise to all women, gynaecologists but also men whom this unexpectedly arisen debate has hurt."
Mr Ratas wrote that he is asking EKRE politicians to seriously reflect and understand that the possibility of bearing the responsibility of government does not mean simply standing for their own stances and convictions, but also serving and caring for the entire state and its people.
"Blaming gynaecologists and women for incredibly difficult but deeply personal decisions is unacceptable," he wrote. "This has to end."
Martin, Mart Helme make controversial comments
During an appearance on ETV's Esimene stuudio on Tuesday night, EKRE deputy chairman Martin Helme accused gynaecologists who have performed abortions of violating their Hippocratic Oath, also stating that every year, 4,500 or more children are "killed" before they are born in Estonia.
Speaking to the press following coalition talks on Wednesday, EKRE chairman Mart Helme, Martin Helme's father, said that doctors haven't understood the matter.
"I am of the opinion that killing a fetus is killing," the elder Helme said. "I believe that all those doctors who are accusing Martin Helme over contrived reasons have not understood the matter."
These comments sparked public criticism and calls for apologies from the Estonian Medical Association (EAL) and President Kersti Kaljulaid alike.
EKRE's election programme states that its goal is to "reduce the number of non-medically indicated abortions with the help of various means, including by halting their funding from taxpayers' healthcare funding."
The party's proposal to withdraw abortion funding was not supported at coalition talks with Centre and Isamaa this week.
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