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Despite Loss in Court, Water Supplier Still Sticking San Diego With Big Bills
A judge determined the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California was charging San Diego too much to deliver water to San Diego from the Colorado River. But San Diego will be asked to keep paying the improper rates, as Metropolitan is appealing the ruling and refusing to change the prices in the meantime.
By Ry Rivard.
Even though San Diego water customers may be owed hundreds of millions of dollars by the region's largest water supplier, it will be a long time before anyone sees a dime.
A judge ruled last year that the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California charged too much to deliver water to San Diego from the Colorado River. The judge said Metropolitan owes the San Diego County Water Authority at least $243 million, including legal fees and interest.
Yet the Water Authority will be asked to keep paying the same rates that San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow said were improper.
That's because Metropolitan is appealing the ruling and refusing to change its rates in the meantime. Metropolitan's latest budget proposal sets rates through 2018. It will be voted on next week.
The Water Authority buys water from Metropolitan and then resells that water to local water agencies, like the city of San Diego's Public Utilities Department. The money from last year's court victory could be used to provide relief from ever-rising rates.
But don't count on that anytime soon.
The ruling isn't final until after the appeal has been heard, said Metropolitan spokesman Bob Muir, who noted cases involving the two agencies have been reversed on appeal before.
The current case centers on Colorado River water. San Diego uses a bunch of water from that distant river. San Diego has specific rights to some Colorado water but can't get the water here without using Metropolitan's 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct. Karnow said Metropolitan had improperly heaped charges on San Diego for use of the aqueduct in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The Water Authority has also already sued Metropolitan for charging the same rates in 2015 and 2016 and is likely going to file a lawsuit over the rates if they remained unchanged in 2017 and 2018.
Mark Weston, chairman of the Water Authority's board of directors, said Metropolitan's decision to keep charging the same controversial rates was "alarming."
The contested bill will only grow in coming years. The Water Authority is planning to use the aqueduct to get more and more Colorado River water as part of a deal with the Imperial Irrigation District. The Water Authority expects the controversial rates may total $500 million inthe next five years.
That means, if Metropolitan loses its appeal, it could owe San Diego hundreds of millions more, depending on how long the cases drag on.
There appears almost zero chance that the two sides will settle the cases. Combined, they have spent some $30 million in legal fees.
None of this is surprising to folks in the water world. The relationship between Metropolitan and the Water Authority is not just litigious but caustic – laden with suspicion after years of exhaustive fighting.
But, while Metropolitan doesn't want to reconsider the fees at the heart of its legal battle with the Water Authority, it is considering changing how it charges all of its customers in Southern California. Those changes affect the price of treated water that Metropolitan sells to San Diego, and the Water Authority has been fighting Metropolitan's plans.
There are two kinds of water: treated water, which has been cleaned up for drinking; and raw water, which comes from a river or reservoir and is not yet fit for human consumption.
Metropolitan said it's selling less treated water, in part because of the drought and Gov. Jerry Brown's order last year that urban water users cut their consumption by 25 percent. Yet, it has several large water treatment plants it has to keep paying for. Right now, it collects money to pay for treated water based only on how much treated water it sells. It wants to create a new fixed fee for its customers, so that it can pay its bills when sales drop.
Under the plan, Metropolitan would collect the same amount of money – $257 million – but its 26 members would pay different portions of that cost. Some will pay less than they otherwise would have, some will pay more, depending on which of several rate plans Metropolitan adopts.
"The way I would describe that is, just like the EPA says, 'Your mileage may vary,'" said Dennis Cushman, the Water Authority's assistant general manager.
Under every scenario, the Water Authority pays at least a few million dollars more than it expected to pay for treated water.
The money is still only a small percent of the Water Authority's $750 million annual budget, but an unwelcome expense nonetheless, and one that could fall hardest on agriculture customers in North County who rely on large volumes of treated water from Metropolitan.
About a tenth of the Water Authority's water next year will be treated water it buys from Metropolitan. The rest will be raw water that Metropolitan delivers to San Diego but that can be treated locally or water the Water Authority buys from a company with a desalination plant in Carlsbad.
Tom Kennedy, the head of the Rainbow Municipal Water District in North County that has a lot of farmers, said he planned to speak against the new treated water rates but recognized that Metropolitan needs to make some changes in how it pays for its operations.
"I expect it to be an annoying but not a devastating increase," he said.
San Diego water users aren't alone in expressing concern about the new treated water rate.
David De Jesus, a Metropolitan board member who represents an inland water district in Los Angeles County, said during a committee meeting a few weeks ago that Metropolitan officials may want to spend more time considering what new rates to adopt.
"I think the best approach would be to take a step back, instead of taking two steps forward," he said.
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Originally posted at Voice of San Diego.
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On November 24-25, 2016, the Congress Park at Radisson Royal Hotel hosted the 3rd All-Russia Light Industry Forum held under the auspices of the Minpromtorg (Ministry of Industry and Trade) of Russia.
The event was attended by Oleg Snigir, Board Member and Deputy Director General of JSC "Volga Tannery", who participated in a number of round-table discussions and debate. The event traditionally addressed the key issues of the light industry development.
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In-form Tahith Chong says Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been keeping tabs on his performances during his loan spell at Birmingham City.
The Reds' boss has taken time to text the Netherlands Under-21 international, who is making the most of his loan spell in the Midlands and catching the eye for Lee Bowyer's side with some dynamic performances.
It is clear that the staff at United are pleased with the impact he is making in a third temporary spell away from Old Trafford, following stints with Werder Bremen and Club Brugge on the continent last term.
Tahith Chong's next assignment with Birmingham is a tough derby with West Brom.
When we asked if Ole has been in touch, he replied: "Yeah, it's always nice to hear from him, and that he's watching the games as well. That's good. The coaches and staff are obviously in contact after the games.
"I've got Darren Fletcher and Kieran [McKenna] and, like I say, even the manager sometimes texting me. You know, after matches, it can be a 'well done' or 'well done, you can improve on this and this' and, to be honest, the contact has been very good.
"Les [Parry] has been calling and I think he's even been at most of the games. That's nice, to have that as well, to stay in contact and sometimes we analyse and speak about the games."
Chong came up against his pal James Garner, who is on loan at Nottingham Forest, in his last outing and is relishing a battle with Di'Shon Bernard, who was Hull City's Man of the Match in a 2-0 win over Middlesbrough last Saturday.
"On the weekend, I played against Jimmy and we had a little catch-up after the game for a bit," he added. "I think I've got to meet Di'Shon somewhere in this season as well, as he's at Hull. We'll probably meet each other on the pitch as well, which is going to be fun."
See how Tahith Chong scored United's first goal of pre-season, at Derby.
The Curacao-born midfielder is determined to keep learning from his experiences and help the Blues, who are currently 16th in the table, climb the standings.
"Especially where we are [in the league], it's about taking it game by game really and step by step. Our focus is on the next game, which is West Brom, and we want to get the points and put in a good performance there. That's where the mindset is at the moment.
"Myself, I'll keep improving on my performances really, and learn from any mistakes I've made in the previous games and try not to do that in the game. I'll try to keep doing the good things."
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Bharat Jodo Yatra: A niche for Rahul Gandhi
When Congress MP Rahul Gandhi announced his decision to go on his Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, many saw it as just bravado. Some claimed that he would chicken out after he trekked a few hundred kilometres. Some others thought that he would find an excuse to terminate his Yatra before it reached anywhere near Mumbai, forget Srinagar, his ultimate destination.
The most distressed were the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who did not know how to respond to his Yatra. When the Yatra entered Kerala from Tamil Nadu, the CPM unleashed the propaganda that he spent more time in Kerala than in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. They forgot for a while that Kerala was much more length-wise than width-wise.
His detractors were stunned by the response he evoked in all the places through which he passed. Lakhs of men, women and children waited for hours to cheer him as he and his Yatris passed through their areas on foot. Some of them took pride in joining hands with Rahul as he steadily and silently moved on preaching love and brotherhood.
The BJP hoped against hope that he would not be able to attract any crowd when he left the comfort zone of Kerala, where the Congress still has its roots. Despite the fact that the BJP is ruling Karnataka, tens of thousands of people gathered wherever Rahul stopped. The BJP leaders were shocked that he could inspire so much confidence among the common people.
For once, Rahul did not preach anywhere. Rather, he used the journey to listen to the people, more to empathise with them than to solve their problems. Those who know counselling know that lending an ear to a person in distress is in itself counselling. That is what yesteryear's Naxalite and founder of Anweshi K. Ajitha said while addressing Kerala Club in New Delhi on her NGO's work.
Again, the BJP thought that Rahul would be exposed when he entered Andhra Pradesh, once the Congress Party's citadel. They wanted to see him walking forlorn with his fellow walkers. Surprisingly, he received a huge response from the people of Andhra Pradesh too. The trend continues as he traverses Telangana. He is assured of massive crowds when he enters Maharashtra and continues his onward journey.
Only once or twice he disrupted the walk either to pay tributes to a departed leader or to attend an urgent meeting of the Congress in New Delhi. He follows a strict regimen. At one place in Telangana, he surprised school students when he virtually defeated them in an impromptu race.
If there is any yardstick to measure his growth as a walker, it is the length of his beard. It is at best a conjecture how long the beard would be when he reaches Srinagar. Anyway, nobody harbours any doubt about his ability to complete the Yatra. If he is able to complete it, he will be the first Indian political leader to do so. Of course, one does not forget the Bharat Yatra that former Young Turk Chandra Shekhar undertook.
He was able to complete the Yatra which terminated in New Delhi but it did not enthuse the people because he would often break the journey and return to the road only after long breaks. In short, continuity was not the hallmark of his Yatra. He used the Yatra to collect funds which he used to buy a large plot of land near Sohna in Haryana. People began to call his new house an ashram.
True, he became Prime Minister but his prime ministership is remembered not so much for the police allegedly deputed to spy on Rajiv Gandhi as for the national shame he caused when he allowed a Jumbo Jet carrying gold bars, used as reserves and kept in the Reserve Bank vaults, to leave for London to resuscitate the rupee against the dollar and the pound. Nothing was more shameful than the sight of the plane about to leave for London.
There is only one comparable journey that anyone undertook. This happened in the eighth century when Adi Sankara went on what is known as his Dig Vijay Yatra. He visited the four corners of the country to set up his Mutts. They are Badrikashram Jyotirpeeth in the north, Dwarka's Shardha Peeth in the west, Govardhan Peetha in Puri in the east, and Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Chikkamagalur district, Karnataka.
Adi Sankara is also believed to have visited Mahishi in Bihar and Srinagar in Kashmir. Since he had divine powers that enabled him to enter the body of a dog to experience the pleasure of sex to continue his disputation with Mandan Mishra, it is difficult to believe that he walked all the way to all those places were roads were almost non-existent.
In any case, all comparisons are odious. One thing is very clear. The Bharat Jodo Yatra has done a lot to refurbish the image of Rahul. Many have begun to see him in a good light. A few years ago when he jumped into the sea and dived deep, many realised that he was an aquatic champion who had the requisite qualification to do aquatic acrobatics. There is nothing strange about it.
Ask any pilot and he would tell you how difficult the routine medical tests are to renew the pilot's licence. One of them asked me a bit angrily why he should jump from a certain height to prove that he is physically fit. I am sure Rahul's father and former Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was a licensed commercial pilot, would have followed a strict physical regimen to remain a pilot.
Whatever be the case, I have seen a photograph of his great grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, doing Shirshasana (standing on head), called the king of asanas. My paternal uncle used to do it at home almost every day. In short, yoga and asanas run deep in the veins of the Nehru clan.
A politician is measured for his qualities of both head and heart. During the last elections in West Bengal, a flyover under construction in Kolkata collapsed. One evening I was on social media when I saw a video which had just been uploaded. It showed a flyover under construction at Gurgaon collapsing. I took a screenshot and did a post on Facebook within minutes.
Why I took interest in the collapse was because I used to see the construction on the way to Gusbethi in Haryana where Deepalaya, of which I was the Chief Executive, had a school. The incident happened in Haryana, ruled by the BJP. The bridge was being constructed by the National Highway Authority of India, a Central undertaking. The failure was that of the Modi government.
It was an accident, a failure of the engineers. No Opposition party blamed Modi for the mishap. But that was not the case in West Bengal. Narendra Modi was quick in fixing the responsibility on the Trinamool Congress government. He said the bridge collapse was a warning given by God. He did not mention which god. The collapse implied that the whole state would be destroyed if Trinamool Congress continued to rule the state.
When I saw this video, I wondered how Modi could plummet to such low depths. Gujarat will go to polls in December next. Rahul could have taken the government to task for its failure to avert the tragedy. Instead, he said he did not want to take any political mileage from the tragedy. He saw it as a tragedy, unlike Modi.
What happened in Morbi in Gujarat on Sunday last was shocking. It was a suspension bridge built in 1887 by the local ruler. The contract for renovating the bridge was given to Oreva, a clock manufacturer. The company did not have any experience of undertaking the job. So, what it did was to engage another company as a subcontractor. In doing so, both companies wanted to cut corners. So what they did was to do some painting work. The cables, nuts and bolts which were rusting away remained while the bridge was opened to the public. They did not obtain a fitness certificate from the authorities concerned.
As many as 400 people were on the bridge when the cables broke plunging all of them into the river. At the time of writing this, as many as 135 were dead with many injured, some of them still in hospital. The municipal authorities did not follow any of the standard procedures while giving contract to Oreva. Had someone checked the renovation work, the accident could have been averted. Yet, what did Oreva tell the court hearing the case?
A manager of the company said that the disaster was an "act of God". It was the same argument Modi used against Mamata Banerjee. He is not the first one to do so. A few years ago when an earthquake struck Nepal, some BJP leaders blamed Rahul Gandhi for the calamity. His fault? "A beef-eater like him had visited Nepal". When an earthquake hit Uttarakhand, the same forces blamed the same leader because he had visited the state.
Yet, none of the leaders was reprimanded. One BJP leader from Kerala tweeted that it was the presence of Christian missionaries in Nepal that caused the earthquake. When the likes of him rule the country, what else can be expected? Few know how Dr Rajendra Prasad became a top Congress leader worthy enough to be chosen as the first President of India.
A devastating earthquake hit Bihar and Nepal with Munger as the epicenter. A committee with Rajendra Prasad as chairman was constituted to provide relief to the earthquake-hit. This was in 1934. He did a wonderful job and he became the tallest Congress leader from Bihar. Mahatma Gandhi saw the earthquake differently.
He saw it as a God's punishment for treating the "Harijans", a term he used for the Scheduled Castes, as "untouchables". It was an irrational and unscientific statement for a leader of his calibre to make. He, perhaps, did not know that there was a group of Scheduled Castes in Kerala who were even treated as "unseeable".
It was Rabindranath Tagore who first used the term "Mahatma" for Gandhi. He objected to his statement and wrote a letter to Gandhi asking him to publish it in his journal Harijan. He exposed the ridiculousness of linking ethical issues with cosmic happenings. Gandhi had to publish the Bard of Santiniketan's letter. In a round-about manner he admitted his folly while claiming that it was his personal belief.
Rahul's response to the Morbi disaster showed that human considerations were above political considerations. Of course, not everyone can appreciate the goodness of another. Those who wear a yellow spectacle would see everything only in a yellow shade.
There is little doubt that the Bharat Jodo Yatra has evoked a good response from the people at large. Rahul has emerged as the tallest Congress leader. Few have the guts or the stamina or the charisma to undertake such a journey. It is a different matter whether the Congress would be able to use the gains of the Yatra for the electoral advantage of the party.
Electoral victories and defeats depend on various factors like the electoral alliances that a party forges. The BJP had invested heavily into perpetuating the myth that Rahul was an idiot. He has never even once shied away from meeting the media and answering whatever questions they had to ask him. It is now eight years since Modi became prime minister but he is yet to address the media.
When his teleprompter conked out while he was addressing an international gathering at Davos, he could not even say one sentence by way of concluding his speech. Yet, the irony is that Narendra Modi is considered a great communicator, while Rahul Gandhi who has been walking with the common people from dawn to dusk everyday for the last so many weeks is called a Pappu. What an irony!
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By growing tree seedlings for reforestation, youths in Kinabatangan, Sabah, are assisting in orang utan conservation.....
The reforestation also allows animals to move from one patch of forest to another more easily....
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With only about 55,000 orang utans surviving in Borneo today, and with their population dropping by 30% to 50% over the past 30 years, things are not looking good for one of Malaysia's most iconic species. The biggest threat to the survival of these great apes, apart from poaching and illegal pet trade, is the loss of habitat to logging and plantations..
Gazetted under the Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997 only last October, parts of lower Kinabatangan (which includes the Kinabatangan floodplain where many of Sabah's orang utans live) are degraded and degraded by development, lodging and oil palm plantation.
Thus, patches of protected greens are surrounded by degraded forest and plantations, which in turn affects the abundance of food, distribution, behavior and ecology of orang utans and other wildlife.
Under a project to green degraded Kinabatangan forests, conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in 2003 started the Habitat Restoration Project (Habitat) by setting up a tree nursery in Kampung Bilit to grow seedlings for replanting.
It is part of its Corridor of Life effort, which aims to reforest both sides of the Kinabatangan River and create a 'forest corridor' for wildlife to move freely between isolated forest reserves, private plantations and the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, as well as from coastal mangrove swamps to upland forests.
Currently funded by tea producer BOH Plantations (which contributes RM50,000 a year to Habitat and another RM50,000 to generate awareness on orang utans), the project employs 10 local youths at RM26 a day as field assistants.
Their tasks are collecting and germinating seeds at the 0.4 ha nursery. Field activities include planting seedlings, clearing climbers and weeds, monitoring growths of planted trees and evaluating orang utans' use of the area.
Programme assistant Jonitol said youths learn how to identify food tree species, collect seeds and plant trees when they join. They have planted over 15 tree species so far, all of which form the diet of orang utans and are noncommercial trees. They include sengkuang, tangkal, bongkol, durian, rambutan and mango trees.
"The orang utan is not the only animal that will benefit as other animals also eat these fruits," said jonitol. "The reforestation also allows animals to move from one patch of forest to another more easily."
The replanting effort currently concentrates on Lot 5 of the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary. There are 10 lots that need to be regenerated. As of December, over 10,200 seedlings have cultivated at the nursery 3,000 food trees planted in Lot 5 chosen because it is close to Bilit.
"It floods very easily especially, during the months of February and March," said Jonitol. The last a few weeks, and we can only begin replanting when the water subsides."
Taking the floods into account, the project is trying to focus on resistant plants that will survive floods better. Seedlings are also at the mercy of wildlife that they are supposed to be helping.
"We cannot fence up the area because that would defeat the purpose of the project. It will create a bottleneck that will hinder animals' movement," said Jonitol
The owner of the land where the nursery is sited, Johari, said villagers supported the project because it benefited them, especially youths who would otherwise have to seek jobs in the city.
"I was happy to let them use my family land because it is for a good cause," said the assistant supervisor of Bilit's homestay programme.
WWF also started a Home Cultivation Programme where villagers are encourage to start small scale tree nurseries. Just like in the project for local youths, they learn how to collect and germinate seedlings, and later sell these for reforestation projects by oil palm plantations.
"Besides generating additional income for villagers, the plantation companies will have a ready supply of seedlings when they start their reforestation programmes," said Jonitol
Saving the orang utan's friends
By protecting the forest home of orang utans, we are also protecting other critically endangered species such as the Sumatran rhino and Borneo pygmy elephant.
Sabah is home to some of the less than 300 remaining Sumatran rhinos in the world. These survive in very small and highly fragmented populations, Indonesia and Malaysia are their last significant range states.
The smallest of all rhinos and the only two horned rhino in Asia, the Bornean subspecies of the Sumatran rhino is the most endangered of all rhinoceros species in the world.
Sabah is also home to some 1,000 pygmy elephants. Identified as a subspecies of Asian elephants only in 2003, they are smaller, chubbier and more gentle natured than other Asian elephants. They are found only on the northeast tip of Borneo, mainly in Sabah.
A few of these elephants were collared with satellite tracking devices last year, which confirmed that each Elephants belongs to a herd of 30 to 50 individuals led by a mature matriarch, and often split off into smaller groups for days or weeks at a time.
This tracking also revealed that the Borneo pygmy elephant is a lowland animal it lives only along river valleys and other low lying areas, except on occasions when the group has to travel over a hill to reach another valley. Thus elephants must have lowlands to survive. Their diet consists of at least 162 species of plants.
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Dr. Christopher Glantz, MD, MPH, during an outreach visit.
The care teams in hospital maternity units across the country all share a common aim: each want to give the mothers and babies they serve the best chance at a healthy birth. But for some hospitals, that best chance might involve relocating mothers to a facility with the equipment and staffing needed to handle high-risk pregnancies.
This is the theory behind nationwide perinatal regionalization, a systems-based model of care that designates hospitals as distinct levels depending on their technology and specializations, and then uses those levels to determine where mothers and infants should be cared for.
It's an approach that helps ensure that all moms and babies, regardless of where they live, can receive care at a facility most able to meet their specific needs, explains Dr. Christopher Glantz, MD, MPH, the University of Rochester's director of perinatal outreach and the perinatal data system. Glantz also serves as a faculty advisor for NICHQ's work on the New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative (NYSPQC), which seeks to develop and implement promising perinatal interventions. NICHQ is partnering with the New York State Health Department to provide improvement expertise and project management services on their quality improvement initiatives.
The benefits of regionalization are well-documented. Premature babies or babies with low birth weights have a higher chance of survival when born in risk-appropriate facilities. Still, regionalization comes with significant challenges, including the anxiety it can engender in participating hospitals.
Creating this system has been a priority for Glantz for the past two decades and it is an example of other efforts across the state. Over that time, he and his colleagues have worked to improve Rochester's regionalization efforts, a focus defined by building trust between the RPC and its affiliate hospitals.
An RPC needs to be able to give the affiliate hospitals feedback on where to improve and what tools to implement without coming across as an enforcer. Instead, a better approach is to emphasize that all participants are working together to improve maternal and infant health. With this approach, feedback becomes a two-sided conversation rather than a one-sided dictum.
Putting this approach into action works best when the RPC, specifically those providing outreach to the affiliates, consider each affiliate's perspective before providing recommendations. After all, a day at a small or rural hospital looks very different than a day at a major regional center, and any advice given needs to take that into account. There's also no one-size-fits-all advice for affiliate hospitals; each is unique, based on the patients they serve, the technology they leverage and the people who work there.
Glantz suggests that RPCs visit each hospital in person to get to know its staff and the barriers it faces, and thereby provide hospitals with tailored recommendations that fits their specific needs.
One of the major benefits of perinatal regionalization is shared data, which can inform a state's priorities by providing a holistic view of their maternal and infant health statistics and trends. Sharing this data when providing feedback can also be used to energize affiliate hospitals.
Glantz stresses how important it is that RPCs practice sensitivity and clarity when patients are referred to them. It can be tough for an affiliate hospital care team to send away a mother with whom they've worked for months (or longer), and developed a relationship with, especially if that mom is in distress.
Easing that anxiety depends on clearly communicating statuses of referred patients in a timely way. Rather than send a basic form letter with limited information, Rochester's RPC worked with their nursing staff to develop a more robust communication system. Now, referral hospitals can expect to hear regular updates about their patients during the stay at the RPC. These updates detail when a mother arrives, whether she ran into complications, when she delivers, her and her baby's health status, and the details of the birth (whether it was induced, for example).
During Glantz's tenure, Rochester has made significant strides in their perinatal care, especially regarding statewide initiatives of the NYSPQC like limiting elective deliveries before 39 weeks. Much of this success can be credited to their collaborative approach to regionalization, where the hospitals come together in partnership, energized and ready to pursue shared goals with passion.
Interested in learning more about our perinatal improvement efforts? Sign up for NICHQ News for the latest articles, resources and webinars. (Tip: We have an article on efforts to reduce maternal hemorrhages coming soon).


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South Korea's Daewoo to grow corn in Madagascar
0 Published: 18 Nov 2008
Short URL: https://farmlandgrab.org/2559
Posted in: Abraaj Capital COFCO Cambodia China Daewoo Egypt Indonesia Korea Kuwait Madagascar Malaysia Qatar Saudi Arabia Savola Sudan Ukraine
Reuters | Tue 18 Nov 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Daewoo Logistics will plant corn in Madagascar, a company official said on Tuesday, with a long-term aim to replace more than half the corn it currently imports from mostly the United States.
The move to develop an area of Madagascar larger than Qatar follows a smaller deal in July to plant corn in Indonesia and reflects the region's latest push to lock in cropland abroad.
Soaring food prices earlier this year and a shortage of farm land at home has prompted several countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia and South Korea to seek agricultural assets abroad to grow crops.
Daewoo Logistics has secured rights in Madagascar to develop 1.3 million hectares. It plans to plant 1 million hectares in the western part of the country with corn and 300,000 hectares in the east will be dedicated to oil palm planting, said Shin Dong-hyun, who is in charge of the project for the company.
"We plan to start planting corn on 2,000 hectares next year and aim to produce around 5 tonnes of corn per hectare the following year," he said.
According to the plan, Daewoo will produce 10,000 tonnes of corn in 2010, which will be worth $2 million at current import prices of U.S. corn to South Korea of around $200 per tonne.
Daewoo -- which plans to directly manage its plantations and use labour from South Africa -- would develop the cropland over 15 years and may produce around 5 million tonnes of corn annually, more than half of South Korea's annual corn needs and 5 percent of the global corn trade.
The U.S. is the biggest corn exporter supplying some 60 percent to the world markets.
PART OF A TREND
The move by Daewoo Logistics follows similar deals by other countries short of arable land.
Saudi Arabia's Savola Group, the world's largest producer of branded edible oil, wants to buy minority shares in agribusiness firms in Sudan, Egypt and Ukraine while Malaysia's biggest palm planter is looking to develop plantations in Africa.
Kuwait has leased rice fields in Cambodia and plans to import food from the Asian country which has plenty of land ideal for growing food crops.
South Korea is the world's third-largest corn importer and relies heavily on imports to meet its corn requirements.
"We plan to improve productivity to produce 10 tonnes of corn per hectare but it will take quite a long time to reach that level," Shin said.
Corn, which is mainly used in making feed for animals and poultry, has lost half of its value since peaking in June when floods threatened crops in the top growing U.S. Midwest region.
But analysts expect the prices to bounce back in 2009 as farmers cut production due to lower prices and growing use of corn in making ethanol.
Daewoo is talking to potential investor partners such as South Korea's biggest feedmaker Nonghyup Feed, with which it agreed in July to jointly develop a 20,000 hectare corn farm in Kalimantan in Indonesia starting in 2009.
But if the negotiations fail, Daewoo plans to tap overseas partners such as China National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs Imports and Exports Corp (COFCO) and Thailand's CP Group, Shin said.
Original source: Reuters


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Q: Defining a prior multinomial regression. Case study with `MCMCglmm` I fail to understand how to define the prior distribution for a multinomial regression.

*

*In what unit the prior probability should be set given that the response don't really have units (but just categories)? Should it be a probability, or maybe a log of odds?

*Does the dimensions of the prior depend on the number of levels in the categorical response variable?

*What is the meaning of the variance-covariance matrix for a categorical response variable?

Here is a subset of my data (where the variable names and outcomes have been renamed). An example of working MCMCglmm on these data would be awesome!
df=read.table(text="y     x1       x2
    1  yellow 106.00 6.190476
    2  yellow 120.00 5.254762
    3  yellow  57.00 6.202381
    4  yellow 115.33 5.652381
    5  yellow 175.00 6.154762
    6  yellow  74.00 8.285714
    7  yellow 104.67 3.766667
    8  yellow  95.50 7.976190
    9  yellow 108.00 8.792857
    10 yellow 121.33 7.935714
    11 yellow  66.67 6.969048
    12 yellow  30.00 7.333333
    13 yellow  45.00 6.811905
    14 yellow  70.00 7.550000
    15 yellow  48.00 7.316667
    16 yellow 211.00 4.650000
    17 yellow  69.00 8.369048
    18 yellow 110.50 6.621429
    19 yellow 203.00 6.095238
    20 yellow  75.33 8.211905
    21 yellow 207.33 6.211905
    22 yellow  54.00 7.961905
    23 yellow  74.00 7.019048
    24 yellow 113.00 4.221429
    25 yellow  23.00 7.942857
    26 yellow  80.00 7.511905
    27 yellow 257.00 7.878571
    28 yellow 211.00 7.754762
    29 yellow  99.00 8.016667
    30 yellow 120.00 7.728571
    31 yellow 222.50 5.840476
    32 yellow  44.00 4.209524
    33 yellow  63.00 6.614286
    34 yellow  57.00 8.669048
    35 yellow 223.33 7.033333
    36 yellow 128.00 6.754762
    37 yellow 128.00 5.561905
    38 yellow 121.00 7.471429
    39 yellow  70.00 7.445238
    40 yellow  85.67 5.261905
    41 yellow 113.33 8.509524
    42 yellow  82.00 6.697619
    43    red 207.33 4.180952
    44    red 167.67 5.302381
    45    red 366.50 7.102381
    46    red 230.00 4.942857
    47    red 201.00 5.754762
    48    red 226.00 9.076190
    49    red 193.33 7.066667
    50    red 170.00 7.314286
    51    red 361.33 7.502381
    52   blue 154.00 4.342857
    53    red 199.33 6.361905
    54   blue  97.00 7.750000
    55   blue  82.33 6.209524
    56   blue  55.67 5.321429
    57   blue  47.50 5.911905
    58   blue  15.67 7.185714
    59   blue  96.50 6.452381
    60   blue 202.33 8.576190
    61   blue 157.00 6.669048
    62   blue 117.33 5.828571
    63   blue 105.67 8.485714
    64   blue 108.67 5.714286
    65   blue 296.67 5.852381
    66   blue 206.50 6.826190
    67   blue  88.50 6.178571
    68   blue 163.00 7.833333
    69   blue 151.50 8.983333")

and here is a MCMCglmm call for which the default priors lead to an error message
set.seed(12)
m = MCMCglmm(y ~  -1  + trait:(x1) + trait:(x2)  , rcov = ~ us(trait):units,
 data = df, family = "categorical", verbose = TRUE, burnin = 8000,
 nitt = 40000, thin = 50)

ill-conditioned G/R structure (CN = 24007848728601288.000000):
use proper priors if you haven't or rescale data if you have

A: Good question! I've actually tried to get my mind around the same for quite some time, so I'll just share my experiences. I'm still a novice in this area, so I hope I haven't made any mistakes in notation.
always, and I mean always, standardise your continous variables to have mean=0 and sd=1 (or even sd=2). Look into some of Andrew Gelman's blog posts or articles about this. Just google Andrew Gelman standardization, there are a lot of good papers and posts.
Think of your coefficients as log(odds-ratios) (in reference to a reference category, explanation follows). For an in-depth discussion, see this answer. Andrew Gelman also has some recommendations on priors, such as the cauchy, or normal(0,1). His papers are about logistic regression, but I find that these recommendations also extend to multi-outcome regression.
The dimension of the prior indeed depends on the number of outcomes. If you have three outcomes, you have these three linear dependencies:
$    y_1 = \beta_{0,1} + \sum_i\beta_{i,1}*x_{i,1} $ and $    y_2 = \beta_{0,2} + \sum_i\beta_{i,2}*x_{i,2} $ and $    y_3 = \beta_{0,3} + \sum_i\beta_{i,3}*x_{i,3} $
The second subscript denotes the outcome. Normally you would put a prior on each of these coefficients. I'll illustrate with the intercept, $\beta_{0,k}$,
$\beta_{0,1} \sim \mathcal{N}(0,1)$ and $\beta_{0,2} \sim \mathcal{N}(0,1)$ and $\beta_{0,3} \sim \mathcal{N}(0,1)$
Just to complete the math, the probability of outcome $k$ is,
$p_k = \frac{y_k}{\sum_k y_k}$ and the likelihood is $y \sim \text{Multinomial}(p)$
Please note that you would often force one of the outcomes to be the "reference" outcome due to identifiability issues. Wiki has a detailed description of why. Practically, this means you force the coefficients of the reference category to be 0, and thus $p_{reference} = 1$, since $exp(0) = 1$.
I have never used MCMCglmm so I cannot answer anything specific to that, I'm afraid.


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Q: Is there any way to get a model ID trough a form? I'm trying that when you upload some image trough a django form, in the view you can get the object and redirect to the image's url.
I have tried to include an id field into the ModelForm, but its not working. Here is the view that handles the POST.
def model_form_upload(request):

    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = DocumentForm(request.POST, request.FILES)

        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return redirect('index')
            # here i want to redirect something like /media/image1.jgp
    else:
        form = DocumentForm()
    return render(request, 'src/model_form_upload.html', {
        'form': form
    })

A: Yes, in fact if you call form.save() on a ModelForm it will return the instance it created/modified, so you can just obtain the instance and extract attributes from it, or do some extra processing. For example:
def model_form_upload(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = DocumentForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
        if form.is_valid():
            instance = form.save()
            # extract items from instance
            return # ...
    else:
        form = DocumentForm()
    return render(request, 'src/model_form_upload.html', {
        'form': form
    })
You can thus obtain the id of the instance in the form with instance.pk.
Alternatively, you can also use form.instance to get access to the instance the Form creates/modifies.


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Q: Show and remove "No Record Found" message in jqgrid 4.6.0 I have followed the answer given here jqGrid with no data - how to set a more prominent 'no data' message? to display a "No Record Found" Message. It works great but, I have the following questions,
a) How to remove the custom "No Record Found" message while populating data in the grid.
b) How to remove the gray bar (please see the snapshot below) that appears on IE9 when the grid is empty.

Here is the fiddler: https://jsfiddle.net/99x50s2s/148/
HTML:

<button type="button" id="PopulateDataBtn">Populate Data</button>
<button type="button" id="RemoveDataBtn">Remove Data</button>

CSS
.alert-info-grid{background-color:#ffffe5;color:black; font-size:14px; font-weight:600; padding:4px; text-align:center;}

JS
$("#sg1").jqGrid({
    datatype: "local",
    cmTemplate: { sortable: !0, resizable: !0 },
    gridview: true,
    loadonce: true,
    shrinkToFit: false,
    autoencode: true,
    width:500,
    height: 'auto',
    viewrecords: true,
    pgbuttons: true,
    pager: "#psg1",
    pgtext: "Page {0} of {1}",
    rowList: [],
    sortorder: "desc",
    scrollrows: true,
    loadui: 'disable',
    colNames:['Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes'],
    colModel:[
        {name:'id',index:'id', width:90, sorttype:"int"},
        {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:190, sorttype:"date"},
        {name:'name',index:'name', width:180},
        {name:'amount',index:'amount', width:180, align:"right",sorttype:"float"},
        {name:'tax',index:'tax', width:180, align:"right",sorttype:"float"},
        {name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right",sorttype:"float"},
        {name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false}
    ],
    caption: "Test Grid"
});

var mydata = [
        {id:"1",invdate:"2007-10-01",name:"test 1234567890123456789",note:"note",amount:"200.00",tax:"10.00",total:"210.00"},
        {id:"2",invdate:"2007-10-02",name:"test2",note:"note2",amount:"300.00",tax:"20.00",total:"320.00"}
        ];

$("
No Record(s) Found
").insertAfter($("#sg1").parent());

$('#PopulateDataBtn').on('click', function(){

    var gridObj = $("#sg1");

    gridObj.clearGridData();

    for(var i=0;i<=mydata.length;i++)
       gridObj.jqGrid('addRowData',i+1,mydata[i]);
});

$('#RemoveDataBtn').on('click', function(){
    var gridObj = $("#sg1");

    gridObj.clearGridData();

$("
No Record(s) Found
").insertAfter(gridObj.parent());
});

Note: I am using jqgrid 4.6.0

A: The main reason of your problem: you fill the data of the grid having datatype: "local" in a wrong way. You use addRowData, which is the worst way which I know.
I modified your demo to the following: https://jsfiddle.net/OlegKi/99x50s2s/150/ which works now correctly.
The main part of the changes code is below:
$("#sg1").jqGrid({
    datatype: "local",
    ...
    localReader: {
        page: function (obj) {
            return (obj.page === 0 || obj.page === undefined) ? "0" : obj.page;
        }
    },
    onInitGrid: function () {
        $("
No Record(s) Found
")
            .insertAfter($(this).parent());
    },
    loadComplete: function () {
        var $this = $(this), p = $this.jqGrid("getGridParam");
        if (p.reccount === 0) {
            $this.hide();
            $this.parent().siblings(".alert-info-grid").show();
        } else {
            $this.show();
            $this.parent().siblings(".alert-info-grid").hide();
        }
    },
    caption: "Test Grid"
});

var mydata = [
        {id:"1", invdate:"2007-10-01", name:"test 1234567890123456789",
            note:"note", amount:"200.00", tax:"10.00", total:"210.00"},
        {id:"2", invdate:"2007-10-02", name:"test2",
            note:"note2",amount:"300.00", tax:"20.00", total:"320.00"}
    ];

function setGridDataAndReload ($grid, data) {
    var p = $grid.jqGrid("getGridParam");
    p.data = data;
    $grid.trigger("reloadGrid", [{page: 1}]);
}

$('#PopulateDataBtn').on('click', function(){
    setGridDataAndReload($("#sg1"), mydata);
});

$('#RemoveDataBtn').on('click', function(){
    setGridDataAndReload($("#sg1"), []);
});

The demo still have minor problems (like the right border of the grid and some other). To fix the problem you can upgrade jqGrid 4.6 to the latest version of free jqGrid (version 4.10.0) which support Bootstrap css and the problem with "the gray bar" is fixed too.


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Section 1:Islay
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With their season opener delayed a week by the cold weather, Christian Brothers Academy Sailing won the first regatta of the spring at the SUNY Maritime Invitational on Saturday in the Bronx.
With periodic snow falling in New York City, the Colts bested a fleet of 13 schools from New Jersey, New York and Connecticut over a 12-race series.
Junior Michael Ehnot and sophomore Ryan Mullins won the B Division, winning three of their six races on the day. Senior Joe LaForgia, sophomore Justin Modin and freshman John Cocuzza finished second overall in the A Division.
The victory is the third straight for Christian Brothers at SUNY Maritime. The Colts previously won invitationals at New York Maritime College in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016.
The win opens a full slate of sailing for CBA this spring. They will sail again next week in the Ocean County College Invitational, before the NJISA League Championship on April 1st. The Mid-Atlantic District Championship is scheduled for April 8-9 at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point.
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Supreme Court refuses to take up Martins Beach case. Surfers, beachgoers relieved
Peter Fimrite
Oct. 1, 2018 Updated: Oct. 1, 2018 9:34 p.m.
1of24A surfer catches a wave at Martin's Beach in Half Moon Bay, California on September 19, 2018. - Billionaire Vinod Khosla purchased the land and has been limiting access and charging fees to the general public in order to be able to enjoy the beach. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty ImagesJOSH EDELSON / AFP/Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
2of24Surfer Kaira Wallace of El Granada walks past the gate on the now private road on his way to Martin's Beach in Half Moon Bay Tuesday March 12th, 2013.Michael Short/Special to the ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
3of24Jameson Kenway grabs his surf board for a morning surf on Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Thursday, October 26, 2017.Mason Trinca/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
4of24Jameson Kenway walks back to his car for work after an hour of surfing at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Thursday, October 26, 2017.Mason Trinca / Special to The Chronicle 2017Show MoreShow Less
5of24Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla arrives at the San Mateo County Superior Court building in Redwood City, Calif., on Monday, May 12, 2014, on his way to testify in the Martin's Beach lawsuit.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
6of24Jameson Kenway surfs a wave at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Thursday, October 26, 2017.Mason Trinca / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
7of24Jameson Kenway walks to the beach on Martins Beach Road for a morning surf in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Thursday, October 26, 2017.Mason Trinca / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
8of24File - In this Feb. 10, 2014, file photo, Julie Graves, left, of Albany, Calif., and Chris Adams, second from left, of Berkeley, Calif., hold up signs in support of a beach access bill that Democratic state Sen. Jerry Hill introduced near Martin's Beach in Half Moon Bay, Calif. California's Coastal Commission is asking the public to document its use of Martin's Beach after billionaire landowner Vinod Khosla closed the only access road to it. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)Eric Risberg/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
Above, Owen Moore (left) Brian Overfelt and Danny Dimas walk on Martins Beach in San Mateo County after surfing. Below, Overfelt rides a wave at the beach, the subject of a lawsuit for nearly a decade.
Jim Gensheimer / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Brian Overfelt, of El Granada, rides a wave at Martins Beach on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in San Mateo County, Calif.
Homes line a beachside road at Martins Beach. A landowner had blocked a road to the beach, six miles south of Half Moon Bay.
Danny Dimas, of El Granada, takes a break after surfing at Martins Beach on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in San Mateo County, Calif.
Pelicans roost on a rock outcropping at Martins Beach on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in San Mateo County, Calif.
Surfer Danny Dimas, of El Granada, heads back out after riding a wave at Martins Beach on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in San Mateo County, Calif.
16of24Ted Fitz of La Honda, who learned to surf at the age of 6 at Martins Beach, catches a wave after a press conference marking Surfrider Foundation�s victory in requiring that public access return to Martins Beach at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn / Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
17of24A beachcomber enjoys the views at Martins Beach following a press conference marking Surfrider Foundation�s victory in requiring that public access return to Martins Beach at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn / Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
18of24Former Congressman for San Mateo County Pete McCluskey, 91, from Rumsey, who spent his youth at Martins Beach, celebrates with Jennifer Savage, California Policy Manager for Surfrider Foundation, following a press conference marking Surfrider Foundation�s victory in requiring that public access return to Martins Beach at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn / Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
19of24Joe Cotchett, a lawyer for Surfrider Foundation, speaks during a press conference marking Surfrider Foundation�s victory in requiring that public access return to Martins Beach at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn / Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
20of24State Sen. Jerry Hill, representing the 13th California State Senate District, speaks during a press conference marking Surfrider Foundation�s victory requiring that public access return to Martins Beach at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn / Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
21of24Greg Smith of San Mateo and family including Arche Tse and 4-month-old baby Eurlie Smith enjoy the day at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn/Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
22of24Former Congressman for San Mateo County Pete McCluskey, 91, from Rumsey, who spent his youth at Martins Beach, celebrates for a moment following a press conference marking Surfrider Foundation�s victory in requiring that public access return to Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn / Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
23of24Mike Wallace of Moss Beach, who taught his children to surf at Martins Beach, waxes his surfboard following a press conference marking Surfrider Foundation�s victory in requiring that public access return to Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn / Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
24of24Supporters of Surfriders Foundation, from left, Howard Grave of Albany, Taletha Herrington of El Granada, Attorney Eric Buescher, and longtime surfer Robert "Bird Legs" Caughlan of Pacifica, talk following a press conference marking Surfrider Foundation�s victory in requiring that public access return to Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay on Monday October 1, 2018.Cody Glenn / Special To The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Surfers, lawyers and legislators hugged and high-fived Monday at an impromptu party on a sandy cove in San Mateo County after the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take the case of a tech billionaire who wanted to block public access to the beach.
The decision means lawyers for Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, will not get the opportunity to argue before the high court that he has a right to stop people from crossing his property to reach a picturesque beach.
Advocates for public access touted the decision, which keeps an access road open to Martins Beach, about six miles south of Half Moon Bay, as a victory for beachgoers across the country.
"Money cannot buy justice, and arrogance cannot stop the public's right to use our beautiful ocean," said Joe Cotchett, the lead attorney for the Surfrider Foundation, which filed suit against Khosla. "Remember, this case is all about the public. That's who it's for. ... It's about the right of anyone — child, adult — to go down to fish, go down to swim, but, more important, to have access to our wonderful ocean."
The crescent-shaped cove, featuring a distinctive pyramid-shaped rock, has been the subject of an ugly, almost decade-long clash between Khosla and surfers and other beachgoers that began when Khosla blocked the only road leading to Martins Beach. The Supreme Court's rejection of the case now prevents the battle from becoming a test case for public coastal access around the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear appeal to allow Vinod Khosla to unilaterally close beach on his property. Video: SFChronicle
Cotchett joined state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, representatives of Surfrider and a crowd of celebrants at Martins Beach on Monday, where they laughed and joked about the decision.
Vinod Khosla is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Video: Fortune
"In the old days there was a big sign that said, 'Welcome to Martins Beach,'" said former U.S. Rep. Pete McCloskey, stood in front of the gate and reminisced about hay rides down to the cove in his youth. "This is the most beautiful beach in California and that son-of-a-gun would have kept it from the public."
McCloskey jokingly urged Robert Caughlan, a San Mateo surfer known as "Bird Legs," to put on his swimsuit and give the crowd a demonstration, but the 75-year-old former president of Surfrider said he was happy enough on dry sand.
"It's big time," Caughlan said about the decision. "Why is access to Martins Beach important? For the same reason access to Yosemite is important. It's a public treasure."
Khosla's decision to hire Paul Clement, a high-powered Washington, D.C., lawyer, and appeal the case to the Supreme Court had caused anxiety in the California Legislature and in legal circles that the court, which opened its new session Monday, would undo decades of law upholding public access to beaches.
Khosla claims the order requiring him to open his land to the public without just compensation is tantamount to stealing his property.
Another of his lawyers, Dori Yob Kilmer, said Monday that Khosla will comply with the lower court decision and apply with the California Coastal Commission for a permit to restrict access. She signaled the fight is far from over.
"No owner of private business should be forced to obtain a permit from the government before deciding who it wants to invite onto its property," Kilmer said in a statement. "Contrary to popular opinion, the case we filed in the U.S. Supreme Court is not about access to the beach. Other courts already ruled no public access rights exist on the property."
She was referring to a 2013 ruling by San Mateo County Judge Gerald Buchwald saying the beach was subject to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War and required the United States to recognize Mexican land grants. Buchwald was saying, in essence, that the beach had been in private hands long before laws were passed requiring public access to the coast.
Had the Supreme Court taken the case and ruled in favor of Khosla, it would have affected as many as 22 states that have granted the public the right to access beaches, lakes and waterways, Surfrider's Cotchett said.
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"The most conservative and divided Supreme Court in my lifetime confirmed that even a billionaire who refuses to acknowledge that the law applies to him, and retains the most expensive attorneys he can find, cannot create a private beach," Cotchett said. "Beaches are public in California, and the immensely wealthy must comply with the Coastal Act just like everyone else."
Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, a Menlo Park venture fund with more than $4 billion under management, bought Martins Beach and the surrounding coastal lands for $32.5 million in 2008. He shut the public access gate in September 2010, citing the cost of maintenance and liability insurance.
Surfrider sued Khosla in 2013, arguing that the shoreline belonged to the public and had been open to all comers since at least 1918. After a series of back-and-forth rulings, San Mateo County Judge Barbara Mallach ruled in 2014 that Khosla should have obtained a development permit from the California Coastal Commission before shutting the gates.
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A state appeals court agreed in August 2017, saying the closure was a type of property development that required the commission's approval and that his failure to obtain a permit before blocking access to Martins Beach was illegal. Khosla took his case to the nation's high court after the California Supreme Court denied review of his appeal last October.
Khosla's legal team, led by Clement, told the court that any interference by the state with his "fundamental right to exclude the public from private property" would be a type of confiscation — a "taking," in legal terms — that requires compensation under U.S. Supreme Court property-rights rulings.
In asking the top court to grant a review, Clement claimed the state courts wrongly decided that "owners of private beachfront property in California may not exercise that right without first obtaining the government's permission."
At stake was the 1972 California Coastal Zone Conservation Initiative, which created the 12-member California Coastal Commission. The California Coastal Act, passed in 1976, prohibits homes or developments from blocking access to beaches, essentially making the entire California coast, including all beach property below the mean high-tide line, public property.
"This lawsuit began as a modest claim that the Coastal Act's permit requirements apply to everyone," said Eric Buescher, another lawyer representing Surfrider. "It grew into a fight over the future of public access along over 1,100 miles of coast in this state."
Khosla, who has offered to grant an easement over his property for $30 million, was threatened with fines of up to $11,250 a day, or more than $4 million a year, for violating Coastal Commission rules. He has been opening the gate periodically.
Lisa Haage, chief of enforcement for the coastal commission, said in a statement that multiple courts including the U.S. Supreme Court have upheld the Coastal Act's protections.
"This case reaffirms that you cannot make a unilateral decision to shut down a beach that has provided generations of families with memories," she said. "We will be considering how to proceed and hope the owner will work with us ... "
The beach party was nevertheless muted over Khosla's embrace of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo decision and the possibility of more litigation over the Coastal Commission permit. Cotchett said he fielded calls from officials stretching from Maine to San Diego expressing their worries that courts might — if Khosla keeps filing lawsuits and appealing them up the chain — eventually agree to allow roads and trails leading to thousands of beaches to be blocked by wealthy property owners.
"This battle is not over," Cotchett said. "This battle is beginning."
Peter Fimrite is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: pfimrite@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @pfimrite
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