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Dorchester County, Maryland was faced with severe cash flow problems and probable landfill closure resulting from regulatory compliance issues and looming consent orders.
Central to the county's problems were an outdated Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) that resulted in a lack of remaining permitted disposal airspace. To help resolve their problems, the county retained Geosyntec to provide comprehensive engineering services to help turn the outlook for their physical and operational assets around. Since that time, Geosyntec has also provided ongoing solid waste planning and advisory services to help keep the county ahead their regulatory and public service obligations for solid waste management against a backdrop of fiscal pressures, changing waste disposal needs and demands from residents, evolving technologies, and increasingly stringent statutes for waste diversion and recycling promulgated by the Maryland Legislature. The county's rural setting on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay also poses several unique challenges to providing modern solid waste management and recycling services.
Geosyntec's Scope of Services
State of Maryland regulations require that counties conduct a comprehensive review and update of their SWMP every ten years. In 2005, the county had not updated their SWMP since 1993; therefore, Geosyntec's first service was to develop a completely revised and updated 10-year SWMP for the period 2006-2016, which brought the county into compliance and established a roadmap for providing solid waste and recycling services. To comply with new Maryland statutes and to update information on countywide solid waste facilities and needs, Geosyntec updated the 2006-2016 SWMP on five separate occasions through 2016. These updates included adoption of a recycling program for public schools (2010), a minor update to address new requirements for recycling fluorescent lights containing mercury (2011); recycling plans for apartment buildings and condominiums (2014); an increase in the baseline recycling target under the Maryland Recycling Act from 20% to 35% (2014); and a plan to require recycling at special events held on county-owned land (2015). For each update, Geosyntec incorporated steps for the county to monitor and report compliance and provided advice on the costs of providing additional services. We also coordinated meetings and hearings to inform the public of upcoming changes and solicit input and ideas on proposed changes to the SWMP. We also liased with the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) to streamline the adoption and approval process. Subsequently, Geosyntec was awarded the contract to completely revise the SWMP to cover the 10-year period from 2017-2026, work on which started in September 2016 and was approved by MDE in December 2017.
Notable Accomplishments
In the face of difficult budgetary and time constraints, Geosyntec has helped the county avoid closure of their disposal assets or being forced into privatization by focusing capital expenditure on creation of revenue-generating operations while still meeting their regulatory obligations. Now, more than 12 years since first providing our services, the county is in a strong financial position with regard to its solid waste services, is fully in compliance, and is well-placed to provide cost-effective solid waste management as a public service to county residents and businesses for the long-term future. We have remained the county's go-to provider of dependable planning and advisory services through this period, which has included reporting to four successive Directors of Public Works and two county Managers.
Location: Dorchester county, Maryland
Client: Dorchester county Council, Maryland
Project Practice Areas: Waste Management
Type of Facility: Solid Waste
Services Provided: Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plans: 10-Year Plan, 2006-2016 and 10-Year Plan, 2017-2026; Updates and Revisions to Existing Plans; Public Communication and Outreach; Regulatory Liaison; Solid Waste Advisory Services
Type of Work: Planning and Advisory Services
Governing Regulation: Maryland Recycling Act
Filter Text Projects: Dorchester County, Maryland was faced with severe cash flow problems and probable landfill closure resulting from regulatory compliance issues and looming consent orders. Central to the county's problems were an outdated Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) that resulted in a lack of remaining permitted disposal airspace. To help resolve their problems, the county retained Geosyntec to provide comprehensive engineering services to help turn the outlook for their physical and operational assets around. Since that time, Geosyntec has also provided ongoing solid waste planning and advisory services to help keep the county ahead their regulatory and public service obligations for solid waste management against a backdrop of fiscal pressures, changing waste disposal needs and demands from residents, evolving technologies, and increasingly stringent statutes for waste diversion and recycling promulgated by the Maryland Legislature. The county's rural setting on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay also poses several unique challenges to providing modern solid waste management and recycling services. GEOSYNTEC'S SCOPE OF SERVICES State of Maryland regulations require that counties conduct a comprehensive review and update of their SWMP every ten years. In 2005, the county had not updated their SWMP since 1993; therefore, Geosyntec's first service was to develop a completely revised and updated 10-year SWMP for the period 2006-2016, which brought the county into compliance and established a roadmap for providing solid waste and recycling services. To comply with new Maryland statutes and to update information on countywide solid waste facilities and needs, Geosyntec updated the 2006-2016 SWMP on five separate occasions through 2016. These updates included adoption of a recycling program for public schools (2010), a minor update to address new requirements for recycling fluorescent lights containing mercury (2011); recycling plans for apartment buildings and condominiums (2014); an increase in the baseline recycling target under the Maryland Recycling Act from 20% to 35% (2014); and a plan to require recycling at special events held on county-owned land (2015). For each update, Geosyntec incorporated steps for the county to monitor and report compliance and provided advice on the costs of providing additional services. We also coordinated meetings and hearings to inform the public of upcoming changes and solicit input and ideas on proposed changes to the SWMP. We also liased with the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) to streamline the adoption and approval process. Subsequently, Geosyntec was awarded the contract to completely revise the SWMP to cover the 10-year period from 2017-2026, work on which started in September 2016 and was approved by MDE in December 2017. NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS In the face of difficult budgetary and time constraints, Geosyntec has helped the county avoid closure of their disposal assets or being forced into privatization by focusing capital expenditure on creation of revenue-generating operations while still meeting their regulatory obligations. Now, more than 12 years since first providing our services, the county is in a strong financial position with regard to its solid waste services, is fully in compliance, and is well-placed to provide cost-effective solid waste management as a public service to county residents and businesses for the long-term future. We have remained the county's go-to provider of dependable planning and advisory services through this period, which has included reporting to four successive Directors of Public Works and two county Managers.


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After-Action Report: Learning From Baltimore's Response to Riots
July 1, 2015 Leischen Stelter
Protests in modern society are very different from even a decade ago. Emergency planners and public safety leaders must understand that protests are not always locally driven and they must take an interpretative role to assess and protect protesters who have legitimate concerns from those with intent to insight riots. Striking this balance, as evidenced by the Baltimore riots, is not an easy task.
Read more about the June meeting of the Baltimore City Local Emergency Planning Committee, who met for the first time following the riots and civil unrest. Learn more about the chain of events that led up to the riots, which damaged or destroyed more than 300 stores, and the lessons learned from the city's unified response to this widespread civil unrest.
Strong Community Relations Among the Lessons of Ferguson
August 18, 2014 Leischen Stelter
By Leischen Stelter, American Military University
As tension and violence continued to escalate this past weekend in Ferguson, Missouri, there remains intense scrutiny about the response by police. Some vocal critics, like Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, accuse the department of being heavy-handed by using tear gas and other crowd disbursement techniques on peaceful protestors.
Commander During 2011 Oslo Attacks Discusses Response, Gives Lessons Learned
July 30, 2014 Leischen Stelter
One of the premier presentations at the 4th Annual Mid-Atlantic INLETS: Violent Crimes & Terrorism Trends seminar came from Anders Snortheimsmoen, commander of the Delta Norga, Oslo Police Distrik in Norway during two sequential lone-wolf attacks in 2011. Anders' presentation focused on the importance of preparedness and lessons learned after these attacks.
From Firefighter to Administrator: What It's Like to Work Upstairs
By James McLaughlin
My promotion to assistant chief was effective the day after Veterans Day in November 2013. Over that holiday weekend, my wife and I went to my new office to set up for my first day. I used the back stairwell to go upstairs in a station where I had served downstairs for more than six years as a young captain and then battalion chief.
Intelligence Solutions Involved in the Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing
April 25, 2014 Leischen Stelter
By Richard Pera, Dean of the School of Security and Global Studies at American Military University
Looking back on the 2013 Boston Marathon event is painful for many: Two pressure-cooker bombs were detonated near the finish line, killing three and injuring 264. Americans were shocked yet again as Muslim extremists—in this case the two foreign-born, Americanized Tsarnaev brothers from suburban Boston—committed an unspeakable act of terror against innocent civilians during an event which coincided with "Patriot's Day," commemoration of the start of the American Revolutionary War in nearby Lexington and Concord.
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Researchers say the world's acidifying oceans threaten the survival of phytoplankton, microscopic organisms that support nearly all marine life.
Imagine if climate change wiped out humans' main source of food on land. That's what's happening in the world's oceans as they absorb increasing amounts of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Growing acidification threatens to kill off whole species of phytoplankton, microscopic ocean plants that support nearly all marine life, according to a new study.
So, Why Should You Care? Phytoplankton live near the ocean's surface and are the fundamental building blocks for the entire marine food chain, including dolphins, seals, and polar bears. Many species of whales, shrimp, snails, and jellyfish depend directly on the plankton for survival.
"Phytoplankton are really important in many ways," Dutkiewicz said. "They're the base of the food web, so anytime you eat anything that comes out of the ocean, whether it's a fish or a lobster, it ate something that ate something" that ate phytoplankton.
Consider this: These tiny plants not only feed the oceans but help the world to breathe.
Oceans around the world absorb up to 30 percent of human-generated carbon dioxide, according to the study. As CO2 levels increased over the past 100 years, so did ocean acidity. According to the MIT researchers, average ocean pH has fallen from 8.2 in preindustrial times to 8.1 today, and it could reach 7.8 by 2100. Lower pH means higher acidity.
Phytoplankton that can survive or even thrive in more acidic water will have an increasing competitive advantage over those that cannot, said Dutkiewicz.
Dutkiewicz and her team reviewed data from 154 experiments in 49 studies on how individual phytoplankton species survived at lower pH levels. They then plugged those findings into a global ocean circulation model to determine how various species would compete with one another as water acidity rises.
"Some increased growth, and some died out," Dutkiewicz said, adding that certain marine species feed only on certain phytoplankton and would be severely affected if those communities disappeared.
An overabundance of acid-resistant phytoplankton, meanwhile, could have its own serious consequences, though that question was beyond the scope of the study, Dutkiewicz said.
Ingrid Biedron, a marine scientist at the nonprofit group Oceana, said individuals can help save the oceans.


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Impact of the Ethereum (London) update and the "Triple Halving"
September 13, 2021 0Comments by Mercury Cash
After the announcement of the EIP-1559 or London update of Ethereum, many users wonder about these improvements' impact on the platform. Some experts point out that this update could generate a "deflationary pressure" on Ethereum, something similar to what happens with Bitcoin every four years after a halving, where miners' reward is reduced to 50%.
1 What is deflation?
2 Operation before and after the update
3 What does the triple halving of Ethereum mean?
4 Effects in the medium and long term
What is deflation?
Deflation, or negative inflation, is a term used in economics to describe a general decline in the prices of goods and services (over a relatively long period) generated by a decrease in demand and an excess in supply.
Operation before and after the update
Improvement proposal EIP-1559 (London) aims to change how transaction fees (gas fee) are calculated. Before this update, users made offers indicating how much they were willing to pay for the miner to process the Ether transaction, which was sometimes expensive; however, under the new EIP-1559 scheme, this process is handled through An automated bidding system, with a fixed fee that fluctuates according to the level of congestion on the network, this solution is beneficial for occasional Ethereum users, as it generates lower costs and makes the protocol or system "less intimidating" when you first use it.
With the new update, the user who makes a transaction on the Ethereum blockchain will pay a base fee "burned" or "taken out of circulation" instead of going to the miners. The term "burned or burned" means that the cryptocurrencies will be taken out of circulation and sent to an address (of which no one has the key). The reduction in the supply of Ethereum puts a "deflationary pressure" on the network. Although new coins continue to be created with each new block, some ETH disappears as well. In theory, "deflationary pressure" will push prices up because supply growth slows.
With this improvement, the supply of ETH would not be reduced but would be putting "out of circulation," which generates a process similar to the halving of Bitcoin that occurs every four years, in which miners receive 50% less reward in exchange for processing transactions on the network.
What does the triple halving of Ethereum mean?
Many people are using the term "triple halving" to describe the three changes of Etherum that will occur in a short period, which can have similar effects to the individual halving of Bitcoin; the main changes would be the EIP-1559 update, Ethereum 2.0, and the transition to proof of stake (PoS or Proof of Stake).
Effects in the medium and long term
Each time there is a "burn" of a part of the tariff, there will be fewer Ethers available, which will cause an upward pressure in the price (if demand increases). The developers believe that the effects of London and EIP-1559 will be seen more in the medium and long term rather than the short term. Suppose we add to this the impact of the proof of work protocol (PoW or Proof of Work) to proof of stake (PoS or Proof of Stake) planned for the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022. In that case, these effects may be more notable and be the moment when all these efforts are reflected in the Ethereum network.
What do you think about this topic? What do you think the impact of this Ethereum update will be?
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Epic Zero: Tales of a Not-So-Super 6th Grader (Volume 1)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets the Incredibles in book one of this hilarious, action-packed series. Extraordinary family. Ordinary kid … 12-year-old Elliott Harkness wants nothing more than to join his family as part of the Freedom Force, the world's greatest superhero team. There's only one problem, he's a "Zero," that's super-speak for powerless. Frequently
Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets the Incredibles in book one of this hilarious, action-packed series.
Extraordinary family. Ordinary kid …
12-year-old Elliott Harkness wants nothing more than to join his family as part of the Freedom Force, the world's greatest superhero team. There's only one problem, he's a "Zero," that's super-speak for powerless. Frequently abandoned by his crime-fighting family, teased by his older super-sister, and picked on at school, Elliott is miserably ordinary in his heroically extraordinary family.
All of that changes when a mysterious new girl comes to town. She believes Elliott is far from ordinary. In fact, she thinks Elliott is the only one capable of capturing a powerful, other-worldly orb before it falls into the wrong hands. To succeed, Elliott will have to do more than just find the orb. He'll have to fend off menacing supervillains, face globe-conquering aliens, and figure out who's truly on his side. But when Elliott realizes he's the planet's last hope, will he find the power within himself to be the epic hero he's always wanted to be? Or, will he always be just an Epic Zero?
Join thousands of readers who leaped into action with Epic Zero: Tales of a Not-So-Super 6th Grader, the first book in a hilarious, action-packed superhero adventure series perfect for children aged 9-12, middle grade readers, and the young at heart. Epic Zero includes 16 illustrated character profiles and a full glossary of superpowers.
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Tag: east London
Life after 2012
Posted on July 26, 2013 by dekanapajee in sport, Uncategorized
It's a year since I experienced one of the greatest days of my life and performed at the London 2012 Ceremonies.
I vividly remember every detail, from the months and months of dance preparation to the first moment my fellow volunteers and myself walked into the stadium surrounded by a thousands of excited spectators!
(My wonderful ceremonies costume lol)
The weeks of training culminated in just 15 minutes of performance time!
And boy what a performance – if I don't say so myself 🙂
I never could have imagined that little old me would be dancing away in front of her Royal Highness, 007 and almost 2 billion TV viewers!
And after the performance there was the after-party! The least said about that the better, but from all accounts it was brilliant!! 🙂
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FFkqZhXkID0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFFkqZhXkID0
As for my working relationship with the London 2012 Games, I'd been living with them since the capital won the bid back in 2005. Working for BBC London, I facilitated the production of community stories for TV and radio, presented a series where I competed alongside olympic and paralympic athletes, managed online radio stations, gave a speech on the Olympic Spirit for TedXYouth and also managed a directing credit alongside legend, Jon Plowman on BBC's comedy series, Twenty Twelve – so all in all a pretty amazing seven years!
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(That's me preparing for my TedXYouth speech)
So 12 months on and and what now? Well for me I bid farewell to the BBC at the end of last year after 10 years of what I consider a good career! After some much needed time away, I'm finally ready to move forward and carve out a new career (hopefully in the media) Any offers of work will now be looked on seriously 😉
As for east London, it's been difficult to see where exactly the Games have really made a significant impact. Yes there's a stadium and new Queen Elisabeth park, but neither is open to the public yet. (Just over six hours to go when writing this) Westfield's Stratford city shopping centre seems to be the only clear winner at the moment.
Yes we've had the odd festival in the park, but they really could have been anywhere…
Housing is one of the legacy (not sure I still like that word) plans that I think everyone is eagerly anticipating, but from the little news that's been released into the public domain it would appear that any benefits for working Londoners is some way off!
http://m.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jul/21/london-2012-olympics-architecture-legacy
As for athletics, it was a great Games – both the Olympics and Paralympics truly inspired generations, but with news stories of funding cuts every other month, it's hard to believe Team GB or Paralympics GB will have a similar medal haul in any future Games without a reconsideration of how grass root and elite sport is funded. But we wait and see.
I'm just touching on a few of the issues that are lingering about at the moment. No doubt that these will all be forgotten as we relive the glory this weekend with the British Athletics Sainsbury's Anniversary Games. I guess the real future can wait for two more days as we enjoy the likes of Usain Bolt and Jessica Ennis-Hill on our screens again!
(Carrying the Ukrainian flag at the Paralympics closing ceremony)
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The Legal Framework of Russia and the WTO
By Vladimir Tchikine
Vladimir Tchikine
Partner, Customs and Foreign Trade
Goltsblat BLP
It is extremely difficult to say anything definitive at this stage about the legal consequences for Russia of joining the WTO, yet, analyzing the legal framework of Russia and the WTO, the following might be assumed. All WTO member countries assume the obligation to fulfil the main treaties and legal documents of the organization. So, from the legal point of view, the WTO system constitutes a sort of multilateral contract (set of agreements), the norms and rules of which regulate most of all world trade in goods and services. As for the changes in Russia's legal sphere, initially certain changes will have to be made in the application of the customs rules. A number of changes will be entailed by the WTO condition on equalizing internal and world prices for fuel, electric power and transport — true, this will not happen immediately.
Russian law enforcement practice and rules will have to be aligned with the WTO rules in the sphere of customs valuation of goods, which can only be welcomed. For instance, the Russian legislation contains no precise solution to the problem of including interest payments to the customs value of imported goods, whereas the WTO does (VAL/6/Rev.1 October 1, 1984). Again, a Russian importer related to the seller is more restricted in proving absence of impact of their relationship on the transaction value of imported goods during customs clearance than such an importer is from a WTO member country (for details, see Article 1(2)(b) and Interpretative Note to Article 1(2)(b) of the WTO Valuation Agreement), the reason for this restriction being absence in the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of Jan. 25, 2008, "On determination of the customs value of goods moved across the border of the Customs Union" — Customs Union Valuation Agreement — of a rule corresponding to that established by Interpretative Note 3 to Article 1(2)(b) of the WTO Valuation Agreement (GATT 1994). Exactly speaking, this proof is not available to Russian importers in the course of the customs clearance and/or post-control: "As a further example, where it is shown that the price is adequate to ensure recovery of all costs plus a profit which is representative of the firm's overall profit realized over a representative period of time (e.g. on an annual basis) in sales of goods of the same class or kind, this would demonstrate that the price had not been influenced." (The last sentence of Interpretative rule 3 to Article 1(2)(b).) True, it should be noted that, in litigation, the importer of record and/or its representative are not bound by the proofs stipulated [by the Russian Law on Customs Tariffs and] the Customs Union Valuation Agreement; moreover, the burden of proof is transferred from the importer or record or its representative to the customs in a court of law, though I am not speaking here about courts but about freedom of trade. Yet what freedom of trade can there be if, quite often, the only way to prove oneself right is through the courts?
More examples can be given but the conclusion is likely to be the same: the legislation of the WTO contains answers that cannot at the moment be found in Russian or Customs Union laws, which is precisely why, I hope, Russia joining the WTO will allow some problem foreign trade issues to be effectively resolved.
In general, the main goal of the WTO is to ensure freedom of trade. This is achieved "by means of the stronger and clearer legal framework resulting from the Uruguay Round for the conduct of international trade, including a more effective and reliable dispute settlement mechanism" (Clause 1 of the Marrakech Declaration). Accordingly, Russia, by assuming obligations within the WTO framework and ratifying the above-mentioned Uruguay Round Agreements, will become a full-fledged member of the WTO (which should happen no later than July 17, 2012, subject to the vote of the Ministerial Conference on Dec. 15 to 17, 2011, and further ratification at Russian national level). At the same time, the WTO will also acquire the right to influence national legislative acts concerning, in particular, protection of the environment and social standards, or decisions taken at the national level with respect to international trade matters settled during the talks on Russian joining the WTO. Russia thus relinquishes to the WTO part of its legislative sovereignty. At the same time, in the event of infringement of its rights on the part of any member of the organization, Russia will be able to file a relevant appeal to the WTO Dispute Settlement Body, the decisions of which are binding on each WTO member at the national level. Such right to appeal is enjoyed only by WTO members represented by their governments. According to the Russian Federal Constitutional Law "On the Government of the Russian Federation," the government takes measures to protect the interests of domestic manufacturers of goods and providers of work and services. So, after Russia joins the WTO, the Russian government will obtain a legal opportunity to protect the domestic manufacturer (whatever this expression might mean as there is no legal definition of it) in the international arena in accordance with the WTO Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes. And this, perhaps, is the most important advantage of Russia joining the WTO.


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I remember my dad teaching me this technique back when I was a kid learning how to play bowling. "Follow through" is the act of guiding your actions to completion. In bowling, it is the gesture or movement of your arm and hand moving towards the target long after the ball has left you, seemingly leading the object to its intended target.
Remember when Michael Jordan made that last game-winning shot against the Utah Jazz? How his hand was still up in the air as the ball was flying to meet the basket? Follow through.
As I grew up, I learned that the act of following through is a very important part in all aspects of life as well as the successes of our endeavors.
Even now, I am reminded of this once again with all the relief efforts that have been poured into the Visayas region due to the devastation brought about by Super typhoon Yolanda back in November 8. Though this tragic event brought out the Filipino bayanihan spirit in in all of us, we shouldn't forget that helping doesn't only come in the form of relief. Providing relief assistance to millions of people who were left homeless, jobless and hungry is merely the first of many phases and most certainly does not determine the success of all our concerted efforts.
Congratulations to the first ever winner of the "Chuckie Giveaway" (#chuckiegiveaway), Ma. Prescilla C. Ubaldo (@ellaubaldo), who won an awesome Globe Tattoo 4G Prepaid Broadband Player Stick.
Here is a video of me meeting up with Ella (that's her nick name!) in Makati City so I could personally hand over the prize to her.


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Interview: bartender Jason Bran (The Roger Room)
Bartenders & Mixologists
By Joshua Lurie
Jason Bran appeared with Hello Kitty at Test Kitchen, but works at The Roger Room.
When I met bartender Jason Bran, he was behind the bar at Test Kitchen, prepping Hello Kitty cutouts to accompany a Japanese whisky cocktail that he planned to serve during Haru Kishi's guest chef appearance. In one sense, the Seattle native had come full circle, since one of his first bartending jobs was at Umi, a Japanese restaurant that still serves a number of the cocktails from his opening list. He moved to Los Angeles in 2006 and worked at venues like STK and XIV before settling in at The Roger Room. He's still there on a regular basis, but took a two-night departure at the Beverlywood pop-up, which is where he shared insights about his background and approach.
Hello Kitty?
Of course the theme is Japanese and French, so this is just going over a green tea whiskey sour that I made, with matcha syrup.
Is that the most recent cocktail you developed?
Yeah, all these are cocktails I developed just for this particular night. I'm always working on some level to do something, but it's cool when you get a theme to work under, or some sort of idea…In a lot of Japanese places, you don't see those ingredients in the cocktails, so I wanted to take the opportunity to show people something different. In this case, it's French spirits, traditional cocktails, and Japanese ingredients integrated with American cocktail technique.
Describe one drink, and your approach.
For the whisky sour, I just wanted to do something different. Damian Windsor does something like this at The Roger Room. He uses maple syrup on the Japanese Maple, with Japanese whisky. I just felt like matcha green tea goes with whisky really well, so I just made a syrup out of it and then decided to do a sour with it. And of course it gets a Hello Kitty hat on top.
For the Shiso 75, I infused shiso into Plymouth gin, then just lemon and champagne. I think that's really awesome. I'm always happy when you can clearly identify the ingredients, or even both. You get the gin at the start and the shiso at the end. It's very layered flavor, and I'm delighted with the way it worked out.
What brought you to L.A.?
Seattle's small. There's only so much you can do in Seattle.
You were already bartending up there?
Yeah. I bartended in a nightclub that was also doing fresh fruit and cocktails at volume. I've had the fortune – I would go to the Zig Zag Café and sit at the bar and stare and watch Murray [Stenson] work and learn so much. I would just sit there and taste spirits and try a bunch of cocktails. I got really into it when I first started bartending.
What was the name of the club?
The first place I worked was called Bada Lounge. I was barbacking there and started bartending. The owners tore it down and decided to open a sushi restaurant, Umi. I wrote the cocktail menu for Umi about four years ago, and it's still relatively intact, as far as what we opened with. It's great because I got to do a regular cocktail menu and a cocktail menu with Japanese ingredients, using things I thought were fun and interesting, that I'd never seen in cocktails before. We also did a menu with sake too. It's a sake place, so I helped on the sake list and we did sake cocktails. I hate the idea of saketinis, but I'm really happy with the balance I found in the end. I was using fresh, natural flavors. It was just something like cucumber, with sakes that go well with that. A light cucumber note in addition to the notes of the sake. I'm really happy with that menu. I'm happy it's still there.
Where did you go to school?
University of Washington.
What did you major in?
Business Administration, with a concentration in Finance.
Do you feel like that helps you at all in what you're doing?
No, for me, in college, I started bartending because I needed to make money on a full-time basis. I was paying for my own tuition. I was working full-time and just couldn't do that anymore, so I got a great opportunity to start bartending. I took it. It feels like a good fit for me. I appreciate the craft and feel passionate about making good drinks and doing a good job. I've never touted myself as the best mixologist. I've never wanted to be known as the best mixologist. I'm not one to make amazing, life-changing cocktails…My passion is about the execution, the techniques, making sure the techniques are good, getting drinks quickly, not having people wait forever for something that's delicious, and of course proper craftsmanship.
People being able to balance drinks, I feel like that's one of the things that has always been an issue for me since I moved to L.A. Like Ryan Magarian did a lot of training for SBE, and everything is jigger, jigger, jigger. I'm very anti-jigger. I use it occasionally and believe in it as a tool, but 90% of the time, I watch people jigger and they're jiggering incorrectly anyway. It just doesn't prove anything to me. If you go to Zig Zag Café, with somebody like Murray…Have you been there?
No, but I've heard that he doesn't use jiggers.
No, he'll just pour a bottle like this…whoop. But that to me, that's mastery. That shows me that he knows exactly what he's doing. I've never gotten a cocktail from him that was unbalanced or terrible or any of that. He's just amazingly proficient and he knows it like the back of his hand, as he should. He's been doing it for so long. If you jigger, it's kind of like a crutch. Eventually, there's a time and a place for it, but if you don't ever expand outside of that world, really you're just somebody who doesn't know what you're doing.
If you're not the best mixologist, are you even a mixologist?
I prefer to not be referenced as a mixologist, but I never fight it. I'm pretty passive about it. Same thing as if you walk into a bar and ask for a vodka tonic and they don't even carry vodka. I'd rather not fight the fight sometimes. People have their tastes and their references. Some people are open to changing their mind. Other people are set in their ways. I try to be passive with that. If somebody bills me as that, there are times when I focus on it and say, "I don't want to be called a mixologist. I prefer to be called bartender." I respect people who are mixologists, but I kind of see it as two camps, too. Mixologists are the guys who take a long time. Bartenders are the guys who can still do the work and just bang it out, get it done for you, make it look effortless and still be efficient at the same time and still focus on what they're doing. You're still going to get a great cocktail.
Did you become interested in cocktails or spirits first?
I think it was cocktails. Cocktails led me to spirits.
Do you have a first cocktail memory?
Yes. Again, Zig Zag Café. Seeing the cocktail menu there was just amazing. I remember going crazy with it. The Last Word was definitely in there, but the one to me that really changed the way I felt about it was the Tailspin. Just seeing how amazing it could be to just take spirit and stir it and how amazing that could be. Of course there were a lot of Old Fashioneds around. Of course that was a good drink, but I was into gin a lot, so it really opened my eyes to just how much a spirit could be really dynamic. It opened that door to my appreciation of spirits.
The biggest thing for me was sake. When I started learning about sake and learning how generations of families spent their lives crafting one particular spirit. That's pretty amazing when you think about that. They have that much passion. They believe in it so strongly. Then I would see that most people here don't know anything about sake.
One of my first jobs here, I opened, with Steven Arroyo, a little sake and izakaya restaurant, [Happi Songs]. I had an awesome sake menu. It was successful, really well thought out, really well selected. It took me a long time to find the sakes, but nobody cared about it. Everybody just wanted hot sake and sake bombs. It made me want to cry.
Where did you go from Happi Songs?
I went back to bartending. I went over to STK and opened that bar. It didn't work out. I've been known to be pretty particular about the programs that I choose to associate myself with. At that time, I just needed a job. I worked over at XIV, which was great because I got to work with some of the Michael Mina people, like Noah Ellis, who is incredible. Being able to work with him and Jordan [Kahn] and to be able to just talk about different ideas I had and theories, just brainstorming. You could sit down and just eat with those guys or drink with those guys and come up with tons of ideas and try to put those into execution. I really enjoyed working with them, but the cocktail program, along with the food program at XIV, didn't seem to take precedence. It just didn't feel like a good fit, and I got the opportunity to go work with Damian [Windsor] at The Roger Room. I was like, "I'm never looking back." I think The Roger Room will be where I retire. That will be like the last bar I work at. It's a great program. I've got great co-workers. To work with Damian is great. I spend three nights a week there.
When I first moved here, there were a lot of mixologists that I met, that I didn't necessarily get along with. I don't know if "not get along with" is the right term. I just didn't identify with them. Joe Brooke is one of those guys I can sit down and hang out with. Damian Windsor has always been one of those guys. From the moment I met him, he was not trying to push himself as being the best guy in town. I say this stuff, and I hope it's not taken out of context, but it's this really weird thing in our industry. There are so many great people, a limited amount of spotlight, and intense competition. People get competitive over something that's not that important. At the end of the day, if we all work together and we all are friends with each other, the better the chances of people turning their attention towards what we do, that we're all professionals, and getting more appreciation from the people who sit at our bars. I've never been competitive like that.
Who are some of the other bartenders that you really respect, either in town or not?
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Minister Khaw: News of the defective trains could have caused undue panic
The Online Citizen 2016-07-13 Current Affairs
Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan has declared that the news of the trains could have caused undue panic during a briefing at the Bishan Depot on Tuesday (July 12).
The Transport Minister broke his week-long silence at the briefing, in an attempt to assure the public through the media that the issue of defective trains from China has been dealt with professionally, and with full public interest in mind after declining to comment on the news for a week.
Mr Khaw said that going public for something that was "not a major event" might have caused unnecessary panic to the layman, noting that to engineers, not all cracks are the same.
Mr Khaw was also reported to have said, "If all cracks are have to be reported when they do not cause any of those safety issues then they have to think about what is the impact on the ground," said Mr Khaw. "Looking back I think it's understandable. We learn as we go along, sometimes even routine matters can be spun out of control as it happened in this case".
He added that if there was a safety issue, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) would have gone public with the information.
Mr Khaw was reported to have said, "I think if it was a safety issue, LTA – I'm quite sure will – in consultation with MOT (Ministry of Transport) – will decide to go public immediately," and added that if returning the trains would have affected capacity, MOT and LTA would have gone public to explain why.
LTA Deputy Chief Executive (Infrastructure and Development) Chua Chong Kheng supported Mr Khaw's comment by saying that any time LTA considers a train a safety threat, it would "never allow the train to go into service".
Mr Khaw said that even if there were no safety concerns, should rectification works require many trains to be taken away, his ministry and LTA will still explain why they will have to reduce capacity of the rail system.
"So if the rectification requires us to take away too many trains … I'm quite sure MOT together with LTA would have also decided even though it's not a safety issue, because it will affect availability of trains, I'm sure they will go public and explain why, we will now have to slow down on our program of increasing the capacity," said Mr Khaw.
The briefing is in response to the reports by FactWire News Agency, a watchdog news organization based in Hong Kong, on 35 train carriages that belongs to local train operator, SMRT Trains Ltd (SMRT) being "secretly" shipped back to its manufacturer on 12 June due to alleged existing defects.
There had been no information prior to the report by FactWire that there had been defects with the trains being purchased by LTA for S$368 million and many had criticised and questioned the decision to keep the public in dark over this matter.
The Workers' Party has since filed parliament questions on the matter and will be brought up in the next Parliament sitting.


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Hace unas semanas la agencia de publicidad en Madrid Perfect Pixel Publicidad fue la encargada de cubrir con fotografía y vídeo el octavo aniversario de uno de los centros referencia en Europa – Fitness Sports Valle de las Cañas. El evento con más de 11 horas de ejercicio al aire libre y con competiciones como CrossFit, natación, flexibilidad, resistencia y muchos premios y sorteos. El merchandising oficial del evento también nos fue encargado (visita esta página si estás interesado) y ha sido producida y diseñada por Perfect Pixel. La forma de fidelizar a los clientes en los centros deportivos y gimnasios está cambiando de forma vertiginosa y Perfect Pixel forma parte de ese cambio. Revolucionando las campañas de captación y retención.
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Torture, the State, and Sexual Violence against Men in Colonial India
Deana Heath
Radical History Review (1 October 2016) 2016 (126): 122–133.
...Deana Heath This article broadens the analysis of gendered violence in colonial India by focusing on sexual violence against men. Rather than seeking to "recover" the "submerged" history of sexual violence against men, I interrogate the traces of such violence in the colonial archive to consider...
Blinded by Bandung?: Illumining West Papua, Senegal, and the Black Pacific
Quito Swan
Radical History Review (1 May 2018) 2018 (131): 58–81.
... world. In 1975, they established an office in Senegal, arguing that Melanesia and Africa shared a common destiny. Senegal's Leopold Senghor facilitated this move as an act of Negritude . West Papuan activists argued that some Africana leaders refused to denounce Indonesia's colonial violence because...
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... arc of cultural memory in relation to colonial and state violence. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 memory indigeneity Mapuche visuality colonial violence experimental video Chile ecology FORUM: DECOLONIZING MAPUCHE HISTORY AND ACTION Mapuche...
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Jorge Ramirez
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... complexities of Bolivia's Indigenous state that has called for decolonization and emphasized indigeneity. By bringing these four books together, the review demonstrates that indigeneity has been a site of struggle shaped by capitalism, violence, and militarism alongside settler colonialism in the western...
Forming Responsible Trade Unions: The Colonial Office, Colonial labor, and the Trades Union Congress
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Lisa Arellano, Erica L. Ball, Amanda Frisken
Radical History Review (1 October 2016) 2016 (126): 1–10.
... overlooked, and/or what can be read in a more critical light. In the process, they caution scholars of the inherent unreliability and instability of existing documentation of violence and the need for greater attention to and intentionality in their compilation. Reading case files from colonial...
The Violence of Diaspora: Governmentality, Class Cultures, and Circulations
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... communities of African descent in the United States and the British West Indies at particular moments, and I show that these links became the basis for a culturalist discursive framework applied first to black family formation and more recently to violence. This discursive framework limits our ability to...
The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: Conference Report
Elizabeth Heineman
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...Elizabeth Heineman Since the Rwandan genocide and the wars of Yugoslav disintegration in the early 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received considerable media attention. Thanks to international feminist organizing, international organizations have recognized it as a human-rights...
Boko Haram, Refugee Mimesis, and the Archive of Contemporary Gender-Based Violence
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...Benjamin N. Lawrance Lawrance explores asylum-seeking as an emergent archival form to highlight how the strategies shaping asylum claiming conceal a potentially rich archive of gender-based violence. Asylum seekers today face ever greater obstacles entering western migration fortresses. Protection...
The Violence of Assimilation: An Interview with Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
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...Jason Ruiz MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2008 Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Photo by Jeffery Walls, courtesy of Mattilda INTERVIEW The Violence of Assimilation: An Interview with Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore Jason Ruiz The writer and...
Protecting the Prestige of the Traditional Family: The Politics of Domestic Violence Discourse
Raphael Ginsberg
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... Structures in Battered Women, 425. 14. Leghorn, "Response," 459. 15. Battered Women, II. 16. Martin, "Overview," 10. 17. Monica Erler, "Response," in Battered Women, 113. 18. Elizabeth Pleck, Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial...
Social Violence, Political Conflict, and Latin American Film: The Politics of Place in the "Cinema of Allende"
Camilo D. Trumper
... everyday experience was politicized, and paying special attention to the political struggle played out in city streets, these filmmakers were able to explore the relationship between political change, social inequality, and everyday and state violence. These films are, in short, important documents for the...
The Colonial Casbah on the Silver Screen: Using Pépé le Moko and The Battle of Algiers to Teach Colonialism, Race, and Globalization in French History
Michael G. Vann
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... development of violence as a political tool, many American students gain a much firmer understanding of colonialism's role in shaping contemporary conflicts. Despite the sharp contrasts between the two films I show, they share an essential similarity...
"History Will One Day Have Its Say": New Perspectives on Colonial and Postcolonial Congo
Yaël Simpson Fletcher
Radical History Review (1 October 2002) 2002 (84): 195–207.
... exposure of the dark underside of European civilization is hardly new. The links between racism, colonial violence, and Nazi extermination form a key theme in Martinican poet and politician Aimé Césaire's eloquent call for anticolonial revolt, first published...
Finance and Foreclosure in the Colonial Present
Alyosha Goldstein
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.... At the very moment when the neoliberal fantasy of market-based salvation defaults and the Keynesian model of regulatory remediation appears equally untenable, the foundational violence, territorial seizure, and social obliteration upon which settler colonial expansion has been based once...
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Colonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies
Suman Seth
...Suman Seth It was once not uncommon for histories of colonial science and medicine to draw on postcolonial theory. Today one finds many fewer such histories, despite the growing popularity of postcolonial science studies. This essay seeks to understand why and to make the case for expanding...
Devotion, Domination, and the Work of Fantasy in Colonial Peru
Rachel Sarah O'Toole
... the assumptions of her interrogators and colonial Latin American sociolegal expectations that honorable white women and girls, by definition, did not consent to assault.117 Benites was caught in a web of honor, violence, and sex. Only women who successfully resisted sexual assault could maintain...
Recapturing Jane Eyre : Reflections on Historicizing the Colonial Encounter in Victorian Britain
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Radical History Review (1 January 1996) 1996 (64): 58–72.
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At the turn of the century, world leaders and the international community adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, uniting around a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty by 2015. Among other actions, the Declaration committed "developing" countries to eight ambitious Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focused on areas that had what they determined was the greatest potential to make significant progress toward achieving the overarching objective.
The United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted in 2015 and set goals for 2030, marked another bold leap forward in the fight to address poverty and protect the planet. These goals apply to all countries equally and focus more deeply than the MDGs on the root causes that hinder or prevent sustainable progress. We know from past experience that to be most effective, SDG solutions will need to be collaborative, holistic, and contextualized to specific countries, geographies, cultures, and social norms.
As Canada begins to set its own national goals and to contribute more broadly to the global SDGs, the country is at an interesting point in its own development.
In the next 20 years, Canada's demographic makeup will change significantly. By 2036, Statistics Canada, the country's national statistical agency, forecasts that 30 percent of all residents will have been born outside of the country. Canada's urban centers will also become larger, younger, and more diverse, with an increasing mix of visible minorities, Indigenous people, and newcomers. These shifts are not isolated but rather reflective of a more globalized world that is changing at a rapid pace.
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The partnership between Ophir and the UK's BG made its third gas discovery with consecutive wells.
Chaza-1 found a high quality gas-bearing reservoir, Ophir said. The well was drilled 18 kilometres off the southern part of the coast in Block 1, in water 952m deep, while the two earlier wells, Pweza-1 and Chewa-1, were drilled in Block 4,200km to the north.
The drilling campaign was carried out by the new Deepsea Stavanger semi-submersible, which was completed last summer and entered service for Ophir in September. The rig, owned by Norway's Odfjell Drilling, is a dynamically-positioned harsh-environment unit, capable of drilling in 3,000m of water.


Amway has been listed as one of China's top consumer brands in the inaugural CLSA China Brands index. Of all brands, Amway was ranked 72nd, outranking companies such as Nestle (75), Apple (77), Panasonic (83), Toshiba (84), and Whirlpool (96).
Amway was listed within the skincare category, where it ranked 3rd after mass market brands OLay and L'Oreal.
This recognition follows only a short time after Amway was ranked one of Korea's favourite foreign companies.
I gave Amway Scandinavia a bit of a slam the other day for some of their partner store pricing and it provoked some interesting comments. What seems clear is some markets seem to do a good job of setting up good deals for ABOs, others are not so good at it. I'm curious as to how these deals are setup and who is consulted. My feeling is if it's not obviously a good deal when a new ABO or prospect looks at it, then the deal shouldn't be done at all. It matters – I'm sure I'm not alone amongst ABOs in having had prospects return waving printouts of supposed "price comparisons" done by anti-Amway zealots and claiming the whole thing was a rip-off. I'm fundamentally lazy – why make Amway harder than it has to be?


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FAO Sees Another Record Rice Harvest In China
Another bumper rice harvest is forecast for China this year, with the crop increasing 0.6% from last year's record. The photograph above shows early rice being planted in Guangxi–and a reminder that it is still back-breaking work. Meanwhile, imports are expected to rise and exports to continue their decline of recent years as the country rebuilds its stockpile of reserves.
In its latest world rice outlook, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts the 2012 harvest will come in at 202 million tonnes of paddy (138.4 million tonnes of milled rice), up from 2011's official forecast of 200.8 million tones of paddy (137.5 million tones of milled rice), which was a 3% increase on 2010's harvest. The FAO's optimism follows concerns that the persistent drought the southwest was threatening this year's harvest.
The slowing rate of expansion of the harvest, the FAO says, "reflects rising costs of fuel and other inputs, which would dampen the positive effect of a 9%-18% increase in support prices." As we have previously noted, China may be bumping up against the ceiling of its rice producing capacity. Beijing is directing more than four-fifths of its agricultural support budget of 1.2 trillion yuan ($190 billion) for this year to grain farmers (who include wheat and maize growers) to sustain the record levels of grain output and increase rural incomes.
Regardless of the bumper 2011 harvest, rice exports are expected to fall from 2011's 516,000 tones to 400,000 tonnes this year (see chart). This reflects officials responding to domestic price inflation, particularly politically sensitive food price rises, by curbing sales abroad to restock domestic reserves. In addition, exports of China's lower quality Indica rice are becoming less competitive, particularly in its African markets, where it is anyway looking to supply locally. For example, Chinese farmers will start growing rice on 25,000 hectares in northern Sierra Leone this year.
Imports are likely to rise. High domestic prices and supply shortfalls in drought-stricken southern provinces prompted large purchases by Chinese buyers, mostly from Pakistan and Vietnam, the FAO says. This has caused it to raise its 2012 import forecast from the 600,000 tones it had expected in January to 1 million tonnes. The FAO predicts that end-of-season stocks this year will rise to 83.1 million tonnes, up from last year's 75.4 million tonnes.
Filed under Agriculture
Tagged as China, drought, FAO, farming, rice
China Facing Large Jump In Cereal Imports
The latest look-ahead for China by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sees a big jump in cereal imports. The FAO's recently published Global Information and Early Warning System, GIEWS, country brief says that total cereal (barley, maize, wheat and rice) imports for the 2011/12 grain marketing year, which runs from July to June, will reach at least 9.2 million tonnes, a new record, and a 92% increase on the 2010/2011 figure. This is despite 'significant' increases in cereal production over the past few years, including another record harvest this year which saw prolonged drought conditions in several regions in the country.
The increase reflects government efforts to provide irrigation to drought-affected farmers, and higher procurement prices intended to encourage the production needed to meet rising self-sufficiency targets. Supply still struggles to keep up with demand so government will need to sustain its policy measures to stabilize domestic cereal prices, whose sharp rises over the past year have been significant contributors to consumer price inflation.
Footnote: During last winter and spring, China spent 216 billion yuan ($34 billion) on infrastructure to improve water supplies to farmland, an official with the Ministry of Water resources told the annual central conference on rural work in Beijing this week. That was a 44% increase on the same period a year earlier. Spending is expected to rise a further 10% to 258 billion yuan during this winter and the coming spring as the push to sustain agricultural production is maintained.
Tagged as barley, cereals, China, food, food imports, irrigation, maize, rice, wheat
Despite First Snows, Drought Outlook Worsens On North China Plain
The snows in Henan have spread to Beijing, with the capital getting its latest first snowfall of the season in 60 years. Snow and sleet have also been falling in Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Anhui. But it is too little too late to do much to alleviate the drought across the North China Plain that has persisted since October and is reckoned to be the most serious in six decades. Worse the official forecast is for the abnormally dry weather to continue for the foreseeable future. If it lasts into spring, as the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization has warned, the winter wheat crop due to be harvested in June will be at risk.
The North China Plain grows more than two-thirds of China's wheat. Authorities are stepping up drought relief efforts, saying they are throwing $1 billion in all at the emergency and seeking ways to increase the output of rice, which is grown mainly in the south of the country, to offset the potential decline in northern wheat production. The State Council has approved higher support prices for rice farmers, following a similar increase earlier in the week for wheat farmers. Grain prices will continue to rise making the fight against inflation even tougher. A serious failure of China's wheat crop would have marked ramifications for world commodity markets. (Update: World Bank says it expects "volatile, higher than average grain prices until at least 2015".)
To give a sense of the scale of the impact of the drought on the wheatlands of the North China Plain, acreage equivalent to half the size of South Korea has been damaged by the lack of rain fall. Meanwhile nearly 3 million people there face shortages of drinking water.
Filed under Environment
Tagged as agriculture, Beijing, China, farming, grains, North China Plain, price supports, rice, snow, wheat
Short Of Land, Hands and Water, China's Grain Harvests Face Plateau
The record grain harvest last year despite a string of natural disasters masks the challenges facing China's growers of wheat, rice and corn. A richer and growing population, urbanization and natural and man-made water shortages mean that supply is struggling to keep up with rising demand. The annual agriculture policy planning meeting last month noted that China's 2010's harvest of 546.4 million tones of grain, up 3% from the previous year, marked a seventh consecutive year of rising grain production, but also expressed concern at the vulnerability of the country's harvest, particularly the wheat harvest, increasingly concentrated on the drought-prone North China Plain.
Less trumpeted was a concern that China is reaching the the edge of its capacity to keep its grain harvests increasing. Agri-technology is still boosting fruit and vegetable yields, but grain may have already reached its limits after decades of seed and fertilizer improvement. Meanwhile grain farming remains inefficiently small scale and labour intensive, with acreage and younger farmers alike being lost to towns, exacerbating the longer-running effects of erosion, desertification and other environmental damage. Stocks and imports cover the gap with increasing demand, so there is little risk of shortages. China already imports more than 4 million tonnes of corn (mainly for animal feed) and more than 1 million tonnes of both wheat and barley a year. But being subject to world commodity markets pushes up prices, and no country likes to feel it can't be self-sufficient in food, especially when it has an increasing number of mouths to feed.
The balance between supply and demand is now so finely balanced that the government says it felt it necessary to spend 828 billion yuan ($125 billion) to boost grain production and combat natural disasters in 2010. It is impossible to break down that number in any detail, though China lost 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of crops to natural disasters, by the official count, with a further 20 million hectares of farmland damaged. To put that into context, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization estimates China to have 137 million hectares of arable land. China itself reckons 120 million hectares to be the minimum needed to maintain food security. All agree that the hectarage is moving in the direction of the smaller number, with the shrinkage of the area under grain shrinking causing most concern.
Financial incentives to farmers to raise grain output have not been effective hitherto. The Party's annual economic planning session held ahead of the farm-policy planning meeting agreed to increase subsidies further for agricultural production and steadily raise the minimum state grain purchase price this year. And there has been a crackdown of sorts on the illegal conversion of arable land to industrial use. But none of that does anything to stop water tables falling across the North China Plain, the country's bread basket. There cities and industries consume ever more water and drought has become more commonplace. Depleted aquifers and dried-up irrigation wells are leading grain farmers to turn to low-yield dry-land farming, abandon double cropping and even farming altogether.
Grain needs copious amounts of irrigation. Nationally, agriculture accounts for two-thirds of the country's water use, though it accounts for only 13% of GDP. Water conservation is to be "one of China' s major tasks in agricultural work" this year, according to the statement issued after the farm-policy meeting which laid out 2011's priorities to be to "step up research and development into water conservation projects while keeping grain supplies stable, increasing farmers' incomes and deepening rural reforms". Notably, water conservation rates mention ahead of two 0f the country's top economic policy objectives, food price controls to fight inflation and raising incomes for the 850,000 who work on farms to close the urban-rural wealth gap.
State media say the government expects to spend 200 billion yuan on water-conservation projects this year, 10% more than in 2010, with priority given to irrigation projects that improve grain output and that combat drought and floods. Over the next ten years it expects to double its current average annual investment in water-conservation infrastructure. Whether it will be enough will partly lie in the hands of nature and the extent of the damage the inevitable floods and drought will cause. Either way it looks like being a damned close run affair.
Filed under Environment, Politics & Society
Tagged as agriculture, China, corn, drought, farming, flood, grain, North China Plain, rice, water conservation, wheat
Regulators Take Aim At Commodities Speculation In Anti-Inflation Drive
With inflation hitting a two-year high in September, China's economic policymakers are taking steps where ever they can to stall the rise in prices, particularly of food and property. Securities regulators are now pushing for curbs on commodity futures trading in the hope of damping down excessive speculation (the ever-present bugaboo when commodity prices rise). The Shanghai Futures Exchange is raising its margin requirements on natural rubber contracts to 11% from 8% while the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange has already raised margins for rice, wheat, rapeseed oil and sugar to 8% from 3% or 4%. Rice and rubber futures hit record prices this week. along with those of cotton.
The new margin requirements follow the central bank's surprise rise in benchmark interest rates earlier this month, and a raft of measures over months and months to let down the property price bubble inflated by the liquidity the government pumped into the economy in the wake of the global financial crisis. We would expect central controls on commodities trading if the self-regulation of the exchanges fails to drive down prices.
Filed under Economy, Markets
Tagged as China, Commodities, futures markets, margins, rice, rubber, Shanghai Futures Exchange, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange
September 2, 2010 · 12:07 am
China's Record Harvests Offset Flood Damage To Farmland
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This Bystander has been trying to piece together the economic effects of this year's rains, floods and landslides on the year's harvests and so food prices. Though the official number for direct economic damage from this year's extreme weather is high, more than 350 billion yuan ($51.4 billion), it turns out the picture is surprisingly benign when it comes to food supplies. What nature takes away with one hand, she seemingly returns with the other
Damage to farmland has been localized though widespread and severe where it happened: 13 million hectares lost, according to the count of the U.N's Food and Agriculture Organization, primarily across Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Shaanxi and Gansu. The Ministry of Civil Affairs puts the number of hectares of flooded farmland at 16.5 million, a higher number than the FAO's but which may have a lower bar of damage.
Set against that a record winter wheat crop harvested in June (that harvest accounts for 95% of annual wheat production: the picture above is from Xian in Shaanxi at the end of May), despite the extreme weather. A similarly record cereal crop (maize for livestock feed and rice) is expected, too. Though the much smaller spring wheat planting now being gathered will have been reduced by the cold snap in the northeast at sowing, the 2010 wheat crop overall is expected to be 114 million tonnes, within a percentage point of last year's record. The maize crop is being forecast at 166 million tonnes, which would be a high, and rice, more tentatively, at 196 tones, which would also be a record. Meat and poultry production has also been running at record levels, one reason the demand for maize has been so high.
All that, higher government subsidies for wheat and rice production, and decent stockpiles from last year are keeping food prices stable.
The human loss is easier to catalogue, if less palatable: 3,185 lives lost, according to the latest official estimate, with at least 1,060 still missing; 12 million have been displaced.
Filed under Economy
Tagged as agriculture, China, climate, FAO, farming, flooding, floods, Food and Agriculture Organisation, harvests, livestock, maize, natural disasters, rice, weather, wheat
China's Floods Hit Grain Harvest, Put Pressure On Inflation
Li Qiang, managing director at Shanghai JC Intelligence, puts some numbers on our observation that the recent flooding would hit the forthcoming harvests hard. With official figures saying that 400,000 hectares of farmland across the country have been destroyed, Li tells Bloomberg that he expects rice output to be down 5% and cotton by 5%-10%. The summer grain harvest fell this year for the first time in the past seven years. But the autumn grain harvest is more important as it accounts for more than three-quarters of annual production in normal years. The price of rice has already risen 15% on the Chicago futures markets since June 30. Cotton has been climbing for the past year, and is now up 26% in the New York market over this time last year. As Bloomberg notes, that will make Beijing's 3% inflation target harder to meet. And it will require judicious releases from the government's grain stockpiles to stabilize prices.
Filed under Economy, Environment
Tagged as agriculture, China, cotton, crops, Environment, farming, floods, food, harvest, inflation, rice
November 7, 2008 · 12:33 pm
Sun, Rain And The Demise Of China's Dynasties
A team of Chinese and American scientists has drawn a link between the demise of the Tang, Yuan and Ming imperial dynasties and the strength of monsoon rains.
An ancient stalagmite found rising from the floor of Wangxiang Cave in Gansu province has allowed the researchers, Zhang Pingzhong, a geologist at Lanzhou University, and his colleagues and Hai Cheng, a geologist at the University of Minnesota, to chart the rise and fall in strength of Asian monsoons for over 1,800 years. The three dynasties all came to their end during weak, and thus dry monsoon periods. The scientists, writing in the journal Science (link here, but it is a subscription site; BBC summary here), speculate that weak monsoons mean that the monsoon rains necessary for growing rice don't spread far enough west and north, leading to poor harvests and civil unrest. They link the variability in the strength of monsoons to temporary weakening of the sun, which also seems to have contributed to the collapse of Maya civilization in Mesoamerica and the advance of glaciers in the Alps.
How tight the connection between monsoons and political demise will no doubt make for debate among geologists and historians. Nature quotes Zhang Deer, chief scientist of the National Climate Centre in Beijing, saying that climate is just one of the many factors that determine the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties.
More interestingly, the scientists found that in the past half century greenhouse gases and aerosols have taken over from natural variability to become the dominant influence on the monsoon. A compelling reason for China's leaders to take getting an international agreement on global warming seriously.
Tagged as China, Dynasties, History, Monsoon, rice
Beijing Looking To Lease Foreign Farmland
China has already gone abroad to secure supplies of energy and minerals by investing in mines and oil fields, so why not do the same for food? The Beijing Morning Post quotes Xie Guoli, a senior trade promotion official with the agriculture ministry, as saying that China is looking at leasing farmland in Russia, South America and Australia.
China already has rice farm joint ventures in Cuba and Mexico. High international grain prices could be pushing Beijing to consider doing the same on a larger scale and for more foods. How seriously it is pursuing the idea remains to be seen, but there is one reason for doing so beyond high import prices.
Very big, China, as Noel Coward famously said, but it is also running out of farm land. Arable land was reduced by 40,700 hectares to 121.7 million hectares last year, mainly because of urbanization. That is close to the minimum of 120 million hectares Beijing has said it regards as needed.
Tagged as agriculture, Australia, China, farmland, rice, Russia, South America


Persuasion in the media age / Timothy A. Borchers.
By: Borchers, Timothy A .
pt. I. Concepts of persuasion -- Persuasion in contemporary society -- Theories of persuasion -- Persuasion and ethics in the media age -- pt. II. Variables of persuasion -- Media influences on persuasion -- Audiences and attitudes -- Persuasion and visual images -- Persuasion and language -- Persuasion and culture -- The persuasiveness of the source -- The reasoning process -- Motivational appeals -- pt. III. Contexts and applications of persuasion -- Persuasive campaigns and movements -- Advertising -- Interpersonal persuasion -- Creating persuasive presentations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-452) and index.


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By Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen Editor
Editor's Note: Big Time
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, about 5 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube. Even in an era when we've all become accustomed to reports about the ongoing growth of online video, YouTube's January announcement that it was receiving 60 hours of video every minute, and that viewers are watching a billion videos a day, was enough to give us pause.
More video means more garbage, of course, but with the growth of YouTube as a distribution outlet for professional video, it's clear that an increasing amount of that video is professionally produced, with an eye toward monetization. And that's just YouTube; the amount of video uploaded and viewed across the web and on myriad devices today is simply too large to even guesstimate. More than ever, online video publishers and producers need guidance to help make sure their content cuts through the noise.
With these developments in mind, we're expanding the scope of not just the Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook but the entire Streaming Media brand. The first thing you've probably noticed is the size of this year's issue. That's due not only to the support of online video product and service vendors trying to cut through the marketing noise with their advertising, but also to our newly expanded Buyer's Guide section, which clocked in at a whopping 74 pages.
In past Sourcebooks, we've used the Buyer's Guide to offer deep-dives into a select few products and to present comparison results based on extensive testing and market research. This year—thanks to contributing editor Jan Ozer for the suggestion—we've decided instead to cover the entire gamut of the online video ecosystem. Though that necessarily means we've had to shorten up each Buyer's Guide, we've made sure that each one includes a features table, checklist, or flow chart that you can use to guide you through the purchasing process. And while some of the Buyer's Guides mention specific vendors and products as exemplars of particular features and services, we've stayed away from even trying to present a comprehensive list of all the vendors in a particular space. Instead, we want to give you the tools you need to make your own comparisons and decisions based on your particular needs, whether you're shopping for cameras or CDNs.
Yes, I said cameras. The second, and most notable, expansion is the addition of Streaming Media Producer, a new website that focuses on the needs of professional video producers and A/V crews producing live webcasts and on-demand online video. While there are several longstanding resources for video producers already in the market, none focus explicitly and exclusively on the needs of online video professionals. Streaming Media Producer will be helmed by Steve Nathans-Kelly, who led EventDV magazine to tremendous success as the only magazine for event videographers. I worked alongside Steve at EMedia, the trade publication for the optical media industry, and am thrilled to have him join the Streaming Media team.
While there will be some overlap in coverage with StreamingMedia.com, particularly in the realm of encoding and delivery, Streaming Media Producer will focus mostly on what happens before the online video producer clicks "encode." Streaming Media Producer will also feature more video content, by way of tutorials and interviews with industry experts and online video professionals, and plenty of that content is sure to be indispensable to the readers of StreamingMedia.com as well.
Finally, the 2012 Sourcebook is the first issue of Streaming Media that will be available in our new iOS and Android app (available soon), making it easier than ever to get all of this information and insight whenever and wherever you need it, as well as the daily news and features from our website.
We hope you enjoy our new endeavors as much as we've enjoyed creating them. And, as always, if there's anything you think we can be doing better, don't hesitate to contact me at erics (at) streamingmedia.com.
Publisher's Note: Don't Panic!
The Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook is your Hitchiker's Guide to Online Video


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