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Brandy Reveals Her Weight Gain Is Due To A "Foodcation," Not Pregnancy
Brandy diffuses rumors she is expecting again, explaining she only "fibbed" about marriage when she was younger because she didn't want to lose her fans.
Keyaira Kelly
Over the last few months, singer Brandy's appearance has been the subject of scrutiny, with some trolls on social media believing she is hiding a pregnancy just like she hid the fact she was an unwed mother back in 2002.
In an interview with True Exclusive, Norwood explains at this point in her life, she has no reason to lie.
"You know what's crazy? When I was 23, I fibbed about being married because I wanted to have my baby. I thought if I didn't say I was married…I didn't want to lose my fans. I didn't want to disappoint anybody. Which is why I said I didn't want to go down the aisle just to go down the aisle because I'm pregnant. I want(ed) to be ready to do that, so let's just say that I'm married — which was the wrong thing to do. I was pregnant out of wedlock then, if I were out of wedlock now — why would I be ashamed of a baby? It's funny how people are telling ME that I'm pregnant."
She also added the weight gain was food her "foodcation," after eating super healthy for the last few years
"I didn't think the pregnancy thing was body-shaming. I didn't feel that from people who obviously saw that I put on weight and thought I was pregnant. I went on a foodcation, because I'd been eating clean for like 7-something odd years, in the gym, everyday, playing tennis. I'm like, 'Yo, I'm tired of this crazy discipline. I need something to eat! I want some pizza, I want some pasta, I want some cake! I want something other than salmon, broccoli, and asparagus.'
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A pieced picture, this was the 2008 Nine Quarter Circle Ranch project.
This quilt is a collaboration between me and my daughter, Aubry Kae Andersen. Aubry created the design and painted the faces and the warrior's armor on silk. I did all the stitching including the various motifs that were digitized and embroidered using software and an embroidery module. The fabrics are mostly silk and the top was constructed with the aid of Charlotte's Fusible Web. The threads used are almost exclusively Superior Threads. It is heavily machine quilted with free motion designs and walking foot patterns.
A memorial quilt for my dog, Betsy, who passed away in 2002. She was one of the most shedding of dogs and this quilt, while expressing my fondness of Betsy, is also an indictment of my housekeeping skills.
A simpler design with only three rabbits was the project for the 2004 Cowgirl Quilter Retreat at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch and this quilt is an elaboration on that project. The ranch itself is always well stocked with bunnies and I got down on the ground with my camera so I could take eye-to-eye photos for use in this quilt.
Made for the IQA Silent Auction for 2004. Superior Threads owns the twin of this quilt to demonstrate how Charlotte's Fusible Web can be used and the quilt can be seen at shows where they vend.
This was the project for the 2003 Cowgirl Quilter Retreat at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch. I also made two of these quilts. One went to the 2003 IQA Silent Auction (Ricky Tims bought it) and the other is available for sale.
Created from a photo I took on a bright sunny morning in New Zealand, this quilt shows Cathedral Cove, a natural landmark, in all its beauty. Hand appliquèd, machine quilted.
Smaller, machine appliquèd version of the larger hand appliquèd quilt of Cathedral Cove.
This was the project for the 2001 Cowgirl Quilter Retreat at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch. It is hand appliquèd and machine quilted.


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A Jan. 6 Perpetrator Was Busted After Bragging About Storming The Capitol While Pounding Coors Light
As the dust settles after the Capitol siege of Jan. 6, one perpetrator stood out more than most. He was Jacob Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, aka QAnon Shaman, the one wandering around shirtless with horns and a painted face, howling inside the chamber like an angry minotaur. But even 11 months later, we're still learning about new eccentric members of this motley crew. There's the "influencer" who bragged that she wouldn't be imprisoned because she's "white." (She was sentenced to 60 days.) There's the guy who was rounded up while in a touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Then there's this guy. As per Raw Story, federal officials revealed that one of the MAGA rioters that day posted videos of himself invading the premises, even bragging that he was doing so while knocking back some brewskis.
His name is Thomas Paul Conover, and he's a Texas resident who strolled into the Capitol building after it was breached and took pictures of himself doing, among other things, brandishing an empty Coors Light.
In one video, he suggested that the violent mob, who assaulted Capitol police and whose exploits led to five deaths, was more peaceful than Black Lives Matter protesters. After all, they weren't "spray painting sh*t or burning sh*t down."
In another, taken after he left the premises, he told viewers, "I don't always storm the Capitol of the United States of America, but when I do I prefer Coors Light."
Among Conover's charges are, as per Raw Story, "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do and with knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct."
Alas, there's no evidence that Conover actually pounded Coors while inside the Capitol. And all this for a guy who hates people who drink beer.
(Via Raw Story)
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Posted by Nicole Zimmerman on March 15, 2021
Contact: Nicole Zimmerman, gro.asenull@elocin, Alison Mize, gro.asenull@nosila
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is honored to announce the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA) 2021 cohort. This award provides graduate students with the opportunity to receive policy and communication training before they meet lawmakers.
ESA selected 23 students to receive the award: Evelyn M. Beaury (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Gabriel R. Chavez (University of Colorado Denver), Daniel J. Desautels (Emory University), Brooke Eastman (West Virginia University), Emily A. Geest (Oklahoma State University), Sara L. Hamilton (Oregon State University), Katherine Hayes (University of Colorado Denver), Julia L. Indivero (University of Washington), M. Inam Jameel (University of Georgia), Sarah M. Klionsky (University of Connecticut), Jasmine Kreig (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Michael W.D. McCloy (Texas A&M University), Zechariah Meunier (Oregon State University), Micah C. Miles (University of Georgia), Zachary J. Miller (University of Missouri), Castilleja F. Olmsted (University of Pittsburgh), Melinda Paduani (Florida International University), Aradhana J. Roberts (Lund University), Milica Radanovic (Washington State University), Kate Ritzel (George Mason University), Gregor-Fausto Siegmund (Cornell University) and Jewel Tomasula (Georgetown University).
Students will meet virtually in April to learn about the federal legislative process and science funding, to hear from ecologists working in federal agencies, and to meet with their Members of Congress on Capitol Hill. This Congressional Visit Day, organized and sponsored by ESA, offers GSPA recipients the chance to interact with policymakers and discuss the importance of federal funding for science and the need for research relief for the biological and ecological sciences.
"Early careers scientists who are passionate about understanding and contributing to the world of policy are needed now more than ever," said ESA President Kathleen Weathers "ESA is delighted to offer this opportunity for graduate students to engage with policy and policy makers."
Click here to see a Flickr album with photos of this year's award winners.
Evelyn M. Beaury
Evelyn Beaury is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate and National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Beaury's research focuses on how anthropogenic and environmental factors interact to influence plant invasions at the macroscale. She has always been driven to work on projects with real-world implications, so much of her dissertation work sits at the intersection of invasive species research, management and policy. Aside from research, Beaury is involved in several outreach and science communication organizations at UMass. Beaury graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado Boulder, receiving degrees in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and French.
Gabriel R. Chavez
Gabriel R. Chavez is a student in the Master of Public Administration program in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. His interest in science policy stems from his experience conducting conservation work in Washington state. He is interested in learning how to strengthen environmental policy to create more resilient ecological communities. Prior to enrolling in graduate school, Chavez worked primarily in the public sector performing conservation and environmental analysis work. Chavez holds a B.S. with a focus in Natural Resource Management from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
Daniel J. Desautels
Daniel Desautels is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at Emory University. His research investigates the environmental determinants of disease transmission. Specifically, he studies how invasive aquatic plants alter the transmission of human schistosomes by altering the community ecology of freshwater lakes with endemic schistosome transmission. Desautels hopes to make policy recommendations about how to simultaneously manage plant invasions and schistosome transmission to maintain healthy ecosystems while also minimizing the risk of human disease outbreaks. Desautels has a passion for health and environmental policy and hopes to work as a science policy advisor after earning his Ph.D. He was a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine where he learned how to use scientific evidence to create policy recommendations for Congress. Desautels earned a B.S. in Microbiology and Life Sciences Communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Brooke Eastman
Brooke Eastman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology at West Virginia University. She works in the biogeochemistry lab of Dr. William Peterjohn and conducts research at the long-term nitrogen fertilization study at the Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia. Her research interests center on the impacts of nitrogen deposition from acid rain on forest ecosystems' ability to store carbon. She is particularly interested in how plants, microbes and soils interact to influence the soil carbon sink, which is the largest sink of carbon on land. Eastman also collaborates with the National Center for Atmospheric Research to test different soil carbon models against observations at the Fernow Experimental Forest to ultimately improve our predictions of the exchange of carbon between the land and atmosphere. She was a participant of the first Graduate Student Climate Adaptation Partners program through the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and has recently become involved with science and technology policy through volunteer work with the Bridge Initiative at West Virginia University.
Emily A. Geest
Emily A. Geest is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at Oklahoma State University in Dr. Kristen Baum's lab. She uses applied landscape ecology to understand how anthropogenic land-use change and land management influence invertebrates, specifically grassland butterflies. Her current research is investigating how patch-burn grazing affects the butterfly community in the southern Great Plains. Outside of research, she volunteers for multiple local, regional and national volunteer organizations and was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Missouri Community College Association and Outstanding Community Service Student of the Year from Oklahoma State University for her efforts in increasing science outreach opportunities in her community. Geest earned an M.S. in Biology from the University of Nebraska Omaha researching how urban gardens affect monarch butterfly survival and a B.A. in Biology from the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Sara L. Hamilton
Sara Hamilton is a Ph.D. candidate at Oregon State University (OSU), co-advised by Drs. Kirsten Grorud-Colvert and Bruce Menge. Her dissertation work focuses on the applied ecology of kelp forests in the Pacific Northwest and she works across disciplines to better understand the population dynamics, trophic ecology and management of these systems. Her motivation for getting a Ph.D. was to one day help improve the management and sustainable use of nearshore ecosystems. While at OSU she has worked towards this goal by co-authoring a paper on Marine Protected Area implementation, co-leading an effort to list the sunflower sea star as critically endangered via the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List, and dedicating a thesis chapter to studying best practices for managing kelp forests. Her work is supported by an OSU Provost Fellowship and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Hamilton originally hails from the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia and received her B.S. in Biology and Gender Studies from Bowdoin College in Maine.
Katherine Hayes
Katherine Hayes is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Colorado Denver. She works in the intersection of paleoecology, landscape ecology and fire science studying how ecosystems change over space and time. Her interest in fire sparked from working on charcoal records in a paleoecology lab as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to her Ph.D., she studied long-term records of fire in coast redwood forests as part of her master's research at the University of Oregon. Her doctoral research explores how increasing fires in Alaska are driving shifts in forest communities, forest carbon storage and future landscape flammability.
Julia L. Indivero
Julia Indivero is a first-year M.S. student in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington under the supervision of Dr. Tim Essington. Her research focuses on modeling fish community dynamics to advance the sustainable management of fisheries. She received her B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 2017. She has previously researched ecology and conservation biology with the Organization for Tropical Studies in South Africa and Oregon Sea Grant at the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. She most recently worked with the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory in Sequim, Washington. She is also dedicated to STEM outreach and education and serves as a mentor with the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Inam Jameel
Inam Jameel is a Ph.D. candidate, a current National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Fellow and a previous NSF Bridge to the Doctorate Fellow in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia. Jameel is interested in teasing apart the interactions of environment and genetic variation to produce quantitative traits in plants. His dissertation involves determining the relevancy and fitness consequences of within- and transgenerational plasticity to expression of plant herbivore defense traits and characterizing the genetic architecture of plasticity. He is actively carrying out field experiments in the Colorado Rocky Mountains as a researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Jameel also has leadership roles in organizations that help train students in science communication, science advocacy and policy and mentoring. Jameel completed his B.S. in Biological Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Before attending graduate school, Jameel was a recipient of the Hot Metal Bridge Fellowship for post-baccalaureate study at the University of Pittsburgh and a research technician at Michigan State University and Purdue University.
Sarah M. Klionsky
Sarah Klionsky is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on outcomes of wetland restoration on former agricultural land. She works in retired cranberry bogs, studying abiotic controls on vegetation response and how vegetation and microtopography interact to impact nitrogen dynamics. Klionsky is interested in working to advance the science, policy and practice of restoration ecology. She earned M.S. degrees in Botany and in Environment and Resources from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a B.A. in Biology from Williams College. She also has experience working on plant conservation and management at the Native Plant Trust and as an educator.
Jasmine Kreig
Jasmine Kreig is a Ph.D. candidate in the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education which is run jointly at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her research for her dissertation explores biodiversity and bioenergy in Iowa. Specifically, she explores how incorporating biomass feedstocks into landscapes may effect biodiversity and evaluates various harvesting strategies for ring-necked pheasants and switchgrass at the field scale. Prior to starting graduate school, she spent two years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a post-bachelors research associate investigating the water quality implications from growing dedicated bioenergy crops in the Arkansas–White–Red river basin. Kreig earned a B.S. in Environmental Science and a B.A. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While working on her doctorate, she earned a M.S. in mathematics from UTK.
Michael W.D. McCloy
Michael McCloy is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Interdisciplinary Program at Texas A&M University and a Graduate Research Fellow with the Welder Wildlife Foundation. He works in the avian ecology lab of Dr. Jacquelyn Grace and studies how bird communities respond to environmental disturbance. Specifically, his research investigates the resiliency of songbird communities following hurricanes along the Gulf Coast of the United States. His interest in science policy is motivated by a deep desire to develop sustainable, science-based policy and management initiatives that improve biodiversity conservation efforts and engage local communities. McCloy has a B.S. in Natural Resource Conservation and Management from Western Carolina University.
Zechariah Meunier
Zechariah Meunier is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Integrative Biology at Oregon State University (OSU), co-advised by Drs. Bruce Menge and Sally Hacker. With fellowship support from OSU and the NSF, Meunier investigates community assembly processes in rocky intertidal ecosystems of Oregon, California and Nova Scotia. He is interested in how climate change, disturbance events, diseases and other species interactions influence the dynamics of community succession. Following his passion for conservation, Meunier has also published research on marine protected area establishment and the unintended consequences of biocontrol insects for threatened wildflowers. He is currently serving as the President of the Science Policy Club at OSU. Prior to his doctoral studies, Meunier completed his B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University. While at Lawrence, Meunier was awarded the Gilman Scholarship to study abroad in Madagascar and the Udall Scholarship in recognition of his commitment to environmental issues. He enjoys birding, distance running, backpacking and playing with his cat, Kamala.
Micah C. Miles
Micah Miles is a Ph.D. candidate in the Integrative Conservation program at the University of Georgia (UGA) with an emphasis in Forestry. She began her graduate education in the UGA Maerz Herpetology Lab and partnered with the National Park Service to analyze a long-term dataset that she helped contribute to as a prior intern. Her thesis employed models to quantify distribution patterns of reptiles and amphibians in the urban protected area of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Her Ph.D. dissertation research takes a strong pivot and uses qualitative methods to explore the motivations and lived experiences of amphibian and reptile conservation volunteers in the Atlanta metropolitan region. Miles was awarded the Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation and is a contributing member of the Biota Project, a non-profit science communication organization committed to empowering diverse communities as scientific stewards through education and outreach.
Zachary J. Miller
Zachary Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri (MU) where he works with Dr. Candace Galen to investigate climate change impacts on pollination ecology. Using alpine ecosystems as study sites, Miller uses novel acoustic techniques alongside long-term climate and floral data to understand how shifts in climate affect bumblebee health and pollination services. His work helps to demonstrate the viability of alternative, non-lethal methods for studying important pollinators. Miller is passionate about science outreach and education. He worked on an NIH SEPA grant with MU's Linking Science & Literacy for All Learners to develop and implement middle school science curricula, and he presently serves on the executive team of Science on Wheels, an MU-based science outreach organization. Miller seeks a career at the intersection of science and policy to help propel climate change mitigation action in Missouri. He is currently supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Prior to MU, Miller served as a Sustainable Agriculture Extensionist in the United States Peace Corps in Paraguay and earned a B.A. in Environmental Studies at Truman State University.
Castilleja F. Olmsted
Castilleja Olmsted is a third-year Ph.D. student in Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research investigates the importance of soil seed banks for forest communities undergoing anthropogenic changes and maintaining crop diversity in traditional agriculture. She is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Latin American Studies and a teaching minor. Olmsted was awarded the Alfredo D. and Luz Maria P. Gutierrez Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh. She currently serves as president for the Women in Science and Engineering Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh and is a member of the Field Safety Committee and the Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Biological Sciences. Although she is a plant ecologist, Olmsted also spent a summer working with snakes at the University of Northern Colorado. Before graduate school, she earned a B.A. from Earlham College, where she double-majored in Environmental Science – Biology and Spanish & Hispanic Studies.
William Ota
William Ota is a Ph.D. student in the Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Department at UC Riverside with Dr. Kurt Anderson. He studies the effects of urbanization, effluent and invasive species on freshwater community composition and maintenance. His study system is the urban Santa Ana River in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, and he primarily works with endangered Santa Ana sucker and its invasive predators. Ota hopes to advance ecological knowledge of urbanized areas to improve conservation outcomes. Ota has sought science policy experiences to become an expert in relaying scientific knowledge to regulators and policymakers. He has won the 2020 UC Center Sacramento STEM Solutions competition, serves as the Government Relations Chair for UCR Science to Policy and the Scholarship Program Coordinator for the National Science Policy Network. Before attending UC Riverside, he graduated from Pepperdine University.
Melinda Paduani
Melinda Paduani is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environment at Florida International University. Currently, she is an NSF CREST Center for Aquatic Chemistry and Environment Fellow researching the ecological role of mangrove forests in sequestering microplastics and its implications for water quality management. Specifically, Paduani works in the estuary of Biscayne Bay in southeast Florida to identify the distribution and retention mechanisms of plastic debris on the forest floor, in mangrove sediments, and in water. Her ultimate goal is to work with local decisionmakers to integrate empirical research with water quality policy in South Florida and reduce plastic pollution entering the Bay. Paduani received a B.S. in Biology with an Environmental Studies minor from the University of Central Florida.
Aradhana J. Roberts
Aradhana Roberts is a Ph.D. Candidate at Lund University in Sweden at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science. She developed her passion for integrating environmental science research and human development during her upbringing in the foothills of the Himalayas in India and went on to complete undergraduate and graduate degrees in the United States in Environmental Science and Policy. Currently, for her Ph.D. research she has set up 25 study sites around the world to understand the effects of forest management. She is specifically looking through the lens of insect feeding patterns to detect carbon and soil nutrient cycling in forests with fires, logging and drought globally. Together this research furthers our understanding of how changes in forest disturbances will impact the carbon budget and improve our modeled representation of forest-climate interactions now and in the future. Roberts' ultimate goal is to apply ecological research to benefit our communities and natural resources sustainably.
Milica Radanovic
Milica Radanovic is a Ph.D. candidate in Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University (WSU). Her research interests explore how human activities drive ecological change in diverse ecosystems. She is identifying how environmental conditions control soil microbial communities responsible for soil greenhouse gas emissions. This work is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. As a member of the interdisciplinary Carbon – Nitrogen Systems: Policy-oriented Integrated Research and Education graduate certificate program at WSU, she became interested in developing effective communication strategies for scientists and policymakers. She is passionate about making science education and research accessible. Radanovic earned B.S. degrees in Biology and Environmental Science from Loyola University Chicago.
Kate Ritzel
Kate Ritzel is an M.S. student at George Mason University (GMU) working in Dr. Travis Gallo's URBANxNATURE lab within the Department of Environmental Science and Policy. Her research explores how mammals are responding to the various novel pressures presented by the urban environment. She investigates behavior adaptation in raccoons by examining behavioral responses to novel stimuli in urban and rural populations. She has served as a volunteer field interpreter with the Potomac Environmental Research & Education Center's Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience at GMU and performed ecological restoration work with the U.S. Youth Conservation Corps. She earned a B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy and a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems from GMU, where she received the Outstanding Ecological Science Undergraduate Student Award. During her internship with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, she drafted key components of the 2017 Candidate Notice of Review of Foreign Species used to update federal lists of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants. For the past two years, she's worked with U.S. Geological Survey scientists to develop website content and communicate nation-wide projects relating to land resources and climate. A 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, she merges a wealth of management and policy experience with a deep commitment to ecological research to develop practical solutions that conserve biodiversity.
Gregor-Fausto Siegmund
Gregor-Fausto Siegmund is a Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. He studies plant populations and uses demographic tools to investigate patterns of geographic variation in life histories. He is broadly interested in how quantitative methods are applied and used in research and management and is excited to connect his graduate training with a stronger understanding of the role of science in a democratic society. He received a Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF and a Presidential Life Sciences Fellowship from Cornell University. Before graduate school, Siegmund did fieldwork at Mt. Rainier National Park and in Trinidad and Tobago. He has a B.A. in Biology with a specialization in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Chicago.
Jewel Tomasula
Jewel Tomasula is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology at Georgetown University. She works in the ecology lab of Dr. Gina Wimp and conducts field experiments in a mid-Atlantic salt marsh. Utilizing this ecosystem, she is investigating the role of plant genetic diversity for ecological resilience. Her research is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Tomasula is the President of the graduate labor union Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees and was a member of the negotiations team for the first collective bargaining agreement. Before pursuing graduate research, Tomasula worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Program Headquarters Office. Her BS in Environmental Science is from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She grew up in New Mexico and central Texas, and she has family roots in the Texas-Mexico border community.
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Seven Deadly Corporate Sins
Academics who have worked in news media often restrain themselves when corporate representatives, including ones on accrediting panels, speak about increases in plagiarism or decreases in diversity as the primary ethical concerns in journalism and mass communication.
These are concerns, to be sure, and I take them seriously in my role as director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University. But bottom-line corporate practices that eliminate fact-checking, paid internships and adequate newsroom personnel-while promoting technological shortcuts that improve "productivity"-also are factors in many ills, including plagiarism and diversity, which the industry can address by reinvesting in newsrooms.
By their silence, journalism administrators may be accomplices in questionable practices. Criticism of industry was once our collective responsibility. In the '70s and '80s heads of journalism programs routinely challenged professional counterparts on such issues as bias during the civil rights movement, prejudice against women in the newsroom and coverage of AIDS. This is one of the often-unsung functions of the academy with respect to professional schools. They are not merely vocational institutions teaching complex technical practice. Increasingly, however, that seems to be our role because too many journalism administrators are relying on media conglomerates to help fund operations, especially since legislatures have cut our budgets. Some of us seem to be oblivious about the tradition of educators' holding media accountable, when their policies and practices serve to undermine the Fourth Estate, or its function as a watchdog over government.
This year I have written a series of reports about corporate practices forthcoming in such publications as Quill and the Chronicle of Higher Education. In a recent book, Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age (Oxford, 2005), I have documented how each new technological invention and innovation since the 19th Century has removed reporters farther from the communities that they are supposed to cover. That phenomenon alone has created a host of ethical issues.
In this piece, however, my objective is to challenge readers, especially journalism school or department heads, to address in future issues of MEDIA ETHICS what I consider to be some of the most ignored ethical issues in corporate journalism. You can find plenty of data, pro or con, by accessing "State of the News Media 2004" report, available at http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org.
Corporate Greed
The "State of the News Media 2004" report says that, between 1991 and 2000, newspaper profits rose 207 percent while increases in newsroom personnel were only about 3 percent (largely eliminated during the 2001 downturn). Ethical issue: How do journalism schools uphold our centuries-old tradition of afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted when the comfortable own the media?
Downsized Newsrooms
U.S. newspapers have about 2,200 fewer newsroom employees today than in 1990, according to the "State of the Media" report, which also notes that the number of network correspondents has been reduced by a third with a 30 percent increase in work load since the 1980s. Worse, reporters are being asked to do work that used to be done in the composing room or the control booth. Ethical issue: What is the consequence of downsizing the number of reporters in a republic based on the premise that truth, not profit, should rise to the top?
Niche Fragmentation
The focus on profit-taking and the downsizing of newsrooms has resulted in a flood of opinion that is more easily produced than fact-based journalism. Editorializing now seems customary at major outlets, especially network and cable television, with "balanced stories" containing polar but generally unauthenticated viewpoints. Ethical issue: Is expression of opinion condoned because it is cheaper than gathering of fact and, if so, is it also profitable because it can be aligned with a target market according to lifestyle or demographic statistics?
Unpaid Internships
Mega-corporations like Viacom, whose annual $26 billion in revenues is greater than the gross domestic income of many countries, continue to offer our most talented students internships without pay, especially in broadcasting. As a result, students often take out additional loans to take advantage of earned opportunities. Ethical issue: Why are journalism programs condoning this practice, which seems to instill in future employees a fiscal rather than journalistic lesson?
Crutch Technology
Reporters do much of their work sitting down perched in front of computers instead of sources. Granted, some stories researched online produce startling results, depending on the savvy of the journalist. However, "crutch technology" occurs when reporters remain leashed to the computer cord. Often they are discouraged (or even prohibited) from attending seminars or leaving the newsroom to dig for information or travel to interview sources face-to-face. Instead they are expected to take shortcuts e-mailing interviews and googling facts to produce several stories per day. Ethical issue: What is the impact on investigative reporting when journalists are confined to cubicles rather than being allowed out on the street, discovering cover-ups merely by monitoring beats?
Convergence Curricula
The new editor of Insights, published by the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, is seeking manuscripts and ideas are being sought about convergence issues. "How do you successfully teach students about it and assure they have practical experiences with it," he asks, "especially if the department or school does not have the facilities? What does an effective convergence curriculum look like? Where are the successful models, in relatively affluent schools and in those with more modest resources? What sets them apart? How, if at all, can this be done within accreditation guidelines?" Ethical issue: Why are our concerns associated with implementation when our focus should be on moral rather than technological convergence?
Blog-like Op-eds
When the audience is drowning in opinion, then what do opinion pages become? Web journals compete with opinion pages by emphasizing instant feedback, often without much research or insight, undermining the op-ed standard of "think before you speak." Opinion pages, once the conscience of the metro newspapers, contend with blogs by offering ersatz analysis of front page stories. Ethical issue: What happens to an informed electorate when the op-ed pages no longer advocate for a cause-but provoke for a response?
There are other ethical issues, to be sure, which journalism administrators and educators ought to be monitoring. The penultimate one may be: Should we be training our students for the media that once existed, concerned about constitutional rights, or for the media that now exist, concerned about profit?
A paramount issue may concern the synergy of journalism education and professional media. Free speech is meaningless without education. Education is meaningless without free speech. Together journalism educators and professional practitioners are responsible for an informed, enlightened electorate. Universities have upgraded technology and downsized the full-time professoriate too, dedicating billions of dollars to information technology (used in part to download music and file share in residence halls) and further eroding what the citizen needs: more objective analysis, from which wisdom may result.
Without an informed and educated electorate, do we get the governments that we deserve?
* Michael Bugeja, director of the journalism school at Iowa State University, is author of Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age , and has another book on media ethics forthcoming in 2006 from Oxford University Press. You can e-mail him at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Hipolite Egg Co. v. United States, 220 U.S. 45 (1911)
Hipolite Egg Company v. United States
Submitted January 5, 1911
Decided March 13, 1911
The object of the Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906, c. 3915, 34 Stat. 768, is to keep adulterated articles out of the channels of interstate commerce, or, if they enter such commerce, to condemn them while in transit, or in original or unbroken packages after reaching destination, and the provisions of § 10 of the act apply not only to articles for sale, but also to articles to be used as raw material in the manufacture of some other product.
In construing the Pure Food and Drug Act, all articles, compound or single, not intended for consumption by the producer, are regarded as designed for sale, and for that reason it is the concern of the law to have them pure.
The remedies given by the statute in personam and by condemnation are not inconsistent, and they are not dependent. The Three Friends, 166 U. S. 1.
By the Pure Food and Drug Act adulterated articles are, while in interstate commerce, made culpable as well as their shipper; while in original unbroken packages, they can be seized, and they carry their own identification as contraband of law; they are subject to the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce, and they are not beyond the jurisdiction of the national government because within the borders of a state. Quaere how far such articles can be pursued beyond the original package.
Page 220 U. S. 46
Congress can use appropriate means to execute the power conferred upon it by the Constitution, and the seizure and condemnation of prohibited articles in interstate commerce at their point of destination in original unbroken package is an appropriate means. McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316; Lottery Case, 188 U. S. 321, 188 U. S. 355.
In a proceeding in rem under § 10 of the Pure Food and Drug Act, the court has jurisdiction to enter personal judgment for costs against the claimant. Quaere whether the certificate in this case presents the question of jurisdiction to award costs.
The facts, which involve the construction of certain provisions of the Pure Food Act of June 30, 1906, are stated in the opinion.
ERROR TO AND APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court.
The case is here on a question of jurisdiction certified by the district court.
On March 11, 1909, the United States instituted libel proceedings under § 10 of the Act of Congress of June 30,
1906, 34 Stat. 768, c. 3915, against fifty cans of preserved whole eggs which had been prepared by the Hipolite Egg Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
The eggs, before the shipment alleged in the libel, were stored in a warehouse in St. Louis for about five months, during which time they were the property of Thomas & Clark, an Illinois corporation engaged in the bakery business at Peoria, Illinois.
Thomas & Clark procured the shipment of the eggs to themselves at Peoria, and, upon the receipt of them, placed the shipment in their storeroom in their bakery factory along with other bakery supplies. The eggs were intended for baking purposes, and were not intended for sale in the original unbroken packages or otherwise, and were not so sold. The Hipolite Egg Company appeared as claimant of the eggs, intervened, filed an answer, and defended the case, but did not enter into a stipulation to pay costs.
Upon the close of libellant's evidence, and again at the close of the case, counsel for the egg company moved the court to dismiss the libel on the ground that it appeared from the evidence that the court, as a federal court, had no jurisdiction to proceed against or confiscate the eggs, because they were not shipped in interstate commerce for sale, within the meaning of § 10 of the Food and Drugs Act, and for the further reason that the evidence showed that the shipment had passed out of interstate commerce before the seizure of the eggs, because it appeared that they had been delivered to Thomas & Clark, and were not intended to be sold by them in the original packages or otherwise.
The motions were overruled, and the court proceeded to hear and determine the cause, and entered a decree finding the eggs adulterated, and confiscating them. Costs were assessed against the egg company.
The decree was excepted to on the ground that the
court was without jurisdiction in rem over the subject matter, and on the further ground that the court was without jurisdiction to enter judgment in personam against the egg company for costs.
The jurisdiction of the district court being challenged, the case comes here directly.
Section 2 of the Food and Drugs Act prohibits the introduction into any state or territory from any other state or territory, of any article of food or drugs which is adulterated, and makes it a misdemeanor for any person to ship or deliver for shipment such adulterated article, or who shall receive such shipment, or having received it, shall deliver it in original unbroken packages for pay or otherwise.
In giving a remedy, § 10 provides that, if
"any article of food . . . that is adulterated . . . and is being transported from one state . . . to another, for sale, or having been transported, remains unloaded, unsold, or in original unbroken packages, . . . shall be liable to be proceeded against in any district court of the United States within the district where the same is found, and seized for confiscation by a process of libel for condemnation. . . . The proceedings of such libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty . . . , and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States."
The shipment to Thomas & Clark consisted of 130 separate cans, each can corked and sealed with wax. The eggs were intended to be used for baking purposes. The only can sold was that sold to the inspector for the purpose of having the eggs analyzed. They contained approximately two percent of boric acid, which the court found was a deleterious ingredient, and adjudged that they were adulterated within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. 771, c. 3915.
The egg company, whilst not contending that the
shipment of the eggs was not a violation of § 2 of the act and a misdemeanor within its terms, and not denying the power of Congress to enact it, presents three contentions: (1) Section 10 of the Food and Drugs Act does not apply to an article of food which has not been shipped for sale, but which has been shipped solely for use as raw material in the manufacture of some other product; (2) a United States district court has no jurisdiction to proceed in rem under § 10 against goods that have passed out of interstate commerce before the proceeding in rem was commenced; (3) the court had no jurisdiction to enter a personal judgment against the egg company for costs.
It may be said at the outset of these contentions that they insist that the remedies provided by the statute are not coextensive with its prohibitions, and hence that it has virtually defined the wrong, and provided no adequate means of punishing the wrong when committed. Premising this much, we proceed to their consideration in the order in which they have been presented. The following cases are cited to sustain the first contention: United States v. Sixty-five Casks of Liquid Extracts, 170 F. 449, affirmed by the circuit court of appeals in United States v. Knowlton Danderine Co., 175 F. 1022, and United States v. Forty-six Packages & Bags of Sugar, in the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 183 F. 642.
The articles involved in the first case were charged with having been misbranded, and consisted of drugs in casks, which were shipped from Detroit, Michigan, to Wheeling, West Virginia, there to be received by the Knowlton Danderine Company in bulk in carload lots and manufactured into danderine, of which no sale was to be made until the casks should be emptied and the contents placed in properly marked bottles.
It was contended that the articles, not having been shipped in the casks for the purpose of sale thus in bulk,
but shipped to the owner from one state to another, for the purpose of being bottled into small packages suitable for sale, and when so bottled to be labeled in compliance with the requirements of the act, were not transported for sale, and were therefore not subject to libel under § 10 of the act.
The contention submitted to the court the construction of the statute. The court, however, based its decision upon the want of power in Congress to prohibit one from manufacturing a product in a state and removing it to another state
"for the purpose of personal use, and not sale, or for use in connection with the manufacture of other articles, to be legally branded when so manufactured,"
and concluded independently, or as construing the statute, that the danderine company, being the owner of the property, shipped it to itself, and did not come within any of the prohibitions of the statute. The case was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals (175 F. 1022). The court, however, expressed no opinion as to the power of Congress. It decided that the facts did not exhibit a case within the purpose of the statute, saying:
"No attempt to evade the law, either directly, indirectly, or by subterfuge, has been shown, it appearing that the manufacturer had simply transferred from one point to another the product he was manufacturing, for the purpose of completing the preparation of the same for the market. Under the circumstances disclosed in this case, having in mind the object of the Congress in enacting the law involved, we do not think the liquid extracts proceeded against should be forfeited. Reaching this conclusion, we do not find it necessary to consider other questions discussed by counsel and referred to in the opinion of the court below."
In United States v. Forty-six Packages & Bags of Sugar, the court construed the statute as applying only to transportation for the purpose of sale. To explain its view the court said:
"Following the words 'having been
transported' is an ellipse -- an omission of words necessary to the complete construction of the sentence. Those words are found in the preceding part of the section, and, when supplied, the clause under which this libel is filed reads and means,"
"any article of food, drug, or liquor that is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act, having been transported from one state . . . to another for sale [italics ours], remains unloaded, unsold, or in original, unbroken packages, . . . shall be liable,"
etc. And the court was of opinion that this view was in accord with the other two cases which we have cited. This may be disputed. It may well be considered that there is no analogy between an article in the hands of its owner, or moved from one place to another by him, to be used in the manufacture of articles subject to the statute, and to be branded in compliance with it, and an adulterated article itself the subject of sale, and intended to be used as adulterated, in contravention of the purpose of the statute.
A legal analogy might be insisted upon if cakes and cookies, which are the compounds of eggs and flour which the record presents, could be branded to apprise of their ingredients like compounds of alcohol. The object of the law is to keep adulterated articles out of the channels of interstate commerce, or, if they enter such commerce, to condemn them while being transported or when they have reached their destination, provided they remain unloaded, unsold, or in original unbroken packages. The situations are clearly separate, and we cannot unite or qualify them by the purpose of the owner to be a sale. It, indeed, may be asked, in what manner a sale? The question suggests that we might accept the condition, and yet the instances of this record be within the statute. All articles, compound or single, not intended for consumption by the producer are designed for sale, and, because they are, it is the concern of the law to have them pure.
It is, however, insisted that "the proceeding in personam
authorized by the law was intended to, and no doubt is, capable of giving full force and effect to the law," and, further, that a producer in a state is not interested in an article shipped from another state, which is not intended to be sold or offered for consumption until it is manufactured into something else. The argument is peculiar. It is certainly to the interest of a producer or consumer that the article which he receives, no matter whence it comes, shall be pure, and the law seeks to secure that interest not only through personal penalties, but through the condemnation of the article if impure. There is nothing inconsistent in the remedies, nor are they dependent. The Three Friends, 166 U. S. 1, 166 U. S. 49.
The first contention of the egg company is therefore untenable.
2. Under this contention, it is said that "the jurisdiction of the Food and Drugs Act in question can go no farther than the power given to Congress under which it was enacted," and that the district court therefore
"had no jurisdiction in rem, because at the time of the seizure the eggs had passed into the general mass of property in the state, and out of the field covered by interstate commerce."
To support the contention, Waring v. Mobile, 8 Wall. 110, is cited. That case involved the legality of a tax imposed by an ordinance of the City of Mobile upon merchants and traders of the city, equal to one-half of one percent on the gross amount of their sales, whether the merchandise was sold at public or private sale. Waring was fined for nonpayment of the tax, and he brought suit to restrain the collection of the fine, alleging that he was exempt from the tax on the ground that the sales made by him were of merchandise in the original packages, as imported from a foreign country, and which was purchased by him, in entire cargoes, of the consignees of the importing vessels before their arrival, or while the vessels were
in the lower harbor of the port. He obtained a decree in the trial court which was reversed by the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama. A writ of error was sued out from this Court and the decree was affirmed on the ground that Waring was not the shipper or consignee of the imported merchandise nor the first vendor of it, and it was the settled law of the court "that merchandise in the original packages, once sold by the importer, is taxable as other property," citing Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 443; Almy v. California, 24 How. 173; Pervear v. Massachusetts, 5 Wall. 479. This also was said:
"When the importer sells the imported articles, or otherwise mixes them with the general property of the state by breaking up the packages, the state of things changes, as was said by this Court in the leading case, as the tax then finds the articles already incorporated with the mass of property by the act of the importer. Importers selling the imported articles in the original packages are shielded from any such state tax, but the privilege of exemption is not extended to the purchaser, as the merchandise, by the sale and delivery, loses its distinctive character as an import."
This case is clear as far as it goes, but the facts are not the same as those in the case at bar.
In the case at bar, there was no sale of the articles after they were committed to interstate commerce, nor were the original packages broken. Indeed, it might be insisted that we need go no farther than that case for the rule of decision in this. It affirms the doctrine of original packages which was expressed and illustrated in previous cases and has been expressed and illustrated in subsequent ones. It is too firmly fixed to need or even to justify further discussion, and we shall not stop to affirm or deny its application to the special contention of the egg company. We prefer to decide the case on another ground which is sustained by well known principles.
The statute declares that it is one "for preventing . . . the transportation of adulterated . . . foods . . . and for regulating traffic therein," and, as we have seen, § 2 makes the shipper of them criminal, and § 10 subjects them to confiscation, and, in some cases, to destruction, so careful is the statute to prevent a defeat of its purpose. In other words, transportation in interstate commerce is forbidden to them, and, in a sense, they are made culpable as well as their shipper. It is clearly the purpose of the statute that they shall not be stealthily put into interstate commerce and be stealthily taken out again upon arriving at their destination, and be given asylum in the mass of property of the state. Certainly not when they are yet in the condition in which they were transported to the state, or, to use the words of the statute, while they remain "in the original, unbroken packages." In that condition, they carry their own identification as contraband of law. Whether they might be pursued beyond the original package we are not called upon to say. That far the statute pursues them, and, we think, legally pursues them, and to demonstrate this, but little discussion is necessary.
The statute rests, of course, upon the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce, and, defining that power, we have said that no trade can be carried on between the states to which it does not extend, and have further said that it is complete in itself, subject to no limitations except those found in the Constitution. We are dealing, it must be remembered, with illicit articles -- articles which the law seeks to keep out of commerce because they are debased by adulteration, and which punishes them (if we may so express ourselves) and the shipper of them. There is no denial that such is the purpose of the law, and the only limitation of the power to execute such purpose which is urged is that the articles must be apprehended in transit, or before they have become a part
of the general mass of property of the state. In other words, the contention attempts to apply to articles of illegitimate commerce the rule which marks the line between the exercise of federal power and state power over articles of legitimate commerce. The contention misses the question in the case. There is here no conflict of national and state jurisdictions over property legally articles of trade. The question here is whether articles which are outlaws of commerce may be seized wherever found, and it certainly will not be contended that they are outside of the jurisdiction of the national government when they are within the borders of a state. The question in the case therefore is what power has Congress over such articles? Can they escape the consequences of their illegal transportation by being mingled at the place of destination with other property? To give them such immunity would defeat, in many cases, the provision for their confiscation, and their confiscation or destruction is the especial concern of the law. The power to do so is certainly appropriate to the right to bar them from interstate commerce, and completes its purpose, which is not to prevent merely the physical movement of adulterated articles, but the use of them, or rather to prevent trade in them between the states by denying to them the facilities of interstate commerce. And appropriate means to that end, which we have seen is legitimate, are the seizure and condemnation of the articles at their point of destination in the original, unbroken packages. The selection of such means is certainly within that breadth of discretion which we have said Congress possesses in the execution of the powers conferred upon it by the Constitution. M'Culloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316; Lottery Case, 188 U. S. 321, 188 U. S. 355.
3. Had the court jurisdiction to adjudge costs against the egg company? This is contended, and, in support of the contention, the claimant assimilates this proceeding
to one in admiralty. In consequence, it may be supposed of the provisions of § 10 of the Food and Drugs Act that the proceedings "shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty," and The Monte A, 12 F. 331, and The Alida, 12 F. 343, are cited as deciding that in a proceeding in rem, the court has no jurisdiction to assess the costs in personam against the claimant, who simply files an answer, but who does not enter into a stipulation to pay the costs of the proceeding. Too broad a deduction is made from these cases. They undoubtedly decide that a process in rem and in personam cannot be joined in admiralty in the same libel, but it was not held that this was because of a want of jurisdictional power in the court. Such view was disclaimed in The Monte A, and to show that the framing of a libel against the owner in personam and against the vessel in rem was not jurisdictional, the court said that a breach of a contract of affreightment could have been so framed "long before the adoption of the Supreme Court rules in admiralty."
It is stated in Benedict's Admiralty, § 204, that "the distinction between proceedings in rem and in personam has no proper relation to the question of jurisdiction." It may be, as stated in § 359 of the same work, that
"in a suit in rem, unless someone intervenes, the power and process of the court is confined to the thing itself, and does not reach either the person or property of the owner."
If, however, the owner comes in, or an intervener does, his appearance is voluntary. He becomes an actor and subjects himself to costs, and this even if his ownership be averred in the libel. Waples, Proceedings In Rem, p. 100, § 73; United States v. 422 Casks of Wine, 1 Pet. 547.
And such seems to be the necessary effect of Admiralty Rules 26 and 34. It is provided (Rule 34) that, if a third
person intervene for his own interest, he is required to give a stipulation with sureties to abide the final decree rendered in the original or appellate court. It is in effect conceded that, if such a stipulation be given, a judgment for costs can be rendered. But upon what theory? The concession confounds the relation between the stipulation and the judgment, and makes the security for the payment of the judgment the source of jurisdiction to render it, jurisdiction, according to the contention, which the court does not have as a federal court.
Even, therefore, upon the supposition that the principles of the admiralty law are to apply to the proceedings under § 10, we think the court had jurisdiction to render a judgment for costs against the egg company.
So far, our discussion has been in deference to the contention of the egg company; but it is disputable if the certificate presents a question of jurisdiction as to costs. The district court gets its jurisdiction of the cause from § 10 of the Food and Drugs Act, and whether the libel may be in rem and in personam, or whether a personal judgment for costs can be rendered, may be said to be simply a question of the construction of the section, and not one which involves the jurisdiction of the court. In other words, the rulings of the court may be error only, not in excess of its power. It certainly had jurisdiction of the person of the egg company.


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New Zealand dairy farming's water use under scrutiny
By Oliver Morrison
30-May-2022 - Last updated on 30-May-2022 at 09:53 GMT
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New Zealand is facing new questions about the impact of its dairy system after research claimed that every litre of dairy milk produced in Canterbury can require up to 11,000 litres of water to dilute the pollution from its production.
Analysis carried out by the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and published in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, revealed the nitrate grey water footprint for Canterbury ranged from 433 to 11,110 litres of water per litre of milk, depending on the water standards applied.
Lead author Dr Mike Joy said: "This footprint is higher than many estimates for global milk production, and reveals that footprints are very dependent on inputs [such as feed and fertiliser] included in the analyses and on the water quality standards applied to the receiving water."
The research also found that there are not sufficient volumes of rain and river water to dilute nitrate pollution in Canterbury to acceptable drinking standards. It warned Canterbury groundwater drinking supplies are on a trajectory to extreme levels of nitrate contamination of 21 mg/L – nearly double the allowable value for drinking water of 11.3mg/L – rendering much of it "undrinkable."
Dr Joy claimed growing use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and imported feed such as Palm Kernel Expeller has "dramatically increased nitrate levels and the water pollution problems" in New Zealand.
"There isn't enough water falling from the sky or pouring down Canterbury's rivers to actually dilute the nitrate contamination produced by thousands of tonnes of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and over a million dairy cows across the plains," he said.
"The large footprint for milk in Canterbury indicates just how far the capacity of the environment has been overshot. To maintain that level of production and have healthy water would require either 12 times more rainfall in the region or a 12-fold reduction in cows."
He went on to claim the extensive dairy farming in Canterbury is leading to significant pollution of the region's groundwater, much of which is used for drinking water. "Dairy farming at this intensity is unsustainable and if not reduced could pose a significant risk to human health and the market perception of the sustainability of the New Zealand dairy industry and its products."
The research concluded that large reductions of nutrients of around 96 per cent are needed to reduce elevated groundwater nitrate concentrations. "Unless this environmental degradation is reversed and current dairy farming significantly reduced and/or replaced by low-nitrate emission non-pasture grazed systems, dairy farming on the Canterbury Plains will remain unsustainable and seriously damaging to the local freshwater environment, including local drinking water sources. This degradation could continue to pose a significant human health risk and threat to our global market for dairy products."
Greenpeace Senior Campaigner Steve Abel said: "This research starkly shows the need to phase out synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and reduce stocking rates if we are to protect people's drinking water."
The grey water footprint of milk due to nitrate leaching from dairy farms in Canterbury, New Zealand
Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2022.2068685
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inside/out: Not If, But When and How
Sneak attacks are a specialty of the governing class in Washington. Especially when the issue is unpopular or favors one interest group over another. Stealth-like provisions are inserted into a law which, when they are finally discovered, have already launched missiles towards unsuspecting targets with devastating effect.
E-commerce is an attractive target growing geometrically bigger each year. Already missiles have been fired. Get ready to duck. The cash flow on the Net is just too big and growing too fast, for Washington to ignore it much longer. Here's an example.
Jim McTague's column, D.C. Current, in the February 22, 1999, issue of BARRON'S reports that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) wants to see "some adjustment" of regulation on the Internet to recognize its "borderless nature." While NAIC cautions against changes that would interfere with e-commerce, NAIC knows its insurance company members fear that banks will be formidable competitors to insurance company sales staffs when banks are free to offer insurance products on the Net.
McTague reports that Barbara Timmer, a lawyer and banking expert, has uncovered a plot buried in the insurance-sales section of the Leach Bill. This Bill is the legislation permitting banks to engage in a broad range of financial activities, including selling insurance. Timmer says the provision would authorize state insurance regulators to police any Web site that contained information about an insurance product, even if it merely offered consumers a link to another site.
While no one admits to the authorship of the offending provision, Timmer thinks state insurance regulators were behind it. This is because, she says, some states are already making demands of insurance and mortgage companies whose Web sites are accessible to their citizens.
Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings and an authority on the high tech industry, writes in her book, RELEASE 2.1, of life in the new digital society. Her chapter on governance of the Internet is a reasoned analysis of how the participants on the Web can self-police themselves. While pointing out that the Web crosses international borders with ease, she emphasizes that geographic boundaries, and the governments they enclose, are losing relevance.
"The best enforcement vehicle for this free flow of power that keeps anyone from getting too entrenched," she writes, "is informed customers and citizens.
Bureaucracies have as a primary goal - even before that of serving their constituencies - to take all necessary steps to ensure their own survival. Companies that have enjoyed the protection of these governmental bureaucracies, or have their own internal ones, also make self-preservation their primary goal. One tactic they use is to create legislation preserving the status quo or expanding the role of the bureaucracy into a new area of influence.
Not that complete freedom from regulation is desirable in every case, but writing laws to protect an obsolete form of business or an ineffective means of transacting it is wrong.
The Web has many bright spots of self-regulation. There are also scoundrels on the Web running scams that steal from people. However, the groundbreaking approaches by auction site e-Bay promoting honesty and fair dealing show how the Web can manage itself. The site has gone through several iterations and continues to respond when necessary. Its recent decision to prohibit the sale of firearms on its site is an example of a wise choice made as a responsible Net citizen. Legislation might have forced this to happen eventually, but it would have taken a long time and cost all of us a lot of money.
Legislators enact laws with the greatest care possible. Yet much proposed legislation is highly technical and voluminous. If the Web is to remain largely self-policing, it will take vigilance by its e-commerce participants to ensure legislators know the details of the bills they are voting on. Special interest lobbies with extensive legislative connections and experience will be looking for ways to protect their stakeholders. Governments at all levels see the opportunity to gain a new source of tax revenue from transactions on the Web. Even within the IT industry, there will be those looking for an unfair advantage.
Technical managers need to be sure that general managers understand the implications of regulating Web sites. They must know what it might mean if something as simple as a hyperlink could invite government oversight and reporting activities. Regulation and control is inevitable. Self-imposed it is desirable. Government directed it is unpalatable.
After 18 years in marketing and sales at IBM, Bob Diefenbacher founded Denbrook Systems Associates, an IT consulting firm based in Malvern, Pa. denbrook@aol.com.


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Оле Нідал (* 19 березня 1941), також відомий як Лама Оле — вчитель буддизму Діамантового Шляху. Передає вчення лінії Карма Каг'ю в адаптованому для європейців, відмінному від автентичної традиції вигляді. Карма Каг'ю є відгалуженням Каг'ю — однієї з чотирьох найбільших шкіл Ваджраяни, тибетского буддизму. З початку 1970-х років Оле Нідал подорожує, читаючи лекції, проводячи медитаційні курси та засновуючи буддійські центри.

Навчання та зустріч із буддизмом

Оле Нідал виріс у Данії. Протягом 1960—1969 рр. навчався в університеті Копенгагена, а кілька семестрів — у Тюбінгені та Мюнхені в Німеччині. Спеціалізація: філософія, англійська та німецька мови.

1961 році знайомиться зі своєю майбутньою дружиною Ханною. У 1968 р. вони їдуть у весільну подорож до Непалу, де зустрічають свого першого буддійського вчителя Лопена Цечу Рінпоче — Ламу лінії Друкпа Каг'ю. Під час наступної мандрівки вони знайомляться з Шістнадцятим Кармапою Рангджунга Рігпе Дордже, головою лінії Карма Каг'ю, і стають його першими західними учнями.

Ставши близькими учнями Шістнадцятого Кармапи Оле та Ханна Нідал знайомляться з іншими вчителями Каг'ю — Калу Рінпоче, Кюнзігом Шамарпою, Джамгоном Конгтрулом Рінпоче, Сіту Рінпоче тощо. Вони також стають учнями Лопена Цечу Рінпоче та Кюнзіга Шамарпи.

Центри Діамантового Шляху

Шістнадцятий Кармапа доручив Оле Нідалу засновувати центри Карма Каг'ю на Заході. Згідно з побажаннями своїх учителів, починаючи з 1973 року він подорожує і проводить лекції, неодноразово також відвідує Україну. Відтак заснований перший медитаційний центр у Копенгагені, який пізніше відвідує Чотирнадцятий Далай-лама Тензін Ґ'яцо.

650 центрів за 45 років, які заснував Оле Нідал, називаються Центрами Діамантового Шляху. Діамантовий Шлях — це варіант перекладу терміна Ваджраяна з санскриту.

Починаючи з 1970-х рр. Оле Нідал і його дружина Ханна заснували більше 500 медитаційних груп у Центральній та Західній Європі, Азії, Америці та Австралії. Оле Нідал переважно не читає лекції і не відкриває медитативні центри Алмазного шляху в країнах, де населення переважно сповідає Іслам, і в Африці. За його думкою, йому не вдалося би ефективно захищати своїх учнів в цих країнах у разі притиснень.

На сьогодні в Україні існує 15 центрів та медитаційних груп.

Викладацька діяльність

Оле Нідал постійно подорожує різними країнами, навчаючи своїх учнів, а також тих, хто цікавиться буддизмом. Різноманітні курси, приміром, Махамудра, сприяють глибшому розумінню Буддизму Діамантового Шляху (Ваджраяни). Одним з найважливіших повчань є Пхова— медитація, яка готує до перенесення свідомості в момент смерті. Аянг Рінпоче, лама лінії Дрікунг Каг'ю, передав цю медитацію Оле Нідалу в 1972 році. Перший курс Пхови Оле Нідал провів у 1987 році.

Оле Нідал проводить курси Пхови, відмінної від тієї, яку одержав у Лами Аянга Рінпоче (традиційно практика Пхови сполучена з обітницею практикувати Пхову 2 рази на місяць і Цог Амітабхі або Міларепи 1 раз на рік, про що Оле Нідал не говорить). В 1983 році Аянг Рінпоче зайняв політичну позицію, відмінну від позиції Кюнзіга Шамарпи. Після цього Оле Нідал відмовився від лінії передачі Пхови, отриманої в Аянга Рінпоче. Після цього Оле Нідал одержав практику Пхова по лінії передачі школи Н'їнгма у Лами Кх'енце До Нгаг Лінгпа (Ділго Кх'енце Рінпоче). Традиційно практика Пхови дається за 7 днів, однак Оле Нидал дає Пхову в нетрадиційному, спрощеному варіанті, за 3 дні; а також без очисних мантр.

Усі учні Оле Нідала — миряни, які, переважно, представляють західну цивілізацію. На думку Оле Нідала, традиційна буддійська освіта зі складанням обітниці безшлюбності доречніша для життя в монастирі, аніж для способу життя в західному суспільстві. Так само більшість учнів Оле Нідала не здобувають традиційної буддійської освіти без прийняття обітниць безшлюбності (з прийняттям обітниць Пратімокши для мирян). Традиційна буддійська освіта для мирян Карма Каг'ю доступно в університеті КІБІ в Делі, Індія, під керівництвом кваліфікованих Лам Карма Каг'ю, а так само ЄС Кармапи XVII Тхаїе Дордже і Шаммара Рінпоче.

Під час своїх лекцій Оле Нідал також висловлюється щодо політичних та міжнародних подій, зокрема, на теми, яким, на його думку, не приділяють достатньо уваги. Деякі його вислови, що стосуються Ісламу, викликають достатньо різку реакцію в буддійському співтоваристві. Але Оле Нідал говорить, що така його позиція — це його особиста думка як досвідченої людини, що багато подорожує, і що вона не має прямого відношення до буддійського вчення. Оле Нідал пояснює, що він використовує критичні зауваження щодо ісламу також і як упайя для перевірки учнів на здатність до незалежного мислення.

Оле Нідал визнає Трінлея Тхає Дордже як леґітимного Сімнадцятого Кармапу.

Книжки
Оле Нідал — автор кількох книжок про буддизм німецькою та англійською мовами (частково автобіографічних). Українською мовою було видано:

 Дійсність як вона є = Wie die Dinge sind. Eine zeitgemäße Einführung in die Lehre Buddhas. — 1-е вид. — Ужгород: Простір, 1997. — 120 с.

Примітки

Посилання

 Personal web page
 Буддизм Діамантового Шляху
 Diamond Way Buddhism

Персоналії за алфавітом
Каг'ю
Лами
Персоналії:Копенгаген
Народились 19 березня
Народились 1941
Данські релігійні діячі
Вчителі буддизму

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This book is a pack of 19 stories and has won 2009 Shakti Bhakt First Book Prize. The lead characters from the book are all belonging to the troupe of garbage collectors, maids and labourers and yet the writer makes their stories super stylish. There are no grand social messages given but just humanity shown in simple and true fashion.
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Man set for court date over manslaughter charge
PUBLISHED: 11:33 01 October 2009 | UPDATED: 17:13 25 August 2010
A MAN is to appear in court charged with the manslaughter of a 64-year-old. Billy Keith Williams, 23, of Luddesdon Road, Erith was due to appear at Bexley Magistrates Court yesterday charged with the manslaughter of Charles Stewart Campbell. Police were
A MAN is to appear in court charged with the manslaughter of a 64-year-old.
Billy Keith Williams, 23, of Luddesdon Road, Erith was due to appear at Bexley Magistrates Court yesterday charged with the manslaughter of Charles Stewart Campbell. Police were called at 5.28pm to Bexley Road, Erith, last Sunday where they found the victim with serious head injuries.
Mr Campbell was taken by ambulance to hospital where he died the next day.
A post-mortem examination at the Princess Royal Hospital, Farnborough on Tuesday gave the cause of death as an injury to the brain.
The victim is from the Bexleyheath area but originally lived in Paisley, Scotland.
A 39-year-old man has been bailed in connection with the incident, to return to a police station pending further inquiries on October 14.
A 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were also arrested but later released with no further action.
Detectives from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command are investigating the incident.
Anyone with information is urged to call the incident room on 0208
721 4805 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Warning as two elderly Bexley residents lose thousands in phone scam
Bexley Special sergeant receives MBE for 38 years of service
Police snare criminal gang whose £750,000 operation fuelled vehicle thefts across Kent and south-east London
Three robbers jailed after throwing £25,000 away while running from police
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Mount Platiki, Central Greece, Central Greece. Elevation 321 m. (Digital elevation model) . GPS coordinates: 38.47045, 23.42116.
Other names: Platíki, Platiki, Platíki, Πλατίκι.
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a non sticky pan to prepare the sauce.
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You made this good news possible!
Wow - it's already mid May and we are heading into summer! Growth has been the theme here lately. We have a lot of patients who need our help. Every day a phone call or an e-mail from someone fighting cancer drives home the point that we are filling a great need.
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Thanks to Jon from Our Journey, Our Way for the nomination! I always look forward to your posts and I'm excited to hearing about your up and coming trip to Disney World. Don't forget to take lots of photos!
I tend to refer to myself as an OCD Planner when it comes to vacations. If I was allowed I'd plan all my trips down to the minute. I even have a fb/blog post all planned out for when I finally make my way to Tokyo (5+ years away).
I love cruises. I know many people are against them now in days due all the problems they can create in the ports with creating little to no profitability for the locals, among other problems, but I enjoy the fact that it can be an affordable luxurious trip that can fits in many destinations.
I currently have two tattoos – one is Disney related and one is not. The next one I want is a Dinglehopper on my ankle.
Being a klepto runs in my family, especially when a restaurant is involved. I have a collection of menus from restaurants around the world. My mother enjoys flags and signs, while my sister likes glassware.
For the first 5 years, or perhaps 6, of my life I dressed as a Smurf for Halloween.
I look forward to seeing all your random facts about yourself and of course more great reads.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the blog nomination! I will share your nomination on my social media pages! So glad you are enjoying my travel journey.