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This article was excerpted and adapted from Chris Jones' new book. "Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by Chicago Tribune Critics" (University of Chicago Press, 2013) is a collection of reviews of theater productions from "Rip Van Winkle" in 1868 to "The Iceman Cometh" in 2012.
On Jan. 25, 1951, actor Robert Keane, who was playing Capt. Brackett in the first national tour of "South Pacific," was the speaker at a breakfast at the Blackstone Hotel given by the Chicago Drama League. There were several hundred women members of the Drama League in attendance; a Chicago Tribune reporter who was present said the women overflowed the ballroom and filled the balcony. Keane was introduced by William Montgomery McGovern, a professor at Northwestern University.
"The reason there are so few plays running in Chicago now, where there used to be a dozen dramas and half a dozen musical comedies 20 years ago, is due entirely to one vitriolic woman," Keane declared. "She pours sulphuric acid over every new show which is brought to Chicago, and she scares away from the city the management of every decent show which is produced in New York each season."
The actor now had one of the most attentive audiences he ever faced. There was some buzzing around the room from women who were saying, "He must mean Claudia," for everyone knew her as Claudia, and there was applause. Then there was silence as ears were strained to hear what was coming next.
"I don't know exactly what the Drama League's purpose is," Keane went on, "but I'll tell you one thing you can do to help the theater. There is only one way to handle a woman like that and only a woman can do it."
The women were fascinated. Was Mr. Keane suggesting murder of a critic? Metaphorically, he was. The way to "clip the wings of Claudia Cassidy," Keane said, was for the women present to have their "rich husbands with influence" write to the Tribune to "protest her appraisal of theatrical and musical fare." Keane paused for breath.
"Or, since you all love drama, and drama connotes romance, why don't you make yourselves matchmakers and get Miss Cassidy married?"
This, sadly, fell flat. A director of the Drama League informed Keane that Miss Cassidy already had a husband — William J. Crawford. The couple would be married for 57 years. Often, Cassidy would file her reviews, and then the two would go out dancing in Chicago nightclubs.
So who was this woman, variously known as Acidy Cassidy, That Woman From Chicago, or, in the immortal words of the typically dignified Tyrone Guthrie, as simply "that b----"?
Cassidy was born in 1899 in Shawneetown, Ill., where she first started seeing shows on Ohio River showboats. She was a University of Illinois graduate in drama and journalism, became a secretary at the Chicago Journal of Commerce and arrived at arts criticism in the classic old-school way: an editor needed someone in a hurry to write a review.
Cassidy had attracted attention at the Chicago Sun. Then in 1942, the Tribune's publisher, Col. Robert McCormick, personally recruited Cassidy as a new star of his newspaper, which by now was publishing more than 1 million copies per day. Cassidy was one of the Colonel's best hires and one of the very few leading women in a newspaper era relentlessly dominated by men. She was, and is, the most notorious critic in the history of the newspaper. Her sharp-edged writing was unfailingly to the point, frequently witty, perennially unforgiving, often beautiful, occasionally cruel. Many of Cassidy's reviews caused outrage. Many changed lives; many made or broke careers. New York producers with touring shows headed to Chicago would spring for special rehearsals, lest they find themselves facing her wrath.
"Her sentences set off violent storms and she sits serenely as they rage around her," wrote Bernard Asbell in a fascinating and withering article in Chicago magazine in 1956, penned when Cassidy was at the peak of her powers. "She walked like a queen and the world curtsied."
Upon her retirement in 1965, Time Magazine reported her departure under the headline "Exit the Executioner." After she died in 1996, the headline of her obituary in The New York Times read: "Claudia Cassidy, 96, Arts Critic: Did Not Mince Words in Chicago."
Indeed not. Cassidy, who reviewed music, opera and theater for the Tribune, waged all-out war on Rafael Kubelik, a sometime conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, whom she forced out of town. "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat," she wrote of the conductor, "being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti."
Cassidy presided over arts reviewing at the Tribune from 1942 to 1965. Her so-called reign of terror would last for decades. At least one scorned soprano threatened publicly to punch her in the nose. It did not take long for Cassidy to find her stride. By 1946, she was demolishing a tawdry musical:
"Follow the Girls," the Gertrude Niesen musical which creaked into the Shubert last night after two years in New York and a fling at travel, may be a blessing in disguise, tho the disguise was perfect while it confronted me. Later I wondered if this might be the turkey to end all turkeys, the draggled tail of the tawdry parade that marched in the war time boom, confident that if you just shoveled in enough dirt you could dispense with talent. Perhaps if that Bulova clock so handsomely displayed in scene one were a sundial it would tell Albert Borde, the producer, that it's later than he thinks. For I never saw a theater empty faster than the Shubert when "Follow the Girls" approached intermission, and not all the reprieved customers went back for more. How Miss Niesen got caught in this one, beyond the bait of a song or two, I can't tell you, but once caught, she plays Mae West shrunk for size, wired for sound, and occasionally pickled in the vinegar of what she presumably considers comedy.
In 1947, she snuffed out "The Firefly":
Santa Claus was wonderful to me up to 8:30 Christmas night. That was when the curtain rose on the Blackstone's revival of "The Firefly," which has had antiquarians digging desperately into the files to discover whether it played here some 30 years ago when it was new. By approximately 8:45 I had relinquished my shovel and changed my project. From now on I have no interest worth mentioning in "The Firefly's" past. My problem will be not to coincide with its future.
But there was another side of Cassidy when she encountered artists she admired. It is hard to overstate Cassidy's role in rescuing "The Glass Menagerie" and its now iconic writer. Before this review in 1944, Tennessee Williams had been under pressure from his commercial producers to provide a new, happy ending, involving Laura finally getting lucky with her gentleman caller. As the play, which had been touring, approached its Chicago opening, interest from audiences was thin, and the producers were thinking about closing the show down on the day after opening. The cast was in disarray. The weather in Chicago was terrible; the company had arrived at Union Station in the middle of a frigid blizzard. Laurette Taylor, according to her biographer, had not worked in quite a while; everyone was worried she would start drinking again. There are various accounts in Williams' diaries of her stumbling over the lines in rehearsal, fighting with the panic-stricken playwright and barely doing any acting at all. The dress rehearsal was a disaster. Chicago felt like the cold end of the entire project.
On opening night, Williams' mother showed up in Chicago, at that point mostly oblivious of the biographical nature of her son's play, which dealt (metaphorically) with her daughter's lobotomy. Just a few minutes before curtain, Taylor suddenly disappeared from her dressing room, only to be found by her panicked compatriots, inexplicably, in the basement of the theater, washing her costume. On opening night, Cassidy had to fight her way through ice and snow to get to theater. She was surrounded by empty seats — various contemporary accounts recall a howling wind. Williams, after the show, wanted to go to a church to await the reviews coming out (there was, apparently, a midnight service down the street). But the weather was too bad. He had to wait for Cassidy's verdict without the help of a priest.
The heavens opened when her review came out:
Too many theatrical bubbles burst in the blowing, but "The Glass Menagerie" holds in its shadowed fragility the stamina of success. This brand new play, which turned the Civic theater into a place of steadily increasing enchantment last night, is still fluid with change, but it is vividly written, and in the main superbly acted. Paradoxically, it is a dream in the dusk and a tough little play that knows people and how they tick. Etched in the shadows of a man's memory, it comes alive in theater terms of words, motion, lighting, and music. If it is your play, as it is mine, it reaches out tentacles, first tentative, then gripping, and you are caught in its spell.
Along with Ashton Stevens, who wrote for the Herald-American and called this play "both eerie and earthy in the same brush," Cassidy fell hard for "The Glass Menagerie," going back to see it on three successive nights (unimaginable today). Clearly, she understood how personal this play was to its writer. Clearly, she understood she'd witnessed the birth of a masterpiece. And this review was by no means her last word on the play. She wrote about the "The Glass Menagerie" in various guises so many times and with such enthusiasm, a large group of theater people eventually made their way to Chicago from New York to see what had made the famously terrifying critic gush.
A year after this review, which was a turning point in Williams' life and career, the play was on Broadway, and Taylor's performance was being widely praised as one of the best pieces of acting of its era; its reputation has lived on. The struggling play Cassidy championed in a Chicago blizzard is now regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. Williams wrote about the Chicago experience in his dairies: "It was an event which terminated one part of my life and began another about as different in all external circumstances as could well be imagined. I was snatched out of virtual oblivion and thrust into sudden prominence, and from the precarious tenancy of furnished rooms about the country I was removed to a suite in a first-class Manhattan hotel."
He never went back to "precarious tenancy," thanks in no small part to Cassidy.
Lesser known, perhaps, is Claudia Cassidy's enthusiastic support for the young Chicago playwright Lorraine Hansberry. It would change the course of American theater, help bring to Broadway the first play by an African-American female, and arguably do as much for black theater as any review in any newspaper ever did. Cassidy showed up to review "A Raisin in the Sun," which was just starting out with the actors Ruby Dee, Glynn Turman and Sidney Poitier (not to mention one Louis Gossett in a small role) a month before the Broadway opening, well before the show was fully on its feet. At the moment of this review in 1959, Brown v. Board of Education was less than five years old. And the Tribune remained a conservative newspaper, even if less flamboyantly so, following McCormick's death. In 1955, it had argued in an editorial the absurd notion that Chicago was "without segregation."
In his memoir, producer Philip Rose says that the Chicago run of "Raisin" was scheduled right before the Broadway opening (the piece already had played New Haven, Conn., and Philadelphia), and that Hansberry was not only terrified of taking the play to her hometown (especially since it was about her hometown), but that she also was especially scared of risking a Cassidy review.
"Not Chicago. Not with my play," Rose reports Hansberry as saying after she heard the news that they would play the Blackstone Theatre before New York with a play that still was being rewritten. "Cassidy," Rose wrote, "was the most feared and often most vicious critic in the country." Rose was convinced she'd be angry about the production's New Haven start instead of starting out in Cassidy's own Chicago (although Cassidy was the reason why they'd picked New Haven). Rose wrote that he told Hansberry, "you don't know what she'll write," only for Hansberry to respond, "yes I do, I'll show it to you." And with that Hansberry pulled out her own review of her own play, as if Cassidy had written it. Appearing in full in Rose's book, it is a hilarious satire of a Cassidy pan.
"The Blackstone Theatre has been regrettably dark for a goodly portion of the 1958-9 season," Hansberry's spot-on Cassidy-style review begins, "but at no point have the theater's prospects been murkier than they were last night for the premiere of 'A Raisin in the Sun.'" Hansberry went on from there, at great length, in the Cassidy style. No New York critic held such apparent fear for her.
"For if the current tenant of the Blackstone truly represents the Negro dream for America then the KKK cannot be far behind," Hansberry wrote, continuing as Cassidy. "And I for one say God Bless them for that."
The play arrived in Chicago with no advance sale and, Rose reported, did no business at all for the first few days. The producers gave most of the tickets away. And then came this Cassidy review that would decide their fate and whether or not they even opened on Broadway.
Actually, Hansberry need not have worried. With "A Raisin in the Sun," Cassidy was, crucially for Hansberry, on the right side of history, noting that the play has "the fresh impact of something urgently on its way," even if one detects a certain carefulness in how Cassidy was phrasing all this racial change in the conservative Tribune (what she doesn't say here is as interesting as what she does). Yet by calling Poitier "the angry young man who happens to be a Negro," Cassidy crucially linked "Raisin" to the movement of well-educated but working-class protagonists that was sweeping London in plays like "Look Back in Anger." There is code at work here, but the intention of the review is clear. Send this important Chicago play on its way.
When "Raisin" reached New York, it would be seen as an American story, but this was always a Chicago play. The character of Walter Lee speaks of standing at the corner of 39th and South Park. Indeed, the entire story was based in the decision of Hansberry's family to move into Washington Park, then a white neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, although Clybourne Park (a fictional neighborhood even though the street was real) clearly was standing in for Lincoln Park. Hansberry's father had bought the Washington Park house in 1938, and his new neighbors tried to force the family out, resulting in a 1940 Supreme Court decision involving a covenant restricting blacks from purchasing or leasing land in a particular Chicago neighborhood. No play was more rooted in Chicago than this one.
Cassidy was very careful not to talk about these matters too explicitly; she stayed away from the city's precise racial history and framed the play very much in terms of its universals. In fact, you could read her entire review without ever knowing "Raisin" was set in Chicago. Cassidy knew her readers and what it would take (or not take) to get them to the theater.
Nonetheless, "A Raisin in the Sun" would turn out to be a drama that kept echoing through Chicago theater history. A play by Bruce Norris that riffed on its themes, titled "Clybourne Park," would win the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2012. Cassidy had no idea, of course, that this play would have that kind of impact (not to mention Poitier's impact), but she was shrewd enough to see that this was a work with which to be reckoned.
Hansberry would move to New York as this play opened on Broadway. By 1965, she had died, at age 34, from pancreatic cancer. Cassidy's review helped ensure its writer had a place in history. Here is how it opened:
"A Raisin in the Sun" is a remarkable play, acted to the Blackstone hilt of its warm heart, its proud backbone, and its quicksilver funnybone by a gifted cast headed by Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, and Ruby Dee. It is a new play still in tryout, with time for the cutting and adjusting that can make a powerhouse of its potential strength. More important to Chicago is that it has the fresh impact of something urgently on its way. Lorraine Hansberry can be proud that she wrote it, and her friends, Philip Rose and David J. Cogan, that they brought it so the stage.
It was common knowledge in advance that the title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes, the one beginning, "What happens to a dream deferred?" but not all of us knew the poignant irony that gives the final curtain reverberations the second act climax now lacks.
When that second act ends the sobbing son has all but destroyed his mother's dream of a decent home for the family by losing most of her insurance money to a fast talking fake. It is a scene you expect, you know it will happen, and it happens on schedule. But in theater terms it doesn't come off. You respect it, but you don't feel it, so it fails on stage.
But at the end, when the son has reclaimed his manhood, when he has put his dream of quick riches aside for the long haul, and the family has picked up its courage to try its luck in the new home where it isn't wanted, the mother, who has given every cent she has in the world to the new house is the last to go. And as she stands there you suddenly realize that this ratty apartment, without sun, or a private bathroom, or enough bedrooms, but with cockroaches, is her home. But she leaves it, smiling, taking her puny plant and her far from puny courage, for another stretch in a lifetime haul. This is theater with reverberations, echoes, and a tug at the remembering heart.
Cassidy avoided publicity, often demurring with variations on the theme of "I like to write, but I don't like to be written about." Relatively few photographs of her exist, even though she was one of Chicago's most famous writers. When in 1975 she accepted a Joseph Jefferson Award in her retirement from actress Carol Channing, the Tribune reported that its critic had ascended to a stage, "something she never did in the 24 years she reigned." She rarely wrote about herself. It was only in Cassidy's last piece for the Tribune, written in 1971 after she had left the staff, that one began to see a glimpse of the soul of a great Chicago writer. For a woman who hated giving interviews, hated being photographed, despised the very notion of being the subject of articles herself, she was remarkably personal here and, frankly, pretty much only here. Clearly, Cassidy saw herself in Williams' women, especially such characters as Blanche Du Bois. He touched her like no other writer, and she returned the favor with profound sympathy and understanding:
"Streetcar" is a woman's play, Cassidy wrote:
It belongs to Blanche Du Bois and Uta Hagen took possession here in Chicago, with Anthony Quinn. I saw Jessica Tandy play Blanche beautifully, and Arletty play it badly in Cocteau's Paris production all live moss, naked Negroes and shrill searchlights, and fragile, frightened-eyed Vivian Leigh play it in London. But Uta Hagen tore you to tatters. I walked out of that performance to see Tennessee in the back row, tears pouring down his face. Could anyone forget that last "Streetcar" scene? Pretentious, promiscuous Blanche of the pitiful airs and graces, who has found that the obverse of death is desire, is raped by her potent hulk of a brother in law, and her sex-obsessed sister has her committed rather than admit the truth. When they come to take her away Blanche shrinks from the squat, institutionalized female. The man in charge takes over. He lifts his hat and offers his arm. Blanche takes it like a woman going to dinner. She says, "Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." It is a lovely, gallant exit, but an exit to the madhouse just the same.


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The Looming Threat of Water Scarcity
Some 1.2 billion people—almost one fifth of the world—live in areas of physical water scarcity, while another 1.6 billion face what can be called economic water shortage.1 The situation is only expected to worsen as population growth, climate change, investment and management shortfalls, and inefficient use of existing resources restrict the amount of water available to people. It is estimated that by 2025 fully 1.8 billion people will live in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, with almost half of the world living in conditions of water stress.2
Water scarcity has several definitions. Physical scarcity occurs when there is not enough water to meet demand; its symptoms include severe environmental degradation, declining groundwater, and unequal water distribution.3 Economic water scarcity occurs when there is a lack of investment and proper management to meet the demand of people who do not have the financial means to use existing water sources; the symptoms in this case normally include poor infrastructure.4 Large parts of Africa suffer from economic water scarcity. (See Figure 1.)
To measure water scarcity, hydrologists compare the size of a population with the amount of available water. According to the United Nations, an area is said to be experiencing water stress when annual water supplies fall below 1,700 cubic meters per person.5 A region is said to face water scarcity when supplies fall below 1,000 cubic meters per person, and absolute water scarcity is when supplies drop below 500 cubic meters a year.6
Regionally, nearly all Arab countries are considered water-scarce, with consumption of water significantly exceeding total renewable supplies.7 The region has less than 500 cubic meters of renewable water resources available per person annually.8 About 66 percent of Africa is arid or semiarid, and more than 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live on less than 1,000 cubic meters of water resources each.9 (See Table 1.)
Although the Asia-Pacific region is home to almost 60 percent of the world's population, it only has 36 percent of global water resources.10 In 2009, the region had 2,970 cubic meters of water resources per person.11 Although this is not a sign of water scarcity, it is still less than half of the world's average of 6,236 annual cubic meters.12 Parts of northern China, India, and Pakistan suffer from both physical and economic scarcity. In comparison, the average amount of water available per person in Latin America is about 7,200 cubic meters, although it is only 2,466 cubic meters in the Caribbean.13
North America and Europe, in contrast, are well endowed with renewable water resources. Canada and the United States have about 85,310 and 9,888 cubic meters of water resources per person, respectively, while Europe has almost 4,741 cubic meters.14 People in these regions also consume a considerable amount of "virtual water"—water that is used in the production of goods, especially agricultural products such as grain, which can then be traded. According to UN Water, each person in North America and Europe (excluding former Soviet Union countries) consumes at least 3 cubic meters per day of virtual water in imported food, compared with 1.4 cubic meters per day in Asia and 1.1 cubic meters per day in Africa.15
Water resources face many pressures, including population growth, increased urbanization and overconsumption, lack of proper management, and the looming threat of climate change. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN Water, global water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century.16 World population is predicted to grow from 7 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050, putting a strain on water resources to meet increased food, energy, and industrial demands.17
At the global level, 70 percent of water withdrawals are for the agricultural sector, 11 percent are to meet municipal demands, and 19 percent are for industrial needs.18 These numbers, however, are distorted by the few countries that have very high water withdrawals, such as China, India, and the United States. A breakdown of water withdrawal by sector and region is shown in Figure 2.
Agriculture is one the most water-intensive sectors, currently accounting for more than 90 percent of consumptive use.19 Agricultural water withdrawal accounts for 44 percent of total water withdrawal among members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), but this rises to more than 60 percent within the eight OECD countries that rely heavily on irrigated agriculture.20 In the four transitional economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, agriculture accounts for 74 percent of water withdrawals, but this ranges from 20 percent in the Russia to 87 percent in India.21
Water use in agriculture is often inefficient, which has led to the overexploitation of groundwater resources as well as the depletion of the natural flow of major rivers, such as the Ganges in India and the Yellow River in China. Around 54 percent of the total area available for irrigation is irrigated with surface water, 5 percent with groundwater, and 41 percent with a combination of both sources.22 But when both sources are used together, less than 15 percent of it is surface water, which has led to a doubling of the global depletion of groundwater resources in the last 50 years.23 The Ganges, Indus, and Yellow River basins in Asia have already reached high levels of water crowding and suffer from sever water shortage due to overuse.24
Policymakers must introduce a variety of measures to address global water scarcity. One important initiative is to support small-scale farmers. Much of the public investment in agricultural water management has focused on large-scale irrigation systems. But supporting smallholder farmers, who in general operate without large infrastructure such as dams, canals, and distribution devices, can decrease the amount of water used in the agricultural sector. This support must be accompanied by smart subsidies. In India, for example, many farmers who receive free electricity all day are experiencing groundwater depletion due to overpumping.25 To address this issue, policymakers in the state of Gujarat reduced the amount of time that farmers could pump water to eight hours on a pre-announced schedule that meets peak demand but also reduces total water usage.26
Farmers can also use water more efficiently by taking a number of steps, including growing a diverse array of crops suited to local conditions, especially in drought-prone regions; practicing agroforestry to build strong root systems and reduce soil erosion; maintaining healthy soils, either by applying organic fertilizer or growing cover crops to retain soil moisture; and adopting irrigation systems like "drip" lines that deliver water directly to plants' roots. Rice farmers, for example, can adopt the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), which not only increases crop yields but uses 20–50 percent less water than conventional rice production.27 SRI is an innovative method of increasing the productivity of irrigated rice with very simple adjustments to traditional techniques. It involves transplanting younger seedlings into a field with wider spacing in a square pattern, irrigating to keep the roots moist and aerated instead of flooding fields, and increasing organic matter in the soil with compost and manure.28
While the growing world population is increasing the pressure on land and water resources, economic growth and individual wealth are shifting people from predominantly starch-based diets to meat and dairy, which require more water. Producing 1 kilogram of rice, for example, requires about 3,500 liters of water, while 1 kilogram of beef needs some 15,000 liters.29 (See Table 2.) This dietary shift has had the greatest impact on water consumption over the past 30 years and is likely to continue well into the middle of this century, according to FAO.30
Water challenges are compounded by the fact that agriculture competes with other uses, including hydropower. All forms of energy require water at some stage of their life cycle, which includes production, conversion, distribution, and use. Energy and electricity consumption are likely to increase over the next 25 years in all regions, with the majority of this increase occurring in non-OECD countries. This will have direct implications for the water resources needed to supply this energy. It is anticipated that water requirements for energy production will increase by 11.2 percent by 2050 if the current mix of energy sources is maintained.31 Under a scenario that assumes increasing energy efficiency of consumption modes, the World Energy Council estimates that water requirements for energy production could decrease by 2.9 percent by 2050.32
Luckily, there are also technical solutions to more-efficient water use in the energy sector. For example, brackish water, mine pool water, or domestic wastewater and dry cooling techniques have been used for cooling power plants. Research is also ongoing into the water efficiency of biofuels, the energy efficiency of desalination, and the reduction of evaporation from reservoirs.33
Climate change will also affect global water resources at varying levels. Reductions in river runoff and aquifer recharge are expected in the Mediterranean basin and in the semiarid areas of the Americas, Australia, and southern Africa, affecting water availability in regions that are already water-stressed. In Asia—in particular, in countries such as Pakistan—the large areas of irrigated land that rely on snowmelt and high mountain glaciers for water will be affected by changes in runoff patterns, while highly populated deltas are at risk from a combination of reduced inflows, increased salinity, and rising sea levels. And rising temperatures will translate into increased crop water demand everywhere.34
To combat the effects of climate change, efforts must be made to follow an integrated water resource management approach on a global scale. This involves water management that recognizes the holistic nature of the water cycle and the importance of managing trade-offs within it, that emphasizes the importance of effective institutions, and that is inherently adaptive.35
[1] UN Water, "Water for Life 2005-2015: Water Scarcity," at www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml, viewed 20 February 2013.
[2] Ibid.
[3] U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Coping with Water Scarcity: An Action Framework for Agriculture and Food Security, FAO Water Report 38 (Rome: 2012).
[4] Ibid.
[5] UN Water, op. cit. note 1.
[6] Ibid.
[7] World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), World Water Development Report, Vol. 1: Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk (Paris: UNESCO, 2012).
[8] Ibid.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Ibid.
[11] Ibid.
[12] FAO, AQUASTAT, at www.fao.org/nr/water/, viewed 1 March 2013.
[13] WWAP, op. cit. note 7.
[14] Worldwatch calculation based on total renewable water resources from FAO, op. cit. note 12; total renewable water resources from European Environment Agency, "Water Availability," at www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/water-resources/water-availability, 18 February 2008; population data from U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, at esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Excel-Data/population.htm, viewed 1 March 2013.
[15] WWAP, op. cit. note 7.
[16] UN Water, "Statistics: Graphs & Maps," at www.unwater.org/statistics_use.html, viewed on 22 February 2013.
[17] WWAP, op. cit. note 7
[18] FAO, AQUASTAT, at www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/water_use/index.stm, viewed 1 March 2013.
[19] FAO, op. cit. note 3.
[20] WWAP, op. cit. note 7.
[21] Ibid.
[22] S. Siebert et al., "Groundwater Use for Irrigation—A Global Inventory," Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 14 (2010), pp. 1,863–80.
[23] A. Jägerskog and T. Jønch Clausen, eds., Feeding a Thirsty World: Challenges and Opportunities for a Water and Food Secure World (Stockholm: Stockholm International Water Institute, 2012).
[24] Ibid.
[25] UNICEF, "Water in India: Situation and Prospects," at www.unicef.org/india/media_8098.htm, viewed 1 March 2013.
[26] Jägerskog and Jønch Clausen, op. cit. note 23.
[27] System of Rice Intensification, "Frequently Asked Questions," at sri.ciifad.cornell.edu/aboutsri/FAQs1.html#whatarethemain, viewed 6 March 2013.
[28] Ibid.
[29] WWAP, op. cit. note 7; Pacific Institute, "Water Content of Things," at www.worldwater.org/data20082009/Table19.pdf, viewed 3 March 2013.
[30] FAO, op. cit. note 3.
[31] WWAP, op. cit. note 7.
[32] Ibid. Percentage calculated by the WWAP report based on World Energy Council numbers.
[33] Ibid.
[34] Hugh Turral, Jacob Burke, and Jean-Marc Faurès, Climate Change, Water and Food Security (Rome: FAO, 2011).
[35] WWAP, op. cit. note 7.

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The stimulus was historic in size and included funding for infrastructure projects, tax cuts, "green" projects and other areas meant to save/create jobs or stimulate the economy. A few weeks ago we published a piece on how this landmark rescue package impacted Pickens County. The original story is available here.
Pickens received about $25 million of the $840 billion that has been distributed around the country. Of that, $5.1 million went to education, $5.9 went to Small Business Administration Loans, and $6.8 went to North Georgia Community Action to weatherize homes or prevent eviction or foreclosure. The rest went to low-income housing loans, the Boys & Girls Club of North Georgia, the county government for a raised water tank, and a few other areas.
Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf recently told congress, "Our position is that [the stimulus] created higher [production] and employment than would have occurred without it."
We agree but only to a small degree.
While researching the local impact, we found the stimulus did plenty of good: saving nearly 30 jobs in the local school system; creating some jobs through small business start-ups that received SBA loans; employing local contractors through weatherization programs, among other things. But our research also showed that while the government is capable of creating these jobs, it isn't very efficient about doing it, and it didn't create many here. All of the red tape associated with the federal money also made it difficult to make a quick impact, and the stimulus fell short of creating a long-term, sustainable job market.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, unemployment here recently peaked in January 2010 at 11.3 percent and fell into the 9 percent range through October of 2010. After October 2010, unemployment again rose above 10 percent, and it wasn't until the end of last year that it fell below nine percent. To offer some perspective, unemployment in Pickens County fell below two percent in the late 1990s and quickly rose from around three to four percent in 2007 to over 10 percent in 2009. In that short two-year period of time, nearly 2,000 jobs were lost here. Yes, there were jobs created through the stimulus, but the number of those new jobs was just a handful compared to the number of jobs lost, and many of the new ones are already gone.
For example, take the positions created through the North Georgia Community Action organization (just over 30 in the 10-county region served), which were temporary and quickly disappeared with the weatherization program. Then look at the school system. While there were employees retained with stimulus dollars, the system still faces the same massive state budget cuts, and the stimulus money has now disappeared. They are now looking at a huge increase in health insurance costs for school employees and have said drastic steps to weather these costs are now under consideration.
Barring the school system, we also think it took too long for stimulus money to have any effect. Take, for example, the water tank on Whorley Crossroads, the county's "shovel-ready" project that practically drowned in red tape. County water director Larry Coleman said the county could have applied for other projects through the stimulus, "but we had to jump through so many hoops for that money it wasn't worth it," he said. It took months and several amended applications before work could begin.
Instead of these shovel-ready projects, why couldn't the federal government implement something similar to the Work Project Administration, the agency created under the New Deal. Instead of workers having to be already employed by a company, this model put unemployed and unskilled people to work for eight years on public works projects in nearly every community.
We like the fact homes were weatherized here, that people avoided foreclosure and that a handful of people got or retained a job. We aren't opposed to stimulus packages as a way to help the economy, but the largest stimulus package in history fell short of its potential.


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Sonza's Wilson Cocktail
1/2 Gin. (1 oz Square One Botanical*)
1/2 Cherry Brandy. (1 oz Clear Creek Kirsch)
4 Dashes Lemon Juice or Lime Juice. (10ml Lemon Juice)
4 Dashes Grenadine. (10ml Small Hand Foods Grenadine)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Well, after using Tequila in the last cocktail, what do I have to lose?
This is another cocktail in the "Rose" family, which, by all rights should be composed of 1 oz of Gin, 1 oz of Cherry Heering, dashes of lemon, and dashes of Grenadine.
I'm sorry, but that didn't sound very appealing at all. So I decided to throw that idea to the wind, and give this a twist.
Square One Botanical is a vodka infused with various botanicals and then distilled. But for the fact that it has no Juniper, it could almost be a gin. When I decided to use Kirsch for this, I also thought, hm, Square One Botanical!
However, as Square One Botanical did not exist in 1930, I suppose I should think of another name…
How about this?
Rosa californica**
1 oz Square One Botanical
1 oz Kirsch (Cherry Eau-de-Vie)
2 10ml/2tsp. Lemon Juice
2 10ml/2tsp. Grenadine
Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
And goddamn, I was as right with this idea as I was wrong with the Sonora. Floral, light, and delicious. Very nice. Though, technically, if I really want to make a cocktail called "Wild California Rose", I should be using a Kirsch from this state. Doesn't St. George make one?
Most importantly, should you order this cocktail during the next Savoy Night at Alembic Bar, May 23rd, 2010? Well, unless you ask specifically for the underhill version, you will probably get the rather sickly sweet sounding exact Savoy recipe. I am also not sure if Alembic even has Square One Botanical. Seems like pretty dodgy chances.
*The Square One Botanical in this cocktail was sent to me by Square One. It works quite well in this cocktail. Unfortunately, it's fairly unique, so I have no real substitution suggestions. Hendrick's maybe, though it would be a very different drink.
**The "Scientific" name for the Wild California Rose. Hrm. OK, fine, Mr. Stickler man, it's actually the Linnaean classification for the Wild California Rose.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Windows is a widely-spread operating system from Microsoft.
There are 2 main branches of Windows:
- the DOS-branch: i.e. Windows 95, 98, ME
- the NT-branch: i.e. Windows NT 4, XP, Vista
- 1 Features
- 1.1 Introduced in Windows NT
- 1.2 Introduced in Windows 2000
- 1.3 Introduced in Windows XP
- 1.4 Introduced in Windows Server 2003
- 1.5 Introduced in Windows Vista
- 1.6 Introduced in Windows Server 2008
- 1.7 Introduced in Windows 7
- 1.8 Introduced in Windows 8
- 1.9 Introduced in Windows Server 2012
- 2 Forensics
- 2.1 Partition layout
- 2.2 Filesystems
- 2.3 Hosts information
- 2.4 Recycle Bin
- 2.5 Registry
- 2.6 Thumbs.db Files
- 2.7 Browser Cache
- 2.8 Browser History
- 2.9 Search
- 2.10 Setup API Logs
- 2.11 Scheduled Tasks
- 2.12 Sleep/Hibernation
- 2.13 Users
- 2.14 Crash and minidumps
- 2.15 Windows Error Reporting (WER)
- 3 Advanced Format (4KB Sector) Hard Drives
- 4 %SystemRoot%
- 5 See Also
- 6 External Links
- 6.1 Recycle Bin
- 6.2 Malware/Rootkits
- 6.3 Tracking removable media
- 6.4 Under the hood
- 6.4.1 Windows File Protection (WFP)
- 6.4.3 Side-by-side (WinSxS)
- 6.4.4 System Restore (Restore Points)
- 6.4.5 Crash dumps
- 6.4.6 Kerberos
- 6.4.7 Reliability Monitoring
- 6.4.9 User Account Control (UAC)
- 6.4.10 Windows Event Logs
- 6.4.11 Windows Scripting Host
- 6.4.14 Windows Error Reporting (WER)
- 6.4.15 Windows Firewall
- 6.4.16 Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit (WoW64)
- 6.5 Windows XP
- 6.6 Windows Scheduler
- Basic and Dynamic Disks, see: [1]
Introduced in Windows NT
Introduced in Windows 2000
Introduced in Windows XP
- Prefetch
- System Restore (Restore Points); also present in Windows ME
- Windows Firewall
Introduced in Windows Server 2003
- Volume Shadow Copies
Introduced in Windows Vista
- BitLocker
- Search integrated in operating system
- ReadyBoost
- SuperFetch
- Transactional NTFS (TxF)
- Transactional Registry (TxR)
- Shadow Volumes; the volume-based storage of the Volume Shadow Copy data
- $Recycle.Bin
- Windows XML Event Log (EVTX)
- User Account Control (UAC)
Introduced in Windows Server 2008
Introduced in Windows 7
Introduced in Windows 8
- File History
- Storage Spaces
- Search Charm History
- Resilient File System (ReFS); Was initially available in the Windows 8 server edition.
Introduced in Windows Server 2012
Partition layout
Default partition layout, first partition starts:
- at sector 63 in Windows 2000, XP, 2003
- at sector 2048 in Windows Vista, 2008, 7
Hosts information
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\lmhosts.sam
Recycle Bin
The Recycle Bin contains "Recycled" files. Moving files and directories to the Recycle Bin is also referred to as soft deletion, since the files are not removed from the file system.
The Recycler format is used by Windows 2000, XP.
Per user Recycle Bin folder in the form:
Which contains:
- INFO2 file; "Recycled" files metadata
The $Recycle.Bin is used as of Windows Vista.
Per user Recycle Bin folder in the form:
Which contains:
- $I files; "Recycled" file metadata
- $R files; the original data
The Windows Registry is a database of keys and values that provides a wealth of information to forensic investigators.
Thumbs.db Files
Thumbs.db files can be found on many Windows systems. They contain thumbnails of images or documents and can be of great value for the investigator.
See also: Vista thumbcache.
Browser Cache
Browser History
The Web Browser History files can contain significant information. The default web browser that comes with Windows is Microsoft Internet Explorer but other common browsers on Windows are Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
Setup API Logs
Windows Vista introduced several new Setup API Log files.
Also see [2].
Scheduled Tasks
In Windows the Scheduled Tasks can be found in:
This directory contains .job files which are in the Windows Job File Format.
In later versions of Windows (at least Windows 7) XML-based equivalents can be found in the following locations:
C:\Windows\System32\Tasks C:\Windows\SysWow64\Tasks
After (at least) Windows 7 recovers from sleep/hibernation there often is a system time change event (event id 1) in the event logs.
Windows stores a users Security identifiers (SIDs) under the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
The %SID%\ProfileImagePath value should also contain the username.
Crash and minidumps
Windows Error Reporting (WER)
As of Vista, for User Access Control (UAC) elevated applications WER reports can be found in:
As of Vista, for non-UAC elevated applications (LUA) WER reports can be found in:
Corresponding registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting
Advanced Format (4KB Sector) Hard Drives
Windows XP does not natively handle drives that use the new standard of 4KB sectors. For information on this, see Advanced Format.
The actual value of %SystemRoot% is store in the following registry value:
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ Value: SystemRoot
See Also
- Prefetch
- Setup API Logs
- SuperFetch
- Windows Application Compatibility
- Windows Desktop Search
- Windows Event Log (EVT)
- Windows Job File Format
- Windows XML Event Log (EVTX)
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
External Links
- Wikipedia: Microsoft Windows
- Windows 8 File History Forensics
- Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Vista setup log file locations
- The Forensic Analysis of the Microsoft Windows Vista Recycle Bin, by Mitchell Machor, 2008
- Microsoft Windows File System Tunneling, by Eric Huber, February 24, 2013
- Spotting the Adversary with Windows Event Log Monitoring, by National Security Agency/Central Security Service, February 28, 2013
- Search history on Windows 8 and 8.1, by Yogesh Khatri's, April 1, 2014
- Search history on windows 8.1 - Part 2, by Yogesh Khatri's, April 21, 2014
Recycle Bin
- Lesson 3 – The Recycle Bin, by Steve Hailey
- The Forensic Analysis of the Microsoft Windows Vista Recycle Bin, by Mitchell Machor, January 22, 2008
- Inside Windows Rootkits, by Chad Tilbury, September 4, 2013
Tracking removable media
- Tracking USB First insertion in Event logs, by Yogesh Khatri, August 18, 2012
Under the hood
- MSDN: Comparing Memory Allocation Methods, by Microsoft
- How Windows Starts Up (Part the second)
- DLL/COM Redirection
- Dynamic-Link Library Search Order
- Image File Execution Options
- Load Library Safely, by Swamy Shivaganga Nagaraju, 13 May 2014
- Happy DPAPI!, by Francesco Picasso, January 13, 2015
Windows File Protection (WFP)
- Description of the Windows File Protection feature
- Description of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 System File Checker (Sfc.exe)
- Changes to Package Caching in Windows Installer 5.0, by Heath Stewart, February 2, 2009
- MSI: The Case Of The Invalid Signature, by Didier Stevens, July 26, 2013
Side-by-side (WinSxS)
- Wikipedia: Side-by-side assembly
- Assembly Searching Sequence
- RT_MANIFEST resource, and ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED
- Isolated Applications and Side-by-side Assemblies
- DotLocal (.local) Dll Redirection, by Junfeng Zhang, January 24, 2006
- Diagnosing SideBySide failures, by Junfeng Zhang, April 14, 2006
- DLL Side-loading: A Thorn in the Side of the Anti-Virus Industry, by Amanda Stewart, April 2014
System Restore (Restore Points)
- Wikipedia: System Restore
- MSDN: Legacy System Restore Reference
- Restore Point Forensics, by Steve Bunting
- Forensic Analysis of System Restore Points in Microsoft Windows XP, by Kris Harms, July 2006
- Restore Point Forensics, by Harlan Carvey, October 20, 2006
- ProScript to parse rp.log file from XP System Restore Points (PD/IR 4.85+), by Harlan Carvey, October 26, 2006
- Restore Point Analysis, by Harlan Carvey, June 16, 2007
- Enscript Tutorial 1 - Parse XP System Restore Logs, by Yogesh Khatri, March 2, 2012
- System Restore Point Log Decoding
Crash dumps
- Technet: Drwtsn32 on Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2, by Yong Rhee, December 29, 2010
- MSDN: How to read the small memory dump file that is created by Windows if a crash occurs, by Microsoft
- Protection from Kerberos Golden Ticket - Mitigating pass the ticket on Active Directory, CERT-EU, July 2014
- Abusing Microsoft Kerberos - Sorry you guys don't get it, by Benjamin Delpy, August 13, 2014
Reliability Monitoring
- Stability Index and Reliability, by Paul Bobby, January 17, 2011
- Windows 7 Reliability Monitor Forensic Artifacts, by phx4n6, January 3, 2014
- RPC to Go v.1, by Michael Platts, October 24, 2008
- RPC to Go v.2, by Michael Platts, December 4, 2008
User Account Control (UAC)
- User Account Control – What Penetration Testers Should Know, by Raphael Mudge, March 20, 2014
Windows Event Logs
- Exploring the Program Inventory Event Log, by Corey Harrell, March 24, 2014
Windows Scripting Host
- Going To Ground with The Windows Scripting Host (WSH), by Devon Kerr, February 19, 2014
- USBKEY Guide, by SANS Institute - Digital Forensics and Incident Response, September 2009
- USB Drive Enclosure Guide, by SANS Institute - Digital Forensics and Incident Response, September 2009
- Understanding WMI Malware, by Julius Dizon, Lennard Galang, and Marvin Cruz, July 2010
Windows Error Reporting (WER)
- Drwtsn32 on Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2, by Yong Rhee, December 29, 2010
- Exploring Windows Error Reporting, by Corey Harrell, February 24, 2014
Windows Firewall
Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit (WoW64)
Windows XP
Windows Scheduler
- Windows Scheduler (at job) Forensics, by johnmccash, September 16, 2009


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Presented before the 48th National Convention of Bank Administration Institute-September 1972
A perusal of business literature, particularly that of your industry, over the past few years suggests that banking can expect to undergo significant changes in the seventies. To some degree, these decennial predictions traditionally anticipate more radical or daring change than usually occurs, for it is our nature as human beings to accept changes gradually. With almost 14,000 commercial banks in the United States, it is easy to understand why changes in banking practices tend to be more evolutionary than revolutionary.
Nonetheless, a greater share of the predictions may be realized in this decade than in those past. The formation of bank holding companies may perhaps be the most significant factor in stimulating changes by broadening the range of services provided by banks. Richard Cooley of Wells Fargo has described the holding company as a "one-stop financial center" and the decade as one in which the emphasis will be on new services and marketing. Stated another way, it will be a decade of developing new approaches to improving bank profitability.
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EDITORIAL: Lawmakers should support $7.545 billion water bond
Gov. Jerry Brown and most legislative leaders agreed on a $7.545 billion water bond early Wednesday, and Democratic and Republican lawmakers should give voters a chance to decide its fate.
The final bond is bigger than the $6 billion Brown initially proposed. But it is pared back from the $11 billion that was fashioned by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009 and otherwise would appear on the November ballot. Brown has said he would oppose it, all but ensuring it would fail.
The new bond would include $400 million unspent from past water bonds, so the bonded indebtedness would be roughly $7.1 billion if lawmakers and voters approve it.
The final measure headed for a vote this afternoon and evening includes several sweeteners intended to attract legislative support.
Most notably, the bond would include $2.7 billion for new water storage, a bump up of $200 million from an earlier proposal. The $2.7 billion could be spent on dams and reservoirs, or on storage in aquifers.
Republicans had sought $3 billion. But they ought to settle on the lesser number. The deal won't get better.
In the final negotiations, completed before dawn Wednesday, Democrats received an additional $150 million for their priorities. There is, for example, more money to restore coastal watersheds, which is intended to attract support from lawmakers who represent the Central Coast.
The bill includes money for restoration of urban rivers in San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles counties, and there is money for recycling, which is viewed as important to San Diego, and to clean polluted groundwater in the Los Angeles area.
Importantly, Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, taking the lead for Delta interests, is the lead author of the Senate version of the bill, SB 866.
She had insisted that bond include no money that could be perceived as helping bring about the twin tunnel project that Brown supports. Wolk appears to have succeeded.
The bill's supporters include business groups such as the California Chamber of Commerce, major farm organizations, and many environmentalist organizations. Some moneyed interests and some environmentalists will oppose the bond. The issue does, after all, involve water.
But California's three-year-long drought makes clear to the rest of us what experts long have been saying. California's water system is in need of an overhaul. Republican and Democratic legislators' support tonight is key to that process.


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Eight host venues spanning the Middle East, Asia, South America and Europe have been announced for the 2013 Extreme Sailing Series, marking the third year of truly global competition for the circuit first launched as a European only event in 2007. The Series' award-winning Stadium Racing format will return to all seven of the intense stadium arenas from 2012 with Singapore returning as a venue after hosting successful test and exhibition events in 2010 and 2011. Eight iconic locations, on three continents.
From the Series opener to be staged 5th-8th March at The Wave, Muscat in Oman for the third consecutive year, to the grand finale in November on the 2016 Olympic waters of Rio de Janeiro, the Extreme Sailing Series rhythm beats regularly with one exciting Act in an iconic location roughly every five weeks. Early March, some new faces and teams will line up against the more seasoned crews for the first time on the home turf of defending Series champions The Wave, Muscat, once again skippered by Leigh McMillan.
Next stop is Singapore where the fleet will race within the confines of the world-famous Marina Bay. Flanked by a 3.5km waterfront promenade and situated in the heart of this high-rise cosmopolitan city, Marina Bay provides a picture-perfect natural water stadium for the Extreme Sailing Series, in what is likely to be a tense light winds event.
In May the fleet returns to China's 'Olympic Sailing City' Qingdao, China's premier sailing destination that boasts first class facilities at its International Sailing Centre ensuring the Olympic legacy is still very much alive in this sprawling city. The waters separating Asia and Europe will host Act 4 in the magnificent and cultural city of Istanbul, Turkey, prospective Olympic Host Venue, before the customary European component of the Series starts. Porto, Portugal, with the most compact and windy racecourse of 2012, will host Act 5. Then it's onto Cardiff, capital of Wales for the Cardiff Harbour Festival where the Extreme 40s will race on Europe's largest waterfront development over the UK August bank holiday weekend. Nice, on the French Riviera will be the final European stop early October before the fleet heads back to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the concluding Act of 2013, which less then eight weeks ago hosted the 2012 finale.
The Format
It is high-speed, adrenaline-fueled racing on intense stadium race courses which, without compromising the sporting integrity of the racing, has now been watched first-hand by over 1 million spectators on site at venues around the globe. Some longer distance 'coastal races' and a Saturday evening special format race will be added to the 2013 event mix. Retaining the same successful format as previous years, racing will take place over four days: one day of potential open water racing followed by three days of stadium racing open to public and VIP guests. The free public Race Village in each venue will continue to expand the on land entertainment experience, which in Muscat will include Red Bull free runners, a family activity area, 'try sailing' sessions for local school groups and a football tournament which in 2012 attracted 130 local teams.
Sailing fans around the world will be able to watch the stadium racing as it happens on the online live video stream enhanced by SAP analytics and including expert commentary from each venue.
As one of the best value for money sailing sponsorship opportunities, with eight international markets, a 2012 media value projection (still being collated) of €30million and a premium VIP experience, including the money-can't-buy Guest Sailor spot onboard the Extreme 40s, the Extreme Sailing Series continues to attract world class teams and a host of commercial partners including Series, Host Venue and local event partners in each venue.
The Host Venue tender process for 2014 will open shortly, with potentially up to five new venue slots available, due to venue deals coming to the end of their initial terms.
2013 Extreme Sailing Series Calendar
Act 1: Muscat, Oman 5-8 March
Act 2: Singapore 11-14 April
Act 3: Qingdao, China 2-5 May
Act 4: Istanbul, Turkey 20-23 June
Act 5: Porto, Portugal 25-28 July
Act 6: Cardiff, Wales 23-26 August (Media day 22 August)
Act 7: Nice, France 3-6 Oct
Act 8: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 14-17 Nov
(Media day 13 November) Day 1 of each Act is the official Media Day, followed by three days of stadium racing where the event opens to the public. In Cardiff and Rio de Janeiro all 4 days of racing will be public, with a non-scoring media day before the event publicly opens.
(Original source: Extreme Sailing Series)


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New details have surfaced about Bethesda's lawsuit against Interplay over trademark infringement. Or lawsuits, because, as you can see in the court filings, there are two of them.
The first one, as we described in the previous newspost, is over the rights to Fallout Online (codenamed Project V13). The second one, however, is over Interplay's re-releases of original Fallout games, like the Fallout Trilogy pack or various digital distribution sites.
Turns out that, while Interplay was permitted to sell Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics the contract required all advertising, packaging and other promotional material to be sent to Bethesda for approval first, which, according to the lawsuit, was never done regarding neither the Fallout Trilogy pack, nor any of the releases through Good Old Games, Steam and other digital distribution platforms. Bethesda also claims that the name Trilogy constitutes unfair competition, since it suggests that the pack includes Fallout 3.
To sum it up, Interplay is accused of two counts of breach of contract (regarding Fallout Online and the previous Fallout games), trademark infringement and unfrair competition. Bethesda demands that Interplay stop manufacturing and distributing the original Fallout games, as well as pay for damages and legal fees, and asks for the trademark agreement to be declared terminated.
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Our nation's coastal waters are vital resources to the local economies along their shores; they contain habitats rich with life and are welcomed destinations for many a traveler. But a recent report released by the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy warns of a bleak future for these areas and the delicate ecosystems they support. The reason: low-oxygen "dead zones."
The condition, known as hypoxia, has serious repercussions for marine ecosystems. Nearly half of the 647 waterways in the study showed dead zones, with the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay Area and coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest topping the list. These unnaturally low levels of oxygen are largely due to human activities, including runoff from fertilizers used in agricultural production.
Since 1998, American Farmland Trust has been working together with the agricultural community through our BMP Challenge to help farmers adopt conservation practices in sensitive watersheds. The program seeks to help farmers enhance their nutrient management practices and reduce fertilizer run-off that can impair local and regional water quality. With more than 9,200 acres in seven Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states enrolled, the BMP Challenge has effectively engaged farmers to test and adopt innovative approaches and spur improvements to policies and programs that support farmers' adoption of environmentally sound practices.
Thanks to initiatives like the BMP Challenge, progress in reducing nutrient runoff and mitigating the impact on regional waters is being realized. In one example, American Farmland Trust is working with farmers in coastal states committed to the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement to adopt conservation practices in a region that has seen increases in hypoxia for more than 30 years. Our goal is to continue to scale up the BMP challenge across the nation, matching it with our work on ecosystem services markets to create a future where farmers are an active part of securing cleaner water across the country.
However, there is much more work to be done if we hope to truly protect our nations' waters. And it is up to all of us to take part in that discussion.
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Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable weather behind us. It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.
After a little further conversation to the same effect, we returned into the castle, where we found Miss Skiffins preparing tea. The responsible duty of making the toast was delegated to the Aged, and that excellent old gentleman was so intent upon it that he seemed to be in some danger of melting his eyes. It was no nominal meal that we were going to make, but a vigorous reality. The Aged prepared such a haystack of buttered toast that I could scarcely see him over it as it simmered on an iron stand hooked onto the top-bar; while Miss Skiffins brewed such a jorum of tea that the pig in the back premises became strongly excited, and repeatedly expressed his desire to participate in the entertainment.


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Recap: Holmes 3-pointer sends Texas over K-State 67-64
AUSTIN, Texas — Jonathan Holmes delivered the shot. Cameron Ridley provided the muscle.
Texas won again, this time 67-64 over No. 22 Kansas State and the Longhorns keep climbing upward in the Big 12.
Holmes made a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer from the corner at the buzzer Tuesday night, sending Texas to its fourth straight league victory and second in a row over a ranked team.
"I just caught it and shot it," Holmes said, adding he had no time to think before putting the ball in the air.
The Longhorns (15-4, 4-2) are giving the Big 12 plenty to think about. A team that started with no expectations after a losing season in 2012-13, the program's first in 15 years, is now feeling like it can chase the league heavyweights over a long season.
And maybe even challenge for the title.
"That's what we're playing for," Holmes said.
Ridley scored 18 points in a game-long tug-of-war under the basket with Kansas State's Thomas Gipson, who scored 24 points.
Javan Felix had 23 points for the Longhorns, including two big baskets late that helped prevent the Wildcats from taking the lead.
Holmes finished with 10 points, eight in the second half.
Texas had almost blown its chance for the game-winner when the Longhorns nearly botched an inbounds pass with 3 seconds left. But after a quick timeout, Isaiah Taylor zipped the ball to the Holmes in the corner and he put up the shot over two defenders. The ball swished through the basket at the buzzer and Holmes was mobbed by his teammates.
If Texas had run the play correctly the first time, Holmes was open for an easy layup. The longer, harder shot delivered the same result with a little more drama. The Longhorns were coming off a win over then-No. 8 Iowa State.
Kansas State (14-5, 4-2) had tied the game at 64 on Shane Southwell's twisting, off-balance layup with 5 seconds to play after Felix had missed two free throws that likely would have put the game out of reach.
"(Holmes) could have easily (scored)," the first time, Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said. "That's a big shot. They're close to being a Top 25 team, too. It's going to be like this all year in the league."
The game was tight the entire way as Ridley and Gipson battled under the basket and neither team let the other build any kind of offensive momentum. The biggest lead was six points. The teams were tied or traded leads 12 times in the final 9 minutes.
"We let them get us in a grinder a little bit," Texas coach Rick Barnes said.
The Longhorns had a chance to push the lead to eight late in the first half before Ridley was whistled for an offensive foul. Gipson kept the Wildcats within four with a layup as time expired.
Ridley picked up a second foul early in the second half and went to the bench for nearly 4 minutes. Gipson converted the three-point play and the Wildcats cut the lead to 40-39 when Gipson scored again. Ridley returned and quickly made a midrange jumper on his first touch, then denied Gipson a shot on the other end.
"I shot every shot with confidence. They kept trusting me to throw it back to me," Ridley said.
Kansas State grabbed the lead at 52-49 when Southwell made two free throws and Wesley Iwundu made a fastbreak layup. Felix briefly restored Texas' lead with a baseline floater, his first points in nearly 6 minutes, before Southwell made a 3-pointer that started a flurry of back-and-forth lead changes and ties.
Felix made two free throws to put Texas ahead 61-60 with just under 2 minutes left. Holmes made one of two before Felix made another off-balance baseline shot to make it 64-60.
Southwell's layup tied it before Texas got two chances to find the game-winner from Holmes.
"You go on the road you and have a chance to grab a game, you have a chance to break their spirit," Weber said. "We didn't do it."


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Bahrain to boost trade relations with Asia
Manama, May 30, 2012
Bahrain's HRH Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa is set to play a major role in spurring trade relations with Asia at the 21st World Economic Forum on East Asia (WEF) which opens in Bangkok today (May 30).
The forum, which runs until Friday, is being held under the theme 'Shaping the Region's Future through Connectivity'.
The Nation, the leading English-language newspaper in Thailand, hailed the Premier as a high-level guest and described the event as a 'heavyweight session'.
HRH the Premier and his counterparts from Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung, Laos Thongsing Thammavong and Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra as well as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will share their views on the challenges and opportunities shaping East Asia.
The Premier is taking part in the forum following an invitation from Shinawatra, thus acknolwedging the key role Bahrain might play in promoting a brighter future for Asia.
He will also deliver a keynote speech, outlining his vision and exchanging views on challenges and opportunities for Asean states.
HRH the Premier's participation at such a key economic event was also highlighted by the Bangkok Post and other Thai-language newspapers, which asserted that his participation in the forum is proof that Bahrain and Asean countries are keen to consolidate co-operation to maintain their growth rates.
His participation is a recognition of his vast experience as a decision-maker and leader, whose wisdom and sound policies have yielded political, economic and social achievements in Bahrain.
More than 50 public figures representing 20 countries, 450 business leaders, 60 global companies, 33 young global leaders and 14 social entrepreneurs along with other members of civil society and academia, will attend WEF. – TradeArabia News Service