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Ground-based, air-borne, and space-borne remote sensing techniques have evolved over the past several decades and provided many new techniques for estimating various land surface attributes at multiple scales related to mass and energy dynamics. The vadose zone, encompassing land surface, root zone, and the deeper soil profile down to the groundwater table, is a complex domain, particularly related to various hydrologic and biological processes across different scales. In this zone, spatial distributions and temporal dynamics of soil moisture and evapotranspiration (ET), including their interdependence, are critical to climate feedback, hydrology, and plant canopy health. Their temporal and spatial variability across catchments affect surface and subsurface runoff, modulates evaporation and transpiration, determines the extent of groundwater recharge and contaminant transport, and initiates or sustains feedback between the land surface and the atmosphere. With the recent development and deployment of various remote sensing platforms working with different techniques such as optical, microwave, gravitational, infrared, and other sensors, improved temporal and spatial measurement or estimates of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, soil hydraulic parameters, soil salinity, and vegetation attributes are possible. In this special section "Remote Sensing for Vadose Zone Hydrology," 14 contributions on fundamental and applied studies using different remote sensing platforms, including satellite retrieval algorithm development, data assimilation techniques, scaling issues, ground validation, and field applications in the context of vadose zone hydrology are presented. The foci of these papers range across root zone soil moisture retrieval and variability, evapotranspiration dynamics and distribution, agricultural water management, soil hydraulic and mechanical property estimation, ecosystems assessment, land–atmosphere interaction, and land surface hazard assessment. Here we organized the summary of these papers in four overlapping sections including (i) estimation, variability, scaling, and data assimilation of soil moisture by microwave remote sensing; (ii) estimating evapotranspiration by remote sensing and water management applications; (iii) estimating vadose zone properties by remote sensing; and (iv) ground-based soil moisture for calibration and validation of microwave remote sensing.
Estimation, Variability, Scaling, and Data Assimilation of Soil Moisture by Microwave Remote Sensing
Soil moisture in the vadose zone (typically the top few meters) is the natural state variable of the land surface and subsurface, critical to climate feedback, hydrology, and agriculture, and a key component of the global water cycle. Its temporal and spatial variability over catchment areas affects surface and subsurface runoff, modulates evaporation and transpiration, determines the extent of groundwater recharge, and initiates or sustains feedback between the land surface and the atmosphere (National Research Council, 1991). At a particular point in time, soil moisture content is influenced by (i) precipitation history; (ii) soil texture, which determines the water-holding capacity; (iii) slope of the land surface, which affects runoff and infiltration; and (iv) vegetation and land cover, which influences evapotranspiration and deep percolation. In other terms, partitioning soil moisture into groundwater recharge, ET to the atmosphere, and surface/subsurface runoff to the streams at different spatiotemporal scales and under different hydro-climatic conditions, pose one of the greatest challenges to weather and climate prediction, water resources availability, sustainability, quality, and variability in agricultural, range and forested watersheds.
In the past three decades, estimating soil moisture from remote sensing platforms (ground-based, air-, and space-borne) has progressed significantly (Fig. 1). Active and passive microwave remote sensing on satellite platforms provides a unique capability to obtain observations of land surface (approximately top ?0–5 cm) soil moisture at global and regional scales that help satisfy the science and application needs for hydrology (Njoku and Entekhabi, 1996; Ulaby et al., 1996; Kerr et al., 2001; Schmugge et al., 2002). The emissive and scattering characteristics of the soil surface primarily depend on soil moisture content, and other attributes such as land surface temperature, roughness, and vegetation characteristics. The electromagnetic response of the land surface is modified by the soil moisture status and dynamics, and modulated by surface roughness, vegetation opacity and interaction with the atmosphere, before being received by a remote sensor. These ancillary (i.e., "non-soil-moisture") effects increase at higher frequencies, thus making low-frequency observations desirable for observation of soil moisture (Choudhury et al., 1979; Ulaby et al., 1983). Longer wavelengths also sense deeper soil layers (2–5 cm at the L band, 1–2 GHz frequency), the penetration depth being of the order of one-tenth of the wavelength (Ulaby et al., 1986). Retrieving soil moisture using a ground-based or aircraft-mounted radiometer, operating at the L band, has been demonstrated in several prior studies (Wang and Schmugge, 1980; Schmugge et al., 1992; O'Neill et al., 1996; Jackson and Le Vine, 1996; Njoku et al., 2002; Bolten et al., 2003; Narayan et al., 2004).
Recent work using radiative transfer models, along with brightness temperatures from satellite platforms, have greatly improved soil moisture retrieval from space. In this special issue, Montzka et al. (2013) improved the estimation of parameters for retrieval of soil moisture from L-band passive microwave observations by simulating the soil moisture and soil temperature using a one-dimensional soil hydrology model (HYDRUS_1D) along with radiative transfer model (L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere, L-MEB) to estimate the brightness temperature. Brightness temperature observations were assimilated by a particle filter to estimate the radiative transfer parameters that are then used for the estimation of soil moisture state. Three synthetic scenarios (Scenario 1: temporally constant vegetation and surface roughness parameters; Scenario 2: temporally variable parameters; and Scenario 3: systematic difference between simulated brightness temperature and observation) were investigated. The integrated approach considerably improved the estimation of soil moisture under these scenarios and performed well with Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite data and insitu observations at a Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site.
Han et al. (2013) in this issue characterized the soil moisture and soil temperature profiles, using a joint data assimilation scheme with land surface temperature and L-band microwave brightness temperature. By using land surface temperature from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) platform and brightness temperature from a radiative transfer model, in conjunction with Community Land Model (CLM) and Local Ensemble Transformed Kalman Filter (LETKF), Han et al. (2013) estimated soil moisture, surface temperature, sensible heat flux, and latent heat flux. The impact of surface temperature assimilation on profile soil moisture was significant under dry conditions and less under wet conditions. Joint data assimilation using surface temperature and brightness temperature further improved the latent heat and sensible heat fluxes under dry condition. This synthetic study focused on the Rur catchment in Germany. These data assimilation studies signify the importance of global soil moisture remote sensing missions, such as SMOS and the upcoming Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission. As these products are being assimilated into various models, evaluating the value of that assimilation in the modeling community is necessary.
Along the line of estimating soil moisture from satellite platforms, Chaouch et al. (2013) in this issue proposed an improved technique to estimate soil moisture from Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) C-band (6.9 GHz) passive microwave observations. The study was conducted in the Mackenzie River Basin, in northwestern Canada, during the summer months of 2002 through 2004, as part of the Canadian Mackenzie GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) study. They inverted a simplified radiative transfer model (Mo et al., 1982) using a two-stage approach for retrieving soil and vegetation parameters. In a first calibration step, soil surface roughness, vegetation opacity, and single scattering albedo were adjusted iteratively. Data recorded at relatively dry conditions were used to infer soil surface roughness and a relatively wet condition dataset was used to infer vegetation opacity and single scattering albedo. In a second retrieval step, soil moisture was estimated using the previously defined parameters and iteratively minimizing the objective function. The resulting soil moisture was compared to soil moisture data from the NASA AMSR-E products, as well as to daily soil moisture data from the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) database. Using in situ soil moisture observations, Chaouch et al. (2013) discussed the advantage of their new approach over AMSR-E and NARR products and suggested it as a viable approach for data gap filling in data scarce remote regions.
A current limitation of soil moisture, estimated by satellite passive microwave sensors is their low spatial resolution. In their contribution, Fang et al. (2013) used the vegetation and land surface temperature data from MODIS to disaggregate the soil moisture retrieved from the AMSR-E using the lookup curves derived using the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS). The algorithm was applied to the 1-km MODIS land surface temperature to obtain 1-km soil moisture estimates. They validated the results against soil moisture data collected from the Oklahoma Mesonet and the Little Washita Micronet for several summer months, suggesting that downscaled soil moisture provides better spatial variability and accuracy than the AMSR-E and NLDAS estimates, when compared to in situ data.
Another limitation of satellite microwave observations of land surface soil moisture is the confounding effects of complex topography, and snow and ice cover in mountainous regions. To investigate the potential of assimilating soil hydrologic modeling and satellite observations to estimate soil moisture in an Alpine catchment in northern Italy, Brocca et al. (2013) in this issue evaluated data retrieved by the Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) sensor on board MetOp satellite and by the Soil Water Balance (SWB) model. Top soil moisture and root zone soil moisture index at 25-km scale was retrieved from ASCAT backscatter by the time series change detection approach of Wagner et al. (1999). To apply this technique in the mountainous region of the Valle d'Aosta, the SWB model was extended by a snowmelt module for estimating snow water equivalent. Using in situ observations at multiple ground stations, Brocca et al. (2013) showed better performance of SWB with snowmelt feature in conjunction with satellite based soil moisture products. The proposed scheme will be valuable in ungauged mountainous regions to improve flood and landslide prediction and prevention. On the basis of the findings in the above-mentioned articles in this special section, we suggest that the optimal combination of a model and satellite observations, through data assimilation and scaling schemes, may reduce uncertainties in soil moisture predictions.
Estimating Evapotranspiration by Remote Sensing and Water Management Applications
Evapotranspiration is another critical variable in the hydrological cycle and grounded to vadose zone. Over the past decades, several energy balance algorithms have been developed for estimating spatially distributed ET using pixel-based remote sensing data, including the Two Source Model (TSM) (Norman et al., 1995), Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land, SEBAL (Bastiaanssen et al., 1998, 2005), Mapping Evapotranspiration at high Resolution and with Internalized Calibration, METRIC (Allen et al., 2007), Simplified Surface Energy Balance Index, S-SEBI (Roerink et al., 2000), and Surface Energy Balance System, SEBS (Su, 2002). While challenges (e.g., aerodynamic complexity in the boundary layer, selection of hot and cold pixels) persist related to accuracy of ET estimates using remote sensing data at the footprint scale, progress has been incremental in specific land surface conditions and on a regional basis.
Gowda et al. (2013) in this issue evaluated ET estimates based on SEBS algorithm using lysimetric measurements. Primarily using Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper scenes, they evaluated the ability of SEBS algorithm to estimate hourly ET in the Southern High Plains region in the south-central United States. In addition, authors developed a locally derived, surface albedo-based, soil heat flux regression model that further improved the energy balance. Results of the local evaluation study showed good promise for applying SEBS algorithm to estimate ET in extensively irrigated semiarid regions where crop water demand far exceeds rainfall. However, Gowda et al. (2013) cautioned that extrapolating the approach to larger-scale applications for water management of the major crops in the region should be undertaken only after more detailed sensitivity analysis is conducted under different agroclimatological conditions.
In the contribution of Teluguntla et al. (2013) in this issue, authors took a long-term view and evaluated the multi-decadal trend of ET in a river basin scale encompassing landscape heterogeneities and temporal evolution of irrigated agriculture. They used a combination of modified Penman–Monteith model with data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) for estimating ET over the Krishna basin in India for the time period of 1983 through 2001. The ET estimates were validated using lysimeter data as well as Landsat and MODIS-based ET estimates, aggregated to match the footprint (8-km) scale. They found that the ET over this area increased in recent decades, due to increased irrigation development in 1980s. The AVHRR ET estimates of this study showed that the basin average ET increased at a rate of 4.97 mm yr−1 in the Krishna River Basin during the period of the study. Another important finding from this study was the increase in biomass represented by an increase in NDVI. The authors linked the cause and effect relationship—increased irrigation, increased crop biomass, increased ET. Their findings further explained the drastic reduction of the Krishna River discharge because of developed irrigation and storage structures in the past decades.
Zhang and Wang (2013) in this issue used remotely sensed infrared temperature for estimating plant water stress in peach trees in the San Joaquin Valley, California. In their study, the authors used an experimental setup on a farm to measure soil moisture, stem water potential, and amount of water used for irrigation. They also measured canopy temperature using a network of above-canopy infrared thermometers. Using midday differences (ΔT) between infrared canopy to air temperature, deficit irrigation (for furrow and surface drip) was scheduled and consequential fruit yield, fruit size, and water productivity were measured for two crop growing seasons. They found consistent linear relations for various deficit irrigation treatments for canopy to air temperature difference, soil water content, and stem water potential. The results of this study indicate that the adopted deficit irrigation practice results in considerable water savings without affecting fruit yield. Although significant benefits are apparent for water management practices, further research is necessary to generalize these findings to other regions and/or other crops.
Estimating Vadose Zone Properties by Remote Sensing
Beyond estimating soil moisture and evapotranspiration using remote sensing platforms, algorithms have been developed in the past decades for estimating more complex vadose zone parameters. Soil hydraulic parameters, important attributes for land surface and vadose zone hydrology models, are being estimated using time series of soil moisture and ET. In particular microwave remote sensing of near-surface soil moisture has played a key role in this respect. Inverse modeling, regression techniques, data assimilation methods using remotely sensed data with soil–vegetation–atmosphere transfer (SVAT) models, genetic algorithm based optimization, and uncertainty quantification using ensemble based approaches under synthetic and field conditions have been developed and adapted over the years for effectively estimating soil hydraulic properties at the remote sensing footprint scale. In this special issue, Shin et al. (2013) outlined a method for estimating effective soil hydraulic properties, at the footprint scale, using soil moisture and SEBAL-based ET from remote sensing. Adopting a number of input scenarios, including soil moisture only, ET only, and a combination of soil moisture and ET, along with a genetic algorithm based optimization technique and a SVAT model under various hydrologic scenarios, Shin et al. (2013) evaluated the efficacy of the approach at multiple spatial (point, air-borne, and satellite footprint) scales. The results showed that combining soil moisture and ET has a much lower uncertainty in the estimated soil hydraulic properties than other scenarios. Results were further validated with field data in Iowa, Illinois, and Texas.
In another innovative application of remote sensing for vadose zone hydrology, te Brake et al. (2013) in this issue established a method for estimating soil water depletion from clay shrinkage at large scale. They used satellite-based Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to detect small elevation changes based on interferometry phase differences between multiple satellite passes and relating that to clay shrinkage. In the Netherlands, using in situ measurements of soil water storage and remotely sensed elevation change from TerraSAR-X satellite over clayey areas in polders with limited vegetation, these authors developed a relationship between soil water storage depletion and soil (top 100 cm) layer shrinkage. The finding opens new avenues for applying remote sensing platforms in vadose zone hydrology and geomechanics, particularly for clay-rich regions.
Ground-Based Soil Moisture for Calibration and Validation of Microwave Remote Sensing
An important requirement for all remotely sensed land surface attributes is their ground validation. In addition, products developed by land surface models need to be calibrated and validated using independent measurements. Soil moisture content estimated by space-borne or air-borne microwave sensors are typically calibrated and validated by spatially intense field campaigns in study watersheds or regions over weeks to months (e.g., Mohanty et al., 2000; Joshi and Mohanty, 2010; Joshi et al., 2011) and/or by spatially distributed long-term monitoring networks. Thus, availability and quality (accuracy) of in situ soil moisture data are of prime importance to many of the microwave remote sensing missions and hydrologic modeling studies.
Several publications of this special issue (e.g., Adams et al., 2013; te Brake et al., 2013; Bramer et al., 2013; Brocca et al., 2013; Chaouch et al., 2013; Han et al., 2013; Montzka et al., 2013; Shin et al.. 2013) require for their studies in situ soil moisture records, either as model input or for validation purposes. The International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) (Dorigo et al., 2011) collects in situ soil moisture data from operational networks and measurement campaigns to make the data easily accessible to the public. However, different datasets need to be harmonized in terms of measurement units, structure, precision, etc. for proper interpretation and usage. In this issue, Dorigo et al. (2013) developed an operational quality control (QC) system for soil moisture data hosted in the ISMN database. This system was designed with an objective to be applicable to a large variety of networks and stations around the globe differing strongly in nature and available metadata. Two types of soil moisture QC procedures were embedded in the system, including (i) geophysical (natural phenomena and surrogates) dynamic range and measurement consistency and (ii) random noise, spikes, breaks, constant high or low values, and instrument breakdowns. Although future work is warranted to make the data QC approach more comprehensive, the goal of this initial method is to identify and flag spurious observations automatically without manipulating or removing data values by the operators themselves.
Microwaves at L- (1–2 GHz), C- (4–8 GHz), and X- (8–12.5 GHz) band wavelengths are most suitable for retrieval of soil moisture from active (e.g., ENVISAT ASAR, ERS-1/2, RADARSAT- 1/2, Terra SAR-X) and passive (e.g., SMOS, AMSR-E) sensors. However, at wavelengths of interest, microwave interactions with soils are physically complex, and thus the depth of interaction is estimated to vary within the top 5 cm or less of the soil surface, due to soil and sensor characteristics (e.g., soil wetness, incidence angle). Using 3400 impedance probe measurements across 72 agricultural fields at two different depths (3 and 6 cm), Adams et al. (2013) in this issue evaluated the appropriateness of ground-based soil moisture and the penetration depth for calibration and validation of L-band microwave remote sensors. A statistically significant average difference in soil moisture content of 0.016 m3 m−3 was discovered between the two sampling depths, suggesting the importance of recognizing near-surface volumetric soil moisture spatial and depth variability effects during ground calibration and validation of soil moisture microwave sensors. In a similar context of ground-based calibration and validation studies, Bramer et al. (2013) investigated the number of point measurements required to account for the spatial variability of soil moisture within the footprint of a ground-based (tractor-mounted) microwave radiometer. They inferred that sampling design (lattice, stratified, or random) may hold the key to this question. Using a random sampling design in a field experiment in Iowa, they found that approximately 20 measurements within a 7- by 9-m sensor footprint would be sufficient for that purpose.
Satellite derived soil moisture products may incur systematic biases and need to be corrected. Sridhar et al. (2013) in this issue have implemented a statistical bias correction method based on matching cumulative probability distributions of soil moisture derived using satellite data and in situ data. Using the AMSR-E over the state of Nebraska and in situ data from 37 stations in an automated weather data network, the proposed approach improved the satellite-based soil moisture estimates.
In summary, the suite of papers published in this special issue provides a good cross section of recent development in remote sensing science, modeling, and data analyses algorithms related to vadose zone hydrology at large scale. While their findings show progress and potential for applying remote sensing techniques in land–atmosphere interaction, hydrology, agricultural water management, and geohazard assessment, many key gaps persist, warranting further development. As new satellites are being launched for earth systems observation in the current decade, opening new opportunities, scientists should explore creative venues to take advantage of new generation technologies for further advancing vadose zone hydrology at multiple scales and applications.


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From the book entitled: History of Yolo County, California: with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present
Publisher: Historic Record Company, 1913
The ancestry of the Rhodes family is traced back to the New England colonies, its members fighting valiantly to defend their right to freedom from the Mother Country, and the stalwart characteristics of these early ancestors were no less marked in the generations which followed them. Henry Rhodes was born in Rhode Island, and his wife, before her marriage Esther Mason, was born in Connecticut, a descendant of John Mason, who figured conspicuously in the history of the New England colonies about the year 1635.
Into the home of Henry and Esther (Mason) Rhodes John Milton Rhodes was born February 12, 1817, in Middlebury, Ohio, whither the parents had removed some time prior to the birth of their son. Middlebury continued to be the home of the family for a number of years, the son in the meantime attending the public school and also the Tallmadge Central Union School, and in 1830 he accompanied his parents to Canal Fulton, that state, where the father engaged in the mercantile business. A subsequent removal took the family to Massillon, in which vicinity the father purchased a farm and a grist mill. For a time John M. Rhodes was interested with his father in the latter's new undertaking, but as a broader field for his abilities seemed to lie elsewhere than in farming the association was of short duration. More congenial work was found with his uncle, Jesse Rhodes, a business man in Massillon, and in his establishment he remained as bookkeeper and accountant until 1835. Through the influence of his uncle Mr
Rhodes in that year secured a position as bookkeeper with William T. Dixon & Co., a well-known wholesale dry goods house of New York City, and although he was less than nineteen years old and had no knowledge of the world, he set out for the metropolis with a determination to conquer obstacles and make a success of his life, and the resolution then made was never lost sight of throughout his long and checkered career. The duties of his new position were arduous and the hours long, sixteen hours a day being the average, but his determination to make a success of his venture in new fields made discouragement or fatigue unknown. That his services were appreciated by his employers was evident when, at the end of the first year, his salary was doubled. After a service of seven years in Mr. Dixon's employ, in 1842 he resigned his position to embark in business for himself in Canal Fulton, Ohio. A few years later he removed to Mansfield, the same state, there too establishing himself in a mercantile business.
It was while in business in Mansfield that Mr. Rhodes was married, October 12, 1846, in Chillicothe, to Miss Mary Jane Beall Christmas, and after their marriage the young people settled in a comfortable home in Mansfield. The following year, upon the organization of the Farmers' Bank of Mansfield, Mr. Rhodes was chosen cashier, a position which he filled for three years, resigning at the end of that time to establish a banking house in Sacramento, Cal., with two associates. Making the voyage by way of the Panama route, he finally reached San Francisco, going from there directly to Sacramento, where he found conditions as favorable as he had anticipated and proceeded at once with his banking venture. The bank of Rhodes, Sturges & Co. was launched early in the year 1850, in quarters on Second street between J and K streets, and it was there that it passed through some of the most trying experiences of those years of hardships and disaster. Following an epidemic of cholera that visited the city with disastrous effects the fire of 1852 left the firm practically penniless, their losses amounting to not less than $25,000, with no insurance, as no insurance company had as yet been started in the town. In the meantime, in 1851, Mr. Rhodes had returned to Ohio for his family and in the same year Mr. Sturges had retired from the business and had also returned to Ohio. Undismayed by the wreck and ruin in which the fire left him Mr. Rhodes rebuilt his banking business in the same year, only to meet with another disaster in the flood of January, 1853.
In 1852 John M. Rhodes assisted his brother James and his uncle, Jesse Rhodes, to start in the express business on the Shasta route, the company having offices in Weaverville and Yreka, Cal., and in Jacksonville, Ore. A few years after the firm had started in business a robbery occurred in which the messengers were held up and gold dust to the amount of $20,000 taken from them. John M. Rhodes had become responsible for the business of his kinsmen by guaranteeing drafts, and thus he became a very heavy loser by the theft. Another enterprise in which Mr. Rhodes was a prominent figure was the building of the plank road into Sacramento, he being the treasurer of the company that constructed the road in 1853. After experiencing a chain of losses through fire, floods and robbery Mr. Rhodes concluded that it would be wise for him to fasten his attention upon something tangible. It was following this decision that he purchased the undivided half of seven and one-half leagues of land in Capay valley, Yolo county, equal to about sixteen thousand acres, purchasing the land from Pioche & Bayarke, bankers, of San Francisco. The bankers mentioned acquired title through Jasper O'Farrell, and he fi'om Berryessa, the original grantee. Mr. Rhodes subsequently admitted F. W. Fratt into partnership in the ownership of this land, each in a subsequent division taking eight thousand acres. Subsequently he operated three flour mills in Yolo county, in Knights Landing, Woodland and Madison. In 1857 he had established his home in Capay valley, continuing to reside there for about seven years, when he removed with his family to Sacramento and continued there until his milling interests in Woodland made it desirable to locate in that city.
That Mr. Rhodes was a man of courage and indomitable spirit needs no reiteration, for the trials which he passed through in the course of his career mark him as an unusual man, for few there are who could pass through experiences similar to his and still maintain his optimism and sweetness of spirit. In speaking of the events that had come into his life he singled out those that occurred during the year of 1855-56 as being the most disastrous. It was in that year that he signed State Treasurer Bates' official bond for $100,000. Bates, through a misappropriation of the state's money by a subordinate, became short in his accounts to the state and suit for the recovery of the money was imminent. Mr. Rhodes' depositors naturally became alarmed and before he was able to realize sufficient funds from other sources to meet the drafts on his institution he was forced to suspend payment. The silver lining to this dark cloud was the fact that all of the demands made upon him were subsequently discharged, and that he at no time took advantage of the bankrupt law or the statute of limitations to pay his debts. His operations in real estate, with the exception of the losses by fire, were uniformly profitable and did much to relieve him from the embarrassment that threatened him in other lines.
In 1878 Mr. Rhodes was elected a member of the constitutional convention that drafted the present constitution of the state. He was peculiarly fitted for the position, and his co-workers gave him credit for a great deal that was accomplished in the stupendous work of drafting the constitution. He was a fluent speaker and he spoke from the rostrum frequently in favor of the adoption of the constitution.
Having disposed of his property in Yolo county, in 1883 Mr. Rhodes removed to Lassen county, Cal., and being deeply impressed with the beauty of the green meadows and the beautiful mountain brooks he determined to make his home there. In this quiet spot he purchased a stock ranch of seventeen hundred and eighty-eight acres in Long valley, a fitting place in which to pass the remaining years of his useful life. To the end he took an optimistic view of life, accepting the bitter with the sweet, and 'n his passing, August 4, 1908, at Reno, Nev., one of God's noblemen was called to his reward.


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Once a business decides to invest in a paid media advertising campaign, the next question is usually, "Now what do we do?" Especially if a company has never advertised before, the sheer number of media outlets can be overwhelming. Because we're all media consumers in our daily lives it's natural to fall back on the types of media delivery that resonate with us personally.
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Landscape Site Preparation in Miami Florida
In Miami Florida site preparation is essential for creating a landscape that is aesthetically beautiful as well as ecologically sound. It can be compared to laying the foundation of a house; the more meticulously it is done, the easier it will be to create a landscape that will become a source of enjoyment for many…Read more
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Optymyze Sales Performance(TM) Earns Industry Recognition for Business Technology
CHESTER, PA--(Marketwired - Jun 27, 2017) - Optymyze, a worldwide provider of enterprise cloud applications and services for improving sales and channel performance, today announced that Optymyze Sales Performance™ was named a 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist.
Honored as a finalist for Best Platform as a Service, Optymyze Sales Performance includes sales performance management (SPM) applications for managing sales compensation, sales operations, sales people, and sales financials, plus sales data management, sales process automation, sales planning, and advanced sales analytics capabilities that allow non-technical users to very rapidly create and deploy custom sales force automation applications.
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Recognizing product excellence for more than 30 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries and the industry's only peer-recognized awards program. Business technology leaders including senior executives, analysts, media, consultants, and investors evaluate assigned products during the first-round review which determines the finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.
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I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.Paul Wellstone
John Steinbeck
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.Edward Thorndike
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.Margaret J. Wheatley
If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.Howard Zinn
George Washington
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.Arnold Schwarzenegger
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.Vaclav Havel
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.Pierre de Fermat
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.Toni Morrison
Matt Drudge
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.Estelle Morris
Timothy Radcliffe
In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.John Badham
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.Vaclav Havel
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.Simone de Beauvoir
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.Jackie Gleason
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.Barbara Deming
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.Thomas J. Watson
To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.Melissa Etheridge
In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.Maggie Gallagher
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.Cal Thomas
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.Joseph Pulitzer
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.Rush Limbaugh
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.Adam Rickitt
John W. Foster
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.Mariska Hargitay
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.Richard Dawkins
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.Barbara Castle
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.Kid Rock
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.Ayn Rand
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.John S. Dickey
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.Robert Dale Owen
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.Morihei Ueshiba
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.Laura Bush
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.George Mason
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.Wilson Greatbatch
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.Bryant H. McGill
William Moulton Marston
William Scranton
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.Calvin Coolidge
Tim Robbins
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.Jane Elliot


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Insurers could be offering employer plans that contain no contraception coverage, under proposed rule
Trump Administration rule does not change standard requiring such coverage when no objection exists, but about any employer could seek an exemption.
Under a proposed Trump administration rule, health insurers would no longer cover contraceptive methods for group plans should the employer seek an exemption on moral or religious grounds.
Currently, the Affordable Care Act requires most employers to offer health insurance that covers contraception methods.
[Also: Senate rules could put GOP healthcare bill, goal of defunding Planned Parenthood at odds]
A May 23 draft interim final rule obtained by Vox expands the exemptions based on religious beliefs and moral convictions.
This means that just about any employer could seek an exemption of contraception coverage.
The rule does not change the current standard of Health and Human Services that requires contraception coverage where no such objection exists. It also would not affect other federal programs that provide free or subsidized contraceptives for women at risk of unintended pregnancy.
[Also: Trump administration's budget criticized by medical and health advocacy groups wary of cuts]
HHS is asking for comments to be received 60 days after publication in the federal register. Publication is expected after the Office of Management and Budget reviews the proposal.
Under the ACA, in 2012, all new private plans were required to cover, without cost-sharing, the full range of contraceptives and services approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
Before the ACA, coverage for prescription contraceptives was generally widespread in the private and public sectors, but not universal, the Kaiser report said. Unless a state had a contraceptive coverage mandate, insurers and employers could choose whether or not to provide coverage for contraception.
However, in 2000, the Employment Equal Opportunity Commission found that employers that covered preventive prescription drugs and services, but did not cover prescription contraceptives were in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
More than half of women in the United States are insured through an employer-sponsored plan. Since the implementation of the ACA provision, fewer women are paying out-of-pocket for contraceptives, the Kaiser report said.
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ORICA-AIS to put best foot forward at TTT world championshipsThu 17 Sep 2015
The 2015 season will come to a close for ORICA-AIS this Sunday as they look to put their best foot forward at the UCI Road Cycling World Championship team time trial.
The world championship, held in Richmond Virginia in the United States of America, is a fast 38.8km course that sport director Gene Bates says the team are ready for.
"It's a great TTT course, super fast and flowing, with all the sections really linking up well," Bates said. "The girls have ridden the course all this week, and are super excited to get into the race and see what they can produce over the 38km."
"To be honest, the Sweden World Cup was quite disappointing, but I think we have ironed out pretty much all the areas we struggled in, and have got six well prepared, confident bike riders here. It was a great learning experience for us, and considering we have four new riders to our lineup from last year, it was probably the ride we had to have.
"Now, the group has a great feel about it and I think they can surprise themselves this weekend with the ride they are capable of putting together.
"We won't put a number on our ambition, but look to put the fastest, best ride we can together on Sunday. If they can do that, we should see them at the pointy end of the results."
In support of those efforts the Australian outfit will be headed by Oceania time trial champion Katrin Garfoot and the experience of Gracie Elvin and Amanda Spratt.
"Katrin gives us lots of strength and is really important to smooth things down within the group and provide real fire power," Bates explained. "Gracie and Amanda give us lots of experience and are great at directing the team on and off the bike."
Completing the team will be Sarah Roy, Macey Stewart and Lizzie Williams in their debut seasons with ORICA-AIS.
"On her day Sarah can really generate lots of power and strength out on the course and Williams has a great ability for turns and recovery, learning with every race she does," Bates continued.
"At 19 Macey is the youngest in the team and probably in the field, but brings a great amount of enthusiasm and also experience having ridden track team pursuits for years already.
"She will learn a lot on Sunday, but also contribute a huge amount especially in the earlier stages of the race."
ORICA-AIS at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships TTT (20 September):
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Everyone's going crazy for floral, and we've got you covered. 😉
As always, we're keeping an eye out for the hottest fashion trends by our favorite stars. This week, we cover the amazing outfits famous fashion starlets are putting together with just one simple hit-item… floral dresses! It's not even spring yet, but these fashionistas are already making use of the beautiful flower patterns to look as great as they actually are.
Must Read : K-Pop's Flower Boys: Idols Wearing Flower Crowns
I'm back again this week with one of my most favorite patterns of all time.
Floral patterns are perfect not just for the spring time, but honestly – if paired with the right pieces – you can rock these babies all year long. Now that we're coming to a close of the cold winter and welcoming a blossoming spring, I'm going to introduce you how to master the latest returning fashion trend of floral floral floral!
It's beautiful! It's fantastic! It's oh so classy!
Where and how can you get your floral dress trend started? I've collected three beautiful fashionistas who've got your inspiration. Son NaEun paired her floral maxi with a leather jacket for a more mature and sexier look, while SunMi went classic with a day jacket and a point-clutch. Feeling more fun and free? Koo Hara's floral maxi with a faux suede jacket is pure goals.
Now that we know the how, let's get to the where!
My personal favorite Korean fashion store, Stylenanda is the central station of beautiful maxi floral dresses. They have a variety of designs from cami, mermaid, or bohemian. Pair these babies with a nice jacket and simple accessories, and you're all set to rock the Korean fashion weekend.
Broach Jacket & Floral Maxi Dress & Grey Velvet Clutch & Chucky Heel Boots
I'm loving this maxi dress trend, but Spring's just around the corner!
Well just keep the floral and forgo the length. Our fashion starlets Sulli, SooYoung and IU all are great inspirations for floral mini-dresses. Go flowing and lovely like Sulli. Go see-through and girly sexy with SooYoung. Go dandy and cute with IU's A-Line floral dresses. They're all winning combinations!
Just as Stylenanda's got your back in maxi floral dresses, it's a go-to place for the cutest floral minis! I've just picked out a couple that I'm absolutely in love with. Off shoulder floral, cami floral, or flow-y floral… can't get enough! Let me show you how to get your wardrobe Spring ready with a floral mini dress by Stylenanda.
Denim Jacket & Floral Mini Dress & Crew Socks & Platform Shoes & Smiley Cross Bag
Now you're looking uber-fab, babe!
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For more than 30 years, Neogen® has been a trusted partner of food companies around the world. Our simple diagnostic tests help food processors ensure the quality and integrity of their facilities and products, protecting consumers and the global food supply.
However, we are much more than just a developer of diagnostic tests. Our laboratory services, R&D, technical support, sales and customer service teams are all here to help you – every step of the way, from farm gate to dinner plate.
Our Story
Protecting the Next Generation
By the early 1980s, scientists around the world were working to develop simple diagnostic tests to replace extensive laboratory testing. The scientists hoped to create rapid, uncomplicated tests that food processors could perform on-site at their facilities. At the time, processors had no choice but to use outside laboratories for testing — and wait many days, if not weeks, for results.
Among those working on new testing solutions were scientists at Michigan State University, who had developed a simple test to detect aflatoxin, a mold toxin, in corn. But these scientists had no way of mass producing their tests to get them into the hands of food producers.
In 1981, Michigan State reached out to Neogen founders Jim Herbert and Ted Doan to build a company to put the scientific advancements developed in the laboratory into the hands of those who could benefit from their use. That one idea has led to the company becoming a global leader in food safety testing. Neogen now offers almost countless rapid, simple and accurate tests to detect and stop contamination and quality concerns well before the product ever leaves a food processor's facility.
From its very start, Neogen has been committed to helping farmers, herders and veterinarians protect animals and the earth while maximizing output, detecting disease, and reducing chemical use.
Investing in the Next Generation
Neogen began as a brainchild of a university, and we believe colleges and universities are vital to the industry's future. In addition to its longstanding relationship with Michigan State, Neogen collaborates with numerous other institutions of higher learning, including the University of Nebraska, University of Tennessee, Cornell University, University of Guelph (Canada), Scottish Agricultural College, and many others.
To strengthen our relationships with these institutions, we maintain internship programs for college students to enhance their experience in national agribusinesses, international work, and organic and sustainable farming. We also provide test kits and training to students working on degrees and research in food safety and technology to help prepare them for careers within the food industry.
There is perhaps no greater indication of Neogen's support of the next generation of food producers than the University of Tennessee's renaming of its land-grant College of Agriculture after Neogen founder Jim and wife Judi Herbert because of their philanthropic support.
"The Herberts' desire to enhance student learning, faculty engagement and programs make this endowment truly capable of empowering the Herbert College of Agriculture for generations." - Tim Cross, the University of Tennessee's chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture
Preserving for the Next Generation
Neogen takes great pride in renewing urban facilities and investing in local municipalities. We have renovated more than a dozen schools, homes and other existing, often abandoned, structures into corporate administrative, research and manufacturing sites — restoring numerous city-center buildings totaling more than 250,000 square feet in our home community of Lansing, Michigan.
Further examples of our continuing commitment to urban renewal include our Neogen Equity Ownership program, which provides grants to employees purchasing a primary home within one mile of any Lansing facility, including the downtown area. Our Employee Volunteer Time Off program gives employees paid time off to reinvest in the local community through environmental clean-up programs, local food banks and urban community gardens.
"None of Neogen's restorations are splashy [Preservation Lansing member Jennifer] Grau said, but their cumulative effect is huge. 'They have not leveled a block to create a center of industry. They have blended their industry into a community.'" — Lansing City Pulse, Oct. 9, 2013
Protecting your brands, products and consumers starts with Neogen's food safety solutions
Consumers trust organically produced food to be healthy and safe. Organic food producers face the same challenges as traditional food producers and often with fewer tools, such as antibiotics, to control some risks. With each item in the marketplace, an organic producer's reputation is on the line.
With the help of industry professionals, Neogen has produced a Food Safety Handbook for the Organics Industry to assist natural products companies in establishing their food safety programs.
Our full range of Reveal® 3-D and Veratox® test kits demonstrates Neogen's leadership in food allergen diagnostics.
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Neogen offers an easy-to-use
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Neogen offers the broadest range of microbiological testing solutions in the industry.
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Duff, E. Gordon. A Century of the English Book Trade. . . .
Eolcroft, Pa.: Eolcroft Library Editions, 1972. Steinberg, S. H. Five Hundred Years of Printing. Rev. ed. London: British Library, 1996.
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QUATORZAIN From the French quatorze (fourteen), a quatorzain is a poem similar to the sonnet. It consists of 14 rhymed iambic lines divided into two tercets (a group of three lines of verse) and two quatrains (a group of four lines of verse), and always ending in a couplet (unlike sonnets, which do not always do so). Technically, most of the Elizabethan sonnet sequences were truly composed of quatorzains, not sonnets, but few 16th-century poets made the distinction (an exception being Michael Drayton). Some critics also believe that Sir Philip Sidney employed the form deliberately in his collection Certain Sonnets, which contains a miscellany of forms. Later poets, such as John Donne, clarified the two forms.
QUATRAIN A four-line stanza composed of rhyming lines. The quatrain is the most common stan-zaic form used in English poetry. The sets of lines that make up the first four or eight lines of a SoNNET are also referred to as quatrains.
The most common rhyme schemes include: abac or abcb (ballad stanza, used also for hymns), aabb (double couplet), and abab (heroic quatrain, usually in iambic pentameter).
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER (SIR WALTER RALEGH) (ca. 1552-1618) Sir Walter Raleigh lived a varied and adventurous life—soldier, privateer, explorer, prisoner, and author. Born into a prosperous family at Hayes, a farmhouse in Barton, Devonshire, Raleigh attended oriel College, oxford, briefly before leaving to distinguish himself early in the French civil wars. A staunch Protestant, he fought on behalf of the Huguenots from 1569 until his return to England in 1572. In 1578, he began his naval career, joining his half brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, on an expedition. Soon afterward, Raleigh earned a command and distinguished himself in the Irish Wars. Returning to England in 1581, he quickly became a part of Queen Elizabeth I's inner circle.
The next years of Raleigh's life read like a catalogue of political success. He was elected to Parliament in 1584 and appointed captain of the Queen's Guard in 1587. As queen's adviser, he supported expeditions in 1585 and 1587 to the New World. However, his power and influence were greatly diminished in 1592 when his secret affair with and subsequent clandestine marriage to Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting, was discovered. Both were immediately imprisoned in the Tower of London, an occasion Raleigh examines in "The ocean To Cynthia."
The queen never forgave Raleigh completely, but she did need his naval skills. In 1593, Raleigh was released in order to pursue Spanish pirates and protect the interests of the English Crown. He also embarked on an expedition to Guiana, an account of which he published in 1596.
When Elizabeth died in 1603, Raleigh's prospects diminished, as he had a poor relationship with James I. Soon after James's ascension, Raleigh was accused of conspiring with Spain against the king, and he was once again imprisoned in the Tower. He remained there until 1617, when he persuaded James to allow him to captain a return expedition to Guiana. The voyage was a complete disaster—his son died, and Raleigh was disgraced. Fearing royal reprisal, Raleigh attempted to flee to France, but he was caught and, on october 29, 1618, executed for treason.
Raleigh is an interesting author. His early works include commendatory verses for George Gascoigne's The Steele Glas, composed while he was at oxford. These show precocious development not only of poetic skill but also of political prowess. His other poetic works include a number of short pieces, an elegy for his son, and the panygeric "The Ocean to Cynthia," written to placate the queen. Raleigh was more prolific in prose, undertaking the ambitious History of the World as well as his Travels to Guiana and an "apology" for his return to Guiana.
For quite some time, critical reception of Raleigh's poetry was devoted to establishing definitive authorship for his works. Another area of critical debate involves the completeness of "The ocean to Cynthia," fragments of which were found with the titles "The 21st [sic] and last booke of the ocean to Scinthia" and
"The end of the 22 Boock, entreatinge of Sorrow," leading to speculation that an immense epic had originally existed. Recent studies, however, have demonstrated that the titles were a ploy by Raleigh intended to please the queen. otherwise, most critical studies focus on political interpretations of Raleigh's poems, as well as its contribution to the studies of patronage.
See also "Lie, The"; "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, The;" "Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son"; "What Is Our Life?".
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