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1. Due to lax standards and implementation problems, the conservation compliance program is missing cost-effective opportunities to make further, substantial reductions in soil erosion on U.S. cropland.
2. Without corrections to policy design constraints and adequate staff funding to effectively implement the program, conservation compliance will not reduce soil erosion on the majority of U.S. cropland to rates considered "sustainable."
3. Since geographic areas heavily associated with crop subsidies are linked with high levels of agricultural nutrient pollution, current conservation compliance policy misses an opportunity to prevent or reduce pollution that may be subsidized by farm programs.
4. Conservation compliance is a valid eligibility requirement for farmers receiving commodity subsidies since the current voluntary, financial assistance approach to solving agricultural environmental problems leaves 70 percent of farmer applications unfunded.
5. Conservation compliance should be expanded and strengthened to help reduce the additional soil erosion and nutrient pollution associated with the increase in agricultural biofuels production.
In the 1985 Farm Bill, Congress decided that as a quid pro quo for federal farm assistance, farmers receiving taxpayer support should control soil erosion on highly erodible lands used to grow subsidized crops. The policy principle was straightforward and widely embraced in conservation and agriculture policy circles: taxpayer support for agriculture should not inadvertently subsidize degradation of natural resources or the environment. Parallel policies were authorized in the 1985 law to prevent subsidies from encouraging conversion of fragile lands and wetlands to crop production.
In order to maintain their eligibility for federal farm benefits such as commodity crop subsidies and disaster payments, farmers were required to develop and implement a government-approved soil conservation plan specifying soil conservation practices. Common erosion reduction practices include: rotating crops, minimizing tillage, leaving soil covered with crop residue after harvest, and installing grassed buffers, etc. This program was called the Highly Erodible Land Conservation (HELC) Compliance provision or "conservation compliance," for short.
Farmers were given 10 years (until 1995) to fully implement the soil conservation plans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) attributes the HELC planning and compliance process with widespread adoption of conservation systems, which made unprecedented progress in reducing erosion over these 10 years (Claassen et al, 2004). HELC compliance, coupled with the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), reduced erosion by about 40 percent (1.2 billion tons) from 3.07 billion tons in 1982 to 1.9 billion tons in 1997 (national soil survey years which encompass the 1985 to 1995 time period). USDA attributes about 25 percent of that reduction to HELC compliance requirements. HELC compliance is also credited with a "technology-forcing" effect that helped reduce erosion on cropland not subject to HELC plans.
However, since full implementation of HELC compliance plans in 1995, there has been little additional progress in reducing erosion. According to the National Resources Inventory (NRI) survey, approximately 100 million acres of cropland in the U.S.—nearly one-third of the 368 million acres of cropland nationwide —continue to erode at rates deemed "unsustainable." As of 2003, when the latest NRI survey occurred, 1.76 billion tons of soil is still being lost each year. Sediment from cropland causes a variety of serious problems as it pollutes drinking water sources, clogs downstream reservoirs that include hydroelectric facilities, smothers aquatic life, and forces farmers to use more fertilizer to make up for reduced soil fertility. Moreover, since 1985, mounting scientific evidence has identified fertilizer run-off and animal manure from cropland as a major source of water nutrient pollution (Howarth et al, 2002). Nutrient run-off was not a consideration in the development or implementation of HELC policy or plans.
Another, even more dramatic development since the passage of the 1985 Farm Bill and the HELC policy is the ethanol boom. While experts are still trying to determine what the net impact of expanding corn acreage and production will be on natural resources and the environment, it is clear that ethanol production is already leading to significant changes in cropping patterns, and to growing demand for corn. Both of which could have adverse impacts on water quality and soil erosion, increased fertilizer and pesticide application, and land use change. Current HELC policy and soil conservation plans may be inadequate to deal with potential emerging environmental impacts of the ethanol boom.
This report highlights the successes and shortcomings of the conservation compliance policy and sheds light on the nationwide problem of agricultural soil erosion and nutrient pollution. To provide a state-level perspective and to highlight one of the nation's largest agricultural-environmental problems—the Mississippi River-Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone"—this report focuses on the 10 states that border the Mississippi River: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
The Mississippi River Basin (MRB) watershed includes 17 major tributaries that drain 31 states and 41 percent of the continental United States (U.S. Department of Interior). The Mississippi River also encompasses the majority of the country's subsidized production of corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, and rice, and much of the nation's beef, dairy, hog, and poultry industries. According to the USDA, cropland in the Mississippi River Basin not only receives the highest federal commodity subsidies but also has the highest nitrogen runoff potential.
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When guardian sniper Mira Longbow arrives in Amsterdam to take out the head of a global child-smuggling ring, she quickly stumbles across a diabolically creative, high-tech jihad that will bring the West to its knees.
Problem is, she also crosses paths with Jackson Day, an unwanted visitor, and would-be lover from her turbulent past in Iraq. Day is a deadly effective loner assigned to the Army's Asymmetric Warfare Command whose motto (and his) is "Never Fight Fair."
So, when Day shows up to enlist her gift for languages to decipher a tangle of voices recorded of a high-level terror meeting at a remote Iranian safe house, she wants nothing to do with him or his distractions from her mission.
But, after the heat of their first encounter, they put aside their simmering differences when it's clear that Khan Nasiri -- the same wealthy shipping tycoon behind the child bride smuggling operation -- is a terror mastermind who has discovered that every modern fly-by-wire passenger aircraft is a disaster waiting to fall out of the sky.
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Dipping 'pura vida'? Costa Ricans show lack of enthusiasm in run-up to February elections
According to polls, about 32 percent of Costa Rica's 3 million eligible voters say they plan to abstain from casting ballots due to corruption, lack of leadership, and high unemployment.
- Fulton T. Armstrong is a contributor to American University's Latin America blog at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies.
The views expressed are the author's own.
Costa Rica is approaching February's presidential and legislative elections with a distinct lack of enthusiasm, if not with dread.
Most international surveys present Costa Rica as the "world's happiest country" (the Happy Planet Index), or in the elite club of the world's "full democracies" (ahead of Japan and Belgium in The Economist's list), or as the 48th least-corrupt country (out of 174 reviewed by Transparency International).
The economy is expected to grow about 3 percent this year, and the country's access to foreign direct investment is blunting the impact of the government's fiscal deficit of about 5 percent of GDP. Crime is on the rise, but Ticos know that their pain is small compared to that wreaked by the narcos and maras in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
Reputable polls show, however, that Costa Ricans are gloomy about the state of their political institutions and specifically about their upcoming elections. According to polls, about 32 percent of the country's 3 million eligible voters say they plan to abstain, citing corruption, a lack of leadership, insensitivity to the average citizen, and unemployment as reasons to reject not just the candidates but also the political elite in general.
The President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Luis Antonio Sobrado, acknowledged last month that the election was taking place in the context of "citizen uneasiness … and a lot of anger with politics and politicians."
Abstentionism was high in 2006 (35 percent) and 2010 (32 percent), but commentators sense a much deeper and darker alienation this time around. A columnist lamented that the "multiparty" system has been replaced by "atomization," and another said the political parties have "disconnected themselves from the national reality."
Further reflecting the malaise, President Laura Chinchilla's support has nosedived – a July poll showed only 9 percent of voters said she was "good" and none said "very good" – and pundits cite her ineffectiveness as the cause of collapsed highways, dengue outbreaks, and other calamities.
The nominee of her Partido de Liberación Nacional (PLN), Johnny Araya, is widely thought to have an edge in February, but his 12 years as mayor of San José have coincided with a deterioration in the city's infrastructure and security, and his personal lifestyle (including five marriages) may be a factor in popular skepticism. The government's recent announcement that it will contract the services of 4,125 new employees in 2014, mostly in the education sector, drew immediate criticism as yet another example of political patronage to influence the race.
The self-doubt seems at this point indicative of concerns about President Chinchilla and the crop of candidates, rather than a rejection of democracy. Costa Ricans comparing themselves with the rest of Central America still feel good about themselves, and the green image that eco-tourists reinforce is comforting. But crumbling infrastructure – including collapsing bridges and the exorbitant cost of repeated repairs – and shocking crimes, such as the recent assassination of an environmentalist protecting turtles on a Caribbean beach, fuel the sort of doubts that only effective political and economic leadership can quell.


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PHOENIX — Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.
Standing confidently but at times her voice breaking, Arias told the same eight men and four women who found her guilty of first-degree murder that she planned to use her time in prison to bring about positive changes, including donating her hair to be made into wigs for cancer victims, helping establish prison recycling programs and designing T-shirts that would raise money for victims of domestic abuse.
She also said she could run book clubs and teach classes to prisoners to "stimulate conversations of a higher nature."
Arias became emotional as she played a slideshow of pictures from her photo album for the jury. The images included family portraits, pictures of her and friends and boyfriends and young relatives she has met only from behind bars.
Arias concluded her statement by pleading that jurors not give her the death penalty for the sake of her family.
"I'm asking you to please, please don't do that to them. I've already hurt them so badly, along with so many other people," she said. "I want everyone's healing to begin, and I want everyone's pain to stop."
Arias admitted killing boyfriend Travis Alexander and said it was the "worst thing" she had ever done. But she stuck to her story that the brutal attack — which included stabbing and slashing Alexander nearly 30 times, shooting him in the head and nearly decapitating him — was her defense against abuse.
"To this day, I can hardly believe I was capable of such violence. But I know that I was," she said. "And for that, I'm going to be sorry for the rest of my life."
Her testimony came a day after her attorneys asked to be removed from the case, saying the five-month trial had become a witch hunt that prompted death threats against a key witness in the penalty phase. They also argued for a mistrial. The judge denied both requests.
Arias acknowledged the pain and suffering she caused Alexander's family, and said she hoped her conviction brought them peace.
"I loved Travis, and I looked up to him," Arias said. "At one point, he was the world to me. This is the worst mistake of my life. It's the worst thing I've ever done."
She said she considered suicide after Alexander's death but didn't kill herself because of her love for her own family.
Arias said she regretted that details of her sex life with Alexander came out during the trial, and described a recorded phone sex call played in open court as "that awful tape."
"It's never been my intention to throw mud on Travis' name," she said, adding she had hoped to reach a deal with prosecutors before the case ever went to trial.
"I was willing to go quietly into the night," Arias said.
The jury paid close attention to Arias as she spoke, their gaze turning to the large screen behind her as she ticked through family photos and explained the stories behind each image. Arias retained her composure throughout much of her statement, pausing occasionally as she apparently cried, but no tears were visible.
Alexander's family showed little emotion as Arias' mother, father and sister looked on from the other side of the gallery and cried.
After Arias finished speaking, the judge told jurors they can consider a handful of factors when deciding her sentence, including the fact that Arias has no previous criminal record. They also can weigh defense assertions that Arias is a good friend and a talented artist. Arias displayed her drawings and paintings for the jury during her slideshow.
Judge Sherry Stephens also explained to jurors that their finding would be final, emphasizing the fact that Arias' life is literally in their hands.
"You will determine whether the defendant will be sentenced to life in prison or death," Stephens told the panel. "Your decision is not a recommendation."
The jury began hearing closing arguments Tuesday afternoon, with defense attorney Jennifer Willmott citing Arias' reported mental health problems and lack of a criminal history among the reasons to spare her life.
"Having borderline personality disorder is not an excuse for what she did to Travis Alexander," Willmott told the jury. It is a reason "that you have to be merciful."
After the prosecutor's closing arguments, the jury will begin deliberating Arias' fate.
Arias initially claimed she knew nothing about Alexander's June 2008 killing at his suburban Phoenix home. She then blamed masked intruders before eventually arguing self-defense. Prosecutors contend she killed Alexander in a jealous rage because he wanted to end their relationship and go to Mexico with another woman.
Arias' attorneys also tried without success to withdraw from the case after Arias gave her post-conviction TV interview.
"Longevity runs in my family, and I don't want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place," a visibly shaken Arias told Fox affiliate KSAZ from a holding cell inside the courthouse. "I believe death is the ultimate freedom, and I'd rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it."
Arias directly addressed those comments Tuesday, telling jurors she wanted to live.
"Though I meant it, I lacked perspective. To me life in prison was the most unappealing outcome. … But as I stand here now, I cannot in good conscience ask you to sentence me to death because of them," she said, pointing to her family members.
Last week, Alexander's brother and sister tearfully described for the jury how Alexander's death has torn apart their lives. Defense attorneys had planned to call witnesses, including a female friend and ex-boyfriend of Arias, to speak on her behalf. But after the judge denied all their motions Monday, they said Arias would be the only one to speak.
Defense attorneys claimed the female friend had received death threats and refused to testify. They then argued Arias could not receive a fair trial in the penalty phase without the witness, but the judge disagreed.
Instead, Stephens simply told jurors the woman was supposed to testify about Arias' "abusive environment she grew up in and abuse as an adult," but was now unavailable to appear in court.


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Like mom always said, you've got to eat your veggies if you want to grow up big and strong. There's plenty of scientific evidence to back that claim up now, but even before the medical experts decided to weigh in and add legitimacy to that classic parental insistence, it was an unarguable fact that those leafy greens were the key to a healthy adulthood. Instead of reaching for the spinach like so many trendy mothers, however, mine would bust out the most unsuspecting subjects… Like mushrooms.
Balking at the power of a simple button mushroom, I resisted just like any average child, squirming in my seat until dinner time was over and I could toss out the offending fungus on my plate. Clearly, my mom had a few tricks up her sleeve, and over time I caught wind that these were no average mushrooms at all.
Sure, they looked different than their brown brethren, but when I would finally oblige with a few tentative bites, it felt as though my energy levels suddenly went through the roof, like a new set of batteries had been installed inside me. It's a crazy concept to be sure, but I'm convinced to this day that those mushrooms and veggies were what always charged me back up, almost like magic!
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He is sent to the New World to seek out a First Civilization temple believed to be connected to the artifact he took at the Opera House. Through his efforts, Haytham recruits allies in Charles Lee John Pitcairn, and for a brief time, [Kaniehti:io|Kaniehti:io]], among others. Haytham willingly kills his former friend and fellow Templar General Edward Braddock in order to secure Kaniehti:io's assistance in determining the location of the First Civilization temple.
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300,000 Babies In India Die On Day Of Birth Every Year: Save The Children
More than 309,000 infants in India died on the day of their birth in 2011, according to the Save the Children charity in an annual report entitled "State of the World's Mothers."
As a result, India alone accounts for 29 percent of such global "first-day deaths."
India is followed on this grim list by Nigeria (89,700 deaths, or 9 percent); Pakistan (59,800, or 6 percent); China (50,600, or 5 percent); and Democratic Republic of Congo (48,400, or 5 percent).
Of the estimated 1 million-plus first-day deaths recorded in 2011, almost two-thirds (673,000) occurred in only 10 nations, all of which are in the emerging world, either in Asia or Africa.
South Asia, which accounts for about one-fourth of the global population, records 40 percent of all first-day deaths on the planet.
"Progress has been made, but more than 1,000 babies die every day on their first day of life from preventable causes throughout India, Pakistan and Bangladesh," said Mike Novell, the regional director of STC.
In many countries, the first few days and months are the most dangerous for newborns. STC data revealed that 3 million babies die within the first month of their lives, adding that 75 percent of such fatalities would be preventable with basic, cost-effective care.
"What is lacking is the political will and funding to deliver these solutions to all the mothers and babies who need them," STC stated.
The three biggest causes of these premature deaths are pre-term births (35 percent); infection (25 percent); and asphyxia (23 percent).
The problem is particularly acute in India, which not only has a huge population, but also a high infant mortality rate.
Despite India's rapid economic expansion in the past two decades, such prosperity has done little to uplift the health care and welfare of the country's poor, STC said.
Indeed, more than one-half of Indian mothers give birth without the assistance of skilled health care pros, a situation that often leads to infections and other medical complications. Women in some remote regions of India have no access whatsoever to doctors, nurses or hospitals.
The Daily Telegraph reported that even in affluent, urban parts of India, many Indian women still deliver infants at home.
"Even if hospitals are near at hand, the women are having babies at home in a highly unsafe and unhygienic environment just because of lack of awareness," Dr. Sharmila Lal, a Delhi-based gynecologist, said.
Even the industrial world is not spared this sad spectacle.
STC said that more than one-half of first-day deaths in the developed world occur in the United States. More than 11,000 babies die on the day of their births in the U.S., and 60 percent of newborn deaths in the U.S. happen on the first day of life.
"Saving newborn lives will prevent incalculable suffering," said Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports STC.
"It is also a vital piece of the global development agenda. The long-term economic prospects of poor countries depend on investments in the health, nutrition and education of the people, particularly the women and young children living there. Children surviving and staying healthy means more children in school and able to learn, which in turn means productive adults who can drive sustained economic growth."
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You may want salmon, mackerel, herring or tuna on your menu at least once a week if you want to reduce your risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School followed up on 38,022 women during the 10 years after data had been collected on them for the Women's Health Study.
After adjustments for factors including age, they found that women who consumed the most DHA (an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish) had a 38 percent lower risk of developing AMD than those who consumed the lowest amount of DHA. They found similar results for EPA, another omega-3 fatty acid, as well as for consumption of both acids together.
Low Vision Optometrists who are members of the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists are trained to assist those with vision loss in a variety of ways including nutritional counseling. They agree with the study, having one or more servings of fish per week produced a 42 percent lower risk of AMD, compared with less than one serving per month. Canned tuna and dark-meat fish were the primary types of fish that produced this lower risk.
The omega-6 fatty acids linoleic acid and arachidonic acid were also evaluated. Higher intake of linoleic acid, found in many fruit and vegetable oils such as safflower oil, grapeseed oil and corn oil, was associated with a higher risk of AMD, but not significantly so.
If you are unsure what to take, how much to take or how ofter, consult contact the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists today to find a Low Vision Optometrist in your area and schedule a phone consultation.


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Rachel Maddow's Surge Is Fox News' Worst Ratings Nightmare
After prophesying a landslide win for Mitt Romney, Fox News has seen its ratings decline a lot more than usual since the election — and Sean Hannity's viewers in particular keep disappearing, while Rachel Maddow's continue to tune in over at rival MSNBC.
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The last batch of Nielsen data available before year's end shows Hannity's viewership getting chopped in half after November 6, according to the New York Daily News's Don Kaplan. Politico's Dylan Byers argues this decline simply brings Hannity back to pre-election norms. Or perhaps these vanishing viewers are just disgruntled voters who can't stomach the news cycle anymore. Kaplan, however, attributes this decline to Hannity's implied predictions:
... viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz — who both, of course, did not predict a Romney victory — have retained most of their viewership in the weeks following election night, and CNN's Anderson Cooper has lost almost none. With ratings holding strong after Obama's reelection and Maddow appearing on The Colbert Report, it appears like MSNBC is making good on president Phil Griffin's plan to bolster the channel's brand awareness.
RELATED: A Kinder, Gentler Mel Gibson Tirade; Bill O'Reilly Isn't Going Anywhere
But these trends may began long before Hannity and other Fox News commentators led viewers to believe Romney was a shoe-in. Media blog News Corpse notes that throughout 2012, Fox News experienced by far the slowest year-over-year growth amongst the three major cable news channels. And even though MSNBC has captured many more eyeballs within the lucrative 25-54 demographic, Fox News still retains primetime dominance in the world of 24-hour TV news. What's left for CNN next year, well, that's up to new boss Jeff Zucker to decide.


text: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have opened parallel inquiries into the way smartphone security updates are issued and handled by major mobile carriers and device makers.The two agencies say they are responding to the growing amount of personal information held in smartphones and a recent rise in the attacks on the security of that information.The FCC has sent letters to AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular asking for information on\u00a0their processes for reviewing and releasing security updates for mobile devices. The\u00a0\u00a0FTC has asked for similar information from Apple, Blackberry, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, and Samsung.The companies, which control the vast majority of mobile contracts and smartphone handsets sold in the U.S., have\u00a045 days to respond, at which time the two agencies will analyze the responses and share data with each other.The inquiries haven't risen to the level of a formal investigation or rulemaking, but they could depending on what is discovered."We're attempting to get an assessment on the state of what carriers do to push out patches for device vulnerabilities, how quickly they do it, and what are some of the barriers and challenges they have," said Neil Grace, a spokesman for the FCC.As part of its inquiry, the\u00a0FTC is asking\u00a0for information about when device makers learn of vulnerabilities from software and chip vendors and when or if they issue security updates.Because cellular carriers customize the software on their devices, it's often not possible for operating system vendors like Google to push updates directly to consumers. The updates have to be submitted to carriers and then work through the carrier's own control process before being released.Part of the motivation for the inquiry was the Stagefright\u00a0vulnerability that hit hundreds of millions of Android phones last year. Stagefright left phones vulnerable if a user clicked on a specially formatted MMS message.Google provided a fix but had to wait until cellular carriers pushed the update to customers. On older phones, some consumers might not have received the update at all.


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Soccer in the World's Most Violent City: Why Are You Here?
Ryan O'Hanlon is down in Honduras to cover the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team's opening World Cup qualifying match
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"Javier, when was the coup?"
Game OnRyan O'Hanlon will file dispatches from Honduras, where he is covering the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team's opening World Cup qualifying match, all week.
Those words came out of the mouth of some man—southern, reasonably-tall, and apparently the mayor of San Pedro Sula, based on some of the I'm-sort-of-a-regular way he tried to talk about the place—on our shuttle from the airport to the hotel.
It doesn't really matter that the driver's name was Melvin—he got three letters right, at least—or that, after a back and forth, they decided that the coup happened no later than 2008. The coup happened in 2009, as Noah Davis, esteemed person-who-has-been-to-Honduras-once, told me from the back of the shuttle. And what matters here is just that the coup happened. It happened less than four years ago, and now I'm here, rolling through the streets in a van, navigated by a man not named Javier, who has no problem cutting through gas stations instead of waiting for a red light to turn.
So, why the hell would anyone go to San Pedro Sula, Honduras?
That's something I asked myself this morning, while I sat in the Houston airport waiting for my flight. I mean, it's an easy-enough answer for the majority of people who were on the plane: they're Honduran. But there were other not-Honduran people on this flight, too, all traveling to this city either to stay or to transfer on to somewhere else, but traveling to the same point for the two-and-a-half hours we were in the air.
Type San Pedro Sula into a Google search. See that second result? It's a Washington Post article titled "San Pedro Sula, Honduras is the world's most violent place." As of January 2012, on the homicides-per-100,000-people scale, this city was first with 159. (For reference, New Orleans was the most violent American city on the list with 57 per 100,000.) The U.S. State Department also calls San Pedro Sula—the transportation hub and industrial center of the country; also, a hub along the dotted path that is the Western cocaine trade—"the world's most violent city."
(It should also be noted that the State Department says, "Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens safely visit Honduras each year for study, tourism, business, and volunteer work." Which is then followed by, "However, crime and violence are serious problems throughout the country.")
So, again, what were all these other people doing, boarding this flight? Well, the elderly Canadian couple I met were on their way to some hidden outpost to meet friends. When I asked if they were staying in San Pedro, the woman—as nicely and as old-lady-like as possible—just laughed in my face. Then there was a Canadian woman going backpacking with friends through the country (that makes it sound less menacing than it actually is) for five weeks, and the guy with the guitar from Tulsa who apparently grew up down here and easily switched from that Oklahoma twang to perfect, Honduran-accented Spanish. Oh, and the church group from Louisiana—all overweight, post-middle-age, John-Deere-hat-and-camo-bag types … wearing John Deere hats and carrying camo bags—doing God knows (seriously) what.
But everyone had their reasons because this just isn't a place you come to just to come to. You do it for, well, any other reason than that. My, Noah's, and a couple other people on the plane's reason: to watch a soccer game.
THIS IS HOW THE path to the World Cup generally goes for the United States Men's National Soccer Team: they win most of their games at home, they lose in Mexico, and they scrape and scrap together enough wins and ties from games they play in Central America and the Caribbean.
Three (possibly four, depending on the result of a consolation game) North American teams will qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. There are six teams—the U.S., Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, and Honduras—in the final stage of qualifying, which is referred to as The Hexagonal. Over the next year, each team will play 10 games (one home, one away: against each of the other five). It all kicks off on Wednesday, and, for the Americans, it's kicking off in San Pedro Sula.
Quick primer: all of the Americans, and this is true for most national teams, play professionally for club teams, whether they're in Europe, Mexico, the United States, or somewhere else, as their full-time jobs. They then play for the U.S. intermittently throughout the year (pro leagues take breaks for international games) in qualifying and the occasional major tournament (regional tournaments and the World Cup) over the summer. Here is the roster (clubs in parentheses):
GOALKEEPERS: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa, England), Tim Howard (Everton, England), Sean Johnson (Chicago).
DEFENDERS: Matt Besler (Kansas City), Carlos Bocanegra (Racing Santander, Spain), Geoff Cameron (Stoke, England), Edgar Castillo (Tijuana, Mexico), Timmy Chandler (Nuremberg, Germany), Brad Evans (Seattle), Omar Gonzalez (Los Angeles), Fabian Johnson (Hoffenheim, Germany), Michael Parkhurst (Augsburg, Germany).
MIDFIELDERS: Michael Bradley (Roma, Italy), Brad Davis (Houston), Maurice Edu (Bursaspor, Turkey), Jermaine Jones (Schalke, Germany), Sacha Kljestan (Anderlecht, Belgium), Jose Torres (Tigres, Mexico), Danny Williams (Hoffenheim), Graham Zusi (Kansas City).
FORWARDS: Jozy Altidore (AZ Alkmaar, Netherlands), Clint Dempsey (Tottenham, England), Herculez Gomez (Santos Laguna, Mexico), Eddie Johnson (Seattle).
Some combination of those 24 guys will either beat/tie/lose to Honduras on Wednesday, and they'll all be staying in a hotel down here starting tonight. (At the urging of the U.S. Soccer Federation, and I'm told this is a first, all American journalists are staying in the same beefed-up-security hotel.) Look at where they're all coming from: basically, anywhere that isn't San Pedro Sula.
Not the place where the guy was selling glass-bottled coke out of a wagon pulled by a horse. Or the place with the gigantic, all-white, abandoned Jewish temple right outside the airport. Or the place where a one-armed man was passed out in the middle of the highway, surrounded by 20 or so people, somehow with towels on the ground underneath, just generally looking pretty dire. Or the place with a pharmacy fronted with security guards. Or the place with the Chinese restaurant fronted by security guards. And most definitely not the place where Pizza Hut is the nicest building you see between the airport and your hotel.
In short: this isn't necessarily the most-conducive environment for optimal athletic performance, but this doesn't mean that it can't be or that it won't be or that it even needs to be in order for the U.S. to win. But it makes a soccer game—and I think this is one of the few times I'll be able to say this without feeling queasy—almost something more than only that.
The Honduran government just declared Wednesday a national holiday so everyone in the country can watch the game, which is great. We should at least be coup-d'etat-free until then.


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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Since its launch in April last year, Apple's iPad tablet has defied skeptics and set a high bar for manufacturers that are now introducing their own tablets. An internationally recognized authority on media tablets and e-readers from the University of Missouri, has found that iPad owners are reporting exceptionally high levels of satisfaction and that user satisfaction appears to be increasing the longer they use the device.
Roger Fidler, program director for digital publishing at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, has been conducting surveys of iPad users since last fall to gain insights into how iPad owners use the devices in their daily lives and how the iPad may influence journalism and news consumption. Fidler says he is surprised by the high levels of user satisfaction.
"It's unusual for new technology devices," Fidler said. "In most cases, satisfaction tends to drop off significantly after about 13 weeks. That clearly is not the trend with the iPad."
Fidler found in his first survey last fall that 94 percent of the 1,600 respondents were either very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with their iPad. In his follow-up survey this spring, nearly 70 percent of the 561 owners who responded said they were even more satisfied than they were last fall.
"While the iPad is designed for consuming all kinds of media, it has become clear that leisure reading of news and features is very popular with owners," Fidler said. "The iPad's ultra-thin, lightweight nearly magazine-size screen is more conducive for reading than laptop computers and other mobile devices. The screen size seems to be one of the main reasons for its sustained user satisfaction."
Fidler also found that a majority of owners prefer to use their iPads at home during the evening hours while relaxing in an easy chair or on a couch. For complete results of Fidler's surveys and a full report about the project, visit: https://rjionline.org/news/dpa-ipad-research-project. Fidler is currently working on another survey for this summer that will gauge satisfaction with all tablets now on the market. Results of that survey will be available in the fall.
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute works with citizens, journalists and researchers to strengthen democracy through better journalism. RJI seeks out the most exciting new ideas, tests them with real-world experiments, uses social science research to assess their effectiveness and delivers solutions that citizens and journalists can put to use in their own communities.
*Source: University of Missouri


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Researchers increase speed of single-molecule measurements
As nanotechnology becomes ever more ubiquitous, researchers are using it to make medical diagnostics smaller, faster, and cheaper, in order to better diagnose diseases, learn more about inherited traits, and more. But as sensors get smaller, measuring them becomes more difficultthere is always a tradeoff between how long any measurement takes to make and how precise it is. And when a signal is very weak, the tradeoff is especially big.
A team of researchers at Columbia Engineering, led by Electrical Engineering Professor Ken Shepard, together with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, has figured out a way to measure nanoporestiny holes in a thin membrane that can detect single biological molecules such as DNA and proteinswith less error than can be achieved with commercial instruments. They have miniaturized the measurement by designing a custom integrated circuit using commercial semiconductor technology, building the nanopore measurement around the new amplifier chip. Their research will be published in the Advance Online Publication on Nature Methods's website on 18 March.
Nanopores are exciting scientists because they may lead to extremely low-cost and fast DNA sequencing. But the signals from nanopores are very weak, so it is critically important to measure them as cleanly as possible.
"We put a tiny amplifier chip directly into the liquid chamber next to the nanopore, and the signals are so clean that we can see single molecules passing through the pore in only one microsecond," says Jacob Rosenstein, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering and lead author of the paper. "Previously, scientists could only see molecules that stay in the pore for more than 10 microseconds."
Many single-molecule measurements are currently made using optical techniques, which use fluorescent molecules that emit photons at a particular wavelength. But, while fluorescence is very powerful, its major limitation is that each molecule usually produces only a few thousand photons per second. "This means you can't see anything that happens faster than a few milliseconds, because any image you could take would be too dim," explains Shepard, who is Rosenstein's advisor. "On the other hand, if you can use techniques that measure electrons or ions, you can get billions of signals per second. The problem is that for electronic measurements there is no equivalent to a fluorescent wavelength filter, so even though the signal comes through, it is often buried in background noise."
Shepard's group has been interested in single-molecule measurements for several years looking at a variety of novel transduction platforms. They began working with nanopore sensors after Marija Drndic, a professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, gave a seminar at Columbia Engineering in 2009. "We saw that nearly everybody else measures nanopores using classical electrophysiology amplifiers, which are mostly optimized for slower measurements," notes Shepard. "So we designed our own integrated circuit instead."
Rosenstein designed the new electronics and did much of the lab work. Drndic's group at the University of Pennsylvania fabricated the nanopores that the team then measured in their new system.
"While most groups are trying to slow down DNA, our approach is to build faster electronics," says Drndic. "We combined the most sensitive electronics with the most sensitive solid-state nanopores."
"It's very exciting to be able to make purely electronic measurements of single molecules," says Rosenstein. "The setup for nanopore measurements is very simple and portable. It doesn't require a complicated microscope or high powered instruments; it just requires attention to detail. You can easily imagine nanopore technology having a major impact on DNA sequencing and other medical applications within the next few years."
Shepard's group is continuing to improve these techniques. "With a next-generation design," he says, "we may be able to get a further 10X improvement, and measure things that last only 100 nanoseconds. Our lab is also working with other electronic single-molecule techniques based on carbon nanotube transistors, which can leverage similar electronic circuits. This is an exciting time!"
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Sky Atlantic has opted not to bring Hit & Miss back for a second season. The TV show has been running on DirecTV here in the US. According to Sky Atlantic's official statement, they only planned for the UK TV series to run for just one season anyway.
It reads, "Hit & Miss was commissioned as a self-contained drama. The series was the first UK drama commissioned for Sky Atlantic and the response from our customers and the press has been overwhelmingly positive. Following the success of this series, Sky Atlantic continues to be committed to investment in original British scripted productions with upcoming drama Falcon, and other productions which will be announced soon."
Hit & Miss follows Mia (Chloë Sevingy), a contract killer with a secret: she's a pre-op transsexual. Mia's life is sent into a tailspin when she receives a letter from an ex-girlfriend who's dying from cancer. The letter reveals that Mia fathered a son eleven years ago. Faced with a difficult decision, Mia becomes the guardian to a new family, a choice that forces her to mix her killer instincts with her newly acquired maternal ones. Hit & Miss is the story of a lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family and how all of their lives are dramatically changed.
Others featured in the show include Peter Wight, Jonas Armstrong, Vincent Regan, Ben Crompton, Karla Crome, Reece Noi, Jorden Bennie and Roma Christensen.
The six episodes began running on DirecTV on July 11th and finished on August 15th.
What do you think? Are you sorry to hear there won't be a second season of Hit & Miss? What would you liked to have seen happen?


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Earth art, even removed, can indelibly change nature in the mind's eye
Robert Chianese American Scientist 2013 March-April p. 109
A question arises these days about how environmentally aware and conscientious are land- or Earth artists? Four major figures and four key works help us assess the evolving role of environmental consciousness in Earth art. And two recent events in Los Angeles prompt me to make such an assessment: the installation of Michael Heizer's rock, Levitating Mass, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a complementary retrospective, Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). In this, the second in a four-article series, I explore these works and attempt to answer that question.In the early 1960s some artists abandoned the wall, the gallery and the museum for altering the landscape outside. That's what human beings had done to the Earth for millennia—left their mark, indelible or not. This may signal ownership, dominance, or an attempt to connect or infuse nature's power into the human creature. Or it may be a form of creative play, now augmented by machines.
Christo's & Jean-Claude's Umbrella Installation, HWY 5, the "Grape Vine"
An impulse to transform a natural site for a limited time inspired artists Christo Yavacheff and Jean-Claude Denet de Guillebon, as it did the artist in the first entry in this series, Robert Smithson. But the effects and intent of the husband-wife team known collectively as "Christo" could not be more different.
Their many projects usually involved fabrics as covers, wraps, decorations or frames that temporarily adorn a specific site or natural feature. It's as if they wanted to throw a one-time holiday party, for us and nature—in this case, an umbrella festival. These gala intrusions delight, dazzle and amuse. And that is what Christo claimed they intended, nothing more.
In October 1991, through a mountain pass into the great Central Valley of California, the umbrellas ran down hills, stood alone in fields, crowned small summits or lazed along the creases. This work is primarily a form of outlining, highlighting and decorating the contours of the landscape. It calls attention to the miles-long site in a winding canyon of smooth parched hills that dip and rise like camel backs. People whizz through this narrowing canyon on a treacherous freeway, a thrill-track for suburban racers, except in spring when it sports poppies and goldfields on scattered swaths of green.
In that fall of 1991 the umbrella art arrested us, made us notice the height and depth and rhythms of the naked hills.
We may have seen them for the first time, exposed in dull brown skin. But they were more than a background canvas: We became aware of the weight and mass of the Earth here, its lines and volumes, its tectonic sublimity, its temporal and spatial changes, surely an arts aesthetic that raises consciousness about where we are environmentally.
The Umbrellas in California cost $26 million for 1,760 yellow ones, not including the companion installation of blue ones in Japan, plus 2,000 volunteers and seven years of planning time for both. Volunteers set up and opened the umbrellas on one day in America and Japan. The nylon fabric, aluminum staves and metal bases were then all recycled, despite requests to use them for many other purposes.
The project is the epitome of the organizer's art—for the U.S. umbrellas, 11 manufacturers, 25 private landowners, 960 volunteers to secure and open them, plus well-healed donors, permissive land officials, wary rangers, politicians and art enthusiasts. This makes The Umbrellas and their other works very long-term community projects, just the opposite of Smithson's six-day wonder. There's a sequence here Christo liked to exploit—extended anticipation; then the jubilant though brief manifestation after long and complicated gestation, just like a birthing or a long awaited blooming; and then disappearance. This imitates the life cycle of an organic, growing thing.
Weighing nearly 450 pounds and 19 feet tall by 28 feet wide, each umbrella needed a sturdy footing, which required both earth anchors and the steel bases. Unfortunately, the fierce, erratic winds of the Tejon Pass knocked one of the monster parasols off its embedded base and buffeted a spectator to death. Devastated, Christo and Jean-Claude closed the show right then, but Christo had a philosophical explanation for it:
… the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world. This project demonstrated that everything is possible, because it is part of reality.. The work was designed to generate a confrontation with nature and everything that nature brings.
This unwelcomed "confrontation"—presumably with the reality of deadly nature—does not cancel the aesthetic pleasure of viewing the umbrellas in recollection. The unadorned pass in fall has its own environmental, high-desert
delights, but after-images of the umbrellas linger in the mind. Christo intended this result: "It's an aesthetic decision…. The art is only temporary. The only thing that will be left is the landscape and the beauty in your mind."
Christo thought of the large umbrellas as ethereal houses defining a temporary space borrowed from nature. It's not traditional sculpture he insisted, where the sculptor encloses spaces and owns them. Once they were removed, however, we define and re-shape space within the whole Umbrellas site more broadly and deeply and lastingly than Christo seemed to claim.But Christo may have implied a separation—the landscape returns to its original state, while the memory of the artful decorations endures apart. However, a key aesthetic feature of the temporary installation is the indelible recall of how the hills once looked when decked out in their dressy accessories. They don't look the same anymore. The drama of The Umbrellas has transformed them.
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I nearly got a speeding ticket very early one morning as I exalted at the unseasonal arty blooms in the hills at sunrise. The highway patrolman bought my story that I was simply over-enthused by the "host of daffodil" substitutes. After all, I was heading to my literature class and detoured to sneak another passing glimpse of them, "fluttering and dancing in the breeze." Later, I claim along with Wordsworth that,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Christo seemed justified in his claim of pushing exuberant artistry for its own sake. The big money may be a waste, the effort seems a bit too precious, obsessive—but the point is pleasure and delight and doing a wild, tough thing with high craft and style that quickens the viewer's heart.
But then, he might go on to claim a greater transformative effect: Not only do we recall them with pleasure, like Wordsworth with the daffodils, but they have changed us and that spot of Earth and time forever. Eyewitnesses of The Umbrellas see the Tejon hills in a new way: This stunning umbrella pageant lingers and reframes the Earth itself even in its absence. The giant blooms become imprinted on the hills, a gem-like blaze of uncanny golden flowers, as if we'd seen a magical thing there—an absent banded snake or golden mushroom— that haunts a spot we pass again, permanently marking it we might say with artful beauty. This surely is one of the softest touches with which any artist manipulates the planet. The Umbrellas is environmental art recollected in tranquility, at once there and not there.
However, there's a contrary notion. Why adorn or enhance or even compete with nature's natural display even temporarily? This may be the most peculiar element of Christo's efforts. Does not nature offer us a face more beautiful, more sublime than the strained exertions of human artists, no matter how graceful or memorable the final product? Sprezzatura—doing a difficult thing with seeming ease—is a key to what we call style, in life and in art, but nature surely outpaces us even here.
What the environment generates in the seeming flash of a season requires an army of human makers to imitate over years. We'll never match nature's ultimate style, its seeming careless, ongoing creativity. It has taken eons, ages, eras to make a poppy or a gentle rolling hill or a steep valley pass. Our effort to adorn it is our feeble way of recognizing that long-term power, of acknowledging a superior creativity beyond human art.
That could be Christo's ultimate, perhaps unvoiced aesthetic statement and represents the essence and extent of his environmental artistry—afterimages of what small, glorious transient things we can make when genially though hopelessly vying with nature.
Grimes, William. 1991. "Umbrellas" closing leaves Christo with empty palette. New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/12/ news/umbrellas-closing-leaves-christo-with-empty-palette.html. Mantegna, Gianfranco. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, an undated interview. Journal of Contemporary Art http://www.jca-online.com/ christo.html.
Zamora, Jim Herron. 1991. Requests roll in to use umbrellas after exhibit ends. Los Angeles Times, October 15, http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-15/local/me-680_1_umbrella-fabric.
Robert Louis Chianese, B. A. Rutgers, Ph. D. Washington University, St. Louis (1971), is professor of English emeritus, California State University, Northridge, a 1979 Mitchell Prize Laureate in Sustainability, and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division (2012), the only humanities professor selected in its 100-year history. The AAAS-PD has just published his monograph, Art Inspired by Science. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist he works to link the arts, humanities and sciences in collaborative efforts on and off campus in environmental preservation. Internet: firstname.lastname@example.com


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This presentation offers the visual materials from a much larger holding donated to the Astor Library by the USSC in 1878. They include photographs that seem to have been made specifically to document the work and facilities of the USSC: homes for recuperating soldiers, the agency's headquarters, ambulance design and hospital treatment, figure studies of wounded soldiers and their recovery, and portraits of officials. In addition, there are views of battlefields by well-known Civil War photographers such as Alexander Gardner's "Incidents of the War" series. Many of the photographs bear postage stamps affixed as a tax on photographs to help raise funds for the war. There is also a small cache of medical photographs and illustrations in color of wounds.
With the close of the war in 1865, the USSC's field operations ceased, but its work continued. The USSC's Historical Bureau in New York collected and organized the Commission's records, while its claim agencies and Standing Committee tied up the loose ends of its affairs. In 1878, Henry W. Bellows, President of the Commission since its founding at the start of the war in 1861, donated the records to the Astor Library, where they had previously been stored.
The manuscript and other records of the USSC document the activities of its central administrative and branch offices, its agents in the field, and the many associated soldiers aid societies supporting its humanitarian efforts during the Civil War.
In 1861, the Government officially recognized and empowered the United States Sanitary Commission, a civilian organization, to conduct inquiries regarding the sanitary condition of the volunteer troops, and to advise on the means to promote their health, comfort and efficiency. The USSC's roots lay in the collaborative efforts of New York's civic leaders, medical community and the Woman's Central Association of Relief to effectively channel the public's outpouring of support for the war effort and its concern for the condition of the troops. The USSC leadership, comprised of such diverse individuals as Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, George Templeton Strong, Frederick Law Olmsted, John S. Newberry and Louisa Lee Schuyler, interpreted the USSC's auxiliary role broadly, and it took many practical forms.
The USSC conducted camp and hospital inspections, and collected and distributed supplemental food, clothing and medicine to hospitals and troops in the field. It helped care for the wounded on battlefields, and worked with the military to improve the transport of sick and wounded soldiers by ambulance, railroad and ship. Increasingly concerned with the welfare of the soldier and his family, its Special Relief department provided food and lodging for the soldier in transit, found employment for disabled veterans, and worked with the USSC's claim agencies to help individual soldiers or their families obtain back pay, bounty or pension monies. The USSC's Hospital Directory determined the location and condition of sick, wounded and missing soldiers for the benefit of their families and friends. These tasks and many others, the men and women of the USSC staff carried out diligently on a paid or volunteer basis. With the help of community leaders, the value of funds and supplies donated to the USSC by men, women and children supporting the Union cause reached over four million dollars by war's end, making it possible for the USSC to carry out its work.
Giesberg, Judith Ann. Civil War Sisterhood: the U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition. (2000)
Maxwell, William Quentin. Lincoln's Fifth Wheel: the Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission. (1956)
The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War. Originally published: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65. (1870-1888; repr. 1990-92)
National Museum of Civil War Medicine. "National Museum of Civil War Medicine." <http://www.civilwarmed.org/index.cfm>
NYPL. Manuscripts and Archives Division. "United States Sanitary Commission Records, 1861-1872."
Olmsted, Frederick Law. Defending the Union: the Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861-1863. Jane Turner Censer, ed. (c1986) The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted; v.4
Stillé, Charles J. History of the United States Sanitary Commission. (1866)
United States Sanitary Commission. Western Department. The U.S. Sanitary Commission in the Valley of the Mississippi, during the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866; Final Report of Dr. J.S. Newberry. (1871)
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text: Looking for a global mobility partner? Ten reasons to choose ECA 29 November 2019 Anni Keranen About, Consultancy & advisory, Data, Expatriate management, Software, Training At ECA, we are flexible in how we work with our clients, because we know there is no one-size-fits-all model that works for everyone. It makes no difference whether you are brand new to mobility or a seasoned professional. You can lean on our expertise to guide you through the jungle of global mobility, and we are your soundboard whenever you want to run ideas past us. Whether it's cost of living indices or a full-on assignment management system you're after, it's our job to make sure you have the right tools that fit your requirements to help you run a smooth mobility programme with successful assignments and happy assignees. 1. Tailored solutions to solve your mobility needs One of the most common questions we are asked is "what is the best practice?". Thanks to the complexities of the mobility world, there is no easy answer; it depends on several factors, such as your company values and business priorities. However, answering that particular question with "it depends" is not good enough for us, so we work with you to decode your unique requirements to find out exactly what you want to achieve. At some organisations, employees might need strong incentives to take up an overseas position, whereas at others mobility is a given and employees are expected to pack their bags in order to have successful careers – and all of this has an impact on what's the correct answer in your case. 2. The most reliable data for your assignments New clients are often surprised when they hear the extent to which we go to collect and analyse our data ourselves. We have a team of International Data Researchers who travel the world to collect prices for our Cost of Living and Accommodation reports. They also provide us with invaluable on-the-ground intelligence and help verify elements that are tricky to research remotely. Our clients' assignees can also participate in our surveys, and although their input is extremely useful for us to establish trends in expatriate shopping patterns, it forms just one part of our multi-source approach to data collection. 3. Dedicated team of global mobility specialists Having an extensive research team behind each of our products is a huge asset to ECA's clients. It ensures that whenever you have a question, our account managers can easily speak to the subject-matter experts to get a quick and reliable response. For instance, we have an internal team of tax specialists, which means we are not reliant on the Big Four for our tax data. The team has perfected their research methods over the decades, and as with everything we publish, the data comes from multiple sources to ensure its accuracy. 4. Comprehensive reports to cover all bases Subscription gives you access to ECA's online library of knowledge, which includes all the information you need to put assignment packages together. However, our data is not limited to numbers. The reports contain useful information to equip you with valuable insight. For instance, while it's important to know how much to budget for accommodation, would it surprise you to hear that in some locations it is typical to pay two years' rent up-front? Information like this is included in addition to rental costs to prepare you for confidently managing your assignments around the world. Moreover, our data is very granular in its nature, so that you can pitch your packages at appropriate levels according to your policy rules. 5. Software to help you focus on value-added tasks Although Microsoft Excel – believe it or not – still seems to be the world's most commonly used assignment management system, there is an increasing demand for more sophisticated solutions to make it easier to control costs and track both assignees as well as KPIs. ECAEnterprise, our assignment management system, can be bought off-the-shelf as a salary and cost-estimate calculator, or we can tailor it to suit your exact requirements in a completely bespoke fashion. Users can manage assignments through an intuitive workflow, generate assignment documents at a few clicks, and you can even include your expatriates in the process through our assignee portal. We also have a range of standalone tools, such as a Short-term Allowance Calculator for shorter assignments and a Net-to-Net Calculator to check the viability of a local salary offer in the host location. 6. Quick and accurate calculations Sometimes our clients come to us for one-off calculations, perhaps because their assignee volumes don't warrant tools, or they don't have the specialist knowledge in-house, or simply for the convenience. We provide a wide range of calculations to suit your needs, from build-ups and advice on appropriate allowances for short-term assignments to full cost projections. Having a subscription to our data isn't required to access this service, but subscribers do benefit from discounted fees. 7. Audit your policy today to avoid costly mistakes tomorrow Having been at the forefront of the global mobility industry for nearly five decades, we can say we've seen it all – and we are happy to share the lessons we have learnt along the way. We can help you develop your policies to keep up with your increasingly complex global workforce requirements to overcome obstacles before they turn into full-blown problems. Our consultants have a wealth of experience at drafting policy frameworks from scratch, or we can fine-tune your existing policies to meet the ever-evolving business needs. We are also happy to help you find the right wording for your assignment letters, or brainstorm together to solve an issue that is troubling your day-to-day. 8. The size of your assignee population makes no difference It is easy to justify the need for a mobility data subscription or an assignment management system when you have a large expatriate population. However, our clients come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from small start-ups to big, multinational household names. We have assisted many companies with their very first assignments, highlighting the numerous hurdles and teaching them how to avoid common pitfalls. For those with hundreds of assignees, we have the data and knowledge to support all different types of assignments, so you can manage your programme efficiently and proactively, bringing real value to the business. 9. Remain ahead of the curve with our insight We are passionate about training and up-skilling global mobility professionals and love to share our knowledge. You can find lots of free resources on our website, including white papers, webinars, articles and this blog, providing advice and insights on a variety of mobility issues. Our most popular classroom training course, The International HR Practitioner, is an A to Z deep-dive into the various complexities mobility teams grapple with every day, and our experts run it around the world several times a year. Participants range from mobility newbies to people with decades of experience in the field, and some of our clients have built the course into their induction programmes to help their new colleagues get up to speed. We are also happy to come to your offices to run tailored workshops that focus on and help you solve your pressure points. 10. Dedicated support you can rely on Regardless of the way you decide to work with us, you can count on receiving world-class service. Client satisfaction is extremely important to us and we pride ourselves on the speed of our response. Our four offices around the world – London, New York, Sydney and Hong Kong – ensure that we are available when and where you are. Moreover, our specialists offer their insights at various events, mobility forums and breakfast briefings around the world, and you can also catch us on TV and in print. These are just some of the reasons why we are the number one choice for international HR teams in a world that's constantly moving. FIND OUT MORE Whether you choose to work with us for data, policy design, software systems, benchmarking or just a bit of advice, partnering with us will help you achieve more. Whatever your project's scale or programme needs, we'll act as a partner to your HR team. Take a look at the different ways you could work with us or request a callback and one of our experts will be in touch to discuss your mobility requirements and how ECA can help. Please contact us to speak to a member of our team directly. Like this article? Share it... Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Previous post Mobility Basics: The host-based approach previous Next post How have recent events in Hong Kong impacted location allowance calculations? next


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Sra Pou vocational school is a vocational training center and community building in Sra Pou village, Cambodia. The school is designed by Architects Rudanko + Kankkunen and built during spring 2011. The project was continued in 2012 with a follow-up visit to Sra Pou to evaluate and improve the school's functionality.
The purpose of the vocational training centre is to encourage and teach poor families to earn their own living. The Sra Pou community is one of the unprivileged communities in Cambodia, who have been evicted from their homes in the city to the surrounding countryside. They lack basic infrastructure, decent built environment and secure income. The new vocational school provides professional training and helps the people to start sustainable businesses together. It is also a place for public gathering and democratic decision-making for the whole community. The Cambodian NGO Blue Tent organizes the teaching.
The project got started when we took part in an Aalto university design studio run by Ukumbi founders in spring 2010. During the studio, students travelled to Cambodia to find a design task with a local NGO. We met the Sra Pou community through the NGO Blue Tent, and we were asked to help with the design of a small vocational school. The studio works were at first imaginary, but we (just like our fellow team Komitu) decided to start working towards the construction of Sra Pou vocational school together with the community and the NGO, since there was an urgent need for it and the design inspired both community and donors.
The school building is made out of local materials with local workforce. The aim was to encourage the community to make the most out of the materials that are easily available, so that they could apply the same construction techniques in their future building projects. As the materials are scarce, the beautiful red soil was utilized to make sundried soil blocks. The whole school is hand-made. This allowed employing many people from the community, and it kept all techniques simple and transferable.
The soil block walls repeat the red shade of the surrounding earth. They are laid out with small holes, so that indirect sunlight and gentle wind come in to cool the spaces. The community space is open, providing comfortable shaded outdoor space. The colorful doors are visible from far away and welcome visitors coming along the main road.
When working with foreign cultures and testing new construction techniques, it is important to learn from the users also after the completion of the building. The vocational school project continued with a second visit to Sra Pou in 2012. We monitored the functionality of the school building during its first year and designed necessary changes and amendments together with the community. We learned that the handicraft doors had not been durable enough, so their design was developed further with the local handicraftsmen. They were replaced with solid metal doors which got new colours and artwork in a painting workshop, where community children painted the doors with the guidance of a local artist. The roof was enhanced and the building's maintenance planned together with the community.
The school is now owned by the Sra Pou community, and functioning under the surveillance of Blue Tent NGO. The main acitivity is sewing: the upstairs class accommodates eleven sewing machines bought with microloans, which are operated and owned by a sewing society of eleven women. The downstairs with new doors can now be used as a makeup shop, and the open community space will provide a good spot for motorcycle repair.
Architects Rudanko + Kankkunen
Rudanko+Kankkunen is not an active Ukumbi team at the moment.
More information about their current work at www.rudanko-kankkunen.com


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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Yale Law Hosts Panel Discussion on Events in Pakistan
A panel discussion about the ongoing legal crisis in Pakistan and its implications for rule-of-law movements in Pakistan and South Asia was held Nov. 26 at Yale Law School.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Conference Nov. 30 To Examine Government of Venezuela Under Chávez
Venezuela President Hugo Chávez
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Noëlle Lenoir Talk Oct. 30—"Is the New Europe Anticompetitive?"
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Veton Surroi to Lecture on Kosovo's Pursuit of Independence
Veton Surroi, a member of Kosovo Negotiating Team, will deliver a Dean's Lecture on October 3 titled "Kosovo: In Pursuit of Independence."
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Bernstein Symposium April 12-13—"Defending Rights Through Law in China"
The annual Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium, to be held April 12-13 at Yale Law School, will focus on "Defending Rights Through Law in China: Progress and Challenges."
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A New "New Haven School"? Yale Journal of International Law Young Scholars Conference March 10 at YLS
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Melville, NY, October 9, 2013 - Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the developments of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."
The work behind this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry focuses on how to answer questions about the function of large complex systems. This can rarely be done with experiment alone and relies heavily on theoretical computational modeling to reveal why a particular system behaves the way it does. Multiscale modeling uses information that is gathered at a smaller level to explain properties and behavior at a larger scale such as in biological systems. The work done by Karplus, Levitt, and Warshel helps to accurately explain just that – what fluctuations at the molecular level contribute to function at the systems level.
In the 1970's Warshel and Karplus began collaboration on this multiscale modeling technique relying on each other's area of expertise to devise a computer program that would combine classical (large) and quantum (small) approaches to describe complex chemical systems. Levitt and Warshel then made further important strides which made it possible to study even larger systems such as proteins. Understanding protein function and their subsequent degradation can lead to insight into a number of diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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"Many of the seminal papers by this year's Nobel Laureates that reported the first ways to embed quantum dynamics within classical simulations for multiscale modeling were published in The Journal of Chemical Physics," said Marsha Lester, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. "Martin Karplus, in particular, has published much of his science (over 160 papers) in the Journal and this work has been cited nearly 20,000 times. This field continues to be a key focus for The Journal of Chemical Physics."
AIP Publishing has compiled a number of resources relative to this year's winners and the importance of their discovery, which can be found at www.aip.org/nobel/chemistry2013.html.
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