Aboard RAVEN after long, beautiful day in the air and airports. See tweets for some photos of travel.
Near disaster when I took the wrong train to San Francisco International, an error not realized until I was at the bitter end of the line. Note to self: don't doze, even it if is 5AM. Ran with my 40 pounds of toot to a cab. Made it with 5 minutes to spare.
Other crew member has missed his flight altogether, so we are delayed by two hours in our departure this evening.
We head out at 8PM for Bull Harbor, north and west by 20 miles, there to spend a short night at anchor and then up well before daybreak to hoof it on slack out around Cape Scott. We're eager to get below this promontory before strong SE winds develop on Thursday. Winter Harbor is the goal by tomorrow night. That will be a long, 60 mile day.
Kurt has made dinner of cheese fajitas; have had a beer. We've studied charts; I've got a tour of the boat. Excited to get underway.
Departure also means the end of WIFI. It's most likely that further transmissions will be via the boat's primitive SAILMAIL account and maybe not for a day or two.
Sailing is like riding a bike: once learned you never forget. That said, my Figure 8 attempt, now a mere year and two months off, isn't just any old bike ride. It's more like a motocross stunt performed over and over again for months.
I need to keep my skills up.
To that end I agreed some time back to help a friend deliver his cruising sailboat, a fast and sturdy Westsail 39 named RAVEN, down the coast of British Columbia's Vancouver Island. We'll start in Port Hardy, on the island's northeastern tip, transit up and over the top, through the treacherous slop of Nahwitti Bar, around notorious Cape Scott and on down into the rugged cruising grounds of windward, western Vancouver. Though all coastal sailing, all if it will be exposed to the Pacific swell and weather.
And we'll start tonight. I'm writing this from Vancouver Airport's South Terminal. Small and separated from the commercial hub by a ten minute bus ride, the terminal is situated on an estuary abuzz and serves the float planes and other propellored craft that ferry passengers to the unknown north.
The blue of fir trees all around. Snowy peaks to the east barely visible through the deck of cloud, but west the sky is clear. The soft wind is warm and humid. I am in a t-shirt. Most locals are in shorts, and their alabaster legs suggest the rarity of days like this, suggest I may not have, in fact, over packed.
It took till 1AM to clear the gear cluttering the living room these last days into one large duffle and one small pack, 30lbs in all and mostly clothing. My packing list included heavy foul weather gear, lighter waterproof jackets and pants, light, medium and heavy weight thermals, three pairs of wool-tech socks, heavy rubber boots with wool liners, rubber fisherman's gloves and four pair of woolen inserts, a light and medium weight fleece hat, and one fleece "helmut" resembling the cold-weather hood worn by Shackleton in the Antarctic. Could be this is taking preparedness to an extreme. But I remember being cold in Alaskan waters in August.
And some of this is gear experimentation. The Shackleton hoody, for example, is a recent acquisition whose genius is that it not only covers the head and ears completely, but it also protects the neck. It might be a design well sooted for my high latitude year. The same goes for a GoLite down jacket whose treated feathers are said to be highly water resistant. Early tests in San Francisco Bay drizzle suggest this is the case, but real rain here is likely, providing a much better test.
The captain's name is Kurt. We first met in Mexico in 2010 where he was cruising the Sea of Cortez on RAVEN, this when I was there on MURRE, and we have recently become reacquainted as I explored the Westsail 39 as a potential Figure 8 boat. The last two months have been all boat search with this boat being but one of about ten great candidates. But Kurt was quick to disqualify the W39. "Too many windows," he said. "You're going south. Think inverted. What the f*ck if one of those pops out. In fact, you wouldn't catch me down there in anything but those fat, French aluminum tanks." Such comments to one side, the W39 is a solid Robert Perry design, nimble, stiff, sure-of-foot, and I'm excited to see how she does out in the open.
The cruise is designed to last until July 4th and terminates in Victoria. During that time my communications will be much the same as those during my ocean passages on Murre, that is frequent but all text. There are few towns along western Vancouver and less internet. So, I'll be using RAVEN's SSB to send messages to this site.
My flight boards in ten minutes. Time to get a coffee and a chocolate chip cookie.
Note: this is a follow-up to my Murre and the Pacific cruise of French Polynesia.
In 2011 I explored French Polynesia on Murre and was only a month departed from the Marquesan Island of Nuku Hiva when I learned a recent tragedy there had been attributed to cannibalism.
Murre rode her anchor in Opunohu Bay off Moorea by this time, an island some 1000 miles further west, where I met a couple named Hannas and Christine aboard Pukuri. They had made Moorea before me, but suddenly returned by air to Nuku Hiva. Returning to Moorea a week later, they told me of the terrible fate of their friend Stephan Ramin.
Like Hannas and Christine, Stephan and his girlfriend were slowly island hopping through French Polynesia on Baju, but were behind Pukuri's track. The two couples became friends in Mexico but had soon separated, each choosing to take different and wandering paths through the Pacific islands. Baju was enjoying Nuku Hiva while Pukuri and crew explored Moorea.
One day Stephan hired a local on Nuku Hiva to take him on a private goat hunt. Wild goats are common on the islands, and they are frequently hunted for food. Stephan and his guide took off for the forest in the morning.
That evening the guide returned to Baju alone and with an urgent message for Stephan's girlfriend. Stephan had been injured in the mountains and the guide needed her assistance. The girlfriend found this story suspicious; she refused to go. The guide tied her up, threatened her, and then left. After some time she freed herself and ran to the Gendarmes.
A search for Stephan began. Based on the girlfriend's description of the guide, the Gendarmes had a suspect. They visited the suspect's farm, and though they did not find him, in an outdoor oven they found the charred remains of a human body, later identified as Stephan. Cannibalism was suspected.
The story exploded. Overnight it hit the European tabloids.
Stretches of Marquesan history are violent in the extreme. Severe overpopulation prior to Cook's arrival in the 18th century caused competition for food and land, and cannibalism during this period was apparently common among the warrior and ruling classes.
But European contact all but eliminated the practice. Western diseases like syphilis and influenza decimated the Marquesans; those that remained were aggressively Christianized by white settlers. Cannibalism vanished.
Slowly rebounding contemporary populations are under the control of a benevolent though strict French socialism. In the outer islands, there are few jobs, but welfare supplies the money and the islands supply the rest. An odd effect of this is that a surprising number of Marquesans can drive Range Rovers, but access to bullets (for goat hunting) is tightly controlled by the Gendarmes. The result is that crime, real crime, is unheard of. The cruiser passing through simply does not worry about things like theft, assault, piracy … cannibalism.
Hannas and Christine flew back to assist with the terrible aftermath of Stephan's murder, comforting the girlfriend and the parents who had flown out, cooking meals, dealing with the boat. They were wiped out and heart-sick when I met up with them, deeply saddened by the loss of their friend and for a conception of paradise that had been shattered.
In recent years, native island councils have begun to resurrect their ancient traditions by way of connecting with their past and instilling a sense of pride in a decidedly listless younger generations. Young male islanders, it was said, had taken this a step further by secretly reverting to cannibalism as an initiation rite. The victims were not locals, but cruisers. Every once in a while a visiting yacht that had been at anchor here or there went missing, later to be washed up on a reef; its crew, also missing, assumed drowned. The events were written off as mishap, but not now. For the French government this murder had gone from unusually serious crime to public relations disaster. Investigators from both France and Germany soon arrived. The islands were abuzz.
But I soon sailed on, leaving the story behind, and am only returning to it now because, nearly three years after Stephan's death, the case has finally achieved closure. Surprisingly, the suspect, a 33-year-old male by the name of ArihanoHaiti, eluded capture for 50 days, quite a feat on such a small island whose population struggles toward 2,000. At his trial he asserted that he shot Stephan because Stephan had sexually assaulted him and that he later assaulted the girlfriend out of revenge. The court did not buy this story and just yesterday sentenced Haiti to 28 years on jail.
Interestingly, the court also found that investigators were unable to prove cannibalism had occurred.
Meet Jerry Borucki, a fluid-dynamicist retired from NASA's Ames Research Center, resident of Mountain View, California and extreme sailor. His goal, one he has chased for many summers since 2006, has been to reach the North Pole in a small boat.
The beauty captivated him and that was that.
The next summer he set out to reach the Aleutians, and the summer after that, the Arctic Circle. A year later he was searching for the western pack ice, which he found at 76 degrees north latitude, 500 miles above his venture of the previous summer.
In 2007 he, and now aptly named Arctic Alpha Wulf, were rocked by a full storm and two gales while holed up in uninhabited Nash Harbor on Nunivak Island. Here he waited at anchor sixteen long days for a weather window that would allow his sprint south. He began to run short of food and fuel, and was assisted with both by a tug and barge also waiting. Once below the Aleutians he experienced a gale every three days and a severe knockdown that held the boat on her side for a full five minutes. Surprisingly, damage was minimal–a canvas dodger blown clean off and a swamped stove due to the flu being underwater so long. "It was (rough) enough to knock the sugar out of the coffee," he said.
Again he was waiting for the weather to moderate and allow a departure for home, but each day he waited saw the ice around Arctic Alpha Wulf grow thicker. He began to wonder if escape was possible.
Finally on November 14 he decided to make a break for it regardless of the conditions in the Gulf of Alaska. After warming the engine and raising anchor he began to move.
A storm in the Gulf blew out his main and he put into Yakutat for repairs, but at last he was free of the Arctic winter, and free to plan his next year's assault.
Voyage Ends, David F. Smydra Jr., Half Moon Bay Review, October 24, 2007.
*The Iceman Cometh, LaDonna Bubak, Latitude 38, February 2008, p. 114.
Bound for the Pole, Ladonna Bubak, 'Lectronic Latitude, Latitude 38, August 8, 2008.
**Jerry Borucki, Jerry Borucki, Latitude 38, February 2011, p. 88.
Here we consider the first of several big issues impacting the success of the Figure 8: Mileage and Timing.
The Figure 8 Voyage consists of two distinct segments, a longish ocean cruise through the Pacific, Southern and Atlantic Oceans, and a tight, harbor pilot's squeeze through the very constricted waters of the Northwest Passage. Strategies for these two are so different that I've considered them separately.
Using OpenCPN (free, online chartplotting) I've worked up both routes to a high degree of accuracy and the total distance for the Figure 8 comes out to … drum roll please … roughly 40,000 nautical miles. Think San Francisco to New York; now repeat nearly ten times. Compare the circumference of the earth at the equator: a mere 26,000 miles.
Those two routes are captured in the following graphics.
The first is all "blue water" sailing. From San Francisco I shape a course south through the Pacific, jogging a bit east above the line so as to gain some purchase against the southeasterly trades below. Having rounded the Horn, I quickly climb back to the 40th parallel where weather should be less severe and where I will attempt to spend the majority of the Southern Ocean passage. Having rounded the Horn for the second time, I begin to work up the Atlantic, staying west of both the south and north Atlantic high pressure systems before entering the arctic circle to the west of Greenland at 66.5 degrees north latitude. This routing is based entirely on prevailing wind patterns in particular quadrants of ocean at particular times of year (more below).
If the above is concerned with navigating large weather patterns over huge stretches of ocean, the Northwest Passage is an exercise in pilotage. Here wind patterns matter little if rocks get in the way, and so I have based this segment entirely on what is now called the Amundsen Route, named for the previously-mentioned explorer who first completed it. In fact, this is only one of several possible waterways through the arctic, but for planning purposes it is a worthy place holder because it is the longest route, and it is, historically, the most likely to be passable in any given year.
This approach hugs the Greenland coast to about 75 degrees north latitude due to extrusions of ice from Baffin Island in summer before passing into Lancaster Sound and then Barrow Strait. Here the course moves sharply south into Peele Sound and then Franklin and James Ross Straits before resuming a westerly course in the very restricted waters just above mainland Canada and then the potentially more open waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea, exit Aleutians near Unimak Island.
The distance of the Figure 8 is precisely known. My careful plotting of these two segments sums to exactly 37,726 nautical miles. But I have used the word "roughly" above because though try as I may for conceptual precision, the watery world will most certainly intervene.
One example among many: surface winds upon the larger ocean, winds a sailboat requires for its daily motivation, blow in grand, mostly predictable patterns of direction and velocity. Since the 19th century these winds have been observed, recorded, catalogued and published in wonderfully intricate, absolutely beautiful documents called Pilot Charts (I've used Cornell's Ocean Atlas, by Jimmy Cornell).
These charts are summaries of wind and current behavior over every quadrant of every ocean for every month of the year. They are the brain child of Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury of the U.S. Navy who realized, in 1842, that decades of ship's logs stored in Navy archives contained valuable information on ocean weather that could be compiled into weather charts. More recently cruiser and regatta organizer Jimmy Cornell has put these charts to extensive revision using satellite weather data.
As good as these charts are (they are the Holy Grail of route planning), wind where you are at any given moment can blow from anywhere. To their credit, the Pilot Charts attempt to account for this, but sailor's logs from time immemorial are filled with diatribes against the blasted charts for winds behaving badly and blowing them off course. Upshot: even a carefully planned course planned is not necessarily that will eventually be sailed.
I have sought to anticipate these vagaries of wind (and current and wave and rig failure and captain error, etc.) by modeling several possible results. What if my mileage is 5% under plan or 10% over; or 20% over?
Of course, if the distance traveled varies, so will the time required to travel it.
One unique feature of this voyage is the need to arrive at the entrance to the Northwest Passage (in this case, the eastern end of Lancaster Sound) at a particular time. The northern summer is intense but short. In a typical year, ice thaws into leads and then clear water, if at all, for as little as a month. The wise cruiser attempting an east to west transit of the Arctic will want to be in position by the beginning of August and hope the passage opens by mid-month because ice will begin to reform at these latitudes as early as mid-September.
That's in a typical year, of which there is no guarantee. In 2011 and 2012 conditions were right for a passage of this kind, but in 2013, the arctic ice did not thaw uniformly, and in key places it failed to melt at all or refroze early. As many as 20 yachts transiting the Northwest Passage were trapped in the ice.
Another timing I will want to pay close attention to is that demanded by the heavy weather in the Southern Ocean, specifically as the route requires two roundings of dangerous Cape Horn. Looked at from the South Pole, the Southern Ocean is a big, watery donut surrounding Antarctica and bordered to the north by South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Its reputation for storms and massive waves (not to mention cold and the occasional iceberg) is nothing short of legend. Small boats passing through these waters should position their arrival and departure for the height of summer (November/December/January) when gales are at a minimum.
Given the difficulties of predicting day-to-day wind and weather at sea, it is highly unusual for sailors to plan an ocean passage with the idea of arriving at a particular place at a particular time. In fact, for many, it's the open-endedness of such journeys that provide much of the charm. All this means that for the Figure 8 I will need to pay close attention to the boat, not only its sea-keeping abilities, but also its speed. These are considered in some detail in the next post.
It is commonly held that excitement is the goal of adventuring. But in truth, excitement is adventure's potentially enjoyable but often unwieldy result, too much of which can be the death of you.
Professionals know this as a matter of course. The sentiment reflected in the title of this post is an aphorism widely attributed to Roald Amundsen, first explorer to sail the entirety of the Northwest Passage in 1905 and 1906. He is often compared to Captain James Cook, not just for his unprecedented successes but also his famously thorough preparations.
Sadly, two clues suggest the remark is apocryphal: 1) no citations attend its many instances online; 2) Amundsen's prose, though clean and energetic, did not easily submit to such concision.
Point being, the only way to play the many variables of any big adventure is to have a good plan.
I have been going at Figure 8 planning for some time now, ranking not only what must be researched, learned, resolved; bought, tested, and abandoned; relearned, rebought, retested, etc., but also its order in time prior to departure. The Project Plan is up to eleven pages; supporting documents extend as long as my arm and promise to grow by many fold as things progress.
There are several reasons to consider these two together. For one, it has been important to prove to myself the expedition is, in fact, possible. Remember the goal: to circumnavigate the Americas and Antarctica solo and in one season. How far is that really? Can a sailboat go fast enough? Can I time the passages so as to be in the dangerous high latitude areas at the best times?
Apart from proof of concept, these items are related because the route, its timing requirements, and the extremes of demand upon the boat (stormy open ocean vs stormy rocky, icy ocean) all work to define the type of boat I'll need.
In the next two posts, I'll explore these items in more detail.
At the recent Strictly Sail show in Oakland, an experienced blue-water sailor and I got into conversation about the Figure 8. I described the loop in the Southern Ocean followed by the Northwest Passage and said I thought the latter was technically the more difficult.
But if what I said was wide of the mark, what I meant was accurate.
One could argue that ocean voyaging is conceptually similar to trekking long distances over land, the Appalachian Trail, for example. In both cases a plan must seek to balance survival requirements against what can reasonably be carried; where and when one wishes to arrive against how fast can be safely traveled given weather, surroundings and the limits of endurance. Here, steady progress over weeks and months is the measure of success.
But my arctic route will be more like climbing a mountain, where focus is minute-to-minute and precision in the placing of hands and feet is needed to master the next ledge and the next after that. For this section of the journey my navigation will switch to pilotage, and I will trade the wide ocean for constricted, rocky, shoally, fog-bound reaches and the negotiation of ice in all its guises. Much of this transit will be made good under power due to a lack of wind or room to maneuver. Instead of thousands of miles between waypoints, I will judge my progress in the tens of miles; some days there will be no progress at all.
In this way the Northwest Passage is the more technical of the two routes comprising the Figure 8.
And adding to its difficulty is the research, for though there is a vast amount of online resource, there is no single cruising guide for the frozen high latitudes.
One book that comes close is the instructive and thrilling read by David Scott Cowper, Northwest Passage Solo.
Cowper is the quintessential English adventurer, tough, daring, unflappable, understated. By the time he came to attempt the northern route in 1986, he had already set the speed record for soloing the world in both directions under sail. Against this a singlehanded circumnavigation via the arctic, also a first, seemed nothing more than the logical next step.
But the arctic posed unique challenges for which this dedicated sailor chose a retired motor-lifeboat named Mabel E. Holland, whose 42 feet in length was so taken up with engine and fuel and equipment there was scarcely space for his bunk.
The book is full of misadventure. Mabel E. Holland is ice-bound, rescued by Icebreaker, abandoned by Icebreaker, holed, sunk, and beached for repairs for two winters at Fort Ross on Somerset Island before her escape via the Bering Straits.
It is with the reading of Cowper that I feel my Northwest Passage research has begun.
*Roald Amundsen's account in The North-West Passage (ebook) summarizes his expedition in Gjoa in 1905-06 and is far more detailed regarding arctic survival techniques and ethnography, but lacks the kind of contemporary and turn-by-turn detail useful to those planning similar adventures.
**Another great advantage of the book is the detailed (nearly 50 pages) summary of Northwest Passage History.
Archimedes lay in his bath, Newton pondered beneath a tree, and Einstein pushed a stroller along the busy sidewalks of Berne–surprisingly mundane activities for the birthing of big ideas. So I take it as fortuitous that my idea came into being while I washed dishes.
Maybe water swirling in the sink suggested that a figure eight sailing route around the world, by way of the five capes and the Northwest Passage, held elements of promise. More likely, however, the source was my discovery earlier that day of Matt Rutherford's story.
One could argue that singlehanding is unusual by definition, but even among the odd community that is solo sailors there are those who seek to go one step further. Take Dr. David Lewis or Webb Chiles or David Scott Cowper as three interestingly different examples in a field where difference is the norm.
Finding a unique enterprise in such company can be difficult, not to mention the completing of it once discovered.
Just so for Matt, who departed Boston in June of 2011 and headed north for a first-ever solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the Americas. Among his challenges were that his boat, a 27 foot Albin Vega he named St Brendan, was too small for such an undertaking (everyone's opinion but his own). A short waterline made her slow, pushing the time required for the 23,000 mile loop to 11 long, solitary months. Her lack of storage below allowed only dehydrated foods and a hand-pump watermaker. Matt carried no heater because there wasn't room for it or the fuel it needed. There was almost no safety equipment. Ship's lifeboats are far larger and better equipped, yet in this tiny capsule Matt successfully took on Cape Horn and transited the frozen north.
How he came to his idea I don't know, but even this radical venture had precedent. Since 1968 and the first non-stop, singlehanded round the world race, 300 solo sailors have left Cape Horn to port or starboard in small boats, conquering what is now often called "the Everest of sailing." And like Everest, it's getting crowded down there.
But that arctic transit is something else.
A hundred years fill the time between Roald Amundsen's historic crossing of the Northwest Passage in Gjoa in 1905 and the first American yacht's via the same route because this passage is almost always unpassable. What's now known as the Amundsen Route is well above the arctic circle, at times a stone's throw from the magnetic north pole, and shoally or rocky or ice-strewn in those few short weeks of summer when it's not busy being solid ice. By any reasonable measure it's a sailor's nightmare. So, when Roger Swanson and team in Cloud Nine finally pushed through in 2007, he could be forgiven if it took him three tries.
But that first began the caravan. Six yachts under 30 meters made the transit in 2008; ten yachts in 2009; another six in 2010. The word was out.
So it was in this context that Matt, while looking around for an interesting, unusual adventure, put two and two together and came up with a loop.
Similarly my idea, for I am simply going one step further in knitting together the Northwest Passage with a circuit of the Southern Ocean.
Of course, the idea is the easy part.
The hard part is convincing the wife.
This response should not have surprised me. In 2011 and mid-stride of a one-year cruise of the Pacific in my small ketch Murre I had popped a similar question, extending that cruise of Mexico and Hawaii to include Tahiti and Alaska, doubling my sea miles and time away. Much to the flabbergast of everyone, especially me, Joanna approved instantly.
So now the idea is out there and the pursuit has begun. All that remains is everything else.


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Need For Agrarian Reforms in Kashmir
By Peer Muhammad Amir Qureshi on 12:44 am August 23, 2021 No Comment
Jammu and Kashmir is a region where agriculture is the chief economic activity of the people. Agriculture is the backbone of J&K's economy. It provides employment to 64% of the population directly or indirectly. However, net sown area in the state constitutes only 37%, of which 50% area is sown more than once in a year and 74% of the land holdings are below one hectare size. There are only 225 farmers who farm more than 20 hectares of land. Geographical conditions for agriculture are not suitable everywhere in the region.
The size of the net sown area in Jammu and Kashmir is diminishing and agricultural lands are being devoted to non-agricultural uses at mega scale. Especially in the Valley of Kashmir there is huge pressure of growing population on agricultural land. Net sown area came down from 62% in 1994-1995 to 37.62% in 2015-2016 as per officalfigures. The reality seems to be even graver. The valley of Kashmir which once was enjoying self-sufficiency in foods has now turned out to be dependent on food imports and other agricultural produce. The UT as a whole has attained the title of consumer territory because it depends heavily on imports. In Ladakh, the land is repulsive in terms of agriculture and only a few vegetables are grown due to the topography. The main cause of diminishing agricultural land in the valley of Kashmir is population, which leads to illegal construction on irrigated land and such land being diverted to construct shops, buildings, etc.
Horticulture in Kashmir has the maximum yield per hectare. The apples and walnuts of Kashmir are famous all over the world. In Kashmir there are many types of soils and these soils are devoted for different crops' plantation. However, there's a need for hybrid crops to get high yields and for improving the quality of the crops or fruits. Soil testing should be done to know about the constituents present or absent in it so that viable crops or plants can be introduced to that type of soil. High-quality equipment should be provided to farmers on subsidy basis and training camps should be organised by the agricultural universities and departments to give valuable information to farmers, like contour farming, crop rotation, etc. Land laws should be introduced by the government which would be beneficial to farmers but shouldn't be against them. In Kashmir farmers have been facing hindrances for export of apples and walnuts, so the government should provide facilitation centres in every district from where these fruits can be exported to other states. There should be more schemes like PM KISAN YOJNA to benefit farmers.
The writer is a native of Ganderbal district and is studying at Kirmaniya Institute of IT, Ganderbal. Views are personal. Ehsaanamy133@gmail.com
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New Details Emerging on Gun Discovered at Wilson High School
In the wake of yesterday's news that a gun was discovered on the campus of Wilson High School, additional details are emerging about the incident as parents and students continue to question how the weapon made it through the school's security.
At approximately 1:15 p.m. on December 1 a gun was found in a student's backpack and confiscated, while the student in possession of the weapon was detained. Although local news outlets reported yesterday that a teacher first discovered the gun, an article published today by The Washington Post indicates that a student witnessed another student putting a semi-automatic weapon in a classmate's bag. The witness informed a teacher, who immediately contacted the authorities.
The Beacon, the student newspaper, reports that the incident took place in a math classroom on the fourth floor of the high school. A student interviewed by The Beacon who was in the classroom at the time, but unaware of the potential threat, recounts swift action by school administrators and police. The student in possession of the weapon, as well as those sitting near the student, were removed by authorities with little disruption, according to the interview.
Principal Kimberly Martin, in a statement released last night, did not provide any information on how the gun may have escaped detection by security. NBC Washington reports that security footage shows the student arrested with the weapon did not have the gun when he entered the school. Martin writes that officials have since "inspected all of the more than 50 first doors/entrances and are increasing our daytime coverage of doors during school hours."
The student's motivation for bringing the gun on campus also is not clear at this time, and school officials are "not at liberty to comment on an ongoing investigation," wrote Martin. She assured the community that she and her colleagues are "working closely with the MPD."
Message from Principal Kimberly Martin at 7:25 p.m. on December 1, 2015
Dear Wilson Community:
As you are aware, a gun was recovered inside a book bag at Wilson today. As per protocol, the administration, along with security and MPD, were able to secure and contain the situation without incident. As always, safety is our primary concern at Wilson High School however, I realize that this incident may raise concerns about your child's safety at school. As of now, we do not have all of the information about the situation that occurred today, and we are continuing to investigate by speaking with students, reviewing camera footage, and working closely with the MPD in every step of the process. This is an active investigation and details are still emerging; however, please know that the proper protocols are being implemented by school staff and administration. At the time of my earlier message, many details were not available but it was nonetheless important to share with parents that the situation was unfolding. We will continue to work with law enforcement on this matter and will update you as additional details unfold.
In response to the multitude of emails that I have and continue to receive from concerned parents and media outlets, I will try to address those questions and concerns, but only to the limit of which I am able, being mindful not to compromise MPD investigations and to avoid sacrificing accuracy to appease those who want information immediately. As a result, your questions may continue to be left unanswered. Because this is an ongoing investigation, I cannot answer many of the questions that have been raised as I am not at liberty to comment on an ongoing investigation that is under the jurisdiction of MPD. Further, over the next few days, as we learn more information, we may come to discover that what we believed to be true today turns out to be false or misleading in the future.
One important lesson learned from today's event is that if you "see something, say something," which is what brought this situation to a sudden and peaceful resolution. Reporting suspicious activity can aid administrators and deans in handling potential situations in a resolute and expeditious manner. In addition, we inspected all of the more than 50 first doors/entrances and are increasing our daytime coverage of doors during school hours.
I want to thank you for your patience and understanding as we all work through this difficult situation. I also want to thank our school partners, including the deans, the administrative team, teachers, MPD, and the many Central Office team members, for their guidance and assistance during this time. The safety of our students is paramount to us, just as it is with you. If you have any further questions or concerns about this incident, please contact me directly. Thank you for your continued support.
Principal Martin


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Oktoberfest, the world's most famous beer festival, takes place every year in Munich in September and October. Whether you will be celebrating Octoberfest or not, it's a great time to enjoy an icy mug of beer. Even parents can enjoy kicking back a frosty brew with a wave of breweries and restaurants catering to kids of all ages. It's no longer taboo to see suds and sippies side by side. Read on for the top spots to enjoy a cold one with the little squirt in tow in Des Moines.
Hessen Haus is Oktoberfest headquarters here in Des Moines. If you've never had a taste of traditional German fare here, you're missing out. Kids will have a fun time just saying the names of each dish. Parents will love that Hessen Haus has a LARGE selection of German Biers. Have a boot of beer, pass it around (maybe not to the kids:) and listen to some polka!
Step back in time and introduce your kids to what it was like to hang out in your parent's basement. Children are welcome and there is something on the menu for everyone in the fam. Can you say bacon wrapped tater tots? Plus, the beer selection is extensive and reasonably priced. A win-win if you ask us.The space is not that large and fills up fast, so I suggest you go early or go for lunch.
Beer loving parents rejoice! Hy-Vee Market Grille is a place where families can go to enjoy each other's company and a pint of local, handcrafted beer. This is one of our daughter's favorite places to eat. She loves the popovers they serve before the meal and their mac n' cheese. We (the Ps) love their large selection of tap beers.
If you're a sports fan, you might like the fact that there are numerous big screens at The Other Place. We also enjoy sitting out on their patio. We order pizza regularly when dining here and the kids also love several of the Kids Menu items and their "smiley face" fries. Be sure to check out their daily food and drink specials.
Another sports bar, this homey neighborhood bar offers a simple kid's menu with all of the staples. For the parents, they have a great selection of local and regional craft beers, premium beers, seasonal flavors and more. Rookies Sports Bar & Grill is a great place for an early Saturday night dinner or late Sunday lunch.
What's your favorite place for a beer with your babe? Tell us in the comments below!


Providing safe and healthy living conditions within your rental properties remains a legal responsibility for property owners and managers.
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This is a great infographic. I think it lays out exactly what to look for in an organized way that can be helpful to both landlords and property management companies. Everyone in the rental property business should make use of this in order to keep their tenants safe and satisfied.
One think I would like to mention regarding pest control is that it is important to clearly define both the landlord's and tenant's responsibilities when it comes to pest infestations. Outlining in the lease agreement who is responsible for what and when can save a lot of trouble down the line if pests appear.
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this is bbc news. the headlines. the uk's ambassador to the eu, sir ivan rogers, has abruptly resigned, with formal brexit negotiations due to begin in less than three months. the labour party says it's 'deeply worrying,' but some have welcomed the news. clearly the wrong man for the job andi clearly the wrong man for the job and i only regret he did not go the day after the referendum. a police operation has ended with the fatal shooting of a man on the m62 in huddersfield. yasser yaqub died yesterday. the independent police complaints commission is investigating. there have been more arrests in turkey after the new year's eve nightclub shooting, but the gunman who killed 39 people, is still on the run. a man from west sussex has died after fighting islamic state
militants. he had joined the kurdish militia. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. we'll have the latest from washington where congress is convening for its first session since donald trump's election victory. republicans ditch plans to reduce the powers of an independent ethics watchdog, after the president—elect questioned the move. the government's announcing events to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the battle of passchendaele — we take a look back at one of the bloodiest battles of the first world war. i'll be reviewing tomorrow's papers with pippa crerar from the evening standard and charlie wells from the wall streetjournal. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm damian johnson. ahead on the programme. mission accepted — former derby boss paul clement replaces bob bradley with the aim of preventing swansea from dropping out of the premier league.
the bull fight's over — former super league and world champions bradford go into liquidation after administrators reject last minute bids to save the club. and sir andy murray continues his preparations for the australian open this month with a first round victory over frenchman jeremy chardy in qatar. sir andy murray has extended his winning streak to 25 matches on the atp tour as he beat jeremy chardy in straight sets at the qatar open.
it was murray's first competitive match since becoming a knight in the new year's honours list. ben croucher watched the action. andy murray barely had a more simple first set. his opponent used to be ranked inside the top 30 but the frenchman managed just seven points inafirst frenchman managed just seven points in a first said that andy murray wrapped up in just in a first said that andy murray wrapped up injust 20 minutes. he was halted though in the second set with his opponent registering a game on the scoreboard. but andy murray matched with every shot. but his opponent refused to just fall over and forced a tie—break. he made it harder than necessary as usual but as usual andy murray eventually prevail. new year, new name, same old andy. world number 10 johanna konta has
continued her winning start to the season. she's through to the quarter—finals of the shen—chen open in china. the briton recovered from a set down and being a break down in the second to beat american varnia king. konta wrapped up the match in just over an hour and a half, 1—6, 6—3, 6—2. former super league and world club champions bradford bulls have been liquidated after the club's administrator rejected a bid to save them. the bulls entered administration for a third time in five years in november. they won four super league titles, before being relegated to the championship in 2014. despite the liquidation, the bbc understands that a new incarnation of the club will be in the championship this season, but with a i2—point deduction. players and staff should have been paid at the end of the month but did not and we look forward to being paid tomorrow at the conclusion of
positive talks. i do not know where that leaves everyone, but at the moment we are all short of money. after the last time it was going to ta ke after the last time it was going to take the club forward, it was probably just chasing take the club forward, it was probablyjust chasing the dream too much and not having the finance to back it up with. the previous owner invested a lot of money but not enough. and the club has suffered and not winning the million pounds a couple of years ago was the nail in the coffin. eddiejones says dylan hartley will captain england during the six nations — as long as he proves his fitness. hartley is currently serving a six week ban for striking but will be back in time for england's opening game against france. he is doing everything right as captain at the moment, a prerequisite is to be very fit and not playing games means that he has got to undergo a very stringent fitness programme. he is doing that
and putting himself in the best position to continue as captain. gb taekondo say they 'had reservations' about double 0lympic champion jade jones taking part in the channel a programme thejump. jones receives funding from uk sport and is due to take part in the taekwondo world championships later this year. gymnast louis smith and paralympic cyclist and athlete kadeena cox are also taking part in the series, which involves competitors learning to ski jump. last year several participants were badly injured. gb taekwondo says it has has held "extensive" talks with jones about the risks involved. the new pdc world darts champion michael van gerwen says there's been no better player than him in the sport. van gerwen beat gary anderson to win his second pdc title last night. he's been speaking to our sports correspondent, joe wilson. it is not for me to judge but it is not for me tojudge but i believe there is not many better. statistically i wonder if there are
any because when you play at your best there has never been anyone better. that is true. that is true. but outside that i think still fill is the greatest ever, what he did for diets for all of us, he made this happen that a lot of people could earn money with it. i think it has been phenomenalfrom the beginning until now how much more professional it gets. but we are pa rt professional it gets. but we are part of it and it takes time but eventually we get there. arsenal could go back up to third in the premier league tonight. they face bournemouth, as arsene wenger's side hope to keep the pressure on leaders chelsea. kris temple is at the vitality stadium for us. arsene wenger says the fixture has
been very uneven. 0ne arsene wenger says the fixture has been very uneven. one must have had some rest, but they know this evening that they need three points on the south coast —— south coast. we are going to a difficult place, bournemouth are difficult team to play. the good news isjack wilshire will not play but they still have enough good players to keep any team facing problems. while the bournemouth home form has been good, they have won five times here including against leicester, liverpool, but there will be without jack wilshire this evening. arsenal meanwhile have problems with mesut ozil and some others may be feeling the effects of the christmas schedule as well. another big game for the gunners as they try to keep pace with chelsea. you can keep across the action from all tonight's games — including stoke v watford —
on 5 live final score, which is on the red button and the bbc sport website. there's also full commentary of bournemouth against arsenal on 5 live. west ham have confirmed they're appealing against the red card received by sofianne feghouli, against manchester united, in their 2—0 defeat yesterday. referee mike dean gave him a straight red after a collision with united defender philjones. west ham manager slaven bilic said jones "made a meal" of the tackle by the algerian. feghouli is the fifth player to be dismissed by dean in the premier league this season. the fa have contacted manchester city full—back bacary sagna, following a post on social media after yesterday's match against burnley which read "10 against 12". city were down to 10 men after captain fernandinho was sent off. sagna has since deleted the post, and has until friday afternoon to respond to the fa. the former derby county boss
paul clement has been confirmed as the new manager of the premier league's bottom club swansea city. clement, who has been assistant to carlo ancellotti at bayern munich sincejune, replaces bob bradley who was sacked by the swans last week. ben price reports. the latter half of two dozen i6 the latter half of two dozen 16 has been one to forget. but for clement to become the third head coach at the club this season. i could've stayed as assistant at bayern munich and have come to a very challenging situation which excites me to do that. that is the attitude i want the players to have. it is a big task but can be done. before that the important thing is to focus on some of the smaller details regarding performances. having enjoyed moderate success as a non—league player, it is as a coach
that the career of paul clement has blossomed. he was appointed assistant manager at chelsea but carlo ancelotti as they went on to win the premier league probably alts —— that also work together at some of the biggest clubs in europe. they merged the likes of gareth bale and cristiano ronaldo. his solejob merged the likes of gareth bale and cristiano ronaldo. his sole job as manager in his own right ended in disappointment despite leading derby cou nty two disappointment despite leading derby county two play—off contention in the championship, he was shown the door last february. for clement was one of the contenders for the top job here back in october when bob bradley was appointed instead. he became the premier league's first american manager. but bradley failed to make an impact and swansea city remain rooted to the foot of the table four points adrift of relegation safety. but one former swa nsea relegation safety. but one former swansea city player believes that the new head coach still has time to put things right. it is now up to
four, he has to identify what kind of player he wants, the board have got to back him and the fans get behind him. at the moment there are four points away. a massive game this evening against palace, if they win that they're one point away from getting out of trouble. so no point in pushing the panic button yet. as the fans get the worst morning ahead of the journey for the match at crystal palace tonight, many are hopeful that clement is the man to turn their season around. he probably is the one present likely to take us back to the old swansea we re to take us back to the old swansea were playing so i'm hopeful. we need someone were playing so i'm hopeful. we need someone to give the boys confidence. we have got good players. but if you lose confidence it makes it much harder. hopefully he will do something and bring us some glory. keep us in this division. with the new head coach expected to be watching from the stands at selhurst park tonight, the players will be looking to impress. the faithful
will be keeping everything crossed foran will be keeping everything crossed for an important three points. australia batsman david warner created a piece of cricket history this morning — scoring a century before lunch, on the opening day of the third test against pakistan in sydney. warner tookjust 78 balls to get to three figures, and only four other players have ever managed to score a century in the very first session of a test. he was eventually out for 113, but matt renshaw rammed home australia's advantage. he's playing in only his fourth test. he was actually born in middlesbrough, but has lived in australia since he was 10. he's 167 not out at close of play, with australia on 365—3. that's all from sportsday. there'll be more sport here on bbc news throughout the evening. the headlines on bbc news:
britain's top diplomat to the eu, sir ivan rogers, resigns — he had been expected to play a key role in brexit talks. a man shot dead by police near the m62 in huddersfield has been named as mohammed yasser yaqub. a british man is said to have been killed in syria fighting with kurdish forces against islamic state militants. ryan locke had told his family he was going to syria on holiday. an update on the market numbers for you. here's how london and frankfurt ended the day. and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on: the unite union have said their article 48 hour strike amongst cabin crew at british airways starting a week today. british airways has
responded and said they are disappointed that the unite union has chosen once again to target the customers. the dispute is over pay. they say the company will plan to ensure that all customers travel to their destinations, mixed fleet unite, the section of british airways cabin crew who are going on strike, represent just airways cabin crew who are going on strike, representjust15% of cabin crew. more details to be published on friday january the 6th. so british airways responding they're saying that they will put contingency plans in place after the unite union in the dispute over pay with bosses have called a strike, 48 hours of strikes to begin a week today. britain's top diplomat to the european union has resigned. sir ivan rogers leaves hisjobjust months before the government is due

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Archive of China
Verso Books
A Story of the Chinese Countryside
In this excerpt from China In One Village, Liang Hong illustrates the problem of separated couples in the Chinese countryside through the tragic story of a rural woman's suicide.
Hwei-Ru Tsou and Len Tsou
Chi Chang: A Chinese American Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
Chi Chang, a Chinese emigrant to the United States who joined the Communist Party and volunteered for the International Brigades to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. His story is retold here by Hwei-Ru Tsou and Len Tsou, and translated into English from the original Chinese by Agnes Khoo.
Pang Laikwan
Hong Kong's Sinkhole
The protests in Hong Kong continue to escalate. Yet, the Western left has struggled to come to terms with the situation – torn between the contradictory desire to support the movement and the mainly liberal democratic demands of the protestors themselves. In this article, Pang Laikwan analyses the nature and stakes of the movement.
Mao on the relationship between politics and art in the context of revolution
On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Christian Sorace explores Mao's argument for combining political and aesthetic criteria when judging a work of art.
Ho-fung Hung
Hong Kong's Resistance
Protests continue to erupt in Hong Kong, sparked by an extradition bill that would allow the Hong Kong authorities to transfer Hong Kong residents to mainland Chinese courts. Yet, as Ho-fung Hung argues, the roots of the movement go much deeper than the demand for self-determination, and have the potential to have dramatic and systemic consequences for ever-increasing US-Chinese imperial rivalry.
Alan Scott
No "Fight Tonight": The Korean Peninsula, the US, and China
For China, the suspension of US "war games" alongside South Korea — coupled with talk of reducing troop numbers — offers the prospect of restoring its historical dominance on the Korean peninsula.
Dai JinhuaZhou Yaqin
Rethinking the Cultural History of Chinese Film: A Conversation with Dai Jinhua
Marxist Feminist film scholar Dai Jinhua, one of the preeminent cultural critics of China's New Left, historicizes the rapid cultural and intellectual developments that took place in China during the 1980s and 90s.
Gregor Benton
Malaysia's "Second Emergency" (1968–89)
The upsurge of armed struggle in Malaysia represents one of the lesser noticed repercussions of the 1968 developments in Vietnam and China.
Quinn SlobodianSoldiers of the Struggle against Revisionism
The Black Façade of the Universities of German Revisionism (1968)
A Maoist critique of the East German university system published in 1968 by the Shanghai Red Guards.
Charlie Hore
A Hidden Struggle: China's Cultural Revolution in 1968
China's Cultural Revolution was a key reference point for huge numbers of activists in 1968, but by then the CR was all but over.


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REMOTE sensing is slowly changing the contours of planning in India. In time, it could do away with conventional methods of data collection involving laborious field studies and replace dusty files in the large cupboards of officialdom with computer tapes, discs and video monitors. Providing such relatively easy access to vast amounts of data will be of immense help to the country"s planners.
How is remote sensing accomplished? By using satellites to study conditions on the earth"s surface from afar and without establishing direct contact with it.
In a world wherein space technology is the preserve of rich nations, India is one of the few developing countries to have its own space satellite systems and ground facilities, and the expertise to analyse data and apply it. "The Indian space programme," Space Commission chairman U R Rao once observed, "has made great strides in using the sophisticated remote sensing technology to maximally benefit the grassroots of the nation." The Indian space programme currently costs more than Rs 500 crore annually.
Remote sensing technology has developed rapidly since India started receiving data from LANDSAT 1, launched in 1972 by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). N V Madhavan Unni, who heads the forestry division of the Hyderabad-based National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), comments, "Today, India"s capacity to process, analyse and interpret remote-sensed data, is comparable to the best in the world."
The Indian remote sensing satellite project, including IRS-1A and IRS-1B, has cost more than Rs 106 crore to date out of a sanctioned budget of Rs 115 crore.
Indian satellite
India"s first, indigenous, remote sensing satellite was named Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A), and launched with the assistance of the erstwhile Soviet Union on March 17, 1988. This was followed by launching IRS-1B on August 29, 1991, again with Soviet help. These satellites have helped in reducing India"s dependence on foreign satellite services and products. The two IRS satellites form the core of the National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS), a programme that uses data provided by remote sensing satellites for mapping, monitoring and managing natural resources under the aegis of the Department of Space (DOS).
The NNRMS expects to integrate remote sensing information with such other data as socioeconomic indicators and Plan targets. But, so far, progress has been slow, says N K Mathur, joint advisor in the Planning Commission, because of the difficulties encountered in pooling data and information from various departments that have hitherto functioned autonomously. However, once the entire system is operating efficiently, it would vastly improve the scope for agroclimatic zonal planning, which involves planning for a particular region keeping in mind its geographical and climatic characteristics. As a result, Mathur noted, "The cost of development itself will go down."
Several agencies are involved in implementing the national remote sensing programme. The DOS, together with the ISRO, is the nodal agency for establishing an operational remote sensing system in India. To take care of the operational needs of remote sensing, the NRSA was established in 1975 at Hyderabad. NRSA is responsible for acquiring, processing and disseminating data obtained from satellite and aerial remote sensing data, and for the training of user-scientists in various applications.
The Space Applications Centre (SAC) in Ahmedabad, an ISRO agency, pursues research and development programmes in the area of space technology and its applications, designing satellites and payloads.
Complementing NRSA"s functioning is the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) at Dehra Dun, where Indian and foreign personnel receive training in utilising this technology. There are five more regional remote sensing service centres (RRSSC) in Bangalore, Nagpur, Kharagpur, Jodhpur and Dehra Dun. In addition, almost all the states have set up their own remote sensing cells.
Difficult task
Introducing remote sensing technology in India has not been easy. Initially, its immense potential posed a threat to established institutions and their entrenched bureaucracy, who feared replacement of their more labour-intensive methods of data collection would result in unemployment. Some, like M S Bhatia, an economic advisor to the ministry of agriculture, expressed serious doubts about its reliability and relevance to Indian conditions. Questioning the efficacy of the technology in estimating accurately crop acreage and yield estimations, Bhatia noted, "The technology certainly needs to be perfected. It will be a long time before remote sensing techniques will be able to reach the accuracy levels of conventional techniques of yield estimation. These conventional methods based on intensive field studies and crop breeding techniques were developed over many decades and have narrowed the margin of error to less than 2 per cent." Urging caution in hastily replacing conventional methods with the new remote sensing technology, Bhatia warned of the danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Reflecting Bhatia"s fears was K P C Rana, head of the Delhi centre of the National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning. "India," he maintained, "has developed a very sophisticated and thorough method of collecting and maintaining soil and land use information. For a quick macroanalysis, remote sensed data is very useful, but for detailed study of soil type, class and depth, conventional methods are so far the only answer."
But Bhatia agreed remote sensing can have specific applications, such as studying crop diseases and pests that together cause an annual loss of more than Rs 5,000 crore. One of the first breakthroughs in using remote sensing techniques was in the study of a disease that was affecting coconut trees in coastal Kerala in the early 1980s. Satellite imagery supplied to the state government enabled quick identification of the affected regions and appropriate remedial action was taken.
Sometimes, NRSA data has sparked extreme controversy as, for instance, when NRSA raised a storm in forestry circles in 1983 by publishing an estimate of forest cover in India, based on LANDSAT satellite imagery covering 1980-82. NRSA set the country"s total forest cover at 46.35 million hectares (mha), or 14.1 per cent per cent of the country"s geographical area. NRSA also stated that satellite imagery disclosed scientifically for the first time that India"s forest cover had declined alarmingly, with dense or closed forests now covering only 10.96 per cent of the country"s geographical area.
The Forest Department refused to accept the figures and asserted that NRSA estimates were very much on the low side. The Forest Survey of India (FSI), an agency of the Forest Department, using conventional techniques involving land records and ground surveys, estimated India"s forest cover at 64.20 mha, or 19.52 per cent of its geographical area. The FSI insisted in its State of the Forest Report, that "the NRSA estimates suffered from many inadequacies".
In a reconciliation exercise carried out by NRSA and FSI in 1984, it became clear that the FSI wanted to include in its estimate certain types of degraded forests, which had been omitted by NRSA. Going by FSI parameters, which raised open forest area from 10.06 mha to 27.66 mha, the total forest cover became 19.52 per cent. However, the FSI did not dispute NRSA"s figure of 10.96 per cent for closed or dense forest cover, which in fact represented a decline from 14.12 per cent in 1972-75.
But B B Vohra, former chairperson of the Advisory Board on Energy, considers the country"s method of assessing its forest wealth as still rather primitive. Says Vohra, "We are incapable of describing our forest assets in a scientific and quantitative manner. In estimating the forest cover of the country, only dense forest cover should be taken."
Unni agrees that a radical change in estimating India"s forest cover is needed because of various human influences at the micro-level, such as indiscriminate deforestation for extraction of forest produce, agriculture, grazing, habitation, mining, river valley projects and so on. "In this situation, the conventional survey and enumeration systems have lost their credence," he asserted.
Considering NRSA is an independent agency, some contend it would be more appropriate if it would monitor forest cover, instead of merely channelising satellite data to the FSI which then interprets the data in its own way. NRSA monitoring, they add, would act as a check on the FSI because the latter has clearly failed to stem the decline in the country"s forest wealth -- a decline that even the government concedes.
More controversies
Remote sensing has touched off other controversies as well. In one instance, remote sensing was criticised as a means of centralising information and data on resources and natural disasters in the Union government, at the expense of the states. Though all states have their own remote sensing cells, they are constrained by limited finance and facilities and so are dependent on the Centre for their remote sensing needs. Such a situation is fraught with tension for although remote sensing was a boon to Central and state authorities in monitoring and tackling drought, it created problems when drought data was made available. Recalls S T Chari, head of the Water Resources Division, "NRSA was asked to mute its drought forecasts and not go public with them because drought has various implications -- political, administrative and financial."
The problem is that over the years, cash-strapped state governments have been seen as consistently overstating damage caused by drought and floods and manipulating data from conventional sources to extract the maximum in financial assistance and concessions from the Centre. In turn, the Centre has been equally adept in conceding much less than the relief demanded by a state. The Centre has also been proved often as being more partial to those states it governs through the party"s state units. All this clearly shows how intensely the issue of data collection has been politicised. In such circumstances, remote sensing can play a crucial role in verifying claims and counter-claims by the states and the Centre, especially when natural disasters strike.
Agricultural data collection is undoubtedly the most important of all the many uses that remote sensing has been put to in India. It has been used since the mid-1970s to predict crop acreage and the yield estimates of wheat, rice, groundnut and sorghum in selected regions. Similar remote sensing exercises were subsequently carried out in the cotton-growing districts of Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Though forecasting of crop production estimates at the national level began in 1986, it was only in 1988 that the Union ministry of agriculture formally accepted the technology.
Using digital data derived from IRS-1A, scientists in 1988-89 were able to develop a correlation between crop imagery and yield at the block level. This technique was used to estimate the wheat acreage in Punjab and Haryana and the rice acreage in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. In all four cases, satellite-based estimates fared well in comparison with those made by conventional methods.
A related application of remote sensing involves land use and land cover mapping for agroclimatic zonal planning. This is being carried out nationwide for the Planning Commission by the DOS assisted by the remote sensing cells of the various states. NRSA director B L Deekshatulu disclosed the results of these studies are ready to be submitted to the ministry of agriculture. However, he indicated data reconciliation with the Nagpur-based National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning would not be simple because concepts and yardsticks differed. "NRSA data shows there is a far greater increase in the area under cultivation than what has been established by conventional methods," says Deekshatulu. "There has been considerable encroachment over the years, into grasslands, forestlands and riverbeds. This may raise questions about the whole issue of increase in agricultural productivity that we are supposed to have achieved in recent years."
What is obvious is that while remote sensing is not a substitute for conventional methods, the latter can no longer be the country"s only methods of data collection. Ideally, the old and the new should complement each other so as to provide a more accurate picture.
Despite the controversies remote sensing has provoked, it has proved extremely useful in a wide number of applications. (See box) It has also been used more recently to map forest fires, pinpoint environmental damages caused by mining and to monitor pollution from thermal power stations. Even so, the application and utilisation of such data is still far from adequate in India. As P Misra, former dean of the IIRS, put it, "the investments made by various government departments in acquiring this data, add up to almost Rs 300 crore. However, the utilisation of this information has not been commensurate with the investment made."
According to NRSA sources, the revenue accruing from data sales is not anywhere near the costs incurred in making and launching remote sensing satellites and attendant infrastructure.
There are several reasons to account for this and one is the high cost of data. N S Shankaranarayana, of the RRSSC in Bangalore, explained, "Many users have the basic constraint of finance. In any project, the major cost goes towards data processing and data acquisition." Nevertheless, NRSA maintains IRS data is being supplied at the cheapest rates internationally. Says K P Raghunathan, who heads the data processing facility at NRSA, "The revenue being recovered does not even cover direct expenses, such as capital investment and equipment costs. Besides, if one appraises the benefits, then the costs will be seen as negligible." Data users, he added, will have no choice but to make financial provision for this technology, because it is not going to get any cheaper.
Another reason for the underutilisation of IRS data, it was explained, is the lack of awareness of its benefits. User agencies are not fully convinced yet about its positive aspects and so commercial and industrial applications have been slow. Private users have only recently started evincing an interest in utilising satellite data.
Finally, NRSA has many institutional limitations, some going back to its early years. These have resulted in a slow response to enquiries and requests for remote-sensed data. A major problem is the acute shortage of trained personnel and NRSA officials hope to solve this by expanding its training programmes. Delays in supplying data have also been tackled and the NRSA Data Centre is now better equipped to process data requests more efficiently and become more user-friendly. Says Deekshatulu, "Our objective is to build an extensive data base of information on all possible applications."
Microwave remote sensing is an area in which NRSA wants to acquire expertise. "We anticipate a lot of developments in this field in the near future," said Deekshatulu, explaining why. "The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) would complement optical methods of collecting data for the Geographical Information System."
This would help NRSA to acquire capability to see through cloud cover or dust layers, unlike present IRS systems that can collect data only under solar radiation. ISRO, meanwhile, is reportedly developing hardware and analysis techniques as part of NRSA"s Microwave Remote Sensing Programme.
NRSA"s ground station at Shadnagar near Hyderabad, set up to receive data from US LANDSAT and French SPOT satellites, has since been augmented to receive data from SAR instruments on ERS-1, European Remote Sensing satellites, which primarily monitor the ocean environment. However, partly because of high costs, the reception of SPOT data was discontinued from January 1991.
In a real sense, remote sensing testifies to the inherent resilience of Indian scientists and technologists. At one stage, it appeared any American boycott of ISRO and hostility to the Indian space programme would be major impediments to the growth of the technology in India. But, today, this concern does not seem to pose much worry for the remote sensing community.
Nevertheless, the test lies ahead. The need to optimise the use of natural resources in an ecologically sustainable manner is growing more urgent by the day, and a technology like remote sensing can play an important role. At the same time, it would be shortsighted to treat remote sensing as the solution to all the problems arising from managing the country"s natural resources.
Present remote sensing technology suffers from a major handicap in that the scale of resolution at 1:50,000 is low and the vantage point is more than 700 km from earth with a dense, volatile and polluted atmospheric medium intervening. Airborne remote sensing uses aircraft -- a method that is still handicapped by major hurdles, not just because of the costs involved but also because of legal and administrative controls and the regulations governing it. Hence, a long time will elapse before it can be used to supplement satellite remote sensing.
Given these constraints, a judicious blend of time-tested conventional methods and sophisticated remote sensing techniques could yield the best results in the vast and complex country that is India, with its peculiar geographical and resource characteristics.
What is amazing is that remote sensing"s vast potential was not sufficiently understood during its first 15 years. It was only when Indian administrative authorities realised that the developed countries were in a position to acquire and analyse satellite imagery of the subcontinent that they set up requisite systems. Even today, aerial photography that could complement remote sensing data, is still controlled by the government. The ostrich-like character of Indian bureaucrats will have to change, if the country is to make best use of this technology, observers said.
Remote sensing, in fact, has two distinct and contrasting consequences: it centralises data and therefore decision-making, while also helping to democratise the planning processes by releasing previously unavailable data to any agency or individual requesting it. Although the high price of the data is a major constraint, the point is that the data is there for the asking and could be a powerful weapon in the hands of those who would wish to question or criticise the government"s policies and strategies, especially those that are geared to exploit the country"s natural resources, rather than conserve them.
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The House Education Committee approved two bills on Tuesday, including one that would allow a student who resides on a tract of land located in two school districts to choose which district they want to attend.
Under current law, if the school district line cuts through a home, where the majority of the house sits determines which district the child will attend, HB1112 sponsor Rep. Les Warren (R-Hot Springs) told committee members.
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Warren said he knows a family who bought a home that was classified in the Lakeside School District, but during their daughter's senior year, they received a new real estate tax bill that showed they were in Hot Springs School District. Advances in technology led to more precise boundaries that indicated they weren't in the Lakeside School District, he said.
"So this just gives them the ability to choose which district they get to go to rather than having problems with having to switch at any point," Warren said.
A spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Education said the agency doesn't track the number of residences that might be in a similar situation.
Warren said after the meeting that he's "only been made aware of a couple at this point. Some are probably not aware their school district has changed, as it shows up as a number, not spelled out."
The bill is limited in scope and would impact people living in counties with a desegregation order because they don't have school choice, he told the committee.
Warren represents Garland County where the Lakeside and Hot Springs school districts are bound by a desegregation order in Davis, et al., v. Hot Springs School District, et al.
The ruling requires school choice transfers in Garland County be conducted in accordance with the Arkansas Public School Choice Act of 1989, which prohibits a student from transferring to a non-resident district where the percentage of enrollment for the student's race exceeds that percentage in the student's resident district, with limited exceptions.
The House Education Committee also approved HB1091, which requires that passage of a GED test be treated as the same as a high school diploma for the purpose of employment.
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The law in education code defines this for purposes of going to college or getting a scholarship, but not for employment, lead sponsor Rep. Carol Dalby (R-Texarkana) said.
"We're just trying to make it clear in the law that if you have gotten out of school or you dropped out of school and you didn't get your high school diploma, we're trying to encourage folks to go back and do that to help them in their employment," Dalby said.
There are 300,000 Arkansans without a high school diploma, she said.
The committee unanimously approved HB1091 and HB1112 without any discussion. Both bills now head to the full House.
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