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HR operations needs a cohesive leadership team and multiple resources to be effective.
One reason companies don't invest in creating a dedicated HR department is because they fear too many challenges will render the effort useless and create more problems than it's worth to have HR professionals on staff. Once identified, HR operational challenges can be minimized and even eliminated. Overcoming HR operational challenges involves looking at all of the factors involved in making an HR department work: recruitment and selection, automatic processing of employment actions and hiring staff that can address the challenges head-on.
Ineffective HR technology can create havoc in HR operations. Technology solutions -- meaning the human resources information systems -- are supposed to streamline the recruitment and selection actions, improve payroll efficiency and protect the confidentiality of personnel data and records. An HRIS that doesn't meet the needs of an organization can be ineffective because it's outdated, improperly installed or too complex an application for HR staff with limited skills. HR operations become challenging when the technology simply doesn't work for the organization.
Companies can't always train HR staff, particularly when they're in start-up mode, and they require HR employees whose ramp-up time is minimal so they can get a new company off the ground. Experienced recruiters, benefits and employee relations specialists, training experts and HR managers are critical to smoothly running HR operations. Absent a well-qualified staff, an organization risks losing employees who become discouraged with the lack of expertise in handling simple or routine employment matters. Also, inexperienced HR staff might not be trained to handle employee relations issues properly, which can cause employers to become embroiled in litigation or formal complaints about their employment practices. These types of challenges are time-consuming and costly.
HR departments are only as effective as the company's leadership team that supports its activities and heeds advice from HR management. HR operations that include direct contact with employees must have support from department supervisors, managers and executive leadership. Lack of support undermines HR operational effectiveness. HR operations, such as disciplinary review, performance standards and appraisals, termination meetings and exit interviews, cannot progress smoothly unless the leadership team's goals are parallel to HR departmental goals.
HR has never been a revenue-producing department, therefore, it's difficult to justify expenditures for capital purchases, technology and even staff salaries that support the HR operations. HR managers must demonstrate a return on investment when they propose operational budgets. The challenge for HR operations includes having enough money to sustain department activities, such as background investigations and drug testing for new employees, candidates' skills assessments, salaries for recruiters who can source applicants and improve the selection process.
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B Town Stars are always in headlines, either their movies, commercials, talk shows or their beautiful wives social life. To your shock!! many of Bollywood actors have married with non-filmy better halves.
Kunal Kapoor: The 'Rang De Basanti' star married Naina Bachchan. Naina is Amitabh Bachchan's niece and daughter of Ajitabh Bachchan and Ramola Bachchan. The duo was reportedly introduced to each other by Naina's cousin Shweta Bachchan Nanda. Naina and Kunal dated each other for two years before they tied the nuptial knots.
Shakti Kapoor: One of B-Town's most successful villains, Shakti Kapoor got married to Shivangi Kolhapure, the sister of actresses Padmini and Tejaswani Kolhapure. Shivangi acted in one movie, 'Kismet' (1980), but never looked to make a career in films.
DJ Aqeel: The popular DJ, singer and composer is married to Farah Ali Khan. Farah is the daughter of Sanjay Khan and sister of Zayed Khan. The couple has two kids, son Azaan and daughter Fizaa.
Hrithik Roshan: They may be divorced now, but Hrithik and Sussanne Roshan's wedding was most talked about during its time. Sussanne is the daughter of yesteryear actor-turned filmmaker Sanjay Khan. By profession, she is a noted interior fashion designer. The couple has two sons, Hrehaan and Hridhaan.
Kumar Gaurav: Son of late actor Rajendra Kumar, is married to Namrata Dutt, the daughter of late Bollywood legends Sunil Dutt and Nargis. The couple has two daughters, Saachi and Siya.
Rakesh Roshan: Veteran actor-director Rakesh's wife Pinky comes from a filmy background. She is the daughter of popular filmmaker J. Om Prakash. The couple has a son, Hrithik Roshan and a daughter, Sunaina.
Atul Agnihotri: The actor-turned-director is the husband of Alvira Khan. Alvira, daughter of Salim Khan and the sister of Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan and Sohail Khan. The couple has two children – son Ayaan and daughter Alizeh.
Fardeen Khan: Late veteran actor Feroz Khan's son Fardeen, whose Bollywood career never took off, is married to Natasha Madhvani, the daughter of yesteryear superstar Mumtaz. The couple has two children – daughter Diani and son Azarius.
Sharman Joshi: The 3 Idiots actor is married to Prerna Chopra, the daughter of one of Bollywood's greatest villains, Prem Chopra. The couple has a daughter, Khyana, and twin boys, Vaaryan and Vihaan.
Vikas Bhalla: Incidentally, Vikas, who is an actor-singer, popular for singing the Po Po track in Son of Sardaar, is married to Prem Chopra's other daughter, Punita Chopra. The couple has two children, Sanchi and Veer.
Raj Kapoor: The showman of Hindi cinema tied the knot with Krishna Malhotra, the sister of famous actors Prem Nath and Rajendra Nath.
Ketan Desai: Director Ketan Desai, filmmaker Manmohan Desai's son married Kanchan Kapoor, the daughter of Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali.
Deven Verma: The noted comedian tied the knot with Rupa Ganguly, the daughter of thespian Ashok Kumar.
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Understanding Digital Music -- Hi-Rez or Not?
Written by S. Andrea Sundaram S. Andrea Sundaram
Category: Sound Reasoning Sound Reasoning
Created: 01 September 2011 01 September 2011
Have you ever wondered what's really in those high-resolution files you've been buying and downloading? Some websites selling high-definition music downloads have gotten in trouble when it was found that some of their offerings were merely 44.1 or 48kHz sources upsampled to 88.2 or 96kHz. You may be thinking, "My media-player software and/or DAC tells me the sample rate of the file I'm playing back -- isn't that all I need to know?"
In a word, no. An upsampled file contains the same amount of data as a legitimately high-resolution file. If you look at the sizes of two files of the same length -- one of genuine high resolution, the other upsampled -- they'll be the same. A file that has been upsampled from 44.1 to 96kHz will pass along to the DAC the same number of samples per second as one that was originally recorded or mastered at 96kHz. However, the upsampled file contains no more information than the file from which it was created. If the source had a sample rate of 44.1kHz, then neither it nor its upsampled version will contain frequencies above 22,050Hz. A legitimately high-resolution file, however, will contain frequencies above that limit.
The only way we can tell whether or not a file contains high-frequency information -- frequencies above those that can be preserved by the CD standard's sample rate of 44.1kHz -- is to look at the frequency spectrum of a slice of the audio file. I have some experience in signal processing, so I could do such analysis and report my findings. Of course, I have neither the time nor the money to analyze all of the files offered by all HD download websites, so I thought it would be best to democratize the process -- that is, to provide readers with the tools and knowledge to go out and do their own analyses. The software I generally use for this, Mathematica, is rather expensive and can be daunting to those who lack a technical background. But Mark Waldrep, of AIX Records and iTrax, directed me toward a free, easy-to-use program that can generate the simple frequency spectrum that you need. I'll begin by explaining how to use it, and then post some examples at the end.
Download Sonic Visualiser, which is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. There is no installer -- at least for the Windows version -- so just unzip the file and run the program. In the File menu, click on Import Audio File. Once the file has loaded, in the Pane menu click on Add Spectrum. I select the option to combine both channels, but it doesn't really matter for this type of analysis -- you could look at one channel or the other.
To make your results look like mine, you'll need to adjust some parameters in the panel to the right of the frequency spectrum. Adjust Bins to Linear. Adjust Scale to Log. Adjust Window to a high number -- I chose 262,144. We're interested in low-level signals, so I left Threshold at -80dB and set Gain to +25dB. This means that, when reading the vertical axis of the graph, you must subtract 25; e.g., if it reads -55dB, the true reading is actually -80dB. It appears that Sonic Visualiser truncates everything to 16 bits, so you won't see a noise floor lower than -96dB (-71dB on the graph). I could, therefore, have reduced the gain to +16dB, but because I'd already done much of the analysis, I left it alone for consistency's sake. There are other ways of using Sonic Visualiser to do a frequency analysis, but they all lead to the same conclusions.
How to read the graph
The graph's horizontal axis shows frequency, from 1Hz up to half the sample rate of the file -- e.g., 48kHz for a file sampled at 96kHz. It would be nice to have an actual scale written along this axis, but we can estimate with just the proportions. The height of the graph at any particular frequency indicates the energy at that frequency relative to other frequencies in the file. We'll be more concerned with general trends than with specific values.
The above graphic shows a fairly typical high-resolution file. Most of the energy is concentrated in the lower frequencies (toward the left of the graph), and gradually decreases as the frequencies rise (i.e., move toward the right). Since the amount of energy between adjacent frequencies varies widely, the line indicating those energy levels jumps up and down. When the horizontal scale is compressed to show all of the frequencies in the limited space available, the result looks like a very thick line. You can clearly see that there is frequency content all the way to the right of the graph.
What you can't tell from a simple frequency spectrum is whether that content is musically relevant information or just noise. The electronics in the signal chain -- microphones, microphone preamps, mixing boards, etc. -- add a small amount of broad-spectrum noise to the recording. If the recording was digitized from analog tape, tape hiss would also show up in the high frequencies. Acoustical noise from the recording venue is not distinguishable from the music, though it may still be relevant to the listening experience. Changes in the frequency spectrum as the file plays are most likely related to the musical program, while features that stay the same are most likely noise.
Let's take a look at some other examples, and see what we can learn.
I can be 100% confident that this is an upsampled file, because I did the upsampling myself using HD Audio Solo from Cirlinca. The sample rate of the original file was 44.1kHz, and I upsampled it to 88.2kHz. You can clearly see an abrupt plunge at the halfway point. The original file could contain no frequencies above 22,050Hz, which is half the sample rate, so neither should the upsampled file. When playing the file, I do see occasional very small spikes in the right half of the graph. These are artifacts of the upsampling process.
This spectrum is a little more interesting. The sample rate of the file is 96kHz. We again see a steep drop-off at 22kHz, or just before halfway along the graph's horizontal axis. There is, however, frequency content in the right half of the graph. This file may have been upsampled, and the high-frequency spikes may be artifacts of the particular upsampling process used. The only thing we can say for sure is that a steep filter was employed somewhere along the signal chain, and so the file contains no musically relevant information above 22kHz. For that reason, I wouldn't consider this to be a legitimate high-resolution file. The frequency spikes in the left half of the graph are not artifacts. There is a single oboe playing at this instant in the recording, and those spikes represent individual notes and their associated harmonics.
This file was sampled at 88.2kHz. The steep drop at the halfway point again suggests a 44.1kHz original source. The steady rise in the graph above that point indicates that the file was derived from a DSD master. The energy in that band is the result of noise shaping, and is not related to the file's actual musical content. It is not uncommon to find SACDs that have been derived from 44.1 or 48kHz masters in order to take advantage of the SACD medium's ability to carry multichannel content. However, converting 44.1kHz to DSD to 88.2kHz certainly isn't improving the fidelity of the recording. This is, essentially, a CD-quality recording with added high-frequency noise.
This file, too, is derived from DSD, but you can see how the natural rolloff and high frequencies blends into the rising noise floor from the DSD noise shaping. I have found that DSD recordings generally sound better when played back on an SACD player than when transcoded to PCM, but this is still a legitimately high-resolution file.
In this graph you can see a slight rise in the noise floor toward the right, above about 30kHz -- behavior typical of an analog-to-digital converter that uses noise shaping. The individual spikes suggest some sort of electrical interference during the recording or mastering process, since they remain in the same place when you look at different slices of the file. (The spikes look much sharper when a window is used that is appropriately tailored to the sample rate of the file, but the qualitative findings are the same.)
Let's also look at the differences between files offered at 88 or 96kHz and those offered at the higher resolutions of 176 or 192kHz.
Britten: Simple Symphony, performed by the TrondheimSolistene, 96kHz file from 2L Records, downloaded from their HiRes Download Test Bench:
Looking toward the right, you can see a rolloff that begins around 40kHz and vanishes into the analyzer's 16-bit noise floor by about 45kHz. It's a gentle slope that will prevent aliasing without introducing too many other problems.
Britten: Simple Symphony, performed by the TrondheimSolistene, 192kHz file from 2L Records, downloaded from their HiRes Download Test Bench:
Remember that now the horizontal axis goes all the way up to 96kHz. You can see a steadily rising noise floor after about 50kHz. This recording was made in DXD, which is nominally a 24-bit/352.8kHz PCM system, but the white paper suggests that a 5-bit delta-sigma converter running at a very high sample rate could be used to derive the 352.8kHz master. Such an implementation would produce this result.
Britten: Fugue from a Reference Recordings 88kHz file downloaded from HDtracks.com:
In this file the rolloff begins much earlier -- at close to 30kHz -- and is below the noise floor of the analyzer by about 40kHz.
Britten: Fugue from a 176.2kHz file from a Reference Recordings HRx disc:
Here you can see the frequency content naturally rolling off across the entire spectrum, and hitting the noise floor of the analyzer before 80kHz. There is clearly frequency content in this file that is not there in the 88kHz version, but it's impossible to say whether or not it is merely noise.
It's important not to read too much into the frequency spectrum of a given recording. Not having abundant high-frequency content doesn't necessarily make a recording bad -- there's more to high sample rates than just preserving high frequencies. Conversely, abundant high-frequency information doesn't guarantee a good-sounding recording. By now, though, you should be able to recognize the difference between a legitimately hi-rez file and one that has merely been upsampled. If a website is charging a premium for high-resolution downloads, then those files need to contain information beyond that which can be offered on CD. If they don't, you should ask for your money back.
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When friends suffer from a mental illness, a relationship with them can change from one of fun to a time of caring for them through the friendship.
As those battling mental illness can attest, being a compassionate friend is what they need during this time.
It can be easy for those who have never been affected by a mental illness to not understand, oversimplify or excuse mental illness as if it were something a person chooses or just a bad day.
Mental illnesses are the same as other sicknesses — an unchosen aberration in the body — and they should be treated as such.
Lance Bordon, freshman entrepreneurship major, said mental illnesses have been addressed poorly in the past.
Bordon said mental illnesses including depression or anxiety should be addressed with as much concern as any other illness such as dementia, which has influenced his family.
Bordon said he saw how loved ones continued to stay strong for one another. Having a strong and healthy support system can make mental health problems easier to navigate.
Aiding those with mental illnesses can start with those three steps: be joyful, be assuring and keep a positive mood. However, caring for those with mental illnesses sometimes requires more than just being an optimistic light in their life.
Lauren Elkins, junior film studies major, said she has cared for her friends in multiple aspects to support them through mental illnesses.
"I've had two friends, one who suffered from bipolar disorder and another with extreme ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)," Elkins said. "I was no longer just their friend, but instead, I was everything keeping them afloat or sometimes even their enemy.
Being actively aware of friends with mental illnesses can mean caring for them in many different ways, including making sure they are eating, sleeping and not hurting themselves. Strive to be a support system to them even when it can become exhausting.
Dr. Natalie Rios, assistant director of the California Baptist University Counseling Center, said friends have a major role in helping those with mental illnesses and are often some of the only pathways to recovery.
"Friends can play a very positive role in the lives of people struggling with mental illness," Rios said. "They can be an important support system so the person does not feel alone in these struggles.
Struggling with a mental illness can be a paralyzing thing. Sometimes the only reason people suffering choose to keep fighting are those reminders from friends and loved ones that they are remembered, valued and appreciated by them.


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Knoops Innocence Project Exonerees Compensated by Government
Posted on April 14, 2014 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment
High Court of Justice of the Dutch Antilles agrees to pay USD 1.97 million compensation to Nozai Thomas and Andy Melaan (Spelonk case)
On 11 April 2014, the High Court of Justice ofAruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and of Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba (Dutch Antilles) rendered a judgment granting compensation to two exonerees for a miscarriage of justice which took place in 2005.
In 2006, the High Court of Justice at Bonaire affirmed a conviction of the District Court in 2005 against Nozai Thomas and Andy Melaan for murdering two brothers and sentenced them to respectively 8 and 24 years imprisonment.
The wrongful conviction came to light as a result of an initiative of drs. Lucio Ricardo, a psychologist working at the Dutch Antilles, who believed in the innocence of the two men. In 2009-2010 the former Dutch police detective Mr. Gosewehr and the criminologist dr. Timmerman, concluded that the two men were wrongfully convicted. The case was subsequently submitted by them to the Knoops' Innocence Project (director Carry Knoops-Hamburger).
The Knoops' Innocence Project has been working pro bono on the case since 2011 and initiated new research, in order to establish a "new fact", which is necessary to have a case reopened in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Research by the Netherlands Forensic Research Bureau [Nederlands Forensisch Onderzoeksbureau, NFOB] and Digital Investigations revealed that Thomas' was working at his computer during the night of the murders in 2005. New research also revealed that Thomas had confessed under extreme police pressure and that his confession was most likely to be false. Telecom research furthermore revealed that Melaan could not have been at the crime scene during the night of the murders.
On 1 July 2013 the High Court of Justice ordered a new trial and on 14 November 2013 both men were officially exonerated. Mr. Thomas spent 4.5 years in prison and Mr. Melaan 8 years.
On 11 April 2014 the High Court of Justice granted the following amounts of compensation:
– Nozai Thomas: USD 677.430
– Andy Melaan: USD 1.292.687
The High Court of Justice multiplied the standard amount of financial compensation for wrongfully convicted persons with factor five, while taking the following aspects into consideration:
– Knoops' advocaten tried to obtain compensation through the Prosecutor General, which would have prevented the two men to go to court for compensation and which would have allowed them to gain swift rehabilitation;
– The fact that the prosecution did not prove to be willing to settle the compensation claim, while the prosecution – in light of the experience the Kingdom of the Netherlands has with wrongful convictions – should have been aware of the impact on the exonerees of such a miscarriage of justice. The fact that the prosecution proved to be unwilling to settle the claim, impacted upon the exonerees who still felt that they had to proof their innocence towards society;
– Both exonerees proved to be extremely traumatized and showed signs of PTSS;
– The uniqueness of the case demanded a higher compensation than the standard amount.
– Other factors that contributed to a higher amount of compensation were:
o Extensive media coverage;
o The fact that the accused suffered from stigmatization in the Bonairean community;
o Impact of the wrongful conviction on the lives of Melaan and Thomas (both exonerees suffer from PTSS);
o The young age of Melaan and Thomas during their detention;
o Severe psychological damage, which will have a lasting impact on their lives;
o Police pressure during the interrogations (which had resulted in a false confession by Thomas)
Importantly, the judges of the High Court of Justice granted compensation that is commensurate with the standard of living in "the Netherlands"; if they would have applied the Dutch Antilles standard, the amount would have been lower.
Andy Melaan and Nozai Thomas perceive the compensation as a form of rehabilitation and reparation for the suffering inflicted upon them. The compensation will be deposited in a fund, which will be managed by third parties and used for their – and their family and children's – future. Melaan and Thomas are committed to helping other wrongfully convicted persons on the Dutch Antilles and beyond.
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The cottages looked fantastic this Easter Holiday. The daffodils and the snow drops outside the cottages looked so inviting and friendly. The lovely welcome packs including our Shaun the sheep packs, home-made Cadbury Chocolate mini-egg biscuits and Lindt chocolate Easter bunnies were a hit with all our young guests and those young at heart. I was also so pleased the new swings came for the holidays includng a new improved baby swing.It got well used and tested and works just a treat. The National trust properties of Charlcotte park and Upton House had some great Easter egg hunts and there was a chocolate treat to be found their too. Compton Verney opened its doors with its new 500 years of Italian Art with Bellini, Botticelli, Titian as well as many others. I can't wait to go and see. I will let you know all about it soon. Hatton Country World likewise was an amazing place to see all those new baby animals, with feeding times for the baby lambs and the ever popular tractor ride.


delicious. 1.5 gr beef, no zucchini. all else as is. used 10 minute barley. very savory. thought it would need more garlic but was perfect. i can not mention it too much, it was very savory.
It was yummy and full of diverse flavors. It may not look very appetizing, but it was fantastic. I loved the Italian seasoning and the carrots best. I topped it with some Parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes.


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Q: ImageMagick not working, and not giving error messages either I have some Perl code I wrote for a client which, in part, resizes images using ImageMagick's convert.
This was done via backticks, capturing the output in this way:
$output = `convert foo.jpg foo.gif 2>&1`; # simplified example

Recently my client's hosting company made what he was told were "DNS changes", and since that date*, the command doesn't work, and not only that, there's no $output either.
Assuming something has happened like him being moved to a server which hasn't got ImageMagick, or a botched install or update of the library -- shouldn't I be getting something back from that? At least a "convert not found"? I've tried with system() as well and it's the same. Image not converted, nothing comes back.
Unfortunately, command-line access is not available.
* I suppose this could actually be a coincidence.

A: You can use convert's debug option to find out what it's doing.
To capture all outputs of a shell command use Capture::Tiny like this:
use Capture::Tiny 'capture';

my @command = qw( convert foo.jpg foo.gif );

my $return_code;
my ($stdout, $stderr) = capture {
    $return_code = system( @command );
};

$stdout and $stderr will contain what it says on the tin. $return_code will return the return code of the task itself, which is traditionally 0 when successful or a non-zero numerical value when an error happened.

A: They may have no shell installed (think of perl/mod_perl being run in a chroot), such that backticks cannot be executed at all (since they involve calling sh -c 'convert ...'. Always check $? and $!.

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The historic city of Delft
A medieval city
The medieval historical city Delft is a nice place to be. Not only because of the numerous terraces and restaurants. Also because of the rich traces from the past. The settlement arose from about 950 in around the Court of the Count of Holland. Got his first city rights in 1246 and was given the name Delf. Later came the t behind it. This was good for the economic development of the historic city. In the medieval centre are still Het Steen (The Stone), Stadsboterhuis (city butter house), Waag (Weigh House), Vleeshal (Meat Hall), the fish market and the Cameretten, which here to remember. The historic city of Delft was one of the six chambers of the VOC and boomed in the seventeenth century.
Since 1572 is William of Orange living with his family in the former Saint Agatha monastery in Delft. In this Prinsenhof he is murdered in 1584 . Therefore the Royal Burial Vaults are in the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in the historic city. The still world famous founder of international law was Hugo Grotius in Delft born and raised. He is still prominent on the market. Johannes Vermeer is a world famous painter from the 17th century. In the Vermeer Centre is his complete work. Similarly Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who as the founder of Microbiology is world renowned. He has lived and worked his whole life in Delft. Here he did his ground-breaking research. In short, if only because of these individuals is a visit to the historic city of worth.
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But there is more. It originated in the seventeenth century Delftware is still made with great success. Many people from all over the world still bring a visit to Delft to a Delftware factory to visit. It is still made in the same traditional way. Hand painted. A box that has managed to defy the centuries. By means of a workshop you can create your own Delftware in Delft.
The world-famous painter Johannes Vermeer was born in Delft. A real Delvenaar so. He has spent his entire life in the historic city. A visit is not complete without take notice of his work. In the Vermeer Centre is his complete work.
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Two usual objections are levelled against the proposal that organic agriculture can feed the world. Organic agriculture, opponents claim, gives low yields, and there isn't enough organic fertilizer to boost yields substantially.
A team of scientists led by Catherine Badgley at the University of Michgan Ann Arbor in the United States has now refuted those common misconceptions about organic agriculture. Organic agriculture gives yields roughly comparable to conventional agriculture in developed countries and much higher yields in developing countries; and more than enough nitrogen can be fixed in the soil by using green manure alone .
The research team compared yields of organic and conventional agriculture (including low-intensive food production) in 293 examples, and estimated the average yield ratio (organic versus non-organic) of different food categories for the developed and the developing world. With the average yield ratios, they modelled the global food supply that could be grown organically in the current agricultural land base. The results indicate that organic methods could produce enough food to sustain the current human population, and potentially an even larger population, without increasing the agricultural land base.
They also estimated the amount of nitrogen potentially available from nitrogen fixation by legumes as cover crops. Data from temperate and tropical agroecosystmes suggest that they could fix enough nitrogen to replace all of the synthetic fertilizer currently in use.
The researchers are quick to point out that the Green Revolution has been a stunning technological achievement; for even with the doubling of the human population in the past 50 years, more than enough food has been produced to meet the caloric requirements for all; if food were distributed more equitably.
However, there is great uncertainty about the future, given the projection of 9 to 10 billion in the human population by 2050 and the global trends of increasing meat consumption (requiring much more grain) while grain harvests are decreasing. They have not mentioned the additional pressure on agricultural production from the growing demand for biofuels  (Biofuels: Biodevastation, Hunger & False Carbon Credits, SiS 33), which has already created "a looming food crisis" worldwide, as John Vidal reports in detail in The Guardian . The climate extremes - droughts and floods – brought on by climate change are almost certainly making matters a great deal worse.
Much of the current reduction in grain harvests is due to environmental degradation from decades of unsustainable practices of the Green Revolution: massive soil erosion, loss of soil fertility, loss of agricultural land through salination, depletion of water tables and increased pest resistance. Other environmental costs of the Green Revolution include surface and groundwater contamination, release of greenhouse gases (especially through deforestation and conversion into agricultural land), and loss of biodiversity.
Many have argued that more sustainable methods of food production are essential. Notably, the Independent Science Panel consisting of dozens of scientists from around the world have issued a report in 2003, calling for a comprehensive shift to sustainable, organic agriculture  (The Case for A GM-Free Sustainable World). It is no coincidence that those most opposed to organic agriculture are also the strongest supporters of genetically modified crops, and they see the recent rise in demand for biofuels as yet another opportunity to promote a technology that has failed miserably to deliver its promises in 30 years, while evidence of serious health risks continue to emerge  (No to GMOs, No to GM Science, SiS 35).
The organic agriculture examples reviewed by the Michigan University team cover a wide spectrum of farms that are agroecological, sustainable or ecological, but not necessarily certified organic. They rely on natural nutrient-cycling processes, exclude or rarely use synthetic pesticides, and sustain or regenerate soil quality. Farming practices include cover crops, manure application, composting, crop rotation, intercropping, and biological pest control.
The 293 studies reviewed consist of 160 that compared organic with conventional methods and 133 cases comparing organic with low-intensive methods. Most studies are from the peer-reviewed published literature, a minority from conference proceedings, technical reports or website of an agricultural research station. They range from a single growing season to over 20 years. Some examples are based on yields before and after conversion to organic in the same farm.
To estimate global food supply from organic agriculture, the average ratios of the yields of organic versus non-organic are applied to current food production values minus post harvest losses from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) database for 2001.
The yield ratios summarised in Table 1 are grouped into 10 categories covering the major plant and animal components of human diets.
As can be seen, the average yields of organic and non-organic produce are about the same in the developed world, but it is in the developing world - where most food is needed and where farmers can least afford to pay for expensive synthetic fertilizers and pesticides - that the major gains in organic agriculture are most evident. Yield ratios of organic versus conventional range from about 1.6 to 4.0. The ratio averaged over all foodstuffs for the world is 1.3.
The team has worked out two models of global food production. Model 1 is conservative, and applies the yield ratios derived from studies in the developed countries to the entire global agricultural land base; Model 2, more realistically, applies the yield ratios determined for the developed and the developing countries back to the respective regions. The calories per capita resulting from the models are estimated by multiplying the average yields by FAO estimates of calorific content in the food category.
The amount of food available in Model 1 is about the same as currently available. The main gain is in reducing energy and fossil fuel intensive inputs, and avoiding all the collateral damages from conventional agriculture. Model 2 results in real gains of 1.3 to 2.9-fold of various foods available in addition.
Both models show that organic agriculture could sustain the current human population. In terms of daily caloric intake, the current world food supply after losses provides 2786 kcal/per/day. The average requirement for a healthy adult is between 2200 and 2500. Model 1 yields 2641 kcal/day, above the recommended level (94.8 percent of current level). Model 2 yields 4381 kcal/day, 157.3 percent of what is current available. Thus, organic production has the potential to support a substantially larger human population than currently exists.
The main limiting macronutrient for agricultural production is nitrogen in most areas. Nitrogen amendments in organic farming derive from crop residues, animal manure, compost and biologically fixed N from legumes (green manure). In the tropics, legumes grown between plantings of other crops can fix substantial amounts of nitrogen in just 40 to 60 days.
The estimate of N available globally is determined from the rates of N availability or N-fertilizer equivalence reported in 77 studies, 33 for temperate regions and 44 for the tropics, including three from arid regions and 18 of paddy rice.
The availability of N in kg/ha are obtained from studies as either 'fertilizer-replacement value' (i.e., the amount of N fertilizer needed to achieve equivalent yields to those obtained using N from cover crops), or calculated as 66 percent of N fixed by a cover crop becoming available for uptake by plants during the growing seasons following the cover crop.
In 2001, the global use of synthetic N fertilizers was 82 Mt. The estimated N fixed by additional legume crops as fertilizer is 140 Mt, based on an average N availability of 102.8 kg N/ha (the average N availability of temperate and tropical regions are 95.1 kg N /ha and 108.6kg/ha respectively). This is 171 percent of current synthetic N used globally, or 58 Mt more. Even in the US where conventional agriculture predominates, the estimate shows a surplus of available N through the additional use of leguminous cover crops between normal cropping periods.
In temperate regions, winter cover crops grow well in the autumn after harvest and in early spring before the planting of main food crops. Research at the Rodale Institute (Pennsylvania) showed that red clover and hairy vetch as winter covers in an oat/wheat-corn-soybean rotation with no additional fertilizer achieved yields comparable to those in conventional controls . The Farm System Trial at the Rodale Institute uses legume cover crops grown between main crops every third year as the only source of N fertility. Non-legume winter cover crops are used in other years to maintain soil quality and fertility and to suppress weeds.
In arid and semi-arid tropical regions, where water is limiting between periods of crop production, drought-resistant green manures, such as pigeon peas or groundnuts, can be used to fix N. Using cover crops in arid regions has been shown to increase soil moisture retention.
These estimates of N available do not include other practices for increasing biologically fixed N, such as intercropping, alley cropping with leguminous tress, rotation of livestock with annual crops, and inoculation of soil with free-living N-fixers. In addition, rotation of food-crop legumes, such as pulses, soy, or groundnuts, can contribute as much as 75 kgN/ha to the grains that follow the legumes.
The implications of the University of Michigan study are far reaching. The results imply that even with rather conservative estimates, no additional land area is required to grow enough food to feed the world if we were to switch to organic, and enough biologically available N can be obtained to entirely replace the current use of synthetic N fertilizers.
There are numerous other benefits of switching to organic agriculture not mentioned in the paper that are documented in the Independent Science Panel Report  and elsewhere. (See also  FAO Promotes Organic Agriculture, SiS 36).
The largest gains from organic agriculture arise from the savings on the damages to public health and the environment, estimated at more than US $59.6 billion a year in the United States [6, 8] (Organic Agriculture Enters Mainstream, Organic Yields on Par with Conventional & Ahead during Drought Years, SiS 28).
Another is the key issue of food security. Findings from the Rodale Institute also confirm that organic management retains more nutrients, organic carbon and moisture in the soil, all of which make organic crops more able to withstand climatic stress. So it is not surprising that while organic yields are comparable to conventional during normal years, they are well ahead in drought years [6, 8].
There are substantial savings on carbon emissions and fossil fuels to mitigate climate change simply from phasing out pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, not to mention the extra carbon sequestered in organic soils.
The study has not even considered all the existing options for renewable energies  (Which Energy?, ISIS Report) or systems of farming that turns wastes into food and energy resources, thereby potentially phasing out fossil fuels altogether  (How to Beat Climate Change & Be Food and Energy Rich - Dream Farm 2, ISIS Report). Nor does it mention the many social, economic, and health benefits from organic agriculture [4, 7].
The case for a global shift to organic agriculture has never appeared more compelling and more urgent.
The Michigan University team see numerous challenges for implementing a comprehensive shift to organic agriculture, however promising it seems. The practice of organic agriculture on a large scale requires support from research institutions dedicated to agroecological methods of soil fertility and pest management, a strong extension system and a committed public.
Also needed are strong government commitment and support, and policy changes that favour and encourage a globall shift to organic, sustainable agriculture .
Most of all, it is time to put to rest the debate about whether or not organic agriculture can make a substantial contribution to the food supply. We should be debating instead the allocation of resources for research on agroecological food production, the creation of incentives for farmers and consumers; and the policies needed at the national and international levels to promote and facilitate the global transition.
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Ho MW. Biofuels: biodevastation, hunger & false carbon credits. Science in Society 33, 36-39, 2007.
Ho MW. No to GMOs, no to GM science. Science in Society 35, 26-29, 2007.
Pimental D, Hepperly P, Hanson J, Douds D and Seidel R. Environmental, energetic, and economic comparisons of organic and conventional farming systems. BioScience 2005, 55, 573-82.
Burcher S. FAO supports organic agriculture. Science in Society 36 (to appear).
Ho MW. Organic yields on pr with conventional & ahead during drought years. Science in Society 28, 17-18, 2005.
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"With Riverbed, the ability to monitor end-to-end and the ability to control that traffic, something magical starts to happen," he said.
Paul Mountford replaced Jerry Kennelly as CEO of Riverbed a month ago, leaving the company's chief sales officer position open.
Bisnette announced Monday that Andy Elder will take the job.
Elder worked at Intel Security from 2015 to 2017, serving as president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He joined Riverbed in March 2017 to lead sales in the same region. He has also worked at Intellectual Ventures, Rovi and Cisco.
Mountford said Elder will help Riverbed tackle a $30 billion addressable market.
Riverbed gave Partner of the Year awards to 22 companies Monday evening. Riverbed sales leadership nominated and chose partners based on their global and regional impact.
Paul Mountford (left) poses with Orange Business Services during Riverbed's partner award ceremony. Photo courtesy of Riverbed.


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The Reading Life: Tori Bush, Richard Goodman
Published March 19, 2021 at 12:30 PM CDT
This week on The Reading Life: Tori Bush and Richard Goodman, editors of The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing.
March 19 calendar
The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival kicks off Friday, March 19.
The Writer's Retreat March 19-21 will include online writing workshops, author events, and a writing marathon. Delivering a keynote inspirational message to writers is Robert Jones, Jr., author of "The Prophets". Other authors also participating include C. Morgan Babst, Michael Bourne, Elizabeth Miki Brina, Ethan Brown, Pamela Colloff, Lily King, Leigh Camacho Rourks, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Sunni Patterson, Sharyn Rosenblum, and Katy Simpson Smith. There will be an agent pitch bootcamp and a session by Kindle Direct Publishing with Goodreads.
The following weekend, March 24-28, you can see such varied writers as Megan Abbott, Augustin J Correro, Randy Fertel, Alison Gaylin, Matthew Griffin, Eliza Griswold, Ladee Hubbard, Robert Jones, Jr., Peggy Scott Laborde, Laura Lippman, Lauren Markham, John Cameron Mitchell, John Pope, Alice Quinn, Mo Rocca, Brian Sands, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Heather Ann Thompson, M.O. Walsh, Bryan Washington, and many more.
The Festival will open Wednesday, March 24 with an online evening performance of A Vieux Carré Cabaret with Vinsantos, LadyBeast, and Franky. Other virtual events include the Tennessee Williams Tribute Reading focused on New Orleans as Muse with Alan Cumming, Brenda Currin, Rodney Hicks, Ann Magnuson, Amy Ryan, Mink Stole, Blair Underwood, and more. Books & Beignets focusing on The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams; an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley; Bryan Batt in conversation with Tennessee Williams' scholar Dr. Kenneth Holditch; and a Williams Scholars Session. UNO Press will present poetry readings filmed on location from the book I Am New Orleans and a new memoir by Kalamu ya Salaam. Check out tennesseewilliams.net for the complete schedule.
Susan Larson
The Reading Life in 2010, Susan Larson was the book editor for The New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1988-2009. She has served on the boards of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the New Orleans Public Library. She is the founder of the New Orleans chapter of the Women's National Book Association, which presents the annual Diana Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction.. In 2007, she received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the literary community. She is also the author of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans. If you run into her in a local bookstore or library, she'll be happy to suggest something you should read. She thinks New Orleans is the best literary town in the world, and she reads about a book a day.
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Two Nigerians caught after illegally entering Thailand from Cambodia
Two Nigerians were arrested by Thai border security forces yesterday after they slipped across the Thai-Cambodian border into Ta Phraya district of the eastern province of Sa Kaeo, reportedly to apply for passports in Thailand.
One told Thai authorities that they opened a business in Vietnam in 2018, but subsequently moved to Cambodia after Vietnam was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
After operating a clothes store in Cambodia for two years, one of them lost their passport, but could not apply for a new onebecause there is no Nigerian consular office in Cambodia. So,both decided to come to Thailand.
He also said that he hired another Nigerian on Sunday to drive them to a location near the border, opposite Ta Phraya district,where a smuggling gang would arrange for their entry into Thailand via a natural crossing, at a cost of about 32,000 baht.
Both spent two nights at a shelter and sneaked across the border on foot on Tuesday. They were then arrested in the middle of a sugarcane plantation.
The two illegal immigrants passed body temperature checks and were sent to the Ta Phraya district police station pending prosecution.
The Thai government has ordered security to be beefed up at the borders, to stop the entry of illegal immigrants, fearing that they may bring the COVID-19 Omicron variant into Thailand.
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The Way We're Talking About Climate Change Is All Wrong. Here's How We Win Hearts and Minds | Opinion
Lloyd Doggett and Michael Shank
On 8/21/19 at 11:54 AM EDT
Opinion Climate Change
While reports forecasting a climate change apocalypse and doomsday climate scenarios may get our momentary attention, they are not producing action. Even as we see the impact of climate change in devastating, intensified weather and the spread of disease, we have not changed the hearts and minds of enough Americans—or, at least, those with the power to change the climate landscape.
America can, in fact, rally quickly around security threats. Congress gives nearly $1 trillion annually to the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to fight threats like terrorism. If we see something, we're asked to say something.
The Trump White House and its Republican enablers are doing worse than ignoring this threat—they are dragging us backward. We cannot wait until they are defeated to better communicate our message.
A good start would be to assume that people are focused, first and foremost, on meeting their immediate, basic human needs.
We more often think about the pressing challenges of 2019, not the existential challenges of 2050 (the year for which many climate-related targets are set). We think about job security and the health and well-being of our families more than we think about the future of a species headed toward extinction. Beyond polar bears and penguins, though they offer real warning signs, this is about what is beginning to occur in our own backyard. But too many American consumers and executives won't notice it, or perhaps care enough about it, to change their behavior until it hits them hard where they live, not just exotic locales in travel magazines. And by then, it's too late.
While American families absolutely have the capacity to be magnanimous and mindful about humanitarian crises around the world (many of which are increasingly caused by climate change) and climate chaos that will impact future generations, compelling and alarming reports can only do so much to equip them to take on this challenge. Climate messaging should not just alarm the reader; it should also equip them to combat climate change personally, and to demand change from major polluters and lawmakers.
First, climate communication must reach our neighbors where they are, versus where experts think they should be. Climate messages should be relevant to and helpful with basic needs: financial stability, health and security. We need environmentalists to make space for more diverse environmental messengers. People need to see themselves and their community's priorities represented on the climate stage. Climate change will impact all of us—and have a disproportionate impact on our most vulnerable communities first.
Second, we must use language that most people use. Instead of talking about carbon neutrality, net zero, retrofit accelerators or deep decarbonization, let's use clear concepts like 100 percent renewable energy and zero waste and discuss the need to electrify and plug in our cars and buildings so they can be powered and heated by wind power and solar power. Let's talk about what's dirty or toxic—oil, coal, gas and nuclear—and stop paying to clean it up with taxpayer dollars. Let's talk about what's clean and green—solar, wind, geothermal and small hydro—and the green jobs that accompany them.
Third, our climate leaders must turn climate talk into climate action. Showing, not telling. If we want people to switch to more sustainable behavior, we have to show them how life is better with mass transit, electric vehicles and solar panels. Remember, it's about basic needs and quality of life; that's what people care about and can afford to address.
Fourth, with President Donald Trump blocking federal action, we need to think and organize locally. Cities like Austin, Texas, have adopted municipal climate action plans in the absence of federal leadership. The more communities, large and small, that embrace the need for climate action and outline specific steps that can be taken to reduce emissions, the better the possibility that we can take prompt, effective action after Trump is gone
A woman displays a placard during a demonstration in New York on June 1, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the 195-nation Paris climate accord deal. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty
Fifth, and most important, throughout this process, Americans cannot feel like they are on their own when taking climate action. This threat is too overwhelming to face alone. Everyone wants to be part of a community, a movement.
Let's promote community while saving one another—building an accessible movement that attracts and appeals, not burdens and bellows.
It's time for a different way of doing things. If we want more communities to see climate change action as feasible and enjoyable, thereby saving the environment and ourselves, then we've got to do a better job of reaching and including them—and making it possible for all to join this movement.
Representative Lloyd Doggett represents the 35th District of Texas and serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and Budget Committee. Michael Shank, Ph.D., is the communications director for the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance and teaches sustainable development at NYU's Center for Global Affairs.
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