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Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 19:52 by Aviation Correspondent

Ian Burford last year launched his Facebook page suggesting airlines should be kids free. He said that since comfortable seating was always a problem for him as he was 6’4”, he didn’t want any kids around him kicking in the seats or disturbing him further.

The issue has been up for some time in the industry, whether to have separate areas for kids in flights. Passengers are already cramped into large jumbo jets, as carriers deploy fewer and larger flights to tackle the ever increasing fuel prices.

Polls conducted by travel and business sites showed that majority of travelers preferred to have separate spaces for families, adults and kids. Obese and overweight passengers have complained about being ridiculed as airlines have rules that force them to pay for an extra seat to avoid bullying nearby fellows.

Some are of the opinion that there should be designated areas for tall, heavy and disabled passengers. A 59% of the polled passengers thought that a family cabin was necessary while 74% business travelers in the UK wanted kids out from Business class.

Many seasoned travelers say that air travel, from the moment boarding on to a plane to when reaching the destination is uncomfortable and depressing. Nowadays passengers before booking are looking for roomier and cozier cabins and seats instead of cheaper or direct flights.

In worst cases families have been thrown out of flights as their child wouldn’t settle down and overweight passengers too have been shown the door for not booking two seats.

Market and industry experts suggest that adding an extra section or introducing special flights might be worth a try for airlines. Some feel that kicking kids off planes is not the way to go, to get such a kid-free journey, using noise cancelling earphones or by sitting in the last row of the coach or first class can help.

But there are issues with the separate section thing like for example a family who missed a flight may be stranded after finding none of the next flights have seats in the kids section or may be sitting in the last row of adults section only to hear a baby crying in the next row.

United and Southwest enforces passengers who passively encroach into neighbor’s seat to buy an extra seat. Southwest offers a refund if the flight is not sold out and a second seat is available.


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Client Customization – Arbogast (Larkspur)

With its vintage, tile-inspired pattern and dazzling foil frame, our Larkspur suite is one of our most popular designs. We have printed quite a few variations of this suite, where the pattern was switched out for another or the size and shape of the invitation was changed, but today we would like to share Maureen and Michael’s gorgeous client customization. Loving the original design of the suite, the couple only needed to change the color palette to a two color letterpress design in order to achieve their wedding stationery vision. The warm salmon and charcoal hues are both romantic and eye catching.

Dauphine Press Client Customization - Arbogast (Larkspur)

Have you ever seen a design that you loved but did not see yourself using the colors chosen on your own wedding stationery? Well, with any of our designs in both our Wedding Portfolio I and Wedding Portfolio II, your stationery can be altered to your favorite wedding colors! Whether you change to another one of our letterpress inks, a custom ink, or a foil, our exclusive retailers can assist you in creating a color palette you’ll love! Don’t forget to check out our inspiration board and variations created by our super-talented designers.

Suite Spotlight – Cloverdale Letterpress Save the Date

To reveal our process here, our blog posts are a collaboration of our design team and me (Kendra) — the designers gather all of the inspiration and gorgeous visuals and I get to talk (write) about it. It’s like everything we do, even the way orders are processed — Tracy and I get to talk to our retailers about the details and the designers make it happen. To get back to the point, I have the pleasure of opening blog post drafts that have already been infused with the visuals and then I get to write about them, sharing all of the details with you. Every single time, I think I let out an audible gasp and today’s post was no different. I love seeing the inspiration behind each of our designs, all in one place and alongside the full suite. I have a special place in my heart for each and every one of our designs and it amazing me how seeing the inspiration boards makes me fall in love with our designs even more!

Today’s Suite Spotlight, Cloverdale, really lets the couple’s special day shine by highlighting their wedding date and making it the centerpiece of their save the date card. As Dauphine Press graphic designer, Heather, mentioned in our recent Designer’s Pick post, the large format is unexpected for a save the date and makes a great impression to those who receive it in the mail. The wash of pool letterpress ink on the borders and charcoal vintage-meets-rustic fonts give it a slightly beachy vibe perfect for a spring or summer wedding. The intricate detail of the bold numerals and delicate pattern has a lovely and tactile feel when letterpress printed into our rich cotton papers. See for yourself!

Dauphine Press Cloverdale letterpress save the date with a light pool blue (with a hint of mint) + charcoal gray.

Suite Spotlight – Solage Letterpress Save the Date Card

It’s time for another “Suite Spotlight” where we look at one of our current designs and share with you the details that went into creating the suite, all the way back to the initial inspiration — and finish off with gorgeous beauty shot of the final piece.

As we note on our website, Solage is no ordinary save the date card! With it’s vintage stying and rich tactile spin on the more modern trend of photo cards, this save the date really makes an impression. The richness of the cotton papers gives contrast to the delicate photograph while the antique engraving design, printed in Wisteria and Charcoal letterpress provides a picture perfect frame.

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Real Dauphine {Birthday} Chelsea Turns One!

We’re sharing another personal adventure with you today. This one comes from Kendra (our Sales and Marketing Director) and also ties right back in to life here at Dauphine Press so we hope you enjoy these visuals as much as we do!

Just over a  year ago my husband and I welcomed a little girl into this world and our family. Chelsea Grace is now a year old and we recently celebrated with a little lunch at home with family. Pulling the details together was tons of fun — especially with the help of the Dauphine Press design team.

First, I must explain that everything in Chelsea’s world that involves color has been all about one specific palette since before she was born. I was actually inspired by an early proof our our Marinwood trifold save the date. The final design is shown in our Custom Wedding Portfolio II album in our Sunshine and Charcoal letterpress inks, but one of the earlier versions was in a lighter, softer palette. I was about 7 months pregnant at the time and knew we were expecting a girl. I didn’t share this with anyone until after Chelsea was born, but I had my eyes on that version of Marinwood for the perfect baby announcement from the second I saw it.

That same inspiration found its way into her nursery as well. Falling in love with two double faced ribbon swatches here at the office in Bisque and French Vanilla and pairing that with a brighter buttercup yellow and deeper coral, the color palete of Chelsea’s first year was set in stone.

Of course we needed to finish out the year by also using that same color palette for her first birthday party.

My first attempt at a (rustic looking!) layer cake, surrounded by a few homemade organic cupcakes that I topped with flags leftover from the baby shower the girls at the office here threw me last year. Of course they were on board with the color palette from the start! The sugar cookies were made by Chelsea’s super creative Auntie (my sister).

Using fabric remnants from Chelsea’s nursery I created a flag bunting and the Dauphine Press design team created the greeting for me to finish it off.

A close-up of the bunting showing my favorite fabric and one of the letters using our Perla font and secured with a tiny clothes pin.

Just a few more details of Chelsea’s little outfit with a maize bow added, her perfectly precious shoes and a homemade party hat.

Real Dauphine Press {Baby Announcement}
Here’s that sweet dress (and our sweet girl) in action on her special day.

Thanks so much for letting me share. It’s such a wonderful gift to be surrounded by the beauty that is Dauphine Press every single day and I feel so lucky that it spills over in to the rest of my life. Or maybe it’s the otherway around, but either way, I feel especially lucky!

Next up, we will share with you Chelsea’s birth announcement and you can see how simple it was to turn one of our wedding designs into the perfect announcement with just a few customizations.

Suite Spotlight – Marinwood Letterpress Save the Date

We are very happy to announce a new series of posts we will be doing over the next few months designed to provide you with little sneak peeks into the creation of our new letterpress wedding album, the Dauphine Press Custom Wedding Portfolio II! We’ve had quite a lot of fun pulling inspiration for these wedding designs and we are incredibly excited to see the finished suites rolling off the presses.

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The art and science of directing a vessel from one place to another. Originally navigation applied only to marine vessels, but now air navigation and, increasingly, space navigation are also important. Although the techniques and applications of navigation have radically changed through time, the basic problem, and hence the principles, have remained much the same.

Marine navigation

Primitive sailors could not venture out of sight of land without the risk of getting lost. But soon they learned to use sunset and sunrise, the prevailing winds, the pole star, and so forth as aids to direction. Early on, the first fathometer, a weighted rope used to measure depth, was developed. Before the a0th century AD the magnetic compass had appeared. But it was not until the 1730s that the invention of the sextant and chronometer heralded the dawn of accurate sea navigation. Both latitude and longitude could now be determined within reasonable tolerances.

Modern navigation uses electronic aids such as LORAN and the radiocompass; celestial navigation, the determination of position by sightings of celestial bodies, and dead reckoning where, by knowing one's position at a particular past time, the time that has elapsed since, and one's direction and speed, one can tell one's present position.

Air navigation

Air navigation uses many of the principles of marine navigation. In addition, the pilot must work in a third dimension, must know his altitude, and in bad weather must use aids the instrument landing system. Radar is also used.

Space navigation

Like air navigation, space navigation works in three dimensions, but the problems are exacerbated by the motions both of one's source (the Earth) and one's destination, as well as by the distances involved.

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Participants on Saturday's Yolo Audubon Society field trip will have an opportunity to see wintering ducks like those pictured here, including northern pintails, cinnamon teals and gadwalls. Ken Ealy/Courtesy photo

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Yolo Audubon trip visits wildlife refuges

By From page A4 | October 25, 2013

The public is invited to join the Yolo Audubon Society to experience one of the great concentrations of wildlife in North America on Saturday. The marshes at Sacramento and Colusa National Wildlife Refuges will be full of waterfowl — geese, swans, ducks and grebes and shorebirds.

Depending on conditions, the group will drive the Sacramento refuge’s auto-tour loop to the viewing platform and then walk the marsh trail.

The next stop, if time allows, will be at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge for lunch, and driving the auto-tour loop. This is a good trip for those new to birding, as well as veteran birdwatchers. Viewing will be mostly from the cars or viewing platforms; very little walking is involved.

Participants should dress in layers (even if it is clear in Davis, the refuge can be cold and damp), bring binoculars, a spotting scope (if you have one), a sack lunch and beverages. Yolo Audubon does not charge a fee, but the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge has a $6 entry fee, or use of a valid pass including refuge passes, current-year federal duck stamp, or an Interagency America the Beautiful Pass.

The group will meet at 7:30 a.m. in the parking lot near Big 5 Sporting Goods at The Marketplace on Covell Boulevard and Sycamore Lane. The return to Davis is expected between 2 and 3 p.m. For more information, contact trip leader Betty Berteaux at 530-756-1686.

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Diana Dared to Invent

It was a mid-summer electricity outage that pushed Diana, a Georgia mother of two, into action with her idea. After work one day, the self-proclaimed pet lover walked in on her beloved miniature dachshund, Ripley, panting and dehydrated. Frustrated that there were no products on the market to help him, Diana knew she had to find a Better Way to keep pets like Ripley cool and safe in any condition.

Watch as Davison’s Better Way to Invent turns Diana’s Chilly Mat idea into a store-ready reality!

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Gary and Ruth - Twister Bolts

With the help of Davison's creative team, Gary and Ruth Frazer came up with their home improvement product idea in the same place that many people do a lot of their thinking... the bathroom. Ruth got tired of loose toilet bolt caps falling off after cleaning or getting carried away by family pets and toddlers. Along with her husband, Gary, she wanted to find a way to secure loose caps to the bolts, for a better-looking, safer bathroom. Watch as the Davison Inventing Method is used to invent Gary and Ruth's "Twister Bolts!"

Christine's Product - Brownie Bowl

With the help of Davison's creative team, Christine created the Brownie Bowl, which is designed to bake any type of dessert into a bowl that will hold all sorts of tantalizing toppings. Users can bake cookies, cakes, breads, brownies, cereal treats, or muffins, and they bake evenly every time. Thanks to its sleek, silicone design, the Brownie Bowl can cook at pretty much any temperature, with any recipe! The Brownie Bowl is even dishwasher safe for a very easy clean up!

Pete's Product - Surprise Pan

During a brainstorm session for a product that would use a nail to cook a potato from the inside out, Pete came up with an idea for a better cupcake pan. "Why don't we just push nails right through a muffin pan? Then we'd be able to put something right on that nail; marshmallow or a Snickers bar," said Pete, which would create a treat with a surprise at its core.

Diane's Product - Hydro Bone

Animal lover, Diane, enjoyed taking her precious Japanese Chin pup, Alexander James, on long car rides; but, she hated hearing him panting in the back seat. She wanted to provide her pet with on-the-spot, thirst-quenching refreshment that wouldn't create the same mess the water bowl did.

Lennell's Product - TheraPED

Missouri native Lennell Parks was an everyday inventor, who had a problem with "hot feet" caused by multiple sclerosis. She contacted Davison with an idea to soothe sore feet and toes. Her innovative product was designed by Davison Creationeers and has since been featured on various blogs and even got a mention by the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA). Also, Z-LIFE Magazine, the official publication of Zumba Fitness, featured the TheraPED as an answer for sore, "danced-out" feet that have had a little too much merengue march. It was even given out in gift bags at the 45th Annual Country Music Association (CMA) Awards!

Sharon's Product - Cool Cot House

Washington state native Sharon was your everyday housewife and mother... but, she had a bit of a problem. She wanted a comfortable, convenient place for her dogs and cats to sleep on or in while on camping trips or at home in her own backyard. While shopping in one of America's largest retailers, Sharon noticed a small pop-up tent and thought that a real tent that size offered the perfect solution for her furry friends.

Julian's Product - Best Stink Bug Trap Ever

Pittsburgh, Pa. native Julian was your everyday guy... but, he had a houseguest problem. Julian's "little" stink bug problem was quickly turning into an infestation. He needed a way to permanently evict his uninvited tenants without creating a big stink! Watch as the Davison Inventing Method is used to invent Julian's "Best Stink Bug Trap Ever!"

Jean's Product - Meatball Baker

We've all been there: meatballs that don't brown evenly... meatballs that get misshapen and flat if you fry them and sit in their own unhealthy grease if you bake them. Jean believed making a delicious & decent meatball could be easier, more convenient and, above all, healthier! Watch as the Davison Inventing Method is used to invent Jean's "Meatball Baker!"

John's Product - The BikeBoard

Extreme sport enthusiast, John, loved spending time outdoors with his kids... riding a scooter, skateboard or whatever they could find; but, he had major concerns about the safety of a scooter's small wheels and wobbly, narrow board. John wanted to combine the "west coast" sports of surfboarding, skateboarding and bicycling into one, safe, convenient and fun activity. Watch as the Davison Inventing Method is used to invent John's "BikeBoard!"

Ed's Product - Better Tether

Most pet lovers need to tether their beloved four-legged friends outdoors sometimes. Our inventor, Ed, loved his canine companion dearly, but hated when his pet's chain got in the way, knocking over food and water bowls and, ultimately, leaving his pet thirsty. Ed wanted a convenient, humane way to tether his pet outdoors. Watch as the Davison Inventing Method is used to invent Ed's "Better Tether!"

Joseph's Product - Silicone Dessert Pan

Have you ever baked a delicious batch of brownies and only wanted to eat the ones that had chewy edges? Our inventor, Joseph, had always loved brownies with a chewy edge; in fact, much to his wife's dismay, he used to slice a pan of brownies before it had finished baking, just so all the squares would have edges. Joseph wanted to satisfy his tastes without upsetting his wife. Watch as the Davison Inventing Method is used to invent Joseph's "Silicone Dessert Bar Pan!"

Kay's Product - Pugz Shoes

Have you ever tried to take your pets out for a walk when it's cold and there is snow or ice on the ground? Dogs' paws often end up cold, injured or frostbitten. Kay wanted to solve the bitter problem that snowy, treated roads and sidewalks caused her pets. Watch as the Davison Inventing Method is used to invent Kay's "Pugz Shoes!"

Joy's Product - Party on the Go

Have you ever taken deviled eggs to a party, only to have a mess when you arrive? Joy wanted to solve the messy problem that traveling with party food created. Watch as the Davison Inventing Method is used to invent Joy's "Party on the Go!"

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The summer heat can prove to be too much for pets which left Diana Edington frustrated because there weren’t any cooling products on the market that could keep her dogs from being parched and panting.

So, Diana took matters into her own hands to find a Better Way to keep pets cool with her chilly mat idea.

After Davison’s help designing her product, it has since been licensed by Hugs Pet Products and has sold at stores like Petco and Bed Bath & Beyond. Most recently, Diana’s Chilly Mat product has been packaged to sell under celebrity chef and fellow Georgia native, Paula Deen’s pet product line!

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Peace is the only way out

By Kuldip Nayar

IT is a shame that only 13 out of 760 MPs were present recently to pay tribute to the watch and ward personnel shot dead on Dec 13 in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. I was then a member of the Rajya Sabha. The house had finished question hour and some members had called it a day. I was one of them.

But before I could leave, I heard shots and shouts to stay inside. We were roughly 500 members who took refuge in the central hall of parliament. Outside the hall were the tall statues of Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. I recalled how much the two had sacrificed, not only for the country’s independence but also for India’s ethos of democracy and pluralism. The terrorists wanted to harm those values.

There was hardly any MP who did not suspect Pakistan’s hand. Subsequently, the attack was linked to the Lashkar-i-Taiba. Again, the attack on Mumbai where nearly 200 people were killed was linked to the Lashkar and its offshoot Jamaatud Dawa.

Previously, India’s reaction was to station troops on the borders for almost one year. This time, the anger has been deeper and wider. Yet the government has shown restraint. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s only request to his Pakistani counterpart was to send the ISI chief. The Pakistani government agreed to do so, but was apparently unable to convince the army. We know the limit to which elected rulers in Pakistan can go. On the other hand, they have domestic opinion to placate. But why is Islamabad reluctant to take action against terrorists who have been identified as having lived in Pakistan. Whatever it has done so far against the terrorists, it is not on India’s request but on Washington’s. And whatever is done will be under international pressure.

In India, with the exception of a few warmongers, there is a realisation that there is no option other than peace. Defence Minister A.K. Antony has publicly stated that there will be no war. Some television channels which queered the pitch in India have been ticked off. The Rajya Sabha committee has issued guidelines to indicate what should not be covered, i.e. “the repeated display in the media of human corpses in case of … incidents of bomb blasts, arson, etc., which causes a negative psychological impact on the viewers. News channels in many foreign countries do not telecast the footage of dead bodies.”

In the media itself, there is serious discussion whether all it did was within the limits of objective journalism. I hope the same examination takes place in Pakistan. Some time later, editors of television channels and newspapers of the two countries can sit across the table and debate the matter threadbare.

The first story that the terrorist arrested belonged to Faridkot in Okara district of Pakistan’s Punjab was broken by Britain’s Observer. Dawn took the investigation further.

Subsequently, some Pakistani channels beamed interviews with Faridkot villagers. Why couldn’t this have been done before the Observer story? New Delhi has identified some of the dead terrorists and published their pictures. The Pakistan media should have pursued the story.

It is also time for the politicians of the two countries to undertake an introspection regarding their conduct. Even if they do not talk about war, their speeches and body language are far from friendly. They run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Why are they stoking the fires of hatred when people on both sides are charged? Whether there is a campaign in Pakistan not to watch Indian movies is not known. But the halls showing Indian films are practically empty according to reports. On this side, the minister for sports and youth affairs says that the cricket series with Pakistan cannot take place after what happened in Mumbai. Thus the recrimination between the two countries goes on.

France and Germany fought for hundreds of years. Today they are the best of friends. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah gave me this example when I asked him before Partition whether Hindus and Muslims would jump at each other’s throat once the British left. He said we would be the best of friends.

I have no doubt that one day this will happen. The assassinated Benazir Bhutto told me in London a few months before returning to Pakistan that she would have “a borderless subcontinent”. President Zardari has tried to go in the same direction, but has been rapped on the knuckles. Manmohan Singh has said many a time that destiny has thrown India and Pakistan together and they cannot but be good neighbours.

I admire the courage and commitment of people, even if a small group of them, in lighting candles in Karachi or taking out a procession in Lahore in memory of those who died in the Mumbai attack. This is the time when India needs understanding. This is also the time when faith in good relations between India and Pakistan is being tested.

Pakistan should understand India’s anger. Those who attacked Mumbai might be Al Qaeda or the Taliban who are playing havoc in Pakistan as well. But there are organisations which are helping, training and arming them. Why have such extremists remained beyond the pale of law? Even when some of them were ‘detained’ after the attack on India’s parliament, they were practically free to preach and spread poison.

Nobody has accused the Pakistan government for the attack on Mumbai. But Pakistan has not been able to insulate its territory which the terrorists continue to use as a launching pad as well as their refuge.

Unfortunately, some of the speeches in the Rajya Sabha were exactly on the lines of statements made in the US Congress after 9/11. President Bush attacked Iraq and Afghanistan and played havoc with America’s liberal values and traditions. It has taken all these years for the nation to assert itself through the election of Senator Barack Obama to the office of president. Civil societies in both countries should take note of this.

The writer is a leading journalist based in Delhi.

Murder she wrote

By Ayesha Siddiqa

THESE days a common concern of many ordinary Pakistanis pertains to the conspiracy to destroy the country. But what happens when the country’s own institutions are involved in spinning a cobweb or falling into a trap that can cause ultimate damage to the state is a question worth asking. This line of questioning stems from a story recently published in Britain’s Sunday Times on Dec 14 and reported by Dawn the following day.

The story titled ‘UK may help find Pakistani general’s killers’ written by Carey Schofield is about the mysterious death of former Special Services Group Maj-Gen Amir Faisal Alavi. The article claims that Gen Alavi was not killed by militants in November 2008 as claimed initially but that those responsible may have been some of his senior colleagues about whom he had complained to army chief Gen Kayani with regard to their alleged involvement in evil and corrupt transactions with the Taliban. These officers, whose names were blacked out by the writer herself before publication, had apparently been a cause of Gen Alavi’s removal from service two years ago while he was serving in Wana, Waziristan.

The military publicity machine, of course, went into action soon after. It made counterclaims that the general in question had been removed due to his involvement with a woman in Islamabad. Considering former Gen Pervez Musharraf’s reputation as a cultural liberal (not to be confused with political liberal), he was hardly the person to have questioned or punished his officers for such a crime. Or perhaps there were too many people involved in the affair.

Undoubtedly the Schofield story raises questions about the military’s reputation as a professional and cohesive force. What it says between the lines is that rather than a cohesive force it may be divided between those officers who compromise on the national interest by doing questionable deals with the Taliban who then target army personnel and others who choose to confide in foreign journalists and governments about internal wrongdoings. According to the story, Gen Alavi had not only foretold his own death to the journalist after he dispatched the letter to the army chief, but had also complained to the British military in August 2005 (during his visit to the headquarters of the special forces or the SAS) about the lack of the army’s will to fight terrorism.

A closer look shows that the story paints the highest command of the service in a bad light. Were there moles in the army chief’s secretariat who leaked the contents of his letter to those that Alavi accused of being involved in his removal from service? Of course, the other question that comes to mind is that knowing his organisation and the fact that the letter would be opened as a routine before it reached the chief, why did Alavi choose to send it ‘through the proper channel’ rather than secure a private meeting with the top boss?

However, a question that the official-sponsored rebuttal did not ask was about the access provided to the British journalist to write a book on the Pakistan Army. It was in the process of doing so that she came into contact with Alavi and many other generals including Pervez Musharraf. The real and untold story is that of the disappointment felt by the army’s top brass at being accused of killing one of their own. Sources claim that she had direct access to Musharraf and many other generals.

Carey Schofield, whose main expertise is the Soviet military and not South Asia, was introduced a few years ago to the GHQ by one of the army’s favourite writers via one of Musharraf’s most favoured diplomats. The idea was probably to have a foreigner, not popularly known in the world of academia, write a book on the army so that it could sell against all other literature being produced by Pakistani writers generally considered to be unfriendly by the GHQ. She had more access than what an ordinary writer could dream of. Her introduction on the Oxford University Leverhulme Project describes her as writing a book in collaboration with the GHQ in Rawalpindi. We don’t know if she was also given access to classified material but that is hardly the issue.

Our military and civil bureaucrats and politicians say a lot of things during informal discussions. The tendency to tell the real story while boasting about their performance gives away many a secret. It is also worth asking whether anyone bothered to check on her background before providing access.

I remember the British author from my book launch at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, last year. Schofield questioned me on the use of a particular term in my book, Military Inc, with the objective of embarrassing me. Later, a colonel boasted about how the question was passed on to her.

The point I am trying to make here is that it has often been the army’s strategy to support sponsored research in order to create army-friendly literature through luring foreign academics and journalists with free trips, hospitality and access to the institution and its secrets. This approach was used at least on three earlier occasions.

Very briefly, the first book published in 1979 by an unknown publisher never made it beyond a few libraries. The second book the research for which was sponsored by Gen Ziaul Haq was banned. The third one has made the rounds but the author has no academic standing. Finally, an unknown British publisher will publish the latest book by Schofield. What is a matter of greater concern, however, is that at this point the GHQ might not even be sure of the contents of the book for which tremendous cooperation was given to the author.

While Carey Schofield seems to have burnt some if not all of her bridges with the Pakistan Army by publishing the story in the Sunday Times, a question that the generals must ponder over pertains to what else might have landed on the table of the British intelligence other than the Alavi story. This time the facts may be irrefutable because the army itself volunteered them.

The writer is an independent strategic and political analyst.

What does America want?

By Cyril Almeida

LOST count of US officials stampeding through Islamabad yet? You’re not the only one. Officially, the Negroponte-Boucher-Patterson triumvirate guides American policy in Pakistan.

But so many people have worn out the welcome carpets in Islamabad and Rawalpindi in recent weeks that you would think there’s a special going on flights to Pakistan at the moment. Buy one, get one free.

Actually the Pakistani(s) connected to the Mumbai attack may have inadvertently done just that. They may have thought they were stoking India’s ire; they may not have counted on the Americans ganging up with the Indians against Pakistan. Here in Pakistan, the strategists have grudging praise for India’s response thus far: she’s played to perfection the battered bride given yet another black eye by her out-of-control husband in the hope her new lover will sort out the bullying husband.

What’s not clear yet is if this is strategic brilliance on India’s part or just a plain lack of options. It’s probably a bit of both. Domestically, the firm-but-sensible approach may not be the UPA government’s best bet, especially with general elections due next May. But with 34,000 Americans in Afghanistan and with more on their way next year, India’s tanks are as good as muzzled and its fighters’ wings as good as clipped. Full-scale conventional warfare is off the table, not least because the black eye the Americans themselves are nursing in Afghanistan at the moment may become a devastating punch to the solar plexus if Pakistan really activates its tribal areas against the Americans.

So India has resorted to carefully calibrated railing against Pakistan while eagerly showing her Pakistan-inflicted bruises to the US, the UK, the UN — whoever cares to look really. It may even be painful memories of Operation Parakram that have led India to choose this path.

Operation what, you ask? Exactly. Following the attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001, the Indians assembled troops on the border and threatened war unless Pakistan sorted out its Kashmir-loving militants. The problem was that the Indians’ timing was a bit off: 9/11 was still a raw wound and the Americans were charging into Afghanistan. No way was another war being fought in America’s theatre of war.

All India got for its cage-rattling was a ban on some jihadi outfits, which quickly enough re-emerged with new appellations that fooled no one. It didn’t even scare the Pakistan Army. Before Mumbai, a senior army official confidently stated that India blinked then because it feared us. He didn’t mention the US.

India is doing the smart thing this time.

What is far from clear this time though is the American angle. In 2001-02, the US intentions were clear: Pakistan was being coaxed out of the doghouse to sniff out Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Being distracted by the Indians wasn’t an option, especially given the Pakistan Army’s India obsession.

But 2008 isn’t 2001. Not that the Americans trusted us much or demanded little then, but today they trust us even less and are demanding even more. And since 2001, the Americans have drawn closer to the Indians and the Indians have shown greater interest in Afghanistan. Add to this Bush’s signature policy of de-hyphenating the Indo-Pak equation, and now Obama’s attempt to put the hyphen back to some extent, and you’re left with an America staring at Pakistan from a very different perspective compared to 2001.

Clearly, the Americans’ intense diplomatic offensive is at one level similar to its aims in 2001-02: prevent war and keep Pakistan focused on Afghanistan. To do so they must offset Indian anger with pressure on Pakistan to do something about militancy — a position that reduces America’s options to an extent.

But if there is a signal the Americans believe Pakistan has sent these past seven years it is that while it may readily accept American dollars, it will not subordinate its strategic interests, at least as envisaged by the Pakistan security establishment led by the army, to outsiders. Hence the distinction between Pakistani Taliban and Afghan Taliban and the frequent accusation that Pakistan has run with the hare and hunted with the hounds.

So shouldn’t the Americans worry that if Indian anger is so outsize this time, they will have to put so much pressure on Pakistan to do something about the militants India wants terminated that Pakistan may again let off the hook the militants America cares most about? Especially if the militants on our western border can also ratchet up the pressure on Indians in Afghanistan, a presence that decidedly vexes the Pakistan Army?

Or if the American strategy is to placate India by squeezing Pakistan just enough so that its primary focus remains Afghanistan, then what happens after the next Mumbai?

There is another, more worrying (at least from the Pakistan security establishment’s perspective) possibility: India and the US have teamed up for a good-cop-bad-cop routine to squeeze what they see as the main problem — the sponsors of terrorism both inside and outside Pakistan’s institutional set-up — rather than go after the cannon fodder of those sponsors.

John Kerry, Obama’s transition point man in South Asia, will have fuelled those fears in Pakistan after his trip to South Asia. In New Delhi, Kerry played up the ISI’s link to the Lashkar-i-Taiba (“They formed it and they know they formed it”) and demanded the agency’s reform. In Islamabad, he all but exonerated the ISI, at least as far as a euphoric media here was concerned.

Of course Pakistanis have a habit of going into paroxysms of fear whenever the ISI is brought up, as though it’s the avatar of the nation itself. It’s not. And neither is it a universal bogeyman. The ISI is really shorthand for all the state, non-state and quasi-state actors that have coalesced around jihad as a policy.

The fact is that it is in Pakistan’s interest to eliminate that nexus. Equally, the cold reality is that it will not be disarmed without a fight, or some concession to its strategic interests.

What should concern Pakistanis is the modus operandi that is adopted to pare back the jihad nexus’s strength. Confrontation, the macho route, will engulf us in a new round of violence and instability. Pragmatism concessions, while morally unpleasant, may prove more effective.

Regional trade prospects

By Michael Kugelman

WITH India pointing to a Pakistani connection in last month’s Mumbai attacks, the Pakistan-India relationship has grown dangerously tense.

Speculation is now rife about how a rupture in ties would inflame South Asia’s tenuous security situation. Indeed, the spectre of renewed sabre-rattling by the two nuclear rivals is worrisome.

However, little has been said about how a breakdown in Pakistan-India relations would undermine trade between the two countries. In light of the Dec 5 decision to postpone trade talks indefinitely, this is a crucial issue, especially for Pakistan. Sustained trade between the two neighbours is central to improving Pakistan’s chronically dismal trade performance — and its economy on the whole.

Pakistan’s current export model involves sending a small group of low-tech, low-value products (notably textiles and clothing) to an equally small set of destinations (particularly the United States and Europe). This is a recipe for trade performance disaster in a world that relishes sleek, modern technology and hungers for services. Indeed, Pakistan has suffered poor export growth and low export competitiveness for decades. This poor performance bodes poorly for Pakistan’s economic prospects, given the difficulty of achieving high macroeconomic growth rates without rising exports.

To attain more export competitiveness and to enjoy better growth, Pakistan must diversify its export portfolio. Healthy trade with India — a nation to which Pakistan presently sends less than two per cent of its exports — constitutes the first step.

Here’s why. Prolonged trade activity between Saarc’s (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) two largest members (in terms of size, population and economy) would spark trade flows throughout South Asia and breathe life into Safta (South Asian Free Trade Area). According to economist Shahid Javed Burki, successful implementation of Safta would nearly triple Pakistan’s total trade over the next 10 years. Pakistan-Afghanistan trade would jump fourfold and Pakistan-India trade would increase tenfold.

This vibrant regional trade would generate new export markets, revitalised export sectors (particularly agricultural, banking, services and transport) and more value-added products for Pakistan.

However, if Pakistan-India relations crumble, trade will wither and talk of a more globally competitive trade model could become moot. Consider that:

— Sustained and long-term bilateral trade requires cooperation on regulating cross-border capital flows; developing transport and communication links; joining power grids and pipelines; and sharing airports and ports. If Islamabad and New Delhi stop talking, the political incentives for such cooperation would diminish at best and disappear at worst.

— Cross-border trade requires the uninhibited movement of people and investments. Yet with a beefed-up presence of Pakistani and Indian troops extending from the Line of Control down to border towns off the Arabian Sea, such movement would be difficult. Free and open trade doesn’t flourish on a war footing. Any hopes of Lahore becoming a trade hub for towns along India’s northern border, or of these border towns profiting from intra-industry trade in manufactured and agricultural goods, would likely be dashed. Similarly, eastern Sindh would have limited opportunities to exploit cross-border trade with western India.

— Adequate security is needed to ensure the free flow of goods. However, shifting Pakistani troops from the NWFP (already one of Pakistan’s most lawless and dangerous regions) to the east would create a security vacuum that extremists would quickly fill. The resulting instability would make land transit in this area a major challenge — hampering Pakistan’s trade with Afghanistan and minimising opportunities for Pakistan-India cooperation in sharing land transit facilities for Afghan trade.

To be sure, a suspension of Pakistan-Indian ties would not preclude a continuation of informal trade (particularly smuggling). However, informal trade could never transform Pakistan’s export model in the same way as open and formal trade.

In the months leading up to Nov 26, trade relations between Islamabad and New Delhi were improving. In July, Islamabad announced it would allow for the import of 136 new items from India. In October, the Line of Control was opened for trade. And on the very day of the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan’s foreign minister held peace talks with his Indian counterpart in New Delhi and trade was on the agenda. Perhaps they discussed how Pakistan-Indian trade has surged in recent years — from an average of less than $250m during 2001-03 to more than $1bn in 2006-07.

India and Pakistan must not squander this progress. Despite New Delhi’s understandable outrage at what transpired on Nov 26, and despite Islamabad’s justifiable pique at being the target of still-unproven accusations, cooler heads must prevail. With coaxing from Washington, Beijing, Riyadh and other influential capitals, Pakistan and India must remain calm and think in terms of resolution, not recrimination. Pakistan’s trade prospects and economic health — not to mention South Asian security — hang in the balance.

The writer is programme associate for the Asia Programme at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington, DC.

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    What's the difference between running a job as a cron job and a batch job?

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    cron job is programmed, batch job is doing loads of tasks in a go.
    they are both related because normally you program batch jobs with cron and to execute them in an hour when the activity is low (early morning like 2 am to 4 am for example depending your company)
    cron jobs can be batch jobs, backups, monitoring etc
    batch jobs can be mass data loading, mass updating etc

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    "cron" is usually mentioned as a Unix utility- which basically calls a script or a "one-liner" at any given time or interval listed in your crontab. I'm not sure if the actual cron program is available for NT- I just use Unix.

    So ... if you have a unix box just try the man page:

    %man cron

    You may try:

    %crontab -l

    Which will list the current cronjobs for the current user.

    %crontab -e

    will edit the crontab. Make sure you do a:

    export EDITOR=vi

    so that cron knows which editor you use.

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    Another difference between a 'crontab'-job and an 'at'-job.

    When you issue a job using at, the unix-environment is automatically put in the job. eg. when you have set your oracle environment, and you start a job using at, automaticly you have the right oracle settings.

    When you issue a job using crontab, you have to set the environment in the script. That's why I always begin a crontab job with
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Under the present legislation, a Commonwealth supported place is one for which the University receives some Government funding. Students enrolled in these places are required to contribute part of their course costs. To be eligible for a Commonwealth supported place you must be an Australian citizen, or New Zealand citizen or holder of a permanent visa who will be residing in Australia for the duration of your study.

The current Federal Government has proposed a number of major reforms for the higher education sector (see the Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014), including fee deregulation in respect of domestic student fees. This legislation may be reintroduced to the parliament in the latter half of 2015 and if passed, will impact on the CSP and FFP course fees applicable in 2016.

* Therefore, the indicative annual course fee shown is provided as a guide only. It has been calculated on the basis of a typical enrolment of a student undertaking the course in 2015, and reflects the cost involved in undertaking full-time study within the specified discipline. The 2016 CSP and FFP course fees may change if the Commonwealth Government's proposed fee deregulation and reforms legislation is passed.

The actual fees charged by Deakin University, will depend on the individual unit discipline and may vary from the indicative course fee cited, particularly if units are chosen from a number of disciplines. The cost of each unit offered in 2016 can be viewed from the Unit Search. Should a change in Government policy affect the cost of units offered, the website will be updated as soon as possible.

Full fee paying (FFP)
A full fee paying place is one which the University does not receive any Government funding. Students enrolled in these places contribute the full cost of their course.

Domestic full-fee paying places are available to Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens or holders of a permanent visa.

The actual course fees charged by Deakin University, is based on the course and the study load (EFTSL) being undertaken. The study load (EFSTL) value of each unit offered in 2016 can be viewed from the Unit Search.

Fee information for all domestic students
The fees per course/unit/credit point may be otherwise subject to an annual increase due to rises in the cost of course delivery and service.

This indicative and annual course fees provided are a guide only. No representation is made that the information provided is current or accurate. Deakin assumes no responsibility for persons relying on indicative course fees to calculate the total future cost of their course. Applicants can email au for more information about 2016 fees.

Fee payment assistance
Australian citizens or holders of a permanent humanitarian visa, enrolling in a CSP or FFP, may be eligible for HECS-HELP or FEE-HELP respectively. For more information about HECS-HELP or FEE-HELP visit the Study Assist website.

Career opportunities

As a graduate of the Graduate Diploma of Leadership you will have developed an awareness of your own leadership styles, strengths and weaknesses. You will also develop an appreciation of the way leadership operates at different levels, and in different contexts, as a key success factor in enterprises.

Course rules

The Graduate Diploma of Leadership comprises 8 credit points including 4 credit points of core units and 4 credit points of elective units.

Detailed course rules

The Graduate Diploma of Leadership comprises 8 credit points including 4 credit points of core units and 4 credit points of elective units.

Course structure

Core Units

MPR771/MPM771Principles of Leadership *

MPM772An Act of Leadership

Plus 2 credit points of units from:

MPM773Contemporary Issues in Leadership

MPM775Personal Leadership

MPR707Leading Change (Residential) *

MPR721/MPM721People Management *

MPR779Leadership in the Real World *

MPT738Audacious Leadership #

MPM778The Leadership Adventure

Elective units

The remaining 4 credit points may be selected from the following list or any unit(s) not already selected from the core unit lost above:

MPA711Corporate Governance and Ethics

MPK701Research Design and Analysis

MPM701Business Process Management

MPK704Sustainable Environmental Marketing

MPK732/MPT732Marketing Management (Tour) #

MPM712Managing Innovation

MPM732Critical Thinking for Managers

MPM735/MPT735International Business Management (Tour) #

MPR705Entrepreneurship (Residential) *

MPR706/MPM706Strategy Capstone *

MPR774The Leadership Retreat *

Or any other unit approved by the Course Team Chair.

* MPR code denotes residential version of the unit.

# MPT code denotes study tour version of the unit.

Entry requirements - general

Deakin University offers admission to postgraduate courses through a number of Admission categories.
In all categories of admission, selection is based primarily on academic merit as indicated by an applicant's previous academic record.
For more information on the Admission Criteria and Selection Policy visit The Guide.

Entry requirements - specific

Standard Admission:
-  A 3 year bachelor's degree or AQF equivalent + 3 years minimum leadership experience

Alternative Admission:

-A graduate certificate in a cognate area + 5 years minimum leadership experience; or

- a master's degree + 3 years minimum leadership experience

Applicants  may be eligible for Credit for Prior Learning for appropriate units of completed postgraduate study.

All applicants must provide the following with their application:

  • current CV
  • a statement (max. 500 words) about their current leadership role, their background, and what they hope to achieve from the course

Credit for prior learning - general

The University aims to provide students with as much credit as possible for approved prior study or informal learning which exceeds the normal entrance requirements for the course and is within the constraints of the course regulations. Students are required to complete a minimum of one-third of the course at Deakin University, or four credit points, whichever is the greater. In the case of certificates, including graduate certificates, a minimum of two credit points within the course must be completed at Deakin.

You can also refer to the Credit for Prior Learning System which outlines the credit that may be granted towards a Deakin University degree.

How to apply

Applications must be made directly to the University through the Applicant Portal.  Details of available courses and application closing dates can be found on the Apply webpage. Please note that closing dates may vary for individual courses.

Your course may require further information in support of your application. Please refer to the faculty information website for further details.

Further study

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Professor Beverley Oliver

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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education)
ALTC National Teaching Fellow

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National Fellowship, Assuring Graduate Capabilities:

Beverley Oliver is ALTC National Teaching Fellow 2011 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at Deakin University, Australia. Through her National Teaching Fellowship (Assuring Graduate Capabilities), she is engaging curriculum leaders of undergraduate courses from any discipline to work with their colleagues, industry partners, students and graduates to: define course-wide levels of achievement in key capabilities, articulated through standards rubrics; embed the rubrics into student portfolios and course review portfolios and share the challenges and opportunities of such approaches through scholarly publications.

Previous nationally-funded projects include: the ALTC Good Practice Guide: Assuring Graduate Outcomes, the ALTC Teaching Fellowship Benchmarking partnerships for graduate employability and an ALTC Competitive Grant Building Course Team Capacity for Graduate Employability. Beverley's leadership of other projects include: Curtin University's Curriculum 2010 project (curriculum reform focused on graduate employability, curriculum mapping, ePortfolios and evaluation of curriculum effectiveness) and eVALUate (Curtin University's online student feedback system).

Beverley's leadership has been recognised with two ALTC Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2008 and 2010). She publishes in a range of teaching and learning areas, including assuring graduate attributes and capabilities, employability; student, graduate and employer evaluation; curriculum renewal, mapping and analytics; ePortfolios and student ownership and use of emerging devices and Web 2.0 applications. Beverley is the Editor of the Journal of Learning and Teaching for Graduate Employability.

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Featured: Elizabeth Anne Designs and Borrowed & Bleu

Recently I was talking with another industry peer about having your work featured on blogs. We chatted about blogs and how exciting it can be to see some of your favorite images on some of your favorite blogs. But even more important, we chatted about how excited we feel for each of our couples! They work so hard on planning each detail of their day. From the small to the big, these details are a labor of love for each of our couples. To see their hard work recognized and praised can be such a fantastic feeling to a bride. And to know that I’ve captured their labor of love, their wedding, in a way that truly describes each element of their day, is such a rewarding feeling as a photographer.

Recently several of my couple’s weddings have been featured and I am really excited to share them with you here. You’ve probably already seen their wedding, but check out the features too! It’s fun to see how another person sees that wedding differently. To all my couples who have been featured, congratulations! I’m so happy to see your hard work is continuing to bring joy to people well beyond the wedding day!

I was SO excited to see Debs & Alex’s beautiful vineyard wedding featured on Elizabeth Anne Designs recently. Mod Cloth bridesmaids dresses, beautiful hydrangea bouquets and a ton of DIY reception details, it’s a wedding not to be missed! You can check out the feature here.

Recently Abby and Devin’s flower filled engagement session at the Arnold Arboretum was featured on Borrowed & Bleu. You can check out the feature, here.

John and Carisa’s beautiful country club wedding was featured on DK Floral. You can check out the feature here and the original feature on Elizabeth Anne Designs, here.

Finally the amazing floral designs of K. Lilly Floral Design were featured on Blue Jeans or Black Tie, but albeit, not recently! You can view the feature here.

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Don’t Do the Math

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Eight years ago, in December 2005, I began warning of an impending economic crisis that would commence when the rate of growth of private debt started to fall. My warnings hit a popular chord: journalists throughout the world picked it up and publicised my views – as well as similar arguments from Nouriel RoubiniDean BakerAnn PettiforMichael HudsonWynne Godley, and a few others.

But our arguments were ignored by the economics profession because, according to mainstream economic theory, private debt should have no impact on aggregate demand. As Bernanke put it, lending simply transfers spending power from lender to borrower, and “pure redistributions should have no significant macro-economic effects” (Bernanke, Essays on the Great Depression, p. 24).

Yet the empirical evidence that change in debt does have “significant macro-economic effects” is compelling: the correlations of change in debt to the level of employment (Figure 1), and of acceleration in debt to changes in employment (Figure 2), are overwhelming.

Figure 1: Compelling visual evidence? Not to a mainstream economist
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About Steve Keen

I am Professor of Economics and Head of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University London, and a long time critic of conventional economic thought. As well as attacking mainstream thought in Debunking Economics, I am also developing an alternative dynamic approach to economic modelling. The key issue I am tackling here is the prospect for a debt-deflation on the back of the enormous private debts accumulated globally, and our very low rate of inflation.
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3 Responses to Don’t Do the Math

  1. koonyeow says:

    Would like to recommend the book below to strengthen your argument, Steve.

  2. koonyeow says:

    Furthermore, I suppose ingroup/outgroup distinction is something inborn (something evolutionary to be more precise). Being an ingroup does have an evolutionary advantage, especially during our hunter-gatherer time. We of course no longer live in a hunter-gatherer society, but that ingroup/outgroup differentiation instinct is still there, and instinct usually trumps rationality. Those of us who know that neo-classical economics is unscientific is the outgroup (in the eyes of neo-classicals).

  3. GerryJ says:

    It seems that only critical life experiences can overcome strong opinions. Yet I wonder if the presentation of new thinking is simple yet subtle, that it can serve as a key that unlocks the way to change.
    For example, a distinction between, none, some and all, could precede a distinction betwen most and sufficient.
    Better to leave the intelligent conservative with a maze puzzle than a logical or numerate one. So, to convince economists of endogenous money, first ask is it impossible to create a loan when all accounts are in balance and the reserves limit has been reached, then take them along the path that confronts them with the reality of their wrong assumptopns.

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 Great Lakes Protection Fund Large Grants 99-00 - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has added a link to a translation service developed by Microsoft Inc., entitled Bing Translator, as a convenience to visitors to the DEC website who speak languages other than English.

Additional information can be found at DEC's Language Assistance Page.

Great Lakes Protection Fund Large Grants 99-00

Between the years 1999 and 2000, ten projects totaling $560,126 were selected to receive grants under the Great Lakes Protection Fund.

  • Sea Grant at SUNY Buffalo received a grant for $17,530 entitled Enlightening Educators about the LaMPS. Teaching aides and training for educators in coastal communities bordering both Lake Erie and Lake Ontario were enhanced through this initiative. The project taught teachers about the problems facing the Great Lakes and helped increase their awareness of what they, their students, and their peers can do to support the priorities of the Lake Erie and Lake Ontario Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) and restore the ecological health of the ecosystem. The project involved multiple educational outreach activities including the development of a Lake Erie and Lake Ontario LaMP educational compendium, creation of a CD-ROM presentation on LaMPs for teachers, and presentation of a series of training workshops for teachers, non-formal educators, and stakeholders. Project details are available in the Enlightening Educators about the LaMPs Final Report (PDF 329 kb).
  • SUNY Buffalo received a grant for $84,961 entitled Use of a Reporter Gene Bioassay to Screen for Dioxin-like Compounds in the Great Lakes. The goals of this two-year project were to obtain organic extractions from fish and wildlife collected from Lake Ontario and its basin along with sediment samples from the St. Lawrence River and utilize an exceptionally sensitive analytical tool known as a reporter gene bioassay system to quantify total dioxin toxic equivalents in organic extracts of these samples and to compare the bioassay derived results with the analytical chemical data in the samples analyzed. This project was designed to complement the DEC's current contaminant monitoring programs, especially the Lake Ontario Contaminant Trend Analysis program. As a screening tool, the bioassay system provides a measure of dioxin-like activity and thus identify samples of concern that need more comprehensive chemical analysis and further investigation.
  • SUNY ESF received a grant for $99,729 entitled Predicting the Natural Production Potential of Salmonides in Lake Ontario Tributaries. This project developed a model that fisheries managers can use to assess the salmon and trout production potential of Lake Ontario's tributaries. Project researchers synthesized existing tributary information (i.e.: geology, land use, catchment areas, habitat, fish passage, water quality, and fish community) through GIS software, and used bioenergetics and habitat suitability to predict tributary production potential. Their model will be complemented by ongoing studies conducted by DEC and the United States Geological Survey on egg survival, niche overlap, and fish movements. This project also provided an estimation of the potential contribution of wild or naturalized stocks based on geographic information, changing weather and different habitat improvement scenarios, and also evaluated the feasibility of rehabilitating Atlantic salmon.
  • SUNY Brockport received a grant for $76,786 entitled Measuring RAP Progress in the Rochester Embayment of Lake Ontario: Determining Baseline Levels of Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern in Air, Water, Sediment, and Sentinel Species. The Rochester Embayment Remedial Action Plan (RAP) identified the fish and wildlife consumption advisories as a use impairment in the Area of Concern (AOC). Many of the species on the consumption advisory list are salmon and trout that accumulate body burdens of persistent toxic chemicals as they move and feed in Lake Ontario. The results of this study provided information regarding the baseline levels of these substances in air, water, sediment, and resident sentinel species.
  • The Oswego County Environmental Management Council received a grant for $45,858 entitled Lake Ontario Coastal Wetlands Biodiversity Inventory- Oswego Co. Biological diversity research was conducted to identify rare, endangered and threatened species, and ecological communities in shoreline wetlands of Lake Ontario in Oswego County. Goals included providing the County Environmental Management Council and other partners with accurate information on uncommon animals, plants and rare or exemplary ecological communities in the wetlands along the Lake Ontario shoreline. The project also produced scale maps of surveyed areas showing boundaries of all ecological communities identified. The Lake Ontario coastal wetlands will use the findings and recommendations to prioritize those areas needing additional protection. This information will be important for future planning and direction in this ecological area of Lake Ontario. Project details are available in the Oswego County Coastal Wetlands Final Report (PDF 9,427 kb).
  • SUNY ESF received a grant for $53,436 entitled Use of Spawning Marshes in Rehabilitation of St. Lawrence Northern Pike and Muskellunge Populations. This project evaluated the effect of habitat restoration on northern pike and muskellunge reproductive success, and was needed due to the economic, ecological and scientific importance of the species. Northern pike and muskellunge populations in the St. Lawrence are self-sustaining and endemic, although both have suffered a decline in population locally and throughout their native North American ranges. Both species depend upon coastal wetlands, bays and tributaries to fulfill early life stages of spawning and nursery. Project results are guiding restoration efforts to enhance populations of these important native species.
  • SUNY Oswego received a grant for $99,956 entitled Contaminant Degradation in Contained Disposal Facilities. The goal of this study was to optimize the processes and conditions enhancing the degradation of persistent organic contaminants deposited in confined disposal facilities (CDFs). The project was designed to provide information on the potential for using CDFs as reactor systems that are designed, constructed and operated to effectively degrade rather than to simply contain contaminants. Results from this project are being used to design and conduct larger scale field demonstrations of the application of active degradation processes in CDFs.
  • New York Sea Grant at SUNY Buffalo received a grant for $14,981 entitled Great Lakes Erosion Processes and Control Education Materials and Web Site Enhancement. Coastal decision makers such as shoreline property owners, marina owners, government officials, resource managers, environmental groups and others have expressed a need for current, dependable and accurate information on lake level fluctuations, shoreline processes (erosion, deposition, and flooding) erosion mitigation and remediation technologies. This project enabled NY Sea Grant to update its coastal processes and erosion control educational materials and to place easily accessible versions of these materials on its' Great Lakes web site.
  • New York Sea Grant at Cornell University received a grant for $16,889 entitled The Lake Ontario Salmon Training Initiative. Research-based information was collected to develop an extension and outreach program for fisheries managers, sport fishing stakeholders and the general public to help disseminate information and assess angler attitudes about Lake Ontario fisheries issues. A series of introductory workshops were held around the Lake Ontario basin to summarize ecosystem trends in the lake, present the results of recent studies, and explain how research could be used to revise fisheries management strategies. A cooperative sampling program and a web site will also be developed.
  • The Central and Western New York chapter of the Nature Conservancy received a grant for $50,000 entitled A Biological Inventory of the Gorges and Streams of Lake Erie. This project developed and disseminated biological information on water courses in the Lake Erie basin. Waterbodies evaluated as part of the project included Twenty-mile Creek, Belson Creek, Chautauqua Creek, Little Chautauqua Creek, Little Canadaway Creek, Canadaway Creek, Cattaraugus Creek, Big Sister Creek, Little Sister Creek, Eighteen-mile Creek, Cazenovia Creek, and the Buffalo River. Project information gathered will identify, collect, and refine data on significant natural areas and aquatic habitats in the Lake Erie gorges, as well as provide an ecosystem-level understanding of each gorge and watershed through documentation of each system's rare and important natural communities.