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Aboriginal tourism: Strong interest fuels rapid growth but demand still outstrips supply

Shawn Conner, Special to The Sun

Whether fishing for salmon in Haida Gwaii or checking out Sasquatch Days in Harrison Hot Springs, more visitors to B.C. than ever before are being exposed to aboriginal art, culture and experiences.

In fact, they can’t get enough.

“There’s no shortage of visitor demand,” said Keith Henry, chief executive of the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia. “Right now we can’t meet the demand. There’s a lot more demand than product.”

But still people are getting to experience First Nations arts, culture and lifestyles. According to an interim report by Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Tourism Policy and Research, an estimated 3.7 million tourists experienced some form of Aboriginal tourism in 2010 as part of their trips to B.C. This represents an almost doubling of estimated 2006 visit levels.

The 2010 Winter Olympics helped, Henry said. But the industry is also coming into its own.

“We’ve been doing a far better job marketing our products, so there have been more aboriginal experiences brought on line,” he said. “Visitors have a lot more choices.”

Aboriginal tourism experiences include everything from tours of ancient Secwepemc and Coast Salish villages to visits to sweat lodges and First Nations wineries to sled-dog adventures in Quesnel and hikes through Clayoquot Sound with First Nations guides. There are also cultural events like the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of B.C.

“It’s not just the experience, it’s the education and story of the experience that attracts visitors,” Henry said.

The Sasquatch Crossing Eco-Lodge is a nine-room bed-and-breakfast owned and operated by the Sts’ailes nation. It is in a renovated 1903 heritage home 90 minutes east of Vancouver, near Harrison Mills.

“Visitors come from all over,” Sts’ailes tourism officer Paula Cranmer-Underhill said. “There are some international visitors, some from Alberta, B.C. and Washington state. We get hundreds of comments from all over.”

Sasquatch Crossing has seen “continued incremental growth” since the Sts’ailes (formerly Chehalis Indian Band) bought it in 2009, Cranmer-Underhill said. Cultural experiences include community members welcoming guests, craft workshops and traditional dance groups.

According to ATABC’s Henry, there are roughly 80 market-ready aboriginal tourism businesses in B.C. And the Aboriginal Tourism Association is working with 140 more.

He says research by Destination B.C. and the Canadian Tourism Commission shows that tourists to B.C. are hungry for exposure to First Nations culture and experiences.

“It’s clear that one of the motivators for visitors is having unique and educational experiences,” Henry said. “Aboriginal tourism is high on that priority list.”

Europeans, including visitors from the U.K. and Germany, remain most enthusiastic about aboriginal travel experiences, Henry says. Emerging markets include Pacific-Asian countries like China and Japan. International visitors “tend to spend more and stay longer,” Henry said.

“We have a large domestic audience but they typically spend less time and resources in our businesses.”

Inez Cook, one of the owners of Salmon n’ Bannock Bistro in Vancouver, says that her restaurant has been successful with its First Nations menu. It’s especially popular with locals, but she’s also seen an increase in international guests.

“There’s definitely an interest in First Nations cuisine,” Cook said. “Often we get phone calls, people are calling in advance from New York or other areas. The word is getting out, definitely.”

The restaurant, which opened during the 2010 Winter Olympics, just passed its three-year mark. It’s the only one of its kind; the Liliget Feast House, a Coast Salish-themed restaurant that used to be on Davie, closed its doors in 2009.

One of Salmon n’ Bannock’s traditional offerings includes the feast menu.

With a minimum of six guests and 48 hours’ notice, you can book a family-style feast dinner of three courses.

“We’re the only First Nations restaurant in Vancouver, and that works for and against us,” Cook said.

“The way it works against us is, we’re off the radar. Because people are unfamiliar with First Nations cuisine, they often forget to come and try it.”

The challenge for some First Nations communities is to present their cultural heritage to visitors without debasing it. Henry says the ATABC and its partners are well aware of the risk.

“Authenticity and maintaining the true story of the community told their way is paramount to the success of our industry,” he said.

“We’re always very careful in how we help communities and entrepreneurs build their businesses. It’s got to be authentic and supported with the communities behind it, and we have to make sure they want to be engaged in tourism.”

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Published in Print: January 4, 2007, as A Road Map to College and Career Readiness

A Road Map to College and Career Readiness

State efforts to prepare students for the world beyond high school often are too general to be effective.

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David S. Spence
David S. Spence is the president of the Southern Regional Education Board, based in Atlanta, and a former executive vice chancellor of state university systems in California, Florida, and Georgia. The SREB works with 16 member states to improve K-12 and postsecondary education.
—Barbara P. Fernandez for Education Week

Our nation’s steepest challenges in education are to help more students graduate from high school and to ensure that all high school graduates are well prepared for postsecondary education.

The skills students need to learn effectively in college- or career-preparation programs are the same: the ability to read and write effectively and to think logically and symbolically, as taught in mathematics.

In its 2005 report on college readiness, ACT Inc. found that up to 70 percent of college-admissions-test takers were not ready for college work in reading, writing, and mathematics. This means that meeting the readiness challenge extends far beyond simply having students take the “right” high school courses; most college-bound students already do.

Six years ago or so, some states began to address the college- and career-readiness issue using a standards-based approach. California, Indiana, New York, Oregon, and Texas are among the states that organized statewide or systemwide initiatives that, in their own ways, defined postsecondary-readiness standards and linked them to high school academic standards and assessments. While these efforts are not complete, they do provide a solid base of experience on which other states can build. Since the National Education Summit on High Schools in 2005, sponsored by the National Governors Association and others, a number of states have participated in the nonprofit group Achieve Inc.’s American Diploma Project, which has helped them create a series of steps to define college-readiness standards and align them across higher education and K-12 schools. Some states are making progress in better defining their readiness standards under Achieve’s guidance. The steps guiding this process are sound and logical: Define all postsecondary-readiness standards in a state, align the standards with those in K-12 education, find ways to assess high school students’ performance on the standards, and hold schools accountable for results.

But these action steps have to this point been stated in very general terms, leaving much room for states’ individual interpretations. And, given that states are starting at very different places with respect to existing K-12 and postsecondary academic standards, assessments, governance structures, and political situations, they will interpret and implement the steps in different ways.

So, how far have states come in actually implementing readiness agendas? One view holds that as long as some states are moving forward, we should recognize that there may be very different ways to achieve the readiness goal, and that a more specific direction to guide state efforts is not needed or even possible.

The other view, one that I hold, is that we know enough now—from advanced experiences in a few states and from recent work in others—to suggest much more specific and detailed steps for developing a state readiness agenda. If states adopted some key, proven steps toward readiness standards, their actions would significantly hasten and improve the quality of readiness initiatives in the states, and help more students than ever before complete high school well prepared for college and career studies.

What are these more specific actions states should take to implement a college-readiness agenda? The first is to ensure that the readiness movement is centered where the action needs to be: on classroom teachers, who hold the keys to preparing all students for college and careers. Our high school teachers certainly can do this, but, within many states, the conditions that enable teachers to make college and career readiness their highest priority currently do not exist. All decisions about how to advance a state’s readiness agenda should be targeted toward supporting a classroom-teacher-based focus on readiness.

Second, to provide the clearest possible guidance for high school teachers, each state must develop a single set of reading, writing, and math standards that signals what it means for students to be ready for postsecondary education. Without these statewide standards to guide their work, high school teachers will continue to be confused by the lack of, or different, definitions of readiness coming from various colleges in a state. Only by having all of public postsecondary education—or, at the very least, all open-door, two-year colleges and broad-access, regional universities—reach consensus on a single set of readiness standards can a state provide high school teachers with more-useful guidelines. States also need to clarify that readiness is not about admissions, and that access will not be reduced. Colleges already admit many students who are not prepared for college work, and they will continue to do so. The goal is to have more students ready for college without needing remediation once they arrive on campus.

Who Pays for College

In the average state, students and their families are expected to pick up the vast majority of costs and expenses at public four-year colleges. The federal government picks up less than 10 percent of the costs, in the form of student aid and grants, and state governments provide even less assistance.

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Third, to prevent any mixed signals to teachers, the readiness standards need to be embedded and adopted into the state high school curriculum. In fact, these standards should go beyond merely correlating with state academic standards for high schools—they should be part of the academic standards. States owe their high school teachers one set of standards on which to focus exclusively. More than ever, in this era of school accountability, teachers teach to the official, state-adopted standards. Therefore, the college-readiness standards should be adopted by state boards of education as integral components of the state curriculum. This would eliminate any confusion for teachers and help them make sure students’ work rises to the required level before graduation.

Fourth, to be most useful to teachers, the readiness standards need to be conveyed in performance terms—not just what reading, writing, or math skills are needed, but exactly how well (and at what levels) a student needs to perform these skills. Without the readiness standards—or for that matter, the existing school standards—being defined in performance terms, they are not as useful for teachers. This is a serious deficiency, and it can be remedied only if postsecondary and public school teachers (with the technical assistance of experts on setting performance standards) interact to develop a shared understanding of expected performance levels. This can be accomplished by postsecondary and K-12 teachers jointly evaluating student work and negotiating a shared view of acceptable levels of performance. It will be painstaking, detailed work, but it can yield invaluable results—and a clear sense of exactly how well students must perform. Indeed, this interactive process also will help convey the readiness standards to classroom teachers, through professional development, and to prospective teachers in preparation programs.

Fifth, the high school assessments chosen to indicate whether students have met the readiness standards should be the tests that will draw the highest priority from teachers and that will address most directly the statewide readiness standards. Assessment of college readiness should be done while students are still in high school, before the senior year, giving them time to strengthen their performance before graduation. California’s Early Assessment Program, given at the end of 11th grade, is a good example.

But the kind of test states use is critical, and my experience suggests that teachers will give highest priority to those tests that address directly the state-adopted academic standards and are used for public school accountability. State-originated tests must include the specific readiness standards. While high-stakes graduation tests do not include the kind of rigorous standards to be used for readiness evaluation, many states are moving toward state-developed end-of-course tests in 11th grade English and Algebra 2, through which readiness standards can be more easily tested.

A few states have weighed using the ACT or SAT college-admissions tests, or national placement tests such as COMPASS or AccuPlacer, to determine students’ college readiness. The downside to such an option is that using tests that do not explicitly include the statewide readiness standards will not reinforce teachers’ emphasis on these standards, and may only confuse them.

Nationwide, P-16 initiatives have been hampered by a lack of specificity, focusing more on process and structure than on a clear series of recommended actions and expected results. The five steps I have outlined constitute a much more specific agenda for improving college readiness than now exists. Gaining a state’s commitment to it may well require additional direction from state leaders, including governors (who in 2005 called for state readiness initiatives) and, importantly, legislatures. State lawmakers can establish—by law, resolution, or budget intent—the longer-term, sustained commitment that is needed to bring the postsecondary and K-12 sectors together on a common agenda. A good example of this is recent Texas legislation establishing a process for the standards-setting and alignment components of a statewide readiness initiative.

A final point about urgency and schedule: It is a fact that this specific agenda can be completed within two to three years. In light of the crucial need for states to help more students graduate from high school and complete a college degree or career training, states must commit to a more specific and ambitious plan and accelerate their schedules to meet this challenge

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Shiatsu is a healing art, originating in Japan, which uses the power of touch and pressure over acupressure points and meridians (energy pathways), which are connected to our internal organs and influence our emotional, psychological, spiritual health. During a shiatsu massage the therapist uses pressure with thumbs, fingers, palms, and sometimes knees, elbows and feet, to induce deep relaxation and a feeling of well-being. It is sometimes dynamic, sometimes seemingly quite static, involving pressure on the limbs and torso, as well as rotations, the kneading and releasing of tight muscles and supporting areas of weakness. To receive, shiatsu is deeply relaxing and yet invigorating, leaving a feeling of tranquillity and a sense of being in touch with every part of one’s body. You remain fully clothed for this treatment.

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By Sarah Hardy on December 5, 2011 at 11:00a
Not a good week to be a Badger basketball fan, anywayBo Ryan dealt with two losses this week

Welcome to the Big Ten Hoops Recap. Now that the college football regular season is over, it's time to give basketball the attention it so richly deserves.

Even with an engrossing championship game, it was far from an inspiring football season in the conference. Basketball, though, should make amends for its gridiron brother. Not only is the B1G considered the best league by all valid humans, but Ohio State is the dominant team1 that presides over the other 11, and ergo, all's right with the world.

Last week was a successful one for the B1G as they earned their third straight win in the Big Ten/ACC challenge, this year finishing 8-4. Everybody now: Big Ten! Big Ten! Big Ten! Oh wait, we aren't conference jingoists and therefore don't engage in such mindless chants unless it's for mocking purposes.

Anyway, several teams besides Ohio State posted 2-0 records over that span, with only Wisconsin and new kid Nebraska losing both of their matches. Even Iowa, whose looking like the Britta of the bunch, notched a W, albeit against an Ivy League school.

Michigan State has now won six straight after starting the season 0-2. Facing a typical Izzo early season schedule, the Spartans lost to North Carolina and Duke, but they have since bounced back. However, the best non-Buckeye squad of the week was Illinois, who handed #19 Gonzaga their first loss of the year and who snagged a win on the road against Maryland. Along with Ohio State and Indiana, Illinois is one of three unbeatens left in the B1G.

ILLINOIS (2-0) // Beat Maryland 71-62, Beat Gonzaga 82-75

With 8 minutes left in the game, Sam Maniscalco sparked a 10-2 run for the Illini on their way to victory against the Terrapins. The senior guard, who previously played and graduated from Bradley, led Illinois with 24 points. Brandon Paul chipped in 17 of his own.

On Saturday, sophomore center Meyers (shut up) Leonard's 21 points helped Illinois pull the upset over Gonzaga. The 7'1" big man, along with freshmen Nnanna Egwu and Ibby Djimde, harassed Robert Sacre, who eventually fouled out for the Bulldogs. The Illini's D.J. Richardson hit 4/7 from behind the arc and scored 19 points.

MICHIGAN STATE (2-0) // Beat Florida State 65-49, Beat Nebraska-Omaha 110-68

On Wednesday night, Michigan State's win over Florida State clinched the Big Ten/ACC challenge for the good guys. Keith Appling had a career game with 24 points and 7 boards. Draymond Green (16 points, 8 rebounds) and Brandon Wood (16 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists) also came up big for Sparty.

Four days later, those three were the stars again in their defeat of Nebraska-Omaha. Green, despite leaving the game for three minutes to receive attention to his left knee, put up a double-double with 23 points and 10 boards. Appling's stat line was impressive (13 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists) as the Spartans made 61% of their field goals and killed whatever Nebraska-Omaha's nickname is on the glass by a 54-16 margin.

INDIANA (2-0) // Beat North Carolina State 86-75, Beat Stetson 84-50

"You make me pull, I'll put you down."The Hoosiers' shooting is justified

Down 63-56, Indiana came back to hand NCSU a loss at home. Cody Zeller accounted for 8 points during the Hoosiers' 20-7 run, and the freshman center ended up with 19 altogether.

Indiana continued their sharp shooting, making 50% from the floor including 7/13 from three-point range. Jordan Hulls was the leading scorer with 20.

To build on their best start in the Tom Crean era, the Hoosiers followed up with a victory over Raylan Givens' hat. Zeller led the way again with 16 points and 7 rebounds. The Crimson and Cream again showed off their accuracy as they hit 52% from the floor. Next up is a more difficult task when they meet Kentucky on Saturday2.

MINNESOTA (2-0) // Beat Virginia Tech 58-55, Beat USC 55-40

Without Trevor Mbakwe, who suffered a season-ending knee injury the week before, Minnesota managed to edge Virginia Tech. Rodney Williams took his placed and tallied 14 points, 8 boards, and 2 blocks. With 18 seconds left, Julian Welch converted two free throws, putting the Golden Gophers ahead. At the same time, Hokie Erick Green fell victim to the (stupid) raised floor in the arena and hurt his shoulder. Still, he re-entered the match and attempted a game-tying three-pointer that nearly went in. Instead, it hit the iron and Minnesota celebrated like Magnitude at a party

Williams and the Golden Gophers picked up where they left off when they sent the Trojans home with a loss. The power forward accounted for 12 points along with 9 boards, 4 steals, 3 dimes, and 3 blocks, though it was Welch, once again, who was the top scorer.

NORTHWESTERN (2-1) // Beat Georgia Tech 76-60, Beat Mississippi Valley State 92-67, Lost to Baylor 69-41

In their first of three games in a week, Northwestern handled Georgia Tech on their own court. John Shurna continued his hot shooting to the tune of 25 points as the Wildcats made 55.4% of their attempts. The senior was also the leading rebounder with 8.

They cruised past Mississippi Valley State on Friday night and tied a Northwestern record by making 20 three-pointers.

Two days later, the Wildcats lost their first game of the season to #7 Baylor. Just hitting 29% from their own floor, Northwestern could not solve Baylor's zone. Shurna, who had been the conference's top scorer, struggled to put the ball in the basket. Drew Crawford's 15 points was the most for a Wildcat player while the Bears saw four players hit double digits.

PURDUE (1-1) // Beat Miami (FL) 76-65, Lost to Xavier 66-63

On the haunted grounds of West Lafayette, the Boilermakers notched their 22nd consecutive home win by prevailing over Miami. Even though the Hurricanes came within five points in the second half, Purdue controlled most of the game thanks to 12th-year senior Robbie Hummel3 (17 points, 8 boards) and 10th-year senior Lewis Jackson (15 points).

Hummel and Jackson nearly replicated those same numbers when #11 Xavier slipped past the Boilermakers in a wild one. The Musketeers started sloppy and turned the ball over a total of 22 times, but down 19 in the second half, they stormed back courtesy of Tu Holloway's 21 points. Xavier took the lead with a minute remaining, and seconds later, Hummel sank a free throw to tie it. Holloway then swished his third three-pointer in two minutes and with a cramped-up Hummel on the bench, Purdue could not counter.

MICHIGAN (1-1) // Lost to Virginia 70-58, Beat Iowa State 76-66

Unable to overcome a Virginia team who is anything but cavalier on defense, Michigan fell in the Big Ten/ACC challenge. Although the 58 points was the most Virginia has allowed all season, when Zack Novak is the leading scorer, as he was with 12 points, Michigan is probably not going to add to the win column.

Big Ten Standings
Ohio State 0-0 8-0
Illinois 0-0 8-0
Indiana 0-0 8-0
Minnesota 0-0 8-1
Northwestern 0-0 7-1
Purdue 0-0 7-2
Michigan  0-0 6-2
Michigan State 0-0 6-2
Wisconsin 0-0 6-2
Penn State 0-0 6-3
Iowa 0-0 5-3
Nebraska 0-0 4-3

As if to prove my point, Tim Hardaway Jr. was the offensive engine in their win against a pesky Iowa State team that features former Spartan Chris Allen. Hardaway's 19 points and 3 assists were complemented by the inside play of Jordan Morgan, who made 7/10 from the floor for 16 points.

PENN STATE (1-1) // Beat Boston College 62-54, Lost to Ole Miss 72-70

Trailing by three at the half, Penn State negated their slow start to vanquish Boston College. Tim Frazier ripped off 20 of his 22 points in the second half, and Jermaine Marshall had 22 of his own, a career high.

Sunday night, though, they could not hold off Ole Miss. Frazier was good for 17 points and Sasa Borovnjak came off the bench for 15, but the Rebels were uncharacteristically effective with their perimeter shooting. A three-point attempt with seconds remaining failed to go down for the Nittany Lions, sealing the game.

IOWA (1-1) // Lost to Clemson 71-55, Beat Brown 75-54

Iowa, a little too polite of a host to Clemson, let the Tigers breeze to a victory. Other than freshman Josh Oglesby, who contributed 15 points, the Hawkeyes were offensively challenged, unable to even muster a 30% shooting effort. I'm just going to insert a random phrase now, cat monocle4, because I don't think anyone will notice or care.

Iowa was able to recover by crushing Brown on Saturday. Two excellently named Hawkeyes, Melsahn Basabe (14 points, 10 rebounds) and Roy Devyn Marble (11 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals), fueled the win. Meanwhile, an Andrew McCarthy suits up for Summer Roberts' alma mater, so in between beating out Duckie for Andie's affections and falling in love with a mannequin as Starship rocked away in the background, he led Brown with 17 points.

WISCONSIN (0-2) // Lost to North Carolina 60-57, Lost to Marquette 61-54

In a battle of top ten squads, Wisconsin was nipped by UNC. As is their modus operandi, the Badgers worked the shot clock and frustrated the up-tempo Tar Heels. Despite recording 18 points, Jordan Taylor and his team threw up plenty of bricks. UNC shot only slightly better, but where they excelled in the second half was from the free-throw line, converting 16/18 attempts. Still, the Badgers had a chance at the end. The Wisconsinly, in both name and appearance, Ben Brust tossed up an unsuccessful half-court prayer, and then the Tar Heels thanked the basketball gods that UW is not a frequent opponent on their schedule.

Following up their first loss of the season, Wisconsin decided to try it again, this time against #16 Marquette5. Most shocking of all? It happened in the Kohl Center, where the Badgers had won 23 straight contests. Much like almost every single game Wisconsin plays, except for when they're getting demolished in the Schott, it was a slow-paced, low-scoring match. The shooting was awful, and the Badgers refused to go away until the buzzer rang.

NEBRASKA (0-2) // Lost to Wake Forest 55-53, Lost to Creighton 76-66

Nebraska lost a heartbreaker when C.J. Harris' easy layup with 3.4 seconds remaining proved to be the game-winner for Wake Forest. Bo Spencer, who paced the Cornhuskers with 13 points, had missed a shot on the previous possession with 16 seconds to go.

Spencer was more proficient in the loss to suicidal John Goodman. His 29 points was a game-high. However, both his teammate Toney McCray and his coach received technicals with 9 minutes left, and Creighton never looked back.

  • 1 Get well soon, as in before Saturday, Sully.
  • 2 The game will be in Bloomington, not Harlan County.
  • 3 I know he's had brutal luck with injuries, so I will not joke about that. I still reserve the right to make fun of his Lighty-esque tenure.
  • 4 Pretentious.
  • 5 They have a player named Vander Blue, which is of no importance except it's kinda awesome.
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    Shift2Rail Open Calls for Proposals 2017. Submit your proposal by 30 March!

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    The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking Call for Proposals H2020-S2RJU-2017 is now open.

    Proposals for the Call can be submitted from 10 January until 30 March 2017 (17:00 Brussels time).

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    Digitisation, Automatisation and Decarbonisation are major trends that will drastically change the way we live, work and use mobility and transport in the future. Under the heading of “A digital Era for Transport”, the Transport Research Arena 2018 (TRA 2018) to be held on 16-19 April in Vienna, Austria, will explore, discuss and demonstrate these major paradigm shifts specifically directed at important areas of our life, such as transport, mobility, logistics and industrial production.

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    INFRARISK, an EU-funded project (2013-2016), brings together 11 members to develop a strategy to ensure that levels of infrastructure related risk due to natural hazards are acceptable.

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    Under the REFIT Programme (Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme), the European Commission has launched a Fitness Check of the construction sector aiming at assessing the impacts, both positive and negative, of EU legislation on the sector.

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    REFINET is a Coordination Support Action CSA funded by the European Commission whose objective is to create a sustainable network that integrates the relevant stakeholder representatives of all the transport modes and transport infrastructure sectors in order to create a shared European vision of how the multi-modal European transport infrastructure network of the future should be specified, designed, built or renovated, and maintained.

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    A third section includes information on coordination activities between three CSAs in Transport (REFINET, FOX and USE-it) by FEHRL and on the workshop with REFINET partners and experts from NTPs (October 21st, 2015) by PTEC.

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    TRA2016 (Transport Research Arena) will take place on 18-21 April 2016 in Warsaw. The TRA is the most important European conference on transport research, focusing on all of the research fields of the transport system. The conference’s topics address the main challenges in transport and mobility of people and goods, with respect to energy, environment, safety and security and the economy issues. Results of the latest research on: road, rail, waterborne, cross-modal transport and airports will be presented and discussed on the Arena.

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    Infrastructure networks transport people, goods and knowledge: they are fundamental lifelines of today’s society. A working infrastructure is the foundation of the competitiveness of the European industry, the basis for a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy and it ensures the quality of life of European citizens. A more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy based on knowledge and innovation cannot work without a sound infrastructure.

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Local Initiatives Target Genetic Engineering in a Grassroots Battle over Biotech Farming

When voters in the Northern California county of Mendocino passed an initiative this spring banning the cultivation of genetically engineered crops, there were celebrations 3,000 miles away in Vermont.

That same day, March 2, 2004, nine town councils in Vermont passed resolutions calling for a state moratorium on genetically engineered farming, bringing to 79 the number of townships there that have taken such a stand.

"We were thrilled in Vermont after the Mendocino County vote passed the same day as our town vote. This is a huge boost for our campaign," said Amy Shollenberger, an organizer of GE-Free Vermont, an advocacy group opposed to genetically engineered crops.

On the heels of these successes, and buoyed by widespread disapproval of genetically modified foods in Europe, municipalities around the United States are presenting their own versions of the ban to voters this November.

But activists may be trying to close the barn door after the horses have already fled. Many food crops worldwide are already being grown with genetically modified seed, and the agribusiness lobby, perhaps caught off guard by the Mendocino vote, is refocusing its well-funded lobbying machine.

Grassroots Battle

In genetically modified or genetically engineered agriculture, seeds from crops like corn, soybean, and cotton are designed to have traits such as resistance to pesticides, herbicides, or spoilage.

Opponents say GM plants contaminate organic crops, pose potential health risks to consumers, and will enable agribusiness to plow over the family farm.

Worldwide, 7 million farmers in 18 countries plant GM seeds. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 45 percent of the corn planted in the United States in 2004 was GMO, along with 76 percent of upland cotton and 85 percent of all soybeans.

Failing to win federal legislation, the U.S. anti-GM lobby has settled for state- and county-level campaigns.

Inspired by the success of the ban in Mendocino, activists in four other California counties — Butte, Humboldt, Marin, and San Luis Obispo — are putting similar initiatives before their voters Nov. 2.

An anti-GM campaign also is building in Hawaii, where GM papaya has been planted since 1998.

North Dakota advocates planned to put a referendum before voters in November to ban growth of genetically modified hard red winter wheat in their state but withdrew the proposal when Monsanto, the St. Louis, Missouri–based agribusiness giant, canceled plans to test the wheat in the state.

"We think these are isolated incidents," said Michelle Gorman, director of regulatory relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington, D.C.

Corporations dismiss anti-GM groups as a small number of zealots and say genetically modified farming is more efficient than organic because fewer crops are lost to weeds and pests. This, they say, will expand export markets and feed more people worldwide.

The Bush administration, a supporter of the biotech industry, is promoting GM exports to African countries, arguing that the technology can produce more food to fight famine there.

"Fear-making Tactics"

On its Web site, CropLife America, an agribusiness trade group, described the ban in Mendocino County as a "direct reflection of the fear-making tactics used by [advocates] to frighten voters into rejecting this technology."

In August, the American Farm Bureau Federation's president, Bob Stallman, told a group of farmers in Butte County, "Local biotech bans threaten agricultural production one county at a time."

But Shollenberger in Vermont says the anti-genetic-engineering campaign wants to save the family farm and consumer health.

"They try to say, 'This is just a group of radicals,' but we're not a group of radicals. This is a national farm movement," she said.

The Vermont township resolutions ask state lawmakers to pass a moratorium on GM farming until public health questions can be answered.

The anti-GM lobby also supports mandatory labeling of food products made with genetically modified organisms and protection from liability for farmers if their GM crops sicken consumers.

In an online essay, Jeffrey Smith, a noted anti-GM activist, wrote that people who eat modified foods may be at risk for allergic reactions and gene transfers that might have unpredictable long-term results.

Safety studies conducted by the biotech industry are often dismissed by critics as superficial, he wrote, adding that while the Food and Drug Administration has approved GM foods, some dissenting FDA scientists have called for more long-term studies.

The Western Organization of Resource Councils, representing farmers in Montana and other plains states, also called in late September for further investigation of the impact on consumers of modified crops.

"There is no independent safety testing done on these crops before they are put on the market," said Wayne Fisher, a wheat farmer from Dickinson, North Dakota. "The result is we have almost no science to tell us if [GM] crops are safe or not."

Agribusinesses counter that the biotech farming industry is heavily regulated by the FDA, the Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Seed Patents

Opponents are also concerned about the contamination of non-GM crops. An EPA study released in September showed that pollen from genetically altered bentgrass drifted as far as 13 miles from test fields in Oregon.

Besides contaminating nonbiotech crops — which means they can't be marketed as GM-free and may carry the same health risks as modified crops — the cross-pollination also makes farmers liable for violating seed makers patents.

In May, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser violated Monsanto's patent for genetically modified canola seed, which he said drifted over from a neighbor's fields.

In the United States, farmers sued by seed growers have settled rather than fight the giant corporations, said Shollenberger.

Monsanto uses forensic molecular biologists to identify its genetic material in other crops and has taken legal action against about 300 farmers for violating its patents, according to the Online Learning Center Web site.

"Periodically, we are forced to do that," said Monsanto spokeswoman Lori Fisher, but did not provide further details on the lawsuits.

As seed suppliers like Monsanto, Pioneer, DuPont, and others "corner the market," Shollenberger said, non-GM farmers may have to buy genetically altered seed whether they want to or not.

"It is becoming increasingly difficult for farmers who grow certain crops to get GM-free varieties," she said. "Soybeans are the clearest example. All across the U.S., farmers are choosing to plant GM soybeans because they can't get conventional non-GM varieties."

"Oblivious" to the Debate

Local initiatives like Mendocino County's seem unlikely to stop biotech's momentum.

"I do not think this is the start of a general backlash in the U.S.," said Fred Buttel, a rural sociologist at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Most Americans are "oblivious" to the debate, Buttel said, and are unaware that about 75 percent of processed foods already have some GM content.

The Mendocino County initiative passed because there is no GM-type farming going on there anyway, and the initiative was only designed to keep it out, he said.

"The numbers of opponents are small, but they are well educated and skilled and can have impacts on public policy," Buttel said. "But these impacts are unlikely to include more bans like that in Mendocino."

Even some anti-GMO activists acknowledge their limitations. Els Cooperrider, organizer of the Mendocino campaign and co-owner of an organic brewery and restaurant in Ukiah, California, said they ran their campaign quietly so as to avoid drawing the attention of agribusiness lobbyists.

"We were very well organized. The industry didn't have time to organize," she said.

Even with a late start, however, the industry plowed an estimated $620,000 into TV ads and other efforts to defeat the Mendocino initiative.

The campaign was organized by CropLife America, whose representatives did not return calls seeking comment.

Spending only about $100,000, advocates of the ban prevailed with 57 percent of the vote.

But that may not ensure victory elsewhere, Cooperrider admits.

"We had the element of surprise," she said. "It's gone now. The industry knows how we did it."

Related Links

International Herald Tribune — Europe Is United: No Bioengineered Food

Economic Research Service — Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States

President Bush Urges Congress to Pass BioShield Legislation

Genetically Engineered Foods May Pose National Health Risk

Online Learning Center — Additional Case Studies

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The Hobbit: Not Human?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.

Now, a study of the bones in the creature's left wrist lends weight to the human ancestor theory, according to a report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

The wrist bones of the 3-foot-tall creature, technically known as Homo floresiensis, are basically indistinguishable from an African ape or early hominin-like wrist and nothing at all like that seen in modern humans and Neanderthals, according to the research team led by Matthew W. Tocheri of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

That indicates that it is an early hominin and not a modern human with a physical disorder, they contend.

"It seals the deal," Tocheri said in a telephone interview.

The specimen he studied lived on the Indonesian island of Flores about 18,000 years ago, a time when early modern humans populated Australia and other nearby areas.

Scientists had thought humans had the planet to ourselves since Neanderthals died out about 30,000 years ago, and the discovery of Hobbits indicates another evolutionary cousin who coexisted longer, Tocheri said.

It isn't known whether humans and Hobbits coexisted on that island, he said, but it is clear we shared the planet for some time.

"Basically, the wrist evidence tells us that modern humans and Neanderthals share an evolutionary grandparent that the hobbits do not, but all three share an evolutionary great-grandparent. If you think of modern humans and Neanderthals as being first cousins, then the hobbit is more like a second cousin to both," Tocheri said.

When the bones were first discovered some scientists declared them the remains of a new, dwarf species of human ancestors. Because of its tiny stature it was quickly dubbed the "Hobbit," from the creature in the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Dean Falk of Florida State University said the new report helps confirm that conclusion.

"This is exciting and should help settle things," she said. "The authors are to be congratulated, not only for describing important new details about 'Hobbit,' but for shedding light on the evolution of the wrist and how it might have related to tool production."

But others have questioned whether it was really a new species. Robert D. Martin of the Field Museum in Chicago and co-authors challenged the original classification, arguing that it appears to be a modern human suffering from microencephaly, a genetic disorder that results in small brain size and other defects.

There are things that can go wrong in the development of the wrist, Tocheri said, but they don't result in a complete change of design from modern human to chimpanzee or gorilla wrist.

Nonetheless, Martin said he is standing by his position.

"My take is that the brain size of (that specimen) is simply too small. That problem remains unanswered," he said in a telephone interview.

"People ask me whether this new evidence changes anything, well it doesn't," he said. "I think the evidence they've presented is fine, it's the interpretation that is problematic."

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Sometimes snagging a role will also lead to snagging a soul mate.

Once Upon a Time costars Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas revealed that they're engaged after releasing a joint statement today that said, "We are so thrilled to announce our engagement and can't wait to celebrate with our friends and family, including our second family at Once Upon a Time."

But they're not the only couple who found love while working on a TV series.

Here are seven other lovebirds that met on set...

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1. Jennifer Love Hewitt & Brian Hallisay: The brunette bombshell began dating her beau after meeting on the racy series The Client List, and took their relationship public in March 2012.In June 2013, Hewitt announced that she and Hallisay are engagedand expecting their first child together in December 2013.

Supernatural, Jared Padalecki, Genevieve Cortese

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2. Jared Padalecki & Genevieve Cortese: Padalecki married his former Supernatural costar in February 2010. In October 2011, he announced they were expecting their first child and nine months later, they welcomed a son, Thomas Colton Padalecki. In July 2013, Jared tweeted that they're expecting their second child.

Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, That 70's Show

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3. Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis: The pair met on the FOX comedy That '70s Show, that aired for eight seasons from 1998 to 2006. But the duo didn't take their onscreen romance off screen until 2012. Since then, the actress and the guy that snagged her first kiss have been smooth sailing.

True Blood, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer

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4. Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer: It was love at first bite when these two met on the set of True Blood, and played out a romance between a Southern gentleman vampire and telepathic human waitress. The stars kept their relationship secret during the show's first season but tied the knot in 2010 and welcomed twins in September 2011.

Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, All My Children

5. Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos: This good-looking pair met on the set of All My Children. Consuelos was newly hired to play her onscreen lover Mateo Santos. After dating for a year, Ripa and Consuelos eloped in Las Vegas in May 1996. On June 2, 1997, they welcomed their first son, Michael Joseph. The couple's second and third children, Lola Grace and Joaquin Antonio were born June 16, 2001 and February 24, 2003, respectively.

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6. Alyson Hannigan & Alexis Denisof: As part of the Scooby Gang, Willow and Wesley fought vampires and other big bads in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, but something else will now be keeping the married former costars awake at night: their children! The couple's first child, daughter Satyana, was born March 24, 2009 and their youngest daughter, Keeva Jane Denisof, entered the world in June 2012.

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7. Hugh Jackman & Deborra-Lee Furness: These two have been together for quite some time. The X-Men star met his leading lady while shooting an Australian prison drama show called Correlli together. The chemistry was there, and so the duo tied the knot in 1996 and have been in love ever since.