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On 14 November every year, the International Day against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property stands as a reminder that theft, looting and illicit trafficking threaten the ongoing preservation of and access to the world’s cultural heritage.
In the words of Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO:
On this International Day, UNESCO therefore calls upon everyone to realize that stealing, selling or buying a looted work is tantamount to participating in pillaging peoples’ heritage and robbing their memories.
Libraries are memory institutions. They preserve and provide access to the memory of the world. Our documentary heritage is a testament to the stories, knowledge, creativity, spirituality, and experiences of societies from yesterday and today. It is indelibly linked to cultural identity, and is a tool for learning about the past and about one another.
Loss of this material through theft and illicit trafficking robs people of the ability to encounter this material, learn about it, share their views, and benefit from the knowledge it transmits.
Further, the trafficking of cultural property has served to prolong armed conflict in recent years, supporting the work of criminal and terrorist groups, funding illegal activity.
Action to counter these threats therefore has an important role to play both in contributing to peacebuilding, as well as in upholding the rights of people to access and enjoy cultural heritage.
The 1970 Convention
The International Day against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property is also the anniversary of the signing of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970 Convention).
This international Convention urges State Parties (i.e. governments) to take measures to prohibit and prevent illicit import, export and transfer of cultural property and provides a common framework for State Parties to take action.
Included in the Convention’s definition of cultural property are objects that may well be represented in the collections of libraries:
- property relating to history, including the history of science and technology and military and social history; to the life of national leaders, thinkers, scientists and artist and to events of national importance
- pictures, paintings and drawings produced entirely by hand on any support and in any material
- original engravings, prints and lithographs
- rare manuscripts and incunabula, old books, documents and publications of special interest (historical, artistic, scientific, literary, etc.) singly or in collections
- archives, including sound, photographic and cinematographic archives
The Convention goes on to urge State Parties to support the development of museums, libraries, and archives, as these institutions are instrumental in helping ensure the preservation and presentation of cultural property.
We urge libraries to get involved in national activities to uphold the 1970 Convention, such as through contributing to national inventories, cooperating with national services for the protection of cultural heritage, and carrying out information and education campaigns on trafficking of documentary cultural property.
The Challenges of Documentary Heritage
We need library voices to be involved in international, regional, and national efforts to counter the threats of theft and trafficking to ensure that the specific challenges associated with documentary heritage are understood and acted on.
Documentary heritage is unique among other forms of cultural property and therefore presents specific challenges. These include the fact that books and published materials are often created in multiple copies, with the intention of sale and dissemination across borders.
Libraries may not be equipped with the same level of security as other institutions, and books offer the possibility of theft of individual pages. In some parts of the world in particular, rare books and manuscripts are kept in collections within private homes.
And notably, existing standards being used to identify of objects don’t always apply to the way that documentary heritage is identified and catalogued by libraries and archives. It may be difficult for authorities to spot potentially trafficked material from among personal objects.
We must ensure the systems and tools that are already in place to protect cultural property are equipped to take on these unique challenges. For example, working to adapt or amend existing tools, guides, trainings, and protocols to address the specifics of books, manuscripts, and other written materials can help better inform and train police and customs authorities.
How is IFLA involved?
IFLA works to bring together professionals across our sector who can develop the tools and raise awareness we need to better protect our documentary heritage.
IFLA’s Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre hosted at Qatar National Library has been active in countering the threat of documentary heritage trafficking in their region through the Himaya Project.
Tune in on 15 November for a high-level panel discussion on efforts to counter the trafficking and illegal circulation of antiquities and documentary heritage. IFLA’s President Barbara Lison will take part in this event to speak further on the importance of library involvement in countering trafficking. Find more information and the link to register here.
Rare Books and Special Collections
IFLA, especially through our Rare Books and Special Collections Section, is working with the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers to address international issues regarding provenance, theft, trafficking and restitution of cultural heritage items.
Among the plans of this joint working group are efforts to help galvanize the library and archives sector to contribute to reporting lost or presumably stolen items, empowering the potential for their discovery. This also includes work towards raising awareness and de-stigmatising the reporting of theft within the library and archives sector, as well as developing educational resources on theft and trafficking.
IFLA is further engaged with the archive sector on the International Council of Archives’ Expert Group against Theft, Trafficking and Tampering (EGATTT). Looking ahead to the coming year, this expert group seeks to further raise awareness among professionals, authorities, and the public on documentary heritage trafficking. Further, they plan to build capacity by sharing simple preventative measures to protect collections, and by developing mechanisms to identify at-risk material and report theft.
IFLA has been a long-time partner of UNESCO. Looking ahead, we seek to identify ways in which we can continue connecting the work being done by libraries and library professionals to the work of UNESCO. This can be a step towards integrating a documentary heritage perspective and amplifying the library sector’s efforts to safeguard the cultural property under the protection of our institutions.
Find out More
Interested in learning more about what you can do to protect documentary heritage? Refer to Combatting Illicit Trafficking of Documentary Cultural Heritage: and Introduction.
Register to join the virtual event at Qatar National Library: International Day Against Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property

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Crayfish, a rarity in Western diet but a favorite of Chinese foodies, on Tuesday made its debut at the UN Delegates Dining Room.
Hosted by the city government of Qianjiang, a major producer of crayfish in central China, the tasting party was graced by officials from the UN headquarters, the World Food Programme, the UN Democracy Fund as well as UN diplomats, including representatives from the Dominican and Sri Lankan missions.
Originated from Louisiana of the United States, crayfish is now largely raised in Qianjiang. The city boasts 70 percent of the world's entire export volume.
At the tasting party, the Qianjiang government promoted an innovative farming method, crayfish-rice symbiosis, and offered crayfish dishes prepared in four most popular ways for tasting: fried, garlic-treated, steamed and iced.
Man Wong, president of the American Chinese Culinary Federation, critiqued the delicacies of the dishes, in a joint appearance with the chefs.
The ecological significance of crayfish-rice symbiosis was highly appreciated by the participants, and the food was well received by the tasters. The garlic-treated crayfish was rated the most delicious dish in a vote at end of the event.

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A youtube series parodying original TV series (usually anime) by taking clips from the show and dubbing them to make fun of the characters, plot, and over all the entire show.
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"Most people who join rock bands do so because they want to live out the fantasy of emulating their musical heroes," says local rock guitarist-songwriter Rick Ness. "Here, we actually get to be those heroes."
The "here" Ness is referring to is the annual Halloween Bash thrown by the Double Door music club. For the past seven years, the Halloween Bash has allowed a host of local rock bands (Local H, Fig Dish, Triple Fast Action, Gaza Strippers and others) to dress as favorite musical icons and for one night, live out the fantasy of being the Doors, Nirvana, REO Speedwagon or the Pretenders, to name just a few.
According to Local H singer-guitarist Scott Lucas, the idea for the Halloween Bash came out of a beer-fueled conversation between members of his band, Triple Fast Action, Fig Dish, the Beer Nuts and Double Door general manager Lorri Francis.
Since then, the Halloween Bash has evolved into a cross between satirical revue and tribute-band extravaganza. Although all the bands make a point of faithfully replicating the sound of the artists they're impersonating, there's more than a touch of comedy in the proceedings.
"It's kind of a mix between heartfelt tribute and pure fun," says former Fig Dish guitarist-vocalist Ness, whose band broke up in 1999 but reunites once a year just to play the Halloween Bash. "Of course, sometimes just faithfully recreating a particular band's sound and look can be really, really funny."
That would seem to be the goal of Local H's set during the band's performance at this year's Bash, where Local H will expand to an octet for a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band impersonation.
"I actually hate Springsteen," says Lucas. "But we opted to do Springsteen for the same reason we chose the Doors a few years ago. We think we can have a lot of fun with it.
"Personally, I'd rather dress up as Creedence Clearwater Revival, whose music I really like. But, you know, there just doesn't seem to be as much inherent comedy in CCR as there is in the E Street Band."
Even so, Lucas says that he and his group have dutifully learned Springsteen's material in order to effectively recreate the E Street Band sound and vibe. But learning an artist's songs is just the beginning for a few Bash participants.
"At the first Bash, Fig Dish dressed up as REO Speedwagon," recalls Ness. "I don't know if you've ever listened to REO's live records, but the band sounded like it was totally messed up on drugs because sometimes they would have 11 minute between-song monologues about nothing. We actually re-created one of those during our set."
In addition, it's not just the bands who immerse themselves in mimicry at the Bash. The audiences do their part by imitating the kinds of crowds each rock icon draws in real life.
"The great part of these shows is that the audience really gets into it," says Ness. "For example, when we dressed up as Duran Duran in 1998, the girls in the crowd made a point of screaming really loudly and throwing underwear at us."
That being the case, this year's Halloween Bash should definitely put the audience through some changes. The scheduled lineup is Local H (as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band), Fig Dish (as the Cure), Woolworthy (as the Scorpions), High Plains Drifter (as Lynyrd Skynyrd), Giant Step (as David Bowie), Last Vegas (as the Ramones) and Blackbox (as Eminem).
"This year's lineup is really diverse, and that's a good sign," says Lucas. "Whenever you have a lot of idiots on stage trying to outdo each other, it's going to be a lot of fun."
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President Barack Obama must beat back any Russian demands for "red-button" sway over a missile shield in Europe and deny Moscow access to sensitive data tied to the program, US senators urged Thursday.
The 39 lawmakers, all Republican foes of the White House, said in a letter to Obama that they were "concerned" Russia would exploit his desire for bilateral cooperation on the issue to "undermine" US national security.
The group, led by Republican Senator Mark Kirk, warned against giving Moscow any right to veto use of the shield or providing Russia with "access to America's most sensitive missile defense data and technology."
"No American President should ever allow a foreign nation to dictate when or how the United States defends our country and our allies," they said in the letter, which was obtained by AFP.
"In our view, any agreement that would allow Russia to influence the defense of the United States or our allies, to say nothing of a 'red button' or veto, would constitute a failure of leadership," they said.
The lawmakers said they had "serious concerns" over news reports that Obama was weighing providing Russia with sensitive satellite data or technology related to anti-missile interceptors.
"We therefore ask for your written assurances that your Administration will not provide Russia with any access to sensitive US data, including early warning, detection, tracking, targeting, and telemetry data, sensors or common operational picture data, or American hit-to-kill missile defense technology."
The senators urged the president to "make clear in every engagement with Russia that it will have no say in the location, capability or timing of U.S. missile defense deployments with a NATO military alliance."
"We trust this includes the location of interceptors in Europe, including in Romania and Poland, and missile defense radars, whether in Turkey, the Republic of Georgia, or another location that is most advantageous for the defense of the American people," they wrote.
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Luxury watch brand Richard Mille has just unveiled its first sports watch for women. The new collection, called the RM 07-04 Automatic Sport, is a stunning timepiece designed specifically for active women who want a watch that is both functional and stylish.
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Good advice for fantasy writers!
(This is the first of four “themed” posts about research for fantasy novelists.)
I don’t really give “Writing Advice”.
Oh, sure – I have my opinions, and since I’ve managed to produce two novels and a memoir, I have just enough experience and success to think that, perhaps, I do know what I’m doing when I write.
At least, I know what works for me, and being older and crabbier than I was when the first novel got past the first draft, I occasionally do hop onto the soap-box and declaim about stuff writers might want to stop doing, because it’s annoying to read that shit.
But the one thing I have come to realize that what I do know something about is research.
(You would think that having an MA in archaeology from a highly renowned institution, and having some research published and used, I would have known this…
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A new study produced by Altus Group for the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) has found that municipalities across the GTA have accumulated $1.13 billion in unspent parkland reserve funds on the backs of parkland cash-in-lieu payments (parkland payments) by homebuilders.
These payments have increased by as much as 329 per cent since 2006 and are levied on new developments, and in turn, passed on to new home buyers. Parkland payments can add $20,000 to $30,000 or more to the cost of a new home, the study asserts.
“Municipal governments need to recognize the impact that fees and taxes have on new home affordability,” said Dave Wilkes, president and CEO of BILD. “Charges by all three levels of government already account for as much as 25 per cent of the cost of a new home in the GTA and are increasing. Parkland cash-in-lieu payments are yet another fee that negatively affects housing affordability.”
The Planning Act currently allows for municipalities to require that five per cent of the land to be developed be made available for park or other public recreational purposes. Alternatively, due to more dense or urban development, municipalities may accept a parkland payment instead of land.
These fees are based on the value of land and as land values have increased significantly since the introduction of the Growth Plan in 2006, parkland payments to municipalities have also increased dramatically. Of the 29 municipalities examined in the study, four had increases above 300 per cent since 2006, 14 had increases between 200 – 300 per cent, nine had increases between 100-200 per cent, one had an increase of 78 per cent and one reduced their fees. Over the 2006-2017 time period, the funds sitting in reserve by these municipalities have increased from just over $300 million to $1.13 billion.
“BILD and its members support parks as an integral amenity to any new development, however, municipalities are clearly collecting more funds than they are returning to communities in the form of recreation facilities and parks,” added Wilkes. “This is being done on the backs of the new homeowner who in the case of high-rise condominium dwellers in urban environments are not getting the benefit of a park that they paid for.”
The Altus Group study also demonstrated that, as currently structured, parkland payments could be acting as a disincentive to more dense homes within a particular municipality, counter to the intensification objectives and policies. All things being equal, without a cap on parkland payments, a unit in a more dense development would pay more parkland payments on a per unit basis than a unit in a less dense development.
“With housing affordability being the number one issue across the GTA, all levels of government need to be cognisant of the impact of their policies, fees and practices. Clearly, the practice of cash-in-lieu payments needs to be revisited, especially in light of all the other costs that get rolled into development charges,” Wilkes said in a statement. “We are pleased that the provincial government is looking at a new “community benefit authority” as part of its Housing Supply Action Plan, currently in front of the legislature. Hopefully, this will provide some relief to those looking to buy a new home.”


text: Nick and her cousin Helena grew up in a world of sun bleached boat docks, tennis whites, and midnight gin parties at Tiger House, the family home on Martha's Vineyard. In the wake of the Second World War, the two women are on the cusp of starting their "real lives": Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage to the charismatic Avery Lewis, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own husband, Hughes Derringer, about to return from the war. The world seems rife with possibility.The gilt soon begins to crack. Avery is not the man he seems to be, and Hughes has grown distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, Nick and Helena-with their children Daisy and Ed-try to recapture that earlier sense of possibility. But then Daisy and Ed discover something truly awful, and the dark thread of the family's history slowly starts to unravel. The secrets and lies that each member thought long buried begin to surface. Brilliantly told with the tempestuous elegance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the suspenseful dark longing of Patricia Highsmith, Tigers in Red Weather is an almost unbearably compelling story of liars, lust, and secrets. It heralds the arrival of a fierce literary talent.

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Steve Roman and Barry Dill, our partners from FirstStrategic, join us to talk it out. In this segment, the temporary 1/2 cent state sales tax comes to an end. Also two former state senators Ron Gould and Frank Antenori, say they may try to put the question of medicaid expansion on the ballot.
Efforts to gather enough signatures to recall Sheriff Joe Arapio fail, and district 9 congressional candidate Andrew Walter talks about his home foreclosure.
Michelle Bachman announces she will not seek another term in congress.


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Our ancestors didn’t have 1,000 recipes from which to choose, so it should be far easier for you to eat Paleo than it was for them. This suite of recipe books is pretty extensive, with hundreds of recipes in different categories like fish, red meats, pork, appetizers, and even organ meats. It’s a way to get a solid grounding on what you should be making for yourself, while at the same time giving you quite the database of recipes to select from. They say these recipes will help you burn fat, perform better cognitively, and even slow down the aging process. These meals can be prepared quickly and easily, so you won’t spend all day in the kitchen.
The author presented the facts logically and the book felt well researched. The recipes were varied and easy to execute. I've looked through a lot of Paleo cookbooks, so it's not often I come across much that is truly unique, but this cookbook had quite a few recipes I hadn't found versions of before! The meals look easy to make and the diet as a whole is presented in such a way that it doesn't feel intimidating. While I do not intend to adopt a complete paleo diet, I do intend to incorporate several of the concepts and make more of the recipes. And I would definitely recommend this book for anyone wanting to start eating paleo or who wants to add more recipes to their diet. I only wish this book came with beautiful color pictures. A cookbook without pictures or with very little pictures is kind of boring to me. First you eat with your eyes, then you eat with your stomach ;)


The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is one of the best foldable phones of 2023, but unlike Samsung’s other flagships, the Flip 5’s cameras are kind of “normal”. They aren’t bad or terrible by any means, but compared to the Galaxy S23 series, it doesn’t feel like Samsung made a lot of effort in that department.
To a certain extent it’s understandable. A lot of camera technology was designed for our regular-shaped smartphones, so with a foldable form factor, companies like Samsung had to make some compromises in their hardware choices.
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When President Duterte assumed office in 2016, many had hoped that he – or at least his Cabinet – would finally get rice policy right.
But it now seems such hopes were largely premature and illusory. In fact, Duterte’s rice policies of late are so bad that stocks of cheap NFA (National Food Authority) rice have been depleted – for the first time in decades – while commercial rice prices have spiked.
In this article we confirm this using data, explore possible reasons why this happened, and propose solutions that could turn around Duterte’s bungled rice policies.
Let’s begin with hard data showing the alarming depletion of NFA rice stocks under Duterte’s watch.
Figure 1 shows that, years before Duterte assumed office, the stocks of all types of rice – NFA rice, commercial rice, and household rice – roughly followed the same trends, or at least never strayed too far from one another.
But since Duterte came, NFA rice stocks (denoted by the orange line) have deviated from the rest and plummeted at an alarming rate. By early April 2018, NFA rice has essentially been “wiped out” in warehouses and markets nationwide.
The LEDAC (Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Committee) requires the NFA to keep at least 15 days’ worth of buffer stock at all times.
But now, we’ve run out of subsidized rice – the first time this has happened since NFA’s creation in 1972, or in nearly 50 years.
Granted, there’s still commercial rice to be bought from markets, and 250,000 metric tons are set to replenish NFA supplies as early as May.
NFA stocks are also very tricky to manage: the NFA’s business model of buying high and selling low is inherently unprofitable, and forecasting the right amount of rice to import is fraught with so much uncertainty that it often leads to over- or under-importation.
But the precipitous drop of NFA rice stocks of late is no less shocking because it was needless and totally avoidable.
Where’s the rice?
Where did all the NFA rice go?
For starters, some observed that, last year, the NFA, for some reason, flooded the market with rice during the harvest season and restricted supply during the lean season. This is the exact opposite of how a buffer stock ought to work.
Moreover, a number of dubious transactions suggest gross mismanagement by NFA Administrator Jason Aquino. Most recently, Aquino allegedly diverted 10.4 million kilos of NFA rice from Region VIII and sold them to select rice traders in Bulacan. (READ: NFA’s Aquino diverted E. Visayas rice to Bulacan traders – memo to Duterte)
This much was divulged in a memo by Cabinet Secretary Jun Evasco Jr. who, until recently, headed the interagency NFA Council in charge of overall rice policy.
All the charges against Aquino have been downplayed by the NFA spokesperson. But some strongly believe that the significant transaction authorized by Aquino had a direct hand in the dwindling of NFA rice stocks at least in Eastern Visayas.
How many more dubious deals have the NFA made under the public’s nose and in other parts of the country?
Infighting in the Cabinet
What’s more, despite all the red flags, Duterte seems to be turning a blind eye to Aquino’s gross mismanagement of the NFA.
Instead of punishing Aquino – or at least suspending him – Duterte even recently removed Cabinet Secretary Evasco from the NFA Council and reverted supervision of the NFA to the Department of Agriculture.
This is not the first time Duterte has favored Aquino over Evasco. Last year Duterte fired on live TV one of Evasco’s most trusted assistants, then Palace undersecretary Halmen Valdez, on wrong accusations that she allowed rice imports that will hurt local farmers (the issue is more nuanced than that).
In a recent meeting with rice traders, Duterte even threatened to abolish the NFA Council altogether (even though he cannot do this unilaterally).
Such a move would be pernicious to the country since the NFA Council was established precisely to inoculate subsidized rice from politics and corruption, and reduce the enormous discretion often enjoyed by those who handle it.
Abolishing the NFA Council would only open the floodgates to more shady deals by the NFA, which we now have reason to suspect given Evasco’s damning evidence against Aquino.
In addition, Aquino’s preferred method of rice importation – government-to-government (G2G) – is more prone to corruption and financial strain vis-à-vis government-to-private sector (G2P) importation.
Aside from being exempt from the Procurement Law, every G2G transaction requires the government to take new loans from Landbank. A one-million-ton rice import, for example, would necessitate incurring P24 billion of extra debt from Landbank.
To address the recent depletion of NFA rice, Duterte green-lighted the importation of rice via G2G. But with the oversight function of the NFA Council now gone, who will make sure this and NFA’s future G2G imports will be transparent, corruption-free, and efficient?
In the end, Jason Aquino’s mismanagement of the NFA has transcended mere “whiff or whisper” of corruption, yet Duterte’s hands still seem inextricably tied. Why? One clue may lie in the fact that Aquino enjoys a direct link to Special Assistant to the President Bong Go.
Scarcer, costlier rice
Whether caused by politics, corruption, or plain old incompetence, rice is now scarcer and costlier, thanks to Duterte’s botched rice policies.
Markets are coping, for example, through a flurry of smuggling activities. On April 14, a Mongolian vessel was spotted off Zamboanga Sibugay unloading to two other vessels 7,000 to 8,000 sacks of rice from Viet Nam (the ship carried a total of 27,180 sacks worth P68 million).
Smuggling is often a manifestation of unmet demand. But government, by itself, cannot quickly address rice shortages as long as the NFA has the sole authority to import it.
Economists have long argued that abolishing NFA’s rice importation monopoly – and leaving rice importation to market forces – could minimize the need for (and profitability of) rice smuggling.
Amid the shortage of NFA rice, the poor are also left with no choice but to buy more commercial rice. But thanks to classic supply and demand, this has led to a recent spike of commercial rice prices (Figure 2).
This, in turn, has contributed to a higher-than-expected inflation rate (that is, a faster rise of prices) in recent months – on top of other factors like higher world oil prices (at a 3-year high), the weaker peso (at an 11-year low), and the inflationary impact of TRAIN.
With the poor devoting as much as two-thirds or three-quarters of their budgets on rice alone, higher inflation’s impact on their incomes becomes even larger.
In view of rice’s singular importance to inflation, some economists have proposed a number of changes in rice policy that could abate inflation’s impact on the poor.
One is to “tarrify” the import quotas of rice – that is, convert the import quotas into their equivalent tariffs. Not only could this reduce the special privileges enjoyed by certain rice traders, but it could also generate revenues that government could earmark for programs directed specifically at poor farmers.
Another is to remove the rice import quotas and allow rice supplies to be determined freely by the market. Here, the NFA wouldn’t lose all reason for its existence; it could still maintain a small buffer stock for emergencies. (READ: Rice in the time of Duterte: Will more imports be good?)
Although some Cabinet members have voiced out these and other sound policy recommendations, lobbying and infighting among Duterte’s minions continue to prevent these proposals from seeing the light of day.
In other words, even while we’re looking for solutions, politics continues to bedevil rice policy.
For a nation consuming so much rice, one would think that, by now, our government should be an expert in rice policy.
But decades since the creation of the NFA, rice policy seems as rife with mismanagement and corruption as ever.
This is unfortunate. Many experts agree that rice policy is one of the lowest-hanging fruits of good public policy. Done well, it can swiftly improve the lives of millions of Filipinos, especially the poor.
“Tariffying” rice import quotas or removing them altogether, for example, could help ensure more and cheaper rice for our people, which we need especially now that inflation has gone through the roof.
But unless the Duterte government sets aside politics, tempers opportunism among its ranks, and gets its act together, plentiful and cheap rice will be as far beyond our grasp as ever. – Rappler.com
The author is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow at the UP School of Economics. His views are independent of the views of his affiliations. Follow JC on Twitter: @jcpunongbayan.

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There's a 50-50 chance of rain on Coast Mardi Gras parades today, but the latest available weather forecasts haven't stopped thousands of revelers from staking out spots along parade routes in Biloxi and Bay St. Louis, where parades are set to roll at 1 p.m.
The chance of rain since last night has increased from 40-percent, according to the National Weather Service, which forecasts an even greater chance of rain tonight, when the Gulfport parade rolls at 5:30 p.m.
Crowds in downtown Biloxi are ready for the Gulf Coast Carnival Association parade, in its 103rd year, to be followed by a smaller parade by the Krewe of Neptune. The Krewe of Diamonds in the Bay is geared up to stop by its reviewing stand in front of the new Hancock County Courthouse.
The Krewe of Gemini, in its 42nd year, is set to roll before sunset in downtown Gulfport. Parade officials said an increased chance of rain won't stop the parade from rolling.
Sun Herald photographers and reporters will be at all the parades for extensive coverage in pictures and stories. Check back at sunherald.com to see how Fat Tuesday panned out for the official end of the 2011 Carnival season.

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This Pennsylvania beef producer grazes corn to fill in poor grazing periods in late summer.
Brian Mohn counts on corn to fill in the gap for his beef cattle when his cool-season pastures peter out in mid to late August.
“I needed to find something to carry my cow/calf herd through the summer slump,”explains Mohn, who, along with his wife, Karen, manages Papa Farm, a 350-acre commercial hay and beef operation near Bethel, PA. “I was reluctant to take high-priced hay out of the barn to feed my cows in late summer. It makes more sense to sell that hay to the local horse and dairy markets and grow something else for my own cattle.”
With input from his county agents, Mohn has learned the finer points of grazing cow/calf pairs on a small field of corn during the summer slump. While the cattle only graze the corn for about three weeks, average season-long calf gains are 3 lbs./head/day. This year he grazed 60 animal units, down from a high of 130.
“Grazing annuals, such as corn, can be beneficial in certain situations,” says Clyde Myers. He's an Extension agent for Penn State University in Berks County, who, along with his co-worker Mena Hautau, has assisted Mohn. “If producers have limited acreage for grazing, they need the extra production of forages in mid- to late-summer when cool-season grasses slow down. It also gives them a measure of safety in case of dry weather because they'll have an additional source of feed to rely on.”
The Extension agents have cooperated with dairy and beef producers to research the benefits of corn grazing and gotten positive results. “When cows grazed the corn, their production stayed the same,” notes Myers. “However, there was probably more corn wasted with the dairy versus the beef cattle.”
Mohn plants wheat and rye in the fall on his “corn field” and grazes it before winter. In the spring it's grazed once or twice and then burned down with 2,4-D. He plants the corn in early May with a no-till grain drill on 15-in. centers and shoots for a dense population of 40,000 plants/acre.
Mohn prefers no-till versus conventional tillage methods to save money. “If I plowed and disked the field, my costs would be way too high.”
He starts grazing the cattle during the latter part of August when the corn is at the pre-tassel stage. “By then I'm really running short on regrowth on my pastures.”
About 10 a.m. every day he gives the cattle access to a 25-ft. by 300-ft. strip of fresh corn using a portable electric wire. Next to the corn is a small pasture of alfalfa-orchard grass pasture that the cattle also can eat.
“They have their choice between the alfalfa-orchard grass pasture or the corn, but normally they go into the corn first to eat and then head to the other side to loaf around and chew their cuds,” he says.
Giving animals access to both types of feed is important, says Myers. “Then you're not changing the ration as drastically. There's some continuity in the animals' diets.”
Mohn drives his four-wheeler down the field every morning to clear a path. Then, he comes back and strings the wire through the path. “That knocks some stalks down just enough so that they can see the electric wire. I keep it good and hot, so they respect it.”
By mid-September, when the night temperatures are cooler and his pastures are starting to become more productive, the corn is gone.Mohn has used grazing-specific and silage hybrids. While he notes that both types are good, he prefers the silage corn because it's more reasonably priced. “We've analyzed samples from both types for nutrient content and the grazing corn had a little bit higher sugar content, but in my book that benefit didn't outweigh the higher cost.”
Loose manure hasn't been a problem. “I've seen it a lot looser on lush, grass pasture than it is on the corn, which was contrary to what I originally thought.”
While he's pleased with his program, he notes a disadvantage: “Timing when you're going to need the corn is probably the hardest thing to predict because the amount of rainfall we get changes. If it's not too dry here, the pastures stay productive longer.”
For more information, contact Mohn at 610/488-1437.
Ann Behling is a North Platte, NE-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to sister publication Hay & Forage Grower.
Sorghum-sudangrass is a good option for battling summer slump, says Clyde Myers.
“In some ways, it beats corn,” adds the Penn State University Extension agent. “It can be grazed several times versus just once for corn.”
It has other benefits, too. “We had a drought two years ago, and the only thing that grew was sorghum-sudangrass. That's a big advantage — it holds up well under dry conditions, whereas corn needs moisture. Plus the seed's cheaper,” he says.
Myers advises seeding sorghum-sudangrass in early to mid-May. “It will really come on strong when the weather warms up.”
Depending on the weather, it can be regrazed every 20-30 days. Once the temperature hits 50° F, however, usually in September — “it shuts right down,” he says.
If grazed when it's under 30-in. tall, the forage is fairly nutritious with crude protein percentages in the high teens, Myers says. While nitrate and prussic acid poisoning haven't been a problem if sorghum-sudangrass is grazed this young, he says, caution should be taken when grazing it after rain following periods of dry weather.
He also encourages beef producers to continue to graze some other pasture species while they're grazing sorghum-sudangrass. “Then, they're not changing the rations as drastically,” Myers says.


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Women’s Basketball’s Johnson and Cooper Earn Post Season Awards from NCCAA
CENTRAL, S.C. – Southern Wesleyan’s Lauren Johnson earned NCCAA All-American Honorable Mention and First Team All-South Region Team honors, while teammate Ashley Cooper joined her on the First Team All-South Region Team as announced by the league office Monday. Read the full story.
Women’s Basketball Loses in Regional Semifinals
LAKELAND, Fla. - Southern Wesleyan University (14-18) lost to Emmanuel College (19-11) in the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) South Region Semifinals by a final score of 69-58, in women's basketball action on Tuesday evening. Read the full story.
Women’s Hoops Advances to NCCAA South Semifinals
LAKELAND, Fla. - The #3 Southern Wesleyan University (14-17) women's basketball team defeated #6 Truett-McConnell College (1-28) by a final score of 66-61, in the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) South Region Tournament, on Monday evening in first round action. The tournament is being hosted by Southeastern University. Read the full story.
Women’s Basketball Awards Announced
CENTRAL, S.C. - The Southern Wesleyan University women's basketball team had five members represented with honors at the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) Basketball Banquet held at the Multiplex at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Ala. Read the full story.
Women's Hoops Fall to Emmanuel


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News from the Reference Desk
The federal Free File Alliance, a public-private partnership that provides free online federal income tax preparation and e-filing services to taxpayers who earned $60,000 or less in 2014 is hosting a public briefing.
When: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
10:00 a.m. – public briefing
10:30 a.m. – Free File demo
(Registration begins at 9:30 a.m., refreshments will be served)
Where: Harper College
Wojcik Center, Room W214, 2nd Floor Boardroom
1200 West Algonquin Road
Palatine, IL 60067
To RSVP, please email Lori Baux at Mlbaux@aol.com
or call 515-233-3816
Following the briefing, take advantage of a hands-on demonstration to see how easy it is to use Free File, learn about other free tax services in the community, and gain access to outreach materials to inform eligible taxpayers.
Both the federal Internal Review Service and the State of Illinois have drastically reduced the number and variety of forms they send to the Library for public distribution.
We will only be receiving a limited number of the federal forms 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ. The Library will not receive instructions, schedules, or other numbered forms. Except for some Illinois 1040 forms, the Library will also not receive any copies of state forms for distribution.
Sets of reproducible forms will be available for photocopying, (for both IRS and Illinois) or you may access the forms you need online and print them from a Library computer. For assistance, please ask at the Reference Desk on the second floor.
For more detailed information, contact the Internal Revenue Service (www.irs.gov) at 800/829-1040 for Individual assistance and 800/829-4933 for businesses. The local office phone number is 847/737-6688.
For the Illinois Department of Revenue (www.revenue.state.il.us) call 800/732-8866. The local office phone number is 847/294-4200.
For more detailed information and links to forms and filing help, visit the Tax Information page on our web site at mppl.org/research/taxes.
It’s the time of year when many of us make decisions about our employee benefits for the coming year–“open enrollment” season. The Office of Financial Education, a part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, offers this sound advice:
You can guide your children in finding the financial help they need
The financial world of today isn’t the same world you grew up in. New services and choices are being offered all the time. For your children to navigate the new financial world they’ll face, they need to know when to seek out information and how to evaluate it. Your children need practice making money choices, and they could use your guidance. At this age they may be earning some money of their own. Now, as you make benefits choices for next year, think about including your teenager in your decision-making process. You can help your teenager think about how to use information to make a good decision. If you have benefits fact sheets or Web sites from your employer, sit with your teenager and go through them. Talk through the questions your child has, and ask a few questions of your own:
What is the most important thing to think about for the family’s health care? Why?
Have there been any changes in the family since last year that could make a difference to health care? To insurance? To flexible spending dollars?
What could be the advantages or disadvantages of having benefits deducted from your paycheck, compared to paying the costs on your own?
How trustworthy is the information you receive? How would you look for further information?
You don’t have to do anything you wouldn’t do normally, when you make your benefits choices. Just by showing your teens how you approach enrollment, you’re helping them practice the decision-making process before their own paychecks are at stake. For more ideas, visit www.consumerfinance.gov/parents.
if you were familiar with the convoluted method of searching the Consumer Reports databases through MasterFILE, you will be relieved to hear those days are over. Consumer Reports is now easier to search through Article Finder. We have set up a special link to help you. Click here – Consumer Reports – and put whatever items you need reviews for in the box, then hit enter. You’ll find it’s an easy and modern search!
On October 28, 29, and 30, 2014, the National Archive and Records Administration is hosting a big online genealogy event. During these three days of Internet broadcasting, those interested in learning more about genealogy can listen to genealogy experts from the National Archives facilities and from the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services talk about using Federal records as resources for family history research. The sessions start at 10 AM EDT each day. After the event, recorded sessions and handouts will remain online. Learn more at http://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair.
It’s the time of year when many health insurance decisions must be made. If you need assistance in determining the best options, here’s some help:
Medicare Open Enrollment:
The Medicare Open Enrollment period began on Oct. 15 and runs until Dec. 7. The Illinois Dept. on Aging offers assistance through the department’s Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP.) Their counselors can explain the drug, health, and supplemental plans that are available. The nearest SHIP sites are at Arlington Heights Senior Center (847/253-5532) and Wheeling Township (847/259-7730.) For additional SHIP information, call 800/252-8966 or click here .
The Village of Mount Prospect Human Services Department also offers assistance for Medicare Part D (prescription drugs) enrollment. Call 847/870-5680 to set up an appointment.
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The enrollment period for uninsured people to sign up for coverage through the Illinois Marketplace runs from Nov. 15, 2014 to Feb. 15, 2015. If you want your insurance coverage to start on Jan. 1, 2015, you must enroll by Dec. 15, 2014.
The Library is offering several programs to assist those using the Illinois Marketplace. Representatives from Get Covered Illinois will present an overview program,” Affordable Care Act Update,” on Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. The Library will also host two enrollment events with trained navigators from Get Covered Illinois to provide assistance in navigating the site and signing up for insurance. The enrollment events are on Dec. 13, 2014, and Jan. 31, 2015, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. To schedule an appointment, call 847/392-8682 ext. 227. Walk-ins are also welcome.
Older photographs and home movies are rich treasures of family history. Have you been wanting to look at and preserve your older home movies? The Center for Home Movies (http://www.centerforhomemovies.org/) has designated October 18 as the day to do just that. Over 100 museums and film societies across the world are hosting special events where people can bring their films, view them with others, and get professional guidance about how to best preserve them. The free Chicago-area event is being held at the Chicago History Museum on October 18 from 11 AM to 3 PM. At this event you will be able to watch the films with musical accompaniment by silent film pianist, David Drazin. For more information about this event click here.
The Library now subscribes to the excellent and authoritative Encyclopedia Britannica’s online presence, Britannica Library. Explore thousands of topics in science, social studies, language arts, and mathematics for school projects, review concepts taught in the classroom, or learn something new. Very impressive are the more than 90,000 images, videos, and audio clips. There are 3 levels – children’s, teen, and adult – with great information for everyone. It would be easy to spend an afternoon or evening exploring here.
Summer is almost over, but the need for money smarts will never end! With that in mind, here are a few free, prepackaged programs and curricula selected and compiled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) designed to help you improve your own financial literacy and develop the best personal strategy for saving, investing and more.
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Personal finance and economic lessons are paired with popular children’s books. Librarians can read the book to the children and follow the reading with discussions about money decisions, saving, spending, choices, needs and wants and much more. Includes lesson plans and handouts.
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Money Smart for Older Americans
An instructor-led training developed jointly by FDIC and CFPB, this module provides awareness among older adults and their caregivers about how to prevent elder financial exploitation and to encourage advance planning and informed financial decision-making.
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The Telegraphhas some praise for last night's season 1 finale of Dickensian, and for the show in general -- but not quite so much praise for BBC One, which "passed [it] around the schedule like an unwanted orphan." The article is spoilery, although if you're familiar with the plots of Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist, it shouldn't be TOO spoilery.
The Sunday Times reports that the BBC should decide on a renewal for Dickensian in the next month, and that Tony Jordan already has lots of ideas in mind, including Marley's appearance as a ghost. (The full article is subscriber-only.) Meanwhile, Jonathan Wright at The Guardian praisesDickensian as "the riskiest show on primetime TV."
Rachel Holdsworth recently took a few swipes at Dickens in the New Statesman, claiming that the show Dickensian is boring and "it's really all Dickens's fault."
This, she says, is because (1) Dickens wrote women poorly and (2) "Dickens wrote potboilers." This is a rarely used word nowadays, so I give you the Merriam-Webster definition: "a usually inferior work (as of art or literature) produced chiefly for profit."
Thanks to John Kyriacou, who pointed us to Holly Furneaux's revelation that the mysterious Fanny Biggetywitch on Dickensian is definitely a Tony Jordan character, not a Charles Dickens character. Furneaux is an adviser on the series, so she knows whereof she speaks. (She also mentions something I hadn't heard before -- that Dora Spenlow's dog, Jip, is on the show as well!)
One other interesting piece of Dickensian news from the same source: The Dickens Museum will have a special exhibition on the series, beginning January 19.
In The Guardian, Stephen Moss writes about how the new show makes him want to start reading Dickens again. Some of his compliments to the author are a bit backhanded, and he really needs to start his reread with Oliver Twist, because his descriptions of the characters from memory are nothing like the actual characters. He actually thinks of Bill Sikes as a "comedy villain," for instance. (I'm guessing he's more familiar with Oliver! the musical than Oliver the novel.) However, his praise of the show is sincere and his desire to go back to Dickens an excellent sign. "Only [Tony] Jordan has made me want to return to the books and immerse myself in Dickens’ imaginative world again," he writes. I hope the same will be true of many more viewers.
Has a non-Dickensian character sneaked into Dickensian? Our guest reviewer John Kyriacou and commenter Lesley Cookman have both written about the character of Fanny Biggetywitch (played by Ellie Haddington) and how they've been unable to place her. I consulted Paul Davis's Charles Dickens A to Z, an excellent guide to the various people, places, and things found in Dickens's works, but found no mention of her.
BBC One's character profile for Fanny is here, but gives no clue as to her identity. There are several possible explanations: She could be using an alias, with her real name to be revealed at a later date; "Biggetywitch" could turn out to be the married name of a Dickens character called Fanny whom we've only met under her maiden name; she could be the descendant or the ancestor of someone from Dickens's work; or she could simply have been made up.
Because I haven't yet seen the show, and know nothing about the character beyond what's on that page, I don't know which of these scenarios is likeliest to be true. Your thoughts and theories are welcome in the comment section!
I watched the first two episodes of Dickensian earlier. My overall impression is that the cast and crew have done a great job, and the series is a treat.
The first episode was almost like eating a huge Christmas pudding in one sitting. Too many characters were introduced and too quickly (less is more, as they say). While it was fun playing "spot the character," this whirlwind of characters might have been a tad confusing for those unfamiliar with Dickens. I think the first two episodes should have been broadcast together, in one chunk, as the second episode slowed the pace, allowing some breathing space.