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True to the description on the back cover, Peter Olsthoorn's book is more a "history of the development of ideas of honor in Western philosophy" than a philosophical defense of the proper role of honor in political and moral life. Yet, Olsthoorn relies on his discussions of both historical and contemporary accounts of honor to support the claim that, despite its reputation as an antiquated concept, honor can still be valuable for contemporary society. He nicely summarizes the scope and intent of the book in the introduction when he writes, "Drawing on moral philosophy from Cicero to Amartya Sen this book argues that honor, despite its limited role in our moral language, still has a role as a heuristic tool and an incentive to do what is right" (12). Olsthoorn thus identifies two valuable roles for honor in moral and political life. First, a concern for honor makes people attentive to the way that their actions are (or would be) viewed by others; thus, in a society that adheres to generally good moral standards, honor can help people to see and know the morally right way to act. Second, a desire for honor can be an effective motive for acting rightly.
While Olsthoorn acknowledges that honor has an internal aspect -- viz., a kind of desire to be a virtuous or honorable person in one's own eyes -- he focuses throughout the book on the underappreciated moral value of the external aspect of honor -- viz., the desire to do what is right in the eyes of others for the sake of being seen and valued by others as a virtuous or honorable person. He observes that such a desire for external honor strikes many people in contemporary Western society as decidedly unvirtuous:
Many people today seem to share the Stoic suspicion that virtue and honor do not go hand in hand. With the Stoics we tend to think that people are to be virtuous from a love of virtue, not from a fear of losing face, and that a virtuous act undertaken for honor is not really a moral act -- the term moral seems somewhat out of place in such a case. (62)
In response to this worry, Olsthoorn argues not that the desire to receive honor from others is morally admirable, virtuous, or otherwise praiseworthy, but rather that a concern for honor is morally useful and even necessary since more virtuous or morally pure reasons are not sufficient to motivate most people to act rightly. He concedes,
Perhaps we should follow Hume on this point . . . and accept that it might be unrealistic to expect people to do what is moral from moral motives only. Often we follow moral rules, not because they are moral, but because not following them brings disesteem, and practice virtues, not out of a love of virtue per se, but because it brings praise, esteem and approbation. (157)
Those readers looking for empirical support for the claim that a concern for honor is a more effective motivator of moral behavior than other "purer" moral motives will have to look elsewhere. Olsthoorn's argument for this claim begins and ends by citing observations of human behavior found in the writings of philosophers such as Marcus Tullius Cicero, David Hume, and Adam Smith.
In addition to these philosophers, Olsthoorn discusses the views of honor and related concepts present in the writings of Seneca, John Locke, Bernard Mandeville, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville, as well as many other historical and contemporary philosophers. Throughout the book, he illustrates and applies his claims concerning the nature and value of honor through discussions of poignant literary examples, such as Jim from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, Vronski and Anna from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and Julien Sorel from Stendhal's The Red and the Black. These are interesting case studies since each of these well-drawn characters possesses a sincere concern for honor and yet acts dishonorably, a point that Olsthoorn draws on in his discussion of the limitations of honor as a motive to act morally. Olsthoorn's analysis also includes extended discussions of the role of honor and related concepts such as loyalty and respect in the context of war and military ethics, one of the few remaining aspects of Western society in which honor is still explicitly valued. This book is well worth reading for its thorough presentation and analysis of the historical development of the concept of honor in Western thought, but I will not discuss the specific details of that historical account here. For the remainder of this review, I will focus instead on the main philosophical argument of the book, which, while intriguing, is somewhat elusive and underdeveloped. The following exposition is thus intended both to clarify the main argument of the book and to provide a critical evaluation of some of its details.
As intimated above, Olsthoorn argues that honor -- or, rather, a concern for honor -- is valuable both heuristically and motivationally. Having presented some initial arguments from the history of philosophy for the value of (a concern for) honor (ch. 1), he distinguishes the classical, aristocratic notion of honor, which amounted to public recognition of the socially elite by their peers often for acts of military valor, from democratic honor, which can be won by most people, regardless of social class, through acts that are more socially "productive" than the "destructive" acts of war (ch. 2). Olsthoorn then turns his attention to some worries about the limitations and shortcomings of democratic honor, which he answers by discussing the connections between the concept of honor and the related concepts of loyalty, integrity, and respect (chs. 3-5). It is in the context of these discussions that Olsthoorn offers his most interesting and original insights.
The first shortcoming of relying on a concern for honor as a moral teacher and motivator that Olsthoorn identifies has to do with the relativity of honor to an honor group. He acknowledges that it would be a mistake to equate honorable action with morally right action since a concern for honor typically only motivates people to do what is right in the eyes of their honor group and not all honor groups have good moral values. He argues that an implicit concern for honor from one's honor group often motivates people to act in ways that manifest group loyalty, which can be at odds with proper treatment of those outside one's honor group. He notes that the democratization of honor has widened the boundaries of honor groups, but not beyond national boundaries.
Of course, any plausible moral outlook will call for proper treatment of all people, even foreigners and others outside one's honor group. Olsthoorn thus concludes that it would be good if we could tie people's concern for honor to loyalty to moral principles rather than loyalty to honor groups, but he expresses pessimism about the extent to which this is possible. As a more psychologically plausible alternative, he recommends tying the concern for honor to loyalty to a profession, where the profession's standards of behavior include an expectation of proper treatment of and concern for those outside one's honor group (i.e., one's clients). For example, he cites the way in which the medical profession explicitly encourages impartial treatment of and concern for patients (97). Even a doctor who does not view her patients as members of her honor group will still be motivated to treat them impartially, since failure to do so could result in the loss of esteem from her professional peers.
Olsthoorn concludes his discussion of loyalty by registering some reasons for optimism about the possibility of expanding our honor groups beyond national boundaries to include even the foreigner and the stranger, while maintaining a valuable role for loyalty to one's family, friends, and neighbors (104). The kind of virtuous loyalty he describes here seems to be less the kind of unquestioning allegiance he describes in his discussion of group loyalty, however, and more a kind of special care or love for those closely related to one. It seems a bit of a conceptual strain to consider such preferential loving care a kind of loyalty, thus weakening his attempt to rescue loyalty as a virtue.
Another problem for his discussion of the relationship between loyalty and honor is that it is not clear why he thinks loyalty to a profession with the right set of "outward-looking" ethical principles is better suited than loyalty to a nation with the right set of ethical principles to bridge the gap between the concern for honor from one's honor group and proper treatment of those outside one's group. Since he claims that many people in Western society see their nation as their honor group, why couldn't national loyalty motivate morally appropriate treatment of foreigners, at least in nations that value human equality and international justice? Setting that question aside, I doubt whether people really do see their honor group as including all citizens of their nation. While it seems plausible that people are willing to extend a special kind of respect to fellow nationals that they don't extend to foreigners, it seems less plausible that people generally care more about being esteemed by all of their fellow nationals than by foreigners. Empirical investigation of this question could help to demonstrate just how inclusive most people's honor groups really are.
Of course, tying the concern for honor to the ethical principles of one's honor group, whether it be a professional community, a national community, a religious community, or otherwise, will only be morally beneficial if one's community's moral standards or values are good. Olsthoorn thus considers whether the virtue of integrity is better suited than group (or professional) loyalty for connecting the concern for honor with moral action. He expresses pessimism here, though, on account of his understanding of integrity as a kind of "loyalty to personal principles and values" (107). Insofar as integrity is tantamount to being "true to oneself" or an "authentic" moral agent, integrity is no better suited than group loyalty to align an agent's motivations with the right moral principles and values. While some who have written on the nature of integrity -- notably Lynne McFall, whose influential article Olsthoorn does not explicitly discuss -- take this as reason to qualify the virtue of integrity with reference to reasonable moral standards, Olsthoorn takes it as a reason to conclude that integrity "is as gray a virtue as group loyalty" (131).
Having argued that neither group loyalty nor loyalty to oneself (integrity) is sufficient to bridge the gap between a concern for honor and a good moral life, Olsthoorn argues in his final chapter that the most promising corrective for the inherent liabilities of a concern for (or sense of) honor is an attitude of respect for the dignity of all people. He claims that respect is well-suited to correct for the inherent limitations of honor because, though arguably "a descendant of the old notion of honor," it is "not a constant-sum game" (133). That is, while there is only so much honor to go around, this is not the case with respect -- showing respect for someone does not mean having less respect left to show others. Moreover, he observes that respect is more at home in duty-based ethics than in virtue ethics, and he suggests that the former is a "somewhat less self-regarding strand of thought" than the latter (133). Rather than developing and defending these claims in detail, however, Olsthoorn spends the bulk of his chapter on respect discussing the nature of humiliation and the tangentially related issue of the humiliation, or lack of (perceived) respect, of the Arab world by Western powers as a potential motivation for terrorism.
In the end, then, Olsthoorn's primary claim seems to be that a concern for honor can play a morally beneficial role as a teacher and motivator, but that it must be tethered to (objectively) appropriate moral standards and that this requires, at a minimum, proper respect for the dignity of all people. While I am sympathetic with this conclusion, let me register two final worries about details of Olsthoorn's argument.
First, regarding his discussion of respect, I do not find it helpful to identify respect more closely with duty-based ethics than with virtue ethics, as Olsthoorn does. Given that one standard way to conceive of the virtues is as character-level dispositions to act, think, and feel in the right way, at the right time, toward the right objects, etc., what reason is there for thinking that there could not be a virtue of respect for human dignity? In keeping with the description of respect Olsthoorn provides, a person with such a virtue would be disposed to act, think, and feel in respectful ways toward all people, regardless of sex, race, nationality, etc. Moreover, why should we think that such an understanding of respect as a virtue would be at odds with, or would be any more self-regarding than, understanding respect primarily as a duty owed to others? That a sense of respect is less self-regarding than a sense of honor seems right, but this does not seem to have anything to do with these attitudes (or virtues) being the exclusive property of one ethical tradition/theory or another.
Lastly, it seems that Olsthoorn's case for the moral value of honor (or, rather, a sense of honor) could be used to demonstrate not that a sense of honor is a necessary, though unvirtuous, incentive to act morally, but rather that a sense of honor actually can be virtuous. He writes, "Although occasionally listed as a virtue, honor is in fact not a virtue at all; it is above all a reward for virtuous behavior" (69). But if, in the right social conditions, the approval and esteem of others can be morally illuminating and motivating, a properly ordered desire for the approval and esteem of others might amount to a kind of intermediate virtue. Moreover, since honor bestowed to the virtuous can help those who receive it to serve as public models of virtue and offer them opportunities for positive social and political influence, cultivating a desire for honor as a means to these good ends might be virtuous and even altruistic (cf., Thomas Aquinas' discussion of the proper reasons to desire glory). I should be careful here to clarify, though, that I do not endorse a simplistic equation of virtue with altruism as some ethicists, including Olsthoorn, seem inclined to do. Insofar as the virtues are excellences of human character, it seems entirely virtuous to be concerned, though not excessively so, with one's own achievement of virtue, as well as with the proper recognition and honoring of all kinds of human excellence (including moral excellence) by the public, even when the excellence the public ought to honor is one's own.
 Lynne McFall, "Integrity," Ethics 98, 1 (1987): 5-20.
 Thomas Aquinas, On Evil, ed. Brian Davies, trans. Richard Regan (Oxford University Press, 2003), Q. IX ("On Vainglory"), a. 1, 343.
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I have quite a fondness for miniature golf. I thank the mini golf games on Candystand for giving me the cravings for a good ol’ virtual putt-down. Unfortunately, many other mini golf games I’ve played fail to deliver the strong sense of gameplay that the website delivered back when it still existed. Maybe it’s because those that are on consoles strive to act like they are much bigger and better than simple Internet games. Mini Golf Resort is tragically one such game. It boasted that it had over a thousand holes. Wow! That’s a lot of holes! But you know what this tactic reminds me of? Any other game cover with excessive numbers to attract costumers.
Mini Golf Resort was originally released for the Wii back in 2010. There is also a DS version, but I don’t recall ever seeing it here in America. The port for the Nintendo 3DS was originally to be released by the time this article would be public, but the publishers were sneaky and did an early release shortly after I obtained the game for review. Anyway, there must be some special reason why a game like this would come back to be resold on a more current console. Maybe it’s a hidden gem that deserves more publicity. Maybe it’s a casual classic. As I pondered more about this, though, I then remembered Gummy Bears Mini Golf and Gummy Bears Magical Medallion were also Wii/DS games re-released for 3DS. Uh oh…
There’s no story. This is a mini golf game. It’s almost like there’s no need to write in the category here.
Given that this is a port job from the DS version, the graphics in Mini Golf Resort are noticeably not-so-crisp. They are colorful and touched-up from the transition, but there is also a somewhat low draw distance (as seen when a portion of the background pops in or out). Thankfully, the player characters aren’t present on the courses themselves in this version, because they are just plain ugly; they are exactly the kind of characters you see as poor man’s Mii substitutes in Wii shovelware titles. On a lesser note, I find it odd the game doesn’t run in 60 FPS. It’s not like there’s that much power taken up by the courses. They are small and compact compared to full-on worlds featured in 3D platformers.
The music is…eh. There are plenty of background pieces, but all of them are pretty forgettable even after playing multiple full 18-hole sessions. I should know; I spent many hours playing this game and I still can’t recall any of the songs to hum.
At its best, Mini Golf Resort is very standard fare for a 3D mini golf title. The player can position the ball’s direction, adjust the power slider, and slide across the screen with the stylus to swing the putter. The courses would be rather on the shallow side when it comes to offering sets of obstacles to keep the players thinking, but they could be passable for some. Keep in mind, however: That’s for when the game is at its best and Mini Golf Resort is often NOT at its best. It falls into the opposite side of the spectrum in fact.
The ginormous majority of the courses are freaking cluttered. It’s downright impossible to garner a hole-in-one on any of those, and many holes’ design choices appear to be made solely to throw the player off-guard. There’s no telling what comes up, as there’s no map to pull up to know. People can only go into the holes with a gimped perspective. Then there’s the putting mechanics. My God, the putting mechanics. The golf ball has a strange tendency to bounce off or across just about anything that curves upward if it’s moving swiftly enough. Even though I have a power slider to tell me how strong my shots are, I don’t feel weight. Everything about the physics in the game feels unnatural. Trust me when I say that you would not want to shoot the ball with a maxed out power slider. Then again, if you’re trusting me, you’d already know by now that Mini Golf Resort is sounding absolutely terrible.
You know what’s better than telling, though? Showing.
Here’s a video I took of my frustrations within my first 18-hole session.
Probably the icing on the cake is the Par count. Some holes can go as far as to have over a Par 10! That is simply unheard of in actual mini golf, let alone other mini golf video games. I’m sure this was supposed to be a way to counter the utter bull that the courses themselves throw at the player, but that just isn’t at all guaranteed to work. After all, there are other courses that are much stricter; some can feature around a Par 4 and be just as much of an infuriating physics gauntlet as shown above. I myself don’t think there was a time where I got out under Par in total (as in all 18 holes in a session, not individual holes) in any of my sessions. Another anti-frustration feature I noticed is that most of the holes would have the end flagpole be surrounded by a circular slope going inward. The ball could just slide into the flag’s hole like that so the player doesn’t have to be annoyed by the dumb putting physics going against him or her. That is, until the player encounters the holes that feature the flag on flat land or even atop of outward slopes.
Have I mentioned there’s over a thousand holes? As in a thousand ways to wish to snap your 3DS in half?
There’s also an avatar customization feature, but it is entirely meaningless and adds nothing to the actual game.
Folks, please don’t get this game. It’s not worth the trouble playing through the darn thing. The hours and days that would be spent on Mini Golf Resort would all be for naught. There are better mini golf games you could play in real life or online on Internet game sites. This is not an enjoyable experience. This is not worth your five dollars.


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The Maine-based medical transcription firm NEMT has been named Employer of the Year by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), the national clinical documentation organization.
A Matter of Productivity - For The Record Magazine
Nearly all medical transcription service organizations (MTSOs) provide individual access to their medical transcriptionists’ (MTs) productivity figures. As a result, MTs can track their line production to meet daily or other periodic goals to which they have committed. Some companies take it a step further and share productivity measures with an entire team of transcriptionists working on an account, usually without attaching a name to the numbers.
NEMT a Finalist for Employer of the Year Award - For the Record Magazine
The Maine-based medical transcription firm NEMT has been named a finalist for the prestigious Employer of the Year Award by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), the national clinical documentation organization.
Utterly Essential -- For The Record Magazine
Many physicians view dictation as a fundamental component of everyday operations. Can EHRs compensate for this long-held attraction?
Proceed With Caution - For the Record Magazine
Speech recognition can help reduce costs, but healthcare organizations should take steps to ensure they’re not sacrificing quality in the process.
Can IBM's Watson Beat the Odds? - For the Record magazine
Having put Watson through its paces with a successful showing against two Jeopardy! champions, IBM has set in motion plans to turn its supercomputer loose on the healthcare industry.
Spend Quality Time with MTs - For the Record magazine
Carleen Thacker, director of operations at New England Medical Transcription, works with transcriptionists to not only correct mistakes but, more importantly, to prevent them in the first place.
NEMT announces promotions and new hires - The Times Record
WOOLWICH — New England Medical Transcription, one of the nation’s largest all-domestic medical transcription firms, has announced a series of senior-level promotions and new hires.
NEMT’s Sullivan receives recognition - The Times Record
WOOLWICH — Enterprising Women magazine recently announced that NEMT President Linda Sullivan has received an honorable mention for the Enterprising Women of the Year award.
NEMT Owner Earns Enterprising Women Award - For The Record
Enterprising Women magazine has announced that NEMT President Linda Sullivan has been given honorable mention for the Enterprising Women of the Year Award. Sullivan, who owns the Maine-based medical transcription firm, was selected out of hundreds of nominees from around the world. Enterprising Women magazine received an unprecedented number of entries for this year’s competition, which honors women who have demonstrated that they have fast-growth businesses, mentor or actively support other women and girls involved in entrepreneurship, and stand out as leaders in their communities.
Maine companies make Inc. Magazine's 500 | 5000 list - WCSH Channel 6, Portland, ME
WOOLWICH, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The red, 1740's Colonial house doesn't look like a corporate headquarters, but for New England Medical Transcription, it is just that. Linda Sullivan started the business in her home office twenty years ago, transcribing reports for her son's doctor. From there, she added a few more transcriptionists. Now, the company employs some 300 people all over the country.
NEMT Inks Deal With NLP International - For the Record Magazine
Few industries are advancing as quickly as the healthcare information field and New England Medical Transcription (NEMT) transcription firm has announced that it has signed a contract with NLP International, a natural language processing company.
NEMT makes list of fastest-growing firms - The Times Record
WOOLWICH — NEMT, a New England-based medical transcription company, recently made Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies for the fourth year in a row. “We’re very pleased to have made Inc.com’s list of top U.S. companies for the fourth time,” said Linda Sullivan, president and owner of NEMT. “This is a testament not only to our solid business plan, but to the hard work and dedication of the entire NEMT team.”
Articles written by NEMT staff
NEMT, ChartNet to Provide Speech Rec Externship - For The Record Magazine
It’s no secret that medical transcriptionists are struggling to stay relevant in a rapidly changing industry. For many, that means moving from transcription to speech recognition editing. However, for students just starting school, there’s one problem: There’s no easy way to get real-world speech recognition experience—until now.
Expectations and Reality; A Changing World -- Plexus Magazine
How do we make sure education keeps pace with a changing industry? It’s certainly not a question that’s unique to clinical documentation, but it’s being asked with increasing frequency in the field these days.
Transcription externships -- How well do they work?
AHDI's "Plexus" magazine cover story, May 2012, on NEMT's innovative new externship program.
Is speech rec all it’s cracked up to be?
In the Oct. 10, 2011 edition of "For the Record" magazine, NEMT Chief Executive Officer Linda Sullivan discusses speech recognition as a technology that isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Connecting the Dots - Matrix magazine
It’s long been a problem in the health information industry: how do you make the leap from transcription student to transcription professional? Internships are few and far between so students finish classes without any actual work experience. And it’s not just a problem for the students; companies who hire recent graduates invest time and money in training, all the while gambling that the new MTs will be able to keep up in a real-world environment. (By Tara Courtland)
MTSOs can ease fiscal pressures - For The Record Magazine
These days, we keep hearing in the news that we are approaching the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. (Funny that it was dubbed “great” when awful seems more fitting.) Recently, I’ve begun to hear the situation described as a “decession”—an economic slowdown that falls somewhere below a recession but not as bad as a depression. (By Linda Sullivan)
Merger Madness - by Linda Sullivan
When I hear the term mergers and acquisitions, the first thing that comes to mind is the 1988 film Working Girl and the scene where Melanie Griffith’s character tries to persuade her radio conglomerate bosses to purchase a string of family-owned TV stations. At the time, I was more focused on Harrison Ford than the concept behind mergers and acquisitions.
The 30,000-Foot View — Transcription and Revenue Cycle Management - by Linda M. Sullivan
Medical transcription is a fascinating business and craft. The best transcriptionists are those who are truly engaged and excited about their careers. Medical transcription offers myriad opportunities for learning on a daily basis. That love of learning, of course, needs to be layered on a good foundation of knowledge, a solid grounding in grammar, great computer skills, and, because so many work from their homes, self-discipline.
The Visible Black Character — What You See Is What You Get ... Or Not -- For The Record Magazine
A visible black character is a visible black character is a visible black character. Right? Yes ... well, maybe. Last year, AHIMA and MTIA recommended the visible black character (VBC) become the standard unit of measure for counting and billing methodologies. (By Linda Sullivan)
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Could Julianne Hough's honeymoon photos be anymore breathtaking?! Exhibit A:
An African safari is a definite bucket list trip, so it made sense when Hough, after her fairytale Idaho wedding to NFL hockey player Brooks Laich, jetted off to a luxury safari lodge in Kenya for the second half of her honeymoon (first stop: Fregate beach resort in the Seychelles). Hough has been posting on Instagram, and from what we've seen so far, it looks like an amazing adventure!
Inspired to plan a similar once-in-a-lifetime trip? Here's what you need to know.
The newlyweds are staying at Angama Mara, a luxury safari lodge on the edge of Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve (scenes from the classic movie Out of Africa were filmed in the area). The lodge, which opened in 2015 and is an hour's flight from Nairobi, features 30 luxury tents, outfitted with contemporary furnishings, king-size beds, and private decks. Amenities Hough might have taken advantage of include an infinity pool and a fitness center overlooking the Masai plains.
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Israel will not object to a planned five-percent cut in the annual military aid package from the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said.
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Patna, (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming him a “liar” who had promised Bihar a “fakeage” not package, after an RTI query revealed that the bounty of Rs 1.25 lakh crore announced by Modi during a poll campaign for the October 2015 assembly elections was still awaited.
Bihar’s ruling Grand Alliance of Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal-United and Congress made the most of the revelation to target the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government and the opposition BJP in the state.
The Grand Alliance leaders say this has also put a big question mark on the series of promises made by Modi and BJP during the ongoing assembly polls in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
Mumbai RTI activist Anil Galgali filed the query with the Union Finance Ministry in December 2016 seeking details of Modi’s assurances on massive financial aid or development packages to various states.
He also sought details of the action taken on the financial packages to various states.
However, Deputy Director in Finance Ministry Anand Parmar, while declining to provide a direct reply to the Right To Information query, made the position clear in a roundabout manner.
“About the Rs 125,003 crore special package for Bihar, announced by PM for August 18, 2015 Parmar’s terse reply said that ‘the projects/works will be completed in a phased manner’ though not a paisa has been released till date,” Galgali said.
“It is a shame that assurances to Bihar given by none other than the country’s Prime Minister have failed with no action in the matter since one-and-half years,” Galgali said.
While Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is yet to say anything on the matter, Lalu in his inimitable rustic style also advised Modi that a person sitting on the top constitutional post of Prime Minister should not “utter lies like this”.
Lalu in a tweet, with a photograph of Modi, posted: “The liar – a fakeage Sardar. He did not announce a package, only fakeage. Package.. package-fakeage.”
In another tweet, Lalu said “this PM has been chanting ‘Satyamev Jayate’, he should not tell lies. Inki baton par yakin karna khudkushi karne saman hai (believing in his words is like committing suicide),” he posted.
Lalu also said that Modi had promised to made Varanasi into Koyoto in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls but nearly three years later, he has been exposed and proved that his words and promises were a “bundle of lies”.
“Now PM Modi should explain to the people how he will do penance for his unfulfilled promises and his lies to the people. Whether he will do it in water cupped in his hands, the river Ganga or in the sea — ‘Chullu bhar pani mein, Ganga maiya mein ya phir Samudra mein’.”
Senior JD-U leader and party spokesperson Neeraj Kumar said it has again vindicated our stand that special packages announced by Modi are merely a “jumla” nothing more. “Modi only announced a jumla to fool the people,” Kumar said.
Another senior JD-U leader, Shayam Razak, said the revelation through RTI has made it clear that announcement of a special package was meant only for votes like what Modi has done in campaigning for the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress state president Ashok Choudhary, also the Bihar Education Minister, said the Prime Minister should keep in mind to fulfill promises made to the people. “The Congress party had doubted Modi’s special package announcement for Bihar at the time. He has a habit to make promises, not to fulfill them,” he said.
BJP leaders in the state are reluctant to speak on the issue. Some of them downplayed the issue saying that only national leaders will be able to say anything on it.
BJP leaders had celebrated the announcement by Modi on the streets and praised him for it.
Galgali also said that the Bharatiya Janata Party has been making big announcements even for Uttar Pradesh, where the seventh and last phase of assembly elections are being held on Wednesday.
“So many ‘jumlas’ have been shown to the 125 crore Indian population by the ruling BJP. But, the government’s own figures belie their tall claims, so how can they be taken seriously,” Galgali wondered.


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James Hamblin, a senior editor for The Atlantic, recently learned what it would be like to become 75 years old by wearing an instant-aging suit in an episode of his online series, “If Our Bodies Could Talk” (video below).
According to The Atlantic, inventor Bran Ferren created the exoskeleton suit, which simulates the effects of aging such as cataracts, aphasia, and arthritis.
While wearing the suit, Hamblin experienced cloudy vision, limited arm movement and the feeling of walking in deep snow.
The exoskeleton simulates disabilities, but will hopefully provide better mobility for elderly people in the future.
The Genworth insurance company took the suit to the Aspen Ideas Festival 2015 in July.
“Our mission is to prepare families for their futures,” Janice Luvera, of Genworth, told SlashGear. “The good news is that we’re living longer. The bad news is that they’re not really prepared for it.”


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Community buildings 'could reap £100m solar energy reward'
Village halls, churches, pubs and other community buildings could be in with a chance of making an estimated £100 million by generating electricity through solar power, according to a recent report. British Gas and think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said installing solar panels could help raise money to keep community buildings open.
The report states that solar power would help cut electricity bills and generate payments through the feed-in tariff, a government scheme which pays households and organisations for renewable power. Research for the report showed solar panels on village halls and community centres could generate over £18 million a year, £15 million for pubs and £41 million for schools.
Gearoid Lane of British Gas said: "These findings are great news for British communities. As well as helping to keep local facilities open and serving their community, installing technology like solar panels on community buildings can have a great impact on helping to familiarise people with renewable technologies and make them more accessible."
Matthew Lockwood, associate director at ippr said: "Micro-renewable technologies offer a fantastic opportunity for communities to show local commitment to global change. They can also help the coalition Government kill two policy birds with one stone, since it wants both to be the greenest government ever and to create a big society where community organisations and volunteers play a much more important role in our lives.
"But this will not happen without the right enabling framework, and the coalition Government should maintain the feed-in tariff for renewable electricity and commit to introducing similar support for renewable heat.
"It is then for communities, working in partnership with support providers and delivery companies, to grab a piece of the opportunity that is on offer."
British Gas is also investing £15 million to give free solar panels to schools.


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An interconnected dc grid that comprises resistive and constant-power loads (CPLs) that is fed by Photovoltaic (PV) units is studied first. All the sources and CPLs are connected to the grid via dc-dc buck converters. Nonlinear behavior of PV units in addition to the effect of the negative-resistance CPLs can destabilize the dc grid. A decentralized nonlinear model and control are proposed where an adaptive output-feedback controller is employed to stabilize the dc grid with assured stability through Lyapunov stability method while each converter employs only local measurements. Adaptive Neural Networks (NNs) are utilized to overcome the unknown dynamics of the dc-dc converters at Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and CPLs and those of the interconnected network imposed on the converters. Additionally, the use of the output feedback control makes possible the utilization of other measured signals, in case of loss of main signal, at the converter location and creates measurement redundancy that improves reliability of the dc network. The switching between measurement signals of different types are performed through using the NNs without the need to further tuning.
Then, in a small-scale ac grid, PV-based Distributed Generation (DG) units, including dc/dc converters and inverters, are controlled such that mimic a synchronous generator behavior. While other control schemes such as Synchronverters are used to control the inverter frequency and power at a fixed dc link voltage, the proposed approach considers both the dc-link voltage and the inverter ac voltage and frequency regulation. The dc-link capacitor stores kinetic energy similar to the rotor of a synchronous generator, providing inertia and contributes to the system stability.
Additionally, a reduced Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) structure is proposed to enhance transient stability of small-scale micro grids. The reduced UPFC model exploits dc link of the DG unit to generate appropriate series voltage and inject it to the power line to enhance transient stability. It employs optimal control to ensure that the stability of the system is realized through minimum cost for the system. A neural network is used to approximate the cost function based on the weighted residual method.
Saberi khorzoughi, Hossein, "Advanced Modeling, Design, and Control of ac-dc Microgrids" (2018). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 4539.


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The color drained from Myla’s face. She jerked backwards in an awkward step. The more space between herself and Lord Du Bois the better. She couldn’t be in his radar for a prospective bride. What would even qualify her for such a horrid fate?
“I require my bride to have a sensitivity to the spiritual and supernatural worlds. You both displayed heightened spiritual sensitivity.” Lord Du Bois said as if answering Myla’s unspoken question.
He took a step closer to the painted girl. Her tears had quieted, but she still clutched her arm. Lord Du Bois ran a long thin finger along the bare skin that Gian the Specter had touched.
“You’ll be fine. The numbness will fade in a few minutes. Quiet your sobs and tell me about yourself.” He said. The Lord’s voice was deep and rich, but there was no warmth to it.
The painted girl sniffled back the mucus that threatened to seep from her nose. The chalk white makeup that covered her face now had flesh pink rivers with jet black eyeliner banks running down her cheeks. Myla couldn’t help but remember the ghost stories her older siblings had told her as a child. Images of chalk white ghost women crying for the children they had drowned filled her mind.
“My name is Penelope. I am the daughter of your treasurer. This is my nineteenth winter. I am well versed in dance and etiquette.” Penelope the painted girl said.
Lord Du Bois made a sound that may have either been a questioning or approving, “Hmm.” He walked around Penelope in a careful circle. Myla had seen her father walk around a goat at the market the same way.
“Tell me, Penelope… Have you lain with a man before me?” the Lord asked in a dry monotone.
Penelope coughed in a way that wasn’t ladylike. She wrung her hands in a way that might have been an attempt at being shy. She shook her head back and forth sending thick ringlets of hair flopping, “No, your Lordship. Never.”
The thin nobleman jutted a bony hand out to grasp Penelope’s chin. He forced her to face his hooded face, “Don’t lie to me, Girl!”
Terror filled Penelope’s widened eyes and tears streamed down her face once more. She sobbed a sound that Myla understood as a confession.
The Lord Du Bois pushed the painted girl back, “I have no time to waste with sullied goods. You are dismissed.”
The Lord turned to face Myla. His face was concealed by the heavy hood, but Myla could feel his gaze on her. It left her with the same pressure she had felt earlier before seeing the specter. Her thoughts came together as she realized it was Lord Du Bois’ presence that had affected her earlier. She gulped.
“You Girl shall be my wife.” Lord Du Bois said as he extended a thin hand in Myla’s direction.


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Effort Will Develop Ways to Minimize Risk from Climate Extremes for Southwest Growers
Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to find ways to sustain irrigated agriculture while improving groundwater quantity and quality in the Southwest under a changing climate.
Isaya Kisekka, associate professor of agrohydrology and irrigation at UC Davis, is leading a team of more than two dozen climate, plant and soil scientists; hydrologists; engineers; economists, educators and extension specialists from UC Davis and other institutions in California, Arizona and New Mexico. They will develop climate change adaptation management strategies that ensure sustainability of groundwater and irrigated agriculture.
Kisekka says the project team in California will work with Groundwater Sustainability Agencies to develop tools and data to enhance water management at both the farm and groundwater basin scales to improve crop production and achieve sustainability goals under the state's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which provides a statewide framework to help protect groundwater resources over the long-term. The research team will also work with grower coalitions to achieve the groundwater quality goals of the Central Valley Salt and Nitrate Management Plan.
“For farmers, the biggest challenge threatening their business is water,” Kisekka said. “Our project is going to develop climate-smart adaptation management practices to help growers achieve their production goals while addressing the co-benefits for the environment and human health. We are going to develop cutting edge tools to manage groundwater quantity and quality as well as study how policies impact behaviors such as water use in agriculture.”
The practices, models and tools developed will be used by growers or their advisors, policymakers, irrigation districts, coalitions and groundwater sustainability agencies to address climate change extremes such as drought or floods.
Growing dependence on groundwater
Growers have increasingly depended on groundwater during multi-year droughts and heat stress. Part of the five-year project includes looking into aquifer systems in California's Central Valley, central Arizona and the lower Rio Grande basin in New Mexico. These regions have all experienced unprecedented overdraft, which happens when more water is pumped from a groundwater basin than is replaced from sources, including rainfall.
“For a long time, a lot of farmers would use groundwater as an insurance policy whenever there was a drought,” Kisekka said. “The negative consequences of that became obvious: groundwater levels declined, we had subsidence which causes land to sink, we had deterioration in water quality and so on. What are growers going to do when we have another drought like we are now? We have to think more broadly.”
Kisekka says they will also come up with management practices to improve soil health, develop alternative water supplies and reduce water demand so the region can continue to produce various agriculture commodities, such as vegetables, grapes and almonds.
“We grow crops in California that we cannot shift to another part of the country because they won't grow well there,” Kisekka said. “We can't grow almonds in the Southeast where they have a lot of water because they require a certain climate. We want to ensure food and nutritional security of the United States by sustaining irrigated agriculture in the Southwest.”
Project researchers will also establish innovative education and extension programs to teach students of all backgrounds and ages, as well as the public, about the importance of water in agriculture.
“Part of this is to develop educational curriculums from elementary to high school to college, where instructors can pull our modules on water management or sustainable agricultural systems and teach that in their classes,” Kisekka said.
While the depletion of groundwater supplies, among other factors, puts major pressure on agricultural operations in the southwestern region, Kisekka hopes the management practices and tools that will be developed during this project will help improve production and resource sustainability and help make California and the country more resilient to climate change. UC Davis will establish the Agricultural Water Center of Excellence as part of the grant. This unique Center of Excellence will also have capacity to support agricultural water research, education and extension activities at collaborating institutions with potential impact at local, state, national and international levels.
“We hope at the end of the day we can still grow food in California and the Southwest in general without drying out our groundwater aquifers,” he said. “We have to learn to adapt to climate change. We may not be able to stop it in the short term, but we should be able to adapt.”
Researchers from University of California, Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, Stanford University, CSU Fresno, University of Arizona, New Mexico State University, USDA Agricultural Research Service (Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Research: Davis, CA and Water Management and Conservation Research: Maricopa, AZ) and USDA Climate Hub are also participating in the project.
Wildfires that generate their own weather, drought, record-breaking heatwaves, and frequent flooding are compelling more people to try to mitigate and adapt to climate change. A new book co-authored by Adina Merenlender, UC Cooperative Extension specialist at UC Berkeley, shows how Californians are working together across diverse communities and landscapes to improve resilience and address climate justice.
“The climate leaders profiled in this book are inspirational,” said Wade Crowfoot, California's Natural Resources secretary, in his review of “Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California.”
“Their stories reflect the diversity of California's people and landscapes and show the power of collective action to create change,” he wrote. “They also reveal our profound connection with nature and with one another, and the power of nature-based solutions to address the climate crisis. Perhaps most importantly, this wonderful book reminds us of what we are capable of as individuals to improve the future of our planet and people.”
Published by UC Press, “Climate Stewardship” will be required reading for participants of the UC Climate Stewards certification course, but it isn't a textbook. The book is a collection of personal stories of individuals who are striving to improve climate resilience.
“The stories, many gathered through UC Cooperative Extension efforts, show what everyday people can do together to improve community resilience across agricultural, natural and urban landscapes,” Merenlender said. “‘Climate Stewardship' also offers an uplifting way to learn about climate science that is most relevant for California's communities and ecosystems.”
Michael Yang, UC Cooperative Extension small farms and specialty crops agricultural assistant, works with Hmong farmers in Fresno County, such as the Tchieng family, to advance climate-smart agriculture. In the book, Ka Tchieng, whose family grows vegetables, wrote about how they are adapting their farming practices to climate change. "My parents, Siong and Fong Tchieng, are picking green bell, purple bell and sweet Italian peppers. The shade is to help prevent sunburn on the peppers during the hot summer in Fresno,” she wrote.
While the book is research-based, it is written for a general audience, Merenlender said.
“It is written in narrative form with stories meant to showcase what can be done and some relevant climate science is woven throughout,” she said. “For this reason, it is meant to be of interest to a wide California audience.”
The book is illustrated with original paintings by Obi Kaufmann, author of “The California Field Atlas,” and co-authored by Brendan Buhler, an award-winning science writer.
For more information about the book, see the California Naturalist blog at http://calnat.ucanr.edu/cs/Climate_Stewardship. To buy the book from UC Press, visit https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520378940/climate-stewardship.
Partnering for California
Spring 2021 proved to be one of the hottest in California, breaking heat records in several cities. It was a perfect opportunity to plant “climate-ready landscape trees” in inland cities identified in a study conducted by the University of California Cooperative Extension in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service.
The idea of bringing together community groups and volunteers to enhance tree canopies that cool urban heat islands --which can be more than 50 degrees hotter than surrounding areas -- in the Redlands area was spawned by Janet Hartin, UC Cooperative Extension environmental horticulture advisor for Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties.
It became a reality when Mandy Parkes, district manager of Inland Empire Resource Conservation District, and Shelli Stockton of the University of Redlands received partner grants from the Climate Action Corps to start a nursery and get the “climate-ready landscape trees” in the ground. To date, nearly 100 trees from the study have been planted, including over 40 at the Redlands Sports Complex. As the volunteers in Redlands know, planting trees helps to cool these heat islands. After a long day of digging and planting in June, the volunteers were satisfied with their hard work and looked forward to sharing their experiences.
According to Parkes: “The project is moving along quickly due to excellent work of the Climate Action Fellows; inspiring research and support from Janet Hartin and the UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners who will ensure that residents continue to receive proper tree care help long after the planting ends; outreach by Mario Saucedo and his Redlands-based community action nonprofit organization, Common Vision Coalition.”
Saucedo, chairman of Common Vision Coalition, said, "It came together, all of us round-tabling on how we could do this pilot project and reach out to the community residents and offer them free trees for their homes."
Once the community accepted the project, the outreach began. James Berry of the California Climate Action Corps was excited after they got the green light from the city of Redlands to plant the trees.
"They are from two different species," said Berry. "The Western Bud and the Red Push Pistache. Both are heat tolerant and drought tolerant, making them ideal for the high temperatures we are facing, and the ones in the coming years as a result of the climate change."
“Our ‘Trees for Tomorrow' workshop we held last fall for city planners, wholesale and retail nursery personnel, landscape architects, landscapers, water districts community groups, and Master Gardeners resulted in pockets of multidisciplinary projects, tree planting projects across Southern California, including the Redlands project. The Redlands project exemplifies the core principles of a well thought out and executed project that includes long-term tree care, a real key to maximizing benefits of trees over their lifespans of 50 years and more.”
With a statewide drought forcing water restrictions, people are looking into options to save water. Hartin advises against sacrificing any trees.
"One of the things that I think is important to prioritize is to make sure that when we have to reduce our water use outside in urban areas, we maintain our trees as a top priority," said Hartin. "If that means for a year or two that our lawns and our flowering beds are going to go by the wayside, then that's just the situation."
She recommends something as simple as dragging a hose out and into the tree's drip line, making sure not to water the trunk, but the other side of the drip line where the active root system is.
"Climate-ready tree study: update for Southern California communities" by E. Gregory McPherson, Alison Berry, Natalie van Doorn, Janet Hartin, Jim Downer, Darren Haver and Erica Teach is published at https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/60414.
To learn more about the study or how to combat climate change with trees:
UC Thelma Hansen Fund to host climate webinar series, April 27-29
Members of the public are invited to attend a free webinar series discussing the effects of climate change on Southern California. At the three-day webinar Climate Change: What Does It Mean for Southern California?, UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources scientists will discuss climate changes anticipated, impacts on agriculture, wildfire risk and how to prepare for it, and ways to communicate about climate and to build resilience in communities.
“We are hearing a lot about climate change, but it can be difficult for the average person to figure out what it means for where they live and to understand the science behind it,” said Annemiek Schilder, director of UC Cooperative Extension in Ventura County and UC ANR Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
Topics of discussion include drought, adaptation for agriculture, fire management on rangelands and wildland-urban interface areas, and how UC Climate Stewards might improve climate understanding and empower community-level stewardship.
“All of us need to be better informed about this new reality and know how to respond to it,” said Schilder, who is organizing the event. “For Southern California, as a region with intense agricultural production and huge urban populations living in proximity to the coast, climate change could have devastating impacts. One of my favorite Latin sayings applies: Serius est quam cogitas – it is later than you think!”
Although residents may be concerned about climate change, they may not know what to do. The scientists will offer suggestions.
“People may feel powerless in the face of something that is happening on a global scale, but there are indeed things that can be done by individuals to mitigate the effects and to build resilience in the face of small and large disasters,” Schilder said. “In fact, doing nothing has a huge cost associated with it. Think of the economic damage already incurred by climatic extremes in recent years and the costs associated with possible future waves of climate refugees coming to the U.S.”
Registration for the webinar series, which is sponsored by the UC Thelma Hansen Fund, is free. To register and see the agenda and speaker biographies, visit http://ucanr.edu/hansensocalclimate.
- Daniel Swain, Ph.D., climate scientist, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability – Climate Change in California: A Drier or Wetter Future—or…Both?
- Sarah-Mae Nelson, M.S., UC Climate Stewards academic coordinator – UC Climate Stewards: Fostering Resilience in California Communities and Ecosystems
- Tapan Pathak, Ph.D., UC Cooperative Extension specialist in climate adaptation in agriculture, UC Merced – Climate Change Trends and Impacts on Agriculture in California and Ventura
- Ben Faber, Ph.D., UCCE soils, water and subtropical crops advisor, Ventura County – Heat, Wind, Freeze, Wind, Repeat
- Nicki Anderson, UCCE community education specialist, Ventura County – Overview of the Healthy Soils Program
- Max Moritz, Ph.D., UCCE wildfire specialist, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara – How Can We Address the Growing Wildland-Urban Interface Problem in California?
- Matthew Shapero, M.A.,UCCE livestock and range advisor, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties – Fire and Rangelands: Impacts on Ventura County Livestock Agriculture Counties
- Sabrina Drill, Ph.D., UCCE natural resources advisor, Ventura and Los Angeles counties – SAFER, Sustainable and Fire-Resistant Homes & Landscapes
If you missed the "Climate Change: What does it Mean for Southern California" webinars, watch the recordings:
April 27 https://youtu.be/8zfn3aaUAv0
April 28 https://youtu.be/dKlKk8sqoaE
April 29 https://youtu.be/2oh82L_wnTw
Urban trees are much more than lovely greenery and stately landscape features. Scientists believe trees are a key tool for combating climate change and living with warming temperatures in California.
UC Cooperative Extension is bringing together municipal and nonprofit organizations, homeowners associations, contractors, the green industry and educators to increase the tree canopy in urban areas by planting recommended species. Nearly 200 people gathered online in March 2021 to share research results, accomplishments and tree canopy growth strategies at the “Trees for Tomorrow Start Today” workshop.
“We need to act now and together to build community forests,” said Janet Hartin, UCCE area environmental horticulture advisor in Southern California and the event organizer. “This is the time to talk about challenges and opportunities for a healthier tomorrow. As our cities grow, so do associated urban heat islands like asphalt-covered parking lots and streets.”
For decades, temperatures have been rising across the planet. While governments work worldwide to reduce carbon dioxide and other emissions that contribute to the greenhouse gases warming the earth, trees are a particularly effective way to make a significant impact on the problem at the local level.
“With proper placement around homes, trees can reduce home energy cost by 30 to 50 percent,” Hartin said. “Treeless urban parking lots can be 20 to 25 degrees hotter than park-like settings in the same area.”
Trees have myriad additional benefits. They provide cooling shade to sidewalks, schools and shopping centers. Trees remove dust from the air, create windbreaks, capture runoff, reduce glare, muffle urban noise and provide a habitat for birds and other animals. In the process of photosynthesis, trees also absorb and store carbon dioxide, helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.
With so many reasons to plant and maintain trees in urban communities, and with the overarching threat of climate change, there's no time to waste in nurturing lush green canopies in California cities, schools, parks and neighborhoods. Hartin said ensuring the proper tree selection, placement and care is critical.
“Trees improperly selected or not properly cared for are taking precious time away from the future benefit of trees,” she said.
UC conducts long-term research to identify the best urban trees
Hartin is working with a team of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and U.S. Forest Service scientists to identify the best drought- and heat-tolerant trees for different areas of the state. Six years ago, the team vetted 100 trees native to California, the Southwest and Australia, taking into account habitat, physiology and biological interactions. A selection of fast-growing, drought-, heat- and pest-resistant species were planted at UC Riverside, the UC South Coast Research and Extension Center in Irvine and in Northern California to be evaluated over 20 years. In addition, Hartin has a subset of trees in a ‘mulch, no mulch' study at Chino Basin Water District in Montclair.
“We're beginning to see the best performers in those areas,” said Hartin, who shared a few of the tree species that have already caught her fancy.
Island Oak (Quercus tomentella) – A disease-resistant evergreen California native adapted to many Sunset magazine zones and soils.
Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis laevigata var. reticulate) – A deciduous tree with small red berries that attract birds. “This is performing beyond our expectations,” she said.
Thornless Honey Mesquite – (Prosopis glandulosa ‘Maverick') – Native to the Southwest U.S., the tree is heat tolerant and cold hardy. It grows as wide as it is tall – about 35 feet.
Pistacia ‘Red Push' (Hybrid of Pistacia atlantica × Pistacia integerrima) – Developed in Arizona, the tree grows 20-feet tall. “The foliage makes you think of Maine or Minnesota in the fall, but this tree has a brilliant red tinge when it first leafs out in the spring,” she said. “It's performing really well in our studies.”
Bubba Desert Willow (Chilopsis lineraris ‘Bubba') – “My favorite tree from our study,” Hartin said. “It grows fast, has beautiful trumpet-like flowers and requires little maintenance.”
Hartin recommends finding more details about these and other trees at http://selectree.calpoly.edu. Read more about the project here: UC study seeks street trees that can cope with climate change.
UC Master Gardeners provide advice on tree selection and maintenance
Proper location based on climate zone and specific conditions around one's home, planting and maintenance are important for tree longevity. Helpful information and support is available throughout California from UC Master Gardener Program volunteers.
Mandy Parkes of the Inland Empire Resource Conservation District said Master Gardeners are a “pivot point” for successful tree planting. She spearheaded a tree planting program in North Redlands that involves partnerships with the California Climate Action Corps, the city, ESRI, University of Redlands and UCCE to encourage residents to plant trees where the urban canopy is currently low.
“New tree owners need long-term support to aid selection and placement of trees,” Parkes said. “Master Gardeners can weigh in on yard design, irrigation and most importantly, guiding trees into the ground and caring for them correctly and in a way that works for the residents.”
Studies have shown that there is often less tree canopy cover in lower-income communities. In many under-served neighborhoods, canopy cover ranges from 0 to 11%, Hartin said, far short of the recommended 25% canopy cover.
“In wealthier neighborhoods, there tends to be higher canopy cover, and in addition, in those areas there is less asthma and cardiovascular disease,” Hartin said. “Encouraging planting in low-income neighborhoods is one of our goals.”
Andy Lyons, program coordinator for UC ANR's Informatics and GIS Statewide Program and a workshop participant said, “GIS technology and data offer exciting new possibilities for managing our urban trees, including the ability to create highly accurate maps of urban trees from aerial imagery, mobile data collection apps to monitor tree health, and the ability to overlay climate change projections for species selection and planning."
Threats to urban trees
Threats to trees were also discussed at the day-long Trees for Tomorrow meeting. West Coast Arborists' Cris Falco said he is frequently dismayed to see poorly pruned trees. “In my opinion, poor tree work is still the rule, not the exception,” he said.
A common mistake is cutting back, or heading, branches, while the goal should be a natural system of pruning to retain and promote characteristic growth. But, with 90% of the urban forest grown on private property, all too often poor tree architecture or inferior branch structure can lead to early tree failure. Falco and other speakers recommended regular pruning by a certified arborist.
Insect pests and diseases can also get in the way of long-term tree survival. Dave Rogers is a recently retired city arborist and currently acting director of the Community Services Department in Claremont, a college town in eastern Los Angeles County known as the “City of Trees and Ph.D.s.” He said the polyphagous shot hole borer reached Claremont and threated to kill heritage oaks and sycamores. Rogers gathered information and shared it with the city council, who provided $300,000 to treat infested trees. “The treatments worked,” he said.
But the pest continues to threaten trees in Los Angeles and Orange counties. One of the promising trees in the Trees for Tomorrow climate study, the Thornless Desert Museum Palo Verde, was found to be susceptible to shot hole borer, so experts are not recommending residents plant this tree.
Another pest, the ash borer, is in Eastern Texas and Boise Idaho, and will likely make its way to the West Coast eventually, said plantsman and workshop participant Nicholas Staddon of Everde Growers.
“It will kill every single ash tree we have,” said Staddon, who was a plant specialist at Monrovia Wholesale Nursery for many years. “We have to look at a broader diversity of trees. From the growers' perspective, trees are the most expensive items we grow. People who want to buy trees need to have some financial skin in the game for growing them.”
Making trees that are climate-tolerant but less common available to the public at nurseries is another hurdle. Nurseries carry what people are asking for, but people don't always know about tested species and even older, “tried and true” varieties.
“We have a list of trees adapted to the climate that are water wise, but at this point, it is difficult to find those in the nurseries,” said Debby Figoni, UC Master Gardener and water administrator for City of Beverly Hills. “It's one thing to know what you're supposed to plant. It's another to find that tree. We have to give people resources.”
The rich discussion regarding the need to enhance tree canopies with recommended species and proper long-term care did not end at the conclusion of the workshop, Hartin said.
“A goal of the workshop was to identify ways to work together more effectively across professions,” she said. “Lots of great ideas came out of the roundtable discussions that we'll be following up on. These include providing education on proper tree selection and care through local task forces consisting of members of the nursery and landscape industry and regular communication between these groups.”

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Hear Luke Bryan’s New Song ‘Southern Gentleman’
The song is called "Southern Gentleman," and according to YouTube user xMeron, who posted the above video, Bryan told his audience that it's one of two new tunes that he wrote for his forthcoming EP. The track is a love song that finds the singer professing, "Ain't nobody gonna love you better than / This Southern gentleman."
"You looked at me like I was crazy / When I said 'ma'am' to that little old lady / You ain't heard talk like that lately," Bryan sings to open "Southern Gentleman." In the chorus, he adds, "I was raised to stand up when you walk in the door / Spin you around an old hard pine floor / Rock you, baby, on a wrap-around porch underneath a magnolia blossom ... Say, 'I love you' when I pull you close, and you know it's true as the gospel."
Bryan is currently on the road for his Kill the Lights Tour, but come October, he'll be out on his annual Farm Tour, during which fans will likely hear "Southern Gentleman" and more from his Farm Tour EP. The trek is set to kick off on Oct. 5 and run through Oct. 15; dates are scheduled in South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois — eight in total.
A track listing for Bryan's Here's to the Farmer EP has not yet been revealed. His current single, from Kill the Lights, his most recent album, is "Move."
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