203 research outputs found
Interview with Laurent de Sutter
No full textInterview with Laurent de Sutter, author of "Narcocapitalism", by Tracy Brannstorm
Sutter Mutual Water Company
No full textPresented at SCADA and related technologies for irrigation district modernization: a USCID water management conference on October 26-29, 2005 in Vancouver, Washington.In 1999 Sutter Mutual Water Company (SMWC) and Cal Poly ITRC began work together with the USBR on a project effort to install a VFD unit and a SCADA system into the Portuguese Bend Pumping Plant, one of SMWC's four pumping plants that convey water from the Sacramento River onto 46,746 acres of farmland in the Sutter County sub-basin. The project was formulated and implemented in order to reduce the high amount of power consumed by the existing 30-year-old equipment, to minimize maintenance and labor costs, and to improve control of the in-stream flows to achieve more efficient use of limited water supplies. After commissioning the equipment, a number of operational problems were encountered. These were resolved once their causes were clearly identified and adequately addressed. Work completed included installing an adequate cooling system for the VFD unit and replacing an air-release valve in place of an outdated siphon breaker that continually adversely affected water flow. Benefits realized from the new technology have included a reduction in power use, cost of labor and maintenance, and a dramatic improvement in the district's ability to control in-stream water flow through the automatic control of motor and pump performance
Drainwater reuse for the Sutter Basin
No full textPresented at Irrigation district sustainability - strategies to meet the challenges: USCID irrigation district specialty conference held on June 3-6, 2009 in Reno, Nevada.Farmers in the Sutter Basin, in the Sacramento Valley of California, do not have sufficient irrigation supply to meet crop needs during peak irrigation demand and during years with surface water allocation restrictions. To help meet these needs, Reclamation District 1500 examined the viability of expanding its existing drainwater reuse system. Drought and reduced surface water allocations, which are partly attributed to ever-more-stringent environmental concerns and regulations, have markedly increased the hard-to-quantify socioeconomic value of a reliable water supply. Basin farmers have a sense of urgency to establish a supplemental irrigation supply. Expanding the drainwater reuse system for a supplemental irrigation supply will increase water delivery reliability in the Sutter Basin. Approximately 68,000 irrigated acres and over 500 miles of surface drainage channels encompass the study area, where rice is the predominate crop. This study highlights the need to identify supplemental irrigation sources in the absence of extensive master planning data. This study relied on stakeholder input to identify operational and management constraints and to develop specific evaluation criteria. Drainwater availability was inversely proportional to downstream irrigation demand in the Sutter Basin, which required special engineering consideration. The study found that drainwater quality concerns can be mitigated by (a) reusing drainwater upstream of the connate water zone, (b) blending drainwater with surface diversion water, and (c) implementing water quality monitoring program tailored to the recommended alternative. Two service-area-scale drainwater reuse alternatives are recommended to collectively provide up to 20,000 acre-feet of supplemental irrigation supply annually. Project implementation would help offset surface diversion shortages and increase water delivery reliability in the Sutter Basin
Sutter Mutual Water Company
No full textPresented at the 2002 USCID/EWRI conference, Energy, climate, environment and water - issues and opportunities for irrigation and drainage on July 9-12 in San Luis Obispo, California.In 1999 Sutter Mutual Water Company (SMWC) began an effort to modernize its water-distribution system in an attempt to reduce operation and maintenance costs and conserve water and power resources. The primary technical support was provided by professionals from the Irrigation Training and Research Center (ITRC), California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo. Additional technical expertise was provided by Concepts in Controls of Visalia, California and Wilson Pumps of Woodland, California. This modernization project was partially funded by the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), Mid-Pacific Region, Northern Area Office, through a Field Services Program Grant and technical support agreement with the ITRC. The effort encompassed two projects within the company's service area located within the boundaries of California's largest reclamation district, Reclamation District 1500. The projects were (1) the automation of the pumping plant at Portuguese Bend with a new Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) pump and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system and (2) the demonstration of new SCADA-compatible electronic flow measurement technologies for both canals and pipelines. The anticipated, and ultimately realized, benefits of the modernization effort was a savings to the company due to a reduction in the amount of water diverted, power consumed and number of personnel required to operate and maintain its system
Private lands for public access: the Sutter Buttes of California
No full textPresented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.The Sutter Buttes, the only mountain range in California's Central Valley, rise from an intensely cultivated, highly altered landscape. Fences divide the land by property ownership, keeping livestock in and trespassers out. It was inevitable in urbanizing California that the general public would want to get beyond fences to hike, explore, and take photographs. Pressure for a state park mounted, creating a polarized division between private landowners and access-demanding public. Out of conflict arose innovation: a program of public access and interpretation was developed on one ranch property; later the author expanded the concept to about 40 properties in the range. Landowners were compensated for public access, allowing traditional uses (cattle and sheep ranching) to co-exist with hikes and workshops covering geology, natural and cultural history, and environmental education. At the same time, sensitive areas (e.g., eagle eyries, bat colonies) could be protected. From a private enterprise company (Sutter Buttes Naturalists) evolved the Middle Mountain Foundation, now the Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust. Landowners and "outsiders" together are active in land management, conservation, and education issues, demonstrating that local communities can achieve desired goals without the need for government involvement. The evolving model met its founder's goals of achieving a "positive spirit of constructive collaboration"; new issues are dealt with as they arise. Non-destructive public use has led to economic development, conservation of natural resources, and changes in attitudes and cultural perceptions. Thousands are exposed to the model and landscape at an Oakland Museum exhibit
Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes : Memories of a Swiss Eye Doctor in Rural South Africa
No full textThe Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, village self-help groups working for better health in their communities. The movement is still active after more than 30 years, and now has around 2,000 members, mostly women, in over 200 villages. Erika Sutter has received numerous international honours and awards for her pioneering work, including the award ?Woman of the Year? in 1984 from the South African newspaper ?The Star?, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. For the creation of this biography, Erika Sutter spent many hours with the author, her friend Gertrud Stiehle, telling the story of her long life ? vividly, with a sharp eye for social issues, a hint of self-irony, and dry wit. Her account does not ignore events in the wider world. She experienced life on the Swiss-German border during the Second World War, and her years of working in South Africa were those when the apartheid policies of the South African Government were becoming more and more repressive, affecting many aspects of life in the country
State of California [Civilian Exclusion Order No. 69], Colusa County, west Yuba and Sutter counties
No full textBroadside instructs Japanese American residents in Colusa County, west Yuba and Sutter counties, state of California, that they will be excluded from the area by May 18, 1942 and to prepare for evacuation by that date to a Civil Control Office in the area. Residents failing to comply with the Civil Exclusion Order would be subject to criminal penalties and immediately apprehended and interned. Also instructs "responsible family members" to report to the Civil Control Office on May 13 or May 14 for further instruction.The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Senescent declines in elite tennis players are similar across the sexes
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript.
The final version is available from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this record.Note: the title in the document differs from the published titleData accessibility: Analyses reported in this article can be reproduced using the data provided in Sutter A, Barton S, Sharma MD, BaselliniU, Hosken D, Archer CR. Data from: senescent declines in elite tennis players are similar across the sexes. Dryad Digital Repository: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.58dm217.Aging is characterized by rising mortality, declining fertility and declines in physiological function with age (functional senescence). Sex differences in the tempo and severity of survival and fertility declines are widespread, but it is less clear how often and how much trajectories of functional senescence diverge between the sexes. We tested how physiological function changed with age in male and female elite tennis players using first-serve speed (power) and first-serve accuracy as performance measures. We found absolute differences between the sexes with men serving faster, but less accurately than women. Both power and accuracy showed senescent declines but these began earlier for power. There were signals of trait-compensation, where players with pronounced power declines showed relative increases in accuracy, which might partially buffer against power deterioration. However, there were no sex differences in how either trait changed with age, contrasting with other sports. Sex differences in functional senescence are probably shaped by interactions between natural and sexual selection, the proximate costs of trait expression and a trait’s genetic architecture, and so are highly trait-specific. We discuss the strengths and potential pitfalls of using data from elite athletes to disentangle these complex interactions.This work was supported by a Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship (Grant P2ZHP3_164990) and a Leverhulme Trust grant awarded to DJH (Grant RF-2015-001)
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