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- Organisation
- Taxonomic opinion
- Global Species Database partners
- Regional Centre Partners
- Funding & Support
- Prof. Frank Bisby 1945-2011
- Global Partner Programmes
The Catalogue of Life is led by Species 2000, working in partnership with ITIS:
In June 2001 the Species 2000 and ITIS organisations, that had previously worked separately, decided to work together to create the Catalogue of Life, now estimated at 1.9 million species (Chapman, 2009). The two organisations remain separate and different in structure. However, by working together in creating a common product, the partnership has enabled them to reduce duplication of effort, make better use of resources, and to accelerate production. The combined Annual Checklist has become well established as a cited reference used for data compilation and comparison. For instance, it is used as the principal taxonomic index in the GBIF and EoL data portals and recognised by the CBD.
The scientific policy for the Catalogue of Life programme is developed by the CoL Global Team: David Eades (Convenor, USA), Tom Orrell (USA), Richard Pyle (USA), Mike Ruggiero (USA), Richard White (UK), Jeya Kathirithamby (UK), Alastair Culham (UK), Jerry Cooper (New Zealand), Mark Costello (New Zealand), Nicolas Bailly (Philippines), Thierry Bourgoin (France), Christina Flann (The Netherlands), Li-Qiang Ji (China), Patricia Mergen (Belgium), Heimo Rainer (Austria), Tony Rees (Australia), with further assistance from the Regional Hubs.
Species 2000 is an autonomous federation of taxonomic database custodians, involving taxonomists throughout the world. The goal is to collate a uniform and validated index to the world's known species. Species 2000 is registered as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee (registered in England No. 3479405) with six directors, and taxonomic database and relevant software organisations from around the world as members. It started from a TDWG Task Group; sponsored by CODATA, IUBS and IUMS; is an associate participant in GBIF, a data provider to EC LifeWatch; and is recognised by UNEP and the CBD. Its Phase II Programme includes EC 4D4Life and i4Life e-infrastructure projects (see below). 4D4Life included the establishment of a Global Multi-Hub Network with Regional Centres in China, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil and N. America. i4Life includes pipelines for data exchange and checklist harmonisation with GBIF, EBI/NSDC, Barcode of Life, IUCN Red List and EoL.
Species 2000 is governed by an elected Board of Directors that deals with legal and financial matters, and that is advised by the CoL Global Team on scientific policy. The Directors are presently: Peter Schalk (Chair, The Netherlands), Alex Gray (UK), David Eades (Convenor of the CoL Global Team, USA), Guy Baillargeon (Canada), Vanderlei Canhos (Brazil) and Keping Ma (China).
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a partnership of federal agencies and other organizations from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with data stewards and experts from around the world (see www.itis.gov). The ITIS database is an automated reference of scientific and common names of biota of interest to North America and includes global treatment for many groups. ITIS contains more than 762,000 scientific and common names in all kingdoms, is accessible via the World Wide Web in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese (itis.gbif.net) and is an associate member of GBIF. ITIS supplies both global and New World groups to the Catalogue of Life – with emphasis on GSDs.
ITIS is managed by Gerald Guala (Director), Thomas Orrell (Deputy Director), Michael Ruggiero (Senior Scientific Advisor), David Nicolson (Data Development Leader), Mike Frame (Information Technology Leader), Roy McDiarmid (Taxonomy Leader), James Macklin (ITIS-Canada Director), and Patricia Koleff (SIIT-Mexico Director). They are advised and supported by the ITIS Steering Committee and ITIS Data Stewards.
Taxonomic Opinion
The Catalogue of Life provides an integrated, simplified perspective on taxonomy:
Peer review, undertaken by three independent experts, will establish whether a database is of sufficient quality to address a specific gap in the Catalogue.
The Catalogue is structured around a management classification, which provides a robust hierarchy for all species. The development of the management classification, and its relationship to various competing views of evolutionary relationship, is discussed by Dennis Gordon in a paper published with the Catalogue. Read more
Within a contributing Global Species Database, the taxonomic structure reflects the opinion of its custodian; each Database is attached within the management classification at a single node.
Global Species Database Partners
The Catalogue of Life depends upon the contributions of more than 130 Global Species Databases:
Global Species Databases are established at centres of expertise around the world, and the task continues to identify data sources that address gaps in the Catalogue.
Global Species Databases are validated for inclusion by independent peer review, ensuring that the best available sources are identified. A few of the datasets contain data only for specific regions, where global coverage has not yet been achieved: these are clearly identified in the data. Completeness of data within individual databases is indicated within the dataset, based upon an assessment by the contributor.
The source databases are diverse in their origin, their purpose and therefore their structure. A key challenge for the Catalogue of Life has been the integration of this disparate data, and a standard dataset has been established for that purpose.
Global Species Databases aspire to the following properties:
- cover one taxon worldwide
- contain a taxonomic checklist of all species within that taxon
- deal with species as taxa, and contain synonymy and taxonomic opinion
- have an explicit mechanism for seeking at least one responsible / concensus taxonomy, and applying it consistently
- cross-index significant alternative taxonomies in their synonymy
Regional Centre Partners
For some of the least well-known groups of organisms, no one is creating global species databases:
However, complete databases are being created at regional level, and these have particular significance in the mega-diverse regions.
A key element of the development programme for the Catalogue of Life (through originally the EU Framework 7 4D4Life project) is modelling the future integration of these major regional centres.
Species 2000 Europa (2003-2006) provided the opportunity for developing the concept of regional hubs, and for building a prototype with EuroCat, the European complete regional checklist.
The checklist established the principle of collating a distributed array of existing taxonomic databases, each enhanced on a continuing basis by taxonomic experts. It established the means to look up biological information, essential classification and accepted names, synonyms, and common names of any species. That distributed array continues as an integrated function of the Catalogue of Life.
ITIS is the North America node of Species 2000 is provided by ITIS, and funded by the US Federal Government. It is based at the Smithsonian Institution and is a partnership designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species, with Canadian and Mexican government agencies participating. The primary focus of ITIS is North American species, but many groups are worldwide.
ITIS also partners Species 2000 with the common goal to create the Catalogue of Life.
Species 2000 China Node was established in 2006 by the Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, through the Institute of Botany and Institute of Zoology CAS. Annual editions of the Catalogue of Life China have been published since 2008, which is an important data source for the CoL annual checklist since 2013(?).
New Zealand Organisms Register (NZOR), is nationally funded at LandCare Research, a Crown Institute.
Landcare Research is one of nine independent Crown Research Institutes founded in 1992, and is New Zealand's leading provider of solutions and advice for sustainable development and the management of land-based natural resources.
Catalogo da Vida Brasil , is in development by CRIA in Campinas, working with the Brazilian Ministry of Science & Technology.
The aim of CRIA (Reference Center on Environmental Information) is to contribute towards a more sustainable use of Brazilian biodiversity through the dissemination of high quality scientific information to support policy and decision-making, and to promote education for sustainable development. CRIA's activities are focused on the development of information systems for the dynamic integration and visualization of biodiversity data from distributed information resources.
Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a federally funded programme at CSIRO (Entomology), in partnership with the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS).
ABRS is part of the Parks Australia Division of the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. It was established to coordinate research in taxonomy and document the flora and fauna of Australia and is Australia's national focal point for taxonomy.
ALA is a partnership of Australian scientific institutions and organisations, and is developing a data management system to catalogue and organise information relevant to the study of Australia's biodiversity. The project will bring together information from a wide variety of sources, including many of the country's most significant natural history collections and herbaria, ecological and observational data sets, images, online literature, diagnostic tools and molecular data.
Funding & Support
Content and infrastructure for the Catalogue of Life have was built with funding from 4D4life. Content, infrastructure and outreach are being enhanced with funding from i4Life, and further support for the secretariat of Species 2000 has been provided by OpenBio.
4D4Life (Dynamic Distributed Databases for Life)
A Scientific Data Infrastructures Project (2009-2012) of the European Commission's e-Infrastructure Programme, itself part of the Capacities Programme of Framework 7.
4D4Life established the Catalogue of Life as a state of the art e-science facility based on an enhanced service-based distributed architecture. This makes it available for integration into analytical and synthetic distributed networks such as those developing in conservation, climate change, invasive species, molecular biodiversity and regulatory domains. The project strengthened the development of Global Species Databases that provide the core of the service, and extended the geographical reach of the programme beyond Europe. Service Activities, the largest part of 4D4Life, created new electronic taxonomy services, including synonymy server, taxon name-change, and download services.
i4Life (Indexing for Life)
A European e-Infrastructure project, co-funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The project was launched in 2010. i4Life is a continuation and expansion of the 4D4Life project.
i4Life has one principal goal – to provide tools for the comparison and harmonisation of the various species catalogues used by six global biodiversity programmes using the Catalogue of Life as a yardstick. This goal will be achieved by the establishing of a virtual research community that will interlink and harmonise the taxonomic catalogues presently used by each of the global partners and to create an enhanced list of the entire set of organisms.
Open Bio
OpenBio aims to combine the Biodiversity Science and the Open Access Movement, promoting the concept of the openness for scientific research. The project will deploy an open-access platform from the federation and integration of existing European and Brazilian infrastructures and resources, making significant strides towards fully supporting the needs and requirements of the biodiversity scientific community.
EUBrazilOpenBio (288754) is a Small or medium-scale focused research project (STREP) funded by the European Commission under the Cooperation Programme, Framework Programme Seven (FP7).
Prof. Frank Bisby 1945-2011
Prof Frank Bisby 1945 - 2011
The Catalogue of Life was the driving vision of Frank Bisby, its founder and champion. Frank was a leader in the global communication of taxonomy and biodiversity informatics and a passionate advocate for his science. He had a profound impact on this international effort to catalogue the world's species.
Obituary, published by Prof Vernon Heywood in
Flora Mediterraneana 21: 345-353 (2011).
Global Partner Programmes
The Catalogue of Life is evolving to provide an effective partner to six global biodiversity programmes (through the i4Life European e-Infrastructure project, 2010-2013), creating an ecosystem of services. The Catalogue is able to support the needs of these partner programmes in establishing validated taxonomy, and moreover share a variety of related services amongst all.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
- IUCN Red List
- Encyclopedia of Life
- EMBL European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
- LifeWatch
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
GBIF is a distributed and digital infrastructure which builds upon the collective efforts of and contributions of thousands of scientists in hundreds of institutions across the world. It is also serves many different communities. The richness and importance of this data is recognised widely by different organisations in science and society. The Convention on Biological Diversity and other international conventions, land-use planners and the agricultural sector, are all asking for new services which GBIF can help to deliver. The Catalogue of Life feeds into the GBIF infrastructure.
The taxon portal in GBIF. GBIF's mission is to make the world's biodiversity data freely and universally available via the Internet. As a megascience initiative, GBIF aims to provide an essential global informatics infrastructure for biodiversity research and applications worldwide. The GBIF primary biodiversity data store provides an index of over 300 million data records from over 10,000 different databases.
Catalogue of Life has provided a standard dataset to GBIF since 2007.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
The various "barcoding of life" initiatives like the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBOL), The International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) or the Quarantaine Barcoding of Life proje (QBOL) are currently one of the major sources of new species. BOL projects and principles are helping scientists to discover substantial numbers of cryptic species. New tools have been created to help identifying existing taxa and new tools are currently under development to discover the vast majority of the species biodiversity that remains unknown.
BOLD - The Barcode of Life Data Systems is an online workbench that aids collection, management, analysis, and use of DNA barcodes. It consists of 3 components (MAS, IDS, and ECS) that each address the needs of various groups in the barcoding community.
The specification for the BOLD/ECBOL pipeline has been established.
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List is widely recognized as one of the fundamental tools to support conservation planning, management, monitoring, and decision making, with growing value for, among others:
- broadening and strengthening our understanding of human impact on biodiversity;
- helping to track progress towards major global biodiversity-related targets;
- influencing globally flexible conservation spending; and 4) demonstrating the importance and value of biodiversity to society.
The IUCN Red List is fundamentally a database of information related to species risk of extinction and conservation needs. Information is presented at the species level and therefore the Red List has a taxonomic backbone at its core.
The IUCN Red List profiles over 47,000 species and is growing each year.
A pipeline is being developed to transmit Catalogue of Life updates to IUCN, and additional IUCN Red List name data to the Catalogue. A cross-mapping process is also being established to relate the two taxonomic systems.
The goal of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is to compile and make available over the Internet as much information as possible about the world's species of plants, animals and microorganisms. A collaborative effort involving several of the world's leading science institutions—Harvard University, the Field Museum, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Smithsonian Institution, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and the Missouri Botanical Garden.
EOL expects that it will take ten years to gather basic information on all 1.9 million species of extant organisms.
The Encyclopedia of Life uses the Catalogue of Life Annual Edition as its taxonomic backbone.
EMBL Euopean Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
The longest running nucleotide archive collaboration, the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC), has been underway for over a quarter of a century and now serves as a model for data sharing in the life sciences.
Amongst the European Bioinformatics Initiative (EBI) data services, it is the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) that harbours data from the largest range of organisms. Each of approximately 300,000 species names is associated with at least one archival nucleotide sequence record. Complete genome services at EBI have greatly limited organism coverage; we know about 4,500 completed and ongoing sequencing projects. Following the route of biological information from genomic nucleotides through transcription, translation, protein interactions, pathways and whole systems, organism coverage rapidly drops. The ENA uses the taxonomic classification of organisms that is maintained at NCBI, but through INSDC has strong collaboration with the group such that newly found organisms are classified as sequence is submitted.
ELIXIR is an EU-funded programme to construct and operate a sustainable infrastructure for biological information in Europe to support life science research and its translation to medicine and the environment, the bio-industries and society. Building the Catalogue of Life pipeline to the ENA provides a basis upon which the taxonomic infrastructure of ELIXIR may be built.
A pipeline is being developed to transmit Catalogue of Life updates to EBI, and additional EBI name data to the Catalogue. A cross-mapping process is also being established to relate the two taxonomic systems.
The LifeWatch infrastructure for biodiversity research will support the development of integrated, large-scale data resources, advanced analytical and modelling capabilities with computational power. LifeWatch will not only serve the scientific community, but will also be an essential tool for local and global policy makers in the understanding and the rational management of our ecosystems. It draws upon a previous programme, EDIT.
Edit The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) was built as the collective answer of 29 leading European, North American and Russian institutions to a call of the European Commission, issued in 2004, for a network in 'Taxonomy for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research'. The EDIT consortium agreement started in 2006 and lasted 5 years. The EDIT cyberplatform is planned for integration as a component of the LifeWatch Virtual Laboratory.
A pipeline for transmitting Catalogue of Life updates to the EDIT cyberplatform is under development


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I love to find a big buck rubs when I'm deer hunting. Seeing a big one really gets me fired up. When you first see one, usually you make a b-line straight to it, to check it out, then you start scanning the immediate area for more rubs or scrapes.
Locating And Interpreting Deer Sign
A lot of times when you find rubs you will find scrapes also. If you find an area that has a high concentration of big buck rubs, and or scrapes, or a rub line, you should hang a stand downwind of this area and hunt it.
Late in the summer to early fall the bucks begin to rub to remove velvet from their antlers. At this time they are usually in bachelor groups.
Then as fall approaches their testosterone levels increase, they separate and get more aggressive. And they strengthen their neck muscles by rubbing and sparring with other bucks. Also, they leave their scent when they make rubs. They have forehead scent glands, and when a dominant whitetail leaves his scent on a rub. It let's the other deer know that he is way up the social ladder. A buck that is out looking for love during the rut can scent check a rub and usually tell if there is a more dominant buck in the area.
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Rubs can help you determine which direction a buck was traveling. If the scarred side of the tree is facing the feeding area, usually that would be when he exited his bedroom in the evening to go feed. If the scarred side is facing the bedding area, that would be when he is returning to his bedroom early in the morning.
When I was sixteen, I went deer hunting at my uncles house in Madison county in Georgia. It was the day before Thanksgiving and I had discovered my first rub line on a hardwood ridge, that was beautiful. I was so excited to hunt the spot I drove over an hour by myself early that morning. When I got there it was starting to break daylight. I had just enough time to get my portable Baker tree stand on the tree, and get up the tree.
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I was now overlooking the first rub line I had ever hunted over. It was a cold frosty morning and I could hear the buck making his way towards me down the ridge. I shot him at about forty yards. And didn't realize it at the time but the rub line was leading from the feeding area to the bucks bedding area. I was an inexperienced deer hunter back then. But I knew this spot was special when I saw those rubs leading the way down that ridge. It was the first racked buck I had ever taken. And man I was proud. I had to drag that big boy out all by my self. When I called my dad to tell him I got it, I think I made it seem a lot bigger than it actually was. I was excited.
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Sister Eileen Connelly watches over cats she finds, or that find her
Sister Eileen Connelly remembers the one-word prayer she uttered the day she was running errands, left her car door open for a moment and watched as a cat dashed across the street and jumped inside:
Cats are not, by a long shot, the Ursuline Sisters of Cincinnati nun's vocation. She is devoted to God, her religious order and serving others as news editor of the Catholic Telegraph and in various volunteer roles. Still, cats' appearances in her life have been more providential than incidental.
There was the cold, rainy Ash Wednesday when a skinny stray appeared from beneath the car next to hers seeking human help.
There was the Good Friday when an injured Siamese turned up in the midst of a colony of feral cats she feeds.
Or the Holy Thursday call from a neighbor reporting a hungry stray eating out of garbage cans.
Cats - their coats covered in ice - have emerged before her on the street on sub-freezing days. They've turned up hungry at her front door.
"It's not like I go out looking for cats. They find me," says the nun, who keeps a statue of St. Francis of Assisi at her front door. "There are times I wonder how the heck I ever got involved in this because it's not something I ever imagined doing. I find myself asking, 'Why me?'"
But then a stray or injured cat turns up needing help, and the question quickly becomes, "Why not me?"
Every day she uses her lunch hour or stops on her way to work to feed street cats, devoting more of her salary to cat food than to her own needs. "It's just a matter of prioritization," she says. Through the services of Ohio Alleycat Resource where she volunteers, she's made sure the feral cats have had medical treatment and been neutered or spayed.
She's been a foster caregiver to dozens of rescued cats that needed socialization before they were ready for adoption. The spare bedroom she thought would hold nieces and nephews or friends has instead been temporary shelter for Snickers, Danny Boy, Sugar, Asher and Frankie - named, of course, for St. Francis.
Meanwhile, she has trapped and rescued more than 100 strays from her neighborhood and the feral colony she unofficially oversees, either having them spayed or neutered and releasing them or helping them find homes.
It all sounds much easier than it's actually been. Needy cats have a habit of appearing at the least convenient moment, the Holy Thursday cat being a case in point. "I remember driving home thinking how much I was looking forward to a reflective Good Friday and Easter ... and didn't want anything to complicate that," she says.
Instead, Lacey the stray was waiting to be rescued. That she died a few months later from multiple health problems made her rescue only that much more meaningful.
Earning the trust of a terrified street cat - which can take Connelly as long as two years - is her chief reward. But just as poignant is being part of a circle of volunteers who stay with an injured or ill animal during its final moments.
"To be present with a human or an animal in the process of losing its life - oh, gosh, it's an honor to be part of that," says the nun, who has been a hospice volunteer. "Some cats were in such bad shape they had to be put to sleep, but at least they didn't die alone. They had people there who cared."
But she's cautious about to whom she says such things. Cats are neither a vocation nor an obsession for her, nor can she be a depository for any more of them. But she knows, as cats keep singling her out, that they are creatures she is called to serve.
"I think of a song we sing that says, 'We are called to feed the hungry at our door.' I can't say for sure that God wants me to help cats, but when one runs across the street and jumps into my car?" She shrugs and smiles in resignation. "How else can I view that?"
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Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707) is known for his many organ works. However, no significant portion of his choral music is in the standard performing repertoire. Buxtehude's large-scale choral work Membra Jesu Nostri should be considered a seminal "passion" composition in part because of its historic position in early German Lutheran church music. It also serves as an example of the heightened levels of affect in a seventeenth century devotional passion. To better understand Buxtehude and his music, an overview of his life, career and religious beliefs are discussed, including the incorporation of pietism and mysticism in his cantata, Membra Jesu …
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(CNN) -- The deaths of at least 25 workers in a West Virginia coal mine this week have turned a harsh spotlight on the safety record of the mine's owner, which has paid record fines for safety and environmental violations.
Virginia-based Massey Energy Co. has racked up millions of dollars in penalties in recent years. The Montcoal, West Virginia, mine where Monday's fatal explosion took place received 458 citations from federal inspectors in 2009, and more than 50 of those were for problems that the operators knew about but had not corrected, according to federal mine safety records.
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration hit the company with nearly $900,000 in fines in 2009 and has sought more than $100,000 in the first quarter of 2010. Inspectors cited the operators more than 100 times in the first quarter of 2010, including six times for "unwarrantable failure" to correct violations.
"They had a doubling of the number of site citations from 2008 to 2009 and a doubling or a tripling of the penalties," said Davitt McAteer, who led the Mine Safety and Health Administration during the Clinton administration. "What that suggests to you is ... that there are problems here and that those problems are not being addressed."
Massey Energy has paid less than $200,000 of the penalties assessed at the Upper Big Branch South Mine in Montcoal and is challenging some of the penalties. Its CEO, Don Blankenship, told CNN that his company's facilities are "typically in better shape than others in the area or in the country."
"We would take great exception to the fact that someone would claim Massey's mines aren't generally safer than competitor coal mines," he said.
He said the company was "uncomfortable" with the number of violations reported, but said tighter enforcement has driven up the numbers of violations across the industry since the Sago Mine disaster that killed 12 men in 2006 in Tallmansville, West Virginia.
"Certainly violations are a bad indicator, but they're not a sole source for judging safety performance," Blankenship said.
Massey Energy is the fourth-largest American coal producer and the largest mine operator in central Appalachia. It churned out 38 million tons of coal in 2009, 1.2 million tons of which came from the Upper Big Branch South Mine, and reported earnings of $497 million.
Its annual corporate "social responsibility report" says that safety is its No. 1 concern and that its employees "are the best-trained, most productive, and safest miners in the world."
But McAteer said on CNN's "American Morning" that "some companies, and this appears to be one, take the approach that these violations are simply a cost of doing business -- it's cheaper for us to mine in an unsafe way or in a way that risks people's lives than it is for us to comply with the statutes, comply with the laws."
Monday's explosion at the Upper Big Branch South Mine was the fourth fatal accident there in 12 years.
In addition, a 2006 fire killed two miners in the Alma Mine No. 1, operated by Massey subsidiary Aracoma Coal Co. Aracoma pleaded guilty to 10 criminal charges in connection with the fire and paid a record $4.2 million in fines and civil penalties.
In January 2008, Massey paid $20 million in fines for Clean Water Act violations at coal mines in West Virginia and Kentucky. Federal regulators accused the company of violating its Clean Water Act permits more than 4,500 times between January 2000 and December 2006, sometimes discharging more than 10 times the allowable amounts of metals, sediment and acids into rivers and lakes in those states.
And another Massey subsidiary paid more than $3.5 million in state and federal penalties after about 250 million gallons of coal sludge spilled into rivers and streams around Inez, Kentucky, in 2000. Federal investigators determined that the company could have prevented the spill.
Industry analyst Ellen Smith said the safety record of Massey mines has improved "as a whole" over the past few years, and three installations won safety awards in 2009.
"That said, there are troubling issues here at this particular mine where the explosion happened," said Smith, managing editor of the trade publication Mine Safety and Health News.
Smith said that what raises the biggest red flags at the Upper Big Branch South Mine, which employs about 200 miners, are "unwarrantable failure" violations, which include citations involving escape routes for miners and air quality ventilation, according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records.
"One mine that we looked at for comparison purposes had two unwarrantable failure violations last year, but it had 500 miners underground. It was working a lot of hours," Smith said. "Another mine we looked at was a West Virginia mine, and I think they had six unwarrantable failure violations in one year, where this particular mine -- not Massey in general, but this particular mine -- had six unwarrantable failures since January."
Massey operates 44 underground and surface mines, and controls 2.2 billion tons of coal reserves in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.
A post on its Web site touts the company's 2009 safety record, saying it "marked the sixth consecutive year and the 17th year out of the past 20 years in which Massey's safety performance was stronger than the industry average."
CNN's Scott Bronstein contributed to this report.


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I can now set hardware breakpoints on code execution and fully monitor all HW regs, probably this will develop into at least doing snapshots on the fly.
Implement a gdb stub on it and that would be an *amazing* device. (well, it already is, but you know, *more*)
But, in a nutshell - what is a Galaxy Zen80 board?
Wow this sounds great Duke what is your estimated ETC for these, I would be very interested buying one.
Will the features (except ROM and RAM) also be available for the native CPC-OS?
What exactly do you mean by FDC emulation?
Put me on the list too :-) The extenal version I guess, since it can be used for more CPCs by plugging and 8 MB RAM is nice too.
But how do you address the 8 MB? And are they compatible to the 4 MB expansions? The latter one would be really important since this would support already existing 4 MB software.
That's just right And about the 'more than 512 KB' expansions. Up to now they are all compatible, I mean this expansions:- Tot0' Y-MEM (enhances to 1 MB via port &7Exx)- RAM7's 2 MB (enhances to 2 MB via ports &7Fxx to &7Cxx)- RPalmers 2 MB (enhances to 2 MB via ports &7Fxx to &7Cxx)- Jareks 4 MB (enhances to 4 MB via ports &7Fxx to &78xx)- Piotrs 4 MB (enhances to 4 MB via ports &7Fxx to &78xx)The all do the same using one port address for 512 KB, by decreasing the high-byte they add anothe 512 KB block.
Well, it could be absolutely cool to have a DMA on chip which can transfer inside all the 8 MB RAM :-)
And I really hope you can do finish your two great upcoming boards during one single life
Would it be possible to 'control' the new expansion by software running in ROM too? If not there will be other solutions.
Ok, since the Galaxy board will emulate/simulate/control RAM and ROM ... and it plugs into the CPU socket... would it be possible to run the Z80 with 8 MHz? Just take the Z80H and the CPU will be fine.I got one 6128 here running at 6 MHz, the whole system is more quick, but it won't work with 8 MHz.So in case of the Galaxy: Can there be a "switch" to speed up to 8 MHz (or even more) - except for I/O instructions (slower hardware on CPC-PCB?).Sorry for spamming your thread ;-) It's just an idea I had :-)
What are you considering as the GX4000 configuration? 512KB + FDC + Simulated Disk Drive (Gotek compatible? Could you use FlashFloppy and attach an OLED display?) + WiFi/Bluetooth for Keyboard?
Well since it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to lay hands on a Plus any time in the foreseeable future, I should start watching for GX4000's now...(wish I'd got one back when there was a glut... oh well)
how about adding an 80Mhz coldfire or similar as per the Microbee?
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Nicki Minaj and Cardi B were involved in an altercation that got physical at a New York Fashion Week party.
Video circulating on social media shows Cardi B lunging toward someone and being held back at Harper's Bazaar Icons party on Friday night.
Another video shows the platinum rapper being escorted out of the event by security.
A person who witnessed the incident said Minaj was finishing up a conversation with someone when Cardi B tried to attack her, but Minaj's security guards intervened.
Cardi B, wearing a voluminous red Dolce & Gabanna gown, was seen leaving the party with what appeared to be a bump on her head.
She and Minaj have been rap rivals since Cardi B began achieving huge success over the last year.
In a post on Instagram, Cardi didn't call out Minaj by name but alluded to the fight and said she was sparked because her mothering skills were being disparaged.
She and rapper Offset recently had their first child together, a girl.
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By Jim Rapoza, Senior Research Analyst & Editorial Director, Aberdeen Group
This is a Brocade sponsored guest post by Aberdeen Senior Research Analyst and Editorial Director, Jim Rapoza. Jim is a guest blogger
In a famous scene from the classic comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, an elderly plague "victim" denies claims that he has passed on. "Not dead yet!" he exclaims, every time he is referred to as dead.
Being called dead before your time is a common occurrence. Even Mark Twain once said, "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." And in the world of technology, calling a once popular and heavily used technology "dead" is pretty much a common pastime.
However, like Mark Twain or the old plague victim, these claims of death are often, not only premature, but dead wrong. In fact, the "dead" technologies often continue to have long lives where they fulfill critical missions for enterprises and business.
The list of "dead" technologies that are not just hanging on, but providing vital capabilities is actually quite long. Mainframe computers have been "dead" for many years now, which is often quite surprising to the many businesses, governments and manufacturing firms that rely on mainframes to run the key elements of their organization. Tape backup has been called dead so many times that it should change its name to Dracula, but look at the storage infrastructure of many organizations and its common to find tape as the last and often most critical line of backup defense.
And now another vital technology is proving claims of its imminent demise to be pretty much false. For many years now, pundits and some technology firms have been digging the grave and carving the headstone for Fibre Channel. Basically, the line for these funeral directors was "you had a good run, you made it possible for storage area networks to stay connected and run well, but you're time is up and new technologies like pure high-speed Ethernet are going to take over your job." Interestingly, these claims aren't new; in fact, you can find articles proclaiming the death of Fibre Channel that are five, seven, even ten years old.
Of course, it's understandable why people have been predicting Fibre Channel's demise for a while now. Who doesn't like the cool new thing? It's easy to watch Jennifer Lawrence and think "she's the best actor around", and forget that Meryl Streep is still out there cranking out great performance after great performance.
In the world of Storage Area Networks, it's easy to look at the increasing speeds of Ethernet and think, "Why can't a 40Gb or 100Gb Ethernet network replace Fibre Channel". This thinking only grew as more and more infrastructure moved to virtual architectures and the cloud, which seemed to be better fits for Ethernet.
But as I mentioned in a blog post on why technology predictions tend to fail, most people who make predictions tend to have a hard time looking past hype and their particular industry blinders (as in a cloud oriented person will look at Fibre Channel differently than a storage person). And this is why those predictions of Fibre Channel's death from seven years ago look pretty short sighted today.
Talk to large businesses about their storage infrastructure and you'll see Fibre Channel playing a key role. Aberdeen research shows that 52% of organizations use Fibre Channel and 34% use Fibre Channel in their top tier, highest performance required infrastructure. Not only that, Fibre Channel is the number one choice for these critical infrastructures.
And not only is Fibre Channel still dominant now, its future doesn't look bad either. The Fibre Channel Industry Association has announced the 6th generation of Fibre Channel, which will double current speeds and offers other benefits such as improved energy efficiency, increased reliability and better disaster recovery capabilities. And in Aberdeen's survey, when businesses were asked what technology they expected to be the dominant storage network architecture in five years, 26% said Fibre Channel, hardly the answer one would expect from a "dead" technology.
Look for future blog posts in the next couple of months as I investigate how businesses are using Fibre Channel today and what the future of storage networks and data centers holds. Because there is definitely a future, and for a dead man walking, Fibre Channel seems to moving pretty well.
Jim Rapoza is the Aberdeen Group's Senior Research Analyst and Editorial Director. For over twenty years he has been using, testing, and writing about the newest technologies in software, enterprise hardware and the Internet.