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Paz tells trustees collaboration is key to Penn State Hershey's growth
In an environment offering challenges that include health care reform, declining health care reimbursement, growing ranks of uninsured patients, and uncertainty around government funding for health sciences education and biomedical research, Harold Paz, M.D, told University Trustees that the key to success for Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is building relationships with new partners and even old competitors.
During his annual Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine address on Friday (March 16), Paz, who serves as the Medical Center's chief executive officer, Penn State's senior vice president for health affairs, and dean of the College of Medicine, said Penn State Hershey has forged various partnerships with nearly every hospital in central Pennsylvania over the past six years.
Paz told trustees that collaboration with hospitals, health systems, and other providers has not only helped the Medical Center's bottom line but has enabled Penn State Hershey to effectively advance its missions of education, research, patient care, and community service, while complementing the care offered by many of the region's community health providers. He said it also has helped keep patients and families in need of vital specialty and subspecialty services from having to leave the region for their care.
"As central Pennsylvania's only academic medical center we have a responsibility to serve our community by producing the next generation of health care professionals and biomedical scientists, discovering new medical knowledge that will improve health, and providing state-of-the-art care for serious or life-threatening conditions," said Paz. "In many cases, the most effective way to advance those missions is to collaborate with community hospitals and regional health systems, including those with which we sometimes compete."
The Medical Center has grown significantly since the start of Paz's tenure in April 2006. More than 1.5 million square feet of facilities have been added to its Hershey campus, including a 175,000-square-foot home for Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and the new free-standing Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital, which is set to open in November.
The organization also formed the Penn State Hershey Medical Group, a multi-specialty practice that now includes more than 900 employed physicians and clinical providers. The medical group has added many new medical clinics in the last five years — three in State College alone — to bring its total number of practice sites to 58 across central Pennsylvania.
In part, the facilities expansion comes in response to substantial clinical growth over the past six years. Paz reported significant increases in hospital admissions (up 10 percent), surgical cases (up 23 percent), emergency department visits (up 27 percent) and outpatient visits (up 16 percent). Buoyed by the increased volumes, he stated that Medical Center revenues have consistently stayed ahead of expenses over the past six years.
Meanwhile extramural research funding has increased steadily from $95 million in 2006 to more than $105 million last year. In 2011, the Medical Center and College of Medicine secured a five-year $27.3 million Clinical and Translational Science Award on behalf of Penn State from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to accelerate the translation of scientific discovery into methods for improving public health.
With the substantial growth Penn State Hershey has experienced and the changes brought on by health care reform, simply expanding facilities is not enough, Paz told Trustees. He said Penn State Hershey needs to find a broader clinical platform to support and successfully integrate all of its core missions and that work on such a platform is well under way.
Penn State Hershey Health System was established in 2008 to enable the creation of joint ventures and hospital affiliations with local health systems and other providers.
The Health System now includes a joint venture partnership with Select Medical, which built and operates the free-standing Penn State Hershey Rehabilitation Hospital, an acute care hospital located one mile from the Medical Center's Hershey campus. The 54-bed facility, completed in 2010, has 44 beds dedicated to the care of adults and 10 inpatient beds for pediatric rehab patients to complement the care provided by Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. The hospital also serves as the operational home for the new Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, also established in 2010.
Another Health System collaboration is the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (PPI) with Harrisburg-based PinnacleHealth. PPI provides inpatient and outpatient behavioral health and includes a 74-bed hospital with specific units for pediatric, adult and geriatric patients.
"These partnerships enabled us to create state-of-the-art facilities to deliver specialized care and meet vital health needs within our community," said Paz. "But they also provide unique opportunities to train future health care professionals and study novel approaches to diagnosing, treating and preventing illness and injury."
Among the most significant developments Paz shared with trustees is the growth in the number of hospital affiliations the Health System has established. While some are limited to academic relationships involving medical education and research, others are far more comprehensive and focused on having Penn State Hershey physicians provide cutting-edge specialty care to patients at local community hospitals. The number of affiliates has more than doubled since 2006, going from eight to 17.
The most recent inter-hospital relationship, announced on March 6, involves Carlisle Regional Medical Center collaborating with Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute to provide patients with greater access to comprehensive oncology services and clinical trials close to their homes.
Paz also shared with trustees that the Health System has developed a new telemedicine program and expects to announce the first set of partner hospitals in a few weeks.
"In the 21st century there are many ways to partner," said Paz. "The method may vary, be it a physical building, placing clinical providers at a partner hospital, or using technology to create real time consults among physicians and clinical staff at multiple locations."
What is certain, according to Paz, is that the health care environment is changing rapidly and significantly. Many hospitals are rushing to keep up or catch up. A great deal of progress has been made over the past few years in advancing Penn State Hershey's fully integrated health care system across the region, Paz told trustees. He said the goal has been to position Penn State Hershey for the enormous changes facing health care in the years to come.
"We are well-positioned for the future, whether it includes pay-for-performance models, accountable care organizations, bundled payments or all of the above." said Paz. "We have a competitive advantage in that we already employ all of our physicians. We own and operate our Medical Group practices. We have a breadth of clinical services complemented by strong research and education programs. We have many of the key pieces already in place and we have every intention of staying ahead of the curve."
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Library Journal When Tyler was ten years old, he and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, witnessed the night the stars "disappeared," leaving a protective barrier separating Earth from the rest of the universe and slowing the passage of time within the barrier. Jason becomes a scientist devoted to finding a way to break through Earth's artificial shell before the acceleration of time outside the barrier brings about the death of the sun within the world's foreseeable future. Diane joins an apocalyptic cult, and Tyler dedicates his life to preserving the sanity of the people he loves best-even when he discovers Jason's hidden agenda. The author of Darwinia and Blind Lake crafts a tale of apocalyptic proportions, blending the best of hard science and speculative fiction with a poignant tale of childhood's end. Recommended for most libraries. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Publishers Weekly One night the stars go out. From that breathtaking "what if," Wilson (Blind Lake, etc.) builds an astonishingly successful m?lange of SF thriller, growing-up saga, tender love story, father-son conflict, ecological parable and apocalyptic fable in prose that sings the music of the spheres. The narrative time oscillates effortlessly between Tyler Dupree's early adolescence and his near-future young manhood haunted by the impending death of the sun and the earth. Tyler's best friends, twins Diane and Jason Lawton, take two divergent paths: Diane into a troubling religious cult of the end, Jason into impassioned scientific research to discover the nature of the galactic Hypotheticals whose "Spin" suddenly sealed Earth in a "cosmic baggie," making one of its days equal to a hundred million years in the universe beyond. As convincing as Wilson's scientific hypothesizing is-biological, astrophysical, medical-he excels even more dramatically with the infinitely intricate, minutely nuanced relationships among Jason, Diane and Tyler, whose older self tries to save them both with medicines from Mars, terraformed through Jason's genius into an incubator for new humanity. This brilliant excursion into the deepest inner and farthest outer spaces offers doorways into new worlds-if only humankind strives and seeks and finds and will not yield compassion for our fellow beings. Agent, Shawna McCarthy. (Apr. 14) FYI: Wilson's novel The Chronoliths won the John W. Campbell Award; three of his novels have been Hugo finalists. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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When Rashed Singaby, Principal at HOK, was contacted by a former client about how an existing stadium could be retrofitted to host esports events, he immediately knew this was an opportunity to create a blueprint for a type of space that has never existed before. Singaby and his team formulated a small research group to test and understand both the standards for each type of esports game and classify them into operational substructures. Since each game requires its own type of setup, it was important to ultimately conceptualize the design ideas and make recommendations for how existing spaces could be modified in order to best consume and be involved in the experience of esports activities.
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Pattern formation and development of the visual system in Drosophila
Our laboratory focuses on two major developmental questions: The evolution of early embryonic development and the establishment of retinal and brain circuitry that underlies color vision. These distinct systems represent paradigms for understanding how pattern formation is genetically controlled.
* The first project is an Evo-Devo approach to the earliest steps of insect development, the formation of the antero-posterior embryonic axis. In flies, the morphogenetic gradient of the Bicoid protein is essential for anterior development. However, bicoid is not conserved and is a newly evolved gene that has taken over the ancestral function. We are using the wasp Nasonia as an alternate model system to study how a very distant species patterns its axis. Nasonia is a Hymenoptera that diverged from Diptera over 200MY ago but exhibits a long germband mode of development similar to flies. The genome of Nasonia is sequenced and there are early developmental mutants and parental RNAi to address gene function. We have shown that Nasonia, like flies, utilizes an anterior morphogenetic center to generate the patterning information required for the formation of all segments but uses localized otd instead of bcd mRNA. Our ongoing investigations attempt to understand the entire segmentation pattern in Nasonia, with the goal of reaching the same level of mechanistic detail as in Drosophila.
* The other system that we study is the determination of the retinal mosaic that underlies color vision in flies. Color vision is achieved through the comparison in the brain of inputs coming from photoreceptors containing rhodopsins with different wavelength specificity. Different rhodopsins are expressed in stochastic but mutually exclusive patterns in the compound eye of Drosophila as in cones of the vertebrate retina. A given rhodopsin gene is stochastically chosen, leading to repression of all others. Another mechanism must then inform the brain of its connection to a photoreceptor with a given color sensitivity. We have used molecular and genetic approaches to decipher the genetic network that controls the specification of the 8 types of photoreceptors that form the retinal mosaic.
* Visual information is processed in the optic lobes. Two types of photoreceptors mediate motion detection or color discrimination by projecting to lamina (motion) or medulla (color) parts of the optic lobes. We focus our attention on the medulla that contains a finite number of neurons and serves as a paradigm to understand the development and function of a sophisticated neural structure. We have defined 70 medulla cell types: projection neurons, local interneurons, columnar neurons (that contact photoreceptors from each unit eye), and non-columnar neurons (that contact termini from several unit eyes). These neurons form overlapping retinotopic maps before projecting to the lobula complex or back to the lamina. We study how medulla neuron diversity is generated and how these neurons establish their retinotopic connections to photoreceptors. Neuronal specification appears to result from the integration of three mechanisms: (i) Neuroblasts sequentially acquire distinct identity and produce unique neuronal types as they age; (ii) binary fate induction via Notch diversifies their daughter cells (iii) regionalization of the medulla modifies the neuroblast program for further neuronal diversity. We use this knowledge together with electrophysiology and behavior assays to investigate how neuronal types function in the motion and chromatic pathways.
"Principles of Biology" (V230012). This is the Freshman course in Biology for undergraduates.
"Biocore I and III" (G23.1001 & G23.2003). This is the core course for PhD and MS students, focusing on molecular and cellular processes
"Molecular and Cellular Biology". (V23.0022) This is the high level Biology Sophomore class for undergraduate Biology majors.
"Molecular Controls of animal form and function" (G23.1072). A graduate course focusing on the evolution of patterning mechanisms.
"Developmental Genetics I and II" (G16.2610) with the Skirball Institute, NYU Medical School. This is a high level team-taught course for PhD students in the common Developmental Genetics curriculum.
Also teaching Biocore II and IV (G23.1002 & G23.2004) and "Cell Molecular Development Neuroscience" (G80.2201) at the Center for Neuroscience.
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint Cloud, "Agregation" in Physiology and Biochemistry (Paris); Award from the Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca; Award from the Fondation pour la Recherche sur le Cancer; Postdoctoral Fellow from the Fogarty International Center and European Molecular Biology Organization; Andre Meyer Fellow, The Rockefeller University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Associate Investigator, 1988-1999. 2007: elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. elected member of the AAAS. 2008: elected associate member of EMBO
Feedback from Rhodopsin protein controls rhodopsin exclusion in Drosophila R8 photoreceptors Vasiliauskas D., Mazzoni E.O., Sprecher S, Brodetskiy K., Johnston R, Lidder P., Vogt N, Celik A and Desplan C. Nature, In Press, (2011)
Interlocked feedforward loops control cell-type-specific rhodopsin expression in the Drosophila eye. Johnston RJ Jr, Otake Y, Sood P, Vogt N, Behnia R, Vasiliauskas D, McDonald E, Xie B, Koenig S, Wolf R, Cook T, Gebelein B, Kussell E, Nakagoshi H, Desplan C. Cell. 2011 Jun 10;145(6):956-68. PMID:21663797[PubMed - in process]
The retinal mosaics of opsin expression in invertebrates and vertebrates. Rister J, Desplan C. Dev Neurobiol. 2011 May 9. doi: 10.1002/dneu.20905. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:21557510
The phylogenetic origin of oskar coincided with the origin of maternally provisioned germ plasm and pole cells at the base of the Holometabola. Lynch JA, Ozüak O, Khila A, Abouheif E, Desplan C, Roth S. PLoS Genet. 2011 Apr;7(4):e1002029. Epub 2011 Apr 28. PMID:21552321[PubMed - in process] Free PMC Article
Johnston R. Jr. Otake Y., Sood P., Vogt N., Behnia R., Vasiliauskas.D, McDonald E., Xie B., Koenig ., Wolf R., Cook T, Gebelein B, Kussell E, Nagakoshi H. & Desplan C. Inter-locked feedforward loops control specific Rhodopsin expression in the Drosophila eye, Cell 145, 956-968 (2011)
Vasiliauskas D, Mazzon E, Johnston R, Sprecher S, Vogt N, Lidder P & Desplan C. Feed-back from Rhodopsin protein controls rh exclusion in Drosophila R8 photoreceptors. Nature, In press (2011)
Jukam and & Desplan C. Binary regulation of Hippo pathway by Merlin/NF-2 and Melted specifies and maintains post-mitotic neuronal fate, Dev. Cell, Under revision (2011)
Werren J., Richards S., Desjardins C., Niehuis O, Gadau J, Colbourne J, Beukeboom L., Desplan C. et al. Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of 3 parasitoid Nasonia species. Science, 327, 343-8 (2010).
Johnston, R. J. Jr. & Desplan C. A Penetrating look at stochasticity in development Cell 140, 610-612 (2010).
Johnston, R.J. Jr. & Desplan C. Stochastic mechanisms of cell fate specification that yield random or robust outcomes. Annu. Rev. Cell. Dev. Biol. 26, 16.1–16.31 (2010)
Lynch J.A. & Desplan C. Novel modes of localization and function of nanos in Nasonia. Development, 137, 3813-21 (2010).
Vogt N, Desplan C. Flipping the light switch. Science 330, 454-5 (2010).
Yamaguchi ., Desplan C & Heisenberg M. Contribution of photoreceptor subtypes to spectral wavelength preference in Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107, 5634-9. (2010)
Losick R. & Desplan C. Stochastic choices and cell fate. Science 320, 65-68 (2008)
Sprecher, S.G., & Desplan C. Switch of rhodopsin expression in terminally differentiated Drosophila sensory neurons. Nature 454, 533-537 (2008)
Mazzoni E, Celik A, Wernet M, Vasiliauskas D, Cook T, Johnston RJ, Pichaud F & Desplan C. IroC genes induce co-expression of visual pigments in Drosophila. PLoS Biology 6, e97,825-835 (2008).
Morante J., & Desplan C. The color-vision circuit in the medulla of Drosophila. Current Biology, 18, 553-565 (2008).
Rosenberg M.I., & Desplan C. Hiding in Plain Sight. Science 329, 284-285 (2010)


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The Thursday afternoon tutorial on William James I've been doing with a couple of students got cancelled yesterday, so I was able to attend the weekly meeting of the new undergraduate Philosophy Club from the beginning. It's a small but passionate bunch, excited about ideas and eclectic in conversational range. If you like that sort of thing, drop in at 5 pm on Thursdays (James Union Building on the Middle Tennessee State University campus, roon 304).
Yesterday's discussion began with the perennial free will debate but quickly moved on to the nature and existence of souls, the untapped potential of brains, Cartesian dualism, the possibility that we might be living in a "matrix," collective dreaming, and on and on. Just a bit undisciplined, but what else would be the point and pleasure of an undergraduate philosophy club?
I would only remind them of Carl Sagan's cautionary wisdom in Demon-haunted World. Asked for his gut feeling about UFOs and aliens he always responded:
I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
The gut has its place. It's what I was "thinking" with all day yesterday under my "StL" hat, as if the latest fortunes of a professional sports franchise in my long-ago hometown should have anything at all to do with my outlook on the value of existence. It was my gut that felt annoyed when my colleague (a long-ago East Coaster), fully informed of the Red Sox collapse, admitted not knowing about the Cards' historic comeback.
Gut-level emotive "thinking" is what childhood indoctrination is especially good at engendering and reinforcing. Baseball is St. Louis's civic religion, at least since the St. Louis Hegelians folded their tent. They got me early. (I attended my first Cardinals game in about 1966, just before they opened the new stadium that they tore down in 2005.)
Baloney has its place, too. And so has critical thinking. As skeptic Michael Shermer notes, "when we're growing up we tend to be pretty credulous." We should all read his magazine.
Extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence. But that doesn't mean it's not a world of wonders we're living in. Our existence is a natural miracle. Here we are, in the face of "stupefying odds." That's worth talking about, every Thursday afternoon. And I'm even luckier, I get paid to do it every single day.


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Is it weird that no one bothered to ask Hasbro what kind of articulation Yoda had at TF?
I find Yoda and his horse**** articulation count for $10 to be far more offensive as figures go. My TVC Yoda will be hitching a ride in the pack I think.
Luke turned out way better than I thought
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NEW YORK, February 15, 2013—Hearst Ventures, a unit of Hearst Corporation, and Science Inc. today announced a minority equity investment by Hearst in Science Inc., a technology operating company specializing in the creation and rapid scaling of digital businesses. The joint announcement was made by Frank A. Bennack, Jr., CEO of Hearst Corporation; Scott Sassa, president, Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, the group that operates Hearst Ventures; and Michael Jones, CEO of Science. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Science creates, scales and acquires successful digital businesses by bringing together the best ideas, talent, resources and financing through a centralized platform. Science, which has already started 13 companies, focuses on developing new businesses, providing emerging startups with operational strategy and capital, and transforming later-stage Internet ventures with new talent and innovations. As part of the investment, George Kliavkoff, executive vice president and deputy group head of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, will join the Science Board of Directors.
"Hearst is continually looking for smart investments that bring value and intelligence to the company—our investment in Science does both," Bennack said. "We're excited to partner with Science to continue its trajectory of success, gain meaningful industry knowledge and utilize Science's platforms for current and future Hearst investments."
"Science has a broad suite of capabilities that allows it to quickly evaluate and accelerate ideas," Sassa said. "We plan on using Hearst assets to help Science portfolio companies and Science portfolio companies to help Hearst assets. Mike Jones and Science's co-founding team are excellent tech entrepreneurs who will bring important value and learnings to Hearst."
Science was founded by seasoned startup professionals in November 2011 with Series A funding from several marquee venture investors, including Eric Schmidt's Tomorrow Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, and White Star Capital. Science's Jones is a long-time digital entrepreneur and executive who most recently served as the CEO of Myspace and successfully sold that business for News Corp. Prior to Myspace, he had started and sold Userplane to AOL in 2006.
"Science's approach to business creation is to generate ideas internally, identify the most compelling entrepreneurs and disruptive startups, build and acquire the necessary products and team to support the winning ideas, and rapidly scale," Jones said. "This partnership with Hearst provides us working capital to incubate additional businesses and strategically positions us to deliver unparalleled services for today's most promising entrepreneurs. Hearst has a long history of innovating in media and technology, and the companies we work with can benefit from Hearst's diverse set of global businesses and vice versa."
About Science
Based in Santa Monica, Calif., Science, Inc. is a technology studio that creates and acquires then scales successful digital businesses by bringing together the best ideas, talent, resources and financing through a centralized platform. Science focuses on three things: developing new businesses, providing emerging startups with operational strategy and capital, and transforming later-stage Internet ventures with new talent and innovation. The company has more than 13 investments with companies like DollarShaveClub, DogVacay, Ellie, Uncovet and others. More information about Science can be found at www.science-inc.com or @scienceinc.
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Hearst Entertainment and Syndication, an operating group of Hearst Corporation, includes the Company's cable network partnerships, television programming activities, newspaper syndication and merchandise licensing operations, and ventures investments.
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Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com) is one of the nation's largest diversified media and information companies. Its major interests include ownership of 15 daily and 36 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union; hundreds of magazines around the world, including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, ELLE and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations, which reach a combined 18 percent of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, History and ESPN; significant holdings in the automotive, electronic, medical/pharmaceutical and financial information industries; Internet and marketing services businesses; television production; newspaper features distribution; and real estate. Follow us on Twitter @HearstCorp.


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With plenty of choice in the tough camera market, Fujifilm's latest offering provides a run of features to cater for those who want to get rough with their camera. The company has been making tough compact cameras for some time and the latest models feel a little more premium than some in the past, from the outside at least.
The Fujifilm FinePix XP150 has a sibling, the XP170, which adds wireless image transfer to the already packed spec sheet of the XP150, but otherwise, the cameras are closely matched.
In the hand the FinePix XP150 feels great. It's of typical tough camera design, coming in a range of bright colours, the green of our review sample being particularly fetching. Exposed bolt heads, a large loop for strap attachment and a rubberised finish complete the look.
If you are venturing on to or into the water with it, it's worth knowing that the XP150 doesn't float, it sinks like a stone, but with waterproofing up to 10m, it will survive that shallow mishap. Elsewhere, the protection will withstand a 2m drop, -10C temperatures and keep you safe from dust ingress.
There is a single port on the side of the XP150 with a double locking mechanism. This houses the battery and SD card, as well as offering USB and micro HDMI ports for connection to your PC or TV.
The black edges of the camera are grippy, with a slightly rubberised finish, so the camera doesn't leap from your hands when wet and this is paired with just enough grip for your fingers on the right-hand side, although there isn't a thumb grip on the rear.
The placement of the lens makes it a little prone to being covered with stray fingers, or the end of a glove, because it's high in the left-hand corner. The central placement found on the Pentax Optio WG-2 or Olympus TG-1 makes more sense from a grip point of view. At least the lens cover is easy to get to and wipe with a corner of your T-shirt if it does get muddy, unlike rival Nikon and Panasonic models, which are harder to clean.
It's an attractive looking camera overall, eye-catching and feels solid in the hand. The bright colours make us smile too: in a world dominated by black and silver compact cameras, a splash of colour makes this rugged model a refreshing change.
Controls and functions
The controls are large for the most part, split between the top and the rear of the camera. On the top plate you have the GPS button, power and the shutter, along with a rocker for the zoom. The rocker works well enough when wet and is easy to find, but less practical in gloved hands.
However, there were a couple of occasions where we hit the power button rather than the shutter. The power button is slightly more recessed and the shutter button is larger and lozenge shaped, but when trying to grab a quick shot it's easy enough to lay your finger on the wrong one. That said, the size of the shutter button means it works well in gloves.
The GPS toggle button means it's easy to control that aspect of the camera. You can turn it on when you want to get GPS information without having to root through menus.
On the rear of the camera you have a dedicated video capture button, giving you instant video whenever you want it. There is a four-way controller and a central menu/ok button, with a large playback button in place too. We have no problems with these controls, they are easy to get to, but you'll be routing through menus if you want to make any real changes.
For example, accessing the P (program) mode is a button press, but it does give you access to the other photo controls that you lose in auto modes. There isn't a huge amount you can change - no aperture or shutter control for example - but you can tweak ISO or focusing modes.
The four-way controller gives you the normal shortcuts to macro focus, exposure compensation, flash and self timer, so regular compact camera functions are within easy reach.
With Auto SR (scene recognition) being the normal shooting mode, this feels very much like an "auto everything" camera, designed for those who want to just point and shoot. The scenes offer up the usual array of choices, and of specific interest in those tough model are those modes designed for use underwater.
It's a simple enough camera to use for those who don't want to tinker too much with the settings, so for pulling out of your pocket and grabbing a few shots, we like Fujifilm's approach.
With a 14.4-megapixel 1/2.3-in CMOS sensor and 5x optical zoom housed internally (28-140mm in 35mm terms), the setup is typical for this type of camera. We noticed that the far end of the zoom did tend to result in soft shots, lacking the sharpness of the mid range or wide angle. There is noticeable distortion at the wide angle, although that's not unexpected.
The f/3.9 max aperture doesn't set this camera up for the best low-light shots, and if that's something you're interested in, then the Olympus TG-1's f/2.0 lens may be of more interest.
The results from the XP150 are reasonable, with some nice rich and authentic colour renditions. It can struggle in brighter conditions with highlights blowing out, and if you get close to a light source then flare is a particular problem. The levels of detail achieved aren't too exciting either and blowing up images taken in anything other than idea conditions reveals a rather soft and mottled result.
The biggest problem, however, seems to be focusing. Looking through the test shots over the last few months, there are a lot of photos that didn't focus properly. We don't mean that the subject focus wasn't right, we mean that the camera failed to focus before taking the shot.
Being more deliberate and ensuring focus will give you the results you expect, but where many compacts will focus very swiftly these days, the XP150 seems to lag behind slightly. We also found this to be a problem when taking underwater shots.
At least the 2.7-inch display on the rear of the camera, despite having a relatively low 260k-dot resolution, has the brightness to cope with being used in brighter conditions. On the beach or underwater, we had no problem seeing the information on the screen, but it is rather unrefined and pixelated compared to many compact cameras these days.
Video capture runs all the way up to 1920 x 1080, Full HD, and the results are pretty good. One downside is the audio, as the mic seems very sensitive and subject to environmental noise. This is particularly evident in water, where, rather than the soothing rushing or "watery" noises, you get roaring like a jet engine.
You can use the zoom during video capture and there is the option of continuous autofocus, but you have to select this through the menus, worth doing if you're planning to move yourself in front of the camera at any point. We spent some time underwater with the XP150 at Hampton Pool (thanks guys!).
You'll get around 300 shots from the battery.
Overall, the Fujifilm FinePix XP150 is a nice looking camera that's a easy to use and meets the tough demands placed upon it. However, where the XP150 stumbles is in the results. Although we've enjoyed using the XP150 and it has given us some nice shots, there are too many foibles along the way and too many shots that could or should be better.
It's worth considering that this model is available for around £180, which considering it includes the GPS, makes it more affordable than some similarly-specced rivals. If you're accident prone or want a camera to take those action shots in the water or on the pistes, then the XP150 makes owning one much more affordable.
If image quality is more important, if this is going to be your everyday camera, then it might be worth weighing up rival models before parting with your cash.


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Welcome to BioMimetic Systems, Inc
Inspired solutions for modern problems
With expertise in acoustics, signal processing, digital, and analog design, BioMimetic Systems uses an approach inspired by biological physiology to overcome challenging problems in the field of acoustic sensors.
Biomimetic technology is a burgeoning field that examines the solutions derived by biological evolution for difficult environmental interaction problems and replicates those techniques through a combination of specialized algorithms and hardware. It can be applied to hearing, to vision, to smell, and even to touch for applications in robotics, generic smart sensors, and medical technology for those who are sensory impaired. Biomimetic sensors are particularly good for applications where stimuli are often novel, where there are very large changes in stimulus level, and where environments are often cluttered and have challenging background noise: all things typically associated with navigating real world environments.


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As fiscal crisis looms, taxing charitable gifts by the rich will hurt the poor the most.
Dec. 7 2012: Vonetta Hudgins puts money in the kettle as Troy Dorn rings the bell for donations for the Salvation Army in front of the Kmart in Pleasantville, NJ. (AP/The Press of Atlantic City)
December 10 2012: Donna Marshall prepares lunch platters at the Salvation Army building in Atlantic City, NJ, for their charity lunch program. Some nonprofit's fear Washington will go over the so-called "fiscal cliff" next year, and take them along for the ride. (AP/The Press of Atlantic City)
For nearly two years now, we have heard about the divide between wealthy America and the rest of us. We are told that the rich don't pay their fair share in taxes. We hear that the wealthiest one percent run the country for their own benefit.
Whether you agree with this or not, there is no shortage of proposals in Washington targeted to address this sense of inequality. But my personal experience as a former corporate CEO and now as president of one of the country's largest charities, is that many wealthy women and men are voluntarily bridging this gap through their charitable giving.
For nearly as long as the income tax has existed, the U.S. government has allowed individuals to deduct their giving from their taxes, recognizing that private organizations contribute to the common good and to economic growth. Our country does need to get its fiscal house in order, but policy makers need to be extremely careful in their zeal to find new government revenue. Raising taxes on the wealthy by taxing their giving is likely to hurt the poor the most.
Last year, Americans donated roughly $300 billion to charity. That's larger than the budgets for the Departments of Agriculture, Transportation, and Education.
Under any of the various proposals to remove or cap the charitable deduction, the government would be weakening charities and threatening to shred America's safety net for the poor. With half of Americans either below the poverty line or considered to be "low income," we are in a time when charities' services are most urgently needed. Food banks are tapped out. Homeless shelters are full.
Any scheme to cap or reduce the charitable deduction will ultimately hurt our economy and those on its lowest rung. Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of "Who Really Cares," estimates that every dollar in charitable giving increases GDP by as much as $15. In addition, non-profit organizations employ 10 percent of the workforce.
It is clear that the proposals to limit the deduction will hurt giving. According to Independent Sector, a coalition of non-profits, removing the charitable deduction could cause a 36 percent decline in giving. Even the White House, which has proposed a cap on the amount the wealthy can deduct, agrees that such a move could cause a $10 billion decline in giving.
In my job as the head of a large non-profit, I have met hundreds of wealthy individuals who care deeply about the needs of those who are less fortunate.
Over dinner a few weeks ago, one of our biggest donors said to me, "Rich, if the charitable tax deduction goes away, charities are going to suffer. Say I have a million dollars I've set aside for my annual giving to charities. If the laws change, I can no longer give the entire million dollars to charity. At a marginal tax rate of 35 percent, only $650,000 will go to charitable work and $350,000 will now go to the government. The charities I support will have to get by on 35 percent less."
The government can't meet every need of society, but it can encourage individuals to step in and help a neighbor in need, train someone who needs a job, strengthen a school, or mentor a young person who is at risk.
Last year, Americans donated roughly $300 billion to charity. That's larger than the budgets for the Departments of Agriculture, Transportation, and Education. And even though international giving is just a small percentage of that, a 2012 study by the Hudson Institute found that private giving to developing countries ($39 billion) far outweighed official foreign aid ($30.4 billion).
Does it make sense to punish generosity? Does it make sense to penalize the very people who are willing to distribute their own money—beyond the taxes they already pay—to strengthen the fabric of our society by helping the poor, funding medical research and hospitals, supporting a university or caring for the disabled? Such a policy will not only hurt those who are most in need, it will also hurt our economy.
Last month, I visited Seattle's Bread of Life Mission, an outreach to the city's homeless community. The Mission provides housing, substance abuse recovery, and job training to men and women who were once living on the streets. Like hundreds of thousands of other small, targeted, and effective private organizations, Bread of Life Mission uses private donations and the volunteer work of compassionate individuals to heal broken lives and to make Seattle a better place for all of its residents.
Private citizens working together to do a public good—this kind of compassion expresses the best values of our democracy. Who will replace these kinds of services when charities like Bread of Life Mission are forced to slash their budgets? Will Congress?
The charitable deduction has given America one of the most vibrant private charitable sectors in the world, serving needs at home and spreading American goodwill around the world. Our current policies have served us well through the Great Depression and World War II. Let's not start punishing American generosity because leaders in Washington can't balance their budgets.
Richard Stearns is president of Word Vision


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D.C. Metro to sell Inauguration Day passes this weekend
WASHINGTON — Metro says it will sell special one-day passes for Inauguration Day at nine stations on Sunday.
The transit agency is urging those who travel to Monday's inauguration to use SmarTrip debit cards rather than paper farecards, which cost more and are slower to use.
Metro is offering commemorative all-day passes for $15 with an image of President Barack Obama. Passengers can load more money onto the cards and reuse them after the inauguration.
The cards will be sold on Saturday at the Metro sales office at Metro Center in downtown Washington and at the Anacostia station. On Sunday, they will be sold at nine stations, including Union Station and eight stops in Maryland and Virginia.
Metro is projecting ridership between 600,000 and 800,000 on Inauguration Day.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – Authorities are searching for a man who was caught on surveillance video in a Best Buy store taking pictures or recording video under little girls' skirts, according to deputies.
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Orange County Sheriff's Office said the man was spotted at 9 p.m. on Sept. 18 at the Best Buy on South Orange Blossom Trail.
Deputies said in the video, there are two incidents where the man appears to be placing his cellphone under the skirts of girls under the age of 10.
"We think he's dangerous, period," said OCSO Cpt. Angelo Nieves. "Because of the fact that he's got video voyeurism that he's involved in. He's touching the child as he brushes up against them. What else is he doing that we're currently unaware of? That's why we want to get him identified."
Best Buy security asked the man to leave, according to OCSO, and a second employee chased the man out to Orange Blossom Trail.
Deputies said they are worried the man's behavior could escalate. Deputies have not identified the victims and say parents need to talk to their children if they were the Best Buy at that particular time and location.
If you recognize the man, call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS.


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Theoretical Economics 8 (2013), 281–290
Walrasian equilibrium in large, quasi-linear markets
Eduardo M. Azevedo, E. Glen Weyl, Alexander White
In an economy with indivisible goods, a continuum of agents and quasilinear utility, we show that equilibrium exists regardless of the nature of agents' preferences over bundles. This contrasts with results for economies with a finite number of agents, which require restrictions on preferences (such as substitutability) to guarantee existence. When the distribution of preferences has full support, equilibrium prices are unique.
Keywords: Walrasian equilibrium, quasilinear utility, indivisible goods, continuum economies, complementary preferences
JEL classification: D51
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More than four years after the financial crisis began, could it all happen again? Has Wall Street changed its ways? How about Washington? Yes, it can happen again, and no, there has been no meaningful reform.
The subprime crisis gave Wall Street a black eye. The public was astonished to learn that what it regarded as reputable firms were selling exotic securities that went by names such as collateralized debt obligations.
Financial executives at the time said with a straight face that that they were following best practices in risk management through "securitization," which means bundling bonds with different risk characteristics. This would normally be true, except that the bonds mostly exhibited the same risk status, i.e. junk. That's how they came to be called "toxic."
Wall Street knew it was selling junk, and so bears responsibility for the crisis through which the country is still suffering. If these big CDO-selling firms were held to strict account, they would not exist today because they would have been forced to buy back their defective products deceptively sold. But today the nation's five biggest banks are significantly larger than they were in 2007, with assets equal to 56% of the nation's GDP compared with 43% of U.S. output back when "too big to fail" became a household idiom.
Then there is the Federal Reserve, one of whose jobs is to supervise banks and bank holding companies. But despite its failure to keep its banking charges from assuming too much risk, the Federal Reserve today has expanded supervisory authority extending to insurance companies and investment firms—through the Financial Stability Oversight Council established by Dodd-Frank. But the Fed's most significant contribution to the financial crisis was in fueling a credit binge by keeping interest rates so low for so long, not noticing the asset bubbles it was creating.
And that brings us to the retail level. The lucrative CDO business were bundles that held junk, but that junk came from homeowners who bought houses they could not afford. Everything would have continued fine and dandy if asset prices continued to rise forever, which of course is impossible. Some homeowners behaved recklessly but many truly lacked the sophistication needed for an objective understanding of their financial limitatins. The banks and mortgage brokers, however, knew these were unqualified buyers, as their inside jokes about liar loans and Ninja loans (no income, no job or assets) attest.
The case of the strawberry picker in California's Central Valley who bought a luxury $750,000 home on his $14,000 salary was an example whose extreme absurdity illustrates some of what was really happening in the housing bubble. Mortgage brokers, real estate agents and homeowners were all making lots of money fairly easily (as were their Wall Street counterparts with their huge bonuses). Why sell a $75,000 home and make just a $4,500 commission, when you can make $45,000 on a $750,000 estate? Ditto for loan brokers and the homeowners who flipped their homes.
And let's not forget Washington's role in all this. Pushing its weight through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Washington pushed the mortgage industry to make loans to financially unqualified people. This affirmative action lending, like its college admissions counterpart, makes administrators and government types feel like they've accomplished something, but actually makes it harder for the intended beneficiaries through high defaults or low graduation rates, as the case may be.
Despite their being placed in government conservatorship in 2008, today Fannie and Freddie have an even larger footprint in the mortgage market than at the time of the crisis.
Looking back, a few points should be clear. First, nearly all the key institutions which caused the crisis remain in their positions, only with greater power than before: the government, which has ballooned in size, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street's largest banks.
The mortgage brokers and real estate industry took a big hit, naturally, after the housing bubble popped, but the Fed is doing everything possible to nurse them back to strength with the lure of historically low interest rates. The pitch to consumers is that they should buy housing because financing terms are favorable, even though the underlying assets—i.e., housing—remain unhealthy.
The only key player who does not remain on top is the average American, whose median family net worth has fallen 39% —to 1992 levels—according to newly released Fed data (for the years 2007-2010; if the data extended to today, the drop in net worth would be far higher since property values have continued to sink).
Another key takeaway is that we did not see anyone go to jail in this crisis, and for good reason: None of this was illegal. Most people involved did not think they did anything wrong: They were just trying to make as much money as they possibly could.
And therein lies the danger for America nearly five years after the financial crisis. Our nation's financial bankruptcy was preceded by our moral bankruptcy. And little has changed. To be effective over the long term, our laws must be based on a moral framework that outlaws conflicted advice, deception and fraud.
It is not enough to offer business-based arguments such as that offered by the financial industry in opposition to the SEC's proposed reform of money-market funds. A floating NAV will be bad for business, but should taxpayers underwrite the risk of money funds or should asset managers who profit from the funds do so?
Closer to home, financial advisors must think long and hard about the moral hazards of not adhering to a fiduciary standard. Non-fiduciaries keep all their business options on the table, including putting their own interests before those of their clients. As with mortgage brokers, the ability to jack up earnings is ever-present, and thus the temptation to so as well.
Until we rebuild an ethical framework, from the bottom up, we will not emerge from a financial crisis until there is a match between what is good for society and what is legally permissable for people in business. Just as one's physical health is not optimized by consuming all the junk food a person can access, there is no way to achieve what is socially good without individuals, voluntarily and through appropriate regulation, denying themselves some of what they may want.


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How was your Mother's Day? I hope it was as relaxing and enjoyable as mine was. Mother's Day is always special, but this year for us Moms we shared the day with a pretty big anniversary. 'The Pill' officially turned 50 on Mother's Day.
From protests to controversy to liberation, the pill has been nothing short of a revolution for women around the world. Elaine Tyler May wrote a fabulous op-ed piece in the Washington Post where she touches on the many positive things the pill did for women, while also astutely mentioning important aspects of the pill that often get forgotten or ignored…
But there is a bitter irony in the fact that the same pill that gave mothers the ability to combine childbearing and a career by controlling fertility has also led many women to delay childbearing so long that they jeopardize that fertility. Contraception makes it possible to postpone motherhood, but it doesn't solve the problem of how to combine caring for children with going to work. As a result, many women wait to have a child until they are financially secure enough to afford child care.
In some sense, the pill let employers and the government off the hook by giving women the means to juggle jobs and families. Sanger and Katharine McCormick hoped that the pill would allow women to control their lives, but they did not count on women being stuck with such hard choices. For while mothers' lives have changed over the past 50 years, the work world has lagged behind: Most jobs are still 9 to 5 — or longer — leaving little time to care for children. The cost of child care is, for many women, ruinously high. Paid parental leave is still too rare, and where it exists, usually too brief. For the most part, it is women who, aided by the pill, have adjusted to the demands of the workforce, rather than the other way around.
The pill may have been a gift to mothers. But 50 years on, it could use some new accessories. This Mother's Day, instead of jewelry, candy or flowers, how about some more novel presents: lengthy paid parental leaves, government-supported child care and flex-time.


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Conservation in Thailand - Monthly Update January 2008
2008 has started well with January flying by amid plenty of hard work and follow up activity from last year's fantastic efforts and achievements. Continuing with the environmental cleaning accomplishments of 2007, January has seen good results in both reef salvage and land based cleanups. Additionally, we have made three more missions to remove the coral-destructive Crown of Thorns starfishes (COTS) that I mentioned in December's update, and in continuation of the reef rehabilitation project we participated in at the beginning of December with PMBC, the lead scientist of this project came to run a bio-workshop on the coral research they are conducting. The mangrove research nursery has also made progress with some saplings of one species being transplanted using two different planting methods.
Beginning with the land based cleaning side of the project this month there were two beach clean ups and a trip up the river from Noppharat Thara to clean amongst the mangroves lining the river banks. The first beach visited was Lam Pho Village beach, a new one for the project though just down the road from some of the other beaches previously cleaned. As it had never been cleaned before it was understandably pretty dirty, though much of the rubbish consisted of plastic bags buried in the mud and fishing line tangled up in the mangrove roots at the far end of the beach. Andaman beach was the other site cleaned with an impressive 343kg being collected with glass featuring as the most prominent material found.
The mangrove cleaning upriver from Noppharat Thara harbour was a fun change from the usual beach clean ups as it meant travelling in the longtail, scooping up floating debris from the boat and in places jumping on to dry land and picking up rubbish caught in the roots and branches of the trees. We came across one site on a curve of the river where a huge number of glass bottles had evidently been carried down river and collected over time to slowly become buried in the mud. We spent a good hour or two removing well over a hundred bottles from this small patch, as well as lots of pieces of polystyrene. Other interesting, dangerous and amusing items found this month were a bundle of underwear, a Power Rangers dvd, ten pairs of shoes, a bag of engine oil, a razor blade, a cooking wok, and several fish traps, giving a grand monthly total weight of 838.9kg; the fifth highest since we began compiling the monthly charts which is very good going for only three clean up efforts.
Reef salvage was just as impressive, if not more so, as the total amount removed from the reefs (75.5kg) was the fourth highest on record with the three months in front having specific missions to remove enormous fish nets or traps. However, this figure was achieved in slightly more than three attempts; we made eight salvage dives at eight different reefs, with the biggest hauls being 45kg and 15kg fish nets at Koh Daeng and Koh Samet, two local islands we do not often visit but evidently should check out again to ensure more nets have not been caught on the corals. As well as the normal reef cleaning we have visited three other sites to remove more COTS on the request of PMBC. Fifteen were collected from Wong Long Bay where there are still more to remove, ten were taken from Bida Nok and eight from Losama Bay.
Having discussed this with Khun Suwat it is apparent that this is a new and very worrying phenomenon as COTS can have serious detrimental consequences for the coral reefs. We have heard that around Phuket the problem is significantly worse with dive groups having removed over two hundred from one reef alone. It is thought that population explosions of COTS occur in areas of increased human activity and settlement possibly due to the increase of nutrients in the water from discharged sewage and agricultural run-off. We aim to continue this preventative action whilst at the same time informing PMBC of our efforts so that they are kept aware of the problem at the reefs we visit.
On a more positive note for the reefs are the reef rehabilitation research projects implemented by PMBC around Viking Cave on Phi Phi Lei. In December last year Projects Abroad volunteers helped transplant coral fragments that had been cultivated in coral nurseries. These fragments had been previously grown for ten months on trays suspended with floats about six metres below the sea surface. At the beginning of 2008, PMBC and a group of university students from America had constructed another coral nursery to replace the ones transplanted in December. The PMBC scientist running the project, Khun Nalini, and two assistants came to Ao Nang to give a presentation to our volunteers on the need for research projects such as theirs, the aims and objectives, and how to monitor the growth of the corals. The following day we all went to Viking Cave and, under the supervision of Khun Nalini, the volunteers took turns in measuring the new coral fragments, whilst others cleaned the trays the corals were growing on using toothbrushes and wire brushes. It was a new and interesting activity for the volunteers, and Khun Nalini was appreciative of our help. Consequently, she has asked us to help their project by returning once every six to eight weeks to measure the height of the branching coral fragments and also clean the algae and barnacles from the trays as this is quite a time and man-power consuming activity for them to do by themselves. This is a great link to have established with such a constructive project to protect the reefs of the Andaman Sea, and the results could potentially help reef regeneration across the world if the methods are effective.
There have also been the usual reef and fish surveys carried out by some volunteers whilst others have just begun learning the identification and survey methods which will allow them to contribute to the data collection in the near future. We conducted four Reef Watch surveys at Wong Long Bay, Bida Nok, Shark Point and Maya Wall, with the results being submitted to Greenfins for analysis on the data entry day that we now have at the end of each month. Ten fish surveys were carried out both at local islands and around Phi Phi, and we are currently looking into laying down permanent transect lines so that we can return to exactly the same place each time for a more precise view of changes on the reefs over time. We are planning to continue to carry out random direction fish diversity surveys recording which species we see but not actual fish counts, whereas the permanent transects will be full marine organism counts. Both survey methods are valuable and in the future will provide a variety of information on the fish and animal populations at the reefs we regularly visit. There have been some great sightings this month including a zebra moray eel swimming (an unusual but beautiful sight), three leopard sharks, two turtles, many spectacular nudibranchs and a Susan's flatworm, an octopus, two ornate ghost pipefishes which are particularly hard to spot, a school of squid, a solitary great barracuda well over 1 metre in length, and a juvenile many-spotted sweetlips dancing about crazily as they are commonly known to do.
And lastly on to the work carried out at our mangrove research nursery at Baan Thung Prasan; having completed the measuring of the saplings in December and noticing that some were ready for transplanting we began phase two of our research programme. Firstly we had to clear an area next to the nursery which entailed a lot of physical effort digging out the roots of weeds and moving large dead logs to make way for the new saplings. It took two days to accomplish and, once finished, we then spent another day transplanting some of the Ceriops tagal saplings into the cleared area with one metre spacing between each plant. We took the saplings previously planted in the shade, and separating each of the other variables (bags vs ground, high vs water-logged ground) we planted them using two further methods: planting half into holes without any modification, and the other half we shook the soil off and then cut away the small capillary roots as this is known to spur on faster growth in some plants. Over the coming months we will monitor their growth and survival rates to see if there is any difference between the two transplantation methods. We also plan to clear some more land and transplant some of the Brugueira sexangula saplings under the same conditions.
Having now completed analysis of the two species planted in phase one conditions, we are pleased to present our conclusions of our research so far. The full report can be found in the link at the bottom of this update, but in summary the first results indicate that Brugueira sexangula seeds are more successful when planted in the shade, directly into the ground and that ground type (high or waterlogged) affects growth and survival in a contradictory fashion. Ceriops tagal seeds are also more successful in waterlogged ground, and possibly in the sun and when planted directly into the ground. We plan to pass these results on to the local communities we presently work with, with the aim of improving seedling conditions in mangrove nurseries in the future.
In Thailand until now, most mangrove nurseries have been using bags which are costly and can end up in water streams or smothering vegetation. Our results could therefore potentially be used to limit the use of bags to species for which it significantly improves survival and growth, reducing cost and negative environmental impacts to local nurseries. However, it is unknown whether the practice of sowing seeds directly into the ground will be easily accepted by local communities as it means more work is needed to transplant saplings from a nursery to the area to be planted.
So, it really has been a full and productive start to the year with progress in all areas of the project. I am confident February will be just as industrious and interesting for the volunteers with plans for a bio-workshop on coral disease given by an American scientist carrying out research in this area in collaboration with PMBC, and also releasing some anemonefish and damselfish on behalf of Krabi Fisheries Department.
To end this update, I would like to draw attention to the very important fact that 2008 is the International Year of the Reef (IYOR). IYOR 2008 is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about the value and importance of coral reefs and threats to their sustainability, and to motivate people to take action to protect them. Obviously the Thailand Projects Abroad conservation project has been working on these principles for almost three years now, but in recognition of this significant international campaign, and under the suggestion of Greenfins, we are planning to adopt Mu Sang Nua as our reef to protect and study over the following year. This reef is not visited often by other dive operators but many fishermen work there and consequently snag their nets on the reef. Despite this, the reef is still very healthy and is, in my view, one of the best reefs on the area. We are still in the planning stages of what form the in-depth study will take, but we have already scheduled a visit for 16th February to carry out an initial assessment of the reef, as well as removing any fishing nets caught since the last time we visited in November last year when we removed 100kg of net. We hope to return to Mu Sang Nua at least once every two months throughout 2008. For more information on IYOR please visit http://www.iyor.org/.
Click here and see our Results of the Thailand Projects Abroad Mangrove Nursery January 2008.
Click here and see our graphs of the amount of rubbish the volunteers have collected from the reefs and beaches here in Ao Nang in January 2008 - impressive work.
Click here and see our graphs of the amount of rubbish the volunteers have collected from the reefs and beaches here in Ao Nang over 2007 - impressive work.
Marten Meynell
3rd February 2008
Director for Thailand Conservation
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VeloNews.com is reporting that Andy Schleck has officially confirmed that he and his brother Frank will be leaving the team currently known as Saxo Bank at the end of this season.
So, after first reporting that the brothers were leaving, and then reporting that wasn't certain during the Tour de France, we've finally got more concrete, specific information. Next year we will see a new pro cycling team out of Luxembourg, with Frank and Andy Schleck riding for their home country's team.


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Public works officials in Los Angeles have drafted a $3 billion plan to upgrade the city's storm water, water treatment and sewer systems.
According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the city expects to add about 700,000 residents in the next 14 years, which will generate 68 million more gallons of wastewater per day.
A good portion of the blueprint is dedicated to upgrading sewer lines and expanding the wastewater treatment plant in the valley.
The plan has already been put into question by some of the neighborhoods where the sewer lines have been proposed, such as Burbank.
The Bureau of Sanitation is expected to present the plans to the Los Angeles Board of Public Works on Wednesday, October 4. Officials are estimating that the City Council will approve the plan by the end of October.
The upgrades will be built over the next 20 years.
To come up with this plan, the Department of Water and Power teamed up with Bureau of Sanitation. The two groups then put together a panel of homeowners, business owners, environmentalists and activists. The process took over four years.
Under the plan, treated wastewater would be used for irrigation. The city also would use vacant lots, parks and abandoned alleys in the East Valley as green space where storm water and urban runoff could filter down through the soil and replenish groundwater.
The first major projects outlined in the plan include $660 million to expand the Tillman Water Reclamation plant in the Sepulveda Basin, and the installation of three new sewer lines from the southern end of the San Fernando Valley to East Los Angeles.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – If you need to file a tax extension, the first piece of advice may be the most important. Tax pros say make sure your extension is stamped by midnight April 17 or you will be considered late and you could face penalties.
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Aloha to everybody!!
how is going?
I need some help. I try to find when JK is going to have a concert? and also where?
I listened that Jamiro has left the music...but it is true?
Many thanks in advance from BCN.
Nakano you will be always in our minds.