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Nanophotonics for Energy Applications
Jifeng Liu, MIT
Friday, November 13, 2009, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series
Energy sustainability has become a critical challenge for modern human society. Improving the energy efficiency of industrial systems and products and reducing the cost of renewable energy are two major technological aspects for energy sustainability. In this talk we will discuss applications of nanophotonic materials and devices in both aspects. In our Information Age, systems for Information Technologies (IT) will potentially dominate the energy consumption in the 21st century at the current growth rate. Electronic-photonic integration based on silicon nanophotonics provides a promising energy efficiency solution for Green IT systems by combining the merits of photons in data transmission with the merits of electrons in data processing on a single microchip. In particular, we will present ultra-low energy consumption germanium-silicon photonic modulators and photodetectors that enables ~100 times increase in energy efficiency for data links or interconnects in computation and communication systems. We are also developing band-engineered germanium optical gain medium on silicon for low-cost and high volume optical power sources in large-scale photonic interconnects. In terms of renewable energy technologies, we will present nanophotonic structures for light-trapping in thin-film solar cells to significantly reduce the material cost of solar energy, as well as optoelectronic materials and structures for efficiency enhancement and cost reduction of thermophotovoltaic devices that convert wasted heat into electricity. With significant impact on energy technologies such as Green IT, renewable energy generation and solid state lighting, nanophotonics will help to "light up" the future of energy sustainability.
About the Speaker
Dr. Jifeng Liu is currently a Postdoctoral Associate with the Microphtonics Center at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 2006, and M.S. and B.S from Tsinghua University (China) in 2001 and 1999, respectively. His major research interest is energy-efficient, integrated nanophotonic devices for Green Information Technology (IT), as well as nanostructures and nanomaterials for solar cells and thermophotovoltaic (TPV) devices. Since 2000 he has authored or co-authored 35 peer-reviewed journal papers, 2 book chapters, and 28 conference papers. He has also been granted 5 U.S. patents associated with germanium-silicon nanophotonic devices. In 2004, he was awarded a Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Gold Award at the Fall Meeting.


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New York, NY, April 30, 2013 – The much anticipated season finale of HISTORY's first scripted series VIKINGS on Sunday, April 28 at 10 p.m. drew stellar ratings for the network with 3.6 million total viewers; 1.8 million Adults 25-54 and 1.7 million Adults 18-49. The season finale propelled HISTORY to #1 in all of television among M25-54 for the 10 p.m. hour and made the network #1 in cable among Adults 25-54 and total viewers.
Over the nine weeks, the hit drama series became the #1 new cable series of the year, averaging 4.3 million total viewers, 2.0 million Adults 25-54 and 1.8 Adults 18-49.
HISTORY has picked up VIKINGS for a 10-episode second season. Season two will begin production this summer and is slated to return in 2014.
VIKINGS tells the extraordinary tales of the lives and epic adventures of these warriors. The drama portrays the world of these Dark Age raiders, traders, explorers – not from an outsider's view, but, through the eyes of Viking society.
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One of the major updates included with the iPhone 3Gs was a built-in video camera. This allows users to easily record video and save it to their media library. The code for recording video is almost identical to the code to show the camera. It does, however, have a few checks that are required. Listing 1 shows the code for bringing up the video camera interface.
-(void) showVideoCamera { if ([UIImagePickerController #1 isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]) { myImagePicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera; } else { NSLog(@"Camera not supported"); Return; } #2 NSArray *media = [UIImagePickerController availableMediaTypesForSourceType: UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]; If([media containsObject:kUTTypeMovie]) { #3 myImagePicker.mediaTypes = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: kUTTypeMovie,nil]; [self presentModalViewController:myImagePicker animated:YES]; #4 } else { NSLog(@"Video not supported"); } }  #1 check to see if the camera is available #2 get a list of the media types the camera supports #3 check to see if the camera supports video #4 show the video camera
The first thing we are doing in #1 is checking to see if the device has camera support. There are two cases where this would return False. The first is, the user has an iPod touch. As of this writing, the iPod touch does not support taking photos. The other case is if the camera is damaged on the iPhone.
In #2, we are checking to see what media types are supported by the camera. In this case we are looking for the media type kUTTypeMovie. If this is found, then the camera will support video. #3 performs this check and sets the media type of our picker to kUTTypeMovie to tell it to display the video camera. By default, it is set to kUTTypeImage, which specifies photos, so it is necessary that we set it.
Finally, in #4 we display the video camera on the screen. Once great feature that Apple added is the ability to edit the video on-the-fly. This is very easy to integrate in our code. Simply add this line prior to displaying the video camera:
myImagePicker.allowsEditing = YES;
This great one-liner from Apple adds a ton of functionality. Once the user finishes recording the video the delegate method didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo: for the picker will be called. The dictionary passed to this method will contain a system path URL to the video file that was just recorded. Listing 2 shows how to use this path to retrieve and play back the video that was just recorded.
- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info { NSURL * pathURL = [info objectForKey: UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL]; MPMoviePlayerController * player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:pathURL]; [player play]; }
The first thing this method does is retrieves the path URL from the info dictionary. The path URL is the object stored with the key UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL. Next, an MPMoviePlayerController is allocated with the contents of the path URL. This will load the video and prepare it to play. The last thing to do is call the play method and the video will begin.


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Cairo. Open City examines the roles that images are playing in the ongoing Egyptian revolution, from the outbreak of the Arab Spring through the present. The exhibition will include a variety of approaches to the time-based media of photography and video, from the works of photo journalists, to recordings by activists and "citizen journalists", to documents collected by different artists.
In many ways the medium of photography has impressed upon us a quality of testimony. In the digital age and in the specific context of the Egyptian revolution new challenges and opportunities for the testimonial aspect of images are emerging: the omnipresent eye of the digital device, new distribution possibilities and alternative reporting. The exhibition will not only provide a glimpse into the freedom movements of the Arab world, it will also write a new chapter in the history of images. If "testimony" is a central form of expression of the social transformation taking place in Egypt, then it was not primarily social networks, but the pent up desperation and courage of the people on the streets that brought about this transformation. Special attention will be paid to the genesis and intentions behind the images: Who and what is speaking from these pictures?
Cairo. Open City is an experimental exhibition in the sense that it does not represent a finished process, but rather utilizes the openness of the current political developments as a formal principle.
The comprehensive exhibition has been divided into individual chapters and stations, each of which will be curated by prominent actors in the Cairo art scene, including the artists Lara Baladi and Heba Farid, the photographers Thomas Hartwell and Tarek Hefny, the activists, journalists and curators Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk and Alexandra Stock, the journalist Rowan El Shimi, the bloggers Ahmad Gharbeia and Alex Nunns..
The different chapters will generate a dialogue between the images - a juxtaposition and co-existence of the greatest possible diversity of image forms and approaches. Cover images from newspapers will stand alongside photo galleries from blogs, iconic pictures alongside unknown images of people on the streets, images of martyrs alongside long-term documentary projects. As in 2011 many artists were still waiting to react to the new situation and saw their role more as street activists, a number of works are now being created that also elicit this idea of testimony, albeit with formal media that is different from the journalistic images of the events as they were happening.
On display will be works by Peter van Agtmael, Lara Baladi, Taha Belal, Denis Dailleux, Osama Dawod, Kaya Behkalam, Johanna Domke & Marouan Omara, Hala Elkoussy, Mohamed Ezz, Nermine Hammam, Ahmed Kamel, Nadine Khan, Alex Majoli, Jasmina Metwaly, Chris Michalski & Sebastian Stumpf, Philip Rizk, by photo journalists with the newspaper El Shorouk and photographers of Magnum Photos, by countless activists and "citizen journalists" who were present at Tahrir Square and by young Egyptian, German and French artists.
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The Federal Reserve, or the Fed as it is lovingly called, may be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil, its real business remains to be discovered. During the Wilson presidency, the U.S. government sanctions the creation of the Federal Reserve. Thought by many to be a government organization maintained to provide financial accountability in the event of a domestic depression, the actual business of the Fed is shrouded in secrecy. Many Americans will be shocked to discover that the principle business of the Fed is to print money from nothing, lend it to the U.S. government and charge interest on these loans. Who keeps the interest? Good question. Find out as the connective tissue between this and other top-secret international organizations is explored and exposed.
Documentary – Monopoly Men, Federal Reserve Fraud, 1999 (47 min.)
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The owners of the Federal Reserve. Our ruling transatlantic elite? and how JFK challenged the Fed.
ON JUNE 4 1963, President John F. Kennedy Signed Executive Order #11110, stripping the privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest.
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With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business.
~ When President Kennedy signed this Order, it returned to the Treasury Department the Constitutional power to create and issue money without going through the privately- owned Federal Reserve Bank. United States Notes were then issued as an interest-free currency.
~ President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22 1963 and the United States Notes he had issued were immediately taken out of circulation.
SEE: http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/JFK.html
[...] Why did President Lyndon Baines Johnson not continue President Kennedy's Executive order? Was he afraid for his own life?
While the source of this information does not come from Mainstream media, it is believable and available elsewhere on the Net, I have also seen a list of the private US banks that own the Fed, perhaps the above names are the actual people behind it all.
Yet they may not be omnipotent, the Israeli press (Ynet) is opinioning that Israel should no longer assume the US will automatically come to its aid.
No wonder Europe and the US are so close!
List of failed banks and banking writedowns
Any President that Would Dare Oppose The Federal Reserve Gets Assassinated: History Lesson & JP Morgan Buyout of Bear Stearns
Somewhere in the trillionaires room of Heaven three old codgers are sitting around a table smoking cigars and chuckling over the J. P Morgan Chase & Company buyout of Bear Stearns for a paltry $2.00 a share. Not so much because the price had been over $130 a share a few weeks earlier but because the Federal Reserve Board put up $30 billion of the government's money to guarantee the sale.
Yes, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, patriarchs of three of the most powerful family fortunes in history have waited nearly two centuries to see their dreams fulfilled. Perhaps such patience is why their families have remained successful by steadfastly maintaining the rules of the game as set down by their founders.
It was 248 years ago, in 1760 that Mayer Amschel Rothschild created the House of Rothschild that was to pave the way for international banking and control of the world's resources on a scale unparalleled and somewhat mysterious to this date. He disbursed his five sons to set up banking operations throughout Europe and the various European empires.
"Give me control of a nation's money
In time the House of Rothschild was able to take control of the Bank of France and Bank of England and relentlessly pursued an effort over two centuries to control a national bank in the USA. By 1850 it was said the Rothschild family was worth over $6 billion and owned one half of the world's wealth.
From oil (Shell) to diamonds (DeBeers) to gold (from 1919 until 2004 a Rothschild was permanent Chairman of the London Gold Fixing committee which met twice a day in the Rothschild offices in London) the Rothschild's quietly accumulated a foothold in critical industries and commodities throughout the world.
A master at building impenetrable walls around his family assets the current value of the Rothschild holdings are estimated to be between $100 and $300 trillion, yes that is trillion dollars! Now for a point of reference the current United States National Debt is $9.4 trillion.
J. P. Morgan began as the New York agent for his father's business in London in 1860 and by 1877 was floating $260 million in US Bonds to save the government from an economic collapse. In 1890 he inherited the business and in 1895 bought $200 million in US Bonds with gold to again save the US economy.
"If you have to ask how much it costs,
By 1912 he controlled $22 billion and had started companies such as US Steel and General Electric while he owned several railroads. Morgan was also an American agent for the House of Rothschild in London and used the Rothschild resources to help people like John D. Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, who started Standard Oil in 1863 with the help of Morgan, grew his company into the largest oil company in the world and by 1916 Rockefeller was the first billionaire in American history. In 1909 he had set up the Rockefeller Foundation with $225 million and donated nearly a billion more dollars to various causes. The Rockefeller family fortune is estimated to be around $11 trillion today.
"The way to make money is to buy
So what did they have in common these extraordinary capitalists? They all were dedicated to owning a national bank in America so they could determine the fiscal policies of the nation and earn interest on the debt of the nation.
Rothschild agents in 1791 formed the First Bank of the United States but intense opposition to foreign ownership by President Jefferson and others helped kill it by 1811. A Second Bank of the United States was formed in 1816 once again by Rothschild agents and this time they secured a 20-year charter. However, President Andrew Jackson was also opposed to foreign ownership and withdrew the federal deposits in 1832 as part of his plan to kill the bank charter in 1836.
An attempt to assassinate Jackson in 1834 left him wounded but more determined than ever to stop the central bank. Thirty years later President Lincoln refused to pay international bankers extremely high interest rates during the Civil War and ordered the printing of government bonds. With the help of Russian Czar Alexander II who also blocked a similar national bank from being set up in Russia by the international bankers they were able to survive the economic squeeze.
Lincoln said, "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."
Both Lincoln and Alexander II were assassinated. In 1881 James Garfield became president and he was dedicated to restoring the right of the federal government to issue money like Lincoln did in the Civil War and he was also assassinated.
Finally along came 1913 and the US was again suffering from a weak economy and there was a threat of another costly war, a world war this time, and business tycoons J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and E.H. Harriman were part of a group that got Woodrow Wilson to sign into law the Federal Reserve Act creating a network of 12 privately owned banks as part of a new Federal Reserve network.
One of the largest stockholders in the new Federal Reserve was the House of Rothschild through their direct and indirect holdings. A few years later it was disclosed that the Rothschilds also owned about 20% of J. P. Morgan. In time Morgan would merge with the Chase Manhattan Bank of the Rockefellers.
Years later John F. Kennedy opposed a private national bank and was assassinated in 1963 and Ronald Reagan opposed a private national bank and in 1981 an attempt was made to assassinate him. Coincidence or not the opposition to a privately owned national bank was a common characteristic.
Which brings us full circle to the present bailout of Bear Stearns by J.P. Morgan Chase & Company and we find the Rothschild, Morgan and Rockefeller families are all conveniently part of the same group benefiting from the bailout and the $30 billion guarantee by the Federal Reserve. This is the third time the J. P. Morgan Company has come to the rescue of the American banking system and economy.
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A 28-year-old Philadelphia man says he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend after his neighbor threatened him Saturday.
Police sources tell NBC10's Nefertiti Jaquez he will be charged with murder in any case.
The man told police he was arguing with his neighbor, possibly an "uncle," in front of his home on E Seltzer Street in the Kensington section of the city around 7:45 p.m. The man claims his neighbor pulled out a hammer and threatened him during the heated exchange.
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Police sources told Jaquez the argument with the uncle was over $50.
The man says he was scared for his safety and pulled out a gun but then tripped over his own feet and accidentally pulled the trigger, shooting his 27-year-old girlfriend in the neck. She was taken to the hospital where she died.
The man, who hasn't been identified, was taken into police custody as officials continued to investigate the shooting. Neither the man or his neighbor was charged as of Sunday afternoon.
Police sources told Jaquez that the man has a license to carry a firearm as well as a clean record.
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If you happen to notice a lot of emergency-type activity at Sea-Tac Airport today (Thursday, July 10) don't worry – it's just a very large drill being put on by the Port of Seattle.
Eight evacuation helicopters, more than 175 emergency vehicles and 300 victim volunteers are scheduled to be part of the exercise, simulating an aircraft accident at the airport. The Port of Seattle is organizing region-wide emergency response partners and incorporating lessons learned from last year's aircraft incident in San Francisco for this disaster preparedness and response exercise required every three years by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Preparations for the exercise will begin as early as 5 a.m. with the exercise scheduled to start at 9 a.m. and conclude no later than 1 p.m.
The exercise will NOT affect or delay any air travel. Both of Sea-Tac's two other runways will be open as normal and the exercise will NOT affect any customer activity within the terminal. Residents nearby the airport may notice emergency vehicles responding as part of the exercise, including several evacuation helicopters scheduled to arrive and depart from the west side of the airfield.
For the first time, the port will include in this year's exercise multiple helicopter agencies to practice potential patient air evacuations. This comes on the heels of lessons learned from the SFO Asiana accident in July of 2013. Airlift agencies scheduled to participate include the U.S. Coast Guard from Port Angeles and Astoria, Oregon, U.S. Navy Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington Air National Guard – Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Snohomish County Sheriff, King County Sheriff, and Airlift Northwest.
Up to 300 volunteers will participate as 'victims' next to the Port of Seattle Fire Department's mock aircraft fuselage which will be located on the north end of the western-most runway (designated as 16R/34L, or locally known as the third runway). Volunteers will arrive at approximately 5 a.m. for moulage (or make-up) to represent a variety of injuries that will test medical care triage practices.
Dozens of the King County area mutual aid police and fire agencies will participate in the exercise with an estimated 50 -75 pieces of equipment from fire engines to aid cars and up to 175 fire fighters. Additional police officers from the area are also expected to participate alongside first responders from the Port of Seattle Fire and Police Departments, Sea-Tac Airport Security, Airport Operations, Public Information and the Port Environmental team.
In addition, other key exercise participants will include airport and airline representatives, the FAA, Red Cross, King County Emergency Management Division, and the King County Medical Examiner.
A comprehensive report will be prepared post-exercise to identify any gaps in emergency plans and then prioritize follow-up corrective actions.
Inquiries or concerns should be directed to the Port of Seattle Fire Department at 787.5327 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Man and wife jailed in 2-year-old attack on female couple near Corpus Christi
Two years after a brutal attack on a female couple near Corpus Christi made national headlines, a break in the case has resulted in two arrests.
David M. Strickland, 27, and his wife, Laura K. Strickland, 23, were arrested June 20 at their home in Helotes in the San Antonio area.
He is charged with capital murder, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated assault. His wife is charged with tampering with evidence. They remained Tuesday in the San Patricio County Jail on no bond.
Almost exactly two years earlier, on June 22, 2012, Mollie Olgin, 19, and her girlfriend, Mary Kristene Chapa, who was then 18, were found in a birdwatching area at Violet Andrews Park in Portland near Corpus Christi.
Olgin had already died of a gunshot wound to the head, and Chapa was in grave condition but survived to tell about the ordeal.
In the days after the attack, police said the women were known to be in a dating relationship but there was no evidence that the attack was motivated by their sexual orientation.
Portland police released two composite sketches of the male shooter, based upon information from Chapa as she recuperated. Despite having the sketches, Portland Police, who were investigating the case with help from the Texas Rangers, had no leads until earlier this month.
Once investigators issued arrest warrants for the Stricklands, they asked the U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force for help in finding and apprehending the couple.
U.S. Marshal Christopher Bozeman, a spokesman for the Marshals Service in San Antonio, said it took the team a little over two hours to find the Stricklands in an apartment in the 12000 block of Bandera Road in Helotes, about 25 miles northwest of San Antonio.
"Once we have a warrant, we start doing everything on our end to find the person as quickly as possible," Bozeman said. "We don't want that person to have knowledge of the warrant and be tipped off."
Portland police have not provided details about how Strickland was linked to the case.
"While we know the community has many questions, this is still an active investigation and we would not want to do anything to jeopardize the case," Portland Police Chief Gary Giles said in a news release. "We are confident that we have the person responsible for this horrific crime in custody. There is still a lot to do in order to prepare the case for prosectuion..."
David Strickland was living in Portland at the time of the shootings and has also lived in Utah and Helotes, police said.


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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Schoolchildren in Jenkins, KY
Handwritten note on the image indicate that this is the "Burdine Colored School" in Jenkins, KY. Jenkins was created in 1911 by the Consolidation Coal Company, who owned the land and the majority of public buildings and private residences were built under their direction. Given the history of Jenkins, almost all the students pictured were the children of Consolidation coal miners. 1921 April 13.
More on Burdine in the Notable Kentucky African Americans Database entry on Education in Letcher County.
-The Jenkins, Kentucky Photographic Collection, 1911-1930.
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While scaling the tallest buildings in mid-town Manhattan, the comic book hero Spider-Man almost never gets injured. The actors in the much-hyped, long-delayed, U2-scored Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark are not so lucky.
Over the past month one actor has broken both his feet and another both his wrists while rehearsing a flying maneuver featured in the show, which is scheduled -- finally! -- to open on the Great White Way on Nov. 14.
"Our priority from 'Day 1' has always been to put safety first," the show's main producer, Michael Cohl told the New York Times in an e-mail. "We continue every day to make the running of the show a safer experience."
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This is far from the first time that the musical has been besieged by human and technical factors. It's been about seven years since the first announcement of the production, which is directed by Broadway legend Julie Taymor and features songs by pop masters Bono and The Edge of U2. Last year production was halted due to an apparent cash shortage -- this is not completely surprising considering the show's budget has been pegged at about $50 million.
Now, provided the cast can stay out of casts from here on in, the curtain will rise in just over two weeks. That may not be as simple as it sounds: both actors were reportedly injured during a sequence that features several stage Spideys being shot by enormous slingshots above audience members' heads.
That could be a thrilling sight to behold -- provided all goes smoothly on opening night and beyond.
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Alaska Fishing Updates for July 2020
Uber to Acquire Postmates; Will Keep Consumer-Facing App Running Separately
PMTF Data Shows Bristol Bay Run a Week Late, Statewide Salmon Landings 8% of Forecast
Pacific Seafood Worker in Quarantine After Testing Positive for COVID-19
Dismal Area 2A Halibut Landings Necessitate Second Opener; Vessel Limits Create Confusion
DeFazio Urges NOAA to Reinstate Observer Waiver for West Coast Seafood Industry
JAPAN: Fresh Salmon Imports by Air Continued Decreasing in May
Norwegian Seafood Export Value Reaches All-Time High in First-Half Year
Florida Senators Push DOC to Include State for Aquaculture Opportunity Areas
JFOODO Large-scale Sales Promotion in Hong Kong Aims to Increase Consumption Post-COVID 19
Russia Plans to Diversify Exports of Pollock Roe Within Next Several Years
China Drafts a Plan to Help Exporters Raise Market Shares at Home
New Report Highlights Ongoing Issue of Fisheries Observer Protections, Deaths at Sea
BioMar Norway, Bio Feeder to Develop Hybrid Fish Feed Vessel
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Seven Lessons Foodservice Can Learn from a Pandemic
NYC Pulls Back on Indoor Dining as U.S. Sees Biggest One-Day COVID-19 Spike Since Start of Pandemic
Massachusetts Delegation Calls for State's Lobster Industry to be Part of Potential Tariff Relief
Japan: May Seafood Exports Increased by 3% to 630,000 Tons; Frozen Scallops, Albacore Perform Well
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All Seafood Products in Pair of Albertsons Product Lines to Get Sustainability Logos on Packaging
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Conagra Brands Partners with MSC to Boost Sustainable Seafood in U.S.
Torchy's Tacos Introduces New Prawn Taco For July's Taco of the Month
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NOAA Changes Course, Observer Redeployment Delayed Through July 31
City Water Woes Worsen Industry Upheaval in Newport, Ore.
Bipartisan Legislation Introduced Today Authorizes $3 Billion for Coastal Communities
NOAA: Vessel Collision Led to First U.S. North Atlantic Right Whale Death of 2020
Vietnam Runs into Trouble Again in Basa Exports to China
JAPAN: Fresh Squid Landings in January-May Lowest in Recent Years, but Shows Sign of Improvement
Pair of U.S. Squid Fisheries Obtain MSC Certification
Seafood Show Tokyo to go on September 30-October 2
U Maryland's Wilberg Wins President's Science Award for Oyster Management Work
Zoetis Purchases Fish Vet Group, Boost Fish Farm Diagnostic Offerings
Atlantic Capes Fisheries Donates 10,000 Pounds of Fresh Seafood to South Coast Food Banks
F3 Fish-Free Feed Competition Registration Extended; Prize Money Doubled
FeedKind Aquafeed Project's First Commercial-Scale Plant to be Built in Chongqing
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Hong Kong Japanese Restaurant Association organizes Hong Kong Japan Food Import Promotion Council
DFO Renews Fishery Management Order Regarding At-Sea Observer Requirements
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The Windows Incident Response Blog is dedicated to the myriad information surrounding and inherent to the topics of IR and digital analysis of Windows systems. This blog provides information in support of my books; "Windows Forensic Analysis" (1st thru 4th editions), "Windows Registry Forensics", as well as the book I co-authored with Cory Altheide, "Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools".
Monday, October 28, 2013
First off, thanks to David Cowen for taking the time to address a question regarding the use of the SvcHost key in the Software hive as a persistence mechanism.
It all started with a response to one of David's Sunday Funday challenges, where the SvcHost key was held out as a persistence mechanism in and of itself. This got me to thinking because it wasn't something I was familiar with, based on my own research...so I wanted to know more and posted a question. David took it on as an exercise for himself, and posted his findings. Thanks to Dave to doing the work and sharing his findings with the community.
The purpose of this isn't to prove someone wrong...not at all. Rather, it is to challenge popularly-held beliefs about DFIR artifacts and ask, is this correct? Very often, something we've read or heard persists (no pun intended) long enough that it becomes accepted as fact. One example that I see time and time again is malware that creates persistence in the HKCU\..\Run key, and the report stating that the malware does this to start again when the system boots. This simply isn't the case, but it's stated on the Microsoft MMPC site, as well as by other malware analysts, often enough that it's simply accepted as "fact".
Interesting Reading
I saw that Corey Harrell linked to a couple of interesting articles on Twitter, one being a report indicating that security professionals in enterprise environments lack malware detection skills. If you follow the links to the report, you'll see that its based on a survey; even so, I think that as a responder, it correlates pretty closely to my experience, as well as that of others who've responded to incidents such as these, either as a consultant or as an FTE. The report lists three "root causes for the "darkness"", but I would suggest that they missed the most important one...management. Folks in the IT industry focus on where their management tells them to focus, and well as what management supports. If management focus is to keep email up and running, that's where IT will focus. If management sends IT staff off to training, but there's no requirement to use any of that training when they return, the new skills atrophy.
I have a couple of posts that may be of use to folks, most of which are linked via this one. Also, WFA 3/e (and the upcoming 4/e) has an entire chapter that covers this material, as well. Also, be sure to read Corey's blog post on malware root cause analysis, which provides a great deal of valuable information, as well as his Triaging Malware Incidents post.
The other article points to a new post-exploitation wiki that is available from the folks at the NoVA InfoSec group. This effort appears to be getting up and running, but it is a pretty cool idea to take a great deal of the knowledge and experience in responder's heads and post it in a way that it can be shared with others. This is definitely a site to keep an eye on.
Malware Persistence
While we're on the topic of malware, I ran across this very interesting write-up on the Terminator RAT. What I found most fascinating about the malware is the persistence mechanism; specifically, the malware 'sits' in a user's Startup folder, but can modify the Registry to redirect where that Startup folder is within the file system. That is, it can "tell" the OS to use another folder besides the user's Start Menu\Programs\StartUp folder. After reading this write-up, it took me only about 6 minutes to write a RegRipper plugin to extract this information, so now I can automatically search for this item. It didn't take too much more to add a check to the plugin, so that if the path is anything other than what is expected, the plugin will flag it for me. Interestingly, this is one of the suggested locations to look based on Symantec's list of common Registry key locations used by malware.
That's not the only interesting persistence mechanism I've seen recently; I ran across a description of Win32/KanKan not too long ago and wrote up a RegRipper plugin to help detect anomalies in under 20 minutes.
Lance recently posted on tools he uses during exams; it's a great list, and probably indicative of what many DFIR folks use. I hadn't really thought about it before.
I don't have the tier 1 tools that Lance has, so my list is a bit different. More often than not, I've found that the tiers of tools that I use depends heavily on the goals of the examination...I base my analysis process on what I'm asked to show, demonstrate or discover. For example, I've had analysis engagements where the goal was to answer questions based on the Windows XP/2003 Event Logs, which had been cleared. As such, my tier 1 tools become mmls.exe and blkls.exe from the TSK tools, strings from MS, and Perl. In one case, I was able to retrieve over 330 event records, to include the "smoking gun", but in another case, I found over 73K valid event records, none of which was the one I was looking for (parsing the Security hive with the RegRipper auditpol.pl plugin showed me why this was the case).
In a more general sense, I usually start off using FTK Imager for image verification. Like Lance, I use LogParser, great tool from MS for extracting records from Windows Event Logs, and it's useful for a number of other things, as well.
Also like Lance, I write a lot of my own tools and utilities in Perl, or add to ones that I already have (RegRipper, etc.). Some of the code that I use isn't so much full tools but subroutines and functions that I can cut-and-paste into other tools, such as a function that I have for dumping binary data in hex editor-format.
Windows 8 Forensics
I've been working on updating WFA to the fourth edition, and as such, I've been attempting to address for DFIR analysts the recurring question of "...what's new that we need to know in Windows ___?" (insert whichever version, starting with XP...). I thought I'd post a bunch of the links I've found to be very useful in helping to answer that question. Here are the links I've found recently:
Amanda Thompson's Windows 8 Forensic Guide
Ken Johnson's SANS DFIR Summit 2012 presentation: Windows 8 Recovery Forensics
ForensicsWiki: Prefetch - the page links to research conducted by Jared Atkinson and Yogesh Kahtri, both of whom have documented changes in the Windows 8 .pf file format.
Digital Forensics Stream: Windows 8 and 8.1 Search Charm History
Windows 8 Forensics: Recycle Bin
CyberArms: Windows 8 Forensics: Internet History Cache; also, David Cowen posted the answer to his blog challenge regarding how to analyze the IE10 web history database.
5 comments:
- Tom said...
I was wondering if you could clarify this one statement:
"One example that I see time and time again is malware that creates persistence in the HKCU\..\Run key, and the report stating that the malware does this to start again when the system boots. This simply isn't the case, but it's stated on the Microsoft MMPC site, as well as by other malware analysts, often enough that it's simply accepted as "fact"."
So are you saying that people just state that malware has put something in this key for persistence without verifying that it's actually the case, or that this particular key does not create persistence if something is placed there, contrary to the Microsoft MMPC site, etc?
I'm not clear on what you are saying with these two sentences.
- H. Carvey said...
What I'm saying is that malware that creates a value beneath the HKCU\..\Run key does not, in fact, start up again (i.e., persist) when the system is restarted. Rather, the malware will start the next time that user logs in.
I hope that helps.
- Tom said...
Yes thank you.
- Troy Larson said...
Let me know if you want to discuss Windows 8 and 8.1. There are lots of changes under the hood.
Also, I have seen some things in the registry code that I would like to discuss with you.
- H. Carvey said...
I'd be happy to take about both...contact me at keydet89 @ yahoo dot com and let me know what works for you.


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(Venice, Italy) That amazing photo you see is of the volcano in Iceland, called Eyjafjallajökull, and was taken from DK Matai's site. Eyjafjallajökull started to erupt, fittingly, around the time of the Vernal Equinox, March 20/21, and began causing real havoc on April 14th, closing airports all over Europe, and stranding people all over the world. The general consensus here in Venice is: WE HOPE IT ERUPTS FOR A FEW MORE MONTHS AND KEEPS EVERYONE STUCK WHERE THEY ARE. It is like the Universe's version of "Un, due, tre, Stella!" (1, 2, 3, Star!) or, to American ears, "One, two, three, Red Light!" where the person who is "it" turns around and hollers, "Stella!" or "Red Light!" (or "Soleil!" -- Sun! -- if you are in France), and everyone running must freeze like statues in their places.
Personally, I love volcanoes. They remind me of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, which I strongly suggest that we take down off our shelves and read again right now. The copy I own has a cover that looks like the one you see over on the right.
"I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order. He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes. He possessed two active volcanoes; and they were very convenient for heating his breakfast in the morning. He also had one volcano that was extinct. But, as he said, 'One never knows!' So he cleaned out the extinct volcano, too. If they are well cleaned out, volcanoes burn slowly and steadily, without any eruptions. Volcanic eruptions are like fires in a chimney.
On our Earth we are obviously much too small to clean out our volcanoes. That is why they bring no end of trouble upon us."
Of course, the airlines are upset and want to be bailed out. Quite frankly, I am exhausted with bailing out banks, airlines, insurance companies, etc., and think we should just let them all fend for themselves. Hey! How about the airlines asking the insurance companies... no, wait. It's an Act of God, plus it's a pre-existing condition. So, sorry, you are not covered.
I am sure it is only a coincidence that the English-language version of the explanation of why the banks in Iceland failed was released on April 14th, the same day that the volcano shut down Europe. From Calculated Risk:
"The English version of the Black Report on the Iceland bank failures was released today. It has it all - regulatory capture, oblivious politicians, shadow banking, loans to shareholders to buy shares and more. (ht Steinn)"
Click here to read more: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/04/iceland-bank-black-report.html
I think we should listen to the advice of the President of Iceland, Olaf Ragnar Grimsson, who sounds like a very wise man. He said, "I think it is a very important lesson to all of us that the forces of nature are still at work. They are so formidable that they can bring to a standstill the most advanced economies in the world." President Grimsson suggests that we "relax a little and take time to reflect on the relationship between man and nature."
Click here to watch the BBC interview with President Grimsson:
Click here for the BBC's up-to-the-minute volcano coverage, "Volcano Cloud As it Happens":
At least the British have maintained their sense of humor, and are sending three Royal Navy warships to rescue their citizens, including the Royal Ark herself, HMS Ark Royal.
For my own volcano watch, today I bought a rainbow pinwheel from the Chinese shop and stuck it in my flowers on the balcony so I can see which way the wind blows. Last evening, April 18, 2010, between the hours of 6:30PM and 8:30PM, someone in my building destroyed my mailbox from the inside. I am positive the mailbox was fine at about 6:30PM because there was flyer inside that asked "VUOI MIGLIORARE IL TUO STILE DI VITA?" and I read it on the way to my appointment. The mailbox was broken when I arrived home at 8:30PM; I have a witness that entered at the same time as me. Besides the family who lives here that I have known for years, there was only one other occupied apartment at that time -- the same apartment where the strange woman from Naples, Olimpia Ubaldo, and her sidekick, Wendy, claimed they lived. There are some unusual fellows in there now.
Time to clean out our own Venetian volcano before it erupts.
Ciao from Venice,
Venetian Cat - The Venice Blog
UPDATE: May 24, 2011 - It has been more than a year since I wrote this blog. Since that time, on June 11, 2010, a group of people broke into my home, injected me with drugs and forced me into the psychiatric section of the hospital here in Venice. Two days later, a false story was published in the local paper(s) that I had broken into my apartment and tried to commit suicide by throwing myself off the balcony, desperate because I could not accept the eviction -- which, of course, is entirely illegal to start with. If Roberto Benetta, owner of Alisei Comunicazione Srl, a public relations firm based in Milano and Turino, is an honest man, he will state that I paid the June, 2008 rent for my apartment at San Polo 622, Venezia, in cash directly to his father, Gianni Benetta, on June 10, 2008, since Roberto saw the transaction with his own eyes.
The entire story is a created and manufactured lie by the US State Department and/or the CIA. (Remember, folks, there were no weapons of mass destruction.:) Prior to the forced involuntary commitment on June 11, 2010, the Italian police informed me that they had been told to force me into the hospital by Megan Jones, the US Consulate Agent here in Venice, on June 24, 2009, and they did not want to do it. (The very first attempt was made on August 7, 2008, which I have detailed before.)
How they explain the fact that I wrote this particular blog on April 19, 2010 while inside my apartment, together with three Carabinieri, I have no idea -- I had been back inside since the end of November, 2009. I suppose they think they can bully, intimidate and pay off everyone, and make my blog disappear, as they have already made my "www.catbauer.com" site disappear (if you use the Way Back machine, you can still find it.)
Then, Sara Jane Boyers, a former attorney who I had demanded stay out of my life, and her husband, Steven R. Boyers, a practicing attorney, claimed to be friends of my family (whom they have never met in their lives) and inquired to my Venetian attorney about setting up a guardianship for me, or having me institutionalized. I later discovered that, on more than one occasion, William R. Gill and Megan H. Jones of the US State Department also had contacted my family, without my knowledge or consent, and deliberately gave them false information about me in order to create a false story that I was "paranoid, schizophrenic, bi-polar, suicidal, mentally ill and/or a danger to myself and others." I have since done a mountain of research and learned this is typical CIA/FBI behavior. It is political abuse of psychiatry. From Wikipedia:
In 2006, Canadian psychiatrist Colin A. Ross's book was published, titled The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists.[16] The book presents evidence based on 15,000 pages of documents received from the CIA via the Freedom of Information Act that there have been systematic, pervasive violations of human rights by American psychiatrists during the recent 65 years.[16]
Luckily, Venetian and Italian doctors are not such barbarians.
Today, all my possessions -- including my US passport -- are locked inside my apartment at San Polo 622 and the door has been changed. Yet the gas and electricity are in my name, and have been since Jan/Feb. 2010. I have repeatedly filed reports with the Italian Polizia and Carabinieri. The story is, of course, much longer. There is no longer any doubt that the United States of America has tortured one of their own citizens, me, Catherine Ann "Cat" Bauer, an innocent civilian guilty of no crime -- except, perhaps, the crime of being a keen observer, a skilled writer, and an outspoken critic of barbaric behavior.
UPDATE: September 26, 2012. This evening I was physically assaulted and verbally abused by Roberto Benetta, together with a woman I do not know. The woman was out of her mind, saying that she wanted me dead, she wanted me back in the United States, that I was crazy, that I was going to be forced into the hospital, etc. She and Benetta punched me and tried to REALLY push me down the stairs, which, when you have someone screaming that they wanted you dead, can be a bit frightening. I grabbed hold of the railing and screamed, "Aiuto!" "Aiuto" "Aiuto!" The woman threw my phone, camera, sunglasses, reading glasses down the stairs. She ripped my hair, etc. I will ADMIT that in self defense I grabbed hold of her hair, too, like a cat fight. But if you have a screaming maniac that says she wants you dead and punches you, together with a "man," Roberto Benetta -- who happens to be the owner of a public relations firm called Alisei Comunicazione, or "Ali6", I think I have a bit of a right to fight back. The woman says she is going first to the hospital and then to police to say that I attacked her, punched her in the nose, and broke some type of jewelry, and since there were three of them against one of me, there would be no way I could win this time. (I REALLY have no idea who this woman is; she is certainly not the wife and mother of the children of Roberto Benetta, with whom I have had dinner.) I do not know who the third man was, but he did not seem of the same character. He did not assault me, nor verbally abuse me, nor prevent me from entering my apartment -- but nor did he try to prevent them from assaulting me!
Needless to say, I am very tired, so I will provide more details in the future. BUT THE BEST NEWS IS THAT I ACTUALLY STEPPED FOOT INTO MY APARTMENT TONIGHT before being beaten and pushed and shoved by Roberto Benetta to leave. And I actually SAW my desk! My golden mirror over the sofa! My cushions from Istanbul! My bookshelf! Some of my books! And many other personal items INSIDE MY APARTMENT AT SAN POLO 622! There ARE THERE. And I was INSIDE. I was really, really inside my apartment tonight!
Cat Bauer
September 26, 2012


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The wines of Bordeaux have gained an enviable reputation ever since the Romans first planted vines in the area in the 1st. century A.D. Vintage claret, as the red wines of the region are often known in the UK, have been exported to Britain since the 12th. century following Eleanor of Aquitaine's marriage to the yet-to-be-crowned Henry 2nd. of England thus forging an alliance that was to last for more than 300 years. The trade links that were built between the two countries continue to be very important in the world of wine today.
Bordeaux is the largest fine wine producing region in the world. Despite being on the same latitude as the northern Rhône the climate is moderated by the cooling effect of the Atlantic winds and the rivers Garonne and Dordogne and their confluence in the Gironde estuary. A rich variety of soils, from clay-rich types north of the Gironde to the sand and gravel of the Médoc, formerly an area of marshland until Dutch engineers drained the area in the seventeenth century, contributes to a variety of wine styles in the region. Another factor in the range of red wines here is the different grape varieties used in a typical Bordeaux blend. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are the most well-known of these but an important supporting role is played by Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Carmenère. The various micro-climates and the differing proportions used in the blends give rise to the range of subtle flavour nuances found in Bordeaux reds.
On the right bank St. Emilion and Pomerol produce the best red wines whereas the vineyards of the Haut-Médoc on the left bank can lay claim to many of the most revered names in the world: the general classification of 1855 cited Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Latour in the commune of Pauillac, Château Margaux in the commune of the same name and Château Haut Brion in Pessac, Graves, outside the Médoc itself, as first classed growths with Château Mouton Rothschild (Pauillac) having to wait until 1973 for the same accolade despite long having been widely considered as equal to the others. This list only included wines produced within a days ride by horse-drawn carriage from Bordeaux itself thereby explaining the absence of such great red wines as Châteaux Cheval Blanc and Ausone in St. Emilion and Petrus in Pomerol.
Although these wines command the very highest prices the other classed growths are also extremely elegant wines and highly sought after by wine connoisseurs and collectors. The lower ranked Cru Bourgeois wines can also deliver exceptional value and, today, Bordeaux Supérieur can provide a level of delicious and worthwhile drinking not attained before due largely to modern techniques and a fastidious level of attention to wine-making detail.
Approximately half of all wine production in the region is white although a smaller proportion than that of the red wines is truly world class. The area between the rivers Dordogne and Garonne is named Entre-Deux-Mers (literally "between two seas") and produces vast amounts of good dry white wine from Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Muscadelle and Ugni Blanc grape varieties. Many of the classed growths themselves produce very good quality dry white wine as well although in somewhat limited quantities compared with their red wine production.
Some sweet dessert wines are also produced from grapes affected by botrytis cinerea. Nowhere in Bordeaux produces this type of wine better than Sauternes in the southern Graves district where sweet wines made from infected, nobly-rotted Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle grapes are commonly regarded as the best dessert wines in the world with prices to match. Again the climate is the wine-maker's friend with the vineyards subject to cool, foggy mornings and sunny afternoons in the autumn which create the perfect conditions for noble rot. The most expensive of these wines is the Premier Cru Supérieur Château d'Yquem, a wine made in extremely small quantities and which, like all other top quality Sauternes dessert wines, is made exclusively from hand-picked grapes requiring many passes through the vines over a period weeks due to the need for the precise degree of shrivelling and concentration of the juice and grape sugars.
Video Bordeaux Wine Regions
Chateau Cos d'Estournel, Saint-Estèphe, 1989
Chateau Cos d'Estournel is a 2nd. growth (Deuxieme Grand Cru Classe in 1855) from Saint-Estèphe and is typically a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon with 40% Merlot.
Details Colour Red Wine Grape Variety Bordeaux Blend Red Country France
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien, 1989
Originally a very tough, tannic wine this has now softened during its evolution to provide wonderfully rewarding drinking.
Details Colour Red Wine Grape Variety Bordeaux Blend Red Country France
Château Latour, Pauillac, 1967
Château Latour. has established an enviable reputation for its consistency and, approaching its half century this will appeal to lovers of mature Bordeaux.
Details Colour Red Wine Grape Variety Bordeaux Blend Red Country France
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Conservation and Environment in Fiji: Monthly Updates
Fiji Shark Conservation - Monthly Update - September - October 2015
The project has been very successful during the months of September and October, as a lot has been achieved. Vinaka to our volunteers for their hard work over the last two months!
Survey Dives
It has been a fantastic two months for Survey Diving in Beqa Lagoon. We have been lucky enough to see many creatures big and small for all to record and enjoy whilst improving their diving skills.
The colder waters have meant we have had sightings of Zebra Sharks, Silvertip Sharks, White Tip Reef Sharks, Tawny Nurse Sharks and even a brief glimpse of the ever elusive Guitarfish. We have also been lucky enough to again witness Humpback Whales on the boat ride back to Beqa Adventure Divers, one afternoon they were right by the boat and we saw a mother and baby for around five minutes breaching the surface.
Our indicator species of Groupers, Snappers, Emperors, Mackerel, Tuna and Barracuda have been recorded on every dive. We've even had a Narrow Barred Spanish Mackerel recorded that was larger than a Whitetip Reef Shark. Every dive brings something new to admire and continue to record for science!
BRUV Drops
We have had an interesting time with the BRUV over the past two months. In September, a number of weeks of bad weather meant BRUV drops were not possible in our regions of scientific study. However, our perseverance and positive thinking meant we have managed to drop a number of BRUVs recently in both the Medium and Yanuca areas and we hope that when the new bait cage arrives it will be able to protect the bait from being stolen by hungry Snappers!
It is now the very low season for the juvenile scalloped Hammerhead Sharks, which means the catch rate has been at its lowest. It also means that the juveniles caught were much bigger and stronger. However, a beautiful and strong 85cm female Blacktip Reef Shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) has been caught, tagged and released in the month of October.
Recently we had a call from our local fisher friends. They found two Blacktip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) and one Lemon Shark (Negaprion acutidens) dead in their net. These events are very unfortunate, but very common. The volunteers assisted to the dissection of one of them by our lead scientist. You can see the impressive size of the liver that can represent up to 25% of the body weight.
Over the last two months, much work has been completed with the Mangroves for Fiji Project. The project has a few different aspects involved and this includes constructing nursery areas from bamboo and nylon mesh, recycling plastic bottles by cutting them in half and making holes in the underside, filling bottles with substrate, collecting propagules, planting propagules in pots, watering propagules, weeding pots, replacing dead propagules for live ones, and planting established propagules into the wild.
The outcome of all this work has various benefits and by taking part in mangrove afforestation volunteers are indirectly responsible for:
- Depositing significant quantities of detritus into the marine environment, which in turn provides food for sea-life.
- Providing a nesting, nursery and refuge ground for mammals, amphibians, reptiles, countless species of plant, fish and avian species.
- Recharging underground water supplies.
- Trapping debris and silt, stabilising the near shore environment, preventing shore erosion and clarifying adjacent open water which facilitates photosynthesis in marine plants.
- Buffering natural forces such as hurricanes, wave action, tidal change and run off.
- Sequestering carbon from the atmosphere and mitigating the effects of global warming.
During the months of September and October, Projects Abroad volunteers and staff continued to construct and implement propagule tables into the Ventura nursery to further increase capacity. By constructing tables from timber and metal mesh sheets, the top halves of the bottles are placed on the tables and bottom halves are placed under the tables.
Approximately 15,000 propagules are currently housed in the Ventura nursery and plastic bottles are continually being collected from local resorts and villages to be used as pots in the nursery areas. Other achievements of the last 2 months include successful planting of 5000 and 7000 established propagules into the wild during the months of September and October respectively.
Community Days
Community days over the last two months have been very successful. Volunteers visited Vunibau Village, Galoa Village, Makosoi Village and Pacific Harbour Multi Cultural School. Volunteers took part in arts and crafts based around the topic of shark conservation. The entire exercise was used as a tool for exciting and teaching the children on the content of their local marine environment.
On two community days we also held a cultural day at Ventura apartments by where locals came and taught the volunteers how to make traditional hats and clothing out of palm leaves, and then taught them traditional dance which they practiced all day and performed in the evening. Three dances, girls, boys, and mixed. The evening finale was a fire dance performance by the locals. The volunteers also learned how to prepare a traditional lovo dinner where food is wrapped in leaves and cooked with hot stones underground.


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Outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is a huge Washington Nationals fan.
So yesterday at his going away shindig with staff, the Fed passed around Ben Bernanke baseball cards, FRB economist Claudia Sahm tweeted today.
Here's the card:
Bernanke (special edition) baseball card pic.twitter.com/klAxmzMAkF— Claudia Sahm (@Claudia_Sahm) January 31, 2014
pretty impressive stats on the back of that card ... pic.twitter.com/0ZXLtL9HOa— Claudia Sahm (@Claudia_Sahm) January 31, 2014
See Also:THE FED TAPERS QE BY ANOTHER $10 BILLIONROSENBERG: Ben Bernanke Gets C-Here's What To Expect From Today's Big Fed Meeting
SEE ALSO: Lloyd Blankfein Just Got A Solid Raise


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Just days after dropping his critically acclaimed Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty last year, Atlanta rapper Big Boi began working on his followup solo album: Daddy Fat Sax: Soul Funk Crusader. And the producer MC told Junior Online he could release the album "tomorrow" if he wanted, with 17 tracks already in the can.
Among cameos on the new disc, which he hopes to have out by the end of the year, is the expected Janelle Monae appearance (she kind of owes him one). And while an official Outkast track hasn't been released in the better part of five years, Big Boi tells Rolling Stone collaborations between he and Andre 3000 are more imminent than ever.
Andre 3000 produced one track on Big Boi's last LP. But label conflicts have kept the monster-platinum Atlanta rap duo from doing anything substantial as Outkast since the release of Idlewild in 2006. Big Boi tells Rolling Stone A recent label executive jump in Hollywood has cleared some roadblocks that prohibited the group from working together. This includes the release of "Lookin' for Ya," a track the two couldn't put on Sir Luscious Left Foot.
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To expect next? Andre's solo album, and then the official album reunion of Atlanta's most stylish and odd duo.