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Central Pneumatic air eraser problem
Pumpkinhead posted a topic in Fossil PreparationI'm currently experiencing some issues with a brand new central pneumatic air eraser where when I hook it up to an air compressor: 1) air either blows through the air eraser without carrying any powder from the reservoir regardless of whether or not I'm pressing the control button or 2) air simply doesn't blow through it at all I've tried adjusting the screw on top of the reservoir and I've also tried to blow any powder that's stuck on the inside that may be gumming it up but these fixes have not worked. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? If so, how did you fix it? I've only been using this instrument for two days for spraying MgO powder onto trilobites for photography.
"Publication Quality" Fossil Photographs
Pumpkinhead posted a topic in Fossil PhotographyHello all, I am curious to know about the techniques people use for producing photographs for plates in paleontological publications. I know there are some professional paleontologists on here, so I'm assuming some of you have personal experience in this area. What equipment in general is ideal for this? I have next to no experience with photography outside of taking pictures of my personal collection with a point and shoot. The reason why I am asking is because I will be required to do so for my undergraduate thesis research (photoshoot of some Lower Cambrian trilobites) and I am having trouble finding good resources for this on the internet. Paleontology/biostratigraphy projects aren't all that common at my school, so I don't have very many people that I know personally to ask for advice. I've taken photos of my specimens so that I have stuff to look at in the field using one of the cameras from my supervisor's lab (the make escapes me, I can post it when I'm back on campus tomorrow). These photos were acceptable for my purposes (eye candy and IDing things with some references I brought) but are not up to snuff for publications. Just curious to see what people's experience is with this and whether or not there are any publications on the protocols that are used for doing this sort of stuff. Any and all suggestions are welcome! Thanks!
Filming Conodonts
KOI posted a topic in Micro-paleontologyHi! I recently acquired a bunch of microfossil samples for kids to play but did not expect them to be so small. We tried some microscopy but ended up applying a little trick that actually to helped to film them "in action", which was kind of cool. I do not know if this technique is a common knowledge or not but I decided to share. Perhaps, it will be of use to somebody. Here you go: Any suggestions for improvements? Thanks!
New Photography Techniques Reveal More Than Meets The Eye
JohnJ posted a topic in Fossil NewsLooks like a new set of photography techniques will assist us in determining what is associated and what was added to those drool worthy discoveries. Progressive Photonics
Photographing microgastropods
RainBoKatchr posted a topic in Fossil PhotographyI have found a number of species in the Astoria Formation near Newport Oregon that are not in the literature, and I am planning on putting up a web site that describes them and makes proposals for their species names. And several of these are micromollusks.....a few bivalves, but mostly gastropods, with the smallest species being 1.2 mm high (not all that far from the world record of 0.7mm for a gastropod). And my digital camera, even in "macro-mode," can't begin to provide a usable photo of such an object. Does anyone have any ideas as far as photography equipment for small items that is affordable for someone on a strict budget? Dave
Ammonite photography
Aurelius posted a topic in Member CollectionsI've recently been experimenting with photographing some of my ammonite collection. It can be quite tricky to get creative photos of smaller specimens, so I have been building light modifiers and a miniature studio to see what I could come up with. I recently lost my job, so I'm hoping that perhaps I can sell fine art prints of some of these at some point in the future. For now though, I have a lot more tinkering to do. I won't go into detail naming the species, because I'm way too tired and would probably get it wrong anyway. All of these ammonites are under 2cm/.8 inch wide. Harpoceras? Somerset UK Unknown, Somerset UK Unknown, Russia. Same as above, detail Same as above, detail Unknown, Folkestone UK
Amber insect photographs
Aurelius posted a topic in Member CollectionsI've recently set-up a little studio in my dining room to make the photography of amber inclusions a little easier. These are the first results. I was going to wait a while and build up a few more to post at the same time, but I've had a crappy day and I'm keen to do anything to distract myself from it. These pictures are both panoramic, each made up of about seven images, I think. Each of those seven images is a stack of photos taken at different distances from the amber at 5x magnification on a full-frame camera. Each stack contains around 100 photos, so we're talking around 700 photos total per image. All of the amber is Baltic. The first piece of amber captures quite a poignant moment from 44 million years ago. Close-up of same image: Close-up of the head, from a different photo (taken at 10x magnification). This isn't such a great photo, but it does show some great details. And the second piece of amber is this fly. I can't remember what type of fly it is, but it's very big. And a close-up.
Show us your plastic dinosaur
Bobby Rico posted a topic in General Fossil DiscussionThis thread explores the light hearted history of the dinosaurs in the public psyche. A visually nostalgic tour of the evolution of the very popular toy, the plastic dinosaur . Focusing on film, illustration, sculpture, vintage photography and of course our prehistoric plastic playmates. I hope it invokes some very happy memories from our childhoods Story starts here, Megalosaurus jawbone - in 1824. It was acquired by William Buckland (1784-1856), For the University of Oxford, after being found in a slate quarry in Stonesfield, Oxfordshire. The names of of both Megalosaurus and Dinosaur were coined by Richard Owen. In the UK in 1974 the Megalosaurus figure by Invicta Plastics was the best selling museum dinosaur. The first ever dinosaurs sculptures exhibited in the world are the fantastic Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. Displaying a series of sculptures of extinct animals. However, these are very misguided to modern standards, housed in London's Crystal Palace, the sculptures were designed by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins under the scientific direction of Richard Owen.
New Amber Photography Setup
holdinghistory posted a topic in Fossil PhotographyA while back I had posted asking about amber photography. Well, after a lot of research, and some expensive upgrades, I finally figured out a good setup. I am using a Cannon Rebel, with a 200mm lens, a few adapters, and infinity objective lens. The whole setup is mounted to an automated stacking rail and connected to my computer. I will usually take 100-250 photos per inclusion, and then stack them with a stacking software (Zerene Stacker). The end result depends a lot on the quality of the inclusion itself, as well as the clarity and shape of the amber piece, and the position of the inclusion inside it. But with a good piece of amber, I am extremely pleased with the results.
What is the name of those cubes with measurements on them?
JohnBrian posted a topic in Questions & AnswersWhat are those cubes with measurements on them called? I looked at various subforums but didn't see any of them listed and since I don't know their name I can't really search for them!
How to be an Urban Paleontologist
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil NewsHow to Spot the Fossils Hiding in Plain Sight Traces of prehistoric life are everywhere. by Jessica Leigh Hester, Atlas Obscura, Feb. 23, 2018 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/find-fossils-urban-geology Meteorite Impactites in London: Irongate House, Houndsditch EC3 Ruth Siddall, Urban Geology in London No. 24, December 2014. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbrxs/Homepage/walks/IrongateHouse.pdf London Pavement Geology http://londonpavementgeology.co.uk Yours, Paul H.
Costa Rica
Hunterthurmond posted a topic in South AmericaI know that Costa Rica has a policy of confiscating natural items, so my plan is to photograph them. I read of a tourist attempting to drive fossils she bought and being charged with smuggling items of natural wonder, no bueno. That being said most I have found online is concerned with collecting and the prohibition of it. Does anyone know of any books about costa rican fossils and sites, books about costa rican geology, personal account, etc etc I have heard of some beaches on the pacific coast with petrified wood.
New Scope and Lenses
Kane posted a topic in Fossil PreparationWas surprised to receive a few packages very far ahead of anticipated delivery date. The first is an OMAX 3.5x - 90x trinocular scope with boom arm. If I'm going to be doing more detailed prep, a stereo scope with boom arm to position over a blast box is an absolute must. Of course, it came in a zillion pieces and the instruction manual was for an entirely different model that bore very little resemblance to the one I was putting together. But after an hour of trial and error - and some very colourful language - it is all assembled. I've taken it out for its test run, and works great with wide-field eye pieces and a Barlow lens so I can work at a reasonable distance. The magnification is not high, but any higher would not be useful for prep. Blowing up a half inch specimen to a large detailed view is sufficient enough to get at the nooks and crannies. The software it came with was not going to be helpful to me as it came on a CD (Mac discontinued CD/DVD drives on their machines a few iterations ago), and so after some online hunting I found the right software for download. Still a lot to learn about microscope photography as what you see in the eye piece is not necessarily what you see on the screen. It also means pulling out a stop to divert light from one of the eye pieces to the mounted camera. Eventually I'll figure out how to match up the eye view to the camera view (there is some helpful advice online, and a lot of things I can adjust in the software). So pictured here was just a quick and simple (if not fuzzy) first snap of a 5mm Itagnostus interstricta. I know, fuzzy... As I said, a lot to learn! Second item are these handy jeweller's glasses with lenses of different strength to swap in and out as needed. The little LED lights on the side are very helpful. These will be useful when I'm doing sewing needle prep and need my hands free (rather than holding a loupe). Also handy when I need to have a quick look at some detail in the field when I'm away from the scope. Oh, and they also makes me look like a demented 1950s sci-fi villain, which will help frighten door-to-door salespeople or small children. Ah, new toys!
Microfossil photography
The Jersey Devil posted a topic in Micro-paleontologyHey everyone, I am wondering if anyone knows a professional microscope that can be used to photograph microfossils. I need to make pictures of fossils such as bonefish teeth, ptychotrygon teeth, etc, that are 2-3 mm big. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for any help.
Lighting for amber photography
holdinghistory posted a topic in Fossil PhotographyWorking on my amber photography setup. Right now, having issues with lighting the insect up properly. Still working on getting the focus correct, just switched to a steomicroscope with a c-mount adapter for my Cannon Rebel. Shooting remotely with the EOS app. Lighting with the scope's backlight and a dual arm microscope light. Any ideas?
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From the album Fossil Photo-Shoot: 1Using this image for a post this may be updated depending on the outcome.
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Tricks for Taking Photos for Microfossils (Riversleigh Fossil Centre)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil NewsMount Isa photographer shares his tricks for taking photos of sand-grain sized fossils By Harriet Tatham, ABC North West Qld http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-28/how-to--photograph-a-fossil-the-size-of-a-sand-grain/8650976 Yours, Paul H.
Rotating a fossil in a photo
billheim posted a topic in Fossil PhotographyHas anyone tried to take a 3D photograph of a fossil that you can rotate in all directions when displayed on a website? If so, what software did you used? What do you recommend for me? I want something inexpensive but am willing to put in the effort to make it work the way it should. I have a background in photography and 3D but not VR and this something I want to exploit. I want to take a bunch of photos of a fossil from all angles and stitch them into something the website visitor can manipulate as holding it in his/her hand. The software I see when I do a web search don't list prices but want me to request a quote. Thanks! Bill
Digital Microscope recommendations
Carson posted a topic in Micro-paleontologyI am wanting to get a digital microscope to image chondrichthyan teeth in the 1mm to 20mm size range. I have been using an iPhone 5s with a15x Olloclip for the larger teeth with decent results, but can't pickup fine details on the smaller teeth. Does anyone have recommendations that won't "break the bank "? Thanks, Carson
My fossil work stations, case and storage areas
Herb posted a topic in Collecting GearHere is some of my storage areas and my prep/ photo work station and my microfossil work station. And a display case.
3D Fossil Scanning W/ Photogrammetry
Cris posted a topic in Fossil PhotographyI decided to do a little experiment yesterday after reading a little about photogrammetry and how it's being used in archaeology for 3D scanning sites. The idea of digitizing fossils in 3D is very, very cool to me. I decided to do a little more research on it and possibly give it a try. For this experiment: All software was completely free. I didn't use an expensive camera....In fact, I used my smartphone to take all the photos. Image size was only 1000x1000px and quality wasn't that great (it's a phone) I didn't have a good light setup. I used the flash on my phone. I had no experience with any of this prior to this experiment. For the subject, I used a whale vert that has some odd preservation. It seems like it was crushed a little during fossilization. The whole thing is off center and cracked in a lot of places. I thought it would be a good fossil to play around with for this. So, I took 46 photos at different angles all around the fossil, making sure to keep the distance the same and tried my best to keep my phone's camera in focus. There were two main steps after the photos were taken. 1. Create a point cloud that could be put into a program and used to make a 3D model from the 46 2D photographs 2. Use the same 46 images to create a texture to apply to the new 3D model. Thankfully, both steps were much easier than I expected them to be thanks to some software created as research projects by different students in a few different universities. I'm happy with the results considering it was done with free software and a cell phone. I could have used higher resolution photos and it probably would have looked nicer, but I didn't for this first test. I plan on messing around with this sort of thing more. There's tons of filters and options in the different programs that I haven't tested to see what they would do...and I haven't even tried a real camera with better lighting yet. I'm guessing that a good camera in direct sunlight would make a huge difference. A couple of things on the model didn't come out right, but that was probably just because I didn't get enough photos from different angles in certain places. Also, the bottom of the vert where it was sitting on the table obviously didn't get photographed, so it's just black. I'm sure you could flip the thing over, do the whole thing again and then put it all together, but that would require a lot more experience with these programs. If anybody is interested in playing around with this themselves, I can post the programs used..or I could write out a tutorial. When some even better software comes out, I can see this becoming a pretty common thing. Imagine a "gallery" full of 3D fossil scans! Whale Vertebra 4½" Tall Miocene Hawthorn Fm. Alachua County, FL Here's an additional two-part scan done using this method and a DSLR camera with more photographs: Titanis walleri Phalanx Pleistocene Gilchrist County, FL Beginner Tutorial The Programs & Configuration First, you need Visual SFM. (This is the program that turns the photos into a 3D point cloud) Next, you need CMVS for Windows or if you're not on Windows, go here. (This is just a few files that we put into Visual SFM that helps create our texture that gets applied to the 3D model) The last thing you'll need is Meshlab. (This is a very powerful 3D program that does all kinds of stuff. We'll be using it to turn our 3D point cloud into an actual model and apply our material to it...among a couple other things) Download Visual SFM & CMVS then extract them. Navigate to the correct folder for your computer and copy the contents of the CMVS folder. I'm on Windows 7 64 bit, so I went to the first folder I extracted, "CMVS-PMVS-master" > CMVS-PMVS-master > binariesWin-Linux > Win64-VS2010 and copied everything in there (minus the Readme.txt). Paste those files directly into the Visual SFM folder (the one with all the .dll files where the application to launch the program is) that you just extracted. Obviously, this is a one time thing. You get those files in the right place and every time you open Visual FSM to make a 3D model, it'll have CMVS right where it needs to be. Photographing When I took my photos, I placed the vert on a piece of newspaper with a lot of different colors, lines, images, etc. It's important that the software has common places of reference between different images so it can map out he point cloud accurately. Here's my vert set up ready to be photographed: Thinking about it now, it probably would have been smarter to elevate the vert slightly above the newspaper on a little block or something. I had a little trouble cropping the bright newspaper away from the vert. I took photos starting at a low angle spaced out as I slowly rotated around the fossil. I'd take a pic, move a tiny bit, take another, move a tiny bit, etc. Here's what four of my photos in sequence look like: I went in a full circle until I was sure that I had rotated around the fossil completely and even overlapped a bit, taking photos of the same angle I started with (better to have too many than too few). Then I angled the camera (well, phone in this case) at about a 45 degree angle and rotated around the fossil completely again. Those photos look like this: As you can tell, this are not great photos. I think that the model would have turned out much better looking if I took better photos in better lighting. After I completed that pass, I took one photo of the very top of the vert, facing downward. I made sure to always get a fair amount of the newspaper for tracking purposes. Then I used a great free program called Photoscape and it's batch editor to apply the same filter and crop to all the images at once. Make sure not to crop out your newspaper or whatever you're using to help with tracking. Do not use images with larger dimensions than 3200px! I read in a couple places that this would cause worse tracking and a lot of other problems. If you want to experiment with larger than that, go for it and see what happens..When I tried it, the program ran for a very long time and eventually froze my computer...but my original images were over 5000px each. Visual SFM When your photos are done, open up Visual SFM by going to the folder you extracted and clicking on the application. This is what it looks like: I wrote out some arrows to the things you'll be using in there. #1 is Open Multiple Images. Just click that, navigate to your images and upload them. You'll see the log window to the right doing some stuff....You should see your image thumbnails in the program in just a few moments. When that's done and there's no more activity in the log window, click on #2, Compute Missing Matches. This is the first thing that some computers could have trouble with. This one can take a little while depending on how many images you have and how large they are. When this is done and there's no more activity in the log window, we can get to the cool stuff. Click on #3, Compute 3D Reconstruction. This part is seriously amazing. It takes all of your images and automatically calculates where you were in relation to the object when you took the photo. Then it shows all the places an image was taken and it displays the point cloud in the center. It looks like this: The squares are everywhere I took a photo...You can see that I did a circle around the fossil down low and then a very sloppy "circle" above it. In the center, you'll see your sparse point cloud. If you want to make the little image icons bigger or smaller, it's ctrl + mouse wheel, if you want to change the size of the point cloud points, it's ctrl + alt. Time for the next step. When you clicked on button #3 and got your point cloud, a couple new buttons showed up. This is the one you need: #4 is Run Dense Reconstruction. When you click this, it's going to act like you're saving something. What you're doing is giving the software a directory to dump the files it's going to create. Make a new folder, give the file some name and click save. When you click save, look at the log window (if it's gone, the show/hide button for it is at the top, far left) and look for this: If you see the highlighted part, it means you correctly moved over the files from the CMVS folder you downloaded into the Visual SFM folder. It'll tell you that "this could take quite some time" and it definitely does. For my project (46 images at about 1.2MB each - 1000x1000px) it took 5 - 10 minutes, but before I resized those photos they were over 5000px each and this step ran for nearly an hour before my computer finally froze. Like I mentioned above in the photography part, I read in a few places that your images should be below 3200px on the longest side. You might want to think about closing down other programs that use up a lot of memory while you run this unless your computer has a lot of memory to spare. I closed out my browser and a bunch of other stuff just in case. When the log window says this is done, you should be able to hit Tab on your keyboard and see your dense point cloud....again, you can mess with the size of the points with ctrl + mouse wheel. This is still just a point cloud even though you'll start to see some color and image coming through. There's no need to save anything after this step is done. The program automatically wrote everything you need into the new folder that you created. And that's it for Visual SFM! Meshlab Go ahead and install Meshlab if you haven't already. It can look a little overwhelming at first, but we'll only be doing a couple pretty basic things. This is what Meshlab looks like: Go up to File and click Open Project (or the second button from the left, #1 in the photo above). Remember the folder you had to create when doing the last step (the dense point cloud) in Visual SFM? Navigate to that folder and you'll see a .nvm folder with the name. Open that file. It'll take a few moments to open. When it does, you'll see your point cloud open up into the program (upside down). Now is a good time to try to learn how to navigate around the viewport. The mouse wheel zooms in and out. Holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse rotates around the center. Holding the mouse scroll wheel and moving the mouse will pan the point cloud (or later, the mesh) around. I usually center it in the middle of the center rotation widget. Holding Alt and scrolling the mouse wheel will change the size of your point cloud points....You may need to do that to make them easier to see since we need to delete some soon. All this might take a little getting used to, but if you're patient you'll get the hang of it. Next, click on Show Layer Dialog, the #2 button in the image above. You'll see the little window on the right pop up. If you're at all familiar with photo editing, this layer window should be pretty familiar to you. Now we need to get our cameras showing up. Go to Render (#3) > Show Camera (#4). From there, go over to drop down arrow next to Show Camera on your side window below your layers (#5) and click it. Check on the Scale Factor here and make sure it's set to something like 0.04 or smaller depending on what you want. When I first did this, the camera scale factor was very high when I first clicked on Show Camera and it made it so I couldn't see my point cloud anymore. Time for bringing in our dense point cloud. First, click the little eye next to your layer in the side bar (#6) and you'll see your point cloud disappear. Next, go to File > Import Mesh (#7) and navigate to the same folder you created in Visual SFM where your .nvm file was. You'll see in the same folder a .ply file with the same name. Click that and import it. Reposition the mesh in the center and zoom in. Under Show Camera on the side bar, you may want to uncheck Show Raster Cameras so they don't get in your way for this next step. We're going to be selecting and deleting the stuff that we don't want in our finished model. Position your model carefully and click the Select Vertexes (#8) button. You can then click with the mouse and drag a rectangular selection around the stuff you don't want (#9). Be careful NOT to delete any of the actual model, only the surrounding stuff that was used for tracking (the newspaper in my case) and any random artifacts that might be hovering above or around the model. This isn't difficult, but it can be a little time consuming. This is why I recommended above that you elevate your fossil on a little block or something. Then you could just change to a side view and delete all the newspaper at once, cutting the block in half. When you drag the box around the stuff you don't want, that stuff will turn red meaning it's selected (see #9). When you have the right stuff selected, click #10, which is a Delete Vertices button. The area selected is gone now. Repeat 8, 9 and 10 changing angles carefully to get rid of everything that you need gone. Sometimes the wrong layer gets automatically selected (the invisible one) and when you hit the delete button, it won't do anything. Just click the layer ending in .0.ply if the top one gets selected and keep going. Don't hit the delete button if even a tiny piece of the model is selected...There's no undo button that I've seen, so if you make that mistake, you may have to go back to step 7 and import the mesh again. Here's another angle I used: Remember that you can hold Alt and scroll the mouse wheel to make the points bigger and smaller. If they're too small, you'll have trouble seeing what to delete and what not to. Next, go to Filters > Point Set > Surface Reconstruction: Poisson (#11) here: Then change the settings in the box that pops up to 12, 7, 1, 1 (or experiment a little, but that's what I used) like this: When that's done, hit apply and let it run. What comes out is a 3D model of your fossil! It's just missing the texture right now, but it's still very cool looking. Click the little eye on the layer that ends with .0.ply to hide it. It'll look something like this: Next, we need to go to go to Filters > Selection > Select Non Manifold Edges (#12), making sure the right layer is selected like so: A box will pop up. Just hit apply, then click the Delete Vertices (#13) button. This is just a preventative measure, you shouldn't notice much happening when you click delete. We're getting close! Just one last step and you'll have a fully textured 3D model. Go to Filters > Texture > Parameterization + texturing from registered rasters (#14). A box will pop up. I doubled the size of the texture and left everything else default. The default is 1024, I changed that to 2048. Go ahead and name your texture whatever you want. This step is taking all those images we took and making a single image file that has all angles on it. Hit apply. And there you go! A fully textured 3D model of a fossil from nothing but images: You can go ahead and export your model now. Click File > Export Mesh, give it a name, select the file type drop down here: I made sure to save in a couple different file formats. I saved in .obj and .dae. When you go to upload the 3D model somewhere, all you have to do is upload one of these files and then find your texture image that you created on step (#14) to apply to it. Keep in mind that this technique is not limited to small objects. You can map out environments in 3D too. Archaeologists use this technique (usually with high tech equipment) to take 3D models of archaeological dig sites. This technique can also be used for very detailed topographic mapping if you had a way of taking aerial pics. I'd love to see if anybody gives this thing a shot. If you try it and have trouble, let me know...I'm still very much a newbie at all this, but I'll do whatever I can to help figure it out. I'll post more in this thread as I make more 3D fossils. If anybody gives this a shot, have fun! It's definitely a learning experience. -Cris
Trick For Taking Photographs With A Cell Phone
Cluros posted a topic in General Fossil DiscussionI thought I would share a few cell phone photography tricks I have learned. Back when I had an iPhone and HTC One I would just zoom in the camera and then I would put my fossil in the frame and take the photo. Both phones did an admiral job taking decent up close photos. I've recently downgraded to a Moto G with a fixed focal length and found that it wouldn't take nice close up photos. Then I tried holding my loupe up to the camera lens and lo and behold I was taking close up pictures again. The photo below is a 1/2 inch Triarthrus beckii. By the way, if you forget your loupe you can use your phone camera as one. This trick also works with tablet computers as well.


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Most of the seaweeds offshore the northern Gulf of Mexico at 45-90m depth grow attached to algal nodules, also called rhodoliths, which form extensive beds on the hard banks. Our laboratory, in collaboration of Dr. William Schmidt, is interested in characterizing such mesophotic crust-forming and fleshy macroalgae on the basis of morphological and molecular evidence. Seaweeds of particular focus are the coralline algae and other red algae, but also brown and green seaweeds. Our lab is also very involved in assessing the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon on the health and recovery of the algal communities in Louisiana. Students will learn molecular techniques (DNA extraction, PCR, sequencing, phylogenetic analyses) as they apply to seaweeds, and correlate molecular and morphological data sets from species around the world with possible worldwide biogeographic hypotheses. In addition, there will also be opportunities for specimen curation.
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Paul Leberg's laboratory is studying the effect of programs to restore barrier islands on wildlife habitat. Coastal islands are disappearing at an alarming rate, affecting seabirds that depend on them for nesting habitat. The placement of dredged materials on these islands can help replace losses to erosion and coastal subsidence, however it can have unintended consequences for seabird colonies. REU researchers can investigate: (1) historical associations between restoration programs and seabird use, 2) effects of restoration on populations of nest predators such as mammals, ants and crabs, 3) effects of dredge placement and project age on vegetation succession, or 4) the role of island characteristics on bird use and nest success. This work will contribute to better outcomes for ecological restoration projects and benefit coastal island management throughout the coast of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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|Low dissolved oxygen (i.e., hypoxia) is a frequent cause of acute fish mortality and chronic stress within aquatic communities. River diversions can regulate oxygen levels in estuarine drainage systems by providing a continuous supply of cooler, oxygen-rich water to areas which are susceptible to hypoxia events. On the other hand, diversions are challenged by complex socioenvironmental issues related to flood control, sediment transport, nutrient and pesticide dispersal, property rights, and unintended habitat impacts. In this project we investigate the role of river diversions as a hypoxia control strategy in the context of an impaired estuarine drainage area along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Our approach utilizes hydrodynamic modeling, land use analysis, and synoptic field measurements taken amongst neighboring watersheds to gain a better understanding of hypoxia controllers in the low-gradient environment. We will also investigate a local freshwater introduction project to study how diversions may neutralize hypoxia and interact with other key biological habitat variables.
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Dr. Brian Schubert, School of Geosciences
We study past climate using tree rings. Stable isotope measurements across annual growth rings in living, recently felled, and fossil trees provide a wealth of information on past climate at annual resolution. Recent advances in high-resolution sampling now allow for the possible detection of single storm events, droughts, and floods. Students will collect, sample, and analyze the stable isotope composition of tree-rings from old timbers and mummified wood preserved in the marsh sediments of southern Louisiana. This work aims to produce a record of extreme weather events that extends beyond our limited historical record. No experience in stable isotope geochemistry expected or required.
Dr. Natalia Sidorovskaia, Dept. of Physics
My area of research is underwater acoustics. We collect acoustic signals produced by humans and nature in the ocean and decode them through sophisticated signal processing and machine learning techniques. By interpreting underwater acoustic signals, we are looking for ways to improve our understanding of the underwater world and the processes happening in deep bottom layers. Acoustic signals help us to find natural resources (oil, gas) stored deep under the ocean bottom, to predict destructive earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricane paths, to understand marine mammal communities, and to unveil many other mysteries of the deep ocean. Currently our research team is studying marine mammals (beaked whales, sperm whales, Bryde's whales, dolphins) in the Gulf of Mexico using long-term passive acoustic recordings and oceanographic data. The questions we seek to answer are: (1) what regional populations of these animals are and how they change over years, (2) how environmental stresses impact these animals, (3) how the top predators are affected by entire ecosystem through food web. Potential REU projects include: (1) development of innovative machine learning algorithms to detect and classify marine mammals in big data; (2) understanding soundscapes of hurricanes; 3) acoustic communication of sperm whales; and 4) acoustic data mining discoveries. Applicants are expected to have intermediate programming skills and be able to work in Matlab environment.
Dr. Beth Stauffer, Dept. of Biology
The Stauffer Lab conducts research on the dynamics of phytoplankton communities, seeking to 1) understand what controls growth and community composition, and 2) quantify how changes in these communities affect larger ecosystems through food webs and processes like carbon cycling. Potential REU research projects include a) looking at the role of grazing by microzooplankton in structuring phytoplankton communities in local estuaries, b) quantifying how filter-feeding oysters are effected by and affect phytoplankton communities in estuaries undergoing restoration activities, and c) assessing the effects of changing phytoplankton communities, coupled with grazing, on carbon export throughout the highly dynamic Gulf of Mexico. Students in the Stauffer lab employ combinations of lab and field approaches and utilize such techniques as flow cytometry, microscopy, microalgal culturing, ocean observing, multivariate statistical approaches, and controlled experimental manipulations. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in field work in local Louisiana estuaries.
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|The Laboratory of Wetland Ecosystem Science focuses on understanding the effects of heterogeneity in plant communities, physical structure, and hydrology in greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon sequestration in wetlands. Our students have the opportunity to work in the field and gain skills in a diverse suite of measurements and observation techniques at different spatiotemporal scales, including hydro-meteorological monitoring; soil coring and dating; water, soil and plant nutrient and isotopic analyses, non-steady-state chambers to measure carbon fluxes from plants, water and soils; in-situ pore-water dialysis samplers, and plant surveying.
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- Title PROBA - ESA's New Mini Satellite
- Released: 09/10/2001
- Length 00:05:14
- Language English
- Footage Type Documentary
- Copyright ESA
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This programme presents PROBA, one of the tiniest ESA spacecraft ever built which is paving the way for future satellites of global proportions. The PROBA launch is currently scheduled for 18 October 2001. PROBA is the first satellite to operate in space virtually unaided, performing everyday tasks with little or no involvement from ground controllers. However, it not only has a mind of its own, it will also boast an extensive research programme, with its diverse range of scientific instruments - some of which have never before been used in space. What's more, the data from some of these instruments will be distributed to scientists on Earth via a web-server and the internet. The 5-minute A-roll contains split audio with an English guide track and is complemented by a longer B-roll with clean international sound.
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0:30 PROBA is ESA's first micro-satellite and it will hook into the internet. General introduction of PROBA, standing for "Project for Onboard Autonomy": It is the first fully autonomous ESA spacecraft , and will operate in space virtually un-operated from ground, performing by itself all every-day task, such as navigation, payload and resource management, with little or no involvement from ESA ground control.
1:22 PROBA will also perform an extensive research programme with its diverse range of scientific instruments, some of which have never before been used in space. The data will distributed to scientist around the world via the Internet and an web server.
1:36 Richard Creasey, ESA Space Engineer, explains the primary objectives of PROBA
2:04 Introduction of the PROBA development.
2:11 It will be put into orbit 800km above the Earth, by an Indian launcher. There are five instruments aboard.
2:31The Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS) instrument will be used to measure directional spectral reflectance of land areas, thus providing new biophysical and biochemical data, and information on land surfaces.
3:01 The Debris In-orbit Evaluator (DEBIE) instrument will provide information on space debris in low-Earth, Sun-synchronous orbit.
3:26 The Space Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM) instrument will be used to provide data on space weather and space environment.
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3:48 The five PROBA instruments are controlled by a brand new computer system, five times as powerful as what is on the ESA SOHO satellite.
3:59 Richard Creasey explains how the data are stored onboard and send to the ESA ground stations art Kiruna or Redu. All images are stored on a server connected to the web, which then can be accessed by the users.
4:25 Specific requests by scientists are send from Redu ground station to PROBA. The satellite will then automatically calculate all necessary for the data takes.
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Growing Gifts
A friend of mine recently had a baby and I have been struggling for a gift idea. I was wanting to get her something memorable, that was for both her and the baby.
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"The future depends on what we do in the present" Mahatma Gandhi
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It is worth going, not a lot of people show up and if they pick a winner and the person is not present they pick another ticket so that gives the people who are actually there a much better chance of winning.
The number who show up depends on how many people read their Navigator! There have been cruises where 6 people showed up, but they only drew for one prize. There have also been cruises where the entire room was full–probably 150 people. I don't know if the number of prizes is determined in advance or not–I've had them draw for one prize and seen them draw 5 prizes.
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Republicans seem to act first, and think second; or not at all. They fail to look at the consequences of their actions. The most recent example of this behavior occurred when Sen. Tom Cotton, and his 60 days of experience, penned a letter that was signed by 47 senators and sent to our adversarial foreign leader. Unfortunately, in addition to that debacle, there have been many other times Republicans have demonstrated lack of thought, foresight and loyalty to our country...when they shut down the government, started a war in the Middle East, cut taxes causing a huge deficit, rejected healthcare to millions, refused to raise the minimum wage, to name a few.
Scary, stupid stunts are one thing, but undermining our democratically elected president during sensitive negotiations with Iran leaders is dangerous. Did these 47 Republican senators know that the deal involved several other countries -- world powers and allies of the U.S. including China, Russia, France, UK, and Germany?
Did the 47 Republican senators who signed the letter, many of whom have now said they regret signing it, even think about what they were doing?
John McCain, when faced with unforeseen criticism, said the senators should have discussed it more instead of hurrying to get out of town before the snow storm. Does this sound like a leader?
Rand Paul told Matt Lauer on the "Today" show, he did it to strengthen Obama's hand. Do we need to explain the difference between strengthen and weaken to him?
It should be noted that seven GOP senators refused to sign the letter: Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Daniel Coats (Ind.), Susan Collins (Maine), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), and Bob Corker (Tenn.).
It is sad. Republicans had such a great opportunity to show leadership when they took over both Houses of Congress but, instead they are proving that they can't...not Mitch McConnell, not John Boehner, and not 47 Republican senators.
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When the bill came to the floor to combat trafficking of girls and women, Republicans could have passed a clean bipartisan bill. Instead they added controversial abortion provisions that have delayed its passage.
John Boehner, rather than leading, invited Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to speak before Congress against the President's Iran deal. How can "leaders" like Boehner preach democracy while, clearly ignoring our Democratic policies and practices?
Another "leader", Paul Ryan, continues to present unacceptable budgets to the House each year. His budget ideas would gravely hurt the middle class, the elderly, the disabled, veterans, Social Security, and Medicare/Medicaid. His budget would strip many necessary government services and increase the deficit by giving tax cuts to the wealthiest.
The House Oversight Committee is investigating Hillary Clinton's email methods. Both Republican Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice handled their email accounts in a similar fashion and in compliance with the law. Do we need to include them in the investigation?
Even though everyone agrees Loretta Lynch is higher qualified for the position, the Republican-controlled Senate refuses to vote on Obama's nomination for Attorney General. Loretta Lynch would be the first African American woman to hold that position.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz singlehandedly shut down the federal government costing taxpayers $24 billion dollars. Like his fellow Republicans, Cruz rather than "leading" stood on the Senate floor and actually read Green Eggs and Ham. And, just one day after announcing his bid for president and calling Obamacare the biggest train wreck in the country, he signs up for it for himself and his family. As he gets reasonable healthcare from the ACA, he continues to deny it to millions in his home state of Texas.
Democrats need to find their voice. In 2016 there are 198 Democratic seats in the Senate and House that will be up for election. Candidates and officials running for reelection should sing from the rooftops boasting of all the accomplishments over the last six years--the growing economy, the shrinking deficit, the millions who have healthcare, the soaring stock market, etc. But voters must also do their part and go to the polls.
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(Remember the joy of kite flying? This song and story by a contributing author will remind you.)
Go Fly A Kite
Inez McCollum
To tell a person to "go fly a kite" is a term of exasperation when one is fed up with that person. People have literally been flying kites since begun by the Chinese in the 5th century B.C. Kites were around in the United States in 1750 when Ben Franklin performed his experiment to discover electricity. The Wright Brothers researched kites when developing the first airplane in the late 1800s. 1860-1910 is known as the "golden age of kiting." They were used for scientific purposes such as meteorology, aeronautics, wireless communications, and photography. Since World War II, kites have been used mainly for recreation.
My brother made kites from newspaper, sticks, fabric scraps and string. The neighbors would shake their heads and say: "Larry Hamrick and his kite!" There was an open pasture near our home and he spent lots of time there flying those homemade wonders.
Kite Festivals are popular throughout the world. One is in Berkley, CA in July each year. Washington State's International Kite Festival is a week-long kite celebration and competition the third full week in August. A man in his 80's comes from Canada each year for this one. He flies three kites at the same time and is very graceful with them. I saw a video of that last year and would have loved to be able to share that with my late Brother. I think of Larry whenever I see a kite. Of course, those competitive kites are much more than the simple supplies he used.
The beach is a beautiful place to enjoy kite flying. I saw a man flying a kite for hours at Orange Beach last year. Years ago when my husband and I went to Outer Banks, NC there was lots of kite flying on that beach. It is surprising at the availability of kite shops in the Birmingham area. Those kites are much more costly than the ones my Brother put together but no more enjoyable.
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Richard Cascarino, is the Principal of Richard Cascarino & Associates, a highly successful audit training and consultancy company based in Colorado and Johannesburg. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and has presented courses throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. Richard is a Past President of the Institute of Internal Auditors in South Africa and also a member of ISACA and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He was a member of the Audit Committee of the Department of Public Enterprises in South Africa and chairman of the Audit Committee of Gauteng cluster 2 (Premier's office, Shared Services and Health). He is the author of the "Auditor's Guide to IT Auditing" and the newly released "Corporate Fraud and Internal Control: A Framework for Prevention" both published by Wiley Publishing which is also used by universities worldwide.
Topic Background:
Money laundering, at its most basic, is the act of making money earned from illegal activities such as drug trafficking and terrorism look as though it comes from legitimate business. Given the large volume of money coming from illegal activities, the laundering of huge quantities of cash becomes critical. The overall objectives of anti-money laundering activities are:
- Prevention of the use of the financial institution or its infrastructure for money laundering purposes by criminal elements.
- Implementation of appropriate internal controls specific to money laundering in order to detect activities defined as suspicious under the laws of a given jurisdiction.
- To ensure compliance by the financial institution with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Improving the financial institution's knowledge of the financial dealings of its own customers in order to ensure the appropriate risk management.
Ensuring compliance with Anti-money Laundering legislation can be critical for the Board to demonstrate adequacy of governance procedures and internal control structures as required by national, international and industry-specific legislation.
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Research Seminar
Centre for Genomic Sciences
Moving Beyond Genome-wide Association
Professor Heather J CordellProfessor of Statistical Genetics
Wellcome Senior Fellow in the Institute of Genetic Medicine
Newcastle University, UK
25 May 2017 (Thu)
15:00 pm – 16:00 pm
Seminar Room 7, 7/F
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Building for Interdisciplinary Research
5 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Over the past 10-12 years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been extraordinarily successful at identifying genetic variants associated with common, complex disorders. However, a typical GWAS gives little insight into the underlying biological mechanism through which the associated genetic variants are implicated in disease. In this talk I shall outline two strategies we have been exploring to help elucidate the underlying causal mechanisms leading to an observed association. One strategy has been through the development of methods for detection of parent-of-origin effects. Parent-of-origin effects, particularly if mediated through mechanisms such as imprinting, represent a more complex, potentially functionally relevant finding than the genetic effects that are typically identified through large-scale case/control GWAS. The requirement for parental data necessarily limits the power of studies designed to detect such effects, however suitable cohorts (particularly of mother/child duos) are often collected, for example, when investigating traits related to pregnancy complications. Genetic variants identified through such investigations still represent the first step along the causal pathway to disease development, and the second strategy we have been exploring attempts to clarify the underlying causal mechanisms through modelling relationships between genetic factors, factors that are potential mediators (such as DNA methylation and gene expression), and disease outcomes. We focus on methods that assume at least a proportion of subjects will have measurements on all variables of interest (genetic data, "omics" measures such as DNA methylation and gene expression, and variables related to disease phenotype). I will outline the methodological approaches we have been taking in relation to both strategies and will present the results of computer simulations and real data analyses illustrating the utility of these approaches.
About the Speaker:
Heather Cordell is Professor of Statistical Genetics and a Wellcome Senior Fellow in the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Newcastle University, UK. Heather obtained her undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University, UK, followed by an MSc in Applied Statistics (1992) and a DPhil (PhD) in Mathematical Genetics (1995) from Oxford University, UK. She then spent three postdoctoral years at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. From 2000-2004 Heather held a Wellcome Trust/JDRF Career Development Fellowship at the Department of Medical Genetics in Cambridge, UK, and in October 2004 she took up a Wellcome Senior Fellowship at the same department. In 2006 Heather moved to Newcastle University to take up the newly-established Chair of Statistical Genetics. The research interests of Heather's group are the development and application of statistical methodology to genetic studies of complex disease. In addition to being involved in a number of applied studies, Heather's research includes the development of methods for detecting linkage/association (including maternal and parent-of-origin effects) using family-based data, and the modelling of effects at multiple disease loci (including interaction effects) simultaneously. Heather was a member of Board of Directors (2006-2012), is currently Secretary (2016-2019), and was 2010 President of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES).


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FAIRBORN — The Five Points Water Tower will soon get a makeover as Fairborn City Council authorized it to be painted Feb. 19 and allocated up to $600,000 to complete the project.
The tower was originally scheduled to be painted in the coming years after a production well is built and landscaping near the tower is put in place. However, the Fairborn Utilities Department pointed out that the tower should be painted before the landscaping is put in place so that it is not torn down as equipment used to paint the tower rolls in.
The tower is in close proximity to Fairborn Primary School, which will soon undergo construction. The utilities department highlighted that the area will be filled with construction equipment in the coming years. Therefore, officials pointed out that it would be more beneficial to paint the tower this year instead of later.
"We're trying to find ways to improve the aesthetics of that water tower," Assistant Utilities Superintendent Lance Livesay said. "It's going to be a nice, brand new school, new landscaping and fencing. We want to expand that landscaping to the water tower design to help it blend in."
The city's utilities department plans to work with the Fairborn City School District landscaping architect to implement similar designs, such as using the same shrubs and fencing. The new city logo will likely be painted onto the tower. Livesay said he is hopeful to implement a similar design as the tower near Home Depot.
"I'm all for a skyhawk on one of the towers. It's only right," Deputy Mayor Marilyn McCauley said with a smile.
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China: SARS and the Politics of Silence
The Chinese Plague
|A patient, quarantined at the Xiaotangshan SARS hospital on the outskirts of Beijing, peers outside, May 7, 2003 (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP).
In mid-2001, a Hong Kong magazine ran a front-page story about how the world's next flu pandemic would hatch in southern China and infect the rest of the world via Hong Kong. The story espoused the theory that the Spanish flu of 1918, which eventually claimed 20 million lives, had leapt from pigs to humans in southern China and traveled with Chinese laborers to the trenches of World War I. It was no more than a theory, but on two crucial counts the magazine was deadly accurate: The two other killer pandemics of the last century, which killed about 2 million people, sprang out of China, and so will the next.
In February 2003, 18 months after the article appeared, shops in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou experienced a run on vinegar. The traditional New Year celebrations had just begun, and most of China's 1.36 billion people were either en route to their hometowns or already with their families enjoying the longest and most anticipated holiday season of the year. Vinegar does not usually play a part in Chinese New Year. But it is a traditional fumigant used by Chinese in times of plague. If the world had been watching, alarm bells might have rung.
Instead, Spring Festival, as the Chinese call the lunar New Year, was celebrated as usual, with a massive countrywide exodus—more than 130 million trips by train, nearly 9 million by air, a staggering 1.9 billion on the roads. For a deadly pathogen looking to hitch a ride, conditions were perfect. What's more, the Chinese authorities knew it.
On Nov. 16, a businessman had checked into a hospital in Foshan, a city close to the Hong Kong border, with a mysterious strain of pneumonia. Two weeks later, in the drab, industrial city of Heyuan 200 kilometers away, staff at the Municipal Hospital began to get sick and die. On Jan. 3, the Heyuan News ran a brief story denying the existence of an "epidemic virus," urging local residents not to panic. It was the first media reference, and the last for more than a month, to a disease that had appeared from nowhere in southern China. Two months later, it would reach Hong Kong, and the world would come to know it as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
As China unbuttoned for the New Year holidays, Liu Jianlun, a 64-year-old doctor, was working round-the-clock at Guangzhou's Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital. His problems had begun when a seafood salesman was wheeled into the hospital on Feb. 1 with a high fever. He was barely able to breathe. Within two weeks neither could 45 other people in the hospital.
As they started dying, hospital staff began calling the salesman "Du Wang," the "Poison King." His coughs were like biological bombs, and the infection they spread was unlike any flu virus Liu had seen. He worried that he was witnessing the birth of a new epidemic, and that the authorities were turning a blind eye to it.
Concerned that news of the disease might cause panic and affect foreign investment and the tourism industry, government leaders declared a news blackout. As with previous outbreaks of new strains of the flu, Chinese officials hoped this one would burn out and retreat to wherever it had come from before the world noticed.
If Liu Jianlun had been working at an Australian hospital and thought the government was ignoring the birth of a new life-threatening disease, he would probably have gone to the press. In China, such a move would have spelled the end of his career. It would also have been a waste of time.
The Chinese media were already aware of the emerging epidemic, but journalists could do nothing but watch until Feb. 11, when Guangdong provincial health officials held a belated news conference. A disease called "atypical pneumonia" had sickened 305 people and killed five but was now under control, they said. Among the brief flurry of articles that appeared in the provincial press was an interview with a local academic who accused the government of incompetence. The result: a second media blackout that lasted until March.
Shortly after the Feb. 11 press conference, Liu was invited to a family wedding in Hong Kong. He was feeling unwell, but he put it down to overwork. He'd taken precautions against catching atypical pneumonia and didn't want to miss the wedding.
On Feb. 21, Liu checked into Room 911 of the Metropole, a sprawling three-star hotel complete with Chinese banquet restaurants and karaoke pubs in the heart of Kowloon, Hong Kong. But the next morning he was too sick to attend the wedding. He left the hotel and walked five minutes down Waterloo Road to the Kwong Wah Hospital, where he told medical staff, "Lock me up. Don't touch me. I have contracted a very virulent disease."
It was too late, and Liu probably knew it. His disease had already spread mysteriously in the hospital he worked at. It had begun to spread at the Metropole Hotel, too. Somehow—perhaps in the lift, perhaps in the corridor, nobody knows—he infected seven other people staying on the same floor. They traveled to Canada, Singapore, and Vietnam. Two of them were dead within three weeks.
The onset of SARS might be marked by a violent headache, or it might be marked by chills, diarrhea and agonizing pain in the joints. Within days liquid fills the lungs, making it impossible to breathe. Some patients' livers and kidneys start to malfunction, and their blood stops clotting properly. Victims often lose consciousness for days and have to be kept alive on a respirator. The death rate may be as high as 10 percent. Survivors are gaunt, enfeebled, some partially paralyzed.
The Kwong Wah medical staff knew none of this, however, and did not move Liu into isolation until his condition became life threatening. Within a month of his arrival, 70 medical staff and 17 medical students at the hospital were struck down. Liu died on March 4.
If ever an example of the difference between Hong Kong and China were needed, their handling of the threat of disease is it. When 18 people contracted the bird flu in Hong Kong in 1997 and six of them died, the government went straight to the source of the problem and slaughtered every chicken in the territory, all 1.4 million of them. When SARS broke out in Guangdong province, the government chose to keep it quiet. It was a mistake that would not only endanger the world's health and economy but also undermine the credibility of the Chinese government itself.
Even in a country as closely kept under wraps as China, the truth has a way of coming out. On the evening of April 3, Jiang Yanyong, a 72-year-old semiretired surgeon, was watching TV at his home in Beijing. That night the news featured a spot in which China's health minister, Zhang Wenkang, announced that China's capital had just 12 cases of SARS. Jiang couldn't believe his ears.
Jiang was a former head of surgery at Beijing's Military Hospital 301 and still did regular work there. How, he wondered, could the minister tell the world Beijing had only 12 cases of SARS when he knew for a fact there were 50 in his hospital alone? "I simply couldn't believe what I was seeing," he wrote in an e-mail the next day to the state-run television station CCTV-4. "All the doctors and nurses who saw yesterday's news were furious."
The state TV channel's reaction was predictable: silence. But when the
e-mail made it to the hands of the foreign media, allegations were soon circling the world. WHO, which had bought the government's line that the epidemic was under control, demanded access to Beijing's military hospitals. Within a fortnight, the government upped its Beijing SARS statistics tenfold; three days later, the numbers were doubled again.
The Chinese government's hold on power is guaranteed by its ability to deliver economic results. As panic spreads and business grinds to a standstill, that will be hard to do. In the meantime, its incompetence in dealing with the outbreak in Guangdong has allowed SARS to jet around the world.
Already epidemiologists are warning that if SARS is "the big one"—a fast-mutating virus that proves resistant to antibiotics—it will soon outstrip AIDS as a world health problem. Even if it is not, Guangdong's viral incubator has hatched a terrifying warning of the threat that China poses to the health of the world.
Last Monday, speaking at a press conference in Bangkok, David Heymann, executive director of communicable diseases at WHO, admitted that "China will make or break this disease." The unanswered question—as outbreaks outside China are contained by efficient health-care systems and the sharing of information—is not just whether this disease will make or break China, but if the big one will make or break the world as we know it.


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EAST LANSING, Mich. — The overwhelming majority of Michigan residents place value on having wolves in their home state while a small minority would buy a license to hunt them, according to a Michigan State University study.
The survey, which addresses how the state could manage its wolf population now that Canis lupus has been removed from the federal endangered species list, indicates that 82 percent of those surveyed value knowing that there are wolves in Michigan. On the other end of the spectrum, only 14 percent report that they would purchase a license to hunt wolves.
However, it is important to seriously consider the responses of Upper Peninsula residents, some of whom have to live with wolves in their backyards and farms, according to Meredith Gore, assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife.
"Although UP residents placed the lowest value on wolves, still 61 percent said they value them," she said. "However, they also showed the greatest interest in purchasing a hunting license. In fact, 55 percent of those surveyed said they would."
The intent of the study, which polled nearly 1,000 residents, was to measure public opinion about hunting before policy changes are proposed. It was designed to give legislators and other policymakers insight about how Michiganders may react to legislation and policies managing the wolf population, which is estimated at approximately 600.
"We asked the questions in such a way to determine how residents felt a decision to hunt should be made," Gore said. "We wanted to measure how many Michiganders agree that decisions should be based on biological science compared to those who think that they should be handled via a public vote."
Nearly 80 percent of residents agreed that science should be used to decide a wolf hunt. This is compared to 56 percent of those surveyed who indicated the issue should be decided through a ballot initiative. This finding shows support for public belief in science, namely in support of science's role in wildlife management, Gore added.
The study was co-authored by Michael Nelson, MSU associate professor of environmental ethics and philosophy, and Michelle Lute, MSU graduate student. Researchers from Michigan Technological University also contributed to the survey. The questions were part of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research's Office for Survey Research at MSU.


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Steve Hackett, as the powerhouse guitarist for one of the most important progressive rock bands ever, has been a guiding influence for musicians and guitarists for over 40 years.
Following the one/two punch of "Nursery Cryme" & "Foxtrot", both driven by the muscular guitars of new member Steve Hackett, Genesis were ready to launch what would become their finest album, "Selling England By The Pound".
Easing back on the throttle marginally, and immersing themselves in English whimsy and eccentricity, Genesis delivered just under an hour of delicate prose, wondrous melodies and, of course, the soaring leadlines of Steve Hackett.
Finally, now, 47 years after the album's release, Steve Hackett will be performing "Selling England By The Pound" in full at the Enmore Theatre.
In addition, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of its release, Steve will be performing his critically acclaimed solo album "Spectral Mornings".
And if that's not enough, Steve will perform selections from his stunning new album "At The Edge Of Light", and may even be munificent enough to throw in another couple of Genesis tunes.
Steve's exceptional debut antipodean tour in 2017 left audiences stunned by the majestic performances by Hackett and his virtuoso band. How do you top that? Come witness the spectacle of Steve's incendiary 2020's shows to see how it's done.
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Dozens of demonstrators marched to a home in Colorado on Sunday to protest against the public display of Nazi and Confederate flags.
The Associated Press reported on Sunday that about 70 people gathered neared a home in Fruita, Colo., after a man raised a flag featuring the swastika logo outside of it.
The owner of the flag, who also had Confederate and American flags raised outside, told a local news station that it was his right to raise the flag and that he had no plans to take it down.
The man later relented and took down the Nazi flag. The Confederate flag, however, remained flying.
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The Mistreated, Marginalized Believer
There have been recently in the news reports of how Christians have been marginalized, mistreated, and in some cases, killed, because of their faith in Jesus Christ. These accounts should create in us a sobered understanding of the times in which we live as well as a commitment to pray for God's grace to these mistreated believers and their families. However, there is one thing these reports should never produce in our lives…fear.
We believe in a God who is Sovereign, exercising complete power and authority over any and all people and groups in His creation. We believe in Jesus Christ, who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, One who Himself has suffered mistreatment and injustice and has emerged from it victorious. Following Jesus may not always be the smooth ride we might hope it to be, but may our response be the same as Peter and the other apostles in Acts 5:41-42…a profound joy at being identified with Jesus and an unflagging commitment to tell anybody who will listen about the amazing promise of new life in Jesus Christ!
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