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Things look quiet here. But I've been doing a lot of blogging at dan.langille.org because I prefer WordPress now. Not all my posts there are FreeBSD related. I am in the midst of migrating The FreeBSD Diary over to WordPress (and you can read about that here). Once the migration is completed, I'll move the FreeBSD posts into the new FreeBSD Diary website.
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Lake Ohrid
Lake Ohrid | |
Lake Ohrid as seen from Ohrid
Coordinates | 41°00′N 20°45′E / 41.000°N 20.750°ECoordinates: 41°00′N 20°45′E / 41.000°N 20.750°E |
Primary outflows | Black Drin River |
Catchment area | 2,600 km² (1,000 mi²) |
Basin countries | Macedonia, Albania |
Max. length | 30.4 km (18.9 mi) |
Max. width | 14.8 km (9.2 mi) |
Surface area | 358 km² (138 sq mi) |
Average depth | 155 m (508 ft) |
Max. depth | 288 m (940 ft) |
Water volume | 55.49 km³ (13.33 mi³) |
Residence time | 70 years |
Shore length1 | 87.53 km (54.39 mi) Macedonia: 56.02 km (34.81 mi); Albania: 31.51 km (19.58 mi) |
Surface elevation | 693 m (2273 ft) |
Islands | none |
Settlements | Ohrid, Struga (Macedonia) Pogradec (Albania) |
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. |
Lake Ohrid (Macedonian: Охридско Езеро), (Albanian: Liqeni i Ohrit), straddles the mountainous border between southwestern Macedonia and eastern Albania. It is one of Europe's deepest and oldest lakes, preserving a unique aquatic ecosystem that is of worldwide importance, with more than 200 endemic species.[1] The importance of the lake was further emphasized when it was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1979 and when, in 2010, NASA decided to name one of Titan's lakes after Lake Ohrid.[2] The towns situated at the lakeside are Pogradec in Albania, along with Ohrid and Struga in Macedonia.
Lake Ohrid is the deepest lake of the Balkans, with a maximum depth of 288 m (940 ft) and a mean depth of 155 m (508 ft). It covers an area of 358 km² (138 sq mi), containing an estimated 55.4 km³ of water. It is 30.4 km long by 14.8 km wide at its maximum extent with a shoreline length of 87.53 km, shared between Macedonia (56.02 km) and Albania (31.51 km). The Ohrid Lake is divided between Republic of Macedonia and Albania. Of the total surface area, 248 km2 belongs to Republic of Macedonia and 110 km2 belongs to Albania.
The Ohrid and Prespa Lakes belong to a group of Dessaret basins that originated from a geotectonic depression during the Pliocene epoch up to five million years ago[3] on the western side of the Dinaric Alps. Worldwide, there are only a few lakes with similarly remote origins with Lake Baikal and Lake Tanganyika being the most famous. Most other, short-lived lakes have a life span of less than 100,000 years before they are eventually filled up with sediments. It is believed that in the case of Lake Ohrid this process was delayed by its great depth and small sediment input from its filtered spring inflows. Moreover the Ohrid-Korca graben to the south of the lake is still tectonically active and might compensate sedimentation by subduction. In contrast to Lake Ohrid, Lake Prespa is likely to have turned dry several times in its history, as a result of its karstic underground.[4] In 2008, Macedonian media reported that international experts will be researching the lake in order to determine its age.[5]
The lake drains an area of around 2600 km² and is fed primarily by underground springs on the eastern shore (about 50% of total inflow), with roughly 25% shares from rivers and direct precipitation. Over 20% of the lake's water comes from nearby Lake Prespa, about 10 km (6.2 mi) to the southeast and at 150 m higher altitude than Lake Ohrid. The water leaves Lake Prespa trickling through underground watercourses in the karstic landscape, where it is joined by mountain range precipitation and eventually emerges in numerous springs along the eastern shore and below the water surface of Lake Ohrid. The water leaves Lake Ohrid by evaporation (~40%) and through its only outlet, the Black Drin River, which flows in a northerly direction into Albania and thus to the Adriatic Sea. The relatively dry, Mediterranean climate and the small drainage basin of 2600 km² (catchment/lake surface ratio of ~7) of Lake Ohrid results in a long hydraulic residence time scale of ~70 yr.[6][7][8]
Physical and Geochemical Lake Properties[edit]
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region | |
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List | |
Type | Natural, Cultural |
Criteria | i, iii, iv, vii |
Reference | 99 |
UNESCO region | Europe and North America |
Inscription history | |
Inscription | 1979 (3rd Session) |
Extensions | 1980 |
The water at the surface of Lake Ohrid moves predominantly in a counter-clockwise direction along the shore, as a result of wind forcing and earth rotation, similar to the Ekman-phenomenon known from oceans. In terms of vertical water exchange, convective mixing during winter cooling is the dominant process. However in an average winter only the top 150–200 meters of the lake are mixed, whereas the water below is stably stratified by salinity. The stability due to this salinity gradient allows complete convective mixing events only roughly once every 7 years.[7][9]
Both in terms of nutrient concentration (4.5 μg L−1 of phosphorus), as well as biological parameters Lake Ohrid qualifies as oligotrophic. Thanks to this oligotrophy and the filtered spring inflows, the water is exceptionally clear with transparencies to a depth of as much as 22 meters (66 feet). Despite the lack in annual deep water exchange from complete overturn or plunging rivers, dissolved oxygen never drops below ~6 mg L−1.[10][11]
While Lake Ohrid is special as such, by far the most spectacular quality is its impressive endemism. Similar to Lake Baikal or Lake Tanganyika, Lake Ohrid harbors endemic species covering the whole food-chain, from phytoplankton and sestile algae (20 species; e.g., Cyclotella fottii), over plant species (2 species; e.g., Chara ohridana), zooplankton (5 species; e.g., Cyclops ochridanus), cyprinid fish (8 species; e.g., Pachychilon pictus), to predatory fish (two trout species; the Ohrid trout complex Salmo letnica, and "Belvica" Acantholingua ohridana) and finally its diverse endemic bottom fauna (176 species; e.g. Ochridagammarus solidus), with particularly large endemism among crustaceans, molluscs, sponges and planarians. Whereas the endemic species list cited above is based on morphological and ecological characteristics, some recent applications of molecular genetic techniques underline the difference of the fauna from common European taxa, as well as the old age of the lake.[4][12][13]
Quite remarkably, exotic species do not seem to be a major issue in Lake Ohrid, although they have been recorded in small populations for several decades or exist in nearby rivers or lakes. The reason lies very probably in the ideal adaptation of the endemic species to the specific conditions in the lake, such as low nutrient availability, good living conditions in greater depth thanks to high water transparency and oxygen content, as well as subaquatic spring inflows supplying cool and oxygen-rich water.[4] In total, seven introduced fish species are known from the lake.[14]
Despite the exceptionally high level of endemism in Lake Ohrid (for example, a third of the 21 native fish species and as much as 80% of its molluscan fauna is endemic), a significant number of non-endemic species is found in Lake Ohrid. This includes species, which are mobile (e.g., via water birds) or migratory, such as the European eel.[14][15]
The lakeshore reed beds and wetlands provide critical habitat for hundreds of thousands of wintering water birds, including rare and threatened species such as the Dalmatian Pelican, Ferruginous Duck, Swan, Spotted Eagle, and Eastern Imperial Eagle.
There are three cities on the lake's shores: Ohrid and Struga on the Macedonian side; Pogradec in Albania. There are also several fishing villages, although tourism is now a more significant part of their income. The catchment area of the lake has a population of around 170,000 people, with 131,000 people living directly at the lake shore (43,000 in Albania and 88,000 in Macedonia). The population in the catchment has increased greatly by 100,000 people in the last half century, putting the lake's fragile ecosystem under pressure. The historic monuments, as well as the pristine lake environment make the area around Lake Ohrid a prime site for tourism. In the 1980s more than 200'000 national and international tourists went on a literal pilgrimage to the Macedonian lake side every year. During the Yugoslav crisis and particularly after the interethnic conflicts within Macedonia in 2001 international tourism collapsed but has been slowly recovering during the past years. Even though many of the above visitors are staying for a weekend only, tourism makes an important share of local economy (~1 visitor/inhabitant).[6][10]
Human influence[edit]
Shore habitats are under particular pressure from human activities. Particular threats are the building of tourist facilities directly at the shore, destroying of reed belts to gain agricultural land and intense pollution close to the mouth of tributaries. Although the effects of these human impacts have not been evaluated in detail they are of great concern, as the shallow water sites are particularly rich in endemic bottom fauna and form important spawning grounds for several endemic fish species. Moreover reed belts have great importance for water birds.[11]
Commercial fish yield, i.e. the two endemic trout species, has dropped significantly over the past decades, both in Macedonia and in Albania. The most probable reason is overfishing and possibly destruction of spawning grounds. Although there are regulations regarding fishing practice (e.g., minimal mesh size) and only a limited number of licensed fishermen, these rules are always not obeyed, as a result of the high market value of the endemic trout. As a reaction to the situation, fishing has been banned for the past two years, to help the fish population recover and to allow scientists collect further data. While most of the endemic fish species are non-migratory, the European eel spawns in the distant Sargasso Sea while its offspring return to the lake. Unfortunately, like in many European lakes, it is very unlikely today that eels can reach Lake Ohrid naturally and return to the Sargasso Sea, as a result of several hydropower dams on the Black Drin and the Drin River, both in Macedonia and Albania. As a result, eel found in Lake Ohrid are stocked populations.[11]
Given the population growth over the past 50 years, a particular concern is the potential eutrophication of currently oligotrophic Lake Ohrid from increased pollution. Indeed, sediment cores show a ~3.5 fold increase in phosphorus concentration over the past century. On the one hand, shifts from endemic to common European species, which are better adapted to higher nutrient conditions, have already been observed close to polluted inflows. On the other hand, higher nutrient levels have reduced the water transparency, as well as the oxygen availability in the deep water and at the lake bottom, two properties which are requisite for the endemic flora and fauna. Still, the lake is in a comparably good state at the moment. However it may take more than a decade to see the effects of today's pollution level in the lake, because of its long water residence time. Moreover it was shown that the negative effects from eutrophication would be significantly amplified by global warming. Although there is time to react, computer simulations indicate that at least a 50% reduction in phosphorus input must be reached to keep the deep water oxygenated for the next 50 years at predicted atmospheric warming. This aim could be reached by controlling household wastewater, which is by far the biggest phosphorus source at the moment. First steps in that direction have been taken by extending and improving the existing sewage system in Macedonia in the framework of a GEF (Global Environment Facility) program. The most important next task would be a solution for three remaining, severely polluted tributaries, one in Macedonia and two in Albania.[10][11]
Lake Ohrid, is also the namesake of Ohrid Lacus a hydrocarbon lake on the Saturnian moon Titan. That lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane,[16] is located 71.8°N 221.9°W on Titan's globe.
See also[edit]
- ^ Lake Ohrid; Invest in Macedonia - Agency for Foreign Investments of the Republic of Macedonia
- ^ One of Titan lakes to be named Ohrid Lacus – MIA
- ^ Albrecht, Christian and Wilke, Thomas: Ancient Lake Ohrid: biodiversity and evolution; in Patterns and Processes of Speciation in Ancient Lakes, Developments in Hydrobiology, Springer Netherlands, 2009, pp 103 to 140. ISBN 978-1-4020-9582-5 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9582-5_9
- ^ a b c S. Stankovic, "The Balkan Lake Ohrid and its living world", Monographiae Biologicae, Vol. IX (Uitgeverij Dr. W. Junk, Den Haag, Netherlands, 1960)
- ^ Makfax – World experts will work to determine the age of Ohrid Lake
- ^ a b Z. Spirkovski, Z. Krstanovski, L. Selfo, M. Sanxhaku, V.I. Puka, "The Monitoring Programme of the Lake Ohrid Conservation Project", in Transboundary Water Resources in the Balkans: Initiating a Sustainable Co-Operative Network, ed. Jacques Ganoulis, I L Murphy, Mitja Brilly (Springer, 2000)
- ^ a b A. Matzinger, Z. Spirkovski, S. Patceva, A. Wüest, "Sensitivity of ancient Lake Ohrid to local anthropogenic impacts and global warming" (Journal of Great Lakes Research 2006, 32: 158–179)
- ^ A. Matzinger, M. Jordanoski, E. Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, M. Sturm, B. Müller, A. Wüest, "Is Lake Prespa jeopardizing the ecosystem of ancient Lake Ohrid?" (Hydrobiologia 2006, 553: 89–109)
- ^ S. D. Hadzisce, "The mixo-phenomenon of Lake Ohrid in the course of the years 1941/42-1964/65 (in German)" (Proceedings of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology 1966, 16: 134–138)
- ^ a b c A. Matzinger, M. Schmid, E. Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, S. Patceva, D. Guseska, B. Wagner, B. Müller, M. Sturm, A. Wüest, "Eutrophication of ancient Lake Ohrid: Global warming amplifies detrimental effects of increased nutrient inputs", (Limnology and Oceanography 2007, 52: 338–353), download from ASLO
- ^ a b c d M. Watzin, V. Puka, T. B. Naumoski (eds), "Lake Ohrid and its watershed, state of the environment report" (Lake Ohrid Conservation Project. Tirana, Albania and Ohrid, Macedonia)
- ^ H. Salemaa, "Lake Ohrid", in Speciation in Ancient Lakes, eds. K. Martens, B. Goddeeris, G. Coulter (Archiv für Hydrobiologie - Advances in Limnology 1994, 44: 55–64)
- ^ J. Sell, Z. Spirkovski, "Mitochondrial DNA differentiation between two forms of trout Salmo letnica, endemic to the Balkan Lake Ohrid, reflects their reproductive isolation" (Molecular Ecology 2004, 13: 3633–3644)
- ^ a b Talevski, Milosevic, Maric, Petrovic, Talevska and Talevska (2009). Biodiversity of Ichtyofauna from Lake Prespa, Lake Ohrid and Lake Skadar. Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment 23(2). ISSN 1310-2818
- ^ M.R. Frogley, R.C. Preece, "A faunistic review of the modern and fossil molluscan fauna from Lake Pamvotis, Ioannina, an ancient lake in NW Greece; implications for endemism in the Balkans", in Balkan Biodiversity: Pattern and Process in the European Hotspot, eds. Huw I. Griffiths, Jane M. Reed, Boris Krytufek (Springer, 2004)
- ^ Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-981-281-161-5.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lake Ohrid. |
- Ohrid Municipality
- Macedonian Tourism portal
- Ohrid Information portal
- Struga Tourism portal
- Pogradec Travel Guide
- LakeNet Profile
- Lake Ohrid Travel and Tourism Guide
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Florence city leaders are going on the record in full support of the construction of a new hospital.
The mayor and city council drafted a letter to state lawmakers confirming the request for a certificate of need to build a new facility.
The new facility will be built in the east side of town and serve not just Florence, but the surrounding areas.
"We felt like it was important for us to be united together and do a resolution to send to the governor and others in state government on the importance of allowing a hospital to be built here," said Florence Mayor Mickey Haddock.
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I KNEW none of our regulars spelled that badly --
Besides which everyone who has been here for a while knows if you are going to misspell "hypocrites" then it needs to be "hippocrates" If you gotta do it wrong, do it wrong right.
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Really, what is people's problem with homosexuality, anyway, besides the obvious homophobia? Why aren't people more concerned with not eating pigs or wearing mixed fabric? I don't get it.
I don't understand the homophobia either.
Honestly, I don't see how having gays in the society affects any of these people.
-.- We live on a very sad planet.
@Diane - because those people LIKE pig meat and mixed fabric (as well as premarital and extra-marital sex). That's why we call it a "delusional superstition." LOL
Well...hippos are kind of vicious...maybe sending a crate of live hippos into the crowd protesting would not be such a bad idea?
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Mrs. Vagnoni, who runs an online forum for parents with estranged children, explained that estrangement isn't always the result of the kind of egregious behavior others imagine. "So many people say the same thing," she said, "which is, I loved, I cared, I was not perfect, but I don't understand how this punishment fits my crime."
As I wrote in an article on Friday, these days, estrangement is complicated by the fact that people can watch relatives' lives going on without them on Facebook, Twitter or other social media. Navigating this new digital wrinkle during family rift isn't easy.
Susanne Babbel, a therapist in San Francisco, counsels her patients to stop looking at Facebook for a while, until they get to the "acceptance stage" of grieving for their loss. Most struggle to follow her advice. "They keep looking, but it's not the best for them. Some people are on Facebook until 1 in the morning, and they can't sleep." She suggests a 10 p.m. cutoff.
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The BJ's Wholesale Club on Starling Drive teamed with VCU Massey Cancer Center October 5 to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a "Pink Picnic." The celebration featured speakers such as cancer survivor Kim Newlen and Dr. Gilda Cardenosa (pictured at right, left to right, holding one of Newlen's "props"), director of breast imaging for radiology at VCU Massey Cancer Center. Newlen, creator of the post-surgical camisole Look Better Than You Feel, shared stories of her personal battle with breast cancer and Cardenosa discussed advances in breast cancer treatments and early detection methods. At the event, BJ's also unveiled the "Pink Ribbon" club merchandise that the store will sell throughout the month of October. A portion of the money BJ's members spend on these "Pink Ribbon" club products will be donated to the BJ's Charitable Foundation, which then will distribute it to 13 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers, including the VCU Massey Cancer Center. At a luncheon following the event, speakers gathered with BJ's staff members for a photo that included (above, left to right) Joyce E. Major, Ruth A. Zajur, Rosemary (Mimi) Stadie, Carlie Cross, Gilda Cardenosa, Kim Newlen, and Fred Kline. |
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Henrico's Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is one of only 20 gardens in North America nominated for USA Today's "10Best Reader's Choice" contest for Best Public Garden.
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The Fifth Annual Henrico Police Athletic League (PAL) Award Banquet, held Feb. 6 at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, honored HPAL's top volunteers and employees, including Morgan Lewis, Youth of the Year; Dale Alexander, Volunteer of the Year; Lowell Thomas, Employee of the Year, and Victor Williams, Board Member of the Year. Also honored for their support were Jim and Christi Dowd of Richmond BMW and Josh Davis of Henrico County Public Schools Pupil Transportation.
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The Pocahontas Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, based in western Henrico, last year donated more than $1.3 million worth of manufacturers coupons to U.S. military personnel overseas. Throughout 2013, members and friends of the chapter clipped 952,349 manufacturers' coupons valued at $1,350,630, which Program Chairman Carole Featherston shipped to U.S. military bases abroad. Military personnel can use the coupons when shopping in base stores.
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Among the scenic photos taken by local photo-grapher John Heino for the "Celebration of Enger Tower" 2012 calendar is this photo of the tower lit up at night. The calendars were created to document the many events that have taken place at Enger Park over the past year.
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With a stay at Hotel The Hub in Milan (Fiera Milano Rho), you'll be close to Metropoli and San Siro Stadium.
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Make yourself at home in one of the 162 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Relax and take in city views from the privacy of your room. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms have makeup/shaving mirrors and complimentary toiletries.
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Enjoy a bite to eat at a coffee shop/café, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Hotel The Hub provides a sauna and a fitness center. The hotel offers a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center, secretarial services, and audiovisual equipment. Event facilities include conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and exhibit space. This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a garden. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge).
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- Total number of rooms - 162
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People who think sharks are "primitive" fish may be commended as being reasonably up-to-date with the evolutionary literature, but they need to take note of a new fossil fish that has thrown all the ideas into the melting-pot. Only a year ago, as an apparently coherent story was beginning to emerge, a specialist in vertebrate biology explained that the common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth resembled a shark.
"The common ancestors of all jawed vertebrates today organized their heads in a way that resembled sharks. Given what we now know about the interrelatedness of early fishes, these results tell us that while sharks retained these features, bony fishes moved away from such conditions." (Source here)
Fossil plus restoration of Entelognathus (source here)
There are four groups of early fish: the extinct Acanthodians and Placoderms, and the extant Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays and ratfish) and Osteichthyes (bony fish). It is the interrelationships of these groups that is much discussed by evolutionary scientists, and work in recent years has tended to see the Acanthodians as either a very early relative of sharks, or close to the common ancestry of all modern jawed vertebrates (for more on this, go here). The placoderm fishes had bony skulls and simple beak-like jaws built out of bone plates. This seemed to position them some way from the other groups, and it was widely thought that placoderm features bore little or no relation to the Osteichthyes.
"[Palaeontologists] thought that the last common ancestor of living jawed vertebrates had no distinct jawbones - that it was similar to a shark, with a skeleton made mostly of cartilage and at most a covering of little bony plates. The theory went that the bony fishes evolved later, independently developing large facial bones and inventing the 'modern' jaw. Such fishes went on to dominate the seas and ultimately gave rise to land vertebrates."
However, a major placoderm find from the Upper Silurian in China has stimulated a remarkably different interpretation. The fish, which has been given the name Entelognathus, appears initially to be a typical placoderm. The surprise comes when looking closely at the jawbones.
"When examined from the side, however, Entelognathus reveals itself as anything but expected. Absent are gnathal plates - simple jawbones characteristic of placoderms. Instead, the mouth is rimmed with bones that integrate with the cheek plates, the lower jaw is composed of an elongated 'box' of bony plates and cartilage, and the throat and gills are clad in a series of articulating plates. Both in the overall pattern and the specific detail of these plates, the fossil showcases traits that were once considered diagnostic of bony fishes, and entirely unknown in placoderms. Entelognathus, it seems, is a placoderm with a bony-fish-like grin." (Source here)
The jawbones are of great importance because they are much more complex than the single bone found in other placoderms. It is a case of abrupt appearance of complexity. Furthermore, this complexity is found in the Osteichthyes, but not in the Acanthodians or Chondrichthyes. There are two alternative evolutionary explanations: the first is that Entelognathus is ancestral only to Osteichthyes, and the second is convergence. It is the remarkable (jaw dropping) nature of the similarity of structure that has convinced most specialists that this find requires a re-writing of the evolutionary tree. This is how John Long puts it in a blog post, which headlines the thought that this new fossil is a missing link:
"But its lower jaw is composed of a complex set of bones, unlike other placoderms whose jaw was made of a single bone. This pattern of bones in Entelognathus precisely matches those in the lower jaw of early fossil bony fish (osteichthyans). Entelognathus also possessed special bones underneath its lower jaws called gulars, which are today only found in bony fishes. This fish shows the first appearance of the dentary bone which is found in all bony fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. It is the very same bone in our lower jaw. The new discovery from China gives us powerful new insights about the building of the human body plan, which began seriously with these ancient fossil fishes." (Source here)
Whether there is a line of descent from placoderms to osteichthyans, or whether the jaw structures originated independently, there are important implications for phylogenies. Instead of sharks being "primitive", they should be regarded as "derived". The implication is that a classic scenario in vertebrate evolution is inverted. Friedman and Brazeau write in their commentary:
"[T]wo things are clear from the various possibilities proposed in their evolutionary tree. First, Entelognathus always branches outside the radiation of living jawed vertebrates, meaning that key components of the osteichthyan face are no longer unique innovations of that group. Second, acanthodians - that pivotal assortment of extinct shark-like fishes - are shifted, en masse, to the branch containing the cartilaginous fishes. This triggers a cascade of implications. If all acanthodians are early cartilaginous fishes, then their shark-like features are not generalities of jawed vertebrates, but specializations of the cartilaginous-fish branch. The most recent common ancestor of jawed vertebrates was thus probably clad in bony armour of the sort common to both placoderms and bony fishes."
A particularly interesting aspect of this "piscine mash-up" are comments on "how did we get it so wrong?" The indications are that cultural factors have been very prominent. The culture is that of progressivist thinking linked to the "Great Chain of Being" approach to looking at the world. A previous blog has explored this theme and can be consulted here. This new fossil is not just raising immensely important issues for cladistic analysis, but also is providing a case study of the human face of science - we find the continuing influence of Aristotelianism and other cultural agendas, despite assurances of science being objective and evidence-based. Friedman and Brazeau again:
"The status of sharks as surrogate ancestors seems well established, but this is an illusion of dogmatic repetition combined with spurious portrayals of present-day cartilaginous fishes as unchanged "living fossils". The popular model of a shark-like ancestor is, in the end, more a hangover of the "great chain of being" of ancient philosophy and pre-Darwinian archetypes than a product of modern comparative biology and phylogenetic "tree thinking". Added to this conceptual inertia is a historically compartmentalized approach to studying early vertebrate groups that made it too easy to dismiss shared similarities - the head and shoulder exoskeleton of placoderms and bony fishes, for example - as independent innovations without adequate evidence."
What we are seeing in the Palaeozoic fish fossils is a mosaic of character traits that are proving very difficult to portray in an evolutionary phylogeny. This is a good reason for at least considering the value of design-thinking and the potential for understanding some of this variability using the concept of phenotypic plasticity.
A Silurian placoderm with osteichthyan-like marginal jaw bones
Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu, Per Erik Ahlberg, Brian Choo, Jing Lu, Tuo Qiao, Qingming Qu, Wenjin Zhao, Liantao Jia, Henning Blom & You'an Zhu
Nature, 502, 188-193 (10 October 2013) | doi:10.1038/nature12617
The gnathostome (jawed vertebrate) crown group comprises two extant clades with contrasting character complements. Notably, Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) lack the large dermal bones that characterize Osteichthyes (bony fish and tetrapods). The polarities of these differences, and the morphology of the last common ancestor of crown gnathostomes, are the subject of continuing debate. Here we describe a three-dimensionally preserved 419-million-year-old placoderm fish from the Silurian of China that represents the first stem gnathostome with dermal marginal jaw bones (premaxilla, maxilla and dentary), features previously restricted to Osteichthyes. A phylogenetic analysis places the new form near the top of the gnathostome stem group but does not fully resolve its relationships to other placoderms. The analysis also assigns all acanthodians to the chondrichthyan stem group. These results suggest that the last common ancestor of Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes had a macromeric dermal skeleton, and provide a new framework for studying crown gnathostome divergence.
A jaw-dropping fossil fish
Matt Friedman & Martin D. Brazeau
Nature, 502, 175-177 (10 October 2013) | doi:10.1038/nature12690
The ancestors of modern jawed vertebrates are commonly portrayed as fishes with a shark-like appearance. But a stunning fossil discovery from China puts a new face on the original jawed vertebrate.
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The troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant is inching closer toward generating power for the first time since April 2011, but federal regulators say the utility still has significant work to do before the plant can be restarted.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a 48-page-long checklist this week listing everything the Omaha Public Power District must address, including policy reviews, training exercises and plant equipment upgrades. Some items are completed, but many remain unaddressed.
OPPD spokesman Jeff Hanson said the utility has started dealing with the items, but having a formal checklist helps clarify the tasks that remain.
"We have made significant progress in our efforts and are confident in the work we have identified," Hanson said. "The remaining work is well understood with the right leaders and teams in place."
NRC spokesman Victor Dricks said Fort Calhoun, located 20 miles north of Omaha, won't be restarted until regulators are sure it's safe.
"They still have a lot of work to do," Dricks said.
The power plant initially shut down for refueling maintenance in 2011, but flooding along the Missouri River and a series of safety violations forced it to stay closed. The violations include the failure of a key electrical part during a 2010 test, a small electrical fire in June 2011 and deficiencies in flood planning that were discovered a year before last summer's extended flooding.
David Lochbaum, nuclear safety director with the advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, said the NRC checklist should give the public more confidence that the plant is safe if the NRC were to allow it to come back online.
"It's a road map for restart," Lochbaum said.
The NRC is also considering a petition from the Sierra Club of Iowa that asks regulators to revoke Fort Calhoun's operating license because of its history of safety violations. The environmental group, which opposes nuclear power in general, filed the petition in June.
Lochbaum said he expects the NRC to decide on the Sierra Club's petition before allowing Fort Calhoun to restart.
Clean Nebraska, another environmental group, also has asked the NRC to keep Fort Calhoun closed because the plant would be inundated by floodwaters if a dam failed upstream. But NRC officials have said that those concerns don't have to be dealt with before Fort Calhoun restarts.
The NRC and OPPD officials were scheduled to hold another public meeting in Blair on Thursday night to update the public on the plant's progress and answer questions. Regulators have held several similar meetings over the past year.
OPPD also hired Chicago-based Exelon Corp. in August to run the day-to-day management of Fort Calhoun. The company operates 17 reactors at 10 nuclear power plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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and i already answered that, and you said it was like sinnoh even though it's not! and you said dub wise it's like sinnoh! even though it's not.
you must not watch the dub anymore because what you said was stupid.
and obviously people have there own opinion but what you said is like me saying, ash looks like misty or brock has eyes
I wouldnt really say Unova feels like Johto.It seems to me more like weird combination of Johto and Hoenn. For start grpup pokemon are handled much better with their personalities being fleshed out beter, Cilan and Iris seem to get better focus than Misty and Brock received in that saga and number of fillers is much smaller with something important happening in majority of BW episodes.
When it comes to Kanto i really fail to see any remote similarity with Unova though. Kanto had wackly plots,out of place storyline,group provided more comedy and entertainment and series in general had different feeling to it.
Not to mention Ash being idiot back than was completely justified being inexperienced rookie who was just starting out. His naivety and immaturity was actually more charming than its case nowdays, with his downply as trainer compared to DP feeling like slap in face to all fans which followed his growth for years.
Back than anime also had more continuity to it with older characters being acknowledged that they still exist(as well older pokemon),compared to messed up timeline and story we have now in Bw.
Now i like Unova series but they seem inferior on so many levels at least imo compared to original series.
I dont know,personally i enjoyed in original trio from Johto not falling much behind Bw group imo.I remember Ash was still naive and stubborn but also started to mature being less reckless,Misty became more closer as friend while still still being stubborn,spunky and passionate about things.While Brock was eccentric, making sure to keep them out of trouble.
I blame lack of focus for some people not seeing that,but when they got chance to shine they had several memorable moments there.
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They have their moments, I cannot deny that. But I am speaking by looking at the general bulk of episodes. While watching BW episodes I am entertained the the twerps more than by watching Johto ones.Originally Posted by pokemon fan_123
I see.I guess Bw trio in quantity is shaping to get more(due to characters getting more focus), but when taking about quality i feel both groups are equally entertaining.
I guess this group needed in Johto more screen time to shine and interact more.
But overall by looking in retrospective,Ash,Misty and Brock in Johto still actually felt like genuine group of friends( definitely more so than DP trio did).
Anyway i have to admit that Bw group chemistry is one of best we had in years(second favorite after original trio).Ash while regressed still feels kinda lively working well with new companions as character,Iris hyperactive and cynical side is binging humor and i like Cilan flamboyant and calm attitude not being one dimensional.
Though good dynamic is hardly enough to make series great.
No I don't thing so. Unova is Unova. It has similarities to it as well as to Johto like some people mentioned but it has it's own differences. I can't compare it to Kanto.
It's basically Johto only more entertaining because of Cilan and Ash's better Pokemon.
I voted yes because Ash is trying to be his Kanto-self -.-
I voted yes because there are a lot of similarities. The opening sequence from BW001, him needing help from two gym leader friends, his Pokemon team closely mirroring his Kanto team, etc.
Is Unova the new Kanto? Not really nor would I want it to. I know the Kanto season had known for bad writing since the writers were very inexperienced but it did had an impact on its audiences. I want Unova to be its own region, a region/saga that can help it stand out but unforunately the writers just want to apply the whole revamp from the games and wanted the episodes to go very quick which isn't a good thingwhile going overboard w/ advertising the Pokemon....>_<;;;
The only difference between BW! and Kanto was the fact that the sidekicks are alot more active which is good. Iris doesn't have to be violent nor puts Ash down every time like Misty while Dento is a lot more entertaninig than Brock was. But I really hope the writers doesn't screw up and be giving Ash's team the Kanto treatment....I'm looking at you Tepig.>_>
Pinkie Pie: Best Pokemon Trainer
^^ Yeah he was except for DP...-___- Also I think I realized that the the writers wanted Tepig's story to be familiar to Charmander just so they can make up for the fire lizard's screentime iir and also when Tepig reaches the Pignite stage, he may not be disobedient but he can also remain in mid-stage for a while unlike Charmeleon who was in his stage for 2-3 episodes.:P
Pinkie Pie: Best Pokemon Trainer
I personally think that Unova has cast the other four regions into the shadows. You just don't hear anything about them anymore.


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Recreational activities numerous in the area
CHILDRENBaseball In the past year, most of the communities in McMinn County belonged to an independent baseball league, which is for players ages 5-14. Etowah does have one group which remains affiliated with Dixie Youth for boys and girls ages 7-12. The Athens-McMinn YMCA has a tee-ball league for the younger players. The Y number is 745-4904. Meigs County is affiliated with the Dizzy Dean organization for ages 5-14. Notices for tryouts and contact numbers for the various leagues are run well in advance of each season, usually in March or early April, in The Daily-Post Athenian. BMX Racing BMX bicycle racing is a sporting venue started by Mark Preskitt. The track is located on North Congress Parkway. Children of almost any age and experience can participate on race day, Thursdays and Fridays, or simply practice on Tuesday, from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. For more information, see the Web site at http://www.athensbmx.com Football The SouthEast Tennessee Athletic Conference is for boys and girls ages 6-14 and is divided into four age groups. Eligibility is determined by age and not by weight. Teams are located in Englewood, Rogers Creek, Meigs County and Copper Basin. The Grasscutters are ages 5-7, Pee Wees ages 8-9, Midgets 10-11 and Juniors 12-14. There are no weight restrictions. Sign-ups are held in July and the regular season begins with a jamboree in late August and the regular season starts the following week. The Meigs County, Etowah, Riceville, Copper Basin and Englewood leagues are operated independently. The contact person in Rogers Creek is Butch Terrell; in Englewood is Joe Guy or Bob Cass; and in Meigs County is Roger Trew. Cheerleaders are also a big part of the program and each team boasts squads to lend support at each game. Etowah and Riceville are members of the Sequoyah Conference, which does have some weight restrictions. Their team ages are 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 and 12-14. The contact person in Etowah is Darrell King and the contact person in Riceville is Billy Vestal. Soccer Soccer is comprised of both boys and girls teams in Athens, Etowah and Englewood who may compete with and against each other as well as teams from neighboring Monroe County. Last year, the McMinn County Soccer League, affiliated with the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) had more than 275 players participating. There are also several independently run competitive soccer teams for girls and boys that play in leagues around the Knoxville area. There are two seasons, one in the fall and again in the spring. Again, sign-up times and contact numbers are printed in the newspaper well in advance each season. Tennis Athens has five sites for tennis, including the Tennessee Wesleyan College campus and city-operated courts at Ingleside, Athens Junior High and Heritage Park. The Athens Parks and Recreation Department conducts a summer session of tennis lessons for all ages and levels of play. Also included is the annual Athens Open Tennis Tournament with divisions for all levels and ages, including juniors, adults and 35-and-over. The number for Athens Parks and Recreation is 744-2704. Etowah and Englewood also have city-operated courts. Basketball Athens, Englewood, Meigs County, Niota, E.K. Baker area and Etowah have youth basketball leagues. The YMCA conducts the Athens program for boys and girls co-ed teams while the Etowah Junior Pro league is independently operated with separate teams for boys and girls. The Englewood league is also independently operated. Several basketball camps are offered in Athens each summer. Notices appear often and well in advance in The DPA. The YMCA also offers a basketball instructional camp each summer. For more information on the YMCA, see the Web site at http://www.athensmcminnymca.org Swimming The McMinn County Summer Swim League, which holds meets at the YMCA, consists of three teams: City of Athens, Englewood and Etowah. The meets consist of 80 events with age groups for boys and girls ranging from 6-and-under, 8-and-under, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-16. For more information, visit the public pool in your community or call the YMCA. There is also a winter and summer swim team sponsored by the YMCA that includes swimmers from across the county and competes in meets against teams from other parts of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia and also competes with other teams in Knoxville. Debra Inman, who also serves as the local high school swim coach, is also the coach of the YMCA Sea Dragons. For more information, call Inman at the YMCA at 745-4904. Adult Softball By far the largest adult summer activity is the Athens Softball League, sponsored by the Athens Parks and Recreation Department. More than 500 adults participate in the league as a whole. The mens leagues are divided by level of play in three divisions, the Capital League, Tennessee League and Volunteer League. There is also a division for church-affiliated mens teams. The Womens League has only one division. Games are played at Fisher Field and the Athens Regional Park. For more information, call the Athens Parks and Recreation Department at 744-2704. Girls Fastpitch Softball In recent years, several independent girls fastpitch softball teams have been formed in various age groups. Notices and tryouts usually appear in the paper during the spring months. Golf McMinn and Meigs County have five golf courses, four of which are open to the public. Privately-owned Springbrook Golf and Country Club has an 18-hole course. The members-only clubs also has a swimming pool and tennis courts at its Niota facility. Ridgewood is a public facility located midway between Athens and Etowah with an 18-hole course and driving range. White Oaks Golf Club is an 18-hole course complete with a driving range. The public facility is located just off Highway 30 west toward Decatur. Lakehaven is located in the southern end of Meigs County. The nine-hole public facility is located adjacent to the backwaters off the Hiwassee River. Willow Springs is an 18-hole course located at the north end of the Highway 11 bypass. In addition, Rarity Bay, an 18-hole course is open to the public in neighboring Monroe County and affiliated with the Tellico Village Lake Resort. Also in nearby Madisonville is a publicly-owned nine-hole course. Cleveland in neighboring Bradley County also has three 18-hole golf facilities � the privately-owned Cleveland Golf and Country Club and publicly-owned Rolling Hills and Cherokee Springs. OTHERSChilhowee Rod and Gun Club Located just outside the Athens city limits, the Chilhowee Rod and Gun Club caters to those with an interest in fishing and hunting, both with bow and gun. Call 744-3926. River recreation One of the most scenic whitewater rafting venues in the nation is located in Polk County about 45 minutes from Athens. The Ocoee River, controlled by the Tennessee Valley Authority, is open on most weekends and several weekdays throughout the summer to rafting, kayaking and canoeing enthusiasts. The Ocoee was the site of whitewater competition in the 1996 Summer Olympics hosted by Atlanta. Several whitewater and rafting outfitters are located near the river to provide supplies, guides and other essentials. The Hiwassee River in Polk County is a good spot for trout fishing and rafting. Watts Bar Lake and Tennessee River Watts Bark Lake, created by the Tennessee Valley Authority dam on the Meigs County-Rhea County line, is about a 25-minute drive from Athens. Along with the usual activities of sunbathing and skiing,Watts Bar and the Tennessee offer better-than-average fishing for rockfish, large and smallmouth bass, crappie and catfish. Several marinas and boat docks service the area along with a public beach and boat ramps provided by TVA. TVA also operates public campgrounds in the area. The Foshee Pass Campground may be reached at 334-9871 and the Hornsby Hollow Campground number is 334-9875. Hunting and fishing licenses can be obtained from local sporting goods outlets such as Wal-Mart and Kmart in Athens, the McMinn and Meigs courthouses and Etowah Hardware. YMCA The Athens-McMinn Family YMCA, which can be reached at 745-4904, includes a basketball court, running track, racquetball court, pool, exercise and weight-training room. A wide variety of programs is offered including aerobics (and other related fitness programs), gymnastics, volleyball, basketball leagues, swimming lessons (and other water-related programs) and much more. The YMCA is open Monday-Friday from 6:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Several membership programs for single adults, students and various family groups are available. The Y also offers reduced-rate memberships through corporate sponsorships. Check with your employer to see if you can join through the company. A day care, after-school care and summer daycare program is also available at the YMCA. Day Camp is held during the summer and gives youngsters an opportunity to learn arts and crafts. The YMCA also offers family health programs and Youth Government Legislature. For more information on the YMCA, see the Web site at http://www.athensmcminnymca.org Bicycling Team Outdoor Store is a bike club which offers competition among its team members in a variety of racing styles. The club also participates in Toys for Kids rides in October and December, along with helping to sponsor the annual Mouse Trap Race in coordination with the Athens Parks and Recreation Department. For more information, call Pam Blevins at The Outdoor Store, 423-507-9006. Soap Box Derby The Athens Parks and Recreation Department sponsors a regional qualifier for the All-American Soap Box Derby. Winners in the local event, which is held each June, advance to the national race held in July. For more information, call the Recreation Department at 744-2704. |


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Alaska National Guard units are preparing to respond later this week to a simulated airliner crash northwest of Bethel, in a test of their ability to conduct sustained search and rescue operations in distant parts of the state.
A Monday statement from Guard spokesperson Maj. Guy Hayes says the exercise, to be held from Thursday through Saturday, will begin with two Air National Guard cargo planes -- a C-17 Globemaster III and a C-130 Hercules -- flying to the site, after reports to the 11th Air Force's Rescue Coordination Center of a plane crash in an area inaccessible by roads.
Hayes says the aircraft will carry supplies, snowmachines and search personnel to be paradropped to the site, where they locate and stabilize "survivors." Due to the continuing unpredictability of Alaska's conditions, the exercise calls for the planes to rapidly deploy their contents.
"In a region where weather is often a factor in safety and ability to respond, the Alaska Air National Guard is also employing tactics not utilized anywhere else in the Air Force, such as combo drops, where equipment and personnel depart the aircraft on the same pass over a target area," Hayes wrote.
After initial searchers arrive at the scene, their work will be supported by a U.S. Coast Guard supply paradrop as well as Alaska Army National Guardsmen on the ground.
"C Company, 1-297th Reconnaissance and Surveillance Squadron will provide logistics sustainment and support to the medical specialists so they can focus on patient care," said Brig. Gen. Leon "Mike" Bridges, an Army assistant adjutant general with the Alaska National Guard. "They are specially trained to scout, establish and support remote, hostile drop and pickup zones anywhere in the world and under any condition."
Once "survivors" have been located and prepared for transport, they will eventually be flown out of the area by Air National Guard HH-60 Pavehawk helicopters and an HC-130 Hercules search plane.
The test doesn't name an operator associated with the hypothetical incident, but will involve the crash of a Boeing 737, the primary airliner model flown by Alaska Airlines. While other firms such as Northern Air Cargo fly 737 freighters with crews of two or three people to Bethel, Alaska is the only airline with routine 737 passenger service to the local airport -- and the Guard's plans describe "being prepared to rescue 25 or 50 lives in a remote region."
Alaska Airlines spokesperson Marianne Lindsey said Tuesday morning that the airline was not aware of the exercise, and was not taking part in it.
With many short-term rescue operations in Alaska being flown by three Alaska Air National Guard units -- the 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons -- the scope of the exercise has been expanded to draw on more Guard assets.
"For mass casualty events, you need to think outside the regular search-and-rescue 'triad' to ensure communications between all the agencies are working effectively," said Air National Guard Lt. Col. Blake Gettys, commander of the 176th Wing Operations Group. "The only way this will work is if we use every airframe the operation group has available."
Guard officials estimate that they could reach crash victims at the site near Bethel in about eight hours, but this week's exercise is set to last longer in order to test how long searchers can be sustained in the field.
"So we'll be out there for an extended amount of time, to see if we have enough food, enough sleeping bags, enough fuel for the heaters," Gettys said. "Because it's one thing to set up in a parking lot and it's another to actually use it for a prolonged period of time in the field. Kind of like a script before a football game, you want to see everything go wrong in practice, so it doesn't go wrong in the game."
The simulated-crash response will be the first major joint search and rescue exercise by the Alaska Air National Guard and the Alaska Army National Guard.
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7–12 October 2012
Guide to Population Council activities
Sun, 7 Oct | ||
Technical Exchange Meeting 11:00 am–4:00 pm |
Safe Abortion Care and Advocacy: A Global Technical Exchange (Note: Registration for this event closed on 1 September 2012) |
Organized by Ipas and co-sponsored by Marie Stopes International, FIGO, WomanCare Global, Population Council, and IPPF |
Tue, 9 Oct | ||
Platform | Title | Authors |
Oral Sessions 9:55–11:25 am |
"Task-shifting using magnesium sulphate (MgSo4) to treat severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in primary care settings, in Kano State, Nigeria" (Hall 5, Room A) |
Salisu Ishaku Mohammed (presenter), Babatunde Ahonsi, Jamilu Tukur, and Ayodele Oginni |
1:45–3:15 pm |
"Social autopsy for maternal deaths: Investigating the causes of and contributors to maternal mortality in Kenya" (Hall 6, Room A) |
Rebecca Njuki (presenter), Francis Obare, Charlotte Warren, Timothy Abuya, Ian Askew and Ben Bellows |
"Community-based distribution of misoprostol for prevention of post-partum hemorrhage" (Hall 6, Room A) |
Saumya RamaRao | |
Wed, 10 Oct |
Oral Session 8:00–9:30 am |
"The International Contraceptive Access (ICA) Foundation—Lessons for increasing international access to the LNG IUS" (Hall 10, Room L) |
John Townsend |
Poster Session |
"Intercultural maternal health care services in Guatemala: A qualitative assessment" (Hall 9) |
Marieke Van Dijk |
Symposium |
"The epidemic of unintended pregnancy" "The impact of long-acting implant: Addressing public health priorities" Unintended Pregnancy (UIP): Is this Epidemic Preventable? (Hall 10, Room B) |
Régine Sitruk-Ware, symposium chair and speaker |
Oral Sessions 1:45–3:15 pm |
"Findings from Kenya" Session—Respectful Care: A Dimension of Quality Maternal Care (Hall 10, Room A) |
Charlotte Warren |
3:30–5:00 pm | "Qualitative evidence on abortion stigma in Mexico" (Hall 10, Room L) |
Annik Sorhaindo |
Thu, 11 Oct | ||
Poster Session |
"Intercultural maternal health care services in Guatemala: A qualitative assessment" (Hall 9) |
Marieke Van Dijk |
Oral Sessions 9:55–11:25 am |
"Expanding the use of magnesium sulphate in Nigeria" Session—Pre-eclampsia: Strategic Approaches for Improving Outcomes in Developing Countries (Hall 8) |
Tukur Jamilu (presenter), Babatunde Ahonsi, and Salisu Ishaku Mohammed |
1:45–3:15 pm |
"Reaching 'low-risk' women: Experiences with the integration of STI services into reproductive and maternal health services in sub-Saharan Africa" Session—Investing in Dual Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis (Hall 10, Room A) Organized by Population Council and WHO |
Fri, 12 Oct | ||
Roundtable 9:55–11:25 am |
Roadmap for Increasing Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Hall 10, Room N) Sponsored by the Population Council |
John Townsend, moderator |
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Nats fans expected to pack Metro trains
Thursday - 4/12/2012, 4:35am  ET
Adam Tuss, wtop.com
WASHINGTON - Those taking Metro to the Nationals' home opener Thursday should expect big crowds since the game is a sellout.
While the Navy Yard station on the Green Line -- the closest station to the ballpark -- will be busy, Metro also warns about crowds at key transfer stations to the Green Line.
"Folks should expect Gallery Place to be especially crowded," says Metro chief spokesperson Dan Stessel.
L'Enfant Plaza also is a busy transfer point during and after Nationals games.
The game is expected to end around the same time the afternoon rush picks up.
"The Green Line will be saturated with as much service as we can provide," says Stessel.
He says there will be longer, eight-car trains to handle extra crowds.
To avoid long lines at the farecard machines after the game, Metro says to make sure farecards or Smartrip cards have enough value left for a return trip.
For more information about taking Metro to Nats Park visit WMATA.
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Monday Night, April 21, 2008
Slowey Update
Just a quick update. Kevin Slowey made a rehab start for the Ft. Myers Miracle. The plan was for 50 pitches or three innings, whichever came first. Slowey made it through three innings and did well.
In the first inning, he struck out the first batter, walked the second and then struck out the next two.
In the second innings, Jeramy Laster homered, but then Slowey got a ground ball to short, another strikeout and a ground ball to 3B.
In the third inning, there was a lazy fly ball to left field, a fifth strikeout and a weak ground ball to second base.
Three innings. One run on one hit, the homer. He walked one and struck out five.
Obviously the results don't really matter, but it was good to see him pitch well and get through the innings. He will now go to Rochester for a couple of appearances. Deolis Guerra, who was scheduled to start, came in to start the fourth inning.


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Jordan Adams scored a career-high 31 points as UCLA won at Washington, 91-82, on Thursday night.
adidas and UCLA unveiled the Made in March alternate uniforms for the UCLA men's basketball team .
UCLA travels to play at Washington on Thursday evening in a contest nationally-televised by ESPN2.
Jordan Adams scored 20 of his 24 points in the second half as UCLA defeated Oregon State, 74-69.
The Bruins will face Oregon State in Pauley Pavilion on Sunday at 6 p.m. in their final home game.