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Solar power leaders remain hopeful in what could be a huge upturn in U.S. solar demand, but continue to be careful about the rest of 2009 after being hit very hard from the global credit predicament.
"The prospects for 2010 and beyond are quite significant," Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd Chief Strategy Officer Steven Chan said at the Reuters Global Energy Summit. "Next year, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. market tripled off of this year."
The solar industry was practically untouched by the economic woes until late 2008, when money for several kinds of projects evaporated.
That lack of money plus a reduction in solar tax breaks in Spain caused a rise of solar panels available for purchase, bringing prices down and diminishing producers' profits.
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Chan anticipates that the solar market in the US will be lifeless in 2009 when evaluated against 2008. Concurrently, Suntech will be expecting to double its U.S. share 20% this year from 10% in 2008.
The federal stimulus package has by now aided in bettering attitude in the market, Werner noted, although he does not think that those monies will be sent to the company's bottom line until "the back half of the year, perhaps Q4." He anticipates a bigger impact in 2010.
Energy Conversion Devices Inc CEO Mark Morelli remains more restrained in his prediction for the U.S. solar market, insisting that entr©e to project monies is still insufficient and government stimulus funds have not yet reached them.
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Suntech stated that it was looking for $200 million or $500 million from Chinese banks to finance solar projects.
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H1N1 Flu, You, and the National Parks
Funny how 900 people get the swine flu and everyone wears a mask but millions of people get STD's and no one wears a condom?
Building with Notorious History in Death Valley National Park Burns in Mysterious Fire
I don't understand the reasoning for even wanting to restore a place that has been connected to a mass murderer. Does it have any other significant historical value?
A Tough Week for Hikers and Mule Riders at Grand Canyon National Park
Anonymous -
Sadly, it's true that three young men jumped into the river on Thursday, April 30, with tragic results. That incident was covered in a separate story in the Traveler which has now dropped off the home page, so I didn't mention it again here.
That search and recovery mission began on the days between the two described in the above story about the hiker and mule rider, illustrating the demanding job rangers have at Grand Canyon - and many other parks.
Building with Notorious History in Death Valley National Park Burns in Mysterious Fire
It is truly sad when a site like this is lost whether by vandals or just a careless act. Everyone losses out, not only the place that is damaged but as time has proven other areas end up being closed to access also. At 51 years old, I know of hundreds of places my kids will never have the opportunity to experience nor will I ever be able to return to with them. That is the real loss for everyone as many times it leads to over protection of a remote area.
A Tough Week for Hikers and Mule Riders at Grand Canyon National Park
my wife was below the area where the mule stumbled - she saw the helicopter etc. but she said she heard that there were 3 kids that jumped from a bridge into the river earlier in the week or last week maybe and died - is that true? just curious.
Mark Your Calendars: ABC TV's 20/20 To Explore Billing Search-and-Rescue Subjects This Friday
Double jeopardy in legal terms is the liability to be prosecuted twice for the same crime. We the taxpayers pay for the search and rescue equipment and employees and now you want us to pay again? Ridiculous! And who makes the determination that a person was careless?
Anyone in government or SAR who feel over utilized or underpaid should find another line of work instead of consistently going into the taxpayers pocket.
Grand Canyon National Park Rangers Scaling Back Search For Two Missing in Colorado River
Saif, Praying day by day for a miracle. stay strongg. ♥
Grand Canyon National Park Rangers Scaling Back Search For Two Missing in Colorado River
No offence, but when you knew saif like me and my whole school did, you would know that all he ever did was help others. we only knew him for a year, and then he moved to arizona. yes he made a mistake, but were all grieving for him. <333
Grand Canyon National Park Rangers Scaling Back Search For Two Missing in Colorado River
We all love you saif!!! were all praying for you and waiting for you too come home!! <3333 everyone at sterling heights high are thinking of you!! come home soon! we love youu!!!
Mark Your Calendars: ABC TV's 20/20 To Explore Billing Search-and-Rescue Subjects This Friday
YES, I believe those that are rescued following deliberate acts of disobeying warning signs or verbal cautions should be held liable for all costs associated with their rescue, as well as being given fines and restrictions on future access to those and similar sites. If these costs cause a financial burden, perhaps they won't do it again? Why (and when?) did we stop holding persons responsible for their own actions? Why also do these people not think of the consequences of their actions on other people? Is this a symptom of a lack of respect for others, as well as for themselves?
It might be difficult, however, to distinguish between those that were simply unfortunate and caught in dangerous conditions accidentally and those that did things deliberately, so we will have to cater (once again!) to the rule-breaking minority and make costs apply to all. At least in this way, those of the country that don't indulge at all in outdoor activities are not having to pay for those that do through taxes...a small ray of sunshine, perhaps.
I have been an avid hiker for over 15 years and know there are dangerous places out there. I take caution and am fully aware and willing to take responsibility for my own actions. I have health insurance, which applies if I get hurt and I have been hurt while on my "adventures", even while taking precautions. I have a friend that once required rescue due to having had an accident resulting in a broken bone and the inability to walk. Accidents do happen. Should I ever get into a situation that requires formal rescue, I want that to be an option for me and I will gladly pay if I need to. Perhaps there could/should be a general cost for insurance required at places known to have a higher degree of danger than others, with the addition of fines for cases where it can be determined that those rescued have blatantly ignored the rules?
National Research Council Blasts Park Service Report on Oyster Farming at Point Reyes National Seashore
As stated, it is potential wilderness. It could stay that way with the oyster farm continuing. Just because something is potential wilderness, does not mean it has to become wilderness. They could manage it as defacto wilderness and everything would be ok. A label does not actually do anything.
Mark Your Calendars: ABC TV's 20/20 To Explore Billing Search-and-Rescue Subjects This Friday
This question forces Americans to ask themselves--are we a team or aren't we? How far should the team spirit go? Taxpayers spend trillions of dollars for public employees and have to pay legal and settlement costs when they make mistakes. Public buildings and public universities spend billions--just on landscaping, and most people in the general public will never see these places. Should we spend any less on ourselves? If we billed for search-and-rescue, where would the money go--landscaping? Some families are already being hurt by $400+ traffic citations. Do we really want to ruin families with search-and-rescue fees--take everything they have and put them out on the street? If that's the case, should public workers also pay for reckless behavior when on the job?
Does the National Park Service Need a Quota System for Peak Seasons?
One of the primary functions of the National Park Service is visitor use management. We have 391 park units collecting data 391 different ways. Until we can get an accurate description of who, what, when and why our visitors are visiting it makes it a mute point to discuss long term solutions. Far to often we fail in our visitor use management strategies with short lived solutions that lead to significant operational problems that have significant impacts on the heros that greet our visitors each and every day. Having completed multiple traffic control shifts at the Lower Yosemite Falls intersection that required me to ice my elbow at night well over 10 years ago, it makes me sad when I see a park service employee doing the same thing. What about a traffic light? What about a pedestrian bridge? All way to controversial in a Crown Jewel. Get your traffic vest, water bottle and whistle.
Grand Canyon National Park Rangers Scaling Back Search For Two Missing in Colorado River
miss u saif hope a safe return were praying for u buddy please come back we all miss u
Would a Change in Gun Laws Be a Threat to National Park Bears?
HA. bears are THE biggest predator on LAND.. and people give them food. theres a reason they dont fear us.. i for one have no problem with wolves.. do not percieve them as a threat.. and i do not play with fire as in going to veiw bears and feed them. if i moved to alaska i would go with my ccw. and should a bear try to attack me.. whether i was in my car, at my house or throwing away trash. i would shoot it. dead. period. bears are not predictable.. and will turn on you in a split second. why do you defend them?
Does the National Park Service Need a Quota System for Peak Seasons?
Having been a manager in several national park sites in administration, budgeting and strategic planning, I can assure you that the big parks are NOT underfunded. My last stint was with Yosemite and they have so much money that they cannot perform the necessary EIS planning to spend it - leaving tens of millions on the table every year.
Recreation Fee monies are quickly becoming a bane to the big parks. There's only so much money you can spend, only so many development / redevelopment projects to undertake, only so many employees to rationalize the spending through planning efforts.
In any case, you cannot spend your way out of a finite resource (or damage created by recreational overuse).
Rationing is the future.
Bear #399, And Other Grizzlies, Are On the Prowl In Grand Teton National Park
I saw her last June, I am returning to Grand Teton in August I hope she will be around
Grand Canyon National Park Rangers Scaling Back Search For Two Missing in Colorado River
You don't know the circumstances. Knowing Saif personally, I can easily say he was the nicest guy I have ever met. If you died like this, would you want people saying stuff like that about you? And also basically mimicing you? Get some maturity, grow up. You must'nt have a concience.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lands Windfall In Donation of Historic Buildings, Memorabilia
It is true that they have no original artifacts from the building in 1898. However, nor did they have anything for the Mascot Saloon, yet they completely recreated EVERYTHING in the saloon to match the way it looked in 1910. The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park has little devoted to the most famous character in the history of the city, and in fact has no buildings (to my knowledge) devoted, inside and out, to the 1898 era, like that of the Mascot display (1910). In my opinion, the best plan would be to restore the Parlor to the way it looked when Soapy owned it, and place the Rapuzzi collection in any other building. As I have said before, people write me every year expressing their disappointment in not being able to go inside "Soapy's saloon." I am not sure of the Park's exact plans but I am sure many Soapy fans will be somewhat disappointed that the building represents anything other than Soapy Smith.
I have been inside the Parlor when Rapuzzi owned it, and then when Brown had it. I guess the most important thing is that it is still standing. It was beginning to lean to one side so thank goodness Brown finally sold it. I have actually made offers to buy the Parlor in the late 80s and 90s from her, and she once told me that she wanted enough from a sale "to sit in a rocker for the rest of her life." Glad it did not go the way of the Pullen Hotel. It will take close to a decade to complete the project and if I'm still around I'll have to drag myself up there for the opening day.
Watch my sites below for the coming biography! Did you know Soapy was murdered? That Frank Reid did not kill him? Got to love history.
Jeff Smith
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A Tough Week for Hikers and Mule Riders at Grand Canyon National Park
In 1998, me,the wife and 2 sons, ages 16 and 13, made the day trip on the mules to Plateau Point. The 13 yr old was freaking out on the way down but he made it. Although we felt safe on the mules, it did cause some anxious moments, as it should have.
On the way down right before one of those 180 switch backs, my mule stumbled, went down to his knees, and then back up. It bout gave me the Big One, but we all made it and had a wonderful time. We still have our certificates that shows we made it down on the mules.
11 years later we still talk about the trip. Unbelieveable.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lands Windfall In Donation of Historic Buildings, Memorabilia
It's my understanding the park has almost no original "stuff" from the building as it was in the gold rush when it was Soapy's, but that they have most of the stuff from the Itjen era, including animatronics(!!), so they're replicating the era that they have the actual artifacts for.
Floods Sweeping Gateways to Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
There is some amazing commentary on this flood on CBC's 'As It Happens,' which is the Canadian Broadcast Company's show out of Saskatechwan, that aired last night (MAY 6). It was a devastating description, with an interview with Andy Bassich, about a rescue. He says no one living has ever seen a break-up and flooding like this. Calls it a "once in a millennium flood" with a huge snowpack and now, unusually warm weather. He is shaken.
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Ill-Advised Leap from a Bluff Leads to a Challenging Rescue at Buffalo National River
Thank you for your comment. It seems that what we thought was bad luck (else we would have not been where we were) was good luck for others.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lands Windfall In Donation of Historic Buildings, Memorabilia
Stephanie, although I understand that Itjen, Pullen, and perhaps even Rapuzzi are important to Skagway, their stories can be told in any building in Skagway, however, Jeff Smith's Parlor is uniquely Soapy. His story belongs in his old saloon.
Jeff Smith
author of Alias Soapy Smith, the Life and Death of a Scoundrel.
Soapy Smith website
Soapy Smith blog
Ill-Advised Leap from a Bluff Leads to a Challenging Rescue at Buffalo National River
Mike -
Thanks for sharing some details on the incident - and for your part in getting help en route to the correct location much sooner than would have been possible if you hadn't been there. The fact that you knew enough about the area to identify the location for the emergency responders made a big difference.


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RAC Bulletin 2013-005E - RAC Planning Session February 15-17, 2013
This February the Board and Executive of RAC met in Ottawa to develop the planning context for 2013 and 2014 and the vision for RAC over next five years. Our last face to face planning meeting was in October of 2012 and we have successfully completed the objectives set out in that meeting; RAC is now solvent and we have stopped the slide in membership numbers.
This February the following key objectives were set:
The foregoing requires that RAC move from a survival to growth mode and develop new resources to support achieving those goals. We agreed to continue to operate in the fiscally responsible fashion that we established in 2010 and noted the need to establish new budget lines to support key activities and eliminate the subsidies provided by our officers. We agreed to establish a resource to provide key information support (paper and electronics) for clubs, member and media to support us in achieving our objectives.
Webinars to discuss our plans in more detail.
Over the course of the next few months we will be undertaking regional webinars with Club Presidents and Field Service members chaired by the President and the local Regional Director. These meetings will allow us to discuss our plans for 2012/2013 in more detail. We are looking forward to creating this opportunity for dialogue.
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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a whitepaper addressing the tax provisions that lapsed at the end of 2013. The whitepaper is available here. Of particular interest to the renewable energy industry is the extension of the production tax credit (PTC) and the ability to elect the investment tax credit in lieu thereof. The whitepaper also touches on the new market tax credit (NMTC) for economically disadvantaged communities that lapsed at the end of 2013 and the Section 1603 Treasury Cash Grant Program which lapsed in earlier years.
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An extremely valuable book. . . . [W]e believe this to be a very important text for fisheries ecology and management.
Quantitative modeling methods have become a central tool in the management of harvested fish populations. This book examines how these modeling methods work, why they sometimes fail, and how they might be improved by incorporating larger ecological interactions. Fisheries Ecology and Management provides a broad introduction to the concepts and quantitative models needed to successfully manage fisheries.
Walters and Martell develop models that account for key ecological dynamics such as trophic interactions, food webs, multi-species dynamics, risk-avoidance behavior, habitat selection and density-dependence. They treat fisheries policy development as a two-stage process, first identifying strategies for varying harvest in relation to changes in abundance, then finding ways to implement such strategies in terms of monitoring and regulatory procedures. This book provides a general framework for developing assessment models in terms of state-observation dynamics hypotheses, and points out that most fisheries assessment failures have been due to inappropriate observation model hypotheses rather than faulty models for ecological dynamics.
Intended as a text in upper division and graduate classes on fisheries assessment and management, this useful guide will also be widely read by ecologists and fisheries scientists.
Much of this book is about the derivation, use, and abuse of various mathematical models used to make decisions about how to manage harvested aquatic ecosystems. There is a long tradition of such modeling, and many biologists still look upon that tradition with much puzzlement and even contempt. Anyone who has taken even a bit of time to look at any aquatic ecosystem cannot help having seen that such systems are incredibly complex in their spatial, temporal, and trophic organization. Further, the complexity is not just a matter of structural diversity (lots of kinds of creatures). It also involves dynamic complexity in the form of a rich variety of feedback effects. Changes in the abundance of any creature due to natural or human factors are likely to result in a cascade of changes in the vital statistics (birth, death, growth rates) of other creatures in the food web, which in turn can feed back to impact further changes in the abundance of that creature. In the face of this complexity, it often seems both arrogant and foolish to pretend that we can make any useful predictions about what will happen when people selectively harvest some species that are fun to catch or good to eat, or change ecosystem fertilitythrough deliberate or inadvertent changes in nutrient loading, or alter the physical habitat of an ecosystem.
After much experience in the field, we would be the first to agree that it is indeed impossible to capture fully the rich behaviors of ecosystems in mathematical models, particularly when we try to include unregulated human activities (humans as dynamic predators) in the calculations. But in this chapter, we offer three main arguments about why it is important to keep trying to build useful models. The first, which we will not discuss any further because it is so obvious, is that modeling is a great and perhaps necessary way for scientists to force themselves to think clearly and to put their claims to understanding on the table in the form of specific predictions. The second, which we discuss in the following three sections, is that prediction in some form is required for management choice, i.e., the issue in management-policy design is not whether to model but rather how to go about it. The third, which we discuss in a closing section, is that there are some predictable regularities in the way natural populations and ecosystems respond to human disturbance, so that at least some kinds of useful predictions are not as likely to fail as they may initially appear.
1.1 The Role of Predictive Models
If the people in a fisheries management agency watch some fishery change while asserting that they are powerless to implement regulations that might alter the path of change, then that agency is not really a management agency at all; at best, it is a monitoring agency. The very word "management" implies some capability for making choices among options that might make some difference. That is, management is making choices. But what is involved in making any choice among alternatives? If we can choose either option A or option B, then we must either toss a coin or consciously construct arguments in the form "we believe that the outcome of A will be X while the outcome of B will be Y, and we prefer X to Y." Such sentences contain two kinds of assertions: (1) about the outcome (or range of outcomes, or probabilities of various outcomes) for each choice, i.e., predictions about what will happen in the future, and (2) about management objectives, i.e., which future outcomes would be preferred.
So making choices necessarily involves some method for predicting the future. This means the issue in management decision-making is not whether to model the future somehow (that is inevitable) but, rather, what model to use in making the prediction(s). Here there are two basic choices: to predict using the sometimes wonderful intuitive (and largely subconscious) capabilities of the human mind, or to resort instead to some explicit model or "deductive engine" for piecing together known elements of the prediction in some conscious way.
It is worth noting in passing that scientific research also necessarily involves making predictions, whether or not these predictions are stated as explicit alternative hypotheses about the outcomes of alternative experimental treatments. Even purely "observational" or "natural history" research programs cannot be designed and implemented without making some very strong assumptions (predictions) about where, when, and what variables or factors are worth observing, i.e., are likely to carry useful information about causal relationships. The experimental scientist can escape some responsibility for making specific predictions by constructing treatments (choices) that give clear, qualitatively different predictions about directions of response under alternative hypotheses. And the scientist has another advantage in terms of being able to choose the questions (options) to be addressed without much regard for whether those questions are of general interest to anyone else. So it is perhaps not surprising that scientists are much more likely than managers to make misleading assertions, i.e., "prediction is impossible in complex systems" or "it is not necessary to construct quantitative models in order to make useful predictions." Scientists who make such claims are clearly not the people to provide guidance about policy choices, nor are they likely to have much experience with the agonies of having to make hard choices.
Given that natural ecosystems are very complex and will be "driven" to future change by unpredictable environmental changes as well as human activities, so that we cannot possibly produce good unconditional or "open loop" predictions of future change, how can we hope to manage ecosystems if management choices require prediction? Or how can we hope to compare policy choices until we "understand" all the interactions and external forces that drive change? The answer to these questions is actually quite simple, if we look carefully at the character of the policy predictions required for decision-making: to choose between policy A and policy B, we do not, in fact, require unconditional predictions about the future, or even about most of the causes and patterns of variability that the future will bring. Rather, we need only to be able to predict whether policy A will do better than policy B for a sufficiently wide range of possible futures to make it a "better bet" than policy B. That is, policy predictions need not be about the future in general but, rather, only about those aspects of future change that could be directly impacted by the specific actions/interventions involved in the policy, and even in relation to these changes we generally require only predictions of relative performance. This means, e.g., that when someone asks, "How can you manage the fish when you do not even know how many there are?", we can answer by pointing out that we can compare policy choices for a wide range of possible actual numbers of fish, to find choices that are at least somewhat robust despite the uncertainty about the numbers. Further, we can generally specify policy choices as rules for response to change rather than absolute degree of impact. Consider the following example: suppose policy choice A is to allow a particular, fixed quota of fish to be harvested in perpetuity (i.e., a quota property right), and policy choice B is to allow some fixed proportion of the fish to be harvested each year (this proportion is called the exploitation rate). It is easy to show with practically any population or ecosystem accounting model that policy A is prone to catastrophic failure: under natural variation, the stock is bound to get low enough so that the quota looms larger and larger as a factor of change, driving the stock down faster and faster as the number of remaining fish (and hence the basis for future population growth) declines. On the other hand, policy B has built-in "feedback" to adjust harvests downward during stock declines (and hence help reverse the declines) and to take advantage of higher harvest opportunities when the stock is large. In this example, only a fool would advocate policy A, whether or not we can predict specifically what variation the future will bring.
1.2 The Distinction between Fish Science and Fisheries Science
We can provide useful predictions and advice about some kinds of management choices without resorting to precise, quantitative models that are bound to be incorrect to at least some degree. For example, it is easy to explain in qualitative terms why fixed-quota harvest policies are dangerous compared to feedback policies in which harvests are varied in response to unforeseen change. But most management decisions involve quantitative choices: How many fish should be harvested this year? What sizes of fish should be caught? How large should a protected area be? How many licenses should be issued? How much unregulated fishing effort will occur this year if a given regulation is imposed on catch or size of fish or location of fishing? How much can we harvest without "impairing" the ability of the ecosystem to support other creatures that depend on the ones we harvest?
Somebody has to provide the answers to these difficult questions, i.e., somebody has to do some quantitative modeling and prediction, whether the work is done well and systematically or instead by some seat-of-the-pants calculation. In a way, it has been really unfortunate in the historical development of fisheries management that there has been a general assumption that the right people to answer such questions are fish biologists. There have been no real professional standards in fish or fisheries biology, and a high proportion of us got into the field in the first place because we could do so without a lot of distasteful quantitative training. We were taught to study biological process and pattern from a largely qualitative perspective, and we never expected to be "bean counters." Furthermore, most of us never imagined that many of the questions that we would be asked would not even be about fish at all but would, instead, be about the behavior of people (fishers). This state of affairs is changing rapidly, with recognition that there is a lot more to fisheries science than just studying biological processes and counting fish. But a new pathology is accompanying the change: the top levels of management agencies are dominated by people with the traditional training (and cunning as institutional players) who now have to turn to younger people for help when there is no way to sidestep the difficult quantitative questions. This means that as demands for improved, quantitative management prescriptions have grown in order to deal with more complex management options and trade-offs, key fisheries managers have had to rely more and more on people and methods (modeling) that they do not understand and certainly do not trust. Such specialization of capabilities and functions leads in turn to increased opportunities for misinterpretation and misunderstanding, among all stakeholders involved in management (fishers, managers, scientists, representatives of conservation interest groups, etc.).
1.3 Approaches to Prediction of Policy Impact
Given that predictions are an inevitable part of making management choices, what options does a fishery manager have for making these predictions? Surely there are alternatives to the rather complicated mathematical modeling described in this book; indeed, there are at least five alternative approaches that can be (and have been) used. These approaches are not mutually exclusive; each uses or is derived from at least some components or results of the others.
Appeal to Conventional Wisdom and Dogma
In a surprising variety of decision situations, fisheries managers have ignored empirical data and past experience in favor of essentially dogmatic assumptions about the responses to particular policy options and system disturbances. For example, it is routine to presume that habitat alterations to natural ecosystems always cause reduced productivity (because the organisms are "adapted to" the natural circumstances). Another common assumption is that harvesting always causes a reduction in the abundance of target species, even if/when the harvesting selectively removes individuals that differentially drive away or kill other conspecifics (e.g., cannibalism). When field evidence is found that contradicts such assumptions-e.g., evidence that coho salmon may actually be enhanced by forest harvesting in some watersheds of the Pacific northwest (Holtby 1988; Thedinga et al. 1989; see discussion in Walters 1993)-this evidence is either ignored entirely or is rejected as "nonrepresentative" or "atypical." When this happens, managers are essentially indicating their willingness to behave essentially as though some principles or assumptions were equivalent to religious dogma, i.e., were impervious to scientific invalidation.
Trend Extrapolation
A time-honored way of making fisheries management predictions has been by simple trend extrapolation: plot the historical data, and "eyeball" alternative projections forward in time while making some intuitive guess about the likely impact of policy change on the trend. We can, of course, formalize the eyeball part of this approach by using formal time-series analysis models, but that is unlikely to produce a better result (except perhaps in multivariate systems) than the remarkable integrative and pattern-finding abilities of the human eye.
This approach has failed in modern fisheries, for a variety of reasons. (1) It is really only valid for systems that exhibit incremental, slow change; modern fisheries can change very rapidly. (2) It is easy to confuse wishful thinking with good intuition in making predictions about the effects of policy change on trends, and to keep applying small Band-Aids to gaping wounds. (3) It is all too common to use misleading trend indicators, especially catches. In any fishery, catch results from three factors: the area "swept" by fishing, the size of the stock, and the area over which the stock is distributed. So an apparently "healthy" increase in catch can mean either that the stock is healthy, that the fishing effort (the area swept by gear) has increased, or that the range occupied by the stock has decreased. It does not help matters to use catch per effort, since this commonly used trend index can even increase during stock declines due to contractions in the range area used by the fish.
Empirical Models Based on Past Experience and/or Experience with Similar Systems
For many policy issues there is a rich range of historical and spatial comparative data upon which to base predictions about the responses to any particular new circumstances. Some fish stocks (e.g., Pacific herring off British Columbia) have been severely overfished, then allowed to recover, so that we have good information about likely stock response as a function of stock size. There are large data sets on how lakes and coastal areas respond to eutrophication, and strong regression relationships have been found between nutrient loading and performance measures such as chlorophyll concentration, so that the likely response in almost any new case can be "interpolated" from the regressions. For fish populations that are maintained through artificial stocking (hatcheries), there are large data sets on the effects of factors such as time and size of release and stocking density on performance measures such as survival rate and growth.
Unfortunately, most of the important policy issues in fisheries today involve options and performance measures for which there are no historical precedents. We have not yet tried to manage aquatic ecosystems in any holistic way, and in particular, we have not systematically gathered information on the abundances and spatial distributions of the wide variety of organisms (beyond harvested fish) in an expanded view of what would constitute a "healthy" managed ecosystem. Existing reviews of comparative data, e.g., May (1984) and Hall (1999), show mainly a confusing variety of fragmentary patterns.
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LIST OF TABLES xvii
PREFACE xix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxi
CHAPTER 1: Introduction 3
1.1 The Role of Predictive Models 3
1.2 The Distinction between Fish Science and Fisheries Science 5
1.3 Approaches to Prediction of Policy Impact 6
1.4 Experimental Management 9
1.5 The Ecological Basis of Sustainable Harvesting 12
CHAPTER 2: Trade-Offs in Fisheries Management 20
2.1 Trade-Off Relationships and Policy Choices 22
2.2 Short-Term versus Long-Term Values 25
2.3 Biological Diversity versus Productivity 31
2.4 Economic Efficiency versus Diversity of Employment Opportunities 37
2.5 Allocation of Management-Agency Resources 39
CHAPTER 3: Strategic Requirements for Sustainable Fisheries 43
3.1 Harvest Optimization Models 46
3.2 Constructing Feedback Policies 49
3.3 Feedback Policy Implementation 58
3.4 Feedback Policies for Incremental Quota Change 61
3.5 Actively Adaptive Policies 63
CHAPTER 4: Tactics for Effective Harvest Regulation 65
4.1 Tactical Options for Limiting Exploitation Rates 67
4.2 Managing the Risk of Depensatory Effects under Output Control 69
4.3 Tactics for Direct Control of Exploitation Rates 74
4.4 Regulation of Exploitation Rates in Recreational Fisheries 77
4.5 In-Season Adaptive Management Systems 79
4.6 Monitoring Options and Priorities 80
4.7 Maintaining Genetic Diversity and Structure in Harvested Populations 83
CHAPTER 5: An Overview of Single-Species Assessment Models 89
5.1 Objectives of Single-Species Assessment 89
5.2 State-Observation Components 91
5.3 Estimation Criteria and Measuring Uncertainty 95
5.4 Modeling Options 101
5.5 Using Composition Information 110
5.6 Dealing with Parameters That Aren't 121
CHAPTER 6: Foraging Arena Theory (I)124
6.1 Beverton-Holt Model for Stock-Recruitment 128
6.2 Alternative Models Based on Juvenile Carrying Capacity 132
6.3 Using Foraging Arena Arguments to Derive the Beverton-Holt Model 136
6.4 Implications for Recruitment Research and Prediction 147
CHAPTER 7: Problems in the Assessment of Recruitment Relationships 151
7.1 Which Parameters Matter? 152
7.2 Predicting Reproductive Performance at Low Stock Sizes 158
7.3 Predicting Capacity to Recover from Historical Overfishing 160
7.4 The Errors-in-Variables Bias Problem 162
7.5 The Time-Series Bias Problem 165
7.6 Can Statistical Fisheries Oceanography Save the Day? 173
CHAPTER 8: Spatial Population Dynamics Models 181
8.1 Life-History Trajectories 182
8.2 Multistage Models 185
8.3 Eulerian Representation 188
8.4 Lagrangian Representation 193
8.5 Policy Gaming with Spatial Models 198
CHAPTER 9: Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Fishing Effort 200
9.1 Long-Term Capacity 201
9.2 Short-Term Effort Responses 204
9.3 Spatial Allocation of Fishing Effort 210
9.4 Mosaic Closures 223
CHAPTER 10: Foraging Arena Theory (II)231
10.1 Understanding Foraging Arena Theory 232
10.2 Predicting Trophic Flows 236
10.3 Adding Realism (I): Foraging Time Adjustments 240
10.4 Adding Realism (II): Trophic Mediation 244
10.5 Ecosim 246
10.6 Representing Trophic Ontogeny in Ecosim 248
10.7 Single-Species Dynamics from Ecosim Rate Equations 252
10.8 Ecosystem-Scale Variation 254
CHAPTER 11: Options for Ecosystem Modeling 256
11.1 Qualitative Analysis of Dominant Trophic Interactions 259
11.2 Qualitative Analysis of More Complex Linkages 270
11.3 Models That Link Dynamics with Nutrient Cycling Processes 271
11.4 Representation of Mesoscale Spatial-Policy Options 276
11.5 Individual-Based Size-and Space-Structured Models 283
CHAPTER 12: Parameterization of Ecosystem Models 286
12.1 Parameterizing Models 287
12.2 Parameter Estimates from Experimental Data 289
12.3 Estimating Parameters from Mass Balance Snapshots 292
12.4 Challenging Ecosystem Models with Data 300
CHAPTER 13: Marine Enhancement Programs 313
13.1 Things That Can Go Wrong 317
13.2 Critical Steps in Enhancement Program Design 326
13.3 Monitoring and Experimental Requirements 331
CHAPTER 14: Options for Sustainable Ecosystem Management 334
14.1 Alternative Visions of Ecosystem Structure 335
14.2 Moving Toward Sustainable Ecosystem Management 344
APPENDIX: Definitions for Mathematical Symbols 349


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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which decides if medicines should be given on the state health service, said on Friday it had changed its mind in the light of evolving clinical evidence.
"After considering new evidence that has become available since the original guidance was published - particularly new mortality data - the NICE draft guidance does not recommend omalizumab for either adults or children," NICE said.
New dosing recommendations for the drug had also changed its cost-effectiveness, the agency added.
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Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer?
Wiley: Yeah.
Man on the Train: I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting
Speed Levitch: On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.
Kim Krizan: Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration and this is where I think language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival. Like you know, "water." We came up with a sound for that. Or saber tooth tiger right behind you. We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is like... frustration? Or what is anger or love? When I say love, the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say yes, they understand. But how do I know they understand? Because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable. And yet you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for.
Philosophy Professor: The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity, is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century. I'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately in the sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feel good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it's, a philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre, once interviewed, said he never really felt a day of despair in his life. One thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as, a real kind of exuberance, of feeling on top of it, it's like your life is yours to create. I've read the post modernists with some interest, even admiration, but when I read them I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as fragmented of marginalised, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses. And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he's not talking about something abstract. He's not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about. It's something very concrete, it's you and me talking, making decisions, doing things, and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six billion people in this world, and counting, but nevertheless -what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms, it makes a difference to other people, and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off or see each other as a victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are.
Guy Forsyth: The worst mistake that you can make is to think you're alive when really you're asleep in life's waiting room.
Guy Forsyth: The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
Soap Opera Woman: Excuse me.
Wiley: Excuse me.
Soap Opera Woman: Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. "Here's your change." "Paper or plastic?' "Credit or debit?" "You want ketchup with that?" I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know?
Boat Car Guy: The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving.
Guy Forsyth: Did you ever have a job that you hated and worked real hard at? A long, hard day of work. Finally you get to go home, get in bed, close your eyes and immediately you wake up and realize... that the whole day at work had been a dream. It's bad enough that you sell your waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free.
Boat Car Guy: I feel like my transport should be an extension of my personality. And this is like my little window to the world... and every minute's a different show. I may not understand it. I may not even necessarily agree with it. But I'll tell you what I've accepted: just sort of glide along. You want to keep things on an even key, this is what I'm saying. You want to go with the flow. The sea refuses no river. The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. It saves on introductions and goodbyes. The ride does not require explanation - just occupants. That's where you guys come in. It's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now you may get the 8 pack, you may get the 16 pack but it's all in what you do with the crayons - the colors - that you're given. Don't worry about coloring within the lines or coloring outside the lines - I say color outside the lines, you know what I mean? Color all over the page; don't box me in! We're in motion to the ocean. We are not land locked, I'll tell you that.
Alex Jones: "You can't fight city hall." "Death and taxes." "Don't talk about politics or religion." This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda, rolling across the picket line. "Lay down, GI! Lay down, GI!". We saw it all through the 20th Century. And now on the 21st Century, it's time to stand up and realize, that we should NOT allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze. We should not SUBMIT to dehumanization. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned with what's happening in this world. I'm concerned with the structure. I'm concerned with the systems of control. Those that control my life, and those that seek to control it EVEN MORE! I want FREEDOM! That's what I want, and that's what YOU should want! It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose of just some of the greed, the hatred, the envy, and yes, the insecurities, because that is the central mode of control, make us feel pathetic, small, so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny. We have GOT to realize we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state! The 21st Century's gonna be a new century! Not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance, of classism and statism, and all the rest of the modes of control... it's gonna be the age of humankind, standing up for something PURE and something RIGHT! What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated! The TRUTH is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of LIES! I'm SICK of it, and I'M NOT GONNA TAKE A BITE OUT OF IT! DO YA GOT ME? Resistance is NOT futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, WE'RE NOT A BUNCH OF UNDERACHIEVERS, WE'RE GONNA STAND UP, AND WE'RE GONNA BE HUMAN BEINGS! WE'RE GONNA GET FIRED UP ABOUT THE REAL THINGS, THE THINGS THAT MATTER - CREATIVITY, AND THE *DYNAMIC* *HUMAN* *SPIRIT* THAT REFUSES TO *SUBMIT*! WELL THAT'S IT, that's all I've got to say. It's in your court now.
Philosophy Professor: What you do makes a difference. We should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are.
Pinball Playing Man: I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.
Alex Jones: We have got to realize that we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state.
Man with the Long Hair: They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?
Alex Jones: What a bunch of garbage; liberal, democrat, conservative, republican. It's all there to control you! Two sides of the same coin. Two management teams bidding for control, the CEO job of Slavery, Incorporated! The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of lies. I'm sick of it, and I'm not going to take a bite out of it, do you got me?
Man on TV: I do not await the future, anticipating salvation, absolution, not even enlightenment through process. I subscribe to the premise that this flawed perfection is sufficient and complete, in every single ineffable moment.
Quiet Woman at Restaurant: When it was over, all I could think about was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions. It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery, and I had been a part of that. It was a gift. Life was raging all around me and every moment was magical. I loved all the people, dealing with all the contradictory impulses - that's what I loved the most, connecting with the people. Looking back, that's all that really mattered.
Pinball Playing Man: There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity.
Speed Levitch: Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others presence.
Young Girl Playing Paper Game: Dream is destiny.
Old Man: As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.
Boat Car Guy: Man this must be like... parallel universe night. You know that cat that was just in here? Just ran out the door? Well, he comes up to the counter, you know, and I say "What's the word, turd?" And he lays down this burrito and he kind of looks at me, kind of stares at me and says, "I have but recently returned from the valley of the shadow of death. I'm rapturously breathing in all the odors and essences of life. I've been to the brink of total oblivion. I remember and ferment the desire to remember everything."
Wiley: So, what did you say to that?
Boat Car Guy: Well, I mean, what could I say? I said, "If you're going to microwave that burrito, I want you to poke holes in the plastic wrapping because they explode. And I'm tired of cleaning up your little burrito doings. You dig me?"
Accordion Player: And this is where I think language came from. It came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival, like water we came up with a sound for that
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Accordion Player: but when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. When I say love the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travel through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say, Yes they understand, but how do I know they understand? Because words are inert, they'r ejust symbols, they're dead. And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed, it's unspeakable. And yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think we are understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think that's what we live for.
Man on TV: A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage from which to view this experience. And where most consider their individual relationship to the universe, I contemplate relationships of my various selves to one another.
Celine: I've been thinking also about something you said.
Jesse: What's that?
Celine: Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come through over time. Everybody says they have been the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Alexander The Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumb fuck like everybody else.
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Alex Jones: Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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The Left Parties are in no mood to sail with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) with regard to agitation against power tariff hike. Once bitten, twice shy' goes saying.
The 11 Left parties have geared up to launch the agitation if the State Government hiked the power tariff, say CPI State secretary K. Narayana. He, however, was quick to add: The agitation will not be synchronised with the TDP. If other political parties have plans to agitate against the hike in tariff they can do on their own. Morally, only Left parties have right to fight against power tariff hike, he says. The CPI leader, however, was not sure whether the power agitation would take same proportions as in the past and done on a similar scale. "How can we say it now," he quips. The Left parties synchronised their power agitation with the Congress in 2000 when the TDP was in power. Eventually it was one of the major factors that led to topple the TDP government in 2004.
The CPI secretary was in the city to inaugurate city party's 20 conclave. Speaking to The Hindu, he minced no words in airing his views on various burning issues including separate Telangana.
The Telangana issue has been rocking every political party in the State. "CPI is no exception to it," he says, "but, we turned the tide by making our stand clear."
The BJP is trying to champion the cause, but it lost the credibility. The BJP, which went to people with one vote two states, was mum on issue when in power.
The political parties will have to sail in disturbed waters if they don't spell out their stance before 2014 elections wherein the Telangana issue will be crucial factor. We cannot dismiss the impact of YSR Congress Party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
On liquor syndicate, Mr. Narayana says, "The government policy of looking at the liquor as source of revenue is wrong. The government should sell the liquor through its stores. If it goes for auction of the stores in liquor season –June-July, the CPI will attack the auction places, he adds.
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