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Rwanda's measles-rubella vaccination campaign, which is being launched today, is the beginning of an effort to vaccinate more than 700 million children under 15 years of age against two disabling and deadly diseases.
The combined measles-rubella vaccine will be introduced in 49 countries by 2020 thanks to financial support from the GAVI Alliance. The support builds on the efforts of the Measles & Rubella Initiative (M&RI) that have helped countries to protect 1.1 billion children against measles since 2001.
Rwanda, which is already effectively controlling measles, becomes the first sub-Saharan African country to provide measles-rubella vaccine nationwide with GAVI support. The vaccine will not only stop the transmission of rubella from mother to child, preventing children being born with severe birth defects, but also protect children against measles, which is highly contagious.
Full immunisation package
"Rwanda has made great strides over the past four years in child survival by introducing vaccines against leading child killers, including pneumonia and diarrhoea," said Dr Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda's Minister of Health. "The introduction of the combined measles-rubella vaccine is one more important step to ensuring that all children in Rwanda receive the full immunisation package. In our efforts to eliminate measles, we have raised measles coverage through campaigns and routine immunisation to higher than 95%."
Starting in Rwanda, GAVI-funded rubella vaccines, an underused vaccine, will benefit women's and children's health. In pregnant women, rubella can lead to miscarriage or severe birth defects, including blindness, deafness and heart problems. The combined measles-rubella (MR) vaccine provides a 2-in-1 shot against these two diseases and will accelerate global efforts to control rubella and measles.
No child is missed
Rwandan health workers will vaccinate close to five million children between the ages of 9 months and 14 years during the four-day measles-rubella vaccination campaign, which begins today in a village outside Kigali. All children under age 5 will be vaccinated at Rwanda's health centres and school-aged children will be vaccinated in schools. Community health workers, present in every village, will do their best to ensure no child is missed.
Five other countries - Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Senegal and Viet Nam - are expected to introduce the MR vaccine through vaccination campaigns with GAVI support by the end of 2013.
"One step closer to every child everywhere immunised"
"Investing in rubella will provide a much-needed boost to improving women's and children's health in poor countries. GAVI's support for measles-rubella campaigns will help accelerate global progress in controlling two life-threatening diseases," said Dr Seth Berkley, GAVI Alliance CEO. "Rubella vaccine has been available since the 1970s in many parts of the world. Accelerating the introduction of rubella vaccine in developing countries will spread the benefits of the vaccine to those in most need and build on country efforts to control measles with a cost-effective combined vaccine. It brings us one step closer to ensuring that every child everywhere is fully immunised."
"The introduction of measles-rubella vaccine leads to several critical outcomes for children's health. Infants won't be born with the blindness, deafness and heart defects associated with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), and, through high vaccination coverage, countries can reduce and even eliminate measles, rubella and CRS," said Dr. Susan Reef, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rubella expert and member of the Measles & Rubella Initiative.
The measles-rubella vaccine offers protection against two unrelated diseases which cause some of the same symptoms and are frequently confused with each other. In their common form, both viruses cause a rash and fever. Measles can be deadly for children with poor nutrition and weakened immune systems. The virus still causes about 430 child deaths every day worldwide, mainly in developing countries.
The introduction of measles-rubella vaccine leads to several critical outcomes for children's health. Infants won't be born with the blindness, deafness and heart defects associated with congenital rubella syndrome
Dr. Susan Reef, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rubella expert
Rubella, also known as "German measles", is also very contagious but causes relatively mild disease in children. More than 100,000 children are born with the birth defects, known as Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS), each year - of which 90,000 live in GAVI's eligible countries.
Need for rubella vaccine
Countries' efforts to vaccinate children have reduced measles deaths globally by 71% from 2000-2011, from an estimated 548,000 to 158 000 deaths with support from the M&RI.
As countries reduce measles and improve laboratory identification of the disease, cases of rubella - which in the past may have been mistaken for measles - begin to emerge, demonstrating the need for rubella vaccine.
Rwanda, for example, has reduced measles deaths to zero through high routine immunisation coverage and three measles vaccination campaigns supported by the M&RI.
Safe and cost-effective
GAVI is investing more than US$ 600 million in the fight against measles and rubella through large-scale campaigns. GAVI's financial support for the Rwandan campaign totals close to US$ 7 million, of which US$ 3.5 million is for the vaccines (including syringes and safety boxes) and US$ 3.3 million to cover the campaign's operational costs.
GAVI will also support the introduction of the MR vaccine in Rwanda's routine immunisation programme in January 2014. The MR vaccine is considered safe and cost-effective at around 50 cents per dose - about 25 cents higher than measles vaccine alone.
Africa, highest number of CRS cases
Thanks to widespread vaccination, rubella is no longer the threat it once was in many countries. But for millions of mothers and their children in poorer countries, rubella poses an ongoing danger. Africa and Southeast Asia have the highest number of estimated CRS cases and the lowest uptake of rubella-containing vaccine. The human and economic toll of rubella in those regions is staggering.
"GAVI funding for measles and rubella vaccine campaigns will help countries to rapidly scale up introduction of rubella vaccine, and protect women and children," said Dr. Louis Z. Cooper, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Columbia University and past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics. "In fact, every day of delay means approximately 300 newborn children enter the world with life-altering disability because of rubella infection in pregnancy. With the technical know-how available, we have a chance to make history by eradicating measles and rubella once and for all."
Measles kill an estimated 430 people - mainly young children - every day. In 2000, about 548,000 children died from measles, whose symptoms include a high fever, severe skin rash, and a cough. At least 90% of children must be covered with measles vaccine to protect communities against measles.
The M&RI continues to support country efforts to raise measles and rubella vaccination coverage and plans to financially support 16 measles campaigns in 2013. It will provide technical support to GAVI-funded MR campaigns and introduction of MR into routine vaccination programs.
GAVI is funded by governments [Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States], the European Commission, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as private and corporate partners [Absolute Return for Kids, Anglo American plc., The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Comic Relief, Dutch Postcode Lottery, His Highness Sheikh Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, JP Morgan, "la Caixa" Foundation, LDS Charities and Vodafone].


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Located in the center of Jerusalem, this family-friendly hotel is within a 15-minute walk of St. Andrew's Church and First Station. Jaffa Gate and Western Wall are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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The following is an archive of a post made to our
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by one of its subscribers.
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Hans W. Uhlig wrote:
> I purchased not long ago a new machine to function as
> a mythtivo and finished assembling it this weekend,
> sadly when I dropped in the three bt878a capture cards
> the unit just decides to spit out a greenscreen/static
> across the bus. If I rip out any 2 of the cards
> leaving just one it works fine.
What about leaving two cards in? Does that do anything? Try to place the
two cards in adjacent PCI slots, rather than two PCI slots that are apart
-- that minimizes the IRQ conflicts. IRQ conflicts are generally not a
problem for PCI devices, but it *could* be a problem if you're using two
identical devices.
The other issue is the IO ports. All devices have a limited IO ports that
they can use, and if all the available IO port ranges are used up, then
you'll end up with a conflict. It's entirely possible the device was
designed to use only one range of IO ports (in which case you can't
install multiples of that card in one computer.) To check for this,
install two of the cards, then try probing the PCI devices using `lspci
# lspci -vv
0000:02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt8...
Region 0: Memory at f46fe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
The above is the listing for my BT878 capture card. Make sure none of the
"Region N" listed are same as other devices. If some of them are same,
then you got a conflict, or the card wasn't designed to be installed in
multiples in a single computer.
If installing two cards works, and if the IRQ and the IO ranges conflict,
then try installing the third card. Then work out the IRQ and the IO at
that time, for three card scenario. Take it one step at a time -- two
cards first, then the third.
> Also one other thing to note is while running on one
> card only it spits out these messages periodically
> bttv0: timeout: drop=64 irq=97874/97876,
> risc=1490e07c, bits: HSYNC OFLOW FDSR
> bttv0: reset, reinitialize
I've never seen that on my BT878...
BTW, what program are you using to view the TV signals? What commands?
Make sure you're using /dev/video0 for the first video device, /dev/video1
for the second, and /dev/video2 for the third. (I use `xawtv`, and I type
`xawtv -c /dev/video1` for the second video.)
Also, make sure you're not using the Xv extension on the second and third
instances of the TV signal viewing program, because only one application
is allowed to use Xv at any given time. Most likely you'll have to
explicitely tell the program not to use Xv extension (I use `xawtv`, and I
type `xawtv -noxv` to turn off the Xv extension. To combine with the
above command, you'd type `xawtv -noxv -c /dev/video1` to view the second
TV signal, `xawtv -noxv -c /dev/video2` for the third TV signal.)
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Imagine That … John Lennon a Closet Republican
Duck because leftist/liberal heads are about to explode, and you don't want to get any of it on you ...
John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death - according to the tragic Beatles star's last personal assistant.
Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon's death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the star was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self.
In new documentary Beatles Stories, Seaman tells filmmaker Seth Swirsky Lennon wasn't the peace-loving militant fans thought he was while he was his assistant.
He says, "John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on (Democrat) Jimmy Carter.
"He'd met Reagan back, I think, in the 70s at some sporting event... Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young (peace) demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that... He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me.
"I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who's an old-time communist... He enjoyed really provoking my uncle... Maybe he was being provocative... but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism.
"He was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he'd been when he wrote Imagine. By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy's naivete."
Imagine that ...
Lennon and Reagan were at this Monday Night Football game December of 1974.
In a bit of Instant Karma, John Lennon was shot (assassinated) December 1980, and Pres. Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt in March 1981.
[...] In six wild months during 1980 and 1981, assassins took aim at the pop star, the president, and the pope. It seemed like the chaotic 1960s all over again, save for the fact that its symbol had been gunned down. [...]
His musical comeback owed as much to the comeback of his personal life as it had to his renewed focus on rock 'n' roll to the exclusion of politics and drugs. Politics, Lennon concluded, had "almost ruined" his music. "It became journalism and not poetry. And I basically feel that I'm a poet -- [...]
He came to regret the early 1970s politicization of his art. "That radicalism was phony, really, because it was out of guilt," Lennon recalled a few months before his assassination. "I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots. But being a chameleon, I became whoever I was with. When you stop and think: what the hell was I doing fighting with the American government just because Jerry Rubin couldn't get what he always wanted -- a nice cushy job?"
"Politics plays hell with your poetry," revolutionary John Reed once concluded. Before he died on December 8, 1980, musical revolutionary John Lennon learned that lesson, too.


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The New American Airlines Has ArrivedJuly 01, 2013
The airline's rebrand promises a more tech-savvy, customer-centric experience.
Customer Satisfaction Shifts in Travel and Leisure VerticalJune 19, 2013
Overall customer satisfaction with airlines and restaurants improve, while hotels remain stable according to a new report.
Interactive Ads to Rule Them AllJune 10, 2013
Air New Zealand's click rates soar with help from interactive, dynamic online ads.
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What's in our mailbox this month: Airline emails from Aer Lingus, Alitalia, JetBlue, and United Airlines. Let's fly away.
Not Even a Free Sandwich, Delta? Really?May 28, 2013
Weather may be weather, but customer service is also customer service—and the two shouldn't be mutually exclusive in the airline industry.
For Virgin America, the Sky's the LimitFebruary 07, 2013
Email marketing helps Virgin America's customer satisfaction soar.
Flying the friendlier skiesNovember 21, 2012
Emirates Airlines this week takes off with a tablet-based customer knowledge program aimed at making its service truly first class.
Southwest Airlines: How to fly through turbulenceAugust 07, 2012
Southwest Airlines exemplifies superb damage control by acknowledging duplicate bookings and addressing consumers directly via social media.
Delta Air Lines website treats people like people, not cattleJune 01, 2012
A visit to Delta.com is well worth the trip.
British Airways appoints OgilvyOne to global digital accountMarch 19, 2012
British Airways has appointed OgilvyOne as the lead agency to handle its global digital account.
JetBlue launches iPhone app, redesigns web and mobile sitesFebruary 06, 2012
JetBlue Airways redesigned its website and mobile site, and has also launched an iPhone application, all with the intent of personalizing and simplifying the customer experience, the airline said on Feb. 6.
On the wings of love: An ode to my airlineJune 01, 2011
Forgive me readers, for I have sinned: it's been a long time since my last confession. Actually, this one is rather difficult to get out. A bit embarrassing and — to be honest — I can't really believe I'm saying it out loud. Don't judge me. I think I like my airline. Stop looking at me like that. It's true, and I don't care who knows it.
Marriott and JetBlue launch joint loyalty program initiativeMay 02, 2011
Marriott International and JetBlue Airways launched a joint loyalty program initiative on May 2 that will allow JetBlue TrueBlue members to earn points for staying at any Marriott hotel.
Virgin America's videos elicit laughsMay 01, 2011
Virgin America created a series of videos that consumers can vote for and comment on via online social video forum Squabbler as part of its integrated "Breath of Fresh Airline" campaign. Each viewer who interacts with a video has a chance to win a plane ticket.
Expedia's relaunched rewards program falls short of impressing travel marketersMay 01, 2011
Online travel agency Expedia said in late March that its relaunched rewards program was a game changer for travel consumers because it allowed them to earn points on hotels, flights, packages and activities regardless of which hotel or airline they used.
Airlines still don't get itApril 15, 2011
This is the chart I encountered when trying to figure out how to use existing miles to upgrade to business class on United for a flight to Hawaii this summer. It's a long flight from the East Coast, and we have a lot of miles saved up.
American Airlines, British Airways promote loyalty contest through social mediaApril 13, 2011
American Airlines and British Airways began promoting the "Miles Millionaire" loyalty contest on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on April 12 to acquire new program members. The contest, developed by OgilvyOne, is targeting existing American Airlines AAdvantage and British Airways Executive Club members, as well as prospective members.
Virgin America launches loyalty program for SMBsMarch 16, 2011
Virgin America airline launched a corporate rewards program for small- and medium-sized businesses on March 15. The program, Elevate Inc., is designed to reward companies that spend a minimum of $20,000 per year on travel with the airline.
Spanair taps demographics to deliver holiday surpriseMarch 02, 2011
Spanish airline Spanair surprised nearly 200 passengers on one of its flights from Barcelona to the Canary Islands as part of its "Unexpected Luggage" campaign, developed by Shackleton.
Marketers rethink search engine budgetsMarch 01, 2011
Reid Ichiki, senior manager of Internet marketing at Hawaiian Airlines, says his company uses both Google and the Alliance for search marketing, but spends more with Google.
Southwest revamps Rapid Rewards programJanuary 06, 2011
Southwest Airlines revealed updates to its loyalty program, Rapid Rewards, on January 6, including removing blackout dates and seat restrictions for reward redemptions.
Low-cost carriers earn marketing stripes despite industry challengesDecember 01, 2010
Rising oil prices followed by a brutal recession that saw a plunge in both business and leisure travel threatened the airline industry as a whole over the last few years.
Lufthansa's 'Flavors of India' shows flights to IndiaDecember 01, 2010
Important Indian holidays fall in October and November, so Lufthansa introduced a campaign to celebrate Indian food.
American Airlines redesigns AA.comNovember 16, 2010
American Airlines launched a redesigned version of its AA.com website on November 15, drawing on input from users and internal research.
Chris Rossi, SVP, North America, Virgin AmericaOctober 08, 2010
Chris Rossi talks about Virgin America's latest national campaign
Missed opportunity due to in-flight dramaAugust 20, 2010
I took a cross-country flight this week that had me in and out of San Francisco in 24 hours. The kind of trip that can make any consumer cranky.
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Gadget Reviews – The Toshiba Satellite L755-S5166 that introduced in the first quarter of the year is a budget laptop that offers style and power. Having offers in a price tag under $600, the Toshiba Satellite L755-S5166 gets a Core i3 processor along with a vivid 15.6-inch display and 640GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM as well. The Toshiba Satellite L755-S5166 will be a serious foe against the rivals Acer Aspire 5755-6647, HP Pavilion g6, and Gateway NV55C54u.
In the box, the Toshiba Satellite L755-S5166 is packed with a chassis made of a good mix of components that appear in a stylish brushed aluminum lid. The stylish look makes the Toshiba Satellite L755-S5166 doesn't look that cheap while it is a budget laptop. The dark blue brushed lid that is fingerprint-resistant rests all plastic on the other parts.
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|2.3 GHz Intel Core i3-2350M dual-core processor
(3 MB L3 cache)
|15.6-inch widescreen HD TruBrite LED-backlit display
native HD 720p resolution
(1366 x 768, 16:9 aspect ratio)
|Intel HD Graphics with 64 MB – 1696 MB dynamically allocated shared memory
|4 GB of installed DDR3 RAM
(1333 MHz; 8 GB maximum capacity)
|640 GB Serial ATA hard disk drive
|Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g/n)
|Optical Drive
|8x SuperMulti DVD drive
|Up to 5.75 hours of battery life (6-cell battery)
|Built-in stereo speakers with MaxxAudio LE enhancement
|Touch Pad and Keyboard
|Premium keyboard with 10-keypad
touch pad with multi-touch control
|5.3 pounds
|14.96 x 9.84 x 1.48 inches (WxDxH)
|Connectivity and Ports
|3 total USB 2.0 ports
HDMI,VGA video output (analog, RGB)
Microphone and headphone jacks
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This is effectively complemented with a pre-processing stage including the conventional spectral subtraction procedure and auditory filterbanks. These methods were tested in both speech enhancement and automatic speech recognition tasks. For the first, time-frequency anisotropic structuring elements over grey-scale spectrograms were found to provide a better perceptual quality than isotropic ones, revealing themselves as more appropriate—under a number of perceptual quality estimation measures and several signal-to-noise ratios on the Aurora database—for retaining the structure of speech while removing background noise. For the second, the combination of Spectral Subtraction and auditory-inspired Morphological Filtering was found to improve recognition rates in a noise-contaminated version of the Isolet database. 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Real-time robust automatic speech recognition using compact support vector machines http://hdl.handle.net/10016/15680 Real-time robust automatic speech recognition using compact support vector machines Solera Ureña, R.; García-Moral, Ana I.; Peláez-Moreno, Carmen; Martínez-Ramón, Manel; Díaz-de-María, Fernando In the last years, support vector machines (SVMs) have shown excellent performance in many applications, especially in the presence of noise. In particular, SVMs offer several advantages over artificial neural networks (ANNs) that have attracted the attention of the speech processing community. Nevertheless, their high computational requirements prevent them from being used in practice in automatic speech recognition (ASR), where ANNs have proven to be successful. The high complexity of SVMs in this context arises from the use of huge speech training databases with millions of samples and highly overlapped classes. This paper suggests the use of a weighted least squares (WLS) training procedure that facilitates the possibility of imposing a compact semiparametric model on the SVM, which results in a dramatic complexity reduction. Such a complexity reduction with respect to conventional SVMs, which is between two and three orders of magnitude, allows the proposed hybrid WLS-SVC/HMM system to perform real-time speech decoding on a connected-digit recognition task (SpeechDat Spanish database). The experimental evaluation of the proposed system shows encouraging performance levels in clean and noisy conditions, although further improvements are required to reach the maturity level of current context-dependent HMM based recognizers. 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In-layer multi-buffer framework for rate-controlled scalable video coding http://hdl.handle.net/10016/14353 In-layer multi-buffer framework for rate-controlled scalable video coding Sanz-Rodríguez, Sergio; Díaz-de-María, Fernando Temporal scalability is supported in scalable video coding (SVC) by means of hierarchical prediction structures, where the higher layers can be ignored for frame rate reduction. Nevertheless, this kind of scalability is not totally exploited by the rate control (RC) algorithms since the hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) requirement is only satisfied for the highest frame rate sub-stream of every dependency (spatial or coarse grain scalability) layer. In this paper we propose a novel RC approach that aims to deliver several HRD-compliant temporal resolutions within a particular dependency layer. Instead of using the common SVC encoder configuration consisting of a dependency layer per each temporal resolution, a compact configuration that does not require additional dependency layers for providing different HRD-compliant temporal resolutions is proposed. Specifically, the proposed framework for rate-controlled SVC uses a set of virtual buffers within a dependency layer so that their levels can be simultaneously controlled for overflow and underflow prevention while minimizing the reconstructed video distortion of the corresponding sub-streams. This in-layer multi-buffer approach has been built on top of a baseline H.264/SVC RC algorithm for variable bit rate applications. 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Howdy. Been skulking around these parts for many seasons. Always been the passive observer type when I roam through these sorta places... But it would seem that today I finally got the gumption to post some of my doodles. Yup. ...and hopefully I can keep up with the rest of the techno-sapiens out there by updating this thing regularly. (Rather than what I usually do with my spare time: makin fire with sticks and doodling on rocks with red ochre and animal humors...) Anyway, I hope you find these sketches moderately engaging... Crits and help are encouraged. peace.
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I wouldn't mind having as much as skill as you do someday, haha. Some really creative stuff here. Keep posting please.
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Vietnam's last Javan rhinos
These magnificent animals were widely killed by trophy hunters during colonial times, as agricultural pests, and for their horn, a highly prized commodity in traditional Chinese medicine. This species, hunted to the brink of extinction, is now perhaps the most endangered large mammal in the world.
By the 1960s, the only known refuge for this species was in Ujung Kulon National Park, located on the western-most tip of the island of Java in Indonesia. WWF has worked in Ujung Kulon since 1964, where efforts have helped the park's rhino population grow to between 50-60 animals today.
In the late 1980s, western scientists were surprised to discover Javan rhinos clinging to survival in a small unprotected forest patch in Vietnam. WWF is working to protect this remnant Javan rhino population and its forest habitat.
Cat Tien National Park and the Javan Rhino: Last Refuge for a Lost Animal
Although this species has persisted perilously close to the brink of extinction for the last four decades, the Javan rhino was not always a rare animal. The species once ranged over a vast portion of Southeast Asia, occurring in three distinct subspecies.
Three rhino subspecies
The dominant form (Rhinoceros sondaicus sondaicus) survives only in Ujung Kulon. The subspecies once found in Bengal, Assam, and Myanmar (Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis) is now extinct. The third subspecies (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus) was feared extinct until the 1980's, when a population of less then 10 animals was discovered clinging to survival in an unprotected forest in Vietnam.
In 1992, the 30,635 hectare Cat Loc Rhino Sanctuary was declared to protect the Javan rhinos' forest in Vietnam. In 1998, the Sanctuary was administratively integrated with Cat Tien National Park, improving its legal status, although the original Cat Loc forest remains geographically separated from the rest of Cat Tien National Park by a belt of agricultural land.
Park location
Cat Tien National Park, now one of Vietnam's largest protected areas, is situated on the southern edge of the Annamites, a mountain range that runs north along the borders that Vietnam shares with Cambodia and Lao PDR.
Cat Tien National Park itself overlaps both terrestrial and freshwater Global 200 ecoregions. In 1999, the first known images of Vietnam's Javan Rhinos were captured in camera traps supported by WWF, proving without question that this species was not extinct in Indochina as once believed.
Low population estimates
Censuses conducted in 1998 and 1999 estimated Cat Tien National Park's rhino population to consist of a minimum of 5-6 rhinos and a maximum of 7-9 animals. This number is considerably lower than the population estimates from 1990 and 1993.
Between 1990 and 1998, a string of new settlements within the protected area prevented rhinos from ranging into about 85% of their habitat. Prior to the integration of the Cat Loc area into Cat Tien National Park in 1998, the area received protection by 7 forest guards.
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Since February 1999, an average of 20 forest guards have been deployed in Cat Loc by Vietnamese government authorities. WWF has been supporting these teams with equipment and allowances so that they can better execute their duties and spend more time out on patrol.
The increased presence of park guards benefits a small number of wild Asian elephants and tigers that also live in the park, as well as the many other endangered species that have disappeared from other parts of Asia, but still remain in Cat Tien National Park.
5 facts about Cat Tien National Park
- Spans 73,878 hectares in two contiguous forest blocks: the hilly Cat Loc (30,435 ha.) at the southern edge of Vietnam's central plateau and Nam and Cay Cat Tien (43,443 ha.) further south in the monsoon tropical region.
- Represents both terrestrial and freshwater Global 200 ecoregions for outstanding biodiversity of global significance: Annamite Range Moist Forests and Mekong River.
- Part of the Forests of the Lower Mekong complex - a conglomerate of adjacent ecoregions in Indochina.
- Selected as one of WWF's Asian Rhino and Elephant Action Strategy (AREAS) top priorities for its population of Javan rhinos.
- Provides habitat for other endangered species, including the gaur, tiger, orange-necked partridge, white-winged duck, and Siamese crocodile.


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OCEANSIDE An Oceanside councilman is seeking to repeal the city's ordinance that requires developers of large residential projects to build housing for low-income residents.
Councilman Jerry Kern has asked city staff members to prepare an ordinance to repeal the city's inclusionary housing ordinance. Under the ordinance, developers must either build the lower-income units or pay a fee that the city uses to build affordable housing projects.
The Oceanside City Council will discuss the proposal at 5 p.m. Wednesday at City Council Chambers, 300 North Coast Highway.
Oceanside is believed to be first city in the region to consider eliminating its affordable housing mandate, although at least one city in Northern California, Folsom, repealed a similar law in January. Affordable housing advocates are lining up to challenge Kern's proposal, which they said is shortsighted.
"There are a number of communities doing things short of repeal, such as relaxing portions of their policies, knowing that the market is different, but that it won't always be this way," said Robert Wiener, the executive director of the California Coalition for Rural Housing. The Sacramento-based nonprofit maintains a database of the inclusionary housing programs statewide. "That way, the ordinances are there and you can always reactivate them, but to repeal is like taking to it with a hatchet, while others are using scalpels."
Kern said Thursday that Oceanside's ordinance, adopted in 1991 and last amended in 2000, has not been effective in increasing the city's housing stock and has hindered developers from building market-rate projects during the economic downturn.
In the 20 years since the city adopted the ordinance, it has built 241 affordable units and rehabilitated two apartment complexes and converted them to affordable housing for 50 years. Kern said he favors making the requirements voluntary and offering developers incentives to build the affordable units.
"The direction you are hearing from everyone from (President) Obama, Jerry Brown and everyone is, hey, let's get rid of all these unneeded regulations on the business community," he said. "This is my attempt to get rid of unneeded regulations."
In particular, Kern said he takes issue with the so-called "in-lieu fee," which developers must pay to be relieved of the affordable-housing requirements.
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Even after training by a local professional the dog still jumps and is VERY CAT AGRESSIVE( we had cats befor the dog, and had dogs before without any cat problems!!!)
Boy were we suprised by what we found out..........in out at Renegade Kennels
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There was another thread sometime back. http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/bulletins_read/89539.html#89557
Wow lol you for real? You should not own dogs, period.
BTW even though commonly acceptable age for a dog to go to a new home is 8 weeks, 6.5 or 7 weeks is just as good, most of my dogs I owned I got them at 7 not 8 and had nothing but a good experience with all my dogs. As long as the dog had plenty of time to spend with his littermates and dam, it should not have any negative effect. IMO
My boy is out of a Jerland bitch. I never met Larry and have never been to his kennel so I have no personal experience with him. I can tell you though that Drake has everything I need in a dog. He is a bit oversized but I'm not planning on breeding him so it doesn't much matter. He has a wonderful temperment, adores children of all ages, is protective when he needs to be and friendly if there is no threat. He has good drives and a full bite and the helper at the club I attend loves him. He said more dogs should have a temperment like his. He will bite hard, work hard and lick the helper as soon as he leaves the field. Everybody that meets him falls in love. So, that's my only experience with Jerland dogs. I'm very proud of him and I had to share.


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In a chemical reaction, when reactants are mixed together in a reaction vessel (and heated if needed), the whole of reactants do not get converted into the products. After some time (which may be shorter than millionths of a second or longer than the age of the universe), there will come a point when a fixed amount of reactants will exist in harmony with a fixed amount of products, the amounts of neither changing anymore. This is called chemical equilibrium.
The concept of chemical equilibrium was developed after Berthollet (1803) found that some chemical reactions are reversible. For any reaction such as
to be at equilibrium the rates of the forward and backward (reverse) reactions have to be equal. In this chemical equation with harpoon arrows pointing both ways to indicate equilibrium, A and B are reactant chemical species, S and T are product species, and α, β, σ, and τ are the stoichiometric coefficients of the respective reactants and products. The equilibrium position of a reaction is said to lie far to the right if, at equilibrium, nearly all the reactants are used up and far to the left if hardly any product is formed from the reactants.
Guldberg and Waage (1865), building on Berthollet's ideas, proposed the law of mass action:
where A, B, S and T are active masses and k+ and k− are rate constants. Since forward and backward rates are equal:
and the ratio of the rate constants is also a constant, now known as an equilibrium constant.
By convention the products form the numerator. However, the law of mass action is valid only for concerted one-step reactions that proceed through a single transition state and is not valid in general because rate equations do not, in general, follow the stoichiometry of the reaction as Guldberg and Waage had proposed (see, for example, nucleophilic aliphatic substitution by SN1 or reaction of hydrogen and bromine to form hydrogen bromide). Equality of forward and backward reaction rates, however, is a necessary condition for chemical equilibrium, though it is not sufficient to explain why equilibrium occurs.
Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van 't Hoff equation. Adding a catalyst will affect both the forward reaction and the reverse reaction in the same way and will not have an effect on the equilibrium constant. The catalyst will speed up both reactions thereby increasing the speed at which equilibrium is reached.
Although the macroscopic equilibrium concentrations are constant in time reactions do occur at the molecular level. For example, in the case of ethanoic acid dissolved in water and forming ethanoate and hydronium ions,
Le Chatelier's principle (1884) is a useful principle that gives a qualitative idea of an equilibrium system's response to changes in reaction conditions. If a dynamic equilibrium is disturbed by changing the conditions, the position of equilibrium moves to counteract the change. For example, adding more S from the outside will cause an excess of products, and the system will try to counteract this by increasing the reverse reaction and pushing the equilibrium point backward (though the equilibrium constant will stay the same).
If mineral acid is added to the ethanoic acid mixture, increasing the concentration of hydronium ion, the amount of dissociation must decrease as the reaction is driven to the left in accordance with this principle. This can also be deduced from the equilibrium constant expression for the reaction:
A quantitative version is given by the reaction quotient.
J.W. Gibbs suggested in 1873 that equilibrium is attained when the Gibbs energy of the system is at its minimum value (assuming the reaction is carried out under constant pressure). What this means is that the derivative of the Gibbs energy with respect to reaction coordinate (a measure of the extent of reaction that has occurred, ranging from zero for all reactants to a maximum for all products) vanishes, signalling a stationary point. This derivative is usually called, for certain technical reasons, the Gibbs energy change. This criterion is both necessary and sufficient. If a mixture is not at equilibrium, the liberation of the excess Gibbs energy (or Helmholtz energy at constant volume reactions) is the "driving force" for the composition of the mixture to change until equilibrium is reached. The equilibrium constant can be related to the standard Gibbs energy change for the reaction by the equation
where R is the universal gas constant and T the temperature.
When the reactants are dissolved in a medium of high ionic strength the quotient of activity coefficients may be taken to be constant. In that case the concentration quotient, Kc,
The relationship between the Gibbs energy and the equilibrium constant can be found by considering chemical potentials. The thermodynamic condition for chemical equilibrium is
In this article only the constant pressure case is considered. The constant volume case is important in geochemistry and atmospheric chemistry where pressure variations are significant. Note that, if reactants and products were in standard state (completely pure), then there would be no reversibility and no equilibrium. The mixing of the products and reactants contributes a large entropy (known as entropy of mixing) to states containing equal mixture of products and reactants. The combination of the standard Gibbs energy change and the Gibbs energy of mixing determines the equilibrium state.
In general an equilibrium system is defined by writing an equilibrium equation for the reaction
In order to meet the thermodynamic condition for equilibrium, the Gibbs energy must be stationary, meaning that the derivative of G with respect to reaction coordinate (ΔG) must be zero. It can be shown that ΔG is, in fact, equal to the difference between the chemical potentials of the products and those of the reactants. Therefore, the sum of the Gibbs energies of the reactants must be the equal to the sum of the Gibbs energies of the products.
where μ is in this case a partial molar Gibbs energy, a chemical potential. The chemical potential of a reagent A is a function of the activity, {A} of that reagent.
Substituting expressions like this into the Gibbs energy equation:
which at constant pressure and temperature becomes:
results in:
By substituting the chemical potentials:
the relationship becomes:
At equilibrium and therefore
leading to:
O is the standard molar Gibbs energy change for the reaction and K is the equilibrium constant. Note that activities and equilibrium constants are dimensionless numbers.
The expression for the equilibrium constant can be re-written as the product of a concentration quotient, Kc and an activity coefficient quotient, Γ.
For reactions in the gas phase partial pressure is used in place of concentration and fugacity coefficient in place of activity coefficient. In the real world, for example, when making ammonia in industry, fugacity coefficients must be taken into account. Fugacity, f, is the product of partial pressure and fugacity coefficient. The chemical potential of a species in the gas phase is given by
In aqueous solution, equilibrium constants are usually determined in the presence of an "inert" electrolyte such as sodium nitrate NaNO3 or Potassium perchlorate KClO4. The ionic strength, I, of a solution containing a dissolved salt, X+Y-, is given by
To use a published value of an equilibrium constant in conditions of ionic strength different from the conditions used in its determination, the value should be adjustedSoftware (below).
A mixture may be appear to have no tendency to change, though it is not at equilibrium. For example, a mixture of SO2 and O2 is metastable as there is a kinetic barrier to formation of the product, SO3.
The barrier can be overcome when a catalyst is also present in the mixture as in the contact process, but the catalyst does not affect the equilibrium concentrations.
Likewise, the formation of bicarbonate from carbon dioxide and water is very slow under normal conditions
Applying the general formula for an equilibrium constant to the specific case of ethanoic acid one obtains
where now
a constant factor is incorporated into the equilibrium constant.
A particular case is the self-ionization of water itself
The self-ionization constant of water is defined as
It is perfectly legitimate to write [H+] for the hydronium ion concentration, since the state of solvation of the proton is constant (in dilute solutions) and so does not affect the equilibrium concentrations. Kw varies with variation in ionic strength and/or temperature.
The concentrations of H+ and OH- are not independent quantities. Most commonly [OH-] is replaced by Kw[H+]-1 in equilibrium constant expressions which would otherwise hydroxide.
Solids also do not appear in the equilibrium equation. An example is the Boudouard reaction :
for which the equation (without solid carbon) is written as:
Consider the case of a dibasic acid H2A. When dissolved in water, the mixture will contain H2A, HA- and A2-. This equilibrium can be split into two steps in each of which one proton is liberated.
The effect of changing temperature on an equilibrium constant is given by the van 't Hoff equation
In these applications, terms such as stability constant, formation constant, binding constant, affinity constant, association/dissociation constant are used. In biochemistry, it is common to give units for binding constants, which serve to define the concentration units used when the constant's value was determined.
When the only equilibrium is that of the formation of a 1:1 adduct as the composition of a mixture, there are any number of ways that the composition of a mixture can be calculated. For example, see ICE table for a traditional method of calculating the pH of a solution of a weak acid.
There are three approaches to the general calculation of the composition of a mixture at equilibrium.
In general, the calculations are rather complicated. For instance, in the case of a dibasic acid, H2A dissolved in water the two reactants can be specified as the conjugate base, A2-, and the proton, H+. The following equations of mass-balance could apply equally well to a base such as 1,2-diaminoethane, in which case the base itself is designated as the reactant A:
With TA the total concentration of species A. Note that it is customary to omit the ionic charges when writing and using these equations.
When the equilibrium constants are known and the total concentrations are specified there are two equations in two unknown "free concentrations" [A] and [H]. This follows from the fact that [HA]= β1[A][H], [H2A]= β2[A][H]2 and [OH] = Kw[H]-1
so the concentrations of the "complexes" are calculated from the free concentrations and the equilibrium constants. General expressions applicable to all systems with two reagents, A and B would be
This diagram, for the hydrolysis of the aluminium Lewis acid Al3+aq shows the species concentrations for a 5×10-6M solution of an aluminium salt as a function of pH. Each concentration is shown as a percentage of the total aluminium.
Another common instance where precipitation occurs is when a metal cation interacts with an anionic ligand to form an electrically-neutral complex. If the complex is hydrophopbic, it will precipitate out of water. This occurs with the nickel ion Ni2+ and dimethylglyoxime, (dmgH2): in this case the lattice energy of the solid is not particularly large, but it greatly exceeds the energy of solvation of the molecule Ni(dmgH)2.
At equilibrium, G is at a minimum:
For a closed system, no particles may enter or leave, although they may combine in various ways. The total number of atoms of each element will remain constant. This means that the minimization above must be subjected to the constraints:
where is the number of atoms of element i in molecule j and bi0 is the total number of atoms of element i, which is a constant, since the system is closed. If there are a total of k types of atoms in the system, then there will be k such equations.
This is a standard problem in optimisation, known as constrained minimisation. The most common method of solving it is using the method of Lagrange multipliers, also known as undetermined multipliers (though other methods may be used).
where the are the Lagrange multipliers, one for each element. This allows each of the to be treated independently, and it can be shown using the tools of multivariate calculus that the equilibrium condition is given by
(For proof see Lagrange multipliers)
This is a set of (m+k) equations in (m+k) unknowns (the and the ) and may, therefore, be solved for the equilibrium concentrations as long as the chemical potentials are known as functions of the concentrations at the given temperature and pressure. (See Thermodynamic databases for pure substances).
This method of calculating equilibrium chemical concentrations is useful for systems with a large number of different molecules. The use of k atomic element conservation equations for the mass constraint is straightforward, and replaces the use of the stoichiometric coefficient equations.


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The extremely occasional blog of Colleen Lindsay, professional nerd, cat herder, publishing optimist, and sartorial tragedy.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
David Anthony Durham's Acacia optioned for film!
4 comments:
- S. E. Ward said...
Um, why had I not heard of this book? I was just lamenting this weekend about the lack of pithy, politically oriented fantasy where the bad guys have real power. My library request is already in. Oh, how I love living in a county with a huge library system, never mind a branch a mile from my house. :)
- July 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM
- David Anthony Durham said...
Hey Colleen,
Thanks for spreading the word! Can you believe how long we had to wait for this to become official? This time last year, right? Ah, the memories...
S.E. Ward, I'm afraid Acacia isn't particularly pithy. (I'll work on that quality for future projects.) It does, however, feature bad guys that have all the power. Even when the good guys have the power they're kinda, well, bad in quite a few ways... And even then THEY don't really have the power. They other bad guys - the ones that don't make a show of it - are the ones that have the power... if you know what I mean.
- July 30, 2008 at 7:27 PM
- clindsay said...
David -
Yes, indeed, it has been frustrating sitting on this news for a whole year. :-)
But I get to squee with joy NOW!
::: squeeeeeeeeeeee! :::
- July 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM
- S. E. Ward said...
Ooh! Sounds like my kind of fictional political system. (Please note the "fictional" part, though I'm completely certain it's more realistic than I'd like it to be.) Congratulations on the option! I'll keep my fingers crossed that it actually gets made.
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