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Once on set in his hometown of New York, Rubin tried to mimic his nonfiction techniques. "I really would say I didn't direct the movie. I allowed the actors to be themselves," he said.
He shot in long takes, shot the story in chronological order, didn't follow the script too slavishly, and tried to place his cameras so the actors wouldn't play to a specific place.
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In a way, it's the same in a documentary interview: You want the subjects to relax and open up. "To me, it's all about forgetting about the camera," Rubin said.
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The documentary-to-drama path has been successfully traversed by several directors, including Paul Greengrass, José Padilha, Michael Apted, Kevin Macdonald and Werner Herzog, among others.
Rubin has made dozens of commercials since filming "Disconnect," and isn't sure he's ready to give up advertising. Shooting "Disconnect" "makes me really enjoy making commercials. They are such a delight — these little adventures you get to go on," Rubin said a few hours before heading off to Alaska to work on a new spot. "And the more I make commercials, the more the clients are starting to listen to me."
As naive as Rubin might have been when he started making "Disconnect," he isn't certain he's all that wiser for the experience.
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The Sharks opened up their lead thanks to Gomez and Burish.
Gomez took a soft slap shot from about 45 feet out that hit the crossbar and went in. Schneider appeared to be screened.
Gomez has struggled in recent years and was bought out of his contract by the Montreal Canadiens in the offseason. He was happy to sign a one-year deal with the Sharks for $700,000.
"I'm just enjoying each day now," said Gomez, who has 10 goals in his past 133 NHL games.
Niemi has been San Jose's bright light this season, and he continued his strong play. With Vancouver pressing for the winner late in the third period, he robbed Burrows and Henrik Sedin with nifty pad saves.
He had luck on his side, too, as Jason Garrison hit the post with a minute remaining.
In overtime, the Sharks killed off a two-minute Canucks power play with Gomez in the box for goaltender interference.
"What can you say about Nemo?" Gomez said. "He was definitely the story again tonight."
Vancouver, meanwhile, had plenty of chances to win, but couldn't convert on any of their five dangerous-looking power plays.
It's the sixth straight game the Canucks have failed to score with the man advantage.
"In the third period, they did everything they could but beat the goaltender," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said of the power play. "The looks were there, the opportunities were there, their goalie made the saves."
NOTES: Sharks coach Todd McLellan earned his 206th victory with the Sharks, tying Ron Wilson for the franchise record. ... Stuart lost some teeth while killing a penalty in the third period, and blocked four shots. "He's black and blue with bruises," Burish said. "It looks like he went through a meat grinder." ... The Canucks went 0 for 5 on the man advantage, their sixth straight game without a power play goal. ... F Bracken Kearns, 31, played his first game as a Shark and the sixth of his career. Kearns is the son of former Canucks defenseman Dennis Kearns. Bracken Kearns, who was born in North Vancouver, had zero points in five games with Florida last season. ... Canucks D Keith Ballard was back in the lineup after being a healthy scratch the past two games. He left the game midway through the third period with a lower-body injury. ... Cam Barker also dressed for his second straight game, while Kevin Bieksa (groin) and Andrew Alberts (healthy scratch) did not dress. ... Martin Havlat (lower body), T.J. Galiardi (healthy scratch) and Justin Braun (healthy scratch) did not dress for San Jose.


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She's traveled inside an egg, added skin spikes to her shoulders and worn a dress made of meat, but this look on Lady Gaga may have us more confused than any other.
We can't decide who or what the "Applause" singer resembles most in her black-and-white Balmain separates: a football player in full shoulder pads, an incredibly stylish superhero, or Michael Jackson!
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The giant shoulders on her mohair, mock neck top inspired our NFL look-alike call. Gaga could definitely survive some hits thanks to all that padding. But something about the chest plate style underneath that sweater says undercover crime fighter. We can't exactly see the famous six pack outline that Superman boats, but a giant S (or G in this case!) could definitely fit on that shirt front.
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A lack of trust in Uganda's judicial system and a backlog in its courts likely is fueling an apparent rise in violent mob justice, a human rights commission says in calling for a study.
The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) reports an "unprecedented" jump in anecdotes about mob justice, so it seeks hard data about its incidence and a thorough investigation into its causes. It seeks definitive answers.
Mob justice leads to serious violations of human rights, says Katebalirwe Irumba, a commissioner.
"It is against our constitution and against the laws of this country, especially as it denies the victims of mob justice the opportunity to be taken [through] the due process of law and to be heard," Irumba says.
For instance, at Namuwongo fish market in the capital city of Kampala, vendors laugh and haggle with customers as they scale and chop fresh tilapia. The scene is peaceful enough, but Andrew Wafula, who sells fish, knows this is not always the case.
"Every Tuesday, that is a market day, and people sell things there. Thieves always come, and if they come they steal small things," Wafula says.
An accusation of theft sends the whole market into a murderous rage. Wafula says venders and others will chase a suspect and, "if we catch him, we have to hit him to death. That's the way we do it."
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Wafula gives another reason: a widespread lack of confidence in a justice system that can easily be bought off by a suspect with a little cash to spare.
If a suspect "has his people who have some money, they pay something, very little," Wafula says. "Then they say, 'Instead of taking him to the prison, let's set him free.' If he reaches the hands of police, he will not be punished."
Gerald Abila, a lawyer who works with the poor, says most Ugandans do not see the formal justice system as a realistic way to solve their problems.
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Without any new cases, "using the current systems in place, it would take over 30 years to deal with the cases that are already in the justice system," Aliba says.
The result is that in Uganda, getting caught for a crime such as theft can mean a death sentence - carried out immediately, without a trial.
But even as a market vendor, Wafula says he understands the logic that drives someone to steal: "Demand of school fees, demand of food, demand of everything. He may think that 'If I steal this bike and I sell it, I think I will pay the school fees of my daughter and sons.'"
The UHRC wants to teach the public that mob justice is itself a criminal act. It recommends that police be more rigorous in prosecuting those who attack suspected thieves.
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1) Nvidia optimized -> Biased
2) "And you mean to tell me that a card that scores a 5,000 compared to a card that scores 11,000 means absolutely nothing?" It does mean simething, but it isn't easily quantifiable.
3) "Couldnt hope to resemble gaming scenarios?" Yes. Name three games that use point sprites, for example. And the gaming situations depicted are unrealistic.
It uses maxfx engine, right? Which means unrealistically built 'maps'... Weird polycounts and all. Not to mention that certain level geometries are unobtainable with the mapbuilding techniques that are used. Also, the textures are really lowres (on the environments). Another thing is that there are very few special maps (texture maps) used. No bumpmaps, no refraction maps, etc. Particles play a very little part as well. These are not situations seen in typical games.
4) "I guarantee you the person who scores 11,000 over the person who scores 5,000 will have a better framerate and be able to have higher detail in their, "real world" games. Please, prove me wrong."
Simple. Most feature tests are done exclusively. A pixelshader test has pretty much just the pixel shaders there. The Dot3 test has a handful of polygons, a lightsource or two, and the maps. The pointsprite test has only pointsprites. The vertexshader test uses only the vertex shader engine.
A card may perform EXCELLENTLY on these tests. But in real life scenarios, where any number of the elements of the tests are involved, the card may not do so well.
Lets say I have an Nvidia CorpDanXP 5000+ video card, compared with an ATI SpectralPower Extreme Maxx.
While the CorporalDanXP card, with 120003dmarks, totally owns the Spectralpower card, which has 80003dmarks in the individual tests, the SpectralPower card fares much better under conditions where the elements are mixed because of it's more balanced architecture.
Get the idea? Because the CorporalDanXP card does SO WELL in the individual (let's call them shader) tests, it gets a really high number of 3dmarks. The Spectralpower card, which perfoms fairly badly in the individual shader tests, gets a lower mark.
When entering a game where all the shader techs are mixed, however, the spectralpower card might own the corporaldanxp card.
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- Bacon (optional)
Put a pot of water on to boil, follow the instructions on the packet to cook the whole bag of macaroni.
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It was intriguing to read Michael Brooks's interpretation of how people may have been affected by visiting a temple in pre-Columbian South America (6 September, p 37). He describes being led through a dark, confusing building, where limited light illuminates distorted images, while being bombarded with unearthly music that seems to come from everywhere.
As a regular church-goer and a history graduate who specialised in the study of church architecture, that does not sound much different to a visit to a church.
In medieval western Europe churches and cathedrals were packed with brightly gilded statues (often of martyrs being tortured). Their walls were elaborately painted and their windows filled with stained glass, impairing visibility. A choir chanted, possibly accompanied by an organ, performing music composed so that each note echoed and reverberated around the building. Much of that medieval decoration has been lost, but it survives in Orthodox churches. ...
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Beautiful new bird discovered in Peruvian cloud forest
(08/07/2012) Four years ago in a remote cloud forest in Peru's Cerros del Sira mountain range, three recently graduated students from Cornell University discovered a never-before-recorded species of black, white, and scarlet bird. Now described in the scientific journal, The Auk, the bird has been dubbed the Sira barbet (Capito fitzpatricki).
Peru considers big changes to its environmental reviews
(08/01/2012) The Peruvian government is looking into making large-scale changes to its Environment Impact Assessments (EIA) after a review found significant problems with the vast majority of past reviews, reports the Inter Press Service. The news comes a few weeks after protests over a proposed gold and copper mine in the Andes left five people dead, including a 17-year-old boy.
Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru get big boost in deforestation tracking, biomass measurement
(07/11/2012) Efforts to rapidly and accurately track deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru got a boost this week with a special technical training session organized by the Governors Climate and Forest Task Force. The meeting, convened at Stanford University and Google's Silicon Valley campus, paired staffers from government agencies and NGOs in the four tropical countries with technical experts from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the Carnegie Institution for Science, the Forum on Readiness for REDD, Woods Hole Research Center, and Google Earth Outreach. The participants received training to augment existing deforestation, forest degradation and biomass monitoring capabilities, which are highly variable both between countries and within sub-national agencies and jurisdictions.
Vietnam buys stakes in controversial oil blocks threatening Peru's most vulnerable indigenous people
(07/11/2012) Vietnam's state oil and gas company, PetroVietnam Exploration and Production (PVEP), has announced its intention to acquire a major stake in controversial oil operations in the remote Peruvian Amazon. This area, known as Lot 67, is one of the most biodiverse in the world and home to indigenous people living without regular contact with outsiders, sometimes dubbed 'isolated' or 'uncontacted', who could be decimated by contact with oil company workers because they are highly vulnerable to disease.
Critically Endangered capuchins discovered in four new locations
(07/09/2012) The Ecuadorian capuchin, a Critically Endangered subspecies of the white-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons), has been discovered in four new locations according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science. Found only in Ecuador and northern Peru, the scientists say the monkey may be unique enough to warrant consideration as a distinct species.
Fire risk to increase in the Amazon rainforest
(06/20/2012) The risk of fire could increase across large parts of the Amazon rainforest due to increasing incident of drought, expansion of road networks, and rural outmigration, said a scientist speaking at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Bonito, Brazil.
Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years
(06/19/2012) On May 24th, 2011, forest activist José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, were gunned down in an ambush in the Brazilian state of Pará. A longtime activist, José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva had made a name for himself for openly criticizing illegal logging in the state which is rife with deforestation. The killers even cut off the ears of the da Silvas, a common practice of assassins in Brazil to prove to their employers that they had committed the deed. Less than a year before he was murdered, da Silva warned in a TEDx Talk, "I could get a bullet in my head at any moment...because I denounce the loggers and charcoal producers."
Tropical dams are a false solution to climate change
(05/27/2012) Tropical dams emit considerably more greenhouse gas emissions than their temperate counterparts yet are being treated as a solution to climate change, warns a report published in Nature Climate Change.
Permaculture: a path toward a more sustainable Amazon?
(05/03/2012) Communities living in and around tropical forests remain highly dependent on forest products, including nuts, resins, fruit and vegetables, oils, and medicinal plants. But relatively few of these products have been successfully commercialized in ways that generates sustained local benefits. When commercialization does happen, outsiders or a few well-placed insiders usually see the biggest windfall. Large-scale exploitation can also lead to resource depletion or conversion of forests for monoculture-based production. The ecosystem and local people lose.
Oil company Perenco endangering 'uncontacted' indigenous people, says Peru
(04/25/2012) The company hoping to exploit the oil deposits slated to transform Peru's economy has been declared to be endangering the lives of indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation" by the country's indigenous affairs department (INDEPA). Perenco, an Anglo-French company with headquarters in London and Paris, is currently seeking approval from Peru's Energy Ministry (MEM) to develop its operations in the Loreto region in the north of the country.
Indigenous groups oppose priest pushing for road through uncontacted tribes' land
(04/19/2012) A grassroots indigenous organization in Peru is calling for the removal of an Italian Catholic priest from the remote Amazon in response to his lobbying to build a highway through the country's biggest national park.
U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru's Amazon rainforest
(04/10/2012) The next time you buy wood, you may want to make sure it's not from Peru. According to an in-depth new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), the illegal logging trade is booming in the Peruvian Amazon and much of the wood is being exported to the U.S. Following the labyrinthian trail of illegal logging from the devastated forests of the Peruvian Amazon to the warehouses of the U.S., the EIA identified over 112 shipments of illegally logged cedar and big-leaf mahogany between January 2008 and May 2010. In fact, the group found that over a third (35 percent) of all the shipments of cedar and mahogany from Peru to the U.S. were from illegal sources, a percentage that is likely conservative.
Indigenous groups fight for recognition and illumination in Peru
(03/26/2012) "Shh, wait here," Wilson told me. I ducked down behind the buttress of a large tree to wait. We had been walking through the jungle for a few hours. At first we followed a path through the undergrowth, a wet world of ferns, trunks and lianas speckled with the sunlight that made it down through the canopy and understory, but soon we simply walked along a route Wilson picked out. I had been trying to concentrate on the myriad sounds: cicadas were the background and various small birds tweeted from different points. We were listening and looking for signs that would lead us to prey—perhaps the calm whistle of a perdiz or the scent—marking of a boar—but just before Wilson became excited I had heard nothing. He stopped and said, "Red monkeys," pointing ahead.
3 new private conservation reserves established by communities in Peru
(03/21/2012) Three new private conservation areas in the Amazon-Andes region of Peru will help buffer the country's national park system while offering new opportunities for local people to benefit from protecting ecosystems.
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view from the ground
(03/15/2012) On the back of a partially functioning motorcycle I fly down miles of winding footpath at high-speed through the dense Amazon rainforest, the driver never able to see more than several feet ahead. Myriads of bizarre creatures lie camouflaged amongst the dense vines and lush foliage; flocks of parrots fly overhead in rainbows of color; a moss-covered three-toed sloth dangles from an overhanging branch; a troop of red howler monkeys rumble continuously in the background; leafcutter ants form miles of crawling highways across the forest floor. Even the hot, wet air feels alive.
Amazon plant yields miracle cure for dental pain
(03/14/2012) The world may soon benefit from a plant long-used by indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon for toothaches, eliminating the need for local injections in some cases. Researchers have created a medicinal gel from a plant known commonly as spilanthes extract (Acmella Oleracea), which could become a fully natural alternative to current anesthetics and may even have a wide-range of applications beyond dental care.
Animal photos of the day: the most elusive bird in the world?
(03/12/2012) Few people have ever laid eyes on the Junin rail (Laterallus tuerosi). Located in a single lake in Peru, the well-camouflaged bird hides spends its time deep in marshes to avoid predators. This behavior has also allowed to largely avoid human onlookers, making it one of the world's most difficult birds to observe.
Innovative program seeks to safeguard Peruvian Amazon from impacts of Inter-Oceanic Highway
(03/06/2012) Arbio was begun by Michel Saini and Tatiana Espinosa Q. in the Peruvian Amazon region of Madre de Dios. The project focuses on a protective response to the increased encroachment and destructive land use driven by development. The recent construction of the Inter-Oceanic Highway in the Madre de Dios area presents an enormous threat to forest biodiversity. Arbio provides opportunities to help establish a buffer zone near the road to limit intrusive agricultural and deforestation activities.
Tourism for biodiversity in Tambopata
(02/27/2012) Research and exploration in the Neotropics are extraordinary, life-changing experiences. In the past two decades, a new generation of collaborative projects has emerged throughout Central and South America to provide access to tropical biodiversity. Scientists, local naturalists, guides, students and travelers now have the chance to mingle and share knowledge. Fusion programs offering immersion in tropical biology, travel, ecological field work, and adventure often support local wilderness preservation, inspire and educate visitors.
Photo: new blue, red, yellow lizard discovered in the Andes
(02/13/2012) Researchers have discovered a new species of lizard in the Peruvian Andes, whose males sport beautiful colors, according to a paper in ZooKeys. The highest-dwelling known species of the genus Potamites, the new lizard, dubbed Potamites montanicola, was found in forest streams at 1,500 to 2,000 meters (4,900 to 6,500 feet). The species was discovered as a part of a biodiversity monitoring program by COGA, a Peruvian fossil fuel company.
New rainforest and indigenous reserve established in Peru
(02/07/2012) On February 4th, the Peruvian government and a small indigenous group created a new Amazon reserve, dubbed the Maijuna Reserve. Located in northeastern Peru, the 390,000 hectare (970,000 acres) reserve is larger than California's Yosemite National Park and over three times the size of Hong Kong.
Photo of the day: super-abundance of life found in Amazon park
(02/02/2012) Surveying a little-explored park in the Peruvian Amazon has paid off in dividends: researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have cataloged 365 species that had not yet been recorded in Bahuaja Sonene National Park. The never-before recorded species included two bats, thirty birds, and over two hundred butterflies and moths.
Majority of Andes' biodiversity hotspots remain unprotected
(02/01/2012) Around 80 percent of the Andes' most biodiverse and important ecosystems are unprotected according to a new paper published in the open-access journal BMC Ecology. Looking at a broad range of ecosystems across the Andes in Peru and Bolivia, the study found that 226 endemic species, those found no-where else, were afforded no protection whatsoever. Yet time is running out, as Andean ecosystems are undergoing incredible strain: a combination of climate change and habitat destruction may be pushing many species into ever-shrinking pockets of habitat until they literally have no-where to go.
Group releases close-up photos of 'uncontacted' tribe in Peru
(02/01/2012) New photos provide visual evidence of just how close the long-isolated tribe of Mashco-Piro people in the Amazon rainforest are to being contacted by the outside world—a perilous moment for tribes highly susceptible to disease and likely to defend their people and territory with weapons. According to indigenous rights NGO Survival International, the Maschco-Piro tribe has been seen more frequently outside of their forest home in Manu National Park in recent years. Some experts blame illegal logging in the park and helicopters used in oil and gas projects for the sightings.
Saving the world's biggest river otter
(01/30/2012) Charismatic, vocal, unpredictable, domestic, and playful are all adjectives that aptly describe the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), one of the Amazon's most spectacular big mammals. As its name suggest, this otter is the longest member of the weasel family: from tip of the nose to tail's end the otter can measure 6 feet (1.8 meters) long. Living in closely-knit family groups, sporting a complex range of behavior, and displaying almost human-like capricious moods, the giant river otter has captured a number of researchers and conservationists' hearts, including Dutch conservationist Jessica Groenendijk.
Picture of the day: the world's largest bromeliad
(01/30/2012) Found in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, the world's biggest bromeliad Puya raimondii is imperiled by climate change and human disturbances.
Geology has split the Amazon into two distinct forests
(01/19/2012) The common view of the Amazon is that it is one massive, unbroken forest. This impression is given by maps which tend to mark the Amazon by a large glob of green or even by its single name which doesn't account for regional changes. Of course, scientists have long recognized different ecosystems in the Amazon, most especially related to climate. But a new study in the Journal of Biogeography has uncovered two distinct forest ecosystems, sharply divided, caused by million of years of geologic forces.
Prehistoric Peruvians enjoyed popcorn
(01/18/2012) Researchers have uncovered corncobs dating back at least 3,000 years ago in two ancient mound sites in Peru according to a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The ancient corn remnants, which proved residents were eating both popped corn and corn flour, are the earliest ever discovered in South America and may go back as far as 4,700 BCE (6,700 years ago), over fifteen hundred years before the early Egyptians developed hieroglyphics and while woolly mammoths still roamed parts of the Earth.
Peruvian smugglers traffic illegal rainforest timber from Brazil to America
(01/11/2012) An investigation by Brazil's Federal Police has detailed a significant trade of illegally logged rainforest wood by Peruvian nationals making its way from northern Brazil to the U.S. and Mexico, reports O Globo.
Industrial palm oil production expands at expense of rainforests in Peru
(01/10/2012) Intensive palm oil production is expanding at the expense of biolologically-rich lowland rainforests in the Peruvian Amazon, reports a study published in Environmental Research Letters. The research indicates that enthusiasm for oil palm — one of the world's most lucrative crops — is taking a toll on forests outside of Southeast Asia, where the vast majority of palm oil is produced.
The year in review for rainforests
(12/28/2011) 2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mongabay readily acknowledge there were a number of important temperate and boreal forest developments, including Britain's decision not to privatize its forests and the severe drought in Texas, but this article will cover only tropical forest news.
Peru's Cocha Cashu biological station changes management
(12/08/2011) The San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy is taking over management of the productive Cocha Cashu field station in Manu National Park, Peru. To date, nearly 600 scientific papers have come out of research conducted at the station, making it among the five most productive research stations in the Amazon and Andes. Located in a part of the Amazon rainforest that has seen little human impact, the station was founded in 1969, four years before Manu National Park was gazetted.
Carbon piracy, lack of recognition of indigenous rights undermining REDD in Peru, alleges report
(11/30/2011) Lack of meaningful consultation with indigenous communities over forest carbon projects is causing social conflict and undermining efforts to responsibly reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Peru under the REDD mechanism, argues a new report released during international climate talks in Durban.
Thousands protest giant gold mine in Peru's mountains
(11/29/2011) Fearing water contamination and pollution, over ten thousand people in Cajamarca, Peru are taking part in protests against mining plans by US-company Newmont Mining Corporation. In its sixth day, the growing protests have caused flights in and out of Cajamarca to be cancelled. According to Reuters, police also clashed with protestors today, injuring two dozen.
8 Amazon countries pledge more coordination in rainforest conservation
(11/27/2011) Eight Amazon countries pledged greater cooperation in efforts to protect the world's largest rainforest from deforestation and illegal mining and logging, reports AFP.
Ecotourism isn't bad for wildlife in the Amazon
(11/23/2011) Ecotourism doesn't hurt biodiversity, and in some cases may even safeguard vulnerable areas, concludes a new study from the Amazon in Mammalian Biology. Surveying large mammals in an ecotourism area in Manu National Biosphere, the researchers found that ecotourists had no effect on the animals. However, the researchers warn that not all ecotourism is the same, and some types may, in fact, hurt the very animals tourists come to see.
Brazilian dam-builder quits Peru project after indigenous protest
(11/23/2011) A large Brazilian construction company has pulled out of a Peruvian dam project citing opposition from indigenous communities, reports International Rivers.
Peruvian authorities raid illegal gold mining operations
(11/07/2011) Peru's Defense Ministry destroyed at least 75 illegal dredges and seized 15 vehicles from gold miners operating illegally in one of the most biodiverse parts of the Amazon rainforest.
Peru's real test is a 200km pipeline
(10/27/2011) One of Ollanta Humala's most striking achievements since becoming Peru's president three months ago is new legislation guaranteeing indigenous people the right to be consulted about and in agreement with any project that affects them. Leading indigenous organization AIDESEP, usually so critical of the government, cautiously welcomed the move, while Survival International called it 'a significant step away from the policies of former Peruvian president Alan Garcia, who vetoed a similar bill.'
Picture of the day: bromeliads in a cloud forest
(10/25/2011) These bromeliads of the cloud forests of the Andes are epiphytes. While they grow on other plants, in these cases trees, they are not parasitic.
Breakthrough technology enables 3D mapping of rainforests, tree by tree
(10/24/2011) High above the Amazon rainforest in Peru, a team of scientists and technicians is conducting an ambitious experiment: a biological survey of a never-before-explored tract of remote and inaccessible cloud forest. They are doing so using an advanced system that enables them to map the three-dimensional physical structure of the forest as well as its chemical and optical properties. The scientists hope to determine not only what species may lie below but also how the ecosystem is responding to last year's drought—the worst ever recorded in the Amazon—as well as help Peru develop a better mechanism for monitoring deforestation and degradation.
Isolated indigenous people and tourists collide in Peru park
(10/19/2011) New video released by the Peruvian government shows a potentially disastrous encounter between tourists and indigenous people long isolated from the outside world. In a motor boat tourists follow a group of Mashco-Piro people walking along the shores of the Manu River in Manu National Park. At one point one of the tribal members prepares to fire at the boat with an arrow. But danger doesn't only come from the possibility of a violent clash: uncontacted indigenous people, those who have chosen isolation from the world, are incredibly susceptible to disease.
High gold price triggers rainforest devastation in Peru
(10/11/2011) As the price of gold inches upward on international markets, a dead zone is spreading across the southern Peruvian rain forest. Tourists flying to Manu or Tambopata, the crown jewels of the country's Amazonian parks, get a jarring view of a muddy, cratered moonscape ... and then another ... and another in what the country boasts is its capital of biodiversity. While alluvial gold mining in the Amazon is probably older than the Incas, miners using motorized suction equipment, huge floating dredges and backhoes are plowing through the landscape on an unprecedented scale, leaving treeless scars visible from outer space. Sources close to the Peruvian Environment Ministry say the government is considering declaring an environmental emergency in the region, but emergency measures passed two years ago were not enough to contain the destruction, and some observers doubt that a new decree would have any more impact.
Forest carbon projects rake in $178 million in 2010
(09/29/2011) Investors funneled $178 million into forest carbon projects intended to mitigate global climate change last year, according to a new report by Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace. By trading a record 30.1 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtC02e), the market saw a 48 percent rise over 2009—including a rise in private investors over non-profits as well as greater support for the global program Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD)—shows that the burgeoning market may be beginning to make good on its promise to provide funds to save forests for their ecosystem services with an initial focus on carbon.
Animal picture of the day: chestnut breasted coronet
(09/29/2011) The chestnut-breasted coronet (Boissonneaua matthewsii) is native to the Andean forests of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia.
Indigenous people blockade river against 'murderous' oil company
(09/21/2011) Over the weekend more than 100 Shuar indigenous people, also known as Wampis, blockaded the Morona River in Peru in an effort to stop exploratory oil drilling by Canadian-owned Talisman Energy. The blockade in meant to prevent oil drilling in an area of the Peruvian Amazon known as Block 64, home to four indigenous tribes in total and the Pastaza River Wetland Complex, a Ramsar wetland site.
Peru president signs indigenous rights act into law
(09/07/2011) Peru's new president, Ollanta Humala, has signed into law a measure requiring that indigenous groups are consulted prior to any mining, logging, or oil and gas projects on their land. If properly enforced, the new legislation will give indigenous people free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) over such industrial projects, though the new law does not go so far as to allow local communities a veto over projects. Still, the law puts Peru in line with the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention of 1989, which the South American nation ratified nearly two decades ago.
Picture of the day: where the Andes meets the Amazon rainforest
(09/04/2011) The zone where the Amazon rainforest meets the Andes mountains is the most biodiverse place on Earth. Large amounts of rainfall and altitudinal gradients create a variety of microclimates and niches that are exploited by a wide range of species. The Western Amazon—especially its submontane and montane forests—are also poorly known due to their inaccessibility. Only a few research sites have been studied extensively.
Peru passes landmark indigenous rights legislation
(08/24/2011) A new administration in Peru is moving toward granting indigenous people long-sought legal rights, reports Survival International. Yesterday, the Peruvian congress approved new legislation that gives indigenous people free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) for any project on their land. If signed into law and enforced, the legislation would provide indigenous groups considerable clout in keeping industry off their lands if they choose.
Climate change may fuel increase in warfare, finds study
(08/24/2011) Civil war is twice as likely in tropical countries during particularly hot and dry years, according to a new study in Nature. The researchers found that El Niño conditions, which generally cuts rainfall and raises temperatures in the tropics, may have played a factor in one-fifth of the world's total conflicts during the past 50 years. El Niño conditions occur every 3-7 years. While the study did not examine global climate change in conjunction with conflict, the study links a warmer world to a more conflict-prone one, as least in the tropics.
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History Channel taps ISU professors for Idaho segment
Cable television's History Channel was on the Idaho State University campus Thursday, Sept. 14, to interview two ISU history professors for a program on the Gem State's past that will likely be aired in spring 2007.
ISU history department associate professor Dr. Laura Woodworth-Ney and assistant professor Dr. Kevin Marsh were interviewed for about an hour each by Nicola Farris, producer for the History Channel's 10-part series "The States." The series is scheduled to be aired in April. The series will have information on the history of all 50 of the United States. The segment on Idaho will appear in the seventh episode of the series.
Knox, Howell take new posts at ISU in Idaho Falls
Dr. John Knox will serve as dean of academic programs for Idaho State University programs in Idaho Falls, announced Dr. Robert Wharton, ISU vice president of academic affairs.
Knox has been at ISU for more than 20 years. He served the last two years as interim dean for the ISU Graduate School. Prior to that, Knox was chair of the physics department for six years. (more…)
Pocatello Pump to mark 25th year at Sept. 16–17 competition
Idaho State University's Pocatello Pump rock-climbing competition is celebrating its 25th year on Sept. 16 and 17 on the basalt cliffs of Pocatello's Ross Park.
"Pocatello Pump, in its 25th year, is the longest-running climbing competition in America," said Peter Joyce, Pump director and ISU outdoor recreation coordinator. "I attribute its success to the fun the staff has putting it on, as well as the fun the climbers have participating in it."
The Pump will run from 8 a.m. to early afternoon Saturday, Sept. 16. The Pump takes most of the afternoon off so participants can take advantage of the CW HOG Pig Out Dutch oven dinner adjacent to the climbing area.
Climbing resumes Sunday, Sept. 17, at 7 a.m. The awards ceremony is at 6 p.m.
World's fastest climber to speak at ISU Sept. 15
Hans Florine, "the world's fastest climber," will give a multimedia presentation about his light and fast climbing adventures on the big rock walls of Yosemite at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, in the Idaho State University Pond Student Union Building Ballroom.
His presentation is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the ISU Outdoor Adventure Center and is presented in conjunction with the 25th Pocatello Pump bouldering competition running Sept. 16 and 17 at Ross Park in Pocatello.
Florine is an international rock-climbing champion, a three-time ESPN X Games Champion, and seven-time National Champion. He holds numerous speed-climbing records in Yosemite National Park and around the world. One of his more notable achievements is climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National park in two hours and forty eight minutes. Hans wrote the book, literally, on "Speed Climbing," available from Chockstone Books. (more…)
Museum slates exhibit of Pocatello artist's wildlife works
The Idaho Museum of Natural History will present an exhibition of the late Edson Fichter's wildlife art, which will open on Sept. 8 in the museum's seasonal gallery. A well-known Pocatello artist and biologist, Fichter was a wildlife illustrator, photographer and writer. (more…)


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The atomic mass unit (amu) is an older name for the same thing (unified atomic mass unit, dalton, or universal mass unit).
In biochemistry and molecular biology, when talking about proteins, the term "kiloDalton" is used, with the symbol kDa. Because proteins are large molecules, their masses are in kiloDaltons, where one kiloDalton is 1000 daltons.
The unified atomic mass unit, or Dalton, is not an SI unit of mass, but it is accepted for use with SI under either name.
The unit is convenient because one hydrogen atom has a mass of approximately 1 u, and more generally an atom or molecule that contains n protons and neutrons will have a mass approximately equal to n u. (The reason is that a atom contains 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons, with the protons and neutrons having about the same mass and the electron mass being negligible in comparison.The mass of the electron is approximately 1/1836 of the mass of the proton.) This is an approximation, since it does not account for the mass contained in the binding energy of an atom's nucleus; this binding energy mass is not a fixed fraction of an atom's total mass. The differences which result from nuclear binding are generally less than , however. Chemical element masses, as expressed in u, would therefore all be close to whole number values (within 2% and usually within 1%) were it not for the fact that atomic weights of chemical elements are averaged values of the various stable isotope masses in the abundances which they naturally occur. For example, chlorine has an atomic weight of because it is composed of 76% and 24% ().
Another reason the unit is used is that it is experimentally much easier and more precise to compare masses of atoms and molecules (determine relative masses) than to measure their absolute masses. Masses are compared with a mass spectrometer (see below).
Avogadro's number (NA) and the mole are defined so that one mole of a substance with atomic or molecular mass will have a mass of precisely . For example, the molecular mass of a water molecule containing one isotope and two isotopes is , and this means that one mole of this monoisotopic water has a mass of . Water and most molecules consist of a mixture of molecular masses due to naturally occurring isotopes. For this reason these sort of comparisons are more meaningful and practical using molar masses which are generally expressed in g/mol, not u. In other words the one-to-one relationship between daltons and g/mol is true but in order to be used accurately for any practical purpose any calculations must be with isotopically pure substances or involve much more complicated statistical averaging of multiple isotopic compositions.
Before 1961, the physical atomic mass unit (amu) was defined as of the mass of one atom of oxygen-16, while the chemical atomic mass unit (amu) was defined as of the average mass of an oxygen atom (taking the natural abundance of the different oxygen isotopes into account). Both units are slightly smaller than the unified atomic mass unit, which was adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in 1960 and by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1961. Hence, before 1961 physicists as well as chemists used the symbol amu for their respective (and slightly different) atomic mass units. One still sometimes finds this usage in the scientific literature today. However, the accepted standard is now the unified atomic mass unit (symbol u), with: 1 u = 1.000 317 9 amu (physical scale) = 1.000 043 amu (chemical scale). Since 1961, by definition the unified atomic mass unit is equal to one-twelfth of the mass of a carbon-12 atom.


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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is responsible for the slow process of corruption cases in courts due to lack of evidence, Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court Abuja has said.
Speaking at a meeting with the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Human Rights yesterday, Bello said the EFCC is delaying corruption cases because it struggles to gather evidence only after making an arrest.
"They bring a case with 153 charges, we will use the whole sitting to read the charges without them even providing a proof of evidence. When next they appear in court, they seek to amend the charges and then adjournment.
"They cannot even pursue their cases with all seriousness. They arrest people and then begin to look for evidence. They rush to the court without necessary evidence."
On the issue of establishing special court to try EFCC cases, Bello said that won't be necessary. "If the EFCC is clamouring for a special court, that will be a waste because the judges will end up redundant."
The judge made case for increase of justices of the High Court from 70 to 100 to ease administration of justice.
Bello argued that when the number is increased "we can dedicate certain number of judges to EFCC cases."
The Senate Committee chaired by Senator Umaru Dahiru (PDP, Sokoto) has requested the High Court to furnish it with the cost of maintaining a single judge per year to help it decide on the amendment bill.
The High Court registrar had told the committee that the cost of maintaining a single judge aside salary and allowances includes about N7 million for a latest model of Toyota Camry and another N5 million for a utility Hilux Van.


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Posted 25 March 2012 - 10:07
Something moronic Neowin does for links. Thanks I read about no-ip
Did you try no ip? I would give you the link but eveytime I try to post it the post says <<<spam>>> for some reason..
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Posted 25 March 2012 - 10:33
No, he's talking about updating a DNS server to point at a dynamic IP address.
Useful for making a domain name for home connections
I'm still using DynDNS because I'm OLD Works great, but that's not much help for you :\
Posted 25 March 2012 - 10:38
Well I think DynDNS has just a free trial for 14 days. I perfer something free "premanent"
Static IP, No-IP and others (unfortunately not many routers have native clients) or I believe that you can sign up for trial using credit card, and then you can choose to change Trial to Free.
No, Im talking about having a DNS updated my FQDN with my dynamic IP.
are you talking about options like:
google's public DNS ? 22.214.171.124, 22.214.171.124
Or openDNS ?
Yeah Shame they went the paying route.
No, he's talking about updating a DNS server to point at a dynamic IP address.
Useful for making a domain name for home connections
I'm still using DynDNS because I'm OLD Works great, but that's not much help for you :\
"Check in" what sense? I have to send them a email or something?
aaahhh OK, thanks
no-ip has a free pkg but you have to "check in" every 30 days via email
Posted 25 March 2012 - 11:15
I think they send you an email every 30 days, and you have to simply click on a link to verify you are still actively using their free stuff.
DD-WRT might be able to do it automatically
That's how mine works, 30 days and I get an email, except I installed the "DynUpdater" client on my server, so it just does it for me >.<
I have no idea if it's still available. Not going to let mine lapse in that case


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Date posted: April 19, 2013
The immediate reply on the Opinion page by The Press was stunning to me. While my "opinion article" was critical of some events at the Sheridan Junior College, the thrust was that we need information on a proposed bond issue before we can be asked to be in favor of it and that to date no information has been given. How can a newspaper that has stood for open meeting information criticize a request for information on a bond proposal? I guess open information is only important when the editor deems it important. In my opinion, the editorial was little more than a propaganda piece: no facts, no cost numbers, it is good for you, stand behind it, and do not ask questions.
The Press argued, "local companies say they could hire every graduate of those programs." ("Those" being machine tool technology, diesel and welding mechanics). Not only is this a complete exaggeration, I have not found anyone at Sheridan College to back it up. How many ads for employment have been run in The Sheridan Press in the past year for a machinist?
The Sheridan College Board of Trustees are elected representatives. They need to step-up and inform their constituents about the proposed bond election. I believe they should be providing us with information about cost, need and building size. Before the election, the Board should hold a public forum at the college to field additional questions from the public. Rather than The Sheridan Press telling us what to support, I believe our elected Trustees should be providing us with information so we can make an informed decision.
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