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LOS ANGELES (October 16, 2012)--"Extra" host Mario Lopez and "Keeping Up with Kardashians" co-star Khloe Kardashian Odom will host the second season of the Fox talent competition.
The network said Tuesday that Lopez and Odom will first appear as hosts during the show's live broadcasts beginning in November.
"X Factor" judge and executive producer Simon Cowell called Tuesday's announcement "the worst kept secret in Hollywood."
British television personality Steve Jones served as the show's host for the first season.
The addition of Lopez and Kardashian is the latest shift for the underperforming singing content.
Britney Spears and Demi Lovato joined Cowell and L.A. Reid on the "X Factor" judging panel for the second season.
The pair replaced Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger.
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Tangi one the three Rothschild's giraffes brought to the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) in 2009 for conservation education purposes and breeding has died.
By the time she died, she was responding to her name and would turn round when summoned by animal keepers to be fed.
"She was the most bold and reliable for the new feeding program at UWEC. She will be dearly missed by the entire UWEC family and visitors," said UWEC spokesperson Belinda Atim in a somber tone.
According to Atim, "Tangi was the first giraffe to respond favorably to training for the newly introduced 'giraffe feeding program' and was the most popular. She was fed by the World Tourism Organisation president, minister of tourism Maria Mutagamba and several prominent people during their visits here."
On June 8, Tangi was found lying lifeless in her exhibit by her care-givers. It was earlier observed that not to be passing stool and showed signs stomach ache. There was a rapid response by the UWEC veterinary team and she was not considered to be in mortal danger. Following some recovery Tangi's improved feeding habits was evidence of health improvement and increased energy level.
"Finding her dead is perplexing," wondered Atim.
The findings of a post-mortem have it that the carcass was in normal state except for an abnormal mass found in the wall of the small intestine, which oozed out pus upon incision. Except the lining of the small intestine which an abnormal large amount of blood and had wounds.
Consequently, the large intestine was bloated with gas, heavily distended and torn. There was evident disturbance of intestinal contents to the point of obstruction.
The mass growth led to gradual intestinal obstruction, sudden a high level of bacterial growth due to retention of excreta that led to sudden death. Biological samples have been collected and submitted to the Central Diagnostic Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Makerere University to ascertain the origin of the gross mass.
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I was talking to the feller of my youth leaders wife. He said over 75% of horse owners do not have the colic decision made already.
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If the vet gets there and the horse has already done something bad enough to have surgery, BUT. The horse only had a 20% chance of surviving the surgery. What would you do?
He said that when most vets come in that kinda situation people do not have the decision made already. He said the vet he talked to said he's actually had to make the people make the decision because they kept prolonging it and then would change there mind.
I am trying to save up for an emergency like this but I unlike others, do not have my horses insured so I would be paying out of my own pocket. If my horse had a 20% survival rate that they would even pull through the surgery. I think I would go for it if money was there for it. Or even if I had to pay it off I think I'd still do it. Now if I were to talk to the vet and the vet gave me incite and advice on what to do. I trust my vet so..
BTW... I have a small question. My girls were moved to new pasture tonight until the gelding I am training goes home next Saturday. They are usually on hay 24/7 and grass when ever they want it. But it has never been this much grass. I've asked the people on the property that there at if they'd check on them at least once before they went to bed, I aim to go and check on them first thing in the morning too. Could they colic from this? Or will they be okay? (I'm actually worried about it... These are my girly girls. There family.).


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The Butterfield stage and pony express system ran along what is now El Camino Real. In 1905, a group of Carmelite nuns built a monastery and dairy in the area changing its name again. The area was agricultural and devoted to horse farms until the mid-1970s.
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CHERRY HILL — With 85 percent of those answering a recent poll vowing to return to the shore this summer post-Sandy, the question lingers: What will vacationers find during the upcoming summer season?
As with most answers involving real estate, the answer involves location.
No matter where you go from Cape May to Long Beach Island, Gov. Chris Christie�s vow to have the shore �open for business� by Memorial Day will partially be met. Clearing debris from the water and restoring beaches will go be ongoing through the season.
State contracts call for clearing 75 percent of the debris from waterways by June 1, according to Larry Hajna, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection. But the removal job is enormous, slow and tedious.
A grapple on a barge scoops up floating and sunken debris washed into waterways, piles it on the deck of the barge, hauls it to land for removal then returns to the dredge site to begin anew.
As of Sunday, from the New York state border to the Navesink River below Red Bank, 1,280 cubic yards of debris had been removed. From the Navesink to the northern half of the Barnegat Bay, an additional 6,336 cubic yards has come out, and from the lower Barnegat Bay to Cape May, 1,795 cubic yards were retrieved, according to Hajna.
The debris has included cars, sunken boats, and lots and lots of wood -- especially bulkheads and docks.
Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Steve Rochette said dredging to restore the 6-foot depth and 100-foot breadth of the Intracoastal Waterway will not start until June 1 and will continue through the end of the year.
Dredging locations will include the Cape May Ferry terminal, Cape May Harbor, Avalon, Stone Harbor, Brigantine and Oyster Creek near the nuclear plant in Ocean County.
�We�ve had some shoals, but it is better than we expected,� said Rochette.
Beach repair and restoration will be ongoing through the summer, according to Rochette, and will include locations in Surf City, Harvey Cedars, Brant Beach, Atlantic City, Ventnor, Ocean City, Stone Harbor and Cape May city. That means one-to-two block sections of beaches in each of these communities will close as restoration work proceeds over the summer.
Beach restoration work is already done on Brigantine, Avalon and the Cape May Meadows, though it is possible dredgers will return for final work in those locations, Rochette added.
Other parts of Long Beach Island and from the Great Egg Harbor, which is midway through Ocean City, to Sea Isle, likely need restoration work, too, but that will not happen this year because of budget issues, Rochelle said.
To keep track of exactly where and when beach restoration work is taking place as it progresses, Rochette suggests following the Philadelphia District Corps of Engineers website.
According to the Army Corps, all sand pumped onto beaches this season will be double-filtered to prevent a repeat of a 2007 incident when unused munitions were found on the beaches of LBI following a replenishment project. That corps project shut down beaches as the sand was strained to remove unexploded ordnance.
Jim Vogel of Beach Haven said most of the beaches he�s seen on LBI �look good, but thin.� He said most of the debris is gone from island beaches.
From Atlantic City south to Cape May, the infrastructure supporting the summer tourist season will generally be much the same as ever, with some small exceptions. But Long Beach Island took a harder hit and is coming back more slowly.
Damage on LBI varies by municipality, from less than 1 percent of the housing stock in Barnegat Light at the north end, to 46 percent of the housing stock in Ship Bottom, the hardest-hit community on the island.
�It will be a different world for a while,� said Vogel, whose wife was for years the mayor of the small town. He counted at least nine empty storefronts that will not reopen this year.
Many real estate agents have little business, said Vogel, because so few undamaged homes are available for rent.
Damage to infrastructure is even greater north of LBI in coastal Monmouth County, with 60 percent of the housing stock in Seaside Heights damaged.
Some homeowners are still coping with the issue of raising buildings to exceed new height requirements -- or razing damaged buildings that make no economic sense to elevate. Vogel said would-be renters for LBI and Monmouth County are �heading south.�
According to a New York Times story last week, a Cape May City real estate broker said her rental business is up an astounding 42 percent due to the migration of tourists. The weekly housing rental market is critical to the shore tourist economy: Rental homes fuel more than half -- $22 billion -- of the state�s $40 billion visitors market.
From Atlantic City to Cape May, boardwalks, promenades and amusement rides survived largely unscathed. And while some homes and businesses in that sweep of beaches were damaged, many have been repaired.
Most businesses should be open by Memorial Day weekend and most homes ready for owners and renters in June. But there are exceptions, especially at the northern end of that zone.


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Tennessee firm manages rehab and renting for hundreds of homes
Tennessee firm manages rehab and renting for hundreds of homes
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In a number of cities, especially those hard hit by the recession, investor groups have swooped in, buying up hundreds of REO properties as quickly as they can be located. To some observers, this appears to be problematic, because the new owners won't be living in those houses and renters can destabilize a neighborhood.
Then there is the issue of whether investors are simply being predatory, stealing away these busted residences before anyone else might consider a purchase because they have raised the capital and pretty much can call the shots.
I'm not going to say the critics are wrong, but I will make the case that investor groups are doing a service to the lenders by putting the homes back into private ownership. They are resurrecting neighborhoods, because when investors purchase they reinvest in the homes (some of which have been trashed), making them market-ready.
There is a third argument in favor of the investors. Thousands of contractors who have lost their jobs or are suffering reduced income because of the collapse of the homebuilding industry are being employed by home investors, as there is millions of dollars in rehab work to be done.
To illustrate this last point, I'm going to spotlight just one investment company that, through a tremendous amount of contractual business, has become a major economic stabilizer in its local marketplace.
Memphis Invest GP is, as the name implies, a Memphis, Tenn.-based real estate investment company. It's also one of the largest, if not the largest, companies involved in what is sometimes called the "turnkey model" of investment in single-family residences.
What that means is, the company buys single-family homes, rehabs the properties, finds long-term renters, manages the rental program, and then sells that home-plus-rental package to individual investors.
In other words, investors who want to own single-family homes but don't want to bother with the hassle of being a landlord will turn to companies like Memphis Invest.
"They buy a passive investment from us," said Chris Clothier, a principal and head of sales and marketing. "The investors will realize some appreciation, but this is much more about purchasing at such a price point that the rents not only allow the property to be paid down, but earn a cash flow, basically a dividend on the investment."
In 2009, Memphis Invest acquired 221 properties locally; in 2010, 196 properties; and last year, 317 single-family residences.
The average cost to renovate all the acquisitions now stands at $16,700, and that includes new flooring, painting, fixtures, updating the electrical, and replacing or upgrading all systems -- furnaces, water heaters, air conditioning coils and blowers.
"This year we replaced more roofs than at any time in the past," Clothier said.
That's a lot of work and because Memphis Invest has only four project managers and no on-site workers, it outsources all that work -- and that's a lot of money flowing through to small businesses.
In 2010, the combination of maintenance costs for acquired homes and rehab expenses for new purchases came to $4 million. In 2011, the company spent $774,000 on maintenance for about 1,000 units, while the rehab expenses for more than 300 acquisitions came to $5.35 million.
In 2011, Memphis Invest handed out paychecks to 80 different contractors, mostly mom-and-pop shops, although Clothier noted that "about 45 contractors are really the stalwarts that we do business with all the time."
Some of Clothier's stories are heartwarming. "One gentleman that used to rent from us had lost his job and was looking for work as a handyman," Clothier said. "He said to us, 'I've got a truck, I've got a trailer and I'm willing to work.' We used him to do cleanups and trash-outs, paying him $10,000 on the renovation side and $28,000 from the property management side."
Almost 50 percent of Memphis Invest's contractors are minority firms. And, with so much work needed, some contractors are making major money. One locksmith did more than $140,000 in business with the company. Even that pales with a heating and air conditioning contractor that billed more than $450,000 with Memphis Invest.
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Xavier McCray will be introduced as the 15th head football coach in Cypress Lake High School history with a special reception Friday morning. McCray, 39, was among 26 applicants for the position and one of the 10 interviewed finalists before he received an offer.
"He really showed us a sense of discipline that is very important to us," Panthers athletic director David Wasson said.
"His playing resume showed that he knew the game and clearly understood the high school dynamic. The combination of the three was very attractive to us."
McCray, a 1996 national championship winning linebacker from the University of Florida, used his skills learned under head coach Steve Spurrier and defensive coordinator Bob Stoops to begin his coaching career with MacArthur North Alternative School in Miami-Dade County. He served as head coach of the Eagles for two years before returning to his high school alma mater - Carol City - to coach the defensive backs for three seasons.
"We hope he changes the way Cypress Lake athletics are viewed by community, by our alumni and by our school," Wasson added.
"We have high hopes for his coaching and leadership abilities and expect success across the board. We firmly believe that he will deliver that to the Panther family."
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? Estero 6, Lehigh 5 (From Tues.): Zeke Pietryzk, Jason Moore and Terrell Chapman all hit home runs for the Wildcats (5-0).
? Cypress Lake 4, Immokalee 2: Kevin Wigielnik kept the Panthers' perfect 7-0 record intact by hitting a game winning two-run home run. Josh Winkowski hurled four no-hit innings in relief and struck out six.
? South Fort Myers 20, East Lee 0: Calvin Duncan went 3-for-3 with a double, triple and five RBI in the game Tuesday. Kenny Vuzenius also had three hits for South (3-2).
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State Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski's proposal to form two new school districts is absurd. Rockland County already has an excessive number of school districts.
Mr. Zebrowski needs a history lesson. The Kiryas Joel school district represents state-funded religious private education, supported by our current governor's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo. The opposition fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it won. The battle took years, but to no avail. Gov. Pataki and political hacks who supported the district, and yes, its bloc vote, rewrote the law so it could continue. The resentment and history of the battle has been a a case of legal study for years and continues today.
Creating two new school districts from East Ramapo would condone the segregated district that already exists, and funnel even more public school funds into the private school community. If you're a middle class family like mine, your kids are still neglected and your tax dollars are stretched even more, because you've removed one huge tax base, taken all the best physically fit buildings and assigned them to yeshivas, and left us with the poorest segment of the population.
The only thing to do is dismantle East Ramapo. You can't fix it by increasing the bureaucracy and giving the private school community complete autonomy with public money over their own district. The diverse population should be reallocated throughout Rockland, not separated.
Taxpayers in East Ramapo and throughout Rockland County, must start holding these politicians accountable for their failures and incredibly shortsighted proposals.
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The electoral college needs to be changed so that states can split their votes. The way it works now only about 12 states even matter.
Poor Democrats, grasping at straws as they watch the President's numbers plummet. If the trend continues, the President will be behind by 20 points by election day.
I live in a state (Mass.) where as a Republican, my vote in the Presidential election never counts. Clearly the same can be said for a Democrat who lives in a Republican stronghold. Time for this arcane system to be replaced with one that counts every vote.
Romney faces a near electoral college impossibility. The victory will be wider than all the pundits are telling you.
George W. Bush won decisively in Al Gore's home state TN. That took the oxygen out of the Democrats even before contesting the FL count. Mitt Romney by not even contesting his beloved MA that he talks so much about in the debates is already where Gore was on election night. If the home state can't elect Mitt then the man does not deserve the WH.
Look at the world today, complex and volatile. But, the original aim. There is a certain world economic slump, China will not have a drastic move, be able to keep the economy must grow by 5% -6 7% burn incense, mainly limited infrastructure, trace amounts of domestic demand to promote industrialization and urbanization transition The pulling effect; However, the transformation of economic development mode, and deep-seated structural adjustment is far from complete. The anachronistic pulling will bring high inflation, to the contrary, the unemployment rate will be rising dramatically, as the real estate bubble, triggering social unrest, economic crisis and political crisis. On the economic level, the action, but not a miracle effect. Dead end, so all over the world, China's infrastructure only slightly to twelve, the other would be a distant dream. Political only in the existing level, minor changes in, in order to cope with internal and external pressures, for example, the pressure of political reform at home and abroad, the traditional political beliefs within the party party members continue to Mourn the Death, the New Left and the traditional conservative counterattack disturbance army reformist difficult walking in back, a huge conversion of structural reform of the state-owned economy, hundreds of millions of farmers, migrant workers urbanization, industrialization and modernization, the harmony, the disparity between the rich and the poor of the diplomatic field expansion, the United States. Europe, Russia, Japan, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, etc. contain counter contradictory intertwined. Fortunately, decades have finally reached trillions of dollars in foreign exchange, made a fortune by Europe, the United States and Russia and Japan, Otherwise, today is still suppressed, poor and white not have clout, thanks to the selfless assistance of Europe, the U.S. and Japan before China to profit greatly. Today to die, the old methods have been failures, Europe and the United States and Japan-Russia India and Pakistan and so came to their senses. Political reform, basically marking time, there will not be any major moves. As for the Chinese director of the world's economic miracle drama song has the best people scattered, difficult to continue on this big stage gleefully enjoy the performances of the old tune over and over. 18 worth mentioning, the 19th largest operator, regardless of who is in power, glory and miracles is quite tough. History there is no simple repetition. Home and abroad optimists and pessimists only standing on the sidelines, bystander, gamesters.
Imagine just how depressing to try to trumpet the genius of American democracy to students and then having to explain the electoral college. No matter how one tries to explain the history of the whole thing, students just end up shrugging and saying our democracy is ... a word common to teens. The electoral college is the most embarrassing part of the American political system and its usefulness is long dead.
I really enjoyed Obama's joke that "voters in states such as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin will soon be deciding the next President of the United States..." That pretty much summed it up. As a citizen of a pointless state, I barely even bother to watch the process any longer. What's the point?
California passed a law in 2010 throwing the electoral votes to the national popular vote winner. I think people have forgotten this. It assures a Romney win if he gets the popular vote
@anderew - And, your point is?
I had to look up that CA law referenced above as I didn't believe it at first. Wow, it's actually true. I can't believe Gov Moonbeam would sign such a law here in the most liberal state in the country where the electoral votes always go to the Democrat candidate. Imagine if Romney wins the popular vote and CA has to give its 52 electoral votes to him ensuring his victory. The ultra-liberals' heads in the land of fruits and nuts would explode in shock and dismay lol!
If we get rid of the electoral college in this tide of "one person one vote" sentiment will that include the Senate as well? Seems like some small states have undue influence in the legislative process by having two senators represent a fraction of the population of California or Texas. That seems like as much or more of a distortion to me.
Choice A : Donkey commies blindly redistributing the American Dream.
Choice B : Republican Bible-thumpers reconstructing Jesus-land.
Damn, what's a rational centrist to do?
(prof.anderew is political ELIZA)
(eSPo - hey bud, click the tab "Maps" at the top of this page and your delusion evaporates)
Truth is, the "popular vote" is a media myth. We don't have a national voting population but a representative republic of 50+democracies. This is as true today as it was in 2000. Politicians and media outlets, now including the WSJ, should stop propping this straw man up and represent reality to the people.
If BHO wins Ohio, NV and Iowa, but Mitt wins CO, WI and NH, Mitt will win or tie 269-269.
Your electoral math is wrong.
At this late date there is no seminal event that is going to move the Electoral Votes away from Obama. With Iowa and Ohio Obama will get at least 270. Look at Ohio for instance. 40 polls since April, and Romney has won twice by a margin of point. That's a trend. Iowa last 20 polls Romney has won 4 times. So don't count on a sudden change of heart in either state since early voting has taken place in both states, and they heavily favor Obama. Those votes are in the bag. Romney may yet win the popular vote, but this election reminds me of 2004 in reverse. Bushe won the popular vote by about 2%, and Ohio by 1%.
California passed a law in 2010 throwing the electoral votes to the national popular vote winner? This is absolutely false. This was something that was talked about, but never legislated.
The law to which some bloggers refer to, says that whoever wins the popular vote in California, gets the electoral votes, not the entire country.
Just to clarify in 2011 The Electoral College Reform Act ballot initiative (10-0024), was approved for signatures to get on the 2012 California ballot. It never made it to the California ballot, not enough signatures. This same initiative was tried by the GOP in 2008 also. It also failed. Nothing has changed in the amount of electoral votes given to the winer of California. it's winner take all.
Anderew. Stop taking LSD when you write.
Hey Edward Larson. You need to read more than just one poll. In the poll of polls on RCP Obama is actually leading in the popular vote. Boo hoo.
i vote Obama
Robert, Bob - did you really believe that California would pass a law that "gave away" it's electoral votes to the other 49 states?
I sure hope you guys don't vote...Seriously...
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A successful Division I debut for Cody Boutte and a Ryan Leonards walk-off single led the UL Ragin' Cajuns baseball team to a doubleheader sweep of Central Michigan here Saturday at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field.
Boutte limited the Chippewas to four hits over four innings - three of the hits came in the fourth inning - and kept CMU from a three-run inning in the fourth inning to make the three runs produced in the Cajuns first two at bats stand in a 5-3 game one victory.
In the nightcap, it was a heart-stopping finish in the ninth inning as the two squads combined for seven runs.
Two Cajuns errors led to three CMU runs and a 4-1 advantage. Louisiana battled back in the bottom half of the frame as the first four hitters reached base, then the Cajuns scored three runs with two outs capped off by Leonards' walk-off single that resulted in a 5-4 triumph.
With the sweep, UL (3-0) locked up the series victory over Central Michigan (0-3) and registered the first 3-0 start since the 2010 campaign.
Head coach Tony Robichaux moved within three wins of 900 career victories as a Division I head coach, collecting win No. 897 with the dramatic finish (now 897-616-1 in 27th season).
The Cajuns and Chippewas conclude their season-opening series on Sunday at 11 a.m. Louisiana is scheduled to send left-handed pitcher Ryan Wilson to the mound to face CMU lefty Rick Dodridge.
Leonards and Tyler Girouard each had three-hit performances in the doubleheader. Girouard homered in the second inning of the opener for UL's first home run of the season.
Matt Hicks collected a save and a victory after finishing off the final two innings in the opener and being the pitcher of record when the Cajuns mounted the ninth inning rally in game two.
In the first game, Boutte, a native of nearby New Iberia who pitched LSU-Eunice to a junior college national championship last season, zipped through the CMU lineup the first three innings allowing just one hit and hanging zeros on the scoreboard.
His teammates gave him an early lead. A Jace Conrad double in the bottom of the first led to an RBI ground out from Michael Strentz and a Chase Compton double followed adding a second run.
Girouard led off the Cajuns half of the second inning with a solo home run down the right field line upping the lead to 3-0.
Three consecutive singles by the Chippewas in the fourth inning had Boutte in his first - and only - jam of the day. He induced a sacrifice fly and an RBI groundout to minimize the damage and finished off his pitch-count limited appearance by striking out Randon Henika.
The Cajuns would plate insurance runs on a strange play in the sixth inning that resulted in Chase Compton driving home two runs on a sacrifice fly ball to the warning track in left center field for a 5-2 lead. But the story the rest of the way was the relief pitching of Nick Zaunbrecher and Hicks which led to Boutte being victorious in his UL debut.
Zaunbrecher collected three strikeouts in the fifth inning, another pair in the sixth inning and induced a double play ball in the seventh inning to preserve the three-run lead.
A Hicks strikeout with two runners on and no outs in the eighth inning resulted in Cody Leichman being picked off first base and quickly there were two outs. A Zack Fields RBI double brought CMU within two runs (5-3), but Hicks induced ground outs from four of the next five Chippewas he faced to notch the save. Zaunbrecher and Hicks combined to limit CMU to one run off six hits over five innings after Boutte reached his pitch limit.
For all but one inning of the nightcap, the contest belonged to the two pitching staffs and cold temperatures began to settle in.
Austin Robichaux and CMU's Jordan Foley battled for five innings with six hits scattered between the two of them. The lone run was scored by CMU when the visitors strung together four consecutive one-out singles off of Robichaux in the third inning.
Foley, who held Louisiana to three hits over his first six innings of work, fell victim to Cajuns' two-out magic - something that would become a factor in the ninth inning. Girouard singled through the left side, then scored when a shallow fly ball from Wilson landed in front of and then bounced past CMU left fielder Tom Lally resulting in an RBI triple which tied the contest.
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Circassia Plans $285 Million IPO to Fund Allergy Vaccines
Circassia Holdings Ltd., a U.K. biotechnology company developing allergy vaccines, plans to raise about 175 million pounds ($285 million) in an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.
Circassia will use the money to pay for late-stage tests on vaccines for ragweed, grass and house dust mite allergies, and to build a sales force, said Steven Harris, chief executive officer of the Oxford, England-based company. Its Cat-SPIRE vaccine for cat allergies is undergoing final-stage tests in people and the company expects results in 2016.
"We now have a very late-stage pipeline," Harris said in a telephone interview. "What we're looking to do is to set up a direct sales force in the U.S. and in key markets in Europe."
The offering will represent one of the biggest biopharmaceutical IPOs in the U.K. and is larger than any 2013 fundraisings by U.S. biotechnology companies, Circassia said in a statement. The previous largest U.K. biotech IPO in London in the past 25 years was that of Oxford Glycosciences Plc, which went public in 2000 in a 115 million-pound share offering, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"Circassia is now set to test the U.K. market's appetite for larger biotech IPOs and we shall see if the London market shows the same enthusiasm for biotech floats as is seen currently in the U.S.," Robin Davison, an analyst at Edison Investment Research, said in an e-mailed statement.
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The number of shares and their price won't be determined for two to three weeks, Harris said. The transaction will probably close in March, according to the company.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the global coordinator and joint bookrunner with Peel Hunt LLP, while Canaccord Genuity Ltd. and Shore Capital Stockbrokers Ltd. are co-managing the offering, according to the statement.
Circassia has raised 105 million pounds since it was founded in 2006, Harris said. Investors include Invesco Perpetual, Imperial Innovations Group Plc and Lansdowne Partners.
Shares of Imperial Innovations rose 4.6 percent, the most in a month, to close at 400 pence in London today. The volume of shares traded was almost six times the three-month daily average.
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Imperial Innovations, which invests in startups spawned by U.K. universities, owns 19.7 percent of Circassia, the largest holding in its portfolio. Imperial carries Circassia on its books at 45 million pounds, suggesting a "pre-money valuation" of at least 230 million pounds for the company, Davison said.
As of 2011, an estimated 400 million people around the world suffered from allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, which the vaccines are intended to treat, the company said, citing World Health Organization figures. The condition is characterized by swelling, itching, sneezing and watery eyes. Current treatments include antihistamine tablets and nasal steroid sprays.
The global market for prescription antihistamines to combat allergies was estimated at $6.8 billion in 2012 by IMS Health Holdings Inc., a Danbury, Connecticut-based health-care information-technology company.
"This listing creates an excellent opportunity to build a leading U.K.-based biopharmaceutical company which is addressing a substantial and growing international market," Russ Cummings, CEO of Imperial Innovations, said in a statement.
Circassia's technology is based on research that Mark Larche and A. Barry Kay did at Imperial College London in the 1990s. The ToleroMune T-cell vaccine they developed uses short sequences of amino acids, known as epitopes and drawn from the allergic substance, to try to build immune-system tolerance and shut down allergic response.


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Ed Braswell is CEO of Edo Interactive, which helps retailers offer special deals to customers through bank cards. / Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean
Edo Interactive, a Nashville and Chicago-based marketing technology company, raised $4 million in new funding, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The capital raise included convertible debt and warrants and came from Baird Capital, California-based Vantage Point Capital Partners and Nashville firms FCA Venture Partners and First Avenue Partners.
Edo also raised $15 million earlier this year; overall, the company has raised more than $55 million since being founded in 2007.
Edo, led and founded by CEO Ed Braswell, allows brands to make personalized offers to consumers through credit cards, debit cards and mobile devices and provides those brands with insights into consumer spending habits.
The company has offices in New York and Atlanta and works with major retail companies, including Whole Foods Market, The Body Shop and Crate & Barrel.


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Ford says it's recalling nearly 800,000 pickups and SUV's because they could catch fire.
The problem is with the cruise control switch, which could short circuit and cause a fire under the hood.
The recall covers 792,000 Ford F-150 pickups, Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators from the 2000 model year as well as 2001 model year F-Series Supercrew trucks.
Ford is sending letters to owners to have their dealers deactivate the cruise control switch at no cost. Once the company has enough replacement switches, it will send another letter telling owners to have the switches replaced.
Federal safety officials say they received 36 reports of fires, all of which happened when the vehicles were parked and the ignition was off.
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Assessing Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE aerosol climatology using satellite and ground-based measurements: A comparison study
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A physically based aerosol climatology is important to address questions of global climate change. We evaluate the aerosol climatology used in the GISS ModelE (Schmidt et al., 2006), by characterizing and comparing the geographic distribution and seasonal variability of aerosol optical depth (AOD) and particle size via Angstrom exponent (A) against available satellite and ground-based measurements, i.e., MODIS, MISR, POLDER, AVHRR, and AERONET data. There are a number of model parameters, particularly those related to aerosol size specification, that can be better constrained by comparison to satellite data. Our comparison shows that there are large differences in the satellite and ground-based global distributions of AOD. The differences between the observations increase for the Angstrom exponent. Given the uncertainties associated with satellite retrieval results, the agreement in the distributions of global optical depth between GCM aerosols and satellite data is qualitatively reasonable. However, the Angstrom exponent of the GCM aerosol is clearly biased low compared to satellite data, implying that the GCM aerosol sizes are overestimated. There is qualitative agreement of the ModelE aerosol single scattering albedo pi with TOMS Aerosol Index (AI) and AERONET data. The comparisons show insufficient aerosol absorption at most locations, suggesting a possible underestimation of black carbon distributions in the GCM. However, a more quantitative comparison first requires a readjustment of the GCM aerosol size specification.
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Farmers' annual activities are not tracking the speed of climate change
Menzel, A Von Vopelius, J Estrella, N Schleip, C Dose, V
Global climate change impacts are already tracked in many physical and biological systems and they reveal a consistent picture of changes, e.g. an earlier onset of spring events in mid and higher latitudes and a lengthening of the plant growing season. However, available results are mainly based on the study of wild plants, whereas only a few studies have hinted at an earlier spring onset for agricultural plants. So far, no comprehensive study has compared phenological shifts between agricultural crops, fruit trees and wild plants. We analysed phenological time series of 93 phases in Germany (1951-2004) employing Bayesian nonparametric function estimation, and found that events related to the production of annual crops clearly differ from spring and summer events in wild plants and fruit trees. While non-farmer driven agricultural events and spring and summer growth stages of wild plants and fruit trees advanced (i.e. occurred earlier) by 4.4 to 7.1 d decade(-1), farming indicators, such as sowing and subsequent emergence of spring and winter crops, as well as harvesting, advanced by only 2.1 d decade(-1). The estimated functional behaviour and emergence of discontinuous changes are clearly different between the 2 groups. We conclude that phenological responses to temperature changes are only reflected in data of wild plants, fruit trees and those spring growth stages of winter crops and later growth stages of spring crops which are exclusively triggered by climate, while other changes due to agricultural production are subject to management practice alterations.
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Determination of forest growth trends in Komi Republic (northwestern Russia): combination of tree-ring analysis and remote sensing data
Lopatin, E Kolstrom, T Spiecker, H
It is very important to detect changes in forest productivity due to the global change on a large scale. In this work, the evolution of the vegetation in the Komi Republic (northwestern Russia) from 1982 to 2001 was analyzed using NOAA AVHRR PAL time series. A statistically significant correlation (adjusted r(2) = 0.44-0.59) between Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data and tree ring width (261 living trees) was identified for the territory of the Komi Republic. The increased site productivity reflected an increase of integrated NDVI values from June to August. This allows NDVI to be used as a proxy for estimation of forest growth trends for the recent decades. A positive and significant trend in NDVI data was identified from 1982 to 2001, coinciding with an increase in site productivity in the study area. The decrease in precipitations coincided with an increase in site productivity (highest r(2) was 0.71). The increase in productivity reflected in NDVI data is maximal on the sites with increased temperature and decreased precipitations. In the Komi Republic the distribution of the trends in NDVI data changes on the south-west to north-east gradient. NDVI data could be used to increase spatial resolution of tree ring width series. Taking into account the relatively small role of human activity in the Komi Republic compared with Europe, the site productivity during recent decades also increased in relatively untouched forests.
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Eastern Pacific cooling and Atlantic overturning circulation during the last deglaciation
Kienast, M Kienast, SS Calvert, SE Eglinton, TI Mollenhauer, G Francois, R Mix, AC
Surface ocean conditions in the equatorial Pacific Ocean could hold the clue to whether millennial-scale global climate change during glacial times was initiated through tropical ocean - atmosphere feedbacks or by changes in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation(1). North Atlantic cold periods during Heinrich events and millennial-scale cold events (stadials) have been linked with climatic changes in the tropical Atlantic Ocean and South America(2-4), as well as the Indian and East Asian monsoon systems(5,6), but not with tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures(7). Here we present a high-resolution record of sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific derived from alkenone unsaturation measurements. Our data show a temperature drop of 1 degrees C, synchronous ( within dating uncertainties) with the shutdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during Heinrich event 1, and a smaller temperature drop of 0.5 degrees C synchronous with the smaller reduction in the overturning circulation during the Younger Dryas event. Both cold events coincide with maxima in surface ocean productivity as inferred from Th-230-normalized carbon burial fluxes, suggesting increased upwelling at the time. From the concurrence of equatorial Pacific cooling with the two North Atlantic cold periods during deglaciation, we conclude that these millennial-scale climate changes were probably driven by a reorganization of the oceans' thermohaline circulation, although possibly amplified by tropical ocean - atmosphere interaction as suggested before(8).
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Predicted climate change alters the indirect effect of predators on an ecosystem process
Lensing, JR Wise, DH
Changes in rainfall predicted to occur with global climate change will likely alter rates of leaf-litter decomposition through direct effects on primary decomposers. In a field experiment replicated at two sites, we show that altered rainfall may also change how cascading trophic interactions initiated by arthropod predators in the leaf litter indirectly influence litter decomposition. On the drier site there was no interaction between rainfall and the indirect effect of predators on decomposition. In contrast, on the moister site spiders accelerated the disappearance rate of deciduous leaf litter under low rainfall, but had no, or possibly a negative, indirect effect under high rainfall. Thus, changes resulting from the more intense hydrological cycle expected to occur with climate change will likely influence how predators indirectly affect an essential ecosystem process.
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Relationship between climate, pollen concentrations of Ambrosia and medical consultations for allergic rhinitis in Montreal, 1994-2002
Breton, MC Garneau, M Fortier, I Guay, F Louis, J
The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of meteorological factors on Ambrosia pollen concentrations and its impact on medical consultations for allergic rhinitis of residents from various socio-economic levels in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) between 1994 and 2002. The study was conducted to recognize the sensitivity of pollen productivity to daily climate variability in order to estimate the consequences on human health vulnerability in the context of global climate change. Information related to medical consultations for allergic rhinitis due to pollen comes from the Quebec Health Insurance Board (Regie de l'assurance-maladie du Quebec). Ambrosia pollen concentration was measured by the Aerobiology Research Laboratories (Nepean, Ontario). Daily temperature (maximum, minimum, and mean) and precipitation data were obtained from the Meteorological Service of Canada. Socio-economic data come from the 1996 and 2001 census data of Statistics Canada. Between 1994 and 2002, during the Ambrosia pollen season, 7667 consultations for allergic rhinitis due to pollen were recorded. We found a significant association between the number of medical consultations and pollen levels. Significant associations were detected for over-consultation the day of exposure, 1, 2, 3 and 5 days after exposure to high levels of pollen. The consultation rate is higher from low-income residents (3.10 consultations per 10,000 inhabitants) than for high-income (1.65 consultations per 10,000 inhabitants). Considering the demonstrated impact of pollen levels on health, it has become critical to ensure adequate monitoring of Ambrosia and its meteorological sensivity in the context of the anticipated climate change and its potential consequences on human health. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Adverse high temperature effects on pollen viability, seed-set, seed yield and harvest index of grain-sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] are more severe at elevated carbon dioxide due to higher tissue temperatures
Prasad, PVV Boote, KJ Allen, LH
Global climate change, especially, increases in carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and the associated increases in temperature will have significant impact on the crop production. Grain-sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] cultivar DeKalb 28E was grown at daytime maximum/nighttime minimum temperature regimes of 32/22, 36/26, 40/30 and 44/34 degrees C at ambient (350 mu mol CO2 mol(-1)) and elevated (700 mu mol CO2 mol(-1)) CO2 from emergence to maturity in controlled environments to quantify the effects of temperature and CO2 on the reproductive processes and yield. Growth temperatures of 40/30 and 44/34 degrees C inhibited particle emergence. Growth temperatures >= 36/26 degrees C significantly decreased pollen production, pollen viability, seed-set, seed yield and harvest index when compared to 32/22 degrees C. Percentage decreases in pollen viability, seed-set, seed yield and harvest index due to elevated temperature were greater at elevated CO2 when compared with ambient CO2. Elevated CO2 increased seed yield (26%) at 32/22 degrees C, but decreased seed yield (10%) at 36/26 degrees C. At high temperatures, elevated CO2 increased vegetative growth but not seed yield, thus, leading to decreased harvest index. We conclude that the adverse effects of elevated temperature on reproductive processes and yield of grain-sorghum were more severe at elevated CO2 than at ambient CO2; and the beneficial effects of elevated CO2 decreased with increasing temperature. The adverse temperature sensitivity of reproductive processes and yield at elevated CO2 was attributed to higher canopy foliage and seed temperatures. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Aquatic plants diversity in arid zones of Northwest China: patterns, threats and conservation
Li, ZQ Yu, D Xiong, W Wang, D
We investigated aquatic plant diversity by conducting the field investigation and collecting the published data in the arid regions of Northwest China. Two hundred and twenty four taxa of vascular aquatic plants representing 64 genera and 34 families occur in this area, 8.48% of which are endemic. Among these, 1 genus and 6 species were new state records and 1 family, 9 genera and 29 species were new area records. Typhaceae, Potamogetonaceae, Juncaginaceae and Haloragaceae were the most frequent families (considering relative frequency of occurrence), whereas Cyperaceae, Potamogetonaceae and Ranuncnlaceae are the most species-rich. The most frequent genera were Typha, Potamogeton, and Triglochin, and the most species-rich were Potamogeton, Eleocharis and Scirpus. The most frequent species are Triglochin palustre, Myriophyllum spicatum, Potamogeton pectinatus and Typha angustifolia. Aquatic plants diversity is distributed unevenly in the region. The maximum species occurs in Dzungarian basin while the least species in Hexi corridor. The aquatic flora in arid zone of China is not distinctive although some endemic species are found, most species are widely distributed. Local aquatic plants diversity can be influenced by many factors such as hydrological alteration, habitat loss, over-grazing, high human population pressure, global climate change, an inappropriate economic development policy. Among them, the largest threat to aquatic plants biodiversity may be habitat loss due to hydrological alteration. In order to conserve the aquatic plants biological resources and biodiversity in this region, some strategies and measures must be suggested including strengthening scientific research and biodiversity education in the local people, balancing economic development and ecological conservation, and enhancing governmental assistance and subsidy to the local residents.
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Ecological niche modelling and prioritizing areas for species reintroductions
Martinez-Meyer, E Peterson, AT Servin, JI Kiff, LF
Species reintroduction programmes, in prioritizing areas for reintroductions, have traditionally used tools that include measures of habitat suitability and evaluations of area requirements for viable populations. Here we add two tools to this approach: evaluation of ecological requirements of species and evaluation of future suitability for species facing changing climates. We demonstrate this approach with two species for which reintroduction programmes are in the planning stages in Mexico: California condor Gymnogyps californianns and Mexican wolf Canis lupus baileyi. For the condor, we identify three areas clustered in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California; for the wolf, we identify a string of suitable sites along the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico. We discuss the limitations of this approach, identifying ways in which the models illustrated could be made more realistic and directly useful to reintroduction programmes.
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Integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records for the Australian Last Glacial Maximum and Termination: a contribution from the OZ INTIMATE group
Turney, CSM Haberle, S Fink, D Kershaw, AP Barbetti, M Barrows, TT Black, M Cohen, T Correge, T Hesse, PP Hua, Q Johnston, R Morgan, V Moss, P Nanson, G Van Ommen, T Rule, S Williams, NJ Zhao, JX D'Costa, D Feng, YX Gagan, MK Mooney, S Xia, Q
The degree to which Southern Hemisphere climatic changes during the end of the last glacial period and early Holocene (30-8 ka) were influenced or initiated by events occurring in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere is a complex issue. There is conflicting evidence for the degree of hemispheric 'teleconnection' and an unresolved debate as to the principle forcing mechanism(s). The available hypotheses are difficult to test robustly, however, because the few detailed palaeoclimatic records in the Southern Hemisphere are widely dispersed and lack duplication. Here we present climatic and environmental reconstructions from across Australia, a key region of the Southern Hemisphere because of the range of environments it covers and the potentially important role regional atmospheric and oceanic controls play in global climate change. We identify a general scheme of events for the end of the last glacial period and early Holocene but a detailed reconstruction proved problematic. Significant progress in climate quantification and geochronological control is now urgently required to robustly investigate change through this period. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Soil carbon turnover in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Barrett, JE Virginia, RA Parsons, AN Wall, DH
Terrestrial ecosystems of the Antarctic Dry Valleys are among the most inhospitable soil environments on Earth due to climate and substrate limitations over biota. These ecosystems present a challenge to understanding controls over carbon (C) cycling because likely sources of organic matter are 10(2)-10(4) yrs old and in situ soil respiration is typically less than 1.0 mu mol CO2 m(-2) s(-1). In this paper we describe an analytical approach to characterize kinetic pools of labile and recalcitrant soil C, and estimate C turnover in dry valley soils based upon these descriptions. Rate parameters for C turnover were derived from laboratory incubations conducted under a range of soil moistures and temperatures. We developed a C flux and reservoir model using these rate parameters along with published estimates of internal C transformations in soil microbial ecosystems, and a previously described primary production (NPP) model for Antarctic endolithic communities. We found that decomposition in 120 d incubations was well described by double-exponential rate kinetics, and that temperature, moisture and substrate availability significantly influenced observed rates of soil respiration. Simulations of soil C cycling based upon these parameters produced initially high rates of soil respiration following inputs of external organic matter, with mean residence times for C of 10-60 yrs. Soil organic C content equilibrated at 44-140% of observed levels within 1000 yrs. Simulations of equilibrium C were sensitive to NPP, microbial efficiency (Y), and the distribution of C inputs into labile and passive pools, indicating that more thorough investigation of microbial influence over the C cycle in dry valley soils is necessary. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Technology options for capturing CO2
Elwell, LC Grant, WS
Concerns about global climate change have prompted interest in reducing or eliminating the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of fossil fuel-fired power plants. Here's a guide to the technology and economics of three CO2 capture methods: postcombustion separation Of CO2 from flue gas (applicable to existing plants), and oxygen-fired combustion and precombustion capture (suitable for new coal-fired capacity, including IGCC plants).
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Lichen flora around the Korean Antarctic Scientific Station, King George Island, Antarctic
Kim, JH Ahn, IY Hong, SG Andreev, M Lim, KM Oh, MJ Koh, YJ Hur, JS
As part of the long-term monitoring projects on Antarctic terrestrial vegetation in relation to global climate change, a lichen floristical survey was conducted around the Korean Antarctic Station (King Sejong Station), which is located on Barton Peninsula, King George Island, in January and February of 2006. Two hundred and twenty-five lichen specimens were collected and sixty-two lichen species in 38 genera were identified by morphological characteristics, chemical constituents, TLC analysis and ITS nucleotide sequence analysis.
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European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern
Menzel, A Sparks, TH Estrella, N Koch, E Aasa, A Ahas, R Alm-Kubler, K Bissolli, P Braslavska, O Briede, A Chmielewski, FM Crepinsek, Z Curnel, Y Dahl, A Defila, C Donnelly, A Filella, Y Jatcza, K Mage, F Mestre, A Nordli, O Penuelas, J Pirinen, P Remisova, V Scheifinger, H Striz, M Susnik, A Van Vliet, AJH Wielgolaski, FE Zach, S Zust, A
Global climate change impacts can already be tracked in many physical and biological systems; in particular, terrestrial ecosystems provide a consistent picture of observed changes. One of the preferred indicators is phenology, the science of natural recurring events, as their recorded dates provide a high-temporal resolution of ongoing changes. Thus, numerous analyses have demonstrated an earlier onset of spring events for mid and higher latitudes and a lengthening of the growing season. However, published single-site or single-species studies are particularly open to suspicion of being biased towards predominantly reporting climate change-induced impacts. No comprehensive study or meta-analysis has so far examined the possible lack of evidence for changes or shifts at sites where no temperature change is observed. We used an enormous systematic phenological network data set of more than 125 000 observational series of 542 plant and 19 animal species in 21 European countries (1971-2000). Our results showed that 78% of all leafing, flowering and fruiting records advanced (30% significantly) and only 3% were significantly delayed, whereas the signal of leaf colouring/fall is ambiguous. We conclude that previously published results of phenological changes were not biased by reporting or publication predisposition: the average advance of spring/summer was 2.5 days decade(-1) in Europe. Our analysis of 254 mean national time series undoubtedly demonstrates that species' phenology is responsive to temperature of the preceding months (mean advance of spring/summer by 2.5 days degrees C-1, delay of leaf colouring and fall by 1.0 day degrees C-1). The pattern of observed change in spring efficiently matches measured national warming across 19 European countries (correlation coefficient r=-0.69, P < 0.001).
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The northern geographic range limit of the intertidal limpet Collisella scabra: a test of performance, recruitment, and temperature hypotheses
Gilman, SE
A decline in abundance towards a species' range boundary is often interpreted as evidence of a decline in individual success, and is usually assumed to reflect a decline in suitable environmental conditions. Gradual declines towards high latitude range boundaries are frequently attributed to limitations on organismal tolerance of cold temperature. Rarely have these two assumptions been empirically tested. The intertidal gastropod Collisella scabra declines monotonically in abundance from 435 to < 1 m(-2) over the northern 300 km of its geographic distribution. I examined temperature, adult performance (survival, growth, reproduction), and recruitment at five locations in this region of decline. Mortality ranged from 4.9 to 11.2% per month, but was highest at the lowest latitude study site. Growth rates ranged from 0 to 5.2 mm yr(-1), but were generally lower at lower latitude sites. Gonad development was high in the three populations examined, but the possibility of infrequent spawning at high latitude sites could not be excluded. Finally, a comparison of performance differences among populations with temperature revealed clear effects of temperature on both growth and mortality; however, the patterns were not consistent with a hypothesis of cold stress at the range boundary. Overall there was little evidence for either reduced performance or increasing cold stress in low density high latitude populations. Over the same 300 km, recruitment declined monotonically from a mean of six recruits per 625 cm(2) to less than one; suggesting that limitations on recruitment, rather that adult performance, are responsible for low abundance in marginal populations. Several hypotheses for the decline in recruitment are discussed in the paper and the most likely explanation appears to be an increase in the distance between populations at the range margin, reducing the chances that dispersing larvae find suitable habitat for settlement.
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Seasonal resource availability and use by an endangered tropical mycophagous marsupial
Abell, SE Gadek, PA Pearce, CA Congdon, BC
This study highlights the importance of considering how seasonality of rainfall affects availability of resources and consequently species distributions within tropical ecosystems. The endangered northern bettong, Bettongia tropica Wakefield is thought to be restricted to habitats where seasonal availability of hypogeous fungi, their principal food resource, remains high. To test this hypothesis fungal abundance was quantified in the early wet, late wet, early dry and late dry seasons within known bettong habitat. A relationship was found between precipitation and fungal availability, with the abundance of hypogeous fungi being significantly lower in the late dry season. Fungal availability correlated strongly with the seasonal rainfall pattern determined from 74-year monthly means. This contrasts with a previous study where mycophagy, measured by faecal analysis, remained high across seasons presumably because of aseasonal rainfall during that study period. Alloteropsis semialata R.Br. (cockatoo grass) use by bettongs increased significantly during the period of low fungal availability. This suggests that the importance of cockatoo grass as an alternative food resource during annual and extended dry periods has previously been underestimated. With the frequency and intensity of drought expected to increase with global climate change, these findings have significant implications for bettong management. The important and possibly equivalent dependence of B. tropica on both hypogeous fungi and A. semialata helps to explain their habitat preference and identifies this species as a true ecotonal specialist. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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The PACE monitoring strategy: A concept for permafrost research in Qinghai-Tibet
King, L Herz, T Hartmann, H Hof, R Jiang, T Ke, C Wei, Z Liu, J Yi, C
Permafrost has been identified as one of six cryospheric indicators for global climate change within the monitoring framework of the World Meteorological Organisations Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Vast areas of the Tibetan Plateau are underlain by predominantly warm permafrost, which is actually degrading due to a rise in mean surface temperatures caused by global warming. Because of the important role of surface temperature variations on the Tibetan Plateau for the onset and characteristic of the monsoon circulation over south-east Asia, it becomes evident that a consistent climate monitoring strategy in the region is urgently required. As permafrost reacts sensitively to changes in surface temperature, it is considered as a key variable in such a regional climate monitoring system. The Permafrost and Climate in Europe (PACE) project developed standardised methods for the monitoring of permafrost temperatures and distribution in European mountains, which are in good agreement with the site selection criteria of the GCOS Global Terrestrial Network-Permafrost (GTN-P). Following the PACE monitoring strategy, an international project "Permafrost and Climate in Tibet" is proposed. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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The impact of increased environmental stochasticity due to climate change on the dynamics of asiatic wild ass
Saltz, D Rubenstein, DI White, GC
Theory proposes that increased environmental stochasticity negatively impacts population viability. Thus, in addition to the directional changes predicted for weather parameters under global climate change (GCC), the increase in variance of these parameters may also have a negative effect on biodiversity. As a case study, we assessed the impact of interannual variance in precipitation on the viability of an Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus) population reintroduced in Makhtesh Ramon Nature Reserve, Israel. We monitored the population from 1985 to 1999 to determine what environmental factors affect reproductive success. Annual precipitation during the year before conception, drought conditions during gestation, and population size determined reproductive success. We used the parameters derived from this model to assess population performance under various scenarios in a Leslie matrix type model with demographic and environmental stochasticity. Specifically, we used a change in the precipitation regime in our study area to formulate a GCC scenario and compared the simulated dynamics of the population with a no-change scenario. The coefficient of variation in population size under the global change scenario was 30% higher than under the no-change scenario. Minor die-offs (>= 15%) following droughts increased extinction probability nearly 10-fold. Our results support the idea that an increase in environmental stochasticity due to GCC may, in itself, pose a significant threat to biodiversity.
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Impact of electric power generation on green house gas emissions in Europe: Russia, Greece, Italy and views of the EU Power Plant Supply Industry - a critical analysis
Hammons, TJ
This paper analyses the impact of electric power generation on greenhouse gas emissions in Europe (including the Asian part of Russia) with reference to Russia, Greece, Italy, and views of the EU power plant supply industry in respect of the Kyoto protocol. The outlook of power industry development in Russia in the 21st century is first considered and its impact on Russia's greenhouse gas emissions is examined. Forecasts for developing Russia's economy and electric power industry in the first half of the 21st century are presented. Possible structural change in the electric power industry in Russia together with dynamic changes Of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion in power plants are examined. It is shown that CO2 emissions from fuel combustion at power plants in Russia may increase 2.7-fold in 50 years. Calculations depict that specific CO2 emissions in Asian Russia exceed greatly that of the European part. It then reviews measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Greece. Impact of the currently adopted measures and initiatives to reduce emissions in the Greek energy system for the period up to 2030 is discussed with emphasis on the current decade. Under the scenario for environmental policy, the additional commitments and measures to limit CO2 emissions towards the Kyoto targets are discussed. The paper summarizes a possible Italian strategy for implementing Kyoto protocol mechanisms to meet commitments of the EU Emission Trading Draft Directive, the Italian strategy in the Ministerial documents, and final considerations. It then examines clean power generation technology for the 21st Century and gives a perspective from the EU power plant supply industry. A perspective is presented with respect to impact of global climate change on product development strategy. Fossil fuel based power generation technologies will continue to play an important part of the energy mix in the foreseeable future and different parts of the world will require different technologies to meet their local specific requirements. It will be necessary to continue to develop clean technologies and to promote their use world-wide. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Correlations between carbon dioxide emissions and carbon contents of fuels
Demirbas, A
The gases (they consist of three or more atoms) with higher heat capacities than those of O-2 and N-2 cause greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is main greenhouse gas associated with global climate change. Collectively, they are projected to contribute, directly, about as much too potential global warming over the next 60 years as CO2. At the present time, coal is responsible for 30-40% of world CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. There were a higher correlation between amount of carbon dioxide emission and percentage of carbon in the fuel for all equations. The squares of correlation coefficients were 0.9999, 0.9978, and 0.9995.
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Invasive grass reduces aboveground carbon stocks in shrublands of the Western US
Bradley, BA Houghtonw, RA Mustard, JF Hamburg, SP
Understanding the terrestrial carbon budget, in particular the strength of the terrestrial carbon sink, is important in the context of global climate change. Considerable attention has been given to woody encroachment in the western US and the role it might play as a carbon sink; however, in many parts of the western US the reverse process is also occurring. The conversion of woody shrublands to annual grasslands involves the invasion of non-native cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) which in turn leads to increased frequency and extent of fires. We compared carbon storage in adjacent plots of invasive grassland and native shrubland. We scaled-up the impact of this ecosystem shift using regional maps of the current invasion and of the risk of future invasion. The expansion of cheatgrass within the Great Basin has released an estimated 8 +/- 3 Tg C to the atmosphere, and will likely release another 50 +/- 20 Tg C in the coming decades. This ecosystem conversion has changed portions of the western US from a carbon sink to a source, making previous estimates of a western carbon sink almost certainly spurious. The growing importance of invasive species in driving land cover changes may substantially change future estimates of US terrestrial carbon storage.
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