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Monday Mar 21 2011
Symphony teaches lesson of music to local schools
By: Bridget Jones, Journal Staff Writer
Children say performance is favorite assembly, committee member says
The Auburn Symphony is going back to school to spread the love of music to local students. The Symphony Goes to School Program started in 1999 with the symphony's promotion of the annual KinderKonzert. Although the program was on hiatus last year, it's back and appearing in 12 local schools this month. The program consists of about an hour-long assembly in which students get to hear several compositions and receive demonstrations of the different instruments. Seventeen symphony members and guest musicians performed at Bowman Charter School at 9 a.m. Monday morning for the fifth- through eighth-graders. A second performance for the rest of the school was scheduled to immediately follow. "We kind of sprang from the KinderKonzert," said Miccie McNee, committee member for Symphony Goes to School. "We get to see thousands (of kids) now through this program and introduce them to classical music. The musicians are all volunteers. It's just fabulous they donate so much of their talent and time to put on concerts that are the level of (the) Mondavi (Center)." McNee said she thinks live symphony music in schools is important for a number of reasons, including that it can let listeners reflect on their lives and sometimes inspire solutions to problems. "Music is key to human beings and the level of music, with all the harmonies and the beautiful melodies, I just feel it's very important to our well being," McNee said. "It provides another level … for considering the problems we have." Serrena Carlucci, a percussionist, said she hopes students walk away from the performances with a desire to play music. "It's a way to bring orchestral music to children, which is not something they get all the time," Carlucci said. John Giles, who plays the oboe in the program, said the opportunity is a lot of fun. "Playing at all is enjoyable, the opportunity to perform," Giles said. "We all demonstrate our instruments, and it's fun to play by yourself a little bit. And the association with the other musicians is satisfying." Gary Truesdail, the symphony's director, said the music is good for young minds. "The kids don't get to see (live) music anymore," Truesdail said. "It's now a proven fact … they have proven the brain functions at a higher level in people who have experience in music. Many of them will walk away with excitement and wonder, seeing these fascinating things you can do something with." Committee Member Harriett Kroot said last week when the symphony performed at E.V. Cain, students were sad to see the performance end. "Many, many children have said to us this is their favorite program of the year," Kroot said. "It brings to the children quality music. And with budget cuts cutting music … and I mean totally to the bone, giving them this music is important." The symphony played six pieces during Monday's first assembly at Bowman. They included "Go West," a combination of Western themes from various movies, the theme to "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Anitra's Dance." "Anitra's Dance" featured the ballet work of 11-year-old Applegate resident Caitlyn Camacho. The performance also included "Bellingrath Gardens," the "William Tell Overture" and "Uptown Hoedown." During the pieces, some of the students could be seen swaying and moving their hands to the music. During instrument demonstrations, the children clapped and snapped along. Carly Stillwagon, 10, said she enjoyed the performance. "I liked it a lot because it really inspired me," Carly said. Ten-year-old Ariana West said the program was "really awesome." Ben Carpenter, 10, said he enjoyed the symphony because they spent a lot of time with the students. The symphony was scheduled to play at 10 a.m. at Bowman and 2 p.m. at Auburn Elementary School Monday, and at 9 a.m. Friday at Colfax Elementary School. Kroot said the committee is always looking to hear from new schools that might be interested in a performance. The Symphony Goes to School Program has brought its participants closer together, Kroot said. "We have really gotten to be a family too … because we all work hard and produce something that is wonderful," she said. Reach Bridget Jones at email@example.com ------------------------------------------------------- Auburn Symphony Website: auburnsymphony.com Information: Call (530) 823-6683 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Bulls have the best SwaggOut
We're still a couple weeks away from Thanksgiving, but people are already getting ready for Christmas — even in the NBA! Today, the league unveiled the special jerseys that the 10 teams playing on Christmas Day will wear for in those games. (That's Derrick Rose at the top of the post modeling the Bulls' Christmas jersey.)
Dubbed the "BIG Logo" uniform by adidas, for obvious reasons, the thing a lot of people will focus on is the sleeves. A few teams have already incorporated sleeves into third jerseys, but this is the widest use of the sleeved basketball jersey in the NBA to date. When it comes to basketball sleeves, it seems most people love them or hate them.
Take a look at the other Christmas Day jerseys and let us know what you think of them:
Since you made it this far, you deserve a bonus! Check out this cool video of some big-time NBA stars playing "Jingle Bells" with basketballs and hoops:
Photos courtesy adidas
In my opinion the new Christmas day uniforms look acceptable. The logo is a good average size. Also, I really like how the number is on the side of their sleeve. Although the uniform jerseys are V-neck, I prefer them to be crew neck. Finally, I think the material of the uniform makes them seem like pajamas. Overall these Christmas day uniforms are all right.

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BMC Ecology announces the winning entries in its inaugural Ecology Image Competition, open to anyone affiliated with a research institute. The competition, which received more than 200 entries from international researchers at all career levels and a wide variety of scientific disciplines, was looking for striking visual interpretations of ecological processes. In this Editorial, our academic Section Editors and guest judge Dr Yan Wong explain what they found most appealing about their chosen winning entries, and highlight a few of the outstanding images that didn't quite make it to the top prize.
"The camera industry is one of the few innocuous parasites in wild nature" [1]
In his 1949 collection of essays A Sand County Almanac the ecologist Aldo Leopold lamented the loss of wild nature in his native US and the increasing disconnection between man and the natural world. Although he saw the use of photography as a means to reconnect people to ecosystems, would he ever have envisaged how ubiquitous the camera would become in the digital age?
The ease with which nature can now be captured using modern photography is manifest in many high-quality prizes established for professionals and amateurs alike; for example the Natural History Museum/ BBC Worldwide Wildlife Photographer of the Year [2], or the National Geographic Photo Contest [3].
While these showcase the undoubted talents of a diverse demographic of photographers, here at BMC Ecology we wanted to find out whether the natural world might be viewed differently from the perspective of professional ecologists like Leopold, with a specific emphasis on the central idea behind the study of ecology as a science—how organisms interact with each other and their environment.
Compared to many other scientists, ecologists might consider themselves fortunate. Although ecological processes are complex, they often have strikingly visual components: a bee pollinating a flower, a predator hunting its prey, a fight between two rivals, the intricate habitat of a growing tree. Our intimate connection to our environment gives such images a visceral appeal. At its best, that appeal can be used to tell an ecological story, illuminate our understanding of nature, and highlight our investigations into it. By asking ecologists to send us their visual interpretations of the natural world—not just limited to photography—we hope to bring you a unique window into how the world around us is currently being investigated.
In the spirit of scientific peer-review, we asked the Editorial Board of BMC Ecology to judge not only the visual appeal of these entries, but how they communicated this complexity. Every entrant was also given the opportunity to have their images published by our partners at the Biology Image Library [4], an online collection of resources for scientifically reliable teaching and learning in biology and biomedicine. All images are subject to peer-review before inclusion in the library, and include full metadata for each file.
To judge the overall winners, we are delighted to have Dr Yan Wong [5], an evolutionary biologist who – through the slightly different medium of BBC television and radio – also tells stories about science in general, and biology in particular. We're also very pleased to be taking up his suggestion of a donation to the Wytham Woods Appeal Fund [6], and in a minor way, contribute to the continued maintenance of this outdoor ecological laboratory, which has proved such a fruitful resource for generations of ecologists.
From the outset, we were aiming to garner entries from all branches of ecology. Indeed, in addition to being visually compelling and well composed, we were drawn to pictures that reflected in some way the enormous breadth of our science. The way to depict that broadness of scope was, of course, a matter of scientific and artistic individuality – individuality which is patently evident when inspecting the pictures below. We hope you will agree that our final selections are worthy winners. While your aesthetic opinions may not exactly tally with ours, we confidently expect a correlation between our and our readers' rankings of a strength which would, in normal circumstance, merit publication.
Overall winners
Looking through the entries was a fascinating journey into a thriving jungle of ecological research – all the more enjoyable because many of the images submitted were visually stunning. This wasn't simply a search for an amazing picture, however. Just as important were the ecological processes depicted. Ideally, images should immediately hint at one or more ecological processes, yet leave some hidden depths which open up on closer inspection.
The large number of highly commended images shows just how many ecologists have an eye for combining beauty with ecological insight. Five or six in particular gave the winning entries a run for their money. But in the eventual winner we recognised an extra quality: not only are the colours and composition eye-catching, they are the very basis of the underlying ecology – a dynamic that is being played out at a number of different levels and timescales. Even more impressively, this is revealed through the picture in such a clear way that it is immediately obvious, even to the layman. The image, taken by postdoctoral researcher Moritz Muschick from University of Sheffield, depicts the startling camouflage of a Timema poppensis stick insect against its host tree, the redwood Sequoia sempervirens (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Overall Winner. "Timema poppensis perfectly camouflaged on its host, Redwood Sequoia sempervirens, California. This and other, closely related, species are adapted to live on very different host plants and at different elevations. These ecological specialisations have triggered the splitting into distinct species. How this ecological speciation is promoted, for example by divergent camouflage, can be studied by comparing species of Timema stick insects. Analysis of their DNA also reveals which regions in the genome play important roles in ecological speciation. The results of this research will advance our understanding of how biodiversity forms generally." Attribution: Moritz Muschick.
From a purely visual point of view, the picture is striking: an almost geometrical arrangement whose two-toned green stripes stand in stark contrast to the pitch black background. This contrast only heightens the incredible visual similarity between the insect and the plant. The match is even more impressive considering that they come from very different branches of the tree of life.
The insect's camouflage is broken somewhat by its orientation and an errant back leg, hinting that it is in the process of moving to an adjacent needle. We humans like reading this sort of dynamism and intentionality into a picture. In this case, however, it also serves as a counterpoint to ecological dynamic and an unconscious intentionality taking place on a rather different timescale – the millennia of adaptive change that have led to the evolution of this insect's elegant colouration. A major factor in choosing this image as the winner is that it manages a seemly impossible task: to visualise an immensely long-term ecological process in a single static shot.
A moment's thought reveals that the evolution of this camouflage may not be simple, because this sequioa is the insect's host plant. While the insect benefits from its camouflage, the tree (presumably) suffers increased herbivory. This is ecological coevolution along the lines of Batesian mimicry. The accompanying text introduces the further topic of ecological speciation and generation of diversity—a topic of wide relevance to ecologists. And those are not the only hidden depths. At first glance, this looks like a picture which suffers in comparison to some other images in the competition, in that it involves only 2 species. There is however, a third player in the story – a role which we the viewers have assumed by simply glancing at the picture. It's as if we are looking at the scene through the very eyes of the predatory birds responsible for selecting this pigmentation. This is a winning picture because the viewer is, perforce, involved in the ecological process it depicts.
As a runner-up, we have selected a dazzling scene from Colorado of a subalpine flower meadow (Figure 2). Composing a photograph of this nature is surprisingly difficult, and Benjamin Blonder [7], a PhD student from University of Arizona, deserves congratulation for such a captivating portrayal of what it means to be biodiverse. The emphasis here is not on survival, but on reproduction: the dull but functional photosynthetic green seems an almost insignificant background compared to the waving of riotously coloured floral genitalia.
Figure 2. Overall Runner-up. "Multiple flower forms and phenologies visible in a subalpine meadow (Colorado)". Attribution: Benjamin Blonder.
Although it can be seen as a poster child for the beauty of our science, it is only when we force ourselves to view the picture through an ecologist's eye that the true depths are revealed. What is it that allows such a diversity of forms and colours to coexist in an otherwise similar patch of ground? To whom are these flowers advertising, and what does this scene look like through their eyes? Like the winning image, the ecological emphasis of this photograph is on vision. But there the similarity ends. The similarity between the visual systems of humans and birds does not obviously extend to insects, the intended receivers of these plants' signals. We should perhaps be thankful that as unintended recipients, we can see beauty in this picture.
Section winners
BMC Ecology is currently divided into several editorial sections by subject area, overseen by a group of academic Section Editors who were each asked to choose a winning image that best represented their specialist field of research. All entries were anonymized before being sent out for judging, and here some of the Editors outline why they feel these images were worthy winners of the category prize:
Behavioural and physiological ecology
This brutal photograph of two male Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) fighting over a harem of 127 females was taken by Laëtitia Kernaléguen, a PhD student at Deakin University, Australia (Figure 3). Commenting on their choice of category winner, Section Editor Nick Royle felt that the photo—entitled "Is the prize worth the price?"—was:
"a terrifically vibrant shot of two giant scarred, bloody, Southern Elephant Seal males fighting for access to females. You can almost hear the roars of the combatants, and smell the blood, so well has this image captured the behaviour. I love the mirrored symmetry of the males as they engage in their violently ritualised, almost choreographed, fighting; the male on the right of the shot fixing his rival with a gimlet eye as he looks to land a decisive blow. The picture is very well composed, with the gore-covered males with their red bibs contrasting sharply with the serenely bleak but beautiful backdrop. A nice final touch is the skua in the bottom right of the frame, seemingly taking a keen interest in the outcome. Or perhaps (s)he is the referee?"
Figure 3. Winner: Behavioural and Physiological Ecology. "A harem of 127 females is a prize that has to be earned. Where female Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) provide all the parental care, they will only reproduce in the territory of the biggest males, the biggest fathers for their offspring. Females average 400 to 900 kg, while males weigh up to 4 tons; Southern Elephant Seals show the largest sexual dimorphism among land breeding mammals. When a male challenges the head of a harem he needs to prove his strength at a great cost, resulting in a fascinating and captivating fight between the two giants." Attribution: Laëtitia Kernaléguen.
Community, population and macroecology
This section considers research on the interaction of organisms within communities and populations across all scales, and it was a striking image of multitrophic interactions in action that Section Editor Jean Clobert felt captured the essence of this area of research. The photo (Figure 4), taken by Professor Michael Siva-Jothy from University of Sheffield (UK), was clearly not an easy one to take:
"I was taking pictures of scarce swallowtails on Scabius flowers when I heard a Polistine wasp buzzing around - It was hovering behind the butterflies and then darting in and body-checking them. Although I didn't witness predation I later saw a wasp dismembering a skipper in the same area. I'm pretty sure this wasp was trying to predate the swallowtail. I like the picture because it was difficult to take - the wasp was moving very fast and the focal plane was very shallow - and because it captures three trophic levels in one."
Figure 4. Winner: Community, Population and Macroecology. Scarce swallowtail, Scabius flower and Polistine wasp. Attribution: Michael Siva-Jothy.
Conservation ecology and biodiversity research
The Galápagos islands are something of a modern conservation symbol, due to the profound influence they had on the life and work of Charles Darwin. During his travels on the Beagle, Darwin noticed subtle anatomical differences between giant tortoises living on different islands in the archipelago, which would later inform his theory of evolution by natural selection. This image (Figure 5) by Hara Woltz [8], a conservation biologist from Columbia University (US), was taken while researching ecological interactions between species and landscapes in the archipelago, and depicts a Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) on Santa Cruz Island utilizing a human road. Section Editor Josef Settele found a subtle commentary behind the picture, which he felt might be renamed "Brother where are you bound?":
"It shows nicely that a knowingly long-lived specimen of a low-density species does not necessarily seems to have a bright future, even though a rather large path is offered."
Figure 5. Winner: Conservation Ecology and Biodiversity. "A Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) utilizing a human road on Santa Cruz Island. I took this photograph while researching ecological interactions between species and landscapes in the Galápagos." Attribution: Hara Woltz.
Landscape Ecology and Ecosystems
Depicting the spatial interactions between species and their influences on ecosystem processes, was one of the more challenging topics to capture visually. Section Editor Michel Baguette's selection was a wonderfully textured image of human-mediated landscape engineering. In this picture (Figure 6) [9] of a rice paddy in Yuanyang, China, research plant pathologist Yulin Jia from U.S. Department of Agriculture Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center explains how rice paddies have been cultivated for more than 1000 years:
"Expansive areas of these terraced fields support enough rice for hundreds of thousands of people. Water is saved in the hilltop forests, and channelled down to the terraces for irrigation. The rice terraces are flooded from September to March, the evaporation from these paddies provides a cool and pleasant climate for local residents while the fields provide a spectacular view for travellers."
Figure 6. Winner: Landscape Ecology and Ecosystems. "Rice paddy in Yuanyang, China" Attribution: Yulin Jia. Biology Image Library ID 65539.
Theoretical ecology and models
The section on theoretical models was always going to be one of the most challenging to depict visually, especially when judged alongside photographs of the natural world. It also presented perhaps the greatest opportunity for creativity. Data visualization is central to understanding the concordance of models with real-world data, and for a section that leant itself less to the camera, it represented an interesting opportunity for desk-bound ecologists to showcase their work. The winning entry chosen by Section Editor Michael Bonsall was submitted by Chaitanya Gokhale, a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Germany), and depicts a model of evolutionary game theory on the maintenance of biodiversity with multiple players (Figure 7). This figure is taken from their 2010 article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled "Evolutionary games in the multiverse" [10]:
"Evolutionary game theory can help us analyze interactions in a social or biological setting. My personal success depends not only on what I do but also what others do. In biological terms, being successful in an evolutionary game is positively correlated to the reproductive success. Typically, pairwise interactions are assumed in game theoretic interactions.
However in reality, interactions are not always in pairs. For example more than two hunters are often required if a big animal is to be taken down. Two player interactions predict that there can be at most a single point where the different strategies can agree on so that each gets an equal payoff and each strategy survives. If there are d players that can choose from n different strategies, then there can be at most (d-1)^(n-1) points where all the strategies can coexist. Thus, for d > 2, the number of such points increases exponentially with the number of strategies. Also the encounters between species can involve multiple individuals from the involved species. This provides the possibility for multiple stable states and thus eventual maintenance of biodiversity.
Thus, if there are multiple strategies involved and if the number of players is high, there may be higher chances of reaching a stable or unstable coexistence – simply because more solutions are possible.
The figure shows that if there are 4 players with 3 strategies (given by the vertices by the triangle) then there can be at most (4-1)^(3-1), that is, 9 points where the strategies have equal payoffs. These 9 points lie on the intersections of three cubic curves."
Figure 7. Winner: Theoretical Ecology and Models. Multiple players and the maintenance of biodiversity. From Gokhale CS, Traulsen A: Evolutionary games in the multiverse. PNAS 2010, 107: 12, 5500-5504. (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0912214107 webcite).
Editor's Pick
The primary aim of this image competition was to achieve a sense of how professional ecologists visualize the natural world. While many of the stunning entries depicted ecological processes in action, few gave a sense of what it's like to be an ecologist, to conduct research, to be driven to understand the natural world. Raf Aerts' image (Figure 8) stood out starkly by doing just that, by bringing the viewer directly into the eye of an ecologist on fieldwork, and represents one of the most creative uses of photography received this year. Here, Dr Aerts, a postdoctoral researcher from University of Leuven (Belgium) and University of Utah (US), explains a little of the background to this image, taken in an area of high-shade tree cover in the Peruvian Andes that is used to incentivize the conservation of forest biodiversity among coffee growers in the region:
"Here I am surveying old-growth secondary forest along the remote Rio Tunquimayo in the Puno province in SE Peru to determine the impact of coffee cultivation on bird conservation. The notebook shows my first record of the Yellow-browed Sparrow (above) and male and female White-winged Becards (mid and below). The sparrow may indicate disturbance, while the becard is a fly-catcher-like mid-level insect-eating bird of second growth and river-edge forest. The conservation of such insectivores is also beneficial for the coffee farmers as they contribute to insect pest control."
Figure 8. Winner: Editor's Pick. "Surveying old-growth secondary forest along the remote Rio Tunquimayo in the Puno province in SE Peru to determine the impact of coffee cultivation on bird conservation" Attribution: Raf Aerts.
Highly commended
Although there could only be a handful of winning images in this year's competition, the standard of entries was so high that there could easily have been several worthy winners across all categories. We do of course hope that you agree with our choices; and to give you a flavour of just how difficult these decisions were for all of our judges, here's just a small selection of some of the most highly commended images that didn't quite make it to the top prize.
Many of these images excel in specific ways, and in these particular aspects they are sometimes better than the winners we have selected. Take sheer visual beauty: the combination of colours in the image of an iridescent green bee [Additional file 1] [11] collecting bright yellow pollen from a purple Vellozia flower is surely one that will remain in the mind for some time to come. Indeed, one might have thought that the competition would be dominated by pictures of plant-pollinator interactions – relatively easy to capture images where colourful organisms are tied together via a clear ecological story. We are pleasantly surprised that this is not the case. In fact, only three such pictures make our final selection, and the other two are rather more unusual. One involves a vertebrate pollinator, in a winged blur of flower-powered energy [Additional file 2] [12]. The other shows that it sometimes takes an act of will to overcome our initial revulsion and appreciate the inherent beauty of an ecological scene [Additional file 3].
Several images show impeccable technical skill, such as the extraordinary picture of a hoverfly in mid flight [Additional file 4]. Indeed, this image was judged a close second place for the Behavioural and Physiological Ecology category prize, leaving Section Editor Nick Royle transfixed:
"This image captures that brief moment of stillness – the hovering – of the fly perfectly; with just the blur of rapid wing beats the only movement. The fly clearly looks as if it is hovering, legs slightly dropped, perhaps to aid balance as it lands, or in readiness to shoot off again. This picture of nervous energy is greatly enhanced by the dazzling, iridescent colours and great detail; the eyes are so massive it looks like the fly is wearing a helmet".
Along with the similarly impressive winner of the Community, Population and Macroecology section (Figure 4), these surely would have been top in a standard competition of natural history photographs.
Almost as technically crisp are a pair of pictures that both tell behavioural stories: the gladiatorial standoff –or is it a polite discussion? between bulldog ants [Additional file 5] [13], and the simply delightful (albeit accidental) interaction between a duck and some frogs [Additional file 6].
Behavioural ecology leads to situations which make intriguing and hence captivating imagery. The Arabian babblers [Additional file 7] [14] are clearly up to something ecologically important, and we urge you to read the story of the ingeniously sonorous cricket [Additional file 8]. Multi-species interactions are represented by a crab and its biotic shelter [Additional file 9], although it's a shame we don't see it scavenging a livelihood on the surface of its travelling eco-home.
A less benign form of parasitism is seen in the colourful yet disturbing scene of death which must gladden the heart of foresters [Additional file 10]. Although death-by-wasp must be one of the most common of all gruesome endings in nature, we suspect only an ecologist would immediately recognise what is going on in the picture. The two other images of predators and their prey also take a while to fully absorb, giving the viewer an enjoyable moment of dawning realization. The diaphanous tentacles of a squid give this image a soft, aesthetic quality which sits in edgy contrast to the killing which has just taken place [Additional file 11]. The efficient dispatching of a bee by a well-hidden spider [Additional file 12] depends on exploiting an established plant-pollinator system: truly a multi-faceted portrait of ecology in action.
Five pictures concern human interaction with the environment, in a variety of guises. The image of a bird on the jawbone of a farm animal [Additional file 13] neatly and clearly captures a message which is all too familiar to conservation biologists. Attempts at understanding and communicating our impact on natural systems are shown in an elegantly simple picture of a blackboard [Additional file 14]. Ecologists interacting with their surroundings are represented here too. One serves as an awe-struck yardstick, emphasizing the sheer scale of the tree Ceiba pentandra [Additional file 15], while it takes a nice second or two to realize that a picture of nesting gannets is actually a portrait of practical conservation in action [Additional file 16]. Finally, the composition of contrastingly coloured conservationists [Additional file 17] is one of the most evocative descriptions of field ecology we have seen."
Looking to future competitions of this nature, there are some areas which seem somewhat unrepresented. There are few landscape photographs in our final selection, perhaps because it is hard to draw attention to a particular ecological detail when picturing a wide scene. The delightful exception to this is a nightscape dominated by luminous dinoflagellates [Additional file 18], whose anti-predator behaviour displays the stunning visual impact that ecology can sometimes provide. Perhaps the least well represented, however, are images which try to combine elements of photography and graphical display of information. The image of penguins and their heart rates [Additional file 19] (see also [15]) is a valiant attempt, but few entries attempted combinations of this ilk. Yet this sort of image gives perhaps the most scope for original and thought-provoking pictoral composition. It is surely a field worthy of more attention, if ecologists are to harness the power of visual impact to communicate their thoughts and research to a wider audience.
Individually these images provide a brief snapshot of ecology in action – sometimes brutal, sometimes beautiful. Collectively they provide an overview of complexity and connectivity in the natural world through which we hope readers will have been entertained―and a little enlightened.
Additional file 1. "Collecting pollen from Vellozia, Serra do Cipó, Brazil". Attribution: Daniel Wisbech Carstensen (Instituto de Biociências, Brazil). Biology Image Library ID: 64983.
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Additional file 2. "A male Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus), visits a scarlet gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata) flower at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. These migratory hummingbirds fly from Mexico to Colorado each summer to reproduce, and are the primary pollinators of scarlet gilia flowers. Long-term studies of the phenology of the hummingbirds and the flowers they visit have been conducted since 1973 at RMBL, and show that the timing of both of these partners in the ecosystem service of pollination are changing, but not at the same rates. Males have an iridescent gorget, and produce a mechanical wing whistle that has a function in territorial displays (produced by the slot that is visible in this picture between the first two primary feathers). Taken with a Nikon D800e, 200 mm Nikkor macro lens, ISO640, 1/500 sec f10, SB800 flash." Attribution: David W. Inouye. Biology Image Library ID 64660.
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Additional file 3. "It's a stinky feast! Blowflies just can't resist the attraction of the orchid Captured during an orchid pollination observation in Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia, this photograph shows the orchid flowers of Bulbophyllum lasianthum Lindl surrounded by flies. During anthesis, these attractive purplish-red flowers emit a strong foul odour similar to that of carrion. The predominant species of flies found visiting and pollinating B. lasianthum was Chrysomyia megacephala Fabricius (Calliphoridae: Diptera), commonly known as blowflies. Both male and female blowflies are capable of pollinating the flowers of B. lasianthum. Some of the flies shown here actually have pollinia stuck on their backs as they happily work the flowers! Various fly species are extremely attracted to the flowers due to the stench as well as the carrion appearance of the flowers."Attribution: Ong Poh Teck (Forest Research Institute Malaysia).
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Additional file 4. ) (Puerto Rico)" Attribution: Benjamin Blonder (University of Arizona).
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Additional file 5. "Communication in bulldog ants (Myrmecia nigriscapa,) Sydney, Australia" Attribution: Sylvain Dubey (University of Lausanne). Biology Image Library ID: 65360.
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Additional file 6. "The 2 frogs way enjoying the sun on the branch when the duck jumped up on the branch. The frogs jumped for their lives!" Attribution: Thomas Jensen (Medical Prognosis Institute, Denmark).
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Additional file 7. "Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) group allopreening in front of a neighboring group during a border confrontation." Attribution: Yitzchak Ben Mocha (Tel Aviv University). Image Library ID 63580.
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Additional file 8. "This cricket was singing at dusk at the edge of secondary forest in Borneo. He had crawled into the natural funnel of a ginger plant which was being used to amplify the sound of the song. I really liked the composition and decided I had to take it in natural light - this meant opening the aperture right up and slowing the shutter to 1/60. The effect was just what I wanted - a cricket with slightly blurred wings - capturing the movement - in a sea of blurred green with a strong sense of the funnel-nature of the plant. There are lots of pictures of singing crickets, but I know of none that capture this kind of behaviour - which is well-known." Attribution: Michael Siva-Jothy (University of Sheffield).
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Additional file 9. "A small crab, Planes minutus (Columbus crab), living on an individual of Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle). This crab is known to prey upon other sea turtles epibionts." Attribution: Maristella D'Addario (University of Rome).
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Additional file 10. "Caterpillar of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) killed by the gregarious braconid wasp (Glyptapantheles liparidis). This parasitoid is a major natural enemy of the worldwide known forest pest. 48 larvae developed in a single host and pupated under it after leaving the agonizing caterpillar's body." Attribution: György Csóka (Forest Research Institute Hungary).
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Additional file 11. "With a refined and tenacious tactic of predation, the European squid (Loligo vulgaris) has captured a bream (Sparus aurata) launching its tentacles and applying a lethal bite in the prey column. The image captures the moment when the squid seizes the prey with his arms." Attribution: Miguel Cabanellas (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies).
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Additional file 12. "Multitrophic interactions in action" Attribution: Anne Ebeling (University of Jena).
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Additional file 13. "I think that this photo shows one of the most important issue in nature conservation nowadays. And it is known because of habitat loss that a lot of species are facing big troubles to survive. So, people are trying to create reserves and refugees for animals. But the encroachment due to sprawling of cities highlights the problem of saving either one or another species, because in a restricted area often it is not possible to conserve all the species occurring inside. My photo is a way to underline this compromise." Attribution: Matteo Lattuada (University of Antwerp).
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Additional file 14. "Indirect gradient analysis is a powerful tool in community ecology to link species patterns to patterns of environmental variables including human disturbance. During a field mission to Ethiopia, I gave an introduction to gradient analysis for researchers at Jimma University, with whom we investigate the effects of coffee cultivation on the diversity and community structure of epiphytic orchids, birds and trees in evergreen moist Afromontane forests." Attribution: Raf Aerts (Univeristy of Leuven).
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Additional file 15. "Rare large individual of Ceiba pentandra in lowland tropical forest" Attribution: Benjamin Blonder (University of Arizona).
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Additional file 16. "This image is of a constructed colony of decoy Northern Gannets on the North Island of New Zealand. Calls are broadcast through solar powered speakers, and the decoys were set up to try to re-establish gannets on a preserved piece of land where Northern Gannets historically were found. I took this photograph while I was participating in a large scale ecological restoration project on this property." Attribution: Hara Woltz (Columbia University).
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Additional file 17. "Carrying vegetation survey equipment to a forest dynamics plot, Puerto Rico" Attribution: Benjamin Blonder (University of Arizona).
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Additional file 18. "Blue Tide. Seasonal winds can cause the upwelling of nutrients which in turn can cause plankton populations to bloom as "red tides." Here, a dinoflagellate population (Noctiluca sp.) turns the ocean a luminous blue colour as the disturbance by the wind triggers a light-generating chemical reaction. The production of light is thought to attract fish predators that prey on potential predators of the dinoflagellates." Attribution: Bruce Anderson (University of Stellenbosch).
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Additional file 19. "To well understand all the ecological process that drive the physiology and behavior of animals in the nature, it appears really important to study organisms on the field. It is also important for the scientists to estimate our impact during study on the free living species. Here, we measured the heart rate (HR) excess (the number of heart beats produced in excess of resting HR due to different kind of stress: capture, 10 m approach or sound). To do this, we used an externally mounted-HR logger (Polar® model RS800) on a free long-lived seabird, the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus). We compared the HR response due to the same 3 stressors between two parts of the colony: one disturbed by human presence and one without humans. We show that the HR response is lower for the bird in the non disturbed place, for 10 m-approach and sound stress, but there is no difference between the two places for the stress of capture. Habituation of the king penguin or selection of the bird who can support the human proximity? The picture was taken in Crozet archipelago (46°24′41″S ; 51°45′22″E ), a French island of the austral ocean ; the 13th February 2012. The experimenter was positioning the HR logger on the back of the king penguin. On the right top of the image, we show an example of heart race trace we obtain and we can see clearly when the bird was caught for the stress of capture." Attribution: Benoit Gineste (Evolutionary EcoPhysiology Group, CNRS).
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ROI is a mindset, not a measurement.
I once heard someone say, "Brands are created for the single purpose of making money." As cynical as that may sound, I couldn't agree more.
Brands aren't created for philanthropy; they're created to generate revenue for parent companies or, in some cases, to deliver shareholder value. The business mantra "sell, sell, sell" is inherently engrained in brand creation and sustainment. Brand awareness, preference, and loyalty are all great guiding tools to develop and grow a brand, but brands that fail to deliver financial gains, regardless of how strong they're perceived to be, inevitably risk extinction.
As revenue-driven entities, brands must both efficiently and effectively understand the sales path and how to optimize revenue output with sales insights. This is precisely why marketing is more closely monitored and scrutinized overall.
With online leading the pursuit of higher marketing ROI (define) and accountability, behavioral targeting can connect a backend purchase to the front-end targeting. That can improve effectiveness and efficiency and optimize cross- and up-sell opportunities.
Before or After: Every Action Has a Price
There are always observable actions leading up to a behavior. From a marketing ROI perspective, this means there's a consumer journey with an identifiable path that leads to the transaction (e.g., purchase or registration) and beyond.
The only difference between a branding campaign and its direct response counterpart is the time required to drive a sale. Branding implies establishing a longer-term relationship with current and potential customers who will eventually purchase the branded product. Direct response focuses on immediate sales and results.
When it comes to deploying ROI-focused marketing, brands must clearly define all steps that ultimately contribute to a potential sale and assign a distinct value to each action to ensure ROI metrics are in place every step along the way.
For one client, we're developing a cost-per-contact system that will attach a monetary value to every contact (or action) consumers have with the brand. Contact, in this sense, is a broad terminology, including more quantitative and trackable actions such as CTRs (define), duration of stay per page, number of pages visited, and ultimately, online purchases or proxies of purchases (purchase intents).
In addition to these standard metrics, we're also devising a visit quality index. Enlighten CEO Steve Glauberman defines it this way: It's a weighted composite of measures, such as key interaction rates, conversions, content paths, visit frequency, and more. Beyond individual measures such as Web site traffic, online leads, and configurations, a visit quality index is an important snapshot of performance in terms of driving shoppers to the site's highest value content and tools.
Learning From the Behavioral Targeting King
In June, Target broke into the credit card business. It's the only retailer among the top 10 credit-card issuers, and perhaps the least likely to be joining card companies such as Chase, MBNA, and American Express.
Target chose to do the opposite of what failed retailer-turn-credit card companies such as Sears and Federated Department Stores tried. It maintains control over the customer message and communication platform. It monitors all contact points, creating a closed-looped system. This allows the retailer to not only capture data but also develop marketing programs specifically tailored to card holders based on their previous purchase history.
Target can track RFM: recency (how recently a consumer shopped the store), frequency (how often), and shoppers' monetary values based on average transaction amount and many other purchase-behavior-related data. This is perhaps the most sophisticated behavioral targeting in real life.
What Does This Mean for Online Media?
In a 2005 survey conducted by Marketing Management Analytics (part of Aegis Group), the Association of National Advertisers, and Forrester Research, 60 percent of senior-level U.S. marketers said defining, measuring, and taking action on ROI is important, but only about 20 percent expressed satisfaction with their ability to do so.
Furthermore, 73 percent reported a lack of confidence in understanding a marketing campaign's sales impact. In an environment with increasing ROI importance and rising media costs, marketers must better understand multimedia behavior to reach the target consumer in a respectful manner, at a receptive moment.
Marketing is playing out in fast-forward. Insights must be made on the integrated data points that take into account all today's communication methods, plus consumer data identifying who buys what and why.
The marketing ROI philosophy requires changes in organization and processes to optimize marketing activities. Rather than ROI measurement, it should be ROI management. It's a mindset, not a measurement.
Said Procter & Gamble's Bernhard Glock, manager of global media and communication, "The ground has been laid for a common currency with which to understand consumer behavior beyond demographics. Only by understanding consumer behavior can we ensure that people receive the right information at an opportune and welcome moment."
Long gone are the days of using brand preference and purchase intent as campaign success metric. In today's ROI-driven world, marketing optimization is all about demonstrating the contribution of marketing tactics to a final sale.
Based in London, Andy Chen is vice president of digital solutions for Viacom Brand Solutions(VBS) International. Prior to Viacom, Andy was the media strategy director at Carat International/Isobar, which handles global media and digital strategies for Philips, Renault, Adidas, and various other multinational clients.
A true advocate for global integration and strategy, Andy has lived and worked in Copenhagen and Stockholm, where he was a management consultant for the Swedish Advertising Association. He received his BA from University of California, Berkeley; and a MBA in international marketing and global management from Stockholm University, School of Business. Named one of the "20 Rising Media Stars to Watch in 2004" by "Media Magazine," Andy is a frequent international conference speaker on digital and interactive media. He published his first collaborative book, "The Changing Communication Paradigm," in November 2005.
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Most religions that exist today are of ancient origin, and their scriptures and creeds reflect the immoral beliefs of their times. However, social progress in the civilized world has led to widespread recognition of the immorality of those practices, and many churches today are in the awkward position of disavowing such evils while simultaneously maintaining the sacredness and inerrancy of the texts that teach them. The Bible, for example, explicitly states that women must remain silent in the … [Read more...]
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Seeking the Hidden Switches
Two juxtaposed articles in the June/July issue of Scientific American Mind offer some intriguing insights into how theistic beliefs may have first developed in the human species. First, an article titled Preschool Determinists:When cognitive scientists Laura E. Schulz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jessica Sommerville of the University of Washington tested preschoolers, they discovered that the kids were thoroughgoing "causal determinists." The children assumed that … [Read more...]
Science is a Way of Knowing
A common accusation leveled against science by its enemies is that it is too closed-minded, too dogmatic, too authoritarian. From creationists to "alternative medicine" advocates to New Agers, the defenders of pseudoscience argue that science is closed to new ideas, set in its ways, unwilling to challenge conventional wisdom. If only science would examine our claims with an open mind, goes the refrain from each fringe community, they would see that they are fully deserving of inclusion.There … [Read more...]
Pulling Back the Curtain
The previous post in the Observatory, "On Presuppositions", discussed a few of the many ways in which bias has been shown to affect our decisions. When we expect or believe something to be true, we very often act as if it is true, and disregard contradictory evidence.Given these undeniable facts, what hope is left for us to know the truth? A cynical interpretation would be that science, the organized quest for truth, has ironically proven that science is hopeless, that every conclusion is too … [Read more...]
Are Evolved Minds Reliable Truth-Finders?
In recent years, Christian apologists such as Alvin Plantinga have advanced arguments purporting to prove that evolutionary naturalism is a self-refuting worldview. According to these people, if evolution is true and there is no intelligent creator-god, then humans' sensory and rational faculties were created by a blind process that is not concerned with truth or falsity, and therefore those faculties themselves could not reliably detect truth or falsity. The conclusion, as Plantinga and others … [Read more...]


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|Since I don't live in the Richmond area, I decided to do an online search for a visitors center in Richmond just for S&Gs. According to MapQuest, the address and phone number is:
That said, I have to wonder a few things. First, how old the information is? If it's up to date, then this does suggest there is a visitors center still in the city. But if it's no longer up to date, then the visitors center could have moved or could have been closed.
Second, who runs the visitor center if it is still open? In the context of what Javal1 said, I wonder if this center is run by the state or city governments or if it is run by a group of volunteers. If the former, then why the need to suggest creating a special visitor center just for directing folks to museums and historical sites rather than suggesting putting state or city funds towards a section of the exsiting center for that exact purpose and making sure there are signs directing folks to the visitor center? If it's the latter, then why not set it up so that it's run by the state or city goverment.
Either way, a third question can be raised as to how often it's staffed and the competence of the folks on "duty" when someone is there? If it's staffed maybe once or twice a week, and then it is just little more than a set of restrooms and a brochure stand with maybe some vending machines for drinks and snacks. If it is staffed on a daily basis, then are the folks little more than glorified janitors for whom the most they do besides keeping the place clean is to maybe provide directions if they know them? Or are they fairly knowledgeable about the area and can actually suggest good spots to eat, decent shopping place, and local attractions to visit? And we have to keep in mind that if it's staffed daily then the last two questions have to be asked on a daily basis as you could go in on one day and not get anything worth the trouble of asking while the following day they could tell you a hundred great places to go.
Finally, is this just a baisc visitor center or does it include a resturant or two (and I would count a fastfood joint here) and maybe a place to get gas?


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Hernando "Scratch" Gomez doesn't need his Ferrari 348 Targa anymore now that he's in an American jail because of his nasty drug trafficking habit. The authorities back in Bogota, Colombia thought they'd do what American cops tend to do with their drug-seized cars and converted it into police cruiser. »


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WACO, TX — Inmates at one Central Texas jail will no longer have access to microwave ovens.
They were removed Monday from the McLennan County Jail.
County commissioners last summer refused to allot $85,000 for upgrading the jail's wiring after microwaves overloaded the electrical system.
Sheriff Parnell McNamara says the 47 microwaves posed a safety risk because some inmates have thrown hot liquids on others.
McNamara also says they were an unwarranted luxury for those accused of violating the law.
The microwaves were bought with proceeds from the jail's commissary fund -- not with taxpayer dollars. Each was shared by two dozen inmates and used under jailer supervision.
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Ontario's Carter Whitney tackles Lexington's Eric Jordan during the first quarter Friday night. / Arthur Brown/News Journal
LEXINGTON -- B.J. Payne promised exciting football when he took over as head coach at Lexington this season.
Eric Jordan and Antonio Pickens made Payne a man of his word Friday night.
The Minutemen overcame six fumbles, an interception and 82 yards in penalties to stop Ontario 43-19 in a nonconference game.
Sloppy, even ugly at times ... but exciting.
A senior wide receiver and cornerback, Jordan scored on a 70-yard run and a 36-yard interception return, mixing in a 76-yard kickoff return along the way that set up another TD.
Pickens, a sophomore running back and safety, scored on an 80-yard interception return and a 21-yard run, finishing with 88 yards on 11 carries.
"We made a lot of costly mistakes tonight," Payne said after his team outscored Ontario 28-0 in the second half.
The Warriors scored with no time left on the second quarter clock to take a 19-15 halftime lead.
"We were very fortunate to escape this game," Payne said. "I told the kids at halftime this was adversity. They had two choices ... they can either snap back or fold the tent."
The 6-foot, 182-pound Jordan, who terrorized Ontario last year in a season-opening win, snapped the Warriors defense on Lexington's second possession in the third quarter. The speedy wideout took an inside hand-off on an end around, broke three tackles and raced down the left sideline 70 yards to gain a lead the Minutemen would not surrender.
"I told the guys at halftime we gotta wake up. Don't get your heads down. Keep going. Don't give up," Jordan said. "Our coaches make adjustments at halftime, but after that it's up to us. We just had to step it up."
Ontario coach Scott Bloom, whose defense held Jordan to just one catch, credited Jordan with finding ways to win.
"We did the best we could to take him away, because we knew he was a big playmaker," Bloom said. "Unfortunately, they found other ways to get him the ball. Give him credit. He did a great job. He had a great night."
Lexington came into the game promising a new-look spread offense. But it was Ontario who took to the air with quarterback Jake Mochoskay. The 6-foot-5 sophomore kept the Warriors in it with a short passing attack, completing 18 of 35 passes for 147 yards and two TDs to senior receiver Danny Flanegan.
But the second-half picks returned for scores 67 seconds apart early in the fourth quarter proved too costly. Ontario's ground game, which graduated All-Ohio running back Alvin McKnight, was limited to 82 yards on 28 carries.
"We had too many turnovers and we gave up too many big plays," Bloom said. "(Lexington) has great speed and we just could not contend with that speed.
"We probably threw the ball a little more than we wanted to tonight. But we're going to run the ball. I am not worried about that. The running game will come together," Bloom said.
For Payne, it was his first head coaching win.
"Huge," he said in explaining the importance of this victory, "because I thought they would have run me out of town if we had lost this game. I have been very fortunate to have always been around winning programs (as a high school and college player and assistant coach). These kids here have done absolutely everything we asked them to do. We told them it would pay off."
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Studying Nanoparticles in the Environment
Recovering Nanoparticles from Products
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Nanoparticles are being used in more and more consumer products. They can make materials stronger and lighter and make surfaces cleaner and more wear-resistant. They are increasing the performance of road vehicles, and are increasingly used in medicine to increase the efficacy of medication.
As these products reach their end of life, it will be very difficult to prevent the release of nanoparticles into the environment. As the size of these particles allows them to interact strongly with biological structures, there are all sort of potential human and environmental health issues associated with the build up of nano-waste in ecosystems.
Figure 1. Nanoparticles can interact directly with biological matter, potentially causing long-term health issues which we are yet to fully understand. Image credit: Argonne National Laboratory.
Studies of real nanoparticle concentrations in the environment are few and far between. A Swiss study published in 2010 attempted to model the concentrations of some common types of nanoparticles which end up in the environment. Their results agreed with the limited real-world data which is available.
The study found that the destination of the nanoparticles depends on their usage - for example, zinc oxide nanoparticles accumulates in sewage sludge, which is often spread on fields as a fertilizer, but carbon nanotubes are more likely to enter the waste stream from the manufacturing process, eventually ending up in landfill.
Figure 2. An international team of scientists conducted research on exposure to gold nanoparticles in earthworms. They found that worms exposed to soil contaminated with nano-gold produced up to 90% fewer offspring.
Due to the difficulties in detecting nanoparticles in the environment directly, modelling studies like this will be very useful in coming years, to identify problem areas where large amounts of nanoparticles are entering a particular natural system. To make this type of modelling process more accurate and useful, more data is required on the exact properties of the nanoparticles which are used in different products.
It would also be very useful to correlate nanoparticle concentration data with more detailed toxicity data on nanoparticles. The data which exists is mostly from lab-based studies on small samples, which use unrealistically high doses to force a response in a short time frame. Our understanding of the effects of long-term exposure to nanoparticles is very limited. This is a great concern, and many research groups around the world are working to better understand how ubiquitous low concentrations of nanoparticles will affect humans and ecosystems - particularly aquatic ecosystems.
Klean Industries has developed a method for producing high quality carbon nanotubes and fullerenes from used tires, by using advanced thermal conversion technology. This is a great alternative to combustion, or recycling into lower quality products like rubber chips.
Given our limited understanding of how nanoparticles behave when released into the environment, most advice from expert committees suggests that manufacturers and retailers of nano-enhanced products should build plans for recovering and recycling the nanomaterials into the product lifecycle. Ideally, products should be designed so that nanoparticles can be separated out and re-used as easily as possible.
As of yet, there is no specific legistation to control the release of nanoparticles into the environment. Many conventional waste treatment processes (incineration, scrubbing/filtering etc.) do not decompose nanoparticles, allowing their direct release into the environment. This means that new methods must be developed for recovering nanoparticles from products at the end of their life.
Even with recoverability built into nano-products, it is inevitable that some nano-waste will end up in waste streams. In recent years, researchers have proposed a number of ways to remove these nanoparticles, which are incredibly difficult to filter out by conventional methods due to their small size, from the waste before it is released into the environment.
Researchers from the Central Scientific Instruments Organization in India announced a method to produce high quality zinc oxide particles from used dry alkaline batteries, which contain zinc and magnesium oxide.
Whilst spent batteries are usually collected and recycled, it is rarely possible to produce new batteries from them due to material degradation. So "upcycling" the batteries into valuable zinc oxide nanoparticles is a big step towards converting more large volume hi-tech waste into valuable raw materials.
Nanoparticle Recovery Using a Microemulsion
In 2010, researchers from Bristol University published work on the separation of cadmium and zinc nanoparticles using a special solvent. The solvent is a stable microemulsion of oil in water, which breaks down into two layers when heated. All of the nanoparticles in the solution end up in one of the layers, allowing simple separation.
Nanoparticle Recovery by Cloud Point Extraction
A similar process was reported in 2011, by a research team from Pakistan. They used a technique called cloud point extraction (CPE) to separate gold and palladium nanoparticles from an aqueous solution. The cloud point of an emulsion is the point when the two phases are on the verge between mixing fully and forming two layers, causing "clouding" of the solution. In their method, the nanoparticle solution is heated to this point, then centrifuged to fully separate the layers, extracting the nanoparticles.
Recovery and re-use of these expensive materials could speed up commercial application of nanotechnology to a variety of fields, by alleviating worries about nano-waste, whilst also decreasing production costs.
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The Trust for Public Land, the non-profit group working to "Save Cahuenga Peak", the land adjacent to the famous Hollywood sign, has sent out an email prepping everyone for a "major announcement" tomorrow.
As the deadline for purchasing the land is tomorrow, this is either a really good omen — or one that's ripe for disappointment. In the interest of optimism, we're going to say that a deal has been reached on purchasing the 138-acres. Only a few days ago the amount raised was $2.8 million short of the total needed and a last minute fundraising drive was launched. So, if indeed the $12.5 million needed has been reached, you can bet that some deep pocket savior(s) stepped in at the last minute.
My money is on Bob Barker, just because.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - The Minnesota Vikings are moving on without their best wide receiver, Percy Harvin.
He was placed on injured reserve Wednesday, ending his season. Harvin said in a written statement Thursday that he's disappointed he couldn't finish the year but his sprained left ankle hasn't allowed him "to progress to the point where I can help our team." He said he looks forward to "coming back stronger and better than ever."
Harvin was hurt on Nov. 4 at Seattle. The Vikings host Chicago this Sunday.
Harvin hasn't spoken to reporters in two weeks. Teammates said Thursday they wished Harvin would've been able to return but stressed the importance of focusing on the players they have available.
Harvin's full statement reads as follows:
It certainly is disappointing that I was not able to finish out this season with my teammates. As a competitor I definitely wanted to get back out on the field but my injury has just not allowed me to progress to the point where I can help our team.
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Last night I dreamed that I was married to Alec Baldwin's character from "30 Rock". (Which I love, by the way).
We filed our taxes and found that we earned $649,599. Which means, with his magical rich people math, we got $30,000 back on our taxes. Hooray America!
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This is Mayra Victoria. Me and my life partner got seven of days of vacation leave. But we don't decide where to go? So please suggest Asia nice vacation spots list.
This is very helpful to make my vacation plans.
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I would suggest you to go to Malacca to visit the historical sights like A Famosa, red house, KL to see the famous KL tower and Petronas twin tower, some shoppings, and also you should visit Penang as well...
If you like island, you can visit Pulau Tioman or Pulau Pangkor
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when do you want to go?how many days would you like to spend for?
i would suggest to go to sabah, it is really nice and th sea is very clean. then if you want to see the culture, you can go to penang and malacca to check out the culture, but its more tent to chinese culture, especially malcca.
and i think if you come to malaysia, you must visit kuala lumpur, becasue it is the capital city of malaysia. you can also see some cultural building in kuala lumpur, and modern building, those places are around bukit bintang. they are just close, not too far. you can spend 2 days to visit.
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Picture me in your head pre-preg. I am 5'2'', I'm about 110lbs. I have a sparkling way about me. Please see the visual aid <——–. This will be important information to retain for the following post.
B takes me. No, scratch that. I drag B to Pea in the Pants…or pot. Pee in the Pot for a bra. He was subjected to this trip as a result of subjecting me to the constant sound of buzzing bees in our house and then also on our special date. If you don't instantly know what I'm talking about, you are a lucky woman whose husband wasn't watching the world cup. And what a coincidence to be taken to a Mexican restaurant for your special date, the day of the Mexican soccer game, in front of the Mexican TV. And bees in Spanish? Still sound just as goddamn annoying.
ANYWAY. B owed me. So off to Pee in the Pot, the most overpriced stupid store on earth. I should open a maternity clothing store and be like, see this Forever21 dress? You need it because you're fat and it's the only thing that will make you look even somewhat like a regular human and I'm going to charge you 200 dollars. Cool? And you'd be like, give me 4. Now.
So I needed 3 things. A boppy pillow is one. If you don't know what this shit it. You are missing out. You NEED IT TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. It takes sleeping to a whole new level. If I had this when I was single I MAY not have gotten married.
Next maternity pants. But their sizes are all wonked. I was swimming in an extra small. I get that they are trying to boost my ego but the spillover on my Jcrew Minnie's is no long acceptable. So no pants = pants crisis.
Finally I need a brar, as Jill Zarin would say. Here's a tip ladies. When you get preg, your boobs blow up within 24 hours. Don't buy an expensive bra. Pick up some seashells and string or maybe just some masking tape or something else cheap because your fat cow boobs grow WEEKLY. I'm on my 3rd brar trip.
(For those of you who don't remember this picture is from the oil cleanse post. Many of you have asked about this and if it worked. I can't speak to it's effectiveness because Plankton rules my skin. That baby scoffs at any and all skin remedies. It's all, please bitch, don't even bother. I run this show)
So I'm like, Pee Pot girl, please measure me. She does (in the middle of the store) B tries to look away. She gets quiet and whispers. "you'll need an E"
what did you say pee pot? WHAT DID YOU SAY PEE POT GIRL? AN E? FOR ELAFANTITIS ENORMOUS?
oh. my.god. an E. an E and E. My boobs are going to keep growing and the eat my face and people will think I'm a two headed monster with a tiny hat on and that tiny hat will actually be my real head.
Let's revisit the point I made early on in this post. I'm 5'2'' and 110lbs with E boobs. And I was all, hmm I wonder why all the boys have been staring lately. I wonder why the guy at Panera asked me where I got my shirt?
*Note to small boobed girls. I don't want to hear it.
Sympathy only please.
PS I'm getting the ultrasound as we speak. Or as you read. I will let you know the results tomorrow. Although I'm not sure why I am even bothering. The final results of the vote were 64 to 30: BOY. And this will forever determine my level of trust in internet strangers.
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Glaucoma therapy in patients with chronic open-angle (wide-angle) glaucoma should be monitored and may need to be adjusted during Transderm Scop® (scopolamine) use, as the mydriatic effect of scopolamine may cause an increase in intraocular pressure. Transderm Scop® (scopolamine) should not be used in children and should be used with caution in the elderly. See PRECAUTIONS. Since drowsiness, disorientation, and confusion may occur with the use of scopolamine, patients should be warned of the possibility and cautioned against engaging in activities that require mental alertness, such as driving a motor vehicle or operating dangerous machinery. Rarely, idiosyncratic reactions may occur with ordinary therapeutic doses of scopolamine. The most serious of these that have been reported are: acute toxic psychosis, including confusion, agitation, rambling speech, hallucinations, paranoid behaviors, and delusions.
Scopolamine should be used with caution in patients with pyloric obstruction or urinary bladder neck obstruction. Caution should be exercised when administering an antiemetic or antimuscarinic drug to patients suspected of having intestinal obstruction.
Transderm Scop® (scopolamine) should be used with caution in the elderly or in individuals with impaired liver or kidney functions because of the increased likelihood of CNS effects.
Caution should be exercised in patients with a history of seizures or psychosis, since scopolamine can potentially aggravate both disorders.
Information for Patients
Since scopolamine can cause temporary dilation of the pupils and blurred vision if it comes in contact with the eyes, patients should be strongly advised to wash their hands thoroughly with soap and water immediately after handling the patch. In addition, it is important that used patches be disposed of properly to avoid contact with children or pets.
Patients should be advised to remove the patch immediately and promptly contact a physician in the unlikely event that they experience symptoms of acute narrow-angle glaucoma (pain and reddening of the eyes, accompanied by dilated pupils). Patients should also be instructed to remove the patch if they develop any difficulties in urinating.
Patients who expect to participate in underwater sports should be cautioned regarding the potentially disorienting effects of scopolamine. A patient brochure is available
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility
No long-term studies in animals have been completed to evaluate the carcinogenic potential of scopolamine. The mutagenic potential of scopolamine has not been evaluated. Fertility studies were performed in female rats and revealed no evidence of impaired fertility or harm to the fetus due to scopolamine hydrobromide administered by daily subcutaneous injection. Maternal body weights were reduced in the highest-dose group (plasma level approximately 500 times the level achieved in humans using a transdermal system).
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Teratogenic studies were performed in pregnant rats and rabbits with scopolamine hydrobromide administered by daily intravenous injection. No adverse effects were recorded in rats. Scopolamine hydrobromide has been shown to have a marginal embryotoxic effect in rabbits when administered by daily intravenous injection at doses producing plasma levels approximately 100 times the level achieved in humans using a transdermal system. During a clinical study among women undergoing cesarean section treated with Transderm Scop® (scopolamine) in conjunction with epidural anesthesia and opiate analgesia, no evidence of CNS depression was found in the newborns. There are no other adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Other than in the adjunctive use for delivery by cesarean section, Transderm Scop® should be used in pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
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Because scopolamine is excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when Transderm Scop® (scopolamine) is administered to a nursing woman.
Labor and Delivery
Scopolamine administered parenterally at higher doses than the dose delivered by Transderm Scop® (scopolamine) does not increase the duration of labor, nor does it affect uterine contractions. Scopolamine does cross the placenta.
Pediatric Use
The safety and effectiveness of Transderm Scop® (scopolamine) in children has not been established. Children are particularly susceptible to the side effects of belladonna alkaloids. Transderm Scop (scopolamine) should not be used in children because it is not known whether this system will release an amount of scopolamine that could produce serious adverse effects in children.This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.
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The Best DIY Projects Of The Week!Melanie Blodgett
Another fantastic week of awesome DIYs! It never ceases to amaze me the incredible and original DIYs we find on our favorite blogs each week. This week's round up has some for the home, some for the kids and of course, some just for you. My favorite DIYs this week are the cork storage box houses. I mean, how can you not love those?
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Cork Houses 2 of 16
How adorable - and useful - are these little houses? They would make the perfect addition for my desk. I need something cute to keep my stuff looking great.
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Clothes Rack 3 of 16
This is the coolest clothes rack, ever. Copper piping and concrete? It's the perfect combination for a perfect industrial rack. I love it!
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Stool 4 of 16
If painting isn't your thing or if it's too permanent, try covering your stool in tape! I love the color, don't you?
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Spiral Number 5 of 16
This is such a gorgeous and rad idea. It would be so much fun to have at a kid's birthday. Or maybe it a larger number for an adult party! Either way, the party guests will love it.
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Fun Napkins 6 of 16
These napkins are perfect! I am kind of obsessed with the whole hand-painted look. These napkins are so easy and would be great fo your next dinner party!
See more here on Sarah Hearts.
Coasters 7 of 16
Need some coasters? We could all use more coasters, right? These marbleized ones are amazing. They look expensive and fancy, but really? We know better.
See more here on Design Sponge.
School Stand 8 of 16
As much as I love lemonade stands, this one is too clever not to try! Stocked with cool school supplies and topped off with amazing yellow details. I love it.
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Ring Toss! 9 of 16
Maybe the cutest ring toss ever. This would be the perfect party game. For all ages!
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Shaped Rug 10 of 16
Make your own custom shaped rug! It's so easy, you have to try it! I would have a hard time deciding on a shape and would most likely end up with 10 rugs.
See more here on A Beautiful Mess.
Clutch 11 of 16
Just in case you are in need of a snazzy new clutch. This duct tape one would be perfect! You gotta love the black and white chevron.
See more here on Sarah Hearts.
Elastic Shoes 12 of 16
These are perfect for back to school. What mom loves putting her kids shoes on them? Let them do it themselves!
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Photo Clocks 13 of 16
It's genius. Take your favorite picture, and make it into a clock. You know you want to!
See more here on A Beautiful Mess.
Spray Paint Office Chair 14 of 16
This is one of those projects I don't want to do, because I want that exact chair. And I want it now.
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Cake Dome 15 of 16
Making a custom cake dome for a party is a genius idea. Or make one that is more neutral and use it at any party!
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Donut PiÃ�±ata 16 of 16
What's better than a giant donut? I giant donut piñata! Isn't it adorable? I want one.
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Each week the Tallahassee Democrat will feature a Q&A focused on persons in area recreation sports. Today's Q&A is with Lee Nettles, 49, who is a fixture at the The Mike Blankenship Skate Park at Messer Park. Nettles, raised in Tallahassee, owns his own skateboard shop, gives lessons, holds camps and still skateboards daily. There is a skateboard contest (Tally AM/JAM) on Saturday at Messer Park. Call 850-445-4002 or visit www.tallyamjam.com for more information on the camp and lessons.
Q: How did your love for skateboarding come about?
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