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Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali and his son will be performing at a function in the city on January 12, it was announced here on Tuesday.
Ghazhal maestro Ghulam Ali regaled the audience with his popular numbers on the concluding day of Lucknow Mahotsava here today.
Ali Fazal who is currently in Morocco attending the eminent Marrakech Film Festival with his team of 'For Here Or To Go' made a wooing fashion statement on the red carpet.
Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali will perform at the Lucknow Mahotsav 2015-2016 here on Sunday.
It has been a year of controversies. Among the many that took place in 2015, one featured the Ghazal maestro, Ghulam Ali.
Ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali was supposed to perform in Mumbai in October.
Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali on Monday arrived in the city to perform at a concert in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Asif Ali says he isn't part of the Prithviraj-starrer, which will be directed by Krishnakumar
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little spot along brice creek, in the umpqua national forest, oregon. comments are welcome and 's always appreciated! hope you enjoy and thanks for looking
Superb and amazing. How do you get such beautiful effects. Like what settings (iso, Aperature, shutter speed) do you use on your camera to get such a beautiful shot if you don't mind me asking?
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..i used an f/16, iso 100, and a 9 stop nd filter to achieve the 60 second shutter speed.
..i used an f/16, iso 100, and a 9 stop nd filter to achieve the 60 second shutter speed.
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this is delicious! exposure, details, excitement..check check and check!! excellent capture, doug!!
Great shot Doug!
Love shot..
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Test the difference between two independent means denoted as d. The difference between two population means as under minus the difference under , divided by . Assume that . The difference between under is zero.
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Best Practice: Keep the path as short as possible.
For example, when prompted for the location of the deployment (at the beginning of the Deployment Wizard), instead of specifying something like:
\\My Company\Software\Installations\Deployments\Autodes
use something more along the lines of
\\AutoCAD 2011 32-bit Install
Directly share the folder which will house the new deployment, instead of creating that folder a few directories deep in an existing shared folder.
This wouldent be as much a problem if the media library did not have file names that were 200 characters long. I think that is completely unnecessary.
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This wouldent be as much a problem if the media library did not have file names that were 200 characters long. I think that is completely unnecessary.
COMPLETELY agree.
And the problem is even worse,
because when you select at the start of creating the deployment, that you do not want the medial library to be included,
these unselected items still get copied to the deployment location and still take up unwanted disk space on the deployment server and still cause the error.
It appears that Autodesk are doing very little in this space to fix this issue. Just tried a Plant 3D 2011 deploy, and the Materials folder and filenames are completely out of control. Some filenames with nearly 100 chars!!
Some firms may have the luxury to shorten the depth of the parent deployment location, however Autodesk are not the only software vendor in the world, and we must have a logical folder naming convention to achieve deployment of 600+ other technical applications. I don't believe this is an unreasonable expectation! Obvously creating folder shares for multiple sites (25+) is impractical as well.
Moving forward, I put it back on Autodesk to have a good look at their folder and filenamng conventions (especially around Materials), and come up with a practical solution that allows us to adopt a "reasonable" parent fdeployment older structure to start with.
Windows 7 is not helping also: You have to run the link, created by the deployment "As Administrator" to install the software.
But this user is another session and does not have the (same) drive mappings, so he has to access the location using UNC paths.
Which in our case is something like \\Servername.subdomain.domain\Sharename\Intall\Win
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This solution requires Autodesk to provide the maximum allowable length of the folder path to a deployment. The users should not have to guess and guess again.
I never understood why this was an issue. The solution is simple. \\Servername\Sharename. Simple. Why people insist on making UNC shares that are themselves multiple folders deep is ridiculous. Sure, the physical folder location on the server can itself be many folders deep per company policy, ISO9000, etc., but for crying out loud, share only the last folder for deployment purposes. Navigating down thru a share to get to an installer is pointless and defeats the purpose of file and folder sharing for ease of use. Stop over complicating things and you won't have errors.
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Microwave Poached Eggs
Total Time
Prep 2 mins
Cook 2 mins
My DH used to make himself poached eggs using this method all the time. This recipe was found in Chatelaine Food Express Quickies. The cooking time includes the standing time. Note: After reading Lorrie in Montreal's review, I've added poking the egg to prevent messy explosions to the procedure :)
Ingredients Nutrition
- 14.79 ml water or 4.92 ml butter
- 1 egg
- salt
- white pepper
- grated parmesan cheese (optional)
- Heat the water or butter in a custard cup.
- Add the egg, poke it to prevent it from exploding, and sprinkle with salt, pepper and optional Parmesan.
- Cover and microwave on medium for 45 to 75 seconds.
- Let stand, with cover on, for 1 minute.
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Made for a quick and easy breakfast. I have a 900W oven and set for the 45 seconds but at 38 it started to spit so I stopped and removed, I would prefer a little less cooked so next time I will set it for 30 seconds and maybe do another 5 if needed. I used the water and did not use the optional parmesan. Thank you Dreamer in Ontario, made for Every Day A Holiday.
OH Wow!!! This really worked and my egg was cooked perfectly!! I decided to try the butter method for a change and then used the leftover butter in the dish to drizzle on my toast. I cooked mine for 70 seconds. The part I really liked was that you don't lose the egg white as you do when boiling/poaching on a stove, but also enjoyed the quickness and less clean up. I will definitely be using this method from now on!! Thanks Dreamer for sharing this wonderful method. Made for Stars Tag.
I will never make eggs any other way. . .this is fast, easy, no mess and low fat. I made mine with water and added a little Spike seasoning on top (in lieu of the salt/pepper). 60 seconds on power level 5 in my micro resulted in a running yolk. . .just as I like them!!! Such a fabulous breakfast. . .egg on fresh sourdough bread. THANKS!! This is definitely a keeper. Made for Veg*n Swap July 2009.


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Watching the English
The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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A runaway bestseller in the UK, Watching the English is now available in the U.S. for the first time! Witty and wise, Kate Fox reveals the quirks, habits, and foibles of the English people. Putting the national character under her microscope, Fox explores this strange and fascinating culture, governed by a complex set of unspoken rules and a bizarre code of conduct. Through anthropological analysis and a series of unorthodox experiments (often using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Fox discovers what these unwritten codes tell us about Englishness: the rules of weather-speak, the ironic-gnome rule, the reflex apology rule, the paranoid-pantomime rule, class anxiety tests, and the money-talk taboo, among others. Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful, and often hilarious look at English society.less
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The City of San Diego maintains 84 miles of concrete and dirt drainage channels and ditches that are designed to handle water flow from storm drains and canyon runoff and "channel" the water into the bay or ocean. There are also numerous miles of privately owned and maintained channels and ditches within the City. The Storm Water Department conducts regular inspections and performs cleaning as needed. We encourage the public to notify us when a channel or ditch is blocked or filled with debris. This will help minimize the possibility of flooding and help improve water quality.
To report pollution entering our channels and ditches, use our Service Request system.
Information about maintenance of the City's channels and ditches can be found at the Routine Channel Maintenance Activities web page.
Information about the 2010/2011 Emergency Channel Maintenance Activities can be found at the Sorrento Channel Maintenance or Nestor Channel Maintenance webpages.
Future maintenance of the City's channels and ditches are included in the Master Storm Water System Maintenance Program.
Routine Channel Maintenance Activities
The purpose of this work is to maintain existing storm water facilities by restoring their original design capacity to provide public safety and protection of property. The City must routinely maintain the drainage channels through periodic removal of trash, debris, vegetation and accumulated sediment.
Prior to any maintenance activity, detailed hydrological, biological and cultural studies are conducted to identify where maintenance is needed, the best method to conduct needed maintenance, and the specific maintenance protocols that will be used to protect water quality and natural resources. A detailed Individual Hydrologic and Hydraulic Assessment (IHHA) is performed to determine the design flood conveyance capacity of the facility, its current conveyance capacity, the sources and quantity of obstruction (e.g. accumulation of sediment and/or vegetation), the quantity of materials to be removed, the method of removal and the amount of flood conveyance that will be achieved after maintenance.
An Individual Biological Assessment (IBA) is conducted to quantify the types of vegetation present in the facility and the presence of, and the potential for that vegetation to support threatened or endangered species. The IBA also identifies the mitigation measures needed to ensure that the maintenance does not affect natural resources. Individual Historic Assessment (IHA) surveys are conducted to identify the presence of archaeological resources and the potential of the facility to support cultural resources, and identify mitigation measures needed to ensure that cultural resources are not affected.
Based on the specific results of the hydrological, biological and cultural studies, the Storm Water Division creates an Individual Maintenance Plan (IMP) that identifies the maintenance method(s) to be used, equipment type, appropriate Best Management Practices (BMP), access locations, staging areas, spoils storage sites, and schedule. In addition, the IMP incorporates relevant maintenance protocols as well as specific mitigation measures identified in the IHHA, IBA and IHA for the activity.
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The City of San Diegos Storm Water Division is developing a prioritization plan for future storm water channel maintenance efforts. The plan includes an opportunity for public input regarding the selection of channels to be included in the Citys maintenance program in the years ahead. The City will incorporate public concerns and input as part of the selection process along with evaluations of hydrology and potential impacts from flooding.
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I am really not big on speculative, future prediction posts. There are too many factors in our highly complex world that can derail even the most well researched and thought out theories for how our industry could develop, so I am going to shy away from predictions per se. Instead, I'll consider some general directions, and why other people's predictions make me laugh and make me feel like a Knowledge Management / Enterprise Content Management Grinch! Prepare for a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past ...
2012 -- Good, Bad or Ugly ?
Whether we look at Knowledge Management (KM) strategies and the tools to enable them, Enterprise Content Management (i.e. the enterprise wide efforts to manage unstructured content) or the collaboration space, it is actually quite difficult to make sweeping statements about the industry's performance over the last year, never mind make highly accurate predictions for the next one.
Let's take the categorizations from a piece of research commissioned by AIIM; these being the relationships between systems of record and systems of engagement, and a focus through three specific lenses -- Social, Local and Mobile (SoLoMo).
For a start, if you're not an old cynic like me and actually believe that there are massive distinctions between systems of record and systems of engagement, rather than just "old ECM marketing" and "add social to everything" -- would you say there were improvements during the year in both sectors?
If you work in the systems of record space, did IBM or EMC Documentum roll out any jaw dropping new capabilities in "in place or in context records management"? Perhaps OpenText or Hyland introduced some stunning new technology?
Even if they did, would your organization have the budget handy to implement it in the first year? Or would you still be writing the business case now, for say, fiscal year 2015 funding ?
It appears to be the nature of the content management systems that might be categorized as "systems of record," or document and records management systems (and perhaps out of our scope, our ERP and HRM systems, etc.) that they are not "sexy" -- they do what they do, and unless you're under regulatory pressure to improve them (for example, in the Pharmaceutical industry), then there is often something considered to be higher priority that you will be fighting for the money.
Obviously this differs by industry sector, but if your organization is a laggard, then while everyone else is looking to add "social" and focus on the systems of engagement, you're stuck with scanning, imaging, workflow and repositories; trying to reduce the mountains of paper -- a worthy course for sure, but old hat, and not the stuff of exciting predictions.
So did your organization get to focus on systems of engagement in 2012? Was it considered important? Or more to the point, was there budgetary tension between what was more important, engaging with customers / clients, or engaging with employees? Perhaps you're lucky enough to be in an enlightened organization that considers both groups to be vitally and equally important?


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Scholarship of Historian and Author David Reynolds
A panel examines the historical scholarship of David Reynolds, author of biographies of John Brown and Walt Whitman and histories of the… read more
A panel examines the historical scholarship of David Reynolds, author of biographies of John Brown and Walt Whitman and histories of the mid-19th century. The panelists include Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed; Sean Wilentz, history professor at Princeton University; Brenda Wineapple, author of the recently published Ecstatic Nation:Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877; and Bill Kelly, interim chancellor at the City University of New York. The panel discussion,hosted by the CityUniversity of New York Graduate Center,is followedwith a response by David Reynolds. close
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Uses of GBIF in scientific research
Extracted from the Mendeley GBIF Public Library.
List of publications
Kraemer M, Sinka M, Duda K, Mylne A, Shearer F, Barker C et al. (2015)
The global distribution of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus
eLife 4 e08347.
Dengue and chikungunya are increasing global public health concerns due to their rapid geographical spread and increasing disease burden. Knowledge of the contemporary distribution of their shared vectors, Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus remains incomplete and is complicated by an ongoing range expansion fuelled by increased global trade and travel. Mapping the global distribution of these vectors and the geographical determinants of their ranges is essential for public health planning. Here we compile the largest contemporary database for both species and pair it with relevant environmental variables predicting their global distribution. We show Aedes distributions to be the widest ever recorded; now extensive in al l continents, including North America and Europe. These maps will help define the spatial limits of current autochthonous transmission of dengue and chikungunya viruses. It is only with this kind of rigorous entomological baseline that we can hope to project future health impacts of these viruses.
Keywords: Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, arboviruses, chikungunya, dengue, ecological niche, yellow fever
Lin Y, Deng D, Lin W, Lemmens R, Crossman N, Henle K et al. (2015)
Uncertainty analysis of crowd-sourced and professionally collected field data used in species distribution models of Taiwanese moths
Biological Conservation 181 102-110.
The purposes of this study are to extract the names of species and places for a citizen-science monitoring program, to obtain crowd-sourced data of acceptable quality, and to assess the quality and the uncertainty of predictions based on crowd-sourced data and professional data. We used Natural Language Processing to extract names of species and places from text messages in a citizen science project. Bootstrap and Maximum Entropy methods were used to assess the uncertainty in the model predictions based on crowd-sourced data from the EnjoyMoths project in Taiwan. We compared uncertainty in the predictions obtained from the project and from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) field data for seven focal species of moth. The proximity to locations of easy access and the Ripley K method were used to test the level of spatial bias and randomness of the crowd-sourced data against GBIF data. Our results show that extracting information to identify the names of species and their locations from crowd-sourced data performed well. The results of the spatial bias and randomness tests revealed that the crowd-sourced data and GBIF data did not differ significantly in respect to both spatial bias and clustering. The prediction models developed using the crowd-sourced dataset were the most effective, followed by those that were developed using the combined dataset. Those that performed least well were based on the small sample size GBIF dataset. Our method demonstrates the potential for using data collected by citizen scientists and the extraction of information from vast social networks. Our analysis also shows the value of citizen science data to improve biodiversity information in combination with data collected by professionals.
Keywords: Citizen science, Large-scale monitoring program, Natural language, Prediction of species distribution, Social media, Uncertainty, Volunteer survey
Moonlight P, Richardson J, Tebbitt M, Thomas D, Hollands R, Peng C et al. (2015)
Continental-scale diversification patterns in a megadiverse genus: the biogeography of Neotropical Begonia
Journal of Biogeography 42(6) 1137-1149.
Aim The origin of Neotropical hyperdiversity is one of the most intriguing questions in modern biogeography and is best answered through the investigation of large, pantropically distributed genera, allowing the comparison of closely related clades in different regions. We produced a dated phylogeny and reconstructed ancestral ranges of the megadiverse, Andean-centred genus Begonia to discern its dispersal history throughout the Neotropics and correlates of range evolution. Neotropical and Palaeotropical diversification rates were estimated. Location Neotropics: Central America, South America, West Indies and Mexico. Methods Plastid DNA sequence data from species representing the full geographical range and majority of sections of Neotropical Begonia were analysed with a secondarily calibrated relaxed molecular clock in order to estimate the age of crown groups and divergence times within Neotropical Begonia. Ancestral areas were reconstructed with a Bayesian approach to dispersal–vicariance analysis, a likelihood framework under a dispersal–extinction–cladogenesis model, and a Bayesian binary method. Diversification rates were estimated under a Bayesian framework. Results Biogeographical reconstruction indicated two independent trans-Atlantic colonizations of the Neotropics from Africa. Early-diverging lineages of both clades are reconstructed as having diversified in the mid-Miocene, with multiple dispersal events between the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest and the Andes, and single radiations within the West Indies and Central America plus Mexico. Main conclusions Begonia displays numerous radiations within regions, punctuated by long-distance dispersal. Successful colonization and diversification is predicted by the presence of upland habitat. Recognizing the role of chance dispersal events between available habitats is vital for understanding the formation of current biogeographical patterns.
Keywords: Ancestral area reconstruction, Begonia, Neotropics, dispersal, diversification, historical biogeography, hybridization
Chao Y, Rouhan G, Amoroso V, Chiou W (2014)
Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the fern genus Pteris (Pteridaceae)
Annals of Botany 109-124.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Pteris (Pteridaceae), comprising over 250 species, had been thought to be a monophyletic genus until the three monotypic genera Neurocallis, Ochropteris and Platyzoma were included. However, the relationships between the type species of the genus Pteris, P. longifolia, and other species are still unknown. Furthermore, several infrageneric morphological classifications have been proposed, but are debated. To date, no worldwide phylogenetic hypothesis has been proposed for the genus, and no comprehensive biogeographical history of Pteris, crucial to understanding its cosmopolitan distribution, has been presented. METHODS: A molecular phylogeny of Pteris is presented for 135 species, based on cpDNA rbcL and matK and using maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference approaches. The inferred phylogeny was used to assess the biogeographical history of Pteris and to reconstruct the evolution of one ecological and four morphological characters commonly used for infrageneric classifications. KEY RESULTS: The monophyly of Pteris remains uncertain, especially regarding the relationship of Pteris with Actiniopteris + Onychium and Platyzoma. Pteris comprises 11 clades supported by combinations of ecological and morphological character states, but none of the characters used in previous classifications were found to be exclusive synapomorphies. The results indicate that Pteris diversified around 47 million years ago, and when species colonized new geographical areas they generated new lineages, which are associated with morphological character transitions. CONCLUSIONS: This first phylogeny of Pteris on a global scale and including more than half of the diversity of the genus should contribute to a new, more reliable infrageneric classification of Pteris, based not only on a few morphological characters but also on ecological traits and geographical distribution. The inferred biogeographical history highlights long-distance dispersal as a major process shaping the worldwide distribution of the species. Colonization of different niches was followed by subsequent morphological diversification. Dispersal events followed by allopatric and parapatric speciation contribute to the species diversity of Pteris.
Keywords: actiniopteris, allopatric speciation, biogeography, brake ferns, long-distance dispersal, mat k, morphological character evolution, onychium, parapatric speciation, phylogeny, platyzoma, pteridaceae, pteris, rbc l
Chang Y, Chuang T (2013)
A study of using grey system theory and artificial neural network on the climbing ability of Buergeria robusta frog
Open Journal of Ecology 03(02) 83-93.
Keywords: artificial neural, buergeria robusta, ecological engineering, grey system theory, network
Wang W, McKay B, Dai C, Zhao N, Zhang R, Qu Y et al. (2013)
Glacial expansion and diversification of an East Asian montane bird, the green-backed tit (Parus monticolus)
Journal of Biogeography 40(6) 1156-1169.
Aim We combined genetic sequence data and ecological niche modelling to resolve the impacts of past climatic fluctuations on the distribution, genetic diversification, and demographic dynamics of an East Asian montane bird, the green-backed tit (Parus monticolus). Location East Asia. Methods Phylogenetic analyses were carried out using four mitochondrial fragments and seven nuclear loci from 161 birds sampled from 29 localities spanning the entire geographical range of the green-backed tit. We used *beast to estimate the species tree and calculate divergence times. Extended Bayesian skyline plots were used to infer potential historical shifts in population size. We used MaxEnt to predict potential distributions during three periods: the present day, the Last Glacial Maximum and the Last Interglacial. Results The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gene tree showed strong support for three reciprocally monophyletic groups: a south-western clade, a central clade and a Taiwanese clade. Taiwanese and Vietnamese samples had fixed differences at several nuclear loci, but the south-western and central samples shared haplotypes at all nuclear loci. The mtDNA gene tree topology differed from the species tree topology. The species tree suggested sister relationships between Taiwanese and Vietnamese operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and between south-western and central OTUs. Diversification within the green-backed tit was relatively recent, probably within the last 0.9 million years. Extended Bayesian skyline plots suggested rapid population expansion in the south-western and central phylogroups after the Last Interglacial, and this result was consistent with ecological niche models. Main conclusions Our results suggest that genetic diversification within the green-backed tit was affected by the later Pleistocene climate fluctuations. Ecological niche models indicated that the present-day vegetation distribution was, in many ways, more similar to that of the Last Glacial Maximum than it was to that of the Last Interglacial. Continental populations of the green-backed tit experienced unusual demographic and range expansion that is likely to have occurred during the cooling transition between the Last Interglacial and the Last Glacial Maximum. We found incongruence between the mtDNA gene tree and the species tree, which underscores the importance of using both mitochondrial and nuclear markers when estimating the evolutionary history of populations.
Keywords: East Asia, Parus monticolus, birds, ecological niche modelling, green-backed tit, historical demography, phylogeography, spatial dynamics, species tree
Chiang Y, Huang B, Liao P (2012)
Diversification, Biogeographic Pattern, and Demographic History of Taiwanese Scutellaria Species Inferred from Nuclear and Chloroplast DNA
PLoS ONE 7(11) e50844.
The ragged topography created by orogenesis generates diversified habitats for plants in Taiwan. In addition to colonization from nearby mainland China, high species diversity and endemism of plants is also present in Taiwan. Five of the seven Scutellaria species (Lamiaceae) in Taiwan, for example, are endemic to the island. Hypotheses of multiple sources or in situ radiation have arisen to explain the high endemism of Taiwanese species. In this study, phylogenetic analyses using both nuclear and chloroplast markers revealed the multiple sources of Taiwanese Scutellaria species and confirmed the rapid and recent speciation of endemic species, especially those of the ''indica group'' composed of S. indica, S. austrotaiwanensis, S. tashiroi, and S. playfairii. The common ancestors of the indica group colonized first in northern Taiwan and dispersed regionally southward and eastward. Climate changes during glacial/interglacial cycles led to gradual colonization and variance events in the ancestors of these species, resulting in the present distribution and genetic differentiation of extant populations. Population decline was also detected in S. indica, which might reflect a bottleneck effect from the glacials. In contrast, the recently speciated endemic members of the indica group have not had enough time to accumulate much genetic variation and are thus genetically insensitive to demographic fluctuations, but the extant lineages were spatially expanded in the coalescent process. This study integrated phylogenetic and population genetic analyses to illustrate the evolutionary history of Taiwanese Scutellaria of high endemism and may be indicative of the diversification mechanism of plants on continental islands.
Keywords: East Asia, Parus monticolus, birds, ecological niche modelling, green-backed tit, historical demography, phylogeography, spatial dynamics, species tree
Henk D, Shahar-Golan R, Devi K, Boyce K, Zhan N, Fedorova N et al. (2012)
Clonality Despite Sex: The Evolution of Host-Associated Sexual Neighborhoods in the Pathogenic Fungus Penicillium marneffei
PLoS Pathogens 8(10) e1002851.
Keywords: East Asia, Parus monticolus, birds, ecological niche modelling, green-backed tit, historical demography, phylogeography, spatial dynamics, species tree
Lai K, Cheng Y, Chen Y, Li Y, Shao K (2012)
Applying cluster analysis and Google Maps in the study of large-scale species occurrence data
Biodiversity Science 20(1) 76-85.
The primary species occurrence data include the data on animal and plant specimens in museums and herbaria, as well as species observations. TaiBIF (Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility) data portal has integrated 26 datasets so far, resulting in more than 1.5 million species occurrence data; 85% of them are geo-referenced. This study utilizes more than 8,800 Cyprinidae occurrence data from 11 datasets and uses three different types of clustering algorithms—grid-based, partition-based, and density-based—to produce different spatial visualization results. It aims to resolve the problems of efficacy and poor visualization when large scales of species occurrence data are presented in Google Maps. The study also explores the compara- tive differences between the results obtained from the three clustering algorithms and the expert opinion range maps of Cyprinidae. It hopes to identify a quick and efficient way to present species distribution data, in turn help researchers to extract knowledge from large amount of data so that the knowledge can be tapped as important reference for ecological conservation efforts.
Keywords: biodiversity informatics, cluster analysis, species occurrence data, visualization
Wu T, Lee P, Lin R, Wu J, Walther B (2012)
Modeling the Distribution of Rare or Cryptic Bird Species of Taiwan
Taiwania 57(4) 342-358.
For the study of the macroecology and conservation of Taiwan's birds, there was an urgent need to develop distribution models of bird species whose distribution had never before been modeled. Therefore, we here model the distributions of 27 mostly rare and cryptic breeding bird species using a statistical approach which has been shown to be especially reliable for modeling species with a low sample size of presence localities, namely the maximum entropy (Maxent) modeling technique. For this purpose, we began with a dedicated attempt to collate as much high-quality distributional data as possible, assembling databases from several scientific reports, contacting individual data recorders and searching publicly accessible database, the internet and the available literature. This effort resulted in 2022 grid cells of 1 × 1 km size being associated with a presence record for one of the 27 species. These records and 10 pre-selected environmental variables were then used to model each species' probability distribution which we show here with all grid cells below the lowest presence threshold being converted to zeros. We then in detail discuss the interpretation and applicability of these distributions, whereby we pay close attention to habitat requirements, the intactness and fragmentation of their habitat, the general detectability of the species and data reliability. This study is another one in an ongoing series of studies which highlight the usefulness of using large electronic databases and modern analytical methods to help with the monitoring and assessment of Taiwan's bird species.
Keywords: biogeography, conservation status, gis, rarity, taiwan avifauna


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UPDATE: The La Jolla (CA) Light mistakenly reported Cromartie as being "arrested" and has since changed the headline of its story.
UPDATE: The SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE reports that Stephen Cooper was also in the bar with Cromartie when the alleged assault took place.
UPDATE: The man who covers the Chargers the closest, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE beat writer Kevin Acee, reports "Before everyone jumps on Cromartie, several sources telling me it wasn't him who threw bottle. Just saying we need to let facts come out."
Not disputing Acee's sources, but Cromartie's "it slipped" admission to police doesn't exactly work in his favor.
The LA JOLLA (CA) LIGHT headlines today that Antonio Cromartie has been arrested by San Diego police for his role in an altercation at a San Diego bar last night.
(Ironic Tweet from Cromartie's official "CrimeTime31" account last night)
Cromartie allegedly threw a champagne bottle that hit another person in the head at Bar West, 959 Hornblend St., around 1:15 a.m., according to the San Diego Police Department.
The Pro Bowl star said that it "slipped out of his hand," said department spokesman Detective Gary Hassen. No injuries were serious enough to require hospital treatment, according to the detective, and no one was arrested.
Hassen said a police report about the fight would be turned over to the City Attorney's Office for review later Monday.
The headline indicates that Cromartie has been arrested, but the copy states otherwise. That seems like an either/or, so a clarification should be forthcoming.
Meanwhile, Cromartie's agent Gary Wichard has also addressed his client's possible involvement in the incident. And Wichard's comments suggest that more Chargers were involved in the incident.
From TMZ:
UPDATE: Cromartie's agent, Gary Wichard, seems to be throwing Antonio's teammates under the bus, telling TMZ, "This is absolutely not a story. Antonio didn't throw the bottle. There were actually three other players involved. Antonio is at a complex working out. Again, this is not a story."
UPDATE #2: After we posted Wichard's statement, his story changed. Here is what he's telling us now: "he was there with 2 other players … no one was involved in the fight."
Sounds like some serious damage controlling going on by Cromartie's agent. And with Wichard presenting the possibility that four Chargers were involved, it's safe to assume that this story is only getting started.


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Innocently seeking a cheap, no-redeeming-qualities evening in front of the TV, I innocently rented something called The List from Netflix. I thought I was getting the new erotic thriller starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman about a sex club whose rich and powerful members are recorded on "The List." Sort of the Eliot Spitzer story without Eliot Spitzer by name. I'd seen a trailer for The List and thought it would be a cheap and degrading way to waste two hours instead of watching Fox News parse Obama's threatening hand gestures.
But wait, The List turned out to be a Christian propaganda film (along the lines of those Rapture movies, I suppose) about a lawyer who becomes involved with the rich and powerful heirs of greedy old Confederate money grubbers—known as "The Covenant List." Except that this list was all about raw cash and not sex. (It is a Christian movie after all.)
OK, after some research, I figured out that Deception was originally titled The List, and then switched (perhaps to avoid confusion with this or with a new Wayne Brady comedy of the same name). It was also tentatively titled The Tourist. But a few trailers slipped out under the old name.(And just to add to the confusion, 199's The List with Madchen Amic and Ben Gazzara is all about a prostitute who keeps a list of her powerful clients in order to blackmail them.)
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Following up, Renny is initiated into the Covenant List, a group of wealthy Southerners descended form some plantation owners. About the time the Yankees were coming (we see this in a hazy flashback), the original list members hid their gold and swore in blood to watch it grow thanks to the miracle of compound interest. Does it help that Malcolm McDowell, wearing a white big-daddy suit and attempting a Southern accent, plays the major domo of the group? I thought not. Suppose I throw in Pat Hingle? Will Patton? Still no sale?
While Renny is allowed in to this exclusive club, the long-lost daughter (Hilarie Burton of One Tree Hill) of another member is denied a seat at the table because she's a woman—they thought she was Joe, but she's really Jo. Don't these secret societies keep better records than that?
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Science fiction is fun to watch on the screen but living it, probably not so much. As if government snooping was not bad enough, soon we can spy on each other. Google Glass, futuristic eyeglasses that contain a built-in computer, enables the wearer to secretly record everything around him. If someone doesn't devise legal or technological protections against such electronic intrusions, what's left of privacy soon will go the way of the buggy whip and the singing telegram.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin introduced Google's edgy optical gimmick in 2012. Resembling eyewear, it projects a heads-up display on the lens that can be activated by a simple voice command or the casual tap of a finger. Glass provides Internet access, and video and snapshot capability to which smartphone users are accustomed. While a phone must be held toward its target, Glass enables a wearer to record what he sees and hears surreptitiously. A developmental model is available to testers for $1,500, and a less-expensive consumer model is expected to go on sale later this year.
Eight members of Congress sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page last month asking for answers to privacy questions raised by the new wearable computer. How would Google prevent the gathering of data from non-users without their consent, regardless of whether the company intended to store the data? Would the glasses include facial-recognition technology to allow users to identify passersby at once and collect sensitive personal information? Some nightclubs and bars have already banned the device, lest patrons having too much fun be captured in something to go viral.
Privacy commissioners from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel raised similar privacy questions in a June 18 letter to Mr. Page. They asked for a demonstration of Glass' capabilities and an opportunity to test the product themselves. The search giant promised that it won't incorporate facial recognition "without having strong privacy protections in place."
Such assurances may not relieve the public's fear that everyone and his Big Brother is watching. Who would trust Big Brother? The Obama administration has smashed existing privacy barriers with the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to enable the National Security Agency to harvest the phone and Internet use of all 314 million Americans. Tapping into the video feeds of Glass users would be the next logical step.
With no help from Congress, Americans will find ways to be left alone. A New York artist has designed a line of reflective apparel, including hoodies, scarves and capes, sort of like a chador, to shield wearers from prying cameras. That's extreme, but so is gawking.
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