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- Title
- TCP over OBS: fixed-point load and loss
- Author(s)
- Cameron, Craig; Vu, Hai Le; Choi, Jung; Bilgrami, Syed; Zukerman, Moshe; Kang, Minho
- Abstract
- The sending rate of commonly used TCP protocols is tightly coupled to packet loss within the network: a high rate of packet loss will cause a sender to slow down, thereby reducing the network load and decreasing subsequent packet loss rates. In this paper, we combine a widely verified source rate TCP model with an Optical Burst Switching (OBS) loss model, to find fixed-point input loads and loss rates for an OBS link carrying TCP traffic. In doing so, we show that if OBS networks are to be efficiently used to carry TCP traffic, many wavelengths with full wavelength conversion are required.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Optics Express, Vol. 13, no. 23 (Nov 2005), p. 9167-9174
- Publication year
- 2005
- Keyword(s)
- Fibre optics; Network protocols; OBS; Optical communications; Packet networks; TCP protocols; Telecommunication links
- Publisher
- Optical Society of America
- 1094-4087
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- Copyright © 2005 Optical Society of America. Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. This paper was published in Optics Express and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.13.009167. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
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Mikey Martin Race Report: Knoxville Half Mile
NEWS September 15, 2011
Photo by Dave Hoenig
Hey everyone,
Here is our race report from the Knoxville, Iowa Half Mile. This was probably the fastest half mile Ive ever been on. It was my first time on this track other then walking across it in the mud last year when we got rained out.
My day started off a little rocky, we couldn't figure out the gearing throughout the whole day. The first round of qualifying I felt really fast but something wasn't right. I qualified fourteenth in the first session. We made some changes and gave it another go. I ran a wore down tire on the last session to see if I could hook up better, but it was too slippery; we had made a bad choice and new we should have gone to a new tire.
In overall qualifying I ended up twenty-seventh, by far the worst I've ever qualified. That means third row starting grid position in the heat race. I knew I had to work ten-times harder to get to the front. I got a great start and worked my way up to finish sixth. That gave me a direct transfer to the main event on the second row on the outside.
Right before the main, Dick (my mechanic) changed the gearing again and was hopeful we had made the right choice. I came from the second row and passed five riders on the outside coming out of turn four. On the first lap I found myself in fourth, and that is where I finished. I almost made a last lap pass for third place, but could not make it stick.
It was just a crazy day.... I worked as hard as I could which made it a great ending to a very challenging day. My fourth place finish added a few more points to our series lead with three rounds to go.
The next race is North Central Speedway in Brainerd, Minnesota this will be the last round in the Mid-West before traveling back to the West Coast for the last two rounds.
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Video: Mother Charged With Leaving Baby In Hot Car
ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA9) -- The hearing for 32-year-old Zoraida Magali Conde Hernandez was continued until Wednesday.
Hernandez, the mother of a baby who was left to die in a hot car, has been charged with felony child neglect, officials say.
On Monday, the courtroom was packed with supporters, including Hernandez's husband, WUSA9 reporter Peggy Fox says.
On July 5, Hernandez left her 8-month-old boy in her vehicle in a parking lot in the 200 block of N. Glebe Rd. for approximately six hours while she went to work, Arlington County Police said.
She noticed the baby in the car when she arrived at daycare to pick up one of her other children, officials said.
The baby was unresponsive and she immediately drove to INOVA Alexandria Hospital where the baby was pronounced dead, officials said.
Hernandez is being held on no bond at the Arlington County Detention Facility.
Residents are upset to hear it happened to one of their neighbors, "When I heard about the 8-month-old, it made me sick, I wanted to cry, I want to cry now."
According to KidsandCars.Org, 38 children, on average, die in hot cars each year. They say even the best of parents and caregivers can overlook a sleeping child.
Experts say you can put a mirror in the back to have a visual of your child for rear facing car seats, put bags and purses in the back to force you to open the back door and look before you lock.
The baby's grandmother did not want to talk on camera but relatives say Hernandez is a good mother to her five children.
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Tragically, this was the second baby to die in a hot car Friday. In Baltimore County, a 16-month-old baby girl was left inside a truck. A relative had meant to drop off the child at daycare but realized four hours later the mistake when she went to pick up the toddler at daycare and she wasn't there.


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Author and entrepreneur Peggy Moran knows the exact moment that triggered her decision to resume her education. It was in 2008, when her college-aged daughter was hospitalized with a life-threatening condition.
"That changed the way I view the present tense," Moran says. "Everything suddenly became more meaningful, and time became of the essence in a different way."


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Today as we joined my son's family for dinner to celebrate my birthday, I was able to deliver the genealogy book and pedigree chart that I've prepared for Matt. In the photo above my granddaughter Alyssa looks on as my husband comments "If each of these people on this pedigree hadn't come together, you wouldn't be YOU."
Our granddaughters Taylor (top) and Alyssa (bottom) serve as anchors to hold down the unrolled 12 foot pedigree. Their request upon seeing their dad's ancestor chart was "Can you make us one, Grandma?" Since their dad's pedigree is 12 feet long, each of their's will probably be in excess of 20 feet. I'll let you know when I get them printed.
My granddaughter Taylor is showing some early interest in family history (Hooray!) as she reads the reports I put in a book for Matt's birth mother.
Alyssa is anticipating the day when she can leaf through her own genealogy book. This Grandma better get busy!
I wish I had known when my daughter-in-law was going to snap this picture of me and Matt…I'd have smiled!


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You may have heard the ads in recent weeks making an offer to Maine consumers: Pay up on unreported sales taxes for items bought out of state, or on the Internet, and avoid paying a penalty. State officials had hoped that the 2012 Maine Use Tax Compliance program - launched at the beginning of last month - would bring in more than $5.5 million in revenue. But with less than two days to go before the amnesty offer expires, Stan Campbell of Maine Revenue Services says the amount raised is well short of expectations.
"As of this morning, from all the returns that were processed up to Wednesday evening, $913,000 has come in," says Stan Campbell of Maine Revenue Services.
That compares to $7 million raised back in 2006 over a six-month campaign. Campbell attributes the much weaker numbers this year to the fact that more online retailers are now charging a sales tax. Also he says Mainers are now much more aware of use tax requirements and are declaring it on their annual tax returns.
"Back in 2006 we were receiving about $1 million on the individual income tax return. The last three of four years that has gone up to about $3 million a year, so obviously the awareness got out there to the taxpayers," Campbell says.
The 5 percent "use tax" is effectively a backup to the sales tax, to make sure the state doesn't miss out on revenue from purchases for which no tax was paid. Over the years, that has typically meant items bought via mail order catalogs, over the phone, or out of state - in places like New Hampshire, for example, where no sales tax is charged. In recent years, it has increasingly refered to purchases made over the Internet, where a retailer is not usually required to charge sales tax.
The latest compliance program - which cost the state almost $300,000 - appeals to Mainers to estimate what, if any, use tax they may owe between 2006 and 2012. They are asked to pay tax only for the three years during that period in which their tax liability is the highest. Payment must be made by the middle of next year.
Stan Campbell admits the collection of use tax is very difficult to enforce, and that the compliance program is basically an honor system. Tax experts agree.
"The use tax is really a hard tax to administer," says Christopher McLoon (left), a Portland tax attorney, who says many of his larger clients are not aware that some of their large purchases are exempt - manufacturing equipment for example. He says these exemptions are not spelled out by the state in its summary of the compliance program.
"It's a hard tax to investigate, so many purchases are not really well documented, not reported to the state," McLoon says. So really, a lot of times the use tax is paid only because somebody comes forward and says, 'I bought this.' And it's purely voluntary."
McLoon says the answer to this problem is really a wider policy issue, and the solution may lie in multi-state agreements requiring online retailers to charge sales tax. Bricks-and-mortar retailers in Maine and elsewhere have long argued the case for this kind of "level playing field." John Porter is president of the Bangor Chamber of Commerce.
"All our local merchants would like to see some kind of consistent sales taxing policy across state lines," Porter says, "because they're competing with out-of-state folks who, in many cases, if they don't have a Maine-based operation, they're not collecting taxes."
And this, he says, speaks to the need for the tax system to catch up with the 21st century. Stan Campbell of Maine Revenue Services estimates the state is losing $15 million to $20 million a year in unpaid use tax.
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Watch the full broadcast of last year's AMA Pro Flat Track Finals presented by Law Tigers. The points had a three-way battle for the AMA Pro Grand National Championship. #9 Jared Mees, #1 Jake Johnson (now #5) and #7 Sammy Halbert were all within contention to walk away with the 2012 Grand National Championship. Watch how the on-track action unfolded.
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Using equipment that expands on technology funded by NNSA's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, an international team has achieved the first successful measurement of the spin rate of a supermassive black hole. The team included scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In addition, Livermore's High Energy Focusing Telescope served as the predecessor to NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, which was used to complete the study. The findings are significant because they enhance scientists' understanding of how black holes and galaxies evolve.
Read more here.
About the photo:
Above is an artist's rendering of a supermassive black hole. Matter flowing into the center forms an accretion disk around it and the black hole's spin creates an outflowing jet of energetic particles.
NNSA Acting Administrator Neile Miller last week hosted New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez and Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam while the governors were in Washington, D.C., to attend the National Governors Association winter meeting.
The engagements provided Miller the opportunity to thank the governors for their active and steadfast support of NNSA's laboratories and plants in their states. NNSA recognizes the central leadership role the governors play in support of the NNSA mission and appreciates the opportunity to advance the national nuclear security agenda to a broader cross-section of the nation.
Y-12 recently held its second annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering event, during which some 400 girls in grades 9–12 from area schools were encouraged to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The girls interacted with women working in the engineering field and experienced hands-on activities at various exhibits hosted by Y-12, ORNL, the University of Tennessee and other engineering organizations.
About the photos:
Above, Natalie Layne, Coalfield High sophomore, checks out a ultrasonic detector demonstration at the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at Y-12's New Hope Center. In ultrasonic testing, short ultrasonic pulse-waves are launched into materials to detect internal flaws or to characterize materials.
Below, University of Tennessee alumni Dr. Jamie Porter, of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, was the keynote speaker at the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at Y-12's New Hope Center.
Lindsey VanNess, a contract specialist/contracting officer with NNSA's Sandia Field Office (NA-00-SN), was selected as the NNSA Office of Infrastructure and Operations (NA-00) Employee of the Year for 2012. Lindsey is the first NA-00 employee to receive this distinguished recognition.
Lindsey was selected for her exceptional contributions to NNSA including the benchmarking of Department of Energy plans and for crafting guidance resulting in authorship of an Enterprise-implementable Strategic Performance Evaluation Plan (PEP). The PEP will ensure consistency across the enterprise and assess the management and operating contractors on common criteria. Additionally, Lindsey has been a key player on the Sandia Acquisition Strategy Team and the Sandia Source Evaluation Board.
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Sandia Field Office Manager Geoff Beausoleil presents Lindsey VanNess with the NNSA Office of Infrastructure and Operations (NA-00) Employee of the Year for 2012 award.
Eileen Johnston, assistant manager for Safeguards and Security at the NNSA's Sandia Field Office, was recently awarded the NNSA Silver Medal. Eileen was selected for the award by former NNSA Administrator Tom D'Agostino for her exceptional service and unwavering dedication and commitment to safeguards and security for the NNSA and DOE.
Eileen's leadership and oversight expertise has set the standard for safeguards and security budget development across the Enterprise. Her high-level guidance and direction helped to ensure effective and efficient utilization of safeguards and security funds by Sandia National Laboratories. It is estimated that the cost savings at the site are in excess of $2 million. Eileen has made significant contributions by applying her knowledge and leadership to assist at other NNSA sites as well. Her security subject matter expertise was invaluable in the recent technical evaluation of security performance and past data at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
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Sandia Field Office Manager Geoff Beausoleil presents Eileen Johnston with the NNSA Silver Medal.
Sandia National Laboratories this week celebrated the formal opening of its Cybersecurity Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL). Among those who spoke at the opening were Sandia Labs' Director Paul Hommert, Cray Computer's CEO Pete Ungaro, Senator Tom Udall, Representative Ben Ray Lujan, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, and Dimitri Kusnezov, NNSA Chief Scientist and Director of the Office of Science and Policy.
The CERL, located in the Sandia Science and Technology Park in Albuquerque, N.M., is part of the Cyber Engineering Research Institute (CERI) which include Sandia's cyber research staff and two facilities: CERL and the Cyber Technology Research Laboratory (CTRL), located in the Livermore Valley Open Campus in California. The CERI focuses on open, exploratory research in cyber security in partnership with academia and industry and provides collaborators an accessible portal to Sandia's cybersecurity experts and facilities. The two research facilities are established outside Sandia's classified campus to facilitate hosting of academic and industry collaborators.
The NIF team completed a record 28 laser shots on targets last month, along with two shots without targets. January also saw a significant increase in NIF's experimental flexibility, as the team completed 40 laser wavelength changes – more than double the number in any previous month. Changing the laser wavelength by a few angstroms in different cones of laser beams enables researchers to adjust the amount of energy reaching different areas of the hohlraum targets.
Read more.
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Technician Frank Cebreros tests the activation of the target shroud in the NIF cryogenic target positioner (CryoTARPOS) in preparation for the Jan. 6 tantalum EOS experiment.
Y-12 recently honored 12 individuals for receiving U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patents and 74 individuals for submitting invention disclosures. The individuals were honored at the ninth annual Y-12 Technology Transfer awards ceremony.
The year was a record-breaking one for new patents at Y-12, with 11 awarded. The Silver Acorn Award, presented to first-time patent recipients, went to Ed Babelay, Bill Barkman, Amy DeMint, Jackie Gooch, Patrick Thomas and Paul Vanatta. Ashley Stowe and Lee Bzorgi each earned a Technology Support Award. Six honorees took home cash in the form of a Government Use Award, which recognizes inventions that add significant value to DOE or other government agencies.
Read more.
After a full day of intense competition, Blue Valley West and Fort Zumwalt South high schools claimed the top two seats at Kansas City Regional Science Knowledge Bowl. They will represent the Kansas City region this spring at DOE's National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C.
The event took place last Saturday at Rockhurst University and brought together some of the brightest students from more than 64 high schools teams from Kansas and Missouri. The match competition was in quiz-show format with questions on biology, chemistry, physics, earth/space science, mathematics and computer science.
Local school Blue Valley West of Overland Park, Kan., claimed the Kansas Division and bragging rights as three-time Divisional Champions, while Fort Zumwalt South of St. Peters, Mo., traveled more than 230 miles to win their first Divisional Championship in the Missouri Division.
The Kansas City competition has grown to become one of the largest of the more than 60 DOE-sponsored regional science bowls in the country. It has been co-sponsored by the NNSA's Kansas City Plant and managing contractor, Honeywell since 1991. Approximately 100 volunteers from the Kansas City Plant assisted with this year's event.
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Blue Valley West (top) and Fort Zumwalt South (bottom) high schools claimed the top two seats at Kansas City Regional Science Knowledge Bowl.
Students from Los Alamos High School will represent New Mexico at the Department of Energy's National Science Bowl in May. The team took first place on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the New Mexico Regional High School Competition after besting 28 teams representing 14 New Mexican high schools.
Students answered questions related to astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, math, trigonometry and calculus during the fast-paced, 10-hour, "Jeopardy" style competition. The winning team received a $5,000 check for their school and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete against top teams across the nation in late April.
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The students representing Los Alamos are Willie Zhao, Aaron Bao, Alex Wang, Alex Swart and team captain Kevin Gao, coached by Kathy Boerigter. Second and third place went to Albuquerque Academy and La Cueva High School, respectively.


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Sure, Midnight Run came out in 1988, but why not try to turn it into a franchise 20-odd years later?
Screenwriter Tim Dowling (Just Go with It, Role Models) was hired two years ago to write a sequel script that would allow Robert De Niro to reprise his role as bounty hunter Jack Walsh. Now the sequel may have a director in Brett Ratner (Tower Heist, the Rush Hour trilogy). Deadline reports that Ratner is in talks to direct the sequel for Universal, which has also hired screenwriters David Elliot and Paul Lovett (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Four Brothers) to rewrite Dowling's script.
De Niro is still attached to the project, but it's unlikely Charles Grodin — who played the embezzling mob accountant (Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas) Walsh escorted to L.A. in the first movie — will step out of retirement to return.
This isn't the first attempt to create a Midnight Run franchise. Universal produced a trilogy of TV movies in 1994 — Another Midnight Run, Midnight Runaround, Midnight Run for Your Life — which starred Christopher McDonald in the De Niro role.
Ironically, Ratner is also directing another movie with ties to a mid-1990s Universal TV movie — Hercules and the Amazon Women, which became the basis of the long-running Hercules show that starred Kevin Sorbo. Ratner's upcoming big-screen Hercules, however, is for MGM. Based on Steve Moore's 2008 graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars, that movie will star Dwayne Johnson and start shooting in New Zealand this October.


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RC Triad Take-Down is a side mission in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. The mission is started by entering a TOYZ van in Chinatown, Portland Island, Liberty City. The goal of the mission is to kill at least 20 Triads using an RC Bandit. 3 seconds are added for each Triad killed.
The reward is $1,000. The mission can be replayed after completing but the new goal is to beat the previous record of the player.
- The mission relies more on luck than skill, as many attempts are likely to be needed before a sufficient number of Triad members spawn within range.
- Detonating the RC Bandit too close to the van will damage it and eventually lead to it catching fire and exploding, wasting Toni (who cannot leave the van while the mission is under way). Unfortunately, Triads often spawn standing right in front of the van. For this reason, try to kill them towards the end of the 20 quota, if possible.


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WASHINGTON (AP) – Two of the five D.C. Circulator bus routes are beginning longer hours for the summer season.
Beginning Monday, the two Circulator routes will operate for two additional hours.
The Union Station to Navy Yard Route will run from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
The Potomac Avenue Metro to Skyland route will operate from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. during the week and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday.
Summer hours run through Sept. 30.
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Article posted January 29, 2009 at 08:29 PM GMT •
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we changed some rules in our class. first of all their is no more missing pecils because we wrote our name on them. also nombody needs to argue about missing chairs. every table has a number for exable table six. if you sit at table six than the chairs all have six written on them. alsoare room has alote more room. our class moved tables around to make more room and it worked.
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1 picking up litter will help our grandoughter or grandson se a polar bear
2 if u do 3 nice things to some 1 theyll probably pass it on.
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Article posted November 4, 2008 at 06:00 AM GMT •
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My classroom is a better communety because we get stuff done. Anything that needs to be done. Also were a better communety because we are coroperative in any way. So if we need to work together and be corperative.
Article posted October 30, 2008 at 08:29 PM GMT •
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We can make a better community by picking up, not littering, being nice and that stuff!
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Hey world i am here to talk about how to make our class better. My subject was P.E are problems were talking when the teacher was talking. Leaving people out, messing around, and not participating in the games. are consequences are... warning,miss recess, 30 lashes, (just kidding) and call home. I hope are class can work this out so comment on are blog.
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Our classroom is a better comunity because, of the IDEAS we come up with on the white boards like when we write problems,suggestions, and solutions to help problems in the class, at recess, in the hall, and so on. I think it helped a little bit but we could still make some changes because some people don't listen when they are sopost to, and they argue, and when people do that it's hard to think or listen and then when we get a sheat of paper or an assinment we have too ask how to do it all over again and then that an make people think that you where not paing attention when it was your nabore.So what we've been doing to make it a better comunity is working pretty well but we still have some work to do.I think our class is a great comunity because we can work together and help eachother like my knee is messed up so i have cruches and lot's of people have been helping me.
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Article posted October 30, 2008 at 04:38 AM GMT •
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Our class is a better community then before because:
First of all, we don't have to worry about broken or missing pencils anymore! People would throw them away when dull or were on the ground. Or brake them in half, and take off erasers. We all got a new pencil with a piece of tape on it saying our name. I hope, and think it will work!
People switching tables was another issue. People would just go and sit at anothers table just to be with their friends. The solution to that would be they have their own desk up front. Or must always sit in your own seat.
Also, there wasn't enough room to walk around in our classroom. We solved that by slightly moving the tables aside. Also, having to put your backpack in the closet. Or under your table. Oh yeah, and always keeping your chairs pushed in. I used to put my backpack behind my chair. (I still do though.)
I hope our class will be a better community.
Article posted October 30, 2008 at 04:12 AM GMT •
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hi world lyra here. you want to know about the classroom changes? if you do then keep reading!
the first thing we are doing and changing is how we walk in the hallways. what we are doing is we are taiking in line when we should not be. and to change that the consiqences are first a worning the second is recess the third is you get seporated the fouth is you get assined spots. ways we are trying to fix this is we are walking in to lines and the consiqences.
the other thing we are changing is what we do on the bus. the things we are doing is we are sitting in places were there is room on the bus and we are goning to write a note to the bus driver telling if some one did somthing bad.bye=http://!!
Article posted October 30, 2008 at 04:08 AM GMT •
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The other day we made things that would hekp make our class room a better place to learn. My group, Hedwig, Shadowlord, Luke, and me were one group.. We did goofing off. Hedwig drew pictures for each one.
I forgot some of the soultions. But i remeber the conquences.
1. warning
2. time out from group
3.seprate desk
4. Call home
5. go home Today we did ones outside of class. This time we did The bus. issues: swaring, graffit, vinager bag throwing, gum on paper, ect! EWE!!!!!!!!!!!!
., Squirtle
Article posted October 30, 2008 at 02:24 AM GMT •
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Our Classroom is a Better Community
Our classroom is becoming a better place because we are going over the things that could be better in our classroom. My group has worked on the lunch room today and the other day we all [all of our class] thought of things that we could do better in class, like how everyone should do their part to help clean up, don't leave early, etc.
Today we worked on the subject of the lunch room problem. I don't know if your lunchroom is as crazy as ours, but people have thrown food, haven't said too many nice things to the teachers/lunchroom helpers and even some bad language has been heard. One of the worst places in the school would have to be the buses.
Many stories have been told about behavior on the bus. Most of them are pretty bad. We really need to work on the bus problem. Kids shout, yell bad words and do some pretty bad things on the bus, including tripping people who walk by and offending other people.
So maybe one day we can fix all the things and make the whole school a better community
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On Tuesday my teacher ProfmcG told my class that we had to figer out ways to make a better classroom. My group had to figer out ways so people dont fight over who gets to use what. Here are some of our ideas. The first one was to take turns. Our next one was to play rock,paper,scissors and who ever wins gets to use the thing we are useing. Then we had if 2 people our fighting over it the people who arent fighting over it get to use it. The reson we chose to do this one is beause 2 people are fighting over the stuf and me and Timbletack are tierd of listing to the 2 people fighting but they are still fighting even after this. I dont know why these people keep fighting I mean it is not a big deal. After we were done we had to show our ideas to the class. Our score was a 5 wih was the highest but it did not work beause the same 2 people keep fighting. That was what hapend yesterday. Plese oment on my blog.
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Our community is a better place now because of some of the new rules we have added here are some of them.
So, as you can plainly see, our classroom is now aknowlaging the rules. We used to be real loud, but now we are quiet (sometimes) and we respect each other, thanx rules!
Step 1= Warning
Step 2= Time alone
Step 3= Seperate desk
Step 4= Call home
Step 5= Go home!
Article posted October 29, 2008 at 09:56 PM GMT •
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My, I mean Our classroom was getting out of hand, SERIOUSLY! My class was Really and truly out of control!
Here are some things we improved on.
Hurting: People were hitting, kicking and other (physical) abuse!, Now we respect one another and don't physicly harm others.
Fighting: People were fighting over supplies, Now we learned that its really the teachers class not ours, so we respect and share it.
Walking in the Hallway: Everyone was talking and screaming, Now My class is er, not perfectly quiet but were past the screaming.
Recess: There were people swaring and doing physical harm outside, We MOSTLY respect one another now.
P.E: My class would really disrespect my Gym Teacher, Now we are respecting him and being quiet because he's a person too!!!!
Homework: A lot of kids did'nt do their Homework, We're still trying to get everyone to do their homework, because its a team effort!
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The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) revently launced its bussiness plan that sets the course for AMREF's focus over the next three years (2011-2014) for greater impact in African and global health.
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The launch was preceded by a panel discussion with the theme, "How Best Public-Private Partnerships Can Work Together to Achieve Lasting Health Change in Tanzania."
Moderated by renowned lawyer Dr.Eva Hawa Sinare, who is also a member of the AMREF Tanzania Advisory Council.
The panel comprised of Ms. Joyce Mhaville, the Managing Director of ITV and Radio One, who spoke from the media point of view; the First Secretary at the Netherlands Embassy, Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, who spoke from donors' perspective, the Managing Director of Barclays Bank Tanzania, Mr. Kihara Maina, who discussed the topic from the private sector's side. Dr. Festus Ilako, AMREF Tanzania Country Director, spoke from AMREF Tanzania's perspective while Ms. Asina Shenduli, Programme Director of the National Muslim Council of Tanzania (BAKWATA) spoke from the standpoint of AMREF's beneficiaries.
Ms Mhaville said during the session that the media could be valuable partners in health issues rather than just being mere vehicles of disseminating information.
"We can go beyond doing business, educating and informing the public so that they make informed choices. So, let us join forces," she advised.
Mr. Maina on his part said effective sustainable social responsibility was crucial, adding that private companies would like to know what returns they would get when supporting social causes.
"I've gone through AMREF's business plan and it shows that it is very well thought out. Although private sector looks at the way it can maximize profit it has to aim at socially accepted returns and re-invest by giving back to the community," Mr. Maina emphasized.
Dr. Peeperkorn, said there had been significant achievements in Tanzania's health sector in the last ten years and that there is a need now to need to invest in health systems and key stakeholders in the delivery of services and training of health personnel while encouraging performance-based investments.
Ms. Shenduli said the AMREF-BAKWATA partnership had played a key role in changing faith leaders' perception of HIV/AIDS. Most faith leaders initially viewed HIV/AIDS as an affliction of 'sinners'.
Dr. Ilako encouraged the private sector to come on board as partners and invest in health activities as it makes business sense.
"Companies cannot do good business if their clients and workforce are not well," Dr Ilako said. He challenged local companies to contribute more for health saying last year local private companies contributed only one per cent of AMREF Tanzania budget.
He said the private-public partnership should be strengthened to ensure lasting health improvements for Tanzanians because families face duo-jeopardy of paying medical bills and at the same time face stress of poor health. Dr. Ilako said NGOs, Government and Private sector are partners therefore have to pool more resources for the public good.
The business plan is structured around seven priority areas based on AMREF's 2007-2017 strategy with five strategic directions related to delivering health outcomes, the sixth addresses research and innovation and the seventh outlines the organizational restructuring required to enable AMREF to implement its health priorities.
Priority is given to activities that positively impact the health of women and children and fall within AMREF's expertise and resources.
The seven strategic directions include making pregnancy safe and expanding reproductive health, reducing morbidity and mortality among children, scaling up HIV, TB and malaria responses, prevention and control of diseases related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
Others are increasing access by disadvantaged communities to quality medical, surgical and diagnostic services, developing a strong research and innovation base to contribute to health improvement in Africa and creating a strong, unified, global AMREF.
As for strategic direction number one on making pregnancy safe and expanding reproductive health, increasing the number of skilled midwives to provide basic and comprehensive emergency and obstetric services is key to preventing maternal deaths.
AMREF supports reproductive health and rights for women through ensuring access to effective contraceptives, skilled obstetric services, assisted delivery, ante-natal and post-natal care of newborns.
Reproductive health also includes the prevention and diagnosis of cervical among disadvantaged women. According to AMREF Africa accounts for 20 percent of the world's birth but contributes to 40 percent of maternal deaths globally, many of which would also be preventable if proper and accessible health care was in place.
According to WHO the biggest risk to the lives of teenage girls and women in the developing world is pregnancy and childbirth. Too many young girls become pregnant with devastating and long-term effects on their reproductive health.
AMREF supports reproductive health and rights for women and through ensuring access to effective contraceptives, skilled obstetric services, assisted delivery, ante-natal and post-natal care of newborns. Reproductive health also includes the prevention and diagnosis of cervical cancer among disadvantaged women.
As for strategic direction number two of reducing morbidity and mortality among children, AMREF supports a holistic approach to disease management where the overall health of the child is considered, addressing all causes of childhood illness. This approach focuses on treatment, prevention, care and home management of the sick child.
As an integral component of good health, innovative intervention to improve nutrition and promote breast feeding are also included in AMREF's approach to reducing morbidity and mortality among children. In strategic direction creased access to skilled delivery, neonatal and post-natal care will be substantially reduce newborn deaths and promote proper immunisation of infants.
Strategic direction number three is the scaling up HIV,TB and malaria responses. This would means building capacity and scaling up resources in response to the most prevalent diseases on the continent- tuberculosis, malaria and HIV, including preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This will continue to be key focus of AMREF's work in disease prevention and treatment. Strengthening laboratory services to provide better diagnosis for malaria and tuberculosis and greater access to HIV screening will go a long way in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
Preventing and controlling diseases related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is AMREF's strategic direction number four. AMREF seeks to increase access to sustainable, safe and adequate water, appropriate sanitation and hygiene practices. AMREF's goal is to reduce prevalence of WASH-related diseases such as dysentery cholera, trachoma and typhoid and to protect women and children from WASH-related disease epidemics in AMREF's areas of operation.
Increasing access by disadvantaged communities to quality medical, surgical and diagnostic services is AMREF's strategic direction number five. In this direction, AMREF seeks to strengthen the capacity of appropriately trained health workers, improve access to quality primary, secondary and tertiary health care and to strengthen laboratory services.
AMREF provides access to specialized health care including cleft and palate, obstetric fistula repair and general and urology surgery to disadvantaged communities across Africa.
AMREF's strategic direction number six is developing strong research and innovation bases to contribute to health improvement in Africa. Over the next three years, AMREF's research will focus on influencing positive behavioural change to obtain better health outcomes, understanding health inequalities, addressing issues around diseases prevention and uncovering strategies to build capacity in all areas of health service delivery.
It will, among other things, test innovative methods to deliver health and training across Africa. Through adoption of such methods as –e-learning and mobile learning, AMREF will train significant number of health workers. It would also support its advocacy activities and to positively influence national and global health policy.
Creating a strong, unified, global AMREF is strategic direction number seven. AMREF will better coordinate its work to create lasting health change in Africa.
It would, as usual maintain careful financial and resource planning to implement key priorities, use donor funds efficiently and preserve the overall financial stability of the organisation. It will also increase the organization's visibility, support its advocacy and fundraising efforts and help position AMREF as an expert in women's and children's health.
AMREF's strategic plan is sacred. Very few people in Africa have access to quality medical care. Africa is home to about 11 percent of the world's population, but has a mere three percent of the world's health workers tackling 24 percent of the global disease burden.
Despite an increase in health spending in Africa, access to good quality care is limited as most funding has been targeted towards the treatment the treatment of specific disease, rather that improving overall health systems and services.
The Director General of AMREF, Dr Teguest Guerma is confident that AMREF would achieve its goals.
She says in part in AMREF's 2011-2014 Business Plan, "With renewed focus on specific health priorities and the harmonised structures to implement them successfully, I believe AMREF is well positioned to achieve its vision of lasting health change from within Africa's communities.


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32 U.S. Code § 323 - Withdrawal of Federal recognition
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(a) Whenever a member of the National Guard ceases to have the qualifications prescribed under section 301 of this title or ceases to be a member of a federally recognized unit or organization of the National Guard, his Federal recognition shall be withdrawn.
(b) Under regulations to be prescribed by the President, the capacity and general fitness of an officer of the National Guard for continued Federal recognition may be investigated at any time by an efficiency board composed of commissioned officers of—
(1) the Regular Army or the Army National Guard of the United States, or both, who out-rank him and who are detailed by the Secretary of the Army, if he is a member of the Army National Guard; or
(2) the Regular Air Force or the Air National Guard of the United States, or both, who outrank him and who are detailed by the Secretary of the Air Force, if he is a member of the Air National Guard.
If the findings of the board are unfavorable to the officer and are approved by the President, his Federal recognition shall be withdrawn.
(c) If a member of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States is transferred to the Army Reserve or the Air Force Reserve, as the case may be, under section 12105, 12213 (a), or 12214 (a) of title 10, his Federal recognition is withdrawn.
(d) The Federal recognition of a reserve commissioned officer of the Army or the Air Force who is—
(2) subject to involuntary transfer to the Retired Reserve, transfer to an inactive status list, or discharge under chapter 1407, 1409, or 1411 of title 10;
shall, if not sooner withdrawn, be withdrawn on the date of such involuntary transfer or discharge.
Source(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 607; Pub. L. 85–861, §§ 2(11), 33(c)(2),Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1546, 1567; Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, §§ 1630(2), 1676(a)(3),Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2964, 3019.)
|Revised section
|Source (U.S. Code)
|Source (Statutes at Large)
|32:154 (last 26 words of last par.).
|32:115 (1st sentence, and 1st 24 words of 2d sentence).
|50:1116 (last 15 words of 1st sentence).
|June 3, 1916, ch. 134, § 76 (1st sentence, and 1st 24 words of 2d sentence); restated June 15, 1933, ch. 87, § 13 (1st sentence, and 1st 24 words of 2d sentence), 48 Stat. 158.
|June 3, 1916, ch. 134, § 110 (last 25 words of last par.); restated Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 423, § 6 (last 137 words of last par.); restated May 12, 1928, ch. 529 (last 25 words), 45 Stat. 501.
|July 9, 1952, ch. 608, § 706 (last 15 words of 1st sentence), 66 Stat. 503.
In subsection (a) the words "ceases to have the qualifications prescribed under section 300 of this title" are substituted for 32:154 (last 26 words of last par.), since it is implicit that a member who could not be paid would lose his federally recognized status (see JAGA 1953/9033, 3 Dec. 1953). The last 23 words of subsection (a) are inserted as a necessary implication of the rule stated in section 309 (c) of this title.
In subsection (b), the words "or warrant officer" are omitted, since section 101 (9) of this title defines "officer" to include warrant officers. The word "detailed" is substituted for the word "appointed", since the filling of the positions involved is not appointment to an office in the constitutional sense. The word "commissioned" is inserted after the words "composed of", since the word "officer" alone, in 32:115, referred to a commissioned officer only (see opinion of the Judge Advocate General of the Army (JAGA 1953/4078, 6 May 1953)). The words "who outrank him" are substituted for the words "senior in rank to the officer under investigation".
In subsection (c), the opening clause is substituted for the words "such transfer". The words "his Federal recognition is withdrawn" are substituted for the words "shall terminate his federally recognized National Guard or Air National Guard status".
|Section of title 32
|Source (U.S. Code)
|Source (Statutes at Large)
|50:1261 (as applicable to Federal recognition).
|50:1352(e)(1) (56th through 63d words).
|50:1352(e)(2) (78th through 85th words).
|Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1257, §§ 324 (as applicable to Federal recognition), 522(e)(1) (56th through 63d words). (e)(2) (78th through 85th words), 68 Stat. 1161, 1181.
The change [in subsec. (b)(1) and (2)] is necessary to exclude from the efficiency board commissioned officers of the Army Reserve or Air Force Reserve, in accordance with the source law, the first sentence of section 76 of the Act of June 3, 1916, chapter 134 (formerly 32 U.S.C. 115 (1st sentence)).
In subsection (e), the words "if appropriate" are omitted as surplusage.
1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–337, § 1676(a)(3), substituted "12105, 12213(a), or 12214(a)" for "3259, 3352(a), 8259, or 8352(a)".
Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 103–337, § 1630(2), added subsec. (d) and struck out former subsecs. (d) and (e) which read as follows:
"(d) Except as provided in sections 1005 and 1006 of title 10, the Federal recognition of a second lieutenant of the Army National Guard who is discharged under section 3820 (c) of title 10 for failure of promotion shall be withdrawn on the date of that discharge.
"(e) Except as provided in sections 1005 and 1006 of title 10, the Federal recognition of a reserve officer of the Air Force who is not recommended for promotion under section 8368 (c)(1) or (2) of title 10, or who is found to be not qualified for Federal recognition under section 8368 (d) or (e) of title 10, shall be withdrawn."
1958—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 85–861, § 33(c)(2), substituted "the Regular Army or the Army National Guard of the United States, or both" for "a regular or reserve component of the Army".
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 85–861, § 33(c)(2), substituted "the Regular Air Force or the Air National Guard of the United States, or both" for "a regular or reserve component of the Air Force".
Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 85–861, § 2(11), added subsecs. (d) and (e).
Effective Date of 1994 Amendment
Amendment by section 1676(a)(3) ofPub. L. 103–337effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided, and amendment by section 1630(2) ofPub. L. 103–337effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1691 ofPub. L. 103–337, set out as an Effective Date note under section 10001 of Title 10, Armed Forces.
Effective Date of 1958 Amendment
Amendment by section 33(c)(2) ofPub. L. 85–861effective Aug. 10, 1956, see section 33(g) ofPub. L. 85–861, set out as a note under section 101 of Title 10, Armed Forces.
Suspension of Subsection (d) of This Section
For authority of the President to suspend subsec. (d) of this section in time of war or emergency declared by Congress, see section 111 of this title.
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Alien species transport via ship ballast water
Live Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) with open siphons
Alien species transport via ship ballast water ia a significant mechanism for assisting invasion of non-native species into a new environment. Alien species are organisms that are foreign to a given natural environment; moreover, many alien species have have migrated or been transported from their native habitats for centuries. However, because of globalization and technological advances, goods and people now move at a much faster rate and to far more distant locations than in earlier times. As a result of human activities, plants, animals and other organisms are transported to new habitats with a speed and efficiency that thousands of years of evolution have not facilitated (IMO 2006a). Alien species are not necessarily intrinsically harmful; intentionally introduced non-indigenous species have sometimes appeared to produce beneficial effects to certain agricultural and livestock industries. Crops such as potatoes, wheat, rye, rice, corn, soybeans and peanuts were spread throughout the world to feed the growing human population. Similarly, animals such as cows, chickens, ducks, horses, sheep, goats and buffalo were dispersed to provide the world's meat, milk and egg products (Pimentel 2002: 3-4).
Scope of the problem
There are numerous instances in which alien species are invasive, e.g. reproducing in large numbers and crowding out native species. Such alien organisms pose a serious threat to existing ecosystems, especially if the natural predators of an introduced species are not present to control the population. Invasive species thrive in their new environment, competing with the habitat's naturally-occurring species, and may replace keystone species or potentially cause the decline or extinction of one or more indigenous species, severely disrupting the ecosystem. The impact of introducing alien species can be particularly severe for endangered biota; consequences of invasive species introductions are considered either partially or directly responsible for the placement of 35 to 46 percent of the species on the endangered species list. Currently, alien invasive species are the second greatest cause of biodiversity loss, behind human population growth and its related activities .
Additionally, invasive species are financially detrimental; Billions of dollars per annum are expended worldwide to prevent, control and eradicate these alien organisms. The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that alien species are responsible annually for $100 billion in damages in the USA alone.
Alien invasive species can have catastrophic effects, threatening biodiversity and causing economic harm. The introduction of alien species often precipitates environmental repercussions which may well be irreversible. Their unpredictable expansion can interrupt or devastate plans for sustainable development in communities without the resources to combat them and may also decimate the local flora or fauna upon which local inhabitants depend. It has only been in the last two decades or so that the negative effects of alien invasive species have been recognized by the international community (see Text Box 1). Their global expansion will continue to increase unless the pathways and mechanisms facilitating their spread are identified and adequate methods of combating them are implemented.
Ballast water as a mode of introduction
The introduction of alien species to a new environment often occurs via "hitchhiking", the unintentional transport of species via airplanes, ships, trucks, packing materials and shipping containers. The ballast water of ships is one principal pathway of this type of introduction, a direct consequence of the rapid worldwide expansion of global trade and shipping. Ballast is any material whose weight is utilized to balance or stabilize an object. A ship takes in water as ballast when its hold is empty for balance and stability and discharges it when it loads new cargo, maintaining equilibrium. It usually picks up ballast water at port, where water is shallow and living organisms, particularly larvae and eggs, abound. Under favorable conditions, these hitchhikers survive their migration to a new destination. When the water is discharged, these species have the potential to become invasive species in their new environment, although decades may pass before they expand and become invasive.
Cross section of a ship showing ballast tanks and ballast water cycle. Source: Global Ballast Water Management Programme
The shipping industry is principally responsible for transporting goods internationally, overseeing the trans-shipment of an estimated 80 percent of the world's commodities. Shipping vessels transport approximately ten billion tons of ballast water globally per year. This traffic increases the potential for the accidental transfer of unwanted species; an estimated 3000 species are transferred to new environments each day in ballast water. The International Maritime Organization, a specialized United Nations agency entrusted with decreasing ship pollution and improving maritime safety, contends that the introduction of invasive species is one of the greatest threats to Earth's oceans, alongside marine pollution, overexploitation of marine resources and the physical alteration/destruction of marine habitats. The shipping industry and the ballast water of its vessels clearly play a critical role in the conservation or destruction of global ecosystems.
Zebra mussel and Chinese mitten crab
Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), native to the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Azov Seas, were introduced into the Great Lakes in the mid-1980s through the ballast water of vessels from Europe, and have subsequently become one of the most injurious invasive species to affect the USA. In only two decades these mussels have spread from a handful of states adjacent to the Great Lakes to as far as Louisiana. They have even been found as far west as Washington; it is believed that zebra mussels traveled over land via the hulls of ships. The map below depicts the mussels spread from the Great Lakes to the streams and estuaries of neighboring states and Canada.
Zebra mussel sightings in the USA. Source: USGS
Zebra mussels have altered the ecosystems of the Great Lakes by reducing phytoplankton, the foundation of the local food chain. They are particularly destructive to unionid mussels, a freshwater mussel native to the Great Lakes and a vital component of North American biodiversity. Zebra mussels compete with the indigenous unionid mussels for food and resources and also prevent unionid mussel reproduction by attaching to them . These impacts have caused an overall decline in unionid mussel abundance and North American biodiversity. Moreover, zebra mussels have negative economic impacts; they attach to and damage the hulls of ships, docks and other structures and clog water intake pipes and irrigation ditches. The introduction of zebra mussels has been referred to as the "poster child" of biological invasions , producing some positive effects. It has served as impetus for U.S. action to combat alien invasive species and brought their destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems to the attention of the international community.
The zebra mussel is only one of many alien invasive species that have negatively affected global ecosystems. Although the zebra mussel features prominently on the IMO "Ten Most Wanted" list of invasive species transported via the ballast water of ships, another of the most wanted, the Chinese mitten crab, has had extremely negative impacts on biodiversity in Europe. The Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis), originally a native of east Asia, has spread via the ballast water of ships to Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, and even to the USA, where it has become a classic example of invasive species. Its negative impacts on biodiversity and local industry are many: interference with commercial fishing, soil erosion caused by burrowing or digging, and competition with indigenous fish and invertebrates. Additionally, the Chinese mitten crab directly harms fishing communities and livelihoods by damaging nets and catches. Chinese mitten crabs are also the intermediate hosts for parasitic lung flukes, which can infect humans.
Technological efforts
Although the present technique of ballast water exchange is the safest and most efficient way to discharge a ship's ballast, it is not completely effective (U.S. House 2004). New technologies for handling ballast water are being developed (see Table below), including heat treatment, hydrocyclones, biodegradable chemicals and electrochemical control. While these are all innovative, concerns persist about their effectiveness and economic cost.
Technical methods used to reduce the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms. Source: Adapted from The International Association of Independent Tank Owners, Environmental Issues: Ballast Ballast Water and Invasive Species
|Ballast Water Exchange
|This is deemed the most practical method at present and is recommended in most ballast water legislation. The two methods are the sequential method and the flow-through method.
|1. Sequential Exchange
|The ballast tanks are purged of their original ballast and refilled with different ballast water, which hopefully does not contain the unwanted aquatic organisms.
|2. Flow Through Exchange
|Water is pumped into the bottom of the ballast tank via the suction head and overflow water exits through the air pipes and access hatches. Flushing with three tank volumes in this way will displace approximately 95 percent of the original ballast water.
|Freshwater Ballast
|The use of freshwater rather than seawater ballast could provide an inexpensive source of freshwater for irrigation and industrial usage in several major oil-exporting countries. This method has received no further attention.
|Heat Treatment
|Australia has developed this method in which heated salt water from the main engine cooling circuit is rerouted to the ballast water tank. A full-scale test on a bulk carrier proved successful, but INTERTANKO is concerned about the damage that could be caused to ballast tank coatings by the heated water.
|The method utilizes a filter, placed over the ballast water pipe inlet, as a means of controlling organism transferal. During tests using different size filter meshes, the build-up of organisms and sediment on the filtration screen was minimized by using a backwash procedure, but ballasting is inevitably slowed. A secondary treatment, such as the use of ultraviolet light or heat, will probably be necessary to eliminate unwanted organisms like bacteria and viruses. One benefit of filtration is that the amount of sediment taken onboard is reduced.
|A joint Norwegian/Canadian project uses hydrocyclones, (i.e., centrifugal separators), backed by a secondary ultraviolet light treatment. The former process eliminates the sediments, which are pumped out, while the latter kills the unwanted organism. Such systems, which would cost approximately US$2.5 million per ship, have been used onboard offshore installations for a number of years.
|Biodegradable Chemicals
|Germany is developing a biodegradable ballast water treatment chemical. Approximately 50 litres of the chemical, costing US$150, would be needed to treat 1,000 tonnes of ballast water.
|Electrochemical Control
|Japan is considering an electrochemical control concept in which low potential electric power is applied to ballast water flowing through porous graphite electrodes in order to kill any micro-organisms present. Fullscale tests are planned.
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ship Ballast Water and Sediments
Over the past decade, the IMO has developed legislative mechanisms to further control the introduction of alien invasive species into coastal waters and elsewhere and to regulate species already introduced. The work of the IMO with the international community has culminated in the "International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments", a multilateral, binding document to regulate ballast water and combat marine alien invasive species. The Convention will enter into force 12 months after 30 nations that represent greater than 35 percent of the world's shipping tonnage have ratified it (BWC Article 18). As of March 2006, there are six Contracting Parties that represent 0.62% of the world's shipping tonnage. They are Maldives, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Spain, Nigeria, Tuvalu and Syria. The IMO website indicates that as of July 2005, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Finland and the Netherlands had signed but not ratified the Convention.
The Ballast Water Convention creates an integrated regimen for contracting parties to "give full and complete effect to the provisions of this Convention and the Annex" to prevent and eventually eradicate aquatic alien species. States must pass national legislation to implement the Convention's ballast water plan (Article 4(2)) but are encouraged to take more stringent measures (BWC Article 2(3)). The Convention prescribes ballast water standards, dates of compliance, and ballast exchange procedures, and provides that the standards will be reviewed as technologies improve. These standards must be implemented in all vessels constructed after 2009; vessels built prior to 2009 have until 2014 to 2016 to comply, depending on their size (BWC Regulation B3). Ballast water exchange must take place at 200 nautical miles and not any closer than 50 nautical miles from shore (BWC Regulation B4), minimizing the intake of species.
The new Convention ensures stability, consistency, clarity and uniformity. It fills the gap left by piecemeal domestic legislation (see text box above) and removes conflict between the respective requirements of the States. However, technology has yet to catch up with the Convention's objectives. If effective ballast water removal methods are not created, many States will be in violation of the Convention. Reliance on the development of new technologies may therefore render the Convention ineffective. Some even contend that the measures adopted by the Convention are not stringent enough to be protective. In addition, the fixed dates are set far in advance, and Parties have a decade or more to achieve the standards. If the rate of transfer of aquatic invasive species continues to rapidly increase, the efforts of the Convention may be futile.
The world's biodiversity and ecosystems are vulnerable to acute disturbances. Alien invasive species can disrupt the food chain, with disastrous effects for sustainable development in affected communities. The establishment of the Ballast Water Convention is a promising collective step to combat incursions of alien invasive species. This document sets clear and consistent standards for the international community, and furthermore, provides aspirational goals. However, the Convention will be ineffectual if it never enters into force. Prevention is clearly the best course of action, but if these invasions cannot be completely prevented, the minimization of their impacts is imperative. International cooperation is imperative if alien invasive species are to be reduced or eradicated. The preservation of world ecosystems will safeguard their diversity and the lives of people who depend upon them.
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
- D.R. Tenenbaum, M. C. Villac, S.C. Viana, M. Matos, M. Hatherly, I.V. Lima & M. Menezes, Phytoplankton Atlas, SepetibaBay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. GloBallast Monograph Series No. 16. IMO London. Matheickal, J.T. and Raaymakers S. (Eds) 2004. 2nd International Ballast Water Treatment R&D Symposium, IMO London, 21-23 July 2003: Proceedings. GloBallast Monograph Series No. 15. IMO London.
- C.Clarke, Hilliard, R., Junqueira, A. de O. R., Neto, A. de C. L., Polglaze J. & Raaymakers, S. 2004. Ballast Water Risk Assessment, Port of Sepetiba, Federal Republic of Brazil, December 2003: Final Report. GloBallast Monograph Series No. 14. IMO London
- A. Awad, Clarke, C., Greyling, L., Hilliard, R., Polglaze & Raaymakers, S. 2004. Ballast Water Risk Assessment, Port of Saldanha Bay, Republic of South Africa, November 2003: Final Report. GloBallast Monograph Series No. 13. IMO London.
- C.Clarke, Hilliard, R., Liuy, Y., Polglaze, J., Zhao, D., Xu, X. & Raaymakers, S. 2004. Ballast Water Risk Assessment, Port of Dalian, People's Republic of China, November 2003: Final Report. GloBallast Monograph Series No. 12. IMO London.


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WASHINGTON – The Interstate 66 corridor is already congested, but more cars, buses, trucks and construction are expected.
More than 340,000 people could move into the I-66 corridor in Fairfax and Prince William counties in the next 20 years, as Loudoun County's strong growth continues.
Traffic forecasts say roads may soon be congested for more than 12 hours a day.
Virginia's Department of Transportation is looking at options for the area between the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County and Route 15 in Prince William County where almost two million people live.
This week, VDOT wants to hear from commuters and residents.
Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart said keeping the traffic moving is vital to his county's economy.
He has one big suggestion.
"Extend the 234 Bypass across the western end of the Manassas National Battlefield and up into Loudoun County to meet up with Route 50 and Route 7," he said.
That would also connect I-66 directly to Interstate 95 without hitting the Beltway, Stewart said.
Other short term suggestions include adding more buses.
"Bus rapid transit would be a first step, but ultimately being able to expand rail, to expand Metro," said Fairfax County Supervisors Chairwoman Sharon Bulova.
The first public meeting on transportation options is 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Four Points Sheraton, 10800 Vandor Lane, Manassas.
A second meeting will be held 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at VDOT's Northern Virginia District Office, 4975 Alliance Drive, Fairfax.
Both meetings are part of environmental assessments for improving the I-66 corridor.
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