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"Any more like you at home?" he questioned her.
"Yes, I have a sister," was the reply.
And that was pretty much all she wrote.
George met Cecilia, and "it was love at first sight," George said last week, as the couple prepared to celebrate another milestone wedding anniversary.
It's 72 years, George said.
"No, it's 71," Ceil, as George calls her, replied. "We were married in 1932. Isn't that 71?"
"Well," George countered. "We're beginning our 72nd year."
It took George and Ceil four years to tie the knot after first meeting. Vows were exchanged April 11, 1932, in Good Counsel Catholic Church in East Hampton, Mass., during a 9 a.m. wedding celebration.
The two met in Massachusetts, but shortly after their courtship began George transferred from Springfield, Mass., to Portland, Maine. In those early years he was a window trimmer, decorating windows in drugstores and other locations.
"That was before TV, and they did a lot of decorating," George explains.
During that time, however, the two were separated by 200 miles, so every weekend from October until April, "right through the bad months," George says of the New England weather, he'd drive 400 miles round trip to spend the weekend with his sweetie.
After marriage, "we lived in Maine for 40 years," Ceil explains. "I loved it, but it was too cold."
And that's the reason that George, who turned 93 March 24, and Ceil, who celebrated her 92nd birthday March 17, came to the Sunshine State nearly 20 years ago. George, who eventually became a cigar salesman, and Ceil, who had her own beauty shop, were in Florida on vacation and came here to visit a cousin living in St. Augustine Shores.
They liked what they saw and decided to live in St. Augustine. George retired in 1974.
Parents of two -- Mary Lou Wragg of St. Augustine and George Splane Jr., who divides his time between St. Augustine and Maine -- the senior Splanes are grandparents of four and great-grandparents of one.
Their children will probably take them out to dinner for their anniversary.
What would they like to eat?
"We're not fussy," says George.
"I'd like a lobster," Ceil chimed in.
These days the Splanes spend their time enjoying game shows and the news on television. They also like the Discovery Channel.
And they enjoy going to the COA. "I've been there to do arts and crafts," says Ceil.
A recent hospital stay for George, however, curtailed their COA attendance for awhile.
The two attend St. Anastasia Catholic Church.
As to why their union has lasted so long, Ceil suggests that she follows the rule of "forgive, forget and keep loving."
"We try to solve our problems," she says.
"That," George quips, "and I was away a lot."
On a more serious note, he praises his wife as "a great homemaker. If we had an extra dollar -- and sometimes that wasn't easy because we put two children through college -- she'd spend it on the house and the kids before she'd spend it on herself."
Ceil also advises young couples to "get married and stay married. Solve your problems."
"I think," George added, that today "a lot of the problems (between couples) are financial."
George and Ceil hope to be together for a lot more years.
"My grandfather lived to 99," Ceil explains.
As the interview ended, and it was time to take a photo of the two, George suggested he and his wife sit on the couch. And Ceil asked if the painting above the couch could be included in the photo.
She'd painted it, she admitted of the attractive landscape.
"She does nice work," George observed, eyeing her handiwork. "She takes after me. I painted the house!"
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Italy Quake Survivors Move to Tent Camps Amid Aftershocks
Thousands of survivors of the earthquake in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna sought relief in tent cities as rescue workers surveyed the damage from the trembler that killed seven and injured dozens more.
The 5.9-magnitude quake at 4 a.m. yesterday near the town of Finale-Emilia in northern Italy toppled buildings across the region, including two factories where four workers were killed. Three women also died, including a 37-year-old German, the civil protection agency said. The quake was felt as far away as Milan and Venice and was followed by at least 170 aftershocks.
About 3,500 people were evacuated from their homes, many spending the night in their cars. Emergency response workers are erecting tent cities to shield the homeless from a cold rain that hit the area. In San Felice sul Panaro, where three towers of the town's 15th-century castle collapsed, rescuers set up 40, eight-person tents and planned to have another 20 completed by the end of the day. About 120 slept in the town's elementary school with more beds being put out for tonight.
"This is our new house guys, do you like it?" says Patrizia Battitta, showing her family the tent they have just been assigned. "It seems wonderful to me because now at least we have a roof over our heads. Look at us, we are hungry, dirty, tired. We slept in the car for two days in a row and I'm still shocked. The earthquake scared the heck out of me; the lights went out, everything was collapsing, the floor was covered with broken things, it was a nightmare."
Monti Returns
Prime Minister Mario Monti abandoned a NATO summit in Chicago early yesterday to return to Italy and lead his government's response to the quake and to the May 19 bombing of a school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student. Monti will attend the funeral of the bombing victim this afternoon.
"I want to offer my support and condolences and that of my government to all the families of the victims and all the people that have been affected by this quake that is once again testing the region of Emilia-Romagna," Monti told journalists in Chicago yesterday.
The earthquake came three years after a 6.3-magnitude trembler in 2009 killed more than 300 people and damaged thousands of buildings across the region of Abruzzo in central Italy. The earthquake will put further strain on the country's emergency response services and could lead to higher costs for consumers. Monti's government last month passed a law allowing for temporarily increasing gasoline taxes to finance responses to natural-disasters.
Historic Buildings
Vasco Errani, head of the Emilia-Romagna region, said it was too early to quantify the fallout from the quake, which damaged historic buildings across the area, including the cathedral of Mirandola, the roof of which collapsed. The Castello Estense in Ferrara was also damaged and a 5.1 magnitude aftershock sheared in two the Torre dei Modenesi, the medieval stone tower that forms part of the city hall in the town of Finale Emilia.
The quake caused damage estimated at more than 200 million euros ($255 million) for the agriculture industry in the region, trade association Coldiretti said in an e-mailed statement. The damage included the death of animals trapped in the rubble, the destruction off farm equipment and buildings and damage to 400,000 wheels of the country's prized parmesan cheese. A 39 kilo wheel of the cheese aged for 24 months can retail for more than 700 euros.
Anna, who lives near San Felice and declined to give her last name, said she was woken by a loud boom and her bed was shaking. She grabbed her daughter and rushed out of the house and slept outside because she was too frightened to return to her home, she said.
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The four workers who died were killed when the factory buildings they were working in collapsed in the provinces of Ferrara and Bologna, the civil protection agency said, adding that 50 people were injured. One worker died at Tecopress, a company that produces castings and has Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Volkswagen AG among its clients, while two workers died when the plant of Ceramica Sant'Agostino collapsed. The fourth was killed at a factory in Rodoni di Bondeno.
Ferrari SpA, whose headquarters are 60 kilometers (38 miles) away from the epicenter of the quake, didn't suffer any damage, a spokesman for the luxury carmaker said.
Italy suffers about 2,000 earthquakes a year with more than 3 million people living in seismic areas, according to the National Council of Geologists. Almost half of Italy's territory is at risk of a quake, with more than 6 million buildings in the affected seismic areas, the group said in an e-mailed statement.


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The One Game You Can't Miss
Thursday's Kentucky vs. Cornell Matchup Shows College Basketball's Extremes At Work
It won't be the most-watched game of the season. It may not even be close. "Kentucky over Cornell by 9" isn't the sort of betting line that suggests a classic in the making.
But even for an NCAA tournament that has been defined by absurdity more than most, this game is worth making time for. There hasn't been a college basketball matchup in some time that better defines this sport's extremes. Or, for that matter, one that will render so many verdicts on its future.
Given all their differences, these two teams are hardly even playing the same sport.
Kentucky, the East Region's No. 1 seed, is college basketball's winningest program all-time. They own seven NCAA titles. The men's basketball program pulled in $14.8 million in revenue in fiscal year 2008-09, according to government data.
With Kansas gone, the Wildcats are the most feared team remaining in the tournament. They have a celebrity coach with NBA experience in John Calipari and three players who could be top 10 picks in the NBA draft: guard John Wall, big man DeMarcus Cousins and forward Patrick Patterson. To top it off, guard Eric Bledsoe shoots 40% from the three-point line.
"Kentucky's just got it," says former LSU coach Dale Brown. "They're deep in every position, they're talented in every position. I don't know how you can beat them."
Cornell, the East's No. 12 seed, is the lowest remaining seed in the tournament. While it has some experienced, surprisingly skilled players—particularly the sweet-shooting senior forward Ryan Wittman—this is still a team that, by Ivy League rules, isn't allowed to give out athletic scholarships. Moreover, the team, which had never won an NCAA tournament game until this season, took in less than $1 million in 2008-09.
But Cornell does have an advantage that has always been considered massively important in college basketball: It is getting to play close to home—in this case, just 55 miles from its campus at Syracuse's Carrier Dome. Because the game is so close at hand, there's a greater likelihood that Cornell will have a staunchly supportive crowd. "I've gotten 25 emails this morning," says Cornell athletic director Andy Noel, "and they all basically say the same thing: 'Congrats on the great weekend...and oh, by the way, can I get tickets to the game?' "
In addition to a likely crowd advantage, the Big Red can check off another item in the standard underdog's checklist: the team is as familiar with the spacious Dome's sight lines as any arena except their own. They've played Syracuse there each of the past three seasons.
George Mason coach Jim Larranaga, whose 2006 team stunned the basketball universe by reaching the Final Four as an 11 seed, was aided by getting to play the third and fourth rounds in Washington, 20 miles from George Mason's campus in northern Virginia. "That familiarity really helps," says Mr. Larranaga. "Now, it's not going to change anything for Kentucky, but you really need to get used to a dome to shoot properly."
Cornell is also better at one of the quieter skills in college basketball, one that has, so far in this tournament, proven to be very important in the slaying of Goliaths: its ability to manage turnovers. Cornell ranks higher nationally at getting steals (83rd) and not allowing turnovers (76th) than Kentucky, which ranks 129th and 159th, respectively, according to statistician Ken Pomeroy's data. Historically, the underdogs who pull the most upsets are the ones who were superior at managing the ball. Northern Iowa's shocking victory over Kansas, the pre-tournament favorite, is the latest such example.
For Cornell, the tallest challenge is the timing and the stakes. This isn't likely to be the sort of game where a too-relaxed favorite underestimates an opponent and gets caught napping. The game is being played for a spot in the Elite Eight, one game shy of the Final Four.
The numbers say that playing in your own backyard in the NCAA tournament isn't actually such a huge boost. Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams (now 65) in 1985, teams that played a tournament game within 100 miles of home have won 71% of the time.
But many of those games aren't relevant to Cornell's matchup with Kentucky. They involved powerhouses like Duke who were playing near home, but were taking on overmatched early-round opponents. In the tournament's later rounds, the winning percentage of underdogs playing near home is a much more mixed .462.
In any event, no matter who wins, there will be some theories tested: whether talent wins out, whether experience and teamwork can only take a team so far, and whether a friendly crowd and a familiar building can overcome superior skill. Depending on whether Kentucky wins big, wins close or somehow gets beat, it will either confirm or overturn our beliefs.
—David Biderman contributed to this article.
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Climate Change Could Make The Tour De France A Lot Hotter
In the eyes of much of the world, competitive cycling is threatened most by its headline-grabbing doping scandal. Just a few weeks ago, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong claimed it was "impossible" to win the Tour de France without taking performance enhancing drugs. But it turns out climate change might be more of a threat to the sport — and its famous race — than doping.
An article in Quartz Friday looked at moderate and extreme climate change projections in France for 2050 and 2100. It found that, in a moderate warming scenario, temperatures in the south of France will increase by 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, with spikes of eight or nine degrees under an extreme warming scenario, causing potentially "brutal" conditions for cyclists. Extreme weather poses a big threat to the sport too — this year, some cyclists in a major race in Italy crashed because of the race's rainy, wet conditions. The article points out that cycling, even more than other sports, has a lot to lose from climate change:
Rising temperatures and increasingly severe storms threaten the Tour de France more so than any other professional sporting event, snowsports aside. The Tour requires traversable roads at the highest Alpine passes and fan-friendly temperatures on the streets of Paris. Without those two conditions, the Tour cannot be both sufficiently challenging and commercially successful. And obviously, the race can't be held in an air-conditioned dome, like a soccer match.
Cycling is far from the only sport threatened by climate change, however. Winter sports are, of course, among those already affected most by increasing temperatures — a mild winter forced Olympic officials to ship in thousands of tons of snow to Vancouver in 2010, and Russia is already stockpiling snow for the 2014 Olympics. Alaska's Iditarod dog sled race hasn't started in its traditional point in Wasilla in more than a decade, because there hasn't been enough snow there. As snowfall becomes lighter and less reliable, the $12.2 billion winter sports industry in the U.S. could take major hits: according to one study, by 2039 more than half of the 103 ski resorts in the Northeast U.S. will have to cut their seasons to fewer than 100 days if certain warming scenarios prove to be accurate.
The threat worries winter athletes: In April, 75 winter Olympians wrote a letter calling on President Obama to address climate change so that their sports might be saved.
But it's not just winter sports that are in jeopardy because of warming temperatures. Heat waves, especially in the South, are making high school football a potentially deadly activity. A March snowstorm created unusual conditions for a World Cup qualifying match in Denver — strange weather that could become more common in a changing climate. And as water temperatures rise and yearly snowmelt decreases, trout habitats are becoming more and more unstable, threatening the sport of flyfishing.
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They could just hold it a month earlier.
Or start in the morning or evening. Mind you, we run the 'Tour Down Under' in South Australia at the height of summer, and they pedal in 40 degrees plus temperatures most years. Not too bright, your average velocipedist.
Maybe cyclists will adapt by increasing their sweat gland count or growing radiative dorsal fins. Maybe drugs will let them tolerate the heat better.
The great hope for skiing is an artificial snow that doesn't melt until 5 deg C. Possible a caged system similar to a methane clathrate. Even better if it doesn't melt at all, saves water or whatever is used to make it.
Forget the sports people, worry about all the animals and plants that are going to be stressed and possibly die out because of this change. When is the human race going to get it's head on straight?
This seems like an event that could be essentially carbon neutral, yet they have all those trucks and other vehicles following them around everywhere.
Are they all really completely necessary?
How about one emergency vehicle on hand (with water, basic medical supplies, some tools and parts…) and haul most of the rest of the stuff around by bike or source it locally?
Wouldn't that make a big statement to the world that this sport is about more than performance enhancing drugs and over-inflated egos?
Just to be clear: not all "doping" involves performance-enhancing drugs. Blood doping is done by transfusing blood into an athelete and can, if they have prepared in advance, be the transfusing their own blood – with much of the plasma removed so as to enrich it in red blood cells for enhanced oxygen carrying capacity. It isn't necessarily harmless, but no other drugs are involved in such caases.
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Crews fenced off stores between Home Depot and Books-A-Million.
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The Red Bull Music Academy has revealed to hotpress.com that after last year's stop off in Barcelona their traveling musical workshop is going to London in early 2010.
Budding producers, musicians, MCs and DJs have up until July 27 to apply for a place at the event, which will feature some high-profile guest lecturers. Application forms can be found at www.redbullmusicacademy.com.
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|"The Apocalipstix" debuts as Comici-Con International in July
âThe Apocalipstix is an all-girl band so dedicated to rock that they won't even let the end of civilization stop them from touring,â Ray Fawkes told CBR. âThey'll play for anything that has two limbs to clap together and an orifice to whistle out of - true artists barreling across a blasted world that badly needs art.
âThey are: Mandy, a force-of-nature vocalist, crack driver and fierce warrior woman, leading the pack; Megumi, the angst-ridden last survivor of a nuked-out nation, working it all out with drumsticks and pistols; and Dot, the bass-playing philosopher with just the right mix of crazy to take the end of the world in perfect stride.â
|Pages from "The Apocalipstix"
The character Megumi, who Fawkes indicates might be the last Japanese girl in the world, speaks in her native tongue throughout the book, with English subtitles. This, the writer said, took quite a bit of effort and required the services of a translator. âIt was my brainiac idea to have Meg speak entirely in Japanese--in fact, I originally wanted to leave her dialogue untranslated in the book, figuring that someone somewhere would decipher it all and post it online, on some site,â he said. âCameron talked some sense into me though, which is good, because I was lying awake at night thinking âbut Meg's got all the good linesâ and picturing fans jumping the table to throttle me at cons.â
Perhaps strangely, the Apocalipstix are not the only rockers to make it through the End Times. âIt's sort of a chicken-or-egg situation. I mean, do a lot of musicians survive the apocalypse, or do a lot of people who survive decide that they really need to start making music?â Fawkes said. âIf I wake up one day at three in the afternoon and discovered that my home town has been reduced to a cinder, I might just pick up the nearest harmonica and start honkin' it at anyone who wanders by. I might just.â
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Fawkes and Stewart describe âThe Apocalipstixâ as a project that grew out of what each creator wanted most to do at the time. âRay and I started working on these characters together back in 2003,â Cameron Stewart told CBR News. âI was just finishing up my work on âCatwomanâ with Ed Brubaker and I was feeling a little burned out and I wanted to draw something fun of my own creation to reinvigorate myself. I made a quick list of things I wanted to draw - cute girls was the top of the list, as anyone who knows me or my work should find completely unsurprising. I'm a big music fan so I wanted to do something that involved rock and roll in some way. And I absolutely did not want to draw lots of architecture, as I was getting sick of drawing the buildings in Gotham City. As a joke, I thought that the easiest environment to draw would be a desert, and then started thinking about how I could put girls and guitars in that setting. Soon I'd thought of an all-girl rock band in a âMad Maxâ-like future wasteland.â
Stewart and Fawkes were acquainted by virtue of the online comics scene, and discovered they both lived in Toronto. âI knew [Ray] was a terrific writer from his self-published âSpookshowâ comic,â Stewart said. âHe and I had tried unsuccessfully to work on some things together in the past and I figured he'd be the perfect guy to develop the idea into something usable. I contacted him and gave him the basic premise and soon, as expected, he'd named all the girls, given them distinct and rounded personalities, written a back-story, and woven it all together brilliantly.â
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The pair produced a short story featuring the Apocalyptix characters in the RAID Studio âRumble Royaleâ anthology, as well as additional material that appeared in the Toronto Comic Arts Festivalâs anthologies for Free Comic Book Day. âEventually, James Lucas Jones at Oni Press asked us if we'd be interested in developing the shorts into a full-length book, and here we are.â
Stewartâs images have lots of room to breathe in âThe Apocalipstix,â as most pages only contain a few relatively large panels, and there are a good number of full and double-page spreads. âI wanted to open up the story and make it enjoyable for me to draw,â said the artist. âOne of the things that I find most challenging and often downright unpleasant about drawing the standard monthly 22-page comic is the limit of space you have to tell the story. When I'm working on laying out a comic I often decide to split panels into two, or add panels of my own if I feel it necessary to improve pacing or clarify the storytelling and it frequently becomes a headache trying to cram in everything in with such a short page count, and the result is often cramped, crowded pages, or moments or details that have to be sacrificed for the sake of space.
âWhen I started work on âThe Apocalipstixâ original graphic novel, I decided that I was not going to be restricted by page count, I would just draw each scene as it felt natural for me to do and allow myself as many pages as I wanted to do it right. I found this really liberating and it enabled me to use double page splashes for effect far more frequently than I would have if I'd been stuck with only 22 pages for each chapter. This is a big, loud, pop story and I think it needed big, loud, pop panels.â
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There is more to âThe Apocalipstixâ than a Battle of the Bands at the End of the World, however. The book also contains mad, high-speed chase scenes and epic battles against impossible odds. âAction scenes I found the most satisfying and exhilarating and I got all charged up drawing those,â Stewart confessed. âHow many times in your life to you get to draw a trio of hot girls getting into a fist fight with a colony of giant mutant ants?â
In addition to the big panels, Stewartâs character illustration style also differs significantly from his work on DCâs âCatwomanâ and âManhattan Guardian.â âI don't really concern myself with having a âstyle,â I just draw by instinct, what feels right for whatever project I'm working on,â Stewart said. âThe gritty realism of my work on âThe Other Sideâ is absolutely not appropriate for this book and so here I tried to draw in a way that reflected the fun, exciting spirit of Ray's script. The Apocalipstix have gone through an evolution over time, they've become much more simplified than in previous adventures and this comes from drawing them repeatedly and working out subtle ways to draw them better and more efficiently.â
Volume 1 of âThe Apocalipstixâ features three interconnected stories, each running approximately 50 pages. According to Fawkes, this format will continue for future editions, though the exact specs will be determined organically. âVolume 2 is also a three-chapter piece with a single overall direction--taking the Apocalipstix to the end of their cross-country tour,â the writer said. âThe chapters vary in length to a certain degree, but we're playing it pretty fast and loose, making sure that everything gets told the way we want to tell it.â
Don't forget to check back with CBR tomorrow for an exclusive fifty-page preview of "The Apocalipstix."
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- Stephen ElliottAffiliated withForest Restoration Research Unit, Biology Department, Science Faculty, Chiang Mai University Email author
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Since 1994, the Forest Restoration Research Unit of Chiang Mai University's Biology Department (FORRU-CMU) has been developing methods to restore forest ecosystems to deforested sites within protected areas, for biodiversity conservation and environmental protection in northern Thailand. With support from WWF Greater Mekong Thailand Country Programme and corporate sponsor King Power Duty Free, the unit is working with Hmong hill tribe villagers from Baan Mae Sa Mai, in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, to expand a demonstration site for the "framework species method" of forest restoration. The technique entails planting 20 to 30 indigenous forest tree species, capable of rapidly shading out weeds and attracting seed-dispersing animals from nearby forest remnants. This results in rapid increase in tree species richness, progressing towards the species composition of the original forest, as well as overall biodiversity recovery. FORRU-CMU operates a research tree nursery, where innovative tree propagation techniques are developed, and a community-based nursery and education centre, where the practicability of those techniques is tested by local villagers. The nurseries and the demonstration field trials have become a popular training facility where visiting foresters and conservationists, both from Thailand and neighbouring countries, can learn effective forest restoration methods. FORRU-CMU provides a model for formulating a strategy to apply the framework species method to restore larger degraded sites within Thailand's protected areas system.
KeywordsTropical forest Restoration Framework species FORRU Thailand
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- Producing Framework Tree Species for Restoring Forest Ecosystems in Northern Thailand
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Small-scale Forestry
Volume 7, Issue 3-4 , pp 403-415
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- 2008-09
- 10.1007/s11842-008-9070-2
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- 1873-7617
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A central question in behavioral ecology has been why animals live in groups. Previous theories about the evolution of sociality focused on the potential benefits of decreased risk of predation, increased foraging or feeding efficiency, and mutual aid in defending resources and/or rearing offspring. This paper argues that access to mutualistic endosymbiotic microbes is an underappreciated benefit of group living and sets out to reinvigorate Troyer's hypothesis that the need to obtain cellulolytic microbes from conspecifics influenced the evolution of social behavior in herbivores and to extend it to nonherbivores. This extension is necessary because the benefits of endosymbionts are not limited to nutrition; endosymbionts also help protect their hosts from pathogens. When hosts must obtain endosymbionts from conspecifics, they are forced to interact. Thus, complex forms of sociality may be more likely to evolve when hosts must repeatedly obtain endosymbionts from conspecifics than when endosymbionts can be obtained either directly from the environment, are vertically transmitted, or when repeated inoculations are not necessary. Observations from a variety of taxa are consistent with the ideas that individuals benefit from group living by gaining access to endosymbionts and the complexity of social behavior is associated with the mode of acquisition of endosymbionts. Ways to test this theory include (a) experiments designed to examine the effects of endosymbionts on host fitness and how endosymbionts are obtained and (b) using phylogenetic analyses to examine endosymbiont–host coevolution with the goal of determining the relationship between the mode of endosymbiont acquisition and host sociality.
KeywordsEndosymbiosis Evolution Microbes Mutualism Sociality Symbiosis
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That's easy...It means you should seek immediate psychiatric evaluation.
For me, this lyric has a specifically Canadian reference. Throughout the sixties, US B52 bombers with nuclear weapons were always in the air over Canada on "airborne alert duty". This was done so the bombers were already in the air and ready to attack the USSR if the US was attacked by Soviet missiles. Many Canadians could see the vapour trails of these machines as they flew north to Russia. Hence the phrase "riding shotgun in the sky" A glorious lyric.
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MONTGOMERY – Governor Bob Riley issued the following statement on Tuesday after a Senate committee approved a Constitutional amendment that seeks to legalize and expand slot machine gambling in Alabama:
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U.S.-Russia climate and energy efficiency cooperation: A neglected challenge
Enhancing cooperation on climate change and energy efficiency should be a major plank of U.S. Russia policy and should be discussed at the highest levels when President Obama meets with President Medvedev next week.This Center for American Progress post, by Senior Fellow Andrew Light, Senior Policy Analyst Julian L. Wong, and Fellow Samuel Charap, was first published here.
The summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow on July 6-8 comes in the middle of a packed international schedule of bilateral and multilateral meetings for the United States. on climate change. In the run up to the critical U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen at the end of this year, when the extension or successor to the existing Kyoto Protocol must be agreed upon, it is crucial that the United States and Russia""both major emitters of greenhouse gases and potentially leaders on this crucial issue""explore ways of working together to ensure a positive outcome at these talks. Enhancing cooperation on climate change and energy efficiency should be a major plank of U.S. Russia policy and should be discussed at the highest levels when President Obama meets with President Medvedev next week.
Russia, like the United States, is a significant contributor to global warming. If the European Union is disaggregated Russia is the third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide behind the United States and China and still currently ahead of India. More importantly Russian per capita emissions are on the rise, and are projected at this point to approach America's top rank as per capita emitter by 2030. Russia is also the third-largest consumer of energy and one of the world's most energy-intensive economies. Making Russia a partner on these issues could be critical in order to advance a sound global climate change agenda.
The Center for American Progress report "After the 'Reset': A Strategy and New Agenda for U.S. Russia Policy" will be released on July 2 and outlines three avenues of U.S.-Russia bilateral cooperation on climate and energy issues: cooperation on a new international climate change agreement, building Russia's capacity for carbon trading, and cooperating on energy efficiency. Here we expand on these proposals.
Our approach is based on the principle that the best way to engage Russia on global warming is to frame cooperation as a form of advancing economic modernization. We must convince the Russians that joining the community of nations on this issue is in their best economic interest.
Cooperation on Copenhagen
The United States should directly engage Russia on reaching a new international climate change agreement.
The build up to the climate summit in Copenhagen is making it clear that broad-based involvement by all countries""but especially the developed countries and major emerging economies in the developing world""is needed to create a consensus on global climate change action. Most of the attention is focused on the United States, the European Union, China, and India as the major players necessary to forge a global deal, and there is insufficient thought given to the role Russia could play in a post-Kyoto agreement. There are however at least two reasons""besides the fact that Russia is a Kyoto signatory and a major emitter""to engage Russia directly in Copenhagen.
First, we should expect some resistance to a Russian embrace of an extension to or replacement of the Kyoto Protocol given the unique history of the relationship between the original assessment of their 2012 Kyoto targets and the transformation of their economy following collapse of the Soviet Union.
Our approach is based on the principle that the best way to engage Russia on global warming is to frame cooperation as a form of advancing economic modernization.
The agreed-to carbon reduction targets in the Kyoto Protocol were indexed to 1990 emission levels. Those countries signing the treaty were obliged to reduce their emissions to an agreed-upon level by 2012 relative to the baseline of their 1990 emissions. Russian emissions dropped considerably because of the economic contraction that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a result, without any additional efforts Russian emissions will not return to their 1990 levels before at least 2020 and Moscow will not be required to curb its emissions by the end of the Kyoto commitment period in 2012.
This means the Russians are likely to oppose stronger caps on emissions, which will be a necessary part of the hoped-for Copenhagen treaty. Indeed, Russia was the last major economy to announce its proposed post-Kyoto targets of 10 to 15 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. Such a proposed range has left many observers underwhelmed because it will actually allow for absolute increases in emissions from Russia's current state, but the international community should view this as an opening bid rather than final offer by actively engaging with Russia in constructive dialogue.
If we cannot strengthen the treaty and move progressively toward gradual but greater emissions cuts then we will not reach the goal of halving global emissions by 2050, something the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change argues is necessary to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. Given the sheer quantities of Russian emissions""regardless of their dip below 1990 levels""the Obama administration should work with the Russians to demonstrate that abatement measures are in Moscow's long-term economic interest.
Improvements in energy efficiency and energy intensity, for example, further economic modernization""one of the Kremlin's oft-repeated goals""and they will promote more sustainable economic growth. But for the United States to make this argument we must take the lead and make steady progress in adopting strong domestic clean-energy and climate policy, such as the American Clean Energy and Security Act that passed in the U.S. House last week. We must also be prepared to listen to our Russian counterparts and not lecture, since a finger-wagging approach will only backfire in the Russian context.
Second, Russia could be one of the unacknowledged keys to success at Copenhagen given the likely structure of the treaty. According to the architecture of the first U.N. climate treaty the Kyoto Protocol could not have been enacted unless at least 55 countries signed and ratified it representing at least 55 percent of global carbon emissions. When the first round of commitments were announced enough countries were willing to ratify the treaty but their emissions did not add up to the required amount for implementation. So if Russia had not ratified the treaty in November 2004 it would have not gone into effect. Russian participation could again be critical this time because we can expect a similar proviso in the post-Kyoto treaty.
We need to bring the Russians on board for an ambitious agenda before Copenhagen sooner rather than later to avoid a deadlock in the international climate negotiations. Immediate bilateral cooperation and engagement is key in making Russia a partner in addressing climate change""it is not in the U.S. interest for Russia to be a spoiler.
But this cooperation faces significant challenges. There are many in the Russian political establishment who believe that the effects of climate change will be positive for their country. What's more, policymakers tend to view climate agreements in exclusively economic and not environmental terms. Russian policymakers, like their Chinese counterparts, emphasize that any emissions caps should not threaten Russia's economic development. However, Russia has recently released a draft climate doctrine that acknowledges the threat posed by climate change""a positive sign.
Building capacity for carbon trading
The United States should help Russia capitalize on the substantial amounts of emission credits it now possesses with the goal of ultimately reducing its emissions.
Russia currently sits on a veritable treasure of tradable carbon credits""by some estimates 1.5 billion euros. Russia is not linked to any existing emissions trading system, such as the European Trading Scheme, and it lacks the institutional capacity to do so. The United States is in a good position to provide capacity building expertise to Russia in establishing an emissions trading market because of our experience in establishing emissions trading markets, most notably the highly successful sulfur dioxide trading scheme in the 1990s and more recently regional (Western Climate Imitative, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and Midwestern Initiative) and voluntary (Chicago Climate Exchange) carbon emissions trading initiatives.
We need to bring the Russians on board for an ambitious agenda before Copenhagen sooner rather than later to avoid a deadlock in the international climate negotiations.
The administration should also create incentives for these U.S. trading centers to collaborate with the Russians to launch a pilot emissions trading scheme in one or more of Russia's heavy industry sectors. Such efforts can include guidance on how to set up inventory systems for tracking greenhouse gas sources and sinks and to establish the architecture and infrastructure for the actual trading of emission credits, with the long-term goal of linking Russia (or specific sectors) into broader trading systems.
Developing Russia's capacity in emissions trading will help it to be in a better position to join a large trading scheme as a full participant if and when it agrees to begin stemming its current emissions. This proposal is likely to be met with support from major Russian enterprises, including the state-controlled oil major Rosneft, which has already demonstrated interest in related emissions trading projects. The larger objective of such cooperation should be clear: demonstrating to the Russian government that joining international efforts to solve global warming can be profitable to them by providing a way of joining the international carbon market. The revenues from carbon credit trading will offset the cost of taking on additional cuts at home.
Cooperation on energy efficiency
The United States should also propose a series of cooperative agreements on increasing Russia's energy efficiency.
One of the most striking features of Russia's energy profile is its energy intensity""the amount of energy consumed per unit of gross domestic product""which is higher than any of the world's 10-largest energy-consuming countries, 3.1 times greater than the European Union, and more than twice that of the United States. This massive potential for improvement makes working with the Russians to increase their energy efficiency the most effective short-term way to help them reduce emissions and points toward the clearest path for demonstrating the economic advantages of taking on climate change.
It is important for the United States to adopt this stance to take advantage of the opportunity that has recently opened up in Russia. For the first time the Russian government has demonstrated an interest in increasing efficiency. President Medvedev signed a decree in June 2008 that includes measures aimed at reducing Russia's energy intensity by at least 40 percent by 2020 compared with 2007 levels. And Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issued a government order earlier this year that calls for a significant increase in the energy efficiency of the Russian electric power sector. Medvedev has on several occasions publicly acknowledged the economic benefits of energy efficiency for Russia's economy. As such energy efficiency represents an enormous opportunity for collaboration between our two countries.
Fortunately the United States has a ready and successful model for such collaboration in its experience in working with China on industrial energy efficiency. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a research institution supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, has worked with Chinese scientists and the Chinese government to establish an industrial energy efficiency program that benchmarks China's top 1,000 energy-consuming industries to global best practices.
We recommend that the Obama administration propose a similar type of program that targets Russia's industrial sectors given the potential for substantial financial savings through energy efficiency in Russia's industrial sector and the Russian government's interest. Funding for such a project would come from both the U.S. and Russian governments, working through public-private partnerships, and that any potentially new energy-saving technologies that could emerge from this collaboration be fully shared. We should also frame this project as an opportunity for U.S. and Russian scientists to collaborate on contributing to Russia's innovation agenda and produce technologies that benefit both countries because of the sensitivity of U.S. involvement in the Russian economy.
Further, the United States can play a role in increasing Russian efficiencies by offering expertise to improve energy conservation at Russia's end-user level. The United States has had considerable success with a domestic energy efficiency program called Energy Star, which is administered jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy. Energy Star adopts the public-private partnership model""a concept gaining traction in Russia""by pairing up with businesses to develop energy efficiency compliance codes for a full range of products and practices, which now cover buildings and facilities and over 60 product categories, such as home appliances, office equipment, lighting, home electronics, and more.
In over 17 years of operation Energy Star has engendered collaboration among 15,000 private- and public-sector organizations, and led to estimated energy savings that translate to $19 billion in 2008 alone. It will be further strengthened by the aforementioned American Clean Energy Security Act should a companion bill in the Senate also pass. We recommend that the United States and Russia use the American experience with Energy Star to develop long-term Russian institutional capacity for establishing best practices, setting energy performance standards, and monitoring energy consumption across a wide range of end uses in Russia.
Russia and the United States were incapable of discussing important issues in the final months of the Bush presidency. The Obama administration now has the opportunity to build a relationship of trust and cooperation to fight a common threat. Working together on advancing energy efficiency in Russia and demonstrating the economic advantages of attending to climate change offers both countries an ideal platform for a new era of constructive diplomacy and joint action. Climate and energy efficiency can also expand the U.S.-Russia relationship beyond the traditional areas of arms control and nonproliferation. President Obama should capitalize on this opportunity starting next week in Moscow when he meets with Medvedev. Confronting this neglected challenge may very well wind up being a key to solving the climate crisis.
9 Responses to U.S.-Russia climate and energy efficiency cooperation: A neglected challenge
This report points out that Kyoto referenced 1990 GHG emission levels. W_M (in need of "strengthening" as it heads into the Senate) uses 2005 emission levels as a baseline. W-M allows international offsets. The EU does as well. Russia has an excess of offsets. Russia withstanding, a western-based deadlock at Copenhagen is all but assured. So why would they want to help in what is scientifically, little more than smoke and mirrors (and a vague hope that such will lead to REAL/scientifically relevant action down the line) succeed?
The synthesis report warns that what seems to be politically possible is not an option. If the US is to affect leadership it must first effect such. This is the price that must be paid to be a leader. To date, such is not on the table (in part, because such cannot be explained in "positive" ways). Consequently, and as an aside/pun, isn't the concept of "American Progress" an oxymoron?
That aside, the US has strategically isolated Russia via covert support for the revolutions of color to "secure" access to central Asia oil. Russia has internal economic challenges due, in part, to our actions. As a diversion marketed to its citizens as a distraction, Russia got to stick its finger in our proverbial eye in Georgia last year (and pointed blew up the key railroad bridge for current oil transport across Georgia). As long a C&T with international offsets is the only game in town, control of the transport of Central Asian oil is one of the key means for garnering wealth both while, and after the US dollar functions as the global reserve fiat currency. Isn't BRIC only a first step in a chess game that has already been systemically lost by the US within the parameters defined by liberal hope.
"After a Rest"?!?, how about after owning up to our duplicity? Isn't truth telling a social prerequisite for just and fair cooperation? In lieu of that, don't they hold almost all the cards in the negotiations that this report advocates for?
Joe, you know that this report is blind to the climate science changes, simply because of its exclusive focus on the difficulty of getting agreements across diverse parties to climate accords. But quite frankly a continued focus on 2050 is scientifically unrealistic. We need results by 2020 or we're all cooked. So why wouldn't you say that about this post?
[JR: One needs in 2020 targets, 2030, and 2050, and eventually beyond that. I would add that as a matter of blogging, one can't be expected to repeat every single thing one is written in every blog post. My analysis about what our 2020 target should be is online. That said, 2020 is not the be all and end all. Gettting the United States reducing its emissions along with all of the other rich countries, and it getting China sharply off of its business as usual path are the top priorities.]
I don't see how this report is "blind to the climate science changes." What we are trying to avoid is a scenario where Russia continues to emit at its current rate without any check. In the current architecture of the UN framework there is nothing to bind them to curbing emissions until they hit their 1990 levels which won't be until at least 2020. So, to get them to take emissions cuts seriously you have to engage them on the issue. We think the best way to do that is bilaterally and our research shows that the thing that could entice them to do that is engagement on energy efficiency. One might think that a small step but the intention is that it's a small step on the way to a more ambitious outcome, which is a better agreement at Copenhagen that does correspond with targets that conform to where the science wants us to go.
Best, Andrew
Fair enough Andrew. My concern is that CAP seems to be hamstrung by its sense of the politically possible on nearly all climate change issues, rather than forthrightly saying how vastly much more is needed. CAP is too influential in Washington to simply go along with the pack mentality on this. How about breaking from the pack a bit more?
[JR: Well, here at CP, I try to marry political realism with science realism, which, like all marriages, has its ups and downs. That said, no one can truthfully claim I haven't explained in great detail "how vastly much more is needed."]
I agree Joe, you do a beautiful job of exposing and clarifying various issues, and "how vastly much more is needed", and I'm actually not complaining about that at all. Your site is by far the best thing our civilization has going on this topic.
I see that this thread is probably the wrong place to have this important discussion. Can you suggest a better thread so that more people can participate in it?
Or would you consider opening up a new thread on the question of how to set targets for 2020, 2030, 2050 and beyond? Because from either a policy viewpoint or a social change viewpoint there is almost no question of greater importance.
Best regards,
"JR: Well, here at CP, I try to marry political realism with science realism, which, like all marriages, has its ups and downs."
Interesting metaphor. Will prevaricating politics ever yield to sound science and give it the intercourse it needs? ;)
"Will prevaricating politics ever yield to sound science and give it the intercourse it needs?"
Ha! Sound science better insist on a condom!
If you are implying that politicos get in bed with lots of different partners for money, and thereby are unfaithful to reason; can infect partners with non-rational thinking, condoms might be called for. However, isn't impregnation desired for scientifically meaningful legislation to be the desired offspring of science's intercourse with politics?
Wall Street, the fossil fuel industry, and corporate agriculture have not used a condom and birthed quite the bastard relative to what the science, and the trends in that science, need birthed: ACES/W-M.
Hi Greg,
Just having a chuckle at your double entendre ;-) Obviously the relationship between politics, business, and science is very complex. And not amenable to simple outline.
If I let myself be cynical (and too simplistic), I'd say that politics/business (the same two-headed beast) have always used science to their advantage – and never let the facts get in the way when their advantage wasn't clear. Science is a tool of the powerful. It's put down and ignored when it's convenient.
The kind of change in legislation you seem to be indicating would call for a major cultural paradigm shift – one which exalted empiricism above all other perceptual approaches. That might be refreshing. I won't hold my breath.


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