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Will Windows 8 Destroy the Consumer Antivirus Market?
- Will Windows 8 Destroy the Consumer Antivirus Market?
- Security Monoculture a Problem
- Webroot Welcomes Change
Security Monoculture a Problem
Roel Schouwenberg, senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab, thinks monoculture is dangerous. "From a technical perspective this would mean malware authors will make sure their creations go undetected by MSE/Defender before deployment," said Schouwenberg. "We've seen this over the years. With the growing popularity of Windows 7 there's been more focus on circumventing [User Account Control]. If MSE were to become a standard the bad guys will simply adapt."
Graham Cluley is both senior technology consultant at Sophos and a major contributor to the company's well-regarded Naked Security blog. In his post about Windows 8's antivirus protection, he notes both good news and bad news.
Agreeing with Schouwenberg, he says, "Surely the first thing the bad guys will do is make sure their latest creation can slip past Microsoft's scanner." Cluley feels this development is bad news for "those security vendors who rely heavily on consumer sales of their software" and predicts these vendors may sue to force Microsoft to "offer users security products from a selection of different vendors, just as happened in the case of Internet Explorer." Once again concurring with Schowenberg he states, "The thought of running the same anti-virus product as every other home user on the planet, gives me shivers. A security monoculture is not a good thing."
Monoculture is also a concern at Panda Security.
"On the plus side, any move to make the OS more secure is a good move. This will specially benefit those users who don't have antivirus installed and those who don't even know they need one," said Pedro Bustamante, Panda's senior research advisor. "On the other hand this may easily create a monoculture of the same antivirus platform across a large user base of Windows 8 users, which malware writers will definitely take advantage of, making their lives that much easier. MSE has not really shined as an antivirus against zero-day threats in the last years, so we expect users to start looking for stronger protection by better AVs and security suites after they become infected."
Bustamante took exception to the notion that only consumer-side antivirus vendors could be affected by Microsoft's move. "Some recent comments referred to this move as hurting only antivirus vendors which depend on the consumer market, but this is false as the operating system and antivirus will most probably be the same for both the consumer and corporate market. Even enterprise customers migrating to Windows 8 will receive MSE bundled in their licenses. Those enterprise and SMB customers will need an easy upgrade path from the basic installed antivirus to a stronger security solution without suffering the typical conflicts of running multiple security products."
Richard Clooke, public relations manager for PC Tools' Worldwide Review Program, is concerned that Microsoft's solution doesn't include behavioral-based or reputation-based malware detection.
"At PC Tools we believe that as a bare minimum, everyone must have at least a basic level of protection on their PC, so this move by Microsoft to provide additional anti-spyware elements to their basic anti-virus offering is a step in the right direction," he said. "However it brings with it an unwelcome risk, as Windows 8 users may be tempted to settle for inadequate protection. It's clear from the ever-growing and adapting threat landscape that a reliable security solution must deliver comprehensive protection, including strong behavioral detection and reputation-based threat analysis to counter the thousands of new threats discovered every day. With malware authors increasingly focused on adopting social engineering techniques to trick users into revealing personal and financial information, it's more apparent than ever that signature-based anti-malware protection no longer cuts the mustard in terms of delivering a comprehensive security solution."
Natalie Severino, director of Consumer Product Marketing for Trend Micro, is concerned about the message Microsoft sends. "We are concerned in the best interests of consumers," Severino said, "not just because we believe it could be anti-competitive. This action could mislead consumers to believe that they are fully protected across today's new and evolving threats by Microsoft Essentials combined with the new operating system. They are not."
Severino agreed with others who express concern about a "digital monoculture" that could "[give] rise to a new class of exploits created by hackers to attack the combination, and slip by potentially inadequate defenses. We've seen this dynamic before, most recently with the rise in popularity of Android, and the corresponding rise in vulnerabilities and exploits directed at it by the cybercriminals."
She concludes, "We question how much R&D and ongoing support Microsoft will give over the long term to a free solution. In fact in the past two quarters Microsoft Essentials has rated 2.5 out of 6 in protection according to AV-Test.org."
Some Vendors Unimpressed
Researchers at Symantec examined an early build and confirmed that the new Windows Defender definitely is just a repackaged version of Microsoft Security Essentials. They're not impressed. Mike Plante, Symantec's vice president of product marketing, had a lot to say on the subject. Like CheckPoint's Gable, he feels Microsoft hasn't gone far enough.
"In today's threat landscape," said Plante, "it's clear that the protection consumers need is more comprehensive than what basic antivirus offers. Antivirus is just the first basic layer. On top of that, reputation, file, behavior and network based protection are needed to help fully protect consumers."
Plante also notes that the existing Microsoft Security Essentials product doesn't offer the best protection. "This next version of Windows Defender is just a repackaging of Microsoft Security Essentials. In a recent third-party, real-world protection and remediation test conducted by AV-Test GmbH… Microsoft Security Essentials came in last out of a total of 13 security solutions."
Finally he casts doubt on the idea of relying on Microsoft for security. "When it comes to securing their data and personal information, consumers need to look to a company that has shown a consistent commitment to security. Microsoft's history in the security space and the deviations it's made from its original strategy, starting with the abandonment of Windows Live OneCare, should leave consumers uncertain about relying on Microsoft to protect what they value most."
Catalin Cosoi, head of the BitDefender Online Threats Lab, also expressed doubts about Microsoft's track record. Cosoi observed, "Looking back at the history of Microsoft's forays into data security, we can't make any predictions as to the effectiveness of their future solutions. However, this move will definitely encourage innovation and the drive to deliver new and improved products, by all market actors. Microsoft's decision to finally add full antivirus and anti-spyware protection to the core of its operating system offering could prove beneficial. Given the increasing level of malware nowadays, any move towards delivering safer operating systems will be welcomed by users."
Like several others I asked, Cosoi feels Microsoft hasn't gone far enough to protect users. "From a more practical point of view, a full security product involves much more than just antivirus and anti-spyware protection. To deal with current and future threats, other technologies, such as antiphishing, parental control, anti-fraud, social media security, secure browsing and online backup are needed."


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Tagalong Golf & Resort about 20 miles northeast of Rice Lake in Barron County and has been serving the area since 1919. The course itself was intended to be a duplicate of St. Andrews, and features huge, elevated greens surrounded by deep, grass bunkers.
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Nearby City
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- Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (EAU) / 52.5 miles
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1. Energy in Costa Rica
2. Tourism in Jamaica
3. Agriculture in Ecuador
4. Strategies derived from the case studies
The managers of public and private sectoral agencies share a concern about the vulnerability of their sectors to hazardous events: What hazards threaten which services? Where are the weak links? How much damage might be done? How would the damage affect sector investment, income, employment, and foreign exchange earnings? What is the impact of losing x service in y city for z days? What investment in mitigation would resolve that problem? What is the cost-benefit of that investment? In the experience of the OAS the sectors that can benefit most from vulnerability assessments are energy, transport, tourism, and agriculture, since these sectors typify problems of disaster impact faced by developing countries.
Presented below are case studies of hazard assessments for the energy sector, the tourism sector, and the agriculture sector. The section ends with some strategies for conducting such assessments for selected economic sectors.
In 1989 the Costa Rican Sectoral Directorate of Energy asked the OAS to assist in analyzing the vulnerability of the energy sector to natural hazards. The study first defined the nature of possible impacts. These included:
- Loss of infrastructure; associated investment losses
- Loss of income to the sector from forgone energy sales
- Effect on the production of goods and services; associated losses of employment income
- Loss of foreign exchange
- Negative impact on the quality of life
It was clear that the study would have to cover not only the main energy subsectors, but also the service and production sectors that could affect or be affected by the supply of energy. Thus it included the electric power system, the hydrocarbon system, railroads, roads, telecommunications, the metropolitan aqueduct, and the major economic production facilities. Existing information was analyzed for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, hurricanes, flooding, drought, and erosion.
To evaluate the vulnerability of each facility, the study used two methods simultaneously: field examination and the preparation of a geographic information system which could overlay each hazard with each energy and service system. Figure 15 shows one of the GIS overlays: landslide threats to transmission lines. Matrices prepared to show impacts were rated as follows:
- No impact
- Potential threat, major or minor
- Confirmed threat, major or minor
Figure 15 - COSTA RICA: ENERGY SECTOR VULNERABILITY TO LANDSLIDE HAZARDS
Source: Adapted from Departamento de Desarrollo Regional/Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), and Dirección Sectorial de Energía/Ministerio de Recursos Naturales, Energía y Minas de Costa Rica (MIRENEM). Amenazas Naturales y la Infraestructura Energética de Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica: Unpublished report, 1989).
A rapid examination of the threats yielded a number of serious problems. The confirmed major impacts caused by each hazard in each sector are shown in Figure 16. The most important problems were studied in greater detail and actions to deal with them were recommended. Some examples follow.
- The worst event would be a strong earthquake or volcanic eruption that breached Arenal dam or crippled the Arenal and Corobici hydroelectric plants, cutting off half of the hydropower in the country. The probability of such an event is low, but the magnitude of the catastrophe is so great it has to be planned for. The report recommended contingency plans for emergency generation and the establishment of new power plants outside the Arenal system.
- Two critical substations and two transmission lines are threatened by earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, flooding, and severe windstorms. The multiple hazards make the probability of occurrence moderate, and the loss of any of these components would cut off power from the Arenal system to the central region. The report recommended building a alternate transmission line that would bypass the four components.
- Landslides periodically damage one segment of the railroad that carries heavy petroleum derivatives from the refinery on the Atlantic Coast to a critical substation in San Jose. Since having the substation out of commission for a long time would be a major catastrophe for the region and rerouting the railroad would be too expensive, the report recommended equipping a West Coast port with facilities for handling a substitute supply which could be trucked to San Jose.
Figure 16 - NUMBER OF CONFIRMED MAJOR IMPACTS OF NATURAL HAZARDS ON ENERGY FACILITIES IN COSTA RICA
Electric Power Subsector
Oil and Gas Subsectora/
Transport Sector
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Thermal plants
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a/ No confirmed major impacts on port or substations
b/ Caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding, hurricanes
Source: Adapted from Departamento de Desarrollo Regional/Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), and Dirección Sectorial de Energía/Ministerio de Recursos Naturales, Energía y Minas de Costa Rica (MIRENEM). Amenazas Naturales y la Infraestructura Energética de Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica: Unpublished report, 1989).
The Government found the recommendations valid and is now seeking financing for feasibility studies of the most critical ones. It is noteworthy that so many serious problems could be identified in a three-month study and, more importantly, that many were amenable to mitigation by relatively modest investments.
The geographic and climatic setting of the Caribbean and the siting of tourism projects on or near the beaches combine to make Caribbean tourism especially vulnerable to disruption from natural disasters. In the island countries hurricanes are the most damaging hazard, but land-based flooding, landslides, earthquakes, and wildfires also exact a toll.
Direct damage caused by Hurricane Gilbert to property and equipment of the Jamaican tourism industry amounted about US$85 million. The indirect damage was much greater. In foreign exchange alone the cost from September to December 1988 was US$90 million-a particularly painful loss since the foreign exchange was needed to finance recovery programs. The temporary closing of hotels for repairs meant fewer visitors to the island, causing other indirect effects such as loss of income for the national airline and reduction in employment and the purchase of local goods and services.
The vulnerability of the tourism industry is not confined to its own capital stock, as was demonstrated by the Jamaican experience. Damage to roads, utilities, airports, harbors, and shopping centers also affected the industry. Conscious of the need to minimize damage from future events, the Government of Jamaica requested OAS technical cooperation in preparing an assessment of the vulnerability of the tourism sector to natural hazards and recommending mitigation actions.
The assessment disclosed that much of the damage to tourism facilities, as to other buildings, was due to lack of attention to detail in construction and maintenance, particularly in roof construction. Roof sheeting was poorly interlocked. Tie-downs of roof structures were inadequate. Nail heads were rusted off. Timber strength was reduced by termites, and metal strength by corrosion. Much glass was needlessly blown out because of faulty installation and poor design criteria, but also because windows were not protected from flying debris. Drains clogged with debris caused excessive surface runoff, resulting in erosion and scouring around buildings. Local water shortages developed because the lack of back-up generators prevented pumping. Although a major contributor to the damage, faulty building practices and maintenance deficiencies are easy to correct: it was calculated that proper attention to these matters would have increased the cost of construction less than 1 percent.
Long-term mitigation measures were also identified. The study recommended the protection of beach vegetation, sand dunes, mangroves, and coral reefs, all of which help to protect the land from wave and wind action. New construction sites should be evaluated for susceptibility to hazards. Setback distance from the shore should be enforced, and the quality of sewage outfall should be maintained to protect live coral formations.
In short, the preliminary study, conducted in one month, identified a number of possible actions that would substantially reduce the impact of future hurricanes and other natural hazards. The preliminary analysis indicated that many of these actions would have a high cost-benefit ratio. Subsequently, Jamaica requested IDB financing to undertake feasibility analyses of these proposals and to implement them. The ultimate objective of this work is for the tourism sector to arrive at a "practical and effective loss reduction strategy and program in response to the risks posed by natural disasters to the industry."
In Ecuador, as in most Latin American and Caribbean countries, agriculture is one of the most important sources of income, employment, investments, and foreign exchange earnings. However, it is perhaps the most vulnerable and least protected sector in terms of infrastructure and institutional support to cope with natural hazards. In the floods caused by the El Niño phenomenon in 1982-83, for example, the agricultural sector suffered 48 percent of the US$232 million in damage. Furthermore, besides generating inflationary pressures on domestic prices, the disaster had a significant impact on the balance of payments due to the loss of export crops and the need to import basic food products to compensate for domestic production losses.6/
6/ United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Ecuador: Evaluation of the Effects of the 1982/83 Floods on Economic and Social Development (New York: ECLAC, 1983).
In 1990, the Ministry of Agriculture asked the OAS to assist in evaluating the vulnerability of the agricultural sector to natural hazards and identifying appropriate mitigation strategies to reduce it to acceptable levels. These strategies would be identified as project ideas or project profiles, some of which would be selected by local officials to be further studied and evaluated to determine their economic and technical viability.
The study, conducted at the national level, first defined 14 of the most important crops, grouped in three categories: basic food crops, strategic crops, and export crops. Key infrastructure support elements for the production, processing, storage, transportation, and distribution of agricultural products were also defined and geographically located. This information was overlaid in a geographic information system (GIS; see next section) with information on drought, erosion, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and seismic hazards.
By relating province-level socioeconomic data to potential affected areas, the study was able to determine the impacts of natural events in terms of sectoral income, employment, investments, foreign exchange earnings, and national food security. On the basis of these criteria, 49 different situations were selected as the most critical. It was found, for example, that erosion hazards in Carchi Province would affect in the medium to long run 11,750 ha of the potato-growing area, which accounts for more than 43 percent of the national production and for 40 percent and 80 percent, respectively, of the employment and income produced by the sector in the province.
The most serious problems according to each of the five criteria were identified, and policy options that would achieve the best gains were established. It was determined, for example, that policies oriented to avoid unemployment should seek to mitigate flood hazards in Guayas Province and erosion hazards in Tungurahua Province. To protect foreign exchange earnings, the most effective actions would be to protect banana production in El Oro Province against drought hazards and to mitigate flood hazards in Guayas Province, especially in areas used for coffee and banana production.
Possible mitigation strategies were also identified as part of the study, and planned or on-going programs and projects in the Ministry of Agriculture and other institutions were identified as suitable for carrying out some of these mitigation strategies and more detailed studies. A report describing the major findings and recommendations was prepared and submitted to the Government for review. Based on these recommendations, a US$317,000 technical cooperation proposal for hazard mitigation activities within the sector has been prepared by the Government and is to be presented to outside agencies for financing.
The following observations are common to many sectors. Of course, many additional strategies apply to individual sector studies.
Sectors are useful units of analysis for examining hazard assessment and vulnerability reduction issues.
Sectors are recognizable and legitimate program subjects. Banks make loans on the basis of sectors. A sectoral approach fits the organizational structure of both international finance agencies and national governments. The knowledge and experience of most technical professionals is built around a sectoral approach. Information for the development diagnosis (Phase I of an integrated development planning study) is collected and analyzed on a sectoral basis. Sectoral studies need not be restricted to economic sectors: urban and rural sectors and the poor also make valid units of study.
Vulnerability reduction measures can be cost-effective, either as stand-alone projects or, more commonly, as component elements of overall sector development programs. Including such measures can improve the cost-benefit ratio of investment projects.
Sector vulnerability studies are a new approach which can be considered for inclusion in development diagnosis (Phase I) studies. Initial national-level studies allow for a quick and low-cost assessment of policies and projects at a profile level that can be examined in greater detail later.
Sectoral studies reveal previously unrecognized linkages between disasters and development. Often a sector is unaware of its role in the lifeline or critical facilities network. In many cases it has no strategy for dealing with abnormal situations resulting from any exogenous event. The complex interrelationships among the components of some sectors make it difficult to cope with the impact of a natural event. This is particularly true when the sector is more concerned with one set of components, such as the production or generation of power, than with another set such as transmission, distribution, and storage. Furthermore, sectors usually do not have an adequate understanding of the effect a curtailment of service can have on other sectors.
A sector may have to select between competing objectives to arrive at a vulnerability reduction strategy. Criteria that define those competing objectives include investment in the sector, income stream, export earnings, employment, and sector security. The cost of a component may be disproportionate to the impact of its loss as measured by one of these criteria.


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By Jean Marie Allman
Bearing the old image of the Asante kingdom, the porcupine, the nationwide Liberation stream (NLM) stormed onto the Gold Coast's political degree in 1954, mounting one of many first and most important campaigns to decentralize political energy in decolonizing Africa. Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) was once the 1st colony in sub-Saharan Africa to safe political independence from Britain. The fight for complete self-government was once led through Kwame Nkrumah, the major recommend of African nationalism and Pan-African cohesion within the post-World battle II era. The NLM threatened the steadiness of Nkrumah's preindependence executive and destroyed clients for a soft transition to complete self-rule. even though NLM calls for for Asante autonomy mobilized hundreds of thousands of contributors, marchers, and electorate, the NLM used to be not able to prevent plans for a unitary executive in a brand new nation. less than Nkrumah, Ghana grew to become self sustaining in 1957. Marginalized politically by way of 1958, the NLM has from time to time been marginalized through students as well. forged into the shadows of educational inquiry the place history's losers frequently reside, the NLM got here to be characterised as a tribalist ghost of the previous whose foreordained defeat was once necessary of a few consciousness, yet whose marvelous upward push was once no longer. at the present time, while it really is a long way more durable to push aside decentralizing events and replacement nationalisms as issues of the prior, Jean Marie Allman's tremendous The Quills of the Porcupine recovers the background of the NLM as a favored circulate whose achievements and defeats have been rooted in Asante's background and within the social conflicts of the period. Allman attracts skillfully on her broad interviews with NLM activists, on a number of released and archival assets in Ghana, and on British colonial records—many of them lately declassified—to offer wealthy narrative aspect. refined in its research of the NLM's ideology and of the appeals of the circulation to varied strata inside of Asante society, The Quills of the Porcupine is a pioneering case examine within the social heritage of African politics. an exhilarating tale firmly located in the context of the massive theoretical and ancient literature on classification, ethnicity, and nationalism, its value reaches some distance previous the borders of Asante, and of Ghana.
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Friday, October 20, 2017
Taking a Knee at the City Council Meeting
Monday, October 16, 2017
Ypsilanti City Council Preview
Tomorrow night at 7 pm the Ypsilanti City Council will be meeting in Ypsilanti City Hall. Here's the agenda if you'd like to take a look at it. There are two items on the agenda relating to the proposed International Village project. First, Economic Development Director, Beth Ernat, is giving a presentation on the trip to China she, the mayor, the mayor pro-tem, and the police chief went on. There is also a resolution to approve funding for independent legal services to investigate the aforementioned China trip. I anticipate much of the public commentary at the beginning of the meeting will be about International Village and the China trip.
There is also a first reading of an ordinance to establish a Citizens Police Advisory Commission. The commission would serve as liaison with the YPD, review, and report findings of police complaint investigations. There are also two recommendations from Sustainability Commission on establishing definitions of sustainable development as well as sustainable design guidelines.
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The agenda item that is likely to draw the most public comments is CA-16, "Resolution to Approve Amendment No. 1 to Contract with White Buffalo, Inc. for Combined Surgical Sterilization and Sharpshooting Management Services for the City's Deer Population." I *think* the reason that this is just on the consent agenda is because the item comes from the amendment from last year's approval of the contract for services with White Buffalo. Perhaps someone who understands City Council process better than I do can clarify that point.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Odious human, Charles Murray, to speak at U of M this evening
From his earliest days, Charles Murray was—to put it charitably—a shockingly oblivious human being when it came to matters of race. As a teenager in the 1950s, he and some high school friends staged a cross burning on top of a hill. Murray claims he was stunned when the residents of his Iowa town instantly thought the flaming cross was somehow racist. "It never crossed our minds that this had any larger significance," he insisted. Forty years later, with the publication of The Bell Curve, Murray would once again profess himself surprised that people could view him as a racist. "I'm befuddled by it… I don't know what to make of it," Murray said when even old acquaintances began calling his book dishonest and bigoted. Murray wondered why he was being "punished" for producing perfectly valid social science research on a matter of public import.
Two U of M Professors named 2017 MacArthur Fellows
Two University of Michigan Professors, Derek Peterson and Jason De León, were just named to the 2017 class of MacArthur Fellows. Peterson studies eastern Africa's intellectual cultures in the History Department. While De León directs the Undocumented Migration Project which is a long term study of clandestine border crossings combing techniques from sociology, anthropology, and forensic science.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
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Monday, September 25, 2017
Week of action planned at U of M
Following last week's protest against racist flyers and graffiti, Students 4 Justice are planning a week of action and agitation. If you are following our Twitter Stream, or are on North University now, you have probably noticed that the week of action has begun. As of press time, students are blocking access to the Central Campus Transit Center between CC Little and the UM Museum of Natural History. The Daily's Coiln Beresford and Matt Harmon are on the scene as well as postdoctoral fellow, Austin McCoy. Here are some of their Tweets from the scene.
Solidarity @UMich #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/jjZhOejen4— Austin McCoy (@AustinMcCoy3) September 25, 2017
Blockade concludes as allies disperse pic.twitter.com/Fbe8RE2z0y— Colin Beresford (@Colin_beresford) September 25, 2017
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
March to protest racist flyers and graffiti tonight at U of M
Since September 1st there have been three major racist incidents at U of M. On September 1st incoming Latinx students painted The Rock cultural expressions of pride and community. Within 24 hours someone had painted "fuck Latinos" over it. On September 16th someone posted flyers that said "free Dylan Roof. On September 17th racist graffiti was found on the doors of three black students in West Quad. In response to these incidents there will be a march tonight from the steps of the Union to the President's House. The march will start at 7:30 pm and attendees are asked to arrive punctually.
Get critical with Nerd Nite tomorrow
Nerd Nite 48 is tomorrow at LIVE. Jessica Letaw will be speaking on architecture. Lindsay Blackwell will give a presentation on harassment in online communities. And Sara Wedell is going to connect our 21st President, Chester A. Arthur, to the Arthurian Legend. Sounds like a great evening.
Doors are at 6:30 and presentations start at 7. There is no cover thanks to the AADL.


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Hosted by Jeju Folk Village, this annual event sees traditional Jeju dishes being prepared from vegetables grown within the village. After viewing the preparation and cooking, visitors to the event are then invited to taste the food for free. The event will take place in a traditional thatched roof house. A different food item will be featured each day. Visitors can also participate in the preparation of the dishes, some of which include:
- Bingtteok (a traditional Jeju-style buckwheat pancake rolled with sliced radish).
- Tofu. Made from boiled bean water.
- Meju (a dried brick of fermented soybeans used to make Korean traditional soybean paste).
Date/time: Jan. 18 to 20 and Jan. 25 to 27. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Jeju Folk Village Museum. 40-1 Pyoseon-ri, Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo City.
Jan. 18. Pumpkin porridge
Jan. 19. Bingtteok
Jan. 20. Gireumtteok (Jeju traditional glutinous rice pancake).
Jan. 25. Tofu and Bbeongtuigi (puffed rice or corn).
Jan. 26. Meju
Jan. 27. Pumpkin porridge
Inquiries: 064-787-4501
Opening hours of the Jeju Folk Village: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Entrance fee: adults: 8,000 won, students: 5,500 won, children and seniors: 4,000 won.
Reservations are unnecessary.


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President of CSCEC Meets with the Mayor of Nanning
[ Date:2017-03-02 Visits: ]
On February 28, Wang Xiangming, President of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. (CSCEC), met with Zhou Hongbo, Mayor of Nanning. Ma Zeping, Vice President of CSCEC, attended the meeting.
The Mayor introduced economic and social progress in Nanning in recent years and the general planning for the North Bay city cluster with Nanning as the center. He also extended his gratitude to CSCEC for its contribution to local development and spoke highly of its achievements.
Mr. Wang said that CSCEC always regards Nanning as its long-term strategic partner and expects more support from Nanning to expand cooperation, establish new investment platforms and fully promote the implementation of the strategic cooperation agreement. He also promised that CSCEC will try all out to perform the contract and provide service to celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Other officials from the two sides also attended the meeting. (from Infrastructure Operations)


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Divorce is one of the worst things anyone has to go through. When we say 'I do,' we mean forever. There's no stopping the way couples change, though. Sometimes there's nothing for it but to go your separate ways. If you spend more time arguing than anything, it's no good carrying on. Separating from your partner is painful, and it gets a lot more painful during a divorce. Divorce proceedings can do funny things to people. You might end up barely recognizing your partner. It's important to remember to take care of yourself during the hard divorce days. Don't let the mess you're in stop you from looking ahead. Don't let your partner bring you down. Here are some tips for getting through the messiest divorce, and coming out better at the other end.
In an ideal world, you and your partner will remain friends and settle everything between the two of you. In truth, things rarely work out that way. Divorce can get complicated, especially when there's money involved. Even if you and your ex are in a good place when discussions start, it's unlikely you will be by the end of things. To save you both from painful and unnecessary arguments, look into divorce mediation. Getting an outside perspective will help you both stay calm. It will also ensure that everything stays fair. It may seem strange to have a mediator between you and the person you shared your life with, but it's often necessary.
Divorce focuses on the untangling of you and your partner's mutual belongings. Working out exactly what you want out of the divorce is crucial before you enter any discussions. It helps keep things neat if you can state what you want and why you want it. Hopefully, your partner will agree to your conditions without argument. Prepare to fight for what you want, just in case. Have some discussions planned so that you can fight your case concisely. Don't let your partner intimidate you, or bully you into settling for less than you want. Stick to your guns and remind yourself why you're doing it in the first place!
It can be hard to take care of yourself when divorce is taking up all your brain power. Don't forget to indulge in a little self-love during this hard time. Remember, above all, that your heart is broken and you need to give yourself time to heal. Take the time to pamper yourself. Maybe book a day at a spa. How about a night out with the girls? Anything to relax you and make you feel a little better will help. Don't let the divorce stress you out. Keep in mind that it will be over soon. Thinking towards the future can be a great help here. Knowing where you want your life to go once the divorce is over will give you an incentive to see the thing through.


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New Delhi, July 30 (ANI): Thousands of commuters had to suffer as services on all six lines of Delhi Metro were affected today due to a major failure in the northern grid that supplies power to the modern transport system.
"We have no clue on what is happening at the moment. Nobody actually knows about it. There is power failure in north India and the government is not concerned about what is happening around. Everybody is worried. This is what the Central Government is doing," said Vijay Kaul, a commuter.
No trains were available on any of the six lines on the network from 6:00 a.m. today. .
Commuters waiting at the New Delhi metro station looked quite perturbed because of the disruption in metro services, and blamed the government for the power failure.
"I have to go home. But they are saying that the metro is closed. We are really troubled," added another commuter.
The disruption in Delhi Metro services, which has become the lifeline of the national capital, will affect lakhs of commuters as they commute by it daily.
There has been a massive power breakdown in northern India , which is said to be the worst northern grid failure since 2001.
There has been no power in seven states, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal, since 2.30 last night, when the northern grid collapsed.
The power failure has hit the water and electricity supply across seven states in north India.
Traffic signals in the national capital were also down. The Traffic Police says that the areas where power has not been restored will be physically manned till the situation is normal.
The restoration of the grid may take a few more hours, even as the engineers are making all efforts to restore it since early morning. (ANI)
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The privatized US health care system has set another record with the highest ever dollar increase in health care costs for a family of four. Millman, one of the world's largest independent actuarial and consulting firms, reported last week that total costs for a US family of four for health care is $19,393 per year. That is an increase of $1,319 over the previous year.
The only good news is that the annual increase was only 7.3% -- which, apparently, is very good for the privatized US system.
"In 2002, American families had healthcare costs of $9,235, and those costs have now doubled in fewer than nine years," said Lorraine Mayne, Milliman principal and consulting actuary. "As costs continue to grow ... the total cost of care for American families constitutes a larger and larger portion of the household budget."
Canadians cannot afford health care privatization (and neither can Americans).


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A visit to the Emergency Room has become a punctuating event in my relationship with M. Typically a setting for heightened emotions, our experiences have definitely veered towards melodrama. Forced to wait for excruciatingly long, soul-crushing hours, you really learn a lot about a person in an ER, and in the hours leading up to the ER.
The first time M and I went to the Emergency Room was on our third date. We spent a lazy, grey Saturday at a beer festival, sampling local brews and eating barbecued things, kissing, flirting and being very third-datey. All was fine until end of day when M's back started acting up. By the time we grabbed a taxi back to his place, he was in a lot of discomfort.
"Yup! Might be my sciatica," he said through gritted teeth.
Sciatica? I thought. That wasn't on his E-Harmony profile.
"I need to go to Emerge!"
"Emerge?" I asked?
"Emergency room," he clarified, grimacing.
Clearly, he was in pain, but I was surprised he thought "Emerge!" was the next step. I've had many injuries—back, neck, shoulder, both ankles—as a dancer, and only once felt the need to go to Emergency rather than wait to see my doctor or healthcare professional the next day.
But off in a cab we went, spending the next five or so hours in "Emerge!" waiting for Tylenol, advice to rest and to follow-up with his family doctor. M said he was surprised I stayed with him that night because most women would have bailed. True, it wasn't the ideal cap to a date, but I'm not that cold-hearted.
The second "Emerge!" visit happened on a July 1st long weekend. M and I decided to be very domestic and stain a table together. We thoroughly covered the balcony floor, put on rubber gloves, and spent a couple of hours staining every inch of that table. As we were cleaning up, M went into the kitchen to grab some water. With his GLOVES STILL ON.
Fast forward about 30 minutes, and we weren't going to make the dinner and movie we had planned, so we decided on just dinner. M mentioned a couple of times that he sort of tasted the stain, that maybe he accidentally touched the lip of the cup with his GLOVED hand, before taking a sip. Since the amount of stain he MAY have ingested was minute, I wasn't concerned, and told him to gargle with warm water. We went to dinner, came home and planned a movie night in.
But M brought up the stain again, and how his throat was now feeling a bit tight. I looked at the label on the stain container and there were no menacing skull and cross-bones, nor was there a list of ingredients or warnings like: if a miniscule amount of stain is inadvertently ingested, after handling a cup of water with a gloved hand, GET YOUR ASS TO EMERGE!
He tried calling his sister (a Registered Nurse), who wasn't home. He called Poison Control and was eventually transferred to a nurse. After some standard questions, she thought it was a good idea to go to the ER, just to make sure. Make sure? This was more about easing his mind. Me? My mind was eased hours ago when M ate his usual pepperoni with extra cheese pizza and drank wine. I'm no expert, but wouldn't poisoning have a more immediate effect on a person, and be impervious to an Italian meal and a nice bottle of Chianti? But off we went to "Emerge!" And really, if you have to go to "Emerge!" I suggest doing it late at night on a long weekend, when you're bound to share the waiting room with drunken vomiting assholes. Special.
After a few hours, a doctor finally asked M some questions and, confident he was fine, told M to wait another hour to monitor, and then we could leave. Awesome.
The latest "Emerge!" visit involved M's foot, which had bothered him for a few days. He figured he'd tweaked it power walking and, rather than see anyone about it, preferred to hobble around the condo muttering "Ow, ow ow…" I told him to at least ice, elevate and take Advil. It began to escalate to the point that I finally called my chiropractor who does Active Release Technique. She was alarmed at how swollen his foot was, and thought it might be fractured. M planned to see his family doctor the next day to get an x-ray.
That night, we made burgers and planned a night in. Around 11:30pm, we were getting ready for bed, and M was in a lot of pain. Then he said the words that since dad's stroke and his numerous ER visits, plus M's history with the ER, I've come to dread, "WE HAVE TO GO TO EMERGE!"
We put on our shoes and coats, but Cinderfella's foot was so tender and swollen, his shoe wouldn't fit. So I wrapped a plastic bag around it. We got in a cab, hobbled to triage and then to a wheelchair. Bizarrely, there were two other guys with a bad foot waiting in wheelchairs too. It was like a scene from a Coen Brothers movie—these two wheelchair guys; that woman asleep in the back corner with her mouth gaping open; this young hippie couple; a few nondescript supporting characters—and me, the short suffering Asian wife of the third wheelchair guy with a bag wrapped around his foot.
M was taken to x-ray surprisingly quick, but that was the only thing quick that night. We were the last people to leave the waiting room. For some reason, no one came in after us. Mental note: ER quiet, 3am, Tuesday mornings.
The doctor couldn't find any evidence of fractures on the x-ray and, aside from advising M to rest, elevate, ice and take ibuprofen, he'd wrap a tensor around the foot, and then M should follow-up with his family doctor. For three hours, the doctor never removed M's sock. Isn't that outrageous? When he finally did, he said, "Wow, that's really swollen. And hot to touch. And oh, it's tender right there? Hmm… have you ever been diagnosed with gout?"
"GOUT?" M and I both said.
"Yeah," the doctor continued, "this is a classic case of gout."
I know a little about gout. I know it's a largely preventable form or arthritis triggered by poor food and lifestyle choices. Gout: the rich man's disease. Suddenly I get a flash of M on his annual guys' trip, sitting around an RV smoking cigars, consuming nothing but beer and meat for three days. I'm already Googling gout on our way to the 24-hour pharmacy to pick up M's meds, planning the shopping list for the non-inflammatory foods I'll buy to get him back on a healthier track.
The next day, Cinderfella's foot is still painful and swollen. As I'm putting away the stockpile of pure cherry juice, tofu, veggies and non-fat yogurt, I notice the leftover burger from last night is gone. Seriously?
Yup. The gift that keeps on giving.


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ITEC Updates Mine Permitting at the WPE Gold Project, Arizona
Aug 14, 2015, 09:25 ET from Intertech Solutions Inc.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Intertech Solutions Inc. (OTCPK: ITEC) ("Intertech Solutions Inc.," "ITEC" or the "Company") is pleased to update shareholders as to the progress being made for the production and operational permitting for mining at the WPE Gold Project, located near Quartzite Arizona.
The Company has been working diligently with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fulfilling any and all requests for submissions; however they have recently requested an expanded environmental assessment which is now being addressed by our Environmental Consulting Group. ITEC has now has scheduled the final environmental report dealing with the expanded scope of issues to be completed and submitted to the BLM Yuma office no later than September 4, 2015. Upon review of the report ITEC has been informed there will be a thirty day public review period and after that time ITEC anticipates being fully permitted to commence site and plant commissioning up for mining operations.
We continue to be confident and hopeful on receipt of our M.P.O. permit. In the interim, ITEC continues to work on all the ancillary planning with our engineering team.
Additionally, a third party, independent N.I. 43-101 compliant engineering report has now been completed and posted on ITEC's website. The key findings of the report indicate a calculation of 1,063,000 tons of alluvial material in the main channel of the permitted lands for production measured from surface to a 25 foot depth. The report also discusses in detail the project sampling and results with conclusions that "Accordingly, the most conservative and likely grades to anticipate in forward-going exploration will be in the 2.0 to 3.0 gpt range."
ITEC Company President Rob McIntosh states: "Our project validation by the N.I. 43-101 compliant report regarding mineable tons and grade, combined with the imminent timeline on receipt of our mining permit, has allowed us to aggressively advance the project, such that as soon as we are issued the green light to commence, we will have our mining operations and ultimate gold production in full swing within 45 to 60 days."
About Intertech Solutions Inc. (OTCPK: ITEC)
Intertech Solutions is a fully integrated, gold project finance, management and services consulting Company that provides development capital, engineering, project supervision and technical management to gold projects. The Company operates from its offices in Scottsdale, Arizona. Visit us at: www.itecgold.com
Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Statements in this press release which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, scope and type of consulting services provided by ITEC, use of proceeds, future acquisitions, success of projects, growth and strategic plans. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, the inherent uncertainties associated with petroleum exploration and development stage exploration companies. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release, and we assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the beliefs, plans, expectations and intentions contained in this press release are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions will prove to be accurate. Investors should consult all of the information set forth herein and should also refer to the risk factors disclosure outlined in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other periodic reports filed from time-to-time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Intertech Solutions Inc.
Robert McIntosh
President, C.E.O.
To find out more about Intertech Solutions Inc. (OTCPK: ITEC), visit our website at www.itecgold.com
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All 13 movie Reviews
To the Death: Volume 1
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
i like it
im a fan of frame by frames, but at some music, sound fx, whatever. needs sound. make it a bit longer. good work.
Rated 2 / 5 stars
the animation was awesome
it really was good, but the voices were irritating, kinda dumb and childish and the are you ready to laugh thing got really old really fast. the whole concept really wasnt enjoyable or anything but the graphics were awesome and you should do something funnier or cooler or whatever with it.
(2005) Bungee Jumping!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
that was awesome
i loved the slo-mo and everything. were those clay ropes? how would you make them hold up the klay people without splitting? and that 1st guy who jumped, that looked like it was regular video, but he split perfectly in half when he hit the tv. i also like the outside- world kinda refernce and the random guy who came out of nowhere. that was amazing.
it was live action when they jumped
Doug And Tommy ep. 1
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
in my opinion, that was pretty smooth movement for actionfiggers. fuck Benny_the_cop. only reason i gave 3 for sound is because some parts i couldnt really hear the diolouge clearly, so thats something you should work on. yea, make more. itll be great if its longer. you get 5.
yay! thanks. you are cool
Sonic Matrixa Finale 2/3
Rated 5 / 5 stars
that was awesome!
ingenious story, the voices definately resembled the characters, and the animation waas good, as well as the fight scenes and sound. also funny. good job cant wait for the next one!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
i liked it!
kinda like my style of animating. but better. smooth, and constant. my only advice is that in future work, add color. just black and white gets kinda dull. and just my opinion, the lightsabers were drawn well, but it didnt fit in with all the other stuff. good job, overall.
Thanks for the excellent review. Yeah I was trying out the whole black and white FBF thing. The lightsabers... well I just wanted to do something with lightsabers... I guess they didn't really fit in but thanks for nice review. I'll be sure to check out your flash too.
Teh Rand0m 2
Rated 4 / 5 stars
im a fan of random things. i made random watever collection... check it out... anyway, u mite wanna improve graphics, trace the bitmap, (dont leave the white around the picture) and drop the stick figures. if u do that for random 3, it wud b perfect.
I will do, thanks for the good review
A Short Film About Bees
Rated 4 / 5 stars
i like it! very funny. the graphics could be a bit better and the mouths are a little wierd, but i gave u a ten for style... cuz thats ur style. it different. different=good. and the pause at the end did add to the 'comedic value' as blackcat_grl sed.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
if it has mario in it, with out makin fun of him,
u got my vote! those houses were from super mario rpg rite? and those trees either from a sonic the hedgehog game of SM rpg? i also spotted the ghosts from pacman, the viruses from dr mario and a bunch of sonic the hedgehog characters. make more things with sprites cuz ur really good at it unlike a bunch or crapheads who keep submitting stuff were mario turns evil and kills the mushroom kingdom... those guys r dicks...
Thanks for the accolades, and the houses, ground, and dirt streets are all from Super Mario RPG. The red flags are from Chrono Trigger.
To Kill A Clock '05
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
dont lissen to dragoon1234567890....
he just has sumthin up his ass (his review is # 88) this is awesum, man! the turning the ticking te action the everything!!! the only thing that wasnt 100% good was the voices but thats the standard voice for clocks so i still gav 5. keep it up.


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To Thomas Jefferson from John Perry, 11 December 1807
Monticello December 11th. 1807
Dear Sir,
I am informed of Mr. Dinsmore that you do not wish the offices uncovered this winter it would sute me much better to go on with the work this winter than to wait untill Spring I have got every thing prepareed for the Covered Wey. & shall in the course of next week have nearly if not quite all the ballance of the Stuff prepareed ready to lay down. one half of the long range can be done without any interruption at all from the angle to the fare end of the smoke house that is more than half. Suppose I go on to do that part & then if the weather is bad Stop untill a good spell of weather to do the ballance I dont think the houses will be uncovered more than two weeks at farthest if you permit me to go on with the work as I propose I have know doubt every thing you have directed me to do will be done by the time you return in the Spring. I have this day received 100 dollars thro. Mr. Bacon but did not receive any last month. I expected Mr. Walkers order would of paid your acceptance to Mr. Kelly and that the monthly remittances would Continue therefore request if Convenient you will please to favour me with 200 Dollars next month I have ingageed a quantity of pork & cant get it with out the money in hand. the ruff of the bedford house is framed & will be sheeted by Christmas—
I am Sir your very humble Servant
Jno. Perry
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Cowie A.L.,University of New England of Australia |
Penman T.D.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems |
Gorissen L.,Flemish Institute for Technological Research |
Winslow M.D.,Indian International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics |
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Land Degradation and Development | Year: 2011
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and its sister conventions, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, all aim to halt or mitigate the deterioration of the ecological processes on which life depends. Sustainable land management (SLM) is fundamental to achieving the goals of all three Conventions. Changes in land management undertaken to address dryland degradation and desertification can simultaneously reduce net greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to conservation of biodiversity. Management to protect and enhance terrestrial carbon stocks, both in vegetation and soil, is of central importance to all three conventions. Protection of biodiversity conveys stability and resilience to agro-ecosystems and increases carbon storage potential of dryland systems. SLM improves livelihoods of communities dependent on the land. Despite these complementarities between the three environmental goals, tradeoffs often arise in their pursuit. The importance of human-environment interactions to the condition of land compels attention to adaptive management. In order to reconcile concerns and agendas at a higher strategic level, identification of synergies, conflicts, trade-offs, interconnections, feedbacks and spillover effects among multiple objectives, drivers, actions, policies and time horizons are crucial. Once these issues are transparent, coordinated action can be put into place across the three multilateral environmental agreements in the development of strategies and policy measures to support SLM. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Adams M.D.,University of Wollongong |
Law B.S.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems
Australian Zoologist | Year: 2011
The management of native regrowth forests for biodiversity has become increasingly important in recent years, as most old growth forest on mainland Australia is now protected and logging operations occur primarily in regrowth. Regrowth forest typically has higher stem density than old growth; therefore, bats (Microchiroptera) adapted to foraging along edges and in open spaces are likely to be less active in regrowth forest. Thinning is an integral component of regrowth management and could reduce structural clutter to a level suitable for bats with a range of clutter tolerances; yet little is known about the effects of thinning on bat activity, especially in Australia. In a preliminary study, we compared the activity levels of all bats, one open-space and three edge-space aerial foraging bat guilds in unthinned (n = 3) and thinned (n = 3) regrowth, in forests managed for timber production on the south coast of New South Wales. We measured bat activity at three heights in the forest (understorey, subcanopy and canopy). The number of volant insects (prey items) was also measured at each site/height combination, while 20 structural vegetation variables were measured at each site. A total of 263 bat passes was recorded in 18 detector-nights. We found high variability in bat activity for all bats and guilds between regrowth treatments and among heights, and no significant difference between levels of these factors.There was no significant interaction between logging and height factors. Vegetation structure varied significantly between unthinned and thinned sites for just two variables: the shrub layer had a higher percentage cover, and the vertical gap between canopy and understorey trees was halved, in thinned regrowth. Multivariate analysis of vegetation structure suggested just a small increase in the distance between canopy and understorey tree stems and slightly less cover in the canopy in thinned sites, changes that would represent a reduction in clutter. With the highest density of stems, the understorey of both regrowth types represented the most cluttered stratum for bats and overall bat activity was lower there (though not significantly). However, total bat activity did not indicate a clear response to insect abundance in the less cluttered subcanopy and canopy. Although the variability in bat activity within our regrowth treatments was too high to unequivocally state that thinning had no effect, results obtained from older regrowth of the same forest type suggest that overall activity is low for bats in dense regrowth forest, and that the level of thinning conducted at our sites was not sufficient to increase levels of activity consistently. We review the scientific literature on thinning effects for bats and formulate more specific hypotheses for future testing. Appropriate measures of clutter need to be identified to incorporate into indices of stand structural complexity that are relevant for bats.
Penman T.D.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems |
Penman T.D.,Bushfire Cooperative Research Center |
Beukers M.,Parks and Wildlife Group |
Kavanagh R.P.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems |
Doherty M.,CSIRO
Applied Vegetation Science | Year: 2011
Question: Are long-unburnt patches of eucalypt forest important for maintaining floristic diversity? Location: Eucalyptus forests of southeastern New South Wales, Australia. Methods: Data from 976 sites representing a range of fire history from three major vegetation formations - shrubby dry sclerophyll forest (SF), grassy dry SF and wet SF - were analysed. Generalized linear models were used to examine changes in species richness with increasing time since wildfire and analysis of similarities to examine changes in community composition. Chi-squared tests were conducted to examine the distribution of individual species across four time since fire categories. Results: Plant species relationships to fire varied between the three formations. Shrubby dry SF supported lower plant species richness with increasing time since wildfire and this was associated with shifts in community composition. Grassy dry SF showed significant shifts in community composition and species richness in relation to time, with a peak in plant species richness 20-30yr post fire (either prescribed fire or wildfire). Wet SF increased in species richness until 10-20yr post wildfire then displayed a general declining trend. Species richness in each vegetation type was not related to the fire frequencies and fire intervals observed in this study. Conclusions: Long-unburnt (30-50yr post wildfire) forests appeared to play a minor role in the maintenance of plant species diversity in dry forest systems, although this was more significant in wet forests. Maintenance of a range of fire ages within each vegetation formation will assist in maintaining floristic diversity within regions. © 2010 International Association for Vegetation Science.
Penman T.D.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems |
Penman T.D.,University of Wollongong |
Price O.,University of Wollongong |
Bradstock R.A.,University of Wollongong
International Journal of Wildland Fire | Year: 2011
Wildfire can result in significant economic costs with inquiries following such events often recommending an increase in management effort to reduce the risk of future losses. Currently, there are no objective frameworks in which to assess the relative merits of management actions or the synergistic way in which the various combinations may act. We examine the value of Bayes Nets as a method for assessing the risk reduction from fire management practices using a case study from a forested landscape. Specifically, we consider the relative reduction in wildfire risk from investing in prescribed burning, initial or rapid attack and suppression. The Bayes Net was developed using existing datasets, a process model and expert opinion. We compared the results of the models with the recorded fire data for an 11-year period from 1997 to 2000 with the model successfully duplicating these data. Initial attack and suppression effort had the greatest effect on the distribution of the fire sizes for a season. Bayes Nets provide a holistic model for considering the effect of multiple fire management methods on the risk of wildfires. The methods could be further advanced by including the costs of management and conducting a formal decision analysis. © IAWF 2011.
Penman T.D.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems |
Penman T.D.,Bushfire Co operative Research Center |
Binns D.L.,Forests NSW |
Shiels R.J.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems |
And 3 more authors.
Austral Ecology | Year: 2011
Forest management practices have the potential to impact upon native vegetation. Most studies focus on the effects of management on the above-ground vegetation communities, with little attention given to the soil stored seed bank. Here we examine the soil stored seed bank of a long-term experimental site in south-eastern Australia, which has experienced timber harvesting and repeated prescribed burning over a 20-year period. At each of 213 long-term vegetation measurement plots, 3.5kg of soil was collected and germinated in a glasshouse over a period of 2years. Comparisons were made between the experimental treatments considering differences in species richness, abundance and community composition of the understorey seed bank. Logged sites had a higher diversity and abundance of seedlings compared with unlogged sites, which is consistent with observed changes in standing vegetation within 10years following logging. Prescribed burning resulted in a lower diversity and abundance of seedlings, which contrasts with the increase in species diversity observed in response to frequent fire in standing vegetation. Individual taxa that declined in the seed bank in response to frequent fire were all taxa for which germination is enhanced by exposure to smoke. Contrary to expectations, these did not exhibit a corresponding decline as standing plants. While management actions above ground are having minor impacts, greater effects were seen in the soil stored seed bank. © 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 Ecological Society of Australia.
Penman T.D.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems |
Penman T.D.,Bushfire Cooperative Research Center |
York A.,University of Melbourne |
York A.,Bushfire Cooperative Research Center
Forest Ecology and Management | Year: 2010
Predicted changes to global climates are expected to affect natural fire regimes. Many studies suggest that the impact of these effects could be minimised by reducing fuel loads through prescribed burning. Fuel loads are dynamic and are affected by a range of factors including fire and climate. In this study, we use a 22-year dataset to examine the relative influence of climate and fire history on rates of litterfall and decomposition, and hence fuel loads, in a coastal Eucalypt forest in south-eastern Australia. Litterfall and decomposition were both affected by temperature, recent rainfall and fire history variables. Over the study period prescribed burning immediately reduced fuel loads, with fuel loads reaching pre-burn levels within 3 years of a fire. Modelling fuel loads under predicted climate change scenarios for 2070 suggests that while fuel loads are reduced, the levels are not significantly lower than those recorded in the study. Based on these predictions it is unlikely that the role or value of prescribed burning in these forests will change under the scenarios tested in this study. © 2010.
Fischer J.,Australian National University |
Stott J.,Australian National University |
Law B.S.,Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems
Biological Conservation | Year: 2010
Scattered trees are declining in agricultural landscapes worldwide. They are considered keystone structures because their effect on ecosystem functioning is believed to be disproportionate relative to the small area occupied by any individual tree. We empirically demonstrate the disproportionate value of scattered trees for birds and bats in an Australian livestock grazing landscape. We surveyed birds at 108 sites and bats at 63 sites. Sites spanned the full range of tree densities in the study area, from zero to over 100 trees per hectare. The marginal value of individual trees was highest when trees occurred at low densities. Compared to treeless sites, bird richness doubled with the presence of the first tree; bat richness tripled with the presence of 3-5 trees; and bat activity increased by a factor of 100 with the presence of 3-5 trees. Thereafter, the marginal effect of additional trees on birds and bats diminished rapidly. Although specialist species were restricted to large areas of dense tree cover, scattered trees effectively maintained moderate levels of bird and bat activity throughout largely cleared parts of the landscape. Future management activities should recognize the disproportionate value of scattered trees. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.


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Making Rich Video Happen!
Presentation at the Teaching with Technology Conference, Boulder, CO. August 11, 2010 – 1:10 p.m. The University of Denver made a strong commitment to delivering rich media for classroom use across campus years ago and we are still going strong. This presentation will cover every aspect of video capture, cataloging, and delivery at DU today through custom-developed solutions as well as failures and lessons learned. Making Rich Video Happen! View more presentations from Joseph Labrecque.Continue reading »
Archives: Adobe Education Seminar Series
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Announcing: Adobe Education Seminar Series
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