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Hong Man
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 1999 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, 1994 Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
- B.S., Electronics Engineering, 1988 Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- Multimedia Networking: Network QoS, network security, ad hoc wireless networks, sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks
- Image and Data Analysis: Face and gesture recognition, target detection and tracking, behavioral modeling, time sequence analysis
- Medical Imaging: Functional MRI brain activation detection, prostate cancer and breast cancer detection, telemedicine
- Video Coding: 3-D subband video coding, memory and computation efficiency
Professional Societies
Senior member, IEEE
Member, ACM
Selected Publications
Conference Proceedings
- H. Man, F. Kossentini and M. J. T. Smith. (Apr 1997). "A Channel Error Robust EZW Image Coding Technique", Second Erlangen Symposium on Advances in Digital Image Communication.
- H. Man, F. Kossentini and M. J. T. Smith. (Oct 1997). "A Class of EZW Image Coders For Noisy Channels", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'97). 3 90-93.
- H. Man, Q. H. Pham and M. J. T. Smith. (Dec 1998). "An Efficient End-To-End ATR System With Low Bit Rate Sensor Data Transmission", U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command Workshop on Data Compression Processing Techniques for Missile Guidance Data Link. 487-502.
- H. Man, M. J. T. Smith and F. Kossentini. (Jan 1999). "On Robustness of Adaptive Quantization for Subband Coding of Images", SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP'99).
- H. Man, M. J. T. Smith. (Feb 1999). "A New Three-Dimensional Subband Coding Technique for Digital Video Broadcasting", Second Annual UCSD/IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications. 79-87.
- H. Man, F. Kossentini, M. J.T. Smith. (Sep 2000). "An Error Resilient Coding Technique for JPEG2000", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'00).
- A. Docef, H. Man, J. Monaco, and M. J. T. Smith. (Jun 2001). "A System for Real-Time Ultrasound", INFORMS International 2001 Conference.
- D. Sun and H. Man. (Oct 2001). "Performance Comparison of Transport Control Protocols over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", 12th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication.
- D. Sun and H. Man. (Oct 2001). "TCP Flow-Based Performance Analysis of On-Demand Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Vehicular Technology VTC-2001/Fall Conference.
- D. Sun and H. Man. (Nov 2001). "ENIC - An Improved Reliable Transport Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE GLOBECOM Conference 2001.
- H. Man, R. de Queiroz and M. J. T. Smith. (Jul 2002). "A New 3-D Subband Video Coding Technique", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing.
- D. Sun and H. Man. (Jul 2002). "Evaluation of Reliable Data Transport Schemes for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002).
- H. Man and Y. Li. (Oct 2002). "Layered Video Streams over Ad Hoc Campus Network", the 5th IEEE DSP Workshop (DSP'02).
- H. Man and Y. Li. (Dec 2002). "Multi-Stream Video Transport over MPLS Networks", IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP'02).
- H. Man and Y. Li. (Jul 2003). "Multi-Stream Video Transport over DiffServ LANs", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'03).
- H. Man and Y. Li. (Aug 2003). "Multi-Path MPEG-4 Streaming over DiffServ Ad Hoc Wireless Networks", IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE 2003).
- H. Man, F. Kossentini and M. J. T. Smith. (Feb 1999). "A Family of Efficient and Channel Error Resilient Wavelet/Subband Image Coders", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 9 (1), 95-108.
- H. Man, R. de Queiroz and M. J. T. Smith. (2002). "3-D Subband Coding Techniques for Wireless Video Communications", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
- H. Man, A. Docef and F. Kossentini. (2002). "Performance Analysis of the JPEG 2000 Image Coding Standard", Multimedia Tools and Applications, special issue on Image and Video Coding Techniques, Multimedia Too Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- H. Man, F. Kossentini and M. J. T. Smith. (Aug 1997). "Robust EZW Image Coding For Noisy Channels", IEEE Signal Processing Letter, 4 (8), 227-229.
- H. Man, F. Kossentini and M. Smith. (Dec 1999). ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG1 N666, N751, N864, N1016, N1196, N1317, N1484, International Standard Organization Contributions.
- CPE 645 Image Processing and Computer Vision
- CPE 536 Integrated Services - Multimedia
- CPE 462 Introduction to Image Processing and Coding
- CPE 490 Information Systems Engineering I
- BME 504 Medical Instrumentation and Imaging
- EE 611 Digital Communications Engineering
- CPE 646 Pattern Recognition and Classification


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Are Kerryisms Dishonest?
What Kerryisms are and aren't.
One problem with the Internet is that myths spread fast. Over the past week, three blogs, citing each other as authorities, have accused Slate of misrepresenting John Kerry's quotes in our "Kerryisms" department. The charges have infected readers, who have e-mailed them to Slate and posted them in our Fray. It's time to clear the air.
The first charge is that Kerryisms delete parts of Kerry's quotes. Spinsanity, Slate's chief accuser, juxtaposes complete quotes from Kerry with shortened versions of those quotes, which Spinsanity attributes to Slate. But the shortened versions never appeared in Slate as they appear in Spinsanity. Slate analyzes each quote. We highlight Kerry's caveats and embellishments by flagging them with footnotes and giving each of them its own line below the quote. The footnotes show you exactly where Kerry placed each caveat. Nothing is deleted. Spinsanity then reprints the quotes on its site, deletes the caveats(leaving only the footnote markers), and accuses Slate of removing the caveats.
The critics' second charge is that if you delete Kerry's caveats his quotes appear less complex. Well, yes. That's the point of caveats: to add complexity. Sometimes Kerry complicates his answers to do justice to a complex world. Sometimes he complicates his answers to cover his posterior. You have to decide which is which. In either case, the main point of Kerryisms is to highlight his caveats. His embellishments are secondary. That's why we don't delete the caveats. It would defeat the whole purpose.
Spinsanity chooses the following example. Kerry said:
I am the only United States Senator who has been elected four times, currently serving in the Senate, who has voluntarily refused to ever take, in any of my races for the Senate, one dime of political action committee special interest money. The only checks I took were from individual Americans. Now did some individual lobbyists contribute? The answer is, yes, they did.
Slate flags all the caveats Kerry inserted in this statement to qualify himself, and only himself, for this distinction: that he's been "elected four times," that he's "currently serving," and that the only disqualifying special interest money is PAC money. Spinsanity protests that without these caveats, Kerry's statement would be false. Of course it would. That's why he inserted the caveats. And that's why Slate flagged them.
The third charge leveled by Spinsanity is that Kerryisms "take quotes so far out of contextas to essentially engage in outright dishonesty." Spinsanity says Slate fails to provide "links to let readers check the context of the quotes." Actually, we print the whole quote, untouched, right below the analyzed version. Spinsanity doesn't tell you that. We also put a regular link, directly above each Kerryism, to the following instructions: "In a Kerryism, the senator's caveats and embellishments appear as footnotes. By clicking any footnote marker (number) in the text, you can see the caveat or embellishment Kerry inserted there. To see the whole quote as Kerry delivered it, scroll down." Spinsanity doesn't tell you that, either.
In sum, Spinsanity removes all the crucial information within, above, and below each quote in Slate—then accuses Slate of taking the quotes out of context.
I don't think Spinsanity is dishonest. I think they just didn't get the joke. It's like they ordered steak at a restaurant, and the waiter carved the meat off the bone, and they looked at the bone and accused the waiter of removing the meat. I'm the waiter, so I bear some blame. Originally, I described the skeleton of each Kerry quote—the part that remains if you ignore his caveats and embellishments—as "plain English." A month ago, I realized that this description was confusing, so I replaced it with the instructions above. For some reason, the bloggers don't tell their readers about the new instructions. They go back and dredge up the "plain English" line, reintroducing the confusion I was trying to get rid of.
Another blogger, Eugene Volokh, gets the jokeand doesn't like it. "Another possibility is that 'Kerryisms' has evolved into an attempt to show simply that Kerry uses a lot of qualifiers, instead of giving very simple answers," Volokh writes. "But often, as in this case, the right answer isn't simple. It's actually not terribly complex, but it's not one-word simple. Is it really good to fault a politician for refusing to oversimplify?"
That's a good and fair question. I prefer to let each reader decide for herself, case by case. I should have explained the general idea more clearly. Now I have. The rest of the judgments are up to you.

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By Ibby Caputo
May 14, 2012
BOSTON — If you've ever been woken up by the sound of a screeching cat, then you probably have a stray in your neighborhood. Male cats who aren't neutered often get into fights, and females who aren't spayed can birth litter after litter of kittens who then struggle to survive. But some dedicated cat lovers are trying to change the fate of homeless cats.
Caroline Woodard is known in the animal rescue world as a "trapper." She and fellow-trapper Jamie Wilkins are on a mission to help reduce the population of unwanted cats in Boston, in a humane way. They are part of a national movement called trap-neuter-release, or TNR. Volunteers catch the felines and bring them to a clinic, where the cats are spayed/neutered, vaccinated and then returned to the streets.
On a recent cat roundup, I watched as Woodard set out a can of salmon as bait and then hid with Wilkins behind a nearby car on Howe Street. The bait worked quickly: The cats seemed to be coming out of nowhere. A gray one had a collar, but Wilkins said that didn't mean it has a home.
"Sometimes we find full-grown cats with collars that were put on them when they were kittens, and they've been abandoned since, and they've grown out of the collar," said Wilkins. "It's strangling them."
Wilkins and Woodard use a trap that you'd imagine in a Road Runner cartoon: a cage that's propped up with a wooden stick connected to a 30-foot-long piece of string. When they pull the string, the stick is released and the cage crashes down, trapping a bewildered cat. The cage is covered with a white sheet to keep the cat calm.
To trap a cat
To trap a cat, you need skill, patience … and a strategy. So each cage was labeled with the exact location of where the cat was caught so volunteers know where to return the cat after surgery. "You never want to release a cat to where it's not from," said Woodard.
That's because even a stray cat lives somewhere on the streets. Returning it to a strange place would be giving the cat a death sentence.
"They just basically are so disoriented when you release them anyway, and they know they are home by their smell, and when they've lost that, they can cross streets, and the cars drive fast," Woodard explained.
Cat heroes
Woodard and Wilkins belong to an unofficial and somewhat underground community of cat heroes — individuals dedicated to easing the suffering of homeless cats. As trappers, they're on the front line against feline overpopulation. Like detectives, these volunteers rely on tips from informants, who lead them to the cat colonies.
Informants like Milta. Milta is what's known as a "feeder," someone who feeds cat colonies so they don't starve. She didn't want her last name to be used because she said her boyfriend didn't know the extent of her dedication to cats. (Though it would be hard not to notice: Milta said she had eight rescued cats living in her home.)
Every day she drives across Dorchester and puts out food for the strays. The trunk of her SUV looked like she made a trip to Costco — it was packed with cat food. If anyone knows where there are feral cats, it's Milta.
"He's a male, and he'll get those girls pregnant over there," Milta said about a black cat she recently encountered, urging the trappers to find him on Howard Street.
On the trail
With Milta leading the way, we entered a "Bourne Supremacy" movie: a four-car caravan cat chase with two trappers, one feeder and one reporter. I followed Milta to the parking lot of a liquor store, crept with Woodard between houses and waited with the cars running while Milta and Woodard caged some friendly strays on the sidewalk.
Then Milta led us to another backyard littered with tires, wooden planks and broken glass. She put down a plate of food and five, maybe six cats surrounded her immediately. They knew her: She is the hand that feeds them.
But Milta's generosity is not always appreciated. Earlier in the morning, she was confronted by a woman walking her dog, who complained that the cat food attracted raccoons.
"She's just not feeding the cat," said the woman. "It's like a little zoo right here."
Wilkins said this sort of interaction is not unusual. "Sometimes we encounter people in the neighborhood who don't want us feeding them," she said. "We have to feed them to be able to trap them because we have to know when they are going to show up, and they just don't want us doing any of that, because they think it's encouraging the population. But we're really trying to stop them from reproducing and suffering."
By late morning, four scared, silent cats sat in metal cages in Woodard's car. Next she would take them to a friend's house, who would keep them overnight in the garage. And then early the next morning, they'd go to a clinic to be fixed.
Coming Tuesday: WGBH News goes to the next stage of the cat roundup: the clinic.
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Three-way tie for lead in John Deere Classic
Jul. 11, 2014
SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — Jordan Spieth felt great Thursday on the first tee of the John Deere Classic. He heard not only his name, but, for the first time, the phrase "defending champion."
A par followed. Then another, and another after that. And then a bogey.
The playoff winner from 2013 was suddenly reeling.
"It was a struggle," Spieth said of the round, an even-par 71 he salvaged with birdies on the 16th and 17th holes. "I need to go find something on the range because I just wasn't comfortable over the ball today."
Spieth was eight strokes behind Zach Johnson, Rory Sabbatini and Brian Harman, whose 8-under-par 63s shared the lead after the opening round.
Then again, Spieth was six strokes behind the leaders entering last year's final round, and rallied to win, beating Johnson and David Hearn in a sudden-death playoff.
"It's going to take some incredible golf," said Spieth, sixth on the PGA Tour money list. "But I'm putting well, so when I find my swing, I can maybe take it deep."
That's where the leaders were.
Johnson and Sabbatini played bogey-free golf, while Harman had nine birdies and one bogey on the par-71 TPC Deere Run — even though his regular caddie had to drop out.
They led 2004 British Open champion Todd Hamilton, Australian Steven Bowditch and William McGirt, the best afternoon finisher, by a stroke. Brendon de Jonge, Kevin Tway, David Toms and Robert Streb are two back at 6-under 65.
Harman, who bettered his best round of the year by two strokes, was 2 under through six holes when his caddie, Scott Tway, took ill. Jay Hatch of Davenport, Iowa, a high school basketball coach, volunteered from the gallery, and carried Harman's bag the last 12 holes, which Harman played in 6 under.
Harman didn't miss a beat when his caddie took ill.
"I called a medic over and Scottie said he was going to have to sit out at least a couple holes," Harman said. "Jay was standing there and said, 'I'll do it. I'll keep up.' "
Checking his own yardages, Harman birdied seven of his last 12 holes, and nine overall.
"If you go out and birdie half of the golf course, you feel you've done fairly well," Harman said.
Johnson, who won the Deere in 2012, birdied four of his first five holes and was 6 under on his opening nine. He won the Tournament of Champions in January, but described his recent golf as "going through the motions too much." He hasn't finished in the top 10 since a tie for sixth in the Texas Open in March.
"I was a little spent," Johnson explained. "I played too much and I was anxious for results. I got ahead of myself."
His start on familiar territory was a return to form, an early birdie binge including a 22-footer on the par-3 12th and a 32-footer on the par-4 14th. At 8-under through 11 holes, the vision of a 59 crept into his thoughts.
"Very briefly," Johnson said. "If you're going to do it, you still have to hit it solid. Maybe I mis-clubbed on 6, but I could have birdied 8. I hit only one really bad shot, and that was the second shot at 9."
Johnson parred his last seven holes.
"I'd rather have 59 wins than shoot 59," Johnson said.
Sabbatini scored his best round of the year, closing with birdies on three of the last four holes.
Birdies are a must at Deere Run. Through 18 holes, 80 players were under par and another 20, including amateur Jordan Niebrugge, at even-par 71.
Hamilton's 64 came in his first round of the season on the PGA Tour. Playing on a sponsor's exemption, the 48-year-old native of nearby Galesburg, Illinois, has been on the Web.com Tour in recent years.
Bowditch was 8 under after a birdie at the 17th, but bogeyed the 18th. McGirt birdied the first three holes on the back nine to jump into contention and parred the last four.
Three-time Deere winner Steve Stricker fired a 68, with six birdies and three bogeys.
Sabbatini, whose best finish this season is a tie for eighth at the Wells Fargo Classic, closed strongly on the hilly Deere Run layout.
"I like this course and how it plays," Sabbatini said. "It's fun for spectators because there are a lot of fireworks, and fun for us players, too. This golf course requires the basics: hit the fairway, hit the green, make some putts."
Four of Sabbatini's eight birdies were from 17 feet or longer, the longest a 22-footer on No. 4. He ran in birdies on the second, third and fourth holes of his back nine, and another on his 16th, the par-3 seventh.
Hamilton, a decade removed from his British Open victory at Royal Troon, birdied his first two holes and was off on an improbable round of 64.
"I haven't been playing well," Hamilton said. "It seems if I play well, I shoot 71 or 70. Everyone else when they play well, they shoot 65 or 64. It's a big discrepancy."


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(Reuters) - Rescue crews have recovered the bodies of two children who were buried when a dirt wall of an excavated hole collapsed on them at a North Carolina construction site, an emergency worker said on Monday.
Workers dug all night before reaching the bodies of the 6-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy on Monday morning, an official with the Lincoln County Emergency Management Services office said.
A man believed to be the father of one of the children called emergency services on Sunday afternoon and said the dirt collapsed on the children as they were playing in an excavated hole about 20 to 25 feet deep, the Charlotte Observer said.
Dozens of rescue personnel worked all night at the accident site about 20 miles northwest of Charlotte in Lincoln County.
(Reporting by Jane Sutton in Miami; Editing by Eric Beech)


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Cromileptes altivelis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Cromileptes altivelis (Valenciennes, 1828)
Common Name(s):
Cromileptes altivelis (Valenciennes, 1828)
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Craig, M.T. and Hastings, P.A. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of the groupers of the subfamily Epinephelinae (Serranidae) with a revised classification of the Epinephelini. Ichthyological Research 54(1): 1-17.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A4cd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Sadovy, Y., Thierry, C., Choat, J.H. & Cabanban, A.S.
|Sadovy, Y. & Moss, K. (Grouper and Wrasse Red List Authority)
C. altivelis is listed as Vulnerable because of inferred population declines from: (1) its natural rarity; (2) the increasing rate of harvesting, which is driven by its high value in the live food fish trade; (3) the noted declines in imports into demand locations; (4) extensive habitat degradation in key areas of its range, particularly Southeast Asia; and (5) declining abundance from visual census in its natural habitat. Hatchery production is not intended for re-introduction, but instead for the aquarium trade and is, therefore, not resulting in an increase in the natural population or a decrease in demand in the fish food trade.
C. altivelis is thought to be at risk in many areas and this species can be hatchery-raised (Sadovy et al., 2003). However, slow growth rates mean that hatchery-produced fish are used for the aquarium trade and not the live reef food fish trade. Therefore, hatchery production is not thought to relieve fishing pressure on wild populations.
In Southeast Asia this species is heavily exploited due to its high market value and its habitat is being degraded; it is in Southeast Asia that the humpback grouper is largely distributed. This is one of the most highly valued species in the live reef fish trade and annually many tonnes enter the centre of this trade (Hong Kong), mainly from Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. Abundance or size estimates from the main capture areas are urgently needed since there is a very real concern for the future status of the species in the exporting countries. More complete age structure and reproduction data is also required. Such information gathering should be a priority in future action plans.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Cromileptes altivelis can be found in the western Pacific from southern Japan (Ogasawara) to Palau, Guam, New Caledonia, Fiji and southern Queensland (Australia). One report from western Indian Ocean (Kenya) has not been confirmed. Records from Hawaii are probably based on released aquarium fish (Heemstra and Randall 1993).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Australia; Cambodia; China; Guam; India; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Micronesia, Federated States of ; New Caledonia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore; Solomon Islands; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Vanuatu; Viet Nam
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Pacific – northwest; Pacific – western central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
Cromileptes altivelis is naturally uncommon over most of its range. The species is a favored target species within the live reef fish trade and is, therefore, likely experiencing population declines in areas where the trade operates; it is reported to be increasingly harder to find for import into live reef food fish trade markets.
Individuals are recorded more commonly from sheltered versus exposed sites. Divers and spearfishers typically record greater abundances from inner shelf reefs. Individuals are often encountered in pairs although small aggregations of three to six individuals have been recorded at some sites. It is not known if these small groups are reproductive.
Global and regional abundance of Cromileptes altivelis is virtually unknown from both fishery dependent and independent data. Several underwater visual censuses suggested that this species is rare in nature (CRC 2001, Halford and Russell 2001, Allen 2003, Halford 2003, Sabetian 2003).
Fishery-independent Data
Underwater visual census is the main tool for estimating its abundance in the wild. Currently, no coordinated or comprehensive stock assessment has been done on Cromileptes altivelis in the region. Existing data has been sporadically collected and assessments have not used standardized methodologies, making population trend analysis using fisheries-independent data problematic.
Additional Abundance Data: Pears (2005)
Due to the highly cryptic nature of this species standard UVC data for Cromileptes altivelis are suspect. Pears (2005) estimated abundance of this and other cryptic serranids using a special search protocol. The resultant estimates confirm the observations of survey divers that this species is rare and patchily distributed in reef habitats.
Individuals (+/- SD) per 1,000 m² on mid shelf reefs at four regions on the GBR in a north/south gradient:
Lizard I. 0.2 (0.04)
Townsville 0.1 (0.02)
McKay 0.3 (0.09)
Pompey 0 (0)
Partitioning of reefs into exposed and sheltered sites at these four localities:
Sheltered sites
Lizard I. 0.08 (0.01)
Townsville 0.2 (0.08)
McKay 0.5 (0.05)
Pompey 0 (0)
Exposed sites
Lizard I. 0.2 (0.08)
Townsville 0 (0)
McKay 0.3 (0.09)
Pompey 0 (0)
Abundance estimates of Cromileptes altivelis from New Caledonia were 0.063 individuals/1000 sq. m and is consistent with other localities in terms of the extreme rarity of this species (IRD database).
Fishery-independent data by country
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
According to underwater visual census and video-recordings in early 2001, counts of Cromileptes altivelis indicated that they were relatively rare on mid- and outer-shelf reefs (CRC 2001).
Bali, Indonesia
From 28th April to 5th May 2001, no Cromileptes altivelis was observed during a 80-hour underwater visual survey in 60 sites using SCUBA (depth up to 45 m) in Sangihe-Talud (Halford and Russell 2001).
Papua, Indonesia
From 30th October to 22nd November 2002, only five Cromileptes altivelis were observed in 57 sites in 70 hours of underwater visual survey using SCUBA (depth up to 52 m) in the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia (Allen 2003).
Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia
In May 2003, no C. altivelis were observed during a 14-day 50-hour underwater visual survey in 33 sites (depth up to 40 to 45 m) in the Wakatobi islands group (Halford 2003).
Kolombangara Island, Solomon Islands
Underwater visual census (2x100 m transect at depths 10 and 20 m) estimated the density of Cromileptes altivelis at < 0.5 fish/m² (Sabetian 2003).
In New Caledonia, the population of Cromileptes altivelis appears to be decreasing (Kulbicki pers. comm.).
Fishery-dependent Data
The landing and export volumes of Cromileptes altivelis in the region are lacking or incomplete. For example, official figures from Indonesia only cover all groupers as a whole, without differentiating the statistics into different species. However, import figures from the Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government since 1997 provides useful information on the harvesting of Cromileptes altivelis.
Fishery-dependent data by country
Papua New Guinea (PNG)
From February to April 1998, only three Cromileptes altivelis (6 kg) were exported from PNG, comprising 0.02% of all live reef fish exported (0.05% by weight) (Lokani and Kibikibi 1999).
Demography and population dynamics
Davies et al. (2006) aged 199 of a sample of 228 individuals from the GBR. Samples ranged in size from 350 to 710 mm FL and between 1 and 19 years of age. The median age distribution was 6 to 7 years and strongly skewed to younger individuals.
Growth parameters
Tmax was 19 years with L max 610 mm FL, Linf 738 mm FL, K 0.08 , Z 0.28.
Linear growth was relatively rapid with FL of ~ 410 mm being achieved in five years. Demographic analysis was compromised by the absence of small individuals in the samples.
Davies et al. (2006) identify Cromileptes altivelis as a protogynous hermaphrodite, although in the absence of histological data and analysis of gonads of small individuals; thus, protogyny cannot be confirmed. Males were present in the population as young as four years of age with the proportion of males showing a gradual increase with 50% male representation occurring at 8.2 years of age. However a number of sexually transitional individuals between six and ten years of age were recorded. Sexual maturity was estimated to occur at two years of age and 330 mm FL. A more comprehensive analysis of the pattern of sexual ontogeny must await increased sampling of smaller individuals.
Live Reef Food Fish Trade (LRFFT)
Cromileptes altivelis is considered to be a high-valued principal LRFFT species (Sadovy et al. 2003).
In Hong Kong, the wholesale price of Cromileptes altivelis in 1999 was about US$64 per kg (Chan 2000). In July 2003, the wholesale and retail prices averaged US$ 62 and $110 per kg (unpublished data from the International Marinelife Alliance Hong Kong 2003).
According to Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department declaration forms, the volume (kg) of Cromileptes altivelis imported into Hong Kong decreased from 14.4 metric tonnes (mt) (valued at > US$ 460,000) to 4.4 mt (>US$ 131,000) in 2000. The second peak occurred in 2002 (11.9 mt, US$ 402,000) and then declined again to 1.5 mt (Cromileptes altivelis into Hong Kong.
Combining the figures of the imports of C. altivelis from the Census and Statistics Department and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (which collects data from fish traders on a voluntary basis), more than 133 mt (valued at US$ 9.95 million) of C. altivelis were imported into Hong Kong. The lowest quantity of <8.8 mt (< US$ 0.4 million) was observed in 2003, probably due to the poor sale performance of the catering industry during/after the outbreak of the SARS.
See the supplementary material for Tables 1 and 2, showing the volume (kg) and value (US$) of Cromileptes altivelis imported into Hong Kong from 1997 to September 2005 (Source: Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong SAR Government).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
The species is found in lagoons and seaward well developed coral reefs, typically in dead or silty areas. It also occurs in tide pools and can be caught at depths of 40 m (Heemstra and Randall 1993). Juveniles (<15 cm) are found inshore, in lagoons and in fringing reefs and seagrass. Recorded maximum size is 70 cm TL (Heemstra and Randall 1993). Preliminary data suggests a maximum age of at least 14 years (Davies et al. 1999). Feeds on small fishes and crustaceans (Myers 1999).
Cromileptes altivelis is a protogynous hermaphrodite (Gardner et al. 2005) and matures at 39 cm TL (Lau and Li 2000). Spawning aggregations are not known, although spawning activities were observed in captivity. Cromileptes altivelis can spawn many times within a reproductive season (Ou et al. 1999b). There has been one anecdotal report of a spawning aggregation formation from northern Papua New Guinea (Sadovy pers. comm.).
Natural (without hormonal treatment) spawning activities in floating cages among 15 males and 24 females (in 2 cages) were observed in Komodo, Indonesia over a period from October 2000 to July 2003. Cromileptes altivelis spawned in pairs between 2100h to midnight, and occurred from the 3rd quarter to the 1st quarter of the moon. Cage spawning was observed to last for at least 8 consecutive days (Sudaryanto et al. 2004).
Induced gonad development by hormone injection of a female (380 mm TL, 1.5kg) and a male (405 mm TL, 2kg) under experimental conditions spawned 390,000 eggs, in which 40,000 were fertilized. The majority of the hatched fry had abnormal morphology and died after 30 hours (Ou et al. 1999b)
|Use and Trade:
C. altivelis is consumed as food, and juveniles are popular aquarium fish fetching a high price (Randall and Heemstra 1993, Ou et al. 1999a).
There are many studies of spawning in captivity, hatchery, and rearing of juvenile and adult C. altivelis. A plentiful supply of the fry is available for aquaculture by commercial hatcheries in Indonesia. It was found that fingerlings prefer protein to that of lipid as a dietary energy source (Williams et al. 2004).
In Australia, the Department of Primary Industries Northern Fisheries Centre, Cairns, and the Department of Business Industry and Resources Development's Darwin Aquaculture Centre hold wild-caught mature C. altivelis in captivity for the purposes of research into spawning and larval rearing. Their objectives are stated as being to supply the demand for live reef fish to Asian countries so as to lessen the fishing pressure on natural stocks of reef fish in Australia (Bowater et al. 2003).
In Indonesia, about one million and more than three million juveniles (4-5 cm TL) were produced by hatcheries in 2000 and 2001, respectively. In 2003, two government, seven commercial and more than 100 farmer backyard hatcheries were actively producing juveniles (Sugama et al. 2003).
Humpback Grouper has been produced from three Fisheries Marine Culture Research Centre at Gondol (Bali), Situbondo and Tanjung Putus (Lampung) in Indonesia. In 2002, Tanjung Putus, Lampung produced 33 tonnes of humpback grouper with a total product value Rp 8.5 billion (about US$ 929 million). In 2003, 67 ton of humpback grouper, valued at Rp 16.9 billion (about US$ 1.85 billion) had been produced (Abdullah Habibi, Director of Taka Foundation, pers. comm. on 16th Jan 2006).
It was estimated that the annual production of C. altivelis seedstock (5-10 cm TL) from Indonesia hatcheries were 697,800 and 1,050,420 individuals in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Some of the juveniles produced from hatcheries are sold to the international aquarium fish market (Rimmer et al. 2005); Rimmer et al. (2005) also stated that there is one hatchery in northern Queensland that has produced numbers of C. altivelis.
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In Southeast Asia, C. altivelis is heavily exploited and its habitat is being degraded.
Live reef fish trade
Juveniles are taken for the aquarium trade, sometimes using cyanide (Min pers. comm.), while adults are highly prized in the live reef fish trade centered in Southeast Asia. Individuals are taken in quite high numbers according to general observations and anecdotal information (Lee and Sadovy 1998) at about 40-70 cm (Lau and Parry-Jones 1999). The live fish fishery for this species operated in Queensland from 1995 (Elmer 1998) to 2003, but is now closed. The grouper's geographic distribution lies almost exclusively within an area of considerable exploitation for this species and where its habitat is likely to be subject to damage (Cesar et al. 1997). Humpback groupers are among the more important (by volume) species imported into the major live food fish centre (Hong Kong) and come principally from Indonesia, China and the Philippines.
Continued high prices in Hong Kong will inevitably lead to localised depletions. Further pressures are likely to be placed on this species in other parts of its range (e.g. Australia or other Southeast Asian countries), once Indonesian populations are reduced. The live reef fish trade is a potential threat to the survival of the species, particularly in Southeast Asia where it is heavily targeted.
There is an illegal trade of the species (and other live reef food fish) from the Philippines through Malaysia (Cabanban pers. comm.).
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Conservation Measures by Country
In Indonesia, about 1 million and more than 3 million juveniles (4-5 cm TL) were produced by hatcheries in 2000 and 2001, respectively. In 2003, 2 government, 7 commercial and more than 100 farmer backyard hatcheries were actively producing juveniles (Sugama et al. 2003). Hatchery-produced fish are used exclusively for the grow-out industry and aquarium trade.
C. altivelis is listed as a protected species under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Regulations 1983 – Reg 29 (accessed on 18th Jan 2006).
C. altivelis is also listed as Lower Risk (conservation dependent) in Australia (see Conservation Status of Australian Fishes - 2001; accessed on 18th Jan 2006). According to Division 3, Part 2 of Fisheries (Coral Reef Fin Fish) Management Plan 2003 (Reprint No. 2), taking or possessing of C. altivelis in Queensland is prohibited by both state (Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland) and federal (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority) agencies (Queensland Fisheries Act 1994: Fisheries (Coral Reef Fin Fish) Management Plan 2003; accessed on 18th Jan 2006). However, it is permissible to take small numbers under permit for aquaculture (broodstock) purposes under the approvals from both the state and federal governments (Mike Rimmer, Northern Fisheries Centre of Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, PO Box 5396, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia. pers. comm. on 25th Jan 06).
Papua New Guinea
The minimum size limit for exporting C. altivelis is 40 cm TL (Live Reef Fish Food Trade (LRFFT) in Papua New Guinea; accessed on 19th Jan 2006).
Listed as an Endangered Species in Vanuatu (Endangered Species in Vanuatu; accessed on 19 Jan 2006).
|Sadovy, Y., Thierry, C., Choat, J.H. & Cabanban, A.S. 2008. Cromileptes altivelis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T39774A10264681. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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Stigma of AIDS Is Helping to Spread Epidemic
August 30, 2004
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. I first heard those words more than 20 years ago. But it wasn't until six years later, while I listened to a man dying of AIDS tell the story of what he was going through, that the reality of what it meant really hit me. By that time more than 100,000 Americans had contracted HIV, and over 60,000 had died of AIDS. The disease had become real for me and for my colleagues in virtually every corner of the country.
So much about HIV/AIDS and the epidemic has changed since then. Yet one thing has not changed nearly enough -- HIV is now, as it was in 1989, the most stigmatized disease in American society. In 1989, the stigma attached to HIV, while undeserved, was at least a little more understandable. We knew very little about the disease then. Fears of being infected from kissing, holding hands or sharing a cup with someone with HIV were still common.
Doctors and patients were scrambling to stir up scientific research programs that in many ways had been slow to respond. Despite a rapidly expanding caseload, there was very little reliable medical or scientific information about the virus, how it was transmitted, or what could be done to treat it.
In fact, effective HIV treatments were virtually non-existent at that time. The few medicines that were being used were no match for the virus, which quickly became resistant. The treatment regimens often involved so many pills and such severe side effects that many people felt that taking their medicines every day was as difficult as the disease itself.
Too often, being HIV positive meant having to cope on your own. It wasn't uncommon for doctors and other healthcare workers to refuse to see patients who they knew were HIV positive. Social workers around the country responded at that time, and services for many people began, gradually, to improve.
The situation today is very different. We know how HIV is transmitted, and we know how to prevent infection. Scientists have learned how HIV attacks the body's immune system, what its weaknesses are and how to exploit them. They've even mapped out the virus's genetic structure.
HIV treatments have also improved dramatically in recent years. With the introduction of powerful new drugs in the mid-1990s, HIV/AIDS death rates began to drop for the first time since the start of the epidemic. More recently, treatments that require fewer pills and cause fewer side effects have begun to help people with HIV/AIDS lead longer, healthier lives. Thanks to these advances in care, HIV is on its way to becoming a chronic medical condition.
Support services for people with HIV have also improved. In practically every city across the country you will find community organizations and groups dedicated to helping ensure that HIV-positive individuals get the care and support they need and deserve.
Yet, despite all this progress, the terrible stigma associated with HIV and AIDS still has not lifted. Isolation, fear and shame continue to cloud this diagnosis for many.
What's worse is that the stigma surrounding HIV actually helps to perpetuate the epidemic. Half of the 1,000,000 Americans estimated to be infected with HIV don't even know they have the virus. The cause is not ignorance as much as it is fear. Each year, tens of thousands of people who have contracted HIV do not get tested out of fear that an HIV-positive diagnosis will mean a life of isolation and discrimination.
Misinformation accelerates the spread of HIV in communities across the country, particularly among minority and poorer populations that already suffer more than their share of prejudice and discrimination. Despite progress in other areas, HIV infection rates among African Americans, Hispanics and women have increased dramatically in recent years.
We can't afford to let another 20 years go by before we separate the myths surrounding HIV and AIDS from the reality. It's time we started seeing the disease for what it is: a serious communicable disease that is both avoidable and treatable. We need more open and frank education and more community leadership to address this epidemic. We must also target resources to address the changing demographics of the disease, so that information and education programs can be tailored to the audiences that need them most.
Finally, people living with HIV/AIDS must have access to the medical care and prevention and treatment information they need. Research advances have meant that more and more people with HIV are living full, normal lives. It's time that the human progress in how we handle HIV/AIDS in our community begins to match the advances being made in the research lab.
Vincent J. Lynch, Ph.D., is Director of Continuing Education at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, and founder and organizer of the Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS.
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What Do You See When You Look at Your Optical?
Like any aspect of business, you have to pay attention to your optical for it to be lucrative.
Chief Optometric Editor
Between undergrad and graduate school, I took a year off and got a job as an optician. I learned a lot about optics, lens manufacturing, fashion and, most of all, human psychology.
I often think about that time and how it has created an interesting foundation for what I do now and how I think today. Even though I speak a great deal about ocular disease and technology, I always remember that my roots, and our roots as a profession, are centered primarily around our ability to provide eyewear.
Giving it more thought
When was the last time you thought about your optical? I mean really thought about it. It can be one of the most fascinating segments of your office, not to mention the most profitable. Of course, like anything in business, you have to pay attention to it for it to be lucrative.
In most practices, the optical accounts for more than 50% of total business sales. If this doesn't apply to your practice, you either have a specialty practice, or maybe you need to take a better look at what your optical is doing for you and what you are doing for it.
A good place to start is with one of the key business rules, "If you focus on it, it will grow." If you want your retail optical sales to grow so that they account for 50% of your sales, you may want to spend a commensurate amount of time on this business.
You may be thinking, "How could I ever spend 50% of my time on my optical? I have to see patients." Or, "I can't think of how to spend that much time on my optical." If this was one of your mental comments, let's start simple, and dedicate 50% more time on thinking about how to grow your optical. This month's issue of OM can help.
Inspiring action
I want to direct you to what I feel are a few of the "must-read" articles of this issue:
▸ What Image are you Presenting in Your Optical? (page 18.) Here, Jay Binkowitz, president of business management consulting company GPN, discusses the importance of first impressions and creating the modern optical dispensary.
▸ A Bolt From the Blue (page 30). Coralie Barrau, Ph.D., a researcher from Paris, talks about the effect of blue light on the human retina and the currently available protective products. This is ground-breaking stuff that will radically change our prescribing patterns for decades to come.
▸ No Passion for Fashion? (page 22). Luxottica's vice president of marketing, Milena Cavicchioli, illustrates the importance of optical brands and what they mean to our practices.
▸ Industry interviews (pages 52/66). Essilor's Howard Purcell discusses dispensing devices, and Luxottica's Holly Rush answers questions about the challenges and opportunities facing optometry.
Action step
After you are done with my column, take a tour of your optical. Look around. Are you happy with what you see? Would you buy glasses there? If not, it's time to get to work (after you read this month's magazine of course.) OM


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A pioneering home control technology when it was introduced in 1975, X10 has seen decades of use from home automation enthusiasts all over the world. Like several other competing technologies to come after it, X10 devices utilize a home's existing powerline wiring for communication. X10 products can be used to can control lamps and appliances, replace wall switches and even be used to monitor doors, windows and motion. Below are some of the X10 devices available.
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August 27. 2014 10:22PM
The Harrisburg Senators outlasted the New Hampshire Fisher Cats to claim an 9-6 win at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium Wednesday night.
The Fisher Cats (65-72) will host Harrisburg (51-86) tonight at 6:35 in the final home game of the season.
The Senators broke a 4-4 tie with a run in the fourth and two more in the fifth to build a 7-4 lead and never looked back.
Mitch Canham scored on a sacrifice fly from Quincy Latimore in the fourth to pull ahead, 5-4.
Matt Skole homered in the fifth, then Jason Martinson tripled and Drew Vettleson singled him home to make it 7-4.
New Hampshire got a run back in the fifth on doubles from Andy Burns (his third of the game) and Brad Glenn, but Harrisburg responded with a home run from Martinson in the seventh to forge an 8-5 lead.
Glenn hit his ninth home run of the year in the eighth to pull New Hampshire within two runs at 8-6, but the Fisher Cats could not get any closer.
Harrisburg built a 4-0 lead in the first inning. Adrian Sanchez singled with one out and Skole reached on an error, scoring Sanchez. Martinson doubles Skole home and Vettleson then doubled Martinson in. Canham singled to score Vettleson and make it 4-0.
New Hampshire got two back in the bottom of the fourth. Jon Berti singled and Burns doubled him home. Kevin Nolan drove in Berti with a single to cut the lead to 4-2.
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You've all heard the claim that we aren't really atheists, we are just mad at god. (Or you will see such things as "so and so claims to be an atheist.")
Today, though I saw an argument in chat with a theist, and someone else's account of an argument they had out in public, and I stopped to wonder if maybe we aren't sometimes encouraging this line of bullshit, albeit unwittingly.
What happened in both cases was the atheist began recounting all the sorts of horrible things Yahweh is portrayed as doing or believing or commanding. In one case, I saw the atheist say "why should I love god when he won't love me back?"
The problem with this sort of thing is we usually don't take care to phrase our remarks to make it clear that god is a character of fiction. When discussing the misdeeds of Yahweh we tend to fall back on a convention we use when we talk about a fictional character in a book. We refer to him by name and talk as if the guy was real and the book was not fiction, for example, "In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith was arrested for thoughtcrime," not, "In George Orwell's 1984, the character Winston Smith..."
We know what we mean, because we both know Winston Smith (or god) is fictitious. But they don't know god is fictitious.
Talking this way with someone who believes the fictional character is real might cause him not to understand you are just following the convention. Your phrasing sounds to him like you accept god as real, he "knows" god is real, so he assumes at some level you think god is real.
What I am suggesting here is that you ever want to bring up how nasty this being is, you make it clear that you don't think he exists, make sure you put "fictitious" (or equivalent) in every other sentence at least, and not let them think for a minute that you assume the existence of god.
Yes I know that when you just said you were an atheist this shouldn't be necessary, but obviously many of these people don't understand atheism in their guts, so don't let their paradigm default you into a "believer but mad at god" box.
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"calculatabe"? - no, "provable"? Yes.
And as to the question of whether or not we should "say lies," clearly you've never had your wife come to you and say, "Do these pants make my butt look big?"
Given a choice between lie or die, I choose life --
Do you believe a unicorn exists, and rules the universe? We don't have to completely disprove something to decide it's not reasonable to believe in it.
It makes a lot more sense that mankind invented several gods in man's image (which we do know for a fact), and hasn't yet given up inventing variations of those beliefs.
ofcourse we need to disprove something to decide it's not reasonable to beleive in it.So we can go through this Unicorn and we see if he rules the univers or not other wise we are beleivers not think atheist.thank you.
People seem to conveniently forget that the burden of proof is on the person who makes the claim, not on the person who doesn't believe the claim.
I believe in the White Unicorn - I feel her in my heart, I see what she has produced, trees. flowers, beauty - because I feel this, why don't you.
What she doesn't do is write books about subservient anybody, at any time - no obedience required, no threat of hell, virginity not required of anybody, no slavery, or male sex slaves for her. She wants everybody to have respect for each other - no abuse, no pedophiles, no children forced to marry some old pig.
It is up to me to show you that my White Unicorn is Goddess of all the Universe.
MmmmI Will have to work on that, or will you just believe me, because I say so?
I too, am guilty of this.
You're right - but it hardly matters ...
It's been many years since I have bothered to wade into the muck and mire of theology, so forgive me if the following is a bit fuzzy.* I believe that it was Thomas Aquinas who made the ontological argument that knowledge of God was innate - and, of course, for many centuries, whatever Aquinas, as a church father, said was held to be perfectly true (not just true but perfectly true). This argument was made in answer to questions/worries about all the people in places like China who had never had the chance to know Jesus. The poor bastards were still going to Hell because it had been their natural duty to come looking for Jesus, and they were too wicked to bother. Point is, you're wasting your time if you think that you can talk about religion w/the religious - especially those who believe it to be their duty to save you. The belief that belief is innate is to be found all over the Christian joint, even among protestants, who, you might think, would not hold Aquinas in esteem. The same is to be said of Muslims, another evangelizing bunch. Only the Jews seem to be free of such beliefs; they at least hold that their mental illness is usually not contagious.
*I've moved too many times to have kept books that I found to be useless! - so, I can't look this up to make it less fuzzy ...
The problem with arguing with theists, and even the very question itself of "Do you believe in God" usually establishes the existence of this nonsensical non-entity.
The word, or name "God" must always have parentheses around it. Without them, the grammar alone establishes it as "real".
When someone asks you "Do you believe in God", the only proper way to answer it is to say "That is not a question, since it's meaningless".
On the subject of "being angry with God" it's simple. We have been deceived by a being that essentially isn't there. Rather like being cheated on by a lover, we have had an image that we've adored, only to find we've had no reason to, and feel cheated. Our anger is difficult to express, since there's actually nobody or no thing to be angry with. But as a gestalt exercise in venting, there's nothing wrong with expressing a good old cathartic rage at this non-being, simply for it's failure to exist at all.
Any anger should be directed toward those who invented him as the cause of things they didn't understand, rather than continue to search for actual causes, and at those who perpetuated the myth because they found it a reliable means of controlling their population.
This is a damned interesting point! (Kudos!)
The proper way to phrase the question is "Does god/God exist" or possibly "Do you believe/think that god/God exists?" (I am not one of those who insists on not using the word "believe"; it does not in fact imply faith but is simply is the most general form of "accept to be true.")
The "in" preposition ("Do you believe in god") certainly can change the tenor of the question.
I've heard one person say to another "I believe in you" meaning "I believe you are capable of delivering on your promises," so it's quite possible that THAT is the light in which the other party is interpreting "do you believe in god?" when they ask it. If so, then you are absolutely correct, any use of it on our part concedes WAY too much. (Might be a good topic for blogging, especially if combined with proper use of the word "believe" without the "in")
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There is a difference between an hypothetical/abstract concept that refers to a 'god', and an 'actual' being called 'God'. It seems that much of the hangup(s) about god/God is between language mappings. The theists want to close the gap between the hypothetical and the actual, and the atheists can tell the difference.
We can contrive the most amazing things by must building a narrative. Stringing words together that seem to make logical sense, and using nouns with an underlying assumption of 'existence'. Whole books, classics, Science Fiction, Fantasy, etc can be produced, many of which can offer us excape from a sometimes droll and unhappy actual existence. We can even link historical events to fantasy and what-ifs, to sweeten the pot. I wonder how many books have been writen with the idea of changing the 'who won' the Second World War?
In the Bible, there seems to be a narrative that validates their cultural existence and an neroic history of the Jews. Many humans as the 'people of the book', have used that same book as a validation of slavery, white mans burden, racism, economic exploitation of the planet, the marginalization of women, and political power. As a tool of state craft, the Bible, in the right hands seems to have had great utility. I expect that as an example of the 'craft of the narrative', it can continue to help create any number of new classes of demogogues.
I have seen how the Bible can be used as a justification/validation for an environmental awareness/appreciation, a challedge to slavery, and an answer to war and violence. But I wonder if we are attempting to cut corners in our cognition by resorting to just one more period of cherry picking. Do humans have the depth of character to create some measure of the good out of our rationality? I expect that the Bible has been used as a model of compassion also.


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Eric Rosenfield has very kindly posted the video from my interview with Carol Emshwiller on April 18. Thanks to Susan Emshwiller for jumping in as camera operator. The interview was preceded by a magic show, which explains my first, awkward question. I'll embed the video below the jump.
The Carol Emshwiller Project, by the way, is still alive. Now that I've got a copy of The Collected Stories, vol. 1, I hope to post at least a little something about it over there, but I'm not going to have time to do so for a week or two, I expect.


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Hi! I'm Rachel, Technology Coordinator/Information Services Librarian in the Walker Management Library (WML) at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. I do many things in WML and throughout the Vanderbilt Library system, but playing with technology and incorporating into my work the unexpected and exciting things I learn is my favorite part of this job. I thrive on being in a creative, innovative environment where my imagination can run free.
I earned my MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, where I focused on digital libraries and had a wonderful experience. From there, I got a job in Oxford, Ohio at Miami University as an Electronic Resources Librarian. Having grown up in the Cincinnati/Dayton area, it was nice being back home for a while. Then after 2 1/2 years, I moved on to Vanderbilt where I am now and have been since July 2004.
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President Obamas speech Tuesday night should put to rest the argument as to who he really is. He revealed plans so sweeping and so expensive that, if they came to pass, we would permanently refashion the role of the federal government in the lives of every American.
During the campaign certain Republicans and libertarians tried to convince us Obama was a moderate, a sort of Bill Clinton third way reformer and certainly no radical as conservatives claimed. Conservatives remained skeptical. Then during the transition, the debate as to Obamas political philosophy continued. He sprinkled his cabinet with sober figures and experienced economic gurus. So perhaps he was moderate in outlook and restrained in ambition.
Next came the stimulus plan. Yes, he delegated the entire enterprise to Nancy Pelosi and the liberal draftsmen in Congress. But perhaps this was an error in judgment, a departure from what he really wanted in order to achieve a stimulus plan.
Well, the mystery has been solved. Obama is an unalloyed and extreme liberal....
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Just like the chimp that ripped off that woman's face.
WHAT opposition party!? The GOP is attached to the Left at the nipple.
if we have to depend on them, the republic is condemned.
What do we win if we knew it from the beginning???
First spot in line for the reeducation camps?
I could not possibly agree more.
The Republicans haven't really opposed any Democratic/socialist plan in a very long time. When the Democrats come up with some socialist government program that they claim will cost us 100 billion, do the Republicans stand up and say "NO, this is socialism, and it is anathema to American liberty!"? yeah, right. No. they come up with their own version of the same thing, but their plan "only" costs us 75 billion....that's being "conservative", you see...
But I have heard from more than one republican pundit and number of liberal pundits that he is really a pragmatic moderate who only masquerading as a liberal...could they be wrong??? Say it ain't so.
"Republicans must...blah, blah, blah." All republicans do is talk.
Beautiful, but it was easier to see this one coming. Also, you´re a racist for saying that.
Odd, how we think of Clinton's as moderates. Okay true confession here. At this point, I would be glad to have Hillary Clinton in as President.
"...if they came to pass, we would permanently refashion the role of the federal government in the lives of every American."
Why the surprise? Isn't that exactly what he promised he would do before the elections took place? Obama and the democrats are definitely not America's friends. I hope the republicans and the people of this country realize this.
I never gave racism a whole lot of thought but Im starting to see it a right of free expression and belief.
Underneath was who? Lenin? Mao?
I haven't heard of any libertarians like that. Neal Boortz and Jason Lewis were all over the Obama's leftist extremism.
Of course, having John McCain try and paint Obama as a centrist was pretty much par for the course from that RINO.
What we need is a "new" Republican party, one with real conservative Republicans in it that embrace and never waver from the true American founding principles and the CHRISTIAN values it was founded on.
What we have now are "blue" Republicans, AKA RINO's.
Obama is ANTI-Conservative....
His plan is to Increase Taxes, Grow Government and Destroy the Defense budget it is the antithesis of what Reagan did.
Obama says Government is the cure to what ailes us.
Coming up Massive debt will cause the dollars deflation, massive inflation in this country, unemployment through the roof due to the massive overtaxing and we will get the PAIN INDEX back again.
Jimmah Carter has nothing on this guy.
No mystery to me. The real mystery is why so few have figured it out. It reminds me of the man who was caught in bed with another woman and telling his wife that the woman was a representative of the mattress company helping him test the mattress. When the wife believes it, that is what I call rampant denial syndrome.
It's why he doesn't have a birth certificate.
The Clintons (either one) are not moderates. They are socialists and having either of them in control would just be a little slower drive down the same Communist road Obama is taking us down. The destination would be the same: the end of a free America.
I pray he doesn't die in office from an accident or any other reason and serves out his term absorbing as much damage to the Democrat brand name as possible. The younger set don't know who Carter was and this is their 4 year education. I'm afraid the Democrat mafia won't let this play out and will opt for another JFK or MLK ending.
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I went the Florida RV Super Show in Tampa today and had a great time. I like to check out the high dollar RVs and see what is new in them. I saw all the new 2013 Prevosts and all of them had Volvo engines, so I asked the salesman if this is new for 2013 and he said yes. Then I asked him if you can you still get DD Series 60 in them and he said no they all now come with the Volvo engines. I'm not sure how true this is but that's what he said. I'm not in the market for a new Prevost I like my Eagle too much
Anyway, I was wondering how good are those Volvo engines? I like the Detroit engines myself. I do know that Volvo owns Prevost so I can't blame them for putting in their own engines.
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The Series 60 isn't even offered by Detroit anymore due to new emissions laws. Detroit came out with the DD15 to replace the Series 60, but the DD15 was only offered in Diamler brand vehicles. Prevost started using the Volvo engine since Detroit was no longer an option and Volvo owns Prevost now.
Detroit decided to sell the DD13 engine to other companies. MCI now offers the Cummins ISX as standard with the Detroit DD13 as an option. Van Hool also offers the DD13.
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DD13 is plenty of power-up to 500hp and 1650lb/ft torque for RV. The Volvo engine is a good engine-albeit a suspicious looking engine-like copying the Series 60. From real world comparisons of the D13 Volvo to the Detroit DD13, the Volvo will get about .2-.3mpg less, use 2.6% DEF compared to DD13 2%, has a 35,000mi oil change compared to DD13's 50,000mi. There's such a difference in operating cost, one of my customers is not buying Volvo anymore-just Freightliner with DD15's at 455hp and 1550lb/ft torque-which is the lowest setting on that engine. Now with the GHG (Green House Gas)14's and Freightliner's Cascadia Evolution that gets another 5% better fuel mileage then the original DD15 (Detroit took off the turbo compounder since it is only active on hill climbs and they found it uses fuel on the flat, and also a thermostatically controlled water pump with aerodynamic enhancements) there are NO other trucks that is as fuel efficient as the Freightliner Cascadia Evolution. Good Luck, TomC
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Daimler owns Detroit, Freightliner, Orion bus when it was functioning.
Volvo owns Prevost and Mack.
MCI is owned by some investment firm, and as yet, has not been gobbled up by another large transportation related manufacturer.
Daimler and Volvo are fierce competitors on the world stage.
North America was the last place that mix and match heavy vehicle manufacturing was going on, and it started to drift away from that over a decade ago. Wide choices of components from various manufacturers that you went shopping from all the catalogs to build the vehicle.
With the massive investment for emissions related engine development, and what it takes to engineer an engine into a chassis, they all took the opportunity to stop selling to their competitors' subsidiaries.
Caterpillar simple gave up and left the North American on highway market, as they didn't see a return on the investment needed for pollution controls with a diminished market. Paccar (Kenworth and Peterbilt) was in the throes of sourcing a European engine at the time too, which has happened.
Cummins is the only independent engine manufacturer left here, and works closely with all sides in order to remain an optional install. Recently, they entered into agreements with International. International was in a lot of trouble, as they had tried to go without DEF, and ran out of time and money to surmount the engineering challenges of an in-cylinder solution to pollution. Cummins will be providing fuel delivery and emissions related hardware, technology amd engineering to put on International's engines to get them pollution compliant.
The heavy vehicle sector has been making the move to vertical integration, as it is called. This is where you put all your own stuff in your own vehicle, and don't sell stuff to anyone else.
Like the auto manufacturers, you can't order a Ford engine in your Chevrolet...
MCI got sort of caught, and for awhile only had Cummins power when Detroit wouldn't sell to anyone else.
Lots of fun moving forward a decade or two from now as all this stuff falls into bus converter hands!!!
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January 19, 2013, 05:31:49 PM »
yup, cant get a Detroit in a Volvo truck any more. too bad
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At one point, the Series 60 was available in all makes of trucks. I think it was a mistake for Detroit to sell out to Freightliner. I know of more then one fleet of trucks that switched from Volvos, Pete, KW to Freightliner so they could still have the Series 60 engine.
If when looking for a bus, if you find one with up to a '98 model Series 60 in it-jump on it. Probably the most reliable electronic engine every made and great fuel mileage. Good Luck, TomC
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What has always surprised me is why the American bus industry didn't develop with the same chassis builder / body builder model that exists elsewhere in the world. It happened in the big motorhome industry, but not in the bus industry for some reason - which is strange given the size of the US and the predominance of road vehicles over other forms of transport generally - you'd have thought lots of regional builders would be producing bus bodies to suit powertrains from a few national suppliers.
Even after lots of consolidation and mergers there are dozens of monocoque bus body builders in Europe, and more in the Far East and Australasia, all busy competing with each other to produce a better product, and all offering the customer a choice of powertrains from Volvo, Mercedes, MAN, Scania, DAF etc. You can even still specify Bedford if you really want too.
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The kicker now is, if someone overseas specifies a Mercedes power plant, it will be the OM471-which is based on Detroit's DD13. But of course Mercedes had to make about 150 changes (including their own electronics) to make sure it was their own. Good Luck, TomC
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Even since DD hasn't sold engines to Volvo or Prevost after 2009 you still see 2012 model Prevost with DD goes to show he the bus market has slowed down the Volvo D13 is just now showing up I never saw a 500 hp D13 Volvo in a Prevost yet most are in the 425 to 450 range
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January 20, 2013, 09:24:29 AM »
Competition is always a good thing. I make no secret that I won seval shares of CUMMINS stock. But I shudder to think how the quality would be if DETROIT wasn't around. Until the last few years, school buses used to offer chassis from different builders but not that has changed where INTERNATIONAL chassis can only be had on with a body company they own. Same with BLUEBIRD and THOMAS. Many smaller buses that are used for airport rental car shuttle buses for which there are quite a few builders almost all use the FREIGHTLINER rear engine chassis. The VAN-HOOL 3035RE also uses it. PIERCE MFG. the most popular fire apparatus builder is the only fire truck builder that offers DETROIT so that gives them an advantage to those departments that hate CUMMNINS.
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Prevost had two conversion shells on the floor of the Tampa show, an X3 and H3. Both had the Volvo and were rated at 515 HP. One thing that got my attention was the 4 individual alternators, one one the engine itself and three others mounted off to the side. It was interesting to see the construction of the empty motorhome shells, the SS truss system in the bays for the slides plus the tensioning device to keep the roof from sagging. Another interesting tidbit is the X3 only comes in the long wheelbase while XLII (no longer being produced) came in both long and short wheelbase. The H3 has the short wheelbase and will stay that way.
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The X-3's I have saw over the years had the same wheel base as the entertainer shells has that changed ?
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The X3 and the XLII entertainer are the same wheel base. The Prevost sales guy just said that they were no longer making the XLII with the sorter wheelbase.
In simple terms, I think he was trying to say if you wanted a more maneuverable MH, buy the H3.
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Where manufacturing has expanded in the U.S. auto industry, it has been foreign firms operating in the U.S. south, an area that once again is not noted for excellence in its public education. The primary competitive advantage these state governments offer is longtime hostility to unions. Individual states have made short- term gains by ratcheting down corporate taxes and suppressing unions, but in the long run all workers pay a high price. Whatever the overall level of worker education, U.S. workplaces have made substantial gains in productivity, but over the last quarter century these gains have not been passed along to the workers who enabled them.
Maine and other Northeastern and Midwestern states have experienced dramatic losses in manufacturing, inflicting great hardship on middle-aged, mostly high school-educated workers. In may instances these jobs have been replaced by service sector jobs paying much lower wages. As Mishel and Rothstein point out: "There was never anything more inherently valuable in working in a factory assembly line than in changing bed linens in a hotel. What made semi-skilled manufacturing jobs desirable was that many (though not most) were protected by unions, provided pensions and health insurance, and compensated with decent wages. That today's working class doesn't get similar protections has nothing to do with the adequacy of its education. ... Hotel jobs that pay $20 an hour, with health and pension benefits (rather than $10 an hour without benefits), typically do so because of union organizations, not because maids earned bachelor's degrees."
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In the mid-50s, legendary UAW President Walter Reuther argued that the long-term health of the auto industry would be greatly enhanced by production of smaller and more fuel-efficient cars.
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The use of the term "physician" by these so-called CAM professionals is trending upward. Naturopathic physicians have been claiming the title since a new generation began re-shaping the field starting in the mid-1970s. They've gone back into most of the handful of states where NDs were still licensed and since replaced "drugless healer" acts with modern practice acts in which physician is part of the title and at least some prescription drug rights, typically, in the scope. (The O net Online notes that naturopathic physicians "may also use prescription or legend drugs.") Hawaii was the profession's most recent update, in 2009. In the profession's slow expansion to new states – now at 15 – the right to use the physician title is across the board except California where the California Medical Association exacted a concession that these affiliates of the AANP could only call themselves "doctors."


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