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Aetna Case Manager in Taylorsville, Utah
Req ID: 45547BR
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY, JOIN US AT OUR JOB FAIR IN PHOENIX, AZ!Please bring an updated copy of your resume, and be prepared to interview. September 21st through 23rdThursday 11am-7pmFriday 9:30am-5:30pmSaturday 9am-3pm Homewood SuitesHilton Phoenix Airport South4750 E. Cotton Center BlvdPhoenix AZ, 85040
Nurse Case Manager is responsible for telephonically assessing, planning, implementing and coordinating all case management activities with members to evaluate the transplant member's needs and to facilitate the members overall wellbeing. In doing this the NCM develops a proactive course of action to address issues presented to enhance the short and long term outcomes as well as opportunities to enhance a members overall wellness . Services strategies policies and programs are comprised of network management and clinical coverage policies. This is a blended role that includes case management and Utilization management/discharge planning for members at the acute and subacute levels of care.
Fundamental Components include, but not limited to:
Fundamental components include but are not limited to:
The Nurse Case Manager, utilizing advanced clinical judgment and critical thinking skills, is responsible for telephonically assessing, planning, implementing and coordinating all case management activities with members to evaluate appropriate physical and behavioral healthcare and social services for the member. Through assessment and member-centered care planning, direct provider coordination/collaboration, and coordination of psychosocial services, the Case Manager promotes effective utilization of available resources, optimal member functioning, and cost-effective outcomes. During the acute and sub-acute stay, the case manager will review clinical information to determine medical necessity for admission as well as for continued stays.
BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE desired:
Registered Nurse certification; required
5 years clinical practice experience; required
previous complex case management experience; preferred
Previous UM/discharge planning experience; required
The minimum level of education desired for candidates in this position is a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Nursing/Registered Nurse is required
Nursing/Certified Case Manager is desired
Functional - Nursing/Medical-Surgical Care/4-6 Years
Functional - Nursing/Case Management/1-3 Years
Functional - Nursing/Concurrent Review/discharge planning/1-3 Years
Technical - Aetna Applications/Aetna Total clinical View/1-3 Years/End User
Technical - Aetna Applications/Aetna Strategic Data Warehouse/1-3 Years/End User
Technical - Desktop Tools/Microsoft Outlook/1-3 Years/End User
Technical - Desktop Tools/Microsoft Word/1-3 Years/End User
Benefits Management/Maximizing Healthcare Quality/FOUNDATION
Benefits Management/Understanding Clinical Impacts/FOUNDATION
Leadership/Collaborating for Results/ADVANCED
General Business/Applying Reasoned Judgment/ADVANCED
Leadership/Driving a Culture of Compliance/FOUNDATION
Technology/Leveraging Technology/FOUNDATION
Telework Specifications:
Telework is considered for candidates that reside in WA, ID, OR, CA, NV, AZ, NM, UT, WY, MT or CO. Training period in the office may be required
Aetna is about more than just doing a job. This is our opportunity to re-shape healthcare for America and across the globe. We are developing solutions to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare. What we do will benefit generations to come.
We care about each other, our customers and our communities. We are inspired to make a difference, and we are committed to integrity and excellence.
Together we will empower people to live healthier lives.
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Physician Relations: Effective leadership is key to winning program
Just as best-practice organizations need capable staff, so, too, do they need capable management. As the number of physician relations programs grows, there is a tremen-dous opportunity for those who want to rise to the level of management. Regardless of the program's maturity, effective leaders continue to balance their ability to look at the whole ladder, while never losing site of the individual rungs.
The manager's day comprises many parts that hopefully form a satisfactory work experience for the manager and for the team. The best managers have a range of abilities that form the right skill set for the role:
They help staff establish the right habits and stick with them. Good work habits are the underpinning for any position, yet it is much different when you can actively monitor work performance in an office or a unit than out in the wild blue yonder. The best managers find creative methods and design systematic tools to keep apprised of their team's level of effectiveness in the field. They use tools such as performance man-agement systems, weekly reports, ride-alongs, and field assessments to create a strong work environment. They trust their instincts in this area. If a representative is slacking off on appointments, they are comfortable confronting him or her even when lacking hard evidence. The approach and finesse that is required in this instance makes a real difference among strong physician relations leaders.
They reward the positive. In a job that has a fair amount of rejection, the best managers find positives and recognize them. The world of working with gate-keepers, sitting in a practice for an hour only to have the doctor get called to deliver a baby or stepping out of the car in August heat and humidity is not glamorous. In addi-tion, those who are good at their jobs add a full dose of pressure on themselves to keep up the pace.
They recognize the positive attributes of their staff, and they do so in front of others. They put team members' names in their reports and call out members when members have a good idea or create inroads when others were unable to do so. Personal recogni-tion goes a long ways on a day full of rejection in the field.
They let people whine just a bit but continue to be proactive, as if to say, "Let's move on with what we can control-forward focus is the way to go."
They keep the internal team on task and accountable to its obligations. The pace and the list of tasks on everyone's plate--including the operations staff--is significant. Even when there are great systems in place, there are times when the changes asked for by the physician relations team may get pushed to the back burner. With capable management, there are regular and systematic reminders, and there are documented expectations based on the internal communication plan. This is a tremendous motivator for physician relations staff, not because the staff expects that problems will always be fixed immedi-ately but because the staff knows that there is someone who will bird-dog the issue and always go to bat for the staff's needs.
There are innovators who push themselves and the team further. What an awesome attribute for a physician relations leader to have. It is that blend of intuition and spark that lends itself to saying, "Let's try to position the orthopedic service with Dr. Smith this way and see if we can have an impact." It is the willingness to try a new approach to tracking or another way of looking at the integration plan with operations. It is not as though every idea is a magical success, but it does create wonderful synergy within the team. It creates market opportunity, even if only one out of every four ideas is a keeper. In the clutter of the market, that one idea may differentiate your services and cement a referral relationship. The part of innovation that separates great managers from the "all ideas, no substance" type is that the great manager has learned to share the idea, test it, gather feedback, and realize that beyond the idea there is a process for implementation that must be fine-tuned.
They create tools that demonstrate value. This is the attribute that is often the most obvious to people outside the department. Because the internal departments all have grids, outcomes, trended data, etc., they are interested in seeing if a "relationship program" can do the same. The best program leaders carefully think about the tools they need to be effective in creating the role, evaluating the role, reporting on barriers to suc-cess, and advancing the position. Some of today's tools are created to assess what is working internally, while others are designed to show the program impact. Most of the best program leaders with whom I have worked will quickly create preplanning, out-come, and issue reports. They balance measurement of activity in the field with the out-come and return on investment for the organization. With the ability to replicate the findings and report them out on a monthly basis, the best leaders use the database and other tools to more specifically home in on trends or market opportunities.
They make work fun. Of course, when you have oversight for a group of people who are gregarious, there is an almost mandatory obligation to lighten things up every now and again. Most field representatives are pushing hard to meet their weekly de-mands. The boss who can remind them they are valued, do something spontaneous, or make everyone laugh is a welcome addition to any management rank.
They are straight shooters. Every bit as important as a little fun in the workday is the ability to know that if things are not going well with performance or with the ability to fulfill obligations, the leader must work to educate, demonstrate expectations, and critique behavior that is below the norm. The team appreciates that the leader requires adherence to baseline expectations not only for the field role but also for interactions and behaviors that are in keeping with the team's reputation.
They have the right skills. The essential skill is the ability to balance people issues and organizational needs. There regularly will be compelling needs that are gathered in the field, as well as from department leaders begging the relationship leaders to "go tell them about our new service." On both sides there needs to be careful management, the ability to ask good questions, to decide what fits with the strategic goals and what would be nice versus what is essential to address to earn more referrals. Both tactics have chal-lenges. The expectation is that, regardless of the starting frame of reference, the right leader has the skills to create the right climate for success by working with both internal and external customer groups.
They are willing to be held accountable. There are many positions within healthcare where it's assumed you are doing your part if people generally like you and you manage your budget. The leader who takes on the physician relations function needs to be com-fortable with realizing that the program's success is measured by new growth. The leader is heavily judged on his or her ability to facilitate and manage this between inter-nal constituents and the external team.
Certainly, many of these attributes are consistent with those you desire in every leader. Again, the difference here is that the physician relations role is relatively new to the healthcare environment, so there is a lot of internal misunderstanding about what is ex-pected and how valued it is. The manager is the "face of the program" internally, so program positioning within the organization depends on how the manager carries the role.
To order a copy of A Marketer's Guide to Physician Relations, visit www.hcmarketplace.com or call HealthLeaders Media Customer Service at 877/727-1728.

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Get Fit with a Fall 5K: November 18
Cooler temperatures have arrived, making it the perfect time to enjoy the outdoors. So join the Penn Walking Program for a 5K walk (3.1 miles) around campus on Friday, November 18.
Walkers of all levels are encouraged to participate. We'll even have volunteer walkers placed throughout the group to help keep a steady pace and make sure no one is left behind. The walk will likely take an hour or less of your time (depending on your pace), making it an ideal workout for your lunch break.
If you're already a member of the Penn Walking Program, you're encouraged to wear your "I'm a Penn Walker" t-shirt and bring your pedometer. You'll also be able to register for the program and receive a free t-shirt, welcome packet, and pedometer.
So throw on some sneakers and start walking! For more details and to register, visit the Human Resources online course catalog at www.hr.upenn.edu/coursecatalog and choose "Health Promotions" from the Browse by Category menu.
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The Bellevue By The Sea is a 36 unit resort condominium complex located in the heart of Southern Maine's coastal region. With its indoor pool, fitness room and sauna, The Bellevue By The Sea offers a unique relaxing environment 12 months a year. Whether it is that summer vacation or that spring, fall or winter getaway, The Bellevue By The Sea can fulfill your needs. Come, see what the Bellevue has to offer.


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Orpheum Theatre to Welcome Penn & Teller; Tickets On Sale 6/6
The Orpheum Theatre announces that it will present a special engagement of Penn & Teller on Friday, September 19, 2014. Known for magic, comedy and skepticism, Penn & Teller have defied labels - and at times physics and good taste - by redefining the genre of magic and inventing their own very distinct niche in comedy.
Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, June 6 at 10:00 AM. Ticket prices start at $32.50 and will be available for purchase online at the official Orpheum Theatre website, www.orpheum-memphis.com, The Orpheum Box Office (901.525.3000), the ticket counter at The Booksellers at Laurelwood, and all Ticketmaster centers (901.743.ARTS).
With sold out runs on Broadway, world tours, Emmy-winning TV specials and hundreds of outrageous appearances on everything from Letterman to Fallon, Friends to The Simpsons, Chelsea Lately to Top Chef, Penn & Teller show no signs of slowing down.
With an amazing seven wins, including 2013, as "Las Vegas Magicians of the Year," their 13-year run at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino makes them one of the longest running and most-beloved shows in Las Vegas history, outselling every other resident magician on The Strip.
Their acclaimed Showtime series, Penn & Teller: BS! was nominated for 13 Emmys and is the longest-running series in the history of the network. The show tackled the fakes and frauds behind such topics as alien abduction, psychics and bottled water.
Along the way, they've written three New York Times Best-Sellers, hosted their own Emmy nominated variety show for FX, starred in their own specials for ABC, NBC and Comedy Central and produced the critically lauded feature film documentary The Aristocrats. Their acclaimed documentary, Tim's Vermeer, follows Texas-based inventor Tim Jenison on his quest to discover the methods used by Dutch Master painter Johannes Vermeer. The Sony Pictures Classics film, which was nominated for a BAFTA and shortlisted for the 2014 Oscars, is currently in theaters.
As individuals, they are just as prolific. Teller directed a version of Macbeth that toured the East Coast to raves from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, co-wrote and directed the Off-Broadway thriller Play Dead and has written two books. Penn has written three books, including the 2011 New York Times Best Seller, "God No!", hosted the NBC game show Identity and donned his ballroom shoes for the 2008 season of ABC's hit Dancing With The Stars. Penn recently showed his business savvy on the past two seasons of NBC's All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.
With inclusions in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle, as answers on Jeopardy and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, their status as cultural icons and the preeminent duo in comedy was once again reinforced when Katy Perry personally asked them to co-star in the video for her #1 song, "Waking Up in Vegas." In April of last year, Penn & Teller were given their very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
For more information, visit www.orpheum-memphis.com or www.pennandteller.net.


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Sometimes in love, despite your best efforts, you find yourself in a situation you shouldn't be in—and Taylor Swift knows that all too well. In her just-released video for "I Knew You Were Trouble," Swift tells the tale of falling for a boy who's no good for her. Lost in an abandoned field and decked out in a rough-and-tumble look—complete with black motorcycle jacket, stained t-shirt, and pink-tipped locks—the singer falls for the bad boy in a big way, matching tattoos and all. "I don't know if you know who you are until you lose who you are," the just-turned 23-year-old said in the song's conclusion. Taylor's jackpot combination of relatable love tales and catchy melodies has struck again—watch the video above to see for yourself!
Plus, see all her Red looks.
• Taylor Swift at the AMAs
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Global Health Progress/IFPMA fete African health ministers in Geneva on public private partnershipsSubmitted by thiru on 23. May 2010 - 22:54
On 19 May 2010, Global Health Progress (GHP) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) hosted a luncheon at the Vieux Bois in Geneva on the margins of the 63rd World Health Assembly for a targeted audience of over 90 persons including Ministers of Health, Ambassadors and senior officials from the Africa.
PhRMA pushes for data exclusivity in 2010 Special 301 commentsSubmitted by Malini Aisola on 1. March 2010 - 18:11
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) 2010 Special 301 submission (a 200 plus page document) systematically lists in great detail, grievances against 41 countries for, in its view, the insufficient implementation and enforcement of national IP legislation.
A primary focus of attention and frequent "area of concern" in the submission is the inadequate protection of pharmaceutical regulatory data. Regulatory data refers to test and clinical trial data generated by drug developers and submitted as requisite evidence of safety and efficacy for the successful registration of a product. While data protection can take many forms, data exclusivity regimes grant a period of exclusive rights to the originator during which generic manufacturers are banned from relying on the original data to meet registration standards of safety and efficacy. In its submission, PhRMA relentlessly advocates for, indeed makes demands of several countries to implement data exclusivity provisions that go far beyond their obligations under the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
As noted by KEI and others in submissions to USTR, a number of public health and development NGOs have been highly critical of data exclusivity regimes, citing the large barriers to the introduction of generic medicines, and the conflicts between data exclusivity and medical ethics, when generic firms are required to replicate experiments with humans where the results of trials are already known. KEI will focus on the issue of pharmaceutical test data protection in its testimony on the Special 301 list on March 3, 2010.
Below are country-specific statements on this subject from PhRMA's submission:
PhRMA has singled out THAILAND by recommending that it be identified as a Priority Foreign Country
PhRMA encourages Thailand to (1) implement new regulations that do not permit generics producers to rely directly or indirectly on the originators' data, unless consent has been provided by the originator, for the approval of generic pharmaceutical products during the designated period of exclusivity; (2) bring Thailand's regulations in line with international best practices by making clear that trade secret protection is provided to all confidential material whenever it is received by officials; (3) extend data protection to new dosage forms, new indications, etc; and (4) require Thai FDA officials to protect information provided in confidence by the originator by ensuring that information is not improperly made public or made available for use or reliance by a subsequent producer of a generic pharmaceutical product.
PhRMA's grants to US organizations in 2008Submitted by KEI Staff on 4. February 2010 - 18:31
In the United States, tax exempt non-profit organizations are subject some some requirements for financial disclosure via the IRS form 990, which is available to the public. The disclosure requirements cover most U.S. based trade associations, including the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the trade association for some 28 "member" companies.
NYT: PhRMA to support Baucus version of health billSubmitted by James Love on 13. September 2009 - 8:03
According to a report by Duff Wilson in the Sunday New York Times, Much of PhRMA's $150 million in advertising will be spent pushing Senator Baucus's version of the health "reform" legislation.
PhRMA comments to USTR on ACTA
Wednesday, 09 July 2008
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA (PhRMA) ANTI-COUNTERFETING TRADE AGREEMENT (ACTA) COMMENTS
March 21, 2008
PhRMA Special 301 submission on ThailandSubmitted by James Love on 12. March 2009 - 16:11
The following discusses the 2009 PhRMA submission for the USTR Special 301 list on Thailand. Thailand is one of three Asian countries (China, Philippines and Thailand) that were singled out by PhRMA for the harshest treatment. The submission on Thailand covers several topics, including these:
PhRMA's Aggressive Special 301 submission for the PhilippinesSubmitted by James Love on 12. March 2009 - 7:01
One of the more aggressive PhRMA submissions to the USTR Special 301 list is the section on the Philippines. Excerpts, which are given below, illustrate the breath of PhRMA's demands on the USTR.
PhRMA giving more to democrats these daysSubmitted by James Love on 29. October 2008 - 10:00
According to the WSJ today PhRMA is spending $13.2 million in an "ad buy to prop up 28 Congressional candidates, many of them vulnerable and all but three of them Democrats." The Journal points out
PhRMA comments on ACTA: ISP Liability, Parallel Trade and Generic APIsSubmitted by James Love on 10. July 2008 - 22:00
These are a few quick points about the PhRMA submission.
1. PhRMA asks that ACTA "Establish liability for Internet Service Providers and Other Operators that Facilitate Trade in Counterfeit Medical Products."
This is potentially quite an important and controversial recommendation. PhRMA wants to make telecommunications companies liable if one of their customers sells counterfeit products.
Former WIPO employee (now with PhRMA) moonlights as BIO bouncerSubmitted by thiru on 7. November 2007 - 13:06
Richard Kjeldgaard, a former Senior Counsellor in the Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and now employed by the U.S. based Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) performed his role as "bouncer" admirably today at a luncheon organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization.


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49 year old woman | Kokomo, IN, United States | Seeking men 38-53 within 50 miles
Active within 1 week
Life is what you make it, so make it great!
Weekends at home are fine, but wouldn't they be so much better with someone special? Whether it is catching up on a project or binge watching Netflix, spending that time with another would be so much sweeter. I am a single mom of two boys. They are fantastic and I love them more than words. I have been divorced for over 8 years now and am looking for someone who shares similar interests to enjoy all life has to offer. My boys are old enough that they don't need (or want) me there all the time. I have time in my life to date. I have a great job that I love. I have been in the same field for almost 20 years and love it. My job can be challenging at times, but I find it rewarding. My family is very important to me and my ideal match would also enjoy family settings. He would also enjoy sporting events (baseball, football, basketball, etc.). I enjoy catching a game at the ballpark or on TV. He would also like to have fun and laugh. Most importantly, he is someone comfortable with just being himself. I lived in Chicago for 10 years and I love heading up to the greatest city I know. The food, the people, the culture. Nothing compares to Chicago for something to do. I do like the slower pace of the smaller town for family. The country is nice, but I still want to have high-speed Internet! Loll! I love to cook and try new recipes. I enjoy making meals that my family enjoys. I enjoy reading and find it to be relaxing. I like to get out and explore. I tend to be a little quiet at first, but once I get to know a person, I will easily converse about anything. Since I have teenage boys I speak sarcasm as a second language. ;) I have 2 white German Shepherd dogs who are big babies.
Alumni connections , Book club , Coffee and conversation , Business networking , Cooking , Dining out , Gardening/Landscaping , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Playing cards , Playing sports , Religion/Spiritual , Travel/Sightseeing , Volunteering , Watching sports
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My boys would certainly be #1. Favorite TV shows would include Suits, Graceland, Grey's Anatomy to name a few. Musical taste can be a bit varied and depend on my mood.
I love to catch a baseball game be it high school, college, minor league or MLB. Each level has its own appeal. I enjoy cooking. I find it relaxing and it provides a great creative outlet.
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SUDDENLY THE NORTHERN FOREST—that 26-million-acre swath of mostly private forestland from Syracuse, New York, to Machias, Maine—is growing buildings instead of trees. While fish and wildlife habitat in the region has traditionally been brutalized by unsustainable logging, at least clear-cuts heal. Strip malls and housing developments don't. Stockholder impatience, changing world markets and the increasingly brief tenures of CEOs have tempted forest-products companies to slick off their timber and sell their land to developers. "Higher and better use" they call it. Conservationists call it "liquidation logging." First on the auction block is the wildlife-rich shorelines of remote lakes and rivers.
It's not just fish and wildlife habitat being lost, it's lifestyles and livelihoods—hiking, birding, camping, snowmobiling, hunting, trapping, fishing, guiding, outfitting, and all the jobs associated with the paper and timber business. States and conservation groups are scrambling to buy the land as it comes up for sale, but they have only a small fraction of the money needed, and often they're resented by locals suspicious of government bureaucrats and "out-of-state environmentalists." In eastern Maine, however, there's a plan that offers real hope for saving the Northern Forest.
It began in 2001, after Georgia Pacific struck terror into the hearts of Washington County residents by selling off 446,000 acres (nearly all its Maine holdings) to undisclosed timber investors. There are more guides and lodge owners in the 13 towns between Grand Lake Stream and Forest City than anywhere else in the Northeast. What would happen to their livelihoods if woods and shorelines started blooming with no-trespassing signs? If the pulp and paper mill at Baileyville went belly-up, what would happen to the families who depend on the 550 local jobs it provides? And if the land becomes subdivided and roaded, what would happen to all the creatures, some already threatened with extinction or extirpation, that can't get along without big woods and remote waters? So local guides, sportsmen, lodge owners and environmentalists formed an alliance called the Downeast Lakes Land Trust for the purpose of purchasing and protecting the 27,000-acre Farm Cove Peninsula that juts 12 miles up the southwest shore of West Grand Lake. The price will be $12.5 million.
The group had no experience with fund-raising or land acquisition, so it turned to the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF), which had just nailed down the biggest conservation easement in U.S. history, raising $32 million in two years to protect 762,000 acres of forestland in northern and western Maine owned by the Pingree family. NEFF suggested the land trust collaborate with it and that, together, they embark on a more ambitious project: The Farm Cove Peninsula would be purchased as planned, but conservation easements would be acquired on an additional 315,000 acres at a cost of $13 million. Permanently protected would be 78,000 surface acres on 60 lakes, 445 miles of lake shoreline, 1,500 miles of river and stream shoreline, and 54,000 acres of wetlands.
In March 2003 the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership, as NEFF and the land trust now call themselves, and another member—the Woodie Wheaton Land Trust—completed the first phase with the $3.2 million purchase of a 500-foot wildlife corridor/buffer along 13 miles of Spednic Lake's southern shore and 36 miles along the southern bank of the St. Croix River. The timing was perfect because, on the north side of Spednic and the St. Croix, the Province of New Brunswick had just bought and protected 390,000 acres of Georgia Pacific's Canadian holdings.
Because the project area is wild and remote it sustains species missing elsewhere—state-endangered black terns, state-endangered sedge wrens, 10 percent of all common loons in northern Maine, probably the highest density of bobcats in the Northeast, Canada lynx, pine martens, river otters, canopy-feeding warblers and federally endangered Atlantic salmon. On Farm Cove Peninsula alone partnership biologists have identified 135 species of birds.
"This is a wildlife story more than the other big forestland-conservation projects underway in the Northeast," declares Eric Palola, director of NWF's Northeastern Natural Resource Center in Vermont. "You've got the coastal influence. You've got the headwaters of several major river systems and that big expanse of protected land in New Brunswick. It's right in the middle of flyways for migratory birds. There's all this unspoiled riparian shoreline along with incredibly productive wetlands."
Tom Schaeffer, regional biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, agrees. "This is going to have a large-scale benefit for most indigenous species," he says. "There is major focus on riparian habitats. A high percentage of migratory songbirds go to these remote stream edges to nest. And studies show that a lot of wildlife, especially species resident year-round, depend on travel corridors that follow streams. By establishing good buffers along these streams the project will provide travel opportunities and winter shelter for a host of wildlife."
I got a sense of the biodiversity of the project area when I toured it last July with representatives the Downeast Lakes Land Trust. In one of the wetlands slated for protection I saw a cow moose and her calf grazing on aquatic vegetation. Wading and paddling down Tomah Stream, which feeds Grand Lake Flowage, I encountered all manner of caddis fly nymphs. Tomah Stream sustains the highest caddis diversity ever found in the United States. It's also home to the state-threatened Tomah mayfly, one of the few predatory members of the order. This rich insect fauna, in turn, sustains exceptionally large brook trout.
As we moved toward Grand Lake Flowage we flushed ruffed grouse, raptors and herons and, from the shallows, frogs, crawfish, muskrats, fallfish and chain pickerel. The black-winged damselflies called ebony jewelwings fluttered around us like ashes.
From my cabin bunk at Leen's Lodge on West Grand Lake I heard barred owls and listened to loon music echoing from one distant shore to another like the rumble of expanding ice. In the morning, from the porch, I watched mergansers, black ducks, pileated woodpeckers, ospreys, tree swallows and, 15 feet below the surface over clean granite, copper-flanked, ruby-eyed smallmouth bass. These fish more than any other species are what keeps the sporting lodges and guides in business.
I caught smallmouths in front of the lodge and in nearby Big Lake from a "Grand Laker," poled by guide Chris Wheaton, one of only two people who still build these traditional square-ended, cedar-and-ash canoes. The wildlife made it difficult to concentrate on my fishing. "The obnoxious loon," as Wheaton called it, shadowed us, eyeballing my fly rod and surging toward us each time it bent in an effort to spare me the trouble of releasing bass. An immature bald eagle appeared through the mist, flying low over spruce and fir trees. Herons and kingfishers worked the marshy shoreline.
While the smallmouth fishing in these lakes is unexcelled east of the St. Lawrence River, smallmouth bass are ubiquitous and easily had in other cool-water habitat. You don't need to trek almost to the Canadian border to find them. But anglers come here from all over the world. It took the guides, who at first fretted just about access, a while to figure out why. Smallmouths are resilient and adaptable; no way was a hatch of docks, diving rafts, jet skis and powerboats going to affect the population. But gradually, the guides realized that it wasn't just the fish that attracted anglers; it was the chance to chase them in wild, remote, quiet settings where you cast from Grand Lakers instead of beeping, belching, garish bass boats, and where the air is scented with balsam instead of gasoline fumes. If this land were subdivided and sold for second homes, they'd be out of business no matter how good the fishing was. So it was the guides who got the Downeast Lakes Land Trust going.
Land conservation projects elsewhere in the Northwoods have set property-rights barkers and federal-conspiracy theorists into full cry, especially in Vermont where the Essex Timber Company, the Freeman Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state and small private donors raised $26.5 million to buy 133,000 acres of land from Champion International.
Although the project was a stunning success, the atmosphere in the state is now so poisoned that similar efforts may not be politically possible. "Some of these large market-driven conservation efforts are now attracting property-rights zealots who proclaim that this is one step away from complete government takeover and that somehow these willing sellers are being coerced behind their backs," says Palola. "But even Domtar [new owner of the Baileyville mill] calls it a good deal since it allows for a sustainable wood supply."
Although the Downeast Lakes region is the epicenter of the property-rights movement in Maine, the partnership has heard only splutters. Property-rights groups don't dare attack the project because they'd be attacking local residents, and both the state and federal government have a minimal role, providing cost share funding for loon habitat and wetlands monitoring. Basically, there's no one to frighten and co-opt. What's more, the partnership guarantees continued logging under guidelines both the industry and conservationists can live with. Also guaranteed are public access and all traditional uses including hunting, fishing, trapping and snowmobiling.
"There have been lots of land conservation projects in the Northern Forest," remarks NEFF's director and Maine resident, Amos Eno. "But this is the first of this scale that is community based, community driven and designed for a sustainable, rural economy. Even our Pingree easements didn't involve people who lived and worked on the land because there weren't any. This project integrates people into the equation. It was conceived and incubated by locals who saw the massive changes from liquidation logging. It's a mold breaker."
As I stepped into the float plane for the trip back to Bangor, I took one last look at the West Grand Lake, which collects the waters of 32 streams, ponds and lakes, all as wild or wilder. A hundred yards out two loons cruised with their heads below the surface. On the north shore gray water merged with gray sky. To the east and west, the mixed hardwood forest went from chartreuse to emerald to lavender as it rose to distant ridges. Nothing I could see had changed since my last visit in 1973. But less than 50 miles away change was happening—everything the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership hopes to avoid.
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NWF Priority: Protecting the Downeast Lakes
As part of its ongoing efforts to promote sustainable forestry and protect wildlife habitat in New England's vast Northern Forest, NWF has joined the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership to safeguard 342,000 forested acres in eastern Maine. To find out more about the campaign and what you can do to help, see www.newenglandforestry.org. For more about the Northern Forest, see www.nwf.org/northernforest.
Special Place: A Bird-Watcher's Paradise
Maine's Downeast Lakes region contains some of the most pristine boreal habitat in the lower 48 states. It provides breeding grounds for dozens of species of birds associated with the vast boreal forests of Canada and Alaska, including a remarkable 23 species of nesting wood warblers. Following are just some of the types of birds that use Downeast Lakes habitat at one time or another during the year (in number of distinct species):
Bitterns and herons: 6Blackbirds: 6Ducks and geese: 15Falcons, hawks and eagles: 13Finches: 9Flycatchers: 8Gulls and terns: 5Jays and crows: 4New World sparrows: 13Owls: 4Rails and allies: 3Sandpipers: 8Thrushes: 8Vireos: 4Woodpeckers: 6Wood warblers: 23


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Pakistan's new government plans to try former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for treason.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told the Pakistani parliament: "He will have to answer for his guilt before the court."
Pakistan's powerful armed forces are expected to be angered by the move against the former general, which could be seen as an attempt to stand up to a military that has ruled Pakistan for much of its 66-year history.
The charges relate to Musharraf's 2007 declaration of a state of emergency and the subsequent suspension of constitutional rights.
Musharraf came to power after ousting Sharif in a coup 14 years ago, then chased him into exile in Saudi Arabia.
Musharraf remains under house arrest, having returned to Pakistan from self-imposed exile earlier this year.
His spokesperson described the proposed move as "reckless and ill-conceived".
In Pakistan, treason carries the death penalty.
The government stopped short of declaring officially that it was filing charges against Musharraf, saying it would first consult with other political parties.
Sharif cited the Supreme Court's decision that Musharraf committed treason under Article 6 of the Constitution by imposing a state of emergency. He told parliament:
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The major indexes finished up slightly Wednesday, mostly coasting on the strength of Tuesday's strong rally that followed the Federal Reserve Board's decision to leave interest rates unchanged.
Several tech issues were among the strongest stocks on the market. PalmSource, the newly spun-off division of Palm that covers handheld operating systems and software, rose 38.6% in its first day of trading, climbing $11 to close at $39.50. Red Hat rose 7%, or 97 cents, to $14.83; Ericsson rose 4.1%, or 74 cents, to $18.64; and PeopleSoft rose 2.2%, or 45 cents, to $20.76. The losers included AT&T, which fell 87 cents, or 4%, to $19.07, after industry sources said merger talks with BellSouth fell through.
For the day, the InformationWeek 100 rose 0.98%, or 2.94 points, to 302.83, and the Nasdaq index rose 0.2%, or 4.30 points, to 1,936.56. The Nasdaq-100 tracking stock fell slightly, losing 4 cents to end at $35.32 as nearly 74 million shares changed hands.
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Two local military men who each lost their lives during overseas missions two days apart in October 1983 were honored this week in Lincoln County. Captain Jeb Franklin Seagle, of Lincolnton, died at the age of 30 following a helicopter crash off the Caribbean island of Grenada while Sgt. Michael D. Mercer, of Vale, lost his life at age 28 during a terrorist attack on Marine battalion headquarters at the Beirut International Airport in Lebanon. This month marks the 30th anniversary of both military tragedies. The men's lives and fearless feats were the focus of separate remembrance ceremonies conducted by the Capt. Jeb F. Seagle Marine Corps League Detachment 1265. The United States invaded Grenada following a military coup on the island. After Seagle's helicopter was shot down the day of the invasion — Oct. 25 — he still managed to save the life of a dear friend, Capt. Timothy Howard, before being captured and killed himself, Marine Corps League members said. Seagle served as pilot of the AH-1T (TOW) Cobra attack helicopter. However, the memory of Seagle's heroic efforts failed to go unnoticed by either his fellow military men or hometown community. Not only was he posthumously awarded the first Navy Cross since the Vietnam War, nearly a decade earlier, Marine Corps League members said, but local city officials also named an area roadway after him. Jeb Seagle Drive runs alongside part of Lincolnton High School's property.
According to homeofheroes.com, the prestigious award ranks higher than the branch's Distinguished Service Medal and just below the Medal of Honor.
On Oct. 23, two days before the Grenada invasion, an individual with the Iranian-backed, Lebanese Shiite terrorist group, Hezbollah, still in the early stages of its formation at the time, drove a TNT-loaded truck straight through a U.S. Marine battalion gate, detonating the flammable compound and destroying a four-story barracks building.
Not since the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima had the Marines suffered such a deadly attack in one single day.
Mercer was one of more than 200 military servicemen killed in the attack. Many of the sleeping victims stemmed from the 24th Marines Amphibious Unit at Camp Lejeune, various news media outlets have said.
Minutes after the attack, terrorists conducted a second bombing at a nearby building that housed French military forces.
Mercer's parents said he often wrote and phoned home during his time overseas but never let on that he was in any sort of danger.
He had been in Lebanon with the Marine unit since June and was set to return home to North Carolina before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Following the incident in Grenada, Marines who were scheduled to relieve Mercer and his fellow men were instead sent to the Caribbean.
Mercer is buried next to the graves of his mother and stepfather at Hull's Grove Baptist Church's cemetery in Vale.
Seagle's grave is located at Trinity Lutheran Church in Vale.
Both men joined the Marines following college.
Seagle, an alumni of Lincolnton High School, attended Appalachian State University while Mercer, an alumni of Newton-Conover High School, graduated from Western Carolina University.
Capt. Jeb F. Seagle Marine Corps League member and veteran Steve Reep, of Boger City, said the detachment maintains at least 17 members.
A retired sergeant master gunner who served three decades in the military, Reep was stationed at Camp LeJeune when the Beirut attack occurred, he said. He woke around 2 a.m. to see the news coverage on TV.
He noted how, at the time, every Marine was anxious to head overseas and fight for the lost men.
"I had friends that were there and killed," Reep said with tears in his eyes. "Guys were saying, 'No, I'll quit if I don't get to go to Lebanon.'"
He now suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder and tremors he said he developed from a trial antibiotic the military gave him and fellow Marines to prevent anthrax poisoning during the Gulf War.
Reep also expressed his shock over the Grenada attack, noting how no one expected anyone to die during the mission.
On Tuesday, the local Marine Corps League honored Mercer and Seagle's legacies, placing a wreath in front of the men's war memorial in front of the Lincoln County courthouse.
A number of other local service men who died in combat are listed on the stone memorial.
The Capt. Jeb F. Seagle Marine Corps League Detachment 1265 will again honor Seagle during a half-time presentation tonight at Lincolnton High School's home football matchup against Newton-Conover. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.
The group will also host a gravesite ceremony for Seagle 11 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran, located at 6319 Reepsville Road.
High school friend Bill Ward — Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of Musculoskeletal Service Line at Pennsylvania's Guthrie Clinic — expressed his gratitude and fondness for Seagle in an email.
He pointed out the military man's "uncommon valor, bravery under fire and disregard for personal safety" while overseas.
"Jeb was an incredible individual," Ward said, "and for those of us who were fortunate enough to know and love him consider ourselves blessed for having done so."
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Director James Cameron is teaming up with Arnold Schwarzenegger to produce a docu-series about global warming.
The Avatar filmmaker and veteran action man will air the project, Years of Living Dangerously, in six to eight hour-long episodes on US network Showtime next year.
Longtime environmental champions Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Alec Baldwin have signed up to serve as narrators, with climate expert Daniel Abbasi also lending his support.
Cameron tells industry publication Variety, "We'll make it exciting. We'll make it investigative. We'll bring people the truth, and people are always hungry for the truth."
And executive David Nevins insists the development of the series couldn't come at a better time since America's North East is still reeling from October's superstorm Sandy.
He adds, "The recent devastation on the East Coast is a tragic reminder of the direct link between our daily lives and climate change. This will make for a thought-provoking television event."


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We demonstrate efficient single-photon detection at by means of sum-frequency mixing with a strong pump at in periodically poled lithium niobate followed by photon counting in the visible region. This scheme offers significant advantages over existing InGaAs photon counters: continuous-wave operation, higher detection efficiency, higher counting rates, and no afterpulsing. We achieved single-photon upconversion efficiency of 90% at 21.6 W of circulating power in a resonant pump cavity with a 400-mW Nd:YAG laser. We observed high background counts at strong circulating pump powers due to efficient upconversion of pump-induced fluorescence photons.
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AUSTRALIAN bond futures contract prices have finished flat, with 10-year bonds recovering from heavy losses as the the American city of Detroit files for bankruptcy.
Ten-year bonds had weakened after official US figures showed a 24,000 drop in jobless claims for last week.
But those losses were reversed through the day after Detroit became the largest city in US history to file for bankruptcy, after decades of decline in the struggling heart of America's car manufacturing.
National Australia Bank head of research Peter Jolly said the news hit Asian equity markets, and sparked a wild day on the Australian bond market.
"We're recovered those losses on the Detroit story and the weaker Nikkei ... a round trip back to being very little change where we closed last night," he said.
Three-year Australian bonds were marginally firmer, on a day free of major local data, as dealers continued to expect an August interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on the back of poor business confidence.
"The data over the last two or three weeks has been generally quite soft and it ups the chances of the RBA cutting rates come August," he said.
At 1630 AEST the September 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.325 (implying a yield of 3.675 per cent), down marginally from 96.330 (3.670) on Thursday.
The September three-year bond futures contract was at 97.310 (2.690 per cent), up from 97.300 (2.700 per cent).
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If there is a vast white conspiracy to keep poor blacks who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina from moving back to the city, it could not have a better front man than Clarence R. Nagin, mayor of New Orleans.
Nagin's mindless, self-serving utterances, combined with his singular failure to devise and implement a recovery plan, virtually guarantee that the rest of America will abandon us, which means that those without means, left to fend for themselves, will be left behind -- or left out completely. As clueless as he is, the mayor surely must know this.
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Matsuzaka made his third minor league rehab start on Monday since returning from Tommy John surgery. He went 4 2/3 innings and allowed no runs.
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. Following the introduction of Botany, with a growing interest in Nature, and with wider exploration to the Americas, Asia and Africa, scientists started to get interested in the commonalities and divergencies of animals, and began to classify species. The term Specie (Latin for "Like" as in alike), was first introduced at the beginning of the 17th century.
The idea of "species" has a long and continuing history. It is one of the most important levels of classification, for several reasons:
It often corresponds to what lay people treat as the different basic kinds of organism - dogs are one species, cats another.
It is the considered the best method - to date - by which scientists typically refer to organisms.
It is the highest taxonomic level which mostly cannot be made more or less inclusionary.
After centuries of use, the concept remains central to biology and a host of related fields, and yet also remains at times ill-defined.
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are often used, such as based on similarity of DNA. Specific traits that have changed an animal (for example skin color or size) may further subdivide species into subspecies.
This technical article in Wikipedia details and wrestles with the problems with the classifications of Species. I will try to summarize the status of classification here:
Classification is a somewhat reliable method of identifying particular species are essential for stating and testing biological theories and for measuring biodiversity. Traditionally, multiple examples of a proposed species must be studied for unifying characters before it can be regarded as a species. Precise taxonomic rankings are generally difficult to give to extinct species known only from fossils.
As you will see, assigning precise definitions of species even to current animal life is "a work in progress" but become increasingly important in two ways. 1. As we see the impact of climate change on the survivability of a species, and 2. As we discover and look for life on other planets and moons. This field is called Astrobiology.
Biologists view species as statistical phenomena and not as categories or types. (I find it a bit demeaning to be a statistical phenomenon however, I'm used to it as I'm married and my place in hierarchy is somewhat below that of my dog).
Anyway, the notion of a statistical phenomena as defining species is counterintuitive since the classical idea of species is still widely-held. This is that a specie is seen as a class of organisms exemplified by a "type specimen" that bears all the traits common to this species.
The commonly used names for plant and animal taxa sometimes correspond to species: for example, "lion", "walrus", and "Camphor tree" – each refers to a species. In other cases common names do not: for example, "deer" refers to a family of 34 species, including Eld's Deer, Red Deer and Elk (Wapiti). The last two species were once considered a single species, illustrating how species boundaries may change with increased scientific knowledge.
Because of the difficulties with both defining and tallying the total numbers of different species in the world, it is estimated that there are anywhere between 2 million and 100 million different species.
Each species is placed within a single genus. This is a hypothesis that the species is more closely related to other species within its genus than to species of other genera. All species are given a binomial name consisting of the generic name and specific name (or specific epithet). For example, the Bengal Tiger is Panthera tigris tigris and the Siberian Tiger Panthera tigris altaica.
In scientific classification, a species is assigned a two-part name, treated as Latin, although roots from any language can be used as well as names of locales or individuals. The genus is listed first (with its leading letter capitalized), followed by a second term: for example, gray wolves belong to the species Canis lupus, coyotes to Canis latrans, golden jackals to Canis aureus, etc., and all of those belong to the genus Canis (which also contains many other species). The name of the species is the whole binomial, not just the second term (which may be called specific name for animals).
Linnaeus's first attempt to define animal species was 11 pages long. His 13th (and final) edition was 3000 pages. This work of Fuchs and then Linnaeus has formed the basis for modern biology. Linnaeus is to Biology as Einstein is to Physics. Linne as he came to be known was world famous in his day and beyond.
The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth." The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly." Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: "Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist".
Catherine II of Russia sent him seeds from her country. He also corresponded with Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, "The Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire", who was a doctor and a botanist in Idrija, Duchy of Carniola (nowadays Slovenia). Scopoli communicated all of his research, findings, and descriptions (for example, olm and dormouse, two little animals which were not known to Linnaeus) to him for several years, but because of the great distance they were never able to meet. Linnaeus named for him the solanaceous genus Scopolia from which scopolamine is derived.
A lot of the details of Linnaeus's work has been revised over time, but he is credited with the development of the "system" by which we can begin to define and categorize species.
The question of how best to define "species" is one that has occupied biologists for centuries up to today, and the debate itself has become known as "The species problem". The modern theory of evolution depends on a fundamental redefinition of "species". This problem became the original focus of the work of Charles Darwin before he started to focus on the Origin of Species . Prior to Darwin, naturalists viewed species as ideal or general types, which could be exemplified by an ideal specimen bearing all the traits general to the species. Any difference in a specie was regarded as an aberration. This unfortunate definition has led to catastrophes such as Eugenics and even Genocide.
Traditionally, researchers relied on observations of anatomical differences, and on observations of whether different populations were able to interbreed successfully, to distinguish species; both anatomy and breeding behavior are still important to assigning species status. As a result of the revolutionary (and still ongoing) advance in microbiological research techniques, including DNA analysis, a great deal of additional knowledge about the differences and similarities between species has become available in the last few decades. Many populations which were formerly regarded as separate species are now considered to be a single taxon, and many formerly grouped populations have been split. Any taxonomic level (species, genus, family, etc.) can be synonymized or split, and at higher taxonomic levels, these revisions have been still more profound.
Given the complexity of life, some have argued that such an objective definition is in all likelihood impossible, and biologists should settle for the most practical definition. The naming of a particular species today is regarded as a hypothesis about the evolutionary relationships and distinguishability of that group of organisms. As further information comes to hand, the hypothesis may be confirmed or refuted. Sometimes, especially in the past when communication was more difficult, taxonomists working in isolation have given two distinct names to individual organisms later identified as the same species. When two named species are discovered to be of the same species, the older species name is usually retained, and the newer species name dropped, a process called synonymization, or colloquially, as lumping. Dividing a taxon into multiple, often new, taxons is called splitting. Taxonomists are often referred to as "lumpers" or "splitters" by their colleagues, depending on their personal approach to recognizing differences or commonalities between organisms (see lumpers and splitters).
From a taxonomical point of view, groups within a species can be defined as being of a taxon hierarchically lower than a species. In zoology only the subspecies is used, while in botany the variety, subvariety, and form are used as well. In conservation biology, the concept of evolutionary significant units (ESU) is used, which may be define either species or smaller distinct population segments.
But 150 years ago, (before DNA was even dreamed about), Darwin's theories shifted attention from uniformity to variation and from the general to the particular -- or individual.
Once our attention is redirected to the individual, we need another way of making generalizations. We are no longer interested in the conformity of an individual to an ideal type; we are now interested in the relation of an individual to the other individuals with which it interacts. To generalize about groups of interacting individuals, we need to drop the language of types and essences, which is prescriptive (for example, telling us what finches should be), and adopt the language of statistics and probability, which is predictive (telling us what the average finch, under specified conditions, is likely to do). Relations will be more important than categories; functions, which are variable, will be more important than purposes; transitions will be more important than boundaries; sequences will be more important than hierarchies.
This shift resulted in a new approach to "species";
Darwin concluded that species are what they appear to be: ideas, which are provisionally useful for naming groups of interacting individuals. "I look at the term species", he wrote, "as one arbitrarily given for the sake of convenience to a set of individuals closely resembling each other ... It does not essentially differ from the word variety, which is given to less distinct and more fluctuating forms. The term variety, again, in comparison with mere individual differences, is also applied arbitrarily, and for convenience sake."
Practically, biologists define species as populations of organisms that have a high level of genetic similarity. This may reflect an adaptation to the same niche, and the transfer of genetic material from one individual to others, through a variety of possible means. The exact level of similarity used in such a definition is arbitrary, but this is the most common definition used for organisms that reproduce asexually (asexual reproduction), such as some plants and microorganisms.
This lack of any clear species concept in microbiology has led to some authors arguing that the term "species" is not useful when studying bacterial evolution. Instead they see genes as moving freely between even distantly-related bacteria, with the entire bacterial domain being a single gene pool.
Nevertheless, a kind of rule of thumb has been established, saying that species of Bacteria or Archaea with close enough genetic characteristics to each other need to be checked by DNA-DNA Hybridization if they belong to the same species or not. This concept has been updated recently, saying that the border of 97% was too low and can be raised to 98.7%.
In the study of sexually reproducing organisms, where genetic material is shared through the process of reproduction, the ability of two organisms to interbreed and produce fertile offspring is generally accepted as a simple indicator that the organisms share enough genes to be considered members of the same species. Thus a "species" is a group of interbreeding organisms.
This definition can be extended to say that a species is a group of organisms that could potentially interbreed - fish could still be classed as the same species even if they live in different lakes, as long as they could still interbreed were they ever to come into contact with each other. On the other hand, there are many examples of series of three or more distinct populations, where individuals of the population in the middle can interbreed with the populations to either side, but individuals of the populations on either side cannot interbreed. Thus, one could argue that these populations constitute a single species, or two distinct species. This is not a paradox; it is evidence that species are defined by gene frequencies, and thus have fuzzy boundaries.
Currently, we tend to classify species into different ranges. Instead of specific fixed taxonomies, biologists have proposed a range of definitions. Which definition a biologists uses is a pragmatic choice, depending on the particularities of that biologist's research.
In practice, these definitions often coincide, and the differences between them are more a matter of emphasis than of outright contradiction. Nevertheless, no species concept yet proposed is entirely objective, or can be applied in all cases without resorting to judgment.
For most vertebrates, classification is made using either the biological species concept (BSC) or, to a lesser extent (or for different purposes) the phylogenetic species concept (PSC). Many BSC subspecies are considered species under the PSC; the difference between the BSC and the PSC can be summed up insofar as that the BSC defines a species as a consequence of manifest evolutionary history, while the PSC defines a species as a consequence of manifest evolutionary potential. Thus, a PSC species is "made" as soon as an evolutionary lineage has started to separate, while a BSC species starts to exist only when the lineage separation is complete. Accordingly, there can be considerable conflict between alternative classifications based upon the PSC versus BSC, as they differ completely in their treatment of taxa that would be considered subspecies under the latter model (e.g., the numerous subspecies of honey bees).
From a taxonomical point of view, groups within a species can be defined as being of a taxon hierarchically lower than a species. In zoology only the subspecies is used, while in botany the variety, subvariety, and form are used as well. In conservation biology, the concept of evolutionary significant units (ESU) is used, which may be define either species or smaller distinct population segments.
So, how many species do we know about (today):
This list shows the numbers of species that are defined at the beginning of the 21st century:
Insects make up the vast majority of animal species.
Bearing in mind the problems with categorising species, the following numbers are only a soft guide. They break down as follows:
Total number of species (estimated):
7 - 100 millions, including:
5-10 million bacteria,
74,000-120,000 fungi,
297,326 plants, including:
15,000 mosses,
20,000 Ferns and horsetails,
980 gymnosperms,
258,650 angiosperms,
199,350 dicotyledons,
59,300 monocotyledons,
9,671 Red and green algae,
28,849 fungi & other non-animals, including:
10,000 lichens,
16,000 mushrooms,
2,849 brown algae,
1,250,000 animals, including:
1,203,375 invertebrates:
950,000 insects,
81,000 mollusks,
40,000 crustaceans,
2,175 corals,
130,200 others;
59,811 vertebrates:
29,300 fish,
6,199 amphibians,
8,240 reptiles,
9,956 birds,
5,416 mammals.
So, in summary, we have learned that Classification of Species is essential for us to learn about life itself, and give us a benchmark for the future. We have also learned just how difficult it is to classify millions of species, and how this is really a work in progress.
Now, the big question. How did this happen. What is the Origin of the Species?


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ASHLAND, Ohio (CNN) -- An Ohio bakery shut down in October is bustling again, with 60 eager employees who had expected a Christmas on the unemployment rolls.
Cookie production has resumed and some workers are back on the job at the Archway factory in Ashland, Ohio.
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Some 300 workers lost their jobs when the Archway cookie factory in Ashland, Ohio, was suddenly closed by the private equity firm that owned it. The workers also were left without benefits like health insurance.
But then Lance Inc., a Charlotte, North Carolina-based snack food company, purchased Archway at a bankruptcy auction. And last week 60 workers were asked to return immediately, with perhaps more coming back in the months ahead.
Kathy Sexton, a worker at the bakery, had been preparing her children for a very modest holiday.
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"They said they understood," Sexton recalls. "They said, 'That's all right, Mom.' You always want to give them more, but ... I didn't think I would be able to."
Now she can.
Tiny Ashland has been struggling. Ohio has lost 200,000 jobs over the past eight years. The recent presidential campaign saw both candidates visiting frequently.
The outlook in Ashland became especially bleak when the Archway plant closed. Workers at the bakery said they felt betrayed when Archway at first said there would be more work in a day or two, but then changed the locks.
Rita Devan remembers.
"They just kept taking and taking until there was nothing left to take," Devan says, "and they didn't care that they were putting 300 people out of work."
Things are different now.
When it promised to reopen the bakery, Lance gave all 300 former Archway workers a $1,500 prepaid debit card.
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"I was crying," Devan says of the gift. "I am like, 'What are these people doing? They don't know me. They don't know us. They don't know any of the Archway people. And they are giving each and every one of us $1,500.' "
Sexton -- the woman who'd been preparing her kids for a meager holiday -- says of the $1,500 gift: "It was awesome. My first thought was, 'I can give my kids a Christmas.' "
David Singer, CEO of Lance, says the gift cards were a way of letting Ashland know the new owners are different. "We wouldn't do it willy-nilly," Singer says. "We do want to make money. But this is the pool of folks that we intend to hire. We just wanted to let them know who we were."
The 60 workers rehired so far are earning their previous salary and retained their seniority. They also were provided health insurance from day one.
The bakery now produces Lance cookies that are sold to big chains like Target and Wal-Mart. But production of Archway cookies is scheduled to resume soon. Lance has told the employees that it hopes to have the plant fully operational by the end of 2009 -- that is, five lines of cookies being produced simultaneously.
The new owners say that if new orders keep flowing in, more
will follow.
Terry Mowry is another worker rehired by Lance. He says what has happened is hard to describe: "You just saw life being breathed right back into the face of these people."
And Devan says with a laugh: "I walked into the garage last night, and my husband says, 'You actually smell like a cookie again.'
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o.k. here's what's going on. we are having a block party in my neighborhood, and guess who's doing the cake?!! well, i don't know what to do. keep in mind that i also live next to italians, who will probably be coming too. this is major advertisement. i will need to feed about one to two-hundred people.
i don't want to do an ordinary sheet cake, but something 3D. so here's the question...what should i do?? i don't have a clue what to do. i've never done a cake for that many people and it not be a wedding!
Do you really need to make that much cake.....are you supposed to have enough for everyone or are you taking a cake as your contribution.........I'm thinking everyone will be participating with food.......I'm sure they are not going to have service for 100-200 people.....
I would cut down on my cake size........that would open more doors for you as far as a design............
I agree with cakelady... maybe cut down on the size or if you wanted to do a 3D cake, do one of those and sheet cakes also that could possibly be in the same theme of the 3D you do. That is sure going to be a lot of cake! lol
maybe you could do a bunch of cakes instead of on big one amybe a cake to repesent each family on the block, show a veriaty of your skills
i was thinking of doing several cakes too. now i just have to figure out what.
good luck Diane!!!! I am flabbergasted at the thought of all of that.!!!
In addition to your 3-D cake and/or several different cakes, this might be a good time for a cupcake cake, make them all different flavors, and mix them up in the ccc, (this would give them "samples" of your various cake flavors)!
You might decorate the cc with little flags from the various countries represented, and maybe make your 3D cake as a US flag (I like the one done in a star pan with the flag on it, I think I saw a picture of it on a Google search, or I have a picture I could email if you don't have it). Janice
maybe you could do a bunch of cakes instead of on big one amybe a cake to repesent each family on the block, show a veriaty of your skills
I am with you mrsrunning. That would be a great idea to represent each family.
veejaytx, that's a great idea!! duh, i've done ccc's before, but the thought never crossed my mind!
Hi Diane, glad you like the idea! It will let you make a nice variety of flavors for all your neighbors to taste!
I haven't made a ccc yet and have been trying to figure out if you ice the cupcakes individually and then ice over all of them again, or do you just ice them all one time? Janice
check out dawn's tutorial for ccc's. it shows you step by step!


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