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Excellent new white paper on Alaska salmon farming risks. I found it on the site however the URL below will get everyone directly to it.
Never realized they had been doing the AS farming in PNW for such a long time. Definitely a clear threat to wild salmon and steelhead in PNW.
Very well written paper. Will have to give it a good read this weekend.
A wealth of information re. fish farms..
This is a great resource for information on Fish Farms in general and a whole lot of specific and important studies to keep you busy for weeks if you really have to know.
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Didn't mean to lump all commercials togehter as one. Most of the commercials I know are fine people and believe in conservation. As I've said many times before it's the middle man who creates the dangers in the fish industry and lets not even go to the Marine fisheries.
I come from a family of commercials, I grew up at the dinner table in New England listening to fishing, politics and the Red Soxs. As I washed dishes after a good meal of baked stuffed hadick and as I listen to the conversation about how the Russians, E germans and the Japs were destroying our fishing grounds I could actually see the lights of the factory ships 12 miles out through the kitchen window. Now when we got the 200 mile limit my family was happy and when we got low interest loans from Uncle Sam to modernize our fleet we were really happy. Guess what we did? The same damn thing the Russians did, over fish. Sorry Moonlight commercial fishing is just too good in this day and age as we fish now it's a killer only second to what the new age of fish farming is going to be.
OC, You are correct in the statement that much of the worlds fish production is going into pellets for fish farms. A whole lot of other thing are going in there too, besides "forage fish". North sea draggers harvest everything they are allowed, just to feed the processing plants for Norways farms fish pellets.
The offal from plants in north america that are processing fish is some times added to make Pellets that go into domestic farms, mostly from Kodiak.
The production in Chile is rising so fast I can't imagine where there getting the volume of food they need. Talk about an economy of scale the Chilean Farmers can deliver a 6lb. Coho salmon to Japan with the shipping included for $.90 US per pound. This was nearly $3.00 just a few years ago.
By the way when you lump all comercial fisherman together as one large group screaming about fish farms and then running of to deplete the worlds forage fish you sound about as prejuidiced as me when I see people fishing with styrofoam floats on there Spey Rods.
Seriously an awful lot of blame for overharvest should be layed at the feet of Fisheries Managers for they are the ones who allow the various fisheries to proceed.
Agree definitely a larger risk than I had thought to our wild fisheries. Now I know better.
Yeah there are ways to keep the ecological impact low but I doubt we will see them for a while.
Having all land based fish farms would be great as opposed to ocean rearing pens. This way the escapement problem is taking care of and you can disenfect the water being used before it gets into rivers, oceans, etc.
However this is much more expensive to set up that just throwing a bunch of smolts in an ocean pen and throwing in food pellets every once in a while.
Unless there are worlwide regs mandating land based fish farms the worl fisheries could be in trouble down the road.
|Before I learned of all its problems I used to think fish farming was a great idea by reducing commercial demand on the wild fish. Are there ways to farm in an environmentally and conservationally (is that a word?) sound manner?
|Have read that as much as 27% of the worlds forage fish are now being harvested by the commercial fishing industry to feed the growing number of fish farms world wide. It's funny how the commercial fishermen are screaming about fish farms yet they convert from fishing for the top of the food chain to lower areas of the food chain thus destroying thier fight against fish farming and taking out a large portion of the chain and endangering the fish at the top. One does not need to target the top of the chain to destroy it. Also 80% of the shrimp now sold are farmed raised and this could be the most devastating of all fish farming!
Agree, need to keep it as a visible issue in the forumn.
I for one did not understand how bad the situation was.
Now have to blow some snow, received 10 inches yesterday and it is in the teens. By wednesday it will be 40-50 degrees and the runs will be really on out here.
We all act and react the way we feel comfortable to square green tomatoes that ripen in the box during shipment, chicken farms, veal, etc - but for me I don't feel that my personal boycott of farmed salmon will turn the tide. Sure I don't eat veal and haven't bought a drop of exxon product (that I know of) since Valdez) but you'd have to be an organic vegetarian to escape the agricultural nightmare. Life's too short.
Luckily there are still places where wild salmon can be caught and eaten with confidence. For 12 years I lived in the PNW and never bought a salmon, although I ate a lot of it.
Anyway, a massive boycott movement would have an impact, better yet government-backed regulatory controls on pen designs, effluent control, use of antibiotics and pesticides, and other rules to ensure that the damage being done today is held in check.
Furthermore we should make each escapee event fatal to the business entity. You spill, you're out of business. That would fast-forward pen designs to the point where they should have been at the inception of this booming business.
Statistics on raw (it's always raw) effluent release from a typical Maine salmon farm equals 40,000 humans (treated sewage). We need tight government controls that span states and are negotiated across the border. It's an international issue. This is one situation where free enterprise and lack of big government involvement is backfiring on both oceans and both hemispheres. It's important enough for a world summit - but it's highly unlikely that the people of the world will be nearly as concerned about the problem as you seem to be, Hal.
Sad state of affairs. Like you said, we talk up the problem already - any suggestions on what we do about it?
Did a little more net research just to make sure there are no fish farm plans in Great lakes, thank god for our PCBs. Never thought I would say that, but it is now true.
Below are three recent news articles on the PNW salmon farm issue, situation is worse than I thought. BC now has 98 active fish farms, and government just gave go ahead for expansion of up to a possible 90 more !!!!
This is a major issue for all wild fish in PNW. I hope the conservation groups are all over this issue.
Canada appears to be one of the main countries along with Norway and Chile into commercial fish farms. Soon we will have to put Canada on the list of "Evil Fish Empires"
How big are the farms in Washington and Maine ? Doesn't matter the farm fish will stray into US waters as is now happening in Washington.
Not a good situation at all. Thats it I am not eating salmon in restaurants starting as of today. I do like salmon to so it hurts but there are more important issues.
I don' t think I am going to order Atlantic Salmon any more in restaurants, since it is more than likely it is farmed salmon I am eating. I guess I will have to go with the red snapper and other salt water fish which which I do not think are farmed, are they ?
Let me know if you hear of any in the Great Lakes, yes we have PCB warnings in our fish. I don't kill them or eat them any more, stopped that 15 years ago.
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This is not just a PNW issue, it's a global issue. The problem affects both oceans and both hemispheres. Fish farming as it is practiced today is wrong for a number of reasons. There are simply not enough controls on this industry which BTW is growing at a break-neck pace. Strains used for farms worldwide are almost exclusively atlantic brood that has been bred from the wild steed to a docile heiffer over decades of genetic manipulation, and hundreds of thousands if not millions have escaped on both oceans to show up where they don't belong. The chemicals and antibiotics, waste feces issues, sea lice population explosions are all ugly side effects. Where are the regulatory controls on inadequate pen structures and lack of safeguards against escape? Where are the effluent level monitoring and product inspection laws? I agree with what they did in the biggest chunk of the PNW - Alaska, who has outlawed fish farming.
Farmed salmon might taste good lately... but the artifical coloring (xantaxanthan (sp?)) and flavoring (ferol bromides, etc) in the 60% oil pellets kind of ruins the experience for me as well, although the end product is certainly flavorful, popular, and I guess better for you than beef on steroids.
Stewards of wild salmon worldwide are deeply concerned about this problem, not the least of which the people of the PNW who have a lot at risk with their true native steelhead and salmon runs, and people in Europe who are trying hard to retain their legendary indigenous atlantic populations.
Akin to the dumping of PCB's in the Great Lakes systems, it's greed before all else all over again. When you buy a fishing license in upstate NY they give you a PCB warning pamphlet with it, don't eat the belly meat, none for children and pregnant women, etc. You're probably safe from fish farming in the great lakes, but for all the wrong reasons.
I am going to stay focused on the positives - there are still great runs of wild fish to be found, and if we all remain informed and involved the currently missing regulatory controls on this run-amok industry will be voted into law soon.
Thanks, I might have seen that already. No sense reading more depressing information on this subject, hope the policiticians and conservation agency get there heads on straight out there very soon.
Look at what happened in Norway with the diseased rivers, due to the fish farms there when the atlantic salmon escaped into the rivers.
Its all about greed and politics, at the expense of our wild fisheries.
|P you got that right! Finally this topic is getting lots of play in the mainstream media. If you want some interesting reading I could send you an extra copy of 'The Steelhead Release' autumn 2001 edition. Basically the newsletter of 'The Steelhead Society of B.C.', this issue has a couple interesting articles on the problems caused by the current Atlantic Salmon farms here in B.C.If you want email me your adress and I will send email@example.com
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My pet Gigasubject is Bristol's Clifton Bridge which as well as being the site of the world's first ever bunjy jump was also one of the UK's most regular suicide spots until new fencing and CCtv was installed. The irony was that there was a sign at one end of the bridge which said " Ring the Samaritans. Nearest phone; other side of the bridge!"
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sea of people clad in winter gear trudging through the streets of the District like a line of ants marching away with little bits of crumbs at a 4th of July picnic. Scampering here and there in orderly fashion, clumping every now and then to surround a particular point of interest, and then gathering at the main spot; the place where the big event will occur; the event that we've all come here to witness in person.
We could have watched the inauguration from the warmth of our living rooms while munching on microwave popcorn and guzzling Gatorade. But we're the brave ones, or the crazy ones depending on who you ask. We actually want to stand outside in the 15-degree weather (windchill notwithstanding), surrounded by 1.5 million other excited souls to witness the making of history -- the transfer of power from one American President to the next; the pomp and circumstance of the current and former dignitaries regally filing onto the inaugural platform; the swearing in of the first U.S. President who identifies himself as African American.
So here we are, boarding a metro train at 6:30 a.m. with a few hundred strangers. People are friendly this early in the morning, probably because none of them are headed to work. We're all here to be a part of history. A woman beside me accidentally steps on the foot of the guy behind her. She apologizes, and the fella tells her it's no problem, really. Would this happen on a "normal" day, I wonder. For the entire 30-minute ride that includes about a dozen stops, the metro riders make room for more happy people to join the "love train" and we jiggle, bounce and bump along the tracks engrossed in our own private conversations, slightly overhearing the chatter among the others.
Exiting the train is like being in a scene from "The Blob," when all of the people rush out of the movie theatre as the giant glob of goo fills the building and bursts out in search of people to gobble. Okay, maybe it wasn't that dramatic. Actually, people were quite orderly, making their way in a joyous swarm to the escalators, at which time a quiet chant of "O-Ba-Ma!, O-Ba-Ma!, O-Ba-Ma!" suddenly swelled to a loud cheer for the soon-to-be 44th President of the United States. This is so great!
As we file into the streets (I have no idea what street we're on), we're met by a gentleman yelling for ticketholders to go one way, and non-ticketholders to go another. Our small group walks a short distance together and then with hugs, we depart to our separate areas. "Take lots of pictures," is the last thing I yell to Don, then Michael and I are on our way to find our spot. Honestly, I feel like a robot following the crowd that doesn't really seem to know where it's going. Down this street, turn the corner, under an overpass, around another corner, go this way, go that way. I hate being a follower, but I have no choice right now. At least Michael seems to know where he's going. We pass a white guy and two black women hugging and I overhear the man tell the women that he only has two passes to the blue section; his family is some place else and he wants to be with them so he's giving the passes to the ladies. They are clearly overjoyed. That scene warms my heart. That's what this is all about.
After passing street vendors galore, we finally reach the National Mall. I'm hoping to get my bearings, but I'm really not that familiar with the place. How close can we get to the front? Not nearly close enough to see the inaugural platform. Find a spot near a jumbotron and speakers and settle in.
Hours pass like minutes and suddenly a children's choir sings, followed by the Marine Corps Band, then we see footage of the Presidential motorcade arriving, several dignitaries walking onto the platform and then the Obama girls, Sasha and Malia, with their grandma, then the lovely Michelle Obama with Jill Biden, several others and then the man of the day, Barack. He looks cool, or maybe nervous; I can't tell. People are screaming, smiling, some are crying -- including me. I can't feel my nose or my toes, but I know I'm here right now and that's all that matters. After all of the formalities, he takes the oath. A slip-up causes me to catch my breath, but the ceremony goes on and finally Barack Hussein Obama is officially pronounced the 44th President of the Unites States of America. Cheers, screams, shouts, cries. Strangers are hugging strangers.
Almost immediately, many people -- including Michael and me -- begin to file out of the warm protection of the crowd and head for what we think is an exit. The program is still going on, but we've seen what we came to see and now I'm hoping to make our way over to the headquarters of the Credit Union National Association to view the parade. The streets were closed off hours ago for those hoping to view the parade from the ground. But Cindy, back at the office in Atlanta, was able to get me two passes (the very day we left town) to enter the secure area around the building so we could view the parade from the 6th floor in the warmth of their office.
With the strategic crowd control in place and the multitude of street closings, there was no way we could make it to the office building in time to see the parade. So, instead, we opted to walk along with the crowd to the Foggy Bottom Metro station. My feet were sore from being so cold and standing for so long, so every step required more effort that it should have. Michael was complaining of a sore lower back, but we kept on walking like the Children of Israel heading towards the Promised Land (this was Michael's observation).
Before entering the metro station, I was tempted to buy a few souvenirs from the street vendors, but everything looked so cheap that I just couldn't bring myself to waste the money. I wondered if I would regret it once I got home. Probably not. I'm really not a collector of stuff, but I knew my niece Kristin would want something and I wanted to bring my mom a commemorative item. They would have to settle for the keychains and lapel pins I had bought on Sunday.
Speaking of lunch, we grabbed a quick bite to eat, watched the Obama's stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue like royalty, and then bade farewell to the family so we could head back to Raleigh for the night.
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It's that time of the season: With Apple (AAPL) expected to report fiscal Q3 next Tuesday, July 23rd, predicting the quarter and refining estimates got into full swing today.
The Street is modeling $35.02 billion and $7.33 per share.
Apple shares today rose 13 cents to close at $430.44.
Stifel Nicolaus's Aaron Rakers, who has a Buy rating on Apple stock, and a $600 price target, $34.97 billion and $7.38 per share, on sales of 25.5 million iPhones and 21.1 million iPads, of which 14.6 million units may be for the iPad mini, more than he had expected at the start of this year.
All eyes will be on gross margin, he thinks:
GM% results/commentary will be a key investor sentiment driver. We believe Apple's GM% drivers are becoming increasingly complex – driven by: product mix across and w/in segments, product warranty accruals (investors to question F3Q13 results vs. elimination of one-time ~$414M, or ~90bps, neg. impact in F2Q13), neg. FX headwinds (US$ strength vs. Yen), and accelerating D&A expense. We believe potential upside to Apple's 36%-37% F3Q13 guide exists (we est. 36.8%); however, neg. mix could pressure guide vs. current estimates.
I should note, too, that today was a particularly busy day for Apple rumors.
The Boy Genius Report's Jonathan Geller speculated that the next iPhone will use an extremely durable form of metal casing that will make it near invulnerable, based on technology from Liquidmetal Technologies (LQMT). He likens the next crop of smartphones to the "Vertu" line of handsets once sold by Nokia (NOK) for thousands of dollars a pop, which used Liquidmetal's technology, but instead designed for mass production for the mainstream consumer:
BGR exclusively revealed various components from the upcoming iPhone 5S in a report back in May, and besides the fact that it looks like Apple is going to offer a gold iPhone (something that myself and Anostyle made hot), there was something else I noticed about the SIM tray but couldn't put my finger on. These trays were not cut out of aluminum… they looked injection molded. But out of what? Well I finally figured out what they are — they are manufactured out of LiquidMetal and I remembered why I knew this in the back of my mind… because I have already owned several phones that were made out of LiquidMetal — Vertus.
In the same vein, staff at Electronista reported late yesterday that there was a U.S. patent awarded to an entity called Crucible Intellectual Property, which seemed to be a joint venture of Apple and Liquidmetal, which patent suggested the companies might have much broader uses in mind for the metal alloy.
As the site's authors write,
Patent number 8,485,245 B1 for a "Bulk amorphous alloy sheet forming process" was awarded on July 16. From the patent filing, Liquidmetal "can be valuable in the fabrication of electronic devices." Specifically, the patent names iPhones," "portable web-browser (e.g. iPad),"computer monitors, and portable music players as likely targets for the material. The filing also mentions that it could be used in a "watch or a clock," suggesting that Apple may be thinking of using the material in a future "smartwatch" device it has been rumored to be working on.
The Financial Times's Courtney Weaver and Daniel Thomas today reported that Russia's three largest mobile phone operators, MTS, Megafon and VimpelCom, "have all separately ended their contracts with Apple, arguing that they were unable to make a profit on the phones," citing company remarks. The article notes that Apple sells phones in Russia through its own retail presence and through retail distributors, and that the carriers may negotiate new arrangements with Apple.
And a report by Bloomberg's Argin Chang stating the Chinese-langage Commercial Times claimed Apple may delay the next version of its iPhone, the rumored iPhone 5S, because it is going to use a larger screen size of 4.3 inches.
Raymond James's Tavis McCourt, who has a Strong Buy rating on Apple stock, and a $600 price target, weighed in on the rumor of an iPhone delay:
Apple is always pushing the envelope on cutting edge materials, components, assembly processes, etc., and this puts more supply chain risk into massive global launches than for many other smartphones. As with most stories, we suspect there is a grain of truth to recent stories written about issues with integration of fingerprint sensors or other component issues. However, it's important to note that Apple and all smartphone manufacturers face these issues every year, and these stories have become annual "rites of passage" for technology journalists it appears. Importantly, damage done by launch delays or tight supply at Apple tend to be much less than at other handset vendors due to its power in the supply chain to procure components, and its sticky customer base, which tends to wait for the next iPhone, not the next smartphone, to upgrade (iPhone 4S is the classic example).


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I was just reading the House Bill (HR 3962). It explicitly prohibits including abortion services as a mandatory component in defining which plans do or do not qualify as meeting minimum standards for coverage. It prohibits any form of discrimination against coverage plans based on whether or not they provide for abortion coverage. It prohibits any plan from discriminating among providers based n whether or not tey provide abortion services. It explicitly states that no provision of the bill shall be construed to modify or require modification of any Federal or state laws governing abortion services or reimbursement of abortion services. Finally, it states that, to the extent that a plan provides coverage for abortion services that are not eligible for coverage by Federal funds that the cost of that component of coverage will be excluded in calculating any applicable Federal subsidies. Based on this, I do not understand the basis for the OP's claim that the House plan requires coverage for abortion services.
Might we go even one step further,,,which would make most men murderers.What about birth control pills? Are they the moral equivalent of murder
When will you and the rest of the libs recognize the healthcare bill, IN ANY FORM... has nothing to do with healthcare.... IT'S ALL ABOUT CONTROL!!!! Just like the global warming bill...the "help the union thugs take charge again bill"...and any number of other Democrat led bills being rapidly shoved down the throats of the American sheeple...before they understand what the hell they've stepped into, and what they've allowed to happen to this country.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
Well, I don't know about those that are against abortions and those that advocate for more abortions statistically being for or against executing convicted killers.
But, is there a plausible argument that can be made why a "convicted killer" hasn't forfeited his right to life?
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The most recent paper produced by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, "Media Freedom in post-war Sri Lanka and its impact on the reconciliation process<," does a great job of cataloging the abuse Sri Lankan journalists continue to face after the decades-long civil conflict with Tamil secessionists ended in May 2009.
Written by BBC Tamil Service producer Swaminathan Natarajan, the report also outlines the wave of abuse that has come since President Mahinda Rajapaksa first rose to national power as prime minster in April 2004 before becoming president in 2005. Natarajan makes use of a lot of CPJ's data, but his 41-page report also sets the problems of Sri Lankan journalists in a broader political context. It's well worth the read.
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AniDB wrote:In addition to "Yorinuki Gintama-san" (a repeat of selected Gintama anime episodes), the broadcast included new Gintama episodes.
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i more have a prob with the guys that dont respect the wild turkey they just harvested by throwing it around & basicly spur & beard hunting they are the same folks crack n on others for shooting a jake & passing on the trophy only mentality... im off topic so i stop now lol..
Totally agree here TJ, show some respect for that bird you've killed. Don't just chuck him into the back of your truck like a garbage bag. Growing up we were always taught to respect the fish and game we harvested. Our most important responsibility as outdoorsmen was to minimize the suffering of any animal we decided to take. Additionally, it was considered wasteful and inappropriate to take an animal without intending to use as much of it as possible. It kind of bothers me when people just breast out a turkey and then throw the rest away. That is a lot of wasted meat. If you took that animal's life you have a responsibility to use as much of it as you can in as respectful a way as possible. I really enjoy preparing wild fish and game at special meals for groups of family and friends. Being able to share food that I have hunted at a special occasion is very enjoyable for me, and I feel it demonstrates a proper level of respect for the bird.
Its easy for people to get caught up in the numbers game with hunting. When an animal you harvest loses that individual significance and becomes "just another notch on the rifle butt", I think a hunter is crossing into territory where I don't really want to go. Sorry, I'll jump down off my soapbox now.


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This image is part of a set designed to document ecosystem changes in the grasslands and forests that Conservacion Patagonica has acquired to connect areas of uplands and create the future Patagonia National Park. See: www.conservacionpatagonica.org .
For the past eighty years, the Chacabuco Valley in Chile's Aysen Region was a large sheep ranch, where overgrazing had severely damaged the grasslands. With the launch of the Patagonia National Park project, Conservacion Patagonica removed the sheep from the land; wildlife — most obviously guanacos — began to return to the area. Kris Tompkins, founder and president of Conservacion Patagonica, asked me to be one of the project's scientific advisors. My immediate preoccupation was to document the ecological changes that would likely take place in the area as ranch became national park, as guanacos replaced sheep, as setting fires to clear forest stopped. Moreover, global climate disruption is projected to make quite marked changes on this area: temperature and probably rainfall will shift, and glaciers will melt. I looked for a technical strategy for documenting these changes to develop a deeper understanding of land use changes throughout Patagonia, where overgrazing affects huge expanses of grasslands.
When I began this project in early 2011, the coverage of high-resolution satellite images was quite poor. This will surely improve, allowing for time series of birds-eye images to record the changes. But the need to have additional detailed and eye-level images is obvious. In the years and decades to come, these gigapans will form a baseline to allow the Park's managers and visitors to understand the changes taking place.
I was inspired by J.R. Hastings and R. M. Turner's "The Changing Mile." Over a century of photographs creates a visual account of land use changes that provides a rich source of understanding of ecological change and its drivers. I hope these photographs will do the same, in time.
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By Robert Nieminen
The St. Regis Hotel in Chengdu, China, designed by DiLeonardo. According to Principal Robert Macaruso, overseas clients are now asking design firms to blend cultural viewpoints with a sense of Western timelessness. The
lobby of the St. Regis uses modern sculpture to capture the city
skyline and leather to add sophistication.
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The Ritz-Carlton Bangalore, designed by WATG, includes a number of Western-style amenities, including a luxury spa, a club lounge, and a rooftop helipad—thought to be the first in India.
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For the architect or designer working abroad, globalization is more than just a corporate buzzword; it's a palpable concept that produces both opportunities and challenges thanks to the rapid growth of emerging markets in recent years.
"Globalization has become the norm for a lot of design firms like us," said Paul Phillips, AIA, LEED AP, and principal at Karn Charuhas Chapman & Twohey (KCCT). It's no wonder, either, given the pace at which many second- and third-world countries are now developing. The Harvard Business Review predicts that developing markets could account for more than 70 percent of global economic growth over the next few years, with China and India accounting for 40 percent alone.
As more North American firms begin to establish a presence overseas, learning to adapt and develop successful business models is vital. We spoke to a few design firms with extensive experience abroad to determine what to keep in mind—and what to avoid—when working in China and India.
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Respecting the customs and traditions of different cultures while visiting or working in another country is a no-brainer, but as Westerners, we often make the misguided assumption that assimilation will be nearly immediate and that projects will follow similar timetables to those at home.
"American architects fare much better when they take time to absorb and understand local culture and show patience in their international business dealings," said William E. Alisse, AIA, principal at TPG Architecture, London. "Once you secure respect and cooperation from the local design community, you can aspire to the many rewards of working abroad—larger-scale project opportunities, expanded global resources, newfound markets, and the chance to grow and evolve alongside your increasingly multinational client base."
Depending on which country you're working in, the design and construction process can take much longer than one might expect, so be prepared for the long haul. Brad McNamee, AIA, senior vice president at WATG, learned this lesson firsthand while working on a Ritz-Carlton project in Bangalore, India.
"I think for India, in particular, you've got to have patience," he emphasized. "It took almost seven years to get [the hotel] opened from when we started the design work, which is significantly longer than most projects."
In China, on the other hand, the decision-making process is much quicker—perhaps too fast—according to McNamee. "The demands are almost unrealistic in getting things completed," he said. "They're pushing much harder for most of those projects in most cases."


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Know household dangers to your pet
If you have a dog at home you know that dogs aren't exactly discriminating when it comes to eating. In fact, most dogs will eat just about anything.
And that can be a problem. Did you know that there are foods you probably have around the house that can be poisonous to your dog?
On top of that, dogs sometimes eat non food items that can cause deadly problems.
One local animal doctor shared a few things with us every pet owner should know. Dr. Judy Rutkowski of the Allentown Animal Clinic sees the aftermath when dogs eat something they shouldn't.
Dr. Rutkowski says, " So they're attracted by the smell, the taste, they get carried away, swallow the whole thing and you can get an obstruction, a blockage of the intestine."
The esophagus of the dog is larger than the outlet of his stomach. Thus, dogs may swallow objects that are too large to pass out of the stomach.
Dr. Rutkowski has seen everything from rubber, plastic, toys to a billiard ball. She can sometimes save a dog with surgery but there are also items simply poisonous to dogs.
"One of the newer items that wasn't around before is sugarless gum" says Dr. Rutkowski.
ccording to the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC), xylitol, a sweetener found in certain sugar-free chewing gum, candies and other products, can potentially cause serious, even life-threatening problems for pets. Xylitol is a white crystalline substance used as a sugar substitute.
Add to that list chocolate, grapes, onions, garlic, avocado, raw bread dough, raisins and citrus. Too much of these can be deadly.
Dr. Rutkowski says a result can be liver failure or kidney failure and many times she says, the damage cannot be reversed.
Dogs are attracted to lots of things -- even antifreeze.
" I had a case recently, a litter of puppies. They kept them in the garage and they lost three puppies because they got into the antifreeze," says Dr. Rutkowski
She says cats can also have problems with things they ingest, like houseplants and strings--but for the most part she says dogs are the most at risk.
Signs of poisoning in your pet could include listlessness, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle tremors, lack of coordination, and fever.
Medications can also pose a problem for pets. You should always put them out of reach of pets and children.
According to the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, pseudoephedrine - an ingredient commonly found in certain cold, allergy and sinus medications - can be extremely dangerous to companion animals. It does not take as much of the drug to cause a serious problem.
As little as one tablet containing 30 milligrams of pseudoephedrine could produce clinical signs in a 20-pound dog, including nervousness, hyperactivity and elevated heart rate; a dose of only three 30-milligram tablets could be lethal to a dog that size.
Animal doctors say dog proofing is not a one-time activity: from time to time, survey your home and yard for safety.
Check doors, gates and fencing on a regular basis.
Also remember to give your pets their own toys and safe chews, so they will be less inclined to chew on unsafe items.
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Qiagen and Calmette Hospital in Cambodia will develop national standards on screening for human papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of cervical cancer
Singapore: Qiagen is partnering with Calmette Hospital in Cambodia to help develop national standards on screening for human papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of cervical cancer. Cambodia has the highest incidence of cervical cancer in South East Asia (27.4 cases per 100,000 females) and the region's highest mortality rate (10.9 deaths per 100,000 females), according to the latest WHO data.
Cervical cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in Cambodia. Yet the disease is preventable through a combined regime of testing for human papillomavirus (HPV), an infection that is the primary cause of cervical cancer, as well as through the use of HPV vaccines.
Qiagen signed an agreement with Calmette Hospital in 2012 for a pilot project aiming to implement the optimal HPV screening solution with high sensitivity and specificity for Cambodian women. Data generated will provide input for national screening guidelines to reduce the country's burden of cervical cancer.
"We are pleased that Cambodia is taking a proactive stance to combat cervical cancer, a preventable but deadly disease afflicting women. Qiagen is working closely with Calmette Hospital on the strategy for preventive HPV screening, a key to saving lives and reducing the devastating human and economic costs," said Dr Victor Shi, president of Qiagen Asia Pacific. "Awareness by the public and healthcare workers is the first step toward defeating the disease."
"Calmette Hospital is committed to providing the very best care to bring down Cambodia's high burden from cervical cancer and that includes outreach and educational efforts on screening and prevention, as well as the treatment of women with HPV infection and cervical cancer itself. The May 12 events, including the 'flash mob' public forum and the medical training, will help spread the truth that cervical cancer can be prevented by implementing a few straightforward steps," said Dr Hav Monirath, head of the pathology laboratory at Calmette Hospital.
Qiagen markets the digene HC2 HPV Test, the gold standard molecular diagnostic, which has been used more than 90 million times to screen women around the world for HPV. In 2012 Qiagen's careHPV Test, the only DNA test designed for HPV screening in low-resource areas lacking laboratory infrastructure, was approved by China's SFDA. Qiagen is now launching careHPV across China as a complementary product to digene HC2.
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Just heard they scrapped the Derby.... 18 dogs... only 3 did the test after 17 ran.
Just heard they scrapped the Derby.... 18 dogs... only 3 did the test after 17 ran.
It is what it is....
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Twolabs Her Chance to Dance - 2012
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31 back to second in open... Sorry no numbers
Unofficial callbacks from first series of the Open.
3,4,5,6,8,9,10,13,17,19,20,21,22,25,26,28,29,30,32 ,34,36,38,43,45,48,50,51,52,54,55,and 56. 31 dogs back
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3rd #12 LulaBelle daughter of Homer- Joe Piland
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Patch 47 Commentaried.
This patch contains functions for handling communication from the home node (signals) during the jump from kernelspace to userspace. it also contains C routines for handling system calls that need to be performed on both the home node and the remote node, AND it contains functions for performing filesystem queries on the home node.
Welcome to everything in one file.
In my personal life, I'm poor, going into debt, and getting more stressed by the day. My new job has done three kinds of background check, and a drug check.. but no other paperwork. The employee who has my old job is still bugging me for technical help, and I'm not quite impolite enough to just tell him off. So, I'm just ignoring him for now. I'm sure he'll contact me when things get *really* bad for him. Which will probably be good for me. At the very least, it will be nice to hear how screwed he is. ;)
To add hilarity to injury.. I still get all my daily reports from the systems, including encrypted transmissions from our affiliate banks. I know they know I'm getting them, the new admin had to add himself in the same aliases entry as I'm in. This is not rocket science, people. I'm tempted to report the emails as spam. ;)
In other news.. no other news, I'm boring. Saw the 'Watchmen' movie, and loved it. I've also been watching "Studio 60". It figures that they remove all the *good* television from American TV.


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A fluffy metaphor, to be sure, but that's the whole of it. Your basic angle of attack sits on a flawed premise.
There is not, cannot be, any supernatural. That's not a proof you have, it's an assumption that you start with.
And a perfectly valid, logical assumption it is; for to lend credence to, and to posit the supernatural would be to assert a positive claim for which no evidential support can be provided on behalf of the claimant. Failing to accomodate for the insubstantial is not a misguided assumption--it is a rational, sane default.
While I enjoyed your unique perspective on the subject, we're hardly nomadic worshippers roaming the open teal plains of the Windows 95 desktop, paying devout, pious tribute to the seemingly stochastic methods of an almighty oversized mouse cursor. O, the tumbleweed of questionable JPEGs adrift in the sandstorms of this barren, biblical expanse. Truth is, our registers just aren't being rewritten. The inexorable march of scientific advancement has been successfully unraveling alleged "miracles" for nearly as long as they've been purported, with no hallelujah of divine tampering left unrattled to this date. Drawing up images of some cosmic debug session is disingenuous and superfluous, at best.
If you were able to approach this post with a checklist of seemingly random phenomena analogous to the passing whims of a desktop user, totally unapproachable and inexplicable through our established fundamentals, I would quite frankly not be tapping out this reply.
However, the reality is that your post, well not inflammatory, and certainly well composed enough to warrant its superficial, positive moderation, is just another passive aggressive manner for creationists to rudely interject at the dinner table with a new spin on perverting the scientific method. "But, but, but, He's outside science and reason, don't you get it? Assuming He's not is just sooooooo presumptuous of you! And gee-whiz, I thought you guys were the scientists!"
I'm sure you had good intentions, but honestly, that's just not how it works.


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By Johanna Bennett
Jefferson County, Ala. is back in the debt market with its controversial sewer bond deal. And according to reports by Bond Buyer, experts disagree over the outcome.
The $1.8 billion bond sale raised eyebrows when the retail order period kick off Friday. After all, it isn't every day that a municipality files for bankruptcy protection, much less tries to emerge from that bankruptcy by selling new debt to pay off the old bonds that got it into trouble in the first place.
Yields on some of the subordinated debt were offered at close to 8%. And our colleague Mike Aneiro reported that the deal faces numerous hurtles, among them bad timing. Following Detroit's bankruptcy and Puerto Rico's financial woes, this is not a good time to sell municipal bonds.
The rating agencies, meanwhile are at odds. Standard & Poor's has rated the notes investment grade. According to Bloomberg, the firm reasons that sewer-rate increases have been pre-approved for 40 years and that Jefferson County has improved oversight by installing a county manager for the first time.
Fitch, however, issued a junk rating, citing a lack of confidence in the system's ability to generate sufficient revenue. Bloomberg reports:
And while Moody's Investors Service doesn't rate the deal, it revealed in a recent report that it views the borrowing as having "non-investment grade characteristics, "and should be rated in the B of Ba range.
For more on how analysts and investors have reacted to the bond issue, read the Bond Buyer story here.


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Description: Unidentified residential area.
Date: 1955
Photographer: Montgomery
Item Type: Photograph, b/w
Collection: General Collection (P1), Kansas City, Missouri--Aerials, Number 29
Local Subject: Aerials; Residential Districts
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text: by Larry Aylward/Editorial Director A steaming bowl of clam chowder in front of him, Jim Becker reached for the pepper to punch it up. But his lunch companion, Dr. Joe Duich, couldn't believe the culinary act that Becker was about to commit. "Becker," Duich said brusquely, "how do you know it needs pepper? You haven't even tasted it yet. If the guy who made that soup was sitting here, would you still put pepper on it before tasting it?" Becker, startled by Duich's comment, tabled the pepper. He thought about what Duich said for a moment and understood exactly where the legendary turfgrass breeder and professor was coming from. "He was making a point about having respect for other people's efforts," said Becker, the president and CEO of EPIC Creative, an advertising agency in West Bend, Wis. In this case, Duich was sticking up for the unknown soup maker. His point: The soup might be so good it didn't need pepper, and it was unfair of Becker to assume the soup needed some spice. Duich was just trying to teach Becker a life lesson. After all, that's what Duich did -- teach. And he did it very well, whether it was about agronomics or personal etiquette. Sadly, "Dr. Joe," the famed longtime professor of turfgrass science at Penn State University, died Oct. 11 at 85. The golf course industry will not be the same without him. Duich joined the Penn State agronomy department faculty in 1955. He taught thousands of students, many who went on to become golf course superintendents. According to Penn State, one of Duich's most important contributions was developing Penn State's two-year technical program in golf turf management into an internationally recognized program. Duich may be best known for breeding several groundbreaking turfgrass cultivars, including Penncross, Penneagle, Pennlinks and the Penn A and G series of creeping bentgrasses. Penncross, which debuted in 1955, is still the top-selling bentgrass in the world. Becker came to know Duich through Tee-2-Green, the company that has marketed Duich's cultivars for many years. Becker's company has handled advertising and marketing for Tee-2-Green for nearly 15 years. In his role, Becker grew close to Duich and Tee-2-Green President Bill Rose. "As a marketing person, it's an amazing thing to be involved with a product that has been around for 60 years. And it's the same product that it was 60 years ago and is still the No. 1 selling product," Becker said of Penncross. "It's a testament to what Joe and Bill came up with." Becker credits Duich for teaching him the Xs and Os of agronomics -- and so much more. Through his actions, Duich reminded Becker how important it is to be polite to people and to respect others, among other things. "We lost somebody who can't be replaced," Becker says. "But the grass is greener in heaven today."


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Afghan National Army Base, Farah, Afghanistan. This image was made with the Gigapan robot from the ancient Kafir Qala Citadel, aka Kak Kohzad.
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Monte Allen was raised in Florida and offers numerous takes on his southern upbringing in his stand-up act. He has a down home attitude that allows him to connect with his audiences.
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of wireless chip maker Qualcomm (QCOM) are up 24 cents, or 0.4%, at $64.17 in advance of the company's fiscal Q2 report on Wednesday, with analysts expecting $6.08 billion in revenue and $1.17 per share in net profit.
Qualcomm's own forecast is for $5.8 billion to $6.3 billion in revenue.
A number of bulls on the stock are out with previews today.
Bernstein Research's Stacy Rasgon reiterates an Outperform rating on the stock, and an $80 price target, modeling $6.17 billion and $1.18 per share, based on shipments of 168 million units of its "MSM" modem chips.
Rasgon sees upside to volume of 3G and 4G devices in calendar Q4, for which Qualcomm books revenue a quarter in arrears, and also upside to average selling prices, despite the fact that Apple's (AAPL) iPad mini brought down some mix of prices in the December quarter:
We model a total 3G Total Reported Device Sales (TRDS) of $62.5B (for shipments occurring in CQ412), up 17% sequentially and at the high end of guidance ($57.5-62.5B). Bottom-up analysis suggests overall 3G handset ASPs as seen by QCOM likely rose in the low single digits (the source of the upside we see), with 3G handset units up 18% QoQ. This suggests a 3G TRDS at, or above, the high end of guidance […] If we assume that QCOM's 3G device market ex-iPad was up ~21% QoQ (in line with our analysis suggesting units up ~18% with "corrected" 3G handset ASPs up low single digits), our analysis suggests that the impact of iPads, even with some fairly conservative assumptions on 3G penetration and ASP in the wake of the iPad mini launch, still likely signifies a total 3G market value at, or above the high end of guidance.
Canaccord Genuity's Mike Walkley reiterates a Buy rating and an $85 price target, writing that it's all about China, where subscriber additions by China Mobile (CHL) and the other two leading carriers presage continued strong upgrades to 3G in that country:
In fact, the three combined Chinese Wireless carriers have had three consecutive record 3G subscriber net additions with 11.8M, 13.7M and 15.7M net additions during the months of December, January and February. See Figure 1 for more details. Reports overnight indicate another potential record month for March with a combined 14.2M net subscriber additions at carriers China Mobile and China Unicom. China Telecom is scheduled to report March net additions on April 26. With 3G subs comprising only 23.2% of China's total subscribers at the end of February 2013, we believe 3G growth trends will remain strong. Qualcomm looks well positioned to benefit from these trends through increased QTL royalties and growing MSM sales through its QRD- based initiatives. We reiterate our BUY rating and $85 target.
Walkley thinks the Q2 report will come in at $6.07 billion, with EPS of $1.16.
RBC Capital Markets's Mark Sue reiterates an Outperform rating and a $77 price target, writing that he's expecting "results closer to the mid to high end" of the forecast, with the company perhaps slightly beating his $6.03 billion and $1.14 per share, based on shipments of 169 million MSM chipsets.
For the full year, Sue raised his MSM estimate to 730 million units from 720 million, and raised his full-year estimate to $24.27 billion from $24.2 billion, but he keeps his EPS estimate at $4.53, writing that average prices will be a focus for investors on Wednesday:
Beyond the near- term outlook, investors may be keenly focused on discussion around ASP trends, which remain stable but perception remains on a possible decline […] P/E multiple may remain in check due to an overhang related to smartphone ASP declines, increased smartphone penetration.