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| Willie Mitchell suited-up and took part in team practice Tuesday morning at the Pacific Coliseum. The morning session was the first time he skated with the team since succumbing to back pain after a January 17th affair in Detroit. Following the skate, Mitchell announced that he intended to play in this Thursday's competition with divisional foe the Minnesota Wild.
Mitchell skated for nearly two hours Tuesday morning, taking part in a 45 minute individual session with fellow injured defencemen Kevin Bieksa and then practiced with the team for one hour.
Mitchell has missed ten games to date after suffering from a fractured L2 vertebra in his back. The blueliner played nine games with the stress fracture after the original injury occurred in a December 27 match-up against the Calgary flames. Mitchell removed himself from the Vancouver line-up after the pain became unbearable and he lost control of his body's performance. In his absence the Canucks have posted a 3-5-2 record and sit ninth in the Western Conference with 25 games remaining.
Mitchell has been skating on his own for the last two weeks and has been able to manage the pain while on the ice. There is still no definite timeline for Mitchell's return to the line-up. There is a possibility that he could play this Thursday against Minnesota, but also there is an equal chance that he will miss the Valentine's Day tilt.
"I can't guarantee you I'll play Thursday, but that's my intention," said Mitchell. "I've come this far and I don't want to make it any worse, but I think I'm fully healed, or close to it. Obviously, it's crunch time for us right now and I want to get back."
Mitchell's return depends upon his ability to endure the pain and whether or not the injury will hinder his performance. While it is still reported that the extent of the injury cannot be worsened, rushing into the line-up without being 100% is still risky. With the recent struggles in the Canucks own zone there be some pressure for Mitchell to jump in to the line-up as soon as possible, but Vigneault stresses that he does not believe in forcing a player to play if they are not ready and confident in themselves.
"I don't put pressure on players to play if they tell me their hurt. No organization can do that, players are the ones that have the ultimate decision, it's not he doctors, it's not the organization, it's the player that says if he can go," said Vigneault. "No organization would put a player in a situation in where his health might be in danger, you can't do that."
With that being said, it is no secret that Vigneault and all Canuck fans would love to see Mitchell back in the line-up.
"Obviously another healthy body on defence is definitely going to help us at this critical stage of the season, I haven't talked to him but during practice he looked fine so we'll see how he does tomorrow and he'll let us know if he can play," said Coach Alain Vigneault.
Although there has been no direct pressure placed upon Mitchell from team management, the blueliner says he does feel some indirect pressure to help his team down the stretch drive.
"As a player you do [feel pressure to get into the line-up]. Right now I think I can help out the team; I usually play my best hockey this time of year so I want to be in the line up," said Mitchell. "I think the pressure what you feel is from yourself, but it has to be a thing where you're smart about it and feel healthy, and I do and I feel ready to get out there."
Mitchell has played 47 games this year recording seven points (1-6-7), 60 penalty minutes, and a plus-7 rating.
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Radiocarbon ages of sterols and of total organic carbon from Weddell Sea and Gerlache Strait sediments [Seds_14C_compound_classes_TOC]
Sterols in a core from the Schollaert Drift, Gerlache Strait, Antarctica can be used successfully to determine the ages of sediment horizons. It has, however, not been possible to extend ...
Radiation observations on an ice floe on the Weddell Sea, 11/2004-01/2005 [FIMR_ISPOL_RADIATION]
As a part of the international expedition Ice Station Polarstern (ISPOL), radiation measurements were carried out on ice floes on the Weddell Sea (68 degrees S, 55 degrees W) in 28.11.2004 - 2.1.2005. ...
New Porifera from the ANDEEP II and III expeditions [scarmarbin_1542]
New species and new occurrences of Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Demospongiae) and Hexactinellida from the deep Weddell Sea, published or in press.
Oceanography - Zooplankton Data for Antarctica from the Instituto Antartico Argentino [CDA_AR_BIO_ZOOPLANKTON_DATA]
This data set contains zooplankton and microzooplankton systematics and ecology data.
Paleontology of Invertebrates for the Larsen Basin, Northwestern Weddell Sea from the Instituto Antartico Argentino [CDA_AR_GEO_PALEO_INVERTEBR_DATA]
Instituto Antartico Argentino Antarctic Data Base describes 9,000 samples of Mesozoic-Cenozoic marine and neritic invertebrates from Larsen Basin, northwestern Weddell Sea.
Paleontology of Vertebrates for Larsen Basin, Northwestern Weddell Sea from theInstituto Antartico Argentino [CDA_AR_GEO_PALEO_VERTEBR_DATA]
Instituto Antartico Argentino vertebrate paleontology data includes about 5,200 bones of Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic marine and terrestrial vertebrates from Larsen Basin, northwestern Weddell Sea.
Sonic anemometer measurements on an ice floe on the Weddell Sea, 11/2004-01/2005 [FIMR_ISPOL_SONIC_ANEMOMETERS]
As a part of the international expedition Ice Station Polarstern (ISPOL, http://www.ispol.de/), sonic anemometer measurements were carried out on ice floes on the Weddell Sea (68 degrees S, 55 degrees ...
Weather profile mast observations on an ice floe on the Weddell Sea, 11/2004-01/2005 [FIMR_ISPOL_WEATHERMAST]
As a part of the international expedition Ice Station Polarstern (ISPOL, http://www.ispol.de/), a weather mast was set up on an ice floe on the Weddell Sea (68 degrees S, 55 degrees W) in 29.11.2004 ...
Weddell Sea Glass Sponges [scarmarbin_1950]
genetic data on the glass sponges of the Weddell Sea Antarctica
Weddell Sea macrozoobenthos EASIZ I [scarmarbin_2432]
Biodiversity of the Weddell Sea: occurrence records of the macrozoobenthic species (demersal fish included) sampled during the expedition ANT XIII/3 (EASIZ I) with RV "Polarstern"
Weddell-Scotia Confluence Temperature and Salinity Data from the Instituto Antartico Argentino [CDA_AR_MAR-OF_WEDDELSCOTIA_DATA]
This data set contains the determination of the changes that justify the vertical homogeneity of the temperature and salinity distribution in the summer months. This included setting the evolutions ...
AAD buoy data collected during ISPOL 2004, Western Weddell Sea [ISPOL2004_AAD_BuoyData]
Ice Station POLarstern [ISPOL] was a multi-national, interdisciplinary study coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany, involving scientists from different ...
CO2, Hydrographic, and Chemical Data Obtained During the R/V Meteor Cruise 11/5 in the South Atlantic and Northern Weddell Sea, CDIAC/NDP-045 [CDIAC_NDP045]
The Numeric Data Package (NDP-045) contains carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrographic, and chemical data collected during the R/V Meteor Expedition 11/5 in the South Atlantic Ocean, including the Drake Passage ...
CTD and Moored Current Meter and Hydrographic Measurements in the Southern Weddell Sea [ROPEX-98]
This data set consists of data from ~120 CTD profiles collected over the southern Weddell Sea during the ROPEX-98 cruise on HMS Endurance, ...
Carbonate Chemistry of the Weddell Sea from the Weddell Polynya Expedition (WEPOLEX-81), CDIAC NDP-028 [CDIAC_NDP28]
This package documents carbonate data derived from samples that were obtained from the Weddell Sea in the late austral winter of 1981 as a part of the US-USSR Weddell Polynya Expedition (WEDPOLEX-81) ...
Climate, Drift, and Image Data from Antarctic Icebergs A22A and UK211, 2006-2007 [NSIDC-0466]
This data set includes a variety of station data from two Antarctic icebergs. In 2006, researchers installed specialized weather stations called Automated Meteorological Ice Geophysical Observing ...
Distributions and diversities of viruses and bacteria in the Larsen A in the Anatarctic Weddell Sea [KPDC_DDVBLA_AWS_2012_1]
The collapse of the Larsen A Ice Shelve at the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula occurred in 1995. However, no information is available on the spatial distributions of abundances and compositions ...
Drifting buoy observations from the Weddell Sea, 12/2004- [FIMR_ISPOL_BUOYS]
3 drifting buoys were deployed on ice floes on the Weddell Sea (68 degrees S, 55 degrees W) in November-December 2004, as a part of the international expedition Ice Station Polarstern (ISPOL, http://www.ispol.de/). ...
Feasibility Study of Eocene to Pliocene Palynological Reconstruction off Seymour Island [Warny-OPPGeol-0533879]
Feasibility study of Eocene to Pliocene palynological reconstruction of the Antarctic Peninsula margin climate evolution Project Summary Intellectual merit Numerous ...
Ice Station Polarstern. Aerial photographs over sea ice taken during the ISLOP project [ISPOL_Aerial_photos]
Aerial photography over Antarctic sea ice using a digital Nikon D1x camera. Flights were conducted around the edges of a triangular array of drifting buoys each transmitting GPS location. Flights ...
Investigating Iceberg Evolution During Drift and Break-Up: A Proxy for Climate-Related Changes in Antarctic Ice Shelves [scambos_0540915]
Drifting tabular icebergs in the Southern Ocean just east of the Antarctic Peninsula undergo a rapid "climate change" as they move into warmer air and ocean temperatures. Using a combination of satellite ...
Investigating the relation between aerosol optical depth, dimethylsulphide production and phytoplankton dynamics in the Antarctic Southern Ocean [ASAC_2319]
---- Public Summary from Project ---- Understanding the strength of possible biological feedbacks is crucial to the science of climate change. This project aims to improve our understanding of one ...
Marine gravity data in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), 1987/1989/1992/1995 (projects ANT-VI/3, ANT-VIII/5, ANT-X/2, ANT-XII/2) [AWI-EDMED_542_6]
The aim of the marine gravity surveys in the Weddel Sea are: a) to develop a model on the break-up of this part of Gondwana, b) to map the ocean-continent boundary c) to develop an idea about the ...
Marine magnetic data in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), 1987/1989/1992, (projects ANT-VI/3, ANT-VIII/5, ANT-X/2) [AWI-EDMED_542_7]
The aims of the marine magnetic surveys in the Weddell Sea are: a) to develop a model on the break-up of this Part of Gondwana, b) to map the ocean-continent boundary c) to develop an idea about the ...
Micropaleontology Data from the South Shetland Islands, Scotia Sea, Northern Weddell Sea, and Patagonia from the Instituto Antartico Argentino [CDA_AR_GEO_MICPALEO_DIATOM_DATA]
Instituto Antartico Argentino Antarctic Data Base describes about 3,000 samples of Mesozoic-Cenozoic diatoms obtained from sedimentary cores. Most of the diatoms indicate Holocene-Late Pleistocene ...
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Editorial: The Egyptian dilemma
Published 5:08 pm, Monday, August 19, 2013
After a coup, President Obama takes initial steps to rebuke Egypt's military leaders.
There's no indication the killing of civilians will stop without a stronger message.
To try to gauge the diplomatic quagmire in Egypt, where the streets have become killing fields in the aftermath of a military coup that the United States tolerated, search no further than the dialogue that emerged on both sides of the ocean and extremes of the political spectrum last week.
"While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back," President Obama said last week.
Sounds sensible, if modest, enough — until you hear the vitriolic declaration of a young Islamist dissident named Ahmed:
"The solution might be an assassination list," he said. "Shoot anyone in uniform. It doesn't matter if the good is taken with the bad, because that is what happened to us."
That's how ugly things are in Cairo, where both a discredited military government and desperate Islamists mourning the victims of a massacre are living in the aftermath of their own version of Tiananmen Square.
It's time for some painful introspection at the White House, which until now, perhaps, could afford to say little about either the flawed regime of Mohamed Morsi or his overthrow by the military. A president who's been understandably loath to become too involved in an increasingly volatile and unstable region is under new pressure to be more forceful.
There is admittedly much at stake if the United States makes the wrong move. Egypt has been an important ally, controlling the critical Suez Canal and allowing the United States to use its airspace. Alienating it could send it into the arms of less friendly benefactors; weakening the current government could set the stage for the kind of turmoil Syria has seen and, eventually, an even more repressive military or Islamist regime.
Yet on the world stage, America is increasingly hard-pressed to support a military-backed regime that has killed hundreds of its own civilians whose only offense, for the most part, was to gather in public to protest the overthrow of their democratically elected government — unpopular though it might have been — and hold political preferences contrary to the military's.
Mr. Obama so far has been relatively mild, canceling joint military exercises with the Egyptian Army next month. The administration is also moving to withhold non-military aid, which amounts to $250 million a year. Mr. Obama is said to be reluctant to suspend the much larger $1.3 billion worth of military aid to Egypt.
Mr. Obama, however, must make it clear that all U.S. aid to Egypt is in jeopardy unless the government stops this violence. And he should help Egypt find a path out of this morass. The United States should take this matter to the U.N. Security Council and propose intervention — diplomatic, that is — to accomplish three goals: end the killing of civilians, bring the demonstrations to a peaceful end, and set a path to civilian governance and new elections as soon as possible.
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I have been waiting for this moment for months. The day that Paula (@Inkscrblr) told me she had bought a house with a dedicated home office, I was perusing pinterest. I love organizing home offices but what is even better is setting one up from scratch. I have set up a few home offices in my professional careers as a professional organizer.
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Michelle Keegan won't do Strictly Come Dancing
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Michelle Keegan has confessed she doesn't think she could do 'Strictly Come Dancing' as she's not as confident as her fiance Mark Wright, who competed on the show last year
Michelle Keegan "couldn't do" 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
The former 'Coronation Street' actress claims she has no plans to follow in the footsteps of her fiance Mark Wright by competing on the BBC One ballroom dance show as she found watching him take part excruciating.
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I feel so empty and sad. I just dont know what to do. We had an argument, but all mothers and daughters do. She turned 18 and within a week and her "friends" outside influence, packed up a car and moved out, saying it was time for her to move on. I would have never known, had I not arrived home to see this happening. She would not even talk to me, It was like the devil was in her, so much anger.
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When I first started trying to make money online I remember how terrifying finding a profitable niche was, you start to break into a cold sweat and your mind goes blank just at the thought!
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'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' Star Reveals 10 Secrets You Didn't Know
As the film turns 30, actress EG Daily tells THR about her memories of playing Dottie, including describing first-time director Tim Burton as a "mad scientist who had a very clear vision."
Thirty years later, a film about a bow tie-wearing guy's search for his lost bike continues to capture viewers' hearts.
As Pee-wee's Big Adventure marks the 30th anniversary of its Aug. 9, 1985, release, actress EG Daily (Dottie) spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her experience working with Paul Reubens (Pee-wee) and Tim Burton, who made his feature directorial debut with the comedy.
"He was like a mad scientist who had a very clear vision," says Daily, who is also known for voicing Tommy Pickles on Rugrats and Buttercup on Powerpuff Girls as well as her 2013 run on NBC's The Voice. She describes Burton as "very particular about what he wanted."


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Uproar after eggs thrown at Ganpati procession in Mumbai
Police and local activists controlled the situation that could have spiralled out of control, after members of the procession entered the premises of the upscale twin towers in Jogeshwari (West)
A major brawl was averted when eggs were thrown at a Ganpati procession in Jogeshwari, following which angry members of the mandal barged into the twin towers where some residents were allegedly prepared to put up a fight. However, police were called in and local activists intervened to diffuse the situation.
The incident occurred between 2-3 pm on Monday, when the procession was passing by the upscale twin towers near a shopping centre on S V Road in Jogeshwari (West). Amidst the drums and the dance, eggs were allegedly hurled from the high-rise prompting the angry devotees to barge into the building.
A resident of the building, on condition of anonymity, told mid-day, "I was sitting in my balcony observing the procession when I saw four eggs thrown on the procession from a floor above mine. Fearing I would be blamed, I went inside."
Crisis averted
As the furious devotees charged into the premises, some society members were allegedly waiting to fight it out. However, a few worried residents called the Amboli police. The secretary and other committee members, along with activists of local welfare associations, also came in to calm flaring tempers.
Confirming the incident, an Amboli police officer said, "The incident did take place. There are closed circuit cameras at the entrance of the building, but none in the passage or the terrace. The eggs were thrown from the two upper floors or the terrace. It was aimed at the Ganesh idol."
The officer further added that several policemen were deployed after the incident, and that they are recording statements of the concerned persons. But, a case has not been registered; only a station diary entry has been made to avoid spreading the word, the officer explained. The building members and police eventually apologised to the devotees and assured that the culprits would be punished.


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Let's talk real quick about some of the various types of cuddle chairs available. The two most popular choices are the swivel and the round cuddle chair.
The Swivel Cuddle Chair
A "swivel" cuddle chair refers to a cuddle chair that can rotate around to face different directions. Usually the swivel allows for a full 360 degree rotation, but this can vary by manufacturer.
This is one of those features that helps make the cuddle chair so versatile. For example that same chair that adds critical seating in the living room is simply a swivel away from facing the bay window to give you the perfect backdrop for an afternoon read as you put your feet up.
Based on your own interior arrangement at home think of some creative applications of how this can help you get the most out of your living space.
The Round Cuddle Chair
A "round" cuddle chair refers to a cuddle chair that has a round shape (when viewed from the top). One of the more well known examples of this is the simply designed Griffith Cuddle Chair.
The round cuddle chair is popular both because of its good looking modern appeal, and because it's functional. The rounded front makes it easy to sit on and easy to share.
These two features, rounded & swivel, tend to work nicely together, so you may consider a cuddle chair that has both.


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Chasing Water
192 pages
6 x 9
25 illustrations
192 pages
6 x 9
25 illustrations
Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems. Current approaches tend to rely on policies crafted at the state or national level, which on their own have proved insufficient to arrest water scarcity. To be durable and effective, water plans must be informed by the culture, economics, and varied needs of affected community members.
International water expert Brian Richter argues that sustainable water sharing in the twenty-first century can only happen through open, democratic dialogue and local collective action. In Chasing Water, Richter tells a cohesive and complete story of water scarcity: where it is happening, what is causing it, and how it can be addressed. Through his engaging and nontechnical style, he strips away the complexities of water management to its bare essentials, providing information and practical examples that will empower community leaders, activists, and students to develop successful and long-lasting water programs.
Chasing Water will provide local stakeholders with the tools and knowledge they need to take an active role in the watershed-based planning and implementation that are essential for water supplies to remain sustainable in perpetuity.
"This is a book of balance—delivered with appreciated measures of integrity and clarity."
"Richter draws on his worldwide travels for examples of creative solutions to water shortages. [Chasing Water] provides a road map for communities to take an active role in managing this most vital resource."
Conservation Magazine
"[Chasing Water] offers a clear, information rich, pragmatic and motivating vision on water scarcity....A great book. We should have more publications of this stimulating type."
Environment, Development and Sustainability
"Chasing Water is a cogent, hopeful vision of achieving water sustainability for humans and aquatic ecosystems alike, from a global expert on freshwater policy and conservation science. Richter's sustainability principles and case studies illustrating democratic water governance inspire us to seek collective solutions for seemingly intractable water management challenges."
LeRoy Poff, Professor of Biology, Colorado State University
"Chasing Water is a must read for all river enthusiasts and seekers of practical solutions. Immensely readable and intriguing, this book will awaken your senses, provoke you to think deeply about the choices we make, and give you tools to carve a more sustainable future. Don't miss it!"
Nicole Silk, President, River Network
"With clarity and vision, Brian Richter has written the perfect primer on water scarcity—what it is, where it exists, and what we can do about it. It will be of immense value to students, professors, policymakers, and anyone interested in creating a more secure water future."
Sandra Postel, Freshwater Fellow, National Geographic Society
"How the global community manages and cares for this most precious resource will be one of the most urgent questions in the twenty-first century. This powerful and absorbing book offers principles for citizen-empowered water governance and stewardship that integrate broad societal values. This is an indispensable book for policy makers and citizens of the world."
Gavin Power, Executive Director, United Nations CEO Water Mandate
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"The book offers a clear, information rich, pragmatic and motivating vision on water scarcity."
International Journal of Environment & Pollution
Chapter 1. Running Out of Water
Chapter 2. Taking Stock of our Water Budgets
Chapter 3. Options for Resolving Water Bankruptcy
Chapter 4. Who is Responsible for Water?
Chapter 5. Seven Principles for Sustainability
Chapter 6. Bringing Power to the People
Chapter 7. How to Survive a Water Crisis: Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
Chapter 8. Chasing Hope
About the Author
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Brian Richter panels and signings for Chasing Water:
September 12, 2016
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September 13, 2016
Lecture 23 - Securing our water future: How, when, and where water shortages will affect your life
September 13, 2016
Book signing
Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems. Current approaches tend to rely on policies crafted at the state or national level, which on their own have proved insufficient to arrest water scarcity. To be durable and effective, water plans must be informed by the culture, economics, and varied needs of affected community members.
Join Brian Richter, international water expert and Director of Global Freshwater Strategies for The Nature Conservancy, for a discussion about his book Chasing Water, and how it ties into local water issues.
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead
(From the song "A Horse with No Name" by America)
Some of my favorite photographic images are those of the Earth filmed from satellites in space. In those breathtakingly beautiful images taken from such great disance, humanity's footprint on our planet is hardly discernible.
It is also hard to find in those distant views the rivers and lakes that gave rise to great civilizations, and sustain us to this day through their provision of fresh water. This is not surprising, given that all of the world's rivers and lakes combined make up less than 3% of the planetary land surface.
But sadly, upon closer inspection on the ground, we can see that those beautiful blue ribbons and pools have been shriveling across much of the globe as the human enterprise expands and our appropriation of their waters grows.
Some of the world's largest rivers – the Colorado and Rio Grande of North America, the Yellow of China, the Brahmaputra and Ganges of Asia – have been drained of their waters, primarily to irrigate farmlands but also to support the growth of cities and industries. These rivers regularly dry completely before reaching the sea. They are joined in their anthropogenic desiccation by thousands of smaller rivers, now gone in whole or in part.
We hardly take notice of the drying of our rivers until they are entirely gone. How many of the residents of Austin, Texas know that the Colorado that flows through the heart of their city is in summer now only a tenth of what it once was?
Tragically, the list of heavily-depleted rivers is growing; fully one-third of all rivers on our planet are now regularly or occasionally diverted to near-dryness for human use.
Once a river is gone, our collective memory of it fades all too quickly. How many Mexicans living in the Colorado River's delta region are old enough to remember when water continually flowed past their villages?
This is not just a calamity of fond memories lost. In recent years a novel blending of natural and economic sciences known as 'ecosystem service valuation' has emerged to study and monetarily quantify what we lose when a forest or wetland or river disappears. These scientists chronicle the values of water remaining instream to assimilate our wastes, or the importance of freshwater flows into downstream estuaries, where the mixing of fresh and salt water supports thriving fisheries. It is important that we more fully understand what we are losing when we exhaust our rivers.
But at the same time, we know that the fate of our planet's rivers will not hang on the balance of intellectual or economic arguments. Ultimately, rivers will only be saved with our hearts. For me and for many of you, it is egregious enough just to know that the music of running waters, or the bird song high in the cottonwoods lining the river, is swiftly waning.
We now stand at a turning point in human history. We must make a conscious decision of whether we want rivers in our world, or not.
The disappearance of rivers is by no means a foregone conclusion. But that is the direction that we are headed, and we will need to act differently to change their fate.
With persistent drought and associated water shortages wracking California, the Colorado River basin, and other regions around the globe, we are hearing calls for the building of new reservoirs, water transport canals and pipelines to bring water in from great distances, or drilling deeper into our stores of underground water, all of which can add to the damage already done to our rivers.
I am sympathetic to the sense of urgency in places like California to secure additional water supplies. Yet we must turn away from further exhausting our rivers, and instead embrace the great opportunity to do more with less.
We are nowhere close to realizing our potential to use less water.
The US overall is today using the same volume of water that it used in 1980, with 80 million more people living here. We're already well on our way to becoming a water-saving society. But we can do so much more, and thereby spare our rivers from further diminution. Evidence from other countries such as Australia or Israel demonstrates that we could reasonably cut our per-capita water use by half here in America. Cities in the western US use twice as much water, on average, than Australian cities, even though our economies and cultures are quite similar. Tucson, widely respected in the U.S. for its water thriftiness, uses twice as much as Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane or Sydney.
Read the rest at National Geographic
Brian Richter is director of Global Freshwater Strategies for The Nature Conservancy, where he promotes sustainable water use and management with governments, corporations, and local communities.


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Teacher please check the gammar of the following sentences:
Through the temptation of Satan man failed to obey God's commandment and have fallen short of the glory of God.
Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God, setting apart from old lifestyle for God's use. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of his whole being to Him as Lord and Saviour.
The most important need of the world is the acceptance of God's Law in every matters of men and nations, and the genuine application of His culture and standard.
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Fans of hard-hitting super hero action should check out the highly enjoyable and very humorous novel "Sidekicks" by Jack D. Ferraiolo. Part Batman & Robin, part high school Romeo and Juliet, "Sidekicks" tells the story of teen hero Bright Boy, whose mentor, Phantom Justice, is the city's foremost champion of good. After a highly embarrassing "wardrobe malfunction," Bright Boy realizes that big changes are in order, and his actions lead to the most unexpected, senses-shattering discovery of all! So, take a break from all the heroes-in-tights at movie theaters this summer and read "Sidekicks." You won't be disappointed.
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Bull markets are always followed by bear markets. The current bull market, which began on March 9, 2009, has taken the S&P 500 144% higher in the past four and a half years. This bull cycle is fast approaching the average length of a bull market since 1950 of 54 months.
If you decide to lower your U.S. equity exposure, what should they do with that cash? History tells us that now could be a great time to add gold and commodities to a portfolio.
The SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) is down more than 25% from its high in September 2011 through August 29, 2013, and has begun to rebound from its June lows, although a breakout has not been confirmed. Until gold does break out, consider owning the PowerShares DB Commodity Index ETF (DBC), which has its own position in gold. DBC has lost 16.49% of its value since May 2011 and has recently broken out through its resistance levels.
How much of the recent strength in commodity prices is fundamental and how much is being driven by the threat of military conflict in Syria is open to debate. The recent rise in oil prices could be a direct result of the current Middle East turmoil, however, I certainly wouldn't make the same connection with rising food and precious metals prices. While higher fuel prices makes it more expensive to deliver agriculture from the farm to the market, rising agriculture prices could also be attributed to increased monetary supply, which may be finally showing up in the price of goods.
Is this the beginning stage of an inflationary environment or simply a short-term reaction to the ongoing Syrian civil war and possible U.S. intervention? Both inflation and war tend to have positive impacts on the price of commodities.
Furthermore, how will close Syrian allies Iran and Hezbollah react? Will Iran once again threaten to close the Straits of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil is transported? And will Hezbollah retaliate by escalating its decades long conflict with Israel? Will anger in Egypt turn its fragile military controlled interim government into chaos or civil war, and how will Al Qaeda react? The Middle East is similar to a camp fire that is smoldering, if you blow hard enough it is likely to erupt into flames. Any of the above scenarios could lead to higher oil prices, which would be a positive environment for DBC.
Besides Syria, other catalysts could propel oil prices higher. There have been a host of production outages across the globe recently in Libya, Russia, Nigeria and, Iraq - and the Iranian sanctions have continued to keep their production lower than normal. The lower output of oil inventories coupled with higher end user demand has put upward pressure on oil prices, which could continue even without the Syrian debate festering for what could be the better part of September.
The slow economic recovery that the U.S. has experienced since 2008 has kept inflation in check, even during a period of unparalleled monetary expansion. That may be about to change. After growing at only a 1.1% clip during the first quarter, GDP rose by 2.5% from April through June. The jump in GDP numbers was enhanced by better than expected exporting growth which could lead to increased hiring and higher wages. All of this could lead to higher commodity prices.
So if you believe commodities will be moving higher, what should you be buying? My firm added DBC and the United States Commodity Index ETF (USCI) to a tactical rotation strategy on August 30. These two ETFs have very different investment methodologies and commodity sector allocations, and we expect to reduce portfolio volatility by combining them. DBC is more energy focused, making up nearly 60% of its assets, while USCI has a smaller 21% position in energy. USCI has a heavier weighting in agriculture, which makes up 43% of the ETF. DBC holds only 20% in agriculture. Both ETFs are comprised of roughly 20% in metals.
Here is the dilemma and why we hedged our bet. It is my belief that DBC will outperform if the U.S. responds to al-Assad's use of chemical weapons, sending missiles that help rebel forces begin to gain control of the conflict, as DBC owns more energy. However, if missiles are not fired, or they have very little effect on the reigning government and there is no spillover into neighboring countries, USCI should be the outperformer.


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Release Validation Casts Light on the Change Twilight Zone and Enhances Release Management
In today's complex, dynamic data center there is a haze cast over critical IT processes by a concept that we can call The Change Twilight Zone, a obscure area that falls outside the visibility of IT Ops. Many IT departments try to implement ITIL configuration management without giving much thought to the tools required by the staff to make the configuration management service really effective. For today's IT tasks, configuration management new tools. Going beyond the ITIL change management framework, you need an analytics-driven tool to identify those specific changes and differences that are introduced across the environment during releases, that could impact performance and stability of critical business applications. Such tools can remove the shadow inherent in the Change Twilight Zone, allowing IT to confidently close processes and validate changes in application deployments and software deployments, to know that they were implemented correctly.
Existing Tools Don't Meet the Needs for Today's Deployments
IT Operation teams are increasingly responsible for managing continuous application integration and data center application release and maintenance tasks, introducing formidable challenges. Expanding on ITIL change management processes, automated application deployment software seeks to turn complex, manual operations into reliable, repeatable and error-free processes, by making release tasks simpler, and mitigating the risk of faulty application change and deployment errors. Yet, despite the widespread use of deployment automation software, this is not enough to achieve the stated reliability, requiring release validation tools for maintaining optimum availability and performance, and preventing harmful downtime.
Additional Steps in Ensuring Error-free Releases
So why spend the extra time and trouble to validate releases? Can't deployments already be automated? Doesn't automation ensure that everything should run as planned, with no surprises?
Well, not exactly. For release management, deployment automation still falls short in several ways.
For instance, while deployment automation software maps and executes application service processes across data center environments, this only maps what is already known, but not unknowns. Furthermore deployment automation software operates by centrally orchestrating the execution of application workflows and changes across the data center, a very complex undertaking that is that not fully automatic.
Automated Release Management Tools Only Map What is Known
Automation tools create models of an environment's configuration, with each tool creating models in different ways, but with the same goal - to model the environment that is going to be created.
The fundamental problem in creating these models is that they only map what is known, and not what is not known, or clouds visibility.
This can be illustrated in a Microsoft IIS deployment, where the connection timeout parameter would be changed. For the deployment, all the parameters that will be changing are set. Yet, there are hundreds of parameters that can be changed in IIS. It is unlikely, that all the parameters are known, let alone what they are supposed to be, even by following ITIL change management processes. Furthermore, the way that the application is deployed in one environment, may not be the same as another environment, further complicating the ITIL configuration effort. There are aspects of the Microsoft IIS configuration that are impacted by its native deployment.
This model of the environment is not comprehensive, and does not include everything.
So, the result of this mapping will produce something that is incomplete, and will mean that you don't have 100% control. Only those parameters you actually defined are managed, leaving the deployment exposed to failure as it moves through environments.
Complexity and Lack Full Automation in Automated Deployment Tools
Automated release tools are designed to streamline the release management effort and the ITIL change management process. However, automated deployment tools don't function completely automatically. An operator needs to configure these tools and to ensure that there will be error-free results. Despite clear steps in the ITIL change management process, just like in software development, where bugs creep in during coding. Similarly a deployment automation system can contain bugs, even after deploying your release. Even though you adhered to clearly outlined ITIL change management steps, by first releasing to a test environment, then to production, won't ensure that the release configuration are consistent. As described in ITIL configuration management, there are many different kinds of configurations and dependencies specific to each of these environments. Since the automation tools can still have such errors, release validation plays a crucial role in ensuring stability for the Release Management process.
Release Validation Makes a Critical Difference for Release Management
Even when following the ITIL change management guidelines, when you push a change from pre-production to production, or are supervising application deployment, you need to ensure that it was deployed correctly. Beyond fulfilling the goals of ITIL configuration management, only by analyzing the configuration of both the source and target environments following deployment of the release, then you can compare applications with each other. Applying this extra aspect to Release Management can ensure applications in production sufficiently match tested version, to make for a successful release.
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Chuck Greaves is the award-winning author of four novels to date, most recently THE LAST HEIR (Minotaur.) For more information, you can visit his website at www.chuckgreaves.com.
What Motivates Me/How I Started: I've always been a voracious reader and, as events would later prove, a closet writing aspirant. After 25 years as a trial lawyer in L.A., I finally made the decision at age 50 to follow my dream, quit the law, and pursue writing on a full-time basis. After penning two spec novels — a legal thriller and a Depression-era true-crime saga — I submitted both manuscripts to the 2010 SouthWest Writers' International Writing Contest where, out of a field of over 680 entrants, HARD TWISTED (the historical) came in second and HUSH MONEY (the thriller) came in first, making for a heck of an after-party chez Greaves.
Within two months of the SWW awards banquet, St. Martin's had acquired HUSH MONEY in a multi-book deal, and Bloomsbury had acquired HARD TWISTED. Once published in 2012, HUSH MONEY earned starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, was a Critic's Pick from Kirkus, and went on to be a finalist for a number of national honors, including the Shamus Award (Private-Eye Writers of America), the Rocky Award (Left-Coast Crime) and the Audie Award (Audio Publishers Ass'n) for Best Mystery of 2012. HARD TWISTED, also published in 2012, was hailed as a "taut and intriguing thriller" (London Sunday Times) and "a gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film" (L.A. Times,) at which point I could finally say, "Hey, I'm an author!"
Favorite Genre: I read pretty much everything, and because I publish with two houses simultaneously — something of a rarity — I actually write in multiple genres. As Chuck Greaves I continue to write the Jack MacTaggart series of legal mysteries (HUSH MONEY, GREEN-EYED LADY, and the newly-released THE LAST HEIR) for St. Martin's Minotaur — breezy, first-person crime fiction — while as C. Joseph Greaves I write what I like to think of as more aspirational literary fiction for Bloomsbury. If there's a common denominator to my writing, it's that all of my novels thus far have touched to some extent on the legal system. As for my reading, I enjoy mysteries, literary fiction, general fiction, classics, and the occasional nonfiction.
What I'm Writing Now: I'm working on a really interesting (I hope) novelization of the 1936 vice trial of mobster Lucky Luciano. I'm taking four principals from the trial (prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, defendant Luciano, defense counsel George Morton Levy, and star witness Cokey Flo Brown) and following their lives over the course of a decade or so, culminating in one of the most famous criminal trials in American history. It's been an exhausting effort, but also a fascinating look at New York in the Roaring Twenties and during the hangover years of the Great Depression, when so many lives were turned upside-down.
Encouraging Advice: I've yet to meet an author, now matter how famous, who can't tell you a great rejection story. We all have them, and we wear them like battle scars. So don't be discouraged by the subjective opinions of one or ten or even twenty so-called experts. Remember, Harper Lee had her manuscript for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD rejected by ten different publishers before it found a home at Lippencott. As William Goldman said of Hollywood, "nobody knows anything," and that goes double for New York publishing.


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Gov. Ed Rendell stated in April that he signed the pay raise because
sometimes "YOU HAVE TO KISS A LITTLE BUTT" – but Lt. Gov. Candidate Tom
Lingenfelter thinks Gov. Rendell has it all wrong and has made a campaign
promise to be the first butt kicking Lt. Gov. in PA history.
Lingenfelter and his running mate, Independent for Governor Russ Diamond, must clear the first hurdle of getting 67,070 voters to sign petitions to get on the ballot by July 29. This legislative requirement is 65,070 MORE signatures then needed by Rendell and Lynn Swann to get on the ballot!
Lingenfelter said his petition drive "Let's Kick Butt" is asking concerned Pennsylvanians to get off their butts and get a little exercise collecting signatures to put Independent butt kickers, Diamond and Lingenfelter, on the ballot.
Ed Rendell has made it clear that his vote is for sale. Lingenfelter said "the midnight pay raise that legislators gave themselves, supported and signed by Rendell, has shown Pennsylvanians that the buying and selling of power must not be tolerated. Pacleansweep.com, founded by Diamond to "vote 'em all out" is leading the charge to clean house in Harrisburg.
Fifty encumbent lawmakers have already been kicked in the butt and will not be returning next year. The chief payjacker, Ed Rendell, also needs to receive a swift one where it will do the most good. Lynn Swann, the GOP candidate, who has aligned himself with ousted payjacker Senator Jubelirer and the other half of the political duopoly, will not be doing any kicking.
Butt, it all comes down to 67,000 signatures. Lingenfelter, a former USA Counter-intelligence Special Agent and a real butt kicker said, "if you want to 'kick butt' give him a call at 215-230-5330 or check-in at www.RussDiamond.org and join Pennsylvania's Butt Kicking team.
Friday, July 14, 2006
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Tarvaris Jackson would, of course, like to have that pass back.
That pass that was intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
That pass that was the worst of several lousy passes and showed that Jackson is not ready to be anointed the Vikings' starting quarterback for next season.
"It was the right read, I felt," Jackson said. "I should have made a better throw."
Yeah. No kidding.
Philadelphia cornerback Asante Samuel looked like the intended receiver, not Sidney Rice, who was. Samuel caught the ball and hightailed it 44 yards into the end zone. This happened in the second quarter and gave the Eagles a 16-7 lead.
The final score Sunday was 26-14 in this one-and-done postseason for the Vikings.
The score would have been closer, and the Vikings might even have won, if Jackson had played better. It's that pure and that simple.
"I tried to get the ball out a little early," Jackson said, still talking about the interception. "I saw (Samuel) was looking at me the whole time. I thought if I threw it early he wouldn't be able to make the play. I threw it too far inside, and he made a good play."
Maybe it would have been different, Jackson said, if he had thrown the pass "a little harder." Maybe it would have been different, he said, if he went to another receiver.
And maybe the Vikings will acknowledge that Jackson just isn't going to cut it as their starting quarterback.
Oh, sure, he had a few notable moments after returning from several months on the bench. But do the math. The Vikings were 2-2 with him as a starter. And one of the wins came against a Giants team that benched many of its starters in the second half.
And when it came to crunch time Sunday, he failed to rise up and do what every NFL quarterback is paid to do: lead his team to a win.
Reputations are forged in the playoffs. Jackson completed just 15 of 35 passes for 164 yards, giving him a quarterback rating of 45.4. His reputation backslid to where it was two games into the season, when he was benched and replaced by Gus Frerotte.
The Vikings had three three-and-out possessions in the second half, and the one time when it looked as if they might get something going, center Matt Birk made a low snap to Jackson, who was in shotgun formation. Jackson couldn't get a handle on the ball, and the Eagles recovered it.
Birk took the blame, which was the right thing. But, remember, Jackson wasn't exactly scalding the Eagles' secondary before that. The biggest play in that drive was Jackson's 17-yard scramble on the play just before the fumble. His 3-yard pass just prior to the scramble snapped a streak of eight straight incompletions.
Now, during that streak of incomplete passes, Jackson faced a fierce blitz. The Eagles had a nine-point lead and knew the Vikings' only chance to rally was to throw. So, they were coming, coming hard.
"They're a good bunch," Birk said. "You sure don't want to be behind in the fourth quarter against them."
No, you don't want that. Nor do you want a quarterback who has little chance of moving the chains when the defense is in assault mode.
"We have to get better in that area when it's a must-throw situation," Vikings coach Brad Childress said.
Childress was offered the opportunity to give Jackson a vote of confidence after the game. I asked Childress if Jackson is his guy, his starting quarterback, going into next season. And he said: "We sure don't make any of those pronouncements after the game. It's the kind of thing we go through the whole week as we pull apart the roster and see where we're at."
They need to look at free agents, or look to make a trade. They need to bring in a legitimate starter, not a career backup who can be plugged into the starting job. In other words, not somebody like Frerotte, who did a decent job starting but is not a long-term solution.
Asked if he should be the starter next season, Jackson said, "I'm not going to get into that."
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Which leads me to our favorite D-list celebrity Courtney Stodden and her actor husband, who are already causing a stir on the reality show "Couples Therapy."
The celebrity-know-it-alls at TMZ report a costar on the show, now filming, called Stodden's husband Doug Hutchison a "child molester." The remark was reportedly made by TheDirty.com's Nik Richie, who also refused to shake Hutchison's hand.
You might recall that Hutchison and Stodden married with parental permission when she was just 16. Back then, she was a beauty pageant contestant from Ocean Shores and he was that stretchy guy from those "X-Files" episodes.
Stodden turns 18 next Wednesday. No word yet on if she's taken this local strip club owner up on his offer.
Either way, Stodden's new TV spot should give Anderson Cooper plenty of ammunition. He'd better start working on his Courtney face again. (See below if you don't know what that looks like.)
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On Mar 5, 2013, Zacks Investment Research upgraded Orion Marine Group Inc. (ORN) to a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
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Earnings estimates of Orion Marine have been on the rise following strong fourth-quarter 2012 results and an encouraging guidance for fiscal 2013. Moreover, this marine construction company delivered positive earnings surprises in all of the last 4 quarters with an average beat of 80.9%. The long-term expected earnings growth rate for this stock is 13.5%
Orion Marinereported fourth-quarter 2012 (ended Dec 31, 2012) results on Feb 28, 2013. Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at 9 cents, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 15 cents or 250% and were much better than the year-ago quarter loss of 19 cents. Despite a challenging quarter, Orion's bidding strategy was successful in growing backlog and increasing equipment utilization.
This strategy also drove continued gross margin and top-line improvement for the year 2012 and delivered positive quarterly net income for the first time since the beginning of 2011.
Orion Marine is well positioned going forward with strong financial position. During the third quarter, management implemented a plan to get Orion Marine back to profitability, and the company just did that in the following quarter.
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Spy agencies 'got it wrong' on Bali, Iraq
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Australian intelligence agencies provided inflated assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but not in response to political pressure, according to a report to be considered by federal cabinet today.
The report, by former intelligence chief Philip Flood, also says agencies failed to properly target Jemaah Islamiah's terrorist activities in Asia, contributing to a lack of warning about the Bali bombings.
But it praises the performance of agencies in predicting the violent collapse of the Solomon Islands.
The report, which was submitted to Prime Minister John Howard at the weekend, calls for more resources for intelligence agencies and better communications between them in the face of a continuing terrorist threat.
The report does not condemn the agencies for failures over Iraq, arguing that they relied primarily on inaccurate overseas intelligence assessments. Most overseas agencies and governments agreed with the same false assumptions, the report says.
The assessments were based on advice from unreliable opponents of Saddam Hussein, skewed and not substantiated, it says.
Mr Flood is also understood to find there is no evidence that the Howard Government placed pressure on agencies to produce intelligence critical of Iraq's weapons program. He did not examine the Government's use and presentation of intelligence assessments in the lead-up to the war.
Cabinet today will consider the report's calls for greater intelligence funding and expansion of the peak assessment agency, the Office of National Assessments. It urges the recruitment of more specialists in Arabic and Asian languages.
Mr Howard confirmed he had received the report. "The Government is analysing it and it will be released as soon as possible," he said.
He continued to stand by the decision to join the war against Iraq. "It was based upon our good faith assessments of the intelligence available at the time," he said. "It was also based upon the importance of the American alliance."
Mr Howard commissioned the Flood report in March after a parliamentary committee criticised Australia's prewar intelligence and recommended an investigation into spy agencies.
It follows the release of similar inquiries in the US and Britain that attacked Iraq intelligence as flawed but did not blame the governments in Washington and London.
Australian agencies failed to appropriately analyse and question intelligence received from overseas about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the Flood report finds.
It is understood to note the greater caution expressed by the Defence Intelligence Organisation, which stated that Iraq's chemical or biological weapons stocks would be small and deteriorated leftovers from a decade earlier.
Australian intelligence agencies erred in not emphasising Jemaah Islamiah as an intelligence target before 2002, the report says. It was not until a JI plot to bomb US and Australian embassies in Singapore was exposed in December 2001 that a serious effort was made to investigate the organisation, which subsequently planted the bombs that killed 202 people in Bali in October, 2002.
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Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd criticised the terms of reference for the inquiry, saying it looked "only at the failings of the intelligence agencies rather than how politicians use the intelligence assessments they are given".
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Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property specifically relates to the area of idea creation and invention, and covers issues of copyright and trademarking. With regard to Dawn of War and DoW mods, it breaks down like this:
Warhammer 40k and all races, characters and creatures therein are the Intellectual Property of Games Workshop. Games Workshop owns the rights to all of these previously mentioned things, and maintains exclusive control over who may and may not use and publish works relating to these.
As a mod team, we have to acknowledge this overarching ownership of the 40k universe. This is why in our readme file (and generally on our sites), we include the following:
40K, GW, Games Workshop, Tyranids, Hive Fleet Behemoth, Hive Fleet Kraken, Hive Fleet Leviathan, and any Tyranid unit names are all either ®,™ and/or © Games Workshop Ltd. Used without permission.
We have not been granted permission by Games Workshop to use their intellectual property. We do so under the implicit understanding that if they requested us to stop, we would probably be legally obliged to do so.
Likewise, Dawn of War and the game engine it runs on are the Intellectual Property of THQ and Relic Entertainment. We cannot claim ownership of these either, for the same reason.
How This Relates To Ownership Generally
A good example of how this relates to ownership with smaller creations within those Intellectual Properties can be demonstrated by Hive Fleet Moloch. Those of you who have read our readme file would also remember this part:
Hive Fleet Moloch is the property of Marco Schulze (http://www.hivefleetmoloch.de/), whom we all admire and adore (and kindly
gave us permission to use his fleet colours).
While Tyranids are the IP of Games Workshop, the particular colourscheme and customised style of Hive Fleet Moloch is the creation of Marco Schulze. By convention, he retains the rights to the name Hive Fleet Moloch, the Moloch colour scheme, and any particular customised models he's created for that Hive Fleet.
How This Relates To Ownership In Mods
When it comes to a mod, similarly, there are issues of ownership relating to individual members of the mod team. Our models for example, while based on the IP of Games Workshop, are the individual property of their creators and they have controlling interest in how those models are used. While the models are not their Intellectual Property (they did not invent the idea for them), they are individually the possessions and creations of those people and they retain the rights to how those models are used.
Tyranid Mod-unique code however (for example, the Influence mechanic and new construction system that will be in 0.5b2) is technically the Intellectual Property of the coder who created them and the designer who came up with the idea, as they are entirely new creations and innovations on the Dawn of War engine. The level to which this can be legally maintained varies, as does the level to which we might want to enforce this property (we would not, for example, come down on someone who tried to copy our build method - but if Relic released Dawn of War 3 with Tyranids working almost exactly the same as we are trying to make them in our mod, we would certainly have grounds upon which to take action if they did not credit us as inspiration), but generally this is how the two statuses differ within a mod.
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An. Bras. Dermatol. vol.86 no.3 Rio de Janeiro May/June 2011
Sinésio Talhari
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To editors
It was with enormous surprise that I read in the January/February 2011 edition of the journal of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology that from 2012 onwards only papers submitted in English will be accepted for publication in the Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia. It is most disagreeable to see that our own native language is no longer acceptable for the submission of scientific papers to the Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia!
However, I (and, I believe, many others) had been expecting this to happen. Actually, it had already been happening. We already had an on-line version of the articles in English.
In my opinion, the Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia has made great progress over recent years and has achieved an excellent standard. Throughout its history, many have worked (and continue to work) to ensure that our journal meets current international standards. As we know, the journal has been indexed. However, despite being indexed its impact factor is low. Scientific journals do need to increase their impact factor (and maintain it). In general, the higher the impact factor, the more papers the journal will receive and the greater the possibility of improving the quality of the journal. More of its papers will be quoted, the scientific impact of the papers will be greater, their authors will become better known and more respected, institutes with postgraduate courses will receive more credits and the possibilities of obtaining sponsorship for research will be greater.
At the present time, with the papers being published in Portuguese, the chance of increasing the journal's impact factor is very slight. Good quality papers by Brazilian investigators are not written in Portuguese. They are written in English and published in international journals.
Worse than the impact factor is the fact that our language is not read by the majority of investigators in the international scientific community. Rarely is a paper in our journal cited. In my opinion, the best example of this is the paper published in Portuguese by Dr. Osmar Matos on the treatment of prurigo nodularis with thalidomide. Has anyone ever seen this paper cited anywhere? Unfortunately, this is just one example of a current trend. Either we publish in English or we continue to be forgotten by the scientific community.
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