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The European Team Championships for Golfers with Disability has been won by France after a closely-competed three days in Portugal. The Quinta Do Lago resort hosted the nine four-man teams of the biennial competition in its first year being sanctioned by the EGA.
The French Team emerged victorious on the final day after overcoming a four-shot deficit to the Spanish Team following the Day 1 foursomes and Day 2 greensomes. The top two teams both finished with combined stroke play scores of 551 (+47), with the non-counting highest singles team score deciding the tie in favour of the French.
Charles-Henri Quelin, led the way for France. The 2017 French 'Handigolf' Champion shot a level-par 72 on the final day, which included two birdies and no bogeys around the South Course's challenging back-nine.
The defending champions, Sweden, could only manage fourth place this year. Their 562 (+58) total left them four strokes behind the third-placed English Team.
The event took place in parallel with the European Nation's Cup for Golfers with Disability, a net stableford competition with the same three-day format. 2015 bronze medallists, Denmark, claimed the trophy by ten-points, with the defending-champion Spanish team finishing as runners-up once more.


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Sun's JavaSoft, division has posted its Java Commerce Client (JCC) white paper to its developers Web site late last week.
JCC is part of the Java Electronic Commerce Framework, which Java Software will detail at its annual developer bonanza JavaOne in March.
Meanwhile, the company has also posted a plethora of other technologies to its developers Web site this week, including the Java Shared Data Toolkit, and Java SSL.
Noteworthy is the Java Shared Data Toolkit (JSDT) 1.0, a research and development project aimed at implementing multipoint data delivery service to help developers create collaborative applications.
JSDT is written in Java and provides support of multicast messages, the capability to ensure uniformly sequenced message delivery, a token-based distributed synchronisation mechanism, and the capability to share byte arrays among the members of a session.
Also posted this week was JavaSoft's Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) API documentation, which provides an overview of the components and information necessary to create and use SSL sockets from application code.
Meanwhile, with the JCC, application-specific code is organised into modules called cassettes. A cassette is a transaction module and can be used with other modules or cassettes to create electronic transactions.
Cassettes are designed so that they are interoperable, and can come from a variety of different vendors. Cassettes are therefore primarily code in a commerce JavaBean format, such as an operation Bean to implement an action such as a purchase, a protocol Bean to implement the electronic transfer standard to use, and an instrument Bean to implement the form of payment.
Users welcome the move and applauds JavaSoft's efforts to provide an alternative to Microsoft.
"Microsoft is way ahead in providing frameworks for electronic commerce," said Jim Kleckner, chief technical officer of Cats Software, a Palo Alto, California-based risk management software vendor. "But Java is a super glue, and it's more productive for us because JavaSoft have been developing interfaces to everything under the sun from relational databases to CORBA to electronic commerce."
JavaSoft, a division of Sun Microsystems Inc., in Mountain View, California, can be reached at http://www.javasoft.com/.

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I was cleaning up my hard drive last night and I found a file I didn't recognize, so I opened it to see what it was before deleting it. It was the damnedest thing I've ever seen. I'm not sure what to do with it. Take a […]Read more →
A snake in the grass? No, but close. This imaginative snake head peeks out of the woods just south of Marlborough, Ct on Rt. 66, just a few miles west of the eagle rock in the last post. I have no idea if it's the work of […]Read more →
One of the things that always makes me smile on a road trip is the fantastic, imaginative roadside art people come up with. It always amazes me when people see the fantastic hiding in plain sight. This particular piece has always been one of my favorites. It's […]Read more →
Power cords SUCK. They suck energy out of the wall and dollars out of your pocket. If you're anything like me you have dozens of them sitting around the house, half of which fit some device you longer have. And, you're hanging onto them "just in case" […]Read more →
After a week of traveling cross-country and now five days in an Embassy Suites, I've got to ask, what the hell happed to real pillows and toilet paper thicker than a single sheet of Kleenex? Wait, I take that back, the Kleenex is thicker and softer. So, […]Read more →


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Why Shehu Sani Didn't Defect To PDP -Balarabe Musa
A former Kaduna State governor, Balarabe Musa, has said he didn't ask Shehu Sani not to leave the APC but should not defect to the Peoples Democratic Party.
Mr Sani had said that Mr Musa, APC national Chairman Adams Oshiomhole and party leader, Bola Tinubu, were among those who persuaded him not to leave the APC for the main opposition party, PDP.
The former governor told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone Sunday morning that," I told him not to decamp from the party if he is only going to the PDP.
"I did not ask him not to leave the APC. I only said that he should not defect to the Peoples Democratic Party."
Mr Sani was amongst those expected to join a wave of discussion that hit the APC last week, having made several categorical statement that suggested the move was imminent.
At least 14 senators and 37 House of Representatives announced their exit from the APC at the parliament on Tuesday. While most of those who severed ties with the ruling party joined the PDP, Nigeria's main opposition entity, at least one senator and four House members moved to other political parties, especially the African Democratic Congress.
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In the USA the nationwide burglary rate has remained relatively constant since about 2001. The statistics, suggest a person is much more likely to be victim of a home burglary than of identity theft or similar offence. Furthermore, while the number of burglaries has dropped significantly since the 1990s the actual number of events is probably much higher, as it's thought less than half of crimes are reported.
So what about Canada? Well it fairs better than the USA and is safer than six other countries that have higher rates of reported burglaries. Even so if you get lucky and the intruders take nothing of value, there's still the knowledge that someone got into your home and that in itself is unsettling as we believe we should be secure at home.
Crime in Toronto is relatively low compared to other regions, however robberies in targeted neighbourhoods is alive and well and single level homes most at risk. They're an easy target and it's these homes that need to up the ante on security.
A locksmith in Toronto says high tech home security systems are in hot demand especially when they can be accessed by a smart device. There's the incentive to make your home secure and then there's the convenience of being able to access the systems that control your home from your phone. All new technology goes through the bell curve of product uptake starting with the innovators, then the early adopters and then onto the majority and finally the laggards. The cost of the systems usually dropp quite significantly by the time the majority are purchasing so this is an added incentive to make your home more secure. Changing the locks on doors is also recommended at the time new security systems are installed and there are many other events when you should rekey your home too.
Moving to a new house or apartment. There is simply no way to know for sure what, if anything, the prior occupants did with the house keys – i.e. how many people have copies of the keys? Therefore always rekey the locks, because that's the only way you'll know for sure who has access to your home.
Even if you and your ex-spouse got along well both during the marriage and during the divorce, and even if you trust the person, rekey the locks. That's the only way to secure your property and also secure your privacy. Even the most well-meaning of ex-spouses may feel entitled to "borrow" items, or drop by at the most inopportune moments.
Amicable Moveout
The same analysis applies if a roommate moves out. Even if the person left on good terms and returned the key, rekeying the premises is the smart thing to do, because there is no way to know for certain what that individual did with that key – i.e. did they copy it?
Non-Working Locks
Finally, if you cannot slip the key into the lock and easily manipulate it, the lock probably needs to be changed. Once again, peace of mind is the main issue. You, and or flatmates or your family will feel much better knowing that the property is secure. Furthermore, a well-working lock is one less thing to deal with as a landlord.


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One-on-One Information Session at Drexel Malvern Campus
We are still accepting applications for ALL Graduate programs for Fall 2018!
The Drexel University LeBow College of Business invites you to our Malvern campus to meet one-on-one with Program and Admissions Staff to discuss your career goals and how to best align your LeBow Degree. Learn more about our customizable MBA offered at the Malvern campus, our University City campus, and online. Information on our portfolio of Specialized Master of Science Programs will also be available.
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Hotel built in 1985, Last complete renovation 2008, Number of floors: 3, Total number of rooms: 508, Number of single rooms: 265, Number of double rooms: 243, Rooms with connecting door: 50.
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The hotel located centrally on Patong down town area, hotel dont' have private beach but only 5 minutes walk away from the beach, 45 minutes from the airport and 25 minutes from Phuket town.
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If you are traveling to the Duangjitt Resort Phuket by car after arriving at the Phuket International Airport, then you will reach the hotel as soon as in 45 minutes. You can travel to the hotel by taxi trucks also. The best way would be to have an arrangement with the hotel authorities to send a car to take you there. In this way you will be able to reach the hotel without much hassle. The Location of Duangjitt Resort Phuket is such that you will be able to reach it fast no matter which way you want to take. At the end of the journey the Room Facilities at Duangjitt Resort Phuket is waiting to welcome you into the comfort zone!
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Since June 2007, 91.1 The Bridge (Former KAOS 91.1) has been promoting the values which have been foundational in building a strong Wood Buffalo Region through our vision of "Exposing Hope through Music Talk and Action". Our strong launch is a result of strong community support from people who believe in healthy media.
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I got back to the hotel around 3 or so, hooked up my camera and played my Simpsons Tapped Out long enough to get tasks done that needed doing. I am woefully behind though and will probably miss out on the final prize of 20 donuts. But I think probably the trip will be worth it. Which reminds me to tell Chris and January I watched two episodes of The Simpsons in Spanish at the BCN airport and that was sure a hoot! :)
Probably going on 6:00 or thereabouts, I had had enough of that and decided I would head for the Prado and see how long the line was. It was pretty insanely long as my pictures of not the whole line but up to where it turned a corner will attest. First one is from tail end of line to as far as the camera would show, the second is from about where first one stopped and up to the corner they have to go around.
So nixed the idea of visiting and decided to walk on and try and find that church, maybe looking in at the Prado on the way back and see if the line had tapered off leaving me at least enough time to go in (with a free ticket, get a map, etc.) So I walked and walked and just took pictures of anything pretty whether I knew why it was there or not (mostly not). Madrid would never be a favorite city for me but I have to say, it is filled with gorgeous buildings, plazas, fountains, statues, etc., but it is so full of pedestrians and so full of traffic that it's kind of hard to enjoy it all. However the Prado Museum and my hotel are on the Paseo del Prado and part of that is insanely busy and life threatening but it's divided and the other half goes closer to the Prado but still leaves room for pretty parks and walkways so that's where I went to check out the line and that's where I kept walking until it ran out. I'll just post them in a batch and if I know anything about one or two, say so.
Don't know anything about the next two - just pretty.
My final three pictures are the back of the Prado and since there was no way I could get the whole thing in one photo, I took three(!) to get it all. The back is pretty too with the red brick and white "trimmings". I am looking forward to visiting it tomorrow and I will not be waiting for the 6:00 pm free ticket time. Just pay my nicely reduced senior price of 7E and go in the morning.
So that's it for Thursday. I had dinner at the hotel restaurant and was disappointed that it wasn't as good as last night but one should probably not go to a restaurant twice in a row. I had started working on the pictures for this post and decided that for the first time (except when I was roasting in the heat of Paris) I would go to an American chain - Starbucks! Hiked up there, had a chocolate muffin and a cup of tea and finished the pictures and now am back finishing up the post. So I guess I'll say buenas noches to all!


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John Bolton's alarming return to a position of power, as top aide to the United States' President, is cause for worry. A die-hard self-described Americanist, Bolton sees the world in black and white. In his thesis, "Should We Take Global Governance Seriously?", published in 2000, Bolton outlined an America divided between "Globalists," a small coterie of highly educated academic intellectuals, and "Americanists," virtually everyone else. In a wide-ranging career in public office, Bolton has un-diplomatically torn into the United Nations, criticized international treaties, backed conspiracy theorists, supported military wars as primary solution to dictate foreign policy, and scoffed at non-governmental agendas like human rights.
Bolton's resistance to the United Nations, the poster-organization of multilateral decision-making, underlies his studied indifference to international treaties, per se. As recently as last year, Bolton penned an essay, titled "How to Defund the UN", in the Wall Street Journal. A graduate and undergraduate student of law from Yale University, Bolton disavows the basic tenets of international law. Most lawyers generally agree that international treaties derive their power, or legitimacy, not because they are legally binding by definition, but because they are unequivocally accepted as a legal concept and widely treated as such. For Bolton, however, adherence to international treaties maybe prompted by political or moral motivations, but never by course of legal obligations. More than that, Bolton believes that international treaties constrain the United States from acting in its own best interests.
The United States government, however, has frequently treated international treaties as legally binding for all decades in history. As far back as 1946, when France breached the Air Service Agreement, the United States asserted transgression of an international obligation and applied countermeasures. The countermeasures were upheld by an international arbitral tribunal.
Let's consider a more recent example. In 1996, Bill Clinton became the first leader to sign onto a pact, called the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, that aimed to curb nuclear proliferation in the world. However, according to a constitutionally directed process, in which all treaties have to abide "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate," the nuclear arms treaty fell into the pits of political decay. Nearly two years later, in 1999, the Senate reviewed and rejected it. Clinton, who saw the decision as a severe setback to his administration, assured allies that he would, according to the Vienna Convention of 1969, which, too, the Senate never signed as party, uphold the intent of the treaty still.
Even though the Senate's decisions should have been to Bolton's liking, he was infuriated. In Bolton's eyes, Clinton should have asserted constitutional supremacy instead of cleaving unnecessarily to external constraints.
When the same treaty banning nuclear arms was revived for discussion in the Senate in 2001, Bolton, then acting as George Bush's Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, asked the State Department's legal office if the President could unilaterally withdraw a treaty from the Senate. The lawyers responded, and said—"no."
In a 1997 testimony before the House International Relations Committee, Bolton claimed that the United States did not have to pay dues "decided by the General Assembly or other governing bodies"; that is, according to the United Nations Charter. Seen in this context, it is hardly surprising that the United States' invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003, in circumvention of the UN Security Council's authorization, were seen by Bolton as a triumph for the nation.
Now, Trump has appointed Bolton to advise him as his National Security Advisor from April. The increasing "presidentialization" of the position, or the role of an individual alone to exercise influence in politics, and the marginalization of other key positions, like the Secretary of State, is not lost on those working in the administration. Aligned with plenty of ideas consistent with the President's "America First" vision, Bolton has called for tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, and for preemptively striking North Korea. In the past, Bolton has also floated the idea that Israel should strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Judging by the options that have been floated so far, there is only one question left to be asked—is Bolton's influence going to remain implicit or made explicit by the administration?


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Veio Residence Rome
General Description Situated on the outskirts of Rome, the 4-star Veio Residence Resort Serviced Apartments offer classy accommodation at the heart of the Roman countryside. The perfect venue for a truly relaxing stay, the property is very well connected to Rome city center by the nearby local train service and the scheduled shuttle service provided by the management. Guests staying at the Veio Residence Resort will certainly enjoy the peacefulness of the beautiful park surrounding the property, or relax by the outdoor swimming pool after a day spent visiting the Eternal City. The Veio Residence Resort also boasts 3 on-site dining venues (a pizzeria, a steak house, and a traditional restaurant serving the best dishes from the Italian cuisine) and, in the summertime, a free disco for dance lovers. On-site facilities also include laundry machine and laundry service, a meeting room, barbecue area, fax service and Internet Point at the reception, and a multilingual staff providing tourist information and city maps.
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Radio over IP (RoIP) is a technology that has emerged over the last 10 years and has provided a powerful and flexible mechanism for linking radios and dispatch consoles. RoIP has some inherent limitations and numerous technical challenges. This workshop will provide an overview of the technology, the key standards and some of the technical issues.
The workshop will cover the following issues:
- The difference between RoIP and VoIP – how radio systems differ from phone systems
- Implementing one-to-one connections
- Implementing many-to-many connections
- Risk management: identifying network issues affecting RoIP/VoIP quality, maintenance and redundancy
- Design elements: building blocks; calculating network bandwidth requirements
The implications of RoIP for dispatch consoles will be also be discussed: how dispatch console to radio connections can be implemented with RoIP and how RoIP can be used to provide fault-tolerant dispatch architectures. The workshop will also look at the RoIP scenario with some thoughts regarding open standards and how this can work for application developers and the impacts on network architecture.
Finally, the workshop will look at the impact of new technologies such as IPv6, wireless broadband and the switch to digital radio on the RoIP landscape.


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The Program Committee oversees the operations of recreational programming at The Firehall. OSCA runs a children's after school program, summer camps, pre-school, children and adult fitness, and adult general interest programs. The committee is also responsible for the Fitness Centre located in the building. Some of the issues the committee considers are the development of new programs, investment in new equipment, and the creation of new policies and procedures.
We are always looking for new programming ideas, if you have any suggestions please contact programs [AT] oldottawasouth [DOT] ca.
If you feel the program committee is a good fit for you, please contact OSCA Executive Director Christy Savage at osca [AT] oldottawasouth [DOT] ca.
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If you went back in time and looked at the first, unremarkable prehistoric sharks of the Ordovician period--about 420 million years ago--you might never guess that their descendants would become such dominant creatures, holding their own against vicious aquatic reptiles like pliosaurs and mosasaurs and going on to become the "apex predators" of the world's oceans. Today, few creatures in the world inspire as much fear as the Great White Shark, the closest nature has come to a pure killing machine.
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Pope Francis Finds Forgiveness for Women Who Have Had Abortions …So Did John Paul II in 1995
The liberal media is reporting today on Pope Francis's call for priests to pardon women who have had an abortion and the doctors who have performed them.
This is all part of the liberal media's agenda to promote the leftist Pope Francis before his trip to the United States.
But if you review Catholic Church history you will find that Francis is not the first pope to pardon the sin of abortion. According to AFP, Catholice bishops are already able to authorise priests in their dioceses to forgive those who undergo or carry out abortions.
Pope John Paul II spoke about forgiveness for women who have had abortions back in March 1995.
Pope John Paul II Speaks to Women
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Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), #99
I would now like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. You will come to understand that nothing is definitively lost and you will also be able to ask forgiveness from your child, who is now living in the Lord. With the friendly and expert help and advice of other people, and as a result of your own painful experience, you can be among the most eloquent defenders of everyone's right to life. Through your commitment to life, whether by accepting the birth of other children or by welcoming and caring for those most in need of someone to be close to them, you will become promoters of a new way of looking at human life.
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One of the fundamental convictions of New City Commons is that navigating a remarkably complex world requires an ability to distinguish the weather from the climate, culturally speaking, and to understand how the two are connected. Weather, in our view, refers to happenings, daily events. Weather events can be massively significant, even catastrophic. But just as weather emerges within a climate, discrete events emerge within large-scale cultural trends with long time horizons. A cultural climate may amplify or dampen the effect of a particular weather event, but it always provides the context necessary for making sense of that event. We think it's fair to say that climate, by and large, receives less attention than weather. Our view is that this is a mistake. Our bet is that our readers agree.
From time to time we'd like to draw your attention to previous editions of Culture Briefing, for the simple reason that learning to name the climate requires sustained attention to cultural trends as they develop and change. Though the weather events that precipitated these volumes may no longer be in the news cycle, the arguments and analysis we put in front of you then deserve our attention still. This week, we bring you three such examples.
The first, written shortly after the election of President Trump, examines an underappreciated cultural current that seems to have accelerated in recent years. While many decry the merging of news and entertainment, few pay attention to the downstream powerful effects of reality TV on our public life.
The second, from this time last year, is a piece by Sam Speers on the rise of interest in unregulated chemical supplements, especially in Silicon Valley. As Sam puts it, "you can learn a lot about a culture from the drugs it takes"—and as this recent interview on hallucinogens between famed optimization titan Tim Ferriss and natural food guru Michael Pollan shows, the cultural tie between drug use and self-actualization is alive and well.
The third, from April of 2016, explores the cultural significance of rites of passage, especially those that take place in and around universities. As students of all ages celebrate graduations, and teachers strike across the country, it's a good time to think deeply about the value and purpose of education, and its role in the mysterious phenomenon called "growing up."


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He was, primarily a salesman, but he was also a visionary, who was a professional at finding a market into which to put a top quality solution, in the correct value. He was a patron from the Arts and an art collector from an early age, that has a distinct fondness with the operates of Jean Cocteau, nonetheless he was also a generous person and also a lifelong philanthropist. People familiar with the identify Wunderman will, little question make the instant connection with the Corum check out model which he aquired in 2000, and without a doubt this can be exactly where he uncovered an outlet for his skills of innovation and creativity, but even ahead of his efficacious many years at Corum, he experienced already had pretty much a few many years from the view market, many years through which Mr. Wunderman had developed a different blueprint for that marketing of luxury designer-branded timepieces, which some of the additional savvy folks in our business still use today.
Early Several years of Hardship
.. But lifetime wasn't uncomplicated for the youthful Severin Wunderman, a single can rarely think about a childhood with even worse adversity. Born to Jewish moms and dads in Brussels in 1938, Severin's childhood was being interrupted because of the life-changing gatherings of Environment War II when, like a lot of, his family members had been compelled to just take drastic steps to avoid wasting their small children. He and his siblings had been put underneath the safety of the Catholic priest during the countryside, then by using a Gentile family members who had been fairly reluctant to return their little cost, his father having to forcibly eliminate him. During this time Mr. Wundermans's education continued within a school for the blind wherever he was the only real pupil with sight. These were being character-building many years which would provide him effectively for the difficulties that he would deal with throughout his daily life. Soon after the war, standard family life would continue on to evade him, his mom died when he was just 10 decades outdated, right after which he emigrated to La on his individual, to stay together with his older sister Bella, who had currently taken up residency there.
The Look at Market Beckons
Like a lot of younger adult men, Severin identified that yrs expended in Highschool ended up no match for your independence gained from earning his personal revenue and by having an enterprising spirit rising, he manufactured his profits from the number of ventures, such as the manufacture and sale of gold chains ultimately getting a foothold to the view market. Within the 1960′s, while selling replica watches for Alexis Barthelay, a legendary encounter was to seal Severin's fate, sending him firmly to the replica watchmaking business. He had hoped to simply sell some replica watches to Gucci when he entered their New York flagship store. When he got there a phone was ringing, the assistants ended up otherwise occupied. Was it audacity or merely good etiquette which manufactured Severin pick up to answer the call It matters not, in the other end was the boss naturally irritated by such boldness. This opportunistic moment led to a meeting from the two, and Severin, ever the salesman, turned the sole manufacturer and distributor of Gucci replica watches, and the development of people first models and his company Severin Montres was financed by a cheque written by his new-found friend, Aldo Gucci.
To ensure the success of Gucci replica watches, Severin discovered the perfect mix of fashion, price tag and quality. This was just one of the most prestigious designer brands that they would be fashionable was a given, but rather than compete within the high-end sector in which competition was rife, he established timepieces which were being priced to sell but which ended up worthy with the top quality expected by potential customers. Luxury wasn't to generally be compromised, but he found solutions instead of replica watchcases in precious metals, he concentrated on much additional affordable steel and was one particular of the first to add the ultimate in economical opulence, diamonds on a steel case. Gucci went public inside the late 1990′s, and had it not then perhaps Severin Wunderman would have remained as he was, inside of a replica watch sector which he had created his own but that would have left our business bereft of his animation and enthusiasm.
Corum – A Perfect Outlet For His Creativity
Perhaps Severin Wunderman had viewed other brands prior to setting his sights on the Corum brand, but surely none could have provided a more suitable avenue for his inventiveness. The manufacturer was founded in 1955 by Gaston Reis, an independent replica watchmaker himself since 1924, and his nephew Ren Bannwart and have been viewed by several inside the business as the "other†observe manufacturer, one particular which dared being unconventional.
Effectively renowned for being a lot more than a very little eccentric, this was the model who inside the 1960s split coins, sandwiching a slender mechanical movement between the two halves, the manufacturer who during the 1970s experienced presented a view featuring a peacock feather on its dial and one particular styled like a miniature Rolls Royce grille, the manufacturer who while in the 1980s, and leaning towards Haute Horlogerie produced the exquisite Golden Bridge with its slender baguette movement. With Corum, Severin would find himself perfectly at home, relishing the challenge of continuing and developing this unusual portfolio
and his influence was tangible virtually immediately. In 2000 Corum presented to the business the Corum Bubble, a piece inspired by a Rolex timepiece on Professor Picard's submarine. The Bubble had an astounding 11mm thick submarine hatch-styled sapphire dome.
The piece was ingenious within a range of ways: it was styled for being a durable part of your new Corum portfolio, with a sapphire crystal which might magnify and showcase the brightly coloured dials and limited edition pieces which might be released from the future: it was a surefire method of attracting publicity not just for his for his newly aquired enjoy company, but was also a way of attracting a younger client base during the hope of gaining brand loyalty for your future, and of course, it was a very public statement of intent to the look at sector Corum, underneath the direction of Severin Wunderman would continue to become as atypical as ever right before.
These were being good many years for Severin Wunderman, possessing survived lung cancer from the 1990′s, the aquisition of such an originative company without doubt stimulated him, both mind and soul. And he had much to do, he experienced a strong conviction that through the brand's core values and its "Four Pillars†he could lead Corum to a higher level of Haute Horlogerie whilst remaining true to its core values. He was a man unafraid to look backwards to move forwards, and Corum although relatively youthful even now had quite a portfolio archive and he set about re-working and developing a number of the collections such as the Golden Bridge and the Admiral's Cup.
Severin Wunderman died on 25th June 2008 having suffered a stroke while at his South of France residence. He left behind not only his contributions to the replica watch business, but also the legacy of numerous gifts donated to aid medical research, the Severin Wunderman Spouse and children Foundation as well as a substantial collection of artwork donated to help observed the Muse Cocteau de Menton.
Very well just before his passing, Severin experienced introduced his son, Michael Wunderman and his have longtime friend Antonio Calce into pivotal roles within the hierarchael structure, and under their direction the Corum brand name was able to carry the momentum built up over the previous decade.
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New Delhi, December 28 The Bombay Stock Exchange along with Taqwaa Advisory and Shariah Investment Solutions (P) Ltd. (TASIS) launched on December 27, 2010 at Mumbai a Sharia Index with 50 Sharia compliant companies within the BSE 500. I would be known as BSE TASIS Sharia 50.
These 50 companies are the most liquid ones and are strictly adhering to Islamic Shariah norms and that is to stay away from interest or the sale of alcohol, tobacco and other prohibited goods.
According to its website, TASIS was "founded by a group of finance and investment professionals for providing guidance and support to individuals and corporates having an interest in the nascent but highly potential Islamic finance industry in India. As the name suggests, it is an organization providing Shariah advisory and investment solutions in India, while operating within the Indian legal framework."
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i've been reading alot about woman not getting bfp until 2 weeks after missed period, but those posts are all a few years old.......i just want to see if any of you have more recent stories about woman not getting bfp until very late after their missed period................
As for me, my period has always been regular, but for the past 6 months, its been avg 31-35 day cycles.
According to the tracker app, i was suppose to ovulate on Dec27, we BD'ed on Dec23 and Dec25 to increase the chance. I didnt temp at all, just went by the app and the ewcm that i saw on those dates.
Symptoms I've had is gassy......very gassy (i'm never gassy)........lower back pain......but no sore bbs at all. i also feel nausea when i'm hungry and right after i eat. And ever since after the day AF was suppose to be due, i feel this leaky feeling (like AF came), so i go to the bathroom to check knowing that i will def see the witch, but turns out, there's nothing! This leaky feeling happened a few times and each time there was nothing!
I tested on cd29 bfn, cd33 bfn, cd40 bfn, and now, cd48 still bfn.........do you think there is still hope for me, or am i out already?
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Wish I couls tell you some good news but I too is the same boat you are in on cd48 & I could of swore I was pregnant but all BFN doctor twice with urine too & both negative, I'm trying hardest not to think about it but I really thought this was my Wee rainbow :( I can't find much answers online although every I read those positive stories it gives a bit of hope :( I hope you get you BFP soon :)
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As reported by CBS.news, a monument in honor of Flight 93 enables us to reconnect in a sense with the 40 lives lost when the flight was hijacked and then seized by its passengers. Those on board successfully diverted the plan away from the hijacker's intended target, the nation's capital. This monument stands 93′ tall and will hold 40 windchimes, each one symbolizing a voice that was on board.
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Contributor Spotlight: Justine Chan
Justine Chan's story "Cavities" appears in Midwestern Gothic Issue 6, out now.
How long have you been writing?
The funny thing is that I didn't decide on becoming a writer until the end of my senior year of high school. And then I didn't write seriously until my first fiction workshop first semester of college. So it has been five years so far which is probably nothing compared to other writers who have written prolifically since childhood, but I feel like I have been writing my whole life. Just in my head.
What's your connection to the Midwest?
I was born and raised in the vast lands of Chicago suburbia, and I'm a total Chicago girl. Chicago is like my huge playground. I also went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for my undergraduate studies, so I have always been tied to Illinois and all its corn.
How has the Midwest influenced your writing?
The Midwest has definitely shown up as my setting. And I guess the Midwest mindset as well–there is always the need to escape but also the sense that everything one could possibly need or want is already there. I think there are many treasures in the Midwest and it takes a certain heart and perspective to find them.
Why do you believe there has never really been a regionalist push for Midwestern writing in the past like there has with the South or even the West Coast?
That makes it sound like there is no writing going on here when there certainly is! Chicago is the heart of slam poetry and some of the best MFA programs are in the Midwest. I know what you mean though. Maybe it is because the Midwest is kind of like a border time, in that it verges on being so many different things at the same time. It's difficult to capture it, you know?
How do you feel about social media to promote your writing, and do you use it?
I'm afraid I'm too old fashioned to worry about social media! Yes, I think writing blogs can be useful, but I don't have one.
Favorite book?
Such a tough question! For me, it's always between J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier. I read Born Confused at least four times a year.
Favorite food?
Noodles! And pretty much everything my mom makes!
If you could have coffee (or tea or a beer) with any literary figure, alive or dead, who would it be?
I would love to have tea with Anne Frank and Sandra Cisneros. I absolutely adore them both.
Where can we find more information about you?
This isn't really related to writing per se–more like songwriting–but if you like indie folk music, check out my Youtube page: www.youtube.com/brionoke for some of my covers and original music.


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The Museum of Flight
I took a week off and originally planned to do a road trip to California but then decided that a "stay-cation" might be fun. So we chose to celebrate Logan and Olivia by having special days for each of them.
Logan's day was the Museum of Flight. I hadn't been there since field trip days when the girls were in grade school. Dennis had never been. Logan LOVES airplanes and helicopters so we thought it would be a perfect way to spend the day with our little mister.


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Welp, it's done. I sent the videos of my singing and my monologues. I did the very best with what I had (which wasn't much) and to be honest…in my opinion it still wasn't great. I could make valid excuses for why I don't feel like my submissions weren't great (like: little time to prepare, weak singing, the fact that I have two other shows on my plate right now, trying to figure out how to make more money, etc.) but that won't be good enough for school. You can't make excuses, you just have to do it. And if you fail, you fail.
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On Wednesday, May 5, 2010, Health Care Plus, in association with Home Helpers, will sponsor a 3 hour CEU course, Ethical Practice for Professionals at the historic Lafayette Hotel from 5:00 – 8:15 pm for Socials Workers, Nurses and Counselors.
In this workshop we will discuss three standards of ethical practice: Helping Relationships, Professional Responsibilities and Record Keeping. Also included will be historical perspectives regarding ethics, dual and impaired relationships, confidentiality guidelines, content for records and a systematic approach to ethical decisionmaking. This workshop is designed to benefit all professionals and will satisfy the three hour requirement established by the Counselor & Social Worker Board for license renewal.
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Hrithik Roshan loves to spend time with his sons – Hrehaan and Hridaan.
Hrithik took to Instagram to share a picture of him kissing his son and wrote, "He's going to start the 'too cool for hugs and kisses' phase pretty soon. I'm getting in as many cuddles as I can before that. #dadhacks #hecanbetoodarncutesometimes."
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NY Firefighters Say Goodbye to Beloved Dalmatian Mascot, 'Twenty'
Dog Thanks Firefighter in Dog-Like Manner for Flood Rescue
Russia Gives France a Puppy in Honor of Slain K9
A beautiful Dalmatian that served as the devoted mascot for a New York City firehouse in some of its darkest days has died.
That dog, named Twenty, joined the fire department shortly after its Ladder 20 division lost seven members in the devastating Sept. 11 attacks, according to an official Facebook post.
"Seven members from Ladder 20 died on the 35th floor of the North Tower on 9/11," said FDNY Lt. Gary Iorio.
"In the days that followed, condolences from around the world arrived. Everyone was knocking on our door.
Then one day two Sheriffs from Rochester, New York showed up with a Dalmatian puppy.
Her name was Twenty, and she became our mascot and companion. She really helped to build the morale in the years following 9/11. I can't say enough about what she did to help us.
She went on all the runs, she'd jump in the truck, stick her head out the window and bark. She became a local celebrity."
Twenty's name is now spreading through more than just New York City. In the three days since her passing, more than 65,000 people have liked the official Facebook tribute, with tens of thousands passing it on online.
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"We offer our heartfelt thanks to her for being a loyal companion to FDNY members and the community for nearly 15 years," Lt. Iorio said.
"Today, Twenty has taken her final run to Heaven. Rest in peace, man's best friend."
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Belgian mining company Nyrstar has entered into a loan and streaming holiday agreement with the Finnish company Talvivaara Mining Company Plc and its operating subsidiary Talvivaara Sotkamo Limited (collectively referred to as 'Talvivaara'). Nyrstar will make available to Talvivaara a loan facility up to a maximum amount of EUR 20 million, which addresses Talvivaara's current financing needs and reduces the overall funding gap of the company prior to reaching sustainable positive cash flow.
The Talvivaara polymetallic deposits comprise one of the largest known sulphide nickel resources in Europe with 1,121 million tonnes of ore in measured and indicated categories. The mining operation has been troubled by production problems, however, and in November 2013 the companies applied for corporate reorganisation.
New investors sought
Talvivaara produced 8,662 tonnes of nickel and 17,251 tonnes of zinc in 2013. According to Nystar, the new agreement enables the continuation of Talvivaara's corporate reorganisation and the process whereby Talvivaara explores the options of identifying potential investors to participate in a long-term, overall financial solution for the group.
Subject to Talvivaara securing a mutually beneficial financial solution, Nyrstar has agreed to provide Talvivaara with an option to enter into a streaming holiday based on volumes of zinc in concentrate up to the amount of 80,000 tonnes.
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Test for broken images -- works in Safari
2007-09-30 22:06:00
I've been doing a bit of work recently on the Windmill project for OSAF -- it's pretty usable already, and we're just now approaching the 0.2 release.
One of the pieces I added awhile back was an assert to check for broken images. After doing a bunch of poking around online, the one piece that seemed to elude everyone doing this kind of check was something that works in Safari 2. We plan to support Safari in Windmill, so I did a bit more research and hammered out something that seems to work reliably.
The crux of the problem with Safari is that it doesn't support the
complete attribute -- at least not for images loaded normally in markup. Interestingly though, it does support it for script-created images -- which opens to the door to this hack.
Here's the code:
function assertImageLoaded(img) {
var complete = img.complete;
var ret = null; // Return value
// Workaround for Safari -- it only supports the
// complete attrib on script-created images
if (typeof complete == 'undefined') {
var test = new Image();
// If the original image was successfully loaded,
// src for new one should be pulled from cache
test.src = img.src;
complete = test.complete;
// Check the complete attrib. Use strict equality
// check -- don't want undefined, null, etc.
// --------------------------
// False -- Img failed to load in IE/Safari, or is
// still trying to load in FF
if (complete === false) {
ret = false;
// True, but image has no size -- image failed to
// load in FF
else if (complete === true &&
img.naturalWidth == 0) {
ret = false;
// Otherwise all we can do is assume image loaded
else {
ret = true;
return ret;
The hack for Safari depends on the normal caching behavior of the browser.
When you do the check, the
complete attribute for the original image will be undefined -- but when you create a new Image with JavaScript, and set its
src to the
src of the original, it grabs the image from cache, and the
complete attribute for the script-created image is immediately set to true.
This assumes of course that Safari is pulling images from cache after the first hit, but that should be the default behavior, and in the vast majority of cases that's what you want. If you're using this code, and you get a bunch of false hits for broken images in Safari, you'll want to take a look at how both your browser and server are configured for caching.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work for all cases. I'm trying to solve this exact problem with Safari, but I can't use "new Image()" due to yet another Safari image bug:
Unfortunately this does not work in all cases. It also detects slow loading images as broken.


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Hampta Pass is one of the most sought after trekking destination in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh...
Hampta Pass is one of the most sought after trekking destination in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh. This trek offers breathtaking views and a variety of landscapes to pass through like pine forests, open grasslands, vast meadows, glacial valleys and the pass itself, all within 4 days. For most of us who reside in the city, this trek is something to look forward to and relish the experience. It is also a great trek for participants of all age group with a difficulty level of moderate. The maximum altitude we reach on the trek is 14,100 ft.
Manali, at an elevation of 6,726 ft. above sea level, is a good place to acclimatize your body before beginning the trek. The vehicle from Manali passes through Prini village, takes you up through 40 hairpin bends and drops you off at Jobra which is at an altitude of 9,800 ft. Jobra is the starting point of the trek as you enter dense forests of pine, maple, deodar and oak trees. The trail passes through a meadow with the Rani Nala or Rani River flowing in between and on either sides of the hill. Today's trek is till a place called Chika, where we pitch our tents and camp for the night.
Balu Ka Gera is a flat ground amidst the mountains at an elevation of 11,900 ft. The trail takes you through Jwara, a beautiful scenic sheltered valley. After an early breakfast, we begin our trek from Chika and walk along the banks of the river to the left. To your right, you will find a cluster of silver birch trees. Take moments to pause and soak in the beauty of this marvelous place, turn back to behold the Dhauladhar snow clad peaks. On the way you will come across a small waterfall where you can relax and fill in your water bottles and cross the river to the right and walk into a sheltered valley. Keep walking along the river, you will come across a variety of colourful wild flowers and snow melting into the river. At the end of this valley is Balu Ka Gera or the bed of sand – soil deposits washed down from the mountains by the river. Behind you are the mountains you traverse the next day to cross Hampta Pass. We set up camp and relax for the rest of the day as we slowly reach an altitude of almost 11000 ft.
This is the D-Day of your trip and the most challenging one. Today's trek can be broken down into two phases which normally takes 9 hours in all. First is the climb to Hampta pass, and the second, the steep descent from Hampta Pass to Shea Goru.
As we start walking towards the mountains from Balu Ka Gera along the river for an hour when the gradient begins, the trail takes you straight towards Hampta Pass. In no time, you will come to the first plateau with the magnificent Deo Tibba peak right in front of you. Climb up the ridges as you come closer to Hampta Pass, a few meters away. The climb is vertical and steep, of course demands concentration and effort, which is all worth at the end. Now at 14,300 ft., you are on top of Hampta Pass with breathtaking views that will leave you in awe. The weather can be quite unpredictable with snow, rain or wind but whatever it is, pause, rejoice to have made it to the top, take pictures and prepare for the steep descent.
The descent is slightly trickier than the ascent as always. It can vary slightly depending on the snow condition too. Sliding down may be an option if there is snow. You can see Spiti valley from this point. It generally takes an hour and a half to completely descend and reach the base of the valley that leads to Shea Goru at 12,900 ft. The trek to Shea Goru is fairly easy on flat land. Upon reaching there, we set up camp and rest after today's challenge.
Today's trek is approximately 2 hours long from Shea Goru to Chatru at 11,000 ft. which is by the side of the river valley between mountain ranges. These mountains are barren and the trail can be slippery at times, so it is advised to navigate carefully. You will notice the Chandra River flowing below and a road that goes by its side. There are 2 huge glaciers that flow down from the mountains on the side to the Chandra River. The other side of the Glacier is Chatru. At this point, the trek ends, we rest for a while and board a pre-arranged vehicle to reach Manali, which takes about 4 hours.
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Biocultural Resilience in the Pacific
The end of 2015 concluded the first year of a new groundbreaking five-year project on Pacific biodiversity, which over five years will build on existing partnerships with communities in the Solomon Islands and expand collaboration with others working in the region. The project takes a biocultural approach to sustaining Pacific coastal communities and the forests and reefs that support them, by considering the interplay between human communities and their lands and seascapes.
The multidisciplinary research team and partners from local and international institutions began work alongside local communities to measure and visualize how people shape ecosystems, and integrate this into management plans for the islands. This included embarking on an initiative to improve coral reef conservation and foster resilient communities in the Western Province, led by the CBC's Chief Conservation Scientist Dr. Eleanor Sterling.
Working with three focal communities, we are striving to raise communities' capacity for future resource management in the face of major challenges such as climate change, population growth, and the influence of international markets. In particular, we are developing skills for assessing future scenarios and for measuring and monitoring biocultural community health using criteria that align ecological well-being—such as reef fish diversity, hard and soft coral community health, and healthy nursery areas for coral reef species—and human well-being—such as culturally significant seascapes, food fisheries, and clean fresh water.
During the first year of the project the team researched other similar initiatives around the world to better understand how to synthesize ecological and human well-being and, through a series of workshops with local partners, began the process of tailoring these approaches to the Solomon Islands and designing conservation strategies that will more closely reflect the worldview of Pacific Island communities—which tend to have strong cultural traditions relating to resource use.
We also formalized a community partnership on proposed activities and established government channels for conservation action. We gathered data to help map community boundaries and show changes in forest cover over time in the focal communities, as well as to explore the links between nutrition, food security, and conservation. In one of the partner communities, engagement with CBC staff led to the development of a women's association that will serve as a platform for addressing women's needs, such as short-term credit.
In Tahiti, we convened a workshop to document how people are using biocultural indicators across the Pacific, explore how indicators assist communication across audiences, and encourage knowledge exchange across multiple groups. The workshop brought together a diverse set of perspectives including representatives from government agencies, cultural and environmental institutions, and academia.
Participants presented case studies of biocultural indicator use, leading to a lively plenary discussion that highlighted the importance of biocultural indicators for the integrity and resilience of local communities. Overall, the workshop successfully brought to light specific instances of biocultural approaches and indicator use, identified new potential biocultural indicators for future use, and contributed to cross-cultural and pan-Pacific exchange of ideas and solutions to address critical issues facing communities today.
The CBC greatly acknowledges the National Science Foundation for its generous support of the Pacific biodiversity project.
Read more about the CBC's work on resilient biocultural land- and seascapes.


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Increase of plant species on mountain tops is accelerating with global warmingPosted by Jim at Wednesday, May 09, 2018
By Peter F. Gammelby
4 April 2018
(Aarhus University) – It is not as lonely at the top as it used to be.
At least not for plants which, due to global warming, are increasingly finding habitats on mountain tops that were formerly reserved for only the toughest and most hardy species.
A large international research team has not only ascertained a considerable increase in the number of plant species on 302 European mountain peaks over the past 150 years; they have also found that this increase is accelerating. Moreover, it is certain that this development is linked to rises in temperatures; changes in precipitation and nitrogen input could not explain the increase.
Therefore, the researchers have demonstrated that the flora is trying to keep pace with the consequences of accelerating anthropogenic impacts on all the Earth's system.
During the decade from 1957-66, the number of species on each of the 302 mountain tops increased by 1.1 species on average. Since then, the trend has accelerated: From 2007-16, on average 5.5 new species moved up to the 302 summits.
The researchers have only been able to count the plant species that have already responded to the temperature rise and actually have moved upwards. They have not studied the number of species that might be on the way upwards.
Competitive immigrants
However, the results of the new study, which has recently been published in the journal Nature, has not prompted researchers to sound the alarm. Yet.
The study does not show how much the increase in new plant species on summits has displaced existing species that have been growing at these heights for centuries. However, the figures do indicate that this might be happening or will happen in the future.
"Some of the species which have adapted to the cold and rocky conditions on mountain summits will probably disappear in the long term. They have nowhere else to go, and they can't develop rapidly enough to be able to compete with the new arrivals, which are taller and more competitive under warmer climates," explained the main author of the study, Manuel Steinbauer.
Even though it is likely that highly specialised species on mountain summits will be out-competed in the future, this is not absolutely certain. As Manuel Steinbauer puts it:
"The species that move upwards, often come from grassland above the tree line. But they can't survive everywhere on the mountain top, so it's not certain that they will be a threat to all the existing species up there. The local soil conditions and micro-climates also play a role."
Manuel Steinbauer analysed the huge volumes of data while he was working at the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. He is now a professor at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).
"Even though the existing species on mountain tops are not acutely endangered, the strong acceleration in the effects of global warming on plant communities on the peaks does give cause for concern, as we expect far stronger climate change toward 2100," explained professor and VILLUM Investigator Jens-Christian Svenning from the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, who has also been involved in the research project.
A unique study
The new study was conducted by researchers from 11 European countries, and it could not have been completed anywhere, other than in Europe.
Not because the plants were afraid of heights in the other parts of the world, but because only in Europe is there data on how plant species have moved since the 1870s.
Therefore, the researchers have not only climbed up the mountains many times to register flora meticulously: some of them have also delved into the 150 years of records fastidiously kept by hundreds of botanists around Europe, while they botanised on the same mountains.
"Mountain peaks have the great advantage that they don't move. Therefore, we can be sure that we have investigated precisely in the same places as the botanists of the past. We wouldn't be able to compare the old records from mountainsides or valleys with our own investigations if we couldn't be sure that we had looked at the same places. Of course, at that time there was no GPS," said Dr. Sonja Wipf from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL in Davos, Switzerland.
Future-proof data from the past
One of the many botanists was the Swiss professor, Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884-1980), who more than a century ago predicted that this type of study may be necessary:
"In order to create a solid foundation for the future, I investigated numerous mountain peaks in detail. […] On the basis of a comprehensive description of locations, it will not be difficult to verify my species lists, and an increase or decrease of species richness in the future will be possible to detect with high certainty," he wrote (in German) in one of his major works, Die Vegetationsverhältnisse der Schneestufe in den Rätisch-Lepontischen Alpen. Ein Bild des Pflanzenlebens an seinen äußersten Grenzen in 1913.
"We're confident that this old data is of high quality. And to make sure that our own new data is also good, on several of the summits we've had two people climb up to gather data independently of each other," said Sonja Wipf, who has been responsible for collecting much of the new data.
"Braun-Blanquet's foresight has given us food for thought. Without his fascination for understanding the distribution of plant species on mountain peaks, we wouldn't have been able to ascertain that the effects of global warming are accelerating. This is a really good example of the importance of non-targeted research and fascination for understanding complexity in nature," said Associate Professor Signe Normand from the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, who also participated in the research project.
Manuel Steinbauer
Professor, GeoZentrum Nordbayern,
Department of Geography and Geosciences,
Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
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Sonja Wipf
PhD, scientific staff member
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF)
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Jens-Christian Svenning
Professor, VILLUM Investigator, Department of Bioscience - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity
Aarhus University
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Signe Normand
Associate professor, VILLUM Young Investigator, Department of Bioscience - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity
Aarhus University
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Phone +45 8715 4345
Increase of plant species on mountain tops is accelerating with global warming
ABSTRACT: Globally accelerating trends in societal development and human environmental impacts since the mid-twentieth century1,2,3,4,5,6,7 are known as the Great Acceleration and have been discussed as a key indicator of the onset of the Anthropocene epoch6. While reports on ecological responses (for example, changes in species range or local extinctions) to the Great Acceleration are multiplying8, 9, it is unknown whether such biotic responses are undergoing a similar acceleration over time. This knowledge gap stems from the limited availability of time series data on biodiversity changes across large temporal and geographical extents. Here we use a dataset of repeated plant surveys from 302 mountain summits across Europe, spanning 145 years of observation, to assess the temporal trajectory of mountain biodiversity changes as a globally coherent imprint of the Anthropocene. We find a continent-wide acceleration in the rate of increase in plant species richness, with five times as much species enrichment between 2007 and 2016 as fifty years ago, between 1957 and 1966. This acceleration is strikingly synchronized with accelerated global warming and is not linked to alternative global change drivers. The accelerating increases in species richness on mountain summits across this broad spatial extent demonstrate that acceleration in climate-induced biotic change is occurring even in remote places on Earth, with potentially far-ranging consequences not only for biodiversity, but also for ecosystem functioning and services.
Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming
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