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"Accidents are as inevitable as breath. There is only one way to fully avoid accidents, and that is to die. When you are dead, no accidents." -- Timur Grigoluk, Polar Partners.
The art of public relations is difficult, especially when you're in the business of Arctic oil drilling. On one hand you have an almost unlimited amount of money to spend, but on the other you're trying to persuade people that it's perfectly sensible to do something that my six-year-old nephew describes as 'very silly'.
Royal Dutch Shell and Russian energy giant Gazprom have very different approaches to public relations but are now working together to pump oil from the Arctic as the ice melts. That's why we worked with the Yes Lab to create a new brand for the two companies, the Polar Partnership, commemorated by the gift of a polar bear to the Amsterdam zoo.
Before I explain the Amsterdam PR circus in more detail, let's look at the two companies themselves.
The Russian state owns over 50 percent of oil and gas giant Gazprom, and uses it to finance domestic and international policy. It's been called Putin's personal piggybank, and has been instrumental in his assertion of state power. In November 2011, the Kolskaya rig sank in remote Russian seas while under contract to a Gazprom subsidiary, killing 53 workers. Gazprom escaped any responsibility.
Last year Shell failed to drill a single well in the Alaskan Arctic, following a catalogue of dangerous blunders that led the US government to declare the company 'screwed up'. It is now hoping to exploit the lax regulations that exist in Russia, where safety requirements are far weaker. In return, Gazprom receives the PR know-how and technical expertise that Shell has developed after years of spills and cover-ups in Nigeria and around the world.
To explain these facts, we created fiction. This week, Polar Partners launched a PR campaign involving an apparently drugged polar bear, a Russian child superstar, and a colorful marching band, packed onto a barge which wound through Amsterdam's canals to the city zoo. There, visitors and staff watched Gazprom and Shell reps present the bear to Amsterdam as a gift between friendly nations — before being forcibly removed by zoo security and city police.
A flurry of public speculation rippled through Dutch TV and online media: What could it mean? Who could have done this? Has Shell gone mad?
Shortly thereafter, a companion website appeared at Polar-Partners.com, just in time for Twitter to come alive with revelations that "Gazprom" was using Moby's most famous song in the PR event's publicity video. Pamela Anderson, Dawn Olivieri, Adam McKay, Occupy Wall Street, and various other celebs joined in the fracas, cumulatively reaching millions of fans.
RT @thelittleidiot some company used my music without permission, and wtf are they doing to this poor bear?? http://t.co/i0W4Wp0eUQ #cruelty
— Pamela Anderson (@PamelaDAnderson) August 21, 2013
RT @thelittleidiot some company used my music without permission, and wtf are they doing to this poor bear?? http://t.co/i0W4Wp0eUQ #cruelty
Making things weirder, New Zealand's Auckland Zoo felt compelled to assert that it would not be receiving a bear through Gazprom's Adopt-a-Bear program. And when grainy bear cruelty photos popped up, the whole thing began to gain its own weird momentum.
Despite reports to the contrary, we won't be welcoming a polar bear.
— Auckland Zoo (@aucklandzoo) August 22, 2013
Despite reports to the contrary, we won't be welcoming a polar bear.
Both of these companies spend millions distracting the public from the ugly side of their business — the spills, the human rights abuses, the climate pollution. In fact, they'd probably both prefer it if their new partnership was completely ignored. We're making sure it isn't.
The real PR stunt is persuading the world that they aren't responsible for the collapse of our ecosystems, and that they can be trusted to drill safely in the Arctic. That's why it matters that3.5 million people - including the Yes Lab - have joined the Save the Arctic movement, ready to bust the hoax.


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* Government side in talks less optimistic
* Rebellion has displaced half a million people
* M23 rebel leaders under U.N. sanctions
By Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Congolese rebels said they expected to sign a peace deal with the government by the end of February that would end their ten-month revolt, but Kinshasa said "capricious" demands from the rebels could cause delays.
The M23 rebels have carved out a fiefdom in eastern Congo's North Kivu province that has dragged Congo's eastern region back into war and displaced an estimated half a million people.
Bertrand Bisimwa, spokesperson for the rebels and a participant in the talks, said negotiations had already covered substantial ground.
"We still have a lot of business to cover but if we keep this speed I think it's possible by end of February we'll have finished talks and signed an agreement," Bisimwa told Reuters in Kampala.
"We're satisfied with the speed of negotiations."
Government spokesman Lambert Mende was less optimistic.
"We were hoping to have things finished by the end of February but M23 have made lots of capricious extra demands, which is slowing down the process," Mende told Reuters.
The Kampala talks aim to bring the rebels and Kinshasa closer on a wide range of economic, political and security issues dividing the two sides, including amnesty for "war and insurgency acts", the release of political prisoners and reparation of damages due to the war.
The M23 rebels, who launched their offensive after accusing President Joseph Kabila of reneging on the terms of a March 2009 peace agreement, have since broadened their goals to include removal of Kabila and "liberation" of the entire Congo.
"We have to get through these quickly, as we have much more important things to discuss," Mende said, but added: "One can say we're happy with the progress."
The rebels agreed to the peace talks in December after the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region pressured them into pulling back from North Kivu's capital, Goma.
M23 has come under additional pressure after reports that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will recommend to the Security Council that a peace enforcement unit be deployed in eastern DRC. Peace enforcement missions can use lethal force in serious combat institutions, whereas peacekeeping operations are intended to support and monitor a ceasefire.
Foreign powers fear the conflict in eastern Congo could trigger another regional war in a borderlands zone that has suffered nearly two decades of turmoil.
Successive cross-border conflicts have killed and uprooted millions in the Congo basin since the colonial era, driven by political and ethnic divisions and competition for vast mineral resources.
Independent U.N. experts say the M23 insurgency receives cross-border support from Rwanda and Uganda, which both governments strongly deny.
In December the U.N.'s sanctions committee blacklisted two key M23 leaders, Eric Badege and Jean-Marie Runiga Lugerero on grounds the rebel group has been complicit in "killing and maiming, sexual violence, abduction, and forced displacement" of people in eastern Congo. They now face international travel bans and asset freezes. (Additional reporting by Jonny Hogg; Editing by Drazen Jorgic and Sonya Hepinstall)

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Fresh off dual nominations at the 46th annual Academy of Country Music Awards for Entertainer of the Year and Top Male Vocalist, country music's hottest act Jason Aldean returns to Beaumont on Friday, May 6 and this time it will be his sort of party.
After selling out Ford Arena in January 2010, Aldean will play outdoors at Ford Pavilion on the My Kinda Party Tour, which features fellow musicians Eric Church and the JaneDear Girls.
Advance tickets are on sale for $49.75 (reserved) and $28 (lawn) at the Ford Park Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations including Ticketmaster.com and charge by phone at (800) 745-3000. Additional fees will apply at the Ticketmaster outlets.
"We are thrilled to have an artist of Jason's caliber returning to Ford Park and bringing his new show to the outdoor Pavilion for a new experience for fans in Southeast Texas," says John Hughes, Ford Park's General Manager.
The 34-year-old Georgia native is touring in support of last November's release, My Kinda Party on Broken Bow Records. In less than six months, the album reached platinum status, selling over one million copies and becoming his second No. 1 release on the Billboard Country Album chart.
Three singles have reached radio airwaves from the release including "My Kinda Party," "Dirt Road Anthem" and his fifth No. 1 single, "Don't You Wanna Stay," which is the popular duet with pop singer Kelly Clarkson.
"Kelly has such a distinct voice," said Aldean about the song. "She's got the most soulful voice there is right now. As soon as she opened her mouth and started singing in the studio, it was like, 'That is what this song is supposed to sound like!"
The commercial success along with radio airplay garnered Aldean two major nominations at the ACM Awards held in early April.Born in Macon, Aldean's parents were separated at a very early age so he spent time on his cousin's 200-acre farm in Georgia while spending summers with his father in Florida.
"I grew up listenin' to all kinds of music—rock and Southern rock and country and blues and rap stuff, too," said Aldean. "My cousin, who's five months older than me, he went through his rap phase when we had 2Pac in the car all the time. Really, I'm a fan of all kinds of music."It all started when Aldean first sang at a local VFW hall in Macon at the age of 14. Some seven years later, he moved to Nashville to pursue a dream, but struggled by signing two record deals that never amounted to much.
Ready to return home, Aldean was convinced to play one more showcase for independent label Broken Bow. The rest is history."I think about it every day," said Aldean. "When you read that I was this close to leaving, it sounds like something made up. But it was the truth. I had applied for jobs in Georgia, and I was trying to get hired down there. We were broke—just straight-up broke—and we were gonna move in with my mom so we could get on our feet and get straightened out…maybe get a club gig and try to build a local following."It was more than just local. In 2005, Aldean released his first self-titled record and it became an instant success. Selling over one million copies, the album produced the catchy tune, "Hicktown," "Amarillo Sky" and his first No. 1 single, "Why." He went on to win the Solo Vocalist of the Year in 2006 at the ACM Awards.
No worries about a sophomore slump as Aldean returned in 2007 with Relentless. Three singles charted including a former song by Tracy Byrd, "Johnny Cash."
Wide Open is probably the most successful release to date as the 2009 album produced three No. 1 singles including "She's Country," "Big Green Tractor" and "The Truth."
Church is no stranger to the music scene. The 33-year-old singer was recently named the Top New Solo Vocalist at the ACM Awards and has released two albums on the Capital Nashville label, both of which landed in the Top 10.
Popular songs include "How 'Bout You," "Two Pink Lines," "Guys Like Me," "Love Your Love the Most," "Smoke a Little Smoke" and "Homeboy," which is a new single from the upcoming untitled album due out in June.
Susie Brown and Danelle Leverett make up the Amarillo duo the JaneDear Girls, who also were nominated for Top Vocal Duo and Top New Vocal Duo or Group at the ACM Awards. "Wildflower" and "Shotgun Girl" were the two singles released off their self-titled debut album on Reprise Nashville.


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Wilfried Zaha is poised to complete a £15 million transfer from Crystal Palace to Manchester United by Saturday, according to reports.
Zaha, 20, has been strongly linked with a January move to the Premier League, with United and Arsenal mooted as interested parties.
Speaking on Tuesday, though, Wenger said his side were "never" in for the youngster, paving the way for the Red Devils to tie up a deal.
It is claimed, by the BBC among others, that the forward, who has one England cap to his name, has agreed a five-and-a-half-year contract at Old Trafford but will be loaned back to Palace for the remainder of the season.
United will, according to reports, pay £10 million up front for his services, with the fee potentially rising to £15 million depending on performance-related bonuses.


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Biophysical drivers of seasonal variability in Sphagnum gross primary production in a northern temperate bog. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.. 2017.
Informing models through empirical relationships between foliar phosphorus, nitrogen and photosynthesis across diverse woody species in tropical forests of Panama. New Phytologist.. 2016.
The Sphagnum microbiome: new insights from an ancient plant lineage. New Phytologist. 211(1):57-64.. 2016.
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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle.
The get-tough policy in the Washington suburbs of Prince George's County was one of the strongest efforts made by any U.S. school system to ensure its youngsters receive their required immunizations.
Two months into the school year, school officials realized that more than 2,000 students in the county still didn't have the vaccinations they were supposed to have before attending class.
So Circuit Court Judge C. Philip Nichols ordered parents in a letter to appear at the courthouse Saturday and either get their children vaccinated on the spot or risk up to 10 days in jail. They could also provide proof of vaccination or an explanation why their kids didn't have them.
By about 8:30 a.m., the line of parents stretched outside the courthouse in the county on the east side of Washington.
Parents decry paperwork problems
Many of them complained that their children already were properly immunized but the school system had misplaced the records. They said efforts to get the paperwork straightened out had been futile.
"It was very intimidating," Territa Wooden of Largo said of the letter. She said she presented the paperwork at the courthouse Saturday and resolved the matter.
"I could be home asleep. My son had his shots," said Veinell Dickens of Upper Marlboro, who also blamed errant paperwork.
Aloma Martin of Fort Washington brought her children, Delontay and Taron, in 10th and 6th grade, for their hepatitis shots. She said she had been trying to get the vaccinations for more than a month, since the school system sent a warning letter. She had an appointment for Monday, but came to the courthouse to be safe.
"It was very heavy handed," she said of the county's action. "From that letter, it sounded like they were going to start putting us in jail."
School officials deemed the court action a success. School system spokesman John White said the number of children lacking vaccinations dropped from 2,300 at the time the judge sent the letter to about 1,100 Friday.
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900 kids still out of compliance
After Saturday's session, 172 more students were brought into compliance, including 101 students who received vaccinations at the courthouse and 71 whose records were updated.
That still left more than 900 students out of compliance with vaccination requirements, White said.
"Obviously, we still have some more work to do," he said.
Any children who still lack immunizations could be expelled. Their parents could then be brought up on truancy charges, which can result in a 10-day jail sentence for a first offense and 30 days for a second.
Prince George's State's Attorney Glenn Ivey couldn't say Saturday whether he would prosecute parents who fail to comply.
"We have to sit down with school and health services," he said. "We haven't ruled anything out. We need to figure out where we stand."
White said the school system, with about 132,000 students, has been trying for two years to get parents to comply with state law. That law allows children to skip vaccines if they have a medical or religious exemption. It was unclear how many medical or religious exemptions were involved.
Critics demonstrate outside courthouse
Maryland, like all states, requires children to be immunized against several childhood illnesses including polio, mumps and measles. In recent years, it also has required that students up to high school age be vaccinated against hepatitis B and chicken pox.
Nichols said nobody actually came before him Saturday, but he was there if any parent asked to see him.
The judge noted the unhappy looks of some of the kids in line waiting for vaccinations.
"It's cute. It looks like their parents are dragging them to church," Nichols said.
Several organizations opposed to mass vaccinations demonstrated outside the courthouse. While the medical consensus is that vaccines are safe and effective, some people blame immunizations for a rise in autism and other medical problems.
"People should have a choice" in getting their children immunized, said Charles Frohman, representing a physicians' group opposed to vaccines.
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Small ball nets big results for Miami Heat's Chris Bosh, Shane Battier
In the Heat's spread offense, Shane Battier is a receiver being covered night after night by a defensive end.
In basic football terms, that's the crux of Heat coach Erik Spoelstra's offense, which was inspired in part by the offensive philosophy of University of Oregon football coach Chip Kelly, who runs a wide-open spread offense.
Last season, the offense experienced fits and starts throughout the regular season and playoffs until Battier was moved into the starting lineup and Chris Bosh, another mismatch problem, was made the team's center.
Now, 11 games into the new season, the "spread offense/positionless basketball/whatever you want to cal it" is thriving and Battier and Bosh are the system's biggest beneficiaries.
Battier is shooting 47.1 percent from three-point range (24-51) while Bosh is enjoying his best season with the Heat. He's averaging 19.6 points per game while shooting 55.2 percent from the field.
On Thursday in the Heat's 98-93 victory over the Nuggets, the Battier-Bosh combination went for 32 points on 11-of-17 shooting. Battier was 6 of 7 from three-point range, and Bosh shot 50 percent from the field.
On Saturday, a 97-88 victory over the Suns, Battier and Bosh combined to score 36 points. Bosh led the Heat with 24 points, going 9 of 11 from the field while Battier was 4 of 8 from three-point range for 12 points.
"We are small, but we're one of the best teams in the league, the defending champs, and we carry that with us everyday," Bosh said.
There's a give and take to going small night after night. The benefit is open jumpers for Battier, Bosh and others. The drawback, obviously, is giving up size on the defensive end. Of course, having LeBron James on the court usually negates any size disadvantage.
"For me, I have power forwards guarding me and they're not necessarily used to guarding perimeter players," Battier said. "And so my threes, I'm really wide open because the power forward is stuck in the paint somewhere. History has proven if you're shooting open three-pointers, then you're going to shoot a higher percentage than on contested ones."
The flip side of that is the Battier's constant struggle against larger power forwards on the defensive end. Battier earned a black eye against Memphis after catching an elbow from Zach Randolph. Against the Nuggets, Kenneth Faried had 11 offensive rebounds.
Battier calls playing against power forwards every night one of the biggest challenges of his career. Resolutely, he vows to win more battles than he loses.
"I've been counted out a lot in my life and in my career and I've always met the challenge and so I look at this new challenge as just another chapter in my book," Battier said.
So far, the positives of Spoelstra's "positionless" philosophy have outweighed the negatives. A victory on Wednesday against the Bucks would tie the franchise record for best start to a season. The Heat is currently 8-3.
As in football's spread offense, the point of the Heat's spread is to space the floor, find mismatches and get open shots. It's working. As a team, the Heat is shooting 42.8 percent from three-point range.
"We don't like to take contested threes," Spoelstra said. "And we have enough great shooters in that locker room that if you able to execute and move the ball freely to the open man and if they're wide open behind the three, they're very accurate. But we'll have to see how the season unfolds itself."
Two players in the regular rotation are shooting better than 50 percent from beyond the arc. Ray Allen, who didn't attempt a three-pointer on Saturday for only the ninth time in his career, is shooting 51.2 percent from distance. Rashard Lewis, given up for dead by many around the league, leads the team in three-point shooting percentage at 53.6.
Three other players in the regular rotation are shooting better than 40 percent from three-point range: James (43.8), Mike Miller (44.0) and Battier (46.6). James Jones is 4 of 8 from three-point range in 18 minutes.
A 4-2 record on its first extended road trip of the season was viewed as a major success by the team considering the injuries and illnesses the Heat had to deal with along the way. Dwyane Wade missed half of the games due to flu-like symptoms and a sprained left foot. Mario Chalmers missed a game with a triceps injury. James played with the flu on Saturday.
"We know we weren't at our best against the Clippers and Grizzlies and struggled against the Rockets but at this stage in the game, it's about improving while not dropping too many games," Battier said. "So, you look back at a trip like this at the end of the year, and you're like, 'Man, that was a great road trip,' and I think we'll be a much better team a month from now and two months from now and going forward and it was great to go on this road trip and establish ourselves."


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August 9, 2013 – PayDC is pleased to announce the launch of their mobile documentation (SOAP Notes) app through the approval in the Microsoft App Store. This is significant on many levels and exemplifies PayDC's dedication to leading the industry in innovation and cloud computing technology.
"From our company launch, we have remained steadfast in learning from our clients and utilizing their feedback to make our product better. The demands of mobile use drove our development of this valuable app. Steered and directed by chiropractors, this app allows for patient visit documentation to be completed more efficiently and effectively," noted David Klein, PayDC Co-Founder.
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So far so good but I would like you to think a bit further. So we have these LiveFolders that
- Allow applications to produce items of interest
- And these items of interest, when "clicked", activate other actions.
Sadly, exploiting this possibility is not easy now. The only LiveFolder client I am aware of is Launcher itself and aggregating/manipulating feeds is not easy. I am attempting to do just that in this blog post. I will show you how to create a LiveFolder of non-starred contacts of two existing LiveFolders: All contacts and starred contacts.
Click here to download the live folder aggregating application.
Did you know that you can star contacts? I did not but there is a LiveFolder for starred contacts.
Install the application. Now if you select the Add menu on the Launcher main screen, select Folders, you will see the Nonstarred folder. Add that folder and it appears on the home screen. If you open that folder, you will see all non-starred contacts in it. If you click any such contact, the Contact application is opened and the contact is displayed.
We generate the non-starred LiveFolder from to other LiveFolders. The application has two parts, an Activity that is invoked by Launcher to discover the LiveFolder. This is the part of the application that itself discovers other LiveFolders to retrieve the URIs of the two source LiveFolders. These URIs are then passed to the ContentProvider that aggregates the two source LiveFolders into a third one. The interesting part is the fake Cursor we return to the LiveFolder client which really accesses in-memory data and not SQLite database as it is usual with Android applications.
As a bonus track, I share with you a simple LiveFolder client that helps you to discover other LiveFolders.
Click here to download the live folder client application.
So far so good but I am not satisfied. In order to achieve the ease of manipulating RSS feeds in web programming, more automation is necessary. I intend to do it later, after I experimented with another idea.


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Waggle dance
Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations with other members of the colony.[1][2]
The waggle dance and the round dance are two forms of dance behaviour that are part of a continuous transition. As the distance between the resource and the hive increases, the round dance transforms into variations of a transitional dance, which, when communicating resources at even greater distances, becomes the waggle dance.[3] In the case of Apis mellifera ligustica, the round dance is performed until the resource is about 10 metres away from the hive, transitional dances are performed when the resource is at a distance of 20 to 30 metres away from the hive, and finally, when it is located at distances greater than 40 metres from the hive, the waggle dance is performed.[3] However, even close to the nest, the round dance can contain elements of the waggle dance, such as a waggle portion.[4] It has therefore been suggested that the term "waggle dance" is better for describing both the waggle dance and the round dance.[5]
Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch was one of the first who translated the meaning of the waggle dance.[6]
A waggle dance consists of one to 100 or more circuits, each of which consists of two phases: the waggle phase and the return phase. A worker bee's waggle dance involves running through a small figure-eight pattern: a waggle run (aka waggle phase) followed by a turn to the right to circle back to the starting point (aka return phase), another waggle run, followed by a turn and circle to the left, and so on in a regular alternation between right and left turns after waggle runs. Waggle-dancing bees produce and release two alkanes, tricosane and pentacosane, and two alkenes, (Z)-9-tricosene and (Z)-9-pentacosene, onto their abdomens and into the air.[7]
The direction and duration of waggle runs are closely correlated with the direction and distance of the resource being advertised by the dancing bee. In an experiment with capture and relocation of bees exposed to a waggle dance the bees followed the path that would have taken them to an experimental feeder had they not been displaced.[1] The resource can include the location of a food source or a potential nesting site.[8] For cavity-nesting honey bees, like the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) or Apis nigrocincta, flowers that are located directly in line with the sun are represented by waggle runs in an upward direction on the vertical combs, and any angle to the right or left of the sun is coded by a corresponding angle to the right or left of the upward direction. The distance between hive and recruitment target is encoded in the duration of the waggle runs.[1][9] The farther the target, the longer the waggle phase. The more excited the bee is about the location, the more rapidly it will waggle, so it will grab the attention of the observing bees, and try to convince them. If multiple bees are doing the waggle dance, it's a competition to convince the observing bees to follow their lead, and competing bees may even disrupt other bees' dances or fight each other off. In addition, some open-air nesting honeybees such as the black dwarf honeybee (Apis andreniformis), whose nests hang from twigs or branches, will perform a horizontal dance on a stage above their nest in order to signal to resources.[10]
Waggle dancing bees that have been in the nest for an extended time adjust the angles of their dances to accommodate the changing direction of the sun. Therefore, bees that follow the waggle run of the dance are still correctly led to the food source even though its angle relative to the sun has changed.
The consumption of ethanol by foraging bees has been shown to reduce waggle dance activity and increase occurrence of the tremble dance.[11]
Kevin Abbott and Reuven Dukas of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada discovered that if a dead western honeybee is placed on a flower, bees performed far fewer waggle dances upon returning to the hive. The scientists explain that the bees associate the dead bee with the presence of a predator at the food source. The reduction of the dance repetition frequency, therefore, indicates that the dancing bees perform and communicate a form of risk/benefit analysis.[12][13]
Though first decoded by Karl von Frisch, dancing behavior in bees had been observed and described multiple times prior. Around 100 years before Frisch's discovery, Nicholas Unhoch described dancing behavior of bees as being an indulgence "in certain pleasures and jollity".[6] He admitted ignorance as to the purpose of the dancing. 35 years prior to Unhoch's observations, Ernst Spitzner observed bees dancing and interpreted it as transmitting forage resource odors to other nestmates.[6] Aristotle, in addition to describing flower constancy behavior, suspected that some form of communication occurred between foragers within a nest:
"On each trip the bee does not fly from a flower of one kind to a flower of another, but flies from one violet, say, to another violet, and never meddles with another flower until it has got back to the hive; on reaching the hive they throw off their load, and each bee on her return is followed by three or four companions. What it is that they gather is hard to see, and how they do it has not been observed".[14]
Jürgen Tautz also writes about it in his book The Buzz about Bees (2008):
Many elements of the communication used to recruit miniswarms to feeding sites are also observed in "true" swarming behavior. Miniswarms of foragers are not placed under the same selection pressure as are true swarms, because the fate of the entire colony is not at stake. A truly swarming colony has to be quickly led to a new home, or it will perish. The behavior used to recruit to food sources possibly developed from the "true" swarming behavior.[15]
Honeybees accumulate an electric charge during flying and when their body parts are moved or rubbed together. Bees emit constant and modulated electric fields during the waggle dance. Both low- and high-frequency components emitted by dancing bees induce passive antennal movements in stationary bees according to Coulomb's Law. The electrically charged flagellum of mechanoreceptor cells are moved by electric fields and more strongly so if sound and electric fields interact. Recordings from axons of the Johnston's organ indicate its sensitivity to electric fields. Therefore, it has been suggested that electric fields emanating from the surface charge of bees stimulate mechanoreceptors and may play a role in social communication during the waggle dance.[16]
The dance language vs. the waggle dance[edit]
As defined by von Frisch, Tanzsprache (German for "dance language") is the information about direction, distance, and quality of a resource (such as food or nesting sites) contained within the waggle dance.[17] There is supporting evidence of the waggle dance and "Tanzsprache" in Apis dorsata. Similar to other bees, they utilize the dance language to indicate the critical information regarding food resources. The dancer's body points in the direction of the food source and the sound produced during the dance indicates the profitability of the food.[18] Although there is some evidence for a direct connection between the Tanzsprache and the performance of the waggle dance, recent criticism holds that potential foragers need not correctly translate the dance language from the waggle dance to successfully forage.[17] In an experiment on the honeybee Apis mellifera, most individuals who thoroughly followed a waggle dance ignored the resource direction and location information. Instead, 93% of the foragers returned to foraging areas they had previous knowledge of.[17]
Bees that follow a waggle dance can successfully forage without decoding the dance language information in several ways:[19]
- Dance follower may use olfactory information from the dancer and find either the same resource or a different one with a similar scent.
- Following a dance may simply trigger foraging behavior. A forager may then search randomly for resources.
- Following a dance may reactivate private knowledge of a resource. After reactivation, the forager may return to the known resource.
- Using information communicated in the waggle dance is more useful to foragers when private information about resources is lacking.
Dance language as a language[edit]
The use of the word "language" may lead to misrepresentations of the waggle dance. The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure proposed a system of language where a sign is made up two chief components. The signifier is the physical or phonetic representation of a sign. The signified is the conceptual component.[20] If the dance language followed the Saussurian dyadic model of semiotics, the signifier would be the waggle dance and the signified would be the location of the foraging resource. Though the dance language may or may not follow this sort of pattern, it is not considered to be a language with syntactical grammar or a set of symbols.[19]
Efficiency and adaptation[edit]
The waggle dance may be less efficient than once thought. Some bees observe over 50 waggle runs without successfully foraging, while others will forage successfully after observing 5 runs.[19] Likewise, studies have found that honeybees rarely make use of the information communicated in the waggle dance and seem to only do so about ten percent of the time.[21][22] Evidently there is a conflict between private information, or individual experience, and social information transmitted through dance communication. This sheds light on the fact that following social information is more energetically costly than foraging independently and is not always advantageous.[23][24] Using olfactory cues and memory of plentiful foraging sites, honeybees are able to successfully forage independently without expending the potentially extensive energy it takes to process and execute the directions communicated by their fellow foragers.
The waggle dance may be adaptive in some environments and not in others, which provides a plausible explanation as to why the information provided by waggle dances are only used sparingly. Depending on weather, other competitors, and food source characteristics, transmitted information may become obsolete quickly.[25] As a result, foragers reported to be attached to their food sites and continue to revisit a single patch many times after it has become unprofitable.[26] For example, the waggle dance plays a significantly larger role in foraging when food sources are not as abundant.[27][28] In temperate habitats, for instance, honey bee colonies routinely perform the waggle dance, but can still successfully forage when the dance is experimentally obscured. In tropical habitats, honey bee foraging is severely impaired if waggle dancing is prevented. This is thought to be due to the patchiness of resources in tropical environment versus the homogeneity of resources in temperate environments. In the tropics, food resources can come in the form of flowering trees which are rich in nectar but are scattered sparsely and bloom only briefly. Thus, in tropical zones information about forage location might be more valuable than in temperate zones.[21]
Ancestors to modern honeybees most likely performed excitatory movements to encourage other nestmates to forage. These excitatory movements include shaking, zig-zagging, buzzing and crashing into nestmates. Similar behavior is observed in other Hymenoptera including stingless bees, wasps, bumblebees and ants.[19]
The waggle dance is thought to have evolved to aid in communicating information about a new nest site, rather than spatial information about foraging sites.[19]
Observations have suggested that different species of honeybees have different "dialects" of the waggle dance, each species or subspecies dance varying by curve or duration.[29][30] A study from 2008 demonstrated that a mixed colony of Asiatic honeybees (Apis cerana cerana) and European honeybees (Apis mellifera ligustica) were gradually able to understand one another's "dialects" of waggle dance.[31]
Applications to operations research[edit]
In line with recent work in swarm intelligence research involving optimization algorithms inspired by the behavior of social insects (including bees, ants and termites), and vertebrates such as fish and birds, there has recently been research on using bee waggle dance behavior for efficient fault-tolerant routing.[32] From the abstract of Wedde, Farooq, and Zhang (2004):[33]
In this paper we present a novel routing algorithm, BeeHive, which has been inspired by the communicative and evaluative methods and procedures of honey bees. In this algorithm, bee agents travel through network regions called foraging zones. On their way their information on the network state is delivered for updating the local routing tables. BeeHive is fault tolerant, scalable, and relies completely on local, or regional, information, respectively. We demonstrate through extensive simulations that BeeHive achieves a similar or better performance compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.
Another bee-inspired stigmergic computational technique called bee colony optimization is employed in Internet Server Optimization.[34][35]
The Zigbee RF protocol is named after the waggle dance.
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Further reading[edit]
- Gould JL (1975). "Honey bee recruitment: the dance-language controversy". Science. 189 (4204): 685–693. Bibcode:1975Sci...189..685G. doi:10.1126/science.1154023.
- Riley JR, Greggers U, Smith AD, Reynolds DR, Menzel R (2005). "The flight paths of honeybees recruited by the waggle dance". Nature. 435 (7039): 205–207. Bibcode:2005Natur.435..205R. doi:10.1038/nature03526. PMID 15889092.
- Seeley TD (1995). The Wisdom of the Hive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- von Frisch K (1967). The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Rendell, L; Boyd, R.; Cownden, D; Enquist, M.; Eriksson, K.; Feldman, W. M.; Fogarty, L.; Ghirlanda, S.; Lilicrap, T.; Laland, K. N. (2010). "Why copy others? Insights from the social learning strategies tournament". Science. 328 (5975): 208–213. Bibcode:2010Sci...328..208R. doi:10.1126/science.1184719. PMC 2989663. PMID 20378813.
- Gruter, C; Ratnieks, F. L. (2011). "Honeybee foragers increase the use of waggle dance information when private information becomes unrewarding". Animal Behaviour. 81 (5): 949–954. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.014.
- Dyer, F. C. (2002). "The biology of the dance language". Annual Review of Entomology. 47: 917–949. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145306. PMID 11729095.
- Beekman, M.; Golag, R. S.; Even, N.; Wattanchiyingchareon, W.; Olroyd, B. P. (2008). "Dance precision of Apis florae--clues to the evolution of honeybee dance language". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 62 (8): 1259–1265. doi:10.1007/s00265-008-0554-z.
- Al Toufalia, H. M. (2012). "Honey bee foraging: persistence to non-rewarding feeding locations and waggle dance communication". Doctoral Thesis, University of Sussexx.
- Wenner, A. M.; Wells, P. H. (1990). Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" Among Bees. Columbia University Press, New York. pp. 299–311.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Waggle dance.
- The Waggle Dance of the Honeybee, Georgia Tech College of Computing on YouTube
- Waggle Dance Infographic - VetSci
- Communication and Recruitment to Food Sources by Apis mellifera — USDA-ARS
- Honeybee Communication — Kimball's Biology Pages


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One kingdom that, relative to many others is somewhat well-known as a name, at least, if details of its history are not, is Kinzassál, a kingdom that sat north of the Mezzovian sea and east southeast of the Indash Salt Sea. Today, this land is a wilderness, populated only by nomadic Untash barbarians, but these Untash are relative newcomers to the area. Prior to their incursions, it was part of the Empire of Baal Hamazi, and although the badlands were thinly settled, they made up an important part of the satrapy of Pnakot or Pnakotus, the capital of the area on the shores of Lake Kidin, and still an important successor city-state of Baal Hamazi today. But the Badlands weren't always as forbidding an environment as they are today, and there are many indications that climate change in the last millennium has dramatically changed the landscape. Much of the land inhabited by the drylanders today was not, in fact, desert at all, but received far more rain than it does today, and it was dotted with pluvial lakes, the Indash Salt Sea being a shrunken remnant of the last of them, one that once covered all the land between the Kindattu and the Dagan mountain ranges, and much of the Shutruk Savanna as well. These lakes were in retreat at the time of the very earliest historical records, which tell of the rise of the early balshatoi kingdoms: Rozovķa, Ryazan, Pjarmia, Pezhek, and Vuronezh. The balshatoi kingdoms were along the northern coast of the Mezzovian Sea, and thus south of the lands that later become the Drylands. Long before the arrival of the nomadic peoples who occupy the area today, a series of kingdoms of a completely unrelated ethnicity lived in the area, and dealt with the early balshatoi as traders, as allies, and occasionally as rivals and enemies. The greatest of these kingdoms, and the only one who's name as come down through the ages, is Kinzassál.
|The Battle of Eltdown, with much artistic license
At the time that the early balshatoi kingdoms were carving out their influence, the great kingdom of Kinzassál was already in decline, as waves of subsequent droughts depleted the shrinking pluvial lakes that made up their homeland, and the area become increasingly xeric. This set in motion a great deal of unrest within Kinzassál, which brought them into conflict with the balshatoi kingdoms, especially Ryazan, which was located directly to its south and beyond the forests. In those days, there was no gap between the Shifting and Haunted Forests, which were not known by those names, nor did they have the evil reputation that they gained in years since. Legend has it, in fact, that many of the changelings that gave the Shifting Forest its name were originally Kinzassian peoples displaced and cursed by the droughts and associations with werewolves of the forest. The Kinzassians contested right of passage though the area with the expanding influence of Ryazan, since settlers related to and subject to the king in Volék Szemennok, the capital city of Kinzassál, already lived to the east of Ryazan, in lands that later became Tarush Noptii. It seems likely that the Tarushans today were related ethnically and culturally with the Kinzassians. Some scholars even posit that Tarush Noptii was little more than a colony of Kinzassian settlers, while others speculate on more complicated relationships, calling the ethnic Tarushans more like "cousins" of the Kinzassians rather than direct descendents of them. In any case, whomever the peoples were who lived in Tarush Noptii at the time, they recognized the authority and sovereingty of the Kinzassians, which put them at odds with Ryazan, and later with Pezhek, when it inherited Ryazan via dynastic union. The borderlands of Ryazan to both the north and the east were unsettled and uneasy for many generations, although open warfare was rare. Only the pitched battle at a location very close to the present day sleepy village of Eltdown is known to historians, while otherwise border skirmishes and diplomatic wrangling appear to have characterized much of the relationship between these kingdoms.
On the night that has retroactively been labeled "The Falling of the Star of Doom" the fate of Kinzassál appears to have been sealed. A great sign and omen in the heavens was the falling of Tæriruuş, the Death-god from the sky. The language which rendered his name is unknown, but he was eventually called simply Tarush, and is immortalized in name with the kingdom of Tarush Noptii. Twenty great champions of Kinzassál traveled to the place where the the god fell, and by their sacrifice, and the sacrifice of the ancient Witch-lord retainers they brought with them, Tarush was contained for all time beneath the surface of the earth, and eventually the capital city of Tarush Noptii itself was built over the spot where that triumph was realized.
This ancient sorcery and the legendary battles of the Twenty with the servants and creatures of Tarush ruined the land of Tarush Noptii for generations, though. Ryazan and Pezhek turned its face from the land and contested it no more, and it took many centuries before the native population regrew to a sustainable level. The loss of this territory devastated Kinzassál, however, which was still suffering from a climatic crisis that continued to worsen. At the same time, barbarians--the most ancient ancestors of the drylanders and the tribesmen of today--had made their way on the now dried corridors between the mountains and the Salt Sea. These nomadic peoples had an economy that was better positioned to take advantage of the drying conditions, by following nomadic herds of bison, pronghorns, or feral longhorn cattle, who spread across the dry savannas as the woodlands retreated following many years of drought and drying. These barbarians fell upon the weakened Kinzassians until they met the balshatoi, who were now ranging up through the forests to the borderlands of the savanas and badlands itself. By the time the two people first contacted each other, though, Kinzassál was largely a depopulated wasteland, and its few remaining inhabitants were absorbed completely into one of those two successor populations, leaving behind little evidence of their existence.
The ancient capital of Volék Szemennok's location is unknown, and its ruins are undiscovered, at least by Terrasan or Hamazin scholars. Such a find would be a great treasure trove of knowledge, as it is believed that extensive archives of historical and arcane knowledge were lost with the city. Some believe that the vampires of Tarush Noptii, as the sole remaining heirs of the Kinzassian people, know its location and have long ago looted it, or perhaps haunted its ruins, hoarding it for themselves, but this is only idle speculation. In truth, very little of Kinzassál is really known, other than the legend of "The Falling of the Star of Doom" and the foundation of the current nation of Tarush Noptii as a splinter of sorts from Kinzassian sources.


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Given my double passion for science and philosophy, the problem of clarifying the links between the two and between what I refer to as local orabstract modes of thought (such as the sciences, the arts and politics) has always been of utmost importance to me. To treat this problem, I wished to challenge both the solutions that subject these different modes to philosophical authority (be it ontological, transcendental, epistemological, encyclopedic or other), and the solutions which – inversely – subject philosophy to the model furnished by one of these modes, to the detriment of the others (as, for example, Husserl's conception of philosophy as archi-science, Heidegger's conception of philosophy as archi-poetry, or Levinas's conception of philosophy as archi-ethics). In Benjamin's theory of translation, I found a solution capable of satisfying two presumably irreconcilable constraints: 1) that of not yielding on the delocalized or transversal nature of philosophical work compared to different local modes of thought – and thus avoiding any potential identification with one of these modes; and 2) that of refusing any dominant position of philosophy toward said modes of thought. In short, Benjamin's text allowed me to construe the connections between local modes of thought and philosophy by following the model offered by the connection between national languages and the regulatory idea of a delocalized and voluntarily impure language produced by the work of transposition and transfer undertaken by "translation". To translate, it's not enough to flit through the space of languages: you must master each of the languages involved by giving yourself over to their irreducible sovereignty. The conception of philosophy that results is that of an organon of composition between the different local modes of thought – an organon which, rather than speaking about these modes, must make possible free circulation between them. In this way, the philosopher's task is to compose the "untranslatables" within a vaster linguistic space in which each language finds its place and time. The philosopher is the stalker of this space. In Lacanian terms, we might say that philosophical love alone is able to supplement the non-relationship between the different modes of thought – that is, to potentiate their connectedness while affirming their irreducible "untranslatability". Philosophy alone is able to construct mediators – herein lies its truly angelic dimension – capable of probing the interzones that separate and connect the various modes of thought, in order to incessantly build what I refer to as a musaic language, following on from Benjamin.
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Just like kids, dogs and cats are prone to accidents. "It's so important not to panic when your pet is hurt," says Ines de Pablo, chief officer of Wag'N Enterprises, specialists in pet emergency management. "Having the right tools on hand and enough knowledge about how to help before you can get to the vet is crucial." Our guide shows you how to prevent incidents and be prepared if and when a problem strikes.
Track Your Pet's Health
De Pablo suggests performing a health assessment on a weekly basis so you can catch a small issue before it becomes something major. Keep your pet safe by doing the following:
- Rub your pet's fur to feel for any abnormal bumps, cuts, or lumps.
- Look in your animal's mouth and on his tongue for any swelling, discoloration, or other abnormalities.
- Monitor changes in eating or drinking habits as well as urination and defecation and be sure to keep a record for your veterinarian.
- Write down ongoing health problems. If something changes, call the vet.
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Learning standard first-aid skills means you'll be able to help your pet when a crisis arises. Here are the essentials.
- You should know how to slow down bleeding by applying direct force to basic pressure points, and how to bandage an injured limb. Learn what you need to do for an injury at avma.org/firstaid/procedures.asp.
- Familiarize yourself with which foods, plants, and household items are dangerous if ingested and the symptoms they cause. Go to aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control for a list.
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- Vet wrap (a nonstick bandage that bonds to itself—Band-Aids won't adhere to your pet)
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- Thermal blanket
- Styptic powder (stops bleeding)
- Latex gloves
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Ines de Pablo, chief officer of Wag'N Enterprises, lists the following situations as those requiring emergency veterinary care:
Head, chest, or abdomen trauma
A prolonged or first seizure
Arterial bleeding
Animal, chemical, and environmental poisoning
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A sudden inability to walk
Smoke inhalation
Nose bleeds
Spinal cord and neck injuries
Blunt trauma from a car accident
Heat stroke
A protruding eye injury
A loss of pulse after administering CPR
Choking scenarios
Bloody urine or stool
Facial swelling
Originally published in the July 2010 issue of Family Circle magazine.