Turks and Caicos Islands (Nov 2012)
The Turks and Caicos Islands lie southeast of Mayaguana in the Bahamas island chain and north of the island of Hispaniola. Cockburn Town, the capital since 1766, is situated on Grand Turk Island about 1042 kilometres (647 mi) east-southeast of Miami in the United States.From:shirandesilva68Views:0 0ratingsTime:00:59More inTravel Events
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Klaksvk-Municipality (Klaksvk-nir-rnafjrur-Mikladalur-Trllanes)
Klaksvk Population 4670 Klaksvk is the second largest town of the Faroe Islands. The town is located on Boroy, which is one of the northernmost islands. Klaksvk is located between two inlets lying back to back. It has an important harbour with fishing-industry and a modern fishing-fleet. Originally four farms were at the location where Klaksvk is now. By time they grew into four villages that finally merged to what now is called Klaksvk. What really kicked off the development towards a town was the set up of a centralized store for all the northern islands on the location. The church Christians-kirkjan is from 1963. Its architecture is unconventional with a detached bell-frame. It is made of Faeroese basalt and wood. Inside the church a Faroese rowing boat is hanging down from the ceiling. The font is made of a 4000 years old heathen sacrificial bowl originating from Denmark. The most popular beer in the Faroe Islands called #39;Froya Bjr #39; is brewed in Klaksvk. On the east-brink of Boroydarvik there are some ruins after a farm that was buried by an avalanche on march 12th in 1745 and then again on the very same date 20 years later. Also some excavated ruins from the Vikings called Islendingatoftir can be seen in the area. Klaksvk has an annual civic festival called Nordoyastevna. It runs in the beginning of June and is the second largest of the civic festivals. lavska in Trshavn is the largest one. nir Population 17 nir is located on Boroys west-side. The ...From:Faroe ParadiseViews:4 0ratingsTime:05:13More inHowto Style
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Pacific Dragons - Masters Men - Five Islands Outrigger Canoe Regatta (Sun 11 Nov 2012)
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Egypt: Ancient temples at Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Kom Ombo andEdfu
Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes, the great capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the glorious city of the God Amon-Ra. Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world #39;s greatest open air museum", the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor standing within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the Nile River, lie the monuments, temples and tombs on the West Bank Necropolis, which include the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. Aswan stands on the east bank of the Nile and is a busy market and tourist center. Aswan #39;s location is at the first Cataract of the Nile, which provided a natural boundary between Egypt and Nubians. In the Nile the island of Elephantine, which is the largest of the Aswan area islands, and is one of the most ancient sites in Egypt, with artifacts dating to predynastic periods. Abu Simbel is an archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 290 km southwest of Aswan. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Nubian Monuments", which run from Abu Simbel downriver to Philae (near Aswan). The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple built during the rule Ptolemaic dynasty. The building is unique because its #39;double #39; design meant that there were courts, halls and sanctuaries duplicated for two sets of gods. The Temple of Edfu is an ancient Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Edfu. It is the ...From:Deva DeepViews:0 0ratingsTime:12:22More inTravel Events
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The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say and that means the rats must die, millions of them.
A helicopter is to begin dropping nearly 22 tons of specially designed poison bait on an island Thursday, launching the second phase of a campaign to clear out by 2020 non-native rodents from the archipelago that helped inspire Charles Darwins theory of evolution.
The invasive Norway and black rats, introduced by whalers and buccaneers beginning in the 17th century, feed on the eggs and hatchlings of the islands native species, which include giant tortoises, lava lizards, snakes, hawks and iguanas. Rats also have depleted plants on which native species feed.
The rats have critically endangered bird species on the 19-island cluster 1,000 kilometres from Ecuadors coast.
Its one of the worst problems the Galapagos have. (Rats) reproduce every three months and eat everything, said Juan Carlos Gonzalez, a specialist with the Nature Conservancy involved in the Phase II eradication operation on Pinzon island and the islet of Plaza Sur.
Phase I of the anti-rat campaign began in January, 2011, on Rabida island and about a dozen islets, which like Pinzon and Plaza Sur are also uninhabited by humans.
The goal is to kill off all non-native rodents, beginning with the Galapagos smaller islands, without endangering other wildlife. The islands where humans reside, Isabela and Santa Cruz, will come last.
Previous efforts to eradicate invasive species have removed goats, cats, burros and pigs from various islands.
Pinzon is about 1,812 hectares in area, while Plaza Sur encompasses just 9.6 hectares.
This is a very expensive but totally necessary war, said Mr. Gonzalez.
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The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say and that means the rats must die, millions of them.
A helicopter is to begin dropping nearly 22 tons of specially designed poison bait on an island Thursday, launching the second phase of a campaign to clear out by 2020 non-native rodents from the archipelago that helped inspire Charles Darwins theory of evolution.
The invasive Norway and black rats, introduced by whalers and buccaneers beginning in the 17th century, feed on the eggs and hatchlings of the islands native species, which include giant tortoises, lava lizards, snakes, hawks and iguanas. Rats also have depleted plants on which native species feed.
The rats have critically endangered bird species on the 19-island cluster 1,000 kilometres from Ecuadors coast.
Its one of the worst problems the Galapagos have. (Rats) reproduce every three months and eat everything, said Juan Carlos Gonzalez, a specialist with the Nature Conservancy involved in the Phase II eradication operation on Pinzon island and the islet of Plaza Sur.
Phase I of the anti-rat campaign began in January, 2011, on Rabida island and about a dozen islets, which like Pinzon and Plaza Sur are also uninhabited by humans.
The goal is to kill off all non-native rodents, beginning with the Galapagos smaller islands, without endangering other wildlife. The islands where humans reside, Isabela and Santa Cruz, will come last.
Previous efforts to eradicate invasive species have removed goats, cats, burros and pigs from various islands.
Pinzon is about 1,812 hectares in area, while Plaza Sur encompasses just 9.6 hectares.
This is a very expensive but totally necessary war, said Mr. Gonzalez.
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China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp., the nations biggest maker of non-military drones, expects to double unmanned aerial vehicles sales next year as sovereignty disputes spur government orders.
The country intends to increase monitoring at sea amid a row with Japan about the ownership of islands in the East China Sea, Huang Xingdong, deputy head of CASICs drone-making arm, said in a Nov. 13 interview at the Zhuhai airshow. The state- owned company signed an agreement to supply an undisclosed number of drones to an oceanic agency at the expo.
The government is attaching greater importance to ocean intelligence gathering as the islands disputes heat up, Huang said. He declined to give an exact sales forecast. The company also makes missiles and parts for Chinas space program.
Aviation Industry Corp. of China, the nations largest aerospace company, separately debuted the armed Wing Loong UAV at the show, as China translates economic growth into increasing military might. The country, the biggest spender on defense after the U.S., began sailing its first aircraft carrier this year and its working on more sophisticated fighter jets, naval vessels and cyberwarfare technology
CASIC showcased six civilian and military drones at the Zhuhai show, and unveiled a new brand name, Hiwing, which means Sea Hawker in Chinese. Its UAVs can fly as fast as 700 kilometers per hour (435 miles per hour) and carry as much as 130 kilograms (287 pounds).
The company sold several dozen UAVs in the past few years, with prices ranging from less than 1 million yuan ($160,000) to about 10 million yuan, Huang said. The local non-military UAV market may eventually grow to as big as several billion yuan a year, he said. He didnt give an estimate for defense sales.
The China drone market is not big, but its starting an upward cycle, Huang said. The company also announced an order from a government surveying agency at the show.
The dispute over East China Sea islands caused Chinas relations with Japan to reach their lowest since at least 2005 in September. Demonstrators marched in cities across China and attacked Japanese businesses after Japans government bought the islands from a private owner.
Xi Jinping yesterday replaced Hu Jintao as the head of Chinas Communist Party and as chairman of the partys Central Military Commission. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda plans to dissolve parliament today, triggering elections that polls indicate will be won by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who advocates a tougher stance in the territorial dispute.
To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Jasmine Wang in Hong Kong at jwang513@bloomberg.net
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QUITO, Ecuador - The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say -- and that means the rats must die, hundreds of millions of them.
A helicopter is to begin dropping nearly 22 tons of specially designed poison bait on an island Thursday, launching the second phase of a campaign to clear out by 2020 non-native rodents from the archipelago that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The invasive Norway and black rats, introduced by whalers and buccaneers beginning in the 17th century, feed on the eggs and hatchlings of the islands' native species, which include giant tortoises, lava lizards, snakes, hawks and iguanas. Rats also have depleted plants on which native species feed.
The rats have critically endangered bird species on the 19-island cluster 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from Ecuador's coast.
"It's one of the worst problems the Galapagos have. (Rats) reproduce every three months and eat everything," said Juan Carlos Gonzalez, a specialist with the Nature Conservancy involved in the Phase II eradication operation on Pinzon island and the islet of Plaza Sur.
Phase I of the anti-rat campaign began in January 2011 on Rabida island and about a dozen islets, which like Pinzon and Plaza Sur are also uninhabited by humans.
The goal is to kill off all nonnative rodents, beginning with the Galapagos' smaller islands, without endangering other wildlife. The islands where humans reside, Isabela and Santa Cruz, will come last.
Previous efforts to eradicate invasive species have removed goats, cats, burros and pigs from various islands.
Pinzon is about seven square miles (1,812 hectares) in area, while Plaza Sur encompasses just 24 acres (9.6 hectares).
"This is a very expensive but totally necessary war," said Gonzalez.
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Kind of a superficial study. The island of Niihau, just off of Kauai is far more significant than all the others put together. It has been owned by the Robinson family since before I lived on Lanai about 60 years ago. It has been preserved so that the native hawaiians still speak the original language and keep the same lifestyle.
I do not think the people from Lanai are overjoyed by the sale from Dole Pineapple ownership to the present owner. Nobody will be able to own their own house. They live a delicate balance of needing enough work to exist and the new property values that may endanger their future. Life on Lanai is a very fascinating topic from the viewpoint of a Social Anthropoligist.
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Phase I of the anti-rat campaign began in January 2011 on Rabida island and about a dozen islets, which like Pinzon and Plaza Sur are also uninhabited by humans.
The goal is to kill off all non-native rodents, beginning with the Galapagos' smaller islands, without endangering other wildlife. The islands where humans reside, Isabela and Santa Cruz, will come last.
Previous efforts to eradicate invasive species have removed goats, cats, burros and pigs from various islands.
Pinzon is about seven square miles (1,812 hectares) in area, while Plaza Sur encompasses just 24 acres (9.6 hectares).
"This is a very expensive but totally necessary war," said Gonzalez.
The rat infestation has now reached one per square foot (about 10 per square meter) on Pinzon, where an estimated 180 million rodents reside.
The director of conservation for the Galapagos National Park Service, Danny Rueda, called the raticide the largest ever in South America.
The poisoned bait, developed by Bell Laboratories in the United States, is contained in light blue cubes that attract rats but are repulsive to other inhabitants of the islands. The one-centimeter-square cubes disintegrate in a week or so.
Park official Cristian Sevilla said the poison will be dropped on Pinzon and Plaza Sur through the end of November.
A total of 34 hawks from Pinzon were trapped in order to protect them from eating rodents that consume the poison, Sevilla said. They are to be released in early January.
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November 16, 2012 - Federal Hockey League (FHL) Matt Anthony was superb between the pipes for the 1000 Islands Privateers, as he did not allow a goal in a 5-0 victory over the Danville Dashers.
Chris Greene was all over the ice for 1000 Islands, as he grabbed two goals in the win. Greene scored at 13:47 into the first period to make the score 1-0 1000 Islands and again while on the power play 9:51 into the third to make the score 4-0 1000 Islands.
The Privateers stifled Danville's power play, and did not give up a single goal while down a man. 1000 Islands was steadier on the defensive front than it has been for much of this season. The Privateers allow 2.5 goals per game. The 37 shots that 1000 Islands put on net surpassed the Privateers' average of 33.6 shots per game this season.
The Privateers additionally got points from Justin MacDonald, who also finished with two goals and one assist to lead the team in points. Michael Fransen also scored for 1000 Islands. Other players who recorded assists for 1000 Islands were Peter Campbell, who had one and Brent Tamane, Zak Ray, and Adam McAllister, who each chipped in two.
The Dashers were often in penalty trouble, totaling four minors and six majors for 48 minutes in penalty time. Danville had been averaging 28.0 minutes in penalties per game. The Dashers could not produce up to they normal offensive output. Danville averages 2.3 goals per game. The Dashers' penalty kill unit could not stop 1000 Islands' power play, which converted on two of three opportunities. Danville's defensemen bolstered the Dashers' offensive attack, as they bombarded Anthony with 20 shots. With 45 shots on target during the contest, Danville exceeded the 38.3 shots it averages per game this year.
The Dashers were led by Henry Coxe, who took eight shots.
The Privateers' Anthony stopped 45 shots out of the 45 that he faced. Josselin St Pierre made 32 saves for Danville on 37 shots.
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Karasiewicz Shorty Sparks Outlaws Over Bluefins
WILLIAMSPORT - Trevor Karasiewicz started the scoring for his Outlaws with a short-handed goal, which happened to be his first goal of the season, to help lead the Outlaws to a 5-2 victory over the Cape Cod Bluefins.
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QUITO, Ecuador The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say and that means the rats must die, hundreds of millions of them.
A helicopter is to begin dropping nearly 22 tons of specially designed poison bait on an island Thursday, launching the second phase of a campaign to clear out by 2020 non-native rodents from the archipelago that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The invasive Norway and black rats, introduced by whalers and buccaneers beginning in the 17th century, feed on the eggs and hatchlings of the islands' native species, which include giant tortoises, lava lizards, snakes, hawks and iguanas. Rats also have depleted plants on which native species feed.
The rats have critically endangered bird species on the 19-island cluster 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from Ecuador's coast.
"It's one of the worst problems the Galapagos have. (Rats) reproduce every three months and eat everything," said Juan Carlos Gonzalez, a specialist with the Nature Conservancy. While his organization has no involvement in the Phase II eradication operation, on Pinzon island and the islet of Plaza Sur, he said it has no objections.
Phase I of the anti-rat campaign began in January 2011 on Rabida island and about a dozen islets, which like Pinzon and Plaza Sur are also uninhabited by humans.
The goal is to kill off all nonnative rodents, beginning with the Galapagos' smaller islands, without endangering other wildlife. The islands where humans reside, Isabela and Santa Cruz, will come last.
Previous efforts to eradicate invasive species have removed goats, cats, burros and pigs from various islands.
Pinzon is about seven square miles (1,812 hectares) in area, while Plaza Sur encompasses just 24 acres (9.6 hectares).
"This is a very expensive but totally necessary war," said Gonzalez.
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Aerial assault on Galapagos Islands targets 180 million rats
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say and that means the rats must die, hundreds of millions of them.
A helicopter is to begin dropping nearly 22 tons of specially designed poison bait on an island Thursday, launching the second phase of a campaign to clear out by 2020 non-native rodents from the archipelago that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The invasive Norway and black rats, introduced by whalers and buccaneers beginning in the 17th century, feed on the eggs and hatchlings of the islands' native species, which include giant tortoises, lava lizards, snakes, hawks and iguanas. Rats also have depleted plants on which native species feed.
The rats have critically endangered bird species on the 19-island cluster 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from Ecuador's coast.
"It's one of the worst problems the Galapagos have. (Rats) reproduce every three months and eat everything," said Juan Carlos Gonzalez, a specialist with the Nature Conservancy involved in the Phase II eradication operation on Pinzon island and the islet of Plaza Sur.
Phase I of the anti-rat campaign began in January 2011 on Rabida island and about a dozen islets, which like Pinzon and Plaza Sur are also uninhabited by humans.
The goal is to kill off all nonnative rodents, beginning with the Galapagos' smaller islands, without endangering other wildlife. The islands where humans reside, Isabela and Santa Cruz, will come last.
Previous efforts to eradicate invasive species have removed goats, cats, burros and pigs from various islands.
Pinzon is about seven square miles (1,812 hectares) in area, while Plaza Sur encompasses just 24 acres (9.6 hectares).
"This is a very expensive but totally necessary war," said Gonzalez.
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Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize 2012
The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize is Dr Jian Yang, from the Diamantina Institute of the University of Queensland. He has solved one of the great puzzles of human genetics mdash;why the genes typically implicated in inherited diseases like schizophrenia, obesity and diabetes only account for a small amount of their heritability. Read more about his great achievement here: bit.lyFrom:CentenaryInstituteViews:5 0ratingsTime:02:15More inScience Technology
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News in Brief: Highlights from the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting
A collection of reports from the conference, held November 6-10 in San Francisco
By Tina Hesman Saey
Web edition: November 14, 2012
FROZEN FARMER
The 5,300-year-old Iceman mummy found in the Alps was part of a wave of immigrants that moved into Europe as agriculture spread from the Middle East, a new genetic analysis finds.
Credit: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, EURAC, Samadelli, Staschitz
Icemans Sardinian ties explained When the genetic makeup of the 5,300-year-old mummy known as tzi was revealed earlier this year, scientists were surprised that his DNA suggests his modern-day relatives live in Sardinia instead of near the border of Austria and Italy where his frozen corpse was found. Analyses of DNA from present-day Europeans and remains of five other ancient people suggest that the Iceman wasnt just a tourist from Sardinia. Instead he was probably part of a wave of migration of Middle Eastern farmers into Europe, Martin Sikora of Stanford University reported November 8. tzi shares a more similar genetic makeup with a 5,000-year-old Swedish farmer and a 2,500-year-old Bulgarian than he does with hunter-gatherers from Sweden and the Iberian peninsula. The finding indicates that the spread of agriculture involved the people too, not just ideas, Sikora said.
DNA fingerprinting may point to innocent relatives DNA testing has been used to pinpoint or rule out suspects in crimes. But a statistical test used to determine the solidity of a partial match between a crime scene sample and a genetic profile in a DNA database may be on shaky ground, Rori Rohlfs, a statistical geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, reported November 8. The test, known as the Balding-Nichols model, underestimates how often coincidental matches might indicate a crime was committed by a relative of someone in the database when the actual perpetrator is unrelated. That is a problem because a few states, including California, allow law enforcement officials to investigate relatives of people in criminal databases if DNA fingerprints detect a partial match with a crime scene sample. Faulty statistics could lead to innocent people being investigated for crimes, Rohlfs said.
Misregulated microRNAs may link obesity, breast cancer An imbalance of small genetic molecules known as microRNAs may forge a link between obesity and cancer. Between 15 and 20 percent of cancers are attributed to obesity, said Cheryl Thompson of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland on November 10. Thompson and her colleagues found that fat tissue from obese people over- or underproduce some microRNAs, small molecules that help regulate protein production. She speculated that disregulation of these microRNAs might disrupt communications between fat and other body tissues, leading to diseases including cancer. For example, a microRNA called miR-210 is misregulated in both obese people and breast cancer patients, suggesting that faulty control over the molecule may be one of the reasons for increased breast cancer risk among obese women, Thompson reported.
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News in Brief: Highlights from the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting
Edward Rubin, MD, PhD, spoke at the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics symposium. Photo by Lisa Woldin
Personalized medicine advances arising from genetic discoveries were the primary focus of wide-ranging presentations at the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics 2012 Symposium on Nov. 5.
Neil Risch, PhD
Speakers described clinical research that has resulted in the identification of gene mutations that often drive deadly breast cancers in black populations; explained how rare mutations responsible for devastating developmental defects in infants can now be discovered in studies of just a handful of individuals from affected families; offered a preview of results expected to emerge from studies of genes and environment in hundreds of thousands of patients through a Kaiser Permanente-UCSF project; and described technical advances that continue to increase scientists ability to identify links between DNA and disease.
All the speakers are at the cutting edge of applying genomics and informatics to precision medicine, said the institutes director Neil Risch, PhD, referring to an emerging trend in medicine in which treatment is tailored to the patient through a more precise diagnosis of disease.
At UCSF a crucible of biotechnology and home to Nobel laureates who identified a role for the mutation of normal genes in cancer major new initiatives are underway in clinical genetics and bioinformatics, Risch said.
The symposium led off with geneticist Eddy Rubin, MD, PhD, whose presentation demonstrated that genetic studies are being applied to human problems that extend even beyond the realm of medicine.
Eddy Rubin, MD, PhD
Rubin a scientist who oversaw the sequencing and analysis of 13 percent of the human genome as part of the original Human Genome Project has taken his research from studying abnormalities in DNA enhancers that may contribute to disease susceptibility or birth defects, to cutting global greenhouse gas emissions by manipulating gut microbes in sheep.
Early in his career, Rubin completed a medical genetics fellowship under the late Charles Epstein, MD, a founding director of the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics and a driving force behind medical genetics becoming an accredited medical specialty. Rubin was featured at the symposium as the named 2012 Charles J. and Lois B. Epstein Visiting Professor at UCSF.
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By upgrading to a Premium My HealtheVet account and opting in to Secure Messaging, Veterans can put treatment into their hands.From:VeteransHealthAdminViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:08More inEducation
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