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The Spratly Islands are basically mounds of sand in the middle of the South China Sea, some of them barely tall enough to reach above the water. But China is hell-bent on making them inhabitable, even drawing up plans for floating energy and water plants. It has nothing to do with the islands themselves and everything to do with the water around it.
The South China Sea is one of the most disputed areas of the world, with China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Malaysia all claiming various chunks of it. The sea encompasses valuable shipping routes into Asia and holds vast amounts of untapped oil and gas reserves. You bet China wants a share of that.
But there's a problem for China, which is that the islands it controls are not real islands long inhabited by people. They're more like sandy atolls. That hasn't stopped China though, which come up with creative ways to bolster their islands. They're dumping sand onto reefs to create new islands and building a military base right in the middle of it all.
But to sustain a military base there, you need people, and you need to somehow make these barren islands inhabitable. That's where the floating docks come in. Reporting from the Shiptec China 2014 exhibition, IHS Jane 360 has the details on the floating docks.
Two variants are under development. A base unit consists of a towed multifunctional platform and a bridge. [China Ship Scientific Research Center] said the platform can support the following capabilities: docking for 1,000-tonne ships, maintenance and repair stations for fishing vessels, an electric-power plant, fresh-water storage and supply, desalination of seawater, rainwater collection, and general storage of equipment and supplies.
A second platform variant is based on a semisubmersible vessel that can move under its own power, but not over long distances. The platform can be used for light construction and maintenance of an island, such as heightening sandbanks or removing reefs. CSSRC lists its additional capabilities as temporary living quarters for construction crews, and waste water treatment. The bridge is strong enough to carry a 10-tonne truck.
With floating docks in place, China could potentially settle the small islands much more quickly, giving them a stronger claim to the disputed waters. As China sees it, if life doesn't hand you islands, then you just have to build your own. [IHN Jane's 360 via Popular Science]
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A ship carrying 52 tons of oil in the Baltic Sea ran aground off Stockholms sprawling archipelago Wednesday morning and began leaking its cargo into the intricate network of islands and inlets, an online news agency reported.
The ships crew was working to transfer the oil from the container damaged by the grounding into an intact reservoir on the vessel, the Local English-language agency reported.
Neither the ships name nor country of registry were immediately reported.
Although 52 tons of oil is a relatively small cargo, equal to about 370 barrels, even a minor spill in the archipelago, which is a popular playground for boaters and campers in the area east of the Swedish capital, could inflict significant damage to the pristine environment.
The 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker spill in Alaskas Prince William Sound gushed more than 250,000 barrels into the sensitive aquatic environment, and the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico four years ago spilled 560,000 barrels.
"It is too early to know how much damage has been done in the area," Jonny Aaberg from the Swedish Coast Guard told the Local.
Aaberg said high winds and waves were hampering the efforts to contain the spill.
Two environmental protection vessels were dispatched to the spill area after the coast guard received a distress signal around 5 a.m., the Local reported. Aerial surveillance of the accident site was also being conducted, the agency said.
Stockholms archipelago of 30,000 islands and peninsulas was in the news earlier this month when a mysterious vessel thought to be a Russian submarine was spotted in the area, triggering a massive sea and air hunt on a scale unseen since the Cold War ended. The search for an intruder was called off on Friday after authorities concluded the vessel had left Swedish waters.
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Species: Podarcis erhardii, a wall lizard Habitat: The rocky scrubland, open sand dunes and high mountaintops of Albania, Macedonia, southern Bulgaria and Greece
Imagine being on holiday in Greece's Cyclades Islands, when you spot a greenish, speckled lizard. How close can you get before it runs away or tries detaching its tail in an effort to distract you? The answer depends which island you're on.
Erhard's wall lizard is found across the Cyclades, a set of islands in the Aegean Sea that became isolated from each other and mainland Europe at the end of the last ice age, more than 11,000 years ago. That stranded the islands' lizards, marooning them alongside different enemies. As a result, the lizards have been walking different evolutionary paths ever since.
Larger islands host a mix of feral cats, stone martens, hawks, snakes and rats, all hungry for a lizard-shaped snack. Smaller islands are less dangerous, inhabited by rats and a snake species or two, if anything. And it seems that those cohabitants have had an evolutionary effect on how edgy the lizard is - lizards on some islands are much more laid-back than elsewhere.
Islands are useful for studying evolution because they are isolated from each other, says Kinsey Brock of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "One can ask interesting questions about evolution in a natural living laboratory that has been running an experiment for you on the order of thousands, maybe even millions of years."
And Brock's question is this: how close can you get to an Aegean wall lizard? To find out, she walked straight towards 913 different individuals, living on 37 islands plus the Greek mainland, at a speed of 1.3 metres per second. The average lizard ran from her when she got within 1.8 metres, but some lizards let her come as close as 10 centimetres. Others fled when she was 8.5 metres away.
She found a link between the distance at which a lizard flees and the island it hailed from. Lizards from smaller islands with fewer types of predator, or that had been disconnected from mainland predators for longer, let her come far closer by about 68 centimetres compared with their more fearful relatives.
Brock says that lizards on smaller, safer islands probably evolved this tameness because time is money. "If you're living in a predator-free environment, it would be evolutionarily disadvantageous to spend your time on the lookout for predators or running away while other lizards are foraging and mating."
Brock and her colleagues also investigated the lizard's tendency to resort to the extreme tactic of detaching its own tail. Called autotomy, this is usually a last-ditch attempt to escape a predator's grasp, or at least distract them with the writhing, wriggling remnant.
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LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), a biological data-driven human health technology and cell therapy company, today announced the addition of Barry Merriman, Ph.D., as Vice President of Global Technology Assessmentand Paul Mola, M.S. as Head of Global Solutions. The two will work together in HLI's new Global Solutions Initiative to seek strategic business opportunities worldwide.
HLI's Global Solutions Initiative is aimed at business partnerships with a variety of customers including foreign governments, large national healthcare systems, and global disease or health-focused charities interested in undertaking population-scale genomic and personalized medicine initiatives. Dr. Merriman and Mr. Mola will engage with these entities to offer enterprise solutions, and services and business opportunities customized to empower and accelerate these projects. This includes access to HLI's comprehensive human biological database, coupled with the company's proprietary computational infrastructure and analytical software solutions.
"We are pleased to welcome Barry and Paul to the HLI team as they bring unique and varied scientific, technological and business expertise," said J. Craig Venter, PhD, HLI's Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer. "Their knowledge of the global genomics market, coupled with their strong scientific and technology backgrounds and ability to translate this experience into successful global partnerships will be invaluable to HLI."
Dr. Merriman commented, "My goal has always been to use science and technology to advance human health and longevity. HLI is unique in pursuing a complete and integrated approach to this, with the focus, resources and scale required for success, and with an endpoint of truly revolutionizing health care. I am very excited to work with leaders globally on ways for HLI to empower their efforts to improve health and solve disease in their populations."
Mr. Mola added, "HLI's focused investment to create an unmatched, end-to-end infrastructure for population scale projects will enable the most advanced clinical capabilities for solving some of the common diseases of aging. I am pleased to be joining HLI and am eager to help the company realize its mission of comprehensive integration of genomic advances, cellular therapeutics, and health information technology, to create an unprecedented knowledge base of patient biological data to effect health care change on a global scale."
Dr. Merriman comes to HLI most recently from Life Technologies (now a Division of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), where he was the Lead System Architect for Advanced DNA Sequencing Technology, and co-founder and CSO of the Enterprise Genomics Solutions group. In these roles he established and guided the company's overall strategy and portfolio in sequencing technology, and architected national scale genomics projects. Prior to this, Dr. Merriman was on the faculty of UCLA for 20 years, where he led interdisciplinary research efforts in human genetics, genomic technology, as well as math, physics and engineering. Dr. Merriman has a Ph.D. in Applied Math from The University of Chicago.
Paul Mola, M.S., MSEL, also comes to HLI from Life Technologies, where he was Head of Strategy and Chief of Staff for their Genetic Systems Division. There, he founded their Enterprise Genomics Solutions Group, which established the business model for supporting national scale translational genomics projects, including their first global flagship initiative, the Saudi Human Genome Project in Saudi Arabia. Mola previously served in product development and commercial capacities at Applied Biosystems and Roche Diagnostics. Mola earned an M.S. in Biotechnology from Cochin University of Science and Technology and a MSEL from the University of San Diego, School of Business.
About Human Longevity, Inc.HLI, a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, CA was founded in 2013 by pioneers in the fields of genomics and stem cell therapy. Using advances in genomic sequencing, the human microbiome, proteomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy technologies, HLI is building the world's most comprehensive database of human genotypes and phenotypes as a basis for a variety of commercialization opportunities to help solve aging related disease and human biological decline. HLI will be licensing access to its database, and developing new diagnostics and therapeutics as part of their product offerings. For more information please visit, http://www.humanlongevity.com
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We discuss what quarantine standards should be placed on health care workers if any.
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No Ebola Quarantine, Greenspan says Buy Gold, Obama Care Update
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Health-care reform has become a central issue in the Congressional District 1 race, but the discussion rarely dives into details.
Republican Andy Tobin and his conservative backers have been attacking Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick for her support of Obamacare.
Fact: Ann Kirkpatrick voted for Obamacare, even though a majority of our district opposes the law, says a post on Tobins Facebook page.
Policies are being canceled, premiums are going up, patients are losing their doctors. Still, Congresswoman Kirkpatrick supports Obamacare, says an ad paid for by Americans for Prosperity.
But its been a year since the botched rollout, and while Kirkpatrick has been forced to defend her votes, shes also been pointing to positive outcomes of the Affordable Care Act and turning the criticism to Tobin.
He fought Medicaid expansion, and 21,000 people in my district just signed up for Medicaid, Kirkpatrick said on the Buckmaster Show, a Tucson news radio program.
That number comes from a Democratic staff report from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that lists the benefits of the Affordable Care Act.
Using the numbers and saying, You may not like it, but its working, is the best defense Kirkpatrick has, said Democratic strategist Bob Grossfeld, owner of The Media Guys, a Phoenix communications firm.
But thats not going to stop the attack ads with this lingering Obamacare is evil message designed to equate Kirkpatrick with an unpopular president and to fire up the Republican Partys base voters, he said.
Greg Vigdor, president and chief executive officer of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association, said he understands what campaigns are trying to convey, but they dont really say what the expansion of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the states Medicaid program, was all about. He said it was really about using federal dollars to restore coverage to a population the state covered in the past.
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Health-care spending was supposed to be the insatiable monster, gobbling up provincial budgets until there was little money left over for other programs.
But in the last three years, spending on health has actually slowed down. It is still rising, just not at the breakneck pace of the last decade, according to a new report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), the agency that crunches numbers on Canadas health-care system.
This year, Canada is projected to post health-care spending growth of 2.1 per cent, the slowest rate of growth in 17 years. That is a much lower rate than the roughly 7-per-cent annual increases that were the norm from 2000 to 2010, the report says.
Experts say the trend toward less-ravenous health-care budgets is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, largely because cash-strapped provincial governments have little choice but to rein in the systems costs. Austerity measures and budget deficits have forced some provinces to re-examine how they spend scarce health-care dollars.
One of the things that theyve been trying very hard to do is do cost constraint and start getting a little bit more efficient around how they do things, said Raisa Deber, a professor of health policy at the University of Toronto.
But there are potential pitfalls on the road to continued restraint: If the provinces cannot keep a lid on what they pay nurses and doctors, or if a slew of new, expensive prescription drugs floods the market, spending could begin to rise more sharply again.
Health-care spending increases are slowing against the backdrop of a looming change in how Ottawa contributes to health care, the largest line item for provincial budgets.
Last March, the 10-year, $41-billion Canada Health Accord expired and with it the guarantee of a 6-per-cent annual increase in health-transfer payments to the provinces.
The federal government has already promised to maintain the 6-per-cent increases until 2017, but after that, Ottawa will rely on economic growth and inflation figures to determine the increase, a formula that some premiers warn will leave a hole in their health-care budgets. The Conservatives have said, however, that they will not let the increase drop below 3 per cent per year.
[The federal government] has made it clear that this is all really a provincial responsibility and all they are going to do is hand over some dollars from time to time, said Colleen Flood, a University of Ottawa law professor who specializes in health policy. Lots of people have various opinions about that, but in a way I think it has been good from the perspective of making it very clear that the provinces really need to take responsibility and run their respective health-care systems adroitly.
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