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CNN reports on the growing debate over how nonprofit groups value?or over-value?their donations of medications, clothes, and other noncash gifts.
The article looks at Charity Services International, which brokers in-kind donations for 50 nonprofit clients, including SPCA International and the Disabled Veterans National Foundation. The veterans group?s claims about its giving have prompted a Senate inquiry.
Luke Hingson of Brother?s Brother, a Pittsburgh organization that ships donated goods worldwide, and Daniel Borochoff, head of watchdog group CharityWatch, assert that some nonprofits inflate the value of in-kind gifts so they can report lower overhead.
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Sarah: Welcome to another diet.com fitness video I am Sarah your hose and once again I am joined by Bobby transformation expert Steven Cabral. Today he is going to be showing me the advance body weight work out. So no equipment necessary you can pretty much do it anywhere. So Steven what are we going to be doing today?Steven: Going through four separate exercises that can be done as two separate super sets or one giant circuit.Sarah: Okay so let us get started.Steven: All right.[Music Playing] All right our first exercise that we are going to do today is called T-twist push ups it is going to work on your upper body as well as your core muscles including your oblique. So I will have you get down into a push up position. Keeping your core engaged, I am going to have you go straight down into a push up. Good, your feet about foot apart, let them fall to the side as you reach up keeping your hips up, your core engage great work. Right back down push up and now alternate sides. Nice work, I am going to have you do anywhere from 16 to 20 reps today. Give you a nice little challenge. Second exercise today was called the pistol. So it is a one legged squat with your leg out in front. Hands right up in front, keep your core engage and I want you to sit back into that left hip. Let us have keep your eyes looking forward, sitting back trying not to let the front knee or your left knee to over the toe. Just sit back deep into that hip, good right back up. Keep your chest up, fix your eye on one point in front of you. Good then right back up. have you sit back in your left heel, keeping your chest up drive right back up through that heel. So breathe in, breathe out push back up hard. Nice work, so ten reps per side after you finish ten on your left you will switch to your right. All right Sarah third exercise if going to be down and up dog. So we are getting the downward facing dog position, hands down about shoulder width apart, pushing back weights on the heels. You want to keep your elbows in tight to your body and I want you to swoop down and forth keeping your nose close to the ground. Good, do not let the hips touch and now let us keep those elbows in face down, push back onto the heel great work. That is a really best exercise trying to keep those elbows in tight as in easy a lot of triceps involved. Good, back down, almost like a little push up position pushing back up. last exercise today is called Brazilian crunches. It is time to get down to push up position, good feet about shoulder width apart for this one if you like. Keeping the core engaged, I want you to drop one hip onto the other and try to bring the opposite knee to the opposite elbow. Right back down, so you never actually do a push up, you keep your elbows slightly bent the whole time and you bring one hip onto the other. Dropping down get into the knee to touch right above the elbow. Those are great. And so after we finish 20 to 24 reps of these you can even go higher on them, that will be your fourth exercise and you will be done for the work out. So with this you can either do two super sets again. So you do the first two exercises paired and the second two exercises paired for two to three sets or you can do all four exercises as one giant circuit. Either way did a great work out.
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Village of Endicott, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Some pro hockey players take on a different sport to raise money for a local community group.
Johnson City native Jerry D?Amigo of the AHL?s Toronto Marlies was joined by Philadelphia Flyers? Tom Sestito and others in trading in the sticks for nine irons at En Joie this afternoon.
It?s all for the group called S.C.O.R.E (Skating Community for Opportunities in Recreation and Enrichment), which is raising money to build a local ice rink and community center in Endicott.
?It?s a great cause. It?s for a great thing and I?m glad to be out here golfing and it?s on a beautiful course, so why not,? said D?Amigo.
?Grippen Park provided so much recreation and activities for kids for years here in this part of Endicott, Western Broome. We?re trying to recreate that with our own community grass roots project,? said President Jim Tofte.
The event concluded Friday evening with a block party. Featured auction items included a signed NHL All Star Jersey and autographed Barry Sanders Jersey.
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7:15 PM: Scott Wolf of the L.A. Daily News notes that French swimmer Clement Lefert's gold medal in the 400m Sunday relay means that a USC athlete has won gold in every Olympics since 1912.
7:00 PM: A Lauderdale County (Alabama) judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Hatton High School football coach after he was fired at the end of last season.
6:45 PM: U.S. Olympic women's soccer goalie Hope Solo won't face any discipline from team coach Pia Sundhage after Solo took to Twitter to complain about commenting from Brandi Chastain.
6:30 PM: In response to criticism against NBC for tape-delaying the Olympic opening ceremony & other events, someone has created an "NBC Delayed" Twitter account. First post on Sunday: "BREAKING: American colonists announce independence, King to respond."
6:15 PM: Singer Tom Jones had to cancel his Olympic celebration concert scheduled for Saturday in Hyde Park after contracting bronchitis.
6:00 PM: The Houston Astros defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-5 Sunday to end their club-record 12-game losing streak.
5:45 PM: The Spanish men's soccer team was eliminated from the Olympics after Sunday's 1-0 defeat to Honduras, while Senegal gave Uruguay its first-ever Olympic defeat in a 2-0 win.
5:30 PM: The Cincinnati Reds say that play-by-play announcer Marty Brennaman will have his head shaved if the Reds beat the Rockies today. Brennaman made the pledge at the start of the season that he would do it if the Reds won 10 straight games.
5:15 PM: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Sunday he wants his team to return to its "glory hole" days.
5:00 PM: NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson won his fourth Brickyard 400 title at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, tying the record set by Jeff Gordon.
4:45 PM: ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale tweets that Illinois is "totally classless" for trying to recruit football players from Penn State.
4:30 PM: Iowa Hawkeyes RB De'Andre Johnson has been suspended indefinitely following his two arrests in the past three days. Johnson was cited Thursday for loud music at his home, and was arrested Saturday for speeding & evading police.
4:15 PM: U.S. Olympic swimmer Dana Vollmer set a new world record in the 100m butterfly Sunday. Vollmer's time of 55.98 was 0.08 seconds faster than the previous mark.
4:00 PM: "Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston tweets some advice to Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps: "Channel your inner Walter White. As you look at the water imagine blue crystal and say to yourself, I AM the danger!."
3:45 PM: New York Jets LB Bart Scott says of Tim Tebow removing his top at practice: "I've never seen anybody decide to take their shirt off in the rain. Maybe it was holy water ... I don't know."
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In today?s business world, online marketing isn?t just effective; it?s essential
At one time, business essentials were limited to business cards, yellow page ads and brochures. Newspapers, radio and television were used by cutting-edge businesses of yore and still reap huge rewards for big-businesses today. Mass media are generally just not cost-effective for most local businesses. In the 21st Century, it?s clear that the impact of these tools is diminished by the world wide web. We search for products and services online from our desktops, laptops and cell phones. Yet most local business owners don?t take advantage of the affordability and profits available through online marketing.
Like a business plan and a budget, an Internet marketing strategy is essential for modern-day small business success. While a website provides a good starting point, online marketing requires more than a couple of static web pages. Instead, a successful internet approach requires a dynamic and well-rounded web presence that builds relationships in addition to sales, fans in addition to customers.
A comprehensive Internet marketing strategy replaces newspaper ads with banner ads, yellow pages with search engines, snail mail with e-mail, town squares with social networks and sales letters with custom content. The technology is as evolutionary as it is revolutionary, and smart businesses are taking advantage of current environment to trounce their competition.
Tools and technology aside, there are dozens of reasons to engage actively and often in Internet marketing. Here are a few of the most persuasive:
1. When they need information, modern-day consumers go online; your successful internet marketing program will make sure they find you when they are shopping for your product or service.
2. Online marketing has tremendous research potential; if nothing else, companies should engage in online marketing research in order to collect data about their customers, prospects and competitors.
3. By marketing on the internet, companies can reach a highly targeted audience; what?s more, they can reach it quickly, intimately and more cost-effectively online than traditional marketing approaches.
4. Online marketing lends itself to instant conversions. Customers can quickly and easily find what they want and immediately click through to purchase it.
5. Compared with many traditional marketing vehicles, Internet marketing services are both more affordable and more effective.
6. Internet marketing provides marketing power to local business owners; by marketing online, your company can enjoy big-business marketing exposure on a local marketing budget.
Action Steps. Some contacts and resources to help you get started with your online marketing:
Search engine marketing strengthens your online marketing strategy.
Once you have a website, Internet marketing via search engines will help your customers find it. Consider search engine optimization, which will improve your search engine rankings, and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, which markets your company via relevant, targeted search engine queries.
ACTION: Before you build a web site, use Wordtracker?s free keyword suggestion tool to choose keywords; use those keywords in your descriptions and meta-tags, PPC advertising via Google AdWords and Yahoo! Sponsored Search in order to build search engine traffic.
Select appropriate display advertising and leverage online marketing tools
Display advertising, including banner ads, is a basic form of online marketing. Because you?ll pay for impressions ? banner ads are usually priced using CPM, or cost per thousand impressions ? make sure you place ads only on websites that your target markets visit.
ACTION: Yahoo! Advertising provides Internet marketing services to design, purchase and place your Internet advertisements
Public relations promotes your online marketing image
Marketing on the internet includes more than advertising; it?s also about public relations. Generate publicity online and continually monitor, build and maintain your online reputation.
ACTION: Include Google Alerts in your online marketing strategy. Use them to keep tabs on mentions of your name, your company and your products online; search Technorati for mentions in blogs and social media. And, when you write press releases, distribute them via a newswire service like PRWeb, which allows you to tag your release for exposure on social bookmarking sites like Digg and Del.iciou.us.
Engage e-mail marketing to reach your online market
Promotional e-mails, including targeted messages and periodic e-mail newsletters, are effective, opt-in tools for one-to-one marketing. Send news or send coupons, but whatever you do, don?t spam.
ACTION: VerticalResponse is a popular e-mail marketing vendor that can help you develop and execute a one-on-one marketing strategy; browse its resources page for e-mail marketing research, tips and advice.
Pursue affiliate marketing to leverage online marketing relationships
A collaborative approach to Internet marketing, affiliate marketing consists of advertisements on other people?s websites. When a customer clicks on the ads and visits your website, your affiliate gets a small commission. You can also reverse the process and get profits from promoting other vendors? products
ACTION: LinkShare and ClickBank are examples of companies that provide affiliate-focused internet marketing services, AffiliateScout.com and AffiliatePrograms.com are directories where you can search for affiliate networks based on location, industry, etc.
Make blogging an integral piece of your internet marketing strategy
Blogs offer business owners an affordable and personable way to connect online with customers. Blogging about your business, your industry and your life positions you as an expert, an advocate and most importantly, a real person.
ACTION: For a low monthly fee, you can publish your own blog via sites like TypePad and Movable Type; Blogger and WordPress, meanwhile, are free. Don?t forget to market your blog via RSS feeds; while most blogging software will create RSS feeds for you, online marketing companies like SimpleFeed can help, too.
Get involved in social networks to broaden your online reach
Social networks are the networking component to your modern-day online marketing strategy; giving your company a presence on popular social networks especially engages younger consumers and turns them into brand evangelists.
ACTION: While MySpace, Friendster and Facebook tend to be the most attractive social networks for companies who are marketing on the Internet, other sites, such as Second Life and Twitter, are becoming major players. Still other sites, like LinkedIn, are proving themselves important stomping grounds for B2B marketers.
Photos and video provide impact to your online marketing
Use pictures of your business, staff and customers everywhere you can. Images touch us emotionally and convey messages quickly. Remember that surfers have short attention-spans.
ACTION: Start taking pictures of your business? world right now, poast them to your website and social sites, like your Facebook page.
Release viral marketing to spread your online marketing message
Whether you send a viral e-mail, produce a viral video or build a viral website, Internet marketing of the viral variety spreads far and fast, allowing you to start small and finish big.
ACTION: Consider uploading branded media to sites like YouTube, Revver or Flickr. A video or photo that goes viral can attract heaps of new business.
Generate online word of mouth with consumer-driven Internet marketing efforts
Internet marketing is about interactivity. Give your customers a platform for expressing-and sharing-their opinions online in order to build buzz and goodwill.
ACTION: Customer reviews provide credibility for companies that give consumers the power to do their Internet marketing for them; while many shopping cart solutions, such as Zoovy, now include built-in customer review functions, companies like PowerReviews specialize in them.
Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Online Marketing Guide
o More than advertising for your website, Internet marketing should provide you with an entire online brand. Your Internet marketing strategy should go beyond just making sales and toward building an engaging online web presence.
o Don?t put all your eggs in one basket. When you?re marketing online, reserve a portion of your budget for offline advertising, such as direct mail, which you can use to push traffic to your website.
o Keep in mind that not all online advertising can be bought; a big part of Internet marketing is building relationships and earning reputations.
o Whether off-line or online, marketing requires a clear and comprehensive understanding of your target customers. Find out who your best customers are and where you can find them online, then go after them.
o Internet marketing is about usefulness. It?s not enough to build a pretty website; you must also build one that?s engaging and easy to use. If you focus your Internet marketing strategy on creating a positive user experience, it will eventually be profitable to you.
By Jack Duncan, internet marketing expert, Radiance Road Marketing, Lakeland, FL
Jack Duncan has more than 25 years marketing, advertising and public relations experience consulting for small businesses. He started Radiance Road Marketing to help Lakeland, FL business owners profit from internet marketing opportunities. Visit his website http://www.radianceroadmarketing.com to discover more tips, strategies and services to grow your business by marketing online or call him at (863) 668-1086 to ask questions.
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NOTE: Just after finishing this and while brushing my teeth outside my tent, I almost ran into a couple of musk ox or rather, they almost ran into me. I was watching another musk ox grazing across the river half a mile away when I heard something, looked down and saw two more walking towards me. I was on a rock just above them and as soon as they saw me they charged straight up the hill, almost right at me. I jumped up and ran backwards out of their way as they ran right past me and up the hill overlooking our camp. There, they stopped and looked back to figure out what I was.
A musk ox trying to look like a lion. This guy and his friend stared us down for a good ten minutes before running away.
I d read that musk ox always like to get to higher ground when they feel threatened but I guess I m still surprised at how serious they are about it. I ran to get the rest of the team and together we took some pictures of them running through our camp. What an exciting end to the day! It s moments like these that make working in Greenland worth it.
My hope is that the stories in this post and the previous speak to a wider audience about climate change, glaciers, and field science. I realize that I could ve done a better job with citations throughout this post but hopefully you ll forgive me as I m writing all this in a tent in Greenland and don t have access to journal articles I would normally have if I had Internet. I ve listed a few papers at the end of each that you can check out. For anyone who s interested, I d encourage you to look at the websites listed at the end of this post. I think the Wikipedia pages on global warming and climate change are great places learn the basics of climate change.
Thanks for reading! I?ll be home in a month!
A Breakthrough: A Glacier Moves When Our Probe Says So
?What do you have on July 16??
A musk ox trying not to look like a big chicken. This is what they do when they feel spooked run uphill, in this case toward the photographer.
If this were a movie, the music would be tense and building; this was the moment of truth. It was late in the evening and Andrew Tedstone, a graduate student at Edinburgh University, and I were huddled over our laptops, the orange glow of the mess tent in the low sun were lighting our faces. Chocolate bars and mugs of steaming hot powdered milk were spread out on the big metal box that serves as our dining table.
Andrew s lab group specializes in deploying extremely accurate global positioning systems (GPS) on glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet (see Bartholomew et al., 2010). Amazingly, the GPS stations can precisely measure hourly changes in glacial uplift, acceleration, and thinning. On Leverett Glacier, the stations have observed small daily surges in glacial uplift and acceleration as well as large glacial surges several times a summer.
How, why, when, and how much glaciers move are surprisingly complex questions and scientists have spent decades looking into these problems. We know that glaciers grow when there is more snowfall than melt and that they are pulled downhill by gravity. Anecdotal evidence, such as old photos and people s memories, tell us that more of the world?s glaciers are shrinking than growing and that most seem to be melting faster every year. Decades of data collected by satellites, GPS stations, and field scientists have confirmed these observations and on the whole ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica, as well as most alpine glaciers everywhere, are melting rather than growing.
The meltwater river flowing from Leverett Glacier is running at record levels. Compare this to the photo of camp in the first post.
Last season, I deployed a new type of water chemistry probe designed to measure the fraction of glacial meltwater that had been ?delayed,? or stored at the base of the ice sheet. This delayed water fraction is hypothesized to be responsible for daily cycles in glacial uplift and in seasonal surges in the movement of glaciers. It seems that, to understand how ice is transported from the high cold interiors of the Greenland Ice Sheet to its edges, one has to understand this delayed water. However, proving this has been difficult, as the delayed water fraction doesn t seem to have a reliable chemical or physical signal to differentiate it from the rest of the meltwater. We hoped my new water probe would be able to detect this delayed water fraction like no other method could.
?Let me check. OK July 16, the GPS stations recorded a major glacial uplift followed by one of the biggest accelerations of the season.?
?Wow you re kidding! That was the biggest peak my water probe recorded too! OK let s check June 15, what time of day was the glacier moving fastest??
?On June 15? The glacier accelerated fastest at 2:15 p.m.?
?That s exactly what my water probe predicted!?
I couldn t believe it, the water probe my lab had developed was telling us in real time when the glacier was physically moving. It was as if we d stuck a magic wand into the river coming out from beneath the glacier, and it told us what time of day the glacier was moving and, in relative terms, by how much. What s more, the chemical mixing model we d built was predicting the volume of delayed water responsible for each daily uplift observed by the GPS stations. Everyday, the ice sheet was being lifted up, moved slightly forward, and set back down as this delayed flow water passed beneath it.
The problem with having a scientific breakthrough is that no awesome music starts up like in the movies. It s just you and your friend, sitting in a tent late at night dunking chocolate bars in mugs of warm powdered milk.
Rising Rivers
And there's even more water where that came from.
For the four of us in camp, the rising river increases our chances of being marooned. Because two rivers and the Greenland Ice Sheet surround us, we are on a sort of island. During peak meltwater flow, herds of musk ox and caribou become stranded on the island with us. Leverett River, is currently huge and drains a large section of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Another river, the Russell, drains the next glacier to the north. Our boat crossing is on the Russell River and, although it is significantly smaller than the Leverett, the Russell is prone to large, unpredictable outbursts that cause the river to rise rapidly (over the course of several days) and stay high for weeks on end. Last season, I crossed without incident on July 4, but several days later,two members from our team made the crossing in the morning, spent the day in town and returned that evening to find the river doubled in size and full of icebergs. We shut down the river crossing and a helicopter had to fly several people in and out of camp. I wasn t able to get out on those flights, so I stayed in camp a week longer than expected, waiting out the high water. The river was finally safe to cross again on August 10.
During the two seasons before last, the boat crossing was at a wider, slower section of the Russell that seemed to handle strong currents better. However, wider crossing was ripped out during a massive outburst event in August 2010. The river went back down a few weeks later and everyone stuck in camp were able to walk across the river in chest waders.
We had hoped to find another, more suitable location for our boat crossing this season, but found nothing even remotely better or safer than the 2011 location, so there it s stayed. If the river becomes too large to cross again this year, those of us on the camp side will have to wait out the high water because we are out of funding for a helicopter resupply or evacuation. Fortunately, we seem to have plenty of expired canned hot dogs.
If we are again marooned in our camp, I ll send a satellite phone call to get a note put up on this blog that our team is stuck on one side of the river and to check back later.
References
Bartholomew, I., Nienow, P., Mair, D., Hubbard, A., King, M.A., Sole, A., 2010. Seasonal evolution of subglacial drainage and acceleration in a Greenland outlet glacier. Nat Geosci 3, 408-411.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution s website about the ocean and climate
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Wikipedia page on global warming
All photos by Ben Linhoff, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Previously in this series:
Following the Ice: Greenland
Following the Ice: In the Beginning
Following the Ice: Glacial Dam
Ice Day: Like a nice day, but not
Following the Ice: Is this Global Warming?
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There are several things that athletes must understand about sports conditioning training. Proper conditioning for athletes is one of the debated topics in sports, and for good reason. This is simply because every athletic training professional has their own unique opinion about the most effective ways to proper condition an athlete for their specific sport.
For sports conditioning, you must understand four unique questions.
By answering these four questions, athletes can sufficiently develop a sports conditioning training regime.
Energy Systems
Understanding the two energy systems is essential for every athlete. There are two systems utilized during training, practice, and in games. Anaerobic conditioning is any movement or exercise that last for less than two minutes.
These exercises are usually designed to build explosion or speed, increase lean muscle, decrease fat, and increase conditioning levels because most anaerobic routines are high intensity.
Examples: plyometrics, sprinting, weightlifting
Sports Examples: pitching, sprinting, hitting, rebounding, scoring a touchdown
Aerobic conditioning is the exact opposite. It is any exercise lasting more than two minutes, and is typically at one speed or a long period of time. These exercises will reduce fat levels, but can also reduce muscle mass if overused. Aerobic conditioning strengthens the slow twitch fibers.
Examples: long distance running, swimming, cycling
Sports Examples: cross-country, triathlons
Linear v. Non-linear
Understanding whether your sport is linear or non-linear can determine which method of conditioning training would be most appropriate for you. Linear is any movement in a straight line, while non-linear is a movement requiring change of direction.
Most sports are non-linear, and it?s important your conditioning techniques involve high levels of non-linear movements. Linear training such as sprints or hill sprints is essential, but non-linear sports to work on developing better change of direction.
Linear sports like cross-country or sprinting can typically rely more on the linear approach, but non-linear conditioning can be useful for these athletes.
Is your sport explosive?
It?s pretty easy to figure out whether or not your sport is explosive. If at any point, you need to accelerate into motion or change direction, then your sport is explosive. If so, your conditioning training should be designed to increase this explosion and anaerobic ability. Football players shouldn?t be running long distance.
Training Year-Round
To achieve high conditioning levels, athletes must train year-round. In many instances, athletes are maintaining their gains during the season, and increasing their conditioning capacity during the off-season.
Sports conditioning training is complex and is completely dependent on the sport. By understanding the concepts that I listed, you will be able to develop your own routine that is specific to the nature of your sport.
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The Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement will help to realize Georgia Tech's new strategic plan, which emphasizes the need to develop students capable of global leadership and students who are civically minded. The Office will play a vital role in the Institute's drive to develop leadership competencies within its student population. Through interactive learning and development experiences, the Office will focus on the development of core competencies related to leadership and service.
Georgia Tech is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Consistent with its obligations under federal law, each company that is a federal contractor or subcontractor is committed to taking affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified women, minorities, disabled individuals, special disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam era, and other eligible veterans.
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This news story is erroneous and factually incorrect because SMSL has made NO such apology or retraction.? SMSL is determined to and will continue to defend the rights of citizens to free speech, to campaign for a clean and safe future for our family and our country.
Mr Tan Bun Teet representing SMSL has written to the Editor of the IBT seeking a public apology and immediate correction to the article. ?SMSL will take up legal action against the IBT if no apology and retraction is made. ?SMSL will also lodge a complaint with the Australian Journalists Association which is strict on journalistic ethics and professionalism.
SMSL is committed to fighting Lynas until the end, including its defamation suit. It is the online news portal Free Malaysia Today that has chosen to apologise to Lynas and retracted the so-claimed defamatory statement.? Its action has no bearing nor association with SMSL?s current or future direction.
SMSL remained firmed on our stance and our statements about the Lynas rare earth plant because we have reliable information and relevant professional experts to back up our statements in court.
Towards this end, SMSL is highly appreciative of the strong spirit of solidarity and support demonstrated by civil society groups and concerned individuals all over Malaysia and overseas. ?
The Lynas rare earth project is not just a Kuantan issue as it will affect the whole nation. ?No one should tolerate a foreign company building a risky plant of the scale and size in a developing country with limited capacity to monitor, assess and managed.
The 12-year tax break granted to a project in exchange for a massive amount of hazardous and radioactive waste to contaminate Malaysia forever is a last straw on a camel's back for us.? This is the most ludicrous political decision the government has made.
Tax payers and citizens expect a Government to exercise its duty of care to ensure a nation's well beings and long-term future are secured not to subject citizens to the hazards of Lynas? radiation and toxic waste.
Source: http://savemalaysia-stoplynas.blogspot.com/2012/07/clarification-over-international.html
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Juan Pablo Escobar speaks via video conference call about his experience as the son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, at the Illicit Networks Forces in Opposition conference held by Google Ideas in Westlake Village, Calif., on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Google wants to take on Mexico's powerful drug cartels, offering technological solutions to a grinding drug war that has horrified the country for the past six years.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. (AP) - Google, so far, has won the search engine wars. Now it wants to target international crime, including Mexico's powerful drug cartels. Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.'s executive chairman, has taken a keen interest in Mexico, where more than than 47,500 people have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calder?n launched an offensive against the cartels in 2006. Schmidt recently visited most of Mexico's most violent cities, Ciudad Juarez, where civic leaders asked if he could help.
"Defeated, helpless, these people have been so hardened in their experience with cartels that they have lost battles and they have lost hope," Schmidt told a conference on international crime this week. "They were looking for a universal hammer to protect them. For me the answer was obvious. It was technology."
Experts told the conference that Mexico's cartels often use more sophisticated technology than law enforcement. Cartel assets include mapping software that tracks the location of police from high-tech control rooms; remote control submarines; and military grade rocket launchers.
Drug-dealing organizations can intercept satellite feeds, including images broadcast by intelligence agency drones. They run money laundering networks that handle an estimated $25 billion a year in drug profits.
"It's a technological arms race, and at this moment they're winning," said Marc Goodman, founder of Future Crimes, who studies the nexus of
technology and transnational crime. "But there's never been an operating system that hasn't been hacked."Google's immense intelligence assets can be brought to bear on the cartels, Schmidt suggested.
Google's ideas include creating a network so citizens can safely report cartel activity without fear of retribution. It wants to make sharing real-time intelligence easier among police in different regions. It can identify how individuals are connected to each other, to bank accounts and even to corrupt government officials. It can create community Web platforms for citizens to share information and name and shame criminals.
Talk also addressed human and arms trafficking, exploitation of child soldiers, and airport and seaport security.
Nancy Roberts, a defense analysis professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, Calif., noted that in Mexico, police officials can tap phones, use tracking devices and tap into computer networks. But that does little unless someone can sort through the evidence.
"Our jobs are making sense of all the data so law enforcement knows how, when and where to strike," she said.
Juan Zarate, a former U.S. deputy national security adviser, insisted that cyber connections between private financial institutions and central banks are the "Achilles heel" of criminal organizations "because financial trails don't lie."
But Eduardo Guerrero, a Mexico City-based security consultant, wasn't optimistic that technology alone can disrupt narcotraffickers.
"You should never underestimate the power of these guys," Guerrero said. "They're probably even aware of what's going on here, and will figure out a way to use it to their advantage."
Even Google's Schmidt conceded that better use of information isn't enough.
"I think at the end of the day, there really are bad people, and you have to go in and arrest them and kill them," he said.
The conference in Westlake Village, Calif., was organized by Google's think tank, Google Ideas, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Participants included Ian Biddle, an arms broker; former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff; Ron Noble, secretary general of Interpol, the international police agency; Anthoney DeChellis, CEO of Credit Suisse private banking; and Juan Pablo Escobar, son of the slain Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Juan Pablo Escobar talked about the challenges of quitting a drug cartel.
Source: http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_21103270/google-takes-aim-at-mexicos-drug-cartels?source=rss_viewed
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VIENNA (AP) ? In Vienna's legendary coffee-house tradition, a free glass of tap water with your coffee has been a cherished part of everyday life.
Now many Viennese are up in arms over a movement by restaurateurs to start charging for tap.
It amounts to cultural sacrilege in a city where delicious tap water ? fed by Alpine springs ? is seen as a birthright, and part of the whole experience of lounging in centuries-old cafes or savoring young wine at one of the Austrian capital's many leafy outdoor eateries.
For now, payment is voluntary, with 11 restaurants participating in a charity campaign meant to collect funds for clean water-starved Sierra Leone. But the establishments pocket half the water fee and prominent restaurateurs are starting to lobby for an obligatory tap water charge, unrelated to aid for Africa, just as the charity program has begun.
Many Viennese suspect that the Sierra Leone campaign and industry calls to charge for water cannot be pure coincidence. Some see a cynical ploy to take advantage of charitable feeling for extra profit.
And many are determined to resist.
To charge for water would "be absolutely outrageous as far as I'm concerned," says Marinko Medic.
Doris Roitner calls the idea "unacceptable." Caroline Wehner, herself a waitress, says a free glass of water with an order should routinely be "part of good service in Vienna."
Admittedly, the water dispute takes a back burner even in smug Vienna to the debt crisis threatening Spain, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and other countries in the 17-nation zone using the euro.
But for now, prosperous Austria's involvement in the crisis is restricted to people fretting that their tax euros may be spent frivolously in helping bankroll risky bailouts, and there is a feeling of disconnect with Europe's less privileged. At 3.9 percent, Austria's unemployment rate is the lowest in the EU and its economy continues to expand at a time of standstill or contraction in much of the rest of the continent.
All the more reason for interest in an issue close to the hearts and wallets of the Viennese. Much of the city lives from the hospitality industry, earning over 16 billion euros (nearly $20 billion) from tourists in 2010.
Its coffee-house culture ? including tuxedo-clad waiters and that free glass of water ? was born in the 17th century after the Turks introduced coffee to the Austrian capital. Almost as long-established is the free pitcher of water served with each carafe of young wine brought to wash down delicious al fresco tavern fare.
Few drinking and dining establishments in other EU countries with drinkable tap water put a price on it, and Vienna takes pride both in its water quality and its restaurant service. Asked recently about paying for tap water at city eateries, more than two-thirds of 3,096 respondents surveyed by the daily Kurier rejected the idea.
The charity running the Sierra Leone project says part of the idea is to "strengthen awareness for the incalculable value of clean water" in a city where taps are fed by pristine Alpine streams and rivers.
But participating restaurants keep half of the price of 2 euros per liter ($2.45 per quart). And prominent Viennese eatery and cafe owners have started to clamor for an end to free tap water, just as the Chamber of Commerce launched a poll of restaurateurs asking for their views on the matter. All of that has sharpened suspicions that eateries are really just out for a profit.
"People used to drink four mugs of beer, now they drink three and a glass of water," says Bernt Querfeld, who comes from a Vienna cafe dynasty and runs some of the city's most frequented establishments. "Water is free for now but I cannot tell you whether it will stay that way for long."
Proponents of charging for water deny that their calls are linked to the charity project. But critics are not convinced.
Vienna tourism director Norbert Kettner last week called for an end to the Sierra Leone campaign, describing it as "an attempt by certain gastronomes to reduce service using the excuse of a charity action."
"The good reputation of Destination Vienna is compromised," by such actions, Kettner said, describing the free glass of water "as a traditional service in Vienna's gastronomy."
Querfeld is not impressed, saying guests do not realize the extra costs ? and work ? that serving those free glasses generate.
"When I was a child, my father used to tell me: 'If you're thirsty go to the toilet and drink the tap dry,'" he told Kurier, the Austrian daily.
"'But I don't want to see you bothering the waiters.'"
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Associated Press writers across Europe contributed.
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The alleged gunman in an Alabama bar shooting is caught on tape. NBCNews.com's Dara brown reports.
By NBC News staff and affiliates
Police arrested a suspect Tuesday in the Tuscaloosa, Ala., bar shooting spree that left 17 people injured.
Four of the 17 remain hospitalized, according to local reports. One person is in extreme critical condition, and three others are in serious critical condition, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson said in a televised news conference Tuesday.
A?report in the Tuscaloosa News?quoted Sgt. Brent Blankley, of the Tuscaloosa Police, as saying the shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday at Copper Top bar. A gunman with a military-style assault rifle fired at least 11 shots into the bar in the city?s Temerson Square.
The shooter then fired at fleeing patrons.
Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson said at least one victim in the bar was the shooter?s target.
A man who allegedly opened fire outside a crowded bar walks in downtown Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tuesday morning. Tuscaloosa police say 17 people were wounded when a gunman opened fire outside a crowded bar in downtown Tuscaloosa.
The 17 people injured in the shooting were admitted to DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Mary Wyatt, spokesperson for the hospital, told?NBC News affiliate WAFF. Three of the 17 injured were students at the nearby University of Alabama, Anderson said.
The police department issued a security camera image of the suspect?via its Twitter feed, which showed a man from the back as he walks down a sidewalk with what appears to be a gun in one hand.
?The individuals there were very blessed that they were not killed,? Sgt. Blankley?told NBC News affiliate WVTM.
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Dr. Sylvia O. Blyden standing at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Press Center yesterday just before the Press Briefing started
Beijing, China?- ?Sylvia O. Blyden (in China) & Aruna Turay (in Freetown) -??The Government of the People?s Republic of China has yesterday July 18th 2012 signalled its approval and readiness to assist the people of Sierra Leone harness the best out of their natural resources. Director General of the Department of African Affairs at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Mr. Lu Shaye, was speaking in response to a question put to him by the Awareness Times publisher at a jam-packed international press conference in Beijing, the capital of China.
Dr. Sylvia Blyden who was amongst selected journalists from around the world who were specially invited to China to cover the past few days of China-Africa celebrations, had asked Mr. Lu Shaye who chaired yesterday?s press conference, to speak of the Chinese Government?s position with respect to the massive 1.5 Billion U.S. Dollars Foreign Direct Investment by China?s Shandong Iron & Steel Group into the African Minerals iron ore mines at Tonkolili, Northern Sierra Leone.
?That is a good investment from our Shandong Province. It is infact a very good example of China-Africa win-win cooperation. China and the Chinese Government stand ready to cooperate with Sierra Leone to change its natural resources into its capabilities of development? Lu Shaye responded.
Director-General of African Affairs Mr. Lu Shaye and Head of Chinese Foreign Ministry Communications, Mr. Wu Jie
Dr. Blyden also asked the Chinese Government if a planned Chinese development aid package to Africa to be announced by the Chinese President today July 19th 2012 will reveal how much assistance the Chinese are going to be giving to Sierra Leone specifically and if such assistance for African countries would be given according to the proportion of win-win benefit that China can reap from such countries.
?Tomorrow, the President will announce figures and proposals but will not name specific countries. That will be determined by other departments in China. There will be no discrimination according to size of resources but it will be equal cooperation determined by actual needs of specific African States and China?s own capabilities,? Lu Shaye responded at the international press briefing.
Meanwhile, back home, the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) functionaries have told this paper, those 2007 Elections Manifesto proposals of the APC for the economy insofar as foreign direct investment was concerned, were all on target and had ?surpassed our wildest expectations?. It is a fact that Sierra Leone currently enjoys the fastest predicted growth rate in the world and enjoys a massive foreign direct investment into Africa over the last 12 months despite its relatively small size.
An examination of the opening paragraph of the APC?s 2007 Elections Manifesto displays the APC?s lamentation that:
?Sierra Leone is endowed with rich human and diverse natural resources, yet its economic and social infrastructure are poorly developed. The economy under the [SLPP] Government is bankrupt and propped up by the grace of institutional donor funds which are grossly misused. Furthermore our economy is characterized by many factors including endemic institutional corruption, alarmingly chronic youth employment, unbearable cost of living and a lack of political resolve to check and curb corruption?.
The APC?s 2007 Manifesto had identified some key negative factors in this area to include large scale unemployment, low wages, weak private sector, and a difficult climate for doing business.
The APC had then proposed to commit itself to reviving the economy, creating a conducive atmosphere for doing business and embarking on policies that will enable the resumption of growth in the mining sector amongst others.
The APC had also promised to be ?pursuing policies that will promote private sector development and encouraging direct foreign investment?.
APC?s 2007 Manifesto had revealed strategies to include facilitating an investor friendly atmosphere all with the aim of creating jobs for the country?s population which was impoverished from years of chronic corruption and squirreling NPRC junta brutal rule and their siblings RUF rebel destructions.
Sylvia Blyden and other top International Journalists
Factually, foreign direct investors like the Chinese backed Tonkolili Iron Project of African Minerals and the London Mining?s flagship investment have created massive increase in well paid jobs in the country. They, amongst other credible investors have all helped to ensure that the APC?s dreams for Sierra Leone?s economy slowly comes to fruition despite the crippling global economic downturn which has seen large western economies like Greece, Italy, Spain, America and many, many others go down on their knees whilst prices of commodities on the world market skyrocketed.
However, as the APC Leader, President Koroma has repeatedly stated, his regime has worked extremely hard to cushion the effects of the global crisis on his citizens.
This, and the stated readiness of the Chinese Government to stand ready to support direct Chinese investment into Sierra Leone in order to help us develop, are amongst reasons why many APC members tell Awareness Times, they have their heads lifted high these days when they walk around the country and see so many of their 2007 Manifesto dreams have come true.
? 2012, Sylvia Olayinka Blyden. All rights reserved.
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?This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.? ?Ever since the advent of radio and television, these words have offered us a sense of connectedness and security.? While these tests had an uncanny way of interrupting the climactic moments of our favorite programs, they also comforted us.? In the case of a real emergency, we could sleep safely knowing that a system was in place to keep us informed and alert.
Today, social media has taken the world far beyond the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS).? The more tech-savvy members of the public now have a jump on the EBS through outlets such as Twitter and Facebook.? These social outlets have the ability to break news and provide real-time updates with far greater efficiency than traditional media sources.? With a large segment of the population essentially creating its own news and emergency networks, it has become imperative for those in crisis communication to integrate social media into their continuity plans.
In AT&T?s recent study on disaster planning, Chris Costello, assistant vice president, Offer Management, Cloud Services, observed that the executives who took part in the survey appear to be taking the initiative in building comprehensive continuity plans.? ?There?s certainly no shortage of potential threats or disasters around the world,? said Costello. ?We?ve seen a strong emphasis on IT security and continued growth in areas of cloud and mobile applications; implying that companies are embracing the tools and services needed to continue operational activities despite potential threats and disasters.?
Figures from the study certainly bear this out, with two-thirds of the executives surveyed saying they have incorporated wireless network capabilities into their continuity plans.? Over half of these executives also indicate that they only expect this investment to increase.
While the threat of environmental crises such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes persists, executives are also bolstering their defenses against ?virtual events? such as security breaches.? Incidents in the past year have clearly demonstrated this need. For instance, in 2011 prominent hacker group LulzSec exposed security gaps in Sony?s PlayStation network, releasing the confidential information such as credit card numbers and passwords of thousands of users.
The very public fallout from this and similar instances has reinforced the need for mobile security. ?According to the disaster planning study, 87 percent of executives have grown increasingly concerned over similar attacks through mobile networks and devices, and two-thirds have already incorporated security measures into their continuity plans.
In the advent of a crisis, the Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) program from AT&T is designed to strengthen the company?s business continuity and disaster recovery response. At the centerpiece of the NDR program is ?a fleet of over 320 equipment trailers and support vehicles that house the same equipment and components as an AT&T data-routing or voice-switching center.?
The company has invested over $600 million on this program to provide the public not only with the necessary equipment and resources during a disaster, but with a skilled workforce of managers, engineers and technicians specifically trained to implement disaster recovery strategies.
The design, implementation, and execution of a viable, comprehensive continuity plan simply make good business sense.? From corporate giants to mom-and-pop businesses, any brand incapable of responding to a crisis risks significant damage to its reputation.? In fact, according to this 2011 SunGard Availability Services Survey, three quarters of executives cited ?protection of reputation and brand? as the most important reason for building a strong continuity plan.
?In the connected age, news and opinions sometimes seem like they can travel faster than the speed of light,? says Patty Fitzgerald, Event Director at the Disaster Recovery Journal. ??A brand?s reputation can change overnight on reports of either a perceived misstep or an unlikely victory.??As a result, protecting brand image has become the number one motivator for developing comprehensive, viable continuity plans.??A brand capable of weathering even the worst of crises stands to gain a great deal in public esteem.?
As Tom Peters stated in a 2010 Blue Focus Marketing post on crisis management, ?Nothing is not branding.? Branding is how our organization lives in the world.?? Responsible social brands understand that, in order to protect their own needs in the event of a crisis, they must be ready to help protect and inform the public at large as well.? A brand that has invested its resources in building dynamic, engaged communities simply cannot risk abandoning those communities in their time of need.? With the 2012 hurricane season fast approaching, all businesses have an obligation to secure their infrastructure through a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
This post was originally published on AT&T?s Networking Exchange Blog.
Cheryl Burgess, Co-founder, Managing Partner and CMO of Blue Focus Marketing, is a creative and marketing technologist with expertise in B2B marketing, social business and social media. She blogs at Blue Focus Marketing?s blog. Also, she is an expert blogger for AT&T Networking Exchange on social media.She was awarded Wharton? View?full?profile
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Posted on: July 16th, 2012
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Salary:
Human Resources Manager will conduct all NJ Headquarters operations for the Pharmaceutical Products Business Group staff & support. In addition, will be responsible for coordinating and driving the Business Group Annual Career Management Process to be delivered to all Business Group Managing members and then followed by cluster board approval in accordance to corporate policy and guidelines. HRM will be the assumed project leader for various?HR projects that will be assigned in accordance to business need, including the internal communications lead for HQ Parsippany.
The qualified candidate must have:
For immediate consideration and to discuss the details further please send your resume in MS Word format to kim@theassurancegroup.com.
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Igor Luksic, the Montenegrin Prime Minister, started his first official visit to Azerbaijan on Monday.
After a meeting with President Ilhman Aliyev, he said that Montenegro was determined to expand economic relations with Azerbaijan.
Last week, a representative of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic, SOCAR, signed an agreement for a 90-year lease of the former military barracks in Kumbor, on Montenegro?s coast, with Predrag Sekulic, Minister of Tourism.
The oil company promised to build a tourist resort at the site, investing more than 250 million euro over the next eight years.
The two officials on Monday welcomed the signing of this agreement and also talked about deepening co-operation in the field of energetics and trade.?
They also suggested opening direct or charter airplane connections between the two countries.?
In a recent interview with the daily newspaper Pobjeda, Eldar Hasanov, ambassador of Azerbaijan, said his country planned to invest in a number of social projects in the municipality of Herceg Novi and in the north.
Some Montenegrins, including Vanja Calovic, head of the NGO Network for Affirmation of Non-Governmental Sector, MANS, have criticized the moves. Calovic says that "instead of eliminating corruption in order to bring in serious investors, the government is focusing on firms from Azerbaijan." MANS has been one of the main organizers of frequent civic protests in Podgorica.
However, Dragoljub Jankovic, Dean of the Business School at the "Mediteran" university, said that fears that investors from certain countries are not ?clean" enough were unjustified.
?No matter from where they come, investors should be respected as far as their intentions do not interfere with politics," Jankovic added.
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Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/montenegro-foster-ties-with-azerbaijan
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Big seeds produced by many tropical trees were probably once ingested and then defecated whole by huge mammals called gomphotheres that dispersed the seeds over large distances. But gomphotheres were probably hunted to extinction more than 10,000 years ago. So why aren't large-seeded plants also extinct? A new Smithsonian report to be published in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of July 16, suggests that rodents may have taken over the seed dispersal role of gomphotheres.
By attaching tiny radio transmitters to more than 400 seeds, Patrick Jansen, scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Wageningen University, and his colleagues found that 85 percent of the seeds were buried in caches by agoutis, common, house cat-sized rodents in tropical lowlands. Agoutis carry seeds around in their mouths and bury them for times when food is scarce.
Radio tracking revealed a surprising finding: when the rodents dig up the seeds, they usually do not eat them, but instead move them to a new site and bury them, often many times. One seed in the study was moved 36 times, traveling a total distance of 749 meters and ending up 280 meters from its starting point. It was ultimately retrieved and eaten by an agouti 209 days after initial dispersal.
Researchers used remote cameras to catch the animals digging up cached seeds. They discovered that frequent seed movement was primarily caused by animals stealing seeds from one another. Ultimately, 35 percent of the seeds ended up more than 100 meters from their origin. "Agoutis moved seeds at a scale that none of us had ever imagined," said Jansen.
"Previously, researchers had observed seeds being moved and buried up to five times, but in this system it seems that this re-caching behavior was on steroids," said Ben Hirsch, who ran the fieldwork as a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. "By radio-tagging the seeds, we were able to track them as they were moved by agoutis, to find out if they were taken up into trees by squirrels, and to discover seeds inside spiny rat burrows. This resolution allowed us to gain a much better understanding of how each rodent species affects seed dispersal and survival."
By taking over the role of large Pleistocene mammals in dispersing these large seeds, thieving, scatter-hoarding agoutis may have saved these tree species from extinction.
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The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, headquartered in Panama City, Panama, is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution. The Institute furthers the understanding of tropical nature and its importance to human welfare, trains students to conduct research in the tropics and promotes conservation by increasing public awareness of the beauty and importance of tropical ecosystems. Website: www.stri.si.edu.
Jansen, P.A., Hirsch, B.T., Emsens, W.J., Zamora-Gutierrez, V., Wikelski, M., and Kays, R. 2012. Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To be published online in the Early Edition during the week of July 16.
Authors and institutions:
Jansen, Patrick A., Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University
Hirsch, Ben T., Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University
Emsens, Willem-Jan, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University; Ecosystem Management Research Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp
Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Wikelski, Martin, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Max Planck Institute for Ornithology; Department of Ornithology, University of Konstanz
Kays, Roland W., Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences; North Carolina State University
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Public release date: 16-Jul-2012 Share ] Contact: Sonia Tejada
tejadas@si.edu
202-633-4700 x28111
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Big seeds produced by many tropical trees were probably once ingested and then defecated whole by huge mammals called gomphotheres that dispersed the seeds over large distances. But gomphotheres were probably hunted to extinction more than 10,000 years ago. So why aren't large-seeded plants also extinct? A new Smithsonian report to be published in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of July 16, suggests that rodents may have taken over the seed dispersal role of gomphotheres.
By attaching tiny radio transmitters to more than 400 seeds, Patrick Jansen, scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Wageningen University, and his colleagues found that 85 percent of the seeds were buried in caches by agoutis, common, house cat-sized rodents in tropical lowlands. Agoutis carry seeds around in their mouths and bury them for times when food is scarce.
Radio tracking revealed a surprising finding: when the rodents dig up the seeds, they usually do not eat them, but instead move them to a new site and bury them, often many times. One seed in the study was moved 36 times, traveling a total distance of 749 meters and ending up 280 meters from its starting point. It was ultimately retrieved and eaten by an agouti 209 days after initial dispersal.
Researchers used remote cameras to catch the animals digging up cached seeds. They discovered that frequent seed movement was primarily caused by animals stealing seeds from one another. Ultimately, 35 percent of the seeds ended up more than 100 meters from their origin. "Agoutis moved seeds at a scale that none of us had ever imagined," said Jansen.
"Previously, researchers had observed seeds being moved and buried up to five times, but in this system it seems that this re-caching behavior was on steroids," said Ben Hirsch, who ran the fieldwork as a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. "By radio-tagging the seeds, we were able to track them as they were moved by agoutis, to find out if they were taken up into trees by squirrels, and to discover seeds inside spiny rat burrows. This resolution allowed us to gain a much better understanding of how each rodent species affects seed dispersal and survival."
By taking over the role of large Pleistocene mammals in dispersing these large seeds, thieving, scatter-hoarding agoutis may have saved these tree species from extinction.
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Jansen, P.A., Hirsch, B.T., Emsens, W.J., Zamora-Gutierrez, V., Wikelski, M., and Kays, R. 2012. Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To be published online in the Early Edition during the week of July 16.
Authors and institutions:
Jansen, Patrick A., Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University
Hirsch, Ben T., Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University
Emsens, Willem-Jan, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University; Ecosystem Management Research Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp
Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Wikelski, Martin, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Max Planck Institute for Ornithology; Department of Ornithology, University of Konstanz
Kays, Roland W., Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences; North Carolina State University
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