- To promote tonight's WWE SmackDown tapings, Kofi Kingston will be appearing at Bryant & Stratton College this morning at 11am.
- Ric Flair's son Reid has signed a three-month deal with All Japan Pro Wrestling. He will head there in a few weeks and begin working on January 23rd.
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If you own a small business, you know that finding the money for things like marketing can be difficult. With online marketing, not only can you find ways to save money, but marketing your business online can be more beneficial than more traditional offline methods. If you?re trying to market on a small budget, here are three tips you need to take into account.
Nowadays, it?s absolutely necessary for a business to be using social media for marketing ? and the best thing about social networking is it?s free! Sites like Twitter and Facebook are basic requirements for any business. Small business owners have a lot to do, and social media can seem like an overwhelming undertaking, so don?t take on too much; you don?t need to use every social media site out there. Instead, try different sites and see which ones work well for your marketing purposes. Once you decide what you want to use, you should create a schedule for when updates are needed for each site. This will guarantee you stay consistent with updates.
Social networking sites have taken over online marketing campaigns in the past couple years, but that?s no reason not to continue using platforms that are tried and tested. Email marketing is one of the best ways to market a business online, and if you?re on a small budget it?s perfect. Email is a great way to reach a huge audience, and if you know what you?re doing you can personalize messages so that it seems less like a mass mail-out and more like a personal greeting. Email marketing requires little time and little money. Once the content has been created, the message can be sent out to your email list quickly and easily.
If you?re new to the online marketing game then it?s important to know that online lends itself much better to building relationships than it does to traditional advertisements. People can leave a website with one click, so if you?re bombarding them with ads that simply sell your product, then they probably won?t stick around for long. No matter what platforms you?re using, try using online marketing to build relationships. Create engaging content that people want to pay attention to, and you?ll see an increase in customers in no time. There you have three tips for using online marketing on a small budget. Choose social media sites wisely, send out emails, and focus on building relationships. With these tips, it?s easy to market online for less!
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A lot of people see bankruptcy in a negative way, but it is really a good solution in certain situations. Divorce or getting let go from a job can cause a person to look at personal bankruptcy as their sole choice. Whatever your reasons for filing bankruptcy, the article below can help.
Before you decide to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, you should consider what your bankruptcy might have on others, as your family and friends may be affected. You can relieve yourself of any liability for debts that you may share with someone else through a Chapter 7 filing. Although, your creditors may insist that the co-debtor pay off the entire debt.
Carefully choose which bankruptcy is best for you. You may have more than one bankruptcy option available to you. It is necessary to understand the different types of bankruptcy available. Find out what positive and negative consequences each type will bring, and consult a bankruptcy lawyer to make sure your decision is correct.
Write down every one of your debts. After this, you can file bankruptcy, so make sure this document is accurate. Go through your papers and records so you are certain about actual amounts. Don?t speed through this step; to get the correct sums discharged, it behooves you to get the amounts correct.
A great tip to implement before filing a bankruptcy claim is to seriously take some personal inventory. What you?re looking for are the bad decisions that led to this particular point in time. Having large medical bills is an understandable cause of financial difficulties, but if you have an issue with shopping too much, you may have more trouble ahead. Don?t assume that you can handle getting past these things on your own, if you find yourself continuing to do it. Get help.
If you file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, do not assume that your debts will just be dismissed. Some debts might have to be reaffirmed. That means you need an entirely new agreement for paying them back, and other debts are simply not able to be discharged. For instance, you could not discharge child support obligations, court-sanctioned fines or even alimony payments through chapter 7.
Before you commit to a bankruptcy filing, make sure that your most troublesome debts can actually be discharged through bankruptcy. There are some types of debt (e.g., student loans, child support) that are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. If your debt is primarily made up of these types of debt, loan consolidation may be a better option than bankruptcy.
If you?re in financial trouble, you may want to rethink getting a divorce. A lot of individuals get a divorce and file for bankruptcy immediately because they did not plan for the troubles that they will be experiencing financially. A great way to avoid this is by not getting divorced.
Make a comprehensive list of all of your financial information before you file for bankruptcy. Leaving out information either purposely or by mistake can prolong your petition, or have it dismissed completely. The most meaningless, innocuous finance or expenditure needs to be listed when you file a claim. This type of income could come from doing odd jobs, extra cars or outstanding loans.
When filing for personal bankruptcy you should always be aware of your rights. You might hear from your creditors that your debts cannot be canceled through bankruptcy. Most states allow for the majority of debt to be included on a bankruptcy. If you are unsure about specific types of debt, check the bankruptcy laws in your state or consult an attorney.
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MOSCOW (AP) ? Russia's Interior Ministry says two people have been killed in the crash of a passenger airliner at Moscow's Vnukovo airport.
The plane, a Tupolev-204 twin-engine jet, went off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport on Saturday afternoon; it broke apart and caught fire.
News reports said about a dozen people were aboard and that several of them were seriously injured. Ministry spokesman Gennady Bogachev said on state news channel Vesti that two people died.
The plane belonged to the Russian airline Red Wings.
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(Reuters) - In a widely expected show of force Boeing Co's
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace said 95.5 percent of engineers and 97.1 percent of technicians voted against the contract offer, sending their bargaining teams back to the negotiating table.
The union and Boeing had agreed before the mail-in ballots were counted that if the contract offer was voted down they would meet Tuesday to continue discussions on a deal to replace two labor agreements that expire on October 6.
Figures released by Speea showed 15,097 members voted to reject the contract, compared with 608 who supported it, with 72 percent of all members voting.
"We hope the vote results clear away the nonsense and allow us to begin substantive negotiations," said Ray Goforth, executive director of Speea in a statement.
Boeing issued a statement saying: "We are committed to continuing discussions, answering questions and considering any proposals or counter-proposals from your negotiations team."
Analysts said they did not expect the vote to affect Boeing's operations or share price in the short term, since engineers can continue working under the current contract after it expires on October 6.
Boeing said that should talks go beyond October 6, the contract would terminate on November 25 because Speea had filed a 60-day termination notice.
"No strike can take place until after November 25," Boeing said.
A separate vote is required to authorize a strike, and most experts, including union and Boeing officials, say they consider a strike unlikely.
Earlier on Monday Boeing's chief executive Jim McNerney said he expected negotiations to result in a "successful resolution over the next few weeks."
"(Boeing) will simply have to come back with a more generous contract," said aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Virginia-based Teal Group. "That's what it comes down to."
Boeing had said its "market leading" offer reflected the competitive market for commercial aircraft and its defense businesses.
Michael Delaney, vice president for engineering, Commercial Airplanes division, has also said that the company would have to send work to engineers outside of the Seattle area if the union demands higher pay and benefits, according to The Seattle Times.
The union says its members rejected a contract offer which would give annual pay rises of 3.5 percent for engineers for the next four years, a cut from the current 5 percent annual rise, raise healthcare costs and appeared to allow the company to make changes to the agreement after it was ratified, said Speea spokesman Bill Dugovich.
The union says it deserves a better offer, considering Boeing is posting strong profits, has increased its dividend and has more than 4,000 aircraft orders.
"Boeing is pointing towards that external climate, which is completely different than the climate for the Boeing company," Dugovich said.
The union and analysts said the contract vote was aimed at showing Speea's negotiators have the backing from rank and file workers.
"It's symbolic," said Carter Leake, an aerospace analyst with BB&T Capital Markets in Richmond, Virginia. "It's a way to signal your disgust -- a kabuki dance we've got to go through."
The vote follows rallies last week in the Seattle area, where most Speea members are based, aimed at showing that the rank and file are united behind bargaining units for the engineers and technical workers. The union made a contract offer in June, and Boeing tabled its offer in July.
Dugovich said the vote "shows that our members are not going to stand for being treated like second-class citizens when the executives are getting double-digit raises and bonuses equivalent to a year's salary."
According to company filings McNerney received $1.9 million in base salary in 2011 an amount that has not increased since 2008. He received a $4.4 million bonus in 2011 and an additional bonus of $4.3 million for 2009-2011.
(Editing by Greg Mahlich)
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FILE - This June, 28, 2012, file photo shows hogs at a farm in Buckhart, Ill. U.S. agricultural economists say that a global shortage of bacon because of this year's drought will not pan out. Their consensus is that consumers will still find their ever-ubiquitous bacon at the supermarket, but they should just expect to pay more for it. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
FILE - This June, 28, 2012, file photo shows hogs at a farm in Buckhart, Ill. U.S. agricultural economists say that a global shortage of bacon because of this year's drought will not pan out. Their consensus is that consumers will still find their ever-ubiquitous bacon at the supermarket, but they should just expect to pay more for it. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Bacon lovers can relax. They'll find all they want on supermarket shelves in the coming months, though their pocketbooks may take a hit.
The economics of the current drought are likely to nose up prices for bacon and other pork products next year, by as much as 10 percent. But U.S. agricultural economists are dismissing reports of a global bacon shortage that lent sizzle to headlines and Twitter feeds last week. Simply put, the talk of scarcity is hogwash.
"Use of the word 'shortage' caused visions of (1970s-style) gasoline lines in a lot of people's heads, and that's not the case," said Steve Meyer, president of Iowa-based Paragon Economics and a consultant to the National Pork Producers Council and National Pork Board.
"If the definition of shortage is that you can't find it on the shelves, then no, the concern is not valid. If the concern is higher cost for it, then yes."
Fears about a scarcity of bacon swept across social and mainstream media last week after a trade group in Europe said a bacon shortage was "unavoidable," citing a sharp decline in the continent's pig herd and drought-inflated feed costs. The report caused much consternation over a product that used to be merely a breakfast staple, but nowadays flavors everything from brownies to vodka.
The alarm was quickly dismissed by the American Farm Bureau Federation as "baloney."
"Pork supplies will decrease slightly as we go into 2013," Farm Bureau economist John Anderson said. "But the idea that there'll be widespread shortages, that we'll run out of pork, that's really overblown."
The stubborn drought in the U.S., the world's biggest supplier of feed grains, undeniably will affect pig production. The Corn Belt's lack of moisture twice has prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to slash its forecast for this year's corn output. The government now expects U.S. production of the grain to amount to 10.8 billion bushels, the least since 2006.
Those lowered expectations sent prices of corn ? also used in ethanol, further squeezing supply ? to record highs through much of the summer. Feed generally makes up about 60 percent of the expense of raising a pig. Rather than absorb the higher costs, swine and beef producers often have culled their animals by sending them to slaughter.
As of Sept. 1, the nation's inventory of hogs numbered 67.5 million head, up slightly from a year earlier, the USDA reported Friday. But the USDA suggested that pork supplies will tighten next year as the nation's breeding stock and intended farrowings ? birthings of litters of pigs ? likely will drop due to high feed costs.
"I think we're going to (still) see pretty substantial liquidations" of livestock, Meyer said, guessing that 3 percent of the nation's breeding pigs could be sent to slaughter by next March. "And by my estimation, that's a big move."
The USDA said the breeding inventory of sows and boars stands at 5.79 million head, down slightly from last year and off 1 percent from the previous quarter.
Such liquidations could mean a temporary glut of pork on the U.S. market, depressing pork prices before the oversupply eases and the volume of pork drops again next year, causing hog prices to rebound, said Ron Plain, an agricultural economics professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Consequently, he estimates, the higher costs will be passed along to consumers, who could end up paying 10 percent more for their bacon.
As of Friday, the USDA said, a pound of sliced bacon cost an average of $4.05 at the nation's supermarkets, down 22 cents from a week earlier.
Pig producer Phil Borgic is banking on high prices. With 3,400 sows near Nokomis in central Illinois, Borgic figures he's had to spend $2 million more this year for the 600,000 bushels of corn he feeds his pigs. Rather than sell off animals on the spot market, the 56-year-old farmer is hedging his bets by contracting them out for slaughter over a staggered period in coming months ? what he sees only as a break-even proposition.
"The previous couple of years have been good to us," he said. "Then the drought changed the ballgame on a worldwide level."
He waves off the concerns about consumers facing shortages.
"The U.S. has plenty of pork, and we won't run out here," he said. "We'll have some price inflation, but we have plenty of supply."
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When you run as many services as Google does, every once in a while you're going to have to do some pruning. Evidently Mountain View's got the secateurs out, having just announced the next batch of its projects that will be getting axed wound down. For the chop are: AdSense for Feeds, Classic Plus, Spreadsheet Gadgets, Places for Android, and +1 Reports in Webmaster Tools. Other services are being merged into existing properties to prevent overlap, such as Google Storage for Picasa and Drive -- which are now consolidated -- and Insights for Search is now part of Google Trends. Naturally, the search giant claims this is all about streamlining, and improving other core products. If the retired service involves a paid subscription, or legacy data, then you'll need to check the specifics on the official blog to find out how this will affect you, which fortunately for you, is just a tap of the source link away.
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Boston, MA, September 30, 2012 ?(PR.com)? SIMUL8 Corporation, producers of process improvement simulation software, today announced the development of a new healthcare improvement product designed with nurses in mind; allowing them to use simulation and lean to improve patient care.
In the U.S. alone $750 billion is wasted each year on unnecessary healthcare costs, according to a recent report by the Institute of Medicine, with $130 billion of that attributed to the inefficient delivery of care highlighting the need for action. The addition of this new lean product for nurses means SIMUL8 now provides a software tool for every level of a healthcare organization to improve planning, increase efficiency, and reduce waste.
The new product is being developed in partnership with major healthcare organizations from the US and the UK and will see representatives from all parties working closely together to design, develop and market the software.
Using the software, nurses will be able to quickly create a computer simulation of their working environment and test how they can improve the efficiency of every day processes giving back time to focus on caring for patients.
?Static tools of this type have existed before, for example spaghetti diagrams, but now powered by simulation we can make these tools dynamic,? said Frances Sneddon, SIMUL8 Corporation?s CTO. ?Simulation will add visualization through dynamic result displays and animation of the process to bring them to life. It also helps with the communication of improvements to everyone involved in the team and provides better evidence to decision-makers.?
Claire Cordeaux, SIMUL8 Lead for Healthcare, said ?Our aim is to put simulation in the hands of decision-makers using our understanding of healthcare and simulation to ensure that tools are easily used and intuitive. In this case we are really excited to have developed a simulation tool that can be used by nurses themselves. We already have a strong presence in healthcare across the world, and this landmark product shows our continued commitment to healthcare improvement.?
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So you've got a shiny new iPhone 5, but you're already sick of the default "water ripple" wallpaper, and those old iPhone 4 wallpapers are too small. The web may not be teeming with iPhone 5-sized wallpapers yet, but here's where you can find one that suits your tastes?and how to crop one for yourself.
A lot of folks have already put together wallpapers for the iPhone 5, there just aren't as many as there are for other phones yet. A few searches brought up the following galleries, which already have quite a few iPhone 5-centric wallpapers:
Remember that some of these sites may contain NSFW images buried in the galleries, so be careful of that as you browse.
Of course, if none of those wallpapers suit you, you can always just make your own by cropping a desktop wallpaper down to iPhone size. Find a wallpaper you like and follow these steps:
That's it! For more iPhone goodness, check out our guide to customizing your iPhone inside and out.
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Well what do you know, it?s National Dog Week. I know August 26th is National Dog Day, that little factoid is emblazoned in my memory, but I didn?t realize that the fourth week of September is Dog Week and has been for 84 years. In a funny little coincidence, the mother is born on Dog Day and the daughter is born during Dog Week. Clearly this is in our blood. 
I am so pleased that I will be spending the next two days in the company of animal lovers from around the world at the ACES International Conference in San Diego. I hope I bring back some fantastic stories. And in honor of the occasion, here?s 5 awesome ways you can celebrate this most auspicious of weeks.
1. Teach Your Dog a New Trick
No, it doesn?t have to be THIS fancy. Brody still doesn?t know ?shake?.
2. Take some toys/blankets/food to your local shelter
They always need them! Happy pups are more adoptable, and giving them appropriate stimulation is a big part of that.
3. Foster a pup in need
This is a great way to help a pet without making the lifelong commitment to taking them into the fold (although many people do!) Many dogs that do poorly in a shelter environment blossom under the one on one advantages of living in a home, and foster parents can proudly know they have helped make a special pet that much more adoptable. Petfinder has a great article about fostering pets.
4. Make your dog a special treat
I made EIGHT special treats yesterday, not because I suddenly felt the need to spend seven hours in the kitchen but because I was filming a series of Pawcurious favorites for Pet World Insider. Brody and Koa reaped the benefits and will for the rest of the week. Bronuts and cupcakes and jerky and turbacons and oh, how they were happy.
Dr. V and Robert Semrow from Pet World Insider whip up a Dog Week Celebration Buffet.
5. Take your dog for a walk.
Isn?t it great that this one simple act is enough for your dog to be happy? But if you want to go extra fancy, you can celebrate National Dog Week and National Rollerskating Week (it?s that too!) at the same time and go rollerjoring. Oh, yeah. Seriously, you need to watch this person fly:
On second thought, helmetless = closed head injury waiting to happen. Maybe canicross would be a better choice.
What?s your favorite way to celebrate canines?
Source: http://pawcurious.com/2012/09/5-ways-to-celebrate-national-dog-week/
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Wallace displayed typical symptoms of concussion after that first blow, according to her mother, who thought her daughter just had a bad case of spring allergies. Wallace was extremely groggy and experienced headaches and mood changes.
Two days passed before she approached her trainer, during which she received a second accidental blow to the head off the field. The trainer was particularly worried about her upon hearing that she had been hit not once, but twice. After a cognition test, she was referred to a traumatic brain injury (TBI) clinic.
A Virginia State Law that went into effect on July 1, 2011 seeks to change the way school coaches and athletes treat head injuries. The law requires both coaches and students to go through training on how to identify a concussion. The law has limitations, though, as it only regulates school-sponsored activities and does not require any statewide reporting.
The limitations of the law, however, have not kept Chesterfield schools from launching their own surveillance system. They reported not only the number of concussions that occurred during the 2011-2012 school year, but also broke them down into season:
Numbers like these can help to evaluate the effectiveness of policies and also identify areas that need improved monitoring and additional education.
Chesterfield has taken the emphasis on concussion prevention and treatment very seriously and has placed certified athletic trainers in every one of the high schools in the county.
The initiative shown by these measures truly gives hope to the idea that the culture of sports can change, this upcoming generation of athletes and coaches will take concussion seriously and that they will recognize it as a traumatic brain injury.
Wallace had to give her brain time to rest. For four days she could not read, write, watch TV, text, play electronic games or exercise. She could not go to school. This cognitive rest was followed by weeks of physical therapy to gradually incorporate exercise, TV, computer work, texting and sports back into her life. She initially could only handle half-days at school, but after a few weeks she was able to return full time and was eventually cleared to play school sports.
Wallace was fortunate that her head injury healed. Each TBI is unique and people?s reactions to them can vary greatly. Still, her life had to revolve around the healing process for months, taking her energies away from schoolwork and her life as a normal teenager.
The Virginia law and the efforts by school systems such as Chesterfield aim at catching concussions early so that they can be treated. The earlier they are caught, the better the prognosis for recovery.
Traumatic brain injury can be life altering and expensive. If you or someone you love has had a TBI, please contact us immediately as you may be eligible for compensation. We provide a free consultation during which we will discuss your legal options.
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Oklahoma City?s tongue-in-cheek approach.
The drought of 2012, which continues to spread westward, is making its mark on the national consciousness in many ways. Rising food prices. Interrupted livelihoods. Fields of stunted, desiccated crops.
All of this dryness has resonance in our video culture. Just go to YouTube and look at the proliferation of public service announcements on water conservation. Making one of these seems to be the school project du jour lately. But in this array there are some standouts, like Oklahoma City?s recent offering, above, or this one from students at Kennesaw State University.
Often, contributions to the art form show someone cavalierly overusing water in the sink or shower and are supplemented by statistics about the amount of water wasted every year. One variant features water wardens ? like ?Saturday Night Live? comedians Horatio Sanz and Rachel Dratch ? dropping in on the bathrooms and kitchens of unsuspecting water spendthrifts.
Cute toddlers are enlisted for a French offering and another from Malaysia. Others incorporate music ? pitting Pachelbel?s Canon (a tragic tone, evoking water waste) against ?I Don?t Want to Lose Your Love Tonight? (an upbeat tone, for greener water habits).
The water skits on ?Sesame Street? include a video in which an animated fish?s pond is drained as a little boy runs the tap while brushing his teeth. Then there?s the sadistic approach, in which profligate users face retaliation from a garden hose and a miniature poodle.
School competitions to develop these public service announcements are common in the United States and in places like Singapore, where water scarcity has led to a national program for recycling water. Competitors tend to cast toothbrushes and faucets in leading roles. Toilets can be harder to work with tastefully, but it?s not impossible (see here and here).
Some entries have the cadence of biblical commandments (?I should not take more than five minutes to shower?). But given that they were produced by primary schools, they might be excused for being a bit didactic. A few Australian offerings are a little more free-form.
Then there?s this production from the guys at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, who seized on an instantly recognizable cultural meme and ran with it. They should enter this in some contest.
Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/via-you-tube-a-new-conservation-genre/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) ? The frozen cap of the Arctic Ocean appears to have reached its annual summertime minimum extent and broken a new record low on Sept. 16, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has reported. Analysis of satellite data by NASA and the NASA-supported NSIDC at the University of Colorado in Boulder showed that the sea ice extent shrunk to 1.32 million square miles (3.41 million square kilometers).
The new record minimum measures almost 300,000 square miles less than the previous lowest extent in the satellite record, set in mid-September 2007, of 1.61 million square miles (4.17 million square kilometers). For comparison, the state of Texas measures around 268,600 square miles.
NSIDC cautioned that, although Sept. 16 seems to be the annual minimum, there's still time for winds to change and compact the ice floes, potentially reducing the sea ice extent further. NASA and NSIDC will release a complete analysis of the 2012 melt season next month, once all data for September are available.
Arctic sea ice cover naturally grows during the dark Arctic winters and retreats when the sun re-appears in the spring. But the sea ice minimum summertime extent, which is normally reached in September, has been decreasing over the last three decades as Arctic ocean and air temperatures have increased. This year's minimum extent is approximately half the size of the average extent from 1979 to 2000. This year's minimum extent also marks the first time Arctic sea ice has dipped below 4 million square kilometers.
"Climate models have predicted a retreat of the Arctic sea ice; but the actual retreat has proven to be much more rapid than the predictions," said Claire Parkinson, a climate scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "There continues to be considerable inter-annual variability in the sea ice cover, but the long-term retreat is quite apparent."
The thickness of the ice cover is also in decline.
"The core of the ice cap is the perennial ice, which normally survived the summer because it was so thick," said Joey Comiso, senior scientist with NASA Goddard. "But because it's been thinning year after year, it has now become vulnerable to melt."
The disappearing older ice gets replaced in winter with thinner seasonal ice that usually melts completely in the summer.
This year, a powerful cyclone formed off the coast of Alaska and moved on Aug. 5 to the center of the Arctic Ocean, where it churned the weakened ice cover for several days. The storm cut off a large section of sea ice north of the Chukchi Sea and pushed it south to warmer waters that made it melt entirely. It also broke vast extensions of ice into smaller pieces more likely to melt.
"The storm definitely seems to have played a role in this year's unusually large retreat of the ice," Parkinson said. "But that exact same storm, had it occurred decades ago when the ice was thicker and more extensive, likely wouldn't have had as prominent an impact, because the ice wasn't as vulnerable then as it is now."
NASA scientists derive 2012 sea ice concentration data from microwave instruments aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites. The wind data in the visualization is from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
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While wave watching is a favorite pastime of beachgoers, few notice what is happening in the shallowest water. A closer look by two University of Colorado Boulder applied mathematicians has led to the discovery of interacting X- and Y-shaped ocean waves that may help explain why some tsunamis are able to wreak so much havoc.
Professor Mark Ablowitz and doctoral student Douglas Baldwin repeatedly observed such wave interactions in ankle-deep water at both Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, and Venice Beach, Calif., in the Pacific Ocean -- interactions that were thought to be very rare but which actually happen every day near low tide. There they saw single, straight waves interacting with each other to form X- and Y-shaped waves as well as more complex wave structures, all predicted by mathematical equations, said Ablowitz.
When most ocean waves collide, the "interaction height" is the sum of the incoming wave heights, said Baldwin. "But the wave heights that we saw from such interactions were much taller, indicating that they are what we call nonlinear," he said.
Satellite observations of the 2011 tsunami generated by the devastating earthquake that struck Japan indicate there was an X-shaped wave created by the merger of two large waves. "This significantly increased the destructive power of the event," said Ablowitz. "If the interaction had happened at a much greater distance from shore, the devastation could have been even worse as the amplitude could have been even larger. Not every tsunami is strengthened by interacting waves, but when they do intersect there can be a powerful multiplier because of the nonlinearity."
Ablowitz first observed the nonlinear wave action in 2009 while visiting Nuevo Vallarta just north of Puerto Vallarta with his family. He took hundreds of photographs and videos of the peculiar waves over the next several years.
"Unlike most new physics, you can see these interactions without expensive equipment or years of training," said Ablowitz. "A person just needs to go to a flat beach, preferably near a jetty, within a few hours of low tide and know what to look for."
A paper on the subject by Ablowitz and Baldwin was published this month in the journal Physical Review E.
Baldwin, who is studying under Ablowitz, wanted to go the extra mile to verify that the wave interactions observed by his professor were not unique to one beach. In this case he drove more than 1,000 miles to the Los Angeles area "on a whim" to search for the types of waves Ablowitz had observed in Mexico. He hit the jackpot at Venice Beach.
"I don't think there is anything more enjoyable in science than discovering something by chance, predicting something you haven't seen, and then actually seeing what you predicted," said Baldwin.
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University of Colorado at Boulder
While wave watching is a favorite pastime of beachgoers, few notice what is happening in the shallowest water. A closer look by two University of Colorado Boulder applied mathematicians has led to the discovery of interacting X- and Y-shaped ocean waves that may help explain why some tsunamis are able to wreak so much havoc.
Professor Mark Ablowitz and doctoral student Douglas Baldwin repeatedly observed such wave interactions in ankle-deep water at both Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, and Venice Beach, Calif., in the Pacific Ocean -- interactions that were thought to be very rare but which actually happen every day near low tide. There they saw single, straight waves interacting with each other to form X- and Y-shaped waves as well as more complex wave structures, all predicted by mathematical equations, said Ablowitz.
When most ocean waves collide, the "interaction height" is the sum of the incoming wave heights, said Baldwin. "But the wave heights that we saw from such interactions were much taller, indicating that they are what we call nonlinear," he said.
Satellite observations of the 2011 tsunami generated by the devastating earthquake that struck Japan indicate there was an X-shaped wave created by the merger of two large waves. "This significantly increased the destructive power of the event," said Ablowitz. "If the interaction had happened at a much greater distance from shore, the devastation could have been even worse as the amplitude could have been even larger. Not every tsunami is strengthened by interacting waves, but when they do intersect there can be a powerful multiplier because of the nonlinearity."
Ablowitz first observed the nonlinear wave action in 2009 while visiting Nuevo Vallarta just north of Puerto Vallarta with his family. He took hundreds of photographs and videos of the peculiar waves over the next several years.
"Unlike most new physics, you can see these interactions without expensive equipment or years of training," said Ablowitz. "A person just needs to go to a flat beach, preferably near a jetty, within a few hours of low tide and know what to look for."
A paper on the subject by Ablowitz and Baldwin was published this month in the journal Physical Review E.
Baldwin, who is studying under Ablowitz, wanted to go the extra mile to verify that the wave interactions observed by his professor were not unique to one beach. In this case he drove more than 1,000 miles to the Los Angeles area "on a whim" to search for the types of waves Ablowitz had observed in Mexico. He hit the jackpot at Venice Beach.
"I don't think there is anything more enjoyable in science than discovering something by chance, predicting something you haven't seen, and then actually seeing what you predicted," said Baldwin.
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To see photos and videos of the wave interactions visit http://www.douglasbaldwin.com/nl-waves.html and http://www.markablowitz.com/line-solitons.
Contact:
Mark Ablowitz, 303-492-5502
Mark.Ablowitz@colorado.edu
Douglas Baldwin
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Douglas256@gmail.com
Jim Scott, CU media relations, 303-492-3114
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Public release date: 17-Sep-2012 Share ] Contact: Tracey Peake
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have found identical strains of antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter coli (C. coli) in both antibiotic-free (ABF) and conventionally raised pigs. This finding may indicate that these antibiotic-resistant pathogens can persist and thrive in the environment, regardless of antimicrobial usage by pork producers.
Dr. Siddhartha Thakur, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology, had previously found that antibiotic-resistant C. coli, a leading cause of foodborne illness in the U.S., was present in both ABF-certified and conventionally raised pigs. The pathogen was present in both groups in all facilities from breeding to processing. Thakur wanted to determine whether the C. coli that he found in each group was genetically the same, in order to see if the presence or absence of antimicrobial usage had an effect on the pathogen's genetic makeup.
The rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens like C. coli is a concern for the food animal industry. Some pig farms have switched to raising ABF pigs in an attempt to get away from the conditions that facilitated antibiotic resistance in the first place. The hope is that once the selection pressure in the form of antimicrobial use on C. coli to retain antibiotic resistance decreases, the pathogen will lose its resistance.
Over several years, Thakur and Ph.D. student Macarena Quintana-Hayashi collected thousands of samples from pigs and their surrounding environments, and performed a genetic analysis on 200 representative isolates of C. coli, to see if these strains were similar. They found that the Campylobacter populations in the two swine production systems (conventional and ABF) were in fact the same. Since the different pig populations never came into contact, the researchers concluded that the environment must be playing a large role in the continuing survival of antibiotic-resistant C. coli.
Thakur's findings appear online in PLoS One.
"In the case of ABF pigs, the environment plays an important role in their exposure to these resistant strains," Thakur says. "If the environment itself, and not the pig, is serving as a reservoir for C. coli, then we will most probably continue to find resistant bacterial populations, regardless of a producer's antimicrobial use."
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Note to editors: Abstract follows.
"Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals Common Antimicrobial Resistant Campylobacter coli Population in Antimicrobial-Free (ABF) and Commercial Swine Systems"
Authors: Macarena P. Quintana-Hayashi, Siddhartha Thakur, North Carolina State University
Published: PLOS One
Abstract: The objective of this study was to compare the population biology of antimicrobial resistant (AR) Campylobacter coli isolated from swine reared in the conventional and antimicrobial-free (ABF) swine production systems at farm, slaughter and environment. A total of 200 C. coli isolates selected from fecal, environmental, and carcass samples of ABF (n = 100) and conventional (n = 100) swine production systems were typed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Sequence data from seven housekeeping genes was analyzed for the identification of allelic profiles, sequence types (STs) and clonal complex determination. Phylogenetic trees were generated to establish the relationships between the genotyped isolates. A total of 51 STs were detected including two novel alleles (glnA 424 and glyA 464) and 14 novel STs reported for the first time. The majority of the C. coli isolates belonged to ST-854 (ABF: 31, conventional: 17), and were grouped in clonal complex ST-828 (ABF: 68%, conventional: 66%). The mean genetic diversity (H) for the ABF (0.3963+/20.0806) and conventional (0.4655+/20.0714) systems were similar. The index of association (IsA) for the ABF (IsA= 0.1513) and conventional (IsA= 0.0991) C. coli populations were close to linkage equilibrium, indicative of a freely recombining population. Identical STs were detected between the pigs and their environment both at farm and slaughter. A minimum spanning tree revealed the close clustering of C. coli STs that originated from swine and carcass with those from the environment. In conclusion, our study reveals a genotypic diverse C. coli population that shares a common ancestry in the conventional and ABF swine production systems. This could potentially explain the high prevalence of antimicrobial resistant C. coli in the ABF system in the absence of antimicrobial selection pressure.
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North Carolina State University
Researchers from North Carolina State University have found identical strains of antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter coli (C. coli) in both antibiotic-free (ABF) and conventionally raised pigs. This finding may indicate that these antibiotic-resistant pathogens can persist and thrive in the environment, regardless of antimicrobial usage by pork producers.
Dr. Siddhartha Thakur, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology, had previously found that antibiotic-resistant C. coli, a leading cause of foodborne illness in the U.S., was present in both ABF-certified and conventionally raised pigs. The pathogen was present in both groups in all facilities from breeding to processing. Thakur wanted to determine whether the C. coli that he found in each group was genetically the same, in order to see if the presence or absence of antimicrobial usage had an effect on the pathogen's genetic makeup.
The rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens like C. coli is a concern for the food animal industry. Some pig farms have switched to raising ABF pigs in an attempt to get away from the conditions that facilitated antibiotic resistance in the first place. The hope is that once the selection pressure in the form of antimicrobial use on C. coli to retain antibiotic resistance decreases, the pathogen will lose its resistance.
Over several years, Thakur and Ph.D. student Macarena Quintana-Hayashi collected thousands of samples from pigs and their surrounding environments, and performed a genetic analysis on 200 representative isolates of C. coli, to see if these strains were similar. They found that the Campylobacter populations in the two swine production systems (conventional and ABF) were in fact the same. Since the different pig populations never came into contact, the researchers concluded that the environment must be playing a large role in the continuing survival of antibiotic-resistant C. coli.
Thakur's findings appear online in PLoS One.
"In the case of ABF pigs, the environment plays an important role in their exposure to these resistant strains," Thakur says. "If the environment itself, and not the pig, is serving as a reservoir for C. coli, then we will most probably continue to find resistant bacterial populations, regardless of a producer's antimicrobial use."
###
Note to editors: Abstract follows.
"Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals Common Antimicrobial Resistant Campylobacter coli Population in Antimicrobial-Free (ABF) and Commercial Swine Systems"
Authors: Macarena P. Quintana-Hayashi, Siddhartha Thakur, North Carolina State University
Published: PLOS One
Abstract: The objective of this study was to compare the population biology of antimicrobial resistant (AR) Campylobacter coli isolated from swine reared in the conventional and antimicrobial-free (ABF) swine production systems at farm, slaughter and environment. A total of 200 C. coli isolates selected from fecal, environmental, and carcass samples of ABF (n = 100) and conventional (n = 100) swine production systems were typed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Sequence data from seven housekeeping genes was analyzed for the identification of allelic profiles, sequence types (STs) and clonal complex determination. Phylogenetic trees were generated to establish the relationships between the genotyped isolates. A total of 51 STs were detected including two novel alleles (glnA 424 and glyA 464) and 14 novel STs reported for the first time. The majority of the C. coli isolates belonged to ST-854 (ABF: 31, conventional: 17), and were grouped in clonal complex ST-828 (ABF: 68%, conventional: 66%). The mean genetic diversity (H) for the ABF (0.3963+/20.0806) and conventional (0.4655+/20.0714) systems were similar. The index of association (IsA) for the ABF (IsA= 0.1513) and conventional (IsA= 0.0991) C. coli populations were close to linkage equilibrium, indicative of a freely recombining population. Identical STs were detected between the pigs and their environment both at farm and slaughter. A minimum spanning tree revealed the close clustering of C. coli STs that originated from swine and carcass with those from the environment. In conclusion, our study reveals a genotypic diverse C. coli population that shares a common ancestry in the conventional and ABF swine production systems. This could potentially explain the high prevalence of antimicrobial resistant C. coli in the ABF system in the absence of antimicrobial selection pressure.
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