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The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will present its fifth annual Regional Policy Award to Ken Bierly of the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board during the Society's upcoming conference in Portland, Oregon. The ESA award recognizes an elected or appointed local policymaker who has an outstanding record of informing political decision-making with ecological science.
"We are delighted to present this prestigious award to Ken Bierly for his long-term commitment to Oregon's streams, rivers, wetlands and other natural areas," said ESA President Steward Pickett. "His pioneering initiatives with the Oregon Department of State Lands in developing and implementing wetland regulations and Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board in developing tools for watershed management have enabled Oregonians across the state to use science to help improve and protect the rivers and streams of their communities."
"I am greatly honored and stand on the shoulders of a great number of researchers, fellow agency staff and citizens of the state who deeply care about and wish to understand more deeply about our precious natural heritage," said Bierly.
Bierly's career ties in well with ESA's 97th annual meeting theme: "Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing and Sustaining our Ecosystems." For over twenty years, Bierly has distinguished himself as a state employee through his innovative approaches to restoring and protecting habitats. Accomplishments include: developing freshwater wetland legislation in 1989, formulating a science-based regulatory program for wetlands, guiding the expansion of the Governor's Watershed Enhancement Board, and a key team member of Governor Kitzhaber's administration in the development of the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds.
As part of the implementation of the "Oregon Plan," Bierly oversaw the development of a science-based approach to evaluating the condition of the state's watersheds. Bierly then advocated the development of local watershed councils who used the assessments with assistance from technical experts to develop action plans for improving fish habitat and water quality in their communities.
Currently, Bierly is Senior Partnerships Coordinator at the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB), a state agency that provides grants to help landowners and others to restore or otherwise enhance natural resources in the state. The agency's grants are funded from the Oregon lottery, federal dollars and salmon license plate revenue. His most recent responsibilities are to work with grantees and other funding partners in the implementation of three different long-term investments that are expected to produce defined aquatic ecosystem health outcomes in focused areas. These efforts include: a partnership with federal land management agencies to restore watersheds across public-private boundaries, a target initiative to address the necessary physical conditions to support the reintroduction of anadromous fish above dams on the Deschutes River, and a cooperative effort with the Meyer Memorial Trust, a regional private foundation, to make measurable improvements of floodplain and channel dynamics of the Willamette River.
About his work at OWEB, Executive Director Tom Byler states, "As OWEB has grown from its infancy as a grant-making agency, Ken has been an innovator, finding new and unique ways to invest in local watershed restoration. His ability to leverage OWEB funds with those from private and public partners has directly improved Oregon's environment and benefited local communities."
ESA President Pickett will present Bierly with the 2012 ESA Regional Policy Award at the start of the Opening Plenary Session on Sunday, August 5 at 5 PM in Oregon Ballroom 201-203 of the Oregon Convention Center. ESA's conference is expected to draw a record number of participants, with well over 4,000 scientists, educators, policymakers and others attending from around the world.
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Media contacts: ESA: Nadine Lymn (202) 833-8773 x205; nadine@esa.org
OWEB: Carolyn Devine (503) 986-0195; carolyn.devine@state.or.us
Media Attendance
The Ecological Society of America's annual meeting, Aug. 5-10, 2012 in Portland, Oregon, is free for reporters with a recognized press card and institutional press officers. Registration is also waived for current members of the National Association of Science Writers, the Canadian Science Writers Association, the International Science Writers Association and the Society of Environmental Journalists. Interested press should contact Liza Lester at llester@esa.org or 202-833-8773 x211 to register. In a break from previous policy, meeting presentations are not embargoed.
The Ecological Society of America is the world's largest community of professional ecologists and the trusted source of ecological knowledge. ESA is committed to advancing the understanding of life on Earth. The 10,000 member Society publishes five journals, convenes an annual scientific conference, and broadly shares ecological information through policy and media outreach and education initiatives. Visit the ESA website at http://www.esa.org or find experts in ecological science at http://www.esa.org/pao/rrt/.
The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board is a state agency that provides grants to help Oregonians take care of local streams, rivers, wetlands and natural areas. Community members and landowners use scientific criteria to decide jointly what needs to be done to conserve and improve rivers and natural habitat in the places where they live. OWEB grants are funded from the Oregon Lottery, federal dollars, and salmon license plate revenue. The agency is led by a 17-member citizen board drawn from the public at large, tribes, and federal and state natural resource agency boards and commissions. Visit the OWEB website at www.oregon.gov/oweb
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202-833-8773
Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will present its fifth annual Regional Policy Award to Ken Bierly of the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board during the Society's upcoming conference in Portland, Oregon. The ESA award recognizes an elected or appointed local policymaker who has an outstanding record of informing political decision-making with ecological science.
"We are delighted to present this prestigious award to Ken Bierly for his long-term commitment to Oregon's streams, rivers, wetlands and other natural areas," said ESA President Steward Pickett. "His pioneering initiatives with the Oregon Department of State Lands in developing and implementing wetland regulations and Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board in developing tools for watershed management have enabled Oregonians across the state to use science to help improve and protect the rivers and streams of their communities."
"I am greatly honored and stand on the shoulders of a great number of researchers, fellow agency staff and citizens of the state who deeply care about and wish to understand more deeply about our precious natural heritage," said Bierly.
Bierly's career ties in well with ESA's 97th annual meeting theme: "Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing and Sustaining our Ecosystems." For over twenty years, Bierly has distinguished himself as a state employee through his innovative approaches to restoring and protecting habitats. Accomplishments include: developing freshwater wetland legislation in 1989, formulating a science-based regulatory program for wetlands, guiding the expansion of the Governor's Watershed Enhancement Board, and a key team member of Governor Kitzhaber's administration in the development of the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds.
As part of the implementation of the "Oregon Plan," Bierly oversaw the development of a science-based approach to evaluating the condition of the state's watersheds. Bierly then advocated the development of local watershed councils who used the assessments with assistance from technical experts to develop action plans for improving fish habitat and water quality in their communities.
Currently, Bierly is Senior Partnerships Coordinator at the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB), a state agency that provides grants to help landowners and others to restore or otherwise enhance natural resources in the state. The agency's grants are funded from the Oregon lottery, federal dollars and salmon license plate revenue. His most recent responsibilities are to work with grantees and other funding partners in the implementation of three different long-term investments that are expected to produce defined aquatic ecosystem health outcomes in focused areas. These efforts include: a partnership with federal land management agencies to restore watersheds across public-private boundaries, a target initiative to address the necessary physical conditions to support the reintroduction of anadromous fish above dams on the Deschutes River, and a cooperative effort with the Meyer Memorial Trust, a regional private foundation, to make measurable improvements of floodplain and channel dynamics of the Willamette River.
About his work at OWEB, Executive Director Tom Byler states, "As OWEB has grown from its infancy as a grant-making agency, Ken has been an innovator, finding new and unique ways to invest in local watershed restoration. His ability to leverage OWEB funds with those from private and public partners has directly improved Oregon's environment and benefited local communities."
ESA President Pickett will present Bierly with the 2012 ESA Regional Policy Award at the start of the Opening Plenary Session on Sunday, August 5 at 5 PM in Oregon Ballroom 201-203 of the Oregon Convention Center. ESA's conference is expected to draw a record number of participants, with well over 4,000 scientists, educators, policymakers and others attending from around the world.
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Media contacts: ESA: Nadine Lymn (202) 833-8773 x205; nadine@esa.org
OWEB: Carolyn Devine (503) 986-0195; carolyn.devine@state.or.us
Media Attendance
The Ecological Society of America's annual meeting, Aug. 5-10, 2012 in Portland, Oregon, is free for reporters with a recognized press card and institutional press officers. Registration is also waived for current members of the National Association of Science Writers, the Canadian Science Writers Association, the International Science Writers Association and the Society of Environmental Journalists. Interested press should contact Liza Lester at llester@esa.org or 202-833-8773 x211 to register. In a break from previous policy, meeting presentations are not embargoed.
The Ecological Society of America is the world's largest community of professional ecologists and the trusted source of ecological knowledge. ESA is committed to advancing the understanding of life on Earth. The 10,000 member Society publishes five journals, convenes an annual scientific conference, and broadly shares ecological information through policy and media outreach and education initiatives. Visit the ESA website at http://www.esa.org or find experts in ecological science at http://www.esa.org/pao/rrt/.
The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board is a state agency that provides grants to help Oregonians take care of local streams, rivers, wetlands and natural areas. Community members and landowners use scientific criteria to decide jointly what needs to be done to conserve and improve rivers and natural habitat in the places where they live. OWEB grants are funded from the Oregon Lottery, federal dollars, and salmon license plate revenue. The agency is led by a 17-member citizen board drawn from the public at large, tribes, and federal and state natural resource agency boards and commissions. Visit the OWEB website at www.oregon.gov/oweb
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That?s the title of an essay by L. Randall Wray, professor of economics at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. While I agree with his historical narrative, we should remember that the screw was a Medieval instrument of torture and torture, being on-going, rather than final like murder, can be interrupted and halted. Besides, while the screws being applied by Wall Street are having some physical consequences, the reason we can quantify it is because it?s all denominated in symbols/icons/ figments of the imagination. If we stop believing in the power of the financial engineers, their empire will evaporate. Indeed, that?s what?s got the banksters in a dither. Who?s going to fix lunch if there are no fixin?s being produced? Are they prepared to eat clay like the mothers and children in Haiti?
Can they think that far ahead? That?s the question.
As the Global Financial Crisis rumbles along in its fifth year, we read the latest revelations of bankster fraud, the LIBOR scandal. This follows the muni bond fixing scam detailed a couple of weeks ago, as well as the J.P. Morgan trading fiasco and the Corzine-MF Global collapse and any number of other scandals in recent months. In every case it was traders run amuck, fixing ?markets? to make an easy buck at someone?s expense. In times like these, I always recall Robert Sherrill?s 1990 statement about the S&L crisis that ?thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.?
After 1990 we removed what was left of financial regulations following the flurry of deregulation of the early 1980s that had freed the thrifts so that they could self-destruct. And we are shocked, SHOCKED!, that thieves took over the financial system.
Nay, they took over the whole economy and the political system lock, stock, and barrel. They didn?t just blow up finance, they oversaw the swiftest transfer of wealth to the very top the world has ever seen. They screwed workers out of their jobs, they screwed homeowners out of their houses, they screwed retirees out of their pensions, and they screwed municipalities out of their revenues and assets.
Financiers are forcing schools, parks, pools, fire departments, senior citizen centers, and libraries to shut down. They are forcing national governments to auction off their cultural heritage to the highest bidder. Everything must go in firesales at prices rigged by twenty-something traders at the biggest and most corrupt institutions the world has ever known.
And since they?ve bought the politicians, the policy-makers, and the courts, no one will stop it. Few will even discuss it, since most university administrations have similarly been bought off?in many cases, the universities are even headed by corporate ?leaders??and their professors are on Wall Street?s payrolls.
We?re screwed.
Bill Black joined our department in 2006. At UMKC (and the Levy Institute) we had long been discussing and analyzing the GFC that we knew was going to hit, using the approaches of Hyman Minsky and Wynne Godley. Bill insisted we were overlooking the most important factor, fraud. To be more specific, Bill called it control fraud, where top corporate management runs an institution as a weapon to loot shareholders and customers to the benefit of top management. Think Bob Rubin, Hank Paulson, Bernie Madoff, Jamie Dimon and Jon Corzine. Long before, I had come across Bill?s name when I wrote about the S&L scandal, and I had listed fraud as the second most important cause of that crisis. While I was open to his argument back in 2006, I could never have conceived of the scope of Wall Street?s depravity. It is all about fraud. As I?ve said, this crisis is like Shrek?s Onion, with fraud in every layer. There is, quite simply, no part of the financial system that is not riddled with fraud.
The fraud cannot be reduced much less eliminated. First, there are no regulators to stop it, and no prosecutors to punish it. But, far more importantly, fraud is the business model.
Further, even if a financial institution tried to buck the trend it would fail. As Bill says, fraud is always the most profitable game in town. So Gresham?s Law dynamics ensure that fraud is the only game in town.
As Sherrill said, without regulation, capitalism is thievery. We stopped regulating the financial system, so thieves took over.
A century ago Veblen analyzed religion as the quintessential capitalist undertaking. It sells an inherently ephemeral product that cannot be quality tested. Most of the value of that product exists only in the minds of the purchasers, and most of that value cannot be realized until death. Dissatisfied customers cannot return the purchased wares to the undertakers who sold them?there is no explicit money back guarantee and in any event, most of the dissatisfied have already been undertaken. The value of the undertaker?s institution is similarly ephemeral, mostly determined by ?goodwill?. Aside from a fancy building, very little in the way of productive facilities is actually required by the religious undertaker.
But modern finance has replaced religion as the supreme capitalistic undertaking. Again, it has no need for production facilities?a fancy building, a few Bloomberg screens, greasy snake-oil salesmen, and some rapacious traders is all that is required to separate widows and orphans from their lifesavings and homes. Religious institutions only want 10%; Wall Street currently gets 20% of all the nation?s output (and 40% of profits), but won?t stop until it gets everything.
There is rarely any recourse for dissatisfied customers of financial institutions. Few customers understand what it is they are buying from Wall Street?s undertakers. The product sold is infinitely more complicated than the Theory of the Trinity advanced by Theophilus of Antioch in 170 A.D., let alone the Temple Garments (often called Magic Underwear by nonbelievers) marketed today. That makes it so easy to screw customers and to hide fraud behind complex instruments and deceptive accounting.
A handful of thieves running a modern Wall Street firm can easily run up $2 trillion in ephemeral assets whose worth is mostly determined by whatever value the thieves assign to them.
And that is just the start. They also place tens of trillions of dollars of bets on derivatives whose value is purely ?notional?. The thieves get paid when something goes wrong?the death of a homeowner, worker, firm, or country triggers payments on Death Settlements, Peasant Insurance, or Credit Default Swaps. To ensure that death comes sooner rather than later, the undertaker works with the likes of John Paulson to handpick the most sickly households, firms and governments to stand behind the derivative bets.
And the value of the Wall Street undertaker?s firm is almost wholly determined by euphemistically named ?goodwill??as if there is any good will in betting on death.
With these undertakers running the show, it is no wonder that we are buried under mountains of crushing debt?underwater mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans, healthcare debts, and auto-related finance. Simply listing the kinds of debts we owe makes it clear how far along the path of financialization we have come: everything is financialized as Wall Street has its hand in every pot.
Thirty years ago we could still write of a dichotomy? industry versus finance?and categorize GE and GM as industrial firms, with Goldman Sachs as a financial firm. Those days are gone, with GM requiring a bail-out because of its financial misdealings (auto production was just a sideline business used to burden households with debt owed to GMAC, the main business line), and Goldman Sachs buying up all the grain silos to run up food prices in a speculative bubble. Obamacare simply fortifies the Vampire Squid?s control of the healthcare industry as it inserts its strangling tentacles into every facet of life.
Food? Financialized. Energy? Financialized. Healthcare? Financialized. Homes? Financialized. Government? Financialized. Death? Financialized. There no longer is a separation of the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) and the nonFIRE sectors of the economy. It is all FIRE.
Everything is complexly financed. In the old days a municipal government would sell a twenty year fixed rate bond to finance a sewage system project. Now they hire Goldman to create complex interest rate swaps (or even more complex constant maturity swaps, swaptions, and snowballs) in which they issue a variable rate municipal bond and promise to pay the Squid a fixed rate while the Squid pays them a floating rate linked to LIBOR?which is rigged by the Squid to ensure the municipality gets screwed. Oh, and the municipal government pays upfront fees to Goldman for the sheer joy of getting screwed by Wall Street?s finest.
The top four US Banks hold $171 Trillion worth of derivative deals like this. Derivatives are really just bets by Wall Street that we will get screwed?it is all ?insurance? that pays off when we fail. Everything is insured?by them against us.
What is healthcare ?insurance?, really? You turn over your salary to Wall Street in the hope that should you need healthcare, they will allow your ?service provider? to provide it. But when you need the service, Wall Street will decide whether it can be provided.
Oh, and Wall Street?s undertakers have also placed a bet that you will die sooner than you expect, so it wins twice by denying the coverage.
Finally, US real estate?the RE of the FIRE?underlies the whole kit and caboodle. That is the real story behind the GFC: given President Clinton?s budget surpluses and the simultaneous explosion of private finance, there simply was not enough safe federal government debt to collateralize all the risky debt issued by financial institutions to one another back in the mid 1990s. Wall Street needed another source of collateral.
You see, all the top financial institutions are dens of thieves, and thieves know better than to trust one another. So lending to fellow thieves has to be collateralized by safe financial assets?which is the traditional role played by Treasuries. But there were not enough of those to go around so Wall Street securitized home mortgages that were sliced and diced to get tranches that were supposedly as safe as Uncle Sam?s bonds. And there were not enough quality mortgages, so Wall Street foisted mortgages and home equity loans onto riskier borrowers to create more product.
Never content, in order to suck more profit out of mortgages, Wall Street created ?affordability? products?mortgages with high fees and exploding interest rates?that it knew would go bad. Even that was not enough, so the Squids created derivatives of the securities (collateralized debt obligations?CDOs) and then derivatives squared and cubed?and then we were off and running straight toward the GFC.
Wall Street bet your house would burn, then lit a firebomb in the basement.
Mortgages that were designed to go bad would go bad. CDOs that were designed to fail would fail.
Suddenly there was no collateral behind the loans Wall Street?s thieves had made to one another. Each Wall Street thief looked in the mirror and realized everything he was holding was crap, because he knew all of his own debt was crap.
Hello Uncle Sam, Uncle Timmy, and Uncle Ben, we?ve got a problem. Can you spare $29 Trillion to bail us out?
And that is why we are screwed.
I see two scenarios playing out. In the first, we allow Wall Street to carry on its merry way, as the foreclosure crisis continues and Wall Street steals all homes, packaging them into bundles to be sold for pennies on the dollar to hedge funds. All wealth will be redistributed to the top 1% who will become modern day feudal lords with the other 99% living at their pleasure on huge feudal estates.
You can imagine for yourselves just what you?re going to have to do to pleasure the lords.
This will take years, maybe even a decade or more, but it is the long march Wall Street has formulated for us. To be sure, ?formulated? should not be misinterpreted as intention. No one sat down and planned the creation of Western European feudalism when Rome collapsed. To be sure, the modern day feudal lords on Wall Street certainly conspire?to rig LIBOR and muni bond markets, for example?and each one individually wants to take as much as possible from customers and creditors and stockholders. But they are not planning and conspiring for the restoration of feudalism. Still, that is the default scenario?the outcome that will emerge in the absence of action.
In the second, the 99% occupy, shut down, and obliterate Wall Street. Honestly, I have no idea how that can happen. I am waiting for suggestions.
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ScienceDaily (July 24, 2012) ? Do you have what it takes to be an ethical hacker? Can you step into the shoes of a professional paid to outsmart supposedly locked-down systems?
Now you can at least try, no matter what your background, with a new card game developed by University of Washington computer scientists.
"Control-Alt-Hack" gives teenage and young-adult players a taste of what it means to be a computer-security professional defending against an ever-expanding range of digital threats. The game's creators will present it this week in Las Vegas at Black Hat 2012, an annual information-security meeting.
"Hopefully players will come away thinking differently about computer security," said creator Yoshi Kohno, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering.
The target audience is 15- to 30-year-olds with some knowledge of computer science, though not necessarily of computer security. The game could supplement a high school or introductory college-level computer science course, Kohno said, or it could appeal to information technology professionals who may not follow the evolution of computer security.
In the game, players work for Hackers, Inc., a small company that performs security audits and consultations for a fee. Three to six players take turns choosing a card that presents a hacking challenge that ranges in difficulty and level of seriousness.
In one mission, a player on a business trip gets bored and hacks the hotel minibar to disrupt its radio-tag payment system, then tells the manager. (A real project being presented at Black Hat this year exposes a security hole in hotel keycard systems.)
"We went out of our way to incorporate humor," said co-creator Tamara Denning, a UW doctoral student in computer science and engineering. "We wanted it to be based in reality, but more importantly we want it to be fun for the players."
This is not an educational game that tries to teach something specific, Denning said, but a game that's mainly designed to be fun and contains some real content as a side benefit. The team decided on an old-fashioned tabletop card game to make it social and encourage interaction.
Some scenarios incorporate research from Kohno's Security and Privacy Research Lab, such as security threats to cars, toy robots and implanted medical devices. The missions also touch other hot topics in computer security, such as botnets that use hundreds of hijacked computers to send spam, and vulnerabilities in online medical records.
Characters have various skills they can deploy. In addition to the predictable "software wizardry," skills include "lock picking" (for instance, breaking into a locked server room) and "social engineering" (like tricking somebody into revealing a password).
Graduate students who are current or former members of the UW lab served as loose models for many of the game's characters. Cards depict the characters doing hobbies, such as motorcycling and rock climbing, that their real-life models enjoy.
"We wanted to dispel people's stereotypes about what it means to be a computer scientist," Denning said.
The UW group licensed the game's mechanics from award-winning game designer Steve Jackson of Austin, Texas. They hired an artist to draw the characters and a Seattle firm to design the graphics. Adam Shostack, a security professional who helped develop a card game at Microsoft in 2010, is a collaborator and co-author.
Intel Corp. funded the game as a way to promote a broader awareness of computer-security issues among future computer scientists and current technology professionals. Additional funding came from the National Science Foundation and the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.
Educators in the continental U.S. can apply to get a free copy of the game while supplies last. It's scheduled to go on sale in the fall for a retail price of about $30.
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'; div.innerHTML = summary; } //]]> Three Key Negotiation Tactics for Salary Negotiation Three Key Negotiation Tactics for Salary NegotiationAlright, you have gone in and made the grade with your resume, cover letter and interview. Now the company wants to begin talking about your compensation package. You are now in the driver's seat with respect to negotiating your salary and compensation. Make sure you understand some negotiation tactics so you don't make any mistakes.
At this point you should remember they are very interested in you and they need you. That doesn't mean you should go in with your confidence guns blazing, but rather confidently appreciative about the offer. Let's talk about three key factors that will help you in your salary negotiations and potential offer acceptance.
First, do your homework. If you go to Salary.com you can find out for your job title and location what the average salary will be for that area and function. You need to temper your desire to make lots of money with the going rate of the job title. Beyond that make sure you have a good understanding of what you uniquely bring to the position others may not. You will want to appropriately convey that in your conversations with the other party. Also, you need to have a very good understanding of what you need to live on. Don't accept a salary lower than you can live on, no matter how bad you need the job.
Secondly, calm your mind down. Don't feel that you need to fill every space of silence with words. Many people get into that trap because they feel uncomfortable with pauses and quite moments in the middle of a conversation. Take slow and deep breaths to make sure you take time to think about what you are going to say next, or how you will answer a question. If you don't do this, you may end up moving too quickly and accepting something without thinking about it first.
Thirdly, no matter what do not get frustrated or mad if you don't get exactly what you want in terms of your salary. Remember there are other currencies that are very valuable you need to consider when you are accepting a package. Examples of some other currencies you should consider asking for a gas card, a car, increased paid vacation time, clothing allowance, cell phone, etc. The list goes on and on. A few years ago when I accepted a position with a company I actually negotiated an apartment. So the moral of this story is while you do need to consider the amount you make when you are negotiating, you also want to consider the amount you can save through reduced normal expenses the company will pay for.
One last thing I want to expand on here. It can be so easy to run in and accept an offer less than you really want, especially if you are looking for a job and need to get one fairly fast. Just remember that the easiest time to negotiate a better offer is before you accept it. Don't go in with the attitude you will re-negotiate 6 months or a year down the road. Most likely it will not happen and you will be in a position of being very disappointed.
If you get into a position where the offer is just way too low just politely say you will need to think about it and leave. Give them a time frame you will call back and honor that commitment. It is better to politely and gracefully turn an offer down than accept one that you will be disappointed with 6 months down the road. Good Luck.
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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) ? Drew Peterson formally introduced himself to would-be jurors Monday in the former suburban Chicago police officer's long-delayed murder trial, but it was clear many of them already were familiar with him from media coverage of his legal saga.
Peterson, 58, is charged with killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004. Her body was found in a dry bathtub in her home, her hair soaked with blood, but her death was ruled accidental until police began investigating the 2007 disappearance of the ex-police sergeant's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. He is a suspect in that case as well, although he has not been charged.
Peterson, his trademark mustache shaved off, stood and spoke to some 40 potential jurors as jury selection began Monday.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I'm Mr. Peterson," he said in a steady voice.
Finding an impartial jury was the first immediate challenge for attorneys in the trial, in which jurors are likely to hear statements Savio and Stacey Peterson allegedly made to friends and relatives about threats Peterson made. Such hearsay is usually barred, but an appellate court ruled jurors can hear the statements.
Despite a judge's order to avoid all news about Peterson, several of the prospective jurors said they found it hard to avoid media reports about him. The 200-person jury pool has been waiting three years for the trial, which was put off because of appellate court battles over the hearsay statements.
Several potential jurors said they had watched a 2011 cable TV movie about the Savio case titled "Drew Peterson: Untouchable," in which actor Rob Lowe portrays the former Bolingbrook police officer.
Many insisted they understood the movie was Hollywood fiction. One potential juror who works as a plumber watched the movie and said it made Peterson look guilty of murder, but he said he could separate the movie from evidence presented during trial.
One man said that when he hears Peterson's name on the radio he switches it off or leaves the room. But the man said that just last week he saw Peterson's photograph splashed across the front page of a suburban Chicago newspaper.
One woman, asked what she thinks she's heard about the case, answered, "Something about a bathtub."
Vetting would-be jurors typically takes a few days, but extra time is sometimes required in high-profile cases to weed out those who come in with well-formed opinions. Opening statements at Peterson's trial in Joliet are slated for next Tuesday.
Jurors are likely to hear from a parade of pathologists who will dispute each other's conclusions about how the 40-year-old Savio died. They will hear about her death being ruled an accident, her body being exhumed after 23-year-old Stacy Peterson's disappearance and the autopsy after which her cause of death was changed from accidental to homicide ? and the continued dispute over those findings.
There's apparently no physical evidence, so the hearsay is the heart of prosecutors' case.
Before jury selection began Monday, Will County Judge Edward Burmila refused prosecutors' request to give them blanket approval to admit eight key hearsay statements. Burmila said he will make a final ruling on the admissibility of each statement only as they come up at trial.
Neither Burmila nor the attorneys spoke in any detail about the substance of the eight statements.
At a 2010 hearing to determine what hearsay a jury could hear, dozens of witnesses testified that Savio told them she feared Peterson would kill her and make it look like an accident.
One question looming over the trial is how much Peterson's personality will influence the jury. Before his arrest, Peterson was often seen joking about a "Win A Date With Drew" contest, his missing wife's menstrual cycle and other topics that were widely seen as inappropriate.
Peterson's lead attorney, Joel Brodsky, has said the three years that Peterson has been in jail and largely out of the public eye might help him because the memories of his behavior have faded.
"I've never heard of anything comparable to this ? a jury pool waiting around for so long knowing what case they're going to be in and the reliance on hearsay," said Gal Pissetzky, a Chicago defense lawyer with no link to the case.
Peterson, jailed since his 2009 arrest, pleaded not guilty. His attorneys say Savio's death was an accident and that Stacy Peterson ? 30 years younger than Drew Peterson ? ran off with another man and is alive. Authorities have said they believe she is dead, although her body has never been found.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/drew-peterson-introduces-self-jurors-174325535.html
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When a cyclist uses proper spin shoes he/she is sure to have an enhanced performance on the bike. The upper of the shoes is typically made of leather or man-made synthetic materials that make the shoe extra comfortable. Additionally, backing materials are used to decrease irritation on all the pressure points of the feet. While selecting the shoes, cyclists need to ensure that upper does not cause excessive pressure on the first and fifth metatarsal phalange joint.
Closure mechanisms help secure the feet to the shoes firmly. These are essential for the athlete who is training, for indoor cycling as well as for many racing events. Today there are several types of closure mechanisms are available which include the 1or 3- loop straps, or even the ratchet-bucket mechanisms. When you buy hook and loop system shoes these typically consist make use of Velcro material.
Coming to the shoes' soles, these are rigid and allow a strong point of contact between the biker's feet and the crank arm/pedal as well as the bike's drive train. Typically they are made of thermoplastic elements and may be strengthened using fiberglass. So, when you select indoor cycling shoes or spin shoes, make sure you give special attention to the factors such as rigidity, cleat mounting patterns, toe break angle and heel posts. The cleat systems and cleat mounts are attached on the outside part of the soles and help in anchoring of the bike pedal to the shoe cleats. You can buy unique and specific anchor systems made to suit only certain brands of pedal-cleats systems or you may choose universally adaptable ones that suit several designs.
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1. Examine shoes for neutral position
2. Then check the shoes for forefoot flexibility
3. Examine the shoes for heel counter rigidity
4. Check if the shoe allows side-to side stability
5. See if the shoe-lacing/closure systems is comfortable
6. Check out the outsole traction and
7. examine the Midfoot torsional stability.
These will help you buy the best spin shoes.
Source: http://www.artipot.com/articles/1309221/parts-of-the-spin-shoes-explained.htm
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Some ports are exciting, like when Metal Gear Solid 2 made its way to the original Xbox. Some ports are less exciting, like Myst appearing on every interactive device on the face of the Earth. These are the games that we have seen re-appear more often than any other game. Some are old, like the original Prince of Persia, and some are young, already making their way to as many platforms as possible like Angry Birds. Here they are ranked in order of appearances.
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Appeared on Nintendo 64, PC, Dreamcast, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Color, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, iOS, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS for a total of 9 ports.
I?m not sure why Ubisoft holds this admittedly decent 3D platformer with such high regard. It was great when it came out, but every time it is re-released, it just seems to be a reminder that the game is aging very quickly. If you want to see for yourself how the game plays, just pick it up for pretty much everything you have. I think there is a refrigerator version coming soon.
Final Fantasy I
Appeared on NES, MSX2, WonderSwan Color, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, mobile phones, PSP, Wii, PlayStation 3, iOS, and Windows Phone 7 for a total of 10 ports.
Final Fantasy I made its first appearance on the NES in 1990, and it stayed quiet for a long time. Square (pre-Enix) was too busy making legitimate sequels to the franchise before they thought in 2002, ?hey let?s just redo that old game,? with the PlayStation version of the game.
Angry Birds
Appeared on iOS, Android, PSP, PlayStation 3, Mac OS, PC, Windows Phone 7, Google, BlackBerry Tablet, Facebook,? Kindle Fire, and Xbox 360 (coming soon) for a total of 11 ports.
If you haven?t heard of Angry Birds, then you were probably born in the last twenty minutes, and your new parents are reading this to you. If you want to play Angry Birds, just find a screen, preferably one with a touch screen.
Myst
Appeared on PC, Mac, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, 3DO, Atari Jaguar, CD-i, AmigaOS, PSP, Nintendo DS, iOS, and Nintendo 3DS for a total of 11 ports.
Myst released today for the 3DS, and while it is very important in the history of the advancement of video game design, it?s basically a game where you are clicking pre-rendered images. It begs the questions, why is this game 535 MB large for iOS devices. I don?t think that game took up that much disc space when it originally released for PC.
Prince of Persia
Appears on Apple II, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, PC, Sega Master System, Sega CD, TurboGrafx, NES, Game Boy, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy Color, and Wii (unlockable in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands) for a total of 13 ports.
There are 13 ports of Prince of Persia since it first released on the Apple II computer, and that is not including the numerous Prince of Persia games that dealt with the Sands of Time. Something about the way the original Prince moved with his rotoscoped animation technology just demanded that everyone be able to play the game no matter what interactive console they owned.
Out of This World
Amiga, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, PC, Sega Mega Drive, SNES, Mac OS, 3DO, Tapwave Zodiac, Mega-CD, Mobile phones, Windows Mobile, iOS, and Android for a total of 13 ports.
The appeal of Out of this World, strictly from the porting point of view, is that the game has a simple art style with impressive animation that is dripping with a timeless sense of style. I can?t imagine a day when Out of this World won?t offer an instantly inviting experience. The complete lack of dialogue also means that you will never be hiring a team of voice actors to give dialogue to the assorted characters.
Sonic The Hedgehog
Appeared on Genesis, iOS, PC, Wii, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Android (Japan only), Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PSP for a total of 14 ports.
Sonic's first game has appeared on tons of consoles thanks to the never-ending stream of Sega Genesis compilations. We theorize that Sega constantly re-releases Sonic the Hedgehog to balance out the steady flow of new, awful Sonic games.
Dragon's Lair
Appeared on arcade, Sega CD, Game Boy Color, PC, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS, Android, Xbox 360, and Laserdisc for a total of 14 ports.
Dragon?s Lair has the rare distinction of appearing on DVD, HD DVD, Laserdisc, and Blu-ray, something no other game on this list claims. Since the game is more or less an animated feature, it will always look solid no matter which platform it's released for. How it plays is?another story.
Street Fighter II
Appeared on arcade, SNES, Mega Drive, Master System, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PC, Game Boy, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PSP, Apple iOS, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii for a total of 18 ports.
Capcom is no stranger to re-releasing its games, often within the same console generation, but it can?t seem to help itself when it comes to Street Fighter II. It has appeared on compilations, it has had words like ?Super,? ?Turbo,? and ?HD? added to the front and back of it, and it?s not even done yet. In September it will appear again as part of the 25th Anniversary Collection, and that's after it already appeared on the collection honoring the 15th anniversary eight years ago (yes, I am aware that the math does not make sense). Capcom loves releasing this game, and we must love it too, because we keep buying it.
Tetris
What hasn't Tetris appeared on?
Tetris has made appearances in hundreds of different forms, on hundreds of different consoles, computers, calculators, and arcade cabinets. If it has the computing power to run a game, then there is a version of Tetris for it.
Tetris was hugely popular on all manner of PC before It arguably gained its biggest splurge in popularity on the Game Boy. Since then, the game has appeared on everything, and it will continue to appear on everything until the Universe lines up its tetraminos and we're all deleted. The game has been, and will be ported into oblivion.
It's highly possible that I've overlooked a game that his been ported a similar amount than the games above. Is there a game that you are tired of seeing over and over? Or maybe one you never tire of seeing over and over? Or perhaps, a game you wish you saw over and over?
Source: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/07/24/the-port-authority.aspx
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ESPN will feature all 14 SEC head football coaches on various parts of its media platforms today and Tuesday, as part of its "Car Wash" event.
Muschamp will be one of the seven coaches involved in?multi-interview sessions on Tuesday. Coaches will?answer fan questions on Twitter during the live Twitter chat segment.
If you'd like to ask?Muschamp a question during his scheduled session on Tuesday,?send tweets to the @ESPNCFB account and use the hashtag #ESPNMuschamp.
Below is a schedule of all the appearances for Muschamp Tuesday:?
11:00 am?????????????? College Football Podcast
11:45 am?????????????? GameDay Radio
12:05 pm?????????????? @ESPNCFB Questions
12:25 pm?????????????? ESPN.com chat
12:50 pm?????????????? Playbook
1:40 pm???????????????? SportsCenter (Live)
1:50 pm???????????????? Twitter chat
2:20 pm???????????????? College Football Live
2:40 pm???????????????? Recruiting Nation
3:00 pm???????????????? SportsCenter Tonight Radio
3:15 pm???????????????? Scott Van Pelt Radio Show
3:35 pm???????????????? ESPNU
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SEATTLE (AP) ? Ichiro Suzuki bowed twice to the fans and promptly smacked a single to center.
Sayonara, Seattle. Hello, Yankees.
Suzuki switched teams at Safeco Field after a momentous trade and singled his first time up with New York during its 4-1 victory over the Mariners on Monday night.
"Obviously, it looks different being over here," Suzuki said through a translator. "I was worried about my first at-bat. I was really relieved with the standing ovation. It was a special day today."
In a surprising deal about 3? hours before the game, Seattle sent Suzuki to the Yankees for a pair of young pitchers. After leaving the only major league team he'd ever played for, the 10-time All-Star held an emotional news conference and then joined his new teammates in the other clubhouse.
Just like that, Suzuki went from last place in the AL West to first in the AL East. And he helped New York beat his former club by going 1 for 4 with his 16th stolen base.
The crowd of 29,911 gave Suzuki a 45-second standing ovation when he came to bat for the first time in the third inning. He doffed his helmet and bowed twice before hitting a single and stealing second base.
"My 11? years here is a long time and I was thinking what I would feel like in my first at-bat," Suzuki said. "I really didn't think anything. Nothing came to me. It was just a wonderful day to experience that."
Hiroki Kuroda (10-7) allowed three hits over seven sharp innings to help the Yankees bounce back from a four-game sweep in Oakland. The right-hander struck out nine and walked one.
Alex Rodriguez hit his 15th home run this season ? the 644th of his career and 299th as a Yankee ? in the eighth. He also had a double in the fourth and scored twice. It was his 40th homer at Safeco Field but first since Aug. 22, 2006.
Mark Teixeira had three hits, including a pair of doubles, and an RBI.
David Robertson worked a hitless eighth and Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his 25th save in 27 chances. Fittingly, Suzuki caught the final out in right field.
Kevin Millwood (3-8) went seven innings, allowing nine hits and three runs.
Suzuki showed up in Seattle's clubhouse in the early afternoon wearing a fine suit with thin pinstripes. By the end of the day, he had a different sort of pinstripes on his mind.
"I am going from a team with the most losses to a team with the most wins," he said. "It's hard to contain my excitement for that reason."
The Yankees also got cash in the deal that sent 25-year-old righties D.J. Mitchell and Danny Farquhar to the last-place Mariners.
Suzuki, in the final year of his contract, started in right field in place of injured Nick Swisher and batted eighth. It was the first time the 2001 AL MVP and Rookie of the Year started a game batting anywhere other than the top three spots in the lineup.
"Several weeks ago, Ichiro Suzuki, through his longtime agent, Tony Attanasio, approached (team president) Chuck Armstrong and me to ask that the Mariners consider trading him," said Howard Lincoln, the team's CEO. "Ichiro knows that the club is building for the future, and he felt that what was best for the team was to be traded to another club and give our younger players an opportunity to develop."
The Yankees made the deal a few days after learning that speedy outfielder Brett Gardner would likely miss the rest of the season because of an elbow problem, and manager Joe Girardi said Suzuki will mostly play left field.
"He looked good," Girardi said. "He hit the ball right on the screws twice. He stole a base, made a good throw to home. Kind of what we expected.
"We're really pleased to have him. This is a guy we think can do a lot of things for us. He's a very accomplished player. Our guys were really excited to see him."
Suzuki hit just .272 last season and was at .261 this year ? 62 points below his career average ? before the trade. But Girardi believes change is good.
"I think it can help a lot of guys," he said. "A couple years ago, we acquired Lance Berkman. He was huge for us down the stretch and the end of the year. He just got on a roll and I think Ichiro can do the same thing.
"He's used to high expectations. Every year he's expected to get 200 hits, score 100 runs. Slipping into our lineup maybe he won't feel all those expectations as much."
Suzuki said he did feel relaxed in among his new teammates.
"It's an atmosphere that's really comfortable," he said. "It's an atmosphere I love to be around."
Suzuki was given No. 31 because the number he wore his entire career with the Mariners, No. 51, has not been worn by a Yankee since four-time World Series champion Bernie Williams last played.
"No. 51 is a special number to me, but when I think about what 51 means to the Yankees, it's hard for me to ask for that number," said Suzuki, who holds the major league record for most hits in a season.
When Suzuki trotted out to right field in the first, fans stood and applauded. He tipped his hat and waved it in a half-circle.
The Mariners scored in the third on John Jaso's RBI single to right. Suzuki's hard throw to the plate was too late to get Dustin Ackley.
The Yankees responded with three in the fourth. Rodriguez ripped a one-out double high off the right-field wall and Robinson Cano walked. Teixeira doubled to right, scoring Rodriguez and sending Cano to third.
Raul Ibanez followed with a first-pitch single to left, scoring Cano for a 2-1 lead. Teixeira scored on Andruw Jones' single.
NOTES: No. 31 had been worn by 41 former Yankees coaches or players, including Tim Raines and Hall of Famer Dave Winfield. ... It was the eighth time in club history that the Mariners played at home the day after the longest flight in the American League (2,510 miles) from Tampa Bay. They are 4-4 in those games. ... Mariners 1B Justin Smoak went hitless in three at-bats and is riding an 0-for-19 streak. ... Millwood has given up 32 hits to Suzuki, more than any other pitcher.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suzuki-singles-yankees-debut-4-1-win-over-051803477--mlb.html
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By Vignesh Ramachandran
Around the country, funeral and memorial services are being arranged for those killed in Friday's movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., as families and friends grieve and find ways to honor their loved ones.
Among the victims: a hockey blogger, a military veteran with two young children and an aspiring art teacher.
In Aurora,?a candlelight vigil for the victims was held Sunday night, with family and friends of the victims in attendance.
Jordan Ghawi, the brother of 24-year-old aspiring sportscaster Jessica Ghawi, wrote on his blog Monday?that a memorial service for Jessica will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in San Antonio at the Community Bible Church. Her body will be cremated in Denver, before being flown back to Texas ? the state where she spent most of her life.
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Matt McQuinn, 27, died from injuries he sustained while trying to shield his girlfriend, Jessica Yowler, from bullets in the movie theater.?According to the Springfield News-Sun, a visitation will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Maiden Lane Church of God in Springfield, Ohio. A fund to help offset costs for these arrangements is set up at that church. On Saturday, his funeral is at 10 a.m. and burial is at Lawrenceville Cemetery in Clark County, Ohio.
Services for Micayla Medek, 23, take place this week, a family spokesperson said. A viewing is 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday?at the Newcomer Funeral Home & Crematory at 190 North Potomac in Aurora. The service for Medek will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the New Hope Baptist Church at 3701 Colorado Boulevard in Denver.?A memorial fund also was set up: the Micayla Medek Memorial Fund at the Fitzsimons Credit Union (800-919-2872).
The family of John Larimer, 27, has not be able to make funeral arrangements yet, because they're not sure when his body will be released, father Scott Larimer told the Chicago Sun-Times?on Monday.
"While we are overwhelmed by pain by this terrible loss, we are mindful of the other 11 families mourning the loss of another promising, wonderful young person, and the?dozens of other families at the bedside of their injured loved one, hoping, praying they recover fully," Larimer's aunt, Karen Lavin, said in a statement to the Northwest Herald?? a newspaper in Larimer's hometown of Crystal Lake, Ill. "None of us will ever fully recover from such a terrible loss,?the senseless, brutal actions that in just seconds took so many, so much away from us."
It was Alex Sullivan's 27th birthday on Friday, when he fell victim to the gunfire. Christine Turner, the Sullivan family's spokesperson, told NBC News on Monday that the family is still determining plans for a memorial service.
Shelly Fradkin, the mother of one of Sullivan's good friends, spoke to the Longmont Times-Call: "We're shocked. We're numb. We're sick," Fradkin said. "Our hearts are broken, and we're crushed."
Alex Teves, 24, was shielding his girlfriend from the flying bullets.
"You're talking about probably one of the best people on Earth, and he can't be replaced," father Tom Teves told Denver's NBC-affiliate, KUSA. "He can't be replaced for our family. He can't be replaced in society. We're going to miss him terribly. We love him. We know he's in Heaven. We know he's going to be ok. We're the ones who're going to suffer."
The Teves family is planning memorial services in Arizona and New Jersey.
Jonathan Blunk, 26, also passed while attempting to shield his girlfriend. Chantel Blunk, his estranged wife, told NBC News from Reno, Nev.: "He wanted to die a hero." She said there are plans to bring his body home to Reno, and has set up an account through Wells Fargo to raise funds to offset the funeral and transportation expenses. Blunk will be buried with military honors.
Jesse Childress, 29, threw himself in front of a friend during the gunfire. Originally from the Palmdale, Calif.-area, Childress was an Air Force reservist on active duty and stationed at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora.
Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Schwald told The Denver Post on Saturday: "He was a huge part of our unit, and this is a terrible loss. The person that did this was an incredible coward."
Alexander Jonathan "AJ" Boik, 18, had plans to attend art school, become an art teacher and open his own studio. A spokesperson for Aurora Public Schools, where Boik was a recent graduate of Gateway High School, said there was a private memorial service Monday.
Rebecca Ann Wingo, 32, was originally from Quinlan, Texas. Father Steve Hernandez wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday:?I lost my daughter yesterday to a mad man, my grief right now is inconsolable, I hear she died instantly, without pain, however the pain is unbearable." A college fund has been set up for Wingo's two daughters at the Nebraska Educational Savings Trust, according to KUSA.
Gordon W. Cowden?was the oldest victim at age 51. In a statement to reporters cited in the Austin American-Statesman, his family stated: "A quick witted world traveler with a keen sense of humor, he will be remembered for his devotion to his children and for always trying his best to do the right thing, no matter the obstacle."
Veronica Moser-Sullivan?was the youngest victim at age 6. Her father, Ian Sullivan, told KUSA, "She's always been a free-spirited child."
As of Tuesday, a fund for all the victims and families of the tragedy has reached $2 million, KUSA reported. People can donate online at GivingFirst.org.
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LONDON?? Manmade climate change is the main driver behind the unexpected emergence of a group of bacteria in northern Europe which can cause gastroenteritis, new research by a group of international experts shows.
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The paper, published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Sunday, provided some of the first firm evidence that the warming patterns of the Baltic Sea have coincided with the emergence of Vibrio infections in northern Europe.
Vibrios is a group of bacteria which usually grow in warm and tropical marine environments. The bacteria can cause various infections in humans, ranging from cholera to gastroenteritis-like symptoms from eating raw or undercooked shellfish or from exposure to seawater.
A team of scientists from institutions in Britain, Finland, Spain and the United States examined sea surface temperature records and satellite data, as well as statistics on Vibrio cases in the Baltic.
They found the number and distribution of cases in the Baltic Sea area was strongly linked to peaks in sea surface temperatures. Each year the temperature rose one degree, the number of vibrio cases rose almost 200 percent.
"The big apparent increases that we've seen in cases during heat wave years (..) tend to indicate that climate change is indeed driving infections," Craig Baker-Austin at the UK-based Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, one of the authors of the study, told Reuters.
Climate studies show that rising greenhouse gas emissions made global average surface temperatures increase by about 0.17 degrees Celsius a decade from 1980 to 2010.
The Vibrio study focused on the Baltic Sea in particular because it warmed at an unprecedented rate of 0.063 to 0.078 degrees Celsius a year from 1982 to 2010, or 6.3 to 7.8 degrees a century.
"(It) represents, to our knowledge, the fastest warming marine ecosystem examined so far anywhere on Earth," the paper said.
Many marine bacteria thrive in warm, low-saline sea water. In addition to warming, climate change has caused more frequent and heavier rainfall, which has reduced the salt content of estuaries and coastal wetlands.
As ocean temperatures continue to rise and coastal regions in northern regions become less saline, Vibrio bacteria strains will appear in new areas, the scientists said.
Vibrio outbreaks have also appeared in temperate and cold regions in Chile, Peru, Israel, the northwest U.S. Pacific and northwest Spain, and these can be linked to warming patterns, the scientists said.
"Very few studies have looked at the risk of these infections at high latitudes," Baker-Austin said.
"Certainly the chances of getting a vibrio infection are considered to be relatively low, and more research is focused on areas where these diseases are endemic or at least more common," he added.
Previous Vibrio outbreaks in colder regions have often been put down to a sporadic event or special conditions rather than a response to long-term climate change.
This is because the effects of global warming can be more pronounced at higher latitudes and in areas which lack detailed historical climate data, the study said.
Baker-Austin said there was a growing realization that climate and the emergence of some infectious diseases were closely linked but there are some "huge data gaps in that area which need addressing."
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48278511/ns/us_news-environment/
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Syrian rebels stand next to their vehicle after seizing control of the Bab al-Hawa border post with Turkey on July 20, 2012. Some 150 armed rebel fighters were in control of the post, which lies opposite Turkey's Cilvegozu border crossing in the southern province of Hatay.
Fighting continued for a fifth day near key government installations, indicating that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's control is faltering. As the opposition advances, Russia and China still refuse to support a resolution calling for tougher sanctions. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
Syrian rebels were still in control of the main Abu Kamal border post on the Euphrates River highway, one of the major trade routes across the Middle East, a senior Iraqi interior ministry official said on Friday.
The border crossing?was seized by rebels following a fierce battle with Syrian troops,?an Agence France Presse photographer at the scene reported.?
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