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Check List 10(3): 618-620, doi: 10.15560/10.3.618
New bird distribution records for Lambayeque, Peru: Nomonyx dominicus (Linneaus, 1766) (Anatidae) and Incaspiza pulchra (Sclater, 1886) (Emberizidae)
Eric LoPresti‡, Fernando Angulo§
‡ Cornell University, United States of America§ Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad, Peru
Corresponding author: Eric LoPresti ( lopresti.eric@gmail.com )
© 2017 Eric LoPresti, Fernando Angulo.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: LoPresti E, Angulo F (2014) New bird distribution records for Lambayeque, Peru: Nomonyx dominicus (Linneaus, 1766) (Anatidae) and Incaspiza pulchra (Sclater, 1886) (Emberizidae). Check List 10(3): 618-620. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.3.618
New records of the Great Inca-finch (Incaspiza pulchra) and the Masked Duck (Nomonyx dominicus) from 2011 and 2012 in the department of Lambayeque, Peru are presented and discussed. Several Masked Ducks were discovered in seasonal wetlands near the town of La Viña. Single individuals (possibly the same) of the inca-finch were found in both 2011 and 2012 on Cerro Chalpón, near the city of Motupe, and frequent handouts offered by pilgrims to a shrine on the hill. Both these records represent significant range expansions or previously unrecorded populations.
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JK Shin, president of Samsung's mobile communications business, unveils the Galaxy S II smartphone at Mobile World Congress. The phone has a dual-core processor, a quad-core graphics processor, a 4.3 AMOLED screen, and a thickness of 8.49mm.
Samsung pioneered the Android tablet market with a 7-inch model that would fit in a jacket pocket. The Galaxy Tab 10.1, though, is closer to the size of Apple's iPad, which dominates the tablet market.
Samsung hired a group of dancers dressed as deliverymen who've been touring Barcelona sights with their packages. They performed for waiting crowds before the Samsung event at Mobile World Congress.
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JK Shin, president of Samsung's mobile communications business, makes his case for the Android-based line of Galaxy products.
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Samsung puts four "hubs" on its phone--centers of activity where the company offers software beyond the regular Android collection. One is for reading.
The Samsung Galaxy S II phone supports Adobe Systems' Flash Player 10.1. Adobe has a major push afoot to spread its software to mobile devices, where it's a rarity, unlike on PCs.
Thomas Richter, manager of Samsung's telecommunications portfolio in Europe, touts the Galaxy S II.
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A look at the front of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Samsung boasted it will be the best Android tablet.
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RedCrab, Free Scientific Calculator Download
by Martin Brinkmann on November 01, 2010 in Software, Windows - Last Update: March 01, 2011 - 10 comments
We all know that Windows comes with a free calculator. Microsoft has even redesigned the calculator from scratch for their latest operating system Windows 7. The improved calculator offers the four modes standard, scientific, programmer and statistics now. All have in common that the calculator is fine for some basic equations, but less so for complex equations.
That's where other scientific calculators come in. Red Crab is a free and portable calculator for Windows that is perfectly suitable for complex algebraic equations like fractions, square roots, exponents and a lot more. The best option to take a look at the calculator's capabilities is to load a few of the demo projects that ship with the download.
Probably the biggest difference to Windows Calculator is the ability to add characters and symbols everywhere, just like it is possible on normal paper. This provides enough room to add complex equations and functions on the page. Multiple functions and equations can be added to the same page, with the possibility to use results for further calculations.
The scientific calculator opens two windows on startup. The main window with basic controls and the text area for the equations, and an extra window with functions and symbols. This extra window can be docked to the main window by clicking on View > Panel Undocked.
There is a lot to explore, and the best place to start is the extensive user manual. The contents include information on how to write mathematical expressions, use the tools to change font sizes or superscript, use the function and symbol panel, keyboard shortcuts and basic information on how to work with the scientific calculator.
The developer has created a few tutorial videos to demonstrate some of the calculator's functionality.
Users who are interested in the scientific calculator RedCrab can download the program from the developer homepage.
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worksheets for kids said on November 2, 2010 at 1:42 am
I never though that with calculator we can calculate such operation
very useful for student
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Get off the dope mate and phrase your sentences comprehensibly.
kalmly said on November 2, 2010 at 3:51 pm
This works for me: http://www.sfr-software.de/cms/EN/windows/sfr-calculator/ I think it can be found on CNET too, at least the phone version.
Make comments, run virtual tapes, make templates, etc., etc. Versions for PCs and phones.
RE my previously posted comment. This app makes no claim to being a scientific calculator. Sorry, I should have paid more attention.
LogicDaemon said on November 14, 2010 at 3:43 pm
SMath Studio is also free and open source, but can also draw graphs, including 3D, and there are also PocketPC (=WM Pro and Classic) and Smartphone (= WM standard edition) editions!
sorry, I mistaken, it's not open source :(
Ernie said on May 26, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Web-based calculators are more convenient than carrying around a clumsy electronic calculator.
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its mani. I need Scintific Calculator Software for free download.
can u help me.
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Neurons Show Excitability Increases Following Learning
by Dan Modano July 24, 2018
Experience changes the way our neurons become plastic and form new memories, new research from the University of California, Davis, shows.
Most people are familiar with our experiences shape the way we learn. If we are highly familiar with a particular task, like cooking for example, learning a new recipe is much easier than it was when we were a novice.
Brian Wiltgen, associate professor at the UC Davis Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, uses laboratory mice to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory in a brain structure called the hippocampus. Unlike their wild cousins, lab mice are safe from predators, warm, well-fed and well-cared for, but they don't have the same variety of life experience as a wild mouse.
"Our main question was, how does experience modify the way that the brain learns? If you zoom all the way down to the level of a neuron, does experience alter the way that it becomes plastic,"
said Wiltgen.
NMDA Receptors
Decades of research with laboratory rodents has shown that a protein called the NMDA receptor, found at the connection between nerve cells, is essential for forming new memories. If you train mice on a simple task, you can prevent them from learning by giving them a drug that blocks the NMDA receptor.
Graduate students Ana Crestani and Jamie Krueger in Wiltgen's group used a simple but robust training procedure called contextual fear conditioning. Mice were placed in a novel environment (where they had never been before) and after a few minutes received a mild foot shock through electrified grids on the floor.
The sensation is about the same as placing your tongue on a battery. The shock startled the mice and, as a result, they learned to be scared of the new context.
Consistent with other work done in laboratory mice, they found that if NMDA receptors were blocked, animals showed no memory for the experience the following day.
To see if experienced animals learned the same way, the researchers trained mice who had previously undergone fear conditioning but in a different environment. When these animals were trained in a new context they could develop a response even when NMDA receptors were blocked.
"This suggests that experienced animals form memories using different plasticity mechanisms than naive subjects even if they are learning about the exact same thing,"
Wiltgen said. In other words, the way our neurons form new connections depends on their prior history, a phenomenon called metaplasticity.
Reactivating Networks
Animals form memories by creating and strengthening connections between networks of neurons. Wiltgen's hypothesis was that if an existing network was reactivated, it might form connections in new ways.
"In our experiments, we found that previously activated neurons were more excitable than their neighbors. That is, they fired many more action potentials when stimulated,"
Wiltgen said.
They hypothesized that the excitable state of these neurons could make them capable of different kinds of plasticity — as if the network were amped up and ready to learn new information.
To demonstrate this, they worked with mice in which previously activated neurons glow with green fluorescent protein, or GFP. Co-author John Gray, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Center for Neuroscience, and his graduate student, Eden Barragan, measured the excitability of these cells, finding that the GFP cells in previously activated networks were indeed more excitable than other neurons.
Importantly, when they trained experienced mice on the contextual fear conditioning task, they found that GFP cells were preferentially activated, suggesting that they formed the new memory. Interestingly, the way they did so was unique. Instead of using NMDA receptors, these neurons appeared to use a different molecule, the metabotropic glutamate receptor.
"When animals learn something completely new, it activates NMDA receptors, which strengthen synapses and forms a new memory network. In addition, the activated cells become more excitable, which allows them to encode additional information using a different receptor,"
These findings provide insight into the way new experiences are integrated with established memories — something that animals, including humans, do every day. Yet as Wiltgen admits, his laboratory animals are still very naive compared to their wild relatives.
"A wild rodent would learn about hundreds of environments and whether they were safe or dangerous. Our animals only learned about two. Nonetheless, our work moves us closer to understanding how experienced animals learn about the world, which may be quite different than we previously thought,"
Ana P. Crestani, Jamie N. Krueger, Eden V. Barragan, Yuki Nakazawa, Sonya E. Nemes, Jorge A. Quillfeldt, John A. Gray & Brian J. Wiltgen
Metaplasticity contributes to memory formation in the hippocampus
Neuropsychopharmacology (2018)
Image: Brian Wiltgen/UC Davis
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Extreme Temperature Diary-Wednesday December 4th, 2019/ Main Topic: Bringing On Board Conservatives…Talk About Pollution Instead Of Climate Change
December 4, 2019 December 5, 2019 guyonclimate_mi5tor
Wednesday December 4th… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States extreme or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I'll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉
Bringing On Board Conservatives…Talk About Pollution Instead Of Climate Change
As many of you know I am deeply partisan, being a staunch believer in science, which leads us to know that there is a climate crisis that the entire world most fight. This means the entire world, not just those of us with more liberal minds who are climate activists. One of the big questions as of late 2019 is do we ignore people who disagree with us, leading and dragging them into new policy such as would be produced by the Green New Deal, or can we somehow convince most that big change would benefit their health and bottom line? How can we smooth over any ill will and feelings among people with entirely different psychological makeups?
I certainly would think that the world needs to work in unison to fight the climate crisis, bringing in all people from every political stripe. Recently I saw an older 2017 post put on the Climate Reality Hub instructing my more liberal stripe of folks to talk about pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels more than just presenting hard climate science in association with a lifetime's relatively slower temperature and sea level trends in order to convince some conservatives of necessary change. I would certainly agree with this tact, so I am reposting some of these public health arguments for my readers:
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/why-vital-talk-about-climate-impact-public-health
Why It's Vital to Talk About the Climate Crisis' Impact on Public Health
Openly discussing the threat of climate change to public health will help us prepare for this looming challenge and better protect the American people.
Some issues should rise above the clatter of Capitol Hill discord. Like the air we breathe and the water we drink, they are too fundamental to ignore – and too important to get lost amid partisan squabbling. They are concerns at the heart of the universal human rights we all enjoy.
Public health ranks high among them, and it's threatened in a critical way by the climate crisis.
Climate change will continue to exacerbate existing threats to health and give rise to new ones. And while the movement for solutions may seem in the throes of an especially challenging moment, addressing the crisis' impacts on our current and future well-being is not a political issue but an ethical and practical one.
Climate Reality to Co-Host Climate & Health Meeting to Address Connection Between Climate Change and Public Health
According to the World Health Organization, "Climate change is among the greatest health risks of the twenty first century. Rising temperatures and more extreme weather events cost lives directly, increase transmission and spread of infectious diseases, and undermine the environmental determinants of health, including clean air and water, and sufficient food."
The impact of the climate crisis on human health is far-reaching, but solutions exist that can help us improve quality of life around the world right now and work toward a healthier, more sustainable future for all.
But to solve a problem, first you've got to understand what's at stake. Here's a quick look:
The same carbon pollution that causes climate change can indirectly aggravate respiratory concerns like asthma and allergies.
Burning fossil fuels not only pollutes our air directly with irritants like particulate matter and soot, but as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and average temperatures rise, they also contribute to higher levels of ground-level ozone that can cause acute and long-term respiratory problems. Moreover, rising global average temperatures lead to longer pollen seasons in many places and – when combined with stronger rainfall events, flooding, and higher humidity – create the perfect environment for mold to flourish.
The result? More allergies, asthma attacks, and other respiratory health problems.
As we all know renewables do not admit air pollution, which is choking cities like Beijing China, and elevating levels of ozone at times over cities here in the United States. I have suffered from asthma during my lifetime, which has caused me great pain at times and probably has shortened my lifespan, so anything that can be done to keep air clean, besides keeping greenhouse enhancing gases out of the atmosphere, would be a big plus for us all.
I'm also posting more very detailed information from Dr. Jeff Master's Category 6 blog on air pollution, which has some recent statistics you may wish to read:
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Stopping-Human-Caused-Air-Pollution-Would-Prevent-56-Million-Air-Pollution-Deaths-Year-New
Stopping Human-Caused Air Pollution Would Prevent 5.6 Million Air Pollution Deaths Per Year: New Study
Dr. Jeff Masters · March 27, 2019, 6:17 AM EDT
Above: Indian commuters drive amidst heavy smog along a busy road past the South Extension area of New Delhi on December 6, 2018. India suffers 1.1 million premature deaths due to air pollution each year, according to research published in March 2019. Image credit: XAVIER GALIANA/AFP/Getty Images.
If humans stopped emitting air pollution, an astonishing 5.6 million premature deaths per year due to global outdoor air pollution could be prevented, according to research published Monday. About 65% of these deaths are due to burning of fossil fuels, with the remainder due to such activities as biomass burning and agriculture. Eliminating human-caused air pollution would also significantly reduce drought in monsoon regions, but it would allow more sunlight to reach the surface, increasing Earth's surface temperature by at least 0.36°C (0.65°F). Overall, the effects would be hugely beneficial.
The study, Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate, was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by a team headed by atmospheric researcher Jos Lelieveld of the Max Planck Institute. The study built on their previous work, published on March 12, which found that the health burden of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution is much higher than has been previously assumed. They concluded that outdoor air pollution from PM2.5 and ozone causes 8.79 million premature deaths globally each year. Of that total, natural sources of outdoor air pollution accounted for 3.24 million deaths per year, and human-caused sources were 5.55 million per year. According to air pollution scientist Susan Anenberg of The George Washington University, who was not involved in the study, "these results of the new study are in line with previous research showing that the global burden of ambient PM2.5 on mortality could be substantially larger than previously thought, indicating about a doubling of the estimates currently reported by the Global Burden of Disease study."
The researchers found that the top three nations for human-caused air pollution deaths were China (2.2 million per year), India (1.1 million per year), and the U.S. (230,000 per year). In the U.S., 84% of these deaths were attributed to the burning of fossil fuels. Globally, a premature air pollution death was found to occur on average 26.5 years earlier than it otherwise might have. In the U.S., where the mortality of children from air pollution is lower than the global average, a premature air pollution death takes an average of 12 years off a person's life, according to Caiazzo et al., 2013.
The new study did not attempt to estimate the costs of air pollution to the economy. But a 2016 report by the World Bank—which used an older estimate of air pollution mortality approximately half as high—found that in 2013, the most recent year full data was available, exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution cost the world's economy $5.6 trillion (2019 dollars). These losses were highest in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific: 7.4 – 7.5% of the regional gross domestic product (GDP). The report estimated that the U.S. suffered $520 billion in health-related damages from air pollution in 2013 (2.9% of the GDP).
Figure 1. Temperature changes at the surface from removing particulate air pollution emitted by fossil-fuel-burning. Stippling denotes areas where the temperature changes are not significant at the 95% confidence level. Image credit: Lelieveld et al., 2019, Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Eliminating human-caused air pollution allows at least 0.36°C of "hidden" global warming to occur
The researchers found that by eliminating fossil fuel burning, Earth's surface temperature would rise by about 0.51°C (0.92°F), due to fewer air pollution particles reflecting sunlight back to space. The largest temperature impacts were found over North America and Northeast Asia–1.5 to 2°C of warming (Figure 1). By further removing all human emissions of air pollution—including biomass burning—a mean global temperature increase of 0.73°C would result, they found. However, if we simultaneously reduced human-caused methane, ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons in the atmosphere—three powerful short-lived greenhouse gases—this 0.73°C increase could be reduced to 0.36°C (1.2°C in the U.S.).
Most importantly, eliminating the burning of fossil fuels would stop the rapid build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—the main source of increasing global warming. In a press release that accompanied the paper, the authors wrote: "Therefore, cessation of air pollution would lead to a fast rise in global temperatures in the short term, and the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C target would not be achievable. Nevertheless, it is still possible to limit warming to 2°."
Less air pollution equals less drought
Another huge benefit of emitting less air pollution would be less drought. In recent decades, India, northern China, Central America, West Africa, and the Sahel region of Africa have experienced a notable drying of the climate. Much of the precipitation that falls in these areas is from the summer monsoon. A monsoon depends upon the contrast in temperature between warmer land areas and cooler ocean areas to drive a large-scale atmospheric circulation that brings moisture-laden air from the ocean to the land. When high levels of PM2.5 air pollution exist over land areas, the monsoon is weakened, since the temperature contrast between land and sea is reduced by the sunlight reflected out to space over land areas.
The model used by Lelieveld and colleagues found that by removing all human-caused emissions of particulate air pollution, rainfall increased by 10 – 70% over densely populated regions in India, 10 – 30% over northern China, and by 10 – 40% over Central America, West Africa, and the drought-prone Sahel region of Africa. Such a significant increase in rainfall would save countless lives by increasing water and food security. Particulate pollution from burning of fossil fuels caused about half of these effects globally, while other human-caused emissions, including biomass burning, contributed the other half.
Less air pollution equals a reduction in extreme "stuck" jet stream patterns
An October 2018 paper by Mann et al. (my review here) found that there has been an increase in "stuck" summertime jet stream patterns of the kind that cause long-lasting and extreme weather conditions over large regions of the globe. Part of this increase in what they called Quasi-Resonant Amplification or "QRA" events has been because human-caused global warming is causing the Arctic to heat up at least twice as rapidly as the rest of the planet. However, if we eliminate emissions of PM2.5 air pollution, the mid-latitudes—where most of the pollution is emitted—will tend to warm up faster than they have been. This will alter the contrast in temperature between the poles and the equator, causing a slower increase in QRA events. QRA events have been responsible for many of the most expensive billion-dollar summertime weather disasters of the past few decades.
Indoor air pollution kills 3.6 million people per year
The study did not take into account that the introduction of clean household energy in low-income countries could substantially reduce excess deaths from indoor air pollution, estimated to be about 3.6 million per year. The phaseout of human-caused emissions is expected to be paralleled by a reduction of household air pollution from the introduction of clean "zero carbon" domestic energy sources. In total, the elimination of human-caused indoor and outdoor air pollution would save 9 million lives per year, the researchers estimated.
The study concluded: "The prospect of preventing millions of excess deaths attributable to air pollution, and restoring perturbations of the hydrologic cycle that have contributed to regional drying, with the cobenefit of limiting climate warming to below 2°C, is compelling and underscores the urgency of acting on global environmental change."
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Air Pollution From Cars Affects Everyone: Why We Should Care, our May 2017 post.
Trump's Executive Order a Serious Blow Against a Future Livable Climate, our March 2017 post.
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The case for turning to renewables just on preventing air pollution alone after a couple of centuries of fossil fuel use is very strong for our more conservative friends. I have no doubt that they will also follow us towards a greener future, seeing the light of air pollution arguments for change.
The Great Smog of London was a severe air-pollution from Friday 5 December to Tuesday 9 December 1952.
It caused major disruption by reducing visibility and even penetrating indoor areas. Recent research suggests that the number of fatalities was at about 12,000. pic.twitter.com/0XXvUdnmq4
— Zdenek Nejedly (@ZdenekNejedly) December 4, 2019
Here is more climate and weather news from Tuesday:
Wow–what a fantastic piece by environmental historian @StephenJPyne on the nuance and complexity of fire (natural and otherwise) in the #Pyrocene.https://t.co/jMNnrR0cmp
— Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) December 4, 2019
#ClimateChange models have accurately predicted #GlobalHeating, study finds
"We found that #climate models–even those published back in the 1970s–did remarkably well, with 14 out of the 17 model projections indistinguishable from what actually occurred"
https://t.co/SK8VyjWD0Q
— Prof Peter Strachan (@ProfStrachan) December 4, 2019
I agree with @ClimateBen on this. We need to tell the truth about our changing world and not act like it's gonna be fine. The best way to not getting depressed is to become active and get involved. Anybody can do that. Learn about the science and talk about it wherever you are. pic.twitter.com/QjU7B5He9l
— Michael Flammer 💚🌍🌡 (@Jumpsteady) December 3, 2019
A clear messages to COP25:
"I think people are underestimating the force of angry kids," @GretaThunberg said in Lisbon today. @Fridays4future @FFF_USA @CleanAirMoms @parents4future @Amelia_Womack@_NikkiHenderson#COP25 #COP25Madridhttps://t.co/WRcLIynjx6
— Arne Storrønningen (@arnestor) December 3, 2019
Take a tour of CO2 since 800 thousand years ago. pic.twitter.com/PJonTpxrQI
— Kris Karnauskas (@OceansClimateCU) December 4, 2019
HARSH OP/ @COP25CL#Cop25Madrid2019#COP25Madrid
Paying For #GND.
Must End World Governments, Taxpayers US$775B-1T*, Subsidizing
Non Reimbursed Military Protection Of US$3.7T* Revenue, Global #FossilFuels Industry That's 'Fueling' #ClimateChange.
*https://t.co/FghZH3lFII
— Thomas J Thias / Clean Energy Retort™ 517-749-0532 (@AmazingChevVolt) December 4, 2019
This football stadium in the Netherlands just got a #solar upgrade. It now has a staggering 4,200 solar panels on its roof!
Solutions to the #climate crisis are every where, the only thing missing is the political will to implement them. #tech #renewables #wind #GreenNewDeal pic.twitter.com/kJDuSci52V
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) December 4, 2019
We can change the future by going Green, but Big Oil are determined to blow any chance we have – world's 50 biggest oil companies are poised to flood markets with an additional 7m barrels per day over the next decade https://t.co/b8S3eSpFBn
— GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) December 4, 2019
We are currently facing the greatest challenge we've had as a civilization: #ClimateChange.
Dr. @MichaelEMann, our 2019 Tyler Laureate – calls for scientists to speak out and inform both society and policy.
This is too important an issue to not communicate effectively. pic.twitter.com/5siWZKtoyH
— Tyler Prize (@TylerPrize) December 4, 2019
California must act now to prepare for sea level rise, state lawmakers say https://t.co/eVxEAwtrNF
— Derek Gendvil (@dgendvil) December 4, 2019
As expected , nat gas is our enemy. No surprise
Natural gas is now the biggest contributor to the growth in co2 emissions
Big oil planning to destroy climate stability
#savetheplanet #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #gretathunberg https://t.co/ISeo59j79g
— Christopher Cartwright (@chriscartw83) December 4, 2019
The decline in Arctic sea ice, most pronounced in September, already shows up in dark and cold November too. Last month saw the second lowest November extent on record, right on the trend line. [NSIDC] pic.twitter.com/iEZAIBWhZf
— Kees van der Leun (@Sustainable2050) December 4, 2019
Sea ice extent in the Chukchi Sea (near Alaska) is still hovering around a record low.
Note that the Chukchi Sea was already ice-covered by this date in the majority of years in the satellite record (plateaued lines at top of graph). pic.twitter.com/5WjniKowLV
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) December 4, 2019
If you were in charge of this country, and presented with this graph, which form of energy would you invest in? pic.twitter.com/7PLwmqajLF
— Simon Donner (@simondonner) December 4, 2019
Check out our new paper in GRL, where we (@hausfath, @tristanhabbott, @ClimateOfGavin, and myself) evaluate historical model projections of global warming.https://t.co/bpwGJ3Rm5y
Check out @hausfath's thread for more: https://t.co/cgRV9W4h2D
— Henri Drake (@henrifdrake) December 4, 2019
What Are #Climate Deniers Singing About During The Holidays?
Same As They Do The Other 11 Months Of The Year via #Hellertoons @johnmacleod19 @AuroraBlogspot @72Lobanowski @JohnRMoffitt @CLIMATEMAMA @dtdchange @DrSmith1966 @Bebes_Scrubs @jomareewade @Billy_Ray28 @remain_Hopeful pic.twitter.com/gGumtBGUMX
— Allan Margolin (@AllanMargolin) December 4, 2019
I was on the @theAGU committee that gave @DrShepherd2013 this award…he earned it the hard way, by doing GREAT work over many years. His decision not to fly to the meeting is one that I suspect many climate scientists will be making going forward. @forbes https://t.co/rMpHSxcVjA
— Ed Maibach (@MaibachEd) December 3, 2019
So far this year virtually the entire Arctic has been above normal – mostly far above normal. And the comparison is 1981-2010… not a comparison to early 1900s or pre-industrial. That would be much steeper! https://t.co/HLccjbQ0MB
— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) December 3, 2019
Good summary on the latest model runs… https://t.co/QtIrW8Aexz
Climate change is something I care deeply about and that's why I've signed on to help with @WorldWarZeroOrg. Strong, concerted actions are needed now to minimize its effects.https://t.co/NnZUhZVItS
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) December 1, 2019
Plan to lift roadless rule in Alaska's Tongass national forest threatens economy | TheHill.https://t.co/T92nsthAoQ
— Public Land Lover (@publiclandlvr) December 4, 2019
#WednesdayMorning Reading: #EnergyTransition: After 2 court losses, DOE signals it will publish 4 appliance efficiency standards https://t.co/rShZLT7AAY via @UtilityDive
— Silicon Valley North (@CCLSVN) December 4, 2019
#WednesdayMorning Reading – #ActonClimate + #EnergyTransition: "We find that passing the GREEN Act will not close the gap, but any progress in reducing #emissions is important in the face of the ongoing march of policy rollbacks…" https://t.co/iCtUnPMvRS via @rhodium_group
We should support our solar industry jobs as it is one of the best energy forms moving forward. https://t.co/EruN9OzCYn
— Matthew Bonnstetter (@MLBinWA) December 4, 2019
#WednesdayMorning Reading #Coral + #SeaLevelRise: Good article and a good reason to not do it, but strange that it doesn't even mention the importance of all reefs in protecting islands from waves and sea level rise! https://t.co/uP4aUEq3OK
Buried! WU historian Chris Burt looks at the most spectacular U.S. snowfalls of all time, state by state https://t.co/yRHSEpFRuP pic.twitter.com/bPzSD4NoX0
— Weather Underground (@wunderground) December 4, 2019
As the 2010s decade closes out soon. These are the 4 Tropical Cyclones I felt have been the "spotlight" of the decade, and the reasons as to why. This is all based on official information and not my opinion. My opinion may differ slightly, but only official data is shown here. pic.twitter.com/IMpJvXT02F
— Riley Doxsee (@HurricaneRiley5) December 4, 2019
As extreme weather makes weather forecasting more valuable, it's become a business opportunity. But if the federal government won't invest to stay ahead of the competition, what does that mean for the public interest? By @afreedma https://t.co/rtb30CbwpI
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) December 3, 2019
Beautiful!!! Winter in full force this afternoon 4th December in Reykjavik, #Iceland! Thanks Greg Costs #Snowfall #WinterWonderland pic.twitter.com/UIKkZt09vC
— WEATHER/ METEO WORLD (@StormchaserUKEU) December 4, 2019
Frigid & Fantastic: A Finger Lakes Region "Winter Wonderland" today at Taughannock Falls in Trumansburg, NY. @spann @JimCantore @StephanieAbrams @StormHour @TomNiziol @wxbywilliams @donpaulbitsosun @NWSBinghamton @I_LOVE_NY #DigitalFirst #NexstarNation #TVAnchorChallenge pic.twitter.com/nGc5M2fKQp
— John Kucko (@john_kucko) December 4, 2019
Extreme Temperature Diary-Tuesday December 3rd, 2019/ Main Topic: Record Dry and Hot Spring in Australia
Extreme Temperature Diary-Thursday December 5th, 2019/ Main Topic: Another U.S. Cold Shot Next Week/How to Respond to Skepticism When There Is an Arctic Blast


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Lóndrangar pillars at Snæfellsnes Peninsula
Lóndrangar pillars Snæfellsnes Peninsula
The two large pillars towering over their surroundings at the shore near Hellnar in Snæfellsnes are Lóndrangar. The two towers are believed to be ancient volcanic plugs that have endured the forces of nature for tens of thousands of years. They have sustained the wind, the forces of the ocean, and even eruptions that have pushed more lava around them some thousands of years ago. The higher one is 75 meters high, and the shorter is 61 meters high.
West Region on Map of Iceland
A place that has always captivated Icelanders throughout centuries
Lóndrangar and Snæfellsjökull glacier at Snæfellsnes
Icelanders have noticed the two pillars ever since the island was settled around twelve hundred years ago. In our Book of Settlement, it was documented that a troll was sitting on the larger pillar when gentlemen by the name Laugarbrekku-Einar passed by at one time. Although the troll did not harm anyone, it helped us understand that the pillars were always a big part of the inhabitants who lived in the area. Much later, when our first natural scientists started to document Iceland's nature and geology in the 18th and 19th centuries, Lóndragar was, of course, among the natural phenomenon they examined.
A challenge
Lóndrangar
Pillars like the two Lóndrangar are somehow made to challenge people. Throughout the centuries, they were considered unclimbable. But in May 1735, a daredevil from the Westman Islands by the name of Ásgrímur Böðvarsson climbed the taller one. But in recent years, few have taken on the challenge.
A fishing station at Snæfellsnes Peninsula
Although a small fishing station was operated on a small scale by the shore some centuries ago, conditions never developed into a village, like in many other parts of Iceland. Today the pillars are mostly home to many species of birds and are a joy to view from many angles. By the roadside, there is a parking lot and a viewpoint where you can see the magnificent pillars and the rocky shore on its eastern side. If you want to see the up close, the best option is to drive a bit farther west than the parking lot and take a left turn to the lighthouse at Malarrif. From the lighthouse, there is a relatively easy walking path all the way to Lóndrangar. It is an enjoyable scenic walk where you can experience the power of the ocean if there is a bit of wind. But then again, one must always keep in mind when approaching the ocean on a beach in Iceland that waves can be very dangerous, although they look innocent.
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Code list from theme "Utility and Governmental Services" describing service types. The code list is available in the technical guidelines , Section 5.3.4.1, pages 84-8.
The code list from the metadata regulation is specifically focussed on geospatial services, so it can be used to describe a specific (not only) public service type. The code list is available in the relevant , Part D, Sections 3 and 4.
The proposal is to include code list (1) as one of the suggested / recommended code lists to denote the type of a service. Code list (2) could be referred to as an EU-wide classification of geospatial services (which may be also public services).
Thanks for your feedback Andrea.
We have included  as a recommended code list for public service types.
The second one however is quite domain specific and also includes services that do not fall under the public service definition of CPSV. We therefore decided not to include it.


1 The sayings of King Lemuel contain this message,  which his mother taught him.
on those who ruin kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, to guzzle wine.
Rulers should not crave alcohol.
and not give justice to the oppressed.
and wine for those in bitter distress.
and remember their troubles no more.
and see that they get justice.
and plan the day's work for her servant girls.
for everyone has warm  clothes.
but you surpass them all!"
30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the LORD will be greatly praised. 31 Reward her for all she has done.
<< 31:1 Or of Lemuel, king of Massa; or of King Lemuel, an oracle.
<< 31:10 Verses 10-31 comprise a Hebrew acrostic poem; each verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
<< 31:21 As in Greek and Latin versions; Hebrew reads scarlet.


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The final line reported by the script provides the suggested chromosomes_order - copy this line into the circos.conf file.
To get the full manpage, use -man.
Adjust the configuration file etc/orderchr.conf to suit your needs.
You can generate link data randomly using the randomlinks tool.
The script minimizes (or maximizes) the link cross score, which is a quantity that estimates the number of links that cross in the image. The link score is influenced solely by the start and end position (chromosome and coordinate) of each link. The score is an estimate because the link geometry (Bezier curve settings) are not taken into account. The link score does not include any crossing between intra-chromosomal links, since no amount of chromosome shuffling can mitigate these crossings.
The script is currently not capable of working with chromosome ranges and axis breaks. In other words, you cannot optimize layout of chromosomes which have been broken into components (e.g. chr2-> chr2a:0-10Mb, chr2b:20-30Mb, chr2c:30-40Mb, etc). If you want to use axis breaks, you'll have to create new chromosomes (e.g., chr2a, chr2b, chr2c, ...) that represent the components of the original chromosome (chr2) and adjust the karyotype and link data file accordingly.
where the terms are as follows. Each link pair (i,j) (angular position of start of link i is greater than that of j) contributes +1 to the crossing score if the links cross. Whether they cross is determined by the position of the angular positions of the links' start/end positions. The links are deemed to cross if the angular positions are interleaved.
One of the ways in which Circos's links can be effectively used to visualize alignment data between two related structures. These structures could be two genomes, or two similar regions of the same genome, or even two physically different representations of the same structure (e.g. a fingerprint map and sequence assembly).
When a Circos is used to show alignments, it is very helpful to have the chromosomes ordered in such a way as to reduce link crossing. Chromosomes should be ordered so that any link crossing is an indication of real differences in the underlying structures.
For example, consider this image which shows a comparison between two sets of structures, arbitrarily named chromosomes a1,a2,... and b1,b2,... It is obvious that most of the data relate one of the "b" structures to many "a" structures. For example, these type of data sets are common when comparing a single contiguous structure (e.g. chromsome sequence assembly, supercontig, etc) to many smaller structures (e.g., resequencing contigs). However, because the chromosomes a* and b* are not well ordered, a lot of the links cross and it is not possible to determine whether the crossing is due to the order or to irreducible (i.e., leading to crossings that cannot be mitigated by rearrangement) differences in the chromosomes.
This kind of link relationships can be deconvoluted by using the deterministic optimization component of the orderchr script. This optimization reorders chromosomes based on degree of connectivity. Given one chromosome, all chromosomes connected to it are placed immediately after it, in decreasing order of the number of shared links. The result of this shuffling quickly produces a view of the data that is less cluttered.
When applying the deterministic optimization, it is helpful to place all the chromosomes from one set first (e.g. all the b* chromosomes) to straighten the links (example). Even though more links cross in the right panel of this example, it is easier to spot block-level differences. Initial order is controlled using -init_order* parameters.
This optimization is termed "deterministic" because the algorithm always produces the same layout, and in part, to contrast the other type of optimization, which is stochastic (read below). The order created by the deterministic optimization is suitable as input to the stochastic optimization routine, and for this reason the deterministic ordering is refered to as "warmup" in the documentation and configuration of orderchr.
The stochastic routine uses simulated annealing (SA) to derive an chromosome layout that minimizes (or maximizes) the link score function. The best solution is not guaranteed, however, and I encourage you to run the simulation several times to determine the convergence of the solution. Ideally, all instances of the simulation should return layouts whose score is very similar (e.g. with in 1-2%).
The stochastic routine can be initialized with the order from the deterministic optimization, or initialized with an arbitrary order. The -init_order* parameters control the order. Furthermore, certain chromosomes can be forced to remain static during the shuffling using -static* parameters. This is helpful when you wish to keep the order of certain structures fixed.
In this example image, I show the same link data with six different chromosome layouts. The link score function is shown in the center of the image.
Depending on the nature of the data, you may not be able to significantly reduce link crossing. When the majority of your chromosomes are highly inter-connected, then any order results in a lot of crossings. The link crossing score in the above example could be reduced from 835 to 262, a 70% improvement. However, in this segmental duplication data set, the score cannot be reduced by more than about 50%.
By examining the frequencies of chromosome-chromosome relationships defined in the link file, this script suggests a new order for chromosomes that results in fewer cross-overs between links. Simulated annealing is used to optimize the chromosome order (read below about parameters). Run the simulation a couple of times to check convergence (finding a global minimum is not guaranteed).
The set of chromosomes to shuffle is specified by either (a) link data, whereby all chromosomes that have links are subject to shuffling (b) -shuffle_file, whereby only those chromosomes listed in the file are shuffled (c) -shuffle, whereby the set of chromosomes to shuffle is specified by a list, and (d) -shuffle_rx, whereby only those chromosomes that match a regular expression are shuffled. Any chromosome that is not identified by one of these methods does not participate in the shuffling process. Specifically, any links to/from such chromosomes are not considered when minimizing link crossing.
All chromosomes mentioned in the -links file will be subject to reordering. The initial order will be taken from order of appearance in the karyotype file.
The initial order will be taken from order of appearance in the file.
Same as MODE 1, except that chromosome list will be filtered using the regular expression and only those chromosomes that match the regular expression are shuffled.
In this example, chromosomes matching ``chr1'' will be shuffled (e.g. chr1, chr10, chr11, etc).
Same as MODE 3, except that chromosomes are specified by a list.
In this example, chromosomes chr1,chr2,chr6,chr7, and chr10 will be shuffled.
You can combine -shuffle_file, -shuffle_rx and -shuffle to additively define the shuffle list.
The initial order of chromosomes can be defined in two ways. First, the method that is used to specify which chromosomes to shuffle will dictate the initial order. Modes 1 and 2 (see above) use the order of chromosomes as they appear in the karyotype file. Mode 3 (see above) uses the order from the shuffle file.
You can override the initial order using the -init_order parameter. The value of this parameter is expected to a comma-delimited list of chromosomes, which may be the full set or a subset of chromosomes.
comprised of two order groups: leading group of chromosomes as ordered by -init_order and a group of remaining chromosomes, in order of appearance as set by parameters in the section DEFINING WHICH CHROMOSOMES TO SHUFFLE.
If a chromosome mentioned in -init_order is not a candidate for shuffling, its mention in the order string will be ignored.
After the set of chromosomes to shuffle has been defined, and the initial order has been set, you can define a subset of chromosomes to remain in the same order (static) throughout the shuffling process.
The difference between a chromosome (a) not being part of a shuffle set and (b) being part of a shuffle set, but remain static, is that in the former, links to chromosomes do not play a role in the ordering process whereas in the latter case links to these chromosomes contribute to the shuffle score. Thus, chromosomes which are static have all non-static chromosomes shuffled around them in order to minimize link crossover.
with chr1, chr10 and chr11 remaining fixed.
To define multiple regular expressions, use a list of regular expressions.
Like with -init_order, you can use the chromosome names to define static entries using -static.
in which case all chromosomes that match either the regular expressions defined by -static_rx or the names defined by -static will be kept in the same position during shuffling.
A round can be either a warmup (read below), or a full simulated annealing process (read below). The outcome of the warmup is deterministic, and thus the warmup should only be used as the first (optional) round.
During the warmup round, the initial order of the chromosomes is defined based on the degree of connectivity between chromosome pairs.
This warmup is most suited for data sets in which most relationships between chromosomes are many-to-one (e.g., chromosome A has links to many chromosomes B,C,D,... but each of B,C,D generally only links to A). Many-to-one data sets are common for alignments (e.g. chr A corresponds to the chromosome whereas and points to ctg A, B, C, ... all sequence contigs that map to disjoint regions on chr A).
The warmup algorithm is as follows. The chromosome (chrA) with the most links is selected first and used to initialize the new order. A list of all links to chrA is created, grouped by chromosome, and sorted based on the average position of the link on chrA. Chromosomes are added to the new order based on descending order of grouped link position. Once all chromosomes are placed, the next unplaced chromosome with the most links is selected and the process continues until all chromosomes are placed.
The warmup is deterministic - it will result in the same order each time. It is insensitive to the initial order, or values of -static and -static_rx.
After the optional warmup round, all other rounds should be of stochastic type (this is the default round type, if warmup=yes is not set).
defines three rounds. The first round has 1000 iterations with temp0=0.01. The second round has 2x iterations (2000) and a value of temp0 of 0.5*0.01=0.005. The third round has again 2x iterations (4000) and temp0 of 0.5*0.005=0.0025.
Relative parameter values are very useful for additional rounds when the transition probability is decreased (temp0 is lowered). You can decrease temp0 in relative steps, without needing to remember what the previous value was. This allows you to create a multi-round optimization schedule with all parameter defined in a single place (first round).
The solution at the end of a round is used as the initial order for the next round.
This method is an optimization method that encourages the discovery of a global minimum by traversing the space of solutions with a small (and decreasing as simulation runs) chance of visiting less desirable solutions.
There are three parameters that control the optimization.
The number of iterations to perform. At each iteration, the current solution is randomly modified and either accepted or rejected.
where t is a relative round completion time t=0..1 at the current iteration.
I suggest starting with a value that corresponds to 5% of the chromosomes. For example, if you have 100 chromosomes, use max_flips=5 to start. It's also a good idea to set min_flips=1 for the last round to avoid abandoning the solution (remember that in simulated annealing it is possible to discard a solution for a worse solution).
where t=1..0 over the length of the simulation and dE is the relative change in the desirability of two solutions.
By lowering temp0, you lower the probability of transition to a less desirable solution.
Do not adjust temp0 unless you feel that the simulation is (a) not traversing the solution space sufficiently - in which case make temp0 larger or (b) too many low-quality solutions are accepted - in which case make temp0 smaller.
The purpose of rounds 2 and 3 is to successively decrease the transition probability to worse solutions and also decrease the degree to which successive candidate solutions vary from the current solution. In these rounds, a more careful search is carried out around the solution provided in round 1.
Expanded documentation and added _rx parameters.


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Winsford is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, located about  north-west of Dulverton.

It is within the borders of the Exmoor National Park and around  south-west of the coastal town of Minehead. The village has one hotel, The Royal Oak dating to before the start of the 16th century, and one shop and post office. There is also a tea garden and a service station, which does not serve fuel for motor vehicles.

The village is on the route of the Samaritans Way South West and is located within the Exmoor National Park, to the east of the village is the hamlet of West Howetown.

History

Winsford Hill is the location of the Wambarrows, a number of Bronze Age burial sites, and Road Castle an Iron Age bank and ditch approximately  west from the village. The ditch is almost square in plan with rounded corners and covers an area of approximately .

The area is home to the Caratacus Stone, a standing stone believed to have been erected by pagan inhabitants of the village, possibly as a religious memorial, bearing the inscription CARAACI NEPUS (kinsman of Caratacus) possibly from the 5th century, and first documented in 1219.

The village appears in the Domesday Book of 1085, which lists the presence of 34 smallholders, 41 villagers, 52 sheep and 9 slaves, the whole area being capable of supporting 64 ploughs, despite  of it being woodland. The parish of Winsford was part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred.

Farms in the village include Nethercote, Staddon, Bradley, Halse, Upcott and Knaplock, all of which have retained their original names since tax records from 1327, during the reign of King Edward III.

In the 17th century, Tom Faggus, a highwayman and a gentleman, was said to have held up travellers near the inn in Winsford.

On 20 August 1907 the first registered sale and show of the Exmoor Horn Sheep Breeders' Society, which was founded a year earlier, was held in the village, and "1,200 ewes were sold by auction, at an average price per head of 42 shillings".

In 1998 the Exmoor Community Computer Centre is a charitable trust took over the redundant building of the Winsford First School and established a community facility for social welfare and recreation. This later became dormant and a grant was obtained for a community facilitator to help restart the centre and re-establishing the venue as a community resource. Computer courses have also been run at Porlock and Sampford Brett.

In 2002 the body of an apparent murder victim was found on Winsford Hill. Despite extensive investigations it has yet to be identified.

Governance

The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

The village falls within the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton, which was established on 1 April 2019. It was previously in the district of West Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and part of Dulverton Rural District before that. The district council is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and  fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.

It is also part of the Bridgwater and West Somerset constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, and was part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elected seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

Geography

The name comes from the ford across the Winn Brook, where it meets the River Exe. There are eight bridges, providing crossing points over the many small streams that run through the village; one is a packhorse bridge, which is thought to be several hundred years old. The Vicarage Bridge is  wide and  long.

Winsford Common is situated in a hollow in the surrounding countryside (which itself is within a valley), somewhat akin in shape to that of a punch bowl, and thus has gained the name of The Punchbowl. Given the shape and orientation of this deep hollow on the northeastern edge of the extensive plateau of Winsford Hill and the nature of some of the deposits within it, it has been suggested that it was the site of what may have been the only glacier on Exmoor and indeed in southwest England during the Pleistocene ice ages. It was a meeting point for the Tiverton hounds and Dulverton harriers.

The subsoil of Winsford consists of rock shillet, whereas the topsoil has more of a clay-like and loamy character. Iron ore can be found in the mineral deposits of the village, and the mining of this was formerly important to Winsford's economy. Garratts Wood covers a total area of . It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.

Church

The parish church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene and was partly restored in 1858. The tower, which is  high, was constructed in three stages. There are six bells; the four heaviest were made by Thomas Bilbie in Cullompton in 1765.

Within the church is a fine painted panel created in 1609 during the reign of King James I. The ironwork on the inner doors of the church is thought to date from the 13th century, originating from the priory of St Nicholas in Barlynch, and the font is from the Norman period. The organ was installed c. 1900, being delivered by horse-drawn wagon from nearby Dulverton. The church register dates back to 1660. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

Famous inhabitants

In 1881 the village was the birthplace of the Labour politician and Lord Privy Seal, Ernest Bevin.

In 1946 leading English psychologist Charles Samuel Myers died at his home in Winsford Glebe.

References

External links

Civil parishes in Somerset
Archaeological sites in Somerset
Villages in West Somerset
Exmoor
Bronze Age sites in Somerset

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Il Monte Barbatoia è un rilievo dell'isola d'Elba.

Descrizione
Situato nella parte centrale dell'isola, raggiunge un'altezza di 368 metri sul livello del mare.
Il toponimo, attestato dal 1840 come Barbatoja, deriva probabilmente dal termine botanico barba.
Si trova a breve distanza dal Circolo megalitico di Monte Còcchero.

Bibliografia
 Remigio Sabbadini, I nomi locali dell'Elba, Milano 1920
 Silvestre Ferruzzi, Signum, Pisa 2010

Voci correlate
 Isola d'Elba

Campo nell'Elba
Barbatoia, monte
Barbatoia


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Killed red sander 'smugglers' taken off bus: Witness account punches holes in police's story
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The Andhra Pradesh police version of events with regards to the killing of 20 red sanders smugglers in Chittoor district has received a crippling blow after a 'witness' has come forward to say that he saw seven of the supposed 'smugglers' dragged off a bus by Andhra Pradesh policemen near the border between the two states, mere hours before the incident.
The man, identified as a labourer named Sekhar from Murugapandi village, reportedly said that he had been sitting on the same bus, when police had boarded and picked passengers off it.
The Indian Express spoke to villagers as well as some of Sekar's relatives, to whom he had spoken after the incident. He had reportedly told them that he had been spared "because he was sitting next to a woman and police thought he was her husband".The report adds that Sekhar had told villagers he was with D Mahendran, a plumber who had offered to help him find the job of a carpenter. The Express narrates his account as follows:
"Mahendran had a window seat. A middle-aged woman was in the middle seat and Sekhar next to her. A few kilometres before the Andhra check-post, the bus stopped. A police team entered the bus through the rear door and started picking up passengers, one at a time. The police took Mahendran with them but spared him because they thought he was the woman passenger's husband."
The Times of India notes that soon after the incident, Sekhar said he got off the bus at the next stop and returned to his village.
Since then he has reportedly been in hiding, because he is afraid that the police will catch and kill him for speaking out. However he has been in touch with some reporters, and also reportedly gave a statement to a Tamil television channel.
Reports said that Sekhar could appear before the National Human Rights Commission which is probing the incident.
Villagers have also told reporters that after the 'encounter', police had come by with photographs of the men to the village, and asked that they be identified.
The damning statement by Sekhar comes on top of a number of glaring discrepancies in the police version of events, which was that the encounter had taken place while members of the Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Special Task Force (RSASTF) had been engaged in combing operations in Srinivasa Mangapuram, Srivarimettu and Eethangunta and wood cutters engaged in chopping down the rare trees had attacked them with stones and axes. The police have maintained that they acted in self defence.
However for one thing, as pointed out in this Indian Express report, "At one of the two sites where bodies were found, seven of the nine dead had been shot in the face or the back of the head. Many had burn injuries — on the abdomen, shoulders and hands, the skin peeling off".
The police had said that the 'burn' marks had been caused by the 'summer heat'.
And as pointed out by Firstpost senior editor G Pramod Kumar, "How is it possible in an armed melee, that too one which took place in the woods, that the task force members were able to take aim at the victims' faces and the backs of their heads? If it was indeed in self defence as they claim, where are the injuries of the task force members? Reportedly, only two of them were injured. Do two injuries warrant a firing that killed 20 people?"
The Times of India added that "the logs strewn near the bodies were evidently not fresh: A few of them had numbers neatly painted on them and could have been from an earlier seizure." Also raising suspicion was the fact that there were no red sanders trees in the vicinity of the location where the encounter had taken place.
The TOI report also quoted CPI's P Harinath Reddy , who visited the spots, as saying that the knives the men were found with were rusted. "They could not have used them to cut anything. It's a staged encounter.The government is targeting workers instead of going after contractors who employ them to smuggle wood," he told the newspaper.
A fresh report in Times of India today added that "some bodies appeared to have been dragged from another place. None of the trees on the periphery of the clearing where the bodies were found had bullet marks. While the STF said there were more than 100 people carrying logs, only about 20 logs were recovered – as many as the men killed."Human rights groups have been up in arms over the incident, that they have described as nothing short of cold blooded murder. A number of civil rights groups have moved courts, and the National Human Rights Commission has asked the government of Andhra Pradesh for a detailed report after one of its members observed that it involved "serious violation" of human rights of the individuals and the firing could not be justified on the ground of self defence.
The Home Ministry has also stepped in and asked the government for a report on the incident. PTI reported that Naidu had already explained to the Home Minister the circumstances leading to the killing of the 20 men. A report is expected to follow.
The incident has caused widespread anger in Tamil Nadu, with protests across the state. A number of Andhra Pradesh state transport buses were damaged, and security has been stepped up at establishments belonging to people of Andhra origin.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister OP Panneerselvam has also written a strongly-worded letter to Naidu demanding a "credible and speedy" inquiry into the episode and responsibility fixed for possible human rights violations.
How the Andhra government reacts to the latest piece of evidence remains to be seen. So far they have been stoutly defending the actions of the police. How long they will be able to do so remains a mystery.
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