Now that spring has officially sprung, it's high time to go on an adventure.
The Department of the Interior's rapidly growing Instagram account has been featuring stellar shots of sunrises and sunsets that showcase America's natural beauty. The National Park Service, a division of the DOI, oversees more than 400 sites (you can find one to visit here) and the DOI manages 500 million acres of public lands.
The National Park Service is celebrating National Park Week starting Saturday, April 18. All national parks -- including heavyweights like Yosemite, Glacier and Acadia -- are waiving entrance fees for the weekend to encourage everyone to get out there and find their park.
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US-based Professor dribbles Buhari, turns down appointment
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President Muhammadu Buhari's nominee for the position of Chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Prof. Akintunde Akinwande, has failed to show up for screening for the job.
This is the second time in one month that he had failed to appear for the mandatory screening by the Senate since he was nominated over two months ago.
In October, Akinwande did not turn up for screening before the Committee of Power, a move that was interpreted by many in the media as a rejection of the appointment.
However, the Presidency quickly countered the assertion that he had rejected the appointment, stressing that he was unable to tidy up his paper work before the screening date.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, while addressing newsmen then said that the nominee had written and asked for more time.
He said that Prof. Akinwande was then trying to formalise his resignation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is a lecturer.
But at a second screening session convened yesterday by the Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe-led committee, Akinwande was not just absent but informally told the committee that he was not available for the job.
A source in the committee disclosed that Akinwande sent a text message to a member of the committee that he was not interested in the job.
Ita Enang tried to persuade the committee not to interpret Akiwande's absence to mean that he had declined the President's nomination.
"I would want to plead to the committee that the nominee was simply absent. I will communicate with the President and get more information about him and get back," he said.
This remark was quickly rebuffed by members of the committee, who openly declared that they had tried enough and would not be ready to reconvene a third screening session for Akinwande.
At this point, a member of the committee, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi (APC, North), threw a question to Ita Enang.
"But if somebody says I will not be able to make it, what does he imply?" Hunkuyi asked.
Enang was unable to respond to the question.
The committee further stated that it would submit its report on the NERC screening in which a final decision on Akinwande would be communicated to the Senate at plenary.
It was further learnt that Akinwande turned down the nomination "because he was not consulted before the nomination was made and was not ready to leave his present businesses to take up the job."
The source, who noted that Akinwande was doing a project at MIT, said: "We also learned that enough consultation was not made before the man was nominated."
According to the source, Akinwande also failed to present himself to the Department of State Services (DSS) for security checks. (NAN)
•Photo shows Prof. Akintunde Akinwande.
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Quality is of the utmost importance at Collège Boréal as is apparant from the results of the 2015 Program Quality Assurance Process Audit. The audit team determined that Boréal had reached "mature effort" status. Quality remains a focus area of Boréal's 2015-2020 Strategic Plan. As such, the College is taking a number of concrete actions to evaluate student satisfaction and make changes as required as soon as possible (i.e. Quality Assurance Office, KPI surveys, class and environment surveys, Program Quality Management Committee, annual program review, and advisory committees).
The Ontario College Quality Assurance Service (ocqas.org) is responsible for the PQAPA and accreditation. All reports are archived online at http://ocqas.org/fre/?page_id=9196.
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The CQAAP is a cyclical and regular review process of each college's quality assurance mechanisms at the institutional level. The process, which is designed to be evolutive, aims to ensure continuous improvement.
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Design
Armaments
Development
Configurations
Variants
Anka +A
Anka-B
Anka-S
Anka-I
Operators
Role: MALE UAV
Manufacturer: TUSAS(TAI)
Wingspan: 17.5 m
Length: 8.6 m
Propulsion: TEI PD-170
Armament: Precision Guided Bombs - Laser Guided Rockets - Anti-tank missiles
Sensors: • ISR Payloads - EO/IR/LD/LRF Camera - SAR/GMTI-ISAR Radar - Wide Area Surveillance Camera • EW (Electronic Warfare) - ESM / EA (Electronic Support Measure and Electronic Attack) - ComJam (Communication Jamming)
Combat Radius: 250+ km and SATCOM
Max Altitude: 30,000 ft (
Endurance: 30+ Hours @
Users: Turkey,Tunusia
The TAI Anka is a family of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) for the Turkish Armed Forces. The first version, Anka-A, was classified as a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (MALE UAV). Envisioned in the early 2000s for tactical surveillance and reconnaissance missions, further versions evolved into a modular platform with synthetic aperture radar, precise weapons and satellite communication. The drone is named after phoenix, a mythological creature also called Zümrüd-ü Anka in Turkish.
Anka in flight
The TUAV system consists of three air vehicles (A/V), a ground control station (GCS), a ground data terminal (GDT), an automatic take-off and landing system (ATOLS), a transportable image exploitation system (TIES), a remote video terminal (RVT), and various ground support equipment (GSE).[citation needed]
The TUAV system, which is designed for night and day missions including adverse weather conditions, performs real-time image intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, moving/stationery target detection, recognition, identification, and tracking missions.[3]
While the TUAV system has an open architecture to support other payloads and missions, the air vehicle is typically configured to carry the following payloads:[4]
Electro-optic color day camera (EO day TV)
Electro-optic/forward-looking infrared/laser rangefinder/laser designator and spotter camera (EO/FLIR/LRF/LDS)
Synthetic-aperture radar/ground moving target indicator (SAR/GMTI)
Inverse synthetic-aperture radar (ISAR)
The platform is also equipped with a digital flight control system, electro-mechanical actuators, and flight control sensor systems such as GPS, pitot-static, air data computer, navigation sensor, transducers, temperature, pressure, displacement sensors, etc.[5] Various tasks are distributed along flight management computers and auxiliary control boxes. Identification and communication units and interface computers are employed in order to establish real time wide band communication and provide test and diagnostics functions. An air traffic radio is also integrated in the communication system for the integration of the aircraft into the civilian airspace. All flight critical equipment are dual or triple redundant and emergency modes of operational scenarios are taken into consideration for fail safe design.
All airborne and ground-based flight control software is developed by TAI while payload and other relevant hardware and software items are aimed to be developed by national sub-contractors, such as Aselsan, AYESAS, and MilSOFT.
UAV operations are supported by highly sophisticated ground control system with complete redundancy, developed by a domestic defence company Savronik.[6] Whole mission segments of the air vehicle can be managed, monitored and controlled by a GCS. A pre-programmed mission plan can be loaded before the flight begins or can be altered during the flight. All the imagery stream of the payloads can be displayed and recorded in real time and all the payloads can be controlled from the GCS. ATOLS allows the air vehicle to perform its operation without operator intervention, including the most critical phases which are landing and take-off.[citation needed]
In TIES, valuable intelligence information can be obtained by the analysis of bulky imagery data. TIES operators can initiate intelligence missions prior to or during flight. Refined information flows to the upper command layer in order to assist the headquarters to monitor a network of TUAV systems and benefit from the gathered intelligence information. Another interface of the TUAV system is the RVT, with which other friendly units who are close to the target area can utilize the real time imagery that TUAV air vehicle broadcast
L-UMTAS (Long Range Anti tank Missile System)
MAM: MAM-C and MAM-L precision-guided munitions
Roketsan Cirit (70 mm Missile System)
TUBITAK-SAGE Bozok Laser Guided Rockets
TUBITAK-SAGE TOGAN - Air-to-surface launched 81 mm mortar munition
Anka-S at Teknofest 2019
The contract regarding the development of an indigenous Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system for the reconnaissance requirements of the Turkish Armed Forces became effective on 24 December 2004. Within the framework of the program, a total of three prototypes and ground systems will be designed, developed, manufactured, and tested by mid-2011 as part of the prototype development phase. Subsequently, in 2012, the serial production phase of Anka-A would be launched and additional 10 systems (meaning 30 air vehicles) built for the Turkish Air Force.
On 30 December 2010, the first TAI Anka unmanned aerial vehicle completed its debut flight, with 14 minutes of cruising, at 15:45 local time. It crashed after 15 minutes.[8] Defence Minister Vecdi Gönül confirmed the flight.
On 5 May 2011, TAI released the test flight video of Anka. Anka-A flew a test and calibration mission of 2h 30m.
Turkish Aerospace Industries announced on 25 October 2011 that the Anka had successfully completed its subsequent flight and landing tests and that it will now be in the Turkish Air Force inventory in 2012 that is much earlier than expected. Footage released by TAI also shows the Anka landing successfully putting all speculation abouts its crash landings to rest.
On 22 November 2011, the Anka held the follow-up test flight for 6 hours at 20,000 ft. The vehicle demonstrated its automatic take-off and landing system for the first time.
On 5 January 2012, Defence Industry Executive Committee authorized Undersecretariat for Defence Industries to commence talks with Turkish Aerospace Industries for the serial production of 10 Anka vehicles.
On 27 September 2012, an Anka prototype crashed during a flight test due to a technical problem.
On 20 January 2013, Anka completed acceptance tests by the Turkish Air Force. The final acceptance tests were conducted near Ankara, and involved an 18‑hour‑long, 200 km ring flight. The tests also included a night landing in adverse weather conditions. The Anka has flown more than 140 hours and reached and altitude of 26,000 feet.
On 13 May 2013, the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Kamra handed over the first batch of Anka UAV parts to Turkish Aerospace Industries during IDEF 2013 at Istanbul, Turkey.[18][19]
On 6 December 2013, another Anka UAV crashed in southeastern Turkey during a day flight.
On 30 January 2015 it was announced by the Undersecretariat of Defense Industry that the new generation high performance Anka Blok B unmanned aerial vehicle completed the tests of different autopilot and landing modes in the first flight with automatic take-off and landing
Anka intensely used during Operation Euphrates Shield[22][23] While the aircraft participated in many counter-terrorism operations within the Turkish Armed Forces, it also played an active role during operations in Syria and Iraq such as Operation Olive Branch, Operation Claw (2019–2020), Operation Peace Spring, Operation Spring Shield, Operation Kiran and Operations Claw-Eagle and Tiger.In this way, useful experiences was made in the development of the aircraft.
The first deliveries of the ANKA-S version began in early 2017.
The unmanned target drone Şimşek, produced by TAI, integrated into ANKA UAV with a catapult, was launched from the Anka B class. Thus, for the first time, a target unmanned aerial vehicle was launched from a MALE class UAV.
Istanbul based CTech company, has developed portable satellite communication systems with domestic facilities. The system was first integrated into TUSAŞ (Turkish Aerospace) production Anka-S UAVs.
Turkey's Directorate for Defence Industries has been stressing advanced variants of the Anka with larger payload capacity, extending Block A capabilities to the features like:
SIGINT
Air-to-ground and air-to-air missile integration
According to the authority, the Anka will eventually have an indigenous 155 hp turbo-prop engine developed by TUSAŞ Engine Industries (TEI), with the cooperation of local companies in the future.
On 19 July 2012, the Turkish Defense Industry Executive Committee (SSIK) announced that Turkish Aerospace Industries had commenced research and development for the design and development of a "hunter killer" High-Altitude Long-Endurance version of the Anka UAV, named the Anka +A. It was planned that Anka +A will carry Cirit missiles of Turkey's ROKETSAN. The weight of Anka +A UCAV would be more than 4 tons compared to Anka Block A's 1.5 tons. It was highly expected that the UCAV would be presented to public in the events of IDEF'13 on 7–10 May 2013.[29][30][31][32]
Anka-B with SAR Radar
On 30 January 2015, the Anka-B completed its maiden flight successfully. Anka Block B is an improved version of the Anka Block A. The UAV carries an Aselsan synthetic aperture radar/ground moving-target indicator payload in addition to the platform's electro-optical/infrared sensor. During the maiden flight, Anka-B successfully performed "basic shakedown" and auto-landing. The Anka Block B also has a greater payload capacity than that of the Anka-A which includes SAR/ISAR/GMTI radar (in addition to the cameras of Anka A) that obtains and remits high resolution intelligence data back to base. The Anka Block B paved the way for weaponisation of the platform in the foreseeable future. Anka Block B passed 30.000 feet, 26 hours and 200 km radius during the test flights. Turkish Air Force ordered 10 Anka Block B in 2013 at a cost of $300 million.
Anka-S with modified radome for SATCOM
Anka-S is a serial production configuration of Anka. It is equipped with a SATCOM antenna and a national flight control computer. Like Block A and Block B, Anka-S will be powered by Thielert Centurion 2.0S. On the other hand, Turkish Engine Industries (TEI) has been developing a national engine, capable of running with diesel and JP-8 jet fuel.
On 25 October 2013, Turkish Undersecretariat for Defence Industry (SSM) ordered 10 Anka-S UAVs and 12 ground control stations for $290 million ($220.6 million + TRY 137 million). The UAVs would be delivered in three batches (2+4+4).
In 2016, media reported that the TAI was manufacturing 4 Anka-S UAVs for the armed forces. The first two of these aircraft were to be equipped with StarFIRE 380-HDL FLIR payload. However, these would be replaced with Aselsan CATS later on.
On 17 August 2018, Directorate for Defence Industries announced that the Anka-S completed its first live fire tests. The platform was tested with MAM-L ammunition developed by the Roketsan.[37] In September, Ismail Demir, director of the Turkey's defence industry authority, shared a picture of the first Anka-S equipped with Aselsan CATS optical system.[38] TAI delivered 2 more Anka-S to Turkish Air Force in September 2018,[39] increasing the Anka-S inventory of Turkish Air Force to 8 aircraft. TAI is planning to deliver a total of 10 Anka-S to Turkish Air Force before 2019.
In August 2018, the Anka-S carried out Turkey's first "satellite-controlled airstrike" according to the Turkish Presidency of Defense Industries.
In December, an Anka completed its first flight with an engine produced domestically. In 2019, the Anka broke its endurance records, flying longer than 24 hours.
Although Ankas have an operational range of about 100 miles, the Anka-S (satellite-enabled) is capable of flying beyond "line of sight".
Electronic warfare and intelligence UAV made for the National Intelligence Organization. Equipped with electronic warfare and intelligence systems (ELINT and COMINT)
Turkish Air Force – 43 active
Turkish National Intelligence Organization – Anka-I variant
Turkish Naval Forces - 6 delivered with SAR
Gendarmerie General Command - 2 Anka-B and 6 Anka-S units used by Elazig Gendarmerie UAV command
A contract was signed in March 2020 for 3 Anka-S and 3 command centers at $USD 80 million


In her debut book The Millennial Homeowner, personal finance blogger Lauren Bowling provides a wealth of home buying tips and money management lessons to help millennials redefine their relationship with money. Written in Lauren's warm, funny, and easy-to-understand voice, this book helps millennial homebuyers financially prepare for the biggest purchase of their lifetime. By breaking down complex financial concepts into clear, manageable tools, Lauren has written the ultimate resource to help millennials navigate the overwhelming process of purchasing and maintaining their first home.


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PR crisis manager Deidre and her assistant Mandy fly in when rebellious royal Prince Colin is arrested in small-town Idaho. But when Deidre faces her own fiasco, Mandy finds herself with unexpected career (and romantic) opportunities.
Peter Sullivan
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Marina Sirtis as Felicia Holst
Taylor Cole as Harper Higgins
Vanessa Angel as Susan Grace
Reviewed by Anonnamus 7 / 10 / 10
Cute and Charming!
I don't understand the hate this movie has gotten from other reviewers. This is a Hallmark movie, not an Oscar nominee. It marks off every detail on a rom-com checklist, and does it with a better-than-normal script. I literally laughed out loud more than once. I also believe it was perfectly cast. I recommend this one to any fan of Hallmark.
Reviewed by jimtinfo 9 / 10 / 10
Hallmark Movies are not supposed to be perfect. There are supposed to make you happier!
I've been reading the reviews on this title and I think some people don't understand what Hallmark offers. It offers simple stories that usually end happily. The royal series does the same. In this movie, the two main actors make a cute couple. The story is, of course, somewhat predictable, but not entirely so. The audience watching the movie probably is from the age of 12 and up. Too complex would ruin it for them. This one is actually a bit different than the other royal movies and is lovely. It succeeds in making the audience watch the movie, enjoy it and leave smiling. These are not high budget movies. For those that have more complex plots and fancier special effects, go to the movie theater. Also, this in not filmed in Canada which is where most of the Hallmark films are filmed recently, but in Utah. Enjoy the movie!
Reviewed by maggiedoran318 9 / 10 / 10
Terrific romantic comedy!
I've watched quite a few Hallmark movies and this was, by far, one of the best I've seen in a long time. Taylor Cole plays Mandy, a PR assistant whose boss (Lauren Holly) comes down with chicken pox while on assignment. That's when ambitious Mandy decides to pretend to be her own boss, and takes on their new client herself: a dashingly handsome prince (Jack Turner). Of course the two fall in love, but what will happen when Prince Charming finds out the truth about his new friend? First off... the chemistry between the two leads is terrific. Taylor Cole is stunningly beautiful but also cute, and Jack Turner is adorable as the immature Prince. (It doesn't hurt that the film keeps finding reasons for him to take his shirt off.) Lauren Holly and Marina Sirtis are really funny as the two resident authority figures... and both get their strong dramatic moments too. I don't know where they filmed (probably Canada, because most Hallmark movies are shot there), but its gorgeous and the cinematography is nice. Overall, I thought this was a fun, colorful romantic comedy with great pacing, snappy dialogue, and solid direction. With bigger stars, this should have been a theatrical feature!


In a world where most authors are also working a 40 hour work week to pay the bills, finding time to work on your books, your author platform, and your laundry can be a challenge. So, what can you do? Enter productivity helpers! Each week I will share something I have found to help me get all the words!
Last week in Techy Talk, I told you about the keyboard that changed my life. The simple Bluetooth keyboard allowed me to unlock the computing potential of my Galaxy S9. Whether you have an Android or an iPhone based device, a simple keyboard allows you to unleash your phone's mini computer potential.
Let's face it, phones these days cost as much as a computer and most of us have one of those pricey pieces of tech. It might not be the newest, but if you have a Galaxy S6+ or an iPhone 9000+ it more than likely packs some processing power. So, why not unlock the potential in your pocket to maximize your time and capture all the words? I bet you are wondering HOW though. Enter Office 365!
Now, before you go groaning about Microsoft or money grabs for subscription software, hear me out. I don't like subscription software either. Unless it has some intrinsic value. I like Word. I like PCs. I like Windows 10. I know I am looking like a tech outcast weirdo right now, but I don't care. I'm not a big fan of Google Docs or Apple computing. I don't hate those things, but they are not my go to. So, why do I think you need Office 365? Because of its ability to sync across all kinds of devices AND the fact for $69.99 a year you can access your MS programs on 5 different devices. Let that sink in for a moment.
Why else would you want Office 365? One Drive. I love One Drive. I have many cloud based storage services, but for the amount of money I spend on one Office 365 subscription I get access to 1 TB of storage that syncs up to my phone, my iPad, and my computer. I like to offload my giant Photoshop files and Studio files to free up space on my desktop. Plus, I get Word and Excel included.
Office 365 is an important building block in my productivity arsenal. I had a Windows 10 laptop that came with a free year of Office 365. However, I didn't have WIFI everywhere I went. So, packing my laptop around was really award and not helping. But, once MS added the ability to log into 5 devices, I easily added Word to my phone. Pairing Word, One Drive, my phone, and my keyboard together allowed me to have an internet connected mini-PC in my purse. This set-up helped me be able to write at home on my desktop and then when I was away from home I could access and work on the file on my cell phone because it was in my One Drive. I didn't have to worry about opening the wrong file. Sure, I look funny walking around with my full-sized keyboard hanging out of my D20 themed Think Geek Purse, but again I don't care how odd I look. Not when words are at stake.
Also, keep in mind, new Chromebooks can support the Word App from the Google store. iPads, iPhones, Macs, PCs, and Androids can also get the apps. Once you get a subscription you can work cross-platform and that is something the 1998 college version of me could never imagine.
Next week I will tell you about another little gadget that amped up my word capturing.
Here is a LINK to check Office 365 out further!


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Modern slavery arrest at nail bar
A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences following a raid at a north east nail bar.
Officers from the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) took the man into custody at the beauty premises in the Wallsend area, near Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Two women, including a mother with a newborn baby, are being treated as potential victims of slavery and have been taken to a reception centre where their welfare is being cared for.
The GLAA said it acted following intelligence about concerns for those working in the salon. The arrested man was released under investigation following questioning.
Senior Investigating Officer David Powell said: "This activity demonstrates our capability and determination, along with that of our partners, to take decisive action when we have evidence of exploitation and slavery."
The GLAA was supported by Northumbria Police, HMRC, the Environment Agency and other partners.
Detective Chief Superintendent Scott Hall from Northumbria Police's safeguarding department said protecting vulnerable people is their 'top priority.'
He said: "We are committed to working alongside our partners in order to safeguard vulnerable people and bring perpetrators to justice.
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Bill Goodman has been an active shooter and collector or all kinds of antique and black powder cartridge firearms for over 35 years. He is particularly fond of fine single shot rifles- both muzzle loader and cartridge. Bill's first Shiloh Sharps rifle was a Model 1863 Percussion Sporter in .54 caliber purchased in 1979. He used this rifle in informal black powder/muzzle loader shoots to create quite a stir (and often envy) among the other shooters. Perhaps having the only breechloader percussion rifle made him a much sought after team member for rapid fire "stake-bust" events! Bill started shooting black powder cartridges around 1980 when he purchased his first Shiloh Sharps cartridge rifle- a Business Model in .50-70 Government caliber (which is still a favorite and sees much use).
Back in the early 1980s few people understood how to effectively load black powder cartridges. Mostly it was trial and error with lots of emphasis on the "error" part. Today's black powder cartridge shooter has it much easier than the typical shooter of only twenty-five years ago. Now there are both books and periodicals devoted to black powder cartridge shooting. Twenty-five years ago a three inch 100 yard group with black powder cartridges would have been phenomenal and probably only achieved with swabbing the bore between shots. Today a three inch 200 yard group fired without cleaning between shots is common and not particularly noteworthy.
Being a full time mail order antique/collector firearms dealer, and having developed an affection for Sharps rifles (original and Shilohs), it was was only natural for Bill to become a dealer for Shiloh Sharps. He placed his first orders as a Shiloh dealer in November of 1993. He continued placing orders each month from there on. Those first rifles from November 1993 arrived in November of 1997. Selling Shiloh Sharps has been non-stop since then. With over 2,000 rifles sold, Bill is the largest dealer of Shiloh Sharps (and probably larger than any of the 1870s dealers too!). He is also the only stocking dealer of Shiloh Sharps rifles.
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Q: For Loop Only Executes First Object in a List I am trying to use the Google Maps API to loop up the ratings of two properties that I have to put into a list, but I am getting the result for the first property twice. Please help me to know what I'm missing.
Here is the code:
addresses = ['mall of america in bloomington', 'king of prussia mall']

for i in addresses:
    get_rating = gmaps.find_place(input=addresses, input_type = 'textquery', fields=['name', 'place_id', 'rating'])
    print(get_rating)

Here is the result:
{'candidates': [{'name': 'Mall of America®', 'place_id': 'ChIJLWE8OWwv9ocRayh4boDxxrM', 'rating': 4.6}], 'status': 'OK'}
{'candidates': [{'name': 'Mall of America®', 'place_id': 'ChIJLWE8OWwv9ocRayh4boDxxrM', 'rating': 4.6}], 'status': 'OK'}

A: In the first statement of your loop:
get_rating = gmaps.find_place(input=addresses, input_type = 'textquery', fields=['name', 'place_id', 'rating'])

you are using the list, addresses, as the input, when I believe you have meant to use i, the element in the list. The corrected code would be:
addresses = ['mall of america in bloomington', 'king of prussia mall']

for i in addresses:
    get_rating = gmaps.find_place(input=i, input_type = 'textquery', fields=['name', 'place_id', 'rating'])
    print(get_rating)

To answer your comment about how to retrieve the values of the ratings:
It appears as thought the returned value is a dict value. In which case, you can iterate over it like any other dict:
import json

addresses = ['mall of america in bloomington', 'king of prussia mall']
ratings = []

for i in addresses:
    get_rating = gmaps.find_place(input=i, input_type = 'textquery', fields=['name', 'place_id', 'rating'])
    for candidate in get_rating['candidates']:
        ratings.append(candidate['rating'])

It's up to you to figure out how to get the ratings values into a csv format, and to catch any edge cases that may arise, such as:

*

*What if the search returns no candidates?

*What if there is no "rating" value in the candidate result?

*What if the return type of gmaps.find_place is not dict?

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In social choice theory, Anonymity is a basic requirement of a social choice rule. It says that the rule does not discriminate apriori between different voters. In other words, the rule returns the same outcome (whatever this outcome may be) if the vector of votes is permuted arbitrarily.

Anonymous rules
Most voting rules are anonymous by design. For example, plurality voting is anonymous, since only counts the number of votes received by each candidates, regardless of who cast these votes. Similarly, the utilitarian rule and egalitarian rule are both anonymous, since the only consider the set of utilities, regardless of who these utilities belong to.

All rules using a secret ballot are anonymous, since they do not know which voter cast which vote. But the opposite is not true: a committee can use non-secret ballot, and still use an anonymous voting rule.

Non-anonymous rules
Weighted voting rules are non-anonymous, as they give some voters a higher weight than others, for example, due to their expertise or entitlement.

Another example of a non-anonymous voting rule is plurality voting with the additional rule that, in case of a tie, the option preferred by the chair is selected.

In general, whenever different agents may have different entitlements, a non-anonymous rule makes sense.

See also

 Neutrality (social choice) - a related requirement, saying that the rule does not discriminate apriori between different candidates.

References

Social choice theory

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Q: Range of values in slope and aspect changes when I try to unproject my projected rasters I use the SRTM DEM and I have used the "Project Rater" tool in ArcGIS10.2 in order to project it from GCS_WGS_84 to a certain UTM zone in WGS84. With my projected elevation raster, I have calculated slope (min: 0, max:73 in degrees) and aspect (0-360). When I try to convert again the projected slope and aspect into GCS_WGS_84 (my analysis must be carried out in latitude, longitude) their values change, and I get for slope min:-1,24 max:74 (in degrees), and for aspect I get 1-460! Why does this happen?

A: You are correct to use an appropriate projection for computing slope and aspect.  The problems occur when reprojecting those results to another coordinate system (such as lat-lon).  Two things happen:

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*Grid values must be resampled in order to interpolate them to the new cell centers.

*Aspects, being circular data, must be specially handled.  Otherwise the resampling will blithely average, say, 359 and 1 degrees (which are almost the same aspect) and obtain 180 degrees (which is exactly the opposite of the correct average).
To deal with (1), it is usually best to use "cubic convolution" for the resampling, because this tends to preserve the whole statistical variation of the data.  Other methods, especially bilinear interpolation, are local averages and therefore will always reduce the ranges and variances of the data.  Regardless, expect some small changes in statistical summaries of the values.
To deal with (2) is harder.  One of the simpler approaches is to compute two grids from the aspect: its cosine and its sine.  Reproject those, then recompute the angle from the reprojected values (using an arctangent function).  Watch the process carefully, because much GIS software is schizophrenic concerning trig functions: it tends to use degrees to report angular values (like aspects) but to insist on radians as input to trig functions.  Spot-check the cosine and sine grids to make sure the calculations are correct.
You have to be careful with ESRI grids, because they tend to use a code of -1 to represent unknown aspects (horizontal cells).  Before doing anything, convert those codes to NoData values--otherwise the codes will be averaged with the aspects of their neighbors, completely screwing things up.  You can always convert any NoData values in the final aspect grid back to -1 (or whatever).
A slightly better approach is to combine the slope and aspect grids into grids to represent the gradient of the UTM values: one will be the partial derivative with respect to x and the other with respect to y.  Reproject those and then recompute the slope and aspect from them.  Since this is rarely worth the bother--greater errors are typically created by whatever coordinate system is used for the calculations--I will not provide details here.

A: Projecting a raster results in a resampling/alteration of the values in that raster because the size/shape/number of cells are changed. It's basically creating a whole new raster and interpolating the values of the new cells based on how that grid lines up with the source grid. The help file usage notes describe some of the issues involved in detail.


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Flagship phones have always been popular due to its providing high performance but since the mid-range phones are slowly reaching similar performance to the flagship phones, we can say 'Mid-range are the new flagships'. A couple of years ago, the difference in performance between flagship and mid-range devices was vast. That difference in performance made flagship phone a flagship and mid-range phone a mid-range phone. But as the advancement in making SoCs improved, mid-range chipsets have gotten better and better. It got so much better, that it started giving almost similar performance to that of flagship chipsets. One big example would be Qualcomm's latest mid-range processor, the Snapdragon 765 SoC. It delivers flagship performance and 5G connectivity at a lower price than its more expensive sibling, the Snapdragon 865. Now, there is a new successor of the already great mid-range chipset. Qualcomm on May 10, 2020, officially unveiled its Snapdragon 768 processor, the successor of Snapdragon 765.
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By Simon Doonan • 04/24/07 8:41pm
Last week I was speaking at a ladies' luncheon in Palm Beach—if that doesn't qualify as the most poofy column-opener in the history of this newspaper, then I cannot imagine what would—when I suddenly did a total Alec Baldwin. It happened during the Q&A, when one of the immaculately coiffed attendees asked me to talk about the ways in which I was currently "helping young people fulfill their dreams of a career in fashion." Young people! Young people! Young people! … All of a sudden the room started spinning—along with my head—and I began channeling the seething thespian.
"I am completely and utterly against the idea of helping young people," I told the gobsmacked crowd. I then ranted on about how I was sick of hearing about young people's hopes, aspirations and career goals—how come nobody wants to help old people?—and that I had been driven so insane by the current generation of Eve Harrington–esque overachieving fashionistas (Mr. Baldwin would probably call them "ungrateful little pigs") that I had reached the point where, instead of helping them fulfill their dreams, all I wanted to do was crush them. Just call me "the Dream-Crusher."
O.K., so I got a bit carried away. But seriously, folks, don't you think the whole concept of bending over backwards to help "young people" achieve their dreams is a little dotty? (I'm not talking now about hardscrabble inner-city kids who genuinely deserve a leg up, I'm talking about middle- and upper-class kids who are already clutching a first-class ticket.) The last thing these "young" people really want or need is a bunch of old farts disempowering and infantilizing them by trying to optimize and micromanage their career opportunities. Why can't young adults just be the big, fat, freewheeling losers that people in their 20's are meant to be? Why are we attempting to deprive them of the pleasures of all that character-building striving and bungling and blundering? As Sir Bob Geldof once said, "Hey, teachers! Leave them kids alone!"
Young people are much happier—and ultimately more creative—when they are neglected or repressed and have something to complain about and kick against. This is why England—Oliver Twist, bonjour!—has produced so many talented style provocateurs: John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, etc. (Interestingly, the stream of fashion über-talent seems to have dried up since the arrival of Tony Blair's youth-coddling "nanny state.")
When I was a youth, being dissolute, unfocused and underachieving was part of the job description. One's 20's were a time of squalid room-sharing and reckless belligerence. Coercing grown-ups into helping me achieve my career goals—and what the hell were they, anyway?—was the last thing on my mind.
According to my Social Security statement—a document which I perused with shock and awe prior to my recent tax filing—during the year 1979, at age 27, I somehow managed to exist on $5,175, and I did it while having an inordinate amount of fun and no career goals whatsoever. It would never have occurred to me that, in addition to having a job of some description, I also needed "help."
Paradoxically, I was in much greater need of guidance and support than the young 'uns of today. Today's whippersnappers—they all take their cue from Monica Lewinsky, who had regular sit-downs with Vernon Jordan to discuss her career trajectory—are the most careerist, focused and entitled generation in the history of the planet.
If one of these careerzillas comes to you wanting "help," you can avoid further discussion by whipping out a copy of Chasing Cool and stuffing it into his/her shoulder tote. This spanking new how-to-make-money-by-being-groovy tome (Atria, $24) was penned by none other than Gene Pressman, my former boss at Barneys, along with a bloke called Noah Kerner.
Tales of the charismatic Gene and the catastrophic end of the Pressman reign at Barneys are the stuff of Manhattan legend. For those of you who remember the majesty of the 17th Street Barneys circa 1986, let me set the record straight: Mr. Gene Pressman was the genius ringmaster/visionary of that chic and exclusive circus.
Gene, an irreverent and creative bon viveur, hired me the year before that store opened—at 34 I was no poulet de printemps—thereby dragging me out of the above-mentioned financial doldrums. Ah! I remember that moment so well! After making me a job offer, he slapped me on the back and promised to teach me to "eat beef, eat pussy and smoke cigars."
Now that's what I call being helpful.
PS: While the innovative and brilliant Gene accomplished so much during his Barneys years, he failed on all three of the above counts.
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Just love what you do and if you can make a living from it then how cool is that?
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong presented a master plan on August 18 to double capacity of the city state's airport, the third-busiest in ASEAN, build a new waterfront city, move its massive port and relocate a military airbase to free up land for development.
The move follows criticism among Singaporeans who feel that the island is running out of space to accommodate its 5.3 million inhabitants, discontent about rising living costs and shrinking opportunities for natives over an influx of foreign workers and expatriates.
Lee also announced changes to Singapore's health-care and education systems,much debated issues that contributed to the ruling party's worst-ever result in 2011 general elections. A state-administered health insurance plan will be extended to cover people as long as they live, up from the current cap of 90 years. Subsidised housing would be accompanied by more grants for lower- and middle-income Singaporeans to enable them to buy their own homes.
Changi airport will receive a fourth runway to step up capacity. This will allow to move a military airbase from central Singapore to Changi after 2030 and free up 800 hectares of land for homes, factories and businesses.
Singapore's port, the world's second-busiest hub for container shipping behind Shanghai, will be moved to a new location in Tuas in western Singapore from 2027. That would free up land next to the central business district for a new waterfront city.
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Official Commissioning Of Techno Oil's LPG Cylinder Manufacturing Plant
LPG SUB-SECTOR CAN CREATE UP TO 2 MILLION JOBS FOR NIGERIANS, SAYS VP OSINBAJO AT COMMISSIONING OF LEKKI PLANT
*VP reels out plans, targets for sector's development
The Federal Government through a range of interventions and policy implementation will significantly improve domestic and industrial utilisation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Nigeria, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.
Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Friday at the commissioning of the Techno Oil LPG Cylinder Manufacturing Plant in Lekki, Lagos.
According to the Vice President, "the Federal Government will continue to actively support every effort to promote the use of LPG in Nigeria, as well as create and maintain an effective and a catalytic regulatory environment."
Continuing, Prof. Osinbajo said, "the goal is to achieve five million Metric Tonnes (5,000,000 MT) of domestic, commercial and industrial LPG utilisation in 10 years. Specifically, for household cooking, we are targeting a 40 per cent adoption rate (i.e. 13.8m households) in 5 years, and 73 per cent adoption in 10 years (33.3m households). We believe that the sub-sector can create up to 2 million new direct and indirect jobs in Nigeria."
He added that since the implementation of the coordination reforms, including the creation of a dedicated Project Management Office, great progress has been recorded in the various segments of the gas sector.
According to the Vice President, the progress recorded include, "removal of 5 per cent VAT from the domestic pricing of LPG, as a first step in giving domestic output an advantage against imported products.
"Development of a Marketer Cylinder Owned Model instead of the current Consumer Cylinder Owned Model. This will eliminate the consumers' up-front purchase of LPG cylinders which, in some cases, are substandard, replacing it with a cylinder exchange, whereby the consumer only pays for the content. No household will need to purchase or own an LPG cylinder. The Cylinders will be delivered and retrieved by the Marketers who will also be responsible for the maintenance and refurbishment of the cylinders, making LPG accessible to a whole new segment of non-LPG users."
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Speech by His Excellency, the Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, at the Official Commissioning of Techno Oil's LPG Cylinder Manufacturing Plant, in Lekki, Lagos, on Friday, 7th June, 2019
I am honoured to commission the Techno Oil, LPG Cylinder manufacturing plant today. This commissioning is a landmark moment for Nigeria's mid-downstream gas sub-sector, and a reminder that we must regard our abundant domestic gas resource as an important component of economic growth and national prosperity.
Techno Oil's investment auspiciously converges with our administration's efforts to speedily diversify our economy, especially through domestic and indigenous solutions.
When we came into office in 2015, one of the issues we identified was the abysmally low domestic utilisation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Nigeria. A nine per cent penetration rate nationwide, despite Nigeria's domestic LPG production of 3 million metric tonnes (MT) per annum. For far too long our dominant fuel options have remained biomass fuels (firewood) or traditional fuels (petrol and diesel).
As you are all aware, these dominant fuel choices present significant health, environmental, economic and social challenges, ranging from increased carbon emissions; massive levels of deforestation, worsening the problem of desertification; and a high number of deaths resulting from indoor air pollution. According to the World Health Organization, the smoke from burning wood fuels is a major cause of women and children mortality in Nigeria.
Natural Gas and its derivatives such as Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) are, on the other hand, not only cleaner and more friendly to the environment, they also present substantial economic and investment opportunities across the Nigerian economy.
Our determination to prioritise the LPG sector development culminated in the Federal Executive Council's approval of the National Gas policy in 2017, with dedicated input for the enhancement of the LPG sub-sector. Our driving vision has been to transform the sub-sector from a commodity sector based on export, to a value creation sector based on domestic utilisation and industrialisation.
The goal is to achieve five million Metric Tonnes (5,000,000 MT) of domestic, commercial and industrial LPG utilisation in 10 years. Specifically, for household cooking, we are targeting a 40 per cent adoption rate (i.e. 13.8m households) in 5 years, and 73 per cent adoption in 10 years (33.3m households). We believe that the sub-sector can create up to 2 million new direct and indirect jobs in Nigeria.
We have also demonstrated our commitment by establishing an Inter-Ministerial Committee and a multi-stakeholder national coordinating body – the National LPG Expansion Programme.
We correctly identified that it was necessary to emphasize coordination and collaboration, as previous attempts in enhancing LPG utilisation failed because of a fragmented approach within the Federal Government.
Since the implementation of the coordination reforms – including the creation of a dedicated Project Management Office – great progress has been recorded, including the following:
a. Removal of 5 per cent VAT from the domestic pricing of LPG, as a first step in giving domestic output an advantage against imported products.
b. Development of a Marketer Cylinder Owned Model instead of the current Consumer Cylinder Owned Model. This will eliminate the consumers' up-front purchase of LPG cylinders which in some cases are substandard, replacing it with a cylinder exchange, whereby the consumer only pays for the content. No household will need to purchase or own an LPG cylinder. The Cylinders will be delivered and retrieved by the Marketers who will also be responsible for the maintenance and refurbishment of the cylinders, making LPG accessible to a whole new segment of non-LPG users.
c. Strengthening the regulatory framework for the sub-sector
Let me assure you that the Federal Government will continue to actively support every effort to promote the use of LPG in Nigeria, as well as create and maintain an effective and catalytic regulatory environment.
The visionaries and management of Techno Oil deserve our hearty commendation for making this substantial investment in the development of the gas sector. The Federal Government will continue to work with you to ensure that you succeed.
It is now my honour and privilege to formally commission the Techno Oil LPG Cylinder Manufacturing Plant. Thank you very much and may God bless you all.
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Ethics & Consulting Firms
Managing Employees
By Craig Berman
How to Start a Home-Based Private Investigation Business
Who Shapes a Company's Ethics?
How to Do a Retainer Agreement
How to Identify Characteristics of an Ethical Employee
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Consulting firms bring their expertise to clients to help them solve specific problems or meet a temporary challenge. The short-term nature of many consulting contracts can make it tempting to cut ethical corners, but doing so can have catastrophic consequences to winning future work. Consulting firms therefore use codes of ethics to ensure that employees provide the services promised and use resources appropriately.
Most consultants bill clients based on the number of hours worked, so firms must construct and maintain an ethical training and auditing process to ensure clients are charged accurately. Consulting firms must warn against obvious ethical violations, such as charging a client for hours not worked, but also ensure that its employees understand the agreements set out in individual contracts. Some may allow billing when the consultant arrives on the job site, for example, while others may start the workday at the initial login to the computers. Failing to clearly disseminate hourly billing procedures can place your employees, as well as your firm, in ethical danger.
Misuse of Resources
If a consulting firm works at the client site, it likely uses that client's resources. Using a client's computer for outside work, to conduct personal business or to engage in other activities unrelated to the consulting job all violate standard ethical consulting guidelines. For example, if a consulting firm employee spends time at the client computer downloading music, in most cases that constitutes an ethics violation.
Consulting firms often sign nondisclosure agreements with clients as a measure of protecting privacy during and after the job. Information gathered as part of a consulting engagement must be protected, with all proprietary information used only with the client's permission and not taken advantage of in other projects. In addition, any conflicts of interest must be disclosed before the start of work. If there's a case where objectivity or integrity may be compromised, ethical standards require the consulting firm to make that clear immediately and offer to withdraw from the assignment.
Because consulting firms constantly bid for work, they may find themselves short of expertise for a particular project. Firms should not bid for contacts that go beyond their expertise and competence. Once work is awarded, staff should be based on demonstrated expertise and knowledge of that particular assignment.
Maintaining a reputation for impeccable ethics can have a positive impact on a consulting firm's bottom line and position in the market. Having a strong record of ethical conduct makes it easier to earn client confidence and win more work. When customers are convinced that a consulting firm will act ethically, they are more inclined to entrust that firm with sensitive data and critical projects.
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By Sasha Turner
Edited by Erica L. Ball, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton
Book: As If She Were Free
Print publication: 08 October 2020, pp 255-273
In 1823, Bessy Chambers filed a complaint in the St. George's slave court in Jamaica. Chambers, along with twenty-four unnamed enslaved people from the New Layton estate, charged that the overseer had forced her to work despite her pregnancy, causing her to miscarry. While her story contests notions of a benign system of slavery in its twilight years, the multidimensionality of Chambers' gendered freedom claims also disputed the limiting vision of abolition reform for the enslaved, and for women in particular. Chambers and other enslaved women who had a long history of engaging in distinctly gendered struggles against slavery refused to accept the new subordinate roles abolitionist envisioned for them, although they could not always escape its oppressive reach. In going to court, Chambers revealed a right to self-determination as essential to her conceptualization of womanhood. Her pursuit of legal personhood must therefore be viewed as a dual fight against slavery and the restricted freedom abolitionists proposed.
Amy Spry Rush. Bonds of Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 274. $99.00 (cloth).
Sasha Turner
Journal: Journal of British Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / July 2012
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Scientists, Fishermen Team Up to Track Cod in Alaska's Outermost Aleutian Islands
January 9, 2020 — SEAFOOD NEWS — Last winter scientists and Alaskan fishermen agreed to launch a pilot study to develop methods for tagging cod on active commercial fishing vessels in the Aleutian Island.
Satellite tags had never been used on Pacific cod. No one had recorded seasonal movements of cod in the Aleutian Islands. This was the first time industry, scientists, and the fishing community all took part in the research.
Read the full story at Seafood News
The Blob returns: Alaska cod fishery closes for 2020
December 11, 2019 — The Gulf of Alaska's federal cod fleet is bracing for a complete shutdown in 2020 after an 80 percent TAC cut in 2018 and another 5 percent last year, down to 17,000 tons.
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council announced its decision on Friday, Dec. 6, in response to low recruitment.
"We're on the knife's edge of this overfished status," said Council Member Nicole Kimball, vice president of Alaskan operations for the Pacific Seafood Processors Association.
The fall 2019 stock assessment returned biomass numbers for gulf cod below the necessary threshold as a food source for the endangered Steller sea lion.
The infamous Blob of 2014 — a mass of warm water that hovered in the Gulf of Alaska — likely depleted the cod's food supply and severely restricted recruitment. The fall 2017 Gulf of Alaska survey yielded historically low numbers at 46,080 metric tons, down more than 80 percent since 2013.
"That warm water was sitting in the gulf for three years starting in 2014, and it was different than other years in that it went really deep and it also lasted throughout the winter," said Steven Barbeaux with the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. "You can deplete the food source pretty rapidly when the entire ecosystem is ramped up in those warm temperatures."
Read the full story at National Fisherman
Can crab and fish in Alaska adapt to more acidic oceans? Scientists aim to find out.
November 1, 2019 — Researchers are looking for ways that crab and fish in Alaska may be able to adapt to more acidic ocean water.
With carbon dioxide levels rising on the planet, ocean water absorbs some of that CO2 and water becomes more acidic. That change is already impacting a variety of sea creatures.
Members of the Alaska Ocean Acidification Network gave an update to Alaska's Board of Fisheries and a public presentation on the topic in Anchorage in October. The network is a group of researchers, managers, and stakeholders interested in the looming problem.
"It's not that there hasn't been variability in the amount of carbon dioxide. It's not that this hasn't happened before," said Robert Foy, director of NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center. "It's the speed at which it is happening during our lifetime and whether or not the animals and plants in the ocean are able to adapt fast enough given the speed at which it's occurring."
Read the full story Alaska Public Media
NOAA trawl surveys estimate more cod, pollock in Bering Sea
October 29, 2019 — The results from recent US government trawl surveys of the Bering Sea are in and they estimate the biomass of pollock and Pacific cod have risen relative to previous years.
Two vessels — Alaska Knight and Vesteraalen — completed summer surveys of the eastern and northern Bering Sea from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Alaska Fisheries Science Center.
The AFSC said in a presentation that the trawl surveys led scientists to estimate the pollock biomass at 5.46 million metric tons for the Eastern Bering Sea, a 75% year-on-year rise and 1.17m metric tons for the Northern Bering Sea, compared to the last major survey, which was performed in 2017.
For Pacific cod, the surveys led to an increased biomass estimate of 517,000t in the Eastern Bering Sea, a 2% y-o-y rise and an estimate of 368,000t for the Northern Bering Sea, up 30% from 2017.
Read the full story at Undercurrent News
Genetic studies confirm Alaska cod stocks pushing north
October 25, 2019 — Biologists were shocked in 2017 when they found that the numbers of Pacific cod had risen exponentially in the northern Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. Now, researchers at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center have used genetic testing to prove that those fish, enabled by warming waters and a lack of sea ice, have moved north from the southeastern Bering Sea.
Surveys as recent as the 1970's revealed "trace amounts" of cod in the northern Bering Sea, according to a brief released by NOAA. Major Alaska cod fisheries in the past decades have operated in the southeastern Bering Sea, the Aleutian Islands, and the Gulf of Alaska, which meant management biologists conducted only sporadic bottom trawl surveys in the north.
Read the full story at Seafood Source
Anchorage talk will dive into ocean acidification's impact on Alaska marine life
October 16, 2019 — Hundreds of fishery stakeholders and scientists will gather in Anchorage next week as the state Board of Fisheries begins its annual meeting cycle with a two-day work session.
The seven-member board sets the rules for the state's subsistence, commercial, sport and personal use fisheries. It meets four to six times each year in various communities on a three-year rotation; this year the focus is on Kodiak and Cook Inlet.
The fish board and the public also will learn the latest on how a changing climate and off-kilter ocean chemistry are affecting some of Alaska's most popular seafood items at an Oct. 23 talk and Q&A on ocean acidification in Alaska.
They may also be surprised to learn that only two studies have looked at salmon response to ocean acidification, and both were conducted outside Alaska.
Most of the research to date has focused specifically on crab and fish stocks, said Bob Foy, director of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center at the NOAA Auke Bay lab in Juneau who will lead the Anchorage presentation.
Read the full story at the Anchorage Daily News
Genetic Evidence Points to Rapid, Large-Scale Northward Shift of Pacific Cod During Recent Climate Changes
October 10, 2019 — The following was released by NOAA Fisheries:
New genetic research suggests that unprecedented summer abundances of Pacific cod in the northern Bering Sea were due to escalating movement from their core habitat under recent warm conditions.
Until recently, Pacific cod were rarely encountered in the northern Bering Sea. Fishery surveys in the 1970s reported "trace amounts" of cod there. A 2010 Alaska Fisheries Science Center survey estimated that the entire northern population amounted to about 3% of the large southeastern Bering Sea stock that supported a valuable commercial fishery.
Then in 2017, the summer survey recorded dramatically higher abundances in the north: a 900-fold increase since 2010. In the same year, southeastern Bering Sea abundances were down 37% from 2016. Strikingly, the increase in the north nearly matched the decrease in the southeastern Bering Sea.
A 2018 survey revealed an even more remarkable shift: there were more cod in the northern than southeastern Bering Sea.
Read the full release here
As Bering Sea ice melts, Alaskans, scientists and Seattle's fishing fleet witness changes 'on a massive scale'
September 16, 2019 — Derek Akeya hopes for calm waters and a lucrative catch when fishing from a skiff in the Bering Sea that surrounds his island village.
But on this windy late summer day, waves toss about the boat as Akeya stands in the bow, straining to pull up a line of herring-baited hooks from the rocky bottom.
Instead of bringing aboard halibut – worth more than $5 a pound back on shore – this string of gear yields four large but far less valuable Pacific cod, voracious bottom feeders whose numbers in recent years have exploded in these northern reaches.
"There's a lot more of them now, and it's more than a little bit irritating," Akeya says.
The cod have surged here from the south amid climatic changes unfolding with stunning speed.
For two years, the Bering Sea has been largely without winter ice, a development scientists modeling the warming impacts of greenhouse-gas pollution from fossil fuels once forecast would not occur until 2050.
Read the full story at The Seattle Times
Advancing Innovative Technologies to Modernize Fishery Monitoring
July 24, 2019 — The following was released by NOAA Fisheries:
Thanks to recent technological advances in computer processing hardware, machine vision cameras, and open source software tools, fishery researchers at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center are now taking the next steps in developing electronic monitoring systems and image processing applications that would automate data collection from images captured onboard vessels. Eventually, the goal of real-time image processing is to support scientific data that provide greater certainty in managing ocean resources and sustainable fishing practices.
In 2018, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and NOAA Fisheries implemented an electronic monitoring program to provide a monitoring alternative for longline vessels, where accommodating an observer can be logistically difficult.
"This program's integration of electronic monitoring data directly into the catch estimation data stream marked a milestone," explains Farron Wallace, former senior research fisheries biologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and now director of the Southeast Fisheries Science Center Galveston Laboratory. "However, the systems are not yet able to collect detailed data on individual fish length and weight as an observer does—data that are critical to support stock assessment modelling and catch estimation."
Additionally, although useable observer data in the North Pacific are either uploaded to a database several times daily via satellite or uploaded at the end of a trip, vessels using electronic monitoring systems store imagery on hard drives, which are then mailed after the trip to video reviewers who process and extract key information. This time-consuming procedure can significantly delay data upload, a concern when data timeliness is essential for fisheries management—particularly for those management programs that have prohibited species catch limits, maximum retainable allowances, or other in-season quota restrictions.
Rock, Coral, Sponge: Does One Beat the Rest as Fish Habitat?
Rockfish love structure. More seafloor structure means more rockfish. But while the amount of structure matters, the type doesn't, a new NOAA fisheries study finds.
Rocks, corals, and sponges proved to be equally desirable real estate for individual rockfish, given a choice. However, rockfish were most frequently associated with sponges—the most commonly available structure in the Alaska study area.
These findings will help resource managers in their efforts to effectively manage rockfishes, deep-sea corals, and sponges.
"We found that Alaska rockfishes are more abundant when vertical structures such as rock, coral, and sponges are present. Corals and sponges add structure to areas with minimal rocky formations, creating a more complex habitat for rockfish," explains Chris Rooper of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, who led the study. "Unfortunately, some human activities and potentially climate change can have negative effects on the survival of coral and sponge ecosystems, thereby impacting both the distribution and abundance of rockfish species in Alaska waters."