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Cooper Hewitt Labs
Technology + Media + Experience
CH 3.0
Collection data
Meta Issues
Why are we collecting source code?
(via https://rekall.tumblr.com/post/92033337743)
Part of what we continue to work on in parallel to the opening of Cooper Hewitt is capacity building for the museum to collect 'the present' – which includes the code that underpins and makes functional much of the 'designs' of the modern world. That means all the interactive, networked design 'objects/works', not just on screens but also those embedded in products, services and systems. I'm not just interested in this for 'digital preservation' reasons, but also to help us come up with new ways to interpret, contextualise and communicate the 'how and why' of these objects (and the choices the designers made) to our visitors.
Aaron liked what I wrote to a designer with whom we are working with on collecting some interactive pieces, and thought it made sense to share it in a redacted form. Sometimes it is nice to be asked to be explicit about why the underlying code matters – and so here's what I wrote.
As the (publicly-funded) national design museum, one of the reasons we are interested in acquiring the underlying code and data is that allows the museum and future scholars and researches to explicitly explore and interrogate the choices and decisions made at the time of a work's creation in response the the technological constraints of the time, as well as the adjustments made through a work's creation to make it better respond to the needs of users. In the case of Planetary this is why we acquired the entire Github repository – the versioned codebase.
Approaching your choices of language and platform as 'materials' that were shaped by the period in which the work was made, as well as your decisions in the code itself, is extremely useful for interpretation and future scholarship. Nick Monfort & Ian Bogost's book on the affordances of the Atari 2600 platform, Racing the Beam, is just one example of the kind of scholarship we foresee as being possible when code and data is acquired with works. This sort of exploration – of decisions made, and the technological and social constraints encountered – is key to Cooper Hewitt helping the public to interrogate and understand works in the collection and the work of designers as more than just aesthetic experiences.
Increasingly when we are acquiring interactive works we are also interested in how users used and reacted to them. In these cases we would also consider acquiring user research, user feedback and usage data along with a work – so that future scholars and visitors could understand a work's success in achieving its stated goals. In terms of product design collections this is often reduced to 'market and sales performance' but we feel that in the case of works on the internet there is far more potential opportunity to explore other more complex and nuanced measures of relative 'success' that reveal the work that interaction designers and the choices they make.
In respect to [redacted] specifically, it helps visitors understand that you made this work in a particular way when you did because that's how the technology and access to data was at the time. And that if that it was to remade now in 2014, there might be a multiplicity of new ways to do it now and we can explicitly talk about the differences.
The other reason is that the underlying code and data better enables the museum to preserve these works as part of the Smithsonian's collection indefinitely in the public trust – and perhaps exhibit them 100 years from now.
This entry was posted in Meta Issues on August 25, 2014 by Seb Chan.
Rethinking Search on the Collections Site
One of my longer-term projects since joining the museum has been rethinking how the search feature functions on the collections website. As we get closer to re-opening the museum with a suite of new technologies, our work in collaboration with Local Projects has prompted us to take a close look at the moving pieces that comprise the backend of our collections site and API. Search, naturally, forms a large piece of that. Last week, after a few weeks of research and experimentation, I pushed the first iteration live. In this post, I'll share some of the thoughts and challenges that informed our changes.
First, a glossary of terms for readers who (like me, a month ago) have little-to-no experience with the inner-workings of a search engine:
Platform: The software that actually does the searching. The general process is that we feed data to the platform (see "index"), and then we ask it for results matching a certain set of parameters (see "query"). Everything else is handled by the platform itself. Part of what I'll get into below involves our migration from one platform, Apache Solr, to another, Elasticsearch.
Index: An index is the database that the search platform uses to perform searches on. The search index is a lot like the primary database (it probably could fill that role if it had to) but it adds extra functionality to facilitate quick and accurate retrieval of search results.
Query: The rules to follow in selecting things that are appropriate to provide as search results. For users, the query could be something like "red concert poster," but we have to translate that into something that the search provider will understand before results can be retrieved. Search providers give us a lot of different ways we can query things (ranges of a number, geographic distance or word matching to name a few), and a challenge for us as interface designers is to decide how transparent we want to make that translation. Queries also allow us to define how results should be sorted and how to facet results.
Faceting/Aggregation: A way of grouping results based on traits they posses. For example, faceting on "location" when you search our collection for "cat" reveals that 80 of our cat-related things are from the USA, 16 are from France, and so on.
Analysis (Tokenization/Stemming etc): A process that helps a computer work with sentences. Tokenization, for example, would split a search for "white porcelain vase" into the individual tokens: "white," "porcelain" and "vase," and then perform a search for any number of those tokens. Another example is stemming, which would allow the platform to understand that if a user searches for "running," then items containing other words like "run" or "runner" are also valid search results. Analysis also gives us the opportunity to define custom rules that might include "marathon" and "track" as valid results in a search for "running."
The State of Search
Our old search functionality showed its symptoms of under-performance in a few ways. For example, basic searches — phrases like "red concert poster" — turned up no results despite the presence of such objects in our collection, and searching for people would not return the person themselves, only their objects. These symptoms led me to identify what I considered the two big flaws in our search implementation.
On the backend, we were only indexing objects. This meant that if you searched for "Ray Eames," you would see all of the objects we have associated with her, but to get to her individual person page, you would have to first click on an object and then click on her name. Considering that we have a lot of non-objects1, it makes sense to index them all and include them, where relevant, in the results. This made my first objective to find a way to facilitate the indexing and querying of different types of things.
On the frontend, we previously gave users two different ways to search our collection. The default method, accessible through the header of every page, performed a full text search on our Solr index and returned results sorted by image complexity. Users could also choose the "fancy search" option, which allows for searches on one or more of the individual fields we index, like "medium," "title," or "decade." We all agreed here that "fancy search" was confusing, and all of its extra functionality — faceting, searching across many fields — shouldn't be seen as "advanced" features. My second objective in rethinking how search works, then, was to unify "fancy" and "regular" search into just "search."
Objective 1: Update the Backend
Our search provider, Solr, requires that a schema be present for every type of thing being indexed. The schema (an XML file) tells Solr what kind of value to expect for a certain field and what sort of analysis to perform on the field. This means I'd have to write a schema file — anticipating how I'd like to form all the indexed data — for each new type of thing we want to search on.
One of the features of Elasticsearch is that it is "schemaless," meaning I can throw whatever kind of data I want at the index and it figures out how to treat it. This doesn't mean Elasticsearch is always correct in its guesses — for example, it started treating our accession numbers as dates, which made them impossible to search on — so it also gives you the ability to define mappings, which has the same effect as Solr's schema. But if I want to add "people" to the index, or add a new "location" field to an object, using Elasticsearch means I don't have to fiddle with any schemas. This trait of Elasticsearch alone made worth the switch (see Larry Wall's first great virtue of programmers, laziness: "the quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure") because it's important to us that we have the ability to make quick changes to any part of our website.
Before building anything in to our web framework, I spent a few days getting familiar with Elasticsearch on my own computer. I wrote a python script that loops through all of the CSVs from our public collections repository and indexed them in a local Elasticsearch server. From there, I started writing queries just to see what was possible. I was quickly able to come up with a lot of the functionality we already have on our site (full-text search, date range search) and get started with some complex queries as well ("most common medium in objects between 1990-2000," for example, which is "paper"). This code is up on Github, so you can get started with your own Cooper Hewitt search engine at home!
Once I felt that I had a handle on how to index and query Elasticsearch, I got started building it into our site. I created a modified version of our Solr indexing script (in PHP) that copied objects, people, roles and media from MySQL and added them to Elasticsearch. Then I got started on the endpoint, which would take search parameters from a user and generate the appropriate query. The code for this would change a great deal as I worked on the frontend and occasionally refactored and abstracted pieces of functionality, but all the pieces of the pipeline were complete and I could begin rethinking the frontend.
Objective 2: Update the Frontend
Updating the frontend involved a few changes. Since we were now indexing multiple categories of things, there was still a case for keeping a per-category search view that gave users access to each field we have indexed. To accommodate these views, I added a tab bar across the top of the search forms, which defaults to the full-collection search. This also eliminates confusion as to what "fancy search" did as the search categories are now clearly labeled.
Showing the tabbed view for search options
The next challenge was how to display sorting. Previously, the drop-down menu containing sort options was hidden in a "filter these results" collapsible menu. I wanted to lay out all of the sorting options for the user to see at a glance and easily switch between sorting modes. Instead of placing them across the top in a container that would push the search results further down the page, I moved them to a sidebar which would also house search result facets (more on that soon). While it does cut in to our ability to display the pictures as big as we'd like, it's the only way we can avoid hiding information from the user. Placing these options in a collapsible menu creates two problems: if the menu is collapsed by default, we're basically ensuring that nobody will ever use them. If the menu is expanded by default, then it means that the actual results are no longer the most important thing on the page (which, on a search results page, they clearly are). The sidebar gives us room to lay out a lot of options in an unobtrusive but easily-accessible way2.
Switching between sort mode and sort order.
The final challenge on the frontend was how to handle faceting. Faceting is a great way for users who know what they're looking for to narrow down options, and a great way for users who don't know what they're looking for to be exposed to the various buckets we're able to place objects in to.
Previously on our frontend, faceting was only available on fancy search. We displayed a few of the faceted fields across the top of the results page, and if you wanted further control, users could select individual fields to facet on using a drop-down menu at the bottom of the fancy search form. When they used this, though, the results page displayed only the facets, not the objects. In my updates, I've turned faceting on for all searches. They appear alongside the search results in the sidebar.
Relocating facets from across the top of the page to the sidebar
Doing it Live
We initially rolled these changes out about 10 days ago, though they were hidden from users who didn't know the URL. This was to prove to ourselves that we could run Elasticsearch and Solr alongside each other without the whole site blowing up. We're still using Solr for a bit more than just the search (for example, to show which people have worked with a given person), so until we migrate completely to Elasticsearch, we need to have both running in parallel.
A few days later, I flipped the switch to make Elasticsearch the default search provider and passed the link around internally to get some feedback from the rest of the museum. The feedback I got was important not just for working out the initial bugs and kinks, but also (and especially for myself as a relative newbie to the museum world) to help me get the language right and consider all the different expectations users might have when searching our collection. This resulted in some tweaks to the layout and copy, and some added functionality, but mostly it will inform my bigger-picture design decisions going forward.
A Few Numbers…
Improving performance wasn't a primary objective in our changes to search, but we got some speed boosts nonetheless.
Before (Solr)
After (Elasticsearch)
query=cat, facets on 162 results in 1240-1350ms 167 results in 450-500ms
year_acquired=gt1990, facets on 13,850 results in 1430-1560ms 14,369 results in 870-880ms
department_id=35347493&period_id=35417101, facets on 1,094 results in 1530-1580ms 1,150 results in 960-990ms
There are also cases where queries that turned up nothing before now produce relevant results, like "red concert poster," (0 -> 11 results) "German drawings" (0 -> 101 results) and "checkered Girard samples" (0 -> 10 results).
Getting the improved search in front of users is the top priority now – that means you! We're very interested in hearing about any issues, suggestions or general feedback that you might have — leave them in the comments or tweet us @cooperhewittlab.
I'm also excited about integrating some more exiting search features — things like type-ahead search and related search suggestion — on to the site in the future. Additionally, figuring out how to let users make super-specific queries (like the aforementioned "most common medium in objects between 1990-2000") is a challenge that will require a lot of experimentation and testing, but it's definitely an ability we want to put in the hands of our users in the future.
New Search is live on our site right now – go check it out!
1 We've been struggling to find a word to use for things that are "first-class" in our collection (objects, people, countries, media etc.) that makes sense to both museum-folk and the laypeople. We can't use "objects" because those already refer to a thing that might go on display in the museum. We've also tried "items," "types" and "isas" (as in, "what is this? it is a person"). But nothing seems to fit the bill.
2 We're not in complete agreement here at the labs over the use of a sidebar to solve this design problem, but we're going to leave it on for a while and see how it fares with time. Feedback is requested!
This entry was posted in Backends, Experimental, Interaction Design and tagged Larry Wall on August 21, 2014 by Sam Brenner.
The Medium is the Message (and pubsocketd)
Have you ever wanted to see a real-time view of all the objects that people are looking at on the collections website? Now you can!
At least for objects with images. There are lots of opportunities to think about interesting ways to display objects without images but since everything that follows has been a weekends-and-mornings project we've opted to start with the "simple" thing first.
We have lots of different ways of describing media: 12, 865 ways at last count to be precise. The medium with the most objects (2, 963) associated with it is cotton but all of these numbers are essentially misleading. The history of the cataloging of the collection has preferenced precision and detail over the kind of rough bucketing (for example, tags) that lots of people are used to these days.
Alas, your browser does not support the video element.
It's a practice that can sometimes seem frustrating in the moment but, in the long-run, we're better served for it. In time we will get around to assigning high-level categorizations for equally high-level browsing but it's worth remembering that the practice of describing objects in minute detail predates things like databases, which we take for granted today. In fact these classifications, and their associated conventions and rituals, were the de-facto databases before computers or databases had even been invented.
But 13,000 different media, most of which only describe a single object, can be overwhelming. Where do you start? How do you know what to look for? Given the breadth of our collection what don't we have? And given the level of detail we try to assign to objects how to do you whether a search doesn't yield any results because it's not in our collection or simply because we're using a different name for the same thing you're looking for?
This is a genuinely Big and Hairy Problem and we have not solved it yet. But the ability to relay objects as they are viewed by the public, in real-time, offers an interesting opportunity: What if we just displayed (and where possible, read aloud) the medium for that object?
That's all The Medium is the Message does: It is an ambient display that let you keep an eye on the kinds of things that are in our collection and offered a gentle, polite way to start to see the shape of all the different things that tell the story of the museum. It's not a tool to help you take a quiz so much as a way to absorb an awareness of the collection as if by osmosis. To show people an aspect of the collection as an avenue to begin understanding its entirety.
We're not thinking enough about sound. If we want all these things to communicate with us, and we don't want to be starting at screens and they're going to do more than flash a couple of lights, then we need to work with sound. Either 'sound effects' that mean something or devices that talk to us. Personally, I think it'll be the latter morphing into the former. And this is worth thinking about because it's already creeping up on us. Self-serve checkouts are talking at us, reversing trucks are beeping at us, trucks turning left are barking at us, incoherently – all with much less apparent thought and 'design' than we devote to screens.
— Russell Davies, the internet of talking
While The Medium is the Message is a full-screen application that displays a scaled-up version of the square-crop thumbnail for an object it also tries to use your browser's text-to-speech capabilities to read aloud that object's medium. It may not be the kind of thing you want playing in a room full of people but alone in your room, or under a pair of headphones, it's fun to imagine it as a kind of Music for Airports for cultural heritage.
Text-to-speech is currently best supported in Chrome and Safari. Conversely the best support for crisp and pixelated image-rendering is in Firefox. Because… computers, right?
For the time being The Medium is the Message lives in a little sand-box all by itself over here:
https://medium.collection.cooperhewitt.org
Eventually we hope to merge it back in to the main collections website but since it's all brand-new we're going to put it some place where it can, if necessary, have little melt-downs and temper-tantrums without adversely affecting the rest of the collections website. It's also worth noting that some internal networks – like at a big company or organization – might still disallow WebSockets traffic which is what we're using for this. If that's the case try waiting until you're home.
And now, for the Nerdy Bits: The rest of this blog post is captial-T technical so you can stop reading now if that's not your thing (though we think it's stil pretty interesting even if the details sound like gibberish).
The Medium is the Message is part of a larger project to investigate a few different tools in order to understand how they might fit together and to what effect. They are:
Redis and in particular its implementation of Publish/Subscribe messaging paradigm – Every once in a while there's a piece of software that is released which feels like genuine magic. Arguably one of the last examples of this was memcached originally written by Brad Fitzpatrick, for the website LiveJournal and without which entire slices of the web as we now know it wouldn't exist. Both Redis and memcached are similar in spirit in that their feature-set is limited by design but what they claim to do Just Works™ and both have broad support across the landscape of programming languages. That last piece is incredibly important since it means we can use Redis to bridge applications written in whatever language suits the problem best. We'll return to that idea in the discussion of "step 0" below.
Websockets – WebSockets are a way for a web browser and a server to create and maintain a persistent connection and to shuttle messages back and forth. Normally the chatter between a browser and a server happens akin to the way two people might send each other postcards in the mail and WebSockets are more like a pair of teenagers calling each on the phone and talking for hours and hours and hours. Sort of like Pub/Sub for a web browser, right? WebSockets have been around for a few years now but they are still a bit of a new territory; super-cool but not without some pitfalls.
Go – Go is a programming language from the nice people at Google, that recently celebrated its fourth anniversary. It is part of growing trend in language design to find a middle ground between loosely typed languages, and the need to develop stable applications with a minimum of fussiness. Go is probably not the language we would develop a complex user-facing application in but for long-running services with well-defined boundaries it seems kind of perfect. (Go's notion of code-based channels are a fascinating parallel to both Pub/Sub and WebSockets but that's a whole other blog post.)
Fun fact: The Labs' very own Sam Brenner's ITP thesis project called Adventures of Teen Bloggers is an archive of old LiveJournal accounts in the shape of an 8-bit video game!
In order to test all of those technologies and how they might play together we built pubsocketd which is a simple daemon written in Go that subscribes to a Pub/Sub channel and ferries those messages to a browser using Websockets (WS).
Listen for messages from a specific (Redis) Pub/Sub channel
Accept incoming WS requests
Shuttle any messages from the Pub/Sub channel to all the open WS connections
That's it. It is left up to WS clients (your web browser) to figure out what to do with those messages.
$> ./pubsocketd -ws-origin=https://example.com
2014/08/01 17:23:38 [init] listening for websocket requests on 127.0.0.1:8080/, from https://example.com
2014/08/01 17:23:38 [init] listening for pubsub messages from 127.0.0.1:6379 sent to the pubsocketd channel
2014/08/01 17:23:44 [10.20.30.40][10.20.30.40:56401][handshake] OK
2014/08/01 17:23:44 [10.20.30.40][10.20.30.40:56401][request] OK
2014/08/01 17:23:44 [10.20.30.40][10.20.30.40:56401][connect] OK
2014/08/01 17:23:53 [10.20.30.40][10.20.30.40:56401][send] OK
# and so on...
The "step 0" in all of this is the ability for the collections website itself to connect to a Redis server and send a Pub/Sub message, whenever someone views an object, to the same channel that the pubsocketd server is listening to.
This allows for a nice clean separation of concerns and provides a simple way for related, but fundamentally discrete, applications to interact without getting up in each other's business.
Given the scope of the project we probably could have accomplished the same thing, with less scaffolding, using Server-Sent Events (SSE) but this was as much an exercise designed to get our feet wet with both WebSockets and Go so it's been worth doing it the "hard way".
Matthew Rothenberg, creator of the popular EmojiTracker, was nice enough to open-source the Go-based SSE server endpoint he wrote to feed his application and we may eventually re-write The Medium is the Message, or future applications like it, to use that.
We've open-sourced the code for pubsocketd under a BSD license and we welcome suggestions, patches and (gentle) clue-bats:
https://github.com/cooperhewitt/go-pubsocketd
This entry was posted in Backends, Experimental on August 4, 2014 by asc.
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Jasus paulensis, also commonly known as the St Paul rock lobster, is a species of spiny lobster found in the waters around Saint Paul Island in the southern Indian Ocean and around Tristan da Cunha in the southern Atlantic Ocean. At one time the rock lobsters on Tristan da Cunha were believed to be a separate species known as the Tristan rock lobster (Jasus tristani), but the use of mitochondrial DNA sequencing has shown them to be identical. Some authorities, for example the International Union for Conservation of Nature, retain them as separate species. The Tristan rock lobster features on the coat of arms and the flag of Tristan da Cunha.

Description
Males of this species grow to a total length of about  with a carapace length of  while females may attain a total length of . Like other rock lobsters, it lacks chelae (claws) on its front pair of walking legs. The carapace is armoured with large flat spines, about as wide as they are long, mixed with small spines. The first few abdominal segments are sculptured with fine transverse grooves at the front of each segment with a smoother area behind.

Distribution and habitat
Although this spiny lobster was originally known only from St Paul and neighbouring New Amsterdam Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, more recently it has been discovered on other seamounts on the Southwest Indian Ridge, so its range is rather larger than originally thought. A previously recognised species Jasus tristani, found around Tristan da Cunha in the southern Atlantic Ocean, has now been synonymised with J. paulensis. This is an uncommon species throughout its range and is usually found at depths between  but occasionally down to about . It is found on rocks and among kelp.

Ecology
Jasus paulensis is nocturnal. It feeds on seaweeds and scavenges on dead animal material. The eggs are laid from May onwards and the female incubates them under her tail for several months.

Fishery
Early visitors to St Paul found that it was possible to catch a lobster by hand in shallow water in the crater lake bay, take it to a nearby submarine hot spring, and cook it, without ever removing it from the water. In 1928, a large-scale fishery and cannery for the spiny lobster using lobster pots was set up on St Paul, but the company went bankrupt three years later, stranding seven people on the island and leading to a tragedy known as "Les Oubliés de Saint-Paul" (the forgotten ones of Saint-Paul). In the next two decades, there were several, largely unsuccessful, attempts to harvest the lobsters using factory ships. In the period 1950 to 1956, the spiny lobsters were harvested by the French company Sapmer with about 260 tonnes of lobster tails being processed annually (equivalent to about 800 tonnes of whole lobster). This company still operates factory vessels equipped with deep-freeze facilities in the area.

Before 1950, the rock lobster on the Tristan da Cunha archipelago was only fished for local consumption. Since then, companies such as the South Atlantic Islands Development Corporation have exploited it. Production peaked in the 1970s, with over 800 tonnes being collected in some years, but the industry has since waned, with less than 400 t being caught most years since 1992. The fishery became MSC-certified in 2011, and the current TAC total still stands at about 400 tonnes annually. Since 1996 it has been harvested by Ovenstone Agencies in a partnership with the Island Govt scheduled to last at least until 2026.

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Achelata
Edible crustaceans
Crustaceans of the Atlantic Ocean
Fauna of Tristan da Cunha
Fauna of Gough Island
Crustaceans described in 1862
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الموصل القديمة, Mosul, Old City (Sultan Nuts Factory), Nineveh, Iraq
36.34075, 43.126911	Note: The accuracy of this location is to Neighbourhood/area level. Continue to map
A single local source, the Nineveh Media center, said that multiple families were still under the rubble after air strikes had hit the Sultan Nuts factory in Old Mosul. The Center called upon everyone who read the post, to help save these families. Reportedly, elderly people were also among the victims.
It is presently unclear how many civilians were affected, or how many were injured or had died as a result of the bombardment. A senior Coalition official informed Airwars on July 5th that "It is primarily Coalition aircraft conducting AIR strikes in Mosul. It has been a number of weeks since the Iraqis flew there."
Nineveh Media Center
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near Mosul, Iraq
The report contains insufficient information of the time, location and details to assess its credibility.
For June 28th-29th the Coaltion publicly reported: "Near Mosul, two strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit; destroyed 13 fighting positions, two weapons caches, a mortar system; and suppressed three fighting positions." It additionally reported that "On June 28, near Mosul, Iraq, one strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit; destroyed four fighting positions, three medium machine guns, a supply cache, a mortar system, a staging area, and a heavy machine gun; damaged two fighting positions and two ISIS supply routes; and suppressed an ISIS tactical unit."

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The item Lethal licorice, Amanda Flower, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
Harvest, Ohio, is a long way from New York City, where Bailey King left a coveted job as a head chocolatier to take over Swissmen Sweets, her Amish grandparents' candy shop. Now, while caring for her recently widowed grandmother, she plans to honor her grandfather's memory by entering the annual Amish Confectionery Competition. But between lavender blueberry fudge and chocolate cherry ganache truffles, Bailey may have bitten off more than she can chew when the search for a missing pot-bellied pig turns up a body suffering from sugar overload-the fatal kind...A candy maker from a neighboring town who wanted Englischer Bailey disqualified for being an outsider, Josephine Weaver died from an allergy to an essential licorice ingredient. The suspects include: Josephine's niece, a young woman going through her rumspringa, or running around time, and Bailey herself. Now it falls to Bailey, who's sweet on the local sheriff's deputy, to clear their names and entice a killer with a cast-iron stomach for cold-blooded murder . .


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Cerner, Duke collaborating to analyze patient data for cardiovascular disease treatment
by Heather Landi |
Aug 7, 2019 10:27am
Duke Clinical Research Institute is working with Cerner to analyze de-identified patient data to find the most effective treatment options for chronic cardiovascular disease. (Duke)
Current clinical research registries rely largely on manual processes and can be too slow to realize the full potential of the data they collect, according to researchers.
Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) is working with health IT company Cerner on a pilot project to analyze de-identified patient data to find the most effective treatment options for chronic cardiovascular disease. The pilot project also has the potential to innovate clinical research registries, the organizations said.
DCRI researchers will use Cerner technology, called the Cerner Learning Health Network, to analyze de-identified patient data from the University of Missouri Health Care and Ascension Seton, in partnership with Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, for the pilot project and study.
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Cerner and the DCRI aim to bring together data and intelligence to provide clinicians insights on chronic cardiovascular disease, which if not treated properly can lead to heart disease and stroke.
"Current models for clinical research and registries that rely on mostly manual chart abstraction are too expensive, too slow and too small to continue. We have to figure out better ways to leverage existing electronic resources to transform how we do clinical research," Ann Marie Navar, M.D., principal investigator and cardiovascular prevention researcher at the DCRI, said in a statement.
The EHR is an obvious starting point, Navar said, noting that Cerner's HealtheIntent platform incorporates data from multiple EHRs and can link to national mortality and claims databases.
Cerner developed the learning health network as a tool to automate data collection from multiple sources, including electronic health records, to give medical researchers access to important information.
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"We have an opportunity to use clinical research and data-driven insights to develop an intelligent network of health systems that can truly improve health experiences and outcomes for patients," Art Glasgow, senior vice president for strategic growth at Cerner, said in a statement.
Researches will leverage Cerner's HealtheDataLab with the learning health network to aggregate de-identified patient data from both Cerner and non-Cerner EHRs. Researchers can use the data sets to develop research-ready formats and build complex models and algorithms to give providers more information to make more informed care decisions, Cerner officials said.
The DCRI plans to publish the research results from the pilot project in a study sponsored by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson, with several products used to treat and prevent cardiovascular disease.
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The Science in Motion project is designed to support state of the art instruction for area secondary students in science. The project utilizes certified science teachers to deliver modern scientific instrumentation to high schools and provide support to the local teachers as they introduce and make use of the equipment in their own classroom. Teachers attend summer programs in which they practice with the equipment and also work with other teachers to develop experiences and curricula for their students.
With better support, much more can be accomplished in high school science.
The excitement of science is best transmitted by the work students do as scientists.
There exists science instrumentation that is both suitable for high school students and at the same time powerful enough to solve real problems.
The Science in Motion program would not add to the burden of the classroom teacher, but rather enhance classroom opportunities.
The same group of teachers remains involved over a period of several years fostering systemic change.
For further information contact Karen Spuck at 814 393 2408.
You may use any lab activity with any of the equipment we have. However, if you would like help, or would like to see what we have available, please feel free to browse the Science in Motion website. Please keep in mind as you browse this site, the equipment we have available.
The Science in Motion Project seeks to support the improvement of secondary science education in our region through three specific areas: providing access to adequate instructional resources, providing access to effective professional development opportunities for science teachers, and providing support for the development of good secondary science curricula.
The project provides resources that are financially beyond the reach of most area school districts. By sharing and pooling resources the project makes equipment, a professional development program, and a network and infrastructure for modern science training available to schools of the region otherwise cost prohibitive. Modern science equipment, and the expertise to use it with students in the classroom, is being provided to all participating schools upon their request.
This program will offer the type of professional development activity most needed by teachers of science. That is professional development in a particular subject area that is ongoing and allows one to work with other teachers from the same subject area within the sciences. Both summer and academic year professional development sessions will be offered specific to the stated needs of the teachers of our region.
As a part of the professional development arm of the project, science teachers will be reviewing and adjusting their local curricula to incorporate their use of state-of-the-art equipment and their expertise in using it. Results from similar projects conducted elsewhere in Pennsylvania have led to significant course changes or the addition of whole new courses, especially advance placement level courses in specific science subjects.
Just what does Science in Motion offer teachers of the region? The project purchases and then loans to area schools science data collecting equipment otherwise unavailable. The loan process works on three levels. We can bring the equipment and a self-contained, fully-prepared lesson into the school district classroom and teach the lesson for the teacher who requests it. Or, if the teacher prefers, we will bring the equipment and team teach the lesson with the classroom teacher to help them become more comfortable with the instrumentation and its use with students. Or, if the teacher is comfortable with the use of the equipment, we will deliver it to the school as requested and return to pick it up when the teacher has finished using it and move it on to another location.
The focus of the Science in Motion Project at Clarion University at this time is on secondary biology and chemistry. A great deal of the equipment/instrumentation used in teaching and student research is common across these two areas so we chose to focus on both. The list of available equipment and materials, and the corresponding available classroom lessons, is growing on a daily basis. Many of the lessons we are making available focus on the use of laptop computer based probe systems as used in many research laboratories.
The Science in Motion Project is run through the Science Education program under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Smith. Both the biology and chemistry departments of the university are involved and lending support to the project. Karen Spuck is the mobile educator for the project and serves full time to work with area schools and teachers to assist them in all ways possible.
Funding for the Science in Motion at Clarion University project is provided on a year-to-year basis by the Pennsylvania General Assembly through the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Nine such projects are funded each year across the Commonwealth, Clarion University is the sole PASSHE institution involved at this time.
We are supported by: Clarion University and Science in Motion.


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5. Use JSON-LD to give semantic structure to your content for non-humans. The idea is to provide JSON content that reflects the structure of a page and other business information in easily parsable JSON. Google uses this content to display "rich cards," Google News, and other high-profile presentations of search results. JSON-LD is also a great way to make your paywall-protected content discoverable by search engines. (Just make sure that the logged-out URL is the same as the logged-in URL). This is a fairly new addition to the SEO toolkit. If you want to learn more about structured content, Google has made a developer guide available here.
6. Use HTTPS. Honestly, this has a minimal, yet concrete impact on SEO, but I'm adding this strategy because I want people to use SSL/HTTPS whenever possible. Not seeing the green Secure icon in your browser should be the exception, not the rule. If you need further instructions on adding HTTPS to your site, there are a number of free resources available online. Let's Encrypt is one of my favorites.
7 (BONUS). Use proper HTML5 tags. This is the best SEO advice I've ever given or received. A simple cleanup of site navigation not only improves search result ranking, but also helps search engines build proper sitelinks. When sitelinks show, they give your site additional prominence at the top of search results. While navigation isn't the only place for HTML5 tags, it's one of the most important.
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Here's a recent presentation David Teten made which highlights some of the most commonly used tools for accelerating your sales with technology.
When we originally published our book, we viewed social software companies as falling into five large buckets. We have listed a few representative companies in each bucket below. Please note that the lines between categories are fuzzy. Many of these companies could fit comfortably into a different box than the one in which we placed them.
This table is very loosely based on earlier taxonomies by Geoff Hyatt, CEO, Contact Network Corp, and Stowe Boyd.


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The #1 authority on collectibles
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Bowling Green, Ohio (1984)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
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$14.1 million (2007)[1]
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Beckett Media is a privately held company. Founded in 1984 by James Beckett as Beckett Publications, the company focuses on the collectible industries, especially in the area of sports collectibles.
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James Beckett, considered to be one of the world's leading authorities on sports memorabilia cards, was a statistics professor before he decided to turn his love of sports cards into a business.[2] In the 1970s, Beckett was responsible for some of the baseball card industry's earliest price guides, which offered more detail on the prices of specific cards than the newsletters that had previously been read by collectors.[3] He founded Beckett Publications in 1984.[4]
In January 2005, Beckett sold the company to Apprise Media, which wanted to expand its niche and enthusiast media holdings.[2][5] The company was renamed Beckett Media as part of the sale.[5][6] On January 26, Apprise Media hired Peter A. Gudmundsson as the company CEO.[7]
Less than four years after the Apprise Media acquisition, Beckett Media was rumored to again be for sale in May 2008, with five unspecified companies considering purchasing the company.[8]
In 2010, the company began an overhaul of its online presence. On March 8, 2010, the company announced that it was partnering with SeatGeek as part of its website enhancement. Through the partnership, sports ticket search engine SeatGeek links will be included on all of the site's major sports team and leagues pages that allow viewers to directly access SeatGeek's ticket search system for that team.[9]
Beckett Media publishes numerous price guides and other books related to collectibles and distributes sports memorabilia.[10] One of the company's early publications was Beckett Baseball Card Monthly, which had a peak readership of around one million.[11] Author Dave Jamieson has written that "Jim Beckett's valuations served as the foundation for all card trades".[12] In 2008, Beckett converted its four monthly price guides for football, baseball, hockey, and basketball cards, into seasonal titles. Beckett Sports Card Monthly became its only monthly sports related magazine with its premiere in April 2008.[13]
The company also publishes four magazines covering non-sports collectible card games, such as Magic: The Gathering, and hobby/entertainment topics such as anime and manga.[10][14] In 2005, the various titles had a combined circulation of 800,000 copies. In 2008, the circulation varies between 500,000 and 700,000, and the company began cutting back on its monthly publications to reduce overhead. While the plan was successful, it also earned the company flack from consumers and caused a continuing decrease in sales.[8] In 2003, virtual pets site Neopets selected Beckett Media as the publisher of its new monthly Neopets: The Official Magazine. The bi-monthly magazine premiered in September 2003,[15] and was canceled in January 2008 after 26 issues. Beckett replace the issues remaining in pre-paid subscriptions with their new bi-monthly magazine, Plushie Pals.[16] Aimed at plushie collectors, Plushie Pals includes pricing guides for a range of plushie lines, including Neopets, Webkinz, Shining Stars, TY Beanie Babies, and Pokémon.[17] In October 2009, Beckett replaced Plushie Pals with a new magazine, FUN! Online Games, which focuses on various kid and family oriented online game sites, including Webkinz, Club Penguin, Neopets, Disney Online and Wizard 101. According to the company, in its first month it had 100,000 readers.[18]
The company made its first foray into the video game arena in 2006, with the creation of Beckett Massive Online Gamer. The first issue was released in May 2006 and included information for players of various [14]
Beginning in 1995, Beckett used the Internet to facilitate sales of collectibles and sports cards. The company had affiliations with dealers of collectibles, and its website contained a searchable inventory of products, which consumers were able to buy from the sellers through links on Beckett's site. As of 2005, $13 million worth of products were sold through this system, and 165 dealers had affiliations by the following year.[19]
The company's publications introduced an early grading system for cards, which provided a way to gauge their condition. Six levels were spelled out, from mint to poor condition.[20] Beckett Media runs a sports card grading service, Beckett Grading Services, which is the exclusive grader and authenticator of Topps Vault trading cards.[10][21]
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In November 2005, the company began working to create a social networking website for casual sports fans. In April 2006, they launched the resulting site, FanSpot.com, at the 2006 National Sports Collectors Convention.[22][23] By the end of the month, the site had 1800 registered users.[24] Unfortunately, the site didn't hold the same traction with fans that Beckett's principle website held with collectors. By the end of 2008 user activity on the site ceased completely, though the most parts of the site were still active. By 2013, Fanspot had shut down and its URL now redirects to Beckett.com.
^ a b "Beckett Media".
^ a b Churcher, Sharon (January 19, 2008). "Mark Thatcher's ex-wife Diane to marry £15 million American tycoon". Mail Online.
^ Jamieson, Dave (2010). Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press. pp. 149–150.
^ Bounds, Jeff (July 8, 2005). "Beckett covers bases with revamp". Dallas Business Journal. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
^ a b "Beckett Publications sold to New York media company". Dallas Business Journal. January 26, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2010.
^ Ives, Nat (January 26, 2005). "Apprise Media Buys Publisher of Price Guides". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2010.
^ "Gudmundsson Named CEO of Beckett Media; Will Work to Expand Company Through New Products & Services" (Press release). Apprise Media. Business Wire. January 26, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2008.
^ a b Moore, Dave (May 13, 2008). "Less than four years later, Beckett again for sale".
^ "Beckett Media Signs Partnership with SeatGeek" (Press release). PR Web. March 8, 2010. Archived from the original on 12 April 2010. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
^ a b c "Corporate Overview". Beckett Media. Archived from the original on 25 January 2008. Retrieved January 14, 2008.
^ Jamieson, pp. 149–151.
^ Jamieson, p. 151.
^ "2008 Beckett Sports Lineup FAQ". Beckett Media. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
^ a b Dobson, Jason (April 13, 2006). "Beckett to Launch MMOG Magazine".
^ "Neopets News". Neopets. September 11, 2003. Retrieved June 12, 2008.
^ Letter to subscribers sent by Beckett media
^ "Red Hot Collectibles Covered in Beckett's Plushie Pals" (Press release). Beckett Media.
^ "Beckett Launches FUN! Online Games Magazine To Feature Kid- and Family-Friendly Online Games and Communities" (Press release). Beckett Media. Marketwire. October 18, 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2009.
^ Quinton, Brian (July 5, 2006). "Sports Collectibles Site Powers up Major League Search". Direct Magazine. Retrieved March 24, 2010.
^ "Beckett Partners". Beckett Media. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved January 14, 2008.
^ Davis, Steve (August 22, 2006). "Stars' version of two-a-days".
^ "FanSpot Asks: Are You Fan Enough?" (Press release). FanSpot. Marketwire. August 22, 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
^ Batheja, Aman (August 30, 2006). "Company takes a swing at creating a MySpace for sports fans".
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Thailand's political crisis: Showdown looms following 'judicial coup'
As a power struggle ensues between traditionalist and pro-Thaksin factions, mass demonstrations throughout Bangkok may spark violent clashes and prompt a response from the military.
Following months of polarizing mass protests and political violence, Thailand's highest court recently ruled to remove embattled caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office over various charges of corruption. The ongoing political crisis began in November when Yingluck attempted to push through a broad amnesty law that would have pardoned Thaksin Shinawatra, her brother and former prime minister who faces criminal charges for corruption. Since that time, opposing protest movements representing the country's two rival political factions that have clogged major roads in the country's capital, Bangkok and occupied various public spaces around the city.
Although the PM has been removed, Yingluck's Pheu Thai Party remains technically in power with Deputy PM Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan becoming the acting leader of the beleaguered caretaker government set to govern the country ahead of elections scheduled to take place on July 20. Suthep Thaugsuban, leader of the opposition People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), has rejected the appointment of Boonsongpaisan as caretaker prime minister, and has called on the country's Senate, the Election Commission, and the Supreme Court to appoint a new interim prime minister – otherwise he threatened that his movement would unilaterally "do the job itself." The PDRC further threatened to appoint an unelected "people's government" if the caretaker government fails to resign, prompting thousands of Yingluck supporters to rally against the opposition.
Nile Bowie is a Malaysia-based political analyst and a columnist with Russia Today. He can be reached at nilebowie@gmail.com.
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International business leader and founder of Aiteo Group, Benedict Peters was awarded Africa's Oil and Gas Leader of the Year at the Forbes Best of Africa Gala which held at Forbes Headquarters, New York City.
The Durst Organization helmed by real estate moguls and philanthropists Douglas and Susanne Durst hosted a benefit at 4 Times Square in midtown Manhattan to support The Everglades Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)3 working to protect and restore America's Everglades through science, education and advocacy. The evening welcomed business leaders, philanthropists and political figures to a visual journey showcasing the natural beauty of the wetlands' wild and endangered habitat, as captured by renowned nature photographer Mac Stone.
In collaboration with The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT (MFIT), board member and philanthropist Jean Shafiroff and Angela Dotson co–chaired a luncheon honoring Narciso Rodriguez with the 2018 Artistry of Fashion Award at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. The award ceremony and luncheon raised in excess of $850,000 to benefit The Museum at FIT. The fashion industry's top editorial voices, visionaries, plus distinguished and aspiring designers were all in attendance at the award ceremony that has, traditionally, welcomed the arrival of the Mercedez-Benz New York Fashion Week every year.
Lifestyle and Entertaining Expert Pamela Morgan of Flirting With Flavors produced her annual end-of-summer celebration at her home in Water Mill, NY. Displaying her design savvy and culinary expertise as a chef and cookbook author, the party brought a close to the summer and start to the Fall 2018 season, welcoming Pamela Morgan's dearest friends to celebrate this year's theme of 'Fiesta Mexicana'.
World-renowned celebrity hair stylist Angelo David Pisacreta, owner of the elite Angelo David Salon in New York City, and hair-tool veteran Jacob Guttman, founder and CEO of Creative Pro Hair Tools, introduce The Flex Brush—an all-purpose tool that safely detangles hair, massages the scalp and promotes health and hair growth. The brush's versatility, combined with its flex technology, make it the most forgiving hair brush on the market.


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MUMBAI: Responding to Zee Telefilms' (ZTL) petition seeking the quashing of BCCI's 'invitation to tender' (ITT) for telecast and broadcast rights for the next four years, the Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Centre and the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI).
A division bench of acting chief justice B A Khan and justice Madan B Lokur asked the Centre and BCCI to respond to the petition by 24 August, the next date of hearing, reports PTI. The last date for submission of ITT is 26 August.
ZTL had alleged that the eligibility conditions were framed to oust bidders from India in its petition filed on 19 August. ZTL counsel Pratibha M Singh said the present set of eligibility conditions for ITT was framed by BCCI in such a manner so as to try to "exclude" the petitioner and/or other Indian television channels and favour ESPN Star Sports.
BCCI had released tenders for the telecast of 130 days of cricket between October 2005 to September 2009 last week. The TV tender rights document contains a three-year experience clause which effectively rules out Zee TV from making a bid. The experience clause reportedly insists that one has to have three years of experience in telecasting cricket matches of international repute in India and abroad.
On 20 August, BCCI issued an addendum to the ITT which states, "After the words "(not also through any agency by whatever name called, the following words are being added: "Except that the original First license being executed by any agency for and on behalf of the Original Event Owner)."
According to some industry sources, the addendum was allegedly sent out by BCCI after it realised that Sony Entertainment Television's ICC cricket and all of ESPN's cricket came via agents (Bangladesh originally via World Tel, the other ones via Octagon).
In the addendum notice, a copy of which is in the possession of indiantelevision.com, BCCI states that the addendum is issued due to supervening circumstances. "By invoking Clause 3.1.2 read with Clauses 7 (b) and (c) of part 1 of the ITT, the addendum is issued relating to and/or concerning "Eligibility" as provided Clause 2 of Part 1 of ITT," it says.
The addendum also extended the deadline for submission of tenders till 2 pm (IST), 26 August.
It may be recalled that a senior official of BCCI had told Indiantelevision.com on 4 August (the day the cricket board met to decide on the the tender drafts) that the eligibility criteria drafted, once okayed, would effectively rule out Zee's participation in the bidding process.
"After all, there has to be some criteria. We are looking at saying in black and white that to be eligible for the rights, one has to have three years of experience in telecasting cricket matches of international repute in India and abroad," the BCCI official said, making it clear that the cricket board had not taken very kindly to the long drawn litigation process involving Zee and ESS that has cost the Board dearly in terms of revenue.


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Final Season of Mad Men To Be Split In Half
I am getting real sick of your shit, AMC. You may have some of the best shows on TV right now but damn it, you are just toying with us and you know it. AMC announced this week their plans to split the final season of "Mad Men" much like they did with the final season of "Breaking Bad."
The 14 episode finale season will be equally portioned with seven episodes airing in spring of 2014, set to be called "The Beginning" and the final seven episodes called "The End of an Era" airing in the spring of 2015.
Charlie Collier, AMC president, commented on the decision, saying,
"This approach has worked well for many programs across multiple networks, and, most recently for us with 'Breaking Bad' which attracted nearly double the number of viewers to its second half premiere than had watched any previous episode. We are determined to bring 'Mad Men' a similar showcase. In an era where high-end content is savored and analyzed, and catch-up time is used well to drive back to live events, we believe this is the best way to release the now 14 episodes than remain of this iconic series."
Matthew Weiner, creator and executive producer, "Mad Men," also added,
"We plan to take advantage of this chance to have a more elaborate story told in two parts, which can resonate a little bit longer in the minds of our audience. The writers, cast and other artists welcome this unique manner of ending this unique experience."
The first half for season 7 of "Mad Men" will premiere on AMC this spring. The series stars Jon Hamm, January Jones, Vincent Karthheiser, Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Robert Morse, Kiernan Shipka, Jessica Pare and Kevin Rahm.
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Copyright © 2014 José C. Báez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Recent studies showed that regional abundance of loggerhead and leatherback turtles could oscillate interannually according to oceanographic and climatic conditions. The Western Mediterranean is an important fishing area for the Spanish drifting longline fleet, which mainly targets swordfish, bluefin tuna, and albacore. Due to the spatial overlapping in fishing activity and turtle distribution, there is an increasing sea turtle conservation concern. The main goal of this study is to analyse the interannual bycatch of loggerhead and leatherback turtles by the Spanish Mediterranean longline fishery and to test the relationship between the total turtle by-catch of this fishery and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). During the 14 years covered in this study, the number of sea turtle bycatches was 3,940 loggerhead turtles and 8 leatherback turtles, 0.499 loggerhead turtles/1000 hooks and 0.001014 leatherback turtles/1000 hooks. In the case of the loggerhead turtle the positive phase of the NAO favours an increase of loggerhead turtles in the Western Mediterranean Sea. However, in the case of leatherback turtle the negative phase of the NAO favours the presence of leatherback turtle. This contraposition could be related to the different ecophysiological response of both species during their migration cycle.
During the last two decades, our understanding of sea turtle conservation biology has increased significantly. It is now widely believed that the major threat for the sea turtles is caused by diverse anthropogenic activities [1, 2]. Early evidence suggests that longline fishing is a major source of mortality in the Mediterranean Sea .
The endangered loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) is the most common sea turtle species in the Mediterranean Sea, where it utilises nesting beaches which are mainly located in the eastern basin. Annually, hundreds of juvenile loggerhead turtles, born on the beaches of both the North Atlantic [4, 5] and Mediterranean, are concentrated around the feeding grounds in the Western Mediterranean, mainly in waters around the Balearic Islands [6–8]. Revelles et al.  suggest the existence of a permeable barrier north of the Balearic Islands that divides the Northwestern Mediterranean and the Southern Mediterranean basin which affects the distribution of loggerhead turtles. This barrier could have an impact on the distribution of both migrant turtles from the Atlantic and the Eastern Mediterranean. In any case, many juveniles born in the Atlantic remain in the Mediterranean until they reach the minimum size to overcome the flow of Atlantic waters entering in the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar [10, 11].
The Western Mediterranean is an important fishing area for the Spanish drifting longline fleet which mainly targets swordfish (Xiphias gladius), bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) and albacore (Thunnus alalunga) [12, 13]. Due to the spatial overlap in fishing activity and loggerhead turtle distribution, each year tens of thousands of loggerhead turtle bycatches occur [3, 14]. There are several studies about the loggerhead turtle bycatch by the Spanish longline fishery in the Mediterranean [15–23]. The main results of these early studies are that gear configurations (e.g., hook and bait type) by Spanish Mediterranean longliners can determine both- bycatch frequency  and catch selectivity of sizeclasses [19, 23]. In addition, Báez et al. [18, 22] concluded that the loggerhead turtles bycatches were spatially structured only according to mean distance to the coast. Moreover, the bycatches of loggerhead turtles increased significantly within those longline sets hauling during daylight .
However, there are no studies of the interannual loggerhead bycatch by Spanish fisheries. In this context, Tomás et al. , using indirect data from strandings, concluded that loggerhead turtle bycatch may have decreased in the last years. However, there are few studies about interannual variability of bycatch of loggerhead by Spanish fisheries.
Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is listed as Vulnerable on the UICN red list  and is the second most common chelonian migratory species in the Mediterranean, where nesting beaches do not exist . Leatherback turtles are also caught accidentally by Spanish longliners but show low levels of bycatch per unit of fishing effort [1, 27].
Sea turtles present a long-distance migration of juveniles resulting in broad-scale dispersion of these juvenile stages. In this context, some studies concluded that abundance of sea turtles (both loggerhead and leatherback turtles) could oscillate interannually according to oceanographic and climatic conditions [28, 29].
The main goal of this study is to analyse interannual variability in data of bycatch of loggerhead and leatherback turtles from Spanish Mediterranean longline fishery and subsequently test the possible relationship between the CPUE (catch per unit effort, measured in thousands of hooks) of these turtles and the atmospheric oscillations.
Data were collected by IEO observers on board Spanish longliners between 1999 and 2012. The fishing ground was mainly limited to the Levantine-Balearic, Algerian, and Alborán Sea regions (Figure 1); the drifting surface longline gears reported within this area by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) include drifting surface longline targeting albacore (LLALB), surface longliners targeting bluefin tuna (LLJAP), and traditional drifting surface longliners targeting swordfish (LLHB). Briefly, the principal differences between the three different longline gears are as follows.
Figure 1: Fisheries effort distributions of Spanish surface longline fleet for entire study period.
LLJAP: this is a monofilament longline used exclusively during the months of May, June, and the first half of July. The bait is almost always squid (Illex sp.) bigger than 500 g. LLJAP typically uses a C-shaped hook, and its number per set does not exceed 1200, and these are laid in a circle.
LLHB: this gear is used throughout the year. The number of hooks is between 1,500 and 4,000 and these are usually baited with mackerel (Scomber sp.) and squid (Illex sp.). The dimensions and forms of the hooks used are J-shaped Mustad-2 (approximately 7.5 2.5 cm).
LLALB: this is the shallowest longline gear. Both the size of the hook and the thickness and length of the fishing lines are lower than other longlines, usually J-shaped Mustad number 5 (approximately 5 2 cm). Between 2,000 and 7,000 hooks are set and the bait used is sardine (Sardina pilchardus). This gear is used mainly from July to October.
The Spanish longline fleet licensed for surface longline targeting highly migratory species, such as tuna and swordfish, consists of an average of 89 vessels per year for the studied period, with a vessel length ranging from 12 to 27 m. A total of 3,412 fishing operations were observed from January to December, during the years 1999 to 2012, which represent 7,889,711 observed hooks. Camiñas et al. , Báez et al. [18, 21, 22], and García-Barcelona et al. [13, 30] described the Spanish longline fishery in detail and reviewed the data collection performed by the IEO onboard observer program.
The most important mechanism responsible for interannual climate variability in South-West Europe is the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) [31, 32]. The NAO reflects fluctuations in atmospheric pressure at sea level between the Icelandic Low and the Azores High. The NAO is associated with many meteorological variations in the North Atlantic region, affecting wind speed and direction and differences in temperature and rainfall. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) usefully explains ecological fluctuations  affecting the North Atlantic migrating fauna . We used teleconnection patterns in the atmospheric circulation for pressure anomalies based on the normalized pressure to 500 hPa for NAO and height anomalies at 1000 hPa for AO .
Monthly NAO index values were taken from the website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA website: Available at http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/nao_index.html. Accessed May 15, 2013).
The NAO presents strong interannual and intraannual variability [31, 32], with a strong NAO pattern in cold seasons, primarily from November to March. However, given that a previous paper  found a significant relationship between the abundance of sea turtles and the mean annual NAO of the previous year, we related relative abundance values of turtle bycatches with the mean annual NAO of the previous year (NAOpy).
Given that the mean annual leatherback turtle bycatches varied by about 0.57 turtles during the study period, it offers little possibility for sound statistical analysis to look for patterns or trends. However, a probability analysis may be introduced by taking a year at random and calculating the probability of observing one leatherback turtle bycatch or not.
Binary logistic regression is widely used for establishing relationships between environmental independent variables and the probability of response of target variables (e.g., ). We used a binary logistic regression to estimate the probability to obtain in a particular year observed at least one leatherback turtle bycatches in function to average NAOpy.
As we commented above, Revelles et al.  suggest the existence of a permeable barrier north of the Balearic Islands that affects the distribution of loggerhead turtles. Moreover, the probability of capture of one loggerhead turtle in longline gear as a whole is susceptible to variations, regardless of the total fishing effort, depending on the configuration of the gear used. So the CPUEs for turtles should be compared independently for each gear (LLHB, LLALB and LLJAP) in order to estimate total turtle bycatch. At the same time LLHB presented a greater number of direct turtle bycatch. For these reason, we analysed the CPUE of loggerhead turtle (CPUEt) from south of 40°N for LLHB versus the NAOpy. In this case, we calculated the probability obtaining a CPUEt of a particular year greater than the average CPUEt for all the years with catches. Consequently, we assigned the value 1 when the CPUEt of a particular year was greater than the mean CPUEt for all the years with catches pooled together, while we assigned the value 0 when the CPUEt of a particular year was lower than the mean CPUEt.
To evaluate the models we assessed their goodness-of-fit and discrimination capacity. The model goodness-of-fit was assessed by means of the Hosmer and Lemeshow test. We evaluated the discrimination capacity of our model with the area under the receiving operating characteristic curve (AUC) [36, 37].
As logistic regression is sensitive to the 1/0 frequencies ratio , we used the favourability function () proposed by Real et al.  to adjust the model according to this ratio. Favourability was calculated from the probability obtained from logistic regression as follows: where is the probability from logistic regression, is the number of years with positive bycatches event for loggerhead or leatherback turtle (previously defined), and is the number of years with negative bycatches event for loggerhead or leatherback turtle (previously defined).
We used to assess the atmospheric oscillation conditions that favoured the bycatches event for loggerhead or leatherback turtle. We then compared the correct classification rate of the models for favourable and clearly unfavourable years.
The main advantages of the favourability function are (according to Real et al.  and Acevedo and Real ).(1)The favourability function adjusts the model to inform about the degree to which the environmental conditions favour the event, regardless of the 1/0 frequencies ratio.(2)The threshold 0.5 from favourability model is easier to interpret, as it indicates neutral environmental conditions, that is, neither favourable nor unfavourable.(3)The favourability function yielded graphic models which were easier to interpret. Moreover, the favourability model allows performing a clarifying graphical comparison between two different states from one same qualitative variable.
During the 14 years covered in this study, the number of sea turtles caught as bycatch was 3,940 loggerhead turtles and 8 leatherback turtles, 0.499 loggerhead turtles/1000 hooks and 0.001014 leatherback turtles/1000 hooks (Figure 2). In Table 1 we show the frequency of turtle bycatches observed per year.
Table 1: Observed hooks and turtle bycatch per year during the study period. Expected loggerhead values were calculated according to the number of hooks, and thus the expected loggerhead is (total loggerhead turtles observed in all the study period the total hooks observed in the year)/total hooks observed in all the study period.
Figure 2: Distribution of bycatches of loggerhead (coloured scale) and leatherback turtle (blue circle).
Statistical analysis of the data indicates that CPUEt presents significant interannual differences (Table 1) (; ; ). Similarly, we observed a lack of leatherback turtle bycatches in ten years, with only four years with leatherback turtle bycatches.
In Figure 3, we show the favourability of bycatch of at least one leatherback turtle versus the favourability of bycatch of a greater number of loggerhead turtles according to NAOpy conditions.
Figure 3: Favourability of obtaining at least one leatherback turtle bycatch in a particular year in function of the average NAO in previous year versus the favourability to obtain a major number of loggerhead turtles bycatches (in the LLHB gear fisheries south of 40°N) in function of the average NAO in the previous year.
In both turtle species studied, the NAOpy in the previous year plays an important role in their migration. However, while in the case of the loggerhead turtle the positive phase of the NAOpy favours its abundance increment in the Western Mediterranean, in the case of leatherback turtle the negative phase of the NAOpy favours its presence. This contraposition could be related to the different ecophysiological response of both species during their migration cycle. Recent studies suggest an important role of currents and storms in dispersal of loggerhead turtles . Thus, the arrival of juvenile loggerhead turtles into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar seems to be motivated by a combination of favourable currents and storms, rather than preestablished migration routes. This could explain the interannual oscillation in the abundance of loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean, which in turn could lead to an increased number of strandings and catches, according to the present results and previous studies .
On the other hand, leatherback turtle is a predator of mesoplankton (i.e., jellyfish). For this reason many authors have noted that the migration of this species could be fitted to the intensive search for food [40, 41]. Thus, the leatherback turtle is more efficient in finding productive areas than the loggerhead [40, 41]. In this context, negative NAO phase has been implicated as drivers for induced blooms along the coast of the Iberian Peninsula [42–44]. On the Galician coast (Northwest Spain), this effect should lead to increased abundance of phytoplankton (e.g., Gymnodinium catenatum), strong vertical migratory species capable of utilising deeper remineralised nutrients from the decomposition of postbloom sedimented materials [42–44]. Therefore, a negative phase of the NAOpy could imply increased runoff and increased contribution of land-based materials to the sea; this increased nutrient could increase plankton productivity, which in turn attracts jellyfishes, and they in turn attract the leatherback turtles.
Previous studies showed differential bycatch frequency and size differentiation in loggerhead turtles as a function of surface longline gear type in the Western Mediterranean Sea . Thus, surface longline targeting albacore (LLALB) using smaller hooks tends to capture smaller loggerheads and has the highest CPUEt, whereas other longlines, such as surface longline targeting bluefin tuna (LLJAP) and traditional surface longline targeting swordfish (LLHB), using larger hooks tend to select the larger animals; moreover, LLHB had the lowest CPUEt.
Currently, the use of a particular gear is determined by the fishery regulations, market dynamics, and fish prices. According to recommendations from The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the current legislation on longline contemplates a fishing moratorium during October (ORDEN/APA/254/2008, BOE n. 33 2008; ORDEN/ARM/817/2009, BOE n. 79 2009) and other closure of fishing activity during February and March (Resolución de 19 de febrero de 2013, BOE n. 46 2013), which could be beneficial for the swordfish stock. In this context, because we know the NAO in advance, we suggest alternating the gear type each year and removing temporary closures in function of previous climatic conditions and previsions. During the years subsequent to a negative NAO phase, a preventive cessation of activity for the LLALB could avoid an important bycatch of loggerhead juveniles, but the use of the LLHB and LLJAP could not affect significantly the bycatch of the largest loggerhead turtles. On the contrary, for the years subsequent to each positive NAO phase a preventive closing of activity for the LLHB could avoid high CPUEt of mature turtles. Thus, we could reduce the total juvenile of loggerhead turtle bycatch during the preventive closing of activity for the LLALB and in other years avoid the mature bycatch of loggerhead turtles during the preventive closure of activity for the LLHB and LLJAP.
Nevertheless, the adoption of these recommendations implies a greater control of the fishery and a changing of regulations in a short time (year to year) really difficult to implement for both fishermen and administration. However, we believe that a global fisheries management scheme which implicates both ecological and temporal perspectives is necessary.
The onboard observer program in commercial longline vessels was supported by different projects from the IEO based in Malaga, GPM-4 programs (IEO), and PNDB (EU-IEO). The authors are grateful to the skippers and fishermen for providing the data from the boats. They would also like to thank Andrew Paterson for style corrections.
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