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Viewing biodiversity at the ecosystem level is a holistic way of appreciating and analyzing the natural richness of the Philippines, taking in consideration the dynamic ecological functions and interactions of both the living and the non-living parts of the biosphere within a given location, as well as the impacts of natural phenomena and human-caused environmental changes upon them.
The Philippines's widely varied geographic features – from isolated islands surrounded by water, to staggered mountain ranges, to the various inland waters within them – make the country conducive to the survival of many types of ecosystems. (FPE)
Here in this country, topography varies to a great extent, ranging from coastal wetlands to upland region watersheds. It follows, thus, that the country is home to several types of ecosystems, which can be classified according to their defining features as follows:
General Types (Higher Level)
Sub-types (Lower Level)
Major Features
Terrestrial Ecosystem
Sub-alpine forest
Mossy forest
Montane forest (upper and lower)
Semi-deciduous forest (moist deciduous)
Lowland evergreen forest
Forest over limestone (karst)
Forest over ultrabasic soil
Forest over ultramafic rocks
Grassland (upland and lowland)
Beach forest
Forest types classified based on:
Altitude ranging from sea level to 3,000 meters above sea level
Presence of dominant forest species and endemic/native plants
Amount of soil nutrients and moisture
Type of soil minerals and soil chemistry
Freshwater Ecosystem
Lacustrine: Lakes and ponds
Riverine: rivers, streams, creeks
Palustrine: marshes
Inland wetlands classified based on hydrodynamics and geography
Brackish/Estuarine Ecosystem
Mangrove swamp
Nipa swamp
Found along the shoreline and extending seaward, found mostly in the mouths of rivers
Classified based on dominant species/genera
Coastal wetlands where sea water and fresh water mix
Saltwater/Marine Ecosystem
Mudflats
Seagrass belts
Coastal marine wetlands
Classified based on dominant species/taxa, physical features, and geography
Special Ecosystems
Hollow spaces or cavities beneath the surface of the earth, often with one or several openings to the surface
May be classified based on the nature of mineral deposits and geological formations
Some further detailed discussions of various ecosystem types found in the Philippines follow below.
Forests are inherently diverse ecosystems, as conditions found within them are ideal for supporting symbiotic ecological relationships. This is especially so in the Philippines, where the tropical climate allows forests to receive, absorb, and redistribute rainwater to support life not only within themselves, but also to other nearby and adjacent ecosystems where the water reserves are released.
(FPE)
Primarily, forests serve as the country's most important source of water, thus allowing all other forms of natural resources to flourish and become productive. Forest ecosystems naturally provide clean air and food in the process. In addition, these resources also contribute through power (electricity) generation, and by providing protection as a raw material for houses and other forms of shelter. They also offer indirect benefits, such as by functioning as buffer zones from storms and prevention of soil erosion. Forests support human livelihood, although proper management and conscious conservation efforts are emphatically required in this sense.
Unfortunately, forests are heavily prone to abuse and exploitation. Over the last century, human populations consumed and altered forest landscapes in favor of agricultural development and urbanization. It is estimated that from having 70% forest cover at the start of the 1900s, only about 24% remain, based on 2001-03 satellite imagery, according to the DENR's Forest Management Bureau. Meanwhile, according to the Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation, "deforestation continues at an average of 100,000 hectares per year or 273 hectares per day."
The problem of forest degradation and destruction continues due to the prevalence of logging practices both legal and otherwise, mining, and land conversion. This, despite more proactive measures being undertaken to restore them at present. While initiatives such as the DENR's National Greening Program are in place and already being executed, forests still suffer due to generally poor state-level policy-making that support activities such as logging and mining for commercial gain.
FPE & USAID - Upscaling Forest Reforestation in Key Biodiversity Areas
DENR-FMB - 2011 Philippine Forestry Statistics
DENR - National Greening Program
Mangrove Ecosystem
Another prominent type of ecosystem that naturally occurs in the Philippines, given the multitude of coastal areas of this country, is the mangrove ecosystem. Mangroves are medium-size and highly tolerant flora that can survive in brackish water (water which is more saline than freshwater, but not as much as seawater). The Philippines boasts having more than half of the world's 70 mangrove species.
People draw benefits from mangrove systems as they serve as breeding and feeding grounds for local terrestrial and aquatic species, while also being "stop-over sites" for migratory species. They also contribute to ecological balance by stabilizing and minimizing sedimentation and siltation in coral reefs, while also facilitating the increase of land area by way of accumulated soil and debris.
While mangrove ecosystems are already dynamic and unstable environments due to their location, they are also commonly threatened by human interaction due to the utilization and consumption of coastal communities.
RAMSAR - Annotated List of Wetlands of International Importance: Philippines (2013)
UN-FAO - Mangrove Guidebook for Southeast Asia (2006/2007)
DENR-Coastal Resource Management Project & USAID - Mangrove Management Handbook (2000)
Agricultural Ecosystem
Agricultural ecosystems are artificial ecosystems created in the process of developing land and coastal/aquatic areas for farming, animal husbandry, and fishing.
Since agriculture evolved to bring about gains for human societies, it follows that people have continued to draw numerous benefits from these types of ecosystems. It has served as people's primary source of sustenance and livelihood, as well as other basic needs, for generations. In the case of the Philippines, it is historically one of the primary economic drivers for the country.
There are approximately 1,210 local agricultural plant species here, over a third of which has food value. Agriculture also supports other cash crops for feed, medicinal/herbal, ornamental, and industrial values. Rice, corn, and coconut are the main types of produce obtained through agriculture in the Philippines.
It can be said that agricultural ecosystems are both threatened and serve as a threat to other ecosystems as well, despite their unquestionable socio-economic importance. On one hand, continuous urban development for residential and commercial land use is encroaching on agricultural lands. In turn, farmers are forced to move upland, harming forest ecosystems in the process.
Another important issue that needs to be addressed in matters regarding agriculture is the debate involving high value hybrid crops and genetically modified organisms that was sparked by the so-called Green Revolution of the 1960s. While these applications of modern biotechnology are developed with the benefit of humankind in mind (i.e. increasing food supply and ensuring world food security), the environmental and human health risks involved in the propagation of such crops have yet to be adequately studied and are thus still much-debated in the overall biodiversity protection and conservation campaign.
Philippine Clearing House Mechanism for Biodiversity - Agricultural Biodiversity
UN-FAO - Weighing the GMO Arguments: Against
UN-FAO - Weighing the GMO Arguments: For
Marginal Ecosystem
Marginal ecosystems are those that are located between two ecosystems. These can be either natural or artificial, such as areas adapted or reappropriated for agricultural use. Marginal lands now comprise about 70% (over 11 million hectares) of declared forest area in the Philippines.
Urban Ecosystem
Urban ecosystems are the product of modernized, industrialized human society. These function as the base of human settlements, as well as economic development. They are a testament to the economic, academic, and technological progress that humankind has achieved through generations. That said, they are still rapidly expanding, often to the detriment of natural ecosystems.
(Source: de.wallpaperswiki.org)
Although urban ecosystems continue to grow,in terms of geographic and demographic sizes alike, their carrying capacities remain limited. The draw of "greener pastures" in urban locales tend to result in over-population that strains limited resources, making these ecosystems increasingly impractical and hazardous to the health and well-being of its inhabitants.
WHO - Urbanization and Health
Study: Urbanization Process and the Changing Agricultural Landscape Pattern in the Urban Fringe of Metro Manila, Philippines (2007)
Coral Reef Ecosystem
Whereas forests are a distinctive feature of the Philippines's terrestrial biodiversity, coral reefs give the country a likewise sterling reputation when it comes to aquatic ecosystems. Owning 5% of the world's total 617,000 sq km of coral reefs, the Philippines is part of the world's "Coral Triangle," joining Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste as countries that bear the most extensive coral reef ecosystems in the world. In fact, Verde island in Batangas has been noted to be "the center of the center" of marine biodiversity in the world.
Coral reefs are comprised of massive deposits of calcium carbonate that take centuries to produce and develop. Because of such a long process, coral reefs are very delicate ecosystems and are due extensive protective measures. A recent example of damage occurred at the Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea in January 2013, where approximately 1,000 square meters of coral reef was damaged.
These ecosystems are the natural habitat of fish species and other marine organisms, where feeding, breeding, and spawning happens at incredibly productive levels. They also serve as natural breakwaters that protect coastal areas from waves and storms, facilitate coralline sand production that create remarkable white sand beaches that are a hit among tourists, and enable oxygen production through supporting photosynthetic algae. Coral reefs also offer significant educational value for biological and ecological study
Coral reef damage is a serious concern. As of 2006, only 5% of Philippine coral reefs are in excellent condition, while 32% are already severely damaged (Haribon, 2006). The World Resources Institute more recently reports that 85% of the reefs in the Coral Triangle as a whole are threatened (WRI, 2013), shadowing the global average which stands at 60%.
FPE & Diliman Science Research Foundation - Devolution of Power and Per Municipality Approach to Marine Biodiversity Conservation (2012)
WRI - Reefs at Risk Revisited in the Coral Triangle (2012)
DA-BFAR - Marine Protected Areas: Philippine Coral Reefs
ADB - Comprehensive Action Plans of the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion: A Priority Seascape of the Coral Triangle Initiative (2011)
Freshwater ecosystems occur in in-land bodies of water and may either be flowing, standing, or man-made. Rivers and streams, lakes and reservoirs, and artificial fishponds are examples that fall into the three respective categories. All of these are distinguished by low-salinity water that flow from the natural rainwater catch basins created by forests.
Freshwater ecosystems serve many practical benefits to people, including being a cheap and convenient source of water for domestic and industrial use, a natural waste disposal system, and a reservoir for the natural water cycle. Freshwater bodies also can serve as transport routes.
This type of ecosystem is commonly put in peril by the need for draining to serve the purposes of fisheries and agriculture.
DA-BFAR - Managing Aquaculture and its Impacts: A Guidebook for Local Governments (2007)
UN-FAO - National Aquaculture Sector Overview: Philippines
World Bank - Growing Aquaculture in Sustainable Ecosystems (2013)
Seagrass and Soft-Bottom Ecosystems
Seagrass ecosystems comprise of aquatic flowering plants that can live in seawater. These types of ecosystems occur in shallow water environments.
Primarily, seagrass supports biodiversity by functioning as a food source for grazing and detritus-feeding creatures. They can also be a nursery for young fish, crustaceans, and other reef organisms. In addition, seagrass is able to recycle nutrients from sediments back to the open sea, while also functioning to stabilize sediments, ensuring the integrity of the seabed. As such, seagrass also functions as a buffer against wave or storm-related damage to its immediate vicinity, protecting the life forms that make it their natural habitat.
Another type of aquatic/marine ecosystem is the soft bottom ecosystem, which is an area where sediments have accumulated. Organic matter, coming from plants and animals and other sources of nutrients, settle at the bottom and become food for deposit-feeders, bottom-dwelling fish, as well as for invertebrates, decomposers, and microbial life forms. Soft bottom ecosystems vary based on the size and grain of the sediments.
Same with majority of marine ecosystems in the Philippines, unsustainable fishing and aquaculture practices are the main threats to seagrass and soft-bottom ecosystems. Worse yet, with majority of the attention for conservation efforts being concentrated on terrestrial, wetland, and coral reef ecosystems, these equally important and diversity-rich ecosystems tend to be overlooked.
Philippine Clearing House Mechanism for Biodiversity - Seagrasses
OneOcean.org - The Philippines' Forgotten Resource: Seagrass and its Management
ReefBase.org - Seagrass Ecosystem of the Philippines: Status, Problems and Management Directions
Species as Indicators of Ecosystem Health
Certain qualifications of species can be used to assess the conditions of natural ecosystems, although this varies based on the scope or scale of the study (i.e. whether local, national, or global scale, or whether in land-based or water-based ecosystems).
The value of species as biodiversity indicators may be based on measurable ecological roles and functions:
Keystone Species - The type on which many others depend for biological needs such as food and shelter.
Sensitive Species - The type which exhibit the tendency to disappear from a site or habitat when subjected to external disturbances (i.e. they have a narrow range of tolerance to environmental changes).
Tolerant Species - The opposite of sensitive species, these can withstand changes to their environment and are thus useful for studying the impacts and consequences of the said changes on the species itself and the ecosystem within which it exists.
Endemic Species - In light of the exclusive nature of endemic species within a certain area, they also serve well as indicators of habitat and ecosystem health.
Meanwhile, some species that serve as biodiversity indicators are simply socially constructed symbols:
Umbrella Species - This type of species covers those with a large habitat or range, therefore exerting a major ecological influence on the community.
Flagship Species - This qualification covers species which have caught the sympathy and support of the public, thus serving a role as an aspirational icon for ecological conservation.
Charismatic Species - Like flagship species, charismatic species are well known to the public and are regarded as symbols of the conservation agenda. The reason for their popularity is their distinctive features, such as size, colorful appearance, and the like.
(Adapted from Catibog-Sinha and Heaney, 2006.)
Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Forest Management Bureau (DENR-FMB). 2011. 2011 Philippine Forestry Statistics. Quezon City, Philippines: Forest Economics Division. (Online: http://forestry.denr.gov.ph/2011PFS.pdf)
Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation (PTFCF). Undated. Fast Facts. Last accessed on February 13, 2014, http://www.ptfcf.org.
Carpenter KE, Springer VG. 2004. The Center of the Center of Marine Shorefish Biodiversity: The Philippine Islands. Environmental Biology of Fishes (2005) 72: 467-480. (Online: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10641-004-3154-4#page-1)
How Endemism Happens
The Watershed Perspective in Forest Resource Conservation


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In this moving blog entry, Maria Helena Moreira Alves recounts the inspiration for Living in the Crossfire , her book (co-authored by Philip Evanson) about favela residents in Rio de Janeiro and the violence they encounter every day of their lives.
We dedicated our book, Living in the Crossfire to the "Mothers of Acari" in recognition these women's untiring search for their disappeared children and their tenacity in seeking justice and due punishment to those responsible for this horrific crime. This crime occurred July 26, 1990, near the town of Acari, in Rio de Janeiro. Eleven young people were kidnapped by military police, tortured, raped, and their bodies were disappeared. According to many accounts, the dismembered bodies were fed to crocodiles and black panthers that were kept by a member of the local militia. Because of their fight for justice, the mothers themselves were persecuted and threatened.
One of the mothers, Edméia da Silva, was murdered on July 20, 1993, after she visited a state prison to interrogate a key witness. More than 20 years have passed and none of the guilty were brought to justice. The case was clearly abandoned until the crime described. Because of this, Marilene Lima de Souza, mother of Rosana de Souza Santos—who was only 18 at the time of her disappearance—has asked for international solidarity. Amnesty International has taken the case by asking the Brazilian judicial system to re-open and carry out the investigation.
In 2000, we began to work with NGOs of Rio de Janeiro dedicated to social and educational projects in different favelas. Through this connection we became personally acquainted with community leaders and residents of the favelas that worked with these NGOs. We were struck by the accounts of violence by drug dealers, who acted as "owners of the areas"—the hills where they reigned to enforce their law. What was most shocking, however, was to learn that members of the security forces—particularly the military police and their elite troop, the BOPE—were the chief allies of the drug lords. In many cases, the drug lords were replaced by militia under the command of military police who took over the job of terrorizing the population; sold favors as "security guarantees;" received payment from drug dealers to allow them to continue their business; and also monopolized services to the residents—such as gas distribution, cable television, electricity, radio transmission and even mail delivery and transportation. Much like the Mafia, these groups enforced their power by the use of extreme violence both against the drug dealers and against residents.
The reaction of the governments of Rio varied from non-involvement to repeated but ineffective raids into the favelas that resulted in the deaths of more innocent people than arrest of the guilty. In 2007, the government decided on a policy of all out war and moved into areas heavily inhabited with the full force of armored vehicles similar to tanks, machine guns and even helicopters firing directly against residential areas without definite targets. At that point many people we had known in the favelas asked for solidarity. They stated that they no longer could trust or believe in the government's actions and only solidarity from the international community could make their voices heard—heard so loud that the local government would be forced to listen to them and change their policies. In this regard, they agreed to provide us with the stories of their lives. We heard so many heartbreaking stories—particularly of mothers and of children— that we were unable to publish all of them. However, the stories contained in Living in the Crossfire were chosen because each represents many others and hence their voice is multiplied a thousand times.
We hope that our book, and the speaking tour we are undertaking in prestigious universities in the United States, will help develop the international support that can make the dreams of the residents living in the crossfire come true: A dream that justice can be achieved in Brazil; a dream that democracy will become a true fact for all people; that the Brazilian Constitution will be valid and enforced by those in government; and that the human rights of all citizens, particularly the most vulnerable citizens residents in the favelas, will be indeed respected.
In this blog entry, Richard Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York recalls the horrors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the lessons this tragedy offers us today.
March 25th, will be the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Fire. On that day, 146 mostly, young immigrant women died in a terrible factory fire, a fire that changed America. We as a nation love stories where out of disaster comes triumph. And, while the nation learned a valuable lesson from the fire, it was a lesson, frankly, it did not need to learn, at least not this way.
That day was a Saturday, like many other work days, in a 60-plus hour work-week. Workers found themselves behind sewing machines, toiling for 12-hour days. They were charged for electricity, needles and any damages. The working conditions were, by any measure, subhuman.
The factory in question was notorious. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was the largest factory of women's shirtwaists, blouses. During the 1909 strike, the Uprising of 20,000, Triangle resorted to violence, hiring thugs and prostitutes to viciously assault pickets. While almost all other shops in the industry settled with the union, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Triangle refused.
Many wondered if the strikers had been successful at Triangle how many of those 146 might have survived. Many union members knew the answer and demanded that their fellow workers not be forgotten, that they not die in vain.
Because of their demands, visible on the streets of New York as tens of thousands of workers participated in a mass funeral days after the fire, pressure mounted. Those protests led the State's political machine, Tammany Hall, to take notice. The Democratic Party, long in control of the state, passed legislation creating the Factory Investigating Commission. That commission, co-chaired by Al Smith and Robert Wagner, made recommendations to transform the state's labor, building and fire codes. They investigated working conditions and workers' safety and health. Unlike many similar commissions, because Smith and Wagner controlled the state legislature, as Smith was Assembly Speaker and Wagner was majority leader of the Senate, they forced 36 of the recommendations into new laws. These laws made New York a model of progressive reform. These laws protected workers and gave unions a legislative friend in the urban Democrats.
The fire taught that city, state and the nation a lesson: that the state had a responsibility to protect workers and that an unchecked free market system might not be fully compatible with democracy. Frances Perkins, then a young social worker but soon to become chief investigator of the Commission and then Commissioner of Labor for New York and then Secretary of Labor for the US, recalled the Triangle Fire and the starting point for New Deal.
But, we might have lost that lesson. This year alone 5,000 workers will loose their lives on the jobs. Many of these deaths are preventable, through better and more rigorous enforcement of current laws. Mine disasters, oil rig explosions, and construction workers falling to their death are all too common. We find in postmortem investigations, that regulations were either inadequate or simply not enforced. We have slashed the budgets of regulatory agencies to the point that they can not function.
How many more workers need to die before we come to our senses? Do we need another Triangle Fire? I hope not. I hope that we can learn from history. So, on the 25th, I hope you all stop, remember and act on the lessons of the fire. There are 146 workers that died, let's not let them have died in vain!
As book publishing moves steadily into the digital age, Temple University Press is pleased to announce that two major university press e-book initiatives—Project MUSE Editions (PME) and the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC)—have joined forces. The result of this merger—the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC)—will launch January 1, 2012.
The partnership allows e-books from an anticipated 60-70 university presses and non-profit scholarly presses—representing as many as 30,000 frontlist and backlist titles—to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from nearly 500 journals currently on MUSE.
Representatives of UPeC and PME worked closely with librarians over the past two years to develop a scholarly e-book model that benefits both libraries and presses. Incorporating extensive research and feasibility analysis from both groups, the UPCC Collections will be sold by MUSE in comprehensive and subject-based collections, with minimal digital rights management.
Research on the feasibility of a university press–based scholarly e-book initiative was commissioned by the UPeC directors in 2009 with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Working from the outset with two groups of highly experienced consultants—Informed Strategies, which surveyed the needs of the library community, along with Chain Bridge Group, which developed and tested the business model—UPeC began its search for a business partner three months ago. While a number of potential partners offered exciting opportunities, JHUP's success in balancing the interests of publishers and librarians informed UPeC's selection of MUSE, according to Maikowski.
Content integration, collaboration, and sustainability have emerged as watchwords from this new alliance.
About the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC) The University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC) emerged in 2009 to explore the feasibility of a university press–based e-book initiative. Five press directors serve as UPeC principals: Steve Maikowski, New York University Press; Alex Holzman, Temple University Press; Marlie Wasserman, Rutgers University Press; Eric Halpern, University of Pennsylvania Press; and Donna Shear, University of Nebraska Press. UPeC planning and development was supported by two grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
About Project MUSE Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science periodical content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE is the sole source of complete, full-text versions of journal titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 100 publishers currently participating.
The Chronicle of Higher Education also reported on this initiative in an article posted on their website here.
In this blog entry, Eric Freedman, author of Transient Images explains how we reveal ourselves using certain technologically mediated acts.
Like many of my colleagues, I save documents that have long since served any practical purpose. I find this tendency not simply in my professional life, but also in my personal life. Not surprisingly, I am simultaneously fascinated and horrified by A&E's Hoarders, which surveys the piles of memorabilia and junk that litter the homes of individuals who simply don't have the means to dig themselves out. I attach this fascination to local news reports of "houses of filth" that dot the south Florida landscape, where things seem destined to rot and decay because of the persistent humidity, or seem destined to be swallowed up and returned to the swamps of this low lying region.
Hoarders jolts me into action, and I often find myself digging through my closets at the end of each episode, determined to throw out more of my stuff. One of the bins I came across recently contained many of the printed personal ads from the LA Weekly, ads that I had answered back in the early nineties, before the rise of on-line dating. What I find amusing about these ads in general, and what inevitably drew me to reach out to these particular advertisers when they chose to first publish, is the manner in which people (including myself) desperately try to sum themselves up in a catchy header, advertising themselves according to type and making generous use of common cultural reference points.
Those earliest musings about cultural detritus, thinking about and engaging with the matter lodged all the way at the back of local tabloids, is perhaps what led to the project that came to be known as Transient Images. Collapsed signifiers, the narrative shorthand of the cultural and technological imaginary, are the tools we all use to frame ourselves, as we constantly negotiate between our private and public selves, willfully allowing certain aspects of self to emerge as visible code, while keeping other aspects of self unseen (perhaps we imagine a core persona that will forever escape translation). This too connects the act of revealing ourselves to certain technologically mediated acts of transcription; for anyone involved in Web design, this possibility of a dual attention to surface and depth is best known as the ability to switch back and forth between two entangled views—design and code. It is not surprising that as print ads gave way to on-line ads, and personal scripts were mapped onto slick industrial templates (code-driven interfaces), the grammar of self-disclosure and self-expression evolved but the tactics remained largely parallel.
There seems to be a fundamental belief that we can glue these narratives about ourselves and our entangled others together— that our endless reading of profiles and images yields some form of progress, a continuity brought about by the insistent impulses of an integrated subjectivity and a desire to believe in development. Implicit in this act of binding is the ideological notion that our passage through time will lead to something; and this possibility also produces a certain degree of anxiety. The hoarder of physical objects is also a hoarder of concomitant mental attachments. The objects are often saturated with the residues of nostalgia, even if the things themselves are literally refuse. The fragrance of memory masks the odor of decay. Fear is a response that is intimately bound to transience, for beyond the transient artifact, transiency is a matter of the human condition. The loss of a unified textuality is echoed in the loss of a unified subject position, and this experience gains greater momentum in an age of hypermedia, as we become ever more acutely aware that time proceeds with or without us.
Perhaps the sheer volume of documents about us makes synthesis an impossible task. I have given up trying to weave a cohesive narrative about myself on Facebook, as the constant addition of images in which I am tagged (images added by friends) makes my photo stream wider but less focused; I am losing control over my sense of self, even though there are more records of my actions. And my iPhoto album contains far too many photos for me to catalog properly, even though Apple continues to develop new methods for sorting my inventory. While taking pictures is a technological act, it is also an emotive one; and while the process may be bounded, it also produces a horizon. Transient Images attempts to unravel our tenuous yet purposeful attachments to the myriad objects of contemporary visual culture that we produce and consume, and examines the passionate relationships we develop with these machines of projection.
Charlton McIlwain, who co-authored Race Appeal : How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns with Stephen M. Caliendo, discusses the origins of their book–and why it took so long to write and publish.
The seeds of Race Appeal were sown back in 1994, when J.C. Watts became the first Black Republican elected to Congress in the South since Reconstruction (in part because of this ad). In 1996, I worked for Watts's opponent. Part of my job was to "police" campaign communications; we wanted no one to claim that my candidate "played the race card" like Watts's previous opponent.
That experience initiated my fascination with race, politics, and communication. In 1998, I worked as the communications director for a gubernatorial campaign in Oklahoma. In 1999, I did the same for the state Democratic Party, and the following year party members selected me to be a delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention.
In 2001, I completed my Ph.D. in communication at the University of Oklahoma (where the largest political ad archive is housed). With my doctoral degree in hand, and my short political career behind me, I moved to New York City. After an extended adjustment period that fall, Stephen and I charted a course for what would become the near decade-long project that produced Race Appeal.
"Why did it take us so long?" you might be asking. Good question. There are equally good reasons.
There had been more than a decade of post-Willie Horton scholarship and there was still no consensus about what constitutes "playing the race card." We knew we needed overwhelming evidence to make claims about what does or does not constitute a race-based appeal in political ads. That left us only one option: We had to analyze every available political spot run by and/or against a candidate of color over the past forty years. More than one thousand ads, four three-day-long trips to the archive, and two pilot studies later… You see where I'm going with this.
We also committed to determining whether race-based appeals affected potential voters. To do so, we needed to make our own ads. We did. To test the effects of those ads, we needed subjects, preferably a random sample. We also had to do something previous researchers had not done: test the ads' effect on both White and Black potential voters. Not surprisingly, our grand plan to break new ground in this area of experimental research required money.
A National Science Foundation grant was our best shot at the time. We applied. We got denied. We reapplied. Our proposal got stronger, reviewers' responses became more glowing. One day we opened the letter and read "Accepted!" The problem was that the next line explained that they'd run out of money. But we remained hopeful. We kept revising, and the reviewers broke out the superlatives. "Best proposal I've ever reviewed for NSF." "Don't know how it can get stronger." One even remarked that he or she had advised funding so many times that he or she was tired of reviewing the proposal since it seemed no funding was to ever come. We arrived at the same conclusion.
That ate up a lot of time. Fortunately, TESS (Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences) awarded us two in-kind grants, and we conducted rigorous experiments of race-based appeals on a national, random sample of both White and Black participants.
We spent all that time waiting, but we didn't just sit on our hands. As was the case with the political ads, somewhere along the way we decided it wasn't enough to just look at ads or test their effects. After all, candidates and voters are not the only players in elections. Several scholars' research targeted the news media as having a significant (and negative) influence on the election hopes of Black candidates.
Again, we knew if were going to criticize the news media for how they cover campaigns involving candidates of color, we'd better develop a firm basis for our claims. We analyzed newspaper stories written about the campaigns of Black, Latino and Asian American candidates from every part of the U.S. They were from U.S. House and Senate contests taking place over the course of nearly two decades. More than two thousand stories and several analytical methods later… Again, you see what I'm getting at.
Then, out of nowhere, came Barack Obama. Of course, there was no way we could pass up casting a critical eye on the ins, outs and outcome of that historic election.
Add to that the most in-depth analysis of racial discourse in immigration ads and a wide ranging case study of racialized media coverage in three historic campaigns, and there you have it. Race Appeal. A groundbreaking work of which we are quite proud.
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Charles Darwin's works are often misrepresented by intelligent design supporters and creationists.
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected.
↑ Huse, Scott. 1996. The Collapse of Evolution. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, p. 73.
↑ Scientific American: Never You Mine: Ben Stein's Selective Quoting of Darwin. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.
↑ Charles Darwin (1871) The Descent of Man, 1st edition, pages 168 -169.
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The Nigeria Police Force said it had recovered the Mace stolen from the chambers of the Senate by unidentified persons.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on Wednesday ,suspected thugs invaded the senate chambers during plenary and carted away the mace.
A statement by the Deputy Force Spokesman, SP Aremu Adeniran, said that the mace was abandoned under the flyover before the city gate in Abuja where a passerby saw it and alerted the police.
He said that following the ugly incident, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris had ordered the FCT Police Command to beef-up security at the National Assembly.
He said that investigation into the incident was still ongoing to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The deputy spokesman commended Abuja residents, especially motorists, for their cooperation during the rigorous stop and search operation for the recovery of the mace.
Adeniran said that the commitment of the police to guarantee protection of lives and property and sustain democracy in the country remained unequivocal and unwavering.( NAN).


Our garage door is broken, one of the wires that allow us to open it has snapped, leaving it jammed open.
So I phone our letting agents, who phone our landlord, who says she'll get the builders to phone me.
So I phone our letting agents, who phone our landlord, who says she'll phone the letting agents, who phone me.
So I phone our letting agents (imagine about a days gap between every paragraph break here. The door has been broken a week now) who phone the landlord, who phones the builders, who subcontract out the door repair to "Acorn doors", who tell the builders to tell the landlord to tell the letting agents to tell me that they'll phone me on tuesday to arrange a time to fix the door.
If that doesn't happen, I'm to phone the letting agents.


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Apeks Marine Equipment Ltd. is a manufacturer of scuba diving equipment based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.  The company is best known for its diving regulators (especially for cold water use) as well as dry suit valves, which are provided to many dry suit manufacturers.  Apeks equipment is used by several militaries and emergency services, including the Royal Navy.

The company was founded in 1974 by Ken Ainscough and Eric Partington, with its name being an anagram of their initials. In 1997, the company was acquired by Aqua Lung.

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Companies based in Blackburn
Diving equipment manufacturers
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Announcing: BENGAL'S LUMINAE #1 ILLUSTRATORS EDITION FOR LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY!
Magnetic Press is excited to announce a special, limited Illustrators Edition of Bengal's Luminae #1 being offered exclusively to retailers participating in this year's LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY, held across the country on November 28th.
Limited to 500 copies, this high-quality single-issue Illustrators Edition presents superstar artist Bengal's stunning pencil and ink artwork for the full 28 page first chapter of his original, creator-owned dark fantasy epic, LUMINAE.
Magnetic Press will bring the same high-level production value to this single-issue presentation that fans have come to expect from their designer-level hardcover graphic novels. The Luminae #1 Illustrators Edition single issue will be printed on thick, beautiful 80# paper, with a gorgeous matte 100# cover. Each copy will be individually numbered and will be bagged and boarded before shipping to retailers.
"Bengal's popularity in the US has skyrocketed in the one year since we released NAJA and MEKA in English for the first time," said Magnetic Press President & Publisher, Mike Kennedy. "He is an immensely talented artist, and it's been fantastic to see him gain such a massive following here in the states after such a short time. Bengal and I have been getting a lot of requests to do a special book like this that shows off his fantastic pencil and ink artwork. When the opportunity to do something unique for Local Comic Shop Day came along, it felt like the perfect time to do it."
Bengal's artwork is also featured on Marvel Comics' special ALL-NEW WOLVERINE #1 Sketch Variant being offered exclusively for LCSD. His earlier sketchbooks and similar low-print run items have historically gone immediately out of print, and can only rarely be found available for auction by collectors.
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Q: How do I get the arguments passed to a powershell command as just a single string? I've got the following:
function Function-Name
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    Invoke-Expression (no idea what goes here)
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I want to be able to write
Function-Name other command text here

...and have this function execute the other command using that invoke call. How can I do that?

A: You could set parameters to make it so that argument 0 takes all remaining arguments like this:
function Function-Name{
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Platamus sharpi es una especie de coleóptero de la familia Silvanidae.

Distribución geográfica
Habita en Panamá.

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Sharpi
Coleópteros de Panamá


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The 2013 Dodge Durango is offered in four different trims, with V6 or V8 engines, depending on the trim, and a choice between rear- and 4-wheel drive throughout the model line. Base Durango SXT models come with a 290-hp, 3.6L V6; Limited and Citadel models come with the same standard V6, but they can be optioned up to a 360-hp, 5.7L V8. R/T models come with the Hemi V8 as standard.
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Director-General, Fukushima Nuclear Accident Response and Reconstruction Policy
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Bihar plans vegetables, fruits hubs
In its attempt to ensure better return of produce to farmers, the agriculture department has proposed to set up farmers' producer organisation (FPOs) at the block level and provide subsidies up to 90% to encourage cluster farming of area-specific vegetables and fruits.
The proposal has been mooted in accordance with the agriculture road map that aims at substantially enhancing return of farm produce and double agriculturists' income by 2022 and will be rolled out in October this year.
Accordingly, the department has initially identified 10 districts for development of special agricultural hub for specific vegetables, fruits and other products, which grow in abundance in that area but farmers are unable to reap the benefit, as prices of the products generally come down due to huge production during the season.
The state government would allot Rs 30,000 for registration of each FPO and arrange financial benefits from Central government under different scheme
· India announces contribution of 22 millions USD to GFTAM for 6th replenishment cycle
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi India announced a contribution of 22 million US Dollarsto the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFTAM) for the 6th replenishment cycle.
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare stated that India stands firm to its long-standing partnership with the Global Fund and its commitment to eliminate AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.India's pledge for the Global Fund strongly demonstrates its strong political leadership to achieve the universal health for all and its equally strong commitment to work across borders to join hands in fighting the epidemics of these three diseases.
India is the first implementing country to host a replenishment milestone of the Global Fund become first among G20, BRICS and implementer countries to announce the pledge for the 6th Replenishment Conference, setting precedent for other donors to contribute India inched a step closer in this direction by stepping up the Global Fund efforts to strengthen health systems and save 16 million more lives across the globe.
· Yutu 2 found gel like substance in the far side of Moon
China's lunar roverYutu-2has found a strange gel-like substance during its exploration activities on the far side of the moon.
Gel-like substance:
The gel's shape and color are significantly different from the surrounding lunar soil. The colour of the material has been described as unusual. The material is located on the inner edge of the impact crater. The substance was found during the 8th day of an exploration mission to a region covered in small impact craters.
· Election Commission of India launches Electors Verification Programme voter verification and authentication
Election Commission launched the Electors Verification Programme (EVP) across the nation on September 1, 2019. The Electors Verification Programme is a one-stop solution to verify and authenticate voter details and ensure an error-free electoral roll.
The program was launched at all levels starting from the state/UT Headquarters by 32 CEOs, district level by about 700 DEOs and at around 1 million polling stations by BLOs/EROs and will continue from September 1, 2019 to October 15, 2019
The main aim of the Electors Verification Programme is to improve the health of electoral rolls and provide better electoral services to the citizens. The programme also aims to increase the level of communication between the voters and the commission.
Under the EVP programme, voters can verify or authenticate their details by logging on to NVSP portal (nvsp.in) or Voter Helpline App or Common Service Centres or by visiting any nearby voter facilitation centre. The EVP programme can be availed both online and offline.
· Vikram lander detached successfully from its orbiter
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully seperated lander Vikram separated from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. Now the Lander is ready for its soft landing on Moon on 7 September. The lander has been scheduled to touch the lunar surface in 5 days from the separation.
ISRO has been monitoring the health of the Lander and Orbiter from the Mission Operations Complex at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru along withIndian Deep Space Network (IDSN)antennas at nearby Bylalu. It reported that the parameters of the Chandraayan-2's lander and orbiter are normal.
The lander is expected to carry out two deorbit manoeuvres before it touches the south polar region of the moon. Rover Pragyaan, a six-wheeled robotic vehicle, will roll out from the lander after the soft landing. It will carry out various tests on the lunar soil.
· A new book entitled First They Erased Our Name A Rohingya Speaks
A new book entitled First They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks book journalist Sophie Ansel(France) released by Penguin Random House on September 9, 2019.
The book explains about the Rohingya community through the eyes of a Rohingya, Habiburahman who was born and raised in a small village in western Burma in 1979 grew up stateless with his people when their own country's military leader ordered that Rohingya were not one among the 135 recognized ethnic groups that formed the 8 national races.
Millions of Rohingya people left their homes since the year 1982.
The Myanmar government rapids the process of ethnic cleansing in 2016 & 2017 and about 600,000 Rohingya were forced to cross the border into Bangladesh.
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Dr David Murphy
Historian / Defence Analyst
I am a graduate of University College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. At present I work as a lecturer in military history and strategic studies at Maynooth University in Ireland. I have also lectured abroad at various institutions including the Dutch Military Academy, Breda, West Point Military Academy, South African Military Academy Saldanha and the US Command and Staff College, Fort Leavenworth.
In 2018 I was elected as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and am currently a visiting fellow at the Changing Character of Warfare Centre, University of Oxford.
Publications include Breaking Point of the French army: the Nivelle Offensive of 1917 (2015) and Lawrence of Arabia (2011) among others.
II am a member of the Royal United Services Institute and am an external examiner for the Department of Defence Studies of King's College, London (UK Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham).
In 2004 I became the first Irish scholar to be awarded a fellowship to the West Point Summer Seminar in Military History.
I welcome supervision in military history and strategic studies. At present I am supervising the following PhD candidates:
Laura Servilan Brown, 'The material culture of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1899-1956.' (Hume scholar)
James Deery, 'Ireland the Napoleonic Wars with specific reference to Irish soldiers in Wellington's armies, 1808-1815.' (Hume scholar)
Hugh Murphy, 'The evolution of military governance and the decline of the Military Undersecretary in Ireland, 1801-1820'.
Neil Richardson, Why Messines and not Frezenburg? A reassessment of the Irish "shared sacrifice" battlefields of 1917' (Hume scholar)
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Ludwik Krasiński (1609– po 1644) – poseł na sejm, kasztelan ciechanowski, starosta płocki
 Ludwik Krasiński – generał adiutant Buławy Wielkiej Koronnej w 1754 roku, generał major wojsk koronnych w 1755, uczestnik konfederacji barskiej
 Ludwik Krasiński (1833–1895) – hrabia, ekonomista, przemysłowiec.
 Ludwik Krasiński (1903–1943) – działacz Komunistycznej Partii Polski i Polskiej Partii Robotniczej


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By Resolution No V- of the Rector of Vilniaus Kolegija / University of Applied Sciences of April 2020
By Resolution No ATN-3 of the Academic Board of Vilnius University of Applied Sciences of 16 April 2020
WORK REGULATION OF THE COMMITTEE OF ACADEMIC ETHICS OF VILNIAUS KOLEGIJA / UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
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All the procedural issues of the Committee's activities not included into this Regulation may be resolved by individual agreement of the Committee's members, upon submission of the Committee's members.
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