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Biografia
Taiyo Yamanouchi è figlio dell'annunciatrice radiotelevisiva e speaker del TG3 Teresa Piazza e dell'attore giapponese Hal Yamanouchi, nonché fratellastro maggiore del rapper Jesto.

Attività di attore
Yamanouchi entra nel mondo della televisione all'età di vent'anni, recitando nel 1995 ne Il giorno del Nerkiopiteco, un film di serie B amatoriale demenziale curato da Fabio "Ceppaflex" Pinci, suo amico personale e cantante dei Prophilax. Hyst recita nelle miniserie TV Ultimo - La sfida (1999) ed Ultimo - L'infiltrato (2004), entrambi diretti da Michele Soavi. Nel 2006 conduce il programma Tintoria Show insieme a Carolina Marconi, ed è presente nel cast della sitcom Sweet India, in onda su Rai 2. Nel 2007 conduce la seconda serie di Tintoria Show insieme a Belén Rodríguez e l'anno successivo conduce la terza stagione con Ainett Stephens e Lisa Fusco.

Nel 2008 ritorna al cinema nel film Questa notte è ancora nostra, diretto da Paolo Genovese e Luca Miniero, e due anni più tardi ha recitato nella commedia teatrale Molto rumore per nulla di William Shakespeare al Globe Theatre di Roma sotto la regia di Loredana Scaramella. Nel 2018 interpreta il ruolo di un ex malavitoso giapponese nella puntata Yakuza della serie televisiva L'ispettore Coliandro.

Attività musicale
Dopo aver partecipato al progetto HP che si ferma alla produzione dell'album Ipotesi del 1999, come Hyst produce l'album d'esordio del fratello Jesto, Il mio primo e ultimo disco.

Partecipa all'edizione 2006 di 2theBeat, classificandosi penultimo nella serata eliminatoria che lo vede protagonista insieme a Ensi, Kiave e Rob. Nello stesso periodo ha fondato l'etichetta discografica indipendente Alto Entertainment, che annovera artisti come gli Apachekipe, Saga, Jimmy, Jesto e Rancore; il progetto di etichetta indipendente viene meno a seguito delle defezioni di Rancore e Saga che preferiscono percorrere sentieri solisti. Fa parte del collettivo Blue-Nox insieme ad altri importanti esponenti della scena rap italiana come: Kiave, Ghemon, Mecna, Negrè, i DJ's Impro e Rafè e il DJ e produttore Macro Marco. Il collettivo si esibisce sia separato, con uno o più artisti, o presentando lo show completo portando in scena più di due ore di hip hop.

Partecipa al progetto Opencinema, società di produzione cinematografica fondata da Mario Calamita, con cui realizza il lungometraggio horror Bloodline, distribuito da Cecchigori Group, in qualità di direttore artistico, casting director, acting coach; in più realizza dei bozzetti preparatori, collabora alla sceneggiatura e alla fase di post produzione.

Da alcuni anni si dedica alla regia di videoclip, realizzandone più di venti in meno di due anni, gli ultimi dei quali soprattutto per i soci della crew Blue-Nox.

Organizza e gestisce lui stesso, con la collaborazione di Rey (Red Lights Ent.) l'evento hip hop chiamato Ghetto Heaven, che per due stagioni anima l'underground romano, in cui porta a suonare a Roma personaggi come Clementino, i OneMic, Mistaman e Unlimited Struggle e realizzando presentazioni degli album Alto Ent. come quelli di Jesto e in cui contribuisce all'affermazione di nuove leve come l'Xtreme Team di Canesecco e Gemitaiz. Conduce Dalla strada alla scena, contest hip hop romano al Mitreo e diverse serate organizzate al Rashomon.

Partecipa al rap contest di Esa aka El Presidente Capitan Futuro poi vinto dal rapper Mezzosangue. Nel 2010 esce per la Alto Entertainment il suo album di debutto Alto, producendo tutte le tracce e collaborando con gruppi e artisti di livello nazionale come Kiave, Clementino, Willie Peyote, Cor Veleno e Ghemon.

Il 9 settembre 2014 esce per la Macro Beats Records il suo secondo album studio Mantra. Tra le collaborazioni, oltre al fratello Jesto, vi sono anche Egreen, Mistaman e Kiave.

Altri lavori ed esperienze
Diplomatosi al IV Liceo artistico Alessandro Caravillani lavora spesso nell'ambito dell'illustrazione. A 20 anni pubblica, insieme ad altri amici, il libro Elish di cui è coautore e principale illustratore. Lavora come storyboard artist e concept designer per cortometraggi, lungometraggi, spot e programmi televisivi.
Avendo praticato arti marziali in alcune occasioni crea dei gruppi di studio in cui lavora come insegnante, in particolare per l'infanzia, sviluppando un concetto di pratica propedeutica, e con gruppi di donne, studiando un metodo di avvicinamento al combattimento per le donne. Compete a livello nazionale nella disciplina del sanda durante il periodo in cui si allena con il maestro Danilo Capuzi, direttore della palestra Otzuka Club.

Filmografia

Cinema
 De Generazione, regia di vari (1994)
 Il giorno del Nerchiopiteco, regia di Fabio Pinci (1995)
 Banzai, regia di Carlo Vanzina (1997)
 Anna, Jacques, regia di Massimo Raso (1999, cortometraggio)
 Il segreto del giaguaro, regia di Antonello Fassari (1999)
 Scarlet Diva, regia di Asia Argento (2000)
 Body Guards - Guardie del corpo, regia di Neri Parenti (2000)
 Blek Giek, regia di Enrico Caria (2001)
 Le avventure acquatiche di Steve Zissou, regia di Wes Anderson (2004)
 Germanikus, regia di Hanns Christian Müller (2004)
 Questa notte è ancora nostra, regia di Paolo Genovese e Luca Miniero (2008)
 Giallo, regia di Dario Argento (2009)
 Sano o salvo, cortometraggio in gara per il 48 ore film festival
 Maschi contro femmine, regia di Fausto Brizzi in qualità di stuntman (2010)
 Tutti al mare, regia di Matteo Cerami (2011)
 Colpi di fortuna, regia di Neri Parenti (2013)
 In vacanza su Marte, regia di Neri Parenti (2020)
 Falla girare, regia di Giampaolo Morelli (2022)

Televisione
 Ultimo - La sfida, regia di Michele Soavi - Film per la TV (1999)
 Ultimo - L'infiltrato, regia di Michele Soavi - Film per la TV (2004)
 Un medico in famiglia 4, registi vari - serie televisiva (2004)
 Un posto al sole, soap opera
 7 vite, sit-com
 Quelli che il calcio, presente due volte in qualità di inviato
 Circo Massimo Show, condotto da Fabrizio Frizzi e Belén Rodríguez, in qualità di ospite
 Provaci ancora prof! 4, episodio 1 - comparsa (direttore del residence)
 Un custode di nome Angelo, con Lino Banfi
 Sugo - 60 minuti di gusto e disgusto, Magazine di RAI 4 prodotto da Gregorio Paolini, 3 stagioni in qualità di inviato
 Nero Wolfe, regia di Riccardo Donna, serie televisiva - allibratore cinese (2012)
 Squadra antimafia 7 - serie TV, episodio 7x09 (2015)
 Rocco Schiavone, regia di Michele Soavi - serie TV, episodio 1x06 (2016)
 Solo, regia di Michele Alhaique - serie TV (2016)
 L'ispettore Coliandro, regia dei Manetti Bros. - serie TV, episodio 7x01 (2018)
 Occidente vs oriente (2018)

Teatro
 Dr.Jeckyll Mr.Hyde, sogni e visioni, con Alice Kessler, Ellen Kessler, Alessandro Benvenuti, Rosalinda Celentano, regia di Giancarlo Sepe
 Come vi piace, al Globe Theatre di Roma, regia di Loredana Scaramella
 Molto rumore per nulla, al Globe Theatre di Roma, regia di Loredana Scaramella
 Fammi parlare, teatro quirino di Roma, regia di Giacomo Ciarrapico
 Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, Museo Stibbert di Firenze, regia di Stefano Massini
 Romeo e Giulietta, per la MDA produzioni, regia di Aurelio Gatti
 Freddo, regia di Adriana Martino
 I Bestiarii, regia di Luciana Russo Roveto
 Il sogno di Costantino, regia di Paolo Proietti
 Turandot , in qualità di mimo, regia di Giuliano Montaldo
 Macbeth , in qualità di mimo, regia di Glauco Mauri

Discografia

Da solista
Album in studio
 2010 − Alto
 2014 − Mantra

Raccolte
 2018 − Starter Pack
 2020 − Notturno in Mi - The Album

EP
 2012 − Hystory EP
 2016 − Minuetto
 2019 − Notturno in Mi, vol. 1
 2020 − Notturno in Mi, vol. 2
 2020 − Notturno in Mi, vol. 3

Singoli
 2018 − Cuore abusato
 2018 − Korea del Nord
 2018 − Kamikaze, Pt. 2
 2018 − OMG
 2018 − Unicorni
 2019 − Singolo cinese
 2020 − Paziente zero (con Mark the Hammer)
 2020 − One Man Gang
 2020 − Pierrot

Con gli HP
 1999 − Ipotesi

Collaborazioni
 2007 − Fedez feat. Hyst - Ultima cena (da Pat-a-Cake)
 2014 − Jesto feat. Hyst e Gemitaiz - Non ci frega (da Cenni di squilibrio)
 2009 − Xtreme Team feat. Hyst - Nun lo so (da Affare romano zero)
 2010 − Gemitaiz feat. Hyst - Puoi
 2011 − Jack the Smoker feat. Hyst - Una volta almeno
 2011 − Acque Luride Oscure feat. Hyst - Spaccacuore
 2012 − Mecna feat. Hyst - Due passi
 2012 − Rew&Shade feat. Hyst - Giù con noi
 2012 − Primo feat. Hyst - Con la morte non si scherza
 2013 − Funk Shui Project feat. Hyst - Piuttosto niente (da Funk Shui Project)
 2014 − Jesto feat. Hyst - Non so mentire (da Supershallo 2)
 2014 – Willie Peyote feat. Hyst, Paolo "De Angelo" Parpaglione - Dettagli (da Non è il mio genere, il genere umano)
 2015 − Jesto feat. Hyst - Messiah (da Supershallo 3)
 2018 − Funk Shui Project & Davide Shorty feat. Hyst - Enigmatica (da terapia di gruppo)

Note

Voci correlate
 Blue-Nox
 Ghemon
 Jesto
 Kiave
 Mecna
 Negrè
 Rancore

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Conduttori televisivi di Rai 3 degli anni 2000
Nippo-italiani

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Bridge ready to realize dream of playing for hometown Argonauts
Terry KoshanMore from Terry Koshan
Updated: February 24, 2019 5:45 PM EDT
Good isn't good enough for Walker when much more is required from Argos
Brandon Bridge used to watch the Argonauts practise and wonder.
What would it be like to suit up for his hometown CFL club?
The 26-year-old quarterback is in line to get that opportunity after the Argos signed the Toronto native to a one-year contract on Sunday.
The Argos every so often would practise at St. Marcellinus Secondary in Mississauga, where Bridge was a star for school's football team in the late 2000s.
"I did — I told myself that one day I wanted to play for the Argos," Bridge said during a telephone interview with the Toronto Sun. "I didn't know when it was going to happen, but I wanted to play for my hometown team.
"It's pretty cool to keep on carrying the torch (for Canadian quarterbacks). I've always wanted to wear the Double Blue."
Among Bridge's heroes with the Argos were Damon Allen, Michael (Pinball) Clemons and Bashir Levingston.
The Argos have not used a Canadian under centre since 2010, when Danny Brannagan played in a game in Montreal. Then, Brannagan was the first Canadian to take a snap for the Argos since Frank Cosentino in 1969.
Bridge played in eight games for the Saskatchewan Roughriders last season, passing for 804 yards and one touchdown.
In 25 career CFL games, the 6-foot-5, 235-pound Bridge has thrown for 2,485 yards and 13 touchdowns. He also has rushed for 321 yards and four touchdowns.
Drafted by the Montreal Alouettes in the fourth round in 2015 — by current Argos general manager Jim Popp — Bridge played in two games as a rookie for Montreal before signing with the Roughriders in 2016.
In 2017, Bridge became the first Canadian quarterback in more than 30 years to throw at least three touchdown passes in a game when he led Saskatchewan to a road win against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Nicknamed 'Air Canada,' Bridge joins an Argos quarterback corps that includes James Franklin, McLeod Bethel-Thompson, Dakota Prukop and Noah Picton, a native of Regina.
While Popp has said that Franklin will be the Argos' starting quarterback in 2019, Bridge, who played his college football at Alcorn State and the University of South Alabama, realizes that a shot can come at any time.
"I'm just going to put my head down and work and get a good grasp of the playbook," Bridge said. "Whether you're the starter or not, you always have to have that mentality that you are. I'm excited."
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With recent whispers that Microsoft's next generation console, the Xbox 720, may house a 'painfully low' processor, the latest round of rumoured innovations for the next-gen console may be just the thing to put a smile back on gamers' faces.
A patent that is said to have emerged from Microsoft's R&D division reveals that the Xbox 720 will feature an 'environmental display', projecting game worlds across the walls of any room users are playing in.
The technology is set to be linked to Kinect 3D glasses – rumoured to be called Fortaleza – which could allow gamers to see environments in 3D.
Xbox 720: How will the 3D tech work?
Details from the patent, alongside two images, reveal that the technology is set to take players' interactive media experiences beyond what can currently be offered by a high resolution display.
Information from the alleged patent sheds further light on how peripheral images will act as an extension to the primary image on the console's screen.
Xbox 720: Will Kinect 2 be key?
The patent shows a console hooked up to a Kinect-like device as well as what looks like a small, TV-mounted projector.
The figure in one of the two images also seems to be playing a First Person Shooter using Kinect, suggesting that speculation about increased accuracy and depth perception of Microsoft's motion controller may be realised.
Providing that Microsoft irons out any alleged kinks in the device's processor, gamers will no doubt be eagerly awaiting the possible September 2013 launch of the console.


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Energy in the News: Friday, September 23
How Trump could gut Obama's EPA rules
Bloomberg Government, feat. John DeCicco
The above chart is from new research by University of Michigan researcher John DeCicco. He writes on his blog:
Monthly data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) indicate that, averaged over the year, transportation will top power production in 2016. The adjoining chart shows the most recent trends as a 12-month running average, placing the crossover in February. The recent trends, as well as projections from EIA's Annual Energy Outlook, show that we've now entered a period where the transportation will be the nation's largest source of CO2 emissions.
Lower oil prices and the U.S. economy: Is this time different?
Brookings, feat. Lutz Killian
In "Lower oil prices and the U.S. economy: Is this time different?" Christiane Baumeister of the University of Notre Dame and Lutz Kilian of the University of Michigan write that while many observers expected the recent drop in global oil prices to boost the U.S. economy, average U.S. economic growth since June 2014 has been disappointingly low because higher consumer spending from cheaper gasoline has been offset by a dramatic drop in oil-related nonresidential investment—reducing the net stimulus for the U.S. economy effectively to zero.
The authors find that lower oil prices were passed on to the consumer and that consumers did spend their windfall income, raising real GDP by about 0.7 percent since June 2014. However, this stimulus to real GDP growth was largely offset by a simultaneous reduction in real nonresidential investment, reducing real GDP by 0.6 percent.
You're paying less at the gas pump — and the U.S. economy is paying for it
The Washington Post, feat. Lutz Killian and Catie Hausman
This is a good news, bad news story.
The good news: Oil prices are half of what they were about two years ago, giving Americans a holiday at the gasoline pump.
The bad news: The American oil industry got whacked for its own efficiency.
The fracking era helped U.S. oil production nearly double compared with what it was just five years ago. U.S. production went from around 5 million barrels a day to nearly 10 million, almost as much as its peak around 1970.
That brought new life — profits, jobs, investment — to a declining domestic oil industry. Those oil and fracking companies spent billions of dollars to buy steel, machines, vehicles and anything else they needed to feed its growth. It also spurred more tax revenue.
The self-driving revolution will be mostly electric
As our urban transportation landscape becomes automated over the next decade, it could spark an electric car revolution that for some has been overdue.
Spend enough time around these early self-driving vehicles and you notice that nearly all are hybrids or pure EVs — Ford's automated Fusion, the similarly equipped Fusion hybrids that Uber is deploying in Pittsburgh, the Google cars bopping around the peninsula of northern California, the Chevrolet Bolts being tested in San Francisco and suburban Phoenix.
Today, hybrids, plug-ins and pure electrics are a marginal piece of the U.S. market, accounting for a scant 2.8% of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. through the first eight months of 2016, according to hybridcars.com.
No need for boost in electric cars to reduce emissions, officials say
Morning Consult
Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that automakers don't need to bolster their production of "strong hybrid" cars or full electric vehicles in order to meet the fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards established according to a 2007 law.
"The 2022-2025 standards can be met largely with more efficient gasoline-powered cars," said Jane McCabe, acting assistant administrator for the EPA's office of air and radiation, in written testimony before two subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"The standards appear achievable using more efficient internal combustion engines, without significant use of electrification or alternative fuels," she said.
Using LED lighting tech in commercial grows
CannabisNow
Indoor-grown marijuana is an energy-hungry leviathan. A national study released by the U.S. Department of Energy reports that a full one percent of the U.S. electric grid is now dedicated to growing cannabis. Equivalent to the energy output of 1.7 million American homes (and counting) the emerging industry is putting a significant strain on the national power grid and is the country's most energy-intensive crop at a cost of nearly $6 billion annually.
For decades, the traditional indoor grow light of choice has been high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps. The same sodium lamps that illuminate a majority of world's city streets have for years been lighting grow rooms from San Diego to Syracuse. Meant to mimic the intense rays of the sun, flowering rooms equipped with HIDs — typically outfitted with multiple lamps burning for 12 hours at a time — require continuous air conditioning and de-humidification. And all that usage translates to excessive power waste. LED lighting, on the other hand, consumes less power and emits far less heat, which means greater return to the grower's bottom line.
Trump, Sen. Graham offer different GOP energy options
Thursday offered conflicting views of the Republican's party direction on energy. Republicans who support clean energy gathered in Washington, D.C., to talk about their path forward, while Donald Trump touted his support for fossil fuels at an event in Pittsburgh.
The contrast showed two options for the party. In one case, Republicans could build inroads with millennials, encourage evangelicals to be good stewards of the earth, and enable entrepreneurs to develop cleaner energy and transportation technologies.
In another, the party ramps up the production and use of fossil-fuel energy sources in an effort to create good-paying, blue-collar jobs, especially in Appalachia.
1.5 C goal can't be reached without 'negative emission' technologies
E&E ClimateWire
Without negative emission technologies, the planet could hit the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold in as little as a decade.
MISO presses ahead with contentious capacity auction plan
E&E EnergyWire
The Midwest grid operator is plowing ahead with a controversial proposal to introduce a new capacity auction for parts of Illinois and Michigan to help ensure that the areas maintain adequate generating capacity as aging power plants retire.


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Calcutta – Naming Of the City
Theory 1:
One of the first theories suggests that after the settlement of British in the trio village, all three villages were assimilated into one and named 'Kalikata'. The reason behind naming the place 'Kalikata' was purely a marketing strategy used by the British who stamped 'Kalikata' on their export goods to compete with the Portuguese trade in Calico from Calicut in Southern India.
The second theory suggests that the naming of the city might also have been due to its riverside location. The first half of the name 'kol' bears reference to a particular feature of indentation in river banks; thus the place was named 'Kolikata'.
The third assumption is the most popular and hilarious one. It is so said that the name was the result of a miscommunication between an Englishman and a local grass-cutter. When the Englishman asked the Bengali villager for the name of his village, he answered 'kal-kata' ('I cut it yesterday') thinking that the questioned referred to his bundle of grass.
Another popular theory also says that the city was named after the Goddess Kali, known to be the most popularly worshipped deity of the region. The different versions of the city's name was finally anglicized by the British and called Calcutta. However in 2001, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya the then Chief Minister of West Bengal named the city back to its roots and called it 'Kolkata'.


Wisconsin Quirks - They're Real! Can You Identify All This Telltale Lingo?
Other than beer, what is Wisconsin's unofficial state alcoholic drink?
You betcha you can look forward to endless amounts and varieties of _____ food at the State Fair every summer!
Fish Frys just taste better on _____.
Don't mistake it for an insult; calling _____ "Cheeseheads" is the highest compliment.
Thanks to a prank at UW-Madison back in 1979, the _____ is now the official bird of the city.
Hungry? Madison is home to the world's largest _____ fest.
Don't get confused. Eau Claire in Wisconsin refers to a _____.
What the heck is a "davenport"?
If your friend tells you to grab a few "Leinees" from the cooler, they want _____.
Who are those notorious FIBs?
What do Wisconsinites call the northern part of the state?
Who are Wisconsin's friends up in Northern Michigan?
Thirsty? Better find the nearest what?
_____ are 4 iconic Green Bay icons that don't need last names.
What kind of "hog" are Wisconsinites most loyal to?
What appropriate nickname was given to the chilly Lambeau Field?
It's just not a baseball game without the fan-favorite _____.
You betcha you Cheeseheads love the ______ State!
Think you can call yourself a real Wisconsin native? We know you have it in you to get a perfect score on this Wisconsin trivia test if you're a certified Wisconsin local! If you're really from Wisconsin, you should have no problem acing this Wisconsin challenge with flying colors! Do you love drinking brandy and beer? Do you look forward to eating cream puffs at the Wisconsin State Fair every summer? Do you enjoy eating fish frys on Friday night? Do you own a cheesehead and proudly wear it to Packer games at the Frozen Tundra? Do you crave bratwursts? Do you know what the heck a davenport it? Do you hate FIBs with a passion? Have you ever vacationed Up Nort? Do you call drinking fountains bubblers? Have you ever ridden on a Harley Davidson motorcycle? Do you know what in the world the Sausage Race is? If you want to prove to us that you're really from here, then you're going to have to put on your thinking cap and really hit the books when you take this test. We think you'll come out of this quiz much smarter and with a greater appreciation for your background and where you come from. We promise a fun and challenging trivia quiz with questions you've never seen before! Whatever your background or interests are, we've got the quiz for you at Women.com. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and start this quiz to see how well you can do. If you don't do well on this quiz, we have plenty of others that we bet you could totally ace! Best of luck!


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package com.android.internal.os;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.content.res.XmlResourceParser;

import com.android.internal.util.XmlUtils;

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;

/**
 * Reports power consumption values for various device activities. Reads values from an XML file.
 * Customize the XML file for different devices.
 * [hidden]
 */
public class PowerProfile {

    /**
     * No power consumption, or accounted for elsewhere.
     */
    public static final String POWER_NONE = "none";

    /**
     * Power consumption when CPU is in power collapse mode.
     */
    public static final String POWER_CPU_IDLE = "cpu.idle";

    /**
     * Power consumption when CPU is awake (when a wake lock is held).  This
     * should be 0 on devices that can go into full CPU power collapse even
     * when a wake lock is held.  Otherwise, this is the power consumption in
     * addition to POWER_CPU_IDLE due to a wake lock being held but with no
     * CPU activity.
     */
    public static final String POWER_CPU_AWAKE = "cpu.awake";

    /**
     * Power consumption when CPU is in power collapse mode.
     */
    @Deprecated
    public static final String POWER_CPU_ACTIVE = "cpu.active";

    /**
     * Power consumption when WiFi driver is scanning for networks.
     */
    public static final String POWER_WIFI_SCAN = "wifi.scan";

    /**
     * Power consumption when WiFi driver is on.
     */
    public static final String POWER_WIFI_ON = "wifi.on";

    /**
     * Power consumption when WiFi driver is transmitting/receiving.
     */
    public static final String POWER_WIFI_ACTIVE = "wifi.active";

    //
    // Updated power constants. These are not estimated, they are real world
    // currents and voltages for the underlying bluetooth and wifi controllers.
    //

    public static final String POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_IDLE = "wifi.controller.idle";
    public static final String POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_RX = "wifi.controller.rx";
    public static final String POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_TX = "wifi.controller.tx";
    public static final String POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_TX_LEVELS = "wifi.controller.tx_levels";
    public static final String POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_OPERATING_VOLTAGE = "wifi.controller.voltage";

    public static final String POWER_BLUETOOTH_CONTROLLER_IDLE = "bluetooth.controller.idle";
    public static final String POWER_BLUETOOTH_CONTROLLER_RX = "bluetooth.controller.rx";
    public static final String POWER_BLUETOOTH_CONTROLLER_TX = "bluetooth.controller.tx";
    public static final String POWER_BLUETOOTH_CONTROLLER_OPERATING_VOLTAGE =
            "bluetooth.controller.voltage";

    public static final String POWER_MODEM_CONTROLLER_IDLE = "modem.controller.idle";
    public static final String POWER_MODEM_CONTROLLER_RX = "modem.controller.rx";
    public static final String POWER_MODEM_CONTROLLER_TX = "modem.controller.tx";
    public static final String POWER_MODEM_CONTROLLER_OPERATING_VOLTAGE =
            "modem.controller.voltage";

    /**
     * Power consumption when GPS is on.
     */
    public static final String POWER_GPS_ON = "gps.on";

    /**
     * Power consumption when Bluetooth driver is on.
     * @deprecated
     */
    @Deprecated
    public static final String POWER_BLUETOOTH_ON = "bluetooth.on";

    /**
     * Power consumption when Bluetooth driver is transmitting/receiving.
     * @deprecated
     */
    @Deprecated
    public static final String POWER_BLUETOOTH_ACTIVE = "bluetooth.active";

    /**
     * Power consumption when Bluetooth driver gets an AT command.
     * @deprecated
     */
    @Deprecated
    public static final String POWER_BLUETOOTH_AT_CMD = "bluetooth.at";

    /**
     * Power consumption when screen is on, not including the backlight power.
     */
    public static final String POWER_SCREEN_ON = "screen.on";

    /**
     * Power consumption when cell radio is on but not on a call.
     */
    public static final String POWER_RADIO_ON = "radio.on";

    /**
     * Power consumption when cell radio is hunting for a signal.
     */
    public static final String POWER_RADIO_SCANNING = "radio.scanning";

    /**
     * Power consumption when talking on the phone.
     */
    public static final String POWER_RADIO_ACTIVE = "radio.active";

    /**
     * Power consumption at full backlight brightness. If the backlight is at
     * 50% brightness, then this should be multiplied by 0.5
     */
    public static final String POWER_SCREEN_FULL = "screen.full";

    /**
     * Power consumed by the audio hardware when playing back audio content. This is in addition
     * to the CPU power, probably due to a DSP and / or amplifier.
     */
    public static final String POWER_AUDIO = "dsp.audio";

    /**
     * Power consumed by any media hardware when playing back video content. This is in addition
     * to the CPU power, probably due to a DSP.
     */
    public static final String POWER_VIDEO = "dsp.video";

    /**
     * Average power consumption when camera flashlight is on.
     */
    public static final String POWER_FLASHLIGHT = "camera.flashlight";

    /**
     * Average power consumption when the camera is on over all standard use cases.
     *
     * TODO: Add more fine-grained camera power metrics.
     */
    public static final String POWER_CAMERA = "camera.avg";

    @Deprecated
    public static final String POWER_CPU_SPEEDS = "cpu.speeds";

    /**
     * Power consumed by wif batched scaning.  Broken down into bins by
     * Channels Scanned per Hour.  May do 1-720 scans per hour of 1-100 channels
     * for a range of 1-72,000.  Going logrithmic (1-8, 9-64, 65-512, 513-4096, 4097-)!
     */
    public static final String POWER_WIFI_BATCHED_SCAN = "wifi.batchedscan";

    /**
     * Battery capacity in milliAmpHour (mAh).
     */
    public static final String POWER_BATTERY_CAPACITY = "battery.capacity";

    static final HashMap<String, Object> sPowerMap = new HashMap<>();

    private static final String TAG_DEVICE = "device";
    private static final String TAG_ITEM = "item";
    private static final String TAG_ARRAY = "array";
    private static final String TAG_ARRAYITEM = "value";
    private static final String ATTR_NAME = "name";

    public PowerProfile(Context context) {
        // Read the XML file for the given profile (normally only one per
        // device)
        if (sPowerMap.size() == 0) {
            readPowerValuesFromXml(context);
        }
        initCpuClusters();
    }

    private void readPowerValuesFromXml(Context context) {
        int id = com.android.internal.R.xml.power_profile;
        final Resources resources = context.getResources();
        XmlResourceParser parser = resources.getXml(id);
        boolean parsingArray = false;
        ArrayList<Double> array = new ArrayList<Double>();
        String arrayName = null;

        try {
            XmlUtils.beginDocument(parser, TAG_DEVICE);

            while (true) {
                XmlUtils.nextElement(parser);

                String element = parser.getName();
                if (element == null) break;

                if (parsingArray && !element.equals(TAG_ARRAYITEM)) {
                    // Finish array
                    sPowerMap.put(arrayName, array.toArray(new Double[array.size()]));
                    parsingArray = false;
                }
                if (element.equals(TAG_ARRAY)) {
                    parsingArray = true;
                    array.clear();
                    arrayName = parser.getAttributeValue(null, ATTR_NAME);
                } else if (element.equals(TAG_ITEM) || element.equals(TAG_ARRAYITEM)) {
                    String name = null;
                    if (!parsingArray) name = parser.getAttributeValue(null, ATTR_NAME);
                    if (parser.next() == XmlPullParser.TEXT) {
                        String power = parser.getText();
                        double value = 0;
                        try {
                            value = Double.valueOf(power);
                        } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
                        }
                        if (element.equals(TAG_ITEM)) {
                            sPowerMap.put(name, value);
                        } else if (parsingArray) {
                            array.add(value);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            if (parsingArray) {
                sPowerMap.put(arrayName, array.toArray(new Double[array.size()]));
            }
        } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        } finally {
            parser.close();
        }

        // Now collect other config variables.
        int[] configResIds = new int[]{
                com.android.internal.R.integer.config_bluetooth_idle_cur_ma,
                com.android.internal.R.integer.config_bluetooth_rx_cur_ma,
                com.android.internal.R.integer.config_bluetooth_tx_cur_ma,
                com.android.internal.R.integer.config_bluetooth_operating_voltage_mv,
                com.android.internal.R.integer.config_wifi_idle_receive_cur_ma,
                com.android.internal.R.integer.config_wifi_active_rx_cur_ma,
                com.android.internal.R.integer.config_wifi_tx_cur_ma,
                com.android.internal.R.integer.config_wifi_operating_voltage_mv,
        };

        String[] configResIdKeys = new String[]{
                POWER_BLUETOOTH_CONTROLLER_IDLE,
                POWER_BLUETOOTH_CONTROLLER_RX,
                POWER_BLUETOOTH_CONTROLLER_TX,
                POWER_BLUETOOTH_CONTROLLER_OPERATING_VOLTAGE,
                POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_IDLE,
                POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_RX,
                POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_TX,
                POWER_WIFI_CONTROLLER_OPERATING_VOLTAGE,
        };

        for (int i = 0; i < configResIds.length; i++) {
            String key = configResIdKeys[i];
            // if we already have some of these parameters in power_profile.xml, ignore the
            // value in config.xml
            if ((sPowerMap.containsKey(key) && (Double) sPowerMap.get(key) > 0)) {
                continue;
            }
            int value = resources.getInteger(configResIds[i]);
            if (value > 0) {
                sPowerMap.put(key, (double) value);
            }
        }
    }

    private CpuClusterKey[] mCpuClusters;

    private static final String POWER_CPU_CLUSTER_CORE_COUNT = "cpu.clusters.cores";
    private static final String POWER_CPU_CLUSTER_SPEED_PREFIX = "cpu.speeds.cluster";
    private static final String POWER_CPU_CLUSTER_ACTIVE_PREFIX = "cpu.active.cluster";

    @SuppressWarnings("deprecated")
    private void initCpuClusters() {
        // Figure out how many CPU clusters we're dealing with
        final Object obj = sPowerMap.get(POWER_CPU_CLUSTER_CORE_COUNT);
        if (obj == null || !(obj instanceof Double[])) {
            // Default to single.
            mCpuClusters = new CpuClusterKey[1];
            mCpuClusters[0] = new CpuClusterKey(POWER_CPU_SPEEDS, POWER_CPU_ACTIVE, 1);

        } else {
            final Double[] array = (Double[]) obj;
            mCpuClusters = new CpuClusterKey[array.length];
            for (int cluster = 0; cluster < array.length; cluster++) {
                int numCpusInCluster = (int) Math.round(array[cluster]);
                mCpuClusters[cluster] = new CpuClusterKey(
                        POWER_CPU_CLUSTER_SPEED_PREFIX + cluster,
                        POWER_CPU_CLUSTER_ACTIVE_PREFIX + cluster,
                        numCpusInCluster);
            }
        }
    }

    public static class CpuClusterKey {
        private final String timeKey;
        private final String powerKey;
        private final int numCpus;

        private CpuClusterKey(String timeKey, String powerKey, int numCpus) {
            this.timeKey = timeKey;
            this.powerKey = powerKey;
            this.numCpus = numCpus;
        }
    }

    public int getNumCpuClusters() {
        return mCpuClusters.length;
    }

    public int getNumCoresInCpuCluster(int index) {
        return mCpuClusters[index].numCpus;
    }

    public int getNumSpeedStepsInCpuCluster(int index) {
        Object value = sPowerMap.get(mCpuClusters[index].timeKey);
        if (value != null && value instanceof Double[]) {
            return ((Double[])value).length;
        }
        return 1; // Only one speed
    }

    public double getAveragePowerForCpu(int cluster, int step) {
        if (cluster >= 0 && cluster < mCpuClusters.length) {
            return getAveragePower(mCpuClusters[cluster].powerKey, step);
        }
        return 0;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the average current in mA consumed by the subsystem, or the given
     * default value if the subsystem has no recorded value.
     * @param type the subsystem type
     * @param defaultValue the value to return if the subsystem has no recorded value.
     * @return the average current in milliAmps.
     */
    public double getAveragePowerOrDefault(String type, double defaultValue) {
        if (sPowerMap.containsKey(type)) {
            Object data = sPowerMap.get(type);
            if (data instanceof Double[]) {
                return ((Double[])data)[0];
            } else {
                return (Double) sPowerMap.get(type);
            }
        } else {
            return defaultValue;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the average current in mA consumed by the subsystem
     * @param type the subsystem type
     * @return the average current in milliAmps.
     */
    public double getAveragePower(String type) {
        return getAveragePowerOrDefault(type, 0);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the average current in mA consumed by the subsystem for the given level.
     * @param type the subsystem type
     * @param level the level of power at which the subsystem is running. For instance, the
     *  signal strength of the cell network between 0 and 4 (if there are 4 bars max.)
     *  If there is no data for multiple levels, the level is ignored.
     * @return the average current in milliAmps.
     */
    public double getAveragePower(String type, int level) {
        if (sPowerMap.containsKey(type)) {
            Object data = sPowerMap.get(type);
            if (data instanceof Double[]) {
                final Double[] values = (Double[]) data;
                if (values.length > level && level >= 0) {
                    return values[level];
                } else if (level < 0 || values.length == 0) {
                    return 0;
                } else {
                    return values[values.length - 1];
                }
            } else {
                return (Double) data;
            }
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the battery capacity, if available, in milli Amp Hours. If not available,
     * it returns zero.
     * @return the battery capacity in mAh
     */
    public double getBatteryCapacity() {
        return getAveragePower(POWER_BATTERY_CAPACITY);
    }
}

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Fixing the bureaucracy
Fixing the public service will take greater political will than we've seen so far — and it will require more than tinkering with the size of the bureaucracy.
Donald J. Savoie
A retired deputy minister explained to me over breakfast, in no uncertain terms, what was wrong with the Canadian public service. He said, "It is seriously, seriously overstaffed. There are far too many people running around pretending to be busy, creating mindless work for themselves and others. One should just decide one day to cut the size of the public service by half and you would see a dramatic improvement. That is the solution we need to look at, nothing else will work. We have tried everything else and nothing has ever worked." Strange thing about recently retired senior public servants — they are quick to see that the service is too big soon after they leave government. It is quite a different matter while they are in office. I recall, as a young public servant in Ottawa, telling my deputy minister that I felt that there were too many people in the department for the required work. His reaction was swift. He proceeded to tell me that I was showing a disturbing level of disloyalty to the department. He pointed out that if I truly felt this way, I should seriously think about leaving.
I did leave, both the department and the government. When I saw him several years later in Ottawa, he too was no longer in government. He had just left a meeting at the Privy Council Office where, he reported, he had met with some fifteen to twenty public servants to go over what he described as a relatively minor issue. He commented on the waste of talent and resources in government and said that things were not like that in his current work in the private sector. Obviously, he had completely forgotten our conversation of several years earlier. When I reminded him, he replied, "There is an old saying in government — in matters of public policy, you stand where you sit." What it told me was that there is no point asking a public sector manager if his or her department, agency, or unit has too many employees. You will never get a straight answer. Indeed, you are most likely to hear that more staff and more resources are needed and that things are stretched to the limit. This is not a Canadian phenomenon. It will be recalled that Margaret Thatcher declared a freeze on hiring the day she came to office and scrapped plans to add new positions. She ignored the claim in the civil service briefing books that the 733,000-strong civil service was already stretched to the limit and that "even modest" cuts in staff would inhibit departments from functioning effectively. Early in her first mandate, she directed that the civil service be reduced in size by nearly 15 percent. By the time she left office, it had been cut by over 22 percent, down to 569,000. Essentially, Thatcher imposed cuts simply by outlining targets and underlining the importance of management reform. It can hardly be described as a sophisticated approach, but it worked, at least from her perspective. Convinced that more could be done without a reduction in services, she simply declared that cuts could be absorbed through superior management practices, by importing private sector approaches, and just by old-fashioned cuts throughout government departments. She stuck to her position and met her objectives.
I asked Sir Robert Armstrong, one of the authors of the briefing books, if Thatcher had it right when she ignored their claim and imposed cuts by picking a number out of the air. Yes was the answer. "Why, then," I asked, "did you attempt to persuade her to hire more public servants?" The answer: "Permanent secretaries made their claim, and we packaged the various requests and made the case for more resources." The suggestion is that it is up to politicians to determine the size of the public service, particularly when it needs to be cut down, and also to decide whether departments truly need more people. However, this implies that politicians can, on their own, somehow secure the knowledge and generate the necessary interest to establish the proper size of the public service. In one of my earlier books, I wrote that it is no longer sufficient to ask senior public servants to speak truth to power, to their political masters; they also need to speak truth to one another and to their own organization.
… Many people intuitively suspect that there is something not quite right with government bureaucracies. According to public opinion surveys, Canadians are convinced that the bureaucracies engender massive waste. For example, one survey reported as far back as 1997 that Canadians believe that of every dollar Ottawa spends, it wastes forty-seven cents. Things have hardly improved since the late 1990s.
To be sure, there is now a reluctance to defend the role of government on any grounds — from efficiency to promoting the collective interest. The few who still argue against tampering with the existing machinery of government and its "armies" of entrenched officials are on the defensive and are discounted by both the political left and political right. Even people who had supported the ideas and social welfare programs of leaders such as Franklin Roosevelt, Clement Attlee, T.C. Douglas, Lester Pearson, and Adlai Stevenson are now calling for changes to the apparatus of government. A serious candidate for the presidency of the United States in the run-up to the 2012 election pledged to make Washington "irrelevant" in the lives of Americans.
Why is this so? Though the pursuit of a "just society" led governments to introduce new policies and programs in the 1960s and 1970s, one can hardly argue "mission accomplished." Certainly, a variety of programs were introduced, but there is no sign that a just society has arrived. Indeed, there is ample evidence that inequality in society is more pronounced today in most Western democracies than it was in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Tony Judt writes that the greatest extremes of private privilege and public indifference can be seen in the United States and Britain — "the epicentres of enthusiasm for deregulated market capitalism." He notes that Britain "is now more unequal — in incomes, wealth, health, education and life chances — than was the case in the 1960s and 70s." In Canada, inequality in income has been on the rise. Before the mid-1990s the ratio between the wealthiest and poorest Canadians was eight to one; it is now ten to one.
Politicians on the campaign trail often point to waste in government spending, but more often than not they sing a different song once in power.
Is bureaucracy the problem? John Kenneth Galbraith, himself a leading proponent in the twentieth century for a greater role for government in society, maintained that bureaucracy had given government a bad reputation. Defending the system had become "more than the liberal task," he insisted. "It is far more important now to improve the operation than enlarge and increase its scope. This must be the direction of our major effort."…
In Canada, left-of-centre politicians such as Allan J. MacEachen and Lloyd Axworthy have openly questioned the work of public servants. Reg Alcock, a senior minister in the Paul Martin Liberal government, called bureaucrats "the enemy," and as Treasury Board president he declared that he hoped to bring the public service "back to its glory days."…
Public servants are not free to engage politicians in a public debate about the merits of their work or the reasons why the public sector no longer enjoys the credibility it once had. However, they do not hesitate to voice their views in private. Bev Deware, former deputy minister of defence and associate clerk of the privy council, likely spoke for a number of senior public servants when he said, "Politicians should learn to heal themselves and their institutions before they try to heal the public service." At the same time, many politicians are equally convinced that the problem lies not with themselves but with public servants and the public service.
From time to time, citizens will get a glimpse of waste in government when a financial audit reports that someone broke the rules or when the results of an access-to-information request uncovers financial or administrative abuses. It will be recalled, for example, that the auditor general revealed in 2001 that the federal government had sent home-heating cheques to 1,600 prison inmates and a year later declared that senior bureaucrats had broken "just about every rule in the book" in mismanaging the Chrétien government's sponsorship program. Such incidents are widely reported in the media, and they give bureaucracy a bad name. But they are often isolated cases and represent a minuscule amount of the government expenditure budget. In any event, they can never tell the whole story of how government decides and why. Often they speak to the problem, not to the cause.
In this book we set out to answer a number of questions. How well are government operations managed? What has been the impact of private sector-inspired management practices on government operations? How does the government shape and manage its expenditure budget? Students of public spending maintain that taxpayers have "implicitly come to understand that there are underlying forces that invariably lead both bureaucrats and politicians to be inefficient and wasteful in public expenditures." What are these forces? What forces also shape relations between elected politicians and public servants in managing government expenditures? How does the relationship influence government spending?
Politicians on the outside looking in have a greater capacity to see a need to cut spending than those in power do. Politicians on the campaign trail often point to waste in government spending, but more often than not they sing a different song once in power. The mayor of my own community stressed the need to be "cautious with spending" in his first mayoralty campaign and pointed to the previous council's growing operating budgets as a serious problem. After four years in office, the city's operating budget grew by about 30 percent. What happens to politicians after they assume office?
Canadian politics and its public sector remain fundamentally about "Who gets what, when, how."
This volte face is hardly limited to my community. Stephen Harper in opposition and as head of the National Citizens Coalition called on the government to initiate "tough government spending cuts." Stephen Harper in government has apparently held a different view. Between his accession as prime minister in 2006 and his March 2012 budget, government spending grew to the tune of 5.5 percent per annum, outpacing the rate of inflation.
Control in either the public or private sector allows managers to assess whether or not their plans are implemented effectively. The budget arguably is the most important instrument of control in both sectors. In allocating funds, private sector firms expect a healthy return on their investments. The feedback is direct, quick, and blunt. What about the public sector? Governments in the Western world have, over the past thirty years or so, sought to make the public sector look like the private sector, at least when it comes to management. One can now ask, how has the budget process in government changed to accommodate this new reality?…
We have witnessed in more recent years an explosion in the literature on government spending. For the most part, the studies have looked at the point where politicians and public servants meet or where politics and public administration meet. This study seeks to go further; it explores both how government operates and decides and how it manages operations. Thus, we look not only at where politicians and public servants meet but also where government operations simply roll on in the vast complex world of public administration. In brief, it explores not just how decisions are made but also why and how government bureaucracies operate the way they do.
There have been a number of attempts to overhaul the management of the public sector over the past thirty years or so. We have seen efforts to relax procedural rules and processes, to introduce explicit performance standards; we have seen competition between public and private sector units, centralization of the policy-making process, and the disaggregation of activities, most notably a split between policy and delivery. These efforts were designed to make the management of the public sector resemble that of the private sector. Governments in all Anglo-American democracies, for example, decided to borrow a page from the private sector in introducing pay-for-performance schemes. But these, like most other reform measures, have met with limited success.
Western countries are now confronting a crisis in public spending, and an overhaul — ranging from pensions, social services, and education to health care — is being called for. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has, at least on the face of it, a simple cure for a country's debt crisis: cut public spending and increase taxes. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a message for the G20 leaders shortly before he hosted them in Canada in 2010, noting that the Western world is confronting a very serious fiscal challenge and "to meet this challenge, we must deliver firm, credible plans that will put our countries on a path of fiscal sustainability." However, he waited until he secured a majority mandate before unveiling sweeping spending cuts.
Where does one look for the answer? I have laboured through many government documents, consulted elected politicians and public servants, read the literature, and published extensively in this area. My own experience as an adviser to various governments at both the provincial and federal levels, as well as abroad, suggests a pattern: politicians want to squeeze savings from government operations and bureaucracy; but public servants insist that if significant savings are to be realized, the politicians must generate the political will to cut programs…
In planning this book, I consulted the work of the pioneers in the political science and public administration fields. I hold that both fields have lost sight of the more important issue: "Who Gets What, When, How." Harold Lasswell's classic, published in 1935, sought to establish a lasting model by exploring the politics of multilateral bargaining between interest groups. His work resonates today as much as it did some eighty years ago, and it applies more to the Canadian setting than at any time in the past. Canadian politics and its public sector remain fundamentally about "Who gets what, when, how." This brings us back to the question, Why can a village no longer afford a music teacher while a government department in the area has grown from a staff of 2 to 150 in some sixty years?
This excerpt is taken from the introduction to Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why (Montreal, QC, and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013). Excerpted with permission.
Photo: Stokkete / Shutterstock
Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance (Tier 1) at Université de Moncton. He was awarded the 2015 Killam Prize for his contribution to social sciences.


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Researchers uncover 24 million compromised Gmail accounts, and many others
Hold Security has uncovered a hacker selling usernames and password of 272.3 million email accounts, including those of 24 million Gmail users.
Robert Triggs
Troubling news for Gmail and other online email account users has emerged today, as a team of security researchers has reported that hundreds of millions usernames and passwords are being exchanged and traded online. This discovery is one of the largest since cyber attacks hit major US banks and retailers two years ago.
According to Alex Holden, chief information security officer at Hold Security, details of 272.3 million accounts have been compromised. The breach mainly affects users of Russia's very popular Mail.ru service, but also includes a notable number of Gmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft email customers as well. The security company reckons that leak contains details about a worrying 57 million of the 64 million Mail.ru monthly users, while also leaving some tens of millions of Gmail, Ymail, Hotmail, and other customers exposed as well. For the exact numbers, 40 million unique accounts belonged to Yahoo customers, 33 million were Hotmail, and 24 million came from Gmail.
What's perhaps even more distressing is that the discovery was only uncovered after a young Russian hacker was found bragging about his accomplishments in an online forum, where he was selling some 1.17 billion records. The hacker was selling the usernames and passwords to accounts for just 50 rubles, approximately $1, each and gave the data over to Holden's team in exchange for favorable online comments.
"Microsoft has security measures in place to detect account compromise and requires additional information to verify the account owner and help them regain sole access" – Microsoft
Hold Security has not disclosed if it knows how this huge amount of data was collected, but the company began informing affected companies about the breach 10 days ago. Mail.ru and Microsoft have officially acknowledged the issue, but Yahoo and Google have not responded to requests for comments yet. We don't know how many of these exposed details are still active, and fortunately Mail.ru reports that no initial details that it has seen match any active username and password combinations.
In addition to the huge number of email details exposed, security experts are equally concerned about the risks to users' other accounts as well. Many people, myself included, use the same or a small selection of passwords across numerous services, which makes the sale of passwords particularly problematic, as it might expose user login details to any number of accounts associated with an email address.
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If you are concerned that your account may have been exposed, there are a number of steps you can take to help protect yourself. First, go in and change your password to something new, preferably a strong combination of numbers and letters. If you want strong security without having to remember lots of different passwords, a password manager service can offer protection from this kind of hack. Secondly, check for backup email addresses associated with your account and remove any that you don't own, that way hackers can't simply change your password back. Most email services, Gmail included, offer two step authentication for accounts as well, which you should enable. This helps to protect account access by requiring confirmation of any new access on a device that you already own, such as your smartphone.
Attacks of this kind are rare, but unfortunately they do occur. Best to keep your online accounts safe by using unique, secure passwords across all of your different accounts.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank will focus on liberalizing bank deposit rates over the next two years, while loosening its grip on the yuan currency to give greater influence to market forces, a vice governor of the People's Bank of China said on Saturday.
"Our priority this year and next year is pushing forward reform of bank deposit rates," Yi Gang told an economic forum in Beijing.
The central bank will relax control of interest rates on a wide range of fixed-income products and bank deposits, Yi said, adding there would be "substantial progress" ahead.
Central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan said earlier this month deposit rates were likely to be liberalized in one to two years, but government economists and policy advisers told Reuters they believed the central bank was treading cautiously as economic growth slows.
Yi also reiterated earlier official remarks that two-way fluctuations in the yuan would become normal.
exchange rate will weaken," he said.
Yi also reaffirmed the long-standing pledge to make the yuan fully convertible but did not give a timeframe.
Last week, the central bank loosened its grip on the yuan by doubling its daily trading band, adding teeth to a promise it would allow market forces to play a greater role in the economy.
China's yuan hit a 13-month low on Friday and posted its biggest weekly drop after the central bank stepped up efforts to shake speculative money out of the market, although traders said there were signs the currency may be finding a base.
introduce two-way currency moves to deter speculative inflows.


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2021: Diamond Holloman
'I Didn't Want to Be a Victim': Examining Grassroots, Long-Term Hurricane Recovery
Disaster management strategies typically focus on the ways in which governmental and non-governmental agencies work to recover and repair physical damages following disaster events. In North Carolina especially, disaster recovery – namely, after hurricanes – is connected to both ecological and sociohistorical factors that relate to racial and ethnic marginalization, power and grassroots action.
Focusing on the aftermath of Hurricanes Matthew (2016) and Florence (2018) in Robeson County, N.C., my research examines the relationship between vulnerability, resilience and adaptation in African-American and Native American (Lumbee) neighborhoods. Using interviews and photography, I document the social aspects of living within African-American and Lumbee communities in Robeson County in the wake of disaster. These neighborhoods are situated in more flood-prone areas, as well as subjected to less financial aid and fewer resources in response to hurricanes; this dual form of ecological and social erosion of local response capacity makes it harder for them to successfully recover.
My research demonstrates that African-American and Lumbee communities note the gap between government assistance and their needs and strategize beyond narratives of vulnerability to provide for themselves and their communities in order to recover from hurricanes. I then examine grassroots action and mobilization as a mode of adapting to changing climates that is under-examined. Grassroots organization following disaster is a key component of these communities' recovery and resilience strategies. Modeling an approach that emphasizes this creates more comprehensive, sustainable plans for communities of color in North Carolina, and potentially across the United States.
2020 - Horizon Award Recipient: Shelby Ziegler
Understanding How Fish Adapt to Coastal Change, to Help Fishing Industries
"Shelby's data highlight that marsh size and shape are important controls on the role of this habitat for ecologically and economically prized fishes. The conservation and restoration applications of these data should be significant," said adviser Joel Fodrie, Ph.D.
In today's world, there are ever-increasing demands placed on marine and coastal habitats. North Carolina's coastal habitats provide many essential services to humans and support a large economic driver in our state: our commercial and recreational fisheries. Despite their vital role, very little is understood about how the area of any one particular habitat relates to a given amount of fishery production.
Tidal wetlands — otherwise knowns as marshes — are believed to serve as key habitat for many commercially and recreationally valuable fishes and crustaceans. Approximately 90% of the fishery species commercially harvested in North Carolina are considered 'wetland-dependent.' However, over the past 200 years, upwards of about 30% of coastal marshes have been lost due to a variety of human-induced stressors. This has resulted in the breaking apart of previously continuous tracts of habitat.
My dissertation research focuses on understanding how ecologically and economically important fishes and crustaceans use different types of marsh habitats as foraging areas to obtain energy and grow, and how fishery species respond to coastal habitat change, including degradation or loss of marshes. My dissertation work offers valuable insight into how these coastal habitats vary in support to fishes and crustaceans geographically. This provides key information to fishery managers toward the conservation and restoration of marshes to best enhance economically valuable species and sustain lucrative fishing industries in North Carolina and beyond.
2020: Matt Kenworthy
Using Emerging Tracking Technologies to Identify Healthy Habitats for Fish
"Matt's research has expanded the tool-kit for describing the complex – but centrally important – ways in which large fishes depend on estuarine habitats. I anticipate his findings will be used to prioritize areas/habitats most important to conserve for the health and productivity of our estuaries," said adviser Joel Fodrie, Ph.D.
"Estuarine habitats such as saltmarshes, seagrasses and oyster reefs are important for the growth, reproduction and survival for many of North Carolina's recreationally and commercially important fish species. Unfortunately, these habitats are exposed to negative stressors, resulting in loss and degradation of these valuable resources. There is a need to identify habitats that are most conducive to producing healthy fish populations so coastal resource managers can develop and implement effective conservation efforts. Fundamental to such initiatives is understanding how fish use and move among different habitats over tidal, daily, seasonal and life-time scales.
My dissertation incorporated an emerging technology, acoustic telemetry, to monitor fish movement and habitat use. This approach has greater resolution in time and space than some traditional methods such as net- and trap-based surveys. By tracking individuals from three recreationally and commercially important fish populations (red drum, black drum and southern flounder), my research provides managers with: (1) a better understanding of estuarine-scale movement and habitat selection by fishes in targeted N.C. estuaries, (2) fine-scale habitat preferences within estuarine seascapes, and (3) the value of restored oyster reefs as habitat for these fish species. Outcomes from these studies are being utilized by coastal managers to develop targeted conservation initiatives designed to preserve the most critical habitats for estuarine fish species."
2018: Danielle Keller
Understanding How Habitat Features Affect Fish and Crustacean Populations
"I expect that Danielle's work will be influential in the next draft of North Carolina's detailed Coastal Habitat Protection Plan in terms of oyster reef and seagrass management." said adviser Joel Fodrie, Ph.D.
North Carolina has an expansive estuarine system with many critical habitats for young fishes and crabs. However, estuaries are also among the most degraded ecosystems on the planet. The loss of habitats, such as oyster reefs, salt marshes and seagrass beds, has impacted the nursery-related functions of our estuaries, which is a major economic and environmental concern in North Carolina. Doctoral student Danielle Keller led three efforts to better understand links among habitat quality, availability and fishery production.
Specifically, she monitored species density and foraging behavior to determine how fauna respond to changes in habitat availability. Keller determined which species of fishes and crabs appear to benefit most from increasing the amount of structurally complex habitat within the estuary. In turn, these findings provide insight into how declines in estuarine habitats may have reduced the fishery production of North Carolina's coastal ecosystems.
Keller also led an effort to restore oyster reefs along different types of salt marsh shorelines, and found that the shoreline with the lowest wind and wave energy supported higher adult oyster densities.
Lastly, Keller monitored the density and movement of fishes in different types of seagrass beds, finding a strong decline in fish densities coinciding with a seasonal decline in eelgrass cover, even as another species, shoalgrass, increased in cover. As eelgrass finds its southern range limit in North Carolina and experiences seasonal thermal stress, these data highlight how climate change may impact fishery production in our estuaries.
Taken collectively, state managers and the N.C. Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve will be able to leverage Keller's findings to better design restoration projects to maximize fisheries production and shoreline protection for coastal citizens.
2017: Adam Gold
Stormwater Ponds and Their Connections to Coastal Water Quality
"Adam's project provides actionable information for coastal water quality managers and improves our understanding of the role of stormwater control measures in coastal nutrient cycling," said adviser Michael Piehler, Ph.D.
Nitrogen is of great concern to coastal North Carolina: Excess amounts of this nutrient, a byproduct of development, can cause harmful algal blooms and a decrease in water quality. State guidelines and current scientific literature suggest that stormwater ponds permanently remove nitrogen from the environment. Most research guiding stormwater management has taken place in areas other than the coast; guidelines are applied to the coast despite important distinctions in soils and terrain.
Master's degree student Adam Gold sought to fill a gap in what is known of stormwater ponds by analyzing pond nitrogen removal in coastal North Carolina. Gold's research took place on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, as a component of a Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program project. He collected sediment cores and water samples from five stormwater ponds encompassing a range of ages. At the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, his team conducted tests to determine the flux of gases from the sediment surface to assess stormwater pond nitrogen dynamics.
Gold's study showed that stormwater ponds become less effective at permanently removing nitrogen over time and can become continuous sources of nitrogen during the summer as the ponds age. Results from his research indicate that stormwater ponds can add nitrogen during the summer through sediment nitrogen fixation. Additionally, Gold found that the landscape-wide implementation of stormwater ponds in a coastal residential neighborhood was unable to mitigate the negative effects of development on stream water quality, particularly elevated nitrogen concentrations. His results will inform stormwater management in coastal North Carolina.
2017: Bianca Lopez
The Changing Nature of Urban Forests
"Other studies focus on larger urban areas such as New York City, Baltimore and Phoenix, meaning that Bianca's focus on the Research Triangle area will document a new kind of situation. Her work will inform land-use and land management decisions in our area," said adviser Peter White, Ph.D.
The Research Triangle area's population has almost tripled since 1980. Some of the development accompanying this growth has replaced forests and created smaller forest patches separated by roads, parking lots and housing developments. During three summers, doctoral student Bianca Lopez focused on the impact of urban development on plants within 50 Research Triangle forest sites next to streams. Lopez found no difference in the number of plant species within urban and rural forests; however, urban forests have more introduced species (such as ornamental plants introduced by the horticultural industry) and fewer species native to North Carolina than rural forests. She also discovered that urban development appears to alter the plant species composition of forests, primarily through changes in local environmental conditions (particularly warmer temperatures) and less movement of seeds among forest patches.
Former doctoral student Liz Matthews, Ph.D., had documented plant species composition at the best remaining examples of forest situated near streams. By comparing urban forest sites to these reference sites, Lopez found that many rare species found in reference sites are absent from urban forests. Native species whose seeds travel only short distances are also found at lower frequencies in urban forests than in reference sites. These results suggest potential challenges for maintaining and restoring native plant biodiversity in urban areas.
Lopez has identified plant species that are highly affected by urban development and those that are resilient to this process. Her study findings indicate the need to set aside larger forest patches for conservation to encourage seed movement and buffer the effects of warmer urban temperatures. She plans to share her information with city and state officials to inform forest conservation and restoration policies.
2017: Sierra Cameron Woodruff
Helping N.C. Communities Plan for Climate Change
Sierra has created an entirely new way of evaluating the quality of climate adaptation plans, which can focus on the unique needs and situation of a community. Her ideas have been translated into a handbook for North Carolina communities that are hoping to plan for climate change," said adviser Todd BenDor, Ph.D.
Rising sea levels, increasing temperatures, heavier precipitation, more intense storms and other signatures of climate change will have profound consequences for N.C. local governments. Many communities across the country and several communities in North Carolina are creating climate adaptation plans, which detail how climate change is projected to impact the area and what actions should be taken to prepare. Doctoral student Sierra Woodruff examined current adaptation planning practice in the United States to identify promising practices and potential weaknesses in these efforts. Specifically, she scored 44 U.S. local climate change adaptation plans on 124 criteria and then conducted case studies and interviews with stakeholders.
Woodruff discovered that these plans drew upon multiple data sources to analyze future climate impacts and that they included a breadth of strategies. Most plans she studied, however, fail to prioritize strategies or provide implementation details. Her findings suggest that to improve adaptation planning in North Carolina, plan authors should 1) provide implementation details such as timelines, costs and evaluation metrics, 2) consider a range of potential future scenarios to most effectively account for uncertainty and 3) coordinate adaptation with existing planning efforts. Additionally, her research suggests that planners and elected officials should be engaged in the planning process.
Woodruff has shared her findings with policymakers, practitioners, scientists and students across the state. She has presented her findings publicly, including at the Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference, and is working with multiple stakeholders to create tools they can use to identify and prioritize strategies, and build support for adaptation plans.
2016: Dennis Tarasi
Invasive Shrubs and Their Influence on N.C. Forests
"Dennis is providing comprehensive and compelling evidence as to the impacts of exotic plant species and the pattern of these impacts across the Carolina landscape. This is work that advances our conceptual framework regarding the impacts of invasive species and, in addition, helps inform managers as to where and how to focus their efforts to control invasive exotics," said adviser Robert Peet, Ph.D.
Native to other regions of the world, invasive plants can disrupt the ecology of natural areas where they are introduced. They affect nearly every area of North Carolina, and the autumn olive and Chinese privet, in particular, have escaped cultivation and increased in frequency and density.
To determine the effects of these invasive shrubs on the state's forests, doctoral student Dennis Tarasi sampled forested plant communities in North Carolina with varying levels of autumn olive or Chinese privet dominance. His findings showed that the dominance of these shrubs correlated with significant changes in the forests, including the overall loss of native species and a significant decline in young trees. Chinese privet "invasions" corresponded to greater native species loss and structural changes than those by autumn olive. Many invasive species also have been documented as negatively affecting soil and available light.
Tarasi assessed changes in soil moisture levels, air temperature and light availability, emphasizing locations that were heavily invaded compared to those with little invasion. He found that the heavily invaded sites were more shaded and cooler across the entire summer. Soil moisture did not appear affected. Tarasi then removed invasive shrubs from several sites in his study; this action increased light availability and air temperature with little effect on soil moisture. Land managers, scientists, policymakers and many others can apply Tarasi's research and methods to manage ongoing invasions.
2014: Rachel Gittman
What Salt Marshes Can Tell State Leaders
"The policy implications of her rigorous and inspired research on how to minimize loss of coastal marsh ecosystem services are wide-reaching and highly significant," said co-adviser Charles Peterson, Ph.D.
Both state and federal policymakers and managers are using doctoral student Rachel Gittman's dissertation research as they address coastal management challenges.
Gittman's interdisciplinary research focuses on the ecology of salt marshes, a vital and increasingly vulnerable coastal ecosystem. As part of her research, she evaluated the effectiveness of different shoreline stabilization approaches in providing the ecosystem services of shoreline protection and habitat for fish and crustaceans. Gittman hypothesized that living shoreline approaches, such as marsh sills (marsh plantings that incorporate a seaward outline of low rocks parallel to the marsh edge), would sustain and enhance ecosystem services provided by salt marshes better than traditional shore stabilization approaches, such as bulkheads.
Gittman's findings indicate that marsh sills can provide better shore protection than bulkheads during storm events, while also enhancing fish habitat. Additionally, based on a nationwide analysis of shoreline data, she found that 14 percent of the U.S. coast has been hardened by some unnatural structure, 66 percent of which has occurred in the Gulf and Southeast regions, where most remaining salt marsh habitat occurs.
Gittman recommends that living shorelines be considered as an ecologically preferable alternative to bulkheads for shore protection, particularly in regions with naturally occurring salt marshes. "Rachel's work is informing coastal homeowners in North Carolina about the best and worst ways to protect their property from storms and sea level rise," said co-adviser John Bruno, Ph.D.
2013: Andrea Anton Gamazo
Ecology and Evolution of the Lionfish Invasion of the Caribbean
"Her research could prove critical to rescuing North Carolina's high-dollar commercial fishing industry as well as a recreational fishery that engages many North Carolinians and creates high economic value," said advisor Charles Peterson, Ph.D.
Lionfish have arrived off the North Carolina coast, where they have become one of the most abundant fish predators and a major conservation concern.
Previous terrestrial and freshwater studies have illustrated the devastating ecological effects that invasive predators can exert on naïve prey, including regional species extinction. Doctoral student Andrea Anton Gamazo performed extensive studies of the non-native lionfish's invasion of marine ecosystems. Her research discovered that numerous fish species do not identify the lionfish as a predator—the most dangerous form of prey naiveté because it prevents anti-predator responses.
The lionfish diet includes such species as grouper and snapper, important to the North Carolina coastal economy. The wide distribution of lionfish could have devastating consequences for local fisheries and the state's economy.
Andrea's research adds crucial knowledge to enhance management of this exotic predator in North Carolina.
2012: Kyle Palmquist
Protecting Plant Biodiversity in the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
"In addition to conducting her research, Kyle has worked very hard to maximize the extent to which the results will be useful to the stakeholders and to communicate that information directly to them," said Robert Peet, Ph.D., Palmquist's dissertation adviser.
One of North Carolina's richest sources of plant diversity, the longleaf pine ecosystem, is also one of the most threatened.
This ecosystem needs frequent prescribed fire for plants to receive the light, space and nutrients they need to thrive. Doctoral student Kyle Palmquist studied the effectiveness of current fire management practices by re-sampling 59 permanent vegetation plots almost 20 years after they were established. "Prior to this work, there had been no long-term assessment of the stability of biodiversity in longleaf pine communities in North Carolina," she said.
Her study was conducted on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (in collaboration with Duke University), the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve, a major natural heritage site for the Atlantic coastal plain, and other areas. Findings indicate that frequently burned sites gained the most species over time. Plots resampled on Camp Lejeune and Croatan National Forest had dramatic increases in diversity, whether measured in large or small areas; Palmquist attributed these ecosystem gains to increased burning efforts during the past 20 years, relative to fire frequency in the early and mid-20th century.
In contrast, the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve's richness was constant at large areas but had strongly declined in smaller areas. The Green Swamp had a history of prescribed fire every year or so until a decade ago, when fire managers decreased burning to every two-to-five years. UNC-Chapel Hill researchers had documented, in the 1970s and 1980s, that the Green Swamp had the highest small-scale richness in plant species ever documented in North America; however, increased drought frequency and reduced fire frequency caused a dramatic drop in plant richness.
Estimates place North Carolina's natural longleaf pine acreage at about 200,000, with little high-quality, frequently burned habitat left. Palmquist's research has implications for fire management decisions regarding the state's longleaf ecosystem—and for the biodiversity this ecosystem contains.
2010: Elizabeth R. Matthews
Piedmont Alluvial Vegetation
Robert K. Peet, Elizabeth's dissertation co-advisor, said that her work promises to increase the success and decrease the cost of on-going wetland restoration programs within North Carolina. Her novel approach is broadly applicable and represents a major improvement over techniques applied across the country for legally required mitigation of wetland damage.
Few pristine floodplain ecosystems remain in the southeastern United States. Historically, these ecosystems have been home to diverse and highly productive plant communities. Many of these landscapes have been destroyed or degraded, including those in North Carolina. Despite the ecological significance of floodplain plant communities and their current imperiled status, there is little understanding of floodplain vegetation in the state or elsewhere.
The goal of doctoral student Elizabeth Matthews' research is to provide detailed vegetation information on bottomland hardwood forested wetlands for restoration activities in the North Carolina Piedmont. She collected data in the five major NC Piedmont river basins: the Catawba, Yadkin, Cape Fear, Neuse, and Tar. She used these data to develop detailed, vital records on the composition, structure, and physical setting of the best remaining examples of wetland vegetation throughout the NC Piedmont.
Elizabeth's research has the potential to improve the success of restoration projects across the state. It also may provide a model for other states to develop and disseminate reference information for restoration activities.
2003: Bradley Lamphere
Seeing the Big Picture Through DNA: A Novel Approach to Link Individual Behavior to Population Dynamics in a Bioindicator Species for Coldwater Streams
Accurate forecasting of population trends is one of ecology's great challenges. Current population models simulate birth and death rates well, but generally underestimate the rate of immigration in and out of the population, simply because immigration events are difficult to observe directly. Bradley's project introduces a novel approach to estimate immigration rates that avoids the underestimation bias present in other methods of assessing individual movements.
Bradley is testing this approach on the mottled sculpin, a small non-game fish, to facilitate its use as a bioindicator species for North Carolina's coldwater streams. The bioindicator approach uses a species known to be sensitive to the threats facing a habitat like the "canary in a coal mine" to indicate damage to the habitat.
From 2000 to 2002, Bradley conducted mark-and-recapture surveys of fish populations in headwater tributaries of the Nantahala River. Among the 1,400-plus fish recaptures, Bradley found individuals moved up to 180 meters, about six times farther than the longest move seen in previous work. Bradley also plans to assess individual movements over 200 meters by using microsatellite DNA markers.
Adding long-distance movement data to the data from Bradley's direct captures will yield a complete picture of sculpin movement from the individual to the population scale. Such a view would improve existing models of sculpin population dynamics and therefore facilitate the species' use as a bioindicator. In addition, this project will be among the first to integrate genetic data with direct observations to produce realistic immigration predictions.
This approach could be useful with many species that feature difficult-to-observe, long-range movements. This project will aid conservation and management efforts and potentially enhance understanding of population dynamics as well.
Emi Mcgeady – Emerging Scholar Award
Olivia Corriere – Award for All Around Outstanding Student
Felix Evens – Award for Excellence in Natural Science Research
Kate Johnson – Award for Excellence in Social Science Research
James ("J") Bottomley – Award for Excellence in Social Science Research
Zachary Locklear – SACNAS Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation Award
Andrea Stewart – National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Oscar Menzer – Phillips Ambassador
Raymond Stanton – Phillips Ambassador, Pate Scholarship
Andrea Stewart – NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellowship
2012: Jessica Smith: Phillips Ambassadors Program, Jon Curtis Student Enrichment Fund
2011: Jessica Smith: Carolina Southeast Asia Summer Program
2010: Jessica Smith: Venture for America Fellowship
2005: Dan Waxman – Innovative Environmental Leadership, Hanes Award
2016: Clare Fiesler
2016: Kaylyn Gootman
2013: Miranda Welsh
Zofia Knorek: Royster Society of Fellows – UNC Chapel Hill Graduate School
Caroline Patterson: Richard ("Pete") Andrews Fellow in Environmental Policy
Taylor Gosk: Richard ("Pete") Andrews Fellow in Environmental Policy
Michael Meeks: Richard ("Pete") Andrews Fellow in Environmental Policy
Sierra Woodruff: Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award
Colleen Bove: Graduate and Professional Student Federation (GPSF) UNC Academic Research Conference Honorees GPSF Awards: Oral Presentations
Catherine Alves: Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant from UNC's Institute for the Study of the Americas
Lisa Fouladbash: Pre-Dissertation Exploration Award from UNC's Center for Global Initiatives
Miranda Welsh: Alma Holland Beers Scholarship and Dr. W. C. Coker Fellowship
Clare Fieseler: Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Honor Society
Chris Hakkenberg: Center for the Study of the American South Summer Research Grant
Clare Fieseler: Off-Campus Research Fellowship
Chris Hakkenberg: Kevin Satisky and Judith Thorn Summer Research Fellowship
Miranda Welsh: Dr. W. C. Coker Fellowship in Botany
Clare Fieseler Tinker Field Research Grant
Andrew George: Royster Fellowship
Andrew George: Tanner Award, IDS Fellowship
Outside Awards and Fellowships
Margit Bertalan: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
Kaylyn Gootman: Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant; The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc. (CUAHSI) Pathfinder Fellowship
Christopher Hakkenberg: NASA Earth & Space Science Fellowship
Danielle Keller: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Shelby Ziegler: Two-year grant from the NC Division of Marine Fisheries-Coastal Recreational Fish Licensing (CRFL) Program
Catie Alves: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Kaylyn Gootman: GSA Grant
Chris Hakkenberg: NASA Earth & Space Science Fellowship
Danielle Keller: NC Coastal Reserve – NC Sea Grant College Program / 2016 Coastal Research Fellowship Program, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Tony Mayer: Garden Club of North Carolina Scholarship , The Corliss KnappEngle Scholarship in Horticulture
Margit Bertalan: Fullbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
Clare Fieseler: Smithsonian Tropical Research Short-term Fellowship
Kaylyn Gootman: Duke Progress Energy Fellowship, CUASHI Pathfinder Fellowship
Claire Fieseler: National Geographic Society/Waitt Foundation Grant
Kaylyn Gootman: Duke Progress Energy Fellowship
Chris Payne: Great Lakes National Scholarship
Rachel Gittman: National Estuarine Research Reserve System Graduate Research Fellowship
Katie Becraft: Highlands Biological Station Grant-in-Aid of Research
Clare Fieseler: North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Commercial Recreational Fishing License Fund Grant
Rachel Gittman: National Estuarine Research Reserve System Graduate Research Fellowship , North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Commercial Recreational Fishing License Fund Grant
Chris Hakkenberg: NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award, NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship
Megan Rua: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Rachel Gittman: North Carolina Coastal Conservation Association Scholarship, North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Commercial Recreational Fishing License Fund Grant
Scott Ensign: EPA-STAR (Science to Achieve Results) Fellowship
Elizabeth Matthews: NC Beautiful Grant
Elizabeth Matthews: NC Beautiful Graduate Fellowship
Mary O'Connor: National Fish and Wildlife Federation's Budweiser Conservation Scholarship
Erich Hester: EPA-STAR (Science to Achieve Results) Fellowship
Dahl Winters: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program


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