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Airtime 1.9 improves radio stations’ experience with audio file manipulation, allowing the use of desktop audio editing software alongside Airtime’s classic web interface. Airtime now stores files in a new easy-to-search directory, allowing producers and presenters to find and edit audio ready for broadcast. ‘Magic file synchronisation’ then automatically updates playlists and shows when audio files are edited. Radio stations can also set ‘watch’ folders so that Airtime notices and updates the station’s archive when new audio is added or deleted.
This year’s gala dinner was hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos and Heather Hiscox who guided almost 2,000 guests through a celebration as we honoured the best. Burton Cummings set the stage with some of his high voltage hits throughout the night.
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The Africa Center’s Managing Security Resources in Africa (MSRA) seminar held in Washington, DC is providing a capacity building opportunity for practitioners and policy-makers responsible for resource management in Africa’s security sector by reinforcing many of the important lessons learned during the last decade.
Documentation at drupal.org/node/920622.
Blog post with details at developmentseed.org/blog/2010/oct/15/detailed-documentati....
Managed to get away from the bar for a moment...
Strobist: DIY beer-can snoot for pop-up flash - yes, really... quite sublte I think and looks most amusing
As cyber attacks become more frequent and more damaging, the cost of not being prepared is rising and companies are considering how to mitigate risk. The insurance industry can play an important role in managing cyber risk, but it needs to better understand the threat and quantify the potential damages. Understanding the range and diversity of cyber threats facing American companies, and the cost of cyber attacks and data breaches to victim companies, is essential for insurers to offer new products and services and manage their own exposure to cyber risk.
CSIS will convene a wide range of stakeholders including industry executives, senior policymakers, and security experts to discuss these issues and promote the development of a common understanding of the cyber risks to American companies and how best to manage those risks.
Breakfast begins at 8:15 AM
Keynote address by:
Sarah Bloom Raskin
Deputy Secretary
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Panel 1 - The Cyber Threat Landscape
Moderator:
Denise Zheng
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program
CSIS
Panelists:
Steven Shirley
Executive Director
Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center
Mark Weatherford
Principal
The Chertoff Group
Dmitri Alperovitch
Co-Founder and CTO
CrowdStrike
Jake Olcott
Vice President
BitSight Technologies
Keynote address by:
Suzanne Spaulding
Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate
Department of Homeland Security
Programs
STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGIES PROGRAM
Topics
TECHNOLOGY, CYBERSECURITY, TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Firewood from prosopis in a farm in Ngambo, Baringo County - Kenya.
Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR
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Use of the outer bark of prosopis branches to keep traditional roofs in place, Ngambo, Baringo County - Kenya.
Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR
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Managed to get my Beltane pictures up and went outside to play with some lens flare. Got Lynsey to move around with the camera till the flare was just right.
Strobist:
Nikon D700 + 85mm f1.8 @ f2.8, ISO 100, 1/250, ND Variable Filter to bring the ambient down.
Bowens Gemini 400, at 4 on the dial, attached to a Beauty Dish. Powered by the Tronix Explorer XT SE.
Managing Director at HYPOXI® HK, Daniel Ridders expands its business in Hong Kong following the success of the first studio in the city, which is also HYPOXI®’s first flagship studio in the Southeast Asia region.
有見香港成立的首家東南亞旗艦塑形服務中心業績理想，HYPOXI® HK董事總經理Daniel Ridders在香港擴展以協助拓展東南亞業務。
exit wound. i managed to hit this baby in the spine, just beind its front left leg, from 80 yards away and while it was in full gallop. i am a god.
Managed to catch this today during a brief interlude of sunshine.....very shortly after I took this it got very dull and hailed on us.
Just managed to catch the light as the sun was going down. I like how warm it looks on the far side of the pond and how cold it was where I was stood.
It's nice when you View On Black and large
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in the Curtain Raiser event for the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 6, 2020. IMF Photo/ Cory Hancock
Managing Partner for Byebrook Group and former Chief Risk Officer for Citigroup, Jorge Bermudez, speaks to undergraduate Business Honors students at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School. [Photo: Nicholas Roznovsky/Mays Communications]
We hosted a mapping and data event for the Great American Hackathon, organized by Sunlight Labs, where we designed and generated a map set showing the current congressional districts of the United States. And we publicly released it as a new tileset on MapBox.com.
The tileset is a transparent overlay designed to be used with a base layer, such as the World-Light map that ships with Managing News. It allows people to overlay any sets of data, whether you want to see what districts are struggling with lots of flu cases like in the screenshot or just map general news or socio-economic data. This is an image of what the tiles look like on Managing News.
More at developmentseed.org/blog/2009/dec/16/us-congressional-dis....
Managing Partner for Byebrook Group and former Chief Risk Officer for Citigroup, Jorge Bermudez, speaks to undergraduate Business Honors students at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School. [Photo: Nicholas Roznovsky/Mays Communications]
CEA recently managed the unloading, transportation and storage of 13 Komatsu 830 E Ultra Class Haul Trucks. The trucks from Indonesia will be stored by CEA in Thailand.
Each truck weighs 164 Tonnes and has a carrying capacity of 200 Tonnes, compared to a traditional transmission/differential drive the Komatsu’s use an electric drive system instead that can provide 2,400 HP.
The 13 trucks arrived on the Vessel HR Recommendation at Laem Chabang Port, Terminal C0, C0 was the chosen terminal due to its proximity to the CEA Free Trade Zone facility which is less than 1km away. The trucks were lifted form the vessel and lowered onto an awaiting 24 axle Combination SPMT, CEA teams secured the truck in place on the trailer ready for the short transportation across the port.
During transportation each truck was shadowed by a CEA Escort vehicle until arrival at the Free Trade Zone. A specialised reinforced ramp was constructed at the CEA Facility that facilitated the unloading from the SPMT Trailer. Each truck was driven under its own power down the ramp and continued on to the assigned storage location.
All 13 trucks were processed well within the three day timeframe and under budget, both CEA and the client were very happy with the execution of the project
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in an interview with Financial Times Africa Editor David Pilling during the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 12, 2020. IMF Photo/ Cory Hancock
Where's this? C'est où, ça ? [?]
+50° 30' 45.78", +4° 13' 28.94"
A quiet Sunday near La Louvière, southern Belgium. Plenty of time to do track maintenance. This train is pushed against the usual direction. I suppose a few hours later the dark track will look like the one on the right.
Managed to catch this wild polecat (Mustela putorius) in the back of our garden. I think he was following rabbit scent.
Kapverdische Inseln, Insel Sal, Santa Maria, Strand, Frau, Urlauberin, Bikini, Strandspaziergang, Spaziergang, Urlaub, Atlantik, Atlantischer Ozean, Kapverden, Cabo Verde, Ilha do Sal, Afrika, HF; (Farbtechnik: sRGB, 28.63 MByte vorhanden) English: Cap Verde, Sal Island, Santa Maria, beach, woman, holidaymaker, bikini, walking on beach, walk, stroll, strolling, boats, holiday, holidays, vacation, Atlantic Ocean, Cabo Verde, Ilha do Sal, Africa
James Stevenson, Agricultural Research Officer, CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment Secretariat, based in FAO
In 2015-16, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment commissioned a set of studies to document the adoption and impact of five well-recognized natural resource practices that were developed, adapted, and promoted by CGIAR centers, research programs and its partners. The practices—conservation agriculture, fertilizer tree systems, alternate wetting and drying (AWD), integrated soil fertility management (ISFM), and micro-dosing of fertilizer—were all expected to enjoy large-scale acceptance among smallholder farmers where they were promoted in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Results have landed and they are sobering. The low adoption rates reported by these studies provide an important reality check on the returns to some natural resources management (NRM) research investments, and suggests the need to rethink the impact pathways through which NRM research is expected to contribute to sustainable development outcomes—outcomes that nonetheless depend acutely on changes in the way we manage scarce natural resources.
This policy seminar provides insights from economics, integrated landscape strategies, and geospatial analytics to recommend ways forward for NRM research that most effectively contribute to the development of sustainable production systems, while also highlighting innovative methods and tools to evaluate adoption and impact more precisely.
Photo credit: Jessica Thomas/IFPRI
How Honduras managed to carry out genomic sequencing for the first time
June 2023
When microbiologist Soany Ávilez was selected to implement the genomic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Honduras, she was amazed. In the wake of the pandemic, Soany had started working at the National Virology Laboratory in 2020 performing PCR tests. At that time, genomic sequencing to detect circulating variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 was carried out outside the country. But a project to provide Honduras with the capabilities to do it in situ and obtain faster results was being developed with technical support from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and financial support from the United States Government.
Although she lacked knowledge on the subject, Soany remembers that she longed for the opportunity to work in sequencing. "When they chose us (her and her partner Karla Romero) to implement sequencing in the country and move the area forward, I couldn't believe it," she says.
Genomic surveillance allows us to know the evolution of viruses and other pathogens as they change over time. Knowing those changes or mutations that can modify its transmissibility and severity, allows us to guide public health measures. During the pandemic, it was a key strategy to monitor the behavior of SARS-CoV-2 and a technique that is being integrated into the surveillance of other pathogens.
Karla Romero, the other microbiologist in charge of genomic surveillance, acknowledges that the implementation of sequencing in Honduras has been "a great challenge" that required a lot of "sacrifice and commitment" both inside and outside the laboratory.
The sequencing area had to be created from scratch. In 2022, the authorities selected and conditioned a space within the National Virology Laboratory. With the support of PAHO, a sequencer, supplies, reagents, and furniture were purchased, and Soany and Karla were trained in bioinformatics and genomic sequencing at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama.
“All with the aim of strengthening the capacities for genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in Honduras,” says Gabriela Rodriguez Segura, coordinator of the PAHO Project for the Consolidation of Genomic Sequencing Capacities in Honduras. Before these capacities were created at the local level, samples to determine the variants circulating in the country were sent to the laboratories of the Regional Network for Genomic Surveillance of COVID-19 (COVIGEN) created by PAHO to support countries without capacity to carry out sequencing in its territory.
In March 2023, the effort paid off and excitement took over the National Virology Laboratory when, after several attempts, the first sequencing of SARS-COV-2 in the country was successfully carried out. “We couldn't believe it,” says Soany. "We feel very happy because it was a great challenge and the result made us feel fulfilled."
On March 21, 2023, the results were obtained and it was the first time that the XBB sublineage of the omicron variant was detected in the country and by Honduran health professionals. For Karla, the key was “not to give up in the face of the biggest challenge”.
"It is a milestone for the country that genomic sequencing is being carried out," says Dr. Mitzi Castro, head of the National Health Surveillance Laboratory of Honduras. “It is a historic moment because we are starting from here to carry out future genomic surveillance of other pathogens of sanitary interest to the country,” she adds.
According to Dr. Castro, the country now has state-of-the-art technology. "The laboratory is at the forefront, and that is a success and a source of pride, for which we thank all those who have contributed their bit so that Honduras is not left behind."
Like in the military, days begin early on tiger tours.
Our flight was at five to seven, therefore to get up, meet up, travel to the (correct) terminal, check in, go through security, find the gate and board before quarter past seven, we had meet in the lobby at four, and up an hour earlier.
Which we managed.
We climbed on the bus with our luggage, drive 15 minutes to the wrong terminal and five more to the right one, then find which of the shiny new desks we had to check in at. And all before the first coffee of the day!
We got in line and handed over our bags, one by one, then made our way to security, where India has its own strict rules.
That took another half hour, then a ten minute walk to the gate, which had just started to board.
I grabbed a Coke to sup, to heal ease my achey back and legs, though in truth I was doing OK.
We all got on, for the 90 minute flight to Nagpur, through most of it I slept. Which was the best way.
The landing was dramatic and sideways, or felt like it, and if it were a test the pilot would have failed. But we were safe.
We went into the terminal, got our cases, and went outside to arrivals where our fixer was here, and lead us out into the morning sun and heat to a fleet of landcruisers to take us to our lodges outside the reserve.
Nagpur seemed a small city, though has a metro, and also has the usual mix of houses, rich and poor to barely standing.
Then out into the countryside, where the harvest had just been gathered, and the land is being ploughed, though some fields of cotton were still standing.
The journey had less horn tooting, but to make it more interesting, short stretches of motorway ended at towns, where there were junctions with no give way lines, no obvious priority, so was a tootin free for all.
Someone left their wallet at the service station: the call came over the drivers’ mobiles. It was Jools’s.
So we had to turn round and go back five miles to meet the manager, who after Jools described it, returned it, and took no reward.
That act saved our holiday.
Suddenly we turned off, down an Indian six foot sixer, which I can tell you is a scary thing. Across farmland, bridges barely standing, and dirt-poor villages whose inhabitants hardly marked our passing.
Passing traffic did so by playing a game of chicken as to who would drive off the pavement. It made for an interesting drive.
And then we swung off the road, though a gate and into a collection of buildings: our lodges.
We were met by the owner, made to feel welcome, then offered dinner. More buffet curry.
And then onto the main event, or the first of 17 main events, as that’s how many safaris there is going to be.
A fleet of converted jeeps arrives, with two rows of elevated seating behind the driver: Jools and I get in, and a guide gets in behind us.
We drive at breakneck speed, through a sometimes quiet village, to the gates of Tadoba National Park, where our credentials had been presented, and one of the limited slots given to us.
Our passports checked, we enter the park.
It is jungle, but not as we think of it. Dryer, but primitive, with access roads to parts, but others eft alone so not to disturb all the 91 tigers that live here.
We see two species of deer: barking and spotted, as well as birds. Though those you mostly hear.
It is blindingly hot, and with the heat and bouncing around on red dusty tracks, Jools soo felt ill, but soldiered on, as there was little choice.
We came across a troop of monkeys, who looked at us with the distain we deserved. I took shots.
We then joined about a dozen other vehicles at a watering hole, as this is where the tigers and cubs came to drink,
Most animals come here to drink.
A pack of wild dogs arrived, but were soon alarmed, a deer was barking out warnings that became more frequent, until a majestic male tiger was seen through the undergrowth.
Even tigers need a drink.
He came along a bank and out of the grass, right in front of me, paused, then walked on paw at a time into the water, and out the other side to see what the wild dog was barking about.
The dog yelped, and the tiger made two or three quick paces, and the dog fled, so the tiger relaxed. But clearly wasn’t happy with the fleet of jeeps and cameras recording his every move.
In time he crossed the road and went into the dense vegetation, so after a few minutes, we made to move off.
The back of a tiger’s ears look like huge eyes, and our guide spotted him laying down, so we stopped.
The tiger yawned, then got up and walked back to the pond before slowly moving off.
Most other jeeps moved off, but we stayed, as our guide had heard more warnings by the deers.
And sure enough, a lone female appeared, walked over the track and along the edge of the pond nearest us. She laid down, yawned, and surveyed her options.
The walked on, then backed into the water and lay down, taking the edge off the day’s heat.
We moved off. In truth the weather had changed No longer forty degrees and hot with it, clouds were building, and flashes of lightning were seen. A keen breeze appeared, knocking dried leaves from the trees above the track as we sped back to the entrance falling on us like snow.
Dust devils danced in front of us, and we thought we would get soaked.
The journey back took over an hour, with the weather getting worse minute by minute, but staying dry.
We reached the gate, dropped off our park guide who hadn’t guided us at all, and we sped back through the village to the camp.
WE all went back to our cabins for showers, and even after a good soaking, the white towels showed large amounts of orange dust still came out of our hair and pores.
Tired, but happy, we met at eight for supper of, you guessed it, buffet curry and salad. And beer.
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The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the largest wild cats alive today. It is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene for about 12,000 to 16,500 years. Its historical range covered the Indus River valley until the early 19th century, almost all of India, western Pakistan, southern Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and southwestern China. Today, it inhabits India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and southwestern China. It is threatened by poaching, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation.
As of 2022, the Bengal tiger population was estimated at 3,167–3,682 individuals in India, 316–355 individuals in Nepal, 131 individuals in Bhutan and around 114 individuals in Bangladesh.
Felis tigris was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the tiger.[1] It was subordinated to the genus Panthera by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1929. Bengal is the traditional type locality of the species and the nominate subspecies Panthera tigris tigris.[2]
The validity of several tiger subspecies in continental Asia was questioned in 1999. Morphologically, tigers from different regions vary little, and gene flow between populations in those regions is considered to have been possible during the Pleistocene. Therefore, it was proposed to recognise only two subspecies as valid, namely P. t. tigris in mainland Asia, and P. t. sondaica in the Greater Sunda Islands and possibly in Sundaland.[3] The nominate subspecies P. t. tigris constitutes two clades: the northern clade comprises the Siberian and Caspian tiger populations, and the southern clade all remaining continental tiger populations.[4] The extinct and living tiger populations in continental Asia have been subsumed to P. t. tigris since the revision of felid taxonomy in 2017.
The Bengal tiger's coat is yellow to light orange, with stripes ranging from dark brown to black; the belly and the interior parts of the limbs are white, and the tail is orange with black rings. The white tiger is a recessive mutant, which is reported in the wild from time to time in Assam, Bengal, Bihar and especially in the former State of Rewa. However, it is not an occurrence of albinism. In fact, there is only one fully authenticated case of a true albino tiger, and none of black tigers, with the possible exception of one dead specimen examined in Chittagong in 1846.[9] Fourteen Bengal tiger skins in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London have 21–29 stripes.[3] Another recessive mutant is the golden tiger that has a pale golden fur with red-brown stripes.[10] The mutants are very rare in nature.[11]
The greatest skull length of a tiger is 351 mm (13.8 in) in males and 293 mm (11.5 in) in females.[12] It has exceptionally stout teeth. Its canines are 7.5 to 10 cm (3.0 to 3.9 in) long and thus the longest among all cats.[
The Bengal tiger ranks among the biggest wild cats alive today.[14] Males and female Bengal tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve reach a head-to-body length of 183–211 cm (72–83 in) and 164–193 cm (65–76 in) respectively, including a tail about 85–110 cm (33–43 in) long. Total length ranges from 283 to 311 cm (111 to 122 in) for male tigers and 255–285 cm (100–112 in) for female tigers.[15] They typically range from 90–110 cm (35–43 in) in shoulder height.
In the 20th century, Indian censuses of wild tigers relied on the individual identification of footprints known as pug marks – a method that has been criticised as deficient and inaccurate. Camera traps are now being used in many sites.[35]
Good tiger habitats in subtropical and temperate forests include the Tiger Conservation Units (TCUs) Manas-Namdapha. TCUs in tropical dry forest include Hazaribag Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve, Kanha-Indravati corridor, Orissa dry forests, Panna National Park, Melghat Tiger Reserve and Ratapani Tiger Reserve. The TCUs in tropical moist deciduous forest are probably some of the most productive habitats for tigers and their prey, and include Kaziranga-Meghalaya, Kanha-Pench, Simlipal and Indravati Tiger Reserves. The TCUs in tropical moist evergreen forests represent the less common tiger habitats, being largely limited to the upland areas and wetter parts of the Western Ghats, and include the tiger reserves of Periyar, Kalakad-Mundathurai, Bandipur and Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary.