« Back KS — Columbus Baseball improved to 9-4 overall on Thursday with a close 4-3 win over Lamar in a matchup played on the campus of Pittsburg State University at Al Ortolani Field Jack Vilela carried the load for the Titans going 2-4 with 1 RBI at the plate while tallying 5.0 innings pitched 0 Earned Runs and 0 Hits Allowed on the mound Columbus first found the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth via a Vilela RBI single before tallying another run in the fifth via wild pitch Lamar’s first hit of the game didn’t come until the top of the sixth inning Lamar was able to pile on three runs despite only recording two hits all game The Tigers made the most of late walks and HBPs to force extra innings but the Titans came through in the clutch for the walk-off win in the bottom of the eighth For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KSNF/KODE | FourStatesHomepage.com. Steve Wade Ahead of our upcoming IR Forum – AI and Technology Europe IR Impact has caught up with some of the event’s leading speakers to understand how they currently handle emerging technologies in their role and the particular aspects of that usage that they will discuss in more detail on the day Isabel Vilela heads investor relations and corporate communications at GoviEx where she serves as a key member of the uranium producer’s executive team she’ll be speaking on the topic of how her journey with using AI and other technologies has progressed after a year of implementation alongside IROs from Fresnius and Mister Spex Vilela discusses the challenges and opportunities for adopting AI in IR and previews some of the discussions ahead of the event Tickets to attend the IR Forum – AI and Technology Europe are available here You’ll be talking on a panel titled ‘AI and Technology – a year on’ at the IR Forum – AI and Technology Europe Which aspects of this important topic are you keen to explore?A year ago AI was still a bit of a novelty for many IR departments I was fascinated by its potential as I could see its relevance to our profession I was keen to integrate AI into as many workflows as I could biases and the sustainability of AI as a technology.Whilst AI is undoubtedly here to stay — having already existed in less sophisticated forms over years — the latest generation of image video and content creation raises many questions on the subjects above and responsible adoption are central to the discussions I hope to engage in at the forum.What else are you looking forward to hearing about or discussing at the event?I am especially keen to hear more about how companies are creating frameworks to regulate AI in their own ecosystems as a substitute for the lack of regulation or guidance from policymakers elsewhere The rapid development of AI technology outpaced legislative frameworks leaving businesses navigating uncharted waters I am also interested in hearing about new technologies and service providers that might have solutions to some of the challenges and concerns regarding AI implementation.What do you think is stopping more IROs from experimenting with or using AI?For many IR professionals the barriers to AI adoption are as significant as the potential benefits regulatory uncertainty and algorithmic bias create hesitation These challenges must be addressed before AI can be fully embraced in its most recent form Another key consideration is that AI is not a singular tool but an entire ecosystem encompassing everything from text generation to predictive analytics and creative content production Each application presents its own set of challenges making it difficult for organizations to determine where and how AI can be most effectively integrated.That being said the primary driver of AI adoption is simple: efficiency one of the biggest challenges companies may soon face is employees using AI independently even in workplaces where its use is restricted or prohibited perhaps businesses should focus on implementing clear guidelines to ensure its responsible use.Can you tell us about your background in how you are implementing AI in your role?AI is part of my daily life and I use it extensively — leveraging it for data analysis and decision-making — however as the landscape is constantly evolving I am looking forward to hearing about other applications and tools that I do not know about Attending this forum presents an excellent opportunity to exchange insights with peers and gain a deeper understanding of the latest AI developments shaping our profession.What are some of the biggest challenges you have faced in your profession so far and what do feel is the next big challenge on the horizon Investor relations is no stranger to high-pressure situations I’ve navigated a variety of complex challenges — from the simultaneous resignation of CEOs and CFOs to product failures boardroom conflicts and some serious geopolitical instability maintaining transparency and trust even at the most uncertain times.Looking ahead I believe one of the greatest challenges for IR professionals is navigating the current climate of economic and geopolitical uncertainty which may come with unexpected changes and challenges If you were to give your audience at the AI and Technology Forum one piece of advice what would it be?Whether we like it or not Find out more about the IR Forum – AI and Technology Europe here In partnership with WHEN 8.00 am PT / 11.00 am ET / 4.00 pm BST / 5.00 pm CET DURATION 45 minutes About the event Amid constant tariff news geopolitical upheaval and other developments stemming from the new US administration IR teams have their work cut out as they prepare… In partnership with WHEN 8.00 am PT / 11.00 am ET / 4.00 pm BST / 5.00 pm CET DURATION 45 minutes About the event The demands on IR teams have climbed steadily in recent years An invitation-only event exclusively for senior IR officers Stay informed on critical issues affecting IR teams Our new tool lets you benchmark your IR program against peers in your region and sector Packed with industry trends and insights that define best-in-class practices across key Powered by the world’s largest survey of the buy side discover data-driven insights on running a successful IR program Save articles to a personalized dashboard and share with peers 2025 at Hackensack Meridian (JFK)Hospital in Edison Ed was born in Elizabeth to Harold and Mary Margaret (Sullivan) Carney on September 14 He went to Edison High School in Elizabeth NJ graduating in 1966 He went on to work for Public Service as an apprentice lineman more recently working for the United Sates Postal Service retiring after 30 years of service in 2008 traveling and most importantly spending time with his grandchildren.  Ed is survived by his wife of 50 years Phyllis (Leonard) Carney of Edison Children Devin Whitlock (Tim Carney) and her husband Scott. Niece LynnAnn (Carney) Moakley and husband John and their children Katie and Ryan. Grandchildren Mauricio Vilela and Charlie Van De Water, and many extended family members He is preceded in death by his parents Harold and Mary Margaret brother Harold (Harry) Carney and his wife Mildred sister Marilyn (Sullivan) Bacon and her son Joey Funeral service will be held at New Dover United Methodist Church in Edison with Reverend Chuck Coblentz officiating on Thursday Visitation will be held at Gosselin Funeral Home on Wednesday Memorial donations can be made to New Dover United Methodist Church Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital Central New Jersey Brain Tumor Support Group which has been unit­ing farm­ers in Trás-os-Montes since 1956 focuses on pro­duc­ing high-qual­ity extra vir­gin olive oil and edu­cat­ing con­sumers about its unique ben­e­fits and qual­i­ties About 1,000 Portuguese farm­ers cel­e­brated news of two awards at the 2024 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition The farm­ers are mem­bers of the Agricultural Cooperative of Olive Growers of Murça (CAOM) which earned Silver Awards for a medium-inten­sity blend and del­i­cate Cordovil at the World Competition “Our goal in par­tic­i­pat­ing in the NYIOOC was to inform peo­ple about the extra­or­di­nary qual­ity of our Azeite Porca de Murça brand and the work behind such excel­lence,” said Francisco António Vilela Ribeiro the coop­er­a­tive’s chair­man of the board of direc­tors “NYIOOC is a con­test with very demand­ing analy­sis cri­te­ria and great feed­back,” he added ​“There are many national and inter­na­tional con­tests While CAOM has con­sis­tently achieved suc­cess at the World Competition since 2020 the coop­er­a­tive has been unit­ing a large com­mu­nity of farm­ers in the north­east­ern Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes since 1956 “It started in the 1990s when the Cooperative focused on pro­duc­ing high-qual­ity extra vir­gin olive oil,” Vilela Ribeiro said “The search for high qual­ity was the answer to the chal­lenges of this region and the higher costs asso­ci­ated with the moun­tain­ous envi­ron­ment the exten­sive orchards and the dry­land farm­ing prac­tices,” he added The coop­er­a­tive now sells more than 500,000 liters of its Azeite Porca de Murça brand nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally None of the almost 1,000 mem­bers of the coop­er­a­tive have irri­gated olive groves these grow­ers incur three times the expenses of the aver­age super-inten­sive grower These con­di­tions have led CAOM to develop alter­na­tive rev­enue streams the start­ing point for the cooperative’s guided tours “The main chal­lenge for these pro­duc­ers is to edu­cate new con­sumers about the ben­e­fits of con­sum­ing vir­gin olive oils instead of other veg­etable oils,” Vilela Ribeiro said and no food or med­i­cine can replace it,” he added We need more con­sumers who are bet­ter informed about this.” Valuing the unique rela­tion­ship between the land and the farm­ers’ work is cru­cial for the coop­er­a­tive’s present and future “With higher pro­duc­tion costs, giv­ing our work value means main­tain­ing areas that are already depop­u­lated and risk being aban­doned,” Vilela Ribeiro said The cooperative’s olive groves are spread across an 189-square-kilo­me­ter area in the Murça munic­i­pal­ity CAOM focuses on the four local vari­eties – Cordovil and Verdeal – included in the Trás-os-Montes Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion awarded by the European Union According to the tech­ni­cal sum­mary pub­lished by the European Commission Trás-os-Montes PDO extra vir­gin olive oil is bal­anced with aro­mas and fla­vors of fresh fruit and some­times almonds char­ac­ter­is­tics that make it stand out from other olive oils in the coun­try “The olive oil we pro­duce has a very spe­cific iden­tity – its ter­roir – because Murça is the epi­cen­ter of the three micro­cli­mates of the Transmontana region: Terra Quente Terra Fria and Terra de Montanha,” Vilela Ribeiro said “This means we have three regions with very dis­tinct cli­mates rang­ing from the nar­row val­leys of the Tua and Tinhela rivers with olive groves bor­der­ing the vine­yards of the Douro demar­cated region to the more moun­tain­ous areas where olive groves com­pete with chest­nut cul­ti­va­tion,” he added Vilela Ribeiro noted that ​“the coop­er­a­tive has been a pio­neer” due to its ver­ti­cally inte­grated con­trol of the entire pro­duc­tion chain over the past 30 years ensur­ing that every step from har­vest to pack­ag­ing is done accord­ing to the high­est stan­dards which was started by the coop­er­a­tive mem­bers when it was founded “It became key to the econ­omy of an inland munic­i­pal­ity of Portugal with a chal­leng­ing topog­ra­phy for farm­ing,” Vilela Ribeiro said ​“It also allows small olive pro­duc­ers to scale up the coop­er­a­tive demon­strates the world-class qual­ity of tra­di­tional olive farm­ing because of its cul­ture inspired by com­mu­nity and team­work “The fact that our mem­bers truly nur­ture a coop­er­a­tive spirit of sol­i­dar­ity and shar­ing made us the only case in Portugal where the val­u­a­tion of what they pro­duce is not only based on the olive yield but on the actual qual­ity of the fruit itself,” Vilela Ribeiro said we can also decide when it is the best time to start har­vest­ing,” he added we can sched­ule the work to deliver the fruit to us in less than 24 hours from har­vest­ing.” The weather is not always on the grow­ers’ side “This year, due to cli­mate change and extreme weather phe­nom­ena expe­ri­enced through­out the Mediterranean region pro­duc­tion was lower and more dif­fi­cult,” Vilela Ribeiro said we need 1.5 kilo­grams more olives to pro­duce the same liter of olive oil,” he added ​“When com­pared to the pre­vi­ous sea­son which fur­ther impacted the total pro­duc­tion in the region.” Vilela Ribeiro said he also expects to face more chal­lenges hail­storms or heat waves jeop­ar­dize both flow­er­ing and fruit set mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to antic­i­pate any sce­nario for the next olive sea­son,” he said More articles on:  extra virgin olive oil, NYIOOC World, NYIOOC World 2024 Award-Winning Catalan Producer Bets on Growing Demand for Arbequina Two heat-hampered harvests have not deterred the producers behind Gaudea who are betting that demand for Arbequina extra virgin olive oil will keep growing Olive Growing Starting to Take Root in Central Europe As climate change makes Central European winters milder and drier farmers in Austria and northeastern Croatia are beginning to plant olives Tunisian Producer Targets Medicinal Market Eagle Olive Oil from northern Tunisia earned a Silver Award at the 2025 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition for a Chetoui monovarietal Hong Kong Barista Explains His Signature Olive Oil Sour Lorenzo Antinori uses extra virgin olive oil to add a smooth texture and complementary flavors to his Mediterranean take on the classic whiskey sour Organic Olive Cultivation in Italy Continues to Expand More than 6,000 hectares of olive groves were converted to organic agriculture in the last year as Italy inched closer to achieving European sustainability goals Olives with Higher Phenol Content More Resistant to Anthracnose Researchers found that olive varieties that maintained high concentrations of certain phenolic compounds during ripening were less likely to develop anthracnose Albanian Producer Pairs Local Culture, Award-Winning Quality skilled milling and a strong tie to Southern Albanian history will set his brand apart in crowded international markets Short-Term Pre-Milling Refrigeration Found to Retain Olive Quality Researchers in China identified 4 ºC as the optimal temperature for short-term storage of olives, particularly for periods exceeding 24 hours after harvesting. Volume 8 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.701332 The utilization of marine renewable energies such as offshore wind farming leads to globally expanding human activities in marine habitats While knowledge on the responses to offshore wind farms and associated shipping traffic is accumulating now at a fast pace it becomes important to assess the population impacts on species affected by those activities the protected diver species Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata) and Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) widely avoid offshore wind farms We used an explicit spatio-temporal Bayesian model to get a robust estimate of the diver population during the spring season between 2001 and 2018 based on a set of aerial surveys from long-term monitoring programs within the German North Sea Despite the erection of 20 offshore wind farms in the study area and marked responses of divers to wind farms model results indicated that there was no population decline and overall numbers fluctuated around 16,600 individuals with average annual 95% CI ranging between 13,400 and 21,360 individuals avoidance behavior due to wind farm development led to a more narrowly focused spatial distribution of the birds centered in the persistent high concentration zone in the Eastern German Bight Special Protection Area the results provide no indication of negative fitness consequences on these long-lived species more research is needed on habitat use and food availability in this regard Worldwide, efforts are made to increase the production of renewable energy to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels and nuclear energy. The expansion of offshore wind farms is one of the main pillars to achieve decarbonisation in Europe, and as part of a concerted effort, growing numbers of offshore wind farms are also recorded in the German North Sea (EEG, 2014; BSH, 2019) twenty offshore wind farms (OFW) consisting of 1,052 turbines were operational and with the growing numbers and sizes of wind turbines concerns have been raised about possible impacts on those bird populations that rely on the North Sea as their permanent or migratory habitat For the licensing of offshore wind farms in the German North Sea Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), a standard concept conceived and coordinated by the BSH was developed for monitoring the environmental impacts of offshore wind farms, before, during and after construction, including regular aerial surveys of seabirds (BSH, 2013) regular monitoring by German research institutions took place there is an excellent and homogeneous data base on diver distribution from different areas in the German North Sea spanning over a period of 18 years (2001–2018) with data available for 16 years during the spring season as biological systems are always a complex interplay of many factors working on different spatial-temporal levels population trends are difficult to measure it is important to consider the entire migratory life cycle in determining the population dynamics even for years and areas with incomplete data coverage our main objective was to develop a statistical framework to reliably estimate bird populations from a dataset collected using different aerial survey techniques and to assess changes in spatial distribution that might be related to offshore wind farm development We applied this framework to estimate the diver population size in the German North Sea and the MCA over the 18-year study period and examine whether there are any changes in the population that might be related to the increase in the number of offshore wind farms since 2009 The study area covers 28,625 km2 of the German North Sea, excluding the western-most region of the German EEZ due to poor data coverage and low diver density in that area (Figure 1). We analyzed aerial survey data for divers from the time period between 2001 and 2018, collected during the spring season [from 1st March until 15th May; Garthe et al. (2007)] when the highest densities in the area can be observed Figure 1. Location map, showing the total prediction area (brown line) regarding the German EEZ border (gray line). The main concentration area of divers (BMU, 2009; dashed in yellow) also used for prediction Operational wind farms as of 2018 are shown as red polygons Northern and southern sub-areas used for predictions Available data from ship transect surveys was not included due to the disturbance effect of ships on divers (Bellebaum et al., 2006; Schwemmer et al., 2011; Burger et al., 2019) causing potential bias in the data analyses so there were two main types of aerial surveys available during the studied period: visual observer flight surveys and digital aerial surveys Since surveys were carried out on different dates each year there is a varying amount of effort associated with the seasons of each year All surveys were restricted to favorable weather conditions with a sea state less than 4 (visual surveys) and 5 (digital surveys) and no clouds below flight altitude Observer-based visual survey flights were conducted as part of wind farm monitoring from 2001 to 2013, and followed the methods described by Diederichs et al. (2002), implemented in the standards of the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH, 2007, 2003) Data sources comprised data from wind farm monitoring Natura2000 Monitoring and research projects 250 ft (76 m) and a speed of around 180 km/h and observations were divided into distance bands based on their distance to the transect line using an inclinometer We tested models with different predictors including cluster size we selected the model with the lowest value for Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC) to estimate the total number of divers for each transect segment Digital aerial surveys (Webb and Nehls, 2019) were conducted since 2013 according to the standards set by the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH, 2013) and using three different systems: “APEM,” “DAISI,” and “HiDef.” The position of the cameras can be adjusted to avoid glare on the sea surface and transect lines are spaced 3–4 km apart The recorded footage (video or stills) was evaluated by professional ornithologists with a separate step for random sample quality control Flight height in digital surveys was greater than in visual survey flights so survey aircrafts could fly above the wind turbines and disturbance to birds was minimized Precise geographical positions of each observation were recorded using GPS technology Although survey flights were generally only conducted during favorable weather conditions and pictures of insufficient quality were excluded from analysis As there were surveys from different digital methods and a visual survey technique performed simultaneously in the same area, it was possible to include the differences in detection rate associated with each technique within the model approach, assuming a perfect detection rate for the HiDef system (Mendel et al., 2019) In total, 56 surveys were performed using conventional (visual) methods, and 84 surveys using digital methods. During the period 2001–2018, 16 years of data were analyzed since no data were available during the spring season for the years 2006 and 2007 (Figure 2) Survey effort by data collection method used for analyses between 2001 and 2018 during the spring season Conventional and digital flight tracks are shown in green and blue offshore wind farms are depicted in red and the main concentration area of divers with yellow border and dark gray background the German EEZ contour is shown as a black line Data coverage was rather low for the first years (2001–2005) the north-eastern part with the highest density of divers was covered in all years except 2005 and 2009 and in several years the study area was almost completely covered (>90%) To capture the general population trend and for computational convenience, a constrained refined Delaunay triangulation spatial mesh (Figure 3) was constructed for the entire survey area using a maximum distance between nodes of 5 km. Enough space was added around the prediction area to avoid undesired boundary effects (Lindgren et al., 2011) digital and visual flight data were integrated on the mesh nodes preserving information regarding data collection method Spatial mesh used for the spatial-temporal model Main diver concentration area (gray area) and SPA “Eastern German Bight” (green line) are depicted Data collection methods were included into the model as categorical covariates and data was fitted by means of a negative-binomial family distribution with a log link where the intensity of the observed process was the main driver of the posterior probability: T is the temporal index and s = 1,… different at each t. xist is the value of an explanatory variable i at a given st, f represents the latent model applied to the covariates and Ust represents the spatio-temporal structure of the model, in this case adopting a progressive spatio-temporal structure (Paradinas et al., 2017) which incorporates both spatial and temporal correlation of the data Where Ust is decomposed in a common spatial realization Wst and an autoregressive temporal term Rst expressing the correlation among neighbors of order K The spatial effect Wt at each time t is a Gaussian Latent Field with zero mean and the covariance function Q of the spatial effect depends on the parameters which determine the range of the effect and the total variance prediction points were masked according to the desired prediction area (German EEZ and MCA) and the total estimated abundance was calculated by year and prediction area together with the 95% credible intervals Mean abundances and credible intervals within each of the time periods considered (e.g. and 2013–2018) were calculated using independent models effort and observations within each period were aggregated and the temporal component (e.g. year) was removed to obtain reliable mean abundances and margins of error for each period To evaluate the model’s predictive performance mesh nodes were randomly split into two subsets: a training dataset including 80% of the nodes and a validation dataset containing the remaining 20% of the nodes The model was run on the training dataset and its predictive accuracy for each year was assessed on the validation dataset This calibration-validation procedure was repeated 20 times and for each run the performance of the model was assessed using the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) between the observed abundances and predicted posterior means at the testing locations All model calculations were performed using the R statistical software (R Core Team, 2019). Modeling calculations were done with the inlabru package (Bachl et al., 2019) Compared to the reference method HiDef, DAISI showed no significant differences, while visual surveys (after applying distance sampling) showed significantly lower detections, and APEM showed the highest variability (Supplementary Appendix Table A-1) The overall accuracy of the model (r) was 0.71 (Figure 4) Although years with lower sampling effort and an unusual distribution pattern scored lower and should be treated with caution years from 2010 onward scored consistently well showing a reliable abundance estimate overall Dashed horizontal red line indicates average Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) among all years Gray dots show the r value obtained for each one of the 20 individual runs performed for each year and summarized by the boxplots The overall pattern of interannual abundance was closely related to the pattern of abundance observed in the MCA (Figure 5B), which, although covering only 24% of the total area, accounted for more than 60% of the estimated diver population in the German North Sea EEZ (Supplementary Appendix Table A-2) Figure 6. Mean posterior spatial distribution for divers during the spring season for year 2010, before the development of the offshore wind farms in the northern area (upper panel) and year 2018, under the current development of offshore wind farms (lower panel). Red polygons indicate offshore wind farms already constructed at the beginning of each period. Diver main concentration area (BMU, 2009) in gray and SPA Eastern German Bight in green are shown as reference Species monitoring programmes that run for years result in point-referenced spatio-temporal datasets that tend to be correlated spatially and temporally but the subsequent ecological processes are almost never fully explained by the environmental variables collected Ignoring these dependencies, as most widely popular generalized linear and additive models (GLMs and GAMs) do, not only reduces their predictive ability, but can also lead to incorrect results (Legendre et al., 2002; Fortin and Dale, 2009) In this study, we performed a Bayesian spatio-temporal hierarchical model with a progressive spatio-temporal distribution structure (Paradinas et al., 2017), which allowed us to account for these dependencies and predict diver densities at unknown locations using numerical Laplace approximations (Paradinas et al., 2017) Such a model does not necessarily require the use of environmental predictors as the spatio-temporal structure of potential environmental variables and other unknown sources affecting the species distribution are already captured within the spatio-temporal component of the model Other key advantages of this modeling framework are: • Bayesian models can incorporate our knowledge of the unknown parameters governing species behavior, expressed through probability distributions, rather than just fixed estimates, as in frequentist approaches (Blangiardo and Cameletti, 2015) The application of this statistical framework to this long-term dataset offers the opportunity to uncover changes in the diver population that could be related to the offshore wind energy development in these waters over the last ten years and five years of offshore wind farm expansion within the MCA Despite these major changes in the environment our results showed that the number of divers staging in the German North Sea during spring fluctuated between years but on average remained on the same level throughout the study period The NW-European flyway population of Red-throated Divers is estimated at 150,000–450,000 (BirdLife International, 2004) and a significant proportion of birds uses the German Bight during wintering and spring. For the German North Sea, the latest published spring average number for divers was 20,200 for the period 2002–2013 (Garthe et al., 2015) some variability in the population estimates can be expected from different sets of surveys Seabird species vary strongly in their sensitivity to OWFs (Furness et al., 2013). For divers, strong avoidance behavior to OWFs has been found in all recent studies (Mendel et al., 2019; Allen et al., 2020; Heinänen et al., 2020) while disturbance and habitat loss due to human activities seem to be the main risk declining spring numbers in the German Bight could be one of the likely consequences when the carrying capacity is reached Only if alternative staging areas are unavailable, carry-over effects leading to reduced survival or breeding success might be expected (e.g., Szostek and Becker, 2015). Divers seem rather flexible in this respect, as they forage on a broad range of fish species (Kleinschmidt et al., 2019) which are widely available and they use several stopover areas during spring migration (Dorsch et al., 2019) As densities were rarely exceeding 6 Ind./km2 even in the center of distribution resource depletion and intra-specific competition are unlikely to play a major role for this species we have no indication that the carrying capacity limit has been reached and cannot predict when it will be reached In this context, it must be considered that individuals are not stationary, but moving over large distances during winter and spring. Recently, a telemetry study (Dorsch et al., 2019) showed that divers tagged in this area were highly mobile and commuted between Danish and German staging areas and individual home ranges often greatly exceed the size of the MCA although divers show site fidelity to the general staging area This high mobility could be an important cause of the fluctuations observed between years This finding also suggests that there is a high turn-over rate of individuals so that the total number of individuals using the area during spring is likely higher than what yearly estimates suggest This study highlights the advantages of using spatio-temporal approaches to assess population trends and bird distributions and their application on environmental impact studies Standardized monitoring programmes need to be maintained to assess the long-term trend of avian populations Ain the case of the diver population in the German North Sea although the population shows no signs of decline so far the long-term effects of disturbance by offshore wind farms on divers are still unknown To get more insight into the importance of the main concentration area for divers staging duration and turn-over rates should be included in future analyses Denmark) could further improve population estimates and the detection of population changes The datasets presented in this study can be found in the Marine Data Archive repository at https://doi.org/10.14284/474 and RV processed the visual and digital aerial survey data All authors contributed substantially to the drafts and gave final approval for publication This research work was part of a research project funded by the Federal Association of Wind Farm Operators Offshore (BWO e.V.) 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A number of articles reflecting on the Sycamore Gap Tree’s demise used exactly that language — like this lovely piece where the authors wrote that this sycamore “was for many THE tree—a perfect arboreal specimen located in a storied landscape that over the course of its centuries-long lifespan had borne witness to two world wars and countless other human acts of peace and violence one of my siblings shared with our all-sisters chat group that she and her family had driven by our childhood home on the way to visit our parents (who now live in town) all the trees have been chopped down outside the old Barron residence The thoughts that raced through my head were or even how to see our old house in the absence of its trees From our homes sprinkled across two provinces we sisters grieved those beloved trees that had been witness-bearers to our childhood In another poignant article I read recently the author observed the connection between how we mark time and how trees mark time a beautiful design of repeating lines – tree rings – are exposed.  It’s almost magical to see how the tree has been counting the years up to that moment.  Despite all these varied circumstances we – and the trees – are connected and bound by the same rules of time part of our connection with nature in general (and trees in particular) is that sense that we are somehow co-rememberers of life on Earth what we recognize in nature reinforces some of our most genuine vulnerable understanding of what God is about Even the most famous lamenter in scripture couldn’t help but mention the hope of trees in the midst of his despair: ‘For there is hope for a tree,    if it is cut down that it will sprout again,    and that its shoots will not cease.Though its root grows old in the earth,    and its stump dies in the ground,yet at the scent of water it will bud    and put forth branches like a young plant Just a few days ago, the first successful seedling grown from seeds of the Sycamore Gap Tree was presented to King Charles The tree will be planted in the Great Park at Windsor Castle and will begin its own set of witness-bearing rings They round out our humanity and our “rootedness” in the earth in such a meaningful and necessary way Ken Medema’s “Tree Song” comes to mind to accompany this lovely meditation There’s another deep childhood memory I could write pages and pages about The Memory of Music The huge walnut tree across the street had been cut down It was the largest walnut tree I had every seen rising fifty feet high with a spreading canopy of at least forty feet It grew up without competition and filled the sky My world seemed smaller and more vulnerable You may enjoy Basil Camu’s free ebook – From Wasteland to Wonder Thanks for the recommendation – I’ll definitely check that out Thanks for such an evocative start to my day Good for you for your intentional and thoughtful stewardship I’m glad to know that that pine tree lives and is loved – and that the ecosystem that it lives in will thrive well into the future I saw this poem shared online: “Lost” by David Wagoner: We were at Bon Echo Provincial Park this past weekend and we canoed past the century-old inscription in the rock-face honouring Walt Whitman – the same rock that has Indigenous pictographs that have been there for millennia I was captivated by the few lines of his that were carved there – the spirit of them has the same wild still reverence that the Wagoner poem above has Many neighbors commented on the beauty of it We even called our property “Willowtree” and made a sign to hang outside our front door your naming became a broader one for your whole home The trees are very fortunate to have you with them Trees certainly are receiving a lot of literary attention You all have likely read it: Katie Holten’s The Language of Trees I have that book on reserve at the library Looking forward to getting the email to let me know that it’s ready for me to become friends with it 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attention paid to the exterior façades stands out as very permeable thanks to their metal structure Of particular significance is the modulation of the interior façade made of exposed reinforced concrete whose modulation is enriched by the window planters that facilitate the treatment of an interesting vertical garden The interior façade is also a reflection of the composition of the access façade with a large terrace on the first floor and intelligent gardening on the rest of the floors Project description by Estudio PLANTA This building is contiguous to a previous work of the studio: Vilela 1 the first question arises: is it a continuation of the previous work What was resolved was to continue the tiles and the pots -but this time specifically- to avoid corrosion to the detriment of a lighter aesthetic and the amount of soil to plant The building consists of 3 different typologies between the front and the internal courtyard the plants are shrubby (not climbing) and the bars are only 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Project manager.- Fernanda Torres.Design team.- Victoria Sabaino Federico Cairoli Architecture practice based in Buenos Aires founded in 2001 by Irene Joselevich and Ana Rascovsky with Maria Fernanda Torres as project director Irene Joselevich has more than forty years of experience in the design and execution of architectural works She was a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA in the area of ​​Cataloging of the Urban and Architectural Heritage of the City of Buenos Aires She has published nine books about the architectural heritage of the neighbourhoods of the City of Buenos Aires as well as an architectural guide to the city in revitalization plans for various historic neighborhoods of the city of 40 hectares in the centre of the City of Buenos Aires and the National Architecture Award (1992) Ana Rascovsky is an architect from the Faculty of Architecture Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA and a Master from the Berlage Institute Rotterdam (Holland 2002) and the Ecole d' Architecture de Versailles (France She received the French Embassy/National Endowment for the Arts scholarship and – together with Supersudaca – the main grant from the Prins Claus Fonds She has been an adjunct professor at the Dieguez Chair at Fadu/University of Buenos Aires since 2020 She was a full professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University (2014/17) a full professor of Urbanism at the University of Palermo (2006-10) and a visiting professor at various universities and institutions abroad (IUAV Venice She has exhibited her work at the Venice Biennale Her works have won awards (SCA-CPAU Biennial Award 2009/10/11 Puro Diseño Award 2009) and have been published on several occasions (2G Dossier She is a founding member of Supersudaca – a Think Tank on international architecture and urbanism Maria Fernanda Torres graduated in architecture from FADU UBA in 1989 She lived and worked in Colombia for 10 years on various projects She returned to Argentina in 1999 where she participated in the works of “New Green Areas of Puerto Madero” Archive HOUSING Thanks for visiting ! 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Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2022.1059097 Polysaccharides and proteins are extensively used for the design of advanced sustainable materials Owing to the high aspect ratio and specific surface area high mechanical strength and thermal stability biopolymeric nanofibrils are gaining growing popularity amongst the catalog of nanostructures exploited in a panoply of fields recent trends on the use of cellulose and protein nanofibrils as versatile substrates for the design of high-performance nanomaterials are assessed A concise description of the preparation methodologies and characteristics of cellulosic nanofibrils the use of these nanofibrils in the production of sustainable materials as well as their major domains of application with focus on the works carried out at the BioPol4Fun Research Group (Innovation in BioPolymer based Functional Materials and Bioactive Compounds) from the Portuguese associate laboratory CICECO–Aveiro Institute of Materials (University of Aveiro) The potential for partnership between both types of nanofibrils in advanced material development is also reviewed the critical challenges and opportunities for these biobased nanostructures for the development of functional materials are addressed NFC and BNC will be the focus of this review concerning cellulose nanofibrils application in this field FIGURE 1. Illustration of the sources and production of nanocellulose and protein nanofibrils, their use in materials design, and critical areas of application. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrographs are adapted and reprinted with permission from (Nazrin et al., 2020). Copyright Frontiers, 2020; and (Silva et al., 2018c) Examples of membranes produced with cellulosic nanofibrils The intertwining of microfibrils culminates in the formation of macrofibrils this section will provide a brief rundown of the fabrication processes and attributes of NFC and BNC the reader is encouraged to examine the publications mentioned in each section which provide a comprehensive overview of these topics BNC also has an exceptional water retention ability since it contains nearly 99% water Overall, cellulosic nanofibrils have remarkable properties, such as high surface area, high aspect ratio, tailorable surface chemistry, high mechanical strength, rheological behavior, high water absorption capacity, non-cytotoxicity, non-genotoxicity, and inherent renewability (Chandana et al., 2022; Noremylia et al., 2022) which elevate this polysaccharide out of the shadows of the pervasive pulp and paper industries to produce sophisticated materials due to the presence of three hydroxyl groups per anhydroglucose unit these nanofibers are extremely hydrophilic which can be seen as a benefit in applications in which water compatibility is an advantage (e.g. most often in biomedical applications) or as a drawback when compatibilization with hydrophobic domains is essential thus requiring adequate modifications towards their hydrophobization The following sections illustrate some of the most recent and relevant contributions about the use of NFC and BNC to assemble membranes Despite the ionic conductivity of some of these systems being two orders of magnitude lower than Nafion® these findings show the immense potential of cellulose nanofibrils for creating environmentally friendly separators reusable nanocellulose membranes hold the potential for contaminant removal and salvage and repurposing of valuable waste matter leading to nanocomposites films with improved thermal (increase in the maximum degradation temperature compared to the neat pullulan films) and mechanical (e.g. a 22 times increase in the Young’s modulus value with the inclusion of 10% of BNC compared to unfilled pullulan matrices) properties Examples of films produced with cellulosic nanofibrils The ensuing films displayed good antioxidant (ca using the DPPH assay) and antimicrobial activity (ca which was more pronounced in the films prepared by the non-conventional supercritical solvent impregnation methodology highlighting the potential of this eco-friendly technique in the production of bioactive films with improved functional properties This zwitterionic polymer endows antibacterial activity against S while also providing proton conductivity to the material (maximum of 1.5 mS cm−1) which can be advantageous for the implementation as sensors to monitor food humidity levels Examples of patches produced with cellulosic nanofibrils with polymers containing amino acid pending moieties to produce patches with pH-responsive behavior followed by hot pressing of the ensuing membranes to melt the PCL that was retained inside the porous cellulose network Examples of other functional materials produced with cellulosic nanofibrils FIGURE 5. (A) Levels of protein organization; (B) Schematic representation of a typical process of protein nanofibril production using low pH and elevated temperature, with an illustrative example of their morphology (atomic force microscopy micrograph). Adapted and reprinted with permission from (Silva et al., 2014a). Copyright The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014; and (Lendel and Solin, 2021) Examples of functional materials produced with protein-based nanofibrils relevant examples of the development of new nanomaterials (films patches and other materials) based on protein nanofibrils will be discussed in detail The incorporation of LNFs imparted mechanical reinforcement abilities as demonstrated by the increase in Young’s modulus from 1.69 to 2.50 GPa and the reduction in the elongation at break from 6.63% to 1.34% with the addition of 15 wt% of nanofibrils to the pullulan films the inclusion of LNFs endowed antioxidant (ca using the DPPH assay) and antimicrobial properties (towards S which are highly desirable for application in the food packaging sector The patches displayed excellent mechanical properties (increase in Young’s modulus from 3 to 6 MPa in wet state) and enhanced antioxidant activity (ca ascribed to the reinforcement with the protein nanofibrils the materials had an increased bioresorbability rate compared to patches comprised only of gelatin (reduction in 10–15 days) highlighting the immense potential of LNFs as functional reinforcements Silva et al. (2020a) described for the first time the preparation of NFC/LNFs biobased films using a simple methodology of vacuum filtration of the water-based suspensions of nanocellulose (obtained from softwood) and protein nanofibrils (extracted from hen egg white) The dual nanofibrillar films exhibited superior mechanical properties compared to neat NFC films (which already have remarkable mechanical properties) namely an increase up to 2 GPa of the Young’s modulus and a concomitant decrease in the elongation at break These results highlighted the structural reinforcement role of the lysozyme nanofibrils in the system possibly due to the interactions between the hydroxyl and carboxyl groups of the nanocellulose fibrils and the amide groups of the LNFs The adequacy of the NFC/LNFs films as biosorbents was evaluated in mercury-contaminated ultrapure and spring waters After 24 h of contact at pH 11 (close to the isoelectric point of the lysozyme) the removal effectiveness reached a maximum of 99% and a residual concentration below the threshold value in waters intended for human consumption The presence of amino acid side chains with multiple binding sites plays a crucial role in the adsorption of the Hg2+ ions In the same field, β-lactoglobulin nanofibrils were combined with polydopamine-coated cellulose nanofibrils (NFC) and crosslinked via periodate oxidation to produce biosorbent aerogels (Sorriaux et al., 2021) The adsorption capability of the aerogels was evaluated in water contaminated with an assortment of pollutants (e.g. with good efficiencies and fast adsorption rates in the removal of crystal violet dye (93% the adsorption is facilitated by the presence of various functional groups (e.g. and aromatic moieties) in the polydopamine functional coating These findings point to the potential of the dual nanofibrils patches in wound healing improvement resulting in materials with improved mechanical and thermal properties Apart from the reinforcement role, the remarkable physicochemical properties of nanofibrils (e.g., high water absorption capacity, high surface area, biocompatibility and biodegradability) are being exploited in the development of advanced functional materials (Tables 1–4) BNC is particularly interesting for some applications since its membranes are simple to obtain in tailored shapes and sizes (in situ moldability) to better suit the target application Combining BNC with bioactive molecules or polymers with different functionalities can produce materials for widely different applications which explains the deluge of works reported using this nanocellulosic form Moreover, the design of dual-fibrillar systems comprising both nanocellulose and protein nanofibrils seems to be a promising approach, still in its infancy. 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Why would a healthy 22-year-old be in cardiac arrest according to a legal complaint Vilela later filed complaining of pain and swelling in her leg “Don’t worry about the insurance,” Vilela recalled saying “We’ll take care of it; we’ll pay.” Shalynne was then briefly examined and dismissed The complaint says that they told her that she should go get insurance and then come back to see a specialist about her knee the complaint says that the hospital staff didn’t inquire about her medical history or the relevant medications she took when Shalynne was half white and half black now a national surrogate and Nevada co-chair for Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign The complaint states that a look Shalynne’s medical history should have revealed she was at major risk for a blood clot and her symptoms were consistent with the life-threatening condition “Her eyes would flutter open…I would just sit there and keep repeating to her ‘Please fight “I would go out in the parking garage and just wail and scream.” she says hospital staff advised the family to turn off life-support “I climbed into bed with her and I held her like I used to when she was a child,” Vilela says “I sang songs about her like I did when she was a baby I tried to memorize everything about her: her face her hair.” Vilela wished they could trade places I didn’t want to watch my child take her last breath There was no other emotion possible at all The anger didn’t come til later,” she says “When I saw that I almost fell out of my chair,” Vilela said “He’s been talking about this since right before my daughter was born.” Teen Vogue spoke with Vilela about her crusade for health TV: When did you start telling Shalynne’s story Can you talk about the reactions to the story across the political spectrum but I began to understand how the mix of political corruption and greed had played a part in my daughter’s death I grew up never thinking that I had a voice; I was that poor kid from an extremely dysfunctional family I thought the most you could expect from me was to just be a college graduate But my eyes were opened up to what was happening When I have a chance to speak to people face to face and tell them the story of my daughter and why I’m supporting Medicare for All and actually have the opportunity to relate it to their own life experiences political party is not a part of that conversation you are just as vulnerable to having to file medical bankruptcy or not being able to fill your prescription as someone else from another political party This is all of us standing up together and banding together to say we’ve had enough our community members cutting their prescriptions in half trying to find a way to take care of ourselves or our loved ones when we don’t have insurance—or for those 35,000 people a year losing their lives TV: So you launched a primary challenge to Representative Ruben Kihuen (D-NV) Why did you feel compelled to run against Kihuen Vilela: I decided to challenge Representative Kihuen over refusal to co-sponsor Medicare for All And I did this after I exhausted all of my options as an activist and as a constituent I always felt that politicians are not public celebrities And that you should be celebrating what’s in the best interests of constituency TV: You felt that major figures in the Democratic establishment had tipped the scales in his favor Ruben declined to seek re-election after being accused of sexual misconduct several other elected officials and candidates But it was tough to be an insurgent candidate I’m proud we ran an issue-focused campaign I don’t think anyone can deny that I have moved the needle in southern Nevada on issues that matter to progressives and to all of the working class He read Shalynne’s story into the congressional record He [later] told me that his refusal to support the bill sooner was one of his major regrets Could you describe your role in the campaign Vilela: I travel across the country speaking on behalf of the campaign particularly based on my experience running for Congress and as a mother fighting for my daughter’s legacy so that no one else experiences the cruelty of our health-care system My role is to engage voters everywhere on why we need Medicare for All I also try to explain how these are intersectional social and economic issues You can’t have true health-care justice if we don’t have environmental justice; or I use my experience and my work as a former candidate and community activist to lend any help I can provide to our state operations I feel very much involved in the community and I use much of my spare time to go to events of the campaign speak to other community leaders about our movement and why Bernie is our best chance to bring about the change we so desperately need So whatever I can do using my knowledge of the state and my networks it’s to help us win the caucuses in February TV: What would you say to people who might wonder why you would support Sanders over no other candidate has demonstrated the same consistency and conviction for what is right than Senator Sanders One of the biggest issues I want to see fixed is our health-care system and to pass Medicare for All I remember when I first heard of him: My husband came running through the house No other candidate but Bernie has a movement that will help fight for Medicare for All and create an economy and a government that works for everybody TV: Can you sum up why you think Sanders can win the Democratic primary given that Hillary Clinton beat him there in 2016 Why do you think Sanders is uniquely positioned to beat Donald Trump Vilela: The way we win is by expanding the electorate His politics speak to the lived experience of everyday Americans in a way that the Democratic establishment has often failed to do Many people in America right now are feeling paralyzed by despair They feel our institutions and our political system betrayed them time and time again Our country’s current policies penalize the poor I believe that Bernie Sanders’s campaign not only acknowledges this One of the things the Sanders’s campaign talks about is the disillusionment of the American people It’s a factor in why President Trump is popular But whereas Trump wields racial and bigoted language to explain the failures of our current political system Sanders offers a movement of solidarity and empowerment Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 identified the symptoms of discontent Bernie recognizes we need to fight our unjust institutions Sanders is offering transformational change This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity Want more from Teen Vogue? 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Metrics details Ever since the uncultivated South American fungal pathogen Lacazia loboi was first described 90 years ago its etiology and evolutionary traits have been at the center of endless controversies This pathogen infects the skin of humans and as long believed recent DNA analyses of infected dolphins placed its DNA sequences within Paracoccidioides species This came as a surprise and suggested the human and dolphin pathogens may be different species population genetic analyses of DNA from four infected dolphins grouped this pathogen in a monophyletic cluster sister to P americana and to the other Paracoccidioides species Based on the results we have emended the taxonomy of the dolphin pathogen as Paracoccidioides cetii and P Our data warn that phylogenetic analysis of available taxa without the inclusion of unusual members may provide incomplete information for the accurate classification of anomalous species to differentiate the dolphin pathogen from the one causing skin disease in humans To investigate the patterns of genetic diversity between the uncultivated skin pathogen of dolphin phylogenetic and population genetic analyses using rDNA (ITS) and partial DNA coding sequences extracted from four dolphins swimming USA coastal areas with the disease and homologous DNA sequences in the data base In these analyses the pathogen of dolphin grouped in a monophyletic cluster sister to P the human pathogen formed a monophyletic cluster sister to P Based on this finding we have emended the taxonomy of both pathogens (Clinical picture in panel b were courtesy of Drs Graphical output of the Gp43 DNA sequences PCA cluster analysis (total variation 90.3% PC2 and PC3 results grouping Paracoccidioides species in five independent clusters including P Paracoccidioides brasiliensis (sensu stricto) venezuelensis appeared together in one of the clusters (red) Neighbor-joining analysis of the Gp43 partial DNA sequences revealed several haplotypes The size of the spheres is proportional to the number of individuals in each circle (numbers are shown inside the spheres) Median vectors (red open rings) represent missing or extinct species Numbers between haplotypes indicate mutational steps Large number of mutations were observed between Paracoccidioides lutzii (Plut-green) and P few mutations were observed between these four haplotypes and the remaining Paracoccidioides species (Pbra = P Three Japanese dolphin haplotypes (Pcet = P cetii [beige 1 to 3]) showed three missing or extinct haplotypes between them and the four USA dolphins (Pcet = P Estimation of population using LnP(D) derived ΔK for K Evolutionary analyses inferred by Maximum Likelihood of the Gp43 DNA sequences displays five monophyletic clusters (b) corresponding also to five STRUCTURE populations (Q1 to Q5) (c) loboi [pink]) grouped as independent populations (Q2 to Q5) The numbers on the y-axis show the subgroup membership and the x-axis the different accessions (Q) (Panel c) The distribution of accessions into different populations is indicate by color and shape Evolutionary analyses inferred by Maximum Likelihood of the ADP-rf, CHS4, KEX, and ITS, DNA sequences respectively, using homologous DNA sequences from well-known dimorphic Onygenales as outgroup (Table S1) lutzii (yellow bars) consistently grouped as monophyletic clusters sister to P the other DNA sequences in these analyses (ADP-rf cetii (blue bars) in monophyletic clusters Paracoccidioides americana (green bars) clustered as a monophyletic group using ADP-rf and CHS4 DNA sequences and the other Paracoccidioides species (red bars) grouped in a single cluster a poorly supported cluster was tentatively labelled as P The concatenate Gp43 and ADP-rf data analyses was used to perform haplotypes analysis to locate their geographical distributions (a,b) to estimate Principal Component Analysis (PCA) (c) and to investigate STRUCTURE population distribution (d–f) of several Paracoccidoides species including P The geographical distribution of the five haplotypes (b) is shown in Panel (a) Five clusters are observed in haplotype analysis (b) each corresponding to P The other Paracoccidoides species formed single haplotypes (red) Small bars between haplotypes represent mutations and the median vectors (red dots) are missing or extinct haplotypes The size of the spheres is proportional to the number of individuals in each circle Five-populations were also found using PCA (c) and STRUCTURE (d–f) analyses Panel d shows K = 5 value used to build the concatenated data and the remaining Paracoccidioides species (Q1-red) clustering in independent barplots (e) The numbers on the y-axis show the subgroup membership and the x-axis the different accessions (Q) The triangle plot (f) is an analogous result obtained from STRUCTURE software outputs The two cluster on the base of triangle corresponds to P lutzii (Q4) DNA sequences; the top harbor the remaining species in this study Based on phylogenetic and population genetics analyses of the two uncultivated pathogens of human and dolphin DNA sequences it is now possible to place them with recognized Paracoccidioides species and thus the dolphin pathogen is described as a new combination species P Typification: (holotype B92-932) Slide containing P cetii yeast-like cells of Hubbs-923 dolphin tissue section stained with H&E and deposited at the Michigan State University Herbarium Related to cetacean (Latin cetus = whale) aquatic mammals As per Vilela and Mendoza12 uncultivated fungus causing skin granulomas in several species of dolphins cetii exhibits uniform size globose to subglobose multi-budding yeast-like cells (5–10 μm) sometimes forming short or long branching chains connected by slender bridges (2–3 μm) As per Vilela et al.23 the term “paracoccidioidomycosis ceti” is retained The etiologic agent of dolphins is now a different species from that reported by Jorge Lôbo causing skin disease in humans thus and others are no longer appropriate for this species Lectotypes, Syntypes and Description: As per Taborda et al.8 The term lacaziosis is no longer appropriate since the term paracoccidioidomycosis has been traditionally used to describe systemic infections caused by Paracoccidioides species other than P the term “paracoccidioidomycosis loboi” is proposed to emphasize this species is restricted to the subcutaneous tissues More dolphin DNA sequences from different geographical locations must be sequenced to understand P the evolutionary pressures that triggered such ancestral feature remains an enigma only fragmented genomic information is available for P We hypothesize that the genomes of both uncultivated pathogens may hide important genomic clues that could answer this and other evolutionary questions cetii DNA sequences from Japanese dolphins are accurate the differences in the genetic makeup of these two populations of uncultivated pathogens is intriguing and deserve further analysis cetii strains causing paracoccidioidomycosis ceti in Japanese and USA dolphins likely are evolving into two different populations likely the ancestor of Paracoccidioides species infected dolphin first and later humans Whether this event had a role on the pathogenic capabilities of the genus to infect mammals is difficult to determine nonetheless it is an intriguing possibility the failure of including organisms sharing a common ancestor based in phenotypic or phylogenetic traits alone could result in incomplete or incorrect assessment of the investigated populations This study showed that the interpretation of taxonomic and/or phylogenetic data could be affected by missing neighboring anomalous taxa the samples were heated at 95 °C for 10 min and then subjected to 40 cycles consisting of 1 min at 95 °C with a final extension at 72 °C for 10 min The amplicons were purified and then sequenced in both directions with the same primers using BigDye terminator chemistry in an ABI Prism 310 genetic analyzer (Perkin-Elmer Foster City Based on the LnP(D) and Evanno’s ΔK identified 5 as the best K value on both the Gp43 partial DNA sequences and concatenate data from Gp43 DNA plus ADP-ribosylation factor partial DNA sequences Each Paracoccidioides species genotype was assigned to a cluster (Q) determined by the probability of the software that a particular genotype is belong to the cluster The cut-off probability for cluster assignment was 0.5 for more than two clusters According to the optimum K a bar plot (sort by Q) was obtained to display the population structure among the Paracoccidioides spp plus available homologous DNA sequences at the NCBI were also used to construct phylogenetic evolutionary trees using the above parameters The DNA sequences and final assembly data in the manuscript have been deposited in the NCBI BioProject database under accession code PRJNA714057 Original data in this manuscript is also available by the authors on request Um caso de blastomycose produzido por uma espécie nova encontrada em Recife Doença de Jorge Lôbo 1–92 (IPSIS Gráfica e Editora Occurrência entre os índios caiabi (Brasil central) Lobo’s disease in an Atlantic bottle nosed dolphin and experimental culture of Lacazia loboi from Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursops truncatus) Immune dysfunction in Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) with lobomycosis Molecular study of archival fungal strains isolated from cases of lacaziosis (Jorge Lobo’s disease) Contribuição para o conhecimento das granulomatoses blastomycoides O agente etiológico da doença de Jorge Lôbo Paracoccidioidomycosis ceti (Lacaziosis/lobomycosis) in dolphins In Emerging and Epizootic Fungal Infections in Animals (eds Seyedmousavi et al.) 177–196 (Spring International Publishing AG Phylogenetic analysis of Lacazia loboi places this previously uncharacterized pathogen with the dimorphic onygenales deMacedo, P. 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The authors declare no competing interests Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97429-7 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Microbiology newsletter — what matters in microbiology research The House of Representatives quad committee is zeroing in on the alleged use of the diplomatic channel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) for personal interest and possible personal gain This stemmed from revelations that former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Royina Garma had sent a huge amount of cash to her ex-husband Police Colonel Roland Vilela who he was assigned as police attache at the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles The committee is gathering additional information to determine where the money was used according to the quad committee overall chairperson and Surigao del Norte Rep During the September 27 quad committee hearing Romeo Acop asked former PNP chief Benjamin Acorda Jr. a former chief of the Directorate for Intelligence if it is possible that the PNP diplomatic pouch system could be used to funnel personal funds Especially if there are some special occasions or visits and additional expenses that are incurred by our police attachés,” Acorda explained Acop also asked Police Captain Delfinito Anuba who was tasked to convert pesos into dollars that were allegedly sent to Vilela in the US Anuba narrated that he was once asked to convert P30 million to dollars He said he picked up the money from Garma’s security aide was cited in contempt by the quad committee for allegedly lying Anuba said he was also asked to convert P20 million on another occasion and several smaller amounts on different occasions Garma was linked by witnesses to the killing of three Chinese drug lords inside the Davao Prison and Penal Farm in 2016 and PCSO Board Secretary Wesley Barayuga in 2020 She is reportedly close to former President Rodrigo Duterte and her appointment to the PCSO was allegedly facilitated by Sen Self-confessed Davao Death Squad (DDS) hitman Arturo Lascañas named Garma as one of the early members of the group He claimed that Garma managed a group of hitmen Garma has consistently denied the allegations “POLITIKO: Navigating the Pulse of Philippine Politics” encapsulates our commitment to providing comprehensive and dynamic coverage of the ever-evolving political landscape in the Philippines we delve deep into the heart of political matters offering insightful analysis and timely updates that resonate with the pulse of the nation With a foundation built on journalistic integrity since 2014 POLITIKO stands as the compass guiding you through the currents of Philippine politics ensuring you stay informed and engaged every step of the way (Leia essa matéria em português no The Intercept Brasil. You can also read Mongabay’s series on the Tapajós Basin in Portuguese at The Intercept Brasil) The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon and at the heart of an exploding controversy: whether to build 40+ large dams turning the Basin into a vast industrialized commodities export corridor; or to curb this development impulse and conserve one of the most biologically and culturally rich regions on the planet Those struggling to shape the Basin’s fate hold conflicting opinions but because the Tapajós is an isolated region Journalist Sue Branford and social scientist Mauricio Torres travelled there recently for Mongabay and over coming weeks hope to shed some light on the heated debate that will shape the future of the Amazon In July 2016, Ana Luiza was arrested and charged with land grabbing. An unflattering picture of her startled face She was charged as part of the Flying Rivers Operation (Operação Rios Voadores) well-coordinated law enforcement action launched on June 30 2016 by several arms of the Brazilian government Its objective: to dismantle a powerful gang of land thieves who had illegally occupied and deforested huge tracts of public land near Castelo de Sonhos a town on Brazil’s BR-163 highway in Pará state Heading the gang of Amazon land grabbers was Ana Luiza’s brother 39-year-old Antônio José Junqueira Vilela Filho The gang’s number two was Anna Luiza’s husband The band had been operating for years and had illegally cleared 300 square kilometers (74,132 acres) of forest an area 5 times larger than New York’s Manhattan island This made AJ Vilela “the largest individual clearer of land in the Amazon since the monitoring of deforestation began,” according to Juan Doblas one of the authors of a recently published book about land grabbing and deforestation called “Dono é quem desmata” (which translates inelegantly as “the owner is the person who clears the land”) It took two years of careful investigation to bring the Flying Rivers Operation to fruition 15 tax experts and 32 employees from IBAMA Authorization was given to tap phones and hack into bank accounts and the operation was launched last June with the issuance of 24 federal arrest warrants Ana Luiza was only required to give a police statement — an order not enforced as she was on vacation in the U.S she was making calls from outside the country urging people in Brazil to destroy or hide evidence that could incriminate her still at large brother When she landed in Guarulhos Airport in São Paulo on July 4 one of São Paulo’s most exclusive neighborhoods But even as AJ Vilela enjoyed the very public life of a privileged socialite he was illegally clearing land in the Amazon as far back as 2010 and illegally appropriating and deforesting public lands to create cattle pasture as recently as 2016 while keeping workers in conditions analogous to slavery the wealth boasted by family patriarch AJ Vilela arose from unsavory business activities conducted near the impoverished remote Amazonian town of Castelo dos Sonhos well-connected surroundings of São Paulo’s Jardim Europa To unravel and understand AJ Vilela’s criminal history we need to look back at the life of his father Back in Mato Grosso, AJJ became “great and respected,” though he openly boasted that in his early days as a rancher he carried out extensive deforestation: “I bought a lot of land in Mato Grosso I had as much as 200,000 hectares [494,210 acres] He didn’t only deforest his own land. Eventually he was fined R$60 million (US$20 million) for clearing land within the Cristalino State Park then the highest penalty ever charged by the Mato Grosso state government for such a crime Blairo Maggi is Brazil’s agriculture minister The construction work on the dams was halted but AJJ’s cattle went on grazing inside the park AJJ had a special knack for living safely outside the law AJ Vilela appears to have begun his illegal deforestation activities in Pará in 2010 and 2011 IBAMA soon became aware of his clear cutting and imposed heavy fines and banned any further economic activity on the cleared lands AJ Vilela followed in his father’s footsteps and even outdid him; today he holds the record for the largest fines ever imposed on an individual by IBAMA for environmental crimes: R$332,765,736.50 (US$111 million) He followed his father’s example in another way Not that they would have bankrupted him: they amounted to not even a fifth of the R$1.9 billion (US$600 million) that passed through his bank accounts between 2012 and 2015 according to the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) Few in Brazil are surprised by his failure to pay: “Have you ever heard of organized crime paying its fines?” responded Luciano Evaristo when asked whether AJ Vilela had ever paid any of the huge penalties imposed on him put cattle on them and went on clearing rainforest When he was finally arrested in the Flying Rivers Operation more than four years after beginning his illegal activities — and after making it clear that he had no intention of stopping — he had cleared forest covering ​​300 square kilometers (74,132 acres) AJ Vilela and his illegal activities left a swath of environmental and social damage Throughout our journey to the Amazon basin last November people spoke to us of the violence that he and his gunmen have used to impose their rule of terror in the region and of the failure of the authorities for many years to hold the gang to account spoke of the way people had been violently — and illegally — evicted from their land who wanted to speak off the record for understandable reasons told us: “The man who was farming this land before was kicked off by brute force So people are very frightened of the Vilelas You just have to say the name Vilela and people tremble On one occasion AJ Vilela was taken to court for attempted murder He and his henchmen were accused of ambushing and firing on a rural landless worker who was taking part in a peaceful occupation near a farm belonging to the Vilela family in Pontal do Paranapanema According to press reports “the Federal Police recorded a conversation in which AJ Vilela’s lawyer ordered him to get rid of weapons used in the crime.” This is part of the transcript: Lawyer: They [AJ Vilela’s gunmen] may be called in for questioning or even arrested Lawyer: And make sure to get rid of the tools [the Federal Police term for weapons] which had been put on hold due to lack of evidence In addition to accusations of land theft and deforestation have been accused of utilizing slave labor and violating labor legislation IBAMA launched a separate action at the same time as the Flying Rivers Operation That investigation ended with AJ Vilela and Ricardo Viacava being accused of holding laborers in conditions “analogous to slavery.” According to charges filed by the MPF the workers “began to clear forest at 4.30am and only stopped work at 5:30 pm,” and were “subjected to gruelling working hours.” the two men were not caught due to the federal government’s sophisticated surveillance of illegal logging in the Amazon an Amazonian indigenous group that has developed their own even more effective — if somewhat less high-tech — system for monitoring goings on in their territory only record harm done to a forest after it has occurred Remote sensing only detects changes in vegetation cover after a forest has been felled and when bare ground has been revealed Then alerts are triggered and an inspection team is sent into the field to confirm the devastation the trees have already been cut and there is rarely any sign of the slave labor often employed to do the logging a gang headed by AJ Vilela started clearing an area of ​​14,000 hectares (34,595 acres) on the border of the Baú Indigenous Territory They ran a technologically-savvy operation calculated to avoid the prying eyes of satellites Chainsaw operators felled the understory and some big trees but left untouched just the right number of large trees to keep the canopy cover intact so that the satellites failed to spot bare ground AJ Vilela — both a sophisticated entrepreneur and criminal — had hired geo-monitoring whizz kids to inform his overseers in the field precisely how many trees they could safely fell without their work being captured by the satellites the system did not emit deforestation alerts and there was no reason to go to the area,” explained Evaristo the remaining large trees could then be felled Only then would the damage be seen by the satellites and the gang underestimated the territorial monitoring capacity of the Kayapó told us: “The Kayapó came to Brasilia to report the terrible deforestation that was being carried out on the border of their territory and they demanded that measures be taken.” This indigenous report took the government by surprise — the geo-monitoring system wasn’t registering any deforestation where the Indians said it was happening including the director of environmental protection “The Indians took us directly to five camps and there we found 44 people busy at work in conditions analogous to slavery,” said Evaristo The director was astonished at the Indians’ ability to monitor the forest: “The Indians have an efficient intelligence system and the various villages use radio to tell each other in Kayapó what is going on,” he said they always know what is happening in their territory.” The discovery of slave labor in the tree clearing camps led authorities to intensify their investigation and to broaden the sweep of the on-going Flying Rivers Operation was never punished for his criminal activities even though he was given very heavy fines (few of which he ever paid) and lawsuits were brought against him Ana Luiza was reportedly freed on 20 July AJ Vilela was behind bars for a while longer The whole family has disappeared from the social columns Brazilian justice is notoriously slow and the gang has very good lawyers defending it so no one knows when the verdict will come the Flying Rivers Operation achieved something important AJJ (who has disappeared from the scene and apparently suffers from Alzheimer’s disease) was committing acts much like his son and boasting about it in the press it was extremely unusual for leading figures in agribusiness to be arrested the state has not reclaimed the land that AJ Vilela Ricardo Caldeira Viacava and their crew illegally occupied is still recognized as belonging to them by neighbors are still fattening cattle on these properties as things stand: the defendants are not in jail but await trial; large past fines against them have not been paid; the embargo on land use is not being respected; and the public land that AJ Vilela illegally occupied is still indisputably in his gang’s hands we asked Evaristo if anything has really changed “the gang will not be able to sell the cattle they have fattened on their land because the slaughterhouses will not purchase cattle from embargoed areas.” Also the gang will be unable to get legal titles to the land But locals told us that there are easy workarounds: while the slaughterhouses have pledged not to buy cattle reared on embargoed land quick and cheap to “launder the cattle.” Livestock illegally fattened in one place simply need to be taken for a short while to a legal ranch as the slaughterhouses only check the last supplier Federal prosecutor Patrícia Daros Xavier said that, “there are documents that show that big slaughterhouses are acquiring cattle reared on illegally cleared land” and these claims are being investigated. As several studies have noted, the cattle industry is “lagging behind” in addressing Amazon deforestation The fact that the gang is unable to get legal title to the land doesn’t seem to cause serious problems either as it doesn’t stop them from running their ranch on the property as before People living in the region commonly agree: “the owner is the person who clears the land” the land thieves are viewed as the rightful owners and they can readily sell the land on the open market and make a large sum in the bargain it seems to make little difference whether those who clear a parcel have legal title to it or not The body responsible for ensuring that illegally appropriated public land is returned to state ownership is the federal government’s Terra Legal Program But people to whom we made inquiries in Pará say that that these officials are doing nothing to reclaim illegally cleared land We asked the person in charge of the Terra Legal Program in the west of Pará why measures had not been taken to reclaim the gang’s land but we didn’t get a reply has not been able to put an end to the most serious problem: those deforesting public lands can still keep that land was something that lay beyond the scope of the federal operation that: “I like land and the security it gives me for the future.” *The original version of this story accurately reported additional details concerning Ana Khouri’s business in an email received by Mongabay on 26 April 2017 Khouri requested that those details be removed from the story so as to dissociate her legitimate business activities from the illegal activities of her ex-husband The authors did not intend to imply any wrongdoing on Khouri’s part nor is there any evidence to suggest there was any FEEDBACK: Use this form to send a message to the author of this post The “fortress conservation” model is under pressure in East Africa as protected areas become battlegrounds over history and global efforts to halt biodiversity loss Mongabay’s Special Issue goes beyond the region’s world-renowned safaris to examine how rural communities and governments are reckoning with conservation’s colonial origins and trying to forge a path forward […] Two companies have been fined more than £100,000 after a man fell 30 feet through a fragile skylight as he was working on a roof Nicolas Vilela suffered multiple injuries in the incident at Graystone Action Sports Centre on Brunel Avenue in Salford on 23 November 2022 Mr Vilela had been fixing a solar panel into position on the roof when he took a step back and fell through one of the skylights to the skate park below His horrific injuries included a partial lung collapse femur and left wrist as well as fractures to lower vertebrae Falls from height remain a leading cause of workplace death and HSE has published guidance about how these incidents can be avoided Mr Vilela said the incident had affected him both physically and emotionally He said: “It has had an overwhelming and complicated impact on my life “A fall from a height of 10 metres is not something you survive A lot worse could have happened but I am grateful for the fact that I am alive and can walk but I will live with this trauma for the rest of my life “I have developed a fear of heights and a fear of any physical activity that could cause me harm I am also really worried about how my body will respond in old age as a result of these injuries “I am unable to walk for more than a kilometre without feeling pain and getting very tired due to the loss of strength and mobility in my leg My pelvic fracture impedes me from doing any heavy lifting and I live in fear of damaging it even more.” An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that H2O Renewables Limited (H2O) were the principal contractor engaged for work to install solar panels to the roof of the indoor skate park and had engaged Green Projects Ltd (GPL) as sub-contractor to fit the roof mounted system H2O planned the work during which time they were aware of multiple fragile rooflights in close proximity to where the solar panels would be fitted The risk assessment produced by H2O stated cones and warning tape would be used as a control measure to warn operatives of the risk of falling through the fragile roof lights and fixed scaffolding would be used to prevent risk of falls from the perimeter of the roof By the time the work started on 22 November 2022 the fixed scaffold had only partially been erected and only the cones had been placed next to the skylights Despite the insufficient control measures being present to mitigate the risks from work at height GPL’s operatives were allowed to start work to fit the solar panels The investigation also found that H2O Renewables Limited and Green Projects Ltd had failed to take suitable and sufficient precautions to ensure the safety of workers on the roof Both companies had also failed to put in place a safe system of work for the installation of solar panels that were to be fitted in close proximity to many of the fragile roof lights present pleaded guilty to breaching regulation 13(1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 They were fined £106,720 and ordered to pay £4,995 costs at a hearing at Manchester Magistrates Court on 20 November 2024 pleaded guilty to breaching regulations 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 They were fined £13,340 and ordered to pay £1,600 costs HSE inspector Phil Redman said: “This was a very serious incident that Mr Vilela was extremely lucky to survive “A fall from this distance frequently results in life-changing injuries or death “It is a timely reminder that all work at height activities must be suitably planned managed and monitored using a safe system of work.” This prosecution was brought by HSE enforcement lawyer Kate Harney and paralegal officer Rebecca Withell All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 A mother is suing a northwest Las Vegas hospital after she claims they improperly treated her daughter because she didn't have health insurance.  Amy Vilela said her daughter Shalynne visited Centennial Hills Hospital back in 2015 for leg pain.  22-year-old Shalynne died of a stroke caused by a massive pulmonary embolism "The last thing she said to me was mommy I love you," Vilela said.  Vilela believes Shalynne's death could have been prevented if the staff at Centennial Hills Hospital would have extensively treated her daughter's symptoms.  In medical records provided by Vilela she claims the nurse never took Shalynne's medical history Records show much of the information was incorrect "An X-ray and that's all that they could do. Shalynne kept asking for an MRI and something for the pain but they said no," Vilela said.  Vilela said the family found out Shalynne did have health insurance after her death which is what caused confusion when she visited the hospital.  Report a typo The Brazilian Student Association (BRASA) at the University of Denver was founded in January 2023 when fellow international students Bela Vilela Alberta “AJ” Johannpeter and Isabela Padilha realized that DU lacked a fun and inclusive space to celebrate the Brazilian culture BRASA is a national organization that allows Brazilian students to foster a strong Brazilian community on their campuses BRASA’s biggest goal this year is to establish themselves on campus and spread the word and individuals from all walks of life are welcome to attend events and learn more about Brazilian culture but the energy that BRASA radiates is what attracts them to join The relationship is reciprocal between the executive board and student members who are not of Brazilian descent As much as they want to share Brazilian culture with others they also want to learn more about the cultures their members identify with The intersectionality of identities that make up BRASA is a unique aspect that is cherished by everyone a fourth-year majoring in economics and political science with a minor in leadership reflected on the importance of starting a BRASA chapter at DU and geographical barrier between Brazil and the rest of Latin America made me feel lonely at times I had heard of the Brazilian Student Association in the past which is an association for Brazilians studying abroad why can’t I open a chapter at DU?” Vilela said BRASA’s founder and co-founders were able to successfully create a strong foundation centered around their passion for their Brazilian identity “We are here to bridge the gap between Colorado and South America; we are forming the Brazilian diaspora in Denver … BRASA has a very laid-back vibe which I think represents our jeitinho brasileiro or the ‘Brazilian way.’ We take our jobs seriously but we value having fun in the process,” Vilela said BRASA strives to promote a safe space for members speak Portuguese and find a family on campus BRASA members become an integral part of one another’s support group and in essence become a família a third-year hospitality management major with a minor in international studies Brazil and is a co-founder of the organization and current marketing director Johannpeter was already friends with many other Brazilians on campus When Vilela shared her plan to start the organization “BRASA is for many Brazilians living abroad the only opportunity to share our language culture and food with people we connect with but BRASA makes it easier for me to stay in the US and focus on my studies,” Johannpeter said A big distinction to note is that BRASA and LSA are two different organizations Though they both focus on the Latine population LSA has a more broad focus while BRASA is more narrow and centers around the Brazilian community the barriers between Latin and South America are prominent especially at predominantly white institutions BRASA at DU provides a new perspective on campus and allows the DU community to better represent the entirety of the Latine population we are not Hispanic because we speak Portuguese Although this month is known as Hispanic Heritage Month we at BRASA refer to it as Latine Heritage Month can also be represented,” Johannpeter said The lack of South American representation is not something that is only present at DU but in Denver as a whole “I believe that representation is not only about inserting our presence in this community but also about showing more about our culture our language and most importantly our music I believe that it is a big deal for DU to foster this channel between Brazil and the US There is a lot of value that comes with cultural exchange DU will help us put Brazil on the map here in Colorado,” Vilela said The DU Clarion has served as the official student newspaper of the University of Denver since 1899 The Clarion welcomes letters to the editor but has the right to reject any content that is deemed discriminatory or offensive based on race We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you 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BrowseServicesOpen researchInstitution LoginSearchMenu links The evolution of agriculture improved food security and enabled significant increases in the size and complexity of human groups some societies never adopted these practices or even reverted to foraging after temporarily adopting them Given the critical importance of climate and biotic interactions for modern agriculture it seems likely that ecological conditions could have played a major role in determining the degree to which different societies adopted farming this seemingly simple proposition has been surprisingly difficult to prove and is currently controversial we investigate how recent agricultural practices relate both to contemporary ecological opportunities and the suitability of local environments for the first species domesticated by humans Leveraging a globally distributed dataset on 1,291 traditional societies we show that after accounting for the effects of cultural transmission and more current ecological opportunities levels of reliance on farming continue to be predicted by the opportunities local ecologies provided to the first human domesticates even after centuries of cultural evolution we conclude that ecology probably helped shape the geography of agriculture by biasing both human movement and the human-assisted dispersal of domesticates Social Media Summary: Ecological forces shaped the geography of agriculture by biasing human movement and the dispersal of domesticates Here we address the potential shortcomings of earlier studies by estimating a proxy of early ecological opportunity that more explicitly captures the suitability of local environments for early domesticates without making unfounded generalizations about the ecological preferences of these species we use ecological niche models to estimate how many of the first 116 plants and animals domesticated by humans could potentially thrive in different parts of our planet and use these estimates to ask whether early ecological opportunities had any lasting effects in the global patterns of reliance on agriculture that we observe among early twentieth-century traditional societies Because similar levels of reliance on farming could result from other processes as well our models also account for the effects of cultural inheritance (vertical transmission) inter-group contact (horizontal transmission) and current access to plants and animals Our analyses therefore differ from earlier studies in that we explicitly attempt to separate early vs and in that we seek to explain a society's level of engagement in farming practices rather than its adoption a continuous rather than a categorical response variable) Given that humanity has greatly transformed global landscapes in the thousands of years since the origin of agriculture and that our societies have since become increasingly connected and capable of more easily introducing domesticates into non-native habitats our null hypothesis is that traditional farming practices should reflect only the demands and ecological opportunities of their time (i.e. contemporary access to wild foods and/or the extent to which environments allow a greater variety of already domesticated plants and animals to be grown) given that cultural transmission and ecological constraints on the spread of early domesticates are likely to have played a major role in the adoption of agriculture we hypothesize that these variables could also potentially exhibit significant effects up until the recent past We acknowledge here that artificial selection has transformed the appearance and yield of many agricultural species and that this process may have even potentially altered the ecology of some of them we also note that archaeological evidence indicates that many crops and animals are still generally grown in environments that resemble the ones in which they were originally domesticated and therefore assume that it is reasonable to estimate the potential geographic range of a given domesticate based on niche models that are informed by its current climatic preferences and the climate parameters of the time focus of interest (the latter to account for climate change) we confirm that current ecological opportunities as well as proxies for vertical and horizontal cultural transmission are significant predictors of the geography of farming propensity we find evidence that the specific ecological requirements (and dispersal limitations) of the 116 first species domesticated by humans remarkably continued to influence the global patterns of reliance on agriculture among traditional societies up to the recent past Global distribution of reliance on farming practices among traditional human societies at the onset of the 20th century (a) Geographic location (dots on map) and mean PC1 scores (dot colour) of societies in our sample (b) Frequency distribution of farming propensity values or fishing (blue) toward increasing dependency on agriculture and/or pastoralism (brown) Models were estimated allowing all Maxent features (Linear Threshold and Hinge) in order to capture any potentially complex relationship between species occurrences and climate the regularization multiplier in ‘dismo’ was set to 1 to avoid model overfitting Every niche model was estimated using a training set of 70% of occurrence records for a given focal species and was subsequently cross-validated with the remaining testing set Cross-validation involved calculating the area under the curve (AUC) of the plot of correct vs falsely predicted occurrences for the 30% of data that had not been used to inform the model (i.e the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve) and values above 0.7 are considered to indicate significantly better performance than chance All ecological niche models generated here yielded AUC values above 0.9 we therefore generated these predictions by computing suitability using local climate data from 1900 to 1949 A given map cell was included in the expected distribution of a domesticate for that time period if its suitability value equalled or exceeded the minimum suitability value observed among known localities of record (i.e. Presence–absence maps for the 105 modelled species that met our threshold of occurrence records were subsequently combined to produce a global map of the number of early domesticates that local environments could support at a 0.5 × 0.5° resolution Because the actual magnitude of dispersal constraints is currently unknown we took a data-driven approach to set this parameter for downstream analyses we generated a series of richness maps with different dispersal constraints and chose the value that maximized the Pearson's correlation coefficient between the farming propensities derived from PCA and the number of predicted early domesticates available for each society (see ‘Statistical analysis’ and Figure S2) The range of dispersal constraints we explored went from 10 to 40,000 km (i.e. the circumference of the entire world as measured at the equator) The dispersal constraint that best predicted farming propensities was 8,000 km which roughly translates to dispersal processes that are limited to a continental scale The potential for horizontal transmission of farming was estimated as the average farming propensity value of the k closest neighbours of each society To ensure that our metric of horizontal transmission best captured the spatial structure of the dataset we chose a k value that maximized our ability to account for the spatial autocorrelation in the residuals of the correlation between horizontal transmission estimates and farming propensities (i.e. Linear mixed models of farming propensity in early twentieth century traditional societies as predicted by neighbourhood effects (i.e the number of early domesticates capable of thriving under local climatic conditions (i.e historical ecological opportunity) and the current mammal and vascular plant diversity (i.e Phylogenetic non-independence is accounted for by including language family as a random effect The upper and lower halves of the table respectively summarize our findings based on a model with and without dispersal constraints (i.e. 8,000 km radii from corresponding centres of origin) Alternative algorithms for estimating global variation in the suitability of local climates for the first 105 species domesticated by humans (a and b) and their effect on farming propensity (c and d) (a) Number of domesticated species expected to be available at each site given ecological conditions and a dispersal limit from corresponding centres of origin of 8,000 km (b) Predicted number of early domesticates without any dispersal constraints (c) Effect of (a) on the farming propensity of early 20th century traditional societies (d) Effect of (b) on the farming propensity of early 20th century traditional societies Variance components in our models of farming propensity among traditional societies in the early 20th century Model variants that either considered (a) or not (b) dispersallimitations are depicted separately Hor = horizontal cultural transmission; Ver = vertical cultural transmission; CEO = current ecologicalopportunity; HEO = historical ecological opportunity The extensive overlap in variance explained by vertical and horizontal transmission in our model (84.37%) suggests that it is risky to attribute greater importance to either one of these processes given that our proxies for both of these processes explain unique we can at least conclude that both are likely to have shaped the spread adoption and continued evolution of agricultural practices that even this latter possibility is constrained by human movement because prehistoric transfers of knowledge between groups would presumably require some level of person-to-person contact an important ecological factor not considered in our study our findings indicate that geographic variation in reliance on agriculture among traditional societies in the early twentieth century can be consistently predicted by language family the agricultural practices of near neighbours and the degree to which local environments specifically favoured the initial set of human domesticates that were developed less than 8,000 km away Given the large fraction of variance that is jointly explained by different combinations of these variables we strongly caution against simplisticaly interpreting the size of individual variance components in our models as possible indicators of their relative importance our findings remind us that no matter how technologically advanced our species has become our subsistence is still solidly anchored in both history and its ecological context To view supplementary material for this article, please visit https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.55 Richerson and Frans de Waal for their invitation to contribute to this special issue We also thank the reviewers for their constructive and thoroughly enriching critiques 2 for their input regarding a lack of traditional agriculture in California and Australia All authors contributed to the conceptualization and design of this research TT and CB implemented those designs and conducted the analyses with BV contributing the majority of that effort CAB and TF wrote the first draft of the manuscript All authors contributed to manuscript revisions CAB and MCG were funded by the National Science Foundation TT and BV were funded by a Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History research fellowship awarded to CAB The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in D-PLACE at www.d-place.org, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility GBIF at www.gbif.org, EcoClimate at www.ecoclimate.org, and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species v. 2010.4 at: www.iucnredlist.org Model variants that either considered (a) or not (b) dispersallimitations are depicted separately.Hor = horizontal cultural transmission; Ver = vertical cultural transmission; CEO = current ecologicalopportunity; HEO = historical ecological opportunity - No HTML tags allowed- Web page URLs will display as text only- Lines and paragraphs break automatically- Attachments Your email address will be used in order to notify you when your comment has been reviewed by the moderator and in case the author(s) of the article or the moderator need to contact you directly shared ownership in or any close relationship with any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work This pertains to all the authors of the piece To describe the geographic distribution of infections caused by Pythium insidiosum in dogs we have collected data from cases of pythiosis in 1,150 horses and other species (59) from various geographic locations in the US the selected cases include years 2000 to 2005 and 2016 to 2020 The selection of cases was based on infected host clinical features serum samples demonstrating strong positive anti–P insidiosum IgG titers in serologic assays and positive results on ≥ 1 of the following diagnostic modalities: microbial culture on 2% Sabouraud dextrose agar and wet mount cytologic evaluation (with potassium hydroxide) Most confirmed P insidiosum infections were found in horses and dogs in the southeastern US no cases were found west of longitude 100°W Few pythiosis cases were diagnosed in west-coast states Equine cases were more often diagnosed during summer and fall months but canine cases were more often diagnosed between September and February Cases in other species were discovered in the same geographic areas as those in dogs and horses this is the first report providing the ecological distribution of P insidiosum infection in affected species in the US Results of this study illustrated the importance of including P insidiosum in the differential diagnostic scheme of nonhealing skin lesions or intestinal granulomatous masses particularly in dogs and horses inhabiting or having visited endemic areas details on the geographic distribution and the epidemiology of infections caused by P insidiosum in animals in the US has yet to be addressed we conducted an epidemiological study utilizing data collected from confirmed cases of the disease with the intent to identify the geographic distribution and frequency of P insidiosum infections in endemic areas Cases of pythiosis in cats (n = 25), cattle (18), dogs (467), and horses (1,150) included in this study were unpublished cases originally diagnosed in our institutions from 2000 to 2020 as described. All selected individuals in this study exhibited cutaneous or intestinal granulomas, a strong positive serologic reaction, and positive results on additional assays. The number of cases by state and species following the above criteria are listed (Table 1) The location was determined based on the ZIP code where the case was first clinically diagnosed the date when the diagnosis was confirmed (clinical features plus serologic testing plus other assays In cases where the original location of the patient was not available the office address of the physician or veterinarian in charge was selected as the ZIP code for geographic location Number of pythiosis cases by state and species over a 9-year period Due to epidemiological relevance, information on published pythiosis cases involving captive animals and a California bird are provided along with 3 cases of pythiosis in camels that were diagnosed at our laboratory (Appendix) The number of cases diagnosed each month during the 9 years of the study (data collection and recording) were compiled and tabulated using a commercially available software program (Excel 2016; Microsoft Corp) The species more frequently diagnosed with P insidiosum infections in our study were dogs (n = 467) and horses (1,150; Table 1) Pythium insidiosum lesions in horses were more commonly found on their limbs but other anatomic areas in contact with wet environments containing propagules of P insidiosum were also reported (ie including limbs and virtually all other areas (80%; 374/467) whereas the intestinal form was less common (20%; 93/467) Pythiosis in horses and dogs displayed similar geographic distributions and Texas) followed by Oklahoma and nearby states having the highest number of cases Most cases in these 2 species occurred in Florida and Texas several cases of pythiosis in dogs were also recorded in North Carolina which also was the case for the northern states at the same longitude states with no previous cases of pythiosis in these species included Idaho Figure 1Numbers of cases of pythiosis by month in dogs (panel A) and horses (panel B) during a 9-year period Blue bars comprise winter and spring months whereas red bars include summer and fall months Citation: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 260, 5; 10.2460/javma.20.10.0595 these are states with no previous reported cases this is the first study in the US dealing with the geographic distribution of P insidiosum infections in multiple animal species The objective of this epidemiological study was not only to demonstrate the areas where the disease is more prevalent but also to call the attention of the veterinary community to the geographic areas where and the time of the year when pythiosis is commonly diagnosed We hope this study encourages veterinarians to consider pythiosis in their differential diagnostic scheme of nonhealing skin lesions or intestinal granulomatous masses particularly in dogs and horses inhabiting the endemic areas No funding was received in connection with this study or the writing of the manuscript Robert Glass is involved in the diagnostic ELISA for pythiosis at Pan American Veterinary Laboratories Leonel Mendoza holds several patents on the immunotherapy of pythiosis and director of SolidTech Animal Health Inc which is involved in the development of a Pythium insidiosum immunotherapeutic product to treat pythiosis and a vaccine to prevent the disease in at-risk horses and dogs; these products are current candidates for USDA commercial licensure The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest Gaastra W, Lipman LJ, De Cock AW, et al. 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the authors of a recently published book about land grabbing and deforestation called “Dono é quem desmata” (which translates inelegantly as “the owner is the person who clears the land”) AJ Vilela and Ana Luíza are the offspring of Antônio José Rossi Junqueira Vilela wealthy cattle rancher whose achievements as a breeder of Nelore cattle have long been praised in the nation’s agribusiness media One influential magazine acclaimed him as “a model of success from whom large and small ranchers can learn lessons.” AJJ saw to it that his children achieved celebrity status with photos of AJ Vilela and Ana Luíza often appearing in Brazil’s most exclusive social columns — posing at private art exhibit openings and exclusive fashion shows A highpoint of 2013’s social calendar was an extravaganza celebrating AJ Vilela’s 35th birthday at his luxury home in Jardim Europa one of São Paulo’s most exclusive neighborhoods AJ Vilela traveled to the tiny Caribbean island of Saint Barths to marry Ana Khoury a fashionable Brazilian jewelry designer whose work adorns Madonna and other celebrities Ana Khoury attests to only using Fair Trade gold in her work of buying from mines “run according to exacting social economic and environmental regulations that protect workers their families and entire communities,” and of not contributing “to abuse through conflict Most of her international customers almost certainly have no idea that her former husband — they separated in 2012 — was illegally clearing land as far back as 2010 in the Amazon Nor would they likely be aware that the wealth boasted by family patriarch AJ Vilela arose from unsavory business activities conducted near the impoverished well-connected surroundings of São Paulo’s Jardim Europa To unravel and understand AJ Vilela’s criminal history as with many other self-made men in the Amazon got his big break in Mato Grosso state in 1967 when he procured 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) from the Brazilian authorities which were eager to push out indigenous and traditional peoples and repopulate the Amazon with new settlers AJJ “set out to achieve his dream of becoming a great and respected cattle raiser” he worked for a time in the state of Rondônia in the Southwestern Amazon basin his name became associated with some gruesome events In 1983 he was accused of ordering the killing of miners panning for gold on his land; and in 1986 he was alleged to have been involved in an attempt to wipe out a group of isolated Indians by poisoning them with sugar laced with arsenic AJJ became “great and respected,” though he openly admits that in his early days as a rancher “I bought a lot of land in Mato Grosso He didn’t only deforest his own land Eventually he was fined 60 million reais(US$ 20 million) for clearing land within the Cristalino State Park he still received public funding to build two small hydroelectric plants inside the park Amazon Development Fund (about US$19 million); BNDES the National Economic and Social Development Bank (US$ 3 million); and Banco da Amazônia (about US$3 million) All this despite reports of irregularities in permits granted for the work — including the most obvious the concession of a license for a hydroelectric dam within a conservation unit The case was reviewed by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into small-scale hydro-projects in the Mato Grosso Legislative Assembly because accusations had been made that the project licenses were obtained using false documents It was reported at that time that AJJ was an important backer of the former governor of Mato Grosso and that the licenses had been granted as part of a political deal Blairo Maggi is Brazil’s agriculture minister but AJJ’s cattle went on grazing inside the park AJ Vilela followed in his father’s footsteps and even outdid him; today he holds the record for the largest fines ever imposed by IBAMA for environmental crimes: US$ 111 million He followed his father’s example in another way Not that they would have bankrupted him: they amounted to not even a fifth of the US$ 600 million that passed through his bank accounts between 2012 and 2015 Brazil’s independent public prosecutors Few in Brazil are surprised by his failure to pay: “Have you ever heard of organized crime paying its fines?” responded Luciano Evaristo IBAMA’s head of environmental protection more than four years after beginning his illegal activities — and after making it clear that he had no intention of stopping — he had cleared forest covering 300,000 square kilometers (74,132 acres) “The man who was farming this land before was kicked off by brute force He and his accomplices were accused of ambushing and firing on a rural landless worker “the Federal Police recorded a conversation in which AJ Vilela’s lawyer ordered him to get rid of weapons used in the crime.” This is part of the transcript: Lawyer: They [AJ Vilela’s gunmen] may be called in for questioning or even arrested Viacava — Ana Luíza’s husband — likewise comes from a wealthy São Paulo family that made its fortune in ranching was Minister of Finance during the military government of General João Baptista Figueiredo and owns large ranches A former president of the Association of Nelore Breeders of Brazil he was chosen by Dinheiro Rural magazine as one of the 100 most influential personalities in agribusiness for 2016 in conditions “analogous to slavery.” the workers “began to clear forest at 4.30am and only stopped work at 5:30 pm,” and were “subjected to grueling working hours.” the two men were not caught due to the federal government’s sophisticated surveillance of illegal logging in the Amazon using “real time” geo-monitoring an Amazonian indigenous group that has developed their own even more effective — if somewhat less sophisticated — system for monitoring goings on in their territory a gang headed by AJ Vilela started clearing an area of 14,000 hectares (34,595 acres) on the border of the Baú Indigenous Territory AJ Vilela — both a sophisticated entrepreneur and criminal — had hired geo-monitoring whiz kids to inform his overseers in the field precisely how many trees they could safely fell without their work being captured by the satellites This indigenous report took the government by surprise — the geo-monitoring system wasn’t registering any deforestation where the Indians said it was happening The director was astonished at the Indians’ ability to monitor the forest: “The Indians have an efficient intelligence system and the various villages use radio to tell each other in Kayapó what is going on,” he said they always know what is happening in their territory.” The discovery of slave labor in the tree clearing camps led authorities to intensify their investigation and to broaden the sweep of the on-going Flying Rivers Operation even though he was given very heavy fines (which he never paid) and lawsuits were brought against him AJJ (who has disappeared from the scene and apparently suffers from Alzheimer’s disease) the state has not confiscated the land that AJ Vilela the public land that AJ Vilela illegally occupied is still indisputably in his gang’s hands quick and cheap to “launder the cattle.” Livestock illegally fattened in one place Federal prosecutor Patrícia Daros Xavier said that “there are documents that show that big slaughterhouses are acquiring cattle reared on illegally cleared land” and these claims are being investigated the cattle industry is “lagging behind” in addressing Amazon deforestation The fact that the gang is unable to get legal title to the land doesn’t seem to cause serious problems either as it doesn’t stop them from running their ranch on the property as before People living in the region commonly agree: “the owner is the person who clears the land” The body responsible for ensuring that illegally appropriated public land is returned to state ownership is the federal government’s Terra Legal Program But people to whom we made inquiries in Pará say that these officials are doing nothing to reclaim illegally cleared land We asked the person in charge of the Terra Legal Program in the west of Pará why measures had not been taken to reclaim the gang’s land but we didn’t get a reply This article appeared originally in Mongabay – https://news.mongabay.com A global-south year into the Ukraine Trap As an ethical point of fact At the same moment that the lower chamber of the Brazilian congress was moving .. submitted to Brazil´s Supreme Court on Tuesday night (Feb Andrea Graham and Brooke Brown have two key things in common: They have amazing children with Down Syndrome and they had to search and search for community not only for themselves but for their children.  Locating Down Syndrome communities and support systems isn’t as straightforward as it should be The difficulties include the limited diversity in these spaces Vilela’s husband is Peruvian and her child is biracial and Graham is white while her adopted daughter is Hispanic Finding spaces that embrace all of the children’s identities is a challenge.  Because few Down Syndrome communities existed in the area Vilela took the initiative to create 321 Buddy for the greater Seattle area Now they actively share this supportive network with other nearby families.  found out her child had Down Syndrome two weeks after birth in 2020 She struggled with postpartum depression while also searching the internet for help with this new journey.  a lot of times it honestly is with white kids that have Down Syndrome and I was like what will a kid that’s Black even look like I was feeling so lost.” Brown explained.  Brown said that even at Down Syndrome-focused conferences making it challenging to find relatable experiences “I think it’s another layer you know I think there’s a lack for sure.”  had a biracial baby boy with Down Syndrome around the same time She is not a person of color but she observed the overall scarcity of Down Syndrome communities as a whole.  That was “definitely the loneliest time I’ve ever had,” she said She searched for community while watching her son navigate numerous health complications in his early life.  Vilela and Brown met through the Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network Facebook group and forged a close friendship during that challenging time “I knew when I was in the hospital that something was going to change,” Vilela said “I knew that I wanted to do whatever I could to help any other parent or caregiver feel a little less lonely during everything going on.” Vilela was able to start a 500-person buddy walk in 2021 All they received was positive feedback:  “We raised like and people just kept saying that they needed a community and a community center and so after that I started 321 Buddy!” The group typically holds buddy walks during October two years into 321 Buddy and with over $140,000 raised they hope to open a community center.  Graham was on the lookout for a community and much later found 321 Buddy when it first started “Yes they have an extra chromosome and in my opinion and so many other people’s opinions For some families the buddy walk is a way of seeing that!”  According to Vilela: “We want to have a place where as a parent of a kiddo with Down Syndrome I can go into a room with another parent of a kiddo with Down Syndrome and know they just get it.” Not only do these communities benefit those with Down Syndrome These connections become a source of understanding fostering a supportive environment where parents can exchange insights Graham says 321 Buddy is a crucial step for their communities “There is such an underserved spotlight really Down Syndrome is becoming more known and we want that You can reach 321 Buddy at their website where you can also read about their third annual Build A Dream luncheon planned for Jan the country’s art and music scene witnessed a vibrant explosion As traditional styles of samba and bossa nova collided brilliantly with modern styles of Western rock and psychedelia a variety of incredible new sounds dominated the airwaves it would be easy to forget certain artists but nobody could ever forget the distinctive voice of Noriel Vilela The vocalist stuck with the group throughout the first half of the 1960s witnessing some success with tracks like ‘Leva eu ​​saudade’ the album has since become a highly sought-after record for vinyl obsessives it is easy to see why Vilela’s album has such lasting power and influence Although his music is indicative of the wider Brazilian samba rock scene in the late 1960s his vocal performance has something of a timeless quality to it – you could very easily mistake him for a modern artist upon initial listens While his debut studio album did not witness the same levels of commercial success as some of his contemporaries few samba records of the same period have enjoyed the same enduring legacy as Eis o Ôme the album was eclipsed by Vilela’s 1971 single ‘16 Toneladas’ The song itself is a cover or reimagining of the classic Tennessee Ernie Ford track ‘16 Tons’ an iconic song detailing the daily struggle of the working class Vilela imbued the somewhat melancholic track with a distinctly Brazilian feeling of vibrancy and optimism His deep vocals made him the obvious choice to cover Ford’s song but the resulting cover might even rival the original version the life of the samba king would be cut short with Vilela passing away in 1975 at the age of only 38 the singer either died as a result of leukaemia or an allergic reaction to a dental operation The sudden death of the samba star left Brazilian music fans with a plethora of unanswered questions about how his work would develop through the 1970s as more modern influences and experimentation crept into the samba scene As is the case with every artist worth their salt the singer certainly lives on through his flawless body of work DEERFIELD BEACH – Surveillance video from a restaurant in Deerfield Beach captured a fatal crash early Sunday morning but employees said the crash was so horrific they couldn't bring themselves to release the video to the public will be a key piece of evidence in the trial of one of the drivers who faces numerous charges in the collision people who knew the teen killed in the crash are stepping up to help her family Broward Sheriff's Office deputies said the crash occurred just before 4 a.m Sunday at the intersection of County Club Boulevard and West Hillsboro Boulevard were in a black Tesla with Espinoza behind the wheel and Haug in the passenger seat As they made a left turn onto Country Club Boulevard from West Hillsboro Boulevard a white BMW driven by Raphael Candido Vilela smashed into them while speeding west on Hillsboro Boulevard Vilela and the three teens in his car were taken to a hospital with major injuries while Espinoza was treated and then released Authorities said Haug died from her injuries "This is quite devastating to the entire community," Diane Yendell Yendell lives near Haug's family and got to watch her grow up Yendell said Haug had just gotten into the University of Central Florida and was planning on starting school there in the fall but now will never get that chance "To have this happen and pulled right out from her before she even had the chance to blossom into a beautiful woman is just very sad," Yendell said Yendell has since created a GoFundMe page to help support Haug's family during this time Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved TV Listings Email Newsletters RSS Feeds Closed Captioning / Audio Description Contact Us Careers at WPLG Terms of Use Privacy Policy Public File FCC Applications EEO Report Do Not Sell My Info 1.0 Host Exhibit Copyright © 2025 Local10.com is published by WPLG INC. 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