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The Global Feed Premix Market is expected to reach USD 22.1 billion by 2027 and is likely to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.50% in the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. The rapid increase in the demand of livestock based products is a significant factor driving the market growth rate.
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The most cited articles published since 2010, extracted from Scopus
Volume 43, Issue 3, November 2010, Pages 83-93
Catarina I M Martins | Ep H. Eding | Marc C J Verdegem | Leon T N Heinsbroek | Oliver S. Schneider | Jean Paul Blancheton | Emmanuelle Roque D'orbcastel | Johan A J Verreth
The dual objective of sustainable aquaculture, i.e., to produce food while sustaining natural resources is achieved only when production systems with a minimum ecological impact are used. Recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs) provide opportunities to reduce water usage and to improve waste management and nutrient recycling. RAS makes intensive fish production compatible with environmental sustainability. This review aims to summarize the most recent developments within RAS that have contributed to the environmental sustainability of the European aquaculture sector. The review first shows the ongoing expansion of RAS production by species and country in Europe. Life cycle analysis showed that feed, fish production and waste and energy are the principal components explaining the ecological impact of RAS. Ongoing developments in RAS show two trends focusing on: (1) technical improvements within the recirculation loop and (2) recycling of nutrients through integrated farming. Both trends contributed to improvements in the environmental sustainability of RAS. Developments within the recirculation loop that are reviewed are the introduction of denitrification reactors, sludge thickening technologies and the use of ozone. New approached towards integrated systems include the incorporation of wetlands and algal controlled systems in RAS. Finally, the review identifies the key research priorities that will contribute to the future reduction of the ecological impact of RAS. Possible future breakthroughs in the fields of waste production and removal might further enhance the sustainabilty of fish production in RAS. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 43, Issue 2, September 2010, Pages 38-45
Judson C. DeCew | Igor I. Tsukrov | A. Risso | Maria Robinson Swift | Barbaros Çelikkol
The submergence behavior of a small volume fish cage in a single-point mooring system under currents is investigated using a numerical model. Results are validated by comparing to a scaled physical model tow test. The current induced submergence depth, as a function of net chamber solidity for various water velocities is examined. The system remains at the surface at low water velocities until the solidity dependent threshold is reached. At higher currents, the system enters an unstable submergence regime where a small change in the system design could significantly impact the predicted submergence depth. The distribution of current throughout the water column also plays an important role in the steady state response of the structure. Analytical formulas to approximate the dependence of normal drag coefficient for cylinders and spheres on Reynolds number (Re) are proposed. The formulas for cylinders expand the expressions of Choo and Casarella (1971) to account for the decrease in drag forces experimentally observed for 2×105
Volume 42, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 51-56
Christopher M. Good | John W. Davidson | Carla F. Welsh | Kevin R. Snekvik | Steven T. Summerfelt
Chronic exposure to elevated levels of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) has been linked to reduced growth, physiological disturbances and negative health outcomes in intensively reared fish. Although pumping to a degassing tower can lower concentrations of dissolved CO2 in water recirculation aquaculture systems (WRAS), pumping can be a significant cost for operators. A 6-month trial was conducted to compare the effects of high (24 ± 1 mg/L; partial pressure = 8.79 mm Hg) and low (8 ± 1 mg/L; partial pressure = 2.91 mm Hg) dissolved CO2 concentrations on rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss performance and health in replicated WRAS operated at low-exchange rates (0.26% of the total recirculating flow). Rainbow trout (62 ± 1 g) were randomly stocked into six replicated WRAS and into three small tanks within a flow-through system to provide a physiological comparison. All study fish were maintained at densities between 25 and 80 kg/m3, at water temperatures of approximately 13-14 °C, and at dissolved oxygen concentrations of approximately saturation. A 24-h photoperiod was provided and all fish groups were fed equal portions every 2 h during the study period. Fish health and performance were assessed with daily mortality and monthly length and weight data collection, as well as multiple tissue samplings for histopathological assessment. At the study's end, percentage survival for both groups was high (>97%). No significant (p < 0.05) differences in growth or survival were observed between CO2 treatments. No nephrocalcinosis or related pathologies were noted. Skin and gill pathologies were common in both treatment groups; however, there were few statistically significant differences between groups for any of the tissue types evaluated: high CO2 fish were more likely to exhibit lymphocytic portal hepatitis, while the low CO2 treatment group exhibited greater gill epithelial hyperplasia. None of the pathologies observed were substantive or likely to cause mortality. The results of this study indicate that raising rainbow trout to market size in WRAS with CO2 concentrations of 24 mg/L does not significantly affect their overall health and performance. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 17-24
Luis Alejandro Vinatea Vinatea | Alfredo Olivera Gàlvez | Craig L. Browdy | Alvin D. Stokes | Jesús A. Venero | Jason Haveman | Beth L. Lewis | Alisha Lawson | Andrew J. Shuler | John W. Leffler
Gross and net photosynthesis, and water column respiration of a super-intensive Litopenaeus vannamei raceway culture with zero water exchange were measured over 21 weeks using the light and dark bottle method. Spearman correlation analysis was used to explore the relationship of these parameters with other water quality parameters (O2, temperature, pH, alkalinity, TAN, NO2, NO3, dissolved orthophosphate, turbidity, TSS and VSS) and of shrimp performance based on growth rate and feed conversion rate. Net photosynthesis generally had negative values, indicating that the system was predominantly heterotrophic. Gross photosynthesis was significantly related only with VSS, and water column respiration was related only with turbidity. Shrimp growth rate increased with higher temperature and dropped with higher pH. Nitrite had a strong inverse relationship with shrimp growth rate (R2 = 0.8044, p < 0.001) and a weak relationship with FCR (R2 = 0.3319, p = 0.0284). VSS has a significant inverse relationship with shrimp growth rate (R2 = 0.4989, p = 0.0102) and a direct relationship with FCR (R2 = 0.5356, p = 0.0162). Photosynthesis and the water column respiration did not seem to have a significant impact on shrimp productivity. © 2009 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 44, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 80-96
John W. Davidson | Christopher M. Good | Carla F. Welsh | Steven T. Summerfelt
Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss performance and water quality were evaluated and compared within six replicated 9.5m3 water recirculating aquaculture systems (WRAS) operated with and without ozone at various water exchange rates. Three separate studies were conducted: (1) low water exchange (0.26% of the total recycle flow) with and without ozone; (2) low water exchange with ozone versus high water exchange (2.6% of the total recycle flow) without ozone; and (3) near-zero water exchange (only backwash replacement) with and without ozone. Mean feed loading rates for WRAS operated at high, low, and near-zero exchange were 0.40, 3.98, and 55.9kgfeed/m3 makeup water, respectively. Ozone significantly reduced total suspended solids, color, and biochemical oxygen demand and resulted in a significant increase in ultraviolet transmittance (%) (P<0.10). Ozone also created ambient water quality within low exchange WRAS that was comparable to that of WRAS operated at high water exchange (P>0.10). Additionally, dissolved copper and iron were significantly lower within WRAS operated with ozone (P<0.10). Dissolved zinc was also consistently lower in WRAS operated with ozone, but not significantly (P>0.10). In Studies 1 and 3, total ammonia nitrogen and nitrite nitrogen were slightly lower within the ozonated systems, but were not always significantly lower. In all studies, ozone did not prevent nitrate nitrogen accumulation. At the conclusion of Study 1, rainbow trout growth was significantly greater within low exchange WRAS operated with ozone (P=0.001). At the conclusion of Study 2, rainbow trout growth was similar between treatments (P=0.581), indicating that fish grew equally as well within ozonated WRAS operated at 1/10th the flushing rate as the non-ozonated and high flushing control systems. Overall, ozone created an improved water quality environment within low and near-zero exchange WRAS that generally resulted in enhanced rainbow trout growth rates, survival, feed conversion, and condition factor. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 53-59
Vassilis M. Papadakis | Ioannis E. Papadakis | Fani Lamprianidou | Alexios Glaropoulos | Maroudio Kentouri
Behavioral variations of small fish populations are difficult to measure quantitatively. To quantify such measurements, a low-cost computer vision system has been developed to analyze fish behavior in aquaculture tanks. With this system, 9 tanks can be observed simultaneously, enabling the study of one factor, in three triplets for further statistical analysis. The system enables the observation of the tanks at all times, with the use of a web publishing tool, while it allows the remote control of the acquisition to eliminate behavioral variations that might otherwise be caused by human presence. Evaluation of the system was achieved by measuring fish interaction (inspection and biting) on three different net conditions. Measurements were completed in three experimental sets, using stocking density as a stress factor. Results clearly demonstrate that the system successfully recorded fish behavior with minimal frame loss (<21. s in 24. h), while analysis identified every fish interaction with the net. In addition, the measured variations of fish behavior within a single day showed no statistical differences. In conclusion, an inexpensive and efficient computer vision system is presented, assisting in the monitoring and analysis of fish behavior. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 27-39
Kari Johanne Kihle Attramadal | Ingrid Salvesen | Renyu Xue | Gunvor Øie | Trond Røvik Størseth | Olav Vadstein | Yngvar A. Olsen
Marine hatcheries represent high value, low waste systems for larvae that are sensitive to general infections by opportunistic bacteria. In intensive cultivation several procedures destabilise the microbial community of the rearing water and favour growth of potentially harmful microbes. Recirculation aquaculture systems (RASs) have properties that may contribute to microbial stabilisation, including long water retention time and a large surface area of biofilters for bacterial growth. Moreover, the microbial community in RAS biofilters has the possibility to stabilise at a similar carrying capacity as the larvae tanks, which could potentially limit the chances of proliferation of opportunistic microbes in the rearing water. The development of the microbial community in a RAS with moderate ozonation (to 350. mV) was compared to that of a conventional flow-through system (FTS) for the same group of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua. The feed and intake water were the same for the two groups. The RAS developed and maintained a more diverse and stable microbial community composition compared to the FTS. Water treatment regime explained most of the variation in microbial composition during the live feed period, and in addition it accounted for ten times higher variation in the composition of bacteria in the FTS than in the RAS. Less variability in bacterial composition was found between replicate fish tanks of the RAS than between tanks of the FTS. The RAS had a more even microbial community structure with higher species diversity and periodically a lower fraction of opportunists. The fish in the RAS performed better than their siblings in the FTS, despite being exposed to an apparent inferior physiochemical water quality. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 45, Issue 3, November 2011, Pages 93-102
Shiyang Zhang | Gu Li | Hui B. Wu | Xingguo Liu | Yan Hong Yao | Ling Tao | Huang Liu
To mitigate the serious water pollution caused by the rapid expansion of the aquaculture industry in recent years, the development of improved aquaculture systems with more efficient water usage and less environmental impact has become essential. In this study, a land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) was established that consisted of purification units (i.e., a primary biological pond, two parallel horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands [CWs], and a long ecological ditch) and 4-5 series-connected recirculating ponds. This system was mainly designed to stock channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), fifteen spine stickleback (Spinibarbus sinensis) and yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco), and the culture efficacy was evaluated based on a 2-year field experiment covering two growing seasons. According to the results, the primary biological pond played a role in sedimentation or nutrient retention, although this was not as evident when the CWs were functioning. The water flowing through the wetland system at a hydraulic loading rate (HLR) of 600. mm/day displayed lower values for the temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), suspended solids, organic matter and nutrients, whereas the electrical conductivity (EC) was higher, suggesting the accumulation of dissolved solids in the system. Due to the recirculation treatment, the trophic status of the recirculating ponds increased gradually along the direction of the flow and was notably lower in comparison to the control. As a result, the fish production responded to the variation of the water quality, which was reflected in the measurements of culture efficacy (final weight, survival rate, SGR and yield). The three main rearing species showed a decreasing trend along the direction of the flow, which was higher compared to the control, whereas an opposite trend was observed for filter-feeding fish. A Pearson correlation analysis revealed that the main culture species were inclined to live in meso- or oligotrophic conditions, and the silver carp adapted to more eutrophic conditions. Because RAS can provide better environmental conditions year-round, the present culture method could be more suitable for species that are sensitive to water quality in typical subtropical areas. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 43, Issue 1, July 2010, Pages 29-36
A study was undertaken to measure carbon dioxide degassing in a cascade column operating with both fresh (0‰) and saline water (35‰ NaCl) at 15°C. The cascade column contained bio-block type packing material, was 1.7m long in each dimension, and was tested both with and without countercurrent air exchange. The CO2 concentration of the influent and effluent water was measured using submersible infrared CO2 probes over an influent range of 10-60mgL-1 CO2. Carbon dioxide degassing was quantified in terms of the mass transfer coefficient (kLa, log concentration driving force divided by packing height) and the CO2 stripping efficiency (the difference in CO2 concentration between the influent water and the effluent water that has re-established chemical equilibria approximately 1min after exiting the column). Mass transfer coefficients were similar between fresh and saline water. Countercurrent air flow did not improve stripping efficiency, probably because the column was already operating at a high mass transfer rate with no active ventilation and there was sufficient passive, concurrent air flow to overcome the accumulation of CO2 inside the column. There was a positive relationship between influent CO2 concentration and CO2 stripping efficiency, which ranged from 67% to 89% CO2 stripped in a single pass. The CO2 stripping efficiency was lower in saline water compared to freshwater at equivalent influent CO2 concentrations. The dependence of CO2 stripping efficiency on salinity was attributed to differences in the ionization fractions of inorganic carbon species in the effluent water. The results indicate that CO2 removal will be more problematic for saline or seawater recirculating systems compared to freshwater systems. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 38-49
Todd C. Guerdat | Thomas M. Losordo | John J. Classen | Jason A. Osborne | Dennis P. DeLong
Three different commercially available biological filters were evaluated in triplicate on a 60 m3 tank-based Tilapia system under commercial warmwater growout conditions. The study was performed at the North Carolina State University Fish Barn-a commercial scale research and demonstration recirculating aquaculture facility operated by the department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Total ammoniacal nitrogen (TAN) removal rates were determined for the three types of biofilters for a range of concentrations ranging from 0.13 to 1.20 g TAN m-3. TAN concentrations were varied by feed rates and ammonium chloride additions, and limited by fish feeding response. Maximum feed rates were 65 kg feed d-1 using a 40% protein diet at a maximum biomass of 5500 kg. Average observed TAN removal rates (in g TAN m-3 of unexpanded media d-1 ± standard deviation) for the three filters were 267 ± 123, 586 ± 284, and 667 ± 344 for the moving bed bioreactor, floating bead filter, and fluidized sand filter, respectively. These results are considerably lower than results previously published at the laboratory scale using artificial waste nutrients. This study highlights the need for future biofilter evaluations at the commercial scale using real aquaculture waste nutrients. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Volume 45, Issue 3, November 2011, Pages 127-136
Andrew J. Ray | Kevin S. Dillon | Jeffrey M. Lotz
A dense microbial community develops in the water column of intensive, minimal-exchange production systems and is responsible for nutrient cycling. A portion of the microbial community is associated with biofloc particles, and some control over the concentration of these particles has been shown to provide production benefits. To help refine the required degree of control, this study evaluated the effects of two levels of biofloc management on water quality and shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) production in commercial-scale culture systems. Eight, 50m3 raceways were randomly assigned to one of two treatments: T-LS (treatment-low solids) and T-HS (treatment-high solids), each with four replicate raceways. Settling chambers adjacent to the T-LS raceways had a volume of 1700L with a flow rate of 20Lmin-1. The T-HS raceways had 760L settling chambers with a flow rate of 10Lmin-1. Raceways were stocked with 250shrimpm-3, with a mean individual weight of 0.72g, and shrimp were grown for thirteen weeks. Raceways in the T-LS treatment had significantly reduced total suspended solids, volatile suspended solids, and turbidity compared to the T-HS treatment (P≤0.003). The T-LS raceways also had significantly lower nitrite and nitrate concentrations, and the T-HS raceways had significantly lower ammonia and phosphate concentrations (P≤0.021). With the exception of nitrate, there were no significant differences between the change in concentration of water quality parameters entering and exiting the settling chambers in the T-LS versus the T-HS treatment. Nitrate never accumulated appreciably in the T-LS raceways, possibly due to denitrification in the settling chambers, bacterial substrate limitations in the raceways, or algal nitrate assimilation. However, in the T-HS raceways nitrate did accumulate. The T-HS settling chambers returned a significantly lower nitrate concentration and significantly greater alkalinity concentration than what entered them (P≤0.005), indicating that denitrification may have occurred in those chambers. There were no significant differences in shrimp survival, feed conversion ratio, or final biomass between the two treatments. However, shrimp in the T-LS treatment grew at a significantly greater rate (1.7gwk-1 vs. 1.3gwk-1) and reached a significantly greater final weight (22.1g vs. 17.8g) than shrimp in the T-HS treatment (P≤0.020). The results of this study demonstrate engineering and management decisions that can have important implications for both water quality and shrimp production in intensive, minimal-exchange culture systems. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 43, Issue 2, September 2010, Pages 46-50
Kevin K. Schrader | John W. Davidson | Agnes M. Rimando | Steven T. Summerfelt
Common "off-flavors" in fish cultured in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are "earthy" and "musty" due to the presence of the off-flavor metabolites geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB), respectively. Previously, ozone addition has been applied to RAS at relatively low doses to break refractory organic molecules (i.e., reducing color), microflocculate fine particulate matter (i.e., increasing solids removal), and oxidize nitrite to nitrate, but the effect of ozone addition at these dosing rates on levels of off-flavor compounds was unknown. Ozonation has been used in municipal drinking water facilities to reduce the levels of these compounds, to improve water taste, and to subsequently reduce consumer complaints. In this study, the effects of ozone addition to the inlet water of the RAS culture tanks on levels of geosmin and MIB in the culture water and fish flesh were evaluated. Water and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) samples were obtained twice after maximum feed rates were reached during a 6-month grow-out period. Results indicated that ozone addition to maintain an oxidation reduction potential of 248 mV (<1. μg/L of ozone residual) did not significantly reduce levels of these off-flavor compounds in the water and fish flesh, though it did significantly improve culture tank water quality. Higher dosages of ozone might be beneficial in removing geosmin and MIB in the RAS water, but the inclusion of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation would be required to prevent mortality associated with ozone toxicity. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 42, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages 121-127
Nafsika P. Karakatsouli | Eustratios S. Papoutsoglou | Nikolaos Sotiropoulos | Dimitrios Mourtikas | Tone Stigen-Martinsen | Sofronios E. Papoutsoglou
It is well known that fish vision and spectrum perception are strongly related to each species natural habitat and living ethology. Recent research data clearly indicate that light spectrum affects farmed fish stress response, physiological status, behaviour, and consequently growth performance. This study aimed to investigate the effects of white (full-spectrum), red (605 nm) and blue (480 nm) light on common carp reared in a recirculating water system. Two experiments were conducted. The first (Experiment 1) was performed on scaled carp (14.68 ± 0.14 g, duration 158 days) combining light treatment with two stocking densities (low: 10 specimens tank-1 or 1.22 kg m-3 and high: 40 specimens tank-1 or 4.89 kg m-3). The second (Experiment 2) investigated the effects of light spectrum in mirror carp (51.88 ± 0.46 g, duration 143 days) combined with two light intensities (150 and 300 lx). Within the fish life stage examined and duration of present experiments, it is indicated that scaled common carp should be reared under red illumination when at low stocking density and blue illumination when at high stocking density. For the rearing of mirror carp, blue or red light should be avoided since they induced an increase in size heterogeneity. Present results also underline the importance of lighting conditions on reared common carp physiological status. Changing light spectrum in indoor recirculating water systems is easy, cost efficient and appropriate manipulation could befit reared fish welfare. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 1-9
Timothy J. Pfeiffer | Steven T. Summerfelt | Barnaby J. Watten
Many methods are available for the measurement of dissolved carbon dioxide in an aqueous environment. Standard titration is the typical field method for measuring dissolved CO 2 in aquaculture systems. However, titrimetric determination of dissolved CO 2 in marine water aquaculture systems is unsuitable because of the high dissolved solids, silicates, and other dissolved minerals that interfere with the determination. Other methods used to measure dissolved carbon dioxide in an aquaculture water included use of a wetted CO 2 probe analyzer, standard nomographic methods, and calculation by direct measurements of the water's pH, temperature, and alkalinity. The determination of dissolved CO 2 in saltwater based on partial pressure measurements and non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) techniques with a CO 2 gas analyzer are widely employed for oceanic surveys of surface ocean CO 2 flux and are similar to the techniques employed with the head space unit (HSU) in this study. Dissolved carbon dioxide (DC) determination with the HSU using a infra-red gas analyzer (IRGA) was compared with titrimetric, nomographic, calculated, and probe measurements of CO 2 in freshwater and in saltwater with a salinity ranging from 5.0 to 30ppt, and a CO 2 range from 8 to 50mg/L. Differences in CO 2 measurements between duplicate HSUs (0.1-0.2mg/L) were not statistically significant different. The coefficient of variation for the HSU readings averaged 1.85% which was better than the CO 2 probe (4.09%) and that for the titrimetric method (5.84%). In all low, medium and high salinity level trials HSU precision was good, averaging 3.39%. Differences existed between comparison testing of the CO 2 probe and HSU measurements with the CO 2 probe readings, on average, providing DC estimates that were higher than HSU estimates. Differences between HSU and titration based estimates of DC increased with salinity and reached a maximum at 32.2ppt. These differences were statistically significant (P<0.05) at all salinity levels greater than 0.3ppt. Results indicated reliable replicated results from the head space unit with varying salinity and dissolved carbon dioxide concentrations. © 2010.
Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 8-16
Chaicheng Huang | Jen Y. Pan
In recent years, the development of single-point mooring (SPM) cage systems has received much attention due to their eco-friendly features. However, natural disasters such as hurricanes and typhoons can cause severe damage to the integrity of net cage system. To avoid mooring system failure, selecting an appropriate breaking strength for mooring lines is becoming an important issue in marine aquaculture industry. This study evaluates the failure risk of a mooring line based on extended-period environmental loadings. Results indicate that the recommended replacement period of a polyester (PET) mooring line (diameter 38 mm) is about 6.55 years if the line's safety factor is 1. However, if the required safety factor increases to 1.5 (diameter 50 mm), then the replacement period extends to 23.81 years about six times that of original life. The fatigue failure probability for mooring lines in the service period is about 0.49 and 0.29 for safety factors of 1 and 1.5, respectively. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Volume 45, Issue 3, November 2011, Pages 109-117
John W. Davidson | Christopher M. Good | Carla F. Welsh | Steven T. Summerfelt
Two studies were conducted to evaluate rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss health and welfare within replicated water recirculating aquaculture systems (WRAS) that were operated at low and near-zero water exchange, with and without ozonation, and with relatively high feed loading rates. During the first study, rainbow trout cultured within WRAS operated with low water exchange (system hydraulic retention time (HRT)=6.7 days; feed loading rate=4.1kg feed/m3 daily makeup flow) exhibited increased swimming speeds as well as a greater incidence of " side swimming" behavior as compared to trout cultured in high exchange WRAS (HRT=0.67 days; feed loading rate=0.41kg feed/m3 daily makeup flow). During the second study, when the WRAS were operated at near-zero water exchange, an increased percentage of rainbow trout deformities, as well as increased mortality and a variety of unusual swimming behaviors were observed within WRAS with the highest feed loading rates and least water exchange (HRT≥103 days; feed loading rate≥71kg feed/m3 daily makeup flow). A wide range of water quality variables were measured. Although the causative agent could not be conclusively identified, several water quality parameters, including nitrate nitrogen and dissolved potassium, were identified as being potentially associated with the observed fish health problems. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 43, Issue 3, November 2010, Pages 101-107
Damian Moran | Bjørn Tirsgård | John Fleng Steffensen
The OxyGuard CO2 Analyzer is a novel meter that can directly measure aqueous CO2 gas pressure using a water-resistant gas-permeable membrane and infra-red absorption cell. The pCO2 is converted to a concentration via a solubility factor determined from the calibration procedure and a thermistor. We undertook to independently validate the precision and utility of this meter. Water flow over the probe membrane was a key determinant of the reaction time. At water velocities of ≥30cms-1 the time to 99% span was 6-7min, while at 0cms-1 it was 55-60min. Temperature and CO2(aq) concentration did not appreciably affect reaction time. The meter had a precision of ±0.5mgL-1 CO2(aq), and high linearity (correlation 0.99-1.01) above 1mgL-1 in both freshwater and seawater. The standard meter will not be useful for measuring low concentrations such as atmospheric CO2 levels, but will be useful in situations where accurate pH and carbonate alkalinity determinations are difficult to obtain, such as saline waters and waters of high organic loadings. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 45, Issue 1, July 2011, Pages 20-27
Tomasz H. Pinkiewicz | Gary John Purser | Raymond N. Williams
Knowledge of fish behaviour plays an important role in aquaculture farm management. Video systems are the most common and cost-effective way of observing behaviours in commercial aquaculture operations. However long term observation is not feasible due to a limited ability to analyse footage manually. This paper describes preliminary findings obtained via computer vision software that was developed to automatically analyse fish movement and behaviours in aquaculture sea cages. Results show that the system is capable of detecting fish shapes in video recordings and from these shapes quantifying changes in swimming speed and direction continuously throughout the day. Also variations between days were detected and these may have been associated with the daily shift in the tidal cycle. The system has the potential to act as an alarm to farm operators, informing them about unusual fish behaviours on a continuous, real-time basis. It also has potential to assist in the evaluation of fish welfare. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 43, Issue 3, November 2010, Pages 114-119
Javier M J Ruiz-Velazco | Alfredo Hernández-Llamas | Víctor Manuel Gómez-Muñoz
A dynamic stock model was used for quantification of shrimp production and analysis of alternative management schemes of stocking density, pond size, starting time of aeration, and duration of cultivation for intensive commercial production of the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. Databases from Mexican farms were used to calibrate the model. Multiple linear regression models were employed to establish relationships between parameters of the stock model and the management variables. Water quality variables (dissolved oxygen, temperature, and salinity) were complementarily analyzed. The final weight of shrimp was directly related to duration of cultivation and dissolved oxygen, and inversely related to stocking density, pond size, and salinity. There were inverse relationships between the growth coefficient and temperature and dissolved oxygen and between mortality rate and temperature. Dissolved oxygen was significantly related to starting time of aeration. Simple linear regression and an equivalence test indicated that biomass at harvest (after 13 weeks in winter, and 20 weeks in summer) was adequately predicted by using the stock model and the multiple regression models. The highest production (winter, 6900kgha-1; summer, 12,600kgha-1) were predicted using 60postlarvaem-2, small ponds (2ha), and starting aeration at the first week of cultivation; while the lowest yields (winter, 2600kgha-1; summer, 6000kgha-1) were obtained using 40postlarvaem-2, large ponds (8ha), and delaying the start of aeration until the fifth week of cultivation. The lowest production was 38% (winter) and 48% (summer) of the highest yield. Using small ponds could be particularly important during winter cycles to increase production, while stocking density and starting time of aeration contributed less. In contrast, pond size played a minor role during summer cycles and stocking density was the most sensitive variable. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 52, Issue , January 2013, Pages 58-64
Corrado Costa | Francesca Antonucci | Clara Boglione | Paolo Menesatti | Marc Vandeputte | Béatrice Chatain
In aquaculture, automation of fish processing by computer vision could reduce operating costs, improving product quality and profit. Currently fish are mechanically sorted by size, but market constraints require that externally malformed fish be removed as well. Additionally fish farmers screen for sex, in order to exploit the higher growth potential of females. The aim of this study was the development of methodological tools applicable to the on-line sorting of farmed seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax, L.) for size, sex and presence of abnormalities. These tools are based on image analysis and utilizing outline morphometry (Elliptic Fourier analysis) combined with multivariate techniques (based on partial least squares modelling). Moreover, the integration of these techniques produce size estimation (in weight) with a better regression efficiency (r=0.9772) than the commonly used log of the measured body length (r=0.9443). The two partial least squares discriminant analysis models used to select sex and malformed fish also returned high discrimination efficiencies (82.05% and 88.21%, respectively). The implementation of a similar approach within an on-line sorting machine would allow for real-time live fish processing. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 43, Issue 3, November 2010, Pages 94-100
Philippe Lefrançois | Jaume Puigagut | Florent Chazarenc | Y. Comeau
Freshwater fish farms in Quebec are facing stringent phosphorus discharge limits of 4.2kg P per tonne of fish produced. Most phosphorus in fish farm effluents is found in particulate form (uneaten food, feces, etc.). Physical separation systems such as microscreens, filter beds, Cornell-type circular tanks and settling tanks have been proposed to remove solids from raceway and recirculation fish farm effluents but these technologies are relatively expensive and labour intensive for small pond based production facilities, as mostly found in Quebec. A novel sediment retention system (SRS), consisting of a 1m3 truncated pyramid, was installed at the bottom of an earth pond, below a surface aerator. The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of collecting and removing sediments by using the SRS and to determine its particulate phosphorus removal efficiency. Solids accumulated in the SRS were quantified and characterised weekly, for 10 weeks. Fish production, food supply, rain events and fish harvesting were also monitored over the course of the study period. The total solids (TS) accumulation rate in the SRS was, on average, 4.0kg/d with a volatile solids fraction of 7.8% and the P accumulation rate was, on average, 12.4g P/d. The P removal efficiency obtained with the SRS was 24% of the total P not taken up by fish (effluent P, PEFF). Assuming that 50% of the PEFF was in the particulate form, the removal efficiency of the SRS was 47%. Lab-scale results correlated with the P mass balance calculations to show that sediments from earth ponds can play an active role in the sorption of soluble phosphorus. Approximately 30% of the P removed from the SRS was attributed to previous sorption/precipitation of soluble P into inorganic forms. The Langmuir model fitted the sorption isotherm of phosphorus onto earth pond soil and the maximum sorption constant obtained was 1.3mg P/g soil. Fish harvesting was identified as the main external factor affecting sediments and phosphorus accumulation in the SRS. It was concluded that an SRS located under the aerator surface is a suitable and efficient strategy to collect and remove particulate phosphorus generated from fish production in earth ponds. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 42, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages 128-139
Matthias Brenner | Bela Hieronymus Buck
The attachment strength of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) growing under exposed conditions on 10 different artificial substrates was measured while assessing microstructure of the applied substrate materials. Fleece-like microstructure attracted especially mussel larvae, however, most settled individuals lost attachment on this type of microstructure with increasing size during the time of experiment. Substrates with thick filaments and long and fixed appendices were less attractive to larvae but provided a better foothold for juvenile mussels as shown by the results of the dislodgement trials. In addition these appendices of substrates could interweave with the mussels, building up a resistant mussel/substrate conglomerate. Our results show that a mussel byssus apparatus can withstand harsh conditions, if suitable substrates are deployed. Depending on cultivation aims (seed or market sized mussels) and cultivation method (one or two step cultivation), different collector types for larval attraction, good foothold and interweaving abilities or collectors combining these properties should be developed and applied. The study suggests that substrates need to be very precisely tailored according to the major environmental conditions. Furthermore, the results imply that a "one size fits all substrate" may not be the most culture-effective approach, but, in the contrary, substrates need to be changed and modified according to the size of the mussel as they go through their different life cycle stages. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 19-24
Jeonghwan Park | Youhee Kim | Pyongkih Kim | Harry V. Daniels
Foam fractionators, with and without additional ozonation, were evaluated for their effect on solids removal (suspended solids, SS; volatile suspended solids, VSS; dissolved organic carbon, DOC), particle size distribution of the foam in seawater recirculating systems during a 44-day experimental period. The effect of ozone on heterotrophic bacteria was also quantified in the entire system. Three separate but identical recirculating systems (4.5m3 system volume) with foam fractionators (300mm in diameter, 3m in height) were used in this study. One system (Control: CS) did not receive ozone, while the other two systems were ozonated at a rate of either 20g ozone/day (T 20) or 40g ozone/day (T 40) per kg of feed applied, respectively. A total of 107kg of black sea bream Acanthopagrus schlegeli (Bleeker) with an average weight of 334.5g was stocked into each system. Daily feeding rate was 1% of total body weight. The solids enrichment factor (EF=Cc/Ci, where Cc=concentration in foam condensate, Ci=concentration in inlet water) in T 40 was 10 times more dilute than the factors in CS and T 20. However, due to the higher volume of the foam (>10 times) in T 40, the removal rates of SS, VSS and DOC were the highest in T 40, but were not significantly different from T 20 (P>0.05). The mean particle sizes at the 90% cumulative removal point decreased with ozonation, 71.2±15.9, 57.9±10.2 and 48.0±10.2μm in CS, T 20 and T 40, respectively. The overall mean particle diameter of solids in the foam decreased as ozonation increased, with values of 29.4±4.4, 23.9±3.8 and 20.5±3.7μm in CS, T 20 and T 40. Numbers of heterotrophic bacteria in the inlet were 6.21±4.93×105CFU/mL, 0.29±0.19×105CFU/mL and 0.30±0.29×105CFU/mL in CS, T 20 and T 40, declining sharply with the addition of ozonation. As the number of the bacteria in the inlet decreased, the bacteria in the foam and the removal rate greatly decreased with increasing ozonation. However, EFs in T 20 (76.4) and T 40 (14.5) were higher than that in CS (12.2), and the T 20 showed significantly higher EF (P<0.05). Therefore, based on the EF, ozonation improved the removal efficiency of heterotrophic bacteria, even at the lowest concentration. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 1-7
Lars-Flemming Pedersen | Per Bovbjerg Pedersen | Jeppe Lund Nielsen | Per Halkjær Nielsen
Repetitive long term formalin application at low dose was investigated to determine the effect on formaldehyde removal rate, biofilter nitrification and the microbial composition in small-scale recirculation aquaculture biofilters. Six pilot-scale recirculation aquaculture systems holding rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were designated to formalin treatments (C0 at 10 and 20 mg/L formaldehyde) on a daily or weekly basis. Formaldehyde removal rates were measured over 10 weeks, during which biofilter nitrification rates were measured in terms of standardized NH4Cl spiking events. The rates were positively correlated to the amount and frequency of formalin treatment. In systems with regularly low formalin dosage, the formaldehyde removal rate increased up to tenfold from 0.19 ± 0.05 to 1.81 ± 0.13 mg/(L h). Biofilter nitrification was not impaired in systems treated with formalin on a daily basis as compared to untreated systems. In systems intermittently treated with formalin, increased variation and minor reductions of ammonium and nitrite oxidation rates were observed. Nitrifying bacteria were screened by specific gene probes using fluorescence in situ hybridization and quantified by digital image analysis. The relative abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) was up to 5.4% of all Bacteria (EUB) positive cells, predominantly Nitrosomonas oligotropha. Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB), mainly consisting of Nitrospira sp. were found in all biofilm samples up to 2.9%, whereas Nitrobacter sp. was not detected. The relative abundances of AOB and NOB in the untreated system were generally higher compared to the system exposed to formalin. Low dose formalin in recirculated aquaculture systems proved to be a possible treatment strategy, as the effect on nitrification was minimal. Since formaldehyde was steadily removed by microorganisms, available biofilter surface area, hydraulic retention time and temperature can be used to predict removal and hence estimate e.g. effluent concentration. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Volume 47, Issue , March 2012, Pages 7-15
Shixiao Fu | Torgeir Moan
An extended 3D hydroelasticity theory is used in the frequency domain to predict the dynamic response of 5 by 2 floating fish farm collars in regular waves. Hinge modes in two directions and flexible torsional modes are all considered in the analyses. The dry and wet resonant natural frequencies for each rigid relative motion and the flexible modes are also calculated. The results show that the modes, flexible bending and torsional modes, as well as their interactions, greatly contribute to the dynamic response of the floating collar system. From a design point of view, the effects of the connector rotational stiffness on the dynamic response of the structures are also analysed. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.

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The girl was taken to a secluded spot Friday night by the accused and raped.
Bhadohi (Uttar Pradesh):
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 30-year-old man in a village under Gopiganj police station area here, police said Saturday.
Superintendent of Police Sachindra Patel said she was taken to a secluded spot Friday night by the accused and raped.
On returning home, the girl informed about the incident to her family, who went out to search for the accused, but he had fled the village by then, the SP said.
The victim has been sent for medical examination and teams have been set up to nab the accused, the SP added.


For the very first time, I read on my Kindle during takeoff and landing. There was explicit permission to leave my phone on, “as long as it’s in airplane mode.”
Felt like the kid who gets a surprise chocolate chip cookie.
But now—yesterday—the FCC has announced a study whether to allow cell phones on commercial airplanes.
Truly. What are they thinking? There are technical issues to work out, cell technology doesn’t work at altitude. But that’s nothing to compared to the human factors.
Do you remember how awful it was when there were smoking sections? Before smoking was outlawed on commercial airplanes in 1988, you might be in non-smoking at row 20. Smoking section started at row 21. Horrible. With 19 inch wide seats you have absolutely no personal space.
And you know those impolite folk who snore on planes, and drink too much get rowdy, who shove on your airplane seatback, or who have their music cranked up so loud the whole plane can hear it through their headphones? Those people will be talking too loud the whole flight. And they will probably be seated next to me.
Forcing us to listen to smarmy details about the party at Betty’s, and the deal they are hoping to close on the Camaro, and the reminder to put the tuna casserole.
Forget airport security, cell phones will cause terrorism in the skies for sure. Pity the flight attendants, who are going to need whistles and striped shirts.
Back 15 years ago when there were phones in every seatback, it was never a problem because they were so bloody expensive— $5 a minute—that people only used them for emergencies. And not even much of those, since phones on planes have gone the way of the smoking section.
Airlines are having an ever more difficult time competing, but how about a “no talking” airline?


School principals to face own skills test
Parents and teachers will have more say in the competency and future career of their school's principal under new laws being introduced by the State Government.
A 20-year ban enshrined in legislation that prevents the Department of Education hiring principals and other school executives from interstate or the non-government school sector will also be lifted, under the bill before State Parliament. It is expected to come into effect in January.
But the new legislation also represents a significant backdown by the Minister for Education, Andrew Refshauge, over the contentious issue of five-year contracts, which were to be renewed only if principals could soundly demonstrate they were up to scratch.
These were a core component of an earlier set of reforms, proposed by Dr Refshauge as a trade-off for wage parity with Catholic principals, after they won an additional pay rise to government school teachers and principals in the Industrial Relations Commission in June.
Instead, principals will now undergo five-year reviews and smaller annual reviews, with parents and teachers contributing to the overall assessment of competency.
Where problems with school leadership are identified, principals will be placed on a performance improvement program and supplied with the training and support needed to lift their game, rather than face automatic dismissal or demotion.
The amendments to the Teaching Services Act have earned the guarded approval of some of the minister's toughest critics over his earlier reform agenda.
The Public Schools Principals Forum's deputy chairman, Brian Chudleigh, said support networks and training for struggling principals was an essential prerequisite to meeting state and federal demands for increased accountability.
The Federal Government will spend $33.3 billion on schools over the next four years, but the money is conditional on states, territories and non-government school authorities meeting a raft of new accountability measures which include more parental say over government school principals' performance.
The president of the NSW Teachers' Federation, Maree O'Halloran, said recruiting from outside the NSW government school system was unlikely to have even a marginal effect on the overall quality of leadership in NSW government schools because not very many principals with the qualifications and expertise would want to come back into a system with lower pay.
Ms O'Halloran said the legislation was a "bureaucratic and legalistic response" to a more serious issue - that of a predicted dearth of school education leaders within the next five to eight years, when about 80 per cent of existing principals are expected to retire.
The president of the NSW Primary Principals Association, Geoff Scott, said opening up the field of potential applicants was welcome. "But what we have to look at now is how do we attract the best of our own to apply for these positions, because at the moment there is a lack of people applying for these positions."
NSW Secondary School Principals Council president, Chris Bonnor, said the new legislation would send a stronger message of accountability to the wider community.


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My two sons, Malcolm (8 years) and Rowan (4 years) join me in the studio for two goofy shows about the fun things we do during the holidays. We share stories and play songs.
Part 1: Family Traditions on Family Matters: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16409283/54-part1-traditions%2012262010.mp3
Part 2: Stories and Songs on Kids’ Time: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16409283/54-Part2-KT-12262010.mp3
Aired live Sunday, December 26, 2010 8 to 9 AM Eastern Time on CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
A few weeks ago, I asked parents this question: What’s your favourite family holiday tradition? This is what they shared.
1. Sewing strings of popcorn and listening to the “Sesame Street Christmas” album.
2. Singing Christmas carols on Christmas Eve.
3. Making and eating Granny’s “hello dollies”. Watching the original “Miracle on 34th St.”, “Family Man”, and “Frosty the Snowman” videos. Listening to Christmas carols. Sitting by the glowing Christmas tree after decorating it with the kids. Listening to Stuart MacLean’s Christmas Story about Dave and the turkey! Gotta love it!
4. Every year my mom plays this medley of Christmas songs, by the Boston Pop Symphony. It’s a cassette tape and she still plays it as a cassette. We listen to it, decorate the tree, and sing along to the music. It’s so cheesy and it often plays for hours, even though the whole thing is only 45 minutes long.
But, we’ve done this since as long as I can remember and I love it. It is such a “tradition” that I can’t help but love it.
5. My oldest friend and I took our kids to a forest for a Winter Solstice hike and left seeds for the birds as we tromped in the snow and played with sticks. Afterwards, we had a play date with hot chocolate! I loved that afternoon. There was something extra-specially sacred about it!
6. Christmas music. My folks have a vinyl collection and kids music too. Watching “Snoopy and the Red Baron” and “Red Skelton” videos! When my Oma and Opa were alive, we would gather next door, at their house. There would be German music. We also used to listen to the “Silly Santa Watch” on the radio while driving to Guelph for Church on Christmas Eve. Food! There’s always great food!
7. We watch “How the Grinch stole Christmas”, “It’s a wonderful life”, Charlie Brown’s Christmas”, “AChristmas Story”, and “A Christmas Carol” videos. We sit quietly watching our newly lit tree…which is extra special because that kind of stillness and quiet is so rare in our house.
8. Home Made Shortbread cookies, without a doubt!
9. Christmas Dinner: tense, mellow, sad, joyous, friendly, confused, grateful, and that’s just how I’m feeling.
10. On Christmas Eve we watch “the Grinch”, “Frosty the Snowman”, and “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” before my Mother’s family comes over to celebrate. My Uncle and Cousin always play Christmas songs, some of which are ones we made up long ago, while we all sing using our funny falsetto voices. Then, we open gifts, stay up way too late, place faery gifts under the small potted evergreen for the next morning when small children wake us up too early. After opening gifts, my twin siblings pass out on the couch and we photograph them wearing funny things on their heads. Whether we build snow people or not depends on the year.
11. There’s something about “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas.
12. New traditions are being made this year, very scary.
When something in the year throws traditions off, that can feel quite scary. It seems traditions offer something to look forward to, a sense of rest or certainty. When they’re not there, that shakes us up. If you’re experiencing that sort of transition, I wish you all the best.
13. We have a family Christmas craft time and make something new to hang on the Christmas tree. We started doing this when our oldest was 2 years old, so some of our decorations are over 14 years old now. We fill shoe boxes with gifts to send off to “Operation Christmas Child”. T makes ‘snowballs’ to drink with dinner. We have ‘Happy Birthday Jesus’ breakfast pancakes with ice cream and candles on Christmas day. Fun times with friends. Tobogganing (ie., sledding). Toasting toes in front of a wood fire. Hot cocoa with marshmallows. Snow people and fort building. We are hoping to build a rink in the back yard this year and maybe start a new tradition. We’ll see how that goes.
14. Singing Christmas Carols for weeks leading up to the New Year. Watching the light show at the park. Riding the Carousel at the Park on Christmas Eve. Candlelight dinners. Dancing in the dark with flashlights and glow in the dark jewelry. Playing games and doing puzzles. Tobogganing (ie., sledding). Potluck dinners with friends.

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When the waters of Starry Night Over the Rhône began to shimmer, I stopped caring about whether “Immersive Van Gogh” could be fairly characterized as capital-A art. I stood in my personal social distancing circle and let my senses take over. This thing is just freaking cool, I thought.
I arrived at the show (let’s call it that: a show) carrying the baggage of someone who has read and written a fair bit about the immersive, experiential trend that has challenged the art world’s vocabulary. The critic Ben Davis has described this phenomenon as “Big Fun Art” — work that “doesn’t require any historical knowledge, context, or even patience to be enjoyed.” Davis was referring to selfie factories like the Museum of Ice Cream, immersive playgrounds like Meow Wolf, and viral, hyper-photogenic fine arts exhibitions like Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms.
“Immersive Van Gogh,” which opened to the public on March 19 at SVN West on Market Street and will run through September, checks a lot of the Big Fun Art boxes, starting with its pitifully straightforward name. But its exceptional animation, emotional intensity, and its echoes of San Francisco’s Summer of Love make for a compelling evening of accessible, difficult-to-categorize entertainment.
In other words: It goes down easy without tasting like cotton candy.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Vincent Van Gogh, a late 19th century Dutch post-impressionist, is one of the most famous artists in history. His paintings, and to a lesser degree, his life story, serve as the basis for “Immersive Van Gogh.” The show is thus a visual art exhibition, showcasing his paintings in a new way. But as the show goes on, and the images begin to move and interact with one another, it starts to feel more like cinema. Ultimately, the dramatic music and emotional visuals felt closest to ballet: pure expression, no gab, the narrative subordinated to the beauty of each moment. The only thing missing was the ballerinas.
Producer Svetlana Dvoretsky, who debuted “Immersive Van Gogh” in Toronto two years ago before bringing it on the road to about a dozen North American cities, describes the show as “a multimedia animation with a music score. So it’s somewhere in between film and theater and concert. It could be also called a digital art exhibit.” Since it’s “all of these things,” it makes everyone’s life easier to just call it “an immersive experience,” Dvoretsky says.
“Immersive Van Gogh” is without question a technological feat. It includes 65 million pixels, 56,000 frames of video, 400 images contributed by museums and art galleries from around the world, and 40 projectors. All of that needed to be specially calibrated for SVN West — “San Francisco’s premiere experiential arts and entertainment venue” — requiring hundreds of hours to blend the video feeds and fine-tune the projectors. At this particular venue, the production’s video technicians had to work with a molding that juts out about two-thirds of the way up the wall. It’s to their credit that viewers probably won’t notice it at all.
“Immersive Van Gogh’s” video and projection tech makes possible some incredibly detailed animations. Massimiliano Siccardi, the lead artist for the production, painstakingly manipulated digital photographs of Van Gogh’s works to imbue them with motion. Siccardi and his team managed to bring to life what Van Gogh’s swirling brush strokes so powerfully suggest. In fact, “Immersive Van Gogh” is not the first time the artist’s work has found a popular reception in film: the 2017 animated film Loving Vincent earned an Academy Award nomination.
While that movie focuses on Van Gogh’s mysterious death, “Immersive Van Gogh” spans the scope of the artist’s life — although you won’t exactly come out on the other side a Van Gogh expert. “We go through all the most important periods of his life, and if you are familiar with his life story, then you will see the narrative. If you’re not familiar, you may not see that, but you will see many other beautiful things,” Dvoretsky says with a laugh.
Indeed. The viewer gets a sense of Van Gogh’s troubled childhood in the Netherlands, his love for Japanese wood blocks, his prolific period in Arles, France, and his lifelong struggle with mental health. However, the main event is the paintings themselves, and the strange and unexpected ways they come to life.
Anything that moves in real life moves in “Immersive Van Gogh”: clouds, trains, fire, water, birds, grass blowing in the wind. There are remarkable transitions, too. In one especially creative moment, close-ups of flowers are illuminated by falling raindrops, each little splash revealing new details. Van Gogh’s most famous works get special treatment, including Bedroom In Arles, The Church at Auvers, Café Terrace at Night, and many other recognizable favorites. There are gratuitous aspects as well, like a lonesome live-action shot of a grassy meadow that serves no discernable purpose.
While nearly all of the imagery is beautiful, not all of it is uplifting, including some of Van Gogh’s dark early work and maniacally colorful later paintings. The creepy quotient is enhanced by the juxtapositions of the musical accompaniment. The eclectic soundtrack, available as a Spotify playlist, flits from Thom Yorke to Handel, along with several original compositions by musical director Luca Longobardi. The music occasionally reaches rock concert volumes, which can be a bit obnoxious, but usually, the sounds and images fit together nicely. Watching Starry Night swirl as the music crescendos serves as a moving finale.
The 38 minute show can be a lot to take in, and viewers are encouraged to stay for multiple screenings. After you’ve had your fill of Van Gogh, a pop-up rooftop bar awaits.
Altogether, the experience is big and fun, but it still feels like art. It helps that it isn’t particularly photogenic, at least not for people. The projections, of course, look amazing on camera, but just like in a movie theater, it’s hard to capture human figures in the foreground. That is to say, if you’re coming just to take selfies, think again.
A Fitting Venue
It’s fitting that the performance is taking place at SVN West. Formerly known as Fillmore West and Carousel Ballroom before it became a Honda dealership, the space has hosted more than its fair share of boundary-breaking performances. Just about every big name you can imagine came through Fillmore West when Bill Graham was running the place, between 1967 and 1971: Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, you name it.
These performances included their fair share of liquid light shows — that quintessentially 1960s art form produced by manipulating colorful blobs of oil, water, and alcohol on an overhead projector. They were, in a way, extremely low-tech versions of “Immersive Van Gogh.” Both would seem to pair equally well with mind-altering substances.
More recently, Non Plus Ultra, the company that runs SVN West, has been embroiled in scandals documented by former SF Weekly staffer Nuala Bishari, who’s now at the Public Press. In September, Bishari reported that the company had conducted a potentially illegal sweep of a homeless encampment next to SVN West. This past month, she revealed that Non Plus Ultra employees have accused the company of unemployment fraud. The company argued that the sweep of the homeless encampment came after months of complaints to the city, and denies the unemployment fraud allegations.
The space also has a future befitting San Francisco’s present state. Sometime after “Immersive Van Gogh” closes in September, SVN will be redeveloped as a 984-unit high rise housing development. The project is on track for approval thanks to the developers’ agreement to buy the “Monster in the Mission” property next to the 16th Street BART station and give it to the city to build affordable housing, ending a major flashpoint in San Francisco’s ongoing struggle with gentrification.
Even after SVN is gone, Dvoretsky and her production company hope to bring more immersive exhibitions to San Francisco. We might expect similar treatments of other famous artists, though Dvoretsky says she can’t reveal who they are just yet. For those craving more high-tech, genre-defying, pop-culture reincarnations of classic works of art, Dvoretsky vows, “There’s more.”
‘Immersive Van Gogh’
Through Sept. 6 | $39.99-$49.99
SVN West, 10 Van Ness Ave.
844-307-4644 | vangoghsf.com


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Enhancement of your moon sign with colour power
Color is a powerful tool used for communication and expressing views, emotions, theme, psychology, thoughts, and so on, of the human mind. It can be used to signal the various actions that are done, and most specifically can be used to reflect the mood and inner feelings of a person. Though not much has been done theoretically defining the influence of colors on the human psychology and its functioning, yet, owing to the many practical beliefs and evidences, the effect of colors on a human’s mood, emotions, feelings, and behaviors, cannot be ruled out.
Colors carry a lot of energy in them, and this can be felt if we attentively notice the very different colors in nature all around us, and how they have an influence on us. Colors bring out the hidden qualities in us, which are not very evident otherwise, and bring our inner glow, which thus enhances our confidence, calms our senses, and empowers us to be strong.
Color Psychology studies the hues as a determinant of the human behavior, and it has been found that colors influence the various perceptions in humans that are not very obvious. With studies as such, and much more, what more do we need to understand and believe that colors impact our lives to a great deal, and influence us in many more ways than one.
- Humans have a very deep connection with colors and the various colors greatly affect our moods, emotions, feelings, and the way we process a certain thing, owing to the color it projects.
- Every color has different meanings concerned with its shape, effect, and nature, and we have that ingrained in our minds since a very young age.
- If we see closely, we would realize that every color has its own vibe and energy, and we are only able to process it as per our mind’s reach.
- Varieties of factors are responsible for us being dependent on various colors as per our moods, and this depends on the upbringing we have had, our surroundings, and the kind of person we are.
Vedic Astrology believes that every zodiac sign has its own power color, which is the luckiest for them. Using this power color, would definitely give the native an advanced form of energy to deal thing with, and also give him/her the positive vibes, luck, and fortune required to get ahead in life.
The Colour of your moon sign - Green for Gemini
Gemini is ruled by the planet ‘Mercury’, and it is known as the planet of intelligence. With the blessings of Mercury, one can rise in intellect, get higher education, and grow as a person. Mercury rules the family affairs as well as communication in relationships, and thus having a strong Mercury is of utmost importance for all those who seek to get successful in life. Thus, the power color for a Gemini, is Green, as this color would elevate self-confidence, give better health and immunity, improve communication in relationships, leading to a harmonious atmosphere.
- The color green nurtures the Gemini’s spirit and since it represents growth, it would give the native absolute progress in all spheres of life.
- Green has a deep connection to nature and is also the significator of springtime, which brings greenery into the world, and this this color has a significant connection to overall development of a Gemini native, be it intelligence, relationships, health, career or family.
- The color Green, apart from increasing and supporting growth, is also related to growth and harmony, if we consider it from a color psychology perspective. It is regarded to be one of the best colors for creating an equilibrium between the mind, thoughts, and the feelings and heart matters of an individual.
- If a Gemini native involves a lot of green in his/her life, then it would help them balance the heart and the mind and keep them in the exact same level.
- Green is also the color of renewal of energy, and rebirth. The color green bestows positive energy upon the user, and gives restores any depleted energy they might be feeling in their life and around them.
- It relieves stress, and thus makes you drift away from the tensions of modern living, thus bringing us back to a sense of wellbeing, which caters to our minds and hearts.
- Regarded as one of the most relaxing and soothing of all colors on Earth, the lucky color green proves to be a very good power color for the Gemini natives.
It is also a very emotionally positive color that is capable of inducing positive good vibes in to us, and gives us the ability to nurture life, give support to others, physically and emotionally. Also noted as a peacemaker, green loves peace and always tries to keep everything around it harmonious and serene.
The Power Gemstone for a Gemini would be the ‘Green Emerald’, and this gemstone will make the wearer confident in all affairs of his/her life, and bestow them with an abundance of peace, sanctity, health, better earning opportunities, career growth, public recognition, and better relationship handling skills.
Lucky colors for Gemini - Blue
Apart from Green, Blue should preferably be the second choice, as this color with all its various shades would be lucky for you. This color would very well complement your zodiac sign, as it is the color of the friendly planet of Gemini’s ruling planet. The color blue also has positive effects on the mind and body and can either make the wearer take steadfast decisions when required or also be strong as well as friendly. Blue often represents the skies and the seas, and is thus associated with freedom, imagination, and expansiveness, thus giving the wearer a sense of liberation and hold onto his/her life.
What colors should a Gemini native avoid?
The colors Red and Yellow
cannot be categorized as unlucky or enemy colors for a Gemini, but these colors, as per Vedic Astrology, cannot be considered a the most auspicious colors. Though it is not possible that you totally avoid this color, but take care to not use them when you are going for some important work or for an auspicious occasion. At times as these, it is advised to better avoid using these colours, as they might be a hindrance in giving you the best results from whatever you have been going for.

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KERRY DOES EXCEPTIONALLY WELL and is EXTREMELY TALENTED!! BEST CARICATURIST in the Metropolitan area!! YOU SHOULD BOOK!!!
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* 11 in. x 17 in. black and white caricatures
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* If needed, your branded event can be personalized on the paper (small extra fee)
* 5 - 7 minutes per illustrated head on each sheet of paper
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* A JPEG and PDF version is provided to the client
Additionally, I am an award-winning and creative art director, skilled graphic designer, and organized project manager. My artwork has been published in local and national publications and throughout the internet. My illustration and graphic design work has been recognized by several professional organization including the Society of News Design, National Association of Black Journalists, Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Media Federation, National Newspaper Publishers Association. In 2017, I was recognized by The Baltimore Sun as a "Columbia (MD) Notable". The article celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Maryland community and highlights some of its "notable" residents.
I've illustrated a broad and diverse list of events which have included: Corporate Events/Parties | Picnics | Birthday Celebrations | Sweet 16 Parties | Wedding Receptions | Bridal Showers | Graduation Parties | Anniversaries |Grand Openings | Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties | Trade Shows & Conventions | Holiday Parties | Banquets | Bar/Bat-Mitzvahs | Family Reunions | Festivals | Church Events | FundRaisers | Cruise Ships | Casinos | Baby Showers | School and College Visits | Parties and events of all types!
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Life on the Atlantic Edge
Discover the fascinating world of the Atlantic puffin in this stunning book by Kevin Morgans. With his award-winning photography, Morgans captures the quirky personalities and comical movements of these beloved seabirds. Learn about their place in the ecology of the British Isles and their special relationship with the coast. A must-read for nature lovers and bird enthusiasts alike.
2022-10-22T21:19:29.000ZI’m mercenary about photographic excellence - but here is some photographic excellence . . . and it’s all about your favourite bird @KevMorgans book ‘Puffins - Life on the Atlantic Edge’ - amazing pictures available here – source


text: Glutathione transferase P (GST-P) is specifically induced in rat liver and kidney by lead cation. The increase of GST-P mRNA after lead administration is blocked by actinomycin D, suggesting that GST-P production by lead is regulated at the transcriptional level. To further determine which part of the flanking region of the GST-P gene has the lead-responsive cis-element in vivo, we utilized transgenic rats with five different constructs having GST-P and/or chloramphenicol acetyl-transferase coding sequence. We studied the effect of lead on these transgenic rats and on transfected NRK (normal rat kidney) cells and found that GST-P induction by lead is indeed regulated at the transcriptional level and that the GST-P enhancer I (GPEI) enhancer is an essential cis-element required for the activation of the GST-P gene by lead. GPEI consists of two AP-1 (c-Jun/c-Fos heterodimer) site-like sequences that are palindromically arranged and can bind AP-1, c-jun mRNA in the liver increased after lead administration and GST-P, and c-Jun had patchy expression in the same hepatocytes 24 h after lead exposure. These results suggest that activation of the GST-P gene by lead is mediated in major part by enhancer GPEI and that AP-1 may be involved at least partially. GPEI has been shown to have essential sequence information for the trans-activation of the GST-P gene during chemical hepatocarcinogenesis of the rat (Morimura, S., Suzuki, T., Hochi, S., Yuki, A., Nomura, K., Kitagawa, T., Nagatsu, I., Imagawa, M., and Muramatsu, M. (1993) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90, 2065-2068; Suzuki, T., Imagawa, M., Hirabayashi, M., Yuki, A., Hisatake, K., Nomura, K., Kitagawa, T., and Muramatsu, M. (1995) Cancer Res. 55, 2651-2655). The present study establishes that the same enhancer element does operate in the activation of the GST-P gene by lead regardless of the trans-activators involved.

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If there are still any doubts regarding dogs’ loyalty, this remarkable story proves, once again what these creatures are capable of. The heartwarming story of a faithful dog who saved the life of his friend as she lay too ɪɴᴊᴜʀᴇᴅ to move on train tracks.
A group of volunteers from an animal rescue in Uzhgorod, Ukraine have witnessed some touching scenes. For at least a few days, a loyal dog kept guarding and caring for his furry fellow. The pair were discovered by Denis Malafeyev, who shared a spine-tingling video of the dogs ᴅᴜᴄᴋɪɴɢ as a train sped over their heads. Mr. Malafeyev said it was unclear how Lucy was ɪɴᴊᴜʀᴇᴅ and she may have been h.i.t by a train crossing the track.
He said: “It’s such a touching story. I got a phone call from a friend who said that there were two dogs lying on the railway track near Tseglovka village for two days.”
Unable to move, the poor doggie’s fate seemed to be sealed, but her loyal friend never left her side. Lucy was ɪɴᴊᴜʀᴇᴅ to move from the tracks in Ukraine, but Panda kept her alive by curling up next to her and pushing her head down when trains zoomed over. He proved brave enough to protect her.
The heartwarming story was shared on Fᴀᴄᴇ.ʙᴏᴏᴋ by Denis Malafeyev, one of the rescue team.
“When we arrived, it turned out that one of the dogs, the female, was ɪɴᴊᴜʀᴇᴅ and couldn’t move,” Denis wrote in an Fᴀᴄᴇ.ʙᴏᴏᴋ post. “The male dog heard the sound of the approaching train, came close to the female dog and laid down next to her… Both of them pushed their heads toward the ground, and let the train pass.
“The male dog was doing this for two days in a row. Think about it. He was keeping her warm,” the rescuer said.
Thankfully both dogs have been rescued and then taken to a local shelter where they received medical care. After Lucy got better, they both reunited with the owner!

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The South African recording artist, ntate stunna comes through with a brand new record, tagged ‘Mekaefete'.
More so, On the new single, ‘Mekaefete' ntate stunna links up with South African singers, pdot o and blaklez who delivered exceptionally.
Not to mention, we know you've been eagerly awaiting the release of this new song and we apologize for taking so long to deliver it to you. As the talented songster wanted to make sure it was perfect for your listening pleasure.
It took a lot of hard work and dedication to get this new song out to you. To show your support, please stream the song as much as possible! We appreciate your patience and we hope you enjoy the new song!

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Nasuni was a new company to me, but they had a great presentation and I really liked what they presented. They are providing a solution to a real problem that a lot of companies are running into. The cloud is a great solution to so many problems that IT departments are encountering, but going to the cloud is not always easy as it looks. Nasuni provides a solution that simplifies the distributed NAS.
The first line from the Nasuni website says it best “Nasuni is primary and archive file storage capacity, backup, DR, global file access, and multi-site collaboration in one massively scalable hybrid cloud solution.” It does this through providing a solution to to have a “unified NAS” on top of public clouds. It is essentially and overlay that is controlled by using an on premise appliance either through a VM on your current infrastructure or a Nasuni physical appliance and keeps the data locally cached. This allows that in the event of internet access being down users can continues to access storage, and when internet is restored the data will be synced up.
There are no limits on the amount of files or file sizes. The files in a solution like this can be access by multiple users and be changing all the time. To prevent issues files are locked when a user is accessing it. Once the file is done being accessed the file will remain locked until it is synced up with the cloud. Through the continuous versioning of files and in the event of malware or such other issues. Files can be rolled back to another version before the incident occurred. All the data is deduped and compressed for effective storage utilization. Files can also be encrypted to prevent any data theft. Managing a solution like this with multiple devices across many sites could be very complex and time consuming, but with Nasuni everything is managed from a single pane limiting operation costs.
Nasuni looks like a great product that really simplifies the migration to the cloud. By supporting the big players such as AWS, Azure and GCP they give customers plenty of options on what cloud they wish to utilize. With the caching device they ensure that data can be always accessible even if there are issues preventing access to the cloud and limiting the amount of data that has to be transferred.
You can see this presentation from Nasuni and all the other presentations from Storage Field Day 16 at http://techfieldday.com/event/sfd16/


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 27, 2004
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Last Ditch Racing
Bangor, Maine, USA -- Last Ditch Racing, a Maine based ProRally team comprised of driver John Cassidy and co-driver Dave Getchell, is poised to begin the 2004 Canadian Association of RallySport Championship in Maniwaki, Ontario at the Rallye Perce-Neige-Maniwaki February 6-8. The first event in the Canadian Rally Championship, Perce-Neige is a snow/ice event and will see the team covering 212 kilometers of special stages and 409 kilometers overall in their turbocharged Subaru Impreza WRX.
The team is anxious to get back on the stages, after a poor tire choice led to an, "off," in November at The Rally of the Tall Pines. Said LDR drive John Cassidy, "We went out on hard compound gravel tires in the cold weather and it's a lesson we won't soon forget!" The team was not injured in the incident and the car has been repaired for the 2004 season.
The team is pleased to announce the addition of Carbotech Engineering, a performance brake component company, to their list of team partners for 2004. Said Cassidy, "We're very excited to have Carbotech on board. We're looking forward to working with them and give them feedback on their products in a rally environment." Carbotech joins Mainehost.com, Team O'Neil rally school and Triple Caution, New England distributor for MOTUL lubricants as team partners for the 2004 season. "We've been fortunate to develop relationships with these companies that allow us to promote and showcase their products while they support our program," said Cassidy.
The team, in conjunction with team partner Triple Caution, Inc., will continue to award the Last Ditch Racing/Triple Caution Thong Award at all 2004 events in which they are entered. The award is designed to give teams further down the start order a trophy to shoot for. Said Cassidy, "Since its introduction as a rally award, the Last Ditch Racing/Triple Caution Thong has become a coveted award, and we wouldn't want to deny competitors in 2004 their chance at taking it home!"
Last Ditch Racing wishes to thank their 2004 partners:
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San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) June 12, 2008
Desert Glory , who markets the NatureSweet brand and is North America's largest grower of greenhouse tomatoes, wants to let consumers know that more than 50% of all tomatoes bought in grocery stores in the US are not subject to the most recent June 12, 2008 Salmonella alert issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
According to the alert, FDA advised consumers nationwide to "limit their tomato consumption to tomatoes that have not been implicated in the outbreak." The FDA specifically stated that cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes and tomatoes sold with the vine still attached from any source have not been implicated in the outbreak.
"All of our NatureSweet branded tomatoes are grown in a highly controlled greenhouse environment which allows us to regulate all aspects of tomato production and processing," said Bryant Ambelang, Desert Glory Chief Marketing Officer. "There is significant availability of cherry, grape and on-the-vine tomatoes and consumers can safely enjoy the benefits of our best tasting tomatoes."
According to Ambelang, the company invests in controlled greenhouse operations, private wells, continual testing procedures and 100% product traceability to ensure food safety throughout the tomato's growth and harvest. For more information on the alert, company food safety news and the excluded varieties please visit http://www.naturesweettomatoes.com or http://www.cfsan.fda.gov.
To view sound bites and b-roll footage on Desert Glory's food safety practices click here. To obtain broadcast-quality Desert Glory b-roll and sound bites via download or videotape, please contact Virginia Starr at 214-665-1330 or at virginia.starr @ fleishman.com.
About Desert Glory
Desert Glory, LTD, based in San Antonio, Texas is the leading grower of premium small tomatoes in North America under the NatureSweet brand. Distributed throughout the U.S, at major grocers, club stores and foodservice operators, NatureSweet tomatoes deliver the best tasting tomatoes with year-round availability. As the number one brand of vine-ripened cherry tomatoes in the U.S., NatureSweet's growing operations comprise nearly 1,000 acres under greenhouse and proudly employs nearly 5000 associates.
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New FANALI DI SCORTA's EP
Continued research and experimentation of the trio in the suburbs of Turin led by Daniele Chiarella. After the indie album Freak 'n' Roll of 2006 and the low-fi "Mojito Express" in 2009 the group returns with an EP of four tracks recorded in a studio in the hills of Piedmont.
The multitalented Daniel Chiarella on vocals and acoustic guitars along with the guitar synth virtuoso Luciano Triglia compared with drummer Ettore Sardano for realization of these 4 tracks from taste sometimes vintage psychedelic at times, inhanced by the sax of Anna Frati.
It's a new leg of their folk 'n' roll or "freak 'n' roll", as they like to define, that strong shades colored a newfound desire to make music been influenced trying to innovate where possible Italian folk tradition.
A must, fun and lively!
"Go beyond the sound perception with this album, they order a wide variety of styles (from folk to ska, but without forgetting the blues with some jazz colours, pure rock and melody) without the slightest confusion; everything is concentrated within a logical madness "Daniele Germignani ONDA ALTERNATIVA
"Doesn't care about climbing the charts, but engaging, fun and entertain with clever freak 'n' roll" Andrea Gadekar TERAPIE MUSICALI
"We recommend a listen at high volume" Vainer Broccoli IL GERONE


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It has been several years since Dubliner Paul Byrom performed in the US during the holiday season; he’s usually appearing in popular Christmas “pantos” (a form of comedic musical takes on popular children’s stories) at the prestigious Helix Theatre in Ireland at that time.
But this year, the celebrated tenor he will be launching his Christmas From Ireland US tour with a concert at the Irish Cultural Centre in Canton at 3 p.m. on Sun., Dec. 3.
Fans will remember him as one of the original members of the world-renowned all-male singing group Celtic Thunder. In more recent years, he has become a popular solo and recording artist, as well as a stage performer.
Tickets are $35 general admission or $55 for VIP tickets, which include the concert and the opportunity to meet Paul and have a photo taken with him.