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MANILA, Philippines – After President Rodrigo Duterte gave the green light to the Rice Tariffication law, the government has been in talks with stakeholders and other agencies on how to implement it.
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) led the talks for the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) and was expected to release the details in the coming weeks. (READ: Butterfly effect: How rice tariffication bill affects everyone)
Before getting into the details of the law, here are some of the common terms often used and will come in handy in understanding what the law is all about:
Tariffs – These are taxes imposed by government on imported goods. While it serves as a source for revenues, it is also a way to restrict trade and protect domestic producers. Tariffs make imported goods more expensive.
Quantitative restrictions – This is the limit to the amount of goods that may be imported in the country.
Quantitative restrictions are imposed on rice to protect farmers from the influx of cheap rice from abroad.
However, the government found that QRs have not been beneficial to both consumers and farmers.
Minimum access volume – This refers to the quantity of a specific good that may be imported with a lower tariff. For rice, the minimum access volume is 350,000 metric tons. Anything beyond that is slapped with higher tariffs.
Below are the common questions regarding the new law and the answers provided in the draft IRR.
What changes will we expect under rice tariffication? The new law completely abolishes quantitative restrictions to ensure a steady supply of rice in the domestic market.
However, higher tariff rates would be slapped on imports. The tariffs, set at 35%, would now serve as the control mechanism instead of an explicit limit on imports through quantitative restrictions.
The government’s economic team said this will lower rice prices and the inflation rate overall.
Under the law, market forces, not government interventions, will prevail. In theory, competition will bring prices down.
How low will rice prices go? The government has not yet set a range of expected rice prices under rice tariffication. However, experts estimate that prices can go even lower than what is being sold by the National Food Authority (NFA), which is at P27 and P32.
The measure is also projected to lower inflation rates by 0.5 to 0.7 percentage points.
What happens to the NFA? The new law clipped the powers of the NFA. From ensuring the quantitative restrictions are in place, the agency’s role is now just limited to buffer stocking or storing rice to be given out during calamities and emergencies.
NFA buffer stocks will continue to have 15 to 30 days of inventory stock.
The agency will also buy rice exclusively from local farmers.
NEDA Assistant Secretary Mercedita Sombillo said that should there be no emergency, rice stocks of the NFA will be bid out for market distribution.
What about the farmers? Groups fear that rice tariffication will hurt farmers, as it encourages more rice imports.
The law provides safety nets for local farmers under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) to fund better farming tools, seeds, and other interventions that will improve productivity.
The RCEF, amounting to P10 billion, is a fund that will be over and above the regular budget of the Department of Agriculture.
The draft IRR said an efficient monitoring system will be established to ensure that the fund benefits the farmers. The DA is compelled to create a website to inform the public on the plan and progress of how the fund is used.
Aside from the RCEF, the government already released P5 billion to assist farmers through a special allotment release order.
She said domestic traders have to learn futures trading.
“Our own domestic traders will have to learn how to do this, they have to become sophisticated,” Edillon said.
Meanwhile, Sombillo said traders and the market in general is “rational,” which means they will not import at a time where domestic supply is high.
How will supply issues be addressed? The draft IRR provide the President powers, for a limited time, to lower the applied tariff rate in case of a forecasted shortage.
The 3-year import average will also be noted by government.
Sombillo said should imports exceed the average, the draft IRR proposes that the government will impose a cap, which is 125% of the 3-year average.
What is the long-term plan for agriculture? The DA will formulate the Rice Industry Roadmap in collaboration with relevant agencies and with due consultation with other stakeholders.
The DA, together with NEDA, the Department of Budget and Management, Department of Finance, and other concerned agencies shall ensure that the activities and investments necessary for the roadmap are funded in accordance with the annual budget priorities framework.
Will rice tariffication live up to its promises? Observers say it is better, as it is the biggest revamp yet in the agriculture sector. – Rappler.com

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Something is stirring in the world’s most populous nation, and it could eventually mark a watershed event in the march for human rights.
That something is called “Charter 08,” a manifesto that more than 300 Chinese scholars, writers and activists issued online in December, that more than 8,000 Chinese of all vocations have since signed, and that is the subject of intense debate on web sites, blogs and message boards. It calls for freedom and democracy, independent courts and direct elections.
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Here’s hoping he sides with the activists, for presidents should proudly promote the values that make America a beacon of hope to so many – whether or not that ruffles some authoritarian feathers.
Charter 08 is modeled on the Charter 77 group in the former Czechoslovakia, a key component of the democratic activism behind the Iron Curtain in the 1970s and 1980s that helped bring down the Soviet Empire and transformed dictatorships into democracies across Eastern Europe.
In China, the democratic fervor is fueled not only by the regime’s day-to-day repression, but also, now, by the rising joblessness and dislocation that the global economic crisis has brought to this sprawling land.
Nor is Charter 08 the only sign of grassroots bravery. Activists are signing open letters, newspapers are writing editorials and individuals are blogging – all to promote a freer and more open society
All told, Charter 08 and the related activities represent the largest and most organized efforts to bring Western-style democracy to China since the Tiananmen Square protests of two decades ago.
China’s leadership is taking the challenge seriously. It has jailed activists suspected of helping to organize Charter 08, interrogated and harassed others, put still others under surveillance and used its firewall to try to block Internet users in China from online postings about the charter.
At their best, U.S. presidents have spoken to the unfulfilled aspirations of hundreds of millions of people around the world who have endured repression by some of history’s most authoritarian systems.
“Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free,” President Kennedy said in his famous “I am a Berliner” speech near the Berlin Wall. “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.”
Visiting West Berlin nearly 25 years later and speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to fulfill his promise of a more open society: “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
In this vital task of promoting American values, of putting the United States squarely behind democratic activists in repressive regimes, other presidents of recent vintage have performed less admirably.
Seeking not to make waves before an upcoming meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in the mid-1970s, President Ford chose not to meet with famed Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
In an August 1991 speech to the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine as the Soviet Union was disintegrating – a speech that New York Times columnist William Safire later dubbed “Chicken Kiev” – the first President Bush urged Ukrainians to temper their impulses and not opt for “suicidal nationalism.”
Bush’s son, George W., had a mixed record on human rights promotion. In January 2005, he used his second inaugural address to promote freedom and human rights across the world; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice echoed the message later that year in a bold speech in Cairo.
But Bush toned down his rhetoric soon thereafter and looked the other way when, for instance, Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak cracked down harshly on candidates who sought to replace him through the ballot.
Now, it is our new president’s turn to choose.
Obama has vowed to restore U.S. leadership around the world by working more closely with our allies and providing stronger support to the United Nations and other global institutions.
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“Head of the Smartphone Class,” concluded Geoffrey Fowler in The Wall Street Journal.
“On the edge of perfection,” summed up Dan Seifert for The Verge.
“Inching Toward Perfection,” suggested Darren Orf on Gizmodo.
Samsung last month introduced the S7 line at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and “there was a lot of talk about how unimpressed folks were during the introduction,” recalled Wayne Lam, a principal analyst at IHS Technology.
Still, “I’ve been really impressed at the added design improvements Samsung has made with the S7,” he told TechNewsWorld.
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It beats the iPhone 6s Plus “in every low-light situation I’ve tested,” Fowler enthused. The 12-MP camera is lower resolution than its S6 counterpart, but each pixel can capture 95 percent more light.
Samsung’s camera app “is one of the best available for Android,” The Verge’s Seifert wrote. He liked the camera’s launch speed, and said the camera “produced brighter, sharper images than the iPhone 6s Plus and was faster to autofocus, especially in poor lighting.”
The S7 screen “is a stunner, packing in more than three times as many pixels as the iPhone 6s,” Fowler wrote. “And its blazing fast processor is well-suited for the new world of virtual reality.”
The S7’s SD card slot also won kudos, as did the return of the water-resistant capability, which was available on the Galaxy S5 but was removed from the S6.
Battery life — always a problem for Samsung smartphones — has improved considerably, a huge plus.
Reviewers also liked the S7’s design, look and feel.
“The past several versions of the Galaxy S series left something of a bitter taste in users’ mouths for multiple reasons,” remarked Ramon Llamas, a research manager at IDC. “What the S7 line does, and does smartly, is it comes back to the basics and does the basics well.”
Samsung is “hitting the right notes with improved battery life, external storage capacity and the quality of the camera, he told TechNewsWorld. “At the end of the day, you want the phone to work — and all the bells and whistles don’t matter otherwise.”
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The “glacial pace” at which TouchWiz receives official Android updates “continues to make it difficult to whole-heartedly recommend software that will a.) be late to update its device with the latest build of Android and b.) not even implement some of Android’s best features, like adaptable storage,” noted Gizmodo’s Orf. It’s not a deal breaker overall for the S7, but “definitely a checkmark in the ‘cons’ column.”
The S7 doesn’t allow the use of third-party apps, including some of the built-in Android apps for Always On notification, he pointed out. Also, it “can’t quite match the load speeds of iOS” when it comes to opening big apps and detailed documents.
Carrier bloatware is another issue. Verizon adds 13 apps, for example. the phone Seifert tested had two email, two photo and two text-messaging apps; three music players; two voice control systems; and two app stores. The apps can be disabled but not entirely removed.
The edge feature that gives the “Galaxy S7 edge” its name doesn’t feel necessary, Orf said. “My home screen is already a shortcut to the apps I use most. I don’t really need a shortcut on top of a shortcut.”
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Samsung is “taking another page out of Apple’s playbook,” IHS’ Lam pointed out, with the S7 being “a similar product strategy to the iPhone 6 and 6s iterations. The S6 “was a brand new design philosophy and the S7 a further refinement.”
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As I thought, the news of the migrant caravan that initiated about a month ago are still in the news cycle (at least in conservative news cycles, with the MSM either ignoring them or defending them), and there are a number of things to be said about it. Now, I have already written an article as to why the caravan is bad (sugarcoating it, right there) and why we should not let them in illegally, so I won’t talk much about that here. What I mostly want to talk about is the fact that, over the weekend, a protest was held in Tijuana against the caravan.
The Associated Press reported: “Tijuana residents waved Mexican flags, sang the Mexican national anthem and chanted ‘Out! Out!’ in front of a statue of the Aztec ruler Cuauhtemoc… they accused the migrants of being messy, ungrateful and a danger to Tijuana. They also complained about how the caravan forced its way into Mexico, calling it an ‘invasion’. And they voiced worries that their taxes might be spent to care for the group.”
On Twitter, the Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra reported on it, sharing a video of the protest, with one of the protesters saying: “Donald Trump was right, this is an invasion! What Donald Trump said was correct: this is an invasion!”, with the crowd later chanting: “Get out Hondurans, we do not want you here. Get out Hondurans, we do not want you here.”
So you can see some of these people voicing their concerns and complaints about the migrant caravan that literally forced its way into Mexico, which prompted Mexican law enforcement to give up and even escort them north towards the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, there are over 500 criminals in the caravan, and the vast majority of the people in the migrant caravan are men, not women and children as the MSM has reported.
Criminals with records that include: “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, sexual assault on a child, and assault on a female,” according to the DHS. Add that to a report from one migrant admitting to Fox News back in late October that he was heading to the U.S. because he “got in trouble” in his home country for “attempted murder”.
So while not all of the people in the caravan are criminals, there are still some dangerous people within that group that cannot be allowed entry into the United States, but that Democrats will believe are “angels” or some other nonsense.
However, that’s not the main discussion of this article. That can be discussed at another time, but I really want to focus on the Mexicans protesting against the caravan.
First, I am surprised and delighted to hear a Mexican citizen saying that Donald Trump was right about anything. It doesn’t happen very often, or at least we don’t see this happen very often.
Second, I am delighted to see these people taking a stand for their country and community. They are completely right in their assessment of the caravan as an invasion. Weeks ago, the caravan had forced their way into the country en masse. What in the world could you possibly define that as apart from an invasion? If you enter someone’s property by force, that’s trespassing and you are basically invading that space. So why is protecting our borders any different?
These Mexican protesters are Mexican nationalists. Now, I know that word triggers SJWs and snowflake Leftists and makes them rush to their nearest “safe space” with their complimentary blankies, but let me explain what that word means. Nationalism is not Nazism. It’s not white supremacy. It’s patriotism. I don’t care what Emmanuel “25% approval rating” Macron says, it’s not a betrayal of patriotism. It’s its very definition.
When you watch the world cup or the Olympics and root for your country’s team, aren’t you essentially rooting for your country to do well? That’s, to some level, patriotism. It’s setting yourself apart from others to support your own country.
When you watch these migrants in the caravan waving the Honduran flag, wouldn’t you characterize that as patriotism for their own country (even though they are leaving it)?
Being a nationalist means putting your country first. It means being patriotic and proud of your country, even despite its imperfections. I am proud of the United States. Now, a Leftist lunatic could say “HOW COULD YOU BE PROUD OF OUR RACIST AND GENOCIDAL COUNTRY!!!!!” and some other nonsense that would usually be accompanied by saliva because such a person is largely uncultured.
To which I retort: “Hey, wasn’t the Democrat Party the one that segregated from the Republican North to keep slaves? Wasn’t it the Democrat Party that was largely divided when it came to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while the Republicans were largely united in favor of it? Wasn’t it Andrew Jackson, the first Democrat President, the one that signed into law the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which then led to the infamous Trail of Tears?” As it turns out, the Democrat Party is largely, almost entirely responsible for the racism and genocide that occurred in the United States. I mean, the Party was founded just two years before the Indian Removal Act, and that’s what they basically start with? Geez.
But that can be discussed at another time. My point is that this country is great and has been great for a long time, despite the imperfections brought about by the Democrat Party. I am a patriot – a nationalist. I prioritize my country ahead of all others. That doesn’t mean “America Alone”, it means “America First.”
So I am glad to see these Mexican nationalists standing up for their country, waving the Mexican flag, singing the Mexican national anthem (which I was required to sing every day as a foreign child when I was going to school there in the few years I lived in Mexico, but kids in America don’t do it because Democrats hate this country), and overall prioritizing their country and their people ahead of foreign invaders.
Which leads me to my next point: will the Left characterize these people as racist? As white (excuse my chuckle) nationalists? Will they say that it is wrong for them to prioritize Mexico ahead of the foreigners? The Left certainly has no problem prioritizing Mexicans when they are the foreigners.
But you see, this is the problem with the Left’s rhetoric: it’s bogus. There are people all over the world who love their country and would consider themselves nationalists. And that word doesn’t equal Nazism. Yes, the full name is “National Socialist German Worker’s Party”, but if that’s the argument, then why is “National” so important but “Socialist” is utterly ignored?
Yes, Hitler was proud of Germany – he was a nationalist. Mussolini was proud of Italy – he was a nationalist. Abraham Lincoln was proud of America – he was a nationalist. Ronald Reagan was proud of America – he was a nationalist. Trump is proud of America – he is a nationalist.
Being a nationalist, in itself, isn’t a bad thing. Being proud of your country isn’t a bad thing, unless your country does horrible things like Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy did (and if you try to argue that we did equally horrible things, let me refer you to the hypothetical argument I had earlier this article). These protesters are Mexican nationalists. They are proud of their country and prioritize their country. They are Mexican patriots, as they should be.
The media, in all likelihood, won’t antagonize these Mexican nationalists. Not because they agree with what they are saying, but because their own rhetoric and racist beliefs won’t allow them to. They can call white people “white supremacists” even if that’s utterly ludicrous, but I would like to see these people try to call these Mexican patriots “white supremacists”.
In their desire to pander to minorities and not see people past their skin color, the Left faces a dilemma. Do they say that opposition to the caravan is “white supremacy” even though Mexicans are also opposed to it? Or do they give credence to the Mexicans, therefore undermining their efforts with the caravan? If the Mexicans can say what they’re saying about the caravan and that doesn’t make them racist, why would a white person saying the same thing make it racist? Or why is it racist for white people to oppose it, but not racist for these Mexicans to oppose it?
It’s similar to the issue of choosing Muslims over gay people. The Left will support gay people until a Muslim kills a gay person. They support gay rights to marry one another, but not the basic right to life in the Middle East.
It’s a similar dilemma, but different because both parties are Hispanic in this instance. So their own pandering and overwhelming racism gets in their own way.
Meanwhile, us conservatives try to stand up for what is right, despite anyone’s skin color, ethnicity, gender, etc. This caravan is an invasion and cannot be allowed entry into the U.S. illegally, particularly those who have criminal backgrounds and would only cause chaos and sorrow for American families.
With the kinds of backgrounds the DHS informed us were part of the caravan, we can’t allow the unhinged assaulters to get in (we already have Antifa for that), we can’t allow for sexual predators to get in (we already have Hollywood for that), we can’t allow for child molesters to get in (again, Hollywood), and we can’t allow for murderers to get in (we already have unhinged Leftists for that).
I don’t care about these people’s race, particularly since I’M ONE OF THEM. But the Left cannot see anyone past their skin color. It’s an issue they have always had and will always have, but will never accept and try to solve.
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BMC Public Health. 2023 Jan 5;23(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14797-z.
BACKGROUND: Measles is a contagious viral disease that seriously affects children. The measles vaccine is widely recommended in Brazil and in the world; however, the disease remains relevant for the health authorities. The aim of the present study was to evaluate first and second dose of measles vaccine coverage (VC) in the cities of São Paulo and its spatial dynamics between 2015 and 2020.
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RESULTS: A steady decline in adherence to the vaccination was observed, which dynamically worsened until 2020, with a high number of cities fitting the classification of ineffective coverage and being potentially harmful to the effectiveness of the immunization activities of their neighbors.
CONCLUSION: A direct neighborhood pattern was observed between the units with low vaccination coverage, which implied that the reduction in measles VC was somehow related to and negatively influenced by the geographic location and social culture of these areas.

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When an old friend and colleague passes away, an LSU English professor named Jack Claire travels to Swansea, Wales, to attend the funeral and is bequeathed a cache of handwritten manuscripts, the plays of William Shakespeare, along with a rare, leather-bound copy of the First Folio --the first collection of Shakespeare's plays. A problem arises, however, when he recognizes that the handwriting is NOT William Shakespeare's. He returns to Baton Rouge with and attempts to authenticate the documents, inadvertently alerting a ruthless collector who covets these priceless literary artifacts. The collector hires a relentless mercenary to steal the Shakespeare papers. Benedict resorts to violence when his surreptitious searches fail.
In California, Joseph Lawrence Conrad, a handsome young college instructor, receives mysterious handwritten original plays of Shakespeare. Not an Elizabethan scholar, Joe Conrad seeks the help of a colleague named Jonathan "Smitty" Smythe, a literary Sherlock Holmes to Joe's Watson. At once, Smitty recognizes the potential of the manuscripts and enlists the aid of Silvia Williamson, a brilliant and beautiful African-American scholar from Berkeley. As these three amateur sleuths labor to authenticate the manuscripts and determine the true author of Shakespeare's plays, they learn someone is after the priceless papers --and he's leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Eventually, everyone connected to the Shakespeare papers is in danger, including Joe's wife and children.
Plots intersect as the scholars discover evidence (based on thorough research) pointing to the most probable author(s) of Shakespeare's works, while the ruthless collector grows closer to the prize. Along the way, Joe and the others are assisted by police detective Ryan Dunn, who saved Joe and his family years earlier, FBI Agent Terry Lott, who helps uncover the identity of the mercenary, and Bill Morgan, an attorney who assists in protecting the Shakespeare papers and the family.
This fast-paced journey of discovery takes these appealing characters from Louisiana to California, to Washington, DC, Oxford, England, Swansea, Wales, and back to London where they discover a surprising link to today's Queen Elizabeth and the Royal Family, which ultimately leads Joe and Smitty to Stratford-upon-Avon, where they come face to face with a surprising and lethal truth.
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First FolioA Literary Mystery
By Scott Evans
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Chapter OneFor aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. From A Midsummer's Night's Dream
As he tore through the wet streets of Baton Rouge, tears of anger streamed down his face. Jack Claire had hoped to authenticate the Shakespeare manuscripts before he died. But now? Now that the documents had caused Maggie's death, he wanted nothing to do with them. If only he'd taken the stranger's first calls more seriously, Maggie might still be alive. He slammed the palm of his hand against the steering wheel. The surge of anger caused his heart to pound fiercely and brought a sharp pain to his chest.
Calm down, old boy.
Even at sixty-six, he had been in remarkable shape, tall and fit and feeling well. Until now. Now the image of the slender stranger he'd first seen at Maggie's funeral made him regret ever finding the manuscripts in the office of an old friend, Phil Owens, who had been a visiting professor from Wales.
Years earlier, Jack had taken Phil under his wing at LSU, so when Phil died, he left his books and papers to Jack. Jack arranged one more sabbatical to England, ostensibly to interview new Shakespearean scholars at Oxford University, but in reality to visit his old friend's widow.
Buried among stacks of loose papers inside a massive wooden bookcase in Phil's dark, musty office at Swansea University, as if hidden decades ago, was a metal box, the size of a file cabinet drawer. Jack hauled it out and lifted it onto Phil's desk. Inside was a cache of handwritten manuscripts, written on sturdy cotton stock he recognized as the type of paper used in the sixteenth century, and, in superior condition, a leather-bound copy of Jaggard and Blount's First Folio. How many copies of the first collection of William Shakespeare's plays had Isaac Jaggard printed? Five hundred? This copy had all the hallmarks of an original 1623 volume!
Staring at the manuscripts, Jack instantly recognized their value. A good copy of the First Folio was worth over $500,000. But the handwritten manuscripts? As literary artifacts, they'd be worth a fortune, equivalent to an undiscovered Van Gogh painting.
Sitting in his dead friend's office, Jack had stared in awe at the neat, uniform penmanship—it was not the same as William Shakespeare's. Could this be the proof that Will Shakespeare was not the author of the plays after all? If so, why hadn't Phil Owens exposed the manuscripts? Afraid he'd become a laughing stock if the papers were fakes?
Jack remembered leaning back in Phil's old chair, wondering why Phil hadn't given them to the world?
What if you had proof Melville hadn't written Moby Dick? Or Milton wasn't the author of Paradise Lost? Should he expose such a truth?
No. Not without absolute proof.
Now with the Louisiana rain slapping the windshield, Jack parked on the street, looking behind the car to see if the other man had followed. Seeing no one out of the ordinary, he hurried into the post office, carrying the heavy box, only the second person in line.
A simple cardboard box filled with four-hundred-year-old documents recording history's greatest achievements and most profound tragedies. The irony of it stabbed his heart like the memory of his wife's death.
A heavy-set clerk waved Jack to his window.
"What's in the box?" the clerk asked.
"Books," Jack answered.
"You want to send it book rate or priority mail?"
"You can send it priority and have it tracked," said the clerk. "Cost a little extra, but you'll be able to check its progress."
Jack considered the suggestion. If I can track it, then maybe the killer could, too.
"No, just book rate will do. I'm in no rush now." Jack looked over his shoulder.
The clerk put the postage tag on the box and pulled it from Jack's hands.
Jack couldn't believe it. In the time it took to glance over his shoulder, the box of Shakespeare's manuscripts had been taken from him—papers that could change the world of literature, now in the hands of postal workers.
What have I done?
"Sir," the clerk said. "Anything else?"
Jack turned and reluctantly walked out of the Post Office building. When he stepped outside, nearly blown down by gusts of wind, he pushed through the slanting rain toward his car and threw open the door. As he backed up, he saw the lean stranger, dressed in black, dashing toward him. The man stopped in his tracks. Under the rim of a dripping wet, black baseball cap, the man's sharp eyes peered through the fogged windshield at Jack. For a few seconds, the two men just stared at each other.
Then Jack peeled out of the parking space so quickly that the driver behind him laid on the horn. He drove around the corner and headed to the capitol.
He and Maggie had taken visitors to the Huey P. Long state capitol on many occasions, showing them the observation deck at the top of the tower. The thirty-four story limestone-clad building, a shining example of neo-classical architecture with quirky Art Deco details, looked like a phallic symbol to him—with the two lower chambers, the House and the Senate, on either side of the tower. It was the tallest state capitol in the U.S. The observation deck on the twenty-seventh floor encircled the rest of the tower and, on clear days, offered impressive views. Louisiana lay out flat, green and lush in all directions. You felt as if you could see New Orleans to the southeast, and Jackson, Mississippi, to the northeast.
He pulled into a space directly in front of the building and walked as quickly as he could through the downpour.
Lightning exploded nearby, followed by the kettledrums of thunder. Jack shook off the rain as he scurried through the ornate Memorial Hall to the elevators. The large bronze relief map of Louisiana looked dim and unimpressive in the dark lobby, as did the two large oil paintings that served as murals depicting idealized scenes of life in Louisiana. A couple of security guards stopped talking long enough to watch Jack cross the empty lobby. When the doors of one elevator opened, Jack immediately stepped inside.
He got off at the highest floor the elevator reached in order to walk up two more narrow flights of stairs to the observation deck on the twenty-seventh floor. A maintenance man was unlocking a door to the janitor's closet when Jack, out of breath, finally reached the last step. The man watched as Jack tried the handle of the door that led outside.
"Why is this door locked?" Jack asked, looking at the door.
"Ain't nobody goin' out in this storm," the worker answered.
Jack turned to look at the man. "But I must get outside. I won't be long."
The worker shook his head. "It's a damn hurricane out there, mister."
Jack studied the janitor's face. "You don't understand. I'm a meteorologist at LSU," he said. "I've been appointed by the Governor to study this storm. We've got to be prepared for another Katrina, don't we?"
The worker cocked his head and gave Jack a skeptical look.
"You got identification?"
"Of course." He retrieved his wallet, which fell open to reveal both his driver's license and his LSU faculty ID card. He placed his thumb over the "lish" in "Department of English" and showed the ID to the worker. "See? Just as I said. Dr. John Claire, Department of Engineering, Louisiana State University."
The man inspected the laminated ID card.
"You said you was in the weather department?"
"My good fellow," Jack explained, "the meteorological department is a division of the Department of Engineering."
"I guess that makes sense." He clutched his keys and walked over to the door. "Now ya'll be careful out there."
"Don't worry. I'll be off that roof before you can say, 'to be or not to be'."
Even with concern in his eyes, the worker unlocked the door and held it open.
Jack pushed around the corner of the building, but he was knocked backward momentarily, squinting as wind-whipped rain pelted his face. About as wide as a sidewalk, the deck went around all four corners of the inner part of the tower that rose another seven stories above him. To his left, the walls of the building; to his right, the short guard wall and railings through which visitors could look.
But not today. The clouds and sheets of heavy rain obscured Jack's view. He staggered forward. At the southwest corner of the observation deck, he could climb up on the telescope platform and reach the low bars, which curved inward at the top corner.
Jack struggled, not having counted on the wetness. He placed a foot inside a brace—it provided a foothold that allowed him to straighten up and straddle the barrier. In throwing his right leg up over the high railing, he caught a glimpse of the dark figure rushing toward him. Jack used all his strength to swing the rest of his body over the railing. He slid down on the other side, but his right foot slipped off the edge. Regaining his foothold, he gripped the wet bars tightly.
Jack stared into the killer's face. Shortly cropped black hair framed the man's sharp features under a baseball cap. The man's blue eyes squinted in the wind and rain, under thick black eyebrows. A few pockmarks scarred the hollows of his cheeks. His nose dripped with rain over thin lips and straight white teeth.
"What are you doing, Dr. Claire?" yelled the killer over the roar of the wind. "Climb back over, old man." He pointed a black pistol at Jack's heart.
Jack glanced at the gun and smiled. "All morning, I've been trying to think of the right thing to say. 'Once more into the breach!' doesn't seem to fit. 'How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.' That doesn't seem quite right, either, does it?"
"Tell me where the papers are, and I'll let you live."
"'What an ass am I?'" Jack roared. "'Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words and fall a-cursing.'"
"WHO DID YOU SEND THOSE PAPERS TO?"
A shard of lightning cut through the boiling clouds overhead as thunder exploded around them.
"Do you know Dickens?"
"You must know A Tale of Two Cities?"
"Is this some sort of clue?"
Jack smiled broadly, staring into the quizzical eyes of Maggie's murderer.
"Yes, a clue. Listen carefully."
The man turned his ear toward the old professor, who said, "Tis a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. A far better rest I go to than I have ever known."
The killer switched the gun from his right hand to his left, then grabbed Jack's raincoat and tugged him hard against the wet iron bars.
Stunned by the impact, Jack's heart exploded with pain. His vision blurred. His knees weakened. When he looked up, he could not see the man's face clearly. A sudden urge to reach through the bars welled up inside him. But everything darkened.
Jack released his grip on the cold, black iron and twisted, slipping his arms out of his raincoat. For a moment, he stood in place watching the other man grab for him. Then Jack leaned back and disappeared from the killer's view.
The professional let the rain pelt his back as he walked to the door. He pushed the door open and went inside, stepping over the body of the janitor who had tried to stop him. A wide pool of blood ebbed from the man's body, forming a circle on the marble floor. The killer holstered his gun inside his dark jacket, hurried down the stairs and pushed the button for the elevator.
On the first floor, several people rushed to the windows to look at the large, lifeless body that had landed with a sickening thud on the sidewalk just outside.
No one paid attention as the dark figure walked in the other direction.
The rain fell softly. To the south, the edge of the clouds became visible. On the horizon, a thin ribbon of blue sky and orange sunlight revealed itself. This tempest soon would pass.
Chapter TwoWhat a hell of witchcraft lies In the orb of one particular tear. From A Lover's Complaint
Joseph Lawrence Conrad sat in his office at Central Lutheran University in Stockton, California, stunned by the message he'd just heard. Jack Claire, dead. He replayed the voicemail and listened to the somber voice of Hayden Crawford again. "I know you were close to Dr. Claire, so I'm sorry to have to tell you this. He committed suicide a few days ago. There will be a funeral next Saturday at The Cathedral of St. Joseph Catholic church. I hope you can attend, but of course we'll understand if you can't, it being such short notice. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news."
Joe stared at the photo of Jack he kept on his desk. Dr. Claire had been more than a mentor; he'd been like a second father. It had been Jack who had recommended him for his teaching job at CLU. Tears welled up in Joe's eyes, but he wiped them away and prepared to face his students. It was the day of their mid-term exam. Jack would want him to go on with work.
Inside a wood-paneled classroom, Joe turned his back to the students, hoping they would not see his bloodshot eyes, and wrote the exam prompt on a whiteboard. When he finished, Joe brushed strands of light brown hair off his forehead and faced his class. The students in his summer course groaned.
"No complaining," he said, forcing a grin. "You knew what to expect."
They dutifully began writing. The reading list for the popular course, titled "Criminal Intent in Literature, Past and Present," included Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, In Cold Blood, and A Lesson before Dying. Two nonfiction works were also required for the course, John Grisham's An Innocent Man and his own autobiographical book, Tragic Flaws, which he'd written after being accused of several murders. The book had sold well during the real killer's trial, but sales had dropped off and he'd just received a letter from Random House that there wouldn't be a second printing—news he'd taken in stride.
As the students wrote furiously, Joe lowered his 6'2" frame into a chair and looked out the classroom window, losing himself in flashes of memory as he stared at the tall redwood trees outside. He recalled his first meeting in Jack's office when he interviewed to become Jack's research assistant.
While eating his lunch, Dr. Claire seemed to delight in feeding the gray squirrels. One by one, they climbed down the branches of the massive old oaks along the ledges outside his window, scampered right inside and made themselves at home, eating the peanuts Jack set out on his cluttered desk. His secretaries—Agnes, older, plump and white, Missy, younger, skinny and black—stood in the doorway to the office and cringed as Jack fed a bushy-tailed creature from his hands.
"One of 'em 's gonna bite you one day, Dr. Claire," Agnes warned in her mild Cajun accent. "Gonna bite the hand that feeds it, for sure."
"That will be the day I wring its tiny neck," Jack cautioned, wagging a finger at the squirrels.
Joe had cleared his throat and lowered himself into an oak chair well away from the squirrels. Agnes and Missy closed the door and let the two men have privacy. Jack had given him a sideways glance.
"You're specializing in American lit, Joe," Dr. Claire had said. "Why do you want to work with me? You know I specialize in Elizabethan authors."
"Yes," Joe had admitted, "but I read your book. I like the way you compare Shakespeare's themes and characters to modern novels."
Dr. Claire, who later insisted that Joe call him Jack, had seemed skeptical, which compelled Joe to continue.
"The way Faulkner incorporates Shakespearean tragedy in The Sound and the Fury, and the way Tennessee Williams makes his women seem like Lady Macbeth and Ophelia in A Street Car Named Desire."
After taking a bite of his ham and Swiss on rye, Jack fed a peanut to a frail squirrel and quietly mulled Joe's comment.
"I think I will learn a lot from you," Joe added feebly.
"What do you think?" asked Jack of the creature stealing food from his fingers. The indifferent old squirrel ignored the question as it furiously gnawed away the shell of the peanut.
Joe cleared his throat again. "Have you named them?"
Jack forced a smile. "That young couple on the bookshelf is Ophelia and Hamlet. They always eat together, but sometimes Ophelia looks a little melancholy."
"How 'bout the old guy on your desk?"
Jack chuckled. "Oh, my. That's Lear. Getting a bit feeble, I'm afraid. Almost can't make the leap to my desk."
"And his daughters?"
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Ethernet For Electronic Health Care How IP-based bandwidth services will be the enabler for electronic health care services
By: John Shepler
It’s no secret that there is ample opportunity to improve service and cut costs in the health care field. Much of the “low hanging fruit” involves digitizing, storing & transporting medical records and automating what remains of clerical processes. Beyond that, there are new applications such as remote diagnostics that can bring medical services to remote areas and emergency scenes like auto accidents. Sounds good, so what’s stopping us?
The Broadband Bottleneck
One big bottleneck is the lack of universal broadband infrastructure, both wired and wireless. Until recently, the best connection that many doctor’s offices, clinics and medical centers could afford was the venerable T1 line running at 1.5 Mbps. The sheer size of high resolution medical images, especially when bundled into complete electronic medical records, makes the once speedy T1 line a potential bottleneck to productivity.
FCC Proposed Remedies
The FCC has identified barriers to e-care caused by limited adoption of high speed digital connections and has proposed remedies in its National Broadband Plan. Bringing broadband connections to rural areas for the first time is the focus of stimulus funding. There are also licensing, privileging, and credentialing standards that need to be modernized to enable physicians to practice remotely. Additionally, structures need to be put in place to ensure patient privacy in an insecure online world.
Ethernet & MPLS To The Rescue
The private sector hasn’t been sleeping through all this. There’s a quiet revolution going on in the telecommunications industry that will be a major factor in enabling the efficiencies of e-health care. The FCC estimates that over $700 billion could be saved over 15-25 years through electronic health records and remote monitoring technology alone. What will be the primary transport technology for these wide band applications? It’s almost surely going to be Metro Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks.
IP is The Commonality
The thing these communications technologies have in common is a core based on packet switching or IP networking. MPLS adds privacy and efficiency for connecting multiple locations in a single mesh network. That could include hospitals, clinics, physicians offices and insurance companies.
Cost Advantage of Ethernet
One reason why Ethernet will play such an important role in the medical networks to come is cost. Metro Ethernet over both fiber and copper has proven to be less expensive per Mbps than traditional circuit switched telecom technologies. MPLS networks have all but taken over the role of multipoint to multipoint secure networks from Frame Relay. In some cases, Ethernet connections are even cheaper than T1 lines on an absolute cost basis.
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Rawalpindi Waste Management Company (RWMC) has completed all the arrangements under a particular cleanliness program prepared for Ashura day processions, while the holidays of all the staff of RWMC have been canceled on Muharram 10th.
Spokesman of RWMC told on Friday that under the special cleanliness program, all Imambargahas, procession routes and their vicinity were being cleaned besides the waste containers were also emptied. He told that construction material or debris was also removed from the routes of the procession and its adjacent areas. He said that relief camps had been set up at Fawara Chowk and Committee Chowk, where sanitary staff would be present until the conclusion of Ashura’s day processions.
He said that two control rooms had also been set up at Municipal Corporation and Deputy Commissioner offices that would look after the entire operation.
The RWMC has deputed additional sanitary workers to maintain cleanliness while all areas would be cleared after the culmination of processions, he added.
The spokesman urged the residents to cooperate with the RWMC staff and not throw waste and other materials in drains and the open spaces.


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True Velocity Ammo (TV Ammo), one of the contenders in the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons trial, continues to expand both its ammunition offerings and its own portfolio of companies.
In 2022, True Velocity purchased LoneStar Future Weapons, also an NGSW trials entrant, and now the company has purchased Delta P, a suppressor manufacturer with a design that is said to function with “full reliability” on machine guns.
“True Velocity owns world-class ammunition technology, world-class machine gun technology and, now with the acquisition of Delta P, world-class suppressor technology,” said True Velocity President and LoneStar Future Weapons Chairman Craig Etchegoyen.
“The only rule we have, when it comes to providing the very best technology to our warfighters, is that it must be American-made. With the acquisition of Delta P, we now have the ability to provide our warriors with superior ammunition, superior weapons and superior suppressors, all made here in America.”
TV Ammo is now also offering 5.56 NATO composite-cased cartridges, available with 55-, 69- or 77-grain weight projectiles. Pricing starts at $25 per 20-round box.
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What is Loss of Balance?
The condition takes place when a disease or injury disrupts the vestibular apparatus in the inner ear. The vestibular apparatus is the area that controls the balance and coordination in your cat. There are several causes of vestibular disease, but the disease is usually considered idiopathic because the cause is not always known.
A loss of balance commonly occurs when a cat is suffering from vestibular disease. Your cat may experience issues with standing on all four legs, and you may even notice your cat leaning or falling over at times, which can be a frightening sight.
Symptoms of Loss of Balance in Cats
Once you notice your cat is having trouble standing up, it is important to watch for the other signs of vestibular disease. A cat who is suffering from loss of balance may also display the following symptoms:
- Trouble standing
- Falling down
- Stumbling when walking
- Head tilting to one side
- Moving in circles
- Rolling on floor
- Weakness of limbs
- Continual eye movements
- Painful vocalizations
- Difficulty hearing
- Vomiting or lack of appetite
Causes of Loss of Balance in Cats
There is not always a known cause to vestibular disease, but the following problems can play a part in this condition:
- Middle-ear or inner ear infections
- Disease or injury of the spinal cord
- Damage or disease of the central nervous system
- Neurological disorders
- Tumors in ear canal, especially in aging cats
- Exposure to specific drugs or toxins
Diagnosis of Loss of Balance in Cats
The symptoms of vestibular disease may be related to another condition, such as an inner ear infection or head trauma. A physical exam is usually performed to check the overall health of your cat. This includes a neurologic exam and an otoscopic (ear) exam. You should also expect to answer questions about the cat's medical history and current symptoms.
Your veterinarian may run a number of tests to check for an underlying cause of your cat's loss of balance or to rule out other conditions. Your veterinarian may order a blood test, urine test, and ear cultures to check for diseases that may cause a loss of balance. Your cat may have to undergo an MRI, spinal tap, and head x-rays to check for injuries or infections that may have caused the condition. The tests also allow your veterinarian to ensure the loss of balance has not caused a more serious condition, such as injury from falling down.
Treatment of Loss of Balance in Cats
Treatment options depend on whether or not the loss of balance is idiopathic. Your veterinarian will treat the underlying cause if it is known, and they will focus on relieving the symptoms if there is not a known cause.
Treating the Underlying Cause
The loss of balance may be caused by an ear infection, tumor or exposure to toxins. When this is the case, your veterinarian will treat the underlying cause of the condition. Your veterinarian may prescribe antibiotics for an infection or induce vomiting for drug toxicity. The type of treatment depends on the underlying cause itself.
Treating Idiopathic Vestibular Disease
If the loss of balance or vestibular disease is considered to be idiopathic, your veterinarian will focus on treating the symptoms and bringing comfort to your cat.
Dizziness can cause your cat to lose its appetite or vomit, so your cat may prescribe medication to treat the vomiting, nausea and motion sickness. Your cat may require help with feedings, fluid administration, and changing position during recovery from this condition. Your cat may be restricted to cage rest in a well-padded area to avoid injury when trying to stand up or walk. The good news is the symptoms usually disappear in about two weeks and rarely reappear.
Recovery of Loss of Balance in Cats
Your veterinarian can treat the underlying cause or symptoms of the loss of balance, but it is still important to schedule a follow-up appointment after the treatment. A follow-up appointment allows your veterinarian to make sure the underlying cause has been treated or eliminated. Your veterinarian will also make sure your cat has not become sick or injured due to the loss of balance.
It is important to follow the instructions given by your veterinarian, from assisting with feedings to administering medication. You may need to continue to restrict your cat to cage rest until the symptoms have completely disappeared. Your veterinarian will tell you when to discontinue the treatment.
The underlying cause may be treatable if it is caught early, and idiopathic vestibular disease usually disappears over a short period of time.
Loss of Balance Questions and Advice from Veterinary Professionals
My cat recently went missing for 24 hours and since coming back can't seem to walk for more than 3 seconds, or stand for longer than 40 seconds without falling over. It seems like it is his back legs that are giving way. He doesn't seem to be in any pain as he is purring still and hasn't made any unusual noises. He also doesn't seem to be put off of his food. I have also felt his back legs and he doesn't pull away / show any signs of being in pain. Is this something we should get checked out immediately, or should we wait and see if he improves over the next couple of days?
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What could be a reason as to why my cat is losing her balance? She is an older cat, around 10 or 11, she can also not stand or walk for more than 5 seconds before she falls. When she walks freely around the house, she will meow constantly.Her weight has dropped to where you are now able to feel her spine and ribs easily. She also has a loss of appetite and only eats a few bites then walks away from the food.
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Hi my cat is 14 years old. recently I have noticed that he has lost a lot of weight and doesn't want to eat wet or dry food. Today I noticed he was having trouble walking. He has trouble standing, walking, any moving is very unbalanced. Im not sure what to do, I know he is old, but I just wanted to know if it was most likely because of his age and I should let him pass freely or bring him to a vet. He doesn't cry just seems like he has a loss of energy, appetite, balance, and his eyes are beginning to get cloudy.
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Andy Howard explains the importance of properly training staff in food-grade lubricants and the consequences that can result from inadequate application.
Following the Queen’s Speech, New Food’s Editor takes a deep dive into the possible consequences of the new, pending “junk food” advertising and calorie-labelling rules, which aim to tackle the UK obesity crisis.
February's webinar, hosted by New Food in association with Bruker Optics and Lesieur, discussed the use of FT-NIR spectroscopy as a rapid analytical method for edible oils in the lab as well as online.
A new study from scientists at Queen Mary University London claims a small reduction in fat in some of the country’s favourite foods could prevent thousands of deaths over the coming years.
Palm oil manufacturer Golden Agri-Resources says it has helped to upgrade agricultural practices in more than 40 communities in Indonesia.
The timeframe for the consultation has been called "frankly astounding" by the FDF, which has called for more detail in the proposal to ban advertising of unhealthy foods, as well as a meeting at Number 10 to discuss the way forward.
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Denmark: Production of Synthesis Gas Compact Syngas Reactor Could Help Reduce Global CO2 Emissions
An article in the Science magazine describes a new and compact approach to producing syngas. The technology from Haldor Topsoe is based on steam methane reforming and could have a significant positive effect on CO2 emissions globally.
Lyngby/Denmark — Researchers from Haldor Topsoe, the Technical University of Denmark, the Danish Technological Institute, and Sintex have been part of the development of a novel syngas reactor. The reactor not only produces synthesis gas for the production of polymers and chemicals, but could also contribute to reducing global CO2 emissions.
The research team has used computer simulations and lab testing to show that direct electric heating in combination with an innovative thin catalytic coating boosts both energy efficiency and catalytic efficiency. The improved efficiency saves CO2 in itself, but the real gain comes from replacing natural gas with electricity for heating the process to the 900°C necessary. The full potential is achieved when using green electricity from wind turbines or solar panels.
Another benefit of the new technology is that it can reduce the size of the syngas reactor from a 30-meter-long six story building to a unit 100 times smaller. Together with the outstanding energy efficiency and low CO2 emission, this makes the technology extremely commercially attractive when fully developed. Peter Mølgaard Mortensen, Principal Scientist, Haldor Topsoe, sees the electrified reactor as the next logical step for the chemical industry. With this approach, producers would get a viable way to transform the industry going towards greener processes without increasing production cost.


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A team of eighteen eye specialists, surgeons and technicians from Pakistan has organized an eye camp at Wa in the Upper West Region during which about 1,500 people were screened for various eye diseases. The team performed surgical operations to remove cataract from about 150 sufferers and distributed bi-focal lenses and medicine to about 400 people to correct various eye defects during the three-day exercise. The exercise which was under the auspices of Al- Basar International Foundation, a Saudi-Arabia sponsored Organization drew patronage from all parts of the region.
The exercise was very timely for the region because of the absence of an eye specialist to diagnose eye cases and perform surgeries for the past one year in the region.
In an interview with journalists during the exercise, Dr Khalil Ahmed Lakho, Coordinator of the exercise, said the mission of the Foundation, which was established in Saudi Arabia in 1990, was to prevent blindness in developing countries of the world. According to him most of these countries had inadequate trained medical personnel and equipment to reach out to their poor and vulnerable communities hence the need to assist them.
He said about two million people in these countries had already been supplied with various eye care services and 150,000 others operated upon to remove cataract, which they had identified as being the major cause of blindness in the World. Similar camps were held in Accra, Kumasi, Tamale and Wa as well as other West Africa countries including Niger, Benin and Togo.


Explain What Factors Affect Carrying Capacity?
Limiting factors determine carrying capacity. The availability of abiotic factors (such as water oxygen and space) and biotic factors (such as food) dictates how many organisms can live in an ecosystem. Carrying capacity is also impacted by the availability of decomposers.
What factors affect the carrying capacity?
What are 4 factors that affect the carrying capacity of a population?
- Food Availability. Food availability in any habitat is paramount to survival of a species. …
- Water. …
- Ecological Conditions. …
What factors influence carrying capacity quizlet?
The factor that determine the carrying capacity of an ecosystem primarily include the availability of living and nonliving resources as well as challenges predation competition and disease. Species that impact the survival of an ecosystem.
What is the carrying capacity due to limiting factors?
Explanation: Carrying Capacity is the total frequency of individuals within a community a habitat can sustain. Limiting Factors are biotic or abiotic factors which limit the carrying capacity. For example within a population of foxes there is enough space and water for 20 individuals.
What are 3 factors that affect carrying capacity?
Carrying capacity or the maximum number of individuals that an environment can sustain over time without destroying or degrading the environment is determined by a few key factors: food availability water and space.
What is the carrying capacity Why?
How does carrying capacity affect the size of a population?
Carrying capacity effectively determines how much population a given region can support. It will act as an upper limit on the population size. … In these cases the population tends to rapidly decrease plunging back below the carrying capacity (and in many cases even decreasing below the original number).
What factors would affect the carrying capacity of white pines?
The factors that would affect the carrying capacity of the white pines were glaciers tornadoes plant disease predators (insects) etc.
What are the types of carrying capacity?
Which factor can affect the carrying capacity of a habitat quizlet?
Food habitat water and other necessities available in the environment determine carrying capacity. How might humans differ from other organisms in terms of carrying capacity? The human population seems to be growing exponentially while the food supply we rely on seems to grow linearly so it may run out.
How do limiting factors affect the carrying capacity of an environment quizlet?
Acting separately or together limiting factors determine the carrying capacity of an environment of species. … Density Dependent limiting factors operate strongly only when population density- the number of organisms per unit area- reaches a certain level. These factors do not affect small scattered populations as much.
Which of the following factors would increase the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?
Carrying capacity can be increased by the amount of food available the local extinction of a competitor an increase in species fertility a decrease in predation an increase in the amount of habitat available for use and adaptations to the environment such as resistance to disease or adaptations that serve to …
Do limiting factors affect the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?
There can be many different limiting factors at work in a single habitat and the same limiting factors can affect the populations of both plant and animal species. Ultimately limiting factors determine a habitat’s carrying capacity which is the maximum size of the population it can support.
How the carrying capacity affects the organism in one place?
In biology the concept of carrying capacity relates the number of organisms which can survive to the resources within an ecosystem. … In situations where the population density of a given species exceeds the ecosystem’s carrying capacity the species will deplete its source of food water or other necessities.
How does climate change affect carrying capacity?
Abrupt climate change is likely to stretch carrying capacity well beyond its already precarious limits. And there’s a natural tendency or need for carrying capacity to become realigned. As abrupt climate change lowers the world’s carrying capacity aggressive wars are likely to be fought over food water and energy.
Do predators affect carrying capacity?
Some populations can temporarily “overshoot” their carrying capacity. … For example the presence of a predator or a parasite can depress the growth rate of a population but predators and parasites don’t affect carrying capacity unless they reduce the availability of resources.
What are some examples of abiotic factors that affect carrying capacity?
Abiotic factors may include space water and climate. The carrying capacity of an environment is reached when the number of births equal the number of deaths. A limiting factor determines the carrying capacity for a species.
What are six examples of limiting resources that can influence carrying capacity?
What are six examples of limiting resources that can influence carrying capacity? Energy shelter refuge from predators nutrient availability water and suitable nesting sites are six limiting resources that can influence carrying capacity.
Why is carrying capacity considered one of the critical factors in maintaining ecological balance and sustainability?
When an ideal population is in equilibrium with the carrying capacity of its environment the birth and death rates are equal and size of the population does not change. Populations larger than the carrying capacity are not sustainable and will degrade their habitat.
How does carrying capacity affect exponential growth?
The carrying capacity of a particular environment is the maximum population size that it can support. The carrying capacity acts as a moderating force in the growth rate by slowing it when resources become limited and stopping growth once it has been reached.
How do you determine carrying capacity?
How does carrying capacity affect biotic potential?
Carrying capacity is the maximum population of a given species that a certain ecosystem can sustain indefinitely without being degraded. Biotic potential of organisms makes the population increase while environmental resistance limits the population on growing relentlessly.
What affects the carrying capacity of the ocean?
The key factors influencing the marine ecological carrying capacity in 2016 are these four indicators specifically the economic density of coastline treatment rate of urban domestic sewage wetland area per capita and the proportion of environmental protection investment in GDP.
What two factors does carrying capacity compare?
The carrying capacity is different for each species in a habitat because of that species’ particular food shelter and social requirements.
What is carrying capacity and why is it important?
The carrying capacity is a measure of how many individuals can a given ecosystem provide for. An individual and its population is dependent on various components of its ecosystem for necessities such as food habitat etc. An ecosystem can only successfully support a given population.
What are carrying capacities give an example of a factor that limits carrying capacity quizlet?
Carrying capacity is limited by limiting factors such as energy water oxygen and nutrients. The concept of carrying capacity is used to explain why many populations tend to stabilize. You just studied 47 terms!
What is the carrying capacity of an environment quizlet?
Carrying capacity is the largest population that an environment can support at any given time. A population may increase beyond this number but it cannot stay at this increased size.
What is the carrying capacity of an ecosystem quizlet?
Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals in a population that the environment can support.
How do limiting factors affect population density?
What is a carrying capacity quizlet?
carrying capacity is the number of individuals the environment can support over a long period of time and density affects the population size.
How can carrying capacity be increased?
The carrying capacity of an ecosystem can be increased by (obviously) expanding the size of the habitat having essential resources like food and water more readily available to the organisms in that ecosystem and/or eliminated limiting factors.
What are 3 examples of carrying capacity?
- Example 1: The Carrying Capacity of North American Deer. …
- Example 2: The Carrying Capacity of Grazing Cattle. …
- Example 3: The Carrying Capacity of Barnacles and Oysters. …
- Example 4: The Carrying Capacity in Ireland during the Potato Famine.
Which factors limit environmental carrying capacity in a land ecosystem?
Above this capacity the population size will eventually decrease. The determiners of carrying capacity are limiting factors. The common limiting factors in an ecosystem are food water habitat and mate. The availability of these factors will affect the carrying capacity of an environment.
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