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Jilliane Velazco

Music Industry Decline Accelerates - 0 views

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cd album music decline

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  • Jilliane Velazco on 10 Dec 08
     
    they say this is "the worst decline in the history of the cd"; physical album sales have gone down 27% as of December 1, 2008
Jilliane Velazco

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music sales cd album digital

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  • "worst decline in the history of the CD."
  • Physical album sales have plunged about 27% so far in the fourth quarter
  • Digital tracks sales are up
  • Jilliane Velazco on 08 Dec 08
     
    they said this was the "worst decline in the history of the CD"; physical album sales have plunged about 27% so far in the fourth quarter; digital sales are up
cory delacruz

Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • More has been published about the extinction of dinosaurs at the K-T boundary than any other group of organisms. Excluding a few controversial claims, it is agreed that all non-avian dinosaurs went extinct at the K-T boundary. The dinosaur fossil record has been interpreted to show both a decline in diversity and no decline in diversity during the last few million years of the Cretaceous, and it may be that the quality of the dinosaur fossil record is simply not good enough to permit researchers to distinguish between the choices.[54] Since there is no evidence that late Maastrichtian nonavian dinosaurs could burrow, swim or dive, they were unable to shelter themselves from the worst parts of any environmental stress that occurred at the K-T boundary. It is possible that small dinosaurs (other than birds) did survive, but they would have been deprived of food as both herbivorous dinosaurs would have found plant material scarce, and carnivores would have quickly found prey to be in short supply.[35] The growing consensus about the endothermy of dinosaurs (see dinosaur physiology) helps to understand their full extinction in contrast with their close relatives, the crocodilians. Cold-blooded crocodiles have very limited needs of food (they can survive several months without eating) while warm-blooded animals of similar size need much more food in order to sustain their faster metabolism. Thus, under the circumstancies of food chain disruption above mentioned, non-avian dinosaurs died [55] while some crocodiles survived. In this context, the survival of other endothermic animals, such as some birds and mammals, could be due, among other
Ann Thomas

Pet Rx: The Health Benefits of Cats and Dogs | AHealthyMe.com - 0 views

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  • Ann Thomas on 03 Dec 08
     
    Older people often lack social networks and recreational opportunities, and having a cat on their laps can be an immense boost to their health and happiness. Studies show that pets not only foster feelings of love and security but can also help lower a person's blood pressure, heart rate, and stress level. For seniors, these little benefits add up to an impressive advantage. A Canadian study of nearly 1,000 adults age 65 and over found that pet owners were more physically fit and less likely to suffer a decline in health in the course of a year. The trend held up even after researchers adjusted for the fact that pet owners tended to be younger and more active than non owners. Interestingly, cat owners enjoyed the same rewards as dog owners, strong evidence that pets can improve your health even if they aren't constantly begging for walks.
Jilliane Velazco

Album sales down 11% halfway through 2008 - BloggingStocks - 0 views

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  • 11% decline in album sales during the first half of 2008
  • Consumers purchased 204.6 million albums between January and June
  • single track downloads growing 30% to 532.7 million units in the first half of the year over first half sales in 2007 of 417.3 million units
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  • Sony BMG dropping .5% to 24.8% and EMI dropping 1% to 9.4%.
  • single track downloads would make an obvious market to rely on
  • Jilliane Velazco on 08 Dec 08
     
    music industries are saying that they might have to rely on single track sales; "single track downloads growing 30% to 532.7 million units in the first half of the year over first half sales in 2007 of 417.3 million units
Stephania D

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Exxon Valdez Pollution water

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  • largest and most productive estuaries in North America.  
  • However, in 1993 the EVOS Trustee Council funded an additional survey that estimated 7 km of shoreline were still contaminated with subsurface oil.
  • Because a significant survey of Prince William Sound had not been conducted since 1993 and the cumulative extent of the remaining oil was unknown, concerns were generated by the public and scientific communities about the oil’s possible continuing effects on humans and fauna potentially exposed to the oil directly or indirectly.
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  • Without an accurate assessment of the extent of the remaining oil, subsistence food-gatherers, consumers of commercial fish products from the area, and tourists have used mostly anecdotal evidence as the basis for economic decisions regarding resource utilization in the affected area.
  • Consequently, the Auke Bay Laboratory (ABL) with funding from the EVOS Trustee Council, took on the task of assessing the remaining oil along the shorelines of Prince William Sound during the summer of 2001
  • The primary objective of the project was to measure the amount of oil remaining in the intertidal zone of Prince William Sound.  Secondary objectives include determining the rate of decline of oil on these beaches, estimating the persistence of the remaining oil, and correlating the remaining oil with geomorphological features.
  • heavily and moderately oiled
  • The 2001 survey adopted a stratified random/adaptive sampling (SRAS) design. Two random pits were excavated to a depth of 0.5 m (1.6 feet) in every stratified block (0.5-m verticle drop in tide height) within a grid system established at each site. If subsurface oil was discovered in any of the randomly stratified origin pits, then additional adaptive pits were excavated above, below, to the right, and to the left of the origin pit until the extent of the oil patch was determined.
  • Buried or subsurface oil is of greater concern than surface oil.
  • Subsurface oil can remain dormant for many years before being dispersed and is more liquid, still toxic, and may become biologically available.
  • A disturbance event such as burrowing animals or a severe storm reworks the beach and can reintroduce unweathered oil into the water.
  • The toxic components of this type of surface oil are not as readily available to biota, although some softer forms do cause sheens in tide pools.
  • 1) Surface oil was determined to be not a good indicator of subsurface oil. 2) Twenty subsurface pits were classified as heavily oiled.  Oil saturated all of the interstitial spaces and was extremely repugnant. These “worst case” pits exhibited an oil mixture that resembled oil encountered in 1989 a few weeks after the spill - highly odiferous, lightly weathered, and very fluid. 3) Subsurface oil was also found at a lower tide height than expected (between 0 and 6 feet), in contrast to the surface oil, which was found mostly at the highest levels of the beach (Table 3).  This is significant, because the pits with the most oil were found low in the intertidal zone, closest to the zone of biological production, and indicate that our estimates are conservative at best.
  • The possibility of continuing low level chronic effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill seem very real now, although measurable population effects would be very difficult to detect in wild populations.
  •  Sea otters and harlequin ducks fall into this category
  • such as sea otters, harlequin ducks, and their intertidal prey.
  • The last beach assessment was completed in September 2001. Supporting chemical analyses will be completed in fall 2002, and a final report with statistical analyses and conclusions will be completed by April 2002.
  • Stephania D on 03 Dec 08
     
    Exxon Valdez
Stephania D

Jordan River - 0 views

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sewage pollution water spiritual

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      Stephania D on 01 Dec 08
       
      Nasser argues on the topic of the environmentalists worries.
  • This pollution, coupled with the diversion of much of the river's clean water by Israel, Syria and Jordan, is endangering the river
  • "The Lower River is an open sewage canal, and the sad irony is that the sewage water is keeping the river flowing. Being baptized in the water below the dam - something that takes place on the Jordanian side of the river - cannot be too spiritually uplifting,"
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  • , when Israel started to divert the water for agriculture and other domestic use.
  • ronmentalists
  • The river's slow but steady decline began in the 1950s
  • dam is slated to open by 2006, a fact that makes the issue that much more urgent for envi
  • ordan and Syria built a series of dams and canals on the Yarmouk River, the Jordan's main tributary, further cutting the flow to the river. Yet another large Jordanian-Syrian
  • If it were up to environmentalists, local countries would import more produce in order to save the Jordan and other water sources in the water-deprived Middle East.
  • "if Christians knew that just a mile down the river a toxic mix was being dumped, they would be very upset about it."
  • Stephania D on 01 Dec 08
     
    Sewage pours into Jordan River
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