PARIS (Reuters) - France's health regulator said on Thursday it would comply with the European Commission if it ruled that Bayer acne pill Diane 35 and its generic versions were safe to use in some cases.
However, it added it would keep sales of the treatment on hold until then.
France is the only EU country where sales of the treatment were suspended earlier this year after four deaths over the past 25 years were linked to its use.
Diane 35 reduces acne by regulating hormones and blocking ovulation, and is often prescribed as a contraceptive even though it is not approved for this use.
Following a formal safety review, conducted at the request of French authorities, the European Medicines Agency concluded earlier this month that the benefits of Diane 35 outweighed the risks - provided measures were taken to minimize the chance of blood clots forming in veins and arteries.
These recommendations were endorsed on Thursday by a European Union body representing EU member states and will be sent to the European Commission, which will adopt a legally binding decision in the coming weeks.
The French government in January also stopped reimbursing prescription costs of third and fourth-generation birth-control pills and restricted their use after a woman sued Bayer over alleged side effects.
(Reporting by Elena Berton; Editing by Lionel Laurent)
Posted on: 2:26 pm, May 30, 2013, by Ted Malave, updated on: 03:56pm, May 30, 2013
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ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) ? In one case, an Egyptian Christian man stabs his wife after she converts to Islam with the support of hard-line Islamists. Then after surrendering to police, he dies in mysterious circumstances, falling from a court building window.
At about the same time, a Muslim woman in another small village converts to Christianity and elopes with a Christian man. A crowd of Muslims attacks the local church in outrage. None of the attackers are prosecuted, but police arrest the Christian man's family.
The case is elevated to a national issue as angry Islamist lawmakers in parliament dedicate a whole committee session to demanding the conversion be stopped and decrying an alleged foreign plot to convert Muslims.
The two recent instances that took place in southern Egypt illustrate the deep sensitivities surrounding conversions in Egypt's conservative society.
But they also demonstrate the discrepancies in how the cases are treated. Christians say politically powerful Islamist hard-liners have stepped up efforts to encourage Christians to embrace Islam. Meanwhile, the rare cases of Muslims turning to Christianity often bring violence against the community. In either case, authorities tend to turn a blind eye.
That has heightened Christians' sense of siege amid the increasing influence of Islamists since the 2011 ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Under Mubarak, there were two or three cases a month nationwide of Christians converting to Islam, says Ibram Louiz, an activist who tracks conversions and disappearances of Christian women.
"But now I hear at times up to 15 cases coming from just one province," he said.
He estimated some 500 conversions since Mubarak's fall, 25 percent of them involving underage Christian girls, some as young as 15, who end up being married off to older Muslim men.
Public conversions to Christianity are far rarer. Technically, it is not illegal for a Muslim to become Christian ? though under Islamic law it can be punishable by death. But in the handful of cases the past decade, converts were imprisoned for insulting religion, threatening national security or other charges.
With communal feeling strong in Egypt, conversions are rarely seen as simply a matter of personal choice. Among Christians and Muslims alike, families are outraged when a loved one switches religion and often react violently. Questions of honor become mixed in when it involves a daughter or wife.
What begin as domestic family dramas easily spin into wider sectarian tensions as each community tries to punish converts or "defend its own." In 2011, for example, a Cairo church was burned by Islamists determined to protect a woman they believed was being held there to force her to renounce her conversion to Islam.
President Mohammed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood, frequently declares that Muslims and Christians are equal before the law, and the Brotherhood is not known to be involved in conversions. But hard-line Islamists known as Salafis, allied to the Brotherhood, prominently defend converts to Islam, and they have a powerful presence in parliament. The Christian minority, about 10 percent of the population, has far less political power.
Romani Farhan Amir, an impoverished Christian day laborer, had little choice but to accept when his wife marched into a police station in the southern city of Assiut, accompanied by members of the hard-line Gamaa Islamiya group, and registered her conversion to Islam in February, his family says. Amir just told police that he did not want her anywhere near their four children, they say.
On May 11, when she showed up at the school of one of their sons, he believed she was trying to snatch the boy ? something she denies. He stabbed her in the principal's office, leaving her wounded.
Amir surrendered to police, and while he was at a court complex waiting to be questioned, he fell from a fourth-story window. Police say he committed suicide and deny any foul play.
The provincial security chief acknowledges that, while tragic, Amir's death averted Christian-Muslim violence. If the wife had died "there would have been grave consequences," Abul-Qassim Deif said. "So in the end, that he died and she lived quickly ended the whole affair."
His family is convinced he was killed in retaliation for attacking a Muslim, though they balk at accusing anyone specifically.
At a memorial prayer for him in the family's tiny apartment in Assiut, his mother argued with one of his six sisters whether to speak out. The sister tried to silence her, fearing retaliation from Islamists. Even the priest who led the memorial prayer advised them to lay low and avoid trouble.
But the mother, Maria Sourial, screamed, "Romani went into the building walking on his own two feet but came out dead. My son never committed suicide. How could he with so many policemen and suspects around him?"
The Gamaa Islamiya, which waged an armed insurgency in the 1990s but has since forsworn violence, has championed the cause of Amir's ex-wife, Azza William ? now called by her Muslim name Habibah Shaaban.
A local Gamaa leader, Shaaban Ibrahim Ali, denied his group pushes Christians to convert.
"They keep coming and we keep telling them to go back and consider the consequences," he told AP.
But he said if someone is determined to become Muslim, the group is morally obliged to protect them. He said Christians converting is a source of "happiness" for him and that his dream is to see Egypt's entire Christian population turn to Islam.
William disappeared from her husband's home in January and took refuge with the Gamaa, according to the Assiut security chief. Three weeks later, Ali and other Gamaa members accompanied her to the police station, where she registered her new Muslim name and sought a restraining order against Amir.
Speaking in her hospital room, recovering from stab wounds to the chest, arms and thighs, she told AP her husband first found her praying as a Muslim a year ago. He beat her, then got her a job as a cleaner at a church nursery, hoping that would dissuade her from becoming a Muslim.
"It didn't," she said, with Ali standing near her during the brief interview.
When her husband attacked her May 11, "I did not duck to avoid his stabs, I stood still in front of him when all the other women at the room were screaming," she said, with drips connected to both arms and her entire body ? except her eyes ? cloaked in a dark brown veil and robes.
Now, with Amir's death, she now gets custody of her four children. "May God show them the way to Islam while they are with me," she said.
The other conversion story, in Beni Suef province north of Assiut, provides a telling contrast.
In this case, a 22-year-old Muslim woman Rana el-Shenawi disappeared and is believed to have converted and fled abroad with a Coptic Christian she fell in love with.
In retaliation, Muslim mobs hurling rocks and firebombs attacked the Mar Girgis Church in her hometown of Wasta in late April after her father accused a local priest of using witchcraft to convert her. A priest's car was set on fire. Islamist hard-liners forced Christian businesses to shut down for more than a week.
"We want to raise the banner of Islam and not sit and watch our Muslim daughters getting kidnapped and converted to Christianity," said a leaflet distributed in Wasta by Islamists.
Ten people were initially detained for the church attack but were later released. The church is now guarded by police.
Police detained the father, mother and cousin of Ibram Andrews, the Christian with whom el-Shenawi allegedly eloped. They are under investigation on suspicion of helping her disappearance, inciting sectarian tensions, disturbing security and blasphemy.
Salafi groups, meanwhile, drummed up a nationwide uproar, warning of a foreign plot to convert Muslims. Even parliament took an interest. A committee held a hearing April 30, with Islamist lawmakers demanding action to retrieve el-Shenawi. The session devolved into furious arguments between Christian and Islamist lawmakers.
The el-Shenawi family's lawyer ? a member of the Salafi Watan Party ? was granted meetings with senior aides at the presidency to discuss efforts to retrieve the woman and investigate alleged foreign proselytizing.
The lawyer, Ashraf el-Sissi, told the AP he doesn't want the case to fuel sectarian tensions. But "what I am concerned with is whether there are foreign groups trying to undermine our nation."
In Wasta, the priest of Mar Girgis church, Father Angelos, said he didn't understand why his church was blamed for el-Shenawi's disappearance. Andrews never attended services there and lived in the city of Beni Suef, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) away.
"Here, rumors swiftly get treated as facts," said Angelos. Mar Girgis is separated by a narrow alley from a mosque from which Salafis have launched protests against the church.
"Attacks on churches continue to happen because the culprits act with impunity, knowing that there is no law and there is no punishment," he said. "Generally, we suffered as Christians under Mubarak but nowhere near what is happening to us now."
May 23, 2013 ? An anti-cancer drug reverses memory deficits in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers confirm in the journal Science.
The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association, reviewed previously published findings on the drug bexarotene, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in cutaneous T cell lymphoma. The Pitt Public Health researchers were able to verify that the drug does significantly improve cognitive deficits in mice expressing gene mutations linked to human Alzheimer's disease, but could not confirm the effect on amyloid plaques.
"We believe these findings make a solid case for continued exploration of bexarotene as a therapeutic treatment for Alzheimer's disease," said senior author Rada Koldamova, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in Pitt Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
Dr. Koldamova and her colleagues were studying mice expressing human Apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4), the only established genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, or APOE3, which is known not to increase the risk for Alzheimer's disease, when a Case Western Reserve University study was published last year stating that bexarotene improved memory and rapidly cleared amyloid plaques from the brains of Alzheimer's model mice expressing mouse Apolipoprotein E (APOE). Amyloid plaques consist of toxic protein fragments called amyloid beta that seem to damage neurons in the brain and are believed to cause the associated memory deficits of Alzheimer's disease and, eventually, death.
Bexarotene is a compound chemically related to vitamin A that activates Retinoic X Receptors (RXR) found everywhere in the body, including neurons and other brain cells. Once activated, the receptors bind to DNA and regulate the expression of genes that control a variety of biological processes. Increased levels of APOE are one consequence of RXR activation by bexarotene. The Pitt researchers began studying similar compounds a decade ago.
"We were already set up to repeat the Case Western Reserve University study to see if we could independently arrive at the same findings," said co-author Iliya Lefterov, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in Pitt Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. "While we were able to verify that the mice quickly regained their lost cognitive skills and confirmed the decrease in amyloid beta peptides in the interstitial fluid that surrounds brain cells, we did not find any evidence that the drug cleared the plaques from their brains."
The Pitt researchers postulate that the drug works through a different biological process, perhaps by reducing soluble oligomers which, like the plaques, are composed of the toxic amyloid beta protein fragments. However, the oligomers are composed of smaller amounts of amyloid beta and, unlike the plaques, are still able to "move."
"We did find a significant decrease in soluble oligomers," said Dr. Koldamova. "It is possible that the oligomers are more dangerous than the plaques in people with Alzheimer's disease. It also is possible that the improvement of cognitive skills in mice treated with bexarotene is unrelated to amyloid beta and the drug works through a completely different, unknown mechanism."
In the Pitt experiments, mice with the Alzheimer's gene mutations expressing human APOE3 or APOE4 were able to perform as well in cognitive tests as their non-Alzheimer's counterparts 10 days after beginning treatment with bexarotene. These tests included a spatial test using cues to find a hidden platform in a water maze and a long-term memory test of the mouse's ability to discriminate two familiar objects following introduction of a third, novel object.
Bexarotene treatment did not affect the weight or general behavior of the mice. The drug was equally effective in male and female mice.
A teenager from?Saratoga, California took home one of the top prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair?late last week after showing off her invention, which can fully charge a cell phone in 30 seconds or less.?Eesha Khare was given the?Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award and a $50,000 prize for being runner-up in the competition, which was won by a 19-year-old who unveiled a new spin on?self-driving car technology.?Khare?s battery technology requires a new component to be installed inside the phone battery itself, and Intel notes that it also has potential applications for car batteries.
Players on the Don Bosco Eagles football team are backing now ex-coach Mayor Rob Ford, who was dumped Wednesday by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. A statement from the TCDSB Wednesday says Ford was notified of the board?s decision to ?pursue a different direction? with a new volunteer head coach. ?I think that?s a really bad mistake by the school board,? said Kwaku Agyeman, 18, an Eagles linebacker last season. ?Rob Ford made an extremely big impact on the team and on the players. I feel bad for the younger generation because they?re not going to have a powerful coach and powerful role model,? he added. ?I talked to one of the captains on the team and he was just heartbroken. He can?t believe it happened.?
You remember Snow Fall, don?t you? It was that awesome interactive reporting piece by The New York Times that everyone talked about for a week.
It was called ?the future of online journalism.? It was praised as a way for The New York Times to courageously battle back against online upstarts like Buzzfeed and their non-serious cat spreads. Or to not change the company?s fortunes at all.
It even won a Webby! (Oh yeah, and a Pulitzer.)
The New York Times spent months and had an entire team working on the creation of Snow Fall, and it shows. But what if I told you that you could recreate the same interactive experience in just about an hour? You?d like that, wouldn?t you?
Well, The New York Times wouldn?t.
Cody Brown, co-founder of interactive web design tool Scroll Kit, did just that.
He recreated the Snow Fall piece using Scroll Kit to show that you didn?t need an army of developers or designers to create the same type of interactive storytelling. In fact, the tools exist today to build other compelling narratives that take advantage of the combination of text, and video, and images.
To show how easy it was, Brown recorded a video of the process, showing how a user could create the same type of experience in under an hour. And he uploaded it to YouTube, and posted it to the Scroll Kit website. There, he introduced it this way:
?The NYT spent hundreads of hours hand-coding ?Snow Fall.? We made a replica in an hour.?
The video lived there for about a month, Brown tells me, before receiving a letter from The New York Times legal team, demanding that the video be taken down. After consulting with Scroll Kit?s legal counsel, the team complied with the takedown request, kind of. They actually set the video to private on YouTube so that no one could see it.
But they kept the line about making a replica of Snow Fall on the website. Because, well, it was true.
It wasn?t long before another C&D nastygram from The New York Times arrived, demanding that they not only delete the video from YouTube ? which they eventually did ? but that they remove any reference to The New York Times from their website.
From Scroll Kit?s perspective, the video was only meant as a way to instruct others about how easy it can be to build a compelling interactive experience, not as a way to aid and abet terrorism copyright infringement.
Brown said the Scroll Kit team was ?super excited? to see Snow Fall released and the amazing reception to it. They had been been working on their tools for longer than the NY Times had been working on Snow Fall, and saw it as a validation of their startup. But at the same time, it also represented the inequality between publications that can afford to create interactive stories and those that can?t.
?It?s become a symbol of the potential of journalism, but also the barrier to how something like that could be made,? Brown told me.
If the knock against Snow Fall was that only someplace like The New York Times can afford to create something like that, Brown believes Scroll Kit is the tool that would get costs down enough for smaller organizations and independents to enable a whole new set of unique web experiences.
Unfortunately, it doesn?t have the legal resources to fight The New York Times ? Brown admits that much. But for now, the tiny startup is holding fast and keeping The New York Times reference on its website, and have told the Grey Lady as much.
Unfortunately, she is not amused. She is offended! Peep her legal team?s most recent response, from Senior Counsel Richard Samson:
Dear Mr. Brown:
We are offended by the fact that you are promoting your tool, as a way to quickly replicate copyright-protected content owned by The New York Times Company. It also seems strange to me that you would defend your right to boast about how quickly you were able to commit copyright infringement:
The NYT spent hundreds of hours hand-coding ?Snow Fall? We made a replica in an hour.
If you wouldn?t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we?d appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Richard Samson
scroll kit makes assembling a page on the web more like drawing on a piece of paper.
GM Opens New Data Center Modeled on Google, Facebook
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BY STEVEN ROSENBUSH AND JEFF BENNETT To clear the way for the complex, located at GM?s technical center in Warren, Mich., GM had to unwind a massive IT services contract with Hewlett-Packard Co., and reverse an outsourcing model that goes back to its acquisition of EDS nearly 30 years ago. ?This is?
Kyocera kitted us out with toques, touch-sensitive gloves and giant black faux-fur coats -- well, Brad chose white -- and led us all into a bar made entirely of ice to launch its new handsets here at CTIA. Kyocera, playing off the tough-guy thing, had the Hydro Xtrm and Edge laid out on slabs of ice in a pretty frosty environment for us to handle with our gloved hands. Both handsets will be priced toward the lower end of the spectrum, with the Hydro Edge being the least expensive and most modestly specced of the two. Both devices are decent as far as material choices go, though the Edge was perhaps our favorite even if the Xtrm beats it out in the display department somehow. There weren't any water tanks to test out both sets IPX5 / IPX7 specs so we'll simply have to take Kyocera's word for it.
The Edge and Xtrm build on the previously launched Hydro specs but with upgrades across the board. The Edge sports a dual-core 1Ghz CPU, tempered glass (instead of acrylic), 5-megapixel camera, 4-inch 233-ppi display and Android Jelly Bean. The Xtrm adds LTE to the connectivity list also touts a 5-megapixel shooter, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, the same display as the Edge, and Bluetooth 4. The Xtrm launches on US Cellular May 24th with the Edge joining the fun on Boost Mobile and Sprint during "Summer 2013." Check out the cool blue-hued pics in the gallery below.
Thank you to everyone who participated in Graphex 44. We had a great turnout, and a great time. Jakub Hartleib kicked the night off with beautiful (and delicious) food, while Mark Kuykendall set the mood with some chill vibes. Guests strolled through our makeshift gallery of winners, a truly inspiring showing.
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Our Graphex 44 team worked tirelessly to put together this year?s show. The awards segment was short and sweet, and each category was introduced by a local artisan. From violin makers, to grass tenders at ONEOK Field, and brewers at Marshall?s, we kept people guessing who would pop up next. At the end of the awards, we hope you were surprised to see a new feature: comments from this year?s judges. As you know, our judges were experienced, unbiased designers from across the Midwest. Alan from Leo Burnett commended Tulsa on our design and our barbeque, while Shawn from Blacktop Creative gave a special shout-out to this year?s Raffe Award recipient, John Hammer.
Congratulations to all the winners. Thanks to your hard work and participation, we were able not only to inspire each other, we also fueled future designers through scholarship awards. And between the winner?s books* and the photobooth, we all had a little souvenir to take with us. What was your favorite part of the night?
*One award was originally omitted from the book, though we did announce it during the show. That piece was the identity for Hoteles M, by Cubic. Winston Peraza, creative director; Sean Ball, art director; Hoteles M, client. This received a Merit for Identity.
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Graphex 44 Winners
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Motion Graphics
Gold(video)
My Ditch Witch Drilled It Testimonial Video
Littlefield Brand Development
Mike Rocco, creative director
Jason Jordan, associate creative director
Darshan Phillips, art director
Chris Barricks, writer
Brandon Bergin, editor
Ditch Witch, client
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Gold (motion graphics campaign)
Know Your Trash Videos
Littlefield Brand Development
Mike Rocco, creative director
Jason Jordan, associate creative director
Katy Kite, art director
Chris Miller, designer
Cullen Koger, writer
Tulsa Authority for the Recovery of Energy, client
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Bronze (motion graphics)
Osage Money Drop TV Commercial
Walsh Branding
Kerry Walsh, principal & creative director
Heath Potter, creative director
Tammy Chick, managing principal & senior account manager
Terri Hibberd, account executive
Jennifer Bighorse, Osage marketing director
Mike McGuire, Osage marketing manager
Osage Casino, client
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Bronze (video)
YMCA Program Video
Littlefield Brand Development
Mike Rocco, creative director
Jason Jordan, associate creative director
Matt O?Meilia, writer
Chris Miller, editor
Brandon Bergin, editor
YMCA of Greater Tulsa, client
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Identity
Gold
Endless Entertainment logo
Loftis & Ball
Sean Ball & Damian Madray, creative direction
Sean Ball, art direction & design
Endless Entertainment / Damian Madray, The Madray, client
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Gold
Bevworks logo
Katy Kite, designer
Joseph Breaux, client
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Gold
Coney I-Lander Logo
Walsh Branding
Kerry Walsh, principal & creative director
Cassie Drake, lead art director
Annell Dornblaser, account executive
Coney I-Lander, client
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Silver
Pop Co-Op Logo
Studio Savage
Jeffrey W. Savage, creative director & designer
Peter Kraemer, illustrator
Pop Co-Op, client
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Silver
Scissortail Brewing Co. Logo
Hammer designs
John Hammer
Scissortail Brewing Co., client
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Bronze
Tulsa Run Logo
Cubic
Winston Peraza, creative director
Tina Fincher, art director
Katy Livingston, designer
Jeff DeGarmo, programmer
Tulsa Sports Commission, client
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Merit
Station8 Logo
Station8
David Clark, creative director & designer
Morgan Middleton, designer
Aaron Mays, designer
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Merit
Sam Kaplan Photography Logo
Loftis & Ball
Sean Ball & Sam Kaplan, creative direction
Sean Ball, art direction & design
Sam Kaplan Photography, client
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Merit
Bodega System Logo
Justen Renyer, designer
Bodega System / Grant?s Tomb Records, client
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Merit
Hoteles M Logo
Cubic
Winston Peraza, creative director
Sean Ball, art director
Hoteles M, client
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Editorial
Gold
Selser Schaefer Architects Newsletter Vol 2 No 3
Station8
David Clark, creative director
Morgan Middleton, designer
Laura Crouch, copywriter
Western Printing, printer
Selser Schaefer Architects, client
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Silver
Operation Scissortail
Carl Brune
Steve Lackmeyer & Jack Money, authors
David McNeese / Cooper Ross, photography
Carl Brune, design / production
Jim Tolbert, Full Circle Press, Oklahoma City, publisher
Everbest, Hong Kong, printer
Full Circle Press, client
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Institutional Literature
Gold
Hoss Pumps Capabilities Brochure
Studio Savage
Jeffrey W. Savage, creative director & designer
Cody Johnson, photographer
Mark Brown, copywriter
Western Printing, printer
Hoss Pumps, client
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Bronze
ONEOK 2012 Annual Report
Walsh Branding
Kerry Walsh, principal & creative director
Heath Potter, creative director
Nealay Patel, art director
Annell Dornblaser, account executive
ResourceOne, printer
ONEOK, Inc., client
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Bronze
Alliance 2012 Annual Report Set
Walsh Branding
Kerry Walsh, principal & creative director
Heath Potter, creative director
Paul Woodard, lead art director
Margaret Coughlin, account executive
Susan Dornblaser, writer
ResourceOne, printer
Alliance Resource Partners, client
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Bronze
Kinslow, Keith & Todd Brochure
Staion8
David Clark, creative director
Aaron Mays, designer
Morgan Middleton, designer
Laura Crouch, copywriter
Western Printing, printer
Kinslow, Keith & Todd, Inc., client
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Merit
Pop Co-Op Advocacy Brochure
Studio Savage
Jeffrey W. Savage, creative director & designer
David Noah Roberts & Jeffrey W. Savage, copywriters
Cody Johnson, product photographer
Pop Co-Op, client
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Advertising
Gold
Jakob Trollback Lecture Poster
Justen Renyer, art director
Bayley Jackson, designer
Mickey Smith, designer
Adrienne Samuel, designer
Stefani Billings, designer
Katie Amos, designer
Jason Camarse, designer
Laney Fisher, designer
Alyson Stejskal, designer
Oklahoma State University Graphic Design Club, client
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Silver (campaign)
15 Faces for 15 Faces Print Advertising Campaign
Studio Savage
Jeffrey W. Savage, creative director & designer
Shane Bevel, creative director & photographer
Kristen Turley & Morgan Phillips, copywriters
Komen for the Cure, Tulsa, client
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Bronze (campaign)
Get Your Hands on Tomorrow Posters
Littlefield Brand Development
Mike Rocco, creative director
Jason Jordan, associate creative director
Katy Kite, designer
Cullen Koger, writer & associate creative director
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Merit (campaign)
Know Your Trash Print Ads
Littlefield Brand Development
Mike Rocco, creative director
Jason Jordan, associate creative director
Katy Kite, designer
Matt O?Meilia, writer
Cullen Koger, writer
Tulsa Authority for the Recovery of Energy, client
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Dimensional
Silver
ecoVINO HeliBiker Red Pouch
Station8
David Clark, creative director
Morgan Middleton, designer
ecoVINO Wines, client
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Direct Mail
Silver
Katy + Matt Wedding Invitation
Katy Livingston, designer
Letterpress of Tulsa, printer
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Merit
Chandelier Invitation / Call for Entries
Walsh Branding
Kerry Walsh, principal & creative director
Heath Potter, creative director
Nealay Patel, art director
Annell Dornblaser, account executive
Hayden Cantrell, account coordinator
Living Arts of Tulsa, client
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Merit
Mingo Direct Mail
Cubic
Libby Bender, creative director
Jeff Savage, art director
Katy Livingston, designer
Sean Ball, designer
Greg Tatum, illustration
Mingo Press, client
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Merit
Cubic Holiday Card
Cubic
Winston Peraza, creative director
Katy Livingston, art director
Sean Ball, art director
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Environmental Graphics
Bronze
Coney I-Lander Signage
Walsh Branding
Kerry Walsh, principal & creative director
Rod Clifford, director of environmental graphics
Cassie Drake, lead art director
Annell Dornblaser, account executive
Claude Neon Federal Signs, fabricator
Coney I-Lander, client
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Merit
Mozilla Webmaker Festival Exhibition Graphics
C. Speligene / Fearless Design, Inc.
Mozilla, client
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Interactive Design
Best of Show
Gold
Saxum Website
Saxum
Matt Reiswig, design
Michael Staub, information architecture
Adam Munns, development
Grant Zellner, copywriting
Josh Welch, photography
Chad Bianco, photography
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Silver
St. Gregory?s University Website
Littlefield Brand Development
Mike Rocco, creative director
Jason Jordan, associate creative director
Candace Chupp, art director
Kellen Conrad, graphic artist
St. Gregory?s University, client
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Bronze
Station8 Branding Website
Station8
David Clark, creative director
Aaron Mays, designer
Laura Crouch, copywriter
Ralph Cole, photographer
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Merit
Christopher Smyk FW 2013
Steve Loftis
Christopher Smyk, creative director
Daniel Martinez Matallana, photographer
Steve Loftis, design & development
Christopher Smyk, client
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In-House Design
Merit
OSUIT Marketing Department Workflow Chart
Kim Woodard, art director & designer
OSUIT, client
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Merit
Petrochemicals
PennWell
Charles Thomas, art director & designer
Donald L. Burdick, author & copywriter
William L. Leffler, author & copywriter
PennWell / Professional Education Products Group, client
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Illustration
Gold
Get Your Hands on Tomorrow Poster
Littlefield Brand Development
Mike Rocco, creative director
Jason Jordan, associate creative director
Katy Kite, designer
Cullen Koger, writer & associate creative director
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Silver
Aida Poster
Studio Savage
Jeffrey W. Savage, creative director & designer
Jeremy Luther, illustrator
Tulsa Opera, client
Quik Print, printer
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Silver
Daughter of the Regiment Poster
Studio Savage
Jeffrey W. Savage, creative director & designer
Jeremy Luther, illustrator
Tulsa Opera, client
Quik Print, printer
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Photography
Advertising
Gold
The Baron of Black Gold
Jeremy Charles Photography
Jeremy Charles, photographer
Cale Chadwick, art director
Kyle Brumley, creative director
Darcy Bond, project manager
Black Gold Casino ? Chickasaw Nation Division of Commerce, client
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Gold (campaign)
Philbrook MIX ? Mixology Event
Jeremy Charles Photography / Melissa Lukenbaugh Photography
Jeremy Charles, photographer
Melissa Lukenbaugh, photographer
Philbrook Museum of Art, client
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Silver (campaign)
Elephants In The Dark
Cody Photography
Cody Johnson
First Baptist Jenks, client
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Merit
RT80 / Ditch Witch advertising shoot of a real trenching site.
Amatucci Photography, Inc.
John Amatucci, phtographer
Genny Pankey, art director
Littlefield / Ditch Witch, client
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Books
Bronze
Black Mesa book
Jeremy Charles Photography / Travis Hall Photography
Microsoft's introducing a new Kinect motion-sensing camera to go alongside its new Xbox One game console. The camera peripheral is getting some major improvements in its second iteration, and it's expected to ship with every new console at launch. One of the most impressive features is the ability to wake the console with just a voice command. Simply say "Xbox on," and you're ready to get gaming. In fact, you can shout all sorts of things at your new Kinect, such as "watch TV" or (wait for it...) "snap Internet Explorer." That's right, there is true multitasking built into Xbox One and you can move windows around or switch between tasks, with just a voice command. Of course, you can also navigate the various panels and screens with the usual hand waves and air pinches, should you feel a bit silly talking to your console.
On the inside is a 1080p camera -- a huge step up from the VGA sensor on the original Kinect. The new motion controller processes a stunning 2Gb of data per second to accurately read your environment. Everything about this second iteration of the Kinect is more accurate, in fact, from the number of reference points on your skeleton it monitors down to its ability to read your heartbeat. And it's powerful enough to bring that increased fidelity to not just one, but six skeletons simultaneously (should you have enough room in your pad for that many players). It even has the ability to talk to the standard Xbox controller for some Move-like functionality. Lift the remote and you'll lift your shield in the game, for example. For Microsoft, the Kinect is what ties the Xbox One experience together.
EA teased hours ago that FIFA 14 would be one of the first Xbox One games, but it just used Microsoft's event to unveil a considerably wider slate. FIFA 14, NBA Live14, Madden 25 and EA Sports UFC are all coming to the new console within the next 12 months. All of them are using a new engine, EA Sports Ignite, that has 10 times the animation detail, smarter artificial intelligence, 3D crowds, 'living' sidelines and a daily dose of new content through Xbox Live. EA and Microsoft are getting cozier with the deal, too -- FIFA14Ultimate Team will be an Xbox exclusive. We'll have to wait for more detail about that game later this year, but it's safe to say that Microsoft won't be lacking for major sports titles during the Xbox One's vital first year.
It's Monday, and you know what that means; another Engadget HD Podcast. We hope you will join us live when the Engadget HD podcast starts recording at 8:30PM. If you'll be joining us, be sure to go ahead and get ready by reviewing the list of topics after the break, then you'll be ready to participate in the live chat.
What kind of computer comes with an explicit warning not to rest your coffee cup on it?
A computer like Lenovo?s new IdeaCentre Horizon PC does -? and with good reason. This 27-inch computer transforms from a standard all-in-one into a giant touchscreen tabletop display.
When the Horizon is upright, it?s running Microsoft?s Windows 8. Clamp down the stiff kickstand in the back and lay the thing flat on your coffee table, and it automatically jumps to ?Aura? mode, a Lenovo-created interface for playing games with friends and family.
I?ll admit that I was quick to poke fun at the Horizon when I first saw it at the International CES trade show earlier this year. I enjoyed giving the games a test drive at the time, but I was wondering if a computer this size could really have a place in my small Manhattan apartment. I don?t even have a coffee table.
After using the Horizon on a dining table for the past week and a half, I?ve been able to fully assess it. I like it, mostly because having a second large display at home is great for media consumption. But I still wouldn?t buy it. At the end of the day, it?s a niche product.
And, it?s pricey: Lenovo is currently selling its top model, which has a third-generation Intel Core i7 processor and eight gigabytes of memory, for $1,849. A slightly less powerful model, with a Core i5 chip, costs $1,699.
On June 23, Best Buy will begin offering the Horizon for slightly less: $1,599 for the Core i7 configuration, and $1,499 for the i5 model with only 6GB of RAM.
That?s still more expensive than the Sony Vaio Tap 20, a hybrid PC/tablet that starts at $880. And Asus?s 18-inch Transformer AiO, a similarly-designed computer that runs both Windows 8 and Google Android operating systems, costs $1,300. So if you?re looking for a PC that can also be used like a large tablet, there are more reasonable options.?
And if you just want a tablet for game playing and watching videos, well, you can spend $400 and get a pretty good one.
Lenovo says there are a few reasons why the Horizon is so expensive. First, and most obvious, is the size of the display. Then, there?s the preloaded game software ? nine games total, including three from Ubisoft, one from EA and five developed by Lenovo. Some of those games require accessories, like e-dice, joysticks and strikers, which are thrown into the mix. Lastly, it comes with a one terabyte internal hard drive.
Let?s say you?re willing to splurge for all this, and the family-centric games are a big draw for you.
As I mentioned, it?s running on Windows 8, and if you?re not super familiar with Microsoft?s newest operating system, there will be a learning curve as you adjust to all of the new swipes and gestures, designed with touchscreens in mind.
I tested the Core i5 model. It measures 27.2 by 16.9 by 1.17 inches, and weighs 18 pounds. Lenovo envisions that users will want to move this computer around the house, but I lugged it from room to room just once, and ?lug? is the appropriate description here. It?s definitely not portable. I am not, for example, going to bring it to a friend?s house, or travel with it on a plane to the D11 Conference next week, as I would a tablet.
On the left side of the Horizon is the power button. The right side is loaded with two USB ports, an HDMI port, a media card reader and jacks for headphones and the power cord.
The 27-inch diagonal display is a full-HD multitouch display. It?s nice but not particularly brilliant. Games looked fluid and bright, but when I watched a couple episodes of ABC?s ?Scandal? on Netflix, colors were a little washed out.
On to gaming, the main event: The Horizon has a respectable Nvidia processor and 2GB of processing RAM, enough for all of your needs with this computer, but not the kind of power you?d expect with a hardcore gaming machine.
Preloaded game titles include Lenovo Air Hockey, Lenovo Tycoon (Lenovo?s version of Monopoly), Lenovo Fishing Joy, Lenovo Texas Hold ?Em, and from other publishers, the original Monopoly and Ubisoft?s Raiding Company. It also comes with BlueStacks, an app interface that lets you play Google Android games.
I laid the PC flat on the table, prompting the Aura desktop overlay to appear, and ?convinced? my boyfriend to geek out and play games with me. We played a few intense games of Air Hockey, sliding the strikers along the surface of the PC to score. He got hooked playing Lenovo Fishing Joy. Then we started games of both Lenovo Tycoon and the much-better Monopoly.
Rolling the e-dice was, at first, pretty cool. A set of virtual dice in the game would spin and stop moving when the physical dice did. As we took turns in Monopoly, the game zoomed in to show us different spots along the boardwalk, then zoomed back to the whole game board again when it was the next person?s turn to roll.
But I encountered a glitch with the e-dice: When I rolled the physical dice, the virtual dice on screen kept rolling ? and rolling ?
After a minute or two of excitable dice, we finally unplugged the Bluetooth dongle to disconnect the dice entirely, then started over again.
Overall, playing the games was fun, and I?m sure I could entertain my young niece and nephew for awhile with this. I?d like to see more brand-name games on the Horizon. On a few occasions I went back to the Windows 8 desktop ? which appears when you stand the computer upright again ? to load up Angry Birds. Lenovo says that more Horizon-optimized game titles are in the works.
When it comes to non-gaming activities on this machine, the touchscreen on a 27-inch display creates a unique dilemma: Sit close enough to touch it, and you?re really, really close to a giant screen. Sit further back to avoid eye strain, and you might not be close enough to comfortably use the touchscreen.
Fortunately, the Horizon also comes with a wireless mouse and keyboard, which I did end up using for email and productivity apps, allowing me to use tactile keys and sit further back from the screen.
Finally, battery life is less than that of the similar hybrids I mentioned earlier, but this is a bigger machine. In the first test I conducted, I bumped up the display to full brightness, played iTunes and had an email application running, and the battery lasted two hours and 22 minutes. During the second test, I streamed videos and played a couple games, and it lasted two hours and 10 minutes.
Now that I?ve tried the Horizon, I?d like a bigger display in my living room. But I wasn?t blown away by the game experience, and I wouldn?t want to pay $1,700 for it.
Star Trek is one of the most widely praised science fiction series of the 20th century.? I highly doubt that anybody working in the technology industry today has never seen at least one episode of Star Trek.? As is often the case, fact follows fiction and all of those people who ever saw a Star Trek episode have often thought to themselves, ?Wouldn?t that be cool if we could really make that??
This week, Microsoft has been featuring some special Star Trek images and facts as part of an Easter Egg interface on Bing.com and of course the new ?Star Trek: Into Darkness? is being released to much fanfare.? Obviously Microsoft has a bit of a thing for the science fiction series, but it also shows in many of their products and latest innovations these days.
Back in the 1960?s, handheld computing and communications devices were extremely far away from reality.? From 2002-2007 Microsoft was the front runner in terms of developing the most powerful mobile computing and communications devices known as Smartphones.? And if you wanted to, you could even make them look like Star Trek tricorders.
Remember the Touch Diamond?
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Most PCs, tablets and smartphones these days employ a slight variation on the original graphical user interface copied from Xerox in the 1980?s.? Everything is basically a layout of icons with intricate skeuomorphic designs and text labels underneath.? In the future, according to Star Trek, human-computer interaction design has evolved to a more modern and digitally-authentic style.
The computer user interface designs in Star Trek: The Next Generation employ brightly colored shapes on a black background.? Of course you can see how that style may have influenced the design of Windows Phone?s ?Metro? design language which has shown through on Windows 8 as well.? It?s simple and easy to read? and the future has always been about making things easier.
On Star Trek, everything runs on the same computing operating system called LCARS which stands for Library Computer Access/Retrieval System.? Whether you?re sitting at a desk, standing over a table, holding a tablet (?Personal Access Display Device?), tapping your communicator, or using voice commands in the holodeck, it?s all working together off of the same code base.? That?s the same kind of thing that Microsoft is trying to do.? With Windows Phone 8, Microsoft?s lightweight mobile operating system now shares the same powerful core as its high end desktop and datacenter server operating systems.? The unified operating system will probably also come to the living room in the form of a next generation Xbox as well.
Back in 2003, Microsoft?s Voice Command software for Windows Mobile was way ahead of its time in terms of functionality.? It was extremely impressive.? These days there are all sorts of speech recognition apps, but with Windows Phone 8, Microsoft again took it to the next level with a fully extensible built in speech UI that any 3rd party developer can teach new tricks by implementing some simple APIs.
While Windows 8 doesn?t quite have the same voice recognition capabilities as Windows Phone 8, Microsoft?s Xbox 360 does happen to share the same speech engine and learning method.? In other words, as you use Microsoft?s speech UI in the living room and on your phone, both are improved from the same data.
The Holodeck on Star Trek is one of the most amazing pieces of science fiction technology.? Essentially, a physical environment is replicated around you and moved beneath your feet as you move yourself.? In order to create something like that, the computer needs to be able to see your body and instantly alter the environment to your movements.? Programmed characters need to be able to ?see? you and react to your voice, gestures, or jump kicks.
Microsoft?s Kinect is really the first step towards this type of immersive gaming technology since it?s the first bit of technology that can put your actual body inside a video game.? If you don?t know what I mean, take a look at Kinect Party for the Xbox 360. That game puts you, your friends, and your living room into the game and allows you to interact with imaginary objects and environments as if they were real.
?Xbox, play Halo 14?
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This one is a bit of a blow to the controversial and popular Google Glass wearable computing peripheral which has already been banned in a number of places preceding its public availability.? In the Star Trek universe, nobody wears this type of technology on their face at all times unless you?re blind and require a bit of extra technology just to see, although in the recent ?Star Trek: Into Darkness? movie, the characters? space helmets did provide some heads-up graphics while navigating.? In general, science fiction writers have known for a long time that a clear?view to another person?s eyes is an important part of social interaction and communication, so the heads up display eyewear really only makes sense in certain work-related scenarios.? On the other hand, the Borg wear electronic gadgets over their faces in order to stay constantly connected to the collective at all times, so maybe that kind of thing is in our future after all.
Geordi only wears these because he has to.
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Not once have I seen anyone on Star Trek look at a screen on their wrist in day to day life aboard a futuristic star ship. Microsoft did make smart ?SPOT? watches back around the turn of the century when watches in general had begun to die out, but they?re not likely to make a resounding comeback in the future.
Dick Tracy would still like a smart watch though.
Now that we?ve taken a look at a few things that Microsoft?may have?learned from Star Trek science fiction authors. What?s the next step?? Are food replicators on the horizon?? Holodeck version 2?? Smartphones built into a pin on your shirt?? Let us know in the comments below.
Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forestPublic release date: 20-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Hannah Hickey hickeyh@uw.edu 206-543-2580 University of Washington
The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the planet, inhales carbon dioxide as it exudes oxygen. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually fall to the ground to decompose or get washed away by the region's plentiful rainfall.
Until recently people believed much of the rain forest's carbon floated down the Amazon River and ended up deep in the ocean. University of Washington research showed a decade ago that rivers exhale huge amounts of carbon dioxide though left open the question of how that was possible, since bark and stems were thought to be too tough for river bacteria to digest.
A study published this week in Nature Geoscience resolves the conundrum, proving that woody plant matter is almost completely digested by bacteria living in the Amazon River, and that this tough stuff plays a major part in fueling the river's breath.
The finding has implications for global carbon models, and for the ecology of the Amazon and the world's other rivers.
"People thought this was one of the components that just got dumped into the ocean," said first author Nick Ward, a UW doctoral student in oceanography. "We've found that terrestrial carbon is respired and basically turned into carbon dioxide as it travels down the river."
Tough lignin, which helps form the main part of woody tissue, is the second most common component of terrestrial plants. Scientists believed that much of it got buried on the seafloor to stay there for centuries or millennia. The new paper shows river bacteria break it down within two weeks, and that just 5 percent of the Amazon rainforest's carbon ever reaches the ocean.
"Rivers were once thought of as passive pipes," said co-author Jeffrey Richey, a UW professor of oceanography. "This shows they're more like metabolic hotspots."
When previous research showed how much carbon dioxide was outgassing from rivers, scientists knew it didn't add up. They speculated there might be some unknown, short-lived carbon source that freshwater bacteria could turn into carbon dioxide.
"The fact that lignin is proving to be this metabolically active is a big surprise," Richey said. "It's a mechanism for the rivers' role in the global carbon cycle it's the food for the river breath."
The Amazon alone discharges about one-fifth of the world's freshwater and plays a large role in global processes, but it also serves as a test bed for natural river ecosystems.
Richey and his collaborators have studied the Amazon River for more than three decades. Earlier research took place more than 500 miles upstream. This time the U.S. and Brazilian team sought to understand the connection between the river and ocean, which meant working at the mouth of the world's largest river a treacherous study site.
"There's a reason that no one's really studied in this area," Ward said. "Pulling it off has been quite a challenge. It's a humongous, sloppy piece of water."
The team used flat-bottomed boats to traverse the three river mouths, each so wide that you cannot see land, in water so rich with sediment that it looks like chocolate milk. Tides raise the ocean by 30 feet, reversing the flow of freshwater at the river mouth, and winds blow at up to 35 mph.
Under these conditions, Ward collected river water samples in all four seasons. He compared the original samples with ones left to sit for up to a week at river temperatures. Back at the UW, he used newly developed techniques to scan the samples for some 100 compounds, covering 95 percent of all plant-based lignin. Previous techniques could identify only 1 percent of the plant-based carbon in the water.
Based on the results, the authors estimate that about 45 percent of the Amazon's lignin breaks down in soils, 55 percent breaks down in the river system, and 5 percent reaches the ocean, where it may break down or sink to the ocean floor.
"People had just assumed, 'Well, it's not energetically feasible for an organism to break lignin apart, so why would they?'" Ward said. "We're thinking that as rain falls over the land it's taking with it these lignin compounds, but it's also taking with it the bacterial community that's really good at eating the lignin."
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The research was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Research Council for the State of So Paulo. Co-authors are Richard Keil at the UW; Patricia Medeiros and Patricia Yager at the University of Georgia; Daimio Brito and Alan Cunha at the Federal University of Amap in Brazil; Thorsten Dittmar at Carl von Ossietzky University in Germany; and Alex Krusche at University of So Paulo in Brazil.
For more information, contact Ward at nickward@uw.edu or 858-531-1558 and Richey at jrichey@uw.edu or 206-368-1906.
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Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forestPublic release date: 20-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Hannah Hickey hickeyh@uw.edu 206-543-2580 University of Washington
The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the planet, inhales carbon dioxide as it exudes oxygen. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually fall to the ground to decompose or get washed away by the region's plentiful rainfall.
Until recently people believed much of the rain forest's carbon floated down the Amazon River and ended up deep in the ocean. University of Washington research showed a decade ago that rivers exhale huge amounts of carbon dioxide though left open the question of how that was possible, since bark and stems were thought to be too tough for river bacteria to digest.
A study published this week in Nature Geoscience resolves the conundrum, proving that woody plant matter is almost completely digested by bacteria living in the Amazon River, and that this tough stuff plays a major part in fueling the river's breath.
The finding has implications for global carbon models, and for the ecology of the Amazon and the world's other rivers.
"People thought this was one of the components that just got dumped into the ocean," said first author Nick Ward, a UW doctoral student in oceanography. "We've found that terrestrial carbon is respired and basically turned into carbon dioxide as it travels down the river."
Tough lignin, which helps form the main part of woody tissue, is the second most common component of terrestrial plants. Scientists believed that much of it got buried on the seafloor to stay there for centuries or millennia. The new paper shows river bacteria break it down within two weeks, and that just 5 percent of the Amazon rainforest's carbon ever reaches the ocean.
"Rivers were once thought of as passive pipes," said co-author Jeffrey Richey, a UW professor of oceanography. "This shows they're more like metabolic hotspots."
When previous research showed how much carbon dioxide was outgassing from rivers, scientists knew it didn't add up. They speculated there might be some unknown, short-lived carbon source that freshwater bacteria could turn into carbon dioxide.
"The fact that lignin is proving to be this metabolically active is a big surprise," Richey said. "It's a mechanism for the rivers' role in the global carbon cycle it's the food for the river breath."
The Amazon alone discharges about one-fifth of the world's freshwater and plays a large role in global processes, but it also serves as a test bed for natural river ecosystems.
Richey and his collaborators have studied the Amazon River for more than three decades. Earlier research took place more than 500 miles upstream. This time the U.S. and Brazilian team sought to understand the connection between the river and ocean, which meant working at the mouth of the world's largest river a treacherous study site.
"There's a reason that no one's really studied in this area," Ward said. "Pulling it off has been quite a challenge. It's a humongous, sloppy piece of water."
The team used flat-bottomed boats to traverse the three river mouths, each so wide that you cannot see land, in water so rich with sediment that it looks like chocolate milk. Tides raise the ocean by 30 feet, reversing the flow of freshwater at the river mouth, and winds blow at up to 35 mph.
Under these conditions, Ward collected river water samples in all four seasons. He compared the original samples with ones left to sit for up to a week at river temperatures. Back at the UW, he used newly developed techniques to scan the samples for some 100 compounds, covering 95 percent of all plant-based lignin. Previous techniques could identify only 1 percent of the plant-based carbon in the water.
Based on the results, the authors estimate that about 45 percent of the Amazon's lignin breaks down in soils, 55 percent breaks down in the river system, and 5 percent reaches the ocean, where it may break down or sink to the ocean floor.
"People had just assumed, 'Well, it's not energetically feasible for an organism to break lignin apart, so why would they?'" Ward said. "We're thinking that as rain falls over the land it's taking with it these lignin compounds, but it's also taking with it the bacterial community that's really good at eating the lignin."
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The research was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Research Council for the State of So Paulo. Co-authors are Richard Keil at the UW; Patricia Medeiros and Patricia Yager at the University of Georgia; Daimio Brito and Alan Cunha at the Federal University of Amap in Brazil; Thorsten Dittmar at Carl von Ossietzky University in Germany; and Alex Krusche at University of So Paulo in Brazil.
For more information, contact Ward at nickward@uw.edu or 858-531-1558 and Richey at jrichey@uw.edu or 206-368-1906.
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