Officials Say Arctic Nations Not Prepared for Oil Spill

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GIRDWOOD - Representatives from the eight countries of the Arctic Council met in Girdwood for three days this week to work on an oil spill response plan.

The U.S. co-chairman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries, Ambassador David Balton, says, as a group, Arctic nations are not as prepared as they should be to respond to a spill.

?The large likelihood is major spills will occur within areas under the jurisdiction of one country or another, but there could also be spills that span a border between countries," said Balton.

Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States are discussing the details of an agreement ? including whether it will be legally binding.

Having an international agreement on how to jointly respond to an oil spill in the Arctic is becoming all the more important with increased shipping, especially through the Bering Strait.

But it?s not just a spill from a vessel that countries are planning for.

"[It?s] oil spills from any source that could affect the marine environment,? said Balton.

?So shipping and drilling certainly will be covered. If there is a spill from a pipeline on land that is heading towards the ocean that would be covered too."

The agreement will also cover oil-holding facilities.

Lessons learned from the BP oil disaster of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico are being addressed.

?One of the challenges we faced in that spill was the ability to bring in equipment from other nations,? said U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Cari Thomas.

The U.S. delegation says it?s learning from other nations about how to better prepare for a spill.

?Norway and Russia are probably further along than the United States in dealing with prospects of serious oil spills in the north,? said Ambassador Balton.

Alaska?s? Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell says he hopes joint exercises with the Arctic nations will expose the gaps and deficiencies the U.S. has in its ability to respond to an oil spill.

?In terms of getting the tug equipment there [to a spill in the Arctic] or in the Aleutians, we are naked in the north.?
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Dairy cows have individual temperaments

ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 2012) ? From a young age, dairy cows react differently from each other to stimuli from their surroundings. An animal's temperament determines how it reacts in stressful situations, but may also influence its general health. In the future, temperament could be bred as a selective trait to improve the robustness and wellbeing of dairy cows.

This is the conclusion reached by zootechnician Kees van Reenen, who will receive a PhD from the University of Groningen on 30 March 2012.

Van Reenen studied black-and-white Holstein-Friesian cows as they developed from calf to cow. He carried out behavioural tests and physiological examinations in order to determine how the animals react to external stimuli. He focused on the following, among others: fear responses, lowing (vocalization), stamping, pulse and the release of cortisol as the external characteristics of underlying traits -- including timidity, the need for social contact and movement -- that, taken together, determine the temperament.

Jerry can

In order to study the differences in the reactions, Van Reenen subjected the animals to potentially stressful situations, namely securing them with a halter for a short period, separating them from the rest of the herd, and confronting them with a person or unfamiliar object. The unfamiliar object he used was a jerry can. 'In this test, the calf or cow enters an empty room in which, after a few minutes, a coloured jerry can appears using a pulley', Van Reenen explains. The differences between the animals' responses were very clear: some of them made contact with the jerry can after just a few seconds, while others didn't dare to approach it at all during the ten-minute test.'

Anxiolytic drug

Van Reenen was also able to measure the fear response physiologically: the animals that investigated the jerry can thoroughly and for the longest time had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood than the animals that were more cautious. In order to prove that the caution was indeed a fear response, Van Reenen administered an anxiolytic drug (Brotizolam) to the animals. Van Reenen: 'The length of contact with the jerry can increased considerably in the animals that had been given an anti-anxiety drug, and the cortisol levels fell more quickly after the test.

Lowing

Although lowing could be easily interpreted as a fear response in the first instance, this was not the case. Van Reenen: 'The frequency of the lowing did not change when the Brotizolam was administered. Apart from that, calves that lowed a great deal when separated from others in the herd had a higher milk yield when they were milked for the first time later, as heifers, than the animals that were less vocal. Therefore, lowing is not a fear response, but probably a form of social behaviour: a sign that they like to be near other cows. Animals that exhibit this behaviour could benefit from social contact with other animals in stressful situations -- when they are being milked, for example.

Robustness

Notably, the differences in temperament in individual animals proved consistent throughout the research period. Van Reenen: 'This shows that temperament is a stable underlying trait in the animal. We know from research into other species, such as coal tits and rats, that temperament can influence an animal's health and wellbeing. If that also applies to dairy cows, temperament could be bred as a selective trait to produce robust animals, in the same way as traits such as good bone structure, fertility and low susceptibility to mastitis.'

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FDA Mulls Expanding Patients' Access to Certain Drugs

THURSDAY, March 22 (HealthDay News) -- Americans troubled by a range of ailments might someday more easily obtain medications that are now only available by prescription.

On Thursday and Friday, experts at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are holding hearings on whether to expand the availability of certain prescription drugs by giving them "conditional" over-the-counter, or OTC, status.

The details of the new plan are sketchy, but certain drugs used to treat such conditions as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, asthma and migraine may no longer require a prescription.

Dispensing of these drugs would vary on a case-by-case basis and would include "conditions of safe use," possibly to be determined by the consumer with the help of a pharmacist.

"There are a lot of unanswered questions right now but we're advocating that the pharmacist would be involved with the patient as they . . . determine if the product is right for them," explained pharmacist Ronna Hauser, vice president of policy and regulatory affairs at the National Community Pharmacists Association. "The information would be relayed back to a physician if necessary."

According to Brian Gallagher, senior vice president of government affairs at the American Pharmacists Association, many of the discussions that have taken place with the FDA on the issue so far have involved emergency medications, such as asthma inhalers.

For example, he said, "if someone had already had an inhaler [prescribed] and they had it confiscated at the airport, they could go in, talk to their pharmacist who has access to medical records and get a refill on their inhaler," he said.

Farther down the road, the plan might give pharmacists the ability to screen a person who has already been diagnosed with high blood pressure by their doctor and restart them on medication if needed.

"The pharmacist could urge them to go see a physician before they get into a really bad situation," Gallagher added.

The idea behind the plan is to get millions of untreated or undertreated Americans back into the health care system, experts said.

The move is being driven partly by computer technology, such as the touch-screen kiosks found in pharmacies that help patients self-diagnose common diseases, an idea that has raised inevitable concerns about patient safety.

But the kiosks, said Gallagher, would be less for self-diagnosing than for making decisions in conjunction with a pharmacist in the drug store.

"It might say 'You need to see a doctor right away' rather than 'I've made a diagnosis. Here's some medication,'" Gallagher said.

In particular, concerns about drug interactions, specifically interactions that would lessen the effectiveness of certain cancer drugs, have been voiced.

Without knowing details of the new initiative, Diane Pinakiewicz, president of the National Patient Safety Foundation, said the intent of making it easier for patients to obtain certain types of medications for certain types of conditions is "reasonable."

"Patients today are better informed and want to play a more active role and that's what we're trying to encourage patients to do," she said. "Patient engagement is a key piece of patient care."

But coordination of care with a physician is still critical, she added.

Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, chair-elect of the American Medical Association's Council on Science and Public Health, testified at the hearing Thursday and expressed concern about the potential lack of physician involvement.

"A patient's confidence in their physician and the prescriber's emphasis on the need to take the medicine as prescribed is one of the most motivating influences in promoting medication adherence," she explained in a statement. "For a program to be successful on this front, it must be delivered by a trusted source, be personalized to the patient's situation, reinforce medical need and expected outcomes, segment and target at-risk populations and reinforce and reward initiation and maintenance of treatment," Fryhofer added.

"We also have concerns about patients taking certain drugs without physician involvement, especially for patients with chronic disease," she continued.

"While the increased availability of certain prescription-based antidotes, such as Epi-Pens [which administer adrenaline for severe allergic reaction], appear to have few if any safety concerns, the FDA has not offered evidence that patients with hypertension [high blood pressure], hyperlipidemia [high cholesterol], asthma or migraine headaches can self-diagnose and manage these serious chronic medical conditions safely on their own," Fryhofer stated.

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Online Donations Bring the Middle East and Africa Closer to ...

Last year, over US$290 billion in America was donated to charities, but surprisingly, less than 10% was donated online. With 240 million Internet users in the U.S., accounting for approximately 77% of the American population, the amount of online donations is surprisingly small. The good news is this figure has also been steadily increasing in the last few years. The knock-on effect is that regions far away from the U.S., such as the Middle East and Africa, could potentially benefit if the Internet can help bring international causes closer to American donors.
?Reaching large numbers of potential donors is easier and less expensive using the Internet, whether through charity websites, social networking sites, or middleware platforms, such as Causes and Crowdrise,? said Jason Wingard, vice dean of Wharton Executive Education, which now has a special team dedicated to outreach in the nonprofit, economic development and foundation sector.
Katherina M. Rosqueta, Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania, agrees, adding, ?The Internet, mobile technology, and social media have made it easier and faster for potential donors to understand the needs of communities faraway and to give to organizations serving those communities. However, the success of these tools in unlocking philanthropic capital will only be as great as their ability to give donors confidence that their funds are really making a difference.?
Social Media?s Role in Online Giving
Social media has greatly altered the landscape of online giving. The number of creative ways to harness the Internet to ?do good? is infinite. When the earthquake in Haiti hit in January 2010, text messages became an instantaneous way to donate, leading to an unusual spike in donations early on in the year when most people tend to donate toward the end of the year. The American Red Cross raised US$32 million through text messages. Roger Lowe, Red Cross spokesman said in USA Today, explained, ?It takes less time to click. You feel like you?ve made a difference immediately.?
The flamboyant, pretzel-shaped hat worn by Princess Beatrice to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middletown was sold on eBay for an impressive US$131,652 and the money was donated to UNICEF and Children in Crisis, a British charity. The Napa Valley Vintners in California opened up their premier charity wine auction to online bidders for the first time in 31 years. The global e-auction raised nearly US$360,000 from oenophiles in China, Japan, Mexico and Europe for local charities.
GlobalGiving, a website organization, and Causes, a Facebook application, have also played major roles in using the Internet to raise funds. ?Through Facebook, Twitter, and middleware platforms, [donors] can connect with one another online, discuss the merits of a cause, rally others to donate, and see how many other people are supporting their cause,? explained Wingard.
In 2010, GlobalGiving raised US$7.1 million online, more than double what they raised online in 2009, according to Alison Carlman, spokesperson for GlobalGiving Foundation. The foundation works with 1,414 organizations around the world, using multimedia platforms to connect donors directly with charities.
?We?ve found that people feel connected to faraway projects and organizations if they understand how their contribution is valuable and will have an impact,? Carlman says. ?We enable individuals to search for projects on the site that match with their interests. When they donate to a project that resonates with them, they frequently receive a ?thank you? email sent personally by the project leaders themselves. Every three months or so, donors receive quarterly project updates that inform them how their donations have been used. Updates frequently include personal stories and photographs of the beneficiaries.?
Professor Leonard Lodish, Wharton?s Vice Dean for the Program for Social Impact, agrees that the future of online giving has some real benefits. ?The real potential is to make personal connections so people can see the result of their giving in very human terms, such as the Sponsor-a-Child campaigns. Internet can achieve that personal aspect and do it less expensively. The money can be going directly to the people who need it versus administrators, thereby reducing the operating costs,? said Lodish.
He warns, ?It?s not easy to do and there will be a lot of challenges logistically. Getting people in rural Africa to develop relationships with people in the U.S. won?t be simple. A lot of people can?t read, can?t write, or sometimes don?t have any electricity. They?ve got to do some creative stuff.?
Carlman agrees that ?basic things such as Internet connectivity and social networks in the country all play a part in whether or not projects are active on [GlobalGiving], and whether or not project leaders are successful in soliciting donations.?
However, Lodish remains optimistic. ?Technology will change. It?ll get cheaper to get connected. Wireless will become more ubiquitous in that part of the world. Maybe there will be one iPhone or iPad in the village and people can take turns doing things on the Internet.?
Digital Giving Grows
Online fundraising rose an average of 35% in 2010, according to Blackbaud, a software company for nonprofits that published the 2010 Online Giving Report. International affairs organizations experienced the biggest jump of 131% in online giving, compared to 2009, partly due to the successful campaign to solicit donations for Haiti?s earthquake recovery in early 2010.
Digital giving is also more common with college graduates under the age of 40 who have higher household incomes, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. In the wake of Japan?s disaster relief campaign in 2011, college graduates were almost equally split between donating electronically or traditionally. This is an increase from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster, where 33 % of college graduates donated traditionally while 10% donated digitally.
Almost 75% of charitable organizations used online fundraising, and 58% of those groups saw an increase in donations. Una Osili, director of research at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, explained in USA Today, ?It does take some time for organizations to make the investment in online fundraising and to learn how best to integrate that? into their donor strategy.
Integrating Online and Offline
Due to the recent economic recession, the years 2008 and 2009 saw the lowest amount of donations in more than 40 years, according to Giving USA. That figure is slowly starting to climb though. In 2010, the amount rose 3.5% and that figure is expected to rise for 2011. ?But the sobering reality is that many nonprofits are still hurting, and if giving continues to grow at that rate, it will take five to six more years just to return to the level of giving we saw before the Great Recession,? said Patrick Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, in a press release.
Personal giving accounts for the majority of donations last year, with USUS$212 billion contributed from individuals. That showed a 2.7% increase from the previous year. The statistic also exemplifies the huge, untapped potential of Internet giving since the bulk of donations come from the proverbial wallets of ordinary people.
The Nonprofit Research Collaborative, of which the Center on Philanthropy is a member, found that there wasn?t a single fundraising vehicle more effective than another. Typical methods to raise money are telephone, direct mail or email, foundation grants, special events, board members, corporate gifts, payroll contributions, planned gifts, and online.
While there is an increase in online donors, research has found that direct mail is the best method to retain donors. ?The Internet is becoming an increasingly important acquisition channel but has not proven to be as effective for retention. It is the ability of online-acquired donors to use another channel?? that is, to start giving through direct mail ? that significantly boosts the long-term value of this group of donators. The most successful organizations have integrated online and offline marketing teams and CRM systems to develop effective multichannel communication strategies that can maximize donor value,? said Rob Harris, director of analytic products at Blackbaud, in a press release.
However, the Internet is also valuable for donors to acquire information even if they don?t directly donate online. More than 65 % of donors used online or offline Internet information to research charities, according to the Kintera Luth Nonprofit Trend Report.
Carlman at GlobalGiving also found that though they were a website, some donations, especially if they were high amounts, were sent in by check. Last year, they received an additional US$3.7 million through traditional means.
Global Charity Flows
Giving to international affairs, which encompasses aid, relief, development and public policy projects, reached almost US$16 billion in 2010, according to Giving USA, a research foundation that studies philanthropy. That figure was only 5 % of the total in U.S. charitable donations, though that number has increased 15.3% from the previous year.
In spite of the rise of online giving, the Internet may never becoming the primary vehicle for fundraising in the U.S. Wingard notes that ?about half of the US$290 billion raised last year was given to religious and educational institutions, which are less likely to take donations online.? Religious contributions comprise of less than 5 % of all online donations. ?Electronic tithing and offerings are relatively new. Colleges and universities also continue to direct the majority of their development efforts through traditional means,? said Wingard. ?Until churches and schools increase online giving, that gap will remain,? he added.
Before the Great Recession, from 1987 to 2006, donations to international affairs organizations were steadily increasing at a rate of 9.1% annually. On average, households gave approximately US$18 annually to international affairs in 1988. Ten years later in 2008, the average household contribution rose to US$114 annually, according to Giving USA?s estimate. The recent financial recession shook that trend to the core.
In the international affairs sector, organizations devoted to ending global poverty seem to be benefitting the most. This initiative is carried out through causes that support agriculture, microfinance, as well as women?s health and education. The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a public-private partnership organization in Africa devoted to helping small farmers increase their yield and adapt to climate change, has received a substantial amount of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Recent conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan have spurred celebrities like George Clooney, Ben Affleck and Mick Jagger to create media campaigns to raise money for people affected by the violence.
GlobalGiving found that approximately a quarter of their online donations went to projects in Africa in the last three years. Though the percentage has stayed roughly the same, the amount of dollars has grown from US$530,000 in 2008 to US$1.6 million in 2010, illustrating that more and more funds can be funneled directly to Africa as digital giving becomes more accepted.
The Middle East received only 1% of the online donations through GlobalGiving as charities in Israel and Palestine were the three most popular charities, according to Carlman.
That was the same in the case of corporate giving where the Middle East was the region least likely to benefit, according to the 2008 Corporate Contributions Report. Only 1% was donated to that region, while Europe benefitted the most, receiving 26% of corporate international giving.
However, Carlman cautions that GlobalGiving?s statistics may not be a ?solid indicator of global or philanthropic trends. They could be attributed to changes in our business model.? For instance, their chief project officer is in Nigeria, signing up new organizations to GlobalGiving. So in 2012, there might be more donations going to Africa but ?it wouldn?t necessarily be accurate to say that there are changes in donor attitudes toward Nigerian projects because the change would actually be attributed to a change in the number of projects available on our site,? explained Carlman.
Continued Growth Expected
?Transparency and individual empowerment are two key factors in building and maintaining meaningful relationships via the Internet,? said Wingard. Both of these aspects could increase online giving to Africa and the Middle East. ?Whether online donations will ever account for the majority of donations remains to be seen, but evidence points to continued, robust growth,? said Wingard.
Though the Center on Philanthropy notes that 80% of American donations go to local communities and churches, Wingard notes that the response to foreign disasters, such as the Japan tsunami and the Haitian earthquake, ?reflect American generosity in the face of international crises.?
He added, ?The keys to tapping into that generosity are the same as they are for any other Internet fundraising effort: appealing to values and beliefs, and providing a relationship between the donor and the cause.?
This article was initially published November, 2011 on Arabic Knowledge@Wharton.

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Verizon updates Revolution with Remote Diagnostics, HTC turns to LogMeIn

Both Verizon and HTC are experimenting with remote diagnostics and tech support. Big Red will be offering the tool to owners of the LG Revolution first. The VS910ZV8 update delivers a number of changes, but the most notable new feature is the integration of Verizon Remote Diagnostics. Now, when a customer calls support, the technician (or script follower, as the case may be) on the other side can take control of the user's device to troubleshoot or demo apps. And, just in case you're paranoid about handing over the keys to your handset, the tool only collects info such as battery temp, OS version and what apps are installed -- your contacts and other personal data are safe from prying eyes. HTC plans to offer similar capabilities on its phones, but through LogMeIn Rescue. Future handsets from the company will come with the app preinstalled so that HTC's own technicians can diagnose issues and tweak settings. For more details on the Revolution update hit up the source link and check out the PR after the break for the low down on HTC's initiative.

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Facebook's dark side

ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2012) ? When Darth Vader was introduced as the dark side of the Force in the first installment of the original trilogy, "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977), Christopher Carpenter, the 30-year old assistant professor of communication at Western Illinois University, was not yet born.

Now, Carpenter is getting worldwide news coverage for his study of the "dark side," but on the timely subject of Facebook.

Carpenter's study, "Narcissism on Facebook: Self-promotional and Anti-social Behavior," is published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

Narcissism is defined in this study as "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and an exaggerated sense of self-importance," Carpenter said.

For the average narcissist, Facebook "offers a gateway for hundreds of shallow relationships and emotionally detached communication." More importantly, for this study, social networking in general allows the user a great deal of control over how he or she is presented to and perceived by peers and other users, he added.

The narcissistic personality inventory (NPI) survey sample included 292 individuals, which measured self-promoting Facebook behaviors, such as posting status updates, photos of oneself and updating profile information; and several anti-social behaviors, including seeking social support more than providing it, getting angry when others do not comment on status updates and retaliating against negative comments.

Carpenter's research methods class emailed people they knew and asked them to complete the survey. Approximately 75 percent of respondents were college students, he said.

He hypothesized the grandiose exhibitionism (GE) subscale of the NPI would predict the self-promoting behaviors. The entitlement/exploitativeness (EE) subscale was hypothesized to predict the anti-social behaviors. GE includes vanity, superiority, self-absorption and exhibitionistic tendencies. EE includes a sense of deserving respect and a willingness to manipulate and take advantage of others, Carpenter explained.

Results showed grandiose exhibitionism correlated with self-promotion and entitlement/exploitativeness correlated with anti-social behaviors on Facebook. Self-esteem was unrelated to self-promotion behaviors and it was negatively associated with some anti-social behaviors (i.e. self-esteem was related to less of these anti-social behaviors).

"If Facebook is to be a place where people go to repair their damaged ego and seek social support, it is vitally important to discover the potentially negative communication one might find on Facebook and the kinds of people likely to engage in them. Ideally, people will engage in pro-social Facebooking rather than anti-social me-booking.

"In general, the 'dark side' of Facebook requires more research in order to better understand Facebook's socially beneficial and harmful aspects in order to enhance the former and curtail the latter," added Carpenter, who joined the Western Illinois University communication department in Fall 2010.

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