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Marine Debris Collection Project Takes Off

There's a new Dumpster in town, and its marine debris contents will help generate electricity, thanks to a joint venture between Waste Management, Blue Ocean Society and the University of New Hampshire.

Marine debris will likely worsen in the 21st century

Current measures to prevent and reduce marine debris are inadequate, and the problem will likely worsen, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council. The United States and the international maritime community should adopt a goal of "zero discharge" of waste into the marine environment, and a system to assess the effectiveness of existing and future marine debris prevention and reduction actions should be implemented. In addition, better leadership, coordination, and integration of mandates and resources are needed, as responsibilities for preventing and mitigating marine debris are scattered across federal organizations and management regimes.

Marine debris will likely worsen in the 21st century

WASHINGTON -- Current measures to prevent and reduce marine debris are inadequate, and the problem will likely worsen, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council. The United States and the international maritime community should adopt a goal of "zero discharge" of waste into the marine environment, and a system to assess the effectiveness of existing and future marine debris prevention and reduction actions should be implemented. In addition, better leadership, coordination, and integration of mandates and resources are needed, as responsibilities for preventing and mitigating marine debris are scattered across federal organizations and management regimes.

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How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding

mir42 writes "The OpenSource multimedia authorware project Sophie, formerly hosted by USC Los Angeles, may just have been killed by new funding. The original funding organization, Mellon Foundation, approved a grant to redevelop the four year project from scratch in Java. The grant was awarded to a Bulgarian company based on their proposal, which is simply an exact description, including the UI and the artwork, of the current Sophie. Being an OpenSource project, this isn't strictly illegal, but let's say, not nice and definitely not innovative, coming from a former sub-sub-contractor on the project. Some of the original, now laid-off developers started OpenSophie.org trying to salvage the project. As the current version is still somewhat buggy and slow, it might just be enough to alienate all potential users of Sophie to the point that no

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Fujian ethylene project to start opera...

The Fujian ethylene project-a JV of Sinopec, Exxon Mobil and Saudi Arabian Oil- is expected to start operations in the Q1 of 2009. The project's construction will see completion by end of 2008. Sinopec earlier planned to double the project's capacity between 2010 and 2015 to meet China's growing oil demand. Sinopec, along with Fujian Provincial Government own 50% stake in the JV with the remaining equally held by Exxon Mobil and Saudi Arabian Oil. The Fujian ethylene project is believed to have processing capacity of 241,000 bpd.

The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web

Ian Lamont writes "The Personal Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of traits, ethnic background and other information of the first ten volunteers, which include the project director and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology. While the human genome was first sequenced at the beginning of this decade, what's special about this project is these 10 participants are having their names, genome, and other personal data gleaned from questionnaires shared openly on the Web, where interested researchers can freely access them. One of the ultimate aims of the project is to create a public database of 100,000 volunteers that researchers and other parties can use to determine what traits, diseases or other characteristics are associated with specific genetic markers.

Oceanography Isn't the Same As Marine Biology

When I attend a middle school or high school career day, I often have a student tell me, "I want to be an oceanographer." But as we talk more, I realize that what the student really wants to be is a marine biologist. Or sometimes it's the other way around - the student says "marine biology" when he or she is thinking of oceanography. What's the difference? Basically, it comes down to this - an oceanographer studies the oceans, a marine biologist studies marine life.

Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project?

darkeye writes "I'm facing a difficult dilemma and looking for opinions. I've been contributing heavily to an open source project, making considerable changes to code organization and quality, but the work is unfinished at the moment. Now, a company is approaching me to continue my changes. They want to keep the improvements to themselves, which is possible since the project is published under the BSD license. That's fair, as they have all the rights to the work they pay for in full. However, they also want me to sign a non-competition clause, which would bar me from ever working on and publishing results for the original open source project itself, even if done separately, in my free time. How would you approach such a decision? On one side, they'd provide resources to work on an interesting project.

Marine invasive species advance 50km per decade, World Conference on Marine Biodiversity told

A rapid, climate change-induced northern migration of invasive marine is one of many research results announced Tues. Nov. 11 during opening day presentations at the First World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, in Valencia.

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Telstra takes wraps off hosted apps Sun Microsystems slumps to US$1.68bn loss IEEE votes on updated low-power design standard Support fades for Australian net censorship Sydney Water plans SOA to data warehouse bridge ATO loses thousands of records on unencrypted CD Asus crowdsources new PC design Microsoft shows off future technologies DSTO shows off two new Land Warfare robots Telstra stands ready to build NBN Haley to become the next Oracle business unit Cellnet closes three warehouses Vodafone buys more SAS software NSW Department of Corrective Services eyes-off local biometrics product Asus to launch Android handset?

Ambitious project finds myriad new marine species, octopus origins

FILE--Handout phoito shows Megaleledone setebos, a shallow-water circum-Antarctic species endemic to the Southern Ocean. It is the closest living relative to the clade of deep-sea octopuses. Scientists have discovered hundreds of new species and traced the origins of certain animals in an ambitious project that aims to create a detailed catalogue of every marine life form on Earth.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-M. Rauschert

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Dealzmodo: 40% Off All Criterion Collection DVDs

Chalk it up to our slumping economy, the upcoming holiday season or both—but Criterion, curators of all movie things awesome, have quietly knocked another 20% off DVD prices in their online store. Since they already offer 20% off all purchases with free shipping when you spend $50 or more, this means you now get a 40% discount in total. Unfortunately, this doesn't include their Blu-ray releases, but you take what you can get. And what I want to get right now is Slacker on DVD for $24. [Criterion Store](Thanks, Matt!)

GENEART Concludes Project to Complete the National Institutes of Health's Mammalian Gene Collection

GENEART AG announces the successful conclusion of its project with the US National Cancer Institute in regard to the "Mammalian Gene Collection" (MGC).

PHOTOS: 100s of New Marine Species Found Off Tasmania

October 9, 2008--A Trichopeltarion crab found in the deep seas off Tasmania is among hundreds of unusual marine animals discovered in Australian waters during two separate research voyages in November 2006 and April 2007.

Someone should rescue this royal loot

Don't fall off your chair, but there's an exhibition of Flemish art from Breughel to Rubens at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace opening on October 17. Actually, you should fall off your chair - shame on you. Breughel's Massacre of the Innocents (pictured above) is worth the entrance charge alone, and doubtless there will other surprising treasures from a collection that never ceases to amaze. Don't believe anyone who tries to tell you the Royal Collection is all Landseers and monarchical portraits. Last time I visited the Queen's Gallery it just happened to have a Duccio altarpiece on view - a gobsmacking treasure of medieval Sienese art I never knew the Queen owned. And let's never forget she has the greatest collection of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings on earth.

Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters

narramissic writes "Starting on Monday, researchers from Nokia and UC Berkeley will kick off the Mobile Millennium project. The researchers hope that thousands of volunteers will download a free Java program that figures out by their movement and location when they are driving, and then transmits that information to the project's servers, which then crunch it into a Bay Area traffic map. 'The whole concept here is that if everyone shares just a little bit of what they're seeing ... then everyone can benefit by seeing the conditions ahead of them,' said Quinn Jacobson, a research leader with Nokia in Palo Alto."

DSTO shows off two new Land Warfare robots

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The First Marine Life Census Drops in 2010

Some 2,000 scientists worldwide have been working at this census of all marine interactions for the last decade, in an attempt to offer the international scientific community and the general public a thorough insight into how animals and plants interact in the marine ecosystems. The city of Valencia, in Spain, will host the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, between the 11th and the 15th of November, where some 500 scientists will pave the way for the publishing of the census.

Dealzmodo: $70 Off Xbox 360 Elite Bundle at Dell, Other Bundles Cheap Too

We're not even near Black Friday, and there's already an awesome deal on Xbox 360 holiday bundles, which include two games with the Pro and Elite (one of which is Lego Indiana Jones) and six arcade games with the Arcade. Using these coupon codes at Dell's Store, you get $30 off the Xbox 360 Arcade ($169), $50 off the Pro ($250) or $70 off the Elite ($330). I'd man it up and go with the Elite, though you have until Oct. 23 to decide if you're on the fence. [Logic Buy via Engadget]

Supermicro Participates in CERN LHC Project Inauguration

SuperBlade(R) Servers Enable LHC Project with Superior Computational Performance, Scalability, and Power Efficiency >> GENEVA, Switzerland (CNW) -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, today participated in the inauguration ceremony for the famous CERN (one of the world's largest research labs) LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Project in Geneva. Supermicro's SuperBlade(R) servers enable the LHC Project with superior computational performance, scalability, and energy efficiency.

Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project For Takeoff

unassimilatible writes "DARPA has announced a 'Personal Air Vehicle Technology' project. It will 'ultimately lead to a working prototype of a military-suitable flying car — a two- or four-passenger vehicle that can "drive on roads" one minute and take off like a helicopter the next. The hybrid machine would be perfect for "urban scouting," casualty evacuation and commando-delivery missions, the agency believes.' Wired has the summary of the project." Maybe they'll take inspiration from Terrafugia's "drivable airplane."

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