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Leonardo DiCaprio spendet drei Millionen US-Dollar für WWF Tigerschutz

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2013Naturealain compost, carter roberts, dicaprio stiftung, hollywood star, klimaschutz, leonardo dicaprio, st. petersburg, stiftung, sumatratiger, terai gebiet, tierarten in nepal, tiger gipfels, tiger in nepal, wwf tigerschutz

WWF wird Tigerschutz in Nepal massiv ausbauen

Zum dritten Jahrestag des historischen Tiger-Gipfels in St. Petersburg spendet der Hollywood-Star Leonardo DiCaprio über seine Stiftung drei Millionen US-Dollar an den WWF. Ziel ist es, mit dem Geld die Zahl der wild lebenden Tiger in Nepal zu verdoppeln. DiCaprio unterstützt so die Arbeit des WWF mit der nepalesischen Regierung und der Bevölkerung im Terai-Gebiet. Jetzt können der Schutz der Kerngebiete, in denen die Tiger leben, verbessert und Patrouillen gegen Wilderei verstärkt werden. Außerdem sollen die Wanderkorridore für die Tiere zwischen den Gebieten ausgebaut und die Tigerpopulationen besser überwacht werden. (more…)

comScore MMX Ranks Top 50 U.S. Desktop Web Properties for October 2013

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2013Technologyamericans, Comscore, comscore mmx, data, debt ceiling deadline, desktop web properties, Google, local us market, Microsoft, online buying power, political news sites, Twitter, US, Yahoo

Halloween and October Festivities See Six Retail Subcategories in the Top 10
Political News Sites Continue Growth as Americans Keep Tabs on Government Shutdown

RESTON, VA, November 22, 2013 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly ranking of U.S. desktop web activity at the top online properties for October 2013 based on data from the comScore MMX service. Several retail subcategories were among the top-gaining in October as Halloween and other festivities took place. Americans also frequented Political News sites as major stories such as the U.S. government shutdown and debt ceiling deadline made headlines. (more…)

IBM Study Finds More Than Half of Midmarket Companies Lack an Integrated Digital Strategy

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2013Technologyanalyzing data, big data analytics, c suite business, c suite leaders, cloud, coriell life sciences, digitization, Environment, ibm global financing, ibm study, individual dna, integrated digital strategy, john mason, micro strategies, midmarket, midmarket companies, mobile, return on investment, scott megill, smbs, Technology

Small and Midsize Businesses Outperform Competitors By Fusing the Physical with Big Data, Mobile and the Cloud

ARMONK, N.Y – 21 Nov 2013: An IBM global study of C-Suite leaders uncovers a surprising fact about small and midsize companies: they may not be as digitally savvy as they’d like.

The survey’s top findings include:

More than half of midmarket companies lack an integrated digital strategy.
65% of the midmarket C-Suite business executives recognized that the lack of a cohesive social media plan is the biggest barrier to doing more in the digital space.
More than half of respondents also cite the need to better understand how social media fits with other operational priorities, and how to measure its return on investment. (more…)

London calling

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2013Cultureartist in residence, contemporary visual art, london calling, sense of purity, sixth sense, virginia bradley

UD professor spends semester as London artist-in-residence

It was poring through archives of the Zoological Society of London that gave Virginia Bradley the idea.

She asked officials of the society, dedicated to animal conservation and research, if she could be their artist-in-residence. They accepted, and this year the UD professor of art became their first. (more…)

‘Memories of Buenos Aires,’ Edited by Max Page, Maps the Terror of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2013Politicsamherst, Argentina, buenos aires, central, democratic institutions, desaparecidos, dirty war, ilan stavans, intellectual, karen robert, max page, memoria abierta, memories, novelist julio cortazar, singer mercedes sosa, south america, st thomas university, state terrorism, terror, university of massachusetts

AMHERST, Mass. – Throughout Central and South America, there remains the palpable awareness of the decades-long “Dirty War,” in which the military and oligarchy joined forces in brutal and relentless repression of democratic institutions, and many tens of thousands people were simply marked for disappearance. That war has retained its own emotional and physical topography in the region, especially in Argentina, where as many as 30,000 citizens were killed after the generals seized power in 1976.

Now, Max Page, professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has edited a new book that explores that topography and serves as an interpretive guide to the terror in Argentina, invoking the memory of the disappeared, the desaparecidos, in the memorials and hidden places of torture that mark the capital. (more…)

Klimaverhandlungen: Genug ist genug

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2013Environmentbotschaft, co2 emissionen, cop, denise loga, eberhard brandes, klimagipfel, klimaschutz, klimaverhandlungen, ngo, philippinen, taifun haiyan, treibhausgas, un klimaverhandlung, warschau, wwf, wwf deutschland

Nichtregierungsorganisationen verlassen aus Protest UN-Klimagipfel

Der WWF hat sich entschlossen, zusammen mit vielen anderen Nichtregierungsorganisationen die UN-Klimaverhandlungen in Warschau zu verlassen. Die Verhandlungen bewegen sich rückwärts statt vorwärts. Und nichts deutet darauf hin, dass sich dies bis zum Ende der Verhandlungen ändern könnte. Darum sagen die Umweltverbände: Genug ist genug. (more…)

A Living Desert Underground

By Guest PostNovember 20, 2013Natureantje legatzki, archaea, atacama desert, australia, bacteria, biomass, brisbane, carbon dioxide, cave formation, Chile, desert ecosystem, dna analysis, ecosystem of microbes, environmental cleanup solutions, erythromycin, exploring mars, groundwater, hypersaline water, julie neilson, kartchner caverns, kentucky, limestone cave, limestone cave system, living desert underground, organic carbon, raina maier, rod wing, sewage treatment plant, shark bay, southeastern arizona, stromatolite, sunlight, throne room, type of habitat, typical ecosystem, university of arizona, west virginia, whetstone mountains

In the perpetual darkness of a limestone cave, UA researchers have discovered a surprisingly diverse ecosystem of microbes eking out a living from not much more than drip water, rock and air. The discovery not only expands our understanding of how microbes manage to colonize every niche on the planet but also could lead to applications ranging from environmental cleanup solutions to drug development.

Hidden underneath the hilly grasslands studded with ocotillos and mesquite trees in southeastern Arizona lies a world shrouded in perpetual darkness: Kartchner Caverns, a limestone cave system renowned for its untouched cave formations, sculpted over millennia by groundwater dissolving the bedrock and carving out underground rooms, and passages that attract tourists from all over the world. (more…)

Überwachung, Totalkontrolle und tödlicher Irrtum

By Guest PostNovember 20, 2013Politicsard, bagdad, cheftechniker der cia, chilling effects, die brueder grimm, die mensch maschine, evgeny morosov, Facebook, fort meade, Google, google chef schmidt, google field, guantanamo, gus hunt, hauptquartier, internet kritikers, jakob augstein, keith alexander, koenig von hannover, maryland, national security agency, nsa, nsa chef, sascha lobo, silicon valley, spiegel online, toedlicher irrtum, totalkontrolle, ueberwachung, ueli maurer, Yahoo

Staatsmacht oder «digitale» Marktmacht: Mit «Big Data» arbeiten beide an der totalen Kontrolle der Menschen zu ihren Zwecken.

In diesen Tagen sind mir drei aufreizende Texte unter die Augen gekommen. Sie haben einen Zusammenhang.

Der erste stammt von Sascha Lobo. Lobo schreibt viel. Unter anderem eine regelmässige Kolumne in «Spiegel online» unter dem Titel «Die Mensch-Maschine». Jüngst mit dem Vermerk: «Volle Kontrolle». Er schreibt dort: «Eigentlich sollen die Bürger die Machthaber kontrollieren. Doch statt dessen zimmert sich der Staat einen Apparat für vollständige Überwachung zurecht. Plötzlich ist jeder verdächtig, soll alles gespeichert werden.» (more…)

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