Tributes to the Honorable Alan Dixon of Illinois in the United States Senate upon the occasion of his retirement from the Senate.

"October 8, 1992."

Making Alan Greenspan Your Hotel Investment Partner

The author presents a capitalization model applied in hotel valuation which is then used to illustrate how an increase in interest rates result in a lower valuation for hotels. It is demonstrated that changes in hotel valuations of up to 20 percent can be directly attributed to changes in interest rates.

Data compilation on the biological response to ocean acidification: environmental and experimental context of data sets and related literature

The exponential growth of studies on the biological response to ocean acidification over the last few decades has generated a large amount of data. To facilitate data comparison, a data compilation hosted at the data publisher PANGAEA was initiated in 2008 and is updated on a regular basis (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.149999). By January 2015, a total of 581 data sets (over 4 000 000 data points) from 539 papers had been archived. Here we present the developments of this data compilation five years since its first description by Nisumaa et al. (2010). Most of study sites from which data archived are still in the Northern Hemisphere and the number of archived data from studies from the Southern Hemisphere and polar oceans are still relatively low. Data from 60 studies that investigated the response of a mix of organisms or natural communities were all added after 2010, indicating a welcomed shift from the study of individual organisms to communities and ecosystems. The initial imbalance of considerably more data archived on calcification and primary production than on other processes has improved. There is also a clear tendency towards more data archived from multifactorial studies after 2010. For easier and more effective access to ocean acidification data, the ocean acidification community is strongly encouraged to contribute to the data archiving effort, and help develop standard vocabularies describing the variables and define best practices for archiving ocean acidification data.

Alan Alda at a podium

Inscription: Verso: Alan Alda speaking at dedication ceremony of Women's Rights National Historical Park.

L-R: Bob Kunst and Dr. Alan Rockway as part of the "Stop Anita Bryant Comm[ission] Leaders from Dade County, Florida

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.