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What was Jessica Biel doing while ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake jokingly fondled Mila Kunis on national TV? She was clinging tightly to the back of Gerard Butler.
Two months after hookup rumors first surfaced on the Shreveport, La., set of "Playing the Field," co-stars Biel, 29, and Butler, 41, were photographed this weekend taking a motorcycle ride in Malibu along the scenic Pacific Coast Highway.
The starlet's two-wheeled spin on the back of the Scottish actor's Harley (with both in leather jackets and matching helmets) has already reignited simmering romance rumblings, which began to heat up in April.
(Please feel free to make the obligatory "the butler did it"` joke here so we won't have to. Thanks.)
Seems the pair connected even before shooting began, with a run-of-the-mill group meal turning into an anthropological observation on the mating rituals of the rich and famous.
"He knows he looks good," a snitch tells People of seeing Jessica and Gerry cozy up at a Japanese joint during a kick-off dinner with the cast and crew. "If I were her, I'd hook up with him. She looks good, too, and she knew she looked good, swinging her hips around."
Reckons the onlooker, "They looked like a couple. They were having a good time."
Pipes in another source, "Gerry has a large personality, and everyone, including Jessica, gets caught up in his world. I think they enjoyed each other's company. It can be hard working on a movie, trying to establish a new routine, and it helps when you have someone with you to make you feel more normal."
So, are they making each other feel normal now that the cameras have stopped rolling? Apparently only as pals.
"They're just friends," Butler's rep assures Wonderwall. Biel's rep also tells us it's a "just friends" situation.
And indeed, Biel was nowhere to be seen on Monday, when the actor was snapped surfing in Maui, his back-to-chiseled six-pack on display.
Meanwhile, Jessica doesn't appear to be harboring any ill will toward Timberlake, whom she "mutually" decided to part ways with in March after four years of togetherness.
E! News reports the exes bumped into each other at a friend's party on Thursday but avoided any awkwardness.
"There was no PDA, but they were talking to each other for awhile," says a spy. "They ate and sat next to each other. They hugged goodbye and kissed each other on the cheek."
In a recent Vanity Fair interview, Justin, who is currently rumored to be seeing Ashley Olsen, said Jessica was "the single-handedly most significant person in my life. In my 30 years, she is the most special person, okay?"
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At the opening session of Joico's recent sales and education event, the crowd was on its feet dancing Psy Gangnam Style. This 35-year old company is spry, inventive, fun-loving and with a comprehensive education program and crack team of artists, takes their training seriously.
Angelia Polsinelli, Senior Director of North American Education, joined Joico with a goal of building a Joico Corporate Education Development Department dedicated to communicating the company's vision. Today, with an eight-member in-house department established, Polsinelli and her team will be busy in 2013. In the new year, they will be sharing a new tag line, "Turn Heads", many new products, a repackage, and a new color collection.
""Our reason for being is to service our sales department and help them share with hairdressers our overall persona as a company," says Polsinelli. "A fully-staffed internal team enables us to be extremely responsive to the market needs. If we feel that sales needs to be trained and motivated, or if the stores need a special program, we can put that together and go in and train store employees and managers on business and motivation techniques."
Polsinelli created National Corporate Trainers positions to be held by hairdressers, one focusing on haircolor and the other on general Joico knowledge. These two trainers— Tookie Carlson and Melessia Wade-Smith –take the yearly trend collections and break them down into the J-Cut and J-Color methodology. They also work with sales so they can speak to salon owners and truly understand Joico products, Joico color and the importance of both to salons.
National Education Development Manager Tommy De Vries works with Joico Marketing to ensure new products are relevant to hairdressers needs. "Tommy oversees testing of new products to get market approval and ensure that it fulfills the hairdresser needs, always keeping the marketing department salon-oriented in their thinking. "
In the field, there are twelve full time education managers, Territory Managers, who work directly with Joico's distribution partners. And these twelve oversee 350 part-time educators.
Twenty-five guest artists are guided by International Artistic Directors Damien Carney and Sue Pemberton and are called into service as platform artists and at press and red carpet events.
All of these part-time and guest artists receive complimentary Joico training. "We are very committed to the learning of hairdressers," said Polsinelli. "We offer all our artistic updates and skills training to all our guest artists and part time educators at no cost. We want them to stay motivated and inspired. Also, the better their skills are the more personal growth they experience and the better career possibilities open to them in Joico."


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BOSTON - Chicago Cubs Jake Arrieta came close to accomplishing something seldom seen at Fenway Park on Monday night.
When it was over, he received something even more rare.
Arrieta carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning, walking off the field to a standing ovation from the Fenway faithful after it was broken up, and the Cubs beat the Boston Red Sox 2-0 in the opener of a three-game series.
"Something like that in Fenway is pretty rare for an opposing team. So, yeah, I got some goosebumps there," said Arrieta, who threw a season-high 120 pitches. "That's why you play this game, for moments like that. I was very thankful to be a part of something like that."
Arrieta had allowed just one baserunner, on a fifth-inning walk, and struck out 10 before shortstop Stephen Drew singled with two outs in the eighth to break up the gem.
It was the second time in as many starts that Arrieta (5-1) flirted with history. He took a perfect game into the seventh inning against the Cincinnati Reds on June 24 at Wrigley Field.
"The tension kind of built there as the fifth and sixth innings approach and kind of subsides," Arrieta said. "It was special to do it last week in Wrigley, and to do it here in these two parks is pretty special."
He was looking to become the fourth pitcher this season and second in six days to toss a no-hitter. San Francisco's Tim Lincecum held the San Diego Padres hitless Wednesday, joining the Los Angeles Dodgers' Josh Beckett and Clayton Kershaw in pitching no-hitters this season.
The Red Sox haven't been no-hit since current Cubs pitching coach Chris Bosio accomplished the feat against them on April 22, 1993.
Drew ensured it wouldn't happen again.
After getting first baseman Mike Napoli looking on a fastball to start the eighth and inducing third baseman Xander Bogaerts to fly out to center for the second out, Arrieta ran the count to 2-2 against Drew before the veteran shortstop lined a fastball into right field, ending Arrieta's bid and his night.
The 28-year-old twice tipped his cap toward the appreciative crowd as he walked toward the dugout.
"He located everything. He's got great stuff," said Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia. "He kept every pitch out of the zone. I had three at-bats and I don't think I got one good pitch to hit."
Reliever Pedro Strop came on and got center fielder Mookie Betts to fly out on the first pitch, and Hector Rondon allowed one hit and no runs in the ninth for his 10th save of the year.
Right fielder Nate Schierholtz hit a two-run homer for the Cubs, who won for the fourth time in 10 games.
Arrieta started the season on the disabled list due to right shoulder tightness and didn't make his first start until May 3. He had not thrown more than 105 pitches in any of his 10 outings this season.
"I knew the lease would be lengthened due to the situation," Arrieta said. "I had a little more in the tank because I didn't have to hit."
Arrieta breezed through Boston's lineup early, retiring the first 13 batters he faced before walking Napoli in the fifth. He got Bogaerts to line out to left and struck out Drew to keep the no-no intact.
"I think he's found his routine and trusts his stuff," Bosio said.
After requiring just 10 pitches to retire the side in the sixth, Arrieta needed only 13 to cruise through the seventh, striking out left fielder Daniel Nava and Pedroia before designated hitter David Ortiz grounded out weakly into the shift.
"Three above-average pitches with above-average command. He was outstanding," said Boston manager John Farrell. "We break up a no-hitter in the eighth inning, you give credit to a talented guy who was on tonight."
Boston right-hander Jake Peavy (1-7) allowed two runs on five hits over six innings, striking out seven and walking two while dropping his seventh straight decision. The right-hander hasn't won since April 25, a span of 12 starts.
After yielding two hits in the first and a double to Schierholtz in the second, Peavy settled down and retired seven straight before walking catcher Welington Castillo on a full count with two outs in the fourth. Schierholtz drove the next pitch into Boston's bullpen for his fourth homer of the year and a 2-0 Chicago lead.
NOTES: This is just the second-ever regular-season series at Fenway Park, and fourth regular-season series overall, between the Red Sox and Cubs. The teams also met in Boston for three games May 20-22, 2011. ... Boston CF Mookie Betts played his first game at Fenway Park after making his major league debut Sunday against the New York Yankees. ... Boston, which began a 10-game, 11-day homestand, entered a game at Fenway with a winning record at home (20-19) for the first time all season. ... ... Boston 2B Dustin Pedroia started a nifty inning-ending double play in the fifth, gloving a grounder by DH Ryan Sweeney before flipping the ball out of his glove to SS Stephen Drew, who fired to first to get Sweeney. ... Cubs CF Junior Lake broke his bat over his knee after going down swinging to end the fourth.


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It's a big win for Alabama Attorney Luther Strange's office. Officials say Circuit Judge Tom Young has been removed from the case involving the seizure of machines and cash from Victoryland in Macon County.
Attorney General Strange had previously filed a motion to have a new judge assigned to the case arguing that the judge was prejudiced for Victoryland and against the State.
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The Alabama Supreme Court removed Young from the case saying he has a history of not obeying the high court. The state's highest court, controlled by all Republicans, agreed Young should be taken off the case.
Back in February 2013, Alabama State Troopers raided Victoryland on a warrant the high court ordered Young to sign. Young had previously refused to sign a warrant.
Attorneys for Victoryland's owner Milton McGregor argued that the attorney general was attempting to "judge shop" to have someone who would favor them on the case.
While McGregor's attorney are disappointed in the order, they say they still want their day in court.
Now that Judge Young is no longer over the case, it will likely go to another judge within that circuit. There are three judges who could hear the case in the region, but it will most likely go to the senior judge in the circuit, Judge Martin, or to Judge Perryman.
Victoryland has fought the state of Alabama for several years regarding the legality of its machines. It says they're legal electronic bingo machines. The state says their illegal slot machines.
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Room was small.Liked the location, beds were small, we asked for upgrade, too much furniture in the room, no where to put large suitcases.
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With a stay at Malmaison Birmingham, you'll be centrally located in Birmingham, steps from The Mailbox and minutes from International Convention Centre. This 4-star hotel is close to Bullring Shopping Centre and University of Birmingham. Make yourself at home in one of the 189 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Complimentary wirele...
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Located in Studley, De Vere Venues Studley Castle Hotel is in a rural location and within the vicinity of Abbey Golf and Country Club and Ragley Hall. This hotel is within the region of All Saints Church and Mary Arden's House. Make yourself at home in one of the 57 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathro...
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Great value in a unique facility with a very nice English breakfast.
We had to climb several flights of stairs with baggage to get to our room.
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romantic getaway. great views. wonderful staff.
tired room with tired fittings. paper thin walls, very noisy.
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we are a Georgian listed house set in park like surroundings on the edge of the Cotswolds but only 4 miles from Stratford upon Avon.All our rooms are en-suite with a four poster room and family suites sleeping 3or 4, we have a sunny guest sitting room with the daily papers.Our dinning room has been awarded a pie by the AA for good quality food and we were ru...
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Located in Alcester (Coughton), Throckmorton Arms Hotel is within the vicinity of Ragley Hall and All Saints Church. This inn is within the vicinity of Mary Arden's House and Abbey Golf and Country Club. Make yourself at home in one of the individually decorated guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming i...
Overall Rating - Good - 217 reviews
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Loch Fyne Restaurant and Milsoms Hotel and in Kenilworth is a stunning, boutique hotel providing chic comfort and value for money for business guests and tourists exploring the Heart of England. Kenilworth is a small, historic town in the green heart of Warwickshire that provides an ideal base for visiting a multitude of places including Warwick Castle, Keni...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 385 reviews
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Excellent 9.0
Relaxed atmosphere, friendly and helpful staff
The television was set at too low a sound value, even at the highest point if you sat on the bed it was difficult to hear. It was a disabled room and bathroom. Toilet facilities very good. How does a wheel bound person get in and out of the bath.
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Welcome to Hotel Indigo Birmingham - Birmingham's newest chic and contemporary hotel. Dominating the city centre skyline, this glistening jewellery box of a hotel is located in the Cube in the heart of the city. The hotel is located near the Mailbox Complex and less than 10 minutes' walk from the iconic Bullring Shopping Centre . Situated on the 23rd to 25th...
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With a stay at Royal Court Hotel in Coventry, you'll be close to Ricoh Arena and Coventry University. This hotel is within close proximity of West Orchards Shopping and Coventry Transport Museum. Make yourself at home in one of the 210 guestrooms. Conveniences include in-room massages, and both cribs/infant beds and rollaway/extra beds are available on reque...
Overall Rating - Good - 1013 reviews
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Welcome to the Holiday Inn Express Birmingham Star City The Holiday Inn Express Birmingham Star City is located 2.5miles from the centre of the city. With easy access from the M6, M5 and M42 we are an ideal base for both Business Travellers and Leisure Guests. The Holiday Inn Express Birmingham Star City is an easy 3 minute walk from Star City with offers a...
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Okay 5.0
Well insulated for sound, very friendly desk staff.
Lift was not working nor was phone in one of the rooms. The other room the maid had not finished cleaning the bathroom--towels on floor, amenities open on sink and not filled.No way is this a 4 star hotel which was shown on the listing.
Excellent 10.0
close to amusement- restaurant centre. great breakfast


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I did put a dark outer glow on white labels but it seems that it's easier to see it on the original size. I'll probably increase the opacity of it though. Thanks again
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I did put a dark outer glow on white labels but it seems that it's easier to see it on the original size. I'll probably increase the opacity of it though. Thanks again
* Updated above* I increased dark outer glow on white labels and made the cities icons a bit more readable (even though reddish colors doesn't really fit on this map after I gave it a try). Thanks Schwarzkreuz for the advices.
Hey absolutely stunning map. Could you share some tips for creating rivers and coast lines with a newb? :)
Thanks Ukie. Most of the time I use to hand-draw coastlines and then work on them with Photoshop. Try to search in the tutorials sections, I know there's some about it but I can't remember which ones at the moment :/
The compass rose is a thing of cosmic beauty.
Why torture this map with that confounded unholy edging that you saddled it with? It is a curse upon this map, a blight, a bane.
The waters are a creature of much mystery. The text is a mixed bag. And what is with that horrid copyright? It could have been blended into the map, but instead, there the white elephant sits in all her fattened glory. Pah!
How do I love that compass rose? Let me count the ways. Where the land, itself, is concerned, she is a plain child. You have veiled her with a barren look. I fear that she weeps, yearning to be set free of this imposed grotesqueness.
To say that it is finished is to nail this map's coffin.
Hmm....My english isn't that good...so in short?
I'm pretty fine with this map and achieved some feels I have about it. Doing more maps , I sometimes try differents things, sometimes used familiar ones that fits what I have in mind but each new map is a way to improve something in a way or another. I just consider each one as a step in a long journey in my inner world... This one is behind me and I don't think I'll revisit it. maybe some day I'll redo it but it will be another map ;)
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Ramsar's statement to the BirdLife International World Conference, Malaysia, October 1999
Text of the statement by Dr Bill Phillips, Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands to the BirdLife International World Conference, Malaysia.
Delivered on Friday 15 October 1999
Mr Chairman, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be here with you during this meeting, and thank you for the opportunity to this make this presentation, which I have called Ramsar and BirdLife -- Further strengthening the partnership.
For the benefit of those of you who may know little about the Convention on Wetlands, I will very quickly describe what it does, before addressing the theme of this talk today. Put simply -- the Convention promotes the conservation and wise use of ALL wetlands by supporting and catalysing appropriate actions from hands-on local activities, through national policies, laws, institutions and programmes to regional, inter-regional and international cooperation.
The Ramsar Convention has three main pillars -- and these are, first, wise use, or sustainable use, which promotes a range of actions to protect wetlands - actions that are needed to support the millions of people who rely upon them for their survival, through to actions such ecotourism associated with birdwatching.
Secondly, biodiversity conservation -- and central to this is the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance, about which I will say more shortly. In addition, Ramsar has a Memorandum of Cooperation, and a Joint Work Plan, with the Convention on Biological Diversity under which it is formally recognised by the CBD as the lead partner for wetland-related activities.
As some of you may know, CBDs Fourth COP, in Decision IV/4, opened the way for Parties of both Conventions to seek GEF funds for Ramsar-related activities for inland water ecosystems. This is a tangible product of the close working partnership between Ramsar and CBD.
And thirdly, international cooperation -- and under this theme the Convention works to support and promote multilateral cooperation and agreements for the conservation of migratory species, such as the Afraican-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) and the Asia Pacifiic Migratory Waterbird Strategy.
In the area of international cooperation, the Convention is also active in promoting cross-border cooperation between countries that share wetlands or river basins, and is helping to mobilise funds for on-ground projects as well as the sharing of knowledge, training and other similar activities. Ramsar also has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Convention on Migratory Species under which a JWP is being developed at present.
Again, for those of you who dont know -- Ramsar has a unique partnership with NGOs. As Ramsar is a product of NGO efforts, this is not surprising. In fact, Ramsars NGO partners are BirdLife, the IUCN, WWF, and Wetlands International. These Convention Partners have Memoranda of Cooperation with the Ramsar Bureau, they have full membership in our subsidiary advisory body the STRP, and they are our partners and collaborators and provide an invaluable extension service for the Convention.
Ramsar today -- 28 years after its signing in the city of Ramsar in Iran -- has 116 Contracting Parties, with the main gaps being in Africa, central Asia and the Middle East, and the Small Island Developing States. Im pleased to say that there around 20 countries progressing toward accession - and this will soon start to fill in those gaps on the map. The Convention has set the ambitious target of 150 signatories by the time of the next Ramsar COP in Spain in 2002.
The Ramsar Convention is synonymous with the List of Wetlands of International Importance - or the "Ramsar sites", as we know them. There are at present 1005 and again the Convention has set the ambitious target of doubling that number by the time of 9th COP in 2005.
Which brings me back to the theme of this talk - further strengthening our partnership. Earlier this year the Ramsar Parties and partner organisations, including BirdLife, met in San José, Costa Rica, and assembled through their decisions what we are calling the Ramsar toolkit. It includes guidance under the three pillars of the Convention relating to:
policy development, reviewing laws and institutions, integrating wetlands into river basin management, empowering local and indigenous people, communication, Ramsar site selection, management planning, monitoring, threatened sites and Ramsars Montreux Record, risk assessment, and under international cooperation - shared species and wetlands, partnerships, sharing knowledge, development assistance and international investments.
This toolkit will be published in December this year as nine integrated Handbooks which I hope BirdLife will adopt as its own - you should, many of your members contributed strongly to the development of this toolkit.
Today I want to focus on just one element of this toolkit which I am urging you to help us see applied - and that is Ramsar site selection and designation. In this area I feel we can be working together more systematically to progress our common goals by establishing closer links between BirdLifes Important Bird Area (IBA) programme and Ramsar site selection. I see these two activities as being natural partners which we are yet to unite fully as operational tools. In fact, we have an advantage already in that BirdLife cleverly modelled the IBA criteria on the Ramsar site criteria.
Let me explain further .. At Ramsars COP7 the Parties adopted a vision for the future development of the List, Objectives, Targets and a Strategic Framework for delivering this vision. The Vision agreed to by the Parties is "To develop and maintain an international network of wetlands which are important for the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the ecological and hydrological functions they perform".
The COP also adopted targets and a strategic framework, and these together provide us -- you, me, the governments of the world -- with a responsibility and a mandate to apply the best science and information we have in order to identify sites for designation to the Ramsar List to allow the Convention to achieve this vision.
It has for the first time given legitimacy to applying a strategic framework to move us in a more systematic way towards this vision of a global network of wetland sites supporting biodiversity conservation and human life. This is the opportunity for us to move from being reactive to proactive, and the expertise of BirdLife and its partners can be used to fuel this process so that we both work more rapidly toward achieving our global missions in this area of site recognition and conservation.
Of course, I am aware that in parts of the world -- Europe notably -- there is already evidence of such linkages between the IBA programme and Ramsar site designation. We now need to see that happening all around the globe.
Before concluding I want to make a plea for us to shift the paradigm of the present which sees many people ignoring the importance of wetlands -- in all their forms -- for birds which are non-migratory or non-waterbirds. I fear that due to its history we have neglected the potential of the Convention to serve the needs of these other groups -- which in many ways are just as reliant on wetlands as are the migratory waterbirds.
Before we explore this idea a little further, let us refresh our memory about what Ramsar calls wetlands. And as we do this, give yourselves the mental exercise of thinking of sedentary waterbirds and species not classified as waterbirds, which are living around or near these wetland types and are reliant upon them in some way.
Under Ramsar, coral reefs and seagrass communities are wetlands, flooded forests in all their forms are wetlands; peatbogs are wetlands; ephemeral systems such as this in the arid inland of Australia and this from north Africa are wetlands. Add to this mangrove and other intertidal wetlands, traditional floodplain wetlands, and even subterranean karst systems - and you can see the potential for considering the importance of wetlands to a whole range of these non migratory and non-waterbird species. Because we have had this mindset that Ramsar equals waterbirds, the three site criteria which could apply to these species have been sadly neglected.
Under the Ramsar Convention there are now eight criteria: One deals with unique or representative wetlands type, 5 & 6 are the waterbird criteria, and 7 & 8 consider fish habitat importance. This leaves two which seek to have listed sites of importance as habitat for vulnerable or endangered species, three - which is about sites that help to conserve biodiversity at the bioregional scale, and four which is about sites that protect species at critical stages in their life cycle or provide refuges during adverse conditions. It is in applying these three criteria where I think we can work together - in addition to our traditional focus on migratory waterbirds- to see more of the IBA sites recognised by the Ramsar Convention.
This then brings me to my take-home messages, of which there are five.
1. We have a strong partnership -- so
2. Lets build upon it and especially through stronger links between the IBA-Ramsar site designation processes.
3. As Ive said, I think it time to shift the paradigm and consider the importance of wetlands for birds in the broader context - beyond simply our old friends the waterbirds.
4. I urge you to adopt the Ramsar toolkit as your own -- it is -- so treat it as yours to use, apply, modify to national needs, etc. - but let us see this invaluable package put to work, and
5. I think we need to work together to achieve global membership -- we cannot have global action without full participation. I sense that in many of the countries yet to join Ramsar - many of you people here in this room could hold the key - if so - please use it.
In conclusion, let me close by passing on our thanks to you as the united BirdLife for your continuing enthusiasm and support for the Ramsar Convention. I would especially like to thank two of your number who are among the unsung heroes of the Ramsar cause - namely John OSullivan and David Pritchard. Let me assure you that you have the most dynamic and effective representatives within the workings of the Convention in these two. The legacies of their work, in consultation with many of you, are now enshrined in the Ramsar toolkit. You and we owe them our thanks.
That leaves me with just a final word. Let us build on our already strong partnership, for as partners we can be stronger, and this will be vital as the threats to our ecosystems and habitats escalate daily. I wish you well for the rest of your meeting and look forward to receiving the final report and the Birdlife 2000 Strategy. Thank you.


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