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Of Medflies and Light Brown Apple Moths
Carey's public service led to much-needed in-depth discussions and greater understanding of these two agricultural pests; saved California millions in cancelled ineffective programs; and focused national and worldwide attention on how to deal with invasive pests.
An internationally recognized leader and distinguished scholar in invasion biology spanning three decades, Carey launched an informed, concerted and widespread effort to reveal the science about the invaders that threaten California's $43.5 billion agricultural industry. His well-documented research in basic and applied aspects of invasion biology shows that these pests are established and cannot be eradicated. They continue to spread, despite more than 30 years of intervention and nearly 300 state-sponsored eradication programs.
Highly honored by his peers, Carey received the 2014 C. W. Woodworth Award, the highest award given by the Pacific Branch of ESA, and a 2014 Academic Senate Undergraduate Teaching Award. He was selected a plenary speaker for ICE 2016, the XXV International Congress of Entomology, to meet Sept. 25-30, 2016 in Orlando, Fla.
His past public service includes chair of the University of California Systemwide Committee on Research Policy; member of the systemwide UC Academic Council; and vice chair of his department. He presently serves as the associate editor of three journals: Genus, Aging Cell, and Demographic Research.
(Read more about his work here.)
Some comments about his work:
- Vice Provost and Dean Robert E. Page Jr. of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, describes Dr. Carey as "one of the most active, intelligent, diligent, curious, attentive, creative and passionate scientists not only on the UC Davis campus, but nationally and globally."
- Nan Wishner of the California Environmental Health Initiative, says "Jim provided not only his own scientific expertise but supported and assisted us in researching relevant scientific information on the behavior of and actual threat posed by the apple moth and other pests, the potential strategies for addressing pests, and the fundamental scientific principles underlying choices of policies and practices." She describes him as "a tireless advocate for the involvement and engagement of the public affected by agency pest management decisions."
- Sandra Ross, executive director of Health & Habitat, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing, implementing and promoting a holistic approach to life, health, and the environment, says that Carey used his expertise to show that these pest eradication programs did not work, and provided accurate information so informed decisions could be made. "He is especially good at interacting with the lay public, and explaining the situation in terms they can understand. He does this even if his critique of a program may earn him the displeasure of an agency, and could jeopardize future funding for one of his projects."
UC Davis Distinguished Professor James R. Carey with some of the maps he used in his research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Medflies: Permanent Residents
The Mediterranean fruit fly, considered the world's worst agricultural pest, is one of at least five fruit flies established in California. It cannot be eradicated.
So says entomologist James Carey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, who has been dogging medflies since his faculty appointment in 1980. (See what drove him.)
Carey and UC Davis-affiliated colleagues Nikos Papadopoulos and Richard Plant wrote the eye-opening research piece, "From Trickle to Flood: The Large Scale, Cryptic Invasion of California by Tropical Fruit Flies" in the current edition of the renowned Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Their work "clearly demonstrates that at least five and as many as nine species of tropical fruit flies, including the infamous Medfly, are permanently established in California and inexorably spreading, despite more than 30 years of intervention and nearly 300 state-sponsored eradication programs aimed at the flies," wrote Pat Bailey in a UC Davis News Service story released today.
The findings, Bailey pointed out, have "significant implications for how government agencies develop policies to successfully manage pests that pose a threat to California's $43.5 billion agricultural industry."
Carey, an international authority on fruit-fly invasion biology, told her that "Despite due diligence, quick responses, and massive expenditures to prevent entry and establishment of these insects, virtually all of the fruit-fly species targeted by eradication projects have been reappearing in the same locations — several of them annually — and gradually spreading in the state."
Carey, Papadopoulos and Plant detailed the problem in the opening paragraph of their meticulously researched paper: "Since 1954 when the first tropical tephritid fruitfly was detected in California, a total of 17 species in four genera and 11,386 individuals (adults/larvae) have been detected in the state at more than 3348 locations in 330 cities." That's three out of four California cities.
Michael Parrella, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology: "The study has dramatic implications for California agriculture and the state's international trading partners, and speaks to the urgent need to alter current eradication policies aimed at invasive species."
Frank Zalom, UC Davis entomology professor and incoming president of the 6500-member Entomological Society of America: "This study deserves serious consideration, and I hope that it helps lead to new discussions on a long-term approach for dealing with fruit flies and similar exotic pests by the United States and international regulatory authorities."
Former UC Davis chancellor Ted Hullar (1987-1994), one of the first to believe in "the science" that Carey presented, said: "From our first conversation, Jim struck me as a serious-minded guy, with strong ideas and clear focus, pursuing his insights and beliefs no matter the struggle. Good science and progress comes from that, making new paths in tough terrain, believing in the power of journey, as well as goal."
The Medfly prefers such thin-skinned hosts as peach, nectarine, apricot, avocado, grapefruit, orange, and cherry. The female may lay one to 10 eggs per fruit or as many as 22 eggs per day. She may lay up to 800 eggs during her lifetime, but usually about 300.
We remember when the Medfly wreaked economic havoc in the Solano County city of Dixon in September 2007. We were there.
At the time, Carey told us that "this may be just one of many isolated pockets of medfly infestations in California. This is really serious because the invasion process is so insidious."
The Medfly has been multiplying and spreading undetected--like cancer--for years, he said. "It may be a symptom of a much larger problem. But any way you look at it, this is the first really big outbreak in the Central Valley."
CDFA set up a command center at the Dixon May Fair and imposed a 114-mile radius quarantine of fruits, vegetables and nuts. Dixon was deep in the throes of tomato and walnut harvesting. The owner of a 65-acre organic produce farm that ships to 800 clients worried that he might lose $10,000 a week in potential sales.
Among the actions that the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) took at the onset:
- Stripped all fruit from trees within a 100-meter radius of all Medfly finds
- Ground-sprayed the organic compound Naturalyte (the active ingredient is Spinosad, a naturally occurring product of a soil bacteria) within a 200-meter radius of all Medfly finds
- Set 1,700 fruit fly traps within an 81-square mile grid in all of Dixon and the surrounding area from near the Yolo County border to Midway Road
- Began aerially releasing 1.5 million sterile male medflies (dyed pink for easy detection) over a 12-square mile area on Sept. 14, with weekly releases of 3 million medflies scheduled for at least nine months
- Set up a yearlong command center, with four portable buildings and a task force of 25, on the Dixon May Fair grounds
Fast forward to today. Now that the Medfly has been declared a "permanent resident," what's next?
Carey agrees that "CDFA needs to continue to respond to outbreaks as they occur, but he advocates long-term planning based on "the science" that the insects are established. This includes heightened monitoring levels for the agriculturally rich Central Valley, an economic impact study, risk management/crop insurance, cropping strategies, fly fee zones/post harvest treatments, emergency/crisis planning, genetic analysis and a National Fruit Fly Program.
"Inasmuch as the Mediterranean, Mexican, Oriental, melon, guava and peach fruit flies have all been detected in the Central Valley, monitoring this incredibly important agricultural region should be increased by 5 to 10-fold in order to intervene and suppress populations and thus slow the spread," Carey says.
"These pests cannot be wished away or legislated out of existence. Policymakers need to come to grips with this sobering reality of multiple species permanently established in our state in order to come up with a long-term, science-based policy for protecting agriculture in our state."
(See James Carey's website for links to his work on fruit fly invasion.)
Mediterranean Fruit Fly. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)
The Invasion of Tropical Fruit Flies
Professor James R. Carey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology will tell you why.
He will discuss the invasion of tropical fruit flies in California at his seminar from 12:05 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 3 in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Addition, corner of Hutchison and Kleiber Hall drives.
Carey's seminar, titled "From Trickle to Flood: The Large-Scale, Cryptic Invasion of California by Tropical Fruit Flies," is the first in the department's spring-quarter seminar series. It's open to all interested persons, and it will be recorded and available for later viewing on UCTV.
"Despite aggressive and costly efforts by government agencies to prevent their introduction, establishment and spread, California has experienced an inexorable march of tropical fruit flies (Tephritidae) into the state with three-fold more species detected and thousands more flies captured than in all other mainland U.S. states combined," Carey says.
"Since 1954 when the first fly was detected a total of 17 species in 4 genera and 11,386 individuals (adults/larvae) have been detected at over 3,348 locations in 330 cities. My colleagues and I conclude from spatial mapping analyses of historical capture patterns and modeling that, despite the approximately 250 emergency eradication projects that have been directed against these pests by state and federal agencies, a minimum of 5 and as many as 9 or more tephritids are established and widespread. This list includes three of the most economically-important species in the world—the Mediterranean, Mexican and oriental fruit flies."
In his seminar, Carey will "outline and discuss the evidence for our conclusions with particular attention to the incremental, chronic, and insidious nature of the invasion involving ultra-small, barely-detectable populations. I will consider the more general implications of our results in scientific, economic, and operational contexts of invasion biology, as well as ethical issues concerned with the purposeful obfuscation of historical fruit fly detection data at individual, administrative and institutional levels."
Carey, former vice chair of the Department of Entomology, focuses his research on insect demography, mortality dynamics, and insect invasion biology. He received his bachelor and master of science degrees from Iowa State University (1973; 1975) and his doctorate in entomology from UC Berkeley (1980).
Highly recognized, he is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Gerontological Society of America, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Entomological Society of America.
Carey is a noted authority on the invasion of the tropical fruit flies. He served on the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Medfly Scientific Advisory Panel from 1987-1994, testified to the California Legislature "Committee of the Whole" in 1990 on the Medfly Crisis in California, and authored the paper "Establishment of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly in California" (1992, Science 258, 457).
Mediterranean Fruit Fly. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)
He'll Give the Leigh Distinguished Seminar
This year's recipient is Marc Tatar, an authority on the aging of insects.
Tatar, a professor in the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown State University, Providence, R.I., will speak on "Integrated Control of Drosophila Aging by Insulin/IGF (Insulin-Like Growth Factor) Signaling" at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5 in Ballroom A of the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC), UC Davis campus. Prior to the presentation, a wine and cheese reception will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. outside of Ballroom A.
The event is open to all interested persons, said James R. Carey, UC Davis professor of entomology, who will introduce his former student. The presentation will be recorded for later posting on the UCTV seminars.
Tatar has studied the demography, evolution and genetics of aging working with a variety of insect systems to explore the regulation and basic mechanisms of life history traits and senescence. The current work in the Tatar laboratory focuses on genetic analysis of Drosophila to understand how insulin/IGF signals and lipid hormones regulate aging, and how these endocrine signals interact with nutrition.
Tatar received his doctorate in ecology from UC Davis in 1994 while with the Graduate Group in Ecology, working in James Carey's laboratory. Tatar obtained his bachelor's degree in biology in 1980 from Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., and went on to receive his master's degree in zoology from UC Davis in 1984. He completed postdoctoral research in genetics at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul before joining the Brown University faculty in 1997. He was promoted to professor in 2007.
While at UC Davis, Tatar was the 1994 recipient of the Merton Love Award for his Outstanding Dissertation in Ecology and Evolution. He is an Ellison Senior Scholar, founding joint editor-in-chief of the journal Aging Cell, and a past member of the Board of Review Editors for Science.
The Leigh seminar memorializes cotton entomologist Thomas Frances Leigh (1923-1993), an international authority on the biology, ecology and management of arthropod pests affecting cotton production. During his 37-year UC Davis career, Leigh was based at the Shafter Research and Extension Center, also known as the U.S. Cotton Research Station. He researched pest and beneficial arthropod management in cotton fields, and host plant resistance in cotton to insects, mites, nematodes and diseases.
Leigh, who joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology in 1958, retired in 1991 as an emeritus professor, but he continued to remain active in his research and collaboration until his death on Oct. 26, 1993.
At Shafter, Leigh focused his research on the biology, ecology, host plant resistance, control and management of insects and spider mites on cotton. He stood at the forefront of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of cotton pests, according to an article in the summer 1994 edition of American Entomologist. He taught courses on cotton IPM and host plant resistance.
In his memory, his family and associates set up the Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar Entomology Fund at the UC Davis Department of Entomology. When his wife, Nina, died in 2002, the alumni seminar became known as the Thomas and Nina Distinguished Alumni Seminar.
Thanks to the Leigh family, outstanding UC Davis alumni return to campus to share their accomplishments.
Professor Marc Tatar of Brown State University, Providence, R.I., will deliver the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar at UC Davis on Dec. 5.
Superorganisms, Mimicry and Aphids
Those are some of the topics to be covered at the UC Davis Department of Entomology's fall noonhour seminars, to begin Wednesday, Oct. 17 and continue through Wednesday, Nov. 28 in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Building.
Assistant professors Joanna Chiu and Brian Johnson of the UC Davis Department of Entomology are coordinating the fall noonhour seminars.
All seminars will be held every Wednesday except for Nov. 14. No seminar will be held that day. That's during the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting, which will take place Nov. 11-14 in Knoxville, Tenn.
The good news is that if you cannot attend these seminars, not to worry. Professor James R. Carey is arranging the videotaping of the seminars. They will be be broadcast at a later date on UCTV. Meanwhile, if you missed any of the previous ones, most can be accessed on UCTV.
For free.
Oct. 17: Tim Linksvayer, assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania.
Title: "Colony-Level Social Insect Gene Regulatory Networks"
Host: Brian Johnson, assistant professor of entomology
Oct. 24: Micky Eubanks, professor, Texas A&M University
Title: "Community Ecology of a "Pest": Aphids Rule their World via Powerful Indirect Effects"
Host: Graduate student Billy Kimmel
Oct. 31: Sarjeet Gill, professor, UC Riverside
Title: "Bacterial Toxins in Disease Mosquito Vector Control"
Host: Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology
Nov. 7: Taro Ohkawa, postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley
Title: "Baculovirus Manipulation of the Host Actin Cytoskeleton: Roles in Entry and Egress"
Host: George Kamita from the Bruce Hammock lab
Nov. 14: No seminar this week (Entomological Society of America's annual meeting)
Nov. 28: James Mallet, professor, Harvard University
Title: "Hybridization, Mimicry and the Origin of Species in Heliconius
Host: Gregory Lanzaro, professor, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
The first speaker, evolutionary biologist Tim Linksvayer, will focus on superorganisms. Honey bees are considered superorganisms.
"Despite these conspicuous superorganismal properties and the inherent hierarchical organization of life in insect societies (i.e. colony-level, organismal-level), most previous studies of the evolutionary genetic and molecular basis of social insect traits use the same reductionist approaches that have been developed for solitary organisms, where an individual's traits are only influenced by its own genome. More realistically, in social organisms, an individual's traits are the property of the genomes of all social group members. I will discuss ongoing integrative research studying how social interactions in ants and honey bees affect the expression and evolution of individual- and group-level traits."
Stay tuned!
Honey bees are considered a superorganism. Here worker bees form a retinue around the queen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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Joseph Einhorn is a 30-year-old serial entrepreneur with a simple, if audacious, goal: to render Amazon obsolete.
His battle-ax is TheFancy.com, a Web site that launched in 2011 and aims to create a seamless integration between social media and e-commerce by enabling users to purchase products without leaving its platform. PPR's Francois Henri-Pinault, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, hedge fund manager James Pallotta and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes have all signed on as investors.
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Luciana de Oliveira
Professional Background
Educational Background
Emphasis: Language, Literacy, and Culture Additional Specialization: Second Language Acquisition
Dissertation: Knowing and Writing History: A Study of Students' Expository Writing and Teachers' Expectations
Chair: Mary J. Schleppegrell
Master of Arts in English, TESOL Option (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
California State University, East Bay - June 1999 Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor of Arts in Languages: English and Portuguese, Minor in German
Universidade Estadual Paulista (São Paulo State University - UNESP), Araraquara, SP (Brazil)
January 1997 Magna Cum Laude
Teaching Credentials, English and Portuguese: Secondary
Universidade Estadual Paulista (São Paulo State University - UNESP), Araraquara, SP (Brazil)
January 1997
- Awards include the Early Career Award by the Bilingual Education Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2012); the David E. Eskey Award for Curriculum Innovation by the California TESOL association (2011); Outstanding Latino Faculty (2011); and Teaching and Learning With Technology Distance Education Award (2010) by Purdue University.
- Areas of specialization: English language learners, content area literacies, second language writing, functional linguistics, qualitative research, multilingual teachers.
- Teaching: 20 years of teaching experience in higher education, K-12, and foreign language contexts with culturally and linguistically diverse groups.
- Engagement and Service: Work with public schools, volunteer and elected positions at different professional organizations, including the TESOL International Association, NYS TESOL (New York State TESOL), INTESOL (Indiana TESOL), and CATESOL (California TESOL).
Scholarly Interests
Selected Publications
honors and awards
Faculty Engagement Scholarship Award; Purdue University. Inaugural recipient. This university-level award recognizes an outstanding record of achievement in, and strong indication of future contribution to, engagement. March 2013. Media coverage:
- Local TV: http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/purdue-engagement-awards-are-presented-to-community-leaders?ref=scroller&categoryId=20000&status=true
- Journal & Courier: http://www.jconline.com/article/20130328/NEWS0501/303280023/Purdue-faculty-cited-for-activities
- Inside Edge: http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?id=58661
Early Career Award; Bilingual Education Research Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association (AERA); 2012. This award recognizes an individual for outstanding accomplishments in the early stages of her or his career no later than 10 years after receipt of the doctoral degree.
Curriculum and Instruction Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University. To recognize outstanding achievements in publications, grants, and awards in the area of research-based scholarship. April 2012.
Outstanding Faculty Discovery Award, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University. To recognize outstanding achievements in publications, grants, and awards in the area of scholarship of engagement. April 2012.
Dean's Fellow Program Award; College of Education, Purdue University; 2011-2012. Designed for faculty who have an interest in exploring leadership opportunities and university administration to work on a specific project that advances the goals of the College of Education's strategic plan. Project: Inclusive Representation: Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minority Faculty and Students.
Outstanding Latino Faculty, Latino Faculty and Staff Association (LaFASA), Purdue University; October 2011.
David E. Eskey Award for Curriculum Innovation; California TESOL (CATESOL); April 2011. Award designed to honor Professor Eskey's memory. Received for the book Knowing and Writing School History: The Language of Students' Expository Writing and Teachers' Expectations. One recipient per year.
Diversity Fellows Program Award; Purdue University; 2010-2011. To provide support for faculty development, implementation and sharing of inclusive approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment in the area of diversity. University award; two awarded per college per year. Included a cash award of $2,000.
Seed for Success Award; Purdue University; November 2010. The Seed for Success Award is given in recognition of the accomplishments of single investigators and teams of investigators for their efforts in obtaining a one million dollar or more research grant.
Outstanding Faculty Engagement Award, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University. To recognize outstanding achievements in the area of engagement with schools and service to the university and the profession. April 2010.
Outstanding Faculty Discovery Award, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University. To recognize outstanding achievements in publications, grants, and awards in the area of research-based scholarship. March 2010.
Teaching and Learning With Technology Distance Education Award, Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), Purdue University; February 2010. The TLT Distance Education Awards Program awards Purdue faculty for the development of high‑quality distance education courses on the West Lafayette campus. Ten awardees selected campus-wide. Included a cash award of $3,000.
Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, Early Career Seminar, American Educational Research Association, March 2008. To attend a pre-convention seminar for Early Career Faculty (tenure-line 1st, 2nd and 3rd year in the academy) with a research focus on the preparation of teachers for culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Seminar Leaders: Linda Darling-Hammond, Rosa Hernandez-Sheets, and Etta Hollins.
Outstanding Paper on Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL Issues, East Carolina University and TESOL Award for the colloquium "Exploring NNESTs' professional self-esteem and confidence" presented at the Annual TESOL Convention, 2006.
Outstanding Scholarship Award, first recipient, School of Education, UC Davis, awarded to one Ph.D. Candidate, Spring 2005 - Awarded on the basis of scholarship and promise of outstanding academic and professional contribution to recognize students' exceptional performance at the university (included a cash award of $2,500).
Leadership Mentoring Program, TESOL
Spring 2005 – Award designed to help underrepresented groups within TESOL become more involved in the association. Recipients are guided by mentors throughout the year as they contribute their time and expertise to TESOL's activities and projects. Award by nomination, given to individuals with potential for TESOL involvement and leadership, to participate in TESOL's Leadership Certificate Program and the TESOL Annual Convention.
Outstanding Paper on Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL Issues, East Carolina University and TESOL Award for the colloquium "Learning from Models of Native English-speaking teacher (NEST)/Nonnative English-speaking Teacher (NNEST) Collaboration" presented at the Annual TESOL Convention, 2004.
Recognition Awards, CATESOL, for outstanding service to CATESOL and dedication to the teaching profession. Nonnative Language Educators' Issues Interest Group Coordinator, 2002-2004, Assistant College/University Chair, 2004-2005, College/University Chair, 2005-2006.
University of California, Davis
Non-Resident Tuition Fellowships, School of Education and Office of Graduate Studies, 9/2001 –5/2006 - Extremely competitive fellowship to support international students across the university. One per college. Awarded on the basis of scholarship and promise of outstanding academic and professional contribution; $14,000 per year.
Summer Research Fellowship, School of Education, Summer 2005 – Fellowship designed to support outstanding scholars and help them make substantial progress toward their degrees; $4,000.
Students' names are underlined.
de Oliveira, L. C. & Silva, T. (2013). (Eds). L2 writing in secondary classrooms: Academic issues, student experiences, and teacher education. New York: Routledge.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2013). (Ed.). Teacher education for social justice: Perspectives and lessons learned. Charlotte, NC: Information Age. Foreword by M. Cochran-Smith.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2011). Knowing and writing school history: The language of students' expository writing and teachers' expectations. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Iddings, J. (in press). (Eds). Genre pedagogy across the curriculum: Theory and application in U.S. classrooms and contexts. Equinox Publishing.
de Oliveira, L. C. (Series Ed.) (under contract). The Common Core State Standards and English Language Learners*. TESOL International Association.
There will be five books in the series:
1. Spycher, P. (Ed.) (in press). The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts for English Language Learners: Grades K–5.
2. Civil, M., & Turner, E. (Eds.) (in press). The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics for English Language Learners: Grades K–8.
3. de Oliveira, L. C., Klassen, M., & Maune, M. (Eds.) (in preparation). The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and English Language Learners: Grades 6-12.
4. The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics and English Language Learners: High School.
5. The Common Core State Standards in Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects for English Language Learners: Grades 6–12.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Schleppegrell, M. J. (in press). Focus on grammar and meaning. Oxford University Press (this book will be part of the Key Concepts for the Language Classroom book series edited by Patsy Lightbown & Nina Spada).
de Oliveira, L. C., & Yough, M. (under contract) (Eds). Preparing teachers to work with english language learners in mainstream classrooms: Issues for professional development. Information Age Publishing.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Wachter Morris, C. (under contract). Preparing school counselors for English Language Learners. Submitted to TESOL International Association to be part of the handbook series "ESOL for Different Professions".
de Oliveira, L. C. (proposal submitted). A language-based approach to content instruction (LACI) for English language learners: Academic language in the content areas (Grades 2-6). Heinemann.
Kamhi-Stein, L., Diaz-Maggioli, G., & de Oliveira, L. C. (in preparation). Teaching English in South America. Proposal to be submitted to Multilingual Matters.
Journal Articles (Refereed)
Kenney, R., & de Oliveira, L. C. (in press). The role of symbol sense in mathematical semiotic systems for English language learners. Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics.
Lan, S-W., & de Oliveira, L. C. (in press). Layers of complexity: Nouns in fourth-grade science textbooks. Electronic Journal of Literacy Through Science.
de Oliveira, L. C. (in press). A systemic-functional analysis of English language learners' writing. DELTA (Documentação de Estudos em Linguística Teórica e Aplicada).*
[*This journal is ranked A1 (first-tier) according to QUALIS for all journals in applied linguistics in Brazil]
Turkan, S., de Oliveira, L. C., Lee, O., & Phelps, G. (in press). Proposing a knowledge base for teaching academic content to English Language Learners: Disciplinary linguistic knowledge. Teachers College Record.
Arvelo Alicea, Z., Cortés-Santiago, I. & de Oliveira, L. C. (in press). Witty Latina grandmas, silly skeletons, and birthday cakes: A library program focused on bilingual literacy. Indiana Libraries.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Olesova, L. (2013). Learning about the literacy development of English language learners through technology. Journal of Education (special issue on technology in education).
Achinstein, B., Athanases, S., Curry, M., Ogawa, R., & de Oliveira, L. C (2013). These doors are open: Community wealth and health as resources in strengthening education for lower-income Latina/o youth. Leadership, 42(5), 30-34.
Angus, R., & de Oliveira, L. C. (2012). Diversity in secondary English classrooms: Conceptions and enactments. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 11(4), 7-18.
Burke, A. & de Oliveira, L. C. (2012). Educational policies in the United States and implications for English learners. Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada (Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics), 12(2), 311-329. [Special issue on language policies worldwide.]*
[*This journal is ranked A1 (first-tier) according to QUALIS for all journals in applied linguistics in Brazil]
de Oliveira, L. C. (2012a). What history teachers need to know about academic language to teach English language learners. The Social Studies Review, 51(1), 76-79.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Lan, S-W. (2012). Preparing nonnative English-speaking (NNES) graduate students for teaching in higher education: A mentoring case study. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 23(3), 59-76.
de Oliveira, L. C., Olesova, L., & Gilmetdinova, A. (2012). Student-led online discussions in TESOL. TESOL Connections. Available at http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/issues/2012-11-01/4.html
Solórzano, S. & de Oliveira, L. C. (2012). Language development in Latino immigrant children in the United States. MexTESOL Journal, 36(1), 1-15.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2011a). Strategies for nonnative-English-speaking teachers' continued development as professionals. TESOL Journal, 2(2), 229-238.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2011b). A linguistic approach in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms: A focus on teacher education. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 4(2), 101-159.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2011c). In their shoes: Teachers feel like English language learners through a math simulation. Multicultural Education, 19(1), 59-62.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2011d). Five common questions from teachers of English language learners. The New Teacher Advocate, 19(2), 10-11.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Cheng, D. (2011). Language and the multisemiotic nature of mathematics. The Reading Matrix, 11(3), 255-268.
Iddings, J. & de Oliveira, L.C. (2011). Applying the genre analysis of a narrative to the teaching of English language learners. INTESOL Journal, 8(1), 25-41.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2010a). Nouns in history: Packaging information, expanding explanations, and structuring reasoning. The History Teacher, 43(2), 191-203.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2010b). Focusing on language and content by examining cause and effect in historical texts. The Indiana Reading Journal, 42(1), 14-19.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Dodds, K. N. (2010). Beyond general strategies for English Language Learners: Language dissection in science. The Electronic Journal of Literacy Through Science, 9(1), 1-14. Available online at http://ejlts.ucdavis.edu/article/2010/9/1/beyond-general-strategies-english-language-learners-language-dissection-science
Shoffner, M.*, de Oliveira, L. C.*, with Angus, R. (2010). Multiliteracies in the secondary English classroom: Becoming literate in the 21st century. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 9(3), 75-89.
Zhang, Y., & de Oliveira, L. C. (2010). Helping English language learners learn history: A functional grammatical perspective. INTESOL Journal, 7(1), 59-68.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Shoffner, M. (2009). Addressing the needs of English language learners in an English education methods course. English Education, 42(1), 91-111.
Abreu-e-Lima, D. M., & de Oliveira, L. C. (2008). The use of fairy tales in preservice teacher education: Learning to work with adolescents. Contexturas, 13, 9-23.
de Oliveira, L. C. & Pereira, N. (2008). "Sink or Swim": The challenges and needs of teachers of English language learners. INTESOL Journal, 5(1), 77-86.
Athanases, S. Z., & de Oliveira, L. C. (2008). Advocacy for equity in classrooms and beyond: New teachers' challenges and responses. Teachers College Record, 110(1), 64-104.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2008). "History doesn't count": Challenges of teaching history in California schools. The History Teacher, 41(3), 363-378.
Athanases, S. Z. & de Oliveira, L. C. (2007). Conviction, confrontation, and risk in new teachers' advocating for equity. Teaching Education, 18(2), 123-136.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2007). Academic language development in the content areas: Challenges for English language learners. INTESOL Journal, 4(1), 22-33.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Athanases, S. Z. (2007). Graduates' reports of advocating for English language learners. Journal of Teacher Education, 58(3), 202-215.
Schleppegrell, M. J., & de Oliveira, L. C. (2006). An integrated language and content approach for history teachers. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 5(4), 254-268.
de Oliveira, L. C. & Richardson, S. (2001). Collaboration between native and nonnative English-speaking educators. The CATESOL Journal, 13(1), 123-134.
Reprinted in L. D. Kamhi-Stein (Ed.), Learning and teaching from experience: Perspectives on nonnative English-speaking professionals. Ann Arbor: the University of Michigan Press.
Hofling, C., de Oliveira, L. C., de Oliveira, F., Micucci, T. C., Duarte, G., & Gonzaga, V. (1995). Canto X: a máquina do mundo e a mensagem d'Os Lusíadas [Canto X: World machine and the message in Os Lusíadas]. Caminho das Índias. Araraquara, SP: Faculdade de Ciencias e Letras (FCL), UNESP, p. 98-110.
Journal Articles (Other)
de Oliveira, L. C., Stamper, S., & Kandel-Cisco, B. (2011). Learners and leaders in times of change. INTESOL Journal, 8(1), 5-6.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Stamper, S. (2010). Transitions in TESOL: Assessment, classroom applications, and teacher education. INTESOL Journal, 7(1), 5-6.
Book Chapters (Refereed)
de Oliveira, L. C., Gilmetdinova, A., & Klassen, M. (in press). Effective practices for English language learners in kindergarten and implications for policy. In L. Minaya-Rowe (Ed.). A handbook to implement educational programs, practices, and policies for English learners. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Olesova, L., & de Oliveira, L. C. (in press-a). Using embedded audio feedback for formative assessment purposes in teaching about English Language Learners. In S. Koc, P. Wachira, & X. Liu, (Eds.), Assessment in online and blended learning environments. Information Age Publishing.
de Oliveira, L. C. (in press-b). Using systemic-functional linguistic analysis to explain expectations of academic discourse. In M. Roberge, K. Losey, and M. Wald (Eds.), Teaching U.S. Educated Multilingual Writers: Practice from and for the Classroom. University of Michigan Press.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Lucas, T. (in press-c). Preparing linguistically responsive teachers in a licensure program. In A. Mahboob & L. Barratt (Eds.), English in a multilingual context. Springer.
Augusto-Navarro, E. H., de Oliveira, L. C., & Abreu-e-Lima, D. M. (in press-d). Evaluation and production of teaching materials: An experience from Brazil. In S. Garton & K. Graves (Ed.), International Perspectives in Materials. Palgrave/McMillan.
de Oliveira, L. C. (in press-e). O potencial da gramática funcional para o ensino de ingles como língua estrangeira: Uma proposta sobre processos [Systemic-functional grammar in the teaching of English as a foreign language: A proposal about processes]. In E. H. Augusto-Navarro & V. L. Teixeira da Silva (Eds.), Revisitando o conceito de gramática no ensino-aprendizagem de LE: Novos olhares, múltiplas perspectivas [Revisiting the concept of grammar in the teaching and learning of a foreign language: New looks, multiple perspectives]. São Paulo, Brasil: Pontes.
Gilmetdinova, A. & de Oliveira, L. C. (2014). Strategic planning and mentoring: Key to nonnative english-speaking graduate students' success. In Coombe, C., Wiens, B., Davidson, P. & Cedro, K. (Eds.). Perspectives on student leadership development (pp. 57-71). Dubai: TESOL Arabia Publications.
de Oliveira, L. C., Klassen, M., & Gilmetdinova, A. (2014). Scaffolding to support English language learners in a kindergarten classroom. In G. Onchwari & J. Keengwe (Eds.), Cross-cultural considerations in the education of young immigrant learners (pp. 1-16). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
de Oliveira, L. C., Lan, S-W., & Dodds, K. (2013). Reading, writing, and talking science with English language learners. In J. Nagle (Ed.), English learner instruction through collaboration and inquiry in teacher education (pp. 3-23). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
*[100 abstract proposals were submitted for this book and 12 accepted]
de Oliveira, L. C., & Silva, T. (2013). On the radar screen and the need to focus on L2 writing in secondary classrooms. In L. C. de Oliveira & T. Silva (Eds.), L2 writing in secondary classrooms: Student experiences, academic issues, and teacher education. New York: Routledge.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2013). Academic language in the social studies for English learners. In M. B. Arias & C. Faltis (Eds.), Academic language in second language learning (pp. 147-168). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Norris, D., & de Oliveira, L.C. (2013). Preparing mathematics teachers for culturally and linguistically diverse students: What's language got to do with social justice? In L. C. de Oliveira (Ed.), Teacher education for social justice: Perspectives and lessons learned. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2012b). The language demands of word problems for English language learners. In S. Celedón-Pattichis & N. Ramirez (Eds.), Beyond good teaching: Advancing mathematics education for ELLs (pp. 195-205). Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Athanases, S. Z., & de Oliveira, L. C. (2010). Toward program-wide coherence in preparing teachers to teach and advocate for English language learners. In T. Lucas (Ed), Teacher preparation for linguistically diverse classrooms: A resource for teacher educators (pp. 195-215). New York: Routledge.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2010). Enhancing content instruction for ELLs: Learning about language in science. In D. Sunal, C. Sunal, M. Mantero, & E. Wright (Eds), Teaching Science with Hispanic ELLs in K-16 Classrooms (pp. 135-150). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Augusto-Navarro, E. H., Abreu-e-Lima, D. M., & de Oliveira, L. C. (2009). Ongoing needs analysis: English for Aviation in Brazil. In A. Smith & G. Strong (Eds), Adult learners: Context and Innovation (pp. 149-154). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
Kamhi-Stein, L. D. & de Oliveira, L. C. (2008). Mentoring as a pathway to leadership: a focus on nonnative-English-speaking teachers. In C. Coombe, M. L. McCloskey, N., L. Stephenson, & N. J. Anderson (Eds.), Leadership in English language teaching and learning (pp. 38-49). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Abreu-e-Lima, D. M., de Oliveira, L. C., & Augusto-Navarro, E. H. (2007). Focusing on teaching from the get-go: An experience from Brazil. In M. Carroll (Ed.), Developing a New Curriculum for Adult Learners (TESOL Curriculum Development Series) (pp. 179-197). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
Audiovisual Media
de Oliveira, L. C., Burke, A., & Lan, S-W. (2010). Perspectives on the knowledge base for teaching English Language Learners. Washington, DC: TESOL. Retrieved from http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/trc/trc_submission_detail_new.asp?id=1029
de Oliveira, L. C., & Pereira, N. (2011). Educating gifted English Language Learners: Lessons from the Gifted Education field. Washington, DC: TESOL. Retrieved from http://tesol.sclivelearningcenter.com/index.aspx
Conference Proceedings (Refereed)
de Oliveira, L. C. (2008). The importance of mentoring and collaboration for the preparation of native and nonnative English-speaking teachers. Contact, 34(2), 61-67.
de Oliveira, L. C., & Buckley, L. (2007). Understanding the language of mathematics in a standardized exam. In T. Lamberg & L. R. Wiest (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 227-234). Stateline (Lake Tahoe): University of Nevada, Reno.
de Oliveira, L. C. & Nielsen, S. (2006). Landing your ideal TESOL job: Tips for success. Proceedings of the 2006 CATESOL State Conference. Available at www.catesol.org.
Manuscripts Under Review:
de Oliveira, L. C., & Lan, S-W. Writing science in an upper elementary classroom: A genre-based approach to teaching English language learners.
de Oliveira, L. C., Arvelo Alicea, Z., & Cortés-Santiago, I. Moviendose atraves de languages and literacies through code-switching in a community literacies event.
Manuscripts in Preparation:
de Oliveira, L. C., Klassen, M., Gilmetdinova, A., & Pelaez-Morales, C. Competencies for teaching English language learners in kindergarten: A case study.
Newsletter Articles
de Oliveira, L. C. (2013, Spring). Questions from mathematics teachers about English language learners. NCSM [National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics] Newsletter, 43(3), p. 13.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2009, November). Letter from the President. TESOL'In, newsletter of the
INTESOL organization.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2008, May). Letter from the Chair: Transitions after 10 years. NNEST Newsletter, 10(1).
de Oliveira, L. C. (2007, November). Letter from the Chair: Reflecting on our roles as NNESTs.
NNEST Newsletter, 9(2).
de Oliveira, L. C. (2007, May). Letter from the Chair: Reflecting on the past, looking into the future.
NNEST Newsletter, 9(1).
de Oliveira, L. C. (2006, February). College/University Level: Upcoming events and opportunities.
CATESOL News 37(4), 14.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2005, August). Self-study strategies for advanced ESL learners. CATESOL News
37(2), 8.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2005, May). The Early Assessment Program. CATESOL News 37(1), 8.
de Oliveira, L. C. (2001). Developing collaborative relationships between nonnative English-
speaking (NNES) and native English-speaking (NES) teachers. CATESOL News 33 (3), 23.
de Oliveira, L. C. (1995, March). Cohesive devices in 8th grade students' essays from public schools.
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico – CNPq (National
Council of Scientific and Technological Research), Brasilia, DF.
de Oliveira, L. C. (1996, July) . Researching English written output. Conselho Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico – CNPq (National Council of Scientific and
Technological Research), Brasilia, DF.
de Oliveira, L. C. (1997, January). Optimizing English written output. Conselho Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico – CNPq (National Council of Scientific and
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Teaching ESL to secondary students, focusing on content area ESL and second language literacy. Special fee: $15.
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Kitefoil Gold Cup - Silvaplana
The second Kite Foil Gold Cup stop was held on one of the highest mountain lakes in Europe- lake Silvaplana at 1800 mtrs above sea level. Kiters came from all over the world to compete in this growing discipline which has attracted the worlds best kite racers.
The first couple of days saw the normal gradient south wind coming up the valley from the Maloja Pass which bought excitement to the qualifying series with plenty of position changes. North riders from France, Maxime Nocher and Nicolas Parlier proved why they are leading the french foiling stops and gave Mr Johnny Heineken from USA some close racing. Current Formula European champion, Oliver Bridge from the UK made some decent tactical decisions giving him 3 bulletts on the final races and putting him in 2nd place going into the Gold Fleet races. Younger Brother, Guy Bridge - age 14 took top 5 places in all the 9 qualifying races giving him an 8th position going into the Gold Fleet. Meanwhile, Mum - Steph made it the only Woman to get in the Gold fleet.
The final couple of days the wind did not play the right game & did not allow any medal races to be completed. This meant that the overall scores for the 9 races stay as:
Oliver Bridge 2nd
Nicolas Parlier 3rd
Maxime Nocher 4th
Guy Bridge 8th & 1st Youth
Steph Bridge 17th & 1st Woman
The racers now switch discipline and head to Istanbul for the Formula Kite World Championships which start on 18/8.
"The Need for Speed", African Course Racing Championships!
Racing is more than just the moment when you cross the line – it´s all about training, technique and in the end - the competition. Physical and mental strength is the key to success, but perfect gear helps a lot. 2011 the production class was introduced and has made racing much more accessible to everyone all over the world and has made the sport a lot more professional too. Check out the new race video "The Need For Speed", shot in Egypt at the African Course Racing Championships and inhale the racing atmosphere!
North Race Team scores in Egypt!
The African Continental Championships in Egypt was the perfect way for the North kite Race Team to start the season. Most riders registered sizes 9, 11, 13, 17 mtr Dyno 2013ltd kites and all were riding the new race ltd 69.
Following the 1st 2 days of qualifiers, mens gold fleet racing was an intense battle amongst the top 30 qualified Kiters. The North Race team were consistent & managed to get 3 team members earning their place in the final days medal Race. These included: Maxime Nocher (FRA) , Florian Gruber (GER) and Blazeg Ozog (POL)
Meanwhile a heated competition was going on in the womans division with UK rider- Steph Bridge consistent & showing experience counts for a lot in the varying wind conditions. North race team manager - Dirk Hanel took some bad luck in the protest room , narrowly missed gold fleet but dominated silver fleet with a string of bullets.
Other North race riders included 2008 Race World Champion , Charles Deleau (FRA) who was stoked to make a come back into Gold fleet along with Danish rider James Johnson. Youth World race Champion, Oliver Bridge (GB) is learning the hard way, mixing some confident starts and gaining vital bigger fleet expereince with some top 10 results. Olly is age 15 and took 2nd Youth & overall 20th in the mens Gold fleet racing.
The final medal Race day was a huge one for the North Race Team and the pre- track training, tactics, strategy & shared knowledge really paid off. It was Maxime who cranked up the big gears, moving from 8th place to a podium 3rd final position in a series of 5 minute short track races. Team mate-Blazeg was black flagged on race 1 ending his medal day glory while the German, Florian took a penalty in the race 2 ending his overall ranking in 2nd.
The womans finals also left spectators on an edge , however with good power on all points of sail, Steph did what she set out to do – win the 1st medal race which would Secure her the tittle. French rider – Ariane Imbert proved that time on the water really counts & now, after only starting racing last year is top 10 in the womans fleet.
Podium places for 3 of the North race Team riders , followed by a big party & a huge energy amongst the team to be riding the best boards & kites for the 2013 race season.
Sail Melbourne ISAF World Cup dominated by NKB teamrider Florian Gruber (GER) and Ariane Imbert (FRA)!
The first ISAF sailing World Cup after the disappointing decision to exclude Kiteboarding from the Olympics, did not stop the enthusiasm of the competitors and saw the biggest fleet at Sailing Melbourne World Cup ever.
Melbourne, a city where people say about it "it shows all four seasons in one day", did the best possible to support exciting races. With temperatures between 12 and 37 degrees and wind speeds from light breezing 5 knots south easterly, to strong 25 to 42 northerly and south westerly winds, all 5 days of racing showed the huge potential Kiteboarding has for sailing sports! While on day 2 all other classes could not leave the port or shore, kiters had a blast competing everyday and battling it out in exciting races.
Outstanding in these days was definitely one North Kiteboarding rider - Florian Gruber - who won every single race he took part in the last week and of course winning Sail Melbourne in exceptional performance. In the women's division Arian Imbert, North Kiteboarding won the women's title, also dominating the fleet in an absolutely impressive way.
After Two days of qualification, men have been divided in gold and silver fleet racing for another 3 days, to determine who would have the honor to sail Saturdays medal race. The format of the medal race was a short track, with 4 guys on the water the same time fighting to succeed to the super final in the end.
The first heat of the medal race series went underway in strong northerly winds with gusts up to 28 knots, setting a perfect stage for the medal race course right in front of Sandringham Yacht Club. It was up to Dirk Hanel (GER, North), James Johnsen (DEN, North), Aykurt (TUR, Ozone/North) and Girdis (AUS, Aguera/Ozone) to test this new format, and with board speeds around 25 knots they went off the start and towards the top gate leaving spectators with open mouths at the shore. Both NKB riders, Hanel and Johnsen advanced from this heat to face Vance (CAN, Ozone/Mikes Lab) and Gynjol (TUR, Aguera/Ozone) in the final.
Vance went off with the best start and had a comfortable lead already at the bottom gate of the first lap, with a tight battle between Hanel and Johnsen for second. In the end Hanel managed to sty in front and advanced to the Semi Final together with Vance, where third placed Taggert (GBR, Ozone/NJS) and Cakir (TUR, Aguera/Cabrinha) have been waiting, ready to battle.
Shooting off from the start, it was Cakir in front with Vance and Taggert close behind. Cakir and Vance went through the top gate with nice downloops, fully committed to the acceleration to probably 35 knots on the downwind reach, while Taggert capsized shortly after the gate. Taggert and Hanel battled close behind the advancing Vance and Cakir and had a super close photo finish ending their hopes to make it into the final.
The final was sailed as a 3-race series, with the first race pre-scored from the previous results, meaning that Gruber and Bright went into the final series with a first and second position respectively, while Vance and Cakir pre-scored a third and fourth position.
In the meantime everybody was nailing the starts on the reach with full speed, and this time it was Gruber who had control problems when going through the top gate. Falling back to third position he was however able to catch up and even catch the victory in the first final race in again a photo finish ahead of Cakir.
The second final went off with Gruber playing it save this time, knowing that only becoming third in this final race would secure him the Sail Melbourne Gold Medal. It was up to the second upwind leg for him to catch up and finally also winning this heat, putting him on top of the podium with not having lost a single race. Vance managed to come second, and with Cakir in fourth it meant securing bronze for him. Bright sailed a solid 2-3 to secure him the silver medal.
Congratulations to not only all the winners, but to all competitors that made it to Australia.
Well done NKB Racing Team!!
And a big thank you to Sail Melbourne and Sandringham Yacht Club to conduct the racing, we will hopefully see more kite racing action in future Sailing World Cups soon. An amazing event in incredible conditions, with the best competitors in the world and awesome people involved!
Final Results:
Kiteboarding Men:
1. Florian Gruber (GER, North)
2. Torrin Bright (NZL, Ozone/Mikes Lab)
3. Adam Vance (CAN, Ozone/Mikes Lab)
6. Dirk Hanel (GER, North)
7. James Johnsen (DEN, North)
Kiteboarding Women:
1. Ariane Imbert (FRA, North)
2. Lisa Hickmann (AUS, Ozone/RRD)
3. Astrid Berz (SUI, Ozone/Aguera)
Kite Race World Championships 2012 - Cagliari
In the history of Kiteboarding all that took part in the champagne racing conditions in Cagliari bay last week will always remember this event as the start of something really really big in our sport. Over 220 riders from 40 countries met in a showdown of colour, excitement & crashes for this was the start of a new road for many competitiors now that kiteboarding has replaced windsurfing for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
In the mens fleet, racing started with a qualifying series, with three groups of 51 sailors each which were re-seeded by the first racing days results before the fleet got split into Gold/Silver/Bronze for the final series day. In the womens fleet, a single opening series was run over the first three days, followed by a medal race series on Sunday.
North riders were joined by kite designer Ken Winner & production manager Dirk Hanel - most using the new North Dyno Ltd & battling it out in the first 2 days to gain selection for the much sought after Gold fleet. It was close racing amongst Maxim Nocher (FRA), Olivier Dansin (FRA), Florian Gruber (GER), Blajez Ozog (POL) with Oliver Bridge (GB) not far away.
The womans fleet saw 2012 European Champion - Steph Bridge come head to head daily with Johnny's sister- Erika Heineken. Brazilian rider -Nayara Licariao & Alice Brunacci (ITA) took top 10 results during this qualifying series.
After day 3 the top 10 riders from the girls fleet & top 10 riders from the mens went head to head in a medal race to determine the 2012 World Champion. All could be lost or gained in an 8 minute umpired fleet race which was carried out in gusty offshore conditions. The beach scene was huge & North kiteboarding provided the much needed support for the competitors that made it to the final.
It was the womens turn first, with the whole fleet starting on starboard towards the first leg, and the battle was on between Steph Bridge and Erika Heineken. Being only one point separated, it was open for virtually every sailor who qualified for the medal race series to win the event. In the end it was Steph Bridge taking the win in this race, meaning that both Erika and Steph were tied in points now and whoever won the last race would take the tittle. Coming in in third, it was Nayara Licariao (BRA, North). Race 2 of this medal race day was more of a challenge to fight back after a windshift on the start line & steph's chance of her 5th World tittle was looking in doubt. Pushing the board hard & using the bands of wind to her advantage was not enough, a 1 point defeat & steph took home the Silver medal while 4th place went to Nayara Licariao (BRA and 8th to Alice Brunacci (ITA).
The men's medal race involved huge place changes, crashes & penalty turns & the eventual results were Maxime Nocher (FRA) in 5th place, Florian Grubber (GER) in 7th place while Olivier Dansin (FRA) was in 8th position. Disappointment for Blazej Ozog (POL) who was black flagged on the final gold medal race & this pushed him out of the medal race day to finish in 14th overall.
Other huge success's for the North team were for Ken Winner who was 3rd overall in the Grandmasters and Oliver Bridge (GB) who at age 15 became Youth World Champion with Jannis Maus (GER) in 2nd & Oswald Smith (RSA) 3rd. Race Team Manager - Dirk Hanel had some bad luck in the qualifying series however what was apparent at this event was the level to which kite racing is now going to be with most athletes taking this full time in their run up to Rio 2016.


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Global Burden of Dengue
The mosquito-borne viral disease known as "breakbone fever," is three times more prevalent than originally thought, according to a research paper published today in Nature and co-authored by dengue expert Thomas Scott of UC Davis.
In their research paper, titled "The Global Distribution and Burden of Dengue," Scott and the 17 other team members estimated that 350 million people are infected each year--more than triple the World Health Organization's current estimate of 50 to 100 million.
Professor Simon Hay of the University of Oxford led the research as part of the International Research Consortium on Dengue Risk Assessment, Management and Surveillance.
"Dengue takes an enormous toll on human health worldwide, with as many as 4 billion people at risk," said Scott, a UC Davis professor of entomology and worldwide expert on the epidemiology and prevention of dengue. He chairs the mosquito-borne disease modelling group in the Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) program of the Science and Technology Directory, Department of Homeland Security, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health.
"The results of our study and infrastructure that created the dengue maps fill a critical gap in the battle against dengue," said Scott, who maintains field research programs in Iquitos, Peru, and Khamphaeng Phet, Thailand. "Prior to this, without rigorously derived dengue estimates that can be continuously updated, it was not possible to know with confidence where and when to direct interventions for greatest potential impact or to objectively assess the effectiveness of regional and global control efforts. That kind of knowledge was among the most important missing information for developing enhanced dengue prevention programs."
The highly infectious tropical and subtropical disease is spread by the bite of an infected female Aedes aegypti, a day-biting, limited flight-range mosquito that prefers human blood to develop its eggs. Dengue is caused by four distinct, but closely related, viruses. The most severe form of disease is life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever or DHF.
The researchers assembled known records of dengue occurrence worldwide and used a formal modelling framework to map the global distribution of dengue risk. They then paired the resulting risk map with detailed longitudinal information from dengue cohort studies and population surfaces to infer the public health burden of dengue in 2010.
"There are currently no licensed vaccines or specific therapeutics, and substantial vector control efforts have not stopped its rapid emergence and global spread," the researchers wrote.
Dengue has now begun to appear along the southern border of the United States, including Texas. Florida has also reported cases of dengue.
Of the 96 million clinically apparent dengue infections, Asia bears 70 percent of the burden, the research paper revealed. India alone accounts for around one-third of all infections.
Professor Thomas Scott, a worldwide expert on dengue, is pictured in Kenya.
Global dengue risk. Areas in red indicate high risk for dengue occurrence while green areas indicate low risk. (Map courtesy of Jane Messina)
Fighting Dengue
And compelling.
In an article published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the UC Davis medical entomologists and their colleagues found that human movement—people going from house-to-house to visit their friends and relatives—is a key component to driving the virus transmission. (Read PNAS paper)
The research site is Iquitos, nestled in the heart of the Amazon rain forest of northeastern Peru. It's considered one of the world's primary "open laboratories" to study the transmission of the virus.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a day-biting mosquito and we humans are its favorite host/target.
The ground-breaking research shows why it's crucial to focus on people movement, not just on the traditional mosquito control-and-prevention methods, such as applying insecticides and eliminating water-filled containers that can provide a larval habitat.
As lead author/medical entomologist Steve Stoddard said: "This finding has important implications for dengue prevention, challenging the appropriateness of current approaches to vector control."
"Interestingly, it didn't matter how far away the visited houses were," Stoddard said. "The mosquito that transmits dengue virus prefers to stay in small areas, say in less than a 100-meter radius, but the distance between houses was often much greater than this. So it only makes sense that humans are frequently spreading the virus around as they commute between their homes and the homes of their friends and family. Altogether the data demonstrate what we expected, that human movements are really key to the transmission of this mosquito-borne virus."
Said Scott, professor of entomology at UC Davis and director of the Mosquito Research Laboratory: "Dengue takes an enormous toll on human health worldwide, with as many as 4 billion people at risk—half of the world's population--and 400 million new infections each year. The results from our study are focusing attention to the role human social networks in virus invasion and epidemic spread.
"At our Peru study area, we found that infection risk is based on the places a person visits and transmission dynamics are driven by overlapping movements of people who recently visited the same places, like the homes of their family and friends."
Bottom line: The scientists found that people movement not only defined individual infection risk and local patterns of incidence, but resulted in the rapid spread of the virus and marked heterogeneity in transmission rates.
Next phase of the research? It's aimed at "understanding how variation in human behavior influences transmission and applying that knowledge in enhanced disease prevention strategies," said Scott, the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded grant.
With some 4 billion people worldwide at risk, and with 400,000 million new infections each year, dengue is indeed taking its toll. Every year some 500,000 people with severe dengue are hospitalized, and 2.5 percent die.
Aedes aeypti, also known as the dengue mosquito. (CDC Photo)
Street scene in Iquitos, Peru. (Photo courtesy of the Thomas Scott lab, UC Davis)
An Important Message
It's Halloween tomorrow (Wednesday) but what's really frightening is Aedes aegypti, a mosquito that transmits the deadly dengue. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is the world's most rapidly spreading mosquito-transmitted disease.
Some 2.5 billion people, or about 40 percent of the global population, are at risk from dengue, WHO says. The disease infects between 50 to 100 million people a year. The most severe form afflicts some 500,000 a year, killing an estimated 2.5 percent or 22,000.
Enter Sarjeet Gill, professor of cell biology and entomology at UC Riverside. He'll speak on on "Bacterial Toxins in Disease Mosquito Vector Control" at a seminar from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 31 in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Building, UC Davis.
His longtime colleague and good friend, Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology at UC Davis, will host him as part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology's fall seminar series.
"Aedes aegypti is an important vector of human diseases, such as dengue fever and yellow fever," Professor Gill says. "Its control has been attempted by eliminating breeding sites, using predators and with chemical insecticides. However, such control is still difficult because of operational limitations and the development of insect resistance. Therefore, Bacillus thuringiensis has been used for decades instead of physical and chemical control methods. B. thuringiensis israelensis is highly active against Aedes aegypti."
"The high insecticidal activity and the low toxicity to other organisms," Gill says, "have resulted in the rapid use of B. thuringiensis as an alternative for the control of mosquito populations. B. thuringiensis israelensis produces a variety of toxins that act synergistically to cause toxicity to larval populations."
Gill says his seminar "will discuss our current understanding of the mode of action of these toxins and provide evidence on how resistance to these toxins has not occurred in Aedes mosquitoes in the field even though B. thuringiensis israelensis has been used for more than three decades."
Gill's laboratory focuses on two principal research activities. "The first area attempts to elucidate the mode of action of insecticidal toxins from the Gram positive bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis and Clostridium bifermantans," he says. "This research aims to identify novel toxins, and to gain a molecular understanding of how these toxins interact with cellular targets and thereby causing toxicity. The second area focuses on understanding mosquito midgut and Malpighian tubules function, in particular ion and nutrient transport, and changes that occur following a blood meal."
Gill, who received his doctorate from UC Berkeley, joined the UC Riverside Department of Entomology faculty in 1983. He helped establish the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience and also served as chair. Currently he is the co-editor of the journal Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
A noted scientist and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Gill received his doctorate in insecticide toxicology in 1973 from UC Berkeley. See his website.
If you miss his seminar, not to worry. It's scheduled to be recorded and then posted at a later date on UCTV. (See the index of previous Department of Entomology seminars posted on UCTV.)
Aedes aegypti transmits the deadly dengue. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Professor Sarjeet Gill at a malaria conference at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zeroing in on Dengue
So are researchers from the Thomas Scott lab at UC Davis.
Scott, a medical entomologist who directs the state-funded UC Mosquito Research Laboratory, and his field director Amy Morrison, based in Iquitos, Peru, know their foe well.
Their goal: to save lives through research, surveillance and implementation of disease prevention strategies.
Morrison talked about the research efforts today on National Public Radio (NPR).
Morrison told Charles: ""What's fascinating to me about aegypti is it's probably the mosquito that's most closely associated with human beings, and the most adapted to human beings."
The tiger-striped mosquito, is a daybiting mosquito that prefers human blood. Some 2.5 to 3 billion people, primarily in tropical and sub-tropical countries around the world, are at risk for dengue, which Scott describes as "the world's worst insect-transmitted disease." See feature on him on the UC Davis Department of Entomology website, with links to significant research work.
Aedes aegypti is out for blood. And so are the UC Davis-based researchers tracking it.
Aedes aegypti transmits dengue. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
Trying to Control Dengue
It's not just high temperatures that play a significant role in the transmission of dengue, a deadly mosquito-borne disease that strikes millions of people in tropical and subtropical countries.
The size and pattern of fluctuations in daily temperature have a large effect on pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, according to groundbreaking research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research, led by French, Thailand and U.S. scientists and conceived by medical entomologist Thomas Scott (right) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, targets the transmission of spread of dengue.
Lead author Louis Lambrechts (left) of the Institut Pasteur, France, who did postdoctoral research in the Scott lab, points out that the influence of average temperatures on dengue virus transmission has long been known–the higher the temperature, the more efficient the virus transmission—but this is the first study linking temperature fluctuations to the transmission of the disease.
Dengue, transmitted by the daybiting Aedes aegypti mosquito, globally infects 50 to 100 million people yearly. At risk are some 2.5 to 3 billion people, primarily in tropical and sub-tropical countries. The most severe form of the disease, dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF), strikes half a million a year and kills an estimated 5 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Scott said the study helps to explain a long-standing enigma: "What are the underlying causes of seasonal fluctuations in dengue incidence?" Experiments showed that mosquitoes die faster and are less susceptible to virus infection under large temperature swings, which is typical of the low dengue season, than under moderate temperature variation, which is typical of the high dengue season.
Scott, a noted dengue expert whose goal is to save lives through research, surveillance and implementation of disease prevention strategies, has a longstanding interest in the factors that drive seasonal and annual fluctuations in diseases caused by mosquito-transmitted pathogens. "Traditional explanations for the seasonal increase in dengue are not consistent with my experience in Thailand, Peru, and Puerto Rico," Scott said.
For more about the research, see the UC Davis Department of Entomology web page or access the PNAS paper.
The dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).


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Rival wrote:Plus, since all PPVs other than Mania sell like shit these days and because the roster is so thin. I think Vince wants to change the business model to something more akin to the 80s, were the biggest draws are guys who only have 1-3 matches a year max, in other words Taker and the Rock. That way you don't have to fear your main draw for Mania suddenly getting injurded prior to the event. Cena supposedly had a luckily non-dangerous car crash 2 weeks ago, that might've freaked Vince out. Rock has already confirmed he'll be back for next Mania, so that supports my theory. The other PPVs will be there just to stay afloat from Mania to Mania, sell merchandise and build-up contenders for the main draws. That's my prediction anyway.
Whelp, seems I was wrong, Lesnar versus Cena at Extreme Rules, a big match at a traditionally small PPV. They might have Cena do an injury angle afterwards for him to act in Marine 3 or some crap.
Yesterday's Raw sucked badly, except for the starting brawl. I guess I'll stop watching again, until I hear something interesting had happened, my enthusiasm from last week is gone.


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