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You may see them all year long, but ad campaigns for sparkly jewelry really ramp up between Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day. And in the past few years, the usual suspects — "a diamond is forever" and "he went to Jared" and "every kiss begins with Kay" — have been joined by a newcomer: The "chocolate" diamond.
The term "Chocolate Diamond" is a registered trademark belonging to Le Vian Corp. I reached out to Eddie LeVian, the designer and CEO of Le Vian Corp, to ask him: What are Chocolate Diamonds? He replied, via email:
Chocolate Diamonds® are Le Vian's proprietary brand of natural fancy color diamonds that are chosen for their rarity and chocolate flavor. Le Vian owns the international registration for the Chocolate Diamonds® trademark worldwide.
There are color, clarity and cut criteria, as well as responsible, traceable sourcing criteria for being branded as Chocolate Diamonds®.
Chocolate Diamonds® came from Le Vian® and was inspired by our friend Bill Furman's passion and addiction to the food chocolate. While many people things this brand is a color designation, in truth it is a brand that speaks to the obsession, addiction and passion that is common in chocoholics to the food chocolate and is designed to emulate the same obsession, passion and addiction to the ChocolateDiamond® jewelry.
Le Vian® branded Chocolate Diamonds® in 2000 and achieved registration by 2008 and now enjoys worldwide trademark registration and rights. We employ multiple internal and external attorneys who are continuously prosecuting and protecting the brand from common counterfeiters around the world.
What LeVian glosses over, of course, is that "chocolate" diamonds are just brown diamonds. And brown diamonds are the most common kind of diamonds. There are tons of them. Tons.
I spoke with Dr. George Harlow, who holds a PhD from Princeton, is trained as a geologist specializing in mineralogy and crystallography, and is employed as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Dr. Harlow confirmed that when it comes to diamonds, "The most common color is brown, and then colorless." The so-called "fancy" colors — yellow, pink, green and blue — are more rare. (The Hope Diamond, the most famous diamond in the world, is blue.) "Blue diamonds and red diamonds are extremely rare," he explained. "The most rare." True greens are also rare. But most diamonds are brown. Why haven't we really seen or heard about brown diamonds before? "Brown is not considered an attractive color," Dr. Harlow said. He pointed out that there have been "various attempts over the years to market" brown diamonds, but they were not very successful; although, apparently, briefly, in the '70s, "cognac" diamonds were a thing. But still: Up until very recently, brown diamonds were not something anyone was interested in. Unless you just needed something hard and sharp, because you were running a factory.
Dr. Harlow put it this way:
But the thing is with brown, there's an oversupply. So there's a desire to try and change them from industrial diamonds, which is what they generally are, to a gem buyer.
Normally, industrials are the lower grade [stones], full of inclusions. Or off-color. That's essentially 80% of the overall production — is really industrial.
All gems, all diamonds, are graded according to their size, color and clarity, and inclusions. And there's a grading system that affects these things in any case.
So if you had a really fine brown diamond that was 100 carats, I'm sure it wouldn't turn into a grinding stone. It would be preserved.
I asked: "But if you had a very find brown diamond that was the same size, clarity, cut, color, carat weight as a white one, the brown one would be cheaper?" He replied: "All other things being the same, yes." But a fancy color — pink, yellow or red — would be more expensive than white? "Correct."
Dr. Harlow also warned that sometimes a company can trademark a term and, by doing so, mislead the public:
[Some jewelers] use a trademark symbol. And the real problem that happens in the gem industry is it may not even be a diamond. I'm not saying it isn't. It probably is a diamond. But when you get a trademarked term, Particularly if it's two words, like 'Chocolate Diamond,' with a trademark, you've got to check that it isn't a synthetic stone. It's probably not going to be a natural stone if it isn't a diamond. But they've marketed synthetics in this fashion. Like 'red emerald' was a popular thing for a very short time. It was a gemstone — it was beryl — but not emerald.
According to LeVian, Chocolate Diamonds are, in fact, diamonds. But the fact that he calls them "fancy" — when traditionally, yellows, pinks, reds and blues were the only "fancy" diamond colors — is interesting. The website for the Gemological Institute of America notes:
Brown diamonds were typically considered good only for industrial use until the 1980s, when abundant quantities of them began to appear in the production of the Argyle mines.
In other words, they were considered to be just for factories until people realized that there were so many of them there was no way to make money just selling to factories. How do you sell millions of brown rocks when no one likes brown rocks? Fashion them into jewelry and call them "chocolate."
In 1982, Jay Epstein wrote an in-depth article for The Atlantic, titled "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?" It was an exposé of the diamond cartel, detailing the manipulative, supply-controlling methods of the diamond industry. He also explains how the movie industry was in cahoots with the diamond industry, with film stars flaunting big rocks to help drum up business; songs about diamonds making their way into movies, and plotpoints in romantic films being centered around diamonds. He also delves into how the pendulum swings back and forth for the popularity of large diamonds and small diamonds, depending on what the industry has more of at the time. Even though it's been decades since this piece was published (you can find it here, please take the time to read it, it's incredible), Epstein is still asked about diamonds and the phenomenon of marketing diamonds, "the most brilliant illusion in modern history." In the course of his research, Epstein bought a diamond, as he discusses in the video above:
While doing this book, I decided I had to buy and sell a diamond. So I bought a diamond for $1500, retail price, from the diamond district, 47th street in New York. A day later, I took the diamond and tried to sell it. And I found that people were offering me one-fourth or one-fifth the price — or nothing at all. They were now pointing out that it really wasn't very valuable, that it was too small, it had flaws … Most women, when they receive a diamond, they think they've received something of everlasting value. That their fiancé paid a few thousand dollars for it, and it's going to gain in value every year, so if God forbid, something should happen to their marriage, or their husband, they can always sell the diamond.
In 2008, scholar, college professor, and author Ken Mondschein penned a piece for Nerve, calling diamond engagement rings "profoundly anti-feminist." He also offered up a bit of background on the diamond business:
For much of human history, diamonds were found in only a few hard-to-reach places — the jungles of Brazil, and a couple of riverbeds in India. They were so rare, in fact, that only the ultra-wealthy could afford them. Archduke Maximillian, who would soon be Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, gave one to Mary of Burgundy to seal their 1477 betrothal in what is often cited as the first historical example of a diamond engagement ring. However, this situation changed in the 1870s, when massive diamond mines were discovered in South Africa. Poorly-paid, abominably treated native African workers could now strip the gems from the earth by the ton. Faced with the prospect of a massive oversupply of diamonds, the investors (chiefly arch-racist Cecil Rhodes and his partner C. D. Rudd) formed the De Beers mining company in 1880.
By the end of the century, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer had managed to collect all the colonial African diamond discoveries under the De Beers banner. To quote Epstein, the cartel was (and to some extent still is) "the most successful cartel arrangement in the annals of modern commerce," carefully controlling the supply of diamonds to assure their scarcity and value.
But what about the demand side? How to convince the world that an isometric-hexoctahedral crystal lattice allotrope of carbon was something they absolutely needed to buy?
The answer was marketing.
And, of course, the marketing geniuses also had to keep people from buying used (cheaper!) diamonds:
The next step was a psychological approach: consumers everywhere had to see the diamond as the universally recognized symbol of love, commitment and the social status derived from middle-class domesticity. The slogan "a diamond is forever" debuted in 1947, giving consumers not only the idea that the diamond is a symbol of enduring love, but that it shouldn't be resold. This was because diamonds lose considerable value in resale, and since there's no point in paying De Beers full price when you could get a cheaper one second-hand, De Beers loses a lucrative sale on every diamond resold.
If you wore it on a chain and took care of it, a paper clip could be forever, too. But through relentless marketing and advertising, it's been drilled into us that diamonds are associated with love.
I chatted with Mondschein recently, curious about his feelings regarding chocolate diamonds. He noted that first of all, "diamonds are a created market, a created fetish commodity." And he wondered if the whole "chocolate" thing wasn't, in some way, related to race in America: "As a white person, I don't feel I have a right to say it, but [it's like] BROWN is bad, but CHOCOLATE is OK."
He went on:
Throughout history, people have displayed their wealth through conspicuous consumption… Claudius in Hamlet grinds up and drinks a pearl. The Romans gilded their food. We do it with diamonds, They're completely a created commodity, but they serve a real need to show everyone what a bourgeois mofo you are. We should not misunderestimate (thanks GWB) the need for well-off people to show everyone how well-off they are.
But the real issue with chocolate diamonds is how they're aggressively marketed as a thing women should buy for themselves. A treat, like chocolate. Except they're not a cheap, sweet, delicious snack. A LeVian chocolate diamond ring can cost from $1,300 to $8,000. And what are you really paying for? What is the value of that piece? What is it actually worth? There's no resale market. The "chocolate" label is really just a brainwashery way to convince women to spend their hard-earned dollars on something that they don't need — and something the jewelry industry has trouble getting rid of. And if it's trendy now, the trend will pass. Imagine trying to sell a chocolate diamond in 20 years.
Maybe it doesn't matter to you, maybe you have the money to spend. It's not like a flatscreen TV or a new iPhone have good resale value, either. But with chocolate diamonds, their existence seems especially suspect. The name and marketing campaign is insulting on a few levels: Women won't be able to resist, because it's chocolate! Women won't care that they're just brown rocks if we call them chocolate! Women love to treat themselves, and indulge — and will buy something even if it's not good for them!
Knowing how the diamond industry operates, knowing the truth about diamonds, knowing the truth about brown diamonds, why would anyone be interested in chocolate diamonds? Dr. Harlow, ever the measured scientist, is actually rather forgiving:
It's up to the individual. Jewelry is a personal expression for adornment. The point would be, if you want a diamond, and you don't want to pay the bucks for something else, you do have a diamond! And if you like brown, or if it goes with your couture, what's the problem? To me, the big thing is knowing that you got what you really got. That it's authentic. And if you make that choice that's fine. That's your choice, and you can tell people, no, these are diamonds! You just don't know your diamonds. That's fine. That's what fashion is about. It's about statement, it's about identity. So it's fine. It's just that in the marketing agenda, you gotta make sure you're not being hustled.
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Tall Figure IV, 1960
Alberto GiacomettiSwiss, 1901-1966
Bronze, Edition of 6, Cast No. 1
106-1/2 x 12 x 22 in. (270.5 x 30.5 x 55.9 cm)
Norton Simon Art Foundation
Art © 2014 Alberto Giacometti Estate/Licensed by VAGA and ARS, New York, NY Reproduction, including downloading of ARS works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Alberto Giacometti was born in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland to a family of artists. After settling in Paris at the age of twenty-one, he became inspired by Constantin Brancusi, as well as tribal art and Cubism. Giacometti was a painter, a printmaker and a writer, but he is best known for the tall, thin figures he began to produce after World War II. Of the attenuated proportions the artist once said: "I am interested in the head from the brains down. In my sculpture I make the head the fort of the mind. The legs are only the mind's antenna to earth." Tall Figure IV is one of Giacometti's last masterpieces.
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If you are the guy who sits down to play a new video game and emerges only until you have finished it, then I should probably tell you what that giant, bright ball in the sky is. It's called the sun and if you look at it, then your eyes are going to burn up, literally. I know you are used to that LED glow of you mega-awesome Full HDTV and the dark lighting of your room. I know that the last time you had a proper, healthy meal was when you were 11 years old. And I also know that the only reason you have decided to venture out in the open is probably to wait in the line for a new game release. Your girlfriend (yeah, right, like you would have one, but still there's hope) might tell you that it's been aeons since you looked at her lovingly like you do at your gaming avatar. All your strongest bonds with humanity comes through not your family, friends (if you have any), or dating life (get real), but through your Xbox Live or PlayStation Network interactions. You might not even remember the last time you spoke to someone. But all that's chill. You are a gamer and I salute you. And because I'll be seeing you real soon on World of Warcraft, I'll leave you with few games that you might want to wait in the line for or well pre-order online.
Waiting in the Line or Pre-Ordering?
Before I give you that sacred list, are you going to wait in the line or pre-order? Because, if you want to be the first one to tear open the plastic and fire up that game before the sun is up, then to hell with sleep and any sort of dignity that you might have; pick up a lawn chair, packets of chips and join the brethren of sleep-deprived, numb thumbs, gamers. But if you are the one who has to have the pre-order game so that you can use the code to unlock some features, then spend your time glued to the screen for the game sale to go live. In any case, you will be forever remembered, by the various gaming community that you are part of.
The Must-Game List
According to E3 2015, 'the games that will be seen this year will arguably trump anything seen last year', simply because many of the games will actually be out this year. That being said, here are the key titles that you need to look out for PC, PS4 and Xbox One consoles:
For PS4, Xbox One and PC: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
For PS4:, Xbox One and PC: Fallout 4
For Xbox One and PS4 : Rise of Tomb Raider
For Xbox One: Halo 5: Guardians
For Xbox One, PS4 and PC: Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
For Xbox One: Forza Motorsport 6
For Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Playstation 4: Destiny: The Taken King
Well, that's the list buddy. Now, once you have pre-ordered these games online or not, get back to being the guy who sits down to play video games all too frequently. And maybe become the creature that you chase in the games you play, in the eyes of your friends and family.


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With all the excitement surrounding an engagement and wedding planning, it might slip your mind that you have a honeymoon to save for as well.
A growing number of well-off individuals are contemplating a second major property purchase.
Here are some budget friendly tips to help you find furniture for that new office, second bedroom or family room in your new home.
For Americans hoping to travel overseas on a budget, it's time to strike while the iron is hot.
Make the mortgage process smoother by having these documents ready when deciding to proceed with your new loan.
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While you're out running errands, some things from your to-do list may slip through the cracks.
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Living paycheck to paycheck can be difficult.
Waiting is always the hardest part. Or at least, it can be when it comes to landing a job.
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Bud Selig Out After 2012
Bud Selig says he's stepping aside as commissioner after his contract expires on Dec. 31, 2012.
I know it's easy to bang on the commish, and in some cases rightfully so, but I still think Selig takes more heat than he should.
Nonetheless, baseball needs the change in leadership…whether the owners want to believe it or not.
My biggest gripe is that the league moves at a snails pace when it comes to change, and that's a major burden needing to be put to rest.
The next commissioner must be a forward thinker, one who works quickly for change and avoids putting the owners first and the fans second.
In addition, the game needs a global draft, a stronger marketing campaign towards America's youth and minorities and above all else, a level playing field financially.
Not to mention addressing the fans demand for World Series games that ends before 1pm EST, less time in between playoff games and an All Star Game exhibition that doesn't impact World Series home field advantage.
The "To Do" is long, but undoubtedly fixable.
Without question, baseball has seen measurable success under Selig's reign, but the lack of leadership to grow this great game in the right direction remains…at least for another two years.


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Come-A-Lot's name is a pun on Camelot, the realm associated with King Arthur, along with Excalibur, thus the origin of the name for both casinos. The name may also be a double entendre of "cum a lot", a sexual phrase referring to excessive ejaculation. From map view, its shape might remind of a Penis or some sort of canon.


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2nd Annual Research Colloquium
School of Education Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership
Date: Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm
Duration: 5 hours
Location: Opalka Gallery
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The Second Annual Research Colloquium for Sage's Ed.D. program will be held Tuesday, December 7 between 1 - 6 pm at the Opalka Gallery.
Twelve school leaders will be presenting the research they conducted as part of the Ed.D. program. The schedule for the day is below.
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Welcoming remarks:
Dr. Terry Weiner, Sage Provost
Dr. Lori Quigley, Dean of the School of Education
Emerging Initiatives for Leadership Development
Presenting candidates:
Fadhilika Atiba-Weza , Superintendent, Troy Central School District
Lori Caplan, High School Principal, Watervliet CSD
Sally Sharkey, Superintendent Cairo Durham CSD
Leading in a Time of Scarce Resources
Presenting candidates:
Nicole Eschler, CASDA Consultant
Maureen Long, Director of Curriculum Scotia Glenville CSD
Jerome Steele, Elementary Principal, North Colonie CSD
Technology Leadership
Presenting candidates:
Colleen Carroll, Director of Curriculum and Assessment, Saratoga Springs CSD
Tracy Ford, Elementary Principal, Troy CSD
Darlene Westinghouse, Director of Professional Development, ONC BOCES
Leadership and School Climate
Presenting candidates:
Peter DeWitt, Elementary Principal, Averrill Park CSD
Mark Stratton, High School Principal, Glens Falls CSD


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Inspired by elegant Art Deco curves, the light fixtures from the Gravity Collection by Feiss come in a number of different styles, ranging from a three-light vanity fixture to a bath light, flush or semi-flush mount. These styles come in rubbed bronze, brushed steel or nickel-plated finishes. All of them take an appropriate-sized Edison bulb. Each fixture includes an etched glass shade in opalescent white.


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How to Access
- Select Content → Category Manager from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation.
- Click the Categories link while viewing the Article Manager or Featured Articles in the left, upper sidebar.
The Category Manager is where you can view existing Categories in a table layout. Click the Category names to edit the existing categories or click the 'New' Toolbar button to create new ones. All articles in Joomla! are organized into Categories and Subcategories. Subcategories are the second level of organization underneath Categories. The special Category 'Uncategorized' is category created with the Joomla! installation and built into Joomla!.
Column Headers
In the table containing Categories, these are the different columns as shown below.
- Ordering: Up-Down Arrows User specified ordering, default is order of item creation. When active, drag and drop ordering by 'click and hold' on the bars icon then 'release' in desired position.</translate>
- Checkbox: Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the selected item or items. Many toolbar actions, such as Publish and Unpublish, can work with multiple items. Others, such as Edit, only work on one item at a time. If multiple items are checked and you press Edit, the first item will be opened for editing.</translate>
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Published category.</translate>
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Unpublished category.</translate>
- Title. The name of the item. For a Menu Item, the Title will display in the Menu. For an Article or Category, the Title may optionally be displayed on the web page. This entry is required. You can open the item for editing by clicking on the Title.</translate>
- Access. The viewing level access for this item.</translate>
- Language. Item language.</translate>
- ID. This is a unique identification number for this item assigned automatically by Joomla!. It is used to identify the item internally, and you cannot change this number. When creating a new item, this field displays 0 until you save the new entry, at which point a new ID is assigned to it.</translate>
Column Filters
Above the column headers on the right, there are 3 drop down input fields, Sort Table by: (preset to Ordering), Select the ordering (preset to Ascending) and a number (preset to 20) to display.
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<translate> These column sorting input fields shows the current method of sorting applied to the table. Use the drop down field choices and click the column heading name. Alternatively, click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value. This will also change the value in the drop field to correspond with the column header name. The list will then be sorted in order by that column and a sort icon(up or down arrow) will show next to the column name. Click a second time to reverse the sort, which will change the corresponding drop field.</translate>
- Ordering: (default). The column in which to sort displayed items in the table. The values are the same as the column heading names.</translate>
- Ascending (default). Shows ordering of selected column, ascending or descending.</translate>
- # (default is 20). Shows the number of items to display on one page, default is 20 items. If there are more items than this number, you can use the page navigation buttons located at the bottom of the table. (Start, Prev, Next, End, and page numbers) to navigate between pages.</translate>
Batch Process
<translate> The Batch Process allows a change in settings for a group of selected items marked with a check-mark in the corresponding check-mark boxes. To use: click on the link found below the table of items being viewed to activate the drop down field area. Using the 'Batch' Toolbar button will open a pop up window as shown below.</translate>
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<translate> You can change one value or all three values at one time.</translate>
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Click the 'Batch' Toolbar button.</translate>
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To change the Category, select a category. To leave the category unchanged, use the default value of "Select".</translate>
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To copy the items to a different category, select the desired category from the category list box and check the Copy option. In this case, the original items are unchanged and the copies are assigned to the new category and, if selected, the new access level and language.</translate>
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To move the items to a different category, select the desired category from the category list box and check the Move option. In this case, the original items will be moved to a new category and, if selected, be assigned the new access level and language.</translate>
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When all of the settings are entered, click on Process to perform the changes. A message "Batch process completed successfully." will show.</translate> <translate> Note that nothing will happen if you (a) don't have any items selected or (b) have not selected an access level, language, or category.</translate>
<translate> If you wish to clear your entered selections, click on the Cancel button. This will return all of the Batch controls to their default values. Note that this does not uncheck the check boxes for the items.</translate>
At the top left you will see the toolbar:
The functions are:
- New. Opens the editing screen to create a new content category.</translate>
- Edit. Opens the editing screen for the selected content category. If more than one content category is selected (where applicable), only the first content category will be opened. The editing screen can also be opened by clicking on the Title or Name of the content category.</translate>
- Publish. Makes the selected content categories available to visitors to your website.</translate>
- Unpublish. Makes the selected content categories unavailable to visitors to your website.</translate>
- Archive. Changes the status of the selected content categories to indicate that they are archived. Archived content categories can be moved back to the published or unpublished state by selecting "Archived" in the Select Status filter and changing the status of the content categories to Published or Unpublished as preferred.</translate>
- Check-In. Checks-in the selected content categories. Works with one or multiple content categories selected.</translate>
- Trash. Changes the status of the selected content categories to indicate that they are trashed. Trashed content categories can still be recovered by selecting "Trashed" in the Select Status filter and changing the status of the content categories to Published or Unpublished as preferred. To permanently delete trashed content categories, select "Trashed" in the Select Status filter, select the content categories to be permanently deleted, then click the Empty Trash toolbar icon.</translate>
- Batch. Batch processes the selected content categories. Works with one or multiple items selected.</translate>
- Rebuild. Reconstructs and refreshes the content category table. Normally, you do not need to rebuild this table. This function is provided in case the data in the table becomes corrupted.</translate>
- Options. Opens the Options window where settings such as default parameters can be edited.</translate>
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Get an overview of this hotelSecluded family beach resort in Latin America
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The Occidental Grand Cozumel is nestled in a secluded nature preserve on the southern side of Mexico's famed Cozumel Island. This luxury resort is located on a private section of Playa San Francisco, only 5 minutes from the Palancar Reef, 1.5 km (1 mile) from Parque Chankanaab, and less than 17 km (10 miles) from downtown San Miguel.
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Occidental Grand Cozumel Resort All InclusiveKm 16.6 Carretera Sur, El Cedral San Francisco, Palancar Cozumel QROO 77600
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All-Inclusive Details
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities are included.
Food and beverages
- All meals, snacks, and beverages included
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- Dining and beverage availability limited at one or more venues
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All non-motorized water sports, land activities, and use of recreational facilities and equipment are included.
Water activities
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Land activities
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Kids' club
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An air-conditioned health-and-beauty spa with 2 treatment rooms offers many massage treatments, body treatments, facials, hair and nail care, and hair braiding. Beach massage under a thatched-roof palapa is also available as well as Sunset massages. The spa includes a unisex sauna and a fitness center containing cardio machines, a Universal gym, free weights, and 2-person spa tub.
Ground transportation:
Shuttle vans and private cars of varying prices are available. They can be reserved during the process of booking a reservation for this Occidental Grand Cozumel All Inclusive, via this website, and added to the total trip cost.
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
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- Spa tub
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- Health club
- Nightclub
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Meeting rooms
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- Porter/bellhop
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 251
- Multilingual staff
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Tennis on site
- Number of floors - 3
- Wedding services
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Local Expert Concierge
- Free self parking
- Free breakfast
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Playground on site
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( MX$397.00 per day )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( MX$81.00 Per week )
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Balcony
- Ceiling fan
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Turndown service
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Daily housekeeping
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Room service
Where to Eat
Depending on the resort's occupancy, the number of restaurants available to guests at any given time will fluctuate. Restaurant openings will rotate daily.
La Carreta - Royal Club restaurant
La Posada - Air-conditioned dining room under vaulted brick ceiling. Terrace seating, also. International breakfast and dinner buffets.
Los Olivos - Air-conditioned fine-dining restaurant serving à la carte dinners. Recessed ceiling. Wall recesses with bas-reliefs. Mediterranean cuisine. Reservations required. Dress code: Long pants, sleeved shirts, closed-toe shoes for men. No shorts or beach sandals for women.
Sample menu for Los Olivos
Main courses:
Sonora Grill - Air-conditioned restaurant with semi-rustic decor. Open for à la carte dinners. Reservations required. Dress code: Long pants, sleeved shirts, closed-toe shoes for men. No shorts or beach sandals for women.
Sample menu for Sonora Grill
Main courses:
La Piazza - Rooftop pizzeria and bar featuring resort's signature fountains. Open early evening to after midnight for pizza, drinks.
Sample menu for La Piazza
Grilled items:
La Carreta - Open only to guests of Royal Club guestrooms. Air conditioning. Terrace seating, also. Cream and white linens. Dark-wood furniture. Wrought-iron accents. Lounge with cushioned seating. À la carte breakfast, lunch, dinner. Dinner dress code: long pants, sleeved shirts, closed-toe shoes for men. No shorts or beach sandals for women.
Sample menu for La Carreta - Royal Club Restaurant
Lobby Bar - Twin air-conditioned lounges with TVs. Computers with high-speed Internet connections (surcharges). Open mid-day to late night.
Pool Bar - Open mid-morning to early evening for tropical drinks, beer.
La Mision - Air-conditioned disco bar open early evening to after midnight.
Beach Club Bar - Open from mid morning to early evening for tropical drinks, beer.
Activities include:
- Nightly entertainment in plaza or disco, including music/dance shows and karaoke
- Spanish lessons
- Dance lessons
- Cooking/cocktail lessons
- Disco dancing
- Pool aerobics
- Pool volleyball
- Ping-Pong tournaments
Nearby Things to Do
A 32-meter-long (35-yard) crescent-shaped "quiet pool" lies in the resort's center at the end of a central walkway between villas. From this pool and sundeck, a 100-meter (109-yard) wood bridge leads over and through the jungle to a 35-meter-long (38-yard) freeform activities pool overlooking the beach. The beach features thatched-roof palapas and extends 200 meters (219 yards) along water that remains calm in most weather and offers snorkeling opportunities. Adjacent to the activities pool is a 10.5-meter-diameter (35-ft) children's pool.
The resort provides snorkeling gear, kayaks, windsurfers, boogie boards, and Hobie Cat sailboats. An independent dive shop at the resort offers introductory scuba-diving lessons in the pool. Dive-shop services include scuba-diving instruction and reef, sunken-ship, and night dives (surcharges). The dive shop also offers personal watercraft, parasailing, and fishing (surcharges).
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Aerobics on site
- Fishing on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Sailing on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Volleyball on site
- Windsurfing on site
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Resort fee
Optional extras
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: MXN 397 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: MXN 81 per week (rates may vary)
Hotel Name
- Cozumel Grand Occidental
- Occidental Grand Cozumel
- Occidental Grand Cozumel All Inclusive
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A resort fee is included in the total price displayed.
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Book a minimum 3-night stay in a Deluxe room for travel between December 3 and 23, 2013, and receive a free upgrade to a Grand Concierge Deluxe room.
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Doom metal
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"Theres actually music playing? That shits so damn slow!"
Doom metal (aka DOOM metal) is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognised subgenre after the release of the video game DOOM. originated by fans who became addicted (and occasionally, violent) with playing the high-speed asskicking of DOOM and formed their own band.
History of doom metal
After the great steel factory accident of 1967 that turned Tony Iommi, master of doom and reality, into Iron Man, doom metal was perceived to be gone for good - having been banned and censored by multiple world governments. But that was soon to change, thanks to a small leap in video games that lead to the virtual holocaust of NAZIs and Aliens.
Although in the beginning of the 1990s, Wolfenstein 2D was a similar game that can be considered proto-doom, it was not after DOOM that was released that doom metal emerged as a genre. However, the Finnish black metal band My Loving Groom wrote songs about killing Nazis and their song Level 7 contained songwriting that could be described as "proto-doom."
With the release of DOOM in 1993, nerds with no lives quickly became addicted to the asskicking of blowing up demons from hell with a RPG. The first Doom metal band originated from Sweden called Candlemass. They were a group of god fearing televangelists. Candlemass's debut album, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, is considered a legendary metal album and the first "true" doom metal album. It combined the dark and evilness of heavy metal and the dark and evilness of DOOM. The cover art depicted a zombies head being blown up with a shotgun. Pentagram imitators later followed with their own spin on the genre. DOOM metal quickly formed into a genre that basement dwellers couldn't get enough of.
The early 90s heralded a change in the Doom-Metal landscape. With Death-metal having taken over the metal torch halfway through the eighties, Doom-Metal enjoyed a revival. New bands emerged that sought a mix between original Doom-Metal and Death-metal. Early pioneers like Winter with their release 'Into Darkness' in 1990 and Thergothon with their brilliant demo 'Fhragn-nagh Yog-Sothoth' in 1991 broke through the original boundaries of traditional Doom-Metal and formed the building blocks for modern day Doom-Metal. Lets also however not forget a band like diSEMBOWELMENT.
Bands like Winter, Thergothon and diSEMBOWELMENT could not gain the success later doom bands would have with this new style. Three bands from England, whom all shared the same label, Peaceville, propelled the Death/Doom genre to the level at which it stands today; Paradise Lost being the first with their release of 'Lost Paradise' in 1990 (which still had a strong death-metal influence). With 'Gothic' in 1991 they however almost single-handed set the standard for modern-day doom.
My Dying Bride Fellow label mates My Dying Bride succeeded in opening the gates for countless new Doom-Metal bands. Their first official release on Peaceville, 'Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium', in 1991 already showed this band was destined for greatness and with their second full length 'Turn Loose the Swans' in 1993 they set their status as the largest modern-day Doom-Metal band. Another influence on this new form of Doom-Metal was the third Peaceville band called Anathema. Despite being one of "the big three" they always remained the smallest and least influential.
Also worth mentioning is that at the beginning of the ninties, a band called Earth (no, not Black Sabbath with their orignal name) created some of the heaviest Sabbath influenced music ever. This band became a huge influence on so-called "Drone Doom", an extreme form of Doom-metal.
Nor can we overlook the rise of an odd child within the Doom family, Sludge Doom; very heavy, miserable sounding Doom-metal that perhaps lacks the mournfull and emotions of Doom but fills those with pure filth, discust and anger. Of course also attoning to the teaching of Black Sabbath.
Midway through the nineties the need for experimentation within the metal genre as a whole also touched the Doom-Metal genre. Bands like The 3rd and the Mortal created a more atmospheric type of doom with albums like Tears Laid in Earth' and were one of the first metal bands to have a fulltime female lead singer. Following in the wake of Thergothon, slower and more extreme acts than normal Death/Doom also started to emerge like Funeral, Skepticism and Esoteric. The experimentation "disease" lead to the many different types of Doom-Metal we know today. From the slow and emotionless sounds of Esoteric, Evoken and Skepticism to the Gothic/Doom-Metal hybrids like Theatre of Tragedy. And let's not forget that there is a whole host of new and old bands who still play the orignal style of Doom from the 80s.
Evoken Owing to this flurry of experimentation, the boundaries between genres faded and various great Doom-Metal giants moved away from the sound they helped create, giving the whole Doom-Metal genre a creative input of which we have not yet seen the last. The new millenium has already proven that by making 2001 one of the best years for heavy Doom since the early ninties
Lyrical Themes
DOOM metal lyrics are typically about DOOM, Impending DOOM, Hell, Satan, Sitting alone in darkness waiting to be free, being at the gallows end, fighting off an army of evilness and demons gate.
An example of doom metals inherit evilness, a verse from the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass song Demons Gate:
- Beyond all nightmares I met my fate
- All of my soldier buddies slaughtered by hells hate
- Scared I was with my hand on my gun
- I went into the demons gate
Stylistic divisions within doom metal
Traditional doom
Slow, melevolent, noise-based metal influenced by Pentagram as well as the Old Wave of American Heavy Metal movement. Typical examples: Saint Louis, Pentagram, Candlemass, Solitude Aeternus and Reverend Shotgun.
DOOM metal that is loudier and places a greater lyrical emphasis on killing the enemies and your buddies, rather than just exploring levels, wandering aimlessly. An example of classic death/doom song is the song by the Spanish band Evilution called Ultraviolence and IDDQD.
Funeral doom
Funeral doom takes an emphasis on the main character in DOOM dying. It's usually slow and contains song titles like I Was Too Young to Die" and "Hey, "I Said Not Too Rough."
Drone doom
Also known as drone metal, drone doom is a style which focuses on those annoying spider robots in DOOM. The songs are usually long and contain little direction in them. Their creator said it was from him recording him breaking up his old water heater which produced a sound described as being, "evil and robotic, like those spider monsters in DOOM."
Recent developments in drone doom style
Drone doom bands tend to go through water heaters quickly, and some have taken to utilizing an electric guitar and large amplifiers forgoing the water heaters altogether. Doom purists question this move, as an electric guitar amp usually looks a great deal more like a refrigerator than a water heater. One band, Sunn 0))) has even had the gall to name themselves after an amplifier brand name, blaspheming the classic practice of bands naming themselves after water heater brands. See Frigidaire, Kenmore, and Maytag.
Stoner doom
A hybrid form of DOOM, DOOM metal and marijuana.
Sludge doom
A sub-genre that emphasizes on fan-created doom maps with a lot of sludge on the maps. You remember the levels.
Black doom
A sub-genre that is inspired by also playing Silent Hill bunch and using distortion not as much and using as much chorus and reverb as possible. Lyrics are usually about suicide and how great nature is. Bands of the style include Dolorian and Forgotten Tomb.


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When the American black bear (Ursus americanus) in Florida was first scientifically described in 1896 by naturalist C. Hart Merriam, he thought its long skull and highly arched nasal bones distinguished it from black bears in other areas and classified it as a separate species (Ursus floridanus), which he called the Everglades bear. Subsequent analyses around 1960 revised the status of these bears to the Florida black bear (U. a. floridanus), one of 16 recognized subspecies [1].
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Kingdom: Animalia
Black bears are large-bodied and have short tails, prominent canine teeth, and plantigrade feet (the entire foot strikes the ground when walking) each with five digits, and each digit bearing a short, curved, nonretractable claw. The characteristic gait of the black bear is pacing, a stride in which legs on the same side move simultaneously so that the hind foot is placed in or slightly in front of the track of the forefoot. Unlike humans, the smallest toe of each foot is the inner toe and occasionally does not register in the track. The bear has small eyes and its ears are round and erect. The coat color of the Florida black bear is consistently black, but the summer molt of guard (outer) hair may cause a brownish appearance. Twenty-five to 33% of individuals possess a white chest blaze.
Adult (3 years or older) male bears weigh 114 - 160 kgs. and adult females weigh 60-82 kgs. However, with the region's long growing season and the availability of garbage and other calorie-rich foods available to individuals foraging in human communities, bears can grow even larger. The largest bears on record in Florida are a 624-lb male killed on a county road in southwest Florida and a 400-lb female killed on a road in northwest Florida.
Historically, the Florida subspecies inhabited all of Florida (except the lower keys) and southern Alabama and Georgia [2]. After more than 200 years of deforestation and persecution by settlers, the Florida black bear had reached a low point in numbers and distribution by 1950--1970. The subsequent regrowth of forests and reduction in wild fires which resulted in a denser shrub layer have restored much bear habitat.
Consequently, bear numbers have been stable to increasing, but populations remain significantly smaller than pre-Columbian estimates and the subspecies once contiguous range has been markedly fragmented. A small subpopulation survives in southwestern Alabama (near Mobile) and another in southeastern Georgia (in and around the Okefenokee Swamp). Approximately 80% of the Florida subspecies of black bears are found within the state of Florida in six large remnant populations (at Eglin Air Force Base, Apalachicola National Forest, Osceola National Forest, Ocala National Forest, St. Johns and Big Cypress National Preserve) and three smaller ones (at Chassahowitzka and Glades/Highlands). Bears on the east end of the Apalachicola population, east of the Aucilla River are sometimes referred to in this article and by managers as the Aucilla population
Female bears become sexually mature at 3-4 years of age [3]. Breeding occurs from mid-June through mid-August, [4] and copulation stimulates the female to ovulate [5]. Black bear reproduction involves delayed implantation of the fertilized eggs which temporarily cease development after a few divisions, float free in the uterus, and do not implant until late November or December. This adaptation allows bears to synchronize reproduction with annual food cycles. Reduced food availability caused by poor acorn or berry production can result in delayed first breeding, smaller litter sizes, or reproductive failure [6] [7]. Females choose sheltered locations in dense brush, especially saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) thickets, in which to make shallow, leaf-lined depressions on the ground for dens where cubs are born. Florida black bears build fewer dens in tree cavities than do more northern subspecies [7] [5, 8, 9, 10], possibly due to the relative scarcity of large mature hardwoods in much of the range. A reproductive female enters her den in mid- to late December and emerges in early to mid-April after a mean denning period of 100 - 113 days [8]. Gestation lasts 60 days, and cubs are born in late January to mid-February. The average litter size is around two cubs [9], although greater productivity has been documented in older females and females with previous litters [10]. Newborn cubs weigh approximately 340 grams and are partially furred but are blind and toothless. They grow fast and weigh 2.7 – 3.6 kg when they leave the den at about 10 weeks of age. Cubs stay with their mothers and den with her the following winter. The cubs leave their mother the following spring at 15-17 months of age prior to the female being bred [11]. Female offspring establish home ranges overlapping that of their mother's while males typically disperse to new areas [12].
Population Density and Abundance
Bears are solitary, reclusive, and live in relatively low densities over large landscapes, characteristics that make a direct count of bears difficult. However, populations can be estimated by sampling DNA from hair follicles collected from baited barbed-wire enclosures erected in bear range. DNA analysis identifies individual bears and the pattern in which individuals are encountered in subsequent sampling has been used (analogously to mark-recapture studies) to estimate populations in Florida and southeastern Georgia (Table 1). Populations in Chassahowitzka, and Glades/Highlands in Florida and in southwestern Alabama are too small to estimate with this method. Anecdotal evidence from field studies in which bears were intensively trapped and radio collared suggests that Chassahowitzka has about 20 bears [13], Glades/Highlands has 150 – 200 bears, and that southwestern Alabama has 50-100 bears [14].
Density (bears/km2)
Extrapolated Estimate1
|Apalachiola N.F.
|Big Cypress N.P.
|Eglin A.F.B.
|Ocala N.F.
|Southeast Georgia [16] [8]
|Osceola N.F.
|St Johns
|Southwest Alabama [17] [14]
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Habitat Use and Home Range
Black bears are adaptable and thrive in a variety of forested habitats. Where bears live is a function of nutritional needs and spatially fluctuating food sources. The Florida black bear thrives in habitats that provide an annual supply of seasonally available foods, secluded areas for denning, and some degree of protection from humans. Optimal habitat for the Florida black bear has been described as "a mixture of flatwoods, swamps, scrub oak ridges, bayheads, and hammock habitats, thoroughly interspersed."[18]
Self-sustaining and secure populations of black bears are found within large contiguous forested tracts that contain understories of mast or berry-producing shrubs or trees; which are common characteristics of publicly-owned lands and commercial forests. Imperiled populations are associated with more fragmented forests tightly bounded by urban areas and highways.
Home range size and shape is influenced by the seasonal and spatial distribution of food items, population density, reproductive status, and human-related influences such as habitat fragmentation. Female black bears select a home range based on availability of food and cover with smaller home ranges found in better habitat. Male black bears establish a home range in relation to the presence of females [19] [16] , and their home ranges are usually three to eight times as large as those of females [20]. The size of the home range of Florida black bears varies widely, a result of the variety of habitats and habitat quality (Table 2).
Annual Home Range km2
|Southwestern AL [21] [9]
|Ocala NF, FL [22] [17]
|Chassahowitzka, FL [23] [13]
|Osceola NF, FL [24] [8]
|Southeastern GA [25] [8]
|Big Cypress National Preserve, FL [26] [18]
|Eglin Air Force Base, FL [27] [19]
Florida black bear females with cubs have smaller summer home ranges than females without cubs but much larger fall home ranges than females without cubs [28]. The larger fall home range of females with cubs is a response to the greater nutritional needs of rapidly growing cubs. Related females establish annual and seasonal home ranges closer to each other than do unrelated females, and females with overlapping home ranges are more closely related than females without overlapping home ranges [29].
Black bears in natural habitats are most active at dawn and dusk but they occasionally travel extensively during the day, especially during fall, when they consume prodigious quantities of food. Bears that live in the urban-wildland interface tend to be more active at night. Dispersing males and bears seeking food or mates may travel extensively. A radio-collared 2 year-old male bear was documented moving a minimum of 288 kilometers in Florida [30], and bears of both sexes enlarge their home ranges and travel more when periods of extended severe weather, such as drought, limit the availability of food.
Food Habits
Although members of the Order Carnivora, black bears evolved as omnivores at latitudes and under climate regimes characterized by dramatic fluctuations in seasonal availability of food. Therefore, even bears in Florida exhibit an annual cycle of feasting and fasting. In the fall, bears wander widely and forage extensively in order to accumulate enough energy in the form of fat to survive the winter. Adult bears may increase their body weight 25-40% in the fall. In winter bears eat much less, and reproductive females may spend many weeks in the natal den with little or no nutrition other than stored fat. Bears are opportunistic foragers; taking advantage of seasonally abundant or available fleshy fruits, nuts (especially acorns), insects, and increasingly, foods they find near human habitation such as garbage and livestock feed. Given the nonspecific food habits of the Florida black bear and the diversity of plant communities in its range, the list of food items is long. However, approximately 80% of natural bear foods are plant material. The fruits and fiber of saw palmetto are important throughout the range [31]. Beetles and colonial insects represent the largest portion of animal material consumed [32].
Aside from conspecifics, Florida black bears have few natural predators. Adult males opportunistically kill cubs and occasionally also kill and eat denning adult females. Mortality is greatest in the first year of life when it can exceed 60% [33]. Survival of adult bears in unhunted populations is high. Annual female survivorship typically exceeds 90% [34] [8, 24], while that of males is 70 – 80%. Males have lower survival rates because they have larger home ranges which exposes them to increased risks especially collisions with vehicles. The oldest wild bear documented in Florida was a 24 year-old female from the Apalachicola population.
Most documented mortality of adult Florida black bears is caused by humans (i.e., collisions with vehicles, illegal killing). The population of bears in southeastern Georgia is the only population of Florida black bears that may be hunted legally. In the past 10 years, the annual legal harvest in southeastern Georgia ranged from 50 to 137 bears, with an average of 71 bears, or about 10% of the estimated population. In a highly fragmented habitat, bears have more frequent interactions with humans and human-related sources of mortality can be significant. Adult female bears living in an urban-wildland interface outside Ocala National Forest suffered human-caused mortality at a rate that would not have been sustainable were it not for the large population of bears in the forest that served to replenish bear numbers [35]. A similar rate would be catastrophic to smaller, isolated populations such as those in Chassahowitzka and Glades-Highlands, Florida, or southwestern Alabama.
In 2002, collisions with vehicles resulted in an annual mortality rate of 4.8% of the Florida bear population. Nevertheless, populations with reproductive characteristics common to most populations of the Florida black bear (females first reproduce at 3.0 years and produce 2 cubs every two years) can sustain an annual mortality as great as 23% [36]. Many bears survive collisions with vehicles but sustain significant injuries. Twelve of 92 (13%) juvenile and adult bears captured in Ocala National Forest had one or more healed skeletal injuries, primarily limb fractures that that probably resulted from vehicular collisions [37].
Illegal killing of bears is a regular though relatively unimportant cause of death. Most studies involving radio-collared bears in Florida have found the incidence of illegally killed bears is rare within large contiguous land parcels but substantially more common within the fragmented habitats near urban areas.
Disease is uncommon in black bears. There have been no reports of rabid black bears in Florida and only a few from elsewhere. Demodetic mange resulting in generalized hair loss in adult females, is relatively common (78%) in one locale on the western border of Ocala National Forest. Few cases have been observed in any other Florida population although other cases have been reported in other states [38]. Demodetic mange is transmitted from females to their offspring but males recover by their second year.
Genetic Profile
Bears are particularly vulnerable to habitat loss and fragmentation because of their low numbers, low densities, large home ranges, low productivity, and higher mortality rates when living in fragmented habitat. Habitat fragmentation and degradation have reduced what was once a single large population of bears into smaller, more isolated populations. Isolation of populations and reduction of population size may cause a decrease in genetic variation, which may reduce the ability to adapt to changes in the environment, cause inbreeding depression, and increase the probability of extinction.
An analysis of the genetic structure of the Florida black bear indicated that many populations have been isolated from one another long enough and completely enough that measurable genetic differentiation has occurred. This is most evident in the Chassahowitzka, Glades/Highlands, and Eglin populations (Figure 3). Because the degree of genetic differentiation exceeded that which could be explained by distance alone, extensive habitat fragmentation must also be a factor. Additionally, the level of genetic variation within the Chassahowitzka and Glades/Highlands populations is among the lowest reported for any bear population anywhere. The small population of bears in southwestern Alabama also has low genetic variation and is highly inbred [39].
Ecological Significance of Bears
Black bears are recognized as an umbrella species, i.e. one whose habitat requirements overlap those of many other species. Conservation measures that protect black bears, therefore, also protect those other species. Benefits to bears are sometimes cited as justification for land conservation in Florida. Given the large habitat requirements of bears and the diversity of habitats they use, many species have benefitted from the umbrella of bear conservation.
Further Reading
- ^Hall, E. R., and K. R. Kelson. 1959. The mammals of North America. The Ronald Press, New York.
- ^^Harlow, R. F. 1961. Characteristics and status of Florida black bear. Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference. 26:481-495.
- ^Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. 2nd ed., vol. 2. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- ^Pelton, M. R. and F. T. van Manen. 1997. Status of black bears in the southeastern United States. Pp. 31-44 in A. L. Gaski and D. F. Williamson, eds. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium in the Trade of Bear Parts. Traffic USA/World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.
- ^^^^Garrison, E. P., J. W. McCown, and M. K. Oli. 2007. Reproductive ecology and cub survival of Florida black bears. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:720-727, http://www.wec.ufl.edu/faculty/olim/publications.html .
- ^^^Garrison, E. P. 2004. Reproductive ecology, cub survival, and denning ecology of the Florida black bear. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
- ^^^^^^Pelton, M. R. 1982. Black bear. Pp 504-514 in J.A. Chapman and G.A. Feldhamer, eds., Wild mammals of North America. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
- ^^^^^Dobey, S., D. V. Masters, B. K. Scheick, J. D. Clark, M. R. Pelton, and M. E. Sunquist. 2005. Ecology of Florida black bears in the Okefenokee-Osceola Ecosystem. Wildlife Monographs 158. http://research.myfwc.com/publications/publication_info.asp?id=49110 .
- ^^^Edwards, A. S. 2002. Ecology of the black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) in southwestern Alabama. Thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
- ^Hersey, K. R., A. S. Edwards, and J. D. Clark. 2005. Assessing American black bear habitat in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta of southwestern Alabama. Ursus 16:245-254.
- ^Siebert, S. G., J. C. Roof, and D. S. Maehr. 1997. Family dissolution in the Florida black bear. Florida Field Naturalist 25:103-104.
- ^^Moyer, M. A., J. W. McCown, and M. K. Oli. 2006. Does genetic relatedness influence space use pattern? A test on Florida black bears. Journal of Mammalogy 87:255-261 http://www.wec.ufl.edu/faculty/olim/publications.html .
- ^^Orlando, M. A. 2003. The ecology and behavior of an isolated black bear population in west central Florida. Thesis, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
- ^^Hristienko, H., and J. E. McDonald Jr. 2007. Going into the 21st century: a perspective on trends and controversies in the management of the American black bear. Ursus 18: 72-88.
- ^Simek, S. L., S. A. Jonker, B. K. Scheick, M. J. Endries, and T. H. Eason. 2005. Statewide assessment of road impacts on bears in six study areas in Florida from May 2001 to September 2003. Final Report Contract BC-972. Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, Florida. http://myfwc.com/WildlifeHabitats/Bear_reports.htm
- ^Sandell, M. 1989. The mating techniques of solitary carnivores. Pp. 164-182 in J. Gittleman, ed., Carnivore behavior, ecology, and evolution. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
- ^McCown, J. W., P. Kubilis, T. H. Eason, and B. K. Scheick. 2004. Black bear movements and habitat use relative to roads in Ocala National Forest. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Final Report Contract BD-016 for Florida Department of Transportation. http://myfwc.com/WildlifeHabitats/Bear_reports.htm
- ^Land, E. D., D. S. Maehr, J. C. Roof, and J. W. McCown. 1994. Southwest Florida black bear distribution, movements, and conservation strategy. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. Tallahassee.
- ^Stratman, M. R. 1998. Habitat use and effects of fire on black bears in northwest Florida. Thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
- ^Moyer, M. A., J. W. McCown, and M. K. Oli. 2007. Factors influencing home-range size of female Florida black bears. Journal of Mammalogy 88:468-476.
- ^Maehr, D. S., J. N. Layne, E. D. Land, J. W. McCown and J. C. Roof. 1988. Long distance movements of a Florida black bear. Florida Field Naturalist 16:1-6.22. Maehr, D. S., T. S. Hoctor, L. J. Quinn, and J. S. Smith. 2001. Black bear habitat management guidelines for Florida. Technical Report No. 17. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee. http://myfwc.com/WildlifeHabitats/Bear_reports.htm23. Maehr, D. S. and J. R. Brady. 1984. Food habits of Florida black bears. Journal of Wildlife Management 48:230-235.
- ^Hostetler, J. A., J. W. McCown, E. P. Garrison, A. M. Neils, M. E. Sunquist, S. L. Simek, and M. K. Oli. 2009. Demographic consequences of habitat fragmentation: Florida black bears in north central Florida. Biological Conservation 142:2456-2463. http://www.wec.ufl.edu/faculty/olim/publications.html
- ^McCown, J. W., P. Kubilis, T. H. Eason and B. K. Scheick. 2009. Effect of traffic volume on American black bears in central Florida, USA. Ursus 20:39-46. http://research.myfwc.com/publications/publication_info.asp?id=58664
- ^Bunnell, F. G. and D. E. N. Tait. 1980. Bears in models and reality-; implications to management. International Conference on Bear Research and Management 4: 15-24.
- ^McCown, J. W., P. Kubilis, T. H. Eason, and B. K. Scheick. 2004. Black bear movements and habitat use relative to roads in Ocala National Forest. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Final Report Contract BD-016 for Florida Department of Transportation. http://myfwc.com/WildlifeHabitats/Bear_reports.htm
- ^Foster, G. W., T. A. Cames, and D. J. Forrester. 1998. Geographical distribution of Demodex ursi in black bears from Florida. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 34: 161-164.
- ^Cunningham, M. W., S. Terrell, B. Ferree, and L. M. Penfold. 2007. Epizootiology of generalized demodicosis in a Florida black bear population. Proceedings of 56th Annual Wildlife Disease Association Conference. Estes Park, Colorado.
- ^Dixon, J. D., M. K. Oli, M. C. Wooten, T. H. Eason, J. W. McCown, and M. W. Cunningham. 2007. Genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation and loss: the case of the Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus). Conservation Genetics 8: 455-464. http://www.wec.ufl.edu/faculty/olim/publications.html .
CitationMcCown, W. (2013). Florida Black Bear. Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/51cbedcc7896bb431f693fcb
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Catherine Najera wrote: 08-14-2012 08:26:21
Mr. McCown, I tried to private message you about a very large bear I observed for the past two nights. Did you get my message? If so, could you get in contact with me? I am not familiar with this site. I joined so I could get in touch with you. Thank you.
Robert Funderburk wrote: 12-11-2011 11:32:17
Mr McCown, my name is Robert Funderburk, a student at Western Carolina University, and I am doing analysis of black bear nuisance reports for Northwest Florida over the past 10 years. Is it possible for your Eglin population, ~83 individuals in 2010, to generate 536 nuisance incidence for that same year?


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Stunning cosmetics and va-va-voom body-hugging gowns were on display during the recent Met Gala in New York City. Although some leading ladies went for avant-garde ensembles, bombshells like Jessica Alba and Amy Adams kept their looks classic and fantastic.
Alba and Adams both rocked similar hairstyles and makeup trends on the red carpet, as well as one-shoulder gowns. This was definitely the case of great minds think alike, as both ladies looked elegant and fashion-forward.
To achieve a similarly glamorous style for prom or even a hot date, start by finding the perfect red lipstick. Alba, who has darker skin than Adams, chose a deep red lip color in a matte finish. Adams on the other hand, played up her fair skin with a bold candy apple red lip color in a lip gloss finish.
For the cheeks, both Alba and Adams applied tons of golden brown bronzer using makeup brushes, but Adams added a dewier component by mixing in a touch of Vaseline on her cheekbones.
The eyes on these ladies is where the similarities end in terms of makeup, as Alba went for an intense smokey eye and Adams went for long, flowy lashes and light eyeshadow.
Alba updated her smokey eye, opting for deep brown and gold hues instead of the commonly used black and charcoal eyeshadow. She finished off her eye makeup with tons of mascara. Adams paired her false lashes with cream and light gold eyeshadow and dark eyeliner on her top lids.
Both gorgeous ladies wore their hair with deep side parts and big curls that shaped their stunning faces. This look totally works for all skin and hair types and is a win in terms of fashion.