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I have been on my medicine for almost 2 weeks. I took it 3 days in a row, and now every other day. Momma thinks it is helping me! I am moving more and I seem to be moving more fluidly & quicker. I was even trit-trotting down the hallway the other day! I don;t like the chicken gabapentin, but Momma talked to the pharmacist & she suggested a tiny bit of anchovy oil or tuna oil to mask the medicine taste. So we will try that. Probably won't be back until next week, cause of the wedding. Anyone else having some log in troubles?
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That's great news, but we just saw something odd happen on Catster just now. Dad went to the site and saw YOUR home page and half the links weren't working. It's back to normal now, but it's weird. I wonder if anyone saw ours.
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"Black Pus is Brian Chippendale, who rose to prominence as the drummer of noise rock titans Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer. The first Black Pus CD-R was self released in early 2006, and was a collection of ferocious free jazz, multi-tracked on Chippendale's cassette fourtrack. Enamored of the control of recording solo, Chippendale followed with more CD-Rs, and began playing live under the Black Pus moniker. He refined the Black Pus sound over numerous selfreleased CDs and 2011's Primordial Pus on Load Records, replacing the saxophone with a drum-mounted oscillator and experimenting with pop structures. The oscillator creates gigantic bass tones that are then fed through a series of pedals. All My Relations is constant forward motion and audible physicality. Chippendale's furious drumming style is ever present and instantly recognizable, but the pop element, which Chippendale explored in more contained ways on earlier Black Pus releases, is more fully integrated." (label info) also available on CD
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ISBN13:by Dubow, Saul
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This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices on the one hand and the exercise of colonial power on the other. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination.
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|Field sciences in scientific fields: entomology, botany and the early ethnographic monograph in the work of H. A. Junod
|Making canes credible in colonial Mauritius
|A commonwealth of science: the British Association in South Africa, 1905 and 1929
|"For the public benefit": livestock statistics and expertise in the late-nineteenth century Cape Colony
|A mania for measurement: statistics and statecraft in the transition to apartheid
|Police dogs and state rationality in early twentieth-century South Africa
|The Race Welfare Society: eugenis and birth control in Johannesburg, 1930-1940
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College Hockey:Denver's Skinner Signs With Vancouver
DENVER — Brett Skinner, a senior-to-be and captain-to-be of Denver, gave up his final year of collegiate eligibility to sign with the Vancouver Canucks.
"It was the toughest decision of my life," Skinner told the Denver Post. "I'm leaving the captain behind, a great program, and the comfort of being at a place like Denver. But obviously my goal is to play in the NHL, and I think everybody understands that this is the best move to get me there."
The Brandon, Man. native amassed 15 goals and 87 points in 124 games while playing for Denver. He had 36 assists last season from the blueline and finished fifth on the team with 40 points.
Skinner will give up the chance to try for a three-peat with Denver.
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Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker recently said if this country is to have a "successful" legal immigration system, it has to be "easier" to come here. He calls it "fixing the front door," or if you prefer, increasing legal immigration.
Walker's cure-all is not new to the immigration debate, the idea being that if you make it easier to come here there will be no need to do it illegally. Turns out, however, it just doesn't work that way because the more legal immigration you have, more illegal immigration automatically follows.
This nation has for years had the world's most generous legal immigration policy, bringing in more people on an annual basis than the rest of the world combined.
Since 1990 the U.S. has been admitting about 1.2 million people legally every year, or four times our historical average. This rate of immigration, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, accounts for 82 percent of our population growth that continues to outpace job creation in our still sour economy.
Accompanied by a lack of enforcement that has intensified under the Obama Administration, this policy has for the past several decades cost Americans their jobs and led to stagnant wages for our citizens and legal residents still lucky enough to enjoy steady employment.
None of this is good enough for Walker's business community buddies whose never-ending mournful cry asks us to believe that they are on the verge of extinction because of labor shortages at every turn. These imagined shortages, in case you've forgotten, are code for, "Please make sure we always have an abundant supply of cheap labor."
The Senate amnesty bill (S. 744) passed in June would do exactly that. Not only would the legislation double legal immigration and add 33 million foreign workers to our already bloated labor pool in just 10 years it would, according to the Congressional Budget Office, keep unemployment high and further depress wages.
Walker throws a bone to pro-enforcement Americans; he wants to secure our border and do more than pay lip service to our being a nation of laws before tackling the issue of what to do about the nearly 12 million illegals living here, 7 million of them collecting regular paychecks from the construction, manufacturing, transportation and service industries.
Walker also says he opposes citizenship; we can't go around rewarding people who have broken our laws, can we? But legalization will do just fine, thank you very much, because it will still achieve employers' main goal of holding down their labor costs. And it sure won't hurt Walker's chances in next year's election.
If you're among the 20 million Americans who can't find full-time work while your government continues to water down our immigration laws so as not to inconvenience illegal aliens, you're no doubt wondering how Walker's idea of a successful immigration policy would work for you. Does this governor's "simple" solution to the nation's federally created immigration crisis also make it easier for you to find meaningful employment?
Don't hold your breath because in Walker's world where cheap labor and the possibility of more Hispanic votes reign supreme, there is precious little room for allowing you and your fellow citizens to search for a better life.


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as a martian who just landed on earth, i am on the prowl for interesting examples of earth music. what would you recommend to an alien looking to expand his musically horizons? sci-fi themes, anthems are out.
as a martian who just landed on earth, i am on the prowl for interesting examples of earth music. what would you recommend to an alien looking to expand his musically horizons? sci-fi themes, anthems are out.
History remembers the originators and forgets the imitators.
Either of the Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate albums.
Martin Simpson and Wu Man - Music for the Motherless Child.
Rainer - Nocturnes.
Anything by Bill Frisell, but Ghost Town and Blues Dream are my favourites.
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya.
Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and will beat your ass.
Richard Thompson - Live from Austin, Tx.
Neu! - 75.
Nils Petter Molvaer - Khmer.
Nguyen Le - Purple.
The Necks - Hanging Garden or Chemist.
That's a varied bunch and should expand a horizon or 2.
Terje Isungset -Ice music. Making music from the solid form of water, which covers most of our planet.
cogito, ergo hmm?
Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker
Tom Waits- Rain Dogs
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Nick Drake- Bryter Later
The Replacements- TIM
Husker Du - zen arcade
Kris Kristofferson- S/T
Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
Iron and Wine- the creek drank the cradle
Midlake- the trials of van occupanther
Centro-Matic- Redo The Stacks
Songs:Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company
Chris Whitley - Dirt Floor
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary- William S. Burroughs
excellent, thanks. plenty to be getting on with there.
I still think any random page on the "what are you listening to?" thread will throw up a cornucopia of delights . Except where it went all porcupine tree
Are you *still* looking at this shit?
Try these, some of which have been recommended before i see:
If you only get one, make sure its Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk. Fifth one down is "In the wake of Poseidon" by King Crimson
I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
I recommend almost everything I have, but for an alien, probably modern naff digi-pop would be representative of our musical culture.
'Sometimes via the senses, mostly in the mind' (or pocket)...


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Baranoski wins bronze in the keirin at Juniors Track Worlds
Montichiari, Italy (August 14, 2010) — Matthew Baranoski (Perkasie, Penn.) took home the first medal for the United States at the 2010 UCI Juniors Track World Championships on Saturday, winning bronze in the men's keirin.
Baranoski's path to the finals began with a second-place finish in his opening heat, followed by a win in his first round repechage. He advanced to the finals with a runner-up placing in the second round. The keirin gold went to Matthew Glaetzer of Australia, followed by Mauricio Quiroga of Argentina and then Baranoski. The race included a crash involving the Italian and German riders.
The current men's 17-18 sprint, keirin and 10-kilometer scratch race national champion, Baranoski was 35th overall in the men's sprint on Friday.
Read Sprint Program Director Jamie Staff's description of the Baranoski's path to keirin bronze.
In the other finals of the day, Ruth Winder (Lafayette, Calif.) placed 11th in the women's scratch race, and in the women's sprint Madalyn Godby (Louisville, Colo.) was 10th, Christine Barron (Los Angeles, Calif.) came in 19th and Shelbe Eck (Kutztown, Penn.) finished 22nd.
The 2010 UCI Juniors Track World Championships in Montichiari, Italy, ends Sunday, August 15. Coryn Rivera (Tustin, Calif.) is vying for a medal in the women's omnium, with the 500-meter time trial finishing up the competition. Additional competitors for the U.S.A. include Juan Carmona (Breinigsville, Penn.) in the 1-kilometer time trial, and Godby and Eck in the women's keirin.
UCI Juniors Track World Championship
Montichiari, Italy
August 11-15, 2010
Men's Keirin
1. Matthew Glaetzer — Australia
2. Mauricio Quiroga — Argentina
3. Matthew Baranoski (Perkasie, Penn.)
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Ned Overend Wins Single Speed Nationals
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This weekend is Mountain Bike Nationals in Sol Vista. Tons of racing with lots of great stories. Like Todd Wells winning a national title.
Another great story from yesterday is Ned Overend at age 54 wining the singlespeed national title. Here is a great interview where he talks about the bike he is riding and the race.
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SEATTLE – Sunday's rubber between the Huskies and the Sun Devils has delayed due to inclement weather. The game is now scheduled for a tentative start time at 1 p.m. PT and will still be broadcast on the Pac-12 networks.
Fans should continue following the Sun Devils on Twitter - @ASUSoftball - for continued weather and time updates throughout the day.


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I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 system sitting in a co-location facility. It has four onboard NICs and a 2-port PCIe NIC in one of the slots. I'm usually working with HP servers, so I have the ability to enable/disable PCI devices in the BIOS to control device appearance during installations. Sometimes, I work around NIC enumeration issues this way (e.g. motherboard port 1 was actually eth2 for my CentOS installer). But in this case, I want to keep the card in the server, but just not available to the OS for testing purposes. The HP ProLiant BIOS lets you disable specific devices. Does the Dell R610 offer this? I was only able to see IRQ assignment options in the R610 BIOS.
I could not find a way to do this within the Dell R710 or R610 BIOS. It just may not be a feature available to the Dell systems.
From linux I can give you two options:
Also, I remember that dell has the openmanage and may be, and just may be, is there an option for that on it.


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This year's Alaska cruise season may have just ended, but at least one cruise line is already announcing plans there for 2007.
Holland America has announced that next year will be its busiest Alaska season ever, but don't get too excited yet. The truth is that though the line's total capacity will be higher than any year in the venerable line's history, there will actually be three fewer departures than last year (156 in 2007 vs. 159 in 2006). Also, there will be no actual increase in the number of ships serving the region; it'll be eight, just like this year.
So how can it be a record-setter for HAL? The qualifier here is that three Vista-class vessels -- including Noordam, the line's newest and a newbie to Alaska -- will offer slightly higher passenger capacity and fresher onboard options (last year, mainstays included Westerdam and Zaandam).
Good News for Road Warriors: Those who choose a tour along Alaska's roadways will do so via brand-new or "recently enhanced" Explorer Coaches; the 39 new coaches (used on longer highway runs) and 36 retrofitted vehicles all feature more creature comforts for touring, including extra legroom and comfy leather seats (think first-class!), a mini-galley with cold snacks and beverages, an eight-channel in-seat audio system, and an enriched narration program, topical handouts and exclusive videos.
A New "Old" Railway: Holland America has always used the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad, but in 2007, a new section between Lake Bennett and Carcross will be completed (to the tune of $8 million). On CruiseTours 3, 4, 5, and 6, guests will actually stop at Lake Bennett, the staging point 100 years ago for 20,000 gold rush stampeders.
More Wilderness Options: The line has actually coined a new term for 2007, "Your Personal Wilderness," and has created tours to convey this concept to guests. In 2007, Holland America is on tap for more Glacier Bay visits than any other cruise line, and features the park on all three itineraries. (Holland America will also offer 18 -- same amount as last year -- "Double Denali" experiences: two nights at a wilderness lodge near the gates of Denali National Park, a comprehensive guided Tundra Wilderness Tour and optional excursions.)
Meanwhile, Princess tells us that they'll deploy the intimate Pacific Princess to the region next year -- a small yet still mass-market option in Alaska for folks who like the big-ship amenities (alternative dining and balconies) in a more intimate atmosphere. They'll also offer more Gulf of Alaska voyages (with five ships on the route) than any other cruise line.
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Eric Hansen, an Arizona alum and former assistant, served as the head coach of the Arizona swimming and diving program for two-and-a-half seasons before stepping down in January of 2014.
The Wildcats had plenty of success in Hansen's first season at the helm of the program. The men's team earned a fourth place team finish at the NCAA Championship, while earning five individual national titles. The team of Adam Small, Mitchell Friedemann, Kevin Cordes and Giles Smith won the NCAA title in the 200 medley relay, while Austen Thompson (400 IM), Cordes (100 breast), Cory Chitwood (200 back), Ben Grado (platform diving) each earned NCAA Championships as well.His team garnered 2 American Records during the championship (Kevin Cordes in the 100 yardbreaststrokeand the 200 Medley Relay).Meanwhile, the women's team earned a fifth place showing at the NCAA Championships. In total, the Wildcats had 26 individuals earn All-American honors.
Three Arizona swimmers (Matt Greevers, Alysa Anderson and Clark Burckle)also swam in the London Olympic Games, earning three total medals (3 gold and 1 silver). And, UA/Ford Aquatics sent 54 total swimmers to the U.S. Olympic Trials in Lincoln, NB - the largest team at the event.
Not only did the Arizona athletes succeed in competition, but they also finished strong in the classroom as 25 total athletes landed on the Pac-12 All-Academic Teams.
Hansen returned to Tucson after serving as the head coach at the University of Wisconsin for 12 seasons. During his time in Madison, Hansen transformed the program into a perennial contender with his women's team finishing among the top-20 on 10 separate occasions at theNCAAChampionships including an 11th place finish and UW's first individual national champion at this year's championships in Austin, Texas. Hansen revitalized the men's program during his time atWisconsinincluding a top-12 finish atNCAA's.
Hansen's coaching can be measured on a national scale with 56 of his student-athletes (36 women, 20 men) earning a total of 289 All-America citations during his tenure at UW. On the international scene, while at Wisconsin, Hansen coached two Olympic athletes in gold medalist Carly Piper and Adam Mania.
In 2006, Hansen led theWisconsinwomen's team to its highest-ever finish at theNCAAChampionships with a ninth-place showing. One year earlier, he helped swimmers Piper and Tim Liebhold to a pair of national titles with Piper winning the 400-meter freestyle at World Championship Trials and Liebhold capturing the 200-meter I.M. at the U.S. Championships
Guiding Piper to a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team in 2004 for the games in Athens, Greece, she went on to earn a gold medal as part of the 800-meter freestyle relay team that broke a 17 year-old record in the event.
During the 2002-03 season, he guided the Badger women's team to a second-place finish at the Big Ten Championships and was named as the conference's Coach of the Year.
Hansen served as an assistant under Frank Busch at UA previously from 1996-99 and coached six national champions, 11 All-Americans and numerous Pac-10 champions during his time in Tucson.
Heavily involved in the U.S. National Team program, Hansen served as the head coach for the American team at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China.
Other national team coaching experience on Hansen's resume includes serving as a head coach in 2006 for the World Short Course Championships inShanghai, as a men's assistant for the Pan Pacific Championships inVictoria,British Columbia,the 2002 U.S. Head Coach, Short Course Worlds in Moscow, Russia and Head Coach for the Pan American Games team in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
A native ofSioux City,Iowa, Hansen served as the head coach of the Phoenix Swim Club from 1992-95, coaching two world record holders, four American record holders and five members of theU.S.national team.
A member of the U.S. National Team from 1987 to 1992, Hansen captained theU.S.team at the 1991 World University Games. Swimming for then-Hillenbrand Aquatics (now Ford Aquatics), he won a national championship in the 100 backstroke in 1990.
Collegiately, Hansen was a six-time All-American atIowaStateand was named Big 8 Conference swimmer of the year in 1987 and 1988. Additionally, he wasIowaState's athlete of the year in 1988.
Hansen graduated fromIowaStatein 1988 with a bachelor's degree in exercise science and received a master's degree in exercise physiology fromArizonain 1990.
Eric Hansen Career Highlights
--12-year head coach at Wisconsin leading the program to its highest finish
--3-year assistant at Arizona under Frank Busch from 1996-1999
--Swam for Hillenbrand Aquatics, winning a national championship in 1990
--Served as the 2011 World University Games head coach for Team USA in Shenzhen, China
--2002 Short Course World Championships head coach, Moscow, Russia
--2003 Pan American Games head coach, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
--2006 World Short Course Championships head coach
--2006 Pan Pacific men's team assistant coach
--Six-time All-American while swimming collegiately at Iowa State


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Paul Gauguin
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Universally revered as one of the founding fathers of modern painting, Paul Gauguin was also an accomplished printer. Working mostly in woodcuts, he translated his fascination with life in the South Seas into pieces of extraordinary beauty and simplicity. This volume presents the three print series which Gauguin created: a dozen zinc etchings made in 1889; his most famous series, the partially hand-tinted woodcuts created for his famed book, "Noa Noa," which were made after Gauguin's first trip to Tahiti; and a third series of woodcuts completed during his second stay on the island. This small printed oeuvre demonstrates how the medium was an ideal outlet for Gauguin's experimental and audacious artistry.


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Another TCV tenant chimes in on Ciudad's woes:
It is real estate that's affecting Ciudad. The new owners Turtle Creek Village have not been forthcoming with information to the tenants. There are plans to build a West Village-style complex here, but they're leaving all of the current tenants out of it. Monica is one of several tenants abandoning Turtle Creek Village. The construction on the new space is slated for spring with rents more than doubling.
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Metro Boston, North Shore and Metro West: The March numbers are in for Boston and no surprise that it was a much colder than average month. The following numbers represent observations taken at Logan Airport in east Boston and may not be representative of other locations throughout northeast Massachusetts.
High temperatures averaged 41.7 degrees, low temperatures 25.2 degrees with the average for the month at 33.5. This is -4.8 degrees below normal. There were two days in which it reached 60 degrees, on the 11th and 28th, with a total of nine nights in which lows fell below 20 degrees. The lowest temperature for the month was 11 degrees on the 6th. Inland sections saw their temperatures fall into the teens and even single digits several more times than in Boston. For example, Lawrence recorded twelve nights of below 20 degree temperatures and within that number seven times they fell below 10. Beverly, fifteen times below 20 with five of those nights below 10 degrees.
After a snowy January and February there was not much snow in March as several potential storms went to our south. Snowfall was only recorded at 2.2 inches in Boston, although many areas south of the city recorded much more than that. It remained dry through most of March until the heavy rainfall of the last three days of the month brought totals to just about average.
We welcomed April on Tuesday and with that hopefully more seasonal weather. In fact the pattern for the remainder of the work week favors tranquil weather with seasonal temperatures, perhaps slightly above average across the interior. Sea breezes, now there's a Spring weather term for you, are likely to develop Wednesday and Thursday which will keep it much cooler along the coast with a general trend for onshore winds everywhere on Friday.
After the flooding rainfall of the past weekend we can certainly use a stretch of dry weather this week. With a dry weak frontal boundary moving through Wednesday, low pressure missing to our south and high pressure in the area we should maintain dry conditions into Friday.
Low pressure in the Midwest Friday morning is expected to track to a position near Long Island by Saturday morning. This will bring a period of wet weather Friday night into Saturday with drying conditions over the second half of the weekend.
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Wednesday through Thursday night: Generally partly cloudy skies. High temperatures in the 50s inland, upper 40s to near 50 on the coast with temperatures falling through the 40s by late afternoon along coastal locations. Onshore winds coast, light and variable winds across the interior. Overnight lows in the 30s with winds light and variable.
Friday: Sunny start, followed by increasing clouds. Cooler, highs in the mid 40s. Light northeast winds.
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Article III of the Constitution of the United States provides that judges of constitutional courts shall serve during "good behavior." The purpose of that provision was to secure the independence of the federal judiciary from any efforts of others with political power to influence judicial decisions improperly. The term has often been assumed to mean that Supreme Court justices may hold office until they resign, die or are removed for serious misfeasance. Our nation has greatly benefitted from the exceptional independence of the federal judiciary, but the independence principle does not require lifetime tenure for justices. The conventional assumption has become unsound because of increases in our longevity and other changes that have increased the tenure of justices.
Since 1971: (1) Average tenure in office, historically about 16 years, has increased to nearly 26 years; (2) the average age upon leaving office has increased from about 70 to 79; and (3) the average number of years between appointments has increased from the historical figure of a vacancy every 2 years to one every 3 years. The lengthening of tenure is illustrated by the fact that, prior to the Rehnquist and O'Connor vacancies in 2005, there was no new appointment on the Court for more than eleven years, the longest period without change since the Court was increased to nine justices nearly 150 years ago.
The Founders, acting at a time when life expectancy at birth was less than 40 years, could not foresee that lifetime tenure would result in persons holding so powerful an office for a generation or more. Today an American at age 40 has a life expectancy of 39 years and at age 53 (the average age of appointees to the Supreme Court) a life expectancy of about 30 years. These changes have at least three unwelcome secondary consequences that need to be addressed:
First, as justices serve ever longer terms, rotation in office occurs infrequently and the higher stakes of appointing a justice for 25-40 years place stress on the confirmation process.
A principal consequence of the lengthening tenure of Supreme Court justices is that the Court has become less accountable to the people. This accountability, under the U.S. Constitution, flows from the appointment process; the remedy of impeachment is only available when a Senate trial has determined that a justice has committed a major crime. And the appointment process only comes into play when a vacancy arises or the Court is expanded in size by legislation. As the Court's accountability has declined, it has exercised increased authority and has seen fit to displace state and federal legislative bodies by its own ideas of social structure or moral conduct. Matters as disparate as abortion, the death penalty and the boundaries of voting districts have become fields in which it purports to exercise ultimate authority.
Lengthened terms diminish the accountability of the Court to the political process. Until recently, virtually all Presidents who served at least four years made at least one appointment to the Supreme Court. But that is no longer the case. Some Presidents are now afforded no appointments during a four-year term. When an opportunity to make an appointment is presented, Presidents have incentives to appoint younger persons likely to serve 35 years or more. A President serving two terms may hope to appoint five justices who could control the Court for a full generation. And Senators voting to confirm a nominee may need to take into account the prospect that the nominee will be exercising political power over his or her constituents on a future that cannot be foreseen.
Moreover, the absence of rotation in membership elevates the Court's role as a political institution. Presidents, heads of departments, senators, and members of Congress come and go, but today justices stay and stay. An important reason justices stay on when they are eligible to retire at full pay, as United States circuit judges generally do, is that justices enjoy the exercise of such great power and the celebrity that flows from it. True, an individual justice is constrained by the differing views of other justices and the necessity of building a coalition. But the institution has come to exercise powers over the lives of citizens that in important respects exceed those of the other branches of the federal government and even more those of the states.
1 This paper draws heavily on a 2005 memorandum and proposed statute that was endorsed in principle by nearly fifty leading constitutional law and federal courts scholars. The proposal itself, somewhat edited from the initial version, may be found on the Internet at the following address: http://www.paulcarrington.com/Supreme Court Renewal Act.htm. For extensive discussion of the lengthening tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices, its consequences, and proposals for reform, see Paul D. Carrington & Roger C. Cramton (eds.), Reforming the Court: Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices, Carolina Academic Press, 2006.


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'Year of Faith' and Medicaid
Our country has been steeped in political debate these past two years and now looks forward to Election Day in November. As a result of the heavy coverage of a narrowing presidential race, tensions continue to mount. These next four weeks will be filled with election news, and to the detriment of other, non-political, newsworthy events.
One event that occurred last week with little news coverage was the opening of the "Year of Faith" at the Vatican this past Thursday.
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Arriving today on Blu-Ray is "Bad Grandpa .5", an extended version of last year's hit comedy "Bad Grandpa," which featured Johnny Knoxville as foul-mouthed elderly crank Irving Zisman, who takes his grandson on a cross-country adventure, showcasing hidden camera pranks along the way. "Bad Grandpa .5" ditches the narrative spine, and features interviews, outtakes and deleted scenes.
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"Bad Grandpa" was one of the pleasant surprises of last year, featuring some of Jackass' best, most elaborate pranks yet, while also weaving a story through each prank. The inventive hybrid led to Jackass' best reviews yet.
The lack of narrative begs the question: Is "Bad Grandpa .5" even a movie? It feels like an 80-minute feature for a DVD release, showing failed takes, pranks too weak for the original release and deleted scenes that didn't make the cut. It's a mixed bag.
There are some funny moments, including deleted scenes and pranks featuring acclaimed actress Catherine Keener as Irving's wife Ellie. Another extended scene featuring Spike Jonez as an old lady meeting guys off of Craiglist is stunning as Jonez meets various pervs and lunatics through the site. Many of the sketches are strong, but it's clear why these weren't in the original "Bad Grandpa." Even the funnier ideas just sort of meander, and rarely end in a satisfying way.
Both "Jackass 2" and "Jackass 3" received later ".5" releases after them much like this, with deleted scenes, outtakes, etc, with enough new footage to almost justify the double dip. This new disc comes in a Blu-Ray edition, although aside from the Oscar-nominated makeup, the footage doesn't really beg for a high-def release.
"Bad Grandpa .5" has several laughs, but selling a glorified DVD extra as an individual Blu-Ray release may be Jackass' best prank of all. You can view some archived photos of the "Bad Grandpa" gang in the slideshow above. For the latest Blu-Ray news and reviews, subscribe to the Blu-Ray Examiner today.


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5 Advantages of the Plugin Portal
By Geertjan-Oracle on Nov 01, 2007
- Simplicity. You can very easily upload your plugin. No pain at all. Click an Upload button, fill in a very few details, and Bob's your auntie.
- Statistics. Simple as falling off a log to see which of your plugins are most popular. Here are my top plugins:
Knowing which ones are most popular is a bit meaningless, because it says nothing about their quality. It simply shows how many people downloaded your plugin and, as far as I am aware, if one person clicks the Download button 50 times, you'll have 50 new additions to your Download number.
- Storage. No simpler way of safely storing a plugin in progress than to upload it to the Plugin Portal.
- Publicity. Many eyeballs are on that Plugin Portal and it is also available in the IDE, via the Plugin Manager, if you install the plugin that makes the Plugin Portal update center available to the IDE.
- Categories. Once you've put your plugin in a category, you can use the tag cloud on the right hand side of the Plugin Portal to see other similar plugins that might relate to your own.
There are some imperfections, but I think the Plugin Portal is already a very useful facility. Thanks Dave for all the work that went into it. It's really added a significant extension to the NetBeans community experience.
In other news. Check out two really cool articles by Wouter van Reeven, Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2 and Deploying to GlassFish using Maven2.


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Last Sunday, 17 Houstonians boarded a bus outside the Whole Foods store in River Oaks, and set off of on a culinary adventure. Accompanied by Houston chefs Monica Pope and Bryan Caswell, we visited some of the places they like to go to eat. We got to talk with them on the bus and at the restaurants and a great time was had by all. Do I need to mention that we ate at four restaurants? Three of the four were gluten-friendly, and I have included photos from those three restaurants. We visited Les Givral, Vieng Thai, Sinh Sinh and Kasra Persian grill. I was able to eat mostly everything at Les Givral, Vieng Thai (watch out there is soy sauce in some of the items), and Kasra. It was a little more difficult at Sinh Sinh, which has some very beautiful dishes but most of them contain wheat in some form or another.
There will be other Culinary tours with other Houston chefs coming up. If you are interested in going on one of the tours, please visit Houston Culinary Tours.
In news from Gluten Free Houston, our fresh-baked gluten free breads, rolls, cookies and muffins are now available at Central Market, and at the following Whole Foods stores: Bellaire Blvd, Kirby/Alabama, and Sugar Land.
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Student Spotlight: Sarah Johnston and Caitlin Stagg
Category : Student Spotlight
Students from Idaho and New York escape the snowy winter and enjoy a semester of sunshine through A Semester in Hawai'i. Click on the links to learn more about what Sarah and Caitlin enjoy about Hawai'i.
Sarah Johnston: I'm a nursing major from Buffalo, New York, and I attend St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.
Caitlin Stagg: I'm from Boise, Idaho, my major is journalism, and I attend the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.
Favorite Form of Social Media
Sarah: Hand written letters! I love getting mail; it's exciting to open the mailbox and find letters or packages. My birthday is this weekend, and I'm expecting 2 packages!
Caitlin: Tumblr – I post mostly pictures.
Greatest Adventure
Sarah: My greatest adventure was driving across the country twice, from New York to California, down to Alabama and back up to New York. I've seen almost every U.S. state.
Caitlin: Travelling to Costa Rica for a service project. We stayed on an indigenous reservation and built new bathrooms, fences, and other facilities for an elementary school. The Costa Rican government does not provide service to the reservation, so they are lacking in many things. It was interesting to see the differences between the big city of San José with all its conveniences and the reservation with so much poverty. I definitely want to go back and do more projects!
Dream Job
Sarah: I'm a huge animal lover and want to take home every stray cat or dog that I see; so my dream job would be to take care of animals – as a vet, dog-walker, anything!
Caitlin: Fashion photographer. My mom has a nice camera, and I'm always playing around with it.
Long-Term Goals
Sarah: To work in the ER or Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit.
Caitlin: My long-term goals are unknown at this time!
Favorite Thing to Do at Home
Sarah: We live on Lake Erie in New York, so I like to go wake boarding and water skiing.
Caitlin: In Idaho I like to go see movies with my friends or take road trips on the spur of the moment.
Favorite Thing to Do in Hawai'i
Sarah: Hiking is one of my favorite things to do in Hawai'i.
Caitlin: Go to the beach with my friends; we like to watch the surfers and body boarders at Sandy Beach. The water is so rough there, and it's amazing to see them ride the waves.
Favorite Hawai'i Place
Sarah: Any place with a view from high up; I love seeing the island and ocean spread out for miles. I can't wait to hike Koko Crater.
Caitlin: The beaches, especially Lanikai Beach. The sand is so fine.
Favorite Local Food
Sarah: Pineapple!
Caitlin: Malasadas from Leonard's; my friends and I go to Sandy Beach and eat an entire box!
Favorite Hawai'i Tradition
Both: The warm Hawai'i greeting, with a kiss on the cheek.


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RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook launched in the US and Canada, prices start at$499
RIM has kept its promise and today launched the BlackBerry Playbook – its first tablet. For the moment, the PlayBook is available only in the US and Canada, but it will be introduced in other markets starting later this quarter.
As you may already know, the PlayBook – presented by RIM as "the world's first professional-grade tablet" – has three versions: 16GB (priced at $499), 32GB ($599), and 64GB ($699).
In the US, you should be able to find the PlayBook in lots of locations, including Best Buy stores, AT&T, RadioShack, Staples, and Office Depot. Sprint will launch a 4G PlayBook later this summer for prices that have not been unveiled.
To check out all the places where the PlayBook is available (be it in the US or Canada), head on over to RIM's official website. I'm looking forward to seeing how many tablets RIM will sell in the first month(s) of availability.


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It's sad but true-the candy we love most is toxic to dogs. For example, ten ounces of chocolate or one large candy bar can potentially kill a 22 lb dog. The dangerous components are caffeine and cherbrimind which over stimulate the nervous system and cause such signs as restlessness, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, seizures, coma and in some cases, death.
Treatment by a veterinarian to empty the stomach should be immediate. At home, give one teaspoon hydrogen peroxide per 10 lbs of body weight every fifteen minutes until vomiting occurs. If vomiting does not occur within a half hour, contact a veterinarian.


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Use revel in a sentence
- Rather, a thousand times rather, would he beg his bread, and attain great things in Art, than riot and revel in good-fortune. [10]
- Hither come, to the scene of our revel, The gladsome band of the faithful. [10]
- Revel sat perfectly still. [11]
- No prince could revel in the blissful consciousness of increasing power, more fully than he. [10]
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Use major in a sentence
- But the Major would not get aboard himself nor allow me to do it. [5]
- And the Major was willing to unpack his budget. [4]
- He has never uttered anything which he, Major T., would call disloyalty. [7]
- Major Colfax leaped up in his chair. [9]
- Both rooms belonged to a spacious suite which lay between the harem and the major portion of the Palace. [11]
- Major Colfax turned to Colonel Clark with marked impatience. [9]
- The Major dragged them out and threw them off the car, and we got under way again. [5]
- Major Sherman paid them no attention, and the Judge, once launched in an argument, forgot his surroundings. [9]
- And when for the moment he would conquer his mirth, a glance at Major Colfax would set him off again in laughter. [9]
- MAJOR ECKERT: Please send the above telegram. [7]
- He got for reply: The Major said yes, he was not in a hurry. [5]
- Pretty soon the parlour-car conductor arrived, and said, brusquely: The Major was shuffling. [5]
- The Major spoke now, and asked one of them to take his telegram. [5]
- Porridge, for the major was Scotch, and had taught his French cook to make it as the Scotch make it. [9]
- The Major did know of a place in the neighborhood where he lived. [4]
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"WWE's new series "House of Legends," premiered yesterday on April 17, 204 and Examiner.com had the opportunity to meet the cast and get some scoop about the show. The series follows the lives of eight westling legends living in the same house. A special screening was held at Smith & Wollensky, a classic New York City steakhouse. The special viewing was held in a party room on the second floor. The first thing we noticed about the space was a gigantic skylight.
The show stars WWE superstars from the past including Howard Finkel, Gene Oakland, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Tony Atlas, Hillbilly Jim, Jimmy Hart and Haacksaw Jim Duggan. Pat Patterson could not attend the event. We took some photos and then had the chance to ask the wrestlers from questions. Read our exclusive interview below.
Q: So Hacksaw what was it like filming the show?
HJD: Everything's been pretty good. It was kind of odd because you had your own camera crew - camera man, assistant camera man, sound guy, and a producer following you around all day. The deal is you gotta ignore them, just act like they're not there, but I'm like 'Hey, how's it going?'and they're like 'don't talk to the guy'.
Q: Since you guys have worked together in the past were you close with any the guys? If so what was your relationship with the other guya before filming?
HJD: Well in the dressing room you always say hello to everybody, but you don't really know anybody. So when I got to legends house they were like 'you're gonna have a roommate' I was like 'a roommate? I haven't had a roommate since college.' I was thinking maybe Hillybilly Jim or Jimmy Hart, but as I get there they're like 'Piper's your roommate and I'm like 'Piper?' ... but after that we hit it off. That's one of the stories of legend house, how close Piper and I have become. Our families are close now.
After a few minutes Piper had joined us but by that time, we had begun watching the first episode. The show had a very comedic warm hearted approach however, by the end of the episode Hacksaw and Tony atlas had a brief altercation.
On a side note, for lunch guests enjoyed a filet mingnon with cream spinach. The food was incredible and we highly recommend this restaurant. Our personal reaction to the show was we love it. The concept was great and we felt like the cast members were all fun and lovable. At the end, each guest received a special WWE 50th Anniversary Book.


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By Rob Moseley
Editor, GoDucks.com
With Oregon approaching a season-opening matchup against Nicholls on Saturday, the focus of new coach Mark Helfrich's first pregame press conference Tuesday was on his UO debut more than the X's and O's of facing the Colonels.
True to his low-key nature, Helfrich didn't betray many emotions.
"There's obviously some anxiety -- of some of these guys that haven't been in this situation before," Helfrich said. "But by and large, I think our preparation has been good, and now we just have to go out and play."
Helfrich will make his head coaching debut Saturday in Autzen Stadium at 1:05 p.m., Oregon's first game following four highly successful seasons under Chip Kelly. He was asked today if it's a moment he always dreamed about while growing up in Coos Bay on the Oregon coast.
If he dreamed about coaching one day, Helfrich said, it was actually in the NBA.
"I don't think I ever did dream about that, and I know that makes some people mad," Helfrich said. "I always listened to Bill Schonely on the radio with the Blazers, and I remember drawing up inbounds plays. That's about the closest I ever came to dreaming of coaching. But I think everybody's excited, and excited for our guys, first and foremost."
Helfrich said he's received plenty of advice – "some unsolicited," he joked – about how Saturday will go. In particular, he has spoken with his predecessors with the Ducks, Rich Brooks, Mike Bellotti and Kelly.
The last piece of advice he'll receive will come, as usual, from his brother John. The two speak every gameday when Helfrich gets to the stadium, a tradition he plans to continue, and which started innocently enough.
"We just did it one day and kind of said, 'Hey, we should do this all the time,'" Helfrich said.
He'll have help from his team leaders, too. Helfrich said Taylor Hart, Tony Washington, Wade Keliikipi, Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, Marcus Mariota, Hroniss Grasu and Josh Huff have stepped up to fill the leadership void left by Oregon's 2012 seniors. Helfrich has also been pleased to see De'Anthony Thomas become more vocal this fall.
Mariota remains a somewhat soft-spoken individual, but he's been progressing as a leader, Helfrich said. The coach compared Mariota to Andrew Walter, a guy Helfrich coached at Arizona State, who was also relatively quiet but learned to raise his voice with the team over time.
Overall, Helfrich said, "Marcus has been, both as a player and as a leader, he's had an outstanding camp."
Helfrich hasn't just been receiving input, but providing it. He's met with his successor as UO offensive coordinator, Scott Frost, about what to expect Saturday.
Helfrich's primary message: "Attack. Go fast."
Like Kelly before him, however, Helfrich has had very little input on defense, beyond personnel decisions such as redshirts, etc.
"Those guys are experts," Helfrich said of his defensive staff. "They've done a great job. I'm not in there teaching (defensive line coach) Ron Aiken how to two-gap."
Regarding the matchups with Nicholls, Helfrich said the Colonels are "very multiple" on defense, and can hurt opponents with the mobility of their quarterback.
As much as anything, though, he's excited to see how his own team handles itself Saturday.
"We're excited to go, as a team, as a group, as a unit," Helfrich said. "We're ramping up to that day.


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Norwegian Cruise Line won't claim originality with its pre-cruise online entertainment reservation system onboard the upcoming Norwegian Epic.
Royal Caribbean took that honor last November when the gargantuan Oasis of the Seas debuted.
Yet, coupled with the debut of its unique lineup of original cruise ship entertainment, including cruise line entertainment with unprecedented and world-class on-board entertainment, including Blue Man Group, Cirque Dreams™ & Dinner, The Second City® Comedy Troupe, Legends in Concert, Howl at the Moon Dueling Pianos Show and Nickelodeon™ at Sea, NCL continues to ramp up the anticipation for Norwegian Epic's debut next month.
"Norwegian Epic will redefine cruise ship entertainment with its wide variety of world-class entertainment," said Kevin Sheehan, NCL's chief executive officer. "We believe there will be a huge demand for the on-board entertainment and to ensure that guests can see the performances of their choice, we created a special pre-booking mechanism. We feel that this will further the Freestyle Cruising experience, offering guests unsurpassed flexibility and convenience."
Passengers can book entertainment options online 45 days prior to sailing date. Reservations for entertainment events with no cover charge will be held until 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time when they will be released to other guests on a first-come basis. Reservations with a cover charge must be canceled 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund.
Once onboard, guest can book shows through their stateroom television system, or the old-fashioned way – at the box office.
Online reservations are currently available for Norwegian Epic's June 24 transatlantic sailing. The ship begins alternating Eastern and Western Caribbean seven-day sailings from Miami on July 10. To book a cruise on Norwegian Epic, visit NCL online; call 888-NCL-CRUISE (625-2784); or contact a travel professional.


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Erignathus barbatus
|Scientific Name:
|Erignathus barbatus
|Species Authority:
|(Erxleben, 1777)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Rice (1998) lists two intergrading subspecies as recognizable: Erignathus barbatus barbatus and E. b. nauticus. However, Burns (1981) questioned the validity of the division.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Kovacs, K. & Lowry, L. (IUCN SSC Pinniped Specialist Group)
|Kovacs, K., Lowry, L. (Pinniped Red List Authority) & Stuart, S.N. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Due to its large population, broad distribution, variable feeding habits and no evidence of a decline, the Bearded Seal should be classified as Least Concern. However, this species is likely going to be negatively impacted by climate change, and should be monitored over the coming decades.
IUCN Evaluation of the Bearded Seals, Erignathus barbatus
Prepared by Seal Specialist Group
A. Population reduction Declines measured over the longer of 10 years or 3 generations
Al. Population reduction observed, estimated, inferred, or suspected in the past where the causes of the reduction are clearly reversible AND understood AND have ceased, based on and specifying any of the following:
(a) direct observation
(b) an index of abundance appropriate to the taxon
(c) a decline in area of occupancy (AOO), extent of occurrence (EOO) and/or habitat quality
(d) actual or potential levels of exploitation
(e) effects of introduced taxa, hybridization, pathogens, pollutants, competitors or parasites.
Similar to most northern phocid seals sexual maturity is reached in bearded seals between 3-5 years of age and maximum longevity is approximately 35 year of age. Thus, the average age of reproducing individuals should be at least 10 years. A population reduction of Bearded Seals has not been observed, estimated, inferred, or suspected in the past 30 years. However, population abundance is poorly known and has not been monitored.
A2. Population reduction observed, estimated, inferred, or suspected in the past where the causes of reduction may not have ceased OR may not be understood OR may not be reversible, based on (a) to (e) under Al.
A population reduction of Bearded Seals has not been observed, estimated, inferred, or suspected in the past 30 years.
A3. Population reduction projected or suspected to be met in the future (up to a maximum of 100 years) based on (b) to (e) under A1.
A population reduction of Bearded Seals is suspected in the future because of predicted reduction in sea ice habitats due to continued climate warming. The likely amount of population reduction has not been projected and is extremely difficult to predict. Because of the bearded seals broad distribution and current abundance (and perhaps also sufficient behavioral flexibility to use a variety of substrates) declines are unlikely to exceed 30% within the next 30 years. However, there is considerable uncertainty regarding this prediction and monitoring is strongly encouraged.
A4. An observed, estimated, inferred, projected or suspected population reduction (up to a maximum of 100 years) where the time period must include both the past and the future, and where the causes of reduction may not have ceased OR may not be understood OR may not be reversible, based on (a) to (e) under A1.
A population reduction of Bearded Seals has not been observed, estimated, inferred, or suspected in the past 30 years.
B. Geographic range in the form of either B1 (extent of occurrence) AND/OR B2 (area of occupancy)
B1. Extent of occurrence (EOO): CR < 100 km²; EN < 5,000 km²; VU < 20,000 km²
The EOO of Bearded Seals is > 20,000 km².
B2. Area of occupancy (AOO): CR < 10 km²; EN < 500 km²; VU < 2,000 km²
The AOO of Bearded Seals is > 2,000 km².
AND at least 2 of the following:
(a) Severely fragmented, OR number of locations: CR = 1; EN < 5; VU < 10
(b) Continuing decline in any of: (i) extent of occurrence; (ii) area of occupancy; (iii) area, extent and/or quality of habitat; (iv) number of locations or subpopulations; (v) number of mature individuals.
(c) Extreme fluctuations in any of: (i) extent of occurrence; (ii) area of occupancy; (iii) number of locations or subpopulations; (iv) number of mature individuals.
C. Small population size and decline
Number of mature individuals: CR < 250; EN < 2,500; VU < 10,000
The current abundance of Bearded Seals is poorly known, but the number of mature individuals is certainly > 10,000.
AND either C1 or C2:
C1. An estimated continuing decline of at least: CR = 25% in 3 years or 1generation; EN = 20% in 5 years or 2 generations; VU = 10% in 10 years or 3 generations (up to a max. of 100 years in future)
C2. A continuing decline AND (a) and/or (b):
(a i) Number of mature individuals in each subpopulation: CR < 50; EN < 250; VU < 1,000
(a ii) % individuals in one subpopulation: CR = 90–100%; EN = 95–100%; VU = 100%
(b) Extreme fluctuations in the number of mature individuals.
D. Very small or restricted population
Number of mature individuals: CR < 50; EN < 250; VU < 1,000 AND/OR restricted area of occupancy typically: AOO < 20 km² or number of locations < 5
The current abundance of Bearded Seals is poorly known, but the number of mature individuals is certainly > 1,000. AOO is > 20 km² and the number of locations is > 5.
E. Quantitative Analysis
Indicating the probability of extinction in the wild to be: Indicating the probability of extinction in the wild to be: CR > 50% in 10 years or 3 generations (100 years max.); EN > 20% in 20 years or 5 generations (100 years max.); VU > 10% in 100 years
There has been no quantitative analysis of the probability of extinction for Bearded Seals.
Listing recommendation — Past, poorly documented, estimates of bearded seal abundance suggest a total population size of more than 500,000. Current abundance and population trend are unknown. Based on reports from coastal hunters, and limited catch reporting in the Canadian Arctic Bearded Seals are still thought to be numerous and no major changes in abundance have been reported. Bearded Seals should thus be listed as Least Concern. However, climate warming and reduction in sea ice coverage are occurring and because Bearded Seals depend on sea ice for reproduction they are likely to decline in the decades to come. Because of the potential risk to Bearded Seals associated with global warming and loss of sea this species should be reassessed within a decade.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Bearded Seals have a patchy circumpolar distribution throughout much of the Arctic and sub-Arctic, south of 85ºN (Kelly 1988). A disjunct population inhabits the Sea of Okhotsk, ranging south to Hokkaido, Japan (Rice 1998). Bearded Seals reach the southern Bering Sea and Bristol Bay to the limit of seasonally ice covered waters regularly (Kelly 1988). They also occupy all of Hudson Bay, are found throughout much of the eastern Canadian Archipelago, both coasts of Greenland and south to southern Labrador. They can also be found along the north shore of Iceland, within the Svalbard Archipelago and across much of the north within the Russian Federation (Kovacs 2002). Bearded Seal vagrants have been reported from many locations outside the Arctic including Portugal in the eastern North Atlantic (van Bree 2000), the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, northern Newfoundland, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the western North Atlantic (Gosselin 1994).
The ranges of the two putative subspecies are divided near the central Canadian Arctic in the West and the Laptev Sea in the East, with the Atlantic subspecies barbatus occurring from the central Canadian Arctic east to the central Eurasian Arctic and the Pacific subspecies nauticus occurring from the Laptev Sea east to the central Canadian Arctic, including animals in the Sea of Okhotsk (Rice 1998). Geographical variation does exist in the calls of Bearded Seals across their range, suggesting some population substructure (Risch et al. 2007).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Canada; Greenland; Iceland; Japan; Norway; Russian Federation; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; United States
Vagrant:China; Faroe Islands; France; Germany; Netherlands; Portugal; Spain; United Kingdom
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – eastern central; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – northeast
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|The size of the global population of Bearded Seals is not known (Kovacs 2002). Crude published estimates for parts of the bearded seal's range include: 200,000-250,000 in the Sea of Okhotsk, including 60,000-75,000 off eastern Sakhalin Island (1968 to1990) and 250,000-300,000 in the Bering Sea, including 83,000-87,000 in the western Bering Sea (Fedoseev 2000). A minimum estimate for Canadian waters of 190,000 animals was suggested by Cleator (1996), based on data collected over a 35-year period. Angliss and Outlaw (2005) state that there are no current reliable population estimates for the Bering Chukchi stock of Bearded Seals. No estimates exist for the population in the Atlantic Ocean (Reijnders et al. 1993), or the region from the Barents to the Chukchi Sea. Population trends are not known.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Bearded Seals are the largest northern phocid seal. Adults reach lengths of 2-2.5 m and weights of 250-300 kg (Andersen et al. 1999) with females typically being slightly larger than males (Kovacs 2002). In the Bering Sea, males have been recorded to reach 390 kg and females 361 kg (Kelly 1988). Weight fluctuates dramatically during the year and bearded seals are typically at their lowest weight from mid-summer to autumn, after which they regain lost weight lost during breeding and moulting (Andersen et al. 1999).
In Alaskan waters, sexual maturity is reached at 3-6 years in females, with 80% of females having had a pup by age 6. Males reach sexual maturity at 6-7 years (Kelly 1988). Final body size is reached at approximately 9-10 years (McLaren 1958), and they can live 20-25 years (Kovacs 2002).
Bearded Seal pups are born on small floes of annual ice and they swim within hours of birth (Kovacs et al. 1996). Peak birthing occurs between late March and mid-May, varying somewhat across the bearded seal's range (Kovacs 2002). Pups in the Bering Sea average 132 cm and 34 kg in weight at birth and are weaned in an estimated 12-18 days when they weigh around 85 kg (Kelly 1988). Gjertz et al. (2000) estimated that in Svalbard pups are weaned in approximately 24 days. Prior to weaning their aquatic skills have developed to the degree that they spend about half their time in the water, diving for up to 5.5 minutes to depths of up to 84 m (Lydersen et al. 1994).
Adult females spend over 90% of their time in the water while caring for a dependent pup; about half this time is spent away from the neonate, presumably in foraging dives. Most female dives are relatively short and shallow. On average, there are 3 nursing bouts per day accomplished during the brief times the mother is out of the water. The amount of time mothers spend in the water is thought to be an adaptive response to polar bear predation, making the pair less conspicuous to hunting bears (Krafft et al. 2000).
Mating takes place at the end of lactation similar to other phocid seals. Males court females and display using elaborate downward trilling vocalizations that can travel many kilometers (Cleator et al. 1989). Individual males use distinct songs, and occupy the same territories over a series of consecutive years within constraints imposed by variable ice conditions, or they show a roaming pattern (VanParijs et al. 2001, 2003, 2004). In captivity singing males are attended by other satellite males similar to the male groups that have been observed for Harbour Seals in the wild (Davies et al. 2006).
Bearded Seals feed primarily on or near the bottom and most diving is to depths of less than 100 m (though dives of adults have been recorded up to 300 m and young-of-the-year have been recorded diving down to almost 500 m; Gjertz et al. 2000). They use their elaborate whiskers to search for prey on and in soft bottom substrates (Marshall et al. 2007, 2008). Because of their benthic feeding habits they live primarily in waters overlying the continental shelf, in shallow regions such as the Bering and Barents Seas (Burns 1981, Kovacs 2002). The availability of sea ice is a major habitat determinant for bearded seals. They are typically found in regions of broken free-floating pack ice; in these areas bearded seals prefer to use small and medium sized floes, avoiding large floes (Simpkins et al. 2003). They rarely haul out more than a body length from water and they use leads within shore-fast ice only if suitable pack ice is not available (Kovacs 2002). Bearded Seals naturally occur at quite low densities (e.g., Bengtson et al. 2005); they are typically solitary animals, but will form small, loose aggregations when ice availability is limited, such as at the time of moulting in midsummer.
The diet of Bearded Seals varies by age, location, season, and possibly also changes in prey availability in marine communities (Kelly 1988). Their primary foods live on or near the bottom, but also include some infauna as well as schooling and demersal fish (Burns 1981, Hjelset et al. 1999). In the Kara and Barents seas, the diet is dominated by crustaceans (shrimps) and molluscs (gastropods and bivalves). Cod, other demersal fish, and worms are also regular components of the diet. A wide variety of prey has been reported from the Sea of Okhotsk with crabs and shrimps accounting for 87% of the total intake for animals in the north, and clams, worms, and gastropods making up 40%, 23%, and 12% respectively of the intake for animals in the south near Sakhalin Island. In the Bering and Chukchi Seas, snow crab was the most important prey, followed by the crab Hyas coarctatus, while the reverse was true farther north. Shrimp species, gastropods, and octopus are important in both the northern and southern Bering Sea and the Chukchi Sea. The diet is similar in the Beaufort Sea with the addition of Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) (Burns 1981). Antonelis et al. (1994) found that 86% of Bearded Seals examined in the central Bering Sea in early spring, had fish in their stomachs. In order of importance these were capelin (Mallotus villosus), codfishes (Gadidae), and eelpouts (Lycodes spp.). Lowry et al. (1980) reported similar findings on percentage of the occurrence of fish in stomachs, but reported that fish as a percent of total volume was 16% from May through September, and dropped to 5% for October through April. In the eastern Canadian Arctic, Bearded Seals in the summer consumed a minimum of 12 fish species, dominated by sculpins (Cottidae) and Arctic cod with fish prey accounting for greater than 90% of the wet weight of the stomach contents (Finley and Evans 1983). At Svalbard, Bearded Seals eat a wide variety of prey (>50% of collected stomachs had 5 or more prey species). Polar cod (Boreogadis saida), sculpins (Cottidae spp.), spider crab (Hyas araneus), and the crustaceans Sabinea sptemcarinatus and Sclerocrangon boreas were the most frequent prey items (Hjelset et al. 1999).
In June, following the pupping and breeding season, Bearded Seals undergo their annual moult. During the moult they spend much of their time hauled out and are reluctant to enter the water (Kovacs et al. 2004). Animals can be found moulting from April to August with a peak in May to June (Burns 1981). Bearded Seals usually haul out on ice when it is available, but will haul out on land in the summer in the Sea of Okhotsk, along the Laptev, White, and Kara Sea coastlines and at Svalbard (Burns 1981, Kovacs et al. 2004).
|Terrestrial; Marine
|Major Threat(s):
Indigenous peoples of the Arctic have hunted Bearded Seals for subsistence for thousands of years, a practice that continues today. However, levels of subsistence harvest are not well known. Subsistence harvests of Bearded Seals in the United States were estimated to be approximately 6,800 in 2000 (Angliss and Outlaw 2005). Subsistence harvest levels are not closely monitored in Canada, but Cleator (1996) estimated that roughly 2,400 bearded seals were taken per year. Approximately 500-1,000 Bearded Seals are taken annually in Greenland (Reijnders et al. 1993). Rates of struck-and-lost are high for bearded seals in most months of the year, likely about 50% for gun-based harvests; these are not generally accounted for in hunting statistics.
The former Soviet Union historically had commercial harvests of Bearded Seals in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering, Chukchi, Barents and White Seas, with high harvest levels at times. Harvests grew from 9,000 to 13,000 from 1957 to 1964, and were 8,000 to 10,000 per year for the Bering and Okhotsk Seas combined from 1964-1967 (Reeves et al. 1992). This level of commercial harvesting was very likely unsustainable and in all probability depleted these populations (Kelly 1988). Bearded Seals are now harvested more on a subsistence basis for local use in Russia. Harvests in the Bering Sea of 1881 and 1418 were reported for 1988 and 1989 respectively (Reeves et al. 1992).
Fisheries interactions are low. Logbooks maintained by U.S. fishermen indicate 14 Bearded Seals killed and 31 injured in 1991 in the Bristol Bay, Alaska salmon drift net fishery. There were several incidents of incidental take, serious injury, or mortality in the Alaskan Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands flatfish and pollock trawl fisheries from 1999-2003, when annual mortality was estimated at 1.6 seals (Angliss and Outlaw 2005). Kelly (1988) mentions fisheries for snow/Tanner crabs (Chionoecetes opilio) and pink shrimps (Pandalus borealis), as possible sources of fisheries conflicts in the future, especially if these fisheries are renewed or expanded because both of these species are important foods for Bearded Seals.
Oil spills from offshore extraction and transportation could negatively affect bearded seals through direct contact with oil and damage to foraging areas and stocks of prey, particularly benthic invertebrates, which are vulnerable to oil contamination (Kelly 1988).
Global climate warming is currently causing major reductions in the extent and duration of sea ice cover in the Arctic, creating a threat to many species of marine ice-associated mammals. Pinnipeds, such as the Bearded Seall that are dependant on sea ice for pupping, moulting, resting and access to foraging areas, may be especially vulnerable to such changes (Tynan and DeMaster 1997, Learmonth et al. 2006, Kovacs and Lydersen 2008, Laidre et al. 2008). Stirling and Derocher (1993) suggest that climatic warming could result in more favourable conditions for Bearded, Harp, Harbour Seals and Walruses if it causes sea ice to become less consolidated in winter, and extends the summer open water period.
An increase in human-created noise in the arctic environment could cause marine mammals, including Bearded Seals which are very vocal during their breeding season (VanParijs et al. 2001, 2003), to abandon areas of habitat (Tynan and DeMaster 1997). A reduction in sea ice cover would likely lead to increased human activity in the Arctic in the form of shipping and extractive industries, and an associated greater threat of marine accidents and disturbance of marine mammals (Pagnan 2000).
Harp Seals, Hooded Seals, and Ringed Seals from the Canadian Arctic, where they overlap range with Bearded Seals, were all determined to carry antibodies to phocine distemper virus (PDV), with harp seals constituting the population with the largest percentage (83%) of positive tests. Although the disease has not been identified in Bearded Seals, the opportunity for exposure exists (Duignan et al. 1997).
Important natural predators of Bearded Seals include Polar Bears (Burns 1981), as well as Killer Whales, Walruses, and Greenland Sharks (Kovacs 2002).
|Conservation Actions:
Bearded Seals are protected by various laws in their range countries. Subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Arctic is generally for personal use and not regulated unless populations are depleted (e.g., Cleator 1996, Angliss and Outlaw 2005).
Vessel-based commercial hunting in the former Soviet Union ended in 1975; after that time the harvest has taken place at much lower levels (similar to a subsistence harvest). Prior to the end of commercial harvesting, the Soviet Union used a system of quotas to regulate the take of Bearded Seals in an attempt to manage the population (Kelly 1988). Licensed (sport) hunters can shoot bearded seals in Svalbard, outside protected areas and not during the breeding season (Kovacs et al. 2004).
|Kovacs, K. & Lowry, L. (IUCN SSC Pinniped Specialist Group). 2008. Erignathus barbatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T8010A12882802. . Downloaded on 28 June 2016.
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My husband The Gorilla is in the homestretch of shooting his third feature film, a 3D installment in a franchise he created. This is my End Credit series, where I explain what all those titles mean at the beginning and end of a movie.
The title "Assistant Director," or "AD," doesn't adequately convey the importance of this position. A good AD can mean the difference between a mess of a set and a tightly run ship.
As it sounds, the AD works directly with the Director - who we have established is the captain of the ship - but unlike it sounds, the AD doesn't direct in at all the same way that the Director does. An AD's direction is about logistics, not art. The AD's work on set largely involves playing the "bad cop" to the Director's Chief of Police. (Wait, are we on a ship or at a police department?) The AD's "bad cop" duties include regularly barking orders to insure that everyone is running on time and in the right place before someone calls "Action."
The AD coordinates all of the elements to get the shot ready for the Director. Camera, sound, props, extras, you name it, the AD has them doing their thing when they're supposed to be doing it. He also has them cleared when they need to be cleared. Since he is in charge of all these various elements, his awareness of the Director's pace as well as the producer's timely budget concerns is of the utmost importance.
The AD and those from his department can usually be heard hollering for or at the other departments, checking that they're ready and checking that they're where they're supposed to be. They are the keepers of all things schedule and their loud voices are also lent to call "Action" and other such things for the Director. On set, if a crew member has a direction-type question, they will approach the AD department and not the Director.
If the production is large enough, there will be a full AD department led by the First AD over the 2nd AD, 3rd AD, and so on. AD's need to be very organized, not afraid to get mean, and can't be meek-voiced.
A quality AD really has the pulse of the overall production. It's a more prestigious position than it sounds, and people make entire careers as Assistant Directors.
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Published January 14, 2014 by Jiajie Zhang, SBMI dean
As many are already aware, we lost a brilliant colleague, faculty member and friend on Sunday, January 5, 2014, when Dr. Noriaki "Nori" Aoki passed away at the age of 47.
UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) is now working with Nori's friends, former students, collaborators and fellow faculty members to commemorate his life and myriad accomplishments by permanently establishing The Dr. Noriaki Aoki Fund at SBMI. This resource will benefit outstanding graduate students across a broad spectrum of needs, including scholarships, travel costs associated with conferences, practica in the U.S. and abroad, and national and international research projects—as well as other costs associated with a student's comprehensive educational experience.
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