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MPA NEWS Vol. 1, No. 9 June 2000
President Clinton Calls for Representative Network of MPAs in US Waters
Representative Systems of Protected Areas: A Short Guide for Planners
Letters to the Editor
In response to calls from conservationists and scientists, President Clinton has ordered US federal agencies to establish a comprehensive national network of marine protected areas throughout US marine waters. Executive Order #13158, delivered May 26, calls for expansion of the nation's MPA system to include examples of all types of US marine ecosystems.
Clinton's action represents the first official US directive to coordinate the nation's unsystematic array of MPA-related initiatives. The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- which oversees the US National Marine Sanctuaries, among other MPAs -- will be in charge of developing a single framework to manage the national system. The framework will be intended to support, rather than limit, agencies' independent exercise of their existing authorities.
To set the framework, NOAA will team with the Department of the Interior, which oversees National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges. Following Clinton's announcement, NOAA Administrator James Baker remarked that the order will improve the US' current fragmented MPA system. "We don't have a master plan that says, 'This is how this all fits together scientifically,'" he said. "That's what we're trying to put together here."
Directions to authorities
The executive order directs each federal agency with authority to establish or manage MPAs to "enhance and expand protection of existing MPAs and to establish and recommend new MPAs." To achieve this, the order calls for each agency, as appropriate, to incorporate:
* science-based identification and prioritization of natural and cultural resources
* integrated assessments of ecological linkages among MPAs
* biological assessment of the minimum area for which a ban on consumptive uses would be necessary to preserve representative habitats
* assessments of protection gaps and threats
* identification of user conflicts affecting MPAs and possible solutions, with the economic effects of these solutions
* identification of opportunities to improve linkages with, and technical assistance to, international MPA programs.
In carrying out the requirements of this section, the departments of Commerce and the Interior will seek the advice of non-federal scientists, resource managers, and other interested persons and organizations through an MPA-related federal advisory committee, to be established by the Department of Commerce.
The order also calls on the US Environmental Protection Agency to propose new science-based regulations, as necessary, to ensure appropriate levels of protection for the marine environment.
Inspired by a letter
According to officials involved in its drafting, the executive order was inspired by a letter from scientists and conservationists to Clinton in February. Spearheaded by the Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI), a US-based NGO, the letter urged Clinton to create a permanent interagency council to set standards and seek opportunities for the establishment of MPAs in the country (MPA News 1:4). Officials from Commerce and the Interior worked with MCBI on some details of the executive order.
MCBI's call for an interagency council has been matched by Clinton's directive to NOAA to create a "Marine Protected Area Center." In cooperation with the Department of the Interior, the center will develop a framework for a national MPA system and provide federal, state, local and other governments with a clearinghouse of information, technologies, and strategies to support the system. The secretaries of Commerce and the Interior will also jointly manage a website with information on MPAs.
Drafters of the executive order, however, did not adopt MCBI's recommendation that the US set aside 20% of each ecosystem type as no-take reserves by 2015. "We felt we needed to do a scientific assessment first to come up with a target," said co-drafter Stephen Saunders, assistant deputy secretary for fish and wildlife and parks in the Department of the Interior. Earlier this year, the US Coral Reef Task Force called for setting aside 20% of US coral reef habitats (MPA News 1:4).
MCBI Director Elliott Norse said that even without the 20% target, the executive order represented a significant step forward. "Fifty years from now, I believe that this will be considered the biggest environmental legacy of the Clinton administration, and the most important step taken so far in US marine conservation," he said.
NW Hawaiian Islands singled out
In a separate move timed to coincide with his executive order, Clinton directed the secretaries of Commerce and the Interior to develop a plan in 90 days to permanently protect the coral reefs of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, which represent more than 60% of coral reefs in US waters. The plan is to be drawn with the input of state representatives and fishery managers.
Located west of the main Hawaiian Islands, the northwest chain consists of eight islands, stretching over 1,200 miles (1,931 km). The reefs extend from nearshore areas just beneath the surface to a depth of 100 fathoms (600 ft./183 m).
The islands' reefs are not heavily fished. The most significant commercial activity involves a rock lobster fishery that fishery managers have limited to harvesting 13% of the exploitable population. There is some bottom-fishing in the area by a small fleet, although it doesn't occur on the reefs. The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, which oversees fishing in the region and reports to NOAA, proposed a plan this year to ban all fishing in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands from 0-10 fathoms (0-18 m). Furthermore, the council proposed to ban all fishing from 0-50 fathoms (0-91 m) around islands with significant populations of endangered Hawaiian monk seals.
Saunders, who helped craft Clinton's Northwest Hawaiian Islands directive, said that although the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council is moving forward, its authority is limited to controlling the impacts of fishing. Other impacts on reefs -- including from the anchoring of non-fishing boats -- still needs to be guarded against. "There is a risk [to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands' reefs] in terms of things that could happen in the future," said Saunders, listing climate change and tourism growth as having impacts in coming years. "Our intent is to get out there ahead of time to protect the reefs."
Kitty Simonds, executive director of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, is nonetheless concerned about the aim of the directive. "I'm sure there will be a recommendation [made during the 90-day review process] to make the Northwest Hawaiian Islands a no-take area, even though these are healthy fisheries," she said. "Fishing is our culture, our livelihood. Why shut the fisheries down if there are no threats?"
For more information:
Stephen Saunders, Department of the Interior, 1849 C St. NW, Room 3159, Washington, DC 20040, USA. Tel: +1 202 208 4416; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Amy Matthew-Amos, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, 1725 K St. NW, Suite 212, Washington, DC 20006, USA. Tel: +1 202 887 4960; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kitty Simonds, Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1164 Bishop
Street, Suite 1400, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. Tel: +1 808 522 8220; E-mail:
|Text of Executive Order
The text of President Clinton's Executive Order #13158 is available online at:
|US Defines "MPA"
Until last month, the US had no official definition for "marine protected area." Now, under President Clinton's executive order, the US has set a definition for MPA that closely mirrors the definition offered by the IUCN, or World Conservation Union, in 1992 (MPA News 1:4).
According to the Executive Order, marine protected area means "any area of the marine environment that has been reserved by federal, state, territorial, tribal, or local laws or has regulations to provide lasting protection for part or all of the natural and cultural resources therein."
The Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior will share responsibility for cataloging all areas in the US that fit the above definition of marine protected area. Depending on interpretation of this definition, the catalog could list thousands of MPAs already designated by all levels of government in the US.
|Resolution Adopted for North American MPA Network
Attendees of the Fourth International Conference on the Science and Management of Protected Areas (SAMPA), held 15-19 May in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), adopted a resolution calling for creation of a representative network of MPAs throughout the marine waters of North America.
The resolution -- citing the need for an "integrated, effective, and fully representative system of marine protected areas, to be established by the year 2010" -- was adopted by the assembly of scientists, protected-area managers, and conservation advocates. The conference also adopted a resolution calling on Canada to conduct an assessment of the Canadian marine environment and current means for protecting it.
For more information:
Martin Willison, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada. Tel: +1 902 494 2966; E-mail: email@example.com.
President Clinton's executive order places the US in a group with Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, and a small number of other nations, with each having stated its intent to create a "representative" national network of MPAs.
The word "representative" regularly appears in protected-areas planning, and designation of representative networks has long served as a goal in terrestrial land management. Building a network of protected areas representing a variety of ecosystems is intended to ensure protection for biodiversity.
But at what scale should planners implement such representativeness? And what does "representative" really mean? For guidance, MPA News consulted the literature and queried some experts.
A function of scale
In his new book Bioregional Planning: Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium (Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), David Brunckhorst suggests that "representativeness" refers to the extent that existing or proposed protected areas sample known biodiversity, ecological patterns and processes, and physical features at a variety of spatial scales. "Any measure of representativeness will be a function of scale," writes Brunckhorst, director of the UNESCO Institute for Bioregional Resource Management.
Brunckhorst writes that the first step in establishing an ecologically representative protected area system is to agree on how to interpret the environment in a way that indicates what should be represented. In other words, planners must decide at what spatial scale they want to work.
In the mid-1990s, a group co-sponsored by the IUCN (World Conservation Union) proposed the creation of a worldwide representative system of MPAs. Dividing the world's marine waters into 18 large biogeographic zones -- e.g., Antarctic, Caribbean, Northwest Pacific -- the group analyzed each zone's existing MPAs and the potential need for additional protection.
As summarized in A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (IUCN, 1995), the group noted that most of the biogeographic zones included a range of different ecosystems. "More detailed information on the range of ecosystem types present in each zone and in each MPA would be required to determine the extent to which the biodiversity of each zone is 'represented,'" the group concluded.
For the terrestrial environment, several biogeographic systems are available and generally accepted: One of the best-known was developed in 1975 by Miklos Udvardy, who divided the terrestrial world into eight biogeographic realms, based on geographic and historic elements. The marine environment, however, is much more difficult to categorize, owing in part to its dynamic nature and other factors, including depth, types of coastline, salinity, and light.
Despite the challenges, practitioners have worked to stake out regional planning systems. Kathleen Sullivan Sealey (a biologist from the University of Miami, US) and Georgina Bustamante (a conservation coordinator for The Nature Conservancy, US) directed a team of scientists on a project to divide the marine and coastal environments of Latin America and the Caribbean into nine "biogeographic provinces" (MPA News 1:7). Each province was subdivided into marine ecoregions. The Central Caribbean ecoregion was further subdivided into 51 "coastal systems" for the purpose of identifying specific sites for marine conservation action.
How far down the spatial hierarchy should planners go? The IUCN report suggests that the approach should depend on the region or country applying it. "The biogeographic system used...in developing a representative MPA system need not be universally applicable but must suit the region or country's existing scientific heritage and information base," according to the report.
In the Bahamas, where the national government called for the creation of a representative system of MPAs, scientists responsible for proposing the network incorporated their understanding of the archipelago's critical ecosystems. "For the Bahamas, 'representative' in the most fundamental sense means to me: coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, algal plains, and marine blue holes," said Mark Hixon of Oregon State University (US). "I would further subdivide reefs into various categories based on dominant corals and other benthos, depth, proximity to other habitats, and any critical features, especially spawning aggregation sites of grouper and other species."
Representative vs. distinctive
Mark Zacharias, an analyst with the Land Use Coordination Office of British Columbia, Canada, said that the words "representative" and "distinctive" can sometimes cause confusion. If you are given a choice, he proposes, between preserving a truly representative area of abalone habitat -- similar to other abalone habitat -- or an area of distinctive (exceptional) abalone habitat, should you choose the representative habitat or the distinctive one?
"Where a number of similar areas are encountered, the most distinctive area -- as usually measured through comparisons of biophysical attributes -- is generally advanced as the candidate MPA," said Zacharias. "The phrase 'representative system of MPAs' is therefore somewhat misleading."
Brunckhorst, D.J. 2000. Bioregional Planning: Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium. Harwood Academic Publishers, Singapore. 162 pp.
Kelleher, G., Bleakley, C., and Wells, S. (eds.) 1995. A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 4 vol.
Sullivan Sealey, K. and Bustamante, G. 1999. Setting Geographic Priorities for Marine Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, US. 125 pp.
For more information:
Mark Hixon, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-2914, USA. Tel: +1 541 737 5364; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mark Zacharias, Land Use Coordination Office, P.O. Box 9426, Stn. Prov.
Govt., Victoria, BC V8W 9V1, Canada. Tel: +1 250 356 7721; E-mail: email@example.com.
|Three Principles for Networks
David Brunckhorst suggests that three principles -- complementarity, flexibility, and irreplaceability -- can be useful in developing representative reserve networks:
Complementarity refers to the contribution each new protected area makes to existing areas in terms of representing features not found elsewhere.
Flexibility acknowledges that within a given spatial context, different combinations of sites may be available to form a representative network.
Irreplaceability provides a way of measuring the conservation value of any site. "An irreplaceable site," Brunckhorst writes, "will appear in every analysis of alternative combinations of sites."
From: Brunckhorst, D.J. 2000. Bioregional Planning: Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium. Harwood Academic Publishers, Singapore. 162 pp.
MPA News received several letters in response to the article in our
2000 issue, "Closing 20% of the Ocean: Pro-Reserve Target is Finding
Way into Policies." Some readers supported the use of percentage
targets in setting aside no-take zones, while others questioned the merits.
We print some of their responses below:
Targets provide certainty
Dear MPA News:
I like the idea [of percentage targets] and have been suggesting 30% in informal discussions with practitioners. Targets really caught on in terrestrial protected area management and have for better or worse stimulated provincial governments [in Canada] to develop protected areas strategies that set aside approximately 12% of the province.
There are, of course, physical and biological problems with such targets -- a species or ecological system may require 80% of the remaining habitat protected for viability -- but for the most part it has resulted in about a three- to four-fold increase in terrestrial protected areas in many parts of Canada.
Targets as a concept have caught on for many reasons. I think some of them have to do with the certainty that governments and industry are seeking. They are tired of debating every hectare and welcome the idea of a broader strategy that provides finite targets for protected areas and, by extension, more certainty over the remaining space for other uses.
In the marine environment, much science and discussion centers on defining boundaries of spawning grounds, upwelling zones, unique habitats, etc., in order to maximize the benefits from very small protected spaces or small areas connected via corridors. I just returned from the Science and Management of Protected Areas Conference and I have the impression that many in attendance shared frustration over the lack of action taken to set aside MPAs. Many seem to be endorsing the position of using the best available information to design a network of MPAs and adjusting it as needed to improve the system when better information becomes available. Some workers seem to be caught in a program of very difficult analysis to try and definitively determine boundaries that will minimize the area set aside while maximizing benefits.
Intuitively, I think our analysis will fail on some levels due to the complexity of natural systems that we can only hope to partially understand or model. To counter our fallibility we need to set aside many large marine areas in offshore and coastal areas to ensure we capture processes we cannot fully understand but nonetheless depend upon for ocean health and the survival of all species, including our own.
Brian Reader
Ecosystem Manager
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
Parks Canada
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Brian Reader's comments above are solely those of the author and
are not meant to represent any interest, position or policy of Parks Canada.
Cookie-cutter approaches have failed
Dear MPA News:
Thanks for opening this particularly slimy can of worms. I get very nervous when a management convention gets thrown around as "the thing to do." Most cookie-cutter approaches to resource management have failed miserably. In order to ascertain whether 20%, 40% or 100% of an area should be closed, significant knowledge about stock status, interactions with habitat components and forage and predator species, migration and life history must be gained. It will be very site- and species-specific.
In the case of Puget Sound [in northwestern Washington, US], so many fish stocks are declining that perhaps the whole thing should be closed for a period of years to gauge recovery potential. Most fish depend on various habitat types throughout their life history. Closing an area of spawning habitat while allowing significant impacts on the juveniles from water quality, for example, may hurt chances of success and unfairly label the closure response as an ineffective strategy. In the case of many MPAs, the recovery of the habitat from destructive fishing methods such as trawling may be infinitely more important to fisheries recovery than reduced harvest.
I will concede that sometimes, in order to start the dialogue and set a baseline by which adaptive management will be based, this requires setting an arbitrary management convention. I urge those who do this, however, to write it into the policy that such a convention is experimental and to be conducted in conjunction with other management strategies that preserve and enhance the entire ecosystem. The convention and other management strategies will be studied programmatically to determine their effectiveness, and adjustments will be made.
Doug Myers
Wetlands and Habitat Specialist
Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team (Washington, US)
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
MPA size should be based on good science
Dear MPA News:
In your last issue, you referenced the position of fishermen in the reworking of California's MPA system under the Marine Life Protection Act. [Editor's note: This legislation did not include a percentage target.] Our organization -- the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, or PCFFA -- was involved in the development of that legislation.
Our concern with the 20% target is that from what scientific material we can find, the number seems to have been picked out of someone's nose. In some instances, such as with coral reefs, the area needed for protection may be much greater than 20%, while for other areas 20% appears excessive. The critical issue for us is that the amount (size) and nature (protected habitats, no take zone, etc.) of any MPA should be based on good science. The problem we have had is that a lot of the Ph.D.s and others seem to have forsaken science for celebrity.
As the late Nat Bingham once testified to the California State Legislature, "I do not see much benefit in 'locking up' vast areas of the ocean, such as the suggestion of 20%, merely for the sake of prohibiting fishing. Protected areas to be effective do not have to be large necessarily, but carefully selected for their attributes and well placed."
People who want to see our full comments on MPAs can go to our website at http://www.pond.net/~pcffa.
Zeke Grader
Executive Director
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
The PCFFA is the largest fishermen's organization on the West Coast
of the US.
Philippines has 15% target
Dear MPA News:
The Philippines in 1998 passed a new Philippines Fisheries Code which sets a goal of 15% of municipal waters (out to 15 km) be set aside as fish sanctuaries. These are defined essentially as no-take zones. Seems the Philippines are a bit ahead of the US and most other nations with respect to legislation. Meeting that goal, on the other hand, will be a challenge, but may be possible by 2010 or 2020.
Brian Crawford
Coastal Resources Manager
Coastal Resources Center
University of Rhode Island (US)
E-mail: email@example.com
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School of Marine Affairs
University of Washington
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Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
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The Buffalo Junior Sabres will hold their second annual "Teddy Bear Toss" during tonight's home game against Toronto at 6:30 p.m. at Northtown Center in Amherst.
Fans are asked to bring a new, unwrapped teddy bear or other stuffed toy to throw on the ice when Buffalo scores its first goal. All toys collected will be passed out by the Sabres Alumni along with the Buffalo Police to families in need during the holiday season.
The Buffalo Sabres are providing prizes to give away and to raffle off during tonight's game, while team mascot Sabretooth is scheduled to appear as well.
Fans will also receive a coupon from Theodore's Red Hots good for one complimentary hot dog with the purchase of a regular hot dog and a large soft drink. Tickets cost $7 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens.
The Junior Sabres (24-9-2) enter the game having won four of their last five games.

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What is your favorite wedding style?
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The playwright's performance won mixed reviews. "The interaction between Pinter and the actors was terrific," said Trinity Square's director, Adrian Hall. "I was terrified he would be some kind of an alcoholic. Instead, he was a workaholic." Pinter, 51, also seemed pleased. "The actors," he predicted, "will do the play damn well." But at least one Providence dowager, annoyed at the playwright's skittish attitude toward invitations, was heard to complain, "Pinter is obviously a law unto himself."
Two years ago Pinter reread The Hothouse and recalls thinking, "What the hell has this play been doing in a drawer for 22 years?" That year, 1980, it was staged successfully in London. The play deals with an institution where all the inmates are locked up and known only by numbers.
Capitalizing on the Pinters' visit, Brown University invited Lady Antonia, author of such top-sellers as Mary, Queen of Scots (1969) and Royal Charles (1979), to lecture on "The Biographer in Search of a Subject." Some 800 people showed up to hear the biographer deny that she identifies with Mary (although Antonia is lovely and tall, like the hapless, and eventually headless, monarch). The university also mounted a three-day festival of Pinter's works and awarded him an honorary doctor of letters degree. The shy Pinter did not attend the festival and spent only a few hours on campus, mostly with university and Trinity Square officials. Though all the attention seemed to make Pinter uneasy, he was obviously pleased when word reached him that his screenplay for The French Lieutenant's Woman had received an Academy Award nomination.
Lady Antonia, 49, who said the campus environment reminded her of Oxford, where her father was a professor, spent her spare time visiting the state-house in search of a document linking King Charles II and Roger Williams, the founder of the Rhode Island colony. She didn't find it, but did locate the garden on Benefit Street where Edgar Allan Poe was inspired to write his poem To Helen. She also made two trips to Newport, trying to rent a house for the summer (even though The Hothouse is booked only until April 4). She reportedly found one, and the Pinters will return. Presently working on a British TV series based on her three mystery novels, Lady Antonia will publish her fourth thriller, Cool Repentance, this fall. Another project: a historical survey of 17th-century women.
Pinter's three new one-act plays will open in London next autumn, keeping the elusive couple busy at home. But someday they might be regular visitors to Providence. Calling London during the recent visit, Antonia told the youngest of her six children, 14-year-old Orlando, that Brown would be a good university to attend if he "could afford it." (Tuition is $8,200.) His reply: "You pay for the university, and I'll pay for this call."
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Kala Art Institute invites you to join us for Art|Kala 2016 an exhibition, auction and gala benefit to support Kala's artistic, cultural, and educational programs.
Art|Kala 2016 opens with a two-week exhibition featuring inventive, contemporary art made here and now in the Bay Area. It culminates the night of Saturday, April 23 with a lively Gala Auction of all the work on view. Steven Oliver, founder of the construction firm Oliver & Company and visionary behind Oliver Ranch, an expansive collection of site-specific art in Sonoma County, will host the auction as Honorary Chair. Art|Kala 2016 features artworks by over 100 talented artists, and unique art-related items, local treasures, and experiences offered through both live and silent auctions. Celebrity chef Narsai David will return as Master of Ceremonies and Wes Sparling as our auctioneer. We are thrilled to honor beloved Kala artists, John DeMerritt & Nora Pauwels and the dynamic duo and the creative force otherwise known as Paulson Bott Press, Renee Bott & Pam Paulson as the 2016 recipients of Kala Master Artists Award.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff–Respondent, v. OMAR T. CROSS, Defendant–Appellant.
After pleading guilty to a violation of special probation, N.J.S.A. 2C:35–14, defendant Omar T. Cross appeals from the September 14, 2010 judgment of conviction for third-degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance with the intent to distribute, N.J.S.A. 2C:35–5(a)(1) and –5(b)(3), that imposed a sentence of five years in prison with a three-year period of parole ineligibility. We affirm.
In 2005, Cross was indicted by a Union County grand jury and charged with three crimes related to the possession of cocaine. On July 11, 2005, Cross entered into a plea arrangement with the State by which he pled guilty to third-degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance with the intent to distribute, N.J.S.A. 2C:35–5(a)(1) and –5(b)(3). The State agreed to recommend that, instead of a potential maximum extended term sentence of ten years with five years of parole ineligibility,1 Cross be sentenced to five years special probation in Drug Court.
On August 11, 2005, Cross received the bargained-for sentence of five years special probation in Drug Court. In August 2007, Cross pled guilty to a violation of his special probation. Nevertheless, the court continued Cross in Drug Court. Three years later, Cross again pled guilty to a violation of his special probation, which resulted in the sentence under review. This appeal followed.
On appeal, Cross raises the following issues for our consideration:
POINT I: THE COURT, ERRONEOUSLY BELIEVING DEFENDANT WAS SUBJECT TO A MANDATORY SENTENCE PURSUANT TO N.J.S.A. 2C:43–6f, IMPOSED AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE.
Cross further relies principally upon State v. Vasquez, 129 N.J. 189, 197–210 (1992), which concerns the revocation of a probationary sentence on the State's waiver of a parole ineligibility term mandated by N.J.S.A. 2C:35–7. See N.J.S.A. 2C:35–12. Because Vasquez does not address special probation, we consider it inapplicable to Cross's situation.
In State v. Bishop, 429 N.J.Super. 533, 536 (App.Div.), certif. granted, 216 N.J. 14 (2013), we addressed "the principles applicable to resentencing a defendant whose special probation pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:35–14 has been permanently revoked." Special probation is "a separate and distinct sentencing disposition authorized by the [New Jersey] Code [of Criminal Justice," id. at 540, and accordingly "provide[s] a separate [violation of probation] sentencing regime than that which had previously existed and continues to exist for regular probation." Id. at 547. Thus, upon permanent revocation of his five-year special probation, Cross was not subject to the sentencing paradigm applicable to revocation of regular probation, and instead became subject to the potential term outlined during his plea colloquy.
We have considered this record and Cross's arguments in light of Bishop, and we conclude that Cross's arguments lack sufficient merit to warrant discussion beyond what is stated in Bishop. R. 2:11–3(e)(2). For the reasons stated in Bishop, Cross's sentence is controlled by and consistent with N.J.S.A. 2C:35–14(f),:35–7,:43–6(f),:43–7 and:44–1(a) to (b). The sentence of five years in prison with a three-year parole disqualifier comports with these statutes. Additionally, the sentence is neither shocking to the conscience nor an abuse of discretion. See State v. Bieniek, 200 N.J. 601, 608 (2010).
1. FN1. During the plea colloquy, the plea judge told Cross that because of Cross's prior conviction for possession with the intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance, "if [Cross] went to trial on this case, and were convicted of possession with intent to distribute, [his] sentencing exposure would be [ten] years in State Prison with a five-year period of mandatory parole ineligibility."


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Formative Years is a remarkable book that compiles the lectures from a 2000 conference celebrating the sesquicentennial of the University of Michigan Medical School. The conference explored the progress and complexity of children's health in the United States from 1880 to 2000.
This is an informative collection of essays that is not a simple reiteration of the scientific advances of pediatrics or a glorification of only our "father" figures. It is instead a portrayal of the development of child health as influenced by the social roots and pressing issues of the time. The chapters show the important role that women had, in concert with the emerging pediatricians, in shaping health systems for children. These women, mostly social activists, joined with the early leaders of pediatrics, almost all of whom were men, to forge a system of care that blended elements of preventive and curative medicine in a way that characterizes the practice patterns of pediatrics today.
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A special 'Ladies' Week' is being held in Austria's Ski Amadé region this season, offering female skiers a chance to enjoy the slopes in an all-girl environment with a range of benefits.
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A range of hotels in the region will offer a free six-day lift pass with each booking of a seven-night holiday between 26th March and 2nd April 2011. Other freebies include a ski test and a day's ski guiding.
The week will also include a programme of events with live acts, fashion shows, and what the organisers describe as, 'traditional chalet fun, après-ski parties and much more.'
The Ski Amadé region is huge – one of the world's biggest lift pass systems – encompassing Salzburger Sportwelt, Schladming-Dachstein, Gastein, Hochkönig and Großarltal.
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Amarillo high-tech entrepreneur Lloyd Kruckeberg said his Edison company is thriving despite being sued for using the Edison name.
The trademark infringement suit - filed against Amarillo-based Edison by Houston-based McGraw-Edison - is the price of prospering, Kruckeberg said Tuesday.
"This is one of the things that happens when you become successful," Kruckeberg said.
Kruckeberg called the lawsuit "meritless" and said the allegations in the lawsuit are "false."
"We will prevail," Kruckeberg said.
Kruckeberg said his company changed its corporate name to Goedison.com from Thomas A. Edison Inc. The new name is the address of the company's Internet site at goedison.com.
The name change is not in response to the lawsuit but to focus on selling products and services that allow businesses to set up shop on the Internet, Kruckeberg said. The businesses can become part of the Goedison Mall on the Internet.
Today, many companies use the name "Edison," according to a search of business names, including Consolidated Edison, DTE Energy Edison, Edison Control Corp., Edison International, Edison Schools, Edison SPA, Digital Edison, Southern California Edison and Edison BioTechnology Center.
McGraw-Edison claims it owns the trademark names "Thomas A. Edison" and "Edison," the Edison signature and likeness of the great inventor.
The lawsuit demands that the Amarillo company, founded in March, change its name from Edison and pay damages. No dollar figure is specified, but McGraw-Edison asks for "three times" actual damages. The suit was filed Aug. 23 in Houston federal court.
McGraw-Edison is owned by Cooper Industries Inc. of Houston.
"Use of the Edison name does not infringe any rights of McGraw," Kruckeberg said.
The lawsuit is "an attempt on the part of McGraw to gain control of a name they either never owned or abandoned through years of non-use," Kruckeberg said.
Kruckeberg said his use of the Edison name was "lawful and carefully considered."
In a separate, second lawsuit, Edison of Amarillo is suing its insurance company, Travelers Lloyds Insurance Co., for failing to defend the Kruckeberg company in the pending lawsuit. Kruckeberg said he is confident he will prevail in the second suit.
Goedison.com sells do-it-yourself e-commerce computer software programming and designs ready-to-operate stores online.
from $5,000 to $100,000, Kruckeberg said. The Amarillo company is working on projects in Hong Kong, France and other countries, he said.
This year, Kruckeberg said he and other Goedison.com officials will sell Amarillo e-commerce products in New York, going twice to trade shows, and travel to San Diego, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Albuquerque and other locations.
The products and services goedison.com sells are in demand, Kruckeberg said, and goedison.com offers prompt e-commerce services.
"E-business services is a booming market, with analysts and vendors saying that demand far outstrips supply," according to a November report in PC Week Online. "Some (companies) have backlogs of eight to nine months before they can start work for a new client."
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Scientific discovery is the fuel that drives the Life Sciences sector, including Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Diagnostics and Medical Device companies. Life Science companies must meet enormous challenges as they commercialize new discoveries.
Overcoming daunting technical challenges, meeting complex regulatory requirements, and managing the multidisciplinary array of skills required to advance a product through development creates significant business complexity. While these challenges exist for companies of all sizes, emerging companies face a particularly grueling set of challenges. Emerging companies, while lacking the experience and resources of their larger counterparts, must also establish the core business processes and systems they will need to manage the rapid growth arising from the commercialization of their initial products.
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