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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (373 votes).
In short: This race was like running up hills in a Sahara desert, the only thing that was missing was the mosuitoes.In full: Burnham beeches half marathon is a tough half marathon. Although this is only a half marathon I have ran it three times and still struggle to run it under 2 hours.It is a chip timing race organised by famous the 'Jand Results'.The major factors this year for me under performing were:- racing on the Tuesday at Petts Wood, also the soaring heat at 29 degrees, which affected my asthma, which was exacerbated whilst running through Burnham joggers Woodlands.This race had many hills, it caused many runners to walk rather than run up hill. Even the strong fit Gladiator in his full gear was feeling so fatigued during first half of the race, I was concerned he was going to fall on his sword! 400 metres near the finish, a naughty female marshal shouted at me and said 'Try and beat those 2 men in front of you'. I was hot and tired and thought she must be absolutely bonkers, but somehow I managed to out run 3 male runners to the finish line. I was absolutely knackered.The medal I received was beautiful, which bears similarities to my Yately 10k medal. I must say the company who makes these medals are pretty damn good! Burnham beeches half marathon is always a favourite of mine.Burnham Joggers also organise Clivendon Cross County , an awesome 10k race, in December (this race fills up very quickly). Two popular races for Runners World Top one hundred races.Date of review: October 27, 2009
In short: Tough race through beautiful woods and great organisationIn full: Hot and hilly! Great race but could have done with more water stations in my view. Race HQ in grounds of beautiful school. Car park some walk from start.Date of review: September 15, 2009
In short: Extremely friendly, well-organised and enjoyable!In full: Lovely countryside and a great atmosphere. Much hillier than I was expecting, but definitely worth it (the swimming pool at the end is a stroke of genius by the way, thankyou so much to the school who made it available!), and we had a lovely picnic in the grounds afterwards. The course is definitely challenging, with much steeper ups and downs than I'd pictured from the 'undulating' description, so wasn't PB material for me (five minutes off my PB in fact, though it was very hot too ;-) But it seemed to suit others very well, and it was certainly picturesque. Many thanks to all the organisers and volunteers, who did a fantastic job. Overall, I'd wholeheartedly recommend this one - a great day out! Date of review: September 5, 2009
In short: Fabulous race, rather undulating and fantastic scenery make this one to remember! Great marshalling too - Highly recommended! Date of review: September 4, 2009
In short: Tough but great organisation & atmosphereIn full: A few more hard hills than the description suggested and the heat on the day made it tough overall. Well done to the organisers and great spectator turnout.Date of review: September 1, 2009
In short: Excellent despite hot weatherIn full: Organisation was flawless. Race is through woodland, but on tarmac which I prefer to trail running. Undulating course with some slightly longer hills. I loved it !Date of review: August 30, 2009
In short: Those hills, I'd forgotten about those hillsIn full: Did this in 2007 and was tough then but a nice sheltered scenic route, good for heat training...forgot just how hard the second loop was and came back for more!Date of review: August 30, 2009
In short: Thank you!In full: Just wanted to say a huge thank you to all the marshalls and everyone at the water points as I only had the energy to grunt at them at the time! They were extremely encouraging. Only gripe about the day would be about the lack of any goody bag at the end. A chocolate bar and a bottle of lucozade would have been worth it's weight in gold on such a hot day!Date of review: August 28, 2009
Date of review: August 26, 2009
In short: Beautiful course, interesting hills but could do with more water stops! In full: Lovely scenery and really well organised. But there was limited support to help runners deal with the heat of the day. An earlier start would have been better and there were not enough water stops. That aside, it's a lovely course and the marshalls were very cheerful and helpful. I'll be doing it again next year. Date of review: August 26, 2009
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Courtesy of Weirck CommunicationsThis event is only for the brave at heart...or anyone that likes to hike, likes the winter or just wants a different adventure...it is the annual Winter Hike held at Hocking Hills State Park in Logan, Ohio. Held in the dead of winter, you never know what the weather will bring, but thousands of hikers look forward to the experience each year.It is a six-mile trek from Old Man's Cave to Ash Cave and the scenery is truly a part of the draw. The hike features a continuous starts from 9 to 11 a.m. Hot bean soup is served midway at Cedar Falls for a donation and a shuttle bus is there to return hikers from Ash Cave to their car.
Hocking Hills is among the state's most popular winter destinations. There are a variety of short and easy hikes to longer adventures like the annual winter hike. There is something suitable for everyone to get a view of the gorgeous rock formations.
courtesy of Keith Krzeminski winter hiker"So many people make New Year's resolutions that include getting in shape or enjoying live more, there's nothing better than a Hocking Hills hiking getaway to help them achieve those goals," said Hocking Hills Tourism Association Executive Director Karen Raymore. Winter is truly a magical time in the Hills and with a little preparation, visitors will enjoy a dazzling winter wonderland marked by soaring cliffs and gorges and waterfalls that freeze into beautiful crystal formations,"TIPS FOR WINTER HIKERS...The Hocking Hills Tourism Association has compiled the following tips for winter hikers.
- Stop by the Hocking Hills Regional Welcome Center for trail maps and travel suggestions. You can also borrow a Flip Video Camera.
- Stay on the trail. Naturalists report that accidents only occur when hikers leave the trail.
- If your feet are cold your whole body will be cold. Wear waterproof hiking boots designed for cold weather and good traction. Keep metal cleats in your backpack and attach to your boots if your boots if you encounter ice on the trail.
- Wear multiple pairs of socks, as many as you can comfortably fit in your boots. You can always take some off it you get too warm. Carry extra dry socks in a waterproof bag in your backpack.
- Use trekking poles or cross country ski poles for extra stability.
- Stay hydrated. Pack water in your backpack. Energy bars are a good idea.
- Cover your hands and face. A ski mask covers your entire face or can be rolled up to just cover your head and ears. Wear insulated gloves and carry an extra pair.
- Layer clothes. While hiking you may become warm. This allows you to remove items as needed. If possible, carry extra dry thermal underwear in your pack.
- Know the weather forecast and trails. Carry a compass, map and cell phone with you. Your cell phone may not work in all areas, but it's a good idea to have one. A hand-held GPS unit is also a great idea.
- Don't hike alone. It's always more fun with friends. If you must hike alone, be sure to tell someone where you are hiking and what time you expect to finish.
- Don't forget your camera. Winter in the hills provides dramatic scenery. You will want to share your photos with your friends and family on Facebook or Twitter. Show them how you braved the elements. But, in the case of the Hocking Hills Winter Hike...don't tell them about the bean soup and the shuttle!There is much more than hiking. With a total of 50 ziplines offered it is known as the zipline capital of the Midwest. There is canoeing, horseback riding, golf, spas, unique shops and more to explore.The Winter Hike is traditionally held in January and in 2012 the date is Jan. 21. For more information on the park or dates of events visit www.1800Hocking.com or call 1-800-462-5464.


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There is a widespread reluctance in the evangelical community to offer strong, biblical critique in response to theological error. And the glut of unrestrained charismatic teaching serves as a glaring example of that.
Theological pacifism has inadvertently given license to many false teachers. They have free reign to misrepresent the Holy Spirit and mislead the people of God by proclaiming their imaginings as direct revelation from the Lord. Believers cannot sit and watch as such blasphemy poisons the minds of people looking for the truth.
In the following video clip, John MacArthur challenges the silence of evangelicals toward errant teaching about the Spirit, and exposes what he believes is the driving force behind it.
False teaching always flourishes where there is little accountability and poor discernment. The Strange Fire conference is intended to fill the void of silence that has been created by passive and undiscerning Christians. For more information, please visit our conference website.
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Its true regarding these Charismatic Christians, they do have their own type of strangeness under which the Holy Spirit is misleading and strange fire comes out, yes it is disturbingly shown. We need more understanding on sound doctrine, not to give in to spiritualism their own brand of feeling puff up emotions etc.
Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable, But the mouth of fools spouts folly.
True worship must be in the proper way of worship not to give into emotional experience that are stranger than fiction. God Bless
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John 10:11-13
The reason pastors do not speak out about false teachings, false signs, and false wonders is because they themselves are either (1) false teachers or (2) they prove themselves to be just hirelings.
A true pastor, a true shepherd, protects the sheep God has entrusted to him.
John 21:16-17
The shepherding of the sheep is an essential, necessary and integral portion of every pastor's care. When assailed by the wolf of heresy, by the hostile marauder, by new conditions of any kind, by special danger, unless he can in self-forgetting love pilot and protect his flock, he is no true shepherd. – Pulpit Commentary
1 Peter 5:1-4; Jude 1:3; Titus 1:13
Some excerpts from John MacArthur's message about this, "The Good Shepherd, Part 2" January 24, 1971:
Now you see how Jesus...this is so powerful. Here are all these, you know, religious mucky-mucks from Israel standing there listening to Jesus. And now He hits them right between the eyes again and says, "You care nothing about the sheep, you are hirelings, you are religious mercenaries in it for the money and the prestige. And when any trouble comes you bail out and the sheep get ruined, scattered, crippled and devoured." In fact, they were even earlier called those who destroyed the sheep. But here he calls these false leaders mercenaries or hirelings. They work for the job, they don't care about the sheep, they only want the money. They have no love for the sheep, only love for the pay. And when the wolves attack the flock, the hireling forgot everything but the saving of his own hide and took off.
Lest you think that the only hirelings are in Israel, they're not. We've got them all over the place. Paid professionals, ministering in the name of Jesus Christ. May I say that we have hireling teachers, we have hireling preachers and we have hireling pastors. We have hirelings in every dimension of Christian service who want only their money and could care less about the sheep.
We're trying to run right down the middle, and watch out for the stuff from the outside and the problems on the inside. And the inside danger is the greatest, obviously, because if there's a strong faithful shepherd, right, if there's a strong faithful shepherd, then he's going to defend the flock from attacks from the outside, right? But if you've got a hireling, not only is he propagating error, but at the same time he is totally incapacitated to defend them from the outside attack. So you've got total destruction and chaos and everything is a disaster.
So the church's first essential is Christ-like leadership which cares for the sheep to the extent of risking its own neck. All right, so we see that the Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep, pays the price. And the right kind of under shepherd hangs in there with the sheep and defends the sheep.
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One reason for this silence may be that many evangelicals do not agree with the Cessationist view on the gifts of the Spirit. Thus, while they do not approve of behaviour that is clearly out of line with the Scriptures, they find it difficult to support a conference like this one.
To give an example, we have debated elsewhere in this blog some differences in interpretation of the Scriptures, including 1 Corinthians 13:10. Many Cessationists say that they are 'reformed' in their theology and claim that this verse refers to the completion of the New Testament. Yet that was not John Calvin's view. He wrote:
'But when will that perfection come? It begins, indeed, at death, for then we put off, along with the body, many infirmities; but it will not be completely manifested until the day of judgment, as we shall hear presently.' (John Calvin, Commentary on Corinthians, Volume 1, page 361).
The deafening silence of the evangelical community to offer strong, biblical critique in response to charismatic theological error could be because of the confession as to what an evangelical is?
The National Association of Evangelicals: http://www.nae.net/church-and-faith-partners/what-is-an-evangelical. Their definition of what a evangelical is…
"Evangelicals take the Bible seriously and believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
The term "evangelical" comes from the Greek word euangelion, meaning "the good news" or the "gospel." Thus, the evangelical faith focuses on the "good news" of salvation brought to sinners by Jesus Christ.
We are a vibrant and diverse group, including believers found in many churches, denominations and nations. Our community brings together Reformed, Holiness, Anabaptist, Pentecostal, Charismatic and other traditions. Our core theological convictions provide unity in the midst of our diversity. The NAE Statement of Faith offers a standard for these evangelical convictions.
Historian David Bebbington also provides a helpful summary of evangelical distinctives, identifying four primary characteristics of evangelicalism:
•Conversionism: the belief that lives need to be transformed through a "born-again" experience and a life long process of following Jesus.
•Activism: the expression and demonstration of the gospel in missionary and social reform efforts
•Biblicism: a high regard for and obedience to the Bible as the ultimate authority
•Crucicentrism: a stress on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as making possible the redemption of humanity
These distinctives and theological convictions define us, not political, social, or cultural trends. In fact, many evangelicals rarely use the term "evangelical" to describe themselves, focusing simply on the core convictions of the triune God, the Bible, faith, Jesus, salvation, evangelism, and discipleship.
For further study:
Wheaton College Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
An Evangelical Manifesto
David W. Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989)
Mark A. Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2003)."
If we encourage this association to critique the content of their website, would that fill the void of silence that has been created by passive and undiscerning Christians? Would people as a result changed in their beliefs from following errant teaching about the Spirit? Could it be they're too busy going to college and seminaries trying to learn how to take the Gospel to the world?
Why don't we just obey the commission and go! Make, baptize, teach disciples, proclaim the gospel, set them free. Be his witnesses, depending on the Holy Spirit to satisfy the hunger of life.
If we don't obey then they languishing.
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The Center for Global Service Learning (CGSL) seeks to encourage and empower faculty and students to use their expertise and ingenuity to work collaboratively and in a multidisciplinary fashion to solve real-world problems in developing communities.
Global Service Learning projects will provide students the opportunity to apply their college education in a multidisciplinary, global setting, teaching them to use their skills to serve the world. Through Global Service Learning projects, students will become active participants in their host location, engaging with members of the community and developing skills that will ultimately make them more responsible global citizens.
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The amendment takes effect Oct. 29 and requires Thompson to prohibit smoking not only indoors but outdoors as well, on the grounds of its facilities and within 15 feet of the entrances to the grounds. This includes parking lots, driveways and sidewalks, as well as vehicles located on campus.
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On September 20, 2011 HPBA sent out an 11-page memo to over 1,500 members requesting that companies send letters to DOE urging them to send comments to DOE in opposition to their proposed rule on Direct Heating Equipment Rulemaking. The memo (found below) also encouraged members to contact their U.S. Representative to ask them to sign on to a letter from Members of Congress to DOE Secretary Steven Chu.
About a week later, HPBA sent a letter on September 28, 2011 to DOE Sec. Chu (found below) regarding DOE's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) entitled "Energy Conservation Program Standards for Direct Heating Equipment," published at 76 Fed. Reg. 43941 (July 22, 2011).


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Oklahoma students and teachers would have a right to explore scientific controversies, under a bill proposed in the state legislature, reports the Oklahoman. It appears to be an attempt to introduce "intelligent design" into biology classes on evolution, writes Dan Willingham. In any case, it's a waste of class time.
Why shouldn't science teachers "teach the controversy?" Isn't it the job of teachers to sharpen students critical thinking skills? Isn't it part of the scientific method to evaluate evidence? If evolution proponents are so sure their theory is right, why are they afraid of students scrutinizing the ideas?
Imagine this logic applied in other subjects. Why shouldn't students study and evaluate the version of US history offered by white supremacists? Rather than just reading Shakespeare and assuming he's a great playwright, why not ask students to read Shakespeare and the screenplay to Battlefield Earth, and let students decide?
. . . Not every theory merits the limited time students have in school. There is a minimum bar of quality that has to be met in order to compete.
Modern scientists think all theories are open to emendation, improvement — and falsification, Willingham writes. In addition, g
ood scientific theories "change in the face of new evidence" and "continue to spawn new and interesting hypotheses." While "evolution has been remarkably successful on this score for over 100 years," intelligent design has been "static and unfruitful."


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Jaime Hernandez: The 2001-W Proof Gold Eagle experienced a low demand from collectors compared to the previous years. The decrease in demand was more than likely caused by the low prices of gold during the time. Some of the other Proof Gold Eagles in lower denominations also showed a decrease in sales compared to previous years.
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I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to make Thursday meetings any more, and therefore will need to step down as darkroom liason to the AF WG, and by extension I suppose to the FWG.
But here's a thread for you to post agenda items.
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Following a busy Tuesday at NATO, Secretary of State John Kerry continued to meet with foreign leaders in Brussels today. Secretary Kerry began this morning with "an expansive conservation" with Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, before he met with Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze and then held a dialogue with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. His meetings covered an extensive range of topics, from the importance of trade negotiations to security issues in Afghanistan.
With Foreign Minister Reynders, Secretary Kerry expressed his appreciation and gratitude for the "great relationship between the United States and Belgium." In his remarks after the meeting, Secretary Kerry highlighted that they had "talked a lot about trade and the importance of being able to move forward on the trade negotiations because both of our economies will benefit enormously." Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Reynders also discussed terrorism and the challenges terrorism presents in the Congo, and emphasized that "...we are committed, all of us, to protect our citizens and to do the best job we can to reduce the capacity for terror in the world."
Secretary Kerry's meeting with President Karzai and General Kayami was part of a continuing trilateral discussion on "security and other issues regarding the relationships in the region as well as the road forward heading towards 2014, a critical transformational period." Following the meeting, Secretary Kerry remarked that "there's good feeling among all of us that we made progress in this dialogue in terms of those discussions." Secretary Kerry reaffirmed that "everybody here agreed today that we will continue a very specific dialogue on both the political track as well as the security track, and we have a commitment to do that in the interests of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and peace in the region," but "that results are what will tell the story, not statements at a press conference."
You can read more about the Secretary's visit to Brussels on the State Department's website.
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Good trade promotes peace and development. Bad trade does not. Afpak region is the hub of poppy seed culture and drug distribution.It would naive to think Governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, who the players are in this dirty trade. US too cannot be unaware of this. One's sense is government's of the region have not been acting against them and the drug traders must have invoked fear of loss of livelihood among tribal poppy growers and recruited them into guerilla forces with religious overtones to actually enhance their commercial interest to be sufficiently strong threat to governments , remain a source of permanent nuisance value and get tacit support of governments for their neferious activities. This suits governments also to project their threat perceptions from terrorists and fundamentalists and get millions and billions of dollars of aid in various forms.


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The Harp Seal or Saddleback seal is a species of earless seal native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean. Officially Pagophilus groenlandicus, which means ice-lover from Greenland, it has a synonym Phoca groenlandica or Greenland seal.[2]
The Harp seal has a black face with silvery-gray body. It has black harp or wishbone shaped markings on the back. They exhibit little sexual dimorphism.[2]
The pup has a white coat at birth. Dentition is I 3/2, C 1/1, PC 5/5=34.[2]
Harp seals combine anatomical and behavioral approaches to managing their body temperatures, instead of elevating their metabolic rate and energy requirements.[2]
A thick coat of blubber insulates its body and provides energy when food is scarce or during fasting. Blubber also streamlines its body for more efficient swimming. Brown fat warms blood as it returns from the body surface as well as providing energy, most importantly for just-weaned pups.[2]
Flippers act as heat exchangers, warming or cooling the blood as needed. On ice, the seal can press its foreflippers to its body and its hindflippers together to reduce heat loss.[2]
Vision is its critical sense. Its eye is proportionally large and contains a large spherical lens, improving its focusing ability. Its pupil is mobile to help it adapt to the intense glare of the Arctic ice. Its retina is rod-dominated and backed by a cat-like and reflective tapetum lucidum, enhancing its low light sensitivity. Its rods best sense blue-green, while its cones help with bright light and may provide some color discrimination. Its cornea is constantly tear-covered, to protect it from salt. Lacking tear ducts, it "cries" to remove its tears.[2]
It can hear and determine direction above and below the water surface. Its range in air is similar to humans', but is less sensitive. As an earless seal, it lacks a pinna. Its underwater range extends to 60 kHz. It hears better underwater than on the surface, except that water limits its frequency range.[2]
On ice, the mother identifies her offspring by smell. This sense may also warn of an approaching predator. Underwater, this seal closes its nostrils and smells nothing.[2]
Its whiskers, called vibrissae, lie in horizontal rows on either side of its snout. They may provide a touch sense, and underwater, also respond to low-frequency vibrations, such as movement.[2]
On the ice, pups call their mothers by "bawling" and "mumble" while playing with others. Adults "growl" and "warble" to warn off others.
Underwater, adults express themselves with 19+ call types during courting and mating.[2]
Life history
Females mature sexually at age 5–6. Annually thereafter they bear one pup, usually in late February. The fertilized egg grows into a spherical embryo that implants in the uterus only after 3 or so months, to allow birth to take place while sufficient pack ice is available.[2]
Newborn pups weight around 11 kilograms (24 lb) and are 80–85 centimetres (31–33 in) long. After birth, the mother only feeds that pup. During the 12 day nursing period, the mother does not eat, losing up to 3 kilograms (7 lb) per day. Harp Seal milk contains up to 48% fat, so pups gain over 2.2 kilograms (5 lb) per day. During this time the juvenile's "greycoat" grows in beneath the white neonatal coat, and it weighs 80 pounds (36 kg). Weaning is abrupt; the mother turns from nursing to promiscuous mating, leaving the pup behind on the ice. While courtship starts on the ice, mating usually takes place in the water.[2]
The stranded pup cries at first, and then becomes sedentary to conserve body fat. Within a few days, it sheds its white coat, reaching the "beater" stage.[2]
Pups are unable to swim or find food until 7–8 weeks old or until the ice melts, leaving them vulnerable to polar bears and other predators. This fast costs them up to 50% of their weight. As many as 30% of pups die during their first year, due in part to their early immobility because they learn to swim only slowly.
At about 13–14 months, the pup molts again, becoming a "bedlamer". Juveniles molt several times, producing a "spotted harp", before the adult's harp-marked pelt fully emerges after several years (or not all in females).[2]
Seals congregate annually on the ice to molt before migrating to summer feeding grounds. Their lifespan extends some 30 years.[2]
Migration and vagrancy
Harp Seals are strongly migratory. The northwest population regularly moves up to 4,000 kilometers (2,485 mi) northeast outside of the breeding season;[3] one individual was located off the north Norwegian coast, 4,640 kilometers (2,883 mi) east-north-east of its tagging location.[4] Their navigational accuracy is high, with good eyesight an important factor.[3][5] They are occasionally found as a vagrant, south of their normal range. In Great Britain, a total of 31 vagrants were recorded between 1800 and 1988,[6]
More recently they reached Lindisfarne in Northumberland in September 1995,[7] and the Shetland Islands in 1987. The latter was linked to a mass movement of Harp Seals into Norwegian waters; by mid-February 1987, 24,000 were reported drowned in fishing nets and perhaps 300,000 (about 10% of the world population) had invaded fjords as far south as Oslo. The animals were emaciated, likely due to humans competing for their prey.[8]
Relation to humans
Seal hunting
All three populations are hunted commercially, mainly by Canada, Norway, Russia and Greenland.[2]
In Canada, commercial hunting season is from November 15 to May 15. Most sealing occurs in late March in The Gulf of St. Lawrence, and during the first or second week of April off Newfoundland, in an area known as "The Front". This peak spring period is generally what is referred to as the "Canadian Seal Hunt". Hunting Canadian whitecoats has been banned since 1987. In 2006, the St. Lawrence hunt officially started on March 25 due to thin ice caused by the year's milder temperatures. Inuit people living in the region hunt mainly for food and to a lesser extent, commerce.[2]
In 2003, the three-year quota granted by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was increased to 975,000, with a maximum of 350,000 in any two consecutive years. In 2006, 325,000 Harp Seals, as well as 10,000 Hooded Seals and 10,400 Grey Seals were killed. An additional 10,000 animals are allocated to First Nations hunters. From 2004-2007, over 1 million were taken, 95% under the age of 3 months. Canada's Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for 2007, was 270,000, which was higher than the sustainable yield of 165,000.[2]
The Canadian seal hunt is monitored by the Canadian Government. Although approximately 70% of the hunt occurs on "The Front", most private monitors focus on the St. Lawrence hunt, due to its more convenient location. 70-90,000 animals are taken from this population off the coast of Greenland.[2]
The 2004 West Ice TAC was 15,00 "1+" animals (2 pups = 1+) almost double the sustainable catch of 8,200. Actual catches were 9,895 in 2004 and 5,808 in 2005.[2]
The 2004 White Sea TAC was 45,000 1+ (2.5 pups = 1+). The catch was 22,474.[2]
Notes and references
- ^ Kovacs, K. (2008). Pagophilus groenlandicus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 January 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Lavigne, David M. (2009). Perrin, William F.; Wursig, Bernd; Thewissen, J. G. M.. eds. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2 ed.). 30 Corporate Drive, Burlington Ma. 01803: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-3733553-9. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/716899/description#description.
- ^ a b Ronald, K., & Healey, P. J. (1981). Harp Seal. Chapter 3 in Ridgeway, S. H., & Harrison, R. J., eds. Handbook of Marine Mammals, vol. 2 Seals. Academic Press, London.
- ^ Sergeant, D. E. (1973). Transatlantic migration of a Harp Seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus. J. Fish. Res. Board Canada 30: 124-125.
- ^ King, J. E. (1993). Seals of the World, 2nd. ed. British Museum, London.
- ^ Corbet, G. B., & Harris, S., eds. (1991). The Handbook of British Mammals, 3rd. ed. Blackwell, Oxford.
- ^ Frankis, M. P., Davey, P. R., & Anderson, G. Q. A. (1997). Harp Seal: a new mammal for the Northumberland fauna. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumbria 57 (4) 239-241.
- ^ Anon (1987). Harp Seals, Brunnich's Guillemots and White-billed Divers Twitching 1 (3): 58.
The Northwest population:
- Hammill, M.O. and Stenson, G.B., (2000). Estimated Prey Consumption by Harp seals (Phoca groenlandica), Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata), Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) and Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Atlantic Canada. J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 26:1-23
- Lawson, J.W., Anderson, J.T., Dalley, E.L. and Stenson, G.B. (1998). Selective foraging by harp seals Phoca groenlandica in nearshore and offshore waters of Newfoundland, 1993 and 1994. Marine Ecology Progress Series Vol. 163:1-10.
- Shelton, P.A. and Healey, B.P. (1999). Should depensation be dismissed as a possible explanation for the lack of recovery of the northern cod (Gadus morhua) stock? Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56:1521-1524
- Stenson, G.B., Hammill, M.O. and Lawson, J.W.(1997). Predation by Harp Seals in Atlantic Canada: Preliminary Consumption Estimates for Arctic Cod, Capelin and Atlantic Cod. J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 22:137-154
The White Sea and West Ice populations:
- Hamre, J.(1994). Biodiversity and exploitation of the main fish stocks in the Norwegian- Barents Sea ecosystem. Biodiversity and Conservation 3:473-492
- Haug, T., Kroeyer, A.B., Nilssen, K.T., Ugland, K.I. and Aspholm, P.E., (1991). Harp seal (Phoca groenlandica ) invasions in Norwegian coastal waters: Age composition and feeding habits. ICES journal of marine science. Vol. 48, no. 3:363-371
- ICES 2001. Report of the Joint ICES/NAFO Working Group on Harp and Hooded Seals, ICES Headquarters, 2–6 October 2000. ICES CM, 2001, ACFM:8, 40 pp.
- Nilssen, K.T., Pedersen, O.-P., Folkow, L.P., & Haug. T. 2000. Food consumption estimates of Barents Sea harp seals. NAMMCO Sci. Publ. 2:9-28.


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Earning a Gold Award is not easy -- but the rewards, for yourself, your community, and your future are worth the effort.
We ask Gold Awardees to give other Girl Scouts who are considering a Gold Award Project a realistic idea of what is involved. Below, Madison Darling tells us about the challenges and rewards she encountered while implementing her project.
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As Flute Head Section Leader in my high school band I was responsible for 23 girls of various backgrounds. I was able to witness how varying levels of communication skills between parents and teens affected overall success in both school and band. This prompted me to take action
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The New England Patriots hit the road to face the New York Jets in a classic matchup featuring a couple of big personalities at head coach in Bill Belichick and Rex Ryan. What will the Patriots defense have cooked up for rookie Jets passer Geno Smith, and can their offense get rolling against the Jets' talented defensive front?
The Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers meet in an another divisional rivalry that is always a must-watch. The Steelers got off the schneid last week, but the Ravens aren't ready to give their rivals any breaks in what should be a physical battle.
Andrew Luck hosts Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts will look to be as inhospitable as possible to the Denver Broncos as they look to rebound from their Week 6 loss and prove the Broncos aren't as perfect as their record.
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Earnings is around the corner and the analysts are predicting that Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE:TDA) is expected to report earnings of $N/A per share. Will the analysts hit the mark? Investors will know for sure when the company releases their earnings report on or around N/A.
Let's look at the surprise factor from recent quarters. Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. recorded a surprise factor of N/A% last quarter. The Earnings Per Share (EPS) was $N/A. The difference was slightly off track from the analysts' predictions.
Let's dig a little deeper…
Standard deviation is a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole. Here's the standard deviation for Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE:TDA): $N/A. Analysts predict a price target range from $N/A to $N/A with a consensus target from the N/A analysts providing projections currently stands at $N/A. The mean target was last updated on N/A. Of course, this prediction is short term covering only the next twelve months.
How does it all work?
Let's take a look at how analysts predict the stock price of a given company. An analyst's prediction is pretty powerful. They spend all day every day researching the company's balance sheet trends and cash flow from previous earnings. This information is known as the company's fundamentals – which help analysts predict future earnings trends. If an analyst changes their outlook on a stock, investors might buy or sell based on that information.
How do investors know if the analysts prediction is accurate? Investors have to be wary of some factors. One common problem is that an analyst might have a pre-existing relationship with a company that is a client of their employer. This relationship produces a conflict of interest. It's difficult to determine if this relationship exists, so investors have to do their own research, too. Investors should especially be wary if an analysts has an overly optimistic outlook on a stock that traditionally has not been performing well.
What's the consensus?
Investors can determine the consensus on a stock by looking at the average brokerage recommendation score. The average brokerage recommendation (ABR) is an average of the all of the recommendations of Wall Street analysts and is based on a ranking of 1 to 5 — 1 representing a Strong Buy and 5 representing a Strong Sell. Presently Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE:TDA) has shares with an ABR of N/A. That ranking is based on the recommendations of N/A. Investors should still be wary of overly optimistic rankings and be careful to do their own research before making any major investment decisions.
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The most dynamic and knowledgeable speakers in the industry will take center stage at PASS Summit 2011 in 13 full-day pre-conference seminars and 24 invitation-only spotlight sessions.
The in-depth, hands-on pre-cons—available for $395 each—enable SQL Server pros to immerse themselves in their topic of choice with today's top experts. The pre-cons will run Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 10-11. The spotlight sessions—spread across the conference and available as part of the standard PASS Summit registration—are 90 minutes long, letting these popular speakers drill into their technical topics.
"It's been a tough job to select the pre-cons and spotlights this year because the quality of the abstracts is so high," notes Program Team leader Lori Edwards. "Looking at the list of submissions, choosing the regular sessions is going to be just as challenging. We look forward to presenting a great schedule for Summit 2011."
A big thanks to everyone who helped the review teams by marking their session preferences, and stay tuned for the regular sessions, which we'll announce in the next couple of weeks. Until then, sign up for your favorite pre-cons and don't miss your chance to save $600 off Summit registration, only until June 30. Register today!
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Hundreds of IT professionals are expected to sharpen their SQL Server and BI skills during 2 days of technical sessions across BI, DBA, and Developer tracks at PASS SQLRally Nordic 2011, Nov 8-9, in Aronsborg, Sweden. Attendees can save 150 euros until June 30 during early-bird registration. Spread the word!
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We present Cloud Haskell, a domain-specific language for developing programs for a distributed-memory computing environment. Implemented as a shallow embedding in Haskell, it provides a message-passing communication model, inspired by Erlang, without introducing incompatibility with Haskell's established shared-memory concurrency. A key contribution is a method for serializing function closures for transmission across the network. Cloud Haskell has been implemented; we present example code and some preliminary performance measurements.
In a parallel, shared-memory, language with a garbage collected heap, it is desirable for each processor to perform minor garbage collections independently. Although obvious, it is difficult to make this idea pay off in practice, especially in languages where mutation is common. We present several techniques that substantially improve the state of the art. We describe these techniques in the context of a full-scale implementation of Haskell, and demonstrate that our local-heap collector substantially improves scaling, peak performance, and robustness.
We present a new programming model for deterministic parallel computation in a pure functional language. The model is monadic and has explicit granularity, but allows dynamic construction of dataflow networks that are scheduled at runtime, while remaining deterministic and pure. The implementation is based on monadic concurrency, which has until now only been used to simulate concurrency, rather than to provide parallelism, in functional languages. We present the API with its semantics, and argue that parallel execution is deterministic. Furthermore, we present a complete work-stealing scheduler implemented as a Haskell library, and we show that it performs at least as well as the existing parallel programming models in Haskell.
Purely functional programs should run well on parallel hardware because of the absence of side effects, but it has proved hard to realise this potential in practice. Plenty of papers describe promising ideas, but vastly fewer describe real implementations with good wall-clock performance. We describe just such an implementation, and quantitatively explore some of the complex design tradeoffs that make such implementations hard to build. Our measurements are necessarily detailed and specific, but they are reproducible, and we believe that they offer some general insights.
This practical tutorial introduces the features available in Haskell for writing parallel and concurrent programs. We first describe how to write semi-explicit parallel programs by using annotations to express opportunities for parallelism and to help control the granularity of parallelism for effective execution on modern operating systems and processors. We then describe the mechanisms provided by Haskell for writing explicitly parallel programs with a focus on the use of software transactional memory to help share information between threads. Finally, we show how nested data parallelism can be used to write deterministically parallel programs which allows programmers to use rich data types in data parallel programs which are automatically transformed into flat data parallel versions for efficient execution on multi-core processors.
In this paper we present an automated way of using spare CPU resources within a shared memory multi-processor or multi-core machine. Our approach is (i) to profile the execution of a program, (ii) from this to identify pieces of work which are promising sources of parallelism, (iii) recompile the program with this work being performed speculatively via a work-stealing system and then (iv) to detect at run-time any attempt to perform operations that would reveal the presence of speculation.
We assess the practicality of the approach through an implementation based on GHC 6.6 along with a limit study based on the execution profiles we gathered. We support the full Concurrent Haskell language compiled with traditional optimizations and including I/O operations and synchronization as well as pure computation. We use 20 of the larger programs from the Ânofib benchmark suite. The limit study shows that programs vary a lot in the parallelism we can identify: some have none, 16 have a potential 2x speed-up, 4 have 32x. In practice, on a 4-core processor, we get 10-80% speed-ups on 7 programs. This is mainly achieved at the addition of a second core rather than beyond this.
This approach is therefore not a replacement for manual parallelization, but rather a way of squeezing extra performance out of the threads of an already-parallel program or out of a program that has not yet been parallelized.
Multi-core processors are coming, and we need ways to program them. The combination of purely-functional programming and explicit, monadic threads, communicating using transactional memory, looks like a particularly promising way to do so. This paper describes a full-scale implementation of shared-memory parallel Haskell, based on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Our main technical contribution is a lock-free mechanism for evaluating shared thunks that eliminates the major performance bottleneck in parallel evaluation of a lazy language. Our results are preliminary but promising: we can demonstrate wall-clock speedups of a serious application (GHC itself), even with only two processors, compared to the same application compiled for a uni-processor.


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As some of you may have seen, we're reaching the limit of what our shared hosting account can handle. Over the last few days we've hit the maximum number of allowed connections in Mysql on this host, so lots of people (including me) are getting denied access. We're looking for a good VPS provider to host this site and possibly a few others on.
Right now Slicehost seems to have the best deal going, but their waiting list is a few weeks. I put in an order, but I don't think anyone wants to deal with these issues for the next few weeks until we can get a server. If I do find something else before then I'll just use the slicehost account for my personal domains instead. So here's our criteria:
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It's not every day you get to share sushi and spring rolls with one of the world's most iconic actors, and I have dined out on the story ever since. Though John Travolta and I were hunched over a low table and the wasabi dip was making my eyes stream, I felt entirely at ease thanks to his friendly, down-to-earth manner–which perhaps explains some of his phenomenal success.
July 31, 2012
Sitting in a Bombardier Learjet 45 at California's Palm Desert Airport near Palm Springs, tennis champion Novak Djokovic outlined the approach that has kept him at the top of the game and made him a hero in his native Serbia.
June 4, 2012
Jackie Chan has a permanent hole in his head from a stunt accident and has been an emergency-room regular, but he continues to perform death-defying stunts to get the perfect shots for his action movies. A passionate advocate for realism in film, he insists that his fellow actors execute their own stunts, too–albeit while wearing plenty of padding. His later films include outtakes of his on-set accidents run under the closing credits. He cannot get insurance in the U.S.
March 26, 2012
International piano sensation Lang Lang grew up on a Chinese air force base where his father played in the military band. He doesn't remember much about the airplanes there, but he does recall watching American television cartoons, with their animation often mated to classical music, and credits them for his desire to learn piano.
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William Shatner has been a staple of popular culture for half a century. He is perhaps best known for playing Captain James Kirk on the 1960s television series Star Trek and in more than half a dozen of the like-titled motion pictures that followed. He later served as the omnipresent discount-travel Priceline pitchman and portrayed the lovable lout lawyer Denny Crane on the TV series Boston Legal, for which he won two Emmys and a Golden Globe award. Turn on your television anytime in recent years and there he was, holding court on his cable interview show Raw Nerve, cooing over antiques with the History Channel guys on American Pickers, roasting bad-boy actor Charlie Sheen on Comedy Central, reading Sarah Palin's Tweets as poetry parody on The Tonight Show, appearing on the CBS sitcom $h*! My Dad Says, awakening the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery on their final mission or presenting a country music award.
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As winter approaches, I can envision the warmth among all of us on this thread, which I should welcome after everything I've tracked in the past year. While Ash and Dawn could stare up at the falling snow in awe and curiosity, they could also realize that they truly enjoy each other's presence even more than they usually do. Their romantic friendship would remain something of an instinct between both of them, and as they share their separate observations about the quietness surrounding them, they could ponder something more traditional yet modern that they've heard more recently during their journey. Any sincere expressions of gratitude would flow naturally from there.:
If Ash and Dawn got each other a gift, what would they want to give each other?
I don't imagine anything specific since Ash and Dawn seem like the kind of trainers who'd want almost anything helpful or tangible, or even symbolic. A crest engraved with two high-fiving hands would remind both of them of their bond's distinct nature, while separately, Dawn could give Ash some special sprinkles for their food, with Ash giving Dawn either a dress of light blue and yellow or some shampoo with which to care for their Pokémon, during battles and contests alike, cementing the energy behind their thoughts and actions together.


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Bucs Release Webber's Anderson
Safety Vince Anderson made history when he became the first player from NAIA Webber International University to play in an NFL game. Now, Anderson is history…for now. The Tampa Bay Bucs released the safety and signed safety Dominique Harris from the Buffalo Bills practice squad. Harris, an undrafted rookie free agent from Temple, spent the first 15 weeks on the Bills' practice squad. Anderson was on the Bucs' practice squad for the first 12 weeks of the season but was… Read More »