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From the start, eyes were on the son
But 16 months later, his father's slaying remains unsolved.
By S.I. ROSENBAUM
Published April 26, 2007
PLANT CITY -- Michael White faced detectives in the gray-walled interrogation room.
The night before his father's murder, he said, the two of them worked till dawn in the family's strawberry field to keep their plants from freezing.
"That was my last memory," White said.
Across the table, Detective Charles Keene stared at him.
"No," Keene said. "Your last memory should be you ringing the doorbell, him opening the door and you cutting loose with that SKS rifle."
"I did not kill my father," White said.
"Yes you did," Keene said. "Yes you did."
As confident as Keene sounded that day -- and as much evidence as the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office found against Michael White -- the murder of 61-year-old strawberry farmer Bruce White remains unsolved 16 months later.
But stacks of documents recently made public show how close authorities came to charging the son with the crime.
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The Whites' 70-acre farm is south of Plant City, down a long dirt drive. On a hot spring day, the breeze from the fields smells like strawberry cobbler. It remains a private place; in fact, no members of the White family agreed to comment for this story.
Michael, 36, grew up here. His high-school sweetheart and first wife, Leslie Cox, remembers him as the "good kid," shy and polite, who quit school at 16 to work on the farm.
But by the time he was 35, Michael had mostly stopped doing farm work. He had been married and divorced twice, had a few brushes with the law. His mother, Frances, gave him about $20,000 to open a nail salon.
In December 2005, just weeks before the murder, Frances noticed that her son looked "funny." He told her he had intestinal cancer and was taking the painkiller OxyContin.
At Christmas, Frances' older daughter Tonya gave her a different explanation: He's on cocaine, she told her mother.
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Frances White woke to gunshots.
It was still dark on Jan. 9, 2006, just before 6 a.m. Frances stood still, listening. Then she heard groaning. She walked out of the bedroom. Her husband was lying by the open front door, bleeding.
She ran to the kitchen for the phone. The 911 operator told her to press a towel to the wound.
The phone beeped: incoming call. It was Michael.
He was nearby, driving to his parents' house to return a borrowed truck, he would say later. He'd heard gunfire. "Your father's been shot," Frances said.
Michael White's account of what he did next would strike the detectives as odd.
Although he was close to the house, he turned and drove back to his trailer to get a handgun. He drove around the property, looking for intruders.
Only then did he go to his mother's side.
Soon, his sister arrived, too. Then the paramedics. All the while, Bruce White was bleeding to death in his wife's arms. She kept telling him he wasn't going to die.
Later, she would tell the detectives that she never thought to ask her husband who had shot him.
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"Listen to me, brother," Detective Keene told Michael in the interrogation room.
"If we paint the picture the way it stands right now, it does not look good for you. You have got to explain your involvement in this."
"Uh-huh," Michael said.
A few days before the murder, Michael reported his rental Ford Mustang stolen, with his SKS rifle in the trunk.
Deputies found spent SKS cartridges at the Whites' front door, and cartridges from the same rifle in Michael's trailer.
On Jan. 23rd, detectives found the missing Mustang at the home of John "Booty" Thornton, Michael's childhood buddy. Thornton would later tell them that Michael asked him to hide it.
The rifle never turned up.
"Look at me in the eyes," Keene said. "Your SKS rifle is the one that was used on your father."
Maybe Thornton killed Bruce White, Keene said. After all, he could have taken the rifle. And matching cartridges were also found at Thornton's father's place.
"You did it or he did it," Keene said.
"Well, I damned sure didn't do it," Michael said.
There was more. Before the murder Michael had forged Bruce White's name on more than $300,000 worth of checks.
Frances White discovered the theft in December, although she said she never told her husband.
Michael said his father let him forge the checks.
"I'm gonna prove that you lied," Keene said. "But I will tell you this. You're gonna carry this around for the rest of your life, unless you let it out."
"I didn't do anything," Michael said. "And that's the truth."
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Michael agreed to take a polygraph test. He arrived at the right time, but then went back to the car for his ID, and drove away.
They set up another appointment for the next morning. Again, Michael showed up. Again, he left without taking the test.
His behavior was suspicious, and the circumstantial evidence against him was considerable. But it wasn't enough.
Whom should they charge? Michael White or John Thornton? The investigation had not revealed who had the rifle or who fired it. It could have been either one.
Instead, on Feb. 16, 2006, Michael White was arrested for forging checks. From jail, he asked to speak to detectives.
This time, Michael confessed to the forgeries. He did it, he said, because he was being threatened by an extortionist named "Frank Capalli" and his associate "DeAngelo."
Detectives were unable to locate anyone by those names.
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Even with a guilty plea, state attorneys found they could not press for jail time. The primary victim of the theft -- Bruce White -- was dead. And Frances White refused to cooperate with prosecutors, asking that her son not go to jail.
"It has got to be hard for her," said Tom Palermo, the prosecutor who handled the case. "Frances White has lost her husband, and I'm possibly going to take away her son."
Instead of jail, Michael White received five years' probation.
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In the days after the killing, Frances dreamed of her dead husband.
The two of them were in the car, going somewhere. Bruce was falling asleep. Wake up, wake up, Frances called to him.
But he didn't wake up -- she did.
"When I wake up now, I don't go back to sleep," she told the detectives in the days after the murder.
One of them asked Frances whether she thought her son had anything to do with her husband's death.
"I hope he didn't," Frances White said.
Times news researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. S.I. Rosenbaum can be reached at (813) 661-2442 or email@example.com.


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The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a large marine mammal which, together with the manatees, is one of four living species of the order Sirenia. It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest modern relative, Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century. It is also the only sirenian in its range, which spans the waters of at least 37 countries throughout the Indo-Pacific,[3] though the majority of dugongs live in the northern waters of Australia between Shark Bay and Moreton Bay.[4] The dugong is the only strictly-marine herbivorous mammal, as all species of manatee utilize fresh water to some degree.[3]
Like all modern sirenians, the dugong has a fusiform body with no dorsal fin or hind limbs, instead possessing paddle-like forelimbs used to maneuver itself. It is easily distinguished from the manatees by its fluked, dolphin-like tail, but also possesses a unique skull and teeth.[5] The dugong is heavily dependent on seagrasses for subsistence and is thus restricted to the coastal habitats where they grow, with the largest dugong concentrations typically occurring in wide, shallow, protected areas such as bays, mangrove channels and the lee sides of large inshore islands.[3] Its snout is sharply downturned, an adaptation for grazing and uprooting benthic seagrasses.
The dugong has been hunted for thousands of years for its meat and oil,[6] although dugong hunting also has great cultural significance throughout its range.[7] The dugong's current distribution is reduced and disjunct, and many populations are close to extinction.[3] The IUCN lists the dugong as a species vulnerable to extinction, while the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species limits or bans the trade of derived products based on the population involved. Despite being legally protected in many countries throughout their range, the main causes of population decline remain anthropogenic and include hunting, habitat degradation, and fishing-related fatalities.[8] With its long lifespan of 70 years or more, and slow rate of reproduction, the dugong is especially vulnerable to these types of exploitation.[3] Dugongs are also threatened by storms, parasites, and their natural predators, sharks, killer whales, and crocodiles.[8]
Etymology and taxonomy
Dugong dugon is the only extant species of the Dugongidae family, and one of only four extant species of the Sirenia order, the others being manatees.[3] It was first classified by Müller in 1776 as Trichechus dugon,[9] a member of the manatee genus previously defined by Linnaeus.[10] It was later assigned as the type species of Dugong by Lacépède[11] and further classified within its own family by Gray[12] and subfamily by Simpson.[13]
Dugongs and other Sirenians are not closely related to other marine mammals, being more related to elephants.[4] Dugongs and elephants share a monophyletic group with hyraxes and the Aardvark, one of the earliest offshoots of eutherians. The fossil record shows Sirenians appearing in the Eocene, where they most likely lived in the Tethys Ocean. The two extant families of Sirenians are thought to have diverged in the mid-Eocene, after which the dugong's and its closest relative, the Steller's Sea Cow, split off from a common ancestor in the Miocene. The Steller's Sea Cow became extinct in the 18th century. No fossils exist of other members of the Dugongidae.[6]
Molecular studies have been made on dugong populations using mitochondrial DNA. The results have suggested that the population of Southeast Asia are distinct from the others. Australia has two distinct maternal lineages, one of which also contains the dugongs from Africa and Arabia. Limited genetic mixing has taken place between those in Southeast Asia and those in Australia, mostly around Timor.[3] One of the lineages stretches all the way from Moreton Bay to Western Australia, while the other only stretches from Moreton Bay to the Northern Territory.[4] Genetic information however, is still not clear enough to make clear boundaries between distinct groups.[3]
The word "dugong" derives from the Tagalog term dugong which was in turn adopted from the Malay duyung, both meaning "lady of the sea."[14] Other common local names include "sea cow," "sea pig" and "sea camel."[8]
Anatomy and morphology
The dugong's body is large and fusiform, with thick, smooth skin that is a pale cream colour at birth but darkens dorsally and laterally to a brownish to dark grey with age. The colour of a dugong can change due to the growth of algae on the skin.[15] The body is sparsely covered in short hair, a common feature among sirenians which may allow for tactile interpretation of their environment.[16] These hairs are most developed around the mouth, which has a large horse-shoe shaped upper lip forming a highly mobile muzzle.[6] This muscular upper lip aids the dugong in foraging.[15]
The dugong's tail flukes[17] and flippers[4] are similar to those of dolphins. These flukes are raised up and down in long strokes to move the animal forward, and can be twisted to cause turning. Their forelimbs are paddle-like flippers which aid in turning while swimming as well as providing brakes.[6] The dugong lacks nails on its flippers, which are only 15% of a dugong's body length.[6] The tail has deep notches.[5]
A dugongs brain can reach only 300g, about 0.1% of the entire animal's body weight.[6] With very small eyes[18] they have limited vision, but acute hearing within narrow sound thresholds. Their ears, which lack pinna, are located on the sides of their head. The nostrils are located on top of the head, and can be closed using valves.[4] Dugongs have two teats, one located behind each flipper.[6] There are few differences between sexes, as dugongs are monomorphic.[15] A males testes are not externally located, and the main difference between males and females is the location of the genital aperture in relation to the umbilicus and the anus. The lungs in a dugong are very long, extending almost as far as the kidneys, which are also highly elongated in order to cope with the saltwater environment.[6] If wounded, a dugongs blood will clot rapidly.[15]
The skull is enlarged with a sharply downturned premaxilla, which are stronger in males. The spine has between 57 and 60 vertebrae.[6] Unlike in manatees, the dugong's teeth do not continually grow back via horizontal tooth replacement.[19] The dugong has two incisors (tusks) which grow posteriorly until puberty, after which they first erupt in males. The female's tusks continue to grow posteriorly, sometimes erupting later in life after reaching the base of the premaxilla.[6] The number of growth layer groups in a tusk indicates the age of a dugong,[3] and the cheekteeth move forward with age. The full dental formula of dugongs is: [5] Like other sirenians, the dugong experiences pachyostosis, a condition in which the ribs and other long bones are unusually solid and contain little or no marrow. These heavy bones, which are among the densest in the animal kingdom,[20] may act as a ballast to help keep sirenians suspended slightly below the water's surface.[21]
An adult's length rarely exceeds 3 metres (9.8 ft), and females tend to be larger than males. An individual this long is expected to weigh around 420 kilograms (926 lb). The largest individual recorded was 4.06 metres (13.32 ft) long and weighed 1,016 kilograms (2,240 lb),[6] and was found off the Saurashtra coast of west India.[22]
Distribution and habitat
Dugongs are found in warm coastal waters from the Pacific Ocean to the coast of Africa,[17] along an estimated 140,000 kilometres (86,992 mi) of coastline[2] between 26° and 27° degrees to the north and south of the equator. Their historic range is believed to correspond to that of seagrasses from the Potamogetonaceae and Hydrocharitaceae families. It is believed that the remaining dugong populations are relics of a previous range. The numbers and the full size of the former range is unknown, although it is believed that the current populations represent the historical limits of the range.,[3] and is highly fractured.[15] Recorded numbers of dugongs are generally believed to be lower than actual numbers, due to the lack of accurate surveys in many areas. Despite this, the dugong population is thought to be shrinking,[3] with a worldwide decline of 20 per cent in the last 90 years. They have disappeared from the waters of Hong Kong, Mauritius, and Taiwan, as well as parts of Cambodia, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam. Further disappearances are likely.[4]
Populations of dugong exist in the water of 37 countries and territories.[4] In the late 1960s, herds of up to 500 dugongs were observed off the coast of East Africa and nearby islands. However, current knowledge of dugong numbers is mostly based on anecdotal evidence and the numbers throughout the area are believed to be in decline. Current populations are extremely small, numbering 50 and below, and it is likely they become extinct in most of these areas. The eastern side of the Red Sea is the home of large populations numbering in the hundreds, and similar populations are thought to exist in the western side. In the 1980s, it was estimated the population could be as high as 4,000. The Persian Gulf has the second-largest dugong population in the world, with dugong inhabiting most of the southern coast.[3] The current population is believed to be around 7,500.[18] Palau also has a small population.
A highly isolated breeding population exists in the Gulf of Kutch, the only population remaining in western India. It is 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) from the population in the Persian Gulf, and 1,700 kilometres (1,056 mi) from the nearest population in India. Former populations in this area, centred on the Maldives and the Laccadive Islands are presumed to be extinct. A population exists in the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, but it is seriously depleted. A small population exists around the Nansei Shoto islands, and a population formerly existed off Taiwan.[3] An endangered population of 50 or fewer dugongs survives around Okinawa.[23]
A small population exists off Southern China, centred around the island of Hainan. The population around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are known only from a small number records, and although during British rule the population was large it is now believed to be small and scattered. All the islands of the Philippines are believed to have once provided habitat for dugongs, which were common until the 1970s. The gulf of Thailand used to have a large population, although they have not been recently recorded in the west of the gulf and the population in the east is believed to be very small. Dugongs are believed to exist in the Straits of Johor, although in very small numbers. The waters around Borneo support a small population, with more scattered throughout the Malay archipelago. Populations exists around the Solomon Islands archipelago and New Caledonia, stretching to the westernmost population in Vanuatu. A highly isolated population lives around the islands of Palau.[3]
Australia is home to the largest population, stretching from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Moreton Bay in Queensland.[4] The population of Shark Bay is thought to be stable with over 10,000 dugongs. Distribution within the day varies seasonally. Smaller populations exist up the coast, including one in Ashmore reef. A population of thousands exists off the north of the Northern Territory, with a population of over 20,000 in the gulf of Carpentaria. A population of over 25,000 exists in the Torres Strait, although there is significant migration between the strait and the waters of New Guinea.[3] The Great Barrier Reef houses a stable population of around 10,000, although the population concentration has shifted over time. Large bays facing north on the Queensland coast provide significant habitats for dugong, with the southernmost bays being Hervey Bay and Moreton Bay.[4]
Dugongs are generally found in warm waters around the coast[17] with large numbers concentrated in wide and shallow protected bays. Large numbers also exist in wide and shallow mangrove channels and around large inshore islands, where seagrass beds are common.[3] They are usually located at a depth of around 10 m (33 ft),[15] although in areas where the continental shelf remains shallow Dugongs have been known to travel more than 10 kilometres (6 mi) from the shore, descending to as far as 37 metres (121 ft), where deepwater seagrasses such as Halophila spinulosa are found.[3] Special habitats are used for different activities. It has been observed that shallow waters are used as sites for calving, minimising the risk of predation. Deep waters may provide a thermal refuge from cooler waters closer to the shore during winter.[3]
Ecology and life history
Dugongs are long lived, and the oldest dugong recorded was 73 upon death.[3] They have few natural predators, although animals such as crocodiles, killer whales, and sharks do pose a threat to the young.[4] However, a variety of parasites and diseases occur in dugong populations, some of which are infections. Although they are social animals they are usually solitary or found in pairs due to the inability of seagrass beds to support large population.[15] Gatherings of hundreds of dugongs do happen,[17] although they last only for a short period of time.[15]
Because they are shy, and do not approach humans, little is known about dugong behaviour.[15] They can go six minutes without breathing (though about 2 1/2 minutes is more typical),[24] and have been known to rest on their tail to breathe with their heads above water.[17] They can dive to a maximum depth of 39 metres (128 ft), although they spend most of their lives at a maximum depth of 10 metres (33 ft). Communication between different individuals is done through chirps, whistles, barks, and other sounds that echo underwater. Different sounds have been observed with different amplitudes and frequencies, implying different purposes. Visual communication is limited due to poor eyesight, and is mainly used for activities such as lekking. Mothers and calves are in almost constant physical contact, and calves have been known to reach out and touch their mothers with their flippers for reassurance.[15]
Dugongs are semi-nomadic, often travelling long distances in search of food, but staying within a certain range their entire life.[15] Large numbers often move together from one area to another. It is thought that these movements are caused by changes in seagrass availability. Their memory allows them to return to specific points after long travels.[4] Dugong movements mostly occur within a localised area of seagrass beds, and animals in the same region show individualistic patterns of movement. Daily movement is affected by the tides. In areas where there is a large tidal range, dugongs travel with the tide in order to access shallower feeding areas. In Moreton Bay, dugongs often travel between foraging grounds inside the bay and warmer oceanic waters. At higher latitudes dugongs make seasonal travels to reach warmer water during the winter. Occasionally individual dugong make long-distance travels over many days, and can travel over deep ocean waters.[3] One animal was seen as far south as Sydney.[6] Although they are marine creatures, dugongs have been known to travel up to 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) up creeks, although in one case a dugong was caught 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) up a creek near Cooktown.[4]
Dugongs, with other Sirenians, are referred to as "sea cows" because their diet consists mainly of sea-grass. When eating they ingest the whole plant, including the roots,[4] although when this is impossible they will feed on just the leaves.[3] A wide variety of seagrass have been found in dugong stomach contents, and evidence exists they will eat algae when seagrass is scarce.[6] Although known as the only completely herbivorous marine mammals,[15] they occasionally will eat invertebrates such as jellyfish, sea squirts, and shellfish.[4] Dugongs in Moreton Bay, Australia, are omnivorous, feeding on invertebrates such as polychaetes[25] or marine algae when the supply of their choice grasses decreases. In other southern areas of both western and eastern Australia, there is evidence dugongs actively seek out large invertebrates. This does not apply to dugongs in tropical areas, from which faecal evidence indicates that invertebrates are not eaten.[3]
Most dugong do not feed from lush areas, but where the seagrass is more sparse. However, additional factors such as protein concentration and regenerative ability also affect the value of a seagrass bed.[4] The chemical structures and composition of the seagrass is important, and the grass species most often eaten are low in fibre, high in nitrogen, and easily digestible.[3] In the Great Barrier Reef, dugongs feed on low-fibre high-nitrogen seagrass such as Halophila and Halodule,[4] so as to maximize nutrient intake instead of bulk eating. Seagrasses of a lower seral are preferred, where the area has not fully vegetated. Only certain seagrass meadows are suitable for dugong consumption, due to the dugong's highly specialised diet. There is evidence dugongs actively alter seagrass species compositions at local levels. Dugongs may search out deeper seagrass. Feeding trails have been observed as deep as 33 metres (108 ft), and dugongs have been seen feeding as deep as 37 metres (121 ft).[3] Dugongs are relatively slow moving, swimming at around 10kph.[26] When moving along the seabed to feed they walk on their pectoral fins.[5]
Due to poor eyesight, smell is often used to locate edible plants, along with physical contact with the dugong or its long bristles.[15] When eating, a dugong will dig up an entire plant and then shake it to remove the sand before eating it. They have been known to collect a pile of plants in one area before eating them.[5] In order to dig up the plants the flexible and muscular upper lip is used to dig out the plants. This leaves furrows in the sand following their path.[15]
Reproduction and parental care
A dugong reaches sexual maturity between the ages of 8-18, longer than in most other mammals.[27] However, the age when a female first gives birth has come under dispute, with some studies placing the age between 10 and 17 years, while others place it as early as 6 years.[3] Evidence exists that male dugongs lose fertility at older ages.[6] Despite the longevity of the dugong, which may live for fifty years or more, females give birth only a few times during their life and invest considerable parental care in their young.[27] The time between births is unclear, with estimates ranging from 2.4 to 7 years.[3]
Mating behaviour varies between populations of Dugong located in different areas.[15] In some populations males will establish a territory which females in heat will visit.[3] In these areas a male will try to impress the females while defending the area from other males, a practice known as lekking.[15] In others areas many males will attempt to mate with the same female[3] sometimes inflicting injuries to the female or each other.[4] During this the female will have copulated with multiple males, who will have fought to mount her from below. This greatly increases the chances of conception.[15]
Females give birth after a 13-15 month gestation, usually to just one calf.[27] Birth occurs in very shallow water, with occasions known where the mothers were almost on the shore.[6] As soon as the young is born the mother pushes it to the surface to take a breath.[17] Newborns are already 1.2 metres (4 ft) long and 30 kilograms (66 lb) heavy.[4] Once born, they swim close to their mothers, possibly to make swimming easier.[6] The calf nurses for 14-18 months, although it begins to eat seagrasses soon after birth.[3] A calf will only leave its mother once it has matured.[15]
Importance to humans
Dugongs have historically provided easy targets for hunters, killed for their meat, oil, skin, and bones. They are often considered as the inspiration of mermaids,[17] and people around the world developed cultures around dugong hunting. In some areas it remains an animal of great significance,[6] and a growing ecotourism industry around dugongs has helped stimulate the economies of some countries.[15]
There is a 5,000-year old wall painting of a dugong, apparently drawn by neolithic peoples, found in Tambun Cave of Ipoh city in the state of Perak, Malaysia.[28] This was discovered by Lt.R.L Rawlings in 1959 while on a routine patrol. During the Renaissance and the Baroque eras, dugongs were often exhibited in wunderkammers. They were also presented as Fiji mermaids in sideshows.
Dugong meat and oil have traditionally been some of the most valuable foods of Australian aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Some aborigines regard dugongs as part of their Aboriginality.[4] Dugongs have also played a role in legends in Kenya, and the animal is known there as the "Queen of the Sea". Body parts are used as food, medicine, and decorations. In the Gulf states, dugongs served not only as a source of food, but their tusks were used as sword handles. Dugong oil is important to people in India, and its meat is believed to be an aphrodisiac. Dugong ribs were used to make carving in Japan. In Southern China dugongs were traditionally regarded as a "miraculous fish", and it was bad luck to catch them. However, a wave of immigration beginning at the end of the 1950's resulted in dugong being hunted for food. In the Philippines dugongs are thought to bring bad luck, and parts of them are used to ward against evil spirits. In areas of Thailand it is believed that the dugongs tears form a powerful love potion, while in areas of Indonesia they are considered reincarnations of women. In Papua New Guinea they are seen as a symbol of strength.[3]
Dugongs' or sea cows' hides have been thought[29] to have been used as coverings in the building of the Old Testament's portable worship tent known as the Tabernacle, as referenced in the Holy Bible's book of Exodus, although the book of Leviticus (11:12) says that "everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is an abomination" for the Israelites.
Dugong numbers have decreased in recent times. For a population to remain stable, 95 per cent of adults must survive in the span of one year. The estimated percentage of females humans can kill without depleting the population is 1-2%.[4] This number is reduced in areas where calving is minimal due to food shortages. Even in the best conditions a population is unlikely to increase more than 5% a year, leaving dugong vulnerable to overexploitation. The fact that they live in shallow waters puts them under great pressure from human activity. Research on dugongs and the effects of human activity on them has been limited, with most research taking place in Australia. In many countries, the number of dugongs has not even been surveyed. As such the trends in dugong abundance are uncertain, with more data needed for comprehensive management.[3] The only data stretching back long enough to mention population trend changes comes from the urban coast of Queensland, Australia. The last major worldwide study, made in 2002, concluded that the dugong was declining and possibly extinct in a third of its range, with unknown status in another half.[2]
The IUCN Red List lists the dugong as vulnerable, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora regulates and in some areas has banned international trade.[6] Regional cooperation is important due to the widespread distribution of the animal, and in 1998 there was strong support for Southeast Asian cooperation to protect dugongs. Kenya has passed legislation banning the hunting of dugongs and restricting trawling, but are not yet listed under Kenya's Wildlife Act for endangered species. Mozambique has had legislation to protect dugongs since 1955, but this has not been able to be enforced. Many marine parks have been established on the African coast of the Red Sea, and the Egyptian Gulf of Aqaba is fully protected. The United Arab Emirates has banned all hunting within its waters, as has Bahrain. The UAE has additionally banned drift net fishing. India and Sri Lanka ban the hunting and selling of dugongs and their products. Japan has listed Dugongs as endangered and has banned intentional kills and harassment. Hunting, catching, and harassment is banned by the People's Republic of China. The first marine mammal to be protected in the Philippines was the dugong, although monitoring this is difficult. Palau has legislated to protect dugongs, although it is not well enforced and poaching persists. The dugong is a national animal of Papua New Guinea, banning all except traditional hunting. Vanuatu and New Caledonia ban hunting of dugongs. Dugongs are protected throughout Australia, although the rules vary per state. In some areas indigenous hunting is allowed.[3]
Human activity
Entanglement in fishing nets has caused many deaths, although the exact effects have not been calculated. Most issues with industrial fishing occur in deeper waters where dugong populations are low, with local fishing being the main risk in shallower waters.[3] As they cannot stay underwater for a very long period, they are highly prone to deaths due to entanglement.[18] The use of Shark Nets have historically caused large numbers of deaths, and they have been eliminated in most areas and replaced with baited hooks.[4] Hunting has historically been a problem, although in most areas they are no longer hunted. However, indigenous communities sometimes still hunt them, and products produced form by-catch remain valuable. In areas such as northern Australia, hunting is the greatest impactor of dugong population.[3]
Vessel strikes have proved an issue for Manatees, however the relevance of this to dugongs are unknown.[3] Increasing boat traffic has had increased danger,[4] especially in shallow waters. Ecotourism has increased in some countries, although effects remain undocumented. It has been seen to cause issues in areas such as Hainan due to environmental degradation.[3] Modern farming practise and increased land clearing has also had an impact, and much of the coastline along dugong habitat is undergoing industrialisation with increasing populations.[4] Dugongs accumulate heavy metal ions in their tissues throughout their lives, more than other marine mammals. The effects are unknown. Socio-political needs are an impediment to dugong conservation in many developing countries. The shallow waters are often used as a source of food and income, problems exacerbated by aid used to improve fishing. In many countries, legislation does not exist to protect dugongs, and if it does it is not enforced.[3]
Oil spills are a danger to dugongs in some areas, as is land reclamation. In Okinawa the small dugong population is threatened by United States military activity. Plans exist to build a military base close to Henoko, and military activity also adds the threats of noise pollution, chemical pollution, soil erosion, and exposure to depleted uranium.[3] The military base plans have been fought in US courts by some Okinawans, who are concerned the local environment and dugong habitats will be ruined.[23]
Environmental degradation
If dugongs do not get enough to eat, they may calve later and produce fewer young.[4] Food shortages can be caused by many factors, such as a loss of habitat, death and decline in quality of seagrass, and a disturbance of feeding caused by human activity. Sewage, detergents, heavy metal, hypersaline water, herbicides, and other waste products all negatively affect seagrass meadows. Human activity such as mining, trawling, dredging, land-reclamation, and boat propeller scarring also cause an increase in sedimentation which smothers seagrass and prevents light from reaching it. Most damage is caused by such sedimentation and the consequent loss of light intensity. One of the dugong's preferred species of seagrass for feeding on, Halophila ovalis, declines rapidly due to lack of light, dying completely after 30 days. Extreme weather such as cyclones and floods can destroy hundreds of square kilometres of seagrass meadows, as well as washing dugongs ashore. The recovery of seagrass meadows and the spread of seagrass into new areas or areas where it has been destroyed can take over a decade. Most measures for protection involve restricting activities such as trawling in areas containing seagrass meadows, with little to no action on pollutant that originate from land. In some areas water salinity is increased due to wastewater, and it is unknown how much salinity seagrass can withstand.[3]
A large number of infections and parasitic diseases affect dugongs. Detected pathogens include helminths, cryptosporidium, different types of bacterial infections, and other unidentified parasites. 30% of dugong deaths in Queensland since 1996 are thought to be because of disease. A dugong has also been recorded to have died from trauma, in this case after being impaled by a sting ray barb.[3]
Capture and captivity
Dugongs have been listed under the Nature Conservation Act in Queensland as vulnerable. Most currently live in established marine parks, where boats must travel at a restricted speed and mesh net fishing is restricted. There are 16 dugong protection parks, and some preservation zones have been established where even aborigines are not allowed to hunt.[4] Capturing animals for research has caused only one or two deaths,[3] however dugongs are expensive to keep in captivity due to the long time mother and child spend together and the inability to grow the seagrass that dugongs eat in an aquarium.[4] Only one orphaned calf has ever been successfully kept in captivity.[15]
Worldwide, only six dugongs are held in captivity. A male and female live at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie, Japan, although both are from the Philippines.[3] Another, named Gracie, is at Underwater World, Singapore, due to her mother being killed when she was a child.[30] A fourth resides in Sea World Indonesia,[31] after having been rescued from a fisherman's net and treated.[32] The last two (Pig, a 10-year-old male, and Wuru, a four-year-old female) are kept at Sydney Aquarium, where they have resided since juveniles.[33]
See also
- ^ Shoshani, Jeheskel (16 November 2005). "Order Sirenia (pp. 92-93)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=11600005.
- ^ a b c Marsh, H. (2008). Dugong dugon. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 December 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap Marsh et al. 2002. Dugong : status reports and action plans for countries and territories. IUCN.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Lawler et al. 2002. Dugongs in the Great Barrier Reef : Current State of Knowledge. CRC for The Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
- ^ a b c d e Myers, P. 2002. Dugongidae. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Retrieved on 10 March 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Marsh, Helene. Fauna of Australia: Volume 1B Mammalia: Chapter 57 Dugongidae. CSIRO. ISBN 978-0-644-06056-1.
- ^ Species DUGONG. Conservation Management Institute.
- ^ a b c Reeves et al. 2002. National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-41141-0. pp. 478-481
- ^ Dugong dugon. The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved on 22 July 2007.
- ^ Trichechus. The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved on 22 July 2007.
- ^ Dugong. The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved on 22 July 2007.
- ^ Dugongidae. The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved on 22 July 2007.
- ^ Dugonginae. The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved on 22 July 2007.
- ^ Winger, Jennifer. 2000. What's in a Name: Manatees and Dugongs. Smithsonian National Zoological Park. Retrieved on 22 July 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Fox, David L. (1999). "ADW: Dugong dugon: Information". Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Dugong_dugon.html. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
- ^ Reep, R.L. et al. (2002). "Tactile Hairs on the Postcranial Body in Florida Manatees: A Mammalian Lateral Line?". Brain, Behavior and Evolution 59: 141–154. doi:10.1159/000064161. http://www.tamug.edu/marb/Marshall_Publications/mammalian%20lateral%20line.pdf.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Dugong". National Geographic. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/dugong.html. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
- ^ a b c "Case Study". American.edu. http://www.american.edu/TED/persian.htm. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ Self-Sullivan, Caryn. Evolution of Sirenia. www.sirenian.org. Retrieved on 10 March 2007.
- ^ Waller et al. 1996. Sealife: A Complete Guide to the Marine Environment. Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 1-56098-633-6. pp. 413-420
- ^ Myers, Phil (2000). "ADW: Sirenia: Information". Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sirenia.html. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
- ^ Wood, The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Sterling Pub Co Inc (1983), ISBN 978-0-85112-235-9
- ^ a b Galvin, Peter. "Saving the Okinawa dugong". Center for Biological Diversity web site. Center for Biological Diversity. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/Okinawa_dugong/. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
- ^ Diving behaviour of dugongs, Dugong dugon B. Louise Chilversa, Steven Deleana, Nicholas J. Galesb,c, Dave K. Holleyb, Ivan R. Lawlera,d, Helene Marsha,d,*, Anthony R. Preena,e Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 304 (2004) 203– 224
- ^ Berta, Annalisa, James L. Sumich, Kit M. Kovacs: Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology, Amesterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 0-12-088552-2
- ^ "44. Dugong (Dugong dugon)". edgeofexistence.org. http://www.edgeofexistence.org/mammals/species_info.php?id=53. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ^ a b c Anderson, Paul K. (1984). Macdonald, D.. ed. The Encyclopedia of Mammals. New York: Facts on File. pp. 298–299. ISBN 0-87196-871-1.
- ^ Alexander, James (2006). Malaysia Brunei & Singapore. New Holland Publishers. pp. 185. ISBN 1860113095. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=KXaX4tUEOOsC&printsec=frontcover&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ have been thought: E. Rupell (Rupell and Leuckart, 1828, 1831) saw the Arabic word tucash (dugong) as equivalent to tahash (Heb. Bible). He designated them "Halicore tabernaculi" [Rothauscher's Dugong Page (english) "Mermaid" scroll down to bottom of the page, last sentence]---for his reputation as zoologist and taxonomist see also photographs: "Phanerophthalmus smaragdinus: Rupell and Leuckart, 1828" and--- Hexabranchus pulchellus: main page: Taxonomic notes: "This species is listed as Hexabranchus sanguineus (Rupell and Leuckart, 1831);ALSO (among those who thought dugongs' or sea cows' hides were used as coverings of the Tabernacle)---the editors of Easton's Bible Dictionary, "Badger", 1823-1894; Alfred Ely-Day, "Badger," International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1915; the editors of The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Tabernacle," 1915; the editors of various English translations of the Bible, NIV 1978, JPS Tanakh 1985, REB 1989, WEB 1997, The Hertz Pentateuch. However, the popular 20th c. academic opinion re: dugong as the meaning of "tahash" is noted as uncertain (the identity of tahash "remains obscure") in Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. "TAHASH" 2000; see Tahash for different opinions. see also Tahash: Dugong for discussion of the improbability of their use as coverings of the Tabernacle.
- ^ "Dugong Rescue". underwaterworld.com.sg. http://www.underwaterworld.com.sg/consrv_dugong.htm. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ "Dugong". seaworldindonesia.com. http://www.seaworldindonesia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118&Itemid=130&lang=en. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ "Little-known dugong center stage at Sea World bash". Jakarta Post. 6 March 2000. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2000/06/03/littleknown-dugong-center-stage-sea-world-bash.html. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ "Dugongs at Mermaid Lagoon". Sydney Aquarium. http://sydneyaquarium.myfun.com.au/Habitats-and-Animals/Dugongs-at-Mermaid-Lagoon.htm. Retrieved 6 April 2011.


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just finished it up. didn't create a group, created a profile. i think i did all right, let me know, i can tweak it as needed..
I will check it out tonite -- blocked from work.
I just set myself up on myspace.
I haven't used it that much -- so far I like facebook better from an ease-of-use perspective -- seems more intuitive.
Cleveland spelled backwards is DNA Level C
another AA/AS original.
It looks very nice...thank for your help.
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2.58 SS Vonn Bell-DB tOSU
3.89 DT Javon Hargrave-SC State
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OK. I added it as a friend. Pretty cool.
I didn't hear any music though.
Cleveland spelled backwards is DNA Level C
another AA/AS original.
Call me an "old guy" but myspace is an offering of the internet I haven't taken advantage of. I will though and real soon. The page looks great, but yes more pics. I like the pic of Calmkiller. With the facial hair he looks like his name should be Enrique instead of Callmkiller. Maybe Enrique Calmkiller. When I do set my page up, I'll add you to my list, birt..... Nice page.


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Did you get one/want one....?
I just can't make up my mind about having an IM tattoo. Its almost certain I won't have one but every now and then I think about it.
I'm really interested in who has had an IM tattoo done and why? And where is it?
Will you get a tattoo once you've done an IM?
Or have you done an IM, thought about a tattoo then decided against it? Why?
No no no no no. It's only a corporate logo.
I used to have a TVR which I loved, I'd longed to own one for years. I still wouldn't have it tattoo'd on me though. Nor would I have a Nike tick tattoo'd on me just because I've run in Pegasus trainers for more years than I can remember.
Seriously though, Tattoo's are a personal choice. If that's the sort of thing you go for then fair enough, but don't feel it's something you just 'must' do because you've raced an Ironman.
Give it 10 years and their solicitors will be chasing you down for breach of copyright anyway
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I was wondering about that too. Part of me says No Logo. And the other part of me wants, when I'm old and wetting myself in a home, for my carers to know that I wasn't always senile and dependent.....
But maybe it would be too wrinkly for it to be legible anyway. Or maybe I should get it done when I'm 70, so that the wrinkles can be built into the design.
At The Grizzly this year there was this much older looking woman lining up, just like every one else. But then I noticed her IM tattoo and suddenly my perception of her changed.
I know it shouldn't have but it did. I had this sense of awe towards her and felt a huge amount of respect towards her eventhough I didn't even know her or talk to her. Her tattoo spoke volumes to me.
Is that shallow that just because of her tattoo it set her apart from the other runners to me?
And out of everyone that day I just remember her very clearly (and KK of course!!!)
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Does it match your Newtons ?
oh yes Newtons, have been meaning to ask about those too.
Did you get some Cougie and do you feel a difference in them? And not just when you're wearing a halter neck??
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At the public forum recently hosted by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, hometown favorite Robert Post juggled and clowned around to widespread laughter.
Aerialist Kelsey Keller of Xclaim Dance performed acrobatics while suspended from a long purple sash — tricks that drew steady applause.
And various supporters spoke briefly but energetically about seizing new opportunities to make the arts an integral part of a thriving city.
Kick-starting the gathering at a Franklinton event center was an upbeat Tom Katzenmeyer, who, on April 1, will mark his first year as president and CEO of the arts council.
"Franklinton, the budding creative neighborhood of Columbus, is the perfect space to get our creative juices flowing," Katzenmeyer said. "Tonight, we hopefully will engage you, inspire you and leave you ready to learn more and do more."
The atmosphere — part entertainment, part pep rally and part advocacy — underscored the heightened spirit of cooperation and consensus at the arts-funding organization as the arts community enters what council leaders call a new era of "doing more" through collaborative growth.
"We've moved beyond stabilization to another pivotal point," Katzenmeyer said. "We're entering a period of strength in the city and in the arts community as the city has grown bigger and more affluent.
"We're never going back to square one."
Katzenmeyer had reason to be enthusiastic: The post-recession years, after all, have been good to the council.
Since the economic upturn began in 2010, the council has received more financial support from the city, seen corresponding budget increases and successfully encouraged greater collaboration among arts groups.
Those gains are on top of the income the council itself generates from producing the Columbus Arts Festival, which last year drew a record crowd of 400,000-plus during its three-day run.
Area arts groups, too, have benefited from the improved economy, as outlined in the council's recently released 2013 annual report. Attendance for the 23 leading groups that received operating support from the council rose almost 19 percent since the 2009 low of the recession; the combined earned income was up 18 percent.
"We're in a very different place now than we were four years ago," Katzenmeyer said.
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The focus on future collaboration — notably with Experience Columbus, the city's tourism agency — foretells a higher visibility for the arts council, whose role in the arts community has ebbed and flowed during its 41-year history.
The agency, founded in 1973 to distribute funds to arts organizations and individual artists, experienced its most influential years under the tenure of longtime president Ray Hanley.
Hanley, a colorful leader from 1985 until his sudden death in a fall in 2006, was hired to heighten the agency's visibility and advocacy. He did that on issues ranging from Downtown planning to public artworks.
Hanley helped increase the size and elevate the quality and stature of the arts festival, which is considered one of the top fine-arts festivals nationwide
In the 1990s, when difficult economic times hit, he helped steer arts groups out of financial trouble, pioneering the Columbus Arts Stabilization Project to stem cash-flow problems, retire deficits and build cash reserves.
Although some groups didn't make it (Players Theatre Columbus folded in 1993, for example), most learned to bolster their bottom lines, improve board governance and establish a more-solid foundation of financial and community support to better weather future storms.
During the years immediately after Hanley's death, the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts helped fill a perceived gap in leadership by establishing administrative partnerships with leading arts groups.
The merging of bookkeeping processes allowed the groups to focus on their artistic missions and saved them money on back-office operations.
More resources
Today, with the economy on the mend, most of the groups are relatively stable, and the council finds itself with more resources.
Katzenmeyer, with a staff of 11, is managing a 2014 budget of $6.4 million — up from $6.28 million in 2013 and a recent low of $4.6 million in 2009.
During the past two years, the council has received an extra $1 million in city funds — including an additional $300,000 approved at a Feb. 10 City Council meeting as part of the 2014 city budget .
The growing stream of money comes from the arts council's larger share of the city hotel bed tax, which rose from 1.51 to 1.59 percent last year (when the city also lifted the ceiling previously imposed on the council's share) and to 1.68 percent this year.
The news is good for the groups and artists who receive grants from the arts council. Both operating support ($2.8 million in 2013) and project support ($329,000 in 2013) are expected to increase, as are smaller grant programs for artists, technical support and neighborhood development.
Renewed energy
Money makes a difference, of course, but so does the renewed energy at the arts council, observers say.
"The culture of collaboration has become almost a trademark in Columbus, so the time is right for growth," said Bill Conner, president of CAPA.
Hanley's tenure — the longest among those of the council's seven presidents — was marked by the creation of new arts groups and the quest for growth among established groups.
"Ray was larger than life, a force to be reckoned with in this community," said Denny Griffith, president of the Columbus College of Art & Design.
Hanley was succeeded by Brian W. Knicely, who left abruptly in early 2009 and was succeeded by Milt Baughman, who led the council from July 2009 to April 2013.
Wayne Lawson, former director of the Ohio Arts Council, described the post-Hanley years as a "quiet period" — one that is giving way to something different under Katzenmeyer.
"It's almost as if the drawbridge was up for a while and now it's down," Lawson said.
Different times, he said, call for different leaders: "Tom is well-connected for this time when everybody is sitting at the same table."
Griffith, meanwhile, praised Katzenmeyer as "a keen listener" who's "very connected."
New partners
Even before he took over as president in April, Katzenmeyer was instrumental in seeking more support for the council. He headed the city's Funding Review Advisory Committee, which prepared a 2012 report that helped prompt the city's decision to reallocate bed-tax revenue to better pay for the arts, tourism and social services.
Whereas in previous years when the arts council and Experience Columbus competed for more-limited city funds, they are now finding greater harmony, said Brian Ross, CEO of the tourism bureau.
"We work together on many things, including the arts festival," Ross said, "because the arts are an important part of our sell of Columbus as a vibrant, open and smart destination.
"With the additional dollars coming in, we're increasing the number of visitors, which increases the numbers at arts and cultural events. And as we get more people into the city ..., the bed-tax dollars increase — so the (arts) council gets a larger amount of money from more tourism."
A consensus strategy has also been forged with the Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium, created in 2005 to represent the area's 17 leading arts organizations as well as the arts council.
Consortium member Cheri Mitchell, executive director of BalletMet Columbus, said the two groups (the arts council and consortium) are seeking to develop a "stronger recognizable brand for the arts in central Ohio."
"The arts council for a while wasn't as visible out in the leadership of the community because it was in its own transition."
Now, she said, it is taking on major initiatives.
"After some stabilization, perhaps a platform has been built for a new era of growth."


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About the Author: Ertharin Cousin serves as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies in Rome.
How do you feed a country with half the population of the United States squeezed into an area the size of the state of Iowa? I went to Bangladesh to find out. I brought along two local reporters and a group of journalists from India, Zambia, Uganda, Guatemala, Malawi and Rwanda, places where feeding people is also a challenge. Yesterday ,we traveled from Dhaka to Khulna which will serve as our base from where we will visit projects led by the U.S. government and UN agencies, including the World Food Program (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
When I think of cookies, I usually think of an Oreo -- one of my favorites -- but for over a million children in Bangladesh, "cookie" takes on a whole new meaning. For these kids, special cookies jam-packed with vitamins and minerals provide over a third of their daily caloric intake. With support from WFP and USDA, the Central Marketing Company (CMC) in the southern district of Khulna and 11 other factories similar to it bake these cookies. We visited CMC to witness first-hand the making of these nutritious gems. Our traveling party donned hygienic lab coats, caps and booties and toured the simple but squeaky-clean factory with the local Bangladeshi owner. As only one of many CMC clients, WFP provides the factory with a vitamin and mineral pack that is blended together with fortified flour, contributed by USDA, to produce a simple yet tasty cookie. This nutritious cookie gives over 1 million Bangladeshi school children not just the energy they need to focus on their studies, but also, in far too many cases, their only nutritious meal of the day.
At the cookie factory, we spoke with female employees -- who comprise the majority of the factory's 400 employee workforce. The women told us that before coming to work at CMC they had no jobs and little means of earning money to feed their children. Now with their CMC income they have enough money to put food on the table. This family-friendly factory also offers free day care to those working moms -- giving the mothers the assurance that their children are safe and properly cared for while they are busy at work.
After the factory visit, we drove through the amazingly lush rice fields to see first-hand what a difference $100 can make in rural Bangladesh. We found out when we visited the next stop on our tour: a village participating in IFAD's Microfinance and Technical Support project. Seven years ago, Mrs. Golapi Biswas eeked out a meager subsistence living by selling vegetables from her home garden. When IFAD, through a local NGO, began a micro-credit program aimed at poverty-stricken women, Mrs. Biswas took out a $100 loan and started a fish farm. The fish not only provided protein to her family, and with money from fish sales she was able to expand into the poultry business. A regular borrower from the micro-credit facility -- Mrs. Biswas today has profits of $4,000 per year. This may seem like a small sum, but in a country where 40% of the people live on less than $2 a day, this is a veritable fortune. She has also been able to send one child to the city for higher education, has purchased land, and now has plans to expand her business even further.
Before heading off to the Khulna live bird market, I met with women from the "Marsh of Ghosts," which refers to an area of land lost from a tidal surge during Cyclone Aila. Bangladesh is plagued by natural disasters -- flooding often puts 30% of the country's landmass under water in what has become a "normal year." These women had just participated in training provided by FAO, funded by USAID in collaboration with the European Union. The training and asset distribution program helps these women recover and maintain their livelihoods after the devastating cyclone. Through the FAO program, each woman received 20 chickens, learned how to raise them in a clean environment, keep them healthy and protect them from the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus. After speaking with some of the women, I learned that their new chicken-raising businesses now allow them to feed their families, send their children to school, and plan for the future.
Back in Chicago, my chickens come wrapped in Styrofoam and plastic, de-feathered and ready to fry. At our next stop, I witnessed live chickens displayed in cages, selected by customers, and slaughtered on the spot. In the past, this live bird market in Khulna, with so many chickens in one place, faced the dangerous possibility of the spread of avian influenza. Now, through results from an FAO-USAID program, including improvements in marketplace cleanliness, disinfection and training of bird handlers, the threat of bird flu has been significantly reduced.
Needless to say, yesterday was filled with numerous examples of the positive impact the Rome-based UN agencies provide to the work of creating a food-secure Bangladesh. With the government, civil society, private sector, USAID and the other bilateral donor partners working together, partnerships are coming together to make a difference in Bangladesh.
Later today, I am looking forward to seeing the Sundarbans mangrove -- the largest in the world and home to the Royal Bengal tiger -- where we will experience how communities who depend on the mangrove for their income are learning new ways to earn a living, while simultaneously protecting this precious resource.
Stay tuned for more reports from Bangladesh tomorrow.
Read Ambassador Cousin's next entry from Bangladesh and learn more about global hunger, food security and the "1,000 Days: Change a Life, Change the Future" initiative.


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As a graduate student working with African-American children in poor communities in Tennessee, Noni Gaylord-Harden, PhD, was struck by the fact that, even with exposure to multiple stressors, some kids did succeed.
"I started looking into factors that might explain why some kids become successful despite [such hardships]," she says. "I began to focus on the strengths and assets embedded in African-American families and communities that could buffer the effects of stressors." These included coping strategies, parent-child relationships, and a strong extended-family network.
While conducting research on teens from under-resourced communities on Chicago's south and west sides, Gaylord-Harden has found that stress caused by such challenges as poverty, community violence, and school struggles has a negative effect on children's functioning, but less than might be predicted.
"Anxiety and depression are not as high as you might expect, and we're exploring why that might be the case," she says. "We're also finding that some strategies typically considered to be maladaptive are actually adaptive. Avoidance, for instance. … If you understand how to stay away from dangerous people and places, you're going to do better."
What interests Gaylord-Harden is how positive adult-child relationships can encourage effective coping. In collaboration with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul, and the University of Virginia, she is developing an intervention that uses mentors to teach youth effective coping.
"We know that kids cope better when they have a supportive relationship with adults," she says, "and we're using mentoring relationships to support the coping efforts."
Studying how African-American culture may influence youth's response to stress can sometimes be controversial in the psychology community, Gaylord-Harden says, but she feels it makes an important contribution.
"Psychology has an interesting history with race," she says. "Research has long been conducted with white middle-class kids and the findings generalized to everyone. Most research on youth of color has focused on the deficit model—there's an expectation that if there were differences between African-American and other youth, they were viewed as deficits."
"Now we've begun to challenge those beliefs and think about the strengths and assets of African-American youth and families that have been largely ignored," Gaylord-Harden says. "We're saying that within any cultural group there are going to be ways that people navigate their environment that are different from other cultural groups."
Gaylord-Harden recently received a two-year federal grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how African-American and Latino boys in urban neighborhoods process the violence around them—specifically, to see if they become desensitized to it.
"A lot of people are interested in ways to stop community violence, and with desensitization, it's believed that kids become emotionally numb to what they see," she says. "Instead of showing distress, they actually show higher levels of violence and aggression. So we're trying to figure out how and when to intervene and who is most at risk."
Whether she is conducting research or teaching Loyola students the importance of viewing psychology as a science, Gaylord-Harden wants to make an impact. Top on her list is moving increasingly into school and community intervention work.
"I don't want our research findings to just sit in scientific journals. Nobody reads those but us," she says. "Let's take our findings and figure out how they can be used to develop effective interventions for young people."
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a Fully State Accredited-College Preparatory Christian School
HB1133: Private School Tuition Tax Credit Scholarship
In 2008, the Georgia General Assembly passed House Bill 1133 and Governor Sonny Perdue signed it into law. This law provides for the creation of student scholarship organizations (SSOs) that use Georgia income tax credit-eligible contributions to provide public school, Pre-K4 or kindergarten-entry students with the opportunity to attend private schools. Representative David Casas (R-Lilburn) sponsor of bill.
Donors receive a dollar-for-dollar state tax credit along with a federal deduction in return for their gift. Tax credits are issued on a first-come first-served basis up to a statewide annual cap of $50 million.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is accompanying President Barack Obama to London on May 24 for the first part of his state visit to the United Kingdom. This trip is a sign of the strength of the special relationship between our two countries, and of the United States' enduring commitment to our allies and partners in Europe. Secretary Clinton will also meet with Foreign Secretary Hague while in London.
Secretary Clinton will then travel to Paris, France, to preside over the 50th Anniversary of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Ministerial Council Meeting, May 25-26. Events will include the OECD's 50th Anniversary Commemoration, where the Secretary will deliver the opening address in the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan; several signing and adoption ceremonies; and a plenary session on "A New Paradigm for Development." The Commemoration will be live-streamed at oecd.org/oecdweek.
Secretary Clinton will also deliver keynote remarks in support of the launch of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Global Partnership for Girls' and Women's Education. The Global Partnership will bring together companies, non-governmental organizations, and governments to develop innovative programs to deliver education to women and girls. The event will be live-streamed on Thursday, May 26 at 8:00 am (EDT) at unesco.org.
Elaine D. in the U.S.A. writes:
Secretary Clinton has boundless energy!! She will likely notice the headlines while in London regarding gagging orders, referred to as superinjunctions, that are increasingly being ordered by English judges under Article 8 of The European Convention of Human Rights.
This is the so-called privacy article, that is being used by the rich and powerful in Britain to essentially gag the press from writing about their personal lives. These orders have recently attracted enormous criticism in Britain and Parliament as being anti free speech. Today, an MP outing a football player as one who had taken out a superinjunction.
I mention all of this because I believe I am the only American to be subject to similar orders. I was served a bogus English injunction in Massachusetts, granted on false evidence supplied by the partner to one of the richest men. I was then duly defamed and libeled across the British press, then unbelievably subject to a succession of secret court hearings and sealed court files. A gross violation of my human rights.
I have unfortunately struggled to get justice over this and submitted evidence to a Parliamentary Committee investigating press standards:
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This years programme at the Roskilde Festival (29th June-2nd July)seem to the best in many years!! At the moment the following artists will play:
Bob Dylan
Franz Ferdinand
Roger Waters
Queens Of The Stoneage
Guns n´Roses (This one is for you Bluebird)
The Street
Sigur Rós
And many other bands. The good thing about Roskilde is that they also try to promote new bands from around the world and off course the greatest danish bands.
I´m seriously thinking of going. Who knows if when Dylan will come again.
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Two rival gangs circle in anticipation of a fight as the lights come up on the stage of Anis Theater in Jaffa, Israel. The setting is gritty, 1950s New York. The music is quintessential Leonard Bernstein. The production is the Broadway classic "West Side Story" (1957), and it is at once both familiar and strange.
Yep, those finger-snapping, dancing gangsters are still there. But in this bilingual adaptation, they're played by Jewish and Arab students from neighboring high schools in greater Tel Aviv. The gang members swagger and sling taunts in both Hebrew and Arabic. And the lead parts of Tony and Maria are each shared by two actors, one Jewish Israeli and one Arab Israeli, who swap the roles every other scene.
Life in Israel may be full of drama, but for this troupe of ninth-grade students, the drama they create is on their own terms, and the packed house is happy to snap along with them.
Hailing from Gymnasia Herzliya, a Jewish school in North Tel Aviv, and Ironi Yud-Bet, an Arab school in Jaffa, the students are participants in a special theater program created by Peace Child Israel, a non-profit arts organization in Tel Aviv.
Founded in 1988, the reconciliation group uses theater to teach democratic values, coexistence, and mutual respect to students from across ethnic divisions in Israel. USAID and the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv are sponsoring this year's program with a Conflict Management and Mitigation grant.
However, things didn't exactly get off to a smooth start when the participants first met, explains Karuan Hassis, 15, a young Arab Israeli student who shares the lead role of Maria with her Jewish counterpart.
Months before rehearsals began, the students took part in a three-day seminar where they read the script, held discussions and broke down stereotypes about one another through role playing and improvisation. A theater professional and a trained mediator facilitated the seminar -- one is Jewish, the other is Arab.
"At first we didn't know anything about one another, and there were these conflicting issues of identity," Hassis explains. "You have the Jewish actors identifying themselves as Israelis and the Arab actors identifying themselves as Palestinian. But as you get to know one another, you learn you shouldn't judge a person by how they label themselves on the outside -- you have to learn about the person inside."
The script becomes the trigger for discussion, says Melisse Lewine-Boskovich, the current director of Peace Child Israel and a former professional actor who has mentored students for more than 10 years.
"In West Side Story, you have issues of ethnic conflict, territory, gender roles, and honor killings. And we ask the students, what's the connection between this scene we're working on and life here?" Lewine-Boskovich says. "It's a jumping point for debate about many issues at stake in Israel."
The use of both Hebrew and Arabic is also a key element of the program, enabling participants from both cultures to feel comfortable expressing themselves without limitations, says Jessica Levy, Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer for Embassy Tel Aviv.
"Though Israeli Arab students are generally proficient in Hebrew, speaking in their mother tongue allows them to feel that their culture is valued," she says. "After sitting in on a rehearsal, I overheard Hebrew conversations sprinkled with Arabic slang and vice-versa. This appreciation for each other's language is important because it can open the door to appreciation for other aspects of culture."
Nofar Marelli, 15, who plays one of the gang members in the musical, says the seminar transformed many of the stereotypes she previously held.
"It's funny because if we saw each other on the street, we might never stop, we'd just continue on," she admits. "But now that we had a chance to get to know each other on an individual level, I learned that even though there are differences in culture, we're all human beings, we're all equal."
Jewish student Yuval Zeidman, 15, plays the role of Riff, the leader of the Jets gang. The biggest lesson she learned is that like rival gangs learning to live with one another in the melting pot of Manhattan, there is room for everyone in Israel, too.
"I learned that my country can be for both groups of people, both Jews and Arabs," she says. "If we're 15 years old and we can come together and get along, then adults can too."
In the final act of the musical, rival gang member Chino shoots and kills Tony. Maria grabs the gun, but instead of turning it on herself or spiraling into revenge, she ultimately puts it down, leading the two gangs to reconcile. In a symbolic move, the Sharks help the Jets carry Tony's body away.
As the last note fades, the audience of Jewish and Arab students erupts in an ovation for the young performers, all the more moving because it's an affirmation that crosses sectarian lines.
Backstage after the show, emotions run high as many of the students realize it's the beginning of the end of their work together. They will perform "West Side Story" later that evening for their parents and then again for a wider Tel Aviv audience at a gala event in May.
But after the closeness created in weekly rehearsals, the students won't see each other nearly as often and things won't be the same, Marelli laments. Still the experience has been worth it. Her favorite part of the musical is the end, she says, "when all the enemies become friends."
For these students, who once found themselves on opposite sides of Israel's political divide, hopefully it is just the beginning.
For more "West Side Story" production photos, visit U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv's Flickr album here. To learn more about Peace Child Israel, click here.
Angie M. in Texas writes:
Great adaptation of West Side Story to another generation of students in a different culture.
Susan C. in Florida writes:
@ Jennifer McAndrew...Thank you for this posting. I found it both touching and inspiring. With all the sad and tragic news we are hearing about, your post is a welcome bright spot. Yuval Zeidman is correct. If they at just 15 "get it" and can find common ground, why can't the adults? Is it because they do not want to?? Stop, and listen to your children. They are telling you the truth and they are wiser than you.
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primary machine - this is shiny and new and running xp. working fine currently?
secondary machine - non-functional. assembling one from all the available equipment is a priority.
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3 imacs that should work. are they all networked? would they run quicker with xubuntu?
4 black towers - to confirm which are broken. move the two with firewire to the other desk.
2 beige EUS boxs, 3 sun workstations - required now? specs? xubuntu?
1 shuttle - this is our second shuttle, donated by my beltane friend Dave who is in NZ currently. for the sound desk? we could use the prior shuttle for parts?
misc hardware - to sort out the usable stuff that could be used for the secondary admin machine or anything else.