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TACOMA, Wash. – Dawn Padula, mezzo soprano, and Richard Kosowski, tenor, will perform a series of arias, art songs, and duets in a joint voice recital at University of Puget Sound on Sunday, Oct. 7, at 2 p.m.
The afternoon concert, with piano accompaniment by Russell Young, will take place in Schneebeck Concert Hall. Everyone is welcome to attend. Ticket information is below.
Padula and Kosowski will perform solos and duets from Israel in Egypt, a choral tour de force by George Frideric Handel that depicts the story of Exodus; Gioacchino Rossini's heroic and vocally demanding opera Tancredi, a story of Byzantine war and honor; and Camille Saint-Saëns' grand opera Samson and Delilah, based on the Old Testament story. In addition they will present works by influential French composer Gabriel Fauré.
Both vocal artists studied and mentored with Joseph Evans, a leading tenor and international performer, while they were doctoral candidates at the Moores School of Music at University of Houston. Young, the pianist, is a longtime collaborator with both Evans and Kosowski.
Prior to the Sunday performance for the public, Kosowski will offer a vocal master class for Puget Sound students on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 2 p.m. The free event, which is open to the public, will be held at the School of Music building in Room L6.
Richard Kosowski is assistant professor of music at the Townsend School of Music, Mercer University (Ga.). Previously he was a teaching fellow and affiliate artist at University of Houston's Moores School of Music, and he served on the voice faculty at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Kosowski appeared in the New York premieres of the Stephen Paulus operas Summer and The Postman Always Rings Twice with the Center for Contemporary Opera. He debuted in Idomeneo at Avery Fisher Hall and in La Fille du Régiment with the New York City Opera National Company. He has many opera and operetta performances, as well as recordings, to his credit.
Dawn Padula, director of vocal studies at Puget Sound, has performed many of the major operatic roles for mezzo soprano, presented solo concerts, and read and recorded sessions with major music organizations, such as the Houston Grand Opera, Amarillo Opera, and Moores Opera Center. Praised for her tone quality, musical interpretations, and characterizations, she has performed as a concert soloist with the Houston Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Houston Masterworks Chorus, Alamo City Men's Chorale, Sons of Orpheus, Bay Area Chorus, and Foundation for Modern Music, among others. Prior to joining the faculty at Puget Sound in 2009, Padula was assistant professor of voice and director of opera workshop at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
Russell Young is associate professor of opera and musical theater at Kennesaw State University's School of Music in Georgia. A vocal coach, accompanist, and conductor, he has played in concert with many notable artists and coached at operas and universities in the United States and overseas. He is co-director of the Miami Chamber Ensemble, which has performed throughout the United States. Prior to his appointment at Kennesaw, Young served as the program director and conductor for opera theater at University of Miami, where he premiered one-act operas by Thomas Sleeper and Luigi Mancinelli.
For tickets order online at http://tickets.pugetsound.edu, or call Wheelock Information Center to purchase with a credit card at 253.879.6013. Admission is $12.50 for the general public; $8.50 for seniors (55+), students, military, and Puget Sound faculty and staff. The concert is free for current Puget Sound students with Puget Sound ID. Group ticket rates are available for parties of 10 or more by calling 253.879.3555 in advance. Remaining tickets will be available at the door.
For directions and a map of the campus: www.pugetsound.edu/directions
Press-quality photos of Richard Kosowski and Dawn Padula can be downloaded from: www.pugetsound.edu/pressphotos
Photos on page: Top right: Samson and Delilah, by Rembrandt (circa 1628); Above left: Richard Kosowski; Above right: Dawn Padula (photo: Ross Mulhausen)
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Saw action in 38 total matches going 3-17 in singles and had a 8-10 doubles record ... went 2-10 during the spring season with a 2-1 mark at No. 3 singles ... collected two wins at No. 3 singles against Charlotte's Lisa Grosselius and Furman's Blair Martin at the SoCon Tournament ... In doubles, Anane had a 4-4 record with teammate Masey DeMoss at No. 3 doubles ... earned doubles wins playing with teammates Corinne Blythe, Stephanie Falcon and Amy Ellis ... also played one match with Blaine Boaz at No. 2 doubles.
Sophomore (2013-14)
Played in 13 matches going 3-10 overall ... was 3-8 during the spring season and was 3-3 in conference play ... played seven matches at No. 2 singles (2-5) and was 1-3 at No. 1 singles ... paired with Stephanie Falcon going 5-7 overall in doubles matches ... had a 4-5 spring record and was 4-1 against conference opponents ... played all nine doubles matches at No. 3 doubles.
Freshman (2012-13)
Appeared in 30 matches for the Spartans … held an 11-11 singles record and went 2-3 in conference play … played with a total of three of doubles partners … went 4-4 overall in doubles play.
High school
Played for the Billesley High Performance centre and Lynda Flynn at Beechwood during prep career ... she was ranked third in the Warwickshire county and 85th nationally in Great Britain.
Soumeya Anane … born September 8, 1993 in Coventry, Great Britain.
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Delaware State Police are looking into a case in which five people were robbed in separate incidents only minutes apart. No one was hurt in either incident.
Delaware State Police are looking into a case in which five people were robbed in separate incidents only minutes apart.
The first took place at approximately 11:30 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Generals Green apartment complex at 300 Billy Mitchell Lane, Dover, said police spokesman Master Cpl. Gary Fournier.
The second occurred approximately a half-hour later, at 12 a.m. Monday at the Burger King restaurant at 1600 S. DuPont Hwy, Dover.
In the first incident, the robber accosted a 56-year-old man as he was getting out of his car in the Generals Green parking lot. The victim said the man came up to him brandishing a handgun and demanding money. The suspect fled on foot around one of the apartment buildings.
In the second case, four employees at the Burger King were beginning to close the restaurant when two men walked in pointing handguns. The three male victims, ages 19, 22 and 28, were forced into the rear of the store while the 29-year-old female victim was forced to open the safe. The two suspects fled on foot in an unknown direction, Fournier said.
No one was hurt in either incident.
The suspect in the first robbery was described as a black man standing between 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing between 140 and 150 pounds, wearing dark jeans, a dark hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up over his head and a cloth covering his face. He was armed with an unknown type of handgun, Fournier said.
The first suspect in the second robbery was described as a black man between the ages of 20 and 25, standing between 5 feet 10 and 6 feet tall, wearing dark blue jeans, a black sweatshirt, black ski mask, white gloves and white sneakers. He was armed with an unknown type of handgun.
The second suspect in the Burger King robbery is a black man between 20 and 25 years of age standing between 5 feet 11 inches and 6 feet 1 inch tall, wearing black jeans, a black sweatshirt and black shoes. He also was armed with an unknown type of handgun.
Delaware State Police are investigating both incidents as they took place just outside the Dover city limits.
Anyone with information on these crimes is asked to call Troop 3 at (302) 697-2104, or use the DSP Mobile Crime Tip App available for download at www.delaware.gov/apps. Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333, via the Internet at www.tipsubmit.com, or by sending an anonymous tip by text to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword "DSP."


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Kristen Stewart tops the list of LEAST attractive actresses, according to poll
According to a new poll of British men, Kristen Stewart is the Hollywood actress men find least attractive!
The Twilight actress is more undesirable, according to the poll, than Sarah Jessica Parker and Lindsay Lohan.
REPORT: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have broken up again!
The highest-placed Brit in the poll for gadget website MenKind.co.uk was The OC star Mischa Barton, who was ranked sixth, while Tilda Swinton came ninth.
Stewart – who had a fling with married director Rupert Sanders while dating movie hunk Robert Pattinson – was seen in her final Twilight film Breaking Dawn Part 2 last year.
The poll was held ahead of the Oscars, which are being staged in Los Angeles this weekend.
A spokesman for MenKind said: "Our Oscars poll has been a fascinating insight into the minds of British men – it's shown that sexiness is far more than appearance.
"They were turned off by volatile and moody actresses as well as ice queens. And they don't want to see unhealthily skinny starlets on the big screen."
Top 10 least sexy Hollywood actresses:
1. Kristen Stewart
2. Sarah Jessica Parker
3. Lindsay Lohan
4. Denise Richards
5. Kirsten Dunst
6. Mischa Barton
7. Hilary Swank
8. Lucy Liu
9. Tilda Swinton
10. Uma Thurman
This cracks me up. MOST undesirable? More undesirable than Lindsay Lohan!? I think this poll proves that Kristen is more annoying, not necessarily less pretty. But who knows, I'm not a British man. Do you agree with the poll?
PHOTOS: Kristen Stewart in V Magazine: "I'm a contemporary, sensitive, normal girl"


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Summer's heat puts everyone at potential risk for heat-related illness, but seniors and people with chronic health problems are especially vulnerable.
Heat illnesses -- collectively known as hyperthermia -- include heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat fatigue and a life-threatening condition called heat stroke. A person's risk for heat illness depends on a number of factors, including outside temperature, general health and individual lifestyle, according to the U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA).
The NIA says individual and health factors that increase the risk of heat illness include:
Lifestyle factors that increase the risk of heat illness include: living in housing without air conditioning; not drinking enough water; not understanding how to respond to weather conditions; overdressing; going to overcrowded places; having difficulty getting around; and lack of access to transportation, according to the NIA.
Older people, especially those with chronic health conditions, should stay indoors on hot and humid days, especially when there's an air pollution alert. They should have air conditioning or at least a fan and air circulation.
People without air conditioning should go to public places that have air conditioning, such as senior centers, libraries, shopping malls and movie theaters. Another option is to go to a cooling center, which are operated by local public health agencies, social service groups and other organizations in many communities, the NIA advises.
If someone appears to be suffering from heat illness, get them out of the heat and into a shady, cool or air-conditioned place, and have them lie down. If you suspect heat stroke, call 911.
Apply cold, wet cloths to the person's wrists, neck, armpits and groin. Blood passes close to the surface of the skin in these locations, and placing cold cloths at these points can help cool the blood. Another option is to help the person bathe or sponge off with cool water, according to the NIA.
If the person is able to swallow safely, offer them fluids such as water or fruit and vegetable juices. Don't give them alcoholic or caffeinated beverages.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about heat illness.
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If style is a big driver in your choice of IT hardware then the smartphone – or perhaps it's over-grown sibling the tablet – might well be the kind of tech that you need to be focussing on. If however you actually need to use the device for anything as mundane as working – and you are not are not a TV reporter or wedding photographer (I mean, what do you actually use a tablet for, anyway) – the critical criteria for best laptop might well focus on spec rather than style. In broad aesthetic terms, the same rules that apply to people in high fashion circles generally dictate what constitutes the best laptop: in other words, the thinner, the better. A secondary – and perhaps less concrete – rule of fashion then comes into play: you get what you pay for. Perhaps the most sensible way, then, to begin the quest for the best laptop for the fashion conscious man is to get an idea of price ranges at pcworld.co.uk. Once you know what your budget can buy you can start to narrow the field of choice.
Working out the spec you need for the software that you'll be running is not such an issue as it used to be just a few years ago, with the power and capacity of the average laptop now more than adequate for the vast majority of applications. If you feel that you would still like to find some objective advice on laptops form a source that is not primarily interested in selling you anything, try looking here: http://www.which.co.uk/
Right at the top of the price range you'll find the sleekest laptops under the banners of ultrabook and ultraportable. The ultrabook category describes light and portable – and therefore thin – laptops that still deliver top end performance. The lightest example of these serious machines is currently Toshiba's Satellite Z830, which weighs in at just over a kilo, and has a 128GB memory which is solid state, allowing super fast data transfer. Intel's new Hyper threading technology allows the dual core i3-2367M processor to behave like a quad core – for those of you yet to embrace tech geek that means: fast enough!
The Dell XPS 14z claims to be the thinnest laptop to incorporate a DVD drive – something that they simply did not have space to accommodate in the Toshiba Satellite Z830 – and has a larger 14inch screen, compared to the Satellite Z830's 13.3 inch display. At just 25mm thick the XPS 14z certainly doesn't look flabby, but at a weight of just over 2 kilos it is too heavy to officially be included in the ultrabook category – although this distinction may be a little irrelevant to the manly men out there who can manage to heft an extra kilo around town.
For those that want to go for extreme anorexic chic, the Acer Aspire S3 is just 17mm thick (or thin). This ultra slim profile comes at the cost of wired connectivity, as the Aspire S3 is too thin to incorporate an Ethernet cable port, and internet access is Wi-Fi only.


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Learn the basics of ballet and tap in this combination class. This class teaches proper technique to build strength, flexibility, musicality, and provides the foundation for the other forms of dance. Students are introduced to the basics in ballet barre and center work and the syncopation of tap sounds. Students will receive a 1/2 hour of training in ballet and a 1/2 hour of training in tap. Registration is required.
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Sunken Treasure
How to buy mahogany that 18th-century furniture masterpieces (and dreams) are made of.
By Kari Hultman
Pages: 50-53
From the April 2010 issue #182
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Remember when Honduran mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) was the most fashionable wood used in fine furniture, had 40 to 60 growth rings per inch, and was readily available in 20″-wide boards?
If you were an 18th-century woodworker you would.
That was the norm back then, but things are different now. Honduran mahogany is protected (as is Swietenia mahagoni – known as West Indian or Cuban mahogany, the "original" mahogany) due to harvesting to near extinction by the 20th century. Wide boards are difficult to find, and 25 growth rings per inch is considered dense.
But thanks to a few frogmen and entrepreneurs, we can turn back the clock a couple hundred years and work with some of this legendary timber. To understand how this is possible, we have to start in 1638.
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* Read Glen D. Huey's original story about sunken treasure.
* Read about the vacuum-drying process for sunken old growth mahogany.
* Get ideas for mahogany furniture in Glen D. Huey's new book.
* Read about logs reclaimed from the Great Lakes.
* Visit Greener Lumber's web site.
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10 Things to Do with Zucchini When You've Lost All Hope
Now is the Time of the Zucchini. Those jokes we told earlier in the season about monster-sized zucchinis and leaving bags of squash on the neighbor's porch in the dead of night are no longer funny. We have sautéed it and stuffed it and sliced it into ribbons. We have had ample slices of zucchini bread and there are enough muffins stashed in the freezer for a month of brunches.
And yet, still there is zucchini. When you've done everything you can think of with zucchini and are all fed up, what then? We have 10 ideas you might not have tried yet.
Super Easy and Delicious Zucchini Butter
The truly great thing about zucchini is that it goes with just about anything. Throw it in a fritter with carrots or simmer it with coconut milk into a curry — zucchini can handle it. Mint, basil, thyme: Zucchini loves the entire herb family. When all else fails, hollow it out and use zucchini as a boat for eggs, cheese, or a medley of other vegetables. Maybe part of the problem with an overload of zucchini is that there are too many choices? Hmm ... we'll get back to you on that one.
Have you discovered any favorite new recipes for zucchini this summer? Are there any recipes you go back to again and again?
- Healthier Zucchini and Carrot Fritters
- Thai Green Coconut Curry with Chicken and Zucchini
- Super Easy and Delicious Zucchini Butter
- Zucchini Boats with Mozzarella and Olives
- Eight-Ball Zucchini with Eggs Baked Inside
Chickpea, Barley and Zucchini Ribbon Salad with Mint and Feta
- Chickpea, Barley, and Zucchini Ribbon Salad with Mint and Feta
- Zucchini Garlic Soup
- Greek Pasta with Lamb, Zucchini, and Feta
- Zucchini and Olive Breakfast Cake, French-Style
- Crostini with Zucchini Squash and Feta
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Pristis zijsron
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851
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|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. and Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2016. Catalog of Fishes: genera, species, references. Updated 29 September 2016. Available at: http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp. (Accessed: 29 September 2016).
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|Recent taxonomic work has confirmed that the Green Sawfish (Pristis zijsron) is a valid species with an Indo-West Pacific distribution (Faria et al. 2013).
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|Critically Endangered A2cd ver 3.1
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|Simpfendorfer, C.
|Böhm, M., Pillans, R. & Kyne, P.M.
|Harrison, L.
The Green Sawfish (Pristis zijsron) is probably the largest of the sawfish species, reaching lengths in excess of 7 m, although currently lengths greater than 6 m are rare. Historically, it occurred widely in the Indo-West Pacific from southern Africa to Australia and Taiwan, including the Red Sea, Persian (Arabian) Gulf and some of the Indian Ocean islands. The Green Sawfish is a coastal species, with the young occurring in shallow nearshore waters, while the adults are more common offshore in waters to >70 m. Its life history is poorly known, with data from the Gulf of Carpentaria (northern Australia) indicating that it has low intrinsic rates of population increase, making its resilience to fishing pressure low and its recovery from depletion slow. While the current population size and historic abundance is unknown, it is suspected as having declined in all of its range states. In Australian waters, its range has been well documented to have contracted significantly. Like all sawfishes, the toothed rostrum and demersal occurrence makes Green Sawfish extremely susceptible to capture in gillnets and demersal trawl nets. Historically, the population has been negatively affected by commercial net and trawl fisheries which operate in inshore areas throughout most of its range, the cumulative impacts of which have led to population declines. This species is now protected by no-take status in some range states (e.g. Australia, Bahrain, India), is listed on Appendix I of CITES, and is protected by some areas that are closed to fishing; but these actions alone will not be sufficient to ensure its survival in most regions. Despite a lack of quantitative data to support declines, available information indicates that populations of Green Sawfish are considerably rarer than historically across its entire range. Australia has some of the last remaining viable populations of Green Sawfish in the world, albeit at significantly reduced levels. Declines in the population are suspected to exceed 80% over three generation lengths (~44 yr), and it is possible that there has been localised extinction in a number of range states due to intensive fishing, reducing its extent of occurrence, and supporting its listing as Critically Endangered.
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|Range Description:
Green Sawfish have a broad Indo-West Pacific distribution, from South Africa north along the east coast of Africa, through the Red Sea, Persian (Arabian) Gulf, southern Asia, Indo-Australian archipelago, and east Asia as far north as Taiwan and southern China (Fowler 1941, Blegvad and Løppenthin 1944, Smith 1945, Misra 1969, Compagno et al. 2002a, 2002b, Last and Stevens 2009). This sawfish may be the most tolerant of cooler waters, and as such has the most pole-ward distribution of all of the sawfish, at least in the southern hemisphere. For example, in Australian waters this species historically occurred as far south as Sydney on the east coast, while the limits of other species are much farther north. The Red Sea and Persian (Arabian) Gulf are regions of presumed historic abundance (M. McDavitt pers. comm. 2012, A. Moore pers. comm. 2012, R. Jabado pers. comm. 2012), as is the northwest of Australia (Morgan et al. 2011). Its current occurrence in much of this range is uncertain due to a lack of reliable data, but it is presumed to have been extirpated from much of this area because of intensive inshore gillnet and trawl fisheries.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Australia (New South Wales - Possibly Extinct, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia); Bahrain; Eritrea; Indonesia; Kenya; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Qatar; Sudan; Timor-Leste; United Arab Emirates
Possibly extinct:Mauritius; Réunion; South Africa; Thailand
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Possibly extinct:
Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – western central; Pacific – southwest
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|Data from northern Australia shows low to moderate levels of genetic diversity, with the lowest genetic diversity in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Populations in Western Australia and the Gulf of Carpentaria are distinct genetic stocks, with the remnant east coast population potentially also forming a distinct population (Phillips et al. 2011, Phillips 2012). Genetic data is not available for the remainder of the range, but given the Australian data the global population is likely to consist of a number of stocks.
There are very limited data available on the size and trend of the Green Sawfish population, either at the global or national scale. In Australian waters, all sawfish species have undergone significant, albeit largely unquantified, declines; the southern extent of the range of Green Sawfish on the Australian east coast has contracted from Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), to the Whitsunday region of Queensland (Harry et al. 2011). The last records from NSW were in 1972 (NSWDPI 2007) and in Moreton Bay (Queensland) in the 1960s (Johnson 1999). Extensive surveys of fish landing sites throughout Indonesia since 2001 have failed to observe this species (W. White pers. comm. 2012), suggesting that its occurrence in this region is now questionable. There is some evidence from the Persian (Arabian) Gulf (A. Moore pers. comm. 2012) and Red Sea (e.g. Sudan) of small but extant populations. The lack of data from surveys and fisheries in much of the remainder of its range suggests that the abundance of this species has declined significantly in most, if not all, areas, and is now at only a small fraction of its historic abundance. A population decline of >80% is suspected across the global range over the period of the last three generations.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Green Sawfish are most common in shallow water coastal and estuarine areas, but occur to depths to over 70 m (Stevens et al. 2005). A 3.5 m female tracked in the Gulf of Carpentaria (Australia) over a 27 hour period remained in shallow water (mean depth <1 m) and within 200 m of a mangrove shoreline (Peverell and Pillans 2004). Similarly, a 2.5 m male tracked in northwestern Australia showed similar movements, remaining in nearshore waters <1.5 m deep (Stevens et al. 2008). The young are known to use nearshore and estuarine areas as nurseries, and adults occur more broadly and into deeper areas as evidenced by the occurrence of large mature individuals in offshore trawl fisheries in northwestern Australia (Stephenson and Chidlow 2003).
Green Sawfish may be the largest of the sawfishes, with reports of individuals in excess of 7 m total length (TL). However, most reports suggest lengths over 6 m TL are currently rare. Mean size at birth in the Gulf of Carpentaria is 76 cm TL, and size at maturity at 340 to 380 cm TL (Peverell 2008, Last and Stevens 2009). Age and growth based on specimens from the Gulf of Carpentaria indicate that maturity is reached at about nine years, and maximum age may be >50 years (Peverell 2008). Little is known of reproductive biology. Reproduction is aplacental viviparous and litter size is about 12. Demographic models based on life history data from the Gulf of Carpentaria indicate that the generation time is 14.6 years, the intrinsic rate of population increase is very low (0.02 yr-1), and population doubling time is ~28 years (Moreno Iturria 2012).
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The Green Sawfish is (or likely has been) utilised for its fins, flesh, rostrum (as a trophy, curio or in traditional medicine), liver, eggs and skin. The protection of this species in some range states (e.g., Australia, India) means that take is prohibited. The meat of sawfish is sometimes utilised by Indigenous communities but the extent to which these communities harvest and utilise Green Sawfish is unknown; however, it is likely localised and at a low rate. There are also anecdotal reports of Indigenous people purchasing sawfish rostra off commercial fishers, painting and then selling them (Stevens et al. 2005). There was a small trade of live animals for display in public aquaria prior to the species' listing on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). See CITES (2007) for a comprehensive overview of trade in sawfishes.
|Major Threat(s):
Fishing is the primary threat to Green Sawfish. The large, toothed rostrum is easily entangled in fishing nets and other gear. In particular, inshore gillnet and trawl fisheries, which are common and intensive throughout much of the range of Green Sawfish, pose the greatest threat. Sawfishes are rarely targeted in these fisheries, but are regularly taken as retained bycatch because of the value of their fins, rostrum and meat. Data from specific fisheries is sparse, and rarely if ever to species level, making conclusions about the exact extent of the threats difficult to determine.
Data for northern Australia is probably the most comprehensive, and shows that gillnets were responsible for ~80% of records of sawfish captures (Stevens et al. 2005). The gillnet fisheries in northern Australia that are likely, or known, to interact with Green Sawfish include the Queensland East Coast Inshore Finfish Fishery (Harry et al. 2011), Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Gillnet Fishery (Peverell 2005), Gulf of Carpentaria Offshore Gillnet Fishery (Peverell 2005), Northern Territory Barramundi Fishery (Field et al. 2008), Northern Territory Offshore Net and Line Fishery (Field et al. 2008), and the Kimberley Gillnet and Barramundi Fishery. Prawn trawl fisheries known, or suspected, to interact with Green Sawfish include the Northern Prawn Fishery, Queensland East Coast Trawl Fishery, and smaller prawn fisheries in Western Australia (e.g. Exmouth and Onslow) and New South Wales (NSW). The species is also known from fish trawl fisheries in northern Australia (Pilbara, Gulf of Carpentaria and Northern Territory). The take of Green Sawfish in recreational line fisheries is likely to occur at low levels, and recent education campaigns in Australia have aimed to reduce mortalities associated with these interactions. Outside of Australia the recent take of Green Sawfish in fisheries is poorly documented, partly because of its disappearance from many areas.
Ecological risk assessments of fisheries in northern Australia that interact with Green Sawfish have demonstrated that this species is one of the most at-risk elasmobranch species within the region. Its large size, low biological productivity, propensity for entanglement, and high value of products all contribute to this vulnerability (Salini et al. 2007, Tobin et al. 2010). Similar conclusions can be made for similar fisheries throughout its range. More detailed assessment of trawl data from Australia's Northern Prawn Fishery indicated that the recent level of take was close to the sustainable limit (Zhou and Griffiths 2008), and when combined with the gillnet take in the same area, would undoubtedly be in excess of the level of sustainable take. As such, even in Australian waters, threats to this species are ongoing and populations are likely to continue to decline.
Green Sawfish are also taken in shark control programs in NSW, Queensland (Giles et al. 2004) and South Africa. The capture of Green Sawfish on all of these programs is now nonexistent (NSW and South Africa) or extremely rare (Queensland).
Other threats to Green Sawfish include habitat loss (particularly loss of intertidal areas, and coastal development), pollution, loss of genetic diversity and climate change. However, relative to fishing, these threats are unlikely to substantially affect global status.
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Green Sawfish are fully protected in Australia by a variety of Federal (listed as Vulnerable, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) and State legislation (Queensland, Protected [Fisheries Act 1994]; Northern Territory, Vulnerable [Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 2000]; Western Australia, Totally Protected [Fish Resources Management Act 1994]; New South Wales, Presumed Extinct). There are also a variety of specific fisheries regulations and reporting requirements in most Australian fisheries that interact with Green Sawfish. Sawfish are also protected in a number of range states, including India, Bahrain and Qatar. Although protected in these range states, the lack of enforcement or specific fisheries regulations, and ongoing gillnet and trawl fisheries, means that threats are ongoing.
The Green Sawfish is listed on Appendix I of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), prohibiting any international trade in the species. However, there is evidence that some Green Sawfish products (e.g., fins) remain in trade (M. McDavitt pers. comm. 2012).
The use of turtle exclusion devices (TEDs) is mandatory in some range states, though the benefit of these devices on sawfish is poorly quantified. In an Australian study they have been shown to reduce the catch of Narrow Sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata), however they and other sawfish species are still vulnerable to capture as their rostra become tangled in the body of the net (Brewer et al. 2006).
Marine protected areas within range states may also provide significant conservation benefit to Green Sawfish. Within Australian waters, areas closed to fishing include ~30% of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, and some estuaries and inshore waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Temporal spawning closures for barramundi, the target species in inshore gillnet fisheries in northern Australia, also provide substantial protection (up to three months in some jurisdictions). In other range states, areas closed to fishing also occur. There are no closures specifically to address threats to Green Sawfish. The effectiveness of all areas closed to fishing throughout the range remain uncertain because of a lack of information about the movements of Green Sawfish.
Significant conservation benefits have been gained through education. In Australia, sawfish-specific handling guidelines have been developed and distributed to fishers in the form of printed material, videos and face-to-face training. This has aimed to maximise the survival of sawfish during release from fishing gear. Given the size and morphology of sawfish, releasing sawfish can be dangerous and historically they were often killed or de-sawed to make gear retrieval safer and easier. Thus development of handling guidelines (e.g., DEEDI 2010) may have significant benefit, and are also important for fisheries that operate in range states where they are fully protected (e.g., Australia). Conservation benefit may also be accrued from more general education of the public through display in public aquaria and through educational materials about sawfish such as outreach material provided to schools and other interested groups. However, to date such benefits have not been quantified. These activities increase awareness of the importance of these taxa and the conservation challenges that they face garnering public support for conservation actions.
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Charles Hoffman has been named dean of the College of Business Administration at UMSL. He will begin Sept. 1.
Charles Hoffman believes what made him successful as a business leader are the same attributes that will propel him in his new position as the dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Hoffman, who most recently served as president and chief executive officer of Covad Communications, the national broadband carrier, will begin his new position as dean Sept. 1. He will fill the role left by Keith Womer, who has now returned to the classroom. Michael Elliott, associate dean and director of undergraduate studies for the college, has served as interim dean since July 1.
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This comes after hearing the deep and intellectually profound statement "I ain't come from no ape," actually come out of someone's mouth.
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Well that's a double negative, so they are saying that they DID come from an ape!
Muslims? Probably, yes (the Quran is vague enough about creation to allow evolution as long as you don't touch the Adam and Eve myth). Christians? I doubt it. Genesis dug them into a pretty deep hole as far as creation is concerned. Fundamentalist Christians still believe dinosaurs coexisted with humans just so they can keep the 5,000-year-old-world thing going.
"Fundamentalist Christians still believe dinosaurs coexisted with humans just so they can keep the 5,000-year-old-world thing going."
Erm, no, that's not true, at least in my experience... (I spent years in a fundamentalist church.) None of them believed humans and dinosaurs co-existed, and while some were creationists, others were not.
You're right I shouldn't have generalized. I did watch a pastor on TV who explained in excruciating detail his "proof" that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. But I'm not an expert on fundamentalist Christianity and I'll submit that it may very well be a minority or even a fringe view.
"and I'll submit that it may very well be a minority or even a fringe view."
It's my experience that it is indeed a fringe view! Thankfully...
That frigging Satan, he is just soooo tricky lol:). But he does get around.
From Africa, to America, from Mexico and Argentina to the Arctic - wow!.
There is a Creationist Museum In Petersburg, Kentucky, built in 2007.
It presents an account of the origins of the universe, life, mankind, and man's early history according to a literal reading of the Book of Genesis. "
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The museum complete with Tyrannosaurus co-existing with humans. This museum gets million of dollars in donations from xians, and is on 49 acres of land.
Copy and Paste - Over 80 of them animatronic (animated and motion-sensitive). Model dinosaurs are depicted in the Garden of Eden, many of them side-by-side with human figures. In one exhibit, a Triceratops and a Stegosaurus are shown aboard a scale model of Noah's Ark.
Newsflash, The " religious community" already does accept evolution as a fact .. at least outside of Bugtussle USA!
The Catholics have accepted evolution as a fact for generations, as do most main stream Protestants, and the only creationist religious people in New Zealand, are a handful of Muslims and maybe 150 American-influenced recently formed Protestant groups.
Evolution is a fact. It is not a matter of belief. It is one of understand it or misunderstanding it. We share common ancestory.
My point is that the vast majority of 'religious people' do not dispute it!


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Dr. Vricella's clinical and research interests revolve around the field of pediatric cardiac surgery, with emphasis on complex neonatal repair and the care of adults with congenital heart disease. He has also developed a particular interest in aortic root surgery, with a focus on pediatric patients with connective tissue disorders.
Dr. Vricella is Board Certified in General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He is author and co-author of several articles and book chapters, and is one of the editors of the Johns Hopkins Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
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Bryan G. Maxwell; Ahmad Y. Sheikh; Chinwe C. Ajuba-Iwuji; Eugenie S. Heitmiller; Luca A. Vricella. Pulmonary vascular resistance index and mortality after paediatric heart transplant. Cardiology in the Young. 2014.
Lincoln T. Shenje; Peter Andersen; Marc K. Halushka; Cecillia Lui; Laviel Fernandez; Gayle B. Collin; Nuria Amat-Alarcon; Wendy Meschino; Ernest Cutz; Kenneth Chang; et al. Mutations in Alström protein impair terminal differentiation of cardiomyocytes. Nature Communications. 2014;5.
Jeffrey P. Jacobs; Constantine Mavroudis; James A. Quintessenza; Paul J. Chai; Sara K. Pasquali; Kevin D. Hill; Luca A. Vricella; Marshall L. Jacobs; Joseph A. Dearani; Duke Cameron. Reoperations for pediatric and congenital heart disease: An analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) congenital heart surgery database. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual. 2014;17(1):2-8.
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Lindsay A. Caldarone; Christopher A. Caldarone; Luca A. Vricella. Retroesophageal total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in a neonate. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2014;148(2):e143-e145.
Luca A. Vricella; Marshall L. Jacobs; Duke E. Cameron. The birth of a new era: The introduction of the systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt for the treatment of cyanotic congenital heart disease. Cardiology in the Young. 2013;23(6):851-856.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee defensive end Jacques Smith has a fractured right thumb that puts his status for the start of the season in jeopardy.
Tennessee coach Butch Jones said Wednesday night that Smith had surgery earlier in the day and probably would miss four to six weeks, though he didn't rule out the possibility that the senior could be ready for the Aug. 31 opener against Austin Peay. Smith hurt the thumb late in practice Tuesday night, though the injury wasn't announced until after Wednesday's practice.
"We'll see how he progresses," Jones said. "We may have him back for the Austin Peay game. That's what we're looking toward. He may be good to go. We'll know a little more further details probably in about a week or so."
Jones also said freshman defensive end Corey Vereen is undergoing an MRI on his knee, though he had no further information on that injury.
Smith and Vereen were shaping up as two of the most promising pass rushers for a Tennessee team that had just 17 sacks last season.
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White on White: Churches of Rural New England, organized by Historic New England in Boston, presents 40 photographs of iconic New England churches by renowned architectural photographer Steve Rosenthal.
The exhibit will be at the University's Adams Gallery, from Feb. 13-May 9, 2012.
The early churches of New England hold a special place in the American consciousness, revered for their physical beauty, simplicity and elegance and for their role in the nation's history.
Rosenthal began photographing these churches in the 1960s, and the project gradually became a personal quest. His luminous black and white photographs capture the intrinsic beauty of the architecture while creating a world of rich order and rational light.
"These are the buildings which give New England towns and villages a unique sense of place and define, in many minds, the New England character," said Rosenthal. "Collectively, they are as important to the cultural and architectural history of these villages as are the great cathedrals to the cities of Europe."
An accompanying book White on White: Churches of Rural New England, photographs by Steve Rosenthal, with an essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg and an afterword by Robert Campbell, is available through Historic New England.
White on White: Churches of Rural New England
is at Suffolk University's Adams Gallery, David J. Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont St. through May 9. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. daily.
South Ferry Church, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 1850 © 2005 Steve Rosenthal
Old First Church, Old Bennington, Vermont, 1805 © 2005 Steve Rosenthal


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$100K of damage after overnight fire
Fire at gas station in West Price Hill
$100K of damage after overnight fire
Fire at gas station in West Price Hill
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Authorities say an employee cleaning up for the night smelled smoke and called 911. Firefighters were delayed putting out the fire because they couldn't find where it started. They brought in thermal imaging equipment and traced the fire to the roof.
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It's been exactly 23 days since I last did a Five Things article. Just because there won't be another Fire game until sometime in January doesn't mean this great piece of content can't be repurposed with a little holiday twist... With that, I give you "Five Fire-related Things I'm Thankful For..."
1) MLS Live – In my opinion, perhaps the most significant technological success Major League Soccer has had in 17 seasons. MLS Live is reliable, affordable and provides an absolutely crystal clear picture of up to 230 games that don't involve the Chicago Fire.
While it was great to see the league sign a deal with NBC Sports this past year, with 19 teams now in the league, the peacock, ESPN and Univision networks simply can't carry every game nationally. What's more, the product even got better from 2011 to 2012 providing more interactivity.
Trust me when I say that the Playoff Math pieces that you all loved this fall wouldn't have been accomplished quite as easy without MLS Live. Now if only they can turn the corner on local blackouts...Something to improve upon for next year perhaps?
2) The Chicago Fire PR and Digital Team – My job sort of fits me into both categories but the two sides almost always work hand in hand. There's never an idea too wacky or too out of bounds for us to go after…
Get Logan Pause to eat a million Chewy bars to launch a Quaker jersey? Uh huh.
Pester an MLS owner to change his stadium's flag policy? Sure, why not.
Create a Twitter campaign to beat the Crew in the digital realm? Of course.
Create another campaign to potentially get Pat Nyarko on the All-Star Team? Yup.
Partner with Quaker to help Austin Berry win Rookie of the Year? Did that.
Dress up as eachother to ease tensions ahead of a Halloween playoff game? And that.
Stupidly race Dominic Oduro with a jelly doughnut on the line? Sure.
Risk suffocation by jumping in a large equipment bag for a blog promo? Still can't breathe.
Interviewing a stuffed tiger during for a live blog piece to Columbus? Roar.
The list goes on and on but I just have to say I'm proud to be a part of this team. Thanks Emigdio, Brendan, Eunice, Leo, Nick and all of our trusted interns over the past year.
3) The Chicago Fire First Team – Getting to work with professional athletes on a daily basis is a fan boy's dream. With that said, athletes don't always reciprocate with the same feelings.
That isn't the case with the Fire where there is a true sense of family that emanates from the locker room. From Frank and his staff, to stars like Arne Friedrich, Pavel Pardo and Logan Pause all the way down the roster, these guys are a pleasure to work with.
To all the players and staff, I appreciate your tolerance of a digital recorder often being in your face.
4) Having my own tifo – I've checked with the MLS Team Writer's Union and discovered I'm alone among my counterparts when it comes to having their own dedicated two-pole display. Contrary to popular belief, my favorite song is not Fun's "We Are Young" though I do think it's an appropriate song to be sung at Fire games (just need to work on timing).
To the few fans (you know who you are) that took this from conception, made it a reality and hoisted this as my birthday present from the Section back on July 8, you are truly amazing.
Every time I see the two-pole and hear that song, I get chills, so thank you.
5)Traveling and getting to know Fire supporters – I was able to take in 11 of the team's 18 road matches in person this season. While I was working at some, I was a fan at seven of those games. Those matches provided me a nice release that I don't get to have at Toyota Park -- mainly the opportunity to scream, shout and support the guys I work with on a daily basis.
Beyond just taking a game in, I came to appreciate the camaraderie that is formed by fans on the road. There's something to be said for what a nine-hour bus ride to Toronto or Kansas City to bring folks together.
Even better are the times where the away city is so far away that you are FORCED to spend a night out on the town in a fun city such as Montreal before cramming six people into a tiny hotel room (not to say this ever happened…).
When you work for a club, you don't ever really feel like you're not part of it. However, I've gained even more love for the Chicago Fire by returning to my roots as a fan and getting to better know and understand this club's most ardent supporters. If you can travel away next year, please do!
There are plenty of other things I'm thankful for but you'd be here all day.
Happy Thanksgiving Fire Fans!


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Effort to replace Moscow's trees begins
Many trees lost to March tornado
Effort to replace Moscow's trees begins
Many trees lost to March tornado
MOSCOW, Ohio —
In the hours and days immediately after the EF-3 tornado that blasted much of Moscow, the injuries and damage to homes and businesses gained the most attention.
But as the rebuilding continued, it became obvious that Moscow lost something else; trees.
Dozens of tall trees were snapped or blown over by the storm.
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First, let's start by summing up what I know. IO ports are the conceptually simplest way for computer CPUs to communicate with external hardware in a bidirectional fashion. They work using standard CPU instructions that send and receive fixed-size integers to distant hardware. Unlike with memory-mapped IO, these instructions always work as expected, and aren't moved anarchically by optimizing compilers if you forget a "volatile" keyword somewhere. IO ports are also as standard as communication with external hardware can get, but on the minus side they are probably the slowest IO mechanism available, and using them requires architecture-specific ASM snippets.
On architectures which supports hardware-enforced separation of kernel-mode and user-mode software, every CPU feature which is used to control external hardware must be kept under the control of privileged software, and IO ports are no exception. On x86, this is done by using so-called "IO permission bitmaps", which allows kernel-mode software to control the way other software accesses IO ports at the individual port scale. This hardware feature, which is really nice for microkernel OSs, leads me to ask a first question : How do other architectures restrict user-mode software's access to IO ports ?
Another thing worth noting about x86 IO ports is that they seem to be a thing of the past. For better and worse, x86 has apparently moved to memory-mapped IO, DMA, and nonstandard ("Model-specific") CPU registers nowadays, and all uses which I've found so far for IO ports on this architecture are legacy IBM PC features : 8259 PIC, CMOS, PS/2-compatible keyboards... Which leads me to a second question : What are the main means of communication with external hardware on other architectures ?
Many thanks in advance for your answers.


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Four friends get together for a party while the parents are away, but somebody ... or something, is about to crash the party. In four-player melee action, you will fight off the monster invasion in this top-down action/shooting game. Customize and build your own weapons by grabbing parts from the house and town to create more powerful attack tools, and find rare parts to build some ultimate weapons. Jack abandoned vehicles and deck them out with weapons to ride through the terrain and take out creatures. Visit five locations, including the suburban town, the high school, and the "Shopping Maul." The use of the Ageia NovodeX Physics platform allows you to interact with the environments physics to give yourself an advantage, such as creating barrides or throwing large objects, while the visual system uses the advanced Unreal 3 Engine.
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Release Region: United States
Release Date: June 12, 2007
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Three local animal shelters will benefit from recordonline's pet video contest, in which we invited pet owners to send us their videos. Prize money is being donated to the animal shelter of the top three winners' choices.
Three local animal shelters will benefit from recordonline.com's pet video contest, in which we invited pet owners to send us their videos. Prize money is being donated to the animal shelter of the top three winners' choices.
Eighteen pet owners posted videos, and recordonline.com readers voted for their favorites:
First place: Tana, part chihuahua, part mini shepherd, was not a fan of the train under the family Christmas tree.
"Every time we run the train, she does her best to get it to stop," says Debbie Fendt, who submitted the video. "We sometimes find her standing at the tree waiting for the train to start running so she can chase it down to stop it."
Fendt, of Newburgh, wants her prize to be donated to the Town of Newburgh Animal Shelter.
Second place: S'mores is an English springer spaniel. She's a natural water dog who is not only eager to jump right into the family pool; she's also able to get out unassisted when she gets winded from her swim. James Magee of Goshen, who owns S'Mores with his mother, Karen, submitted the video; S'Mores' prize will go to the Goshen Humane Society Inc.
Third place: Toby was on the couch playing with his hedgehog and apparently got fuzz in his mouth that he was trying to get out. Toby is owned by Nancy Jacobs of Middletown, who wants the money to go to the Humane Society of Middletown.
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Oil-Patch Renaissance Means More Money for UT, A&M
By Amy Madden
For Reporting Texas and the Dallas Morning News
Oil and gas royalties are pumping a record amount of money into the endowment that supports the University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems, helping push the fund to a record $14.8 billion.
In fiscal 2013, which ended Aug. 31, oil and gas royalties from state land pumped $648 million into the Permanent University Fund, up from $506 million a year earlier and $279 million in fiscal 2009. Along with investment returns, the PUF is up nearly 9 percent over fiscal 2012 and is 53 percent higher than it was at the end of fiscal 2009, according to UT system officials.
"The last four years, it's been significant," said Randy Wallace, chief budget officer for the UT System, referring to the increasing royalty revenue.
The UT System manages about 2.1 million acres of state-owned land in the Permian Basin, 75,000 square miles in West Texas and eastern New Mexico where oil was discovered in the 1920s. New technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have unleashed a new oil boom there. The basin accounts for 14 percent of total U.S. oil production.
"With horizontal drilling and its improvement in completion technologies, some formations that previously we couldn't get to produce are now very productive," said Jim Benson, executive director of University Lands, which manages the PUF land holdings.
Oil production on that land has more than doubled, from about 1.5 million barrels a month in 2010 to more than 3 million barrels a month in 2013, Benson said. He added that he expects production to keep rising, likely to 4 million barrels a month within the next two years.
The PUF also gets money from lease sales, in which oil companies bid for the right to drill on university lands. Though lease sales peaked at $457 million in fiscal 2011, Wallace said the $115 million that flowed into the PUF in 2013 was more than double 2009's $49 million.
"We have more higher-producing wells than we had, and that's been made possible by the higher oil price," he said. "Companies are willing to invest revenue to generate increased oil and gas production."
Wallace said companies' interest is largely due to higher oil prices, which have shot up from about $40 a barrel in 2008 to approximately $95 now.
Revenue from oil production and lease sales does not go directly to university operations; by law, it goes into the PUF, which is invested by the University of Texas Investment Management Co., a private, nonprofit company. The PUF earned 8.8 percent in the year ended Aug. 31, according to the company's website.
The UT System Board of Regents can distribute 4.75 percent of a three-year average of the Permanent University Fund's asset value into the Available University Fund. The money in the AUF can then be used for specified purposes, including paying off debt and system administration.
"Two-thirds of the return goes to the University of Texas [System], and one-third goes to Texas A&M," said Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, spokesperson for the UT System.
For fiscal 2014, which started Sept. 1, the Available University Fund made up $478.2 million, or about 3 percent, of the UT System's $15 billion budget. At UT-Austin, which gets the biggest share of the distribution, the fund accounted for $233.3 million, or nearly 10 percent, of the university's total revenue.
At Texas A&M, the $90.8 million from the AUF accounted for a little more than 6 percent of the school's fiscal 2014 revenue budget.
"With the increased oil and gas production and the lease bonus sales, it's obviously had a positive impact on the Available University Fund," Wallace said.
Wallace added that that money has provided benefits for the entire UT System.
"The board has committed money to the Dell Medical Center, for example," he said, referring to UT's new medical school. "It means additional money that the board also committed to help reduce tuition … at [UT] System institutions."
UT regents recently approved $196 million in PUF capital to establish a new university and medical school in the Rio Grande Valley and provide financial support to four UT institutions, according to a news release issued on Nov. 14.
LaCoste-Caputo said higher revenue into the PUF gives university officials options that wouldn't be there otherwise.
"It certainly does mean some flexibility in AUF spending in the near future, but we don't have any specifics on what that might be at this time," she said.
Benson said drilling activity in the Permian Basin – and the money for the PUF – is likely to continue increasing, possibly for 50 years or more.
"All of the parameters staying in place, I think the production is sustainable," Benson said. "I'm fairly confident that drilling could go on for a long, long time and be a sustainable revenue to the Permanent University Fund."
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