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Prionace glauca
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Carcharhinus macki (Phillipps, 1935)
Carcharias glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Carcharias gracilis Philippi, 1887
Carcharias hirundinaceus Valenciennes, 1835
Carcharias pugae Pérez Canto, 1886
Carcharias rondeletii (Risso, 1810)
Carcharinus glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Galeus thalassinus Valenciennes, 1835
Glyphis glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hypoprion isodus Philippi, 1887
Isurus glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Prionace mackiei Phillipps, 1935
Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, 1758
Squalus adscensionis Osbeck, 1765
Squalus caeruleus Blainville, 1816
Squalus rondeletii Risso, 1810
Thalassorhinus vulpecula Valenciennes, 1839
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordinus, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Impensis Direct, Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Stevens, J.
|Musick, J.A. & Fowler, S.L. (Shark Red List Authority)
This assessment is based on the information published in the 2005 shark status survey (Fowler et al. 2005).
This abundant pelagic and oceanic shark is widespread in temperate and tropical waters. It is relatively fast-growing and fecund, maturing in 4–6 years and producing average litters of 35 pups. The Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) is taken in large numbers (an estimated 20 million individuals annually), mainly as bycatch, but there are no population estimates and many catches are unreported. The few fishery assessments carried out suggest relatively little population decline. There is concern over the removal of such large numbers of this likely keystone predator from the oceanic ecosystem.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Blue Shark is one of the most wide ranging of all sharks, being found throughout tropical and temperate seas from latitudes of about 60°N'50°S. It is oceanic and pelagic, found from the surface to about 350 m depth; occasionally it occurs close inshore where the continental shelf is narrow. The Blue Shark prefers temperatures of 12'20°C and is found at greater depths in tropical waters (Last and Stevens 1994).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Albania; Algeria; American Samoa; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Aruba; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Brazil; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Chile; China; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Croatia; Curaçao; Denmark; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Fiji; French Guiana; French Polynesia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Greece; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Honduras; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Italy; Japan; Kenya; Kiribati; Kuwait; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Liberia; Libya; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Martinique; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of ; Montenegro; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nauru; Netherlands; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Niue; Northern Mariana Islands; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Qatar; Réunion; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Slovenia; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Sweden; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Tunisia; Turkey; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States (Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington); Uruguay; Vanuatu; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Viet Nam; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Wallis and Futuna; Western Sahara; Yemen
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – northeast; Indian Ocean – eastern; Indian Ocean – western; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific – northeast; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – western central
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|The Blue Shark reaches a maximum size of about 380 cm TL. About 50% of males in the Atlantic are sexually mature by 218 cm, although some may reach maturity as small as 182 cm. Females are sub-adult from 173-221 cm and fully mature from 221 cm (Pratt 1979), although pregnant fish as small as 183 cm have been recorded from the eastern Pacific (Williams 1977).
Blue Sharks are placentally viviparous, producing litters averaging about 35 (maximum recorded 135) after a gestation period of 9-12 months. At birth the pups are 35-50 cm long. Reproduction has been reported as seasonal in most areas, with the young often born in spring or summer (Pratt 1979, Stevens 1984a, Nakano 1994) although the periods of ovulation and parturition may be extended (Strasburg 1958, Hazin et al. 1994). The skin of females is about three times thicker than that of males to withstand the extensive courtship bites of males. Females can store sperm in their nidamental glands for extended periods, for later fertilisation (Pratt 1979). Ageing studies suggest a longevity of about 20 years with males maturing at 4-6 and females at 5-7 years (Stevens 1975, Cailliet et al. 1983b, Nakano 1994). Smith et al. (1998) estimated the intrinsic rate of population increase at MSY to be 0.061.
Blue Sharks are highly migratory with complex movement patterns and spatial structure related to reproduction and the distribution of prey. There tends to be a seasonal shift in population abundance to higher latitudes associated with oceanic convergence or boundary zones as these are areas of higher productivity. Tagging studies of blue sharks have demonstrated extensive movements of blue sharks in the Atlantic with numerous trans-Atlantic migrations which are probably accomplished by swimming slowly and utilising the major current systems (Stevens 1976, Casey 1985, Stevens 1990). More limited tagging in the Pacific has also shown extensive movements of up to 9,200 km (P. Saul pers. comm.). Substantial data from the North Atlantic on the distribution, movements and reproductive behaviour of different segments of the population suggest a complex reproductive cycle. This involves major oceanic migrations associated with mating areas in the north-western Atlantic and pupping areas in the north-eastern Atlantic (Pratt 1979, Casey 1985, Stevens 1990).
The diet of Blue Sharks consists mainly of small pelagic fish and cephalopods, particularly squid; however, invertebrates (mainly pelagic crustaceans), small sharks, cetaceans (possibly carrion) and seabirds are also taken (Compagno 1984b). While most of the fish prey is pelagic, bottom fishes also feature in the diet. Blue sharks are known to feed throughout the 24-hour period but have been reported to be more active at night, with highest activity in the early evening (Sciarrotta and Nelson 1977).
|Use and Trade:
|Rarely a target commercial species, but a major bycatch of longline and driftnet fisheries. Blue sharks are also taken by sport fishermen. Periodically, small target fisheries have existed for Blue Sharks.
|Major Threat(s):
Blue Sharks are rarely target commercial species but are a major bycatch of longline and driftnet fisheries, particularly from nations with high-seas fleets. Much of this bycatch is often unrecorded. Blue sharks are also taken by sport fishermen, particularly in the United States, Europe and Australia.
Periodically, small target fisheries have existed for Blue Sharks such as a seasonal longline fishery for juveniles of 50-150 cm near Vigo, Spain. Some 3t of gutted individuals were observed over a two-day period at Vigo fish market (A. Kingman pers. comm.). A Taiwanese (POC) longline fishery in Indonesian waters took about 13,000 t live weight of blue sharks in 1993 (N. Bentley pers. comm.).
Blue Shark catch rates reported from commercial longlining in the Atlantic Ocean range in average values from 2.9-100 (Stevens and Wayte 1999), while average catch rates as high as 145.0 have been recorded from research longlining (A. da Silva pers. comm.). Stevens (in press) estimated a catch of 137,800 t of Blue Shark from high-seas longline fleets, and 2,300 t from high-seas purse¬seining, in the Pacific in 1994. Bonfil (1994) calculated that 21,152 t of Blue Shark were taken by high-seas driftnet fleets in the Pacific during the 1989-90 period. The annual global catch of blue sharks is likely to be around 20 million individuals.
The limited fishery assessments carried out to date have shown no evidence of a declining trend in catch rates of Blue Sharks with time in the Atlantic or Indian Oceans. However, a 20% decrease was evident in the North Pacific between the periods 1971-1982 to 1983-1993 (Nakano 1996). No consistent decline in catch rates through the fishing season was evident for Japanese longliners fishing in Australian waters (Stevens and Wayte 1999).
|Conservation Actions:
The 1995 Fisheries Management Plan for pelagic sharks in Atlantic Canada established precautionary catch levels of 250 t for Blue Shark in the target shark fishery. License limitation, a ban on finning, restrictions on gear, area and seasons, bycatch limits and restrictions to recreational fishers permitting hook-and-release only were also implemented (Hurley 1998).
In 1991, Australia brought in legislation that prevented Japanese longliners fishing in the EEZ from landing shark fins unless they were accompanied by the carcass.
Since 1993, shark fisheries in Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters in the US have been managed under the Fishery Management Plan for Sharks of the Atlantic Ocean. The plan set commercial quotas for 10 species of pelagic sharks at 580t dressed weight annually, with recreational bag limits also applied. Commercial fishers require an annual shark permit, and finning is prohibited. In Mexico, a high-seas longline fishery taking pelagic sharks was banned within the EEZ in 1990 (Holts et al. 1998).
|Stevens, J. 2009. Prionace glauca. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T39381A10222811. . Downloaded on 18 September 2018.
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Dumb and Dumber 2 Probably Filming This Autumn
"It's the first sequel we've ever done and we've got Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels back," says Peter Farrelly.
There are a couple kinds of April Fools' jokes on the Internet: One is where you do something neat or funny or ironic, and it is generally visibly a gag; another is where you select a story many would just love to be true, portray it as a scoop, and later optionally, sheepishly admit it was a little bit totally false but hey, thanks for your visit, you lovely little page-view. Now that that's clear, here's the following bit from ComingSoon's conversation with Peter Farrelly at a junket for the new Three Stooges: "We're getting set to shoot Dumb and Dumber 2 in September. It's the first sequel we've ever done and we've got Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels back. ... Jeff always wanted to do it. We always wanted to do it. Jim was busy, but he called and said, 'We've got to do this thing again.' He had just watched Dumb and Dumber and he said, 'This is the perfect sequel. Let's do it.'" With three separate instances of headline-making in 2011 alone (February, July, October), Dumb and Dumber 2 is either a surefire bet or an absolutely dead prospect being used solely as a calling card to drum up publicity for other projects. With April Fools' an hour in the grave EST, let's cautiously assume it's officially the former.

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SEATTLE (AP) — The auction for the beleaguered Tully's Coffee chain concluded Friday in federal bankruptcy court, with a judge approving the sale to an ownership group led by actor Patrick Dempsey.
Dempsey — dubbed "McDreamy" in the hospital drama "Grey's Anatomy" — had claimed victory last week after bidding concluded, but a company that teamed up with Starbucks to make an offer for Tully's filed an objection.
AgriNurture Inc. had said it was still willing to proceed with its combined bid with Starbucks Corp. of about $10.6 million. The bid from Dempsey's company, Global Baristas LLC, was for $9.2 million.
At a hearing Friday afternoon, Judge Karen Overstreet said the Jan. 4 auction was fair and no mistakes had been made.
Dempsey said he was "thrilled that we prevailed."
"I've been deeply humbled by the outpouring of support from the city of Seattle and am very proud to be a new business owner in this amazing city," he said in a statement. "We have a lot to accomplish over the next few months and years, and I am excited to now call Seattle my second home."
Starbucks spokesman Zack Hutson said the company respected the judge's decision.
Starbucks had wanted to buy about half of Tully's 47 shops in Washington and California and turn them into Starbucks stores, while the rest of the company would keep the Tully's name under the ownership of AgriNurture, which is based in the Philippines.
One reason Tully's owner TC Global Inc. didn't pick the Starbucks-AgriNurture deal was the complicated relationship Tully's has with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. Green Mountain owns the wholesale side of Tully's brand, which includes coffee in bags and single-serve packs that are sold in supermarkets and other stores.
Green Mountain preferred to keep the chain of coffee shops intact and operating under the Tully's name.
Lawyers for Tully's and its creditors also expressed concern about what would happen to some company contracts, including a multi-million dollar commitment to people who bought prepaid coffee cards.
At the conclusion of Friday's hearing that lasted several hours, Overstreet said the auction and the arguments presented by all sides were intricate, but it was not her job to second-guess the decision made by Tully's executives to accept Dempsey's bid.
"Was it complicated? Yes. Did it produce a fantastic result for this case? Yes it did," Overstreet said.
TC Global filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October, citing lease obligations and underperforming stores. It has more than 500 employees.
CEO Scott Pearson said the sale, which is expected to close by the end of January, was a "step forward" for the company.
"I think the best part of it is we're taking care of our creditors and our employees and actually giving something back to our shareholders," Pearson said.
Dempsey has said he believes there is room in Seattle for Tully's and the much larger Starbucks, which is also based there.
After winning the auction last week, Dempsey made an appearance at a Tully's near Pike Place Market, shaking hands with workers and greeting customers before visiting other stores.


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Dry Beans
Dry Bean Classes
Dry Bean Consumption
Major Dry Bean Growing States
Dry beans are legumes grown to the mature stage, allowed to dry, and harvested for the seed within the pods. Most U.S. dry beans are produced for human consumption. Dry beans are an important staple crop and are also used as animal feed in other parts of the world.
With 6 percent of world output, the United States is the sixth-leading producer of dry edible beans. About 20 percent of U.S. dry bean supplies are destined for the export market, while imports make up about 14 percent of domestic dry bean consumption.
According to the 2007 Census of Agriculture, 6,236 U.S. farms produced dry edible beans (excluding dry lima beans) on 1.46 million acres, 24 percent of which was under irrigation. More than a fourth of that irrigated land was in Nebraska. North Dakota produced the most dry beans, 38 percent of the national output, in 2006-08. Michigan (14 percent), Nebraska (11 percent), Minnesota (10 percent), and Idaho (7 percent) were among the top five States. The average farm value of the dry bean crop was $759 million in 2006-08, with about $2 billion in estimated consumer sales.
Dry Bean Classes
The United States produces many kinds of dry edible beans, but the leading varieties for 2006-08 were the following:
- Pinto--42 percent
- Navy (pea)--17 percent
- Black--11 percent
- Great Northern--5 percent
- Garbanzo (large chickpeas)--5 percent
Other varieties include light red kidney, dark red kidney, large lima, baby lima, pink, small red, cranberry, black-eyed (cowpeas), small chickpeas, and small white. These cover the specific varieties for which USDA publishes production statistics, but there are many other specialized varieties produced in smaller quantities. USDA groups smaller bean crops as "miscellaneous," such as yellow eye, fava (horse or broad beans), mung, adzuki, marrow, appaloosa, Christmas lima, Anasazi, and black gram beans (important in India).
Dry Bean Consumption
Americans use dry edible beans in many ways and sometimes use different varieties in similar ways. All varieties are available dry in consumer or foodservice packages. Canned products include refried beans, soups, chilis, and baked beans. High-starch bean flour from dry beans is used in a variety of baked goods. Restaurant use of dry beans and bean products has likely increased in importance, especially for establishments serving serving Mexican, Tex-Mex, or Cal-Mex dishes.
Low-cost dry beans provide vitamins, minerals, soluble dietary fiber, and protein. The leading source of vegetable protein, dry edible beans are an excellent food buy in cost per gram of protein. A serving of dry beans is rich in B-vitamins, iron, calcium, potassium, phosphorous, and is low in sodium and calories.
On any given day, nearly 14 percent of the U.S. population eat dry edible beans. Dry beans enjoy the greatest popularity in the West and the South. About three-fourths of all dry beans are purchased at retail stores for home consumption. For more information, see Factors Affecting Dry Bean Consumption in the United States (April 2000).
After peaking during 1941-43 at 9.6 pounds per person, 3-year average dry bean disappearance has largely remained between 6 and 8 pounds per person, but has stayed below 8 pounds since the early 1960s. Over the past 40 years, per capita disappearance of dry beans reached a low of 5.5 pounds during 1978-80, and then trended upward to a peak of 7.7 pounds during 1992-94. Per capita use of dry beans averaged 6.5 pounds during 2006-08, down 12 percent from 1996-98 but unchanged from 1986-88.
Estimated annual per capita use of dry beans declined for 5 consecutive years (2000-04), across most bean classes. Consumption of white beans (i.e., navy, Great Northern, lima, and small white) has declined each decade since the 1960s and now amounts to less than half of what it was in the 1960s. Until weakening in the 2000s, disappearance of nonwhite beans had increased each decade since the 1960s.
Dry beans have not been included in Federal price support programs since the late 1960s. However, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 Farm Act) includes large chickpeas (also considered to be a dry pea crop) in such programs as marketing assistance loans, loan deficiency payments, and counter-cyclical payments. See the Policy page for more information. In addition, USDA regularly buys dry pack and canned beans for school lunch, child nutrition, and other feeding programs.
Major Dry Bean Growing States
New York was the birthplace of the U.S. commercial, dry edible bean industry in the mid-1800s. Now a minor growing State, New York remained the leading producer until the early 1900s when Michigan took the lead. Michigan's dominance was largely unchallenged until the 1990s. Strong, steady gains in the North Dakota dry bean industry during the 1980s propelled it into the lead for the first time in 1991, where the State has stayed, with the exception of 1993.
The top dry-bean producing States in 2006-08 were the following:
- North Dakota--38 percent
- Michigan--14 percent
- Nebraska--11 percent
- Minnesota--10 percent
- Idaho--7 percent
- California--4 percent
- Washington--4 percent
- Colorado--3 percent
North Dakota's dry bean industry is relatively young (firmly established only in the early 1960s), compared with the mature Michigan industry. North Dakota's bean production was just 0.4 million hundredweight (cwt) in 1970 (2 percent of the U.S. crop), but with steadily increasing acreage and yields, output surged to a record high of 10.8 million cwt in 2007. In contrast, Michigan's crop was just 0.8 million cwt in 2001, the lowest on record in that State (largely because of weather-reduced yields).
According to the 2007 Census of Agriculture, 1,682 farms produced dry edible beans in North Dakota on 664,389 acres, with most of these acres in pinto beans (70 percent) and navy beans (17 percent). North Dakota is the leading producer of both pinto beans (62 percent of the U.S. crop) and navy beans (42 percent of the national total). The majority of the crop is produced in the fertile Red River Valley, with Pembina, Walsh, and Grand Forks Counties the top producers. About 2 percent of the State's dry bean crop is produced under irrigation.
The second-leading producer of dry beans in the nation, Michigan, averaged 14 percent of the U.S. total during 2006-08. Black beans (45 percent of the State's crop) and navy beans (34 percent) dominate the State's dry bean output, but Michigan also produces many other bean classes such as cranberry, kidney, small red, and pinto beans. Michigan is the leading producer of black beans, with 58 percent of U.S. output and is the second-leading producer of navy beans, with 29 percent of the crop. Dry beans were produced on 1,183 Michigan farms in 2007 (down 25 percent from 2002), with the majority growing less than 100 acres of dry beans. The Saginaw Valley and the Bay Thumb area in central and east central Michigan produce most of the beans. Huron County is the leading producer, accounting for more than 40 percent of the State's crop.
Nebraska, third in dry bean production, accounted for 11 percent of the U.S. crop during 2006-08. Grown on 495 farms in 2007 (down 35 percent from 2002), 97 percent of the State's dry bean acreage is irrigated. Great Northern beans account for 42 percent of Nebraska's bean crop, with the State accounting for the vast majority of the U.S. Great Northern crop. Pinto beans make up 44 percent of Nebraska's dry bean output, with smaller amounts of light red kidney, black, and other beans. Production is scattered across 26 counties, with several northwestern counties in the North Platte River Valley of the Panhandle accounting for the largest share of the crop.
Minnesota, the fourth-leading producer, accounts for 10 percent of the U.S. crop. Commercial production of dry beans took hold in the mid-1960s at the same time neighboring North Dakota's industry began to develop. Grown on 526 farms in 2007 (21 percent lower than in 2002), about one-fifth of the State's dry bean acreage is irrigated. Navy (40 percent of State output), dark red kidney (23 percent), pinto (11 percent), and black (10 percent) beans account for the majority of the State's production. Minnesota is the leading producer of dark red kidney beans, with 70 percent of national output. Production is scattered across 41 counties with the largest concentration of acreage in the Red River Valley. Polk (37 percent), Marshall (9 percent), Otter Tail (6 percent), and Hubbard (6 percent) counties are the top four producers.
Idaho rounds out the top five producing States, with 7 percent of the national dry bean crop in 2006-08. According to the 2007 Census, 641 farms in 19 counties produced dry beans in Idaho, 16 percent fewer farms than in 2002. Although Idaho's dry bean crop is diversified among most classes, pinto beans (35 percent of State output), large chickpeas (23 percent), small red beans (8 percent), and pink beans (8 percent) are the leading bean classes produced in the State. The largest concentration of dry beans is located in the Magic Valley of southern Idaho. The leading counties are Twin Falls (29 percent), Nez Perce (13 percent), and Jerome (12 percent).
California is the sixth-leading producer of dry beans, producing about 5 percent of the U.S. crop in 2006-08. California's climate is favorable for most types of dry beans, with a wide variety produced annually. However, four bean classes dominate (accounting for 86 percent of output). These include baby limas (27 percent of California's crop), large limas (25 percent), black-eyed peas/beans (21 percent), and garbanzo beans (large chickpeas) (13 percent). In 2007, 239 California farms grew dry beans. Production is widespread, with Stanislaus (18 percent), San Joaquin (14 percent), and Sutter (12 percent) counties the major producers. Production in the State has been trending lower, with the 2008 crop a record low.
The U.S. dry bean industry is mechanized, relatively efficient, and produces quality products. During the first 9 years of the 2000s, an average of 19 percent of the U.S. dry bean supply was exported annually, unchanged from the average in the 1990s. As it has for decades, the United States experienced a dry bean trade surplus in crop year 2007/08 (September-August). The surplus (excluding guar and other seed trade) amounted to $131 million, up from $96 million in 2006/07.
Leading export varieties in 2007/08 were pinto (27 percent of dry bean export volume), navy (pea) beans (19 percent), black beans (12 percent), Great Northern (9 percent), and garbanzo beans (6 percent). U.S. dry bean exports consist of commercial exports and U.S. food aid (direct donations and concessional programs). By volume shares, the top five foreign destinations for U.S. dry beans in 2007/08 were Mexico (24 percent), Canada (12 percent), the United Kingdom (11 percent), Angola (5 percent), and the Dominican Republic (5 percent). With domestic disappearance between 6 and 7 pounds per person annually, dry beans are not a staple in the United States. Given the slowdown in domestic dry bean demand since the early 2000s, growth in the industry over the next several years may depend on increased foreign sales.
Until this decade, the United States had not imported large volumes of dry beans. Prior to 2001, imports consistently accounted for only 4-6 percent of domestic consumption. However, U.S. dry bean import volume (excluding guar and other seed) jumped nearly threefold between 1996-98 and 2006-08. The value of dry bean imports totaled a record-high $141 million in 2007/08, up 42 percent from a year earlier. Import volume also reached a record high of 322 million pounds (up 16 percent from a year earlier).
Imports now account for about 17 percent of dry bean consumption. Aside from notable volumes for black beans, mung beans, and chickpeas, imports are largely spread out in smaller volumes over several classes. During the 2000s, imports have satisfied 20 percent of domestic black bean consumption.
About half of U.S. dry bean import volume originates in cross-border trade with Canada and Mexico. However, China has become the second leading supplier of dry beans to the United States, accounting for 23 percent of volume in 2007/08, up from 10 percent a decade earlier. Black beans (40 percent of volume) and mung beans (26 percent) accounted for the majority of imports from China in 2007/08. Imports of garbanzo beans, which come from Mexico (37 percent of volume in 2007/08), Canada (30 percent), and Turkey (12 percent), account for about a fourth of the domestic use of garbanzo beans and about 11 percent of all dry bean imports.


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14 May 2013, Rome, Italy – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today met with a delegation from Côte d'Ivoire headed by Mamadou Fofana, Special Advisor to the President of the Republic for the Environment, Water Resources and Forests. The delegation is in Rome this week for the International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition.
The delegation included representatives from a wide range of government ministries, including Agriculture, Planning, Water and Forests, as well as academia, recognizing that to foster true stewardship of forests as a contributor to national food security , inputs from various sectors would be needed from the outset to design a comprehensive strategy. The current strategic plan ends in 2015, so work is ongoing to prepare the next national strategy. The delegation praised FAO's support to have the Forestry plan well prepared, taking into account to importance of non-timber products. In Côte d'Ivoire, they noted, forest cover has declined in recent years, and the problem needs to be addressed.
The Ivorian representatives underlined that continued FAO support, knowledge and expertise would help the country to rebuild after several years of conflict, which have left some national institutions weakened. The government is particularly interested in the UN's Zero Hunger Challenge and in putting it in motion in Côte d'Ivoire.
Graziano da Silva underlined that Côte d'Ivoire has a favourable climate and good soil, and if transport, distribution and market access were to be improved, pockets of hunger could be reduced. Côte d'Ivoire could potentially become a regional bread basket, providing food to other areas of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that have limited production capacity, such as the arid Sahel region.


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A: The FLAC to MP4 Converter download for PC works on most current Windows operating systems.
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A: Input File Formats: 3G2, 3GP, 3GP2, AAC, AC3, DTS, AIF, AIFF, AMR, APE, CDA, FLAC, M4A, M4B, M4R, MO3, MOD, MP+, MP1, MAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, SHN, SPX, TAK, TTA, WAV, WAVE64, WMA, WV, IT, XM, PLS, OFR, OFS, S3M, M3U and CUE. Output File Formats: 3G2 (audio track), 3GP (audio track), AAC, AAC for iPod/iPhone/iPad/iTunes, AC3, AIFF, ALAC (Apple Lossless), FLAC, M4A (MPEG-4 audio), M4B (MPEG-4 audiobook), M4R (iPhone ringtone), MP2, MPC, MP3, MP4 (audio track), APE, OGG, WAV, WMA and any ACM Encoder.
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A: People Convert FLAC files To MP4 format for various purpose, however, most of them Convert FLAC for the two common ones, first the FLAC files are too large, they want to save some space, second their portable devices do not recognize FLAC format at all, but these devices are capable of playing MP4 files without any compatibility issues.
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A: FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file. Notable features of FLAC: Lossless: The encoding of audio (PCM) data incurs no loss of information, and the decoded audio is bit-for-bit identical to what went into the encoder. Each frame contains a 16-bit CRC of the frame data for detecting transmission errors. The integrity of the audio data is further insured by storing an MD5 signature of the original unencoded audio data in the file header, which can be compared against later during decoding or testing. Fast: FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed. Decoding requires only integer arithmetic, and is much less compute-intensive than for most perceptual codecs. Real-time decode performance is easily achievable on even modest hardware. Hardware support: FLAC is supported by dozens of consumer electronic devices, from portable players, to home stereo equipment, to car stereo. Flexible metadata: FLAC's metadata system supports tags, cover art, seek tables, and cue sheets. Applications can write their own APPLICATION metadata once they register an ID. New metadata blocks can be defined and implemented in future versions of FLAC without breaking older streams or decoders. Seekable: FLAC supports fast sample-accurate seeking. Not only is this useful for playback, it makes FLAC files suitable for use in editing applications. Streamable: Each FLAC frame contains enough data to decode that frame. FLAC does not even rely on previous or following frames. FLAC uses sync codes and CRCs (similar to MPEG and other formats), which, along with framing, allow decoders to pick up in the middle of a stream with a minimum of delay. Suitable for archiving: FLAC is an open format, and there is no generation loss if you need to convert your data to another format in the future. In addition to the frame CRCs and MD5 signature, flac has a verify option that decodes the encoded stream in parallel with the encoding process and compares the result to the original, aborting with an error if there is a mismatch. Convenient CD archiving: FLAC has a "cue sheet" metadata block for storing a CD table of contents and all track and index points. For instance, you can rip a CD to a single file, then import the CD's extracted cue sheet while encoding to yield a single file representation of the entire CD. If your original CD is damaged, the cue sheet can be exported later in order to burn an exact copy. Error resistant: Because of FLAC's framing, stream errors limit the damage to the frame in which the error occurred, typically a small fraction of a second worth of data. Contrast this with some other lossless codecs, in which a single error destroys the remainder of the stream. FLAC is a format that is recommended to those backing up a CD collection because the sound quality will remain high, whereas MP3 compression will result in a deterioration compared to the original. The main benefits of a FLAC file in addition to it being lossless is that it can be used for streaming, and decoding is fast, allowing for real time decoding to take place.
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A: MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet. The only official filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, but many have other extensions, most commonly .m4a and .m4p. M4A (audio only) is often compressed using AAC encoding (lossy), but can also be in Apple Lossless format. M4P is a protected format which employs DRM technology to restrict copying. MPEG-4 Part 14 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003) is a standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. While the only official filename extension defined by the standard is .mp4, various filename extensions are commonly used to indicate intended content: MPEG-4 files with audio and video generally use the standard .mp4 extension. Audio-only MPEG-4 files generally have a .m4a extension. This is especially true of non-protected content. MPEG-4 files with audio streams encrypted by FairPlay Digital Rights Management as were sold through the iTunes Store use the .m4p extension. iTunes Plus tracks, that the iTunes Store currently sells, are unencrypted and use .m4a accordingly. Audiobook and podcast files, which also contain metadata including chapter markers, images, and hyperlinks, can use the extension .m4a, but more commonly use the .m4b extension. An .m4a audio file cannot "bookmark" (remember the last listening spot), whereas .m4b extension files can. The Apple iPhone uses MPEG-4 audio for its ringtones but uses the .m4r extension rather than the .m4a extension. Raw MPEG-4 Visual bitstreams are named .m4v but this extension is also sometimes used for video in MP4 container format. Mobile phones use 3GP, an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 12 (a.k.a. MPEG-4/JPEG2000 ISO Base Media file format), similar to MP4. It uses .3gp and .3g2 extensions. These files also store non-MPEG-4 data (H.263, AMR, TX3G). M4A stands for MPEG 4 Audio and is a filename extension used to represent audio files. The existence of two different filename extensions, .MP4 and .M4A, for naming audio-only MP4 files has been a source of confusion among users and multimedia playback software. Some file managers, such as Windows Explorer, look up the media type and associated applications of a file based on its filename extension. But since MPEG-4 Part 14 is a container format, MPEG-4 files may contain any number of audio, video, and even subtitle streams, making it impossible to determine the type of streams in an MPEG-4 file based on its filename extension alone. In response, Apple Inc. started using and popularizing the .m4a filename extension, which is used for MP4 containers with audio data in the lossy Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or its own Apple Lossless (ALAC) formats. Software capable of audio/video playback should recognize files with either .m4a or .mp4 filename extensions, as would be expected, since there are no file format differences between the two. Most software capable of creating MPEG-4 audio will allow the user to choose the filename extension of the created MPEG-4 files.
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NEWS for all valued customers who need book dorm beds:
If you need book a dorm bed in Hong Kong, Before you make the booking, we advise you see the following passage first. Our dorm bed type includes hot water for shower and drinking, air-conditioning, fan, refrigerator, free linen, free towel and free internet service. The hot tub, reading light, key card access, fax machine... such these facilities is ONLY provide for the luxury private rooms. We tried our best to provide as much as we can for the dorm beds type. Actually our dorm beds we provided is the CHEAPEST in Hong Kong. It's specially preserved for the budget travelers, we are in fact not get any profit for that but we understand that there are such budget travelers demand for the budget accomodation.
Recently we got some reviews from our customers are not satisfied with our dorm rooms.
We consider no longer sell the all dorm bed types for Honh Kong Star Hostel at the hostelworld.com now.
If you still need book a dorm beds in hostelworld.com, please go to book our cooperate hostel at the following page to book the dorm.
Once again, We remind all the budget travelers, dorms type in Hong Kong is different with other country. They are also with different classes, 4-bed, 6-bed, 8-bed, 12-bed and 20-beds. All of them are providing the cheapest and most basic accomodation. If customers do not want pay more than USD10 per night, we advise customers to keep in mind that not to be too demanding.
HOSTELHK Group member!
Our reception office is only on: Block A, 3rd floor of Chunking Mansions
We don't have any office branch in other place!
Our group name is only: HOSTELHK Group.
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What to see, where to eat and where to stay, Chungking Mansions could be listed under all of these categories. A Hong Kong landmark, made famous by Wong Kar Wai of Cannes fame, the mansions have become an attraction in their own right.
Housed inside a maze like structure, Chungking used to be the first point of call for immigrants from every nation. Today it is still Hong Kong's centre of multiculturialism, famous in the city for its excellent Indian and Pakistani food, while its bargain basement guesthouses and hostels have been attracting backpackers for years.
Chungking Mansions is a famous building in Hong Kong, China. It is located at 36-44 Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui. The building is well-known as nearly the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong with a single bed of US $8 one night. Though the building is supposedly residential, it is made up of many independent cheap hostels, shops, and other services. The strange atmosphere of this building is sometimes called by some 'the scent of Kowloon's Walled City'.
Chungking Mansions features a labyrinth of guesthouses, curry restaurants, African bistros, clothing shops, sari stores, and foreign exchange offices. It often acts as a large gathering place for some of the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, particularly Indians, Middle Eastern people, Nepalese, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Nigerians, Europeans, Americans, Pakistanis, Asians, and many other peoples of the world. The building was completed in 1961, at which time Chinese residents predominated. Now, after more than four decades of use, there are nearly 4,000 people living in the Mansions.
With this lively mix of guest workers, mainlanders, local Chinese, tourists and backpackers, the Chungking neighbourhood is one of the most culturally diverse locations in Hong Kong.
In a study by CUHK anthropologist Prof. Gordon Mathews, it is revealed that there are people from at least 120 different nationalities who have passed through Chungking Mansions in the past year. In the issue of 'TIME Magazine' on May 7, 2007, Chungking Mansions was elected as the Best Example of Globalization in Action in its annual feature The Best of Asia.
Why choose us?
We are the member of HOSTELHK Group, Our group total provide more than 600 rooms and 1000 beds available for online booking. So in any period, even at the high seasons in Hong Kong, you still can make reservations in here.
Perfectly located in the heart of Kowloon Peninsula - famous Tsim Sha Tsui area with utmost convenience. Premiere shopping and entertainment district. Within just a few minutes to walk you can enjoy dinner in Chinese or Western restaurants. Alternatively, McDonalds, KFC are all local. Many 24 hour shops, Bars, Disco and supermarkets are also nearby here. Tsim Sha Tsui is just beside the Victoria Harbor. Tourists can enjoy the great sea view and the famous night scene of Hong Kong Island at the sea side.
We have the most variety of rooms. And they complied with government regulations on fire safety and building safety. As we see that almost guest rooms in Hong Kong are too small with tiny beds. We especially design spacious rooms with king size beds. We possess all the merits of other hostels, and at the same time, we guarantee an absolutely silent and new environment in every room we have. The partial rooms are designed according to the level of a 3-4 star hotel. Both the room and the size of the bed in our hostel is the largest among all hostels in Hong Kong. We also offer the economy rooms and dormitory rooms with the lowest prices. Perfect for all kind of customers, whether you are travel group, individual travelers, budget travelers or backpackers.
Our rooms are categorized into three classes: Budget, Standard and Luxury. Because the site only can reserve one type in each type rooms, we show for online booking only for our basic one. For example: If you reserve a Twin Private En-suite, you will have our Twin - Budget. Customers who booked rooms from this website are given the privilege to upgrade their rooms up to 30% discount off if other classes of rooms are available. Customers can fully exercise their right to decide between staying in the same booked room or upgrade! Extra facilities and service are charged upon request. If you need upgrade the rooms, please request it by email to make the change.
All Room Types
Single - Budget, Standard, Luxury
Twin - Budget, Standard, Luxury
Double - Budget, Standard, Luxury
Triple - Budget, Standard, Luxury
Quadruple - Budget, Standard, Luxury
Dorm Bed - Budget, Standard, Luxury
Family Suite
We have three types of triple room.
1. One double bed and one single bed.
2. One bunk bed and one single bed.
3. Only the luxury type have three single beds.
We have two types of quadruple room.
1. Two bunk beds.
2. Only the luxury type have two KING-SIZE beds.
Family suite designed for family in a group of 4-5 adult. With kitchen.
Lowest Price Guaranteed!!! We promise you that we can give you one of the most inexpensive and competitive rates that you will find in our hostels group. You are guaranteed to get the most affordable rates possible. One of the our promotion package is: According to the same room standard, location and period, if you find the price of other hostels is lower than our groups, we can give you more lower price than them. We treat this as a welcome to our loyal customers and see it as a great opportunity to attract new customers.
Please select your 'arrival time' very carefully before confirming the booking. When filling in the arrival time to the hostel, please add 40 minutes if coming by train or 1 hour if coming by A21 airport bus to the estimated flight arrival time. And if you arrival at 11:00PM, please select 23:00 not 11:00. Please understand that the hostels have to allocate late check-out, early check-in, walk-in customers every day, the confirmed 'arrival time' help you and all guests to have the best arrangement.
- Check-in time later than 17:00 will need extra deposit after booking made.
- Group Booking (book more than 1 room) will need extra deposit after booking made.
- Hotel will send confirmation email after made booking to confirm the checkin time and deposit payment.
Any booking cancellation or amend need made 00:00 hotel local time 3 days before your date of arrival by email, phone calls not accepted. Otherwise, or in case of a no-show, the first 2 nights will be charge (1 night charge for book only 1 night ).
If you don't enjoy your stay in other small rooms of another hostels or hotels,
please come to our reception office:
Block A, 3th floor of Chunking Mansions
Just take a look. We will give you a surprise: lowest price but better rooms and good service.
Come and share the experience of Hong Kong with us.
You will really enjoy your stay! Welcome to Hong Kong!
The pictures showed in the page is segmental type of our rooms.
The pictures showed in the page are for reference.
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Some things in life are better left unexamined. A recent Brazilian television interview with former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva reminds us of that.
As far as topics that should be left alone, we're not talking about the ridiculous idea that Silva may have intentionally let himself get brutally knocked out by Chris Weidman a few weeks ago. Silva did indeed get asked about that by the television show host and you can see his emotional response in the video above.
I'm no Portuguese speaker but Silva definitely does mention feeling that when he fights he is representing Brazil and all Brazilians and that he'd never throw a fight. As he discusses this, he gets choked up and sheds a few tears before being embraced by applause from the studio audience and literally by the host.
But, like we said, that's not the sensitive topic that should be avoided. No, what we're not sure should ever be spoken of or probed into is – what/who the heck is the anorexic, half naked, full-body painted green and fire red-haired thing over Silva's shoulder in the video? For that matter, why is their another shirtless dude just standing behind Silva as well?
Even asking the questions makes us uncomfortable so we'll leave it alone. Unless you, dear readers, would like to theorize what in tarnation is going on with those weirdos on the South American variety show.
Poorly cast Street Fighter character impersonators? Anderson Silva's new body guards? Some type of esoteric protest of the World Cup and Olympics? Your guess is as good as ours.


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BOSTON (Reuters) - Six Rhode Island mayors voiced support for same-sex marriage on Monday, calling on the state Senate to pass a bill legalizing gay marriage that has already won overwhelming support in Rhode Island's House of Representatives.
The House in January voted strongly in favor of the bill, but the measure was expected to face an uphill battle in the state Senate.
Nine states and the District of Columbia have already legalized gay and lesbian weddings. Illinois, like Rhode Island, has a bill pending on the issue, with the state's Senate having approved legislation in February but with its fate in the state House uncertain.
The legislation in Rhode Island, supported by independent Governor Lincoln Chafee, has been introduced in the House every year since 1997.
Rhode Island currently allows gay civil unions. It is the last of New England's six states without a law allowing gay nuptials.
On Monday, four mayors -- Angel Taveras of Providence, Donald Grebien of Pawtucket, Daniel McKee of Cumberland and James Diossa of Central Falls -- threw their support behind the bill at City Hall in Providence, said Devin Driscoll, a spokesman for Rhode Islanders United for Marriage, an advocacy group.
Two other mayors, Scott Avedisian of Warwick and Charles Lombardi of North Providence, also support the measure, but were unable to attend the news conference, Driscoll said.
"It's a strong indication of the kind of unrelenting momentum that this campaign for marriage equality has," he said, adding that the mayors were a majority of the state's nine mayors. "This is the year."
The state Senate president, Teresa Paiva Weed, opposes gay marriage but has said she would allow a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the bill if it passed in the House. Last week, a Judiciary Committee hearing lasted for 12 hours, dragging on until 5 a.m., after hundreds of people signed up to testify, Driscoll said. No date has been set for the vote.
A Senate spokesman did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
Maryland is the most recent state to have legalized gay marriage, which became legal there on January 1.
Despite the growing number of states that have legalized gay marriage, they are outstripped by those that have taken steps to ban the practice. Thirty states have passed constitutional amendments restricting marriage to heterosexual couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court this week is set to take up a case on whether federal benefits should go to spouses in same-sex couples and another on California's law defining marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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Her primary responsibilities will be support of faculty, students, and staff in the use of Desire2Learn and Respondus; as well as assisting Marc Routsong, Online Education Support Coordinator; in the administrative functions of Desire2Learn.
Qing has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Design and Technology from Emporia State University. She has extensive experience presenting at conferences on topics such as: Integrating Digital Tools into the Classroom, Teaching and Learning with Mobile Devices,and Using Google SketchUp in Teaching and Learning. Qing was also a graduate teaching assistant at Emporia, co-teaching courses such as Advanced Instructional Technology for Educators and Technology in the Classroom.
Qing will start at Washburn tomorrow. Help us welcome Qing to Washburn. We are excited to have her join our staff!
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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Are Married, Wed in France!
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt got married in France this past weekend, JustJared.com can confirm!
News broke earlier in the day from a tweet by the Associated Press.
"Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were married Saturday in France, says a spokesman for the couple." the news source tweeted.
Angelina and Brad's children Maddox, 13, Pax, 10, Zahara, 9, Shiloh, 8, and 6-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne were all at the ceremony as well. Shiloh and Knox were the ring-bearers!
The wedding was held at the Château Miraval in the village of Correns, where the couple has spent extensive time after settling there back in 2008, E! reports.
Angelina and Brad first met in on the set of their film Mr. and Mrs. Smith back in 2005 and were engaged back in 2012.
The whole family arrived in Nice last week before the ceremony.
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Luxembourg places a minimum stockholding obligation on industry.
All importers of crude oil and/or petroleum products are obliged to maintain stocks of petroleum products equivalent to at least 90 days of deliveries into domestic consumption during the previous calendar year. This applies to each of the three categories covered by the EU compulsory stock obligations (gasoline, distillates and fuel oil).
Since the country has no refining capacity, all compulsory stock obligations must be held in the form of finished products.
Compulsory stocks are held by oil companies, and are typically co-mingled with commercial stocks. Total oil stocks in Luxembourg tend to be only about 20 days of supply in terms of total oil consumption.
Luxembourg has formal bilateral agreements with Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and typically makes full use of the allowance permitted for holding stock obligations abroad. In practice, most stocks are held in the ARA (Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp) area.
Stock tickets are permitted. There are no restrictions on the total volume of stock tickets held in Luxembourg or abroad (within the limitations of the bilateral agreements). Due to the lack of storage facilities and the growing stockholding obligations, the proportion of tickets in the total of physical volume of finished products increased in recent years and now stands at 84%. Stock tickets must be certified by the administration of the country concerned in order to be counted as contributing to coverage of the obligation.
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Conservation Fellows
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) created the International Graduate Student Fellowship Program in 1994 to train scientists from regions of the world where biodiversity is richest and most threatened. The program focuses on training in ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation biology in tandem with the CBC's Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP), and aims to equip students with the practical and theoretical training they will need to address environmental problems in their home countries. All Graduate Student Fellows are advised by a Museum scientist, attend classes at the Museum in addition to those at their chosen university, conduct research, and participate in CBC projects. The program currently has four fellows, and nine Ph.D. students and four Masters students have completed their studies since the program's inception.
Current Fellows
The CBC's newest fellow is Souvanny Ounmanny from Lao PDR, who is pursuing a Masters in Conservation Biology at Columbia University. He has been a coordinator of NCEP activities in Lao PDR for several years, and plans to link his experience in community and professional education to the field of biodiversity conservation. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Christensen Conservation Leadership Scholarship, awarded by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Hugo Ernesto Escobar , from Mexico, completed his first year of coursework at the Ph.D. program at the City University of New York (CUNY). Mr. Escobar also worked closely with Dr. Melanie Stiassny (Axelrod Research Curator at the Museum's Department of Ichthyology) to sort fish collected in the Lower Congo River in West-Central Africa during 2005 and 2006, and produced a new identification key for the genus Stomatorinus.
Leo Ricardo Douglas , from Jamaica, entered the Ph.D. program at Columbia in the fall of 2004 as a Fulbright Fellow. He just completed his third year, and among his academic activities were the successful completion of his first advanced examination and the development of his thesis research project on the biological and social impacts of Caribbean protected areas. He also took part in a collaborative international course on Ecosystem Services in Managed Landscapes and presented his team's results at a meeting of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis held in California in May.
Brazilian Valeria Tavares is pursuing her doctorate at CUNY, focusing on the phylogeny and biogeography of Neotropical bat families, a group known as "short-faced bats." Her research interests also include the community ecology, functional morphology, and natural history of Brazilian bats.
Past Fellows
Chanda Bennett of the United States obtained her doctorate from Columbia University and joined the CBC as a post-doctoral fellow in spring 2007. Her work focuses on developing strategies for enhancing the recruitment and retention of individuals from historically underrepresented groups in the field of conservation biology, as well as developing urban ecology and education>programs.
Bolivian Nuria Bernal graduated from the Master's program at Columbia in 2001. Ms. Bernal played an integral role in the initial implementation of NCEP in Bolivia, and in 2004 collaborated with the AMNH in the production of photographic exhibitions on biodiversity at two Bolivian natural history museums. Ms. Bernal is now working in Bolivia on CBC-supported community-based conservation projects, and on several Bolivian wildlife survey projects.
Colombian Liliana Dávalos obtained her Ph.D. at Columbia in 2004. Her research on bats has uncovered a systematic underestimation of species diversity in the Caribbean. After two years of post-doctoral research in genomics at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and at the AMNH, she recently joined the faculty at Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York.
Carlos Iván Zambrana Flores , from Bolivia, completed his Masters program at Columbia in 2005. His work focused mainly on predictive models of species distribution applied to amphibians. Mr. Zambrana has returned to Bolivia, where he is collaborating with NCEP activities and doing research on frog conservation. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses as part of the faculty of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz.
After completing his doctorate at CUNY in 1999, Abebe Getahun returned to Ethiopia, where he is an assistant professor of biology at Addis Ababa University. His studies of the freshwater fish genus, Garra, provide important information for understanding and conserving freshwater biodiversity in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa.
Le Duc Minh , from Vietnam, completed the doctoral program at Columbia in the spring of 2006. His research centered on the systematics, biogeography, and conservation status of the turtle family Bataguridae in Southeast Vietnam. His award-winning book, Vietnam: A Natural History , co-authored with CBC Director Dr. Eleanor Sterling and CBC Scientist Dr. Martha Hurley, was published by Yale University Press last year. Dr. Le continues to carry out research at the Museum but will soon return to Vietnam to conduct conservation research, teach, and disseminate NCEP materials in several Vietnamese institutions.
Peruvian Victor Pacheco obtained his doctorate at CUNY in 2003, for his research on the systematics of forest-dwelling Thomasomyine mice. Dr. Pacheco is associate professor and curator of mammals at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
Djunijanti Peggie , from Indonesia, received her doctorate at Cornell University in 2001. Her research, on the systematics of the Indo-Australian butterfly sub-family Heliconiina, is important for recognizing the impact of changes to the endangered island habitats in which these butterflies live. She is now at the Indonesian Institute of Science's Zoological Museum in Bogor.
Ana Luz Porzecanski , from Uruguay, completed her Ph.D. at Columbia in 2003, where she carried out research on the systematics and historical biogeography of South American aridland birds, as well as on international environmental policy issues. She has since joined the CBC staff as the NCEP Coordinator for the Americas, and oversees training workshops and the production of NCEP modules in Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. Dr. Porzecanski also teaches Conservation Biology and Evolution at Columbia University.
Vanessa Rasoamampianina , from Madagascar, completed the Masters program at Columbia in 2004. Ms. Rasoamampianina's thesis centered on the efficacy of ecotourism teaching materials in conveying the importance of biodiversity to whale watchers in Madagascar. Ms. Rasoamampianina now serves as the national coordinator for NCEP in Madagascar, where she organizes training workshops with university professors and conservation professionals.
Jean Claude Razafimahaimodison , from Madagascar, completed his Masters degree at CUNY in 1998. He received a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Massachusetts in 2004 and has since returned to Madagascar, where he works at Ranomafana National Park.
Peruvian Diana Silva obtained her doctoral thesis in 2000 at Cornell University. She is now a post-doctoral fellow at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco where she continues to do research on spider diversity.
Marcelo Weksler , from Brazil, completed his Ph.D. degree at CUNY in 2004. Dr. Weksler joined the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, as a post-doctoral researcher in 2005, where he is conducting research on phylogeography of arctic mammals and on the evolution of hemoglobin genes, as well as continuing his studies of Neotropical mammalian fauna.


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The future of Western Power Products is in question, according to John Breed, spokesperson for its parent company.
"Cooper Industries is conducting a review of the Hood River operation to determine whether it should continue in its current form or whether there would be some other option that would be better for us and our business," said Breed.
He said the final decision is still pending on whether the Hood River plant will continue operations, be shut down, or sold to another firm.
"We are trying to keep our employees informed as we move through this process," he said.
Western Power is located on Hood River's waterfront and currently has a 22-person work force. The manufacturing facility molds fiberglass enclosures for electrical power distribution equipment, such as transformers.
The local firm is part of Cooper Power Systems Division, owned by Cooper Industries, which is based in Houston, Texas. The international company, with 2000 revenues of $4.5 billion, decided to initiate the review of its North American holdings when customer demand was reduced by a downturn in the nation's economy. That review followed hiring freezes, layoffs, and other spending cuts in late 2000.
"The economic slowdown which began in the latter half of 2000 has become much more severe and pervasive than we had previously anticipated," said H. John Riley, Jr., Cooper's chairman, president and chief executive officer, in a March 16 press release.
Breed said no date has been set for the final word on Western Power's fate, but the company plans to keep a strong communication link with employees who could be affected by any changes.
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(Reuters) - A 34-year-old Minnesota man was charged with murder and assault on Wednesday after killing a 9-year-old boy when he opened fire on motorists in a St. Paul suburb, authorities said.
The charges against Nhan Lap Tran, 34, of Oakdale include second-degree intentional murder and first-degree assault for the shooting spree on Monday that killed Devin Aryal and wounded his mother, who was driving.
Another woman driver was also hit by the gunfire and lost a finger, according to the Washington County Attorney's office.
Two other drivers were shot at in their vehicles but were not struck by bullets.
Tran appeared in court before District Judge Ellen Maas, who set bail at $2 million. A public defender was appointed, and a competency and mental health examination was ordered.
Prosecutors say Tran stood in the middle of the street in Oakdale and opened fire with a 9mm handgun on passing motorists.
After surrendering peacefully to a sheriff's deputy, Tran was found to be carrying the handgun, plus several spare magazines and extra rounds for the weapon, the prosecutors' office said.
Tran admitted to the shooting, according to prosecutors.
The case was "simply a senseless tragedy," said Washington County Attorney Pete Orput. "We cannot comprehend a situation where a parent loses their child in any manner, much less in this way."
During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a strong case for a toughening gun control laws in the United States, which has seen a rash of recent shootings.
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Book drive to benefit Alternative Horizons
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Marias Bookshop, 960 Main Ave., will host a book donation drive for Alternative Horizons from Oct. 8 through Oct. 28.
Alternative Horizons continues to build a therapeutic book library for children, teens and adults to provide support and education through bibliotherapy. Through the use of books, children and teens can safely explore issues of abuse, violence, depression and feelings.
Marias will be a central site to order and purchase books, and will offer a display on Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the resources to help customers choose their donations.
For more information about the event, call 247-1438 or visit www.mariasbookshop.com.
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Members of the Capital School District Board of Education on Wednesday night held the first reading of a new bullying policy.
Members of the Capital School Board of Education Wednesday night adopted a policy toward helping disabled students and held the first reading of a new bullying policy, which addresses intimidation through social media.
Early on, the board unanimously supported a policy that commits the district to identifying and providing appropriate and reasonable educational accommodations for disabled students. The policy is intended to make sure disabled students have a reasonable opportunity to take part in the same activities as other students. (The policy documentation may be found at www.boarddocs.com/de/csd/Board.nsf/files/96VNCM54BBD5/$file/Policy%20%23600-11%20Section%20504%20final.pdf.)
Board members also held the first of three readings of a proposed anti-bullying program, which includes prohibitions against cyber-bullying on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The proposed policy closely follows one set up by the state Department of Education, said Supervisor of Student Support Services Tonya Guinn.
In addition to providing definitions for bullying and cyber-bullying, the policy mandates each school have a bullying prevention program, and a coordinating committee and sets up rules for reporting violations. It also lists consequences for violating the policy, a feature current policy does not include.
Guinn said she wants input from district parents and board members before finalizing the new policy. In addition, she said the district should use the DOE's program as a template because the education department would help defend any actions resulting from enforcing the policy.
The complete text of the proposed policy is at www.boarddocs.com/de/csd/Board.nsf/files/96VQFM5E6817/$file/700-31%20Bullying%20Prevention%20Policy%20revised%20042413%20final.pdf.
District Business Manager Sean Sokolowski also provided board members with an update on the effect of the budget sequestration, saying he and affected administrators have been discussing how to deal with at least 10 percent in possible reductions in federal funding provided to the district.
Only federal programs, such as programs for free and reduced lunches, special education, vocational funding and money used to cut class size would be affected, he said. As of now, the actual amount of any reductions still is not known.
Sokolowski also briefed board members regarding the district's tuition tax, which is used to pay for Capital students needing to attend schools in other districts or those requiring special educational programs.
Currently, the rate is $0.43 times the assessed value of property in the district, which is approximately $1.23 billion. That rate yields approximately $5.1 million for fiscal 2013, Sokolowski said.
The business manager added that rate could be reduced for FY 2014 by as much as eight cents, but that it still is too early to tell if an adjustment could be made.


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After their last attempt got rained off, DC have rescheduled their Lloyds "Big Three" comp in Bristol for Saturday September 18th. Get the lowdown underneath...
Fancy manning up and stepping to the infamous Big Three at Lloyds in Bristol? Well, on Saturday September 18th, DC, Fifty-Fifty, Sidewalk and Monster are giving you the opportunity to session this long serving West Country proving ground, putting up £2,000 in prize money and a bunch of product in exchange for your best tricks.
The main event is set to kick off at 4pm, though there will be several games of SKATE and ledge best trick jams running across the afternoon.
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ICC praises Ponting's contribution to cricket
Dubai - David Richardson, chief executive of the International Cricket Council, Monday praised Australia's Ricky Ponting at the end of his illustrious international career.
Ponting played his 168th and final Test match for Australia against South Africa in Perth having also appeared in 375 One Day Internationals (ODI) and 17 Twenty20 Internationals for his country.
Richardson, who was playing for South Africa against Australia when Ponting made his international debut in 1995, said: "His contribution to the international game has been immense and quite rightly he will be remembered as one of the true legends of the sport.
"He was the most successful captain in the history of Test cricket and was the first player to feature in 108 Test match victories. He also steered Australia to two World Cup triumphs – as well as playing in a third – during which time they set a record of 34 consecutive victories – yet another record. He was also captain for two successful Champions Trophy campaigns.
"Ricky was a team man but along the way collected many personal accolades and is the only player to have won the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year at the ICC Awards for two years in succession (2006 and 2007). We wish him well in the next stage of his career and look forward to his ongoing involvement in the game beyond the boundary."


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1. are all diphthongs considered long?
2. ultimately, how could i know that a vowel is long or not? i know that Williams has the long mark over the letter to let us know they are long. but, aren't these long marks absent when you normally write the word?
for example, how do i know that the [face=SPIonic] a [/face] in [face=SPIonic] h(me/ra [/face] is long? is it something that i just have to memorize and know? or is there a way i can tell that it is long?
just by looking at it i can mistakenly write it as [face=SPIonic] h(/mera [/face].
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Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Defying the death warrant of the Soviet Union, she came to America as a temporary visitor in 1926 but remained for the rest of her life. Later, she would also defy the cultural and political views of contemporary America in such best-selling novels as THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, challenged the cultural tradition of 2,500 years . . .
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The news after the game overshadowed the actual game, an eminently forgettable one. As reporters shuffled through a quiet Phillies clubhouse to talk to Juan Pierre, the only offensive player who did anything of value Sunday, Chase Utley stood at his locker in baseball pants and his customary undershirt. A team official said, "Go to Chase." And that's when Utley volunteered to talk about his next step.
Utley expects to play in an extended spring training game Monday in Clearwater, Fla. He will not play the field; instead being the designated hitter is the first task. He can bat as many times as he wants in these pseudo games. It's a chance to see live pitching and simulate game action for the first time since Game 5 of the 2011 National League Division Series.
An extended spring training game is nothing more than a glorified scrimmage. The Phillies can have Utley bat as many times as they'd like. He can play the field, or take an inning off, do whatever.
For 10 days, Utley said, his chronically injured knees have "felt good."
"Ground balls, early on, one day it was good the next day it wasn't so good," Utley said. "Right now on a daily basis they've been feeling pretty good. It's still not perfect yet, but I think we're getting there, we're on the verge of getting a lot better. I wanted to take this opportunity to get down there, get some at-bats, kind of get a head start in that aspect."
He put no timetable on a potential return. Ruben Amaro Jr. has said he believes it would benefit Utley to spend more time in Florida than he did last season during his recovery. So let's use that as a comparison.
Utley played his first extended spring game May 7, 2011. He played another May 9 and then abruptly began an official rehab assignment with single-A Clearwater on May 10. He spent 11 days with the Threshers and played in his first big-league game May 23.
So it was 16 days from extended spring to the majors a season ago. A similar period would put him on track to return June 19, which coincidentally begins a 10-game homestand. But Amaro said last week he does not believe Utley would play before the end of June. And all indications are Utley will take more time than he did in 2011.
Even so, he still looks like a sure bet to play before the All-Star break. Extended spring training ends June 14. One he starts an official rehab assignment, a 20-day clock begins ticking. So if he starts it as late as June 15, the latest he could return is July 5. That's four games before the break. Here's guessing it happens well before that.
Utley's knees obviously suffered as the 2011 season concluded. He has focused on not only reducing pain, but strengthening his lower half.
"They're definitely stronger at this point," he said. "I'll keep continuing to build them and get them stronger than they are now."
And no, his presence alone will not save the Phillies. But it sure can't hurt.
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