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He heard sneers. Kids mocked him in their pretend Asian voices. They called him "gook."
Being bullied would shape him and his views. "My perspective was built up on being different on this journey through life."
Now 51, Ellis was drawn to the Republican Party during the Reagan era. He found Then-President Ronald Reagan's calls for personal responsibility and growing the economy through private enterprise inspiring. He's been a Republican ever since, eventually becoming the chairman of the GOP in Maine. He is currently the communications director for Maine Senate Republicans.
As this election neared, Ellis thought long and hard about how vocal he should be about same-sex marriage.
"That's something I had to work through personally with an eye on who I'm going to offend and am I going to limit myself professionally or politically. I was sort of weighing all of those things on how public I should be."
He couldn't help but recall his own marriage, 28 years ago. He knew the nation once barred interracial couples like him and his wife, who is white, from marrying. Opponents then used arguments that sound eerily similar to those against gays today, he thought.
Ultimately, Ellis joined a coalition of Republicans for marriage equality and took to his blog to broadcast his support.
"My vote of 'yes' is not based in some radical desire to toss tradition out on its ear or to discount marriage as we know it today," he wrote. "My vote comes from the simple notion that acknowledges the powerful, positive potential [that] loving and committed couples hold for their families, communities, and society."
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Michael Clark, 35, blazed a trail early on. He was the first openly gay person in his high school in southern Oregon. He faced constant bullying, but he also had "people around me saying that I deserve respect and dignity."
"I had teachers, I had friends, I had community members who would jump to my defense," he says.
At Southern Oregon University, he and his partner were among the first to get a domestic partnership in the town of Ashland. He was 20. "We just knew early on that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together."
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They have been together half their lives now. Living in the suburbs of Seattle, the two were anxious to vote on same-sex marriage in Washington.
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We're reading on the Bob Condotta UW Huskies football blog today that one source said he was definitely "in the mix'' while Greg Biggins of ESPN.com is reporting that he's hearing that "it's a done deal.''
Kiesau would apparently come to UW as WR coach with Jimmie Dougherty moving over to QB coach.
What a week for UW's Sark eh?
If Eric Kiesau is hired by UW he would be the last hire to complete Washington's nine-man staff of assistants.
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NOTICE OF OIL AND GAS LEASE SALE BY SEALED BIDS TO BE OPENED AT 11:00 A.M. SALE DATE: 1/25/2012 THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE LAND OFFICE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA INVITES BIDS for Oil and Gas Leases upon the following terms covering the tracts of land hereinafter described. Bids are to be in writing on bid forms provided by the Land Office and enclosed in a sealed envelope, bearing the notation on the outside front face of the envelope "Bids for Oil and Gas Lease Sale" and the date of the sale. Bids which are mailed must be enclosed in another envelope and addressed as set out below. Bids must be mailed or delivered to the Commissioners of the Land Office, 120 N ROBINSON SUITE 1000W, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-7749, on or before the time and date of the sale. All bids received prior to 11:00 A.M. on date of sale will be publicly opened and the bids announced. No bid will be considered that is not delivered by 11:00 A.M. on the date of sale. Leases will be awarded to the bidder of the highest cash bonus, if acceptable. TERMS OF SALE: Lease will be on a form prescribed by the Commissioners, and will be for a term of three years, as extended, and will provide for 3/16ths royalty, and an annual delay rental of $1.00 per net acre to be paid in full before lease is issued, in addition to lease bonus. Bids shall be for a cash bonus for each tract, but no bid of less than $5.00 per acre will be considered. Each bid must be accompanied by a remittance in the amount of 25% of bid as earnest money. Checks will be returned to unsuccessful bidders. Successful bidder shall have 30 days from the date of acceptance of bid to pay balance of bonus, all delay rentals and cost of advertising, unless an extension of time is granted, and shall be liable for the full amount of bid, all delay rentals and cost of advertising. Failure to comply with any of the terms will be grounds for the cancellation of the award and the retention of the deposit of earnest money as liquidated damages at the election of the Secretary. The Commissioners of the Land Office and the State of Oklahoma make no warranty of title and reserve the right to reject any and all bids. IMPORTANT: Separate bid and check are required on each tract if you are bidding on more than one tract. PLEASE ENCLOSE ALL BIDS IN ONE "9 x 12" ENVELOPE. PLEASE DO NOT FOLD BIDS OR USE STAPLES. Bid Forms are available at www.clo.ok.gov Note: The M.R. % column refers to percentage of the mineral interest offered for each tract. CURRENT RULES PROVIDE THAT ALL OIL AND GAS BIDS BECOME FINAL AT DATE AND TIME OF BID OPENING TRACT COUNTY LEGAL DESCRIPTION SEC TWP RGE M. R. % GROSS ACS NET ACS 1 BECKHAM SW/4 NE/4 18-10N-23WIM 50.00 % 40.00 20.00 2 BECKHAM SE/4 SE/4; W/2 SE/4 18-10N-23WIM 50.00 % 120.00 60.00 3 CADDO NE/4 33-09N-10WIM 93.75 % 160.00 150.00 4 CUSTER NW/4 20-15N-17WIM 100.00 % 160.00 160.00 5 CUSTER NE/4 16-14N-18WIM 100.00 % 160.00 160.00 6 CUSTER SE/4 16-14N-18WIM 100.00 % 160.00 160.00 7 CUSTER SW/4 16-14N-18WIM 100.00 % 160.00 160.00 8 GARFIELD NW/4 13-24N-04WIM 100.00 % 160.00 160.00 9 GARVIN SW/4 SE/4 17-02N-01EIM 50.00 % 40.00 20.00 10 GARVIN S/2 SE/4 SW/4 17-02N-01EIM 50.00 % 20.00 10.00 11 GARVIN NW/4 NW/4 NE/4 20-02N-01EIM 50.00 % 10.00 5.00 12 GARVIN N/2 NE/4 NW/4; NE/4 NW/4 NW/4 20-02N-01EIM 50.00 % 30.00 15.00 13 GARVIN N/2 SE/4, less and except from the 32-02N-01EIM 50.00 % 80.00 40.00 surface to the base of the Tulip Creek formation 14 GARVIN W/2 SW/4 SE/4, less and except 32-02N-01EIM 50.00 % 20.00 10.00 from the surface to the base of the McLish formation 15 GARVIN NE/4 SW/4; S/2 SW/4 32-02N-01EIM 50.00 % 120.00 60.00 16 GARVIN NW/4 SE/4 NW/4; W/2 NE/4 NW/4; 16-02N-02EIM 50.00 % 110.00 55.00 W/2 NW/4 17 GARVIN S/2 NE/4 NE/4; SE/4 NE/4 17-02N-02EIM 50.00 % 60.00 30.00 18 GARVIN S/2 NE/4 SE/4; SW/4 NW/4 SE/4; 31-01N-01WIM 100.00 % 90.00 90.00 SE/4 SE/4; SE/4 SW/4 SE/4; NW/4 SW/4 SE/4 19 GARVIN N/2 NE/4 SE/4 SW/4 31-01N-01WIM 100.00 % 5.00 5.00 Page 1 of 4
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Okla Agency Code | '410' |
Title | Notice of oil and gas lease sale, 01/25/2012 |
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Publication Date | 2012-01-25 |
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Purpose | The Commissioners of the Land Office of the State Of Oklahoma invites bids for oil and gas leases upon the following terms covering the tracts of land hereinafter described. |
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ODL electronic copy | Downloaded from agency website: http://www.clo.ok.gov/SaleNoticeWebs/012512/SaleNotice.pdf |
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Let's see, the tiny amount of L1/2/3 cache currently is dictated by the energy budget of the CPU. Looking at the energy budget of the 4900MQ and the 4960HQ chips, you can take some wild arse guessing to get that the 2 megs of L3 cache sacrificed got back enough to power the 128 megs of L4. Then consider that there is only 64K (yes, kilobytes) of L1 or 256K L2 per core on the Haswell chips, and at 3.9GHz desktop chips you are looking at 84 watts of power dissipated . . . you can start to work out how much of that is due to leakage current from the 6 transistor L1/2/3 cache design.
Let's face it, SRAM isn't tiny, it leaks amps like a sieve at the tiny process size that everything is done at now days, and it's main advantage is that it doesn't take a controller to access and it's bloody fast and the bandwidth can be pretty sizable. A gig of SRAM on die would, I suspect, heat a small room; that much DRAM per core would slow the cores down due to the inherent latency of accessing DRAM.
So, sure, DRAM chips may be cheap, but putting them on the CPU die would be horrid. And SRAM still isn't cheap; either in die space, energy budget, or dollars!


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Style: Dry, light to medium-bodied Grape Variety: Chardonnay Country: France Closure: Cork Suitable for vegetarians Bottle: 75cl Alcohol by volume: 12.5% Alcohol units per bottle: 9.4 Alcohol units per 125ml: 1.6 Contains sulphites Kaituna Hills Reserve Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc About this wine: A top quality Sauvignon Blanc from the relatively cool, stony Marlborough region in New Zealand's South Island. Exuberantly fruity, complex whites such as this have made Marlborough world-famous. A small proportion was fermented in French oak barrels to add extra complexity. This wine has been sealed with a screw cap, our aim is to choose the most suitable closure for each wine. Serving: Serve this white wine lightly chilled to enhance its fresh, fruity characteristics. It can be served on its own, but its ripe flavour will suit many seafood and fish dishes too. Try it with goat's cheese or tomato salad for a change. 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It makes a wonderfully fresh and appealing aperitif, or try pairing it with white fish dishes, or seafood on a creamy sauce, or light herby pasta recipes. Keeping: Drink this wine while it is young and lively to enjoy it at its best. Open within 9 months of purchase, and finish the wine within 2 to 3 days, resealing the bottle between servings and storing it in the fridge Style: Dry, Medium-bodied Grape Variety: Pinot Grigio Country: Italy Closure: Natural Cork Suitable for vegetarians Bottle: 75cl Alcohol by volume: 12% Alcohol units per bottle: 9 Alcohol units per 125ml: 1.5 Contains sulphites Marqués del Romeral Reserva Rioja About this wine: One of the longest serving wines in our catalogue is this classic mature red for those who like their wine traditional. Made from a blend of classic Spanish grapes - Tempranillo, Graciano and Mazuelo. Classified as a Reserva, this wine was aged in American oak barrels for 2 years and a further year in bottle. The winemaker is Elena Adell Serving: Serve around 18°C with roast lamb or chicken, fine full-flavoured cheeses and game dishes. Keeping: This wine has been aged at the winery and is released ready to drink. Open within 2 years of purchase and drink up within 2 or 3 days of opening, resealing the bottle between servings. Style: Dry, Medium-bodied Grape Variety: Tempranillo, Graciano and Mazuelo Country: Spain Closure: Natural Cork Suitable for vegetariansSuitable for vegetarians Bottle: 75cl Alcohol by volume: 13% Alcohol units per bottle: 9.8 Alcohol units per 125ml: 1.6 Contains sulphites Christian Moueix Saint Emilion About this wine: Sourced from the prestigious Bordeaux appellation of Saint Emilion, this delicious red is an unoaked blend of 85% Merlot with 15% Cabernet Franc Serving: A soft-textured and elegant claret such as this is very versatile. 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It always used to puzzle me that Ernest Hemingway was a cat person.
- By: Paul Doiron
It always used to puzzle me that Ernest Hemingway was a cat person. You would have expected the most macho author of all time to own hunting dogs or bullmastiffs. Instead Papa's house in Key West was teeming with felines. There are now sixty in residence, descended from Hemingway's beloved, six-toed pet.
I never would have figured myself as a cat person either. Not because I am particularly macho, but because I grew up with dogs. The first cat to enter my life was a vicious little calico named Emma who came as a package deal with my wife. A few years ago, I used this column to describe the strange animal I'd come to share a house with. "I read somewhere that cats were the last of the major animals to have been domesticated," I wrote. "This news seems to have passed Emma by. I have the scars on my hands to prove it."
My editor's note was occasioned by the fact that Maine is estimated to have the most cats per capita in the nation. Now it has one less. Emma passed away in December after sixteen and a half years, nearly all of which she spent in my wife's loving care. For fourteen of those years, Emma and I were rivals for my wife's affections, but I like to think we came to an accord of sorts — I accepted my subordinate role in the house, and she stopped clawing me. Eventually, we formed our own unlikely bond; she spent many evenings purring on my lap while I reclined in front of a Red Sox game.
I used to flatter myself into thinking that I had exerted a positive influence on Emma. Now I've come to see it was the other way around. It was the cat who domesticated me. Taking care of an inscrutable creature whose affections were fickle and hard-won forced me to become less self-involved. (There's nothing like sweeping up errant droppings to do that.) And it was only by letting my guard down and writing candidly about Emma in this column that I learned how warm-hearted the people who read this magazine truly are. Knowing that I am among friends —that Down East is as much a community as a magazine — has made this work a joy, and I hope it has improved your experience, as well. Thanks to Emma, I am a better writer and a better human being. Like most Mainers, I have now become a cat person.
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The boy is given a special gift from hero
"We went into the pit access area and we stood along the fence line that they had at the pit access area. In hopes that Cody would see Carl Edwards," says Teresa Byrnes. Pat and Teresa Byrnes took their wheelchair bound son Cody to the Michigan International Speedway last weekend so he could see his favorite driver Carl Edwards race. "Then Carl happened to be walking by and we gave him a thumbs up and Cody gave him a thumbs up and he saw his flag waiving on the back of Cody's chair. And so he stopped, turned around and came back and he came over and he signed his wheelchair and he signed his shirt," says Teresa Byrnes. The Byrnes were already excited that Cody got to meet his hero. But they weren't prepared for what Carl Edwards told Cody next. "He looked at him and he said, hey buddy, I'll tell you, he said, if I win that trophy today, now that's if I win, he said I'll give you that trophy," says Teresa Byrnes.
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VOLNEY -- A Rochester woman is accused of using another person's identity to open a loan and buy a car.
Maria A. English, 24, is accused of fraudulently using personal information from another individual, whose residence is in Rochester, to obtain credit. English allegedly used that credit to open a loan and purchase a Lexus from a Town of Volney business.
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As one of the few big fashion houses still owned by its founder, it's no surprise that Giorgio Armani is constantly surrounded by rumours about who will succeed him and control the brand as and when he decides to retire. While the question has always been discussed, the issue has been spoken about extensively at the moment.
Recent reports alleged that he plans to leave his company to a foundation and in that big profile in the Wall Street Journal that dropped recently, he suggested that the company will go his nieces and nephews. Last week in Beijing the designer told WWD that the idea of leaving the company to a foundation was 'only one of the possibilities; there is nothing substantial there.' On the contary, AFP report that he told reporters that he has 'started a major restructuring: the outside support of a foundation that will allow designated persons to manage the group.'
While it's still unclear with the foundation idea will go ahead, what an Armani spokesperson did confirm is that the designer will definitely not sell to 'private-equity funds interested in short-term returns, nor to private investors with no understanding of fashion, but he would consider selling to a big group if a great offer were presented.


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Researchers: Steven H. Ackers, Lawrence S. Andrews, David R. Anderson, Robert G. Anthony, Brian L. Biswell, Kenneth P. Burnham, Peter C. Carlson, Raymond J. Davis, Lowell V. Diller, Katie M. Dugger, Eric D. Forsman, Alan B. Franklin, Elizabeth M. Glenn, Scott A. Gremel, Dale R. Herter, J. Mark Higley, James E. Hines, Robert B. Horn, Joseph B. Lint, James D. Nichols, Janice A. Reid, James P. Schaberl, Carl J. Schwarz, Thomas J. Snetsinger, Stan G. Sovern, Gary C. White
The Northern Spotted Owl, a threatened species that occurs in coniferous forests in the western United States, has become a well-known environmental symbol. But how is the owl actually faring? This book contains the results of a long-term effort by a large group of leading researchers to document population trends of the Northern Spotted Owl. The study was conducted on 11 areas in the Pacific Northwest from 1985 to 2008, and its objectives were both to evaluate population trends and to assess relationships between reproductive rates and recruitment of owls and covariates such as weather, habitat, and the invasion of a closely related species, the Barred Owl. Among other findings, the study shows that fecundity was declining in five populations, stable in three, and increasing in three areas. Annual apparent survival rates of adults were declining in 10 out of 11 areas. This broad, synthetic work provides the most complete and up-to-date picture of the population status of this inconspicuous forest owl, which is at the center of the complex and often volatile debate regarding the management of forest lands in the western United States.
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Eric D. Forsman, who collaborated with a team of twenty-seven researchers to produce this report, is a Wildlife Biologist with the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, and also holds a courtesy faculty position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University.
"In addition to state of the art analysis of huge datasets, this monograph provides a wonderful example of cooperation among scientists and field biologists to achieve a common goal. The monograph provides an analysis template for any species whose conservation is controversial or its population analysis challenging. Therefore, it is a must-read for all population ecologists, wildlife biologists and managers, conservation biologists, and graduate students in these fields."—R.J. Gutiérrez, University of Minnesota
"This state-of-the-art examination of the demography of the Northern Spotted Owl serves as a model of the information needed for truly scientific conservation of at-risk species. If only we could gather similar information for all plants and animals facing uncertain futures."—John Faaborg, University of Missouri at Columbia
"This book on demography of spotted owl populations is an excellent and comprehensive contribution to the literature on ecology and conservation of owls. It warrants to be read by all biologists and naturalists interested in fascinating raptors and owls"--Erkki Korpimäki, University of Turku, Finland
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During the last 40 years, the management philosophy on federal forest lands in the United States has undergone profound changes as government agencies have become increasingly aware of the importance of federal lands in species conservation. Nowhere has this change been more controversial than in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, and northern California), where attempts to maintain viable populations of Northern Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis caurina), Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus), red tree voles (Arborimus longicaudus), and other plants and animals that thrive in old forests have resulted in large reductions in harvest of old forests on federal lands (Ervin 1989, Durbin 1996). Because of the controversial nature of these changes and the need to know whether management policies were achieving desired objectives, the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management initiated eight long-term mark-recapture studies of Northern Spotted Owls during 1985-1991 (Lint et al. 1999). The primary objective of these field studies was to provide federal agencies and the public with data on the status and trends of Spotted Owl populations and to determine if the management plans adopted by the agencies were resulting in recovery of the owl, which was listed as a threatened subspecies in 1990 (USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 1990). In addition, the recent invasion of Barred Owls (Strix varia) into the range of the Spotted Owl represents a competitive threat that many research groups are trying to assess. The information generated in these studies has been featured in many publications (Franklin 1992, Burnham et al. 1994, 1996, Forsman et al. 1996a, Franklin et al. 2000, Kelly et al. 2003, Hamer et al. 2004, Olson et al. 2004, 2005, Anthony et al. 2006, Bailey et al. 2009, Singleton 2010) and has played a key role in several court cases and in the development of the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP). The NWFP is an interagency plan that was designed to protect all native plants and animals on federal lands within the range of the Northern Spotted Owl, while at the same time providing jobs and wood products (USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management 1994). The data from the long-term demography studies were also considered by the team that prepared the 2008 recovery plan for the Northern Spotted Owl (USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 2008) and by a committee of The Wildlife Society (2008) who commented on the plan. Research on the long-term demography of the Spotted Owl has focused attention on forest management and conservation of forest wildlife in the western United States. This research, and the controversy it has created, have changed forest management in the region and helped to bring about a general reassessment of the role of forest management in species conservation, forest ecosystem management, and human health (Thomas et al. 1993, USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management 1994, Dietrich 2003).
With any large-scale, long-term monitoring program, important criteria are consistency in methods and funding, and a consistent protocol for analyzing the data and reporting the results. Standard protocols are especially important in cases like the Spotted Owl, where (1) the economic stakes are high, (2) there is occasional disagreement regarding the potential for bias in the estimates of demographic parameters (Loehle et al. 2005, Franklin et al. 2006), and (3) where many different agencies and stakeholders are responsible for collecting the data. For the Northern Spotted Owl, the methods for collecting, analyzing, and reporting demographic data have been described by Franklin et al. (1996), Lint et al. (1999), Anderson et al. (1999), and Anthony et al. (2006). Because of considerable scientific and public interest in these studies, one of the key features in the monitoring program has been regularly scheduled workshops in which all of the researchers who are conducting demographic studies of Northern Spotted Owls, meet and conduct a meta-analysis of all of the demographic data (Lint et al. 1999). Since 1993, there have been four cooperative workshops, the results of which have been described in three published articles (Burnham et al. 1994, 1996, Anthony et al. 2006) and one unpublished report (Franklin et al. 1999). The most recent of these workshops was conducted in January 2009, where we completed an updated meta-analysis in which we analyzed all of the demographic data currently available on the Northern Spotted Owl, including an additional five years of data from 2004-2008, and modeled the demographic parameters as a function of a new set of environmental covariates. Our demographic analyses, which represent the most complete and up-to-date summary of the population status of the subspecies, are the focus of this volume of Studies in Avian Biology.
Estimates of vital rates and population trends are more interesting when there is some understanding of the environmental factors that may influence those estimates. Anthony et al. (2006) included covariates for the cost of reproduction and presence of Barred Owls in their analyses of survival and population trends of Spotted Owls, but they were not able to include habitat or weather covariates in their analysis. In our analysis, we included the same covariates examined by Anthony et al. (2006) but add several new range-wide weather covariates and habitat covariates in Washington and Oregon. Thus, our analysis is the most comprehensive to date in terms of the number of covariates examined. Our analysis also differed from earlier analyses of Spotted Owl populations (Burnham et al. 1994, 1996) in that we use the f-parameterization of Pradel's (1996) temporal symmetry model to estimate the annual rate of population change (λ), and examine trends in the components of population change, including survival and recruitment rates. Our analyses have led to some valuable insights regarding our ability to discern the possible influence of environmental covariates (e.g., habitat, Barred Owls, weather) on a species that has high temporal variation in survival and reproduction. Our general approach will be of interest to other research groups investigating population dynamics of other long-lived vertebrates with similar life histories.
Our purpose in this report is threefold. First, we wanted to determine if the declines in apparent survival and populations that were reported previously (Anthony et al. 2006) have continued or stabilized. Second, we used multiple covariates in the analysis of demographic rates in an attempt to better understand which environmental factors best explained annual and spatial variability in these rates. We reasoned that one or more of these covariates might explain the recent declines in demographic rates of the subspecies. Last, we report on the use of the f-parameterization of the Pradel (1996) temporal symmetry model to estimate components of the annual finite rate of population change (λ), including apparent survival and recruitment rates, one of the first applications of this new technique in demographic analyses of Northern Spotted Owl populations.


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Been searching the forums and digging through the wiki but haven't found anything definitive written about media/asset management in a project. I'll be running this project from my own computer, but am looking to move my media folder onto another hard drive for the performance. Was wondering if there was any sort of way to manage media other than manually moving everything and relocating them 1 by 1 from inside the project.
I'm talking about something similar to Ableton's "Collect All and Save" feature, although I don't see one in TD, thought maybe it might be hidden!


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MIKE Subgroup Meeting
Teleconference records
10 April 2001
In attendance:
Mr Pieter Botha (Chairman – South Africa), Mr Victor Dabire and Mr Kaolo Konate (Burkina Faso), Mr Patrick Omondi (Kenya), Mr Emmanuel Severre (United Republic of Tanzania), Dr Richard Ruggiero (USA), Dr Susan Lieberman (USA), Mr Jorgen Thomsen (Conservation International), Mr Nigel Hunter (MIKE Director Designate), Dr Jim Armstrong (Secretariat), Dr Malan Lindeque (Secretariat), Mr Tom De Meulenaer (Secretariat – Rapporteur).
Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Cameroon were notified of the teleconference, but did not participate. Burkina Faso participated in part of the meeting only.
Mr Pieter Botha welcomed participants, and the agenda was confirmed as follows: Funding for MIKE; Appointment and location of the MIKE Director; MIKE Steering Committee meetings for West Africa and East Africa; Proposed new membership of the MIKE Subgroup; Standing Committee Report; Any Other Business.
At the previous teleconference meeting of the MIKE Subgroup, convened on 12 January 2001, Mr Nigel Hunter was selected as the MIKE Director Designate, and it was agreed to locate the MIKE Central Coordination Unit in Nairobi, Kenya.
1. Funding for MIKE
Dr Armstrong introduced Mr Jorgen Thomsen of Conservation International, who represented the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF). Mr Thomsen explained that CEPF is a consortium of donor agencies comprising the World Bank, the GEF, CI, and the MacArthur Foundation, which had joined CEPF since a couple of week. CEPF is a significant donor to MIKE, and was therefore included in the membership of the MIKE Subgroup. Formal representation in the MIKE Subgroup was also part of the contractual arrangements between CEPF and the Secretariat.
CEPF had agreed to co-finance with the EU Commission [?] MIKE projects in West Africa (without modifying the original Terms of Reference of these projects). The amount, USD 275,000, will be channelled through IUCN because the donor has difficulties in allocating funds to a UN Agency. It was made clear that this was a minimum commitment from CEPF to the implementation of MIKE in Africa, and that contributions could increase.
The Secretariat provided further updates on the funding situation:
- The Secretariat and the Belgian government have a long-standing agreement about the so-called BEESWAX fund that was specifically established to support elephant conservation projects in Tanzania. USD 150,000 of the fund will be re-allocated to MIKE implementation projects in Tanzania. The costs for organising the regional MIKE Steering Committee meeting for East Africa in Dar es Salaam in March 2001 had been paid from this fund. Dr Armstrong stressed that these meeting costs will be recovered from the relevant EU Commission budget lines once that the contract is operational, and returned to the BEESWAX fund for implementing MIKE projects in Tanzania.
- The Secretariat is awaiting comments from the Belgian government regarding a separate and larger commitment of EUR 500,000 of matching funds in support of the MIKE implementation project of the EC Commission. The commitment must be published in a Belgian Royal Decree, which was expected to happen early in April 2001. The Secretariat confirmed that it would follow up on this matter, and get in contact with the relevant Belgian authorities to seek clarification as to what progress had been accomplished to date.
- The Secretarial had not yet received a contract from the EC Commission. The delays are said to be caused by new internal procedures and financial mechanisms within the Commission administration, and do not pose a threat to the actual funding commitment. According to the latest information, the contract was expected to arrive at the Secretariat in the course of April 2001. The starting date of the 18-months contract may be around 1 June 2001. The Subgroup acknowledged the Secretariats efforts in getting the EC funding, and looked forward to a successful conclusion in the near future.
The Secretariat pointed out that there are high expectations in Africa about MIKE, and that these have not yet been met due to the delays in the EC funding. The Subgroup expressed some concern that the funding constraints and delays could also lead to uneven implementation of the MIKE projects in different parts of Africa, and that patchy performance could affect the statistical relevance of the MIKE monitoring programmes. The Secretariat commented that lack of financial support from the Commission has indeed affected the timing of the execution of a number of activities on the ground. However, the protocols and the programmes of MIKE relate to trends in elephant population numbers as well as to efforts that go into collecting data at site and national levels. It should therefore not be of major concern that observations are dissimilar in length and in quality. Experience has shown that the levels of implementation of MIKE and the periods over which the programmes run are usually uneven within a region and between sub-regions. Furthermore, MIKE sub-regional coordinators are looking into the possibility to incorporate additional site-specific monitoring information by identifying sets of existing data that are relevant to the sites, and by including these in the MIKE analysis. More countries have better site specific information for incorporation into MIKE than had been expected.
Mr Hunter added that he expected that at national level, where valid local information could be incorporated in the MIKE analysis, and at sub-regional level the overall quality of the MIKE analysis would not be affected by the disjointed funding and project implementation. At continental level however, the analysis could be less good than had been hoped, but such data should still be valuable for CoP12. The Secretariat shared this view and added that in the run up to and immediately after CoP12, it intends to look for longer-term financial commitments from the EC Commission.
In the mean time, Mr Hunter, as MIKE Director Designate, drafted Terms of Reference for MIKE Sub-Regional Support Officers for the four African regions (see ANNEX 1). The four positions will be advertised for recruitment as soon as possible but no appointment was likely to be made until the EC contract is signed. It was confirmed that the USD 275,000 of CEPF for West Africa could become available before the matching funds from the EU Commission materialized. IUCN was developing a plan of work for this amount so that MIKE implementation in West Africa could be initiated.
The MIKE Subgroup recognised that it was unfortunate that the implementation of MIKE was going to be different in sub-regions, and that this was largely conditioned by the EC Commission funding. It encouraged the Secretariat to enter into contractual agreements with the EC Commission as soon as possible.
2. Appointment and location of the MIKE Director
The Secretariat reported that Mr Nigel Hunter had been appointed as Director Designate of MIKE (the appointment still needs to be contractually formalised, and therefore, the title "Director Designate" is used). However, the original plan to have Mr Hunter employed through UNEP and stationed at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi became problematic when UNEP announced in writing that such an arrangement would be subject to a 13,5% overhead cost to cover UNEP administration. Moreover, this 13,5% overhead would have to be charged on the total MIKE budget. Because the available funding did not allow for these additional costs, the Secretariat, in negotiations with UNEP, was considering employing the MIKE Director independently. Appropriate alternative office space had already been found in Nairobi. The Secretariat was liasing with IUCN and TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa about the appointment process, and about administrative support for the MIKE Central Coordination Unit in Nairobi.
The MIKE Subgroup agreed with and supported the course of action as undertaken by the Secretariat.
3. MIKE Steering Committee meetings for West Africa and East Africa
The Secretariat reported that both meetings had been successful in stetting up and developing the basic organisational infrastructure for implementing MIKE in the sub-regions. The reports of the meetings – in English and in French – will be made available on the CITES web site.
11 countries participated in the Steering Committee Meeting for West Africa, held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from 19 to 21 February 2001. Of the relevant countries in the sub region, only Liberia was unable to attend due to logistical difficulties. A sub-regional MIKE Steering Committee for West Africa was adopted that will be chaired by Nigeria. Because of the large size of this sub region, it was also decided to create a subgroup of the Steering Committee, consisting of 4 countries, for providing daily support to sub-regional implementation.
4 of the 5 relevant countries attended the Steering Committee Meeting for East Africa, held in Dar es Salaam, the United Republic of Tanzania, from 27 to 29 March 2001. Rwanda was unable to participate because of travel constraints. The United Republic of Tanzania will chair the sub-regional MIKE Steering Committee for East Africa that was adopted.
Both MIKE Steering Committee meetings focused on: coordination at the national site level and at the sub-regional level; the relationship with continental and international implementation of MIKE; the links with ETIS; data collection and analysis at all the different monitoring levels; data protocols (and collection of comments for improving the demonstrated protocols); current levels of monitoring and controlling in the national sites; review of funding and staff requirements for each country; and counter part contributions.
All countries that participated in the meetings committed personnel to assist with the implementation of MIKE. The Secretariat further noted that information gathered during the meetings indicated significant ongoing patrol efforts in practically all MIKE sites. Countries were generally very supportive of MIKE because the programme could contribute to local and national wildlife management in general. Several countries expressed an interest in using the MIKE process as a platform for data collection on other species occurring in the sites.
The MIKE Subgroup thanked Burkina Faso and the United Republic of Tanzania for hosting the meetings.
Upon enquiry from the USA, the Secretariat explained that of the selected MIKE sites in West Africa, about 50% are forest sites and 50% savannah sites. More detailed information was going to be made available to the USA. The Secretariat confirmed that at the meetings, several countries indicated their desire for additional sites over and above those initially selected for MIKE. Some of these sites were being offered under the range states own funding sources, e.g. a forest site in Kenya (Mount Elgon). The USA stated that the US Fish & Wildlife Service was interested in immediate as well as longer-term support to both MIKE and non-MIKE sites in all countries.
4. Proposed new membership of the MIKE Subgroup
The Secretariat had been asked to consider if the four elected chairs of the sub-regional MIKE Steering Committees could become co-opted members of the MIKE Subgroup. This was regarded as favourable because it would be more helpful for the implementation of MIKE, provide better direct input, and facilitate the decision making process.
The elected chairs are Tanzania for East Africa, Nigeria for West Africa, and Namibia for South Africa. In Central Africa, the MIKE pilot programme is scheduled to conclude in June 2001. There is interest in organising a meeting to transfer the pilot into full MIKE implementation in the 6 countries in this sub-region (comprised of 7 countries when Chad would join in). These countries will form the Steering Committee for Central Africa, and would also have to appoint a chair. However, at this point in time, there was no funding to organise the meeting (which would best take place late in May).
At requests about the possibility to co-opt Asian members, the Secretariat explained that despite continuous efforts, no support had been obtained for the MIKE programme in Asia, and that therefore, no chairs could be elected for the two sub-regions, East Asia and Southeast Asia. A MIKE workshop in Thailand remained without follow-up because of lack of funding (the EU and USA donors had so far declined to support MIKE in Asia). For the time being, the Asian continent will continue to be represented in the MIKE Subgroup by the current members, i.e. Saudi Arabia as Asian representative and Thailand as alternate Asian representative.
The MIKE Subgroup unanimously supported the proposed extension of the membership of the MIKE Subgroup to include the elected chairs of the sub-regional MIKE Steering Committees.
5. Standing Committee Report
The Chairman introduced document SC45 Doc.22, prepared by the Secretariat on behalf of the MIKE Subgroup for presentation at the forty-fifth meeting of the Standing Committee in Paris (France) on 19-22 June 2001. The Chairman invited the participants in the teleconference for comments on the draft document.
Several members of the MIKE Subgroup encouraged the Secretariat to incorporate the detailed reports on the MIKE Steering Committee meetings in West Africa and East Africa, on the MIKE training workshop for Southern Africa and on the MIKE meeting for Central Africa. These reports show the scope of the ongoing work, demonstrate the progress made under MIKE, and could help to attract support for MIKE. The Secretariat agreed in principle with this suggestion: some of the reports exist already in English and in French, while a few need to be finalised. SC documents need to be ready 6 weeks in advance of the meeting, i.e. by early May, which gives the Secretariat enough time to complete the reports. But given the size of the documents and the time constraints it would be unrealistic to expect full translations (all SC documents need to be translated in the three languages of the Convention). Alternatively, the reports could be attached to SC45 Doc.22 in a single language as information documents. The MIKE Subgroup supported this suggestion.
Mr Thomsen noted that the description of the CEPF consortium (in a Footnote) needed to be updated to include the MacArthur Foundation, and promised to forward the correctly spelled name of the Foundation to the Secretariat.
Tanzania commented that the pledge of USD 150,000 to MIKE implementation from the Belgian BEESWAX fund, referred to under item 5 in the draft report, will be allocated to site specific activities in Tanzania, and not to general MIKE projects. The Secretariat confirmed that this was the case, as was explained earlier in the teleconference (cf. Agenda item 1). With that reassurance, Tanzania recommended to keep the reference to the BEESWAX fund in the draft report as is.
The USA suggested including a reference to the existence of bilateral support to MIKE-related projects in Africa, which may be substantial in some cases. Mr Thomsen commented that it would be good to mention the problems with raising funds for the implementation of MIKE in Asia. The Subgroup agreed with both suggestions. In addition, the USA suggested that the Secretariat might wish to collect information on bilateral support programmes for MIKE related projects, and to report on the outcome of such inquiries at the next meeting of the MIKE Subgroup. The Secretariat commented that it was aware of only a few of such bilateral support programmes, but that it lacked knowledge of their details or scope. It invited the USA to provide relevant information that might be available on this issue. It was also agreed that building a database with such information would become the responsibility of the Central Coordination Unit, once it was in place.
The Secretariat agreed to amend SC45 Doc.22 in the light of all the comments mentioned above, and to finalise the document in time for submission to the Standing Committee.
6. Any Other Business
The USA explained that the MIKE Subgroup is a subgroup of the Standing Committee, in which only Parties and their government representatives can take part. Some of the major donors that were invited to become members of the MIKE Subgroup, such as CEPF, do not meet these criteria, and should therefore better be referred to as "ex-officio members", as is currently the case for the EC Commission.
The MIKE Subgroup agreed with the suggestion, and the description of the composition of the MIKE Subgroup will be amended accordingly.
7. Next meeting
The next teleconference meeting of the MIKE Subgroup will be organised six weeks after the 45th meeting of the Standing Committee. The proposed date is Tuesday, 14 August at 14.00 hrs. Geneva time.
It was agreed that members of the MIKE Subgroup who intended to participate in the Standing Committee meeting on 19 to 22 June 2001 in Paris should take the opportunity to organise an extra meeting. The Chairman will not attend the SC meeting, but it was decided to try to add him to the meeting via a teleconference call.
Action Items
- Seek clarification from Belgian Authorities regarding status of EUR 500,000 matching funds to MIKE [Secretariat]
- Enter in contractual arrangements with the EC Commission as soon as possible [Secretariat]
- Provide information on the forest MIKE sites in Africa to the USA [Secretariat]
- Ensure that the chairs of the sub-regional MIKE Steering Committees participate in further meetings of the MIKE Subgroup [Secretariat]
- Incorporate suggestions and amendments of the MIKE Subgroup in Document SC45 Doc.22 for presentation at the 45th meeting of the Standing Committee in Paris (France) on 19-22 June 2001 [Secretariat]
- Colleted information on bilateral support programmes for MIKE related projects [USA]
- Update the description of the composition of the MIKE Subgroup (indicating ex-officio membership) [Secretariat]
MIKE is a site based sampling system, which will provide information at national, sub-regional and continental levels in Africa and Asia, under the co-ordination of a MIKE Central Unit, headed by the MIKE Director. Africa is divided into 4 sub-regions (West, Central, Southern and East). Funds are now available to facilitate implementation in all 4 sub-regions of Africa over the next 18 months. There is therefore a need to recruit 4 sub-regional support officers as soon as possible to help with the implementation programme.
- Each Sub-regional Support Officer (SSO) will be responsible for working with the Sub Regional Steering Group (the Chair of such groups are currently called the Sub-regional Co-ordinator), the National Officers and the Site Officers and the Sub-regional TAG representative.
- Each SSO will work at the site level in order to facilitate the full functioning of that site in its use of TAG approved protocols, its monitoring effort and its delivery of information.
- Each SSO will also work at national levels in relation to Aerial surveys, etc.
- Each SSO will facilitate the storing , analysis, management and onward flow of the site information at national levels
- Each SSO will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of training required in their Sub-region
- Each SSO will store, analyse, manage and onward flow of the site information at Sub-regional levels
- Each SSO will be responsible for overseeing the proper expenditure of budgets allocated to the Sub-regions and for the proper reporting of such expenditure
- Each SSO will provide progress reports in accordance with the reporting procedures provided by the MIKE Director
- Each SSO will be answerable to the MIKE Director
- The appointments will initially be for 18 months and the locations will be Ouagadougou (West), Still to be determined (Central), Windhoek (Southern) and Nairobi (East).
Qualifications and experience
- SSOs must have the technical competence to fully understand and provide training in the methodologies required by MIKE as well as competence in the analysis and management of the information collected. Familiarity with Microsoft Office (especially Access) and Arcview will be important.
- SSOs should have a minimum of 5 years experience in elephant population survey work, anti-poaching efforts, etc. related to the savannah and forest ecosystems relevant to one or more of the Sub-regions.
- SSOs must demonstrate an ability and willingness to work in the field, achieve expected outputs on time and with adequate quality and undertake proper administration and reporting activities.
- For West and Central Africa, fluency in French as well as English will be important
- SSOs should have a degree, preferably a masters, in a subject matter that directly relates to the experience and technical skills required by the duties listed above
Any person interested in one of these 4 positions should apply by written letter to the CITES Secretariat (marked for the attention of the Deputy Secretary General). The letter should indicate which Sub-Region(s) the applicant wishes to be considered for and a CV should be attached. All applications should be submitted not later than the 11th May 2001.
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