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MINNEAPOLIS -- Long before he knew the trajectory of his own baseball career, James Ramsey sat in the Turner Field stands mesmerized by the budding young talent he watched as a wide-eyed 10-year-old.
He was a spectator then, watching the 2000 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game alongside his dad and brother in his hometown. He was a participant on Sunday, a player molded by who he watched that July day in Atlanta.
"I remember in the game that guys were having a lot of fun, but they were also playing the game hard," Ramsey said from Target Field. "That's how I've tried to model my game. It is funny how it all comes full circle."
Ramsey, a first-round pick by the Cardinals in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, was the Cardinals' lone representative at Sunday's Futures Game. Marco Gonzales traded his roster spot for a call-up to the Majors last month. Ramsey continues to wait merely for the summons to Triple-A.
Ramsey has already checked off all the development boxes in Double-A, a level he first reached in 2013. He simplified the mechanics to his swing this year, the result of which is a more direct path to the ball. Those changes were initiated by lessons learned from watching, in particular, Matt Carpenter and Matt Adams in the batting cage during Spring Training.
Ramsey has continued to fare well defensively, putting in time both in center and right. And the 24-year-old has impressed with his mental fortitude, something that has been tested with two trips to the disabled list. He was sidelined most recently by an intercostal muscle strain, which healed just in time for Ramsey to participate in this showcase event.
"I just wanted to find out who I am, how I react to certain situations, and whether it's good, bad or indifferent, to be the same guy every day," said Ramsey, ranked as the organization's No. 6 prospect by MLB.com. "I feel like I've been able to be a very consistent, not just producer, but person. I haven't struggled as much this year, but it's more the mental struggle of getting over those hurdles and the injuries."
Outside of Ramsey's control, though, is the logjam of young outfielders blocking his ascension. He has Stephen Piscotty, Randal Grichuk, Shane Robinson and Tommy Pham ahead of him in Triple-A Memphis, where there would be no obvious spot for Ramsey to take. Oscar Taveras, the organization's top outfield prospect, just recently graduated from that group.
The Cardinals prioritize everyday playing time for Ramsey, and so he remains at a level where he has hit .303/.384/.537 with 12 home runs and 41 runs scored in 54 games.
"I think career-wise, you want to be moving up as fast as you can. You want that opportunity," Ramsey said. "But I think there is value in having to learn how to deal with these situations. I want to be in an organization that wins and plays the game the right way. Even if you have to wait longer for that opportunity, I think it will be worth it. Yeah, you'd like to be progressing along. But I also think that the arms I've faced in the Texas League, I really would rival them against most leagues you see as far as actual big league ability."
Sunday's showcase gave Ramsey another opportunity to prove himself equal with the best. He entered in the sixth inning to play left field, an outfield position he actually has never played professionally. Ramsey grounded out in his only at-bat.
"I'm just enjoying being around a group of guys who are all going to be in the big leagues and being able to compete at a high level," Ramsey said. "It's another checkpoint. Just being honored among the best on the way to the big leagues, it's just a big compliment that you're doing things the right way and are on your path.
"It's funny, they call it the Futures Game, but I feel like for a lot of these guys it's the near future. They're really close, knocking on the door, and to feel like you're one of those guys is really cool."


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Yesterday we heard of a rating new to Madden NFL 11, the Old Spice-sponsored "Swagger". Rumour had it that the rating affected player attributes. Nope. It governs a player's likelihood to celebrate, during or after a touchdown.
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The "Old Spice Swagger" rating determines the likelihood of a player to celebrate on the way to the endzone, or after a touchdown. For example, a running back like Adrian Peterson (99 rating) has a greater tendency to celebrate than Frank Gore (50 rating).
Ian Cummings, the game's lead developer, followed up to say it is "purely a set personality rating".
Sports titles get ripped for every little instance of in-game advertising, despite the fact the real ones are larded up with scads of sponsorships. Here it might be warranted. Manual celebration controls have been a part of Madden since … I can't remember when they first were a part of the game. They were there in Madden 10. Sit on the B or circle button inside the 20 and you'll high step and point even if it's Ruth Bader Ginsburg playing wideout.
If "swagger" is only pertinent to touchdown plays – not big hits, interceptions or (shudder) Michael Irvin-style first downs – then an auto-celebrate feature adds little in the way of gameplay, solidifying this as more advertisement than feature. And if means manual celebration controls were removed to justify it, then it's worse.
I don't think this means EA Sports will start inventing BS stats every year just to sell more ad space to your eyeballs, but it is a fair criticism.
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Mr. Teeth, the 5-foot reptile found guarding a house filled with marijuana in Castro Valley, has died.
The dwarf caiman, previously misidentified by authorities as an alligator, died overnight at the Oakland Zoo's Veterinary Hospital, a day after Alameda County sheriff's deputies found it at a home in Castro Valley along with 34 pounds of dried marijuana.
The creature arrived at the zoo "critically ill and non-responsive," said zoo spokeswoman Nicky Mora. Staff examined the caiman, took blood samples and determined that his "prognosis was poor," Mora said.
Caimans are native to tropical regions of Central and South America and live near rivers, streams and bodies of water. They average about 4 to 6 feet in length.
Assif Mayar, 32, got the alligator in 1996 "to commemorate the death of rapper Tupac Shakur," said Alameda County sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson.
Mayar was arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale and was taken to Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, where he is being held in lieu of $160,000 bail.


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Gomez sparks three-run first, backing Milwaukee's steady starter
PHOENIX -- The 2013 season's first half was largely one to forget for the Brewers, with two six-game losing streaks, three five-game winless streaks at home and the latest run of four straight defeats heading into Sunday's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
But the Brewers can go their separate ways for the next few days of the All-Star break having ended the first half on a positive note with a 5-1 win over the D-backs at Chase Field. It was Milwaukee's first win against Arizona in seven games between the teams this season.
Wily Peralta took care of things on the mound Sunday, striking out a career-high eight in seven innings to pick up the win and improve to 7-9.
"We needed obviously to come out with a win," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "A lot of good things happened. Wily looked good. We came out swinging the bats from the first inning, and any time we can get three runs early, we feel like we have enough pitching to keep them there. It should turn out well, and it did."
All-Star Carlos Gomez, mired in a 1-for-28 slump over the previous eight games, drove in two runs in the first inning with a single, and the Brewers did the little things right with the bat and on the bases in the second inning.
Two hits sandwiching a sacrifice bunt by Peralta put runners on first and third with one out. Then Logan Schafer dragged a well-placed bunt up the first-base line, far enough away from pitcher Ian Kennedy for him to have only one play and allow Jeff Bianchi to score from third base.
That gave Milwaukee a 4-0 lead, with all four runs against Kennedy (3-6).
The Brewers enter the break with a 38-56 record and in last place in the NL Central, 19 games behind the Cardinals, who played the late game Sunday and had a chance to stay in first with a win. Milwaukee has won only nine of 31 series, including three splits.
Peralta was not dominant and threw two wild pitches, but he got the key outs when he needed them. He got Aaron Hill to ground into a 6-4-3 double play with runners at the corners to end the first inning. Then came a strikeout with two outs and two runners on in the second and another induced double play after Hill singled to open the fourth inning.
"I feel good about it," Peralta said in Spanish about his performance. "I think early on I had a few problems locating my fastball. Then I got into a rhythm and was able to control it, and that helped me on my way to the win."
Shortstop Jean Segura made the difference on the fourth-inning double play, snaring a sharp grounder from Martin Prado that bounced wildly after hitting the pitcher's mound, touching second base and throwing on to first.
Segura went 3-for-3 and scored a run, just hours before he planned to take off for the All-Star Game in New York along with Gomez.
Schafer hit a solo home run in the fifth inning, his second of the season, to give Milwaukee a 5-0 lead. Arizona came back with its only run off Peralta, a solo home run from Miguel Montero.
"We had a really good outing from Wily again ... and we feel like we've been putting together some good at-bats," Schafer said. "It's great to close out the first half like this, and hopefully we can keep it going when we come back from the break."
Peralta, coming off a complete game in his previous start, scattered seven hits and two walks over his seven innings. He escaped another jam in the sixth after giving up hits to the first two batters, but he struck out the next two and got the third out on a ground ball. The top of the Brewers' order -- Norichika Aoki, Schafer and Segura -- combined for seven of the Brewers' nine total hits.
"I started the season slow, and the last four or five outings I've had better rhythm," Peralta said. "I'm not falling behind hitters, and I'm throwing first-pitch strikes. I think that's been the difference."
The Brewers will open the second half of the season Friday at Miller Park against the Miami Marlins. Kyle Lohse (5-7) opens up the three-game set, with Yovani Gallardo (7-8) scheduled for Saturday.
"When we have the other guys coming back healthy, hopefully Braunie [Ryan Braun] and Aramis [Ramirez] will be back; it becomes a pretty good team," Roenicke said. "Hopefully everything clicks, we don't have any more injuries and we'll see what happens."


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Halle, Minnie, Helena, Carey, Hilary, Leighton, Milla...need we go on? They were all at the 14th annual Hollywood Awards Gala, looking fly...or, you know, like The Corpse Bride.
Okay, can we just agree that this is both ridiculous and stunning?
Yes, you'll be glad to know that Halle's frock passes the fingertip test.
I love how much Carey Mulligan changes it up: and she pulls off restrained elegance as well as she does youthful risk.
Speaking of simply elegant: Heather Graham looks lovely.
I was on the fence with Bryce Dallas Howard's rather busy (and vaguely 18th c) frock — but overall think it lands on "pretty."
Another busy risk — Leighton Meester's ethereal blue. I dig; you?
Now we get to the more dubious choices. Minnie Driver, channeling Dynasty...not in the good way.
Does Helena Bonham Carter dress like a Tim Burton character because she's married to Tim Burton, or did her aesthetic bring them together? Things to ponder.
Between the hair, the sandals and the frock, Rashida Jones is ready for Rome.
Hilary Swank channels a boozy mother-of-the-bride.
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How many, if any, cases of nervous system disorders have been reported because of A-C breast cancer chemotherapy? I'm 45 and had treatment at 39 and 40. I now experience a very exaggerated amount of shaking of the hands.
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Dear Beth, I am assuming you have received adjuvant chemotherapy. Adjuvant chemotherapy is common in treatment of some stages of colon cancer and in some breast cancers. Adjuvant chemotherapy involves giving anti-cancer drugs to patients who have had surgery to remove the cancer and have no clinical evidence of disease remaining, but are at some risk of having undiagnosed microscopic cancer still present. This cancer can grow and spread. The chemotherapy is given to kill remaining microscopic illness.
The physician uses tumor size and other measures to determine those who should get chemotherapy after surgery versus those who should be watched. In breast cancer, stage of disease, age of the patient and some molecular markers are also used to predict those who are at greatest risk of relapse and most likely to benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. In this cost-benefit analysis, risk of recurrence must be balanced against the side effects of chemotherapy. The concerns of the patient clearly must also be considered.
Drugs commonly used in adjuvant breast cancer therapy are the chemotherapy drugs: the anthracyclines, doxorubicin (Adriamycin) or epirubicin (Ellence); the alkylating agent cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan); the taxane paclitaxel (Taxol); and cisplatin (Platinol).
Other anti-cancer drugs include the growth factor inhibitor trastuzumab (Herceptin), the estrogen blocker tamoxifen, and the aromatase inhibitors exemestane (Aromasin), anastrozole (Arimidex), and letrozole (Femara) are also commonly given as adjuvant therapies. These are the most common drugs but not the only drugs used. The drugs used depend on the presence of certain cancer markers measured by a pathologist as well as the experience of the physician. Some doctors prefer one regimen to another.
All drugs, and especially anti-cancer drugs, have the potential for side effects. The chemotherapies above are very commonly associated with lowering of the white count and risk of infection during the period of administration. A-C or Adriamycin and Cytoxan is a very common regimen and is not itself linked to shakiness or nervousness. Cognitive dysfunction or impaired memory and decreased ability to concentrate are a frequent complaint of some women getting A-C and a number of breast cancer adjuvant therapies.
The Adriamycin (and the other anthracyclines) can rarely cause an irregular heart beat and even more rarely can lead to a weakening of the heart known as cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure. Cyclophosphamide has been associated with some bladder irritation at the time of administration and there is a long-term, slight increased risk of bladder cancer. There is also very small increased long-term risk of leukemia among those treated with Adriamycin or cyclophosphamide.
This drug combination often causes ovarian failure in premenopausal women. This leads to menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, mood swings and depression.
I should note that a review of known side effects of the other common breast cancer drugs does not show shaking as a reported problem although some are associated with neuromuscular problems.
Common long-term side effects of the taxanes are muscle ache and joint "arthritic-like" pain. Cisplatin (Platinol) can cause pain and numbness in the arms and legs and hearing loss. Traztuzumab is associated with muscle pain and numbness and rarely heart failure. Tamoxifen and the aromatase inhibitors cause anti-estrogen like reactions. They, too, can worsen menopause-like symptoms, cause mood changes, flushing and hot flashes.
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In 1885, the Canadian Pacific Railway quietly approached the federal government seeking to take over part of a military reserve at the head of Coal Harbour.
The CPR wanted to build its railway terminus at English Bay, near where the Sylvia Hotel is today. It asked for about half the reserve for "streets, docks, warehouses and buildings."
The feds passed, and the CPR wound up building its terminus in Gastown instead.
But the CPR's associates in Vancouver still had big plans for the military reserve. Real estate salesman A.W. Ross made a request to Lauchlan Hamilton, a CPR surveyor who was also a city alderman, to petition the federal government to turn the "Reserve on First Narrows" into a public park.
It became the first resolution of Vancouver council, on May 12, 1886. A year later, the federal government agreed to lease the reserve to the city, and on Sept. 27, 1888, Stanley Park opened to the masses. It was named after Canada's governor-general at the time, Lord Stanley of Preston.
This year is the park's 125th anniversary, which the city is celebrating with a two-day festival Aug. 24-25.
It seems a bit odd that the first act of a city of about 1,000 people would be to create a 1,000-acre (400-odd hectare) park, but giant urban parks were all the rage in North America at the time. Stanley Park was supposed to be a Vancouver version of Central Park in New York or Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
Except it wasn't. Central Park and Golden Gate Park are big and beautiful, but their "natural" spaces were designed by landscape architects like Frederick Law Olmstead. When it opened, Stanley Park was basically a big forest with some playing fields at Brockton Point — a genuine "nature" park.
At least that was the hype. The reality is a little more complicated.
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One of the biggest misconceptions about Stanley Park is that it was virgin forest until Europeans arrived in the Vancouver area.
In fact, First Nations people had been living there for hundreds of years.
"There's 14 archeological sites in Stanley Park registered with the province's archeological branch," says York University professor Sean Kheraj, author of Inventing Stanley Park, An Environmental History (UBC Press).
"The sites are spread throughout the entirety of the (Stanley Park) peninsula. Every time the park board built something new, they discovered new archeological evidence. When they built the aquarium, they discovered new archeological evidence. When they constructed the swimming pool at Second Beach, they discovered new archeological evidence. When they built the road, they found stuff.
"The oldest radio-carbon dated artifact found in the archeological middens is 3,200 years before present."
The most prominent First Nations site was Whoi Whoi, by today's Lumbermen's Arch. When they built a road around the park in 1888, the roadbed was largely constructed out of material from the Whoi Whoi midden (an archeological term for a refuse heap).
"The road was lauded for its beautiful white appearance, and that was all the shells out of the midden," says historian John Atkin, who recently put together a Stanley Park timeline for the Vancouver park board.
"They just dug it out — there was no sense of recognizing the value of it, the artifacts, the skeletons they found, anything."
There were people living in Stanley Park when it became a park. Most were evicted by the park board in 1931, but the last resident, Tim Cummings, lived at Brockton Point until he died in 1958. Then the park board knocked down his house, erasing the last vestige of the pre-park residents.
Cummings' story is related in UBC historian Jean Barman's 1995 book, Stanley Park's Secret, about the "forgotten families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point."
August Jack Khatsahlano — Kitsilano is named after his grandfather — said there were 11 native families living in Whoi Whoi in the early 1880s, as well as several families of mixed heritage (Portuguese, Scottish, aboriginal) on the Coal Harbour side of Brockton Point.
August Jack's family left Stanley Park after the park road was built through their home.
"When they make Stanley Park road, we were eating (breakfast) in our house," he told Vancouver's legendary archivist, Major Matthews.
"Someone make noise outside; chop our house. We was inside the house when the surveyors came along, and they chop the corner of our house while we was eating inside."
The European history of Stanley Park began in 1791-92, when a trio of explorers sailed into Burrard Inlet: Spain's José Maria Narváez and Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, and England's Capt. George Vancouver.
Vancouver and Galiano both thought Stanley Park was an island. Lost Lagoon was originally part of Coal Harbour, and at high tide, would virtually join with a tidal marsh behind Second Beach. At low tide, the lagoon would vanish, which led Pauline Johnson to write the poem, The Lost Lagoon, that became its name.
In 1859, Col. Richard Moody of the Royal Engineers noted the Stanley Park peninsula's strategic importance and made it a government military reserve.
There was still some logging, however. Capt. Edward Stamp wanted to build a lumber mill at Brockton Point in the early 1860s, and even cleared some land before opting to build Hastings Mill at what is now the foot of Dunlevy Avenue.
Kheraj thinks most of the early logging in the park was around the perimeter.
"The greatest likelihood is that there was highly selective logging along the edge of the peninsula, where loggers could fall the trees directly into the water," he says. "There's an extensive series of interior photographs in the (Vancouver) archives, and it's very densely forested, right (up to) the 1880s."
When the park was first opened, visitors on the Georgia Street side came in over a bridge over Lost Lagoon, or paid 25 cents to be ferried over.
"The space between Second Beach and Lost Lagoon was filled in by the park board in the 1910s," says Kheraj.
"It was a saline marsh: at high tide, the water would rush over and Stanley Park would be an island. (So) the park board pumped sand from the bottom of English Bay onto the isthmus between Lost Lagoon and Second Beach, to raise the land higher so it wouldn't flood anymore."
There was much discussion about what to do with Lost Lagoon. In 1912 the park board asked a famous English landscape architect, Thomas Mawson, to come up with designs for the Coal Harbour entrance to the park.
One design was for a causeway, another would have seen Lost Lagoon filled in for sports fields, and a third would have transformed the area around Lost Lagoon into a civic centre, with a sports stadium, a museum and a "round pond" in place of the natural lagoon.
The working class wanted the sports fields, the middle class favoured the city centre and the elite liked the "natural" style of the causeway. One thing they did agree on was that the natural "mud and marshlands" of Lost Lagoon "were undesirable, and aesthetically unpleasing."
"That I think is one of the most interesting things — the naturalistic design of Lost Lagoon today is an artificial construction," says Kheraj. "No one agreed that it should be left in its natural state, which is a muddy marsh."
The economic recession that accompanied the First World War put an end to Mawson's civic centre concept, and the Stanley Park causeway was built in 1916. Lost Lagoon was cut off from Coal Harbour, so fresh water was pumped in from the city water supply to replace the original salt water.
Meanwhile, the land Stamp had cleared for a lumber mill had become sports fields.
"Brockton Oval was like the first BC Place for Vancouver," says Kheraj. "It was the premier sporting location for amateur sports in the Lower Mainland, primarily cricket."
Other sports facilities (the golf course, the tennis courts) were developed behind Second Beach.
There were numerous other schemes for the park, but most were rejected.
"What struck me I think most going through park board minutes and early newspaper accounts was how much stuff people wanted to put in the park," says Atkin. "There's an old reservoir in the park, and somebody thought that would make a great drive-in movie theatre at one point. What's interesting is that the park board managed to hold back from looking at it like 'We can make money here.'
"They kept pushing back. So many things were rejected, versus the things that were accepted."
That said, the park board didn't leave much of the park in a truly natural state. There is very little old growth forest in Stanley Park. In nature, the park had a mix of trees, but over time the park board replaced many of them with Douglas firs.
"There was this argument that Stanley Park was this little island of forest, it couldn't sustain a healthy northwest coast forest, so what the park board should do is remove all the hemlock and spruce, and replace it with Douglas fir, which they thought was more resilient for park purposes, and looked nicer," said Kheraj.
"When you look at photographs of Stanley Park from the late 19th century, the trees are quite heterogeneous and ragged looking, and much thinner in terms of their foliage. But by the 1940s, it had the look that we see today, much puffier-looking, green, with a smoother treeline across the top, and no dead tree tops."
Storms also played a big part in the look of the park. Stanley Park has been battered several times; thousands of trees were knocked down by Typhoon Frieda in 1962 and a big windstorm in 2006.
"We think of the park as something that evolved slowly, yet there's these big things that hammer it every now and again and change the landscape," says Atkin.
"Think of Prospect Point now. That whole drive from Prospect Point to the Teahouse is so vastly different (since the 2006 storm). It's open, it's light — that was previously a dark tunnel (because of the tree canopy). That storm completely changed that whole western face of the park."
Many of the natural wonders tourists flocked to in the early days have changed. There are countless postcards of The Seven Sisters, a group of giant trees near Tatlow Walk and the Bridle Path, north of Lost Lagoon. But they were all dead by the 1950s, and were cut down.
"They were so popular that people basically killed them by walking on their roots," says Atkin.
"The people stomped around so much around them that they had to be cut down, because they were a danger."
The Hollow Tree was the most famous attraction in early Stanley Park; most everyone who visited Vancouver seems to have had their picture taken by the tree, whether on foot or in a car.
But the 700-year-old cedar was already dead by the time the park was created, and was ready to fall over after the big storm of 2006. Heritage activists jumped in and saved the Hollow Tree for future generations by propping it up with a man-made base.
The most popular tourist attractions today are the totem poles.
The first four poles were brought down from the North Coast in 1924 and erected at Lumbermen's Arch by the Arts and Historical Society — ironically, about the same time the park board was in court trying to evict the last natives living in the park.
"They had two sets of prejudices," said Barman. "One was that they didn't like indigenous people as such. Secondly, they thought the ones from the North Coast were eminently superior, in part because they were further away, in part because they built really nifty totem poles. So they started collecting totem poles."
The totem poles were moved to Brockton Point in 1960. Several more poles have been added over the years: the last pole to go up (in 2009) was by Robert Yelton of the Squamish nation, whose mother was born in Stanley Park.
An estimated eight million people visit Stanley Park each year. Many of them walk or bike around the seawall, which was begun in 1917 to combat erosion along the First Narrows.
The hero of the seawall was stonemason Jimmy Cunningham, who oversaw its construction for over four decades. There is a fabulous 1962 Sun story by Mac Reynolds about the 84-year-old Cunningham "routing nudists" from Third Beach so he and his crew could get to work on the latest phase. Sadly, Cunningham died the next year, 17 years before the seawall was finally completed in 1980.
But his labour was not in vain — thousands of people enjoy the fruit of his labour every day. The nine-kilometre seawall has become one of the most cherished urban trails in the world, in one of the world's most cherished urban parks.
"What I've learned since I did the book is that Stanley Park really captures the imagination," says Jean Barman. "I've met with people from around the world, graduate students from Germany and Europe who are working on Stanley Park and have come here to do research. It's astonishing; it symbolizes Vancouver."
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NEW YORK >> Alex Rodriguez dropped a lawsuit accusing a New York Yankees team doctor of botching his treatment for a hip injury, ending what had been a lingering piece of the slugger's legal fight over his baseball career, his lawyer said Friday.
Rodriguez withdrew his suit against Dr. Christopher Ahmad "for the sole purpose of having no legal distractions" as the third baseman anticipates returning to play after the season-long suspension he's serving this year, attorney Alan S. Ripka said.
"He wants to focus on being the best baseball player he can be, the best Yankee he can be, and wants nothing to distract him from those goals," the attorney said.
Ahmad's lawyer didn't immediately return a call about the development, first reported by the Daily News.
Rodriguez abandoned the medical malpractice case four months after withdrawing two lawsuits against Major League Baseball over its investigation into whether he used banned, performance-enhancing drugs. He has denied it, but he agreed to accept the longest performance-booster-related suspension in baseball history.
While he was fighting the suspension last fall, the 38-year-old Rodriguez filed his medical malpractice suit. It said he had kept playing and worsened a left hip injury in October 2012 because Ahmad didn't tell him an MRI had showed a joint tear. Rodriguez ultimately had surgery for the injury in January 2013, and his recuperation kept him from rejoining the Yankees until August.
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Reuters reported that unions across Europe protested austerity measures in advance of French and Greek elections, with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and France all seeing marches against policies that, aimed at driving down sovereign debt, have resulted in widespread unemployment and cuts in pensions and benefits.
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•MacTavish references the Oilers' five Stanley Cups when asked about how the group that made the mess that Tambellini couldn't clean up is going to do a better job than Tambellini did. That was a long time ago.
•MacTavish says he doesn't know that he's ever failed the organization in any of his previous positions.
•Lowe: "You're talking about the team that came within one period of winning the Stanley Cup. Someone in the crowd: "Seven years ago."
•Lowe: "Are you saying to me you're getting impatient after three years?"
•Lowe says there's only one general manager in hockey who has won more Stanley cups than him, so he knows al ittle bit about winning.
Please give Lowe a lifetime contract and part of the franchise.
And Lowe, wow, if I was an Oil fan I'd be frightened to death. The guy has become unhinged. He basically explained that his job is as a "conduit" to the owner. That's about it. And then indignantly chastises anyone that challenges the direction of the team.


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I never met Greg, because he worked at our corporate office and I work here, but I would email him my various graphic/website needs and requests almost every day.
A few days after Greg was let go from my company, I met Colin and a buddy of his at the bar. I recognized this friend – who I previously did not know – immediately. I'd played coed soccer against him more than a few times.
His name is Greg.
And you see where this is going.
It wasn't until after I left the bar that Colin called me and was like, "do you know who that was?"
I was blissfully clueless.
Colin told me. I blasted him for not telling me before. I was floored by what a small, small, small world we live in. And then we laughed about it. Colin relayed the reasoning Greg was given for his termination (complete bullocks); I gave him the real story.
A few weeks ago, I went out with Colin and Greg again. We somehow managed to avoid the subject of work. By awkwardly and consciously dancing around it.
Colin invited me out with him and Greg tonight. "It would be fun. Blah blah blah. You're already going to be in the neighborhood. And on and on and on. We might be out a little late. Blah blah blah.
"Oh. And you can meet Greg's new girlfriend."
"Actually, you can re-meet Greg's new girlfriend."
"He's sort of, um, unofficially, ah, well...it's Kellyann."
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My old soccer teammate.
Let me summarize this for you: this random guy who worked for my company, who I used to play soccer against, who is Colin's friend is dating Colin's high school girlfriend, who was my soccer teammate...while she was with Colin.
That, my friends, is incestuous.
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BRANFORD -- There's a new keeper of the Kennedy flame.
Ted Kennedy Jr. -- cloaking himself in the legacy of his father and uncles, from their familiar cadence to their crusade for social justice to their wavy hair -- finally acquiesced Tuesday to the overtures of Democrats who have long tried to lure the advocate for the disabled into running for office.
The 52-year-old lawyer from Branford launched his candidacy for state Senate during a rally in his hometown, where retiring incumbent Edward Meyer introduced Kennedy as his heir apparent in what could become the most-watched race ever for the Legislature in Connecticut and light a fuse for rival Republicans.
"I'm proud of my family's legacy of standing up for working families, for political, social and economic justice," said Kennedy, a bone cancer survivor whose leg was amputated when he was 12 years old.
A standing-room-only crowd gave Kennedy a rousing reception during his kickoff event in the 19th century Blackstone Library, one meticulously choreographed down to a sign-language interpreter and perfumed flower arrangements on the stage.
"We launch a member of a historic and fabled family," said Meyer, who represents the 12th Senatorial District of shoreline communities east of New Haven.
Kennedy underscored multiple times that he is his own man, citing his case work in the areas of disability laws and the environment.
"I have been a fighter for children and families that have been impacted by environmental contamination and lead poisoning," said the Wesleyan-, Yale- and University of Connecticut-educated Kennedy.
The married father of two also sought to highlight his private-sector experience, mentioning a health care consulting firm he founded in New York City.
"I know the challenges that business people need to go through," Kennedy said.
Chronicling Kennedy's every word in the wings was Chris Ford, a tea party-aligned blogger from Woodbury whose Internet handle is Palin-Smith.
"I don't think there's much we can do about the Kennedy name in Connecticut," Ford said.
Since 2002, the district has been represented by Meyer, of Guilford, who is retiring at age 79. In 1967, Kennedy's uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, appointed Meyer as a federal prosecutor.
The district includes Branford, Durham, Guilford, Killingworth, Madison and North Branford.
"Sen. Meyer has been increasingly out of touch in a district which has been trending Republican," state GOP Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr. said. "I can't imagine that the voters would now want to move further to the left of Sen. Meyer. This candidacy represents the same liberal orthodoxy employed by (Gov.) Dan Malloy, which is driving people out of our state and wrecking our economy."
By Kennedy standards, running for state Senate is hardly the lofty office that some Democratic stalwarts had envisioned for Kennedy.
"I really feel that state government is the lab for experimentation," Kennedy told reporters following his announcement.
Kennedy is said by multiple sources to have declined several attempts by high-profile Democrats to recruit him to run for the U.S. Senate seat of his father, Edward M. Kennedy, who died in 2009. He also wouldn't bite when John Kerry vacated his U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts to become secretary of state.
"You know what, it didn't feel right," Kennedy told reporters of previous efforts to draft him to run.
State Rep. Lonnie Reed, D-Branford, said Kennedy has carved his own identity.
"You may know that there is some remarkable DNA going on," Reed said. "We all want you to know that Ted Kennedy is very much his own man."
Kennedy said that he will participate in the state's publicly financed election program.
"I know that I don't have all the answers," he said. "I want to bring a common sense and a cooperative tone to government."
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Inside these spacious 1, 2, 3 and 3 bedroom + loft vacation residences you'll find large stone fireplaces, gourmet kitchens with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances, in-suite laundry and private hot tubs on the balcony. This resort also has heated underground parking, indoor ski/snowboard storage and stunning views of the Big White Village, Monashee Mountains and the ski slopes.
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Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012
Scientific influence: 21 active university researchers recognized for shaping science throughout Kansas history
MANHATTAN -- Science's roots in Kansas run deep with purple.
During 2011, the Ad Astra Kansas Initiative named 21 active Kansas State University faculty members among the top 150 researchers ever to work in Kansas throughout its 150 years of statehood. Ad Astra is a Hutchinson-based organization that promotes the scientific accomplishments of Kansans.
"It's exciting to see that several of Kansas State University's distinguished and up-and-coming faculty researchers were recognized as being among the best in Kansas throughout its historic 150 years," said Kirk Schulz, university president. "As K-State moves forward to become a top 50 public research university by 2025, I anticipate that our faculty researchers will make discoveries and contributions that shape the state and the nation's future well into the next 150 years."
Ad Astra's yearlong project, "Science in Kansas: 150 Years and Counting," celebrated the state's sesquicentennial and helped emphasize the importance of science and the career possibilities in research and innovation to K-12 students. Researchers were nominated for the list, with the Ad Astra committee making the final decision.
Joining the list alongside other historically noted Kansas researchers like George Washington Carver, Charles H. Sternberg and Clyde Cessna are:
* Christine Aikens, assistant professor of chemistry
* Kristan Corwin, assistant professor of physics
* Elizabeth Davis, associate professor of clinical sciences and section head of equine medicine and surgery
* Dan Devlin, professor of agronomy and director of the Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment and the Kansas Water Resources Institute
* Sigifredo Castro Diaz, bioprocessing engineer with the Advanced Manufacturing Institute
* David Gustafson, professor of computing and information sciences
* Bill Kuhn, professor of electrical and computer engineering
* Chii-Dong Lin, university distinguished professor of physics
* Elizabeth McCullough, professor of textiles and co-director of the Institute for Environmental Research
* Kendra McLauchlan, assistant professor of geography
* Ruth Douglas Miller, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering
* T.G. Nagaraja, university distinguished professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology
* Virginia Naibo, associate professor of mathematics
* Abbey Nutsch, assistant professor of food safety and security
* Chuck Rice, university distinguished professor of agronomy
* Mary Rezac, ConocoPhillips professor of sustainable energy and professor of chemical engineering
* Chris Sorensen, Cortelyou-Rust distinguished professor of physics and university distinguished teaching scholar
* Xiuzhi "Susan" Sun, university distinguished professor of grain science and industry, director of the Bio Materials and Technology Laboratory and co-director and founder of the Center for Biobased Polymers By Design
* Youqi Wang, professor of mechanical engineering
* Philine Wangemann, university distinguished professor of anatomy and physiology
* Anna Whitfield, associate professor of plant pathology


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My post from last year about The 39 Clues series and The Maze of Bones (Book One) is one of the most highly frequented posts on Brimful Curiosities. That's not entirely surprising considering the popularity of the unique middle grade series. The books follow two orphans, Dan and Amy, as they race against other branches of their family to discover and assemble 39 clues hidden around the world. In anticipation of the upcoming release of the final book, Into the Gauntlet by Margaret Peterson Haddix, the authors of the books in the series are participating in The 39 Clues blog tour, and Brimful Curiosities is the second stop of the tour.
The 39 Clues multi-media adventure series is fun, entertaining and majorly addictive. The books, meant for children ages 8-12, contain a bit of history, plenty of action and several interesting characters. An elaborate online gaming component further adds to the excitement. I know for a fact that if I was a tween right now, I would certainly try my best to complete all the missions and collect the cards and clues. (I was a huge Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? fan at that age and spent quite a bit of time globe-trotting and following the clues on my Apple computer.) And, fans can rejoice -- DreamWorks Studios has acquired movie rights to the books. Here is a complete list of books in the series:
Book 1: The Maze of Bones (September 9, 2008) by Rick Riordan
Book 2: One False Note (December 2, 2008) by Gordon Korman
Book 3: The Sword Thief (March 3, 2009) by Peter Lerangis
Book 4: Beyond the Grave (June 2, 2009) by Jude Watson
Book 5: The Black Circle (August 11, 2009) by Patrick Carman
Book 6: In Too Deep (November 3, 2009) by Jude Watson
Book 7: The Viper's Nest (February 2, 2010) by Peter Lerangis
Book 8: The Emperor's Code (April 6, 2010) by Gordon Korman
Book 9: Storm Warning (May 25, 2010) by Linda Sue Park
Book 10: Into the Gauntlet (August 31, 2010) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Today, I'm thrilled to host my first ever author guest post on Brimful Curiosities! Gordon Korman, author of Book 2: One False Note and Book 8: The Emperor's Code, offers his thoughts on experiences writing as a parent. Read his fabulous stop #2 blog tour post below --
When Book 2: One False Note came out, my eldest son Jay was a fourth-grader, which couldn't have been more perfect. Here I was, working on The 39 Clues series, and I was living with a member of my own audience. Book 1: The Maze of Bones got Jay hooked, and after that, we moved straight to The 39 Clues website.
There are four branches in the Cahill family and I'm a member of the Janus branch. This makes sense, since I work in the arts, and since One False Note focused on Mozart, a famous Janus. Maybe it's a dad thing – wanting your son to follow in your footsteps. For some crazy reason, I assumed that Jay would end up a Janus like me. But when he took the quiz, the mysterious branch-assignment oracle had placed him with the Lucians.
Now, none of the Cahill branches get along very well, but the Lucians and the Janus seem to be especially hostile to one another. In the spirit of healing, I offered Jay access to the Janus secret documents on the site, expecting – reasonably – that he'd do the same for me. Uh-uh. When he's on The 39 Clues website, I'm not even allowed in the room!
It's incredible to me that a fantasy-adventure series I'm helping to write has somehow managed to create a cold war right smack dab in the middle of my own family. Even more amazing is the amount of information that has gotten through to Jay "under the radar" as a result of his interest in the series. My son – who up until recently believed that World Wrestling Entertainment was the ultimate in culture and sophistication – regularly spouts facts about Ben Franklin, Mozart, and the Russian royal family. The other day, I overheard him lecturing his siblings that the continent of Australia is home to more creatures that can kill you than any other place on earth. The Australian tourist bureau may not be as effusive in its expression of gratitude, but as a parent, I love it that my son has opened his eyes to the vast cultural richness of the world around him. Better yet, he sees that a lot of it is – as Dan Cahill (or Jay himself) might put it – mad awesome.
From my kids' perspective, I've been a writer forever. But it certainly isn't lost on them that the things I do in conjunction with The 39 Clues always seem to be just a little bit … well, cooler. Whether it's opening the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, or being interviewed by Whoopi Goldberg or on ABC World News Tonight, the work/play line continues to blur with this series. It's been a fabulous ride, not just for me, but for my entire family.
Maybe that's the real reason this series has been such a wonderfully rewarding experience, above and beyond. I'm not just a 39 Clues author; I'm a 39 Clues parent, too.
A big thanks to Gordon Korman for sharing his family's experience with The 39 Clues series today on my blog. Perfect for music lovers, book 2, featuring the historical figure Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is actually my favorite of the entire series, so I'm ecstatic about featuring his book in this blog tour! (Check out my review of Book 2: One False Note -- you can listen to the music featured in the book.)
And here's more exciting news. Thanks to Scholastic, one Brimful Curiosities reader will win Books 1 and 2 in The 39 Clues Series (book #2 will be autographed by Gordon Korman.)
To enter, leave any comment relevant to this post. (Or answer the following question: If you were a 39 Clues author, what famous historical figure would you want to feature in your book?)
• For contact purposes, if you are a non-blogger or your email is not accessible in your blog profile, please leave a valid email address within the comment section.Three ways to gain extra entries (Maximum total entries is 4; please leave a separate comment for each entry):
• Contest is open to US Only
• Contest ends on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 11:59 PM CST.
• Winner will be chosen at random and sent an email notification.
1st extra entry: Blog about this contest then post your link in the comment section.
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Don't forget to visit the other blogs along this 10 stop blog countdown tour and watch for more giveaways:
July 23: Techmamas; July 27: Brimful Curiosities; July 30: Susan Heim on Parenting; August 4: Manic Mommies; August 9: HighTechDad; August 12: Tree, Root, and Twig; August 18: The Children's Book Review; August 23: Robyn's Online World; August 25: On Our Minds @Scholastic; August 31: 5 Minutes for Mom.
Thanks to Scholastic for providing me with review copies of the books in The 39 Clues series. (View my full disclosure statement for more information about my reviews.)


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We are proud to announce the release of a monumental new product, The Bob Fitch "Topit Workshop." We believe this amazing training set will cause a paradigm shift in the way magicians think of using the Topit.
Bob Fitch is a master of many things such as acting, tap dancing, voice training and much more. He is well known as a "magician fooler" and his reputation is well earned. So exactly how did Bob get this reputation? The first part of the answer is he uses the Fitch Kohler Professional Holdout system. The second part is Bob has extreme skill. The last part of the solution is that Bob is without question a master of the Topit. For years those magicians in the know have been waiting for Bob to tip his Topit work. The good news is the wait is over!
Bob Fitch's "Topit Workshop" is a 3 DVD set that contains 4.5 hours of training with the master. Shot and produced by Bob Kohler Magic in Las Vegas, the level of detail is what you expect and deserve. Bob tips it all! Nothing is left out!
To give you a firm foundation, Bob goes through the history of the Topits use in magic by Pat Page, Senor Galindo, Michael Ammar, Carl Cloutier and of course his own designs. You'll learn the strength's and weaknesses of each design. This will make it easy for you to decide exactly how to integrate the Topit into your show!
Once you understand how to integrate the Topit into you coat, shirt or costume Bob gets into the real core of Topit work. He covers different styles of use, all of the techniques to open the Topit. Perhaps the most enlightening feature of the DVDs is when Bob shows you how the five myths of the Topit are overcome. I won't tip it all here, but I'll give you a small taste.with these two principles; 1) You don't have to toss objects into the Topit. Bob teaches various methods that PLACE the object into the Topit. This knowledge alone is easily worth the price of the DVDs why because you will never miss again and toss an object on the floor! 2) The Topit can be used by ANYBODY with any body style small, short, tall, wide, thick or thin. Anyone can learn to use the Topit effectively!
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Matt and Lizzy's stylish and stunning autumn wedding at Nestldown.
Photography by Kate Webber
From Lizzy: "Our was the most wonderful day of our lives, and I know it wouldn't have been that way without Teri. From the first time I contacted Teri, she kept me completely on schedule. In the kindest way, she would remind me of important deadlines and details, and help me in any way possible to keep up with the work that needed to be done. She was unbelievably organized and so patient with me.
But I don't think it's possible to understand how wonderful Teri is until the day of your wedding. I kept asking her–how will I know when it's time to cut the cake? How will my sister know when she should give her toast? I'm a bit type A, so having all these unknowns on the day of the wedding felt very unnatural to me. And Teri just kept telling me–you just enjoy the day, and I'll let you know and your family know when anything needs to happen. But even when she would say that, I still didn't believe it could happen so smoothly!
Then the big day came, and Teri kept us exactly on schedule without even making us aware that there was a schedule. At one point I was worried we were behind, and I asked a friend what time it was and we were ahead of where we had planned to be–which is exactly what I wanted (more time for dancing)! She was there whenever I needed her, she made my family and my husband's family feel comfortable and relaxed, she made the guests feel taken care of–and all with the most friendly, upbeat and excited attitude. I don't know how to find words to describe how amazing she was. So, so many guests came up to me to say how impressed they were with Teri. And on that day, it's the little things that matter and that you don't want to miss.
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Hawksbill Sea Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
Graphic Credit - NOAA, Jack Javech
FAMILY: Cheloniidae
STATUS: Endangered throughout its range (Federal Register, June 2, 1970).
DESCRIPTION: The hawksbill is a small to medium-sized marine turtle having an elongated oval shell with overlapping scutes on the carapace, a relatively small head with a distinctive hawk-like beak, and flippers with two claws. General coloration is brown with numerous splashes of yellow, orange, or reddish-brown on the carapace. The plastron is yellowish with black spots on the intergular and postanal scutes. Juveniles are black or very dark brown with light brown or yellow coloration on the edge of the shell, limbs, and raised ridges of the carapace. As an adult, the hawksbill may reach up to 3 feet in length and weigh up to 300 pounds, although adults more commonly average about 2½ feet in length and typically weigh around 176 pounds or less. It is the only sea turtle with a combination of two pairs of prefrontal scales on the head and four pairs of costal scutes on the carapace. The hawksbill feeds primarily on sponges and is most often associated with the coral reef community.
HABITAT: Hawksbills frequent rocky areas, coral reefs, shallow coastal areas, lagoons or oceanic islands, and narrow creeks and passes. They are seldom seen in water deeper than 65 feet. Hatchlings are often found floating in masses of sea plants, and nesting may occur on almost any undisturbed deep-sand beach in the tropics. Adult females are able to climb over reefs and rocks to nest in beach vegetation.
CRITICAL HABITAT: 50 CFR 17.95 Puerto Rico: (1) Isla Mona. All areas of beachfront on the west, south, and east sides of the island from mean high tide inland to a point 150 meters from shore. This includes all 7.2 kilometers of beaches on Isla Mona. (2) Culebra Island. The following areas of beachfront on the north shore of the island from mean high tide to a point 150 meters from shore: Playa Resaca, Playa Brava, and Playa Larga. (3) Cayo Norte. South beach, from mean high tide inland to a point 150 meters from shore. (4) Island Culebrita. All beachfront areas on the southwest facing shore, east facing shore, and northwest facing shore of the island from mean high tide inland to a point 150 meters from shore. 50 CFR 226.209 Mona and Monito Islands, Puerto Rico – Waters surrounding the islands of Mona and Monito, from the mean high water line seaward to 3 nautical miles (5.6 km).
REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT: The nesting season varies with locality, but in most locations nesting occurs sometime between April and November. Hawksbills nest at night and, on average, about 4.5 times per season at intervals of approximately 14 days. In Florida and the U.S. Caribbean, clutch size is approximately 140 eggs, although several records exist of over 200 eggs per nest. Remigration intervals of 2 to 3 years predominate. The incubation period averages 60 days. Age at sexual maturity has been estimated as 20 or more years in the Caribbean.
RANGE AND POPULATION LEVEL: The hawksbill is found in tropical and subtropical regions of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The species is widely distributed in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic Ocean. In contrast to all other sea turtle species, hawksbills nest in low densities on scattered small beaches. In 2007, about 21,212 to 28,138 hawksbills were estimated to nest each year at 83 nesting sites distributed among 10 ocean regions around the world. About 15,000 females are estimated to nest each year throughout the world with the Caribbean accounting for 20 to 30 percent of the world's hawksbill population. Panama, which used to support the single most important nesting population in the Caribbean, is only a remnant population. Mexico and Cuba now support the largest nesting populations in the Caribbean with 534 to 891 nesting females recorded in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, each year during 2001-2006 and 400-833 nesting females estimated in Cuba in 2002. Although greatly depleted from historical levels, nesting populations in the Atlantic in general are doing better than in the Indo-Pacific. In the Atlantic, more population increases have been recorded in the Insular Caribbean than along the Western Caribbean Mainland or the Eastern Atlantic. In general, hawksbills are doing better in the Indian Ocean (especially the southwestern and northwestern Indian Ocean) than in the Pacific. In fact, the situation for hawksbills in the Pacific Ocean is particularly dire, despite the fact that it still has more nesting hawksbills than in either the Atlantic or Indian Oceans. Only four regional populations remain with more than 1,000 females nesting annually (one in Indonesia and three in Australia). In the U.S. Caribbean, 199-332 nests were recorded each year on Mona Island, Puerto Rico, from 2001-2005, and an average of 56 nests were laid at Buck Island Reef National Monument, U.S. Virgin Islands, from 2001-2006. In the U.S. Pacific, hawksbills nest only on main island beaches in Hawaii, primarily along the east coast of the island of Hawaii. Hawksbill nesting has also been documented in American Samoa and Guam.
REASONS FOR CURRENT STATUS: The decline of this species is primarily due to human exploitation for tortoiseshell. While the legal hawksbill shell trade ended when Japan agreed to stop importing shell in 1993, a significant illegal trade continues. Other threats include loss or degradation of nesting habitat from coastal development and beach armoring; disorientation of hatchlings by beachfront lighting; nest predation by native and non-native predators; degradation of foraging habitat; marine pollution and debris; watercraft strikes; and incidental take from commercial fishing operations.
MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION: Since hawksbills migrate long distances and co-mingle extensively on foraging areas, and since there are 36 geopolitical units in the Caribbean, implementing effective conservation measures in the Caribbean is complex and will require long-term cooperation between Caribbean nations for recovery efforts to succeed. Continued efforts are needed to protect nesting beaches; minimize the threat from illegal exploitation through intensified law enforcement efforts to curb the incidence of poaching and harassment; maintain the ban on international trade in hawksbill products; and ensure long-term protection of important foraging habitats by designating them as marine sanctuaries or as State, territorial, or Commonwealth aquatic preserves or sanctuaries.
Lutz, P.L., and J.A. Musick (eds.). 1997. The Biology of Sea Turtles. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL.
Lutz, P.L., J.A. Musick, and J. Wyneken (eds.). 2003. The Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume 2. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL.
Meylan, A. and A. Redlow. 2006. Eretmochelys imbricata – hawksbill turtle. Chelonian Research Monographs 3:105-127.
National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1993. Recovery plan for hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the U.S. Caribbean, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico. National Marine Fisheries Service, St. Petersburg, FL.
National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1998. Recovery plan for U.S. Pacific populations of the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD.
National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2007. Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) 5-year review: summary and evaluation.
Rhodin, A.G.J., and P.C.H. Pritchard (eds.). 1999. Special Focus Issue: The Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(2):169-388.
For more information please contact:
Southeast Sea Turtle Coordinator
Program Officer, Marine Turtle Conservation Fund
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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus hangs below the gas giant's rings while Titan lurks in the background, in this new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
Faint detail of the tiger stripe markings can be seen on Enceladus' surface, which is framed against Titan, Saturn's largest moon. With jets of water ice and vapour streaming from Enceladus' south pole, and liquid hydrocarbon lakes pooling beneath Titan's thick atmosphere, these are two of Saturn's most enigmatic moons.
The northern, sun-lit side of Saturn's rings are seen from just above the ring plane in this image, which was taken in visible green light by Cassini's narrow-angle camera on 12 March while it was approximately one million kilometres from Enceladus. The image scale is six kilometres per pixel on Enceladus.