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Some men go through a transition stage in their mid-thirties, settling in or moving on to something or someone new. For women, it's earlier. By their thirties they've generally decided on a path, family, profession but their mid-twenties gives them pause.
I turned twenty-six in 1963. I was searching for the center, for the core of things, attempting to find a point from which I could define myself. That may be why I climbed. Maybe I wanted to force myself into nature, to develop a relationship with her beyond mere observation, to put myself at the mercy of the elements in order to glean from them a kind of knowledge not available to the casual student. I wanted to be John Muir in his tree, not a laboratory botanist, and an expedition to the Chugach Mountains in Alaska gave me an opportunity to go further into the heart of things than I had ever gone before.
Richard, my husband, and I had been living in an eastern industrial centre where he was an engineer and I taught language and literature at a small college. We spent every weekend driving to rock-climbing areas. We would leave as early as possible Friday evening and arrive home in time for work Monday morning.
We spent summers in the Rockies, the Kootenays, the Selkirks, or further south in the Tetons or Wind Rivers of Wyoming. That year John, a climbing acquaintance who had contacts in Anchorage, suggested climbing Mt. Marcus Baker in Alaska. The mountain had been climbed once before, in 1938, the year of my birth. John suggested an expedition to climb a new route beginning on the glacier below the mountain, and he explained that the mountaineering club in Anchorage had written that at least one person from their group wanted to join such an expedition if it came about. The prospect was exciting.
Accordingly, the three of us left home the second week in June and headed west on the Trans-Canada. Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, we ticked off the provinces like minutes in an hour glass, passing through Grand Prairie at two oclock in the morning when nothing moved on the streets and the land stretched out before and after the city like flat breads put out by a housewife to cool. At Dawson Creek we bought plastic covers for the headlights to protect them from flying gravel on the still unpaved Alaska Highway. In Whitehorse we bought steak in the supermarket and cooked it that night over a fire at the edge of the road. We marvelled at the high prices of commodities and at the eternity of black spruce that surrounded us. The road was a dusty rope tying Whitehorse to the cities ahead.
We battled mosquitoes larger than any we had encountered even in the back country of British Columbia, and we avoided the campgrounds with their overflowing outhouses and garbage cans surrounded by flies, preferring instead the occasional gravel pit where we pitched tents in the lee of the car. There was little sleep, however, as the late spring sun glowed nightly through the yellow tents.
Our fourth day on the Highway brought us to Anchorage. Our dispositions were frayed by dust, insects and exhaustion, and Anchorage was a disappointment. The city was a frontier town afflicted by cancerous suburban growth. Three months earlier, on Good Friday, there had been an earthquake the results of which could be seen in the rubble along the main street and in the houses tipped precariously off mud cliffs outside the centre of town. And although the offshore volcanic peaks jutted cleanly skyward out of the ocean, the interior Chugach Range shed rotten rock off crumbling sides. I wanted to head south, to British Columbia and the clean blue granite of the Bugaboos.
But that night I decided to stay. We went to the monthly meeting of the mountain club and I met the climber who wanted to join us. My hopes for a good expedition were raised on two counts: the climber had a lot of experience in the Alaska mountains and she, Ingrid, was a woman.
Two days later we did an air reconnaissance of the Marcus Baker Glacier.
"Hey, look at that," the pilot shouted as we flew slowly over the river of ice that would be our route in two days.
On the ridge to our left and slightly ahead moved a large blond grizzly, his coat golden in the late afternoon sun. The pilot tipped us wingward and swung down, expecting to see the grizzly run when the plane drew near. Instead the bear flung back his head, mouth open, and reared onto his hind legs pawing the air and screaming his outrage at the plane, a gigantic insect entering his domain.
"He knows whose country this is," the pilot called back.
We could see the glacier stretched from a winding green river at its tongue to Marcus Baker and Mt. Good, with crevasses giving way to solid snow two-thirds of the way up. The earthquake had shaken everything loose. Ice blocks the size of houses had slid down the sides of cirques pushing soft snow before them. There appeared to be a way through the maze, but at one point the crevasses were so thick we would have to forego the ice and clamber over the moraine, at least a three hour climb. We figured if we were flown into the Grasshopper landing strip at the bottom of the glacier, the route would take four days then one day for the climb up Marcus Baker. We would allow six days, and if we had extra time we would climb Mt. Good.
Ingrid needed to make arrangements for the care of her two young children, and we needed time to recuperate from our long drive, so we didn't leave Anchorage until the last week in June. Although it was summer, it was a cold day when we began our trek. I remember the wind in my face and the edges of my balaclava freezing against my cheeks when I stood at the edge of the landing strip and watched the plane disappear back towards the city. But our spirits were high as we took a first step on the un-traversed glacier.
It rained later that day, but even then it was beautiful. Rivers of slush poured down the glacier, tumbled into moulins and were whisked down to the very heart of the ice, flowing silently through realms of soft light to the tip of the glacier, the melting source of the river below. The sun came out momentarily and we gazed down one of the moulins, a blue whirlpool moving faster than my eye could follow. I pictured a person pulled down in those waters, a sub glacial Alice exploring crystal rabbit holes.
The second day we got higher and rain turned to snow and then diminished by the day-night evening, when the sun sat at midnight on the horizon for an instants rest before climbing laboriously back into the sky. The yellow tent heightened the daylight illusion, and our eyes stared at the light, waiting for morning.
That day the sun turned snow into a desert, burning our eyes and skin when we removed the parkas that had become too warm. We roped up and moved slowly over the crevasse fields, ice axes ready for a sudden arrest, rigging ladders over cracks we couldn't circumvent.
The worst part of the pack-in arrived as the glacier turned and dropped into a convexity bristling with falling towers of ice. We worked our way over to the moraine to avoid these seracs. There, glassy ice turned to rotten rock and mud where every ounce in my fifty pound pack made itself known. With pack straps cutting my shoulders, my back sweating, wet boots rubbing broken blisters on my raw heels, I felt my energy dissipate and began to think that making a second ascent of a peak climbed twenty-five years earlier was foolish. But when we stood at the top of the moraine the glacier stretched out above and below us, gleaming its invitation to go on to the top and into the wonderland seen only by bush pilots from their planes.
The third day was glorious. At seven thousand feet we had reached the smooth light snow above the open crevasse field and could walk easily on snowshoes. This was a marshmallow cream world with every rise in the terrain covered with white topping. We improvised headgear from white cloth foodbags and moved like Bedouins against the sun, laughing at our shadows. Our energies revived, we dropped our packs and capered on the landscape, turning summersaults in the snow.
We made our base camp on the fourth day at the mouth of a cirque that dropped like an epaulet from the shoulder of Marcus Baker. The sun was temporarily blocked by the west wall of the cirque and a fine white mist settled in, muffling our voices and making us aware, for the first time, of our isolation.
Our spirits dropped as suddenly as they had risen and our earlier exhaustion returned along with an unnamed anxiety. We did our camping chores either silently or with sharp words. We quarrelled about the cooking and the melting of snow for water, and we cast anxious glances at the mountain as it became gradually obscured in the mist.
White clouds moved in that night and the rock candy landscape beneath us disappeared, leaving only the jaw of the cirque, overhung by a broken cornice from which large chunks of snow and ice had fallen like rotten teeth. We slept little and on the following morning tempers were short. We argued about the weather, some saying the clouds would lift as the morning wore on, others that we had allowed an extra day, why not take it? Yet if it were possible to climb Marcus Baker today, then we could make a first ascent on Mt. Good tomorrow, in this way gaining two peaks for our expedition.
And we argued about the route on the now nearly invisible Marcus Baker: whether to go around the side of the cirque, staying well above the cornice, and then on up the shoulder, or to go directly up the headwall of the cirque. While the latter would be quicker, the former would be safer. For the first time the tent was too small to hold our four personalities and perhaps for this reason we decided unwisely not only to climb, but to go directly up the headwall.
We left the snowshoes behind on this last day, feeling they would be a hindrance once the climbing became steep, and we started out unroped. The soft snow gave way beneath our feet and we sank in further each time we moved. My own anger with the day, the conditions, and my comrades grew with every step.
When it was my turn to break trail I resentfully pushed ahead of John, glancing back to locate Richard and Ingrid placing flags behind us. It had begun to snow, and those tiny flags, made one evening by the fireplace out of tomato stakes and red cloth, would become our way back to camp if the white-out became complete. They grew out of the snow like poppies.
My anger fuelled me and I pushed ahead, sank in, pushed again. Beside me was the dim outline of an ice block dropped from the cornice; beyond it, I thought, the walking would become easier. I couldn't tell how far we had come up the wall of the cirque as the blending of snow and sky made steepness a matter of feel and guess, and I had heard stories of climbers thinking they were on level ground when actually they were climbing. Certainly I was winded, but that might have been from moving in deep snow, or from anger.
The next step, however, brought the snow to my waist.
"It wont go," I thought, and I turned to those behind me.
They were tending to the flagging, and I waited for someone to look forward again, having no breath to call but an eternity to wait. I stood with the snow encircling my waist and stretching out as far as I could see; it was as though I were wearing the earth like a crinoline and the figures moving in the mist danced on my skirt.
Suddenly the snow settled as if it would adjust my weight more equitably and I sank in to my armpits.
"John," I called too softly to the nearest figure.
Then my throat closed as I realized my legs hung free. I had sunk into snow covering the bergschrund, the predictable crevasse where the ice of the glacier breaks away from the mountain, something we would have known we were near had we been able to see how high we'd come.
With a jolt, time started up again as I broke through the crust. Snow and ice flew in chunks around me as I fell and, wildly awake for the first time in my life, I knew both the speed of the fall and fear of being buried in snow. My back brushed the vertical wall down which I sped, slowing my movement, but then the wall dropped away and the rate of my descent increased. I was in an elevator shaft leading into the bowels of the glacier where the bergschrund would deposit me to be frozen into the slow moving ice for a millennium until I would be spit off the tongue of the glacier, a time capsule recording a human's attempt to play with nature.
A sudden shock of pain shot through my leg and side. Our climbing rope, coiled uselessly around my shoulder, disappeared below me, along with my ice axe, hat and goggles as I was flipped upside down. Snow powdered my body and face and combed through my hair. In the silence that followed, I heard myself scream.
My leg, caught on a thin ice fence coming out from the side of the bergschrund, was wedged in by a chunk of hard snow that had broken off from its lip. I hung upside down like a broken doll. Beneath me the ice fell away, turning from sapphire to azure to black. Sixty feet above me I saw Richard's pale face.
Our second rope was thrown with a web harness and I was instructed to help as I was hauled back up to the others. The rescue rope cut through the soft edge of the bergschrund making the last few feet a snow bath through which I emerged like a new born snowbaby.
Real fear didn't come until that night. My left leg was useless. I was helped back down the line of flags to the tent which was collapsed and folded into a kind of primitive sled on which I was dragged several miles back down to the top of the open crevasse field where we set up camp to wait for rescue. Then, while others slept in exhaustion, I lay awake hearing the voices of the bergschrund laughing, and I realized for the first time in my twenty-six years that I could die.
The following day was clear. Our bush pilot flew in to see how the climb was going and responded to our signal to organize a rescue through the Rescue Communications Center. In the rescue helicopter, all the details of our four day trek blended into a twenty minute blur as we flew back to the city opening like a wound on the shore. I watched cars racing down the main street and ladies window shopping on their lunch hour, and weariness pressed in on me like the blue ice.
After that summer we moved further east. We bought a farm on Cape Breton Island. We had children, created a home, and built careers. Now, forty-five years later sitting in the warmth of my study with the map of Alaska in front of me, I know that I had to go to the edge before I could find the core.
Ruth Morris Schneider grew up on the Prairies and lives on Cape Breton Island. She has taught at universities in Canada and overseas, and has travelled in Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and Africa. She has written three English language readers, numerous short stories, and a play.


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Sarah Palin is headed to TLC.
Discovery Communications said Thursday it has acquired global rights to the eight-hour "Sarah Palin's Alaska," which is exec produced by Mark Burnett.
Documentary series will premiere on TLC at an undisclosed date.
"Our family enjoys Discovery's networks," said the former Alaska governor and former Republican candidate for Vice President.
"I look forward to working with Mark to bring the wonder and majesty of Alaska to all Americans," Palin added.
Docu series is an unusual fit for TLC, which has moved away from such programming and now focuses on lifestyle series.
But Discovery itself makes sense — as the company is behind programming such as the Alaska-set "Deadliest Catch."
Discovery picked up the rights to the series after A&E Networks, the other network with a major interest in the project, backed out.
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It's a homecoming of sorts for Burnett, who first made a name for himself producing Discovery Channel's "Eco-Challenge" from 1996 to 1999.
"With a dynamic personality that has captivated millions, I can't think of anyone more compelling than Sarah Palin to tell the story of Alaska," said Burnett.
A docuseries focusing on Palin's extended family might have made more sense for TLC, home to hits including "Cake Boss," "Little People, Big World" and formerly "Jon & Kate Plus Eight."
Discovery execs must have decided that Palin's popularity among some women would still make more sense on the network.
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- Many lawmakers tripped over themselves in trying to probe Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill.
- The lack of tech literacy among Congress is not reason for having only tech experts be allowed to legislate on the issue, according to one senator who tripped up in the hearing.
WASHINGTON -The Senate, on average, has the oldest members it has had at any point in US history.
That fact, among others, showcased lawmakers' lack of knowledge about the central functions and structure of Facebook and other major tech companies during CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in front of the Senate's Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday.
The hearings showed many senators stumbling over their own words, asking irrelevant questions, and having Zuckerberg explain basic functions of his products.
Many questions from senators prompted groans and laughter from the younger policy staffers, audience members, and reporters at the hearing. But it also illuminated the significant gap in technology literacy between legislators and the tech giants they want to haul in to address growing concerns about privacy.
"When you — when you say 'pipes,' you mean…" asked Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker, to which Zuckerberg clarified was slang for internet service providers.
When trying to establish whether Facebook is a monopoly, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked Zuckerberg "is Twitter the same as what you do?"
But Hawaii's Brian Schatz, a Democrat, is one of the youngest members of the Senate at just 45 years old. Schatz still managed to flub one of his questions when he asked Zuckerberg about "emailing within WhatsApp," which is not a function of the messaging application owned by Facebook.
"I got lit up because people think I don't know what WhatsApp is," Schatz told Business Insider. "I do know what WhatsApp is."
The lawmakers' inability to follow up to questions prepared by their staff prompted major concern among the tech crowd, asking themselves how Congress is expected to regulate an entire sector of the economy without the most basic understanding of how it works.
Lawmakers dismissed concerns about their understanding of Facebook
But Schatz offered a different view, noting that while he may have flubbed one of his questions in the hearing, that should not be a sign that lawmakers need to be experts in order to legislate.
"I just think you ought to be a little careful about expecting policy makers to have personal and deep expertise in each of the areas that they make policy in," Schatz said. "I mean it's the same line of thinking that says that 'you haven't served in the military, you don't belong on the Foreign Relations or the Armed Services committees.'"
Schatz said limiting legislating to only those who are well-versed in tech policy could have worse outcomes.
"So I'm careful about it. I use all the technology and I have reasonably good facility with it," Schatz added. "So it's a convenient trope, but I think it's one that can lead you down a path where only the people who live in that space get to make policy on that space. And that can lead to confirmation bias and bad policy."
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee and led Tuesday's hearing, chuckled at the idea America's legislators are out of the loop.
"I would say if you go by what Chuck Grassley knows about it, there is [a problem with tech literacy]," Grassley said. "But I think that I would not be a very good judge of that because I'm 84 years old."
Like Schatz, Grassley is one of the few senators who actually writes his own tweets instead of having them posted by communications staffers.
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And the notion that lawmakers were steps behind Zuckerberg on important details about Facebook and privacy policies are completely irrelevant, according to Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey.
"I saw just the opposite," Markey told Business Insider. "I saw him unable to explain what safeguards he was gonna build in to Facebook to protect children and protect adults."
Markey, a Democrat, said criticisms of lawmakers' lack of expertise was tantamount to not thinking the US needs seatbelt laws because he cannot fix a car engine.
"Facebook engineers are just asking questions about safety – how foolish! Automotive engineers say 'they're asking questions about automotive safety – how foolish of these people – go and get a degree!'" Markey exclaimed outside the Senate chamber on Thursday. "No, you don't have to have a degree. You just have to be able to remember what your grandmother told your parents who told you that your privacy should not be compromised. Children should not be turned into a product."
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December 30 marks the annual celebration of the city fiesta in my hometown. Too bad that I'm not there this season to witness the festivities. The best thing that I look forward to during the traditional celebration of our City Fiesta is the colorful parade participated by all sectors in the community. You will get to see lots of colorful costumes, street dancing and nicely decorated floats. Around the neighborhood, you can also hear the traditional marching band with all those trumpets and drums while you get entertained with the performances of their cute majorettes. You will really feel that festival mode. I never get to see those brass instruments being played on a regular basis, so seeing that once a year really excites me.
Children are also all over the streets either watching the marching band or participating in the games prepared by leaders of the barangay.
I remembered that December has always been the most expensive month in our city as all the celebrations fall into that month. That's why every family is working hard the whole year to prepare for this merry month of December. Hayysss..I'm missing a lot of happenings this month. But as a working Mom who is looking after the welfare of the family, I have to do a little bit of sacrifice.
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A woman reported being assaulted and raped last week in Newton after she was picked up by an unregistered taxi in the Seaport District, State Police said Friday, calling into question city oversight of livery vehicles operating outside the regulation of the Boston police hackney unit.
The incident occurred after midnight Aug. 6, when a 21-year-old woman said she left the Whiskey Priest on Seaport Boulevard and Northern Avenue, where she had been with a friend, and hailed an unregistered taxi. Prosecutors said the vehicle was a black livery car that did not have a Boston taxi medallion, which carries a requirement for drivers' background checks to screen out people with criminal records.
Ignoring the woman's request to be driven to the community where she lived, the driver of the vehicle drove her to Newton where he stopped on Nonantum Road outside Daly Memorial Skating Rink, according to police. There, she told police, he assaulted and raped her. After she struggled with her assailant, he threw her to the ground and drove off, she said.
Police and the Middlesex district attorney's office are investigating the crime, but have made no arrests.
Law enforcement officials came under fire for failing to publicize the rape report when it occurred last week. The lapse happened because of a jurisdictional mix-up between State Police and the Middlesex district attorney's office, State Police spokesman David Procopio said Friday.
Typically, Procopio said, once the district attorney's office has taken up a case, State Police defer to prosecutors for public comment. The district attorney's office took over the case the evening after it occurred, and both agencies failed to publicize the crime.
That policy of passing on responsibility for reporting the crime to the public to prosecutors, Procopio said, is changing.
"In retrospect, I realize we should have issued a public alert regardless of the involvement of the district attorney," Procopio said. "From this point forward, we will issue timely public statements for assaults on state property about which we know enough facts to ensure the alert is relevant.
"We will do this so that the public can make an informed decision as to whether there is a threat to their safety," he said.
After the report of the attack, an advocate for taxi regulation renewed calls for heightened oversight of livery vehicles that operate outside the purview of the Boston taxi system.
"We knew something like this was going to happen," said Donna Blythe-Shaw, a representative for the Boston Taxi Drivers Association. "We're just surprised that this hasn't happened sooner."
At issue are livery vehicles — authorized by the state Registry of Motor Vehicles to carry passengers for commerical purposes — that do not have taxi medallions issued by the Boston Police Department, which can cost more than half a million dollars, and are not subject to background checks, regular safety inspections, or fuel emission requirements.
Unregistered livery vehicles have become a hot-button political issue in the last several years with the emergence of new companies such as Uber, which allow passengers to call a driver with a smart phone app outside of the standard city taxi system.
After the city of Cambridge filed suit against Uber, attempting to bar it from operating within city limits because of concerns about the safety of passengers, Middlesex Superior Court ruled in June that the company, and others like it, are allowed to operate.
The results of the court case make clear that unregistered taxis do not fall under the purview of Boston police, said police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca.
Blythe-Shaw said she is not calling for the companies to cease operating. Instead, she said, city officials should enact further safeguards to help ensure drivers pose no threat, mandating background checks and requiring that livery licenses be renewed annually.
"Anyone could go out and buy a black car and put it on the road," Blythe-Shaw said. "It's a public safety issue. . . . If they don't get a handle on this, then it's going to be like the wild, wild west."
Dot Joyce, spokeswoman for Mayor Thomas M. Menino, said the city would wait for an independent report due in October to determine whether last week's assault warranted any change in the city's policy.
"Boston, as a hub of innovation and growth, has looked very closely at this issue and is seeking the expertise of an outside independent consultant that is reviewing all hackney-type services in the city," Joyce said. "We will await that report before making any judgments in this one incident."
For people considering hopping into a cab, Blythe-Shaw advised that they check to see if there is a medallion on the vehicle's license plate and a hackney license on the vehicle dashboard.
Still, she said, it can be difficult to tell, and that, she said, is why she would like to see Boston regulators place official city seals on the outside of all registered taxis and livery vehicles, making it easier for prospective passengers to know that a taxi driver has been vetted.
"They may look respectable," Blythe-Shaw said. "But it's just by luck that you get somebody respectable. There's no guarantee."
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Correction: Because of a reporting error, an earlier version of this article incorrectly listed Hailo as a company functioning outside the standard city taxi system. Hailo uses a smart phone app to hail taxis that are licensed with the city.


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Atlético midfielder Arda Turan, who leads the squad in assists this season with five, gave a press conference following Thursday morning's training session.
The former Galatasaray captain, who joined Atleti this past summer, feels the team has improved under new coach Diego Simeone.
"We have a lot of quality and defensively, we are playing better," he said.
"We feel like a team and we are doing what the coach asks us to. I think we are playing better and we are in a very strong league and have a very strong team."
Ahead of los Rojiblancos' trip to Santander on Saturday to face off against Racing, Arda spoke of how challenging it is to play as a visitor in the Primera División, before issuing some words of warning to all our future foes.
"Playing away from home is very difficult in Spain because every team plays very well in their stadium," he said.
"We are going to try to control the game defensively and are going to attack. I think that as long as they can't score a goal against us, no team can beat us.
"We're Atlético Madrid and our opponents must watch out for us."
When asked if he felt he and the team are performing at their highest level of the campaign, the 25-year-old said:
"I am more focussed when it comes to playing defensively and I have to be more offensive. When we are in the Champions League spots we are going to play better."
Finally, Arda talked about his experience in a new country and new league so far.
"When I arrived in Spain I thought that I wasn't going to be able to play all the matches, but I assured everyone that I would fight and that hasn't changed and we're going to continue improving," he said.
"We're a family and since I arrived I felt at home both within the dressing room and with the people of the club. Everyone has treated me very good. The fans are with us and every game at home is a celebration.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration appears skeptical that data submitted by Johnson & Johnson proves its anticoagulant Xarelto is effective in reducing the risk of further heart problems in patients who have recently suffered a heart attack.
The agency questioned the way in which J&J analyzed clinical trial data, and said there was no convincing proof the drug confers significant benefit or fills an unmet medical need, given that there are other therapies on the market.
The review was posted on the FDA's website on Tuesday, two days ahead of a meeting of outside experts who will discuss the drug, also known as rivaroxaban, and recommend whether it should be approved.
Xarelto is already used to treat and prevent deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms and to reduce the risk of stroke and blood clots in patients with an irregular heart beat that is not caused by heart problems.
Now the company is hoping it will also be approved for patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), an umbrella term covering any condition brought on by a sudden, reduced blood flow to the heart, including heart attack and chest pain.
Some analysts are doubtful.
"Based on our review of this material, we continue to have low expectation of approval," Larry Biegelsen, an analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, said in a research note. However, he expects sales of the drug to rise to $1.2 billion in 2015 from an estimated $703 million in 2013 based on the indications for which it is approved.
"We expect the ACS potential to be modest even if approved," he said.
J&J originally filed for approval of Xarelto in ACS at the end of 2011. The FDA rejected the application, saying efficacy data was not strong enough to support approval. The company provided additional information but the FDA once again declined to approve the drug, prompting J&J to appeal the decision.
The FDA denied the appeal but said limiting the duration of use to one month might be a pathway forward because efficacy was more evident and the risk of bleeding, a side effect of the drug, was lower during this period. J&J filed a new application seeking a treatment duration of 90 days.
The FDA's latest review suggests the agency remains skeptical.
"It is unclear how to choose the metric for determining when the benefit of rivaroxaban is greatest," the review found. "Not only does the effect of rivaroxaban not appear to be greater earlier, but an effect in the first 90 days or so is not apparent at all."
Dr. Paul Burton, vice president of clinical development at Janssen Research and Development, a J&J unit, defended the drug, saying the company believes that when added to standard treatments it "delivers a strong incremental benefit by significantly reducing the risk of cardiovascular events, including death, at a time when patients are at the highest risk."
The FDA's review also questioned whether the benefit of the drug outweighs the heightened risk of bleeding since two other drugs, Eli Lilly & Co's Effient and AstraZeneca Plc's Brilinta, are currently approved for ACS.
J&J's proposed prescribing information would warn that treatment in combination with the Effient, known also as prasugrel, and Brilinta, also known as ticagrelor, has not been studied and is not recommended because of the risk of bleeding.
Xarelto would therefore only be available as an add-on to Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's antiplatelet Plavix, or clopidogrel.
"There are no data demonstrating that ACS patients treated with clopidogrel plus rivaroxaban will have superior outcomes compared to treatment with prasugrel or ticagrelor," the review said. "So rivaroxaban does not provide therapy for an unmet medical need."
And while treatment for a limited duration "has an intuitive appeal," the review said, "the task for the analyses of the effect of rivaroxaban over time is not to pick a time period in which the benefit-risk is acceptable."


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The 'Lost' weekend: Saul Bass travels to a mysterious Island
Lost vs. Saul Bass from Hexagonall on Vimeo.
Do you like "Lost"? Do you also, perhaps, like the 1950s and '60s title credits sequences designed by Saul Bass, he of the angular designs and crazy, bright color schemes? Well, then, this video (which I first saw thanks to the Twitter feed of film writer Ali Arikan) is going to be for you. It takes the visual motifs of Saul Bass, the plot elements of "Lost" and the actors' names and tosses them all into one wacky pop cultural blender. I don't think I've seen a more fascinating mash-up of general pop culture and "Lost" this year, and I hope that if there really IS a zombie season, the producers adopt this credits sequence. (Not really, but it would be cool to have it as an option on the DVD, eventually.)
And if you think you're a "Lost" super-fan, then you clearly haven't met Matt Roeser, who is perhaps the superest of super-fans. He hosts an elaborate "Lost" finale party every year, and his planning for the event involves making video invitations that do elaborate take-offs on the show's iconography and tell their own stories about Matt trying to put on the party. I genuinely have no idea where he finds the time and/or funds to put these together, but I think they're pretty great. (I also like that Matt, who's a graphic designer by trade, has come up with this pretty cool drawing of a DHARMA shark that he's using on T-shirts. So THAT'S where he gets the funds!)
This week's best "Lost" theorizing probably comes from GameZone's Louis Bedigan, who uses the phrase "God loves you as He loved Jacob" as a starting point to examine some of the show's other issues and ideas.
Bedigan writes:
"If the quote is correct – if Ben knows something we don't – there are two logical ways to explain it. One is that Jacob did something to disappoint God, such as allowing good people to die while facilitating the death of others. Thus, God once loved Jacob but no longer does, as if he were a fallen angel.
"But wait … some fans theorize that Fake Locke was a former candidate who had a falling out with Jacob. What would that make him: a fallen angel's fallen angel? That being the case, wouldn't it make perfect sense that the smoke monster's real name is Wallace, the mysterious man who appeared next to the number '108' on the dial of the magic mirror?
"The second explanation for the quote is that Jacob has always been past tense. All these years, we've been under the impression that whoever he was, he was alive until Ben killed him. Even the smoke monster thought so. But maybe he's been a ghost since before the show even began, and in gathering all of these people, he wasn't merely trying to prove that people were good (as he claimed) – he was also trying to save himself. That would certainly fit with the show's recurring theme of redemption."
These are some interesting thoughts from Bedigan, and while I don't know how deeply the show will delve into some of these issues, I wouldn't be surprised if he's on the right track with some of these thoughts. Read the full article to get even more of his theory.
If you aren't checking out sl-lost.com every so often, you're missing out on some cool "Lost" content. Here, for example, is an appearance at the Apple store in Santa Monica made by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and captured in its entirety. There are no heavy spoilers, and the whole thing is a cool look into how this show being a phenomenon has affected these guys.
Finally, it's time for March Madness. And that also means it's time for March Madness, "Lost" style. Who's winning in your bracket? Me, I don't see how Desmond loses this. He can travel through time! (The bracket comes courtesy of blog Loveology, and I found it thanks to "Lost" blogger Crit Obara.) Let us know who you pick down in comments.
We'll see you all for Tuesday's episode, and remember I'm just an e-mail or Tweet away.
-- Todd VanDerWerff (follow me on Twitter at @tvoti)
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DALLAS — Exercise can't hold off the effects of aging, but it can improve an elderly person's chances of hanging onto an independent lifestyle, researchers said, citing a new study that brought both good and bad news.
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A treadmill test given to different age groups showed that as people aged, their aerobic capacity — the amount of oxygen consumed while exercising — declined at higher rates with each passing decade whether they exercised or not.
The researchers knew the rate of decline would worsen with age, but they were surprised by the magnitude, said Dr. Jerome L. Fleg, a cardiologist who is lead author of the study and a medical officer at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Maryland.
"I guess we were a little disappointed that regular exercise didn't make a difference in the rate of decline," he said.
However, he pointed out that those who exercise still end up ahead because their aerobic capacity was higher to begin with.
"If I start higher, I'm going to end higher," Fleg said. "Having a higher aerobic capacity translates into being more fit."
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For the study published in Monday's online edition of the American Heart Association journal Circulation, researchers analyzed treadmill tests from 435 men and 375 women ages 21 to 87 taking part in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.
The aerobic capacity was measured in the tests about every four years for a median of 7.9 years.
During their 20s and 30s, the volunteers' aerobic capacity declined at a rate of 3 percent to 6 percent per decade. Those in their 70s and beyond faced a decline of more than 20 percent per decade, the researchers found.
Fleg said that participants filled out a detailed questionnaire on physical activities and they were divided into groups depending on the strenuousness of their exercise. He said that those who exercised more strenuously had a higher aerobic capacity than those who didn't.
"People who have low aerobic capacity may not even be able to make their bed," said Dr. Nieca Goldberg, a cardiologist and chief of Women's Cardiac Care at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
"There is a decline with aging, but older people should be in programs to improve their regular function capacity because it will increase their independence," Goldberg said. "It'll offset some of the decline. What I really don't want people to take away from this study is 'don't bother.'"
Researchers said that one limitation of the study was that participants were healthy and able to walk on a treadmill, making it hard to make comparisons with less fit people in poorer health.
Dr. Chuck McCauley, of the cardiology department at the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wis., said that clinically speaking, he's noticed that people who exercise throughout their lives seem to do a lot better physically at handling the daily activities of life as they head into older age.
"Those who just have sat their entire life seem to age a little bit prematurely," he said.
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The Denver Christian Parent Association works to promote community among families and provide support to the staff and students. There are many opportunities to volunteer and work on various committees in the Parent Association. Involvement in the Denver Christian School Parent Association builds community and connection. We encourage every family to get involved!
The DC PA meets the 1st Friday of every month in the Denver Christian Atrium for a time of fellowship and planning. Please join us as we gather as a community of parents to support our students and staff.
PA is an integral part of Denver Christian School. Many of our fun community events are orchestrated by the PA. Examples of the events hosted by the PA throughout the year include:
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- Moms and Sons Event
- Staff Appreciation Week
- Morning With Mom
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David Benavidez talks Denis Douglin clash / training camp
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Undefeated rising contender
David "El Bandera Roja" Benavidez
is on the fast track to a world title opportunity and he will look to make another statement when he battles contender
Denis Douglin
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Here is what Benavidez had to say about his opponent, training camp and more:
On his recent training camp in Southern California…
"We had another great training camp out here in Long Beach, California. We put the final touches and wrapped up camp and I'm ready to go. There was plenty of good sparring and we worked on some things we know will help us in this fight. I'm in great shape and I feel sharp."
On fighting in his first main event on ESPN…
"Fighting on ESPN is great exposure for me and my team, especially in the main event. We all worked so hard to get in this position and now it's time to capitalize on this great opportunity. I know a lot of family and friends back home in Phoenix will be tuning in. I just want to shine out and perform to my best ability."
On facing his opponent Denis Douglin…
"This is going to be a tough fight. I know Douglin is hungry to give me my first loss. He's coming off three wins in a row, so I'm taking this fight very seriously. Being that he's a southpaw, I'll have to do some things a little different. We worked on all that stuff in camp so I know I'm going to be ready for anything he brings to the ring."
On training with his father and head coach Jose Benavidez…
"My dad Jose has been guiding my corner from the first day I started boxing around three years old. Together we have a strong bond and I respect him very much. He's come up with a great game plan tailor made for Douglin. He's made a lot of sacrifices to help me get to this point and I'm very thankful to him for all that he's done for me and my brother. I want nothing more than to bring him another great victory."
On fighting on the East Coast for the second time in his career…
"The East Coast fans are very passionate about their boxing. Douglin, being that he's from New Jersey, will have a lot of fans rooting against me. But I'm not going to let anything distract me from the task at hand and that's coming back home with a win."
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I left off our story here, where we met for the first time. I'm now going to skip ahead a little to the bit of time before our getting engaged:
My second year at college began differently than I had imagined. I was enrolled as a full time student but shortly before the drop out deadline I turned in my papers to get a refund for that semester. I began instead to look forward to spending a month in Haiti working at an orphanage. The month taught me a lot about the wrong ways to do ministry in Haiti, and a couple of the right ways. I did however find myself completely excited for mission work and for serving God. I scheduled a dinner with Abigail at Pei Wei when we she was back in Kansas City for Christmas break. I don't remember what she ordered, but I had Kung Pao beef with brown rice :-). I remember that Abigail was dating someone else at the time, and they had actually been together for quite some time. We talked about all sorts of mission related things and I was really able to share my excitement and love for God with her. I vividly remember looking at her during the meal and praying to God, "If she ever becomes single again I would marry her". I think this is when I really began to fall in love with her. It was the first time I was able to see her fully for who she is, I was able to see this woman who was kind, gentle, intelligent, beautiful, compassionate, and so much more! Unfortunately for me she was leaving in a few weeks to study abroad in Ecuador, and it wasn't until a bit later that we started dating, but I like to look back on this and think that it was the beginning of me seeing her for who she really is.
Check back soon for the next installment and find out about our time as a dating couple!


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I was given a model by an artist and it was boned and skinned for me. The .max file that he provided also included an animation to show what he would be able to do. (A basic running animation.)
However, this was the last I heard from him and I want to construct my own animation. I was wondering if there was any quick and easy way of removing the rotation animation on the bones, back to default values. (i.e., 0 on all axis or to the default biped positions.)
I have removed all the keyframes and the default pose seems to be the first frame of the animation that was created by the artist. I have tried setting the values in the X, Y, Z boxes at the bottom, nothing happens, I think its relative to the current position?
I have also tried setting the biped to figure mode, copying the pose and pasting the pose back to the original biped. That only seemed to work in bits and pieces, some of the bones didn't seem rotate, like the pelvis and the spine bones, and also after a while the bones seemed to revert back to the default running stance, or some bones would just take on a weird, random rotation.
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Rumours reach us that Northern's unpopular New Deal for Drivers (NDfD) is dead. We hope that's true. Time for the Northern drivers' Company Council to get into pay talks, reject the derisory 2.75% offer that the other unions look set to knock back and rejoin the collective bargaining process to help win a better offer via dispute. ASLEF can get better pay for its members the right way, by working with the other unions to win a better settlement. Now is the time to have the pay dispute that we should have followed through in 2014/15.
Once that's done, perhaps reps can pick through the wreckage of the NDfD, pick up the bits of it that were worth having and work with the membership on a harmonisation proposal that's based on levelling-up, without any of the employer's booby traps, loopholes or loose wording.
Harmonisation of terms and conditions and Sundays inside the working week are desirable things but we won't get them by attempting to push them through on the employer's terms. We need to unite behind our own proposals and take the fight to the company.


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It's only recently that I started reading Jay Matthews, as he doesn't write for a local paper, but I must give him credit, as he actually gets paid for writing this stuff. His most recent column discusses the woes of two KIPP schools on opposite coasts.
Now out in California, a KIPP principal was accused of outrageous abuse:
.. slamming students against the wall, placing trash cans over their heads, forcing kids to crawl on their hands and knees while barking, and enforcing unreasonably strict bathroom rules, resulting in students having accidents and vomiting on themselves inside the classroom.
I can certainly understand how something like that might upset people. But the principal resigned, and KIPP moved on.
Here's where it gets interesting. What outrage, according to Jay, started the turmoil at the NY KIPP? The teachers tried to form a union. Without blinking an eye, Jay Matthews continues, effectively classifiying unionization as an outrage tantamount to child abuse.
And what is the resolution here? Well, at least one of the teachers requesting they unionize has backed off, and perhaps more will follow. So KIPP can perhaps breathe a sigh of relief.
They should be thankful they have free cheerleaders like Jay Matthews, who print such outrageous bilge. Not so fortunate are your children and mine, who may grow up in a world where such sleazy vilification of united working people is taken for granted.


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University Museums Group Annual Conference: Better Together?
Minister of State for Digital and Culture delivers keynote address at the University Museums Group Annual Conference
It is a pleasure to speak today at the University Museums Annual Conference.
You might ask why I've chosen to give my first major speech on museums at the University Museum conference. It's not just because of the work you do, Kate, to promote and support museums around the country. It's not just out of respect for my brilliant predecessor, Ed Vaizey, who committed to give this address.
It's also that, for my first speech on museums I wanted to come back to university museums where it first began.
In 1683, over three hundred and thirty years ago, twenty five miles from here the Ashmolean in Oxford was the first museum in the world to open its doors to the public.
Those first visitors were not only able to admire the impressive collection of Elias Ashmole, they could attend lectures in the School of Natural History and learn about chemistry - or Experimental Philosophy as they knew it then - in the cutting edge laboratories.
So the museum movement, so important to our understanding of the world, began in a university, with the collection a focal point linking disciplines, study and cross-fertilisation that so many museums continue to this day.
The modern museum experience, of active engagement not just passive admiration, began right here in the UK. We should all be rightly proud of that.
Our task, and our duty, is to see that admirable history become a thriving present and transform into an inspirational future.
What then of the present?
We live in an era of great challenges and great opportunities.
Money is tight and change seems the only constant. Of course some face specific problems.
Yet the creativity of our museum staff and leadership has led our museums through recent challenges to a position of strength.
Last year, three of our museums - the British Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate - were ranked in the top ten most visited worldwide. These three museums all combine the strength of our history with the very best of modern Britain.
It's not just the big museums - despite the challenges, new museums are opening. Last year footfall rose. Tourism remains strong and the capability of curating is world class.
The digital revolution offers opportunities to increase interest, to collaborate, and to reach audiences unimaginable in their breadth just a few years ago. Social media allows you to inspire humanity on a scale never before seen.
Academic collaboration globally is now the norm. Put an image of an object online, and who knows what extra information or inspiration can be gleaned?
I want to acknowledge the challenges directly, yet balance these challenges against the opportunities that are being seized, and are there to be seized.
Earlier this year we published a new Culture White Paper, the first in 50 years. It sets out this Government's vision for ensuring people from all walks of life have access to arts and culture, and our strategy for helping the sector to thrive. If you haven't read it, do. My only regret, having arrived in post after it was written, is that it doesn't have my name on it – it is an excellent piece of work.
The Culture White Paper committed us to a Museums Review to address the future of museums candidly, and deliver clear recommendations for action.
I am delighted Neil Mendoza is leading the review which will be a deep, thorough and thoughtful study both of those museums directly sponsored by government, and of what they should deliver for their core funding, along with issues faced by 'non-national' museums.
We will examine what the challenges are for the sector, and also identify the opportunities. We will discuss how the government and statutory bodies can better support you. Our focus will be on increasing access, on forging partnerships and shared services, on digitising collections, and - in our increasingly connected world – on global international work.
I encourage you to have your say. The initial call for evidence is open until 31st October, which is an age in politics but the blink of an eye in the life of a museum, so I encourage you to be quick.
The theme of this address is 'Better Together'. So today I want to discuss how we can work better together to overcome the challenges of today, and reach our shared goal.
First, how do we work better together between Government and museums. Next, how do we work better together with audiences, and finally how do we work better together in the digital age.
Let's start with the links to Government.
I believe in the intrinsic and social value of museums, in their role in shaping our society and their potential to shape for the better everyone in our society.
So I see public funding as the cornerstone of support for culture.
Of course that means direct public support, delivered through direct taxpayer support for major partner museums. It means support to help accredited museums in England become more sustainable through the Museum Resilience Fund, which in this year's funding round supported over 90 museums and organisations around the country.
Support comes in the form of HEFCE funding for universities, the DCMS/Wolfson museums and galleries improvement fund, and of course a very significant injection from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
We are bringing the learning from the creative tax credits which are helping other sectors like film, theatres and orchestras, and are currently consulting on proposed new museums and galleries tax relief to support museums in developing both a greater number of, and more higher quality exhibitions.
We want to hear your ideas and views on its design too.
This national public support for culture is important, and has risen since 2010. But public support is only part of the picture. Philanthropic support remains vital.
Social investment revenues are valuable, and the fastest rising area of revenue is commercial.
Continuing to diversify university museums income will be key to your future success.
Last week, DCMS, Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the innovation charity NESTA together launched a new match-funded pilot in conjunction with Crowdfunder UK to test which models of crowdfunding – which is growing rapidly - work best for your sector.
So we want to help you to think more broadly about how to boost other revenues, to help build financial resilience alongside public investment.
Next, let us turn to working together with audiences – and potential audiences.
I care deeply that we make our museums open – literally and figuratively – to all people, from all backgrounds, in all parts of our country.
In the previous Culture White Paper, Jennie Lee stressed the problems of access and inclusivity. She argued that art and culture should never be the preserve of the privileged few. Fifty years on, we assert the same goal.
Now as then we must strive so that none be excluded - from any walk of life, with any accent, from any ethnicity or any postcode.
Good work is happening.
Visitor numbers – your audiences – are up.
We have around 1,800 museums in the UK that are recognised for their high quality.
And many of these thriving museums can be found outside London.
Since its reopening after refurbishment, the Great North Museum in Newcastle has had 3 million visitors over the last six years.
The Arts Council is leading the way, both in what it looks for, for its core funding and through targeted action like the Cultural Citizens' Programme.
University Museums are the ideal spaces. In 2015, a collaboration between Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum and Oxford Youth Arts Partnership, called Kick Arts (I must watch how I say that), provided an inspirational setting to help re-engage young people who had left education through weekly arts workshops tailored to their interests, working towards an Arts Award qualification.
It's a great example of how university museums can contribute substantially to widening participation, often being the first contact that children and young people have with Higher Education.
Access is also about our engagement with the wider world.
Following the vote to leave the European Union, our museums, like our universities, have a vital role to play. You are absolutely central to our post-Brexit future, open and engaged with the whole world, progressive and positive in shaping how Britain sees herself and is seen the world over.
You are very clearly leading the way in innovation and research, in supporting the UK's economic success and global influence.
That's the second way we can work better together – with our audiences at home and around the world.
The third area I want to talk about is linked: how we work better together in the digital age.
I believe that we are living through a digital revolution as profound in its effects as the industrial revolution or the revolution that followed the printing press and the enlightenment it sparked.
In each case, those revolutions of the past brought with them great change, but were ultimately of huge benefit to humanity.
Just as the invention of the printing press, in the century before the founding of the Ashmolean, led to a radical collapse in the cost of storing and transmitting information, and wrought in its wake the end of feudalism, the breakdown of the power of the church, the start of mass education, the global transmission of ideas and the empowerment of man, so the digital revolution has once again radically collapsed the cost of storing and transmitting information, challenging established power, enabling the global spread of education, and bringing with it once again the disruption that causes and the potential to emancipate billions of people around the world.
Our world-class museums, including our fantastic university collections, have an exciting role to play in this great revolution.
Digitising and publishing online museum collections opens them up, potentially to all mankind.
And you know what's happening?
People are using them in remarkable ways that no-one had ever thought of.
It's the same whenever we open up data to the public. Someone, somewhere, analyses it, mashes it and uses it in ways that no one who had access beforehand could possibly have imagined. No matter how brilliant those of us with private access may be, we are nothing compared to the collective brainpower of humanity. A whole world of ideas can be brought to bear.
You here, at Reading University, are at the forefront with your pioneering work on virtual museums.
This link, this sweet spot of the combination of digital and creative cultural ideas, is our future. It is a hugely exciting opportunity for understanding the world around us, and bringing culture to as many people as possible.
Just a few weeks ago Dr Gabriele Finaldi at the National Gallery reached 200,000 viewers in a Facebook live broadcast, about "Beyond Caravaggio".
Those who've done it, who've put their collections online, tell me it doesn't replace physical footfall – it drives it.
They tell me they find out things about their collections they didn't know, and had no way of knowing, before.
It brings new ways to generate revenues, and it drives access to all.
As Minister for Digital and Culture, I want to drive this synthesis of culture with digital technology, and when it comes to the digitisation and dissemination of our great collections, I want Britain to be a world leader.
Because it's at this nexus - where Tech meets art, where digital meets creativity - that we will build a strong and thriving future economy that can work for all.
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MXLarge.com is reporting that Holland's Jeffrey Herlings will miss the upcoming Motocross of Nations in Teutschenthal, Germany, with a broken shoulder blade. Herlings suffered the injury in qualifying at the Grand Prix of Belgium on Saturday while chasing down leader Dean Ferris. Herlings missed the final on Sunday and will also be on the sidelines for the final two rounds of the FIM World Championships, as well as the MXoN. Herlings clinched his second consecutive MX2 title in the Czech Republic earlier this year.


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Mr. Rascal bun is our resident Honey Badger Bunny. He's fearless and does what he wants when he wants!
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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on Monday (February 12) led a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the 28th anniversary of a key military victory over Ethiopia in 1990.
Afwerki laid a wreath at the Martyrs Cemetery at port city of Massawa, where Eritrean fores fought to take control of the city in Operation Fenkel.
The operation was seen as a key turning point in the country's armed struggle for independence against their more powerful neighbour. Three years down the line Eritreans gained independence from Ethiopia.
The country declared three-day celebrations staring February 9 – 11. It was under the theme: Fenkel, dawn of Liberation.
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The operation also known as the "Second Battle of Massawa took place in 1990 in and around the coastal city of Massawa in Eritrea. The offensive was conducted by both land and sea units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) against the Ethiopian Army.


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Rev. Bras. Zool. vol.21 no.1 Curitiba Mar. 2004
Food categories reconstruction and feeding consumption estimates for the Sciaenid Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch & Schneider), and the congeneric fishes Stellifer rastrifer (Jordan) and Stellifer naso (Jordan) (Pisces, Perciformes) in the Caeté Estuary, Northern Coast of Brazil
Mauricio Camargo; Victoria Isaac
Laboratório de Biologia Pesqueira e Manejo de Recursos Aquáticos, Universidade Federal do Pará. Avenida Tancredo Neves 2651, 66077-530 Belém, Pará, Brasil. E-mail: email@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com
A quantitative method to estimate fish feeding consumption and energy intake from different food categories through the reconstruction of ingested preys based on hard not digestible body structures is presented. In order to establish the equations of the functional relationships between preys weight and body structures, stomachs of 1.086 specimens of Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), Stellifer rastrifer (Jordan, 1889), and Stellifer naso (Jordan, 1889) fish species were dissected. Consequently, preys reconstruction enabled a quantitative evaluation of food categories consumption. Results indicate a marked difference in diet composition and energy requirements according to fish species ontogenetic development.
Key words: Energetic values, feeding ingestion rates.
Um método quantitativo para se estimar o consumo alimentar e o aporte energético das diferentes categorias alimentares é apresentado através da reconstrução das presas ingeridas com base em estruturas corporais não digeríveis. Para tal, o presente estudo estabelece, através do exame dos conteúdos estomacais de 1.086 exemplares dissecados de Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), Stellifer rastrifer (Jordan, 1889) e Stellifer naso (Jordan, 1889), as equações das relações funcionais entre o peso das presas e estruturas corporais. Com as categorias reconstruídas foi possível quantificar o alimento ingerido pelos espécimes. Os resultados indicaram que existe uma marcada diferença, tanto na composição das categorias alimentares, bem como no aporte energético acompanhando o desenvolvimento ontogênico do predador.
Palavras chave: Valores energéticos, taxas de consumo alimentar.
Temporal variations in the availability of feeding resources are known to be responsible for diet plasticity of tropical fishes (KNÖPPEL 1970). The daily continuous food ingestion often characterizing tropical fishes, and reflected by relatively fast metabolic processes, hampered proper daily feeding rhythm definition (FONTELES FILHO 1989, PAULY 1994). As a result, difficulties are often encountered to estimate daily food consumption and energetic contribution of each food items for a given predator. In addition, a proper identification of the preys, specially of fish larvae or juveniles, is limited by their advanced digestion state (TORNO 1976).
Many studies on fishes trophic ecology include a qualitative approach of the diet through the identification of the most abundant preys present in the stomach. However, proper construction of trophic models also require data on preys abundance and biomass, as well as additional information on the way each of these food items contributes to the energetic flow within the aquatic ecosystem. Therefore, as already explained by WORTHMANN (1979) it appears as fundamental to first restore size and body weight of all ingested preys, to better understand their contribution in the food chain.
This study aims to first of all, estimate morphometrical relationships of Stellifer rastrifer (JORDAN, 1889), Stellifer naso (JORDAN, 1889) and Macrodon ancylodon (BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, 1801) preys, to subsequently calculate average biomass and energetic values of the ingested food groups, in accordance to the development stage of the predator.
In order to define the food groups more frequently ingested by each predator, 1.086 stomachs (469 for Macrodon ancylodon, 459 for Stellifer rastrifer, and 158 for S. naso) from fishes of different sizes were dissected. Once all fed items identified and gathered into taxonomic groups, the indigestible body parts such as exoskeletons, otoliths and eyes, were picked up and identified to the highest taxonomic level possible.
In parallel, preys most commonly encountered in fish stomachs were collected in the wild within the same estuary, then weighted, measured and dissected in order to assess the size of all the indigestible parts already found in the stomachs of the three predators.
Zooplanktonic organisms were measured (mm), from the head up to the caudal thorns (Lct), using a micrometric magnifying glass. Length-weight relationships, were then established for five or six length classes (mm) including 100 to 200 individuals pending on the species and defined based on the fish size frequency data. Average individual body weight was estimated through the total weight (g) obtained for each length class divided by the number of weighed individuals. Results were plotted, and the regression between weight and length was estimated using the least squares method.
In the case of crustacean decapods, the indigestible structures included eyes and carapace. Relations between carapace length (Lcar) and ocular peduncle (Lpeye) of 48 individuals of Acetes americanus Ortmann, 1893, and between carapace length (Lcar) and eye diameter (Deye) of 128 individuals of Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller, 1862) were established. In the case of the crustacean Uca sp., the relationship was established between body weight (g) and carapace width Wcar (mm) of the individuals. Obtention of these relationships enabled subsequent plotting of preys body structure size vs preys weight and definition of mathematical equations for the obtained regressions
Collection of otoliths from preyed fishes and subsequent study of their shape in relation to preys size enabled to define mathematical equations between these two parameters. Hence sagitta width Wotol (mm) was plotted vs preys standard length (mm) (Ls) or preys weight, and respective linear or exponential regressions were calculated.
Mathematical functions between preys body parts were given as linear regressions, obtained after logarithmic transformations in the case of exponential relationships. Once the mathematical relations established, body weights of various length classes of each food categories were reconstructed. Average consumption of all three studied predators was assessed through the sum of weights of all feeding categories per defined length class. Additionally, lengths at first maturation as defined by CAMARGO & ISAAC (IN press) enabled dividing the predators into three ontogenic groups, namely the younger, pre-adult and adult groups. Predators energetic intake (Kcal) for each food category, and expressed per gram of predator, was calculated based on the energetic contents of the preys (Kcal/gram of preys), as available in the literature.
Diet composition of the three predator species varies along the ontogeny. While young individuals feed more exclusively on zooplanktonic organisms such as Pseudodiaptomus marshi Wright, 1936 and Acartia lilljerborgii Giesbrecht, 1889 copepods, pre-adults also include in their diet invertebrates like Acetes americanus, Xiphopenaeus kroyeri, and Uca sp. Other hand, adults can also feed on young fishes like Cathorops arenatus (Valenciennes, 1840), Macrodon ancylodon, and Stellifer rastrifer, hence demonstrating a cannibalism behavior (Figs 1-3).
Fresh body weight of the preys, obtained through mathematical equations themselves issued from body structure relationships, is presented in table I.
For each of the three preyed species, namely: Stellifer rastrifer, Macrodon ancylodon and Cathorops arenatus, linear equations between otolith width and individual standard length, and exponential equations between body weight and otolith width or standard length were established. It is important to note that otoliths, known as body growth indicators, present an exponential relationship with fish body weight up to the juvenile stage, after which parameters of the equation change. Therefore, as in this case predators consume exclusively young organisms, equations were only defined for young preys.
Once preys weight reconstructed, food consumptions (per gram of body weight) were defined by predator group class of 1 cm. In the case of juveniles Macrodon ancylodon (Lt £ 21 cm) consumption rate ranged from 0.002g of prey/g of predator to 0.800g of prey/g of predator. For specimens of Lt ³ 21 cm, consumption rate was comprised between 0.001 g of prey/g of predator and 0.400 g of prey/g of predator. Results indicate that M. ancylodon of a total length comprised between 4 and 6 cm fed preferentially on juvenile decapods of Sergestidae (Acetes americanus) and Penaeidae (Xiphopenaeus kroyeri). Acartia lilljeborgii and Pseudodiaptomus marshi were the more common copepods consumed by the three predators; however due their small size they represented a relatively small proportion of the overall stomach contents. Above 6 cm standard length, diet of the younger specimens was complemented by fish juveniles, principally Stellifer rastrifer and Macrodon ancylodon and to a lower extends Cathorops arenatus (Fig. 1).
In the case of juveniles Stellifer rastrifer of length ranging between 1 and 10 cm, results indicate a consumption rate comprised between 0.001 g of prey/g of predator to 0.085 g of prey/g of predator. For bigger individuals up to 16 cm of length, the rate ranged between 0.007 g of prey/g of predator and 0.075 g of prey/g of predator. Juveniles of 1 to 3 cm of total length fed mainly on zooplankton, and especially on copepods such as Pseudodiaptomus marshi. At 4 cm of total length, this diet was complemented by juveniles of crustacean decapods like Acetes, Xiphopenaeus and Uca sp. At last, diet of bigger individuals (i.e. ³ 6 cm standard length) also included fish juveniles, mainly Stellifer rastrifer and Cathorops arenatus species (Fig. 2).
Rates of average consumption for Stellifer naso ranged from 0.001 g of prey/g of predator to 0.013 g of prey/g of predator for individuals measuring from 4 to 10 cm standard length, and from 0.003 g of prey/g of predator to 0.034 g of prey/g of predator for bigger individuals of 11 to 16 cm of standard length. Specimens of 4 cm fed mainly on copepods like Pseudodiaptomus marshii and Acartia lilljerborgi, while individuals of standard length ³ 5 cm also eat decapods and barnacles larvae. Larger individuals showed preferences for crustacean decapods of Uca sp. and Acetes americanus, and to a lower extend for juveniles of Cathorops arenatus (Fig. 3).
Based on the conversion factors mentioned in the literature for the most common fed items, the different categories were transformed into energy units (Kcal) (Tab. II).
Based on the performed calculations presented in table II, the relative energetic intake for each prey and by predator was estimated (Tab. III).
The main energetic intake in the diet was due to fishes, whose size increases concomitantly with predators size.
The main energy flow in the Caeté Estuary was found to be of benthic origin (WOLFF et al. 2000). The present results indicate that demersal preys constitute the main feeding resources for the three fish species studied. However, it was showed clear difference in the qualitative composition of the diet between individuals of different sizes but belonging to a same species. This variation was related to predators digestive structures efficiency as a function of individual age, and to preys availability within the estuary. Based on the energetic input from planktonic preys, it can be hypothesized that juveniles have a higher feeding frequency in order to compensate for the relatively low supply in energy provided by their diet. On the other hand, the adults, who feed on bigger preys, would present a lower feeding frequency. The relatively high frequency of fishes and shrimps in predators stomachs, could be explained by the relatively high energetic value of these preys. The present results support WEATHERLEY (1972) finding, who reported higher metabolic rates for young fishes when compared to the adults, hence suggesting bigger feeding requirements of the formers.
The reconstruction of preys size and weight for several groups of vertebrate has already been applied to different aquatic environments as in Hansel et al. (1988), and PRENDA & GRANADO-LORENCIO (1992). This methodology, pursued in details, can provide accurate information on the energy requirements of an individual all along its ontogeny, but also on the relationships between preys and predators.
We are grateful to Dr Valérie Sarpédonti for her english corrections.
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