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Dear Friends and Families of Clyde-Green Springs,
Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. Please let us know what we can do to make it more user friendly. I am humbled to be Superintendent of a district that has such a rich history of community. Many of our residents have lived in this area for multiple generations. I respect that commitment and am motivated to build a relationship between our schools and the community members that represents that strong bond.
As I start my long journey as Superintendent please be sure to introduce yourself to me if we happen to meet. I am anxious to make new friends and am proud to now be a member of Flier Nation!
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Societe Generale SA, France's second- biggest bank by market value, plans to increase its real estate investment in Japan fivefold over the next three years. / Source: BloombergÏîäðîáíåå
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OOO Lenta, Russia's third-biggest food retailer, may sell shares next year to fund expansion as sales surge, Chief Executive Officer Sergei Yuschenko said. / Source: BloombergÏîäðîáíåå
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After the previous day's experiences, and after hearing many of the amazing artists at the Mizrahi Cabaret thank Flory Jagoda, who was among the public, for her guidance and mentorship, we just couldn't wait to see her! And who is this Flory Jagoda? The Japanese, in the 1950's, created a term for this kind of people: Living National Treasures (人間国宝, or ningen kokuhō). Flory, an 85 year old Jew from Sarajevo, gave us the honour of listening to her sing children songs she learned as a child in Vlasenica and Sarajevo. We heard songs, passed from generation to generation after the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, tinged with the sounds of the cultures they came across, and learned by Flory at a time and place that is no more. And it was one fun early afternoon of song and stories. They gave us the lyrics and, being children's songs, they were easy to follow, and soon we were all clapping and singing in Ladino! The linguist in me was so thrilled so see how their language had evolved after leaving Spain, how similar it was to Spanish, and what interesting quirks it had kept or developed since. I really, really enjoyed it.
After that delicious musical trip to the Balkans, we joined others for some Moldovan Roma dances, accompanied by a wonderful klezmer band, Steve Weintraub and the Other Europeans. My respects to Steve, who had dozens of us up and dancing in no time, and to The Other Europeans for playing such an upbeat and fun music!
Dancing was, naturally, followed by food! and my first ever taste of rugelach! (crudely put, the Jewish cousins of croissants?) I had so many of those, loved them!
The pièce de résistance of the day was a double concert: Divahn (remember this group of powerful female artists from my previous post?) accompanied by Yair Dalal, whose rythms and music at sundown were simply beyond extraordinarily beautiful, and Balkan Beat Box (like Yair Dalal, straight from Israel!). I'm listening right now to this last's albums right now, as I write. But that night, they had everyone, and that means EVERYONE, dancing, jumping, clapping, shouting... they had such energy on stage! This double concert was simply the perfect end to a full and incredible day.
There's only one more event to talk about, and since I promised this would be a two-part post, here it goes! On Monday (it was a holiday) there was a parade! It was quite interesting, and it truely reflected the multiculturalism of the Jewish people, spread as they are all over the world. Orient and Occident met, different musical traditions mingled, and we all followed the giant puppets of Shadowland Theatre around Harbourfront Centre, dancing, listening to stories, and all ending up with a huge Hora dance!
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The weigh in saw Kim looking very confident, almost showing his confident swagger whilst the experienced Angkotta looked some what apprehensive, as if he knew he was the clear under-dog.
The show, which is televised on Korean TV, is to be headlined by the Kim Vs Angkotta bout, though features an under-card with an international flavour as Japanese and Chinese fighters face off against each other, and local fighters, in what has been described as 3-nation mini tournament.
Strangely, at the time of writing, boxrec list a number of bouts from the under-card, all featuring Japanese fighters, but not this main event bout.
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Sun 75 – Liberty 60
Perhaps they'd gotten lulled into complacency, thinking they'd turned the corner with solid games against Los Angeles and Detroit. Or maybe it was just the up-and-down inconsistency of a young team that hasn't grown up or come together.
Either way, the made-over Liberty (1-5) were flat and uninspired in yesterday's 75-60 loss to Connecticut, a defeat at the Garden that dropped them into a tie with woe-be-gone Chicago for the worst record in the WNBA.
"I'm disappointed in our effort," said coach Pat Coyle. "Today we took a step back; that's what I'm disappointed in."
After losing by 17 in Connecticut (5-1) in the season-opener, the Liberty yesterday showed little fortitude or patience on the offensive end. They shot just 36.9 percent, settled for 20 3-point attempts, and let the game get away in a 17-0 run.
The image of forward Shameka Christon writhing in pain at the final buzzer, clutching at her twisted right ankle, typified their afternoon.
"We didn't play with the same kind of passion we played the last two games. It showed on the court," said Christon, who stepped on Taj McWilliams-Franklin's foot in the waning seconds. "We didn't play with any heart, aggression or energy. We were just out there."
For the Sun (5-1), guard Katie Douglas had a game-high 17 points, with McWilliams-Franklin adding 16 and 7-foot-2 Margo Dydek adding 10 and five blocks. The Liberty got 14 from forward Kelly Schumacher and 13 off the bench from rookie Ashley Battle.
Schumacher's foul shot put the Liberty ahead 16-10 with 2:51 left in the first quarter, but the Sun answered with their 17-0 run over the next 4:55. The Liberty hadn't committed a single turnover, running the pick-and-pop to perfection. When the Sun took that away, they committed seven turnovers in that run.
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Global Financial Crisis Act II – Deutsche Bank
Series: Global Financial Crisis Act II
With Brexit serving as the catalyst, Season 2 of the European banking crisis may be about to unfold.
The commercial break at the close of the opening act of the global financial crisis in 2008 is finished. Here comes Act 2 with the globe's most risky bank as featured guest.
Part 2 of the series describes the sequence of a typical bank failure and explores the list of options available to Deutsche Bank and the likely outcomes.
Clichés like "no respect" or "when it rains, it pours" do not begin to describe the predicament of the latest of a series of fallen bank giants.
The recent US Department of Justice's $14 billion claim against Deutsche Bank, German's largest and one of the world's top investment banks, for its criminally deceptive behavior in pushing toxic mortgage back securities leading up to the 2008 financial crisis is already wreaking havoc on the share prices of the banking sector in general and causing DB's stock price to swan dive.
Just-in news: several current and former managers of Deutsche Bank have been charged in Milan for colluding to falsify the accounts of Italy's third largest bank Monte Paschi, another major bank currently being resuscitated in the ICU, in an attempt to hide losses and manipulate the market. (link)
If you are part of the "So what? I don't bank with Deutsche." crowd or one of those who was broadsided by the 2008 financial crisis and are eager not to have same repeated to your financial well-being, you should pay close attention to this latest episode of the slow motion train wreck otherwise known as the global banking crisis.
One reason sufficient alone is that Act 2 of the banking crisis, when it washes ashore, will be much bigger than the first one.
Another sign that Act 2 is well past its opening scenes and is on its way to its climax is that the tempo of unfolding events has noticeably been picking up in the past few months. Things are coming to a head and painful and drastic decisions are getting increasingly difficult to be avoided or delayed.
How We Got Here
For those who just tuned in or want a better historical backdrop, here's a quick refresher of Act 1 of the global financial crisis.
Subprime mortgage crisis, circa 2008. The subprime housing mortgage which went sour in the US in 2007 resulted in a large number of financial actors, most notably banks and hedge funds, to fail due to the bad loans. The loan failures morphed into a much larger problem due to the use of derivatives by these players (see primer on derivatives). The prolific use and daisy chaining of opaque derivatives ensured that a single failure resulted in cascading failures for actors which are inextricably interconnected. The cascading failure crystallized into a major banking crisis when Lehman Brothers defaulted. Blackmailed by the major banks, the US government bailed out the major depository banks – as well as non-banks such as Goldman Sachs whose alumni member was none other than Hank Paulson who happened to be the serving Treasury Secretary. After the initial public outrage at the $800 billion bail-out price tag subsided, trillions more were secretly funneled to the bailed-out banks by the Fed in subsequent years. The dirt was swept under the carpet.
European sovereign debt crisis, circa 2010. Further bloated by the additional public debt created to bail out their banks, the erosion of investor confidence in the public debts of some lesser EU member nations, notably Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain (the PIIGS nations) culminated in a sovereign debt crisis which saw their bond interest rates go through the roof. The fix? The ECB printed hundreds of billions of Euros out of thin air to paper over the problem. Again, sweep it under the rug and hope it will go away.
Greek sovereign debt crisis, circa 2011. The European debt crisis re-emerged again as Greece was unable to roll over its debt. Fearing a Greek default would inflict fatal wounds to their own national banks which own a significant amount of Greek sovereign debts (a common practice among EU banks), creditor countries such as Germany and France arranged a bailout of the Greek government. The vast majority (upwards of 90%, link) of the bailout money ended up leaving Greece to pay off the foreign banks – a stealth way for other EU countries to bailout their own banks using (public) EU money and pile that debt onto the Greek citizens.
In the course of the subsequent years, the Greek debt crisis flared up giving rise to the Syriza Party taking over the government, promising to demand debt relief from the creditors. Refusing to discuss debt haircuts, the ECB threatened to cut off liquidity to Greek banks and succeeded in 'setting an example' on how debtor countries need to behave.
Cypriot bank bail-in, circa 2012. Overburdened by overextended bank loans going bad, the Greek government debt crisis and the downgrading of the country's sovereign debt rating, a banking crisis erupted in Cyprus resulting in a bailout from the ECB and IMF. Accompanying the closure of the country's second largest bank, a portion of the unsecured deposits there plus a portion of Cyprus' largest bank were confiscated, or bailed-in, as part of the rescue conditions. (See Bail-in At Your Local Bank series)
The EU hailed the bail-in mechanism as a new beginning which should serve as a template to deal with future banking crises in the EU (link) . In other words, no more you the taxpayer bail out failing banks; instead, you the bank depositor will be bailed in to save failing banks.
Underground smothering fires, circa 2013 – 2015. In between acts of major banking crises, there have been numerous minor acts of sub-terrain mini crises, the majority of which escaped by accident – or not – the attention of the mainstream media. Among them were the problems with banks in Portugal, Spain, and Austria. (links here and here)
Disastrous policy, unintended consequences, circa 2008 – 2015. One fundamental underlying problem with the EU banking system is the amount of questionable sovereign debts and non-performing commercial loans (NPLs) in their books. Not only are they not turning healthy again, the years of economic stagnation resulted in the NPLs continuing to balloon.
Throughout the major crises which broke out and all subsequent smaller fires which flared up on regular occasions, the standard practice of the ECB was to paper over them with money printed out of thin air. The ECB forced interest rates to zero and even negative in its misguided hope to encourage borrowing. Ironically, not only did this perverse monetary policy not encourage people to borrow more or the banks to lend more, the collapsing yields take away one of the key revenue sources of the commercial banks, pushing them further into financial dire straits. Talk about unintended consequences.
Italian banking crisis, circa 2012 – 2015. The Italian banking crisis is as predictable as night following day and its underlying causes and failure trajectory are not different from the other lesser banking crisis mentioned above. The key difference, though, is that Italy is the third largest economy in the EU and the failing banking sector is too big for the EU to sweep under the carpet or squash with its thumbs like it did on Greece and Cyprus. (See European Banking Crisis Season 2 Is At Hand)
EU bail-in regime, circa 2016. A new bail-in regime went into effect on Jan 1, 2016 throughout the EU. The purpose of the new rule is to prevent EU member countries from using taxpayers' money to bail out failing banks. Instead, creditors of the failing banks will first share the burden of rescuing the banks – in order words, creditors are being bailed-in. Creditors would be bailed in according to their seniority. Among such creditors, notably, include retail depositors who happen to be the least senior unsecure creditors of the banks.
Monte Paschi, circa 2016. The latest in a series of bank failures falls on Monte Paschi, the country's oldest and third largest bank. After several failed attempts to ring-fence the bad debt and re-capitalize the ailing going concern and the latest attempt (circa Aug 2016) to arrange a private bail-out from its banking peers which is looking increasingly shaky (link), there is rising expectation that Italy will be calling for a public bailout of Monte Paschi.
Determined to enforce the newly enacted bail-in regime, Germany, the biggest creditor in the EU, is adamant that a bail-in should be applied over any bail-out. She insists that creditors such as bondholders (and depositors) should be bailed in and then, and only then, taxpayers' funds get used. However, for Italy, many bondholders also happen to be retail investors and savers. Facing an October referendum on constitutional reform, over the defeat of which the Renzi government offers to resign, in the process potentially ushering in a first anti-EU party which openly calls for an exit from the Eurozone, the least the Renzi government can afford to do is to bail-in its citizens (bondholders or depositors), not to mention the mere hint of a bail-in could trigger a bank-run on Monte and possibly the entire Italian banking sector.
The disagreements between Italy on one side and the ECB and particularly Germany on the other have gradually devolved from behind-closed-doors diplomatic private debates to public shouting matches, and the sugar coating from both sides is wearing thin.
To wit, responding to the Bundesbank's lecture on the importance of sticking to the bail-in regime, the pissed Renzi fired back, saying that the Bundesbank needed to solve the problem of German banks which had "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of Euros of derivatives" on their books. (link)
The bank which Renzi was referring to, of course, is Deutsche Bank.
Which brings us to the present topic at hand. Sorry for the long winding road to get here.
Deutsche Bank – Why It's a Big Deal?
On the surface, the common problems faced by Germany's largest bank are no different from those faced by other European and international banks.
In terms of bad loans, the bank has its share of NPLs just like other banks, thanks to the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing economic depression in Europe and elsewhere. A large pile of the bad debt is known and some of that gets transferred to the ECB via various quantitative easing programs and other money printing mechanisms. Others are buried and hidden under creative accounting.
In terms of criminal behavior, the bank is no worse than other mega banks which have been repeatedly caught money laundering, peddling toxic mortgage debts to unsuspecting retail investors, manipulating the LIBOR market, fixing the currency market and manipulating the bullion market. Just like other banks, no executives have been prosecuted, let alone jailed to date for said crimes. Again, it is just another too-big-to-jail criminal enterprise.
What makes Deutsche Bank stand out from other too-big-to-fail peers is, of course, its derivatives books.
With a notional amount between $75 and $42 trillion (yes, trillion with a T; that's a thousand billion), depending on who you ask, the size of its derivatives book is 20 times Germany's GDP and 5 times bigger than the entire output of the Euro zone. Its sheer size edges out other behemoth too-big-to-fail banks such as JP Morgan and Citibank and earns the bank the dubious distinction of what the IMF calls 'the most important net contributor to systemic risks'.
Counterparties of Deutsche Bank (source IMF)
What makes these derivatives singularly scariest is the interconnectedness among the counterparties. As the above chart courtesy of the IMF shows, the linkages among these banks through derivatives and other non-exchange-based, over-the-counter arrangements reach wide and deep. Nobody, including Deutsche itself, knows for sure how long the daisy chain is linked and who is counterparty to whom along each link. Should this time bomb go off, the cascading failures will certainly take down the financial market in a flash.
As mentioned above, when Renzi snarled at the Bundesbank, telling it "to solve the problem of German banks which had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of Euros of derivatives on their books", Renzi 'went there' and uttered the dreaded word Voldemort, so to speak, without name-dropping the bank, and merely pointed to the biggest elephant in the room – one big elephant which is so giant and discussion of which presence has been carefully avoided by extend-and-pretenders, the mainstream media, the banking industry and its regulators, as any mention of such dreaded word would simply destroy the narrative that the root cause of the financial crisis has been solved.
Unfolding Events
The slow motion collapse of Deutsche since the last financial crisis has seen 90 percent of its share prices erased since its height before 2008. Here's an abbreviated timeline.
- January 2015 – Amid regulatory and criminal investigations, the board sent two of its CEO's packing. (link)
- October 2015 – The bank announced major assets write-down resulting in a Q3 loss of 5 billion Euros. (link)
- October 2015 – in full-blown survival mode, Deutsche eliminated stock dividend and fired 25 percent of its workforce, some 23,000 workers. (link)
- July 2016 – the shock wave from the Brexit vote sent the European banking sectors reeling. Having lost close to 50 percent of its share value in the past 12 months alone, Deutsche share price now hovered around €11. A single-digit share price for a bank historically signals a precursor to a bank-run of said bank. (see European Banking Crisis Season 2 Is At Hand)
Which brings us to just about this past week.
Unfortunately for the bank, the events are now coming fast and furious and there are now clear indications that both the bank and the regulators are losing control of the situation. Denials start to fly and the blame game goes public.
Here are some of the rapidly unfolding events as we speak:
- The US DoJ demanded $14 billion for its toxic mortgages criminal transgression. Merkel said Germany government will not interfere. (link)
- Merkel said no bailout for Deutsche. (link)
- Deutsche share price dropped below single digit first time ever. (link)
- Deutsche CEO said share price collapse a result of 'perception issue'. LOL (link)
- Hedge funds and other investment funds started pulling cash and moved part of their derivatives holdings to other banks. (link)
In Part 2 of the series, we will describe the causes and sequence of a bank collapse. We will also explore the set of action choices laid in front of the authorities and the likely scenarios soon to unfold in this Deutsche saga.
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A bit sloppy in terms of the graphics, green-screening, as well as some of the elements and animation (so sloppy all around really) but in general this was a good introduction to using Motion and I'm pleased with how it turned out. Thanks guys at Ripple Training. Good stuff!
On another note trying to post anything to a blog using Zenfolio is really an exercise in frustration. No direct updates. Videos posted must first be uploaded to a gallery etc etc. Good grief. I think I hear Square Space calling my name sometime in June :o/
Meanwhile enjoy this fake commercial for Goddess Shampoo :)


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TBWA\PR loves the new media
Today's Web 2.0 is fast changing the way the world interacts with media. Are any PR agencies adapting to the new world of communication?
Yes. One agency that's leading the way is TBWA\PR. Established in 2006, it has swiftly emerged as one of the fastest-growing PR consultancies in the country because it understands this change.
"As mainstream media becomes an ever-smaller part of our information input, organisations need to understand and get involved with the important influencer networks that really form purchasing decisions," says Kelly Bennett, managing partner at TBWA\PR.
Flossie's men
It's in the online space that these networks present the most exciting opportunities for PR. It's not every day an agency gets to work with Movac, backers of the incredibly successful Trade Me website, and help launch a new online venture. But that's exactly what happened when TBWA\PR commenced work on promoting women's website network, Flossie.com.
To illustrate that Flossie.com has something for every woman, the wider TBWA\TEQUILA agency devised the strapline "Whatever you need, it's on us" and created the world's first-ever Man Vending Machine.
TBWA\PR led the charge in terms of making this concept come to light: a real, working vending machine was adapted to dispense real live single men on a busy Auckland inner city street. The Man Vending Machine satisfied over 200 women, drew big crowds, got national news coverage across multiple media, and both the story and video footage were picked up on websites and blogs around the world. And a viral clip of the man vending stunt has clocked up nearly 25,000 hits on YouTube. The result? Flossie.com smashed its 12-month traffic targets in just two months and is now the number-one ranked network for females in New Zealand.
Despite the increasing fragmentation of traditional communications channels, however, mass media will never disappear. Societies are always going to be bound together by having a common reference point to discuss and engage with—and it's often the mainstream network news.
Nando's bends it
When David Beckham and the LA Galaxy football team arrived for the second time in New Zealand late last year, Nando's immediately recognised an opportunity to align itself closely with sport's biggest global superstar.
And while his visit is now remembered for all the wrong reasons (the ARC's over-enthusiasm and mismanagement notwithstanding), TBWA\PR's campaign activity ensured Nando's 'owned' the event, despite the fact they were only a third-tier sponsor.
To ensure this happened, TBWA\PR consultants donned sassy cheerleading outfits, set off at the crack of dawn for the airport and positioned themselves with a brand banner proclaiming "David's Hot—But We're Hotter".
This cheeky word play on the hot Peri-Peri sauce (an integral part of Nando's culinary proposition) worked a treat. The stunt launched 'Nando's Cheerleaders', as the media referred to them, on to TV3, TVNZ, Prime News and C4, generating massive word of mouth.
PlayStation games
When the sequel to PlayStation's Resistance: Fall of Man, Resistance 2, was announced, TBWA\PR had to look at new ways to engage gamers and build excitement.
With some fantastic new media content available and an established community of Resistance fans, it set about building hype and expectation for the impending arrival of Resistance 2.
The first port of call was to establish a substantial online hub in conjunction with New Zealand's most trusted source of gaming information. From there TBWA\PR drip-fed a managed stream of exclusive trailers, interviews, updates on the game, previews and reviews. In addition, it used exclusive offers including a downloadable beta trial version of the game, where winners had a first hand preview of the game before anyone else.
The hub rapidly became the place where gamers from around the country and even overseas headed for Resistance 2 news. It was so popular that during the Resistance 2 beta trial, TBWA\PR's media partner's servers crashed. Coupled with the concerted online effort, substantive feature articles were secured within the mainstream media.
Altogether, TBWA\PR generated a phenomenal return on investment of 113 to one, and the title delivered exceptional sales in the key Christmas retail period, standing out in a cluttered and competitive retail market.
This kind of work is a long road from bashing out a well-worded release to the press, says Bennett, but it's also a whole lot more fun.
"We're pleased to be part of the new wave of PR practitioners who have the confidence and competence to play in entirely new fields of media and communication," he says. "It's great that we're getting under people's skin, and being a part of people's lives but we don't have to annoy them or interrupt them to make ourselves heard. We're just trying to have fun and make things interesting."
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The kick is in the air, and Mark is returning the kick. God is down one, but he's got quite a few victories under his belt, so he's been in this situation before.
In Mark chapter 7, we find Jesus replying to the "your-disciples-didn't-wash-their-hands" comment made by a group of Pharisees and teachers of religious law. He says:
"You hypocrites! Isaiah was prophesying about you when he said: 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away. Their worship is a farce, for they replace God's commands with their own man-made teachings.' For you ignore God's specific laws and substitute, your own traditions."
(Emphasis mine) The emphasis is intended to show that Jesus is setting man's teaching apart from God's.
This is Jesus, the son of God (and God as well), saying that God's laws are superior. That's pretty straightforward. God's laws > man's laws. (For you Fraction Freaks that breaks down to God > man)
It's all knotted; 3-3
Then we see in Matthew 5, Jesus talking about the law. (5:17-20)
"Don't misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to fulfill them. I assure you, until heaven and earth disappear, even the smallest detail of God's law will remain until its purpose is achieved. So if you break the smallest commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God's laws and teaches them will be great in the Kingdom of Heaven."
The bible put a paragraph break right here, so I thought now would be a good time to point out something. Notice the last two sentences? Read them again. waiting… I find that interesting. It doesn't say that if you break the tiniest commandment you'll be damned to hell. (excuse my potty-mouth, but this is bible-speak, so it's acceptable 😉 ) It says that you will be the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. Read the following, and I'll comment more.
"But I warn you–unless you obey God better than the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees do, you can't enter the Kingdom of Heaven at all!"
The second part says you won't make it into the Kingdom of Heaven at all if you "follow" the commandments like the Pharisees. I think this means that it's a heart issue.
Where is your heart at when you are following the commandments?
Are you following the letter of the law, unwillingly. Or are you actually following the spirit of the law, in order to follow God, who you trust to work things out, even if they (the things) don't look good when your in the thick of it.
Now, let's look at an entirely new perspective. Your gonna have to read this on your own, but I'll paraphrase for you. It is a letter that is from King Artaxerxes, to Ezra the priest. It is in Ezra chapter 7, verse 11, to whenever you want to stop 🙂
Basically, King Artaxerxes, who introduces himself "king of kings", is bossing around God's priest. He isn't mean, but he is definitely the authority in his realm, and he wants everyone to know it. (When I say "bossing" that's a bit strong. He's really just setting some boundaries for the priest.) The letter is pretty much a "King-Artaxerxes-said-so" letter, and it lays out what Ezra is allowed to be/must be given.
He instructs his people to "…[B]e careful to provide whatever the God of heaven demands for his Temple, for why should we risk bringing God's anger against the realm of the king and his sons."
Artaxerxes is not a full on believer in God, and that we should follow him, but he does fear the Lord, and his power. So he isn't stupid.
Artaxerxes ends his letter, "Anyone who refuses to obey the law of your God and the law of the king will be punished immediately by death, banishment, confiscation of goods, or imprisonment."
He definitely realizes which side is the winning side, and he's no idiot when it comes to allies.
Point being, this king, a man in authority, realizes that God is in charge. (This is a trait of early U.S. presidents. They were typically firm believers in God the Father, and they said so.)
So even when they're in authority, kings, presidents, and prime ministers all agree that God is in charge.
God > man = 4-3 God.
A man I respect answered my questioning of his opinion as follows:
"We obey human authority because we love God.
"Jesus said if we love God, we obey His commands.
"Paul said one of God's commands is to obey governing authorities (Rom 13)
and parental authorities (Eph 6) and congregational authority (Heb 13, and
I'm not sure Paul wrote Hebrews, but Jim Walker thinks he did!).
"So, we choose to voluntarily submit ourselves to others, out of our
obedience to God.
"However, when human authorities (be they government officials, church
leaders, or parents) instruct us to disobey God, we can't, because first and
foremost, we love God (Acts 3/4 as well as your Acts 5 passage)."
I agree with this, and I think it pretty much sums it up.
Put simple: God made the world. God makes the final decision. God > man.
BUT I have come to the conclusion, that when God and man don't contradict, the man in charge on earth is to be listened to. We are supposed to respect everyone, God said so.
And considering that "We obey human authority because we love God," I think that:
God > man. Man should follow God. If man doesn't, God is always trump.


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November 18, 2014
livin' in ditmas parkThere is a pretty unique situation happening in my happenin' Brooklyn neighborhood of Ditmas Park. (If you are not local to NYC, Ditmas is a leafy nabe in the dead center of the borough filled with gorgeous Victorians, and adjacent to some of the most ethnically diverse areas in the entire city.) What's going on? We have our very own crime wave, with five armed robberies in the past three weeks. And these are not your garden variety stick-ups, but rather hold-ups of bars and restaurants with the customers in them. One happened a block away from my apartment, at 8:30 at night. Scary stuff!
Not that I'm actually scared. I might be a little too chill for that — this is clearly a crew that is pushing their luck, and are destined to be behind bars soon even though our precinct is a little bit less than ept. However, my many friends in the service industry are rightfully freaked out, and the people who I've met who were victims are well shook up.
But as interesting as it is to live through this truly novel time, the real interest is in how our little community is reacting to it. Which is to say, thoughtfully, and also garbage.
There's a little website that serves as our town square, Ditmas Park Corner, and it is in the comments that these conversations are happening. I know: never read the comments, and obviously the content therein is mitigated by whatever 21st Century malady that enables people to act like absolute monsters when anonymous and on the web. But there is some honest talk about gentrification, or, to put a less glamorous moniker on it, what is happening to cities like New York and the many many neighborhoods thereof. Even outside of the boom times, there is a push and pull between longtime residents and the news ones that move in. And we are in a boom time, real estate-wise, so that tension is a lot more tense.
And even in the garbage comments there's a possibly nuanced conversation (except for the one racist dude who always deletes his comment — eff him), as there are two or three commenters who truly believe that the crime wave is not the result of the pressures of gentrification, but rather our new mayor, Bill de Blasio, who they blame for tying the hands of the police by cutting back on stop and frisk. Now this is nonsense of course (S&F was being cut back two years before de Blasio was swept into office), but hey, let's do talk about policing! Our precinct traditionally is more of a responsive force than a patrolling force, and it was rare that you would see a cop that wasn't actually at a crime scene.
Good news: in recent days I've seen foot patrols. It's not quite a return to the beat cop, which I'd prefer, but it's a start.
Anyhow! Interesting times, and it's nice to realize that your community is a living breathing organism.
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By Nate Raymond
BOSTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Monday said a quirk in the trial verdict of a Massachusetts pharmacist cleared of murder for selling fungus-ridden steroids that killed 64 people in 2012 meant that a judge could still consider the murder allegations at his sentencing.
A federal jury in March found Barry Cadden, the co-founder and ex-president of New England Compounding Center, guilty on racketeering and fraud counts but cleared him of the most serious charges, second-degree murder, for his role in a meningitis outbreak that sickened 753 people in 20 states, killing 64.
But when the 12 jurors filled out their verdict slip, rather than just checking findings of "guilty" or "not guilty," they filled in numbers that prosecutors now say reflected vote counts showing a majority found Cadden guilty on 21 of 25 murder counts.
The U.S. Attorney's office in Massachusetts argued in a motion filed on Monday that the verdict form showed jurors believed Cadden was guilty of murder and want the judge to consider that fact in determining his sentence on June 26.
Former prosecutors said they had never seen a verdict slip quite like it.
"While they failed to reach unanimity on these racketeering acts, the jury's verdict confirmed that the murder racketeering acts were proven by a preponderance of the evidence in this case, and can be properly considered at sentencing," prosecutors wrote in the filing.
Their argument might work since judges at sentencing can consider conduct proven by a standard lower than what jurors are instructed to follow to convict someone, said David Schumacher, former deputy chief of the health care fraud unit of the U.S. Attorney's office.
"They have a very good argument," he said. "They actually have documentary evidence prosecutors never have in criminal cases."
A conviction on any of the 25 acts of second-degree murder Cadden faced under a racketeering law could have exposed him to life in prison. He could still face decades behind bars.
A lawyer for Cadden did not respond to a request for comment. In court papers, his lawyers have disputed that the jury did not clearly acquit him and said prosecution claims to the contrary were "wishful thinking."
Cadden, 50, was one of only two out of 14 people indicted in 2014 connected to the scandal at the Framingham, Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center to face murder charges. The other murder defendant, former supervisory pharmacist Glenn Chin, is scheduled go on trial on Sept. 19. He has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors said that in 2012, the compounding pharmacy sent out 17,600 vials of steroids labeled sterile that were contaminated with mold to 23 states and that Cadden ignored the rules and put profits before patients. Cadden denied wrongdoing.
(Adds missing word "care" to 7th paragraph.)
(Reporting by Nate Raymond; editing by Scott Malone and Tom Brown)
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Citizens launch the United Christian Forum for Human Rights.
National Helpline (1-800-208-4545) assures legal aid for victims of targeted violence.
New Delhi: January 19. The United Christian Forum for Human Rights (UCF) was officially launched at the New Delhi YWCA earlier today after a series of communal violence and targeted attacks against the community. All major denominational and non-denominational Christian groups came together to voice its concern against arson and attacks to the minority community particularly Christians in India. The Forum has been created to coordinate legal as well as support assistance to the community traumatized by communal violence in several states.
Christians attacked and Hospitalized in Chhattisgarh ,India
One arrested in connection with Indian priest Alexis Prem Kumar's abduction in Afghanistan
Afghan security forces Wednesday arrested a suspect in connection with the kidnapping of an Indian aid worker in western Herat province, a media report said.
Minorities in Pakistan Fear 'Forced Conversion' to Islam
Minority communities in Pakistan have long had a raw deal. Accounting for just 10 percent of this country's population of 180 million, they are no strangers to marginalisation, discrimination or even violence.
Jesuit Refugee Service Country Director of Afghanistan abducted from Herat
An Indian aid worker was Monday abducted from Herat in Afghanistan by unidentified gunmen, days after the Indian consulate in the province was attacked.
The Indian, hailing from from Tamil Nadu, was working with an educational charity in Afghanistan and was abducted in the afternoon, according to top official sources.
Christian in Pakistan Sent to Prison for 'Blasphemy,' in Spite of Accuser's Retraction
A court in Pakistan on Saturday (July 13) sentenced a Christian to life in prison for alleged blasphemy in spite of the complainant retracting the accusation and admitting police pressured him into making it, his attorney said.
Indian Christian association gives memo to MP governor
Members of Madhya Pradesh Christian Association met governor Ramnaresh Yadav and submitted a memorandum demanding not to give his assent to the 'The Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion (amendment) Bill, 2013'.
Three Christian women paraded naked in Pakistan, probe ordered
Over a month after a Muslim landlord allegedly paraded three Christian women naked in Pakistan's Punjab province, a court Lahore has finally taken notice of the matter and directed a judge to investigate the incident.The Lahore high court on Friday ordered the district and sessions judge, Kasur, to probe the matter and submit a report within two weeks.


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cool funny jokes
Santa: So, you are distantly related to the family next door, are you?
Banta: Yes, their dog is our dog's brother.
2 Haryanvi men were searching for their lost wife in a festival at Hissar city.
First Haryanvi: How does your wife look like?
Second Haryanvi: She is 5'7", 36-24-36 sexy figure; fair, sweet, beautiful, green sexy eyes, brown hair... And yours?
First Haryanvi: Forget mine; let us look for yours...
A Sardar Doctor and Pundit loved same girl.
Pundit started giving an apple to the girl everyday.
Sardar Doctor asked: WHY??
Pundit: An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
Santa has to sell his dog. Banta wants to buy it.
Banta: Is this dog faithful?
Santa: Yes, I have sold it 3 times earlier also. It is so faithful, every time it returned back to me.
My sweet girlfriend had habit of biting her fingernails. She started doing YOGA to treat the problem. Soon her finger-nails started growing normally.
Seeing this, I asked if yoga had totally cured her problem.
"No," she replied with a funny sweet smile, "but now I can reach my toe-nails so I bite them instead."
A dog thinks: My owners feed me, love me, provide me with a nice house, and take good care of me... They must be gods!
A cat thinks: My owners feed me, love me, provide me with a nice house and take good care of me...
I must be a god!
Santa: I got married because I was tired of cooking, clean ing home and washing clothes.
Banta: Amazing, I got divorce for the same reason.
A Very Funny beautiful girl was a college student.
Once Very Funny Girl comes late to class.
Teacher: Why are you late?
Very Funny Girl : One boy was following me, sir.
Teacher: So, What?
Very Funny Girl: That boy was walking very slow.
Santa asks Priest: Why did god make women so beautiful?
Priest: So that you will love them.
Santa thinks for a short time...
Santa: But why did God make them so dumb?
Priest: So that they will love you.
Santa & Banta got tired using mobile cell phones. For a change, they decided to use pigeons to send sweet messages. And this hilarious scheme worked very fine.
One day Santa sends his pigeon.
Banta sees, the pigeon is without any message. He picks his mobile and asks Santa: The pigeon is without any sweet message.
Santa: Oye khotey, that was a missed call.
Museum Watchman: That's a 500 year old statue you have broken.
Funny Sharma: Thanks God! I thought it was a new one.
Sardar Ji: Why have you increased speed of car?
Laloo: Break has failed. We should reach home before accident.
Santa was weeping at a grave, "Why did you die? Why did you die? Your death ruined my life."
Banta: For whom do you mourn so deeply? A child? A parent? Wife? or Girlfriend ?
Santa: My wife's first husband.
Husband: I want divorce. My wife hasn't spoken to me in six months.
Lawyer: Think about it once again. Wives like that are hard to get!
American Girl: When my grandfather died he left 10 million dollars.
Indian Girl: When my grandfather died he left 20 million dollars.
Pakistani Girl: That's nothing, When my grandfather died he left the whole world.
Sardarji saw two Pakistani workers in Karachi. One of them dig a hole, and the other guy immediately fill it with soil again. They repeated the work again and again.
Sardarji couldn't understand their job. He asked the Pakistanis about it.
Paki Worker replied: The third guy who plants the trees in holes is on leave today, & we are doing our duty.
Husband: Honey, I invited a friend home for dinner.
Wife: What? Are you crazy? The house is a mess, all the dishes are dirty, and I can't cook meal.
Funny Husband: I know all that.
Wife: Then why did you invite the friend?
Funny Husband: Because the poor fool is thinking about getting married.
Patient: I have swallowed a key.
Sardar Doctor: When?
Patient: 3 months back!
Sardar Doctor: What were you doing till now?
Patient: I was using duplicate key, now I have lost it too.
First Kid: Once when I was playing on a road, a speeding bike hit me and I fell down on the earth unconsciously.
Second Kid: Oh my God! Did you survive that accident or you died.
First Kid: I don't remember exactly, I was only 3 yeas old at that time
A newly wed Nigger wife talks to her husband.
Nigger Wife: Our new neighbor always kisses his wife when he goes to work, why don't you do that?
Nigger Husband: How can I? I don't even know her.
An old Nigger buys hearing aids from a doctor.
Doctor: Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased.
Nigger: Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around them and listen to their conversations. In a month, I've changed my will three times!
After becoming the CM of Bihar, Laalu ji decides to pose for a picture along with a herd of buffaloes with his elbows resting on the back of the cattle.
Next day the photo appears in
a newspaper with caption:
"Laalu ji, third from left".
A Kid calls the Help Desk to complain a computer problem.
Kid: When I type computer password, it just shows star star star star. Whatz the joke?
Help Desk: Dear kid, those stars are to protect you, so that if a person standing behind, he can't read your password.
Kid: Yeah, but stars appear even when there is no one standing behind me.
Funny Blonde man was filling up an application form for a job.
He promptly filled the columns titled NAME, AGE, ADDRESS etc.
Then Blonde man came to the column SEX. He was not sure as to what to be filled there. After much thought he wrote THRICE A WEEK.
Clerk told him to write either MALE or FEMALE.
Again Funny Blonde man thought for a long time before coming up with the answer PREFERABLY FEMALES
A Teacher lecturing on population:
In India after every 10 seconds, a women gives birth to a kid.
Lalu stands up: We must find & stop her.
A rich Sardarji needed blood for his heart surgery.
He got it from a poor Bania.
Sardarji gave him 5 million dollars. Once again the Sardar needed blood for surgery.
Bania was more than happy to donated blood again. This time, Sardar just gave him a Cadburies Chocolate. Bania asked the reason.
Sardar: Now I also have Bania blood in my body.
A Russian ship was sinking.
Captain: Does any one know how to pray?
An Indian priest (pandit) comes forward and says he can pray.
Captain: Ok priest, you pray; Everyone else in ship will wear a life jacket. We are short of one.
Blonde Wife: Look a thief has entered our kitchen and he is eating the cake I prepared.
Annoyed Husband: Whom should I call now, Police or Ambulance...?!
Two short men were sitting inside a hospital.
First short man was crying loudly.
Second short man asked "Why"?
First short man: They will cut my finger for medical blood test.
Hearing this second short man started crying even louder.
First short man asked "Why"?
Second short man: I have come for my urine test.
Laloo and his wife Rabri were angry with each other and were not talking to each other.
Laloo left a note on Rabri's bedside table that said: "Dear Wife! Awake me at 5 am tomorrow."
Next morning, Laloo awoke at 8 am and saw a note on his bedside table: "Dear Husband It's 5 O' Clock, get up.
School Kid: Why are some of your hair white mom?
Mom: Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me unhappy, one of my hair turns white.
Funny Kid thought for a moment, and then said, "Mamma, how come *all* of grandma's hair are white?"
A Pakistani army soldier walks into his officer's room.
To impress him, the army office picks the phone, dials a number and said "Yes sir, I understand sir. I will tell the Prime Minister. Goodbye."
Looking at the soldier he barked "What do you want?"
"Nothing sir." he replied. "I just came to install your telephone."
Little boy: Aunty, what is inside your stomach?
Pregnant Lady: It's a cute little baby.
Little Boy: If it is cute, why did u eat it?
Santa: What is the difference between "complete and finish"?
Banta: When you marry a right person you arecomplete and when you marry the wrong one you are finished!!!!!
A Gujarati decides to study English. He learns an essay 'FRIEND', but in the exam an essay on 'FATHER' comes.
He replaced friend with father in the essay. It read:
I am a very fatherly person, I have many fathers. Some of my fathers are male and some are female. I have a new neighbor; I wish to make him my new father.
Maths teacher: If you have 12 chocolates and you give
5 to Priya,
3 to Sonia and
2 to Neha
then what will u get????
Kid: 3 New Girlfriends Mam!!!
A young man was sitting in his office on the thirteenth floor.
A Sardar Ji came running.
Sardar Ji shouted: "Laloo, your daughter Sweety is badly injured in accident".
Not knowing what to do, the young man jumped from his office window in panic to go as-early-as-possible.
While coming down when he was near tenth floor, he remembered he had no daughter named Sweety.
When he was near the fifth floor he remembered he was not married.
When he was about to hit the ground he remembered he was not Laloo.
There were two desi lovers: Lalu & Rabri. They loved each other so much that they planned to do Suicide.
Lalu jumped first.
Now it was Rabri's turn.
Rabri closed her eyes, and returned back saying Love is Blind.
Lalu, in mid-air opened his parachute saying Love never Dies.
A Nigger sent an SMS to his pregnant wife.
A couple of seconds later the Nigger received a report on his phone and he started to dance. The report said: "Delivered".
First Sardar Ji: What are the fastest means of communication?
Second Sardar Ji: Telephone, Television, Tell-a-woman
Need still FASTER - Tell her NOT to tell ANY ONE.
Santa: Why didn't you marry?
Banta: I was searching for an
ideal match.
Santa: So, you didn't find an ideal girl?
Banta: I found one.
Santa: Then?
Banta: She was also searching for an ideal match.


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Neomonachus schauinslandi
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Neomonachus schauinslandi (Matschie, 1905)
Common Name(s):
Monachus schauinslandi Matschie, 1905
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Scheel D.M., Slater G.J., Kolokotronis S-O., Potter C.W., Rotstein D.S., Tsangaras K., Greenwood, A.D. and Helgen, K.M. 2014. Biogeography and taxonomy of extinct and endangered monk seals illuminated by ancient DNA and skull morphology. ZooKeys 409: 1-33.
|Taxonomic Notes:
The genus Monachus previously included three geographically widely separated species: the Mediterranean Monk Seal, Monachus monachus; the Caribbean Monk Seal, M. tropicalis; and the Hawaiian Monk Seal, M. schauinslandi (Rice 1998). Recent studies (Scheel et al. 2014) have shown that molecular, morphological, and temporal divergence between the Mediterranean and New World Monk Seals (Hawaiian and Caribbean) is equivalent to or greater than between sister genera of other phocids. As a result, Caribbean and Hawaiian Monk Seals have been reclassified together in a newly erected genus, Neomonachus. Considered the most primitive of all living phocid species, Monk Seals have anatomical features that resemble those of seal fossils from 14-16 million years ago (Barnes et al. 1985). Studies of N. schauinslandi DNA microsatellites revealed unprecedented low levels of diversity and heterozygosity. Evidence indicates low genetic diversity prior to recorded human influence, little contemporary inbreeding, and no significant population structure (Schultz et al. 2009, 2010).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered C1 ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Littnan, C., Harting, A. & Baker, J.
|Karamanlidis, A.A. & Trillmich, F.
|Aguilar, A.
|Lowry, L., Ahonen, H., Chiozza, F. & Battistoni, A.
The Hawaiian Monk Seal population was observed to decline from 1,520 total individuals in 1983 to 1,209 in 2011. The number of mature individuals in the entire population in 2011 was 632, a reduction of 20.4% from the 795 mature individuals in 1983. Currently the species is still in overall decline with two distinct trajectories between the populations in the NWHI (4.0% per year decline) and the MHI (6.5% per year increase; Caretta et al. 2013). The NWHI decline is mainly due to food limitation that could be due to changes in oceanographic conditions, legacy impacts of fisheries, or competition with other predators. The overall decline of more than 20% within two generations (30 years) meets IUCN criterion C1 for Endangered.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Hawaiian Monk Seals occur throughout the Hawaiian Island chain. Their six main reproductive sites are in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) at Kure Atoll, Midway Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lisianski Island, Laysan Island, and French Frigate Shoals (National Marine Fisheries Service 2007). While sightings were previously rare in the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI), Monk Seals are now regularly seen there and births have been documented on all of the major islands (Baker and Johanos 2004). Sightings outside of the main range have occurred at Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island (Ragen and Lavigne 1999).
Hawaiian Monk Seals are non-migratory, and tend to remain near the atoll where they were born. However, approximately 10% of seals will relocate temporarily or permanently to other sites in the island chain, and long distance wanderers have been recorded.
There are approximately 1,693 km of coastline habitat for Monk Seals in Hawaii (US Census Bureau 2012). However, the terrestrial habitat available for their use in the NWHI is very limited. The total area of emergent land is only about 13.5 km² and only a fraction of that is suitable for use by seals (Ragen and Lavigne 1999).
The extent of occurrence for Hawaiian Monk seals is approximately 1,500,000 km² and the area of occupancy is approximately 293,000 km².
|Countries occurrence:
Native:United States (Hawaiian Is.)
Vagrant:United States Minor Outlying Islands (Johnston I. - Native, US Line Is., Wake Is.)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Pacific – northwest; Pacific – eastern central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Hawaiian Monk Seals are distributed throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago. Within the Monk Seal's range, two regions are often distinguished: the NWHI, comprising eight subpopulations located on remote atolls and small islands, and the MHI, comprising eight large high islands and associated small islets. Seals in the MHI are considered to be a single subpopulation. The status of the Hawaiian Monk Seal is assessed annually and updated by the US National Marine Fisheries Service's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. The most recent reliable abundance estimates, from 2011, were used for this assessment.
The generation time for Hawaiian Monk Seals, estimated as the average age of reproducing individuals, is approximately 15 years. The best estimate of the total number of seals of all age classes in 2011 is 1,209. The population is comprised of approximately 632 sexually mature seals with the following distribution across subpopulations: Kure Atoll 58, Midway Atoll 27, Pearl and Hermes Reef 101, Lisianski Island 77, Laysan Island 113, French Frigate Shoals 117, Necker Island 38, Nihoa Island 43, and the MHI 58 (NMFS unpublished data).
The earliest information on Monk Seal abundance comes from 1958 (Kenyon and Rice 1959, Rice 1960). However, those data consisted of beach counts only and did not include an estimate of total population size. In order to compare total abundance over time, we have used an estimate for NWHI abundance in 1983 (Gerrodette 1985) at which time there were negligible numbers of seals known to exist in the MHI. This number is compared to the 2011 estimate for total abundance for both the NWHI and MHI. The total abundance estimate for 1983 was 1,520. In 2011, total range-wide abundance was estimated to be 1,209. Over this 28 year period the number of mature individuals declined by 20.4%, from 795 to 632. Extrapolating this decline pattern across two generations (30 years: 1984-2014) gives an estimated overall decline of 21.8%.
Overall, the Monk Seal population is still in decline, but with two distinct trajectories between the populations in the NWHI (4.0% per year decline) and the MHI (6.5% per year increase; Caretta et al. 2013). It is expected that species will continue to decline for at least the next 12 years if trends remain the same. At that point the number of animals in the MHI will surpass that in the NWHI and growth in the MHI will offset losses in the NWHI (NMFS unpublished data).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Adult Hawaiian Monk Seals reach lengths of about 2.1 to 2.4 m and weigh 170-240 kg. Pups are about 1 m and 16-18 kg at birth and when weaned six weeks later they weigh 50-100 kg (Kenyon 1981, Antonelis et al. 2003).
Female Monk Seals first give birth at 4-10 years old. Births occur during all months of the year, with most occurring during March to August (Johanos et al. 1994). Age specific fecundity rates for mature animals range from 50% to over 80%, and differ among subpopulations (Harting et al. 2007, Baker et al. 2011). Males in this polygynous species patrol the water adjacent to rookeries or land near females with pups. Male dominated sex ratios have occurred at some colonies, and that has resulted in mobbing of oestrus females some of which have been severely injured or killed in such events (Johanos et al. 2010).
Monk seals are generally solitary, both on land and at sea. Even when seals gather together on land, they are not normally gregarious and only mothers and pups and recently weaned seals regularly make physical contact. On land, Hawaiian Monk Seals haul-out and breed on substrates of sand, coral, or volcanic rock. Sandy beaches with shallow protected water near shore appear to be preferred for pupping (Westlake and Gilmartin 1990).
At-sea movements and habitat use of Hawaiian Monk Seals have been investigated using satellite-linked dive recorders and animal-borne video cameras. In the NWHI, Monk Seals forage within atolls, in the shallow waters surrounding atolls and islands, and farther offshore at submerged banks and reefs (Stewart et al. 2006). In the MHI, Monk Seals tend to stay within 50 km of shore and forage almost entirely within the 200 m bathymetric contour of the islands. Seals carrying cameras in both regions searched for and preyed on benthic fish and invertebrates in coral reefs, sand flats, as well as areas of rubble and consolidated bottom material, along areas of transition of benthic habitat types, and also in deepwater coral beds (Parish et al. 2000, 2002; NMFS unpublished data). Most dives that have been recorded have been less than 150 meters deep, although some individuals dived to more than 550 m (Stewart et al. 2006, NMFS unpublished data). Hawaiian Monk Seals are known to eat a variety of fishes, eels, cephalopods, and crustaceans (Goodman-Lowe 1998, Iverson et al. 2011, Cahoon et al. 2013).
|Terrestrial; Marine
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Movement patterns:
|Not a Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
Recovery of Hawaiian Monk Seals has been affected to an unknown degree by disturbance from military activities in the NWHI including the alteration, development, and occupation of bases on several key islands that started before World War II (Ragen and Lavigne 1999). However, the military no longer has bases in the area and the vast majority of Monk Seals live where they are isolated from most direct human contact. The only permanent structures remaining in the NWHI are US Fish and Wildlife Service facilities at Tern Island and Midway Atoll, and remnants of former Coast Guard facilities at Kure Atoll. Degradation of these structures, particularly at Tern Island, poses a significant entrapment hazard for Monk Seals. There are also concerns about legacy chemicals and contaminants that were left behind.
Current threats to Monk Seals are thoroughly reviewed and analysed in National Marine Fisheries Service (2007). The most crucial threats in the NWHI at this time are: 1) food limitation that could be due to changes in oceanographic conditions, legacy impacts of fisheries, or competition with other predators; 2) entanglement in marine debris, largely fragments of net and line discarded by North Pacific fisheries; 3) predation by sharks, especially on pre-weaned and recently weaned pups; and 4) intraspecific aggression by sub-dominant males. An emerging threat in this region may be the loss of terrestrial habitat due to sea level increases resulting from global warming (Baker et al. 2006). The situation in the MHI is different, with the main threats there being: 1) interactions with commercial and non-commercial fishing gear especially hookings and entanglements in gillnets; 2) possible transmission of diseases from feral animals, domestic pets, and livestock to seals; and 3) intentional killing and harassment.
|Conservation Actions:
The Hawaiian Monk Seal has been listed as endangered under the US Endangered Species Act since 1976. That law contains a number of provisions to protect the seals and their critical habitat. They are also covered by a general prohibition against unpermitted taking by the US Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1973.
Virtually all of the land and waters in the NWHI is included in one or more protected areas (the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands State Marine Refuge, the Kure Atoll State Wildlife Refuge, the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve, and the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument) where human activities that could effect the seals or their habitats are either prohibited or strictly controlled.
Hawaiian Monk Seals are the focus of one of the most proactive marine mammal recovery programs in the world (Lowry et al. 2011). Historically, the primary focus of the species' recovery program was to increase survival of juvenile and adult female seals in the NWHI. Important recovery efforts include: 1) cleaning up of marine debris and toxic chemicals; 2) minimizing human activities that could disturb seals hauled out on beaches; 3) mitigation of shark predation of young pups through limited shark removals or pup translocations; 4) removal and translocation of adult males to mitigate mortality associated with male aggression towards juveniles and females; and 5) regulating fisheries to reduce the likelihood of direct and indirect interactions. In spite of these efforts the population has continued to decline, however, the efforts have mitigated some of the severity of that decline. A recent analysis has shown that up to 30% of the current Monk Seal population is alive today due to the small-scale mitigation efforts targeted towards individual seals over the past 30 years (Harting et al. 2014).
Efforts to increase juvenile survival are also being expanded using a variety of translocation strategies. Over the past thirty years, numerous Monk Seal translocations have been conducted with a variety of objectives, including reducing shark predation and conspecific male aggression, stopping human–seal interactions, and taking advantage of different demographic patterns between subpopulations to improve survival. (Baker et al. 2011, 2014).
Management agencies are currently developing a vaccination plan to guard against a disease outbreak that could decimate the population. Two viruses, Morbillivirus and West Nile Virus, have been identified as infectious agents with a high risk to Hawaiian Monk Seals. Marine Morbillivirus strains have been recently identified in Hawaii and it considered only a matter of time before West Nile Virus makes it to Hawaii (Kilpatrick et al. 2004, West et al. 2013). Background surveys conducted on Hawaiian Monk Seals show that they remain naïve (no detectable antibodies) to both viruses. The vaccination program could begin as early as 2015.
In 2014, a privately funded and managed rehabilitation facility was constructed to support recovery efforts. This Hawaiian Monk Seal hospital will serve to care for seals from across the archipelago that are sick, injured, emaciated, or otherwise in need of rehabilitation.
With the increase of Monk Seals in the main Hawaiian Islands, the recovery program has had to develop a number of strategies to maintain population growth while mitigating human-seal interactions (Lowry et al. 2011). The program is currently working on strategies to prevent and modify unwanted seal behaviors including fisheries interactions and animals conditioned to interact with people. A significant component of this work includes community engagement on how to avoid negative wildlife interactions.
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