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Introduction & Purpose
Understanding the ecosystem role, function and value of deep-sea corals and associated fauna has become a priority topic for many national governments and international regional resource management bodies. Continuing with the tradition of the 1st Symposium in Halifax, Canada (2000), and 2nd Symposium in Erlangen, Germany (2003), the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals will facilitate global exchange of the current scientific knowledge of deep-sea corals and associated fauna and to discuss possible statutory means available to conserve and protect deep-sea habitat.
The 3rd International Symposium will
provide attendees from around the world with an opportunity to share their
research results, identify information gaps, and discuss if deep-sea
corals need special protection and if so, the statutory means available to
do so. Being
Who Should Attend
This symposium is designed to bring together scientists, resource managers, students, and policy-makers from around the world who are actively involved in the monitoring and research management of deep-sea corals and other deep-sea habitats as well as the animals associated with them. As responsible management decisions are based upon the best available science, resource managers and policy-makers will also find this symposium invaluable to identifying information gaps and planning management activities.
Call for Abstracts
All individuals involved in deep-sea coral
research are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract under the
appropriate symposium theme for consideration as an oral or poster
presentation. Abstracts must
Poster Information
Poster Display
Poster Session
Set-up is Tuesday, November 29 from 8:00am-1:00pm. Please have all posters up by 2:00pm. All posters will be arranged by theme then in alpha order, unless a presenter requested another poster be positioned beside their poster.
The Poster Reception will be held Tuesday, November 29, 5:30pm-7:00pm. Presenters are required to be stationed at posters from 5:30pm-6:30pm. Please be sure to grab a drink and hors d'oeuvres before you go to your poster.
Poster must be removed on Friday, December 2, 12:00pm. The poster display boards will be dismantled and removed by the vendor at 1pm on Friday, so please have your poster down by this time. If not, the conference organizers are not responsible for lost or damaged posters removed by the display board vendor.
SPECIAL NOTE: For authors presenting multiple posters, we make every attempt to position your posters within close proximity of each other. However, please note that posters are topically divided and it is possible you may have a poster presentation in different themes.
Symposium Proceedings
Editors and
Editorial Board
"Deep-Water Coral Ecosystems: Science and Management"
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals held November 28 – December 2, 2005, at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), Miami, Florida
Editors: Prof. Robert Y.
George (GIBS)
Geology: Dr. Peter Swart
Biology: Mr. John Reed
(Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution)
And: Dr. Su Sponaugle
All contributors (oral and posters) to the symposium are encouraged to submit a paper to the proceedings of the symposium for publication in March 2007 as a regular number of the Bulletin of Marine Sciences. Manuscripts should be a minimum of six pages and a maximum of ten pages. Deadline to submit a manuscript is February 16, 2006. Editors will meet with the BMS Editorial Board on Nov. 28, 2005, in Miami during the symposium. Further details will be given to all symposium participants during the symposium.
Symposium Themes & Conveners
Monday, November 28, 2005 (Doubletree Hotel Coconut Grove)
Poster Directory
Theme 1 – Systematics and Zoogeography
How Much Do We Know about Octocorals in Colombian Caribbean Continental Margin? – Isabel Cristina Chacón-Gómez, Javier Reyes and Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras INVEMAR, Santa Marta, Colombia
Cold Water Corals of British Columbia – G. S. Jamieson1, N. Pellegrin1 and S. Jessen2; 1Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC, Canada; 2Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Biodiversity and Vertical Distribution of Azooxanthellate Scleractinia in Brazilian Waters – Marcelo Visentini Kitahara; Museu Oceanográfico do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil; Mestrando da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis – trabalho auxiliado pelo CNPq.
Black Corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from Brazil: an Overview – Livia de L. Loiola; Ministry of the Environment, Coastal and Marine Division, Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
Isididae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from Brazil – Marcelo Semeraro de Medeiros; Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Corals from the Brazilian Shelf and Slope: New Records and an Evaluation of Richness from Latitudes 13° to 23° S – Clovis B. Castro1, Débora O. Pires1, Marcelo S. Medeiros1, Livia L. Loiola1, 2, Renata C. M. Arantes1, Cristovam M. Thiago1 and Eduardo Berman1; 1Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; 2Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Núcleo da Zona Costeira e Marinha, Brasília, Brasil
Status of Knowledge of the Azooxanthellate Coral Fauna off Brazil – Débora O. Pires; Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Azooxanthellate Coral Biodiversity in the Southern Caribbean – Javier Reyes and Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Santa Marta, Colombia
Systematics of the Bubblegum Corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Paragorgiidae) with Emphasis on the New Zealand Fauna – Juan Armando Sánchez; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research-NIWA, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND; Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, COLOMBIA
Expressed Homeobox Genes in Lophelia pertusa – William B. Schill and Alison R. Griffin; USGS- Leetown Science Center, Kearneysville, WV, USA
Theme 2 – Habitat Mapping, Sampling, and Characterization
Distribution of Corals on Derickson Seamount, a Deep Seamount Near the Aleutian Chain of Alaska – Amy R. Baco1 and Stephen Cairns2; 1Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA; 2Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Distribution of Deep-Sea Corals on the Northern Chain of Seamounts in the Gulf of Alaska – Amy R. Baco1 and Thomas C. Shirley2; 1Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA; 2Fisheries Division, University of Alaska Fairbanks Juneau Center, Juneau, AK 99801 USA
Distribution of Deep-Sea Corals in Relation to Geological Setting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands – Amy R. Baco1, Emily Yam2, Christopher Kelley2, John R. Smith2 and Stephen Cairns3; 1 Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA; 2 Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA.; 3 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Sponge Reefs on the Western Canadian Continental Shelf: New Multibeam Results Provide New Opportunities for Ocean Management and Science – J. V. Barrie1, E. D. Sargent2, K. W. Conway1 and M. Krautter3; 1Geological Survey of Canada – Pacific, Sidney, Canada; 2Canadian Hydrographic Service, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada; 3University of Stuttgart, Germany
Southeastern U.S. Deep-Sea Corals Initiative (SEADESC): Exploring and Characterizing Deep Coral Communities of the South Atlantic Bight – Timothy Birdsong1, Betsy Gardner2, Susan Gottfried2, Andrea Quattrini3, Christina Ralph4, Jessica Stephen5 and Tina Udouj6; 1Office of Ocean Exploration, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, USA; 2National Coastal Data Development Center, Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, MS, USA; 3Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA; 4Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA; 5Marine Resources Research Institute, Marine Resources Division, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, SC, USA; 6Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Preliminary Discoveries of Scleractinian Coral Lophelia pertusa and other Deep-sea Coral and Sponge Communities in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary – Ed Bowlby1, Jeffrey Hyland2, Mary Sue Brancato1, Cynthia Cooksey2 and Steve Intelmann1; 1NOAA Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Port Angeles, WA, USA; 2NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Charleston, SC, USA
Cancelled -- Biomapper and KGSMapper: Two Modeling Techniques for Predicting Deep-Water Coral Habitat – Tanya Bryan1, John Guinotte2 and Lance Morgan2; 1Atlantic Centre for Global Climate and Ecosystem Research, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; 2Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Redmond, Washington, USA
Campos Basin Deep Sea Coral Communities (SE Brazil) - Preliminary results – Maria Patricia Curbelo Fernandez1, Ana Paula da Costa Falcão2, Emerson Muziol Morosko2 and Guarani de Hollanda Cavalcanti2; 1Consultant; 2Research and Development Center (CENPES)- Petrobras, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Deep Sea Coral Assessment Project - Campos Basin (SE-Brazil) – Guarani de Hollanda Cavalcanti, Ana Paula da Costa Falcão, Emerson Muziol Morosko and Maria Patricia Curbelo Fernandez
Biotic and Abiotic Measurements across the Slope of Rockall Trough (400-1000 m, NW Atlantic) over a Cold-Water Coral Community with Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata – Gerard C.A. Duineveld and Marc S.S. Lavaleye; Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands
Distribution and Abundance of Black Corals (Antipatharia) in Relation to Depth and Topography on the New England Seamounts (Northeast Atlantic) – Scott C. France and Mercer R. Brugler; Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Design for Sampling the Deep Ocean Floor – Franz S. Hover, Victor Polidoro, Robert Damus and Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
How Computer-Assisted Interpretation Can Improve the Mapping and Monitoring of Potential Habitats in Cold-Water Coral Reef Settings – Veit Huehnerbach1, Philippe Blondel2 and Veerle A.I. Huvenne1; 1National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; Southampton, United Kingdom; 2Dept. of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Development of New Methods for Mound-Scale Habitat Mapping and Invertebrate and Fish Community Structure Analysis, Coupling Microbathymetry, Mosaïcking and GIS: Exemple of the Theresa Mound off Ireland – E. Le Guilloux1, K. Olu-Le Roy1, P. Lorance2, F. Lecornu3, J.-M. Sinquin3, J. Opderbecke4, A.G. Allais4 and A. Grehan5; 1Dept Etude des Ecosystèmes Profonds, IFREMER Centre de Brest, Plouzané, France; 2Dept Sciences et Technologies Halieutiques, Ifremer Brest, Plouzané, France; 3Dept Navire et systèmes embarqués, Ifremer Centre de Brest, Plouzané, France; 4Dept Systèmes sous-marins, Ifremer Toulon, zone de Brégaillon, La Seyne sur Mer; 5Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute, National University of Ireland - Galway, Ireland
Observations and Comparisons of Californian Seamount Communities – L. Lundsten,D. A. Clague and L. Kuhnz; Monterey Bay Aquarium Research, Moss Landing, CA, USA
Spatial and Temporal Differences in Size Structure of Hawaiian Black Corals – Anthony D. Montgomery; Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Honolulu, HI, USA
Colonization of Lophelia pertusa on the Tanker Gulfpenn Sunk During WWII in the Northern Gulf of Mexico – William W. Schroeder1 and Robert A. Church2; 1Marine Science Program, The University of Alabama, Dauphin Island, AL, USA; 2C & C Technologies, Inc., Lafayette, LA, USA
Acoustic Facies Analysis of Late Quaternary Deep-Water Coral Mounds in the Tyrrhenian Sea – Luca Gasperini, Marco Taviani, Alessandro Remia and Giovanni Bortoluzzi/; ISMAR-Marine Geology Division, CNR, Bologna, Italy
Distribution of Habitat-Forming Scleractinian Corals in the New Zealand Region – Dianne M. Tracey1, Ashley A. Rowden1 and Kevin A. Mackay1; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
Distribution and Abundance of Gorgonian Octocorals on the New England Seamounts in Relation to Depth and Substrate – Les Watling and Anne Simpson.; Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Walpole ME
Theme 3A – Geology: Palaeontology
Environmental and Spatial Distribution of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals – Ben De Mol1, Marco Taviani2 , Miquel Canals1, Alessandro Remia2, German Alverez3, Pere Busquets3, Nuria Teixido4 and Jose-Maria Gilli4; 1GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; 2ISMAR-Marine Geology Division, CNR,Bologna, Italy; 3Departament d'Estratigrafia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; 4Deptartment Biología Marina, CMIMA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
New Insights into Stable Isotope Fractionation in Deep Sea Corals: Comparison with the Fossil Record – Peter K. Swart1, Brad Rosenheim2 and George Stanley3; 1MGG/RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami FL; 2National Ocean Sciences AMS Facility , WHOI, Woodshole, MA; 3Department of Geology, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Last Glacial Deep Water Corals from the Red Sea – Marco Taviani1, Matthias López Correa1/2, Helmut Zibrowius3, Malcom McCulloch4, Paolo Montagna5 and Marco Ligi1; 1CNR-ISMAR, Bologna, Italy; 2IPAL, University of Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; 3Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille, France; 4Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU, Canberra, Australia; 5ICRAM, Roma, Italy
Serpulid Tube-Worms (Annelida Polychaeta) on Deep Coral Mounds from the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean) – Rossana Sanfilippo; Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Sezione di Oceanologia e Paleoecologia, Catania, Italy; (Presented by: Agostina Vertino)
Theme 3B – Geology: Climate Change
Geochemical Ecology of a High Latitude Coral: Plesiastrea versipora a New Paleo-Environmental Archive – S. N. Burgess1, 2, M. T. McCulloch1, M. K. Gagan1 and T. Ward2; 1Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; 2South Australian Research and Development Institute: Aquatic Sciences, West Beach, South Australia
Radiocarbon Reservoir Age of North Atlantic Surface Water Inferred from Orphan Knoll Corals – Li Cao1,2, Richard G. Fairbanks1,2, Michael J. Risk3 and Richard A. Mortlock1; 1Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA; 2Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; 3School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada
Elemental Imaging and Proxy Development in the Deep Sea Coral, Corallium secundum – Stewart J. Fallon1, E. Brendan Roark2, Thomas P. Guilderson1,3, Robert B. Dunbar2 and Peter Weber1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Ca. USA; 2Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca. USA; 3University of California, Santa Cruz, Ca. USA
Multiple Proxy "Vital Effects" in a Deep-Sea Coral – Alexander C. Gagnon1 and Jess F. Adkins2; 1Chemistry and 2Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Environmental Variability at Intermediate Water Depths Recorded by Bamboo Coral Geochemistry – T .M. Hill1, H. J. Spero1, D. Clague2 and J. Barry 2; 1Department of Geology, University of California, Davis CA USA,; 2Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Monterey CA USA
Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Composition of Extant North Atlantic Acesta spp. (Bivalvia:Limidae) Provide High-Resolution Environmental Archives for Cold-Water Coral Habitats – Matthias López-Correa1,2, André Freiwald1 and Marco Taviani2; 1IPAL, Institute of Paleontology, University of Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; 2CNR-ISMAR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Science Marine, Bologna, Italy
Shallow-water Desmophyllum dianthus from the Chilean Fjords: U-series Dating and In-Situ Trace Element Geochemistry – Malcolm McCulloch1, Paolo Montagna2, Graham Mortimer1, Gunter Försterra3, Verena Häussermann3 and Claudio Mazzoli4; 1Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; 2 Central Institute for Marine Research, Roma, Italy; 3Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany; 4Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Padova, Italy
Deep-Sea Bamboo Corals: Living Bone Implants – Hermann Ehrlich1, Peter Etnoyer2, Hagen Domaschke3, Serguei D. Litvinov4, Thomas Hanke1, Heike Meissner5, Rene Born1 and Hartmut Worch1; 1Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials and Institute of Materials Science, Dresden, Germany; 2Aquanautix Consulting, Los Angeles, USA; 3Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genomics, Dresden, Germany; 4Samara State University, Samara, Russia; 5University Hospital "Carl Gustav Carus", Dresden, Germany; (Presented by: George Schmahl)
In-Situ High Resolution Minor and Trace Element Compositions in Desmophyllum dianthus from the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean – Paolo Montagna1, Malcolm McCulloch2, Marco Taviani3, Alessandro Remia3 and Claudio Mazzoli4; 1ICRAM, Rome, Italy; 2Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; 3CNR-ISMAR, Bologna, Italy; 4Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Padova, Italy
U-Series Dating of Submerged Sites Documents Continuous Growth of Extant Deep-Water Coral Mounds in the Mediterranean since 500 ky at Least – Marco Taviani1, Malcom McCulloch2 and Alessandro Remia1; 1ISMAR-CNR, Bologna, Italy; 2Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU, Canberra, Australia
Paleobiodiversity of the Plio-Pleistocene Deep-Water Corals from the Messina Strait (Southern Italy): NE Atlantic Affinity – Agostina Vertino1 Italo Di Geronimo2 and André Freiwald1; 1Institute of Paleontology, Erlangen University, Germany; 2Geological Department, Catania University, Italy
Fossil Scleractinians from the New England Seamounts – Ancient DNA Techniques Give New Insights Into Past Climate Change – Preliminary Data – Rhian G. Waller1, Timothy M. Shank1, Jess Adkins2 and Laura Robinson2; 1Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA; 2California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA
Theme 4 – Coral Biology: Feeding, Growth and Reproduction Characterization
Responses of Lophelia pertusa to Environmental Factors – Sandra Brooke, Michael Holmes and Craig M. Young; Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Charleston, Oregon, USA
Laboratory Study of Lophelia pertusa Polyp Behaviour in Different Current Regimes – L. G. Jonsson1 and T. Lundälv2; 1Department of Marine Ecology, Göteborg University, Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Strömstad, Sweden; 2Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Strömstad, Sweden
Sizes and Distributions of Octocorals Keratoisis sp. and Paragorgia sp. on the New England Seamount Chain: Implications for Colonization Dynamics – Susan W. Mills and Lauren S. Mullineaux; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA USA
Observations of the Solitary Scleractinian, Flabellum alabastrum Moseley, 1876 in Lab and Field – Lene Buhl-Mortensen1, Pål B. Mortensen1, Shelley Armsworthy2 and Dan Jackson2; 1Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway; 2Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Canada
Reproductive Morphology of Two Deep-water Octocorals, Paramuricea placomus (Plexauridae) and Metallogorgia melanotrichos (Chrysogorgiidae) – Anne Simpson, Les Watling and Kevin Eckelbarger; University of Maine - Darling Marine Center, Walpole, ME USA
Dendrochronology in Bamboo? Geochemical Profiles and Reproducibility in a Specimen of the Deep-Water Bamboo Coral, Keratoisis spp. – G. Allard1, D. J. Sinclair1, B. Williams1, C. Hillaire-Marcel1, S. Ross2 and M. Risk3; 1GEOTOP, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; 2Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.; 3School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Some Findings on the Reproduction of Hawaiian Precious Corals – Rhian G. Waller and Amy Baco-Taylor; Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Theme 5 – Biodiversity: Microbial and Invertebrate Association
DNA Extraction and Genetic Fingerprinting of Prokaryotes on Deep Water Corals and Associated Invertebrates – Martin Agis1, Cornelia Maier2 and Markus G. Weinbauer1; 1Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-mer (LOV), Villefranche-sur-mer, France; 2Royal Neth. Inst. for Sea Res. (NIOZ), Den Burg, the Netherlands
Habitat Association of Macroinvertebrates with Deep-Sea Corals in Hawaii – Amy R. Baco1 and Thomas C. Shirley2; 1Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA; 2Fisheries Division, University of Alaska Fairbanks Juneau Center, Juneau, AK, USA
Population Genetics of North Atlantic Seamount Fauna: Investigating Pathways, Dispersal and Evolution – Walter Cho and Timothy M. Shank; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Bryozoan Fauna Associated with the Azoxanthellate Coral Cladocora Debilis (Colombian Caribbean) – Paola Flórez-Romero, Erika Montoya-Cadavid, Nadiezhda Santodomingo and Javier Reyes; Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras INVEMAR, Santa Marta, Colombia
Fish and Crustacea Associated with Lophelia Reefs in the Agassiz Coral Hills (Blake Plateau) and in the 'OSPAR' region of Northeast Atlantic – Robert Y. George; George Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, North Carolina, USA
Petrarca (Crustacea: Ascothoracida) Infesting Fungiacyathus marenzelleri off Southern California, with a Retrospective Review of Petrarcid Galls in Deep-Sea Corals – Mark J. Grygier1, Stephen D. Cairns2 and Waltraud Klepal3; 1Lake Biwa Museum, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan; 2National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA; 3Institut für Zoologie der Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Deep Coral Reefs along the Angola Margin and Hypothetical Relation to Cold Seeps – K. Olu-Le Roy, K. Dekindt and M. Sibuet; DEEP-LEP, IFREMER Centre de Brest, Plouzané, France
Theme 6 – Fish Ecology
A Description of the Fish Assemblages in the Black Coral Beds off Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii – Raymond C. Boland and Frank A. Parrish; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Sublethal Injury Rate in a Deepwater Ophiuroid, Ophiacantha bidentata, an Important Component of Western Atlantic Lophelia Reef Communities – R. Allen Brooks1, Martha S. Nizinski2, Steve W. Ross3 and Kenneth J. Sulak4; 1ENSR International, St. Petersburg, FL, USA; 2NOAA/NMFS National Systematics Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA; 3Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina – Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA; 4Florida Integrated Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL, USA
Deepwater Emergence of Red Tree Coral (Primnoa sp.) in Glacier Bay, Alaska – Robert Stone1, Alex Andrews2 and Jennifer Mondragon2; 1National Marine Fisheries Service, Auke Bay Laboratory, Juneau, AK, USA; 2U.S. Geological Survey, Juneau, AK, USA
Theme 7 – Ecosystem Based Management
An Economic Model of Pink Coral (Corallium secundum) Harvest at the Makapu'u Bed in the Main Hawaiian Islands, USA – Geoff Shester and Justin E. Warren; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Theme 8 – Conservation and Protection of Deep-Sea Corals
Measurement of Exposure and Effect of Chemical and Particle Discharges from Oil and Gas Activities in Deep-Sea Corals for the Purpose of Integrating Biomarker Response Data into a Risk Assessment Model – Jan Fredrik Børseth1, Bodil Katrine Larsen1, Steinar Sanni1, J Murray Roberts2, Laurence Pinturier3 and Arne Myhrvold4; 1RF-Akvamiljø, Stavanger, Norway 2The Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban Argyll, Scotland, UK 3TOTAL E&P NORGE, Stavanger, Norway 4Statoil, Stavanger, Norway
Warm and Cold Water Coral Reefs – Same Roles? Same threats? – Emily Corcoran1 and Stefan Hain2; 1UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK; 2UNEP Coral Reef Unit, Cambridge, UK
Deep-sea Conservation for the UK – A Project to Develop Our Ability to Predict the Occurrence of Cold-Water Coral Reefs and Raise Public Awareness of Vulnerable Deep-Water Habitats – Andrew J. Davies and J. Murray Roberts; Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Argyll, UK
Protecting Deep-Sea Corals by Including Davidson Seamount in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary – Andrew P. DeVogelaere, Erica J. Burton and Richard H. McGonigal; Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey, CA, USA
Assisting Management Initiatives through Development of a National Deep Sea Coral Database – G. Dorr, D. Brown, T. Hourigan and B. Lumsden; National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Fishing in Troubled Waters – Evidence for higher Diversity and high Abundance of Cold Water Corals along the Chilean Coast – Alejandro Bravo1, Günter Försterra2 and Vreni Häussermann2; 1Instituto de Zoología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile; 2Fundación Huinay, Puerto Montt, Chile
The Status of Deep Coral Communities in the United States: Challenges for Conservation – Thomas F. Hourigan, Beth Lumsden, Gabrielle Dorr and Andrew Bruckner; NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Outreach and Education Efforts in Support of Deep Water Coral Resources of the Southeast – Jennifer Schull1, Andrew Shepard2 and Kim Iverson3; 1NOAA-Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center Miami, Florida, USA; 2NOAA Undersea Research Center, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; 3South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Industrial Fisheries Impact on the Deep-Sea Scleractinia in Southern Brazil – Marcelo Visentini Kitahara; Museu Oceanográfico do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil; Mestrando da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis – trabalho auxiliado pelo CNPq.
Virgin Fisheries of the Tropical Western Atlantic Associated with Deep-Water Reef-Forming Corals Necessitate Protection – Steven J. Lutz and R. N. Ginsburg; Ocean Research and Education Foundation, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Protected Deep-Water Coral Reefs in Norway – Jan Helge Fosså1, John Alvsvåg1, Dag Ottesen2 and Pål Mortensen1; 1Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway; 2Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway
Effects of Bottom Trawling on a Deep-Water Coral Reef – John K. Reed1, Chris Koenig2 and Andrew Shepard3; 1Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, FL, USA; 2Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA; 3NOAA Undersea Research Center, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, USA
Status of Deep-Water Coral Areas off Iceland and Management Actions – Sigmar Arnar Steingrímsson; Marine Research Institute, Reykjavík, Iceland
Oceana's Continuing Efforts to Protect Deep-Sea Coral – Michael F. Hirshfield, David Allison, Ricardo Aguilar and Margot Stiles; Oceana, Washington, DC, USA
The 'Santa Maria di Leuca' Lophelia Reef of the Mediterranean Basin: A Case for Total Protection – Cesare Corselli1, Marco Taviani2 and Angelo Tursi3; 1CoNISMa, Milano-Bicocca University, Italy; 2 ISMAR-Marine Geology Division, CNR, Bologna, Italy; 3CoNISMa, Bari University, Italy
On the Occurrence of a Shark Nursery (Family Scyliorhinidae) in a Deepwater Gorgonian Field in the Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico – Peter Etnoyer1 and Jon Warrenchuk2; 1Aquanautix, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2Oceana, Juneau, Alaska, USA
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Registration Fees: The attendee registration fee, combined with funds contributed by our generous sponsors, will allow meeting attendees to receive an abstract book and additional conference materials onsite. The fee also includes a welcome reception, daily morning and afternoon refreshment breaks at RSMAS, poster session reception and daily transportation from Doubletree Hotel to RSMAS. Please refer to the detailed agenda for the date and time of scheduled functions. An optional Awards Banquet on Thursday evening and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Field Trip on Saturday are available for additional fees.
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Meeting Location
The 3rd Symposium will be held at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) on Virginia Key, an island off the coast of Miami, Florida, USA. Oral presentations will take place in the 250-seat RSMAS Auditorium.
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The DoubleTree Hotel Coconut Grove is offering participants of the 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals a very special guest room rate of $107.00 (plus 13% tax) with one or two people in a King room. A room with two beds is $117.00 (plus 13% tax). The group rate will be honored three days prior and three days following the symposium, based on availability.
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The Dynamo are facing four games in the next 13 days, so they're hopeful they can start this congested part of the schedule strong at home against Kansas City on Saturday.
But for Houston to get off to a good start, they will have to find a way to replace Geoff Cameron, who suffered a season-ending injury last weekend. It's likely that wide player Brad Davis will get first crack at replacing the attacking midfielder, but Richard Mulrooney could make a late push for consideration as he returns from injury.
"Most likely I'll play in the middle this weekend," Davis said. "I've played in there before, and there is a bit of an adjustment. We've had trouble in possession, and so hopefully that's something I can bring to the table for the team. There will probably be an adjustment, but it hopefully won't be too bad."
Possession will be important for the Dynamo as Wizard's head coach Peter Vermes has instilled a "defense-first" mentality that, similar to Houston, places an emphasis on pressuring the opposition.
"Kansas City is playing well and they are a very hungry and very confident team," Dynamo head coach Kinnear said. "After watching them play against Seattle and LA the last couple of weeks, they play a high-tempo game and don't give you much time on the ball, so it makes it difficult for us and our decisions have to be fast and confident."
If Houston can maintain possession with their makeshift midfield against a stingy defensive team like Kansas City, they can be hopeful that Saturday's match will be the beginning of a good run for the team.
The Dynamo are also looking to bounce back from some recent patchy form that saw them fall 2-0 on the road to Chicago last weekend. The perennial championship favorites have now lost two of their last three games, as well as a key player in Cameron.
"We can't have these up and down weeks like Chicago," Davis said. "We want to start this weekend off on a good note, get three points as we play again Wednesday at home, and we want to have a good stretch of games."
Kinnear agreed, though for now he's focused on Saturday's challenge.
"It's the first of four in a short period of time," he said. "We can't look at the next three of four games, we have to look at one at a time—and if we do get off to a good start [against KC], it sets up nicely for the next couple of games coming our way."

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first. thank you so much for all of your sweet emails and comments. it's so nice to know i am not alone, especially when it often times feels like i am. apparently, lots of us have yucky stuff going on. i'm not the only one (yes, i have a touch of the "i think the world revolves around me" syndrome . . . actually it may be more than a touch)
oh, and i very quietly opened my shop today.
testing the waters.
let me know what you think.
are there any photos here that you think i need to add?
ps. a fun saturday with this little lady for her ysl project inspired me to do it.
Monday, November 16, 2009
very quietly
18 comments:
- vanessa joie said...
I'm so excited for your shop! You should add some of your Paris polas.
- November 16, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Brandie said...
How exciting! Congrats on the big move. The pictures are so fun...best of luck with this new venture.
- November 16, 2009 at 10:34 AM
your polaroids are amazing, i'm always coming across lovely images which i have to favourite on your flickr stream.
this is my answer to your question:
- November 16, 2009 at 11:51 AM
- Vanilla Press said...
Very cute shoes!
- November 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- chau said...
Congrats, Jen! All your images are beautiful, but a few of my favorites I would love to see are-
they just got out of bed
blurry wind
half there
- November 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM
- ann.e said...
sorry are these the originals or prints? either way I love them: you've been my favorite for a long long time!!
- November 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM
- mathias said...
clean and simple, just how i like it. wonderful!
- November 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- emedemarta said...
i'm discovering your work and i'm impressed.. what a wonderful pictures you take!
all of the luck in the world with your new shop!
- November 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- beauty comma said...
the shop looks great - i particularly love the slippers that don't fit. congratulations and good luck with your new shop!
- November 18, 2009 at 1:05 AM
- leahlove said...
your blog is AMAZING!!!
welll, i must go along with all the other comments here and say good luck on your shop. :)
- November 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Elisabelle said...
I love this picture!!!!!
- November 20, 2009 at 11:51 PM
- Red Ruby Rose said...
Gorgeous images and love the shop!
- November 29, 2009 at 1:26 PM
- soulflower said...
I checked out your photos and they are pretty amazing! The shoe photo is my favorite.It reminds me of organising my grandmothers shoe closet.If only I had thought to polaroid it in 1978!
- December 1, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- Lauren said...
I like this a lot. :)
- December 10, 2009 at 6:37 PM
- chelsea said...
oh, yay! somehow i missed this post. so excited. congrats!
- December 10, 2009 at 11:19 PM
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- December 16, 2009 at 12:09 AM
- December 29, 2009 at 2:12 AM
- nopaynovita said...
nicee blogg,i lovee your photoss:)
visit me back yeah:)
- January 1, 2010 at 2:02 AM


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Since my first-blush post on the new education adequacy suit, Robles-Wong v. California, filed last week against the state by school districts and various school lobbies, I've received several thoughtful missives from people in schools, in government and in the non-profit sector asking: Why are you so optimistic about this suit?
Their argument: such litigation -- known as adequacy litigation, because the suits question whether the education resources are adequate -- has a mixed record at best of improving school funding. And in California, judges have stepped into other funding and policy messes -- in the budget, in the prisons, in water -- without making things much better.
These are strong points, and they've backed me off some -- but not all -- of my hopes for the suit. But the lawsuit, if it gains any traction (and that's a huge if), is right in its depiction of an entire state budget and school funding system that has grown so complicated it no longer does what it's supposed to do: fund the schools.
And even if the lawsuit fails, simply pursuing it may have the benefit of giving the public a clearer picture of what's gone wrong in California, as the author Peter Schrag argues persuasively in Sunday's Sacramento Bee: "Yet in calling attention to California's glaring inconsistency in educational policy – high standards and ambitious goals unmatched by anything approaching commensurate resources – the Robles-Wong suit may yet move the state and its voters a little closer to connecting the dots."


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Tim Wheeler's recent article sheds new light on the confusing, distasteful, yet critically important problem of fecal pollution from chickens in the Chesapeake and coastal bays ("Maryland farm oversight called weak," Feb 2).
The problem appears to arise from a failed though well-meant "model" program instituted by the state. Maryland regulators seem to be engaged in a paper chase, in which they make sure that farmers have submitted plans to control runoff, then file those plans away with little effort to verify whether they are actually being implemented.
In the rare cases in which it is determined that such plans are not being followed, the fines for violators are trivial. There is no oversight of the agencies responsible and no transparency that would allow grass-roots watchdog and environmental groups to check up on the process or blow the whistle on lax state agencies.
The state's waterways belong to the people of Maryland, and we are distressed that our beautiful rivers and bays are being fouled by chicken feces. The public deserves accountability and complete transparency from a critical pollution control program that is apparently failing to adequately protect our bays.
There should be stiff penalties for violators. Kudos to environmental groups like the Waterkeepers Alliance for their brave efforts to make this happen despite the obstacles and secrecy. Now our state must step up to the plate and fix the problem.
Jean E. Rinaldo, Ocean City


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Named for the poplar trees that line the high altitude vineyards of Mendoza and protect them from the mountain winds.
Alamos is The Wine of the Andes. The mountains on the label pay homage to the high altitude, mountain climate of Mendoza.
The resulting cool nights produce better natural acidity and synchronized ripeness of sugars and polyphenols. Intense sunlight enhances concentration of aromas and flavors.
Our Wines
The Catena family began to make Alamos in 1993 as a second label to Catena. Alamos is sourced from some of the Catena family's younger vineyards in the best areas of Mendoza's high altitude wine country. Yields are kept low and all our vineyards are hand harvested. Our goal is to be true to our "house" style of rich and concentrated wines that have distinct varietal character.
The Andes are some of the highest mountains in the world, they are a cloud curtain that blocks storms from the Pacific Ocean, thereby creating Mendoza's desert climate.
High altitude means cooler nights for better acidity & synchronized ripeness of sugars and polyphenols.
High altitude means more intense sunlight which enhances aromatics of Malbec and creates thicker skins, leading to richer, more intense wines.
Grapes for Alamos wines are sourced from high altitude, mountain vineyard sites at elevations of 3,000 - 5,000. Half of the grapes come from young vines in the Catena family estate vineyards and half are purchased from growers who are closely managed by Alamos vineyard managers.
Grapes for Alamos wines are sourced the premiere regions of Lujan de Cuyo & Valle de Uco. Lujan de Cuyo is from 3,000 - 3,500' elevation and produces wines with excellent mid-palate richness. Valle de Uco ranges from 3,700 - 5,000' elevation. The cooler conditions produce wines with aromatic intensity and freshness, while the more intense sunshine lends overall concentration and structure.
Malbec was brought to Mendoza in 1852 by French viticulturalist Miguel Pouget.
Its unique adaptation to Mendoza allowed it to quickly became the most widely planted red wine varietal, reaching 120,000 acres in 1968.
Consumption changes caused Malbec to loose favor and surface area dropped to 25,000 acres in 1990.
The Catena family helped to resurrect Malbec, showing its potential for quality, and today it is again the most widely planted red wine varietal, with 136,000 acres planted throughout the country.
The Alamos winemaking philosophy is to make flavorful, drinkable wines that preserve each varietal's distinctive aroma, flavor and texture. Some of the Alamos wines acquire additional complexity from moderate oak aging. The Alamos winemaking team aims to make wines that are as good as wines twice their price.
Grapes for Alamos are hand harvested to ensure gentle handling. A double manual selection process ensures only the best grapes are used. (Such demanding selection is usually reserved for wines at US$ 30 or more).
Alamos wines receive moderate oak aging of a mixture of French and American oak which varies according to the vintage.
Alamos wines are made at Bodega Alamos, a state of the art facility located in Vistaflores, Mendoza. The winery is specially designed conic tanks allow for soft, gentle extraction. It also has small format tanks allow for lot selection and separation.
The Alamos winemaking team is lead by Felipe Stahlschmidt. Felipe received his winemaking degree from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and is finishing the thesis for his Masters in Viticulture and Winemaking in Mendoza. Felipe trained as Assistant Winemaker to Alejandro Vigil, Chief Winemaker at Bodega Catena Zapata.
An avid andinista Felipe has climbed the mighty Aconcagua mountain 7 times. On Malbec, Felipe believes: "Malbec and Mendoza are a marriage made in heaven! Our beautiful high altitude climate produces Malbecs that are rich, exuberant and full of character."
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New WCC Parking Structure Opens January 9
WCC students, employees, and guests have waited patiently this year for the opening of the College's new parking structure. The wait ends January 9, 2012.
That's when the new four-level, 473-space enclosed facility opens east of the Crane Liberal Arts and Science building. When it does, the only access to it will be from the College's Clark Road entrance.
Access the Structure From Lot 7
Drivers entering campus from Clark Road should continue along the east side of Lot 7 until they reach the structure's access drive. "Eventually, a second access drive to the structure will be opened off of Lot 1 by the Morris Lawrence building," said Damon Flowers, associate vice president of Facilities Development and Operations. "That should happen in late spring of 2012."
Weather has forced a delay in the opening of 56 outdoor slots adjacent to the south side of the structure. They should be available sometime in late spring.
Security Moves In, Too
The Campus Safety & Security department also is relocating from the west side of campus to new offices within the structure. This brings safety and security operations much closer to the center of campus.
"Besides our highly visible presence, cameras have been placed on all structure levels. And we will monitor them 24/7," said Jacques Desrosiers, Campus Safety & Security director. "And if ever needed, there are emergency phones at the stairway/elevator areas of each level that connect directly to Campus Safety."
The multi-level parking structure has several nice features. They include:
- Two elevators and stairways for all levels
- A covered walkway to the Crane Liberal Arts and Science
building for easy access to central campus
- Heat and lights connected to motion sensors to manage
energy use
- Signs that tell drivers when the lot is full


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Slim Randles' Home Country
A deer hunter's safety notes
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Coffee always tastes perfect before daylight on the
opening day of deer season, Dud Campbell thought as he sat in
near-total darkness in his kitchen. He was being extra quiet so as
not to awaken Anita. Turning on a flashlight on the kitchen counter,
he wrote:
An hour later, Dud quietly got out of the
pickup and left a note under the windshield wiper:
Hunting to the west between here and the ridge. Should be back
here no later than 9 p.m.
Dud Campbell
Dud was sitting on a rock outcropping as the sun rose, feeling
the warmth spread from inside out as another great day of
anticipation came. He smiled, and then prayed. He always did during
hunting season. His prayer wasn't wishing for success, but simply
expressing gratitude for this special time. This was the success.
Sitting here in the sun, hunting yet another year. An actual deer
for the freezer is simply gravy on this feast.
After lunch, Dud decided to try a different location, so he
returned to the pickup and left a different note. He got home about
9 p.m. and raved to Anita about the wonders of the day in the woods.
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"You left me that note, Dud," she said, "but I don't even know
where that is."
"No. But the sheriff's department does, and search and rescue
knows, and both Doc and Steve know."
She still looked puzzled. "You're a good outdoorsman, though,
aren't you?"
"Well, yes, I am. That's why I left the notes. Anyone can twist
an ankle or fall up there."
He smiled at her. "Hunters have an old saying, Honey. If you take
crutches with you, you'll never break a leg."
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– The problem wasn't in starting the game. The Huskies had hit a lull in the middle, up by 13 points and now down seven when Kevin Ollie took a timeout.
"He put it on us," Ryan Boatright said. "He said, 'you know what you've got to do. Suck it up, or they're going to blow you out of the building.' "
The Huskies responded, and with 2 1/2 minutes gone in the second half, turned up the heat on defense, regained the momentum and disposed of Seton Hall 78-67 on Sunday before 7,634 at the Prudential Center. After a long, difficult bus ride from Storrs on Saturday night, a quick night's sleep and an early wake-up call, UConn (16-6, 6-4 Big East) got win No. 16, ensuring a winning record in Ollie's first season.
"I'm proud of my guys," Ollie said. "We wrote on the board, 'no excuses,' because they had every opportunity to find excuses."
Shabazz Napier, as he has done so often this season, took over the game and turned things around. Seton Hall (13-11, 2-9) had put together a 16-0 run to wipe out UConn's early advantage when Napier made his first field goal with 2:55 left in the first half. Napier went on to score 22 points, including 18 in the second half.
"First half, I wanted to be a distributor," Napier said, "it was working, we had a [13-point lead] and I didn't want to mess it up."
Seton Hall had another run early in the second half and led 43-36 after Aaron Cosby's layup, two of his 25 points, but UConn outscored the Pirates 34-11 over the next 14 ½ minutes. When Napier lobbed one off the backboard and Boatright threw it down, hanging on the rim several seconds, the Huskies led 70-54 with 2:52 left and were headed for a much more pleasant bus ride home.
"I wouldn't have done it," said Ollie, who is not a fan of showboating, "but let them have fun. They deserve it. They went through a long bus ride, and I got them up early to have breakfast. … As long as it went in."
Boatright scored 20, hitting 10 of 10 free throws.
The Huskies closed out the game with Napier and Boatright going to the free throw line and hitting. They totaled 21 of 23 from the line, to complement their 54 percent shooting from the floor. UConn, as Ollie had admonished, cut down on ill-advised three-point shots, taking 14, half as many as they did in their loss to St. John's on Wednesday.
Most startlingly, UConn outrebounded Seton Hall 31-26, the gap only evening over the meaningless final possessions. The Huskies had been outrebounded by 16 of their first 21 opponents, and Seton Hall's rebounding numbers coming in were good.
"We don't talk about our big [guys] enough," Ollie said. "They did a good against [Kevin] Johnson and [Eugene] Teague, and they were giving away some pounds. They kept those guys from dominating the game inside."
After scoring 15 points in the first half against South Florida and 20 against St. John's, UConn scored 25 points in the first 11:59 of this game. Omar Calhoun scored 10 first-half points, and Boatright completed a four-point play, hitting a three as he was fouled during the opening sequence. The Huskies did not look like a team that was unable to practice Friday or Saturday, got to Newark at 1 a.m., rose for an 8 a.m. breakfast and began at noon.
To this point, at least. Fuquan Edwin (19 points), Seton Hall's leading scorer, was not expected to play, but he toughed it out with his sprained ankle and gave UConn fits over the last 8 minutes of the half. The Pirates forced four turnovers to ignite their offense, and took the lead on a steal by Edwin and a layup by Haralds Karlis. Edwin's basket made it 28-25 before Napier's first bucket.
"Turnovers, man," Boatright said. "We were making careless mistakes, stupid decisions, things we knew we weren't supposed to be doing."
Ollie, meanwhile, was subbing players in and out, something he doesn't normally do. UConn was down one at the half, before Seton Hall's run and the timeout that finally helped shift momentum back the Huskies' way. Boatright and Napier began applying their own brand of ball pressure – they got 10 of UConn's 13 steals — with R.J. Evans coming off the bench to help ramp up the defensive intensity. Napier made 2 of 3 shots in the first half, 6 of 9 in the second.
"I was worried about how Shabazz only had three shots in the first half," Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard said. "Once he saw that first one go in, he kind of got his rhythm. With great players, you've got to try to limit them seeing the ball go in the basket. Once he saw it go in, he really turned it up and made some nice plays. But we also gave him some layups that kind of helped his confidence."


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Open Standards and Their Early AdoptionKühn Pedersen, Mogens; Fomin, Vladislav V. (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Standards have proven themselves indispensable to the industrial revolution. How are standards developed today? What does the economics of standards tell about the impact of standards upon economic growth and productivity? Do standards influence industry innovation? How are the standardization processes in the field of ICT taking place? How and why do open standards differ from other types of standards? How may open standards influence ICT government policy and the reverse: How will government need to take action in the face of the international trend toward open standards in ICT? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6498
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Abstract: Development and advancement of Information Society in on agenda of many nationstates today. As scholars, we can contribute to the effort by attempting to reconcile to the official rhetoric with the real life situations of "netizens". This paper is inspired by the publication of Leonard Jessup and Daniel Robey [2002], in wich the authors use anecdotes to demonstrate what advanced service possibilities are afforded by ubiquitous technology as contrasted to the residue of social behavior.This story illustrates that the succes of establishing Information Society should not be measured by the number of available services to citizens over the wireline and mobile Internet. The ultimate measure for success must be the extent to which poeple are aware about the availability of relevant content and are using the services [Daniel and Wilson, 2003, p.285]. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6486
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The 6th Biennial Aviation and Aerospace Career Fair
Preparing for Takeoff in 2017!
The Aerospace Education Corporation (AEC), a not-for-profit organization created to promote aviation education, was established in January 2006. This organization will be hosting aviation career fairs and offer other ways to introduce students to the aviation industry. Our aviation career fairs are hosted every other year.
AEC will be hosting its 6th Biennial Aviation and Aerospace Career Fair on in 2017 at Republic Airport, Farmingdale, NY . The goal of this event is to introduce both middle and high school students to the various careers available within the aviation industry.
The focus will be a "hands on" approach to give young people a more vivid picture of different aviation careers presented by professionals working in these fields. The Aviation and Aerospace Career Fair will be hosting exhibitors, aircraft on display, aircraft simulators and speakers. Exhibitors at our past events include the FAA, U.S. Navy, 106th Rescue Wing, NASA, Northrop Grumman, News 12, JetBlue, and many more.
This event is open to middle and high schools and the public. Although there is no fee for entrance to the event, all attendees must be registered prior to attending. To register click on the Contact Us/Register page. Please note that a valid photo ID will be needed for entrance. If you know of a school, exhibitor, or volunteer that would be interested in attending, please see the corresponding website pages.
While this two-day event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend, the event is aimed at educating middle and high school students and is NOT A JOB FAIR. AEC cannot verify if any of the exhibiting companies will be hiring.


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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the state's public universities and colleges...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the state's public universities and colleges will refund tuition for students who were forced to withdraw because of Superstorm Sandy, Gannett's Haley Viccaro reports.
The SUNY Board of Trustees said it is instructing campus presidents to refund tuition and waive liability for students who withdraw from the fall or spring semesters due to hardships as a result of the storm.
"SUNY students whose studies were disrupted by Hurricane Sandy need not worry about getting their money back and can instead focus their energy on their families and rebuilding," Cuomo said in a statement.
SUNY regulations require students to withdraw before a term's midpoint to receive a refund on tuition. Since the storm hit after the fall semester midpoint, SUNY modified the regulation.
"As our campuses join with local communities and continue to contribute to relief efforts in several areas of New York, it is only fitting that we offer SUNY students what we can to provide some financial relief as well," said SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher in a statement.


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Five Money Conversations to Have Before Marriage
(NEW YORK) -- You finally found your soul mate -- someone who is sympathetic, nurturing, loving and caring. You're ready to tie the knot. But before you say, "I do," can you honestly say, "We did?" No, I'm not talking about that. I am talking about the talk. Not the one about sex and family but rather the one about money and credit.
Buzzkill? Reality testing? Yes. However, you both need to talk about:
What do your credit reports say, and what do they say about you?
What are your respective credit scores?
How much debt is each of you carrying?
What would your combined debts look like?
Is your fiancé a big spender or a saver?
If you're ready to take the big walk then it's time to have that talk and here's why it shouldn't be delayed until after the rings are slipped on your fingers and the limousine is racing to the wedding reception or the airport.
The sooner both of you discuss your personal financial preferences, credit standings, individual spending habits and joint future goals, the sooner you can identify and hopefully avoid major problems.
Most people recognize that money and sex are two major potholes that can trip up happily married couples and lead to a rocky road of conflict, distress and disputation. And, as you are now a couple, it's good to get into the habit of joint problem solving and negotiating so you can set the stage for a sustaining dialogue that fuels togetherness and intelligent conflict resolution.
Fact: The longer you can avoid plunging into debt and all of the traps that come with achieving instant gratification and overspending, the better you'll be prepared as a couple to save for the things you want, get ready for little bundles of joy, and build your retirement nest egg. In addition to the size of your investment accounts, the health of your credit is paramount.
Unfortunately, many couples enter a marriage with credit baggage. Like a suitcase that is so stuffed that all of the clothes can't be jammed into it, one spouse and sometimes both may have overspent in their previous lives, racked up significant debt and made mistakes that severely damaged their credit. While one partner's bad credit score won't damage the score of the other, it could inhibit their ability to jointly purchase a home or a car at an affordable price, and must be addressed as early in the relationship as possible.
It is important that when entering into the bonds of holy matrimony, each partner must commit to building a strong individual credit profile while building a solid joint credit history. That means keeping debt under control, cutting costs where appropriate, merging expenses with a prospective life partner to get the benefits of "economies of scale," making all payments in a timely fashion and not overspending. Here are some other useful tips:
- When planning the wedding, don't take on suffocating debt to stage the event of the century at the most spectacular venue in town. If you're paying for it because your parents or in-laws can't afford it, be sensible about the ceremony and reception and splurge on the honeymoon (if you must). Creating five- or six-figure debt to finance your wedding and honeymoon could well damage your individual or joint credit rating, and make it difficult to live the life you dreamt about when you walked down the aisle.
- Avoid digging a hole from which you can't escape with credit card debt. Like wandering into quicksand, you sink hopelessly into debt as exorbitant interest rates proliferate and multiply faster than rabbits.
- By keeping your costs down and building a solid credit history, you establish yourself as a couple ready to build savings, develop a positive mutual credit rating, and seize the world rather than be crushed by it.
- When you need to take out your first loan as a couple, you'll be eligible rather than rejected and denied. With a strong credit rating, minimum debt and growing savings, you'll be viewed positively by banks and more likely to be approved.
- Weak credit can also affect a couple's ability to take out a joint credit card. That's another reason to lower debt or eradicate it. The quicker that bad credit is extinguished, the faster you can embark on establishing positive joint credit and achieving your dreams.
There is no substitute for talking things out. You're a couple now and everything you do from here on in should be done as two-some, a partnership, and a marriage. Don't hold back, don't fudge, don't mislead and, of course, never lie. Be straight, get everything out in the open, and reach an agreement in principle about how you plan on straightening out any bad debt from the past, cleaning up any credit issues, and establishing a positive joint profile and track record for the future.
Stanley Kubrick once directed a film entitled Eyes Wide Shut, but in this case, eyes wide open is the operative way to behave. Be open with your spouse; learn to talk things out. Collaborate on establishing positive joint credit, fixing any problems of the past, and embarking on a new sterling financial record. This will lead to material happiness and emotional health as well.
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Magic! Perform 'Rude' on 'The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon' [VIDEO]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Magic! stopped by 'The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon' last night (July 10) and performed their summer hit, 'Rude,' which you can see here.
The Canadian band stopped by PopCrush recently to talk about working on their first album, 'Don't Kill the Magic,' which was released on July 1.
"I say it's all about great songs," lead singer Nasri Atweh said about their songwriting process as a band. "We come together to add to a great song [whether] it's a guitar part, or a trumpet part, or bass part, or lyrical — which, by the way — comes from anybody. We work together to create a great song."
Atweh explained that the inspiration for 'Rude!' came from a night with a girlfriend whom he described as "darker." Atweh elaborated, "She was like, 'Why do you got to be so rude? Stop screaming at me.' About three versions later, we really loved that chorus."
"So this weird picture went into my head of a guy saying 'no' to a guy trying to marry a girl. It's really made up from nothing and now it became this weird story that has people wondering whether I lost the love of my life," he added.
You can watch Magic! perform an acoustic version of 'Rude' for PopCrush below!
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SUNDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- With the economic downturn, suicide rates in the United States rose sharply, a new study finds.
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The rate of increase in suicides has quadrupled since the recession began, the report found. From 1997 to 2007, the rate of increase in suicides was 0.12 per 100,000 people, but from 2008 to 2010 it jumped to 0.51 per 100,000 people.
The report will be published online Nov. 5 in the journal The Lancet, just one day before American voters head to the polls to elect a new leader for the coming four years.
"In the run-up to the U.S. Presidential election, President Obama and Mitt Romney are debating how best to spur economic recovery," study author Aaron Reeves, a research associate at the University of Cambridge, in England, said in a journal news release. "Missing from this discussion is consideration of how to protect Americans' health during these hard times."
"Suicide is a rare outcome of mental illness, but this means that these data are likely the most visible indicator of major depression and anxiety disorders among people living through the financial crisis," he added.
The British researchers looked at suicide and death rates collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1999 to 2010. The data revealed that suicide rates rose slowly from 1999 to 2007, but grew more than four times faster between 2008 and 2010.
There have been about 1,500 more suicides since 2007 than would have been expected if the rates had remained at the previous level, the researchers found. They estimated that about 25 percent of these additional suicides can be blamed on rising unemployment.
Reeves's team noted that other countries, such as Sweden, have not seen similar increases in their suicide rates during tough economic times.
"The fact that countries such as Sweden have been able to prevent suicide rises despite experiencing major recessions reveals opportunities to protect Americans from further risks of suicide during the continued economic downturn," the researchers said. "There is a clear need to implement policies to promote mental health resilience during the ongoing recession."
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Honduran family flees to U.S. to escape threats, violence
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — For 15 years after sneaking into the United States, Miguel dreamed of seeing his daughter Stephanie again. But he couldn't imagine putting her through the harrowing trip he had endured after leaving her and her mother in Honduras. So he played the role of father from afar, sending money, messages and gifts.
More than 2,500 miles away, Stephanie's mom, Maria, faced a different reality. As Honduras spiraled into lawlessness — since 2010, it has had the world's highest murder rate — gangsters took over the family's town. As Stephanie moved into her teens, Maria feared desperately for her safety. This winter, a local thug began harassing the girl on her way to school; when Maria confronted him, he threatened her with a gun, vowing to do as he pleased with her daughter.
In May, with the rainy season pressing in, Maria sat Stephanie down and told her they were going to flee to the United States so she could live with her father. They would leave the next day.
"I was so scared, I was in a very lonely place," recalls Maria, who declined to give her last name, citing her immigration status, as did Miguel. "I knew the trip was very dangerous; I never thought I would put my daughter through that. But a mother will do everything to protect her children."
Their odyssey would be a 1,000-mile blur of perilous bus rides across the back roads of Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. There would be tense border crossings, seedy encounters with smugglers and local police, long stretches without food or sleep, bribes and payments that ate up a lifetime of savings. At the Texas border, they would join the throng of immigrants that have crossed the Rio Grande River in recent months — tens of thousands of children, many with their mothers, many more alone, each with their own story, each with an uncertain fate still to be decided by immigration authorities.
The ten-fold increase in the number of Central American children crossing the border — from 4,000 in all of 2011 to nearly 40,000 just since last fall — has reshaped the immigration debate and put new strains on a detention and adjudication system geared fundamentally to dealing with adults. Like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala rank in the world's top five murder rates, and the continuing violence is unlikely to fade anytime soon, leading parents like Maria to send their children to the U.S. to escape the risks of keeping them at home.
Stephanie spent her last day in Honduras saying goodbye to her friends, to the half-brother and half-sister who would stay behind, to the grandmother who had shared her home and helped raise her.
At Maria's instruction, she brought only what she could fit in a small backpack: extra sneakers, three pairs of pants, two extra shirts, and a blue hoodie her father had sent her. Her cherished electronics — the cellphone she used to chat with her dad twice a week, the laptop he had sent her so they could communicate on Facebook — could attract thieves, her mother said, so they had to be left behind.
"I had a lot of emotions, mixed emotions," says Stephanie, a soft-spoken 17-year-old with long, dark hair and a shy smile. "I was excited to meet my father, but it was very sad leaving my family and friends. I was scared."
On May 16 at 5 a.m., Stephanie and Maria boarded a bus from their home in southern Honduras to the border city of San Pedro Sula, where they would cross into Guatemala. Maria, who scratched out a living selling tortillas, had about $50 for the trip.
Half a continent away, Miguel slept, unaware. He and Maria had divorced several years after he came to the U.S., but they remained close and she knew he would oppose the trip vehemently. So she hadn't told him she and Stephanie were coming.
Mother and daughter were on their own.
After reaching Guatemala — Maria told border guards there that she and her daughter were just coming in for a day to shop — the two bought spots on a small bus carrying other immigrants north. It was full of kids, some with a parent, some without. The few men were mostly coyotes, which are smugglers hired by families to shepherd them or their kids to the U.S. typically for thousands of dollars per person.
They sat next to three children, 3, 6 and 7, who were traveling on their own with a young coyote who paid them little attention. Later, during a stop, Maria was changing a diaper on the youngest when men identifying themselves as immigration authorities demanded that she produce the children's birth certificates. When she couldn't, they pulled her outside.
"They said I was trafficking children and they would take me to jail if I didn't pay them," she says. "I told them I had no money, I am not a trafficker, I was crying. They were going to take me."
Just then, the coyote appeared — he had been getting food — and took the officers aside. When they returned, Maria was allowed to re-board. "I think he gave them money," she says. "The coyotes, they have links to the police (and) the cartels. It is very dangerous to go without them."
Back on the bus, the young man warned Maria that she and Stephanie would not reach the U.S. without his help. He offered to guide them, for $3,500 each. He was pleased that Maria was looking after the younger children, and he said she could arrange to pay him once they got to Mexico.
Maria agreed.
In Mexico, the coyote switched the group through a succession of vans, sometimes every few hours. Other riders dropped in and out, as did other coyotes. "One of them asked to be with my daughter, he tried to get next to her," Maria says. "I would not let him."
They took back roads, stopping occasionally for food and police checkpoints. The officers sometimes insisted on patting down the mother and daughter — "they put their hands everywhere," Maria says — before stepping aside with the coyotes to negotiate the group's passage. They stopped twice at motels, which offered the only showers Maria and Stephanie got on their week-long journey.
At the first stop, Maria called a brother in Pennsylvania, who wired her $1,500 as a down payment for the coyote. At the second, she called Miguel.
"I am in Mexico with Stephanie and I need your help, I need money," she said. He was quiet for a moment, then asked where they were and whether they were safe.
"I need to talk to the coyote," he said. "I need to make arrangements with him, man to man."
That afternoon, Miguel wired $1,500; he'd send additional payments as the trip progressed.
A few days later, the van reached Reynosa, a city on the Texas-Mexico border, and dropped Maria, Stephanie and the children at a rundown warehouse filled with migrants waiting to cross into the U.S. The coyote told Maria that she and Stephanie would stay there until Miguel's final payment arrived. He gave her a phone to call him.
They spent two nights in the warehouse, sleeping under dirty blankets on a concrete floor teeming with roaches. One day, a man brought food; the next, nothing.
"I was scared, crying," Stephanie says. "I didn't want to stay there. I was hungry."
Though Maria did her best to calm Stephanie and the three younger children, she was worried. Some of the other migrants had been in the warehouse for weeks.
But the coyote returned the next afternoon and said it was time to go. He told them to leave their bags and take only what they could wear, so Stephanie and her mom layered on as much clothing as they could fit, climbed into a van with the younger children and headed for the border.
The U.S. has been trying to lock down the Mexican border for decades.
From 1993 to 2013, the number of Border Patrol agents assigned to the southwest border has grown from fewer than 4,000 agents to more than 18,000. There are also teams from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Agency and other local, state and federal agencies. More than 750 miles of fencing has been put up, and the region bristles with radar stations, motion sensors and surveillance drones.
The security measures, increased successively by the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, have helped slow the flow of illegal immigrants: Border Patrol agents now catch fewer than 500,000 a year, down from more than 1 million annually through the 1990s and most of the 2000s.
In an emergency budget request sent Monday to Congress, Obama asked for $433 million to pay for overtime and other costs for increased border patrols.
But there's no challenge to catching the wave of children now pouring in from Central America: they aren't even trying to elude Border Patrol agents; they're just walking up to officers to give themselves up.
The van pulled up to a remote section of the Rio Grande around 5 p.m. and the coyote handed Maria, Stephanie and the children off to another man, along with a handful of cash. Immigrants were everywhere. A woman with an infant was kneeling at the water's edge, praying before she set off across the river. Several groups of children milled around.
Their new guide pointed to a path leading up the opposite bank.
"After we cross, follow that path until you come to a road," he said. "Then turn left and walk. The Border Patrol will find you."
They piled into a raft and were across in moments. As they scrambled up the bank, the guide crossed back. They were on U.S. soil, and they were far from alone.
They followed the guide's instructions and quickly ran across other groups of immigrants, many of them children. As he had promised, a Border Patrol truck arrived in minutes, then a string of vans. The travelers were shuttled to the Patrol's McAllen Station, a 68,000-square-foot holding facility in South Texas.
"They took everything — belts, shoelaces," Stephanie says. "They said, 'Why do you have all those clothes on? They took my sweatshirt."
For the next two days, Stephanie and her mother stayed at the McAllen station, waiting with hundreds of other women and children in a giant building so cold that they referred to it as la heladera" for "the icebox." They were given clear plastic sheets to sit on; guards barked instructions in Spanish on megaphones — when to sit, when to stand, where to go.
Around 2 a.m. on the second day, Maria and Stephanie were called out to a bus and driven to another facility. The three children, still with them, were taken elsewhere.
"They were crying, they wanted to stay with us," Maria says. "But I am not their mother, so they could not. There was nothing we could do. I have no idea what happened to them."
She and Stephanie were fingerprinted, photographed and interviewed by a Border Patrol agent.
"Where are you from? Are you married? Is your father here? What year of school have you finished? Do you have a place to stay in the U.S.? They asked many questions," Maria says. She gave them an address for a relative who would put them up in Northern Virginia, near where her former husband Miguel lives. "And then they gave us papers and told us they would let us go and send us a letter with a date to come to court."
At 5 p.m., after 48 hours of virtually no sleep, the two were dropped at a bus depot in Kingsville, Texas, with nothing more than the clothes they had on.
With no capacity to house the huge numbers of kids immigrating from Central America — and laws directing that they can't be turned away — the Border Patrol is in a bind.
The few available holding facilities, which never were meant to provide for the special needs of children, are stacked beyond capacity. The Department of Health and Human Services has scoured the country for suitable housing, even using military facilities in Texas, California and Oklahoma. Last week, protesters turned away buses carrying mothers and children to a facility in California; in other states, local politicians have tried to block similar transfers to their communities.
Obama's funding request includes $1.8 billion to help HHS pay for additional housing for those who need it. But the problem isn't just about space or money.
A law passed unanimously by Congress and signed in 2008 by President George W. Bush puts special conditions on the handling of many of the children now coming over the border. Those from Mexico can be returned immediately, but there is no quick deportation mechanism for those from Central America and other "non-contiguous" countries, so their cases typically end up before a judge.
Immigration courts are so backlogged that the process can take years.
Obama has asked Congress for money to hire 40 new judges and a slew of prosecutors and asylum experts to help process cases. He also wants to change the 2008 law so the government can treat children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras just as it treats children from Mexico.
Meanwhile, the Border Patrol has been releasing children who are with a parent and have a safe place to stay, provided they agree to report for an immigration hearing.
At home in Northern Virginia, Miguel was beside himself.
He hadn't heard from Maria and Stephanie since he had sent the last payment for their coyote. All he could think about was the horrors he had endured on his own trip from Honduras.
"It was so stressful, I felt sick," Miguel says. "There are so many stories about the terrible things that happen to women when they cross the border."
When Maria called from Kingsville, his relief was fleeting. It was too late to wire money for a hotel; she and Stephanie were on the side of the road with nowhere to stay, nothing to eat. Desperate, he reached out through Facebook to an old friend in Dallas, a six-hour drive from Kingsville.
At 2 a.m., Miguel's friend pulled up to the bus depot and Maria and Stephanie were sitting on the side of the road. They drove through the night to get back to his house in Dallas. The next day, they were on a bus to Virginia, where Miguel met them at a station.
"We hugged for a long time," Stephanie says. "It was strange, because I never really met him, but I was happy."
Maria looked on, crying.
All three know the reunion could be short lived; immigration officials could come knocking at any time.
Miguel, an illegal alien for 15 years, is used to life in the shadows. For Maria, it's been hard. Her two younger children, fathered by a man she met long after she and Miguel were divorced, are back in Honduras with her niece, and she misses them terribly. Meanwhile, she's struggled to find work so she can pay back her brother for the money he sent to pay the coyote.
"I know I don't belong here," she says. "When you leave your children, it tears out a piece of your heart. I miss them. I don't know what will happen to me, maybe they will send me back. But my daughter is safe, she is with her father. He is a good man and he will take care of her."
She could have sent Stephanie alone, as so many parents have. But her journey has left her even more convinced that it would have been a mistake.
"What I would tell people (back home) is that they should not send their children alone," she says. "It is too dangerous. Nothing is safe for those kids. There is only suffering."


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With the new movie from the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, about to hit our screens and no doubt throw fans of the vampire series into frenzy, I thought that it would be a good time to pop over to the film set (and one of my favourite cities) – Vancouver.
I adore this town. Where else can you go whale-watching, skiing, cycling and shopping all in the same day? The nightlife is pretty good too! I've spent many happy days strolling around Stanley Park, shopping on Robson (I've spent more money in MAC than I care to admit), sipping cocktails at the city's stunning rooftop bars, as well as exploring the surrounding countryside all the way from Seattle to Whistler. However, this time my dear friend (and gay boyfriend), accompanied me on a visit to Vancouver's hottest hotel and celebrity hangout, the Fairmont Pacific Rim.
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Vancouver was already a seriously good-looking city when the 2010 Winter Olympics came along and gave it a dazzling new waterfront facelift. Staking a gold medal position in the heart of the action was the shiny Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel which, since its opening a little over 18 months ago, has attracted more than its fair share of celebrities.
It was obvious from the moment we entered the smart, marble-clad lobby, decorated with indoor waterfalls and beautiful people, that the Pacific Rim was all about 'urban glam'. Impressive floor-to-ceiling windows allow light to flood in, while traditional touches like a fireplace and a grand piano warm the space. Upstairs, the alluring Oru Restaurant is sophisticated, polished and the kind of place that's packed every night of the week with city slickers, super-skinny model types and, of course, celebrities. Cindy Crawford and Nicole Kidman have both been spotted spending time in the hotel. The boutique feel continues half-way up the building to the swish Willow Stream Spa and at the chic rooftop pool – the private cabanas made the perfect spot for some afternoon champagne sipping.
After a check-in as smooth and sweet as maple syrup, we're shown to our room; one of the Signature rooms on the corner of the tenth floor. The minimalist, though opulent, design of the lobby (think tactile fabrics, chic chandeliers and contemporary artworks) carries through to the deluxe low-key lodgings. It's spacious and packed with high-tech gadgetry, but all of these fantastic features slip into the background when we see what is far and away the hotel's best selling point, the ah-mazing views!
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The views are quite simply incredible and induced a fair amount of decibel-busting squeals from GBF and I as we took in the spectacular 270 degree panorama of the majestic North Shore Mountains, the Coal harbour coastline (complete with seaplanes dipping in and out of the water) and a glittering cityscape. And where was the best place to enjoy this stupendous view? From the bathtub of course!
Click on the link to see the bathroom reveal! Fairmont Pacific Rim – View from the Bathroom
The next morning, following an exquisite sleep I awake to the sound of Matthew tinkering on his laptop. He sees me rise from my slumber and promptly presses a button to adjust the lighting, then presses another button to open the blinds, and rustles up some coffee on the Nespresso maching – clearly we're in gadget heaven! After I indulged in an early morning bubble bath – I could have luxuriated there all day admiring that view – it was off to Giovane for a fab deli-style lunch and a quick tour of the hotel.
As special as our room was – and it was very special – it paled in comparison to the all-out extravagance of the hotel's unbelievably glamorous Speciality Suites. The show-stopping Chairman Suite, with its enormous master bedroom, two living rooms, a 500 square foot spa bathroom and a Balinese-style terrace, cascades over two floors showing off double-height views of the city and harbour. It's clear why this suite is a favourite of flamboyant rock stars like U2 and Bon Jovi, it is certainly a superstar of a space. Lady Gaga, on the other hand, prefers the privacy of the penthouse Presidential Suite which is accessed by private elevator, sprawls over 2230 square feet, has an enormous marble spa bathroom with jacuzzi and, of course, a heavenly view.
We spend the rest of the day sunbathing at the rooftop pool and lounging around the fabulous Willow Stream Spa, where we drink champagne in the Jacuzzi till the sun goes down. We smugly agree that the Fairmont Pacific Rim is the perfect celebrity hot spot.
Star Style
A great pair of jeans will take you from day to night in Vancouver. I love these navy-blue babies from cool Canadian brand, Domino – Jessica Alba and Kirsten Dunst are just a couple of the celebrities that have been spotted wearing them.
The Fairmont Pacific Rim: Tel 604-695-5300; http://www.fairmont.com/pacificrim; Rates from $229 CAD


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