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Business Blogging: 3 Quick Ways to Get Subscribers
I heard a great debate today at a client site between to executive team members about their blog.
What is better… an RSS subscriber or an email subscriber?
The battle between the team members was one I have heard before. It reminded me of something I read from Michael Hyatt. A subscriber is a subscriber, right? Wrong…
Email subscriptions in the blogging world are the creme de le creme. It is your list, your asset, your gold that you should place into Fort Knox. With an email subscription list you have total control over the messages sent to your readers.
Here is a quick email benefit list:
- You can send a message to readers whenever you would like… with RSS you must write a post!
- Email in-boxes gain you a higher level of trust with your readers
- Email lists can be backed up… if Google has a hiccup you could lose your RSS readers!
If you are now reflecting on your blog… wondering how you can increase those email subscribers. Let me give you 3 quick tips that can get you started. And… 1 not so quick.
- Use an Email List Service – Yes, feedburner is free and great for RSS, but I love MailChimp! Mailchimp provides you with great control over your list. You can send an auto-responding thank you message, and also schedule a message down the weeks to remind them to take certain action and thank them for being readers.
- Above the Fold! – Make sure you sign-up form is above the form and easily visible. Check out some great bloggers and how they do this. A couple of my favorite, and the ones responsible for my list building, permission marketing attitude – Seth Godin and Michael Hyatt.
- Provide an Offer – This all depends on what you are providing your readers. Be creative! A free e-book? A free guide? A free song only subscribers receive?
- **Warning: Not Quick** – Create Great Content – Reader have to value what you write… They have to want to come back for more! When you finally get in the writing groove this will become a much quicker process, but it is nothing to be over looked. Listen to your readers and give them what they want!
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GALESBURG—Lieutenant Governor Sheila Simon will give the Commencement address at the 45th annual Carl Sandburg College Commencement, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. May 16 in Hegg Auditorium at Galesburg High School, 1135 W. Fremont St. Nearly 550 students have applied to graduate, and nearly 250 students are expected to participate in the ceremony.
Simon offers a lifetime and legacy of public service as a lawyer, teacher and working mother. Her record includes four years as a Jackson County prosecutor fighting crime, a decade as a Southern Illinois University law professor and participation in the Illinois Reform Commission, which aimed to restore ethics and trust in government.
As lieutenant governor, Simon is the second highest executive officer in Illinois. She acts as the governor's point person on education reform and is leading efforts to increase college completion, inspire ethical government, protect military bases from closure, improve services in rural areas and keep waterways clean and safe.
In her first year in office, Simon conducted a fact-finding tour of the state's 48 community colleges to highlight the role they play in increasing the state's college completion rate. Simon wants 60 percent of working-age adults to hold meaningful college degrees or certificates by 2025, up from 41 percent today.
A 1987 graduate of Georgetown University's law school, Simon chose to serve clients without financial resources at Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance. She advocated there for people facing domestic violence, discrimination and loss of housing.
Simon then prosecuted DUI and domestic violence cases as an assistant state's attorney in Jackson County. Four years later, she helped launch the Southern Illinois School of Law's domestic violence clinic while also teaching legal writing. The domestic violence clinic continues to serve clients and train law students today.
Simon's parents, the late Paul and Jeanne Simon, served together in the Illinois House of Representatives and were a lifelong team of public servants. Her father gave the Commencement address at Sandburg in 1973 (between his time as lieutenant governor and as a U.S. representative) and 2002 (following his 42-year political career) and is remembered across the state for his honesty and integrity in public service. Simon and her husband, Perry, who teaches at John A. Logan Community College in Carterville, were married in 1987, and have two daughters, Reilly and Brennan.
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Indonesia's ambitions in the Li-Ning BWF World Championships 2014 have been severely dented with the withdrawals of Men's Doubles defending champions, Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan, and Simon Santoso in Men's Singles.
PBSI International Relations Manager Bambang (Rudy) Roedyanto today informed the Badminton World Federation that these competitors were being withdrawn from the tournament due to injury, with Ahsan (BWF home page; with Setiawan) having re-injured his back and Santoso being diagnosed with dengue fever last night.
"It's a disaster for us – what can I say. We are leaving on Thursday morning and we have no choice (but to withdraw them). They cannot play," he said.
This news completes a triple whammy for Indonesian badminton, with the earlier withdrawal from the World Championships of the defending Mixed Doubles pair, Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir due to an ankle injury which Ahmad suffered in June.
As the World Championships draw has already been done, there will be no replacements for either Ahsan/Setiawan or Santoso. Ironically, Santoso was catapulted into the Men's Singles line-up on the morning of the draw, after China withdrew last year's semi-finalist, Du Pengyu.
"It's the second time Ahsan has had lower back pain and it has gotten worse in the past few days while he has been training. He cannot even sit down properly now so, of course, he can't move well or jump-smash and the doctor says he should not go," stated Roedyanto.
Meanwhile, Santoso (below) has been hospitalised after falling ill yesterday.
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The contest is open to anyone and everyone who lives, works, or attends school in Pleasanton, San Ramon, Danville, Alamo or Blackhawk.
Show us people, charm us with pets and animals, or dazzle us with photos of the Tri-Valley. The winners of the three categories from both the Youth (16 years and younger as of Sept. 30, 2013) and Adult divisions will get to enjoy prizes and some artistic fame.
Digital photos only will be accepted. Submissions must be in jpeg format, at least 1MB and no larger than 3MB in size, and submitted to Pleasanton Weekly by Sept. 27, 2013, along with an entry form and entry fee for each submission. Entry fee is $8 for adults and $3 for youths. ==I (Editor's note: This is the fee if you have already submitted photos; credit cards have not been charged.)==
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Submissions will be judged by three local professional photographers: Sue Evans of Photography by Sue Evans; Gina Reuschel-Coomber of Fireboxgirl Photography; and Christina Gray of Bella Luna Studios.
Winners will be notified by Oct. 18 and invited to a reception celebrating their achievements.
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Nestle will highlight exceptional youth in communities across the country with the Drumstick Heroes contest. Fifty children between the ages of 6 and 17 are eligible to win a summer celebration package, complete with enough Nestle Drumstick Sundae Cones for a party of 50 friends. I'm sure many of our Girl Scouts deserve this award!
To nominate an outstanding child or teen, submit the completed entry form, along with a short story (150 to 300 words) describing why the individual deserves to be honored as a Drumstick Hero. All entries must be received by September 15, 2010. For details on this opportunity, please visit www.drumstick.com/promotions/heroes.aspx


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Special Needs Parenting: Permission to be "That Mom"
It is OK to be "that Mom."
"That Mom," some may think, is a bee in the bonnet, a flame underfoot, and a pain in the tush.
"That Mom," I assure you, is a warrior, a Mama bear, and her child's best advocate.
When we are handed our child with special needs for the first time, we don't think we will ever have to fight for them.
We fall in love and our love propels them forward.
But, the time comes, inevitably, that we will have to fight.
When that time comes, my friends, I give you permission to be "that Mom."
Unbelievably, my time didn't come until just last month when Brady turned five.
We were lucky to make it five years being understood and supported by a great team of physicians from the Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong, Early Intervention therapists, SKIP of New York, and our school district.
We had little bumps here and there, but for the most part Mama Bear was able to focus all of her energy on helping her cub, not fighting for him.
That is until this past fall when one of our amazing therapists that had been with Brady since he was a baby moved onto a new position and we were assigned someone new.
I will not get into details, but I knew right away this therapist did not understand my child.
It was a gnawing feeling I had each time I observed them, but I buried it – not wanting to be "that Mom."
Others recommended I call the school district and ask for a change in therapists, but again, I did not want to rock the boat.
Right after Christmas, the boat capsized on it's own when I received a call saying this therapist had discharged Brady from services.
Right then and there Mama Bear took off her life jacket and dove in after her cub.
It was time.
With support from other Moms of special needs children and other professionals I decided to fight the discharge.
Every bone in my body told me the discharge was wrong and premature.
But, I was scared. What if the district didn't support me? What if I got labeled as "a problem" and that label impacted my son?
As much as these questions plagued me, I knew it was my job to stand up for my son.
I pushed for an independent assessment.
I won't lie, it was tough, I had to confront face-to-face the therapist whose discharge I thought was wrong in front of school and county representatives. It was one of the hardest things I ever had to do, yet at the same time the easiest because I knew I was right.
The independent assessment was granted.
After a thorough ninety minutes of testing the assessor surmissed that indeed Brady was not ready for discharge – not even close.
The report was vindicating, but not in a "See I told you so" way. It was vindicating in a "Thank goodness I fought for Brady. What if I had not?!"
I no longer look at being "that Mom" with fear, for the fear of what would have happened to my son if I had not, is so much greater.
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The Baiji (help·info) (Chinese: 白鱀豚; pinyin: báijìtún) (Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning "left behind", vexillifer "flag bearer") is a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China. Nicknamed "Goddess of the Yangtze" (simplified Chinese: 长江女神; traditional Chinese: 長江女神; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng nǚshén) in China, the dolphin is also called Chinese River Dolphin, Yangtze River Dolphin, Whitefin Dolphin and Yangtze Dolphin. It is not to be confused with the Chinese White Dolphin.
The Baiji population declined drastically in recent decades as China industrialized and made heavy use of the river for fishing, transportation, and hydroelectricity. Efforts were made to conserve the species, but a late 2006 expedition failed to find any Baiji in the river. Organizers declared the Baiji "functionally extinct",[3] which would make it the first aquatic mammal species to become extinct since the demise of the Japanese Sea Lion and the Caribbean Monk Seal in the 1950s. It would also be the first recorded extinction of a well-studied cetacean species (it is unclear if some previously extinct varieties were species or subspecies) to be directly attributable to human influence.
In August 2007, Zeng Yujiang reportedly videotaped a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze.[4] Although Wang Kexiong of the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has tentatively confirmed [5] that the animal on the video is probably a baiji, the presence of only one or a few animals, particularly of advanced age, is not enough to save a functionally extinct species from true extinction. The last known living baiji was Qi Qi (淇淇) who died in 2002.
Anatomy and morphology
Baiji are thought to breed in the first half of the year, the peak calving season being from February to April.[6] A 30% pregnancy rate was observed.[7] Gestation lasts 10-11 months, delivering one calf at a time; the interbirth interval is 2 years. Calves measure around 80-90 centimetres (32-35 in) at birth, and nursed for 8-20 months.[8] Males reach sexual maturity at age four, females at age six.[8] Mature males were about 2.3 metres (7.5 ft) long, females 2.5 metres (8 ft), the longest specimen 2.7 metres.[8] The animal weighed 135-230 kilograms (300-510 lb),[8] with a lifespan estimated at 24 years in the wild.[9]
When escaping from danger, the Baiji can reach 60 km/h (37 mph), but usually stays within 10 to 15 km/h (6-9 mph). Because of its poor vision and hearing, the Baiji relies mainly on sonar for navigation.
Historically the Baiji occurred along 1,700 kilometres (1,000 miles) of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze from Yichang in the west to the mouth of the river, near to Shanghai. This had been reduced by several hundred kilometres both upstream and downstream, and was limited to the main channel of the Yangtze, principally the middle reaches between the two large tributary lakes, Dongting and Poyang.[10] Approximately 12% of the world's human population lives and works within the Yangtze River catchment area, putting pressure on the river.[11] The construction of the Three Gorges Dam, along with other smaller damming projects, also led to habitat loss.
Evolutionary history
Fossil records suggest that the dolphin first appeared 25 million years ago and migrated from the Pacific Ocean to the Yangtze River 20 million years ago.[12] It was one of four species of dolphins known to have made fresh water their exclusive habitat. The other three species, including the Boto and the La Plata Dolphin, have survived in the Río de la Plata and Amazon rivers in South America and the Ganges and Indus rivers on the Indian subcontinent.
It is estimated that there were 5,000 Baiji when they were described in the ancient dictionary Erya circa 3rd century BC. A traditional Chinese story describes the Baiji as the reincarnation of a princess who had been drowned by her family after refusing to marry a man she did not love. Regarded as a symbol of peace and prosperity, the dolphin was nicknamed the "Goddess of the Yangtze."
In the 1950s, the population was estimated at 6,000 animals,[13] but declined rapidly over the subsequent five decades. Only a few hundred were left by 1970. Then the number dropped down to 400 by the 1980s and then to 13 in 1997 when a full-fledged search was conducted. Now the most endangered cetacean in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records,[3] the Baiji was last sighted in August 2007.[4] It is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. government under the Endangered Species Act.
Causes of decline
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has noted the following as threats to the species: a period of hunting by humans during the Great Leap Forward, entanglement in fishing gear, the illegal practice of electric fishing, collisions with boats and ships, habitat loss, and pollution. During the Great Leap Forward, when traditional veneration of the Baiji was denounced, it was hunted for its flesh and skin, and quickly became scarce.[2]
As China developed economically, pressure on the river dolphin grew significantly. Industrial and residential waste flowed into the Yangtze. The riverbed was dredged and reinforced with concrete in many locations. Ship traffic multiplied, boats grew in size, and fishermen employed wider and more lethal nets. Noise pollution caused the nearly blind animal to collide with propellers. Stocks of the dolphin's prey declined drastically in recent decades as well, with some fish populations declining to one thousandth of their pre-industrial levels.[14]
In the 1970s and 1980s, an estimated half of Baiji deaths were attributed to entanglement in fishing gear. By the early 2000s, electric fishing was considered "the most important and immediate direct threat to the Baiji's survival."[2] Though outlawed, this fishing technique is widely practiced throughout China. The building of the Three Gorges Dam further reduced the dolphin's habitat and facilitated an increase in ship traffic.
- circa 3rd century BC: population estimated at 5,000 animals
- 1950s: population was estimated at 6,000 animals
- 1958-1962: The Great Leap Forward denounces the animal's traditional venerated status
- 1970: The Gezhouba Project begins
- 1979: The People's Republic of China declares the Chinese River Dolphin endangered
- 1983: National law declares hunting the Chinese River Dolphin illegal
- 1984: The plight of the Baiji draws headlines in China[15]
- 1986: Population estimated to be 300
- 1989: Gezhouba Dam complete
- 1990: Population estimated to be 200
- 1994: Construction of the Three Gorges Dam begins
- 1996: IUCN lists the species as critically endangered
- 1997: Population estimated to be less than 50 (23 found in survey); a dead baiji was found with 103 separate open wounds[12]
- 1998: 7 found in survey
- 2003: Three Gorges Dam begins filling reservoir
- 2004: Last known sighting
- 2006: None found in survey, declared "extinct"
- 2007: Results of survey published in the journal Biology Letters[16]
|Survey Area
|No. of km surveyed
|No. of Baiji sighted
|No. of Baiji estimated
|3-6 groups
|>20 groups
|42 groups
Conservation efforts
Soon after it decided to modernize, China recognized the precarious state of the river dolphin. The government outlawed deliberate killing, restricted fishing, and established nature reserves.
In 1978, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Freshwater Dolphin Research Centre (淡水海豚研究中心) as a branch of the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology. In the 1980s and 1990s, several attempts were made to capture dolphins and relocate them to a reserve. A breeding program would then allow the species to recover and be reintroduced to the Yangtze after conditions improve. However, capturing the rare, quick dolphins proved to be difficult, and few captives survived more than a few months.[2]
The first Chinese aquatic species protection organisation, the Baiji Dolphin Conservation Foundation of Wuhan (武汉白鱀豚保护基金), was founded in December 1996. It has raised 1,383,924.35 CNY (about 100,000 USD) and used the funds for in vitro cell preservation and to maintain the Baiji facilities, including the Shishou Sanctuary that was flooded in 1998.
Since 1992 five protected areas of the Yangtze have been designated as Baiji reserves. Four were built in the main Yangtze channel where Baiji are actively protected and fishing is banned: two national reserves (Shishou City and Xin-Luo) and two provincial (Tongling and Zhenjiang). A fifth protected area is an isolated oxbow lake located off of the north bank of the river near to Shishou City: the Tian-e-Zhou Oxbow Semi-natural Reserve. Combined, these five reserves cover just over 350 kilometres (220 miles), about 1/3 of the Baijis range, leaving two-thirds of the species' habitat unprotected.[11]
As well as these five protected areas there are also five "Protection Stations" in Jianli, Chenglingji, Hukou, Wuhu and Zhengjiang. These stations consist of two observers and a motorised fishing boat with the aim of conducting daily patrols, making observations and investigating reports of illegal fishing.[11]
In 2001 the Chinese government approved a Conservation Action Plan for Cetaceans of the Yangtze River. This plan re-emphasised the three measures identified at the 1986 workshop and was adopted as the national policy for the conservation of the Baiji. Despite all of these workshops and conventions little money was available in China to aid the conservation efforts. It has been estimated that US$1 million was needed to begin the project and maintain it for a further 3 years.[27]
Efforts to save the mammals proved to be too little and too late. August Pfluger, chief executive of the Baiji.org Foundation, said, "The strategy of the Chinese government was a good one, but we didn't have time to put it into action."[28]
In-situ conservation
Most scientists agreed that the best course of action was an ex-situ effort working in parallel with an in-situ effort. The deterioration of the Yangtze River had to be reversed to preserve the habitat. The ex-situ projects aimed to raise a large enough population over time so that some, if not all, of the dolphins could be returned to the Yangtze, so the habitat within the river had to be maintained anyway.
Ex-situ conservation
The Shishou Tian-e-Zhou is a 21 kilometre (13 mile) long, 2 kilometre (1.2 mile) wide oxbow lake located near Shishou City in Hubei Province. Shishou has been described as being "like a miniature Yangtze … possessing all of the requirements for a semi-natural reserve". From the designation as a national reserve in 1992 it has been intended to be used for not only the Baiji but also the Yangtze Finless Porpoise. In 1990 the first Finless Porpoises were relocated to the reserve and since then have been surviving and reproducing well. As of April 2005 26 Finless Porpoises were known to live in the reserve. A Baiji was introduced in December 1995, but died during the summer flood of 1996. To deal with these annual floods a dyke was constructed between the Yangtze and Shishou. Now water is controlled from a sluice gate located at the downstream mouth of the oxbow lake. It has been reported that since the installation of this sluice gate, water quality has declined since no annual transfer of nutrients can occur. Roughly 6,700 people live on the 'island' within the oxbow lake and so some limited fishing is permitted. [11]
Success of Shishou with the porpoises and with migratory birds and other wetland fauna has encouraged the local Wetlands Management Team to put forward an application to award the site Ramsar status.[29] It has also been noted that the site has incredible potential for ecotourism, which could be used to generate much needed revenue to improve the quality of the reserve. The necessary infrastructure does not currently exist to realize these opportunities.
Captive specimens
A Baiji conservation dolphinarium was established at the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) in Wuhan in 1992. This was planned as a backup to any other conservation efforts by producing an area completely protected from any threats, and where the Baiji could be easily observed. The site includes an indoor and outdoor holding pool, a water filtration system, food storage and preparation facilities, research labs and a small museum. The aim is to also generate income from tourism which can be put towards the Baiji plight. The pools are not very large (25 m arc [kidney shaped] x 7 m wide x 3.5 m deep, 10 m diameter, 2 m deep and 12 m diameter, 3.5 m deep) and so are not capable of holding many Baijis at one time.
Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine documented their encounters with the endangered animals on their conservation travels for the BBC programme Last Chance to See. The book by the same name, published in 1990, included pictures of a captive specimen, a male named Qi Qi (淇淇) that lived in the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology dolphinarium from 1980 to July 14, 2002. Discovered by a fisherman in Dongting Lake, it became the sole resident of the Baiji Dolphinarium (白鱀豚水族馆) beside East Lake. A sexually mature female was captured in late 1995, but died after half a year in 1996 when the Shishou Tian-e-Zhou Baiji Semi-natural Reserve (石首半自然白鱀豚保护区), which had contained only Finless Porpoises since 1990, was flooded.
|Date range
|Conditions of rearing
|Survival time
|Qi Qi
|1980-01-12 - 2002-07-14
|Outdoor & indoor, non-filtered
|22.5 years
|Rong Rong
|1981-04-22 - 1982-02-03
|Outdoor non-filtered
|228 days
|Lian Lian
|1986-03-31 - 1986-06-14
|Outdoor non-filtered
|76 days
|Zhen Zhen
|1986-03-31 - 1988-09-27
|Outdoor non-filtered
|2.5 years
|Ya Ya
|1981-03-03 - 1981-03-20
|17 days
|Jiang Jiang
|1981-12-07 - 1982-04-16
|Outdoor non-filtered
|129 days
Current status
The Xinhua News Agency announced on 4 December 2006 that no Chinese River Dolphins were detected in a six-week survey of the Yangtze River conducted by 30 researchers. The failure of the Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition (simplified Chinese: 长江淡水豚类考察; traditional Chinese: 長江淡水豚類考察; pinyin: Chāng Jiāng dànshuǐ tún lèikǎochá) raised suspicions of the first unequivocal extinction of a cetacean species due to human action[30] (some extinct baleen whale populations might not have been distinct species). Poor water and weather conditions may have prevented sightings,[3] but expedition leaders declared it "functionally extinct" on 13 December 2006 as fewer are likely to be alive than are needed to propagate the species.[3] Although on a hopeful note, footage believed to be a baiji from August 2007 was released to the public.[31]
The Japanese Sea Lion and Caribbean Monk Seal disappeared in the 1950s, the last aquatic mammals to become extinct. Several land-based mammal species and subspecies have disappeared since then. If the Baiji is now extinct, the North Pacific Right Whale has become the most endangered marine mammal species.
Some scientists retain hope for the species:
|The fact that the expedition didn't see any Baiji dolphins during this expedition does not necessarily mean that the species is extinct or even 'effectively extinct', because it covered a considerable distance in a relatively short period of time... However, we are extremely concerned. The Yangtze is highly degraded, and we spotted dramatically fewer Finless Porpoises than we have in the past.
— Wang Limin, director of the World Wide Fund for Nature, Wuhan office[32]
A report of the expedition was published online in the journal Biology Letters on August 7th, 2007, in which the authors conclude "We are forced to conclude that the baiji is now likely to be extinct, probably due to unsustainable by-catch in local fisheries"[33]
"Witness to Extinction: How We Failed To Save The Yangtze River Dolphin", an account of the 2006 baiji survey by Samuel Turvey, the lead author of the Biology Letters paper, was published by Oxford University Press in autumn 2008. This book investigated the baiji's probable extinction within the wider-scale context of how and why international efforts to conserve the species had failed, and whether conservation recovery programmes for other threatened species were likely to face similar potentially disastrous administrative hurdles.
A possible sighting of one of the dolphins in Anhui Province was reported on August 29, 2007.[34][35]
Some reports suggest that information about the baiji and its demise is being suppressed in China.[36] Other reports cite government media English language reports in China Central Television and Xinhua News Agency as evidence to the contrary.[37]
In August 2007, Zeng Yujiang reportedly videotaped a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze.[4] Wang Kexiong of the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has tentatively confirmed that the animal on the video is a baiji.
The lives of Finless porpoise are also at risk. On October 11, 2007, Chinese state media announced that under a development plan an additional 4,000,000 people will be relocated from their homes near the dam by the year 2020 due to ecological concerns, while a forum of officials and experts warned of a possible "environmental catastrophe" if preventive measures are not taken.[38][39][40] Currently, the quality of water in the Yangtze is falling rapidly, due to the dam's preventing dispersal of pollutants; algae blooms have risen progressively since the dam's construction; and soil erosion has increased, causing riverbank collapses and landslides.[41] The report detailing this was officially released in September 2007.[42] Senior Chinese government officials and scholars said the dam could cause a "huge disaster ... if steps are not taken promptly."[41] The same scholars and officials previously had defended the Three Gorges Dam project.[43] Xinhua also reported that tens of billions of yuan had been spent to prevent pollution and geological disasters by tree planting, measures to maintain species diversification, shutting 1500 polluting industrial and mining enterprises and building 70 sewage and waste treatment plants, all of which are "progressing well." [43]
See also
- List of extinct animals of Asia
- List of extinct mammals
- Finless Porpoise
- Three Gorges Dam
- Yangtze River
- Chinese paddlefish
- Chinese White Dolphin
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- ^ a b c "Rare Dolphin Seen in China, Experts Say". New York Times. 2007-08-30. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/world/asia/30china.html?ref=science. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
- ^ "White dolphine appears from the brink". AFP. 2007-08-29. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/29/whitedolphin_ani.html. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ Culik, B. (2003). "Lipotes vexillifer, Baiji". http://www.animalinfo.org/refc.htm#convention%20mig%20spec%202004. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
- ^ IWC. 2000. Report of the Standing Sub-Committee on Small Cetaceans. IWC/52/4. 52nd Meeting of the International Whaling Commission, Adelaide, Australia.
- ^ a b c d "Animal Info - Baiji". animalinfo.org. http://www.animalinfo.org/species/cetacean/lipovexi.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
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- ^ Reeves, R.R., Smith, B.D., Crespo,E.A. & Notarbartolo di Sciara, G. (eds.) (2003) Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002-2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans. IUCN/SSC Cetacean Specialist Group. IUCN, Glad, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.
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- ^ "Rescue Plan Prepared for Yangtze River Dolphins". China Daily. 2002-07-11. http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/36657.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
- ^ "Last Chance for China's Dolphin". BBC News. 2006-06-27. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5122074.stm. Retrieved 2006-06-27.
- ^ Adams, Douglas. Last Chance to See.
- ^ Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'. BBC News.
- ^ Chen, P.; Liu, P., Liu, R., Lin, K., Pilleri, G. (1980). "Distribution, ecology, behaviour and protection of the dolphins in the middle reaches of the Changjiang River (Wuhan-Yueyang)". Oceanologica Limnologia Sinica 11: 73–84.
- ^ Zhou, K.; Pilleri, G., Li, Y. (1980). "Observations on baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) and finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaorientalis) in the lower reaches of the Chiang Jiang". Scientia sinica 23: 785–795.
- ^ Zhou, K.; Li, Y., Nishiwaki, M., Kataoka, T. (1982). "A brief report on observations of the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River between Nanjing and Guichi". Acta Theriologica Sinica 2: 253–254.
- ^ Lin, K.; Chen, P. and Hua, Y. (1985). "Population size and conservation of Lipotes vexillifer". Acta Zoologica Sinica 5: 77–85. [translated by C.H. Perrin, edited by W.F. Perrin, Southwest Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report LJ-86-27}}
- ^ Chen, P. & Hua, Y. (1989) Distribution, population size and protection of Lipotes vexillifer. pp. 78–81 In W.F. Perrin, R. L. Brownell, Jr., K. Zhou and J. Liu (eds.), Biology and conservation of the river dolphins. Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, No. 3.
- ^ Zhou, K. and Li, Y. 1989. Status and aspects of the ecology and behaviour of the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) in the lower Yangtze River. pp. 86–91


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"Social studies" — as opposed to history, geography and civics — was invented in the Progressive era to socialize children for a future planned by technocrats, writes Michael Knox Beran in City Journal. It's become dull, vacuous and a waste of time. Abolish social studies!
Social studies is hostile to individualism, Beran writes. A 1931 social studies book for junior high school students condemned the U.S. economy's wasteful lack of central planning and extolled Stalin's first Five-Year Plan, which "resulted in millions of deaths from famine and forced labor."
In the 1940s, as social studies took root in elementary schools, there were no more paeans to central planning. Paul Hanna's texts were designed to teach children "desirable patterns of acting and reacting in democratic group living."
A lesson in the second-grade text Susan's Neighbors at Work, for example, which describes the work of police officers, firefighters, and other public servants, is intended to teach "concerted action" and "cooperation in obeying commands and well-thought-out plans which are for the general welfare." A lesson in Tom and Susan, a first-grade text, about a ride in grandfather's red car is meant to teach children to move "from absorption in self toward consideration of what is best in a group situation." Lessons in Peter's Family, another first-grade text, seek to inculcate the idea of "socially desirable" work and "cooperative labor."
Hanna doesn't acknowledge "individual exertion, liberty of action, the necessity at times of resisting the will of others," Beran writes. It's group, group, group all the time.
Today's social studies books are big on group spirit.
Lessons from Scott Foresman's second-grade textbook Social Studies: People and Places (2003) include "Living in a Neighborhood," "We Belong to Groups," "A Walk Through a Community," "How a Community Changes," "Comparing Communities," "Services in Our Community," "Our Country Is Part of Our World," and "Working Together."
"Social studies textbooks descend constantly to the vacuity of passages like this one, from People and Places" aimed at third graders, Beran writes.
Children all around the world are busy doing the same things. They love to play games and enjoy going to school. They wish for peace. They think that adults should take good care of the Earth. How else do you think these children are like each other? How else do you think they are like you?
Beran prefers the "old learning" which awakened children to their cultural heritage. McGuffey's Readers introduced eight-year-olds to Wordsworth and Whittier, nine-year-olds to tShakespeare, Milton, Byron, Southey, and Bryant and ten-year-olds to Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, Sterne, Hazlitt, Macaulay, Pope, Longfellow, Shakespeare, and Milton.
In my younger days, I loved to read history. We didn't study it till high school. Social studies consisted of memorizing the three principal products of every Canadian province and every country in Latin America. I also learned that Birmingham was the "Pittsburgh of Alabama" and the "Pittsburgh of England." Malmo produces ball bearings.


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Don�t assume that all multi-vitamins are the same. Professional-grade brands tend to offer more bioavailable and natural forms of nutrients, often in chelated form (bound with an amino acid for better absorption), a better balance of trace minerals than lower-quality brands, and the active forms of vitamins. Look on the label for these markers of a better-quality multi: the active form of vitamin D, listed as D3 or cholecalciferol; the active form of B12, methylcobalamin; yeast-bound selenium or selenomethionine; and chromium picolinate or polynicotine (not chromium chloride).
Don�t take vitamins and minerals with tea or coffee. Tea has compounds that interfere with iron absorption. And, while coffee won�t hurt vitamin or mineral absorption, it doesn�t help.
Do take your vitamins with food. The stomach acid produced when you eat helps you break down and absorb nutrients.
Don�t take vitamins and minerals with other medications. Vitamins and meds can interact in ways that decrease their effectiveness. Calcium, for instance, interferes with thyroid medicine. Even over-the-counter drugs like antacids and fiber supplements interfere with vitamin absorption.
Don�t take a prenatal supplement if you�re past menopause. Forgive us for stating the obvious. But prenatal supplements are safe for most women to take even if they are not pregnant. However, for women past menopause and men, a prenatal will provide more iron than desirable, and double the amount of folate you need.
Do store fish oil supplements in the fridge. This also goes for other oil-based pills like CoQ10 (even gummy forms of fish oil). But keep other capsules, tablets and multivitamin gummies at room temperature. Moisture will condense on them, and over time, cause them to clump or crumble.
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Do take more than one kids� gummy vitamins. You�ll need two or three to obtain an adult dosage.
Don�t take individual supplements of trace minerals without medical supervision. It�s too easy to create an imbalance or overdo it. Instead, do take a multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplement or a balanced trace mineral supplement.
Don�t take more than about 500 mg of (elemental) calcium at one time. Your body can�t absorb more than that. Instead, split your dose over the course of the day.
Do take vitamin D3 supplements. Some people don�t convert vitamin D2 to D3 (the active form) as well as they should. �And don�t worry about taking them at the same time as calcium. As long as your blood levels of vitamin D are good, you will absorb calcium properly.
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The area's Northern Italian restaurants continue to delight us: The ingredients are pristine, the execution is simple and precise, and dishes are served with compassion and care.
|Insalata di Granchio: Jumbo lump crabmeat tossed in olive oil and lemon juice over panzanella salad.
After more than a decade at 150 Worth, Trevini Ristorante pulled up roots and relocated earlier this year to premises previously occupied by Coco, at the corner of Sunset Avenue and Bradley Place. The chef and dining room crew are the same, but the setting is more expansive. Inside, the decor is simple and somewhat bland; cream-colored walls offset dark carpeting and modern art brackets the space with soft pastels. In good weather, though, most of the action is centered on the serene courtyard of the Bradley Park Hotel, where one can dine in a Tuscan garden atmosphere.
|Panzanella con Gamberi: Grilled shrimp wrapped in prosciutto over mixed greens, artichoke, hearts of palm and tomato.
Dinner begins with an order of baked clams oreganata ($14.95), a dozen tiny littlenecks cooked in the oven with a simple topping of seasoned breadcrumbs. Tender, sweet and briny, they do exactly what a starter is supposed to—awaken the appetite and sharpen the taste buds for dishes to come.
A shared order of cavatelli ($26) is perfectly cooked al dente. The pasta rests in a light vegetable broth, studded with lump crabmeat, sliced garlic and broccoli rabe. Ethereal yet satisfying, the dish is a counterpoint of flavors.
Main courses do not disappoint. Saltimbocca ($31) features tender scallopine of veal topped with prosciutto, spinach and sage, bathed in a delicate white wine sauce. A whole branzino ($37), or Mediterranean sea bass, is filleted tableside with the skill and dexterity of a surgeon. If you're schooled in seafood, you'll be pleased to see the waiter remove the cheeks—the sweetest and most prized part of the fish—and place them on your plate before discarding the head. A few spoonfuls of lemon butter, and the beautifully fresh bass is yours to devour.
|Orecchiette con Gamberi
Along the way, there are thoughtful touches. You are greeted by a small platter of bruschetta, topped with garlic and chopped fresh tomato, along with some remarkably plump green olives. Between courses, you are rewarded with a bowl of pencil-thin fried zucchini, accompanied by marinara sauce for dipping.
The wine list is weighted toward regional Italian whites and reds, with a small selection of Super Tuscans for those who want to splurge and balanced with several dozen well-chosen bottles from California. Prices are reasonable for the most part, compared to the going rates around the island. A bottle of Ceretto Arneis ($50) provides sparkling acidity and rich fruit to stand up to a range of dishes. Desserts are a roll call of conventional specialties—tiramisu, tartufo, zabaglione—and there is a selection of grappa and Italian sweet wine to accompany them.
|Vesuvio al Cioccolato: Warm chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream.
Service is old school, gracious and attentive. The waiters are friendly but reserved and see to your every need. Managers patrol the floor as well, reinforcing the feeling you are dining in good hands. There is an overall sense of refinement and taste that carries over into almost every detail of this operation.
The new Trevini trumps the old version on many levels and is justly popular with locals and visitors. Reservations are necessary on weekends as we enter the season and advisable during the week as well.
Trevini Ristorante
WHERE: 290 Sunset Ave., Palm Beach (561-833-3883, treviniristorante.com)
OPEN: Dinner nightly, 5 p.m. to closing; lunch Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sunday brunch, noon to 3 p.m.
FOOD: Classic Northern Italian
ATMOSPHERE: Elegant and comfortable
SERVICE: Gracious and attentive
PRICE: Expensive
RESERVATIONS: Recommended
DRESS: Palm Beach casual


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Topic: On performance and multiple controllers
When creating a webapp that involves multiple but logically distinct components, it is good design to keep the respective controller code separate from each other as well. For example, it doesn't make sense to throw logic that deals with stock tickers into the same controller that deals with weather patterns and a forum, simply because you want to display these things together on the same aggregation page. Given that premise, it makes sense for an aggregator viewer to assemble various pieces together for final display to the user.
To date, I've seen 2 approaches that deal with this, and I'm not entirely satisfied with either of them.
Approach 1: use render_component
Approach 2: use Ezra Zygmuntowicz's cells plug-in (svn co http://svn.devjavu.com/cells)
Approach 1
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13406 E. Philadelphia St. Whittier, CA 90608
During a three-day celebration of the Purple and Gold, hundreds of Poet alumni, students, family members, and guests were on campus for Whittier Weekend 2013.
During the yearly event, the College celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the Quaker Campus (QC) student newspaper. The QC has chronicled the history of the College over the last 10 decades. In addition to a special dinner and reception, the College hosted an Anniversary Leadership Forum on "The Future of Journalism." Forum participants included Josh du Lac '93, enterprise reporter, Washington Post; Yasmin Khorram '10, producer, HLN/CNN; Olivier Knox, chief Washington correspondent, Yahoo! News; and Gordon Robison, senior executive producer, Al Jazeera America. Whittier College Board Chair Don Herrema '74 moderated the panel. Click here to watch the panel online.
Additional Whittier Weekend highlights included the Homecoming Tailgate and Football Game, College Choir Reunion, and the 42nd Annual Tardeada. Celebrants shared their experiences on Instagram and Twitter using #whittierweekend (read their posts on Storify).
Click on the photo albums below to see more from Whittier Weekend 2013 on Facebook.
Whittier Weekend: Day One (October 18)
Includes photos from QC Journalism Forum, Poet Musicale, Golden Anniversary Lunch, and Wine & Cheese All-Poets Social.
Whittier Weekend: Day Two (October 19)
Includes photos from Annual Homecoming Tailgate Party, Homecoming Football Game and half-time festivities, and Whittier Weekend Jam.
Whittier Weekend: Day Three (October 20)
Includes photos from Whittier College Choir Reunion and 42nd Annual Tardeada.