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ASUS G73JH Laptop Review
When Asus promises a machine for players, we are rarely disappointed
with the output. Following a model incorporating Nvidia 3D Vision, the
ROG series (Republic of Gamers) extended its offer to cut a new
benchmark for performance, performance and ... performance! Moreover,
for the video game that involve text input (this is possible, however),
the G73JH is majestic like the F117A Night Hawk plane which is largely
based. And as the airplane it draws, the PC player is promised by Asus
as extremely "Stealth". Let us proceed to test new PC. Note that this
configuration will be marketed from April.
The PC games have a huge share at this time. After Alienware M11x (and a
refresh M17x whose test is expected to soon), Asus is coming out with
weapons of mass destruction for player. The Taiwanese are never short of
ideas on these things, but it is true that with G73JH, the Alienware
has to worry. And in terms of finishing, we are left speechless! Goodbye
to plastic glossy and look pest: the G73JH is dressed all in black with
a soft coating that reminds of camouflage material and adds real
character to its "fighter".
No defects in the body!
This PC is solid, with its 17.3 inch HD screen. With the lines
projecting with relatively rounded edges, this laptop does not go
unnoticed. Its design is remarkable: not too thick, it is slightly
tilted towards the user for optimal ergonomics. The circulation of air
under the chassis is also facilitated. Note that the landing gear of
this notebook is thick rubber pads. Everything is thought out in detail.
We talked about user comfort: the keyboard is small with rubber pads and
backlit (three different intensities) is extremely enjoyable in games
because surrounded by palm rest mass. The center stands proudly on
touchpad, wide, responsive and comfortable. Asus provides a mouse player
signed by Razer that is accurate to go to the shooters. Also note the
presence of SteelSeries headphones and a carrying bag in the carton
packaging: what going on Lan Party Fully equipped. Finally, a trapdoor
beneath the machine gives access to all components, CPU excluded.
Between cruise flight and post-combustion ...
To do justice to the outside, nothing beats a beautiful interior. Of
course, when talking about machine player, we do not expect to find a
low-power processor at the helm. It is equipped with the Core i7 720QM
(1.6 GHz on each of its four core, 2.8 GHz Turbo Mode). In the BIOS of
the machine, it is possible to switch to turbo mode (enabled by default,
but Asus does not support ...), that is to say that the processor will
be overclocked automatically in all circumstances. If you switch to
Normal mode, a push button TwinTurbo, located in the upper left of the
keyboard, allows the machine to undergo a lightweight overclocking (4 to
6%). In fact, we have not really seen any impact on our test results
regarding the normal mode with TwinTurbo active. Turbo mode can be
enabled in the BIOS, the difference are slightly more noticeable, but
does not affect much.


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Chapel these days, every Thursday morning, is somewhat like the old days but isn't mandatory. As you can imagine, the springtime Chapels, when the weather is nicer and the sun is out, tend to have a little lower attendance than the ones in the fall. OK, significantly lower.
Except times like yesterday – when someone like Scott Himsel '85 delivers a Chapel talk. We had one of the best turnouts we have had all spring.
Click here to go to iTunesU and see Himsel's entire talk.
Scott's talk was on the right to bear arms. Now, right off the bat that might not seem to be a real draw. Not compared to subjects like "Spring break top 10 locations". But there are two forces at play here that make me step back and say to myself I wish I had what Scott has.
1. Scott made a complex subject much easier to understand. Scott's style is one that delivers all the facts and let's the listener lead himself through the process and arrive at his/her own point of view.
2. Scott is deeply respected and widely admired by the students for what they know him to be – a dedicated and caring teacher. They are only, I think it safe to say, slightly aware of Scott's other full time job as a busy, successful partner in the law firm Baker and Daniels in Indianapolis.
Imagine if they knew that Scott also volunteers in a number of different ways for his college, his Church, and his community.
Scott Himsel – Some Little Giant.

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Jenson has been saying NO Grip for the last 3 - 4 years,
or we were just not fast enough how more apt can the term "NO GRIP JENSON" Be? I mean REALLLY. . . . . Come on even Jenson fans can tell you how many times he says NO GRIP. No wonder Vodafone decided to do a Hamilton and run for the hills away from Jenson and Mclaren. It would no way surprise me if they went too Merc!!!


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A couple of hours ago Adam tweeted what he's all up to in London.
Big day! En route to Rehearsals w @QueenWillRock and then Graham Norton tonight!! #action!
— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) June 21, 2012
Adam's fans are up for the Fan Army FTW at this year's MTV O Music Awards. I have faith that the Glamberts can win this! Watch the amazing video below on the Glamberts, to see the impact the platinum-selling American Idol runner-up has had on their lives. Vote for the Glamberts here!
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Join more than 700 elder care professionals at the largest conference on dementia in New England at the Alzheimer's Association (MA/NH Chapter)'s annual "A Map Through the Maze" conference! The keynote speaker for this year's event is Dr Kenneth J. Doka, a Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of New Rochelle (New York) and a senior consultant to the Hospice Foudation of America.
More information regarding the conference may be found at www.alzmass.org/map
Alzheimer's Association (MA/NH Chapter)
Tel: 617-868-6718
Ths seminar will be held from 11am - 3:30pm on Wednesday, November 19, 2014, and will feature Drs. Rebecca A. Betensky and Deborah Blacker of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. For more information, please visit
Email contact for RSVPs: mplante [ at ] hsph [dot] harvard [dot] edu
Sharon Xie, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennyslvania's Perelman School of Medicine, will be the guest speaker at the Harvard School of Public Health's Neurostatistics and Neuroepidemiology Seminar Series on Wednesday, October 8. Her presentation will take place from 12:30pm - 1:30pm.
Dr. Xie is also the Director of the Data Management and Statistical Core of the University of Pennyslvania's Alzheimer's Disease Core Center.
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Tel: 617-432-1056
This conference is intended for healthcare providers who work with older adults in primary care settings. Attendees will learn how to distinguish normal aging from Alzheimer's disease or Mild Cognitive Impairment, and ways to develop and implement screening for these individuals in such settings.
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So it's hard to cope with him now when he gets so confused.
He decided he wanted a mobile phone. I got him the first phone about 5 years back, and every day for 3 years I showed him how to use it. I got a much simpler phone for him and still had to show him every day. 2 months back i bought him the simplest phone on the market, big buttons and a nice clear display and i set it up so that he only had to press one button to ring me. Can I make it any simpler than that? Seems not, every time he touches it he manages to wipe out all the settings and phone number. He can't use the darn thing but insists on taking it everywhere with him. I think that in all those years of trying he's managed to make about 6 phone calls!
As for the TV remote, well lets not go there, it's a nighmare!
This phone lark just about sums up my life with hubs these days. He doesn't have dementia, it's the epilepsy thats turned his mind into mush, either that or there is something else they haven't found yet.
I'm married to this man, i'm supposed to be his wife, but i don't feel like a wife, more like a nanny to a child thats going backwards.


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By Erin Greene
COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 7. HEADING into conference and national championship season, swimmers across the country are enjoying practices with minimal yardage, packing razors and trying on fast suits in preparation for the best swims of their lives. But Stanford's 153-146 win over Cal-Berkeley this past weekend reminded us that record-breaking swims can occur at any time of the year. All you need is a little school pride.
As if the heated rivalry between the two universities was not enough to create a high-pressure meet, both teams entered the meet ranked in the Top 3 with undefeated seasons. To add fuel to the fire, the No. 3 Bears brought a 21-meet winning streak to the pool, with their last defeat handed to them by none other than the No. 1 Cardinal.
Looking to set the table, the women of Cal took an early lead in the meet, to secure their spot at the 2007 NCAA Championships with an automatic qualifying and pool-record time of 1:38.36 in the 200-yard medley relay. That event set the tone for the meet, as the teams took turns guaranteeing their presence in Minnesota event after event.
In eight of the Cardinal's nine swimming victories, athletes guaranteed themselves a plane ticket to Minneapolis. But they didn't stop there. Stanford swimmers recorded an additional five automatic qualifying standards in non-winning events. Not to be outdone, California took home 10 'A' and two 'B' times at the end of the day. But perhaps more impressive than the combined 24 automatic cuts swum during the dual meet is just that fact – They were swum during a dual meet!
While the swimming we will see throughout the month of March will no doubt amaze and inspire us, it will be no great surprise to see records fall and personal-best times set.
With arenas packed tight with screaming fans and swimmers competing at their peak in the world's fastest pools, to see anything less than awe-inspiring would be unthinkable.
But the ladies of Cal and Stanford did the amazing without any of those things.
Nobody but Jessica Hardy's teammates, perhaps with family and friends sprinkled throughout the crowd, cheered her on to a time faster than her winning performance in the 100-yard breaststroke at the 2006 NCAA Championships. Cardinal Elaine Breeden did not have two opportunities to clock 1:53.23 in the 200-yard butterfly – a time that is half a second faster than Mary DeScenza's NCAA gold-medal showing last year. Nor did she have a full day of rest before turning in another victory to come within .23 seconds of Misty Hyman's record, making Breeden the fastest Cardinal in dual-meet history in the 100-yard butterfly at 51.70.
Nothing but school spirit and pride fueled the Bears to another pool record in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:18.33) to make it their second for the day. The feat does not seem all that impressive until you remember the likes of Mary T. Meagher, Natalie Coughlin and Misty Hyman have churned those waters.
Without weeks of recovery from treacherous workouts, Stanford's Julia Smit took the 200-yard freestyle in her best time of 1:45.91. Cal's Emily Silver touched in second at 1:46.57 in what was also her personal-best time. Golden Bear Lauren Boyle swam not only her lifetime-best time, but an astonishing 4:43.24 to become the fastest swimmer both at the meet and in the nation.
At the end of the meet, California came within six points of avenging its loss to Stanford two seasons. But with broken down hairy legs, minimal spectators and a pool where the Bears pump out countless yards, the rival teams swam one of the fastest dual meets of our time – and all for bragging rights.
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A whole lot of blogs have been asking the question: does it matter if Elena Kagan's gay? It's perhaps not going to be a popular answer, but I think it is, inevitably, yes.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to "out" her. To the extent Kagan herself finds the question of her sexuality intrusive, she obviously ought to have the privilege of declaring her own identity as a matter of public discussion. The White House has, after all, denied that she is gay. If she doesn't want to talk about it, I don't think she ought to be forced to. I think that pundits speculating about who she dates are kind of gross and prurient. I think to badger her with questions about it is completely out of line.
But that issue set aside, it matters, if she is prepared to identify as gay publicly. It matters not just because, as Silvana Naguib notes, she'd be the first openly gay Justice of the Supreme Court. It matters not just because the door to power would crack a little wider open for an entire swath of people. Because I don't think Kagan owes anyone a role model.
No, I think it matters because I think the inclusion of someone who isn't straight will make the Supreme Court stronger. Like I said yesterday, I was probably one of the very small minority of people out there who never considered the "Wise Latina" thing a gaffe on Sotomayor's part, unless we were saying that it was an excess of honesty that made it a mistake.
Lawyers like to talk about law as an abstraction, and it would be wrong of me to claim it isn't one. As I said yesterday, I like to think of law as a public conversation (a DISCOURSE, if you will) about the things that a society wants to do together, even if the outcome of that conversation is that we all decide to leave each other to our own devices. Because everyone comes to the table with different ideas, we try to assign judges an aspiration of impartiality, tell them to lift themselves outside of their experience. And to a degree, I think they manage it. But only to a degree. It seems to me that your sense of yourself, as framed by your experience, can't simply be reasoned out of the equation. Who you are is part of how you reason, in my view.
Given that, it's always more sense to me that we all be up-front about who we are and where we are coming from even as we engage in this supposedly abstract practice of law.
To lie about your standpoint, to make some kind of claim to superior reason, strikes me as a white man's move. Put differently, one of the most dangerous privileges white men have in this culture is the ability imagine their perspective as belonging to some abstract, platonic ideal of a "reasonable person." (That's a law in-joke.) It's to be able to imagine themselves as having access to the universal mode of reasoning. If you take that position, that what you're doing is "impartial," it allows you to paint everyone else as "partial," and therefore illegitimate, when they admit that in fact, yes, their gender or their race or their sexuality or their disability has, in fact, influenced the way they see the world. This is what happens, for example, when white people construe themselves as "Real Americans," who are "colourblind." It's a way of de-legitimizing perspectives from the get-go by claiming you have the ability to see outside your experience, when in fact, white men often have little cause to listen to people who fall outside the bounds of their narrative. They wrote the philosophy and ran the countries and sat on the benches, almost exclusively, until very recently. It's rather rich of them to paint the continual dominance of their point of view as the triumph of "reason."
I will not make any essentialist claims, of course, on behalf of the non-dominant perspectives. There's no particular political agenda associated with being a lesbian or a woman or a person of colour, at least not at the brass tacks level on which most cases get decided. (At the last vagina-havers convention, I don't think we agreed on a bankruptcy scheme, for example.) But the point is that to the extent that cases become hard cases, with difficult to parse facts and few easy answers, I can hardly see how one could justify having judges who so little resemble the population they are intended to govern.


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Friday, September 16, 2005
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
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The Quality Advocates meeting on September 16, 2005 focused on best practices in developing and implementing strategic plans. The three panelists included Jack Burke, Chancellor, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Gail Hurley, Interim Associate Vice President, Auxiliary and Business Services; and Eva Pell, Vice President for Research and Dean of The Graduate School. Louise Sandmeyer, Executive Director, Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment acted as moderator.
Louise Sandmeyer, Executive Director, Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment, explained that the three panelists were asked to share their experiences with strategic planning because they had produced well-developed and particularly strong plans during the last cycle of strategic planning. The strength of these plans was their recognition of the context in which the organization operated including internal and external factors, the alignment of goals and strategies, the presence of performance indicators, and the use of data.
Eva Pell, Vice President for Research and Dean of The Graduate School, started off the session by discussing the strategic plan for the Research Office. Pell described the organization as eclectic with numerous departments varying dramatically in their functions, responsibilities, and focuses. One of the initial steps in developing the strategic plan was data gathering from the various units. This helped them to determine where they stood, what everyday activities were and what individual plans needed to focus on. They also listened to faculty and teams across the University to obtain their input.
Implementing the strategic plan focuses on the goal of moving into the upper elite of research universities. The Research Office is working with colleges and units to identify the gaps, by "holding up a mirror" for the colleges to see their research activities. One such initiative involved looking at the research money faculty brought into colleges and benchmarking that with the monies brought in by faculty co-funded by the Research Office and the colleges. Thus, the Research Office provided the colleges with a tool to assess their own performance.
Pell discussed two recent actions that emanated from the strategic plan. One issue identified in the plan was the need for larger grants. To address this, Research staff reviewed unfunded proposals and the reasons why they failed. From this analysis, they identified several solutions, one of which included using a single person to prepare budgets. A second issue in the strategic plan was the need for more industry-sponsored research. Research Office staff developed several steps to address this, including development of master agreements and expedited processes.
Sandmeyer summarized the Research Offices' actions in implementing their plan as being able to "hold up a mirror" so others could see their outcomes, asking the right questions, providing the right tools to their stakeholders, benchmarking and identifying gaps.
Gail Hurley, Interim Associate Vice President, Auxiliary and Business Services, spoke about the Finance and Business strategic plan. As with Research at Penn State , Finance and Business is a diverse and complex organization. The first step F&B took in developing their strategic plan was to examine their vision, mission and goals, review past strategic plans, review data (including the results of the Faculty/Staff survey), gather input from stakeholders, and analyze internal and external challenges, both current and in the future.
From this review, F&B identified six key initiatives. The strategic plan contained a brief description, a vision, and goals and performance indicators for each initiative. For each key initiative, F&B assigned a manager to spearhead progress and track accomplishment of the initiative. This ensures progress occurs on the initiatives, brings people together to work on initiatives, and results in shared understanding as employees work in committees and subcommittees from all levels across the unit. Committees meet to talk about implementation and identify best practices for implementing the strategic plan.
Jack Burke, Chancellor, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, discussed strategic planning from the College/Campus viewpoint. The College has a long history of strategic planning and use their plans to identify what they are going to do and whether they accomplish it. Twenty individuals from across the College who report to Burke develop departmental plans and additional cross unit plans are also developed. (These cross unit plans address such issues as the environment and computer technology.) The final strategic plan builds on these plans.
Burke pointed out that the plan is action-oriented. It is bulleted, comprehensive, and has 219 action items. Each item identifies what will be done, when it will be done, and who will do it. Since the plan identifies the responsible party for each item, accountability is built-in. Burke uses three types of tracking sheets to measure progress against the goals: these are grouped by goal, by unit, and by high priority items, and he reviews the high priority reports weekly. According to Burke, the biggest enemy to planning is that day-to-day activities drive out planning, but by reviewing the tracking weekly, he is able to keep people's attention on the priority issues.
From the panelist's discussion, Sandmeyer saw three major factors in implementing plans:
- Good plans must be developed through the assessment of where you are and where you want to be.
- Assigning specific responsibility holds people accountable and helps in tracking progress.
- Prioritization is important in selecting a few significant goals to focus on.
Several attendees had questions for the panelists. One concerned how to establish accountability for the goals. Burke commented that assigning teams to goals may help because the team is accountable for the progress, rather than a single individual. Hurley also mentioned that because F&B has a long history of data collection, managers know what the performance indicators are and know where they need to be. Progress against the goals will be considered in the merit review process.
Another attendee asked how to best engage rank and file employees in developing and implementing strategic plans. Pell responded that the research strategic plan consists of lots of little plans developed from the bottom up by a range of employees within each unit. Since the units develop their own measures and strategies, they are more vested in them. Hurley commented that the evolution of committees and subcommittees within F&B has created a better sense of team. A range of employees serve on these committees and it connects them to the plan better.
How to obtain external stakeholder input and communicate with them was another question. Burke replied that he meets regularly with business and community leaders to update them and seek input. On the other hand, Hurley pointed out that external stakeholders for F&B are within the university and they receive much feedback voluntarily from employees outside of F&B, but they have also established other mechanisms such as advisory groups and surveys. Pell mentioned one external stakeholder they deal with regularly is the state, especially in the area of economic development. She serves on several boards and through these is able to learn what the expectations are.
The Quality Advocates Network meets several times each semester to share ideas and examples of improvement and change. To join the Quality Advocates Network mailing list or to learn more about the meetings scheduled, contact the staff at email@example.com.
The Quality Advocates Network is open to all Penn State faculty, staff, administrators, and students.


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Special report: Whatever happened to redshirting players in college football?
As teams open their 2010 seasons this week, many will rely on true freshmen like never before.
At USC, Robert Woods will become the first true freshman ever to start an opener at wideout for the Trojans.
At BYU, Jake Heaps fell short of becoming the first true freshman in school history to open the season as the starting quarterback. Still, he'll share time and figures to win the full-time job before long.
At Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, the trend is no different.
The Sooners have seven true freshmen are on their two-deep heading into Saturday's opener, including fullback Trey Millard and wideout Kenny Stills in the starting lineup.
The Cowboys have nine true freshmen in their two-deep, including cornerback Justin Gilbert, who will handle punt returns.
At both Bedlam schools, at least a dozen true freshmen, and perhaps several more, will play. Highs in the Stoops and Gundy eras.
What has happened to the practice of redshirting true freshmen in college football?
"Three years ago, I was talking about how it was important to redshirt as many players as possible. That's how things change," said OSU coach Mike Gundy. "We feel like if there's a player who can contribute to our team, get 25 to 30 plays per game whether on special teams or offense or defense, then he's going to help us."
In Norman, the belief is the same.
"With 85 scholarships, you get thin when you're not playing guys. Special teams get thin. Depth gets thin," said OU coach Bob Stoops. "So if he is ready to play and can add depth, you play him."
Across the country, schools have become more inclined to play their true freshmen instead of redshirting them.
One major reason is the desire to win now.
"Coaches today in the current college football landscape are starting to understand, they have to win now, in order to keep their jobs," said ESPN college football analyst Jesse Palmer. "Gone are the days when a coach has a long tenure and juniors and seniors are entitled to playing time, where freshmen come in, redshirt and wait their turn. Coaches are realizing they need to win, or they will get fired, or they will get bought out."
Another major reason is to win recruiting battles. Especially among the blue-chip prospects.
"Being on the scout team all year is never any fun," said OU center Ben Habern, who saw time as a true freshman in 2008 even though the Sooners had all-conference center Jon Cooper. "I don't think any player wants to come in and redshirt."
Would Adrian Peterson have gone to OU if he thought he was going to redshirt? Or Dez Bryant at OSU?
"There's no doubt about it, coaches are getting away from redshirting players," said ESPN college football analyst Desmond Howard, who won the Heisman Trophy at Michigan in 1991. "I remember talking to (former USC coach) Pete Carroll, and one of the things he tells freshmen is, you will have a chance to compete for a starting position. You're not telling him you're going to play or you're going to start, but you will have an equal opportunity to practice and compete for a starting job."
Four years ago, Florida coach Urban Meyer played quarterback Tim Tebow as a true freshman, even though the Gators had Chris Leak returning. The result? A national championship.
"We don't redshirt here at Florida," Meyer told reporters recently, when asked about his freshman class. "That's why we recruited them and that's why they're here — to play."
That recruiting pitch resonates with high-profile recruits, who don't want sit out a year on the sidelines.
"It's night and day from when I was in high school," said Howard, who redshirted in 1988 despite being a high school All-American. "That's just the philosophy of a lot of players these days, because players don't want to redshirt their freshman year. They want to get to the fire, they want to compete. That's just a trend going around college football."
But there are other benefits to playing freshmen right away, other than just luring them to campus during recruiting.
Gundy noted overall the freshmen who play right away do better academically in their college careers than the ones who redshirt.
Stoops believes freshmen that have played are "more mature and ready to play the next year when you're really gonna count on them."
"You don't want to waste a year," said OU offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson. "But a lot of guys who play are better in the offseason and better the next year.
"When you don't play, as hard as you work and the commitment you have to make, it can feel like you're running into a wall. It's no fun."
Plus, as coaches point out, why redshirt players who are going to leave college after three or four years anyway?
Said Gundy: "You might as well play them."
Playing freshmen also has become easier due to the evolution of high school football.
"They're better coached in high school, they're working out in high school more year round," said OU defense coordinator Brent Venables. "They understand football better, going to camps and combines, where they continue to get exposure to technique and schemes. And then they're here all summer. Players have a much better understanding of what you're doing mentally, and they're able to pass that along to the young guys as well during the summer when the coaches aren't around."
Which is why Saturday in Norman or Stillwater, you might need to bring a roster along with you.
As the Sooners open against Utah State, and the Cowboys against Washington State, they'll be relying on several true freshmen.
Like other schools around the country, more now than ever before.
Here's a look at how many freshmen OSU and OU have redshirted in the last 10 years:
Oklahoma State
Year: Freshmen-Redshirted-Played
2009: 16-12-4
2008: 19-15-4
2007: 16-12-4
2006: 21-10-11
2005: 16-9-7
2004: 21-16-5
2003: 24-14-10
2002: 16-12-4
2001: 20-15-5
2000: 18-15-3
Total: 187-130-57
Year: Freshmen-redshirt-played
2009: 20-11-9
2008: 16-11-5
2007: 17-16-1
2006: 19-12-7
2005: 23-12-11
2004: 14-10-4
2003: 20-19-1
2002: 21-11-10
2001: 20-14-6
2000: 19-13-6
Totals: 189-129-60
Note: Junior college players and players who did not qualify academically or failed to stay on campus their entire freshman season were not included.


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I read this blog for important information about Ancestry.
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I am not sure that there is a lot of value in my making any comments on this blog, since my comments may bother some self-absorbed and self-righteous people who need to criticize others who write in. But, since this is a blog dealing with problems with ancestry's international sites, I thought I'd share this anyway: I have a family tree on ancestry.de (the German ancestry site), and I added a few nice comments about my grandfather on his profile sheet. Ancestry.com informed me that I had added a story to my site (which it always does, as if I needed to know that I did this!!). So, I clicked on the line that informed me of this, and, in GERMAN in said on my site "Monika hat einen Klapperschlangenbiss als sie ueberquert die Prairie"–translated into English "Monika got bitten by a rattlesnake as she crossed the prairie." How this fit into the story I had told about my grandfather I will never know, but–when I contacted technical support to ask them what in the world this was all about, I never had the courtesy of an answer. That happened about six weeks ago, so I doubt that I will be hearing from them now!
Can only now log in then nothing.
Can you please advise me on what is going on as i have been planning to do my research while on holidays and i havnt been able to access any information on your site since before Xmas. Carnt get to the Help section to send a email also.
Please can someone let me know what is going on.
Well is would appear that I'm not the only one with Ancestry's site. At this same time last year I found myself to be a "registered guest" even though I had been paying for a monthly subscription of $19.95AUS. By the time I realized after the Christmas rush, the price had gone up $2 and I would have to re-subscribe at the new price. I didn't bother until August of 2009 when I joined for a full year. Now I find that when I log in I'm a darn "registered guest" again for Pete's sake. What happens over the Christmas holidays at Ancestry? Do they reboot the system and it falls over? Still waiting for replies but only just sent the email so I must be patient but I have research to do!
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Compiled by Mark Rabinowitz
>> Sundance Programmer Discusses Festival as Deadline Nears
With the deadlines for the 1999 Sundance Film Festival rapidly approaching,
festival programmer John Cooper recently spoke with indieWIRE about the
There will be some changes at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, with two new
audience award categories being added, one for the American Spectrum
and one for World Cinema. In addition, this year saw the continued use of
an early admission option for submissions. Cooper explained that the early
submission process allows programmers "to pick the films that definitely
are right for competition." He also confirmed that of the roughly 160 early
submissions, two films were chosen, and there are about 20 still being
considered for the festival. Cooper said that those filmmakers were told
that while they couldn't be promised a spot, the festival is interested.
The deadline for submission to the 15th Annual Sundance Film Festival is
imminent, with short films due this Friday, October 2nd and features due
on the following Friday, October 9th. Dramatic features must be over
70 minutes in length, while documentary features must be over 50 minutes.
When submitting to Sundance, filmmakers can also submit their work in
consideration for the American Spectrum, Frontier, Park City at Midnight
or World Cinema (for international films) sections. As far as awards go,
dramatic and documentary competition films are eligible for the Grand
Jury Prize (jury vote), Cinematography Award (jury vote), Audience Award
(popular vote), the Filmmaker Trophy (filmmaker vote) and the Directing
Award (jury vote). Also, films in the documentary competition are
eligible for the Freedom of Expression Award (jury vote), while dramatic
competition films compete for the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (jury
vote). Foreign films are eligible for the aforementioned audience award,
and a film from Latin America will receive the Latin American Cinema
[The Sundance Film Festival can be reached at 310/394-4662 or
>> AFI Announces Lineup For '98 Fest
The American Film Institute has announced the lineup for AFI Fest '98,
to take place October 22-31 in the Los Angeles area, and it includes 21
U.S. and 14 world premieres, including John Landis' "Susan's Plan"
(world premiere) and Peter Gould's "Meeting Daddy" (world premiere).
Landis' film is his first independent film in over 20 years, and stars
Nastassja Kinski ("One Night Stand"), Billy Zane ("The Phantom"), Lara
Flynn Boyle ("Happiness"), Rob Schneider ("Saturday Night Live"),
Michael Biehn ("Terminator") and Dan Aykroyd ("Grosse Point Blank").
Gould's "Daddy" stars Beau Bridges, Josh Charles, Kristy Swanson,
Alexandra Wentworth and Lloyd Bridges in his last film role. This year's
official competition lineup contains two world premieres, Salvador
Carrasco's "The Other Conquest" (Mexico) and Roberta Hanley's
"Woundings" (U.S./U.K.). The remaining titles in the competition are:
"The big Mambo," by Michael Gwisdek (Germany); "The Book of Great
Wishes," by Slawomir Krynski (Poland); "Comedian Harmonists," by Joseph
Vilsmaies (Austria/Germany); "The Last Contract," by Kjell Sundvall
(Sweden); "Life is Beautiful," by Roberto Benigni (Italy); "Mr. Zhao,"
by Yue Lu (China); "Samurain Fiction," by Hiroyuki Nakano (Japan);
"Sekal Has To Die," by Vladimir Michalek (Czech Republic); "Sweety
Barrett," by Stephen Bradley (Ireland), and "The Swindle," by Claude
Chabrol (France).
Some other films in the fest are Derek Cianfrance's "Brother Tied"
(U.S.), in the New Directions U.S. section; Gaspar Noe's "I Stand Alone"
(France), in the European Film Showcase; Samira Makhmalbaf's "The Apple"
(Iran), in the World Cinema section, and Nettie Wild's "A Place Called
Chiapas" (Canada), in the Documentary section.
[Tickets for the fest go on sale October 5th. For more information, call
323/520-2000 or check the festival web site at: www.afifest.com]
>> Third Wold Celebrates Thirtieth B'Day
From October 2-25, the Museum of Modern Art is presenting "Reversal to
Digital: Third World Newsreel at Thirty," a thirtieth anniversary
retrospective of the renown socially-conscious documentary distributor.
Newsreel was founded in the late 1960's as an alternative distribution
avenue for documentaries on leftist political and social issues, and was
re-named Third World Newsreel in 1973. The series begins on October 2nd
with two work-in-progress excerpts from new Third World productions,
Kara Lynch's "Black Russians" and J. T. Takagi and Hye Jung Park's "The
#7 Train From Main Street." "Russians" explores the lives of
African-Russians raised in the former Soviet Union, while "#7 Train"
examines the lives of four diverse immigrants who live in Queens and
ride the #7 train into Manhattan. Other programs include "Sewing Woman,"
by Arthur Dong (1983), Julie Dash's "Illusions" (1983), Charles
Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" (1977) and a 1969 prison interview with
Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale.
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By Jaime Thomas Summertime means going away to camp for many children, but those that want to stay local need look no further than Granville. The Granville recreation program will start up again next week with a new director and six counselors ready to get the games going at the elementary school. Director Chanleigh Casey […]
Town summer rec starts July 6
Time remains to sign up youth for the Town of Granville Summer Recreation Program organizers said recently. The program will be led by directors Megan Mead along with about a half dozen helpers including Katie Beecher, Chanleigh Casey, Sarah Bixby, Meghan O'Brien, Julianne Edwards and Jamie Hicks. The program will offer indoor and outdoor activities […]
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Ban Leong Bros carry this btw.
Pro Logic decoder with built-in amps, 4 channel amps from Mordaunt Short for $60.
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Lazy Magnolia Chocolate Stout CupcakesBy Brewers Association
- Recipe TypeDessert
- Prep Time15 minutes (25 minutes baking)
- Yield24 cupcakes
Jefferson Stout is the perfect addition to this chocolate cupcake recipe given it's special brewing ingredient, sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes provide the background to an impressive taste with added notes of roasted chocolate, coffee and caramel
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa, plus more for dusting finished cupcakes
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch fine salt
- 1 bottle Lazy Magnolia Jefferson Stout beer
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened at room temperature
- 3/4 to 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 (1-pound) box confectioners' sugar
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- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the cocoa, sugar, flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In another medium mixing bowl, combine the stout, melted butter, and vanilla. Beat in eggs, 1 at time. Mix in sour cream until thoroughly combined and smooth. Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture.
- Lightly grease 24 muffin tins. Divide the batter equally between muffin tins, filling each 3/4 full. Bake for about 12 minutes and then rotate the pans. Bake another 12 to 13 minutes until risen, nicely domed, and set in the middle but still soft and tender. Cool before turning out.
- In a medium bowl with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese on medium speed until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the heavy cream. On low speed, slowly mix in the confectioners' sugar until incorporated and smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to use. Icing can be made several hours ahead and kept covered and chilled.
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Thirty-seven-year-old driver of black Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, engine which has 6208 cubic inches, 571 horsepower and can develop speed up to 317 kilometers per hour (electronically limited), stopped by the police after 01:21PM on Friday, with speed of 290km/h! It is an absolute speed record, in the Europe, absolute speed record with this car brand in the World!
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand, October 4. THE New Zealand Short Course Championships came to a close with a total of five swimmers making the World Short Course Championship squad with seven qualifying times.
Melissa Ingram, Glenn Snyders and Cameron Simpson also earned spots on the Worlds squad for New Zealand while competing at the Dubai stop of the FINA World Cup, giving New Zealand a total of eight swimmers heading to Turkey thus far. This final eight includes qualifying times from Lauren Boyle, Matthew Stanley, Ewan Jackson, Corey Main and Sophia Batchelor this week in Wellington.
Boyle, who already qualified for Turkey in the 400 and 800 freestyle events, missed out on the 200 free qualifying time but still managed a win in 1:57.12. Samantha Lee took second in 1:58.44, while Tash Hind placed third in 1:58.48.
Main, who made the team in the 100 back, won the 200 back tonight in 1:54.39 to close down his week of competition. Kurt Crosland finished second in 1:55.42, while Benjamin Gillies touched third in 1:57.90.
Meanwhile, Abbie Johnston topped the women's 100 breast in 1:09.46, while Katie Kenneally took second in 1:09.05. Kendall Reidy placed third in 1:10.59. Andrew McMillan won the men's 200 fly in 1:57.92 with Shaun Burnett (2:00.00) and Corneille Coetzee (2:03.07) completing the top three.


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Namiki became a freelance photographer after dropping out of Tokyo Photography School (now Tokyo Visual Arts). He shows his photography and writes for various magazines, and teaches at Canon EOS Academy and Olympus Digital College. His main subject has been flowers. He is a member of Japan Professional Photographers Society and Society of Scientific Photography.


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- Due to the rapid growth of the Library's collections, this building was deemed too small within twelve years of its construction. Attempts were made to deal with the overcrowding by adding stacks in 1899, 1903, and 1910 and by creating separate subject libraries (Loup & Yocum, 2001).
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Can anyone point me to the latest guide for backing up ZCS? I've read over a few of the Wiki documents, but they seem a bit out of date. Can anyone point me to the latest best practices guide for ZCS, and any related backup scripts?
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There's an "E" word we don't like hearing too often, but judging from an interview regarding his company earlier this year, it appears that he intends to make Ultima-grade experiences on Facebook. Regardless, who isn't in this industry to make a few bucks--as long as he makes some fun, perhaps genuine, Facebook games, we're all peachy keen.
"We are delighted to join Richard Garriott and the Portalarium team in creating the next great gaming company," Joseph Kim, partner at m8 Capital, said. "Richard is one of the giants of the industry. He's a proven entrepreneur and has been a driving force at each of the industry's major turning points." Yeah, yeah, but will it top orbiting Earth in space? Didn't think so.
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- Daisy Lowe goes braless. Again. (Egotastic)
- While currently in rebab, Lindsay Lohan is reconnecting with old friends as part of healing process. (Celebrity Dirty Laundry)
- Pop star Justin Bieber continues to wear those stupid glasses. (Popbytes)
- Real Housewives of Orange County star Vicki Gunvalson is quite ill. (ICYDK)
- Dita Von Teese dresses up as a "normal girl" for Halloween. (Amy Grindhouse)
- The handsome James Marsden will be paying a visit to Modern Family. (OhLaLaMag)
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Sunday, 24 August 2014
by jean michel fraisse
Can your soup stop the traffic? These "traffic light" soups can!
I have a classic joke about soup, but many of my lady friends who have heard it said to me that it cannot be told in polite company – so you don't get to hear the joke here, sorry.
It's funny that I don't really like soup, but I can prepare very good soup nevertheless – call me genius if you like. It started with me realising that many of the women in my life love soup, starting with my dear old mother, who is quite happy to have just a soup and bread for dinner every night.
Over the years, I've chalked up a wide repertoire of soup recipes – I suspect it was the conniving inner me scheming to worm my way into the hearts of the fairer sex. Needless to say, I love giving classes on making soup, as these are well-attended by women.
I've come to the conclusion that the soup that people enjoy most are the classics – the kind of soups I learned to make from the text book in cooking school. These are the nothing-fancy, time-tested recipes. These recipes work wherever I go in the world, in my work as a culinary consultant – everybody, regardless of age, finds great satisfaction in these basic soups which come in various styles.
There are clear consommé-type soups, creamy soups, hearty soups with meat added, and vegetable and lentil-based soups. You can also distinguish between smooth, blended soups and chunky soups with bite, and those falling somewhere in between.
For the recipes here – chosen for their colours, just for the sake of having a theme, but also because they are delicious – I have added an extra layer of complexity, pairing a classic soup such as chicken cream soup, with corn; tomato soup with capsicum; and broccoli soup with blue cheese.
Making soup is not just about knowing how to boil, as depending on the recipe, several cooking techniques may be called for, like sweating vegetables, and making a roux.
Sweating of vegetables
In cooking, the term "sweating" means to cook over low heat in a small amount of fat, usually in a covered pan. This usually refers to the way aromatic vegetables such as onion, carrot, celery and leek are cooked prior to adding other ingredients.
The objective in sweating vegetables is to soften them and release the moisture in them, not to brown them. This release of moisture is how the term "sweat" gets its name. Sweating can be done with oil or butter. Using butter will give better flavours – a more mellow, rounder and richer taste in your soup, especially in the making of a creamy soup.
Heat the fat over low heat – the lower, the better, but it will mean taking a longer time. You need to push the vegetables around with a spatula now and then for more even cooking. Cook for about 15 minutes – you can cover with a lid – or until vegetables are translucent and soft, and there is no water left in the pan. Now you are ready to add the other ingredients.
A pre-condition of successful sweating is how you cut your vegetables. Ideally, they should be cut to the same size, in small cubes of 1 to 1.5cm. The professional term for this is "mirepoix" (pronounced me-er-pwah).
Thickening soup
How thick, or thin, you want a soup is up to individual taste. When it comes to Western, non-consommé type of soups, Malaysians tend to prefer a thicker consistency. While soups can easily be thickened by adding a flour paste, this does not make the best soups. Flour-thickened soup has a starchy taste that bloats you up and is associated with low quality.
Since the 1980s, and since people become more health-conscious, thickening with flour has disappeared from the best kitchens – it is also considered unethical to add bulk using flour. It would be better to boil down the stock to concentrate it. Such refinements, of course, are more the preoccupation of a fine dining restaurant.
The recipes here use two ways to thicken the soup – using a roux (pronounced roo), a flour-and-fat mixture, and adding cream. While cream has a slight thickening effect, today it is added more for flavour than as a thickener. Adding a higher ratio of vegetables can also have a thickening effect as many vegetables are starchy.
Making a roux
A roux is simply a cooked flour-and-fat paste. The method dates back more than 300 years in French cuisine and is still used in professional kitchens for good reasons – when properly cooked, roux imparts silky-smooth body and a nutty flavour while thickening soups and sauces.
While many websites still advocate making a roux from equal parts fat – butter or oil – and flour, chefs now prefer a ratio with less flour as the paste cooks better and is less lumpy. Traditionally, roux is made with clarified butter, which is also not considered crucial today. The paste just needs to be cooked to remove the raw taste of flour.
Over low heat, heat the oil or melt the butter and add the flour. Cook, stirring now and then with a spatula for about 5 minutes, or until the mixture turns "white". Remove the pot from heat. The hot roux can be added to cold or room temperature stock to thicken it. If adding to hot stock, cool the roux first.
At home, if you find making a roux just too much bother, you can ditch it and settle for a thinner soup. Or you can thicken it the Asian way by simply adding a corn/potato/tapioca flour-and-water paste.
Using a good stock
The most important consideration in making good soups, however, is using a good stock. While it is not a crime to use good quality stock powder, homemade stocks are just better. If you have to choose where to invest your time, invest it in making a good stock from scratch.
> Jean Michel is the director of The French Culinary School in Asia which conducts regular classes for professional and home cooks. Tel: 03-2026 9188.
Creamy Chicken And Corn Soup
6 servings
50g butter
30g all-purpose flour
800ml chicken stock
200ml UHT cream
400g fresh sweet corn, cooked (see note, or use frozen or canned)
Salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste
Coriander oil (optional)
50g coriander leaves
50g olive oil
Salt to taste
Salted popcorn or croutons
For the soup: This will make about 1.5 litres of soup so you can use a medium-sized saucepan, stockpot, or any deep, preferably heavy-based pot.
Over low heat, melt the butter and add the flour to make the roux. Cook, stirring constantly with a spatula, for about 5 minutes, or until the mixture turns "white". Remove the pot from heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring the stock to boil. Add the roux and cook over medium heat, stirring now and then, until it is smooth and thick.
Add the cream and sweet corn, and simmer for about 10 minutes. Season to taste before blending to a smooth and creamy consistency – use a handheld or stand blender.
For the coriander oil: Combine all the ingredients and process in a blender.
To serve: Ladle warm soup in a soup plate or bowl. Drizzle with coriander oil if using and top with popcorn or crouton.
Note: Fresh sweet corn can be cooked whole, and the husk can be removed after cooking. They can be cooked by steaming or boiling. To boil, bring water to boil and add the corn; bring back to boil and cook for about 5 minutes, or until tender to the bite. Drain immediately. To remove the corn kernels from the cob, simply slide a knife along the cob to shave them off.
Buying tips:Buy corns with kernels that are plump and milky, in tight rows right up to the tip of the ear of corn.
Tomato And Red Capsicum Soup
6 servings
50ml olive oil
4 cloves garlic, chopped
50g onion, diced
75g carrot, diced
100g red capsicum
500g canned peeled tomato
50g tomato paste
1 litre chicken or vegetable stock
1 bouquet garni (see note)
15g rice flour
50ml UHT cream
Salt, pepper, sugar to taste
Garnishing (optional)
30ml olive oil
50g red capsicum, seeded and diced
100g tomato, peeled, seeded and diced
2-3 sweet basil leaves, chopped
50g cooked rice
Fresh sweet basil for decoration
For the soup: In a stock pot, heat up the olive oil over medium heat. Add in the garlic, onion, carrot, and capsicum, and sweat until soft.
Add the peeled tomato, tomato paste, stock, and bouquet garni. Bring to boil.
Mix the rice flour with a little water to form a paste and stir it into the soup to thicken it. Season to taste and simmer for 30 minutes.
Remove the bouquet garni, and blend the soup with a handheld blender or in a food processor. Pass it through a strainer for a smoother taste.
Return the soup to the pot and add the cream. You may need to adjust the seasoning. Bring to boil over medium heat. Remove from heat and set aside.
For the garnishing: In a sauté pan, heat up the olive oil. Add in capsicum and cook for 5 minutes. Add in tomato, chopped basil, and season to taste. Cook for 2 minutes and set aside.
To serve: Ladle just slightly warm soup in a soup plate or bowl. Add a tablespoon of the tomato and capsicum garnishing and some cooked rice. Decorate with basil leaf if you like. This soup can also be served cold if you prefer.
Note: To make your own bouquet garni, which is a bundle of herbs, simply tie together a sprig of thyme, a (dried) bay leaf, and 2 to 3 parsley stems.
Creamy Broccoli And Blue Cheese Soup
6 servings
30g butter
100g leek, sliced
800ml chicken or vegetable stock or milk
600g broccoli
50g butter
30g flour
100ml UHT cream
Salt and pepper to taste
100g broccoli florets, blanched (optional)
100g blue cheese, diced
Walnuts, toasted and roughly chopped
For the soup: In a stock pot, melt butter and sweat the leeks until soft but not coloured. Add the stock or milk and bring to boil. Add broccoli and cook until soft. Blend until smooth using a handheld blender or food processor.
In another stock pot, make a roux by melting the butter over low heat, and add the flour. Cook, stirring constantly with a spatula, for about 5 minutes, or until the mixture turns "white".
Add the blended soup and the cream, season to taste, and simmer for 5 minutes.
To serve: Ladle quite warm soup in a soup plate or bowl. Top with cubes of blue cheese, broccoli florets and walnuts.
Chicken Stock
1 old chicken, cut into pieces, or 2 chicken carcass including wings, feet and some skin
1 onion, cubed
1 carrot, cubed
1 celery rib, cubed
1 bouquet garni (refer tomato soup recipe)
2 litres water or enough to cover
You can make chicken stock with an old hen or chicken carcass, but the old hen will give you a more superior stock. However, it takes longer to coax the flavour out of the old hen. Place everything in a large pot, bring to boil for about 10 minutes, and simmer over medium heat – about 1 hour for the carcass and 2 to 3 hours for the old hen. Skim the scum that rises to the top from time to time and top up with more water as necessary. Cool and strain before using or storing.
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Martes flavigula
|Scientific Name:
|Martes flavigula
|Species Authority:
|(Boddaert, 1785)
Common Name(s):
Charronia flavigula
Lamprogale flavigula
Lamprogale lasiotis
|Taxonomic Notes:
|The geographic variability of M. flavigula is considerable; many subspecies have been described, and a taxonomic revision is needed. Schreiber et al. (1989) point out that the Javan form of M. flavigula, M. f. robinsoni, is clearly distinct from the ones on Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra, which could indicate that the Javan taxon may be a distinct species; research is needed on this. Pocock (1936) and Baryshnikov and Abramov (1997; 1998) separated the species from other Martes and placed in the genus Lamprogale based on bacular morphology. The genus Charronia is also sometimes used. Rozhnov (1995) separated the subspecies henrici, hainana, and peninsularis into the distinct species M. lasiotis. The subspecies M. f. robinsoni was assessed separately in the 1996 Red List Assessment of this species.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Abramov, A., Timmins, R.J., Roberton, S., Long, B., Than Zaw & Duckworth, J.W.
|Belant, J. (Small Carnivore Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
This species is listed as Least Concern due to its wide distribution, evidently relatively stable population, occurrence in a number of protected areas, and lack of major threats. In certain islands parts of its range (Taiwan and Java), the island-endemic subspecies are considered to be threatened. The species also requires a taxonomic revision to clarify the taxonomic rank of various populations and it is possible that some which are actually species may be threatened.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The yellow-throated marten has an Asian and Sundaic distribution, and countries where this species is found include China, India, Indonesia (Islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo), DPR Korea, Republic of Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Taiwan, Viet Nam (Wozencraft 2005; Le Xuan Canh et al. 1997; Roberton et al. in prep), Lao PDR (Duckworth 1997), Thailand (Grassman et al. 2005), Myanmar (Than Zaw et al. in press), Malaysia (Azlan 2003), Cambodia (J. L. Walston pers. comm.), and possibly Singapore (Meiri 2005). The species elevational range extends from sea-level to 3,000 m (Lekagul and McNeely 1977, Duckworth 1995, Than Zaw et al. in press).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Bangladesh; Bhutan; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; China; India; Indonesia (Jawa, Kalimantan, Sumatera); Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak); Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Russian Federation; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Viet Nam
|Lower elevation limit (metres):
|Upper elevation limit (metres):
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|Few population assessments of the yellow-throated marten exist. Grassman et al. (2005) recorded 40 individuals in Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand between 1998 and 2002. In Sikhote-Alinsky Nature Reserve (Russian Far East) the population density was estimated to be 1-5 per 100 square kilometers (Matyushkin 1993). The total amount in Russia is estimated as 2500-3500 specimens (Alexei Abramov pers. comm. 2006). It is evidently common across Lao PDR (Duckworth 1997) and Myanmar (Than Zaw et al. in press) and probably widely in at least South-east Asia (Parr and Duckworth 2007).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|In the Russian Far East the yellow-throated marten prefers mixed (spruce and broad-leaved) forests of the Manchurian type, while it occurs rarely in the dark coniferous taiga of the upper mountain zone and in the oak forests zone (Matyushkin, 1993). In Lao PDR, Myanmar and Thailand this species is found in forests and various other adjacent habitats across a wide altitudinal range (Duckworth et al.1999, Lekagul and McNeely 1977, Than Zaw et al. in press), but it clearly favors forests. It was recorded in secondary forest, that was logged in the 1970s, and which surrounds a palm estate, in Malaysia in 2000-01 by Azlan (2003) and there are many records from other areas of secondary forest, even areas well isolated from old-growth stands.
Although sometimes said to be largely or entirely nocturnal, the species is primarily diurnal, but also hunts at night increasing nocturnal activity during lunar nights (plus or minus 7 days from full moon) (Duckworth 1997, Grassman et al. 2005, Than Zaw et al. in press, Parr and Duckworth 2007, J. L. Walston pers. comm. (for Cambodia)). Common food items include squirrels, birds, snakes, and lizards, though insects, eggs, frogs, fruit, nectar, and berries are also taken, as well as honey and bees (Lekagul and McNeely 1977) and in fact it probably has a very wide diet (Parr and Duckworth 2007). In nature, groups of two to three or more rarely, five to seven individuals can be seen; in the Russian Far East the species hunts in groups for musk deer (Matyushkin 1993). It is also usually found in small groups, rather than as single individuals, at least in tropical parts of its range (Parr and Duckworth, 2007).
Grassman et al. (2005) found that this species has a mean annual range size of 7.2 km² with a mean overlap of 34% in a study on this species conducted in Phu Kieo Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand. The litter size is up to five, and the gestation period is 220-290 days, and it has life span of up to 14 years (Lekagul and McNeely 1977).
|Major Threat(s):
|As the yellow-throated marten is tied to forest areas, at least in the Southeast Asian parts of its range, forest conversion there over the last few decades will have resulted in some overall population reduction. Nevertheless, the species is surviving well within remaining forests (including secondary stands), perhaps because it is less preferred as food by most residents and its scansorial nature reduces its exposure to snares and other traps, as well as allows easy escape from dogs. Therefore, no significant threats at the population level are known to the species in Southeast Asia, although it is no doubt below carrying capacity in heavily hunted areas such as Lao PDR. It is occasionally hunted in Siberia (Russia) and DPR Korea for its fur (A. Abramov pers. comm. 2006, J. W. Duckworth pers. comm. 2006) but this does not constitute a global threat, rather it affects local populations at most. It can habituate to close approach of many people and take food from human waste (Parr and Duckworth 2007).
|Conservation Actions:
|The yellow-throated marten is protected in many parts of its range. In Myanmar, this species is protected all year under the Wildlife Act of 1994 (Su Su 2005) and in Peninsular Malaysia it is protected under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 (WPA 1972; Azlan, 2003). This species is listed on CITES Appendix III (India) and Category II of the China Wildlife Protection Law (1988) (Li et al. 2000). This species is listed as Near Threatened on the China Red List (Wang and Xie, 2004). This species is known from many protected areas across its range. Grassman et al. (2005) studied it in Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary in north central Thailand. It was recorded by Azlan (2003) in Jerangau Forest Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia in 2000-01.
|Abramov, A., Timmins, R.J., Roberton, S., Long, B., Than Zaw & Duckworth, J.W. 2008. Martes flavigula. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T41649A10528335. . Downloaded on 26 May 2016.
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Long Beach, CA – After winning every Pac-10 women's swimming title since the inception of the Championships in 1987, Stanford University's streak came to end today as the Arizona Wildcats captured their first-ever title at the 2000 Pac-10 Women's Championships at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool. On the strength of three individual crowns Arizona tallied 1,325 points for the win, while after winning 13-consecutive conference championships, Stanford finished second with 1,197 points. California finished third (1,182 points), followed by UCLA (1,043 points) and USC was fifth (975.5 points).
"To say that I'm proud of these women is an understatement," Arizona head coach Frank Busch said. "This was great day and hopefully we can keep the momentum going all the way to Indianapolis for the NCAAs."
The first individual title came from freshman Beth Botsford, the American record-holder in the 200-meter backstroke, who proved that she is among the nation's elite by winning the 200-yard backsroke in a time of 1:54.45. Senior and 15-time All-America Denali Knapp finished fifth in the same race (1:58.46), while senior Rachel Joseph claimed sixth (1:58.64).
In the 200-yard breaststroke freshman Amanda Beard claimed her first Pac-10 title by coming from behind in the final 50 yards to overtake California's Staciana Stitts for the win. Beard's time of 2:10.41 missed the Pac-10 record by less than nine-tenths of a second. Also scoring points in the 200-yard breaststroke was freshman Julie Manitt (seventh-place, 2:16.02).
The 2000 Pac-10 Men's Championships begin Thursday, March 2, at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash.