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Workington Reds miss out on striker
Last updated at 15:02, Wednesday, 01 June 2011
Workington Reds have missed out on hot shot striker Graham Armstrong after he agreed a move to rivals Blyth Spartans.
Armstrong left Harrogate after rejecting a new contract offer at the end of the season and had Borough Park boss Darren Edmondson chasing his signature.
The Hexham-born front man netted 22 times in the league last year but opted for a move closer to home.
Edmondson said: "I'm not too disheartened that Graeme decided to sign for Blyth. I think it will be a good move for him because he will be the star man, on which the team is based. If he had come to us then he would have been one of three men vying for a starting place.
"I have been in contact with him since the season ended and he's got himself a good deal. If he had come here, he would have been in the top earners bracket.
"We will use that money to go towards other targets and I am constantly talking to players to improve our team for next year."
Edmondson, who returned from a family holiday to Tenerife over the weekend, will now turn his attention to other targets which include former Carlisle midfielder Mark Boyd.
Mark Sloan will also team up with Workington in pre-season with Edmondson keen to keep hold of the youngster, who impressed towards the end of the season.
He said: "Mark has some options available to him but we're definitely interested in keeping him with us.
"He did well in the first team, showing some touches of class, so we want to keep him for next year."
First published at 11:25, Wednesday, 01 June 2011
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| Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il in his lifetime devoted his all to laying solid foundation for building a socialist economic power.
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Recalling the days when he was breaking a path to introducing the CNC system, he said that he made up his mind to update the machine-building industry though the country was in difficulties.
Thanks to his correct decision and wise guidance, the Huichon Ryonha General Machine Factory was successfully built into a model factory, heralding the start of industrial revolution in the new century.
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Glee Season 4: Casting for Finn's [Spoiler] in "The Break-Up" Episode!
We've already been warned that Glee Season 4, Episode 4 will test the relationships of every core couple on the show, and that certainly doesn't exclude Finn (Cory Monteith) and Rachel (Lea Michele)!
They may have broken off their engagement during last spring's Glee Season 3 finale, but that doesn't mean their feelings for each other have simply disappeared. Finn and Rachel will share plenty of tense and emotional moments in "The Break-Up."
Though Rachel's new life in New York City will be taking center stage in Glee Season 4, we will be hearing almost nothing from Finn during those first couple of episodes. However, a new bit of casting information from TV Guide's William Keck is providing some much-needed insight into what Finn has been up to.
On August 24, he tweeted, "#glee is casting a Drill Sergeant for Finn in episode four so we'll be seeing his life in boot camp @CoryMonteith"
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On Sunday, enjoy a Gameskeeper's Walk in Windsor Great Park, 10am, £6. For something a little less energetic, pop into Alma Road Social Club on Monday for the stunning Bob Dylan 'biopic' I'm Not There. It's at 8pm and costs £6 or £10 for two.
And if all that leaves you feeling a little parched, why not take a tour of Windsor And Eton Brewery (back by popular demand!) on Tuesday? Tours run at 7pm and 8.15pm and cost £5. For dramatic types, a reinterpretation of Romeo And Juliet, inspired by the heavy metal subculture that is so often used as a scapegoat for youth violence, is being staged by East Berkshire College - expect family feuds, gangland violence and heartache. It's at 8pm on Tuesday, £5/£6.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- While the weather outside made it look a lot like Christmas, two Cedar Rapids churches worked to make it feel like the holidays for a few hundred people. St. Mark's and St. Paul's United Methodist Churches hosted simultaneous suppers on both sides of the river.
Together these two Christmas dinners fed more than 500 people. Most in the crowd come and eat in each church's basement as volunteer hit the streets and hand-deliver meals to shut-ins. The United Way's 211 line got the word out in the weeks before Christmas telling callers where free meals would be served over the holiday.
At St. Paul's United Methodist Church volunteers spent three days in the kitchen preparing the meal from scratch.
"We do 100 pounds of turkey, 100 pounds of ham, 100 pounds of potatoes and we peel our own potatoes fresh, so we don't buy those store-bought potatoes," kitchen leader Rosie McGowan said.
McGowan brought three of her granddaughters from Chicago to help serve food and to see what she does on Christmas day. All of them are already talking about coming back next year.
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We call this dish sopa, but do not look up the word on the internet. That's not what we fix.
There is no way I would knowingly eat Sopa de mondongo, because I am just learning that tripe is the cleaned stomach of a cow. The Sisson family does not eat cow stomach. That's right up there with chittlins. It's not going to happen!
While the word is Spanish for soup, I would not call this a Spanish dish or soup, really.
I was introduced to this dish by my mother-in-law. She makes it much like King Ranch Chicken but puts her own spin on it. My drawback to the whole thing is her version requires baking it in the oven for 30-45 minutes. Who has that kind of time?
My husband loves this dish, but I am the first to tell you, I cheat. While I love to cook when I have the time, cooking and cleaning up is not my favorite task after a long day at the office. I do not have a dishwasher and this has vastly affected my cooking.
This is my own super fast version to fix at the end of a long day. I love a dish that can be made in 15 minutes or less and all in one pan. This modified version "fills the bill."
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6 boneless, skinless chicken tenderloins/strips
u I saute the chicken strips in butter or olive oil and cut up into small bite-size pieces
1 can of cream of chicken condensed soup
1 can of cream of mushroom condensed soup
1 can of mild Rotel tomatoes
Shredded Cheddar cheese to taste.
u Mix the tomatoes, shredded cheese and the soup together in the pan with the cooked chicken. I mix the soup, tomatoes and chicken together, then shred Cheddar cheese and add to the mixture. I let it set for a minute or so to allow the cheese to melt. I serve it with tortilla chips.
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If you've ever tried to use fl.removeEventListener(), you've probably run into the following situation.
Part the First, in which you check the documentation.
It reads:
- eventType
- A string that specifies the event type to remove from this callback function. Acceptable values are "documentNew", "documentOpened", "documentClosed", "mouseMove", "documentChanged", "layerChanged", and "frameChanged".
A Boolean value of true if the event listener was successfully removed; false if the function was never added to the list with the fl.addEventListener() method.
Unregisters a function that was registered using
The following example removes the event listener associated with the documentClosed event:fl.removeEventListener("documentClosed");
CS4 documentation can be found online here, CS5 here
Part the Second, in which You Reasonably Assume that the Code Following Would Work
fl.addEventListener("documentChanged", onDocChange);
function onDocChange() {
fl.trace("Document changed.");
// elsewhere in your script...
Part the Third, in which You Run the Code Preceding and Concordantly Receive the Error Following
The following JavaScript error(s) occurred:
At line 1 of file "/Users/dru/Desktop/tmp.jsfl":
Wrong number of arguments passed to function "removeEventListener".
Part the Fourth, in which You Try to Reason With the Documentation
So, then you think, "the documentation is wrong, and we need to pass the listener function in as an extra argument, that must be what this error is about." So you try the same thing, only with this line:
fl.removeEventListener("documentChanged", onDocChange);
Which makes more sense anyway, right? But…
Part the Fifth, in which you Run the Code Preceding and Yet are Still Rewarded With Errors
The following JavaScript error(s) occurred:
At line 1 of file "/Users/dru/Desktop/tmp.jsfl":
removeEventListener: Argument number 2 is invalid.
This seems to verify that indeed there are two parameters for
fl.removeEventListener, but the second one is not the listener function.
Part the Sixth, in which You Give Up
You figure it can't be the end of the world if you never release your event listeners…
Good news!
After filing a bug with Adobe on this, I got a response stating that the API has changed with Flash CS4, but the documentation was never updated. Adobe is, according to the email I received, working on updating the docs, but until they do, here's the scoop.
fl.addEventListener is also mis-documented. It actually returns a numeric ID, identifying that particular event listener connection. The mysterious second parameter to
fl.removeEventListener is that numeric ID. Not unlike the old setInterval/clearInterval workflow from pre-AS3 days.
So, this works:
var changeEventId = fl.addEventListener("documentChanged", onDocChange);
function onDocChange() {
fl.trace("Document changed.");
// elsewhere in your script...
fl.removeEventListener("documentChanged", changeEventId);
Personal aside
Honestly, this is a bit disappointing on Adobe's part. It's been mis-documented for two major releases of Flash Professional, not to mention that they just willy-nilly changed the API. Event listening code that works in CS3 does not work in CS4 or CS5, and vice-versa. On top of that, I feel like the numeric ID aspect is just a bit dumb. It's supposed to be so that it can be utilized from anywhere, as long as you have the right numerical ID, and that makes sense that one script may not have a reference to the actual listener function from another script. But still. Maybe a both-techniques-work approach would be useful here. Let us pick the one that's most convenient.
Conclusion, in which You Now Know How to Properly Use fl.removeEventListener()
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NEW YORK — Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actor and civil-rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film, has died at age 91, according to her daughter.
Nora Davis Day said Thursday that her mother died at home in New Rochelle on Wednesday night of "natural causes."
Dee, who frequently acted alongside her husband of 56 years, Ossie Davis, was with loved ones, she added.
Her long career brought her an Oscar nomination at age 83 for best supporting actress for her role in the 2007 film American Gangster. She also won an Emmy and was nominated for several others.
She is survived by three children: Nora, Hasna and Guy, and seven grandchildren.
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Monrovia — Air France's decision to end its biweekly flights to Liberia is being attributed to little profit margins on its Monrovia route, FrontPageAfrica has learned.
Air France has endured a turbulent run in Liberia. In 2012, poor and dilapidated runaway at the Roberts International Airport inflicted damage on an AF752 which caused a rugged landing with damage set at almost a half a million dollars. The forced landing Plane's bottom right, main landing gear, hydraulic holes, brakes, and right main landing gear axle assembly ruined during a landing mishap. Perhaps the incident sparked the writing on the wall for the airline amid reports that Air France Airlines was contemplating ending its route to Liberia.
FPA citing aviation sources in Monrovia, reported recently that the airline was shutting down its Liberia route. Now a letter in possession of FPA offers for the first time a clearer picture of why the airline is calling it quits on the post-war nation.
Mr. Jean Raoul Tauzin, Regional Director for West Africa, in a communication to Mr. Abraham T. Simmons, General Manager for the Roberts International Airport, said the lack of profit made it difficult for the airline to continue flying its Liberia route. "Since the start of Air France's operation 3 years ago, we were unable to break even due to poor load factors in/from Monrovia. Suitable options were looked into on how best to bring the route into profitability within the short term, which unfortunately were not satisfactory enough," said Tauzin.
The airline regional chief however left a window open for a possible return to Liberia. "Air France sadly had to take the decision to suspend the operations. However, Liberia will be kept in our scope of interest for resumption of the flight as son as the conditions of profitable operations can be met."
The decision, according to the communication from Tauzin was reached following a meeting held in Monrovia on April 3rd, 2014 with Mr. Frank Legre, Senior Vice President Air France-KLM Africa Division, Mr. Axel Metselaar, Regional Manager, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
During that meeting, the RIA was reportedly informed about Air France's decision to end its Liberia route, with the cutoff date set for Tuesday, June 17th, 2014. The date now expired, means passengers will no longer be able to fly the airlines in or out of Monrovia.
The Air France-320 offering 208 seats commenced service to Liberia on April 20, 2011.
Air France, which started operations in 1937 and flew its first flight in 1947 is the second international airline that begun direct flights to Liberia. The U.S based Delta Airline was the first to begin direct flights from America and Europe to Liberia in 2010. More recently, British Airways commenced flights out of Liberia.
In September 2010, Delta Air Lines Inc. launched flights from the U.S. to Liberia, becoming the first American carrier to serve the West African nation that is recovering from more than a decade of civil war. Delta currently flies thrice weekly between Monrovia and Delta's hub in Atlanta with a stop in Accra, Ghana.
Before the outbreak of the conflict, major airlines like Pan American World Airways, Air France and even the Concorde flew directly to Liberia. The country was shattered during 11 years of on-and-off fighting starting with a 1989 civil war led by Charles Taylor.
Air France, a French flag carrier is one of the largest airlines in the world and is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance. As of 2010, the airline operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to 151 destinations in 91 countries including Liberia.


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As long as Vince fires AJ as GM, all will be well. Bringing back Big Johnny would be even better, but seems a little doubtful at the moment.
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As long as Vince fires AJ as GM, all will be well. Bringing back Big Johnny would be even better, but seems a little doubtful at the moment.
I didn't watch raw last week due to the multiple bad ratings received from people, and also because I was studying haha
But I was browsing through twitter quite recently, and there was a tweet stating that VKM had a "state of WWE" announcement which he would be delivering on RAW. My initial thought was 'hmm, this must be to do with the 2.9 rating that WWE suffered, aka the lowest rating since 15 years ago". Then my mind ran back to what exactly happened 15 years ago :D Lets just say 15 years ago, 1997, was the beginning of the Attitude era. Now hear me out here, I know its not the start of another attitude era for multiple reasons that I will not delve into; however, doesn't it seem very likely that this 2. something rating is almost a kick up the butt for things to change around here?
I have been watching wwe for around 10-11 years now, and I have watched numerous videos, collected multiple dvds, and done my research whenever and wherever I possibly could, so I could say I have an extensive WWE/WWF knowledge. It is evident to me, and of course most of you fans out there that there have been a multitude of changes in the WWE over the years, and we know them as different "eras". I don't know why but I have this hunch that something might be changing sometime soon in the WWE, like not in the same way as maybe the change into the attitude era, but something more current, and more built around this whole idea of a PG Rating.
Though I feel the WWE is currently orientated around the fact that John Cena is the guy, and that most of their merchandise, and ticket sales are when he is currently on the show; though I do feel that VKM addressing the WWE, may include something changing that. Like maybe it could be the birth of a new era [as mentioned previously] allowing more talent to [As Zack Ryder said in some of his videos] "Reach for the Brass Ring" and even grab and hold this ring.
But this is me speaking in hypothetical of course, and I just hope something good will come from this return.
[Sorry, I realise I should always do a search to see if a current thread may include the same thoughts as mine or be a topic which my thoughts should be a part of. I just wanted to get my opinion of the matter out there]
However, what do you guys think will happen this upcoming Monday Night Raw?
VKM will strut out to the ring say some shit that will pods off cm punk and punk will come out and demand respect from vince. Then, cena will come out and get in 0unk's face. Aj will then make a ppv match with Punk and Cena again... Sound right?
What I would like:
Vince returns and announces Punk's new opponent for Hell In A Cell...
What will probably happen:
Vince says stuff, Punk comes out, demands respect and Cena comes out to fight Punk.
I don't think it's going to be anything overly special, unless they really want to get into taking some chances again which I'd like. They had less than a week to prepare for this.
Vince will probably fire AJ as GM or some sort. I really can't see it being anything big to be honest. I just hope that Raw will deliver even if they get another low rating (It's expected with the Orioles playing against the Yankees).
Vince McMahon should fire AJ and hire either Paul Heyman, William Regal, or Mick Foley as GM


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With figures showing that barely 3.5% of people on the programme have found sustainable employment; what more proof do we need that it isn't working? The UK Government can't afford to keep investing in these punitive schemes.
The third sector in Scotland has proved that it can help young unemployed people find jobs through schemes like Community Jobs Scotland (CJS). An independent evaluation of the CJS initiative found 40% of young people entered full-time employment after completing their CJS contract and a further 11% went into training or education, or took up volunteering opportunities. These results speak for themselves. The UK Government needs to stop trying to sweep this poor performance under the carpet and focus on finding a way to replicate schemes like CJS across the country.
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MOST cases of male infertility could be caused by a deficiency in a protein that is normally found on the surface of sperm cells. This finding is surprising because researchers had expected that there would be no single major factor behind "mysterious" cases of male infertility.
Robert Sullivan and Franck Boué of the Central Hospital at Laval University in Quebec City have discovered that more than half of a sample of infertile Canadian men produce sperm carrying abnormally low quantities of the protein P34H. This finding, reported in the latest issue of Biology of Reproduction (vol 54, p 1018), may pave the way to new infertility treatments, and possibly new forms of contraception.
Infertility affects around 8 per cent of couples. In women, the problem is often a hormonal imbalance that can be quickly identified and remedied. But in men only a tiny proportion of cases are due to hormonal ...
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Rat-brained Robotics
Gordon is a very special robot. Controlled by a dish full of rats' brain cells, he's helping scientists to understand how our brains work. Antenna explores the science behind Gordon, what he might tell us about the brain, and what his creation could mean for the future of robotics…
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WSOP Q and A with Tournament Director Jack Effel
There are many new tournaments and interesting rule changes in store for this summer and Effel sat down with BLUFF to discuss what's in store for the next seven weeks.
BLUFF: Each year has a big, new event that provides a certain flavor to that summer. How do you guys decide which big tournament to feature in any given year, like the $1 million tournament this year?
Effel: The Big One for One Drop has been a work in progress, it has been Guy Laliberte's brainchild for the last couple years to get a huge buy-in event, so we were able to collaborate and bring it to life. The 40th year anniversary tournament was really kind of funny. I was sitting around with my wife trying to think of what it could be when my wife blurted out: "Why don't you have a $40,000 no limit event," that's literally where that one came from.
The $25,000 heads-up required a little more thought, we wanted to do something cool for television. We always want to have an event that is a showcase that stands out as the special event of the year. I think a $1 million buy-in gets everyone's attention. We want something that will make a statement and then we create it.
BLUFF: Can you address some of the rule changes for the 2012 WSOP? Specifically, the rules regarding table talk, celebrations, and verbally announcing action at televised final tables?
Effel: You want to create an environment where people can compete without distraction. But I also think that poker is a game that has a social aspect that brings out certain emotions in people and that shouldn't be contained. By taking away certain elements of that, it changes the game and makes it dull and unpleasant and boring to a certain degree. You want players to respect each other but have fun at the same time.
There are a lot of people saying that they don't like to talk because they feel that it is going to give something away. Well, then they need to learn how to use that as a strategy. Because, if you know going in that's what the rules are then you should be able to adjust accordingly. You can talk about the contents of your hand as long as nobody else in the hand has a decision to make.
The rule-88 change about verbalizing action at the featured final tables … that is in regards to television and the fact that players on TV are boring. If you want people to continue to want to participate in poker events and get involved in poker, then it should be something fun. It will loosen the players up and yes, some will give up some information, but if you are a good player you will adjust. You know that if you make a final or featured streaming table that you're going to have to announce your action. Those are the only times, those final tables and those featured tables.
We want to continue to make poker grow, and we want people to continue to be interested in it. And we obviously want to make it fun for everyone while keeping it as serious as every dollar being played for is.
BLUFF: What new events will be the most interesting for players this year?
My favorite by far is the mix-max. That was my baby. We were sitting around trying to figure out what we could play in Europe because in France all we could play was no limit hold'em and PLO, and the players came up with the idea of doing the re-seat here at the WSOP for the final 32.
I think the four-max is going to be exciting, those players are going to bust fast. I think we'll lose half of that field in 7-8 hours. I think the short-handed specialists are really going to be jumping at the bit to play in that event.
BLUFF: What can we expect from the WSOP National Championship in 2012?
Effel: I think that when you combine the top bracelet holders and point earners for the WSOP, with the top earners from the Circuit, I think you get a true championship. There is not another tour out there that is offering a $1 million televised championship for their qualifiers. That's pretty significant in today's age with all that's happened. I hope the players appreciate that … because we appreciate all of their support we've gotten.
Ryan Lucchesi
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NASA Photos: beyond Mississippi flood, southern Africa sees record deluges
(05/12/2011) While record crests of the Mississippi River are creating havoc in the southern US, this is not the only region in the world facing unprecedented flooding. Huge rain events have produced floods in southern Africa as well, impacting Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa. Since last year rainfall has been above average in much of these regions, including a record deluge this month in Namib Desert, where more rain fell in just one day in than usually does in an entire year.
North America's tiniest turtle vanishing
(05/12/2011) Despite decades of conservation work, populations of North America's smallest turtle, the bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii), is continuing to decline. Habitat destruction, invasive plants, road-kill, and the illegal pet trade have all played a role in the bog turtle historic decline, but researchers are now reporting increased mortalities across bog turtle populations, bringing fears of disease or an as-yet-unnamed environmental issue.
Burning up: warmer world means the rise of megafires
(05/12/2011) Megafires are likely both worsened by and contributing to global climate change, according to a new United Nations report. In the tropics, deforestation is playing a major role in creating giant, unprecedented fires.
ConocoPhillips withdraws from oil exploitation in uncontacted indigenous territory
(05/11/2011) ConocoPhillips has announced it is withdrawing from its 45% share of oil drilling in Block 39 of Peru's Amazon rainforest. The withdrawal comes after pressure from indigenous-rights and environmental groups to leave two Peruvian oil blocks—39 and 67—alone, due to the presence of indigenous people who have chosen to remain uncontacted. ConocoPhillips and other companies have been warned they will 'decimate' tribes if they remain. However, Spanish oil company Repsol-YPF still operates in block 39 and is currently doing seismic testing for oil reserves in the untouched region. ConocoPhillips has not divulged what company is taking their place.
Belief and butchery: how lies and organized crime are pushing rhinos to extinction
(05/11/2011) Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as determined an enemy as the world's rhinos. Across the globe rhinos are being slaughtered in record numbers; on average more than one rhino is killed by poachers everyday. After being shot or drugged, criminals take what they came for: they saw off the animal's horn. Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which claims that it has curative properties, rhino horn is worth more than gold and cocaine on the black market. However, science proves all this cash and death is based on a lie. 'There is no medicinal benefit to consuming rhino horn. It has been extensively analyzed in separate studies, by different institutions, and rhino horn was found to contain no medical properties whatsoever,' says Rhishja Larson.
Liberia fights illegal logging through agreement with EU
(05/10/2011) The tiny West African nation of Liberia (about the size of the US state of Virginia) is the most recent country to work with the European Union (EU) on ending the illegal logging trade. Yesterday the EU and Liberia signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) that would make certain no raw wood or wood products exported from Liberia to the EU would have been illegally cut.
Beaver dam lessens impact of massive oil spill in Canada
(05/09/2011) The Canadian province of Alberta has suffered its worst oil spill in 35 years with 28,000 barrels of oil (over a million gallons) spilling from a ruptured pipeline operated by Plains Midstream Canada in the Canadian boreal forest. The spill has sullied wetlands near Peace River.
No limbs or sight needed: bizarre new lizard uncovered in Cambodia
(05/09/2011) A new species of legless lizard has been discovered in Cambodia. Herpetologist Neang Thy uncovered, literally, the new species when he turned over a log in the species-rich Cardamom Mountains. While the new lizard looks like a snake or a big earthworm, it is in fact a lizard belong to the Dibamidae family. These bizarre reptiles spend much of their lives burrowing underground for insects, which has allowed them to lose the need for limbs.
Fight for flamingos: Tanzania to mine in world's most important flamingo breeding ground
(05/09/2011) It's not easy to find a single word to describe witnessing hundreds of thousands of flamingos filling up a shallow lake in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. 'Spectacle' comes to mind, but even this is not wholly accurate for the surreal pink crowd. However one describes it, this biological wonder may be under threat as Tanzania plans to mine in a flamingo breeding ground that is not only regionally important, but globally. Astoundingly, over half of the world's lesser flamingos (between 65-75%) are born in a single lake in northern Tanzania: Lake Natron.
Over a thousand geckos freed from criminal taxi
(05/08/2011) Over a thousand tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) were found in a single trunk of a taxi by the Wildlife Rapid Response Team (WRRT), forestry officials, and military police in Cambodia. WRRT is wildlife-crimes program run by Wildlife Alliance. Boxes filled the taxi's trunk. In the boxes were bags stuffed with 1,027 tokay geckos, of which nineteen had perished.
Indonesia signs agreement with EU to end the sale of illegally logged wood
(05/04/2011) The EU and Indonesia today signed an agreement in Jakarta that aims to keep illegally logged wood from reaching the European market. This is the first Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) signed by an Asian nation with the EU and is seen as a considerable step forward on the fight against the illegal logging trade worldwide.
Girls Scouts censors Facebook page after coming under criticism for product linked to rainforest loss
(05/04/2011) Girls Scouts USA has censored its Facebook page after receiving comments criticizing the organization, according to Rainforest Action Network (RAN). RAN along with Change.org and two Girl Scout activists, Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva, declared today a social media day of activism against the Girl Scouts for using palm oil in their popular cookies. The oil has been linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia and Malaysia.
NASA image reveals extent of deforestation in western Brazil
(05/04/2011) The Brazilian state of Rondônia has undergone tremendous change over the past decade as revealed by the NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite. A hotspot for recent deforestation, Rondônia was once home to over 50 million acres (208,000 square kilometers of forest). By 2003 nearly a third of the rainforest in the state was gone and deforestation continues although at a slower pace. The state has the dubious honor of undergoing the highest percentage of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon.
Forgotten species: the endearing Tenkile tree kangaroo
(05/03/2011) With their long snout, furry body, soft eyes, and, at times, upright stance, tree kangaroos often remind me of the muppets. Of course, if there were any fairness in the world, the muppets would remind me of tree kangaroos, since kangaroos, or macropods, have inhabited the Earth for at least 5 million years longer than Jim Henson's muppets. But as a child of the 1980s, I knew about muppets well before tree kangaroos, which play second fiddle in the public imagination to their bigger, boxing cousins. This is perhaps surprising, as tree kangaroos possess three characteristics that should make them immensely popular: they are mammals, they are monkey-like (and who doesn't like monkeys?), and they are desperately 'cute'.
Road building plan in Sumatran park threatens Critically Endangered tigers
(05/03/2011) A plan to build four wide roads through Kerinci Seblat National Park in the Indonesian island of Sumatra threatens one of the world's most viable populations of the Critically Endangered Sumatran tiger subspecies (Panthera tigris sumatrae), reports the AP. Less than 500 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild with the population continuing to decline due to habitat loss from palm oil and paper plantations, poaching, and prey declines.
Al Gore compares climate change deniers to 'birthers'
(05/03/2011) Former US Vice President, Al Gore, stated in a Time Magazine interview and in a recent presentation that climate change deniers and the so-called birthers—those who refuse to accept that President Obama was born in the US despite clear evidence—are similar. The implication being that both groups are denying clear evidence and creating a "struggle over what is a fact and what is not".
Left alive and wild, a single shark worth $1.9 million
(05/02/2011) For the Pacific island nation of Palau, sharks are worth much more alive than dead. A new study by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has found that one reef shark during its full life is worth $1.9 million to Palau in tourism revenue. Sold for consumption the shark is worth around $108. In this case a shark is worth a stunning 17,000 times more alive than dead.
Conservation organizations ask Tanzania to reconsider UNESCO status for Eastern Arc Mountains
(05/02/2011) Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has recently stated he would withdraw the application to list two Eastern Arc Mountains as UNESCO World Heritage sites: Udzungwa and Uluguru Mountains. However, ten NGOS, both local and international, have asked the president to reconsider, according to The Citizen.
Controversial Brazilian mega-dam receives investment of $1.4 billion
(05/02/2011) Brazil's most controversial mega-dam, Belo Monte, which is moving full steam ahead against massive opposition, has received an extra infusion of cash from Vale, a Brazilian-run mining company.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: 'quest for profit subverts our present and our future'
(05/01/2011) As the honorary speaker at an event celebrating fifty years of the conservation organization World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Archbishop Desmond Tutu stated that overconsumption and obsession with economic growth were imperiling the global environment and leaving the poor behind.
New eco-tour to help save bizarre antelope in 'forgotten' region
(05/01/2011) Imagine visiting a region that is largely void of tourists, yet has world-class bird watching, a unique Buddhist population, and one of the world's most bizarre-looking and imperilled mammals: the saiga. A new tour to Southern Russia hopes to aid a Critically Endangered species while giving tourists an inside look at a region "largely forgotten by the rest of the world," says Anthony Dancer. Few species have fallen so far and so fast in the past 15 years as Central Asia's antelope, the saiga. Its precipitous decline is reminiscent of the bison or the passenger pigeon in 19th Century America, but conservationists hopes it avoids the fate of the latter.
With 24 eyes, box jellyfish are constantly looking up
(04/28/2011) Lacking brains does not mean box jellyfish are incapable of complex visual behavior, according to a new study in Current Biology. Researchers have known for over a century that box jellyfish support an astounding two-dozen eyes. Now, they are beginning to find out how these eyes are used: four of a box jellyfish's 24 eyes are always peering up out of the water finds the new study. These four eyes, no matter how the body is oriented, allow the jellyfish to navigate their shallow, obstacle-filled habitats, such as mangroves—and keep them from straying too far from home.
Are US floods, fires linked to climate change?
(04/28/2011) The short answer to the question of whether or not on-going floods in the US Midwest and fires in Texas are linked to a warming Earth is: maybe. The long answer, however, is that while it is difficult—some argue impossible—for scientists to link a single extreme weather event to climate change, climate models have long shown that extreme weather events will both intensify and become more frequent as the world continues to heat up. In other words, the probability of such extreme events increases along with global average temperature.
With pressure to drill, what should be saved in the Arctic?
(04/27/2011) Two major threats face the Arctic: the first is global climate change, which is warming the Arctic twice as fast the global average; the second is industrial expansion into untouched areas. The oil industry is exploring new areas in the Arctic, which they could not have reached before without anthropogenic climate change melting the region's summer ice; but, of course, the Arctic wouldn't be warming without a hundred years of massive emissions from this very same industry, thus creating a positive feedback loop that is likely to wholly transform the Arctic.
Rising food prices threaten to push over 60 million Asians back into poverty
(04/27/2011) The Asian Development Bank has warned that high food prices on the continent could push 64 million people in developing countries into extreme poverty, reports the AFP.
In spite of poaching, Nepal's rhino population on the rise
(04/27/2011) Good news for rhinos is rare recently, but a new census shows that Nepal's one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) population has increased by 23% since 2008 even in the face of poaching. In total 534 rhinos survive in Nepal, a rise of 99 individuals from 3 years ago.
Rise in wildlife tourism in India comes with challenges
(04/27/2011) A line of tourist jeeps clogs the road in a dry forest, as all eyes—and cameras—are on a big cat ambling along the road ahead; when the striped predator turns for a moment to face the tourists, voices hush and cameras flash: this is a scene that over the past decade has becoming increasingly common in India. A new study in Conservation Letters surveyed ten national parks in India and found that attendance had increased on average 14.9% from 2002-2006, but while rising nature tourism in India comes with education and awareness opportunities, it also brings problems.
Save the Frogs Day focuses on banning Atrazine in US
(04/26/2011) This year's Save the Frogs Day (Friday, April 29th) is focusing on a campaign to ban the herbicide Atrazine in the US with a rally at the steps of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Kerry Kriger, executive director of frog-focused NGO Save the Frogs! and creator of Save the Frogs Day, says that Atrazine is an important target in the attempt to save amphibians worldwide, which are currently facing extinction rates that are estimated at 200 times the average. "Atrazine weakens amphibians' immune systems, and can cause hermaphroditism and complete sex reversal in male frogs at concentrations as low as 2.5 parts per billion," Kriger told mongabay.com.
Elephants: the gardeners of Asia's and Africa's forests
(04/25/2011) It seems difficult to imagine elephants delicately tending a garden, but these pachyderms may well be the world's weightiest horticulturalist. Elephants both in Asia and Africa eat abundant amounts of fruit when available; seeds pass through their guts, and after expelled—sometimes tens of miles down the trail—sprouts a new plant if conditions are right. This process is known by ecologists as 'seed dispersal', and scientists have long studied the 'gardening' capacities of monkeys, birds, bats, and rodents. Recently, however, researchers have begun to document the seed dispersal capacity of the world's largest land animal, the elephant, proving that this species may be among the world's most important tropical gardeners.
Mexican environmental activist shot dead
(04/25/2011) Javier Torres Cruz, 30, who fought illegal deforestation by drug traffickers in the Mexican state of Guerroro, was murdered a week ago. A member of the local NGO, Environmental Organization of the Coyuca and Petatlán Mountains, Torres Cruz was known as an outspoken activist against illegal logging in the mountainous dry forest region. Logging in the region is primarily linked to fields of poppies for the illegal drug trade.
Obama focuses on climate change in Earth Day proclamation
(04/22/2011) After a long absence of speaking directly to the issue of climate change—he did not mention it once in his State of the Union speech in January—US President Barack Obama used his Earth Day proclamation to focus on it.
What does Nature give us? A special Earth Day article
(04/22/2011) There is no question that Earth has been a giving planet. Everything humans have needed to survive, and thrive, was provided by the natural world around us: food, water, medicine, materials for shelter, and even natural cycles such as climate and nutrients. Scientists have come to term such gifts 'ecosystem services', however the recognition of such services goes back thousands of years, and perhaps even farther if one accepts the caves paintings at Lascaux as evidence. Yet we have so disconnected ourselves from the natural world that it is easy—and often convenient—to forget that nature remains as giving as ever, even as it vanishes bit-by-bit. The rise of technology and industry may have distanced us superficially from nature, but it has not changed our reliance on the natural world: most of what we use and consume on a daily basis remains the product of multitudes of interactions within nature, and many of those interactions are imperiled. Beyond such physical goods, the natural world provides less tangible, but just as important, gifts in terms of beauty, art, and spirituality.
Warmer temperatures may be exterminating pika populations one-by-one
(04/21/2011) The last decade has not been a good one for the American pika (Ochotona princeps) according to a new study in Global Change Biology. Over the past ten years extinction rates have increased by nearly five times for pika populations in the Great Basin region of the US. Examining extinctions of pike populations in the region over the past 110 years, researchers found that nearly half of the extinction events occurred since 1999.
Forest carbon map released for the US
(04/20/2011) The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) has released the first hectare-scale map displaying aboveground woody biomass and forest carbon in US forests. The map, which also shows canopy heights, is known as the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset (NBCD).
Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon
(04/19/2011) Deforestation is on the rise in Peru's Madre de Dios region from illegal, small-scale, and dangerous gold mining. In some areas forest loss has increased up to six times. But the loss of forest is only the beginning; the unregulated mining is likely leaching mercury into the air, soil, and water, contaminating the region and imperiling its people. Using satellite imagery from NASA, researchers were able to follow rising deforestation due to artisanal gold mining in Peru. According the study, published in PLoS ONE, Two large mining sites saw the loss of 7,000 hectares of forest (15,200 acres)—an area larger than Bermuda—between 2003 and 2009.
Scientists follow rise of mercury pollution in seabird feathers
(04/18/2011) Analyzing the feathers of the black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) going back to 1880. researchers have uncovered rising levels of the toxic methylmercury in the endangered birds that is generally consistent with rising mercury emissions in the Pacific region. Methylmercury is a more toxic compound than mercury that binds with organic molecules when it is released through industrial processes, such as burning coal and other fossil fuels.
The great penguin rescue: far-flung community cooperates, sacrifices to save 4,000 penguins from oil spill
(04/18/2011) One of the world remotest communities, the UK's Tristan da Cunha archipelago, has come together to save 4,000 endangered penguins following a devastating oil spill, reports the Guardian. Last month a freighter ran aground on Nightingale Island releasing 1,500 tons of oil, potentially devastating the local population of northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi), which are listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. However, fortunately for the penguins, the tiny community of 260 people living on the Tristan da Cunha archipelago were unwilling to give up on the oiled birds.
US wolves lose to politics
(04/17/2011) A 'rider' attached to the most recent budget passed this week in the US congress has stripped gray wolves from the protection of the Endangered Species Act, a first in the law's nearly 40-year-history. The rider, which was signed into law under the budget on Friday by US President Barack Obama, hands gray wolves (Canis lupus) in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and Oregon from Federal protection to state control. Hunting is expected to begin soon.
NASA image reveals extent of 2010 Amazon drought
(04/17/2011) NASA has revealed a satellite image of the crippling effect of last year's record-breaking drought on the Amazon ecosystem. For those of you counting, that's two record droughts in the Amazon Basin in 5 years.
Indonesia and the EU reach agreement on illegal wood trade
(04/17/2011) A new agreement will work to keep illegal wood from Indonesia out of European Union markets. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) will force Indonesia to only ship wood to the EU that has been approved as legal by a national authority, while EU customs workers are set to send any unapproved wood back to Indonesia. The VPA is a step forward in tackling the illegal timber market in Indonesia that is estimated to be worth $1 billion and has been responsible, in part, for leveling rainforests across the Indonesia islands.
Vietnam creates reserve for newly-discovered, nearly-extinct mammal, the saola
(04/14/2011) The Vietnam government and local people have approved a Saola Natural Reserve to protect one of the world's most endangered—and most elusive—mammals. Only discovered by the outside world in 1992, the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) inhabits the lush forests of the Annamite Mountains. No one knows how many saola remain, but it has been classified as Critically Endangered as it is likely very few. Recently, conservationist William Robichaud told mongabay.com that the saola was "perhaps the most spectacular zoological discovery of the 20th century", comparing it only to the discovery of the okapi in central Africa in 1900.
From the Serengeti to Lake Natron: is the Tanzanian government aiming to destroy its wildlife and lands?
(04/14/2011) What's happening in Tanzania? This is a question making the rounds in conservation and environmental circles. Why is a nation that has so much invested in its wild lands and wild animals willing to pursue projects that appear destined not only to wreak havoc on the East African nation's world-famous wildlife and ecosystems, but to cripple its economically-important tourism industry? The most well known example is the proposed road bisecting Serengeti National Park, which scientists, conservationists, the UN, and foreign governments alike have condemned. But there are other concerns among conservationists, including the fast-tracking of soda ash mining in East Africa's most important breeding ground for millions of lesser flamingo, and the recent announcement to nullify an application for UNESCO Heritage Status for a portion of Tanzania's Eastern Arc Mountains, a threatened forest rich in species found no-where else. According to President Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania is simply trying to provide for its poorest citizens (such as communities near the Serengeti and the Eastern Arc Mountains) while pursuing western-style industrial development.
Opposition rises against Mekong dam as governments ponder decision
(04/13/2011) As the governments of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam ready to meet on April 19th to decide whether or not to move forward on the Xayaburi Dam, critics of Mekong River hydroelectric project have warned that the dam will devastate freshwater biodiversity and impact the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands, if not more. Last month a coalition of 263 organizations from 51 countries released a letter in opposition of the dam's construction.
Gas from 'fracking' not climate friendly
(04/13/2011) It appears every time a fossil fuels industry claims its energy is 'green' or 'climate-friendly', scientists discover this just isn't so. The most recent culprit is natural gas produced by an already controversial method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracing, which extracts the gas from shale basins. A new study in Climatic Change has found that the process of fracing is worse than coal over a 20-year period and about equal over 100-years. Coal had long been considered the worst climate offender of all energy options.
Satellite evidence of deforestation in uncontacted tribe's territory sparks legal action
(04/12/2011) The destruction of 3,600 hectares (8,900 acres) of the Gran Chaco forest in Paraguay by large Brazilian cattle ranching companies has led to a legal complaint filed by a local indigenous-rights organization, since the land in question was one of the last refuges of a group of uncontacted indigenous people in the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe. The loss of the forest was revealed in part by satellite images of the remote area.
Noise in oceans leads to 'severe acoustic trauma' in octopus, squid
(04/12/2011) Researchers have documented for years how noise pollution impacts dolphins in whales, but a new study in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment finds that even low intensity noise can severely injure cephalopods, which include octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. The injuries are bad enough to possibly lead to stranding and death, thereby providing a feasible explanation for a number of recent strandings, including giant squid washing ashore in Spain.
Giant fish help grow the Amazon rainforest
(04/12/2011) A fruit in the flooded Amazon falls from a tree and plops in the water. Before it can even sink to the floor, a 60-pound monster fish with a voracious appetite gobbles it. Nearly a week later—and miles away—the fish expels its waste, including seeds from the fruit eaten long ago and far away. One fortunate seed floats to a particularly suitable spot and germinates. Many years later the new fruit tree is thriving, while the same monster-fish returns from time-to-time, waiting for another meal to drop from the sky. This process is known as seed-dispersal, and while researchers have studied the seed-dispersal capacity of such species as birds, bats, monkeys, and rodents, one type of animal is often overlooked: fish.
Antarctic penguins losing to climate change through 80% krill decline
(04/11/2011) Climate change has hit species of Antarctic penguins by causing a staggering decline in their prey: krill. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found that both chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) and Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) have seen their populations decline likely do to less krill, instead of habitat changes. Since 1970 krill populations have fallen by 80% in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. Because krill require sea ice to reproduce, shrinking sea ice from climate change has made it more difficult for them to breed.
Customs officials confiscate over a thousand monitor lizards headed to China
(04/11/2011) Thai Customs officials have confiscated 1,800 Bengal monitor lizards on the border between Thailand and Malaysia, reports the AFP. Officials said the lizards were likely headed to China for consumption.
A new rhino species?
(04/11/2011) Using genetic data and re-assessing physical evidence, scientists write that they have uncovered a new species of rhino, long considered by biologists as merely a subspecies. Researchers write in an open access PLoS ONE paper published last year that evidence has shown the northern white rhino is in fact a distinct species from the more commonly known—and far more common—southern white rhino. If the scientific community accepts the paper's argument it could impact northern white rhino conservation, as the species would overnight become the world's most endangered rhino species with likely less than ten surviving.
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John Fuller: Football
Football means nothing when a life is at risk
The great Bill Shankley famously proclaimed football was more important than life or death.
He was wrong.
Seeing Fabrice Muamba lying lifeless on the pitch at White Hart Lane put into perspective how insignificant football really is.
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My England XI
With the Euros just three months away, now is the time for England to dump its flops on football's scrapheap.
The 'golden generation' won nothing.
England, under whoever's guidance, must embrace youth.
Lining up 4-3-3 and presuming all are fit and playing well, here is the side I want to start against... [more] (2 comments)
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A case for England's Euro 2012 defence
With the European Championships just three months away, now is the time for England to throw proven flops onto football's scrapheap and blood young talent.
The 'golden generation' as it was described won nothing. It didn't even come close to winning something.
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Soulless Chelsea wrong to sack Andre Villas-Boas
The challenge of breaking up Chelsea' old guard cost Andre Villas-Boas his job.
The ageing squad is in desperate need of an overhaul, but the rookie Portuguese was never given time or support.
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Last year, a fleet of Cirrus planes was sold to the U.S. Air Force Academy for training pilots. This year, fleets are going to the French Air Force and Navy.
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Today, billionaire Manuel "Matty" Moroun, 84, was sent to jail for contempt of court. Moroun is owner of Detroit's Ambassador Bridge, the most important border crossing between the U.S. and Canada. He wants to stop Michigan and Canada from building a second bridge nearby, and says he'll build his own new and improved bridge instead.
But right now, he's in trouble for failing to complete a joint project with the state of Michigan to improve access to the existing bridge. Read more here.
To understand why all this matters, you should read my 2004 story (with Stephane Fitch) about why private ownership of a bridge this important is a bad idea. Here's that story:
The main border between the U.S. and Canada, our number one trading partner, stretches for 5,500 miles. The most precious fraction is tucked into the middle of the Great Lakes, where the Detroit River bisects the U.S. and Canadian auto industries. Between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., at the river's narrowest point, lies a ribbon of reinforced concrete roadway, 47 feet wide and less than 2 miles long, laid on suspended steel joists:the Ambassador Bridge. At 75 years old the Ambassador is out-of-date, its four lanes too narrow and its approach too steep, but none of the 130 other crossings to Canada is so perfectly placed. For tractor-trailers, the closest bridge is two hours out of the way. They haul $100 billion of goods across the Ambassador every year–a quarter of the $400 billion in total trade with Canada; 40% of all truck shipments from the U.S. to points north cross this span.
After 9/11 the Ambassador loomed as an undefended economic umbilical cord to the U.S. Within days hundreds of National Guardsmen, police volunteers and U.S. customs and immigration agents descended on the bridge, forcing trucks to wait in line for up to 12 hours to be searched for any signs of a terror plot. Traffic backed up for 15 miles. Even after terror alert levels fell, the jams have persisted. Daily truck traffic plunged from 10,000 to 9,000 and hasn't climbed back. Security remains tight, and trucks still can wait an hour to cross. Delays at the Ambassador and other crossings into Canada cost $800 million a month, by one economist's reckoning. If terrorists knocked out the Ambassador, the Michigan and Ontario economies could run losses of $3 billion a month.
But no government can do much to fix this–not the feds or the Mounties, not the state of Michigan or the province of Ontario. The Ambassador Bridge isn't owned by the U.S. or Canada–it is owned by one recalcitrant man:Manuel (Matty) Moroun. He controls the best monopoly you never heard of.
The Ambassador rakes in an estimated $60 million a year and turns a hefty profit. In the 25 years he's owned it, unfettered by much regulatory oversight, he has more than doubled toll rates for trucks and has nearly quadrupled rates for cars; in the 50 years before him, the bridge had never raised truck tolls and had hiked car tolls only once. The Ambassador is a linchpin of a tightly integrated trucking empire. Moroun owns seven trucking companies that use the bridge; a logistics firm; several customs brokerages; and a monopoly on duty-free retail, including a gasoline station at the Detroit end of the bridge and a currency-exchange service. Total revenue exceeds $1 billion a year.
The Ambassador was privately built in 1929 by a palm reader turned financier, Joseph Bower. It became publicly held when Bower put his company, Detroit International Bridge Co., into bankruptcy in the Depression and issued stock as part of a reorganization. In the late 1970s the sage investor Warren Buffett acquired 25% of the stock, emboldening Moroun to act. In 1979 he used his small trucking company's credit line to buy out Buffett and acquire the rest of the company for a total of $30 million. Thus it became the only major U.S.-Canada crossing that is privately owned. The bridge's likely worth today:half a billion dollars or more.
But now Moroun, who wouldn't talk for this story, is in the fight of his life. Politicians, auto execs and citizen groups are calling for measures that could threaten his cozy hold on the nation's most critical choke point. Some people want government to buy the bridge outright, some call for new regulatory oversight, and two groups want to bust up the Moroun monopoly entirely. One group proposes a new tunnel; another a second bridge.
"A port authority should run this bridge–it would be answerable to the public. Matty Moroun isn't answerable to anybody but Matty Moroun," says Mary Ann Cuderman, who runs an at-home bakery on the Windsor waterfront. A year ago she helped form a bridge watchdog group. "His sole purpose isn't security–it's his own interest." Moroun's folks counter that they are as concerned about safety as government brass. They spend $50,000 a week on security and more than $10 million a year on maintenance.
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A new mobile phone based agricultural software has been launched to help the over 50,000 horticulture farmers in Kenya in data management.
The farmforce (FF) software seeks to replace the tedious and cumbersome paperwork that horticulture farmers dealing in green beans and peas export have had to go through. This is in order to comply with food safety standards stipulated by the European market which among other things has been time consuming and a big challenge.
According to Dr Marco Ferroni from Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) FF will provide full traceability of the use of chemicals throughout the growing cycle.
In 2012, the EU began testing 10 per cent of all Kenyan exports of green beans and peas as some previous shipments contained pesticides residues above the legal limit which is known as Maximum Residue Limits (MRL). This led to the decrease in green beans and peas exported from Kenya and farmers had a serious loss of income.
" FF will facilitate the documentation of disease and pest detection, prescription of chemicals, the reconciliation of chemicals used against warehouse stock levels and the recording of application details including dosage and operator," said Ferroni.
He added that the mobile application will also alert field staff with warnings if ever the compliance rules are not followed such as if the maximum number of applications of a chemical were exceeded or the pre-harvest interval is not observed.
All the data is entered by field officers via a mobile phone and immediately available online so that management can address compliance issues immediately, besides reducing efforts required for compliance audit by regulatory bodies and governments entities where allowed gain online access to full traceability data.
SFSA have been developing the mobile technology for the last two years express that the technology will critically contribute to improving small holder production and compliance with food safety standards while enabling the linkage of farmers to formal markets hence ensure they stay in business.
" 70 per cent of farmers in Kenya have mobile phones and this technology can work in the management of farm produce and meet with the much needed standard as expected," said Dr Wilson Songa agriculture secretary.
" I hope that extension officers in Kenya will be trained and be conversant with the technology so that farmers will reap the benefits immediately. This technology will work well with the e-extension program to move the country to another level in extension services."
Since last year, the Kenya horticulture sector has taken major steps to rectify the problems and meet the MRL requirements but according to the chief executive officer, Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK), Dr Stephene Mbithi, manging production with thousands of scattered smallholder remains a formidable challenge.
" Smallholder production has suffered severely and the industry has become increasingly reluctant to engage. However, mobile technology solutions like FF encourage the industry to transform our out grower operations which will now be based on real-time management information and traceability," said Mbithi.
Charles Mwaniki, a horticulture farmer in Thika said the mobile technology guides him in using the right seeds and chemicals among others and he is able to meet the MRL requirements.
" Many horticulture farmers deliver products as a group and if any of us does not meet the required standars, we all suffer but with this technology we can trace the source of the products," said 30 year-old Mwaniki who is also an IT specialists.


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BGU mathematician wins EU grant
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Dr. Barak Weiss, a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev mathematician, has been selected to receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2011.
Considered Europe's most prestigious research awards, the ERC Grants were initiated in 2007 as a way to encourage "pioneering frontier research in any field of science, engineering and scholarship."
Moreover, the ERC said that it is dedicated to "stimulating scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engineers to be adventurous and take risks in their research."
Dr. Weiss's research focuses on "exceptionally symmetric higher dimensional objects called parameter spaces, their groups of symmetries move points around inside them and this leads to the field of dynamical systems. Understanding the dynamics of these Lie group actions on some parameter spaces leads to a better understanding of several classical questions in number theory, like Minkowski's conjecture, and also to a better understanding of newer questions like diophantine properties of typical points on fractals and billiards on rational polygons."
This is the eighth ERC grant awarded at BGU in the three years since they were created. In 2010, Israel ranked fourth in number of recipients of ERC grants.
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DENVER — Hispanic groups showed up outside the Denver GOP's headquarters Tuesday morning with signs and chants of "si se puede!"
But there was really one Republican lawmaker they seemed to be talking to as they urged House Republicans to bring up the comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate last week: Congressman Mike Coffman.
"I am in Coffman's district," said Ezekiel Ramirez, who was born here after his parents came to the country illegally. "It's a little bother[some] how he isn't wanting to support the immigration reform that just passed last week. It's a little troubling."
Coffman, who survived his first reelection effort after seeing his district re-drawn last year, is now widely considered to be one of the most vulnerable incumbents in Congress.
Facing a challenge from Democrat Andrew Romanoff, Coffman is also facing some difficult demographics; his new district, unlike the safe GOP seat he first ran for and won in 2008, includes Aurora.
Overall, Hispanics account for about 20 percent of the district's population and 12 percent of all registered voters.
Earlier this year, Coffman drew national attention with a pivot to the left on immigration issues when he announced he favored a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants: the DREAMers whose parents brought them here.
But after the Senate's passage last week of a landmark immigration overhaul that includes enhanced border security measures and a 13-year path to citizenship, Coffman echoed the House GOP line that the bill was problematic.
"I appreciate the effort that my colleagues in the Senate have made in trying to fix a badly broken immigration system but I'm still concerned because promises made out of the 1986 immigration reform bill on enforcement and border security were not promises kept," Coffman said in a statement.
House GOP leaders say they will work on their own bill that focuses on border security but does not include a path to citizenship.
"I will work for solutions in the House that will provide for the reforms necessary to not only secure our borders but to verify that they remain secure," Coffman continued.
Coffman was not available for an interview on Tuesday, but his office told FOX31 Denver that he has not yet decided about whether he will support a path to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants, a centerpiece of the "Gang of Eight" bill.
But the two dozen immigration reform advocates who spoke at Tuesday's press conference promised to hold him accountable for how they vote on this issue.
"I'm ready to take action this year and next year to make sure politicians everywhere understand the power that we have," Ramirez said.
"There's a lot of people that would support a congressman like him that would support the bill that passed last week."
And if he votes against a path to citizenship?
"Well, then best of luck," Ramirez said.
In the Senate, 14 Republicans voted for the Gang of Eight bill, while 32 Republicans voted against it.
Those who supported the measure, including members of the Gang of Eight like Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Utah, argued that broadening the GOP's base of support with Hispanics is imperative for the party's long-term success.
Back in November, the day after President Obama's reelection, Congressman Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, told FOX31 that the GOP would be open to comprehensive immigration reform for that very reason.
"We want to have a big tent, but it doesn't matter how big your tent is if you don't have any chairs in it," Gardner said then.
But now Gardner is adhering to the House GOP position that the Senate bill is unacceptable.
"If we want to have immigration reform, we need to find something the House can agree on and the House will not agree on this," Gardner told the Denver Post last week.