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Endangered Species Program
Conserving and restoring threatened and endangered species and their ecosystems
Indiana Bat
Draft Recovery Plan: First Revision
Below is the Executive Summary of the Draft Recovery Plan. Follow this link for the complete Indiana Bat Draft Recovery Plan; first Revision (260 pages; 1.37MB; PDF)
Executive Summary
Current Species Status:
The Indiana bat is a temperate, insectivorous, migratory bat that hibernates colonially in caves and mines in the winter. In spring, reproductive females migrate and form maternity colonies where they bear and raise their young in wooded areas. Males and nonreproductive females typically do not roost in colonies and may stay close to their hibernaculum or migrate to summer habitat. Summer roosts are typically behind exfoliating bark of large, often dead, trees. Both males and females return to hibernacula in late summer or early fall to mate and enter hibernation.
The species was originally listed as in danger of extinction under the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, and is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. The current Recovery Priority of the Indiana Bat is 8, which means that the species has a moderate degree of threat and high recovery potential. As of October 2006, the Service had records of extant winter populations at approximately 281 hibernacula in 19 states and 269 maternity colonies in 16 states. The 2005 winter census estimate of the population was 457,000.
Biologically intrinsic needs of this species include limiting use of fat during hibernation, obligate colonial roosting, high energy demands of pregnant and nursing females, and timely parturition and rapid development and weaning of young. Factors that may exacerbate the bats vulnerability because of these constraints include energetic impacts of significant disruptions to roosting areas (both in hibernacula and maternity colonies), availability of hibernation habitat, and connectivity and conservation of roosting-foraging and migration corridors.
Habitat Requirements and Limiting Factors:
During winter, Indiana bats are restricted to suitable underground hibernacula. The vast majority of these sites are caves located in karst areas of the east-central United States; however, Indiana bats also hibernate in other cave-like locations, including abandoned mines. Suitable hibernacula in the central and southern United States often provide a wide range of vertical structure. These hibernacula tend to have large volumes and often have large rooms and vertical or extensive passages, often below the lowest entrance. Cave volume and complexity help buffer the cave environment against rapid and extreme changes in outside temperature, and vertical relief helps provide a range of temperatures and roost sites. Most Indiana bats hibernate in caves or mines where the ambient temperature remains below 10°C (50.0°F) but infrequently drops below freezing, and the temperature is relatively stable.
In summer, most reproductive females occupy roost sites under the exfoliating bark of dead trees that retain large, thick slabs of peeling bark. Primary roosts usually receive direct sunlight for more than half the day. Roost trees are typically within canopy gaps in a forest, in a fenceline, or along a wooded edge. Habitats in which maternity roosts occur include riparian zones, bottomland and floodplain habitats, wooded wetlands, and upland communities. Indiana bats typically forage in semi-open to closed (open understory) forested habitats, forest edges, and riparian areas.
Threats to the Indiana bat vary during its annual cycle. At the hibernacula, threats include modifications to caves, mines, and surrounding areas that change airflow and alter microclimate in the hibernacula. Human disturbance and vandalism pose significant threats during hibernation through direct mortality and by inducing arousal and consequent depletion of fat reserves.
Natural catastrophes can also have a significant effect during winter because of the concentration of individuals in a relatively few sites. During summer months, possible threats relate to the loss and degradation of forested habitat. Migration pathways and swarming sites may also be affected by habitat loss and degradation. In addition to these threats, significant information gaps remain regarding the species' ecology that hinder sound decision-making on how best to manage and protect the species.
Recovery Strategy:
Given the population trends, biological constraints, habitat requirements, threats, and information needs, the recovery program for has four broad components:
Like its predecessor, this recovery plan continues to have a focus on protection of hibernacula but also increases the focus on summer habitat and proposes use of four Recovery Units: Ozark-Central, Midwest, Appalachian Mountains, and Northeast. Delineation of these Recovery Units relied on a combination of preliminary evidence of population discreteness and genetic differentiation, differences in population trends, and broad-level differences in macrohabitats and land use. Recovery Units serve to protect both core and peripheral populations and ensure that the principles of representation, redundancy, and resiliency are incorporated.
Recovery Goals:
The ultimate goal of this Recovery Plan is to remove the species from the Federal list of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. The intermediate goal is reclassification of Indiana bat to threatened status.
Recovery Objectives:
To reclassify the Indiana bat to threatened, the following objectives must be achieved:
The Indiana bat will be considered for delisting when the Reclassification Criteria have been met, and the following additional criteria have been achieved:
If research on summer habitat requirements indicates the quality and quantity of maternity habitat is threatening recovery of the species, the Service will amend these objectives and the following criteria.
Recovery Criteria:
Actions Needed:
Date of Recovery:
Contingent on funding and implementation of recovery actions, full recovery may occur by 2027.
Follow this link for the complete Indiana Bat Draft Recovery Plan; first Revision (260 pages; 1.37MB; PDF)
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
"Sustainable Finance": the apolitical temptation
Wednesday 18 March, in the afternoon, I attended two sessions on "sustainable finance". The first one (5.1.3) was entitled "unlocking the demand for finance: how to enhance the "bankability" of the sector?".
I won't comment extensively on it as the word "bankability" explains it all: in this framework, water utilities are seen in a banker's perspective, which means that the analysis perimeter is restrained to the cash flows plan ("credibility of future cash flows", as one panellist said), a positive EBITDA and other sexy ratios measuring the financial performance of the utility. The key is therefore to create an "enabling environment", which means guaranteeing the autonomy of the utility ("protect the utility from political interference", as someone said) and allowing its profitability with full-cost recovery.
Pierre-Alain Mahé from GRET made an interesting presentation on a micro finance scheme in Cambodia where GRET acted as a financial intermediary between local micro-entrepreneurs and local commercial banks: because water projects take a lot of time (at least 5-6 years in this case) to recoup investments and because their average beneficial rate is around 6% a year, it was necessary for GRET to intervene because normal commercial loans conditions there are, if I got the figures correctly, something like a 20% yearly interest rate and a 2 years credit line. GRET therefore provided financial backing to some entrepreneurs and negotiated better loans conditions with local banks, with some results.
Still, I don't understand this insistence on private sector development. Those micro-entrepreneurs develop on a demand born out of governmental failure or the dismay of local communities unable to organise themselves to create communal services; the service these entrepreneurs deliver is clearly vital and having a costly service remains better than no service at all, but is it relevant to insist on developing the symptom of a failure? Of course I'm being falsely naive here, it is the wet dream of any corporation to create the conditions that would enable the exploitation of the ultimate commodity of them all. Demand for water is almost inelastic, meaning that water demand will remain constant whatever its price is, and the water "market" is absolutely monopolistic. The only thing that prevented such a market creation so far, and explains the numerous failures of privatisation attempts, is the political super-sensitivity of water prices; governments very rarely let water utilities increase water prices to a level that would endanger their popular support, and this is likely to continue. This is why, by the way, even Aquafed, the international lobby of water corporations, has renounced asking for full-scale privatisation and pushes for what it calls "sustainable cost recovery": let water utilities be remunerated with a combination of user payments (tariffs) and public subsidies (taxes). Public money subsidising private profits: bail-outs are really fashionable these days. A "new concept", as they say.
The following session (5.1.4, "Pooling resources to close the financing gap: how can financing for the sector be optimised?") was very interesting in the sense that it combined some very sound statements with some of the most narrow-minded assertions I have ever heard on this topic (ok, I haven't been that long in the field, about 3-4 years only). On the positive side, I'm particularly thinking about what John Maguire (DABLAS Task Force, EU Commission) said, when he criticised IFIs unaccountability, expressing anger at the fact that those institutions detained a power with huge political consequences but were free from political accountability. He added, which is for me the bottom-line, that "the sector is ultimately legislative-driven"; in other words, politics have the last word. M. Rakatobe, from the African Development Bank (AFDB), also said something nice around accountability not being pure performance but truly responding to the needs of the population, a rare sentence in a banker's mouth.
On the other hand, I think the most grotesquely greedy statement of the day - and there were many - was uttered by Christopher Gasson, editor of "Global Water Intelligence", the voice of the water industry (which recently created the lobby group "sustainable water alliance" together with another lobby group, the International Desalination Association). Speaking from the floor, he expressed his frustration at not witnessing a water business model as "successful" as mobile phones'. Indeed, the business of mobile phones might have been the fastest-developing and most profitable commercial success ever. But some slight differences between mobile phones and water might have escaped his attention: the cost of infrastructure, the level of technology required... and the sheer possibility to survive without it.
More seriously, a series of exchanges illustrated quite well the issues at stake. After one hour and a half of discussions about water business profitability, a woman was given the microphone and there was a sudden change of tone. She very simply said that she thought that water was life, a non-profit public good, and wondered what all this profits thing was all about (sorry Madam, I didn't get your name, but thank you for this intervention). The voice of the industry, a few seats behind, couldn't help sniggering. One banker in the panel half-jokingly answered her that although water might be a gift of God and no one would charge her for collecting rainwater in a bucket, water services had a price, etc. I was given the microphone just afterwards, which was the opportunity for me to inform this gentleman that in France, since 2006, collecting rainwater actually costs thanks to the lobbying of water corporations (they managed to obtain the creation of a tax on rainwater collection devices). A woman in the panel from Seattle then answered that although the Seattle water utility was public and one of the best in the US, it was prohibited to collect rainwater there because these collected waters added up to the volumes channelled in the sewage networks and thus increased the utility's costs - which is true. This same women earlier wondered how to channel pension funds into water investments, and concluded that at the end of the day it was all a matter of business model.
Again and again, at least two visions of water collide: on the one hand, a technical vision of water seen as something produced and sold by a water plant, a high-tech, complex and standardised good, very costly to produce and whose management must be financially optimised within the framework of an autonomous entity. On the other hand, a holistic vision of water as the element that allowed life to appear and remains its irreplaceable vehicle. This latter vision leads to conceive water policies in an integrated way, both from an environmental and social point of view. The progressive European water management cases we have studied all include this transversal dimension, integrating democratic processes of transparency, accountability and participation, and/or successfully integrating rural water management - for example by using water money to subsidise organic agriculture which pollutes much less and uses less water.
I want to think that there is hope for truly "bridging divides for water", as this Forum's motto says: the necessity for such an integration is understood by its organisers, who have been promoting "integrated water resources management" for many years. What remains decisive obstacles, in my opinion, is:
- the mono-dimensional accountability of multinational corporations, whose constraints are purely financial - for instance, Veolia just decided to cut into its investment plans to distribute dividends to its shareholders after its shares collapsed on stock markets this year - but whose ability to play worldwide gives them an overwhelmingly superior negotiating position over local public authorities; the combination of these two factors simply cannot deliver local public interest policies.
- the power of financial management language and culture, which tends to blind water managers who only think of water in terms of cash flows. Bankers should be serving utilities, not the contrary.
- the lack of a real democratic culture in many places, which could go far beyond the simple representative system. As the case of Cordoba, in Spain, shows (see above-mentioned paper), truly participatory and empowering processes can lead to truly responsible behaviours. Amartya Sen and other authors have been repeating this for decades: real democracy might be the only truly sustainable solution at hand.
- the lack of understanding of water issues by national authorities, who can be tempted to undermine water utilities' budgets for other purposes.
Again and again: politics will have the last word, and time is ticking away. So let's play politics, and hope for the best.
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Martin - Nice post. I'm the woman from seattle who noted that it's all about the business model. Note that in my mind, a business model is agnostic from whether it's public or private - perhaps a better term is "operating model".
At the end of the day, for public health reasons and economic development reasons, water is a service and a good, not just a right from god. And because humans are involved in providing services, and humans are inherently flawed, there's a role for understanding organizational dynamics (i.e. the operating model) to identify improvements in service delivery, i.e. technical, managerial, operational and financial stuff.
I understand your point that the water is a public good. But beyond the ideology, that water still needs to get to customers. What should it matter if the person providing the water is public or private, provided that the water quality is safe, and at a cost that is affordable?
A further note: you seem to be saying that I contradicted myself by talking about local currency investment. Seattle's water utility raises local currency money all the time, through municipal bonds. Which creates an accountability link between the utility's debt, and rates charged to customers. Why is encouraging local investment into developing country water service providers - e.g. pension funds, which are often public sector based, highly regulated, and with union contributions - a bad thing? It's a constructive, cost-effective, lower-risk, and democratic way to finance water infrastructure AND strengthen a local economy, rather than rely on the largesse of charitable donors in the north! Increased local investment in water infrastructure also yields better accountability at a local and national level, and is more aligned with the path to the democracy you seek, than grants and loans by international development banks and agencies.
Why do you think otherwise?
- May 21, 2009 at 9:12 PM
- Martin Pigeon said...
Dear Rachel,
sorry I found your post only now, hope you'll get this answer. Thanks for your comment, first of all, it's an interesting discussion. Let me answer you briefly:
"But beyond the ideology, that water still needs to get to customers. What should it matter if the person providing the water is public or private, provided that the water quality is safe, and at a cost that is affordable?"
My point is not ideological but pragmatic: water "quality" cannot be summarised in simple financial performance and hygiene standards but needs to be included in a broader framework, that only an accountable political entity can deliver and manage for at least two reasons: water is a totally transversal issue, and water supply is the embodiment of a natural monopoly (so very little market incentive to deliver good service). And political entities are public...
About your point on local currency investment: I didn't understand that you were talking specifically about local pension funds; as a matter of fact these funds tend to operate on an international scale, which breaks the local accountability link you mention. I have no problem with local investment, on the contrary for all the reasons you describe! And I share your views on IFI's and charities' "largesses". But I didn't know US pension funds had such a commitment to developing their local economies... I know some of them have been investing in "water funds" that are pure financial players. And I think just relying on private funding is not enough, even potentially counter-productive because the accountability link is mostly financial and having to pay an interest deprives the utility of funding it could get at a cheaper price (public utilities can borrow at a lower rate than any private agent). So, in short: I think public management is the best potential option, so it's more relevant and cost-effective for the community to improve the public management than reach out to global private actors...
- July 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM

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Hot Shot – Sabine Jemeljanova
Much like the fish in the above photo, Sabine Jemeljanova has us hook, line and sinker.
Sabine Jemeljanova is an international model from London, England who has appeared in Maxim, Nuts, Loaded and FHM magazine. Originally from Latvia, the brunette beauty is a former Page 3 girl in the 'The Sun' newspaper.
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While the 80/20 rule — or "law of the vital few" — may be valuable in business and economics, it shouldn't apply to service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Our lay ministry is truly astonishing in this day and age where everyone — from the bishop to choir director to toilet scrubber — is a volunteer, making each service provider truly vital regardless of their age or skill set.
The key, then, is to ensure every member of the congregation is appreciated and contributing in his or her own small way.
Sure, every LDS ward has a handful of energetic, dependable families who get the job done and do it well from ward Christmas parties to Scout courts of honor. But do they have to be the same people manning the library, counting the tithing and shoveling snow off the sidewalks on Sunday mornings?
Last week, the youths and I tackled the new "Come, Follow Me" lesson topic of "Building the kingdom of God in the latter days."
We were inspired by quotes from President Thomas S. Monson who said, "The mantle of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not a cloak of comfort but rather a robe of responsibility."
He also said that all 14-million-plus members of the church across the world have a common denominator that binds us together — callings to serve in the church.
Before the kids were too overwhelmed or indulged an age-appropriate mode of defusing, rather than aspiring to duties that might be hard rather than fun, President Ezra Taft Benson reminded us, "The Lord will not permit us to fail if we do our part. He will magnify us even beyond our own talents and abilities. It is one of the sweetest experiences that can come to a human being."
I can testify to that and I did in class.
We invited a guest, one of our bishopric counselors, to join us and become the "resident expert" for our end-of-class, four-page quiz.
The week prior, I had been digging around the lists of curriculum options on the lesson topic of "How can I serve more effectively in church" and found a few pages from the church handbook that I had never seen before. It was a chart of stake, ward and branch callings with information on who does the calling and sustaining of certain duties. From that grid, I pulled together a list of all those callings that are filled by members of the church in our area.
The idea was for the youths to list the names of people they knew who held those callings in our ward and stake. I estimated about 170 possible answers and was curious to see how many they would know.
Of course, teenagers don't keep track of all the high councilors or welfare specialists in a stake. I didn't pretend to assume they would know who the ward music director is in Relief Society. But I knew they would be able to write down their own responsibilities in their quorum or Young Women class. Plus, they should know their parents' callings and the names of their youth leaders, teachers and advisors. I knew they would know three of the members of the bishopric and hopefully the name of the librarian who hands out candy to them every Sunday at the end of church.
So, the timed quiz began. While the bishop's counselor scribbled away furiously, the kids were much more slow.
"What's her name, the one who plays the organ? What's his name, the one who counts attendance in sacrament meeting? Do we even have a second counselor in Young Women?"
"No, no you don't," the bishop's counselor confirmed.
The kids paused to ask him about callings they had never heard of before told them, for instance, all the service provided by our current ward missionaries.
Before the quiz became a group effort, I had each count how many names and faces they successfully matched with ward callings. The results were, admittedly, pitiful. Our grand champion tallied only 15.
I asked if they could imagine themselves in any of the callings on the list. "Will you work in the family history library someday or teach Primary? Will you be a music director or clerk?"
At the end, our guest bore testimony of the importance of every calling and every person who participates in church service. He confessed to the difficulties of filling those calling rosters with people who are committed and ready for the spirit to guide their efforts on a regular basis. He encouraged class members to be valiant in their responsibilities now and prepare for more to come, as well as the blessings that are rewarded. He testified that even with his young family and demanding career, that he never feels balanced unless he makes his church service a high priority — not just on Sundays, but every day.
I concurred wholeheartedly and we all joined together in being more grateful for all the vital people who serve and do the charitable work that Jesus would do if he were here.
This column is dedicated to the Revelli family — the most energetic, creative and committed family our Montana ward has ever been blessed to witness. Watch out Albuquerque, here they come. Hope you like cotton candy.
Stacie Lloyd Duce is a columnist and magazine editor featured regularly in several Montana and Utah publications. Her columns appear Fridays on deseretnews.com. Email: [email protected]


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Filmmaker Guy Ritchie has become a father again after welcoming a baby girl with his model fiancée Jacqui Ainsley.
The "Sherlock Holmes" director and his partner became parents together for a second time following the birth of their daughter at a private London hospital.
A spokesman for Ritchie confirmed the happy news to WENN, stating, "We can confirm that Guy and Jacqui are the proud parents of a new baby girl. Mother and baby are doing well."
Ritchie and Ainsley, who recently became engaged, are also parents to a son named Rafael, who was born in September 2011. The director also has two boys, Rocco and David, with his ex-wife Madonna.


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5 Megatrends That Shaped 2012 Education
Five big trends that will shape education for the next decade became fully evident this year.
1. State policy matters more. With federal devolution (e.g., ESEA waivers) and state aggregation of control of the six levers (standards, assessment, accountability, data, funding, and human resource policies), state education policy matters more than ever -- and so does state leadership.
The shift to digital and implementation of real college and career ready standards demand and will test state leaders. Despite fraying around the edges, Common Core State Standards will frame the next decade of U.S education the way NCLB did the last. In most states, the online administration of new state tests in May of 2015 will be the most important event of the decade; preparation for and responding to the results will be among the most important leadership tasks.
2. Viral adoption of free/cheap web/mobile apps makes this decade much different than anything we've experienced before. Old approaches (change theories as the consultant would say) don't work in light of this bottom-up mega-trend. Students, parents, and teachers aren't waiting for districts to get their act together, they are blending their own learning and bringing their own devices and apps to school.
The driver behind this trend is cheap mobile devices (e.g. iPad) and powerful application development platforms (e.g. Ruby), which have powered the shift from web to mobile (as described by Fred Wilson ).
Free core products and premium services ("freemium") business models have become the norm for new edtech companies.
3. More Online learning. MOOCs exploded onto the scene in 2012. Launched in the informal space in 2011, the venture-funded leaders began the shift from curiosity to employability and ended the year powering blended community college courses.
Add expansion of OER (e.g. Khan Academy, CK12, Gooru, PowerMyLearning) to this one and you've got a mega-trend.
Don't get me wrong, there's still room from premium learning experiences particularly in post secondary as evidenced by Udemy, General Assembly, and 2U.
4. Blended learning. Despite the fact that it's finally possible (for anyone with broadband) to learn anything anywhere, most learning will be blended. A very high percentage of U.S. schools will blend online and onsite learning by the end of the decade. Parents will remain interested in the custodial aspect of school; students will remain interested in the social aspect of school; and teachers will continue to support student learning through the relational aspect of school. As noted recently, these factors bound the potential for productivity gains (Baumol's cost disease) in K-12 education and suggest a long-term role for a place called school.
The learning design opportunity of our time is not just blending online and onsite, it's blending interest-driven with standards-driven -- JIT and scheduled, DIY and cohort learning.
5. Data. We're just at the beginning of Big Data in education. The playlists powered by the Teach to One recommendation engines is an early example. The adaptive pathways powered by Dreambox and i-Ready are two more examples.
The learner view of data-driven platforms will include knowledge maps, profile-driven playlists, and achievement recognition systems (e.g., dashboards and badges).
Emerging. There are a handful of emerging trends -- like tracking social emotional learning -- that I'll address in another post.
General Assembly and Udemy are Learn Capital portfolio companies where Tom Vander Ark is a partner. Curriculum Associates is a Getting Smart Advocacy Partner.


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Celebration ensues after a cancelled grocery strike by way of a tentative deal to keep grocery workers on the job. Employees will vote on the details in coming days.
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Are you and your fiancé planning an upcoming wedding" There are thousands of details that may need your attention, but one of the first decisions you need to make is when your ceremony and reception will take place. The two of you should sit down and determine what time of year will suit you and your celebration best.
For some, picking a season for their wedding is easy. This is especially true for couples who have already established a wedding theme that requires a certain ambiance. Others, however, may struggle with this decision. If you?re in the latter group, it?s important to consider each of the options available before looking for and scheduling a venue. After all, your choice will greatly impact many of your future decisions. To ensure you?re happy with your final wedding date, consider the various pros and cons of each of the four seasons. Spring: Natural Beauty, but Unpredictable Weather
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I made these soft, fluffy and tasty rava idlis for breakfast yesterday. I came across the recipe for instant idlis on Anita's blog a relatively long time back. I am one of those South Indians who prefers dosas over idlis any day, but the recipe looked too good not to try. I love the fact that there is no soaking or grinding involved here.
For the original recipe, head over to Anita's A Mad Tea Party. I had to make a couple of changes to the original recipe since I had to work with what I had. I really wish I had had curry leaves, green chillies and coriander though. You can add whatever vegetables you want to the batter. I only had a couple of baby carrots and some scallions.
Ingredients: (for 24 small idlis)
1 cup rava (I used fine)
About 3/4- 1 cup of yogurt (I did not really measure this)
2-3 Tbsp buttermilk
6-8 baby carrots, finely chopped
3 scallions/ spring onions, finely chopped
1 tsp baking soda
For seasoning:
2 Tbsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 Tbsp tsp urad dal
1 Tbsp chana dal
¾ tsp of red chilli flakes
A pinch of asafoetida
Heat oil in a big pan. Add the ingredients for the seasoning followed by the carrots and scallions. Cook for a minute or two.
Add the rava to the same pan and roast it for a few minutes till it smells done. Cool. Transfer to big bowl.
Add yogurt, buttermilk, salt and baking soda and mix well. Add enough water to make a batter that is sufficiently thick yet pourable.
Pour the batter in greased idli trays and steam for 12-15 minutes in a pressure cooker (without the weight). Allow the idlis to rest for a few minutes in the tray itself (very important to avoid a sticky mess) before plating them. Serve hot with accompaniment of your choice. We had ours with coconut chutney.
I have to say that the idlis turned out pretty well, considering the fact that this was my first time ever making idlis of any kind, and they were rather delicious, especially with the spicy chutney that we had it with. I did think that the idlis tasted a lot like the upma I make though. :D
Monday, December 22, 2008
Rava Idli
I made these soft, fluffy and tasty rava idlis for breakfast yesterday. I came across the recipe for instant idlis on Anita's blog a relatively long time back. I am one of those South Indians who prefers dosas over idlis any day, but the recipe looked too good not to try. I love the fact that there is no soaking or grinding involved here.
Cooked by TBC on Monday, December 22, 2008
Labels: Breakfast, Brunch, South Indian
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- Laavanya said...
These look so soft & fluffy... yes.. the coconut, coriander and curry leaves will kick it up a notch. We love this at home.
- December 22, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- Smitha said...
Looks yum!! making me hungry
- December 22, 2008 at 1:06 PM
- AnuSriram said...
That looks so fluffy and nice! gr8 recipe!
- December 22, 2008 at 3:17 PM
- Sukanya Ramkumar said...
These looks so perfect. My all time fav.... Rava idli. Looks so Yummy!. Lovely pictures.....
- December 22, 2008 at 10:59 PM
- Uj said...
wow.. looks very pretty :D
- December 22, 2008 at 11:00 PM
- Anita said...
These turned out soft and fluffy! Manisha too thinks these taste like upma! But they work for instant gratification... ;-)
- December 23, 2008 at 4:05 AM
- SriLekha said...
looks really good!
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- December 23, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Sunshinemom said...
How soft and fluffy! Looks great TBC, as always:)
- December 23, 2008 at 10:30 PM
- Uma said...
idlis look fabulous. So soft and yummy!
- December 24, 2008 at 2:41 AM
- Lubna Karim said...
Wow awesome idlis. Looks fluffy and yum.
- December 24, 2008 at 3:28 AM
- foodbin said...
this goes well with dhal curry
- December 24, 2008 at 5:26 AM
- Rajani said...
hey ilove rava idlis, its been awhile since i md these. looks good.
- December 24, 2008 at 2:36 PM
- Sharmi said...
the idlis look so good. in my house they call me a great idly fan. but I make the soft urad/rice idlis only. never made these. they look so inviting!!
- December 24, 2008 at 2:52 PM
- Kate said...
Idlis ... yum !
Heya , wish you very Happy Holidays n seasons Greetings .
- December 26, 2008 at 12:49 AM
- Aparna said...
Rawa idlis are what I make when idlis are in demand and I'm out of batter. And we love them.
Best wishes for the festive season and a Happy New Year.
- December 26, 2008 at 1:40 AM
- Raaga said...
lovely... I so relate to the dosa vs idli bit :-)
Happy new year!
- December 26, 2008 at 3:48 AM
- sra said...
Hi, how are you? Happy new year!
- December 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM
- Red Chillies said...
Same as you, I love dosas over idlis. But there is something about rava idlis for breakfast, that makes a day.
Happy new year 2009 to you and your family TBC
- December 29, 2008 at 9:13 PM
- RAKS KITCHEN said...
Hi, Happy New Year to you!
I usually make rava idlies using MTR instant mix,thanx for this recipe!
- December 30, 2008 at 7:44 AM
- Sheetal Kiran said...
So soft and light! Wish I had a fork and some cilantro chutney :(
- December 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Cynthia said...
Happy New Year!
- January 2, 2009 at 11:28 PM
- purplesque said...
Mm..love rava idlis! Yours look amazing. I make mine in the microwave.
- January 5, 2009 at 9:57 PM
- TBC said...
Thank you so much for visiting, everybody! Hope you had a wonderful start to the new year. :D
- January 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM
- Snooky doodle said...
these look so nice. I d like to try these :)
- January 7, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Just call me 'A' said...
hey..thanks for this recipe. I found this yesterday and tried it today morning. They were delicious. I used carrots and pieces of fresh coconut. I did not add red chilli flakes or buttermilk or onions. It was heavenly.
- January 24, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- suryahatti said...
i am going to make rava idlis now!
- September 13, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- TBC said...
Suryahtti- hope they turn out well for you! :D
- September 18, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- suryahatti said...
seasons greetings to ALL.yes,just now i have prepared batter for idlis and left for soaking overnight!will report outcome in the morning!
- October 17, 2009 at 11:45 AM
- TBC said...
Suryahatti- Season's Greetings to you as well.
I hope you're making regular idlis and not the rava idlis that this post is about. Rava idlis are instant idlis and do not require any kind of soaking-fermenting!
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Cote said the new seats are durable fabric over foam over plywood, with vastly improved springs beneath that for extra comfort. He says that with modern engineering advances, the seats should never have a squeaking problem, even 40 years down the road. He estimated the new seats should last 50 years or more. The whole installation was to be complete by the end of Tuesday, Jan. 14 – about a two-day process total. As for the upholstery covering the new seats in both McCarthy spaces, Harrigan describes it as "mottled, slightly tweedy" with bluish-appearing fabric for the theater seats and a purplish cousin for the recital hall, replacing the old bright red while introducing a classic St. Mike's official school color for a change. The original theater seats also were done in blue upholstery, "but with yellow metal backs, so when you were sitting in the audience, you were looking at something slightly distracting," said Harrigan. The new seats, by contrast, have backs of a sort of black composition material that won't distract the eye. Since the old seats were steel-framed, they were recycled, in keeping with the college's green mindset, Harrigan said. Tobin grabbed a few of the theater seats as mementoes for his upstairs office overlooking the theater through windows. And the college's Alumni and Advancement offices have been working to offer sponsorship of seats for a certain gift amount, after which a small plaque with a name can be attached to a seat. Carpets in both McCarthy performance halls formerly were a lighter gray and now will be a medium-to-dark gray, Harrigan says. Cote said this particular seat-installation crew out of Massachusetts was fairly fresh off an installation at New York City's Madison Square Garden and "one of the best crews available to do this type of installation all over the country and the world. It's a special skill set." He explained how the old seat anchors were pulled out and filled so that fresh holes could be drilled and lead sleeves installed to hold the new anchors in place. The decorative out-facing sides of rows on the aisle seats are done in attractive, real cherry-wood veneer. The first Mainstage show that will go up in the new theater this April will be Godspell, directed by Hurst, although the Admissions office plans to hold some smaller events in the space during February. Hurst, Harrigan and Tobin all said they have felt student excitement over using the spaces with new seats and they're looking forward to working with students again in both renovated houses. "These new chairs are absolutely beautiful, comfortable, practical, clean, pretty - and no gum under the seats," Tobin said. Later this week, groups such as Burlington Chamber Orchestra that rent the Recital Hall will be able to use the facility again for a rehearsal and weekend show. Said Cote, "The best part of this process is when it's all done and people are seated and using it again."


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RAF Hednesford
Get Some In
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Times Remembered 1
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RAF Hednesford. No 11 School of Recruit Training.
Website for RAF National Servicemen and Regulars.
This website was created by Carl Taylor who did so on behalf of Pat Honey (ex regular) and it followed conversations with John Kent, Bill Johnson and Ted Caton (ex RAF ERK'S) who along with Pat, as young men had completed their **Squarebashing** at the Royal air Force, No: 11 School of Recruit Training, RAF Hednesford on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.
This website is only concerned with personnel who went through the **squarebashing** experience in the period 1950 to 1956 and has been set up as a forum for these EX-ERKS to reminisce and to provide, the opportunity to possibly make contact with past comrades.
An on site re union was organised by John Kent and myself on 10th July 2003, with the help of Staffordshire County Council Countryside Services, The Officer Commanding and Staff from RAF Stafford and the Officers and Cadets of Rugeley ATC and input from the NS(RAF)Association.
Some 60 photographs can be seen of this event in the Gallery.
We are indebted to Mr C J Whitehouse, the co-author and Publisher of a booklet entitled
**Kitbag Hill**, The story of RAF Hednesford
for permission to re produce a potted history of the camp and his "account of times remembered by a National serviceman.
For anyone seeking historical or any other information about the camp regarding the period from 1938 to 1950 and thence from 1956 onwards, they should acquire a copy of the book **KITBAG HILL** (ISBN 0 9512903 0 4 on which Copyright still exists) from: Marquis Drive Visitor Centre. Brindley Heath Road. Hednesford. Staffordshire. WS12 4PW. Tel: 01543 878690 enclosing £6 to cover cost and Postage etc.
How the website came about:
How all this came about by Pat Honey. ex 4109595. Hut 112, 4Flt, A Sqd, 1 Wing. Sep 8th to Nov 4th 1952, (photo Gallery Recruits 1952 - 008).
In August 2002 I trawled the web and visited Bill Johnsons personal **National Service** website and entered my details in his guest book and from that original contact, I received an E Mail, on the 8th October, from John Kent (photo 006) who was in the same intake at Cardington and in the same hut with me at Hednesford and on the Flt photograph taken at that time (photo 001) we are standing next to each other - middle row, 1st and 2nd from left - and then we found out we only lived 4 miles apart at present - so we met up again on Oct 28th 2002, a gap of 50 years - a small world indeed.
It showed me the potential of such a website and with encouragement from Bill and others I undertook the task, which I hope will ensure that others will be as fortunate as I in contacting past fellow conscripts ?
With my interest re awakened and now retired and living in North Staffordshire, out of curiosity I went back to Cannock Chase on Aug 11th 2002 and after having made contact with Malcolm Hulme (Staffordshire County Council Chief Countryside Ranger - South) who is responsible for the site of the old camp, I went walkabout - and the words written by Mr C J Whitehouse in Kitbag Hill summarize exactly my feelings that day:
**Anyone who has wandered through an abandoned Military camp soon feels what has gone from it. the semblance of life breathed into the steel, wood, concrete and tarmac, came with those whose fate it was to serve there and who, in leaving, took something with them which tempered their future life to a greater or lesser degree. Strangely some essence of their fleeting stay always lingers, to give pause to the quiet walker.**
How true that is, I did a circular walk and the nostalgic memories came flooding back, as a 17 year old Regular recruit, the arrival at Rugeley station, the cobbled yard, and the trip into the unknown in 3 ton lorries, no chance to relax, the shouted orders, the lining up, the first night thrown into an alien strange world, the making of new friends and for 8 weeks, a life of constant alert activity, trying to keep out of trouble, to avoid jankers !
My memory has not failed me and the following pieces in particular have stayed with me::
The **breaking step** when we were marched down into and up out of **Goon valley** the few minutes of relaxed walking and a chance to fleetingly look around at the surroundings.
Being a regular in my Flt I was often chosen to guard rifles when grounded on the parade ground at NAAFI breaks, which meant I went after the others and did not have to fight through the queues.
Padding the right shoulder with dusters before using the 303 rifles on the range, what a kick !
Being a tall beanpole, I was then and always later through my RAF career, selected as a **marker** on parades.
Egg and chips at the NAAFI and when we felt brave enough to sneak past the guardhouse, the odd trip to the mobile civilian canteens which parked outside the gate every evening and served delicious coffee, which we quickly took back to the billet.
So many bad things, like terrifying inspections, gas indoctrination, inoculations, VD films etc, being noisily verbally humbled on parade with "You there - WAKE UP - you are not carrying a bloody drain pipe"!
The longing for normality, my hut was on the eastern end of the camp and I could hear the trains and see the steam from the engines on the Hednesford - Rugely line. So close but so far !
With regard to any social life, those of us who had earned a 48 hr pass on our 6th weekend, but due to distance or other reasons could not make use of it, we were taken to a dance at Trentham Gardens on the Saturday night, the situation was almost surreal for Erks who had been so brutally deprived of "normal life" and if my memory serves me right, knowing we had a Church parade on the Sunday we all behaved ourselves!
All such memories inevitably get pushed to the back of ones mind with time, but the level of fitness achieved, the swelling of the chest and the sense of pride on the day of our passing out parade, are memories one never forgets.
As much as our DIs and PTIs were denigrated at the time by most ERKS, we, mostly now, grudgingly admit to owing them a debt of gratitude for turning us gangly youths into men who felt they could - and as many found out when posted to our then Colonial outposts they had to - take on the world.
I went on to complete 12 years, firstly with
300 Signals Unit 2TAF (Germany) at RAF Oldenburg
as a Plotter, then re-mustered to become a Plant Operator and spent 8 years with
5001, and 5003 Squadrons at RAF Church Lawford / RAF Wellesbourne Mountford bases and detachments at RAF Halton, RAF Bassingbourne RAF Gaydon in the UK and at RAF Nicosia, Cyprus
but in 1961 re-mustered again, this time into the
RAF Postal Service, serving at 16MU Stafford, relief duties at RAF Ouston,and with USAF at Fylingdales and finally i/c RAF Air Ministry Unit Post Office at RAF Kenley until discharge in 1964.
If you go to THEN and NOW in the Gallery, my camera records some of the Hednesford campsite as it is now, all that remains are the roads and paths, as per the map, the landscape is much altered over the last 46 years, many of the hut lines have been planted with belts of trees and the area to the south of the parade ground and beyond which was occupied by the Technical huts and hangers 9/10/11 were raised in elevation by graded piling of pit spoil and then grassed over and planted but where practicable I have matched some of the 1952 photos with today's scene.
If anyone visits the campsite, spend some time in the Cannock Chase visitor centre and Caf� where a small display can be seen and also a guest book for ex RAF ERKS can be browsed and added to.
You can now collect a Trail leaflet, which takes you for a guided walk around the old camp and this has been set up by co operation between Gerry Cleary, Dave Bland (2 ex DIs) myself and the on site Staffordshire Ranger Team.
As well as the new 11 Ton Commemoration Stone at the old entrance, installed April 2005 - the Rangers have also put up photographic displays at certain points on the walk.
Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office".
Web site licence ref: DG 05/01/04/05/07 (MOD WSL 055).
: This material may be accessed and downloaded on to electronic, magnetic, optical or similar storage media, provided that such activities are for private research, study or in house use only.
: This material must not be copied, distributed, published or sold without permission of the Controller of HMSO.
With regard to the photographs shown, all have been donated for use on the site, they are not in any sequential order - they are in the order "as they came to me" - and numbered as such - and any additions donated will also be added in the same way, when indexed they are then re allocated to a folder by year to simplify access.
Basic information is on the photographs but a fuller index will be held by the website coordinators of any other information to hand or names of people on them.
I am always in search of any more visual information the actual site photographs, within the camp - where they were taken - for instance.
Due to implications concerning the Freedom of Information Act no names will be put to faces on this website unless I have the written permission of the people concerned to do so.
Many photographs have been reduced in PIXEL size to save space, on your computer you can open them out again to get more clarity if desired.
If you wish to donate photographs for inclusion on the site -especially those that depict a part of the camp - then please contact me with as much information about the photograph as you can remember: firstname.lastname@example.com
For any enquiry about any photograph please give the INDEX No: on the photograph. Thank you for visiting the site.
Commemorative Stone for RAF Hednesford.
This story starts with Pat Honey and John Kent being re united in 2003 - 50 years after being flung together, for 8 weeks as young recruits, in Hut 112, 4 Flt, A Sqd, 1 Wing at RAF Hednesford on September 3rd 1952 passing out on Novemeber 5th.
Following our re union - and finding that we both lived within easy reach of the old camp site - out of curiosity we went back to Cannock Chase - firstly we found the new Visitor Centre and the small display concerning the ex RAF Camp (and other military history concerning the Chase) and then went for a nostalgic walk around.
It made such an impression on us both that we jointly felt that as it was such an inspirational day for us, we should endeavour to get other ex RAF recruits to also make the journey back to the site - and also a journey back in time to the unforgettable period in our lives spent at Recruit Training !
To this end I, being a retired Countryside Ranger, made contact with the Ranger Service of Staffordshire County Council (now custodians of the site) and especially with Malcolm Hulme (Senior Ranger South) who with his Staff turned out to be most helpful then and later.
He loaned us a wad of photographs left with him by visitors over the years and these turned out to be invaluable as a lot of them referred to a Cpl Blank - enquiries were made and we traced Dave Blank and found he also lived near us and as a Drill Instructor was keen to help us with future plans we had talked about.
The photographs also were the nucleus of the web site that I (Pat Honey) created about the Camp - www.rafhednesford.org and am still adding to.
All this interest shown spurred John, Dave and I on to organise a re union day at the site on July 10th 2003. This was done with the support of Staffordshire County Council Countryside Department, The Officer Commanding and Staff of RAF Stafford, the Officers and Cadets of Rugeley ATC and the National Service (RAF) Association..
John and I concerned ourselves with the organising and planning of the day and Dave with the help of Bill Buchannan (another ex DI) looked after the Parade aspect of the re union.
In spite of the short notice and also the fact that we started with nothing other than an idea, the day dawned sunny and warm (knowing Cannock Chase weather - it could have been so different !) and the event turned out to be a huge success with demands from all present that it should be done again while we were still able to travel and enjoy such an experience. Photographs of the event can be seen in the Gallery.
John and I concluded that, as the area is now in the custodianship of Staffordshire County Council and is designated and used as a public recreation area - apart from the small display in the Visitor Centre, there is nothing permanent to indicate that the site was an RAF Camp from 1939 to 1956 and in particular from 1950 to 1956 that it played a significant role in the processing of 81,000 recruits as part of the RAF National Service program of the time.
An approach was made by John and I to Peter Morris the Head of Staffordshire Countryside Services and after hearing us, he enthusiastically supported the idea of some permanent marker being placed on the site and through his endeavours and with the backing of English heritage, in January 26th 2004 a large stone was found in another of his Country Parks at Newcastle under Lyme and then on May 28th 2004 this was transported to the entrance of the old Camp on the Chase.
The original intention was to place the stone and a seat on the old roundabout outside the gates but it was found that as power lines now run directly over that roundabout, no crane can work within 20 ft of them so it was decided to site the stone just inside the entrance to the camp in front of the site of the old Station HQ.
When this had been positioned a black marble granite plaque was made and inscribed and then set in to the **mother stone** (This **mother stone** weighs 11 tons and photographs of its movement to the site and positioning etc can be seen in the "Gallery" of this website ).
It was always our intention to have a formal commemoration ceremony of the **Stone** and to invite representatives of Staffordshire County Council, Civic Dignitaries from other locally associated Councils etc, the nearest RAF and Local ATC Unit and to trace as many of the organisations associated with the history of RAF Hednesford etc as we could and of course any ex RAF Personnel who had served at the Camp.
This Commemoration Day took place on Sunday April 24th 2005 and the Stone was unveiled by Group Captain Fletcher from RAF Cosford in the presence of representatives of Staffordshire County Council, Rugeley DC and also most of the South Staffordshire Parish Councils.
Over 100 ex Hednesford Veterans paraded under the command of ex DI Neil Trotter.
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It's gone from "closer controversy" to "who will be the closer now that Andrew Bailey and Joel Hanrahan are both injured?"
Red Sox manager John Farrell had his door closed after his media availability. But he said, "We'll have to try to figure that out right now."
Just hours after Bailey was placed on the 15-day disabled list, Hanrahan left Monday night's game against Minnesota in the ninth inning after allowing a tying homer to Brian Dozier. Hanrahan has right forearm tightness and will have an MRI Tuesday.
Hanrahan was on the disabled list last month with a hamstring injury and Bailey became the closer. After Hanrahan returned, Farrell said Bailey would remain in the role, but then Bailey developed inflammation in his right biceps, and Hanrahan resumed closer duties.
Hanrahan couldn't protect a 5-4 lead Monday. A few batters after Dozier's homer, Hanrahan was removed.
"I felt like I threw a pitch to the backstop and felt a pull," he said. "I thought I could throw it all right. Eventually I got to the point where I tried to make a pick off to first. The ball barely got there. I couldn't take it anymore. It's definitely been hard with my time with the Red Sox so far. Hopefully everything will check out all right and go from there."
Hanrahan said he doesn't know how to explain his injury because he said he felt good in the bullpen after two days off.
"It's just something that happens," he said. "I had some soreness a couple of years back. In 2010, I had a little bit on the bone of the elbow. I missed a week that year and then everything is fine. This is the first time its felt like this."
The Sox could turn to either Junichi Tazawa or Koji Uehara to be the closer if Hanrahan misses time. The Sox have been trying to avoid overusing Uehara, who is 38. The burden may fall on Tazawa. This could also signal the return of Alfredo Aceves, who is working as a starter in Pawtucket.
The Sox activated lefthander Craig Breslow, who started the season on the 15-day disabled list with left shoulder tendinitis. He made five rehab appearances at Portland (Double A) and Pawtucket and pitched a scoreless inning Monday night.
Bailey underwent an MRI Monday and it showed no structural damage to the biceps or shoulder. Since Bailey hasn't pitched since April 28, the DL move was backdated, meaning he's eligible to be activated May 13.
Bailey was disappointed about going on the disabled list, but not about the diagnosis.
"One of my personal goals, I've told you a thousand times, was to stay healthy," he said. "Obviously, a 15-day stint isn't great, but it's a little blip in the radar.
"Ultimately I'll be back out there shortly, and we've still got a job to do, get to the playoffs and all that. So all of those goals stay the same. So for me it's just getting that thing calmed down and I'll be back out there."
In the interim, Bailey will focus on his conditioning.
"Just shut it down, take care of the inflammation, do some work, extra work in the training room, just getting things moving properly," said Bailey.
"I just kind of felt something on one pitch. Just thankful I didn't go out there and try and do something stupid or else I'd be out longer."
Bailey said the MRI gave him peace of mind.
"Obviously as a player, that part of the body is very delicate, but I know now that it's just a strain," he said. "It is what we thought it was and we'll just go from there.
"For me it's hopefully just a couple of days of rest and hopefully get back and start throwing. Not too far away, hopefully."
Farrell said Breslow would be used in a variety of ways.
"Not so much a specialist or a matchup," Farrell said. "Obviously he's had some success against lefthanders, but he's also been a guy that takes almost a starter's approach, shorter outings, and that's what's allowed him to be successful against righthanders as well.
"One thing, we've got a fresh arm in our bullpen, which given a lot of the usage of Junichi and Koji hopefully will take some of the workload and the pressure off those two guys, but it won't be just a straight-up matchup situation."
Tazawa entered Monday tied for first in the American League in holds (nine), relief wins (two), and appearances (16). He has held opponents to a .175 average over his last 13 appearances.
Uehara hasn't allowed a run in 12 of 15 appearances.
Rest is up to them
With an eighth-inning double, David Ortiz extended his hitting streak Monday to 26 games, with the first 12 coming last season. Ortiz is still bothered by heel discomfort so the Red Sox want to monitor the situation closely and give Ortiz rest when needed.
The streak has been a Catch-22 because Ortiz is getting on base and running a lot.
It will be interesting to see how the Sox handle Ortiz when they begin playing interleague road games at the end of the month. Ortiz played first base in previous seasons, but with his heel issues and with Mike Napoli a fixture at first, Ortiz might get more time off.
Dempster still a go
Ryan Dempster went to the bullpen to be the long man if Monday's game had continued. While Dempster made some warm-up throws, Farrell said the righthander will still make his scheduled start on Tuesday night . . . Will Middlebrooks, who was 3 for 19 on the road trip and 1 for 7 in Texas, was back in the lineup after sitting Sunday but batted eighth. He finished 1 for 5. Shane Victorino also returned after not starting Sunday, batting second and playing right field. He hit his first home run of the season in the fourth inning and totaled three hits. The Sox are being careful with Victorino, who recently missed seven games with lower back tightness . . . After a three-hit night, Dustin Pedroia is hitting .350 at home.Nick Cafardo can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @nickcafardo.


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US markets are largely positive today, due in large part to positive earnings-season economic data and strengthening unemployment data, according to a consensus of financial reporters. However, such is not the case for Electronic Arts, which is trading down more than 6 percent after Brean Murray Carret & Co. analyst Todd Mitchell lowered the company's price target from $28 to $22.
As reported by Market Watch, Mitchell's reassessment of EA came about due to what he termed "creeping concerns" over the future of EA's recently launched massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic.
"Specifically, initial sales appear to be below expectations, and casual observation of early play is causing us to rethink our churn assumptions," Mitchell said in a note to investors.
Released to a strong critical reception on December 20, The Old Republic sold more than 1 million units during its first week of availability. That tally proved to be more than what EA could handle, as the game's launch was marred by long wait times to access many servers.
Mitchell's analysis of The Old Republic's situation isn't without its detractors. Speaking with GameSpot, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research's Jesse Divnich emphasized that it is far too early to measure the game's long-term potential.
"Some sell-side analysts have such bad tunnel vision on the market that they fail to understand the mechanics of the MMO vertical," Divnich said. "Whether MMO, console game, mobile, or social, each have a completely different business model. It is erroneous to apply success metrics from other verticals to the MMO market and that is exactly what a lot of analysts are doing."
Divnich also noted that EA still has a number of options to boost player numbers and engagement, should the company deem it necessary.
Baird & Co. analyst Colin Sebastian echoed Divnich's sentiment, telling GameSpot, "The game doesn't appear to be the smash hit that some had [thought], but I think it's way too early to be signing the death warrant."