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Exercise begins to have a positive effect almost as soon as you start. For one thing, exercise makes your brain release "endorphins" -- hormones that make you feel good. This can help you enjoy the exercise and may improve your mood for several hours after your workout. Another benefit is that your muscles, having worked hard, can relax more easily. This helps you feel relaxed all over. And, of course, you'll probably feel good about what you are doing for yourself.
The benefits of being in shape
In addition to the immediate rewards, there are many possible long-term benefits to reap from a more active lifestyle. Over time, your muscles will get stronger. Your heart and lungs will get stronger, too, and work more efficiently. Your bones will become denser, helping to prevent osteoporosis. Endurance increases, making most physical activities easier. And balance improves, lowering the risk of falls and fractures as you get older. You are also likely to experience less anxiety and depression and feel more self-assured.
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Regular exercise can help PREVENT high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and, possibly, stroke. You are also taking steps to reduce your risk of some forms of cancer, such as colon, breast, and prostate cancers. Research has also shown that exercise benefits people with mild-to-moderate depression.
Exercise can also help you manage certain chronic conditions, such as arthritis, osteoporosis, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and depression. Further, your blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart rate all may drop to healthier levels. Talk to your doctor about what is safe and best for you.
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Exercise helps you shed extra pounds, particularly from fat, and, more importantly, tone muscles to increase your body's fitness. You're likely to experience less hunger. In addition, your metabolism will probably increase (the system that regulates how many calories you burn while resting), making it easier to stay lean.
"My doctor told me that I should exercise regularly, but I couldn't have predicted all the ways that it would influence my life. Not only do I feel better physically, but I am more outgoing, optimistic, and feel better about myself than I did before I started."
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Novus Receives Two Regional Awards at Best of NAMA
The best work in agricultural communications was recognized at awards ceremony
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (March 4, 2015)—Novus International, Inc. recently received two regional National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) awards. The Novus In-House Marketing Communications team was recognized as the regional First Place winner in the category of Customer Brochures, Catalogs—Farmer Directed–for the Novus 2013 Sustainability Report "At-A-Glance" brochure. The company's sixth annual sustainability report documents and measures Novus's comprehensive social, environmental and economic sustainability program. Titled "Summing up Sustainability", the report highlights progress in the company's key focus areas, which include: Customer Productivity and Profitability, Supply Chain Efficiency, Sustainable Animal Agriculture, Employee Empowerment and Engagement, as well as Human Health and Nutrition.
Novus, along with Kenna B. Rathai Communications and Feature Group USA, were also recognized with a Merit Award in the Company and Association Newsletters—External Directed to Dealers & Distributors category for the Novus Knowledge Ahead Newsletter.
"We are privileged to receive this recognition from NAMA, and it means a lot to Novus," said Stephanie Gable, manager of global sales and product training. "It is an honor to be recognized by colleagues in our industry."
The Best of NAMA awards recognize the best work in agricultural communications and undertake an extensive evaluation by industry professionals before being awarded. After winning First Place in Kansas City, Mo, the Novus 2013 Sustainability Report "At-A-Glance" brochure is now being considered for the national award. National award winners will be announced at the National Agri-Marketing Conference on April 15, 2015 in Kansas City, Mo.
To view the full sustainability report, visit www.novusint.com/sustainability.
About Novus International, Inc.
Novus International, Inc. is headquartered in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. and serves customers in over 100 countries around the world. A global leader in developing animal health and nutrition solutions, Novus International's products include ALIMET® and MHA® feed supplements, ACTIVATE® nutritional feed acid, ACIDOMIX® preservative premixture, CIBENZA® enzyme feed additive, MINTREX® chelated trace minerals, SANTOQUIN® feed preservative, AGRADO® feed antioxidant and many other specialty ingredients.
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Capital murder defendant acquitted of setting man on fire
Jurors on Tuesday acquitted a San Antonio man who could have faced up to life in prison for allegations he robbed a stranger then set him on fire.
Juan Jesus Robles, 38, placed his hands over his face and began to sob after state District Judge Raymond Angelini read the not guilty verdict following two hours of jury deliberations, bringing an end to the attempted capital murder trial.
Richard Rodriguez Jr., who testified that he has no memory of the January 2012 incident, sat silently in a wheelchair in the front row of the courtroom — his arms and neck still covered in bandages.
Rodriguez spent seven months at the San Antonio Army Medical Center recovering from burns to more than 85 percent of his body and still attends daily physical therapy, prosecutors said. Having undergone 46 skin grafts and surgeries, with more still on the horizon, he was again in the hospital last week when Robles' trial began.
Rodriguez declined to comment on the verdict as he left the courtroom.
"He absolutely did not deserve to get burned in the street like that," defense attorney Ernest Acevedo told jurors during closing arguments. "The only thing that can make this tragedy worse is if we send an innocent man to prison."
Rodriguez was walking by the Alazan-Apache Courts west of downtown with a gas can in his hand and mumbling to himself when he attracted the attention of a group of men who had been drinking outside the public housing complex, authorities have contended.
After words were exchanged, the group beat Rodriguez up, kicking him after he fell to the ground, two of the men acknowledged on the witness stand. But they then walked away, each witness said.
That's when Robles walked up to Rodriguez, rifled through his pockets and set him ablaze , prosecutors David Lunan and Daryl Harris contended.
"They all said (Robles) did it," Harris said of the five eyewitnesses.
But it makes no sense that the attackers would walk away and someone who had nothing to do with the fight would step in to commit an act so horrendous for seemingly no reason, defense attorneys Acevedo and Kristina Escalona responded. The original attackers are the ones who should have been the primary suspects, the defense argued.
They later were given immunity agreements in exchange for their testimony.
"These immunity agreements are a slap in the face to what really happened," Escalona said.
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I have two identical ATMega328P-PU chips. Both sleep unless wakened on digital pin 3 (INT 1). One chip has power, the other one does not. The chip with power can send a signal when awake via digital pin 9 (PCINT1) to the digital pin 3 (INT 1) of the second (un powered chip) to wake it.
Everything works great. No problems.
When I put an ammeter on the power to the chip with power I see ~ 35mA wake, ~12mA sleep. If I disconnect either the pin 3 - to pin 9 or the serial RX - to - TX wires my readings are
~0.1mA sleep and ~ 22mA wake. Please keep in mind digital pin 9 is HIGH only when the powered chip is awake. When it sleeps all pins (that are output) are low.
I am a beginner so please bear with me if this question is basic.
It appears to me even though the second (un powered) chip is not on. some how it can draw amperage from another chip even if the wires connecting are LOW.
My goal is power savings so obviously a 22mA cost vs. 0.1mA is an issue for me.
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Mozilla's mobile user experience designer, Ian Barlow, revealed some mockups earlier this month of a new Firefox interface intended for tablet devices. The design features a touch-centric layout and visual elements that conform with the "holographic" style of Android 3.0.
The Firefox Mobile developers have already taken the first steps towards implementing the new user interface. It landed this week and is available for testing in the latest Firefox Mobile nightly builds for Android. I installed it on a Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet to see how it compares to previous iterations of the Firefox Mobile user interface.
Although the new user interface is still incomplete and will need further refinement before it is ready for regular end users, it is a promising start and offers a relatively nice browsing experience on an Android tablet. The application has a simple layout: a navigation bar at the top of the screen and a fixed sidebar on the left-hand side that shows a thumbnail for each open tab. The webpage content is loaded in the center of the screen.
The top navigation bar has forward and back buttons, a URL entry field, a stop/refresh button, a bookmark button, and a menu. When you give focus to the URL entry field, the browser will display a drop-down menu that lets you select recent pages, bookmarks, history items, or tabs from another computer. You can switch between these categories by tapping the finger-friendly blocks that appear on the left-hand side of the menu.
As you start to type, the menu will change to provide an AwesomeBar-style autocompletion view. It's quite efficient and comfortable to use on a touchscreen. The performance of the AwesomeBar matching was extremely good during my test, but I'm not sure how it would fare with a more heavily populated Places database (I just started using Firefox on this device, so I'm browsing with a fresh profile).
The tab bar on the left-hand side of the screen mostly works like the equivalent feature in previous iterations of Firefox Mobile. The inactive tab thumbnails are all faded, making it easy to see which tab is active at a glance. There is an "x" icon on each tab that can be used to close it.
When a tab is closed, it gets dropped to the bottom of the screen and shown with a restore overlay icon which you can tap to reopen it. Only the most recently closed tab is displayed in that bottom slot—closed tabs don't stack. This means that if you close two tabs in a row, you will only be able to restore the last one.
At the bottom of the tab bar, there is a plus button that you can press to open a new tab. The URL entry field is focused automatically when you create a new tab, activating the associated drop-down menu. This seems like a good approach and is better than having a conventional desktop-style new tab page.
My biggest frustration with the current implementation of the user interface is that the tab bar is permanently fixed in place and can't be hidden. Unlike the standard Firefox Mobile interface, the new tablet interface doesn't allow the tab sidebar to be swiped off of the screen. This is an issue that will likely be addressed as the new interface matures.
In addition to sporting a relatively native-looking user interface, the nightly build that I tested also offered some cool platform integration features. When you bookmark a page by clicking the star icon, the browser gives you the option of adding a shortcut for the current page to your Android home screen.
The browser also ties into Android's Intent system for sharing content. When you select the Share Page item from the main menu, it will pop up the standard Android sharing prompt which lets you select the third-party application that you want to use to complete the action. I tested this feature with several applications and found that it worked largely as expected. It was able to pass a URL into Evernote, the standard e-mail client, and Read It Later.
The application's performance is good in general. Kinetic scrolling in the main content area is smooth, but the scrolling physics don't seem to quite match that of native Android. Pinch zooming works, though there doesn't appear to be automatic text reflow. Rendering quality is mostly good, but the letter spacing in text is a bit off and doesn't seem entirely consistent. The browser's feature set is the same as what users have come to expect from Firefox Mobile. It supports add-ons and interoperates with Mozilla's Firefox Sync functionality.
There is clearly still some room for improvement, but the nightly build that I tested fared much better than I was expecting—especially considering that it represents a first cut on the new user interface. It looks like Firefox Mobile is on track to be a competitive third-party browsing option on Android tablets.
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Holy irony Batman!
Eureka City Councilwoman Linda Atkins is launching her re-election campaign with a ruse that it will take a concerted effort from "all of us" to make a change in the Eureka community.
(By "all of us" she kinda sorta means a minority of the progressive people she represents and one particular businessman willing to throw tens of thousands of dollars anywhere in the county every few election cycles to make sure Eureka's landscape remains economically friendly to his bottom line.)
Atkins' campaign website says the "2010 elections reminded us that money CAN really buy elections, but in our small city; Linda Atkins thinks that PEOPLE can and will begin to take our city back this year."
Shit yeah! No doubt she'll be counting on two particular "PEOPLE" in 2012 to pay for her re-election.
A Times-Standard article published a month before she was elected in 2008 highlighted "how a few big donors could change the dynamics of an election" and "show how money from outside city limits can play a sizable role in the race for Eureka's council seats."
The T-S pointed out that it was Atkins and failed progressive candidate George Clark who were the biggest beneficiaries of said money. There was $9,000 from Pierson Building Supply owner Bill Pierson and $2,250 from McKinleyville resident Ken Miller.
Go figure.
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Diary, Franklin L. Crane
Author: Crane, Franklin L.
Date: February 23, 1855 - September 29, 1856
The entries pertaining to Kansas Territory began on page 18, with Franklin Crane leaving his home in Easton, Pennsylvania with his son, Franklin Jr. He described their journey to Kansas and their initial impressions and travels while in the territory. In June 1855, he returned to Easton to sell his property so he could then return to Kansas. The later entries began in September of 1856 and described tensions in Topeka with efforts to build a fort and rumors of armed Missourians in the area.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Franklin Loomis Crane Collection, #320, Box 2, Volume 1
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Keywords: Border ruffians; Brown, George W. (George Washington), 1820-1915; Crane, Franklin Loomis; Davis County, Kansas Territory; Easton, Pennsylvania; Geary County, Kansas; Geary, John White, 1819-1873; Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Lecompton, Kansas Territory; Miami County, Kansas (see also Lykins County, Kansas Territory); Osawatomie, Kansas Territory; Pawnee, Kansas Territory; Shawnee County, Kansas Territory; Tecumseh, Kansas Territory; Topeka Association; Topeka, Kansas Territory; Town shares; Travel; Updegraff, E.; Weather
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Dundee's Restaurant captures the three ingredients of success at its best. Great food, great location and perfect ambience. Open seven days a week for coffee, lunch and dinner (9am until late), Dundee's is positioned directly on the boardwalk with fabulous views over Marlin Marina, Trinity Inlet and mountains.
Take a wonder along the Boardwalk and stop for coffee or a light lunch or enjoy a business lunch whether it be a small or large group. The extensive menu has a wonderful selection so there is something for everyone to enjoy.
At its best Dundee's is renowned for its evening dining with the sheer magic of its views from every vantage point of its layout. The menu offers fresh local produce with an extensive selection of creative flair, prepared by Executive Chef James Wort and his team. Specialising in Australia beef, fresh seafood, pasta and Salads, there is a dish to cater for every taste-bud, from the very popular seafood platters, Oz Beef Rock - steak sizzling on Hot Volcanic Rock or the Smoked Crocodile Salad or the Chilli Mussels, plus much more.
Dundees an unforgettable dining experience.
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George C. Hill, Ph.D is currently the Distinguished Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Emeritus and the Levi Watkins, Jr. Professor in Medical Education Emeritus at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He also served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Multicultural Affairs and Special Assistant to the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs for Vanderbilt University (2011-2012). From 2002-2011, he served as Associate Dean for Diversity in Medical Education. He is also a past President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (2007-2009).
Dr. Hill was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998 and a Fellow of the Academy of Microbiology in 2002. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011 for distinguished contributions to tropical diseases research, leadership as President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) and for fostering a diverse research and healthcare workforce. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nairobi, in Nairobi, Kenya and a NIH Special Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, Great Britain.
Dr. Hill has trained Ph.D. students, M.S. students and post-doctoral fellows. In 1999, Dr. Hill was recognized as a "Giant in Science" by the Quality Education for Minorities Network for his commitment to motivating minority students to pursue the sciences. He also chaired the National Science Foundation Committee for Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering.
Before joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Hill held a Professorship in Microbiology and served as Vice President for Sponsored Research at Meharry Medical College, where he also served as Dean of the Graduate School, Director of the Division of Biomedical Sciences, and Associate Vice President for International Programs. During this period, he led the Fogarty Minority International Research Training Program through which the Meharry sent students to Zambia, Ghana, and Kenya.
Dr. Hill obtained his B.S. from Rutgers University, M.S. from Howard University, and Ph.D. from NYU. Additionally, Dr. Hill served at Colorado State University teaching and conducting research and established a mentoring program for minority students in 1974, the CSU Science Motivation Program, bringing minority high school students to the campus for the summer.
He has served on numerous governmental advisory committees focusing on biomedical sciences research and graduate education including currently serving on the NIH Fogarty International Center Scientific Advisory Board. He previously served as a member of the NIH Advisory Council for NIGMS as well as a member of the NIH Board of Scientific Counselors for NIAID. He also served on the CDC Scientific Advisory Board of the National Center for Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Hill is a researcher in the field of molecular biology and biochemistry of African trypanosomiasis. His laboratory was the first to grow the Trypanosoma rhodesiense in culture, the causative agent of African trypanosomiasis. He has received extensive research support from NIH, NSF and other federal agencies. For his research accomplishments, he received the Seymour Hutner Prize for Research from the Society for Protozoologists and election to the IOM.
He is a member of the American Society of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Microbiology and other scientific societies. He also works throughout the country to advance opportunities for underrepresented minority students in medicine and the biomedical sciences.
Dr. Hill received the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni Award from the Rutgers University Alumni Association in May, 2012.
Dr. Hill is also the Founder and President of Leadership Excellence, LLC, which is committed or work with or create a diverse workforce of leaders who are dedicated to careers in the biomedical sciences and the medical fields. The mission of Leadership Excellence, LLC is to help institutions and organizations nurture, mentor, and increase the numbers of diverse leaders in the health care and biomedical sciences fields. Fostering strong medical education programs here and abroad are importation to our goals.


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Paul McDonald & Nikki Reed Get Matching Tattoos But You'll Never Guess Where!
Right before Nikki celebrated her 23rd birthday with Paul — the 'Twilight' starlet opted to mark the occasion in a very permanent way!
Forget making it official on Facebook — Paul McDonald, 26, and Nikki Reed, 23, have ink to prove they're in love! HollywoodLife.com can officially tell you that Paul and Nikki got matching tattoos on May 13 at Studio 21 Tattoo in Las Vegas. But they didn't get music notes or their astrology signs — they got each others names tattooed on their fingers!
"They are really in love," a source close to the couple tells us. "They are crazy in love … they got each other's names tattooed on their fingers. They're even buying a house together too. They are looking everywhere to find the perfect place. They are moving fast but it's the real deal."
The following day after getting inked, the couple celebrated Nikki's 23rd birthday at new Gallery Nightclub in Planet Hollywood and they were spotted kissing and dancing all night. If you think this is just another hot Hollywood romance think again! Nikki also admitted that she and Paul are indeed buying a house together.
"His music is so important to him and to me and so I want to give him a whole separate space for it," she tells People. "I want L.A. to be a enjoyable experience for him and music is so important that I want to build a space for him so that's why I'm getting a bigger home."
It all seems a bit quick to us but as long as they're happy that's all that matters!
— Chloe Melas
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An agreement between a public school board and a faith-based Calgary facility threatens students with expulsion and staff with dismissal if they engage in a "lifestyle of sexual immorality."
The final deal between Palliser Regional Schools and Heritage Christian Academy inked six months ago doesn't define the term, but earlier versions say premarital relations, viewing pornography and homosexual behaviour are all offside.
Those prior versions were either provided to the newspaper by board officials or were available on the school's website within the last two weeks, but have since been changed.
Board officials confirmed students and staff are still required to sign the revised school covenants to attend or work at the publicly-funded school in the city's northeast.
But associate superintendent Dale Backlin said Thursday that those who break the rules would never be disciplined because that would violate Alberta's human rights legislation.
"You can't discriminate on that basis and the Palliser board would never go down that road," Backlin said.
"The society that runs the school just wants people to know what their expectations are at the outset."
Prior and Current Versions of Student and Staff Covenants for Heritage Christian Academy
Fifteen years after the country's top court forbid discrimination in Alberta on the basis of sexual orientation in a landmark case involving a gay instructor fired from his job at a private college, a University of Calgary expert said she is shocked a public school board in the province is threatening the same thing.
"This raises human rights and Charter issues," law professor Jennifer Koshan said.
"Even if the board says it would never discipline students or teachers, the impact that this would have on their behaviour and their sense of dignity would still potentially amount to a violation of our laws."
Heritage Christian Academy is one of seven religious schools run by Palliser and among dozens that became part of the public system after a 1988 change to the School Act allowed local boards to establish faith-based alternative programs.
Formerly a private school, HCA joined the Palliser district in 2006 after Calgary's public school board rejected their proposal.
Students at the K-12 facility are funded at the same rate as those who attend public and separate schools.
Unlike most alternative programs in Alberta, the school society also receives an annual lease payment from the province for use of its McKnight Blvd facility, some $427,000 this year.
Mark Ramsankar, president of the Alberta Teachers Association, said the board needs to reconsider its agreement with the school society.
"If they want to dip fully into the public purse, they have to accept the other side of the coin that says students and teachers should be accepted without prejudice and discrimination."
The agreement says all staff at the school, including the principal, must be "mutually acceptable" to the board and the society. If both agree that an employee has failed to respect the covenant, then Palliser says it will attempt to transfer the person out of the school as permitted by law.
If discrimination or unequal treatment is alleged as a result, the agreement says the school society will indemnify the board for any resulting damages, fines, and legal costs.
In addition to refraining from sexual immorality as set out in various biblical excerpts, the covenants also require students and teachers to "avoid the appearance of evil and use discernment" when choosing clothing and entertainment activities, defined in the draft version as including television, movies, live productions and "social dancing."
The school, which has Evangelical Christian origins, also circulated a draft covenant policy last fall that includes guidelines on how to handle sexual orientation issues that arise with students.
The document remind teachers that students "struggling with same gender attraction" may be experiencing guilt and grief because they have heard that "God considers it an abomination."
While they shouldn't be treated as "unfortunate," the guidelines say appropriate resources including scriptural references, should be available to help students develop their views.
Bullying and homophobic slurs are not to be tolerated. and clothing with slogans like "God hates ..." or "We're queer, were here, get used to it." are both labelled unacceptable propaganda.
Sharon Fuchs, the school society's executive director, said in an e-mail that the policy and guidelines are still a work in progress.
"We have held two meetings to encourage open discussion with HCA parents and stakeholders in regards to the draft covenant policy," said Fuchs.
"So that it is reflective of the diversity of opinion that exists among the 80-plus church affiliations represented in our school."
While he signed the agreement on behalf of Palliser, chief superintendent Kevin Gietz said he was unfamiliar with the wording in the attached student and staff covenants that provide for expulsions and firings.
"What's got me in a bind is that I have never seen these documents and I need time to research what it is that is transpiring here because I was unaware," Gietz said in an interview.
"From what you have read me, we will be engaging in that conversation extremely quickly about taking a look at this kind of document and this wording because I can't support that and the school would never operate that way."
A 2012 review of HCA by the board was overwhelmingly positive, although there was significant concern among the 644 students, particularly those at the elementary level, about bullying.
Some also expressed concern about unspecified inconsistencies in how the school's discipline policy was applied.
Kent Hehr, the Liberal education critic who battled unsuccessfully this week to get the legislature to mandate gay-straight alliances in schools to prevent bullying, said Education Minister Jeff Johnson needs to be asking some tough questions.
"This screams out for an investigation," Hehr said.
"The board and the society seem to be sucking and blowing on this at the same time, and I'm deeply concerned the rights of students and teachers aren't being respected."
While Alberta's public education system aims to provide safe. inclusive learning environments, Wildrose education critic Bruce McAllister said it also tries to offer families choice.
"I don't think for one second parents would be sending their children (to HCA) if they didn't share those beliefs," McAllister said.
"I don't believe the government of Alberta needs to legislate what their views of morality are."
Johnson was not available for comment, but a spokesperson said department staff are now reviewing the agreements that HCA and other faith-based schools have with public boards.
"We are aware of it and we are looking into it," Dan Powers said.
"Anything that would contravene any legislation, but particularly the Charter or Human Rights Act or the School Act, is cause for concern."


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Sharp rebuke for Japan as Dreyfus appears in whaling case
Federal Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, QC, has sharply dismissed a Japanese claim that Australia is on a crusade against Japan over whaling before the International Court of Justice.
Mr Dreyfus, appearing before the court in The Hague, said the claim was untrue and offensive.
"It speaks volumes for the weakness of the Japanese case," he told the court.
Japan opened its defence of the case to halt its Antarctic "scientific" whaling with a suggestion that Australia was attempting to use international law as an instrument to impose its cultural preferences.
"The days of civilising missions and moral crusades are over," counsel for Japan, Payam Akhavan, of McGill University, said last week.
Mr Dreyfus told the court in The Hague early on Wednesday (Australian time) that he could only assume the claims were an attempt to deflect attention away from the true nature of Japan's whaling program, known as JARPA II.
"This case is not about civilising missions or whether the Australian public like or dislike the consumption of whale meat," he said. "This case is about one country's failure to comply with its legal obligations not to conduct commercial whaling."
Australia has told the court that the JARPA II program is commercial whaling, banned by the International Whaling Commission, but cloaked in the "lab coat" of science.
Mr Dreyfus flatly rejected a suggestion by Japan that Australia outsourced its maritime duties in the Antarctic to the activists of Sea Shepherd, who are involved in a conflict with the whaling fleet.
This was "wholly untrue and ridiculous", Mr Dreyfus said, pointing to warnings by the Federal Government to all parties to comply with laws on maritime safety.
He said Japan's counsel Alain Pellet, of Paris Ouest University, had made extensive derogatory attacks on Australia for its moves over the years against the Japanese program in the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
Claims by Professor Pellet that Australia had marshalled "puppet governments" in the IWC were unfounded allegations imputing bad faith, Mr Dreyfus said. Attacks on Australia's scientists unjustly impugned their integrity, he said.
"The tone, content and extent of these attacks . . . is a transparent attempt to mask the lack of legal and scientific substance in Japan's case," he said.
Mr Dreyfus said that during the hearing of the case Japan failed to dent in any way the credibility of a standard of science outlined by Australia's expert witness, Marc Mangel, of the University of California.
"(Japan is) unable to produce any criteria in which to cloak JARPA II with any vestige of scientific credibility," Mr Dreyfus said.
As Australian counsel moved to extend the attack on Japan's whaling, James Crawford, SC, of Oxford University said JARPA II was not a program within the meaning of the IWC's article eight on scientific research.
Professor Crawford said it was instead a program conducted for commercial purposes, which he suspected had included a humpback whale quota, so far unused, as a diplomatic bargaining tool.
The number of minke whales to be taken, 850 plus or minus 10 per cent, "seems to have been worked out on the back of an envelope", Professor Crawford said.
"It's not too much to say that Japan's scientific case has come apart at the seams," he said.
Australia continues its final addresses to the 16 ICJ judges later on Wednesday, Australian time.
Andrew Darby is the Hobart correspondent for Fairfax Media. His focus is on Australia's interests south of 40 Degrees South - Tasmania, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. He is the author of the internationally published Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling