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Simple Tent pitch (11)
UK England East Anglia Norfolk Norwich Whitlingham Broad Campsite
- Sleeps 6 (max 6 adults, 5 children)
- Dogs Allowed
The Owner Says
Large 10 x 7 simple grassy camping pitch (non electric) for one tent - choose your perfect pitch on arrival
Each pitch accommodates 1 tent and includes 1 car permit , it is possible to book multiple pitches together by clicking the 'book several units' button as you go through the booking process
Things you need to know...
- Massive 7m x 10m grassy pitches, over 2 fields
- Relaxed countryside camping within a stunning country park, with historic Norwich on your doorstep and the broads in your back garden
- Large, family friendly washrooms with toilets, showers and outside wash-up area
- Sturdy BBQ's & fire pits welcome at all pitches –(disposable BBQ's are not allowed at all). we also rent fire pits on site and sell fuel
- Campsite shop selling local snacks, phone charging & freezer block rental (small fee applies)
- Dog friendly site , add your pooch to you booking at the extras page
- Each tent pitch includes parking for one car, additional cars are charged at £5.50 per day - parking enforcement on site, cars MUST be registered at reception on arrival
- Weather proof camping – loads to do come rain or shine!
Even more info…..
Our camping pitches are spread over two fields; the Upper and Lower Fields. Both fields are situated just a few seconds walk from Whitlingham Broadand cafe and all the walks, activities and peaceful hideaways of the Country Park.
The Upper Field is a car free haven, allowing more freedom to pitch, and ideal if you are camping with friends. Parking is just a few metres from the pitches and wheel barrows are available to help move stuff from your car to your perfect spot in the grass.
The Lower Field offers, flat pitches and partly sits in the shade of a historic lime Tree Avenue This field can accommodate tents, campervans/small motorhomes, and trailers tents (by prior arrangement) sorry, no caravans. For those who prefer to have their car next to their tent (a handy haven if your tent mate is a snorer!) pitches on the lower field can accommodate one car.
All additional cars and all campers on the Upper Field must park in our car park.
Please see our website for more details
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- A low deposit of 20% to secure your booking
- Balance due 10 days before your holiday
- Complete flexibility to move bookings for up to 18 months in the event of Coronavirus restrictions
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About Whitlingham Broad Campsite
The neighbouring Outdoor Education Centre offers plenty of broad-based aquatic activities including canoeing, dragon boat hire, sailing, windsurfing. The site is right on the Wherryman's Man and national Cycle Route One path. Norwich has attractions galore as well plenty of places to eat and drink.
Food & Drink
There's a café inside the Whitlingham Broad Visitor Centre (01603 617332) and there's a good vegan restaurant, River Green Café (01603 622448), at the entrance to Whitlingham Lane. Norwich is a treasure trove for small bars and cafés. We particularly recommend Frank's Bar (01603 618902) for relaxed Mediterranean-accented dining, Wild Thyme (01603 765562) for vegetarian food and St Andrews Brew House (01603 305995) for a pint.
Whitlingham Broad Campsite is located at Whitlingham Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR14 8TR
Getting There
From A47 (Norwich Southern Bypass) exit signposted Norwich, Lowestoft, Trowse A146. At traffic lights at bottom of slip road turn left and at the end of dual carriageway get in the right hand lane. From here on in follow brown signs to Ski Club and Country Park - this will mean a right turn at the roundabout, over the rail bridge and a left into Whitlingham Lane. Come down into the country park and we are on the right just after the Visitor centre
If you are following Sat Nav postcode is NR14 8TR - Whiltingham Lane TROWSE
Norwich train station is approx 35 mins walk (2.5 miles away). Book a ticket in advance and you can travel from London for as little at £8.


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Insolvencies are expected to level off or to increase slightly in 2019, in line with the forecast of a modest 2% increase in Dutch business failures.
- Lower turnover growth expected in 2019
- Payments take 60 days on average
- High level of competition fuelled by large online retailers
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I'm not one to make New Year's resolutions. I don't like them and the only one I've kept is the one I made not to make them. I'd rather set goals throughout the year, targeting areas that are meaningful to me at that time. And 2012 won't be any different, except that I'm going to be more focused in what I want to accomplish.
The truth is, 2011 was a good year in a big picture sort-of way but ended poorly. In fact, December really sucked. Happy, worth-celebrating events, like a dear friend's 40th birthday and the Christmas holiday, were overshadowed by a miscarriage, coming in dead last in my 5K (stupid of me to attempt it two days after my D&C), crappy deadlines, and a horrible cold (I even lost my voice). All of that put me in a foul mood for almost the entire month.
But 2011 is behind me and 2012 brings a fresh start. So far, I changed my hair (went a little darker with a little ombre, adding a touch of spicy to the new year), Fussypants turned 5 and in itself is monumental but also brought my brother, sister-in-law, cutest nephew ever and my aunt in town for a visit and I started working out again. So far, so good.
After the miscarriage, I did some reflecting and realized that without question, I am content to remain a family of four. And since four has always been my favorite number (I don't know why, it just is), it becomes even more meaningful that I have four areas I want to focus on in 2012: Family, Friends, Fitness and Me. I couldn't come up with an F-word for myself (ha) so I'm calling that area Feng-shui Me (simply defined as improving life by receiving positive qi – life energy, life-force), so it works as my F-word.
In addition to my four areas of focus, I am also incorporating a word theme. Shell from Things I Can't Say had a fb post about word/themes for the year and that intrigued me. It was easy to pick one since I know what I want to accomplish: Stronger. I want to be stronger in several areas.
Family: My family is my everything but I plan to be stronger and more focused on prioritizing certain areas so that I am really embracing the moments I have with my family.
- Date nights. 2011 was a better year for my husband and I in terms of making more time for date nights, which often included overnight babysitting, but I want to be more consistent in making sure he and I have alone time. This ranges from the simple matter of getting the kids to bed at their bedtime hour so he and I can have time to ourselves each evening to actually going out on dates and taking weekends away. The last weekend away we had together was in July – I know. But so far, 2012 is off to a good start…we are going to Vegas, just the two of us, in a few days.
- One-on-on time with my kids. Fussypants is at the age where he enjoys and benefits from just mommy & me time and daddy & me time. My husband is better at this than I am (but only with our son) and I want to spend more time with each of my kids, doing what they want to do. They each have their own interests and I want to embrace that. This will also include time with my son, husband and myself and my daughter, husband and myself. We tried this on Fussypant's birthday. My folks took Little Miss and my husband and I took him to the hockey game, just the three of us. It was really nice and he enjoyed the one-on-one attention.
- Family fun time. In direct contradiction to the bullet above, I want to spend more time together as a family. We are always better at this in the summer but there is no reason why we can't focus on this all year. My husband's work schedule means that sometimes he isn't home 24-72 hours in a row so we need to take advantage of when he is home and do fun things, even if it is something as simple as a family bike ride.
- Extended family. My parents live in Southern California now and I don't want to only see them when we are passing the kids off when they babysit. I really like my mom and dad and want to spend quality time with them, sometimes without my kids. And I need to see my brother and his family more often. He lives in Arizona but my nephew is growing so fast and I don't want to miss out on every single moment. I also have an aunt, and two cousins (one who also has kids) in Northern California that I miss and a biological family that I very much enjoy spending time with that I want to see more of. It's difficult to fit it all in but I need to find a way.
Friends: I used to be a really good friend but then I had kids. I thought I'd see more of my friends after having kids but it rarely works out that way. Our kids are on different schedules or in different age groups or have different interests so I don't have as many play dates as I thought I would. And some of my friends don't want to do play dates, they want to get together without the kids which then introduces scheduling and babysitting dilemmas. I'm not saying I never see my friends, that's certainly not the case, I just want to be better at it. In 2012, I want to make more of an effort, I want to be the one inviting my friends to lunch rather than just accepting their invitation. I want to reach out to them more, just because. I plan to be stronger and more focused on being a better, more accessible friend.
Fitness: I'm off to a good start in 2012 but I don't want to be in getting in shape mode forever. I want to achieve maintenance mode. Maybe that is not the right term but I want what my husband has. Ok, not the freakishly fit, carving out 3 hours a day to workout routine but he is already in shape, and works out to maintain that shape. I feel like I'm constantly wading in the deep end of getting back in shape and targeting certain areas (currently I'm all about cardio and core). But I need to dig deeper (says the girl who likes carbs and wine and chocolate). I have a 10K trail run coming up in March, and the week after that I'm doing a mud-run with a team of moms. Working towards a goal. I plan to be stronger and more focused on consistently working out and pushing myself to achieve the results I want.
Feng-shui Me: I'm always tired and usually cranky, forgetful, and unorganized. I never used to be that way, especially forgetful and unorganized. And I'm done with it. We recently watched Kung-Fu Panda 2 and it occurred to me that I need to find my inner peace. If I can align myself in my own mind, then my family, work , sleep, and everything else will benefit. There is so much to do in this area; I need to purge and organize closets and kid crap, time-manage my work projects (I'm actually really good at meeting deadlines), get a freaking handle on the laundry (my life would be more pleasant if I folded and put away at the same time), actually look ahead on my calendar so I don't almost miss birthdays and really, really, really make more time for myself to be me. This could be as simple as reading a book (I've set a goal to read a minimum of 25 books this year), taking a nap, getting a pedicure or as big as having a girl's night out. I almost always operate in Mom-Wife-Career Mode, which I love and wouldn't change for the world, but sometimes I just need to take a step away and be in Coreen Mode. I plan to be stronger and more focused on myself, so that I am more peaceful and productive.
And that's that. 2012, here I come.


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The son of a Munich musician, Richard Strauss is said to have started composing when he was only six. At the age of 22, he became kapellmeister in Munich and soon rose to fame as a composer. He is commemorated in Munich with a memorial plaque at the house of his birth and the Richard Strauss fountain (Salome fountain) in the pedestrian area.
From 1898 Richard Strauss worked for 20 years as court kapellmeister in Berlin. Today a memorial plaque marks the building on Heerstrasse where he composed the operas The Woman without a Shadow and Ariadne on Naxos.
Besides composing and conducting, Richard Strauss took a very active part in musical life, founding the Berlin Tonkünstler Orchestra and launching GEMA, the musical reproduction rights society, and the Salzburg Festival. He was president of the Reichsmusikkammer from 1933 to 1935. Strauss only half-heartedly distanced himself from the Nazi regime – he composed the music for the opening of the 1936 Olympic Games, for example.
In later life, Strauss moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he had built a villa in 1908. Today Garmisch remembers Strauss with an annual Strauss Festival and concerts and exhibitions at the Richard Strauss Institute.
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I have it all setup and working. The trouble is, when someone launches the client (I think you call it the server), they all show up in the viewer as the same thing (whatever you have set in the SC Create tool for access code) and there is no way to tell who is who
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"The lost son of Ghân-buri-Ghân" has a very simple premise. The woods wise but worldly very naïve Wose has jumped into the sewers that run all the way under the city of Pelargir in southern Gondor. The plot is go find him, and get him back to the palace of Pelargir, in one piece.
What is needed are the brave, or not so brave, to enter the sewers. They can be anything that can be sensibly found in Pelargir in the early years of the fourth age who can fit in tunnels under a city, so no ents, trolls or magically intelligent Mumakil.
The tunnels and sewers are big enough to move around in, say four foot to ten foot wide at need, with rooms, tunnels and maybe even a series of underground canals! They may be dark, but could be lit if people are living in there.
If you want to take part, please feel free to ask, give a bio for your character and let me know what you plan to take in there.
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• Please remember where you will be writing. You cannot use a longbow in a four foot circumference tunnel, nor can you see far enough to shoot.
• Similarly, an elven longsword forged in Gondolin and six foot long cannot be swung in sewers. There is a reason orcs like long knives
• You will need a light source, even if you are an elf, orc or dwarf. It makes it more realistic.
• Realism is important in good writing, so are flawed characters. They make much more interesting writing.
• Please do not ask to write the Wose himself. The son of Ghân-buri-Ghân, who at this time has no name because the Gondorians haven't bothered to learn it, remains in the remit of the thread owner.


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The hustle and bustle of the holidays is here. For many of us the frenzy has begun- decorating, shopping, wrapping, holiday and school parties, baking, and overly excited children. It can make for a stressful time of year. I love the holidays and everything that comes with it- the Christmas music, decorations, holiday treats, family time, the spirit of giving, and special memories.
I have found that sometimes as parents we get so wrapped up in checking off our to-do list during this time of year and making sure we get every last gift our child begged for, that we forget what this time of year is all about. We forget that it is a special time of year that allows us to make lasting memories with our children through holiday traditions, whether old or new.
The other day I asked my oldest son who is 7 what he likes most about this time of year. I knew he would say the presents, which he did, but I asked him to tell me the other things he liked. He told me he liked decorating the tree, reading Christmas stories, baking cookies and hearing Christmas music. It was then that I realized the special things we do with our family each year, either for Christmas or Hanukkah will be remembered by our children for years to come.
This time of year is also a time to make sure the excitement of getting gifts does not reinforce a message of "me, me, me" with our kids. In order to combat the ulgier side of the holidays we do a few things in our house to reinforce the message of giving during the holiday season. You may find these helpful:
1. Give each child a short list of family members to either make something for or buy something small for. (Often local churches have a kids sale and kids can go buy small items for a dollar or two) or let them go shopping with you and pick out small items for people on their list. Explain to them, you may have to put something back if it is out of the price range. This reinforces the message it is about giving. We also bake cookies for friends and family. (explain giving does not have to cost money)
2. We buy clothing, food and gifts for families in need and deliver them. I have my kids help select the items and wrap the items. We talk about the many people in need of food, clothing and items and how we can help. We participate through our church, the school, and charity organizations to give to those in need.
There is no better way to spend your time over the Holidays, thinking of others and it is a great time to involve kids in helping others and thinking of others. You could invite an elderly neighbor over or go for a visit, buy gifts for those in need, bring food to the food bank or food drive, or any other giving service or gesture. Just remember to give and show your kids that the spirit of the season is about giving to others hare with them about the gift you have given to someone in need.
3. We take turns opening gifts on Christmas. Each family member opens 1 gift and then waits until everyone else has opened a gift before it is his or her turn again. This allows everyone to see what the rest of the family received, it slows down the present frenzy, gets kids more excited about each gift, not just the biggest one, and teaches patience and respect.
We also encourage our kids to play with the toy or gift they are given before opening another gift. It lets them appreciate each gift. We try and give the big gift last, so that the other gifts are just as important for a bit before being over looked by the biggest or most desired gift.
4. The night before Christmas each person is allowed to open one small gift from the family. It is a nice tradition and again reinforces patience and appreciation for everything we get even pajamas!
5. If you are Christian and celebrate Christmas, a great idea I have heard is that each person gets 3 gifts (can still do stocking stuffers, a family gift, etc…) for the number of gifts baby Jesus is given by the three wisemen. Setting a realistic number of gifts helps families to focus on what is important during the holidays and keeps parents from going overboard.
6. Another great idea is to give the gift of charity to someone you love. Donate to Heifer.org, ChildFund.org, or WorldVision.org in the gift receiver's name and get a card and booklet to give to the person.
This holiday season, consider letting your child help a family in need through one of the organizations that help children and families all around the world. Organizations such as ChildFund, Heifer International and World Vision are all set up so you can choose what you would like to gift to a family and how much you will spend. Options include giving livestock, to provide nourishment and income, educational materials, medical equipment, better homes and more. Children can help choose chickens, goats or whatever you feel you can afford. There are gifts for as little as $8 that will give family 10 chicks that will be a godsend to them.
This is such a valuable teaching lesson that you can impart to your children. Let them think about the giving versus the receiving this Christmas season.
If we emphasize beauty of the entire holiday season by spending time as a family, baking, listening to Christmas or holiday music, giving to others, and sharing special family traditions, our children will learn to appreciate the spirit of the season of giving more than receiving. We allow our holidays to be overly commercialized and often go a bit overboard on the number of gifts we get our children.
I hope you have a Happy Holiday and find moments to spend quality time with your family, make lasting memories, and teach a few things along the way!


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At a Jewish Y on Long Island, Jewish employees take up a collection for the families in Haiti of two maintenance men. In Brooklyn, members of the Orthodox community hold a historic meeting with representatives of the borough's Haitian-Americans. In southern Florida, a former New Yorker travels to Haiti on short notice to help the relatives of his Haitian-born employees.
Since a devastating 7.0 tremor rocked the Caribbean island last week, leveling much of the capital and taking a total of lives that may exceed 100,000, a cross-section of Jewish institutions and Jewish individuals have offered their financial and moral support to residents of the already indigent nation. Help has come in prayers and hugs, sermons and fundraisers.
Opening their wallets and hearts, Jews have reached out to strangers in Haiti and to fellow New Yorkers of Haitian descent.
"Jews understand what it is to experience suffering," said Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive director of the New York Board of Rabbis, which is arranging new partnerships between local synagogues and Haitian houses of worship.
Many Jewish organizations — including the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the National Council of Young Israel, and Agudath Israel of America — advised members about worthy charitable recipients spearheading the relief effort.
In Brooklyn, Jewish community leaders, many representing the Orthodox community, met with local elected officials who represent the largest Haitian community in the United States outside of Florida. The Jewish leaders presented the Haitians with satellite phones and computers for contacting relatives in Haiti.
Marc Eisenmann, a Manhattan native who for six years has lived in Florida, where he owns an assisted-living facility, decided to go to Haiti the morning after the earthquake struck.
A veteran member of the Hatzolah emergency ambulance service, he planned to lend his medical expertise and find the relatives of his facility's many Haitian employees.
With no prior contacts in Haiti, with a bagful of kosher challah rolls, accompanied by a Haitian-born staff member, he flew, on a one-way ticket, to the neighboring Dominican Republic, planning to stay until early this week.
The pair found a ride to the border, in a four-hour drive, in the back of an ambulance. Using his "street smarts," he talked his way across the border, paid a Haitian guide $350 for the hour's ride to Port-au-Prince, found a room in a still-intact hotel occupied by CNN employees and volunteered to rescue trapped people around the city. He pulled people out of buildings, perilously crawled under collapsed structures and offered basic first aid to the injured as well as comfort to parents whose children were beyond help.
"You have to have a heart. There's nothing worse than apathy."
Then Eisenmann met Gancci Saintellus, the 5-year-old son of his hotel's desk clerk. The child's arm was mangled; gangrene was setting in. He needed advanced medical care or would die within half a day.
Eisesmann heard that some planes were leaving the Port-au-Prince airport. At the airport, on the tarmac, hoping to get Gancci on a plane going somewhere where proper treatment was available, he talked himself, the child and the child's father, Olgan, onto an empty Sky King Airlines 373 bound for Miami. The Saintelluses had no passports, no credentials for entering the U.S.
En route, the pilot arranged for an ambulance to meet the plane at the airport. Eisenmann, dressed in EMS garb, throwing out medical terms, convinced immigration authorities to let father and son enter the country.
Gannci's right arm was amputated two hours later at Holtz Children's Hospital, but he's alive.
Eisenmann, who had slept three hours during the previous two days, caught a few hours of rest at home, then returned to the hospital, accompanied by one of his children, to visit the recuperating youngster on Friday, before Shabbat.
Now, Eisenmann, who is active in Hollywood's Orthodox community and whose children attend the city's Brauser Maimonides Academy day school, is working to bring the rest of the Saintellus family — mother and two daughters, all Mormons — to Miami. When the child is discharged from the hospital, he and his father will stay with the Eisenmanns.
Was Eisenmann scared at anytime during his time in Haiti?
"I questioned my sanity," he answers.
But, Eisenmann adds, he felt he had no choice. "You have to have a heart," he says. "There's nothing worse than apathy."
This article originally appeared in The Jewish Week.


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Anaheim, CA – WonderCon, part of Comic-Con International's (CCI) family of nonprofit comics conventions, today announced another talented group of special guests, adding to its already impressive line-up. The newly announced guests include award-winning writers and artists from the world of comics as well as screenwriters and novelists. Fan favorite and DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee appears on the list of additions, as well as award-winning comics scribes Mark Waid (Kingdom Come, Irredeemable, Daredevil) and Marv Wolfman (New Teen Titans, Tomb of Dracula).
Attracting 49,000 people in 2011, WonderCon has been an annual event in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987. Because of renovations at its usual venue, WonderCon will relocate to Southern California for 2012. The three-day celebration of comics and popular art forms will be held in the spacious Anaheim Convention Center March 16-18, 2012, allowing many Southern California fans who might otherwise not make the trip to San Francisco to experience the wildly popular show.
Among the other recently added special guests are Arthur Adams (artist, Monkeyman and O'Brian, Ultimate Comics: X), Ernest Cline (author/screenwriter, Fanboys, Ready Player One), Joe Hill (author, Locke and Key, Heart-Shaped Box), Richard Kadrey (author, Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead), and Richard Starkings (writer/letterer/designer, Elephantmen). For a complete list of special guests and bios, visit http://www.comic-con.org/wc/
Because WonderCon is produced by the same organization that hold the annual Comic-Con in San Diego and because of its similar format—sprawling exhibit floor, numerous educational panels, exciting Hollywood appearances, and an extraordinary slate of special guests—some fans are calling the new version of WonderCon "Anaheim Comic-Con."
"We are hoping Southern California fans will embrace WonderCon for 2012," said David Glanzer, director of marketing and public relations for parent company Comic-Con International. "And by all indications that may be the case, as online registration opened only a few days ago to an unprecedented start!" Badges for the popular convention went on sale last week and are available for purchase at http://www.comic-con.org/wc/
About WonderCon:
WonderCon, one of the country's best comics and popular arts conventions, is part of Comic-Con International (CCI), a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular art forms. The organization achieves its mission primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture. In addition to WonderCon in Anaheim this spring, CCI organizes San Diego Comic-Con each summer (the world's largest comics convention of its kind) and San Francisco's Alternative Press Expo (APE) each fall. On the web: WonderCon.org, Facebook.com/comiccon,Twitter.com/wondercon


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Ask some Americans to name some German coupes and I'd bet the last names they'd come up with are Ford Capri and Opel Manta. While they might be much more revered in their home country, the German Ford and Opel's American histories were just afterthoughts and lived out their 1970s existences as most captive imports do – in relative obscurity. That's probably why they sound like such good Used Car Face Off candidates today.
The Capri name has been tagged on lots of Ford Motor Company products, and even this Ford Capri earned a Mercury tag because it was sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealerships here in the '70s. So this 1971 Mercury Capri is a page in history you don't see a lot today. But nonetheless, a fascinating and good-looking one, although you might have to constantly remind people it isn't the Fox Mustang-based Capri or the convertible from the '90s Capri. It may only be a 1.6-liter four-cylinder, but it's such a sharp ride with alloys and a stick. And "wood" trim and bucket seats, too.
It's not in perfect shape, but it's damn good for a 42-year-old Ford that's been living in sunny California its whole life. It also smacks of originality, which I'd take over having it in perfectly restored condition. And I generally like the look of the first-generation Capri, since it has so many original Mustang cues packaged on a smaller European scale.
But what about the GM fans? How could the Opel Manta be left out? The Capri's arch rival made an appearance through Buick showrooms here over roughly the same time period, from 1971 to 1975. While it's clearly identifiable as a late '60s-early '70s GM product, it has a look of its own and I really like it. This 1974 Opel Manta Luxus, unfortunately, has the unlovely big bumpers mandated at this time, but it's still a generally handsome thing. At 1.9-liters and with a 3-speed automatic, though, I'm guessing the Capri might actually win a race, though.
Like the Capri, the Manta's upgraded interior package allowed it such accoutrements as bucket seats and extra fake-looking wood trim, although the red corduroy seats here are bizarre/wonderful. OK, this Manta is in rougher shape than the Capri above, but it smacks of originality and at a claimed 27,000 miles over its 39-year life, it's likely an incredibly rare find.
This one's tough, because I prefer the more grown-up looks of the Manta to the first-generation Capri, although a Capri from California is going to be less rusty than a Manta from New Hampshire. But I'd still go with the Opel because I believe it might be more of a head-turner than even an old Capri is today, not because I've become suddenly intrigued by the thought of corduroy seats. And maybe even more than most '70s German cars are in this country, never mind how they got here in the first place.


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Nation Network correspondent Andrey Osadchenko caught up with recently signed prospect Kristians Pelss, and talked to him about playing in Edmonton, signing with the Oilers, and what it's like to be a Latvian hockey player trying to make the NHL.
AO: You've played in Canada for two seasons. You don't have to get adjusted to a new language, nor to local culture. Would you say now that these two seasons overseas gave you exactly what you'd expected or even more than that?
KP: You can say that, I guess. When I first came here, I didn't know anything. Well, sure, I knew some stuff because I read CHL reviews and interviews with other Russian guys who played here. Although, coming here is like coming to a whole new world. The culture here is a lot different, people are also really different – everything is different. Especially, when it comes to hockey. Hockey over here is like a religion. People treat it more professionally. Here you live hockey.
AO: Were you scared about moving to Canada? Latvia is pretty far away from Edmonton.
KP: I was. But it was something I had to do for hockey. At first, I thought my English was okay but it turned out that it wasn't. I learned English back in school, but then I came here and I was like – well, this isn't going to work. I had to learn English. It was really difficult for me to talk at first. I could understand people more or less, but it was tough to express myself. However, you can get used to anything after 6 months. Of course, I miss my home, but hockey is more important.
AO: Did you take any English classes in Edmonton?
KP: No, not really. I just tried to talk to the guys more often. They would correct my mistakes. I also tried to watch movies in English. I didn't have enough time for school. I had practices in the morning and in the evening I would be so tired that I didn't want to do anything. So I would talk to my family on Skype and go to bed. That's how I spent my time.
AO: What do you think about Edmonton? It's incredibly bigger than your hometown. There's only about 9,000 people in Preile, Latvia.
KP: It's a good city, but, to be honest with you, it's pretty boring. There's not much to do there. There's this gigantic mall, though. So I mostly spent my time there. I would either go there, or to the movies. The weather out there is… it's like it's winter out there all year round. It's always really cold. Although, the fans up there are unreal and I like it.
AO: The Oilers drafted you somewhat unexpectedly. Did they take you by surprise?
KP: I didn't expect it at all. I was at home at that time. My dad went to check out how was the draft going on the Internet, clicked on NHL.com and the Oilers picked within the next few seconds. It was just unreal! We were all very happy about it.
AO: Why it was your dad and not you who followed the draft?
KP: We followed the first couple of rounds together and then I got tired of that. I went to watch TV and my dad continued following the draft. And it worked.
AO: You should keep him close to you – he brings you luck.
KP: (smiles) I spent my whole life with him. I began a life of my own only after I'd moved to Canada. He's always been my personal coach and my friend.
AO: Your father has a reputation of a devoted hockey fan.
KP: He is a big fan. All he thinks about is hockey. He reads all the reviews, game recaps, columns, interviews, watches all the games… He helps me with everything he can. I'm really grateful to him.
AO: Did he ever play the game himself?
KP: No. He has never even skated. Moreover, he's never had skates. He would go on a pond and play shinney with his shoes on – he was a goalie. I think, he was dreaming of becoming a hockey player. I got into judo when I was 5. About 3 years after that they built a brand new hockey rink 50k away from our town. My dad went to a store right away and bought me all of the equipment. However, he forgot to sharpen the skates. He just didn't know that you're supposed to sharpen them (laughs). Anyway, we came the rink, they gave me that metal thing and I skated a few circles with it. Then I skated a few more circles without it and really liked it. Since then I play hockey.
AO: There were two other Oilers prospects on the Oil Kings with you this season. How close do you guys keep in touch with the Oilers?
KP: We see each other quite often. We have special passes for the Oilers games. If we see each other, we always talk. Sometimes they set up meetings with us, sometimes we just talk about stuff at the arena if we run into each other. The important thing is that we talk. It helps a lot.
AO: Do they say when they expect you to make the NHL?
KP: No, they don't. They just show me videos and point out where I did well and where I didn't. Then they would give me a workout program. They're very helpful.
AO: This season you were more productive than in your rookie season. Do you think it has more to do with just how much you matured, or is it something else?
KP: I think, I've gotten more experienced. I mean, it's my second season here. Of course, I wanted to get more points. I can't exactly blame my coach, but I didn't play a lot of powerplay minutes. Thus, I don't get a lot of points. I know that back in Latvia people go like: 'What is he ever going to achieve? He doesn't score a lot of points in a junior league!' Oilers want me to be a guy who kills penalties and fore-checks. Other than that, yeah, my second year here went a lot smoother. You're familiar with everything, the guys on the team know what to expect of me, I know what the coach wants to see and so on. It's a lot easier like this. Besides, this season we had a lot of young guys on our team and, I guess, it also helped.
AO: In North America they see you as a third-liner. What did they see you like in Team Latvia at the 2012 World Juniors? You were a captain for your team at the tourney.
KP: The guys wanted me to be their captain. In all honesty, I didn't want to be the captain – it's a huge responsibility! Although, I'm glad they put a lot of trust in me. I tried to keep up with their expectations. There are not a lot of Latvians who play abroad. Perhaps, they wanted me to be the captain because I spent two years in Canada. I also could be a translator in disputes with the refs. There were quite a few funny stories when I was a translator for my teammates after the games. Reporters would ask them a question and I would get stuck with translation. I'd be just standing there trying to remember the translation and everyone would just laugh.
AO: What language do you speak the most in Team Latvia's locker-room – Russian or Latvian?
KP: A lot of guys worked with Leonid Tambiev and he speaks Russian, so almost everybody on the team can speak Russian. There are a lot of Russian coaches in Latvia so with every passing year there are more and more young Latvians who can speak Russian. I speak Russian my whole life so it wasn't a problem for me. Although, I do start to forget it now. I hope it comes back.
AO: Do you talk to your dad in Russian?
KP: No, in Latvian. My entire family is Latvian but most of my friends are Russian. So I speak Latvian at home and with a couple of buddies only. I speak Russian more often.
AO: Latvians use Russian swear words all the time when they speak their language. Why? Are there no Latvian swear words?
KP: (laughs) There are some things that only Russian swear words can describe. –
AO: There wasn't a whole lot of pressure on Team Latvia's shoulders at the World Juniors. Nobody really expected you to beat Russia in round robin, but that 14-0 loss was rather surprising. Did it really bother you?
KP: Of course, it was frustrating to lose like this but we understand that Russia is Russia. Latvia is a small country and we don't have a lot of players. We had a lot of young guys on our team. It was their first World Championship of any kind. How do you expect them to play against Kuznetsov? You just stay there in awe of the way he plays. It's tough to get out there and compete against him. We did put an effort into this, though. It's tough, but you can get experience from the losses.
AO: You were drafted by Dinamo Riga. Do you keep in touch with them? Do they want to see you in the KHL?
KP: Yes. I was at the training camp with them last season. There was a possibility that I would play for Dinamo if Oilers wasn't going to offer me a contract. Dinamo was about to sign me but then I talked to my agent and we figured that if I leave for the KHL now, I might never come back again in North America. So we decided to stay here for another season and that was the right decision.
AO: Because you were offered a contract by the Oilers. Does this mean that you're likely to spend next season in Oklahoma?
KP: Perhaps. We'll see how it goes in the summer.
AO: Do you set any time for yourself to make it to the NHL?
KP: No. I will try to get to the NHL as long as it takes. It's the best league in the world. Maybe there won't be another chance for me like that to make it to the NHL. At the same time, I can always come back.
AO: Many Latvians of your generation name Arturs Irbe their role model in hockey, regardless of their own position. Would you say you're one of them?
KP: Absolutely. He said it himself – he didn't have a lot of talent. For him it was all about the hard work. He had a terrific work-ethic. You can't achieve anything on just pure talent. You have to work hard. This is why I respect Irbe.
AO: Would you say you're a hard-worker yourself? It looks like everyone thinks of you that way – even in NHL 12 your rating is just 62. You're not an easy player to score goals with in that game.
KP: I agree. I have a lot of things to work on. Hopefully, my rating will be higher in the next versions of that game.
Osadchenko has also previously interviewed Oilers prospect Martin Marincin.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 2, 2011) – The U.S. Men's Volleyball Team's fifth-place finish at the Pan American Games becomes more impressive when one considers the circumstances under which the team was put together.
Because most U.S. Men's players are already overseas, the team was assembled from players who were either still playing in college (and were able to miss three weeks of school and preseason activities); were on a break or had not yet started with a foreign club team, or who had not found a place with a foreign team.
U.S. Pan American Games Team Head Coach John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.), who missed at least three weeks with his UC Irvine men's volleyball team, had only about a week of practice time with the team before it had to leave for Guadalajara.
And yet, the team was just one set from advancing to the semifinals. Several U.S. players were among the leaders in individual statistics.
U.S. opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) finished second among all scorers behind Mexico's Gerardo Contreras. Patak finished with 118 points on 96 kills, 11 blocks and 11 aces, playing in 29 sets. Contreras had 133 points on 128 attacks and five blocks, playing in 27 sets.
Patak had the most aces of any player, but did not receive the "Best Server" award for the tournament because it is determined by blocks per set. Patak was the team's "best spiker" and 10th overall with a kill percent of 44.04.
Outside hitter Tony Ciarelli (Huntington Beach, Calif.) was the team's second-leading scorer and sixth overall with a total of 90 points on 75 attacks, 12 blocks and three aces.
Middle blocker Nick Vogel (El Cajon, Calif.), the team's third-leading scorer, led the U.S. in blocking and was third overall with 20 blocks and an average of 0.69 per set.
Setter Kyle Caldwell (Newport Beach, Calif.), who played in all 29 sets in which the U.S. competed without a break, finished third among all setters with 176 assists for an average of 6.07 per set. Caldwell was also the team's second-leading blocker and 10th overall with 15 stuffs for an average of 0.52 per set.
Libero Kirk Francis (Torrance, Calif.) led the team in digging and was fourth overall with 58 digs for an average of 2.0 per set. Ciarelli was second on the team and ninth overall with 33 digs for an average of 1.14 per set.
Francis finished second among all receivers, with 104 receptions and two faults on 154 attempts for an efficiency percentage of 66.23. He was ranked fourth among all liberos.
The 20 members of the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team preliminary World Cup squad will be training at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif., from 9:30 a.m.-noon on Nov. 7-11 to prepare for the FIVB World Cup on Nov. 20-Dec. 4.
The public is invited to attend. U.S. Men's practices are free and open to the public.
The top three finishers at the World Cup will qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) started only two sets, but was named the MVP of Andreoli Latina's 25-27, 21-25, 25-23, 25-22, 15-12 comeback victory over Copra Elior Piacenza in Italy's Serie A league on Oct. 30.
After substituting in the first and third sets, Troy started the fourth and fifth for Poland's Jakub Jarosz and finished with 21 points on 20 kills (58.8 kill percent; 0.470 hitting efficiency) and one block.
"We are a team that has a great character," Murphy said in a team press release translated from Italian.
"It is always difficult to play down two sets, but we have some very good players who want to win. To me the MVP is (Puerto Rico's Jose) Rivera, who had three consecutive aces."
U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio), who plays for Copra Elior Piacenza, started all five sets and finished with seven points on four kills, one block and two aces. Setter Ryan Ammerman (Parker, Colo.), who also plays for Piacenza, played as a substitute, but did not score.
Andreoli Latina has a 3-3 record and sits in sixth place in the league. Piacenza has one victory so far this season.
U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) led Casa Modena with 12 points on 11 attacks (55.0 kill percent; 0.550 hitting efficiency) and one block, but it was not enough as Modena fell to league-leading Itas Diatec Trentino, 25-17, 25-20, 25-16 on Oct. 29. It was Modena's first loss of the season and it sits in second place in the league with a 5-1 record.
U.S. outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) and his Italian team Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza, are in fifth place in the league with a 4-2 record after a 23-25, 25-21, 14-25, 25-17, 15-10 victory over Marmi Lanza Verona on Oct. 30. Rooney started all five sets and finished with 15 points on 11 kills, one block and two aces.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) and is Italian team Sisley Belluno are in seventh place in the league after a win on 25-20, 2-18, 25-22 win on Oct. 30 over Fidia Padova. Suxho started all three sets and scored six points on three attacks and three blocks.
U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) and his Zenit Kazan team lead the Eastern Conference of the Russian Superleague.
Most recently, Kazan defeated Gazprom Surgut, 15-25, 14-25, 25-22, 26-24, 15-11) on Nov. 1. Priddy scored one point in the match.
Ufa Ural, which includes U.S. opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) and setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.), is in sixth place in the division. On Nov. 1, Ural fell to Lokomotiv Ekaterinburg, 28-26, 25-19, 21-25, 25-17. Stanley started the first two sets and scored nine points on seven attacks, one block and one ace. Ball started all four sets and scored two points on one kill and one block.
Dinamo Moscow, which includes U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) is in sixth place in the Western Conference. On Nov. 1, Moscow lost to the Minsk Volleyball Club, 25-18, 25-17, 22-25, 21-25, 15-11. Lee started all five sets and scored six points on two kills and four blocks.
Jastrzębski Węgiel, which includes U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and setter Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.), is in fifth place in Poland's PlusLiga.
On Oct. 29, Jastrzębski Węgiel fell to Fart Kielce, 25-23, 22-25, 25-21, 25-19. Holmes started all four sets and scored three points on two kills and one block. Thornton started the first three sets at setter and did not score.
U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) is playing for Arkas Spor in Turkey's men's league. The team made it to the final of the Turkish Cup to open the season, but fell in the final to Fenerbahce Grundig.
After that loss and one more, Arkas Spor has won its last three matches. On Oct. 29, it swept Belediye Plevne, 25-18, 25-10, 25-21. Hanson started all three sets and scored one point on a block. He set the team to a 55.1 kill percent and a hitting efficiency of 0.474.
Tours, the French league team of U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) is leading the league with a record of 6-1. On Nov. 1, Tours defeated Paris, 25-23, 18-25, 25-12, 25-17. Smith scored 14 points on eight kills, a team-high three blocks and a team-high three aces.
Tourcoing, the French team of U.S. setter Jonathan Winder (Irvine, Calif.) and outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) has struggled with injuries this season, but sits in sixth place with a 4-3 record.
Earlier in October, the team's injury situation was so bad that Winder was called on to play middle blocker.
On Nov. 1, Tourcoing fell to Toulouse, 25-22, 22-25, 28-26, 25-22. Jablonsky scored 11 points on 10 kills and one ace. Winder scored five points, including an ace, and set the team to a 43.5 kill percent.
AS Cannes, which includes U.S. outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.), is in ninth place in the league. On Nov. 1, Cannes fell to Montpellier, 25-22, 23-25, 25-27, 25-20, 15-11.
U.S. opposite Will Price (Laytonsville, Md.) led all scorers for his French team Ajaccio in its 25-20, 25-17, 20-25, 14-25, 15-7 win over Narbonne on Nov. 1. Price finished with 23 points on 17 kills, four blocks and two aces. Ajaccio sits in 13th place in the league.
U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and his Puerto Rican team Cariduros de Fajardo is leading the league with a 12-1 record.
On Oct. 28, Fajardo defeated the Guaynabo Mets, 26-24, 25-19, 25-17. Touzinsky scored nine points on eight attacks and one block. For Guaynabo, U.S. player Damien Scott (Santa Ana, Calif.) led the way with 11 points on 10 kills and one block.
Scott was again the high scorer for Guaynabo as it suffered a 25-23, 25-21, 21-25, 25-18 loss to Plataneros de Corozal on Nov. 1.
Scott had 18 points on 16 kills and two aces. U.S. player Casey Patterson (Van Nuys, Calif.) led Corozal with 16 points on 16 attacks. Tri Bourne (Honolulu, Hawaii) added 12 points on 11 kills and one block.
U.S. setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii) and his German league team the Berlin Recycling Volleys are in second place in the league.
On Nov. 1, Berlin defeated CV Mitteldeutschlan, 25-17, 25-14, 25-16. Shoji started all three sets and set the team to a kill percent of 54.8 and a hitting efficiency of 0.452.
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Conservation and Animal Protection Groups Welcome Action and Demand Sanctions
Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced yesterday in a formal declaration that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) by hunting whales in defiance of the IWC's global ban on commercial whaling. As a result, President Obama now has 60 days to decide whether to impose economic measures including trade sanctions against Iceland under conservation legislation known as the "Pelly Amendment." Conservation and animal welfare groups commend Locke's declaration and urge the President to pursue sanctions.
"U.S. citizens overwhelmingly oppose commercial whaling," said Kitty Block of Humane Society International. "It is both inhumane and unsustainable."
Kate O'Connell of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society said, "President Obama has a unique opportunity to demonstrate U.S. leadership on whaling. The American public expects nothing less."
"Iceland has now been deservedly identified as a rogue whaling nation," adds Susan Millward, Executive Director of AWI. "President Obama can end whaling in Iceland by imposing, as he is authorized to do, strident sanctions against Iceland until it complies with international rules."
The U.S. and other IWC member countries have tried for years to persuade Iceland to end its commercial whaling, which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale - the world's second largest animal. Although the U.S. has previously deemed Iceland and other whaling nations to be conducting commercial whaling in defiance of the IWC ban, it has never imposed trade sanctions. Following a series of failed negotiating efforts, the Obama Administration may finally choose to take strong action against Iceland.
"It's clear Iceland won't stop whaling until the world demands it through strong economic pressure," said Taryn Kiekow of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The U.S. must impose serious sanctions."
"Whales don't belong to any one nation," said Leigh Henry of World Wildlife Fund. "Whale conservation requires global effort and the credibility of the IWC is of the utmost importance if it is to remain effective."
In 2009, Iceland dramatically increased its fin whale quota to 150 animals a year - more than three times the catch limit that would be recommended by the IWC's approved quota calculation method if the commercial whaling moratorium was not in place. In December 2010, as Iceland's self-allocated whaling quotas and exports reached record levels, 19 U.S. NGOs, representing tens of millions of U.S. citizens, filed a "Pelly petition" urging the Secretaries of Commerce and Interior to certify Iceland pursuant to the Pelly Amendment and encouraging the President to impose trade sanctions against Iceland and specifically against fisheries-related businesses linked to its whaling industry.
Iceland has killed 280 endangered fin whales and more than 200 minke whales since it resumed commercial whaling in 2006. In the last two years alone, it has exported over 1,200 tons of whale, blubber and oil, worth more than $17 million to Japan, as well as additional shipments to Belarus, the Faroe Islands, Latvia and Norway.
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The Animal Welfare Institute, headquartered in Washington, D.C., was founded in 1951 and is dedicated to alleviating suffering inflicted on animals by humans.
Humane Society International and its partner organizations together constitute one of the world's largest animal protection organizations - backed by 11 million people. For nearly 20 years, HSI has been fighting for the protection of all animals through advocacy, education, and hands-on programs. Celebrating animals and confronting cruelty worldwide - On the Web at hsi.org. Follow HSI on Twitter. See our work for animals on your iPhone by searching "HumaneTV" in the App Store.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world's natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Livingston, Montana, and Beijing. Visit us at http://www.nrdc.org/.
Established back in 1987, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), is the leading global charity dedicated to the conservation and welfare of all whales and dolphins. http://www.wdcs.org/
The Pelly Amendment
Pelly Amendment of the Fishermen's Protective Act 22 U.S.C. §1978, as amended Pub. L. No. 95-376, 92 Stat. 714 (Sept. 18, 1978)
The United States has acknowledged that the Pelly Amendment "has been one of our most effective tools in the effort to conserve the greatest [sic] whales" and, in addition to Iceland, has certified Japan, Norway and Russia for diminishing the effectiveness of the ICRW (the convention that established the IWC). The United States imposed trade sanctions under the Pelly Amendment against Taiwan in 1994 for diminishing the effectiveness of CITES for illegal trade in rhino and tiger parts.
Iceland's Whaling
In 1982, the IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling, effective from 1986/7. Iceland did not formally object to the moratorium, but left the IWC in 1992. In 2002, it rejoined the IWC and its accession documents included a reservation to the commercial whaling moratorium. Under international law, a party seeking to accede to a convention cannot take a reservation to a measure that is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention. The IWC's convention does, however, allow objections to Schedule amendments by its members within a proscribed period after the adoption of the amendment. Iceland chose not to file an objection to the 1982 adoption of the moratorium and therefore became bound by it. By including a reservation in its accession notification, Iceland tried to change its previous acceptance of the moratorium. Eighteen countries, including the United States, registered a formal objection to Iceland's reservation to the moratorium on commercial whaling, and Mexico, New Zealand and Italy do not recognize Iceland's membership of the IWC.
Iceland's continued, and expanding, commercial whaling (including of an endangered species) under its reservation to the moratorium on commercial whaling is conducted without IWC supervision and control of the whaling operation. Its commercial whaling is conducted in defiance of objections to its reservation recorded by eighteen contracting governments. These actions clearly diminish the effectiveness of the ICRW/IWC. Iceland has ignored all diplomatic criticism of its hunting, including several strongly worded official diplomatic protests (demarches) from a wide range of countries in 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2011.
- 2002: Iceland rejoined the IWC with a reservation to the moratorium on commercial whaling.
- 2003: U.S. objected to the reservation contained in Iceland's instrument of adherence. Iceland resumed special permit whaling, taking 36 minke whales.
- 2004: Iceland took 25 minke whales under special permit. The U.S. certified Iceland under Pelly for its special permit whaling but opted not to pursue trade sanctions.
- 2005: Iceland took 39 minke whales under special permit.
- 2006: Iceland took 60 minke whales under special permit and resumed commercial whaling under its reservation to the IWC's moratorium; it took seven fin whales out of a self-allocated quota of nine and one out of 30 minkes under its reservation.
- 2007: Iceland took no fin whales and six minke whales under its reservation, and 36 minke whales in the last year of its special permit whaling.
- 2008: Iceland took 38 minke whales out of a quota of 40 and no fin whales under its reservation.
- 2009: Iceland dramatically increased its annual whaling quotas to 150 fin and 150 minke whales for 2009-2013. It took 126 fin and 81 minke whales.
- 2010: Iceland killed 148 fin and 60 minke whales.
- March 2011: Iceland exported 289.13 tons, its largest single shipment of whale products to Japan since the IWC ban took effect.
Iceland's Trade
CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, responded to the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling by transferring all whales species to its Appendix I, thereby prohibiting international commercial trade in whale products. Japan, Norway and Iceland lodged reservations that allow them to trade legally in whale products with each other. Iceland's recent exports of whale products to Latvia and Belarus which do not hold reservations to the CITES listing were illegal. Together with its escalating exports of whale products under reservation, Iceland is diminishing the effectiveness of CITES' trade controls - grounds for Pelly certification and sanctions.
Iceland illegally exported 2.7 tons of whale oil to Belarus in 2006 and 2010 and 259 kg of whale meat to Latvia in 2010; Iceland has exported 1,200 tons of fin whale meat to Japan since 2008 under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported eight separate shipments of whale oil to Norway since 2008, totaling 708 kg, under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported 1,309 kg of whale meat to the Faroe Islands, a non-party to CITES.
The 'Hvalur Group'
Iceland's 'Hvalur (meaning 'whaling') Group', comprising Hvalur hf; Fiskhlutfelagið Venus; Vogun; Vænting; HB Grandi and Hampiðjan, is the product of decades-long corporate and familial connections linked to Iceland's fishing and whaling industries. In turn, these companies are themselves tied to major players in Iceland's seafood, banking and investment firms. Hvalur hf, the fin whaling company, is also one of Iceland's leading investment companies. HB Grandi is Iceland's largest fishing and seafood export company, controlling nearly 10 percent of the country's fishing quotas. The U.S represents four percent of Grandi's overseas markets. Hampiðjan is one of the largest fishing gear suppliers in the world.


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Study Links Flu During Pregnancy With Autism
SAUSALITO, CA (ASRN.ORG) -- Kids whose mothers had the flu while pregnant were slightly more likely to be diagnosed with "infantile autism" before age three in a new Danish study. But the children's overall risk for the developmental disorder was not higher than that of other kids.
Researchers said it's possible that activation of a mother's immune system - such as by infection with the influenza virus - could affect a fetus's developing brain. But they urged caution with the new findings, especially because of statistical limitations in their number-crunching.
"I really want to emphasize that this is not something you should worry about," said lead author Dr. Hjordis Osk Atladottir, from the University of Aarhus.
"Ninety-nine percent of women with influenza do not have a child with autism," she said. "If it were me that was pregnant, I wouldn't do anything different from before, because our research is so early and exploratory."
Her team's data came from a study that originally recruited more than 100,000 pregnant women in Denmark between 1996 and 2002. The women were called multiple times during their pregnancies, and once afterward, to ask about any new infections they had or medications they had taken.
The new report includes 96,736 kids born from that initial cohort who were between 8 and 14 years old at the time of the analysis.
Using a country-wide register of psychiatric diagnoses, Atladottir and her colleagues found that 1 percent of all kids were diagnosed with autism, including 0.4 percent with infantile autism - in which the main symptoms all show up before age three.
There was no link between a range of infections in pregnancy - including herpes, coughs and colds and cystitis - and the chance a baby would develop autism or infantile autism, according to the report published Monday in Pediatrics.
And among 808 women who reported having the flu while pregnant, there was no increased risk of autism in their children. However, seven of those babies, or 0.87 percent, were diagnosed with infantile autism, compared to the rate of 0.4 percent among kids in general.
There was also an increased - albeit sometimes borderline - risk of both autism and infantile autism in babies of women who had fevers for a week or more during pregnancy, as well as mothers who took some types of antibiotics.
Atladottir said there is some research in rodents suggesting women's activated immune cells can cross the placenta and affect chemicals in a fetus's brain. But how those findings apply to humans is still a question mark.
"It's all very unsure now - we don't really know anything," she said.
In the United States, about one in 88 children is now diagnosed with autism or a related disorder.
One limitation of the new study, the researchers noted, is that they did 106 statistical tests comparing the risk of autism or infantile autism with various infections and drugs.
In medical research, a significant finding is typically considered one where there is less than a five percent likelihood the result would have occurred by chance.
But when so many calculations are done, scientists would expect that at least some would pass this test of significance, even if there is no real link between the pregnancy variables and autism.
In addition, women's flu reports weren't confirmed by doctors - and the frequency of mistaking the flu for another infection, or vice versa, is "likely to be considerable," the researchers noted.
Because of those limitations, Atladottir said the findings could encourage future research, but shouldn't be at the front of pregnant women's minds.
"We don't want to create panic," she said.
Still, one expert who wasn't involved in the new study thought the researchers were "soft peddling" their conclusions.
"It is highly recommended that women avoid infection during pregnancy, and there are a variety of very practical ways to decrease the likelihood of this," Paul Patterson, who studies the immune system and brain development at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend all women get a flu vaccine during pregnancy - in part because serious flu complications are more common in pregnant women.
But, said Patterson, "It is also worth emphasizing that even though the risk (of infantile autism) is significantly increased, the risk is still quite low."
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A video from the Southwest Research Institute explains the objectives for the Curiosity rover's Radiation Assessment Detector.
Even before its landing, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory has sent back its first scientific results — shedding light on the radiation exposure that astronauts would face during a future mission to the Red Planet.
The good news is that the spacecraft's protective shell, which is similar to the shielding being developed for NASA's Orion deep-space capsule, reduces the exposure inside the spacecraft to about a hundredth of what it was outside the spacecraft. That's according to Don Hassler, the principal investigator for the Radiation Assessment Detector that's installed on the MSL Curiosity rover.
The bad news is that the internal exposure levels measured during MSL's 8-month-plus cruise to Mars would still constitute "a significant contribution to an astronaut's career limit," Hassler said.
Hassler discussed the findings in general terms today during a pre-landing briefing conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The Mars Science Laboratory is due to plunge through Mars' atmosphere and lower Curiosity to the surface at 10:31 p.m. PT Sunday (1:31 a.m. ET Monday).
Mission managers said the probe was almost precisely on target for the landing in Gale Crater, within sight of a mountain that towers 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the crater floor. "I just can't wait," said Michael Meyer, the lead scientist at NASA Headquarters for the Mars exploration program.
Scientists say the layers that make up the mountain, known as Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp, record billions of years of geological history — including the era when Mars was warmer, wetter and more conducive to life. The Curiosity rover's main task is to seek out the chemical evidence that could tell scientists whether Mars was ever potentially habitable. "What you've got here is really kind of a geologist's paradise," said Caltech geologist John Grotzinger, project scientist for Curiosity.
Preparing the way for humans
Although the habitability question is the $2.5 billion mission's top issue, Mars Science Laboratory will also gather data to help NASA prepare for eventual human missions to Mars. The early readings from the Radiation Assessment Detector, known as RAD, are part of that investigation.
An artist's conception shows the Mars Science Laboratory during its cruise phase, heading from Earth toward Mars. The spacecraft's protective shell is similar to the hull of a crewed spaceship.
RAD's readings are still being analyzed in advance of submission to a scientific journal, Hassler told me, but the exposure equaled "a few tens of percent" of NASA's career limit. And that's just for a one-way trip. Astronauts would face additional exposure during their work on Mars and on the return trip.
NASA's career limit for radiation exposure is in the range of 1 to 4 sieverts, depending on the age and gender of the astronaut. The space agency associates that level with a 3 percent excess risk of cancer.
Space radiation has long been recognized as one of the biggest space hazards humans would face on long-duration trips beyond Earth's protective magnetic field, but the RAD results are expected to represent the best effort to quantify that hazard for Mars trips. RAD will continue to monitor radiation exposure on the Martian surface throughout Curiosity's two-year primary mission.
A manned mission to Mars and back would take two to three years, based on the scenarios currently studied by NASA. The space agency's exploration roadmap calls for astronauts to journey to Mars and its moons starting in the 2030s.
"Our observations are already being used in planning for human missions," Hassler, a researcher from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., told journalists.
Solar storms recorded
Most of the exposure recorded by RAD came in the form of five spikes in solar radiation levels during the cruise phase, including a monster spike in March. To determine how much protection the MSL spacecraft's outer shell provided, Hassler and his colleagues compared the internal readings from RAD with levels in the space environment that were recorded by a satellite known as the Advanced Composition Explorer. The researchers found that the highest peaks of solar activity were reduced by two orders of magnitude, or roughly a factor of 100.
"The lesson here is that these events happen very quickly, and they can be very intense, but with proper shielding we can help prepare for future human missions to Mars," Hassler said.
Experts are looking into potential ways to beef up the radiation shielding for deep-space journeys — for example, by distributing water and other supplies in a particular way around the outside of the capsule, or by creating a more heavily shielded "safe haven" for use during solar storms. In addition to solar storms, galactic cosmic rays contribute to radiation exposure levels in space.
After the landing, RAD will be able to compare the space exposure levels to the exposure levels on Mars itself. The Martian surface is thought to be pummeled by radiation to a far greater degree than Earth, primarily due to the fact that the Red Planet has a much thinner atmosphere and no global magnetic shield to divert electrically charged particles. Hassler said the RAD experiment could lead to much better models to predict the effects of space radiation on future deep-space astronauts.
More about Curiosity and space radiation:
- What will we see from Mars, and when will we see it?
- Even ordinary microbes may survive Martian radiation
- How a long mission to Mars could kill you
- Is there a virtual Mars in our future?
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Walter Day, a former oil industry executive so captivated by the video game craze that he founded an arcade that would later become the international sanctioning authority for record high scores, has retired from his creation, Twin Galaxies.
Day, 61, has chosen to leave to pursue a music career, an avocation featured in Day's appearance in the documentary "The King of Kong." Over the past few years, he had gradually been cutting back on his day-to-day duties with Twin Galaxies, which is under a separate ownership and management.
A gregarious man who speaks in a visionary tone about nearly everything he discusses, Day built Twin Galaxies from a leaderboard on an arcade wall in the middle of Iowa into the authority for video game world records, one relied on officially by Guinness World Records.
"I loved video games so much that I made every possible excuse to be surrounded by them," Day said in a video interview broadcast on Twin Galaxies' site. In it he also discusses the recent movement to locate a video game hall of fame in the city of Ottumwa, Iowa, a claim largely staked on the city's history during the early arcade boom, and Twin Galaxies' presence during that time.
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Black out information – Tokyo Electric Power Company
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