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An infant African elephant stays close to its mother's side in Tarangire National Park.
The vast savannas of East Africa support a multitude of some of Earth's largest animals on the quest for food, shelter and mates. The African elephant is one of those migrants. The Tarangire elephant project began in 1993 as Dr. Charles Foley's doctoral study on the effects of poaching on the social system of the African elephant. Since the inception of the project, now the second-longest running elephant research project in Africa, more than 1,000 elephants have been individually identified, forming one of the largest elephant identification databases in Africa. In 2000, the work expanded outside the National Park borders with a goal of protecting critical wildlife migration routes in the Simanjiro Plains.
The primary focus of Dr. Foley's Tanzania Wildlife Migration work is on identifying and protecting wildlife migration corridors and dispersal areas outside the wildlife parks where the animals live. 2005 saw the program establish the first conservation easement in the Simanjiro, creating a zone exclusively for livestock grazing and wildlife migration. In 2012, one of the key goals of the program was to continue expanding the conservation easement programs in order to develop a Wildlife Management Area in at least two additional key villages. In addition, an effort is on-going to strengthen anti-poaching efforts through the hiring of 15 additional Village Game Scouts, bringing the number to 25 in seven villages adjacent to the Tarangire.
This, along with securing conservation easements, will help alleviate human-elephant conflicts which are increasingly threatening the wellbeing of the elephants, and other wildlife in the Tarangire.
Local communities have benefited very little, if at all, from wildlife on their land, and often lose their crops to grazing animals and their livestock to predators. Through the project's conservation easements, which provide corridors set aside for wildlife to safely pass through, communities are now receiving direct financial benefits for their cooperation in conservation, including protecting dry season grazing land from agricultural expansion.
Training local villagers to monitor and protect the wildlife in their area is a key facet of the long-term conservation strategy for the area. Information empowers the villages and the monitoring teams can act as important spokespeople for the project. The presence of the teams in the area serves as a deterrent to poachers; the game scouts note any incidences of illegal activity and then call in official anti-poaching units from Tarangire National Park or from sport hunting operators to arrest the perpetrators. An information sharing system between the Village Game Scouts and the Tarangire anti-poaching unit provides better protection for elephants outside the park. Both have made a number of arrests and the increased level of security has led to several incidents of poachers being intercepted pre-emptively.
Long a symbol of African wildlife, the African elephant is the largest living land mammal with adult males weighing up to 15,000 pounds. African elephants live in socially complex family units comprising related adult females and their immature offspring. A family unit is usually made up of 8 to 10 animals and is led by the oldest, largest dominant female. While Tanzania has the second largest elephant population in Africa, Tarangire National Park is a nationally important elephant area, heavily promoted by Tanzania National Parks as one of the best places to see large herds of relaxed elephants.
The elephants of Tarangire National Park are under increasing threat from poaching for ivory and loss of critical habitat outside the National Park. Ivory poaching has become a serious threat across Africa, in East and Central Africa especially. Even the better-protected parks have seen a recent increase in poaching. In addition, agricultural expansion to the west and north of Tarangire has led to the disappearance of most of the wildlife corridors connecting Tarangire to surrounding dispersal areas. This project addresses these threats through village game scouts and protection of key elephant corridors through existing land protection programs.
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Coca-Cola Thinks Global, Acts Global For World Cup Marketing Efforts
September 21, 2009: Coca-Cola kicked off the eight-month countdown to the 2010 FIFA World Cup by unveiling a wealth of marketing plans, including multi-media advertising, consumer-generated Web content and the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour.
The World Cup will be held June 11-July 11, 2010 in South Africa. The final draw for the groups is to take place in Cape Town Dc. 4. Coca-Cola has had a formal association with FIFA since 1974 and has been an official sponsorship of FIFA World Cup since 1978.
Coke's marketing efforts, under the umbrella "Open Happiness" campaign, will include three commercials: "Roger Milla," which shows how the former World Cup star, who played in three World Cups for Cameroon and scored four goals in the 1990 tournament, inspired others with his energy, enthusiasm and unique post-goal celebration; "Quest," an animated tale of a "young athlete's quest to find his perfect goal" celebration; and "Borders," which show the "hilarious things that sometimes happen as the FIFA World Cup trophy makes its way around the globe." Support includes commemorative packaging, signage at stadiums, print and Internet. The FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour presented by Coca-Cola will visit 86 countries, with the African leg beginning this week in Cairo and ultimately reaching Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa in June.
Other elements of the global campaign include: Celebrating the Goal, a 60-minute documentary that follows players en route to the World Cup, which will be shown globally prior to the tournament; fans uploading their own goal celebrations to a Coke Web site, which will be "edited into a continuous loop to create a non-stop celebration," offering eligible fans the opportunity to win FIFA World Cup tickets;
"Football, especially during the FIFA World Cup, can motivate people to 'let go' a bit and express their passion in a spontaneous way," Joe Tripodi, chief marketing and commercial leadership officer for Coca-Cola, said in a statement. "This is particularly true of African football, where there is often a heightened passion for exuberant, colorful celebrations both on and off the field. That is the inspiration for our entire campaign."
In addition to Coca-Cola, FIFA partners are adidas, Kia, Visa, Sony and Emirates. FIFA World Cup partners are Budweiser, Castrol, Continental, McDonald's, MTM and Satyam.
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Ball Four
Jim Bouton, Leonard Shecter
Wiley, Jul 26, 1990 - Biography & Autobiography - 472 pages
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.
When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don'tordinarily follow baseball.
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GOALS: Hawthorn: Franklin 3, Rioli 2, Gunston 2, Breust 2, Young, Shiels, Suckling, Burgoyne. Adelaide: Tippett 4, Walker 4, Smith, Johncock, Porplyzia, van Berlo, Henderson, Sloane.
BEST: Hawthorn: Rioli, Franklin, Mitchell, Sewell, Lewis, Breust. Adelaide: Tippett, Dangerfield, Thompson, Walker, Jacobs, Sloane.
UMPIRES: C Donlon, M Nicholls, S McInerney.
CROWD: 69,146 at MCG.
DEJA vu can never have felt as chilling for any Hawthorn supporter than during the final quarter last night. It was happening again. A decent three-quarter-time lead in a preliminary final being squandered.
The lead eventually surrendered with just a few minutes left on the clock. Even a clanger from key defender Ryan Schoenmakers. Exchange Adelaide's jumpers for black-and-white stripes and it could have been 2011.
This time, rather than heartbreak, there was salvation, delivered in the shape of two late goals and some magic from those predictable sources Cyril Rioli and Lance Franklin. The Hawks had clung on by five points in an unexpected epic, averting what would have been the most infamous finals defeat by a hot favourite for many, many years.
Perhaps that will end up being essentially the difference between the Hawthorn of 12 months ago and the Hawthorn that will take on Sydney on Saturday for a tilt at an 11th premiership. A little more steadiness in the crisis, a little more resolve to get the job done and a little more fear - courtesy of what happened last September - of the consequences of not doing so.
But this story can't just be about Hawthorn, because it was Adelaide's resolve to show its credentials as a team - after all, it had finished equal with Hawthorn on points at the top of the ladder - that made this the thriller it was.
At least three times the Hawks looked ready to put an appropriate distance between themselves and the rank outsiders. On every occasion - even right at the death after those goals to Rioli and Franklin, Taylor Walker, with his fourth goal, pulled it back to under a kick and still with one last centre bounce to win the day - the Crows refused to go politely into the night. He was terrific when it counted. This time his key forward partner, Kurt Tippett, who also kicked four goals, hauled down 11 marks and did his share of ruckwork, was even better.
The Crows reliables fired again in midfield. Sam Jacobs in the ruck and, at ground level, Scott Thompson and Patrick Dangerfield, the latter saving his best for when it counted most, winning 11 disposals and three crucial clearances in the last term.
Like the rest of his team, he just kept coming even though the Crows may have lost heart when the Hawks enjoyed their biggest surge of the evening, four goals in the first nine minutes after half-time putting them 20 points in front and prompting the belief that a good early effort was about to be trumped by superior class and execution.
But the Crows had a point to prove to an army of season-long sceptics, who'd refused to believe an amazing turnaround from a 2011 finish of 14th to a spot playing off for a grand final berth could be down to anything more than an easy draw. They certainly won't be taken lightly after this effort.
Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson had spoken during the week about the need for his side to get off to a decent start. Unlike the first two finals, last night he could have had no argument with what he got in response.
After some early Hawthorn misses let Adelaide off the hook, the Crows struck. Tippett had missed one opportunity, but made no mistake with the second after a strong mark in front of Schoenmakers, a pattern that would be repeated more than a little in the first half.
A minute later, it was two on the board, Adelaide visibly growing in confidence and intent, demonstrated by the way Jason Porplyzia attacked a ground ball, winning it and beginning a link-up that ended in a lovely snap from Ricky Henderson.
The feeling was still that it was just a matter of time before Hawthorn stirred, far more so after Clinton Young calmly slotted his side's first from 55 metres out on the run, then Liam Shiels put the Hawks in front again after a 50-metre penalty, the hot favourite by now having double the Crows for inside 50 entries.
But not for the last time, Adelaide showed admirable pluck when a vast majority of 70,000 onlookers relaxed and waited for the supposedly inevitable cave-in. In a game that was far more open and flowing than the tight scraps that had thus far constituted much of this year's finals campaign, the Crows more than held their own in a contest of legs and run, apparent in Rory Sloane's goal on the break from outside 50, then another quick foray forward, Henderson's speculative bomb to the square ending with Tippett again.
Hawthorn by now had almost trebled Adelaide for forward entries and had managed to keep Crow dangerman Dangerfield relatively quiet, but its own inaccuracy and occasional poor decision making threatened to be its downfall, by the time Cyril Rioli missed another opportunity the scoreboard read 2.6 to the Crows' 4.1.
When Taylor Walker put his side two goals to the good five minutes into the second term, the rumblings of the significant horde of visiting fans grew exponentially, the gulps in the mouths of the brown and goal nearly just as audible.
Hawthorn has for most of this season shown a talent for turning on as emphatic a burst of power as anyone. Its first version last night began with Lance Franklin, until then hardly a factor. He cut into slide one through along the ground on his left foot after Roughead had fumbled another chest mark. The Hawks were in front again when Luke Breust bobbed up in the right place at the right time to get on the end of Brad Sewell's hurried kick, and looking all systems go by the time Shaun Burgoyne finished a nice bit of overlap to calmly steer through another.
Again Adelaide rallied, Walker booting the final two of the half, reprising his post-siren effort of last week. Their next rally was even more impressive after those four unanswered majors from the Hawks after half-time. The Crows kicked the first of the final term, then, after 12 minutes without a goal, another in dramatic circumstances.
Last year, Schoenmakers dropped a chest mark that resulted in Luke Ball's match-winning goal for Collingwood. Last night would have weighed more heavily had the Hawks not scraped home, as David Hale's hard-won free kick was reversed after Schoenmakers crashed into Porplyzia, the latter converting. Barely two minutes later, substitute Graham Johncock had, incredibly, put the Crows in front.
The next response was classy. Rioli, shifted forward, slipped in front of a pack to mark and goal from the next centre bounce. Franklin made it an all-important 10 points with three-and-a-half minutes to play after Ben Stratton had laid a critical tackle on Dangerfield, and Rioli got involved again, slipping out the handball to his superstar mate.
The Hawks were going to hang on this time. But if that was an improvement on what happened this day last September, next Saturday will need to be an improvement on what happened yesterday if that flag that has seemed likely for a while now is to be realised.
Quarter by quarter
QUARTER 1 Hawthorn had three shots at goal before the Crows had taken the ball inside 50. Unfortunately for the Hawks they missed each one and Adelaide put on two goals in two minutes through Tippett and Henderson. Hawthorn was uncharacteristically sloppy, making bad choices and executing poorly. Sloane was superb in the midfield for the Crows and Tippett was worrying Schoenmakers, with Walker pushing hard, dragging Gibson away and leaving Schoenmakers isolated.
Adelaide by seven points
QUARTER 2 Walker booted a goal to open the quarter for the Crows and stretch the lead to two goals. Hawthorn rallied when Franklin squeezed a ball through from a half chance and Breust goaled from 25metres out directly in front (after missing one from the same range minutes earlier) and there was a sense the Hawks were really starting to flex their muscles when Burgoyne got on the end of a chain of handballs to convert. Critically, Adelaide held them up and goaled against the flow through Walker.
Adelaide by five points
QUARTER 3 The Hawks broke the game open with four straight goals, including three in two minutes. Sewell was outstanding for the Hawks, firing them up in the middle and creating the opportunities for his forwards to score. Van Berlo goaled off one step after an inventive blind handball from Walker, but each time Adelaide pressed, Hawthorn answered, painfully so when a poor kick across goal to Rutten left Rioli with an easy scoring shot. A goal on the siren again gave Adelaide some hope.
Hawthorn by 16 points
QUARTER 4 Hawthorn missed early chances and thenTippett kicked his fourth. The potential game-changer came when Schoenmakers cannoned into Porplyzia's back to have a free reversed and the Crows converted the kick. Johncock goaled to put the Crows in front. Burgoyne cleared the ball at the centre bounce, delivered to Rioli, who marked and gave Hawthorn back the lead. Stratton tackled Dangerfield when the Crow was a chance to goal and the ball rebounded for Franklin to kick the sealer.
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LAKEWOOD — A well-known McDonald's franchise operator will be the newest member of the Lakewood City Council.
The council unanimously selected Ron Piazza, a partner and franchise operator of Piazza McDonald's in Lakewood, Thursday night during a special meeting to fill the vacancy left by the death of longtime Councilman Larry Van Nostran.
Piazza will complete the remainder of Van Nostran's term, which ends March 24, 2015. He will be sworn in before Jan. 8 by the city clerk, and there will be a public swearing-in at the next regular council meeting Jan. 22, according to city spokesman Bill Grady.
A longtime Lakewood resident, Piazza was selected for his community involvement and business experience, said Vice Mayor Steve Croft and Councilman Jeff Wood, who made up a two-person committee that reviewed the applications of 20 residents who had applied to fill the vacancy. The committee narrowed the list to five finalists, whose names were released Wednesday.
Piazza's experience includes being a longtime leader in the McDonald's Operators Association of Southern California, which oversees advertising and public relations for all 680 McDonald's restaurants in the region.
He also chaired the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California for six years and spearheaded fundraising for the successful effort to build the Long Beach Ronald McDonald House.
Piazza also is an active resident and civic leader with several Lakewood community events, including the Youth Sports Hall of Fame, Concerts in the Park and Pan American Fiesta.
By state law, the council had to either appoint a Lakewood resident to the council vacancy by Jan. 8 or schedule a special June 4 election. The council chose to fill the seat to avoid the cost of a special election, which the city clerk estimates would cost Lakewood between $80,000 and $100,000.
The four other finalists were:
William Baca, a sales and logistics supervisor with Holiday Paper Products who has served as a community safety commissioner in Lakewood for the past seven years;
Vicky Stuckey, an employee of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who served on the Lakewood Community Safety Commission from 2001 to 2005 and on the Planning and Environment Commission since 2005;
Marc Titel, a college instructor at Fremont College who served on the council from 1984 to 2001 and also served as a member of the city's Planning and Environment Commission and Cable TV Commission;
Ron Wade, the owner of a home improvement company who has served on the city's Planning and Environment Commission for the past 26 years and served on the Community Safety Commission for four years.
Van Nostran, a nine-time Lakewood mayor, died at his home Nov. 9 at the age of 79. First elected to the council in 1975, he was the longest-serving council member in Lakewood's history at 37 years.
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Figure 14-4 - Average Transportation Fuel Prices by Type: 1994-2004
Figure 14-4 - Average Transportation Fuel Prices by Type: 1994-2004
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NOTES: Railroad diesel fuel price and highway vehicle- and aircraft-miles of travel data were not available for 2004 when this report was prepared. To eliminate the effects of inflation over time, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics converted current dollars (see table 14-4 in appendix B) to chained 2000 dollars.
SOURCES: Except railroad diesel—U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, tables 9.1 (crude oil), 9.4 (motor gasoline), and 9.7 (aviation, jet, and diesel no. 2), available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/, as of May 2005. Railroad diesel—Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts 2004 (Washington, DC: 2004), p. 61. Vehicle and aircraft-miles of travel per capita—U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), calculations using data from USDOT, BTS, National Transportation Statistics 2004, table 1-32, available at http://www.bts.gov/, as of May 2005. Population—U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States, section 1, table 2, available at http://www.census.gov/, as of May 2005.


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Ventura looks like a Natural on mound
Royals prospect strikes out 10, gives up one hit in five innings
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | April 30, 2013 8:57 PM ET
Yordano Ventura was throwing major heat Tuesday night. Unfortunately, not many people at Arvest Ballpark knew just how hot it was.
The 21-year-old right-hander hit 100 mph four times with his wicked fastball in his latest start for Double-A Northwest Arkansas, but the stadium radar gun was off.
"I saw 96 -- maybe not 97 -- but definitely 96 a couple times up there," said Naturals pitching coach Jim Brower. "But that thing can be wrong by plus-or-minus 3 mph sometimes. We have our own radar guns that are pretty accurate, and that's what we go off."
By any measure, Ventura was dominant in his most recent outing.
The Royals' No. 3 prospect struck out 10 and allowed three walks in five one-hit innings Tuesday in the Naturals' 4-0 win over Springfield.
Ventura struck out the first four Cardinals and five of the first six he faced through the first two frames. When his night was over, it marked the first time he reached double digits in punchouts since last June 30 for Class A Advanced Wilmington, thanks to an arsenal that included much more than a big heater.
"He had three Major League-ready pitches tonight," Brower said. "He did a great job keeping the fastball down. I think it was averaging around 97-98, so he was blowing it by guys too. But more than that, he was hitting his spots. He controlled his curveball well too and was throwing it in a number of counts, including 3-2 for strikeouts. And he had a good changeup too. So overall, it was a really strong night for him."
Tuesday marked the Dominican Republic native's second scoreless outing through five starts in the young season. He is 2-0 with a 2.31 ERA over that span. His 33 strikeouts rank second in the Texas League behind only Carlos Pimentel's 34 for Frisco, although Ventura has pitched in almost seven fewer innings (30-23 1/3).
That five-game stretch is already better than his six-game experience with Northwest Arkansas in 2012, when he went 1-2 with a 4.60 ERA, 25 strikeouts and 13 walks in 29 1/3 innings.
As unfortunate as those previous results look, there was some good to come of it, according to Brower.
"It's a learning process with everyone here," said the pitching coach. "Until you put in the time at Double-A, you're never going to really know what it's like. You have to learn how to pitch to the good hitters here, or they're going to get to you. He's got into some long innings while he's been with us, but my job is to point out when he falls back into old habits so we can correct that immediately."
Among those old habits are the heavy reliance on the fastball, as is the case with many young power pitchers. But if Ventura can continue to find confidence in his offspeed offerings, he could find a spot in Triple-A Omaha's rotation this year or even Kansas City by September callups, when the Royals could determine whether they see his future as a starter or in the bullpen, where his electric stuff could prove highly effective in short spurts.
But for now, the right-hander will have to continue to string together more outings like Tuesday's if he hopes to see break from the Texas League for the first time.
"I know the Royals are looking to win and that they'll put the best guys out there, so it's their decision as to what happens with him from here," Brower said. "As of now, I'm going to work with him to repeat tonight's performance, find out why it worked and stay with that approach every time out there."
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26th June 2012 02:20 AM #1
New cot mattress for new baby?
As most of your on here know I have a toddler (18 months) and am pregnant with our second baby (22 weeks). Until recently, we co-slept with my son (in our double bed) although he sometimes also slept in the cot which attaches to our bed (it is like a 'side car': a co-sleeper cot). I am wondering if it would be best to buy a new mattress for this co-sleeper cot as the new baby may spend some time in it. I have heard that it is best to buy a new mattress when you have a new baby to help reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. However, I also believe that sleeping close to your baby helps to reduce this risk and the mum is then more naturally 'in-tune' with the babies sleeping patterns.
What are your thoughts on if I need to purchase a new mattress for the co-sleeping cot (which I am happy to do if it is best) given we plan for the new baby to be spending a significant amount of time co-sleeping in our bed? Many thanks in advance.
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26th June 2012 11:46 AM #2
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Hi LJ,
Typically a cot mattress won't show significant signs of failure/support even if it is used with 2 or 3 children. If the mattress is made of foam, there could very well be off-gassing/out-gassing of chemicals from the foam, which is not healthy for you or bub. I noticed that some co-sleepers have an organic mattress option with rubber core. I know that rubber has a very strong smell, and I can't even sleep in a room with rubber because it is so strong. Not sure if it's off-gassing or nor, but it sure smells strong.
If you're concerned about how supportive the mattress will be for bub, then you may want to purchase one and let it off-gas in the garage before baby arrives. If you think the mattress is still plenty supportive, then you may not need a new one. I'd determine the need by what kind of shape the original mattress is in.
Hope that helps.
Warm regards,
27th June 2012 07:12 AM #3
Thanks Kate - that's very helpful.
My toddler has hardly slept in the co-sleeper mattress as he has mainly been in our bed! So it is in excellent condition. My main concern was with if there was any increased risk of SIDS with not getting a new mattress for a new baby but I understand this risk is minimal as we plan to be breastfeeding and (safely) co-sleeping.
Thanks again,


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The yen reached a fresh six-year low on the New Zealand dollar on Monday, as safe-haven demand waned amid hopes of more stimulus from China.
The euro fell to three-week low against the dollar on Friday, with investors wary given strong rhetoric from European Central Bank officials about its recent strength and awaiting German inflation data that could undermine it further.
The dollar edged higher against the euro and the yen after upbeat U.S. economic data.
Ilya Spivak, Currency Strategist at FXCM, says the EUR/USD and the USD/CAD currency pairs could receive a boost as concerns about the U.S. economy subside.
The euro fell on Wednesday, with investors wary after European Central Bank officials ramped up efforts to talk down the currency, with arguably its most hawkish member hinting at a radical softening of monetary policy.
Sterling firmed against a weaker euro on Tuesday after European monetary policy makers signaled possible monetary easing to avoid deflation.
The euro was hurt by signs that growth was slowing in the euro zone's largest economy, Germany.
Data showing a record euro zone trade surplus in January helped the euro rise against the dollar for the first time in three days.
The dollar steadied against major currencies on Thursday after being jerked higher overnight by a Federal Reserve message that a rate hike would be sooner than expected.
Kathy Lien, BK Asset Management, and Michael Gregory, BMO Capital Markets, provide perspective on how rising interest rates will likely impact currencies and fixed income.
The dollar rose against the yen and euro on Wednesday, following the Federal Reserve's announcement it will further unwind monetary stimulus.
A modest easing of tension in Ukraine and a slight increase in U.S. Treasury yields sent the euro on Tuesday against the U.S. dollar and the yen.
The yen heads for its biggest weekly gain in more than a month against the dollar, on tensions in Ukraine and the Chinese economy.
Fears the crisis in Ukraine could intensify led traders to the safe havens of the Japanese yen and Swiss franc.
Concerns about China and other developing economies weakened the Australian dollar and currencies closely linked to commodities markets.
The ECB's forward guidance may adjust policy to tighten the slack in the Euro zone economy, a senior ECB official said.
The U.S. dollar was supported by hopes U.S. job growth would pick up in the wake of last week's data.
Unexpectedly strong non-farm payroll data boosted the dollar, despite the cold winter across much of the United States.
The euro added half a cent after the European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged.
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The Qur'an encourages man to think. In the verses of Qur'an, our Lord often advises people to ponder over what they see with the words, "Will you not pay heed?" and "Don't you use your intellect?"
There is a vital difference between looking at something and passing over them and looking at with wisdom. A person who only looks acts as a living being who only breathes and lives automatically, without any consciousness. A person who sees with wisdom, on the other hand, assesses everything with wisdom, attaches meaning to them. As in the case of the other example, he does not only pass with an unconscious mind; he possesses a conscious perception.
In the verse of the Qur'an, our Lord states, "It is He Who shows you His Signs and sends down provision to you out of heaven. But none pay heed save those who repent." (Surah Ghafir, 13)
This is the point where believers and unbelievers differ. Those who have faith find wisdom in what they see and have a consciousness that turns inwardly to Allah.
This consciousness ensures one to see the breathtaking works of Allah's artistry that are everywhere. Those who believe that the universe and living beings evolved as a result of some chances are under the influence of a spell that hinder them from seeing this obvious fact.
This majestic artistry is around us wherever we go. For instance our Lord granted some insect species to take other living beings under their command and direct them. These insects control the behavior of other beings to get what they need.
This situation also astonishes scientists including Frederic Thomas of Montreal University Biology Department says: "You can easily understand that a parasite can control the behavior when it is inside. But how do some manage to dictate a host's behavior when they're not, technically, hosting a parasite? To me, it's like magic,"
The 'Glyptapanteles' Wasp taking caterpillar under its control:
The parasitoid wasp Glyptapanteles lays its eggs, about 80 at a time, in young geometrid caterpillars. The eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the caterpillar's body fluids. When they are fully developed, they eat through the caterpillar's skin, attach themselves to a nearby branch or lead and wrap themselves in a cocoon. At this point the caterpillar, still alive, behaves as though controlled by the cocooned larvae. Instead of going about its usual daily business, it stands arched over the cocoons without moving away or feeding. Even at the moment of its death the caterpillar spins a cocoon-like home for the larvae. With the net that the caterpillar spins, the larvae are protected against intruders.
(Ampulex Compressa) The emerald cockroach:
'Ampulex compressa', an emerald cockroach wasp, enslaves a much larger cockroach (Periplaneta americana). The little emerald cockroach injects a neurotoxin into the cockroach's brain. This toxin kills off the roach's ability to control its own movement but does not paralyze it entirely. The wasp is then able to grasp the roach's antenna and lead it into a nest before laying an egg in the live cockroach's body.
Permanently incapacitated, the cockroach is unable to escape and is eaten from the inside by the growing wasp larva.
Hairworm (Spinochordodes Tellinii) taking cricket under its control
Crickets can't swim, but the harrowing hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii) doesn't care about that detail. After growing inside of a cricket's body and feasting on its insides, the hairworm will inexplicably compel the cricket to throw itself into a body of water, where the ruthless body snatcher can emerge and enter the aquatic phase of its life cycle.
Frederic Thomas, a scientist in Montpellier, France, says, "It was amazing to see hundreds of crickets at night totally under the control of the parasite inside and jumping into the water."
Our Lord endows even a tiny insect with astonishing skills. It is obvious that this might can not belong to invisible organisms who are deprived of any consciousness. Allah shows us how He grants life to beings by His beautiful name al-Hayy, the Ever Living, and His artistry He displays in them by His name as-Sani, the Artificer, the Maker.
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Bile-acid binding resins work, as their name suggests, by binding to bile in the digestive tract. This reduces cholesterol in the following way:
When used with dietary control, bile acid resins can reduce LDL levels by 15 - 20%. When bile acid resins are combined with nicotinic acid, LDL levels can drop as much as 40 - 60%.
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(Washington, DC) -- Top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are not alarmed about the National Security Agency's collection of information from Verizon phone calls. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss call it a renewal of an ongoing national security practice. Meantime, the Obama administration is defending the practice as a critical tool in protecting the U.S. from terrorism.
California Democrat Feinstein chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. Georgia's Chambliss is the top Republican on the panel. The British "Guardian" reported the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court granted the snooping order to the FBI on April 25th. It allows the NSA's gathering of data including numbers called, call duration and location. Contents of calls are not covered. The order reportedly expires July 19th.


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Few writers have pioneered so many forms of escapism as Edgar Allan Poe, and fewer still have sought escape so desperately themselves. Poe's claustrophobic life consisted of one escape attempt after another, most of them unsuccessful. Again and again he dodged poverty through overwork, but never for long. He fled loneliness into an ill-fated, loving but likely chaste marriage to a frail cousin. And drink promised an oblivion that kept luring him back, with increasingly destructive consequences.
Poe's most satisfying escape was into his writing, where generations of readers have followed him ever since. His sheer versatility continues to astonish. Without Poe, the literary arts of horror, adventure, detective, and science fiction—and, arguably, the short story itself—would have developed very differently. In addition to fiction in several genres, he wrote as famous a poem as American literature can claim. He practiced literary criticism as fine art, blood sport, and, with a series of female poets, the highest form of flirtation. If the movies had existed in the nineteenth century, he might have written screenplays as well—and bedeviled his producers as reliably as he did most of his editors.
At the same time, another side of Poe remained relentlessly logical. In his criticism as well as his detective stories, he could make a case and prove it with mathematical inevitability. Often lost in any study of Poe, too, is his sense of humor. Though their victims would hardly have agreed, his hoaxes, essays, and especially his negative reviews retain their wit even today. Even the most macabre of his stories impart a certain ghoulish tickle.
Poe's influence is almost too universal to notice. He resembles scarcely anybody before him but, at least a little, almost everyone after. If he hadn't come along to make American literature safe for ghosts and murderers, for crime-solving know-it-alls and their quarry—for the subconscious mind, in all its murk and madness—somebody else might have. But, to use one of Poe's signature italicized endings, what if nobody had?
Throughout Poe's fiction, there runs an undercurrent of inwardness, an obsession with dark corners of the subconscious mind, at the time familiar perhaps only from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). He also used a fiction writer's entire bag of tricks—exclamation points, double-dashes, italics, repetition, the capitalization of first letters and sometimes of entire words—to pump up the urgency of his gothic stories. If melodramatic organ chords could talk, they would sound like the narrator of a Poe story.
Few students of Poe can resist the temptation to group his stories into subsets, like teams. Some might say there's the claustrophobia team, captained by the "The Cask of Amontillado," in which the narrator bricks up his friend in a wine cellar. Then there's the idealized-women team, anchored by "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher," with its female characters either doomed, impossibly perfect, or both. Then there's the junior detective team, consisting mainly of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and its two sequels, in which Poe essentially invented detective fiction.
What these categories all have in common is the self-dramatizing loneliness of genius. Poe almost always relies on a first-person narrator. All his stories are ultimately claustrophobia stories, whether they include a literally confined space, a roomier but still airless and solitary house, or the psychological prison of a damaged character's mind. Poe's treatment of women characters also reflects his essential solitude. Many of his narrators marry, but none ever achieves a lasting connection with his bride. Even his most self-satisfied character, the peerless amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin, has but one friend and no equal. We don't see the suffering this causes, but only the shallowest character would fail to feel it.
No serious writer today could get away with all this hyperventilating. Yet few writers can fully escape Poe's gravitational pull as one of the original two masters of the American short story. The other would be Nathaniel Hawthorne, who, interestingly, also wrote more than a few horror stories. Like many fledgling writers, American fiction itself started out with a fascination for ghosts and gore.
Edgar Allan Poe began his literary career as a poet, was a merciless critic, and found his greatest success with "The Raven." Poe defined poetry as "the rhythmical creation of beauty." He had strong and serious ideas as to what qualified as "poetry," and what fell short.
Poe wrote several variable essays on poetics—the best is "The Poetic Principle"—through which his ideas evolved, but remained fairly consistent. In "The Philosophy of Composition," Poe outlines how he came to write "The Raven," detailing his artistic choices. Scholars have pointed out that Poe's account of writing the poem is vastly idealized and probably untrue, but however disingenuous Poe is about his composition, he's crystal clear on his philosophy: "Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.... Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all poetical tones....The death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world—and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."
The death of a beautiful woman is the theme that dominates the best of Poe's poems. There is "the lost Lenore" of "The Raven," but also Lenore of the poem "Lenore"—Poe thought that the sound or was the most beautiful in the English language. His other famous poem to lost love, "Annabel Lee" tragically ends when he lies down by the side of his "life" and his "bride" "in the sepulcher there by the sea, / In her tomb by the sounding sea."
Poe devoted his longest essay on poetics, "The Rationale of Verse," to an overly complicated view of rhythm and meter, but the importance of sound in Poe's poems cannot be overstated. A master of rhythm, Poe's syllable-by-syllable approach to sound yielded some of the most memorable lines in American poetry. His ear for mimicry is unparalleled. "The Bells" is an onomatopoetic marathon of tinkling tintinnabulation and clanging, banging bells, bells, bells throughout.
Excluding "The Raven," Poe's poems are mostly short lyric pieces—meditations on death or beautiful women or the death of beautiful women—almost always less than a page long. He believed that a poem should be readable in one sitting and objected to what he saw as the epic "mania" among such contemporaries as Longfellow, whom he felt valued Truth and moral didacticism over the exaltation of Beauty.
For all the time he spent writing about it, Poe left behind a rather slim corpus of poetry. Perhaps because his standards were so high, a remarkable share of Poe's poems are excellent in their technique and unity. His poems remain popular in and outside the classroom, and are assured a place in the minds of readers forevermore.
"I would give the world to embody one half the ideas afloat in my imagination."
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INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Former champion Caroline Wozniacki battled through a marathon encounter to upset fourth-seeded German Angelique Kerber 2-6 6-4 7-5 on Friday and reach her third BNP Paribas Open final in four years.
The eighth-seeded Dane, winner at Indian Wells in 2011 after being a losing finalist the previous year, held off a late fightback by Kerber to scrape through in a wildly fluctuating contest lasting two-and-a-half hours.
In a match littered with 14 service breaks, Wozniacki led 4-1 and then 5-3 in the third set but the German clawed her way back to 5-6 before being broken for a seventh and final time when she netted a forehand.
Wozniacki will next face either 2006 champion Maria Sharapova or her fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko, who were playing their semi-final later on Friday at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
"I led 4-1 in the third and should have finished it off there but she's a great fighter," a jubilant Wozniacki said courtside after ending a run of three consecutive losses to the German. "I played a bit short and she was all over it.
"It is very special," the 22-year-old Dane said of reaching her third final at Indian Wells. "I really enjoy this tournament. I think it shows. I have done great results here in the past, and this is another very good one."
Kerber who won her first WTA singles title in Paris last year, raced into a 4-1 lead before taking the opening set in 38 minutes after Wozniacki hit a backhand service return long.
The 25-year-old German appeared to be in cruise control when she broke her opponent's serve for a fourth time at the start of the second set, then holding to 2-0 up but the match effectively turned in the seventh game.
At 3-3, Wozniacki survived nine deuces and five break points before holding serve and going on to level the match when she broke Kerber in the 11th game after the German netted a forehand.
"We had some really good points in that game, and that was definitely very important in the match," Wozniacki said of that marathon game in the second set. "I managed to turn it around."
Kerber, who had not dropped a set in her three previous matches before gaining a walkover into the semi-finals when seventh-seeded Australian Samantha Stosur withdrew due to a calf injury, applauded Wozniacki's play.
"She was moving better and hit the ball a little bit higher," the German left-hander said. "It's not easy to lose a match like this, but well done to her. It was a tough match from the beginning.
"I started very well, but she found her game in the second set. And it was not easy for me, but I think it was a close and good match. At the end she won important points."
Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by John O'Brien/Amlan Chakraborty


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The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Citizens Bancshares Co., Chillicothe, Missouri, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
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Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel
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Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.
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Don't Press That "SEND" Button! Recent Survey Highlights security exposures in Email and FTP
According to Forrester Research¹, 94% of us use email as our primary collaboration tool. Whether it's for sharing medical research information, financial records, or the latest marketing campaign creative layouts, email has become the ubiquitous vehicle for sharing today's rapidly growing wealth of unstructured data (e.g. PDFs, PowerPoint charts, digital images, audio and video).
In fact, a recent survey conducted by Group Logic showed that 70% use email most often to share large files (read unstructured data). So what's the problem here?
As the amount and size of digital content grows over time, it has simply gotten to the point where it won't fit through the email pipe anymore. Take for example, marketing creative files. A short television ad spot can take hundreds of megabytes of storage. Sending this through traditional email systems simply won't work.
Using email to send files is slow, inefficient, unreliable, and actually creates a great deal of potential for legal liability. It's an example of one of the ad-hoc business processes that smart companies are eliminating now in favor of more effective technologies like Managed File Transfer (MFT). We see more and more companies extending their existing email tools with embedded MFT solutions that strip out attachments and transfer them in a more secure, efficient way.
And then there's the security aspect. Objects like medical images, or sensitive financial records needs a whole new level of security – not just to make sure they don't fall into the wrong hands, but also to comply with today's strict regulatory compliance standards – standards like SOX, HIPAA, or GLBA.
In the survey referenced above, over half (51 percent) admitted at least one type of other email error while trying to collaborate with large digital files. Perhaps most alarmingly, nearly 10 per cent admitted emailing a customer an attachment meant for a different customer altogether.
Despite email's prevalence, it's clear that once companies really begin to scale their collaboration efforts, company leaders quickly realize the importance of using solutions like MFT for secure and governed transfer of digital assets. And while we view MFT as an critical means of bridging the gaps in today's email and collaboration tools, it goes without saying that the adoption of known best practices is essential to ensuring effective control and compliance over how information is shared within the enterprise.
1 – "The State of Collaboration Software Adoption", Forrester Research, April 2010


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Wildlife detector dog will be stationed in Miami
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MIAMI — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found a new way to sniff out illegal wildlife shipments.
The first class of wildlife detector dogs and handlers graduated from training in searching for protected species. One dog will be stationed at the Port of Miami.
The agency's deputy chief of law enforcement Ed Grace says the rapid growth in global trade in protected wildlife is pushing some species toward extinction. He says the dogs to help stop wildlife smuggling.
The four dogs and their handlers completed a 13-week course at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Detector Dog Training Center. The dogs will scan air, rail and ocean cargo.
Wildlife inspector Amir Lawal in Miami says the program offers a chance to combine his two loves — wildlife and dogs.
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Dries Van Noten Spring 2012
"I didn't want to use any prints that were created for fabrics," explained Dries Van Noten backstage at his commanding show, a study in elegant modernity that took his signature culture mix into unchartered waters. So instead, against a controlled palette of black, navy, and white touched with teal, magenta, and cinnamon, he looked to hand-colored seventeenth-century studies of butterfly wings, eighteenth-century Arcadian land- and seascapes, the exquisite early-nineteenth-century rose studies of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and an image of a Victorian jungle—and literally spliced these up with thoroughly twenty-first-century photographs of cities at night, including the colored lights blinking from the windows of high-rises in Marseilles and Beirut, or the illuminations garlanding a London bridge sparkling in the darkness. He laid bands of these mismatched images together to create photo prints that were artfully arranged just so on the individual garment.
Dries wanted to use those prints on "strange shapes," so he looked to the exaggerated volumes of mid-century haute couture: the mushrooming opera coats of Cristóbal Balenciaga, and the extreme ruffles, peplums, and structure of lesser known but adventurous Spanish and Italian couturiers of that period (thick black scrollwork lace, against crisp white slips or cotton tees seemed a nod to the same sources). Translated into humble, crisp cottons and paper taffetas, these silhouettes were deflated of their vintage pomp and transformed into thoroughly twenty-first-century propositions.
Tone-on-tone embroidered matador and ribbon-braided nineteenth-century military jackets threw menswear elements into the melting pot; a counterpoint to the feminine little shift-dresses, the abbreviated caftans, and the draped skirts that suggested the inventive wrappings of women in the African countryside.
For Dries, those photo prints of the enigmatic lights in the urban nightscapes looked like so many Swarovski crystals glittering in the dark, so he echoed the effect with the crystals themselves, on an inky paper-taffeta opera coat or a skirt of slippery dark crepe; a poetic finale to his thoughtful show.


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Child Care
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ms. Ranking Member and Members of the Committee for this opportunity to testify on the issue of child care and the work of the General Services Administration. My name is Susan Clampitt, and I am the Associate Administrator for the Office of Management and Workplace Programs. As manager of a program that affects all of government, I understand the seriousness and importance of the role of this Committee. I welcome the chance to appear before you and continue our conversation on the Federal Child Care program.
I request that my written remarks be added to the record.
At this transformational moment in our society, when the way we work and care for our families evolves into an ever-trickier balancing act, the issue of affordable, quality child care confronts us all. Parents with young children struggle with what's best for their family, their jobs and budgets. All of us are stakeholders in that decision, for the choices made today have a profound ripple effect on us all, today and in the years ahead, when those children grow up and replace us.
Federal workers walk that same tightrope as the rest of society. A 1992 study showed that about one-quarter of all Federal workers had children under the age of six for whom they were responsible and who needed care at some time during the work day. That same s urvey said that 75 percent of those people could use assistance to help meet their families' dependent care needs. That's a lot of children.
Federal agencies have responded to that need in a number of ways. GSA oversees 109 centers in its public buildings across the country. As you know, the Department of Defense has an extensive child care program that they operate for military families, funded in part through appropriations. Other Federal agencies, not including GSA, sponsor a total of 133 centers.
Today, I want to discuss generally GSA's child care program and talk about the two critical issues we face - quality and affordability, and to give you my thoughts on the pending legislation that we believe strengthens the ability of the Federal government to provide affordable, quality child care for its employees.
Child care has been a big priority at GSA for a dozen years. In that time, we have earned a reputation for quality programs and concern for the safety and security of the children. In 1996, more than 7, 1 00 children - a mix of Federal and non-Federal families - were cared for in GSA buildings. Since coming to GSA last summer, I have made it part of my mission to go out and visit some of those centers and see firsthand the care those children receive.
I am pleased to report that the overall quality of child care in GSA-sponsored centers is equal to, and often, better than other privately-run child care facilities. The centers in GSA-controlled space are all operated by private non-profit or commercial organizations under the terms of licensing agreements which set standards designed to ensure quality. Because of this authority to set standards, we know these children in GSA-controlled spaces are safe and well cared for.
As with any child care program as extensive as the one GSA sponsors, there are differences of degrees in quality. One downtown center that I visited in Seattle last month, for example, was an oasis of care and compassion. Of course, that center had a strong and active board and a staff committed to quality curriculum and best practices. Part of our job in the years ahead is to raise the bar for all of our centers.
Each of GSA's 109 centers is operated independently, either by a large or small provider, for profit or not-for-profit, locally-run or as part of a national chain. Some of the centers have established boards, made up primarily of parents, who enter into contracts with the child care provider to maintain a degree of responsibility and oversight for the care of their children. These boards are also instrumental in local fundraising, which is used for curriculum enrichment and tuition assistance.
GSA, parents, providers, Congress and the Administration have been concerned for some time about affordability issues. Last year Congress directed the Office of Management & Budget to report on that topic, and OMB requested that we investigate. GSA commissioned a study through the National Academy of Public Administration on "Accessibility & Affordability in Federal Child Care" which addresses those issues.
Key findings of the study were:
The Federal child care system needs more adequate funding.
� Federal child care needs better information and more cohesion.
� Agencies may need more flexibility to pursue new funding and partnership
� There is no "silver bullet" that will solve the affordability problem.
How do we go about addressing consistency in quality and affordability? We believe that the legislation pending before Congress, H.R. 2982, the Quality Child Care for Federal Employees Act, and the Administration's proposed amendments to the Trible Amendment, are important steps.
H.R. 2982 will help bring more accountability to Federal child care. All Federal child care centers would be required to adhere to a uniform set of regulations which will be developed by GSA with the assistance of other agencies and representatives of the Judicial and Legislative branches. These regulations would help set national health, safety and facility standards and require that centers meet the standards for state/local licensing and national accreditation.
While agencies which sponsor eight or more child care centers would be delegated responsibility for compliance with the law, child care centers at other Federal, non-DOD agencies which sponsor fewer than eight would come under GSA oversight.
The legislation also sets up an interagency council to coordinate policy and share best practices. This council will give more cohesion to the Federal efforts, and a draft charter has already been developed.
The Administration's proposed amendments to the Trible Amendment would allow more flexible use of resources in supporting government-sponsored child care centers.
It modifies the 50 percent rule for Federal family enrollment from center by center to a national average, yet children of Federal workers would still have priority.
The proposed language broadens the definition of Federal employee children to include all children in the custody of federal employees, such as grandparents and legal guardians, as well as on-site government contractors.
It will allow us to partner with private centers to reserve spaces for Federal employee children in non-government child care centers when it is more cost effective to do so.
Perhaps most importantly, the legislation allows for some experimentation. Pilot tests and demonstration projects are authorized and encouraged, including those with the private sector. This flexibility for innovation may well prove the most important part of the package. Such innovation will need to have some evaluation component, in order for us to determine what works and what does not.
The Quality Child Care for Federal Employees Act and its amendments are part of the strategy to make quality child care affordable for the Federal worker. We have asked all of our eligible centers to apply for participation in the Combined
Federal Campaign, and that will help address the problem. The Interagency Child Care Council will help. The lessons learned from the Department of Defense and the Department of Labor's apprenticeship program for child care workers will help. Flexibility for pilot partnerships will help. Strong local boards at our centers will help. And I know this Committee will help, and I thank you for this opportunity.


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