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Thunnus albacares
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Neothunnus albacora Lowe, 1839
Neothunnus catalinae Jordan & Evermann, 1926
Neothunnus itosibi Jordan & Evermann, 1926
Orcynus subulatus Poey, 1875
Scomber albacares Bonnaterre, 1788
Scomber albacorus Lacepède, 1800
Scomber sloanei Cuvier, 1832
Semathunnus guildi Fowler, 1933
Thunnus albacora (Lowe, 1839)
Thunnus allisoni Mowbray, 1920
Thunus albacares (Bonnaterre 1788)
Thynnus albacora Lowe, 1839
Thynnus argentivittatus Cuvier, 1832
Thynnus macropterus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Although several geographic populations have been named as species, morphological and genetic data show there is one world-wide panmictic species (Gibbs and Collette 1967, Scoles and Graves 1993).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Collette, B., Acero, A., Amorim, A.F., Boustany, A., Canales Ramirez, C., Cardenas, G., Carpenter, K.E., Chang, S.-K., de Oliveira Leite Jr., N., Di Natale, A., Die, D., Fox, W., Fredou, F.L., Graves, J., Guzman-Mora, A., Viera Hazin, F.H., Hinton, M., Juan Jorda, M., Minte Vera, C., Miyabe, N., Montano Cruz, R., Masuti, E., Nelson, R., Oxenford, H., Restrepo, V., Salas, E., Schaefer, K., Schratwieser, J., Serra, R., Sun, C., Teixeira Lessa, R.P., Pires Ferreira Travassos, P.E., Uozumi, Y. & Yanez, E.
|Russell, B. & Polidoro, B.
This species is fast-growing, widely distributed and highly productive. It is important in commercial fisheries around the world. It is being effectively managed throughout the majority of its range. All stocks are being fished below current maximum sustainable yield (MSY). However, more definitive data are needed for the Indian Ocean stock, as some model runs project that 2009 fishing mortality may have been above FMSY. Based on weighted declines of biomass or spawning stock biomass (SSB) across all stocks, there has been an estimated 33% decline globally over the past 10 years (1998–2008), or three generation lengths. This species is listed as Near Threatened, primarily as population declines would be much greater if it were not for the catch quotas that have been implemented. Although model projections are variable, concerns however remain about possible overfishing in recent years in the Indian Ocean. This species should be reassessed in the next five years, primarily because catches in the Indian Ocean region have declined substantially in 2009 (and possibly also in 2010) partly due to Somali-based piracy, which has shifted fishing effort to the Atlantic Ocean.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. Tagging data show that trans-Atlantic migrations occur, and the Yellowfin Tuna from the entire Atlantic are considered to be part of a single stock. In the eastern Pacific, this species ranges from southern California and the southwest and central eastern parts of the Gulf of California to Peru, including all of the oceanic islands. It may occur off Oregon and Washington during El Niño years (K.Schaefer pers comm 2008).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:American Samoa; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Australia; Bahamas; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Brazil; Brunei Darussalam; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Chile; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Curaçao; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Fiji; French Guiana; French Polynesia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Jamaica; Japan; Kenya; Kiribati; Liberia; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Martinique; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of ; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nauru; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Niue; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Réunion; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Sao Tomé and Principe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Suriname; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; United States Minor Outlying Islands; Vanuatu; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Viet Nam; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Wallis and Futuna; Western Sahara; Yemen
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – eastern central; Indian Ocean – eastern; Indian Ocean – western; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – western central; Pacific – southeast
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|FAO reported worldwide landings show a gradual, but variable increase from 110,879 tonnes in 1950, to 1,130,605 tonnes in 2006 (FAO 2009). Landings data have exponentially increased over the last 50 years (400%). There are four stocks that are globally managed for this species. As of 2004, the stocks in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Eastern Pacific are considered Fully Exploited, and the Western and Central Pacific stock is considered Fully to Over-exploited (Majkowski 2007).
Atlantic Ocean
Yearly catch levels have declined in the Atlantic Ocean since the peak catch of 194,000 tonnes in 1990. A steady decline occurred between 2001–2007, followed by an increase in 2008. These trends in part reflect changes in the number of purse seiners operating in the Atlantic Ocean (ISSF 2010). Recent trends have differed between the western and eastern Atlantic, with the overall catches in the west declining by 26% since 2006. In the eastern Atlantic, on the other hand, catches have increased by 23% since 2006, mainly due to substantial increases in purse seine effort (SCRS ICCAT 2010).
The most recent stock assessment for Yellowfin Tuna in the Atlantic was conducted in 2008 (ICCAT 2009), which showed that biomass is currently somewhat less than BMSY, but fishing mortality is also less than FMSY (ISSF 2010, ICCAT 2009). Based on linear regression of the middle values of Model 5 and Model 10 in the latest stock assessment (ICCAT 2009), spawning stock biomass (SSB) has declined approximately 22% over the past 10 years (1998–2007). These models suggest that only catches of 130,000 tonnes or less are sustainable.
Eastern Pacific Ocean
From 1976–2005 the total catch fluctuated from 100,000 to 443,000 t per year (IATTC 2008). The average annual retained catch of Yellowfin Tuna in the Eastern Pacific during 1991–2005 was 276,000 t, with a peak in 2002 of 443,000 t, the greatest on record. However catch decreased substantially in 2005 to 288,019 t, and in 2006 to 174,780 t (the lowest since 1984). Current maximum sustainable yield (MSY) is estimated to be about 273,000 t (IATTC 2009, ISSF 2010). Additionally, the average weights of the Yellowfin Tuna caught in 2006 were significantly lower than those of the previous five years (STECF 2007).
The most likely causes of the lesser catches are declines in recruitment, effort in the dolphin-associated fisheries, and catchability (IATTC 2008). The recruitment of Yellowfin Tuna to the fisheries in the Eastern Pacific varies seasonally and in response to regime shifts in productivity. The most recent stock assessment analysis and previous analyses have indicated that the Yellowfin Tuna population has experienced two, or possibly three, different recruitment productivity regimes (1975–1982, 1983–2002, and 2003–2008). The productivity regimes correspond to regimes in biomass, e.g., higher-productivity regimes producing greater biomass levels. Average annual catch of Yellowfin Tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean was 233,000 t (100,000 to 301,000) during the period from 1975–2001. Variations in part reflect changes in fishing effort and regime shifts in productivity over up to three levels of recruitment. Changes in measures of fishing effort include changes in the proportion of purse seine catch by set type, as well as changes in the overall level of fishing effort, which occur in part in compliance with management action (M.Hinton pers comm 2011).
According to the most recent stock assessment in the Eastern Pacific conducted in 2009 (Maunder and Aires-da-Silva 2010), if the fishing mortality is proportional to the fishing effort and the current patterns of age-specific selectivity are maintained, the current (average of 2006–2008) level of fishing is below FMSY. The spawning stock biomass is also estimated to be above SSBMSY. Based on linear regression of the spawning stock biomass ratio (SBR) reported in the most recent stock assessment (Maunder and Aires-da-Silva 2010), there has been an estimated 49% decline in SBR over the past 10 years (1998–2007).
Indian Ocean
The catches of Yellowfin Tuna show a strong seasonality with high catches during the northern winter months and usually low catches from May–June to September–October. The Yellowfin Tuna stock assessment work in the Indian Ocean is an extremely difficult task because of the conflicting trends in the basic data, total yearly catches and abundance indices used based on the longline catch per unit effort (CPUE): the observed trends in Yellowfin Tuna catches and CPUEs are not consistent with production-model dynamics, or really with any known theory of fishing (IOTC 2009).
However, a stock assessment conducted in 2008 (Nishida 2008) indicated that recent levels of fishing mortality are at an historical high level and the stock has experienced a period of overfishing at least during 2003–2006 (e.g., Fcurrent > FMSY). Biomass based reference points also varied with the assumed level of steepness. For the lowest value of steepness (0.60), spawning biomass in 2007 was estimated to be below the MSY level (SB/SBMSY <1); i.e., the stock is in an overfished state. For higher values of steepness, biomass in 2007 was above the MSY level (SBcurrent > SBMSY) and the stock is not in an overfished state. The model estimated that recent recruitment has been lower than average, and on this basis total and spawning biomass could be expected to decline further over the next few years (IOTC 2008, IOTC 2009).
A size-based, age- and spatially-structured population model (Multifan-CL, MFCL) for the Yellowfin Tuna in the Indian Ocean initially carried out in 2008 was updated in 2009. Based on linear regression of estimated adult biomass (IOTC 2009), estimated SSB has declined approximately 45% over the past 10 years (1999–2008). Depending on the shape of the stock-recruitment relationship, current catches are likely to be higher than the estimated MSY, which ranges from 250,000 to 300,000 t. For example, total annual catches averaged 434,800 t over the period 2003 to 2007 (IOTC 2008), and 372,200 t over the period 2005 to 2009 (IOTC 2010). However, more recently catches in the Indian Ocean have declined substantially (in 2009 and possibly also in 2010) partly due to Somali-based piracy in the region.
Western and Central Pacific Ocean
Since 2000, the total Yellowfin Tuna catch in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has varied between 370,000 and 440,000 mt. Purse seiners harvest the majority of the Yellowfin Tuna catch (53% by weight in 2007), with the longline and pole-and-line fisheries comprising 16% and 4% of the total catch, respectively (Langley et al. 2009). Longline catches in recent years (70,000–80,000 mt) are well below catches in the late 1970s to early 1980s (which peaked at about 110,000 mt), presumably related to changes in targeting practices by some of the larger fleets (Langley et al. 2009).
Estimated current biomass exceeds the biomass MSY, and current fishing mortality is below FMSY, indicating that the Yellowfin Tuna stock in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean is not in an overfished state. Depletion has increased steadily over time, reaching a level of about 60% of unexploited biomass (a fishery impact of 40%) in 2004–2007 (Langley et al. 2009). However, depletion is considerably higher in the equatorial region 3 (e.g., Philippines/Indonesia) where recent depletion levels are approximately 0.35 and 0.30 for total and adult biomass, respectively (65% and 70% reductions from the unexploited level). The stock in this region may be fully-exploited (ISSF 2010).
Overall SSB is estimated to have declined about 21% over a 10 year period (1999–2008), based on linear regression of SSB in the most recent 2009 stock assessment in the Western and Central Pacific (Langley et al. 2009).
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|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This is an open-water pelagic and oceanic species occurring above and below the thermocline to depths of at least 400 m. This species schools primarily by size, either in monospecific or multi-species groups. Larger fish frequently school with porpoises and are also associated with floating debris and other objects. It feeds on fishes, crustaceans and squids. It is sensitive to low concentrations of oxygen and therefore, is not usually caught below 250 m in the tropics, and is found in waters between the temperatures of 18–31°C.
The primary Atlantic spawning grounds are in the Gulf of Guinea, and to a lesser extent in the Gulf of Mexico. Spawning occurs throughout the year in the core areas of distribution at sea surface temperatures of 24°C or higher, but peaks are observed in the northern and southern summer months respectively. Spawning occurs almost entirely at night between 2200 and 0600 hrs (Kailola et al. 1993, Schaefer 1998).
In the Indian Ocean, longevity is at least seven years (Romanov and Korotkova 1988), although very few individuals live past four years. Estimated maximum age in the Eastern Pacific is 4.8 years (Wild 1986), in the Western Pacific is 6.5 years (Lehodey and Leroy 1999), and in the Atlantic is eight years (IGFA 2001). Smallest mature individuals in the Pacific off the Philippines and Central America are in the 50–60 cm size group at an age of 12–15 months. Length at 50% maturity in the eastern Pacific was 69 cm for males and 92 cm for females corresponding to an age of 2.1 years (Schaefer 1998). Batch fecundity estimates in the eastern Pacific ranged from 162,918 oocytes for a 1,180 mm female to 8,026,026 oocytes for a 1,460 mm female (Collette 2010). Based age-structure data across all stocks (Collette et al. 2011), generation length is estimated to be between 2.2 and 3.5 years.
Maximum Size is 200 cm fork length (FL). The all-tackle game fish record is of a 183.7 kg fish caught in Magdalena Bay, Baja Sur, Mexico (International Angler 2011).
|Generation Length (years):
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Use and Trade:
|Yellowfin Tuna are caught in commercial fisheries around the world, and are the second most important species of tuna for canning.
|Major Threat(s):
This species is primarily caught by the purse-seine fishery, but is also taken by longlines and pole-and-line fishing.
In terms of yield, Yellowfin Tuna is the most important tuna species in the Eastern Pacific, where an important proportion of the Yellowfin Tuna catch is harvested in association with dolphins, in free schools and increasingly under fish aggregating devices (FADs). In the Western and Central Pacific purse seiners harvest about 50%, while longline and pole-and-line fleets comprise 15% and 3% respectively.
In the Indian Ocean, over 40% of purse seine Yellowfin Tuna catches are taken in log-schools along with Skipjack Tuna and Bigeye Tuna. One of the driving forces behind recent changes in the purse seine fishery has been the impact of piracy in the western Indian Ocean, which has led to a decrease of the nominal effort (number of boats, total carrying capacity, number of fishing and searching days, total number of sets) as well as changes in the fishing behaviour due to the new security measures in place (boats working in pairs with military personnel on board, restriction on fishing areas, etc.) (IOTC 2010).
Fisheries exist for this species in the eastern Atlantic between Portugal and South Africa, and in the western Atlantic between the Gulf of Mexico and southern Brazil; longline fisheries occur throughout the entire tropical and temperate Atlantic. The main gears used to catch Yellowfin Tuna in the Atlantic are: purse seines (58%), longline (22%), and pole-and-line (13%) (ISSF 2010). The purse seine fishery is the major contributor to total catches of this species. Landings from baitboats and purse seiners generally declined between 2001–2007 (STECF 2009). The nominal effort in the purse seine fishery had been declining through 2006. As an indicator, the number of purse seiners from the European and associated fleet operating in the Atlantic had declined from 44 vessels in 2001 to 24 vessels in 2006 (last year's data included during the assessment), with an average vessel age of about 25 years. Since then, however, the number of purse seiners has increased by 50% to 36, as vessels have moved from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. At the same time, the efficiencies of these fleets have been increasing, particularly as the vessels which had been operating in the Indian Ocean tend to be newer and with greater fishing power (ICCAT 2009).
|Conservation Actions:
This species is listed as a highly migratory species in Annex I of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea (FAO Fisheries Department 1994).
Conservation measures imposed in 2004 for the Eastern Pacific under resolution C-04-09 (IATTC 2008) are predicted to maintain the stock at about the Average Maximum Sustainable Yield level, slightly higher than would otherwise be the case. Three month closures have been proposed by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) and Mexico, which has one of the largest fisheries for this species.
In the Western Pacific, there was a two month closure of the FAD fishery in 2009, and three months in 2010 with an objective of achieving a 30% reduction of fishing effort.
In the Indian Ocean, the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission's (IOTC) Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT) recommends that catches of Yellowfin Tuna in the Indian Ocean should not increase beyond 300,000 t in order to bring the stock to biomass levels that could sustain catches at the MSY level in the long term. If recruitment continues to be lower than average, catches below MSY would be needed to maintain stock levels (IOTC 2010).
In the Atlantic, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (ICCAT-SCRS) recommended that increased harvest of Yellowfin Tuna could have negative consequences for Bigeye Tuna in particular, and other species caught together with Yellowfin Tuna in fishing operations taking more than one species. The same group also continues to recommend that effective measures be found to reduce fishing mortality of small Yellowfin Tuna to increase long-term sustainable yield. ICCAT-SCRS noted that catch levels in recent years have been held in check, despite increasing efficiencies of individual vessels, by a continued decline in the number of purse seine vessels in the eastern Atlantic. The Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) agrees that a continuation of the recent movement of additional newer vessels from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic, with a corresponding increase in fishing mortality should be monitored closely to avoid adverse impacts on stock status (STECF 2009).
ICCAT recommendation 04-01 implemented a small closure for the surface fishing in the area 0–5ºN, 10–20ºE during November in the Gulf of Guinea for purse-seine and pole-and-line vessels. Although this regulation is intended to reduce small Bigeye Tuna catches, the Committee recognizes that its implementation and the change from the previous moratorium to the current regulation will potentially impact Yellowfin Tuna catches. Given the relatively small time-area coverage of the closure, any reduction in juvenile mortality is expected to be minimal (ICCAT 2009).
|Collette, B., Acero, A., Amorim, A.F., Boustany, A., Canales Ramirez, C., Cardenas, G., Carpenter, K.E., Chang, S.-K., de Oliveira Leite Jr., N., Di Natale, A., Die, D., Fox, W., Fredou, F.L., Graves, J., Guzman-Mora, A., Viera Hazin, F.H., Hinton, M., Juan Jorda, M., Minte Vera, C., Miyabe, N., Montano Cruz, R., Masuti, E., Nelson, R., Oxenford, H., Restrepo, V., Salas, E., Schaefer, K., Schratwieser, J., Serra, R., Sun, C., Teixeira Lessa, R.P., Pires Ferreira Travassos, P.E., Uozumi, Y. & Yanez, E. 2011. Thunnus albacares. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T21857A9327139. . Downloaded on 18 September 2018.
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Gulandam didn't use to need food assistance in order to feed her family. Her husband, earns about 100 Afs (US$2) a day, working as a porter in Kabul City, and this was enough to get by. It isn't any more.
KABUL -- Gulandam and her family are among the many millions of people who have been pushed into hunger recently. She's actually one of the luckier ones in that she's receiving WFP food regularly.
The number of hungry people on the planet will this year reach a historic high of 1.02 billion. Announcing this new figure recently, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization put the blame for the latest increases on the global economic slowdown and stubbornly high food prices in many countries. Read news release
Receiving assistance for first time
Both of these are factors in Gulandam's predicament. "I started to get food assistance from WFP four months ago – for the first time ever," she said, as she waited with her 5-month-old boy for her bag of WFP wheat. "Before that, even though we couldn't afford luxuries such as meat, we had just about enough when my husband managed to get work."
When food prices peaked in 2008, the money earned by Gulandam's husband only bought a bit of bread and unsweetened tea. And if he didn't get work, the family of eight went hungry and the children often cried themselves to sleep. These days, amid a global economic slowdown, her husband's lucky if he manages to get three days work a week.
The family has sold possessions such as their rugs and a sewing machine to buy food. Gulandam said sometimes she had no choice but to beg at local bakeries, although she covered her face as she was ashamed.
Although prices in Afghanistan have come down since last year, wheat remains over fifty percent higher than in 2007. "We rely on this food assistance", says Gulandam.
When the work comes, at least they can spend their money on vegetable oil, sugar and sometimes potatoes, she adds.


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Newtown, Conn., fund to distribute $4 million
Newtown, Conn., fund to distribute $4 million
Apr. 09, 2013
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The foundation handling the largest charitable fund set up following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre said Tuesday that it will begin distributing $4 million of that money right away, responding to criticism that it was moving too slowly.
The foundation, which oversees an $11 million fund, said the preliminary disbursement will go out within the next two weeks to the families of the 26 people killed inside the school on Dec. 14, the families of 12 children who escaped classrooms where the massacre took place and the families of two people injured in the shooting.
"The reality of the approach that we have adopted is that having a dialogue with those impacted in the community requires time particularly when so many are in the midst of responding to trauma," said Charles Herrick, a member of the foundation's board. "The board will move as quickly as possible to bring relief to the families while also ensuring decisions are made thoughtfully for the future."
Newtown Selectman Will Rodgers, who has been working with the foundation, said officials have been sensitive to concerns about timing.
"The thought was that without casting blame around we can just address the situation and make a quick distribution while still keeping to our more deliberative processes for the future," he said. "Of course what we're afraid is that we'll trade one set of criticisms for another. The 'You haven't acted fast enough' criticism will be replaced by, 'How can you distribute it in this way.'"
The fund to support the Newtown community was established by the United Way of Western Connecticut and Newtown Savings Bank in the wake of the Dec. 14 school shooting, in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adult educators before committing suicide. In February the nonprofit Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation was created to evaluate requests and suggestions on how to use the money.
A daughter of Dawn Hochsprung, the Sandy Hook principal killed in the shooting, wrote on her Facebook page in February that families were being asked for proof of hardship before the smallest disbursements were issued.
"We've been victimized enough," Cristina Lafferty Hassinger said in the post. "We shouldn't have to fight for what is rightfully ours, but we won't be taken advantage of in our darkest hour."
The committee tasked with distributing the money to the families affected most severely by the tragedy will also consider providing some to address the needs of first responders and Sandy Hook school personnel.
Anne Ragusa, a foundation board member, said it has held three meetings and has others planned with victims' families, survivor families, injured teachers and first responders.


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September 16, 2013 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Food & Formula Reference Guide (FFRG) - Effective September 30, 2013
SUBJECT 2: Education Opportunity: Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals & Communities Online Workshop
SUBJECT 3: UPS Shipping/Packaging Guidelines
SUBJECT 4: Translated WIC Food Lists
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Nutritionist III - DHSS Southeast District Health Office
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Nutritionist/Dietitian - City of Kansas City
Food & Formula Reference Guide (FFRG) - Effective September 30, 2013: The FFRG has been updated. There are two parts:
- FFRG - Formula Listing
- FFRG - Guidelines
Please share this change with all your staff and begin using the updated FFRG on September 30, 2013. If you have any questions and/or suggestions, please feel free to contact Takako Tagami at email@example.com. (TWO ATTACHMENTS)
Education Opportunity Reminder: Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals & Communities Online Workshop: The University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services' Maternal & Child Health Bureau, Midwest Center for Life-Long Learning in Public Health (MCLPH), and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' Nutrition Training Institute (NTI) will present the Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals & Communities online workshop with Jodi Pfarr of Minneapolis, MN. This seminar will be held at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' Wild Birch and Maple Conference Rooms at the 930 Wildwood Drive Building in Jefferson City on October 3, 2013 from 8:30am-4:30pm.
The Bridges Out of Poverty workshop provides both the social service provider and the community member key lessons in dealing with individuals from poverty. Topics include increasing awareness of the differences in economic cultures and how those differences affect opportunities for success. Please see the attached registration form for details and forward this to anyone you think would benefit from this online session. Space is limited to 40 attendees, so it is important that you register ahead of time. If you have any questions, please contact our District TA Nutritionist. (ONE ATTACHMENT)
UPS Shipping/Packaging Guidelines: UPS is the carrier that the State WIC office uses when a WIC agency has unused formula and another WIC agency could use the formula for one of their participants. If the boxes are not packaged correctly and the box is damaged, UPS will not reimburse the State WIC office. Please review the attached UPS shipping/packaging guidelines when shipping formula from one agency to another. We seem to be having a growing problem with damaged packages and UPS not reimbursing the state. If you have any questions, please discuss with your TA Team. (ONE ATTACHMENT)
Translated WIC Food Lists: The new WIC approved food list is available in 16 languages (including Spanish) through the WIC Food website. Printer friendly versions of this list (in all 16 languages) should be available during the week of September 30, 2013. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Takako Tagami at firstname.lastname@example.com.
WIC Positions
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Nutritionist III - DHSS Southeast District Health Office: The Bureau of WIC and Nutrition Services has an opening for a Nutritionist III in the Southeast District Health Office in Poplar Bluff. Responsibilities include providing technical assistance to local WIC providers, monitoring, policy review and revision, special formula approvals, applying health data in program planning, and occasionally acting as a preceptor for dietetic interns. Excellent customer service, written and verbal communication, teamwork, confidentiality and prioritization are required skills. A registered dietitian, licensed in Missouri, is preferred. Submit cover letter and resume to Rita Arni at firstname.lastname@example.com by October 11, 2013. AA/EOE
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Nutritionist/Dietitian - City of Kansas City: The City of Kansas City, Missouri Health Department has an opening for a Nutritionist/Dietitian in its WIC program. The candidate must be a Registered Dietitian and have graduated from an accredited four- year college or university with a Bachelor's degree in Public Health Nutrition, Dietetics, Home Economics, or closely related field; including or supplemented by at least fifteen(15) semester hours in Food and Nutrition including Diet Therapy and Community Nutrition. The selected candidate will assist with various program operations, which will include but is not limited to providing nutrition education to WIC eligible participants and assessing their nutritional needs for certification eligibility. To apply please go to www.kcmo.org and click on apply for a job; the position will close on September 23, 2013. For questions, please contact Ashley Bieser at firstname.lastname@example.com
FFRG (09-30-13) Formula Listing
FFRG (09-30-13) Guidelines
2013 Bridges Out of Poverty Registration Brochure
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Shrub generally < 2 m
Stem generally erect; nodal spines 09; internodal bristles generally 0; twigs generally hairy, generally glandular
Leaves simple, alternate, generally clustered on short, lateral branchlets, petioled, generally deciduous; blade generally palmately 35-lobed, generally thin, generally dentate or serrate, base generally cordate
Inflorescence: raceme, axillary, generally pendent, 125-flowered; pedicel generally not jointed to ovary, generally hairy or glandular; bract generally green
Flower bisexual, radial; hypanthium tube exceeding ovary; sepals generally 5, generally spreading; petals generally 5, generally < sepals, generally flat; stamens generally 5, alternate petals, generally inserted at level of petals (hypanthium top), anthers generally free, generally glabrous, tips generally rounded; ovary inferior, chamber 1, ovules many, styles generally 2, generally fused except at tip, generally glabrous
Fruit: berry
Genera in family: 1 genus, 120 species: n hemisphere, temp South America. Some cultivated as food, ornamental. Hypanthium data refer to part above ovary; statements about ovary hairs actually refer to the hypanthium around the ovary. Formerly included in Saxifragaceae.
Etymology: (Arabic: for plants of this genus)
Stem scrambling; nodal spines 03; internodes generally glabrous
Leaf: blade 2030 mm, coarsely toothed
Inflorescence 15-flowered
Flower: hypanthium 23 mm, ± as long as wide; sepals reflexed, 34 mm, greenish white, purple at base or not; petals 12 mm, white; filaments exceeding petals by > 2 mm
Fruit 711 mm, purple, glabrous
Chromosomes: 2n=16
Ecology: Forests, streamsides, meadow edges
Elevation: 12003300 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, Outer North Coast Ranges, High Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, Warner Mountains, East of Sierra Nevada
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, Rocky Mtns
Reference: [Sinnott 1985 Rhodora 87:189286]
Leaf: hairs 0 to sparse, short, soft
Flower: hypanthium and sepal hairs 0
Ecology: Forests, streamsides, meadow edges
Elevation: 12003300 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, High Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, Warner Mountains, East of Sierra Nevada
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, Rocky Mtns
Flowering time: MayJun
Synonyms: R. divaricatum var. i. (Rydb.) McMinn
Horticultural information: IRR: 4, 5, 6, 15, 16, 17 &SHD: 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 18.


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Petition of the day
The petition of the day is:
Martel v. Tuite
Docket: 11-1094
Issue(s): Whether a federal court may grant habeas corpus relief to a state prisoner without determining that the state court's "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt" ruling was objectively unreasonable.
Certiorari stage documents:
Recommended Citation: Matthew Bush, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 16, 2012, 1:59 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/04/petition-of-the-day-274/


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QUIP: "I found this kitchen tool in an estate sale and thought it was so cool looking I had to buy it," said a woman who preferred not to be named. "But, heaven knows what it's used for. Call me crazy for buying it because I think it looks cool, but call me reasonable for wanting to find out what on earth it can be used for. Have any idea?" I was asked.
TIP: As a matter of fact, I do happen to know what this gal can do – only because my mother owned one and as a result, I now do, too!
What you have there is an Angel Food/Sponge Cake Cutter.
This cutter is a many-pronged fork that allows you to perforate your cake much like using a fork to split an English muffin and easily pull off pieces.
It cuts the cake in this way without squishing, in no time.
It's used specifically on angel food and sponge cake because it can work without crushing them.
The cake comb/knife gently separates sections with comb tines in place of a solid blade on conventional cake knives and cake cutters, doing the job without doing any damage.
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BEIJING (AP) — Five years after his detention, the United States is calling for the release of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and an end to his wife's undeclared house arrest.
Washington remains deeply concerned about the couple's treatment, along with that of other jailed government critics, Secretary of State John Kerry said.
"We strongly urge Chinese authorities to release Liu Xiaobo, to end (wife) Liu Xia's house arrest, and to guarantee to Liu Xiaobo and his family members all internationally recognized human rights protections and freedoms," Kerry said in a statement issued Monday in Washington.
"As the United States builds a constructive relationship with China, U.S. leaders will continue to raise concerns related to respect for the rule of law, human rights, religious freedom, and democratic principles with their Chinese counterparts," Kerry said.
Beijing has rejected Washington's appeals as interference in its domestic affairs, and while it says Liu Xiaobo was duly convicted of subversion, it has refused to offer any legal basis for the house arrest of Liu Xia, who friends say has grown despondent at being virtually confined to her apartment for the past three years.
Kerry also raised concerns about the detention of the activist legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, who founded the New Citizens Movement, a loose network of activists who have gathered for political discussions over dinner and small street rallies.
Beijing police have recommended that city prosecutors indict Xu for allegedly organizing street demonstrations, Xu's lawyer Zhang Qingfang said.
Xu has yet to be charged for any crime, but comments Tuesday by China's Foreign Ministry spokesman indicate his conviction is likely a foregone conclusion.
The spokesman, Hong Lei, said that both Liu Xiaobo and Xu Zhiyong had violated China's laws. "They deserve to be punished by law," Hong said. "I need to emphasize that only the 1.3 billion Chinese people are best qualified to pass judgment over China's human rights condition."
Detained on Dec. 8, 2008, Liu Xiaobo was convicted of subversion in 2009 and sentenced to 11 years in prison for penning an appeal for democracy. He was awarded the peace prize in 2010. Deeply embarrassed, China's government angrily denounced the award and suspended much of its economic and diplomatic contact with Norway, where the prize is awarded.
Kerry's statement underscored a desire by the U.S. to be seen as active on Chinese human rights in the face of critics who say the issue is being downgraded because of Washington's desire for strong trade ties and Chinese support on knotty diplomatic issues such as the conflict in Syria and Iran's nuclear programs.
Hong noted that "China and the U.S. are working to build a great-power relationship."
"We hope that the U.S. can give priority to the bilateral relationship and contribute more to the mutual trust between the two countries," Hong said.


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Tuscaloosa County's population for the first time now exceeds 200,000 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's latest population estimates. The county's population grew 3 percent between April 1, 2010, and July 1, 2013, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.
Tuscaloosa County's population for the first time now exceeds 200,000 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's latest population estimates. The county's population grew 3 percent between April 1, 2010, and July 1, 2013, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.
Tuscaloosa County's estimated population now is 204,180, compared with 2010's population of 194,656. It was the only county in West Alabama to see its population rise.
The Census Bureau reported that, for the most part, metro areas continued to grow nationally. The strongest growth was fueled by people picking up and moving to find jobs in energy production across the oil- and gas-rich areas west of the Mississippi River, particularly in the Great Plains, Texas and the Mountain West.
Alabama was not part of that energy boom. The state's population grew 1.1 percent, less than half of the national average of 2.4 percent.
In Alabama, rural counties continued to lose population. But even in the more populous counties, it was a mixed record. Jefferson and Mobile counties, saw little change in their population while Montgomery County saw a 1 percent decline. In the Birmingham metro area, however, outlying counties saw gains. Shelby County was up 5 percent; St. Clair County, up 3 percent; and Blount County, up 1 percent.
Baldwin County continued to be a population gainer. It was up 7 percent in the little over three-year period.
Figures for state cities from April 1, 2010, through 2012, showed the estimated population in both Tuscaloosa and Northport increasing 3 percent. Tuscaloosa added 2,459 people for an estimated population of 93,357. Northport added 736 residents for an estimated population of 24,088.
Shifts in population nationally are being driven by new energy production technology, causing that to be one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States, the Census Bureau said. The boom in the U.S. follows the use of new technologies, such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, to tap oil and gas reserves.
"Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industries were the most rapidly growing part of our nation's economy over the last several years," Census Bureau Director John H.Thompson said. Those industries grew 34.2 percent to $555.2 billion from 2007 to 2012. They also saw employment increase of 23.3 percent to 903,641 workers.
While energy exploration is drawing people to the Great Plains and Mountain West, Florida is still one of the top destinations in the country, as it shows up again and again in census data for population growth.
Fueled by an increasing number of retirees, the fastest-growing metro area in the country was The Villages, boasting a 5.2 percent increase in population between 2012 and 2013. Its surrounding county, Sumter County, also shows up as one of the fastest-growing counties in the country with a 5.2 percent increase during the three-year time period.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this story.


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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney appeared to play down the prospect of imminent interest rate rises today.
Giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee, Mr Carney said there seems to be "more spare capacity in the labour market than we previously had thought".
Although the recovery is entrenched and business investment is rising, earnings growth is not as strong as expected - reducing concerns over inflation.
The comments follow mounting speculation that interest rate rises could be brought forward, after Mr Carney warned the markets are underestimating how long it would be before they move off the historic low of 0.5%.
The Institute of Directors (IoD) this morning called for the first increase to happen this year, potentially as early as the autumn.
But Mr Carney said: "The best collective judgement of the MPC (the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee), which I share, is that there is additional spare capacity in the labour market that can be absorbed further before we would look to begin to normalise interest rates, in other words raise interest rates.
"We are looking to manage monetary policy to achieve the inflation target in a way that supports a durable expansion.
"In doing so what we are looking to do is use up, make sure the economy absorbs is a better way of putting it, what is wasteful spare capacity, spare capacity concentrated in the labour market."
Mr Carney added: "We think, and this is the guidance we have given, that that will require the start of normalisation of interest rates, in other words increases in interest rates. The exact timing of that will be driven by the data.
"But the most important aspect of the guidance we are giving is that our view is that the increases in rates over the forecast horizon in our best estimation will be limited and gradual."
The Governor declined to give any guidance on the date when the first interest rate rise might come, but told the committee he expects the base rate to remain "materially below" its historic average of 5% for at least the next three years.
He also indicated that he does not expect the Bank of England to start unwinding quantitative easing (QE) until after interest rates have risen above 1%. The Bank would not want to move on QE until the rate was at a level "that it could be materially cut if we needed to provide stimulus", he explained.
Mr Carney had indicated in his Mansion House speech on June 12 that the first interest rate rise may come "sooner than markets currently expect", leading many observers to speculate it could arrive by the end of this year.
But he told the Committee today the intention of his comment was to shake the markets out of fixed expectations that any rise would not come for a considerable period and remind them they should be reacting to the emerging economic data. The subsequent tightening appeared to indicate he had been successful in this aim.
He was accused by MPs on the committee of sending mixed messages on the future course of interest rates.
Labour's Pat McFadden told him: "It strikes me the Bank is behaving a bit like an unreliable boyfriend - one day hot, one day cold - and the people on the other side of the message are left not really knowing where they stand."
Committee chair Andrew Tyrie said that since he became Governor in 2013, Mr Carney had given "quite a lot of guidance, not all of it seeming to point in the same direction".
But Mr Carney insisted the Bank had been "absolutely consistent" in its approach of offering advice that any rise in interest rates would be driven by data on how the economy is performing and would be "limited and gradual".
"Interest rates are going to start to normalise at some point," he said. "We can't tell you today exactly when that is going to be. It will be determined by the evolution of the economy. We have to watch the data for when that comes.
"But the first interest rate increase is not the most important thing. It is where the path of interest rates are set over the medium term. Our best judgement is that the increase in rates is likely to be limited, relative to history, and the process is likely to be gradual, in order to ensure that what has now been a successful recovery is turned into a durable and balanced expansion.
"That is the guidance we have given. That in our opinion, my opinion, has helped support outcomes... that have been the strongest in the G7 over the course of the last year.
"Our view in terms of where interest rates are going to settle out if you look at a three-year horizon, my personal view is they will still be materially below historic averages - that is, materially below the 5% historic average - because there are huge forces still operating in this economy from the weakness in Europe, the repair of public balance sheets, the weight of debt on private households and the changing financial system."
Explaining the thinking behind Mr Carney's Mansion House comments, Bank deputy governor Sir Charles Bean told the Treasury Committee: "We were all struck by the high degree of certainty that market participants seemed to have about the timing of the first increase in interest rates.
"Market participants, in our view, under-estimate the extent of uncertainty that's out there. Implied volatilities on a range of assets seem to be unusually compressed, at below pre-crisis averages. That doesn't reflect the degree of uncertainty there is - geo-political risk, economic risk and so forth.
"Recognising, and putting into the public domain, the fact that there is that uncertainty about the environment which has an immediate carry-across to monetary policy decisions, I think, was important to do."
Mr Carney's original forward guidance on interest rates last year led to the widespread expectation that a hike would not come until 2016 at the earliest.
The governor told MPs today that subsequent developments had shown that he was "obviously wrong" in his predictions about the path of unemployment rates, which fell faster than he had expected.
Mr Carney told the committee that there were signs that the recovery was becoming more balanced, but cautioned that exports were still lagging behind.
"There are signs that there is more balance in the recovery than previously," he said. "This recovery started out as a sharp increase in consumption, financed by a fall in the saving rate and the initial signs of life in the housing market.
"What has happened subsequently to that is that business investment has picked up. It is contributing about a quarter of the growth rate now."
On exports, he said: "There are still reasonable challenges there, given the weakness of demand abroad and the recent strength of sterling, which hasn't yet been supported by improvements in productivity and competitiveness."
He held out hopes for a pick-up in wage increases, which have lagged behind inflation in recent years: "We have seen jobs, we have seen spending, but we have not yet seen incomes growing. We expect that to start happening and that would be consistent with a durable expansion."
IoD chief economist James Sproule broke with consensus among business organisations in calling for a rate rise as early as the autumn.
Mr Sproule said in a press release: " Ultra-loose policy successfully lessened the impact of the recession, but as the recovery takes hold it will soon be the time to start taking interest rates to a level where monetary policy can once again become an effective economic lever.
"Ideally this rise in interest rates will be achieved gradually, starting in the autumn of 2014, with an aim of reaching a more normal level, perhaps 3%, by autumn 2015.
"Assessing rate rises on the basis that inflation is projected to stay low misses the point. Monetary policy must be put back on a more normal footing first, and then we can monitor inflation to see if further action is needed."


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Offbeat Traveler: Remote monasteries of Meteora in Greece
This week's Offbeat Traveler is inspired by Los Angeles Times reader Gene Minick, who recently visited the remote monasteries of Metéora in Greece's Thessaly region. The Fountain Valley resident called this UNESCO World Heritage Site one of the most impressive places he saw in Greece. The six monasteries of Metéora are perched on rock pinnacles (in Greek, "Metéora" means "suspended in the air"), some built as high as 1,800 feet. The monasteries date as far back as the 14th century, when monastic living was embraced by the surrounding region. Though six remain, 24 were originally built. -- Jason La
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In a statement released on Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder explained what President Obama's Cairo speech means for Americans here at home:
The President's pledge for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where we are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans. A top priority of this Justice Department is a return to robust civil rights enforcement and outreach in defending religious freedoms and other fundamental rights of all of our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the housing market, in our schools and in the voting booth.
There are those who will continue to want to divide by fear – to pit our national security against our civil liberties – but that is a false choice. We have a solemn responsibility to protect our people while we also protect our principles.
"A return to robust civil rights enforcement"–got that? Sure, we all remember the Bush era, when every day was a virtual Kristallnacht of violence against Muslims, and law enforcement stood by and did nothing.
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Istanbul, Turkey
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|Istanbul - Anadolu
The city of Istanbul spans the graticules of 41,28 and 41,29, as well as the continents of Europe and Asia. It used to be the capital until it moved to Ankara in the 1920s, but it's still the largest city in Turkey.
There's lots of water, but that's alright, since mass transit goes everywhere and the city has so many graticules close by. As for the land, the concrete jungle seems to be everywhere at first glance, but there's actually lots of small patches of green that the urban sprawl forgot: The trouble is getting there, and that's where we come in!
Fun fact: There is actually a tiny patch of land in the northwest corner of the west graticule which belongs to Bulgaria, so we also span borders. And speaking of bits of land, some third of the city lies in the two southern graticules, but they were not included in this page as that was deemed more accurate.
Land usage for Rumeli:
85.75% Water 12.23% Settlements 1.11% Roads 0.43% Intercity Highways 0.28% Industrial 0.20% Highways
Local geohashers[edit]
- Superbest, and whoever he manages to drag along with him.
See Category:Meetup in 41 28 and Category:Meetup in 41 29 for the automatically created lists.
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DVDActive Lost and Found
Gabe Powers offers up a few lesser known favourites in this new feature...
The best thing about reviewing DVDs, by far, is the opportunity to discover an unexpectedly good film and share it with other people. The dilemma is that most folks won't bother reading a DVD review about a movie they've never heard of. I know this because I am a guilty party. In an attempt to share a few of my personal favourite, lesser known or underappreciated titles, and in hopes of goading some other members of the 'Active writing staff into sharing some of theirs, I'm trying to jumpstart a new DVDActive.com feature: The Lost and Found. Here is part one in what I hope will become a multi-part series, ten movies I enjoy and want everyone else to enjoy with me. I'm naturally inclined to horror films, but I'll do my best to keep my selection eclectic and hopefully original, because God knows I'm not the first person to do this.
American Movie (1999)
American Movie is the uncannily inspirational tale of Mark Borchardt, an independent filmmaker living out his Hollywood dreams in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. The film chronicles a bumpy road to the completion of Mark's magnum opus, a semi-autobiographical, black and white drama called Northwestern. To gather the funding he'll need to complete Northwestern Mark decides to finish an incomplete horror short entitled Coven (pronounced: coh-ven, not cuh-ven). He'll need help from his friends and family, and he'll need to hold down a real job for funding.
The first time I caught American Movie I made the silly assumption that it was a mockumentary in the vein of This is Spinal Tap. After I discovered that Mark and his friends and family were indeed real people, who had been followed around by a camera crew for almost a year, I felt awful for all my laughs and judgment. Upon a second and third screening I began to look upon them as the best friends I'd never met. It all strikes a little too close to home sometimes, but it's downright impossible to resist.
Our hero is a walking contradiction. He's full of ambitious ideas and genuine skills, and most importantly is a great talker (how many quotable documentaries can you think of). But his ambitions rarely materialize, and his projects wind up incomplete. He finds himself living at home and constantly between jobs despite his self-salesmanship. His best friend Mike Schank, a shy recovering alcoholic, is his perfect Yin—a man who will sit quietly and let Mark talk about whatever he wants, at whatever volume he wants. The two of them are a comic force to be reckoned with, and two of the most lovable people in documentary film history.
Aswang (1994)
In October of 2005, Rue Morgue magazine published a list of 100 'Alternate' Horror Films. It was one of the inspirations behind this list, and I've done my best to see them all over the last few years. Almost everything on the list is great suggestion ( Black Sunday, Butcher Boy, Curdled, Cemetery Man, Opera, Perdita Durango), but one particular featured item would have gone completely unnoticed had I not read the article, and I thank the crew for the suggestion. That film is Aswang (aka: The Unearthling, in its cut, R-rated form), a little diamond in the low budget rough.
When making a decent horror flick on a budget, your first step is usually an original idea. Barring that, it's usually good enough to steal an idea that hasn't yet been exploited by the mainstream. The makers of Aswang found their hook and title monster in the pages of Pilipino legend. The unnecessary plot takes the East Asian baby sucker, and sticks it into a (then) modern Rosemary's Baby meets Dracula narrative. This intriguing, but not totally unfamiliar setting is the second step. The third step is hiring passable actors, and with a few exceptions, these players are better than the majority found in low-budget horror.
The trump and final step to make magic without money is loading your feature with unexpected camera work, energetic pacing, and a bit of creative gore. Directors Wrye Martin and Barry Poltermann do everything in their power to make your film look like it cost more than nothing. Aswang is often compared to Evil Dead by its fans because of this energy and flare, and it deserves the praise.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Everyone freaked out when Chris Nolan managed to pull the Batman franchise out of Joel Schumacher's gutter. Some have even hailed Batman Begins as the best Batman film ever made. Besides the fact that I put the newest film on an even keel with Tim Burton's final stab at the Dark Knight, Batman Returns, this now popular assertion is inaccurate for one big reason: Mask of the Phantasm.
For over a decade, the D.C. Animated Universe team (Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Dan Riba, etc.) has treated the Batman property with more respect, taste, and style than anyone else outside of the comic book medium. Mask of the Phantasm was their coup de grace. The film expands upon the character's myth while telling an original story featuring an original character. The plot cuts from the past to the present with ease, spinning the tale of Batman's origin into the fabric of a new adventure. If Batman Begins had an obvious problem it was its inorganic melding of two different adventures. Mask of the Phantasm succeeds effortlessly on that account.
The film's only drawback is the fact that it censors itself for younger audiences, while the basic story exists far over most children's heads (or attention spans). The film is emotionally and physically violent enough to turn off most parents. Viewers that assume the animated characters are any less structured or sympathetic than their live action counterparts are gravely mistaken. Besides the fact that the plot is aimed at adults, the characters are adults themselves. The voice actors are all professionals, and most of them represent my favourite versions of each character, especially Mark Hamill's Joker.
Bringing Out the Dead[ (1999)
Now that Scorsese has finally won his Oscar casual fans should take the time to discover, or rediscover some of his less well-received work. The director's early career is worth seeing for reasons of completion, but film's like Boxcar Bertha and Who's That Knocking on My Door are more about experimentation than entertainment (please don't shoot me, diehard fans of Neorealism). His middle career is consistently cited at classic even by critics and audiences that haven't even seen them, so putting any effort into begging people to see lesser seen films like Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore or The King of Comedy should be rendered moot.
Of the Scorsese's later career, Kundun and Bringing Out the Dead seem to have been entirely forgotten. I'm going to cover Bringing Out the Dead because I still haven't gotten around to watching Kundun myself (hypocrite!). Bringing Out the Dead is obviously not the director's best film—it's rife with casting problems, structural issues, and it lacks the 'importance' of the director's better features. But what it lacks in pomp and circumstance it makes up for with unadulterated entertainment value, something old Marty hadn't really done since Goodfellas.
Of all the graduates of the 'Movie Brat' generation, Scorsese is one of the few that can handle comedy for a sustained period of time, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Mike Nichols being obvious exceptions. Lucas, Spielberg, Coppola, and can toss around a few successful jokes, but their greatest failures were often in the comedy realm. Bringing Out the Dead follows the same anarchic loop as the director's stress inducing comedy After Hours, but softens the blow with some genuine levity and a slightly stupid love story.
Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader (working from Joe Connelly's novel) cultivate enough neurotic characters and high energy shenanigans to fill out the rather threadbare plot, and Nicolas Cage proves charming enough to carry his first successful dark comedy since Raising Arizona. If you watch Bringing Out the Dead as a worthy follow-up to Taxi Driver or Goodfellas you'll be as disappointed as the critics, but if you're looking for immaculate pop music montages and a few belly laughs the film is worth a second chance.
Dead and Buried (1981)
Dead and Buried is a legendary, rowdy weekend rental from high school, and it's pedigree was based purely on its iconic box art—a dead, blue face cracking through flat, blue ground, endowed with the phrase "The Writers of Alien Bring a New Terror to Earth". What could this mysterious motion picture possibly be about? Alien zombies? Coming from under the Earth? The phrase "A New Dimension in Terror" only sweetens the bewilderment. Could it be the story of an inter-dimensional vortex breaking through the planet's crust, filled with zombies?
No, the film has nothing to do with its cover besides the fact that there are some dead people buried during the course of the narrative, though in caskets, and entirely underground. But it's hard to be disappointed when the real movie itself is so much fun. Dead and Buried is basically a successful feature length episode of The Twilight Zone, mixed lightly with the paranoia of The Wicker Man, and the pulpy terror of the best episodes of Tales From the Crypt, and it works very well.
The cast is above average, including a pre-Freddy Kruger Robert Englund, and writers Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon don't skimp on the characters or dialogue. The film's banned status in the UK during the Video Nasty era implies a much more violent feature then what's delivered, but the horror crowd shouldn't be disappointed by the level of malicious shock, and the lo-fi but effective gore effects. The creepy atmosphere is thick beyond mere fog, and the jump scares often work despite the film's quarter century age.
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Bill Condon's Gods and Monsters isn't the most obscure title, and for a short period in 1998 it was top of the block. It even collected a pile of awards and nominations, including Ian McKellen's first Academy Award nomination and an Oscar win for Condon's script. The film's success pulled Condon from the made for TV gutter (his only other theatrical release at the time was a sequel to Candyman and a forgotten horror flick called Sister Sister), and placed him in the position to write and direct Academy favourites like Chicago and Dream Girls.
And yet everyone seems to have forgotten the film, including myself who just recently got around to buying the DVD after catching the film for a second time on the Independent Film Channel. What we tend to remember most are the performances, specifically McKellen, who even in his sixties was a relative unknown in the United States at the time. What we tend to forget is the Oscar winning writing and wonderful visual style. Gods and Monsters is a rich and stylized character study of two very different men at very different stages in their lives, and Condon tells their story with such deeply impactive melodrama it drains you.
McKellen is James Whale, the director of the original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, an open homosexual lost and lonely in his old age, surrounded by sycophants and phonies. Fraser is Clay Boone, a down on his luck handy man hired to tend to Whale's yard. The two men develop a shakey friendship. What the audience knows is that at the end of this story Whale will be found dead, floating face down in his pool, casting a dramatic darkness over the doomed relationship.
The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzio, 1968)
The Great Silence was something I regretfully missed when I wrote about Spaghetti Westerns last year. At the time I hadn't been able to score a copy of the coveted film, and now that I've finally seen it I'm borderline ashamed for not including it in my article. Repo Man and Sid and Nancy director, and Spaghetti Western aficionado Alex Cox calls it his favourite among the Euro Westerns. Though I won't necessarily go that far, the film does crack my top five.
The initial thing to notice here is the film's setting, which is much further North than that of most Westerns. The landscapes are enshrouded in thick, white snow, and tall trees rather than dry clay and dusty shrubs. This cold environment is a character, and is most comfortable among the human cast of melancholy and evil men. The villain, as played by the incomparable Klaus Kinski, isn't a brute or a dandy (both mainstays of the sub-genre), and the hero, Silence, doesn't quip a single one-liner the entire film. Actually he doesn't talk at all, one-upping the relatively quiet Man with No Name. The plot, a meditation on the darkness of vengeance, is secondary to a series of icy images and emotions.
Even stacked next to Leone's Duck You Sucker and Guilio Questi's If You Live, Shoot! (aka: Django Kill), The Great Silence may be the darkest Spaghetti Western ever filmed. Director Sergio Carbucci wasn't the first or last to turn the conventions of the American Westerns on their heads, in fact it was the norm for the European versions of the genre at the time, but few films have the courage to spit these conventions back into the faces of their audience with such venomous content. The finale will stick beneath your skin for days.
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
I can hear fervent and confused cries of "What the Hell, dude?" rattling through my head like the death throes of trampled piglets. I had a similar reaction when I was half-forced to watch the Archie B-comic/sub-B cartoon inspired Rachel Leigh Cook vehicle for the first time, but the second the seething pre-credit sequence finished I had to readjust my gapping jaw, and throw all my negative-nelly prejudices out the window. Josie and the Pussycats is a potent, aggressive, and shockingly clever satire of late '90s/early '00s popular culture.
The film overshoots its ideal audience, twelve-year-old girls, by miles, cracking jokes that aren't only over their heads, but at their expense (a quick trip to Rottentomatoes.com seems to say that these jokes zipped over the heads of most critics too). There is an effective moral centre (It's OK to be yourself, girls!), there's a bit of teeny-bopper romance, and the power-pop soundtrack (performed by members of Letters to Cleo) is infectious, so the younger ones should be entertained, but this odd little film will probably appeal more to adults with really subversive sensibilities. And some of these scalp-skimming jokes are pretty raunchy to boot—the pre-credit sequence song, performed by fake boy band Dejour (made up of Breckin Myer, Donald Faison, Seth Green, and Alexander Martin) is entitled 'Back Door Lover'. I'm sure most grown-ups don't miss that particular double-entendre.
The film in and of itself is no classic, not even a 'must see', but Alan Cumming's performance is one for the ages. Cumming, a former comedian and musical theatre man, will do anything for money (even Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas), and is often delegated the responsibility of the sole shining light in some of Hollywood's worst comedies. Here he's a regular tour de force as the Pussycat's shifty manager, ready at any moment to call in a special industry password ("bring the Chevy to the levy") to off the group the second they begin asking too many questions. Cumming's back up comes in the form of the always incomparable and always dependable Parker Posey, as the mastermind of a worldwide teenage brainwashing.
So then, come for Rachel Leigh Cook and Rosario Dawson scantily clad and the up-tempo soundtrack, but stay for the satirical bite, the hilarious art design, and two smashingly comedic performances. Avoid the re-edited PG cut readily available at most stores these days.
Plague Dogs (1982)
In 1969, thirty-two of the best scientist and technicians in the world were sequestered in a secret laboratory deep in the jungles of the Amazon (their exact location was never revealed). After thirteen arduous years of toiling under the most aversive conditions possible, the team emerged having concocted the saddest motion picture physically possible on this plane of existence. They called it Plague Dogs.
Based on Richard Adams' equally depressing novel, the author behind the nearly equally depressing Watership Down, Plague Dogs is the story of two dogs who escape a medical testing facility in the Lake District of England (I have no idea where that is). The talking puppies learn to live off the land like the wild animals they once were. Rowf, a black lab, is the more cynical of the pair having grown up in captivity, where he's left to drown, then resuscitated every day of his life. His friend Sniffer, a fox terrier, once had a good home, but his master was killed when saving his life from an oncoming truck, an accident for which Sniffer blames himself. Sniffer has had some kind of brain surgery, and as a result is a manic-depressive schizophrenic.
The plight of children during World War II in Grave of the Fireflies and Barefoot Gen may've made a depressing subject for an animated film, but one thing that tugs quicker upon the heartstrings then children are animals with human expressions and emotions. Maybe really cute robots. I'd like to go into the specifics of the sad things that befall to these poor critters, but I'd ruin the plot, and if you're expecting something specific the flick won't work quite so well. The animation isn't the best you'll ever see, but it's distinctive, dramatic, and effective. Plague Dogs isn't a movie you'll forget, it's a movie you'll hire a hypnotist to erase from your brain.
The best, and coincidentally most depressing, version of the film available is the Australian DVD release, which is the only uncut video DVD available. My friends at Xploitedcinema.com supplied me with one for the purposes of this write-up, and it is a better film than the cut US and UK releases (which aren't very easy to find off the internet either).
Ravenous (1999)
Ravenous gets my vote for the most overlooked film of the past decade. Released between 1999's blockbusters The Matrix, The Mummy, and The Phantom Menace, but unable to get a foothold in the counter programming due to now classics like Magnolia, Three Kings, and Fight Club, the film was under-advertised, and received only luke-warm reviews from critics. It was in and out of theatres in most territories within two weeks.
The hard to define film is a mish-mash of genres, and features no major stars (at least it didn't at the time, Guy Pierce went through a popular period after Memento), so it's no wonder Fox couldn't get a handle on the film's advertising (those who actually remember the trailers probably only remember ridiculous heavy metal music and action oriented images). There are obvious elements of horror in the tale of cannibalistic frontiersmen setting up a vampire-like family structure in the passageway to territorial California, as well as Western elements engraved in the era and location. The film begins with a series Mexican/American War flashbacks (of which there were originally going to be more of), and ends as a history lesson for a forgotten age. But above all this rigmarole, Ravenous is a dark and bloody comedy.
Director Antonia Bird (A woman? Surely you jest), balances all these mismatched elements, ensuring that the final product is disturbing and frightening when needed, adventurous considering the budget, and never without a satirical sting. The film is visually lush, graphically violent, tightly constructed, and endlessly quotable. The cast is filled to the gills with solid B-Stars, headed by the always-incomparable Robert Carlyle, and the films solitary straight man, Guy Pierce. Ravenous also features an original score constructed by Michael Nyman and Blur's Damon Albarn, which mixes modern electronic music and traditional blue grass.
More lost, underrated, never discovered, or misunderstood films I've already written reviews for:
Cemetery Man
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Horrors of the Malformed Men
Kidnapped (Rabid Dogs)
The Matador
Who Can Kill a Child
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
And thanks again to Xploitedcinema.com for the review copy of Plague Dogs.
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Gold imports into mainland China from Hong Kong surged 94% to an all-time high last year as rising incomes in the world's second-largest economy underpinned increased demand and helped the metal to post a 12th annual gain.
Mainland China imported 834,502 kilograms (834.5 metric tons), including scrap and coins, compared with about 431,215 kilograms in 2011, according to Bloomberg calculations based on data from the Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong government. Imports in December rose to a monthly record of 114,405 kilograms, according to data from the department yesterday.
China was expected to displace India as the world's biggest gold consumer last year, according forecast in November from the producer-funded World Gold Council. Rising consumption in the country may help to offset concern that the metal's bull run may be coming to an end as the global economy recovers. Spot gold is little changed so far this year, while the Standard & Poor's GSCI Index of raw materials has risen 4.4%.
The increase in gold imports last year "was largely a result of income growth," Jiang Shu, a senior analyst at Industrial Bank Co. Ltd., said from Shanghai before the data was released. "The Chinese are becoming more wealthy."
Economic growth in China, the world's largest gold producer, has boosted the country's consumption of everything from copper to energy and farm commodities. The nation, which snapped a seven-quarter slowdown in the final quarter of last year, is the world's largest base-metals user, the biggest importer of soybeans and the top crude-oil consumer after the U.S.
All-Time High
Gold for immediate delivery traded at $1,675.26 an ounce at 5:27 p.m. in Singapore yesterday after rallying 7.1% last year. The price reached a record $1,921.15 in September 2011. Cash bullion of 99.99 percent purity rose 0.8 percent this year to 337.10 yuan a gram ($1,681 an ounce) on the Shanghai Gold Exchange.
Spot gold fell in January for a fourth monthly loss, and investors' holdings in exchange-traded products declined as improving economic data from the U.S. to Europe and China signaled that the global recovery was gaining traction. Credit Suisse AG said last week that it's increasingly probable that the price peak in 2011 was bullion's top.
The imports in December compared with 90,764 kilograms in November, and were more than double the 38,650 kilograms a year earlier, according to the data. Net imports, after deducting flows from China to Hong Kong, were 84,687 kilograms in December, compared with 61,787 kilograms a month earlier. China doesn't publish such data.
Exports of gold to Hong Kong from China more than tripled to 310,861 kilograms in 2012 from about 95,529 kilograms a year earlier, according to Bloomberg calculations. Shipments were 29,718 kilograms in December, up from 28,978 kilograms in November, a separate statistics department statement showed.
Higher Incomes
China's urban per capita disposable income rose 12.6% in nominal terms in 2012 to 24,565 yuan, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Jan. 18. Per capital rural net income increased 13.5% in nominal terms, and 10.7% in real terms, to 7,917 yuan, the bureau said. The economy may expand 8.1% this year from 7.9% in 2012, according to the median of analysts' forecasts tracked by Bloomberg.
"We see demand continuing to be robust into 2013," said Wang Xiaoli, chief investment strategist at CITICS Futures Co., a unit of China's biggest listed brokerage. "The economy will recover, albeit slowly, while real interest rates will remain low and central banks will continue to accumulate. These are all bullish for gold."
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