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SUNNYVALE, CALIF., and CAMBRIDGE, UK – Jan. 21, 2003 – Spreadtrum Communications Inc., and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor technology, today announced that Spreadtrum has licensed the ® microprocessor core.
This agreement will enable Spreadtrum to provide its customers with innovative and power-efficient solutions for wireless applications such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other mobile devices.
"ARM's advanced processor technology provides a strong foundation for Spreadtrum products such as our baseband ASIC SC6600 product and other software-based solutions. It enables us to implement our innovative system architecture design," says Dr. Ping Wu, president of Spreadtrum Communications. " By utilizing the industry-leading ARM7TDMI core, we can develop high performance, small die size, low-power consumption and very low-cost total system solutions that address the needs of wireless equipment manufacturers and mobile terminal vendors. We look forward to enhancing our integrated circuit solutions for next-generation wireless terminals with ARM's core technologies."
Spreadtrum's SC6600 product is a highly integrated GSM/GPRS single baseband system containing all baseband digital signal processing, analog processing, power management, power amplifier controller and the peripheral circuitries. It is designed as a single chip solution in 0.18µm mixed-signal CMOS technology, with 180pin LFBGA package to achieve higher performance and lower system cost.
"This agreement further demonstrates the industry's acceptance of the ARM® core as a de facto standard for wireless applications," said Oliver Gunasekara, director, Wireless, ARM. "Spreadtrum's decision to integrate the ARM architecture into its leading-edge wireless communication solution will enable them to provide a low-power single chip baseband solution."
Spreadtrum is a novice and innovative total wireless solution company, not only providing baseband chipsets, but also software protocol stacks, and completed total wireless solutions for mobile devices. In addition, Spreadtrum offers a Microsoft® Windows® technology-based Software Development Platform (SDP) as well as sets of production tools to provide the maximum flexibility and fast time-to-market to customers.
The ARM7TDMI core is a very small, high-performance and power-efficient 32-bit RISC processor. It includes the 16-bit Thumb® code compression extensions, advanced Embedded-ICE® on-chip debug and support for the ARM real-time embedded trace technology with the ETM7™ macrocell. The ARM7TDMI core is an ideal solution for ASIC integration.
About Spreadtrum Communications
Spreadtrum Communication Inc. is a top fabless semiconductor company developing and marketing innovative digital wireless communications products. The company provides 2.5G, 3G base band chip set, software protocol stack, software development platform, and total solution for wireless equipment manufactures, mobile terminal vendors, and semiconductor companies. Spreadtrum leverages its expertise in mix signal design, software and software application, and wireless data communication to deliver customers with high performance, low power consumption, cost effective, and flexible and highly integrated turn-key solutions. More information about Spreadtrum can be found on its website at http://www.spreadtrum.com
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-on-chip (SoC) designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at www.arm.com
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Happy to help, I have not heard of Daminion before so I will download and check it out.
I have sent you a link to one raw file from just one type of back (50Mp), perhaps you should have more examples from other backs. Have you approached anyone at Hasselblad corporate about this? I would urge you to do so!

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- 3 1/2 cups fresh corn kernels (cut from about 6 medium ears of corn), divided, corn cobs reserved
- 4 cups low-salt chicken broth
- 1 cup (or more) water
- 1 small bunch fresh cilantro, stems cut off and reserved, leaves chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
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- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter or olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups chopped onion
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons minced seeded jalapeño chile
- 1/4 teaspoon ancho chile powder or regular chili powder
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lime peel
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- 12 ounces lump crabmeat, picked over
- 1 teaspoon (or more) fresh lime juice
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- Crispy Tortilla Strips (click for recipe)
Recipe Preparation
Break corn cobs in half and place in large pot. Add chicken broth, 1 cup water, cilantro stems, and 1/2 teaspoon salt to pot. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer 25 minutes. Strain liquid into 4-cup measuring cup; discard solids in strainer. Add enough additional water to corn broth to measure 4 cups.
Melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add onion; saut until tender and translucent, about 8 minutes. Add garlic, jalapeño, ancho chile powder, and lime peel; stir 1 minute. Remove from heat.
Reserve 1/3 cup crabmeat for garnish. Combine 2 cups corn kernels and 1 cup corn broth in blender; puree until almost smooth. Add to saucepan with onion mixture. Add remaining 3 cups corn broth and 1 1/2 cups corn kernels; bring to simmer. Add remaining crabmeat, 1 teaspoon lime juice, and 1/3 cup chopped cilantro leaves. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and more lime juice, if desired.
Ladle soup into bowls. Top each serving with some of reserved crabmeat. Sprinkle each with remaining chopped cilantro leaves and Crispy Tortilla Strips and serve.


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Ah, Exchange Server 2010. Don't you just love a new and complicated program to explore? New technologies and a whole new network infrastructure to implement? Mmm, I love the smell of message routing pathways burning in, and the sound of countless messages bouncing around like shiny electric pinballs trying to find their way.
All right, I might have lost a few of you there. Perhaps you're not wowed by the New and Improved. And, actually, I get that. I had to relocate my office about a month ago—or was it six weeks?—and I still haven't found time to unpack my box of reference books so that I could, you know, reference them. So I can certainly understand not wanting to mess with your messaging organization when it's running smoothly—not wanting to go through the upheaval of an upgrade or migration just because Microsoft has a new version available.
Related: Common Problems with Exchange 2010 DAGs and High Availability
Microsoft released the first public beta for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 two weeks ago. The beta has already received a great deal of web traffic in news stories, blogs, and forums. Exchange Server administrators have weighed in with their thoughts about what they see in this latest version, in some cases praising new features or functionality but in many others voicing some significant valid criticisms.
One of the biggest complaints I've seen so far about Exchange 2010 is that it seems to be coming too soon on the heels of Exchange 2007. If Microsoft meets its goal of releasing the final version of Exchange 2010 by the end of this year, it will be three years between the two versions, which is the release cycle the company typically tries to maintain. However, that doesn't mean it's been three years since everyone moved to Exchange 2007—that is, those that have moved and aren't still using Exchange 2003.
With mainstream support of Exchange 2003 coming to an end earlier this month, many organizations undoubtedly decided only in recent months to upgrade to Exchange 2007. And many companies that might have wanted an early adoption probably had to delay any move to Exchange 2007 because of the additional expense of upgrading to 64-bit hardware. Naturally, for the Exchange developers and the true early adopters, three years seems like plenty of time for Exchange 2007 to have worn in like a comfortable shoe, but the reality is that most admins are still trying to make that shoe fit.
Another Exchange 2010 problem that's causing admins concern is the fact that there's no in-place upgrade option—even if you're already on Exchange 2007. That situation made sense with the last version because of the necessary hardware upgrade, but what's going on this time? Jørn Stoveland, a reader on the Exchange team blog, commented, "Small companies often don't have the budget to purchase additional hardware. I thought that the migration from 2003 to 2007 was a one-timer because of the transition to 64-bit OS. I hope there is time to reconsider the upgrade options here."
Tony Redmond, in response to a reader comment on his article "A First Look at Exchange 2010" addressed this point. "Microsoft hasn't forgotten the upgrade option," Redmond wrote. "They just learned from Exchange 2003 how difficult it is to engineer reliable upgrades for all of the circumstances that exist in installations around the world and they learned from Exchange 2007 how smoothly deployments can go when you build servers from scratch."
As true as Redmond's statement might be, it's no consolation for businesses that are already struggling because of the economy. You have to weigh the potential competitive advantage of moving to the newest technology against the actual costs of doing so. My guess is that right now that's going to be a major stumbling block for a lot of organizations—as long as the messaging infrastructure they currently have in place is functioning adequately, beta testing might be all anyone is looking to do.
Unfortunately, even beta testing Exchange 2010 isn't without problems. Here are some of the other common complaints I've seen about the Exchange 2010 beta:
- No 32-bit trial version is currently available, as there was for Exchange 2007.
- Exchange 2010 runs only on Windows Server 2008, meaning a potential dual-upgrade scenario.
- Local continuous replication (LCR) is gone, leading many to feel that Exchange 2010 is aimed only at enterprises, while Microsoft expects small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) to move to its hosted Exchange services.
Are these all the problems with Exchange 2010? Probably not; I'm sure you've seen others, or experienced them if you're currently testing the beta. And it is, after all, still an early beta; technological problems as well as simply adjusting to the newness and changes are to be expected. I do think it's important that Exchange admins continue to raise their concerns and let Microsoft know how they feel about these developments.
But let's not forget that there are a lot of exciting new features to look forward to as well in Exchange 2010. What's important, though, is that Microsoft develops a product with the features that admins need to better do their jobs. Let's hope that's what Exchange 2010 finally delivers.
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A 50's Chevy "taxi" sits underneath a street light along the Malacon in Havana.
Biography: Annie Katz was born in the USA in Portland, Maine in 1947. She spent her childhood years growing up on the Atlantic Coast in Falmouth Foreside, a seaside community seven miles North of Portland.
Annie's first interest in photography came at an early age when her brother, who was twelve years older, bought an Argus camera and began taking pictures. Annie's first photos were taken at the age of eight! Some of these appear on this website under the "Maine" folder.
During her college years she ventured more seriously into the world of photography, purchasing her first "real...
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SMALL UPDATE: for Shadowmourn room keep up your group with holy nova and ofc, use pom on cd, maybe some shields. Your paly should be able to keep up the second group with no problems. Will make running much more easier.
Lich King heroic 10 or 25 is one of the best fights out there. Off course the 10 man version is a bit easier because of the low amount of people that can fuck up but is still nice tuned.
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Around Christmas, I bought her recent book "Back to Basics". I've made several of those recipes, that turned out to be delicious. This week, I bought "Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again". COSTCO had the book for $19.00, so how could I resist?
It's a great book. Visual as I am, the photos sucked me right in. I have post-its marking many recipes I want to make.
My husband and I were invited for dinner at some friend's. I know that the wife is trying to be health conscious, for her husband's sake. He's from the South, so I seriously wanted to make a Southern Coconut Cake. Instead, I decided to make the Lemon Yogurt Cake recipe that was in this cookbook, so that I wouldn't sabotage her efforts to trim his waist. I've seen this recipe making it's rounds in Blogosphere, and I bookmarked it several times. This recipe was very simple to make, and I liked that I didn't need to set up my Kitchen Aid, nor to soften butter.
I have to tell you-- this recipe is a winner! Like the book title says, I will make this again and again.
Here's how I made it:
With baking, I definitely want all of my ingredients prepped and ready to go. Here's a tip-- to bring my eggs to room temperature, I soak them in very warm water for a few minutes. You'll need, flour, sugar, eggs, lemon zest, lemon juice, baking powder, kosher salt, pure vanilla, yogurt (I used non-fat Greek Yogurt, because of it's thickness) and vegetable oil.
Be sure to prep your pan with parchment paper. I found a product from Wilton called "Cake Release", at my local "Michael's Store". Ever since my bundt cake disaster, this has not failed to keep my cakes from sticking!
I stopped buying sifters. I prefer to dump all of my dry ingredients and, using a silicone spatula, I stir it around and it's all sifted. Easy! Now, to prep the wet ingredients:
What do you know?! I got two egg yolks in one! Is this counted as one egg or two? I counted it as two..
Whisk all the wet ingredients...
Then, slooooooowly incorporate the dry ingredients...
Last, fold in the oil:
Pour the batter into the prepared pan (you can use a bundt pan, if you prefer):
Bake at 350F for 50 minutes-- I always underbake for about 7 minutes, just to be sure. A toothpick came out clean in 45 minutes.
In the meantime, mix the remaining sugar and lemon juice in a pot and cook until clear-- this takes minutes. Set aside and cool.
Once the cake cooled, I had 15 minutes before we had to leave. I quickly made a glaze of confectioner's sugar and lemon juice and poured this over the loaf. Time was running out, so here's the cake, sliced:
I wish I had a nice plated shot to show you, but I thought our hosts would find it odd that I brought my camera. Just trust me, that this turned out to be a very moist cake, and a big hit. I can easily see this being made with orange or lime, for a variation.
It's all gone. Every slice. Know what else? I think this cake is so moist and flavorful that you really don't have to glaze it. You can trim more calories this way and not feel disappointed.
Today is Mother's Day. My boys are BBQ-ing for me-- salmon, fresh corn and a green salad with strawberries and my balsamic vinaigrette. This is where I spent an hour all to myself-- not a soul in sight. This is our subdivision lap pool, swimming pool and jacuzzi. It's part of our HOA fees. I gambled that moms would be out to brunch. I was right. I'll pass on going out on Mother's Day. It's too busy. Home Sweet Home... feet up, and not lifting a spatula in the kitchen. Works for me!


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Older News » Reading with confidenceLast updated 2:35 PM on 5 March 2012
You may have already heard of 'Pause, Prompt, Praise' or the 'Three Ps' as the strategy is sometimes called.
These three catchy words describe a simple technique that, used well, will help your child practise their reading and develop their reading confidence.
The principle of pausing, then prompting and then praising is handy to remember any time your child is reading aloud to you.
Teachers and trained tutors often use a more structured version, but the following tips can help you to try out the Three Ps when reading with your child at home.
It's best used when your child is reading and gets stuck on words that they can't read or are new to them.
When you child comes across words that are difficult for them to read, the Three Ps technique lets them have another go, self-correct and, if needed, find out (be told) what the problem word is.
Important things to remember about the Three Ps
- The goal of reading is to understand (make sense) of what is read, so always keep this in mind when you are prompting and praising your child.
- Try to ensure that you are relaxed, interested and supportive, which will help your child feel OK when they make mistakes or just can't work out a word and need to be told what it is.
- At home this technique will work best when your child is reading something that is well-matched to their reading level, that is, where your child can easily read most of the words in the text and only stumbles on occasional words.
- Before reading, make sure both of you are comfortable and can clearly see what is being read.
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About Rod Penner
Based in the sparsely populated town of Marble Falls, Texas, Rod Penner paints photorealistic images of small-town America. Evoking contrasting senses of isolation and nostalgia, melancholy and peacefulness, Penner depicts shabby buildings, empty parking lots, and idiosyncratic road signs with loving precision. Committed to working objectively, Penner considers his paintings photojournalistic, as well as poetic. "I'm interested in the look of things and the quality of being there," he says. "A moment that is completely frozen with all the variety of textures; rust on poles, crumbling asphalt, light hitting the grass."
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|Review by Jacee, Little Rock Ar. Personally, I think it could be better. I am 12 and weigh about 90 pounds, but it feels like I am sinking. This is my second year, my first pair were Capezio Plie II. Though, they make my horrid arch look good, my toenails feel bent. I am also starting to experience more corns on my feet.
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|Review by Cristia Johnson, Obelrin OH. Since finding these shoes, I have never performed in anything else. I have a wide foot, short toes, and not much arch, but these shoes make my feet look great. I wear a 9 in street shoes, and I buy a 7 XXX in these. I use them mostly for performances since they break in very quickly, and I need to buy something that lasts longer for everyday rehearsal and class wear. Overall though, a great shoe that fit very comfortably and make my feet look amazing.


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For Immediate Release
AAPT 2010 National Election Results Announced
College Park, MD,November 10, 2010—The American Association of Physics Teachers has announced the results of the 2010 National Election of Executive Board Officers.
Gay B. Stewart, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, will begin a four-year commitment as AAPT's next Vice-President.
Diane M Riendeau, Deerfield High School in Illinois, will begin a three-year term as the High School At-Large Member.
Steve Iona, University of Denver, will continue with a two-year term as Secretary.
These three officers will begin their service following the AAPT Winter Meeting in Jacksonville, FL in January 2011.
For more information: Contact Marilyn Gardner, Director of Communications, firstname.lastname@example.com, (301) 209-3306, (301) 209-0845 (Fax), www.aapt.org.


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My first real introduction to the lodging industry came last January at ALIS, with a record crowd of almost 3,000, flocks of black suits wheeling and dealing in every nook and cranny of the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The lodging industry had peaked, and kept peaking, starting in 2005 through the end of '07. The law of averages, and gravity, I guess, dictate that what goes up, must come down. And that was the story of 2008.
Optimism reigned supreme at ALIS despite strong warning signs that the economy-and maybe the industry-was in trouble. The credit crisis was just a blip on the radar and only beginning to reach the commercial side when the Hunter Conference convened in March. The mood there was tempered and the new catchphrase, "cautious optimism," was gaining traction. That faded to mild optimism in September at the Lodging Conference. The pulse at the IH/M&R Show in November was different. Call it positive pessimism, but it definitely wasn't a sky-is-falling mentality yet.
Reality was starting to set in by the end of the calendar year. By then the question was when, and where, rock bottom would be. In early December, industry execs gathered in Chicago for an aptly named "Navigating Troubled Times in the Hotel Industry" seminar, where the news was not good. PKF had just revised its forecast for 2009, calling for a 7.8 percent drop in RevPAR, and many thought it would be worse. Everyone agreed the lending environment was "non-existent" and no one had a clue when that might change.
Welcome to the hotel industry, I guess. What a first year. The news wasn't all bad, as several innovative brands, like aloft and Element, launched. Another will debut shortly, Hyatt's Andaz, and another, Edition, is on the horizon, born from the unlikely pairing of J.W. Marriott and Ian Schrager. Others unveiled a fresh look, like Holiday Inn, Courtyard and Sheraton. The names and faces changed too, with new CEOs and executives atop major companies, like Choice (Steve Joyce), Wyndham (Eric Danziger), Starwood (Matthew Avril), Carlson (Hubert Joly) and IHG (Jim Abrahamson), to name just a few. Sadly, the industry lost one of its strongest leaders when Steve Porter passed away in August.
I'll remember all that, and more. The next 12 months, at least, will be challenging, but it's clear to me, and many much smarter (thankfully for you), that the fundamentals of the lodging industry remain strong. People, especially Americans, will continue to travel, as Peter Yesawich likes to remind us. And those same Americans, as Laurence Geller confidently told the crowd at the doom-and-gloom event in Chicago, will get us out of this mess with their entrepreneurial and optimistic spirit.
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Chelonia mydas
|Scope: Global
Language: English
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|Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
Testudo mydas Linnaeus, 1758
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|Endangered A2bd ver 3.1
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|Seminoff, J.A. (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, U.S.)
|Crouse, D. & Pilcher, N. (Marine Turtle Red List Authority)
Analysis of historic and recent published accounts indicate extensive subpopulation declines in all major ocean basins over the last three generations as a result of overexploitation of eggs and adult females at nesting beaches, juveniles and adults in foraging areas, and, to a lesser extent, incidental mortality relating to marine fisheries and degradation of marine and nesting habitats. Analyses of subpopulation changes at 32 Index Sites distributed globally (Figure 1, Table 1; see the supplementary material) show a 48% to 67% decline in the number of mature females nesting annually over the last 3–generations.
Assessment Procedure: In accord with the IUCN criterion that Red List Assessments focus on the number of mature individuals (IUCN 2001a), this assessment measures changes in the annual number of nesting females. Because reliable data are not available for all subpopulations, the present report focuses on 32 Index Sites (Figure 1, Table 1; see the supplementary material). These Index Sites include all of the known major nesting areas as well as many of the lesser nesting areas for which quantitative data are available. Despite considerable overlap at some foraging areas, each is presumed to be genetically distinct (Bowen et al. 1992, Bowen 1995) except for the Turtle Islands of Malaysia (Sabah) and Philippines (Moritz et al. 1991). These two Index Sites are, however, treated independently because of the different management practices exercised by the two governments and the resultant differences in subpopulation trends. Selection of the 32 Index Sites was based on two primary assumptions: (1) they represent the overall regional subpopulation trends and (2) the number of individuals among Index Sites in each region is proportional to the actual population size in that region. Any regional inconsistencies in this proportion may result in a biased global population estimate.
It should be noted that a major caveat of using the number of nesting females to assess population trends is that this data type provides information for the proportion of the adult females that nest in any given year, not the total adult female population. However, when monitored over many years, this index can be reliable for assessing long-term population trends (Meylan 1982, Limpus 1996). In the case of green turtles, which display high inter-annual variability in magnitude of nesting (Limpus and Nichols 1987, Broderick et al. 2001a), using short-term or single-season data sets could misrepresent the actual mean number of nesters over a longer timeframe. To alleviate this potential source of error, we used multiple-year data sets whenever available. However, when single-season datasets represented the only quantitative information for a given time period, these data were used as long as they were in accord with qualitative information from other references.
Because data on annual number of nesting females are not always available, we also used data on number of nests per season, annual hatchling production, annual egg production and annual egg harvest. When these proxies were used, we converted units to number of nesting females based on a constant figure of 100 eggs/nest and three nests/season/female, unless otherwise noted. These conversions were based on the assumptions that (1) the mean number of eggs/nest and nests/female/season differ insignificantly through time, and (2) efforts to monitor nesting female activity and egg production are consistent through time. When using egg harvest data, we also assumed that harvest effort was consistent during all years for which data are available and 100% of the eggs were harvested in any given year. We believe these assumptions are accurate, but their absolute validation is very difficult. Qualitative information does, however, suggest that they are reasonable assumptions. For example, in the case of historic egg harvest, the same group of people usually harvested the eggs at a particular nesting beach each year, and they typically took every egg they could find (e.g., Parsons 1962, Pelzer 1972).
In the present assessment, population abundance estimates are based on raw data, linear extrapolation functions, and exponential extrapolation functions. In most subpopulations, more than one trajectory was exhibited over the 3–generation interval; changes in subpopulation size are thus often based on a combination of raw data and extrapolations. If no change is believed to have occurred outside the time interval for which published abundance data are available, the raw data were used to determine the change in population size. However, when it is believed that change in subpopulation abundance occurred outside the interval for which raw data were available, extrapolations we performed to determine the overall change. Linear extrapolations were used when it was believed that the same amount of change occurred each year, irrespective of total subpopulation size. Exponential extrapolations were used when it was believed that change was proportional to the subpopulation size. In cases where there is a lack of information on the specific rate of change, both linear and exponential extrapolations were used to derive population estimates. However, if extrapolations resulted in obviously false estimates, their results were discarded (see Table 5; see the supplementary material).
Generation Length. Generation length is based on the age to maturity plus one half the reproductive longevity (Pianka 1974). Although there appears to be considerable variation in generation length among sea turtle species, it is apparent that all are relatively slow maturing and long-lived (Chaloupka and Musick 1997). Green turtles exhibit particularly slow growth rates, and age to maturity for the species appears to be the longest of any sea turtle (Hirth 1997). As a result, this assessment uses the most appropriate age-at-maturity estimates for each index site. At Index Sites for which there are local age-to-maturity data, those data are used to establish generation length. When data are lacking, as they are for a majority of subpopulations, information from the closest subpopulation for which data are available are used to generate age-at-maturity estimates (Table 2; see the supplementary material).
Estimates of reproductive longevity range from 17 y to 23 y (Carr et al. 1978, Fitzsimmons et al. 1995). Data from the apparently pristine Green Turtle stock at Heron Island in Australia's southern Great Barrier Reef show a mean reproductive life of 19 y (Chaloupka et al. 2004). Because Heron Island is the only undisturbed stock for which reproductive longevity data are available (M. Chaloupka, pers. comm.), this datum is used for all Index Sites (Table 3; see the supplementary material). Thus, based on the range of ages-at-sexual-maturity (26 yrs to 40 yrs) and reproductive longevity from the undisturbed Australian stock (19 yr), the generation lengths used for this assessment range from 35.5 yrs to 49.5 yrs (Table 3; see the supplementary material).
Uncertainties in assessment process: As with any assessment based on historic data or small datasets, there is a great deal of uncertainty relating to the final results of this report. The sources of uncertainty are rooted in both the procedure itself as well as in the stochastic nature green of turtle biology. Both sources of uncertainty are ultimately related to a lack of information, which can be a common issue when dealing with an animal as long-lived as a Green Turtle.
First and foremost is the uncertainty related to the assumptions invoked for this assessment. For example, if, contrary to our assumption, efforts to monitor nesting female activity and egg production were not consistent through time, then our results may be biased. Similarly, our estimates may be inaccurate if harvest effort or the relative amount of eggs harvested was not consistent through time. In addition, the use of extrapolations may have resulted in erroneous estimates of population change. The potential for this increased when extrapolations were made over long time intervals, when they were based on short-term data sets, or if the start and/or end points of extrapolations were erroneous.
Uncertainty may also be tied to Green Turtle biology. In particular, the substantial variability in the proportion of a population that nests in any given year may result in inaccurate comparisons between past and present data sets. For example, if the proportion of a subpopulation's adult female cohort nesting each year oscillates over decadal or longer time frames, then it is conceivable that our estimates of annual change in nesting numbers do not correspond to actual changes in the entire subpopulation. Moreover, if our conversion values for eggs/nest and nests/female/season are not accurate for the specific subpopulation being addressed, inaccuracies may result. Lastly, with respect to the migratory behaviour of green turtles, it is expected that each of the Index Sites included in this assessment represent a distinct subpopulation. Indeed, current genetic data support this claim, however, in the absence of complete data for all rookeries, it is possible that turtles moving back and forth between nesting areas in close proximity could have gone undetected. It is thus conceivable that a female could be counted twice. This would, of course, only be a problem when subpopulation size is based on an actual count of individual turtles visiting the beach. Although unlikely, it amounts to an additional source of uncertainty in this assessment.
Population trends. Based on the actual and extrapolated changes in subpopulation size at the 32 Index Sites, it is apparent that the mean annual number of nesting females has declined by 48% to 67% over the last three generations (Table 5; see the supplementary material). In addition, it is apparent that the degree of population change is not consistent among all Index Sites or among all regions (Tables 5 and 6; see the supplementary material). Because many of the threats that have led to these declines are not reversible and have not yet ceased, it is evident that green turtles face a measurable risk of extinction. Based on this assessment, it is apparent that green turtles qualify for Endangered status under Criteria A2bd.
The key supporting documentation is presented in the tables (see link to additional information below), and the full assessment is also available from the Marine Turtle Specialist Group web site.
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|Range Description:
|The Green Turtle has a circumglobal distribution, occurring throughout tropical and, to a lesser extent, subtropical waters (Atlantic Ocean – eastern central, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, western central; Indian Ocean – eastern, western; Mediterranean Sea; Pacific Ocean – eastern central, northwest, southwest, western central). Green turtles are highly migratory and they undertake complex movements and migrations through geographically disparate habitats. Nesting occurs in more than 80 countries worldwide (Hirth 1997). Their movements within the marine environment are less understood but it is believed that green turtles inhabit coastal waters of over 140 countries (Groombridge and Luxmoore 1989).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:American Samoa; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Australia (Ashmore-Cartier Is., Coral Sea Is. Territory, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia); Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belize; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory; China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaçao; Cyprus; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador (Galápagos); Egypt; Equatorial Guinea (Bioko); Eritrea; Fiji; French Guiana; French Polynesia; French Southern Territories (Mozambique Channel Is.); Grenada; Guam; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; India (Andaman Is., Gujarat, Laccadive Is., Nicobar Is.); Indonesia (Bali, Jawa, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Papua, Sulawesi, Sumatera); Iran, Islamic Republic of; Jamaica; Japan (Honshu, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto); Kenya; Kiribati; Kuwait; Madagascar; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak); Maldives; Marshall Islands; Martinique; Mauritania; Mayotte; Mexico (Baja California, Campeche, Michoacán, Quintana Roo, Revillagigedo Is., Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán); Micronesia, Federated States of ; Mozambique; Myanmar; New Caledonia; New Zealand (Kermadec Is., North Is., South Is.); Nicaragua; Niue; Northern Mariana Islands; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Puerto Rico; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (Ascension); Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Sao Tomé and Principe; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Solomon Islands; Somalia; Sri Lanka; Suriname; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Turkey; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; United Arab Emirates; United States (Florida, Hawaiian Is.); United States Minor Outlying Islands (Midway Is., US Line Is.); Vanuatu; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (Aves I., Venezuelan Antilles); Viet Nam; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Yemen
Possibly extinct:Israel
Regionally extinct:Cayman Islands; Mauritius (Rodrigues - Native)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – southeast; Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – western central; Pacific – northwest
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Like most sea turtles, green turtles are highly migratory and use a wide range of broadly separated localities and habitats during their lifetimes (for review see Hirth 1997). Upon leaving the nesting beach, it has been hypothesized that hatchlings begin an oceanic phase (Carr 1987), perhaps floating passively in major current systems (gyres) that serve as open-ocean developmental grounds (Carr and Meylan 1980, Witham 1991). After a number of years in the oceanic zone, these turtles recruit to neritic developmental areas rich in seagrass and/or marine algae where they forage and grow until maturity (Musick and Limpus 1997). Upon attaining sexual maturity green turtles commence breeding migrations between foraging grounds and nesting areas that are undertaken every few years (Hirth 1997). Migrations are carried out by both males and females and may traverse oceanic zones, often spanning thousands of kilometers (Carr 1986, Mortimer and Portier 1989). During non-breeding periods adults reside at coastal neritic feeding areas that sometimes coincide with juvenile developmental habitats (e.g., Limpus et al. 1994, Seminoff et al. 2003).
|Terrestrial; Marine
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
|Green turtles, like other sea turtle species, are particularly susceptible to population declines because of their vulnerability to anthropogenic impacts during all life-stages: from eggs to adults. Perhaps the most detrimental human threats to green turtles are the intentional harvests of eggs and adults from nesting beaches and juveniles and adults from foraging grounds. Unfortunately, harvest remains legal in several countries despite substantial subpopulation declines (e.g., Humphrey and Salm 1996, Fleming 2001, Fretey 2001). In addition, a number of incidental threats impact green turtles around the world. These threats affect both terrestrial and marine environments, and include bycatch in marine fisheries, habitat degradation at nesting beaches and feeding areas, and disease. Mortality associated with entanglement in marine fisheries is the primary incidental threat; the responsible fishing techniques include drift netting, shrimp trawling, dynamite fishing, and long-lining. Degradation of both nesting beach habitat and marine habitats also play a role in the decline of many Green Turtle stocks. Nesting habitat degradation results from the construction of buildings, beach armoring and re-nourishment, and/or sand extraction (Lutcavage et al. 1997). These factors may directly, through loss of beach habitat, or indirectly, through changing thermal profiles and increasing erosion, serve to decrease the quantity and quality of nesting area available to females, and may evoke a change in the natural behaviors of adults and hatchlings (Ackerman 1997). The presence of lights on or adjacent to nesting beaches alters the behavior of nesting adults (Witherington 1992) and is often fatal to emerging hatchlings as they are attracted to light sources and drawn away from the water (Witherington and Bjorndal 1990). Habitat degradation in the marine environment results from increased effluent and contamination from coastal development, construction of marinas, increased boat traffic, and harvest of nearshore marine algae resources. Combined, these impacts diminish the health of coastal marine ecosystems and may, in turn, adversely affect green turtles. For example, degradation of marine habitats has been implicated in the increasing prevalence of the tumor-causing Fibropapilloma disease (George 1997).
|Conservation Actions:
Green turtles have been afforded legislative protection under a number of treaties and laws (e.g., Navid 1982, Humphrey and Salm 1996, Fleming 2001, Fretey 2001). Among the more globally relevant designations are those of Endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN; Baillie and Groombridge 1996, Hilton-Taylor 2000); Annex II of the SPAW Protocol to the Cartagena Convention (a protocol concerning specially protected areas and wildlife); Appendix I of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Speciesof Wild Fauna and Flora); and Appendices I and II of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). A partial list of the International Instruments that benefit green turtles includes the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles, the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation and Management of Marine Turtles and their Habitats of the Indian Ocean and South-East Asia (IOSEA), the Memorandum of Understanding on ASEAN Sea Turtle Conservation and Protection, the Memorandum of Agreement on the Turtle Islands Heritage Protected Area (TIHPA), and the Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Conservation Measures for Marine Turtles of the Atlantic Coast of Africa.
As a result of these designations and agreements, many of the intentional impacts directed at sea turtles have been lessened: harvest of eggs and adults has been slowed at several nesting areas through nesting beach conservation efforts and an increasing number of community-based initiatives are in place to slow the take of turtles in foraging areas. In regard to incidental take, the implementation of Turtle Excluder Devices has proved to be beneficial in some areas, primarily in the United States and South and Central America (National Research Council 1990). However, despite these advances, human impacts continue throughout the world. The lack of effective monitoring in pelagic and near-shore fisheries operations still allows substantial direct and indirect mortality, and the uncontrolled development of coastal and marine habitats threatens to destroy the supporting ecosystems of long-lived green turtles.
|Seminoff, J.A. (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, U.S.). 2004. Chelonia mydas. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T4615A11037468. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities in Alaska said Friday they are investigating claims by a confessed Anchorage killer that he is responsible for three additional deaths, for a total of five victims.
Joshua Wade, who is serving a life sentence, agreed to provide information on the additional killings in exchange for a transfer to a federal prison outside Alaska, authorities representing federal, state and police agencies said at a briefing for reporters. Asked why the transfer was wanted, Assistant Attorney General John Novak said that was a question for Wade to answer.
"It really didn't matter to me," said Novak, who has been dealing with Wade for 14 years. "I don't care if he serves his time in the federal system or in the state system. I want to make sure he's locked up in a cage."
Wade, 34, was convicted of killing nurse Mindy Schloss and convicted of evidence tampering in the death of Della Brown.
Wade contacted KTVA-TV several times last winter to confess to the additional murders and said he was bargaining information with authorities to get transferred to a prison outside Alaska, the Anchorage station reported late Thursday.
Wade told police and FBI investigators that he was responsible for the murder of a man in Anchorage in 1994 and another man in Anchorage in 1999. Wade also said he killed an unidentified man on the night Brown was killed.
Investigators said they believe Wade is referring to the unsolved murders of 30-year-old Henry Ongtowasruk in 1999 and 38-year-old John Michael Martin in 1994. Wade would have been 14 years old at the time of the 1994 homicide. The families of the men have been notified.
Wade was sentenced to life in prison in February 2010 in the 2007 death of Schloss, a neighbor who worked as a nurse practitioner.
"I deserve much worse," he tearfully said at his state court sentencing.
In a signed plea agreement for the slaying, Wade also acknowledged that he killed Brown, another Anchorage woman, in September 2000 by hitting her on the head with a large rock. Brown's battered, partially-nude body was found in an abandoned shed.
Wade tried to back out of his plea in late 2012 when he filed a motion for post-conviction relief from the state. The case was dismissed June 10 in an action sanctioned by Wade.
"He said, basically, if you transfer me, this action will go away," Novak said. "And so I said amen."
Wade was transferred to a federal maximum security prison in Indiana earlier this year.
Authorities wouldn't discuss the veracity of Wade's allegations, only saying they are still investigating. They also are seeing if physical evidence from the earlier murders can be tied to Wade.
An Anchorage jury acquitted Wade of Brown's murder but convicted him of tampering with evidence, for which he served 6 ½ years in prison.
In telephone calls last winter from jail to KTVA, Wade claimed he killed someone else when he was 14 and five years later, strangled someone in a botched robbery.
The third additional death, he said, came the night Brown was killed. There was a man with her in the shed. Wade told the station he knocked the man unconscious, put him in the trunk of his car, and then went for drinks.
When he returned, he heard thumping in the trunk.
"And I opened it, nobody was around, it was dark, and pulled him out and pretty sure that I'd killed him that time by stomping on his head," Wade told the station.
KTVA didn't air the interviews last winter because there was no corroboration, but it did so Thursday night after police announced the news conference for the next day.
"I drove out to the valley, found a spot, took the guy out, took his clothes off and shot him in the head two times with a shotgun and pretty much took everything from the shoulders up," he told KTVA.
Months after his release from the evidence-tampering conviction, Wade bound, gagged and kidnapped Schloss, shooting her in a wooded area near Wasilla.
Wade was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of Schloss. A state court judge placed a restriction on the parole board to make Wade serve at least 66 years.
If Wade would be released at age 95, he would serve out the remainder of a federal life sentence for murder committed during a carjacking.
Wade denied to the station that he was a serial killer.
"Absolutely not," he responded. And his advice to people who think he is a serial killer: "Quit reading books."
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Dye found in blue M&Ms may improve spinal injuries
Similar dye shows benefits in helping paralyzed rats walk again, study shows
Scientists can't yet explain why green M&Ms seem to hold seductive powers or why the brown-hued chocolates appear to bring bad luck.
But new research shows that an artificial dye that is chemically similar to the one used in blue M&Ms may hold promise in treating spinal cord injuries, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The compound, called Brilliant Blue G--was injected into the veins of rats within 15 minutes of receiving a paralyzing injury. The rats given the BBG solution temporarily turned blue and regained their ability to walk, albeit with a limp. The rats who didn't receive the dye also recovered, but to a lesser extent than rats that received BBG.
The new findings build on earlier research by the same scientists that showed adenosine triphosphate, a chemical that keeps the body's cells alive, floods into an area surrounding a spinal cord injury, killing the cells that normally allow us to move.
But when BBG was injected, it blocked ATP's harmful effects at the injury site, according to the researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.
While Americans ingest more than 1 million pounds of the chemically similar FD&C blue dye No. 1 annually, according to the study, upping your M&M intake isn't likely to do anything more than make you fat. M&Ms were not used in the study.
But study co-author Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at URMC, says she's now a big fan of blue M&Ms.
"They are actually doing something that the other colors do not," she wrote in an e-mail.
Still, human trials are needed before emergency responders start deploying intravenous blue-dye drips. Rats are not people. (Though some people are rats.)


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By Kim Dixon and Thomas Ferraro and David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dick Durbin, a senior Senate Democrat and close ally of President Barack Obama, urged fellow liberals on Tuesday to consider reforming Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. healthcare programs they have long fought to shield from spending cuts.
The timing of his message - just as Democrats and Republicans struggling to avoid the "fiscal cliff," looming early next year - and its prominence may signal that Democratic leaders and the White House will discuss social programs at the fiscal policy negotiating table.
"Progressives should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Medicare and Medicaid," which help pay for the care of the elderly and needy, Durbin said in remarks to the liberal Center for American Progress.
Most Democrats have avoided talking about making changes to Medicare and Medicaid, despite the rising costs of the two programs, which are adding mightily to U.S. budget deficits.
Durbin has recently made other high-profile remarks about reducing Medicare and Medicaid costs. Appearing on ABC's "This Week" program on Sunday, he raised the possibility of Democrats accepting Medicare reforms that would make higher-income seniors pay more for their care.
Durbin said on Tuesday, however, that the debate over Medicare and Medicaid should not be part of the solving the immediate fiscal problem - the convergence of sharp tax increases and deep federal spending cuts set for January. Economists warn that going over this fiscal cliff could put the U.S. into a recession.
Durbin has suggested a two-step process: avert the cliff now and agree to a framework to find savings from Medicare and Medicaid with the details to be worked out next year.
Obama and congressional Democrats want to raise income taxes only on the wealthy and Durbin said liberals need to offer concrete ways to rein in spending, as well.
"We can't be so naive to believe that just taxing the rich will solve our (fiscal) problems," Durbin said.
Durbin repeated the Democrats' position that most tax cuts enacted in 2001 should be extended, but tax cuts given to those with income above $250,000 should expire. If Congress fails to act, tax rates for all income groups will rise.
Republicans could block any bill that does not extend all tax cuts, but this risks playing into Democrats' hands. After January 1, with all tax cuts expired, Democrats could draft a bill that cuts taxes only for those earning below $250,000, cranking up pressure on Republicans to go along.
One controversial proposal to shore up Medicare finances the to raise the age at which seniors start receiving benefits. Durbin said he was concerned that those with health problems in the years before Medicare kicks in may struggle to get coverage.
Democrats say manual laborers and people with health problems before eligibility age are at risk. Durbin cited his brother, who had a heart attack before qualifying for Medicare at age 65.
"My very conservative Republican brother, who had no use for social programs, started counting the days until he was eligible for Medicare," Durbin said.
"If anybody wants to talk about a later eligibility age for Medicare, what I want to hear is the assurance and guarantee that people like my brother will have access to affordable health care and insurance," before they reach the age, he said.
Echoing the stance of Obama and other Democrats, Durbin said changes to Social Security are needed but since the retirement benefits program did not contribute to the deficit problem, it should be tackled separately.
He proposed a new bipartisan commission to recommend a plan to keep Social Security solvent for the next 75 years. Congress should be required to vote on the changes, he said. Such a panel shored up the pension program in the mid-1980s.
(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro, Kim Dixon and David Morgan; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Jackie Frank)


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Hero Motors has just inked a deal with BMW that sees the Indian motorcycle manufacturer building gearboxes for the Bavarian brand not only in the Indian market, but also worldwide. The five to eight year deal will see Hero building gearboxes for BMW on a variety of motorcycles, and we presume scooters, though which models exactly remains to be seen.
The news is a boon for the Indian motorcycle manufacturing industry, as it adds further credence to the country's technical prowess. The deal is also beneficial for BMW as well, as the German company will not only be able to build its bikes for cheaper, but we're sure BMW is gaining a foothold on the lucrative Indian market from the transaction as well. BMW currently imports fully-built motorcycles into India, but with this news, we see that business practice changing in the near future.


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State Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-I-60, will receive the 2013 Liberty Bell Award, the highest award that is bestowed at the Annual Law Day Luncheon of the Bar Association of Erie County.
The award, established in 1964, recognizes community service that has strengthened the American system of freedom under the law, and acknowledges outstanding contributions to the effective functioning of U.S. institutions of government.
The Liberty Bell Award will be presented to Grisanti on Tuesday, April 30, at a luncheon held at Statler Towers in the City of Buffalo. Receiving the award in his absence (session day in Albany) will be his father, Richard Grisanti, who has been practicing law for more than 50 years.
"I am honored and quite humbled to receive such a prestigious honor," Grisanti said. "I feel my willingness to cross party lines and work with legislators from various backgrounds has allowed me to do what is best for my constituents. I am proud to represent and serve my community, and all the skills that I have learned as an attorney I have used in Albany to fight for Western New York and bring back every possible resource for our region. I will and have always put people first and not politics, since I have been elected to public office, and I will continue to do so."
Kathleen Sweet, president of the Bar Association of Erie County, said Grisanti has "not shied away from taking positions in the face of criticism" and that he was selected to receive the award because of his "strength of conviction and independent deliberation on matters important to our region."
Grisanti was born and raised in Buffalo and is the youngest of six children. He graduated from Sweet Home High School and Canisius College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. After finishing his undergraduate degree, he went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. During law school, he was a member of the student bar association, received numerous certificates and book awards, and was a member of the entertainment committee for the Bar Association and the Italian Law Society.
Since graduating law school, Grisanti has worked at his father's law firm, which his grandfather founded in 1921. A third generation attorney, he has worked at his family's practice for more than two decades.
Grisanti currently represents the 60th Senate District, which includes parts of the City of Buffalo, the northtowns and the southtowns. Grisanti is chairman of the environmental conservation committee and currently sits on the finance, cities, cultural affairs, tourism, parks and recreation, higher education, infrastructure and capital investment, insurance, labor and veterans, homeland security and military affairs committees in the Senate, as well as the MS Legislative Alliance for the Senate.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Deception, jealousy, sadistic insults and a lot of spit — it's all in a day's work for the downtrodden, sisterly duo of servants in French playwright Jean Genet's 1947 dark, avant-garde psychodrama "The Maids."
Sydney Theatre Company's star-driven, antic-filled production, the theatrical epicenter of this summer's Lincoln Center Festival, features Cate Blanchett and French film star Isabelle Huppert as the weary, psychopathic siblings, and Elizabeth Debicki as their sexy, callous young Mistress.
Using a new adaptation by Andrew Upton and director Benedict Andrews, the production is kaleidoscopic, both searing and comical, with intense performances by Blanchett and Huppert and a different kind of wonderfully off-kilter turn by Debicki.
Alice Babidge's stylish modern boudoir and sumptuous costumes lend a surreal air to the vulgar, absurdist slapstick behavior of the maids as the play begins. The set is laden with a vaguely threatening over-abundance of flowers. A giant projection screen looms above, supplied with images by hidden cameras and visible camera operators roaming behind darkly mirrored walls. Random photos and fishbowl lenses add layers of conflicting elements to a play that is already fraught with elusive meanings.
Blanchett's portrayal of Claire is both histrionic and genuinely haunted, whether she's sweeping around the stage in diva-like imitation of her Mistress or reflecting despairingly about her misery.
Huppert is more introspective as older sister Solange, although her skillful, irony-laden and increasingly bitter performance is undercut by her thick French accent and childish physical comedy that has her hopping around like a merry chipmunk. Blanchett retains her Australian accent, deliberately adding to the contrasts between sisters who already look nothing alike.
The oppressed maids role-play with their Mistress' expensive clothing in her bedroom whenever she's out. They regularly enact a nasty, eroticized and violent fantasy in which they exhibit their love-hate relationship with their employer and with themselves. Their stories, which Claire claims are intended to calm them, eventually incite them to attempt enactment of their murderous hatred.
When the sisters realize their petty games have finally put them in genuine peril, their barely-concealed desperation is well-matched by their Mistress' comical oblivion to reality. The statuesque Debicki sails confidently onstage as they plot to poison Mistress, and proceeds to fling her entire pricey wardrobe heedlessly to the floor while unleashing a glorious, narcissistic tantrum of shallow emotions.
Uncaring about their suffering and even their names, Mistress alternately flatters and then debases her servants, gives gifts and then snatches them back, all while moaning about her perceived troubles. Debicki gives an edge of madness to her insular, upper-class character, who almost literally rubs the maids' noses in the fact that her youth, beauty, privilege and wealth are forever beyond their reach.
Genet based his story about class struggles, poverty, identity and insanity on the real French murder of a woman and her daughter by their maids. He intended it be shocking, and Andrews' entertaining if sometimes puzzling 21st century interpretation definitely retains shock value and uncomfortable moments. The real value, of course, lies in experiencing these three brave performances.
Online: http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org


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Currently when you add a listing, then you have to:
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I would like to bring the product form (and any other needed) to the frontend and allow such flow that you can add listing from frontend > add product to that listing from the frontend AND allow to tie listing and product in the finish step of the new product. This would avoid the backend confusion and would make the process clearer for less tech-savy people.
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2. Change logic piece so that you can assign the product to the listing, not other way around.
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LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec – The first victim of a runaway oil train's explosive derailment in a Quebec town was identified Thursday, more than five days since the disaster, as the intensity of the fire has slowed searches for the 50 people presumed dead.
Quebec's premier toured the traumatized town and sharply criticized the U.S. railway's chief for not responding in person more quickly to Canada's worst railway disaster in nearly 150 years.
Police said four more bodies had been found, bringing the total found to 24.
The first victim to be identified by the coroner's office was 93-year-old Eliane Parenteau, who lived in the disaster zone in downtown Lac-Megantic. Those who knew her described her as being active for her age.
The devastated downtown remained dangerous for days after the crash as responders put out fires and struggled to keep the remaining oil tankers cool so they wouldn't explode. The hazardous conditions delayed the search for people missing -- and now for bodies.
Officials also have warned that identifications would be made more difficult by the scorched conditions.
Premier Pauline Marois arrived in town and renewed her criticism of Edward Burkhardt, president and CEO of U.S.-based Rail World Inc., which owns the runaway train.
"The leader of this company should have been there from the beginning," Marois said at a news conference.
Burkhardt arrived in town for the first time Wednesday with a police escort, facing jeers from residents.
Burkhardt has said he delayed his visit to deal with the crisis from his Chicago office, saying he was better able to communicate from there.
"I understand the extreme anger," he said. "We owe an abject apology to the people in this town."
He has blamed the engineer for failing to set the brakes properly before the unmanned train hurtled down a seven-mile (11-kilometer) incline, derailed and ignited. All but one of its 73 cars was carrying oil, and at least five exploded.
Burkhardt said the engineer had been suspended without pay and was under "police control." Burkhardt did not name the engineer, though the company had previously identified the employee as Tom Harding of Quebec. Harding has not spoken publicly since the crash.
Anger at the railway officials among residents appeared to mount Thursday.
Lac-Megantic's mayor, Colette Roy-Laroche, said a hoped-for meeting with Burkhardt didn't materialize.
"I am angry with the fact that he did not communicate with me sooner," she said.
At Burkhardt's head office, an aide said no snub of the mayor was intended.
"There's been a misunderstanding on that issue," said Cathy Aldana. "Our people have been in contact with mayor's office daily, and I know Mr. Burkhardt wanted to see her personally."
Nearly all the 2,000 residents forced to evacuate after the crash -- a third of the population-- were now able to return home, the mayor said.
Investigators are also looking at a fire on the same train just hours before the disaster. A fire official has said the train's power was shut down as standard operating procedure, meaning the train's air brakes would have been disabled. In that case, hand brakes on individual train cars would have been needed.
The derailment is Canada's worst railway disaster since a train plunged into a Quebec river in 1864, killing 99.
The crash has raised questions about the rapidly growing use of rail to transport oil in North America, especially in the booming North Dakota oil fields and Alberta oil sands far from the sea.


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St. Martin's, Nov 2004, 22.95, 240 pp. ISBN: 0312319029 Hearing fire trucks in his neighborhood, Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy goes to look and sees that the home of Peter O'Brien, founder of Camden Tour Records, has burned to the ground. He later learns arson caused the blaze as someone placed an incendiary device inside a cassette holder. A few days later Kennedy's girlfriend reporter Ann Rea tells him that Peter has not been to his off...


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The Tulane Law School Sports Law program provides students with the background necessary to understand and handle problems unique to the sports industry.
Tulane SLS Hosts the National Baseball Arbitration Competition
The Tulane Sports Law Society is excited to once again host the National Baseball Arbitration Competition (NBAC)! The NBAC is a simulated salary arbitration competition modeled on the procedures used by Major League Baseball (MLB). The competition allows law students from over 40 schools worldwide to sharpen their oral and written advocacy skills within the specialized context of Major League Baseball's arbitration proceedings.
Additionally, the competition allows students to interact with some of baseball's leading executives, agents, writers, team counsel, and arbitration experts as these individuals serve as the judges for the competition. This year's list of judges includes Robert Manfred (MLB Executive Vice President of Economic and League Affairs), Nona Lee (Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Arizona Diamondbacks), Bryan Minniti (Assistant General Manager of the Washington Nationals), and Jerry Crasnick (Writer for ESPN.com and Baseball America).
At the conclusion of the competition, the Tulane Sports Law Society hosts a symposium featuring a panel of experts to discuss legal issues facing baseball. This year's competition will take place on Tulane's uptown campus January 24-25, 2013. The Symposium is open to the public and will take place at McAlister Auditorium on January 25 at 4:30pm. For more information, visit the NBAC website.
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You can kill spiders with this one
In case you are not following Sunday on instagram, or the dreaded box of faces in boxes and also thumbs, you might have missed the most important thing to happen this year. That is to say: the first real dang-old-fashioned print edition of e galactic mu. Written by Sunday Williams (who you might remember as the funny and multi-talented headmistress of AngerBurger). With cover art by the famously talented Adam Koford (of the laugh-out-loud cats).
You can use it to kill spiders and other level 0 creatures, you can press flowers or hide photographs, you can moisten it and watch it curl, you can display it above the mantle with pride like something you killed, and you can (finally!) read it in bed without worrying about electromagnetic rays frying your defenseless brain.
So drop the dishes, drop the baby, let go of the steering wheel, flush the toilet, turn off the shower, unplug the oven, kick over the TV, drop your pants, drop everything, dance around, wave your hands in the air like you don't care, do your dance and order it now.
(Get it from Amazon or special-order it at your local bookstore.)
We now return to our regularly scheduled complete lack of programming.
Your friendly neighborhood viking,
Mike the Viking