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A bet on last century's style, home furnishings and quality of life is opening wallets 100 years later. For some dealers and real estate experts, the summer of 2010 looked like the summer of 1910, 1948 and 1956 – basically any time but the present.
Antique dealers are combing their inventory in the hopes that old styles with a classic feel assuage consumer anxiety in shaky times. With some Americans feeling as if they can't trust government, Wall Street or big business, antique dealers are betting that nostalgic antiques and smaller, less cluttered living spaces will evoke memories of better times.
"We've been through a very unsettling time, and it's when people are discontent with the present that they start appreciating and having nostalgia for the past,'' said Ingeburg Miller, owner of Inge's Recommendables in Blawnox, Pa.
Miller, who specializes in practical antique items and gifts, said her customers are buying antique bedroom and living room furniture, and handmade linens because they are better crafted than most of today's traditional home items. Some antique dealers say older pieces fetch 15 percent less in price than most mass-produced store-bought items.
"I faithfully decorate my old home with American Empire-style furniture from the late 1800s," said young collector Renee Kozlesky of Latrobe, Pa. "The older furniture is both beautiful and functional,'' she said. "This modern stuff is simply junk.''
Bridget Shirey of Ligonier Pa. agrees. Her great wrap-around front porch is home to turn-of-the-century wicker furniture. "We live with our antiques and they become even more precious to us as we begin realizing that yesterday's long forgotten styles were both economical and functional,'' said Shirey.
"I think people are just fed up with all this new-fangled stuff and they want to enjoy a simpler, less stressful time in their lives,'' said Bert Wake, a retired life insurance salesman from Wheeling, W.Va. "I collect old carriage lamps because that reminds me of a time when the horse and buggy ruled our roads, and a simple handshake would still seal a business deal. Today, you have to be careful your identity is not stolen on the Internet,'' quipped Wake.
The public has little confidence in most American institutions, particularly Congress and big business, according to Gallup poles taken over the last several years. After three years of stalled growth, retail sales have only now started to increase the first quarter of 2011. U.S. retail sales increased in February by the most in four months. Yet rising food and energy prices are pulling down consumer confidence.
That environment has made items that might draw consumer interest all the more important to the bottom line.
"There is something major going on right now in the American consumer mind-set which is leading people to embrace more traditional antiques and smaller living space,'' said Brenda Mort, a real estate consultant from Morristown, N.J.
After 30 years in the hardware business and more than two decades in a 75-year-old brick Tudor in Ben Avon, Pa., Mike and Marsha Broniszewski moved to a two-bedroom loft at The Cork Factory, an upper-hip factory-turned-apartment building in Pittsburgh's Strip District. They've never looked back.
The seven-story complex where they now live, located along the Allegheny River, was built between 1901 and 1913 as the home of Armstrong Cork, which produced flooring, life jackets and bottle tops for Old Grand Dad whiskey and Heinz ketchup before closing in 1974. Designated a historic landmark in 2004, it was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by famed Pittsburgh architect Frederick John Osterling. Its $78 million renovation, tatted in 2005, took more than two years to complete.
"There is more and more of this kind of space cropping up, and smaller spaces demand the just right antique pieces,'' said Jane Roesch, owner of Merryvale Antiques in the upscale Shady Side section of Pittsburgh, Pa. She sees increased interest in antique silver, furniture and Limoges and depression glass. By contrast, Pittsburgh antiques dealer Mark Evers sees renewed interest in renovated Steinway pianos, miniature bronzes and small oriental rugs. In fact, some of the most coveted antique masterpieces are the ones on the floor.
Oriental rugs, once the obsession of Ottoman sultans, European nobles and American robber barons, rarely topped $2 million a decade go. Now, these centuries-old carpets from Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus are commanding sums once reserved for masterpiece paintings than floor coverings. In March 2010, Sotheby's sold a 19th century Indian carpet interwoven with two million seed pearls for $5.5 million.
Mary Jo Culbertson of On the Diamond Antiques in Ligonier, Pa., said downsizing has made antique items like rugs, Wedgwood plates and Tiffany silver hot items. "People are looking for things that fit nicely in small spaces,'' she said.
And "small" seems to be the buzz word today.
Sandra Foster recently turned a tiny 9-by-14 foot Catskill hunting cabin into a romantic Victorian cottage, including a $15 crystal chandelier that she purchased at a flea market.
Then there are the apartments the size of a large RV. Judy Lott's Santa Monica, Calif., apartment has a 17-foot ceiling, marble countertops and collector airline travel posters hanging on the wall. She's got air conditioning, a dishwasher and a built-in microwave. All in 350 square feet.
"Everything is within three steps of the next thing,'' said Lott, a freelance photographer.
In a region known for sprawl, diminutive dwellings are taking a stakehold in neighborhoods where renters could not otherwise afford to live in choice neighborhoods.
Still when it comes to space, there are few things that New Yorkers prize as much as a little outdoor space – a terrace perhaps or a small deck outside.
John and Susie Wu have converted their Greenwich apartment patio into an outside den, replete with two red velvet Victorian high-backed chairs, a small Tiffany reading lamp and an early American maple dropleaf tea table dating to 1870.
"We simply needed a little elbow room," said Susie Wu, a graphic designer. "We love our small cozy apartment, but we wanted to better showcase some of our old antiques that recently came form our late uncle's estate,"
Bea Bradley, a Pittsburgh designer, said that most people are looking to recapture something from their past life. "It could be a piece of antique porcelain or a child's toy, but they want something from their past that makes them feel good,'' she said.
And this nostalgia for the past is also fueled by a rise in empty nesters, folks who are selling off the old 15-room family home and moving to smaller digs.
"We want to keep my dad's old World War II memorabilia and Depression glass, but we need to be smart about what we keep because our new condo is simply not that spacious," said Rita Hayden, 85, a retired school teacher form Greensburg, Pa.
But Hayden is quick to inject that her new smaller space is easier to clean and more economical to heat. "I don't miss the big heating bills in the winter,'' she said. "I had the architect rework my living room with hideaway drawers so I can stuff all my late father's old uniforms and photos in a safe, dry place.''
"It's not the size of your place or the stuff you collect, it's all about the memories you have in your head, that's what counts in the end,'' said Hayden, who converted her apartment balcony porch into a play station for her two 10-year-old Siamese cats, Buddy and Bess. ?
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1. Re: Help! X25-M 80G is changed to intel bootloader
Have you tried going into the drive properties and "updating" the driver?
Use the option to "search your computer to find a driver" and you should come up with a list that includeds the Intel driver.
If that doesn't work, you should be able to download the driver from Intel.
2. Re: Help! X25-M 80G is changed to intel bootloaderpopo0982 Jul 4, 2011 5:43 AM (in response to pkincy )
Thanks for reply, i updated my driver of ssd which was downloaded from gigabyte website, the rst vesion is 10.6.0.1002...
another ssd which is working well has updated, but this one still displayed as intel bootloader, and only 6 MB volume...
I tried to bulid a new patition from this ssd (I have give up to restore the information from this disk...), and I could only get a patition of 6 MB...
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Portland police say a robber used a syringe to threaten workers at an ice cream shop by claiming the needle was "full of AIDS."
Officers went to the Baskin Robbins on Southwest Broadway just before 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Employees told officers a man entered the store and pulled out the hypodermic needle, saying that it was infected.
The man was able to take off on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. No one was hurt.
The robber was last seen walking northbound on Broadway.
Several officers searched the area but were unable to find the robber.
He's described as a white man in his 20s, 5'9″ tall and skinny with short brown hair and glasses.
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Horse Racing System #3 – In maiden claiming races, bet the horse with the best pedigree. If the tote board suggests that the public is overlooking these mitigating circumstances, make your play.
The horse with the best last race speed figure (whether Beyer, BRIS, or Equibase) may not be the best horse in the race, but he's probably not far off, so we can use that as a proxy for selection purposes.
Nunamaker reported that the inside post in dirt route races won at a 20% greater than expected rate, and lost only 10 cents on the dollar, much better than the track take. The inside post in turf routes actually showed a small profit, but this was based on a small sample size and cannot be relied upon. This is somewhat counter-intuitive since you'd expect that horses with good pedigrees that end up in the maiden claiming ranks probably can't run at all. To the extent that most handicappers use pedigree at all, it's usually to identify horses that may improve when switched to the turf, or those who may be expected to win as first time starters. Because speed figures have gained in popularity over the years, anyone following that system now would have trouble coming up with gas money for the ride home from the track.
Second, the very nature of the parimutuel system itself means that any profits to be made from following a particular set of rules will quickly be arbitraged away as the followers of that system drive down the odds of horses chosen by the system.
Horse Racing System #4 – Bet low-priced favorites to place. It must follow, therefore, that if we bet the best horse that has started at least twice, we stand an excellent chance of beating the takeout, particularly in races that have several first and second time starters.
However, just because systems won't make you rich doesn't mean there's no place for them at all in a horseplayer's arsenal. In most case the public seems to take a horse's last running line at face value. My study suggests that's not the case.
First time starters return only about 60 cents on the dollar, and second time starters are only a little better, returning less than 70 cents on the dollar. I was able to replicate this result in my own study of nearly 100,000 races conducted a decade later.
In fact, pedigree does not generally offer wager value with one curious exception: well bred horses do surprisingly well in maiden claiming races. Most people who love horse racing would be thrilled just to win a little more and lose a little less on their trips to the track.
For as long as humans have bet on horse racing there have been system sellers trying to con the gullible into parting with their hard earned money with the lure of easy profits to be made on the sport of kings. My own studies have shown a similar advantage for the inside post in routes.
Horse Racing System #5 – Bet Horses breaking from the inside post in route races. The inside post combined with early speed is a particularly potent combination, since the horse will not have to exert himself as much to gain his preferred position at the front of the pack.
For instance, many speed figure handicappers reported making horse racing profits in the 60's and 70's simply by betting horses with the best last race speed figure. With the BRIS pp's you can use the Sire Production Factor in concert with the pedigree rating. None of them work.. Let me let you in on a little secret about these "magic formulas". Few bother to even look at the comment line for the race, let alone take the trouble to seek out and watch the replay of the race. The horse with the best combination of the two is the play.
This causes the favorite to be under bet in the place pool, leading to a profit opportunity for us to take advantage of by betting the favorite to place. One of the few anomalies turned up by Michael Nunamaker in his pioneering computer study "Modern Impact Values", published in 1994, was that horses breaking from the inside post position in route races won more than their fair share of races, and were under-bet by the public. It should go without saying that you should actually like the favorite's chances after evaluating the race with your own handicapping.
In the first place, the parimutuel takeout in horse racing is large (over 15%) and the mutuel pools are relatively efficient, so that even systems with a strong basis in reality can't overcome the size of the takeout.
Looking for a dead simple horse racing system that will allow you to quit your job and make a living betting the horses in just 10 minutes a day? Good luck with that!
Look for comment lines like "bled", "lost rider", "clipped heels", "stumbled", "steadied", "between horses", "rank", and "jumped shadows" that suggest that a horse's last race was not indicative of its true ability. I've identified some of the most useful handicapping factors that have a proven history of doing much better than the track takeout and put them together with some simple rules that should make your trips to the racetrack more fun and profitable. This offers opportunity to more diligent players.
Instead of blindly betting all horses breaking from the inside, you might use this to supplement your handicapping, paying particular attention to the inside horse, and betting it when you like the horse on other handicapping grounds. My computer studies of pedigree, based on nearly 100,000 races, suggest that using pedigree in that manner offers no advantage to the player.
Horse Racing System #1 – In maiden races, bet the horse with the best last race speed figure that has had at least two career starts. This is another mistake that bettors make: in a race with a clear standout, many people give up on the win pool and bet their choice to place, thinking that they'll get paid even if the favorite wins.
None of these systems will make you rich, or even guarantee that you will make a profit. Just don't expect to quit your day job.
Horse Racing System #2 – Bet horses that have an excuse for a poor performance in their last race. This system takes advantage of one of the few glaring inefficiencies in the parimutuel pools, namely that first and second time starters are badly over-bet.
How do we identify the best pedigree, then? If you're using the DRF past performances, use the stud fee as a proxy for quality, and the Tomlinson figure to judge suitability for the distance and surface. In that spirit. They will, however increase the chances of a profitable day at the races by ensuring that your wager dollars go where they have the best chance of success
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents cited three people for alleged fishing violations on April 9 in Catahoula Parish.
Agents were patrolling Larto Lake when they observed a commercial flat boat with three individuals running an illegal lead net. When agents attempted to make contact, the operator of the vessel refused to stop. After a brief chase, agents were able to stop the vessel and apprehend the three individuals. During the chase, agents witnessed the men offloading illegally taken fish from hoop nets into the water.
Agents arrested David D. Paulk, 67, of Jonesville, and Adam L. Fields, 26, of Jonesville, and booked them into the Catahoula Parish Prison. Agents also cited and released Stephanie L. Carry, 20, of Jonesville.
Agents arrested Paulk and Fields for resisting an officer by flight, use lead nets in other than an overflow area, taking game fish illegally, and intentional concealment by disposing of fish evidence. Agents also charged Paulk with reckless operation of a watercraft and no boat registration numbers. Carry was cited for taking game fish illegally and using lead nets in other than an overflow area.
Agents seized two hoop nets, a lead net, a 17 foot flat boat and 50 horsepower motor.
Resisting an officer by flight brings up to a $500 fine and up to six months in jail. Reckless operation of a watercraft carries up to a $200 fine and 90 days in jail. Using lead nets in other than an overflow area and taking game fish illegally both bring a $400 to $950 fine and up to 120 days in jail for each charge. Intentional concealment by disposing of fish brings a $900 to $950 fine and up to 120 days in jail. No boat registration numbers carries up to a $50 fine and 15 days in jail.
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Penn State Harrisburg gave Alumni Achievement Awards to graduates from each of its schools. Luke Kempski received the School of Behavioral Science and Education award. He is president of JPL, a marketing and communications firm in Swatara Township. His efforts helped the company expand into interactive media such as e-learning, Web development and webcasting. He received a master's of education in training and development from Penn State Harrisburg in 1995. The School of Business Administration award was given to E. Philip Wenger, president and chief of operations of Fulton Financial Corp. He has held numerous positions within Fulton since starting his career there shortly after graduation, including executive vice president of corporate banking; senior executive vice president of Lancaster, York, and Chester counties; and chief operating officer. He received a bachelor's degree in finance in 1979 and an MBA in 1987. The School of Humanities award was given to Kathy Marley-Dunbar, who received a bachelor's degree in American studies in 1989 and a master's in American studies in 1993. She has been active with the Art Association of Harrisburg and Harrisburg Area Community College's Gettysburg Campus. The School of Public Affairs award was given to Richard White, who received a doctorate in public administration in 1997. He is a dean and a distinguished professor of business with the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University and a former senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard. The School of Science, Engineering and Technology award went to John Mason Jr., who received a degree in transportation technology in 1972. Since 2008, he has been associate provost and vice president for research with Auburn University, where he is responsible for research program development, sponsored programs and technology transfer and commercialization. Previously, he was an associate dean for graduate studies, research and outreach with Penn State's College of Engineering.
Harrisburg-based Modern Transit Partnership gave U.S. Rep. Tim Holden its Friend of Transit Award in recognition of his staunch support for transit and transportation issues throughout the region during his 20-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives. Most recently, he has been the senior Pennsylvania member on the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee, as well as the Highways and Transit and Aviation subcommittees.


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With concerns about appearance, Anderson County Commission sent the issue of black-and-white "In God We Trust" signs back to its county Operations Committee on Monday night.
With concerns about appearance, Anderson County Commission sent the issue of black-and-white "In God We Trust" signs back to its county Operations Committee on Monday night.
The Commission also rejected an amendment by Commissioner Myron Iwanski to make the "In God We Trust" national motto one of four patriotic mottos to be placed above the exterior doors of the Anderson County Courthouse. The rejection came in spite of pleas by Iwanski and Commissioners Jerry Creasey and Robin Biloski, all of Oak Ridge, to use several mottos on the signs in an effort to reach a compromise on an issue they say has split the Commission — and county.
Iwanski said the Commission acted too swiftly at the last Commission meeting in approving citizens' requests on Feb. 19 to put "In God We Trust" on the Courthouse. In a memo sent to commissioners last week, County Law Director Jay Yeager's advised Commission to take action or refrain from taking action or making comments that would indicate the issue is a religious one, rather than an act of patriotism.
However, Iwanski said Monday night that anyone who listened to comments at the Feb. 19 Commission meeting knows the vote for placing "In God We Trust" on the Courthouse "was done for religious reasons rather than patriotic reasons." He said if lawsuits are filed against the county over placing the motto on the Courthouse, it "could cost us substantially."
"I think this has divided us," Iwanski said, referring to the Commission. The Commission voted 12-4 in favor of placing "In God We Trust" on the Courthouse, with only four of the six county commissioners from Oak Ridge voting against. He added that its an issue that has divided the community and even some churches.
Iwanski suggested other potential mottos to be included could be like "liberty and justice for all" or "agriculture and commerce," which is the state motto.
"I love Myron Iwanski," Commissioner Jerry White said, "But I very much disagree with this." His statement was met with applause from the audience, which filled the Courthouse courtroom, where the meeting was held.
Commissioner Creasey said he was prepared to make a motion similar to Iwanski's. He also talked of division on Commission, which he said could affect the way the Commission governs, and said it has also showed a division between Oak Ridge and the county.
"We need to reach a compromise," he said.
Creasey's comment was echoed by Commissioner Biloski.
Iwanski's amendment failed and the issue of choosing the sign's appearance was sent to Operations Committee, which meets on April 8.
At this month's Operations Committee, the Committee voted to put small black metal signs with white lettering stating "In God We Trust" above each of the Courthouse's four exterior doors. But on Monday, commissioners disagreed, saying they wanted it to be aesthetically appealing, perhaps in granite.
White said he wanted something "real permanent, something that will really make a statement."
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By Kim Dixon and Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Jim DeMint, a leading voice in the modern American conservative movement who has riled fellow Republicans as well as Democrats, surprised both parties on Thursday by declaring he was retiring from the chamber to head a conservative think tank.
DeMint's announcement came two days after he won praise from hard-liners by ripping into the top Republican, Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner.
The 61-year-old South Carolinian, who preaches the value of small government and freely criticizes fellow Republicans, blasted Boehner for violating a long-time party taboo: proposing increased revenue as part of a deficit-reduction plan.
"This isn't rocket science," DeMint said. "Everyone knows that when you take money out of the economy (with tax hikes) it destroys jobs."
DeMint's departure in January is not expected to affect the balance of power in the Senate, which Democrats are set to control next year, 53-47.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley appears certain to appoint a fellow Republican to replace DeMint through 2014, when a special election will be held.
A senior Republican speculated that Haley, seen as a rising star, will choose either Tim Scott or Michael Mulvaney, who represent South Carolina in the House of Representatives, and perhaps run for the Senate seat herself in 2014.
DeMint was first elected to the Senate in 2004 after six years in the House of Representatives.
In many ways, he has seemed ahead of his time in the Senate with his small-government views, which became more popular in recent years with the rise of the anti-Washington Tea Party movement.
That movement suffered some big losses in last month's election, however, when President Barack Obama won a second term and DeMint's Republicans failed to win back the Senate.
Last year, DeMint was a founder of the Senate Tea Party Caucus, which now has four members. Three more Tea Party favorites were elected to the Senate.
With his uncompromising style, DeMint has often single-handedly tied the Senate in knots by raising objections to a host of measures to increase the scope of government.
Resulting gridlock fanned by DeMint and others on both sides of the political aisle contributed to record low approval ratings for Congress at or near single digits.
"I'm leaving the Senate now, but I'm not leaving the fight," DeMint said in a statement. "I've decided to join The Heritage Foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas."
Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation, a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, is one of the nation's leading think tanks. With 700,000 members, it has helped shape the debate in Washington for years.
The Senate has long been known as "the world's most deliberative body." But in recent years, the gridlock has made it more frustrating and less attractive.
Earlier this year, Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, a leading moderate, announced her retirement, fed up with the partisan wrangling.
Darrell West of the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank, described DeMint's career move as highly unusual, yet potentially smart.
"It is surprising that a major political leader believes he can get more done working at a think tank than being a member of the U.S. Senate," West said.
"DeMint seems to believe that focusing on long-term ideas outside elective office has greater potential than passing legislation. It is an extraordinary conclusion in many respects, but he may well be right," West said.
Ned Ryun, head of Tea Party group American Majority Action, said he hoped DeMint would move Heritage Foundation further to the right, criticizing it for proposing years ago an individual mandate for health insurance, an idea Democratic President Barack Obama included in his healthcare overall.
"Heritage has a robust presence and the resources to be a very prominent platform," Ryun said. "Would I love to have him in the Senate? Absolutely. But he said he was going to retire anyway."
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said DeMint, a fellow South Carolinian, will be missed.
"What he's done over the last four years to build a conservative movement, to get people involved in politics ... is going to be part of a great legacy," Graham said.
"Jim made the Republican Party, quite frankly, look inward and do some self-evaluation," Graham said. "Conservatism is an asset, not a liability."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat who has often tangled with DeMint, told reporters: "I've always liked the guy - even though I disagree with so much of what he's done."
(Reporting By Kim Dixon, Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan; Editing by Fred Barbash and Todd Eastham)


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Tons of details were revealed such as the fact that there will be moments where characters have to work together in order to defeat enemies, the lack of color and why the game is called "Psycho Break" in Japan.
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I gotta play this one with my girlfriend sitting at my side. :)
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P.K. Subban seemed to be at the center of every battle last night in the Flyers' 3-0 shutout loss at the Bell Centre.
Subban, 21 and the Canadiens' fan-favorite rookie defenseman, didn't shy away from running his mouth during the chippy third period that saw three players leave the game with 10-minute misconducts.
He was involved in nearly every trash-talking session before being thrown to the ice by the normally mild-mannered Sean O'Donnell in the third period. O'Donnell was tossed after the altercation - and Subban never dropped the gloves.
Flyers captain Mike Richards sounded off on Subban after the game.
In hockey, if you're going to throw verbal 'bows, you better be willing to thrown down.
"He's come in the league and hasn't earned respect," Richards said, according to audio played on the Team 990 in Montreal this morning, as transcribed by BroadStreetHockey.com. "It's just frustrating to see a young guy like that come in here and so much as think that he's better than a lot of people.
"You have to earn respect in this league. It takes a lot. You can't just come in here as a rookie and play like that. It's not the way to get respect from other players around the league and hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because I'm not saying I'm going to do it but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky."
And Subban didn't shy away from comment after Canadiens practice today in Montreal, once he heard Richards' post-game comments. He seemed to be perplexed as to Richards' issue.
"I'm not the only person who's confident when I play the game," Subban told ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun. "Maybe the fact that I'm a young guy coming in, that maybe people don't take too well to that. As long as my teammates and the coaching staff are happy with what I'm doing, I'm going to continue to do that."
The last time Richards called out someone in the media, Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke, the two fought just 6 seconds into their next game. Previously, Florida's David Booth trashed Richards in the media for his vicious hit that sent Booth to the hospital and cost him most of last season. Richards and Booth also squared off in Booth's next contest against the Flyers to settle that score.
By the way, in case you were wondering, P.K. stands for Parnell Karl.
Meanwhile, The Score in Canada picked up on why Scott Hartnell was so incensed in the third period after a scrum.
Hartnell was apparently choked, on the ice, while wrestling with Maxim Lapierre. Video and audio of the incident are below.
With the Flyers and Canadiens facing off again on Monday night at the Wells Fargo Center in a battle between the two division leaders, it's safe to say we won't have to wait long until Richards or Subban makes the next move.
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I attempted to view the Rose Parade on ABC this morning. I listened to banter, laughter, with a look at a float passing down the street. Camera view showed a group or float behind the featured float, then the camera switched to the announcers, who were chattering about each other. Behind them a band was Marching along. No "Oh yes, back to the parade!" "Ah... there is a float and lets talk to the people from Days Of Our Life" and the starring actress says "Here's what is going to happen in 2011". Who cares! I want to see the Rose Parade. All of it.
I want to know what equestrian group is in the parade. I want to know what is going on in the street behind the blabbing announcers. Advertisements should only be scrolled at the bottom of the screen. I won't buy UNO, I won't buy a Discover card, I won't buy Geico, I don't and won't eat at McDonalds. What happened to the GOOD OLD DAYS. Are you improving? No way.
ABC has gone so seedy that it can't even seem to put on a supposedly wholesome family show without edgy, off-color or subtlety sexual humor. I have been a fan of America's Funniest Home video's for years because of its wholesome good clean fun. This last season is a tremendous disappointment. 30 clips of "ball"-crushing accidents is one thing, but showing men, women and children in their underwear, bras and a bathing suits popping off, and children innocently doing sexually suggestive stunts is beyond the pale of family programming. For heaven's sake, the host of the show can't even talk to a toddler sucking on his mic without making crude remarks.
This show needs to decide if it's for adults or children - it can't be both at once. If for adults, then it should be moved to the adult programming hour, not at 7:00. If for children, show some restraint, for heaven's sake. You guys have so many edgy shows on, allow us a show or two of good wholesome fun, without the trash please!
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- I hate that when I watch an on demand television program, that I can't fast forward. Think about it, if I had interest in the advertisement, I'd watch it, but no, I am forced to watch 45 Muppet Movie commercials. I wouldn't go see that movie if my attendance cured cancer. I've begun to just not watch shows that can't be fast forwarded. ABC/Disney are the absolute worst in that regard. Nearly every on demand show prevents fast forward. Madison Avenue must be severely retarded to recommend this tact to ABC.
Personally, I put advertisers that implement this kind of mean-spirited advertising on my "do not support list", i.e. The Muppet Movie. I won't watch the movie in the theater, on cable, DVD, computer, and not I won't let my kids or grandkids ever watch it. I hope ABC/Disney pulls their marketing head out of a specific sphincter muscle.
When I allow my children to stay up late, we watch re-run episodes of America's Funniest Videos. I was really upset last night when they showed their VS. segment. It was Strippers VS. something that I forgot. I was shocked that they showed almost nude adults slipping, tripping, etc. I had to pretend that I mistakenly changed the channel, so my young children would not be exposed tho this garbage. This is one of the few shows that we watch together, and sadly enough, we will not be watching together anymore. Change your "garbage" segments, or you will see an increase of complaints, and decrease in viewers.
My grand kids, 13 and 5, were with us last night so we were watching the Cat in the Hat, The Grinch, etc. on the ABC family channel when a commercial came on advertising upcoming shows etc. When it began to show women in scantily clad attire and provocative poses that lasted way too long. I couldn't believe this was on at 6:15 P.M. and on a family TV channel. I was very upset and concerned about this and ABC should be ashamed.
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It is very disturbing that ABC Television does not care what their viewers want rather they are only in for the money, how disgusting. Our economy is tanking and they only care about themselves. No respect for their followers of All My Children for 41 years. I am so disappointed. It was so nice to turn on the television and see familiar faces, and some sense of normalcy in this very harsh economic time. I will not watch the CHEW, nothing against the people in it, but come on, have some respect for your long time viewers.
What is going on!!! The creeps on The Bachelorette have not been edited out of the show!!! How dare you ABC for showing these narcissistic misogynistic young men disgrace themselves and The Bachelorette. I promise you executives at ABC, I am going to STOP watching your network!!!


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The band launched into a sing-along of their song 'Lose My Mind' with some lucky fans following their appearance on 'The Tonight Show.' After a while the guys don't even need to sing anymore, because their crowd does all the work for them. Tom enjoys the set so much that he actually whips out his own camera to record the fans serenading them back!
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Now that Prince Fielder has landed in Detroit and Albert Pujols in Anaheim and Adrian Gonzalez in Boston, one thing has become unmistakably clear: one way or another, the Phillies erred in their management of Ryan Howard's service time and salary.
Heading into 2012, the Phillies can only hope that their decision-making on the back end of Howard's career proves wiser than it did on the front-end. But that is very much up in the air, and has been since April of 2010, when they signed the slugger to a five-year, $125 million extension that begins this season.
I have little doubt that Ruben Amaro Jr. meant what he said when he told Rich Hofmann that he views Howard's contract as a positive in light of Fielder's nine-year, $214 million deal with the Tigers and Pujols' 10-year, $254 million pact with the Angels.
"I'm kind of happy," Amaro told Rich. "Really happy. Because if I would have had to put an 8- or 9-year deal on Howard's deal right now, that would be a little disconcerting. Right now, we have Howard for the next 5 years. I kind of like that idea rather than having to do an 8- or 9- or 10-year deal.
"You can say what you want about Ryan Howard and how he stacks up against those guys, but there's not too many people who, over the last several years, have had this kind of production - and he's right there in the mix with those guys."
Except, on the Accuracy Meter, that last statement ranges somewhere between "Excessive Generosity" and "Pure Fantasy" (or between "Innocent Naivete" and "Blind Ignorance"). First, nobody in baseball is "in the mix" with Pujols. Second, even when you acknowledge the value of his inevitable pursuit of baseball's most hallowed records, as well as his future induction into the Hall of Fame (presumably wearing an Angels cap), his new deal is an over-priced and ill-conceived anomaly. So throw him out of the equation. Third, if you think that Howard himself would have been in line for a Pujols-type contract as a free agent at 32 years old, you might as well stop reading now and get to work on the hate email that I will receive later this afternoon (just remember that the proper spelling is, "Y-O-U-APOSTROPHE-R-E an idiot").
For everybody else, when you look at all of the first baseman in Howard's peer group who have signed contracts over the past few years, it becomes clear that the Phillies overpaid.
Disclaimer: for the sake of this argument, we are going to grant Amaro his assertion that Howard is "right in the mix" with Fielder, as well as Mark Teixeira and Adrian Gonzalez. We will do this because we do not want the Tee Party wing of the Ryan Howard Fan Club to start flying their Don't Tread On Howie flags while ignoring the crux of the discussion (Get it? T-e-e party? Like the plastic thing you hit baseballs off of as opposed to pouch of dried ingestible herbs. . .nevermind). And we do not want all of the OBP-hugging, SABR-community-organizing, Saul Alinsky, Make-WAR-Not-(Big)-Piece radical socialists out there to pick up their weapons of the left (like, say, data) and engage in their Math Warfare. So everybody just take a few deep breaths and allow your blood to return to room temperature and focus on the argument at hand.
Which is:
The notion that the Phillies pulled off a coup by getting Howard to agree to a five-year deal lies somewhere between disingenuous and downright silly. Howard's extension was a five-year deal in name only because he signed it with two years and $39 million remaining on his existing contract. The simple Truth is that in April of 2010, the Phillies were on the hook to pay Howard $164 million over the next seven years, buying out five years of free agency. Everything else is semantics.
And when you compare a seven-year, $164 million deal that buys out five years of free agency to the aforementioned contracts. . .well, you be the judge:
In 2009, Teixeira signed an eight-year, $180 million contract on the open market. At the time, his career numbers were nearly identical to the ones Howard would boast the following spring, when the Phillies tacked on the five-year extension. Howard had more power (.586 slugging percentage with 222 home runs compared to a .541 slugging percentage and 203 home runs), while Teixeira hit for better contact (.290 average compared to Howard's .279), played better defense, and was a switch-hitter who was effective against both righties and lefties. They were just about even in reaching base (Teixeira .378 OBP, Howard .376 OBP) and scoring/driving in runs (one every 3.6 PA for Howard, one every 3.8 for Teixeira).
Like Howard's deal, Teixeira's ran through his 36-year-old season. But over the course of Howard's de facto seven-year extension, he would earn an average of $23.4 million per season, while Teixeira would earn $22.5 million.
The year after Howard's deal, Gonzalez signed a seven-year, $154 million deal when he was one year away from free agency. Once again, a player whose career production matched or exceeded Howard's and who was closer to free agency than Howard signed a contract through his 36-year-old season at more favorable terms than Howard did.
Ditto for Miguel Cabrera in 2008: an eight year, $152.3 million contract that bought out his first five years of free agency -- four of which would come before the age of 32.
So the Phillies essentially gave Howard seven years of financial security at a market or slightly-above-market rate despite the fact that they still had control over him for two seasons. That is why the 2010 extension was an eyebrow-raiser. The Phillies gave Howard a market contract without getting anything in return. And the assertion that the contracts signed by Fielder and Pujols somehow validate Amaro and Co.'s decision-making is ludicrous when you consider the fact that Howard would have been on the free agent market WITH A RUPTURED ACHILLES HEEL. Yeah, well, injuries happen, right? Of course they do! Which is why you expect some financial sacrifice from a player when you give him a five-year contract extension that doesn't kick in for another two years. After all, when a club makes that type of guaranteed commitment two years before it has to, it takes on a certain amount of risk. Like, say, the player suffering a traumatic injury before the extension even kicks in.
When comparing Howard's deal to the rest of the sport's star first basemen, you must take his age into consideration. Forget about years. The Tigers gave Fielder nine years this offseason, but last offseason the Red Sox only gave Gonzalez seven years. In 2009, the Yankees gave Texeira eight years. The common thread is not the length of the deals, it is the age at which they will expire. All three players will be paid through their 36-year-old seasons. Same goes for Howard.
Would a car-buyer be "very happy" if he bought a Range Rover with 135,000 miles on the odometer and later discovered that his neighbor paid less money for a similar model that had only 65,000 miles on it? That's essentially what Amaro is saying.
Forget the years and total value of each contract and look at what each team will have paid each player by age:
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Although studies differ on the exact trajectory of a baseball player's physical production (try this one for starters), they all agree that the average hitter's peak year comes somewhere between the ages of 27 and 30, after which he enters a decline phase.
Yet the Phillies will pay Howard nearly twice as much money between the ages 32 and 36 than they did between the ages of 27 and 31 ($125 million vs. $64 million). Compare that to Fielder ($119 million vs. $111 million), Teixeira ($113 million vs. $73 million) and Gonzalez ($106 million vs. $62 million).
Since 1980, only 15 players have averaged 30 home runs per season from age 32 through 36. And only two of them played before the supposed height of the so-called "steroid era": Andre Dawson and Mike Schmidt. Five of them have either tested positive or been implicated by the media for steroid use (Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Manny Ramirez, Gary Sheffield). The other eight are Sammy Sosa, Jeff Bagwell, Jim Thome, Andres Gallarraga, Carlos Delgado, Luis Gonzalez, Jim Edmonds and Greg Vaughn.
Since 1980, only 13 major league first basemen have posted an OPS over .800 in at least 2,000 plate appearances between their 32-year-old and 36-year-old seasons. In the National League, only 33 players at any position have accomplished that feat.
Sure, Howard hasn't been in the majors as long as some other guys, but he also wasn't resting in a hyperbaric chamber before getting the call to the show. He was playing just as much baseball as he is now. To date, scientists have not proven that the human body ages slower on minor league dirt.
The fact is, since 2009, three other teams have signed sub-Pujols first base stars to mega-deals that expire after the player's 36-year-old season. The Phillies will pay Ryan Howard more than all of them, a decision they made two years before they had to.
Heading into the 2012 season, Howard and Fielder have nearly identical OPS -- ..929 for Fielder, .928 for Howard.
In Howard's first 12 major league seasons, he will have earned about $180.5 million, and he will be 37 years old.
In Fielder's first 12 major league seasons, he will have earned about $176.6 million, and he will be 34 years old.
The current labor market suggests the Phillies either promoted Howard too late, or paid him too early. Now, it is up to the big guy to make them look smart.


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"Improve the quality of living for citizens
of the Greater Oneonta area."
The Foundation's purposes, as stated in the By-laws, are to:
- Promote improvement of the quality of living and the general welfare of the community and the citizens of Greater Oneonta;
- Stimulate interest in the civic affairs of the community;
- Support the cultural and civic needs of the community; and
- Solicit donations from the public so as to accumulate sufficient funds to support the purposes of the Corporation.
FOF In Action:
Since its formation in 1982, FOF has provided more than $400,000 in program support to area agencies and civic, cultural, and educational projects. Some of these include:
- Publishing a periodical, "Pride in Oneonta," on a regular basis.
- Supporting publications of brochures on the Oneonta area.
- Awarding scholarships to high school graduates.
- Hosting an annual luncheon for business, educational, professional, cultural and governmental leaders.
- The Foundation received its charter in the spring of 1982 and its 501(c)3 rating from the Internal Revenue Service in December 1982. Gifts and contributions made to the Foundation are tax deductible.
How the Foundation Operates:
The Foundation is a legally created corporation authorized to receive gifts, trusts, property or money for investment through its fiscal agent, the Community Bank, Oneonta, and to authorize expenditures for designated purposes or perpetuate the grants and gifts as the donor or grantor shall specify.
Funds Managed by FOF:
1. General funds, which are not given for any specific project.
2. Funds given for specific purposes or projects.
Board Members:
- Diane Aaronson, Chair
- Susan R. Hughson, Vice Chair
- Ryan Brooks, Secretary
- Benjamin C. Nesbitt, Treasurer
- Dr. Diane Georgeson
- Beth Goetz
- Eric Jervis
- Chris Kuhn
- Kim Muller
- Frank Russo
- Chad Smith
Directors in Memoriam:
- Eugene Bettiol, Jr.
- Harold deGraw
- Paul Donowick
- Sidney Levine
- D.K. Lifgren
- Joan F. Moyer
- James N. Georgeson
- James Piscitelli
- Gordon B. Roberts
- Paul B. Salisbury
- Richard P. Miller, Jr.
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Directors Emeriti:
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- Maggie Barnes
- Robert C. Benson
- David Brenner
- William K. Davis
- Vince Foti
- Michael F. Getman
- William E. Lewis
- Albert S. Nader
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Spring season gives good reason for cleaning up food habits
YOU can certainly feel that spring is in the air with warm days and cool nights, thankfully the coldest part of the year is behind us.
I am so much happier when the sun is shining and before we know it we will be getting ready to go to the beach and Christmas will be on our door step.
With winter behind us it is time to do a bit of a spring clean not only of our house but also in the pantry and fridge.
Did you find that the colder months caused you to go off track and eat way too much stodgy food?
If so then you may need to do a spring clean of our mindset and shift your focus onto slimming down for summer.
A good way to see if winter has caused you any problems is to either weigh yourself or put on your favourite summer outfit from last year and see how it fits.
Facing reality now before summer hits is a great way to avoid having nothing that fits you.
Here are some ways to get you started on springing back to good health now:
1. As I said before clean out your pantry and fridge of all foods that are not helping you to be the healthy person you want to be.
2. Instead of stodgy stews think about grilled meat or fish. Light the barbeque for some lean cooking as grilling over an open flame helps allow the fat to escape and is so much healthier.
3. Enjoy the spring seasonal fruits available in September such as Lady William apples, strawberries, grapefruit, lemons, mandarins, melons, blood or Seville oranges, as well as papaya, pawpaw and pineapples will be really sweet.
4. Vegetables that are at their peak in September are artichokes, Asian greens, asparagus, green beans, beetroot, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, lettuce, mushrooms, peas, potatoes, silverbeet and spinach.
5. By including lots of seasonal fruits and vegetables into your daily eating regime will add loads of vitamins and minerals. Both are low in fat and calories and best of all increase your fibre intake.
6. Try having more fish meals instead of meat. Fish is loaded with omega 3's and low in fat so with the warmer weather here you can enjoy fresh fish with tasty sauces or marinate in some garlic and lemon before pan frying in a little low fat margarine.
7. If you have been a bit slack with your water intake over winter then now is the perfect time to get back to the routine of having eight glasses of water a day.
Starting now means you will be ready for summer so spring into action NOW!
Lemon Meringue Pie
Serves 10
* Recipe from Symply Too Good To Be True - Book 2
1 cup self-raising flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon (15g) Flora Light® margarine
2 tablespoons skim milk
1 egg white
flour to roll pastry
½ cup fresh lemon juice
½ cup sugar
½ cup water
5 level tablespoons custard powder
½ cup evaporated light milk
3 egg whites
¾ cup caster sugar
Preheat oven 180°C fan forced.
To make pastry
In a medium size mixing bowl combine flour and sugar.
Melt margarine and add to milk, using a fork beat egg white into milk mixture until combined.
Pour into flour and fold together. Place pastry on a well-floured surface and roll out to fit shape of round pie dish (23cm) that has been coated with cooking spray.
Roll up pastry using a rolling pin, lift into pie plate.
Trim around edges and bake 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool.
To make filling
In a medium size saucepan heat all ingredients except milk.
Using a whisk, blend ingredients together until mixture comes to the boil, whisk in milk. Leave to cool.
To make meringue
In a medium size mixing bowl beat egg whites until stiff peaks form.
Gradually add in sugar beating well each time until all sugar has been used.
To assemble pie
Spread lemon filling evenly over prepared pastry base.
Spoon meringue mixture on top of filling, spreading to the edge of pie, make peaks with flat of spoon.
Bake10-15 minutes or until meringue is browned.
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Diplo's "Blow Your Head" Interactive Art Exhibition (Photos)
Diplo and his trusted photographer Shane McCauley have been traveling the world documenting their exploits. The result? "Blow Your Head" Interactive Art Exhibition by Diplo and Shane McCauley at Sonos Studio, an acoustically-designed listening gallery that explores the intersection of music, art, and technology. The "Blow Your Head" exhibition kicked off Wednesday (Sept 4) night with a Q&A featuring Diplo and Shane McCauley where guests had the opportunity to hear directly from its creators as well as were the first to experience the interactive art exhibition. Check out some of the photos, now by scrolling to the right.
The "Blow Your Head" exhibition is going down Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm from Sept. 4-Oct. 6.
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Graziano da Silva meets with Prime Minister of Ethiopia
31 January 2014, Addis Ababa, Ethopia - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva thanked Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn for the country's long-standing cooperation and support for FAO's work programme as the two leaders met on the sidelines of the African Union Summit.
Graziano da Silva congratulated Desalegn on his tenure and excellent work done as Chair of the African Union for the year 2013.
The two principals discussed the progress of the End Hunger in Africa Initiative that is now being implemented in Ethiopia in four regional states that have agreed to participate in the pilot phase. The Prime Minister reported on the excellent agricultural progress that his country has witnessed in recent years.
The Director-General reaffirmed FAO's full support and announced that $2 million have been allocated by the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund to create job opportunities for young rural people in Ethiopia.
Desalegn reiterated his commitment following the visit to Ethiopia by the heads of the three Rome-based UN agencies and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the UN Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, to further collaborate with FAO to promote inclusive finance and youth entrepreneurship as well as to improve the shelf life of agricultural produce and reduce food losses.


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Kogia breviceps
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Only one species of the genus Kogia (K. breviceps) was recognized until 1966, when studies clearly showed the Pygmy and Dwarf (K. sima) Sperm Whales to be distinct species (Handley 1966, Chivers et al. 2005).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Data Deficient ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Taylor, B.L., Baird, R., Barlow, J., Dawson, S.M., Ford, J.K.B., Mead, J.G., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Wade, P. & Pitman, R.L.
|Hammond, P.S. & Perrin, W.F.
There is considerable uncertainty about the status of this species, which may span a range from Least Concern to a threatened category. There is no information on abundance or on trends in global abundance. As a relatively uncommon species it is potentially vulnerable to low-level threats and a 30% global reduction over three generations (36 years; Taylor et al. 2007) cannot be ruled out.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Pygmy Sperm Whales are known from deep waters (outer continental shelf and beyond) in tropical to warm temperate zones of all oceans (McAlpine 2002). This species appears to prefer somewhat more temperate waters than does the Dwarf Sperm Whale. The range of Kogia breviceps is poorly known, though a lack of records of live animals may be more due to inconspicuous behaviour rather than rarity. Most information stems from strandings (especially females with calves), which may give an inaccurate picture of the actual distribution at sea (Culik 2004).
The map shows where the species may occur based on oceanography. The species has not been recorded for all the states within the hypothetical range as shown on the map. States for which confirmed records of the species exist are included in the list of native range states. States within the hypothetical range but for which no confirmed records exist are included in the Presence Uncertain list.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:American Samoa; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Aruba; Australia (Tasmania); Bahamas; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belgium; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada (Nova Scotia); Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Chile (Juan Fernández Is.); China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Curaçao; Denmark; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Fiji; France; French Guiana; French Polynesia; Gabon; Gambia; Germany; Ghana; Gibraltar; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guam; Guatemala; Guernsey; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Ireland; Isle of Man; Jamaica; Japan (Honshu); Jersey; Kenya; Kiribati; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Liberia; Macao; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Martinique; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of ; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nauru; Netherlands; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Niue; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Portugal (Azores); Puerto Rico; Réunion; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Sao Tomé and Principe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape Province, Western Cape); Spain; Sri Lanka; Suriname; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States (Hawaiian Is., Washington); Uruguay; 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 – western central; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – southwest; Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – western central; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – northeast; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – southwest
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|There are no estimates of global abundance. Abundance of this and similar whales is often underestimated using visual survey methods because they dive for long periods and are inconspicuous when they surface (Barlow 1999). The frequency with which they strand in some areas (such as Florida and South Africa) suggests that they may not always be as uncommon as sightings would suggest. Recent genetic studies suggest the there is some gene flow between the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans (S. J. Chivers pers. comm.).
Delineations between stocks are often difficult to determine, therefore assessments should be considered ongoing processes. In the case of the Pygmy Sperm Whale, concern that sightings may be confused with the cogener K. sima (the Dwarf Sperm Whale) further complicates the estimation of abundance. There are estimated to be about 247 (CV = 106%) off California, Oregon, and Washington (Barlow 2003); 7,251 (CV=77%) off Hawaii (Barlow 2006); 742 of both species of Kogia (CV=29%) in the northern Gulf of Mexico (Mullin et al. 2004); and 395 of both species (CV=40/75%) in the western North Atlantic (Waring et al. 2006).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Kogia breviceps is rarely seen at sea; it tends to live a long distance from shore and has inconspicuous habits. According to Caldwell and Caldwell (1989) K. breviceps lives in oceanic waters beyond the edge of the continental shelf while K. sima lives over or near the edge of the shelf. However, this separation was not apparent in the study by Mullin et al. (1994) who, by aerial observation, found both species over water depths of 400–600 m in the north-central Gulf of Mexico. These waters of the upper continental slope were also characterized by high zooplankton biomass (Baumgartner et al. 2001).
Studies of feeding habits, based on stomach contents of stranded animals, suggest that this species feeds in deep water, primarily on cephalopods and, less often, on deep-sea fishes and shrimps (dos Santos and Haimovici 2001, McAlpine et al. 1997). In South Africa, they take at least 67 different prey species and appear to feed in deeper waters than do Dwarf Sperm Whales (Ross 1979).
|Use and Trade:
|It is hunted on a small scale in a few places.
|Major Threat(s):
Although they have never been taken in large numbers and have never been hunted commercially, small numbers of the species have been taken in coastal whaling operations off Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Lesser Antilles, and Sri Lanka (Jefferson et al. 1993).
A few have been killed in gillnet fisheries of Sri Lanka, Taiwan and California, and it is likely they are killed in gillnets elsewhere as well (Jefferson et al. 1993; Barlow et al. 1997). Perez et al. (2001) reported on occasional bycatch in fisheries in the northeast Atlantic (mostly gillnet and purse seine operations). However, although it is taken in small numbers both directly and incidentally in fisheries, Baird et al. (1996) found no serious threats to its status.
A young male Pygmy Sperm Whale stranded alive on Galveston Island, Texas, USA and died in a holding tank 11 days later. During necropsy, the first two stomach compartments (forestomach and fundic chamber) were found to be completely occluded by various plastic bags (Laist et al. 1999). Such ingestion of plastics, with associated gut-blockage, appears to be a common issue in this species.
This species, like beaked whales, is likely to be vulnerable to loud anthropogenic sounds, such as those generated by navy sonar and seismic exploration (Cox et al. 2006).
In 2005, a large series of unusual stranding events over about 3 weeks in and around Taiwan included several Kogia (Wang and Yang 2006; Yang et al. 2008) with at least two Pygmy Sperm Whales (Yang et al. 2008). It is unknown if military, seismic or other loud noise-producing human activities resulted in these strandings.
There are high levels of unexplained strandings in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast of Florida (Waring et al. 2006).
Predicted impacts of global climate change on the marine environment may affect Pygmy Sperm Whales, although the nature of impacts is unclear (Learmonth et al. 2006).
|Conservation Actions:
|The species is listed in Appendix II of CITES. Research is needed to determine the impact of threats on this species.
|Taylor, B.L., Baird, R., Barlow, J., Dawson, S.M., Ford, J.K.B., Mead, J.G., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Wade, P. & Pitman, R.L. 2012. Kogia breviceps. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T11047A17692192. . Downloaded on 22 September 2018.
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein has established a nine-member anti-corruption team in his latest reform for the country's newly unshackled economy.
State media reported Wednesday that the Action Committee Against Corruption will be headed by one of the country's two vice presidents and will fight widespread corruption and implement clean government. Details of its powers were not given. Thein Sein established the body Tuesday.
The anti-corruption group Transparency International says Myanmar is perceived as one of the world's most corrupt countries, ranking 172nd out of 176. Business tycoons have entrenched themselves by cutting deals with the country's former military leaders, and privatization of state resources in the transition to a free market economy has opened up opportunities for graft.
Corruption is a longstanding problem in most South and Southeast Asian nations, and efforts to fight it have met with mixed results, as anti-graft bodies are sometime used by governments as political tools to attack their rivals.
The team will be the first official anti-corruption body in the country's history, and is the latest of the reforms Thein Sein has undertaken since taking office in March 2011 after a half-century of military rule. Other measures for which the former general — who had been prime minister under the ruling junta — has won international praise include ending direct media censorship, releasing political prisoners and allowing public demonstrations.
In a speech in December, he voiced rare public criticism of the bureaucracy, saying that rampant corruption, bribery and inefficiency were getting in the way of the country's much-touted reform process and that Myanmar still falls short of international norms in good governance.
He reprimanded a gathering of Cabinet ministers, regional leaders and other senior bureaucrats in the speech, broadcast live on nationwide television and radio, and said the third wave of his government reforms will target corruption.
The first wave of change under his government focused on political reforms and national reconciliation, while the second wave was aimed at helping the country's economy.
Thein Sein has frequently spoken about the need to eliminate corruption, and said he has repeatedly told government officials "to strive for good governance and clean government."


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Speedplay's Light Action Chromoly pedals are the easiest Speedplays to get into, so they're the perfect solution for seasoned cyclists with delicate knees, and first-time clipless-pedal users alike. They provide 15-degrees of knee-saving float without the self-centering action inherent in most pedals, so you don't work against spring tension. Their compact and low-profile design positions your feet closer to the axles for maximum power transmission and excellent cornering clearance. They boast chromoly axles with needle and cartridge bearings for smooth spinning and feature dual-sided entry and early release for super easy starts and stops.
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Were offered yesterday from rich ass families in New York hoping Hot Harry would "love at first sight" their daughters? And was Ashley Greene unable to buy her way into the event?
Prince Harry played in a charity polo match in Connecticut yesterday in support of his foundation, Sentebale. Did you know that it was, according to him, the first time he'd been on a horse in a year? That's what he told ABC's Lara Spencer.
Polo was the final stop on Harry's American tour. They screamed and squealed for him wherever he went. He could have easily brought a model or an aspiring actress or a socialite home to the Queen. Fortunately for her and unfortunately for us, Harry was well behaved, preferring to save it all for when he's back at home in London, a final few weeks of partying before he becomes an uncle.
Whatever. Like that would matter. Uncle Harry will be the one to teach that boy -- if it's a boy -- how to properly chug a beer, how to roll a joint with a filter, and where to make out discreetly for the first time.
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Here is the overview of what each does:
To give you a feel for how useful they can be, let's revisit a scenario I
posed last time. You have designed an application that will be used by all
employees and they will need select, insert, and delete permissions on all
tables. Here is how you can do it used the fixed roles:
Compared to explicitly granting permissions one table at a time (to Public or
to a role you have created), I think this is both faster and easier. Now let's
continue experimenting by assuming we have implemented permissions as shown
above. You are notified that a contractor will be given domain access (and
therefore will be a member of Everyone) but SHOULD NOT be given any database
access. Here is one way to do it, using fixed roles:
Again, I think you can see that using the DB_DenyDataWriter &
DB_DenyDataReader is much easier than creating a new role just for the
contractor, then setting permissions (DENY in this case) on every user table.
Of course, there are a couple things you need to consider. One is that these
roles don't allow very granular permissions. They don't handle situations where
you need to grant or deny access to only a few of the user tables - you're
forced to create additional roles to override the fixed roles. The other is that
not only does membership in one of these roles cover all existing user tables,
it also AUTOMATICALLY applies to any tables that are created later on! Sometimes
that is a good thing, sometimes not. Once you
start creating exceptions, I think it's more effective to create one role per
situation and assign the permissions explicitly.
There are a few stored procedures related to this topic that you might want
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The Chronicle Magazine
Hulse Mémoires de guerre d'un soldat américain (1918-1919): Le bon endroit
Lloyd Hulse, professor emeritus of Spanish, translates into French the journal his father kept as an American soldier in World War I. The Right Place, by Hugh C. Hulse, was published posthumously in La Grande in 1969. Though his father's account had been widely read in Eastern Oregon, Lloyd Hulse believed the insightful, often amusing story deserved to be retold in France.
L'Harmattan, Paris, 2007. 274 pages.