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An Emotional Roller Coaster
King said he was urged to contact the B&C headquarters in Montana and make arrangements to have the rack examined and possibly panel-scored. King said he called the club office and learned that the Pope and Young Club (keeper of archery records in North America) would soon be conducting its 25th Biennium National Convention and Awards Banquet in April 2007, near Lancaster, Pa. King said he was told by a B&C official that he could take the rack to Pennsylvania to have it examined and obtain a ruling about the break in the main beam.
So, thinking he might have a possible world-record whitetail that would need to be panel-scored if the break issue could be resolved, King jumped into his truck and drove 1,200 miles to Pennsylvania with his dad and a close friend. Expectations were high.
King said when he reached the Cabela's store in Hamburg, Pa., where the actual scoring was being done by officials of P&Y and B&C, he was ushered into a room where Jack Reneau, executive secretary of B&C, and Glenn and Kevin Hisey of P&Y were scoring various big-game heads for the archery record book. Ashley was also there. King said Reneau asked him and Ashley to leave the room so he could examine the rack. Some time later, King and Ashley were ushered back into the room.
King said Reneau then informed him that because the break in the main beam was a clean break, the antlers could be accepted into the record book. However, he also dropped a bombshell. He told King he had determined the right G-3 was an "abnormal point" because it came more from the inside base of the G-2 instead of the top of the main beam. According to scoring procedure, that also put the left G-3 in the abnormal category. That meant the rack would have to be scored as a mainframe 5-by-5 with two abnormal points (both G-3s) instead of as a typical 6-by-6 with no abnormal points.
It also meant that instead of netting in the 215-plus range, the typical score of King's buck would drop into the low 180s.
King said Reneau then informed him there was no need to panel-score the rack because B&C doesn't panel-score typical racks with scores in the low 180s. King was also told that if he wanted to get the rack entered in B&C, he would have to take it back to Ramsey in Wisconsin and have him officially score it with the G-3s being listed as abnormal points.
Somewhat bewildered and confused, King headed home. Basically the fate of his potential world-record buck had apparently been decided by the opinion of one B&C official instead of a panel of judges. As instructed, King took the rack to Ramsey who, on March 7, 2007, in accordance with Reneau's implicit instructions, scored the rack and deducted the two "abnormal" G-3s, giving the deer a net typical score of 180.
King Moves On
Despite the tremendous letdown, King signed the appropriate papers and submitted the 180 1/8-inch score to B&C. In late March 2007, he took his antlers to the Wisconsin Deer and Turkey Expo in Madison. There, he was overwhelmed with the reception that his trophy received.
"Everyone who saw it, including a number of experienced measurers, said it was the biggest (typical) rack they had ever seen," King said. "They kept asking me what it scored, and I would answer '180 1/8.' They all said 'No way! This deer is clearly a 200-plus-inch 6-by-6 typical!'"
Because of the overwhelming response he received at the expo, and after more whitetail experts (including several experienced official B&C and P&Y measurers) had looked at his rack and agreed the right G-3 was, in their collective opinion, not abnormal, King decided to cancel his B&C entry.
"I simply felt like it was much bigger than the 180 inches that Jack Reneau had assigned it," King said.
While attending the show in Madison, King struck up a friendship with local antler collector Jay Fish of Edgar, Wis. Fish, like numerous other whitetail experts, also questioned the ruling. After careful examination of the rack, he believed the right G-3 was a typical point, and thought the rack should have remained a 6-by-6 typical as it had originally been scored.
"I'm gonna buy that deer some day if you ever decide to sell it," Fish told King.
After the expo, King took the rack to well-known antler artist Tom Sexton in Iowa to have the broken beam repaired.
Buckmasters Declares it a Record
In the meantime, King contacted Mike Handley, executive director of Buckmasters Whitetail Trophy Records of Montgomery, Ala. After reviewing photos of the deer, Handley promptly flew to Wisconsin and scored the rack on King's kitchen table. Just as Handley had suspected, the rack was the largest typical he had ever seen. His composite score (gross) came in at 219 5/8 inches.
(The rack's official Buckmasters gross score came in at 198 2/8, because the Buckmasters scoring system does not include a rack's inside spread measurement.)
King's buck was soon declared a new world record by Buckmasters Trophy Records. The BTR full-credit scoring system uses the same measurements as B&C, except no inside spread measurement is included in the final score (which in King's case was 21 3/8 inches) and no deductions are taken for side-to-side differences. The BTR perfect category is equivalent to the B&C typical category.
King's buck was co-winner of Buckmasters' prestigious Golden Laurel Citation for 2007. Handley, having scored hundreds of whitetail racks through the years, said there was never any question in his mind that both G-3s were typical points. According to his score sheet, there were 8 1/8 inches in side-to-side differences. Thus, on the B&C scale, his measurements would have given the rack a net typical score of 211 4/8 inches, slightly lower than Ramsey's original score and not quite a world record, but definitely a Wisconsin state record. (The Jordan Buck still holds the state's top spot at 206 and ranks No. 2 all time behind the Hanson Buck).
The Debate Rages On
Marlin Laidlaw is a past board member of the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club. Although he is not an official B&C scorer, Laidlaw has scored thousands of racks during his 27-year career with the WBBC. He first saw the King Buck on display at the Wisconsin Deer and Turkey Expo in 2007, and he said he immediately knew it was a giant buck. But at that time, Laidlaw was only vaguely aware of any controversy.
In 2009, Laidlaw said he received a call from a friend, Korey Schillinger, a local police chief, who asked him to look at a deer head. It turned out to be the King Buck.
As Laidlaw examined the rack, he listened to the story about the unfortunate ruling in which the right G-3 had been declared abnormal. However, it appeared to him that the rack could be scored as a typical. Schillinger told him the rack had never been scored for the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club.
Several more months passed. Laidlaw was haunted by what had happened, including the fact the rack had never been scored by the WBBC. His conscience would not let him forget about the King Buck. He called Fish, the new owner, and asked him if he could score it strictly for personal knowledge. Laidlaw said he made it plain to Fish that he would not be scoring the rack as a function of the WBBC or in any other official capacity.
Fish responded, "I've been accused of 'shopping' the score by B&C, even though I have never allowed one single official B&C measurer to score it. The only way I would ever allow it to be officially scored is if it goes to a panel. Since no one from the Buck and Bear Club has scored it yet, and since you're not an official B&C scorer, I will make an exception and allow you to score it for your own purposes."
Laidlaw measured the deer under the stated conditions and came up with a net typical score of 215 1/8 inches.
"I found it easy to call this rack a typical 215-plus-inch rack and difficult to call it a 180-inch typical or a nontypical," Laidlaw said. "I learned early on in my scoring career that if it's a close call, give it to the animal. The rules are fairly clear, but judgment does enter in to any measurement. The facts, as they relate to this deer, are:
"All points come off the top of the main beams.
"All points have a matching point on the other beam.
"What draws attention to the rack is that the right G-3 is shorter than its matching point on the left side. But the rules clearly state that differences in point length are accounted for in the 'difference' column.
"Then there is the question about 'common base points.' This occurs when two points share the same base, which increases the circumference between them. If this occurs, one point could be construed as 'abnormal.' This is a judgment call and, many times, results in confusion for hunters and scorers alike. Once you answer the question, 'Do the points come off the top of the main beam and are they matched?' it seems that any other determination that would change them to something other than 'typical' points is double jeopardy in my view.
"Under the common-base rule, to be able to count the tines as 'typical' they must have a figure 8 or peanut appearance if you removed both at the main beam. If they do, then you must draw the base line not at the beam but at the low point between the points — in this case between the G-2 and G-3. This is done so as not to give double credit because of the larger circumference as well as the extra point length.
"With the King Buck, I found the G-2s and G-3s do pass the figure 8 test, but I believe that although the points are growing close together, they are so evenly spaced that 'common base' might not necessarily be the call. I found this rack to be almost perfect with the exception of the length difference between the right and left G-3s.
"I have had numerous conversations with measurers who have a long history as B&C measurers, and they are of the belief that this deer is clearly a typical 200-plus-inch deer."
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ACCRA (Reuters) - An Israeli military team arrived in Ghana on Thursday to help search for survivors a day after a four-storey shopping mall collapsed in the West African state's capital Accra, killing at least nine.
Officials said more people than initially thought were still trapped in the wreckage of the department store, which collapsed due to suspected structural failure, but they declined to provide an estimate.
"The first 48 hours are very critical and it is my hope that we'd be able to reach anybody trapped down there as soon as possible," Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama said at a news conference near the collapsed building.
Accra is in the midst of a construction boom spurred by oil-fuelled economic growth, but building standards region-wide are generally poor and enforcement is often lax.
Ghana authorities initially had estimated that around 55 people were inside the building when it collapsed on Wednesday morning, but that figure was based on the number of employees and did not factor in the number of shoppers too.
By Thursday afternoon, emergency personnel had pulled out 69 survivors and recovered nine bodies from the building, which housed a mall operated by Indian retailer Melcom Ltd.
"It is now clear that more people were in the shop than initially estimated, and it is difficult to tell the actual numbers at this moment," Kofi Portuphy, the head of Ghana's National Disaster Management Organisation, told Reuters.
He said a team from the Israeli Defence Forces had arrived and was using trained sniffer dogs, concrete cutters and other equipment to locate any remaining survivors.
"Certainly the conditions of any survivors down there will be deteriorating and it is our hope to get them out as quickly as we can," Portuphy said.
The ambulance service shuttling victims from the site to a local hospital said survivors had sustained injuries of varying degrees of seriousness.
President Mahama promised an inquiry into how the building's owner was able to circumvent building codes, after it was discovered that its construction had not been approved by city authorities.
"Drastic action will be taken and the city authorities are going to be held responsible," he said. "Anyone found culpable will face the full rigors of the law."
Investigators questioned an Accra building inspection director and a Melcom official on Thursday and were still seeking the building's owner, deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa told Reuters.
Running for election in December, Mahama cut short a campaign tour to visit the site.
Melcom runs Ghana's biggest chain of retail department stores and has some 20 shops nationwide. It said it rented the collapsed building and had opened a store there in January.
It said it was closing all its shops in the capital on Thursday as a mark of respect for the loss of lives.
(Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Joe Bavier and Michael Roddy)

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Evolving formulas in 2000 included glyphosate and revamped products.
Last year the glyphosate race continued as companies jockeyed for position with look-alike products in the Roundup Ready (RR) market, which represents more than 38 million soybean acres. When the dust settled, at least nine companies offered glyphosate-based herbicides, each with a little different spin or value-added approach for soybean growers' consideration. Here's a look at how some of those glyphosate products stacked up, along with other rookie soybean and corn herbicides, many of them actually older compounds that companies fine-tuned or revamped to offer farmers better weed-control benefits.
Monsanto. In 2000, Monsanto introduced growers to its new Roundup UltraMax, and although quantities were limited, growers applied it to more than one million soybean acres. The new formulation, available in what the company calls its Power-Packed Gallon, contains 25% more active ingredient than Roundup Ultra, allowing growers to spray more acres with fewer containers, says Dean Hendrickson, U.S. Roundup brand manager. With a 26-oz. use rate, a 30-gal. drum treats 30 more acres than Roundup Ultra.
Bill Garver, Jr., manager of Brandt Consolidated, Ashland, IL, notes, "Whenever you can use less product, that's definitely a benefit for everyone." He anticipates that, by going solely with the new UltraMax formulation, he will need about 2,000 fewer containers this year for the same number of acres.
Monsanto claims that Roundup UltraMax offers the same efficacy and affordability as Roundup Ultra and will be in the $10 to $11/acre range.
This year growers also can take advantage of the new Roundup UltraMax rainfast warranty. Because Roundup UltraMax is rainfast within 60 minutes, Monsanto is able to warrant that rainfall after one hour of application will not impact weed-control performance or the company will provide 20 oz./acre of Roundup UltraMax for respray purposes.
Also, Monsanto's Roundup Rewards program for this season guarantees that if a farmer must replant or suffers a crop loss, the company will provide him with a refund for the technology, says Kurt Rahe, market manager. He says more than 60,000 farmers received benefits from the company's Roundup Rewards program last year. There is no catch to the guarantee, but Rahe emphasizes that for growers to receive the benefits from Roundup Rewards, they must use Roundup brand products.
"We don't cover imitator products," he notes. "Growers must use our technology for the benefits." For more information, contact Monsanto Ag Products, 800 N. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63167, 800/768-6387 or circle 205.
In corn, Monsanto focused its attention on Degree Xtra, a companion product to Harness Xtra. Degree Xtra features a patented encapsulation technology that releases increasing amounts of acetochlor as soil temperatures rise above 50°F. The atrazine in the product is not encapsulated and is released immediately for both contact and residual weed control, says Rick Cole, corn herbicide technical manager for Monsanto.
"We were a little anxious last year during the introduction because of consistent dry conditions we had throughout the Corn Belt," he recalls. "Overall, the product held up even in the toughest situations and performed very well." Degree Xtra is registered for use on production seed corn, popcorn, and field and silage corn. The product can be applied preemergence or preplant at a rate of 3 to 3.7 qts./acre.
Monsanto also launched its ReadyMaster ATZ for RR corn in 2000. The product contains the same active ingredient that is in Roundup Ultra plus atrazine. Cole says ReadyMaster fits on acres where burn down of tough weeds and grasses is needed and where residual control is required. For 2001, it will be included in the Roundup Rewards program. "If farmers use the 2 qts./acre, followed by an in-crop treatment of 20 oz./acre of Roundup UltraMax, we guarantee that will be the last application they'll need to pay for," Cole states. For more information, contact Monsanto Ag Products, 800 N. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63167, 800/768-6387 or circle 206.
BASF. New Ultra Blazer steamrolled past traditional Blazer this past season, tripling its sales from the previous year, says Chuck Kupatt, BASF manager of product strategy for corn brands. With its new ion-charged technology, Ultra Blazer offers the same efficacy on tough weeds, such as waterhemp and morningglory, but with less phytotoxicity than its predecessor or most other competitive products, such as Cobra and Flexstar.
"The burn definitely was not as severe as with other similar herbicides," notes ag chem retailer Bill Garver. He says he used a half rate of Ultra Blazer (about 8 oz./acre) along with Raptor in those soybean fields where waterhemp control was needed. He notes that even one waterhemp plant poses a serious threat to soybean yields. "One plant produces up to 100,000 seeds, so it's a very prolific weed, and it's tough to control because it's becoming increasingly resistant to the herbicides we have available," he explains. "Ultra Blazer did a good job and, cosmetically, the soybean plants showed less burn."
For 2001, BASF is positioning Ultra Blazer as "ultra cool" in the marketplace to draw attention to the phytoreduction benefit, notes Brett Bruggeman, BASF manager of product strategy for soybean brands.
Bruggeman says that in total post programs the company will position Ultra Blazer in conjunction with Raptor. In a sequential program, the positioning is Prowl followed by Pursuit or Raptor tankmixed with Ultra Blazer.
New for 2001 is BASF's Performance Guard program, the company's answer to similar programs provided by Monsanto. Through its Smart Biology program, BASF will tailor its products to fit corn and soybean growers' specific weed-control needs. If any control breaks do occur, the company will provide product for reapplication.
The company also is offering its Performance Partners program. Growers can qualify for up to a $3/acre rebate when they use Prowl, followed by Pursuit or Raptor, and Ultra Blazer.
With BASF's acquisition of American Cyanamid late last year, the company added two new soybean premix products to its portfolio: Extreme and Backdraft. Both products contain glyphosate for use on RR soybeans. Bruggeman says Extreme combines the contact activity of glyphosate plus the proven residual of Pursuit in one jug. "Extreme is a superior alternative to Roundup UltraMax," he claims.
Backdraft contains the active ingredient used in Scepter, thus offering burn down along with residual weed control in soybean fields in the east and south. However, Bruggeman says the company may make some changes to the Backdraft formulation this year. "Growers told us there was too much Scepter and not enough glyphosate in the product, so we're looking at changing those levels for more optimum results in 2001," he says.
Celebrity Plus, in its first full year in the corn market, touts total post weed control, Kupatt says. The company rapidly sold out of the product last year and saw Celebrity Plus applied on about 1 1/4 million acres. The product is targeted for both annual and perennial grass and broadleaf control across the Midwest and is a good fit on acres where Accent or Accent Gold has been used. For 2001, Celebrity Plus will replace Celebrity. Pricing will remain flat at about $20 to $21/acre. For more information, contact BASF, Box 13528, Durham NC 27709, 800/669-1770 or circle 207.
Bayer. Soybean growers found Domain to be a good fit in the preemergence market and applied it on just less than one million acres, nearly double what the company had anticipated for its introductory year, says Scott Fleetwood, Bayer soybean market manager. He notes that ag chem retailers and growers used the product to fill some glyphosate-control gaps with waterhemp, lambsquarters, velvetleaf, signalgrass and ragweed.
Retailer Dave Ferch says his customers used Domain early preplant in RR soybeans. "We were trying to delay follow-up spray applications so we wouldn't need to use Roundup twice," explains Ferch, manager of Farm Fertilizer, Hamlet, IN. "We used a lower rate (around 10 oz./acre), and it did keep fields clean in that April—May time frame, which is what we'd hoped to achieve."
For 2001, Domain will be included in Monsanto's Technology Value Package program, Fleetwood says. "This is certainly positive for us when you consider that approximately 20% of all Roundup acres had a preemerge product on them last year," he says. He adds that Domain followed by Roundup UltraMax offers growers a total weed-control package. This year, 10 oz./acre of Domain will cost $7.50, which is less than the price in 2000. Thus, a weed-control program with Domain followed by Roundup will cost less than $16/acre. The dry-flowable product is available in 25-lb. jugs, 1,000-lb. Accu-Bin and 2,600-lb. Accu-Bulk delivery systems. For more information, contact Bayer Corp. Ag Div., Box 4913, Kansas City, MO 64120, 800/842-8020 or circle 208.
Dow AgroSciences. The company introduced a tankmix program called BestShot in 2000. The tankmix consists of 3/10 oz. of FirstRate plus 1 qt. of glyphosate and is particularly effective on morningglory, giant ragweed, velvetleaf and mare's tail. Ag chem retailer Dave Ferch notes, "It usually provided better control than Roundup alone."
Also new from Dow was Pendimax, a generic form of Prowl containing the same active ingredient pendimethalin. A preplant grass control product, Pendimax does not require incorporation while controlling grasses, including foxtail, johnsongrass, fall panicum, barnyardgrass and crabgrass. For more information, contact Dow AgroSciences, 9330 Zionsville Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46268, 800/208-4094 or circle 209.


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Simply open the email application and follow the on screen instructions. For many standard web mail systems the email app will auto-configure based on your email address. If it does not recognize the email account provider it will ask you for the POP3, IMAP or Exchange server settings for the account on the second screen of the setup wizard. You can get these settings from your email account supplier or from your network administrator.
Video / Photo / Music
Can I download music from online stores and play on my ARNOVA?
Yes, because the most popular online stores now deliver music without Digital Rights Management (non-protected).
What media file formats do the ARNOVA tablets support?
Many music, video and photo formats are supported right out of the box. Please refer to the spec sheets (available on the web site) for specific details on the supported formats.
Transferring Content
Which methods can I use to transfer files to my ARNOVA tablet?
There are plenty of ways to transfer files to your ARNOVA tablet that are covered in the following questions. These include:
- Drag and drop over USB from a PC or Mac(Mass Storage Mode)
- Syncing via Windows Media Player or iTunes via USB
- Transferring from a USB storage device or MicroSD card
How can I transfer from my PC to my ARNOVA?
Drag and drop is by far the easiest method to transfer content to your ARNOVA. To do this plug your tablet into your PC via the supplied USB cable. Your tablet should recognize that it is plugged in and ask to go into USB mass storage mode, select this and your tablet should be recognized immediately by your PC. Open My Computer and you will see your ARNOVA in the list. Double click the icon then double click Internal Storage and you will see the file structure of your ARNOVA. Now you just need to drag the content that you want from the folder on your PC to the ARNOVA. For ease of content management in the library, we recommend that you put video files in the Video folder, music files in the Music folder and image files in the Pictures folder.
How can I transfer from my Mac to my ARNOVA?
Any unprotected photo, video or music file can be transferred to the ARNOVA and will play without problem. You just need to make sure that your Mac has mass storage support.
Can I sync my music, photo, and video content from Windows® Media Player or iTunes® to my ARNOVA?
Yes, you can sync your non-protected media files from Windows Media Player (version 11 or later) directly to your ARNOVA. For iTunes, you can just go to your iTunes folder on your computer that has your music and copy/paste it to the ARNOVA music folder. There are 3rd party applications such as doubleTwist which allow you to do this as well.
How can I transfer from a storage device to my ARNOVA?
You can transfer files from a MicroSD card (on flash storage models which have the microSD slot) from a USB flash drive or from a (powered) USB hard drive using the Files app.
For MicroSD simple insert the card into the slot
For USB devices you will need the standard micro USB to USB host cable (sold separately from your local electronics retailer), plug it into the micro USB port on your device and plug the USB storage device into the Host port on the cable.
Once this is done open the Files or explorer app. The MicroSD card or the USB storage device will appear on the left, tap the icon to enter the folder structure on the storage device you want. Long press the file you want to transfer from the and choose copy then navigate to the internal storage (on the left) and paste the file (paste button at the top of the screen) into the folder that you want. In the Files app you can select multiple files by tapping the ticks to the left of the file names and you can set up a double view to make switching between internal and external storage even easier.
Battery / Power
The battery of my ARNOVA is completely drained and the device will not switch on for it to charge.
Connect it to its power charger/adapter. Once you have plugged the device, the power LED will start flashing, this means that it is gathering enough charge to start. When the unit gets enough power it will start by itself (this could take some time). Even when started, do not unplug it until it is fully charged.
The battery on my device runs out very quickly, what can I do?
The Android Mobile Technology Platform was conceived such that the device can be woken up from suspend triggered from applications (ex: check emails every 10mn). As a consequence if you have network applications running in the background (that are auto launched at boot) that are network hungry (ex: checking the weather every 2 minutes) this will have an impact on the battery drain. If you are not using the WiFi, shut it off. A screen set to maximum brightest also drains energy from the device. Set your device as well to have its screen go off after 2 minutes of non-use. These things will help your battery conserve energy.
What USB devices work on the tablet?
Quite a lot of simple USB devices work on Android Tablets via the USB host (only available on some models please check the specifications of your device). Common layout USB keyboards work, most USB mice, USB flash drives even some USB hard drives (as long as they are self powered). For a USB device to work in Android the drivers need to be there, google have added drivers for many devices but not for all. The best way to know if your USB device is compatible with Android is to contact the USB devices manufacturer. Or simply plug it in and see.
I cannot turn on my device, what should I do?
Make sure the battery is fully charged. Connect it to its power charger
My device froze. What do I do? How do I prevent that?
If your device freezes, reset your tablet , consult the quick start guide for instructions but resetting could be either via a pinhole button on the back or side of the device or by pressing the power button for a set amount of time. This will shut off the device. Restart as normal. To prevent this, make sure you are running the latest version of the firmware.
My tablet seems to be running slower than when I originally got it, what can I do?
Some users experience their tablet seeming to run slower after a few months than when they originally got the tablet. The simple reason for it is what is running Without you knowing it you may have dozens of apps running in the background on your device, this is eating up battery power and processes making your tablet run slower and last a shorter time between charges.
We recommend that you download a Task Killer app (from AppsLib) when you run it, if you recognize apps that are running that you dont ever use, uninstall them. If you see apps that you dont use very much, check in that apps settings to see if you can disable to background task.
If all this doesnt seem to have an effect you can reset the tablet very easily from the repair and formatting section of the Settings Menu. Resetting the tablet to factory settings is easy and quite fast (itll take less than 20 min) and could save you a call to customer support or a return. Though it does mean that you may have to re-download some apps and retransfer your media to the tablet.
How can I do a Factory Reset on my tablet?
If your tablet freezes often or if you get error messages during the start up of your tablet, you can use the recovery mode to reset your tablet to its factory settings, removing all installed applications as well as any data or content.
Your tablet must be up to date with the latest firmware downloadable from the downloads area of this website.
To access Recovery mode on the ARNOVA 10bG3
To access to the recovery mode:
1. Hold down the volume button + and press the ON/OFF button.
2. Once the boot logo ARNOVA is displayed, release the volume button +.
The ANDROID green robot is displayed.
3. Once the ANDROID green robot is displayed, press simultaneously the volume button + and the ON/OFF button.
The Android system recovery screen is displayed.
a. Use the volume buttons to navigate
b. Use the ON/OFF button to select an option
To restore the default parameters of your tablet:
1. In the Android system recovery, select Wipe data/factory reset;
2. Select Yes delete all user data.
3. Select Reboot system now.
Your tablet reboots. Redefine your parameters through the wizard.
Your tablet is restored to its default settings.
To access Recovery mode on the ARNOVA 9G3
To access to the recovery mode:
1. Hold down the Home button and press the ON/OFF button.
2. Once the ARNOVA boot logo is displayed, release the Home button.
The ANDROID green robot is displayed.
3. Once the ANDROID green robot is displayed, press simultaneously the volume button + and the ON/OFF button.
The Android system recovery screen is displayed.
a. Use the volume buttons to navigate
b. Use the ON/OFF button to select an option
To restore the default parameters of your tablet:
1. In the Android system recovery, select Wipe data/factory reset;
2. Select Yes delete all user data.
3. Select Reboot system now.
Your tablet reboots. Redefine your parameters through the wizard.
Your tablet is restored to its default settings.
To access Recovery mode on the ARNOVA 8cG3/8bG3
To access to the recovery mode:
1. Hold down the volume button and press the ON/OFF button.
2. Once the boot logo ARNOVA is displayed, release the volume button .
The ANDROID green robot is displayed.
3. Once the ANDROID green robot is displayed, press simultaneously the volume button + and the ON/OFF button.
The Android system recovery screen is displayed.
a. Use the volume buttons to navigate
b. Use the ON/OFF button to select an option
To restore the default parameters of your tablet:
1. In the Android system recovery, select Wipe data/factory reset;
2. Select Yes delete all user data.
3. Select Reboot system now.
Your tablet reboots. Redefine your parameters through the wizard.
Your tablet is restored to its default settings.
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An RBC count is a blood test that measures how many red blood cells (RBCs) you have.
RBCs contain hemoglobin, which carries oxygen. How much oxygen your body tissues get depends on how many RBCs you have and how well they work.
Erythrocyte count; Red blood cell count
A blood sample is needed.
No special preparation is necessary for adults.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain. Others feel only a prick or stinging. Afterward, there may be some throbbing or a slight bruise. This soon goes away.
The RBC count is almost always part of the CBC (complete blood count) test.
The test can help diagnose different kinds of anemia (low number of RBCs) and other conditions affecting red blood cells.
Additional conditions under which an RBC count may be performed:
Normal RBC range is:
The examples above are common measurements for results of these tests. Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
Higher-than-normal numbers of RBCs may be due to:
Your RBC count will increase for several weeks when you move to a higher altitude.
Drugs that can increase the RBC count include:
Lower-than-normal numbers of RBCs may be due to:
Drugs that can decrease the RBC count include:
There is very little risk involved with having your blood taken. Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking blood from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight, but may include:
Bunn HF. Approach to the anemias. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 161.
Mathur SC, Schexneider KI, Hutchison RE. Hematopoiesis. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 31.


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Iowa is nearing the end of the first year of a three-year experiment with the Iowa Virtual Academy.
It's a three-year trial established by the Iowa General Assembly. Legislators are exempting two school districts from a state law prohibiting K-12 public school students from open-enrolling out of their local school to Internet classes. The Clayton Ridge district near Guttenberg, and CAM near Anita are authorized to receive open-enrolled students from across the state. In turn, Clayton Ridge and CAM contract with out-of-state, for-profit firms to provide teachers for the students who study at their homes.
"So far, I love it," said Christine Larson, who lives in a rural area north of Fort Dodge, Iowa. She is the in-home, learning coach for her two sons who are open-enrolled to the Clayton-Ridge district. Christine, who holds a college Master's degree, but not in education, assists her third grade son, Isaac, and kindergarten student, Abram with their lessons.
Christine's husband, Brent Larson, is even more passionate about the Iowa Virtual Academy. He bristles at applying the term, experimental, to Iowa's three-year on-line education trial. Brent contends on-line classes are proven K-12 options, and that Iowa lags many other states.
However, State Representative, Mary Masher, says "This was supposed to be a licensed teacher providing instruction for the children, and then the parent would be there as support. But, I'm not sure that's how it's been working." Masher, a retired teacher, says legislators are awaiting test data to determine the Virtual Academy's future.
Iowa Department of Education Director, Jason Glass, says overall evidence shows on-line education results aren't appreciably different from traditional classrooms. Glass adds, "I think that we have to continue to hold it open for some students that it might be right for."
Legislators capped open-enrollment to the two districts offering on-line learning at nine-hundred students. Clayton Ridge has 62 students and CAM has 240 enrolled in the Iowa Virtual Academy.


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The outgoing board of Chicago Public Schools approved the appointment of the city's newest schools chief today at a meeting marked by farewells and hints of what's to come.
The district's CEO Jean-Claude Brizard did not attend the board meeting. And while he began his work last week, he does not have a contract and has not been paid.
The appointment approved today -- which is to be in effect from Thursday to June 30 -- calls for Brizard to be paid at a rate of $250,000 a year, although the final contract could be different. Brizard's predecessor, Ron Huberman, was paid $230,000 a year.
Brizard had been paid $235,000 a year to run the Rochester, N.Y., school system.
A district spokeswoman said negotiations between lawyers for Brizard and the schools are ongoing and he will be compensated retroactively.
The 47-year-old educator tapped by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to lead the nation's third-largest school system becomes the fourth chief executive in four years. Emanuel handpicked an education team -– Brizard, a New York City physics teacher who rose to the ranks of school superintendent in Rochester, plus top administrators and a Board of Education stacked with philanthropists and long-time education supporters.
The newly named Board President David Vitale attended the outgoing board's session to observe. As the day-long meeting ended, outgoing Board President Mary Richardson-Lowry handed the gavel to her successor.
Outgoing interim CEO Terry Mazany on Wednesday called it "a time of historic transition."
The new board is expected to be in place by the next meeting scheduled for June 22. But Richardson-Lowry left open the possibility that the board may convene at an earlier date.
Brizard spent much of the past week meeting with school leaders and scouring budget forecasts that detail an estimated $720 million deficit expected next year. He plans to organize a listening tour with teachers and students across the city's schools.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis recently sat down with Brizard and said she hopes they can work together. Lewis lauded his educational background and charisma, though she faulted the fact he did not yet have a contract available for parents, taxpayers and teachers to review.
"We're supposed to be working toward some transparency," Lewis said. "It's business as usual."
During a public session marked by farewells, Lewis joked with Mazany, who urged collaboration between the teachers union and the new education team. The teachers' contract comes up for renewal in June 2012.
"Give them an opportunity to plant their feet on the ground," Mazany said.
"What? Before we start the fight?" Lewis said, laughing.
Mazany and Chief Education Officer Charles Payne, who both served on an interim basis since last fall, received standing ovations. Former Mayor Richard Daley, who was not present, was lauded for his contributions to the embattled public school system he controlled since 1995.


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By: Kathleen Gensheimer, M.D., MPH
Peanut butter. Cantaloupe. Dog food. Tuna. Cheese.
Any of these products might show up on your weekly grocery list.
Each was found to be the source of a foodborne illness outbreak over the past two years.
In the first 17 months since it was launched in August 2011, FDA's Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network (CORE) evaluated 211 incidents of illnesses that were possibly related to FDA-regulated products. After careful analysis, 63 of those incidents were determined to indeed be related to FDA-regulated products and an active CORE response began with one goal: Stop the outbreak.
The highlights of CORE's work are outlined in our new report entitled "FDA's CORE: A Food Safety Network 2011-2012." As CORE's director, I could say that I'm proud of what my team has accomplished. But that would be an understatement.
Every day, members of the CORE network at FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local agencies, are working to identify, stop and prevent outbreaks. Each outbreak is unique, and so are the results of each investigation. In many cases, though, the network is able to identify, trace and stop an outbreak in its tracks. Contaminated products are pulled out of distribution and removed from grocery store shelves—and hundreds of people may have been spared illness.
CORE introduced a whole new concept into FDA's response to foodborne illness outbreaks. That is, not just to assemble a team of experts when an outbreak strikes, but to have a full-time, ongoing "core" staff of three teams—Signals and Surveillance, Response, and Post-Response—dedicated respectively to finding the outbreak, stopping the outbreak, and preventing the next outbreak.
There's a seamless passing of the baton, and it's exciting, too. CORE is constantly changing and evolving. Every unique outbreak teaches us new lessons we can apply to the next.
In very short order, CORE proved that FDA could work in close and vital partnership with a huge cast of supporting characters across the country, an extended network of experts from regulatory, public health, agricultural agencies and laboratory staff at the federal, state and local levels. CORE also proved that these partnerships would pay off.
We learn lessons about the science of illness and how it spreads, about the role manufacturers or farmers or packagers or a host of others play. We learn new ways to collect and then crunch the data, and new ways to apply it. We build new relationships and extend our network of experts across the country.
Most importantly, we see first-hand the health hazards that could develop and—if we do our jobs right—we learn how to minimize the chance that they will develop.
So we're not simply responding to the outbreak. In the intricate chain from farm, to manufacturer, to shipper, to grocer, to your kitchen table, we're finding ways to help prevent foodborne illness from ever harming you and your family.
Kathleen Gensheimer, M.D., MPH, is Chief Medical Officer and FDA's Director of Outbreak Investigation and Response


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Coulee Recollections
A look at the past
Ten Years Ago
Paying to protect Grand Coulee Dam does not come cheap to the Bureau of Reclamation, which pays the Washington State Patrol and area police departments a high price for their services. Grand Coulee and Coulee Dam have negotiated contracts with the Bureau to help provide 24-hour police service to the dam at least through September, with possible extension through 2005.
Anyone in the Grand Coulee Dam area concerned about a new firing range above the town of Coulee Dam will get a chance to talk to Bureau of Reclamation officials tonight.
It's a scary thing for a cowboy businessman, used to getting paid by the head, to sink his money into something you can't eat. But Don McClure finally bit the bullet, wrote a book and paid to have it printed. "People kept telling me, 'You gotta do it,'" says McClure. And at 75, he figured he better, too.
A new garbage cart system was proposed last week to the town councils in Electric City and Elmer City. A 65 gallon cart would be available for rent to people in the area for $1.25 a month or $15 a year, if they chose to use the wheeled containers.
Heather L. Catlow, a sophomore from Coulee Dam, was among the 713 students named to the Gonzaga University President's List for fall semester. Students must earn a 3.7 or better grade point average to be listed.
Twenty Years Ago
Greg Behrens thinks his Columbia Springs Estates land development southeast of Grand Coulee will be a catalyst to the city's growth. And he'd like to see the city invest in its own future by extending its main water distribution to at least that far into Lincoln County.
Ice on Banks Lake, which has been softened with the warm temperatures, will soon become even more hazardous.
An early morning rock slide in the rock cut on State Route 155 north of Elmer City temporarily closed the highway Friday. The slide occurred shortly after 7 p.m. A previous slide occurred in the general vicinity about 20 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago
A new full line drive-in opened March 8 in Coulee Dam. Located at the intersection of Highway 155 and Roosevelt near the east end of the bridge the building will house the Spillway Drive Inn.
Ginger Higginbotham, a senior at Lake Roosevelt High School and valedictorian for the class of 1983, has been selected to present a paper she has written at the Washington Junior Sciences and Humanities symposium to be held in Seattle March 18.
Forty Years Ago
Brownie Scouts from Grand Coulee recently visited the Star Office and were given a tour of the newspaper plant. Those in the tour were Kathleen Meyer, Terri Hertenstein, Rena Barnes, Julianne Hunter, Cheryl Jones, Darlene O'Neal, and Troop Leader Carol Winiecki.
Fifty Years Ago
Out at Rex-Delrio, ranchers were preparing to bring truck loads of fertilizer for the new lawns at the hospital.
In Coulee Dam, thieves broke into the Coulee Dam High School causing several hundred dollars worth of damages.
Sixty Years Ago
Harold St. Jeor, justice of the peace for the Elmer City precinct of Okanogan County, has been appointed police judge by Mayor Otis Tillman.
The Electric City fire department answered two alarms this week. One fire was the result of trash burning and the other, started from an undetermined source.


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Rondo still sees slow return to CeltsBy MARK MURPHY
Boston Herald
October 09. 2013 9:50PM
Rajon Rondo sat in splendor, reclining in a deep leather armchair last night in a Four Seasons Hotel salon as 16 members of the Chinese media asked about the Celtics guard's first signature sneaker.
The footwear, called the RR1 and made by the Chinese athletic goods giant Anta, had a special touch. Rondo helped designer Dwayne Edwards fashion the shoe.
But for all of this pan-Asian exposure — he is also launching his own Anta apparel line — Rondo is taking a gradual approach to rejoining the Celtics. His stock answer is that he will return during the 2013-14 season, and he has a good reason, not to mention several role models.
The Bulls' Derrick Rose, who is only now coming back from 2012 ACL surgery, has been the anti-Adrian Peterson, who defied odds in his own ACL comeback to win the NFL MVP award last year with the Vikings.
But Rondo has complete appreciation for Rose's deliberate approach, and how it mirrors his own.
"I understand, and he got a lot of heat for a while because he didn't come back," Rondo said. "Anybody who has an ACL injury understands. OK, Adrian Peterson came back in six months. Why did he come back in six months and others in eight months or 10 months? Everybody is different. Things can happen so differently with the knee. You can have swelling, you can have cartilage damage. So many things can happen that can cause a setback.
"Everybody is different. You can't compare football to basketball. I talked to a lot of guys — Perk (Kendrick Perkins), (Tony Allen), I talked to (Wes) Welker to see what they went through. You try to come back quick because you're itching for it. I'm itching because I'm so competitive."
Rondo was itching before he ever went into surgery. He was said to initially target Peterson's feat, but his research was too detailed to lead to an impulsive plan.
"Obviously, he came back and had an MVP season," Rondo said of Peterson. "That's what I want to have when I come back. I don't want to come back and be mediocre. I don't want to have any excuses. I want to be ready to go. I don't want to have to blame anything on my knee."
Nor does he want to obsess, or depress himself, over the trade that sent Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to Brooklyn, or coach Doc Rivers' departure for the Clippers. Though he and Rivers had stormy moments, Rondo turned a bit sentimental. "I still catch myself laughing at some of the things he's told certain guys, and now I find myself quoting some of the things that Doc has said to individual guys," Rondo said. "I've learned a lot from Doc. I've tried to study his ways as far as coaching, because I might want to coach someday myself."
Though Rondo once said he didn't "feel anything" at the time of the Brooklyn trade, he said, "That was blown out of proportion.
"Obviously it was different when the trade went down, but we were talking about them in the locker room today. I told some stories about things Paul did. I still talk to every one of those guys. I talked to Kevin yesterday. We still keep in touch with each other. It's still a brotherhood. It's not something you can forget. It's a brotherhood for life."
And Rondo continues to insist that he wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
"I love it here, the fans are great here, (president of basketball operations) Danny (Ainge) has been straight with me, so why would I want to leave?" he said. "Why would I want out? This is a brand new start for us as a team."


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Ateles hybridus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Ateles hybridus I. Geoffroy, 1829
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
Ateles belzebuth ssp. brunneus Gray, 1872
|Taxonomic Notes:
|The taxonomy of the spider monkeys is based on Kellogg and Goldman (1944) and Hill (1962). The forms hybridus, chamek and marginatus are listed as distinct species and A. fusciceps robustus Allen, 1914 is considered a junior synonym of A. f. rufiventris Sclater, 1871 following Heltne and Kunkel (1975) (see Rylands et al. 2000). Silva-López et al. (1996) argued that Ateles geoffroyi pan was not a valid taxon. Collins (1999) and Collins and Dubach (2000) argued strongly that hybridus I. Geoffroy, 1829 was distinct from belzebuth. Their position was reinforced by Nieves et al. (2005). Hernández-Camacho and Defler (1989) and Defler (2004) argued for the validity of the form brunneus Gray, 1872 from the Departments of Bolivar, Antioquia and Caldas, between the lower Ríos Cauca and Magdalena in Colombia. It is listed here as a subspecies of A. hybridus, as recommended by Defler (2004).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2cd+3cd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Urbani, B., Morales, A. L., Link, A. & Stevenson, P.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
Listed as Critically Endangered as there is reason to believe the species has declined by at least 80% over the past 45 years (three generations) due primarily to hunting and habitat loss. Over the coming 45 years, this decline is likely to reach similar proportions due to continuing habitat loss.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|In Colombia, Ateles hybridus hybridus is found from the right bank of the Río Magdalena in the Departments of Magdalena, César (northward to the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), the south-western portions of Guajira in the northernmost parts of the Serranía de Perijá, and in the middle Río Magdalena valley at least to the Departments of Caldas and Cundinamarca. There are also two populations of this subspecies on the slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes on the Venezuelan border: one population is found in the Río Catatumbo watershed in the Department of Norte de Santander and the other population is found in the north-east piedmont forest of the Department of Arauca (Hernández-Camacho and Cooper 1976; Defler 2003, 2004).
The subspecies has a disrupted distribution in Venezuela (Mondolfi and Eisenberg 1979). It is located in the north, along the south-eastern part of the Central Mountain Range (Cordillera de la Costa) in the state of Miranda, and probably the state of Vargas. It is also located on both sides of the Venezuelan Andean Mountains (states of Zulia, Táchira, Mérida, Trujillo, Portuguesa, Apure and Barinas). In its eastern part, this primate is distributed on the piedmont forest and in the highly threatened lowland forests of San Camilo and Ticoporo. On the western side, it is also distributed in the piedmont of the Andes throughout the lowland areas of southern Lake Maracaibo to the Perijá Mountains (Sierra de Perijá) along the border with Colombia (Bodini and Pérez-Hernández 1987; Linares 1998; Cordero-Rodríguez and Biord 2001; Portillo and Velásquez 2006; Duque 2007; B. Urbani, unpubl.).
In Colombia, Ateles hybridus brunneus is found between the lower Cauca and Magdalena Rivers in the Department of Bolívar, Antioquia and Caldas. This population has sometimes been included with A. h. hybridus, but is here considered distinct.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Colombia (Colombia (mainland)); Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (Venezuela (mainland))
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|In Colombia, Bernstein et al. (1976a) calculated a density of 9-14 individuals/km² for Ateles hybridus hybridus in the San Lucas mountains. Green (1978) calculated densities of 8.2-9.6 groups/km² at his study site, which if multiplied by his average group size (3.3 individuals) seems to suggest higher densities at his Cerro Bran site when compared with the other study site.
There is no reliable population information available for Venezuela (B. Urbani pers. comm.).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|In Venezuela, Ateles hybridus hybridus inhabits mainly the high and lowland primary evergreen rainforests from 20 to 700 m asl.
Spider monkeys travel and forage in the upper levels of the forest. They spend much time in the canopy and also use the middle and lower strata but are rarely seen in the understorey. In accordance with their use of the highest levels of the forest, they are highly suspensory. When travelling they spend more time hanging from branches, moving by brachiation and arm swinging, and climbing than they do walking or running on all fours. They are highly frugivorous and feed largely on the mature, soft parts of a very wide variety of fruits, which comprise 83% of their diet and are found mainly in the emergent trees and upper part of the forest canopy (Van Roosmalen and Klein 1988). They also eat young leaves and flowers (both especially at times of fruit shortage during the beginning of the dry season), and besides such as young seeds, floral buds, pseudobulbs, aerial roots, bark, decaying wood, and honey, and very occasionally small insects such as termites and caterpillars. They play a significant role as seed dispersers. Van Roosmalen (1985; Van Roosmalen and Klein 1988) found that A. paniscus was dispersing the seeds of at least 138 species (93.5% of all fruits species used) through their ingestion and subsequent defecation (endozoochory). A further 10 species were being dispersed by the monkeys carrying them off some distance from the tree before dropping them (exozoochory). In only 23 species were the seeds being ruined or eaten (seed predation).
Spider monkeys live in groups of up to 20-30 individuals (for review see Van Roosmalen and Klein 1988). However, they are very rarely all seen together, and nearly always to be found travelling, feeding and resting small in groups of varying size and composition, the only persistent association being that of a mother and her offspring (McFarland Symington 1990). Group members will also travel on their own. Each female in the group has a "core area" of the group's home range which she uses most. Klein and Klein (1976, 1977) estimated 259-388 ha ranges with 20-30% overlap for A. belzebuth in La Macarena National Park, Colombia. Ateles are rarely seen in association with other primates and mostly they are occasional and ephemeral, resulting from the simultaneous occupation of fruiting trees.
Six estimated birth dates given by Klein (1971) for the closely related A. belzebuth, were spread throughout the year (December, January, April, September, October and November). Spider monkeys apparently reach sexual maturity at 4-5 years of age (Klein 1971; Eisenberg 1973, 1976). They give birth to single offspring after a long gestation period of 226-232 days, with a minimum theoretical interbirth interval in captivity of 17.5 months, but in the wild probably as long as 28-30 months (Eisenberg 1973, 1976).
Congdon (1996) provided a brief remark on the behaviour of these monkeys at the Reserva Forestal Caparo, and Duque (2007) provided a list of potential feeding trees for Ateles hybridus hybridus in the El Ávila National Park (however, this primate species was not observed at the time of Duque´s survey). Late maturation and long inter-birth intervals makes it difficult for them to recover from hunting and other threats.
Adult male weight 7.9-8.6 kg (mean 8.25 kg, n=2) (see Di Fiore and Campbell 2007
Adult female weight 7.5-10.5 kg (mean 9.1 kg, n=7) (see Di Fiore and Campbell 2007).
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In Colombia, both Ateles hybridus hybridus and Ateles hybridus brunneus are subject to habitat loss and to hunting. The habitat of A. h. hybridus is extremely fragmented, and there may be few populations of an adequate size to be viable in the mid- to long-term (Defler et al. 2003).
Habitat alteration appears to be the most important threat to the Venezuelan population of A. h. hybridus. The lowland forest of the state of Zulia and the piedmond of the Perijá Mountains are heavily destroyed from expanding cattle-ranching activities (B. Urbani, unpubl.). Portillo and Velásquez (2006) undertook a gap analysis for this primate species within the Perijá Mountains and found that, while the total forest extent is still very large (813,257 ha), only 30% is relatively well preserved and protected. The rest remains affected by rapid human expansion and land clearance. Also in the Perijá Mountains, these monkeys seem to be favourite game animals (Lizarralde 2002). In central Venezuela, some areas that were reported with these monkeys (Cordero-Rodríguez and Biord 2001) were resurveyed by Duque (2007) without reports of any sightings; most of the area is already converted to secondary vegetation. Also in this region, B. Urbani (unpubl.) found that buffer areas around the protected areas—with confirmed populations of Ateles hybridus hybridus (P. N. Guatopo) and unconfirmed populations (M. N. Cueva Alfredo Jahn, P. N. Henry Pittier, P. N. San Esteban and P. N. El Ávila)—are transformed into cleared areas for slash-and-burn agriculture and human settlements as well as secondary forests. The lowland forest from the eastern part of the Andean Mountains, which are San Camilo and Ticoporo, are under severe pressure from logging.
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Ateles hybridus hybridus is found in several protected areas in Colombia, including: Catatumbo-Bari National Natural Reserve (158,125 ha); Tamá National Natural Park (48,000 ha); El Cocoy National Natural Park (306,000 ha); and
Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (383,000 ha) (Defler 2004). They may also occur in Chingaza Natural National Park (50,374 ha).
In Venezuela, the species occurs in the Guatopo National Park (92,640 ha), which is of particular importance because it is one the major water reservoirs for the capital city, Caracas. The Sierra de Perijá National Park (295,288 ha) is the other major protected area with brown spider monkeys. In these national parks, enforcement against hunting and wood extraction is needed. There are no NGOs working actively with Ateles hybridus hybridus as target species, and governmental agencies should improve their conservation efforts. However, there is interest for continuing with surveys on these primates especially in central Venezuela as well as an awareness programme particularly at a local level. It is also fundamental to increase the number of park rangers and improving their economical condition. They also occur in Caparo Forest Reserve (Venezuela) (B. Urbani pers. comm.).
Bernstein et al. (1976a) showed the effect of forest disturbance, especially on A. h. brunneus (and Lagothrix lugens), and (1976b) made a plea for the establishment of reserves for this and other threatened primate taxa. Fortunately, the Serranía de San Lucas in southern Bolívar still contains extensive forest which has been identified as a possible national park site. The establishment of a San Lucas National Park ought to have high priority in Colombia, since it would preserve many elements of the Nechí refugium, including Saguinus leucopus and Lagothrix lugens. However, the presence of political insurgents, the military and some mine fields make the region very difficult for work and for the presence of the government. The Cienaga de Barbacoas represents another priority area for consideration for the creation of a protected area.
Censuses are required for a better understanding of the status of Ateles hybridus, and local populations need to be clearly identified and actively managed, something that is not taking place even in the protected areas where A. h. hybridus is known to occur.
This species is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
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Indians, A's game postponed due to rain
OAKLAND, Calif -- Scott Kazmir will have to wait at least one more day to make his debut for the Oakland Athletics and pitch against his former team.
It's not exactly the kind of doubleheader he had planned.
The game between the A's and Cleveland Indians was postponed because of rain Tuesday night. It was the first rainout in Oakland since May 5, 1998.
"I think Kaz brought all the rain with him. You can blame it on him," said right-hander Corey Kluber, the Indians' scheduled starter.
The game will be made up in a day-night doubleheader Wednesday. The first game is scheduled to start at 12:35 p.m. PDT and the second game at 6 p.m. PDT.
Kazmir and Kluber will start the opener. Zach McAllister will take the mound for the Indians in the second game, while A's manager Bob Melvin said his starter is "to be announced."
Jesse Chavez had been scheduled to start for the A's Wednesday, but Melvin said he will likely push him back until Thursday -- and move the rest of his rotation back one day. Teams are allowed to add a 26th man to the 25-man roster for day-night doubleheaders, so Oakland could call-up a pitcher from Triple-A Sacramento to make the start.
Cleveland beat the A's 2-0 in Monday night's season opener, which was played between rain storms that have soaked the San Francisco Bay Area this week. The Indians have Thursday off before hosting Minnesota in its home opener Friday in Cleveland, and the A's open a four-game series against Seattle on Thursday in Oakland.
The forecast for Wednesday was for a high of 61 degrees and a 10 percent chance of rain.
"I kind of like day games," Kazmir said. "Just throughout my career, I don't know, I just like it -- get up in the morning and go right to it."
The 19th rainout in Oakland history, including the postseason, covered the Coliseum with so much water so early that officials postponed the game about 90 minutes before the scheduled first pitch.
A couple dozen grounds crew workers carried large brooms to sweep water off the tarp all afternoon. Some Indians players briefly came out to right field to go through some warm-ups during a brief break in the rain -- then quickly scrambled back to the clubhouse when another band of rain began falling.
With no fans inside the spacious Coliseum, Kazmir played catch for about 15 minutes in a covered section of the upper-deck concourse near the concessions after officials postponed the game.
"I was ready to pitch today. You can't let your guard down. I was ready to go." Kazmir said. "What can you do? Be ready to go early, that's all you can do."
Kazmir has waited all winter to make his A's debut. He signed a two-year, $22 million contract with Oakland as a free agent after spending last year with Cleveland.
He went 10-9 for the Indians last season on a one-year, $1 million contract. Kazmir struck out 162 in 158 innings and had a 4.04 ERA over 29 starts, rediscovering his groove and the zip on his fastball.
Indians manager Terry Francona saw Kazmir's renaissance firsthand. While Kazmir knows the tendencies of Cleveland's hitters, Francona said the Indians also know what Kazmir wants to do as well.
"I don't think anybody really has the advantage," Francona said. "The pitcher holds the ball, so the first advantage always goes to him. But what we do with it is up to us. He's good. We think he's pretty good. But our job is to beat him now."
NOTES: Francona said he moved switch-hitting SS Asdrubal Cabrera into the leadoff spot Tuesday because he wanted to keep everybody in their normal spot in the order while Michael Bourn is out with a strained left hamstring. Lefty Nyjer Morgan started Monday's opener, but with the left-handed Kazmir on the mound, Francona opted to go with Cabrera. ... Melvin said A's starter Sonny Gray's right ankle is fine after a comebacker from Cabrera hit off the pitcher's right ankle Monday night. ... A's OF Craig Gentry is not with the team because his wife is having an induced labor soon. He will be held out of rehabilitation work on his strained back for a few days.


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How to do it?
1)Magister meus amici mei discipulus fuit
2) Proelium non magistris sed pueris perniciosum fuerat
Here my answers: 1)My master was a disciple of my friend
2) Sorry,a couldnt translate it: I beg for your help!
Thanks a lot my friend,you helped me quite a lot. Concerning the translation of Magister to "Master",it is because I am Brazilian and in fact the word was "master" in Portuguese so I had to put the translation in english to ask your help!Ulpianus wrote:1 looks right to me (though I would prefer "teacher" to "master" as a basic definition of magister so as not to get muddled with dominus).
2 I'd translate (I think, it's an odd sentiment): The battle had been dangerous/destructive for the boys not the teachers. Literally: the battle not for the teachers but for the boys dangerous had been. What you have is a simple sentence proelium ... perniciosum fuerat and two datives non magistris sed pueris which indicate the people for whom the battle was dangerous.


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The Moral Case for a Syria StrikeClive Crook
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond a reasonable doubt, the forces of Syria's Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on a large scale and should be punished. That's where I end up. But the case isn't cut and dried.
Sometimes, standing on principle doesn't get you very far. The problem is, which principle? The norm forbidding use of chemical weapons, the norm of restraint in use of military force and the norm of upholding international law are in conflict. In addition, predicting the results of action (or inaction) is a matter of weighing probabilities, not certainties.
If you're sure you know what's right in this case, you haven't thought it through. I don't criticize U.S. President Barack Obama for being oppressed by these complexities, as he seems to be: Better that than a leader who thinks it's all so simple. I wish he would make decisions faster and pitch a more confident case for the course he has chosen -- you can be careful without dithering -- but he's not wrong to see this as a difficult choice.
Options have narrowed. Maybe there was a case for intervening to overthrow Assad at the outset, but his domestic enemies are no longer clearly preferable, and the U.S. lacks the will and the means to reshape a postwar Syria. The choice is between a limited punishment strike or softer censure such as jawboning, sanctions and indictment of Assad under international law.
Expressing Disgust
Choosing not to use force would weaken the norm against chemical weapons. Those milder ways of expressing disgust would still be available, so the norm wouldn't be destroyed -- but it would be eroded. Preventing that is both morally right and valuable to the U.S. and the world. But how valuable? And at what cost?
The wider the support for any action, the more effective it would be in upholding the norm. In this case, time isn't critical, so Obama (doubtful as one may be about his motives) is right to look for the broadest possible backing at home and abroad.
It's a shame that Russia and China won't go along -- but their calculations are so transparently cynical that their refusal has no moral force. Their reflexive noncooperation merely weakens the conflicting international-law norm. In this case, their objections should be disdained and dismissed.
Yet you can't dismiss the lack of support among U.S. allies or among U.S. citizens. If the U.K. isn't willing to join airstrikes against Assad, that in itself undermines the chemical-weapons taboo. The same would be true for punitive attacks that weren't supported in the U.S. Congress or across the country. Remember, the aim isn't just to damage Assad militarily, which the U.S. could do without allies or congressional approval, but to express a moral consensus. If that consensus turns out not to exist -- or if it exists in theory but is spineless in practice -- the case for action falters. We'll have discovered that the taboo against chemical weapons was so much posturing.
Obama says he's made his decision and has the right to act regardless of what Congress decides. Striking Syria even if Congress says no would be a remarkable gamble. It would also be less potent (because the norm would have been eroded in any event) and on balance unwise. Does that mean he was wrong to ask for authorization? Again, no. The more backing Obama can muster, the stronger the affirmation -- and that's what counts.
What about U.S. credibility? Most of those urging an attack say it's on the line. They have a point -- credibility matters, to be sure -- but they're making too much of it. Obama was wrong to say that chemical weapons were a "red line" in Syria without being sure he meant it. Making threats you aren't ready to carry out is dumb. He did say it, and failing to follow through would therefore cost something. But much of the damage is done. Obama draws red lines first, then thinks about whether to enforce them. This knowledge can't be unlearned.
Challenging Prospect
Would failing to attack Syria make Obama's promise to stop Iran getting nukes less credible? I doubt it. An Iran with nuclear weapons is vastly more threatening to U.S. interests than a Syria willing to use chemical weapons on its own people, and deterring it is a far more challenging prospect. The cases are too different. The credibility argument counts for something, as I say, but it's exaggerated.
No, the core of the case for action, so long as Obama can win sufficient support, lies in upholding the moral prohibition. And the valid case against turns not on legality or credibility but on the risk of unintended consequences.
All being well, airstrikes could achieve their goal at little cost, deflect Assad from using chemical weapons again and make other morally bankrupt regimes think twice. But they would also cause collateral damage and kill innocent civilians. It's conceivable that Assad would reap a propaganda advantage. He could start using chemical weapons even more aggressively, daring the U.S. to respond again -- knowing that escalation might carry Obama into an outright war the U.S. doesn't want to fight.
There could be terrorist retaliation against the U.S. Whether the U.S. intends it or not, airstrikes might swing the civil war against Assad and lead his regime to collapse -- with results that would be good or bad for most Syrians, and for the U.S. and its allies, depending on who takes over.
I defy you to consider those possibilities and say the case for action is open and shut. Assad's use of chemical weapons doesn't present a clear and present danger to the U.S.; let's not pretend otherwise. Everything comes down to the importance of the chemical-weapons taboo. Are these weapons really so vile, as governments have been saying for more than a century, that their use should be met, where feasible, with force? Or will they be something we learn to accept, just one more horror of war, along with all the others we deplore yet find ways to tolerate?
It's a close call. I think the taboo is worth defending, and the prize worth the risk. I hope Congress agrees.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - One way ticket on Tourist Visa Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in One way ticket on Tourist Visa Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message usteachJoined: 12 Apr 2003 Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 7:08 am Post subject: One way ticket on Tourist Visa Last time I came to Korea from the U.S. I had an E2 visa already stamped in my passport so no one questioned my one way ticket at immigration ( NorthWest airlines didn't ask for return ticket either) This time, however, looks like I'm coming in on a tourist Visa ( 3o days given to US citizens) and will do a run to Japan. Buying a return ticket just doesn't work because its valid for under a year. The ticket is with Singapore Airlines. Has anyone been asked by them to show onward travel tickets? Do you think Immigration will give me a problem if I say that I'm planning on taking the ferry to Japan for a work Visa within 30 days. Any past experiences with this appreciated! Alicia Back to top kiddblountJoined: 12 Mar 2003Location: Seoul Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 8:55 pm Post subject: i came in on my american passport (30 days) and wasn't informed that after 9/11, immigration policy was changed so as to prevent terrorist attacks, i.e., you must have proof of a roundtrip ticket. i found this out at the last minute, however, and was not able to contact my travel agent in time. i went to the trouble of mocking up an e-ticket w/another travel agent (on the condition that i purchase my return ticket thru her). all that turned out to be unnecessary, since i wasn't even asked to show a roundtrip/return ticket upon entering the country. all you gotta do is write a return flight # (easily obtained thru any airline website) and you should be good . . . Back to top The Great Wall of WhinerJoined: 24 Jan 2003Location: Middle Land Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 1:16 am Post subject: Quote: Has anyone been asked by them to show onward travel tickets? Yes. [my hand goes up] I have flown into Korea 4 times. I tried (and could not) purchase a one-way ticket into Korea. The airline would not risk it, because they are ultimately liable. Quote: Do you think Immigration will give me a problem if I say that I'm planning on taking the ferry to Japan for a work Visa within 30 days? I did on one occasion fly into Korea from Taiwan and immigration in Korea never asked to see an onward ticket. So, some food for thought. However, be ready for the question "do you work before get visa?". I have heard someone get this question at the imimgration line-up. Back to top MicahozJoined: 18 Apr 2003Location: Seattle Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 8:42 am Post subject: FYI...I worked for a year in Thailand and went one way ticket and NWA made me buy another ticket to Malaysia (it was cheap), but nevertheless I had to buy it and show proof of onward travel. Back to top kylehawkins2000Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2003 9:19 am Post subject: Everyone that I know that has tried to enter Korea after 9-11 has been asked to have proof of onward travel arrangments. If you have the visa I don't think it's a problem. I'll be entering next week without a visa. I'm just going to buy a one way ticket to Taiwan, then return it after I arrive. I'll lose about $50 on the deal but at least I can get around the hassle with immigration. One person that was hired by my last employer had problems with this once arriving in Korea. Immigration made a phone call to the Hogwan. The director explained that they would be doing a visa run and everything got the ok and the person cleared immigration. I guess you can get through if you're willing to talk your way through it and you don't run into anyone in a bad mood that is not willing to bend the rules. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe


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|An easy shortcut cheater etouffee that uses cream soup as a roux shortcut and works well for both shrimp and crawfish.
Cheater Shrimp EtoufféeBefore you scoff at the ingredients in this shortcut method, I say give it a try. I feel certain you will be surprised. It's a technique I learned many years ago from Sissy, a friend of mine from Starkville, Mississippi. I was at her house one day when I watched her whip this up while we stood in the kitchen chatting, and well, I was both fascinated and skeptical when I saw the ingredients. One taste convinced me though, because this is just delicious. The cream of mushroom soup takes the place of what would normally be a roux and believe it or not, it really works! Many years later I learned local folks down here in the Deep South use this shortcut a lot. Who knew?
Give it a try sometime, I promise it is delicious, however, I do have the more traditional roux based etouffee to share with you as well, if you'd rather stick with a more authentic version. While a traditional etouffee doesn't really take that much time, even with making a roux - well, that is if you already have a homemade seafood stock made up - this shortcut will save you the step of not having to make that stock or a roux from scratch.
Here's how to make it.
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Recipe: Super Easy Shortcut Shrimp Etouffée©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 15 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 stalk of celery, chopped
- 1/2 of a green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
- 15 turns of the pepper mill, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to taste
- 1 tablespoon of dried parsley
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1 can of Campbell's cream of mushroom soup
- 1 pound of shrimp, peeled, deveined, rinsed and patted dry
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- Chicken broth, as needed
- Splash of Kitchen Bouquet, for color
- Couple dashes of Tiger Sauce or other hot sauce
- Juice of half a lemon or to taste, optional
- Hot, cooked rice
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat and add the onion, celery and bell pepper; cook until tender. Add the salt, black pepper, Cajun seasoning, parsley and garlic. Add the cream of mushroom soup and stir until well blended. Add the shrimp or undrained crawfish tails and green onion. Stir in enough chicken broth to bring mixture to the consistency desired; bring mixture to a boil; reduce heat to a medium low simmer, cover and simmer for 12 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add a splash of Kitchen Bouquet, Tiger Sauce, and squeeze in lemon juice, if desired, stir well and serve over hot, cooked rice.
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Josh Gerstein reports in today's New York Sun on the government's naming of unindicted co-conspirators in the pending prosecution of the defunct Islamic Holy Land Foundation:
Federal prosecutors have named three prominent Islamic organizations in America as participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas.
Prosecutors applied the label of "unindicted co-conspirator" to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust in connection with a trial planned in Texas next month for five officials of a defunct charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
While the foundation was charged in the case, which was filed in 2004, none of the other groups was. However, the co-conspirator designation could be a blow to the credibility of the national Islamic organizations, which often work hand-in-hand with government officials engaged in outreach to the Muslim community.
A court filing by the government last week listed the three prominent groups among about 300 individuals or entities named as co-conspirators. The document gave scant details, but prosecutors described CAIR as a present or past member of "the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations." The government listed the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust as "entities who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood."
As Gerstein notes, the designation of parties as unindicted co-conspirators is the predicate to an exception to the hearsay rule, allowing the introduction of evidence against defendants that might not otherwise be admissible. Whether the designation is proper is an issue that will have to be resolved by the trial court.
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