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Blackshear, Ware out for Pittsburgh game
Blackshear, Ware out for Pittsburgh game
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
Two University of Louisville men's basketball players will not play in Monday night's game against Pittsburgh in the KFC Yum Center.
The university said Wayne Blackshear suffered a sprained right shoulder in practice on Sunday.
According to the team, Blackshear's injury is expected to heal quickly.
The team also said Kevin Ware has been suspended indefinitely for an unspecified reason.
Blackshear has started in 19 of the Cardinals' 20 games.
Ware is averaging 3.8 points and nearly 16 minutes a game.

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Brandon Barnes of Taylor, Mich., took home the trophy and $212,500 Monday in the Florida State Poker Championships main event at the Isle Casino and Racing in Pompano Beach.
The $5,300 buy-in drew 188 players. The final four players, including WPT Hard Rock Poker Showdown champ Tommy Vedes, chopped up the top prize money, based on chip count. Barnes also had some success at the WPT series, in a three-way chop for first in a $2K event. He also finished third in an earlier event in the Isle series this month.
The results, courtesy of the Isle:Brandon BarnesTaylor, MI***$212,500Adam LevyCoconut Creek, FL***$187,000Hans WinzlerMiami, FL***$151,000Tommy VedesQueens, NY***$94,340Stuart PatersonHollywood, FL$58,750Darryll FishFort Lauderdale, FL$44,650Micah RaskinOld Westbury, NY$34,780Norman ZapczynskiFort Lauderdale, FL$25,850Jake SchindlerBrynmawr, PA$18,330Richard ZipesFort Lauderdale, FL$14,570Richard KirschDavie, FL$14,570Alex CondonSioux City, IA$14,570Steve KarpN. Miami Beach, FL$12,220Philip GurianBoca Raton, FL$12,220Roque AzpuruaPompano Beach, FL$12,220Jordan WunderTampa, FL$10,810Fred GoldbergHollywood, FL$10,810Steve YagudaevGolden Beach, FL$10,810


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2 fall through the ice
2 fall through the ice
An Illinois man is dead and his teenage son injured after falling through the ice of an eastern Iowa lake.
The accident happened just before 5 p.m. Friday. Jackson County Sheriff's officials said Ronald Kerkhoff, 65, of German Valley, Ill., and his son, Jacob Kerkhoff, 18, had been ice fishing on South Sabula Lake when they fell through.
Rescue crews pulled the men from the lake and took them to a hospital in Clinton, where the older man died. Jacob Kerkhoff was treated for his injuries and released.


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Horoscopes for week of September 11, 2003
Need a few more whacks applied to your mental blocks in the coming week, Aries? A few more caresses administered to your growing edge? Cruise on over to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
"Both Picasso and T.S. Eliot are credited with saying, 'Good artists borrow, great artists steal,'" notes music critic Peter Gorman. "Credit it to Picasso and it comes across as bravado, a declaration that great art comes from those who appropriate whatever they damn well please. Credit the quote to Eliot and it seems more like word play; to borrow is to imitate and give back, to steal is to make it one's own." Study these tricky assertions about the creative process, Taurus. They should incite provocative meditations as you negotiate a turning point in your relationship with your own fertility.
Where do you want to go in the coming week, Taurus? Who do you want to be? For more clues, tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Trains in China are divided into two different sections: soft seats and hard seats. "The soft seats are usually where you find the richer, stiffer, better-educated people," reports Charlotte Temple in DoubleTake magazine. "In the hard-seat section, it's like a little village. Everyone is eating watermelon seeds, playing games, leaning out windows to buy from the dumpling sellers." I bring this up, Gemini, because it's an apt metaphor for the choice you now face. As you travel on to the next phase of your life, the soft seats would provide the greatest comfort, but the most interesting and educational events would unfold in the hard seats.
Life will bring you entertaining revelations in the coming week, Gemini. To explore even deeper, dive into your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
You've heard of passive smoking, which occurs when the burning cigarette wastes of smokers snake into the lungs of innocent bystanders. Now scientists at the Beauty and Truth Lab have identified a phenomenon they call second-hand depression, wherein victims inadvertently absorb the misery and cynicism of people who are spewing out negative emotions. You Cancerians must be especially careful to protect yourself against that contamination in the coming week. You can't afford to be poisoned by the lazy blather of out-of-control naysayers. Why? Because you have an astrological mandate to nurture optimistic perceptions and articulate loving strategies that uplift everyone whose life you touch.
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On an episode of the TV science fiction show "Stargate SG-1," friendly aliens called the Asgards come to Earth seeking help from the top-secret government agency with whom they've had a working relationship. It seems the super-intelligent, highly evolved Asgards have reached a dead end in their ability to fend off their mortal enemy, the Replicators. They hope their dumb allies, the humans, will be able to find some elementary solution that they themselves are too smart and complicated to think of. The idea works. One of Earth's top physicists, a simpleton by Asgard standards, dreams up a crude but effective plan. Let this be a teaching tale for you in the coming week, Leo. Trust innocent, uncluttered, amateur solutions.
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The largest meeting of world religious leaders in history was virtually unreported by the media. The top-secret event transpired in 2002, when leading representatives from every major faith gathered in Italy. They issued a "Decalogue for Peace," which denounced violence committed in the name of God and religion. It also declared, "We commit ourselves to those who suffer poverty and abandonment and who have no voice." The media deemed many other stories more important than this unprecedented breakthrough, like Mike Tyson getting his boxing license, John Walker Lindh making a court appearance, and the Enron hearings beginning. I bring this up, Virgo, because a comparable marvel is unfolding in your own life, and you haven't noticed it yet.
Your destiny is a gorgeous mystery, Virgo. Your soul is awakening more every day. The secrets of life are ripening right in front of your eyes. For more clues, consider checking out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
"You're only given a little spark of madness," says Robin Williams. "You mustn't lose it." His advice is especially apt for you now. To aid your efforts, here are tips on how to keep a healthy level of insanity, by librarian Bonnie Wolf. 1. When people ask you to do something, ask if they want fries with that. 2. Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard Kim. 3. As often as possible, skip rather than walk. 4. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy." 5. Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer. 6. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice. 7. At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down. 8. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors." 9. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I won! I won! Third time this week!" 10. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in." 11. Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day. 12. Dont use any punctuation marks 13. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go." 14. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "run for your lives, they're loose!" 15. Tell your children over dinner, "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go." 16. Put decaf in the coffee maker for three weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
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A few years ago the astronomy magazine "Sky & Telescope" held a contest to replace the name "Big Bang," which many scientists regarded as too frivolous. This week I propose that you Scorpios carry out a comparable project: Find a new name for the Divine Intelligence. The terms "God" and even "Goddess" have been so abused and overused that we've all become numb to them. And given the spiritual opportunities that will be opening up for you in the coming weeks, you can't afford to have an impaired sensitivity towards the Great Mystery. Here are a few ideas to whet your imagination: Blooming HaHa, Whirl-Zap-Gush, Sublime Cackler, Primal Jokester, Cosmic Wow, Eternal Crucible.
No one knows you better than you do, Scorpio. But maybe you'll be inspired to dig up even more self-knowledge in the coming week if you tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
For almost 60 years, Simon Wiesenthal tracked down Nazis responsible for the Holocaust. His most famous catch was Adolf Eichman, but he also brought more than a thousand other war criminals to justice. He recently retired. "My work is done," the tireless 94-year-old crusader said. "I found the mass murderers I was looking for. I survived all of them." I hereby appoint Wiesenthal to be your role model, Sagittarius. The astrological omens suggest that the coming months will be a perfect time for you to home in on a passionate, righteous commitment that will fuel you for years.
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The ozone hole is shrinking and will recover. Current human life expectancy, already at age 84, is steadily increasing. Since 1993, the violent crime rate in the U.S. has decreased by 50 percent. The number of America's black elected officials has sextupled since 1970. The planet is steadily becoming more free: 89 democratic countries control 89 percent of the world's GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Birthrates for teenagers are at the lowest levels in over 60 years. Charitable giving by individuals has increased 180 percent between 1960. Worldwide, the percentage of children enrolled in secondary education has more than doubled since 1970. In other words, Capricorn, life on earth is much better than everyone assumes. Inspired by my shocking evidence, compose a similar list of everything that's going really well for you.
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In the coming week, Aquarius, you're in danger of seeing with your imagination rather than with your eyes; you'll be tempted to trust the power of your beliefs more than the evidence of your five senses. It is possible to avert that fate, however. To assist you, I'm happy to provide this curmudgeonly prod from journalist H.L. Mencken: "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
Want to explore the coming week even further, Aquarius? Dig deeper? Feel stronger? Consider tuning in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
You have done without it long enough, Pisces. This state of deprivation can't go on. Up till now there's been a certain value in you not having the stuff you've been aching for, but as of now its continued absence would begin to have a soul-shriveling effect. Therefore, on behalf of cosmic forces, I hereby authorize you to take all necessary steps, as long as they're ethical, to get the goodies. You may even resort to the desperate pleading that kids use on their parents to get a beloved treat at the grocery store, including: "I promise to be good," "I'll never ask for anything again," and "I NEED IT!!!!"
Got enough clues to chew on for a while, Pisces? If you need more, give yourself the luxury of your Expanded Audio Horoscope for the coming week. The reading costs $6.
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sfsfsfgiants wrote:loyaltyisacurse wrote:Biedrins is getting PWNED by the oposing team's center as usual.
He is a real liablity on defense when facing even slightly above average centers...
Biedrins is getting PWNED by Tyson Chandler, a guy that averages 13 some rebounds a game against everybody. Nobody helps him on boards. He is all on his own. Anyone would get PWNED in this situation.
Yeah, some help on the boards would be nice. When the Hornets were getting Offensive Rebounds, Andris was the only one down there...and he kept getting manhandled by West and Chandler.
As for the game overall, not much to say other than UGLY. I think that word has been used at least a few times in this thread . We can't win them all...but we really could have used this one


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By James Alan Fox | Boston.com | March 7, 2013
It comes as no surprise that Nathaniel Fujita has been found guilty of murdering Lauren Astley. The physical evidence was overwhelming and, besides, the defense never contested that the young man had killed his former girlfriend.
The defendant's only available strategy was to attempt the insanity defense, a defense that had almost no chance of succeeding. Not only are successful insanity claims exceptionally rare — particularly in high-profile murder cases like this one, but the lack of prior and persistent psychiatric history was no small hurdle to overcome. Most successful insanity claims come through a plea agreement between the prosecution and the defense, and there would be no such arrangement possible in this closely watched case.
Many people with whom I've discussed this trial expressed a certain degree of sympathy for Fujita (although, of course, not anywhere as profound as the sentiment for Astley's family). After all, who has not experienced the devastation of lost love? And when you're young, it can feel absolutely catastrophic. I heard from many folks who hoped that the pursuit of justice for Astley could be tempered with compassion for Fujita.
Frankly, I half expected that the jury might convict Fujita on a lesser charge — murder in the second degree. Despite the evidence of planning, this is a far cry from the act of a ruthless, heartless sociopath. Juries have been known to bend the law when circumstances seem compelling.
In this instance, the jury did it's job well. It stayed true to the cold hard facts of the case, finding sufficient evidence that Fujita had premeditated the murder. Regrettably, the other cold hard fact is that the trial judge had no options in sentencing the defendant — no leeway for showing any compassion for Fujita's youth and emotional state that had contributed to his crime.
In Massachusetts, all defendants convicted of first degree murder are sent away to prison for life without the possibility of parole, regardless of any mitigating circumstances surrounding the offense or the offender. By contrast, two dozen states having life without parole on the books include it among a group of alternative sentences depending on the circumstances of the offense and the offender.
As one of the states that prohibits parole for first degree murderers, Massachusetts ranks high on the list in terms of the percentage of its incarcerated population having no hope of ever walking free (except for the very remote possibility of executive clemency). As of 2008, according to statistics compiled by the Sentencing Project in Washington, D.C., 8.7% of the Massachusetts state prison population was under a life without parole sentence, a level that ranked third (behind Louisiana and Pennsylvania) and was four times the national average.
If the most severe punishment is to be reserved for the "worst of the worst," then life without parole makes sense for serial killers, mass murderers, certain repeat violent offenders, and those who rape or torture victims before murdering them. However, in Massachusetts, life without parole eligibility is mandatory for cases of felony murder, even though homicide may not have been part of the plan. It is also mandatory for those convicted in joint ventures, even if they were not the one to pull the trigger or plunge the knife. And it is mandatory for first time offenders, like Nathaniel Fujita.
Many other states allow for parole eligibility as a sentencing option for murder, if the circumstances warrant it. Included among the states that allow penalty short of life without parole are Mississippi and Texas, but not Massachusetts.
So maybe it is time for Massachusetts to infuse some flexibility into sentences for first degree murder by permitting parole consideration after, say after 30 years, in those cases where mitigation outweighs aggravation. Such factors as being a first offender or as suffering from psychological conditions that fall outside of the narrow definition of legal insanity would be high on my list of justifications for lesser sentences or parole eligibility.
So it is about time to reintroduce rationality into the sentencing process, even for murder. Not all murders are the same in severity, and not all murderers are the same in dangerousness. So while life without the possibility of parole is justifiable for some first-degree murderers (e.g., Thomas Mortimer, Michael McDermott, Henry Meinholz, Jr., to name but a few of our state's worst offenders). But life without parole is not appropriate for all…and may that include Nathaniel Fujta. I'm not suggesting that Fujita should necessarily ever be paroled, but only that such a decision be postponed until another day, one several decades in the future.


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Local Civil Rule 3: Random Filing of CasesAll civil cases filed with the Marion County Clerk's Office for the Marion Superior Court shall be assigned to an individual courtroom on a random basis. The process for the random assignment shall be done through the Court and Clerk's automated case management system. The random assignment rule for civil cases does not apply to cases designated by statute or rule as being required to be filed in certain named Courts.
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|2010-06-17, 13:34
|Link #361
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Age: 48
It's not hard. Here's a quick and simple HOWTO with minimal explanations, for a TS source.
1) Make sure you locate and get SCXvid.dll and put it into the same directory as Yatta/YMC. This is a special version of xvid which helps the encoder by locating scenechanges and cutting the video up into sections. You MUST partition the video into sections if you want to use pattern guidance, and SCXvid does that for you.
2) In the YMC step, tick Cutter (to cut out unwanted ads), Telecide, SCXvid and Decimate. Run YMC with this. Once you open up the pregenerated .yap file, you'll see that YATTA will already have the video sectioned.
3) For VFR sources, make sure to enable all "Use c", "Use cccnn", "Use ccnnn" options for Pattern Guidance. For non-VFR sources, it's better to disable "Use c". (Access via Right-Click on the main window and selecting "Pattern Guidance")
4) Do "Pattern Guidance --> Pattern Guidance". Now, Yatta tries to determine the best patterns for the many sections there are. Here's the general idea: Almost all VFR parts will be all-c matches. So, after Pattern Guidance we'll have YATTA interpret all all-c sections as NoDecimate sections.
5) Now there's a small problem: Pattern guidance puts hard decimation markers on all relevant frames for recognized patterns. BUT to place a NoDecimate marker, you need to have a full cycle (5 frames) without hard decimation markers around. To ensure that the next step 6) doesn't fail due to that, we are lazy and just tell YATTA to delete _all_ hard decimation markers for now: (Right-Click on the Main Window --> Recalculate Matches --> Clear Decimated)
6) Now let YATTA convert all-c sections to NoDecimate: (Right-Click on the Main Window --> Recalculate Matches --> C Matches to VFR). If you now click on Tools and select "Ranges", you'll see the right table filled with NoDecimate entries.
7) However, we WANT YATTA to place hard decimation markers for the 23.976 parts. Therefore, we redo the Pattern Guidance step. It will automatically skip over NoDecimate sections now
8) We're almost done. Always do "Recalculate Matches --> Select lowest VMetric at Section Bounds" with Threshold 40 to make sure that there are no combs at the section bounds (which can be the result of Pattern Guidance, so DON'T FORGET!)
Well, that's essentially it. Do your normal YATTA magic with cropping, resizing, filtering and whatnot. When you let YATTA generate the override files, it will barf out all you need - the Avisynth file to encode the video to VFRAC, and a v1 timecode file for later muxing.
|2010-07-08, 01:36
|Link #362
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Well, not actually VFR related, but since there's some YATTA discussion, I guess it's OK to ask here.
Say I have a ccnnc pattern, and I'd like to set all first n's as postprocessing.
According to the Ctrl+T dialog, I guess it's possible to do in YATTA?
I understand the ccnnc, and kkkdk part, and I expected that setting postprocessing ooxoo will do the job, but without luck.
Did I completely misunderstand this or anything?
Thanks for your help.
|2010-07-08, 03:54
|Link #364
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Age: 48
Though I'd like to ask why you'd want to postprocess this frame in the first place. I mean, the whole idea of using Pattern Guidance is to do a perfect reconstruction of the fields, and in this case you wouldn't _NEED_ postprocessing (which is only a kludge for those frames which can't be reassembled without combs).
Are you sure you don't confuse something here?
|2010-07-09, 07:43
|Link #365
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Thanks for the reply. But it doesn't seem to work as I expected. No matter I use 'try pattern', or 'pattern guidance', I see no frames marked as PP. I even tried setting the pattern to ppppp.
Can anyone confirm it working, with YATTA 7-130 beta6? Or is there any additional steps/settings I need to do?
I think I indeed need this. I'm not sure how this source is made, it has residual combing after field matching at the two n frames (quite similar to those combing usually seen at fades, but not full frame, just part of the frame).
I set the patterns to ccnnc and kkkdk to decimate the second n frame, and what I want to do is to mark the first n frame as PP and throw something like vinverse to it.
Better solution would be much appreciated.
|2010-07-09, 08:26
|Link #366
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Age: 48
su zhy: There's definitely something wrong here, but I can't say what without looking at your source and what you've been doing.
Make sure of this:
1) In the ymc step, tick "Telecide", "Decimate" and "SCXvid"
2) In ymc go to the "Telecide" configuration window and make sure that Order=1,Guide=0,Back=0
Then, in this window, I'd say you should scroll around some and make sure you find a pan. Step through it frame-by-frame and see if it pans smoothly (and only halts on the to-be-decimated frame). If it seems to jump "back", change to Order=0 and try again. If this helps, you fell into the TopFieldFirst/BottomFieldFirst-trap.
3) If that works out, do the ymc step and in yatta, do normal Pattern Guidance. You should find clean cccnn patterns now.
If all of this doesn't help, you need to cut out a piece of your source and let me look at it. In this case send me a PM or contact me on Rizon.
|2010-07-10, 01:26
|Link #367
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Thanks Mentar, it seems that I didn't make myself clear (sorry for my limited English), but I don't think this problem is due to wrong field order or bad field matching. I tried what you suggest (I normally use tfm/tdecimate in ymc), but it didn't make a difference.
Link to the source (cut with dgindex, ~6 seconds) PM'd. Let me know if a longer clip is needed.
Thanks for taking your time.
|2010-07-10, 02:14
|Link #368
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Age: 48
I see. After hearing you use dgindex, I assumed a TS source of anime, instead, what you have is obviously a Real Life DVD video ^_^; - no wonder about those, so many RL DVD videos are screwed up by the mastering studios that it's not even funny anymore.
To make it short, Garbage in, Garbage out. The video is (censored), and you're right, it bleeds exactly on two frames: The dupe (that one's irrelevant since it gets decimated anyway) and the frame before the dupe. Crazy.
Obviously Set Pattern and the related functions are broken in Yatta 7-130 B6, they don't recognize the postprocessing code. I'll ask the author about it when I see him (Myrsloik in #darkhold on Rizon, if you want to try for yourself, but if you do, be EXCEPTIONALLY nice. Better to let me do it)
|2010-07-10, 07:03
|Link #369
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Ah yeah, I should have mentioned it's a real life DVD, and I totally agree that too many of them are made badly.
So this can't be done with YATTA currently. It would be great if this is fixed someday. It'd be nice of you to report this to the author.
For this particular source, I will just apply vinverse throughout the video, since manually setting the PP marks is a pain, and too much effort for such a source.
Thanks again for looking into it.
|2010-07-10, 10:34
|Link #370
Excessively jovial fellow
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: ISDB-T
Age: 32
|2010-07-13, 04:54
|Link #371
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Island Of Salt
version5 is here http://www.mediafire.com/?mgqntdxn2mg
idk if this version is the one youre looking for.
|2010-07-13, 20:46
|Link #373
Excessively jovial fellow
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: ISDB-T
Age: 32
|2010-07-13, 21:20
|Link #374
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Thanks, TheFluff.
|2010-07-24, 07:08
|Link #375
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Island Of Salt
heres the old yatta guide that nmap wrote. http://www.mediafire.com/?1xzv3w4hjb2rl58
|2010-10-10, 19:44
|Link #376
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
I'm getting a page can not be displayed error similar to that on IE/Firefox when a webpage cannot be displayed. Is this guide linked to contents on a webpage that isn't available.
Does anybody else have some sort of guide? I got the latest YATTA version here which is different from the website years ago >.<.
|2010-10-11, 00:27
|Link #377
Junior Member
Join Date: May 2009
I think you should start looking for guides when you fully master doing manually everything YATTA can automate for you.
|2010-12-01, 14:09
|Link #378
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
im just reposting my question from another forum ok ^^
its really late and im kinda lazy atm 2 retype it all xD
~~~~here is the post~~~~~
hallow i have a problem... Q_Q.
ok 1st this is the media info..
taken from the video that i want 2 convert..
the video is a BD-Rip of. Highschool of the Dead.
from this fansubbers site..
and i think its a softsub video
anyway.. my problem is that the vid and the audio isnt sync at all..
what i want 2 do with this is to make the original video without subs what so ever... meaning it will be a RAW mkv vid..
my process is..
Extracted files
merging the files.
finish.. lolx..
this is the media info of the finish'd vid.
if you need more info.. please tell me which and how 2 get it. ^^
ah btw.. im using windows xp SP3
32bit core2quad Q8400 @ 2.66Ghz processor.
2gig ram
and 320gb HDD SATA lolx xD
Please kindly help me with this Q_Q
~~~~End of post~~~~
since then.. i have been experimenting with the file..
and this is what i have found out and.. learnd
the file is a VFR.. and i have learnd how 2 extract the timecode using "MkvtoolNix's" "MKVextractGUI.exe"
and merging the extracted .h264 with audio + the timecode to a MKV[subless]
but NOW... im having trouble.. converting the darn thing 2 AVI...
and i have read that making the VFR to a VFRAC avi could fix this problem..
BUT.. i have no idea how 2 make a VFR to VFRAC avi.. and if it is possible 2 murge the VFRAC with the original timecode and encode it 2 a streamable mp4 file...
currently when i convert an AVI,mkv[cfr] i use AllToAvi>bencos then just upload..
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Agriculture, for instance, will face serious challenges in the next Congress as budget axes threaten a host of programs constituents thought were safe when laws were passed over the past few years. The folks who farm for a living are among the most patriotic of Americans and most are willing to take their fair share of cuts when budgets have to be pared. It will be up to Neugebauer and others to make certain that farm folk don't have to bear an unfair burden when those cuts are made.
This next Congress will have to find ways to ensure that America's farmers have a level playing field in world trade. That's not the case now. Congress must analyze any trade agreement to make certain that American agricultural interests are not bartered off for concessions in other areas. Food and fiber production are too important to the welfare of the country to be used as trade favors.
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In his first abbreviated term, Neugebauer worked hard to represent the farm interests in the 19th and his pre- and post-election statements indicate that he will continue that commitment to one of the most important economic components in his district.
We also would be remiss if we did not thank Charlie Stenholm for 26 years of service as a congressman to the farmers and ranchers of Texas and the nation. Stenholm was caught in a Texas redistricting plan that pitted him against Neugebauer. Regardless of the politics, before redistricting, Texas had two congressmen on the House Agriculture Committee. Now they have one. We wish there had been a better way and that Texas could have maintained its unique position of strength on that crucial committee. But as Stenholm said, it's the law of the land and we live with it.
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May 08, 2012
AUSTIN, Texas – United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan '87, who served as a co-captain of the Harvard men's basketball team during the 1986-87 season, headlines the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America Hall of Fame Induction Class.
Duncan is joined in this Academic All-America Hall of Fame class by fellow inductees Alvan Adams (Oklahoma men's basketball), Ruth Riley (Notre Dame women's basketball), John Naber (Southern California men's swimming) and Dr. Todd Olsen (Slippery Rock men's soccer). The five inductees join 117 members of the Capital One Academic All-America Hall of Fame, which was created in 1988.
They will be inducted into the Academic All-America Hal of Fame at CoSIDA's annual convention in St. Louis, Mo., on Monday, June 25 at the organization's Third Annual Capital One Special Awards Gala.
Duncan, who received the 2010 Robert Coles "Call of Service" Award by the Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard, was Harvard's leading scorer as a senior, averaging 16.9 points per game, while garnering All-Ivy League honorable mention. He earned Academic All-America first-team honors that year, and after graduating magna cum laude with a degree in sociology, Duncan continued his playing career in Australia's National Basketball League, most notably with the Melbourne Eastside Spectres.
After returning home to the United States, Duncan was appointed as director of the nonprofit Ariel Education Initiative in Chicago in 1992, and was named the Deputy Chief of Staff in the Chicago Public Schools in 1999. Two years later, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley tabbed Duncan as the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools.
Duncan served as the Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools from 2001-2009 until he was appointed by fellow Chicagoan and Harvard alumnus, President Barack Obama, as the ninth United States Secretary of Education. During his tenure in the U.S. cabinet, Duncan has helped to secure congressional support for President Obama's investments in education, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's $100 billion to fund 325,000 teaching jobs and the largest investment in federal student aid since the G.I. Bill.
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The Madrigal Singers, in the 20th year of performing at the El Capitan, sang on Monday night in the first of two dinner performances. They are under the direction of Dean Rees, with the assistance of Mary Belew as accompanist
The Madrigal Singers, in the 20th year of performing at the El Capitan, sang on Monday night in the first of two dinner performances. They are under the direction of Dean Rees, with the assistance of Mary Belew as accompanist. This year's performance includes some traditional numbers: "Wexford Carol," "Boar's Head Carol," "Good Ale," "The Holly and the Ivy." There are also two traditional Spanish language songs, "A La Nanita Nana" and "Ya Viene La Vieja."
The skit this year is "Redheaded Robbie's Christmas Story," depicting a speech-impaired but kindly child who makes a meaningful Christmas story with the help of his classmates. Mike Shima is outstanding as Robbie, with the support of the other players, who see the error of their ways.
"A Christmas Recessional" started the second part of the show, with many of the audience joining in the "Angels We Have Heard on High" and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing."
A rousing "Christmas on Broadway" arranged by John Higgins is a highlight of the last part of the show, as is a beautiful solo in "Silent Night" by Donna Cannon. Other solos featured Terry Miller, Dawn Pollmiller and Charleen Cordo. "Lux Aurumque," featuring Cordo, was a personal favorite of the Conductor Rees, as a very difficult and beautiful arrangement by Eric Whittaker. A personal favorite of this observer was "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" featuring Terry Miller, and of course "Have a Merry, Merry Christmas" solo by Dawn Pollmiller.
One felt a little nostalgic, maybe even a bit teary, as the traditional ending, "Good Friends and Fireplaces," filled the dining room with song.
Some tickets are still available for Wednesday night's performance. Proceeds help provide dictionaries to area third grade students.
When: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday
Where: El Capitan Dining Room in Rocky Ford
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The Liberty University Athletic Training Staff, in conjunction with its Team Physicians, make up the Liberty University Sport Medicine Network, which works toward the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.
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Where are the sacred waters of American marathon swimming - the most historically significant swim spots? Aquatic Park (San Francisco), Brighton Beach (New York City), and La Jolla Cove come to mind.
But there's another location - arguably as significant as those three - that remains remarkably below the radar. Promontory Point in Chicago. The Point was the primary training location of four Marathon Swimming Hall of Famers, including two Mount Rushmore-types:
- Ted Erikson - First person to swim across Lake Michigan (1961). One of only two to swim from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco (and record-holder since 1967). Former record-holder for two-way English Channel swim (1965-1975).
- Jon Erikson - First three-way English Channel swim (1981). Former record-holder for two-way English Channel (1975-1987) and youngest one-way (14 years old in 1969). 31 professional marathon swim races.
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- Conrad Wennerberg - coach and training partner of the above three, and author of Wind, Waves, and Sunburn.
More recently, I trained at the Point for my Amanda, a two-time MIMSer.
The Point was constructed from landfill and opened as a public park in 1937. With Hyde Park and the University of Chicago nearby, it soon became a popular swim spot. Marathon swimmers have trained there at least since the early 1960s. As Ted Erikson explains (via personal communication):
In prepping for the 1961 Lake Michigan Swim to Michigan City, I began swimming off the rocks from Jackson Park Harbor entrance to 67th St. Beach (1/2 mile course) late fall and early 1961.
Conrad Wennerberg, who I met at 67th, suggested the Point, where I occasionally swam to from 67th. The Point seemed more social. So, I started off and on in 1961 and continuously from 1962 to present.
Similar to Point Swimmers of the '60s swam "laps" between the southeast edge of the Point and the 59th Street Pier (a 1-mile round-trip). Ted recalls:
Dennis and I would push each other for 1-10 mile training swims. Most interesting were 1-milers with slow swimmers starting early and fast swimmers starting late such that ALL would reach the final buoy about 100 yards from finish at the same time. This made a nice race to finish for all which included Connie, Bill Tregay, Tom Lisco, Mike Paesler, Jon, and others, some who "handicapped their time" obviously beat us because of "saving" themselves for the sprint.
Was great fun, competition, and good training. Once Dennis found a foot at the finish, and holding it up, breathing heavily from the sprint, said "Who lost their foot ?"… (foot was from a passenger on a United Airlines plane that crashed off the Point a week so before).
Despite this rich history, the Point keeps a low profile even in Chicago - and even among swimmers. The city's enthusiastic triathlete population primarily trains downtown at Ohio Street Beach, the site of Big Shoulders. (One might argue, this is a good thing.)
One reason is the Point's relative isolation, 7 miles south of downtown. Another reason: Until recently it was technically illegal to swim off the Point. A few swimmers, including Ted, were even arrested in the late 1980s. But Ted and others held their ground and, through the power of community organizing (a Hyde Park specialty), pressured the Chicago Park District to create a designated "long distance swimming area" offshore from 57th Street Beach.
The politics of the Point makes for fascinating reading. For more, see this 2001 article from the Tribune.
And finally, like its peers in San Francisco, New York, and La Jolla, swimming at the Point is a year-round activity.
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The horror genre is an eclectic genre, with films that run the gamut from quiet and thoughtful ruminations on human existence to noisy and barely contained gore and chaos. As a result, many of the films (and filmmakers) working in the genre are divisive figures.
If you're in the market for a new home and happen to have $2.1 million sitting around then why not move into the house from the original "Nightmare on Elm Street" film? I know what you're thinking though, West Hollywood, right? Who wants to live in California? Everyone is so damn annoying there, right? And all that traffic? Plus it's full of people from California. Well it does have a guest house also so maybe that outweighs all that other stuff.
If you don't like Colin Farrell then you're a jerk. There I said it. He's so damn charming I just don't get why anyone would dislike him. I bring him up because he's joined Anthony Hopkins in the cast of "Solace", a new flick about an FBI agent who reaches out to a retired psychic to help him track down a murderer. I could understand why you might not like Hopkins though. He comes off as kind of snooty.
Jocelin Donahue, who you might remember disliking after seeing "House of the Devil" has signed on to the cast of "Insidious: Chapter 2". She'll play a young Lorraine Lambert in the film, who I don't particularly remember from the original film but I'm going to go out on a limb and say she was a relative or something of the main characters and spooky stuff happened to her.
Blah blah blah Guillermo del Toro is doing another movie. It's going to be a new version of "The Secret Garden". It's about a garden that's secret and then all kinds of crazy del Toro stuff happens and we all go whoooo and then I ask where the hell the new "Haunted Mansion" movie that he's been talking about for years is.
Joe joins us this week and we're all a bit divided over Ti West's "House of the Devil".
I've got a clip here from Ti West's "House of the Devil". West landed on my radar a few years ago with his shockingly impressive indie film "The Roost". He was then hired to direct "Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever", which he has since disowned due to meddling from Lionsgate.
The only things I caught in this red-band trailer for "House of the Devil" that weren't in the first trailer we saw some months ago are all the good press quotes, but it's worth seeing this stuff again.
Here's the trailer for Ti West's "House of the Devil". You may recognize West's name from his surprisingly effective Indie horror film "The Roost", or the as-yet-unreleased "Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever".


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This pathfinder has been created to aid those seeking information about notable western philosophers. Western philosophy spans a large time period and a tremendous amount of different ideas. The attempt to follow and discover the people who have created these ideas can be a long, arduous task. This document contains print and Internet resources recommended as starting points for research and by no means should be considered all inclusive. Western philosophy can be divided into three sections: ancient, medieval, and modern. When researching philosophers one can use this as a guide to ideas and movements associated with philosophers.
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Recommended TextsThe Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers
edited by J. O. Urmson. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1960.
Updated edition edited by Ree, Jonathan. London; Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
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Great Thinkers of the Western World: The Major Ideas and Classic Works of More Than 100 Outstanding Western Philosophers, Physical and Social Scientists, Psychologists, Religious Writers, and Theologians
Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Philosophers
Fifty Major Philosophers: a Reference Guide
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Gavialis gangeticus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Gavialis gangeticus (Gmelin in Linnaeus, 1789)
Common Name(s):
Lacerta gangetica Gmelin in Linnaeus, 1789
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2bc; C1 ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Choudhury, B.C., Singh, L.A.K., Rao, R.J., Basu, D., Sharma, R.K., Hussain, S.A., Andrews, H.V., Whitaker, N., Whitaker, R., Lenin, J., Maskey, T., Cadi, A., Rashid, S.M.A., Choudhury, A.A., Dahal, B., Win Ko Ko, U., Thorbjarnarson, J & Ross, J.P.
|Fergusson, R., Elsey, R., Velasco, A. & Dacey, T. (Crocodile Red List Authority)
Criterion A: Gharial qualify for Critically Endangered (CR) listing under criterion A2 ("reduction in population size based on an observed, estimated, inferred or suspected population size reduction of ≥80% over the last 10 years or three generations, whichever is the longer, where the reduction or its causes may not have ceased OR may not be understood OR may not be reversible"), based on (b) an index of abundance appropriate to the taxon and (c) a decline in area of occupancy, extent of occurrence and/or quality of habitat). Very conservative estimates of population decline over a three-generation period (from 1946 to 2006) indicate there has been a 96 to 98% population decline (see details below), and the once widespread population has been reduced to a very small number of widely spaced subpopulations.
Criterion C: The Gharial also qualified for CR listing under criterion C1 - ("population size estimated to number fewer than 250 mature individuals and an estimated continuing decline of at least 25% within three years or one generation"). Estimates of adult population size indicate that there has been a decline from 436 adult gharials in 1997 to 182 in 2006. This represents a 58% drop across its range over a period of nine years, well within the span of one generation (see details below).
Rationale for Criterion A:
The generation length for the species is 20 years (the age at which 50% of total reproductive output is achieved) (Rao et al. 1995). The Red List Criteria require "declines measured over the longer of 10 years or 3 generations", in this case the population decline since 1946.
Early Records:
The early records for the gharial are mainly subjective and rarely quantitative. Old references indicate the gharial's abundance in the past: Common in the Indus River in Pakistan (Francis 1910, Rao 1933); Gandak River in Nepal (I.A.K. 1921); Jumuna River in Uttar Pradesh (Hornaday 1885), Kosi river in Bihar (Shortt 1921). Several authors mention seeing groups basking together and in 1885 Hornaday wrote that he could count 64 gharials in two hours on the banks of the Jamuna. Andrew Leith Adams (1867) wrote: "abounds in all the great rivers of Northern India…Ten or twenty may be frequently seen together". "Hundreds of Gharial were observed on the Narayani River (Nepal) prior to the construction of the Gandak barrage…in 1964 and in the early 1950s about 235 Gharial were counted along the Narayani river between Narayanghat and Tribeni" (Maskey 1999). With an estimated 11,000 river kilometers of habitat over a geographic area of over 20,000 square kilometers (much of the northern mass of the Indian subcontinent form the Indus river system in the West to the Irrawaddy in the East) the Gharial had a conservatively inferred population of 5,000 to 10,000.
Current population status:
By 1976, the estimated total population of wild Gharial in the world had declined from what is thought to have been 5,000 to 10,000 in the 1940s to less than 200 (Whitaker et al. 1974), a decline of about 96%. In 2006, the mature Gharial population in India stands at a similar figure, less than 200 (Andrews 2006, Sharma and Basu, 2004) and less than 35 adults for Nepal (T. Maskey pers. comm. 2006). The species is virtually extinct in Pakistan (Whitaker and Basu 1983), Bangladesh (Whitaker 1976, Khan 1979, Faizuddin 1985) and Bhutan (Singh 1991). Only two records for the species were recorded from Myanmar in 1927 (Thorbjarnarson et al. in press) and it is presumed long extinct.
The drastic decline in the Gharial population over the last 60 years (three generations for the gharial) can be attributed to a variety of causes including over-hunting for skins and trophies, egg collection for consumption, killing for indigenous medicine, and killing by fishermen (for example: Biswas 1970 and Whitaker 1975). While hunting is no longer considered to be a significant threat, the construction of dams, barrages, irrigation canals, siltation, changes in river course, artificial embankments, sand-mining, riparian agriculture, and domestic and feral livestock have combined to cause an extreme limitation to gharial range due to this excessive, irreversible loss of riverine habitat. For instance, Hussain (2001) documents plans for 276 irrigation projects in the Chambal River basin alone. These threats have not ceased, indeed have increased and continue to compromise the survival of the species. Gharial decline has gone hand in hand with the decline of other riverine taxa once reportedly abundant and now endangered including the Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica) and the Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) as well as numerous waterfowl and well known game and edible fish species including the Mahseer (Tor sp.) and Hilsa (Hilsa illisha).
Based on the above, the Gharial qualifies for CR under Criterion A2bc. However, the lack of quantitative population estimates for three generations in the past makes the calculation of exact rates of decline over the period problematic (see Table 1 in the Supplementary Material for further information on how the reduction was calculated).
bRationale for Criterion C:
Once thought to be relatively stable or even increasing, the wild population of gharials has undergone a drastic decline over the last nine years. This decline, as outlined below, qualifies it for Critically Endangered listing.
The mature Gharial population was estimated by using gharial nest counts as they are easily visible and can be counted at well known locations that have been monitored for decades. This is also a more accurate assessment for numbers of mature animals because of the unknown number of immature males (which take five or more years longer to mature than do females) that are routinely counted as 'adults'. Using the only published data on ratios of males in the mature Gharial population (Hussain 1999), it can be inferred that 14% of all 'adults' reported in Gharial censuses are actually subadult males.
The Chambal River holds by far the largest breeding subpopulation with an estimated 48% of the total population. The total number of nests found in the Chambal Sanctuary in 2006 was 68. The only other large breeding population of gharial in India is in the Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary where 20 nests were found in 2006. The one other known breeding population in India is the Son River Sanctuary where two nests were found in 2006 (Andrews 2006).
Since most female Gharial nest every year in captivity, it is reasonable to assume that the above cited nest counts indicate the presence of 90 reproducing female Gharial in India. Assuming that the sex ratio reported by Hussain (1999) in the Chambal of 14% males is the same in Katerniaghat and Son, there would be an inferred total of 13 mature male gharials throughout India. Considering the reported paucity of mature males (being very conspicuous with their gharas) on the Chambal in the surveys of 2005 and 2006, it is likely that there are extremely few mature males in that river (Andrews 2006, R.J. Rao pers. comm.). Along with a total of 20 nesting females, six mature male Gharial were counted by independent observers in 2006 (B.C. Choudhury, H.V. Andrews, R. Whitaker, pers. obs.). The total estimated number of mature Gharial in the three remaining wild breeding subpopulations in India is therefore 107 based on observed nest numbers and inferred numbers of mature males.
Other crocodilians are reported to nest less frequently than every year. Estimates of reproductive frequency (% females laying per year) range from 10% to 90% with a median value of 63% (Thorbjarnarson 1996). Although we believe that most gharials nest annually, some females may have migrated downriver away from where the few males still exist. Applying this median crocodilian value to our estimate and adding the estimates for all Indian and Nepal subpopulations would only increase it to 220, still below the numerical threshold for Critically Endangered using criterion C.
There are two other small, non-reproducing populations of Gharial in India (Ken River in Madhya Pradesh and Mahanadi River in Orissa) and three in Nepal (Kosi, Karnali and Babai Rivers) which have been supplemented by the reintroduction of captive bred stock (as in all present Gharial locations). There may also still be a few scattered Gharial in the Brahmaputra River of Northeast India but there have been no confirmed sightings since 1993 (Choudhury 1997). These other subpopulations of Gharial in India contain a total estimated 40 mature animals (no mature males reported). It is extinct in the Indus (Pakistan/India) and Irrawaddy (Myanmar) river systems.
In Nepal six nests were counted in 2006 and the total mature gharial in all subpopulations in that country is estimated at 35 animals (Maskey 1999 and pers. comm. 2006).
Based on these estimates the number of wild, mature gharials across the species' range (presently only India and Nepal) is 182 in about eight non-contiguous, fragmented habitats (but until further research tells us otherwise, note that 14% of these 'adults' can be inferred to actually be subadult males bringing the total figure down to 157).
In 1997, the peak year with the highest number of wild mature gharials and nests recorded in the last 30 years, 226 mature animals and 81 nests were recorded in the Chambal (Sharma and Basu 2004). There were no nests in the Son, where there were about 10 adults and no nest data for Katerniaghat where an estimated 30 adults were present. No nesting data from Nepal exist for this period, but Maskey (1999) estimated 36 adults present. Based on the available data (Maskey 1999, Sharma and Basu 2004), and adding the 1997 estimated numbers of non-breeding mature animals (in small subpopulations outside of the three Indian and one Nepali breeding subpopulations - a total of 50 animals), the estimated total mature gharial population throughout its present range (India and Nepal) in 1997 was 436.
The decline from an estimated 436 adult gharials in 1997 to 182 in 2006 represents a 58% drop across its range. This drastic decline has happened with a period of nine years, well within the span of one generation, qualifying the Gharial, under criterion C1, to be listed as Critically Endangered. Using the highly conservative estimate of 220 (based on only 63% of the adult females nesting annually) this is a 36% decline, still well within the 25% decline criteria for Critically Endangered (see Table 2 in the Supplementary Material for details of declines by subpopulation).
The Gharial has undergone both chronic long term and a rapid short-term declines. The use of Criterion A illustrates the long term decline, which was in part addressed during conservation efforts for this species in India and Nepal during the 1970s and 1980s. However, a more recent, very rapid decline has been taking place in the last surviving subpopulations and is cause for considerable alarm. The use of criterion C here, effectively demonstrates that the gharial qualifies for a listing of Critically Endangered, which we think will be an important first step towards galvanizing renewed conservation efforts for this unique species.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The western-most historic occurrence of the Gharial was the Indus River in present day Pakistan and the eastern-most (albeit from only two records in the scientific literature) was the Irrawaddy River in present day Myanmar (see Figure 1 in the Supplementary Material). Today three widely separated breeding subpopulations are left in India (Chambal River, Girwa River and Son River) and one in Nepal (Rapti/Narayani River) (see Figure 2 in the Supplementary Material).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:India (Bihar, Uttar Pradesh); Nepal
Possibly extinct:Bangladesh; Bhutan; Pakistan
Regionally extinct:Myanmar
|Additional data:
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|See Justification (above).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Indian Gharial nest in seasonally exposed sandbanks along slow moving sections of large to medium sized rivers. Gharials congregate for mating and nesting during the dry season in these highly seasonal rivers. When concentrated in these areas they are highly vulnerable to impacts from fishing and malicious killing. The nests are also vulnerable as they traditionally are laid in the same beaches year after year and in some habitats (Girwa River in India and Rapti/Narayani River in Nepal) the eggs are relished by tribal people.
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
Alteration of habitat: throughout all of the present range of the Gharial their rivers have been dammed; diverted for irrigation and other purposes leading to seasonal drying of once perennial rivers (unlike many other crocodilians gharial cannot walk overland to find water nor can they tunnel to escape the summer drought; sand mined for construction on a huge scale; and looming ahead is a mega-project to interlink all of India's major rivers which will be a catastrophe for all river life.
Fishing: intensity of fishing is increasing and use of gill nets is rapidly killing many of the scarce adults as well as many subadults. This danger is prevalent throughout most of the present gharial habitat, even the protected areas.
Agriculture and grazing: riparian people are some of the poorest in India and depend almost entirely on local resources and their own agriculture to survive. During the dry months when the river is down, planting gourd crops and herding livestock for drinking and grazing on the sand banks and river edges has become prevalent all along the Chambal River in particular. These are the very sand banks used by gharial for nesting and basking and these anthropogenic activities take place in the breeding season.
Utilization: Use of the ghara (narial excrescence in adult male Gharial), penis and fat for medicines has been traditional and is still reported from Nepal and occasionally in India. Considering the fact that there may be below 20 adult males left in the wild, continued use is a major threat.
Gharial eggs are sought by tribal people to eat and in the Girwa River (the Katerniaghat Sanctuary) it was reported that almost all the nests had been raided by humans during the nesting seasons of 2001 to 2005. The reported high hatchling rates in 2006 are attributed to the enforcement efforts carried out this year by the Wildlife Warden and his staff.
|Conservation Actions:
Conservation programs for Indian Gharial have been undertaken in India and Nepal, based on the establishment of protected areas and restocking these with animals born in captivity.
From one perspective it could be argued that over 5,000 juvenile Gharial were released into largely inhospitable habitats in Indian and Nepali rivers and left to their fate. In Chitawan National Park, Nepal, where about 300 gharials were released, there were 16 nests in 1977 and in 2006 there were six. So reintroduction didn't work so well there (though it is argued that at least total extinction has been averted by supplementation), thanks largely to growing and uncontrolled anthropogenic pressures, including depletion of the fish resources. Gharial are generally grown for two to three years and average about one meter TL when released. While the programme calls for monitoring, it has not been consistently carried out and little research on adaptation, migration and other key aspects have been conducted.
In the Girwa River (Katerniaghat Sanctuary), where 909 Gharial were released (including 112 in 2006), there were four nests recorded in 1977 and 20 in 2006, so 16 nesting females (2% of the total pre-2006 releases) resulted from 30 years of reintroductions. This is seemingly not a great achievement for the money and effort spent, and as several knowledgeable researchers have suggested, perhaps carrying capacity has been reached there.
In the third, and most important remaining Gharial breeding habitat, the Chambal River (the tri-state, National Chambal Sanctuary) where 3,552 Gharial were released (Whitaker and Andrews 2003) (plus 224 in 2006), there were 12 nests recorded in 1978 and 68 in 2006. While nesting has increased by over 500%, these recruited mature, reproducing females are only about 2% of the total number released. As has been pointed out many times, the linear, riverine habitat of the Gharial is an extreme disadvantage with annual monsoonal flooding when the newly hatched young are especially prone to being flushed downstream out of the protected areas.
With recruitment or retention of reintroduced Gharial (plus natural recruitment) over the last 30 years being as low as 0.02% (Mahanadi River, Orissa) and averaging 3% to 10% elsewhere, the entire reintroduction strategy needs to reassessed. Scarce conservation funds and human resources need to be also focused on other rigorous actions such as habitat assessment, fisheries enhancement and conflict mitigation, educating river people concerning conservation efforts in order to improve the survival odds of the Gharial. It should be noted that the four places where Gharial are still breeding today all had residual populations when the restocking programmes began. Nowhere has restocking re-established a viable Gharial population.
The Gharial is listed on CITES Appendix I and on CMS Appendix I.
|Choudhury, B.C., Singh, L.A.K., Rao, R.J., Basu, D., Sharma, R.K., Hussain, S.A., Andrews, H.V., Whitaker, N., Whitaker, R., Lenin, J., Maskey, T., Cadi, A., Rashid, S.M.A., Choudhury, A.A., Dahal, B., Win Ko Ko, U., Thorbjarnarson, J & Ross, J.P. 2007. Gavialis gangeticus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T8966A12939997. . Downloaded on 25 September 2018.
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