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Carcharias taurus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
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|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Rafinesque, C.S. 1810. Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Sanfilippo, Palermo.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A2ab+3d ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
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|Pollard, D. & Smith, A.
|Musick, J.A. & Fowler, S.L. (Shark Red List Authority)
This assessment is based on the the information published in the 2005 shark status survey (Fowler et al. 2005).
The Grey Nurse Shark (Carcharias taurus) is a large, coastal shark with a disjunct distribution, occurring in most subtropical and warm temperate oceans, except for the Eastern Pacific. It has a strongly K-selected life history and produces only two large pups per litter. As a result, annual rates of population increase are very low, greatly reducing its ability to sustain fishing pressure. Populations in several locations have been severely depleted by commercial fishing, spearfishing and protective beach meshing, requiring the introduction of specific management measures.
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|Range Description:
|Historically, the Grey Nurse Shark is regarded as having a broad inshore distribution, primarily in subtropical to warm temperate waters around the main continental landmasses, except in the eastern Pacific off North and South America (Compagno 1984a). In the Western Atlantic, this shark occurs from the Gulf of Maine to Florida (USA), in the northern Gulf of Mexico, around the Bahamas and at Bermuda, and also from southern Brazil to northern Argentina. In the eastern Atlantic it is found from the Mediterranean to the Canary Islands, at the Cape Verde Islands, along the coasts of Senegal and Ghana, and from southern Nigeria to Cameroon. In the western Indian Ocean it ranges from South Africa to southern Mozambique, but does not occur around Madagascar. This species has also been reported from the Red Sea and may occur as far east as India (where it appears to have been referred to as C. tricuspidatus; see Compagno 1984a). In the western Pacific, it has been reported from Japan and Australia, but not New Zealand (Last and Stevens 1994).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Albania; Algeria; Argentina; Australia (New South Wales, Queensland); Bahamas; Bermuda; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Brazil; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Croatia; Egypt; Eritrea; France; Gambia; Ghana; Greece; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; India; Italy; Japan; Lebanon; Liberia; Libya; Mexico; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Nigeria; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Sierra Leone; South Africa; Spain; Sudan; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; Turkey; United States (Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia); Uruguay; Yemen
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – northwest; Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific – western central; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – northwest
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|The maximum size of this species has been given variously as ~3.2 m by Compagno (1984a), ~2.75 m and ~142 kg by Hutchins and Swainston (1986) and ~3.2 m and ~300 kg by Hutchins and Thompson (1983). Catch records from beach meshing in NSW, however, suggest that these sharks may grow to 4.3 m, though this maximum length is doubtful and may be due to a misidentification (Reid and Krough 1992).
Branstetter and Musick (1994) described the age and growth of C. taurus in the western North Atlantic based on banding patterns on vertebral centra and stated the maximum age to be 30-35 years. The largest (oldest) male examined (248 cm TL) from the south-eastern USA was 7.5 years old, and the largest (oldest) female examined (272 cm TL) was 10.5 years old. The hypothesis of double annual ring formation is currently being re-examined. If only one ring is deposited each year, the ages cited above would be approximately doubled (J. Musick pers. comm.). The oldest individuals recorded in aquaria were 13 years in Australia (Roughley 1955) and 16 years in South Africa (Govender et al. 1991).
The Grey Nurse Shark occurs either alone or in small to medium-sized aggregations of 20-80 individuals (Silvester 1977, Aitken 1991, Cliff unpubl.). These sharks are often observed hovering motionless just above the seabed in or near deep sandy-bottomed gutters or rocky caves, usually in the vicinity of inshore rocky reefs and islands. They are generally coastal, usually being found from the surf zone down to depths of around 25 m. However, they may also occasionally be found in shallow bays, around coral reefs and, very rarely, to depths of around 200 m on the continental shelf. They usually live near the bottom, but may also move throughout the water column (Compagno 1984a).
Males and females both mature at approximately 2 m in length off the south-eastern USA (Gilmore et al. 1983). They are ovoviviparous and usually only two pups are born per litter once every two years. This is because the remaining eggs and developing embryos are eaten by the largest and/or most advanced embryo in each horn of the uterus (a phenomenon known as adelphophagy or uterine cannibalism). The gestation period may last from 9-12 months and size at birth is relatively large, at about 1 m (Gilmore et al. 1983, Gilmore 1993).
Grey Nurse Shark populations off South Africa and the east coast of the USA are known to undertake complex size and sex segregated migrations. These have been documented by Bass et al. (1975c), Gilmore (1993) and Musick et al. (1993). In other parts of its range and particularly in south-eastern Australia, this species appears to undertake similar migrations.
The species feeds on a wide range of teleost fishes, as well as smaller sharks (Carcharhinidae and Triakidae), rays (Myliobatidae), squids, crabs and lobsters (Compagno 1984, Gelsleichter et al. 1999). Scott et al. (1974) reported that Grey Nurse Sharks in south-eastern Australia fed on shoals of Australian salmon (Arripidae) and other pelagic fish species.
|Major Threat(s):
Grey Nurse Sharks have been fished throughout their range in the past, but are of variable economic importance regionally (Compagno 1984a). The species is highly regarded as a food fish in Japan, but not in the western Atlantic. It is caught primarily with line fishing gear, but is also taken in bottom-set gillnets and trawls. The meat is utilised fresh, frozen, smoked, and dried and salted, for human consumption. This species has also been used for fishmeal, its liver for oil, and its fins for making soup via the oriental sharkfin trade (Compagno 1984a).
This species has been taken along the Atlantic coast of the United States in a commercial shark fishery directed towards a wide array of large coastal species, but supported primarily by catches of Carcharhinus plumbeus and C. limbatus. Musick et al. (1993) showed that several species of sharks, including the sand tiger, had declined by as much as 75% during the decade from 1980-1990 because of overfishing. Recently, this fishery has come under management and C. taurus has been accorded full protection (see below).
In the 1850s, this species was fished by hook-and-line in and around Botany Bay, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, during October and November, to provide a source of oil "of excellent quality for burning in lamps" (Grant 1982). In the late 1920s this species was also fished, together with other shark species, at Port Stephens, NSW (Roughley 1955). It was the second most commonly captured shark after the whaler sharks (Carcharhinidae) in this area. According to Roughley (1955), Grey Nurse Sharks produced the best quality shark leather but their fins were not as desirable as those from some of the other sharks commonly caught in this fishery. Commercial fishing for C. taurus reputedly continued on and off in NSW using various methods up until the Second World War.
Pepperell (1992) summarised catch records of gamefishermen in south-eastern Australia and found that C. taurus constituted 11% (161 sharks) of the total recorded shark catch (1,461) during the 1960s and 7% (244 sharks) in the 1970s (total catch 3,466 sharks). The weights of C. taurus specimens caught by game fishermen ranged from less than 10 to around 190 kg (Pepperell 1992). Capture of this species was banned voluntarily by game fishermen throughout Australia in 1979 (Pepperell 1992).
Meshing of beaches was instituted in NSW in the late 1930s to protect bathers from shark attack (Reid and Krough 1992). Since then, shark meshing has also been adopted in Queensland, Australia (Paterson 1986) and in Natal, South Africa (Cliff and Dudley 1992). Carcharias taurus comprised 3.8% (n = 369) of the total NSW (i.e. Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong area) beach meshing catch of sharks from 1950-1990 (Reid and Krough 1992). The number of C. taurus taken in these mesh nets in NSW over this 40-year period is thus slightly less than that taken by game fishermen during the 1960s and 1970s. Overall, there have been large declines over time in the meshing catch and catch per unit effort for the species. During the early 1950s, 24-36 C. taurus were meshed per year, but since the late 1970s only 0-3 were caught each year (Pollard et al. 1996). Prior to this 40-year period, Coppleson (1958) reported 58 Grey Nurse Sharks being caught in these beach meshing nets between October and December 1937.
Cliff and Dudley (1992) reported an average annual catch of 246 spotted ragged tooth sharks in the Natal (South Africa) beach meshing programme for the period 1978-1990, with 38% of the catch being found alive in the nets. Whenever possible these live sharks were released, many with tags. Between 1966-1972 there was a significant decline in the catch rate of this species, followed by a significant increase between 1972-1990 (Dudley and Cliff 1993a). Maximum and minimum catches were 20 (1966) and two (1981) sharks per km of net per year (Dudley and Cliff 1993a).
Interactions between skindivers and C. taurus in Australia are nowadays rare. There are reports of Grey Nurse Sharks stealing speared fish from skindivers, but this is not common. During the 1950s and 1960s, however, skin and SCUBA divers armed with barbless or barbed spears, hypodermic spears containing strychnine nitrate, and especially explosive powerheads, killed many C. taurus off the NSW coast (Cropp 1964). Divers also took them alive, often with lassos, to sell to aquariums (Cropp 1964). Carcharias taurus are still taken, under permit, for aquariums (Smith 1992), but with the assigning of their protected status (see later) and an increased awareness of the need for their conservation, there are now no reports of divers killing these sharks deliberately.
Because of its large size and fearsome appearance, and because it occurs in relatively shallow water where it often hovers almost motionless near the sea floor, C. taurus can be readily approached and is now a very popular attraction with SCUBA divers. Dive guides tend to highlight locations where these sharks regularly occur (e.g., Byron 1985), and divers can observe C. taurus at the same locations on many occasions, suggesting a high degree of site-attachment by these sharks. On the other hand, concern has been expressed (most recently in South Africa) that disturbance by divers may be detrimental to natural behaviour patterns and could even result in the exclusion of some sharks from critical habitat and/or important refuge areas (Andrew Cobb in litt.).
|Conservation Actions:
|Carcharias taurus was protected in NSW in 1984 because of serious declines in the population due to commercial and recreational fishing, spearfishing and beach meshing. In early 1997, the Queensland State Government also declared C. taurus a totally protected species in that State's waters, and the Australian Commonwealth Government followed suit with protection of C. taurus as a Vulnerable species in all Commonwealth waters and throughout Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) (i.e., out to two hundred nautical miles offshore). Also in 1997, C. taurus received full protection on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the USA, under the Atlantic Fishery Management Plan. The main current threat to this species in south-eastern Australia is probably the accidental (bycatch) capture of juveniles by recreational line fishers.
|Pollard, D. & Smith, A. 2009. Carcharias taurus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T3854A10132481. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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9/11 truthers "are crazy"
RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
(10-09-2011 06:26 PM)BnW Wrote: Please find a link where Bush said that. Let me know when you find it.
Here you go my friend
I feel so much, and yet I feel nothing.
I am a rock, I am the sky, the birds and the trees and everything beyond.
I am the wind, in the fields in which I roar. I am the water, in which I drown.
RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
Thanks. I remember the comment about the pilot now that I saw it again. Ok, so Bumbles made a bumble. That wasn't the first or last comment he made that was not quite accurate.
As for an explanation, the first Tower was on TV minutes after the first attack and the speculation at the time was a small airplane hit it. But, within maybe 10 minutes - at the maximum - of the first plane hitting there was non-stop video coverage of what was going on. My guess he was watching the coverage of the first Tower fire while he was waiting to go into the classroom and 3 months later confused made the comment you see in that video. Tell me what else you think it means? Tell me what else you think it proves? Are we now supposed to believe that he had some secret camera set up and he was watching his evil plot unfold while in the hallways of a Florida public school, hoping no one else would notice it, and he just slipped up 3 months later? Because, if you're not arguing that then there is no other conclusion than it was just a mistake. Even if you believe that 9/11 was an inside job or whatever wackiness you are implying here, there is no way that Bush saw the attack on TV unless you are accusing him of having some kind of camera set up and he was watching it in the hallway of a public school - in full view of a lot of people who have never said anything about it.
So, which is it? Mistake or secret camera and closed circuit TV in the hallway of a Florida public school? It is either one or the other.
I know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine.
RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
(11-09-2011 08:13 AM)BnW Wrote: Thanks. I remember the comment about the pilot now that I saw it again. Ok, so Bumbles made a bumble. That wasn't the first or last comment he made that was not quite accurate.
Logically he could of made a mistake.....got carried away in his speech or something.......I dont know the answers my friend, I only weigh up all of the possibilities.
Whats Ironic is none of us will probably ever know the "truth" of what went down that sombre day......It is one of my beliefs, through experience, is that most people who are into conspiracy are so for the "entertainment" value of it (Dastardly plots, twists and turns, videos/evidence edited in dramatic ways to bring some sort of shock factor/reaction.......in a continueing series full of cliffhangers and possibilities)
The conspiracy community is full of "keyboard warriors" who only half believe in the storys themselves (I say this because there is hardly any counter action, I have tried to discuss with different communitys on the net about spreading information and nobody is interested) I myself have took a step back from these places as although they do hold interesting information......it is very one sided and not willing to reason with logic.....they use belief and faith most of the time to argue there point......even in the face of logic (just like our old friend religion)
I do think that without logic the conspiracy community can look stupid and "crazy"........ however for me personally.......it would be more crazy to come to a decision either way given all of the information that raises questions either way.
Theres just a lot of things that just dont make sense.
I feel so much, and yet I feel nothing.
I am a rock, I am the sky, the birds and the trees and everything beyond.
I am the wind, in the fields in which I roar. I am the water, in which I drown.
RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
(11-09-2011 10:12 AM)Zatamon Wrote: Let me add my 2-cents worth.
You raise a good point Zatamon about looking back in history......although this is no proof of what is happening today, it is a stark reminder and a lesson/insight of human nature and the lengths people can go to.
I envisage its not easy at the top.....that for the continuing survival and security of a nation then particular decisions have to be made that wont be easy and wont please everybody.......however the fact remains, as proven through history that a trend remains where people exploit there positions of power......again I dont attribute this as any proof of todays conspiracy, however it can logically chip away at the thinking of it being "impossible" and never happening before.
I feel so much, and yet I feel nothing.
I am a rock, I am the sky, the birds and the trees and everything beyond.
I am the wind, in the fields in which I roar. I am the water, in which I drown.
RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
(11-09-2011 11:03 AM)bemore Wrote: I envisage its not easy at the top.....that for the continuing survival and security of a nation then particular decisions have to be made that wont be easy and wont please everybody
Like Winston Churchill Let Coventry Burn To Protect His Secret Intelligence during WW2?
RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
Don't know if anyone posted this yet but thought it was pretty good and funny.
I suppose I have my own skepticism about a lot of things. Not so much that the WTC was an "inside job" or that it was at the very least, an opportunity taken... hmm. I think that I'm apt to defend the questioning of "authority" more often these days, mainly because it's been proven our population has been lied to so freely in the recent past.
A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels. ~ Albert Einstein
RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
Sorry I have not responded in a while. I've been overwhelmed at work and really have not had time and am finally catching up. Anyway, I wanted to react to a few things here.
First, the idea that there is precedent for conspiracy theories and that gives credence to the 9/11 theories. This is completely baseless and the examples being used really do not make the point at all.
The Poland example fails because that was not a conspiracy by a government against its own people. It really wasn't even a conspiracy. It was a plan to start a war that Hitler was determined to start. I can't say for sure what game he was playing with how he went about it but I strongly suspect he was trying to make it look like Poland started the war and Germany was acting in self defense, probably so he could give the British an excuse not to declare war on Germany. Hitler believed that England did not really want war with Germany and was wiling to look the other way if only he could provide them an out. He also believed they would sue for peace very early in the campaign. He greatly underestimated Churchill's resolve.
The Coventry example also fails because it was not a conspiracy, it was a decision. The British were fighting for the survival of their nation, not the lives of a few people. In the summer and fall of 1940, during the Battle of Britain, Churchill and Fighter Command were making decisions every day that resulted in the life and death of hundreds and often thousands of people. They sent fighter squadrons made up of just a hand full of pilots and planes up against vastly superior numbers with the strategy of slowing down and punishing the Germans, but avoided getting into an all out battle because if they lost that battle Churchill and the RAF new the nation was done for. Making a decision to let the Germans bomb a civilian area to protect the fact that the British had broken some of the German codes is not a conspiracy, it is a reasonable war-time decision given the circumstances at the time.
This has gone into dizzying, and increasingly foolish - in my humble opinion - digressions. So, here is the point: being cynical and distrustful of government is one thing, and is a healthy thing. There is no doubt in my mind that governments, on a daily basis, do things that, at best, boarder on the criminal and for which they will never be held accountable. A casual perusal of some of the wikilinks revelations pretty much proves that. However, there is a difference between healthy skepticism and rampant paranoia and the 9/11 conspiracy theories are well on the side of rampant paranoia. There is no evidence to back up any of these claims. No witness has ever come forward to corroborate any of the theories that are thrown out there. There are also scientific explanations for all the events of that day and hundreds of thousands, if not over a million, witnesses, to the attacks themselves. And, finally, so much of these conspiracy theories are built upon lies, half-truths and distortions of information that no reasonable person should believe them. The nonsense about the truck bomb found on the bridge, the re-upping of the insurance, that the media reported the collapse of WTC7 before it happened (no one brought that up here) - none of these stories are true. None of them. When the best and most shocking examples to support the conspiracy theory are easily discredited by a cursory review of the facts, you have to seriously start to think that maybe, just maybe, this is exactly what it seemed to be; an act of extreme violence by religious fanatics.
This does not mean that the US government did not have failings leading up to and after the events of 9/11 that have never been properly disclosed to the American people. It does not justify everything that happened afterwards. You can admit that 9/11 was a terrorist attack and still disagree (or agree if you so choose) with the actions and policies that were put in place following the attacks. Your not some traitor to a cause by admitting that all the actual facts and evidence support the official version of events, though. But, if you wish to believe otherwise, you are certainly free to do that too. However, I would point out a famous quote by the late New York Senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, which states as follows: "everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
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RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
(10-09-2011 06:26 PM)BnW Wrote: Please find a link where Bush said that. Let me know when you find it.Even if bush said it that was when he first saw it. It would be consistent with what we have seen.
The first thing he was "The country is under attack". Many expect that he should have immediately got up and made good byes. But he didn't. How can this be explained?
RE: 9/11 truthers "are crazy"
I guess this is all fake and part of the 9/11 conspiracy
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Forget New York. Samantha should move to the sticks.
Sex and the City, which, as it's hard not to know by now, comes to the big screen this weekend, rarely ventured beyond the island of Manhattan in its six years on television. When the women did find themselves elsewhere, they weren't usually happy about it. This was especially the case in Season 4, when Carrie's boyfriend, Aidan, hamstrings her into a trek to his rustic cabin upstate. Carrie, in turn, pressures Samantha into tagging along, and urban-misfit misadventures ensue—until Samantha spots a hunky, half-naked farmer and seduces him out of his overalls. And thus the show discovers what researchers have been documenting over the last decade or more: It's the country, rather than the city, where more of the sex is.
Several studies have shown that rural teens are more likely to have sex than their urban counterparts, that they lose their virginity earlier, and that they have more sexual partners. This and other research also reveals that country dwellers, both teens and adults, are less likely to use condoms during their rolls in the hay (sorry, couldn't resist). A survey of college students in Indiana, for instance, revealed that students who had grown up in the country were more likely than city natives to skip the love glove when they rendezvous. (The paper doesn't define its terms, but presumably most of the students were from rural or urban Indiana.)
Many factors could contribute to this discrepancy, including rural poverty, limited education, and higher marriage rates for young people in the country. But the city-country gap can't be entirely explained away by these other variables. One study from 2000 controlled for many of these demographic factors and still found that rural high-school males were more likely to have had sex than their urban peers. A 2002 investigation compared the sexual practices of low-income African-American women living in Missouri cities with those living in the Missouri countryside. The groups were relatively well-matched in age (the average in both groups was 26), income, marital status, and other demographic factors. Still, the rural women were twice as likely to report that they never used condoms. And among women in this group, rural women were less likely to say this was because their partners had actually tested negative for HIV. Instead, the country women tended to believe their partners were HIV-negative, without proof.
So, what remains to explain these differences? Maybe boredom. Rural teens may not have the same cornucopia of activities to occupy their free time that their urban counterparts do, experts say. So, researchers suspect that while city teens pack their schedules, their country brethren strip down to their farmers' tans. There's no hard evidence that rural youth are pairing off because of wide-open afternoons, but that's the rationale that researchers tend to mention.
In addition, rural residents seem to believe that their communities are shielded from sexual scourges, maybe because they're geographically isolated. Adolescents have told researchers, for example, that sexually transmitted disease isn't a problem that affects small towns. It doesn't help that many provincial schools offer abstinence-only education, which studies have shown just doesn't work and neither prevents nor delays teens from having sex. Abstinence-only ed may spare students the embarrassment of listening to their gym teachers explain how to put a condom on—but it also means they don't learn how to put a condom on.
All this coupling sans condoms has consequences—teen pregnancy, for one, which is more common among rural girls. (Birth rates, a different category, are also high in the country, where girls are less likely to get abortions.) A high rate of sexually transmitted diseases might also seem inevitable, though the data here are a bit less definitive. National comparisons of STD rates in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas are hard to come by. Some researchers, however, have done the analysis at a local level, finding, for instance, that syphilis is more common in rural North Carolina than in urban parts of the state. The same holds true of chlamydia in Georgia.
Cities still have the highest prevalence of HIV—they are home to large populations of gay men and intravenous drug users, the communities in which the epidemic first emerged. However, even these numbers are complicated by the fact that many people who live in the countryside get tested, and potentially treated, for HIV in cities. Since the early 1990s, epidemiologists have been documenting the diffusion of HIV from the cities to the countryside, and HIV infection rates grew far faster in the 1990s in small communities than large ones. Despite this trend, studies conducted at the time found that rural adults were far less likely to report that they'd changed their sexual habits as a result of the AIDS epidemic.
If you do contract an STD in the country, you're generally worse off. Because the itchy and afflicted who live in the sticks struggle to get medical care, are forced to travel farther for treatment, and make do with fewer doctors, especially specialists. Country-dwellers with HIV report more discrimination and more fear of being outed as HIV-positive than their urban counterparts. There's even "patient spotting," in which people who live within sight of STD clinics take photos of and gossip about people who go in. Rural patients also have more reason to fear that among the medical staff treating them might be someone they know socially. And whether for these reasons or others that researchers haven't yet identified, their health can suffer in significant ways: One study revealed that though Atlanta had twice the prevalence of AIDS as less populous regions of Georgia, AIDS patients in the city lived significantly longer.
Maybe Carrie had some unconscious sense of the perils of rural sex when she decided that Aidan's rough-hewn cabin wasn't the place for her. When she returns to the streets of New York, she tries to make a tentative statement of solidarity with her rural sisters, proclaiming, "City girls are just country girls—with cuter outfits." As far as epiphanies go, it's a little pat and not entirely true. Unless, of course, Carrie is talking about condom chic.


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Know the facts about hurricane home protection products before you buy
VENICE, Fla, July 20, 2009 – Is it worth taking a risk when your family's safety is on the line? Recently, media outlets have been reporting a noticeable increase of dealers selling unproven or unsafe hurricane protection products to unknowing consumers in Florida. Although many of these products can be installed as do-it-yourself projects, and allow consumers to avoid the hassles of permits, the potential risk of damage during a hurricane remains high because these products have not been proven to be safe.
Leslie Chapman-Henderson, CEO of the non-profit group Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, or FLASH, told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune: "We are incredibly concerned about some of the things we are seeing in the marketplace and the confusion it is causing. The only thing worse than no hurricane protection is the wrong hurricane protection."
As part of its effort to educate consumers about hurricane home protection, PGT Industries, the impact resistant window and door pioneer, has made it easy for consumers to find tips and resources for hurricane protection options, building codes and more on its website pgtindustries.com. Additionally, PGT has created a "Product Approvals & Certification" section on the site where consumers can easily locate Product Approval numbers and approval information about each of the impact-resistant products the company offers.
Consumers should be aware that to meet code, a hurricane protection product has to pass lab tests and be certified by the State of Florida or Miami-Dade County. These products must be able to withstand a blow from a nine-pound 2-by-4 traveling at 35 miles per hour, then prove to withstand tests replicating the pressure and suction of hurricane-force winds and stay securely attached within the opening. The state sets these standards in order to protect consumers from loss of life and the destruction of property.
Unfortunately, the state doesn't prevent businesses from marketing untested or phony hurricane protection products. "It really is 'let the buyer beware,'" said Terence McElroy, spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. These untested products might be less costly but have not been proven to provide the type of protection homes in high-risk storm areas need.
The International Hurricane Protection Association (IHPA) is launching a new consumer awareness campaign called "Get The Number" in order to help direct customers to trustworthy companies. The IHPA suggests that homeowners looking to purchase a hurricane protection product for their home should insist upon a product approval number from companies that sell hurricane protection products. Products with an approval number have already met all of the required standards for a hurricane protection system. For more information, visit inthpa.com.
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By Matt Bastone, Kiva Fellow
E. 1st St. Bridge, Los Angeles
Kiva Zip is an innovative pilot program created by Kiva that uses mobile and electronic payment technology to enable direct, 0% interest loans to financially excluded and socially impactful entrepreneurs. The loans are crowd-funded on Kiva Zip's website, where anyone with an internet connection can lend as little as $25 to a borrower of his or her choice.
One of the principal aims of the program is to expand access to capital. Everyday, thousands of small business loan applications are denied by lending institutions. In contrast to traditional banks, Kiva Zip loans are made based on character and trust, rather than credit score or collateral.
In the U.S. there are millions of community-based organizations like economic development centers, technical assistance providers, non-profits, startup incubators, veteran groups, churches, local businesses, etc. who have pre-existing relationships with entrepreneurs in need of loan capital. The Kiva Zip model aims to leverage those relationships by enabling organizations to become Kiva Zip Trustees. As a Trustee, organizations are empowered to help entrepreneurs access Kiva Zip loans by publicly vouching for their character and business concept.
In September I became the first Kiva Zip Fellow to be placed in Los Angeles, with the primary purpose of growing the program's reach through finding new Trustees. In the past few months, I've met with over 50 organizations and have spoken with hundreds of inspirational people who all share a common goal - to better people's lives and improve local communities.
Through my experience, I've become privy to the fact that LA is home to a significant number of incredible, socially impactful organizations. I'm confident that Kiva Zip has the ability to make a catalytic difference in the region and seamlessly complement the great work many people are already doing.
Here is a glimpse into some of the relationships we are currently forming in Los Angeles!
One of the primary goals of the LA Food Policy Council (LAFPC) is to expand access to healthy food in low-income, underserved neighborhoods where healthy food options are scarce. The Community Market Conversion program is a project of theirs that helps neighborhood market owners access the resources they need to become successful healthy food retailers in their community.
Kiva Zip loans will assist owners transform their stores into healthy food markets by enabling them to pay for things like new refrigeration systems, internal re-modeling work, inventory, updated signage for branding, and much more.
The Gumball Foundation engages middle and high school students in an extracurricular program that teaches entrepreneurship and social business. Through the program, students run their own small-scale vending machine business, which gives them valuable hands-on experience, incentivizes them to attend college, and awards them with scholarships. Founder Ezequiel Olvera paid for a significant amount of his college tuition through savings from his personal gumball machine business as a kid, and aims to help others do the same through his social venture.
Ezequiel has strong ties to and deeply cares about his community. He is becoming a Trustee to help local small businesses access Kiva Zip loans, some of which were home to his original gumball machines!
The nine Los Angeles BusinessSource Centers provide startup ventures and current small business owners various cost effective tools to make their business a success. They offer many services, including one-on-one consulting, assistance with business plan development, technical assistance with small business financing, educational business courses, and more - most of which are at zero or minimal cost.
The centers will use Kiva Zip as an additional loan product offering to help increase access to capital for entrepreneurs with whom they work.
RISE is a non-profit Community Development Financial Institution that provides comprehensive and innovative ways to build wealth for historically underserved residents and small business owners in neighborhoods primarily ranging from South LA to East LA.
As a Kiva Zip Trustee, they intend to expand access to capital to aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners that aim to make a social impact and bring economic vitality to their neighborhood.
The 626 Night Market is the largest Asian night market in the U.S., featuring over 150 local restaurants, food vendors, entrepreneurs, merchandise vendors, artists, musicians, and non-profit groups. Night markets are a staple in Asian societies, and the 626 Night Market has successfully brought the energy and spirit of these markets to Southern California.
The 626 organizers view the market as a venue for entrepreneurs to test and develop new ideas. They intend to help participating vendors access Kiva Zip loans if they've demonstrated a commitment to quality products and customer service.
USC & Homeboy Industries
Chino is a Kiva Zip borrower in Los Angeles who recently received a $2,500 loan to start a hot dog vending business. Chino had a rough start in life and was in and out of prison at a young age. He has been at Homeboy Industries for three years, an organization that provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women. Chino credits Homeboy Industries with giving him a second chance in life and shaping him into the person he is today.
The USC Microfinance and Business Brigade is a student club that is currently assisting Chino with strategy and advice as he looks to grow his new business. As a Kiva Zip Trustee, they'll be able to help future entrepreneurs with whom they work from Homeboy Industries access loan capital for their businesses.
The City of LA
San Francisco and Oakland recently became the first cities to officially sign-on as Kiva Zip Trustees. We are currently in talks with the City of Los Angeles to follow suit and look forward to the positive impact it would have on the economic development landscape of Southern California.
Beyond positive social impact, Kiva Zip is all about cultivating community, and the best part is - everyone has the ability to get involved!
Want to support an entrepreneur by making a $25 loan? Click HERE to view all Kiva Zip loans currently fundraising.
Interested in becoming a Kiva Zip Trustee? Click HERE to learn more.
Interested in becoming a Kiva Zip Borrower? Click HERE to learn more.
Author Bio: Matt is extremely excited to join the Kiva family. He is fascinated by the sustainable manner in which microfinance is used to alleviate poverty and how Kiva has used technology as a conduit for reaching people across the world. Matt is in pursuit of a career in microfinance and believes it suits him well given his professional background, Christian faith, and passion for leveraging innovation to help others. Matt was born and raised in Southern California and graduated summa cum laude with a business degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is a CPA and began the first three years of his career with Deloitte serving clients in a wide variety of industries and gaining valuable experience in technical accounting, internal control theory, and project management. Since his time at Deloitte, Matt has gained finance experience through roles involving budgeting, forecasting, modeling, strategic planning, and process improvement implementation. Matt loves to travel and has most notably backpacked through Europe and spent an extended period of time in South America learning Spanish. He enjoys being active and particularly loves playing soccer, golfing, surfing, and snowboarding. Matt is humbled by the opportunity to take an active role in furthering Kiva's impact.


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A tool for checking properties of term rewrite systems, particularly call-by-need properties. It also comes with a CLIM-based GUI.
Implementation of the game of Reversi. A text-mode interface that should work on any implementation and a CLIM GUI are available. The code is based on that of the program Otello(R) in the book "Paradi...
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An implementation of a simple CLIM dialog box for interactively selecting a text style, i.e. a combination of font family, face and size. It demonstrates a way of creating modal dialogs that return va...
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Game inspired to "same game" for GNOME. It has a CLIM GUI.
Web browser that supports HTML 4 and CSS 1, and some CSS 2 functionality. It is able to display PNM, GIF, and PNG images in pages. It has a GUI based on McCLIM with the CLX backend.
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Program that plays the Connect 4 game against the user. It has a CLIM GUI.
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A Dired-style file manager with a [Mc]CLIM-based GUI.
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CAD for analog and mixed-signal circuits. The program ``has fairly complete schematic editing functionality (think of a "draw" program with wires), but no support as of yet for netlisting or EDIF I/O'...
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Simple doodle/paint program. It is an example of a custom CLIM pane that reacts to mouse pointer events.
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Simple editor for token Petri nets. It has a CLIM GUI and demonstrates basic CLIM and CLOS programming techniques. This is the sample code described in the "CLIM - Der Common LISP Interface Manager" s...
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Portable implementation of the Emacs-like Hemlock editor that comes with CMUCL. It is based on the Hemlock code and has a McCLIM GUI.
CLIM front-end for the RT regression testing framework.
A test platform for document restoration research. It features a CLIM GUI and interactive interface modules.
CLIM frontend to the SBCL sb-sprof statistical profiler.
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Simulation program for KYTRONs in a lunar-like environment. It has a CLIM GUI, and is a CLIM primer and a tutorial on how to write portable applications with a GUI. KYTRONs are small autonomous vehicl...
Collection of applications and utilities: a digital photo collection manager with a CLIM GUI, an offline Wikipedia client and a simple, experimental CLX digital clock.
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Tab layout pane component for CLIM.
Editor for a text-based language for lute tablature. It is implemented as an extension of the Climacs text editor.
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Implementation of the Tic-Tac-Toe game with a CLIM GUI.
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Implementation of the 2D tilt mazes game with a CLIM GUI.
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Planner developed at the University of Washington that operates "with actions that have conditional effects and universally quantified preconditions and effects. It accepts universally quantified goal...
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A WAV sound sample editor with a library for manipulating WAV files and a (Mc)CLIM GUI. The GUI is based on a Lisp listener and provides editing tools for samples, spectra and songs.
Library for controlling a last.fm stream web service, with a graphical CLIM GUI.
CLIM-based GUI for the org-davep-dict RFC 2229 dictionary client library.


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The increasing pressure on the design and optimization of electric machines in all applications is driving improvements in simulation techniques.
The coupled effects of heat generation due to the losses of the machine and temperature control methods within it are demanding new ways of simulating these phenomena.
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Waikanae 4, 2003
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This work was in Mortensen's exhibition "The Nature of Landscape and Independent Perception" at Track 16 Gallery.
Viggo Mortensen's series of work is about the essence and intensities of landscape. They are - and its a prickly term in our present climate - beautiful images. We appear to be looking at cosmologies, at photographs of globs of oil paint, or at images taken under a color microscope. They beguile, delay and seduce. Mortensen gives us a flurry of sensations, literally flashes, and also the concentrated "truth" of whatever happens to be there. These are abstract emotions that give very few clues to their source, apart from the titles that anchor them in specific landscapes and locations in Iceland and New Zealand. In his work, Mortensen finds what he feels and what is revealed in what he sees. It is the revelation of what is hidden within and also at the same time the surface brilliance of a phenomenon. He gives us images that come directly from the world but that leave us in state of disequilibrium. There is a saturation of color and, if you like, a sense of awe - a mixture of fear and wonder - before our being in the world.


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Two little pumpkins, too many recipes was I tempted by. For a few weeks the pretty little squashes graced my kitchen table while I imagined the occasion for their sacrifice. The carving knife was finally brought out after I saw Helen Graves' pumpkin and chickpea burgers. While pumpkin butchering is a rather laborious experience, the yield is worth the effort: a few cups of flesh stashed away in the freezer, and roasted pumpkin seeds, scrumptious patties and wholesome pumpkin scones were offered up this past weekend. Certainly a cure for the onset of the winter blues.
I don't recall pairing chickpeas with pumpkin before, but after tasting this vegetarian burger, I now know what I was missing. Modified somewhat from Helen's original recipe, I served these with a slice of rye bread coated with caraway seeds, and my classic tomato chutney, which I also changed by adding soaked sun-dried tomatoes.
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Yavapai's Green Building Success
A version of this article appears in the July/August 2007 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
July 01, 2007
Yavapai College's Residential Building Technology (RBT) program has been recognized many times over for its energy-efficient, green, and affordable homes - homes that are constructed by students in the program.
For a small school in north central Arizona, Yavapai College certainly gets big results. The college's Residential Building Technology (RBT) program has been recognized many times over for its energy-efficient, green, custom, and affordable homes—homes that are constructed by students in the program. This year, the program beat out national home builders to win two Gold Energy Value Housing Awards from the National Association of Home Builders Research Center. Now in its 12th year, the Energy Value Housing Award (EVHA) program selects winning homes from various climate zones and housing types. Submissions must identify and verify their specific energy-saving details such as: advanced framing methods, correctly installed insulation, properly sized, located and installed HVAC systems, air sealing of thermal bypasses, high performance spectrally selective windows, and so on. Other energy efficient practices used in this year's 12 winning homes included: higher insulation R-values in floors, walls, and attics; PV systems; more ducts and HVAC equipment located inside the conditioned space; and energy efficient lighting and water-heating systems. Yavapai took home two 2007 Gold EVHAs—one for Moderate Climate/Affordable Home and one for Moderate Climate/Custom Home. Longview House The first of Yavapai College&...
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Biggest travel rip-offs
Travel is a big decision because it can mean big expenditure.
While I'm all for paying an honest price in return for a vacation that makes me hate life a little less, some travel-related charges just don't make sense.
Here are the worst value-for-money travel expenses that need to go away right now.
What do you think is the worst travel rip-off? Let us know in the comments box at the bottom of the page.
Worst vacation hangover: Phone bill shock
The roaming charge for your mobile phone is probably the greatest travel rip-off of all time.
Our hearts go out to the naive and inexperienced travelers who assume that a quick check-in call to mom won't cost too much.
"It's alright, it'll just be a few minutes." Riiiight.
Think again. A 15-minute call from Hong Kong to Taiwan can cost about HK$100 (US$13). Multiply that a few times and we're close to a phone bill that equals the price of a round-trip Hong Kong-Taipei flight.
The Federal Communications Commission says that one in six mobile phone users in the United States suffers from "bill shock" when they see a sudden and unexpected increase in their monthly mobile phone costs.
One of the major causes is unanticipated roaming and data charges.
When we see that huge bill, the message we're getting from phone companies is this: "Don't use our service."
Not only are the charges a rip-off, but they're very behind the times. Don't people know that phone calls aren't even fashionable anymore?
In the age of free Wi-Fi, WhatsApp and Skype, roaming charges need to accept their place -- which is behind MiniDiscs, just next to newspapers.
You're not welcome: Visas
This one is the oldest travel rip-off in the book. Visas became an international thing in World War I when nations were really worried about spies.
From this spirit of state paranoia and protectionism, visas have evolved into a necessary evil we've all come to accept.
Travelers, it's time to wake up and smell the dollar bills.
After a country has determined that I'm not a fugitive, terrorist, potential illegal worker, nor am I carrying lethal contagious diseases, the country should let me in. For free.
I've already paid with my dignity by submitting to a background and medical check just so that I can come and spend money.
Unnecessary visa rules -- such as a US$140 visa processing fee that's non-refundable even if the visa is denied -- have been blamed for the United States' slump in tourism dollars in the past 10 years.
Between 2000 and 2010, its share of the international travel market dropped from 17 to 12 percent.
Other outrageous visa rip-offs include US$223 for single-entry visa to Russia for Americans, US$204 for a single-entry visa to Belarus also for Americans, US$79 for a Polish two-day transit visa that allows you to pass through the airport's international zone.
Don't get me started on Bhutan. While their mandatory US$250 per day minimum spending isn't the official visa fee, it's a condition for visiting the country and an utter rip-off.
Hostage situation: Airport jack-ups
Airports have the potential to be poetic places. It's where people from around the world converge; it's the beginning of epic journeys and the scene of joyful homecomings.
Too bad everyone at the airport is trying to rip you off.
It starts at the institutional level with the airport departure tax.
That's a fee we have to pay just for leaving the airport. The money supposedly goes to the maintenance of an airport that we may never use again.
If you don't pay, you can't leave. It works the same way as kidnapping.
Then there's the "no-liquids" rule.
Forcing us to surrender our water in the name of anti-terrorism hasn't actually lessened the threat of terrorism, but it has instigated a boom in liquid sales on the other end of the x-ray conveyor belt, as detailed by water economist David Zetland.
In 2009, a man was able to take a serrated knife through airport security, but not his water.
Bottles of water, food, even currency exchange services are all sold at a higher price inside an airport. There's no reason for this other than shameless extortion by a monopoly.
Travelers are basically hostages of an airport and if we need to eat, drink or get local currency, we'd better cough up the ransom.
Most disappointing: Hotel services
While an airport can confidently rip us off knowing that we have no other alternative, hotels manage to fleece us by bigging-up their superior service and then letting us down.
Room service has long been a perplexingly expensive and unsatisfying exercise. If the food arrives fast, fresh and cooked to perfection, I can see why it's a great idea to pay for the extra bonus of eating in bed.
But usually the fries are soggy, the burger lukewarm and the tardy staff expects a tip.
I should really get out of bed and go down to the street for a better meal at a fraction of a price. Bad room service is purgatory for the slothful.
Expensive hotel laundry service, which can outprice the purchase price of some street clothes, is another swindle.
Nothing, however, is quite as deflating as the hotel airport limousine service.
The car they send is sterile, the driver won't scam me and I can pay by credit card. It's a door-to-door trip in which I won't interact at all with my new location. Where's the fun in that?
And I get stuck in traffic just like everyone else.
Hotels charge a premium for convenience and quality of service, perfect for travelers who don't want to leave their hotel and actually explore the place that they've traveled to.
Get over it: The top of skyscrapers
It sounds pretty cool to zip up to the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building.
Fork over US$40 so that you can say to yourself, "Gee, I'm on top of the Empire State Building!"
But after the initial adrenaline rush of the view, you realize something is missing from the NYC skyline.
The Empire State Building is what's missing. You can't see it, because you're on it.
Buildings. They're all the same once you're in them and the city views are incomplete without them. Funny thing is, they charge us hard-earned bucks to go up these buildings.
What's the one Parisian icon that gets made into key rings and fridge magnets? The Eiffel Tower. If you take a photo of Paris from high up without the Eiffel Tower in it, you're essentially capturing your big head next to a flat city of tiny non-descript houses that could be anywhere.
But the Eiffel Tower, particularly when it's lit-up at night, is an iconic, even majestic sight to behold. So go somewhere where you can actually see it, free of charge.
Like, somewhere on the street.
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Mercury Deposition to the Arctic over the Last Glacial Cycle
Arctic Research Initiative
2009 Funded Project
Analysis of mercury (Hg) in Antarctic ice in the early 1990's indicated that large increases in Hg deposition occurred in that region during the last glacial maximum relative to the Holocene (Vandal et al., 1993). In an on-going effort to understand the mechanism behind this increase, a WHOI Post-doctoral Scholar, Dr. Paul Drevnick, and I have been exploring reconstruction of trends in Hg deposition across glacial/interglacial transitions using a number of archives. To date, these most notably include non-glaciated lakes (Titicaca and Baikal) as well as marine sediments. Fascinating trends have been revealed which challenge the proposed explanation for Hg cycling in the past, and provide the basis for using Hg as paleoproxy of large-scale geophysical/climate change over millennial timescales.
To further this effort, I propose here to construct a timeline of Hg depositional changes in an Arctic analog to that of the Antarctic. A number of Arctic ice cores of suitable age/length were recovered during the Greenland Ice Sheet Project #2 (GISP2), and these samples are available to outside scientists through collaboration with the National Ice Core Laboratory. Thus, I request support to travel to the Core Repository in Denver, set up a small clean lab space within the frozen archive warehouse and subsample the ice cores for Hg analysis. The techniques for ultratrace metal clean sample processing of ancient glacial ice have been established during the Antarctic work, and my lab here at WHOI is outfitted with the necessary instrumentation to successfully measure Hg at the very low levels I anticipate will be found.
In addition to the long-time scale investigations of Hg cycling, the material stored in the National Ice Core Laboratory offers an opportunity to determine Hg loadings from the atmosphere in the recent past (last few hundred years). This is particularly relevant for the Arctic as the atmosphere is the principal way in which this toxic metal is transported to high latitudes, and unique conditions at polar sunrise can result in large "Mercury Depletion Events" that result in alarmingly high loadings during an ecologically sensitive time of year. Work in Arctic lakes has already indicated that Hg deposition has roughly tripled since the Industrial Revolution and in lock-step with atmospheric increases in CO2, but this trend remains to be confirmed for other Arctic locations.


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Now no time to relax: Socceroos' Vidosic
The Socceroos might be staying at a Brazilian beachside resort but now is no time for relaxation, playmaker Dario Vidosic says.
Having endured 26 hours of travel on three flights to get to the coastal city of Vitoria, their base for the World Cup, the Socceroos cancelled Thursday morning's (Friday AEST) training session, opting for a light afternoon walk on the beach.
Coach Ange Postecoglou will put the 27-man squad through their paces in their first training session at a purpose-built facility in Vitoria on Friday (Saturday AEST).
Vidosic is one of the more-seasoned campaigners in the largely inexperienced group having been part of the 2010 World Cup squad and earning his 22nd cap in the farewell game against South Africa on Monday.
But he says despite how much a player has impressed in the past, now is the most crucial time with Postecoglou to name his final 23-man squad on Monday (Tuesday AEST).
"It's never enough. It's still a long way to go. A lot of things can happen so you need to take care of your body and make sure you don't get any injuries. Then it's about giving everything you can on the training pitch," he said.
"This is not the time to relax."
Having arrived to much fanfare on Wednesday evening (Thursday AEST), as the first foreign team to land in Brazil, the Socceroos were again the centre of attention on Thursday.
They were flanked by armed police as they took their stroll on the beach at the foot of the team hotel as masses of local and foreign media captured their every step.
Vidosic says the intense attention and excitement surrounding the team have made them realise the enormity of what's ahead.
But he insists it won't be a distraction as they prepare to open their campaign against Chile on June 13.
"Yesterday with the police convoy in front of us and all the people on the street stopping, taking photos out of their cars and coming out and dancing and yelling to the bus - I think it just starts to hit you," he said.
"We're obviously not involved with things of the magnitude of a World Cup every week but we understand what we need to go through to get our bodies right and to be mentally and physically fully prepared.
"So come the 13th, we'll be fit and firing."
With clashes against the Netherlands (June 18) and Spain (June 23) to follow, no one is expecting much from the Socceroos.
But Vidosic says the side will be driven to succeed regardless.
"Even if everyone said 'it doesn't matter - just go there and play your 90 and come back; you've done well', it's different inside of you," he said.
"We all have something that pushes us to the limit that makes you want to be the best you can.
"We want to be better than these teams. We want to win - we want to be successful.
"So we'll put everything on the line; we'll give it our very best."
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Thursday 1:32 am
Right now, I'm holding MADISON (my iPad) feeling completely and utterly overit.com, as if life's obstacles aren't problematic enough with so many layers and barriers presented to road block me. Oh the shade!
Today was definitely one of those days when I wish I would have said no.
At my inner city villa, I received a text message -- you know the one we keep telling ourselves not to hope for but do anyway ... the, "I'm wanting to be back in your life after failed attempts to be consistent but wanna make it up to you please baby give me one mo' chance" text.
Mikey Mike (I promise this is the last time you will ever read anything about him) decides he wants to follow his inspiration and contact me after the bullshit he'd already put me through. I knew better than to dwell into the past. In case you didn't watch the video from the previous post, let me give you a quick overview on our connection or rather the lack thereof.
Rewinding back to January ...
Initially, I met him on Jack'd and in person after a few days of texting and phone conversations. I received a message while at my former part time job suggesting to meet up at Bulldogs. Despite my 12-hour shift fatigue, I went anyway.
Twenty minutes of swimming through a hole in the wall full of drunk patrons shoulder to shoulder later, I parked my heels at the outside bar with January wind calmed and the KIDZ immersed. I found myself engaging conversation with a gentleman waiting patiently in line for the fast paced bartender to give him his drink order. His name was Rob, a handsome chocolate-covered older gentleman visiting from Charlotte for the weekend. While thrum into conversation and laughter, there he was, Mikey Mike staring me down seductively as if I was a Snickers and he was hungry so why wait! Met his friends who all tried hitting on me behind his back. One of them even went as far as to get a handful of my booty. I politely bent fingers and gave a look even Death couldn't deny.
"Does that belong to you?" I asked babyishly.
When he answered the obvious "no" I turn and walk over to Mike at the bar buying me yet another drink. From proposing a change of mind from one of his "friends" getting with him to Mikey's ex laying in his bed waiting when I go to his house in Decatur, to eating dried macaroni and cheese (yuck), to Mikey's roommate (the one who gave his ex a key to their house) attempting to kiss me while Mikey and his ex "talked" to being dropped off at a bus stop in a Mercedes when clearly he could have taken me home and everything in between. Clearly, I was in no way shape or form looking to see him ever again. Yet here I am reading his message after some time had passed.
Believe me when I say the struggle is real. Didn't expect to be hit by this bus neither did I believe I had to collect myself after the shit I just read.
Fast forwarding to this morning:
Wednesday 10:30am
"I wanna see you today, do you have to work? Are you still single?" texted Mike.
Immediately, my planned productive day was halted by the answering of my hormones' prayers! Finally male attention coming through my threshold and amazingly already en route to a job interview not far from where I lived. Running through my villa, sprucing, pulling out the sexy underwear and making my place not look like I didn't care, I was more than excited to spend a day with someone who I've been secretly wanting to see. However he wasn't in my immediate thoughts either. Mike, in short, has done some really fucked up shit, and here I was giving him yet another chance to redeem himself (I'm way too nice!). At Civic Center train station, Mike in his trench coat awaits for my arrival while I'm surprised by Atlanta's delightful decision for this cold front approaching in the middle of what's supposed to be spring. We retreat from the cold, however, he wasn't exactly as warm as I thought especially when he's trying to make up for past mistakes.
First it started with his needing for some MARY. So we went to FIVE POINTS and found a gardener until my personal one was available to stop by the villa (on my dime of course). When we returned, I rolled up two and instructed him to get comfortable. The initial plan was for Mikey to stay the entire day and night with me, which was looking promising. Then Momma Lyn stopped by to blow one in the air and Mike decided he wanted to have a bit of an attitude which I found rather ironic since he lives in a house with three other roommates, including his best friend who, once again, tried kissing me. But whatever, I can share the peace pipe with whomever I choose. When Lyn exited, he finally began getting undressed and comfortable and yet still on his phone texting. Completely removed from the moment altogether.
That shit is simply rude! How are you begging me "baby-baby please" one minute and then completely disconnected the next while having your wants met and then getting bitchy because one of my friends came to see me. The majority of the time we did spend was spent with him on the phone texting and disengaged. I, on the other hand, attempting to make an effort to be Betty Homemaker by going in my fridge and cooking some breakfast (which was my last bit of food left). Inattentive and still on his cell phone, Mike wouldn't even lay next to me or perform any intimacy whatsoever. Then there's a knock at the door. Tom-Tom, my gardener, standing 6'4 brown skin and straight enters and delivered some Earth. Mike of course was once again cold and again distant. He didn't even muster the decency to speak. In my mind I'm like "WTF!" Why are you being such an asshole to my friends? Slowly I was beginning to regret even answering the text ... but the fireworks are just beginning to be lit.
Two MARYs later, Mike got in the mood, not knowing the omelet wasn't enough for him, he's eaten up everything I had leaving me with nothing, not even a slice of bread. Yet here he is suddenly wanting to give attention while his dick grew and grew. At this point he'd explained why he was on the phone so much. His "brother" was giving him some money and needed to meet at Lindbergh train station. Hmm ... Lies. I felt it in my gut the moment he said it, the way his eyes weren't looking into mine like before and if his brother had a car then why did you have to leave to go meet him when he's taking FISH* (a biological female) to your apartment and your place in Decatur is my direction. I didn't say anything. I decided to let it play out. I decided to soak the bullshit all in. When I gave him the "n***a I know you're lying" look he responds with "I'm coming back ... I promise."


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Today is Sunday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2013. There are 233 days left in the year. This is Mother's Day.
Today's Highlights in History:
On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The two-week Trident Conference, headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened in Washington.
On this date:
In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, S.C., surrendered to British forces.
In 1870, an act creating the Canadian province of Manitoba was given royal assent, to take effect in July.
In 1922, a 20-ton meteor crashed near Blackstone, Va.
In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J.
In 1933, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration were established to provide help for the needy and farmers.
In 1937, Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey; his wife, Elizabeth, was crowned as queen consort.
In 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.
In 1958, the United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD).
In 1963, Betty Miller became the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean as she landed her Piper Apache in Brisbane, Australia, having left Oakland, Calif., on April 30, making three stopovers along the way.
In 1970, the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
In 1982, in Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpowered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who attacked Pope John Paul II. (In 2008, the pope's longtime private secretary revealed that the pontiff was slightly wounded in the assault.)
In 2002, Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba, becoming the first U.S. president in or out of office to visit since the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.
Ten years ago: Suicide bombers attacked foreigners' housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 25 victims. A suicide truck-bomb attack killed at least 60 at a government compound in northern Chechnya. L. Paul Bremer, the new American civilian administrator of Iraq, arrived in Baghdad; coalition forces announced they had taken custody of Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha (TAH'-hah), the Iraqi scientist known as "Dr. Germ." (Taha was later released after no charges were brought.) The Texas House ground to a standstill after 51 Democratic lawmakers left the state in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan. (The Democrats returned four days later from Oklahoma, having succeeded in killing the bill.)
Five years ago: A devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province killed some 70,000 people. Nearly 400 workers were arrested in an immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. Irena Sendler, credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, died in Warsaw, Poland, at age 98. Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg died on Captiva Island, Fla, at age 82. Indians second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera turned the 14th unassisted triple play in major league history during the second game of a doubleheader against Toronto. NBC announced that Jimmy Fallon would succeed Conan O'Brien as host of "Late Night."
One year ago: At least 100,000 Spaniards angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar protests elsewhere. Miami's LeBron James became the eighth player in NBA history to win the MVP award three times.
Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra is 88. Critic John Simon is 88. Composer Burt Bacharach is 85. Actress Millie Perkins is 75. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 72. Country singer Billy Swan is 71. Actress Linda Dano is 70. Musician Ian McLagan is 68. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 65. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 65. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 63. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 63. Singer Billy Squier is 63. Country singer Kix Brooks is 58. Actress Kim Greist is 55. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 55. Actor Ving Rhames is 54. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 52. Actor Emilio Estevez is 51. Actress April Grace is 51. Actress Vanessa A. Williams ("Melrose Place") is 50. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 48. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 47. Actor Scott Schwartz is 45. Actress Kim Fields is 44. Actress Samantha Mathis is 43. Actress Jamie Luner is 42. Actor Christian Campbell is 41. Actress Rhea Seehorn is 41. Actor Mackenzie Astin is 40. Actress Malin (MAH'-lin) Akerman is 35. Actor Jason Biggs is 35. Actress Emily VanCamp is 27. Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 21. Actors Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten ("Everybody Loves Raymond") are 18.
Thought for Today: "A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do." — Lois Wyse, American advertising executive, author and columnist (1926-2007).
(Above Advance for Use Sunday, May 12)
Copyright 2013, The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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Climate Siren drops a banner for climate justice once again!
In another bold act of civil disobedience three activists from the direct action group Climate Siren dropped a banner from Tower Bridge on Saturday, which read CLIMATE CHANGE: THE NEXT CHALLENGE. This complemented beautifully the Paralympics logo just underneath.
The Olympics and Paralympics message is one of peace and universal goodwill. Climate Siren's message was that we must now as a nation pull together and in the spirit of universal goodwill – and force those in power to take decisive action to effectively tackle climate change, which is the biggest threat to global peace. You can read more in their statement here.
There is of course a tradition of using the Olympics to highlight injustice and inspire others. In 1968 Olympic hero John Carlos raised his fist on the Olympics stage – a potent symbol of Black Power and an incredibly brave act at the time.
It's never been more pressing to highlight climate emergency – in the last couple of weeks NASA confirmed the Arctic ice has melted to its lowest recorded level, further evidence that anthropocentric climate emissions are destabilising the planet, with devastating consequences for all species.
To get involved with Climate Siren, like them on Facebook, Twitter @ClimateSiren or check out their website:http://www.climate-siren.com/
By Melanie Strickland
Inside the Tower Bridge.
Underneath the Tower. Watching Climate Siren banner drop.
Viewpoint from Southbank.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The expectations for the King University men's basketball team are always high, but this season they might be higher than they have been in the past. Earlier this fall, the Tornado were selected first in the Conference Carolinas Preseason Coaches' Poll, leaving high expectations for George Pitts' squad this season.
The Tornado only lost two players off of last year's third place squad however, those losses, Eddie Piccinini and Jason Seymore, were all-conference performers and leave big holes to fill. Even though King finished in third place a season ago, the Tornado finished only one game away from winning their second Conference Carolinas title in as many years in the league. King posted and overall record of 19-8 while going 14-6 in conference play. The season came to a disappointing end as the Tornado fell to sixth seeded Erskine College at home in the first round of the Conference Carolinas Tournament, giving King motivation for 2013-14.
"We lost two really good players in Eddie and Jason without a doubt, and sometimes you have to replace a good player with two players," Pitts commented. "Eddie played the two spot for us, and right now Scottie Hendricks, who's a senior and C.J. Good, whose a freshman have been playing that position, and I think both of them are going to make big contributions for our team. Jason played the four for us, and right now we have Shamarae Watts, a junior college transfer and Hunter LeVeau, a freshman that are ahead of the pack at that spot. So a lot of times you have to rely on more than one person when you lose a really good player. Our other two seniors, Michael and Brandon, we are expecting really big things out of them."
The senior trio of Michael Fortune, Scottie Hendricks and Brandon Crompton will led the Tornado squad this season. Fortune led King, and ranked sixth in the conference with 110 assists last season for an average of 4.2 helpers per game. Both Hendricks and Crompton played in 26 of King's 27 games with Crompton making six starts.
Second team all-conference performer Logan Lyle will look the lead the offense again this season as he led King with a scoring average of 14.6 points per game last season. The junior also led Conference Carolinas with 92 three-point baskets a season ago while ranking seventh with a three-point field goal percentage of 41.6.
Sophomores Drew Standifer and Malcolm St. Louis will vie for time in the front court as they each played in all 27 games as freshmen and combined for 20 starts. Standifer ranked fourth on the team with a scoring average of 8.8 points per game while St. Louis grabbed 4.4 rebounds per game during his rookie campaign.
Other returners that will be vying for time in the back court with Hendricks will be sophomores Calvin Walker, James Scales and Nathanael Hughes. A season ago, Scales saw action in 23 games while Hughes played in 20 and Walker made 17 appearances.
Along with this solid returning group, Pitts will rely on a talented group of newcomers. This group includes freshmen C.J. Good, Hunter LeVeau and Mack Owens along with transfer students Dorian Albritton and Shamarae Watts. Albritton comes to King after spending last season at VMI while Watts spent the last two seasons at Snead State Community College. In his only season at VMI, Albritton played in 25 games for the Keydets and averaged 3.9 points per game. A season ago, Watts averaged 4.4 points per game, playing in 18 games for Snead State.
The Tornado will be tested this year as they face four teams that are ranked in the NABC Preseason Top-25, and two in the top-10. King faces #15 Lincoln Memorial University in the Student Center Complex on November 16. The Tornado will also take on #18 University of Southern Indiana and #4 Bellarmine University at the Southern Indiana Tournament on November 29-30. King also hosts #6 USC Aiken on December 21 in the Student Center Complex.
King opens their season at home on November 10 against UVa-Wise at 3:00 p.m. The Tornado travel to take on Erskine College in their Conference Carolinas opener on December 4. The Conference Carolinas Tournament "final four" will be played at Cabarrus Arena in Concord, N.C.