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2010: Begins his third season with the Spartan program … possesses good size … is athletic and uses that athleticism well … dangerous attacking threat … with the right attitude he has the ability to score in bunches … will be called upon to be a wide attacker.
2009: Appeared in ten games for the Green and White … tallied a goal in York's 6-0 triumph over Capital Athletic Conference foe St. Mary's (Md.) on October 24 … played in three postseason games, including the CAC championship match … recorded an assist in the Spartans' 6-0 NCAA Tournament win over Cazenovia on November 14 … notched three shots on the year with two on-target … helped the Spartans to their fourth CAC Tournament championship … was part of York's fifth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament.
2008: Played in 13 of York's 20 games … notched six assists on the season … three helpers came in the Spartans' 8-0 win over CAC foe Gallaudet on October 1 … tallied two assists against CAC foe Hood on October 29 in York's 6-0 triumph … totaled two shots for the season … part of a squad that posted an 18-game winning streak during the regular season … ranked as high as #2 in the country … made the NCAA Tournament for the fourth straight season … Spartans finished the year with an undefeated 18-0-2 record.
Prior to York: Attended Delaware County Community College.
Personal: Is a psychology / behavioral science major with a minor in business administration … is the son of Mike and Mary Hurley … born on December 19, 1988 … played club soccer for PA Classics … was a three-year varsity player in high school … club team was two-time state champions … lists his grandparents as the people he admires most … favorite athlete is Guti … chose York because of the soccer program … lists his most significant athletic achievement as being regional finalists … most memorable athletic moment at York was winning the CAC tournament championship in 2009 … after graduation he plans on traveling.


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I spent a good part of the weekend reading up on Chris "Long Tail" Anderson's obituary for openness, Wired Magazine's The Web is Dead. The article and its sidebars are a pretty dense read, but well worth it. Once again Anderson has done what he does best. He's garnered a lot of attention making an apparently shocking claim that's really not that shocking at all. "The Web is Dead" is a far better attention grabber than his actual thesis that Web browsers just plain suck on mobile devices.
Specialized devices, with hardware limits (screen size, lack of mouse/keyboard, etc) require specialized apps. They also tend to come with billing relationships built-in, so this is an opportunity to reset assumptions about what consumers will or will not pay for. No surprise that content producers are flocking to apps, a greenfield opportunity to find a more sustainable model for digital content.
The above is an Anderson quote from what I found to be the most interesting part of the multi-article feature, the robust debate among Anderson, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle. It sums up the two key issues quite nicely. The browser-based Internet is challenged by the poor usability of the browser interface on mobile devices, and large content providers have failed to develop a sustainable business model for delivering high quality content over the Web.
Anderson believes the open Web is in peril because media giants like his magazine's publisher have been losing money on it. Citing the railroads, telcos, and electric utilities of the 19th and 20th centuries as examples, standardization and lower barriers to entry eventually lead to massive consolidation because no one makes money in hyper-competitive environments. These markets (like most) evolve towards oligopoly. Anderson also points out that apps on mobile phones solve a lot of business problems — the networks are closed and provide gatekeepers, customers are used to paying for content on closed networks, and the billing mechanisms are in place to make small payments feasible.
Though touched on at times, the Wired articles fail to pay enough attention to Google's role in this world. For the most part, Anderson and his colleagues relegate Google to Web company status. And that is a significant flaw in their hypotheses. Google is a mobile player. It might not own the networks, but it controls the fastest growing mobile platform in Android. Google's more laissez faire approach to app developers promises a more open mobile world. Customers will demand Android remains open. (The various authors also pay scant attention to HTML 5's potential.)
Whatever flaws exist in Anderson's argument do not detract from the value of his main point. The threat to the open Web is less about net neutrality than big media consolidation. Furthermore, Steve Lohr carried the banner of evolution over revolution quite well yesterday's New York Times piece, Now Playing: Night of the Living Tech.
Yet evolution — not extinction — has always been the primary rule of media ecology. New media predators rise up, but other media species typically adapt rather than perish. That is the message of both history and leading media theorists, like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman. Television, for example, was seen as a threat to radio and movies, though both evolved and survived.
The open Web will survive. Advertising will survive. Apps might just be the fad – if an HTML 5 site on an Android device can deliver the app experience without the middleman, meet the new Web, same as the old Web.

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Called "A Legacy of Commitment," the display in the lobby of the Brody Medical Sciences Building lists the students who have received scholarships through the Brody Medical Scholarship Program, which provide a full scholarship to medical school along with other benefits to top students, and honors the Brody family, which funded the program.
This year's graduating Brody scholars, Emilie Elks-Pendley, Bradley Evans and Kathryn Laurie Green, assisted Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine and president of the Brody Foundation, in unveiling the display Friday, April 3, to applause from a crowd of university officials, faculty members, current and past Brody scholars and members of the Brody family. The unveiling coincides with the 26th year of the Brody Scholars program. The Brody Scholarship includes opportunities to plan and host a health care symposium, study abroad and more. Since the program began in 1983, 109 students have received scholarships. Most scholars stay and practice in North Carolina, many in the east, a goal of the program.
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Amid wails and vows of revenge, thousands of Iranians on Monday attended a mass funeral service for victims of a weekend attack targeting a military parade that killed at least 25 people.
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President Donald Trump praised North Korea's Kim Jong Un as "very open" and "terrific" Monday and announced he likely will hold a second summit with Kim "quite soon," striking a far less ominous note at the United Nations about the nuclear threat from the North.
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Relatives wept in grief on Sunday at the mass burial in Tanzania of many of the 224 people who drowned when a ferry in capsized on Lake Victoria. Colorfully painted coffins were lined up to go into graves on Ukara Island. Grieving family members places wreaths of flowers on the coffins.
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Iran's president on Sunday accused an unnamed U.S.-allied country in the Persian Gulf of being behind a terror attack on a military parade that killed 25 people and wounded 60, further raising regional tensions.
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Militants disguised as soldiers opened fire Saturday on an annual Iranian military parade in the country's oil-rich southwest, killing at least 25 people and wounding over 60 in the deadliest terror attack to strike the country in nearly a decade.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May accused the European Union on Friday of creating an "impasse" in divorce negotiations by bluntly rejecting her blueprint for Brexit, sending the value of the pound falling as worries about a chaotic U.K. exit from the EU soared.
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Hundreds of solemn people watched Friday as body after body was pulled from a capsized ferry that Tanzanian authorities said was badly overcrowded and upended in the final stretch before reaching shore.
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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that negotiations between the two Koreas won't be successful unless there is simultaneous success in U.S.-North Korean negotiations to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
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A high-level Israeli military delegation visited Moscow on Thursday to present detailed information related to the downing of a Russian warplane by Syrian forces that responded to an Israeli air raid.
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Palestinians protested Wednesday at a new location along the perimeter fence between Israel and Gaza as Hamas intensified demonstrations at the border after Egyptian-led cease-fire talks stalled.
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The leaders of North and South Korea announced a wide range of agreements Wednesday which they said were a major step toward peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi here on Tuesday, pledging further support for the Pacific island country's push for economic development. During the meeting at the Great Hall of the People, Xi voiced his appreciation for Tuilaepa's contribution to the development of China-Samoa ties.
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A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by Syria forces responding to an Israeli airstrike, killing all 15 people aboard, in what President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday was "a chain of tragic accidental circumstances."
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in North Korea on Tuesday for his third and possibly most challenging summit yet with leader Kim Jong Un in which he hopes to break an impasse in talks with the United States over the North's denuclearization and breathe energy into his own efforts to expand and improve relations between the Koreas.
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Obama Plans Cosmetic Changes To NSA: Embraces 'The Spirit Of Reform' But Not The Substance
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Mr. Obama plans to increase limits on access to bulk telephone data, call for privacy safeguards for foreigners and propose the creation of a public advocate to represent privacy concerns at a secret intelligence court. But he will not endorse leaving bulk data in the custody of telecommunications firms, nor will he require court permission for all so-called national security letters seeking business records.As the NY Times says, he's taking the political way out, making sure not to upset the surveillance hawks:
The emerging approach, described by current and former government officials who insisted on anonymity in advance of Mr. Obama's widely anticipated speech, suggested a president trying to straddle a difficult line in hopes of placating foreign leaders and advocates of civil liberties without a backlash from national security agencies. The result seems to be a speech that leaves in place many current programs, but embraces the spirit of reform and keeps the door open to changes later.Yeah, but embracing "the spirit of reform" is not actually doing any reform. It's a bullshit approach guaranteed not to win anyone's approval, which seems to be the way the president often operates. Say you're going to do something, then offer a weakly compromised version of the plan and pretend you've actually done something big. It's not leadership, it's "let's talk big, and do little."
As the NY Times says, this "largely codifies existing practices."
Basically, this whole charade simply dumps the whole thing back into Congress's hands to try to push through real reform -- meaning that rather than letting President Obama decide what to do, we need to get things like the USA Freedom Act passed as a starting point, followed by more significant surveillance freforms.


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The study by the Demoskopika research institute detailed the international crime syndicate's sources of revenue, including drug trafficking - which brought in an estimated €24.2 billion - and the illegal garbage disposal business, which earned it €19.6 billion.
The southern Italian mafia earned the equivalent of 3.5 percent of Italy's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last year, said the report based on analysis of documents from Italy's interior ministry and police, parliament's anti-mafia commission and the national anti-mafia task force.
The 'Ndrangheta is thought to have some 400 key "operatives" in 30 countries, but its activities are believed to involve as many as 60,000 people worldwide, the report said.
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Extortion and usury last year brought in a substantial €2.9 billion, while embezzlement earned the mafia €2.4 billion and gambling €1.3 billion.
Arms sales, prostitution, counterfeiting goods and people-smuggling were less lucrative, bringing in less than a billion euros together.
The 'Ndrangheta - whose name comes from the Greek for courage or loyalty - has a tight clan structure which has made it famously difficult to penetrate.
With its network of hundreds of family gangs based around the southern city of Calabria, it is even more feared and secretive than the Sicilian mafia.
Its roots go back to a criminal association specialised in gambling, the Garduna, which was created in the Spanish city of Toledo in 1412.
It spread to Calabria, one of Italy's poorest regions, and started building up as a crime network based on kidnapping for ransom.
Pope Francis called last week on Italy's mafia groups to "stop doing evil" as he met relatives of their victims to demonstrate the Catholic Church's opposition to organised crime.
"There is still time to avoid ending up in hell, which is where you are going if you continue down this path," he warned mafiosi, telling them to relinquish their "blood-stained money" which "cannot be taken into paradise."
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About two dozen Japanese high school students shared their experiences from the Tohoku earthquake at Alfred G. Waters Middle School near Middletown on Friday.
Shino Kondo was preparing for her junior high school graduation ceremony when she felt the first vibrations.
"At first, I thought it was me shaking, but then everyone started screaming," the 16-year-old girl from Sendai, Japan said, recalling her initial reaction to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake – the most powerful quake to hit the island nation in nearly 12 centuries. "We were evacuated outside and then sent home, but when I arrived, my house was no longer vertical. I waited there for four hours until my family arrived. I was terrified."
Kondo was one of nearly two dozen Japanese high school students who visited Delaware last week and shared their experiences with nearly 100 people who attended a presentation at Alfred G. Waters Middle School near Middletown on Friday.
Funded by the Japanese government through The Laurasian Institution, their visit was a part of The Kizuna Project, a student exchange program that seeks to educate children from other nations about the ongoing recovery efforts.
Kondo, who lives about 80 miles from the earthquake's epicenter, was fortunate.
Her family was able to rebuild their home 18 months after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which killed nearly 16,000 people, left another 350,000 homeless, and resulted in meltdowns at three nuclear reactors.
"A lot of people in America think the recovery is over, but there is still a lot of damage and they still need our support," said Melanie Czerwinski, a 17-year-old Middletown High School student, who helped to coordinate the Japanese students' presentation as her senior project.
Czerwinski said she chose the project after visiting Japan last summer as a part of the Kizuna Project exchange program.
"What really inspired me was the way the Japanese people value community, which is something I think we all need to remember, because I think we take it for granted," said Czerwinski, who will major in Asian studies at the University of Delaware next fall. "This project also taught me a lot about time management and event planning. And I got to learn a lot about what happened, what is still being done today and how it affected these students personally."
Linnea Bradshaw, who teaches Japanese at Appoquinimink High School and Waters Middle School and coordinated the Japanese students' visit last week, said she also found the presentation enlightening.
"I thought I knew a lot before, but this was amazing," she said. "The turnout was also incredible. I think it's great that we can have these exchanges, because these kids end up learning a lot about each other's cultures and a lot of them end up making lifelong friends."
Delaware has a long-standing relationship with Miyagi Prefecture, which was hardest hit by the Japanese earthquake. The two became sister states in 1997 under Gov. Tom Carper.
Gov. Jack Markell saw the recovery efforts in Sendai first hand during a week-long economic development trip to Japan last December and the students visiting Delaware this week paid him a visit in Dover.
The Appoquinimink School District also has played an important role in the state's relationship with Miyagi and is currently the only district in Delaware to offer a full Japanese language program.
"We live in a global market now and our students will need to be able to work collaboratively and exchange information across borders," district spokeswoman Lillian Miles said. "That's why our district has been a pioneer in providing an international education, and will continue working to deliver the world to our students in a variety of ways, including cultural exchanges like this."


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Young job seekers often complain about a catch-22. Employers want to see work experience on the resume, but how can they get it when no one will hire them?
The National Employment Law Project reports another, truly perverse version of the catch-22. Employers and staffing agencies, with help from online job posting services, are screening out applicants because they're unemployed.
If you need a job, they don't want you. Period.
For about a month this spring, NELP reviewed job postings on four of the biggest online sites. It looked for postings identified by employer or staffing agency while also, it says, "seeking a diverse sample from across the United States." This, I take it, means that it didn't look at all postings from an identifiable source.
NELP found more than 150 "exclusionary" ads — most of them specifically stating that applicants had to be currently employed. Postings were by employers of all sizes and in all parts of the country. Jobs were white collar, blue collar and service sector and "at virtually every skill level."
Tip of the iceberg, as NELP acknowledges.
In some cases, for example, the exclusion isn't communicated in an online posting, but by human resources directors to the headhunters they're using.
There are also reported cases where applicants got as far as an initial interview only to be told that they'd been out of work too long. As with some of the online postings, "too long" is apparently more than six months.
At this point, nearly 6.3 million jobless workers who are actively looking have been unemployed for at least 27 weeks, i.e., long enough to be arbitrarily screened out of jobs they're otherwise qualified for.
So unemployment discrimination, as NELP calls it, could — and probably does — affect a broad spectrum of jobless workers.
But not equally.
As I wrote back in February, the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative found that long-term unemployment rates were highest for older workers — and had increased exponentially.
In December 2010, 55% of jobless workers ages 55-64 had been unemployed for longer than the magic six-months cutoff. Percent even higher for those 65 and older.
Panelists at a public meeting convened by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cited similar disproportionate impacts on women, people with disabilities and racial and ethnic minorities.
At this point, the unemployment rate for blacks is double the rate for whites — about what it was at the time of the meeting.
Comparable figures on long-term unemployment are hard to come by. Last spring, however, the percent of blacks unemployed for more than a year was 8% higher. A surprising 10% higher rate for Asian Americans too.
Thus, "any practice that disadvantages currently unemployed workers relative to similar employed workers will have a disproportionate negative impact on people of color," said Algernon Austin, the Economic Policy Institute's lead expert on race, ethnicity and the economy.
The very fact of the meeting suggests that EEOC is considering whether policies and practices that exclude jobless people from applicant pools are a violation of the equal opportunity protections in federal civil rights laws.
There are several things it can do if it decides they are. But proving "disparate impact" can be tough. And EEOC has been short on resources for a very long time.
On the legislative front, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Congressman Henry Johnson (D-GA) have introduced a bill that would, with limited exceptions, prohibit employers and employment agencies from screening out applicants or otherwise denying employment to people just because they're unemployed.
Needless to say, this bill is going nowhere fast. Will probably die in the Republican-controlled House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
NELP and its partners have nevertheless ginned up attention to the cruel irony of denying jobless workers a chance to work just because they're jobless. Researching this posting, I found lots of relevant news articles and editorials in both local and national press.
Some employers have reacted by deleting the current or recent employment requirement from their job ads. Others probably will. All this means, I think, is that the screening will go on in other ways.
Unless, of course, hiring agencies and human resources directors decide that the efficiency they purportedly achieve by ignoring candidates who don't have jobs can deny them the best qualified, most motivated workers they could find.


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Timbers earn win away to Sounders
SEATTLE -- Portland coach Caleb Porter believed Ryan Johnson could take advantage of matchups and gave him a start. The Timbers' forward went out and proved his coach right.
Johnson flicked in a header early in the first half, and Darlington Nagbe scored midway through the second half on Saturday night as Portland beat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 in the first leg of their Western Conference semifinals series.
"We've got options up there -- good options," Porter said of giving Johnson the start. "We're going to pick the guy up top who we think fits the opponent we're playing. To me, it made a lot of sense to go with Ryan Johnson.
"We felt his strength in the air, his physicality, his ability to hold the ball up, his athleticism and pace and power was a good matchup against (Seattle defenders) Jhon Kennedy Hurtado and Jimmy Traore."
The third-year Timbers, playing in their first MLS postseason contest, need just a draw in Wednesday's second leg at Portland to advance to the conference finals.
Osvaldo Alonso scored in the 90th minute for the Sounders, who need to win the second leg by at least two goals to win the aggregate total and advance.
If the Sounders outscore the Timbers by one goal in the second match to even the aggregate total, there would be overtime to decide the series.
Johnson's goal was his 10th of the year for the Timbers, who went unbeaten through their last eight games of the regular season (5-0-3) to secure the West's No. 1 seed.
Diego Chara started the play with a long pass toward the right side. Jack Jewsbury was on the receiving end and took it deep into the corner. He crossed it into the penalty area, and Johnson, cutting across goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann's 6-yard box, flicked a header that went off Hahnemann's hands and into the far side of the net early in the 15th minute.
"It was just instinct. The odds of the ball making it to that far post run are a lot harder so the near post run is a good one," Johnson said. "It was a good ball, and all I had to do was redirect it. We always believe that if we score the first goal, we're going to win the game. It's true, and that's how it happened."
The Sounders nearly tied it five minutes later as Clint Dempsey took a free kick 23 yards up from the goal, but Portland goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts tipped it over the top.
Nagbe made it 2-0 in the 67th minute. Kalif Alhassan, playing on the right side, sent the ball into the box. Nagbe spun around a Seattle defender and parked a shot past Hahnemann into the left side for his 10th of the year.
Alonso got one back for Seattle late after a long throw-in by Brad Evans was redirected by Shalrie Joseph out to Alsonso, who drilled it in past Ricketts from 14 yards straight in front for his first of the season.
"We were able to score a late goal, and that gives us an opportunity on Thursday," Alonso said. "Better to go down there 2-1 instead of 2-0."
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If you did not know 1,650 miles separated the farms of Kenneth Hood of Gunnison, Miss., and Ted Sheely of Lemoore, Calif., their accents would be a dead giveaway.
Hood's Mississippi Delta drawl and Sheely's Arizona/California accent are dead giveaways that it is a long, long way from one man's farm to the other. However, they are more alike in their approach to farming than the miles would indicate.
They are successful farmers who have literally bet their farms on developing precision farming technology not in test plots, but on virtually their entire farming operations. But, they figured they had no choice – either experiment with precision technology or quit farming because they could not continue farming with the cost-return ratio they had been seeing, especially in cotton.
Hood, speaking at the recent Central California Cotton Conference in Shell Beach, Calif., said his venture into precision ag experimentation in 1996 was an exercise in survival. Either he had to cut cost or increase yields or both in the face of what he calls a "crisis" in Mississippi farming where costs are far outpacing returns, especially for cotton that was closing at 47 cents on the December cotton the day he was speaking at the conference.
Sheely faced the same quandary almost 2,000 miles away, Separated by miles they both have achieved remarkable cost reductions or yield increases of 10, 15, 20, 25 or even 40 percent using Global Positioning System technology married to variable rate technology developed by aerial imagery.
Parlays success Hood parlayed his success into one of the fastest growing precision agricultural businesses in the U.S., InTime. He said it is the only one offer a full package of precision ag services.
Started with just 100,000 acres two years ago, InTime booked 300,000 acres in 2004, and Hood said his goal for 2005 is 1 million acres using InTime's aerial imagery/variable rate prescription services. InTime operates in 10 states, including non-Cotton Belt states Indiana and Illinois.
His fastest growing market, he said, is California. About a third of InTime 2004 acreage was in California. "California has the perfect infrastructure for what we are offering." Hood said California's extensive network of licensed pest control advisers and consultants and the widespread use by producers of custom applicators fits precision ag technology like a glove.
"The diversity of California and its high value crops also makes an ideal environment for precision agriculture," said Hood. Also driving demand is the higher cost of California farming compared to other states.
Hood told about 100 attending the conference that two years ago he was having dinner in Brazil with Brazilian farmers when one of them told him he could produce cotton for 36 cents per pound. "I will never forget that," he said. "We used to compete across turnrows. Now we compete across oceans." It is almost impossible for an American cotton farmer to compete with that 36-cent-per-pound South American cotton grower using one size fits all farming that has been used for decades. The only way Hood could see farming more competitively was to significantly reduce costs without sacrificing yields.
Hood figures his cash costs are almost $453 per acre, but he controls only about $200 or 43 percent of that. The rest are fixed costs. The $453 does not include land costs or his labor costs.
Picker monitors He started his precision ag grand experiment with cotton picker yield monitors, which told him where within a field he was making money and where he was losing it. "You have to find out where the cotton is coming from with yield monitors," said Hood.
Using aerial photography, data from yield monitors zone mapping fields and variable rate technology for applying pesticides, plant growth regulators, fertilizer, defoliants and adjusting seed seeding rates, he has discovered he can save 35 percent or $70 per acre of those cost over which he has control versus what it cost to use precision agriculture technology. "Even if I save 20 percent that is $40 per acre in savings," said Hood.
One example he used at the conference was for the use of the plant growth regulator. "Our soils change probably five times going across a field," said Hood.
Using a one-rate-fits-all scenario on plants growing under variable soil conditions, it was costing him 223 pounds and 400 pounds of lint per acre in two separate zones of the field by either applying too much or not enough Pix. Using variable rate technology, he reduced his costs and increased his yields.
Much of what Hood has done in Mississippi has been duplicated on Sheely's Kings County, Calif., farm. They literally bet their farms on precision agriculture and have not only won on their farms, but are fast gaining converts who are using variable rate technology.
When an entomologist 155 miles away reading aerial imagery could tell scouts where to go in Hood's cotton fields to find plant bugs, it made a believer of the Mississippi cotton farmer.
"My neighbors saw what I was doing and asked me to help them. That is fine if it is one or two people, but then it quickly became too many. That gave birth to InTime," said Hood.
Must change "Times are changing in the cotton business and technology is changing as well," said Hood. It has to if American farmers are to survive.
He calls his company's 24-hour aerial imagery turnaround imperative. "I cannot wait three, five or six days for an aerial imagery, especially dealing with insect pests."
When a farmer sees a cotton plant under water stress, it is already two weeks too late. "You can only see so much from the windshield of a pickup. The big eye in the sky can see water stress two weeks before you can," he told the consultants and farmers.
One of the big debates in farming is whether to spend money to improve bad ground or spend it to get more out of the good ground. Hood said he is convinced through his precision ag experience that it is better to maximize yields from better ground than pour good money after bad in trying to coax high yields out of lousy ground.


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Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life/Gospel of Life Ministries, today paid tribute to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, who passed away last night at the age of 73.
"On behalf of our entire Priests for Life team, I want to express gratitude for the work that the Archbishop did in being the Holy Father's representative in the United States. In addition to his many responsibilities, which he carried out with great fidelity and joy, he also followed our work with great interest. In the conversations I had with him regularly at the U.S. bishops' meetings, he was always a great encouragement. At certain critical moments of our growth, he provided direct assistance and guidance to protect and strengthen our ministry," Fr. Pavone explained.
Archbishop Sambi was also responsible for the regional human rights organization for all of North and South America, the Organization of American States (OAS). He recognized the promotion of the culture of death by radical activists at the OAS and was assisted in his efforts to not only monitor but counter pro-abortion actions by Priests for Life/Gospel of Life Ministries.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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A diet for healthy breasts includes plenty of water, restful sleep, adequate
intake of essential fatty acids, very limited intake of other fats, easy
on the chocolate, and plenty of kale, spinach, cabbage, broccoli, collard
greens, squash, organic carrots, seasonal fruit. All that good stuff. For
young mothers or mothers to be, please breastfeed, or plan to. There is
no better nutrition for your infant. Breast- feeding is an acquired skill
for both mother and child; please contact your local La Leche League if
it doesn't seem to be working right. Many women need coaching on this skill.
Some women experience postpartum mastitis, a painful bacterial infection
of the milk ducts. Maintaining the nursing schedule as much as possible
is best for both mother and child, unless the mom needs to take a course
of antibiotics. One of the very best treatments for mastitis is to apply
a fresh carrot poultice to the infected breast, all the way up into the
armpit, and leave on for an hour, covered with a hot water bottle. A fresh
poultice should be applied several times daily until the infection is resolved.
Good health is dependent on a functioning immune system. Our immune system
is designed to combat bacteria, viruses, fungi (such as Candida) and cancer
cells. All of these pathogens cause genetic damage which lead to disease,
from the common cold to the formation of tumors. However, our immune system
will only work if we feed it the proper nutrients. When we eat the "right
foods" we will have all of the ingredients to both nourish the body
and maintain the strength of the immune system at an effective level. Is
it possible for healthy women with a "normal" immune system to
get cancer? YES! It happens all the time. "Healthy" women in the
U.S. get breast cancer at a five times higher rate than healthy women in
Asian cultures. When Japanese women move to the United States, their incidence
of breast diseases increases, and in their daughters it increases even more.
The difference has been proven to be in the differing diets of the two groups.
The immune system does not manufacture anti-cancer agents. The immune system
uses anti-cancer agents that are within the foods we eat as "bullets"
to both kill cancer cells and prevent the formation of tumors. For example,
watercress, cabbage, brussels sprouts, spinach and horseradish contain compounds
which have been proven to prevent certain kinds of cancer. In high doses,
these compounds, known collectively as isothiocyanates, inhibit the production
of cancer by 100% (according to Gary Stoner, director of pathology at the
Medical College of Ohio). These compounds do not destroy growing tumors,
but prevent the genetic damage that leads to the initiation of cancerous
growth. Soybean protein also contains anti-cancer agents; in fact it contains
five anti-cancer compounds. (See the work of Stephen Barnes, PhD, Research
Scientist, UAB Cancer Center, Orlando, FL). In a 1990 study at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham, laboratory rats given a soybean diet developed
70% fewer breast tumors than rats who got no soy in the diet. Soy flour,
soy milk and tofu are higher in protein than most meats, and, of course,
contain no animal fats.


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Mary "June" Roark, a longtime resident of Hood River, was born June 23, 1924, in California. The angels took June home Feb. 26, 2013.
June wore a multitude of caps in her lifetime. She was a daughter, sister, wife, mother and grandmother.
She owned and operated "June's Sweet Shop," producing the best cakes and candies for every holiday or occasion imaginable. She was a cook at the hospital, some of the area schools and the senior center. She was the "Pie Lady" at Shari's Restaurant when they first came to town; she even made the front page of the Hood River News.
June loved gardening and produced the most beautiful garden and yard far and wide. She was a regular exhibitor at the county fair, successfully taking home all of the blue ribbons.
She was a fabulous and exquisite quilter. She loved cooking, baking, country music, shopping, reading, traveling the country and being with her family.
She was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and freely donated her time and love to many in need.
June is survived by her five children, Cheryl Grant, of Dee, Sam Roark, of Parkdale, Necia Herberg, of Scottsdale, Ariz., Les Roark and Allen Roark, both of Crescent City, N.C.; 18 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Grandma, you will be greatly missed by many. At this point in time we are not saying goodbye, but…til we meet again on the other side!
A funeral service will be held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hood River on Monday, March 4, with interment at Idlewilde Cemetery.
Arrangements are under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home, 1270 N. Main, White Salmon, Wash.; 509-493-1323.
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A military official says clashes erupted in the Yemeni capital when a group of soldiers who had joined a mutiny tried to storm the presidential palace. One of the mutinied troops was killed and six were wounded in the fighting.
The official says the guards at the palace repelled the attackers by shooting and firing mortars for hours on Friday. The military later deployed tanks and armored vehicles around the palace.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to the media.
The attackers were part of a mutinied group of Republican Guard troops, loyal to Yemen's ousted president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. In a similar attack last year, another group tried to storm the Defense Ministry.


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From the Southeastern Conference
ESPN announced the television network designations and start times for the 2013 Big 12/SEC Challenge on Tuesday morning. Six of the inter-conference games will be televised by either ESPN or ESPN2 while four games will be shown on ESPNU.
This is the first season that the SEC and the Big 12 Conference have met on the hardwood in an inter-conference event. All 10 of the Big 12's teams and 10 of the SEC's 14 member institutions will participate in the annual event. Arkansas, Georgia, LSU and Tennessee will not play in the first year.
The inaugural Big 12/SEC Challenge (the event title will rotate to SEC/Big 12 Challenge in 2014) is a combination of existing games already scheduled along with new matchups created for this event during November and December. The two conferences and ESPN will work to schedule matchups over consecutive days in future events.
2013 Big 12/SEC Challenge schedule
Thursday, November 14 Texas Tech at Alabama (ESPN2 – 9pm ET)
Monday, December 2 Auburn at Iowa State (ESPNU – 7pm ET)
Vanderbilt at Texas (ESPN2 – 9pm ET)
Thursday, December 5 West Virginia at Missouri (ESPN2 – 7pm ET)
TCU at Mississippi State (ESPNU – 7pm ET)
Ole Miss at Kansas State (ESPN2 – 9pm ET)
Friday, December 6 South Carolina at Oklahoma State (ESPNU – 9:30pm ET)
Kentucky vs. Baylor – Dallas (ESPN – 10pm ET)
Tuesday, December 10 Kansas at Florida (ESPN – 7pm ET)
Saturday, December 21 Oklahoma vs. Texas A&M – Houston (ESPNU – 7pm ET)


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Heiloo (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
Heiloo, a village in the Dutch province of North Holland, south of Alkmaar, where 144 Mennonites, members of the Alkmaar congregation, formed a Kring (circle) in 1947. Services were sometimes held by the pastor of Alkmaar in a hall of the Reformed Church. There was also a ladies' circle in the 1950s.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Heiloo (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 20 Sep 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Heiloo_(Noord-Holland,_Netherlands)&oldid=126528.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Heiloo (Noord-Holland, Netherlands). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 September 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Heiloo_(Noord-Holland,_Netherlands)&oldid=126528.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 693. All rights reserved.
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William HUMES III
3258, Cottman Avenue, 2nd, Floor, Philadelphia, PA., 19149, USA
Frank was, the oldest brother, to Gary, me and John. We were all born, two, years apart, so I was only 16, when he was, Killed in Action. The family, never fully recovered, from his loss. Our Mother, Ilsa, faithfully tended, to his final resting place, until she passed, in 1998, and Dad, well Dad never, was the same. Being the oldest, he always had to blaze the trail, for his younger brothers to follow. If we got in trouble, in the neighborhood, Frank made sure, it was, taken care of. The short time he was with us, will always be, remembered. He, was our HERO. In December, 1969, he was awarded the Silver Star, 2, Bronze, Star Medals and 2, Purple Hearts. Frank, we will never, forget you.
Thursday, September 28, 2000
Remembering a teammate
Posted for: FRANK WILLIAM HUMES:
Frank was a member of my LRRP team for many missions. We walked the hills of the Central Highlands with Jim Zwiebel the third member of the team. We checked out bunkers, pulled ambushes, observed enemy movements, and ran like hell when we had to. All the things that LRRPs do. He was a great friend, and teammate, I think of him all the time. Rest in peace old friend.
Posted by: Larry Flanagan
Relationship: K 75 Rangers
Wednesday, February 6, 2002
Mike Burgoon
Previous Hometown Admirer
Haddon Township, NJ.
I lived, in Magnolia, NJ., from 1964-1974. I did not know you, or recall hearing, of your death in July, 1969. I was 14, at the time. On this Veterans' Day, 2003, 34, years & 4, months later, I would like to say, THANK YOU!
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Gina Humes
708, Forrest Dr., Atco, NJ., 08004, USA
We miss you!
Uncle frank, even though i, have never met you neither, you still have, that special place in my heart. i heard, so many great things, about you. we love and miss you. If anyone has any information, on my uncle, please email, them to me. i would love, to hear from you. May you, lay at rest with your brother, (My dad) and ur parents. we love and miss you.:'(
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Corey Humes
4733, Oakland Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 19124, USA
Uncle Frank
Frank Humes, is my uncle, who, I never met. I have recently been looking, for images and information regarding, to my uncle. I found his name, in this memorial and if you have, any further information regarding my uncle, please, e-mail me.
Sunday, July 21, 2002
William Humes
3258, Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA., 19149, USA
Frank, I met your LRRP., teammates
Frank....I took my family, to a reunion in Ohio, for the 75th, Ranger, K, Company. I met your teammates, Larry and Jim, and alot of others, who knew you. I learned so very much, about you and how very couragous, you and your fellow LRRP's, were. They made me feel, like one, of them. You, would be proud, to know, that after all this time, your memory is, with so many people, who knew you and loved you. Only me and John, are left, Mom, Dad and Gary, are gone now. We, still remember you, everyday.
Apr 9, 2007
Larry Flanagan
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robert burks 3/31/2005 6:14:53 AMnice composition...great black and white Tony...I like this very much... #231028
Brinn MacDougall 3/31/2005 7:10:26 AMVery raw and interesting image, Tony! #1219235
Michelle Lea Guinn 3/31/2005 9:45:15 AMWonderful b&w photo!! very creative!!
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March 4, 2008
The first 40 UC Santa Barbara students to RSVP will receive a free ticket and free transportation to the Gauchos' Big West showdown at Cal State Northridge on Thursday night, the Athletics Department announced Tuesday. Students will also be provided with pizza and sodas.
The game, which will go a long way in determining the Big West regular season champion and the top seed at next week's league tournament, will tip-off at 7:00 p.m. in the Matadome. The bus will leave UCSB at 3:45 p.m. on Thursday afternoon.
The Gauchos, who have won seven of their last eight conference games, including five straight on the road, dropped a heartbreaker to the Matadors on Jan. 5, 88-84 at the Thunderdome. UCSB led by 13 points in that game.
Students interested in making the trip to support the Gauchos should contact Christina Baglas, Assistant Director of Marketing, at email@example.com. All students are required to RSVP if interested in making the trip.


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By Joanne von Alroth
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - The Illinois Senate on Friday voted to approve the use of marijuana for medical purposes, which if signed into law would make it the second-most-populous state in the nation after California to allow the drug's use for medical purposes.
The bill, approved by the Illinois House in April, now moves to Governor Pat Quinn's desk to await his signature. Quinn has indicated he is sympathetic to the bill, especially as it would benefit injured veterans.
"We fully expect Gov. Quinn to do the compassionate thing and sign the bill," said Dan Riffle, deputy director of government relations for the Washington-based Marijuana Policy Project.
Riffle said marijuana has proven medical benefits and there is broad public and legislative support for its medical use.
The Illinois bill passed by a vote of 35-21 after an emotional, hour-long debate in which some Republicans said they opposed legalizing medical marijuana because it could be a "gateway drug" to abuse of other illegal substances.
Others said they were not convinced that the benefits of smoking marijuana for certain medical conditions outweighed the potential negative consequences.
Democratic State Senator Bill Haine, a former county prosecutor and the bill's sponsor, said it is the toughest in the nation. He noted that doctors' groups had endorsed the bill.
"It is a substance which is much more benign than powerful prescription drugs such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and the rest," Haine said, referring to frequently abused painkillers. "The scourge of these drugs is well-known. This is not true of the medical use of marijuana."
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, according to Riffle. The Project does not count Maryland, since its law requires the participation of academic medical centers and will not be implemented until 2015. Colorado and Washington state voters decided last fall to allow recreational use of cannabis.
Under the four-year pilot program outlined in the Illinois bill, patients would have to be diagnosed with one of 33 debilitating medical conditions, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis or HIV/AIDS. Patients must register with the state's health department and have written certification from their physicians.
Patients would be limited to 2.5 ounces (70 grams) of marijuana every two weeks. The marijuana must be grown and distributed in Illinois, kept in a closed container, and not used in public or in front of minors.
Those who use, grow or sell the drug must be fingerprinted and undergo background checks. Landlords and employers could ban its use on their property. Users suspected of driving under the influence face the loss of not only their driving privileges, but also their marijuana-use permits.
Under U.S. federal law, marijuana is considered an addictive substance and distribution is a federal offense. Federal law prohibits physicians from writing prescriptions, so many have issued "referrals" or "recommendations."
The administration of President Barack Obama has discouraged federal prosecutors from pursuing people who distribute marijuana for medical purposes under state laws.
Riffle said that New Hampshire and New York are the next states that could legalize medical marijuana.
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The Poetry Foundation announced yesterday the winner of its 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award, given occasionally for a poetry collection by a writer over forty. Maryland writer Hailey Leithauser, born in 1954, received this year's honor for her collection, Swoop, which comes with a ten-thousand-dollar prize and publication of the book by award-winning indie Graywolf Press next year.
Leithauser, who returned to poetry in 2000 after taking decades off from writing post-college, has seen her poetry published in Antioch Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, and Sou'wester, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2010. In 2004 she won a "Discovery"/The Nation Award (now the "Discovery"/Boston Review Award). The poet, who studied English as an undergraduate and now holds a master's of library and information science, has worked most recently as senior reference librarian at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., though she's also taken turns as a salad chef, purveyor of gourmet foods, real estate office manager, copy editor, phone surveyor, and bookstore clerk.
"Leithauser is a risk-taker," says Graywolf editor Jeff Shotts. "She is innovative—with spirited titles and musical outbursts—but also nods to poetic tradition with rhyming sonnets and other lyric techniques...I am engaged, throughout, and admire her wide-ranging talent."
The Poetry Foundation will honor Leithauser along with 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner W. S. Di Piero at a ceremony in Chicago on June 11.


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How diverse is the ecology of Jamestown?
We've always known that Conanicut Island is a unique environment. Situated at the mouth of Narragansett Bay, this wind-swept spot of land is home to a broad cross-section of natural habitat.
We're about to learn exactly what is living in the island habitat. On Friday, the 2012 BioBlitz gets underway. The blitz is an intensive 24-hour effort to count every living thing – plant, animal, insect and fungus – within a 600-acre area. More than 300 people will be involved in the survey.
Conanicut Island was selected for the 2012 BioBlitz environmental audit because of its diverse ecosystems and habitats. Think about what we have here in Jamestown: a tidal creek, a salt marsh, a coastal shoreline with a small barrier beach, extensive fresh water wetlands with wooded swamps, wet meadows and vernal pools, a reservoir, coastal scrub shrub, herbaceous uplands, forested areas, open fields, pastures and actively farmed areas.
That's pretty impressive. The only thing we are missing are mountains and desert.
It will be fascinating to learn what creatures and plants call Jamestown home. There may be some unexpected finds. Perhaps there will be an undiscovered species.
Once we learn what is living in the Conanicut Island ecosystem, it will be up to us to take the next step: preservation.
Some of our rural habitat has already been protected through the farm set-aside program that came about several years ago when the town purchased the development rights. One farm is protected as a historic site. Other land has been preserved as wildlife sanctuary.
Additional protection can come from our own personal actions, such as limiting the use of pesticides and herbicides. Remember DDT and Silent Spring? The chemicals we dump on our land can have a dramatic impact on our wildlife and, ultimately, ourselves. We are learning that poisoning our environment can kill off important species such as honey bees that help with much of our food production.
We say welcome to the BioBlitz. Happy hunting.
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Orcaella brevirostris (Malampaya Sound subpopulation)
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Orcaella brevirostris (Malampaya Sound subpopulation)
|Parent Species:
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered C2a(i,ii); D ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Smith, B.D. & Beasley, I.
|Reeves, R. & Perrin, W.F. (Cetacean Red List Authority)
The best estimate of total subpopulation size is 77 individuals. Guidelines for considering measurement error (in Annex 1: Uncertainty, of the Red List Criteria) suggest using plausible lower bounds, rather than best estimates, to determine population size. In the case of Malampaya dolphins, this implies that it would be appropriate to use the lower 95% confidence interval, which is 45 individuals. Also, the threshold of 50 mature individuals for listing a species or population as CR according to Criteria D (and C2a(i)) refers to the number of individuals known, estimated or inferred to be capable of reproduction. Although the proportion of mature individuals typical for this species is unknown, it is reasonable (and certainly precautionary) to infer that the number of mature individuals in Malampaya Sound is less than 50. Therefore, the population qualifies for listing as CR based on Criterion D. The population also qualifies as CR on the basis of Criterion C2a (i, ii) as there are certainly fewer than 250 mature individuals in the population, a continuing decline in the number of mature individuals is projected or inferred based on the ongoing threat from gillnet entanglement, and both subcriteria of subcriterion 2a apply (no subpopulation contains more than 50 mature individuals, and more than 90% of the total mature individuals are in one subpopulation).
|Range Description:
|The Irrawaddy dolphin is patchily distributed in shallow, near-shore tropical and subtropical marine waters of the Indo-Pacific, from northeastern Australia in the south, north to the Philippines (Dolar et al. 2002) and west to northeastern India (Stacey and Leatherwood 1997, Stacey and Arnold 1999). Its marine distribution is concentrated in estuaries and semi-enclosed water bodies (i.e., bays and sounds), generally adjacent to mangrove forests. Freshwater populations occur in three river systems - the Mahakam of Indonesia, the Ayeyarwady (formerly Irrawaddy) of Myanmar (formerly Burma) and the Mekong of Lao PDR, Cambodia and Viet Nam. Irrawaddy dolphins also occur in completely or partially isolated brackish or freshwater bodies, including Chilka Lake in India and Songkhla Lake in Thailand. Irrawaddy dolphins were first documented as occurring in Malampaya Sound, Palawan, Philippines, during an investigation of dugongs (Dugong dugon) in 1986 (Kataoka et al. 1995). This is the only known subpopulation of the species in the Philippines and the nearest other known subpopulation is in northern Borneo, some 550 km to the south. The species occurs only in the inner portion of the sound, an area of about 134 km².
|Countries occurrence:
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Pacific – western central
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|The first dedicated cetacean survey of Malampaya Sound, conducted in June-July 1999, recorded 17 sightings during 230 linear km of search effort with a mean encounter rate of 7.4 dolphins/100 km (S.E.=2.9) and a mean group size of 5.3 dolphins (S.E.=1.1; Dolar et al. 2002). All sightings were made in shallow waters of the inner Sound, although survey effort also included waters of the outer Sound.
Line-transect surveys conducted in April-November 2001 covered 884 km of trackline in the entire Sound (total area 230.7 km²), and resulted in a total population estimate of 77 individuals (CV=27.4%), confined to the inner portion (133.7 km²; Smith et al., in press). Seasonally stratified estimates were calculated as 67, CV=38.6%; 78, CV=78.1% and 81, CV=31.7% for pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon seasons, respectively. The absence of Irrawaddy dolphin sightings in the outer Sound (see Dolar et al. 2002, Smith et al. in press, and unpublished reports of WWF-Philippines) and the close agreement among abundance estimates from surveys conducted during pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon seasons strongly suggest that the subpopulation is resident within the inner Sound.
There are no direct data on population trends. However, for small cetaceans generally, it is recommended that yearly removals should not exceed 1-2% of the overall population size (Wade 1998). Using a minimum estimate of two dolphins killed per year (see above), this represents 2.6% of the population, according to the best estimate of abundance made during line-transect surveys (77 dolphins). Using the minimum abundance estimate (45 dolphins), the estimated minimum yearly mortality rate would be 4.4% of the population size. Even this latter figure may be an underestimate because it considers only the two confirmed kills recorded during a 7-month study (Smith et al. in press). Considering that the small size of the Malampaya population already makes it vulnerable to extirpation from demographic stochasticity, inbreeding depression and catastrophic environmental and epizootic events, the current rate of incidental mortality in gillnets will almost certainly lead to extirpation.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The species inhabits deep pools of large rivers, sheltered inshore marine environments with substantial freshwater inputs, and partially isolated brackish or fresh- water lagoon or lake systems (Stacey and Leatherwood 1997, Stacey and Arnold 1999, Smith and Jefferson 2002).
During 48 sightings of Irrawaddy dolphins in Malampaya Sound, Smith et al. (in press) found significant differences between environmental characteristics in the inner and outer Sound (DF=158) for depth (F=164.54, Prob.=0.0000), salinity (F=19.27, Prob.=0.0000) and turbidity (F=21.53, Prob.=0.0000), with depth and salinity greater in the outer Sound and turbidity greater in the inner Sound, indicating the restricted environmental preferences of the Malampaya Irrawaddy dolphin subpopulation.
|Freshwater; Marine
|Major Threat(s):
Between February and August 2001, two dolphins were accidentally killed in bottom-set nylon gillnets used to catch crabs - locally known as matang quatro nets. Unconfirmed reports from fishermen indicate that three additional dolphins may have been killed in gillnets during the same seven-month period (Smith et al. in press). Although the dolphins are not believed to be hunted in Malampaya Sound, their value for human consumption means that those found alive in gillnets may be taken for food rather than released.
Although gillnet entanglement is believed to be the dominant threat to the population (Smith et al. in press), other potential threats include incidental takes in fish corrals (baklads), liftnets (bukatot) and crab traps, prey depletion from increased fishing pressure and increased inputs of organic wastes leading to eutrophication (Dolar et al. 2002).
|Conservation Actions:
|The Malampaya Irrawaddy dolphin subpopulation is a component of the Malampaya Sound Ecological Studies Project currently being implemented by Kabang Kalikasan Ng Pilipinas (World Wildlife Fund - Philippines). This project consists of research, monitoring and raising local awareness about the conservation significance of dolphins in the Sound.
|Smith, B.D. & Beasley, I. 2004. Orcaella brevirostris (Malampaya Sound subpopulation). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T44187A10858619. . Downloaded on 25 September 2018.
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Huawei hasn't exactly taken the Windows Phone ecosystem by storm, not even with their low-end, "let's compete against Android" Ascend W1. As it turns out, Nokia seems to be beating the Chinese firm to most of the entry level consumers interested in Windows Phone devices.
And then there's that exclusive apps/Store thing called the Nokia Collection that you may have heard about.
Well, Huawei has evidently thrown the switch on their own "collection" in the Store, which is simply called "Huawei Selected". They now join the ranks of LG, Samsung, HTC and Nokia in providing custom apps for their consumers.
Problem is the Huawei store has one measly app called Find Me (by Seth Kigen), which is available to anyone with a Windows Phone and for some reason it has only 1 star for its single review. No custom apps, nothing interesting or unique (even LG used to have some killer stuff back in the day).
Maybe we'll see the Huawei Store populate with some interesting, exclusive titles in the future. But for now, they're about a marathon away from coming close to Nokia.
Source: Windows Phone Italy, Reddit