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Following the recommendations of the World Conservation Union, a further three new sites have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
Primeval beech forests in Slovakia and the Ukraine, Teide National Park in Tenerife and Lopé National Park in Gabon were added to the prestigious World Heritage List today.
After a year-long rigorous evaluation process, the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which is the technical advisory body on natural heritage, presented its recommendations to the World Heritage Committee, currently meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, Slovakia and Ukraine
The primeval beech forests of the Carpathians represent an outstanding example of undisturbed, complex temperate forests and associated ecological processes. In 2003, IUCN evaluated a first nomination of these forests from Slovakia and recommended transnational cooperation in the conservation of the forests that once stretched across Europe. The transnational serial site inscribed now includes key remnants of these forests in both Slovakia and the Ukraine and is the first natural World Heritage site for the Ukraine. The delegations of both countries expressed their gratitude to the committee and IUCN for this positive decision in Christchurch.
David Sheppard, Head of the IUCN delegation in Christchurch, said: "The primeval forests of the Carpathians are indispensable to understanding the evolution and ecology of beech forests, which are globally significant given their wide distribution in the Northern Hemisphere."
Teide National Park, Spain
Teide National Park is situated on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The site includes impressive and diverse volcanic features and landscapes concentrated in a spectacular setting. The park is home to the world's third tallest volcano, ranging from the seafloor to the 3,781 m Mount Teide, Spain's highest peak. It is of global importance in providing diverse evidence of the geological processes that underpin the evolution of oceanic islands. The area is thus a major centre for international research with a long history of influence on geology and geomorphology, especially through the work of von Humboldt, von Buch and Lyell. This has made Mount Teide a significant site in the history of volcanology.
Ecosystem and Relic Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda, Gabon
Lopé-Okanda, inscribed today for both its natural and cultural values, represents a very unusual boundary between dense and well-conserved tropical forest and savannah environments. It includes Lopé National Park, one of the most outstanding areas in terms of biodiversity in the Congo Rainforest, and provides an important refuge to many threatened species of large mammals, such as gorillas and elephants. The site protects an important record of biological evolution over the last 15,000 years in the forest-savannah transition zone.
Lopé-Okanda is also an important archaeological centre for Central Africa with extensive remains of Stone Age and Iron Age sites, and large numbers of stone engravings. It is the first World Heritage site for Gabon and only the 25th mixed site on the World Heritage List. The Gabonese delegation in Christchurch welcomed this great news and thanked the international non-governmental organizations that have been supporting them in the conservation of this site.
Allen Putney, IUCN's World Commission for Protected Areas Vice-Chair for World Heritage, said: "Lopé-Okanda joins the small circle of World Heritage sites that are inscribed for both their outstanding natural and cultural values, such as New Zealand's Tongariro National Park, Peru's Machu Picchu and South Africa's Drakensberg Park. This is a great achievement."
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
On the recommendation of IUCN, the committee also extended the current Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn World Heritage site in Switzerland, increasing its area by over 50%. The site is the most glaciated part of the European Alps, containing Europe's largest glacier, and provides an outstanding record of the geological processes that formed the High Alps. Following the initial inscription of the site in 2001, Switzerland developed through an exemplary participatory process a management plan for the site and surrounding region, and the Swiss delegation in Christchurch said they are willing to share their lessons learned in this process with others.
After today's decisions by the 31st session of the World Heritage Committee, the World Heritage List now includes 167 natural sites and 25 mixed (cultural and natural) sites. The Committee continues to meet in Christchurch until 2 July and is also considering the inscription of cultural sites on to the World Heritage List.
For yesterday's inscriptions on the World Heritage List see IUCN's press release at: link
Notes to editors
The IUCN delegation present in Christchurch, New Zealand, will be reporting back from the meeting on a regular basis between 23 June and 2 July. Regular updates can be found on www.iucn.org.
More information on the World Heritage Convention and the List of World Heritage sites can be found at: whc.unesco.org.
The World Heritage List currently includes 830 sites in 184 States Parties: 644 cultural, 165 natural and 24 mixed (cultural and natural) sites.
IUCN, whose independent advisory role is enshrined in the text of the World Heritage Convention, has been involved in the Convention since its inception, having played a major part in drafting the text with UNESCO in 1972. IUCN undertakes technical evaluations of the natural values of the sites nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List and has evaluated several hundred nominated sites. Further information on IUCN's World Heritage work is available at: web
Additionally, each year IUCN reports to the World Heritage Centre on the conservation status of certain natural and mixed World Heritage sites under threat. IUCN's assessments on what is happening in World Heritage sites are derived from a variety of sources: IUCN members, indigenous peoples groups, the scientific community, experts from IUCN commissions and concerned individuals and organizations.
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact:
In Gland, Switzerland:
Sarah Halls, Global Media Relations Officer, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Tel: +41 22 999 0127, e-mail: [email protected], Web: www.iucn.org
In Christchurch, New Zealand:
Bastian Bomhard, World Heritage Officer, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Tel: +41 79 716 5401, e-mail: [email protected], Web: www.iucn.org
Photos available on request from [email protected]
About the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Created in 1948, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) brings together 84 States, 108 government agencies, 800 plus NGOs, and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The Union is the world's largest environmental knowledge network and has helped over 75 countries to prepare and implement national conservation and biodiversity strategies. The Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1,000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland.
More information can be found at www.iucn.org


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Middle East Paradoxes
A new round of direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians began this week in Washington, initiated by the USA. What do the Palestinian and Israeli people actually think of the peace process? Do the opinion surveys you regularly conduct show that they still hold out hope for peace?
Khalil Shikaki: The Israelis and Palestinians set great stock in the negotiations. Israel is trying by way of the talks first to shake off the pressure being placed on it by the USA mainly due to its settlement policy. And the Palestinians, who hardly have any faith anymore in Netanyahu's government, whether in direct or indirect talks, are first and foremost interested in exposing how different the present Israeli regime is from previous ones. They want to show that negotiating with the current government is futile.
People no longer believe that the talks can lead to peace. Nevertheless, most hold the fundamental conviction that the negotiations between Israel and Palestine should be carried on all the same.
Both the Israelis and Palestinians are prepared to make the necessary concessions, even painful ones, to come to a peace agreement. Under these circumstances it is therefore by all means possible that a solution to the problem could be reached.
What, in your opinion, might a solution look like that would be acceptable to both sides?
Khalil Shikaki: An acceptable solution must begin with the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in which the residents can live in peace, safety and in cooperation with Israel. At the same time, solutions must be found for the refugee issue as well as for the status of the holy sites.
There is in principle a large majority on both sides in favour of resolving these issues. The problem is that people can't agree on what exactly the solutions for Jerusalem and the refugee problem should be. And anyway, negotiations with Netanyahu, whether direct or indirect, will not bring success because of his government's right-wing orientation.
The fraternal strife between Hamas and Fatah poses an obstacle to the peace efforts. Where do you think the reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah are heading, and do your opinion surveys give any indication of who people think is responsible for the current impasse?
Khalil Shikaki: In this matter the Palestinian public trusts Fatah more than Hamas, although in the past both sides have been thought guilty of dooming the negotiations to failure. If one asks the Palestinians directly who they think caused the talks to break down, the answer is always that both sides bear equal blame. If one asks in a less direct way, however, then it can be seen that one quarter of those surveyed lean more toward the view that Hamas bears the brunt of the responsibility for the failed negotiations.
Let me give you an example. When we ask people: Imagine that elections were to be held and Hamas would emerge triumphant. How would that influence the chances for reconciliation? And what influence would a victory by Fatah have? The answers clearly show that people think the danger of splitting the Palestinian population would be greater were Hamas to win, while the chances for reconciliation of both sides would be better if Fatah were to prevail.
Bolstered by international and European support, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is playing an increasingly prominent role in Palestinian society. Fatah views him more and more as a serious rival. Are Fatah's fears of this new competition justified?
Khalil Shikaki: At the moment there is no good reason to dread the "Salam Fayyad phenomenon", because it does not yet have a genuine basis in Palestinian society. "The Fayyad phenomenon" means nothing more than that a technocrat like Fayyad, who does not come from the realm of politics and who has to date participated in neither the establishment of the nationalist movement nor in the Palestinian resistance, could end up leading the building of a Palestinian state. This principle, for which Fayyad stands, is not yet accepted by the Palestinian public.
That said, Fayyad has indeed achieved a great deal and is increasingly gaining the trust of the Palestinians. This is not least due to his attitude toward the arbitrary arrests of Hamas supporters in the West Bank, which often take place without any legal basis whatsoever.
Although the public by all means recognises Fayyad's accomplishments with respect to the improved economic situation and security, they have not yet accepted him as their new political leader. To that extent, Fatah's anxiety at his growing influence is unfounded.
There are rumours of a possible deal with regard to Iran's nuclear programme and the Middle East peace process. The rationale is that, in order to get a green light from the Arab states for their strike against Iran, the USA and Israel would first have to make concessions in the Middle East conflict. Do you believe that such a deal might exist?
Khalil Shikaki: That kind of deal is not part of the debate at the moment, but might offer an option for strategic action at some time in the future. After all, not only Israel is worried about Iran's nuclear programme, but the Arab states are as well. Fear of an Iranian bomb is leading Israel and the nations surrounding Iran to pursue common goals.
But should there really be an attack on Iran, its Arab neighbours would most likely not be prepared to condone it. The Arab states will not support the USA in its efforts, even if it's only to impose sanctions on Iran through the World Security Council, as long as they don't have the feeling that the USA and Israel are taking their concerns seriously and doing something about them, above all the Palestinian question.
We must bear in mind that there is massive resistance to any attempt to connect the steps taken against Iran with the Middle East peace process. The Israeli government, for example, is at pains not to let any link be made between the issue of Iran and peace in the Middle East, as it fears that it could come under pressure as a result. Israel does not want to have to purchase Arab support in the Iran affair at the price of concessions to the Palestinians.
Surveys you've conducted indicate that a major share of the refugees are prepared to renounce their Right of Return if they are offered adequate material compensation. Is this a pragmatic approach to solving the refugee problem?
Khalil Shikaki: In none of the opinion surveys we've conducted thus far have refugees indicated that they were willing to completely waive their principle Right of Return. The vast majority, about 95%, insist on the recognition of their right and will not accept a renunciation of that right.
What the studies have shown, however, is that, in the case of recognition of the Right of Return accompanied by the granting of a choice of residence – whether in Palestine, in Israel or in other countries prepared to offer them asylum – the majority of the refugees would choose to live in the newly founded Palestinian state or would remain in their current host countries. Only 10% of the respondents expressed the desire to live on Israeli soil.
These results do not constitute a sound basis for negotiations. They merely represent the opinions of 4,500 refugee families living in various countries whom I surveyed. As can be expected, the views of the respondents vary depending on which host country they are currently residing in. But there was a consensus across the board that Israel must recognise their principle right, i.e. their moral and political Right of Return. For this reason, the leaders of the talks on both sides should work toward an agreement that grants the refugees both the principle Right of Return and a choice of where they want to live.
How do you view the role of the EU in the peace process?
Khalil Shikaki: In economic questions, its role is extremely significant. Politically, however, the USA is in charge and the EU follows its lead. As long as the USA was not prepared to support the peace process, particularly under the presidency of George W. Bush, the EU did not take any action. The political problem with the EU is that it does not represent a single country but rather a community of nations with diverse interests.
There is only consensus within the EU when it comes to less important issues on which the various members are able to agree. This is not to say though that the EU does not in fact take courageous steps now and again, for instance in the question of the status of East Jerusalem as capital of the future Palestinian state.
In the past, the EU has failed however in its efforts to encourage the Palestinian National Authority to fight corruption. And it has done little by way of urging the Authority to end the anarchy in the Palestinian territories by creating strong institutions as the basis for a democratic constitutional state.
Interview: Muhannad Adam
© Qantara.de 2010
Dr. Khalil Shikaki is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bir Zeit University and director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) and co-author of "Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion", Indiana University Press 2010.
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
Book Review: "The Fear of Peace" by Moshe Zimmermann
The Israeli Dilemma
Why has the peace process in the Middle East stagnated? In his new book, Moshe Zimmermann claims that the reason is that the Israelis fear peace more than they fear the state of war. Ina Rottscheidt spoke with the renowned Israeli historian and publicist
Israel Turns 60
A History of a Conflict
May 14 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. While Arabs call the day "the catastrophe," many Israelis aren't in the mood to celebrate. A look back on six decades of dreams and nightmares. Peter Philipp reports
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Beyond the violence in the Middle East conflict, there are many individuals and initiatives working towards lasting peace in the region. Our new dossier presents just some of them
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Donna Vanzant found out what Conservatives knew Obama lies.
Obama lies every time he opens his mouth.
Obama got his photo-op with Chris Christie and Donna Vanzant.
Donna Vanzant and Chris Christie got noting but empty promises.
Just days before he was re-elected in a historic second-term victory, President Barack Obama stood with Hurricane Sandy victims, pledging to quickly assist them in their dire time of need. While in Brigantine, N.J., on Oct. 31, he comforted local business owner Donna Vanzant, with a photograph of their embrace subsequently going viral. But while the president promised quick relief, Vanzant is now charging that the nation's leader broke his pledge and has yet to deliver.
In an interview with The Philly Post, the owner of the North Point Marina, a venue that was destroyed in the storm, said that she is struggling — but "surviving" — and noted that she has yet to begin rebuilding. FEMA doesn't help businesses with monetary aid and her insurance money has not yet come through, leaving her stagnant and unable to begin the painstaking process of rebuilding.
"I have probably suffered $500,000 in losses," Vanzant explained. "And we've lost all of our docks and our bulkhead, and the estimate for that is $200,000, and you can't get insurance on your docks or bulkhead."
Clearly, her challenges have been monumental and, based on her assessment, the insurance company has been "dragging" its feet. After her meeting with the president months ago, though, one would assume that Vanzant would have been granted all the help she needed.
A video of her encounter with Obama shows the nation's leader hugging the business owner and telling her, "We're going to help you get it all together. I promise. You're going to be okay."
But that's not all. Obama identified her to one of the individuals helping in the relief as the owner of the marina and said, "I want to make sure that she knows that we're going to immediately get the help that she needs to get this all back together again."
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Naturally, considering Obama's pledge to help Vanzant, the Post asked if she has had any interaction with the White House since meeting the president.
"After his visit, I sent an email to President Obama," she told the Post. "Many days later, I got a response back. It was disturbing."
Vanzant went on to describe a form letter she received — a note that had nothing at all to do with Hurricane Sandy. She said that the message she was sent, rather than addressing her concerns over the disaster, merely thanked her for supporting the troops.
"When you get a hug from the President of the United States, you feel like there's something there. A promise was made," she continued. "I have two grown kids. One is a U.S. Navy diver. The other one lives at the marina with his wife and new baby, and they lost everything."
The business owner explained that she raised her children to know that "your word is your word." She took aim at the notion that the president has broken a promise, noting that she has never been an individual who has looked for free handouts. While she said that Obama initially gave her hope, she's now skeptical.
It should be noted that the e-mail address where she sent her request is not known. If it was a general account, chances are the president and his staff may not have received it. However, the troop response she received is certainly odd. Regardless, Vanzant's moment of need continues, as Obama's pledge goes unfulfilled.


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Why Raising A Child Might Be The Most Heroic Thing You Ever Do
This week, we're introducing (Mostly) Mindful Parenting, real talk with leading experts and parents on how they navigate the beautiful, messy work of raising a family. Follow along!
It's been five years since I wrote a story called "11 Things I Wish Every Parent Knew" for mbg in honor of caring for children in my pediatric practice for 25 years. I think that piece has resonated with so many people because it came straight from my heart. Well, the winds of life don't stop at 11 things. Children continue to be my teachers. Reflecting upon my now 30-year journey as a pediatrician and parent, here's the one big thing I didn't say five years ago—and it may be the most important of all.
Raising a child takes courage—more courage than perhaps you realized and certainly more courage than I'd realized when I began practicing pediatrics and had my own kids 30 years ago.
This courage is the courage to feel. To feel grief, to feel disappointment, to feel pain, to feel fear, to feel frustration, to feel elation, to feel concern, to feel confusion. It is the courage to honor all these feelings as deep human expressions of love for our child and love for ourselves. There are so many twists and turns in the journey of raising a child, changing relationships that challenge us to grow, powerful stories we carry with us, seemingly infinite points of view to consider, contradictory information to parse through, and endless judgments given in the name of science or morality.
For any parent, one of the greatest challenges is how to feel safe in the midst of the winds of change with your child. What can you rely on in order to steady yourself, catch the wind, and sail through this deeply personal voyage that no one else can travel but you?
The answer is a mindful understanding of what's driving our parenting decisions and leveraging this self-awareness as strength.
Here are three steps to courageously embrace your own feelings and intuition as a parent.
1. Get out of your head to make space in your heart.
When we're caught in fixed ideas of right and wrong, we tend to overthink and overanalyze our feelings. This top-down authority limits our growth by putting enormous pressure on relationships, amplifying feelings of resistance, and causing excessive suffering for everyone.
2. Make space in your heart to find which needs are calling out for attention.
Once you get out of your head, you give yourself the space to realize that feelings are not good or bad. Feelings are not the enemy. As I explain it to children, feelings are just the weather inside you telling you what is alive in you at any given moment. This weather is always mixed and always changing. Uncomfortable feelings can be used as valuable information about what you and your child need in order to feel more connected and more confident in a particular setting.
3. Paying attention to what is needed enables confidence to grow.
Confidence means trusting yourself and trusting your child. This is not blind faith. When you see needs as the underlying cause of feelings, you are much better equipped to solve problems creatively.
I know this sounds too simple to make a difference, but in fact I find again and again, whenever we humanize ourselves like this, we see the big picture of our potential for growth. And this brings enormous comfort to our child.
Raising a child is the most heroic thing I know.
In caring for a child with all your heart, you are caring for something bigger than you. This is the "Big You of Love" who is willing to grow and transform with every challenge that comes along. I've seen it happen thousands of times, and each time it feels like a miracle to me. This Big You is what makes you the expert—and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Don't doubt that you can be the solution as long as you get out of the old habit of fixed-mind thinking and the courtroom language of judgments, labels, and diagnoses. These things only make us fear our feelings rather than humanizing them.
No doctor, no politician, no spiritual master knows better than you how to truly love your child unconditionally and wholeheartedly. In the end this love is all he or she ever really wanted from you anyway.
This love is carried in your body language. It is heard in the softness of your voice. It sits on the bed beside them after a bad dream. It packs lunch and slips a little note inside that says I love you. It feels a cheek for fever and does not panic if there is one. It listens to the deep breathing while they dream. It rejoices in the wonder of their every new discovery. It hears the pain and insecurity in their resistance. It holds steady through the crazy ups and downs of adolescence. It holds steady as they go off to their first day of school, their first date, their first day of college, their first job, their wedding, their own birthing family. It is love that holds steady and lets go.
What could be more heroic than that?


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Paul Ryan Makes Ad Buy in His Congressional District
(MILWAUKEE) -- GOP vice presidential nominee and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan has made an ad buy in the congressional district he currently represents, ABC News has confirmed.
Ryan, who represents the state's first congressional district, placed an ad buy with WISN Milwaukee that will begin running Wednesday, and Ryan campaign officials note, this will not be the only buy from the VP nominee.
"As he has done in years past, Congressman Ryan will be airing advertisements in Milwaukee and Madison TV media markets in the run up to the November elections," Ryan campaign manager Kevin Seifert told ABC News. "This is the first in the series of ads that will be rolled out between now and November 6th by Ryan for Congress, and you can expect to see additional TV, radio and print advertisements."
Ryan has served the 1st District for seven terms -- and he has never had a competitive race during that time. And even though Ryan is focused on the presidential race right now, he is still expected to win his House race this cycle. ABC News currently rates the seat as solidly Republican.
However, advertisements for the representative from Janesville might have a dual purpose. Ryan's district encompasses one of the major Republican stronghold counties in the state -- Waukesha. Any Republican candidate hoping to win the state must command a strong turnout there and a boosted turnout with Ryan's presence on the ticket might be what Romney needs to carry the Badger State.
One risk though in running the ads is that Ryan looks less than confident in his ticket taking the White House.
Ryan is hardly the first veep nominee to continue to run in a second race during their national campaign. Joe Biden ran concurrently in Delaware in 2008, Joe Lieberman continued to run in Connecticut in 2000 after being tapped to be Al Gore's running mate. Lyndon Johnson continued to run for the Senate in Texas in 1960 after he joined the Kennedy ticket. And it's worth noting -- all of these men won those state races.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT started off the 2012 football season with a win this afternoon as the Engineers scored a late touchdown that negated a furious comeback attempt by Becker College in a 28-21 victory. The Hawks scored 21 fourth quarter points to erase a 21-0 deficit, but sophomore Alexander Chumbley (Atlanta, Ga.) scored from seven yards out with 1:06 left to lift MIT to the win.
After seeing Becker rally to tie the game with less than four minutes left, MIT answered with the game-winning drive. A six-yard run by sophomore Justin Wallace (Palatine, Ill.) and a 15-yard face mask penalty started the dive for the Engineers, who used its ground game to get down to the Becker 33. Sophomore quarterback Peter Williams (Portland, Ore.), who was in after MIT starter John Wenzel (Mandaville, La.) was out with an injury, then hit freshman Karson Ota (Katy, Texas) on a 17-yard pass that gave MIT a first down on the Becker 16. Williams then ran for nine before Chumbley finished off the dive with his TD run.
With 56 seconds left on the clock Becker nearly came back again. Junior Russell Spivak (Scarsdale, N.Y.) sacked Becker quarterback Robert Baker for an 18-yard loss on the Hawks first play, but Baker completed a pass for 31 yards to C.J. Bostic to the MIT 39. Baker's next pass was intercepted, however, on the sideline by sophomore Cameron Wagar (West Richland, Wash.) to seal the win for MIT.
After holding Becker (1-1) on its first possession of the game, MIT (1-0) drove 71 yards in 10 plays on its first drive but missed out on putting the first points of the game on the board when freshman Chris McPherson's (Gaithersburg, Md.) 26-yard field goal try missed.
It looked as if a special teams play would led to the first score of the game when sophomore Jose Smith (Miami, Fla.) broke through the line on a Becker punt and blocked Eric Glynn's attempt, with the Engineers gaining possession at the Becker 14-yard line. But the Hawks defense held, with Melvin Booker and Christopher McCarthy making the stop on Wallace at the five.
MIT did make the most of its final drive of the first half, getting the ball at the Becker 49-yard line with 49 seconds left after a 15-yard punt return by sophomore Brad Goldsberry (Elizabeth, Colo.). After a delay of game penalty set the Engineers back, Wallace plowed his way for 29 yards to the Becker 25. Wenzel then ran for 14 more and a personal foul on the Hawks took the ball down to the six-yard line. From there Wallace finished it off, getting in the end zone with 24 seconds left to give MIT the 7-0 lead at the half. Junior Matt Merlino (Vancouver, Wash.) kept Becker off the scoreboard when he intercepted Robert Baker's pass attempt on the final play of the half.
Momentum continued to be on MIT's side in the third quarter. On the first play of its second drive of the half, Wenzel found Goldsberry over the middle and he eluded the Becker defense the rest of the way as the play turned into a 69-yard touchdown that put MIT up 14-0.
Becker came back on its next possession, picking up a key 31-yard pass from Baker to Shaun Llewellyn that took the ball down to the MIT 20. The drive stopped there, however, forcing Becker to attempt a 36-yard field goal. The Engineers thwarted that scoring chance when freshman Samuel Inman leaped up to get a hand on the ball. MIT then turned the block into points as the Engineers then drove 73 yards for the score. Wenzel completed a pair of key passes to keep the drive alive, one for 14-yards to Wallace on a third-and-seven play, and the other for 25 yards to Ota on a 4th and 16 that put the ball on the five-yard line. Wallace took it in from there to put the Engineers up 21-0.
Baker's passing then ignited the comeback attempt by the Hawks. On their next drive he completed 5-of-8 passes for 53 yards to set up Kyle Gregg's one-yard TD run on the first play of the fourth quarter that capped off a 57-yard drive. After holding MIT to a three-and-out, Baker led the Hawks down the field again, completing 5-of-8 once more, this time for 60 yards, capping off the drive with a 15-yard strike to Llewellyn. The extra-point was blocked, making it 21-13 with 12:07 to play.
Wallace broke off a 32-yard rush on the first play of MIT's next drive, but the Becker defense held on a fourth-down play and Baker and the Hawk offense took over at its own 25. The time Baker led the Hawks on a lengthy drive, one that consumed 6:01 off the clock. His arm was the key again as he completed 8-of-10 on the dive for 80 yards, hitting C.J. Bostic for the TD on a six-yard toss and then finding Kyle Gregg for the two-point conversion to tie the game with 3:46 left.
Wallace picked up where he left off last season, going over the 1,000-yard mark for his career with 148 yards on the ground. Wenzel completed 12-of-21 for 163 yards as the Engineers came up with 405 yards of total offense. Goldsberry led the MIT receivers with seven catches for 103 yards and also rushed for 41 more. Junior Jake Laux (Dousman, Wis.) led the defense with 14 tackles.
Baker finished with a school-record 32 completions on 56 attempts for 382 yards and a pair of scores to lead Becker, which totaled 434 yards of total offense. Luis Sanchez caught nine of Baker's passes for 117 yards to lead all receivers. Christopher McCarthy led the Hawks defense with none stops.
MIT will open New England Football Conference play next week when it hosts Coast Guard at 12:00 p.m. Becker will play at Hartwick at 2:00 p.m.


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Hart in Hampshire remains UK's most desirable place
Hart in Hampshire has been named the UK's most desirable place to live for quality of life for the second year running.
The study by the Halifax bank took into account factors such as jobs, housing, health, life expectancy, crime, weather, traffic and house prices.
Hart district, centred on the town of Fleet, beat previous four-time winner Elmbridge in Surrey into second place.
Nowhere in the north of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales was in the top 50.
The annual survey shows districts in south-east England to be increasingly more desirable, with 30 districts in the top 50, up from 27 last year.
Hart, in the north-east corner of Hampshire, has been dubbed "a step back in time", with 84 sq miles of green wooded landscape and the county's largest freshwater lake, Fleet Pond.
Halifax economist Martin Ellis said: "While not necessarily being the leading district across all measures, Hart comes out on top because it scores consistently highly across nearly all indicators.
"In particular, Hart residents enjoy good health, high employment, low crime, and high quality schooling."
The study found Hart residents can expect to live longer than the average Briton, with the average life expectancy at 81.7 years for men, compared to the national average of 79.
Employment in Hart is at 78.6% - well above the national average of 70.2% - and crimes rates are among the lowest in the country.
Elmbridge in Surrey, known locally as "Britain's Beverly Hills", topped the survey in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and still has higher average weekly earnings, at £1,162 compared to Hart's £830.
Wokingham held the title for a year in 2007 only for Elmbridge to regain its title again the following year.


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Man accused of killing parents commits suicide
A man accused of killing his elderly parents and hiding their bodies in the garage of their Reno home was found dead of apparent suicide early Friday, authorities said.
The Washoe County sheriff's office said a deputy making a routine cell check found John Gary Huntoon lying unresponsive on his bunk around 2 a.m.
Emergency assistance was called, but efforts to revive him failed.
Sheriff's Lt. Terry Lowry said Huntoon hanged himself.
Huntoon, 55, was booked into jail in late June after the bodies of his mother, Emily Huntoon, 84, and his stepfather, William Huntoon, 86, were found in the garage of their Twin Pines Road house.
Huntoon called authorities to the home he shared with his parents on June 25 to report a medical problem, and directed officers to the bodies.
Police said the couple had been dead for at least a week, possibly two.
Investigators said he confessed to bludgeoning and strangling the couple but did not say why.
Huntoon was indicted last week by a Washoe County grand jury on two counts of open murder.
Since June 2002, officers were called to the family's home 10 times, including twice for family disturbances and once for a suicide threat, police said.


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I cooked a litre of soybeans for two hours and cooled them for 15*. I should put them in the refrigerator, but in what solution? My intuition says that an acidic liquid would work. Should I use one teaspoon of citric acid to make them acidic?
*Note (Jefromi): the title said "15h cooled and then 2h cooked" soybeans. I tried not to change the meaning, but I suspect that the OP may have actually meant that the soybeans were soaked for 15 hours, then cooked.


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The Montessori approach to education uses a foundation of active learning through physical experience, led by the child. You may have heard it described as learning through play. What that means in practical terms, is simply that you take advantage of a child's interests to teach him or her important life skills. As children learn, they gain confidence and become more willing to share knowledge by teaching and engaging with other children in a non-aggressive style of play.
Here are six simple Montessori ideas and activities you can do at home that improve fine motor control, engage multiple senses and add excitement to the learning process.
These 'instruments' help children tell between different sounds. The boxes are color coded (blue and red) to allow children to also practice matching. Place the two boxes of instruments next to each other and demonstrate the activity. Pick up a blue cylinder and shake it next to your ear. Then try the same thing with a red cylinder. Keep trying red cylinders until you locate the one that sounds the same as the blue cylinder chosen. Set aside the matched pair, return the unmatched red cylinders to the box and begin again.
This type of activity can be done with something as simple as a mat with a line drawn down the center and some granola or trail mix. Don't forget to use a shallow bowl to let your kid easily reach into the container. Provide different sized scoops and encourage them to sort the food into different categories. For example, put all the nuts on one side of the line and all the fruits on the other.
Start exploring science with a sensory rock exploration box. An egg carton makes a great storage box, and a little hot glue puts every stone in its own spot. Find rocks with different textures and imperfections to encourage your toddler to feel each type. And it doesn't have to be rocks–just anything with texture.
The Montessori lacing kit includes different shapes, colors and sizes that add in an element of sorting and sequencing into beading and lacing. With this kit, children can practice over and over again, developing the fine motor skills and pattern recognition critical for more advanced applications.
Sand can add a sensory element to the process of learning numbers and letters. Providing tools like funnels, scoops and shovels allows you to lead your child on the journey to writing with a total sensory experience. Adding water can change the experience and show them the versatility of sculpting, versus writing with dry sand and the funnel. It makes drawing and learning a game, not work.
It can be difficult to get a little one engaged and motivated to read. But studies show that children who read for fun do much better academically. To get your young one immersed in a book, set aside a dedicated reading time and a special reading place. Take turns reading out loud with your child and don't be afraid to get into character. Let your child build his own library of books he actually wants to read and add to his collection. Get the neighborhood involved and host a small book club where kids can share what they've read. This inspires active reading and story discussion.


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Last summer he smashed his way through the superhero flick 'The Avengers' as iconic giant green hero the Hulk, but we've been crushing on Mark Ruffalo for a lot longer than that.
Mark Ruffalo first gained some attention in the late '90s, with roles in 'Ride with the Devil' (you know, the movie that starred Jewel) and 'You Can Count on Me.'
But the early '00s are when his career really took off, and you've undoubtedly seen — and swooned over — him in a ton of stuff, like the airplane comedy 'View from the Top,' or the trippy romantic drama 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.' He even wooed Jennifer Garner in '13 Going on 30′ and Jennifer Aniston in 'Rumor Has It.'
Last year, Ruffalo became a big screen superhero in 'The Avengers,' in which he played mild-mannered Dr. Bruce Banner. When Banner loses his temper, though, he becomes the Hulk — a giant, green-skinned, muscle-bound monster who kicks some serious butt. Basically, what most of us are like in the morning.
You can catch Ruffalo in theaters right now in the magician heist flick 'Now You See Me.'


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1 million: That's the no. of employees govt banks need
With nine chairpersons and managing directors of public sector banks (PSBs) due for retirement in 2013-14, the government is doing what it has been doing for many years to fill the vacancies: Relaxing the eligibility criteria.
This time, 17 executive directors have been called for the interview, which will happen in January. But, the government could manage that number only because one of the requirements for the job, a minimum service of two years as executive director, was eased and made six months!
And, this is not the last time that such concessions have been made. Banks are going through an unusual manpower crunch. In the next 10 years, they will have to hire around one million people to keep their branches running and account for retirement and natural attrition. Finding the right candidate for a leadership position will be even tougher.
The Khandelwal committee, which was set up to address the human resource challenges of state-owned banks, while acknowledging the manpower shortage banks are facing, said: "The leadership gaps in public sector banks are palpable. In the next five years, 80 per cent of general managers, 65 per cent of deputy general managers, 58 per cent of assistant general managers and 44 per cent of chief managers would be retiring."
So many people leaving at the same time has prompted the Reserve Bank of India to call the 10 years from 2010 to 2020 as the 'decade of retirement'.
This peculiar situation facing state banks is as much an outcome of the slowdown in recruitment in the 1990s as of lack of retirement planning.
A large number of people joined the banking sector in 1972-73 following the nationalisation of banks. The next wave of recruitment came in 1983-84, and then there was a lull in activity.
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Image: An empty bank counter in Mumbai
Photographs: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters
1 million: That's the no. of employees govt banks need
"For two decades additional manpower in banking sector was not commensurate with the growth. Finally, in 2011-12, about 20,000 people joined public sector banks (excluding State Bank of India), both as clerks and officers," says a veteran banker.
Bankers say the entire decade of the 1990s saw virtually no recruitment. To add to trouble, in 2000, after computers were introduced at branches, a voluntary retirement scheme was launched to shed excess staff.
The scheme was prepared by the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) and approved by the government.
Later, in the second half of 2000-10 when the country returned to the high-growth path, recruitment failed to keep pace with business growth.
At the same time, the per-employee expense of PSBs shot up sharply; the employee cost, at present, is 150 per cent more than that of private sector banks.
"One thing is, thus, loud and clear - the competitive advantage in terms of staff costs that we always thought public sector banks had is no longer there," RBI Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty said recently.
The Khandelwal committee in its report submitted in 2010 had suggested some drastic steps, such as performance-linked pay on the lines of the private sector to attract talent to state-owned banks.
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Image: Khandelwal Committee Recommendations
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1 million: That's the no. of employees govt banks need
It said PSBs were seriously handicapped, as they were lagging behind their private sector counterparts in terms of human capital.
"Their employee compensation package, skill sets, skewed age profile, restrictive deployment, performance management system are the major issues placing PSBs somewhat at a disadvantage," the report said.
According to the central bank, finding the right person for the job would be a huge challenge for PSBs, especially when banks are also required to carry out the task of financial inclusion.
Most banks rely on management schools to supply fresh recruits, but the banking regulator has questioned the rationale of hiring management graduates for financial inclusion, as it believes such students will not be in tune with the problems of banking in far-flung areas.
"Will these people have empathy towards the poorest of the poor? I have often heard bank heads talk about the challenge of finding people keen to work in rural areas," asks Chakrabarty.
While some of the recommendations of the Khandelwal committee were implemented (like a third executive director in large banks exclusively focusing on human resources), the fate of the committee's other suggestions remains uncertain.
The government had appointed another committee under the chairmanship of Alok Nigam - one of the joint secretaries at the North Block - to study the viability of the Khandelwal committee's recommendations.
Image: RBI Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty
Photographs: Kind courtesy, CII


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Nokia has brought a couple of its location-based services to Bing Maps.
The company announced yesterday that Bing Maps users will now have traffic information available to them from Nokia's Where platform. Where is available in 24 countries, including the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. According to Nokia, users in the U.S. already had traffic information available to them, but this addition now includes support for side streets.
Nokia is also bringing geocoding to Bing Maps, allowing the platform to take latitude and longitude information, and connect that to a readable address.
"It's how we know that Seattle's Space Needle is at the geocoordinates N47 degrees 37' 13.807", W122 degrees 20' 57.088" and vice versa," the company wrote on its blog. "But in practical terms it means something simpler."
Nokia's announcement comes just a few weeks after the company showed off an update to its Drive app in Windows Phone 7, called MyCommute. The feature is designed to analyze how long it takes you to get from one point to another, and then as it learns, update the Live start screen tile with the best estimate.
Looking ahead, Nokia says that it will find new ways to power Bing Maps on Windows Phone devices.


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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is a conversation, a few words exchanged between two men thrust into a high-pressure situation. There's not much more to Pelham than that, not even enough really, to fill out the minimum ninety minutes necessary for any major Hollywood movie. Director Tony Scott compensates, by stuffing the moments between their words with trippy, stylistic cityscapes which have absolutely nothing to do with what's going on in the story except as a time killer. Eventually the film's two protagonists stop talking and Pelham simply runs out of track, devolving into a series of bad action movie clichés and even worse, more meaningless, skyscraper footage.
Still at first it's a conversation, and an interesting one at that. Denzel Washington stars as Walter Garber, a New York City subway dispatcher who happens to be the man on the mic when one of their trains gets hijacked. On the other end of the radio is a scruffy looking John Travolta, playing the film's villain and lead hijacker. He calls himself Ryder and wears obnoxious sunglasses even though he's in a dark train tunnel and if he wanted to obscure his identity he'd probably be better served by a rubber Halloween mask. I'd go with Richard Nixon. If you're a crook, you can't go wrong with Nixon.
Ryder has hostages and he uses them to keep Garber on the radio. Around each of them the city scrambles, Walter in his far off subway control center Ryder in the front of his stopped subway car with a gun pointed at the innocent standing closest to him. Everything slowly goes to hell but they keep talking. Garber because he has to, Ryder… well we never truly know why Ryder spends so much time on the radio when he'd probably be better served worrying about his hostages. But stay on the radio he does, toying with Garber and just for the hell of it, forcing Walter to admit things he'd rather keep his mouth shut about.
As long as Ryder and Garber keep talking the film works well enough, the kind of movie that might fit comfortably on a shelf with something like Phone Booth. Unfortunately all this talking has to go somewhere eventually, and when the film needs a resolution it all goes to hell. For no reason at all Walter Garber morphs from humble civil servant and family man into a gun-waving, car stealing, John McClane knockoff. At some point all that talking just isn't enough for Tony Scott and the movie starts pandering to the Michael Bay crowd with ridiculous out of character action sequences that send the whole thing right off the rails.
That train wreck ending might be more forgivable if the rest of the film had been more substantive, but it's a fairly meaningless, if well acted conversation wedged in between some even more meaningless, blurry city footage. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 throws in a few gratuitous car crashes to try and maintain some level of excitement, but they're easily spotted for the cheap audience response gimmicks that they are. Solid performances from Washington and Travolta are wasted on a script that probably wasn't worth making and a movie that's definitely not worth seeing.


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Buttonhead has a mottled history, like a cork goat, that, when read out, can blind an old man, though a pock mark in recent times was finding fifth member Daniel 'Pancreas', which has solidified the once porridge-based lineup. Whilst hiking in the mountains, mourning the loss of multi-instrumentalist Thomas 'Humus', the band found him in a cave being raised by bald wolves. They knew he was one of them, there and then, when shirt buttons streamed from his mouth and ears. Since then Buttonhead have refined their live act into what closely resembles a burst goat, or the conjunction of mustard and Velcro, and they frequently invite their audiences to spit biscuits and construct large pineapple hammers on stage.
When at rest from their vibrant fun-shows and 'brown-shouting', Buttonhead can be reached at their mobile Corgi leg-and-paw cleaning facility found on various muddy south-eastern estuaries. Their pioneering efforts, using soap and water and sometimes buttered toast, to teach the younger ones how to wash themselves, have gained them esteemed recognition from none other than Pug Welfare & Rescue Association founders Beth Myth and Rick Bubble.


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Nevada Patient Busing
Federal probe sought of alleged 'dumping' of mental patient in Sacramento
A California state lawmaker is calling for a federal investigation into the alleged "dumping" of a Nevada mental patient last month in Sacramento.
Hospital and health officials in Nevada, meanwhile, vowed to look into the circumstances surrounding the patient's release and issue a public report about what happened.
"We don't take this lightly at all," said Dr. Tracey Green, Nevada's state health officer.
The patient, James Flavy Coy Brown, 48, disappeared onto Sacramento's streets last month, a day after he arrived by Greyhound bus from Las Vegas, according to staffers at the Loaves & Fishes homeless services complex near downtown Sacramento. According to staffers who spoke to him, he said he had no family in Sacramento and had never visited the capital city.
Brown was frightened and confused when he arrived at the Loaves & Fishes complex on Feb. 13, staffer Molly Simones said. He carried his discharge papers from the Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services psychiatric hospital and a schedule detailing his 15-hour bus ride from Las Vegas.
The medical discharge papers, obtained by The Bee, ordered that Brown be taken "to the Greyhound bus station by taxi with 3 day supply of medication," including one drug to treat schizophrenia and another for depression.
Brown told Loaves staffers that he and four other patients were sent to the Las Vegas mental hospital a few weeks ago, after their group home shut down. Simones said Brown told her that, upon discharge from the hospital, he was given a bus ticket to Sacramento and told to call 911 when he arrived. Instead, he went to a local police station. She said he told her his four former housemates were shipped to other California cities.
After Sacramento police took Brown to Loaves, Simones gave him bus fare to UC Davis Medical Center. It is unclear whether Brown made it to the facility or to the Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center across the street. "I just hope he's OK," Simones said.
California state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Sacramento Democrat, said he believes Nevada engaged in "patient dumping" by sending a mentally ill man to California without showing that he had relatives here or a place to get care.
Late Monday, Steinberg sent a letter to the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, accusing the Nevada facility of engaging in interstate "Greyhound therapy" and calling for an investigation.
Steinberg noted that the hospital is certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and accredited by the federal Joint Commission. Hospitals that violate regulations governing those programs risk losing critical federal funding.
"Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services has unequivocally failed to meet many of these conditions, including an evaluation of the patient's needs upon discharge, a standard discharge plan, and an appropriate arrangement for the patient's transfer to California," Steinberg wrote.
The hospital's handling of Brown's case "is a clear violation of the patient's civil rights, tantamount to abuse," he wrote. "It is imperative for the rights and future safety of patients that those responsible are held accountable."
Patient dumping has been the subject of several lawsuits in recent years. In one case successfully prosecuted by the Los Angeles Public Counsel, a hospital released an elderly woman still wearing her hospital gown onto the streets of that city's Skid Row.
California law prohibits such "dumping" of patients within the state, said Patrick Dunlevy, directing attorney of the counsel's Consumer Law Project.
If Nevada did, in fact, transfer Brown across state lines, the case likely would fall under the federal civil rights law, Dunlevy said. "Something like this is so outrageous, there have to be federal laws that do apply," he said.
Green, the Nevada state health officer, said the state does not practice patient dumping and is looking into the circumstances of Brown's release.
"We just do not let people go without a plan," Green said.
She said a report should be available to the public in about a month.
Call The Bee's Cynthia Hubert, (916) 321-1082. Follow her on Twitter @cynthia_hubert. The Bee's Dan Morain, reporting from Las Vegas, contributed to this report.


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We are two individuals who have seen the devastation Malaria causes in Africa (A child dies every 30 seconds). However, most people in the US, especially the younger generations, have very little awareness for this issue and lack the belief that they can actually have an impact. Through our web campaign, we will make it possible to send and track mini-donations that will $ for $ be used to purchase and deploy drug treatments on the ground and thereby save lives.
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Oxbridge queries, first four-point tries, 1995 RWC survivors and All Black boxers
John Griffiths
December 20, 2010
Ireland international Mike Gibson featured in three Varsity Matches for Cambridge © Getty Images
Welcome to the latest edition of Ask John where renowned rugby historian John Griffiths will answer any rugby-related query you have!
So, if there's something you've always wanted to know about the game we love but didn't know who to ask, or you think you can stump our expert - then get involved by sending us a question.
In this edition John answers questions on Oxbridge, the first four-point tries by major nations, Dr. 'Joe' Kraefft, 1995 Rugby World Cup survivors and All Black boxers.
How many Oxbridge Blues played international rugby? Mark Spencer, England
Nearly 600 Rugby Blues have won rugby international caps - a figure that excludes the small band of international players who missed their Blues while in residence.
Here's how the figures break down (pre-1969 first, then 1969 to date, and finally the totals:
Capped by - Pre-69 - 69-on - TOTAL
England - 265 - 25 - 290
Others - 2 - 19 - 21
So nearly 500 Blues were or became internationals in the period up to 1969 (with fewer than 4% being capped outside the Home Unions - in those days overseas Blues, especially those from South Africa, tended to be capped by England or Scotland).
Nearly 100 Blues since 1968 have become international players, with a considerable rise in overseas players to more than a third (including the first Japanese and Canadian Test players).
Several players have been counted twice: for instance George Aitken (Oxford) was capped by NZ and Scotland; "Johnnie" Wallace (Oxford) by Australia and Scotland; and post-war Barry Holmes (Cambridge) was capped by both England and Argentina in 1949, while more recently Ian Williams (Oxford) played for both Australia and Japan in Tests.
Can you supply the results of the Varsity matches that featured Rob Andrew (England), Gavin Hastings (Scotland) and Mike Gibson (Ireland)? Huw B, England
They represented Cambridge University as follows:
Rob Andrew - 1982 (Won 20-13), 1983 (Won 20-9) and 1984 (Won 32-6)
Each was capped after securing his Blue. Gibson was such a sensation in his first match in December 1963 that he was then drafted into the Ireland side for his debut in February 1964 in a famous 18-5 Ireland win against England at Twickenham.
Was Scotland's John Frame the first person to score a four-point try in a major international? Who were the first scorers of four-point tries in the major playing countries? Ian Monzari, New Zealand
The four-point try came into operation from 1st September, 1971. The first such try scored in a major Test was by France's Jean-Claude Skrela against Australia in Toulouse in November 1971.
At the time, the major Test-playing nations were regarded as the Five Nations in Europe and the Tri-Nations in the southern hemisphere. The first tries valued at four points scored for them were as follows:
Scorer - For - Against - Date
After reading the obituary for the 1947-48 Wallaby, "Joe" Kraefft, I wondered how many survivors there are from that first official post-war tour to Europe by a Dominion side. Do you have any details? Matthew Thomas, Australia
Dr Donald Frederick "Joe" Kraefft was born in North Sydney on 20th July 1922 and died on 14th November 2010, aged 88. He was educated at Shore Grammar School and made his debut in senior club rugby with Sydney University, where he was an engineering student, in 1941.
He represented New South Wales and made his Aussie Test debut alongside Nick Shehadie (also on Test debut) against New Zealand at the SCG in 1947.
On the 1947-48 tour of the Third Wallabies to Britain, Ireland, France and North America Kraefft formed the first-choice second-row with Graeme Cooke for all five of the Tests played, the versatile Shehadie moving to prop. France alone of the Five Nations crossed the tourists' line in the Tests.
It is believed that there are seven survivors of that Wallaby tour: Sir Nicholas Shehadie, Terry MacBride, Eric Tweedale, Mick Cremin, Dr Max Howell, Arthur Buchan and Kevin Bourke.
After Mike Catt's recent retirement, was he the last still playing first class rugby who played in the 1995 Rugby World Cup? Ryan Miller, South Africa
Andrew Mehrtens, New Zealand's first five-eighth in the 1995 Rugby Wiorld Cup, has been playing for Béziers this season in France's Fédérale 1 - the equivalent of third division rugby over there. (There are 14 clubs contesting the Championnat in the top division and 16 in the Pro D2).
Jonah Lomu, who was the player of the tournament in 1995, appeared in the squad list for Marseilles (one league lower in Fédérale 2) at the beginning of the 2010-11 season.
With Sonny Bill Williams given the green light to resume his boxing career, have any other New Zealand Test players won boxing honours? Graham, England
Now that rugby is a professional sport, instances of dual internationals (or high achievement at two major sports) have become increasingly rare.
The most notable New Zealand Test players to box were:
M J Brownlie (NZ amateur heavyweight championship runner-up 1921)
All Black non-Test players who achieved boxing honours include B V McCleary, a member of the famous "Invincibles" who toured Britain, Ireland, France and North America in 1924-25. He won the New Zealand heavyweight and light-heavyweight titles in 1922 before turning professional.
J T Burrows, A G McCormick (father of Test full-back Fergi) and W L Elvy were other non-Test All Blacks who were distinguished amateur boxers.
The only Home Union international to box professionally was the former Wales centre Jerry Shea who operated at the welterweight and middleweight divisions. His most famous opponent was Ted "Kid" Lewis, the former world welterweight title-holder.
The best Olympic boxing achievement by a rugby union international was the Silver medal won by R L "Snowy" Baker as a middleweight at the 1908 games (where he was beaten by the England Test cricketer J W H T Douglas). Baker had gained two rugby union caps for Australia against the 1904 British/Irish Lions.
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Cycling, First Aid, Navigation, Outdoor skills, Scout skills, Swimming, and Wilderness Survival skills.
While your handbook is your primary resource, the links below can help you learn Swimming Skills. See the Disclaimers. ► Videos show you key skills.
While your handbook is your primary resource, the links below can help you learn Swimming skills. The only resources recommended by the BSA are those in the BSA materials. See the Disclaimers.
Swimming Strokes
► Swimming Lesson Videos • How to Swim
Elementary Backstroke
► Video: Elementary Backstroke
arm action • breathing • Step-by step Instruction
► Trudgen
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Survival Floating
Treading Water
Personal Flotation Device
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Swimming Underwater
Swimming Turns
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Surface Diving
Lifesaving Skills
Reach, Throw, Row, Go
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How to Swim with an Unconscious Person • How to Use a Tired Swimmer Carry
Fear of the waterMany youth and adults have some fear of the water but when is a fear of the water considered to be the mental disorder requiring that the Scout be considered for Special Needs?
Websters Dictionary states that Hydrophobia is "the mortal fear of water" literally being scared to death of water. Hydrophobia is not a fear of swimming but a fear of all water. Hydrophobia is a mental disorder, specifically a Specific Phobia Anxiety Disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association classifies a Specific Phobia as 300.29.
If a Scout is diagnosed with Hydrophobia or other physical or mental disabilities, his Chartered Organization notes this on his youth application. The Scout's Medical Record should reflect any disabilities as well. His local council reviews any Medical Record, Individualized Education Program (IEP), and other resources and can certify that the Scout has Special Needs. The Council Advancement Committee can then approve Alternate Requirements for this Scout. See Special Needs for details.
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