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The scientific community has always had difficulty policing conflicts of interest, since financial interests and other exterior motivations have a very real potential to influence if and how scientific data gets reported. This issue has historically reared its ugly head in the biomedical community, where many researchers also consult for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. But it appears that a number of different scientific fields are about to see these conflicts played out in a very public manner, as a report indicates that BP is now locking scientists into contracts that will prevent them from publishing their results at all.
The report comes courtesy of Alabama's Press Register, which claims to have received a copy of the contract that BP is offering scientists based near the Gulf. "It prohibits the scientists from publishing their research, sharing it with other scientists or speaking about the data that they collect for at least the next three years," according to the reporter's description.
The report (and a second at Inside Higher Ed that substantially overlaps it) talked to a number of researchers who say BP made it clear that it was preparing for lawsuits, and expected any scientists to be available to testify in them if needed. The need, presumably, would depend precisely on what the research turned up.
All of which would put scientists in an awkward position when it comes to their own research. They would either be forced to sit on it until the contracts ran out, or end up presenting it in a courtroom, where it would presumably be used to advance a rather one-sided perspective on things.
Why would any scientist be interested in this? The scientists who talked off the record about this indicated that BP was offering up to $250 an hour for this work. Institutional and departmental rules limit the hours of outside consulting work that faculty can do, but, given an eight-hour weekly allowance (a figure derived from one of the universities involved), that works out to over $100,000 a year. For many academics, that would be double their salary.
Other scientists quoted off the record indicate that the organization taking the lead on the federal government's behalf, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is also playing hardball. Some indicated that it was checking for conflicts of interest before committing to fund anyone's work, and others indicate that grants for work in the Gulf come with a significant set of strings attached, as well. Others claim that those who sign on with BP will lose unrelated federal funding, as well.
It's probably worth noting again that all the scientists are being quoted off the record, and that neither BP or NOAA has publicly commented on any of the allegations.
The other thing worth noting is that the fields many of the scientists with relevant expertise work in—studying ocean currents, coastal ecosystems, and the like—are unlikely to have been faced with significant conflicts of interest in the past. The medical research community, given its extensive history with it, at least has measures in place to limit conflicts at the levels of the host institutions, research journals, and funding bodies.
These don't prevent abuse, but they at least ensure that those in the field have clear ethical guidelines, and those who broach them suffer significant consequences. Witness Duke's decision to suspend three clinical trials due to a case of résumé padding. The researcher also saw his funding agency suspend his grant.
Some of the fields that will be supplying data essential to interpreting and mitigating the impacts of the BP oil spill are unlikely to have the same sort of history and institutionalized procedures for dealing with conflicts of interest. But, given how closely the public is likely to be following the cleanup efforts, it's a safe bet they'll be developing them quickly.


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A.J. Pollock will have surgery on his fractured right hand in the next few days and Arizona Diamondbacks Manager Kirk Gibson expects the young outfielder to be sidelined about five to eight weeks.
Gibson, speaking before Sunday's game against Cincinnati, said that timetable was just a guess.
The Diamondbacks put Pollock on the 15-day disabled list and purchased the contract of outfielder David Peralta from double-A Mobile (Ala.). Peralta was in the Arizona lineup in left field for Sunday's game, his major league debut.
Pollock, in his second full season in the majors, was hit in the hand by the Reds' Johnny Cueto in the eighth inning of Saturday night's 5-0 loss to Cincinnati.
He had been one of the team's best players over the last month, batting .344 since April 4.
The Oakland Athletics called up catcher Stephen Vogt from triple-A Sacramento and optioned right-hander Fernando Rodriguez back to the minors.
Vogt immediately went into the starting lineup at catcher for the series finale against the Angels as the short-handed A's needed hitters with first baseman Brandon Moss (right calf) and outfielder Josh Reddick (knee) out because of injuries. Both are day to day.
Infielder Nick Punto is also slowed by a sore calf, leaving Oakland with only 10 healthy hitters before the move to bring up Vogt.
The Tampa Bay Rays put right fielder Wil Myers on the 15-day DL because of a sprained right wrist.
Myers was injured on the final play of a 3-2 loss Friday to the Boston Red Sox when his hand slapped the ground as he landed following a collision with center fielder Desmond Jennings. The collision led to a game-ending triple by A.J. Pierzynski in the 10th inning.
Myers, who also sat out Saturday's game, is batting .227 with five home runs and 25 runs batted in this season.
Right-hander Bryan Morris was traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Miami Marlins, who gave up the 39th overall pick in Thursday's draft.

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Carl Schuricht: The Complete EMI Recordings
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Symphony no.1 in C op.21 (1799-1800) [23:47], Symphony no.2 in D op.36
(1801-2) [32:27], Symphony no.3 in E flat op.55 Eroica (1803 [46:41],
Symphony no.4 in B flat op.60 (1806) [33:41], Symphony no.5 in C minor
op.67 (1807-8) [31:03], Symphony no.6 in F op.68 Pastoral (1808) [39:09],
Symphony no.7 in A op.93 (1811-12) [33:43], Symphony no.8 in F op.93
(1812) [26:02], Symphony no.9 in D minor op.125* (1822-24) [65:55]
Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896)
Symphony no.3 in D minor (1890 version, Schalk-Rättig) [55:17], Symphony
no.8 in C minor (1890 ed. Nowak [according to booklet, other sources
say Haas with variants]) [71:16], Symphony no.9 in D minor (1894 ed.
Nowak) [56:24]
Wilma Lipp (soprano)*, Marga Höffgen (contralto)*, Murray Dickie (tenor)*,
Gottlob Frick (baritone)*, Elisabeth Brasseur Choirs*, Paris Conservatoire
Orchestra (Beethoven), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruckner)/Carl
rec. 25-27, 29 April 1957 (Beethoven 5), 30 April, 2, 6 May 1957 (Beethoven
6), 7, 10 May 1957 (Beethoven 8), 11, 12 June 1957 (Beethoven 7), 18,
20, 23 December 1957 (Beethoven 3), 27-29, 31 May 1958 (Beethoven 9),
23, 25, 26 September 1958 (Beethoven 4), 26, 27 September 1958 (Beethoven
2), 27, 29 September 1958 (Beethoven 1), 20-22 November 1961 (Bruckner
8), 9-12 December 1963 (Bruckner 9), 2-4 December 1965 (Bruckner 3),
Salle Wagram, Paris (Beethoven), Grosser Saal des Musikvereins, Vienna
(Bruckner). Mono (Beethoven 1-8), Stereo (Beethoven 9, Bruckner)
Booklet essay in English, German, French
EMI ICON 6233792 [8 CDs: 70:34 + 66:17 + 64:51 + 65:19 + 65:55
+ 55:17 + 71:16 + 56:24]
The playing of the Conservatoire Orchestra is decidedly ragged. For pages on end one part of the orchestra will be just slightly out of time with the rest, and though everyone seems to put a great deal of energy into it all, the prevailing absence of precision nullifies the effect. It is rather like an orchestra practising on its own without a conductor. But even apart from discipline, these are rather unstylish performances, with little care taken about phrasing or even appropriate tempi. Review of first issue of the present recordings of Beethoven Symphonies 2 and 8 by Edward Greenfield, Gramophone December 1960.
[Schuricht] also recorded for EMI the nine Beethoven symphonies with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, but these performances were not hailed in Britain as being especially distinctive, mostly due to the sound of the French horns, which is disturbing to British ears. John L. Holmes: Conductors, A Record Collectors Guide, Gollancz 1988.
Adding to that was the unique timbre of the instruments: the French-style woodwind and brass, still handcrafted at that time, produced an individual and, above all, multi-coloured sound
. Especially in Beethoven with the French instruments, Schuricht was able to achieve a degree of colour, transparency and balanced sound that
was hardly available to him elsewhere. Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs, booklet essay for the present reissue, 2012.
Schurichts Beethoven cycle was recorded in Paris in mono only except for no.9 at a time when EMI was beginning to record in stereo as a matter of course in London, Berlin and Vienna. It was issued, in the UK at any rate, on HMVs bargain Concert Classics label XLP numbers. As can be seen above, it got a pretty dusty reception in high quarters and, as John Holmes points out, for many British listeners French orchestras just didnt sound like Beethoven orchestras. The bleating or braying horns were the prime culprits, but the vibrato favoured by French woodwind and brass players in general tended to be seen as a case of continental bad manners. I recall that the 9th was available on Classics for Pleasure in my younger days, but critical opinion remained hostile. It disappeared when CFP put out the complete Berlin PO/Cluytens cycle. This, too, had made little impact when it was new a famous Pastoral apart but achieved cult status in the 1970s.
More recently, punters have been suggesting Schuricht deserves another look. Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs, quoted above, actually claims virtue for the typically French sound. As the writer of the booklet essay he may be suspected of playing the devils advocate. He nevertheless presents a well-argued piece of writing and I personally believe he means what he says. Elsewhere it has been remarked that this cycle is the only one to preserve the sound of the leading French orchestra in a complete Beethoven cycle back in the days when French orchestras had a tangy sound that was all their own. Who was the first French conductor to record a Beethoven cycle with a French orchestra, anyway? Could it have been Krivine in the late 1990s?
So, clearing my mind and ears of preconceptions in so far as anyone can what did I find here?
My immediate impression was that I had never heard Beethoven conducted in quite this way. That is not the same as saying I had never heard Beethoven played this way. By certain string quartets, for example. I was reminded of Serkin playing the piano sonatas, even more, perhaps, of late Backhaus. The first symphony immediately created an impression of gut conviction and great vitality. As with late Backhaus, technical perfection is not an essential, phrasing can be a bit rough and breathless, but you get a sense of contact with the music that you more often get from hands-on performers than from conductors whose vision has to be realised by others: namely the orchestra. This generally translates into brisk, spinning tempi that are not driven, or goaded onward, by a conductor with a whip, but have a vitality that seems to arise from the music. In the second movement of this same symphony there is a warm songfulness rather than an attempt to wrest a prayer for humanity from every phrase. It is here, too, that the French woodwind are at their most piquant.
I must record a curious sensation over this. While it is true that the Historically Informed brigade would run a mile from such vibrato, modern performances on period-style instruments have rediscovered a factor which was still available in Paris in the 1950s. Each instrument has its own personality, makes its own contribution to the argument, instead of being blended so that the wind band might as well be a harmonium. With the wind forwardly balanced into the bargain, these performances contain elements that were scarcely heard again until the HIP movement got going two decades later.
This sense of vital contact with the music crescendos through the first three symphonies. The Eroica slow movement is an interesting case. Schuricht starts out at a fairly flowing, but expressive tempo. Most conductors start slower, but have to move forward later. Schuricht holds his tempo, but not in the sense of dogmatically ploughing on regardless. He simply doesnt seem to find it necessary to make any adjustment, for his tempo fits every part of the movement beautifully. The proof of this is heard as the initial march theme returns after the climax and sails in without the conductor having to put on the brakes. The final disintegration has rarely been so moving it emerges so inevitably from what came before. In spite of a not very slow initial tempo this is one of the longer versions on record: at 15:40 it is exceeded by Toscaninis 16:06 in 1939 but is expansive compared with Klemperers 14:43 in 1956 and no, I havent got these the wrong way round.
Id better say, though, that if you cant take vibrato on French horns, the trio of the Eroica scherzo is going to be one of the problem moments of the set for you. Youll have to admit, though, that after their own lights theyre super players. Schuricht doesnt slacken pace an iota and they get through with flying colours and terrific rhythm.
After this, maybe the fourth is just a good, lively performance, with a characterful slow movement, but the fifth is another highlight. Great vitality and conviction again, and a particularly successful slow movement. This latter can seem marmoreal in some hands, here it sings warmly throughout, and again Schuricht finds a tempo that flows beautifully all through.
The opening of the finale is something else again. This time its not just the horns but the trumpets, too, are in full cry vibrato-wise. Its worth making the effort not to hear the band of the Gendarmerie (or the Salvation Army) in this, for the performance as such is all ablaze.
Schuricht finds quite gentle tempi for the first two movements of the Pastoral. The peasants dance at a very lively tempo, the storm is dramatic the mono recording is at a disadvantage here though and the Hymn of Thanksgiving is kept on the move. The seventh, like the fourth, is a good lively performance, particularly commendable for its slow movement. In the outer movements of the eighth we find Schuricht allowing each theme its own tempo, as he did in Bruckner see below. By this means he differentiates more than most conductors between the post-Mozartian nos. 1 and 2 and the 8th which, though little, emerges as a more proto-romantic statement. Some listeners will find the tempo fluctuations disconcerting, especially since this has not been a feature of Schurichts Beethoven up to that point. The metronome movement is rather relaxed, while the Minuet is quite fierce. However, when Schuricht reaches the trio he broadens out into a gentle Landler tempo in which the horns can display their vibrato in all its blowzy glory. Say what you will, they are very fine players, and for better or worse I doubt if youll find another performance of this trio that sounds remotely like this one. Not, for example, that by the same orchestra about ten years earlier under Charles Munch. The vibrato is there, but the conductors fleeter conception minimizes it.
You might expect a conductor famous for his Bruckner to have the opening of the 9th emerge from the Wagnerian mists. Instead, Schurichts clear textures and forward wind band horns not tremolo strings dominate at the beginning look backwards. This is more like Haydn, or the Mozart of Don Giovanni, gone mad than like Bruckner.
The scherzo goes at a zippy dance pace, with terrific rhythm no lazy relapses into duple time. The trio is almighty fast, but beautifully sprung. The slow movement avoids any religioso sense. Rather, it sings warmly and contentedly at a fairly broad pace that accommodates the later variations without any sense of haste.
After a brisk opening gambit, Schuricht doesnt indulge the instrumental recitatives at the beginning of the finale, taking them pretty well up to tempo. Rarely has this retrospective glance at the earlier movements sounded more concise. As for the finale proper, its mostly fastish and very exciting, but not again not driven along, the joy seems to come from within. The solo team is a typical Austro-German one of the day and if Wilma Lipp is less remembered today than the other three, all four of them sing splendidly.
The drawbacks of this cycle cannot be ignored. Symphonies 1-8 are in vivid but slightly rough mono not as euphonious as EMI themselves had produced in London for Karajan a few years earlier, only a slight advance on their Vienna Recordings with Furtwängler at the beginning of the decade. The Eroica, which has a different producer from the others, has some microphone overloading. The orchestra is a fine one but well-scrubbed precision is not on Schurichts agenda and some ragged corners are left in that a Karajan would have remade. The special qualities of the wind and brass instruments will be a hurdle for some. Personally I find they fit in perfectly with Schurichts overall approach.
To continue with the drawbacks, the texts have the traditional Weingartner tamperings. The coda of the Eroica first movement has rewritten brass parts, horns not bassoons usher in the return of the second theme in the first movement of the 5th, the missing brass notes in the initial onslaught of the finale of the 9th have been filled in. Back in those days only Erich Kleiber showed much interest in cleaning all this up, and he didnt record a complete cycle.
Repeat-wise, too, the set is of its time. The outer movements of 1 and 4 get their repeats quite unusual back then though the second movement of no.1 doesnt. The first movements of 2 & 3 are without repeats. No.5 gets the repeat in the first movement but not the finale. The first movement of the Pastoral has no repeat, while the first movement of no.8 gets it. Repeats are at a minimum in no.7. Longer scherzos 7 and 9 are short on repeats. Curiously, the Minuet (so-called) of no.1 gets its first repeat even on its return after the trio. But did any cycle from those days have fuller texts? Just about the same time as Schuricht was setting all this down, Franz Konwitschny in Leipzig was starting out on what was to be the first Beethoven cycle with all repeats.
Thus the drawbacks. Against this is a clarity, a vitality and an absence of traditional dogma which Schuricht could hardly have obtained except with an orchestra supposedly extraneous to the Beethoven tradition. Cohrs draws a parallel with the Leibowitz cycle recorded in London a few years later. But Leibowitz was an arch-modernist who might have been expected to break with tradition, and his cycle was practically unknown for its first couple of decades, limited to Readers Digest subscribers. In short, Schurichts Beethoven disconcerted contemporary ears, who found in the drawbacks Ive listed above a convenient handle to dismiss it as a strange aberration.
The time has now come to take it seriously. Heaven forbid that any critic should recommend a best version of such multifarious works, or even a best version of each single symphony. We can try to distinguish between the ones that count and those that dont. This cycle counts. It explores avenues of Beethoven interpretation, areas of Beethovenian truth, not touched upon elsewhere.
Those who decide to investigate will also get three famous Bruckner recordings.
In truth, these are no less controversial than the Beethoven. Ill start with the 8th, which is perhaps the most extreme case. Timings dont tell us everything, but they at least show that something extraordinary is afoot. Conventional wisdom has it that this symphony lasts about 80 minutes. A trawl through John Berkys magnificent Bruckner site shows that a majority of performances do indeed come in around that mark. Giulini extended this to 87:32 in 1984, Wand to 89 in 2000, Jeffrey Tate to 92 in 2007, Celibidache to 104 in 1993. In other words, in the time it takes you to listen to Celibidache, you could listen to the whole of Schurichts, encore the first two movements and have the time left to make yourself a lightly-boiled egg. Karajan was taking 87 minutes in 1957, but his performances actually got a little faster over the years.
At the other end of the scale, and discounting the disgracefully foreshortened texts of Bostonians Koussevitzky (50:40 in 1947) and Steinberg (61:30 in 1962), only Fedoseyev in 1997, at 71:30 actually comes close to Schurichts 71:16. Interestingly, Schuricht himself took 70:45 in a live performance a few days before the studio recording. Not far off are Klemperer in 1957 (71:53) and Barbirolli (74 minutes in 1970). Lastly, it seems that Schurichts fast timings were not a constant throughout his life. A number of live performances have emerged from the 1950s of which that of 1955 with the NDR SO appears typical: 79:11 with a slow movement timed at 27:06 compared with the present recordings 21:47. Most of the longer versions, by the way, use some kind of Nowak text. Schurichts is described here as Nowak, but most other sources say he plays an edited version of the Haas. Im not in a position to follow all this up, but if true it means he actually plays a little more music than is contained in a strict Nowak text.
Granted that this may be the fastest Bruckner 8 ever recorded, what are the actual results?
Right from the start, you may note that the wind interjections to the rugged main theme in the cellos and basses are phrased according to their expressive meaning, rather than held strictly in tempo. This is the key to what follows. Each section, paragraph, theme and single phrase is given its specific value, colour and expressive form, without relating them to a single tempo. Its not so much a question of changing tempo from section to section as of not having a tempo at all. If this sounds like a recipe for disaster, in Schurichts hands it works. The musics own tensions and inherent structure hold it together. In addition to this, Schuricht pits the sections of the orchestra against one another there is some shattering brass playing with the result that the first movement has a devastating, unsettling impact. More than romantic it sounds expressionist, curiously modern, even post-Mahlerian.
Schuricht had a very special way with Bruckners scherzos. Here he establishes a powerful surge at a not excessively fast tempo. The trio offers perhaps the one moment of real repose in the whole symphony, luxuriantly lingering and again very flexible tempo-wise.
The great adagio does not sound hurried, whatever the timings tell you. Schurichts combination of long phrasing with undulating tempi allow the music to waft rather than be driven. Like the first movement, it is unsettling and disconcertingly modern.
Im not sure the recipe works quite so well for the finale, terrific though much of it is. Parts of it do sound a bit hasty. More recent, and more patient, Bruckner interpreters have perhaps understood better that, as Tovey put it years ago, you must not expect Bruckner to make a finale go. Schuricht almost succeeds, in his urgency, in making this one go, yet ultimately Bruckner himself doesnt want to play the game. On the other hand, could Schurichts violently expressionist first three movements have been reasonably followed by a patiently unfolded finale? Id say not. At which point the whole pack of cards comes tumbling down and the first three movements have to be wrong. But so engrossingly, enthralling and thrillingly wrong that Brucknerians must not miss them.
Bruckner 9 was the one performance here that I already knew. Its Classics for Pleasure incarnation was a treasured companion of my youthful days. Every time I come back to it I realize how deeply embedded all its sounds and gestures have remained in me. I notice now that Schuricht has just the same wide-ranging attitude to tempi as in no.8, yet it still sounds absolutely right to me. In vain have I listened elsewhere for the bluesy clarinet glissandos popping out of the texture in the trio of the second movement. The academic half of me admits that perhaps they shouldnt be there, but I just love them.
Trying to be a little more objective, firstly this performance is less controversial over tempi. I mean by this that John Berkys site lists versions of each movement that are both faster and slower, though a majority of conductors stretch the last movement out rather more. What is of interest is that the timings here dont seem to be typical of Schuricht himself when conducting other orchestras, even at about the same time as this recording.
Whereas in the 8th symphony Schuricht pits the orchestral sections violently against each other, here he blends them. This combines with an undulating pulse that makes the symphony float in great heaving waves. If the 8th is more dramatic than usual, the 9th becomes less craggy, more lusciously romantic. The scherzo is unmissable once youve heard it, everyone else seems either to briskly driven or too lugubriously dragging.
I was less happy with the 3rd. Part of the problem is Bruckners own. This relatively early symphony is a ramshackle affair and Schurichts undulating tempi become a liability. Those conductors do better who shore up the creaking edifice by bulldozing through at a constant tempo. Nor does it help that the orchestra, and especially the first horn, are on shaky form in the first movement. Nevertheless, the scherzo is gloriously paced, slower than usual but with a rustic spring in its step. And in the finale, the way the first forte passage swoons into a deliriously swaying polka is a treasurable moment indeed. So Brucknerians must have this performance to hand, and what better way to acquire it than in this neatly priced package?
One last comment. None of these performances would have been possible with a different orchestra to that used. Whereas some other conductors try at times successfully to get the same performance from whatever orchestra they have in front of them, it seems that Schuricht found a creative meeting point between his own vision of the score and the special sound of each orchestra.
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Oh my gosh, your anger is making me laugh. Anyone else feeling a little bit queasy about having season tickets this year? The expense of that is feeling like an investment that wont get much of a return and will break my heart. And at the moment, my Josh Wilson lovin' heart is not turning it's way to Pete Carroll, that's for sure!
It's time to take a deep breath. There is no reason to get carried away, LOL! First of all, Alex Gibbs is old. Alex Gibbs was working around mediocre players. Carroll and Co. did not help him out one bit with personal, expect for Okung. I feel there is more to the story than we can see. To retire before the season isn't common. Also, it looks like Carroll and Co. are changing O-Line schemes. You don't trade for a giant of a man like Stacy Andrews for a zone blocking scheme. Secondly, Julius Jones does suck, but everyone looks like shit. So keep the load of shit no matter the shit,LOL! Thirdly, Huskies…well…no comment.
Here's one for you to add to the anger list. DT Keven Vickerson was cut. I swear I thought this guy out played every NT on the team. What is going on in seahawkville? We also signed DT Junior Siavii. Doesn't make any sense. Now I'm pissed.
Now I'm LMAO! Seahawks just cut Julius Jones and Babs! What next? Too funny! It's also being reported that the Seahawks have been working all night to get this Vincent Jackson trade done. Aaron Curry just tweeted that things are getting shaky in Hawkville.
I have nothing better to do until the family dinner, so I'm going report news for you HB and the rest of the Hawk Blogger clan. Qwen Schmitt was cut just now and we hired O-Line coach Pat Ruell from USC to take Alex Gibbs spot. So much happening.
I just got back from an impromptu family getaway. Thanks for keeping folks informed, Pablo! 🙂


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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has jurisdiction to try two Italian marines charged with killing two fishermen, India's Supreme Court said in a long-awaiting ruling on Friday, setting the stage for a criminal trial that could further sour ties between India and Italy.
The marines, members of a military security team protecting a cargo ship, Enrica Lexie, say they mistook the fishermen for pirates off the Kerala coast in February 2012.
Italy went to the Supreme Court last year to challenge India's right to try the sailors, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, arguing that the shooting had taken place in international waters, outside the jurisdiction of Indian courts.
The Supreme Court ruled that Kerala state courts did not have the authority to adjudicate in the case and ordered that a special federal court be set up to try the marines, lawyers who attended the hearing said afterwards.
"The relief for the marines is that at least they won't be prosecuted by Kerala," Diljeet Titus, one of the lawyers representing the Italian marines, told Reuters.
There were no immediate details of the reasons for the court's decision in a case that has caused a diplomatic rift between Italy and India, which have traditionally had good relations.
In Rome, the government said the decision was "encouraging" and that its main objective was to bring the marines home.
Indian authorities had argued that the shooting took place in a "contiguous zone" where Indian law applies. Italian embassy officials declined to comment to reporters outside the court.
"The government of India should ensure that they are brought to the book otherwise nobody will value Indian lives," said Father John Churchill, a priest and relative of 19-year-old Ajesh Binki, one of the slain fishermen, as he welcomed the court's decision.
The Italians have been confined to the Keralan city of Kochi but spent Christmas in Italy after a court allowed them to join their families for the holiday, on condition that they returned to India by January 10, which they did.
The sailors will now be brought from Kochi to the Indian capital, where they will remain in the custody of the Italian embassy. They will have to report to a local police station once a week and their passports will now be surrendered to the Indian government.
Titus said they would challenge Friday's decision in the federal special court, asking once again for the sailors to be tried on home soil.
"We do plan to agitate the issue of jurisdiction at the special court level," Titus told Reuters.
In April, Italy paid $190,000 compensation to each of the victims' families, who then dropped their cases against the marines.
The two sailors, wearing jeans, long-sleeved shirts and sunglasses, made no comment to journalists as they left the police commissioner's office in Kochi, where they are required to report every day as a condition of their bail.
Italy has sought to pile both public and private pressure on the Indian government to allow the marines to be tried at home. Italy's prime minister and other senior officials have made direct appeals to their counterparts in New Delhi.
In October, Ferrari's Formula One team emblazoned its cars with the Italian navy's flag in the Indian Grand Prix in a show of solidarity with the military officers, reigniting Indian anger over the incident.
Attacks on ships have increased in the eastern side of the Arabian Sea, as better security around the Horn of Africa has pushed Somali pirates to range as far as the Maldives. The waters close to India are generally considered safer.
Reporting by Suchitra Mohanty and Annie Banerji; additional reporting by Philip Pullella in Rome; Editing by Ross Colvin, Robert Birsel and Ron Popeski


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The rumors trying to connect Nick Saban to a potential vacancy at Texas are mildly entertaining, but if we are to take the Alabama head coach at his word we can probably put them all to rest. Saban says his age will prevent him from even thinking about starting with a clean slate at any other program.
"Every year it's something. Last year it was the Cleveland Browns," Saban said Thursday night on his weekly radio show, according to AL.com. "And, quite frankly, I'm just too damn old to start over somewhere else."
So there you go. Forget about Saban going to Texas to replace Mack Brown in 2014. Well, maybe. Who knows, after all, didn't Saban say similar things when he was with the Miami Dolphins? Yes, he did. Never say never, right?
But Saban has a bit of a point here. Saban is 61 years old, and will turn 62 before the end of this season. At his age it is certainly not impossible to move to a new program and try to turn things around, but we are entering an age where coaches probably are not going to be coaching well in to their 60s any more. Unless Saban were to give the NFL one more crack, Alabama certainly feels as though it will be his final coaching job.
And make no mistake, Saban would be starting over at Texas. The Longhorns are looking more and more like a rebuilding project, but it is not the type of rebuilding project that would need a structured fie-year plan. Given the resources available at Texas and the large talent pool to swim in and Saban's coaching profile, Texas would be a national title contender rather quickly.
Saban's comments were inspired by reports from earlier in the day saying regents at Texas had made an attempt to reach out to Saban to gauge his interest. It's a long shot for Texas, but given the situation brewing in Austin, it is a move Texas would absolutely have to make. If Texas calls Saban and Saban says "Thanks, but no thanks," so be it. At least an effort was made to drastically change the image of the Texas program. Saban did rebuff those reports during his radio show as well.
"Nothing went on that I know of," Saban said. "I don't know about any of this stuff. I haven't talked to anybody about that particular situation. They have a coach there."


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The Bobcats need a break.
The Ignacio High School football team will get one this week.
The Bobcats, who lost their third consecutive game Friday night 60-28 at Shiprock, will regroup this week as they prepare to host the Montezuma-Cortez junior varsity Saturday.
Were still missing a bunch of our kids, Ignacio head coach Lupe Huerta said Saturday. Weve got freshmen playing because other freshmen are hurt.
Shiprock, coached by longtime former Dolores coach Don Story, started quickly Friday night with a second-quarter scoring outburst and a 35-6 halftime lead.
Story, a regular in the Colorado playoffs in his 12 seasons at Dolores, orchestrated a number of big plays for the Chieftains, including a reverse for a touchdown by Hiram Gleason and several long runs by Collin Begay.
His defense pressured IHS quarterback Adison Jones early. Jones helped the Bobcats rally in the second half when they scored three times against the Chieftains.
He (Adison) played very well. In a lot of cases, he had time, and the receivers couldnt hold on, Huerta said. The receiving corps has been beset by injuries.
In the second half, we made some adjustments ... that got us going, he said. The kids kept fighting; these kids have no quit in them.
He said Shiprock used its excellent speed on the outside just like the Dolores teams did under Story.
Shiprock now is 2-1.
Ignacio, after this weeks game against the Montezuma-Cortez JV, will prepare for its San Juan Basin League opener Sept. 28 at Monte Vista.
Its kind of patchwork for us right now. If I can get a couple of kids back this week and then a couple more for Monte Vista, Huerta tailed off, dreaming of the Bobcats possibilities.


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ROCKFORD — A storage building belonging to ComEd caught fire late Saturday and is described as a total loss.
Firefighters responded to a report of a structure fire at 11:19 p.m.
A large storage facility at 123 Energy Ave. was on fire when they arrived, according to a report from the Rockford Fire Department.
The building contained tools, construction equipment and wire, said ComEd spokesman Paul Callighan. The company has several other buildings at that location, none of which sustained any damage.
"The fire was spotted by one of our overnight crews," Callighan said. "They saw the fire coming from the building and called the fire department."
Callighan commended fire crews for their fast response and ability to keep the fire from spreading to neighboring buildings that house the utility provider's offices, training facilities and transportation garages.
Firefighters fought the blaze for five hours but did not enter the building for safety reasons pertaining to structure's stability.
Company officials will be evaluating the loss Monday, Callighan said. The loss of the storage building will cause no interruption to service or operations.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.


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Books for Preschoolers
Article in Juvenile Fiction
A printable version of this booklist is available in Word format here
Notable New Titles
JP Bean, Jonathan Building Our House
- A girl narrates her family's move where they build a house with help from relatives and friends.
JP Blechman, Nicholas Night Light
- Count the lights through die cut pages and see what they belong to.
JP Gliori, Debi What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?
- It's time for a surprise party.
JP Horacek, Peter Puffin Peter
- When his best friend is lost in a terrible storm, an intrepid young puffin teams up with a big blue whale to mount a rescue mission.
JP Joosse, Barbara Lovabye Dragon
- When a lonely dragon follows a trail of princess tears, a beautiful friendship is born.
JP Klassen, J This is Not My Hat
- A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.
JP Larochelle, David It's a Tiger!
- A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
JP Moore, Eva Lucky Ducklings
- In this true story, a mother duck and five little ducklings fall into a storm drain and are rescued.
JP Morstad, Julie How To
- This imaginative 'how to' book explores whimsical ways of doing a host of different tasks, including 'how to wonder,' 'how to see the breeze,' and 'how to be brave.'
Old Favorites
Most of these authors have written other wonderful books.
JP Becker, Bonnie A Visitor for Bear
- Bear's efforts to keep out visitors to his house are undermined by a very persistent mouse.
JP Broach, Elise When Dinosaurs Came With Everything
- A boy is delighted to discover that every shop in town is giving away real dinosaurs.
JP 385 C C Is For Caboose
- Contemporary photos and vintage illustrations combine to make a treat for train lovers.
JP Chen, Chi-Yuan Guji Guji
- Guji Guji, a crocodile raised by ducks, becomes a hero when three crocodiles want him to lead ducks into a trap.
JP Chodos-Irvine, Margaret Best Best Friends
- Mary and Clare do everything together.
JP Cousins, Lucy I'm the Best
- Dog is constantly boasting but his friends teach him what it means to be a good friend.
JP Crum, Shutta Thunder-Boomer
- A violent thunderstorm brings heat relief and an unexpected surprise.
JP Cyrus, Kurt Tadpole Rex
- A tiny primordial tadpole grows into a frog and feels as huge and powerful as tyrannosaurus rex.
JP D'Amico, Carmela Ella Takes the Cake
- Ella the elephant wants to help in her mother's bakery.
JP Davies, Nicola Outside Your Window
- There's plenty of nature related food for thought in this lovely book.
JP Demas, Corrine Always in Trouble
- Emma's dog Toby misbehaves until she takes him back to become a 'specially trained dog.'
JP Durango, Julia Cha-Cha Chimps
- Ten little chimps head out for some fun dancing at Mambo Jambas.
JP Ernst, Lisa Campbell Gingerbread Girl
- Look out for the gingerbread boy's younger sister.
JP Fearnley, Jan Milo Armadillo
- Grandma tries to make a fluffy pink rabbit for Tallulah, but it turns out to be an armadillo - Milo Armadillo.
JP Freedman, Deborah Blue Chicken
- A chicken tries to help an artist paint the barnyard.
JP Gal, Susan Night Lights
- At bedtime, a girl and her dog note the different kinds of light brightening up the night.
JP Greenfield, Eloise. Grandpa's Face
- Tamika is frightened when she sees her grandfather's loving face become angry.
JP Grey, Mini Traction Man Meets Turbodog
- Traction Man (an action figure) teams up with the not-so-bright Turbodog to rescue scrubbing brush.
JP Harrington, Janice The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
- A yhoung farm girl tries to catch her favorite chicken.
JP Henkes, Kevin A Good Day
- A day starts out badly, but through interesting twists, becomes a good one.
JP Hoffman, Mary Amazing Grace
- Grace discovers that she can do whatever she sets her mind to.
JP 590 Jenkins, Steve Actual Size
- Compare the size and weight of various animals in this book.
JP Johnson, Angela Julius
- Maya has a pet pig.
JP Johnson, Paul Brett On Top of Spaghetti
- The fun begins with a rolling meatball.
JP Kellogg, Steven Pinkerton series.
JP Lawson, Dorie Tex
- Luke's dreams transport him to his new role a s a cowboy on a ranch.
JP Lee, Ho While We Were Out
- While the family is away, a pet rabbit enjoys exploring the apartment.
JP Liwska, Renata Red Wagon
- Lucy wants to play with her new red wagon.
JP 621.9 Miura, Taro Tools
- Take a look at more than 60 tools and the people who use them.
JP Monroe, Chris Monkey With a Tool Belt
- When Chico Bon Bon is captured by an organ grinder, he uses his tool belt to escape.
JP Nakagawa, Chihivo Who Made This Cake?
- Little people invade a house and use their big construction equipment to bake a cake.
JP Pinkney, Brian The Adventures of Sparrowboy
- Henry gets amazing powers from a bird..
JP Rathmann, Peggy The Day the Babies Crawled Away
- A boy follows five babies who crawl away.
JP Rayner, Catherine Solomon Crocodile
- Solomon Crocodile's rough play prevents him from making friends until a stranger comes stomping through the reeds.
JP Robinson, fiona What Animals Really Like
- When the National Animal Chorus gathers to perform, it doesn't go exactly as planned.
JP Root, Phyllis Rattletrap Car
- When the rattletrap car breaks down, Poppa and his children find ingenious solutions to each problem.
JP Rosen, Michael Tiny Little Fly
- Tiny Little Fly teases Elephant, Hippo, and Tiger, but they cannot catch him.
JP Rosenthal, Amy Duck! Rabbit!
- Is it a duck or is it a rabbit: a clever take on an optical illusion.
JP Steig, William Pete's a Pizza
- When Pete has a bad day, his father makes a very special pizza.
JP Tullet, Herve Press Here
- Have fun playing with this imaginative book.
JP Walter, Mildred Pitts My Mama Needs Me
- Jason wants to help his mother with the new baby.
JP Ward, Jennifer Busy Tree
- Many different types of wildlife live in and around a tree.
JP Wheeler, Lisa Jazz Baby
- Baby and his family make some jazzy music
JP Willems, Mo City Dog, Country Frog
- Dog and frog have been friends for three seasons, but when dog returns in winter, frog is nowhere to be found.
JP Wolfe, Myra Charlotte Jane Battles Bedtime
- Charlotte Jane the Hearty gets all the juice out of her days with pirate-girl pizzaz!
JP Yolen, Jane Not All Princesses Dress in Pink
- Princesses can wear baseball jerseys or soccer cleats and can build tree houses, plant flowers and wield swords -- without losing their tiaras.


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Diamonds could bring true love to investors willing to brave a tough market, but experts say heartbreak lurks for the unwary.
Dazzling numbers make the multifaceted market seem to glitter.
According to Martin Rapaport's "Diamond Price Statistics Annual Report — 2011," every $1,000 spent on a 5-carat diamond 10 years ago would have returned $1,645 in 2011.
A decade-long diamond investment outpaced returns in theyen, euro, and Nasdaq or Dow Jonesindices, according to the report.
Rapaport, however, is cautious about investing in the market. He says normal investors have "no access to the market," and that the bid/ask spread for items is "crazy."
"Let's say you have a diamond that you inherited from your grandmother," Rapaport says. "Your ability to get a good price for that diamond would be a lot less than mine because I have more access to buyers and sellers and traders."
Indeed, there are few vehicles for investing in diamonds. There are no futures or ETFsfor diamonds, unlike precious metals. While the spot price ofgoldcan be found for free online, or on TV, the most respected sources for diamond prices (like Rapaport's price guides) are subscription-based.
So What's the Price?
Experts, including Virginia Zart, director of operations of ETF Trends, say the complexity of diamond pricing is one of the toughest obstacles to commoditizing the diamond market. And each of a diamond's four C's — cut, clarity, color and carats — make standardized pricing very difficult.
De Beers, the world's largest diamond supplier, has had requests to participate in an investment instrument, Zart says. "There are no diamonds futures," Zart says. "So a diamond ETF would have to be physically backed."
Founded in 1888 as a consortium of diamond producers and distributors, De Beers actually predates the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, which includes some of the world's largest oil producing and exporting countries. At the beginning of the 20th century, it controlled about 90 percent of the diamond supply, according to De Beers.
Plus there's the emotional value associated with diamonds. Stephen Lussier, CEO of Forevermark, a De Beers company, repeats a sentiment used in Forevermark's marketing — "every diamond is a unique miracle of nature."
"The emotional content of (diamond jewelry) is most critical," Lussier says. "We prefer consumers buy diamond jewelry to keep, not to trade."
The market first waxed sentimental about diamonds in 1939. De Beers had contracted with N.W. Ayer, a leading U.S. ad agency, which suggested linking diamonds to love.
This corporate union, described in a 1982 article in The Atlantic, "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?" reinforced the notion of better diamonds as bigger expressions of love. It also increased U.S. diamonds sales 55 percent by 1941. By 1951, Ayer penned the slogan "A diamond is forever."
Seeking Diamond ETFs
While De Beers talks romance, others seek revenues. Among them is Saul Singer, a partner in Fusion Alternatives, which advises diamond investors. Singer says his company is working on a diamond investment fund, and trying to persuade other firms to launch diamond-backed ETFs. There's now no efficient way for average investors to access the diamond market, Singer says.
"Furthermore, a 'normal' investor will generally not be able to purchase a large enough pool of diamond assets with diverse characteristics in order to create a diversified portfolio effect," Singer says. "On the sell-side, the 'normal' investor will be limited in his or her ability to liquidate the diamond assets at fair market value."
For now, while a dive into diamond investing is dangerous, it could also be rewarding — especially if they become commoditized. Rapaport says those who had gold would've gotten a price boost when the gold ETF began. He also touted their portability, saying, if times get tough, "you don't even have to smuggle them" — because there's "no law against wearing a beautiful engagement ring through an airport."
What to Look For
Rapaport also gave these tips for would-be diamond traders:
- Only invest in diamonds examined and certified by the Gemological Institute of America or International Gemological Institute.
- Get an appraiser's opinion on a diamond, making sure it's appraised by current market price, and that the appraiser is a member of the National Association of Appraisers.
- Don't get caught up paying a lot of money on insurance. Lock it up in a safe.
- Invest in polished diamonds, rather than uncut.
- Don't buy diamonds with a greenish hue — they could be blood diamonds. Sometimes also called conflict diamonds, these kinds of diamondshave been mined in war zones and fund insurgencies or warlords.
- And, most importantly: Before you buy something, see if you can sell it.
Finally, Rapaport says diamonds can be more than a pure investment play.
"There's an artistic, or there's a luxury aspect, to investing in a diamond," he says. "A lot of people have this relationship with diamonds or art. So having beautiful jewelry is definitely going to make your wife very happy. It's a status symbol."


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GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — China's new Communist Party leaders want to appear more open, but they're not about to give up control of the media. That's the lesson of a dustup involving an influential newspaper whose staff briefly rebelled against especially heavy-handed censorship.
The staff of Southern Weekly returned to work after some controls were relaxed, but public demands for the ouster of the top censor were ignored. Some observers took solace in the fact that no journalists were punished — at least not yet.
"The fact that no one is being immediately punished is a victory. That is not insignificant," said Steve Tsang, a China politics expert at the University of Nottingham in Britain. "It's a smart use of the party's power but it's not actually making any compromise in terms of the basic fundamental principles of the party staying fully in control on anything that really matters."
China's new leader, Xi Jinping, has raised reformist hopes and struck an especially populist note in vowing to tackle official corruption. In an early December speech he praised China's constitution and said people's rights must be respected, comments that helped set the stage for the censorship clash.
(READ MORE: Analysis: Southern Weekly 'deal' fails to address the real issues)
The constitution grants Chinese many rights, including freedom of speech and of the press, but it is often ignored. Many in China interpret the constitution as limiting the power of the ruling Communist Party.
"No organization or individual has the special right to overstep the constitution and law, and any violation of the constitution and the law must be investigated," Xi said. Many media commentators viewed his remarks as an opportunity to push for the rule of law the party has long promised but failed to deliver.
The staff at the Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou — a southern city known for freewheeling commerce, political boldness and year-round flowers — joined the fray with a New Year's editorial extolling adherence to the constitution as the new Chinese dream.
Journalists say the provincial censor morphed the item into a piece praising the party — and did so without running it by the editorial department. That violated an unwritten rule in the way censorship normally is carried out.
For three days, hundreds of supporters gathered in front of the newspaper offices on sidewalks scented with osthmanthus blossoms to shout for greater press freedom and wave banners. One man wrapped himself in newspaper to show his solidarity. But the dispute also drew political conservatives who called the newspaper's journalists "traitors" and "running dogs."
By Thursday, police began to clear the scene, chasing away loiterers and hauling at least five people into vans. Journalists from the Southern Weekly mostly kept silent under directives not to speak to foreign media.
The staff threatened to go on strike, and after days of negotiations, officials agreed they would roll back recently introduced measures to directly censor content prior to publication. However, the previous status quo of directives, self-censorship, threats of dismissal and many other longstanding measures will stay in place to ensure obedience to the party.
The paper was published as usual Thursday. An editor said some of the staff had tried to insert a commentary praising the newspaper as a tribune of reform, but were rebuffed by management. The editor asked not to be named because he had been repeatedly warned not to talk to foreign media.
The Southern Weekly has been a standard-bearer for hard-edged reporting and liberal commentary since the 1990s. Senior party politicians and propaganda functionaries have repeatedly attempted to rein in the newspaper, dismissing editors and reporters who breach often unstated limits.
A former managing editor of the Southern Weekly, who was himself purged from the publication in 2001 after officials complained about the paper's aggressive reporting, said he thought this latest challenge might give censors pause.
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François' langur
The François' langur (Trachypithecus francoisi), also known as the Francois' leaf monkey, Tonkin leaf monkey, or white side-burned black langur[3] is a species of lutung and the type species of its species group. It is one of the least studied of the species belonging to the Colobinae subfamily.[4]
|François' langur[1]
|François' langurs at the Cincinnati Zoo
|Scientific classification
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T. francoisi
|Binomial name
|Trachypithecus francoisi
(de Pousargues, 1898)
|Geographic range
The species is distributed from Southwestern China to northeastern Vietnam. The total number of wild individuals is unknown, but fewer than 500 are believed to be left in Vietnam and 1,400–1,650 in China.[2] About 60 langurs are in captivity in North American zoos. The species is named after Auguste François (1857–1935), who was the French Consul at Lungchow in southern China.[5]
Physical descriptionEdit
François' langur is a medium-sized primate with black, silky hair. It has very distinct white sideburns that grow down from its ears to the corners of its cheeks.[3] A morphological specialization of François' langur is its complex stomach, made up of four separate chambers. This is a necessary adaptation for the digestion of its folivorous diet.[4]
This species shows sexual dimorphism in its size. Males have a head-body length of 55–64 cm (22–25 in), while females are only 47–59 cm (19–23 in) in length. Males likewise have longer tails of 82–96 cm (32–38 in) compared to the 74–89 cm (29–35 in) for females. Males are significantly heavier than females, weighing 6.5–7.2 kg (14–16 lb) compared to 5.5–5.9 kg (12–13 lb) for females. Infants weigh 0.45–0.50 kg (16–18 oz) at birth.[3]
Infants are born with bright orange coloured fur, which fades to black throughout the period of infancy lasting several months. It isn't known why their coats are so conspicuous, but current hypotheses suggest it may elicit attention, protection and caregiving by adults.[6]
François' langur has large salivary glands to begin the digestion of tough leaf fibers. A more notable evolutionary adaptation seen in this langur is the sacculated stomach with two chambers. In the upper chamber, bacteria help to continue the breakdown of fibers started by the saliva. The upper chamber has a relatively normal pH, to create favorable conditions for bacterial growth. The lower chamber is similar to that of other mammals, in that it contains the acids that finish the breakdown of food components.[3]
François' langur is diurnal and spends most of the day resting and foraging.[7] One study investigated time distribution across activities in a disturbed environment, showing resting 35.41%, foraging 31.67%, traveling 14.44%, huddling 9.61%, playing 8.54%, and grooming 0.33%.[7] Traveling, playing, grooming and huddling are more dependent on the season.[8] Grooming has been found to occur in all seasons but spring.[7] François' langur spends a greater part of its day travelling during the winter (20.12%) and huddling in the spring (14.62%).[8]
François' langur lives in groups of four to 27 langurs, but will usually be found in groups around 12.[3][9] It lives in a matriarchal society where the females lead the group. Within the society, the females share parenting responsibilities with one another, and are philopatric to the group.[9] Males within the group take no part in the raising of the young, and the young males leave the group before reaching sexual maturity.[9] Young langurs are nursed up to two years before being weaned, and once weaned, the relationship amongst the relatives becomes that of any other member of a given group.[3]
Over 50% of François' langur's diet is made up of leaves. It also consumes fruits (17.2%), seeds (14.2%), flowers, stems, roots, bark, and occasionally minerals and insects from rock surfaces and cliffs. This langur consumes its favorite food, young leaves, at the highest rate during the dry season, April through September; between October and March when young leaves are less common, the langur supplements its diet with seeds, petioles, and stems.[4]
François' langur is selective in its diet, in Nonggang Nature Reserve, China, it primarily eats the young leaves of 10 different species of plants, only two of which are common within the reserve. Its diet includes Pithecellobium clypearia, Ficus nervosa, Garcinia pauncinervis, Sinosideroxylon pedunculatum, F. microcarpa, Miliusa chunni, Securidaca inappendiculata, Bauhinia sp., and Canthium dicoccum. Though these are the preferred plant species, it still consumes other plant species opportunistically.[4] Another study on François' langur in a fragmented habitat found that it preferred on just four plant species: litse, Litsea glutinosa; seatung, Pittosporum glabratum; Cipadessa cinerascens; and Chinese desmos, Desmos chinensis. The study showed that the langur spent 61.6% of its feeding time on these four plant species, and 38.4% of its time on 36 other known species.[10]
Habitat and distributionEdit
The preferred habitat of François' langur is a karst topography; limestone cliffs and caves of tropical and subtropical zones.[11] By living on these limestone cliffs, the langur is at an advantage when it comes to sleeping arrangements. It sleeps either on ledges or in caves, with its preference being in the cave.[12] François' langur has also been known to find sleeping sites in areas where the terrain is above 60 °F (16 °C), within evergreen forests.[13] By living and sleeping in these limestone caves and cliffs, far from flat land, the langur has greatly reduced its rate of predation.[13] It exhibits cryptic behavior and becomes very vigilant upon entry to the cave for final resting as a tactic to avoid any predators.[12] In addition, it demonstrates a loud call to declare its territorial spacing.[14] François' langur also chooses its sleeping habitat depending upon foraging availability. It chooses sleeping sites that are close to potential foraging sites, to conserve energy and reduce travel costs.[13] Sleeping sites are not located in the heart of foraging sites, but are within reasonable proximity, as the preferred nesting and foraging sites do not completely line up with one another.[13] When it does go to forage, it tends to travel along the same route and returns to the same sleeping site consecutive nights to avoid predation.[12] François' langur has been known to have approximately 6-10 regularly used sleeping sites that are used at various points throughout the year as water and food resources fluctuate.[13]
François' langur has a restricted range of areas in which it can inhabit. It is primarily found in Southwest China and northern Vietnam. The majority of scientific studies of François' langur in the wild take place in the Nonggang Nature Reserve and the Fusui Nature Reserve in Guangxi Province, China.[9] The average home range size of this species is 19 hectares (230,000 sq yd) and its day range size is 341–577 square metres (3,670–6,210 sq ft).[9] In general, the low quality of its folivorous diet leads to nutritional stress, a smaller home range size and reduced daily travel time. The largest group of langurs reported numbered 500-600 individuals, and was found in the Mayanghe National Nature Reserve.[7] The average group size ranges from four to 27.[3] The Fusui Nature Reserve reported in 2009 that François' langur population had declined 73% in the previous five years, thus lessening their distribution even more.[9] Recent census numbers have concluded it is now limited to 14 localities in 10 different counties.[10]
Conservation statusEdit
The population of François' langur has been on a steady decline for the past 30 years. Of the many factors threatening their survival today, hunting has had one of the largest impacts.[11] In Nonggang, where it is most prevalent, the natives believe that the langur has medicinal values, and have hunted them to make wine out of their bones, which they believe could cure fatigue and rheumatism.[11] In Guangxi province, an estimated 90% decline in numbers has occurred since the 1980s, a 2002-2003 survey found 307 individuals in 14 populations remained.[11] In 1983, the estimated population of François' langur was 4,000-5,000. In the 1970s, hunting records recorded more than 1,400 langurs killed and in the 1980s more than 1,500 were killed.
Another threat to François' langur is the destruction of its habitat. The langur lives on limestone cliffs, and when farmers look to cultivate their land, they light fires on the lower slopes.[3] Limestone is particularly susceptible to fire; therefore, this practice not only destroys its habitats, but also causes major food shortages for the langur because its diet is primarily foliage.[11] The primary predators of François' langur are both terrestrial and aerial.[12] The clouded leopard is a potential predator, but its numbers are low enough that it is not the langur's greatest threat. Aerial predators such as the crested serpent eagle and the mountain hawk-eagle are a greater threat to François' langurs of Nonggang, especially to their young.[12]
Despite the extreme and continuing decline in the Francois' langur population, the actions being taken towards the conservation of this species and its habitat are still somewhat minimal. Its current population size is less than 2,500 individuals.[11] A plan to protect the forest and ban hunting, called the Conservation Action Plan, was drafted in 1996, but has yet to be implemented. To protect the langur, not only does protection from hunting need to be implemented, but its habitats must be protected, as well.[3] In 2003, the National Forestry Bureau acknowledged the rapid decline in François' langur and agreed to increase law enforcement in this area to help protect them from hunters.[11] In addition, the Asia Developmental Bank has begun helping the residents who live in close proximity to the habitats of the langur build biogas facilities to reduce the fuel wood collection, thus possibly reducing the number of fires.[11] Finally, a current project is underway by the Global Environmental facility to protect the Nonggang National and Dmingshan Natural Reserves and the langurs living within.[11]
- ^ Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Bleisch, B.; Manh Ha, N.; Khat Quyet, L. & Yongcheng, L. (2008). "Trachypithecus francoisi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2008: e.T39853A10277000. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T39853A10277000.en.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Arkive - Francois Langur". Arkive.org. Archived from the original on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ^ a b c d Zhou, Qihai; Fuwen, W.; Li, M.; Chengming, H.; Luo, B. (2006). "Diet and food choice of (Trachypithecus francoisi) in the Nonggang Nature Reserve, China". International Journal of Primatology. 27 (5): 1441–1458. doi:10.1007/s10764-006-9082-8.
- ^ The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals - Page 141 Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson - 2009 "François' Leaf Monkey Trachypithecus francoisi Pousargues, 1898 [Alt. François' Langur] Auguste François (1857–1935) was the French Consul at Lungchow in southern China, where he was the first person to bring this monkey to the ..."
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- ^ a b c d Yang, Lou; Minghai, Z.; Jianzhang, M.; Ankang, W.; Shusen, Z. (2007). "Time budget of daily activity of Francois' langur (Trachypithecus francoisi) in disturbance habitat". Acta Ecologica Sinica. 27 (5): 1715–1722. doi:10.1016/S1872-2032(07)60043-2.
- ^ a b Zhou, Qihai; Wei, F.; Chengming, H.; Li, M.; Ren, B.; Luo, B. (2007b). "Seasonal Variation in the Activity Patterns and Time Budgets of Trachypithecus francoisi in the Nonggang Nature Reserve, China". International Journal of Primatology. 28 (3): 657–671. doi:10.1007/s10764-007-9144-6.
- ^ a b c d e f Zhou, Qihai; Chengming, H.; Li, Y.; Cai, X. (2007a). "Ranging behavior of the Francois langur (Trachypithecus francoisi) in the Fusui nature Reserve, China". Primates. 48 (4): 320–323. doi:10.1007/s10329-006-0027-9. PMID 17171396.
- ^ a b Youbang, L; Ping D; Pingping J; Wood C; Chengming H (June 2009). "Dietary response of a group of Francois' langur Trachypithecus francoisi in a fragmented habitat in the county of Fusui, China". Wildlife Biology. 2. 15 (2): 137–146. doi:10.2981/08-006.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Li, Youbang; Huang, C.; Ding, P.; Tang, Z. & Wood (2007). "Dramatic decline in Francois' langur (Trachypithecus francoisi) in Guangxi Province, China". Oryx. 41: 38–43. doi:10.1017/S0030605307001500.
- ^ a b c d e Zhou, Qihai; Chengming, H.; Ming, L.; Fuwen, W. (2009). "Sleeping site use by Trachypithecus francoisi at Nonggang Nature Reserve China". International Journal of Primatology. 30 (2): 353–365. doi:10.1007/s10764-009-9348-z.
- ^ a b c d e Shuangling, Wang; Yang Luo; Guofa Cui (2011). "Sleeping site selection of Francois's langur in two habitats in Mayanghe National Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China". Primates. 51: 51–60. doi:10.1007/s10329-010-0218-2.
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