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Suffolk, ss. DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW APPEALS
Appeal of:
Frank Kaminsky,
v. CR-07-390
State Board of Retirement,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Frank Kaminsky, pro se
P.O. Box 176
Siasconset, MA 02564
Appearance for Respondent:
Crystal Chow, Esq.
State Board of Retirement
One Ashburton Place - Rm. 1219
Boston, MA 02116
Administrative Magistrate:
Joan Freiman Fink, Esq.
Pursuant to G.L. c. 32 §16(4), the Petitioner, Frank Kaminsky, is appealing the May 2, 2007 decision of the Respondent, State Board of Retirement, denying his request to include pay for additional duties that he performed during the years 1988 through 1991 as regular compensation in the calculation of his superannuation retirement benefit (Exhibit 1). The appeal was timely filed in accordance with the provisions of G.L. c. 32 §16(4).
Pursuant to the provisions of 801 CMR 1.01 (10)(c), the parties agreed to submit the case on written submissions and to waive a hearing. On July14, 2008, the Petitioner submitted a written argument and proposed exhibits. On July 29, 2008, the Respondent submitted a written argument and proposed exhibits. The record was closed on July 29, 2008.
The following exhibits were marked into evidence:
1. 5/2/07 Decision Letter of Respondent
2. 5/12/07 Letter of Appeal
3. 6/6/08 Letter Requesting Submission on the Record
4. 1/25/07 Letter from Petitioner requesting additional service as regular compensation, with attached letter dated 12/2/05
5. 2/1/07 Letter from Respondent to Petitioner
6. 2/12/07 Petitioner's letter to Respondent plus attachments
7. 4/2/07 Petitioner's letter to Respondent
8. 7/17/91 Petitioner's Retirement Application with attachments
9. Respondent's print-out of Petitioner's yearly deductions from 1985 through 1991
10. Petitioner's W-2s for 1987-1991
11. 6/18/2008 Letter from Respondent to DALA concerning a waiver of hearing
Based on the evidence presented, I make the following findings of fact:
1. The Petitioner, Frank Kaminsky, d.o.b. 5/16/36, was employed by the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA (UMass) from September 1965 through August of 1991 as a faculty member in the College of Engineering (Exhibit 8).
2. He was a member of the State Retirement System during the period of time that he was employed by UMass from 1965 through 1991 (Exhibit 8).
3. On July 17, 1991, the Petitioner filed an application for superannuation retirement benefits with an effective retirement date of August 31, 1991 (Exhibit 8).
4. In connection with the Petitioner's application for superannuation retirement benefits, UMass submitted a Salary Blank Form to the State Board of Retirement. This Salary Form does not indicate any additional teaching payments (Exhibit 8).
5. The Petitioner did in fact retire on August 31, 1991 (Exhibit 8).
6. On January 25, 2007, the Petitioner wrote the State Board of Retirement requesting a response to a previous attached letter dated December 2, 2005 (Exhibit 4).
7. In his letter of December 2, 2005, the Petitioner requested that he be permitted to include the additional compensation that he received for "research activities during the academic year and during the summer recess" as regular compensation in the calculation of his superannuation retirement benefit (Exhibit 4).
8. On February 1, 2007, the State Board of Retirement sent the Petitioner a request for further information concerning the extra compensation he referenced including any relevant documentation describing and confirming the reimbursements and/or payments he received (Exhibit 5).
9. On February 12, 2007, the Petitioner responded to the State Board of Retirement's request in writing stating that his nine-month academic salary for the period of 1988 through 1991 was approximately $64,000. He added that he received total compensation for each of those years ranging from $81,000 to $86,000, noting that the discrepancy consisted of extra compensation for "summer teaching, outreach teaching, research, and his contributions to extra work in a video tape instructional program…" (Exhibit 6).
10. Although the Petitioner submitted W-2 forms for 1987-1991, attached to his letter of February 12, 2007, these forms did not reflect the extra compensation referenced in the letter (Exhibit 6).
11. By letter dated May 2, 2007, the State Board of Retirement sent the Petitioner formal notification that his request to include additional payments as regular compensation in the calculation of his superannuation retirement benefit was denied. In this letter, the State Board of Retirement noted that it "based the decision in part on the fact that your request was made after your effective date of retirement and based on its interpretation of G.L. c. 32" (Exhibit 1).
12. On May 12, 2007, the Petitioner filed a timely appeal of this decision with the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (Exhibit 2).
13. On June 9, 2008, the Respondent received a written request from the Petitioner to waive his right to a hearing and to have his appeal determined by written submissions (Exhibit 11).
Based on the evidence presented in this case, I conclude that the Petitioner is not entitled to have the additional teaching payments that he received during the years 1988 through 1991 included as regular compensation in the calculation of his superannuation retirement benefit.
In the first instance, the Petitioner failed to raise the issue of whether these additional teaching payments could be considered as regular compensation until fourteen and one-half years after the effective date of his retirement. In the case of Spence v. Reeder, 382 Mass. 398, 411 (1981), the Supreme Judicial Court held that a party may waive his/her rights merely by failing to assert them. Moreover, at the time Dr. Kaminsky filed his application for superannuation benefits in 1991, he did not submit any documentation verifying that these additional teaching payments actually existed. Rather, the Salary Blank Form submitted by UMass that accompanied the Petitioner's application did not include any additional teaching payments during the time period of 1988 through 1991.
Even assuming, for argument's sake, that Dr. Kaminsky raised the issue of the inclusion of these additional payments in a timely manner, the payments in question do not qualify as regular compensation as defined in statutory, regulatory, and case law.
Regular compensation is defined in G.L. c. 32 §1 as:
Salary, wages or other compensation in whatever form, lawfully determined for the individual service of the employee by the employing authority, not including bonus, overtime, severance pay for any and all unused sick leave, early retirement incentives, or any other payment made as a result of giving notice of retirement... (emphasis supplied).
840 CMR 15.03(2) provides that:
Any extraordinary or ad hoc payment shall be excluded from regular compensation. Exclusions shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) amounts paid for hours worked beyond the member's normal work schedule.
Dr. Kaminsky described the additional payments he seeks to include as regular compensation as payments for summer teaching, outreach teaching, research, and contributions to extra work in a video tape instructional program. These payments do not fall within the scope of his regular duties as a Professor in the Engineering Department of UMass. Rather, these additional payments fall within the category of overtime pay, or pay that was given for work performed beyond his normal work schedule as a Professor. As such, these payments are specifically excluded from the definition of regular compensation by both G.L. c. 32 §1 and 840 CMR 15.03(2)(a).
In addition, the Petitioner did not submit any documentation to demonstrate that his additional teaching responsibilities, i.e., the summer teaching, outreach teaching, research, or video instruction program, were specifically mentioned in his employment contract with UMass. In addition, UMass, in response to an inquiry from the State Board of Retirement in 1991 concerning Mr. Kaminsky's employment relative to his application for retirement benefits, did not submit any employment contracts. In Henry Kozloski v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board, 61 Mass. App. Ct. 783, App. Rev. denied, 442 Mass. 1112 (2004), the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that it is necessary to review the annual contract covering the individual's employment to determine whether an additional payment made to the employee is specifically included. In Kozloski, supra, the Petitioner's annual stipend for serving as audio-visual coordinator was not included in the collective bargaining agreement, the annual contract covering Mr. Kozloski's employment as a high school science teacher. The Appeals Court held that: "Whether the omission was inadvertent or not, the position of audio-visual coordinator was simply not included in the relevant collective bargaining agreement under which Kozloski worked for the three-year period that was the basis for his pension calculation." The Court further held that, "to be eligible for inclusion in the pension calculation, the additional service stipend must have been provided for in the collective bargaining agreement."
The Petitioner further argues that the additional payments in question constitute regular compensation as they were ordinary, regular, and recurrent. In the case of Boston Association of School Administrators and Superintendents v. Boston Retirement Board, 419 N.E. 2d 277, 383 Mass. 336, 341 (1981), the Supreme Judicial Court held that " 'regular' as it modifies 'compensation,' imports the idea of ordinariness or normality as well as the idea of recurrence."
Notwithstanding the Petitioner's assertion, he failed to produce any documentation to support his claim that the additional payments he received for performing the extra work were regular or repeated payments, not otherwise awarded as overtime or ad hoc payments.
In light of the foregoing, I conclude that the Petitioner has failed to meet his burden of proof to demonstrate that the additional payments that he received during the years 1988 through 1991 constituted regular compensation as defined by G.L. c. 32 §1, 840 CMR 15.03(2)(a) or case law.
Accordingly, the decision of the State Board of Retirement denying the Petitioner's request to have the additional payments that he received during the years 1988 through 1991 included as regular compensation in the calculation of his superannuation retirement benefit is hereby affirmed.
/s/ Joan Freiman Fink
Administrative Magistrate
Dated: 3/13/09


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For all you coffee lovers, Sunday is your day. Sept. 29 is National Coffee Day, and Starbucks is marking the occasion by celebrating Ethiopia, the country where coffee originated. On Sunday Starbucks customers can:
* Sample Starbucks� newest whole-bean coffee, called Ethiopia. It�s a single-origin, medium roast coffee with hints of citrus and peppery spice. It hits stores officially on Oct. 1, but customers can try it early on National Coffee Day.
* Get a free Ethiopia-inspired commemorative tasting cup with the purchase of a 1-pound bag of Ethiopia coffee.
Gastonia�s Starbucks is inside the Target on Cox Road. Dallas' Starbucks is inside Ingles, at 715 W. Trade St.
High-schoolers invited to Charlotte youth leadership conference
Area high school students are invited to a Healthy Behaviors Leadership Conference this Saturday. The free event is from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Grimes Student Lounge at Johnson C. Smith University, 100 Beatties Ford Road in Charlotte.
The conference aims to show students how to use fitness, nutrition, self-confidence and sports psychology to develop and maintain healthy perspectives and practices for their life. It will feature panel discussions, workshops for parents and students, and question-and-answer sessions with educators and industry experts.
The event is funded by The Chris Canty Foundation, which was created by NFL player and Charlotte Latin School graduate Chris Canty. The organization uses sports to positively impact the lives of youths in the community.
To register, visit www.chriscantyfoundation.org. The conference is limited to 300 participants.
Darrell/Sonshyne and J.J. James play at Jackson�s
Jackson�s Cafeteria will host live music on Sept. 26. Darrell/Sonshyne and special guest J.J. James will play from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Gastonia restaurant, at 1453 E. Franklin Ave. James, from Huntersville, has been an entertainer for years and plays several string instruments, including guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, ukuleleand banjo.
Author signs children's book
Author Julie Murphy will sign copies of her new children�s book, �What If We Were All Gray,� from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 3. The event at the Gaston County Library, 1555 E. Garrison Blvd., Gastonia, is open to the public, and books will be available for purchase.
Murphy said the book is about diversity. It follows a little girl named Harmony as she tries to bring to peace to her town and make others understand why being different is OK. Murphy has worked with children, youth and families for more than 19 years. For more information on the book, visit www.whatifwewereallgray.com.

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GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Minerals once more than three miles below the martian surface are the strongest evidence yet the Red Planet may have supported life, researchers say.
New research suggests ingredients for life have been present in the martian subsurface for much of the planet's history, they said.
Scientists have been studying McLaughlin Crater, one of many martian craters where impacting meteors have acted like natural probes, bringing up rocks from far beneath the surface.
Spectrometer data on those rocks from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows many of the rocks contain clays and minerals whose chemical make-up has been altered by water, an essential element to support life, NASA said in a release Monday.
Much of life on Earth consists of simple microorganisms hidden in rocks beneath the surface and scientists have suggested the same may be true for Mars.
"We don't know how life on Earth [first] formed but it is conceivable that it originated underground, protected from harsh surface conditions that existed on early Earth," Joseph Michalski, planetary geologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said.
That same may have taken place on the Red Planet, researchers said.
"This research has demonstrated how studies of Earth and Mars depend on each other," John Parnell, geochemist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, said. "It is what we have observed of microbes living below the continents and oceans of Earth. They allow us to speculate on habitats for past life on Mars, which in turn show us how life on the early Earth could have survived."


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and Virgo answered:Can eye-consciousness arise at the same time as say nose-consciousness or is it one at a time?
and then there was:According to the Abhidhamma, they arise one at a time.
(Virgo and Retro I hope you don't mind, that I'm quoting you here)Virgo wrote:Hi Retro. Just one at a time. Each one ceases before the next arises.retrofuturist wrote:Greetings Virgo,According to Abhidhamma, does one consciousness cease before the next begins?Virgo wrote:According to the Abhidhamma, they arise one at a time.
According to Abhidhamma, can there be multiple consciousnesses in parallel, even if manasikara (attention) is focused on just one at a time?
Retro. :
My question is: What is the meaningn of "citta" according to Abhidhamma? Consciousness?
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|2013-07-04, 11:50
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Sisterhood of the Desu
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: in a van by the river
I was just saying it's the twins as the MC's love interests because they seem to be the two characters popping up more than others...
I'm kinda hoping it's OnoD's character though. Or maybe it's the classmate who was all, 'OMG WTF ARE YOU DOING HERE??!"
|2013-07-04, 12:25
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Join Date: Aug 2011
The squirrel was pretty funny ^^
It was also kinda annoying.
I'd really like to play this visual novel.
I bet it's way better than the anime.
Well, the guys do look interesting ^///^
She's turning out to be "the fragile" heroine type.
Don't see this having much plot.... that's typical T-T
Oh, well, I'll probably watch this.
|2013-07-04, 14:10
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Age: 26
Petition! The squirrel for the real main character. Just look at that dangerous chemistry of his with the boys. I hope he ends up with the monk one wow look at that tension.
...in hindsight it was way too early for me to see Suwabe and Kamiyan in the same anime after that platinum gay DS2 ending.
|2013-07-04, 14:23
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|2013-07-04, 16:28
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I misunderstood what you said, so I apologize if I sounded snarky
And I seriously had no idea that was SuzuKen in Ouran...I guess I'm just used to it being Miyano's show because of Tamaki.
And Masaya needs to be in more things. He's got a sexy voice
And hell yes for the Squirrel to be the MC! We already know at least Juli cares for her...
|2013-07-04, 18:39
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I'm liking Suba and Yusuke the most. The one with the blue necklace around his neck and the red haired one.
And Chi-chan too. She was pretty typical but likable, but when she asked him "wasn't it all a joke up to that point?" I was like "I can dig this girl!"
Where the heck does Juli come from tho, and he's a little annoying.
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|2013-07-09, 14:26
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Happy birthday party!! ^o^)/¤¤¤
Whoever is directing this doesn't really seem to know what to do with this setting. Like this scene - I know it's dark because he has to blow out the candles, but the image is so awkward and doesn't convey what (I think) it should convey at all. No wonder this show is so incredibly low-tension for a total wishfulfillment fantasy about a girl living in a nice mansion with loads of filthy rich pretty boys who all want her.
Spoiler for ep 2:
Also, poor Kaji Yuuki. Why can't he play an older boy? It's not like he doesn't have the right voice for it. You want shota, you get, I dunno, Miyata Kouki or someone with that type of voice.
And Louis' speaking style continues to be really grating, especially since the seiyuu is speaking as if he was a robot. I've seen some characters who talked like this, but at least they actually trailed off, or had some vaguely natural rhythm to their speech. Louis is like a not very convincing android.
But damn, that house. I want to be filthy rich and live there.
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|2013-07-09, 15:53
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This reminds me more of Starry sky though and like it I probably won't be able to survive more than a few episodes. I bet it will do the same thing with giving each guy an episode and forgetting they exist afterwards. Having all those guys appear in the first episode was like an avalanche, there was no end to them!
|2013-07-11, 00:53
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Well, that was better.
After the disappointing premiere, expectations for this series were seriously lowered. However, it seems that this show perked up a bit, as the boys are beginning to now have personalities and we are beginning to be able to identify the true contenders for Chi's heart in this show.
We have Yusuke who has liked Chi even before their families merged. Then we have Subaru, who is attracted to her, but is a little out of sorts with girls, having lived among all boys.
Any other serious likely mates have yet to be identified. Majority of the elder brothers act as simply that, if in a teasing way. The annoying and a bit bipolar, Fuuta is pretty immature and Wataru is a child. Iori hasn't had much of a presence so I can't really say much about him. And then there's the last two brothers we have yet to meet.
While Chi is still bland and cliched, and I'm beginning to doubt they are ever going to use her real name, the antics of the brothers, if also cliched, as they interact with her, has brought some life to the series.
Here's hoping they can keep it up. I give this episode a 5.9/10.
|2013-07-11, 06:22
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*Sigh* those brothers really need time to adjust.
This reverse harem has some really nice potential.
Wish they would translate the visual novel.
I'd love to play this game ^^
Looks like more than one is already blushing severely ^-^
Fuuto was the annoying one this time.
|2013-07-11, 08:14
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So....so far the biggest contenders seem to be Classmate Bro, who apparently liked her already and Subaru, who obviously likes her since he was blushing like crazy.
The only disappointment though is that Chi lapsed back into Typical Speshul Snowflake by being all sweet and 'GOMEN NASAI" to Idol Bro being a douche to her, after she told off Monk Ren last episode.
|2013-07-11, 14:38
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Both they and you should have had time to meet, get to know each other and adjust to the new family before suddenly deciding to live together completely separate from the parents.
|2013-07-11, 15:10
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I'm still unsure of whether to drop it or not but at least this episode was better than the first one.
At least Hosoyan's character got screentime since he was one of the main reasons I wanted to watch this.
Yuki Kaji's character is really cute. Everytime he appears I just focus on his adorableness. On the other hand, Louis is very tiring to see because he talks.so.damn.slow.
Seems like the romance will focus on the annoying idol, Hosoyan and Daisuke Ono.
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STOCKTON - The Pacific men's basketball team systematically checked off everything coach Bob Thomason wanted to see corrected on Friday against the California Maritime Academy.
STOCKTON - The Pacific men's basketball team systematically checked off everything coach Bob Thomason wanted to see corrected on Friday against the California Maritime Academy.
The NAIA program from Vallejo couldn't match Pacific's size or speed and was dominated by the Tigers. After consecutive losses to Santa Clara and Saint Mary's, Thomason wanted his team to get off to a good start, rebound better and execute on offense at a higher level, and Pacific accomplished all of the above in an 80-42 victory before 1,565 at Spanos Center. It was the final tuneup for Pacific (6-6) before its final season in the Big West Conference begins on Dec. 29 at Long Beach State.
"I thought the effort was good, we shared the ball and went after second and third rebounds," Thomason said.
Against the Keelhaulers (10-3), Pacific jumped out to a 21-9 lead, built the advantage to 42-23 at halftime and cruised from there, shooting 58.2 percent from the floor and outrebounding Cal Maritime 46-25. Thomason used 14 players and received 40 bench points. Reserve centers Tony Gill and Tim Thomas scored 11 points apiece on a combined 9-of-11 shooting.
"We got beat up in Moraga by Saint Mary's, so it felt pretty good to do that even against guys that aren't as big and strong as we are," said Thomas, who also had eight rebounds and two blocks. "It gives us confidence going into conference."
Pacific was led by its backcourt. Senior point guard Lorenzo McCloud had 14 points, four rebounds and three assists in 20 minutes, and junior Sama Taku had 13 points, four rebounds and three assists in 21 minutes. Pacific made 30 of 39 from inside the 3-point arc, but shot 2 of 16 from beyond it.
It was a bittersweet return home for Keelhaulers coach Bryan Rooney, a 1998 St. Mary's High graduate, and three former area high school standouts, Keven Campbell of Edison and Delta College, Anthony Simi of St. Mary's and Delta College and Kevin Hicks of Bear Creek and Delta College. Rooney, who has led the Keelhaulers program since 2006, and the players with area ties had a large and vocal contingent supporting them, but the Keelhaulers didn't give them much to cheer about, shooting 27.9 percent from the field and not attempting a free throw. The loss did not count against their record, however, because the game was a step up in competition.
Campbell led the Keelhaulers with 15 points, and Simi and Hicks were held scoreless. Rooney left Spanos Center with hope his team will improve this season.
"It was a wonderful opportunity for the entire team," Rooney said. "But those three guys had a unique experience of coming home at the college level and playing, which doesn't always happen."
Contact reporter Jagdip Dhillon at (209) 546-8292 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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For a few hours on Jan. 11, several Aboriginal leaders, including Grand Chief Shawn Atleo of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Matthew Coon Come, the long-time Quebec Cree leader, were in the Langevin Block meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Across the street, a succession of other figures in Aboriginal politics, some wearing Mohawk Warrior Society insignia, took turns speaking to an outdoor protest rally.
If nothing else, it was an efficient distribution of labour. Leaders who want to make concrete progress this year were inside the building, talking to the Prime Minister. Leaders who don't were outside, doing what they do best.
It's not that the people at the protest microphone don't want First Nations' lives to improve. It's just that their preferred solutions—a fundamental rethink of Canada's treaty obligations, a royal commission, an intervention from the Queen—are not on offer. And when I say "not on offer," I don't only mean not from the Conservatives. The extent to which NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has aligned himself with Atleo and the other leaders who are still talking with Harper is striking. So is the silence of the provincial premiers, who will have to share their resource revenues with First Nations if revenue-sharing is to be part of a solution. So the crowd outside was, in a very real sense, making best the enemy of the good.
The Jan. 11 meeting follows all the attention Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat attracted when she swore off solid food. Her publicity campaign probably sped up a meeting that was going to happen anyway. Atleo had met with Harper at the Prime Minister's office on Nov. 28 to discuss some kind of follow-up to last year's Crown-First Nations gathering. Atleo was in frequent contact with Nigel Wright, Harper's chief of staff; I'm told the two met on New Year's Eve, among other occasions. But "because of Spence," a government source tells me, the AFN "asked for the meeting to be a bit earlier, which was fine with us."
Independent audits raise serious questions about Spence's management of money from the federal government in Attawapiskat, questions she has refused to address. Her diet of broth, tea and vitamins stretches the term "hunger strike." But the publicity she drew probably also moved the Jan. 11 meeting closer to the top of Harper's political agenda. Everything about the meeting—venue, locale, agenda—was decided by political staffers in the Prime Minister's Office, not by bureaucrats in the Privy Council or at Aboriginal Affairs. The first word out of the meeting was that there will be more, and soon. Together these suggest Harper plans to spend much of 2013 taking Aboriginal issues more seriously.
Spence deserves some credit for that. But ever since she skipped the Langevin Block meeting—and then left a reception that evening at Rideau Hall in protest over some unexplained failure of protocol that none of her fellow visitors noticed—Spence has been running out of supporters. Mulcair, Coon Come and former governor general Michaëlle Jean have called on her to return to a normal diet. If she continues, she risks permanent damage to at least one of two things: her health and her credibility.
Harper put some dents in his own credibility in 2012, which the Aboriginal protest movement was smart to exploit. When he was an opposition politician, he had no patience for omnibus legislation that makes serious consideration of a nest of unrelated initiatives impossible. Just because he's changed his mind doesn't mean his critics are required to leave his own overstuffed omnibus bills alone. And he spent the year getting lectured about Aboriginal relations by people who are usually allies. Jim Prentice, his own former Indian affairs minister, wrote last July that "the constitutional obligation to consult with First Nations is not a corporate obligation. It is the federal government's responsibility." Conflicts with local Aboriginal populations over resource projects "cannot be resolved by regulatory fiat," Prentice added. "They require negotiation."
This should have been obvious to the Prime Minister sooner. In retrospect, a lot of his behaviour a year ago seems out of character. He boasted about big results before he had delivered them. He named his enemies—environmental groups and the environmental-review process—before moving against them, a display of bravado that let his opponents know where to build up defences. He announced a televised meeting with hundreds of Aboriginal leaders and was surprised when they all wanted to talk.
He has returned to methods that have more chance of success. No more TV cameras covering his meetings. No more boasting. His goal, the government source I spoke to said, is to match "an obvious need"—atrocious living conditions in too many First Nations communities—with "a whole lot of economic activity out in the hinterland."
Treating Aboriginal populations as though they were opponents in his game of resource development worked about as well as Harper should have expected it would. Treating them as allies may work better. He now knows that if co-operation fails, he will strengthen the hand of other leaders who prefer confrontation.


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Leaked Documents Detail The MPAA's Plans For Sock Puppetry To Mislead People About Richard O'Dwyer
from the nice-try-guys dept
TorrentFreak, which lately has been on a streak of finding and publishing leaked info from the legacy entertainment industry, has done it again, publishing the MPAA's talking points document for responding to press inquiries about O'Dwyer, the UK college student that the US government is trying to extradite from the UK for running TVShack.net. They also have the MPAA's plans to find sock puppets to attack O'Dwyer. The two documents are from July 19th, so it's quite recent, and they try to respond to Jimmy Wales' recent involvement in trying to stop the extradition process. As with any good propaganda, the MPAA appears to take comments out of context to twist them against O'Dwyer. For example, it quotes that the site reminded people of how much money they were saving by watching free videos, rather than paying for movies. But nothing in that statement says that the videos they were watching were infringing copies -- just substitutes for going to the theater.
The sock puppet document is the really telling one, in that they admit that that the "overall media coverage has been and will continue to be challenging." Now, when pretty much everyone sides with O'Dwyer and against the MPAA, a normal, sane organization might think that its strategy is (perhaps) a mistake. But the MPAA instead decides to double down by trying to find sock puppets to publish blog posts and editorials about why O'Dwyer is a dirty stinking criminal:
To counter these assertions, the MPAA and its allies need a coordinated effort to focus more on the criminal activity involved in the operation of TVShack and other similar linking sites. Ideally, this would be done through third parties – but finding third parties – especially in the United Kingdom – has been very difficult so far, so the MPAA must be prepared to respond to media requests on the issue and set the record straight to counter the misinformation campaign by our opponents.The thing is, the only "misinformation campaign" is coming from the MPAA itself, with these talking points and "how can we get stooges to spin this" document. The folks supporting O'Dwyer have no such things. They just speak the truth.
Furthermore, the documents completely ignore the legal arguments that make the O'Dwyer case incredibly questionable. They, of course, highlight the recent surfthechannel.com ruling in the UK to support the argument that O'Dwyer was breaking the law in the UK and the US. But that ignores the many questions raised by that ruling, and the fact that multiple similar cases went the other way or that similar US cases also seem to be going the other way too (though, that last one came out after this document was written).
There are also some laughable claims about how the decision to go after O'Dwyer was made by Homeland Security and ICE. However, as documents in other cases have shown, ICE relied heavily on claims from the RIAA and MPAA, despite little evidence to support those claims.
Separately, the MPAA weakly tries to hit back on the claims about internet freedom by saying that "this case isn't about Internet freedom. It's about a man profiting from theft." Funny, he hasn't been charged with "theft" as far as I can tell. It seems that the MPAA has trouble with ever being truthful -- even when claiming its providing facts to counter misinformation. And, as the Posner ruling recently showed, being a third party site that has embeds of infringing videos isn't infringing itself -- so arguing that O'Dwyer is some sort of master criminal is pretty laughable.
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Copyright law is a tool to protect the work of creators and makers, not censorshipThey should try to tell that to some of the many people whom copyright has been used to censor over the years. The fact that copyright was supposed to be a tool to protect creators does not mean it can't be used for censorship. It is, regularly. The two things are hardly mutually exclusive. And, if the MPAA were being honest (ha ha, I know...) it would note that it doesn't represent the interests of creators and makers at all. It represents the studios, who do whatever they can to rip off content creators... while keeping the copyright for themselves. If the MPAA wants to spew bogus "talking points," (and get sock puppets to do so for it) perhaps it should start by figuring out how to defend its regular actions that block artists from getting paid.
In the end, though, this just highlights how incredibly tone deaf the MPAA and its communications staff is to public perception. Attacking Richard O'Dwyer, who has strong public support behind him is not a winning strategy by any means. I'm trying to figure out what the MPAA thinks it's accomplishing here and I'm drawing a blank. The more the MPAA seeks to demonize O'Dwyer, the worse it looks. Even if he is extradited and convicted, all they're doing is creating another hero/martyr, and more people who think the MPAA is an old, out of touch, unwilling-to-adapt monster, locking up college students. At best, I'm thinking the MPAA thinks this will act as an "education campaign" targeted at other sites running forums like O'Dwyer's. But that seems doubtful at best. Similar sites are all over the internet and have been for years. All this effort is doing is helping the MPAA dig its own hole deeper and deeper. It's like a perfect case study in how not to do communications strategy today.


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I don't think her middle name is patrica. It doesn't say, just P. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ginny Potter-Weasley (talk • contribs).
I am sorry. In the US editions it's Sybill not Sibill! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 184.108.40.206 (talk • contribs).
93??? in the Order of the Phoenix she states that she is a teacher in the school for at least 16 years! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bluelantern (talk • contribs).
Sybill trelawney believing in magic
In the book harry potter and the order of the phoenix when umbridge is casting her out the book states she has "A wand in one hand and a Sherry bottle in the other." and in deathly hallows she uses her wand to throw the crystal balls at greyback and the others
- The article states that Rowling doesn't believe in magic herself. -- Seth Cooper (Owl Post) 23:09, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
you're correct thanx for that i had not actually read it only skimmed that part my bad---Dante
I think Sybil Trelawney's belief in magic is an irrelevant discussion , since she has demonstrated her emotional
sensitivity to sorcery many times throughout the septology , especially in The Prisoner of Azkaban chapter 16 pp.324-326.
She is certainly not "a right old fraud ." But why is it often implied throughout the story that she drinks too much ?
Does over consumption of sherry help her divination abilities ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VanessaD. (talk • contribs).
Is her hair colour ever mentioned or is it based on Emma Thompson´s costume?--Rodolphus 14:41, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
- I don't believe her hair colour has ever been revealed. I've removed it from the infobox. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 21:31, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
- If it's not mentioned in the books, isn't the movies considered alternative canon?--Lilleby 22:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Not a character´s appearance, as actors may change.--Rodolphus 14:45, November 13, 2009 (UTC)
Appearance in the D.H. movies
Is it 100% definite that Niccollette Sheridan will be playing her in the film(s)? Especially after looking at this I have a feeling that this is just a rumour. -Smonocco 16:25, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
Emma Thompson declared on TV that she has already finished being filmed for the deathly hallows films. 188.8.131.52 14:27, April 15, 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for your confirmation, however I was responding to the rumour that Niccollete Sheridan would be playing her in the films. -Smonocco 15:49, April 15, 2010 (UTC)
- It is not true. As I have said, Emma Thompson has already played trelawney in the DH films
How do we know that she was a Ravenclaw?--Rodolphus 17:15, January 15, 2010 (UTC)
We don't.188.8.131.52 15:25, May 1, 2010 (UTC)
Sybill Trelawney in the game the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Will Professor Trelawney in the game? There is information? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mirage 2 (talk • contribs).
Sybil Trelawney in the Goblet of FirePerhaps if this teacher with disheveled hair to be Professor Trelawney that Emma Thompson could not have played in the Goblet of Fire? Emma just might be replaced as Trelawney did not play a special role in the book.
- Could be, but still we'd have to have some sort of confirmation on that. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 13:32, June 16, 2011 (UTC)
- For confirmation of the need to refer to Mike Newell or to the actress. I do believe that we must understand who is who with all the unknowns teachers, which showed in the movies. Just where to look for evidence not know, but to rely on intuition here is impossible.
Trelawney in Philosopher's Stone?In the left corner like a hag Trelawney. Is it possible that it was she? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Septima Vector (talk • contribs).
- We need more convincing evidence to suggest she might be Trelawney. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 00:10, August 29, 2011 (UTC)
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The girl being covered is NOT Lavander Brown. There is photographic evidence, and it has been properly labeled under Unidentified female Hogwarts teacher.
Vana Bloom 03:13, August 11, 2011 (UTC)
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I think the time has come to vote on an inofobox image. I, personally, hate the current picture (even if it is from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) as it was taken from an interview and personally isn't a very appealing picture. I think we should vote between the two following pictures:
I don't thing that we should change the picture, because is the most recent picture we have, from the Deathly Hallows. We try to choose the most recently image for each page, not the best in wich the character are.188.8.131.52 10:31, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- The picture on the right is an image of Emma Thompson on the set of Deathly Hallows. It is not an image from the film and it's not an image of Sybill Trelawney. Jayden Matthews 10:42, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- Although the picture isn't in the film, it continue being one of Trelawney, so It can bve the infobox image.Lestrange97 11:54, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- No, it isn't. It's Emma Thompson. She's not in character, so it should not be used. Jayden Matthews 12:01, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- I agree with Jayden Matthews and Lestrange97. The current picture is of Emma Thompson in an interview, not Sybill Trelawney. The picture will be changed.
- The current one from Jayden Matthews is perfect. Let's keep it that way, and NO CHANGING BACK TO THAT INTERVIEW PICTURE of Emma Thompson, not Sybill Trelawney.
Trelawney in Battle
When the Trio are running through the Courtyard just before Lavender's death in the film, you can see Trelawney dueling, im sure you can hear her shouting "crucio", just watch it on youtube on full volume
The-Free-House-Elf 14:15, January 21, 2012 (UTC)
- It seems to be her, but we can't be sure that's her who yells "Crucio". -- Seth Cooper owl post! 21:04, February 5, 2012 (UTC)
- It does sound like Emma Thompson's voice when it is yelled The-Free-House-Elf 20:19, February 6, 2012 (UTC)
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Just wondering why we can no longer edit this page?
Shadow Seer 20:03, February 6, 2012 (UTC)Shadow Seer
- Pages sometimes get protected for a little while when there's a high amount of recent vandalism or edit-warring on the page. It'll be open for editing again in a couple days. -- 1337star (Owl Post) 20:30, February 6, 2012 (UTC)
Why's she considered an old fraud? Even Dumbledore, maybe the most intelligent person of his day, described her as talentless, although most of her predictions came true, two of them were very important prophecies about the dark lord, one of her prophecies announced Dombledore's death, and many other little prophecies came true, too.
I really don't understand why everybody considered her a crook, she's obviously the most talented seer in Hogwarts. Is it just her kinky attitude that makes that or are there other reasons for this slander?--Fußball-Lexikon (talk) 13:47, April 12, 2013 (UTC)
- Because, as Firenze says "Sybill Trelawney may have seen, I do not know, but she wastes her time in the main on the self-flattering nonsense known as fortune-telling." When you get right down to it, her predictions match a common psychic trick-- throwing out so many predictions or being so vague or obvious to guess that anyone could come up with it. Vague predictions of doom or forthcoming accidents, etc. And yet, often when she comes out with anything more specific, it turns out to be dead wrong, such as saying Harry was "born in mid-winter." There's also the fact that all of her predictions in general tend to be doom and gloom sort of stuff, as noted when Harry and Ron were doing their homework-- "You know, just put in loads of misery, she'll lap it up." And sure enough, they both got full marks even though they were just making stuff up. ProfessorTofty (talk) 19:23, April 12, 2013 (UTC)
Reference number 12 doesn't work, it just leads directly to the pottermore home site. SorenaJ 19:30, October 29, 2015 (UTC)
Date of mariage
The article says she married early, but as far as I am aware, the date of her mariage is never mentioned. Couldn´t it be possible that she was married sometime between 1998 and 2015?--Rodolphus (talk) 10:27, November 8, 2015 (UTC)--Rodolphus (talk) 10:27, November 8, 2015 (UTC)
Date of mariage
The article says she married early, but as far as I am aware, the date of her mariage is never mentioned. Couldn´t it be possible that she was married sometime between 1998 and 2015?--Rodolphus (talk) 10:27, November 8, 2015 (UTC)--Rodolphus (talk) 10:27, November 8, 2015 (UTC)
A page came up old edits and new edits. The old edits were attributed to me and none were mine. I think I may have added a dot or something and put "Magical abilities and skills: lacked gift of interpretation - which is why her trances were more accurate because they were given as is without interpretation.)" in the explain changes part. So the person whose stuff you changed extensively user:Seth Cooper wasn't me. Was using the explanation of change section before I discovered the talk page. (Vaudree (talk) 08:57, December 4, 2015 (UTC))


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Mike Cote's Business Editor's Notebook: The making of the Mighty Marker MountMIKE COTE
January 05. 2013 8:46PM
After two major snowstorms, chances are chunks of your lawn have been swiped by a plow or chewed up and spit out by a snowblower. That is, if you can determine where the asphalt ends and your grass begins.
Oh-oh. This column is starting to sound like an infomercial for the Mighty Marker Mount driveway marker mounting stake. It's made in China, but will soon be proudly manufactured in the USA.
Jessica Doucette is sure you need one. After all, it was her frustration with driveway markers that inspired her to invent it.
"After watching my husband for many, many years come up with homemade solutions to keep the plows off our lawn, I started to think about better solutions," says Doucette, a stay-at-home mom making her first foray into business. "I wanted something that was easy to install and something that would increase the visibility of our lawn. It's just a plastic hand-held stake that can easily be driven into the grown by a hammer or mallet."
In the center of the 11-inch stake is a hollow area that has gripping channels designed to accommodate common driveway markers, says the Salem resident, who sells the markers for $5.95 each and at a discounted price for packs of five and 10 through her website, www.mightymarkermount.com.
Doucette ships the markers from her basement, but she's looking for distribution partners so she can sell them through home improvement stores nationwide.
"We haven't done a lot of marketing, thus far. It's basically just been word of mouth and our website," says Doucette, 42, who balances her business with shuttling her three children to school and various activities.
Doucette is not looking for investment capital, so don't expect her just yet on "Shark Tank," the popular ABC show in which budding entrepreneurs pitch their products to celebrity millionaire investors. But she says she's a learned a lot so far.
"I worked with a company in Manchester early on when I started looking into the process of creating this product. I realized I didn't know much about plastic injection molding," Doucette says.
She connected with industrial design firm Redpoint Studios and worked with founding partners Scott Leonard and Matt Harris to create the Mighty Marker Mount, which is a featured project at redpointstudios.com.
"They have another product that was on 'Shark Tank' that did get funding so that that's not out of the question," Doucette says. (That would be SurfSET Fitness's Ripsurfer, an exercise device that was featured on the program in September.)
Redpoint worked on the project for about three months and is still involved in helping to promote it, Leonard says. He and Harris did not charge Doucette for the design work; instead they will receive a royalty on every marker sold.
"If the product is successful, we make money on it," Leonard says. "We rarely do that. It definitely speaks to our confidence in them being successful."
The simplicity of the product and how it solves a common problem is what sold the team on the idea: It was something he would buy, Leonard says.
"Those types of inventions that you can solve with a single part are becoming few and far between," says Leonard, who adds that a major goal was to make the design cost-effective enough so that the markers could be manufactured in the United States.
Orders for the Mighty Marker Mount have come primarily from New England, but Doucette says she has attracted interest from around the country, including Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio and California. While the product's main attraction is for winter use, "it also works by itself in the spring and the summer as a low-profile driveway marker because it has a 360-degree reflector built into it."
Doucette wouldn't reveal how many of the markers she's sold so far, but said it's in the hundreds. Her initial investment paid for creating the mold and doing the testing to validate it. The mold was manufactured in China, where the initial batch of 1,000 markers was produced.
"I worked with a third party who had some manufacturing connections. It cost significantly less to make the mold in China," she says.
Doucette is having the mold shipped to the United States and expects to receive it this week.
"We made a conscious decision that we want to manufacture the product in the United States," she says. "The manufacturing of the product will likely take place in Massachusetts."
Just a year ago, Doucette incorporated as Property Markers Systems LLC, which she proudly notes is a woman-owned limited liability corporation. She's busy with the Mighty Marker Mount campaign for now, but doesn't rule out expanding into other products.
"I'm having a lot of fun doing this. It's exciting with the snow falling. We're getting lots of feedback," she says. "It further validates that there's a need out there."
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Mike Cote is business editor at the Union Leader. Contact him at 668-4321, ext. 324 or email@example.com.
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September 10, 1925 - March 6, 2013
Shohola, PA - Formerly of Freeport, NY
Francis X. Maher, Sr. has entered into eternal peace on March 6, 2013 at his home in Shohola, PA.
He was previously of Freeport, NY. He was 87. He was the son of the late William Edgar Maher and Frances O'Donald. He was born on September 10, 1925 in Brooklyn, NY. He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Olive Allspach and his son, Daniel. Frank was a veteran of the United States Navy serving in World War II. He was a butcher for the A & P in Jamaica, NY for 42 years.
Frank was the proud father of Francis X. (Marilyn) Maher, Jr., Dale Ann Mazzie, Jill (John) Christ, Beth (Ken) Sapan, Lisa (John) Von Salzen and Jennifer (Tom) Ganuncio and daughter-in-law, Linda Maher;
even prouder, of his grandchildren: Kristen, Frank III, Bill, Kathy, Dan, Danielle, Remo, Michael, Ann-marie, Mia, Sean, Kali, Shayne, Rebecca, Richie, Christopher, Steven and Timmy; proudest of his twenty-five great grandchildren: Lauren, Nicole, Paul, Brianna, Madison, Ava, Kaitlyn, Mikaela, Pamela, Olivia, Alexander, Mackenzie, Emily, Gabriella, Joseph, Jake, Justin, Michael, Julie, Sean, Maci, Hailey, Michael, Wyatt and Isabella.
Friends may call on Sunday, March 10th at Stroyan Funeral Home, 405 W. Harford St., Milford, PA from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Monday, March 11th at 9 a.m. at St. Patrick's Church, 111 E. High St.in Milford. Interment will be at the National Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY on March 12th at 11:30 a.m.
Memorial donations may be made to Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice, 315 East Hartford St., Milford, PA.


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Loxodonta africana
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)
Common Name(s):
Elephas africana Blumenbach, 1797
Loxodonta cyclotis Matschie, 1900
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Preliminary genetic evidence suggests that there may be at least two species of African elephants, namely the Savanna Elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). A third species, the West African Elephant, has also been postulated. The African Elephant Specialist Group believes that more extensive research is required to support the proposed re-classification. Premature allocation into more than one species may leave hybrids in an uncertain conservation status (IUCN SSC African Elephant Specialist Group 2003). For this reason, this assessment was conducted for the single species as currently described, encompassing all populations.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A2a ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Blanc, J.
|Balfour, D., Craig, C., Dublin, H.T. & Thouless, C.
Background Considerations and Choice of Criteria
The species is the largest terrestrial animal and has been the subject of considerable research, but continent-wide distribution and density estimates are difficult to obtain for any one time period. To a large extent this is due to the enormous range covered by the species (and thus the cost of estimating its numbers) as well as to the wide variety of habitats it occupies (often woodland and forest where visibility is poor from the ground as well as from the air; see Habitats list). These difficulties, coupled with the differential influence that various historical factors have played in different parts of the continent, result in a continental picture of the status of the African Elephant that varies considerably – qualitatively and quantitatively – across its range.
Although our knowledge of the status of African Elephants across their range has been progressively improving since the mid-1990s, when considerable resources began to be channelled into compiling and producing regular updates of the continental status of elephants with a standardized measure of certainty (Said et al. 1995; Barnes et al. 1999; Blanc et al. 2003; Blanc et al. 2007), large gaps still remain.
In investigating the Red List Criteria (Version 3.1) against these realities, it became clear to the group of assessors involved in the 2004 assessment, that the variability in population trends and levels of uncertainty would preclude a full quantitative Red List assessment, such as would be conducted under criterion E. It was therefore agreed that a compromise approximation would have to be made, and that the African Elephant Specialist Group would be best placed to undertake this task. In order to facilitate the process, extensive use was made of the Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional Levels (IUCN 2003).
The criterion used for the categorization was criterion A. Criteria B, C and D are not applicable as the species currently occupies more that 20,000 km² and there are more than 10,000 mature individuals. No quantitative analysis was conducted and therefore criterion E does not apply. Substantial resources would be required to undertake a consensus-driven modelling approach, which would inevitably be based on a great deal of uncertainty with regard to some of the key parameters, including estimates of both human and elephant population size, as well as the scale and extent of threats to the species and its habitats. While ivory export records and other indirect data could be used to derive these models, they would still encounter the many uncertainties inherent in the reconstruction of events covering the better part of a century.
Subcriterion A2a was used because some of the major causes for decline, such as habitat loss due to human population expansion, have not ceased and may not be reversible throughout the species' range. While the recent data used in the assessment are based on direct observation, the population size reduction over three generations is only inferred (see below).
A generation time of 25 years, calculated as the average age of reproductive females, was established using data from many culling exercises in Kruger National Park, South Africa (I. Whyte pers. comm.).
There are no credible estimates for a continental population prior to the late 1970s. Thus for the continental (global) population, an extrapolation back to the beginning of three generations is plagued with high levels of uncertainty. Clearly, forward extrapolation to the mid-21st Century would also be troubled by uncertainty, not only for the reasons cited above, but also because of the variety of causes for decline and the nature of the current and likely future threats - mainly habitat loss and illegal hunting for both meat and ivory - which are in themselves variable in intensity across the continent.
One of the key components of the methodology adopted at the AfESG's 2003 Etosha meeting was the assumption that continental elephant populations increased during the first half of the 20th century (as a result of the decline of the ivory trade from the outbreak of WWI, improved protection measures, and an increase in preferred secondary forest habitat in Central Africa), reaching a peak in the late 1960s and declining from then until the late 20th century.
In addition, African Elephant population trends in the course of the 20th century are believed to have differed considerably across the different African sub-regions (see Figure 1 in the Supplementary Material). In Eastern Africa, for instance, there is a general consensus that there was a peak (regional population maximum) around the late 1960s and early 1970s, followed by a decline in the 1980s and subsequent recovery in recent years (Blanc et al. 2005, 2007). In Southern Africa, which now harbours the largest known populations on the continent, elephant numbers are believed to have been at their lowest around the turn of the 20th century, and to have been increasing steadily ever since. The magnitude of the decline in Eastern Africa has in all likelihood been offset by the magnitude of the increase in Southern Africa. In West Africa, major declines probably occurred well before the turn of the 20th century and the population has remained at low levels ever since. There is insufficient information on sub-regional trends in Central Africa prior to 1977, but elephant populations are believed to have declined since that time. This is important as Central Africa accounts for a large proportion of the estimated continental range, but our knowledge of its current population size is the poorest.
Taking these problems into account, the consensus among contributors to the 2004 assessment was that it would be an appropriate and acceptable compromise, more likely to err on the conservative side relative to the final listing, to assume the continental population of three generations back (1927) to be equal to that of the first continental estimate in 1977. As the data used for the 2004 assessment were from 2002 (see section on 'Further Details on Data Used' in the Supplementary Material), it was thus assumed that the population in 1927 was approximately equal to the population estimate for 1977 derived by the contributors to the 2004 assessment.
For the present assessment, which uses 2006 data for the current generation, a comparison had to be made between 2006 and 1931. No consensus population estimate for 1931 is available for this assessment. Had the population remained constant or declined between 1927 and 1931, a comparison with the 2006 data used in this assessment would have resulted in a downlisting of the species to Near Threatened (NT). As mentioned above, however, according to the methodology and assumptions adopted at the 2003 AfESG meeting in Etosha, elephant populations were assumed to be increasing through the first part of the 20th Century. The extent to which the continental population would have increased is unknown. However, calculations reveal that, given the assumptions above, an annual rate of increase of greater than 1.53% would result in the species remaining in the Vulnerable category, and a rate of 1.53% or less would result in the species being re-categorized as Near Threatened. Under the conditions likely prevailing at the time the African Elephant Red List Authority believes that the likely annual rate of increase could easily have exceeded 1.53%. The conservative decision, again relative to the final global listing, is thus to accept a growth rate of greater than 1.53% per annum and to retain the African Elephant in the Vulnerable category in this assessment.
Changes to Status
The African Elephant was listed as Vulnerable (VU A2a) in the 2004 IUCN Red List, under the same IUCN Categories and Criteria used in this assessment (Version 3.1).
Prior to the 2004 assessment, the species was listed as Endangered (EN A1b) under the IUCN Categories and Criteria Version 2.3 (1994), in an assessment conducted in 1996 by the IUCN SSC African Elephant Specialist Group.
Regional Assessments
The status of African Elephants varies considerably across the species' range. These differences broadly follow regional boundaries, and are partly a result of the different historical trends. To better reflect this variation in status, it was decided to include in this assessment regional-level listings for the four African regions in which elephants occur (see Figure 2 in the Supplementary Material). The methodology and criteria used in these regional assessments is identical to that used for the global assessment, but employing only the relevant subsets of data. An exception to this rule is West Africa, where a more precautionary listing was obtained through the application of a different Red List Criterion. The results of the regional assessments are presented in Table 1 of the Supplementary Material.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|African Elephants currently occur in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (see accompanying map in Supplementary Material, sourced from Blanc et al. 2007). They are known to have become nationally extinct in Burundi in the 1970s, in The Gambia in 1913, in Mauritania in the 1980s, and in Swaziland in 1920, where they were reintroduced in the 1980s and 1990s.
Although large tracts of continuous elephant range remain in parts of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa, elephant distribution is becoming increasingly fragmented across the continent.
The quality of knowledge available on elephant distribution varies considerably across the species' range. While distribution patterns are well understood in most of Eastern, Southern and West Africa, there is little reliable information on elephant distribution for much of Central Africa.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; Mali; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; South Sudan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Regionally extinct:Burundi; Gambia; Mauritania
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|Although elephant populations may at present be declining in parts of their range, major populations in Eastern and Southern Africa, accounting for over two thirds of all known elephants on the continent, have been surveyed, and are currently increasing at an average annual rate of 4.0% per annum (Blanc et al. 2005, 2007). As a result, more than 15,000 elephants are estimated to have been recruited into the population in 2006 and, if current rates of increase continue, the number of elephants born in these populations between 2005 and 2010 will be larger than the currently estimated total number of elephants in Central and West Africa combined. In other words, the magnitude of ongoing increases in Southern and Eastern Africa are likely to outweigh the magnitude of any likely declines in the other two regions.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The African Elephant is very catholic in its range, and tends to move between a variety of habitats. It is found in dense forest, open and closed savanna, grassland and, at considerably lower densities, in the arid deserts of Namibia and Mali. They are also found over wide altitudinal and latitudinal ranges – from mountain slopes to oceanic beaches, and from the northern tropics to the southern temperate zone (approximately between 16.5° North and 34° South). See also the list of habitats.
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
|Poaching for ivory and meat has traditionally been the major cause of the species' decline. Although illegal hunting remains a significant factor in some areas, particularly in Central Africa, currently the most important perceived threat is the loss and fragmentation of habitat caused by ongoing human population expansion and rapid land conversion. A specific manifestation of this trend is the reported increase in human-elephant conflict, which further aggravates the threat to elephant populations.
|Conservation Actions:
The African Elephant has been listed in CITES Appendix I since 1989, but the populations of the following Range States have since been transferred back to Appendix II with specific annotations: Botswana (1997), Namibia (1997), South Africa (2000) and Zimbabwe (1997). These annotations have been recently replaced by a single annotation for all four countries, with certain specific sub-annotations for the populations of Namibia and Zimbabwe.
The African Elephant is subject to various degrees of legal protection in all Range States. Although up to 70% of the species range is believed to lie in unprotected land, most large populations occur within protected areas.
Conservation measures usually include habitat management and protection through law enforcement. Successful management at the site level can result in the build-up of high elephant densities. This is often perceived as a threat to their local habitats, as well as to other species and to elephant populations themselves. Management interventions to reduce elephant numbers and local densities have been limited and most recently been undertaken through contraception or translocation. Large-scale culling has not been performed as a population management option since Zimbabwe discontinued the practice in 1988 and South Africa did likewise in 1994.
The sport hunting of elephants is permitted under the legislation of a number of Range States, and the following countries currently (2007) have CITES export quotas for elephant trophies: Botswana, Cameroon, Gabon, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Some community-based conservation programmes in which revenue from the sport hunting of elephants reverts directly to local communities have proved effective in increasing tolerance to elephants, and thus indirectly in reducing levels of human-elephant conflict.
An increasing number of transboundary elephant populations are co-managed through the collaboration of relevant neighbouring Range States. Large-scale conservation interventions are also planned through the development of conservation and management strategies at the national and regional level.
|Blanc, J. 2008. Loxodonta africana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T12392A3339343. . Downloaded on 15 October 2018.
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Gov. LePage's plan to spend $100 million on prison renovation is concerning ("LePage: Borrow $100 million for prison project," Jan. 14), considering that the U.S. already incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation in the world.
Since the war on drugs, the U.S. prison population has skyrocketed. The legal system has become so overrun with nonviolent drug use violations that drug courts have proliferated. Unfortunately, looking for another solution to this issue — other than a prison sentence — has not become a mainstream concern.
Although drug courts were created to ease this problem, the question remains, does the current drug policy make sense? Does incarcerating nonviolent drug users create a safer society? Have the numbers reflected that?
By expanding our current prison system, are we fooling ourselves into thinking that there is a need to do so, as opposed to changing our current drug policy, which, in effect, would result in downsizing prisons?
In 2000, Portugal decriminalized drug use and has not gone back to its old policies. In fact, Portugal now records a lower overall rate of drug usage than the European average.
According to the Metro World News, Jeffrey Miron, an economist from Harvard University, has estimated that the U.S. government would save $41.3 billion on police, courts and jails if it legalized drugs and earn another $46.7 billion by regulating and taxing drugs.
The Metro World News quotes a Portuguese citizen as saying, "Nobody should be punished for self-inflicted harm."
Do we punish people for self-inflicted harm? And by punishing them with prison sentences, do we overspend and overcrowd our prisons with nonviolent offenders, creating an unnecessary push to renovate and expand our prison system? And if so, is it time to review our drug laws before we spend $100 million on renovating a prison?
Liz Dunn
Budget proposal overlooks duty to society's neediest
As a dually board-certified adult primary care and psychiatric nurse practitioner, I work with patients who have chronic and persistent mental illness, as well as the predictable accompanying medical disorders inherent in this patient population.
As such, I am compelled to voice my opposition to the proposed total elimination of low-cost drugs for the elderly and disabled and the cuts to the Medicare Savings Program in the governor's supplemental budget.
When my patients are faced with the inhumane choice of choosing between medications, heat or food, medications are the first cost to be eliminated.
Predictably, the conditions treated by their medications worsen, with ramifications including hospitalization, which reminds us all of the cost savings inherent in preventive and primary care, rather than tertiary care.
The individuals who will disproportionately carry the burden of these proposed cuts are Maine's most vulnerable citizens.
According to information provided by the Southern Maine Agency on Aging, 72,000 Maine seniors and disabled people will lose some or all of the assistance they receive to pay for insurance premiums or prescription drug costs.
Of these, approximately 40,000 elderly will lose all or some of the help they currently receive through the Medicare Savings Program to help pay for premiums, co-payments and deductibles, prescription drug costs and coverage, through the so-called "doughnut hole."
In closing, I share a quote from the last speech given by Hubert H. Humphrey:
"The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Constance W. Jordan, MSN, ANP, PMHNP
CEO, Behavioral Health Resources
Cape Elizabeth
Does 'right to bear arms' apply to major armaments?
I have to agree with letter writer John Parker of Falmouth, who wonders why the National Rifle Association is against any limits on the size of gun magazines ("Scrutinize U.S. gun owners as closely as we do drivers," Feb. 12).
Anyone who consistently advocates that the Second Amendment gives us all a right "to keep and bear arms" would do well to address a few issues:
Do you believe the numerous national laws that govern hand-held machine guns should be eliminated? Should we all be allowed to own and use rocket-propelled grenades? And what about MANPADS, or man-portable air-defense systems, a kind of surface-to-air missile?
These are all arms that can be borne. If the Second Amendment is as sacrosanct as many gun advocates argue, those people ought to argue that every man, woman and child has the right to own and use these three kinds of armaments.
If, on the other hand, it only makes sense that there should be limits to the scope of the Second Amendment, whether or not large magazines (or assault rifles) ought to be legal is open to question.
I very much doubt that anyone who flies, including members of the NRA, would be comfortable knowing that MANPADS were easily available.
William Vaughan Jr.
Chebeague Island
China, Russia surpass U.S. at ensuring income equality
In his Another View editorial, "Tax breaks for Maine employers benefit Maine's workers, too" (Feb. 17), Don Kopp suggests that countries such as China and Russia that have tried to establish a more equal distribution of income have not succeeded.
Had Mr. Kopp taken the time to learn the details about how well China and Russia have done in creating "equal societies," he would have discovered the answer is "pretty well."
It turns out that for both of his examples, income equality is better than that in the United States. In a ranking of income equality published by the Central Intelligence Agency, at the top of the list was Sweden, China and Russia ranked 81st and 82nd, respectively, while the United States was 93rd.
I fear the other arguments he used in his essay may well be equally flawed.
Jonathan Mitschele
New Gloucester
Sunday's NBA roundup: Suspension given following fight
Boston Bruins
Sunday's NHL roundup: Injuries leave Bruins thin on defense
Sunday's NFL roundup: Panthers stun Eagles with fourth-quarter comeback
Nation & World
Gulf of Mexico oil spill still spewing after 14 years
Life & Culture
Bangkok's 'Dr. Love' wants to help Chinese couples make babies


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Look for the demand for healthcare-related software to soar in 2013 as businesses and government agencies gear up to meet provisions in the Affordable Care Act (i.e. "Obamacare") that kick in this year and next. The legislation offers incentives for doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers to implement electronic healthcare records as a way of cutting costs and improving healthcare services.
Healthcare providers also will jump on the "big data" bandwagon this year and accelerate their adoption of healthcare-specific analytical applications. While only 10 percent of hospitals were using health data analytics in 2011, that number is expected to grow to 50 percent by 2016, according to a Frost & Sullivan study.
Another big driver: More doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals are using tablet computers and other mobile devices in their day-to-day work and that's spurring demand for healthcare mobile applications.


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