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This is an Accepted MBA Admissions News summary:
- Accepted will host the UC Berkeley Haas chat tomorrow Wednesday October 29 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT. Peter Johnson, Haas' Director of Admissions, will be the special guest, joined by one or two current Haas students. The chat will take place in Accepted's chat room. Please feel free to join us.
- We just posted the transcript from last week's two chats. First the MIT Sloan chat with Angel Navedo and Barry Reckley, both Assistant Directors of MBA Admissions at Sloan. An excerpt:
DAV (Oct 23, 2008 12:13:28 PM)
Barry: How stringently do you hold to the criteria that experiences discussed in essays need to fit within the last three years (for example, a 4-year project that only has its last year fit within the 3-year window)?
BarryReckleyMIT (Oct 23, 2008 12:15:27 PM)
Dav: we're flexible, your situation sound reasonable within the time limits.
Sean Mahoney (Oct 23, 2008 12:13:39 PM)
Hi, Angel. We met at an information session MIT had last month. Thank you for that. I was hoping to get some more information about the guaranteed loan Citi gives all students. How much is the loan for (tuition only/ board/food/mortgage etc.)? Also, do these loans get used for the trips MIT alumni have told us they took during the program?
AngelNavedoMIT (Oct 23, 2008 12:16:03 PM)
Hello Sean. I hope the presentation was helpful. Regarding the Citibank loan, we will no longer be offering that loan next year. As I wrote earlier, US students have plenty of excellent options and we are working hard to find suitable options for our international students.
Linda Abraham (Oct 23, 2008 12:17:20 PM)
Angel, is MIT Sloan able to expand its number of grants for students having trouble obtaining loans?
AngelNavedoMIT (Oct 23, 2008 12:19:18 PM)
Hi Linda! This past year we doubled the number of fellowships available to incoming students, so there will definitely be more money available in terms of fellowships than in the past.
- We have also posted the recent October 23 Consortium chat with Jackie Olden of the Consortium and representatives from Marshall, CMU Tepper, U of Wisconsin at Madison, Emory, Simon, McCombs, Darden, Yale SOM, and NYU Ster. An excerpt:
Linda Abraham (Oct 23, 2008 7:06:26 PM)
Is the absence of the CitiAssist program and the overall tightening of credit affecting your schools and applicants? What should applicants be doing now to prepare themselves to apply this year?
LinwoodHarrisCMU (Oct 23, 2008 7:07:51 PM)
No! Several are concerned, but I don't think it is affecting us.
ErinNickelsburgWISCONSIN (Oct 23, 2008 7:07:59 PM)
In regards to tightening of credit – it is not affecting our applicants and we don't anticipate that it will.
JosuePortilloNYU (Oct 23, 2008 7:08:18 PM)
Linda, CitiAssist loans are still coming in with no problems at NYU.
KelleeScottUSC (Oct 23, 2008 7:09:59 PM)
Linda, no loan issues at USC.
RodrigoMaltaTEXAS (Oct 23, 2008 7:10:16 PM)
Linda, no loan issues at Texas either, so far so good.
- The Consultant's Guide to MBA Admission — updated for the 2009 application season and with a complete set of sample HBS essays for this year's application — is now 20% off. But just until Friday Oct. 31.
- Now is the perfect time to start your Round 2 applications. Now, when those deadlines are two months — not two weeks — away you have the time to work methodically through several applications and improve them as you go. And we are going to help you get started. Save $100 off any MBA admissions order of US$2000 or more. Enter "SAVE100" at checkout to receive the discount.
- This year's MBA interview feedback is starting to come in. We already have 2009 responses for Kellogg and Duke. Please check out the MBA Admissions Interview Feedback Database for recent feedback from all schools and share your interview experience after you interview.
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WWF study shows decline in Fiji marine turtle shell trade
Posted on 01 December 2010
The marine turtle derivatives trade in Fiji is showing a marked decrease compared to previous years, a new report from WWF South Pacific says.Suva, Fiji - The marine turtle derivatives trade in Fiji is showing a marked decrease compared to previous years, a new report from WWF South Pacific says.
The result of four years of surveys conducted in all municipal markets around Viti Levu, Turtle shells and derivatives looks at the trade in marine turtles shells, products and other species in Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island.
It reveals that while sea turtles face many threats in the wild, their biggest challenge comes from human demand for subsistence and traditional products derived from their shells.
The report specifies that Fiji's Turtle Moratorium needs to be amended if this iconic species is to survive. For example, the Moratorium currently allows exemptions if turtle shells or their derivatives are used as ceremonial tokens of appreciation or for other traditional purposes.
Capacity to monitor the number of turtles captured and the trade for its meat, shell or eggs also needs further strengthening, the report says, to guarantee the long-term survival of Fiji's threatened marine turtles.
Awareness campaigns have been effective for consumers and vendors
However, an increase in awareness campaigns developed by government, NGOs, and media over the past few years have had a positive impact on conservation, with more people now taking action to protect Fiji's threatened marine turtle populations.
Lead author and WWF South Pacific marine species officer Merewalesi Laveti highlights in the report that the enforcement of the Endangered and Protected Species Act (1998) and the extension of the turtle moratorium have further enhanced the protection and conservation of marine turtles.
"A total of 102 traders were extensively interviewed for this report and they have indicated the lack of demand from consumers for turtle derivatives", she said. "Consumers who had an interest in turtle derivatives have made a shift to wooden artefacts."
Results from the survey also indicate a change in vendor behaviour, which has been brought about thanks to ongoing campaigns to raise public awareness on Fiji's endangered marine turtles.
"The change in vendor behaviour shows that the Endangered Species Protection Act and the Turtle Moratorium have been effective in enforcing laws on the ground and increasing levels of public awareness."
Black market remains an unknown quantity
The report shows that the 57 turtle shells sold in the markets from 2006 to 2008 decreased to none in 2009. However, this figure does not reflect the level of underground trading in black markets.
"Instances where the derivatives were found, dealers explained that the items were on the shelves from previous years. This is an achievement that would not have been possible without effective partnerships," Laveti said.
Other species of concern remain on the shelves
While there has been a noticeable decline in the sales of turtle shells and derivatives, the sale of other species – which the report calls "species of special concern" – continued to sell in larger volumes in fish and municipal markets around Fiji.
Species falling into this category include the near threatened juvenile Black tip shark and the endangered Hammerhead shark, which are usually sold for food. The report says this illustrates a lack of enforcement on fishing size limits as well as general awareness on what species need to be protected.
In most cases fish species of special concern tend to be ignored by traders and continue to appear in markets due to consumer demand.
Continuing to work with other stakeholders to protect marine turtles and other species of concern
The WWF South Pacific species programme works closely with the Fiji Sea Turtle Steering Committee (FSTSC) to improve awareness on the need for conservation and protection of the sea. Composed of turtle conservation stakeholders, the steering committee is also looking to extend their mandate to cover species of special concern such as the sharks, humphead wrasse and bumphead parrotfish.
Turtle shells and derivatives reiterates the need to enforce existing regulations but at the same time recognises the need for increased financial assistance to be focussed on initiating and continuing research for new information about marine turtle population in Fiji.


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I like this book because it shows what some kids think about each other and because the boy in this book is put in a good place and given a good character. I felt very different at some parts of the book like sometimes I felt sorry for the boy and sometimes not. When girls started calling him blackhead I wondered if they all really liked him. I loved the end of the book. Some kids are trying to chase somebody so they are running all over the school! I think this book is special because the author turns herself into a kid and tells about how the boy feels.
I think this book would be good for fourth to seventh graders. If you think a kid in your class is a weirdo, this book would be a good one for you.


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"Good News" Online Paper for
Community and Commerce
We were all
down at the Sit-n-Talk diner the
other morning, drinking coffee and
talking about how wet it's been some
mornings and how warm it been other
mornings and if anyone knew if it
had anything to do with Al Gore and
friends and global warming.
No one did.
After we'd
exhausted the weather-related stuff
and the mail still hasn't been
sorted across the street at the post
office and no one wanted leave,
Ernie, a newcomer from Oregon, piped
up and asked, "Does anyone know when
Maine's most dramatic temperature
change occurred – when the official
temperature in Portland climbed from
32 degrees at 5 a.m. to 86 degrees
at 2:30 p.m.?"
The store went
dead silent and everyone stopped
what they were doing and looked over
at Ernie, the newcomer. The clerk
punching in someone's Megabucks
numbers stopped punching; the
Megabucks customer stopped
scratching his worthless scratch
tickets and started scratching
something else; the woman behind the
lunch counter stopped pouring coffee
and listened; and the stock clerk
blocking the aisle stopped stacking
cans. They were all looking over at
Ernie, the newcomer from Oregon. All
wanted to know when such a startling
50-degree temperature shift occurred
in Maine.
Poor Ernie is a
quiet fella for an out-of-stater,
and he suddenly became red-faced
because of the sudden attention.
Ernie was forced to admit to a store
full of clerks and customers that he
had no idea when such a temperature
shift occurred. He said he just
heard from his neighbor Wink
Leighton that such a dramatic
temperature shift had once occurred,
but Wink couldn't recall what year.
Well, there. When
Wink Leighton's name was mentioned
everyone in the store – in unison,
mind you – heaved a loud groan of
"Wink told you
that?" scoffed Pearly Trumbell.
"Yes," said
Ernie. He and Wink had been in the
yard talking about weather and at
some point Wink started talking
about strange New England weather
happenings over the years.
Pearly then told
Ernie that the only thing he knows
for sure is that Wink Leighton has
done stranger things in his life
than New England weather has ever
done or is likely to do, and that
Wink wouldn't know a weather
statistic if it kicked him in his
After a brief
pause everyone shifted from weather
talk to comments about Wink
Leighton. Hollis Strout said he
remembered a cold morning when Wink
told another newcomer about the time
when it was so cold he took a pan of
boiling water outside, set it on his
porch railing and the water froze so
fast that the ice was warm to the
Forrest Tucker
said Wink would often tell people
that the mercury in his thermometer
by the kitchen window often drops so
low in winter that he has to go down
cellar to read it.
Another local
told of the time Wink told a fella
from New Jersey that it would soon
be shagimaw season and he should get
himself a special shagimaw license
and go get himself one. When the
poor New Jersey fella went to the
town hall to inquire about a
shagimaw license, the town manager –
another Leighton and really -
they're all alike – made him up a
fancy-looking bogus license and for
days this poor fella was out in the
woods cruising around every bog,
tote road and lot line in the county
looking to bag himself a shagimaw.
Eventually, he
came upon a friendly game warden who
got a chuckle out of the impressive
shagimaw license but then
straightened him out about the
Leightons and their idea of fun. To
make the poor fella feel better the
warden told him he wasn't the first
newcomer and probably won't be the
last one sent into the woods by the
Leightons to hunt the elusive
A shagimaw, by
the way, is an authentic Maine
mythical critter that, according to
several mythical witnesses, has two
feet like a moose and two feet like
a bear. Those who've hunted it say
the fact that the clever shagimaw
can leave both moose and bear tracks
at the same time makes it pretty
difficult to track.
Back at the
store, after the shagimaw story was
finished, old Arthur Leighton, who
had been sitting quietly in the
corner, spoke up. "Shagimaw were
once plentiful in Maine, ayuh, but
it's said they followed the loggers
to Minnesota and beyond."
By then it was
time the mail was sorted so everyone
went next door to the post office.